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T A CASTLE IN SPAIN,
\ my dreams I've built for you,
weet, a castle grim and grand;
Many nights its turrets grew,
And in Spain its ramparts stand;
(Spain is near to fairy-land).
And its towers, proud and free,
Look through Roncesvalles to France,
Northward o'er chivalry,
Southward over all romance,
Qutspread for a lady's glance.
There between the frowning towers,
s a space to walk upon,
Strait, yet wide enough for flowers,
Violets, daisies, every one,
‘When you smile they feel the sun.
There I see you robed and crowned,
As I never saw you yet;
Your hair filleted and bound
n a pearl-embroidered net,
Whence its braid falls, pearl beset.
Your gown’'s texture I don’t know,
But I know that it is white;
S8amite, maybe, pure as snow,
Clasped by strange alexandrite,
Green by day and red by night.
In that air-built land of mine
Never lady was so fair;
Little shoes of quaint design,
Silver-furred, I think you wear,
Noiseless on the granite stair.
There's a curious swinging seat
In the upper arches’ gloom,
For a refuge from the heat.
In the vaulted, Gothic room,
I have placed a Jute and loom.
And a pale Christ hanging, stares
From the alcove wall alway,
And a missal for your prayers,
Shows God's service day by day—
Even in dreams I know you pray,
There I see you,.but I see
Even in that enchanted spot,
There is never room for me,
Night or day 1 am forgot,
Even in dreams you love me not.
—Mary Eleanor Roberts, in Harper's
Weekly.
Fr rT TTT. TT. 3.2. 3.3.3.3
His Latest
Improvement.
SPP WO EE
Kaye is a handy man with tools, and
there is nothing he enjoys more than
pottering round the house. Now that
he owns “Westwind,” a pretty summer
cottage, he has ample opportunity to
indulge this taste. Mrs. Kaye some-
times secretly wishes that he cared
for fishing or was a golf enthusiast, for
it is not entirely restful or conven-
ient to have one’s home in a continual
state of alteration.
“Roland,” she said one day, when
there appeared to be a slight lull in
his activities, “now that you have the
well-sweep hung and the porte-cochere
done, I think I'll have a little after-
noon tea on Friday, if you are sure you
won't be building another arbor or
making over the front forch, or putting
any more new windows in the dining
room. I'd really like to have company
once when the place wasn't littered
with kindling wood and shavings,
though of course, dear, I like all your
improvements.” ’
“Well, I'll try not to let my improve-
ments bother you Friday,” Kaye re-
turned a bit grumpily, for he felt that
his talents were not fully appreciated.
“I'll go in town Friday for the day,
and let you and your company have the
place to yourselves.”
“Why, Roland, you know I'd love to
have you here.”
“Yes, of course, Nell, but I really
should go in town oftener, and you
know I'm not specially fond of tea-
fights.”
Mrs. Kaye, realizing how true this
statement was, made no further pro-
test against her husband’s absence. She
was really touched by his self-denial
in postponing until after her tea the
enlargement of the linen closet and the
construction of a swinging porch seat,
which, of all the work he had in mind,
seemed of the most immediate import-
ance.
‘I really wish you weren’t going, Ro-
land,” she said, when Friday morning
came. “It just seems too bad for me to
entertain when you are away.”
“Oh, well, Nell, you'll have a better
time without me, and I'll try to gel
everything arranged at the office so I
can stay out all next week and get the
place fixed up in good shape.”
Mrs. Kaye tried to smile and look
cheerful as she waved him a good-by
when he drove away, but she felt a
little lonesome and doleful, for never
before had she given any sort of party
at Westwind without her husband’s
help. A regret, too, of her rather out-
spoken weariness of his carpenter
work added to her discomfiture, and
she began her preparations with a sad
lack of enthusiasm. Even when her
gaily dressed friends were merrily
chatting on the lawn late in the after-
noon, her heart was still a little heavy,
and she found herself wondering, as
she laughed and talked, if Roland
would come out on the five-twenty
Jocal or take the six o'clock express.
The weather was so ideally lovely
that she decided to turn the affair into
a garden-party, and have the refresh-
ments served under the trees on little
tables. The two neat maids had
brought the tea and chocolate, with
the accompanying sandwiches, and had
returned to the house for the ices,
when Mrs. Kaye and all the guests
were startled by a series of loud
screams in the house. Before Mrs.
Kaye could reach the porch, the maids
came running out, with white, scared
faces.
“O ma'am,” exclaimed Angie, ‘we
couldn’t get the ices! There’s. some
awful thing in the refrigerator room!
I’m thinking it’s a wild animal howl-"
ing.”
‘Its more likely some thievin’ tramp
gone crazy while he was stealin’ for
it’s a man’s voice raving most fearful,
ma’am, and poundin’ and jumpin’ to9,”
said Sarah.
“Mercy! How dreadful! What can
it be? exclaimed all the ladies at once;
and then Mrs. Kaye announced, as
firmly as her trembling voice would
allow, that she would go to see what
the trouble was
“Do be careful, ma'am!”
Angie.
“A crazy tramp is dreadful danger-
ous,” added Sarah.
“You shall not go alone,” said one
of the guests, a tiny woman in a pearl-
colored silk. I'll protect you whatever
happens.”
“We'll all go with you,” announced
another; and in a moment the whole
party was flocking into the house. Mrs.
Kaye led them through the dining
room and kitchen to the door of the
little refrigerator-room, one of the
achievements of which its builder, Mr.
Kaye, was most proud.
“Why—dpn’t—you—Ilet—me — out ?”’
cried a terrible voice, in fierce staccato;
and then whack, whack at the door so
viclently that had not its builder made
it triply thick to keep in the cold, it
surely would have crashed beneath the
blows. The women stared at each
other for a moment; and as Mrs. Kaye
put her hand on the door-knob, they
all gasped, for the voice began yelling
with redoubled force. Their hostess
hesitated only an instant, and then
bravely threw open the door to be con-
fronted by the disheveled figure of her
husband, whose first almost wild look
quickly changed into an expression of
chagrin. :
“Oh, Roland, how did you come here?
I thought you were in town.”
“I came home on an early train, and
slipped in the side way with a new
spring-lock I discovered in the city.
It’s just what we needed here, and I
put it on the door for a surprise for
you, and it swung shut. It only opens
from the outside. I--” Just then the
released captive caught sight of the
curious group gazing into his prison at
him, and bowing, he said, “I—I—hope
1 didn’t disturb the party.”
Most of the ladies were too polite to
laugh, and they only smiled when Mrs.
Kaye said, laughingly, ‘I'm so glad
you came home for the tea after all.”
—Youth’s Companion.
implored
ANCIENT CHINESE LITERATURE.
How Records Were Kept—Books Cast
From Moulds.
It is now absolutely certain that
neither clay, leather, parchment nor
the papyrus was at any date ever used
by the ancent Chinese for the purpose
of making records, which fact alone
gones far to negative any prehistoric
connection with Egypt, Babylonia or
Persia, touching which, moreover, there
is not the faintest specific evidence
te be found in Eastern or Western rec-
ords.
It seems also equally certain that
the Chinese never used a metal style
to scratch characters upon wood, bam-
bco or palm leaves, as natives of India
—for instance, Banyan bankers—may
be seen doing any day, even now, not
only in India itself but also in Singa-
pore and perhaps Hongkong.
‘What the Chinese used was a stick
or style of bamboo, such as one or two
of the older historians describe as be-
ing very like the Chinese joiners’ “ink-
stick” or “wooden stick and line”
of the sixteenth certury (when first
mentioned), and also like that : of to-
day. As there were and are no bam-
boos in Khoten .the natives, and prob-
ably also the Chinese of that place, ia
imitating as best they could their own.
bamboo slips and styles had perforce
to avail themselves of the tamarisk, a
tree which the Russian traveller Piz
ewalski found thirty years ago all
over the Tarim valley.
From the most ancient times ink -had
been employed in China chiefly for the
purpose of branding the foreheads of
criminals, but it had also been used
concurrently with varnish, for inscrip-
ing bamboo and wooden tablets with
written communications. Presumably
the ink was the same in both cases.
For books nothing but bamboo seems
to have been used, except that records
of dynastic importance and state laws
were also occasionally cast from molds
upon metal tripods in order to secure
permanency. As the bamboo stem is
usually no thicker than a brandy bot-
tle it follows that the plane surface
available for writing chanacters could
neevr be very broad; accordingly we
find that the most important works,
such as the classics, were written upon
slips of pared bamboo about two and
one-half English feet long and about
one inch broad. Works of rather sec-
ondary importance were inscribed on
narrow strips of half the length.
The number of ideographs on each
piece cf bamboo varied with the im-
portance and dignity of the subject,
but in no case does it appear to have
exceeded thirty. These bamboo laths
would therefore resemble our variously
graded modern boxwood paper knives,
and it may be reasonably supposed that
four of the smallest would about go
to the ounce—say, 100 words to the
ounce, or from 1000 to 2000 to the
pound, according to the size of the
strips. Thus an average book of one
volume, as issued by a modern Euro-
pean publisher, would weigh the best
part of a hundredweight.—From the
Asiatic Quarterly Review.
Slang in England.
Hotten's division of slang terms for
inebriety would be useful in police
courts if fashion did not so quickly
change in this respect. The following
were classified as denoting mild in-
toxication: Berry, bemused, boozy,
hosky, buffy, corned, foggy, fou, fresh,
hazy, elevated, kisky, lushy, moomey,
muggy, muzzy, on, screwed, stewed,
tight and viney. In an intermediate
class stood podgy, beargered, blued,
cut, primed, lumpy, muddled, ploush-
ed, obfuscated, swipey, three sheets
in the wind and topheavy.—London
Chronicle,
Those Mechanical Toys.
Fond Mamma—What! broben al-
If I'd given it to your father
ead it wou kept him quiet
for hours!-—
ready?
Crowding the Horse
Off the Farm
By H. W. Perry. 3
2URIOUSLY, England appears to have made more progress in the
development of the small internal-combustion - engine farm trac-
tor than America, although thousands of small stationary
and portable gas engines are used for feed cut-
ting, grinding, churning, pumping -and sawing wood on farms
throughout the United States and steam traction engines are
common. The first of the successful light gas engine tractors
was the Ivel, brought out in England in 1902. This can be operated on gaso-
line, kerosene or alcohol, and has won twenty-six gold and silver medals in
plowing matches and other competitions before agricultural and other so
cieties in difterent countries. Complete, the machine weighs thirty-two hun-
dred weight (3584 pounds). Motive power is supplied by an 18-20 horse-power
double-cylinder opposed engine disposed Jongitudinally in the frame and pro-
tected by a metal cover. A pulley is fitted for stationary work, such as thresh-
‘ng, grinding and driving a dynamo. Hauling a three-furrow plow, the trac-
tor has plowed six acres in nine hours to a depth of seven inches on a con
sumption of twenty gailons of gasoline or kerosene and one gallon of lubricat-
ing oil. One user, after two year’s experience, claimed to have done with
it daily on an average as much plowing as he could do in the same time »H4
three teams of three horses, three men and three boys—that is, 2% acres oO
heavy soil to a depth of six inches. With one six-foot reaper and binder at-
tached, 2% acres of grain could be cut in an hour on a consumption of 2%
gallons of gasoline and one pint of oil. Two small binders can, however, be
hauled on suitable ground. Another user found that it would easily drive a
60-inch double blast threshing machine, and at the same time a straw trusser.
More powerful tractors are built for plowing and reaping on a more extensive
scale, such as the 50<horse power Sannderson .Universal ‘motor, also built in
England. Like the Ivel, it is a three wheeled machine, but it drives by a pair
of front wheels and is totally different in construction and appearance, the
engine standing vertically between the front wheels. The builders are now
bringing out two small tractors. of 20 and 30-35-horse power, which will
have four wheels and drive by the rear pair. 3 ; J .
Agents of the government are looking for new supplies of horses suitable
for military use.’ Usually such purchases have been made by contract in the
middle western States, but it is claimed that animals of equally good quality
can be bought in the east. The difficulty: is that such stock has usually been
held at prices too high to compete with the western growers. It is a strange
fact that horses raised in the eastern States on land valued at not more than
a quarter part of the price of average land in the middle western States are
held at higher prices than” western horses. It looks as if there were & chance
for a profit somewhere in the future for horse raising on low: priced eastern
Co om oF
The Possum Defended.
By One Who Knows,
a native southerner who has been fortunate enough to have in-
dulged in that delicacy on numerous occasions I would feel dis
loyal not to take up the gauutlett in Brother Possum’s defence.
My father was particularly fond of the meat and it was a regular
dish on his table in season. He became quite well known in his
locality as a ready purchaser of live possums and the negroes
for miles around brought them to his door. He never refused to
buy at the market price, and 1 have seen as many as eight at a time caged
in a small house built for the purpose in our yard.
There is but one proper way to prepare a pOSSum for food. That way
is to capture him alive, which is customary, and then keep him for several
weeks to fatten, feeding him on scraps from the table, such as you would
feed to a cat or dog. In this way his meat becomes refined, he loses that
extreme “gamy” flavor and gets very fat.
After killing by breaking his neck the skin should be cleaned of hair by
scalding. After cleaning the carcass should soak over night in a fairly strong
brine. When ready to cook he should be taken from the brine, rinsed off in
cold water and boiled for about one hour or more, according to size, in water
in which have been placed several pods of dried red peppers.
After boiling place in a pan and roast in the oven, basting frequently.
There should be placed in the same pan some yam potatces, and one should
adorn Mr. Possum’s pried open jaws. Preserve the water in which the possum
is boiled and use sufficient to boil enough rice for the meal. This should be
boiled until dry and each grain stands apart.
Serve on a large platter with the rice on the bottom forming a bed for
the possum, which should be placed back up and be surrounded with the
potatoes. :
This dish is guaranteed to tickle the palate of the most fastidious, and
it fairly makes my mouth water now to think about it. :
Those who have eaten possum and have failed to like it are generally
those who have not had an opportunity to taste it prepared “according to
Sh a
Human Nature.
By George A, Thayer.
m AN has been to school:frcm the morning of history, lo, these
thousands of years! He has been punished for his mistakes;
he has been rewarded ‘for his successful finds of what would
work for. him and for his fellow-men together. That has been
the most important of acquirements of this our human nature,
that it has been taught how to do the things which would join
it to the greatest possible number of other minds; and so hu-
manity, working in a bunch together, has achiéved millions of fold more than
a solitary man could have accomplished.
Republican government is superior to monarchies, if at all, in that it gets
more people to co-laboring, each for the rest, than a government which serves
chiefly and primarily a class, a few nobility aristocrats and princes. If the
Christian religion is better than any previous religion, its superiority must
lie in its teaching mankind how to be united for the main truths of morality,
of righteousness, justice, freedom, which time has developed as the safest and
best principles.
Christianity has not conquered even Christendom. Republican democracy
has not yet taken command of American manners and morals, nor will these
things come to pass until fraud, violence, trickery, intemperance, unchastity,
and their kindred anti-social and destructive features of the primitive man
nave been subdued.
But let us believe that human nature is on the way to its Godlikeness.
Now it has much that is beastlikeness, a varnish of spirit over a deep grain
of the flesh. But many fair women and upright men have reached the high
peaks of idealism of what man should be, and they, if you inquire what human
nature is, may be selected as typical human nature. The finest grain of
character and intellect is proper human nature. All else is human nature on
the road, with a mixture of brute nature, which most of us must work to slough
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Jury Service.
A Reluctant Juryman Depicts Its Incon veniencess
and Defects. '
By “Agony.”
t IKE the majority of reluctant jurymen, have not a judicial mind
in application to other people’s quarrels. My soul is fairly
screaming for peace, and the interruption by a summons to jury
duty perverts my pursuit and makes me mad. I admit that I am
fortunate, in my relation to such obligation, in being a somewhat
ill-favored-locking fellow, and when called to the jury box, in-
stead of entering it like a sheep to the pen, as common with the
average victim, I dart into it, fling myself into my chair, throw my hat under
it. told my arms, and glare ferociously into nothingness, having acquired the
art through practice before a looking glass.
When the twelve so-called “good and true” men are secured by counsel
I am happy and proud in the fact that my art has frequently saved me. I am
excused from the case, and perhaps for the balance of the day, while sun-
shine and warmth suffuse my features.
During my solemn and dismal experience for a third of a century as a
juryman, from which it seems only death can exempt me, I have observed that
of twelve men perhaps three or four are earnest enough to discriminate be-
tween merg testimony and evidence; an equal number have a misunderstand-
ing of the case and are contenticus, and the balance smoke their pipes or
cigars and are agreeable to the conclusions of the majority. The whole
wretched gang despises both of the counsel for superfluity of verbal gym-
nasties. It is a bitter ordeal, and then for the sake of supper, fireside and
other refreshments, we simply agree to anything, when three judges in less
time and cost could adjudicate in equity.
Camel Steaks $1.25 a Pound.
The latest food delicacy in Paris, | ed from 35 cents a pound for inferior
or at least what is claimed to be | pieces to $1.25 a pound for the under-
a delicac is camel meat. Eight |cut and the hump. The meat is said
camels, known to the butchers as | to be as tough as gristly beef, but
«“mieharis,” We ently received and the Parisian searches for sensations
a number of them were sold for |in the food line as well as in every-
| eating. |
The prices asked for the meat rang-
thing else.—Popular Mechanics.
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Canonsburg
PENNSYLVANIA
Interesting Items from All Sections of
the Keystone State.
NO STATE PURE FOOD LAW
Measure Patterned After Federal Reg-
ulation Loses at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg.—Through lack of a con-
stitutional majority, the Murphy food
bill, which allowed use of limited
quantities of benzoate of soda and
sulphur dioxide with a guarantee feat-
ure for protecting the retailer, was
defeated in the senate. The bill
would have made the federal regula-
tions on preservatives the law in
Pennsylvania.
Senators Gerberich, Lebanon and
Wertz, Cambria, attacked the bill be-
cause of provisions allowing the use
of the preservatives. Senators Lang-
fitt, Allecheny and Murphy, Philadel-
phia, urged the passage of the bill as
the best that could be obtained.
The vote was 22 to 18, four votes
less than enough to pass.
TO START POTTERY
Plant. Taken Over by
New Company, to Resume.
Washington.—The plant owned and
operated by the East Palestine China
Company at Canonsburg since 1900
has been taken over by the Canons-
burg Pottery Company, which re-
cently obtained a State charter. The
company is capitalized at $150,000,
the stock being held principally by
Canonsburg men. The officers are:
President, W. S. George; vice presi-
dent, John George; secretary, James
Shaw; treasurer, John C. Morgan.
It is understood the plant will be
put into full operation immediately,
with 200 employes.
STATE LEGISLATURE.
Harrisburg.—The Herbst medical
bill was amended in the senate com-
mittee on public health and sanitation
80 as to exempt Christian Scientists
from the requirement for a medical
education. Chiropodists also are ex:
empted.
The ‘“‘one hoard” feature’ of the bill
was retained, but. instead of the
“agreement” of two weeks ago for
a State examining board of three allo-
paths, three homeopaths and two ec-
lectics, the committee adopted the
original form of the bill, for the gov-
ernor to appoint eight members of
the board without specification as to
the medical “school” to which they
may belong.
No exception is made for the osteo-
paths under the provisions of this
act. As reported out, their recently
enacted separate board bill would be
repealed and, with the exception of
those who have been practicing for
six months prior to the passage of
this act their graduates will be com-
pelled to pass the examination of the
regular physicians.
Bills Passed Finally.
Bills weré passed finally: by the
Senate. as follows: .
Authorizing municipalities to unite
in the construction of sewage sys-
tems.
Empowering colleges devoted to a
specific subject in art, archaeology, |
literature or science (medical and
law scheols excepted) to work with
a faculty of but three regular profes-
sors and two instructors without pre-
judice ‘to their right to confer de-
grees.
House bill allowing bank clerks to
act as notary public for such institu-
tions.
House bill extending the powers of
courts over incorrigible children.
Authorizing countics, townships and
boroughs to widen State highways.
Amending the property exemption
act of 1849 by providing 75 per cent
of wages or salary shall be exempt
from attachment.
Extending the provisions of the act
of 1905, providing that courts deter-
mine disputes as to amount of license
fees between municipal corporations
and telegraph, telephone, light or
power companies so that said act
shall apply to water, gas, natural and
other companies.
Harrishurg.—The House on. second
reading defeated the bill increasing
the salary of the Governor of the
Commonwealth from $10,000 to $15,-
000.
The house passed finally the fol-
lowing bills:
Including veterans of all wars in
the list. who may be buried at the
public expense and increasing the
amount for burial to $50 each.
Department of health bill providing
revised regulations for the control of
the communicable diseases.
Authorizing justices and police
magistrates to issue search warrants |
in cruelty to animals cases.
Providing that the real estate of
oll public service corporations, ex-
cept rights of way, be taxable for lo-
cal purposes.
Senate bill authorizing the Homeo-
pathic State Hospital Commission to
buy or sell land.
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Bank Vault Dynamited.
Danville.—Safe breakers visited the |
Farmers National bank at Exchange, :
near here, and blew open the vault |
with a charge of nitrogiycerine. The |
vault contained over $5,000, but it is |
not known how much cash the rob- |
bers secured. The burglars escaped. |
Harrisburg.—James W. Keller, a
graduate of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural college and for some time
first assistant chemist of the depart- |
ment of agriculture has been appoint- |
ed chief to succeed Professor F. D.
Fuller, who goes to Washingtcn to
take a government position.
New Agricultural Chief.
Country Postoffice Robbed.
Oil City.—The toffice at Siv
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NEW MEDICAL BILL
Osteopaths Will Have Separate Ex
amining Board.
Harrisburg.—As amended for pass-
age, the Shreve-Herbst medical bill,
providing for one examining board
exempts osteopathic physicians from
its requirements.
With this concession known, Gov-
ernor Stuart signed the bill creating
a separate board of five members for
osteopaths.
Therefore, as the one-board medic
al bill now stands, its provisions will
affect in a prohibitory way all Chris-
tion Science healers and other prac-.
tioners of the healing art not be-
longing to the allopathic, homeopathic
or the eclectic schools. :
An important proviso in the amend-
ed medical bill is that “this act shall
not prevent the adminlstration of do-
mestic remedies or assistance in cases
of emergency. ’
COUSINS MARRIED
MUST REMAIN SO
Judge Taylor Refuses to Cut Marital
Bonds He Declares lllegal. '
Wiashington, Pa.—While admitting,
on the testimony of the principals,
the illegality of the marriage of Jesse
and Florence McClain, Judge J. F.
Taylor refused the couple a separa-
tion. The McClains are full cousins
and were married at Greensburg in
1907. Marital troubles arising, Mrs.
McClain brought suit for divorce,
pointing out that a State law forbids
the marriage of full cousins. Judge
Taylor takes the ground that both
man and woman knew they were per-
juring themselves before the clerk
who issued the license.
REFUSE WAGE CUT
Vote Unanimously to Reject Scale
Proposed by Company on
Lower Basis.
Reading.—A convention of iron
workers of the Eastern district was
held here and it was unanimously
voted to reject the proposed reduction
in wages submitted by the Reading
Iron Company.
The scale which is scheduled to go
into effect on March 29 reduces the
wages of puddlers from $4.50 to $3.75
a ton. The reduction would affect
3,000 employes.
National Secretary Tighe of Pitts-
burg, addressed the men.
SANDERSON REPORTED ILL
Convicted Capitol Grafter not to Be
at Huston Trial.
Harrisburg. — John H. Sanderson,
who was convicted in the Capitol
graft trials, is at ‘Sherry’s, N. ¥.,
where the report is given out that
he is suffering from Bright's disease
and cannot live.
This will probably prevent his ap-
pearance at the Houston trial,'sched-
uled for April 3. wr
ELEVEN HOMELESS FAMILIES
Export Suffers Fire Loss of $10,000
on Dwellings.
Greensburg. — Export, a mining
town on the Turtle Creek Valley
Railroad, was threatened with de-
struction by fire. Eleven families
were made homeless, four double
houses were gutted and a loss of
$10,000 incurred.
Historic School Rehabilitated.
Saltsburg.—That the historical Eld-
ersridge academy, near here, has re-
covered from its recent financial dif-
ficulties is evidenced by preparations
being made for the coming term.
The trustees.are making / arrange-
ments with John J. Henderson, of
Creekside, to take the principalship.
Although definite notice has not vet
been given, it is expected the date
of the opening will be about April 5.
Coke Production Fell Off.
Connellsville—The production of
coal in the Ninth bituminous coal dis-
trict of Pennsylvania, according to
the annual report of Mine Inspector
Thomas D. Williams of Connellsville,
was 3,152,509 tons less than in 1907,
while the production of coke fell off
2,053,205 tons. A total of 4,953 men
were employed in the mines in 1908
against 5,607 in 1907. There were
17 fatal accidents.
No More “Favored Districts.”
Harrisburg.—The state railroad
commission, in an opinion given by
President Nathariel Ewing, has ruled
that no railroad can create a favored
district in a terminal zone. The de-
cision was given in the case of the
New York Manufacturers’ Association
against the Northern Central and
Western Maryland Railroads.
Grief Caused Attempted Suicide.
Connellsville.—Grief of the death
of his four children in a fire which
destroyed his home last January 27
is alleged to have caused A. M. Ken-
dall to attempt suicide by swallowing
laudanum. Quick work by physicians
saved his life. For weeks Mr. Ken-
dall has been suffering from nervous
breakdown.
Magee Bill Passed.
Harrisburg.—The senate passed
finally hte Magee bill ‘amending the
| second class city charter. There were
no votes against it. The house con-
curred in the amendments, there be-
ing one vote in the negative. The
| bill provides for the establishment of
| a department of health and increases
the police magistrates from 5 to 8
i and the assessors from 5 to 9.
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