i —Moving time and spring house-clean- ing will be here before we know it. —Next Tuesday will end the unrest of the busy politician and the hopeful cavdi- date. — Wonder if anyone remembered to send a pretty Valentine to the bugologist of Swenksville on Wednesday. —TaoMAS A. EpisoxN is going to quit work, but not hie phonograpb. Lord biess you, there is no such good news as that. —A process of making rabber from wheat baving been invented possibly the demand on the human necks will not be so great. —That frightful steamboat disaster in Loog Island Sound adds another to the horrors of 1907 that are fairly crowding upon one avother. ~The way the two-cent passenger rate bill passed the House looks as if there are more kindsof railroading in Pennsylvania than there used to be. —Telegraphing is not ‘‘necessary’’ but twenty per cent. advance in the charges for the service will be felt in all walks of life and will help materially to swell ex- penses of living. ~The fact that there are nine million dollars in the general fand in the State Treasury oan only be accounted for beozuse of the fact that BERRY detected the rascals before they bad it all spent. —Many a man who cusses ont a life in- surance agent for bothering him fails to realize that his widow and orphans may some day waken up to find that the both- ersome agent was their best friend after all. —Mr. HARRY LEHR former wine agent and connoissenr of freak Newport dinners, has been presented to the Kaiser. His majesty bas now personal ac- quaintane with all the really great men of our country. —A sun spot three and one-half billion square miles in area has been discovered by Dr. BRASHEAR,of the Alleghany observ- atory. Along in July and August Old Sol will still be able to make it hot enough for us, however. —They are having a few little govern- mental unpleasantries in King Al's land. The Irish want home rule and the House of Commons wants the powers of the House of Lords contracted. And there is likely to be something doing. — ROCKERFELLER has added thirty-two million dollars to his gifts for educational purposes. And the more the people become educated the greater is their wonder that they ever made laws that would permit Joux D. to make so much money. —With the wife of the jurors near: death’s door with pneumonia it is possible thas there will be a mistrial in the THAW case. In such an event the entire scandal- ous affair will have to be bashed over again and paraded before the public by sensational newspapers, —A story comes from Maine to the ef feos that is is so cold up there thas cow’s tails aotually get frozen in the water troughs and bave to be chopped off. Will wonders never cease ? Here these Yankee cows muss be drinking with their tails or— shame on them- can they he the kind of naughty cows the Philadelphia Record told us aboas last fall. —I¢ is the duty of every good citizen to go out and vote next Tuesday. The local offices are the ones of greatest personal im- portance to you because the average citizen feels it more il his ohildren do not have well cond uoted schools and he does not have good roads so drive over than he does if they fight in Washington over the baild- ing of a canal or changing the tariff. —With attorneys of such eminence as JAMES STRANAHAN and James Scamner ~ VOL. 52 Roosevelt's Usurpation. We have information from Washington to the effect that the trouble between the government of Japan and the School au- thorities of San Fravcisco bas been ad- justed. President RooSEVELT called the San Fravciscans to the pational capital, according to the story, and told them that it is their duty to yield and in fact it may be inferred that he added such action is ab- solately essential to the safety of the country. He probably pictured the Jap- anese warriors clothed in HARVEYized steel uniforms pouncing down on us “like a wolf on the fold,” and sweeping us into the ocean. It ig better that all the people of San Francisco shonld be inocculated with moral and physical leprosy than that the great American public should be oblit- erated from the face of the earth, he prob- ably asserted. President ROOSEVELT bad about as much right to ‘buts in’’ to this dispute between the echool authorities of S8an Francisco and some too-chesty Japanese consul ae he would bave had to interfere in a consrover- sy between the Mikado and the Kaiser. The school anthorities of San Francisco had ahundans reason for excluding Japs from the schools other than those set apart for their accommodation. The association of the Mongolians and the whites bad the el- feos of impairing the morals of the whites and consequently the exclusion became a matter of vital importance. Besides the President has nothing to do with she local police powers of a State. His interference was usurpation which is a crime against the government. The authorities of San Francisco should have refused to confer with him on the subjeot. ROOSEVELT has violated the constitution in so many ways aod perverted the powers of his office so frequently thas such things are po longer subjects of sarprise. Bat that fact iv itself should admonish the peo- ple against encouraging him in such dan- getons folly. He has no interest in the Japanese children in San Francisco. If any of his own obildren were attending the schools of shat cisy he would have resent. ed she claim of Japan with respect to the matter. Neitherds he influenced by ap- prebensions gf. sronble with Japan, He knows thas there ie no contingency so re- mote as thitt and shit high officials ‘in J an laogbed as his soggestion. But he wants so establish the right of she federal government to interfere in local affairs and oaght to be sharply rebuked for his pre- eamption. ——[t didn’s 0 st JOHN E. REYBURK a ‘cent to get the machine nomivation for Mayor of Philadelphia for the reason, main. 1y, thas he was appointed to the place by Senator McNICHOL. Bichops and Battleships. A number of Bishops are protesting against turning the Jamestown expo-ition into a paval show. Buch an exhibition will “stir op she fever of military exocite- ment and emulation in our people,” they say, ‘‘at a time when that is precisely what we should all most earnestly cooperate to discourage.” The exposition, these pious gentlemen believe, ought to celebrate our achievements in peace, our progress in the arts and sciences, and the developments of our resources in commerce and industry. Oar greatest achievements have been along these lines, these Dootors of Divinity think, and for thas reason oar military and vaval equipment should be kept in the back- directing the capitol probe surely all of the | ground. facts ought to be made public unless the Legislature hedges their work about with restrictions that will nallify their efforts. The two JiMs are men of strictest integrity and shey can be counted on to reveal the truth if they can get at it. Ab, there is tae rab. ~The proposed act of Assembly which provides that all sowoship bridges, thirsy- five fees or over, shall be turned over to the county authorities for maintenance and reconstraotion in the fature will open up a new field of dispute between the township supervisors and the county commissivners, Naturally there will be many bridges stretched for the purpose of unloading them on the county and right there is the place the trouble will begin, —The death of A. J. GrigsT yesterdav morning removes a man who as the oriti cal moment in Centre county’s financial affairs injected keen business methads into the Commissioner's office and in the short space of six years paid off a great connty debt and left the office with a handsome surplus in the treasury. Mr. GRIEST was a politician of the best type; one of the kind who believed that public husiness should be handled juss the same as private enterprices. He was honest to the oore, far pighted, practical and positive and buils for himself an official monnmens thas will live in this counsy as long as our pahlie institations endure. He wasa good citizen, i ite tallest and sruess meaning and while bis course had practically been ran we de- plore his death. But what nee will the Jamestown expo- sition be to President ROOSEVELT if this uotion is to be adopted ? He duesn’s care much about agriculture, or manufactures, or commerce, except in so faras they con- tribute to the exploitation of our naval de- velopment. Is would be bard to ges ten million dollar bastleships and difficuls to maintain big.armies it factories were idle and the soil failed to produce abundant barvests. For these reasons the President probably thinks that commerce and indus- try are well enough in their way, bas for purposes of diversion there is nothing like a naval parade and an exposition laid on the shore of a fine sheet of salt water with- out an elahorase naval display would be an insipid thing, The eleven eminent theologians may be sll right in their notion abous the *‘victo- ries of peace.”” The rapid increase and vast present volume of our exports of man- ufactares and agricultural products are worth celebrating by preachers and wo- men. But to men in whose veins the red bloo1 surges as it does in the body of our strenuous President something more speo- taonlar than agricultural exhibits and sa. cred concerts are necessary. They want battleships in manoeaver to satisfy their martial spiris and if they can’t havea na- val parade they don’t want anything at all. Therefore the Bishops who are remonstrat- ing agaist a vast naval display are jeop- ardiziog the socoess of the exposition. ClO WELK true soul willbe Wasly: ~ ‘ington’s birthday. Two Legisintive Snakes. There are some exceeding venomous ser- pents wriggling their devious ways through the present Legislature hut probably the most dangerous of all are those relating to ““‘Auxiliary Forest Reserves.” There are two of these and they are twin evils. One of them authorizes the creation of the auxiliaries and defines the process. It provides that the owners of timber lande not available for cultivation may apply to the Commissioner of Forestry to have the land entered in the auxiliary forest reserve and if the commissioner is inclined it may be entered. That accomplished the forests so entered will remain the custody of the commissioner until the owner desires to cut the timber, when he withdraws it, the expense of maintenance, meantime, having been paid by the State. The twin iniquity provides for the taxation of forest lands entered in and part of the auxiliary forest reserve on a valu- ation of not more than one dollar an acre. Everybody kvows that the land in ques- tion is worth from ten to twenty dollars an acre and that it is increasing in value al- most as rapidly as city lots. Therefore the taxation of such lands on a valuation of a dollar an acre works an injustice to every holder of every other kind of property in the neighborhood of such lands for the rea- son thas the tax on all other property must be iucreased in order to make up the loss to the ‘‘duplicate’’ by practically with- drawing vast areas from the tax lista. The bill is unconstitational, moreover, because it oreates an inequality in taxation and dis oriminates in favor of one tract of wood- land and against another. The obvious purpose of the bill is to help the tanning trust eapbemistically called the Central Pepnsylvania Lumber com- pany. Thai ‘‘conepiracy in restraint of trade,’ bas already acquired vast tracts of such timber lands which is is holding in reserve for future supplies of bark for its tanneries and timber for ite saw mille and is endeavoring to get as much more as posai- ble. An arrangement whioh would reduce the taxes on such land toa valuation of a dollar a year would be of the greatest ad- vantage to that corporation and enable it to extend its holdings imirsnsely. “We | cactained bardly think the Legislature will be foolish | enough to do this, however, but in any event the title of the bill should beobanged 80 as to read : ‘‘An act to pus money in the pockets of the tanning trust at she expense of she other taxpayers of the State.” ——The attempt tosueak the game bill which imposes a license fee upon hunters shrough the committee and on to the cal- endar last week was defeated through the vigilance of Representative DERSHAM, of Union county. Isis to be hoped shat the good sense of the membership of the body will guarantee the ultimate defeat of the measare in the commistee to which it was recommitted after the trick was discover- ed. The Humors of Politics. We have frequently heard of the bumors of politics and come of the stories of cam- paigns are certainly fanny. Bat we call to mind no story of the political life of Penn- sylvania that is more ridiculous than a sketoh of the Repubiivan candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia which appeared in our esteemed contemporary, the Public Ledger, of that city, on Sanday last. It opens with a statement of his ‘‘honorable public service as a Representative and Sen- ator at Harrisburg,’ and its climax is ex- pressed in a sentence which declares that *‘his whole public career has been marked by independence, courage and industry.” Mr. REYBURN'S too exuberant biogra- rapher extols his independence, ‘‘aside from his support of QUAY and she CAMER- ONS for United States Seoator,”” and ad- mits that that was the only test then of party servility. He adds that Mr. Rey- BURN'S popularity with his colleagues “‘was shown by bis election as president pro tempore as the olose of the session of 1883.” At that time he was completing his seventh year of service in the Senate aod ander the customs of the body a cigar store Indian who had served in she Senate thas long would have been similarly hon- ored. It was neithera sign of popularity nor fitness. As a matter of fact REYBURN was one of the most servile followers of the machine who ever eat in the Senate and though he was reputed to be immensely rich he re. ceived listle consideration from his asso ciates. On ove occasion during the long session of 1883 a sinister service wae re- quired of the chair and Amos MyLON who was president pro tempore was importaned to perform it. MYLON wasnoune too nice in his notions but he refused to do what was asked. He was induced, however, to call REYBURN to the obair and that gen- tleman with ruffianly bravado performed the shansefal work, “with neatness hw dispatch.” —Did you ger to right Kind ota Valentine yesterday? Senator CLAY, of Georgia, has introduced a resolution asking for an “‘official state- ment of all that the United States Treasury bas been called upoa to expend on account of the acquirement and maintenance of its title to the Philippines.”’ He could hardly bave touched a more interesting subject, Thoughtful people have long heen cogita- ting the question with more or less anxiety. Various and widely separated estimates have not abated either she doubts or fears, All that is known is that the aggregate bas ron into hundreds of millions and thas thas far there have been few or no returns for the vast outlay. Soon after the acquisition of those mias- matic swamps and jungles we were assured that a great commercial triumph had been achieved and that as soon as the germ of benevolent assimilation had developed a little we would begin the barvess of trade with Asia. The Pacific would be crowded with ships it was predicted, from the car- goes of which our peuple would make for- tones beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, But seagon has succeeded season ‘without producing even the symptom of gain while the expenditares are studiously kept from the public view. Senator CLAY wants to koow abont these things and the public shares his curiosity. Benator CLAY bas not indicated what his purpose is in asking for shis information but it isa safe conjecture that he is not inflaenced entirely by curiosity. Proba- bly his idea is to use the information for making an estimate or devisinga plan to get rid of the Islands. Some of our ablest statesmen are moving towasd the view that the property coets too much and comes to too lissle to continue the experiment which bas proved successful and we can conceive | 20™€ of nothing which would more certainly promote that view than a detailed state- ment of the expenses already incurred. undertaking. . «The Shah of Persia is new in the business, having succeeded to the throne only a few weeks ago. Bat he bas been in the royal harness long enough to have as. ‘easy is the bead that wears a crown.” The Assewbly of Parliament of the Empire de- mands that he declare himself a constitu- tional monarch which is another form of relinquishing some of the most important prerogatives of the job. The Lobby in Harrisburg. The railroad lobby has resumed business at the old stand, according to the news from Harrisburg. At the close of the ses- sion of two years ago it was announced, somewhat ostentatiously, thas she railroad lobby bad ‘‘gone oat of busivess.’” The subsequent discontinuance of passes con- firmed the declaration, for a lobby without passes would be like Hamlet with the royal Dane eliminated. The special ses- sion of last year passed without the slight- est symptom of a railroad lobby, moreover, which greatly strengthened the pretense. Bas railroad legislation was excluded from that session by the Governor's proclama- tion. The wise guys were not convinced even by this cumulation of evidence, however. Wait until the Legislature assembles in regular session aod the floodgates of rail- road legislaticn are opened, they said, more or lees oracularly. We waited, impatient. ly, no doubt, but certainly, and if the goesip of the corridors is even approzituate- | 8) ly accurate, the predictions have been ful. filled. At all events the papers say that the lobby has put in an appearance and the husinees of battonholing Senators and Representatives has been resumed. Thus far we have heard of no passes, but as cer- tain as effect followed cause if the lobby bas returned the passes will be restored. It woald have been better for the State, better for the Legislature and better for the .ailroads if the lobby had remained away from Harrisburg forever. For years the railroads have controlled the legisla tion of the State by sinister and devious methods with the result thas the interests of she people have suffered immensely and those of the corporations have not been ocnserved proportionately. The railroads have saved in taxes something, no doanbs, bas they have paid in blackmail avd sala- ries nearly as much. In other worde, the lobhy bas cost almost as much as it has come to in money and a great deal more in morals. = Relations between Haiti and Ger- many are strained and the public will watch with great interest the swish of the big stick under the circumstances. Asa power at either end of the dispute. EE —— A political bank at New Castle has failed also and she depositiors will be com- pelled to wait a long time for their money if they get it as all. Is begins to look ae it the Republican machine is a hoodoo to the truth of the adage that “an. | rule it moves slowly when there is a strong for Ballding the Canal per Comiract. From the Springfield Republican. It is quite believeable shat Chiet John C. Stevens of the Panama canal has deter- mined to resign if she plan of letting ons the work on contract ie ad There would seem to be moving 1 for this attitude. If the Oliver bid is for example, the real Yaiser oh it the canal will be the New York compan up gavized and she pe York ao and gineers and contractors associated with company. Mr. Stevens would more or less idle representative of pba ernment, holding a supervisory position of no great responsibility and involving no particular oredis or discredit for the sucoess- es or failures of the undertaking. Joss of attachi oly vid Yo ga! Brien: Le by the goverament Ror exclu- sive compensation, salary better one doubtless could ah aa a by him in private industry. Why then might he ys Jesign lo sl {ane to the governmen why shou resign in all ry har y Meantime it might be well ministration to les the pablio er idea of the nature of the which bas been adopted stand it, and on the face of blished statements it is not nnd ble. The Oliver bid, which is ou the point appar- uy of being accepted, is the cost of construction, | $100,000 a mouth or som by as much as the time of y work is shortened under 10 yess. fore, as the case is 1 ra the contractors varies dir ly with the coats to the Pn no risk of loss to shem spoul t2pelition dn in finish e premium xbrdvag ex isare within pr time limi govern eroment's estimate:0f the cost of the work has been $150. of which $30,000,000 bas been ex It this should prove a correct the con- pi ander the Oliver Id gain 000,000, and, so far o the public informed to this would i We hope Senator CLAY will succeed in his ald # % ee EH rine og o of ng in ob $0 secure economy i private money sion in the construction under the stimulus of no profit or a loss if there is not economy and expendition, but merely to substitute Tipping and Law. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The anti-tipping bill presented in the Legislature by representative Adams of this county etrikes an answering chord in public opinion because everyone knows thas the tipping practioe has become a nui- sage aud 1 0 many cases a burden. Bat as a legislative proposition, to be considered seriously, it contains several aspects thas my be questioned » the firss place is it to be considered a public fact and a basis for legislation that the Amerioan citizen ir 80 helpless a orea- tare shat he mass depend on law to reform a practice that depends solely on his wndi. vidual action. Grant thas the tipping babit is a nuisance and even an injurious one; bas it is not so Jojo: lows as the equa- iy widespread babis of bolting a hearsy meal ino 20 minates. Shall we pass an act requiring every man to take an hour for his dinver? To adopt Francis Murphy's famous saying: Every man can pass an aoti-tipping bill for himself, L Joie is also an inteson, constitution. aestion whether is is within the power e Legislature to forhid a man to take a oh or a qoarter offered lnm by another. Beyond that there is the further question, Bow many juries are there that wil convict a waiter or barher or boothlack for Cave shat ing an extra nickle in the few t are found ont? How Big is $39,000,000! From the Johnstown Democrat. Whas does the sum of $32,000,000 mesn, the amount which Jobn D. Rockettala has jas given to education? Thirty-two million dollars is more than the value of coal mines iu the State of West Virginia in one Io cne-uhid of she ot property sal ation of the wealthy new homa. It is equal to all She $3 50 quid coined in sho United States up eo Tl voever sgined. of - s could pay wage of a standing army’ of 200 000 men for one year. ual to one-fourth of the net earn- ings of all the national baoks in 1900. Is could provide the vecewsaries oy gly ne Juicy ang pr » 0g, misceilaneous artioles, haced on capita consumption in Is would almoast pay the public debts of Chio go and Buffalo It would pay the salary of the President 640 years. ——Just to keep up with the fashion the girle employed in the Bellefonte shirs factory wens out on a strike last Saturday noon. They did not go out very far, only outside the building, and at the end of one hour all wens back to work again—she —In several districts in Bucks county the number of deaths last year exceeded the number of births, ~—DuBois firemen have received a check for $1,000. This amount will be distributed amoug the different companies for their use during the year. —Rev. H. G. Clare, pastor of the Newton Hamilton Presbyterian churches, bas ten- dered bis resignation to these churches, and will accept a eall to a church near Johnse town. —Cbharles Wright, aged 22 years, of Mauch Chunk, while eating supper got some coffee grounds into his windpipe. A violent fit of coughing ensued, causing his death in greas agony. —Isaac Groff died at Strasburg, Lancaster county. on Tuesday, aged 88 years. He had been a distiller early in life and afterwards a hotel keeper for twenty-five years, yet never drank any liquor. —Twenty-one of the new applications for licenses to sell liguor in Schuylkill county were refused. The county will bave 1,066 saloons during the ensuing year, or one for every forty-five male adults. —Over 7,000 nickel-in theslot gambling machines have been driven out of Schuylkill county by the crusade of the Law and Order society. It is estimated that several hundred thousand doliars were tied up in these ma~- chines. —In the manufacture of monster sausage for which the Pennsylvania German country is famous, E. C. Smith, of Chestnut Hill, Lehigh county, bas broken all records. He bas just produced a sausage that measures 57 feet. ~It is reported that the coal mines of the Great Lakes Coal company, at Kaylor, Arm~ strong county, the most important in that section of the State, have been taken over by the United States Steel corporation. The deal involves $1500,000. —Sixteen hundred pounds of feathers, put up in forty sacks, were recently shipped from the Pennsylvania railroad station at Newport, Perry county. They were for the most part gathered in Sherman's valley The gathering of feathers has become quite an industry in Perry county. —Peter Myers, aged 83 years, and his wife Lucinda, aged 79 years, were buried together at Cooperstown, Venango county, on Sun- day. They had lived together on a farm near Cooperstown for sixty years. The hus- band died first and nis devoted wife follow- ed in a few hours, the shock killing her. —Peter K. Soffel, warden of the Allegheny county jail at the time of the escape of the Biddle brothers, his wife going with the desperadoes, wus married on Wednesday evening to Mrs. Margaret Taggart, a widow, . | of Mount Washington. Soffel was granted » divorce from his wife soon after her escapade. —A petition bearing two thousand sigoa- tures was presented to the town council of Jersey Shore at its last meeting, praying for a curfew law. The W.C. T. U. and the Mothers’ and Teachers’ club are back of the movement and are supported by the leading men of the community. The ordinance is almost an assured fact. ~=While undermining coal Tuesday in the Grazier. mines of the Somerset and Cambria Coal company, in Foustwell John Hunter, aged about 45 years, was caught under a heavy fall of the black diamonds and in- stantly killed. His head was crushed. An- other miner had been working with Mr. Hunter, but left the room just before the fall. ~The Automatic Electric Water Purifying company, of Altoona, has submitted a bid to Philadelphia city councils offering to purify the water of the Queen Lane district for the sum of $500,000. For this sum a pant com. plete capable of purifying from 60,000,00 to 75,000,000 gallons of water daily, will be con structed and started in operation. The mat- - ter has been referred to the water committee for action, —Charles M. Schwab, representing the Bethlehem Steel company, has purchas:d the mines of the Boyertown Ore company for a consideration said to be between $400,000 and $500,000. The rights secured by the Bethlehem company cover mineral privileges on 300 acres of land. The mines which are near Boyertown, are said to be the largest of their kind in Pennsylvania, the deposits bee ing of bessemer magnetic ore. —What is generally conceded to be the prize tobacco crop raised in Clinton county last season was an acre and one-fourth grown by Andrew Hunt, near Washingtoa Fur- nace. The tobacco is of the Havana seed leaf variety and so thrifty were the plants by reason of persistent cultivation and fer- tilizing that the cured crop on this small tract weighs 2,700 pounds, a yield attained by no other grower in the county. ~-With bis right hand terribly mangled, and tightly wedged in between the disk wheel and the driving rod of an engine, Jacob Fellbaum, the Youngstown carpenter, was held a prisoner for nearly fifteen min. utes ai the carpenter shop of the Frick Coke company at Dorothy, Westmoreland county, Friday night, having been unable to release bis mangled hand, or to attract the attention of other workmen about the plant. —On January 13th Miss Sarah Belle Cor~ bett, of Corsica, Jefferson county, died at the Allegheny General hospital from injuries she had received while playing basket ball at college in Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Elizabeth Corbett, the mother, grieved so much over ber daughter's death that she died on Thurs~ day. Her pastor, Rev. F. P. Brits, of the Corsica Presbyterian church, visited hers few hours before her death and the sadness of the case so excited him that shortly after his return home he dropped on a couch and died in a few minutes of beart failure. ~—Counting on surprising bis aged father, Valentine Newman, who disappeared two days after the flood of 1880, and who was believed to have been drowned, returned to Williamsport Wednesday night unannounced. He found that his father bad died seven years ago, and his only other relative, his brother, bad moved away. But he found, too, that his father, hoping that his son might yet be ative, bad bequeathed haif of & very comfortable estate to him. Newman lefty Williamsport on the first train out sfier the great flood, believing that the city was ruined forever. He went to Pittsburg sad | has spent the 18 years running on a boat be | tween that city sud New Orleans.
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