a —— A BP. GRAY MEEK. tax Slings. ~My, bat the Gazette thinks Dr. SwaAL- —Strikes in Russia are fass getting into ~-A dividend on common steel was so uncomuion as fo make it extraordinary. —Boss SWALLOW is only second to boss PENROSE because he doesn’t have so muck —This Mr. SULLIVAN, of Illinois, is no relation of the famous JOHN L., yet he is showing signs of being something of a —The Bellefonte council has awakened from its peaceful slumbers and, judging from Monday night's reparte, we can look for some more fan soon. —The number of burned barns in Cen- tre county recently ought to make that much maligned gentleman, the lightning rod agent, a ~ery welcome visitor. —The roller skating fad is coming around again, but the booze skaters seem to be always in style. There is no fad about Mr. John Baleycorn's business. —The Chicago man who is predicting the end of the world within a mouth bad better skidoo for the cemetery at once if he expects to avoid the rush oo the last day. —A woman delegate stampeded the Re- publican state convention in Idabo. It is not stated whether she saw a mouse or whether some one of the men delegates proposed. ~The people who are fortunate enough not to live in the earth-quake zones feel the siesmic effects nevertheless. The iu- surance companies are transmitting them in increased rates. —The administration should have sent FAIRBANKS, not Roor, on the visit to Chile. The fitness of the men shonld have been more segipusly considered because of the two the Vice President is certainly the chillier. —Broken hearted and broken in health because of the death of his lovely wife Lord CURZON is soon to visit the scenes of her girlhood in America. Here isa man troe Americans have real sympathy for, because it was the woman, pot her money, that be cared for. —BRYAN'S observations in Egypt have revealed to him that ‘‘the donkey, poor patient creature, baso’t changed in four thousand years.” So be it, but how about the ass ? From our point of view there are more than four thousand ways of being an ass in one year. The judge who wat" on she uvotorious © HaRtIE oase hus gone off for his summer vacation and says he will not band down his decision before fall. Fall would be the proper time to band the frosty mitt to such a sear and yellow litigant as AUGUSTUS HARTJE appears to be. —Now the Rev. Dr. SWALLOW, the ex- purgated edition of the modern reformer, hae taken up the Standard oil company’s fight. He thinks it would be better for Pennsylvania to remain in the grip of the octopus than to bave Mr. EMERY as our Governor. Has SWALLOW been greased ? —Mr. HoMER L. CASTLE did great work for the cause of reform last year, but he has failed at the critical moment. With a fight of far greater moment to the public on hand he has gone over to the enemy. By accepting a Probibition nomination for Governor he is making strength for PEN. ROSE 8 machine candidate. —President ROOSEVELT has the big stick alter the women who wear aigrettes in their bats. He is out to save the blue heron. It is patent that that English tailor didn’t recommend aigrettes for our soldier caps else the President would have been protecting the dickie bird and turning all the guns at his command on the poor heron, —Mr. A. A. STEVENS, of Tyrone, may be a very successful lime producer and a very earnest Probibitionist, but he evident- ly isn’t much concerned about the welfare of Pennsylvania. His vote as a member of the Prchibition nominating committee re- veals that. It is strange what manner of men try to stand on the ‘‘holier than thou” platlorm, which is the only excuse the Probibitionists bad for not endorsing EMERY or leaving their ticket without a candidate for Governor. —~We publish the following from the DuBois Morning Journal for the special edification of the Hon. Jorx G. Love and HENRY C. QUIGLEY Esq, as they are the accessories before and after the fact : “The conferees of Clearfield should teach Centre county a lesson in the Senatorial deadlock, and ander no circumstances should they allow the Centre county conferees to carry off the prize. Centre county delegates did dirt in the Congressional convention and they should be shown no quarter in the Senatorial fight. ! —TPoset at rest all the rumors a concerning the presidency of The Pennsyl- vania State College let ue assure you that it has been offered to no one as yet. At the meeting of the trustees last Friday the position of Dean of the School of Agricul. ture and director of the experiment station was tendered to Dep. U. 8. Sec. of agrioul- ture HAYES, but he bas not accepted yet. Gen. BEAVER was elected president protem of the institution and it is not at all likely that there will be any baste in the choice of a successor for the late Dr. GEORGE W. ATHERTON. . YOL.51 Most Significant Incident. The moss significant incident of the cam- paign thus far is the announcement of Hon. ELisHA A. CoRAY, nominee of the Prohibition party for Secretary of In- ternal Affairs, that he will support LEWIS EMERY, Jr., for Governor. Mr. CORAY is not only a gentleman of the highest char- acter, bot he is a practical man of the keenest intelligence. In the Legislature of 1899, his prescience and courage more than any other agency prevented the be- tragal of the *‘insurgents’’ by the election | of C. L. Magee to the office of Senator in Congress. A conspiracy had been formed to encompass that result. Mercenaries who pretended fidelity to the cause of reform bad accepted retainers from the Pittsburg Senator and had positively fixed the time for the consummation of the corrupt deal. Mr. CORAY indignantly refused to join in such a prostitution of the insurgent organi- zation and the disreputable conspiracy collapsed. We refer to this merely to show the manner of the man CoRAY. Absolutely incorruptible he is gifted with discerning powers rarely equaled and when certain elements in the Prohibition party revealed signs of a purpose to betray the cause of civic righteousness under the pretense of devotion to the cause of Prohibition, he vaturally discovered and denounced it, inferentially, by announcing his purpose to use all his justly extensive influence and eloquence in behalf of the candidate of the better element of our citizenship and against the machine which bas 80 notori- ously prevented the functions of govern- ment in this great Commonwealth. He can neither be deceived nor bribed into the service of that machine, and believing that the refusal of the Prohibitionists to endorse EMERY is indirectly helping the machine, he makes his protest. It is said that Mr. CORAY may even go 20 far as to decline the nomination of the Prohibitionists for the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs in the event that Dr. SwaLLow and Mr. CASTLE succeed ‘in misleading the Probibitionists into such assistance of the machine. This statement lacks consistency, Mr. CorAy is a Pro- hibitionist of the most confirmed type. He beliewss in teetotalism as a moral agent and advocates as well as practices it, Because of bis interest in Prohibition he was willing to take upon himself the bur- der of making a campaign, hopeless of success, as the candidate of that party and no other for the office for which be was nominated. But be is not willing to lend himself to the atrocions Republican ma- chine as the Prohibition party has done by refusing to endorse LEWIS EMERY Jr., for the office of Governor. Payment of School Fands. The public is informed through Harris. burg dispatches that State Treasurer BERRY expects to complete the payment of the school appropriation this month. In fact all except 250 of the 2,600 school districts have already been paid and these have been delayed because of the failure of the local authorities to make the; proper re- quisition. Mr. BERRY is trying to get the work completed at the earliest poseible moment. The school term begins about the firet of September and be would like to bave the treasury of every distriot re- plenisk:ed before the school is opened. It is as important to bave money in the treasury as it is to bave coal in the bin and being a friend of the schools Mr. BERRY is anxious to start them out well. Heretofore the payments of the school appropriation have not been begun until after the elections. The $5,500,000 which is appropriated to schools comprised a val- uable political asset during the six months between May and November. Two per cent. interest . on that sum amounts to $55,000 for six months and that would buy 110,000 frandnlent tax receipts, just about the number annually purchased in Phila- delphia. It was an easy matter to manip- ulate the school fund soas to make it available for that use. Thus instead of a beneficence to the public the school ap- propriagion was made to serve as an agency for debauching the elections. The most sacred things were prostituted to the base uses of an atrocious political machine. Charity and education were alike abused. Treasurer BERRY hopes that the prompt payment of this year will be reckoned asa precedent for bis successors in office. We hope he is right and il the machine is not restored to power we confidently believe that such iniguities as using school fands to promote electoral frauds will never dis- grace the State again. Bat if on the oon- trary the expectations of the machine that EpwARDS, Stuart will be elected Gov- ernor is fulfilled all the deviltry of the past will be renewed. Philadelphia will again become the hot-bed of vice and crime and the price of protection for these evils will flow into the pockets of the conspirators while the educational and charity appro- priations will be used as formerly for de- | political morals of the State. bauehing = elections and corrupting the Syawls from the Keystone. —The races of the Cambria County Agri- cultural society will take place at Carroll town, on September 4, 5, 6 and 7. —Jesse Brilhart, of Lock Haven, saw a ground hog swimming in the river at that city the other day and captured it. —There will be no Labor Day parade at DuBois this year, at least so the committee appointed to consider the matter bas decided. —Iudiana is to have a new industry in the near future in the shape of new carriage STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Mr. Young and the Machine The RoBeERT K. YOUNG incident of the Republican campaign ie increasing in public interest. At first something in the nature of a comedy, it is rapidly develop- ing the characteristics of tragedy. There bas heen no bloodshed but the bitterness which leads up to the vendetta is plainly perceptible. Mr. Youn is vo longer spoken of in conciliatory terme, he is re- ferred to in centemptuous phrase and as the esteemed Philadelphia Press observes, ‘‘the situation has reached a critical stage.” The machine bas nnshested its rapier, so to speak, and quoting again from our es. teemed Philadelphia contemporary, ‘‘every organization man in the State who can be induced to do so will knife YOUNG at the polls in the eventof bis remaining on the ticket.” This leads us to infer that the machine managers no longer want Mr. YOUNG to remain on the ticket. He bas disappointed them. Somebody appears to hav: deceived then: into the belief that his nomination would completely confuse the reform clement of the party. It was confidently expected that all the reformers would stampede toward the Republican party be cause Mr. YOUNG was on the ticket. The expectation wae disappointed, of course. The average reformer has reasonable intel ligence, and Mr. YOUNG'S record as a re: former is not so enticing to men who are earnestly for reform. His prompt acoept- ance of the machine bounty in the shape a lnorative sinecure was too recent to have been forgotten. The disapointment arous- ed feelings of resentment which under the aggravating influence of the notification meeting episode obanged into hatred. The result is a natural inclination to force Mr. YOUNG off the ticket and his petulence promoted the purpose. He de- clared that be will not accept the nomipa- tion unless chairman ANDREWS is dis- missed from his office. The machine answer to that is a declaration of the lead- ers that ANDREWS will retire from the chairmanship of the State committee whether YOUNG remains on the ticket or pot.!” There can be no mistaking the meaning of that remark taken in connee- tion with the further statement of the same gentlemau that ‘‘every stalwart iu the State has lost interest in him and be would please us most by getting off the ticket.” In the face of such expressions there must be a vacancy or there will he “a killing.”” The future is a matter of conjecture and we leave to those who are interested the work of solving the prob- lem. Andrews Will Continue as Chalrman. " After all the talk of the improvement in political morale and methods of the Re- publican machine it appears that chairman ANDREWS is not to be removed. Good results or bad he is to be retained at the head of tha organization. No matter who happens to be Governor after the New Year, therefore, Senator PENROSE will control the party machinery and select the delegates to the next national convention. The election this year is of comparatively little consequence to the Senator. The next Legislature will have no voice in the election of his successor. But the organi- zation is of importance to him. II he should relinquish it now he would have no chance of taking it up again next year. Senator PENROSE'S Secretary, Mr. AN- DREWS, bas not been chosen chairman be- cause of his ability, or experience or even his familiarity with the politics of the State. That was the reason given for his selection a year ago and it has been offered for his clandestine election this year. He served a dozen years as secretary of the committee and was QUAY’s confidante, it has been said. But bis conduct of the campaign proves that he has neither polit ical sagacity nor understanding of political conditions in Pennsylvania. He con fidently believed up until the close of the polls on last election day that he bad the campaign well in band and that his candi- date would have 100,000 majority. Senator PENROSE doesn’t want an able man at the head of the organization. What he wants is a fellow who is completely dependent upon and entirely servile to him. Sinister methods will be necessary to maintain his ascendency in the organiza- tion and an able man couldn’t be depend- ed.upon for such services. But he is safe with his own secretary. ANDREWS will not betray him because if he did he would lose his job and the more disreput- able the service required for him the more willingly it will be performed. That is why ANDREWS was elected chairman and for that reason he will be retained in the place if every candidate on the ticket should decline by way of protest. But they won't decline. : a — —-—A new retaining wall has been built alotig the Bush house and grounds next Spring creek ‘which i quite an improve. ment on the old tumble down ‘one. Knisely and Rhoads bad the contract for the work. ~ BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 10, 1906. An American Dreyfus Case. There is a marked similarity between the case of Captain DREYFUS of the French army and Major RATHBONE of the American postal service but there is little hope of a similar ending. DREYFUS got justice after years of endeavor and vast expenditure. RATHBONE has been striv. ing for five years for an opportunity to | Pe prove bis integrity but there is hardly a chance of success. DREYFUS had to con- tend with race prejudices deep seated and of long standing and the reputation, if not the personal liberty, of prominent men of distinguished families would bave been endangered by bis vindication. RATHBONE bas the enmity of a favorite of the Pres- ident who might suffer in public estima- tion if the facts were known and that cir- cumstance bas been potential. It will be remembered that five years ago EsTEs G. RATHBONE was convicted in the courts in Cuba of frauds in the Aweri- can postal service there. He was a protege of the late MARK HANNA who exhausted every available expedient tosave him. On the death of President MCKINLEY Mr. HANNA'S pull lost its force, however, and be was unable to prevent the conviction of his friend, though he protested that RATHBONE was innocent. There was a stronger force behind the prosecution, a more patent power on the other side of the fight. It was Major General LEONARD ‘Woop, of the Rough Riders, then Military Governor of Cuba, and the pet of the President. For some reason, as yet un- explained, he had set his head upon the conviction of Major RATHBONE. Ever since the friends of RATHBONE have been trying to get the case reopened, just as the friends of Captain DREYFUS labored to get a fair case. It bas been al- leged that his trial was palpably unfair, that perjored testimony influenced the court and that General Woop had written to the Judge sitting at the trial demand- ing a verdict of guilty. He was offered apardon but refused a new trial and the mysterious influence which was able to produce witnesses who would ewear to anything at the trial was still at work against him. For five years this struggle has been going on. Recently Senator Tix, of Ohio, the snccessor of Senator HANNA, has taken the matter up and there is a hope of a congressional investigation. Why should we condemn the injustice of France? Pay uno Attention to Swallow. The Rev. Dr. SWALLOW is a vindictive enemy and pot always a just op ponent. For some reason he has set out to prevent the election of Lewis EMERY Jr., to the office of Governor of Pennsyl- vania. It is the best service he could per- form for the machine. He doesn’t promote the cause of Prohibition and he does sacrifice the vastly greater interests of civic righteonsness. Bat he probably has his own reasons for his conduct. They are not revealed in his published state ments, it may be safely said. Probably they wonidn’t look well in print. He was instrumental in defeating GEORGE A. JENKS for Governor eight years ago. No, body knows how he reconciled his con. science to that iniquity. : Dr. SwaLLow is an adroit politician. For years he bas been studying the meth- EB ods of politicial warfare and} intrigue. He is ambitious for distinction in civil life and was disappointed because he couldn't ‘‘work”’ the Democratic organization this year. Except for him the Prohibitionists would bave nominated a ticket that both the LINcoLN party and Democrats might bave endorsed. In preventing the nomi- nation of such a ticket Dr. SWALLOW im- agined that be was ountwitting and over. reaching some capable practical politicians and the satisfaction with that result was bis recompense. His present - purpose is to wreck the enterprise that he couldu’t con- trol. He wants to role or ruin. We wonld advise people to pay little at- tention to what Dr. SWALLOW says in the campaign. He will employ any instra- ment and avail himself of any agency to compass his purpose. He would defeat EMERY if be were certain that the white slave traffic in Philadelphia would be re. sumed in consequence. If the result made | certain a satarnalia of drunkenness Dr. SwarLrow would work ous his purpose be- cause his vanity is stronger than his sense of right. There is no use in disputing with such a man. The safe and wise| course is to let him alone. He will talk himeell out of the reckoning without any interference from the outside. He may as well be forgotten. ~The second meeting of the Republi~ can senatorial conference for this district was held in Philipsburg on Wednesday and, like the first meeting, adjourned without making any nomination aftera number of ballots were taken. The next meeting will be held on Angust 31st when the conferees will be released from their instructions and will vote as they see fit. ‘bas genuine competition he ‘‘gets on top’ works. The company is capitalized at $25.- 000. —~Lewistown is enjoying a building boom at the present time. Thirty-four new houses sve in course of erection, and more are to follow. —Because it is paying some of its teachers less than $35 a month Bingham township, Potter county, forfeited its appropriation from the State, —Mrs. Mary Harvey, of Mackeyville, Clinton county, died at ber home in that Pass | place, on Wednesday, of apoplexy. She was 84 years of age. ~Joseph Suver, of Johnstown, died at his home, Thursday evening, aged 47 years. He was one of the heaviest men in the State, weighing 445 pounds. —C. 8. Hixton, bookkeeper in the Union Trust company, of Pittsburg, who confessed the embezzlement of $125,000, implicated C. B. Wray, a teller, and search is being made for Wray. ' —A corporation known as the Pennsylva. pia, Beech Creek and Eastern Coal company has formed with a capital of $8,000,000 to control the output of forty-four mines at the eastern end of the bituminous fields. —Charles Bell, a negro aged 56 years, was discovered in a vacant house in Rock Run, a mile north of Coatesville, in a critical condi. tion with rheumatism, where he had been for fifteen days without food or water. —Jeriey Shore has every reason to feel in a good humor. For the past four months no cases of contagious or infectious diseases have been reported to its board of health. During July there were five deaths and fifteen births. —John Herron, of Pittsburg, has sent to Ivan McKenrick, of Ebensburg, a handsome gold watch and chain, as a reward for his aid in saving the life of Mr. Herron’s son, who was almost drowned in Laks Rowena one day last week. —Honesdale boasts the tallest elm in the country, measuring as it does 119} feet from the ground with the trunk at the earth's surface twenty-four feet in circumference and four feet higher seventeen feet in girth. It is the monarch of all known trees of its kind. —The city of McKeesport does not depend entirely upon the State for protection against impure, diluted or poisonous milk. It has an inspector of its own and when dealers are found handing out an inferior article they are taken before the mayor and fined. The latest violater of the law contributed $15 to the city treasury. —Lancaster county turned out the State's oldest harvest hand this year. He is 87 years old and worked in the field with almost as much euergy as much younger men. Moses Hartz, is his name, brother of Elias Hartz, of Reading, the famous ‘goosebone’ prophet. He comes of a long-lived family, having a sister who is 90 years old. ~The Grange National bank at Patton was formally opened August Sth, making the second grange national bank in the State. Joseph Schwab, father of the steel magnate, is president of the bank. Charles M. Schwab was there at the opening and made a large deposit. The opening of the bank was marked by the celebration of the local granges. —Three residents of Kittanning have been engaged for the last month searching for hidden treasure. Recently they came into possession of a letter written in 1845 in which the declaration was made by the writer—long since dead—that a pot of gold had been hidden in a certain lot in the bor- ough of Kittanning. They are diligently searching, but up to the present time their efforts have not been crowned with success. —To be chased by a big racer blacksnake through briars and underbrush for overa half mile, was the terrifying experience of Mrs. Callie Elder, and Mary and Kate Ba- ker, of near Livermore, who were picking blackberries on Tunnel Hill. Shortly after reaching the berry patch, they saw the snake coiled among the branches of a scrub oak and apparently sleeping. One of the girls hurled a stone into the bush when "the reptile immediately dropped to the ground and pursued them, never stopping until the railroad was reached. The snake was fully eight feet long. —Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary Thursday, at ber home, four miles from DuBois, Two hundred neighbors and friends were present. Mrs. Shoemaker is remarkably strong for a person 100 years old. She lives with her son, aged 67 years, on a farm, and does all her own housework. Last week she walked a mile to visit a friend. She has not been sick in years. Tharsday in response to addresses of congratulation she spoke for ten minutes, telling of many incidents of her home when the country round about was =a wilderness. Mrs. Shoemaker does not use spectacles, can hear as well as ever, has most of her teeth and has none of the infirmities usual with those who have lived a century. —A remarkable old man is William Fouse, of Drab, Blair county, He is 81 years old and never wore stockings until three years ago. He has never in his life worn under. clothing, gloves or mittens, never used to- bacco in any form, and was never sick an hour until his 80th year, when he bad a slight attack of grippe from which he soon recovered. Last fall he ploughed forty acres, The August Weather by Hev Hicks. Rev. Irl R. Hicks makes the following forecast of the weather for August: rain belts and other sections in A during this period, or from about 23rd. Violent summer storms need not surprise any reader at this time, and in the northwestern of country resonable care pen Jus exercised against violent bail storms. A reactionary storm period is central on the 25th, 26th and 27th. The last storm period for the month, 25th to 28th, will enlminate in higher tempezature, low barometer, cloudiness and more or less storms and rain over the country in gener- al. A t promises to come to an end with fair and oooler weather eastwardly over the country. the whole, we fear that the month 1 bring excess of warmth, and that the rainfall, if diffased as it would bave to be available to the general needs, will be bartful be- low the average. Most gladly would we see this forecast fail,and ins an abundance of timely and fructifying rains; but the remainder of this season, and the seasons of 1907, is the time for a eral Jupiter drouth, minimum of rainfall, and unless the blending of the Saturn with that of Jupiter works a « change from the natural order, a drouth of greater or Jess severity if te encountered gi ng the crops e present Season an running through the section of 1907. State vs, National Issues. From the Boston Transcript (Rep.) i Pennsylvania isnot in a mood t. latex to speeches to Federal issues. If the le of that State believed the ques- tion of ‘standing by Roosevelt’ were the issue belore them this year they would in- dorse the President by a tremendous ma- jorey, but they “‘bave other fish to fry.” nquestionably they believe, as do the voters of many other States, that the Presi. dent and his policies will take care of them- selves. In the meantime they have some affairs at home that need attention. The one issue in the State is : ‘Shall the Qoay- Penrose machine be broken ?”’ The fact that the President finds it necessary to an- nounce that he will go there during the campaign to make two addresses, indicates that be realizes how keenly the voters of the State are interested in the local situ. ation. Possibly some of the speakers sent out by the Republican co! onal cam- paign committee may go into the State and try to arouse interest in the ‘‘stand on the record” policy, but unless all fall th -y will not move those voters who have oe up their minds to see only the one issue—the Penrose machine. How He Got There. From the Lincoln Nebraska Commoner. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: ‘‘Mr. Carnegie is in a triangular perplexity as to who will be on top when the United States ngland and Canada absorb each other Where was it that Mr. e got on top?’ “Where was it?’ Well, he ‘got on top’’ whenever the Republican pony had the opportanity of making tariff laws. Recently be ‘got on top” when bide were received for 7,328 tone of armor plate. The Midvale company, an independent concern, submitted a bid $35 lower than that offered by the trust. The navy de- partment gave the Midvale company the contract for 3,664 tons at the price and then gave to the Carnegie company a con- tract for the same number of tons at the price bid by the Midvale com , ale though the Carnegie company bad ed $35 of reaching the Midvale's price. So it seems that even though Carnegie wheueves the powet 10 pul bi there rests with the Republican party. A NR—————— A) amaged Reputation. From the Louisville-Courier Jourual. “What will the Republican party do?" noth Unole Joe Cannon after the recent ore Hill conference. ‘What can she do but stand on her reputation?’ Her Teputation indeed ! Let us hope that the old girl will not only stand on it, but that her skirts will be long enough to hide it, A Warning for Muck-Rakers. From the Washington Post. The President ba two in Pen political, the muck- pare to be kicked again. decided that bis vania shall be non- may as well pre- ~The farmers are now baving as much troable trying to barvest their oats crop as they bad getting the wheat ogop in after it was cat, owing to the, almost daily bard rains. A big storm on Monday, another not so big on Tuesday and a hard down- pour of rain for five or more hoars on Wed- nesday is not the best cf weather for drying oats. And oats when once soaked with rain are not very easily dried again. —Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. whatever. Along with the above work he did the other fall work, such as raising po- tatoes, hauling out manure and cutting off corn. He rarely stops for rain and says that a good ducking does’ him more good than anything else. Summer and winter, regard. less of snow or rain, he bathes his feet in eighteen inches of water in a spring a short distance from His house, three times a week. His home is one of the best farms in Mor rison's Cove. lk
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