MITCHELL QUITS
CIVIC FEDERATION
Obeys Mandate of United Mine
Workers.
PRAISED BY SETH LOW
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President of Federation Highly Com- |
pliments Labor Leader and Ex
. presses Regret at His Forced Action.
John Mitchell has obeyed the man-
date of the United Mine Workers and
resigned from the National Civic Fed-
eration in New York.
President Seth Low accepted his
resignation in a highly complimentary
letter, to take effect Marcn 31. In his
letter to Mr. Low, offering his resig-
nation, Mr. Mitchell said:
“My Dear Mr. Low—At the recent
international convention of the United
Mine Workers of America an amend-
ment to the constitution of that organ-
ization was adopted, providing that
any member of the United Mine
Workers of America accepting a posi-
tion as representative of the National
Civic Federation shall forfeit member- |
ship in the union.
“The amended constitution of the |
United Mine Workers of America fhe
comes effective on the first day of |
April, 1911, ans as | am a member of
that organization, as well as a =
sentative of the National Civic Feder-
ation, it is necessary for me to decide
whether | shall retain my member-
skip in the miners’ union or my mem-
bership and position with the National
Civic Federation.
“It is needless to say that I regret |
the action of the miners’ convention, |
not so much because it requires me to |
choose between the two organizations |
as because of the unjust and gratui |
tous attack upon the National Civie |
Federation, which, in addition to its |
many other useful public activities |
has stood consistently as an advocate |
of righteous industrial peace.
“Under these circumstances | re- |
spectfully request that you release me |
from my contract to serve as chairman |
of the trade agreement department of |
the National Civic Federation and ac: |
cept my resignation as a member of |
the executive council and as a mem-
ber of the federation itself, the same
to become effective at any time prior
to April 1 that is agreeable to you.”
In his reply President Low dwells
upon Mitchell's valuable services in|
promoting industrial peace and says:
“] greatly regret that action taken |
at the international convention of the
United Mine Workers of America, |
which has constrained you to make
this decision. Under the circum-!
stances, however, | think the course |
you have taken is both natural and |
proper. On behalf of the National
Civic Federation, | therefore accept’
your resignation from the executive |
council and from the organization it-'
self and release you from your con-
tract as chairman of the trade agree- |
ment department of the federation.
All to take effect on March 31, 1911. It |
should be known, however, that you |
have offered your resignation from the |
National Civic Federation in the face |
of a specific proposal! on the part of |
the federation to renew its contract |
with you for another term of three!
years. |
“My regret for the necessity of our
separation is personal as well as of- \
ficial. You will carry with you into
whatever field you enter the best
wishes and cordial regards of all your
colleagues in the Nationa! Civic Fed:
eration.”
rolsing on Nothing. !
Away up in the afr, far beyond the
mountain tops, the great condors will |
hang poised as motionless as if perch- |
ed on solid rock. True, their wings |
are outstretched, but even through |
glasses not the slightest motion is per- |
ceptible. They remain in this position !
for many minutes, sometimes for an’
hour, making a careful scrutiny of ev-
ervthing below them in thelr search |
for prey. Then, with a slight tilting |
of the wings, they flap slowly away, |
or, having found what they were seek- |
ing, dart like a bullet toward it. The | |
eagle, hawk and other species have
this same faculty of poising apparent. |
ly on nothing.
Banked Rails.
In rounding a curve the tendency |
of the weight of a train Is invariably |
to shift to the outside wheels. i
counteract this tendency the outer rail
of a curve is raised on a higher level |
than the inside, the elevation being
in an exact proportion to the sharp-!
ness of the curve as determined by the | |
principles of engineering. If both
rails of a curved track were of exactly |
the same elevation a train would not |
dare round it at high speed.
Tender Hearted Youths.
Sympathetic Old Lady—You're kind
hearted boys to help that poor fellow
up. Here's a quarter for some candy.
Enthusiastic Small Boy (helping
fat man worse for liquor)—Thanks,
missus, but jest hang around a minute
and watch th’ fun when he falls ag'in. |
—New York Times.
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Comic Opera Milkmaids. !
“I thought I would Introduce a real ;
cow into my comic opera.”
“How did it work?"
“Didn't work at all. The milk.
maids frightened the cow."—Washing-
ton Herald.
{ should help
SAW ms STRONG POINT.
| Story of Harriman's First Purchase of
a Railroad.
One morning in the early aightios
Harriman walked into his office and
without any previous warning an-
nounced the purchase of his first rail-
road.
“Where'd you get the money for it?”
asked his partners,
“Never mind; 1 got it,” sald Harri
man.
The road was the Sodus Bay and
Southern, running from Lake Ontario
to Stanley, N. Y. It was thirty-four
miles long and owned two crippled lo-
comotives, two passenger cars and sev-
en freight cars.
“It isn’t even a real good streak of
rust,” said a man who looked over it
for him.
Harriman pulled out his map. He
was studying railroad maps even then.
“It's got the best harbor on the
lake,” he said. “The Pennsylvania
road has got to buy it.”
He started to build a big grain ele-
vator and to fmprove the track. A few
months later he disappeared from his
office for several days and returned
with a check for $200.000. He had
sold his road to the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
“They had to have it” he sald
“They saw it as soon as I showed it to
them.”
“But 1 saw it first.’ he added.—Mec-
Clure's Magazine.
THE SOUP PLATE.
Seventeenth Century Cookbook
Tells Why It Was Invented.
A valet of Louis XIV. published a
cookbook in 1635 In which he gives as
follows the reason for the invention of
the hollow soup plate:
The plates of the guests will be hol-
low in order that they may help them-
selves to as much soup as they may
want without being obliged to take it
spoonful by spoonful because of the:
disgust they may have for one another
on seeing the spoon go from the mouth
to the tureen.
Guests, it will be seen, used their
| own spoons to fill their plates. the
FOUGHT IN THE TREES.
Curious Duel Between a Pair of Fire
Eating Frenchmen.
In the swashbuckling days of the
early part of the nineteenth century
the dueling hero in France was the
Marquis Merle de Sainte-Marie, whose
affairs of honor were almost incessant.
One of these is said to have been so
ridiculous that it helped to set in mo-
tion the current of feeling that has
since made dueling so much less hou
orable than it once was.
It appears that one day there called
upon the marquis ome Pierrot d'Issac.
himself a famous duelist. Now, in
French plerrot means sparrow and
merle means blackbird.
D'Issac struck himself on the chest
with emphatic dignity. “Marquis.”
sald he. “1 am a Bonapartist and you
are a royalist. Moreover, | sm the
sparrow and you are i'. hiackbird
It seems to me hn there ix one bird
of us too many.”
“I quite agree with you. wousienr”
politely replied the marquis, “und my
cholce is pistols, and, us is appropriate
for birds of our species, let us fight in
the trees.”
Plerrot d'lssac was agreeable to this
unique suggestion, and as if it were
not n sufficiently ridiculous thing that
one man should challenge another be-
cause his name was Sparrow and the
othef Blackbird the duel wes actually
fought from trees. The seconds stood
on the ground below.
At a given signal the pistols were
fired, und there was a rustling amoung
the leaves of one of the chestnut trees.
Plerrot d'Issac came tumbling to the
ground “like a ripe chestnut.” as one
of Sainte-Marle’s seconds expressed It,
whereupon Merle de Sainte-Marie In
a facetious mood begun to chirp tri:
umphantly in imitation of the song of
the blackbird. D’Issac waited till he
had recovered from his wound and
then challenged Sainte-Marie for the
chirp.
This time there was nothing amus-
ing about the encounter. It was
fought with swords. and Sainte-Marie
was badly wounded. The sparrow had
avenged himself oun the blackbird.—
large spoon to be used for serving the | New York Herald.
soup not being invented till some time |
later,
Yet even a hundred years after the
invention of the soup plate (1749) a
work on civility advised that all the |
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dishes should be so placed on the table |
that every one could reach thypm with
his spoon and that if the soup was
served in a dish (tureen) every one
himself with his own
spoon without seeming to be in a hurry.
A work on manners that appeared
just before the French revolution
deemed it best to advise its readers
that it was lmpolite to pass the spoon
back and forth between the month and
' the tureen.
Difficult Horseback Feat.
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There are no better horsemen in the |
world than the cavalry officers of the
Italian army. yet even among them
there are very few who could perform |
the feat achieved by one of them. To
run an ordinary foot race is easy
enough, but to run at full speed for
several hundred yards holding in one
! hand a spoon on which rests an egg
! and to reach the goal without dropping
the egg is a feat which must be prac-
| ticed carefully a long time before it
can be performed successfully, and as
a result there are not many who can
be sure of accomplishing it whenever
they try. Great, therefore. was the
surprise when an Italian officer mount-
ed on horseback performed this difii-
cult feat. Moreover, he selected a
course in which there were two or
three high fences, and these he cleared
at full gallop without losing the egg.
Time For Stillness.
Mrs. MacLachlan was kind to her
American boarder, but she did not pro-
pose to allow her to overstep the limits
of a boarder’s privileges, and she made
it very clear. One Sunday the boarder
returning from a walk found the win-
dows of her room, which she had left
wide open, tightly closed.
“Oh, Mrs. MacLachlan, 1 don't like my
room to get stuffy.” she said when she
went downstairs again. “I like plenty
of fresh air.”
“Your room will na’ get stuffy in one
day,” said her landlady firmly. “Twas
never our custom, miss, to hae fresh
air rooshin' about the house on the
Sawbath.”
Too Strong.
“My boy tells me you discharged
i " him,” said the late office boy's mother.
| “You advertised for a strong boy, and
1 certainly thought he was strong
enough.”
“Madam,” replied the merchant, “he
was too strong. He broke all the rules
of the office and some of the furniture
in the two days he was with us.”
mm—
His Fishing Trips.
“Pa, where do you go fishing?”
“My son, I never go nehing nowa-
days.”
“Well, Mr. Snarler said Inst night
| you were always throwing a sprat to
| ‘satch a mackerel.”
Courage.
Courage that grows from constitu.
tion often forsakes the man when he
has occasion for it; courage which
arises from a sense of duty acts in a
uniform manner.—Addison.
Made Up by Herself. .
Sillicus—We hear of many self made
men, but seldom of a self made wo-
man. Oynicus—How about the wo-
man whose face is her RO a
adelphia Record.
The man who owes everything to his
wife seldom pays it back.—Life.
FORBES’ _ GREAT FEAT.
His Newspaper Story ot the Last Days
of the Commune.
One morning after the siege of Paris,
when the city was believed in London
to be still in the hands of the com.
mune. Sir John Robinson. manager of
the Daily News of London, reached his
office to find the late Archibald Forbes |
Iying on the floor asleep. bis head on 2
postofiice directory. while the printess
were hard at work on his manuscript.
the story of “Paris In Flames,” a most
i vivid description of the last days of the
| commune,
“Forbes had telegraphed from Dover
announcing his coming.” sald Sir John
Robinson, “the printers had been wait. |
Ing, and thus the country heard of
those terrible days for the first time.
“London was ablaze with excitement
Bouverie street was impassable through
the newsboys shrieking for copies, and
In parliament Mr. Gladstone was ques-
tioned that afternoon and could only
say he hoped the story was exagger
ated.
“When Forbes wakened from his
slumber amid all this turmoil what a
spectacle he was! [Is face was black
with powder, his eyes red and in
flamed, his clothes matted with clay
and dust. He was a dreadful picture.
Ye had heen compelled to assist the
communists in defending a triangular
space upun which three detachments of
the Versailles troops were firing and
had actually taught the citizens how to
build a barricade.”
By nid of dummy dispatches address-
ed to Lord Granville and the queen
Forbes escaped from this threatening
triangle and wrote all the way to Eng-
land, being the solitary passenger on
the mail boat.
Must Have Been a Storm Scene.
“As perhaps there may be some one
who has not heard the story of the
Dutch painter, 1 tell it,” says Elihu
Vedder in the Atlantic.
“A person calling on this painter
heard a most infernal uproar in his
studio. Things seemed to be faillag
and brass plates fiying about, and there
were loud shouts.
“The servant came to the door in a
state of greet anxiety and told the vis-
itor at once that the master could not
be disturbed.
*¢1 should think he couldn’t be much
more than he is,’ said the visitor. ‘But
what under the sun is the matter?
“ ‘He is painting a sky.'”
A Student of the Drama.
It was at a performance of “Mac-
beth,” and the three weird sisters had
just made their first appearance and
chanted their uncanny incantations
when a handsomely dressed, intelli-
gent looking woman in the third row
turned to her escort and inquired.
“What's the idea In having those
witches? —New York Press.
Deserved to Get it.
“1 want to ask you for a bit of ad-
vice,” said the insinuating man,
“What is it?
“] want you to put yourself in my
place and me in yours and tell me
how you would go about it if you
wanted to borrow $10 from me.”—BEx-
change,
Rays and Raise.
"Everybody emits rays. An angry
man emits violet rays: a contented
person emits pinkish rays."
“Reound- interesting
boss would emit n ten dollar ralse of
salary "Louisville Courier-Journal.
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ROBIN IS GUILTY
BY HIS OWN PLEA
Bank Wrecker Creates Sensa-
| tion in New York Gourt.
wrecker, pleaded guilty to an indict
ment charging him with the larceny
of $27,000 from the Washington Sav-
ings bank, of which he was formerly
president.
Seven indictments against bim re
main. He was remanded to the Tombs
untii March 27, when he will be sen-
tenced
A jury to try Robin had been, with
great difficulty, selected when he en:
tered his plea The collapse of Robin's
defense of insanity, put forward by
his sister, Dr. Louise Robinoviteh, and
his counsel, William Travers Jerome,
former district attorney, had been
foreshadowed when it was reported
that Robin said he was “tired of all
this fooling:" but it caused a stir in
the court room none the less
RUEF BACK IN JAIL
Former Politica! Boss of San Fran.
cisco Must Serve Sentence.
Abraham Ruef, former political Loss
of San Francisco, who has been cut
on bail of nearly $250,006 for some
time, pending the result of certain ap
peals, is back in jail
He was taken into custody just be-
fore midnight, alter the state su.
preme court announced that a recent
order granting him a rehearing had
been vacated.
An order committing Ruel to San
Quentin penitentiary, where he wil!
serve a term of fourteen years for the
bribing of Supervisor Furey, was made
by Superior Judge Lawlor.
FIRST BASE BALL ACCIDENT
Batter's Nose Broken and Both Eyes
| Bruised.
| Hugh J. MacWilliams, a Cornell
i student, of Wilmington, Del, was
struck in the face by a base ball n
practice at the university armory in
| ithaca, N. Y., and severely hurt
MacWw illiame, who was a likely can.
didate for the Cornell nine, steppe!
up to bat when his turn came. He
didn't gauge the throw properly and
was struck squarely in the face
The bridge of his nose was broken
and both eves badly bruised and cut.
MacWilliams won't be able to play
base ball this year.
| MINER FELL 400 FEET
Pittston Man's Body Found In Mine
Shaft.
Richard McCue, a resident ot Pitts.
ton, Pa., was killed by a 400-foot fall
down a new shaft o! the Pennsylvania
Coal company.
Whether he teli down accidentally
or committed suicide will never be
known. He was seen near the shaft
and was warned away by the engl
neer, who told him he might fall in
He was not seen again, but when men
came to work his body was found at
the bottom of the shaft.
Twenty-six Outlaws Killed in Cave.
The notorious outlaw, Kakim Khan,
who for many years has been a thorn
in the side of the Northwest {ron
tier forces in Pashawur, British India,
was surprised with thirty of his fol
lowers in a cave by a British force
under the command of Lieutenant
Colonel Sir George Roos-Keppel, chief
commissioner and agent to the gover-
nor general of the Northwest frontier
province. Hakim Khan refused to sur
render and a machine gun hailed lead
into his den until ali but ove of the
party were killed.
She Won.
He was a _hilosopher and a talker.
She was a woman of action. They
stood together on the bridge and
watched a tug that was hauling a long
line of barges up the river.
“Look there, my dear.” said he.
“Such is life. The tug is like the man,
working and tolling, while the barges,
like the women, are”—
His wife gave him no time to finish
the sentence. “I know,” she sald.
“The tug does all the blowing and the
barg>s bear all the burden.”
Not So Bad.
“What's the worst you can say about
him?"
| “He hasn't an honest hair in his
i head.”
“Well, that's bad enough.”
“Oh, not so bad as you think. 1
mean he wears a wig.” —Birmingham
Age-Herald.
A Dining Hint.
Fletcher says you should “hold your
face down" when you are eating, so
that your tongue will bang perpendic-
ularly in your mouth. To do this most
comfortably get down on your bands
and knees when you eat. explains the
Chicago Record-Herald
There is but one virtue—the eternal
sacrifice of 326i —George Sand.
Joseph G. Robin, the New York bank | James
he decision of t
pee imaries t er a
sunt oni i
SF the coutty ox the
primaries to be held Saturday, June 3rd,
are authorized to announce John
Miler of Walker will nt
Jor County reasurer, decision
voters
ihe: Sou A re, fon.
We are authorized to announce the name of
County Treasurer. LF Beef on of th
to
Democratic of the county at the general
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Dio got. give eggs 10 an early broody
hen until she is surely broody, as
like the weather at this season of the
year, arc rather changeable.
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New Adverti-ements.
XECUTOR'S NOTICE.— Estate of Sarah
Collins, deceased. Letters
Ty oti Die Stiegl, Sarah Coffs, deceased.
re
Pennsylvania, been granted &
Dt ets ae hereby notified a
De without
icated for set
t to me delay, and those
having cl said estate will present
them ET aut tiomens,
M. D. KITTELL, Executor.
Ebensburg, Pa., Feb. 25th, 1911, 56-9-6t
voters
primaries to be held June 3, 1911.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
requested nounce
ro of Bellefonte, ill be a a Jor ay
trict Attorney, o the decision of the
Democratic voters as expressed at
{he Kneral a Thess he county 2 Saturday, June
We are requested to announce t Kennedy
Johnston ci be a candidate he I District
Attorney,
the decision of the Demo-
Yulers 00 coun
fr el, the’ ty at the primaries to be
the ic voters of oo at the pri.
maries to be held June 3rd, 1911.
Ww authorized to announce
© vn, fn rian to te that John R.
for County ? sublet io he decision
he Democratic voters
presesd I he nie.
une 3, 1911. .
Dunlap will candid for Couniy =
at.
2 to the e or Count s
JoASTE of the county a8 Expres wed a the primaries
We are authorized to anno
of Potte
rt
Comm T,
unce John H. Runkle,
oe Sr
Democratic voters of the pressed at
the primaries fe 3rd, Yon. ny. 48 eX
We are authorized to
i announce
H. Noll Jr., of Spring t
Jr., ol Sn ng oven, will be Be rin
date Jor © _ to
decis mocratic_vot: county
Se at the primaries ein a of the cc Sat-
urday, June 3rd.
We are requested to annou
Stover, of Penn n township eo Wa for
{ounty omwsion oy er, subject to the decision of
he Democ ers, jo
Te June 3rd, 1911. > " pri
We are authorized to announce D. A. Grove, of
College township, as a candidate for County Com-
m subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic voters of the Sounty as shown at the pri-
maries June 3rd, 191
RECORDER.
I hereby announce myself candid
I Ths et
cratic ers at t ma to be
3rd, 1911. Ebpwarn i MCKINLLY, ie
township.
We are authorized (0 announce that W. F
Speer, of Bellefonte, is a ANOATe JOT Mis
nation for Recorder by the Democratic party;
subject to the primaries on June 3rd,
REGISTER.
We are requested to annouw that J. F
Smith: of Cates Tall ol he a diate or
Register sub to the decision of the Democra
ic voters of the county as expressed at the Dolla .
toh primaries to be held on the 3rd day of June
‘fhe First National Bank.
"SNE STL ih rte
56-82t * "ali Furnace, Pa.
Repairing.
D. 8, CLEMENTS
(WEST BISHOP ST., BROWN CORNER.)
Repairs al] all makes of Sewing Machines. Has a
fi fine of Repairs. Call Commercial ‘Phone.
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Surely, you must think well of
any plan that will save you some
on a set of Single Harness.
Now it is up to you to make us
make good.
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send hen
Why TO Dien
money, with a
A Set of Harness in Nickle or Imi-
tation Rubber, at.. . $12.85
This harness is eal Jo. any v $15 set on the
Genuine Rubber............ $14.85
which has no equal for for less than $17.
roe, Rew of the harness
Address all communications to
E. N. SCHOFIELD,
Mail Order Dept.,
Bellefonte Pa.
to which he will cheerfully give his prompt
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GUARANTES The e above goods are as rep-
resented or money refunded.
James Schofield,
SpringStreet 55.22 Bellefonte, Pa.
TA VA TAT AT LST ATL.
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It is Habit that Counts.
Why not try the saving habit.
day is One Hundred dollars per year. Young man,
You will find the second
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have you ever had this much money? If you have not
try the saving habit and see how easy it is to get it.
easier, and by the time you have a thousand your fu-
ture will be assured—for the saving habit will be fixed.
The First National Bank,
Bellefonte, Penna.
Thirty cents a
hundred will come much
The ¢ Centre — Banking Company.
“Store Robbed”
“House Burned”,
“Valuable Papers Lost.”
These are newspaper headings you see all too fre-
quently.
But, fortunately, absolute protection for val-
uables is not difficult to obtain. A Box in our Fire
and Burglar Proof Vault is where your valuable pa:
pers, gems and jewelry should be.
It will cost you
nothing and as you carry the Key it has all the Priv-
acy of your own house with the security against fire
and robbery that you cannot give it.
If you're wise, you'll attend to this matter at once
—now—today.
be too late.
Always a chance, that tomorrow may
3 per cent. paid on Time Deposits.
The Centre County Banking Co.
Bellefonte, Pa.
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