BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—“In God We Trust” is to go back onto
the gold coins. Thus bas the army of the
Lord conquered she Czar of the States.
—The way that sixteen inches of snow
went was enough to leave a question as to
which was the more wonderful: Is coming
or its going.
—Congress seems to be very hard at
work. It is only patural though that
when so much is to be dove so little is
really accomplished.
—Sorely Wall Street can’t afford to per-
mit the resignation of Mr. CORTELYOU as
Secretary of the Treasury. He is too use-
ful to the gamblers.
—They said it was a rich man’s panic
that we bad in November. Strange! The
poor men are the ones who are out of
work as a result of it.
—The Washington woman who bas had
$0 llve with a man whom she swears hasn't
taken a bath for twenty years, ought to be
granted the divorce she has applied for,
—The fifteen year old boy who was ar-
rested in Philadelphia recently for wife de-
sertion ought to have been paddled when
be escaped from his mother’s apron strings.
—Seoretary TAFT says we are not going
to have war with JAPAN. Of course we are
pot | Everybody knows that TAFT is too
busy to bave a war with anyone but FoRr-
AKER just now.
—Admiral EVANS bas started in to court
martialing already and just to start the
ball rolling he has picked out some of the
surgeons as victims. What else could have
been expected after that BROWNSON—
RIXEY episode.
—Dr. KALBFUS wants to baveall the cats
shot ; pussy cats we mean. If the Dootor
is sincere in his latest movement we
wouldn't give much for him should he
happen to wander into some spinster’s con-
vention in the near fature.
~1908 is making an awful record of die-
aster and loss of life. Not since the Iri-
quois theatre fire in Chicago has such a
frightful lose of life occurred as was that of
the Boyertown theatre disaster of Tuesday
night. One twelfth of the town’s popula-
tion wiped out in a few hours makes a rec-
ord of horror seldom equalled.
—Mr. BRYAN says ‘‘the rank aud file
will govern the coming Democratic con-
vention.” We hope so, but past experi-
ence leads us to believe that Mr. BRYAN
will do all the talking for “the rank and
file’ and then won't be satisfied unless his
say so goes. That, in our opinion, is Mr,
BRYAN's only serious weaknoss,
—After April first no one will receive a
newspaper who is more than one year in
arrears. The Postoffice Department has
just made a ruling making it impossible to
send papers through the wail to persons
more shan one year in arrears. There are
a lot who cannot expect to read the
WATCHMAN alter that date unless they get
busy.
—In defying the Senate's request for an
explanation of his reasons for issuing gov-
ernment bonds and debt certificates at a
time when the treasury contained hundreds
of millions of doliars Secretary CORTELYOU
assumes the position of ‘‘the whole cheese’
in governmental affairs. If he is it certain-
ly must be limburger because there bas
been so much stink raised by it.
~The fight between the ROWLEY Bros.,
of Pistsburg and Chicago, over their re-
spective rights in the manufacture of wood-
en legs has resulted in a great drop in the
price of that commodity. Surely here is
something that the poor can be thankful
for. What difference does it make how
high the prices of meat, potatoes, eggs and
milk go so long as wooden legs are within
reach.
—The advent of Mr. R. B. TAYLOR into
the Republican campaign for nomination
for Assembly is likely to inject a style and
spirit at once unique. Mr. TAvLORMHrank-
ly says ‘‘no one asked me to ran, but I am
running because I want it and intend to
get it, if is ie in the wood.” While BERT
doesn’t nsually do things in the most ele-
gant fashion, he does them, nevertheless
and this is for yon Mr. EVEY and for you
Mr. FISHER, to think about.
—Judge Woops, of Mifflin county, is
shooked. Little wonder ! A woman want-
ed to show him and the jury her pedal ex-
tremities during the trial of a case in his
court on Thursday. She had been pushed
over a pile of rails while fighting with
another woman and the injuries she receiv
ed were so hidden by certain bits of ling-
erie that the attorney for the defense ques-
tioned their existence at all. In other
words he was from Missouri, but Judge
Woops modestly prevented him from be.
ing shown.
—Seoretary TAFT says: ‘‘If President
ROOSEVELT says a thing, it is so ; but if he
does not say a thing is is not #0.”” Now it
happens that President ROOSEVELT is said
to have said that TAFT will be nominated
for the Presidency on the first ballot, there-
for, from TAFT's point of view it is a cinch
that he will be nominated. Of course it
would spoil the whole story to start an ar-
gument on whether a thing is so merely
because President ROOSEVELT says it is so,
because then we would have to introduce
some HARRIMAN, Dear MARIA letters in
evidence and they might produce a reason-
able doubt in the mind of the jury.
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Flinn and the Democracy.
The esteemed Philadelphia Record is
immensely worried because the signs indi-
cate that the Demoorats of the State are
reluctant to follow she Jeadership of former
State Senator WiLLiaM FLINN, of Pitts
burg, even though there isa vague promise
of reform at the other end of the proposi-
gion. It doesn's matter how faithless
FLINN bas been in the past, our Philadel
phia contemporary protests, the PENROSE
machive is bad and we should not only
mits, bas he bas had reform impulses oc
casiovally, and therefore ought to be fol-
lowed freely and blindly, now that he has
announced a crusade against PENROSE.
We have not been able to figure out that
the Democrats of Philadelphia gained much
by adopting a reformer of the FLINN type
named JERMON, a couple of years ago. We
can discover no record of a political divi
deod which came from the election of
ViviaN F. GABLE, of Philadelphia, to the
State Senate by Demooratic votes, in 1905.
He served during the special session of
1906 and while Senators GRIM and HERBST
and DEWALT and sheir Democratic ool-
leagues were striving for real reform, in-
stead of the bogus variety which was band-
ed ous, McNicHoL and KEYSER were no
more faithful to the machine than GABLE.
Io fact the Democrats have always been
cheated by these bogus Republican reforn-
ers and invariably have been woree off
alter a fasion of that kind than they would
have been if they had adhered to their
own party and made spoils subordinate to
principle.
The only time that Mr. FLINN ever
openly avowed either reform purposes or
associated himself with a reform movement
during his long service in the Legislature
was in the session of 1899 when be and
bis political aud business partaer, the late
C. L. MAGEE, entered into a conspiracy to
defeat reform. FLINN took one side and
MAGEE the othei, the scheme being tc de-
feat the election of QUAY and secare the
election of MAGEE to the United States
Senate. The result of this intrigue was
the failure to elect anybody at that session
and the election of Quay, not the greater
of two evils, two years later. That FLINN
has an olterior motive in his present move-
ment scarcely admits of doubt and Demo-
orate are wise in ‘looking before they
leap.”
Senator Hale's Mistake.
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In his bill to improve the personnel of
the navy, Senator HALE, of Maine, chair-
man of the committee on naval affairs in
that body, is neither consistent nor wise.
He proposes to give doctors and paymas-
ters on the staff the rank and title of line
officers and then forbids them from assign-
ment to the command of vessels. That is
a vear approach to absardisy if it doesn’t
altogether reach that point. The laws
regulating the navy provide that admirals
shall exercise oertain fonctions and cap-
tains, commanders, lientenants and en-
signs shall perform specified duties. If
doctors or paymasters are admirals or cap-
tains, therefore, they are en titled to all
the privileges of those ranks.
The Senator is inconsistent, moreover,
in introducing a bill prohibiting surgeons
from commanding ships withont taking
steps to prevent that precise thing, now
about to be accomplished. While the
Senator for Maine was preparing his bill
the President was at the other end of the
avenue arravging to put a surgeon of the
pavy in command of aship. The first
thing in order, therefore, is a resolution
forbidding the fulfillment of that purpose.
It that is done #here will be no need of
the legislation for even ROOSEVELT will
probably not undertake it again during
the few months he will remain in office
and it is not likely that any of his succes-
sors, to the end of time, will be so foolish.
Senator HALE has had vast experience
in naval affairs and is in accord with the
opinion of al! other well informed observers
that vesting such authority in staff officers
would he inimical to the discipline. and
efficiency of the navy. Bus his bill won't
stop is for the reason that before it passes,
even if its consideration is expedited, a
ship will he under the command of a sur-
geon and so far oat of reach of she depart-
ment as to make the correotion of the
fault impossible. What is needed, conse-
quently, isa resolusion of Congress for-
bidding the present plan of the President.
That would be effective and could be ao-
complished in a day.
——The Bellefonte shirt factory had two
oases of material in one of the box oars
wrecked on the Lewisburg and Tyrone rail-
road Wednesday evening and as they bave
not yet been able to ges it part of the force
of girls are out of work. And shat is nob
the worst feature, for when the goods reach
Bellefonte they may be wet from the oar
being in the oreek, in which case they will
be worthless.
"STATE RIGHTS
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To the Patrons of the Watchman.
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our subscribers generally to the recent ruling of the U. 8. Postal De-
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mailing of any paper to any patron whose subscription may be one or
more years in arrears as second class matter. Order No. 901, issued
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ANUARY 17, 1908.
3) The People Must Be Awakened.
From the Laneaster Intelligencer.
It is evident that the men who used the
building of the state capitol as a scheme
for sell-enrichment are not going to submit
so trial for these offenses so long as that
oan be staved off. [Is is important to them
that their trials are poseponed as long as
possible, and at least until after the eleo-
tion. It is generally understood that the
leaders of she long dominant party of the
state have at least a sympathetic side for
the prisoners, and thas if they are found
guilty, it will be because popular seoti-
wen proves to be stronger political
pull.
It does not often so happen in Pennsyl-
vania, and there is every inducement to
the prisoners to keep their cases from going
to judgment as long as possible. Ibis safe
renewed after the
following periods :
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Quarterlies within six months,
they shall not be
ers, and
ACCEPTE
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FOR MAILING at the second class postage
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itimate list of subscrib-
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Taft More Zealons than Judiclous,
Secretary TAFT is after the presidency
with the zeal and energy of a commercial
“drummer.” “It’s no trouble to show
goods,” is his motto and he is placarded all
over with ‘if you don’s eee what you want
ask for is,” and other enticing Chatham
street sentiments. Our esteemed Republi-
nan contemporaries have been in the babit
of poking fun at Mr. BRYAN because he
has shown some anxiety to reach the great
office. Bat TAFT has bim ‘‘skinned a
mile.” The late HENRY CLAY was some-
what of a campaigner in his own behalf
and the late JAMES G. BLAINE knew how
to “‘cast an anchor to the windward.” Bat
neither of them went the length to which
TAFT has gone. Even ROOSEVELT'S last
campaign was a ‘“receptive’’ exhibition in
comparison.
In a recent speech Secretary TAFT under-
took to square himself with the labor ele-
ment of the electorate by deciaring that
the injunotion method of settling labor dis-
pates has been abused. He neglected to
add, however, that he was the pioneer in
thas system of litigating differences. The
first injunction ever issued in this country
against strikers came from a court over which
he presided and bore his signature. That
other servile tools of corporations on the
bench have gone a step further is only nat-
ural. That is what they were put there
for. Bat if TAFT badu’s pointed the way
the chances are that no such expedient
would have been resorted to and in depre-
cating it now he simply stultifies himself.
That is not likely to help him.
In his Boston speech, waich wae address”
ed to business men, the Secretary frankly
deolared that he ie in entire accord with
President ROOSEVELT in what are common-
ly known as the RoosgvELT policies. In
the New York speech which was addressed
to *‘the plain people,’’ he as candidly pro-
tested against the centralization of power
in Washington, ‘‘The Lord knows,” he
said, ‘‘the powers are sufficiently concen-
trated there now.”” Yet the concentration
of power in the federal government is the
very essence of the ROOSEVELT policies
which he declared in Boston bas his un-
qualified approval. In other words, in his
zeal to gainjthe Presidency Secretary TAFT
is ready to be ‘‘all things to all men’’ and
promise anything that anybody imagines
— Farmers who have apples to sell will
do well to read the adverticement of T. B.
Budioger in another colamn.
er this matter
Scarlet Might Have Done Better,
The importance of Mr. SHUMAKER, late
superintendent of Pablic Grounds and
Buildings, in the impending trial of the
grafters, is greatly exaggerated, it seems
to us. SHUMARER was culpable, of course,
because he approved the bills of the con-
tractors when he must have known that
they were exorbitant. Bat he wasn’t ‘‘the
whole cheese,” by a large majority and if
it developes from an investigation that he
is too ill to appear at Harrisburg when the
cases are to be called, there is no reason
why that should interfere with the pro-
ceedings against the others. CASSELL,
SANDERSON and HUSTON can be convicted
anyway.
But the arch-conspirator of the lot has
not been indicted at all, or even censured
in the report of the legislative investigating
committee. It was proved by his own
testimony that SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER
knew of the grafting operations long before
the exposare and yet he took no steps
toward obeoking the operations. It was
upon his interpretation of the law that the
laymen on the Board of Public Grounds
aod Buildings approved the exorbitant
bills. It was with hie oconsens, if not
upon his initiative, that bills were rushed
in for payment between the time of the
election of Mr. BERRY and his induction | Stuart,
into the office of State Treasurer, and not-
withstanding that he is to go scott free.
Of course SHUMAKER ought to be
punished and if physically able should be
compelled to plead with his associate con-
spirators. Bat even if he is brought to
trial, convioted and punished to the full
limit of the law the proseoution will never-
theless be a farce and the result a miscar-
riage of justice because the worst misoreant
of the lot will not share in the punishment
and ignominy. PENNYPACKER may not
have been influenced by greed, he may not
have shared in the spoils of the criminal
operations, but he participated just the
snine and the party corruption fund was
enriched by his venality. Mr. SCARLET
bas done well but has failed in this in.
stance in the fall performance of his duty.
——Last Tuesday night Arthur Han-
socom, of Unionville, was robbed of two
bundred dollars in cash. Suspeoting who
the thief was heawore out a warrant for
his arrest and when the man in question
was confronted with the warrants and the
conatable he wilted and returned she wad,
after which he was allowed to go free.
Pe
come so selfish an
state that it is so tolerate of ©
to say that they bave long been condemned
in popular opinion, and, therefore, it is
their cue to give the heat of popular opin-
ion time to cool ; by which they will lose
nothing if they gain nothing. We may
rest assured that if they ever get to the
block, it will not be at express speed.
It the Republican gang that have so Jong
held the state in control should lose their
hold Spon it, the fair presuiaptian is that
trial of defendants will speedily result in
their conviction ; just as it may be under-
stood that they are likely to be a long time
reaching conviction if they ever do, while
that gang rules.
It bas become apparent its rule has be
so regardless of the
rty interests, in which it is claimed to be
eld, that party revolt from it will be
strenuous. More is to be expected from
such revolt than from popular resentment,
which notoriously in this state bas a habit
of fading away under long strain. There
pever bas been a community so habituated
to patient endurance of public wrong and
official incompetenoy and rascality. It has
become an acknowledged stigma h Japon the
al mis.
condugt, The people, individually, are
doubtless no different from other people in
their tolerance of misgovernment, their
greater stolidity in the mass being due to
the strong majority of the party in power,
to the greater hopelessness of dislodging
such a majority and to the long endurance
of its evil rule. The people have become
callousand hopeless and demand a sharp
shook to stir them to a mind to turn the
rascals out, They have done it, but they
have not continued their sentinels upon
the watohtowers ; so that Pennsylvania
has yet to show a determination to purify
and keep pure its government. When the
state capitol scamps get into jail and their
bosses get out of power, this sign will ap-
pear.
A Cortelyonan Thrust,
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Secretary Cortelyou has been addressing
the Hamilton club, of New York, on his
illustrions predecessor, whose name the
organization bears, He found the usual
catalogae of virtues, including the alleged
invention of the protective tariff, and con-
cluded with this apparent thrust at some-
body, observing that it was a conclusion
reached from stndying Hamilton's life.
*“That the public official, who sabhordioates
personal ambition to public service, best
| serves his country and himself.”
That is quite sententious, and obedience
ise Summary would meet approval.
Taft been subordioating per-
ambition to the pablic service ? Is
the retinne of Government officials tramp-
ing Join the grass over the land in his
behalf Subordinating service to his ambi-
sion, or vice versa ? Does Mi. Cortelyon
want to convey the impression that bis late
spasm of a candidacy bas ended and he
again subordinates his ambition to the pub-
lio service, leaving Mr. Taft alone disobey-
ing the motto alleged to have guided the
great Alexander Hamilton ?
Did the great Alexander always practice
the ‘‘sub’ system ? He reached the heights
of army preferment, and he could rise no
higher on the civil list than he attained.
He was born on the island of Nevis, West
Indias, and hence the presidency was be-
youd his grasp. In the constitutional con-
vention be wanted an executive for life,
and thus be would have had his own
thwarted ambition saved from a succession
of shooks. It requires some extraordinary
reading ability to detect that personal am-
bition and public service were not jogging
along together. The people donot com-
plain of that. It is when ambition domi-
nates service that it horts.
sonal
Kill the Oats, Says Kelbfas.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Secretary Joseph Kalbfus, of the State
game commission, is inviting the wrath of
cats and cat financiers. He Governor
that genial bachelor, to recommend
inolading in the bounty law an offer for
the scalps of house cats, they maur-
der song and inseotivqrous birds. The
insatiate Kalblus is not or be Ste
present bargain counter ay of premi-
ums on the pelts of the mink, wildeat and
fox, but would add cash payments for the
great horned ow! avd goshawk. The hau-
man, yielding to his oarnivorous tastes,
may kill the frisky squirrel and the sncen-
lent quail, but the insensate cat must not
he permitted to succumb to ite a te
without its scalp a= the forfeit and the cost
on the county. While in the full frenzy
of his revenge he renews his on
aliens for ruthlessly shooting the warblers
of the bush and trees. But he pauses be-
fore he demands a bounty on their scalps.
The quality of meroy seems strained. What
a fad and a orusade ! Where did he get is ?
Was is made in Washington ?
King Magoom Receives.
From the Springfield Republican.
was pecaliar, in addition, inasmuch as the
Cubans, in very many cases, bent the knee
before the ruler occasionally a man
went olear to the floor in his genuflections.
The good Magoon could not
received literally
~The county commissioners of Bedford
county have paid for the scalps of foxes,
minks, weasels and wild cats during the
past year to the amount of $1,921.
—The county commissioners of Mercer
county have decided to erect a fine new
court house at a cost of from $300,000 to
$500,000 to take the place of the one recently
destroyed by fire.
—Following a series of burglaries the resi-
dents of Portersville and vicinity, in Butler
county, have organized a vigilance commit-
tee of thirty-seven and armed sjuads patrol
the country every night.
—On Saturday, within twenty-four hours,
twenty-six coasting accidents occurred in
Pottsville, and in one case, a girl 15 years
old is not expected to recover as her skull
was (ractured by striking a curbstone.
—Tuberculosis is spreading to a marked
degree among cattle in York county, and an
inspector of the state live stock sanitary
boatd has just condemned fifty-three head of
stock and placed eighteen head under quar-
antine.
—Robert D. Armor, one of the oldest and
most active Odd Fellows in the state, died at
his home in Gettysburg on Friday aged 83
years. He was a charter member af Gettys-
burg lodge and for twenty consecutive years
was its delegate to the Grand lodge.
—The Standard Steel works, the company
formed by the Baldwin locomotive works re-
cently to operate the works at Burnham,
Mifflin county, has filed in the state depart-
ment an increase of stock from $10,000 to
$3,000,000. The bonded debt was $5,000,~
000.
—William Sebring, of Burnside township,
Clearfield county, left his home late Wed-
nesday on a hunting trip. Two hours later
his brother and two other men found his
dead body in the snow about two hundred
yards from home. He had accidentally shot
himself.
—Mrs. Mary Whalen, who was said to have
been between 105 and 107 years old, died at
her home in Carrolitown, Cambria county,
at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning, January
5th. Her husband died last February at the
age of 98. Mrs. Whalen is survived by two
daughters.
—Enraged by jealousy, Frank Debolt, of
Lancaster,on Friday evening fired a revolver
at Miss Minnie Panli, and then fired a bullet
into his head. A corset steel saved Miss
Panli from serious injury and his aim at
himself was not good so that his injury is
slight also.
—There is activity among the ice men on
the Pocono mountains, in Monroe county,
and some have begun cutting although the
thickest ice measures only six inches. As a
rule it is not cut until it is a foot thick.
More than 1,000,000 tons are usually cut in
that region.
—Commencing Sunday, January 12th,
Sunday mail service was extended to Elnora,
gpaungler and Barneshoro, Cambria county,
and in a week or two Patton, St. Benedict
and Carrolltown will also receive the same
service; the three latter places will be reach-
ed by trolley.
—The establishment of a separate school
for colored children in Williamsport was be-
fore the szhool board last fall but the board
decided against the project. Recently the
question bobbed up again and ov Thursday
evening it was decided by a vote of 17 to 16
to establish such a school.
—J. F. Kelly, of DuBois, received injuries
on Thursday about 9 o'clock at the Eriton
shaft that resulted in his death two hours
later. Mr. Kelley was employed at the shaft
and in some manner was caught between the
motor and a rib of coal. He was terribly
crushed, his hip being broken and one leg
fractured and sustained internal injuries.
—Aunt Jane Smith, a woman in her 90th
year, was the host of a remarkable dinner
party at her home near Williamsburg a few
days ago. She entertained five generations
of descendants, fourteen guests in all, and
reserved the chief surprise until the good
things had been disposed of. Then she arose
and personally presented each guest with a
little envelope with a crisp $50 bill—$700
in all,
—Harry Litz, residing near the Lock
Haven Fire Brick works, killed a hen on
Saturday for the Sunday dinner, and on
dressing the same Mrs. Litz was amaged to
find a large black pin about an inch and a
ball long, with large head, such as is used
by women folks with mourning apparel,
sticking through the liver of the chicken. It
is probable the hen grabbed for the head and
swallowed the entire pin, which finally be-
came imbedded in the liver.
—Frank Leo, an Italian believed to be an
agent of the Black Hand, and accused of
levying blackmail upon foreign miners for
several months past was shot and killed at
the Florence mine of the Rochester and Pitts.
burg Coal company, six miles from Punxsu-
tawney, on Sunday, while attempting to
collect $50 from Dominic Provinee and $20
each from two of the latter's boarders. Pro-
vinco is accused of the shooting. He fired
three shots, from a shotgun, it is alleged,
while Leo was parleying at the door with
Mrs. Provineo about paying the mouey de-
manded. He is alleged to have collected.
from Provinco and the boarders on a number
of occasions.
—On Saturday morning about 2 o'clock as
a north bound freight on the Buffalo and
Susquehanna railroad was going up a steep
grade at Eckman’s, between Trade City,
Indiana county, and McCormick, the draw
bar which connects the engine with the tank
snapped in two. The engineer had stepped
back to the tank to get a drink and the fire-
man was standing on the engine but was
thrown on the track by the violent jolt
caused by the break and had both legs cut
off. When the engine broke away it had a
full head of steam and with open throttle
the released iron horse started along the
track at a rapid rate of speed, up bill and
down, swaying in is mad flight like a re-
by | leased bird. On and on it sped never once
slacking up for sharp curves, yard limits,
stations or anything else, until after it bad
gone for shout fourteen miles. With steam
exhausted and fire extinguished in the fire
box it was compelled to remain still and
silent, like a wounded animal which has
wasted its last drop of blood in an effort to
escape from the hunter.
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