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OLEO CROWDING OUT BUTTER.
Substitute's Sales Increase Hundred
Fold Latter' s Price Too High.
Snys the New York limes: "The'
continued rise in the price of but-1
ter, with no sign of a drop in the!
near future, is causing the maim- j
facturers and dealers in oleomargar-1
ine to rejoice. They say that all
their product needs to win recogni- j
tion by the public is a trial, and
because of the present high prices j
of butter the number of people who
accept the substitnte is daily in-1
creasing. The state authorities are j
receiving many applications for
dealers to sell the product. It is
retailed for 25 cents or less per
pound, while the best butter now
costs 40 cents.
"The manager of the grocery
department of a large department
store said yesterday that its busi
ness in oleomargarine has greatly
increased in the last few weeks. In
the last year, he said, the sales of
oleo or butterine, as the oleomar
garine is called, have increased a
hundredfold.
"Oleo must be labeled 'oleomar
garine' in letters of a size large
enough to be easily seen, audit
must not be colored. An arrest wasj
made in Brooklyn Friday for ped
dling oleo as the 'best dairy but
ter.' Frank Jones, who gave his
address as Jersey City, was in
charge of a wagon containing sev
eral hundred pounds of the butter
substitute. It is said that he tore
off that part of the label containing
the name oleomargarine before sell
ing it. Jones was arraigned before
Commissioner Benedict and held iu
$1,000 bail for the grand jury."
A Stringent Law.
Justices of the peace are bearing
in mind that under the provisions
of an act of assembly, approved by
Governor Stuart, May S, 1909, per
sons making charges of threat and
surety of the peace may be commit
ted to jail in default of payment ol
costs, if the magistrate finds upon
hearing the evidence that th? com
plainant is in no danger as to per
son and property. The preamble
sets forth that the practice of bring
ing unwarranted actions has become
so common as to burden the Com
monwealth with unnecessary costs
that the magistrates are enjoined to
carefully hear the evidence and, if
it be found that the complaint is
without just grounds the costs may
be imposed upon either of the par
ties or divided between them in any
proportion that the magistrate may
think just, and in the event that
payment is refused the delinquent
may be committed.
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, Navigating the Susquehanna.
History nnd certain people :it
Washington connected with Rivers
and Harbors legislation declare the
.Susquehanna a navigable stream.
History has known this 12ft year-;
how long Washington cflicials have
be; 11 cognizant of the fact is not in
(lic.-itid in the suggestion that the
West Branch valley ought to have
water transportation.
In the Susquehanna w.s
declared a "public high .viy," and
as such was the means by which,
many of the first settlers came into
this region. Their boats were poled
up the stream, against the same
s'rong current for which the Sus
quehanna is ii-itcd today. Then
came boats of the barge type which
carried thirty to thirty-five tons of
freight. They were usually pro '
pelled with oars, though sometime
were towed. There were several
navigation companies on the Sus
quehanna in the early part of the
past century, and warehouses were
erected at intervals along the river
as far south as the Clu-sapeake bay.
Grain was stored in these ware
houses until it could be sent to mar
ket. In 1805, sails were tried and in
some parts of the river worked so
well that they became largely used.
Steamboat navigation was attempt
ed in 18 1 6, when two boats were
built, one at Philadelphia and tbe
other at Baltimore, for the purpose
of bringing iron down from the
Karthaus lurnace iu Clearfield coun
ty. These boats, the Susquehanna
and Codorus, encountered many
vicissitudes in their short career.
The latter :eached Williamsport af
ter the most trying voyage possible
to conceive. Here it created a great
sensation, and great possibilities
were predicted for the new steam
ship line. Then the Codorus steam
ed down the river to Northumber
land, and that was the last of her
as far as Williamsport was concern
ed. The Susquehanna tried to as
cend the Nescopec rapids and her
boiler blew up. Then came the
canal. All this, of course is ancient
hir-tory.
Now, after a lapse of 83 years,
during which time the rocks and
rapids of the Susquehanna have not
changed for the better in any ap
preciable particular, the river is de
clared navigable as far west as
Clearfield. We hope it is true. We
hope it will not be many years ere
great floating palace come boom
ing up from the ocean and hitch at
the Market street whrrf where now
lie only the gallant Sylvan Dell and
her gasoline consort. There tn.iv
be dynamite enough in the world to
blow out a channel and build lo:ks
and dams and spillways and what
not. Probably there is, or the peo
ple at vVashington never would
have placed the Susquehanna on the
list of navigable waters. We should
like to have them come up and take
a look at the Riffles at Sylvan Dell
and some other places between Wil
liamsport and Clearfield which
could be as easily overcome as the
Isthmus of Panama. Then if they
want to fix up the old stream so
that it will float something besides
a sixteen-foot launch let them do
their worst. Williamsport Gazette
and Bulletin,
By the will of the late Charles
II. Fannan, Jr., Yale University is
bequeathed half a million dollars
for buildings for the Sheffield Sci
entific School.
MI'4ST, I.OWI'll. MllMM.
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, I). C.Dec. 14, 1909.
Congress is again in session at
the Capitol of the United States or
rather it was in session until it ad
journed. Seldom has there been a
tamer opening of the National leg
islative body. There was not a sug
gestion of sensationalism. A little
irony perhaps in the motion to
print the Prcsident'sWinona speech
the one in which he endorsed what
has been characterized as the Can
non and Aldrich fake tariff reform
bill. And this was intensified when
an amendment carried with it the
printing of Cannon's speech in
which lie read the Insurgents out
01 the party. The President's mes
sage was the tamest received by
Congress in eight years. Its read
ing had the effect to empty many
seats in the House and Senate.
Only a few members and Senators
remained to hear it through. The
document while devoid of any new
and startling proposals is a s u e
and conservative state paper and
quite up to the average of Presi
dential messages to Congress.
It is already given out that the
President will soon send to Con
gress important supple. uenlary
messages a. d one relative to the
Piuchot-Ballinger controvcrsey in
which it is stated lhat the Cabinet
Oilicer will be re-exonerated is ex
pected in a iew days.
There arc other Congresses in
Washington which have before
them work or enterprises of nation
al importance The S.iuthern Con-j
uress with representatives from 1
sixteen Southern states which has
for its object the promotion of
Southern trade and industry has!
well attended meetings iu Willard's
Hotel. The Senate and House of
Representatives have adjourned
from day to day in order that their
members may be present at the de
liberations of this Southern Con
vention and also at the sessions of
the Waterways improvement Con
vention which is represented here
by it is said four thousand dele
gates. It is their wish to have Con
gress issue half a billion in bonds
at the rate of fifty millions a year
for ten years but the President in
his address before this body ex
pressed his disapproval at this time
of that scheme. The Southern Con
gress has purchased ground on one
of the most valuable comers in the
city and will erect there a building
costing more than one million of
dollars to be used for offices and as
a kind of club house for the promo
tion of the objects of the Southern
organization. This brings to mind
another enterprise and a crying
need in the city of Washington, a
permanent hall or temple to be
used by the hundreds of conven
tions and visiting organizations
that come to the national Capital
for counsel and deli Deration. The
city of Washington nas made more
then one abortive effort to build a
Convention Hall but a great por
tion of the population of Washing
ton is made up of Government
clerks on small salaries and fully
one third of the population is of
ninety thousand of Africans, the
most degenerate and physically and
spiritually aenemic mob that can
be found anywhere in the world.
This is not exaggeration or mere
assertion. It is a statement borne
out by the census report and dem
onstrable by charity, health office
statistics and police court records.
There are iu this city some wealthy
residents, men who have made for
tunes elsewhere who have retired
to W ashington as a home. These
subscribed liberally to the Conven
tion Hall protect as did also the
proprietors of the larger hotels but
there was not sufficient in subscrip
tion to carry out an enterprise re
quiring at leas,t two millions of
dollars. Secretary Root and other
distinguished men have suggested
a plan to raise the money by small
subscriptions from all the people of
the United States. A postage stamp
from the ninety millions of people
composing the population of the
United States and territories it has
been said would build iu Washing
ton a convention temple of the
states and furnish a home as it
were, in this peculiarly national
city, for the many visiting organi
zations that come to Washington.
,
It is somewhat unusual for an
other congress iu Washington to
eciipse the regular Congress at the
Capitol, but this is the actual situ
ation at this writing. The Water
way Congress or convention hold
ing its sessions in the banqueting
room on the eighth story of the Wil
lard Hotel is looked upon as a
gathering of pre-eminent nation il
importance, and at the opening of
its sessions yesterday, the Congress
at the Capitol having adjourned,
the President of the United States,
foreign ambassadors, and many
senators and representatives in Con
gress were present. President Taft
madethe opeuiug address and ex-
GRANGERS' CONVENTION.
Three Days' Program Arranged for
Annual Meeting of State Organi
zation. All the arrangements have been
completed for the annual meeting
of the Pennsylvania State Grange
at State College, beginning Tues
day. December 2t, and continuing
three days. The indications arc
that it will be the largest assem
blage in the history of the organi
zation. Thousands of persons rep
resenting every county in the State
are expected to attend, and the pro
gram for each day's session will be
replete with matters particularly
interesting to those engaged in ag
riculture, horticulture and kindred
subjects.
In connection with the meeting
there will be held the third annual
educational exhibit of the Depart
ment of Horticulture. The display
last year was probably the finest
ever held in the State, and the
prospects are gord for a better ex
hi! it t his year. Orchard and gar
den products of Pennsylvania will
be shown, while the horticultural
show ami the display f farm, gar
den and dairy implements will be
larger than ever.
There is also to be a butter scot-1
ing contest. K ldi sample will be
carefully judged by experts, who!
will, besides giving the score-, also ;
point out as far as possible, the l ea i
sons for the defects and make stig- j
gestions as to improving the quali- i
tv. It is tne purpose ot the depart- j
tnent to make the work entirely
educational.
Wednesday evening during the
Grange session will be devoted to a
public meeting to be opened with
music. The p ogram will be ;js -follows:
Address of welcome in j
behalf of the Centre County Porno- j
11a Grange, No. 13, by I.eonaidj
Rhone, past master of the Pennsyl
vania State Grange; response, State
Master W. T. C reay; dramatic rec
itation, Miss Williams Anderson;
address iu behalf of State College
town; response by J. T. Ailman,
State secretary; address in behalf
of the State College, President Kd
win IJ. Sparks; response, John A.
McSpanan, secretary of the Legis
lative Committee of the State
Grange.
The exhibition of agricultural
products, electrical appliances and
agricultural inventions will be open
to the public during the entire week.
The dairy building of State Col
lege, which is one of the best equip
ped of the kind in the United States
will be cpen to members, who will
have an opportunity of witnessing
students at work making butter
and cheese.
There will also be an exhibition
in one of the buildings of many ar
ticles of interest to the farmer and
the tanner's wife, particularly in
machines that make the burden of
housekeeping less irksome.
Persons going to the State Grange
will be transferred at Bellefonte to
the B.-llefonte Central Railroad and
taken by special train to State Col
lege. -
You All Know Them.
An exchange truthfully remarks,
"There are n few people in every
place (and pretty nice people too)
who will enter a grocery store, run
their fingers into a br.rrel and lop
up a couple of ounces of sugar, nib
ble at the back of a herring, eat a
handful of nuts, cut off a slice tof
cheese, just to taste, then, as a
matter of course must take a few
crackers; and perhaps before thev
make up their mind to buy a bar of
soap they have eaten up the profits
on 5, worth of groceries, and
to win.l it all up- they have it
charged, and the poor merchant
perhaps realizes a profit of one cent.
They leave the store munching a
couple of apples. This is no dream
nut a reality, except some times
they don't buy any soap. But such
is life."
pressed himself iu favor of a na
tional system of waterways, but
advised against urging an immedi
ate issue of 500,000,000 in bonds.
President Taft has considerably
improved as a speaker. lie speaks
with ease, he talks with ease and
without embarrassment. Perhaps
the greatest fault in his style is an
apparent lack of seriousness, an ap
parent impression that a story or
joke is necessary to ingratiate him
self, and put him en rapport with
his audience. This detracts from
the diguity and seriousness of any
subject upon which he may speak,
and is in strong contrast with the
earnest and convincing style of his
predecessor. Any one will seek in
vain in all the speeches of Roose
velt for any desire or attempt to be
tunny or nattering. It is dilhcult
for one to believe that a man is
thoroughly in earnest when he can
turn aside to be funny.
Children Cry
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Our Christmas displays this year
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