AN OLD-TIME REMINDER. — The other morning, Mr. James Cornelly left at this office an account book of his grand-fath- er, John Farley, who in 1836-7 was a sub contractor on the long ago abandoned canal between this place and Lock Ha- ven. It is a record of the payments to, and credits for labor of men employed by him, and shows that while laborers at that time were paid, what at this time would be called “starvation” wages, they were able to purchase many of the nec- essaries of life at prices comparatively as low, when compared with prices of today, as were their wage rates. In this book accounts are shown with many men, de- scendants of whom are still among us, and with many others whose names would be recalled by but few, if any, of the many readers of the WATCHMAN to- day. Among those who, away back in 1836 found employment with Mr. Farley, and who have descendants still living among us, were John Nolan, Wm. Cooney, Ed- ward Dowling, James Farley, John Cul- lins, Thomas Kain, (now spelled Kane,) Michael Corrigan, Richard Boyle, John Dowling, Michael Doyle, Richard Powers and Edward Kelly. John Nolan seems to have acted as book-keeper and the oth- ers, along with a long list of names that would be strange now to our people, as day laborers. The wages generally paid were 50 cents a day and board. In some instances 75 cents per day was paid, and board charg- ed at 25 cents. Beef was charged to the men at 5 cents per lb.; bacon at 10; whis- key at 62 cents per gallon; boots at $2.37 per pair; tobacco 25 cents per Ib.; salt 6} cents per quart; nails 10 cents per pound; muslin 15 cents per yd.; sugar 12} cents per Ib.; calico 25 cents per yd.; coffee 14 cents per Ib.; potatoes 37} cents per bushel; mackerel 6} cents each; cod- fish 6} cents per pound; tea $1.00 per 1b. The only articles of clothing we find en- tered up are, one pair of pantaloons $5.00; one pair woman's stockings, charg- ed to Catharine Leavy, at 44 cents, and two shirts to one of the workmen at 45 cents each. Altogether it shows that the day labor- ers of today have considerably the better of their brother toilers of three-fourths of a century ago, when the wages paid him for his work, and the prices charged him for his living are compared with what they receive and what they must pay for similar articles, except in the matter of whiskey and tobacco, beef and bacon. PINE GROVE MENTION. Ralph Miller was a Tyrone visitor over Sun- day. Wilson Fry has been laid up for two weeks with lumbago. Miss Sarah Kepler is visiting friends at Tyrone and Bellwood. Miss Florence Kepler spent Friday in Belle fonte shopping. G. W. McWilliams has been somewhat indis- posed the past week. H. M. Dale and Ralph Musser spent Sunday with friends at Fairbrook. Harry Markle is up in New York State, where he has the promise of a good job. Miss Jude Herman is here visiting her cousin, Mrs. Sadie Everts, on Water street. Mrs. Ella Smiley, of Altoona, is spending a week at the Hon. J. W. Kepler home. Mrs. Rebecca C. Fry and Mrs. Mary R. Dale are visiting relatives in the Mountain city. Mrs. Maggie Meek, of Altoona, is making her mid-summer visit among her old friends here- abouts. Randall Dunlap, of Cherry Tree, is at his parental home on Chestnut street, for a two weeks visit and rest. Mrs. Maggie Vangorten, of Toronto, Can., for the first time since her marriage, is visiting her old friends in the valley. Mrs. Sallie Fortney and brother and William Homan and wife attended the Solomon Musser funeral at Loganton Wednesday. Wm. Mitterling. the well known cow buyer of Centre Hall, was here Friday and made some purchases for the eastern market. Harry Sunday's steam thresher had a smash-up jast week and was at a stand still several days for repairs. But it is on full time now. Farmer Charles Henderson bought a pair of yearling colts at Spruce Creek Tuesday and took them home. Next morning one was dead. Mr, and Mrs. Albright, of Millheim, autoed here Sunday in Mr. Mensch’s Ford car and spent the day at the J. W. Kepler home in the Glades. Rev. W. K. Harnish gave notice last Sunday that he would fill the pulpit at Fruit Hill on the 18th. Consequently there will be no preaching until September 1st. Hon. J. W. Kepler and wife, N. T. Krebs and wife, A. C. Kepler, Maude Decker and J. P. Markle autoed to Penns Cave Sunday, and had a pleasant journey and a royal time. Rev. Spangler, of Yeagertown, made a lenghty address on his travels through Palestine at Penn Hall, Saturday evening; Gatesburg, Sun- day at ten a. m. and Pine Grove Mills at 7:30 in the evening. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hoid a festival Saturday evening in the I. 0. O. F. hall, Proceeds for the benefit of the church. As the cause is a worthy one we bespeak a big at- tendance, with loose purse strings. Those who attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Meek, at Tyrone Thursday, were: B.F. Homan and wife, Mrs. Emil Fye and daughter Bessie: James Holmes and wife, A. B. Struble and wife, L. D.Fye and wife, J. C. Struble and wife, and Forest Struble and wife. They went up in the Charles Snyder and A. B. Evey automobiles. On Friday of last week Mrs. Hershel Harpster seriously injured, although she might have been Wilson Gives His Policies. Says High Cost of Living Is Arranged by Private Understanding and Raps Big Business. Informally accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency, of which he was officially notified by a committee including many governors and other leaders of his party at Sea Girt, N. J., Governor Woodrow Wilson discussed the principal issues of the campaign and gave his views as to the measures necessary in his opinion to met the problems which confront his party. The address had been awaited with considerable interest as affording him an opportunity, as the standard bearer of the Democracy, to tell where he stood on the leading political ques- tions of the day, and the crowd that assembled at the “Little White House,” as it is called by the governor's ad- mirers, listened intently to catch the import of his words. From the broad veranda of the white-coated house the nominee deliv- ered his speech. Grouped beneath wide-spreading willows and elms were the more prominent guests, hedged in by clumps of ferns and bushes. The governor read from his manuscript. The platform, he said, was not a program, but a practical document in- tended to show “that we know what the nation is thinking about and what it is most concerned about.” The peo- ple, he added, were about to be asked not particularly to adopt a platform, but to entrust the Democratic party with “office and power and the guid- ance of their affairs” and their desire now was to know what “translation of action and policy he intends to give to! the general terms of the platform, | should he be elected.” | An immediate downward revision of | the tariff, amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law, and more adequate leg- islation, both civil and criminal, look- ing to the control of monopolies; legis- lation to prevent the interlocking of directorates of big corporations that tends to place the finances of the | country under the control of a few men; legislation that will safeguard | the lives and improve the physical ang | moral conditions of the working peo- | ple; a close inspection of the political life of the people of the Philippines; ! the adaptation of banking and curren- cy laws to the varied uses to which | our people must put them; conserva-| Special Excursion. Gel1yShuIg Excursion Tickets good only on 57.31-2t Special Sunday Excursion August 18th, 1912 ROUND $2.50 TRIP SPECIAL TRAIN Leaves Bellefonte 5.30 a. m. Arrives Gettysburg 12.05 Noon RETURNING Leaves Gettysburg 6.45 p. m. Pennsylvania Railroad. Balllefield Special Train in each direction. ——— to the regular Friday afternoon and even- ing concerts at Hecla park the following picnics wiil be held there during July and August: Saturday, school. Wednesday, August 14th, Pleasant Gap Sun- day schools. A a United Brethren Sunday school, onte. Wednesday, August 2ist. Altcona Freight Station employees. August 28th, Altoona Erecting shops. SPRING MILLS. Farmers in this neighborhood are busy cutting oats and doing some fall plowing. Orvis Beatty and son Glenn, of Avis, are here on a visit to the former's mother, Mrs. Sarah Beatty. Our fishermen say that trout fishing this season was alstupendous fizzle. Our anglers seem to have poor luck. According to the oid saw, “when the winds blow over the oats stubbles fall is here,” the time is now at hand. W. O. Gramley, who has been a rural mail carrier since the route was first established here, resigned the position last week. Mrs. ASL. Miller, of Alexandria, Va., former- August 10th, Snydertown Sunday Picnics AT HECLA PARK.—In addition | tion of natural resources; develop- ly of this place, is here visiting relatives and ment of merchant marine and water- | friends, a guest of Mrs. C. C. Cummings. ways; presidential primaries and the | jp.ve heard nothing®very lately in regard to direct election of United States sena- | the knitting factory to be operated here. The tors, were some of the important rec- | contemplated enterprise, however, is in the hands ommendations which the governor ad- | of reliable and responsible parties, and no doubt vocated. Governor Wilson holds the present high tariff responsible for the high cost of living and the rapid growth of mo- nopolies, and denounced the Payne- | Aldrich tariff act “as the most con- spicuous example ever afforded the country of the special favors and mo- nopolistic advantages which the lead- ers of the Republican party have sv often shown themselves willing to ex- | tend to those to whom they looked for campaign contributions.” High wages yield us no great com- fort. We used to be better off with less because a dollar could buy so much more. Prices climb faster than we can push our earnings up. The high cost of living is arranged by pri- vate understanding. He declared himself in favor of an immediate revision, and said: “It should be downward, unhesitatingly and steadily downward.” In order not to disturb the business interests of the country he advocated proceeding with caution and prudence “like men who know what they are about and not like those in love with a theory.” He declared that the trusts, instead of belonging to a period of infant in- dustries, were the product of a very sophisticated age when men knew what they wanted and knew how to get it by the favor of the government. The present anti-trust law, he said, had apparently proved ineffectual, and while he did not hold anyone respon- sible, he declared that it will be neces- sary to supplement the present law with such laws, both civil and crimi- nal, as will effectually punish and pre- vent the methods by which trusts have established monopolies, adding such other laws as may be necessary to provide suitable and adequate judicial processes, whether civil or criminal, to disclose them and follow them to a final verdict and judgment. A problem that he considers greater than the trusts is what he termed the “vast confederacies” of banks, rail- ways, express companies, insurance companies, manufacturing corpora- tions, mining corporations, power and development companies, bound to- gether by the fact that the ownership of their stock and the members of their boards of directors are controlled and determined by comparatively small and closely inter-related groups of persons, who, by their informal con- federacy, may control, if they please and when they will, both credit and enterprise. He hinted at the existence of a “money trust,” and while he ad- mitted such a thing might not exist, he advocated legislation to prevent it. Eleven Boy Scouts Drowned. A cutter containing a score of Boy he Scouts was capsized by a squall at Leysdown, England, and eight of the boys were drowned. Three Boy Scouts were drowned at Brighton while trying vainly to rescue a comrade who was bathing. Kills Self After Care For Father. After having become run down through long care for her aged father, who died recently, Mrs. Sarah Eagle- son, of 48 Weaver street, Bloomfield, N. J.,, committed suicide by gas. She leaves a husband and two children. will take definite shape at no very distant da. Prof. S. C. Miller, who underwent a serious surgical operation in the University hospital, Philadelphia, has recovered sufficiently to be removed to his home at Chester. His many friends hereabouts will be glad to hear of his recovery. Has the Democratic State committee ‘gone stark mad, that they are mailing letters to Demo- cratic candidates for Senate and Legislature ask- ing them to mail to their secretary a pledge that they will support a bosh promise in the Demo. | cratic State platform, in reference to appropri- ations for charities, only those under State con- trol absolutely. I am satisfied that candidate Foster has too much good sense to pay any atten- tion to such a clap trap request. And the other candidates, if they are wise and seek an election, should do the same thing. Splendid Vacation Trip Planned for Guests of The Pittsburg Post. More than 30 years ago a Frenchman first conceived the idea of building a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama, so that commerce might flow in one unin- terrupted stream from ocean to ocean. T , it is but the wait of one short year when the dream of his ambitious mind shall have been realized, even ex- ceeded. The most stupendous neer- ing feat in the world’s history will soon be a living actuality. Yet it remained for American brains, American brawn, and American skill to accomplish it. The time to visit this epoch. ng work is Hpht now, As soon as the water is turn- in the vastness and the marks of bat- tle of the place will be obliterated, and that will occur very soon. The 20 guests of the Pittsburgh Post will see the Panama Canal in its most in- teresting stage of construction. Besides, their itinerary includes Jamaica, Cuba ng Costa Rica, one of the most wonder- tours ever sponsored by a newspaper. You can be one of the party. Watch the Pittsburgh Post for detailed announce- ments about these t free tours, to be awarded without absolutely one cent of cost to the lucky persons. Only a Mask. Many are not bei benefited by the summer vacation as they should be. Now, otwithesand; ng much sutdeor life, they are little if any stronger ey were. The tan on their faces is darker and makes them healthier, but looking, it is the chief purpose of the vacation best subserved by this t medicine which, 3 we know, “builds up the whole sys- Legal Notice. NNUAL MEETING.—Noticeis hereby HAL JIE TINS. 3 the mt