—If the comet put this weather on us
we ought to all be glad that it won't be
back again for seventy-six years.
~The Illinois pastor who declared that
all women are liars might have done
work with census takers while arriving
at such a monstrous conclusion.
—With the trout fishing season show-
ing every evidence of being a failure
there is nothing else to do but have a
baseball club for the summer's ammuse-
ment.
~——GLEN CURTISS won a ten thousand
dollar prize for flying fast and high on
Saturday. The average fellow draws
ninety days in jail for doing things like
that.
—Tomorrow, the primaries. Are you
going to attend. If you don’t, remember
that you will be showing a poor face if
you kick at what the other fellows did in
your absence.
—Possibly the fellows who are hollerin
most now because Cambridge made him
an LL. D. were the very ones who in
a certain day in October in the year
1907 were conferring the degree of D. F.
on him.
—The Wilmington News thinks Presi
dent TAFT is all right because he has “a
judicial mind.” He may have it, but we
fear if it were weighed in the balance of
public opinion just now it would be found
wanting.
~The official bathing season opened at
Atlantic City on Monday. Thank the
Lord, official doesn’t mean obligation to
do it in this case. If this kind of weather
continues the half of us won't take a bath
ever again.
—When the railroads were raising
wages it was heralded as a great thing,
but when they undertook to raise] rates
high enough to compensate for the ad-
vance given their employees—why, that
was different.
—Now is the time when those State
College boys are letting out two or three
reefs in the lower end of their pants,
eclipsing pink Socks, and beginning to
realize what their dads sent them to
school for. The final Exams are on.
~=It is costing two hundred and twenty-
eight per cent more to run the govern-
ment now than it did during the last term
of GROVER CLEVELAND'S tenure. Are you
_ is over twice as much as it was
out which there are the most of, politi-
cians or people.
—Have n't heard of any great amount
of enthusiasim being aroused by our sug-
gestion to engage a good band for Belle-
fonte’s Fourth of July celebration. Is it
possible that we the are only music lovers
in the town or are we just a little too
“dippy” on the subject for the rest of
them?
—Most of the High school commence-
ments are over now and another flood of
wouldbe doctors, lawyers, engineers,
stenographers and parlor ornaments has
been turned loose in their respective
communities, but nary a one among them
to handle a plow, a shovel, a dish rag
or a dust pan.
~The performance of GLEN H. CURTISS,
in flying from Albany to New York, in
his bi-plane, at the rate of nearly a mile
a minute, looks like another finger board
to popularity for the flying machine.
Shades of DARIUS GREEN, may we yet
have to swap that good old green boat
for something that won't have tires to
mend and makes less noise than a traction
engine.
—Mr. PATTEN'S corner in wheat having
been broken that commodity has been
doing some grand and lofty tumbling
lately. The price is well down toward
ninety cents and about the only com-
plaints likely to be heard will be from
those farmers who wanted a dollar and
thirty when it was up to one and a quar-
ter and have their wheat in their gran-
aries as a result of their wisdom.
—Only a little more than a month re-
mains until Messrs. JEFFRIES and JOHN-
SON will settle the question, that next to
base-ball, is in the American
mind and by that time Mr. T. R. will be
home to fill up the space in the daily
papers that would be yawning caverns of
peacefulness were it not that he is ex-
pected to be loaded for warfare with
either the Insurgents or the Regulars. It
doesn’t matter much, which, because
TEDDY is certainly shifty and he can fight
a better fight——on paper——than any
man living today.
—Somehow or other, within the past
few days, there has been a very decided
scramble among local Republicans to get
onto the EMERY band wagon. It appears
that on his recent visit to this county Mr.
PATTON did not deny that if elected he
would support boss CANNON and as there
are a lot of Republicans in Centre who
are of the opinion that CANNON has in-
jured their party as much ashe should be
allowed to do, they are going to vote to
send a man to Congress who has openly
declared that he will not support the
present Speaker.
That the tariff is the principal cause of
the high prices of commodities must be
accepted as a self-evident proposition.
The main purpose of the tariff is to ex-
clude from domestic use foreign products
in order that the prices of domestic pro-
ducts may be increased. If this result
were not achieved domestic producers
would not spend money in order to get
tariff legislation. Business men don’t
waste money in that way. They may
contribute to charities and indulge in
philanthropies that cost money and give
them glory, but they never work for
nothing or spend the coin that costs toil
on enterprises which promise no return.
Therefore it may be set down as a fact
that tariff taxes are the principal source
of i
igh prices. are collateral reasons for
high prices of living and as one of the
leading economists of the country has
said one of them is profligacy in public
life. Until within a comparatively recent
period the salary of the President of the
United States was $25,000 a year and out
of that sum he was obliged to pay all his
simple domestic expenses including the
wages of servants and the equipment and
maintenance of his stable. If he traveled
he paid his traveling expenses out of his
private purse and if he remainedon the
job he supplied his table and other
necessaries and luxuries from the same
source. Unofficially he was an American
citizen and gentleman who depended
upon his own resources to gratify his own
desires.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT changed this
system in the White House. He never
paid for anything out of his own pocket.
His household servants were on the pay
rolls of the government, even his barber
being entered as a clerk in the Adjutant
General's office. WiLLiam H. TAFT is
constantly following this nefarious exam-
ple. He pays for nothing except by war-
rants on the treasury and though his
salary is three times that of LINCOLN he
was illegally allowed a traveling expense
fund of $25,000 a year and is now beg-
| ging Congress like a mendicant to give
pense of living in all the walks of life.
Perverting the Postal Law.
The other day, according to authentic
reports from Washington, “the mail
coaches groaned beneath the loads of
campaign documents prepared at great
expense, by the Protective Tariff League,
and sent forth under the frank of the
Pecksniffian Senator from New Hamp-
shire, in violation of the postal laws.”
Presumably it is meant that Senator
GALLINGER, of New Hampshire, has been
franking, for distribution in the United
States mails, matter which isnot apart of
the congressional record. No matter that
has not become a partof the congression-
al proceedings can be entered for post-
office distribution under a congressional
frank. .
The proceedings of an organized body,
or the opinions of an individual, may be
made a part of the congressional record
by vote on a motion or by unanimous
consent. There was no way to make the
proceedings, or for that matter any part
of the record of the Protective Tariff
League, a part of the congressional rec-
ord, except by vote of one branch of Con-
gress or the other. According to the best
evidence attainable no such motion was
made or adopted. Therefore the “burden-
ing of the mail coaches with matter pre-
pared by the Protective Tariff League,”
whether underthe frank of Senator GAL-
LINGER or not, was a violation of the law
and deserving of the punishment which
follows any other criminal operation.
The Postmaster General is striving, the
reports from Washington assure us, to
reduce the expenses of the mail service.
He insists that the volume of second
class matter, the newspapers and mag-
azines, shall be decreased in order that
the deficiency in the service may be end-
condemning the “system” of the Repub-
lican machine and consequently are to
be suppressed. But if the Postmaster
General were half as wise as he is cun-
ning he would see that the deficiency is
caused, not by the newspapers and mag-
azines but by the franking of such rub-
bish as the Protective Tariff League
distributes under the frank of the
“Pecksniffian Senator from New Hamp-
shire.”
—The fast Academy ball team will
close the season on Hughes field tomor-
row afternoon at 3.30 when the Lock Hav-
en Normal boys will be their epponents.
A fine game may be expected and as the
Academy boys have contributed so much
good sport this spring a large crowd
should go out to their farewell game.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLE
Obviously Mr. BERRY is misquoted in
an alleged interview published in the es-
teemed Philadelphia Public Ledger of
Wednesday. In that interview he is made
to say that he is considering the proposi-
tion of some of his friends to make him
an independent candidate for Governor
in the event that the Allentown conven.
tion nominates another gentleman for
that office. Mr. BErry has been the
nominee of his party too frequently and |
understands too weil the obligations of |
loyalty to the party candidate, to even |
think of such a course. He knows that!
entry as a candidate in a convention im- |
plies the obligation to abide by the deter- |
mination of a majority of the convention. |
In the manifestly bogus interview Mr. |
BERRY is made to say that the Democrat- |
ic organization has given him no encour- |
agement in his campaign for the nomina- |
tion of the Allentown convention. The |
Democratic organization has treated him |
precisely as it has treated other gentle- |
men who aspire to or are willing to ac-
cept the nomination. The Democratic |
organization has not been created to give
encouragement or support to candidates
for the nomination. Its mission is to help |
elect the candidates after they are nomi- |
nated and conserve the interests of the
party all the time. The present organi. !
zation has endeavored to accomplish these |
results to the best of its ability and ac- |
cording to its means. i
Nor are we willing to believe that Mr. |
BERRY has referred to ceriain leaders of
the party in the language attributed to
him in the alleged interview as published
in the Public Ledger. The party leader
in question has been a faithful and gen-
erous friend of Mr. BERRY in the past
and we believe cherishes for him the
kindliest feelings at present. In view of
the circumstances, therefore, and in the
light of facts known to all the Democratic
leaders throughout the State, we feel that
Mr. BERRY has been misquoted both in
the charges he is said to have madeabout
the desires and purposes of the party
leaders as well as in the statement that
he contemplates becoming an independ-
ent candidate. Mr. BERRY is neither a
Mr. Flian’s Political Activities. |
Former State Senator WILLIAM FLINN, |
of Pittsburg, according to newspaper re- |
ports, is financing the campaigns of any
Republican candidates for Senator or
Representative in the General Assembly
who will promise to vote against GEORGE
T. Ouiver for Senator in Congress.
FLINN and OLIVER are neighbors in Pitts.
burg and rivals in local politics. They
are both rich, beyond the dreams of
avarice, and each acquired his fortune
through graft. OLIVER is a steel and
iron manufacturer and FLINN is in the
same business though the bulk of his for-
tune was made in city contracts. Both
went into the newspaper business after
having secured more money than they
needed and they are as ambitious as |
CAESAR. i
FLINN gives as his reason for opposing |
OLIVER the opinion that OLIVER is not |
fit, morally or mentally, for the job. In
this view of the subject he is probably
right. But it is not his real reason. The
fact that he wants the job himself is
probably the influencing cause of his
action. On the other hand OLIVER is of
the opinion that FLINN is morally and
mentally unfit, and it is likely that he is
quite as accurate in his judgment. But
the Republicans haven't been in the habit
of sending very able men to the Senate
and therefore the objections of neither
of these gentlemen are valid coming from
Republicans. QUAY used the office sim-
ply as a stock-jobbing station and PEN-
ROSE isn’t much better.
We sincerely hope, however, that Mr.
FLINN will persevere in his work of or-
ganizing Republican campaigns against
OLIVER. Great good may come of it for
the election of twenty-five or thirty Re-
publicans who will hold out against the
candidate of the PENROSE machine may
defeat the election of a Senator during
the next session of the Legislature or re-
sult in the election of a really fit man by
2 combination of actually independent
Republicans, who are not pledged for or
against any Republican candidate, with
the hundred or more Democrats who will
occupy seats in one branch or other of
the next Legislature. That will be “a
consummation devoutly to be wished.”
——A large delegation of station agents
and other railroad men from the Cumber-
land Valley railroad were at State Col-
lege on Wednesday of last week receiving
instruction on how to interest the farm.
ers in that valley in the latest methods of
agriculture. Special trains of instruction
will be run over the Cumberland Valley
road in the near future at which time
lectures on the most important agricul
| follow. At any rate enough has been re-
tural topics will be given by members of
the college faculty.
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Congress has refused to make Presi-
dent TAFT'S “expense fund,” available im-
mediately, though the President admits
that he needs the money very
badly. He has overdrawn the account,
though to what extent has not been re-
vealed. When the cashier of a bank or
any officer of a corporation overdraws his
account he is guilty of embezzlement and | i
compelled to make good immediately. !
Technically the President is in the same
situation and has begged Congress to
provide him with the means to reimburse | what
the government. Just why the states-
men “at the other end of the avenue,”
are obdurate has not been revealed.
Probably some of them want a definite un-
derstanding about patronage.
As we have already said on several
occasions this voting of an expense fund
to the President is “graft” pure and sim-
ple. The constitution provides that the
salary of the President shall be fixed by
the law and that he shall receive “no
other emolument.” With the purpose of
being liberal to President TAFT Congress
fixed his salary at $75,000 a year, an in-
crease over that of his predecessor of
$25,000, and precisely three times as
much as was paid to LINCOLN. In con-
sideration of his signing the vicious AL-
DRICH tariff law he was voted a traveling
fund during the extra session of the pres-
ent Congress. For some reason as yet
unexplained he has again been voted that
fund but he has not been authorized to
use this year's appropriation to pay last
year's overdrafts.
In this State we have recently sent to
the penitentiary a couple of gentlemen
who had previously stood high in their
communities, and a few weeks ago an-
other was convicted in the Dauphin coun-
ty court, for grafting in the construction | could
and furnishing of the capitol building.
But what's the use of punishing these G
comparatively little fish for an offense
which the President of the United States
is constantly committing. Mr. TAPT may
be soothing his manifestly easy conscience
with the thought that the graft in which
he is indulging is sanctioned by law. But
that legislation in confliet with
‘constitution is invalid and that neces-
sarily his graft is of the sordid sort.
A Senatorial Misfit.
Senator LORIMER, of Illinois, protests
that there was no buying of votes on the
occasion of his election, a year ago. He
brands the story of bribery and corrup-
tion as the wicked invention of a Chicago |
newspaper which had for its purpose an |
aim to destroy himself and his friend |
whom it can’t control. This is a strangly |
familiar defence. Nearly everybody who !
is caught blames it on the newspapers. It
must be admitted that there are news-
papers which commit crimes of that kind
that are abhorrent. There are journalistic
“yellows,” here and there, which trans-
gress the laws of decency in order to dis-
credit a man who reveals his contempt
for it. But the Chicago Tribune is not in
that class.
Half a dozen Senators and Representa-
tives in the Illinois Legislature have al-
ready confessed that they were bribed to
vote for Senator LORIMER against his Re- |
publican competitor for the office, former
Senator HOPKINS. It was a sort of choice
between evilsamong them and they were
easy tobribe. HOPKINS was about as bad
as can be imagined and had the nomina- |
tion of the Republican machine. LoRI- |
MER, who had control of the Chicago ma- |
chine, joined with the Democrats in the
organization of the Legislature, thus
creating a “community of interest” be-
tween himself and such of the opposition
as were willing to be bribed. The bribery |
followed, as might have been expected,
and the exposure was the next step.
Senator LORIMER doesn’t improve
things, however, by a vitriolic attack
upon the newspaper which discovered the
facts and revealed them. In fact he
makes matters much worse for while he
was speaking on the subject in the Sen-
ate chamber in Washington State Sena-
rating in every detail the similar testi-
mony of several others. Thus far it has
not been shown that LORIMER or any of |
his friends furnished the money for the
bribery operations, but that will probably
vealed to prove LORIMER'S unfitness for
the office he holds.
~—]In the regular advertising column
of today’s paper will be found an adver.
tisement for the sale of school bonds for
the borough of Milton, sixty-four bonds
of five hundred dollars each, an aggre-
gate of thirty-two thousand dollars, at four
per cent. No bid less than par will be
considered. Here is a chance for men
with money to make a good invest-
ment.
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to write the “judical” opinion in its own
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has up much time: that Ballinger's
whole plan was to refuse to answer
squarely any questions, treating them all
as Persuciution, * and to lie with incredi-
ble . It was only at the end of
e struggle that . Brandis ob-
tained absolute proof of Wickersham's
Suplicity and wler's authorship of
Taft's ision.
weeks of
The Lorimer Scandal.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, has
shown no eagerness to answer
made the Chicago Trib
new to suggest an investigation
er.
The affidavit of an ex-member of the
Illinois Legislature, published by the Chi-
cago Tribune, was not in itself convinc-
ing. It had many of the marks of jour-
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nia on comet day, suggests a pretty
good use for comets any-
way.
Senator FLINN is saying about U. S. Sen-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mad dogs have been causing all sorts of
trouble in Greene county and now zl the canines
are to be quarantined.
—Indictments for negligence in the repairing
of roads have been ordered in the cases of 150
township and borough officials in Schuylkill
county.
~The big pile of soft coal stored bythe New
York Central railroad at Clearfield recently caught
fire by spontaneous combustion. Measures were
taken at once to save it from destruction.
=S. C. Seligman and Dr. G. A. Wifford, Wilkes-
—The Harrisburg Elks have awarded the con-
tract for the erection of a new home in that city
to cost $40,000. Work will be started at once on
the building and it is to be completed by Jan-
uary Ist, 1911.
Capital hotel, on which it is the intention to erect
a 150-room hotel.
~George Gray, a mason, recently fell about
fifteen feet from a scaffolding at the new hospital
at Huntingdon and as the result had to have sev-
eral stiches put in the back of his head. His right
hip was badly bruised, also.
—Captain John McNevin, aged 65 years, former
City Treasurer of Altoona and State Department
Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic:
is dead at his home in Pittsburg where he has
lived for the past three years.
~The iron ore mines at Marklesburg, Hunt-
ingdon county, will be reopened. A new tunnel
isto beputin. W. A. Lauder, manager of the
Kemble Iron Ore company, of Riddlesburg, with
surveyors, was looking over the property a few
days ago.
~The growth of the lace industry in the United
States was given a practical illustration Wed-
nesday when it was announced that the company
which has a plant at Wilkesbarre will build an
addition to its plant at the cost of $500,000. It now
has 1,500 employes on its pay roll.
—All of the 211 census enumerators of the
Berks-Lehigh district have finished their work
and made their returns, but one. This is Edgar
J. Balliet, of Ironton, Lehigh county, who is ill
with diphtheria. He had completed his papers
and was just ready to hand them in whenhe was
stricken.
—Rev.C. H. Williamson, pastor of the Park
» | Avenue Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, has been
given an unanimous call to the pulpit of the Great
Island Presbyterian church, Lock Haven. It is
understood that he will accept, although he will
not assume his new position until about Sep-
tember first.
—Mrs. Ida Potts, of Indiana, was arrested re-
cently on the charge of stealing linen from the
Indiana State Normal school. She has a daugh-
ter working at the institution and is alleged to
have paid frequent visits to the place and to have
carried home a goodly amount of bed linen be-
longing to the school.
~Coming from Russia, a distance of over 4,000
miles, Michael Arhowich arrived at Minersville
* | Saturday expecting to see his son whom he had
notseen for ten years. He collapsed when he
I | was informed that his son had been killed in the
* | mines on the very day on which he started from
Russia for this country.
—~Edward Kugler, of Shermansdale, Perry
county, has a three-legged chicken. An extra leg
protrudes from the back of the peep, bearing five
toes. The bird is lively as such creatures usually
are. Another curiosity around Kugler's home is
a bees’ nest in his parior flue. He is trying to
' think out a plan as to how he can get their honey.
—Samuel Radel, of Montgomery's Ferry,
Perry county, who purchased the Lewis Riddick
home a few years ago, recently removed some
boards from the old place and found in a recess
an old box containing over $100 in paper money.
He never dreamed that any money was hidden in
the place, but now is of the opinion that there is
more about.
—Residents of Hicks Run, Clearfield county,
were excited recently when a balloon was seen
sailing over their town. It was cut loose at
Meadville, with Alex Thurston, an aeronaut, and
Harry E. Fabel, a jeweler, now of Meadville but
formerly of Lock Haven, in the basket. Thecraft
was in the airten hours and went 175 miles, to
Driftwood, Cameron county.
~The memorial erected by the State of Pean-
the sylvania in the National cemetery at Salisbury,
North Carolina, to the memory of the Pennsyl-
vania soldiers who died in the confederate prison
and are buried in the National cemetery, is near-
ing completion, and will be dedicated some time
in November, 1910, on aday to be designated by
the Governor in the near future.
—Rt. Rev. Eugene A. Garvey, bishop of the
Altoona diocese of the Catholic church, has ap-
pointed Rev. Father Richard J. Farrell, at pres-
his hand struck a sharp
through the skin. It provedto
5 protruding
| be a piece of glass, and it had been in his flesh all
—A meeting of the archdeaconry of Altoona of
Keil, as the result of the sale of a chair factory at
Mount Union. The plaintiff claimed personal
property and real estate in the factory and sued
for what she said was hers. The defendants were
willing to turn over the personal property to her,
but she wanted both and sued for both the personal
property and real estate. The judge ruled that
there was no trespass, as alleged.
~The veteran soldiers of Danville had among
their number on Memorial a notable figure in the
person of one William H. Moser, a veteran of two
wars. The old gentleman is approaching the
completion of his 9th year, vet recently he walked
from his home in Columbia county to the home of
a son in Danville, a distance of thirty miles, hav-
ing a desire to join his comrades in the affectionate
and patriotic service of decorating the graves of
those who have gone before. This venerable
man was over thirty years old when the Mexican .
war broke out and he is one of the few survivors:
of that somewhat questionable episode in our
national history. Then he was a soldier of the
union in the war that crushed the rebellion.