“ 9) we should be in sympatby with. That is,that ‘the platform of our party for the national . North American bad the back-bone of a —— ing the right pod condemning the wrong, : ‘became nauseating long ago when it was say, it is nod a paper with a conviction and - ’ : : : - ; Spawls from the Keystone. —The Hipple planing mili,of Lock Haven, has just received a large contract for furnish. ing office furniture and fixtures for barracks at army posts. ~The Colonial Iron company’s furnaces at RBiddlesburg, Bedford county, resumed opera. tions Monday after béding banked since February. These furnaces are the largest in the region aud have undergone complete re- pairs. \ —Ezra Reist, of Manheim, Lancaste: coun- BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. 1 When Waxes goes to Congress T'here'll be something doin’ sure, They'll be speeches for the money-bags And pensions for the poor. Theyre'il be seeds for all the farmers And free mail-routes everywhere, And Warxzs's goin’ to Congress, t1e's a habit of gettin’ there. —Au illuminated key hole is one of the latest inventions recorded. It is an acoes- sory after the fact to the illuminated nose. —Is is quite certain that Col. REYNOLDS won’ find is a very pleasant task playing catspaw to pull Mr. Noisy Haraoops' chestnuts oat of the fire, —Senator PLATTS gave bis wile $70,000 to keep her quiet and plenty of other men would be glad to do the same to accom- plish the same end il they only bad the seventy. ow ™ Perhaps if we changed its pame from decoration to precipitation day there might be a better chance of having one 30th of May without a rain'to spoil the parade and route the exercises. —With two trains to Denver it is appar- ent thas the Democrats of Pennsylvania in- tend making a fuss at the nomination it they won’t be heard of at the election of the next President. ~Congress has adjourned and a lot. of statesmen will find it very bard convincing their constituents betwsen this and Novem- ber that they did anything while in Wash- ington to warrant their return to legislative balls. ~The frequency with which dynamite is used in bombs, for wrecking street cars and houses in this country mightiead Russia to imagine that all the governmental unrest 1n the world is not centered in the domain of the Czar. —That Waynestown, Indiana, bavker who is in jail for stealing a horse might have learned from Mr. BiLLy MONTGOMERY, of Pittsburg, that if you bad to go to jail for stealing you had better go for stealing something worth while, : —The old story of the pot and the kettle sarapping as to their color has a modern se- quel in the action of Col. REYNOLDS con. testing Lewis V. EMERY’S seat in the Re- publican national convention because of his doubtful Republicanism. —It was a grand achievement for AL. pRIcH and FAIRBANKS to pass that out- rageous ourrency bill with the grandeur to the borders of brilliancy by their taking advantage of a blind man's inability to see in order to achieve it. ~The President was thrown from his horse, while riding in Rook creek park on Wednesday, and landed in the waters of a rocky creek after a tumble of ten leet. The President ie lucky and his luck was with him because he was net hurt. Now for a dime wuseum to get the horse that threw ROOSEVELT. . -=When DAVID B. HILL said at the re- interment of former Vice President GEORGE B, CLINTON, at Kiogston, N. Y., the other day, that ‘he knew enough to know that he didn’t know it all,’’ be gave expression ‘$0 a thought that is probably making a great many of the Senator's enemies soratch their heads quite a little. ‘—The stand that the Maryland Demo- cratic convention has taken voices one prin- ciple, at least, that every true Demoorat . wo STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 53 BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 5, 1908. drig bouse $75 for a four year crop seng grown on.a patch of ground sixteen twenty-four feet. At that rate an acre . yield a crop worth $8,000, or $2,000 per year. ~To be pennilesson Monday and to refuse $45,000 for an oil gusher and leases on thirty acres of land Saturday night was the ex- perience of Harry N. Hoffman, of Penn township, Butler county, last week. The well he struck has a flow that will make him rich in a short time. ¢ ~While William Jones, of Mahanoy City, was cleaning & horse on Wednesday he noticed the horse was in danger of choking to death when he thrust his band down the animal's throat and drew out a $20 gold piece which the horse had evidenly taken up while eating his feed. ~The Keystone Coal sud Coke company has donated fifteen acres of ground, near New Alexandria, Westmoreland county, divided into one hundred foot patches, which has all been ploughed and harrowed, for the use of the families or children of miners, for raising vegetables and flowers. ~The stone work on the new river bridge at Jersey Shore is about completed, and by the end of the week it is expected that everything will be finished about the abut- ments and pier so that the builders can com~ | mence their work on the iron structure, which began arriving on Tuesday. ; —Au inquest Tuesday, held over the body of a man found in the creek near Sunbury Monday night, resulted in the positive identification of the corpse as that of F. M, Bloom, the bank clerk, who disappeared about three weeks ago, after a shortage in his accounts of $6,000 had been discovered. Final arrangements have been made for the state encampment of the Sons of Vet- eraus, which is to be held in Williamsport beginning tomorrow and lasting one week. A fund of $40,000 has been contributed by the citizens for the use of the Sons of Vet- erans’ committee in entertaining the ex- pected visitors. —By the will of the late Josephine M. Peck, of Williamsport, provision is made for a memorial window to be placed in the new Third Presbyterian church to the memory of her two children. The cost of the window is mot to exeeed $500. Mrs, Peck also be. queathed 300 of her valuable lantern slides to Rey. Dr. Armstrong, pastor of the church. —Three boys were out rowing in the Clarion river, at Ridgway, on Wednesday, when they discovered the body of 2 man in the water, which was afterwards identified as that of George Pondelevegos, who disap- John Sharp Williams, LaFollette’'s Fight. The time was unpropitions for Senator LaForuerre's ‘‘fliboster,’”’” and the con- ditions were unfavorable. If there had been a donstitutional limit to the session, one or even ten weeks ahead, his purpose might bave been achieved. Senators STONE, GoRE and Davis, taking turos in “‘spell- ing’ him, would bave made a discussion of ten weeks possible. Bat with six months of time to bridge over by constant talking, the enterprise was foreordained to deleat. This is why the Democrats of the body de- termined against captious resistance. It is why the Republican leaders contemplated the “‘filibuster’”’ with complacency. The owner of a substactial stone wall is véver worried when a man undertakes to break it down with hie head. . / Nevertheless. we are unable to withhold an expression of admiration for the Senator who undertook the intpossible task. He was working in a righteous cavse. He was fighting vicious legislation and supported in a hopeless labor by the consciotisness that he was right, The Democrats in the Sen. ate opght to have given bim stronger moral support. They koew that be couldn’t sue ceed and were probably justified in not leading the movement themselves, for in politics, as in war, nothing except success is justified. Bat they might have shown a liness for the ‘‘insurgent from Wis. n,”” and thus helped him to totter under his burden. Bat they indicated an indifference to the resulé which strength- ened the purposes of the machine. The bill which was enacted into law be- dause of LAFOLLETTE'S failure is an atroci- ty in legislation. It isn’ even a creditable makeshift. If it would prevent financial ‘panic or industrial paralysis, it might be Seoupeed 10 eter Nias Sut . Bak, Ju Republican candidate, respectable or other- merit, Towill fou ry wise, decent or disreputable. He would J promige pan make | 0s say shat CANNON or PAYNH supported currency disturbances inevitable. It may |, policies, in asking ‘people %0 a serve to fool the people antil after the eleo- them, but he would find some pont pou, bog Roan Mere ns bitter Passe. ‘urge if their bebalf and if there were no | of she present Congress for Spoptiniaus : Toe PIO" | potter he would simply cite political ex- | for the army and navy and for ons. vision for issuing emergenoy currency WAY | i... icq as auiple and safficiens. The Ore. | These foot up close to $40,000,000, or bridge over a currency famine from October gon men were servile avd banth about 40 per cent. of the total of a billion. ; A year of our ** $'’ now until the middle of November, but it will || oo "pC Ct he would have been for y tof gus Mg blisient ho em anyway, because they happened to be | Spai assume the greater fury because it was de- Spain. layed. Still the Republicans of Congress | Republiosn candidates. : or, sivil daisititation,. 1. argent are responsible. — $224,000,000 is appropriated, but most of Militarisma Rampant and Spreading. this comes haok, of course, in the postal — revenues, Euormous as are she general An unusually “interesting Washiogton appropriations for the comipg year, Shey dispatoh the other day conveyed this infor- represent only what remained after a vigor- mation : *‘Five hundred American marines ous pruning of the estimates, such import- will police the one hundred polling places ant objects as the proposed foress reserves for example, being allowed little or noth- in Panama during the presidential election the first week in July, if the t seri- ons intention of the United States govern- ment is carried out.”” This proposition certainly deserves serions attention. It is going to the limit of militarism. It ie the extremity of imperialism. The Spanish government never went as far in Cuba. Na- POLEON cculdn’t have gone further, The excuse for this outrage upon polgical liberity is that there is danger that the ad- ministration party in Pavama will be de- feated. The administration party in Pana. wa is composed of the group of adventurers and pirates who, under the encouragement of RoosgverT and supported by American marines, organized a revolution against the government of Colombia and created the bogus republic of Panama. Being without purpose, other than robbery, destitute of character and devoid of principle, it bag ex- isted since by force supplied by the govern- ‘ment of the United States. This avnouncement is tbe forerunner of similar performances at home. When RoOSE- VELT anpounced to the Governors in confer- We Democrats of the porth have every ‘reason to express admiration for the mas- erful leader of the minority in the House during the session just closed, Hon. JouN SHARP WILLIAMS, of Mississipi. He made a fight for right against odds which were overwhelming, and though he didn’t ad: complish all his purposes, he Yoroed the consideration and adoption of some meas- ures of the highest value. If he bad been less capable and courageous fhe work of the session would bave been m worse. In other words, if Mr. WILLIAMS bad nofas- serted himeelf as be did mach more bad legislation would have been ensoted and some good bilis that were passed would have failed. / During the whole session of greas length and unusual activity Mr. WILLIAMS made but one tactical mistake, and his record is marvelons. When the TAWKEY force bill was attached to the MoCALL publicity bill, the Demoorats voted against it. This was an error of judgment. The TAWNEY loroe bill was the spawn of a political concubin- age. It was an outrage uponfevery prin. ciple of honor and decency. Probably no other man in Congress than TAWNEX would have debased himsel! by acknowl- edging the paternity’ of it. Bat baving been attached to the publicity bill in the face of the just protest of every Democrat on the floor the members of that party, with equal unanimity, should have voted for it with its iniquitons and unconstitutional amendment attachment. Notwithstanding this error of judgment, however, the minority of she Houge during the sessions juss closed acted with great courage and wisdom and the leadership of Mr. Winniams was both masterful and patriotic. At the close of the present Con- gress Mr. WiLL1AMS will leave the popular bravoh in order to take a seat in the other chamber sud he will adorn that lofty sta- tion in the public life of the country. Bat’ we look forward to the transfer of his mo- tivities with more or less regres. In so far as it is a promotion, it is deserved, and ships as the President wanted. They sup- ported every crazy notion be promulgated in relation to railroad regulation or corpo- rate control. Bat it was not beosuse of these evidences of servility so him, person- ally, that he has undertaken to help them in their campaign for re-election. It is be- cause they are Republicans and their op- who has ever participated in the public lite of the country. He will freely fraternize with soy criminal if eush a prostitution of she great office he occupies will belp his party. He bas neither civio pride nor moral understanding. He bas falsified to gain a party advantage and favored outlaws to ‘promote political success. He is more at home in the society of ruffians and maurder- ere than in the company of decent citizens, BaT MasrersoN or JOHN L. SULLIVAN can monopolize his time while Senators and Congressmen are worrying in the ante- room. ‘Birds of a feather flook together,” aud the bond of sympathy between RoosE- VELT and DAHMAN is stronger than that between the President and, say Senator HALE, of MAINE, Bat candidates of ‘the Republican for Congress need no hesitate about RoosSEVELT'S endorsement because they didn’s support his policies during she re- cent session. He is for the election of the able the world at large would not be sorry to see a check to Japanese tumptiousness. National?! Expenees. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Peace conferences find a subject lor river, about two weeks ago. The man's throat was cut and » large sum of money it was known he had was missing. - ~The New York Central railroad company has asked for bids for the construction of & six miles branch road, to be built this sum- mer. It will start from the company’s River Line at Sbawville, and will tap some coal lands on which Rembrandt Peale has for some years held leases. The new branch will open a territory hitherto undeveloped, aud wheré there are vast deposits of valuable coal. —Allen P. Perley. president of the Wil- liamsport Furniture company, bas been ap- pointed postmaster of Williamsport to suc- ceed Orange S. Brown, deceased. There were several applicants and the appointment of Mr. Perley, whose name bad not been mentioned, was quite a surprise, but the appointment gives general saticfaction as Mr. Perley is prominent in business and social life. —During a severe thunder storm which passed over Huntingdon on Tuesday after- noon & chimney of the library building at Juniata college and a chimney at Standing Stone hotel were struck by lightning, but little damage was done. The baru of RB. C. Gregory, of Shaver’s Creek valley, was also struck and set on fire but by the quick work of the farm hands the flames were soon ex- tinguished. hte —Ou Friday a number of Italians working on & state road near DaBois, got into a dis~ pute about the men’s wages, when they threw down their shovols and marched on the com= missary in & body and demanded their pa¥. Five of them drew revolvers and threatened to shoot Tons Farraro, the man in charge transfer a matter of popular satisfaction. In avy evens, however, JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS has earned the kindliest feel- inge of his countrymen. * —— ‘ A Disrepuiable Subterfuge. The New Carrency Law, The Philadelphia bankers are unrecon- oiled to the onrrency bill forced through at the closing hours of the session of Congress. It was, or is, the result of party exigency, rather than a desire to promote business in- terests, they say. ‘‘I have gone carefully over the measure,’ one of the Philadelphia financiers remarked, the other day, ‘‘and cannot see that it has a single redeeming feature. To the worst features of the AL- DRICH bill respeoting bonds,’ he continues, “it adds some provisions for bank associa- tions almost certain to oause confusion should it ever be called into play.” Other bankers take equally hopeless views of the subject. **The politicians have made it barder for us to deal with the emer- gency probleme,” is the way one of the most conspicuous bankers states it. So they bave, but the Philadelphia bankers were not expected to complain about a trifle like that. There is no real danger of a panic until after the election and then nobody cares. If the Republican candidate is elected with a friendly Congress they wiil have four years in whidh to fix things up, and if the Democratic candidate is success- fol it will be easy to blame the panic on that resnlt. The emergesioy currency bill, as it is 0 called, was simply intend in will besafe in the hands ence that in the. event Congress should fail ' ple ey ly ea ‘nate pins hub og to do what he wants,he would do it inspite | ooo oniet, as they will be led |. From this we may assume that Mr. Taft of Congress, the spirit of his Panama policy. EE compelled | wip receive the united support of the Wall en . he ‘Governom. Ytened o, it w plish ite purpose. The | street influence, and thas bankers and expresnd. : pom panic of last year came in October and was railroad managers will vie with each other patiently obviously treasonable tense for a few weeks heoause i¢ required | ib Alling the *‘dough-bags of thy Raput- laration because they are servile tothe boss. time to organize expedients for fotitiods lican party. The ‘‘malefactors of great But JEFF DAVIS or BoB-TooMBS never nut : | wealth” have evidently, as Mr. Schiff says, tered a more reasonable heresy, and if the y. The bill in question affords the | ‘become readily convinced” that they iens in the hall a billion olearing | ‘‘will be safe’ in the bands of Tals. people will submit to this military. control currency for which it provides. Of —— of te Section in Pavamain July they may course when the period of liquidation ar- An Enormous Defloit, tary En w-_ rives a few months later, ft will be awful, | yrom the Pittsburg Post. bat thas will be after the eleotion and 'what | May's statement of Government receipts : 3: H ——This (Friday) evening is the time does the machine care then. : aud sapenditures cuntinnes she¥loim, 204 for the annual reception at the Bellefonte | ___Bellefonters will tomorrow have an | Will t00u evokea haw! from the Asadstny 36 Yoo Weather being favorable opportunity to see what will perhaps be for raaing tasif . The She attendance will undodtedly Ye args, |e ges hme of ‘oak Abe Bontetwy | gurptys winSeLSULON Jor tis 11 Sigetee r years ago the Academy re- | nine will play this season, when they | the defloit is ception has grown to be a feature in the | will oross bate with the strong Juniata | Ocipte i felon $56,000,000, routine of that institution of considerable | College team on the new athletio grounds. the expenditures went right along 10 $73,- importance gud is always looked forward Tae Tora boys bave played a fast game 000,000 big lox] er ) i old and young. Last year the reception was with a big string of victories to their ored- | fessed. For a May inoreasp shots at the burglars, inflicting wounds upon someniot Samed by inclement weather, | jt, Whichever team wins, it will be a Vio Tog Meio and it is boped that this evening ‘will be | game well worth the small price ol twenty- | carry a bad election en over into. July, | more favorable. As in former years noinvi- | ye cents admission, and Belletonters | and a new year. Hi Jativhs lve tecy sea wt but ull patrose should turn out in big numbers to witness and friends of the institution are cordially | jy, : os : n | invited to attend. Following the reception | | — that Heola Park had suffered severely by a dance will be given in the armory under | ——A squad of fittéen students taking | reason of the recent cloudburst near that the auspices of former students of the she mechanical engineering course at The | point. This is incorrect. In fact Heola Academy. Christy Smith's orchestra will Pennsyivania State College, in charge of Park, with ite clean walks, beautifal lawns. tarnish the music for both the reception | assistant professor Hardld B. Shattuck, and flower beds never appeared to beiter and dance. nh gay went to Altoona last Friday morning and advantage than at this time. Many dates {inspected the shops and yards of the Penn- for pionipe and other gatherings have al- Secretary TAFT was less adroit thao usual in his reply, last week, to Mr. BrYAN'S proposition that as the leading candidates of their respective parties they unite in a request that Congress enact the publicity bill. He said that some weeks previously be had announced his friendliness for that hin of legislation and inferentially charged that Mr BRYAN was tardy in his reform work. In that assertion he was both un- candid and disingenuous. His pretense looks like a professional alibi, the most con- temptible expediént of the professional criminal. : Secretary TAFT had in a private letter to Senator BURROWS, of Michigan, written in favor of the passage of a publicity bill. Bat BURROWS, apparently with TAFT'S assent, baried the fetter in his inside pooket and used all his influence to prevent the pas- sage of such legislation. Either be inter- the Secretary’s statements 80 written in a PICK WiICKian sense, and acted in the direction opposite to that which it poiuted, or else be is an enemy rather thanja friend of the Secretary in his present campaign for the Republican nomination. In either event, the quoting of the letter was a die- reputable subterfuge. It TAFT had been earnestly in favor of the McCALL publicity bill the snggestion of Mr. BRYAN came $0 him in ample time to goarantee the passage of it. It doesn’t take long for the Republican machine in Washington to enact legislation it desires. Even in the face of the most earnest apd de- termined filibuster ever attempted, the atiooious currency bill was forced through in little more than twenty-four hours. Bus Tarr didn’s want the bill to pass. He wants to give the trusts, corporations and erimivals a chance to enjoy the fall privilege of de. bauching the electorate in his behalf,and he wrote the private letter t0 BURROWS to be used after the event rather than to exercise an influence on legislation. Like his trip to Panama, recently, that tricks might be pulled off during his absence, this lester was ‘a fraud and false pretense. ; — ing. The rapid increase in the national expenditures is wily explained by the constant extension onal activities, ever beyond the natural growth of the Tha propriated at this © The great sum ap) at ees. sion becomes seriogs only in consideration of the faot that it is largely in excess of the estimated revenues. This will farther complicate the qu-stion of tariff revision next. winter by waking it necessary for Congress to provide more revenne rather than less, since there appears no likelihood of lessened expenditures, . F——————————————— Wall Street Supports Tal. From the Johnstown Democrat, There may be some doubt about how ¢ the revolt of labor will be at Tals, but that Wall ‘street inter- ests will warmly su him with money and votes seems n. That reprageiste: tive Wall street banker, Jacob H. Schiff, the partner of that ‘“‘malefactor of great wealth,” Mr. Harriwag, | hae accepted she vioce-presidency organization the state of New York. He declares ‘‘that with a rigid insistence for the due and proper regard of the law, all classes of our campaign should not be made to fit the views of the candidate, but should be a re- affirmation of honest Democratic principles with an abandonment of all fads and popu- listio theories. ~The pluck of the American bog. knows no limit. On Wednesday fourteen-year- old SeLBY HARRINGTON, of Georgetown, Del., swam two miles through a rough sea to procure aid for three little girls whom he had taken out sailing and were clinging to the bottom of his overturned boat. It took him one boar and a balf to swim to shore; bus the children held onto the boat and were rescued. It ie such acts of hercism ‘that proves the American the truest, most noble and self-sacrificing type of man. Tf SeLBy HARRINGTON ien’t on the next CARNEGIE hero ligt it is not because he has not won a place there. —ZAbous the most contemptible, pusillan- imous, unreliable sheet $0 be called a met- ropolitan journal is the Philadelphia North American. Its continued ranting about fighting the battles of the people, defend- knives. Farraro fled aud later nine of the men were arrested. —Henry Wells, who has been employed in the Bon Ton store at Patton for several months, left that place on Tuesday, April 98th, for his home at Pottsdam, N. Y., and has not been heard from since. His wife has become alarmed at his absence and fear- ing foul play has asked the aid of the police in locating him. He is about 45 years of age, five fee:, nine inches tall, weighing about 165 pounds asd wore a mustache elightly tinged with gray. : —Three foreigners went to the home of James Rico, a boarding house boss, at Cham. bersville,eight miles south of Punxsutawney, Sunday night,and after being reused meney, discovered that the North American bas ul- terior motives in everything. That is to a courage to defend it, but a sycophantio paoderer to ihe personal ambitions of a cer- tain coterie of men iu particular and the Re- publican party in general. The latest ex- hibis of ite truculence and poltroonery is ninde fo its charges that she Dedoorats in | cured $450 from her. The woman's husband, ! man is said to have made 5 ahie-poriems staggment that implicates n Pi rg Black Hand society. —Qlyde C. Bathurst, of Mt. Union, a son ‘of ex-Sheriff Bathurst, of Huntingdon Just as if the Democrats in Congress could be held responsible for anything when that body is over whelmingly Republican. If the | railroad on ait up-grade. Just when he got on the track his motor stopped and left he and the machine stranded right in front of a fast moving train. Grabam jomped and saved his life but his ‘machine wae completely wreoked. ‘The machine, by Fishing oreek “punky’’ it would pat the close application to study, a traveling schol blame for thie latest legislative abortion on the President who signed is almost before the ink wae dry on its pages, but the North American and the President are of Philadelphia. The award received is known is valued at about $500. The young man will : the way, was the Buick car be purchased | ——The next big time will be the an- | aylvania railrond company both in that ready been booked by the mapagement and | sail for Naples, Italy, atont the second of the same ilk—long on conceit and little on trom Horton S. Ray, of this place, the Iat- | nual commencement at The Pennsylvania | immediate olty sod at Juniata. They re: the usual successful season is confidently Jyuvand expects to Yiffs the rival eities to pt otiamduly. State College June 14éh~17th. | tumed on Saturday Tooked forward 30.4. \ * 4 ty, has just received from a Phi phis peared from Johnsonburg, nine miles up the . and others also flourished revolvers and : shot Mrs. Rico through the shoulder and se~ hearing the shot, broke throfigh one of the one of them that proved fatal. The dead. county, and nephew of chief of police Wm. = F. Bathurst, of Huntingdon, has won by his arship from the Academy of Fine Arts, of asthe Emlen Cresson Memorial scholarship. It