ALTOONA Rl WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1914. PAGE EIGHT. The Difficult Mile Established 1873. 1 1 Topics of the Day Opinions Pro and Con have experts in fuel cost who could quently do; but the Tribune speaks its mind in the first five columns of this page. Prinflng some things with which we are well-pleased, -and others with which we have no sympathy, we do er would it be to bring back the days of security and faith.
But the cheer that really helps is not mere thought lessness end carelessness the mirttt of children, the frivolity of the fooliba and light-minded. We must face Vie facts of trouble and And our faith and cheer beyond. We must adopt that splerdid and triumphant word of tha Christian Scriptures, as the test of our rejoicing confidence. "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed: we are perplexed, but, not in 'despair; persecuted, but noc forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." Men of that deep experience are not to be driven back from the attainment of the high places by the most difliciilt mile that life may offer. They are rot forsaken.
They have a victorious ip and in its cheer they have formed the habit ot victcry over dovbt and fear. not always feel called upon to express an opinion concerning communica tions; let everybody be fully persuad- ed in his own mind of the truth or error of what he reads. For instance, a few days ago we printed a very in- teresting poem from the pen of the poet laureate of Blair -county, Mr. E. G.
Christian, in which he declared again and again that the world is getting worse every day. We have no such belief, but it wasn't necessary to discuss the matter. In the same way we do not sympathize with Mr. Flick's attack on the methods or the performance of the Chamber of Com- is illustrated by editorial commerce. But we were not moved to (nient in the London Times on the sign-reply to his diatribe, nor are we now.
of these conventions by ihis coun-Anybody who is interested is at and Great Britain, France and erty to smash his arguments; we are jiSpain. The news that the negotia-thinking about quite other matters at ttions were completed would have been the moment. miost welcome at any time, the English Peace Treaties Russia is the twen- bty-seventh nation to sign with the United States a treaty promising that lall disputes between the parties to 'the settlement of which arbitration conventions do not apply, and that cannot be settled by methods of 'diplomacy, shall be referred for in vestigation to a permanent international commission. A full year is al- Vlowed for the inquiry and the filing of a report, and the nations agree not Wo declare war or to begin hostilities within this time. Germany and Aus tria are the only great powers that haVe not entered into these, agree ments with the United States.
Tae difference between the English and 'German view concerning treaty obli- ipapor said, and it was doubly welcome mt a moment when Great Britain had been forced into a great war. The Times believes the treaties will be ikept. Unnecessary Noise on Railroads Railroading is necessarily far from a noiseless operation, but every one who attempts to rest or sleep near a railroad track will agree that there is much unnecessary noise in train manipulation. It has been supposed that this view was confined to the out ride public, but now comes forward a railroad official. J.
vica president of the Lehigh Valley rail- jiroad, who says that while a certain jiamount of noise is necessary in railroading, there is more noise than there need be or ought to be. As long as unnecessary noise was regarded as i'simply a nuisance, the duty of no one in particular to suppress, there was not much cause for hopefulness in the situation. But Mr. Middleton says iithat vrmecessary noise Is a loss of efficiency and an expense which it will worth while for the railroads to give serious attention to. After recounting the necessary occasions for the blowing of locomotive whistles and admitting the proneness of engineers to whistle without cause, he says: "Whistling is expensive.
Every itime the whistle blows it means the loss of just that much steam. We Lawmakers? The Tribune prints a great many things in which it has no confidence. of the war stories that appear in the news columns from day to day are so manifestly contradictory as to excite the indignation of the reader. We receive the dispatches every night from the centres of the contending powers and print them because nothing better is possible. The censor is supreme and by the time he finishes with the reports little of real satisfaction is left.
We have a department entitled "The Free Parliament" Its very title suggests its nature and purpose. It is a forum where any writer may exhibit his opinions on topics of current interest, so long as he confines himself to refined language and an orderly presentation of his views. Any body may have his views printed in that department, but it does not follow that the Tribune endorses them. How could it when all sorts of ideas are presented and upheld? We do not always consider it necessary to disclaim responsibility for the language or the convictions of our correspondents. We suppose all intelligent reader will understand that the views of the paper upon the questions of the day are found on this page and in this department.
Correspondents may say some things with which we cordially agree; indeed they fre- Instead of devoting their energies to boosting the hopeless fortunes of Vance McCormick, the managers of the Anti-Saloon League in Pennsylvania will do well to organize in the several legislative districts of the state, to the end that the candidates for state senator and representative in the general assembly on the various tickets may be induced to define their attitude toward local option. We do not know how it is in other counties of the state, but in Blair county the only candidates who have pledged themselves to support local option are Republicans and Progressives. We venture the prediction that the Democratic nominees for legislative honors in most instances are allied to the liquor interests, in spite of the local option utterances of Mr. McCormick. They certainly are in Blair county.
We believe Mr. McCormick is perfectly sincere in the expression of his temperance convictions. He has shown by both private and public performance that he is no friend to the liquor traffic. If elected governor he would certainly favor local option. But Dr.
Brumbaugh has an even longer and more consistent record as the steadfast friend of temperance legislation and it is perfectly apparent that if a local option law is enacted by the next legislature it will have to be done by Republican votes. There never was a more colossal blunder, never a more IP In Other II Governor or There are no maps of the road lor life's v.ayfi.rers and the mountain trail leads on nil on to unexpected changes. We may climb earth's mountains figain and again until we know every turn of tbe trail, but the Jutli of life's experience is for but a single journey. We have not come this way before: we shall not pass this way-agaiu. The difficult mile often conies suddenly; as suddenly as the outbreak of the war that still ruins and destroys across the sea.
The trail dips downward. It seems an easy way. suddenly, we are driven to climb, perhaps on hands and knees, clinging tJ projections of the rocks while the stormy wind threatens to break ouv hold and lling us back. Such experience? aa those of last August warn us of our need to be prepared for the swift coming of distress. The difficult mile is seldom at the beginning of the trail.
I have seen untested climbers gc in gay spirits along an easy opening path; only to be turned back: wearied ind discouraged when the real difficulties of the trail bean. We must be prepared for all adventure bv sober-mindedness and firm decision at the beginning. Firm and persevering purpose wins through the difficult miles that lead to the high places. In a differing figure: "For which of you. desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down End count the cost, whether he hath wherewith to complete it." I wonder how many of th4 freshmen who have entered our colleges this year have desired to buii a tower or climb a mountain and are willing tc pay the When the difficult miles come tco soon, as they did with Dickens childhood experiences related in David Copperfield.
they often warp or stunt the soul. There should ba no stee and breathless places in the experiences of our children, no work iu mines or mills, no cruelty, no hampering of all, play instinct by which they grow. We shall put an end to all that in the world of which wo dream. But the life of men and women, in this stage of their experience, would be impoverished and enfeeblad by the absence of the difficult mile. Thu steel must go to the fire to ba forged into a tool.
The tempered and powerful lives have all been In the furnace, an'l the faith which grows In trouble is the best faith of all It enables mei to do miracles of climbing, to accomplish Impossible tasks. The most difficult mile in the world is that which we are compelled to go. But Cnrist expeicts his followers not only to do that, but to volunteer a second mile. "And whosoever shall impress thee to go one mile, go with him two." It' anyone can do that for Christ's sake, surely he need not fear the most difficult mile the climb of life can ask ot' him. er at the point where the new Notop-olos building la being erected on the Mishler property and It Is not deep enough for proper drainage of the cellar.
It will be built under the usual plan, cost being assessed against the property owners. A petition numerously signed by Ninth ward residents was laid before the council asking that the city engineer and director of streets and public improvements be directed to set a curb and provide a sidewalk along the property of the estate of Michael B. McGrath, on Nineteenth street, between Union and West Chestnut avenues, the walk to have a minlmuyn width of six feet. The petitioners represent that they have been caused inconvenience by the failure of the McGrath estate to lay a sidewalk along Nineteenth street and that pedestrians using that section of the street will be caused great inconvenience In the future If the street Is paved without providing a sidewalk. The petition was received and filed.
Owing to the special meeting held last week for passing the motorization ordinance, there was little business left for the regular meeting and the council adjourned to meet on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Song and Story Published Daily Except Sunday by THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE CO. 1110 Twelfth Street. Henry W. Shoemaker President K.
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OCTOBER 7, 1911. GOOD MORNING! Of course you know that anybody can knock about the things that are and against the men who try to get the community out of the rut. When they criticize or complain ask what they have really done for the common good. In the matter of a water supply Al-toona is far more fortunate than some of the neighboring towns. Age is never respected unless it be respectful of itself.
The old person is not venerable simply by reason of the weight of years. The struggle in France continues I to make sore the hearts of some who are many hundred miles from the scene of action, it is an unprecedented butchery. Americans may well be glad that Theodore Roosevelt was not elected president in 1912. 'For if he had been the country would surely have a war on its hands at the present moment. The world is not a very pleasant or a very joyous sphere just now, although Americans have every reason to be thankful that their particular section is still free from the awful scourge of war.
Republican candidates who hava been endorsed by the Personal Liberty League and who do not desire to be identified with the peculiar tenets of that organization should withdraw from that ticket at once. The great war does not seem to have exerted a sinister influence upon American publishers. The papers are already full of announcements of forthcoming publications, some of them promising to possess special interest. -Mary Johnson, whose latest venture in the story telling realm dealt with the eternal woman question, has pleased many of her constant readers by going back into the realm of romance. Her forthcoming story is named "The Witch" and deals with the times of Queen Elizabeth.
We observe that the Johnstown Democrat, whose editor is Warren AV'orth Bailey, congressman from this district, is playing up Mr. Braa's congressional campaign at a great rate. 'Mr. Bailey knows that every vote given Mr. Brua counts one for him for re-election, but this is not his winning year.
A goodly number of Republicans who imagined that Representative D. Lloyd Claycomb had dropped some of his Democratic associations and assumed an independent role were undeceived on Monday night. His association with McCormick, the Democratic candidate for governor has lost him several hundred Republican votes. The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin is a bit worried over the decline from year to year in the number of registered voters in its city. It suggests that many voters may dislike the system of frequent registration.
Perhaps; but it is doubtful if any system can be devised that will arouse the interest of a certain sort of citizen. It has been the fortune of some of the best citizens of this commonwealth to become the victims of the foulest abuse from Democrats and assistant Democrats in years past. What happened to Governor Stuart during his campaign is now happening to Dr. Brumbaugh. What a pity it is the Democrats and the Progressives who are now their partners lot all Progressives went with Flinn nto the McCormick camp are in possession of no more effective weapon than mud.
Every mountain climber knows that there must be some tteep and wearying stages in his progress from the valley to the motntaiu top. Somewhere on every mountain trail there is a toilsome stage in which the strength is taxed and unusual difficulties must be overcome. That troublesome nile tests the legs and lungs of the climber, but it rewards him with a wonderful sense of victorious rest when the summit is underfoot. In Bupyan's allegory the Hill Difficulty comes before the house of rest and vision and Beulah Land is only for the travellers who have endured the perils and temptations of the way. In tbe sense, then, the difficult mile may be said to be a pledge and prophecy of the final attainment.
The view would not be so wide, or the joy tc deep, if the summit could be reached at any lesser expenditure of energy. It is the hillock that presents no task of strain and weariness. Aui yet how seldom we make this truth real to our own imaginations as we struggle in the hard places, refusing to admit that the difficult mile has any special met rung or promise of hi'ii experiences to come. The troubles are real enough. We have to win our way with veary muscles and laboring breath.
But in the intermissions of our effort is there any comfort of expectation? This is a crucial question not merely for our comfort, but also for otir joy and our continuing. For hope is the mother of zest; and without zest the difficult mile is a nitre Lvrden-bringer and destroyer. Alas for the wayfarer on the mountain side who journt-ys without zest of heper Meaningless effort and useless toll turn cheerful and persevering pilgrims into sullen beggars or rebels against God. Many of us are just now in the midstof one of those difficult miles that come to every individual and every generation in life's history. We are remote from the sound of war, but the wind it (wakes threatens to blow down many of our hopes.
For the nation, and for most of its citizens, the contest has; brought a large addition to the perplexities of decision nnd to the friction' of work. Wo are in a steep place of the path. Our fcrwaid motion is slowed down. Perhaps we seem not to move forward or even feel ourselves slipping back, as the loot of the mountain climber slips in the wet places of the trail where it becomes a channel lor the water. Are we sitting down discouraged by 'he wayside? Are we creeping forward in discouragement of soul from our mere habit of going on? Have we rot a right to ask more than this from life, to ask something of hope and zest in even the steepest places in our upward path? There are some who know that the way is difficult who have not yet made clear to their own souls that it lends any whither.
So far as they are concerned, it might be just some extra friction in the gearing of the treadmill where they labor, but do not get on. They have the difficulties but, poor plodders, they have missed the vision and the hope. It is well for us if in the difficult mile of life's experience we cat) have or r.fTer cheerful companionship. If God has given us the sustaining vision and the vnconquerable hope, why should we regard them as individual possessions? It is true that lisrht. mill.
ates unconsciously from the cheerful soul, it Is also true that it is something to be shared. If you have force or faith to go singing up the steeps, why should you be so selfish as to wish t(. climb alone? If thj world in its moments of despair were deprived of its buoyant spirits, how much hard ringing in my head. The young men from the r.incrs, they I'm thinking of their mothers, how glad they to be, Who never wild "Good-by" to them and let them oft to sea. As strong as any man he was, and bold to do and dare.
And why should 1 be hearing, then, all iiigiu ariove tne prayer, A little lad that's calling me and want ing me somewhere? He said what he thought was right: "Let you be proud," he said, "That you gave a son to the fight; 'Tis a glory over your head!" 'Tis never a good man's words I'd scorn, And he said what he thought was best; But I knew my pride when the lad was born his head was warm on my breast. "Tet you be proud," he said, 'Twas the word that stabbed me through: Proud and my one son dead In a land I never knew! 'Tis the women know when glory's worn (Tho he meant the word for the best): I knew my pride when the lad was born And his head was warm on my breast. Only a woman's voice patient and un- protesting, But I hear it above the sound of guns And the turmo 1 of mn embarking Theodosia Garrison, in the Delineator. Substitute Ordinance Introduced Describes Course ir Greater Detail Little business was transacted at the regular meeting of the city council held yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Rooney introduced an ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad company on behalf of the city for the construction of the new outfall sewer, it being a substitute for one previously passed. The new ordinance is the same as the other except that it described in greater detail the land taken for the sewer right of way, while it also contains a new clause disclaiming any interference with the rules of the state public utilities commission and agreeing to obey their instructions in taking the land and laying the sewer, a technical omission in the original ordinance. Mr. Rooney also introduced an ordinance for a sewer on Eleventh avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. There Is only a private sew reduce to a matter of cents the coat ml each whistle blast.
Another source of noise Is the blowing off of safety ivalves, allow ig steam to escape the raoisy way it does. Here, too. we can see the actual waste of money." Wet- ter cays may be in sight for those compelled to live much of their lives within audible distance of railroad tracks and switching yards. The Cost of Living The Democratic iNational Campaign committee has is- isued a pamphlet to prove how splendidly the party has kept its promise 'to lift the tariff burden from the backs of the patient poor. It is true that (the cost of the commonplace commodities of life beef and butter and bread and such trifles is as high or higher than ever; but what does a petty saving of a penny or two on an egg or on.
a lemon amount to what if they do cost three cetit* or more apiece when the humblest family can save as much as a dollar on certain single articlos on which the tariff has bean reduced? This saving may be effected on "Flour-'ingy opera glasses, Moquette couch covers, velour portieres, French brocaded velvets, men's silk bathrobes, mrt metal decorative pieces and vari-tous other articles cf the same quul-liiy. In view of this wWt does a quarter additional on roast of beet amount to? Getting the Trade of South America Several gentlemen who knew sorue-ithing about conditions in South Aiuer- ilea have recently directed a few warn ing notes to American business men and manufacturers who are naturally anxious to get a share of the increas ingly valuable trade of that section of the continent. They declare that in the beginning we must help the South Americans if we would make them our friends and patrons. At the present moment, it is intimated, they are in an unusually tad way financially and nobody need expect a golden shower from any South American state immediately. The business people of those states have been in the habit of se curing long, credits from their European creditors and Americans must 'be willing to offer them the same terms.
In other words, one of the essential conditions of successful trade-with South America is knowledge of the needs, habits and customs of the people. of French coquetry and eccentricity. lit- inspiration that is usually born Pari at this it says 'is stayed. This autumn no French models cress the Vosges, end our textile it says, 'must bestir itself, no longer to follow outrageously immoral French fashions, but to create wtse and godly German cnes, which the French must follow. Yes, Berlin must lor the it winds up, 'Berlin must for the fbture, take the place of Paris in the world of Dr.
Ruprecht laughed and shook Mi head. "The Germans," he said, "seem to imagine that the bayonet can do everything even make women wear German clothei!" Hammering Blackstone. Congresman Robert K. Gittins, of New York, told this one at a recent dinner in throwing the harpoon into a lawyer friend who was a fellow-guest. Some time ago, so ran the story, an elderly women, who was taken quite ill, sent for the family lawyer.
"I am afraid that I am very sick," said the patient when the legal light arrived, "and I want to explain to you ubout the disposal of my property." "That's all right, my dear madame," was the soothing response of the sympathetic lawyer. "Don't worry any more about it. Just leave it to me." "Oh, veil," returned the sick woman ith an air of resignation, "I suppose I ight as well. You will get it anyway." Bismarck on England. "The Germans may or may not hava routed the English at St.
Quentin. At any rate, they said they did, and they recalled with chuckles a saying of Bismarck's." The speaker was Senator Catrou. Ho continued: "Bismarck, you know, was ence asked what Germany vould do if an English army invaded her. 'What would you do, said a military attache, 'if you awoke tne morning and found an English', army on your snores: I'd have it arrested," Bis- 5 inarek chuckled." Golden Onnrrtunilv I r-r-' Urcle Ezra "What's young Eph HosHt.s doing with the pink socks and the spats?" Uncle Eben "He's going down to New York. Eph allows as how with hll the European counts and dukes being bottled up now, it's a golden Opportunity for the stylish American youth to cop cC.
an heiress." Puck. A Woman's Voice. heart! what is it you hear above the noise of a nation, Above the sound of clamor, and shouting And men making ready for war? Only a single voice, little more than a broken whisper, Patient and unprotesting only the voice of a woman, Yet I her it above the sound of guns And the turmoil of men embarking. I. There's no use praying any more: 'the prayers are done and said; But daytime going through the house, or nightime in my bed, They trouble me, the old prayers, still The columns of the Tribune are open to any man or woman who has somethiug to say and who will say it briefly, courteously and sincerely.
The "Free Parliament" fs dedicated to the public aervice. If someone says something you do not like, send in a reply; don't wait for somebody else to speak. glaring outrage than the action of the Anti-Saloon League in getting down on the side of McCormick. There was not the slightest occasion for such conduct; indeed it appreciably weakened the local option cause. In the meantime what is being done to secure a legislature favorable to local option? How many of the leading lights of the Anti-Saloon League busied themselves previous to the final registration day in personally visiting city voters who are in sympathy with the local option movement and urging them to register in order that they might be able to render the best possible service to the cause? Are the leaders forgetting the legislative fight in their intense eagerness to defeat Dr.
Brumbaugh, a man whose whole life has been devoted to the defense of righteous principles of government? A governor is powerless without a sympathetic legislature. The governor does not make the laws; it is his province to enforce them. We are apparently having an exhibition of supreme folly by the men who have been trusted by the rank and file whose contributions were made to the Anti-Saloon League upon the distinct understanding that it was to devote its energies to the election of senators and representatives who will vote for a local option law. They may greatly delay the triumph of the cause they profess to love. 1 Counties Saturd afterucon and died a (ew iatol.
Ho Miss Chester countv. dreamed Fride.y nif.ht that the mother had died cnd on nlorni for Cn 8rrivi golrfe twent liteB 6fter the elder death. 10 FLAG RAISING furled on a Philadelphia Street on Thursday Mayor S. H. Walker yesterday received from Dimner Beeber, president of the Brumbaugh Citizens' committee, an invitation to be present at the exercises in connection with the raising of a large Brumbaugh banner across Broad street, in Philadelphia, on Thursday at 12:30 in the afternoon.
It will be located in front of the Lincoln building, the headquarters of the citizens' committee, at Broad street and Souta Penn square. Mayor Walker is one of 100. members of the executive committee of the organization of citizens who are conducting a campaign in the interest of the distinguished Philadelphia man. The other members from Blair county are Dr. A.
L. Garver, of Roaring Spring, and H. K. McCauley and J. Banks Kurtz, of this city, who have also received invitations to attend the banner raising.
Dr. Brumbaugh and other party leaders are expected to be present and make addresses on this occasion. Several of the Blair county members of the executive committee will attend if possible. The citizens' committee, the members of which are men of all parties who favor Dr. Brumbaugh is working in conjunction with the Republican state, committee in the interest of the candidate.
The total registration of Johnstown the giot'bd ty the collapse of the scaf-oters for 191 i is 7,581, as compared folding on which they stood. They with 7,690 in 1912. fell a distance of -twenty-six teet, as The total registratioi. in Williams-j did several hundred weight of tile, port i i as compared with 6,163, Both were badly hurt and Stiver is in 1912 and 5,331 in 1913. ia a serious condition from internal Pimxsutawney teachers will hoid m- les" the first sessions of their institute on uairs- Allce Wherry, aged 60 yeais, Thursday, Fridav and Saturday of this I 0 Cresson last Friday week- jvith her son, Dr.
C. M. Wherry, of tilt Ctc til V.QtHlrnpilim lt-Oo InlrAri ill Mrs. Maraguret Waugaman died I at home in Elairsville last Sunday he: mcri.ing at the advanced age. of 90 l- Aaron Kepp a veteran the Civil war is dead at his home in Johnstown in the year cf his age.
Cancer cai sed his death. ijOiior w. J. suiiiii, vi uie ruuwu-1 has just captured a beautiful cup by reason cf his skillful playing. The search for aged Mrs.
Edward I Caluse, of Clyde, Indiana county, who disappeared from her home some three weeks ago, has been abandoned. "The Twilight of the Kings." Three Kings there be, and one is mad, And one is weaK aim one is old. And all are blind they will not see The Hand that writes a doom foretold; And all are deaf they will not hear The voice that speaks, the Word it brings Voice of the peoplo and of God; "This is the twilight of the From mountain pass, from fertile plain Where harvests wait the reapers' tread, From vineyards on the sunny slopes Where dressers of the vines lie dead. From homes where starving children wait The father's coining and in vain. From pallid cheeks and voiceless lips Of manhood wrecked and manhood slain.
From smold'ring and blackened walls, From idle wheels of labor stilled, From ancient battlefields, and new That reek of blood unjustly spilled. A solemn Voice that cries aloud. Through all the world the portent rings; "The sword shall free us from the sword This is the twilight of the Kings!" Fast falls the night; beyond its gloom There shines the dawn of better things The light of liberty and peace Of justice higher than the Kings. When breaks the dawn, no more one man Shall move a million at his will Like pawns upon a chessboard played. To vaunt his power and his skill; Xo more one man, by "right divine," On age-old wrongs his house shall build, No more the slogan, "Jlight makes righr." Shall serve his selfish greed to gild.
Their glory "fades as fades the day. In fire and blood their sun has set. Though in the swiftly dark'ning skies A smoky crimson lingers yet; For hopeless, when the tide has turned. To fight against the trend of things The thrones are rocking to their fall It is the twilight of the Kings! Annie Johnson Fint- in New York Times. Some Foxiness.
Speaking of foxiness the other evening, Congressman Philip V. Campbell, of Kansas, told of the great head possessed by a party named John Henry. Some time ago John Henry bought a beautiful bouquet for a young woman who had palpitated his heart, and tcting the flowers to the hotel where she was stopping, summoned bellboy to take them to her room. "And still they're comin," smiled the youngster as he took the bouquet. "ou are the fourth feller wot has sent her flowers today." "What's that?" demanded John Henry, with some suddenness.
"Who were the others?" "Didn't give nc rames, sir," answer ed the bellboy. "They all said she would know where they come from i "Goou!" exclaimed the foxy Joan Henry, with a happy smile. "Jutit hand Miss Sweet my card and tell her the flowers came from the one who sent the other three boxee." At the Bayonet's Point. Dr. Adolph C.
Ruprecht, alienist of Pittsburg, said on his recent return from Europe: "Each warring nation thinks to profit by the war. England will take Germany's shipping trade. Germany will take France's fashion trade, and so forth and so on. "The leading German drapery paper I've got it here says that 'the war has ccme in time to rescue the German world from the rerverbities 1 ean S. Abhton, sporting editor of the Johnstown Tribune, has joined the happy company of married men.
HisilD- bride is Miss Roselind Winn, 0r Brumbaugh Banner to Be Un- Seattie, Washington. The wedding took place in Detroit. S. Reitmeyer, of New Columbia, Union county, has a freak of nature at his home in the shape of a duck, alive and healthy, with four fully developed legs. When the feathered oddity walks the extra legs trail along the grovnd.
At the general election next month the voters of Lilly will decide the question of increasing the indebtedness of the borough to the amount of in order to construct a lie school house on the site of the present structure vbich is said to have outlived its usefulness. While picking apples at his farm east of Milton a few mornings ago, Dr. J. M. Reimensnyder, for twenty-seven years pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, of that place, foil a distance of fifteen feet, sustaining a fracture of the left arm between the wrist and the elbow, as well as injury to the joint of the left hip.
Henry Styers, of Lock Haven, was considerably surprised recently to receive a visit from a pheasant. It struck a window of the Styers residence vith such force that the glass was shattered and the bird fell to the floor. It was so fatigued that it made no effort to get away, so it was placed ir. a box and fed. W.
T. Elder and Henry Stiver, residents of Funxsutawney, while engaged ir. building a silo on a I'arra near their heme town, were precipitated to The "highest" man (so German papers say) to enlist in the German army was the mountain guide, Glatz, station, ed at the Zugspitze, In southern Ba 9,725 feet abovo the sea, when the sumn.ons to join his regi-n-ent came to him, telephoned: "Im schon recht, Kimm glel!" (It's all tlEht, I'll be down soon), and in flv-i hiiurs hurried down into the valley from the highest summit in the German, empire. Oct. 7 In American History.
1777-Battle of Stillwater. N. Y. (second affair at Bemis Heights, neac Saratoga). Tbe British, defeated, (ell back to Saratoga.
1871 Beginning ot the $163,000,000 flrq which almost destroyed Chicago. 1894 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes died born 1809. Andrew G. Curtin, "wai? governor" of Pennsylvania, died born 1817.
1895 William Wetmore Story, distin-guisned sculptor aDd poet, died born 1819. 1912 Ex-United States Senator W. A. Peffer. once noted Populist leader, died; born 1831.
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