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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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—Pennsylvania railroad water is being pumped
by electricity into the town reservoir at Gallitzin
to avert a water famine.
~The biggest pay day in the history of Meyers-
dale occurred last week, when $24,580 was the
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= ry 8 RT amount handed out to railroad employees.
| — F ~The last of the typhoid victims in the Blough
~The candidates are on the last lap of \. i | | 1 family near Johnstown, is now convalescent
—~Wonder if any of the good folks who
prayed for rain thought of praying for it
to stop.
—A man is never so bad that some
poor woman isn’t willing to takea chance
with him.
—More hogs are killed in the United
States than all other animals combined
yet there seems to be a great many of
certain kinds in evidence.
—That millionaire’s wife who declared
that she must have sixty-seven dollars a
day on which to maintain herself proba-
bly isn't worth thirty cents as a home
VOL. 56.
Penrose as a Reformer.
In an open letter, recently issued, Sena-
tor PENROSE declares that the govern-
ment of Philadelphia is “indefensible.”
For years it has been a government of
contractors, for contractors and by con"
tractors. The basest vices have not only
STATE RIGHTS AN
Article 2, section 7 of the constitution
President shall, at stated times, receive
for his services, a compensation, which
shall be neither increased nor diminished
during the period for which he should
of the United States provides that "The
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—They say that parties in St. Marys have 10,-
000 bushels of charcoal in storage. They are
Rolding it because of the depression in the mar
—Canonsburg has buried her dead out of sight”
but it will be many a day before the ghastly hor”
ror of whick they were the victims will be out of
—A campaign for raising $150,000 for Hamot
hospital, in Erie, will be started on Sept. lst
which will be used for the enlargement of the
building and for paying off the debt of $18,400.
—Although 82 years old, Mrs. Matilda Zillinger,
of Zionsville, a Schuylkill valley town, milks two
cows daily, does all her own housework and re.
cently bound by hand the grain off a three-acre
maker. the sanction of the municipal administra- | have been elected, and he shail not receive bia eo mel SSOMDY te tik aves
~—A new race of people has recently | tion, but the protection of the police, | within that period any other emolument | tion which styles itself the Republican | assert two years ago and, in fact, does it | and assumed its obligations, giving shareholders.
been reported found in the Arctic regions. | Ballot box stuffing has become the safest | from the United States or any of them.” | Nomination League has asked former in this equal stock. Indiana is pleased to have the in-
They had never seen a white man and
not even heard of GEORGE W. GUTHRIE,
of Pittsburg.
-~We are growing old fast. It seems
only yesterday that everyone was naming |
a new baby RUTH because RUTH CLEVE- |
LAND was the baby of the White House. |
Now one of her younger sisters, ESTHER,
is old enough to have her engagement to
marry announced.
—It is funny that Uncle SAM has never
thought of doing somethingin the way of
reducing the tax burdens of his people
before he started his postal savings banks.
It seems like a case of putting the cart | 0 and Penrose wants to avert the calam- | ment to go to and from college. The | loot the city through contractural frauds | of 100 per cent on clothing a £1088 in. —John Young, aged 91 years, one of Johns.
before the horse, unless he expects to get | ju to his party all over the country | White House table is supplied at the ex- | and present millions, in unearned boun- Justice, or that cutting it Intwo an act | town's oldest citizens and staunch Democrats, is
blood out of a turnip. which is impending. It is not that he has | pense of the public treasury and the ex- | ties to the VARE family and its favorites. Justica; he cut- ead. He as She father 1 Souitage Shildran.
—In the early ages of the Christian era | undergone a change of heart. His con- | penses of his golfing exercises are dis- | If those who are opposed to the consum- | ing wholly in the dark. ane | grandchildren, thirty-five great-grandchildren
the fathers of the church protested most | science has not been aroused. But his | charged from the same strong box. His | mation of this scheme would unite on a the house asked for ihe in 1 | and one great-great-grandchild,
vigorously against the wearing of wigs. | intelligence teaches him that unless a | stable is supplied and maintained at pub- | candidate, he would easily be elected: Fo hy olen Schedul ~United Mine Workers of America at Barnes
In modern times many of the fathers of | change for the better is made in the | lic expense and his compensation is clear | But outside of EARLE and BLANKENBURG, | dent itsent. It was Tivo ait€ Sisal @ monster Labor Bay picele: a
the church have to provide their wives | citadel of Republicanism, the less secure | gain. All these extra charges are in | the announced candidates have no such | of course, but so far as it went, Miteay 850 3%08 the ejsery nwoooktal at pak.
and daughters with rats before they can localities will be compelled to capitulate. | violation of the constitution which he is | object in view. GIBBONEY and Hicks and 24 meals comulittee eatables and there will be a big attendance. Pro-
get them to the services. PENROSE is simply appealing to the sense | sworn to “support, obey and defend.” | RITTER simply want to make certain of lack of “science” in their ceeds will build a wing to the hospital.
. | of self-preservation. He would save the | LINCOLN received $25,000 a year for his | the nomination of VARE and his election the framing of their —James Szabo, the Italian, who placed a tie on
—It is a fact that the musca domestica | o,r4y at the expense of his home friends. | services as President and paid all his {and they are in the field as "decoy ducks” | less exercises his veto. the Pennsylvania railroad tracks in the Lewistown
have been fewer in numbers this year 4 and the In our opinion the Narrows, several weeks ago, on Monday pleaded
We sincerely hope that Senator PEN- | personal household expenses. for the machine. guilty before Judge Joseph M. Woods at Mifflin.
than they hive been in along time. The | poqp will succeed in his effort to nomi-| While TAFT was a candidate for Presi-| During the gubernatorial campaign last a reat Jigtake, He town. He was sentenced to from nine months to
relief to Centr: county folks is not cor-| ;,a0e My, Gorge H. EARLE Jr., for the | dent thrae years ago he pledged that he | fall itis alleged that HICKS offered to | fre supe of qoiaions three years in the western penitentiary.
respondingly appreciable because the | goo of mayor, not because we believe | would compel a revision of the tariff | withdraw Mr. BERRY from the fight for {he has sacrificed an —As John Mahoney, of Sharon, was passing a
paucity of the pestiferous fly is more than in the possibility of reforming the Repub- | downward. Two years ago that pledge | the consideration of $160,000 to ce paid , he has made building in course of erection a mosguito tried to
offset by the plethora of candidates.
—You need not be surprised to see a
lot of ladies with their knitting at the
polling places in November. They intend
to make a regular jambouree out of their
campaign for school director so you may
look for any old thing. Honestly we
occupation and crime the most favored
industry. This intolerable condition is
the logical consequence of the political
habits of the business community. Covet-
ous of unearned bounties, the leading
commercial and professional men have
supported bad government for the reason
that it guaranteed them a share in the
graft.
The chastening influence of party dis.
aster admonished Senator PENROSE, how-
ever, that better conditions must be
brought about. The people of Philadel-
phia have not actually revolted but the
people of other communities are protest-
lican party of Philadelphia by such a re-
sult, but for the reason that Mr. EARLE
is personally honest and certainly capable.
Besides he is not so very far removed
from Democracy. He is in favor of tariff
for revenue only, civil service improvement
and government for the people. He also
The compensation fixed by law for the
President is $75,000 per annum. In the
way of emolument, in violation of the
constitution, he draws a traveling fund
of $25,000 a year, rents a house at the
seashore at propably $6000 a year, has
for his exclusive use two ships of the
navy and half a dozen automobiles.
Last year the expenses of maintaining
the White House were $50,000. The do-
mestic service at the White House and
ummer capital amounted to $25,000.
His daughter uses a naval ship to give
outings to her friends and his son uses
an automobile belonging to the govern-
went to protest and hasn't been redeem-
ed since. Now he is on the stump again,
at public expense, making new promises
of tariff reduction. He must imagine
that the voters are exceedingly credulous.
No banker will accommodate a borrower
who fails to meet his obligations. Why
Superior Court Judge DIMNER BEEBER to | the Payne-
enter the race and he has accepted the
call, Mr. Thomas L. Hicks, who was
EARLE. Jr., for the office and an organiza- oe ‘of all that, Mr.
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It was rumored at various times during the
campaign that Mr. GIBBONEY was willirg
to decline the Keystone nomination for
Lieutenant Governor and denounce Mr.
BERRY if the Democrats would withdraw
their candidate for that office and put
session just ending the Democratic con-
for respite that he may have opportunity to pre-
sent his case to the state board of pardons. ;
~The new digests of the game laws on linen
for posting in the woods and in game preserves
have been prepared by the state game commis.
sion and will be put up without delay. The game
wardens are getting ready for a good game sea-
son,
~The first coal from the new mining town of
Colver was shipped this week by the Ebensburg
Coal company. A new branch of the Blacklick
and Yellow Creek railroad has been completed
and Pennsy surveyors are now busy in that vicini-
ty. The town is booming. :
alight on his nose, causing him to jerk his head
back. At the same moment a workman on the
structure dropped a heavy hammer, which grazed
his face and chipped a piece off the stone pave-
ment,
with Spain, and then living for years with a silver
in his head, the result of a wound, Frank S.
can’t see how they will actually man the | dispises that arch-demagogue and grafter, | should the public be less exacting? TAFT | GIBBONEY in his place. Neither of these gressional organization has Shown itself Plate lo ks vent the resin ots woud, Frank 3:
polls. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, and that is great- | knew he was uttering false promises | offers was considered because they in- Best. imliacis aid sitactre promating county, met a tragic death by falling down stairs
ly in his favor. It would be better for the | three years ago but the people didn’t. at his home.
—Ohio physicians are going to experi.
kept in the Massillon state hospital and
those of them who die from cabbage
stuffing will be spoken of, as the surgeons
people of Philadelphia to elect a Democrat
of course; but Nd would
give the Republicans a reputable candi-
date, at least, and might prove an excuse
for the rang to elect a Democrat, rather
Now the people have the right to assume
that he is again trying to deceive them
and if they are wise they will not be fool-
ed again by a false pretense.
—The WATCHMAN has an esteemed
volved political recreancy and moral | the reciprocity bill without :
turpitude. But they show what sort of | the 10Cr ressn
fellows these reformers are. They were | tempting o :
playing into the hands of the Republican | and sincerely for
lieved to be the hey, be-
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~The largest industrial building ever known to
company at its new plant, near Millport,
Carbon county. The building, which is known as
cal | the oxide building, is 865 feet long, 100 feet wide
and four stories high, and the oxide furnaces di-
[" —After escaping the horrors of yellow fever
while a nurse for American soldiers in the war
: : ——Even the Lock Haven newspapers |
h : not attempt—except in the broad way of
than submit to the election of a Republi subscriber in Scharrachbergheim, Ger- have been commenting upon the action ' helping the party by helping the country
many, who states in a letter received yes- of the Bell Telephone company of Penn- | —Went far to win their public esteem.
rectly opposite to the building are of the same
length.
—Crawford M. Orr, a life-long resident of Al.
toona, met death at his own hands on Saturday
do their operation cases: “The operation | oo, whom they despised.
was successful but the patient died. i . re oF Tavis
SNIARY GARDEN lias cabled from Paris | =——=The business of the Steel trust for
that she is coming back for her grand
opera engagements in the fall with a
trousseau that will be an eye-opener for
the bald headed row. MARY calls her
new costume "the pneumonia garb,” but
why waste further words in description.
In truth it is something that you would
| August was the best of any month of the
| year, according to a statement of the di-
{ rectors. Yet the tariff agitation and
| congressional investigations were expect-
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‘ ed to make it the worst. There is cer-
terday that she has a new variety of
promises, if the potatoes grow according-
ly large, to send the editor one as a
| sylvania in refusing to turnish free tele- | Tee bg a
potato growing in her garden this sum- | phone service to the Bellefonte hospital wool bill, the farmers’ free list bill and
mer, the vine or stalk of which is three | and their comments have been anything | the cotton bill. Each one of these mea-
yards high and still growing. She also | but complimentary. Ithas always been | Sures promised the country relief from
said that a corporation is a soul-less mo-
| nopoly and in their action regarding the
t to their credit in the
| tariff exactions. Each one of them wasa
sincere effort to remedy glaring evils.
Each one of them was
| tainly something the matter with things. | curiosity, and we certainly would ap- | hospital telephone the Bell company has | mistakenly and most unfortunatel
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| fully emphasized that fact. Now if the
| the President. . . . Itis simple
afternoon, when he committed suicide in Schenley
park, Pittsburg. The man took laudanum, then
shot himself in the head, dying a few hours later
at the Mercy hospital, in Pittsburg. Melancholia
and derangement, both resulting from business
reverses, are given by relatives as the cause of
his act.
~—Because Carbon county commissioners decid,
ed to have this year’s township, ward and bor-
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mr—r— | borough council would only take up the | {© 83Y that the record of the
| Places for Party Henchmen. |iaper of exacting a proper and just pole | es voters in the
One of the complaints of the American ; tax from the company for the use of the | capacity of the Democratic party as rep
colonists against King GEORGE III was | Streets and alleys it would undoubtedly resented in Congress, On The ,
that “he has erected a multitude of new | Prove a piece of popular legislation. And ' g_ "BET WHEE Presidentia) candi
offices and sent hither swarms of officers | 800dness knows, the borough is in sorry try believes, the
to harrass our people and eat out their : need of all the money it can get at ais powerful appeal to
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substance.” But in that line the Penn A Su for Mr.
ough nominations made by caucus and primaries
as heretofore, instead of by direct primary, there
is trouble ahead for them, and the court is being
iy notice at all. of Industry would like to see them.,
Taft and the Tariff Bills.
—Really we never gave a serious!
thought to that prediction from Washing- |
Eo orld a me to President's veto of all tariff legislation
; ted during the recent special session
out with a proposal to turn reformer in | “73° ] i )
Philadelphia, as he did last Friday, then, | ©f Congress. TAFT is an exceedingly vain
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be golly, we have to admit that there | Person and the opportunity of making it
There can be only one reason for the
Poet Dor e— Tai er Wh reassess |
might be something in this dope about | Pear that he was compelling the Demo- asad Rem Digan Tachi: a fhe | ——Mr. ROCKERFELLER is having a, : sr Ee icaal coe more thas 7. cosines. allowed
the early dawning of the milennium, | Sratic majority of the House to serve his | r* ng | tunnel made from his stable to his resi- From the New York World. the two hearses to the big double grave where
| personal caprices was probably enticing | Mile. It has created more offices and ap- | : | If Mr. Taft will look up the records he | the two caskets were laid side by side. Rev. A.
—“Mona Lisa,” the DE VINCI master | but it would hardly induce him to offend | Pointed more officers in this State, within | dence, a distance of 1000 feet, in order to jj] discover that his own party, then in | F. Weaver. of Milton, and two assistants had
piece, valued at millions of dollars, was a vast majority of the people. Men of | the last dozen years, than King GEORGE avoid the necessity of delivery wagons contre} of Congress last year refused to charge of the services which were most impres
stolen from the Louvrein Paris last week. | small mental calibre do absurd things, | did during the entire period of his sov. 3PProaching the house. JOHN D. is very | present tariff board jssion, ly by eke sive. . <=
What made the painting famous was the | under the influence of an obsession of €reignty over this country. And King ' exclusive but the only way that he can
: ls : in entirely escape the curious eyes of the! was :
smile on the face of the subject; a smile | ego, but we can’t imagine that Tarr | GEORGE was never half as profligate in; CY pe : are addressed to the President | the V ;
so peculiar that it had never been seen | would be silly enough to literal ly outrage 'the matter of salaries either. Pai jis ods, Nobody can ee Six feet : to Sacroiary any of the Treasury er he ee eg oun Capes caused by ons Fr : |
before and baffled all attempts at suc- | public sentiment for no other purpose | Within that period the Department of the of the gravey ‘that a number of the leading high = tact with a live electric wire while ng repairs |
cessful copying. It was a smile that made | than to get a joke on the Democratic ma- | Health, with its myriad of officers has: _The New York World is anxious. tectionists, wi to the roof of T. J. Kel'ey's store. He immediate.
President TAFT famous in his campaign | jority of Congress. He is too cunning for | been created. That department has ac | to find out whether or not President TPT | fides by his tariff yeton, ay 1 fall ove? 8 otf irs, bolting oe Hel
two years age, but, unlike the “Mona | that. complished some good but it isnot anun- | pag committed suicide. We regret to boalg of taril} experts Sion i oni Br lp :
Lisa's,” the President's didn’t hold to make | When TAFT called the Sixty-second just criticism to say that it could do as | gay (hat we have no information on the | value in framing legislation. atthe power plant, when his lifeless body was
him valuable either to his country or his | Congress into special session for the ex- Well with half the force. The State high- * gu biect but are able to assure our esteem- | taken down and conveved to the undertakers. !
party. | pressed purpose of enacting the Canadian | Way department is equally overcrowded ; og contemporary that he has killed all Cause and Effect. Lgusrge Wangan McClesker., aed 19 years. of f
—That Canonsburg theatre accident | eciprocity pact, he necessarily rented 2% profuse. Under the new law there . cnances for the Republican party in the Feom the Fairline Conger: river near that place a few days ago. He was out
was the most horrible catastrophe that the opportunity for the majority to take are in office at Harrisburg, nearly | future, i No city on the Pacific coastis putting with a companion in a leaky canoe and while his
has occurred in Pennsylvania since the | UP any sort of legislation that might be 100 employees besides the vast number of | See VP | companion was bailing he rocked the canoe. The
| concurred in by both branches. But we | inspectors to be appointed while work is ——Cold-storage commodities are bad | TOr* buldings Hon 1 Popula.
To la has Yin TY vit 7 the beginning thathe intended to in progress. Even now the patronage of enough under the most favorable condi- | British Columbia. To exempt improve.
sponsible for all of the deaths, as there | Play a trick and advised the majority of thatdepartment is being used to control tions but when cold-storage warehouses | ments from taxation gig to en-
was neither danger nor fire. It was a the House to pass the other feature of its | the nomination of candidates for judge | are kept in filth they are intc "| To tax them means to encourage land
case of panic in a crowded theatre when | Program first and make the passage of and other offices in various sectionsof the Recent investigations have revealed some ' oo ja vion,
a boy shouted “fire” when there was TAFT'S pet measure, Canadian reciprocity, State. bof that sort!
none, and twenty-six human beings were | contingent upon his approval of the other Every sane citizen is in favor of good
tramped to death in the scramble to get | bills. The majority preferred to treat roads and most men are willing to pay
out. Verily, the lesson of sanity in all him as a manly man however, and en- liberally to procure them. But what use
things is a hard one to learn. acted his bill first and the others after. is there for a commissioner, two depu-
'ward. He approved his and vetoed all ties, a chief engineer, two bridge engi- 3 sot complaint |
—The women of Bellefonte are gOINg thers just as we expected he would, ~~ - neers, fifty superintendents, five draughts- | BY | Sherwise
His friend pulled kim out, left him clinging to the :
canoe and started to swim to the shore for help. !
down and it was some time before the body was
recovered.
~—A mysterious death which occurred at Clover
Run, Clearfield county, on August 7th, has just
——The Tobacco trust has ordered! Work for the Dis-Organizers.
another increase in the price of cigarettes | From the Greensburg Argus. come to public knowledge. John Mikesell, aged
but if it never does anything worse than : _ Will not some one kindly remind Chair- | 16 years, a pumper boy in No. 2 mine, went to
| man Guthrie, of the State commit- | work as usual. At 7:30 it was noted that he was
that it will probably escape a good deal of | too "vo" nop i | Worf as ua, a
to pay his poll tax and
ify himself for voting either | pot. When his brothers went home in the even’
ican or Democratic at | ing and didn’t find him, they went back and found
to get into politics in the fall. The Civic py ig personal vanity, colossal as it men and eleven clerks to conduct the, Early in the summer there was a the
club has two candidates for school di- | was not the influencing "affairs of the department? A commis- . . elections?
rector in the field and already they are reason. TAFT, large cavein in the pavement on Alleghe
is under mortgage to the trusts and they , Sioner competent to perform the services ny street, in front of Temple Court, and | SE AS
framing up a lot of campaign thunder. oop pe)ied him to do what he has done. ' Of chief engineer might easily have been ' at the time there was considerable specu- Trade Obstrution. | investigation.
You will recall that the WATCHMAN told pore are g hundred millions of dollars | Obtained at the salary of $8,000, and there ' lation as to what caused it, with NEVEr Prom the Toronto Globe. | —That branch of the Juniata river which has
you of the brick that was thrown through ¢ oa¢ 46 the interests in the postpone- iS no more need for fifty superintendents any satisfactory explanation. This week The obstruction of trade will Nott joilg:| 3 source soul ef Claysbusg; audoné: Gf Wows! :
a window of a Linn street home where oi of tariff reduction legislation for at$1000 a year each, than there is for ‘ the brick pavement in front of the Rey- be regarded as the foundation of any na. | Chief feeders is the Cove creck, which comes
they were in secret session a few weeks another year and TAPT is obliged, under tWo tailson a dog. But this profligacy 'nolds block on the same street, caved in : LION'S prosperity That fact accounts for
ago and how panic stricken some of them i :
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R eM penalty of exposure, to serve the trusts. | Provides places for party henchmen. . and again the query: Why is it? In.one, ToS of the } 8
were. Now they are trying to TL conidia piel Emap. ern y of a little off the top.
| ms | place there was a hole almost five feet Sr —
Col. ForTNEY and Dr. LOCKE with the} ocivitaxed to the full measize of the ~—Probably Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN | geen” or the cave-in extended for a A Tour of Explanation.
The only plausible explanation so far ad- | © gu he Rochester Herald.
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assault because those gentlemen are can- t had the “Mona Lisa” stolen in order to :
didates for school director also. It isa Sal of the Stiste ad Motoands of pou get a decoration from France upon its letigtls Of vai foot and two feet i. widths:
slander on both of them, of course, but return at some time in the near future |
| , [The President will make a tour of the rierthes tho guy pany a.
the women have listened to their hus- I he SA eo are for. | Mr. MORGAN has already worked Italy | ype er 40 0 TL ar Ses | West in Soptember to owpluia bow It bap. ad suspicion pole setrong
) | . pens that the American Woolen i up thé sens, 4h
band’s talk politics so long that they know the people. He believes that he can fool | and Germany in a way something like | fissures of the limestone rock thus allow- | possesses so much influence in W: ie ot :
most anything goes. them again and serves the trusts. | that. | ing the pavement to cave in. ‘ton. 1 Smelly He on ;