BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —The Thanksgiving turkey didn’t roost nearly as high as its price. —OQur Presbyterian brethren in Belle- fonte have the condolence of the com- munity. The joke is on them. —Washington has a chinaman named CHIN ON. Evidently his daddy wanted to call him after ROOSEVELT and took the shortest cut to doit. —The buck that can keep his hide from being perforated until next Wednesday can look forward to another year’s relief from the eager hunter. —When Senator OLIVER points with pride to his record as his claim to re-elec- tion to the United States Senate he ought to hand out a microscope with it. —And now it is said that BALLINGER'S profile is to be placed on the new five cent postage stamp. This, we presume, is to guarantee its sticking qualities. —BERT DELIGE'S confession only adds proof conclusive to the suspicion we have always had that if you want to keep out of trouble keep “stone fence” out of you. —The headlines in the morning papers on Monday announced the “Quiet Depar- ture” of Colonel ROOSEVELT from Wash- ington. Only another evidence of how possible are many things thought to be impossible. —We notice that Pittsburg’'s mayor and newspapers have started a regular boom for that city. How they can expect to succeed with so many of the real boomer captains laid up in Riverside we can't imagine. —Philadelphia may have numerous and great industries but from the way they stand by it, and the number of citizens who work at it, stuffing their ballot boxes must be one of the best grub producers they have on the list. —Dr. CRIPPEN, the American, was hanged in England, on Wednesday, for the murder of his actress wife, BELLE EL- MORE. Thus ended a tragedy that aroused the interest of two nations and the life of a man of ability gone wrong. —Judging from the news that leaked over the border from Zacatecas during the early part of the week it looks as if some of the Mexicans are as determined not to be Mexicanized as the vast major- ity of their fellows in the States were on November 8th. —M. BRIAND, the Premier of France, was punched in the face by a young Roy- alist on Monday and England's Prime Minister ASQUITH can’t poke his nose out of the door without being mobbed by Suffragettes. Verily, the States are very peaceful, after all. —Perpetual president Diaz, of Mexico, is beginning to find out that while he might be able to imprison all rival can- didates for presidential honors there are a lot of other people in his land whom he can't get behind the bars and who are just now threatening the stability of his government very seriously. —RICHARD CROKER, the one time boss of New York, landed in that city on Sun- day en route from Ireland to Florida. Boss CROKER left New York to spend the last years of his life on the green ould sod, but he admits that even it isn't green enough for him in winter, hence his reg- ular pilgrimages to the land of sunshine and flowers perpetual. —The election law reformer who is in. sisting on the adoption of the Australian ballot for Pennsylvania is evidently a close political relative of the tariff re- former who would have that relic of high- way robbery "revised" upwards. Both act on the principle that when you've got a bad thing the right thing to do with it is to make it worse, if possible. —The meeting of the national Grange at Atlantic City has revealed the fact that even that organization of good, old farm- ers has troubles of its own. After one clique had charged the other with mis- applying the funds of the order and the organization got all primed up to white- wash itself the calumniators failed to ap- pear to substantiate their charges and they were handed a set of condemnatory resolutions. It is a poor convention, these days, that can’t get up a good scrap. —The death of Count Leo ToLsTOY in an humble hut at Astapovo, Russia, on Sunday, ends a career that was remark- able not for the great good he did, but re- markable for the brilliancy with which he advocated theories that the world could not accept. Few minds have there been more profound in their conceptions, few pens more facile in presenting seemingly logical conclusions than were ToLsTOY'S, though interwoven with his ideals of life were the beautiful and the ugly so inex- tricably that the good was tainted und his labors lost. —It is altogether probable that had there been no party square on the ballot that was voted on November 8th Dr. STEWART and not JOSEPH ALEXANDER would be the Senator from this district. If the matter of eliminating it from the | ballots of the future is brought before the | next Legislature it will be interesting to watch Senator ALEXANDER'S attitude to- ward the measure. It will undoubtedly be a proper proposal, but our new Sena- tor will be in the position of killing the goose that laid the golden egg for him if he votes to displace the party square. VOL. 55. The Downward Trend of Prices. Our esteemed friend, the enemy, is quite as busy just now arguing that the Democratic victory has had nothing todo with the downward trend of prices as he was before the election trying to prove that the tariff had nothing to do with the high cost of living. Old Blatherskite WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture, who is ready at any moment to take a solemn oath that the moon is made out of green cheese, is first and most absurd at the work. He assures the public that the de- crease in the price of meats of from two to four cents a pound, is attributable en- tirely to the vastness of the corn crop. couldn't possibly have had an influence on the quantity or value of cattle and hogs. But that doesn’t make any differ- ence to WILSON. and which we hope will soon be felt everywhere, is directly traceable to the Democratic victory of the 8th instant. It is the result of “the handwriting on the wall.” The early announcement is in obedience to the instinct of self-preserva- tion which is the dominant impulse of the trust magnate. The moment the re- sults of the elections became known these parasites on the body politic began a movement for their own safety. They realized at once that trust supremacy was atan end and began placating the out- raged pubiic by offering moderate con- cessions. Like DAvy CROCKETT'S coon they offered to come down if the deadly rifle pointed at their heads would be with- drawn. They are cowards as well as crooks. If the Republicans had won in the elec- had no more effect on reducing the prices of meat this year than the prac- tically same sort of a yield of the soil did last year. The crop of last year was the greatest on record up until then, but the rising tide of prices of meats was never even deflected a hair's breadth from its upward course or checked a single mo- ment. But this year the verdict of the ballot was notice to the trusts to abdi- cate and they are acting with a prompt- "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. An Evil and a Remedy. Last week we reprinted from the New | “A few days before the recent election —Announcement has been made of nearly $3,. 000,000 worth of orders for iron, steel and coke in the Pittsburg district or vicinity, in addition to poi contracts for steel rails announced some ago. J. F. Sutton, a Dauphin county school teacher, has been arrested on the charge of teaching while there was scarlet fever in his family. The ac- cused paid the costs and agreed to obey the re- quirements of the law in the future. for the making of a number of special castings for a Pittsburg corporation. The contract will amount to about $15,000 worth of work annually. —A somewhat careless Pittsburg merchant permitted a boy to take from his store what he believed to be an empty box. Later he discover- edthat the box contained gloves valued at $45- The Pittsburg police ‘have been asked to locate the boy and box. Ce SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. York World an interesting article showing the relations of the present tariff sched- ules to the cost of living. We made no comment at the time for the reason that EuHU Roor, Senator in Congress for New York, addressed a public meeting in the metropolis in the interest of the Republi- can candidate for Governor. During the The corn crop isn’t harvested yet and As a matter of fact, the decrease in the . price of meats at the packing centres, | tions the bumper corn crop would have | the facts as well as the inferences were | course of his address he declared that in s0 obvious that “he who runs might read.” | the event of the defeat of Mr. STIMSON, We refer to it now, moreover, not with the Republican party, in order to retrieve the idea that the statement of our es- itself, would be obliged to nominate teemed contemporary needs elucidation, | THEODORE ROOSEVELT for President. This ' but because it deserves the most careful | was interpreted at the time asa sort of analysis and constant presence in the threat against Wall street. It was some- mind. Our contemporary described the thing in the nature of a bribe offered to laying of a table for a family meal. It Wall street for votes for StiMsoN. The pointed out the fact that the table cloth inference to be drawn was that if Wall is taxed from forty to sixty per cent., the | street would elect STIMSON, ROOSEVELT plates are taxed fifty-five to sixty per would let the interests alone for four cent., the knives, forks and spoons from years at least. sixty to eighty per cent. and all other | things necessary are taxed in proportion. | self a bugaboo to Wall street. It will be However careful the housewife may be | remembered that during the contest for table linen wears out, plates, cups and | the Republican nomination for President saucers are broken and knives, forks and | in 1908 the street was offish tc TAFT | spoons are lost, so that it is necessary to | until ROOSEVELT served notice thatif they | renew the supply every few years. The | didn't take TAPT they would get him. It | renewal of a table service for a family of | worked like a charm. Immediately Wall | iob: | six, including linen, china, cutlery, spoons, | street turned in for TAFT and poured out | table, chairs and other essentials, costs of its coffers a golden stream which en- | not less than $150.00 under the most | abled HITCHCOCK to start the steam roller prudent management and of that sum less ‘in motion and crush out all opposition. | than half goes for the articles purchased The street didn’t want ROOSEVELT then. ! and a trifle more than half is an unearn- | He hadn't revealed that remarkable ed bounty and unjust tribute to the manu- amiability toward the system that was facturer. In this case there is no part of | subsequently expressed in the consent to it goes to the government in the form of | the absorption of the Tennessee Iron and revenue for if the articles were imported | Gonl Co., by the Steel trust. the cost would be far above the amount| But the bulls and bears of the street named. The process is purely and simply | were not so easily frightened this year or a robbery of the purchaser in order to|else ROOT had a less impressive way of bestow largesses upon the manufacturer. presenting the danger. It is true that There is not a woman living in this immediately following the threat a few of broad land, worthy of the name, who the “operators” set about raising a cam- doesn’t take pride in the equipment of | paign fund for the “Coinel’'s” candidate. her dining room. No self-respecting | But the vast majority of the sane busi- woman in this land of plenty would wil- | ness men not only of Wall street but of lingly set a guest to a table supplied with | all other streets voted for the sane and plates chipped on the edges, cups cracked | safe candidate of the Democrats and and cutlery worn and scratched, if it was | elected him by an overwhelming major- in her power to have these articles other- ity. ROOSEVELT is no longer a bugaboo. wise. But at the prices made necessary Everybody knows now that his power by this unjust tribute to the manufactur- over the people is wasted and that it | ers the wife of a mechanic or clerk or makes no difference whether he is a can- | struggling professional man has no alter. &lidate or not. He can’t even fool most | native. She can't keep her table up to of the people anymore. The “Coinel” appears to imagine him- | ; ~The oldest officeholder in the United States is belizved to be Justice of the Peace Thomas Mc- Clain Rudolph, of Shippensburg, who is still able to perform the duties of his office in an entirely satisfactory manner, although he is 9 years old. —There is great rejoicing among the farmerS of Rush township, Schuyikill county, because a lucky citizen has managed to killa wild cat weigh- ing fifteen pounds, and which is belleved to have been the animal that was playing havoc among the pigs and fowls of that vicinity. —Seven persons were made sick and thirty-five chickens died as a result of eating pie froma restaurant in the town of Washington. The pie baker accidentally used rough on rats instead of baking powder in their manufacture. The poison haa been carelessly kept in a baking powder ~The citizens of Indiana figure it out that it will require $6,000 to put matters in shape in that town for the entertainment of the Second brigade, Pennsylvania National Guard, and the board of trade of the town will have the final word asto whether that amount will be given for the pro- ject, —John Kelly, aged 18 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Kelly, of DuBois, is a patient at the DuBois hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds received by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a companion, Glenn Haines, about J fae age. Theentire load of shot entered back. —Toney Perrie, aged eighteen years, an Italian employed on the Pennsylvania railroad, was burn- ed to death in his cabin near Wetham Saturday night, and two other inmates of the building nar- rowly escaped with their lives. Both are in the Renovo hospital and one of them isin a serious condition. ~Mrs. James P. Herdic, a prominent lady of : is d 3 i i ES. 2 igs Hi : g £H i F : f We are confident that the originally circulated the rum strenuous editor reported for day for the first time since the a malicious and unmitigated liar, vicious inventions are without the - ow of a foundation in truth. Our Williamsport, died in that city on November 15. belief is that Editor Roosevelt was on the | She was prominent in a number of societies which job on November 9th at 7 a. m., and that | have for their aim the making of life more com- his views as to the election have failed to | fortable to those who are not burdened with this appear in print solely because no type | world'sgoods. She was a member of the Protest- metal could be found with a Fusing point ant Episcopal church. sufficiently high to withstand the heat of | —State Commissioner of Fisheries William his lucubrations. Meehan estimates that the collection of trout eggs this winter will be the best ever known and that 13,000,000 eggs will be gathered. Thisis greater than the collection of eggs by the United States government and indicates an abundance of trout try for next season. —Farmer Isaac Ketner, who lives near Ham- burg, was awakened the other night by a rather vivid dream in which a belching! volcano played a leading part. The room was filled with smoke and Ketner soon realized that his house was on fire. The family escaped but lost everything ex cept the clothing they had on their backs. ~4Governor Edwin S. Stuart Saturday fixed Thursday, January 5, for the execution of Wells i 55 g ; £ i ! sf What of Ballinger? From the Altoona Times. Especially noticeable in the aftermath a Se oa ie e fierce assaults u Interior Ballinger. The insurgents made I paige. lt Sface rep! tion 0 inger peo- le also included a decided sjusiching of is insu t enemies, the latter have concl that it is hast to ignore Ril, at least until the assembling o : i Gifford Pinchot and his brother essayéd | ness and celerity that proves a full appre- the standard of excellence and neatness ciation of the facts. The trusts must go | she would like because every renewal of and the regulation of prices will be re- | the equipment of her dining room costs stored to the unerring and scientific laws | her an unwilling donation to the grasping the packing centres is the welcome har- | buys. The remedy for this evil is in binger of the fact. voting the tariff party out of power. It Must be Lawfully Done. 1 Ballot Reformers in Wrong. — Of course every progressive citizen in, The so-called Philadelphia reformers the country will share in the hope of | are again projecting their views into the Governor-elect Foss, of Massachusetts, | question of ballot reform. That is to that the re-election of Senator LODGE may | say they are offering advice to the com- | be prevented. With ALDRICH and HALE | missioners who are, under the authority ' and Burrows and most of the other re- of the Legislature. drafting a new ballot actionaries out of the chamber LODGE system. As usual, moroever, they are would “lag superfluous on the stage,” and | taking the wrong side of the question. be a nuisance. Therefore Governor-elect | They are unalterably opposed to the “vest Foss will have wide popular sympathy in | pocket” ballot and vehemently in favor of his effort to prevent the re-election of | the Australian ballot. In this they are LopGe. But he must make his fight | completely in accord with the managers along legal lines. In other words the |of the PENROSE machine. It is a safe Democratic Governor of Massachusetts | proposition that with the Australian bal- so desirable a result. | ers would require assistance in the booth Itis said that Governor-elect Foss has | and the professional ballot manipulators expressed a determination to refuse to would rule things. sign Senator LODGE's certificate of elec- | Under the Australian ballot system the tion in the event that a majority of the | ballot of last fall would have contained a Legislature of the State votes to re-elect | great number of names and with nothing him. From this distance that declaration of supply and demand. The news from | robber who manufactured the wares she | must not usurp authority even to achieve | lot in vogue eighty per cent. of the vot- | Looking Forward Two Years. That the recent Democratic victory brings with it dangers as well as respon- sibilities is already apparent. Already the mischief-makers are at work trying to head off the more substantial victory in the presidential contest of 1913. The Populists, Socialists and riff-raff general- {ly are serving notice that only certain candidates will be acceptable to them and that unless the candidate of the Democratic party is taken from the group that is acceptable to them, there will be revolt in the ranks and what appears like | certain victory will be turned into humil- iating defeat. We are told by the prints afflicted by this Populist mania that Governor HAR- MAN, of Ohio, won't do and that Gover- nor-elect WILSON, of New Jersey, is equal- ly unavailable. The distinguished Demo- crat who carried Connecticut the other day, as well as the capable Governor-elect of New York, are likewise persons non | grata, to these agitators of what they call | “progressive” politics. They have not thus far indicated what sort of man will , satisfy them but presumably it must be one of the HASKELL type or a man who | favors the initiative and referendum with a parting shot at Ballinger, but it emerged from the breech, not the grievously wounded them instead of wing- ing Ballinger. They delivered themselves of a vigorous protest to the President that Ballinger was about to make a favorable report on the famous Cunningham coal | W Detweiler, of Harrisburg. Detweiler murder- | ed Thomas Dwyer, steward of the local Owls club, | in September of last year, after a night of gam- bling and drinking. Ananpeal to the Supreme court was fruitless. The case will now probably be taken before the board of pardons. | =While several boys were digging in a pile of and land claims in Alaska, the basis of ashesina dumping groundiin the rear of 450 East the fierce assaults upon Ballinger and the | Jefferson street, Williamsport. recently, they un- Taft administration. But similtaneously | earthed a human hand, evidently that of a wom- with the appearance of their fulmination an. Flesh was still clinging to the bones but the in the newspapers, Ballinger publicly call- | hand had the appearance of having been buried ed attention to a portion of his forth. for some time. All the fingers had been cut off coming annual report in which he recom- | at the first joint. The supposition is that it came mends that all the Alaska land claim from a dissecting table. cases "be transferred from the jurisdic- | —Thetuberculosis sanitorium at Mont Altois tion of the general land office directly to = making quite a record. Advanced proofs of a the court of appeals of the District of | report of the work done during the year ending Columbia for consideration and adjudica- tion.” Pinchot, chief member of the Roosevelt the insurgents. It will greatly weaken the bitter and vindictive assault against thus the fiasco promises to come to an From the Philadelphia Record. During the debate on the wool and Sool sehedule nibs of W 3 tor Warren, yoming, who ts several million Rocky sheep, exhibited on his own fosona su of alleges woolen Sowing, This seems to effectually dispose of “tennis cabinet” and prominent leader of Ballinger, which had little basis anyway, | beyond his slovenliness in methods. And | May 31, 1909, show that of 270 discharged cases | that were in the advanced stage of the disease when admitted 32 left Mont Alto with the disease arrested while 114 were much improved in health by their stay. Out of 252 patients in whom the ravages of the disease were moderately advanced | at the time of admission 59 were cured. —Miss Ivy Bush, a pretty telegraph employe at { Baird Station, on the Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston railroad, shot H. T. Smith, a 35 year- old railroad detective, early Friday moming. She fired three shots at Smith, one of them inflicting a serious wound in his side. The girl quit work at midnight and she declares that Smith accosted ! her on the way home and made insulting remarks to her. The shooting followed. Miss Bush has given bail for a hearing. Smith is reported to be in a sericus condition. | =—Israel Young, of Potter county, was taken to | the Blossburg hospital with three pistol wounds doesn’t “look good." The signing of a certificate of election by the Governor of a State is a ministerial act. If the elec- tion has been obtained by bribery or cor- ruption in any form, there might be valid reasons for refusing to sign the cer- tificate. But the power of electing Sena- tors is lodged in the Legislature by the fundamental law and if it is honestly ac- complished the Governor would have no right to nullify it by refusing to sign the certificate. We sincerely hope that Governor-elect Foss or someone else will discoverga way of preventing the re-election of HENRY CaBOT LoDGE™o the United States Sen- ate. He is a representative not of the people nor of t of the “in- to designate the candidates the voter , co other Populist heresies thrown in would have been bewildered. Of course spice for a feast of crow. But the the remedy would have been in asking : a : for assistance, which is precisely what the a punts will not "be frightened machine managers want. The hope of “1. Democratic party won in the re- the vote briber is in getting into the booth cent selections ‘because: it oot - aside the with the voter. He is then able to discov. poojigtic follies and nominated ii- er whether he gets what he pays for and | 45000 who preach and ice the genu- is encouraged to buy freely. The mo- ; 4 trines of t Hee he 1d ment that feature of the ballot system is | po (°C TES 2 (FI OCHE Jidin-most eliminated the business of buying votes | ,¢ tne others, but for the bolt of the de will be at an end. Nobody will pay for | : : even with 's | ment which represent these absurd here- things, people MONEY, | gies and prefer them to victory. We are Sess be 1g an opportunity of seeing not picking out candidates for President a Sts than. is the OUrself and have no inclination to obtrude | first aid to the professional ballot briber. a pinion with resjess > Bvaila | His idea invariably is to make voting as | iat either HARMAN, WiLsoN or Dix difficult as possible and the more difficult | ou1q be triumphantly elected if nomi- of its excellent guiality and i v Similarly, but in his body, but he will recover, the doctors say y | Hearing that his young daughter was at th~ home ly, George Jr., in his recent suc- | cam for Congress in New | %f Mrs. Frederick Cornish, Mr. Young went to | the home to inquire for her. It is said that he did of woolen clothing, tearing them apart to | not so much as go inside the house. When leav- show that they were composed mainly of | Sy Dosh i ho wa shot Iie Krus dir 0 the wo. cotton and shoddy. Henry George Jr. | listinctly declared beli | porch. Cornish is estranged from his wife. Af- g y himself a firm 1EVET |, or the shooting, Cornish walked three miles to a in the tariff Jocirines of hit Republican | Conable. where he gave himself up under the fistrict triumpl y elected him a | Pleaof justification by the unwritten law. stand-patter. | —Pinned within a coal car, the carin front of Spm ——————— | which was derailed and the car behind separated ; from the rest of the train by a broken coupling, Hatk drm ‘the Tomb | E77. Parte. a Reading conductor living in New- From the Allentown Democrat RaFEy; Wan given wp fou Jost by hie trainmates in Apparently it will be for us slight smashup occu at Winfield on to use a megaphone to tell the Ji Saturday afternoon. Farley had crawled into the coal car, which was almost empty, to ascer- | tain just how much fuel was stored there. While gn Ae pe Bg poin to the 100 per cent increase in the I Robin a i the Democratic plurality of Lehigh coun. | edtopile up. was under the coal There none so deaf as those | and jammed under a portion of the broken train. fF, Jere are % - I eT terests.” But two WHOM don't make a it is made the greater the reason for as- right and if LODGE is kept out it must be | sistance in the booth. The “vest pocket” | nated as the Democratic candidate. by lawful process. The Governor-elect of Massachusetts is a Democrat and Democracy stands for law and order. Therefore whatever is done to defeat LODGE must be according to law for the Democracy of the country will stand for | nothing else. There might be worse | things than the re-election of LODGE. ——Workmen have been engaged this | week in tearing up the ol¢ tile on the floor of the court house porca and taking down the old stone steps for the purpose of replacing the same with granite tile and steps. The latter are now here and with good weather it will not take ovsr about a week to put the same in place. ballot is the simplest form that can be de-. ——Thanksgiving turkeys sold in Belle- vised and the only form under which the fonte anywhere from fifteen to eighteen | assistance in the booth may be dispensed cents a pound. Turkeys are exception- | with. But the theoretical ballot reform- ally plentiful in Centre county and the ‘ers will have none of it. They want biggest cause for the high prices is the | something more complicated. Theycan’t number of people buying the birds for | think calmly of a man making up his bal- hustling matches. Hustling matches i lot in the privacy of his home and depos- | have been held at probably a dozen dif- | iting it in absolute secrecy. That would ferent places in Bellefonte in the last two deprive them of one of their most cher- | weeks and the men who conducted the ished opportunities as reformers. | same paid most any price for their tur- i Sm— — | keys. Thereisa law prohibiting hust- | ——Edward Brown, who for the past | ling matches and it ought to be enforced, | year or more has been working in Balti- | as they only result in compelling the man ! more, has gone to Cleveland, Tenn. to | who wants to buy a bird for his table , work for the same company on a large paying higher prices than he otherwise | contract there. would need to do. How Wonderful Is Man! From the Emporia Gazette. How human we ure. Money makes no difference. Family position, comfort or eS rey Af 's x are skin.” The kingdom heaven is in every heart. We are fear- fully and wonderfully made. ——The Bellefonte Electric company have had men engaged in putting up the iron posts and wiring for the new system of lighting the Diamond. The eight one hundred volt Tungsten lights to be placed there ought to be a big improvement over the present system, but the only certainty of it is to wait until it is in ' operation and see the difference. of | private secretary to Governor-elect Jo | unable to locate him until the wreck was cleared | up and he was finally released. His injuries were ! trivial, but his escape from death was miracu- | lous. . | —The Rev. William L. Barrett, pastor of the | Presbyterian church of Blairsville, was arrested | on acharge of criminal libel at his home on Mon- | day on information made by Walter H. Gaither, | Tener. Mr. Barrett waived a he ng: an | held in bonds of $500, furnished by hitnself; ! information charges that in a sern oho | about the 2ith of October said W. . Fret | maliciously and negligently wrote, publ | and exhibited the following defamatory words refer- ring to John K. Tener, and thereby exposed him to public hatred, contempt and ridicule: ‘One | of the most prominent ministers of the presby- tery, a pastor of a church of nearly 600 mem- bers, saw this man assisted to his room in a hotel , in a state of intoxication, and the next morning * it took two men to assist him to the railroad.”
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