Spawls from the Keystone. —English sparrows are being killed and served as food by West Chester residents who have found out that they are very pala- table served on toast or stuffed with an oys- ter and then roasted. ~After a month's strike of the guarrymen in the slate quarries at Delta, York county, has been settled and the 300 strikers have returned to work, the wage reduction of 10 per cent having been declared off. —Up to this time anti-local option organi- = | zations have been formed in forty-six coun. ties in the state, to oppose candidates for the state legislature who may favor the submis- sion of the question of local option to a vote of the people. ~Eight dwellings, a store and the United Brethren church, at Danlo, near Johnstown, Demo iatcpn = BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —This winter certainly seems crazy enough to be convicted of ‘‘dementia Americans.” —11 all the grafters turn State’s evidence there would be no one left to punish but PENNYPACKER. —The real time for celebration will come when one of those foreign Jukes come over here and marries a poor girl. Whi OL Tarif Tazes and Republican Editors, BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 31, 1908. A Transparent Trick. Danger in Postai Savings Banks, With The Best Intemtions, —A parcels poss would suddenly make th2 express companies discover that they can carry goods at a much cheaper rate than they do. —The Berry dinner in Philadelphia is to cost three dollars a plate, consequently it can’t be expected thas there will be any capitol trimmings. —More than six thousand women are said to be employed in the seoret service in Russia. What impossible duties some peo- ple are called upon to perform. —They have a sure cure for boy thieves in New York. Ouoe of tiem was given a term of fifteen years the other day so that he will never be a boy thief again. —Judged from the activity at the can- ous last Saturday vight the staid old West waid has decided to jump into the sput- light of political turmoil for awhile. ~The largest bull ring in the world is juss being completed in Mexico. This is not the rehabilitation of the big ring Penn- The stand patters'in Congress got quite a shook, the other day, we understand, when the Pennsylvania State Editorial Associa- tion unanimously adopted a resolution en- dorsing Representative JOHN G. MOHEN- RY'S bill which provides that ‘‘all timber, lamber, bark and wood pulp, imported into shis conotry from whatever source, shall be admitted free of cnstoms daties or taxes.” Mr. McHENRY is the capable young Democratic member of Congress from the Sixteenth distries of Peansylva- pia. He regards the tariff tax on lamber as aboat the ‘‘crowning atrocity’ of the inignitous tariff system and during his campaign for election pledged himself to attempt the repeal of that particular out- rage. He has reason to feel flastered that the Editorial Association of hia State has come so his support in the matter. The Penusylvania State Editorial Asso- ciation is a non partisan body. Probably a considerable majority of the members are The lowest depths of toadyism aie sonnd- ed in the praise of Secretary TAFT for bis recent letter to HERBERT PARSONS sug- gesting the withdrawal of all opposition to the endorsemens of Governor HuGHES for the Repablican nomivation for President by the Republican organization of New York. PaARsoNs had been able, with the help of the administration at Washington, to prevent a vote on the question at two meetings of the committee, by declaring that as HuGHES bad not said he was a can- didate, there was no certainty of the fact, This was a disreputable subterfuge, but TAFT made no complaint agaiust it. Fi. nally HuaHgs deolared bis candidacy, TAFT knew that the endorsement would follow with or without his consent, so he mude a virtue of necessity and consented, So far from this being a sign of magoa- nimity on the part of Secretary TAFT it is conclusive proof that he is as much a polit- ical trickster as any of the New York poli ticians, He knew a month ago that a vast The friends of the parcels post are either insincere or unwise when they attach it to a proposition of widely different character koown as Postal Savings banks. These utilities are not twins, or even in the re- motest measure kindred. Parcels post ap- peals to the thoughtful mind as a remedy against an anjust and dangerous monopoly. It would be a useful adjunct of the rural free delivery for it would enable the car- riers in that branch of the postal service to deliver packages ordered by mail to the farmers and other residents on the route from the village or town most convenient for supply. There is no monopely of banks, however, to be disoiplived ''v government service. Postal savings banks would be capable of working the greatest injury to com- munities throughout the country in the event of currency famines or financial stringency. The moment suspicion was aroused concerning the ability of other ' banks to meet the demands of depositors, From the Pittsburg Times, Young John D. Rockefeller is without experimental knowledge of the seamy side of buman life such as men of smaller in- comes possess. He bas bad ill health, such as many poor men have been afflicted with, hat he bas not suffered of income daring the pe.iod of inability to labor with head or hands. He knew where the money to pay the doctor, the to come from daring enforerd idleness. In his illuess he dia not have to worry about His father knows something of the rougher side of the world. He bad poverty for an incentive ; He knows the frugal- hy a lean pure ; all that the the welfare of his family. necessity for a spur. ity enforoed son knows ahous frugal living he learned in following the doctor's orders. Thas does not enlighten a man very much as to the uppleasautness of the frugalisy com- Jelied hy grim want. To young John D. ookefeller much of life ie a closed hook, and we donhs thas he will ever open is. This young man was director and leader of a Bible class in the Fifth Avenue Bap. Ill health compelled him to relinguish leadeiship at tins church of New York city. , the gro- cer, the milkman, aod all the others was were destroyed Saturday by a fire, which was checked only by tearing down the house in the pathway of the flames. The luss is estimated at $50,000. ~The silk mill at Kutztown and the one at Fleetwood, Berks county, under the con- trol of the York Silk Mill Manufsgturing company, resumed operations on Monday after an idleness of two months. About 300 persons will receive employment. ~The work of rebuilding the plant of the Standard Power company at Horrell station, which was practically wiped out by an ex- plosion about a year ago, has been complet- ed, and operations will be resumed next March. The rebuilt planl embraces seven buildings, ~The treasurer of Cambria county has re- ceived from the state treasurer at Harrishurg a check for $679 to reimburse the county for bounties paid for obnoxious animals killed by local hunters during the year, which were: Foxes, 193; minks,52; weasels, 40; wild cats, 25; hawks, 27; lynx, 5. —Mountain land about Pen -Mar Park, Republicans and the President of the State League of Republican olabs is one of the secretaries. But the tax on wood pulp has enabled the paper trast to put such intol- erable burdens upon the pablishers of newspapers that they are literally compell- ed to seek relief. It may be said that they are inflaenced by selfi .h considerations to favoring shis particular reform in the tariff. The tax on blankets, on clothing, on tools, implements of manafactare and hus: bandry, is quite as hardensome and just as inignitons. The Pennsylvania editors to be consistent ought to have attacked the other outrages as well as that which affeos- ed themselves. Bat it's impolite to “‘look a gifs horse in the mouth,’ and we can al- ford to be satisfied for the present with this step in the right direction. We have no idea, however, that the ac tion of the Peausylvania State Editorial Association will have any iufluence on the action of Congress. It may move Speaker CANNON to picturesque profanity and em barrass some of the Pennsylvania Repahli- cau Representatives in Congress who will need the support of the papers when they come before the people for re-election next fall. Bat the Republican majority will not do anything that will impair the con- tiol of the trusts in the indastrial life of the country. The useless tax on lamber makes it more dfficals for indastrions me- chanics to get homes of their own and the tax on hark adds something to the price of shoes. Bat all such taxes put money in the treasuries of the trusts and the trusts, in tarn, make up the corruption fands of the Repablican party. the time he gave up all business activity. Bat be continued 8a member and now, in improved health, frequently addresses the other members. Ou Sanday last he advis- ed the class on giving to the poor and on borrowing from and lending to friends. The report we have seen—a [riend'y one— says that he asserted that “Christ's com- mand to give to she poor should not he taken in a hiteral sense,’ and with regard to assisting a friend over a rough ou the pathway from the oradle to the urave ie advised : “'If yon want to lend money, do it in a bociness way ; take his note with interest,” This was with reference to loans of small amounts which are olten asked by the men ‘up against is.” There is not mach reason to question that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is a young man of right intentions, who wishes to do good. His trouble is that he does not know. He ba: bad no opportanity to learn. A graduate course in the big ani. versity of the world is needed to adjost a man’s theories to things 8s they are. That has heen denied him by fate. He has zeal for the true, the good and perhaps for the heausiful, Bat he lacks the wisdom that is developed, rounded and perfected by knowledge. For this good intent he should he given fall oredis. Bat we can’t imagine the Savior in whose name the Fifth Ave. nue Baptist ohuroh, of New York, was ereoted telling His disciples that His com- mand to give to the oor was not $o he | taken literally and to ‘‘take his vote wi interest,” Franklin county, is soaring in price. Last Saturday a tract was sold for $146 and other tracts brought from $61 50 to $70 per ncre Althongh about sixty acres were sold for about $4,000, which were purchased less than twenty five years ago for $600. —Several progressive families in Nippe-~ nose valley, Lycoming county, have decided to have their own telephone line and after forming a company and completing pianos, have started the work of huilding the line, The last pole was put in place on Friday and the work of stringing the wires will begin shortly. —Mrs. Kate Myers, wife of George W. Myers, a teamster, of Lock Haven, was in- stantly killed Monday afternoon and her bushand probably fatally injured. In en: deavoring to prop np =a log it slipped and rolled down the bank and the couple were caught and knocked down, the log rolling over them, —Elmer C. Albright, of Williamsport, who was made a prisoner at the city hall about 1 o'clock on Saturday morning at the instance of his wife, for drankenness and threats, was found dead in his cell by the desk sergeant shortly after 7 o'clock. Albright had been drinking for over a week and was in bad condition when arrested, Cae-After a flerse fight wit! the policies. men were arrested in a house near Messina, Sicily, Thursday of last weok, for partioipa- tion in robbing paymacter Charles Hays, . some four years ago, ucar the village of Por- tage, in this State. They are now in prison awaiting trial, as has been = former member of the party, Francesco Bebesi, for some time. —R R. Quay, W. P. Sayder and C. C. Scaife, have all received Black Hand lettters threatening death to themselves and the destruction of their palatirl homes at Se- wickley Heights, near Pittshurg, if they did not send by return $300 in an addressed en- velope which the writer had enclosed. Guisepe Murino has been arrested charged with being the author of the letter. —Believing that his illness would result fatally, John Fetter, aged 73 years, of South Bethlehem, last Thursday confessed that he murdered his daughter, Eila Fetter, aged 39 years, in November, 1894. Fetter told Jus- tice Haus that he had placed the rope around his daughter's neck. and then told the neigh bors that she hung herself. The confession was lodged with the district attorney. —In Allensville, Mifflin county, busy housewives take an active part in preparing the materials used in weaving carpets. From January 1, 1907, to December 30, 1nclusive the persons at the raggery have torn 65,151 pounds of rags. The greater part of these rags are sewed by Allensville’'s industrious women while the remainder are sewed at Belleville. For doing this work they have received during the year almost $1,400. —A pitiable climax to the sad case of Mrs. Edward Dahlstrom and her eight children, who were living in destitute circumstances near Conemaugh, was reached on Saturday evening, when the mother aud the oldest daughter were stricken down with typhoid fever, Up to that time the mother and this daughter were caring for the other seven children, who were all very ill, one with poeumonia and the remaining six with ty- phoid fever. On Sunday the entire family was removed to the Memorial hospital in Johnstown. —The state department of agriculture has arranged for the establishment of model sylvania once bails for *‘Ball’”’ ANDREWS. —Milk isdown to six oentsa quart again. It looks honest when the milk men reduce the price just at the time when the barn pump is moss likely to be frozen up. —Now is the time for the sportsman who enjoys fishing 80 much to think a little ahout planting some small fish to replace the ones he took from the stream last sea- son. — An English educational society is con- sidering ovoking classes for boys. Shades of the day when men were supposed to wear the pants, save us from this final hamiliation, —With our annual honey crop grown to the enormous aggregate of twenty-five mil- lion dollars there is now more room for conjecture than ever as to which is the real business end of the hee. —This VANDERBILT —SZECHENYI mar- riage may have been a purely love affair bat we'll bes she Hangariau Conut gota good sized wad of the VANDERBILT coin before he let the love lead him to the altar. —[t woald perhaps be just as well not to call PENNYPACKER a8 A witness in the graft cases. Waat's the use io giving him mileage and costs when he didn’t know enough to see what was being done when he was in Harrisburg. ~Everyhody knows that it cost the THAW girl encugh to get the Earl of Yar- mouth but at a thousand dollars a day to the lawyer who is prosecuting her plea for divorve it is likely to cost her a pretty penny to get rid of him. ~If the BERRY dinner winds up in a BRYAN boom it will certainly he because that is the wish of the diners. Since they are to pay for the food and eas is there isn’t much room for questioning their right 10 make of it what they please. majority of the Republicans of New York | the vast majority of deposits woald be are in favor of HUGHES for the nomination, | withdrawn from them avd put into the Yet he allowed the groveling political : postal savings banks. In such times de- shyster, HERBERT PARSONS, who combin- . positors don’t withdraw their money be. ed with HEARST last fall to turn the city | cause they need it. On the contrary they and State of New York over to the social- | are influenced by fear of the solvency of the ists and anarchists, to prevent the declara- | banks. With the government behind the tion at two meetings of the committee, in | postal savings banks there would be no fear the hope thas the falsehood might he main- | and all the money would drift into their tained to the end and thas be might gain | vaults. It isn’t bard to infer what would strength in other localities through the un. | follow, certainty of the attitnde of New York.| During the recent currency famine the When be discovered bis failure he pretend- | Secretary of the Treasury robbed the coun- ed to acquiesce. try Peter to pay the Wall street Paul. In- It was believed that RooseveLT with | quiry shows that even in the apportion- the help of PARSONS and the use of patron- | mens of the Panama bonds and treasury age would be able to control the New York | certificates the New York banks were favor- delegation for TAFT and in the event that (ed. Now is goes without saying that if the expectation bad heen fulfilled the fight | pustal savings banks bad been in opera- woa'd be as good as over, But the present | tion, the money taken from local commer- certainty that that State will be for | cial banks and deposited in the local postal HUGHES puts an entirely different lace on | savings hanks would have been forwarded the situation. In fact, notwithstanding | to Washington and thence distributed that all the power and patronage of the ad- | among the Wall street favorites, leaving ministrat.on bave been employed to secure | the banks in smaller cities and towns abso- TAFT delegates in the South there is no | lutely without currency to transact busi- certainty that he will get the nomioation, | ness, Wise people will not invite sach a Peonsylvania will not fool with Kx0X | depsr. 3 i very loug aud Ohio will be an unwilling | ET —— supporter of TAFT from the start so that Porget the Quay NMonument. the favorite sons may do for TAFT this year what they did with BrLaIiNe in 1880, though a week ago it looked ae il bis nom- ination was ahsolutely sure, A Forlorn Hope. We would like very mach to agree to the proposition, favored by several esteemed contemporaries, thas the QUAY monument should he set up in the cemetery in which the QUAY remains are reposing. Bat it is utterly and absolutely out of the question. The law authorizing the creation of the effigy provides that it he erected in the capitol grounds at Harrisburg. While pab- hie indignation was ranoing high shrongh- out the State, and the machine managers had a fear thas in such position it might be dyvamited or in some other way desecrated, it was suggested that the statute might be interpreted to permit its erection in the bailding. Bat even that was a question in the minds of some lawyers, Nobody will ccutend, however, that pas- ting the statoe in the grayeyard at Beaver where QUAY was buried is a compliance with the law. The State has paid for a good many things in Beaver daring the past quarter of a century, but the cemetery in that town is no part of the pablio grounds at Harrishurg. Therefore if the sugyestion thas it be erected there is car- ried var, legislation will be necessary. The aot authorizing the etatue will have to be amended by striking out the capitol grounds and ivserting the cemetery at Besver. There would probably be little if any objection to such a proposition and it is within the constitational power of the Legislature. The safest and best way to solve the problem, however, is to leave it where it is until somebody converte it into a more use- ful purpose than that for which it was in- tended. The erection of a monument to Quay by the State of Pennsylvania at any time or place will he an outrage upon the morality of the people. He was no worse than his party and his death worked no reform in the political morals of the State. Bat the people of Pennsylvania are hardly ready to deify vice and that is what the From the Lancaster Intelligencer. Secretary Taft directs bis friends in New Yoik to withdraw their opposition to the presentation by that state of Governor Hughes as its presidential candidate. This, of course, was wise and even necessary an- der the development of the strength of the governor and the abundant demonstration that he could command its vote. It is but an exhihition of ordinary prudence and would have been better shown at even an earlier stage of the cauvass. Probably the president bas failed to propeily estimate the strength of Governor Hughes, and is may be assumed that if he had not now better sealized it he would not yet have ceased to challenge it. New York being his own state, we may fairly assume that he dictated the handling of it in the matter of the candicacy of his candidate, who might have heen prompted, if he had been on the ground humself, to realize the con- ditions there and to have stepped out of Governor Hoghes’ way when it might have seemed to he a more voluntary act. Senator Knox, who ie marked as the president's second choice, has nos been in- terfered with in Pennsylvania with which state he will enter the convention, bus there will be no particnlar inducement to the uhlican national delegates to select a candidate from Pennsylvania, outside of probably the administration annointment he may ges alter its Ohio candidate is laid low. There i= ne natural strength in Knox's candidacy, while that of Governor Hughes is great, and hie nomination de- Jena upon the power of the administra. on. Governor Hoghes will make the strong- est leader the Republican party can call to head its forlorn hope of success in a strog- gle that is to take place under basiness conditions that will surely operate to avert fiom it popular support. His failure of oloee alliance with the administration will serve to avert from him so far as may he responsibility for the country's dilapidated financial state, and the party may have a hope to escape its responsibility therefor, though is is, a« we say, a forlorn one. Pauperizing the Poor. From the Chicago Public. An Impending Crusher. Everybody is expeoting some sort of a deliverance from the President within a few days whioh will have a paralytio effect on certain Senators. Just what it will be is beyond conjecture at present though be- fore this issne of the WATCHMAN reaches its destination, it may be spread broad- cast. All shat can he said now is thas it will pertain to patronage. Some appoins. ments of the President were recently held ap by the Ohio Senators on the ground that they were made in consideration of sappors of TAFT. It is believed that the President will try to show thas the very Senators who make the complaint have been usiug patronage to promote their own interests, Probably no Senator in Congress within a hundred years has failed to favor his friends, more or less, in the distribution of patronage. Other things being equal it in not nureasonable that a Sevastor shonld prefer a friend to an enemy in selecting public officials. Bat it is not likely that any Senator bas insisted on theappointment of enemies of she President in order to get his own friends in office. The appointing power is a sort of co-partnership affair. The President nomivates and the Senate consents. Therefore while recommending his own [friends the Senator rhoald take care that he doesn’t recommend an enewy of the President and vica versa. The pablio will awais the issue of the President's statement on this sulj-ot with much interest, however. Very little in the shape of official courtesy is expected from either Senator FORAKER or his col. league, Senator Dick. Tuey are both ma. A World Pow r Contemporary. We are glad to learn that onr esteemed contemporary RAISULI has also hecome ‘a world power.’’ This enterprising Morocoan outlaw who has been in the hahis of kid- napping people and holding them for ran- som, has acquired the distinotion by hold. ing the government of Greats Britian up for $100,000, placed on the head of one of the peers of the realm, who had been for some time enjoying the enforced hospitality of the illastrions bandit. Anybody who can do that with JouNNY BULL it seems, is a world power, and consequently RAISULI is at present reveling in thas distinotion, It will he rememhered that about four years ago RAISULI got hold of some fellow with a suspicionsly Egyptian name who claimed to bave been an American citizen by naturalization and she only time in his life that the late Jonx Hay astempted the melodramatic was in connection with thie incident. The Repablican National convention was in session and the Secretary of State gravely cabled to somebody that our strenuous President demanded the alleged American with an Assyrian name alive or “Ramsunt dead.” Is convalsed the chantry bas failed to blaff the bandit. He held bis prisoner antil the rancom was paid aud shen turned him loose to make room for a more profitable ‘‘roomer.”’ We congratulate RAISULI upon hie achievement. The United States have be- come a world power and on the theory that “misery loves company,’ we may rejoice —The first evidence brought out in the capitol graft cases indicates thas HUsTON will try to exculpate himself by asserting that the other fellows did it. However that may be the half-million dollar archi- tect has not denied shat he got his. —*‘‘Round the rough rook the ragged rascal ran’’ is one of the tests of a certain form of insanity. If yon can reel that off right fast you can probably keep out of the bug-house. However, there might he times when it would prove quite as bard to say as ‘‘Sarsaparilla.”’ ~—What proper management does for business undertakings could not be more forcibly illustrated than by she business of the Soath Manchurian railway. Uoder Russia it required an anvual appropriation of fifteen million rubles from the govern- ment to keep it going. Uoder Japan it is earning thirty per cent. profits. ~The coming presidential campaign will serve a good purpose in bringing out what ’ ingenuity there is in our Republican lead- ers. The old hoiler-plate stories of pros- perity and fall dinner pails will have to remaio in the sorap pile and the G. O. P. will bave to put out a fine line of bot air to keep people’s minds off the soup house. —Congress may make Pennsylvania a gits of the Carlisie Indian school, provided that Pennsylvania agrees to maintain it, Cungress had better be wary of Penunsylva- nia's agreements to maintain schools. Coun- gress presented The Penosylvania State College to this Commonwealth under a sol- emn promise that it woald be properly maintained and what bas heen the result? State has never had anything more shan the leavings. —We are with Prof. MORGAN, of Brook- lyn, in his idea thas it is aboat time to do away with rag-time music in the charches, Some of the Sundav school song books used today are atterly ridienlons, both as to ma- » sic and sentiment. Seleotion alrer seleo- tion is so rilly as to almo