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Entered as second class matter,
March 9, 1910, at the post office at
Moshanon, Pa., under the act of March
3, 1879.
Only a fool, asserts the Philadel-
phia Record, will get foolish with
another fool. 1
The man who judges simply by
what he can see, never hits the bulls-
eye, says Ram’s Horn.
Little Miss Canada, suggests the
New York American, may now come
and buy in our market.
A French writer predicts that in
the course of one hundred years very
few persons will live in the cities.
Cities will be used only for business
purposes.
Some men, observes the Atchison
Globe, have such an exaggerated no-
tion of their own importance they
think they should be promoted fast
enough for their salaries to keep up
with the increased cost of living.
The San Francisco man who stole
a painting explains that he was hyp-
potized by its beauty into a desire to
possess it. If he has sufficient social
standing, amends the Philadelphia
Ledger, kleptomania is what ails him.
‘Says the Bridgeport Post: It is dif-
ficult to see how the Mayor's pro-
posed change will cure graft, if things
are as bad in the New York police
force as he asserts. It will be just
as easy, if not easier, for the officer
who has observed violations to take
money not to report them, as it is
now for him to take money after the
arrest and then have ‘a bad mem-
ory’ in court. ’
Among those present at the Hotel
Krantz, in Vienna, on the occasion of
the - celebration of the eighty-ninth
birthday of the Prince Regent of Ba-
varia by the Bavarian colony in that
city was an American, who, in the
course of his description of the affair,
says: “The speech-making is not de-
ferred here until cigars and coffee are
served. The speakers seem to begin
whenever the spirit moves them. On
this occasion it was after the second
course had been served that Freiherr
von Tucher, diplomatic representative
from Bavaria, who presided, arose
.and made a three-cornered address.
He expressed sympathy at the death
of Mayor Lueger, congratulated the
‘Austrians on the eightieth birthday
of Franz Josef and then felicitated
the venerable Regent Luitpold of Ba-
varia. There were other speeches, ali
good, all highly appreciated and all
delivered between courses. It was
novel to me, but I liked it.
There is no people in the world like
the American, boasts the Boston Her-
ald, in the number of men and wo-
men who look upon their title to
‘wealth as involving stewardship and
disposition of income and principal
for public ends. During the last sev-
enteen years the amounts of gifts, in
sums of $5000 or more, to religious,
educational, philanthropic and civic
causes has been many millions over
a billion dollars, the record for the
wear just closing amounting to $141,-
250,000, or $40,000,000 more than
during any previous year. Add to
this the enormous sum that is given
each year in sums smaller than $5000,
given either as regular contributions
to religious, educational and charit-
able causes, or left as bequests for the
same ‘‘uplift” ends, and it begfhs to
appear why the agitator ‘against
wealth, as in of itself a pernicious |
thing, finds this country less favor-
able to his revolutionary propaganda |
than he wishes it were. .
Sometimes a man’s best asset, sub- |
mits the Commoner, is his ignorance.
{ resented,
A young man doesn’t have to be so
very fast, warns the Pittsburg Dis-
patch, to catch up ‘with trouble.
Lots of people, regrets the Phila
delphia Record, allow their good man-
ners to get rusty from lack of use.
The tendency to correct all crea-
tion, muses the Chicago Tribune, is
often mistaken for the creation of
correct character.
You all laugh at the rooster for
imagining that the sun rises only with
his permission and upon being an-
nounced by him. How much different
are you, demands the Lawrence (Mo.)
Journal. Can you conceive of a world
without you in it?
The progress which Canada is
making in canal building and perhaps
in railroad extension and other trans-
portation works may surpass, at least
proportionately, .that of the United
States, admits the New York Trib-
une, but it is worthy of observation
and must be highly gratifying to
Americans to observe that the major
part of the tools and engines for the
construction and eduipment of these
works comes from the United States.
The desire of American people to
Thave the best the market affords on
their tables is doubtless one of the
causes—and not a small one—of pres-
ent high prices of foods, thinks the
Chicago Inter-Ocean. We could get
along very nicely on chuck roasts
and flank stews. But we will not do
‘so as long as there are sirloins on the
butcher’s counter. With some forty
million out of ninety million people
clamoring for porterhouse and sir-
loins, the prices of such meats would
probably go up even ir all the trusts
were in jail.
‘Wholly unwarranted, with nothing
to justify its rule, asserts the Balti-
more American, anger yet occupies
the loftiest throne and wields the
most tyrannous power. So far from
having an unchallenged rule, its pre-
tensions are more vigorously and
constantly contested than the claims
of any other principle of human con-
duct. It ranges its battalions of ve-
nom and malice, of misrepresentation
and injustice, its cohorts of criminal
aspersion and libelous allegation, its
even darker minions to support its
sway over humanity. It does no good
simply to arraign anger, for more in-
_dictments have been made out against
it in every court of human opinion
than have been brought against any
other consgpiration for high crimes
and -misdemeanors. It is enough to
quote the familiar adage that “whom
the gods would destroy they first
make mad.”
One of the few useful results of the
rising scale in the cost of living is
the impetus it has given to the
search for new articles of food. Sci
| entists declare, notes the New York
| Mail, that many vegetable growths
hitherto neglected contain highly nu-
tritious properties which, properly
utilized, will considerably simplify
the problem of subsistence. One of
these is cottonseed, which in addition
to its yield of rich and palatable oil
is now said to be convertible into
flour far superior to that made from
cereals. This new use for cottonseed
was discovered in Texas by a young
man who proposes to try it on his
amiable uncle, Jacob Dickinson, sec-
retary of war. Accordingly he hassent
to Uncle Jacob a large consignment
of bread, cakes and other plain and
fancy articles made of cottonseed
flour with a request that he partake
of them and report results. Having
an excellent digestion, and-an accom-
modating disposition, - Uncle Jacob
will oblige. The particulars as to the
esting. We are advised that while
costing a fourth less than wheat flour
it contains seven times more nutri-
ment, though somewhat lacking
carbo-hydrates, which, however,
in
can
| easily be supplied by the addition of
sugar. This discovery, if it be as rep-
is one of vast importance,
for if a cotton plantation can produce
food and raiment in a single crop the
problem of existence will be
what easier than it is at
some-
present.
Wherefore Uncle Jacob Dickinson's
report on those samples
is awaited
with impatient interest.
merits of cottonseed flour are inter-.
INDIANA DEMOCRATS
CHOOSE JOHN W. KERN
Governor Marshall's Proposition Was
Accepted—Tagg rt Turned Down.
THE FACTIONS ARE UNITED
Convention Startling With Ricdous
Indications Ends in Harmony
and Enthusiasm.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Opening in dis-
cord and closing in enthusiastic har-
mony, the Indiana Democratic con-
vention adopted Governor Marshall's
proposition that it should indorse to
next year’s legislature a candidate for
the United States senate, and named
John W. Kern, who was the party’s
candidate for vice president in 1908.
This action means that Kern should
be elected to succeed Senator A. J.
Beveridge, provided the Democrats
have a majority in the next state
legislature and that majority adheres
to the indorsement made,
The opposition made a grim fight
under the leadership of Thomas Tag-
gart, a candidate for the nomination
for senator, but, defeated, it joihed
heartily with the element headed by
Governor Marshall and John E. Lamb
of Terre Haute, vice chairman of the
national committee, also aspirant for
the senatorship, in a shouted acclama-
tion of Kern as the party’s candidate.
This issue overshadowed the adop-
tion of a platform and the naming of
a state ticket.
leven names of leading Democrats
were proseniod as candidates for the
senatorship. On the first ballot Tag-
gart led with 228 votes, Kern receiv-
ing 200. On the second ballot there
was a slump from the other candi-
dates to Kern,
“Machine” in Scrap Heap.
“The Taggart machine is on the
scrap heap,” said Mr. Taggart to the
convention, giving up the struggle
with broad smile, “I am going to say
something most of you won’t believe,
but I would rather see Kern in the
senate than be there myself.” He
then delivered the 183 votes of the
Marion county delegation to Kern,
though Kern had declared, in the
course of the first ballot that his
name had been presented without
warrant and “he was in no sense a
candidate.”
The voting proceeded, Kern gaining
more and more, until the fourth bal-|
lot, when, all the other candidates
having withdrawn, he was nominated
unanimously.
During the vote on whether the
convention should indorse a senato-
rial candidate, the delegation from In-
dianapolis, Taggart’s home, cast 180
votes against and three votes for the
plan, There was a dispute and the
negative voters rose to be counted.
An enthusiastic supporter of Lamb
pressed his way through the crowd to
shake hands with the Indianapolis
“insurgents,” but was met with a
blow in the face before he reached
them. A general fight between the
two delegations impended, but the po-
lice forced their way between them
and order was restored.
Little Interest in Platform.
Little interest was manifested in
the platform except the tariff and li-
quor planks, both of which the Re-
publicans evaded in their convention.
The resolution denounced the Payne-
Aldrich tariff act as a masterpiece of
injustice, “involving exactions from
the many to enrich the few, through
the trusts and monopolies which it
fosters.”
The following state ticket was
named: Secretary of state, Louis C.
Ellingham of Decatur; auditor, Wil-
liam H. O'Brien of Lawrenceburg;
treasurer, William H. Vollmer of Vin-
cennes; attorney general, Thomas
Honan. of Scottsburg; clerk of. su-
preme court, J. Fred France of Hunt-
ington; superintendent public instruc-
tion, Robert J. Aley of Bloomington;
state geologist, Edward Barrett of
Plainfield.
ELLIE TELLS HER AGE
TO THE CENSUS MAN
But It Takes a Warrant, an Officer
and United States Commis-
sioner to Make Her Do It.
Richmond, Va.—It took a warrant
and an officer and a United States
commissioner to make Miss Ellie Pet-
ticolas tell her age to the census man,
Miss Petticolas declared she wouldn't,
slammed the door in the census man’s
face and fled to the postmaster for
aid.
A warrant was issued and when
United States Commissioner Brady
told her there was a prospect of a
heavy fine and a jail sentence if she
didn’t answer, Miss Petticolas tear-
fully surrendered.
Big Coal Interests Merged.
Clarksburg, W. Va.—The Hutchin-
son Cecal Company has taken ,over
and consolidated al lthe Hutchinson
coal interests in West Vrginia and
Ohio. The property embraces the
Hutchinson Fuel and Supply Com-
pany mining plant and 1,000 acres of
coal at Mount Clare, W. Va., the min-
ing plant and 500 acres of coal of the
Meadow Brook Coal and Coke Com-
pany at Erie, W. Va.; the Moore's
Run Coal Company's plant and Aract
in Ohio near Wheeling, the Mason
City Mining Company's pliant and
land in Mason eounty and a small
plant near Wolf Summitt. W. Vn.
|men had already been
‘Winkelman brought news of a general
CANNIBALS EAT MISSIONARIES
200 DESCEND ON MISSION
Capture 13 out of 20 Native Converts,
Who Witness Corroboree—Es-
cape As Captors Sleep.
Seattle, Wash.—Details of the eat-
ing by cannibals on February 5, of
Rev. Horatio Hopkins and his assist
ant, Rev. Hecktor Laurie McPherson,
missionaries of the Presbyterian
church on Savage Island, were
brought by the barkentine Mary E.
Winkelman, which arrived at Mukilt-
teo, Wash., from the Tonga Islands in
the south seas.
While the barkentine lay at Tanga-
tabu, in the Tonga Islands, a canoe
load of mission natives from Savage
Island arrived at Fua, bringing news
of the butchery.
The natives said that Hopkins and
McPherson were in the mission build-
ing, which stands on the beach in the
little harbor of Savage island, when
200 unconverted savages, howling war
cries: and brandishing clubs and
spears, descended on them and took
13 prisoners. The missionaries had
20 converts in training at the time,
and only nine of them escaped.
Both missionaries were bound with
thongs and left lying on the beach in
the tropical sun for several hours,
while the savages took the native cap-
tives inland.
The cannibals then returned to the
beach and carried the missionaries on
a litter to the crater of the extinct
volcano Van Iue, in the center of the
island. There for two days and nights
they held a corroboree. At times
their dancing and reveling could be
seen plainly by the fugitive Christian
natives.
While most of the cannibals were
sleeping the captive natives escaped.
Their going was hastened by the sight
of two of the cannibal chiefs donning
the missionaries’ clothes. The clergy-
eaten. The
revival of the old-time religious cus-
toms in the Tonga, the Society, the
Solomon and the Cook groups. The
natives are holding dances and feast-
ing on human flesh as they did in the
days before the white men interfered.
RAILROADS AND MEN
DECIDE TO ARBITRATE
Dispute Involving Forty-Seven Ccm-
panies Will Be Settled by
Compromise,
Washington—The interests of 47
railroads west of Chicago and of their:
engineers and firemen now hinge up-
on the selection of a third arbitrator
by Chairman Knapp, and interstate
commerce commission, and Commis-
sioner Neill, of the bureau of labor,
the mediators under the Erdman act
in labor controversies involving inter-
state commerce. Through the medi-
ation of Messrs Knapp and Neill the
railroads and their employes were
brought together on a number of
points, and they have decided to ar-
bitrate the questions on which they
were deadlocked.,
The roads and their employes each
have appointed one member of the ar-
bitration tribunal. As they were un-
able to agree upon a third who would
he mutually satisfactory, it devolves
upon the Federal officials to make the
selection. They expect to announce
his name within a few days. The
announcement is awaited with inter-
est because of the importance of the
issues involved in the dispute.
‘MINERS’ SCALE SIGNED
Dispute Between Operators and Em-
ployes in Pittsburg Dis-
trict Settled.
Pittsburg—The operators and min-
ers of the Pittsburg district came to
an agreement covering all the main
points in their dispute, and as a re-
sult 40,000 miners will return to work.
Operators signed a wage . scale
granting an all-around advance of 5.55
per cent for all classes of work in the
mines, which brings the pick-mining
rate up to 95 cents a ton. They
| agreed a'’so to pay the miners any dif-
ference that the latter may lose in
productiveness because of the so call-
ed “permissible powders” required by
state law in certain gaseous mines.
THAW LOSES CASE
——
Court Rules That He Must ‘Remain
in Matteawan.
New York—Harry K. Thaw must re-
main in the Matteawan insane asy-
lum. The appellate division of the
supreme court in Brooklyn | handed
down a_ decision which sets aside the
appointment by Justice Tompkins of
the supreme court of a referee to take
testimony bearing on Thaw’s possible
transfer,
The court holds in effect that Mat-
teawan is the proper place for Thaw >
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under the circumstances.
FINANCIAL NOTES
The regular quarterly dividend of
134 per cent on Pressed Steel Car
preferred will be paid May 25 to
stock of record May 4.
The Norfolk & Western directors
declared the usual quarterly dividend
of 114 per cent on the common stock,
payable June 7 to holders of record
| May 30.
Reports of earthquake shocks came
from Central Long Island Sunday.
ous sizes,
UNCLE SIM SETS FIN
OUTFIT FROM BURELARS
{peaker Cannon Inspects Nickel-Plat-
ed ‘“Jimmies’’ at Capitol.
MANY POSTOFFICE ROBBERIES
Postmaster General Hitchcock Ex
plains That Much Loot Is Re-
‘covered From the Thieves.
Washington, D. C.— Postmaster
General Hitchcock, Speaker Cannon
and Senator Burnham of New Hamp-
shire qualified themselves to give ex:
pert judgment in the matter of the
use of burglars’ tools. An exposition
of the use of the burglars’ outfit was
given to the three eminent statesmen
by Postoifice Inspector John R. Har
rison in the private office of Mr.
Hitchcock.
Inspector Harrison ran to earth
Eddie Fay and his pals, who robbed
the Richmond, Va., postoffice of $60, -
000 in stamps and currency. In addi
tion to capturing the burglars the in-
spector and his associates recovered
practically all of the loot and seized
what is regarded as the finest set of
expert burglars’ tools ever manufac
tured.
The kit includes “jimmies” of vari
“bits,” chisels, skeleton
keys, nitroglcerin bag, dynamite caps
and various other articles in the safe
blower’s outfit. The tools are made
of the most finely tempered steel and
are all handsomely nickel plated,
Elach one is encased in a handsome
morocco cover. They will be on pub
lic exhibition in the postoffice depart.
ment in a few days.
By request Inspector Harrison ex:
plained to Postmaster General Hitch:
cock and his distinguished guests the
use of each instrument, showing to
the surprise of his observers how
comparatively easy it is for the ex
pert cracksman to open a modern
safe, provided only that he be left un:
disturbed for a sufficient length of
time.
“How much does the government
lose through postoffice burglaries?’
inquired Speaker Cannon.
“The loss for which the department
was reimbursed by the general gov-
ernment in 1909,” replied Mr. Harri .
son, ‘amounted to $131,942.”
“I had supposed that the loss was
several hundred thousand dollars,”
suggested the speaker. “Why, there
are more than 60,000 postoffices in
the country and we read of postoffice
burglaries every day.” :
Postmaster General Hitchcock ex-
plained that through the efficiency of
the inspectors the burglars usually
were captured and much or all of the
spoils recovered.
POSTAL COMPANY WILL
INCREASE SALARIES
Operators in All Principal Offices to
Benefit by New Order.
New york—The Postal Telegraph-
Cable Company announces that on
June 1 it will make substantial in-
creases in the wages of its telegraph
operators in all important offices of
its system. These offices are to be
classified according to their compara-
tive importance.
The increases will be selective, and
will run from five to as high, in some
cases, as 25 per cent.
Careful examination and full inquiry
will be made as to the merits of each
operator, ability to be the first requi-
site; years, experience and other spe-
cial fitness will count in each man’s
favor and all will be graded accord-
ingly. :
Efficient and deserving operators
will receive pay commensurate with
the value of the work that they are
able to perform; and less experienced
and new operators will have greater
opportunity to demonstrate their fit
ness for advancement in pay Or pro-
motion in other ways.
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WAR CLAIMS FOR THREE STATES
Senate Committee Recommends Fa-
vorably Bill Carrying Total
of $2,040,946.
Washington — The committee on
claims, of which Senator George T.
Oliver is a member, reported to the
senate with a favorable recommenda:
tion a bill “for the allowance of. cer
tain claims reported by the court of
claims,” carrying a total of $2,040,
946.97. The bill carries $106,638.3C
for Pennsylvania claims, $33,476.18
for West Virginia claims and $4,834.75
for Ohio claims. All the claims have
been passed upon, and awards made
by the" court of the amounts carried
in the bill. :
Fast Train Derailed.
Decatur, Il1l.—The Banner Limited,
a fast passenger train on the Wabash
railroad, running from Chicago to St
Louis, was derailed at Saunemin, IIL
According’ to the division officials of
the road here, no one was killed in
the wreck and only one man, a wait
er, was seriously injured. Both his
arms were broken. A yelfef train
was made up at Decatur and sent to
Saunemin.
~ Millmen Share in Prosperity.
Pittsburg—Notices were posted in
the Spang & Chalfant Company mills
in Etna, that a 10 per cent increase
would be made in wages of laborers,
May 1. Six hundred men are affected.
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