AR
For Good Roads.
The eampaign to pull Pennsylvania
out of the mud and to give the State
a system of roads that will connect
with and compare with those built by
its neighboring commonwealths is
now fairly begun and the issue is
squarely between those who desire
good roads and those who for politi-
cal reasons, lack of progressiveness,
prejudice or ignorance are opposed to
the constitutional amendment to per-
mit the State to borrow $50,000,000
for construction of highways on the
system laid down by the Legislature
two years ago.
Two points made by those in oppo-
sition to the amendment have been
most effectively answered from the
rostrum by several of the eminent
men of Pennsylvania who spoke at
the big roads convention held last
week in this city, and as they form
the main features of attack they can
be summarized here.
The Legislature will not be sum-
moned in extra session to pass laws
to enable the bonds to be put out.
Governor Tener, who has the power,
said squarely that he will not call an
extra session, but will allow the Leg-
islature of 1915, when a new adminis-
tration will be in power, to deal with
the whole question.
The fixed charges, interesti and
sinking fund, will not be $3,000,000 a
year, but less than $1,000,000. The
life of the bonds will be from thirty
to fifty years and the interest from 3
to 4 per cent, depending on condi-
tions. Appropriations made for in-
terest and redemption purposes will
not be allowed to lie idle, but will be
put on interest and the interest com-
pounded every six months.
The bonds will be issued as required
from $5,000,000 to $7,500,000 a year.
It is admitted everywhere that the
payment for road building, no matter
by what administration, out of cur-
rent revenue, can not be undertaken
without curtailing appropriations to
charities. The bond issue amendment,
therefore, offers the only solution.
Extension of the highway system,
condemnation of toll roads and tak-
ing over of new highways will in-
crease the annual charges for main-
tenance, and the demands for appro-
priations for State aid in building are
now far beyond the ability of the
State to comply with, Only the ap-
portionment of a definite sum an-
nually will enable systematic con-
struction of main highways to pro-
ceed without hampering the State aid
construction, the maintenance and
the assistance to township.
New York, California, Massachu-
setts and other States have issued
bonds for road building as the cities
of Pennsylvania have done for years
for paved streets and sewers.
DEATNI35 CA NNOT BE
CURED
By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitution-
al remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
the tude is inflamed you have a
rumbling or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirelyjclosed Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflamma-
tion can be taken out andjthisftube
restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are camsed by
catarrh, which is nothing but an in-
flamed condition of the mucous sur-
faces. do .
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for cir-
culars, free. ;
F. J. CHENEY, & Co., Toledo,
Sold by Druggists, 75 cents.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for con-
stipation. ad
enemas eeteeem memes
Curious Condensations.
Philadelphia now has 298,000 chil-
dren of school age.
Russia’s export of eggs exceeds
1,500,000,000 a year.
St. Louis aldermen have passed an
ordinance forbidding tipping.
A mirror which reflects true colors
is said to have been invented.
Swinburne is said to be the only
red-headed poet who ever achieved
fame. /
The Atlantic’s greatest depth is
27,363 feet, and its area 34,000,000
square miles.
Taking the country at large, there
is one automobile for each 110 in-|’
habitants.
From 1876 to 1910 more than half a
million persons left Norway, mainly
for the United States.
. Many worked-out coal mines in
Pennsylvania are being filled in with
sand and other waste material to pre-
vent their surfaces caving and damag-
ing valuable property.
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For croup or sore throat, use Dr
Thomas’ Electric Oil.» Two sizes, 25¢ |
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Destroy the Railroad Worm
of Apples Now.
Throughout the northern part of
Pennsylyania, and, in fact, extending
southward to the centre of the State,
there is to be found a very serious
pest of the apples, especially of the
summer apples and sweet varieties,
which bores through the pulp of the
fruit in winding tunnels, and is, there-
fore, called the Railroad worm or
Apple maggot. Itis the larva of a
fly with spotted wings which flies
nround the trees in the. early part of
the summer, and lays its eggs on the
fruit.
Shortly before the fruit is half
grown this pest could be destroyed by
spraying with a sweetened arsenical
spray upon which the adult or winged
fly would feed, but after the larva
enters the fruit and commences to
feed in it, there is no remedy. The
thing to do then is to be sure and
gather and destroy the fallen fruit, or
pasture the orchard with fowls or
pigs that eat the fallen rruit. The
larva will remain in the fruit for a
few days after it falls, and this gives
the grower an opportunity to destroy
it. After the fruit has remained on
the ground for some days, this larva
bores out and enters the soil, where
it changes to a pupa or ehrysalis, and
passes the winter there.
When infested fruits fall where they
can be washed into a stream, they
are carried downstream, sometimes
great distances, and thus the pest is
spread. It is also spread by shipping
infested fruits from one region to
another.
In the fall of the year is the time |
to watch for this pest. Many apples
contain the Railroad maggot without
this pest being observed by the per-
sons using them, because it is incon-
spicgous; yet the brownish winding
tunnels show its presence, and indi-
cate that all fallen apples in the vici- | fi
nity where it occurs should be gather-
ed and fed to stock, or made into!
cider, or otherwise! disposed of
promptly, so that the pests will be
destroyed, and there will be none left
to continue their destructive work
another year.
MUST NOT “PUFF” TOO HIGHLY |
lowa Supreme Court Hands Down an
Opinion of Some Interest to
Real Estate Men.
The legal view of “puffing” in the
sale of real estate is expressed by the
supreme court of Iowa in Wakefield vs.
Coleman, in which the court rules that
language which might be considered
expressions of opinion or mere puffing
will often amount to representations
or warranties when the property is at
a distance and the buyer relies on the
seller for the facts. The court, in re-
versing a judgment of the trial court
dismissing a complaint to set aside a
contract for the sale of real estate,
sald: “It is quite likely that the court
below reached its conclusion upon the
theory that Coleman's statements were
within the limits of the allowable of
opinion, in which a seller may indulge
with reference to the property pro-
posed to be sold without becoming l-
able for false or fraudulent representa
tions; but we think the circumstances.
here appearing will not justify the,
application of that rule. The prop
erty he was offering to sell was in a
distant state. Not one of the pur-
chasers had ever seen or had any
knowledge whatever of its condition,
quality or value. Language which
might well pass as expressions of opin-
fon or words of mere praise were the
property present, in view of both buy-
er and seller, will often amount to rep-
resentation or warranty when the prop-
erty is at a distance and the buyer
must rely upon the seller for the
facts.”
GOOD QUALITIES DYING OUT?
Men in High Position Declare Senti-
mentalism of Present Day Is Fast
Leading to Decay.
Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Westminster, England,
in a recent sermon favored enforced
military service for all men over twen-
ty-one who had not, prior to attaining
that age, trained to a required stand-
ard of physical manhood. The Ameri-
can Army and Navy Journal, in a
striking editorial deprecating the sen-
timentalism of the times, quotes Doc-
tor Inge, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral,
London, as follows:
“The modern Englishman is an in-
corrigible sentimentalist in religion, in
politics, in charity and everything else,
and like all sentimentalists he hates
doing or witnessing anything painful.
He is fast coming to think all punish-
iments unjustifiable and he sheds maud-
‘Hn tears over the wastrel and the
‘criminal.”
The Journal applies the same state
ment to affairs in America, and with
good reason. Luxury is become com-
mon and hardship unusual. The hardy
pioneer of the west has practically dis-
appeared with the wiping out of the
frontier. The trend to the cities with
‘their enervating luxuries and licenses
is more pronounced.
The luxury, softness and sentiment-
alism of the age are sapping its man-
'hoed.
The Journal quotes Price Collier,
‘writing in Scribner’s, in which he fa~ |
the en- |
vors for the United States
forced military service of Germany,
ARDOLPH L. KLINE
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RDOLPH L. KLINE became
mayor of New York on the
death of the late Mayor Gaywor.
Mr. Kline was vice-president of,
® the board of aldermen and suc-
ceeded John Purroy Mitchel,
BERLIN.—An official bulletin is.
sued at Munich says the wife of ex-
King Manuel of Portugal is. improv-
ing slowly. Manuel is also quoted as
emphatically repudiating the rumor
to the effect that his bride had told
some friends that she was determined
not to return to her husband.
ROME.—Rumors are again in cir-
culation that the state of the Pope's
health is not satisfactory, and that
his condition is causing anxiety to
his physicians. He is suffering from
no specific malady.
LONDON.—The Standard in a long
editorial hints English capital, repre-
sented by Pearson & Son, will give
Colombia a chance to avenge herself
.ocean-to-ocean canal by way of the
Atrato and Cupica rixers.
JOHANNISTHAL, Germany.—Lt.
Schulz, a German military aviator,
was killed, when” his monoplane cap-
sized and fell with him to the ground
from a height of 150 feet, while he
was flying over the aerodrome here.
BERLIN.—A most important de-
posit of uranium and pitchblende,
from which radium is extracted, has
been found om the German side of
the Erzgebirge, a range of mountains
between Saxony and Bohemia.
TO SELL ANTHRACITE COS.
Officials Offer No Explanation of
Startling Announcement by Presi-
dent Rea.
Philaaelphia, Sept. 27.—That the
Pennsylvania Railroad intends, at a
very early date, to dispose of its en-
tire holdings of Anthracite Coal Ceom-
pany stock was the startling an-
nouncement made by Samuel Rea,
president of the Pennsylvania. No
explanation was forthcoming as to
why the railread was separating itself
from a syndicate of coal companies
which mine approximately ten per
cent. of the available anthracite in
the United States.
LINES OF SULZER DEFENSE
Albany. The Sulzer defense, as
at present outlined, will be:—
That all contributions received
in his campaign were personal
giits from friends and admirers.
That 300 such gifts were “re-
ceived by the candidate in addi-
tion to those now known to the
impeachment managers.
That twelve of the large
checks were used by Mrs. Sulzer
in stock market deals without
the knowledge of her husband.
That Sulzer offered to repay
both the Schiff and Morgenthau
contributions when he learned
they were regarded as other
than personal gifts.
That the $500 contribution
from Superintendent of Public
Works Peck was also a per-
sonal gift.
That the impeachment pro-
ceeding was Irregular and part
of a plet inspired by Tammany
Hall leaders to protect them-
seives against prosecution for
graft and because Sulzer would
not bow to their dietates.
William Sulzer will be the
chief witness In his own de-
fense. It ie not the present in-
tention of the defense to call
Mrs. Sulzer.
, ter Jones, 20 years old, in the negro
against Panama by constructing an'
continually killing white
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DEADLY RACE WAR
FOUR WHITES AMONG THOSE
KILLED BY DRUG-CRAZED MU-
LATTOES IN MISSISSIPPI.
POSSE LYNCHES 2 BROTHERS
Arrival of Militia Prevents More
Trouble—Sheriff Falls as He Leads
Charge—Railroad Depot and Train
Fired On by Brothers.
Harriston, Miss., Sept. 29—Twe
Irug crazed mulatto boys, brothers,
>egan a reign of murder here that
:nded only after four white men,
‘our negro men and a negro woman
1ad been killed, several persons
wounded and the two boys lynched.
A clash between the races was pre-
rented by the arrival of a special
rain of a company of national
suardsmen from Natchez.
Twenty persons were injured, six
een of them negroes None of the
legroes was dangerously hurt.
The trouble started about 2 o'clock
n the morning and continued inters
nittently for eight hours when Wal.
ier Jones, the older of the two boys
who started the firing, was lynched
lust after the soldiers arrived His
srother, Will Jones, had been shot
ind killed by citifiens earlier in the
lay. >
Citizens of the town who had bare
ricaded themselves in their homes
began cautiously to emerge at 10
d’clock from their hiding places, and
by noon the town was quiet. No
more trouble is feared.
The Dead.
3. B. HAMMETT, Sheriff of Jefferson
county, white, shot when leading a
posse to where the Jones brothers
were hiding.
FRANK KIENSTLY, former. cons
stable, white, shoe in his home af
ter being called to the door.
CLAUDE FREEMAN, white, of Faye
ette, Miss., shot in the railway sta
tion while awaiting a train.
JOHANNA AIKEN, TOM WEEKS,
JESSE THOMPSON, THREAD
GRAYSON and TELLER WAR.
REN, negroes, killed in promiscu-
ous shooting.
WALTER and WILL JONES, ne
goes, lynched.
The Wounded.
Orrin Gillis, former Sheriff, white,
shot in shoulder and may die.
BE. B. Appleby, white, conductor, of
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railway, shot in breast, leg and
arm; condition dangerous.
William McCalleb, white, shot in leg
and thigh. :
William Kienstly, white, son of Frank
Kienstly, shot in hand.
William Dennis, white, shot in leg
We C. Bond, white, shot in: leg.
The shooting was started by Wale
quarter, where the negro woman and:
Thead Grayson were shot and killed.
Walter then went to the home of his
mother and aroused his brother, whe
was 18. Together they proceeded
through the main street of the little
town, firing at every one in sight.
Sheriff Hammett, heading a posse,
surrounded the Jones, barricaded im
an old house from which they fired
citizens
who were attempting to take the
house by assault.
Fully 3,000 shots were fired on the
building. The front and side of the
house were riddled: The Jones
brothers and whatever other negroes
were in the building were saving
their ammunition to resist any rush
the meb might make.
Finally Thad Grayson, an ante-bels
lum negro, under promise of $10
boldly entered the house to induce:
the negroes to: surrender. A few
minutes afterward he appeared at.
the door and signalled that his mis
sion had been successful.
Will Jones, Johnson Prophet and
Bob Patterson came out and threw.
up their hands. Their supply of ams
munition had been exhausted.
Seeing his companions throwing
themselves at the merey of the posse
Walter Jones crept from his position
under the cotton oil mill and beat a
hasty flight up the railroad track.
A hail of bullets was poured upon
his retreating figure. One grazed his
head, inflicting a slight flesh wound.
He dropped and the posse was upom
him.
The special bearing militiamen
from Natchez arrived at this time.
The soldiers were politely but firmly
told to stand aside and they drew up
in military order while the lynching
was" done.
Governor Brewer reached here 7).
find everything quiet. -
Will Jones was 21 years old *
Walter 17. Both were releasec .. m
jail on shooting charges only last
week.
I. R. RULES AT CONVENTION
Dietates the Nominations of Judges
Hand and Seabury for the Court
of Appeals
Rochester, N. ¥Y., Sept. 29.—Theo-
dore Roosevelt dominated the State
Progressive Convention here and dice
tated the nominations of Judge
Learned Hand amd Justice Samuel
Seabury, who were named by the con
vention as candidates for the Court
of Appeals.
Judge Hand, mow of the United
States District Court, a Progressive,
was named for Chief Judge and Jus-
tice Samuel Seabury, a Progressive
Democrat, for Associate Judge. Both
are residents of New York City.
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Johnstown, - Penn’a.
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Tumeric, Allspice,
Both Phones.
The time of year is here for canning goods
We handle a full line of spices.
Cloves,
Seed, Curry Powder and Ready-mixed Spices
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Leading Druggist.
Opposite Citizens National Bank.
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Meyersdale, Pa.
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bome All
Sizes 113 to 2,
Sizes 2% to 6,
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