4
7% of otvilization.
uously that you won't he able to get to
work on Monday.
—Strange that WiLnian H. Tarr had
$0 retire from the War Department to go
into the greatest battle of his life.
~==JiM SHERMAN'S public record seems
$0 be’ pothing more than a series of at-
tempts to raid the national treasury. fs
= Ee.
United States will Dave ‘been named at
‘enver. His name is BRYAN.
—80 Senator PENROSE is to take the
sump. Verily, that is about all his fol-
wers have left for him in Pennsylvania.
ry thing else worth takiog is goo.
ay your boy a twenty-five cent can-
't will explode so that the doctor can
‘on twenty-five dollars for picking
ler out of bie face and sewing up
ated fingers.
: (==s. .288 just the proper thing to confer
the degree of Doctor of Laws on J. PIER-
POINT MORGAN. He bas done more doo-
toring of the laws of this country than any
other individual in it.
~Demoorats will vote their vonvictions
and their principles at Denver. It will be
free, untrammeled judgment that will
make our nominee for President and not
fear of being kicked out of a present fat
job.
~The simple, dignified, impressive
burial of GROVER CLEVELAND might bave
been a mild rebuke on the part of Mrs.
CLEVELAND to the present President's
overweening desire for pomp avd circum-
stance.
—The farmers of Centre county are just
now patting away the greatest bay crop
ever cut. Along about September Tarr
will be claiming that he made it grow aod
a lot of numb-skalls wil be for believing
Ne story.
—The revoldtion in Mexico is diverting
attention to the Texas frontier, where
Vaqueros and Greasers are so acoustomed
to shooting up things that a little mere of
", than usnal is not & matter to arouse very
ach
of
years in prison for com-
plicisy in the murder of Governor GOEBEL,
of Keotuoky, Cares POWERS is pardoned
« wd already, it is said, he is going to marry
a gi.” from York, this State. Let us hope
that the matrimonial bonds will not prove
as troublesome to CALEB as did the legal
ones.
~The final count in the New York
oralty contest has been made and the
have declared Mayor MoCLELLAN
The contest begun by HEARST
bias cust nearly half a million dollars all of
which shat budding young aspiravt for
anything and everything should be com-
pelled to pay.
—The Texas prophet who has predicted
that the end of the world will come in 1911
was mighty considerate. There is time
enough for everyone to get ready. And,
let us say right here, that it isn’t a bad
plan to get ready even though youn haven't
any faith in the proguostications of this
would-be wize man.
—The Pittsburg Dispatch deplores the
fact that ROOSEVELT was not in Washing-
ton to tell the swenty-four hundred brides
and grooms who visited the capitol recent-
ly what their duty is. The chances are
that they all know the ROOSEVELT idea of
marital duties and very likely have done
their best to carry it cat withoos his sug-
gestions,
—CLEVELAND is dead. When CLEVE
LXD was President working men were
i eighty-five cents a day, but meat
Vas selling at from twelve to eighteen
cents a pound and potatoes couldn't he
Kiven away at twenty-five cents a bushel.
ROOSEVELT is President now. Men can
not get work at any price while meat is sell.
ing at from twenty to thirty-five cents a
pound and potatoes are nearly two dollar
a bushel.
-—Professor ROBERT HERRICK, of Chi-
cago University, says we, as Americans,
uncaltivated principally because we
ve no family trees on which to trace our
pestry back through geverations of which
wight be prond. Why bless your dear
jul, Professor, we all have family trees
jeep in some primeval jungle where our
prebears spent their mornings and after-
moons tossing cocoanuts to one another
long before bridge parties and pink teas
came along to lift them to a higher plane
\
—A large Presbyterian church on the
Northside in Pittsburg has just established
a rest room for babies in connection with
the ocharch. Competent narses will be in
charge so that infants may be left there
while the mothers attend service. This ie
In pursnance oe of Bi wiciotor. aubision to
militarize ‘goseromens, Presidaos
ROOSEVELT aonounces that under the Dick
law we are now able to maintsina stand-
ing army of 250,000 men. The Dick law
is an act of Congress which gives the federal
government partial control of the militia of
the several States. It is the consumma-
tion of the purpose io mind when the title
of the State troops was changed to the *'Na-
tional Gaard,"’ and in consideration of that
concession on the part of the States, puts a
considerable part of the expense of main-
taining the militia on the national gov-
ernment. The only advantage of the
change peroeptible is thas it provides for
an annual encampment of troops, state and
national, in which it will be possible to
mobilize 100,000 or more.
This foolish vanity of the President will
go all right until some Governor of some
State refuses to participate in the military
frolic. The constitution of the United
States defioes the conditions under which
the militia of the several States comes
under the control of the President of the
United States as commander-in-ohief of the
army and navy and itis a safe proposition
that the assumption of such control under
other circumstances is a usurpation of
power. The desire of a brain-storm execa-
tive to indalge in a military pionic hardly
comes within the provision of the fanda-
mental law and the chances are that alter
the retirement of the present homicidal
administration, she desire for such expen-
sive loxaries will disappear.
It there were any need for a standing
army of a quarter of a million in this coun-
try it may safely be said that the mobiliza-
tion of the militia, according to the scheme
expressed in the Dick ‘daw, would be as
good as any because it would be less ex.
pensive than maiotaining a regular army
of that size. Bat we have as little use for
a standing army of that etreogth as the
average yellow dog has for two tails, unless
the obj ct of the administration is to im-
poverish the people by imposing onerous
an! anoecessary sax them,
It is trae alg ara
Land. it jr.
citizens i es claves h
less taxation will ieve the result. But
there is no use in maintaining a big army
after that is achieved. There won't he
spirit enough in the people to resist any-
thing. X
m——
A Good Thing, but not Too Good.
s——
Governor STUART'S scheme to construct
a splendid highway Bogth wise through the
State is magnificent but people ought not
$0 grow too enthusiastic over is. There is
much to be gained by good roadsand the
grin is moral as well as material. Bat it
is possible to get too much of a good thing
and [lrequently good thiugs ‘‘cost more
than they cowe to,” if we may be permis-
ted to use a homely phrase. The proposed
State road from Pittsburg to Philadelpbia
wight come within this classification. In
other words such an enterprise would be of
limited benefit aud universal expense, which
would be unjust. The State's share of the
cost would be drawn; in part, from eeo-
tious which would nos share the advantage.
Besides we are not predisposed toward
road building operations in his State under
existing couditions. Road building on an
extensive soale is desirable only when the
best possible results are obtained with the
smallest possible expense. The opposite | is |
the rule in Pennsylvavia. That is, the |
maximum price 1 paid for work that
touches the opposite extrewe in excellence,
Our State Highway Department is a ma-
chine which appeats to aim at ‘eating up
money,” and mavipulating polities. It
will be time enough to enter upon the ex-
tensive system of bighway improvement
contemplated by Governor STUART when
these conditions are reversed. The people
are entitled to as much as possihle foritheir
money.
Highways ought to he built under the
supervision of the communities they serve.
A Swate Highway Department is probably
all right, limited in its powers like thas
which bas general directive power over the
schools, bat a department organized to
make roads as expensive as possible, is a
public iniquity. The prosperity of the past
few years bas mitigated the evil effeots of
this systew daring recent times and a State
which can be robbed of nine or ten million
dollars in the'construction of a capitol can
endure a good deal of bleeding. But things
are likely to be different in the fature and
is would be good policy to delay the State
boulevard until we aresure to get the
worth of our money.
—A fortune awaite the man or woman
who can invent and patent a dust protector
for windows. Some arrangement shat
imagines that he is gifted with the ars of
rhetoric feels that it is his duty to prepare
platforms for one or all the parties. As a
good many of useo imagine there are a
good many plasform suggestions in the
public prints these days, some of which are
good, some bad and others indifferent. A
writer in one of oar esteemed Philadelphia
contemporaries, the other day, however,
made some suggestions which were so un-
questionably good, that we hope the plas-
form committee of the Denver convention
will take notice of them. The same writer
urges a short platform, which is equally
wise. A platlorm, that can he placed on
8 post card bas a clear advantage over
others,
One of she thoughts suggested by this
anonymous writer is expressed in this
language : “The Republican party has
shown itself incompetent to give the conn-
try a fioancial eystem that will prevent
pavios when Providence bas, by the crops
aod nataral resources, gives
for the greatest prosperity.’ That statement
contains the merit of truth and is timely
and brief. There pever wasa period of
such abundance. There never was a peo-
ple of greater industry and intelligence,
and with these ‘elements in coojanction,
we ought to bp. an unparallelled
season of proapefilys Bus as a matter of
fact, as the same r adds, ‘'a panie,
caused by the operation of Republican
laws, has lets the country full of wrecked
enterprises and is paoperiziog the laboring
wen. ”
Our financial spmiem was created by the
Republican party #0 promote the result
thue described. The purpose of those who
have and still continue to control the legis-
lation of the country is to give capitaliets
opportunities to despoil she people. When
Congress assembled last December the
facts were pointed out and freely admisted.
Bus the Republican machine in consrol of
legislation refused to remedy the evil for
the reason that campaign funde are needed
aud the traste demanded advance payment
for the funds they are expected to contrib
ute io legislation which will make fatare |
fpoliation easy and certain. The present
panic is a orime because it was made for
purposes of plunder.
Hitchcock the Logical Chalrmen.
FRANK HITCHCOCK is not to be chair-
man of the Republican National commistee
alter all, it seems. President ROOSEVELT
favors him and TAFT is under moral obli-
gation to give him the appointment. Bat
8 vast majority of she leaders protest that
it is impossible. He was too course in his
convention work. He outraged every
senve ol propriety with his brutal meth-
ods and steam roller. His processes were
precisely what were vecessary to make
TarFr's momination certain and all of
Tarr's adberents approved as the time.
Bat in the light of subsequent analysis he
was too raw and even the beneficiaries of
bis methods have become afraid.
Really HITCHCOCK bas a right to claim
his reward. His methods in riding rough
shod over the oppesition were brutal bat
they bad the approval of the highest aun-
thority. They were in complete accord
with ROOSEVELT'S notions of ‘‘a square
deal.” They gave every chance to the side
favored and none to the opposition. Bat
that is ROOSEVELT'S idea of justice. When
be bante game he gives the animal no
chance. Even in pursuit of a homan
“oemy he takes every advantage as is
shown by his own account of the killing of
an unarmed and helpless Spanish soldier
at Sau Juan. Therefore HITCHCOCK was
justified in his brutality. He was work.
ing under orders of a man who makes
bratality a virtue.
It HiTcHCOCK had been fair to the op-
ponents of TAFT in the committee on con-
tested seats Lis faction would probably
have won anyway, bat he dido’s know
that. He had been led to believe that the
conditions were precarious and ‘that heroio
treatment was uvecessary. In accordance
with that idea he proceeded to ‘‘pluck the
flower of victory from the nettle of danger,”’
and in the process most of the principles of
what is that to RoosEvELT or HITCHCOCK?
They are accustomed to forcing results and
when they achieve the desired cod what
right has any one to butt in with sngges-
tions of force or trand? HITCHCOCK is the
logical chairman.
~The weather on Sunday could pot
have heen more favorable for an observa.
tion of the partial eclipse ol the sun than
it was. The sky was cloudless and
of Bellefonters as well as many
throughout the county bad their
glass and took a look. While the eo
anities |
justice and equity were shattered. Bat |
was » private a My no
yo ~ were disturbed by his demise.
filled a place in the hearts of Amer-
1 sentiment
The deaths of WasHINGTON and JEFFER-
80N worked bereavements in every bouse-
bold in the land. The tragic death of
LINCOLN created even a greater shook be-
caase of tbe difference in conditions. But
neither of those great exemplars of pa-
triotio virtue bad a firmer seat in the affeo-
tions and respect of the people.
It can hardly be said that the death of
CLEVELAND came unexpectedly. His
bealth bad been ic a precarious state for
weeks and though the hopeful reports
from the sick chamber encouraged expecta-
tions of recovery the tardiness of returning
b caused grave apprehensions. His
t removal from Lakewood to his bome
at Princeton was interpreted favorably
but the result was disappointing. That is
the beneficent effect of the loved environ.
ment was not realized. Yet when the an-
nouncement of his death was telegraphed
40 all points throughout the country on
Wednesday morning, it caused a shock.
Popular affection was stunned by a deep
sense of public loss and wvational bereave.
ment.
It would be impossible, in the brief
space of a newspaper eulogy, to give even a
summary of the pablic services and civie
virtnes which won for GROVER CLEVE-
affection. It is not sufficient to say that
he arose from obscurity to the highest
pinnacle of fame. The son of a Presby-
terian preacher his origin wasn’t obscure,
as that term is commonly understood.
and a character of iuflexible probity, he
made all that was possible out of his op-
portunities, and patriotism, love of justice
and courage to do what his conscience in-
terpreted as the right achieved she rest,
He ranks with the _ablest and best ¢
statesmen.
Inevitable Bankruptcy in sighe.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal year
which will end on Tuesday, will amount
to $60,000,000, as we predicted two years
ago, and there will be a deficit in the post.
office rgvennvs amounting to $13,500,000.
According to a statement of the treasury
departmens this deficit has been exceeded
in amount only twice since the Civil war.
The expenses for the year exceed those of
any year since 1856 by $54,000,000. The
increase in exoenditures over those of 1907
reaches $80,000,000. If the panic bad come
with the beginning of the year instead of
at theend of first quarter, the deficit
would _ bave probably been $15,000,000
more and broken all records.
It President ROOSEVELT'S plans with
respect to the army and pavy had been
carried out thirty or forty millions would
have been added to the shortage. Bat
probably that would bave made us mote’
a “world power’ than ever. At least it
would have put us nearer to the level of
Russia and Germany, the people of which
are starving notwithstanding the generous
yield of the soil aud the activity «f pro-
dootive enterprise. But bappily the
minority in Congress was alert and cour:
ageous’ enough to prevent that. The
schemes of profligacy were defeated and the
people ‘saved in part from the ruin. Tt is
to be hoped that the same resnlts will
be achieved hy the same agencies during
the next session.
A treasury deficit of $60,000,000 ie
ominous but it is not the worst feature of
the statement which will be issmed on
Toesday afternoon. According to the
1eond the total receipts for the year
amounted to $599,000,000 and the appro-
priations made by Congress during the last
session: aggregated the. prodigious sum of
$1,020,000,000. Unless shere is an increase
in the gevennes, therefore, and there is no
probability of such an improvement, she
deficit f6r she fiscal year beginning next
Wednesday will amount to $421,000,000,
an which makes National bank-
Will the people of the
te EE ———— ‘
——The people of State College do not
intend - being behind when it comes to
celebrating the Fourth and shey will all
join with the Alpha fire company in having
a big time all day to-morrow. The oelebra-
tion will begin as nine o'clock with a band
concert, in which three bands will partio-
ipate. At ten o'clock there will be a base
ipa game between the Scotia and State
lege town teams. At noon Capt. Alien
8 citizens which bas left an aching void. |
wive before in the brief bistory of the |
was similarly stirred,
LAND his place in American history and | and
With splendid vataral ability, however,
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
President Roosevelt is orallited with
making Taft his successor. been
steadily intent upon ak a:
stitute, ever since be has
asa uence Taft has had ab on
aot gu!
make she presiden
aod which enables us to judge how he will
discharge them.
He governed the Philippines as a depen-
dec of this country, = the Puflippince
are till governed without any bother
about self-government ' which our states
aud our country are supposed to cultivate.
Mr. Tafs, likewise, started Caba a couple
of times on ite way rej toward a sell-
governing republic, and it is still moving
along the road and our army Keeping it |
on it, key AW
heen settli
ander hae t's directions
and for a while things were lively down
there ; hut they have quieted down and
United States army engineers are making
at the canal such progress as may be im-
agived by an oy without the aid of the
various and diverse information that used
to be given us.
It will be noted that Mr. Taft has been
doing many things shat are not yet done
in the governing line, and we may expect
that if he gets this government to do, he
will do it along the same lines, and with-
out regard to cost.
Lawyers After Court.
From the Altoous Times,
The Pennsylvania State Bar association,
at is recent session, took a positive posi-
tion in reference to the superior court, de-
claring that that body was unnecessary
aod that the enactment creating it should
be repealed. Who are better qualified to
Julge of necessity than lawyers ?
hen the superior court was created
there was a hoe and a ory that is was to
give berths to political supernumeraries to
whom iticane were in debt. A virtue
was e of necessity, however, and it was
acospted, od the layman has b slow de.
grees been induced to believe it bad
earned a right to existence by enabling
Prompt adjudication of long standing livi-
gation
Lawyers are particularly concerned that
cases on appeal ehall be disposed of quickly
and they would be slow to condemn the
superior cours were there any danger that
the alandey of the anpleme court would be
glutted with untried oases did not exist.
We doubt not thas there are good and
sufficient reasons hack of the demand for
the abolition of the superior cours, and
when lawyers say that it is not necessary
To BS Mtn Sen
- ow the
matter is another gnestion. It ie a difficult
matter to uproot established institutions,
partioniarly when there are comfortable
salaries clustering ahoat the roots.
Wilson is the ‘Man.
From the Williamsport San.
The ep national platform, re
cent) at Chicago, pa ye Congress-
a Ved B. a compli-
ment hy Jwpraviog the movement for a
national bureau of mines and mining, of
which Mr. Wilson is
, both in com-
RS
aa
Ee
’ 08 pee ue the fence when the
—Conterfeiters have not lost soy time in’
starting out to imitate the new $10 gold °
certificate of the 1907 series, the first bill of !
the kind ever issued. Chief John E..
of the secret service has sent out notices that -
$be | ousiderable complaint has been heard of
counterfeits of this new
ment officials are on the
the perpetrators of it.
—The Adams Express company Basissued
a stringent order to all its agents not to
accept fireworks for shipment over say of
the lines of the Pennsylvrnia Railroad com-
pany served by it. This becomes effective
atonce. It is further said that the same
the govern .
to run: down,
Express company whiotsis somtrullufl bf the:
Adams and operates chiefly in
states,
~-Abel Huganey, of sosthiaiOi
wife and then attempted to take his. own
life, but who failed in this connection and
in a serious condition was conveyed to the
Clearfield county home, died Friday morn-
ing at 10 o'clock at the latter institution,
from the effects of the two bullet wounds re:
ceived at his own hands.
—On Friday morning John Taylor, of
Mackeyville, Clinton county, was taking a
traction engine and a stone erusher over the
bridge that spans Fishing creek, near.
Mackeyville, twenty-two fest long, when
the structure gave way and Mr. Taylor to-
gether with the heavy machive, were pre-
cipitated into the creek, five feet below. The
unfortunate man was nearly drowned and
was in a completely exhausted state when he
reached the shore. He had several ribs
and a a collar bone fractured.
—A war against caterpillars is on in Wil-
linmsport and strenuous effurts are made to
get rid of the pest that is causing destrue-
tion to many shade trees and making no
end of trouble for housewives by crawling
onto porches, walks and even into houses.
Millions of the insects haee developed as a
result of last year's visitation of what is
known us the Tussock moth, and in many
sections of the city trees are literally cov-
ered with them and some have already been
entirely denuded of foliage and practically
ruined.
—Andrew Leiser, of Lewisburg, attorney
for the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
filed a deed from the State Reality company
to the Northern Central Connecting com-
pany for forty-two tracts of land between
Selinsgrove aud Shawokin Dam. The
amount of the purchase was $173,220. The
deed was signed by J. Murray Africa, presi-
dent; John D. Mayton, secretary, and 8. J.
VanZandt, treasurer. The buying of this
land looks now like a railroad movement
of some kind, but how far the busy move-
ment of things is off is hard to tell.
—With 2,200 volts of electricity coursing ;
through bis body, and with his arms burned
almost through, just below the shoulder
blades, Michael Mailey, a member of the
West Peun. Electric company’s gang of
floating electricians, with headquarters at
Latrobe, hung senseless from a charged
wire, twenty-five feet above ground, on
Thursday, until Jack Williams, another local
electrician, bravely climbed the pole and re- ,
leased him from his terrible position, Carry-
ing his unconscious form to the ground,
Mailey’s injuries are likely to prove fatal.
—The Pennsylvania, Beech Creek and
Eastern Coal & Coke company, one of the
biggest bituminous coal operations in the
State, resumed operations at their mines and
ovens at Benniugton and Gallitzin with a
view of running them almost to their capac- *
ity. The company during the summer did
but little work, but with the resumption of
operations employment will be given to
about 1,500 men, 500 at Bennington and 1,-
000 at Gallitzin. This big company’s decision
to start up their coal mines is a good thing
for that vicinity for other operators will
resume and the result will be bigger lls
over the railroads.
—By the contamination of Middle creek,
east of Middleburg, catfish and suckers by
the thousands have been killed within
the last week. Their decomposing bodies,
SW Soatiid on the head waters of the Mid-
rules may be made to apply to the Southgrn
field county, who early Sanday morning a
week ago, deliberately shot and killed his:
a work of God for sure. What a boon it | will admit of she windows being kept open | was not great enough to eause ll fire salute of twenty-one guns and tug 101 this sien Pipe Shah hae State Fis Shetien d pustumont has so for fled
will prove to the poor mothers who have in summer in order to assure good ventila- | enough of the sun was obscured to make a _n the afternoon there will be races and In tim the Sis Oe aa 50 ite to aevugs actian.. Because of the plovalent
no one $o oare for their babies a home and | tion and at the same time keep out the | notable difference, very much as if the san athletio sports to be followed by snd its merit and necessity baving thus Tile unset the feat eo to Hoa bore!
ean’t go to church without taking them | clouds of dust which now sail in every | was shining through a'mist or bank of | shother game of ball between State College | been recognized by 8 uativial convention [Loy 1p ust of the sinctue, Ton \
along ; only to find moss of the congre- | open window, covering desks and Slmy clouds. The eclipse” was visible to |anh Millheim. A festival will be held in | Winiom B. Wilson is the man bo steer ite | JE EERE F000 0 E0 Bro
gation scowling at them should the little | and making life everything but agreeable | Bellefonters trom about’ ‘nine o'clock to vening as» fitting conclusion of the| m— days many of the farm properties in the at
ones become fretfal, for the business or professional mas. twelve noon. s diversions. Subscribe for the WamoHMAN. locality have become almost untenable.
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