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MORNING TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, igio. 8 A FEAT OF HORSEMANSHIP. All Kinds Come. Tor one-third the cost of a new one, tie railroad company and the street "Presbyter Ijrnotus" In Lining Church. In Other Counties The cornerstone of the new Christian church at Indiana has been laid.

Somerset will celebrate the Fourth with closed stores and a firemen's picnics I have Just read In a parish, paper FREEZING CAVERNS." Subterranean Caves That Are Lined With Crystalline lee. There are deep cavities and tunneled recesses in the earth far away from sunlight and held In the tight embrace of rocky strata where secret hoards of tfDormna tribune. Published Dally Exceot Sunday bv The altoona tribune co. Hugh Pltcalra president Henry C. Jjern Treasurer A- D.

Houclt Gen Mgr. and Sec yr. H. Schwarta Editor g- W. Everhart City -aiiiltor M.

Wltnerow ClrcolaOon Manager a. which comes to me the obituary of State Brevities James Maross was killed at Corry when he was caught by some timbers of a building he was razing. Almost cut in half, John Nattaro lived nearly, an houu at Lansdale. He was a railroad employe and was run over by a work train while lighting his pipe. The body was almost com pletely severed at the waist.

The Pittsburg Chamber of Com a communicant whose life would have Threading Needle While Riding at Full Gallop. Some amazing feats of horsemanship have been performed by cowboys and Indlanx, not to speak of those astonishingly expert Cossacks, but it is doubtful If these have ever exceeded the feat of a Klf Irregular cavalryman. Cossacks have been seen to snatcb a afforded material for a novel of ad venture, surely. A Russjan count, About fifty youngsters enrolled in the Boys' Brigade recently organized at Philipsburg. with estates to support his title, he had served in the army through the Rye stocks on the farm of Mrs.

Am Subscription. ln advaape) rer Month lie Copy it Crimean war; but later, easting his lot with the revolutionaries brose Fry, near Avis, Clinton county, measure eight feet in height. 1S61-3 he was captured and imprison railway companies, to furnish the other two-thirds. This will mean $75,000 In all and it will also mean a biidge which will be in keeping with De growth of the city. The proposition regarding the construction of main sewers in the eastern districts, which means those east of Twelfth street; the disposal of sewage, and the converting of the waters of Gin-tors' run into Mill run, Is one that has long been discussed and the absolute necessity of whica is not disputed.

So far as the sewage disposal part of the proposition Is con-erned that it is a matter which the city must consider and act upon. The action of the state board of health makes this obligatory. There is no question of tae inadequacy of the main 6ewers east of Twelfth street, and the removal of the waters of merce, declaring that the 100 per cent, increase in long distance calls is a direct attempt by the telephone trust to evade the new railroad law Three hundred exrCentre countians ed. Escaping, he reached Austria, iHltocma IWbune- recently met at Fairmount "park, Phil hut there was re-arrested on" Ruselan adelphia, and held a big picnic and vad tae interstate commerce com demand, and an order for his extra' reunion. mission, will file at formal protest IA 1 Rltlan dltion was issued.

When it was read 1 Published Every Saturday. Work is progressing on the Indiana to him ta prison, the jar.er hold borough sewage plant at Reed fata- lr Tear (strictly in ad ranee) "Six Umih. Andrew Welsh, aged 11, of Pittsburg, climbed a telephone pole near ais home recently and was horribly shocked by electricity. One hand so that he could see, written on the tion; it is believed that the jab will baok, "Let this man Franz I "titea "mad known on P- be completed before the winter. Josef." lie took the hjnt, and roach' was burned to the bone and his side The Automobile association of Indiana county has decided to prose was seared by a cacklng flame until ed Switzerland In safety, some years later coming to America, but always under the surveillance of the Hussian glittering ice find haUitatlon all tho year round.

Yet down In these queer places the Ice Is as clear and cbrys-talllne as any that nature maintains In the open air. Moreover, it occurs on a truly grand and massive scale. Imagine thick underground ice walls and floors and craftily fissured columns beautiful in shape and color streaming from roof to floor of lofty rock chambers! And under the slow drip, drip, drip of percolating water this same Ice learns to fashion Itself Into cave adornments frozen water drops, curling slopes, stalactites and stalagmites of fantastic shape and rainbow hues. Subterranean cold waves, or "glaciers," as they are frequently called, crop up in some 300 scattered localities In Europe, Asia and America, but all, with rare exceptions, whether true Ice caverns or grottoes and deep follows, are confined to the north temperate regions of these continents that is, to places where there Is a sufficiently low temperature at some portion of tho year to reach freezing polut and render snowfall possible. Pearson's Magazine cute those motorists who do not blow his ribs were exposed.

Patrick BrlS' bin, a laborer, rescued him. IAiUL their horns before turning corners secret police. His wife was a Bel Mrs. Kate Dumshock. of Centralia, The Water company measure in gian Roman Catholic; and tooth, con while shopping in Shenandoaa, left Johnstown councils, to frive the right- formed to the American rtocch stor ALTOONA, JUNE 30, 1910.

lv becoming domiciled hre. At her baby outside a department store and when she went out after it got Ginter's run from the city will save 'the municipality at large and the citizeus of that section In particJar of a source of great annoyance, danger and damage. 91 ne has en'sred Into rest. of-way over a certain district, was lost. It had caused much discussion.

Frank Bogish, a miner employed at somebody else's-darling instead. She FOR THE FOURTH. traveled eeveral squares before dis Not far from lives a learned man, a veteran of the Civil war. who serves the state still In peaceful oc The reports made at the meetings the Rudolph colliery near Dixonville Indiana county, was killed almost in- covering her mistake; then she became frantic and officers had to re jaf committees held 'last Tuesday ewea- EDITORIAL NOTES. stantlv.

not. lone aso. tov a fall of cupations, and officiates as lay read er in the parish to which he ibelongs strain her. Through the aid of the 4ns in city hall, were all to the- effect jhat the mo' anient toward the wle rock. newspapers her own child was His story is- almost remarkable.

Ibratiou. of the Fourth of July -wua Mr. and Mrs. J. P.

O'Laughlin, prominent Clearfield residents who Great preparations are being made Pole of ncrble family, he had become a priest of the Roman Catholic church; but, because of his activity ifioirig along very nicely and that the were seriously injured in a recent by a committee of the Lancaster train-automobile crash, are improving in the Polish national uprising, he Idetails were being gradually wortced cut. From present indications the County Historical society in charge of the celebration in September of daily. was arrested and exiled to Siberia The farmer and the wheat will soon meet each other in the field. Tho ship subsidy bill has gone Into its summer sleep, but that does not by any means imply that it is dd. Judging from the price of oK the packer must be buying them tip that "natural" advance which -omes with the winter months.

the 200th anniversary of the first set after infamous cruelties. Happily, he Fourteen babies' came into the baby from its mother's arms at full callop, toss It into the air, catch It and repeat tbe performance. Indian riders In the far west have sprung from their horses' backs while tbe animals were moving at full gallop, picked up arrows and remounted Instantly in a standing posture. But who ever beard of a Cossack, ao Indian or a cowboy threading a needle while at full gallop? The horsemen of the Rif coast use small mounts, slight, but quick and wiry, of thoroughbred Arabian barb type. Those of the irregular cavalry perform 'all manner of charges and evolutions.

They will throw their words and matchlocks Into tbe air, catching them by the hilts and stocks. On one occasion, by way of offering some new aud unusual entertainment to a French officer visiting that region, It was announced thnt oue rider would attempt the needle threading feat. A needle and a piece of thread possibly two or three feet in length were produced. They were both banded around for Inspection. The needle wag.

a cambric one and tbe thread fifty or sixty fine. Tbe rider galloped his mount dowrj the sand about 400 yards or He finally wheeled his horse and remained stationary, facing his audience. The man who held tbe needle and thread waved them in his band and rode to-ward the other. When he had covered about two-tbirds of tbe distance he halted and waved his band to the farther one. Immediately the latter spurred bis horse Into' a gallop and came toward the audience at full speed.

As he passed tbe other he took the needle and thread from his companion, bent over for a moment and pulled up when he reached the visiting Frenchman, holding the threaded needle tHum-pbantly over his head. St. Louis Republic. DRESDEN POLICE They Are Permitted to Impose Small Fine on Offenders. One advantage accrues to the re tlement of white men in the county.

escaped. Reaching England, he as world at Lewistown in May and four jClty Is going to ibe the of one of the biggest parades In Us history "and there have been some 'bigdomon-iBtrations here. It "will bo on similar A big time will taks place 011 the sumed the first English name he saw persons passed into their long sleep. In the same month last year nine on a eignibflard, and under that name crossed to -America in time tt serve grounds of the Brick Menuonite CJurch in West Lampeter, the centre of the original tract, and a meeting Sjns as that of the Fourth in 1905, through Tart of the Civil war. Later, were born and seven djed.

Miss Ida Walker, of the Lewistown hospital, has received a gold watch jiwith the exception that speech-mak is to be, held in Lancaster in the renouncing his orders, he married and conformed to the American ehurcii evening. from Rev. and Mrs. J. D.

Terral, of ing will not be a part of the program, tfrhere will be great -parade and a He is still obliged to keep his name Reports from Pittsburg that Gif- Cold Springs, for nursing their secret, lest his kindred in Poland Poes it really pay to travel 2ve miles to pick a quart of huckleberries when you can get it in the markets foid Pinchot was to be boomed as an jidlsplay of fireworks which, it is prom son John D. Terral, who was burn should suffer on his account. independent candidate for governor ijsed, will eclipse anything jn that line ed in an electric eeldent. T. fell flat when that gentleman, who I remember, in my 'boyhood, a de lishtful old centleman who lived at twelve and one-half cents.

A pear tree standing where the was at Mlltord at the home of his Ever BBuire anem in uie city. 11 rould he against all precedents that should be failure. The books new edifice ot tne vnurcn 01 me much alone, on a green hillside farm THEY SIT AND LOOK. Women Who Watch For Celebrities In a New York Restaurant. "I always wonder." said a New York woman who lunches out a good deal, "what satisfaction the women get out of life who flock to a certain fashionable uptown restaurant at lunchtlma Just to see celebrities.

"They look as If they cannot afford to be there, and the truth Is they do not apparently go there for food. I have watched them ordering and noted what was brought them, and almost invariably it is some such thing as cafe parfalt, or an ice of some kind, or a cup of tea or of chocolate and a sandwich. "They sit and look. The moment soma stage celebrity comes in there is a craning of necks, and you hear excited whisperings. 'Oh, there's The recent gun play in the Cuban afther, announced taat he is not a legal resident ot the state.

He votes married to a daughter of the people but preserving traditions and tangible mre still open and more money is need- Brethren is being erected at Juniata college, Huntingdon, has on it a plentiful crop of pears and, at the same time, a large number of in New York. The clerk of the Pike county commissioners also declared ooncress ca-); mtua taut tueFV tt'nts were almost that bad In the congress of theso United States. Vd before there Is sufficient to permit the finance comimitee to cease that Mr. Pinchot did not have legal blossoms. mementos of a castle In Germany ana a family whosn arms are quartered with ihose of soverejgn houses.

He had been a cbssmate of Bismark at Goettineen. "mt imlbloed liberal ideas residence in the county and had nev Charles Porter, of Van Wert, Juni er voted there. Here Is one from the Amsterdam A Philadelphia horse that did not and narticipnted In the affair of 1S4S ata county, has gone into the show business. The first exhibition was given at. Burnt Cabins, this week.

Sev (Jf. Enterprise that is too good understand German recently killed a Barely to America jr. time to join the Argonauts searching for man. John Ilekl, it came out in eral musicians, a trained horse and to be lost: "No one was ever nun while taking a joy ride on a pair of the inquest held to inquire into his sold in California, he was a rapm'tier an educated dog compose the outfit. death, entered the animal's stall and Its endeavors.

If you have not contributed do so today. The demonstration will Ibe one worthy of Al-fctoona's reputation of doing things in proper manner and certainly you proud not like to (be among those who pave not contributed to making jt 'pne of the greatest of Its kind ever Jeeen In the Mountain City. LAKE ALTOONA. From the big basin, which when The wagon was built by Jfchn O'Neil- plow handles." told it in German to get over It of tho vigilance committee In the Civil war. Thereafter, captivated by a pretty fadt and a pastoral background, he settled down a tiny Several farmers in the vicinity of did not move; therefore he hit it.

Seaside resorts are getting the Beech Creek, Clinton county, are ex The horse resented this and gave perimenting with raising oroom- quota of searchers after health these h.t lava Manv of them, after the terrific kick, sending him against he side of the stall and fracturing corn. They planted enougn or tne village where not one Terpen understood or appreciated h'm, unv.l a bookish K-vearold lad. sp-tiding a his skull and several ribs. Hekl died search, come home to rest before re stuff to make their own brooms, If it grows and matures. The high price spectable member of the community mentioning au actress or a matinee Idol, and tbe ack craning keeps on until a fresh si'''ect for scrutiny comes in.

"You can see this sort of thing every lunchtime at this restaurant. There is a regular contingent of these rubber-neckers. and they are not visitors from the far west, either." New York Sun. shortly after being admitted to a hos turning to business. simmer on a nvlghlvtrine frtu.

re completed will hold enough water to of the sweepers prompted them to pital. vealed K.oTne knpwrldee of Horace, of from the minuteness with which the Dresden police look into tbe affairs of try the experiment. A good many people would like, to An old man wjo has a young dar heialdrv, and of medieval history The coal is said to be near its end know just what was the conversation ling with too many lovers, according to Judge Galbraith's way of looking every inhabitant of the city. If be is a careful man and always carries papers at Big Soldier, Clearfield county. In What chums we got to be! I pored over the family manuscripts, wilh srreat names adorning them: Goetz which took place between t-olonel which may 6erve to establish his iden Rnnspvplt and Senator von Berliehinseni Hieronymns von permit the city to use jt when it Is mostly needed, comes the word that increased machinery has arrived and that it is to he put in action as Fpeedily as possible so that Lake Altoona may be completed, to the point desired at the present time, within the limit which the contractors have themselves set Altoonans have when they met at Oyster Bay.

a few- years the mines will be worked out. Already a number of houses have beenvtorn down and moved to Indiana county, where the J. C. company, operator of th Big Sol Muenchhausen, and others with like tity he is practically Immune from tbe Indignity of being arrested and marched off to the police station unless. In at it, is entitled to his freedom.

Aion-zo H. Kennedy, of Leizureville, was granted a divorce at Butler, from Mary E. Kennedy, aged 20, because that young woman, in spite ot ner protests ot love in courting days, ac associations; I admired the anctent Just whether it was that cele s'snet. carved for the head of the brated speech by Colonel Roosevelt dier mines, has other coWieries. deed, be commits some especially heinous crime.

Does be drive faster than family by Penvenuto Cellini; above all I del'ghted In the incunabula that led to the recall of Sir bldon cording to the mislead hubby, speii The sate health department has the law permits, does be cross a bridge waited long and it is not to be won too much of her time with young Gorst, the British agent in Egypt, will approved the plans of the Thompson- wtiich my German had succeeded jn brinelng with him from the fatherland, The yokels used to wains at dances and pa-rties, and in town Water company for its system never be known, but Sir Eldons re buggy rides by moonlight. dered at that the waiting is at times an impatient one, for hs work to ie completed. They gave their con call followed the speech. on the left band Hide, he is stopped by the guardian of law and order and requested to give his name. If be has his papers with him the policeman wonder what we had in common, the The Reading high school girls have white-haired man in his velvet coat, ad their difficulties with the aut.iorl "T'nMo Cannon sneaking of sent freely and having done so they whose foreign accent amused them ies settled up and they will receive the speakership of the congress nrodiu-lonslv.

nnd mvse but we heir diplomas. The trouble with the knew' and" ignored them. When org still continues. It is alleged remarks that he is in the 'hands of his friends. He may find that these Growing Corn For Cob Pipes.

Probably not one smoker In a hundred who likes the "real American pipe" the corncob is aware of the fact that many acres in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska are devoted to raising corn for the especial purpose of producing coba suitable for fashioning into pipe bowls. The grain itself is marketed, of course, but the cob on which it grows is the real harvest and is cut carefully Into proper lengths, smoothed and polished, the soft Inner pulp being gouged out by specially constructed machinery. The corncob pipe goes to every country in the world where men smoke and is especially iu favor In Australia and New Zealand, where It is regarded as characteristically American, because it suggests tbe Idea of Yankee Ingenuity. Tbe brier is the favorite with Englishmen, who are probably tbe greatest pipe smokers In the world. Chicago Inter Ocean.

hat some examination questions death eamo to end h's exile, I like to think that his precious hooks were have fled to some other man by the were stolen and the matter now na rescued from the raennan ov my re time the question comes up. een sifted down to eight or nine oting men. T.ie parents are still verent hands, and now ornament my shelves with their wrought pigskin ngrv over the withholding of diplo may theu and there Impose a fine of from 1 to 8 marks. If then he admits that be is in tbe wrong and pays the fine the incident Is closed. If, however, be wishes to appeal from tbe policeman's decision be my do so.

Even In that case be is not arrested, but a day or two later he is notified to appear in court and answer to the charge against him. Rut then If be Is found guilty the lowest fine that can be imposed is 3 marks. That this custom of permitting the policeman personally to impose small fiDes Is little understood covers nnrl fair Illuminations. While the New York legislature has been called in extraordinary ses mas and the whole matter likely win As 1 write other figures rise sion very little is heard of its pro he laid before the school board be fore the trouble is straightened out tin In memory, an picturesque, amen ceedings. Can it be possible that The parents have been holding meet- ftnvernor Huches is to be out-gen- ngs.

The trouble witj tnariris nan in different ways. One, four inches tall rejoiced in the sonorous name of Gottfrid Guenther Freiherr Schwann von Baron eraled by Timothy Woodruff? something to do with money iut- expect it to ibe rushed to completion fis-rapidly as possible. They are tired pt the annual restriction in the use jDf water. Their yards have been parched, thejr trees have suffered, and more than all else, they have suffered because of the restrictions which, while they have necesary, are certainly beeom-jng irksome. They now hope that tho jreservoir will foe hurried along with all that haste consistent with good 'work.

When it is in shape and full 'Itoona can look around for more industries and can say to prospective manufacturers that they will find an ample water supply here. THE LOAN ORDINANCE. The recent signing of the ordinance providing for a special election to be fceld in Altoona on July 26, for the jjpurpose of obtaining the assent of the jvoters to the proposition to increase and has issued a permit for the work to go 011. Stone masons will start on the reservoir Tuesday, July 3, and twenty men will be given work laying pipe on July 15, or thereabouts. Edison Pugh, of Somerset township, Somerset county, was slashed six times by a knife In the hands of George Carolus, In a fight at Jen-ners X.

Roads, recently, it is said. The victim is reported dying at a Johnstown hospital. Carolus was captured at Johnstown when he stepped from a Somerset Cambria train. lie is now in the Somerfet jail. The water company at Clearfield has decided to extend the meter system and to install the artlcles on the service lines of all consumers.

This step is taken because of the alleged continued disregard of the rules of the company concerning waste of water. The houses of the directors will be metered first then the places of those who are most guilty of breaking the rules. Coroner Kimmell, of Somerset county, intends to sift to the bottom the matter of the shipping out of the county the body of one of the wreck victims in the recent B. O. disaster before an inqnestrcould be held.

Dr. Kimmell erf. ni or words to that "ffect. bee-n a Prussian officer, nad AT HOME AND ADROAD. fontht on the side at Majuba Hjll, with and.

when met It Is all very well to talk about that passenger airship line, but toerewill have to be many improvements made on the present system before the averaee citizen will take to the Idea It is stated on good authority that early one-half the criminals in this him, was- a peaceful member of the B. S. A. in New York, clerking in country are drug fiends. an office there, and confiding in his The American schooner friends that, through his mother, a Westward won the big race at the kindly.

One does not like to be sus pended from a tree top. The most recent news from Nica von Oppenhelm. he was a lineal des Kiel regatta the other day. cendant of King Pavjd, with claims by foreigners Is shown by a remark made by a gentleman who bad lived in Germany the greater part of bis life and in Dresden for a number of years. In reply to any inquiry as to whether there was ever any question of corruption in tbe police department he replied: "No; none whatever as far as the higher officers are concerned.

The individual men, however, may be bribed occasionally. For instance, if I were (o walk on the grass iu the Grosser-garten and a policeman caught me at it 1 would give him a mark or two, and that would end tbe matter." Constantinople Is t6 have the trol- upon the hrone of Jerusalem. ragua is to the effect that a petition ey as well as the telephone and bids Another here a melodious name re invited for the construction of has been signed by 700 persons and that ended in ian; and though he prac the lines. ticed a learned profession in an presented to Estrada, leader of the Boston is very muc'a in earnest American city and was a communi revolutionists, in which they ask tne about having a national tribute to the cant of the American church, his first loyalty was toArmenla and the emory of the late Edward Everett Ithe indebtedness of the city in tie Bum of $260,000, is one of the most (important measures which has been (passed by councils since the passage jof the ordinance which brought about the constructing of Lake Altoona. The ancient church of Sf.

Gregory the Il ale In the shape of a monument to Ha Waiting For the Note. An English churchman tells the following: "At one of our cathedrals the mlnoi canon was 111 aud could not sing. A suffragau bishop had a good voice and volunteered to stag the litany. he said to the verger, 'and tell the organist that I will sing the litany and ask him to give me the reciting 'Please, said the verger to the organist, 'the bishop 'as sent me to you to say he will sing the 'All right' said tie organist. Seeing the verger reroala, he said, 'You need not 'Please, sir, the bishop asked me to to ask: you if you would give him a something I 'didn't quite 'Yu mean the reciting That's it, sir; that's It' Seeing the verger still remaining, he said, 'You need not To which the verget said.

'Please, sir, shall I take It to bis lordsbVr An Infamy. United States to Intervene in the interests in peace. Judging from the surface indications, the petition is unnecessary. Uncle Sam has, diplo erected in Boston. is going to find out who issued the burial certificate and will test the new law regarding such matters.

No In luminator all the more because he represented the last native dvnasty An American syndicate has a thir ty-year franchise in Constantinople quest will be held now. 'proposition which will come before matically, been doing all he The assertion that the negro will nd itsenvlrons and will immediate- that reigned there before the 11 sis-nans were enthroned. Damnosa hereditas, I fear, he returned to Constantinople on a sudden summons, Theodore Pantall, aged 17, son of give the people of that region the not work Is disproved by some fig Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pantall, of I)u-Rois, fell under a Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburg train recently and had and has never been heard of tHncet The other was a familjar figure of How Japs Play Ken.

In its most widely practiced form the basis of the Japanese game of ken is that the fully outstretched hand signifies paper, tbe fully closed hand a stone, and two fingers alone extended, the rest being closed, scissors. Each of tbe players, counting one. two, three, throws out bis band at the moment of pronouncing three, and the mv undergraduate days; slender, dry, his legs crushed so badly that it was necessary to amputate one between the ankle and the knee and the oth gray, with a neat imperial and -mou the voters on the date set is a fourfold one. The money is be expend" 'ed for four different purposes: One hundred thousand dollars for permanent street Improvements; 75,000 for resurfacing paved highways with such material as councils may direct; $25,. 000 for city's tfaare of the construc-'lion of a new biidge ar Seventh street fny9 Cft i stache, a foreign order in the lapel of er below the instep.

With a com his shiny frock coat, and infinite mel panion, he tried to board the train. ancholy in his eyes. He taught fenc- ng and Spanish: and men called him Only his quick action in throwing his body clear of the tracks saved his life. (behind his backl "Prince Perkins." one whose manual symbol is superior to that of the others, according to the ures which come from two southern states. North Carolina had been twitting South Carolina, when the latter state came forward with some figures The value of the crops of South Carolina in 1909 was $109,013,000, while that of North Carolina was $103,148,000.

The area of the former state is much smaller than the. latter and three-fifths of its population are negroes. One-third of North Carolina's population Is colored. MADAME RUMOR SAYS: The story was like an anticipation While trying to coast down a hill near Trade City in an auto that was theory of the game, wins the trial Superiority is determined on the hy potbesls thnt whereas scissors can of Mr. Oppenhelm's novels.

In the brave days when Ispbella Segunda reigned over Spain there was a young American attache at the court who Some years ago we remember meet Ing at the door of a secondhand book shop an excited Irishman. He bad Just bought the "Irish Melodies" for" a shilling when he turned round on the bookseller and burst out. "But I could kill ye for selling these Immortal gems so cheap!" London Athenaeum. out, of commission and which was being taken to be fixed, G. Screcon- advau'ages of the telephone.

T.ie lines, however, are to be operated by a Turkish company. Josiah Zelthleln, of Brooklyn, will celebrate the Fourf.i of July and his lOfith birt.iday next Monday. He was born in Russian Poland, and has been a resident of this country for twenty-six years. He is still hoping to master the English language. The house ship subsidy lobby Investigation is practically over.

The committee will meet again In New York in November but has already examined a sufficient number of witnesses to make it evident that the charges cannot be sustained. There is a rumor afloat that Amer-iran heiresses who marry English no-bility are not to be received at court with the favor that has been such marriages in the past. The rumor may not be true, but if believed it may have a wholesome effect on American heiresses. The man who threw a stone at a New York Central passenger train got ten years in Sing Sing, and the not cut a stone tbey can cut paper and Sost, of DuBois, lost control of the fell jn love; -with an Infanta. Natural, whereas paper Is cut by scissors it can perhaps: but she also fen In love with wrap up a stone consequently sciS' IiU fuu.uuu 1UI CUIlSirUCUOJl OI ioiain sewers in the eastern districts end for 6ewage disposal and the diversion of Ginter's run to Mill run.

These propositions are explicit and there is not one but should receive1 the approval of the voter. It is scarcely likely that a stop will now tie made to the permanent improvement of the highways of tie city. A number of the streets have been lifted permanently out of the mud and there are numerous ordinances on th machine and It upset when it struck a bank. P. O.

Freas, of Punxsu-tawney, and George Goodheart, of DuBois, were in it with him and him. Fancy the complication! But good Isabella had her points and a soft heart was one of them. "Bless sors are inferior to stone, but conquer paper; stone is inferior to paper, but never pays conquers scissors, and paper is inferior rou, mes enfants," said slt; and the That double-dealing those who practice it. to scissors, but conquers stone. There jumped, escaping injury.

Schrecon-gost was not able to jump, but escaped without a scratch. The auo was damaged but slightly. r.upHal convrnct wag drawn ip. I read It. with all jts sonorous nbrases about the Most II- are innumerable varieties of the game, That the hired man has little real interest in his client.

The Handwriting. "If you look about you," said tht ominous acquaintance, "you will see the handwriting on the wall." "Tbe handwriting on the wall does not worry me," replied Senator Sor ghum, "so long as they don't go rummaging into ray private memoranda." Washington Star. ustrlous Senor Don Jehlel Perkins, James Rupert, the Clearfield coun- The Origin of the Mastiff. Mastiff Is a term applied to a very tv boy who shot Mrs. Michael Mc- general in the armies of Connecticut and father of the attache and similar transformations.

They were actually That good books help the souiover many a painful experience. Dermott shortly after he had ordered her from the strawberry pa'ch on his mother's farm, near Mahaffey, has been placed in the Clearfield county married, and domiciled In some cor judge didn't consider his plea of hav That the political horizon shows some signs of the coming sunrise. etatute books providing for the paving of more when the money is voted for the work. Regarding the second proposition resurfacing of paved fcighwaye, this Is a thing which must tie done. There are argument being presented against this and these are Ibased on the ground that in some in ing been drunk as an extenuating cir jail and will be kept there pending cumstance.

It happened to be Justice Morschauser, the same judge who of That the human heart is one the mysteries of the universe. has had so much to do with keeping A Hardware Talk. ''Yes." said the nut to tbe nail, "it gave me a terrible wrench to part from him. but I knew it would be only a matter of a few days before ba would bolt anyway." ner of a vast palace. Then came the downfall of Isabella; and the Princess Bourbon Perkins, with her husband and children, followed the Jolly queen into exile.

What happened then? Qnlen sabe? They separated; and Prince Perkins taneht fencing and Spanish, wjth the grand manner of a true hidalgo thereafter, to college boy of twenty years ago. Harry Thaw in Matteawan. That a great many men and stances the paring was not altogether Springfield is to 'nave a unique Fourth of July celebration, in the shape of a "Blue and Gray" Fourth. One of the Grand Army camps will paid for and in a few t-iat it was not paid for at all. While this is true It Is nln trilA that thoeo cfi-nota qia In men live in glass houses.

That tolerance of wrong is quently followed by many evils. the outcome of the woman serious injuries. The lad does not seem much disturbed over the incident and some think he js insane. The woman's version of the story is that lie ordered her off the 'place and -fired at close range before she ould arise from her stoopin-g position. If she recovers he likely will be charged with aggravated assault.

Clearfield county furnishes a tree mystery. While Thomas Wisor and a lady friend were driving on the large and powerful species of tbe ca-Dlne family, and there Is considerab conflict of opinion regarding the origin of tbe word. Some claim that it Is derived from the Italian mastlno or tbe French inastln, both of which signify large limbed. This word, tbey say. was gradually corrupted into m'usty, a Lincolnshire expression meaning very large, muscular or big, until It gradually assumed its present form.

Others again say Its true origin Is the old German masten, to fatten, because tbe mastiff Is a large dog and so seems better fed tban any other. Londort Field. Conditional. "If I ask your ather's consent will you marry me?" 7 "Well, it depends on bow your face fre- Conceit Is vanity driven from all have as its guests a delegation from a camp of Confederate Veterans from a dangerous condition and that if th loan Is Tint vntpd for thplr rnnlr other shifts and forced to appeal tr Itself for That a little wickedness now and then i3 relished by the best of men. That sincerity Is one of the most Ibey will have to be put in proper Shape by an increase in he mtllage.

Damage suits are also likely to follow their continued neglect, for several of taem are now full of holes which make them dangerous to vehicles. The third proposition is one ithat has beeu before the citizens In June 30 In American History. 1785 James Edward Ogletborpe.founft) er of Georgia, died; born 1B8S. 1882-Executlon of Charles J. Gulteau, assassin of Garfield.

splendid of virtues. That the joys of living are greatly enhanced by congenial comradeship. That too much novel reading enfeebles the intellect. Mifflin County Republicans. Spe-la to the Lewistown, June 29 The Mifflin county republican committee met with thirty-one members, representing every polling precinct in the county, present, and elected William H.

Wren to succeed Rev. A. C. Stine-barger, as chairman. Thomas S.

Johnston was elected treasurer and a committee of five was appointed as the representatives of the party to conduct an active campaign. Resolutions were 'unanimously passed which commended Taft's administration and his effort to redeem campaign pledges. They endorse the state ticket as it stand6, and pledge their hearty support Petersburg. Virginia. They will attend church together on Sunday and march together In the parade on Monday.

Fireman RoWe Taken Suddenly III. Special to the Tribune. Lewistown Junction, June 29. Charles N. ftowe, fireman on the second section of train No.

48, was seized with lumbago while passing McVeytown yesterday afternoon and compelled to stop over here to see a physician. The train stopped at Bixlers and obtained a fireman from the crew of the Mifflin local engine, 2660. Fireman Rowe was sent to his state road between Clearfield and Woodland recently, a large silver maple tree, which stood near the east end of the Clearfield creeik brjdge, broke off noiselessly and fell upon the horse and buggy. The horse was hurt somewhat and the buggy did not escape, but the man and woman were uninjured, though badlv frightened. The tree was examined and was found to be neither rotten That a real idea is as as the Creator.

looks wrfen you get through asking him." Cleveland Leader. Frozen Talei. 'i suppose everything must be frozen stiff at the pole." "I guess so. At any rate, some pretty stiff stories are brought back." New York Pjca, an embryonic stage for years. There I is no doubt as to what the opinion of Yvely citizen is relative to tho Seventh street brtdgo.

In its present londition it is a disgrace. The citi- 1909 Carrie Burn bam Kllgore. pioneef woman lawyer, died at Swarth more, born 1837. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon Sun sets 7:31, rises 428; moon rises J2JWa.jv nor worm-eaten, but apparently-sound.

It broke off half-way between the top and roota, when no wind was That while the horrors cf life reach the public eye its blessings are seldom aofed. home In Altoona on train No. 83. lhlowinjr..

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