The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-11-19

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Mrs. A. E. UHL.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP GNsrITUTE.-Insti-
tute met at the Ridge school house, Novem-
Der s, 1884, and was called to order by the
President. The following is the order of
exercises
/. Roll call.
.. Reading of programme.
3. Minutes of the previous meeting read
and approved.
4. Miscellaneous business.
5, School punishment.
6. Query, How do you teach reading
in your primary class? ?" G. NJ Dickey.
:. Methods OF conducting History class.
C. F. Jacob.
Institute then adjourned to meet at l
o'clock P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
/. Spelling Schools S. A. Shaulis.
,. Vocal music in our common schools (;
Edith S. Auman.
3. Queries.
4. The use of tobacco in the school room :;
II. H. Kimmell.
Institute adjourned to meet at the KIM
nell school house. December q, 1884.
A. F. BERKEY. Secretary.
The danger ofincidental harm to the COM
munity, or TO certain classes Of people, from
the increased use of machinery, the extern
sion of public works, etc., is greatly dimin-
ished when those who make the laws, and
especially those whose duty it is to interpret
them, recognize that law. is progressive
science that it is q means, not an end /;
that when a state of things arises for which
there is no precedent, a new precedent must
be made. How the most enlightened ju-
rists hold this principle constantly in view
and how the common as well as the
statute law is thus made to keep pace with
the general advance of civilization, is ad-
mirably set forth in the leading article in
the North American Review" for Decem-
Der, Labor and Capital before the law" by
Judge T. NJ. Cooley, of Michigan. To the
same number, William X. Ackerman con-
tributes some suggestive Notes on Railway
Management" DIR. Schliemann tells what
he found in his excavations of the ruins ol
Tiryns, in Southern Greece, and Principal
Sharp supplements his scholarly article on
Friendship in Ancient Poetry" with one
on Friendship in English Poetry The
other articles in the number are: "Tht
British House of Lords, by George Ticknol
Curtis, and Responsibility for State Ro
query" by John F. Hume. 4
TIE VANDERBILT RoAD.-The following
article, which we clip from the Pittsburgh
Commercial Gazette, will be read with inter
est by all persons along the line ofthe South
Penna. Road
The evidence accumulates that VIM. H
Vanderbilt has, SO far as he is concerned
Cancelled the offensive and defensive ALI
ance heretofore entered into by the Reading
Railroad Company as the party of the Sec
ond part. and the aforesaid VIM. H. Wander.
bilt as party of the first part-actual and
relative positions being here stated. Work
on the South Penn Railroad, pushed with
vigor when Mr.. Vanderbilt opened his
purse under the stimulus of personal inter.
est, is now languishing The piers of the
bridge across the Susquebanna at Harris
burg are built, but the contractors have
been notified to give over the construction
of the piers through the city of Harrisburg
which are necessary to carry the South Penn
over the Pennsylvania Railro.d Company:
tracks. The force of civil engineers has
been reduced, and work on the tunnels and
elsewhere is being reduced TO the minimum
nothing more being done in reality than is
sufficient TO keep up appearances. The ex'
planation is said to be made plain by put
ting this and that together. Vanderbilt
helped Gowen to get control of the jersey
Central, and has now sold out all his stock
in that road. And now he he has with
drawn his support from the Reading, feel.
ing hopeless of redeeming it from bank.
ruptcy. The belief is current that he has
lust Joined hands with the Pennsylvania, Sc
that the New York Central and the Penn
svlvania railroads can combine against
their competitors, the West Shore and Balto
& Ohio railroads. 1t is also believed that
Vanderbilt and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company are after the coal and iron lands
owned by the Philadelphia Coal & Iron
Company, and if they get them the Reading
railroad is doomed. The Pennsylvania
Railroad now runs into Reading. and is en-
gagged in building a new road through the
Lebanon valley alongside of the Reading
road. from Reading TO Harrisburg. 1t will
take about two years to complete this
branch. and when il is built it is conjectur-
ed that it will be made connection of the
Vanderbilt road. At all events, the latter
enterprise will not be pushed until the
Pennsylvania branch from Reading 10 Has-
,risburg is well under way. 4
DIR. j.
NJ. Louther
Physician and
Druggist, Somerset,