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MO BMjN IHJB jRfjf SAl RDA KlEMJBKK 29, l9l). cers are men whose plans of violence State Brevities. The Saunterer. State Topics, and disorder were spoiled by their vigilance. Song and Story.

Teddy on Panama. In Panama the work goes on As fast as (toddle let It. And everything Is being done The Wllkes-Barre Record is right "It looks to me like as if the school boarj has little stomach for the fight flDornina tribune. Publlihed Dally Excapt Sunday by -THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE CO. Hush President Henry C.

Bern Treasurer A. D. Houck On. Mgr. and Sec W.

H. Schwarta Editor E. W. Everhart City Eultor W. 14.

Circulation Manager P. H. Crawford Advertising Manager A project has been started in Sun-bury to run a line of automobile passenger and freight cars, during the coming year. A distance of fif on the vaccination question preclpi tated by Dr. Stayer," observed the Mercantile Traveler.

"First time the THE DYING YEAR. The year which is about to pass Into history has been a season of uninterrupted business prosperity for the overwhelming majority of the people of the United States. The nation has never witnessed a year of when it declares that "about the meanest crime of the Christmas season was that committed In Scranton by the persons who stole a good part of the provisions gathered by the Salvation Army for distribution to the poor. Stealing pennies from the poor or sacred vessels from the church is hardly as despicable as the Scranton theft." case came up it was postponed on account of the absence of the doctor. teen miles is to be covered.

Judge Scott, of Northampton county, on Thursday revoked the hotel licenses of James Cistone and John although his immediate presence was expected. Now the matter has been Subscription Rates. One Tnr in ivmm IS Per Month ISo I more abounding material success. postponed again at the request of the board, pending an effort to arrive at tingle Copy Ki an amicable1 understanding. It is un derstood that Professor Hoffman, who Death of a Child.

Paul, son1 of pavo and Francis Norosal. died yesterday morning: of, convulsions at the parents' home, 2123 Fourteenth avenue, after a brief illness. The child was aged 3 months. The funeral will be held from it3 home at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Interment will be made in St.

Mary's cemetery. Funeral Notices. The funeral, of jHmes G. Laffertr. the young brakeman who died on Thursday afternoon; as the result of injuries received near ,1 tower last Saturday morning.

wil take place from his father's home on the Hick-ey farm to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment wil be made in Oak Ridge cemetery. fc The remains of Mrs. Sue W. Proctor, a former resident of Altoona, who died at the home of her daughter.

Mrs. H. Hance, in Pittsburg, last' Thursday, will be brought to thi3 city at 12:40 p. m. to-mortow.

They will be taken in rharge by Undertaker Rollins and immediate shipment made to Hollidayshurg. ThO funeral will held from the train in the canital town, to the Presbyterian cemetery for interment. Simsack for selling liquor to Victor Wagner. of Pen Argyl, a man of known intemperate habits. Camp 163 Patriotic Order Sons of America of Reading, is making arrangements to build a hall.

The camp has a membership of 1.200 and has funds amounting to over William Reinhart, of Hamburg, Berks county. has a young lemon has been selected as the scapegoat upon whose innocent shfulders' is to be placed responsibility for the pus There has been plenty of work and no man physically able has been compelled to stand idle because none was willing to hire him. It has also been a year of far-reaching and terrible calamities. The destruction of the city of San Fran Hltoona XXnbune. Weekly Edition.

Published Every Saturday. Subscription Rates. Per Tear. strictly In advance ti To his numerous other useful services rendered the state the present active state zoologist has just added another. He has a suspicion that many of the shade and fruit trees shipped into the state are infected with San Jose scale and it is his in tvs jhki as we can get It.

The dirt Is living far and wide And each day rising higher. And any one who says It not. Believe is a liar. In Panama Tiur men proceed According their lights. I know it, for I hung around The place three days and nights.

'i There isn't any fault to find. And it is my desire To call the man who says tnere la A scoundrel and a liar. In Panama the daily food Is very good and sweet. And It is all nonsense to sav They want for things to eat. The quarters where the men must live Are high above the mire.

And any one who savs they're not Is nothing but a liar. In Panama an army works. And mighty Is its task. And no one has a moment there To lie around and bask. The prospect of tne out complete Is all we could desire.

And any one Inclining to The contrary's a liar. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. of the school board, Is in favor of the enforcement of law, and does not rel Six Months 60c ish being put in the attitude even of a technical offender. He would tention to go for the nurseries from Advertising vatee made known on ap plication.

much rather go ahead and enforce which they have been shipped as cisco in April was the most terrible event of the year, but there have been many other far-reaching calamities and the close of the year witnesses a the regulations of the board of health well as the railroads rying, which, as he well knows, bear all the them. At least that's what oi.e of his friends says. authority of statute law. Even it the school district is going to pay his Touching upon the much talked of ALTOOXA. DECEMBER 29, 1906 scnooi question tne somerset Demo tree, which has produced a lemon measuring sixteen inches in circumference one way and eighteen inches the other.

Ira Moore, of Conneautvllle, a Vetera! of the civil war, aged 64 years, ended his life on Thursday by shooting himself through the heart. His father and three uncles were suicides. While Nicholas Anderson, of New Castle, was sitting near a window of his boarding house a bullet crash crat says: "The onlv way to improv the public school of Pennsylvania is to pay better salaries to the teach that GOOD MORNING! Are you ready to turn over new leaf? ers and require service equal to the fine, he doesn relish the situation. "Another false impression has goue out," continued the Commercial Traveler, "and is that the regulations of the local board of health provide that in case of three unsuccessful attempts at vaccination the next effort must be made by the physician of board. As I understand it, this is not true.

I understand that in such cases the vaccination must be per Irving Wadsworth. of the Congregational Home Missionary society of New York, was describing professional beggars and their, ways. "Tnere was a beggar ith a wooden salaries. If a child is interested, will learn. If the teacher earns a situation in a large section of China which is truly heartrending millions of human beings are upon the verge of starvation.

Religion, science, invention, industry, human enlightenment have all made satisfactory progress, when compared with other years. In spite of the dark spots which have thickly covered the successive pages of the history of the year, it has made pro-' gress in the right direction and the last day of December will witness the planet and its people a little nearer the milleniuru than they were a year ago. salary that Is worth earning, the pupil will be interested. Offer the salary that a competent teacher can afford to accept and require a teach er worthy of the salary." Danville is much pleased with the experiment of closing the bars on ed through the window and grazed his head, cutting off a lock of hair. The would-be assassin escaped.

The union carpenters of Lancaster have notified the master builders that on May 1 they want an increase of their wages from 28 cents an hbtirVo 33 cents, and they must have Saturday as a half holiday. George Younger, aged 15 years, has been arrested at Allentown for stealing a mail pouch from a truck at the railroad station, the day before Christmas. He confessed his He Has a Record. Newark. N.

,1., Dec. 2S. John Moon, alias John Wilson, said by the police to be known in cities throughout this country and in Europe in connection with mail box thefts, was arrestej here today. Moon was arrested for attempting mail robbery, but his identity was not suspected until be was measured by the Rertilllon system. The post office inspectors say the prisoner admits having served a sentence of three ears at Stillwater, ninp years in the Jefferson City, penitentiary for thefts committed In Kansas City, ami five years in the Cherry Hill, prison for offenses committed In York, Pa.

He was released from Cherry Hill last A.pril. he said, and since then lias been drifting about the east. formed either by the board physician or in his presence. All that is required is that he be permitted to look on while the operation is being performed. I don't understand why any reputable and skilled physician should object to the presence of a professional brother while he is vac Christmas.

The Danville iMorning News declares that the day was a it-s, ii" saia. wno ior many years piled his trade near the battery. The old fellow is dead now. He left a good bank balance behind him. "They say of this very successful beggar that one afternoon a delivery man, seeing him unbuckling his wooden leg in the cheap lodging house where they both lived, said in a reproachful tone: "Wot.

Bill, knockln' off work already? It's only 2 o'clock. "The beggar continued the unbuckling of his ligneous limb. "'No, ye doltu i ain't knockin' off; I'm only he said. 'Ye can't expect me to beg all day 'on the same leg, can "New York Tribune. specially quiet, one, the streets being EDITORIAL NOTES.

apparently deserted while the ma There is not so much need in this jority of the people spent the time pleasantly at home. Next morning ALEXANDER J. CASSATT. The sudden death of Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, which occurred yesterday afternoon, has deprived the great corporation of which he was the head of a capable and painstaking official and robbed the state of Pennsylvania of a patriotic and useful citizen.

It Is always a misfortune when such a man dies, for while his influence survives long after his body has vanished, his immediate counsel in new emergencies is not obtainable. -Mr. Cassatt received an adequate university education and this was supplemented by sufficient technical training. Then, in order that he might obtain a practical acquaintance with the business of ing, he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company as a rodman, receiving successive promo state of additional legislation as of all the local industries started out a disposition to enforce the laws al cinating his patient. Of course a doctor who had never done any vaccinating, and who was thoroughly ignorant of the process, might be excused tor wishing his expert professional brother in Halifax about the time he was ready to begin, but he wouldn't briskly enough with their full com guilt and said he expected to make a haul of Christmas presents.

ready on the books. plement of men, an Incident that has not always followed a convivial holi day. The criminal always counts upon Joseph D. Sankey, of Mahoning township, Lawrence county, has been taken to the Warren insane asylum. the inefficiency or the leniency of A happy relief for worried, tidy the representatives of the law.

It his mind having become seriously af housekeepers is proposed by State would pay to disappoint him. While Senator Forakcr was engaged in the gentle pastime of throwing rocks at the president in the senate this afternoon because of the Brownsville affair, Assistant Secre fected by the use of a hair preparation w-hich contained sugar of lead. mind it after a day or two of actual worn. I suppose the successive postponements of this case are simply indicative of tne intention of the school board to surrender. The board of health has the law on its side and its power can only be successfully assailed in the legislature." Representative Connell.

of Philadel phia, who has prepared a bill for in Mrs. Russell Sage Makes Statement. New York. December 28. Mrs.

Russell Sage, widow of the financier, today gave out a statement in which she declared that it is not her intention to distribute immediately the money left to her by her husband, and much lesa does she intend to distribute it every, where and to evervbodv. She declar Stephen Krulla, a miner of Free- land. Luzerne county, while testing It is not a waste of time to read a moderate quantity of pure romance at proper intervals, but those who are troduction into the state legislature proposing that after July 1, 1907, the tary Latta. from the white house, came in with a batch of nominations. "Mr.

President," he said, after Sen person responsible for the emission able to read nothing but fiction need a revolver with which he said he intended to shoot a paramour of his wife, acidentally discharged the weapon. The bullet entered his thigh from any chimney or smokestack in any city in the commonwealth of to reform their ways at ouce. and It was thought amputation dense black or dense gray smoke shall pay a fine of not less than $10 would be necessary. Among the other "improvements' which seem to have located in Wil ator Foraker had been flagged, "a message frr the president of the United States." "What about?" whispered Senator Spooner to iL-ena)or Frye. "Discharging from the answered the Maine senator.

nor more than Private houses The shortest will ever placed on are expected from the provisions of liamsburg during recent years may be the act, and in starting a new fire "It affords me much pleasure to testify to the benefits confered by the street and avenue signs which have been erected at the proper corners in your city," exclaimed the Visiting Friend, after he had made several excursions successfully that he would have found fxtremely difficult before the finger-boards were erected. "I have no trouble now in finding my way about the city, and It never makes much difference how far I get ed, that she has at her own doors in New York City plenty of cases of need which have a nearer claim on her than the people of other cities whose needs, she believes, can and should be met by the philanthropic people of those cities. The earliest date at which her husband's estate can be closed up, she says, is one year from his death, and, therefore, present application to her is premature. mentioned the incendiary. That is a record in the register's office in Lehigh county -was that of Mrs.

Lcnn-ara Green, probated on Thursday. It black smoke is permissible for eight minutes of time. character, for which a self-respectiu town has little use. was dated March 22. 1 904, and read tions as the years passed until he became one of the leading officers of the corporation.

Then he dropped out of active w-ork, not ireturning until he was chosen president in succession to the late Frank Thomson. During the presidency of Mr. Cassatt the Pennsylvania Railroad company, jn common with the other trunk lines of the country, was called upon to face and solve problems of the most perplexing nature. The business of the country grew by leaps and bounds and the volume of transportation increased correspondingly. It is enough to say that 'Mr.

Cassatt's early training, his constantly enlarg The Miners' Journal, whose obitu as follows: "Everything I shall have left after my death i -ant my daughter, Laura R. Peters have." The more the people have to do with ary was printed by several esteemed contemporaries early in the week the actual selection of their public servants the better; nut how many of away if I keep In touch with my in Conrad Funkhauset. of New Cas seems to be a rather lively corpse as it is still taking notice to matters "I love to have my shoes shined," said an absent minded young business woman to her office confidant, so I patronize, a downtown shoes biacking parlor 'for ladies and There's a poolroom on one side of the place and a barber shop on the other. Usually most of the patrons are men. but I want my shoes shined and don't let a little thing like that keep me away.

Yesterday, while thinking structions I can always get back to the starting point. It took the city a tle, had been engaged to be married on Christmas day and all arrangements had boon made for the event and things. For Instance it is not the best citizens of Altoona are both ering themselves about the compost tion of the next councils? long time, though, to got to the point favrphu. new llr, ki, I n.ai VI uuiug una Ull Ul ustriui dUU iu- 3 when he wad stricken with tvphoid county whereof Hazleton is to be fever about a week before. He died the county seat, remarking: "We forming work.

1 recall how the newspapers agitated and how the people atwrdoy Men and women who have the to write and who know a good on Wednesday and was burled yesterday, arrayed in his intended wedding suit. ing experience and his native ability question whether the movement at Hazleton to create a new county, is prompted by motives to better' the political or economic or even the financial condition of the inhabitants story or two are treating their neigh enabled him to devise wisely for the grumbled and how nothing seemed to have any effect. Then you all woke up one morning, as it were, to find the finger-boards in place, and thenceforward It was plain sailing for your out- A crying infant probably saved the management of his company and to intently about my Christmas shopping. I went in to get my shoes iol-ished, and was Just going to climb Into a chair when I came to my senses and found I was in the barber shop! The men looked amazed, and I dashed out without explanation; I suppose I'll land In the ioo room family of Ira W. Barnes, cashier or the Union National bank, of Maha- maintain its already splendid reputa bors unfairly so long as they keei their knowledge to themselves, instead of sending it the paper for pub lie information.

Strive and hold cheap the strain. Brow ning. KREAKFAST. Marmalade. Pcf Kidney on Toast.

Rice Muffins. Coffee. -a- I II 17 tion. of-town friends when they came here and undertook to move off Eleventh noy city, from death by asphyxiation During the preliminary controver on Thursday morning. The child's cries awoke i.Mrjs.

Barnes, when she avenue. sy over the rate bill which came into next time." Philadelphia Record. found the house filled with gas and The fact of the matter is there has existence by. act of the last congress, Mr. Cassatt as summoned to Wash been a very rapid advance in the ma DINNER.

Splnarh Soup. Fried Chicken. Mashed Potatoes. Eggplant, Grf-en Pepper Salad. Kasv Ice Cream.

one child was unconscious and another nearly so. The gas had escaped from a leak in the main. within the confines of the district to be affected. We have a suspicion that those back of it are influenced by an opinion that they will benefit their own personal interests. Others should not be led into the movement." Commenting on reforms in out-state legislature the Chester Times says: "Hon.

Thomas V. Cooper, representative from this county, puts the case very sufficiently when he says that he does not believe in single floor leadership in anv legis ington on several occasions to con suit with President Roosevelt, con terial prosperity of this city duriug the last few years. The town was a mere village fifty years ago. Its Already the eyes of many of the lawmakers are turned in the direction of the state capitol. The people are looking forward to a business session of about one hundred days duration and for the accomplishment of legislation In the Interests of the whole commonwealth.

Miss Miriam Avery, of Philadel ceinmg me vest metnod 01 framing phia, and Miss Helen Schlenker, of Hazleton. have been awarded gold the proposed law. He cordially ap growth has been so extremely rapid as to severely tax the resources of the people. The city government was or Pt'PPFR. Fish Curry with Rice.

Lettuce. Toast. Sliced Peaches. Cocoa. proved of the main Idea of the pres medals by the board of trustees of the Moravian seminary for 'oung ganized less than thirty-nine years ago.

At that time the only building ladies, at Bethlehem, for their thoughtfulncss and bravery in sound- KASV TCP! A ident, as elucidated in of his messages, and expressed the highest gratification at the probability that within a short time this important In the city that was at all creditable ng an alarm without creating a When Charles P. Norcross, now a Washington correspondent, was a reporter on the New York Tribune, he was sent one Saturday night to interview Father Dueey, a iv.iesl famous in New York for his wit and his good deeds. Father Ducey was in Ihe confessional, Norcross said he would wait, but was told that nobody was in the church, and that he could go in and see Father Duccy and come out before anybody wcit in, without any doubt. He found the reverend father waiting and began a timorous conversation with hiiii, being somewhat awed by his unaccustomed surroundings: "Good evening, father." "Good evening, my "Father, I am a reporter from the New York Tribune." "Very well; I absolve von from panic among the one hundred girl The statement that Governor Pen-nypacker is going to give a sort of farewell banquet to the newspaper correspondents at Harrisburg is pretty good evidence that he lik-cs the was the Logan house. The boardwalk was the almost universal, sidewalk covering.

The streets were unpaved. During the spring and autumn, and tudents in a recent fire in the matter would be regulated by law school. Ice cream can he easily and cheaply made as follows: Into two cupfuls of sugar put a cooking spoon full of flour, heaped as full as It will hold; stir this into a pint of boiling milk in a douhle, holler; cook twenty mln- uts, stirring constantly, and set aside to cool. This foundation may be made the day before. When need- ed add one quart of cream, a table- spoonful of vanilla and freeze.

lative body, that every man is a floor leader who has a measure to present and has the brains to present it. Jn this attitude, which should be maintained, we will hark back to the first principles of the Republican party the suijremacy of brains over partisan control of measures. Nearly all the ills to which the party has been subjected in recent years and ana supervised by the government. He did not feel aggrieved, as some other railroad officials did, over what correspondents, even if he is not par AT HOME AND ABROAD. at all other times of the year when much rain prevailed it was difficult to ticularly impressed with the value of It is renorted from Terre Haute the newspapers.

that William Stinson, vice nresi- they regarded as an insidious and demagogical attempt to curtail the just powers of the railroads; on the contrary, he believed the president's ent of the Indiana Mine Workers, The weather is a theme which get along on account of the drcaJful mud. Our progress in the interim has been almost rapid enough to make one's head swim. The rapidity of our growth has involved haste and a certain crudity that has done the city harm and not good. We have had such unexpected enlargements of has disappeared and that be weighs upon the minds of most per motives were patriotic and pure, and for which it has had to starfd at the polls have been dueto the insistence that one was picked by the so-called leaders should dominate the action of the majority." sons at the present time, yet it should not be considered or discussed if any AENU he thought good would result. President Cassatt had the confl Mijs Elizabeth Magie, the Chicago girl who stirred the country by offer 1 more seasonable or cheerful topic can SUNDAY be dug up.

For one thing, we cannot dence of the country to an extraordi the population to provide for that it is no wonder our public servants have blundered occasionally. Under the circumstances we have done extraor ing to sell herself to the highest bid- J. der, was discussing with a reporter Iv the condition of girl in bi' I In any way change it and the more we permit its variations to prey on cities. i 1 dinarily well. our minds the worse it will be.

'it is a deplorable condition," she i said, "and how to belter it i3 Cooks cannot always however good. Crabbe. RREAKFAPT. Malaga Orapes. Cereal and Cream, Chicken Hash.

Rolls. Coffee. As the day approaches for the or Nearly everybody one meets now is suffering from a heavy cold if not ganization of the legislature of 19P8 longing to the union went with him. New York's new secretary of state, John Whalen, has announced his appointments, all of them but two being taken from the ranks of organized labor. The Modern Language Association of America, which is now In session at New Havep.

is billed to inquire to-day whether it was an apple which Eve ate in the Garden of Eden or whether it was a species of wild grape or some other fruit. The government -at Washington continues to exercise considerable vigijance in connection with alleged violations of law by railroads and other corporations and several new suits have been begun or are about to be -instituted. Announcement has been made at the war department that General J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff and from la grippe. The widespread reign the indications all point to the elec of influenza is chargeable by the co.i i I i nary degree.

The purity of his purpose and the uprightness of his character commended him to the admiration of many who knew of his administration but were not honored with his personal acquaintance. He was highly esteemed by his subordinates on the great Pennsylvania system, from those next to him in authority down to the humblest workman who was In any way brought into contact with him. He did a great work faithfully and well and his memory will be blessed. tion of Frank McClain, of Lancaster, servatives to the rapid alterations of Some of the state papers are chuckling over an Incident which is said to have occurred not long ago at Sunbury. An attorney was invited to address the ministers at their weekly meeting.

He accepted the Invitation and proceeded to tell them that "they ought to leave the higher criticism, art, politics and outside subjects generally alone; that men who work all week and go to church on Sundays generally want to hear the holy word. They are anxious to hear. lt and when they do not they go away disappointed." It was his opinion that sermons should be carefully studied out and then delivered extempore and not from the written problem. An unanswerable problem, A problem that takes one aback." She smiled. I "It reminds me," she said of a 1 -j-thing that happened on a railroad." "A young man, on a certain exeur-jX sion train, noticed a poor woman who'- stood up and searched her pockets wildly.

i I high and low temperature which have been a marked feature of the winter to the speakership. Mr. Walton made a model speaker. It will take a first DINNER. Oysters.

Trniato Jjisvi. Riast Fig. Appl" Sauce. Cauliflower au Gratin. Turnips.

Rron ned Potatoei. Minc Pie. Coffee. rate man to measure up to the stand thus far. Our scientific brethren tell us that It Is due to the presence ard established by him.

Mr. McClain 1' J- a veteran in the service, has a obbed, nan? wu uclii fine voice, is proficient in parliament he inquired. "'Oh, she answered 'but it's ary knowledge and will make a very I just as bad; I've lost my ticket and I TM. .1 capable, speaker. S1.PPEQ, Welsh Saratoga Potatoes.

Apple and Cress Salad. Velvet Cream. Cakes. Chocolate. I've -got no money.

The railroad will manuscript. It is said that few of the preachers agreed with the speak arrest me or fraud now In command of the army of Cuban pacification, will become' a major general January 2. filling the va MADAM RUMOR SAYS. er, a statement we can readily be said the young man, i've got no money, either: but here, take neve. THE STATE POLICE.

Xotwitstanding the fact that the democratic state platform contained a vicious attack upon the state police force and an urgent demand for the repeal of the act creating it, but little was said in defense of that particu cancy made by the retirement of Ma That the habit of talking in' One's my ticket and I'll give the brakeman of a certain mischievous microbe. Perhaps; but there is reason to believe that the microbe is specially malevolent when weather conditions are soft, murky and damp at a season of year when the earth in this latitude should be bound In the chains of Jack Frost. The Saunterer knows a doctor of divinity who turns up his royal American nose at the whole bacilli, microbe, germ theory. He declares It is the heighth of absurdity; he takes no stock in is whatever. He is an expert physician of souls and has acquired much fame during the half century or more he has been engaged in the business of helping men to help themselves.

But there is some reason to suspect that his knowledge sleep is an exceedingly dangerous one. The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin has this to say upon some proposed legislation which is advocated by the Society to Protect Children from Cruelty: "Much Interest has been aroused by the announcement That nobody seems to be taking any. interest whatever in municipal politics. i of Representative WIckersham, of Dauphin county, that' he would intro That the last Sunday in the old year should not be permitted to pass uniianroved. Dec.

29 In Rlstery. Andrew Johnson, seventeenth prei-. 'ident, born in Knlelali; died 1875. IS74 Joachim Baldvlnero Espartero, Spanish statesman, died: horn about Esfartero was the son of a mechanic. He enllst-d in the army while a mere, youth and won hiph rank In the South American war.

He defeated the Carl-Ists and became rejent of Spain during the minority of Isabella. The revolution headed by Knrvaefc sent Es-panero Into exile and finally caused the overthrow of Isablla. Subsequently Espartcro returned to Spain and served the country with honor. lEDS-Mnjor Serpo Pinto, noted Portufwesa African explorer, died at Lisbon; born 1S45. 1905 C.

T. Yerkes. promoter, died In New York city. duce a bill in the legislature to prohibit children under the factory law-age from attending theatrical" performances unaccompanied by adults. It -is the talk among lawyers that a "When the brakeman came through, the young man, to confuse him, Kept moving about the car.

Finally, though, he wa3 cornered. said the brakeman. "'You've got my said the young man. haven't got said the Drake-man. 'Yes, you see about this; I'll call the "When the conductor came he saij to the young man with a scowl: "'Where's your 'He's got my was the reply.

'See if he hasn't got a ticket with a small piece off the 'Why, yes, you have. Jim. There it is." said the conductor, jor General Jesse Lee. The Ixindon Standard is authority for the statement that Sir Henry Mortimer the retiring British ambassador at Washington, is to be offered a peerage in token of King Edward's appreciation of the excellent work in improving Anglo-American relations. At a meeting of the populist leaders of Kansas, held at Toneka on Thursday, the recommendation of Chairman Hanna that the party disband and affiliate, with the republicans was rejected.

Hanna said iRoosevelt. was a good enough populist for him, but the others thought best to maintain the party organization. The last vestige of opposition to the election of Simon Guggenheim to succeed T. M. Patterson as Unit of the scientific world is not quite as modern as it ought to be.

At any rate, that is' what the modern physi-l That the rigid enforcement of the lar plank as the campaign progressed and only a few of the more vicious of the opposition newspapers approved it. The result of the election was scarcely needed to show that opposition to the newly created force of preservers of the peace is not popular with the majority of the people. Some amendments the act may need; if so they can be prepared and added at the coming session of the legislature. 'But the constables have already demonstrated the wisdom of 'the act which created them and have saved the state the expenditure of thousand5; of dollars. The new force mandates of law would reduce the criminal population.

cian would say, and he would be able Mr. Wickersham's bill will have to to point to results as evidence of the truth of hi3 faith in microbes. THE SAUNTERER. That legislatures to come might well take warning toy the example of legislatures past Making Many Improvements. George Taylor, the well known to be very carefully drawn or there will be no prospects of its passage.

It is said that unless the bill is framed with discretion it might exclude children from attending charades, church and school entertainments, and everything of that sort, and that nobody would vote for a bill that could be so interpreted." bacconist, wil shortly have the finest pool and billiard parlor and That every sane man' Is responsible for his personal conduct; he is master of his own fate. Dec. 30 In fii'story. clear store in Central Pennsylvania. It will be one of which the city can 'And here's the said the ed States senator from Colonado, disappeared on Thursday night when be proud and will be modeled after young man.

hee it it doesn fit. That the people continue to have confidence in the fairness and the public spirit of the generous Congressman R. W. Bonynge left 0 Titus, Roman emperor, born; died L04 Queen Isabella of Spain, patron of Coiufn-bus, d'ed; born 1T1 his own ideas and plans. The entire "It fitted, and the conductor and has simply stood for the enforcement of law.

It has been a terror to evil doers in some instances, but has harmed no law-abiding citizen'. Its members have been resolute and for Washington after announcing hi3 equipment regarding furniture will be brakeman went off arguing and witnarawai rrom tne race. i new and up-to-date and It is already A dispatch from London declares 1787 Otto von Kotzebue. frnl-rer of the rea-t of arriving. There will be seven pool "'I thought that was a problem they wouldn't said the young man." Russian America, born and one billiard table from the factory of the Brunswick, Balke Callan- That there may be more despicable individuals than the sneak thief, tfut they must be far and few between.

iii Kevel, Russia; died there 15'G. Laics (Louis) Kes de rcompany, the finest and most substantia! this company turn out and in addition there will be numerous euth, Hungarian patriot gjr EamueK Can Draw $300 in Advance. Harrisburg. December 28. Attorney General Carson ha3 given State Treasurer Berry an opinion in which he says that he think; the other features to make the place In viting and attractive.

Thework of That the' escape of the children of Altoona from fatal coasting accidents has been more by good luck than anything else. Although there was no judicial ruling in Armstrong county requiring the hotel bars to be closed on Christmas the Kittanning Dally News of Wednesday says that "Landlord Steddeford. of the Alexander hotel surprised the natives yesterday by closing his bar room. A holiday is considered one of the best davs for business by hotels in general and this departure Is not likely to become a fad among hotel men who are not In business for their health. When asked as to his reason for shutting up on a day hen hotel men are supposed to be the busiest Mr.

Steddeford replied that he had always observed Christmas 'by closing his hotel bar and that he could see no reason for changing his plan in Kittanning." The action of this hotel man received much favorable comment. installing the new equipment will treasurer can advance "a reasonable! begin next Wednesday. courageous but conservative and prudent in their conduct. During the idle period in the anthracite region and while a strike was pending among the bituminous miners of a section to the west of us, the state police were specially They were attacked on two or three occasions by bands of disorderly persons, but so effective were they that they earned the good wilf and the affection of the people among whom they were located and whose persons and property they protected. It has been clearly shown that, those who are most bitter against the state offl-i upon the authority of the Catholic Weekly that the suggestion has been made and Is favored in very high quarters that John Redmond, leader of the Irish party in the house of commons, succeed as chief secretary for Ireland James Bryce, who has just been appointed ambassador- to the United States.

A story comes from New York to the effect that the Wadsworths, father and son. of New York, are out with the president, for which 'reason the re-election of the younger man to the speakership of the popular branch of the New York legislature is in doubt. But if he made -a good officer why should he not be re-elected? That so long as the courts are open and their processes unobstructed no person is justified in usurping the" functions of law. end exile, visited ash- naker. on Invitation of congress.

He died at Turin, wher nft had rassed many, years In ercile, In born 1779. lS81-The banks In New Toik, Philadelphia and Boston suspended specie pa-ments; laws were passed in the various states to protect the, banks from penalties; specie payment was resumed early in 1S79. 1Z Elr Samuel TVhite Eaker. the noted African explorer, died at Newton-Ab- bot. born Irooucis thater burned in Chi- casto; 6S3 lives list.

sum to each member of the legislature requesting an advance of pay after the members have been sworn in and take their seats. Mr. Carson sugfi'rts that hereafier the treasurer si -1 notify the members that advance J1I not be continued to be made, bn that, services when rendered will be paid for according to duration. Strike Will be Settled. Houston.

Texas, December 28. Commissioner of Labor Neill is authority for the statement that the strike of the flremeq on the Southern Pacific railroad will probably be settled some time to-night. There will not be arbitration, but a coming together of the parties. That some fellows, like the Italian gentleman the other day, murder their wies at one fell stroke; others take years to th Joh,.