«oe
of the d —incidentally—she oppor-
tunity to bave a drink of good liquor when
she wants it.
' —The memory of American ‘womanhood |
is 800n to underwo a most crucial test. The |
census evumerators are coming sround to
ascertain the age of the ladies.
—The brute whe slapped his. wile's face.
with a tarkey foot on Sanday ought to | wil
have been beaded esst with a frozen boot |
ae the propelling agent on bis western side.
~Uncle 8Ax’s retinue of servants is
1 g 46 the rate of ten por cent a year.
As tbe years roll by we oan see where our
Petheriey become ne svenel Shy serve
—GERTRUDE ATHERTON says she would
rather go to hell than to Chicago. Bub
probably GERTRUDE is deluded by the idea
shat the latter place is as seductive as n
road so it. ’
. — Where ignorance resolte in the saving
of from fifteen to twenty cents a pouod why
should the nsers of olsomargarine wish to
get wise as to which side of their bread the
buster is on.
—Ae long as Mr. Secretary MEYER
keeps things stirred up in his efforts to put
the navy on a business basis possibly tha
jingoes who want more Dreadnanghte will |
be Tost sight of. More power to his stirring
arm.
—Estimates of the state game commis-
gion that over five hundred deer were kill-
ed in Pecnsylvania during the season just
olosed will be read with interest by the
many ‘huntiog parties from thie section
thas came back without any.
—Kiog MANUEL, of Portugal, and Presi-
dent FaLuigres, of Fraoce, were ous hans.
ing on Taesday and killed six hundred and
itty head of game. Surely here is some-
thing for the mighsy hunter of South Africa
$0 start a few more ANANIAS stories aboat.
~—Government control of utilities bas been
getsing a black eye since the government
control of the New York onstom house bas
Been aired. It appears that the ospacity of
a man to “koook down” is in no wise
diminished by the fact that Unole BAM |
his employer.
—If itsany consolation to she laboring
who now has to pay from two to
three cents a pound more for every bite of
m=at he eats than he did a month ago, we
might call his attention to the fact that
down 1n Houston, Texas, strawberries are
selling for one dollar per quart. Suppose
you had to depend upon strawberries for
sustenance.
—J¢ will be interesting to observe what
Centre county Republicans line up with
the Hon. BARCLAY and with Mr. C. E.
PATTON, of Carwensville, in the promised
contest for the congressional nomination
in this district. For, sure as you're born,
the hopes of present aud would-be post.
masters will be revealed when the show
down fis made.
~The Connellsville Courier remarks that
“‘Connellsville nimrods are disgusted with
bear hunting in Centre county.” Wasn's
the booting fine? Barely the weather was
all that could have been desired and the
hills aren't any higher or the valleys any
deeper here than other places. If they ex-
pected to get bear, why of course that is a
different matter, but report has it that bear
meat is very tough aod unsavory this fall.
—Football sharps give State fitth place
in football supremacy among eastern ocol-
leges this year,and VORHIS, the captain and
quarterback, is already picked as an All
American quarter. If State has any reason
for being filth she has jost as good reascn
for being third in standing. Neither Lal-
ayette nor Dartmouth are any bester on
paper and we have felt all season that the
former would not have been as good bad
she met State in the field.
—The opportunity for rich men to make
money is exemplified in the fortune of one
bundred sod forty-nine million dollars
that the late EDWARD H. HARRIMAN bas
left. Stock juggling and paper values
brought a return for his labors out of all
proportion to their actual value. The re-
sult in his case is paralleled by that of
most of the mulsimilliooaires of the coun-
try aod should economic conditions re-
main as they are it would appear as if it
were only a matter of time until the very
few acquire absolute control of all she
wealth of the country.
—Eogland is having troubles of her own
just now over the tax budget. The House
of Lowds, refusing to stand for a system
shat will place the burden of necessary in-
oreases in taxation oon the rich, has pus the
question before the people for decision by
ballot. There should be no question about
the outcome of such an election, but in
Eogland the masses bave been trained al-
ways to look upon the. upper classes with
such reverence shat they will probably be
simple enoogh to vole that they pay the
taxes themseives rather than bave any of
the leaven taken ous of the upper crust.
Carn oer an :
to catapult a servile tool into the seat. Hon,
Joux E. FAUNCE served in the Legislature
several years with great distinction and
has the judicial temperament highly devel-
oped, bus he would be gnided by conscience
in interpreting the law aod that sort of a
man is not wanted. Mr. FLAHERTY is 8
lawyer of learning sud a gentleman of
character.and HENRY BUDD equally fis,
oame within a few votes of an election even
in that machine ridden community, bus
neither of them will do. They are Demo-
orats,
The Republican machive doesn’s waub a
non: partiean judioiary,and that is the end of
the matter. The framers of the _coustita.
sion fondly hoped that the seleation of
judges of ail the courts would be taken ont
of politics and imagined that they were
promoting that resals when they made
provision for minority representation on
the benoh under certain conditions. Bat
they were simple-minded folk who never
‘even dreamed of the ad vantage to ‘a political
machine which mighs acrue from filling the
bench with political judges who would be
| governed in their judicial actions poe WWigeiny
bowever, hates non”
“irridesoent dream."
The Pag suse Canal.
The man who basiobarge of the work of
building the canal kindly favors
us with another estimate of the amount of
money whiob will be required to complete
the job. He assu us that a trifle of
$375,000,000 is all shat stands, as this
blessed moment, between us and the great
achievement. He doesn’t tell us when
the work will be fikished. He is far too
wise a guy to mon with figures for the
purpose of measuring time, All he uoder-
takes to say is thas if Congress will oblige
kim by appropristiog the sam expressed in
the nine figures above quoted the canal is
assured and that probably at some time in
the remote future ships will be shooting
through the looks trom the Aslantio to the
Pacific.
The original estimate for this work fixed
the figures at anywhere between $96,000,-
000 and $140,000,000. For some reason it
has been the policy of the government to
confuse the accounts ever since the opera-
tions were began bat it is a fair guess that
upwarda of $200,000,000 have been invest-
ed in the construction and other expenses
thos far. The fact ehould be remembered,
however, that the original estimate con.
templated the location of the ditch in Nio-
aragua instead of Panama and that that
plan would probably bave been carried out
it ROOSRVELT'S brother-in-law bad not ao-
quired an interest in the French Pavama
canal. The e of the ronte added
greatly to the ol construction but
ROOSEVELT'S -law needed mon-
ey. i
Of course nobody wants to see the vast
sum of money already invested in this en-
terprise wasted consequently every-
body will have to favor the necessary ap-
propristion to finish she waterway. Bat
there is no necessity for carelessness in ap-
propriating the fufids. Thus far she man-
agement of the en
profligate. Th
mens of the have apparently been
utterly indifferent to the interests of the
that when favorites were paid freely in the
beginning it only fair that others
should get a grab §t what was left. Io the
fatare a different system ought to obtain.
The interests of thie people are worth oon.
sidering. i
«A souvenier copy of the Chambers-
burg Repository telling us all about the
pretty town in whioh it is pablished, and
much about the nities it offers and
the citizens who thave aided in making it
the model little it is, has been received
at this office. It ig eo greatly different from
and so vastly than most souvenir
editions that are bens cut, thas one is com-
1 petiot vo tuatade Aha Solin; an well a
| in many other things, Chambersburg has
the balge on many of the other towns striv.
ing to attract public attention. The fact
that that town has a printing office capable
¢ | for pride on the part of everyone of its
oltizens,even if they bad fewer other things
10 blow about than they bave.
+ M———
Swpicions Signs in Washington.
It looks very much as if the ourrent
gossip concerning official atrocities in
Rieruus bus been manufactured for the
purpose of justifying some inexcusable
meddling with the affairs of that sister
ington appears to be anxious to recognize
the belligerenoy or » revolutionary force
under command of a treacherous officer
who bas betrayed the confidence reposed in
him by bis chief. There is no public reason
for this anxiety. It has not been the cuns-
tom of this country to plunge carelessly
into such complications. The recognition
of the Panama revolution was an exception,
of course, for in that oase the revolationists
‘recognized before the revolation was
declared. In faot the revolution was or-
ganized in Washington,
“Until the end of time that act will stand
#¢ a stain upon the character of this coun-
‘try. Is was an international orime of such
forbidding aspect that she entire civilized
world might and for that matter ought to
have entered protest against it. Bat it was
RooseveLT's way. He knows no law ex-
cept his own capricesand probably felt that
he had a right to perpetrate any orime that
was necessary fo promote his own purposes,
That *‘the end justifies the means’ is an
old philosophy, not a creditable one, to be
sure, but sufficient for RooseveLr. He
wanted to begin the Panama canal aod that | fairs,
was the only way to achieve the result. It
wase’t moral or honest or decent.’ |
that made no difference to ROOSEVEL
was effective. It brought the results.
We bope, bowever, that President Ta
desire to toro the authority of the United
States upon all the in Central and
South America. But Hitherto Mr. TAFr's
name has not been associated with such
wild and weird schemes. Recent incideats
tread in’ thas direction, however. The
frenzied performance. following a recent
rumor of the execution of a couple of Amer-
ican soldiers of fortune in Nicaragua goes
a long way toward arousing fear in shie
respect but we hope that the fatare will
clear up the affair.
Meeting One Danger With Another.
The *““insurgents’ in Congress, or as they
prefer to call themselves, the ‘‘progressive
Republicans,” are makiog preparations to
give Speaker CANNON all sorts of trouble
during she coming session. With this
amiable purpose in miod they announce
that an efforts will be made to enlist Presi-
dent TAFT on their side and ges the benefit
of his help in the process of ‘‘nagging’’ the
Speaker. We are very much inclined to
wish them success in their plans eo far as
Republic. The administration at Wash. | 4
agsio &
bas no y to foster and that
his strange anxiety to ere in Nicaragua
if not fed by the ambition to ac-
quire territory by oongaess. There has
been a suspicion for some yeurs that certain
Ul men high in
ly wants 10 kbow what the Sapreme
will do with those of Mr. Hus-
TON’S associates in the orimes that have al. | 4b:
convicted. It Dr, SNyDER and
Mr. SHUMAKER are to be vindicated by ex-
ts Jlatal pecocsaiugt Souie tele. it i
court the PENROSE machine was in a par-
oxismiof which it bas since become very
amed. If the mavagers had had
of their iniquities there Boyt
been a verdiot of guilty. The
ie would have simply invaded the
popular indignation wax at bigh side over |»
pi Ran made. The boldest
of the piratical orew were frightened into a
false pretense of improvement.
Since that event the courage aod col
dence of the treebooters has been svmplete-
ly restored. The election of Sissoy, Sro-
BER and Vox MOSCHZISKER is a guarantee
sak he people wilt pegience fu Su abros
ity that oan be
old methods in administration of pablic af-|
There will be no more costly timid.
ity I EL the law.
Convidtion of the gralters already nde:
e into its awn and it on
8 to exercise all the power implied.
jeot of cobjecture not only in
bat throughout the comntry. Du
recent junket, at pablis expense and
violation of the constitution, Mr. Tirr
intimated strongly that he would make
some importent reconimendations slong
ih lines. He said that he wonld sug:
gest amendments $0 the SHERMAN law, the
oreation of postal savings banks, the estab-
lishment of parcels posts and several other
things. Bat it is now intimated thst he | Repu
bas changed his mind on all these ques-
tions. The ‘‘interests’’ are averse to
monkeying with such things.
A prominent Pennsylvanian who recent.
ly visited Washington and during his so-
journ shere came in contact with some of
the leading thinkers says that Tarris|b
spoken of there as ‘‘the putty man.” He
hasn't sufficient back bone to maintain an
opinion on any subject. Sooh men as AL-
pRIcH and CANNON wind him around
their Sogers and langh at the spectacle be
presents during the process. He knows
that the express companies are robbing
the po F he !
a ut fires open ||
deolaration of the purpose to resume the |,
the public of hundreds of millions of dol-
lars annually but he basn’s the courage to
even attempt to cheok them. A parcels
posts law would end their brigandage but
the President of the United States is afraid
to recommend such legislation.
they relate to the oconfasion of Speaker
CANNON. In the exercise of usurped pow-
er and in his habit of encroaching upon the
prerogatives of members of the body over
whioh be presides, Mr. CANNON has be-
some a very dangerous man. It ie said that an attempt will be made |*
But we can’t see that aoything is to be | 40 reopen the tariff question during the | ¥
goined by oheoking the usurpations of the | coming session but it is safe to predios that
Speaker by giving encouragement $0 a | is will fail. Probably a majority of the
vastly more destrastive and dangerous form | members of both branches of the present
of nsurpation in the White House and that | Congress favor a redaction of the rates of
must be the inevitable resalt of the plans | gariff taxes on wood pulp and white paper.
which the insurgent Republicans are form- | Bat they will not be allowed to express
ing. They are inviting the President 10 | their views on the floor of either chamber.
interpose in the affairs of the legislative | Even Tr.7= himself is disgusted with the
department of the government with the | maximum and minimum features of the AL-
power and patronage of his great office, and | pprcm bill. But AnDRICH sud CANNON
the setting of suoh a precedent would be | will prevent the consideration of any re-
more disastrous to the country than any- | pealing measure. We are in the bands of
thing that the Speaker of the House might | he Phillistines and must suffer the conse:
do it be were ten times as arrogant and a | quences.
government. Possibly they have reasoned |
thousand times as ambitions as CANNON
appears to be.
The founders of the Repablic aimed to
establish a government of three co-ordinate
branches and forbid the encroachment by
one upon the functions of the others. It
was their intention that the legislative
branch of the government should be entire-
ly independent of the executive depart-
ment and that the judiciary should be
equally free from interference from either
or both. Bat the proposition of these in-
sargents would revoke all their plans and
make the President an absolute diotator.
Until withio a few years no President
ever attempted to ‘‘electioneer’” Congress
and the fact that this wholesome system
has been obanged is the greatest danger to
the government at precent in view.
E————
—Poor Dr. Cook has faded into thin air.
The pole is still believed to be doing busi.
ness at the old stand.
~The Hon. CHARLES F. BARCLAY,
of Sinnamahoning, will not bave uoruified
sailing in his candidacy for a renomination
for Congress on the Republican ticket, as
C. E. PATTON, of Carwensville, this week
threw his hat into the ring by announcing
himeell as a candidate. Mr. PATTON comes
of a family who have always been bard
political fighters and the Hon. CHARLES |,
will bave todo more than stroke those
magoificent whiskers and look wise if he
gets away with the plum. Io fact there is
every likelihood that it will be a contest of
bar'l tapping and the man who oan show
the biggest bunghole to the Republican
py ledlese” fe the man most likely to | oi
——The eclipse of the moon last Friday
night was plainly visible to all those who
bad the stamina to stay up all night to see
is. Pn
they are technically classed as Republi-
cane, Demoorats or Magwaumpe, just eo
long as they po My ing to the
dictates of conscience—branded himself, so
that he who runs may read, as the arch.
reaotionist, the party man pre-eminent, the
incarnation of the spirit thas has made the
blioan party a machine for the far-
rt,
There is a fine flavor of unconscious ba:
wor in Mr. Cannon's impassioned ory :
‘Ever since history began the mau io the
minority bas heen seeking some device by
which he could overcome the will of the
majority.” Naver fell words more true
Sel ol prophet or iiosopher. Ali All
Distt Tasha in tk Feb, the miso
m y e m ty
with the Vision of a better Toy of the ing
overcome the reactionary polioy iyug
and satisfied
The * blican Insurgents can soarce
find cause for anxiety in the {aot that Uncle
Joe has thus cast them into outer dark:
ness.
Soft and Low.
From the Lancaster Infelligencer.
The Standard Oil tlagnates are sioging
very low to she public ear and expressing
the utmost readiness to obey the law, when
suey find out what is is; which, however,
to take ail the ‘time they can
oi, declaring thas Conran mast
on Shorr oleful tale of the of amend-
ing the law which is inter to keep
solog from conductiog Sheir business aoc:
to their a intentions and
thee atoroey’s naira
es interpretation, wal Shrsabogs ibe
fect upon the business pripig Bebb
interpretation whioh forbids the amalgama-
tion of in its conduct.
“Evidently we are not to have an early
decision by pia may. bo bound. tg extent
to which may be bogud_i
in guciais nt interests sis; and the
me al $ of it
ad ste ar seoure _ desired ht »
blocked 2 eh ie Bieet Tet
. to re a
deal of wisdom, os
Yume bo get 4he Ins esha (hot ve
stead ! bsinets cole and to jive people gen
the fair opportunity to carry on
Sally individually that is theoretically
suppased to bo aeoured 0 hem by our in-
stitution.
M@at he ‘a Nigger 1 tn the Woodpile,
From the Pittsburg Post.
* Counstructively aud theoretically, Walter
Wellman niight possibly be accounted an
aathority on polar exploration.
ly, his work in that line counts for little.
At least, he is hardly qualified to eit in
judgment on one who has shipped bimsell
somewhere north of 82 degrees. Hence
Mr. Wellman’s striotares on Dr. Cook will
not be taken too seriously. Moreover, he
Shen Ou fe aa at
the veracity of the Brooklyn man. His
solve In fact, Mr. Wellman appears
to have gone out of his way to disoredis
Dr. Cook. The majority of people would
preter ® leave foal jadgment to Geograph
experts.
| oes favorable to th
* | mills of the Clearfield Steel ca
. J louieeg ovina are many
ost a
¢ | $25,000 and m
field people who are furnishing the principal
part of the capital will have full charge of
vue the mill... A chatter “hagbéonap-
ied for. . by i
—Wallopshurg snd Sagamore, two Indisus
county towns, are in the grip of measles.
There is at ne vs Maas mo
ala Bas & amber
have. “rb a known
~—Whether a sunstroke abe aalied an
sccident in to be settiod ina suit which Mra
Mary A. Whelan, .of Ardmore, is bringing
id | against the Columbia National Life Insur-
ance company; which refused to pay ber
| $6,000 on & policy for accident insurance held
by her husband. He was killed by | 8 sua-~
. | stroke.
—Johustown is to have vow industry in
the form of & msl ria W. 8. Duch-
ts on several
by experts te
The inventor is forming
‘with a capitalization of
stock bas been sold,
—After four yéars Alexander Logan, aged
78, a former bafiker of Parnassus, has re-
gaiued possession of his $500,000 estate by a
ling of the Westwors) sud county court. In
1905 his mind became deranged as the result
ofa severe illness and his property was
placed in the hands of a committee. He now
bas been declared sane.
—Itiss said ha there will be 3 shortpse of
i iadaig thet ek does not come before
the grouud becomes frosen. Production al
ready has fallen off 25 ver cent. since the dry
spell set in. Few of the collieries are work-
ing full time, most of them being unable te
get any ‘more water than wll ran them
three or four hours a day.
-B. RB. Miller, of Colorado, is $500 better
off because he ate bis Thanksgiving day din
wrenches which, are
be second to
a stock
e | ner in Willinmsport. Mr. Miller is a former
resident of that city, but of late years he has
lived in Colorado. He is tow visiting friends
in Will and on Thursday lie was a
guest at the Updegrafl, Daring the progress
of the meal | of some oysters in one
of which be found a large pearl. An exami-
nation of the stone by a local jeweler devel
oped the fact that the pearl is worth at least
$500. It weighs seven aud one-baif grains.
—Johu and George McCoy, of Becoaria
township, Clearfield county, are in prison on
acharge of forging check for $800 bearing the
uname of their uncle, W. H. McCoy, a pros-
perous farmer of Becearis. The crime is
alleged to have been committed Inst spring
and John was suspected. He was arrested
recently in Kansas City and implicated his
brother in the crime. George was strested
“Lucerne, the new “Indisaa county coal
town, is to bo placed among the first rank of
. | towns of that county, which owe their exis-
tence to mineral deposits, Contracts are to
be let in the near future for the construction
of a new power house, additional mine equip~
ment and new company houses. The town
ig already well known for its well equipped
plant, which employs 300 men. John Reed,
general superintendent of the Rochester and
Pittsburg Coal company operations at Ernest,
Whiskey Run and Iselin, will have charge of
the new work, which will increase the capac-
ity of the plaut three fold.
—Falls Creek, Clearfield county, is in-
dignant over the mystery that surrounds the
intention of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts.
burg to build a 500,000,000 galiou reservoir
near that piace. The new body of water will
cut off the water supply of the town or im«
pair it to such an extent that the efficiency
of the system will be injured. The citizens
are wrathful and held an indignation meet-
ing because the councilmen seem to be doing
nothing to prevent the company from carry=~
ing out its designs. Resolutions were passed
to have the council make known its plans
and the citizens intend to keep track of all
future developments.
—Citizens of Spangler are wondering what
the Spangler Ice Manufacturing company
means by an amendment it is going to have
added to its charter. The paper states that
the consumers will get materials for refriger-
ating purposes from the central station
through pipes or conduits. What the ma-
terials will be is troubling the citizens, It
was thought by some that the company is
teyivg to get around the recent ruling of the
state authorities by which breweries are not
allowed to distribute ice to their customers.
One man said however that the company
really is going to dietribute refrigerating
substances through pipes.
—Around Shelocta, Indiana county, the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad
company, the Peunsylvania Railroad com-
pany and others sre buying big tracts of coal
land, paying big prices for tnem. Iuterests
connected with the Buffalo, Rochester and
Pittsburg have four diamond drill at work,
prospect ing above Parkwood, Indiana coun-
ty, on lands controlled by the options of John
W. Miller and RB. W. Wherle, of Indiana.
If the tests are successful the land owners
will receive $10an acre for their coal. 8.
T. Warner, of Indiana, also holds options on
an extensive field in the same territory.
About 10,000 acres are included in the entire
field.
—Johnstown’s heat, light and power in-
terests are now merged. The stockholders,
with the exception of Joseph Cauffiel, whe
has fought the combine from the start, voted
to purchase the capital stock of the Johna~
town Fuel Supply company, which action
was necessary to complete the merger. Itis
claimed now that the light, heat and power
interests are under the control of Emmet
Queen, of Pittsburg, who is said to be identi-
fied with the Standard Oil, so that tho
Johnstown interests sre under the control of
the big trust. It was decided also to issue
preferred stock of the Citizens’ company, all
the stock issued being of the common vas
riety. Aik adel :
Yr