+ There ais’t no mills to close up now They're all a standin’ still There ain't no banks to bust or run For they've all filled their till, There sin't no lambs for shearin® for They lost what fleece they had, _ In 1907 when Wall street went So erazy sellin’ mad. So why this break in the market when All was lookin’ good And everything a stand in’ still Except the price of food Unless it is another scheme To hustle out the band And cable off for Morgan to Come home and save the land. —8ix more days of TEDDY. “There ate lots of jobs that cause less worriment jast now than being a Pittsburg ebuncilman. "The TEDDY bear will bave to orawl in its hole wext Thursday aod it might as well pall the hole in after it. "~The fellow who has been out of work for the past six months isn’t as enthusiastic aboat the TAFT inauguration as he was about the TAFT election. — Another little tonoch of winter yes- terday—just enough to make a person realize that the balmy days of spring are not yet here by long odds. —Senator SPROUL has introdaced a bill in the Legislature lookibg to a good road movements almost exactly along the lines suggested by the WATCHMAN in its iseae of Javvary 22od. ~The daughter of HETTY GREEN, the reported richest woman in the world, has juss been married in New York but is wasn’t a foreign title that caught this prospective heiress. —It will be gratifying to many Penosyl- vanians to know that PENROSE has been heard from on the floor of the Senate ; even if it was only a torrent of execration aud abuse thas flowed from him. —The Eaglishman who died recently and just after completiog for bimsell a ooffic made eutirely of empty match boxes must have had some notion that matches wouldo’t be found io the place he was go to. Celt the spirits of GEORGE WASHINGTON nd ABRAHAM LINCOLN have been sorap- lately in the Glory Land is might be : the Bellefonte banks closed in or of the latter’s birthday anniversary | dido’s oo the former's. _y=The tumbling stock market might mean that another scare is being maoufac- @d to tell Mr. TAFT where to ges off at it might mean that the voters male a take in gesting off at the TAFT station pfall it they expeoted it to atars busi ness up with a boom. —Anyway the appropriations committee will be splendidly entertained at Sate College today and at the Coantry club tonight whether it sees fit to do what it ought to do for the College and the Belle- fonte hospital or not. Oars are not the kind of people whose hospitality has a string to it. ~The court has refased to grant any lignor licenses at all in Mifilin connty be- oanse the expression of the voters, as re- corded in one of the contests lass fall, favor- ed the abolition of the saloon. Hotels and all mass olose their bars fioally tomorrow and thereafter the tipplers of Mifflin will have to depend on ‘‘boot-leggers’’ for their snops. ——The new borough officials will be sworn into office next Monday. It will also be the date for the organization of the new council and naturally there is more or less wire pulling being done this week in regard to the new officers, eto. So far as known at this time W. T. Kelly will bave no opposition for the position of olerk of council. —Cualtured, wsthetio, refined Bellefonte sent a special train carrying sixty people to a sparring matoh in Snow Shoe, on Mon- day night. Bats the BEN GREET players in their acknowledged superb prodactions of SHAKESPEARE'S masterpieces at State College temorrow night will probably not have the same attractions for this euper- cilious, but queer old town of ours. —There are fourteen million women in France and a contemporary asserts that a majority of them earn their own living. ANNA GOULD is probably not earniog hers in the striot sense of the word, bat so far a8 her husband's keeping ber is concerned it is almost a certainty that she would be taking io washing were it not for the GOULD resources on this side of the pond. —Congress and the President are both in a peck of trouble. The way the Steel trust gobbled up Tennessee Coa! and Iron was illegal. Congress has proven that the President sanctioned the illegal transaction. Now the President wants it investigated and Congress doesn’s. It seems to be a two edged sword the one side of which has already out the President and the other side now threatens to draw bloed from Congress. —Insiders at Harrisburg say thas the leaders have fixed it all up for George F. OLIVER, of Pittshurg, to be made United States Senator for the unexpired term of Senator P. C. KNoX, who is to resign to enter President TAFT'S cabinet. Of conrse the Senate and House have not heen told of this decision as yes, but as they are merely an executive branch in this particn- lar direction there is nothing left for them to do but formally declare him elected when the bosses give them the word. Lo VOL. 54 Reformer's Who Don't Want Reform. There will be no change in the election laws by the Legislature now in sewion. At least this is what we are told by the Philadelphia papers thas speak for the Philadelphia machine. Tbe reason given is that the “Committee of Seventy,” a orowd of gentlemen who parade themselves as reformers, and voice the purposes of those who talk so mach about, bat do so listle for reform —it is alleged, bas asked of the machine, and entered into an agree- ment with it, that nothing be done in the way of a change, either in our defective pri- mary elesiiva law, or the abortion of a ticket we are compelled to use at the gen- eral election, until she session of 1911. Aud this agreement is to stand. For both the primary and general eleo- tion laws, as they now are, suit the ma- ohine to adot. Under the sale guards given by them, to all kiods of rascality, it can commis whas wrongs and deviltry is desires behind the curtain of she booth. It can bay the purchasable and know thas it gets what is is to pay for, before the ballot is cast ; is can brow-beat and bull-doze the dependent without fear of exposure; is can mark the ticket of the illiterate as the bosses demand, aud it can have its whole horde of heelers, rounders and ronghs voted by an assistant just as its needs require. At the recent primary this same machine, with which this so called reform committee has entered into an agreement, placed its own candidate on the sicket of the relorm- ers and forced them to adopt another party name, or vote for a nominee of the gang they were opposing. At the general elee- tion it had seventy per cent. of the Repabli- 0an vote in one ward and eighty per cent. in another ask for ‘‘assistance’’ so that their votes could be splits and divided among the other candidates, in such a man- ner as to defeat the reform nominee and elect officials to places to which, under the laws, the minority party is entitled. In this way one of the two magistrates to whioh the ‘‘re- formers’ and the Democrats, had the legal right, was stolen by the machine majority, and the friends of this “Committee of Seventy’ left without any representation on the board of city magistrates. “Committee of Seventy’ asks that the sys- tem that has aided aud permitted this fraud to be committed against them, be ocon- tinued ! Verily one might as well expect to find virtue in a baudy house, as reform in such reformers. —~That ever increasing aod lengthening procession of Pittsburg bankers and council. men, who are on the way to the peniten- tiary, is creating the suspicion that a con- spiracy has heen formed in some way, to lessen the Republican majority in that oity. And really it seems to be working that way. The People Pay It All Twenty millious of dollars may not be a big sum in the eyes of Republican officials, nor is it a large amount to expend for a government purpose that is to enbance the welfare of she people, bus when it comes to throwing that sum away, it looks like a recklessness that needs to be rebuked. Twenty millions is now estimated to be the cos, outside of the maintenance and pay of the officers and men, of the late naval parade around the world, and if any one kuows orcan tell any gocd that can or may be expected to result to the American peo- ple from that show, it would be the proper thing for them to come to the front and let the public have some light upon it. Twenty millions of dollars, when a gov- ernment is raoniog in debs over & handred and filsy millions a year, ought to be con- sidered as worth saving, but jingo states. men and world power wind bags, that con- trol things in this conotry now think other- wise—and away it goes. And the ress of us stand ronnd with swelled heads blathering ahout our great Navy and how we can awe the world by an exhibition such as was made on this twenty million dollar trip and then go home and growl at onr wives be- cause they pay such prives for the things that must be purchased for our daily living. Aud how many of those who glory over our big navy and growl about their living expenses, know or care $0 know, that every cens that the government wastes or throws away comes out of them. It is from tariff and revenue taxation that the public in- come is derived, and it is the people who pay those tariff and revenue taxes. It is these that make the prices of what we wear, what we eat and what we use so high, and #0 long as the government goes on wasting its income as it bas been doing under the rule of the Republican party, we may ex- pect a continuation of high prices on every- thing that a tariff proteots or a revenue stamp is attached to. And it is just snob senseless work as this ‘great naval demonstration’ that makes it necessary to increase and continue our high tariff and onerous revenue taxes. ~The fleet is home again, so the conn- try will not be without proper protection when TEDDY leaves for Africa. And after thie wrong is perpetrated this | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA, FEBRUARY 26, 1909, The WATCHMAN last week called the attention of ite readers to the manner in which it is attempted to place the State Col- lege under the supervision of those baving charge of the common schools of the State, throogh a provision it is proposed to enact into law by the passage of the new school code. Great as this wrong to the College would be, and mach as it wounld cripple ite work and usefulness, we doabs if it would equal the general wrong that would be inflicted upon the people of the State by the adoption of other sections in this code in which the expenditure for school purposes can he so greatly inoreased ; in which the public officials connected with its enforce- ment are 80 greatly multiplied; in which so many restrictions are placed upon the peo- ple in the managements of their own local affairs; in others thas places it in the power of a commission to practically dominate aod control masters which properly belong to the people of the different localities, and others which undertake to furnish prac- tically free, to those who bave been grada- ates at she Normal schools, educations fis- ting them for College professors, and pro- fessions other than those properly belong- ing to the common school system. The people of the State have little idea of the extent to which the expenditures for school purposes could,and doubtless would, be increased in the State should this meas- ure, as is now stands, become a law. Nor do they conceive of the manner in which the power to control their own local affairs would be abridged, should it be adopted. In this proposed new law there are many excellent provisions calculated to increase the efficiency acd better the management of our public schools. Bus unfortunately there are others, which if acoepted, would out-weigh all the good the former would accomplish, and leave us in a worse condi- tion than if no change at all were made. It the measure cannot be amended so as to rid is of some of its most obnoxious pro- visions, then it would be better, for the cause of education, for the purposes for which the measare is supposed to bave been drafted and for the public generally, thas it be defeated. : “n ww a ~——CALEB POWERS, one of the opn- spirators who planned aod assisted in the most cowardly and cold blooded political murders ever commited in any country— that of Governor GOEBEL, of Kentucky~-- is advertised to lecture in Clearfield, early in March. It should be a slim crowd that would invite or welcome, to any decent or law respecting community, a thrice oon. vioted murderer, who bad escaped the gal- lows only through tricks of the law and the manipalasions of political conrts. The place for assassins—sneakiog and cowardly —a8 were those who conspired with this wan Powgrs, to shoot down from the window of the office he occupied the exeon- tive of the State, in order that the terms of the offices they were holding might be ex- tended, is not upon the lecture stage—it is on the gallows or in the penitentiary. Certainly Unconstitutional. The coostitation of Pennsylvania in its prohibitions eays : ‘‘The General Assem- bly shall not pass any local or special law, granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege or immaunity'’—and yet a crowd of state officials assisted by the heads of the Siate Normal schools, are attempting to revise the school laws of the State in such a way as will give to each graduate of a Normal sohool—and to those only—Iree tuition, or ‘immunity’ from paying tuition fees in the state colleges of education, which it is also proposed to establish. If this is not the ravkest kind of special or olass legislation, we would like to know what would be. To provide that she children of those who are able to meet the expenditures neo- essary to secure a Normal sohool edunoation, shall ha.e their tuition paid by the State, in the State's higher colleges,and that other children of the Commonwealth are to be denied these benefits, is certainly that kind of an ‘“‘exolusive privilege” that the con- stitution intended to prevent. If nos, it would be very difficult to indicate what would be. . ——Sixteen additional Judges is the modest demand on the present Legisla- ture by the lawyers and courts of different localities in the Commonwealth. And this too in a State that has more Judges on the bench now than it takes to run all the courts of England, and bas thirty-six judicial districts in which the work of the presiding Judges does not require fifty days attention during the year. Sarely there is something wrong, if not offensively rotten in this judicial question. ——It8 kind of strange but nevertheless true, that under the benign rule of the Republican party the greater our educa- tional facilities become the bigger our penitentiaries have to be made and the more of them we have to have. Queer, ain't is ? The Tennessee Merger, The report of the sub-committee of the Senate committee on the judiciary on the merger of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com- pany and the Steel trast created quite a sensation wheo the substance of it was given to the public the other day. The report was signed hy ove Republican and the two Damooratic members of the sub- c'mmittee and was based on the facts brought ont in an investigation conduoted under peculiarly annoying cironmstanoces. Two of the Republican members of the sab- committee refased to astend the hearings or participate in the proceedings and the labor of the inquiry devolved opon the three members who have signed the report. The other members dissented aod are likely to prepare a minority report, based upon party exigencies, The report of Messrs. KITTREDGE, Re. publican, and CULBERTSON and OVERMAN, Democrate, denounced she merger as a violation of the law aod a conspiracy in re- straint of trade and declared that the President had no atthority to authorize it or to promise the conspirators immunity from prosecution. It declares that the Tennessee Coal and Iron company was forced into the merger and that in the transaction the purchasing company paid more thao the market price for the shares of the absorbed company. The President is also sharply oensared for having ‘‘as- sumed full responsibility in she matter,” avd ‘‘taking is upos himsell to confer with representatives of the Steel trast and subse- quently giving instraotions to the Attorney General thas no prosecutions he instituted.” Of course this report will be smothered in the committee oo the judiciary. The party can’s afford to have is brought before the country for the inevitable result would be a prosecution of the Steel trust and the revocation of the agreement. The Repab- lican party is under too many obligations to that corporation and those who compose it to permit such an issue of the con. troversy. Pablio interest will suffer vastly, monopoly will be strengthened materially, but the corporation which supplies the bulk of the corraption fands for the Re- publican party must be taken care of in any event. All the Republicans are not as careless of their reputation for veracity as RooseveLT. The friends of TAFT are look- ing to the fature and know where the sinews of war are to come from. Our Battleship Fleet. The return of the battleship fleet isa matter for popular felicitation and the generous welcome hestowed upon she offi- cers and men as Fortress Monroe on Mon- day was none too cordial. The fleet had achieved aun gxtraordivary task. Is had circumnavigated the globe without damage to the ships or injury to the men aud proved that the modern battleship is a safe vehicle of sravel. It has flattered the pride of some of the jingoes in the country, more- over, aad given the world to understand that we have a naval armada that is worth at least a passiog notice. Bat it bas ac- complished no other good under the san. No living sou! was benefited by it except those who supplied she ship’s stores. The cost of this enterprise to the country is variously estimated at from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000, and that is vastly more than the good amonats to. The difference is a waste whoh neosssarily comes ous of the pockets of the people. We are rapidly drifting in the direction of bankraptoy. There is likely to bea revenue deficit of $135,000,000 this year and if the naval ap- propriations increase uexs year in the ra- tion of the recent past the surplus will be exhausted before the end of the present calendar year, which will be five months before the close of the fiscal year. Then increased taxation will be inevitable and our taxes are already almost intolerably high. Bat the officers and men who compose our magnificent fighting force iu the navy are nos responsible for that. The bad investment was not of their initiative. Left to themselves they would probably have preferred the ordinary routine duties of their service. There are long oruises to take and arduous services to perform even under the most auspicious conditions in the navy. There are the usual practices at targets and the ordinary drill exercises and they tax the energy, mental and phy- sicial, eunfiiciently. Bat ROOSEVELT wanted something mote. He wanted to give the powder trust and the shipbuilders an opportunity for graft and succeeded in doing eo. -——The general appropriation commit- tee of the House of Representatives went through here at av early hour this morn- ing, on their way for a visit of inspection to The Pennsylvania State Coliege. They will spend the day there arriving here to visit she Bellefonte hospital some time this alterncon and later be entertained at a chicken and waflle supper at the Country club, Will it be the lion or the lamb for the incoming of March ? Stapendons Cost of the Navy. From the New York World. In the debate on the naval appropria- tion bill Senator Hale based an impressive it fasile warning on the rapid increase in the military expenditures of this govern. ment at a time when ils revenues are steadily falling. Last year, when there was a treasury deficit of $60,000,000, for the navy alone congress appropriated §122,. 000,000 in one year. This . when the defioit promises to reach $135,00 ,000, con- gress is about to for the navy $137,000,000, av increase of $15,000,000, Next year, Sevator Hale predicts, the navy will cost $160,000,000, and in 1911 probably $200,000,000. **This means,’ he concludes, ‘that is will soon he the un- escapable duty of ess either to bor- row money or greatly to increase the taxes ”’ Of course, the jingoes will resent Senator Hale's carping economy. For in pointing ous the plain consequences of heedless ex- travagance the ocbairman of the senate com- mittee on naval affaire wae doing whas Mr. Roosevels has described ‘‘hampering us in the upbuilding of the navy and againss the real advocates of the navy.” Did he not admis that it was * ty bard work'’ last year to prevent the anthotiza- tion of four of the new battleships, a cause to which Mr. Roosevelt devoted pages of barning rhetoric in a special message to congress fall of myterious hints of toreign complications ? Indeed, bas uot the senate itself, in load- ing the bill with an amendment advising the equal division of she flees. between the Atlantic and the Pacific, played into she hands of the jingoes and the enemies of naval economy ? The eight years of President Roosevelt have witnessed a series of mounting expen- ditares for the navy. For that od the appropriations will amount to ,000,000 as compared with $401,000,000 for the pre- ceding eight years, including the extraordi- nary expeuses of the war with Spain. The year Mr. Roosevelt became president the navy cost $69,000,000 ; the year he leaves oY are, xn to VIEW, y double. With she continued agitation at the White House for more and r battle. ships the country bas soffered a suo- cession of violent attacks of jingoism, ao- companied by cunningly fomented war rumors, and the inheritance left to itis a top heavy navy and a depleted treasury. The Secret Service Dispute, From the Altoona Times. With the admirable courage bas in. variably characterized his course when deal- ing with t re. fases to retreat an inch from his original position thas the orippling of the secret i ves in ranning down criminals who were ‘‘influaential in of their wealth or their social or political prominence.” In his reply to attacks made upon this branch of the goverement by Senator Hemenway, of the senate com- mittee on appropriations, the presidents de- claree that the report emanating fiom that committee is ‘inaccurate and misleading in various important " and the senator is gently, but noone less firmly, oon- gigoed to the Illnstrins Order of Ananiases. Inasmuch as the secret service is employ- ed solely to ferret out and punish trans. gressors of the laws of the land, the bitter hostility of congress to the suggestion that its effectiveness be increased is incompre- hensible unless we acceps as trae the presi- dent's charge that its members fear an in- vestigation of their private and official con- duot. Right or wrong, this is the view that is taken by an overwhelming majority of those who have followed the controversy between the president and the legislative branch of the government. Any cartailment of the opportunities of oriminal-bunters can be iu the interest of oriminals ouly. That oongress has mabi- fested such solicitude for the welfare of malefactors can only be accounted for by one of swo hypotheses—a desire to humili- ate and cheokmata the president, for whom there is very little love among many occn- fftes sen and senators, or the very human npalse of sell-preservation. Homes Better Than Warships. From the Mexican Herald. In the last week of December 30 houses of the 200 under construction in Buenos- Ayres for the working people of the city were inaugurated. These houses were de- signed and built as model dwellings for the e and indostrions among the sfiociaioe bas been taken in the direction ving decent and hygenic house accom Would Certainly Help. From the New York World. There is a movement afoot to take the tariff out of politics. Wouldn's it answer Jong well to take politics out of the —Just two more days and March, the month of high winds, will be with us. Spawis from the Keystone. ~—At Lewisburg, Union eounty, burglars blew open the safe in the store of J. F. Groover & Bro., and secured $1,200 cash and negotiable papers. ~The pupils in the Jersey Shore public schools are being given fire drills and have learned to leave the buildings in a minutes time in good order. ~QOut of a total of 425 votes cast at Green~ castle last Tuesday, there were only twenty. —.—— | three straight Republican and twenty eight straight Democratic. =The members of the Jaffa Temple, Mys- tic Shrine, of Altoona, with which a number of Philipsburg Masons are identified, will build a temple to cost $50,000. —At the Mahler glass factory, DuBois, the Alliance sliding scale, a compromise measure has been signed and it is expected that the plant will secon be running full handed again, ~—There are upwards of 135 cases of measles in G:esncastle, and schools have been depleted snd Sunday schools deserted. The epidemic has been prevailing for two months, ~—A row of half & dozen brick tenement houses in Powelton, Centre county, was de- stroged by fire last Wednesday night and three of the tenants lost nearly all their household goods. ~—Small-pox bas broken out in the little town of Redmond, a short distance from Butler. The schools have been closed and mining operations have been interfered with by reason of the quarantine. —Fifty-ove ministers have made applica- tion for the pastorate of the Oak Lane Pres- byterian church, Philadelphia, made vacant acting | by the recent resignation of Rev. Robert Hugh Morris, who accepted a call to Chicago, —Miss Sarah Bitters, of South Bethlehem, for nearly forty years a local public school teacher, on Saturday brought suit against the Lehigh Valley Transit company for $7,- 750 damages for permanent injuries sustain- ed in a trolley accident. —The Knights of Pythias ball at Morris. dale, Clearfield zounty, the largest building in the town, and the place where the majori- ty of the public entertainments were held, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday night about 10 o'clock. Total loss about $1,. 000. : —Receiver R. G. Armstrong, of the troub- led Stahl Glass company, at Greensburg, on Saturday announced that the works will re~ sume on Monday. Within thirty days it is expected the receiver will get the affairs of the concern in such a shape that the receiv. ership will end. —For years George Walk, of DuBois, fol- lowed the extremely hazardous occupstion of a steeple: Jack and painter and repairer of high stacks of all kinds. He had a number of narrow escapes hut was never seriously in. jured and died peacefully at home in his bed on Tuesday afternoon. ~8ix members of one of the most promi- nent families in Erie have been sentto a Pasteur hospital in New York, having been bitten by a pet Boston terrier, which was found to be affected with rabies. The injur- ed are: Mrs. P. H. Adams, ber daughters, Sarah, Susan and Helen; her son, Griswold, and a maid. —@George W. Vernes, the well known in- spector of the Pennsylvania railroad police, has been re-appointed to an important Ma- sonic office, that of district deputy grand high priest of the Eleventh district. This district takes in Lycoming, Clinton and Centre counties, Troy chapter in Bradford county, and Wellsboro chapter in Tioga county. ~—President Judge J. M. Woods and asso- ciates Bell and Swyser on Monday refused all the sixteen liquor licenses applied for in Mifflin county and after the old licenses ex~ pire on Saturday that county will be “dry.” Last fali three fourths of the voters declared for no license in the election of an associate judge and there were nearly five thousand signatures to the remounstrances presented on Monday. ~The contest over the application of the Indiana brewery for a license for the ensn- ing year was ended on Thursday by the court refusing to grant a license. There were petitions presented favoring a renewal of the license, signed by about 2,000 resi- dents of the county, and remonstrances signed by about 5,000, of whom 3,000 were women. The unfitness of the applicant was the strongest point made by the remon- strauts, in the opinion of the court. —At a banquet of the shareholders in the Milton Fair association at Milton, on Wed- nesday evening, it was decided to go into liguidation and thus forever close the fa- mous Milton fair. The association owned half of the fair grounds, the other owners demanding an exorbitant rental for their share and as the patronage of the annual fair was not reassuring last fall the stock. holders decided to abandon the project. The buildings will be removed and the estate sold, the proceeds and surplus in the treas- ury to be distributed among the sharehold - ers, ~The Penusylvania Railroad company has awarded a contract to 8S. R. Geyer for the planting of 250,000 oak trees on its farms west of the Conewago station. This is in ad- dition tc the work that will be carried on along the low grade freight line during the summer months, During the past four years the Pennsylvania has planted in the neigh- borhood of 133,000 locust trees in the groves near Conewago and the oak trees will be planted among the locust. The work of planting the trees will be started some time during the latter part of next month or as soon as the weather condlitions will permit. ~Dr, Joshua Cooper, of Meadville, who died last week, was the victim ofja hard luck career. He lost his only two children with« in a week, through scarlet fever; his father about the same time dropped jidead of heart disense; during the Johnstown flood his house, valued at $10,000, and his horse and buggy were swept away by the raging waters and his wife only escaped in her night dress, her only property except four hairpius; he built a home in Meadville which he lost be- cause of the failure of the Delamater bank at the county seat, in which he had a large de- posit, and then his health failed and he lost his practice through becoming an invalid.
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