BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —If you can't find a stocking large enough hang up a union suit. —Anyway no one could accuse fall of lingering in the lap of winter. —Chicago University will no longer hang letters to Santy ROCKERFELLER on the chimney of that little oil stove. —Come again, Teachers. You are get: ting better looking and getting better re- sults out of your Institute every year. —A cheery greeting or a pleasant smile often makes a friend far happier on Christmas day than more material of- ferings. —Our forests may be entirely denuded in the future, but political timber will still be plenty so long as there are of- fices to fill. —That Mexican poet who has killed four men probably effaced the only quar- tet who had the temerity to tell him the truth about his verses. —That New York doctor who claims that over-ripe eggs are as nutritious as the fresh ones must be contemplating some kind of a lecture tour. —Wednesday was the shortest day of the year, but judged by its temperature it was quite long enough to suit the fellow who had to work out of doors. —The inaccuracy of the statements made by LAFAYETTE YOUNG, the new Senator from Iowa, in his opening speech in the Senate last week may be attribut- ed to the fact that LAFE is an old stump speaker and not a Senator. —A great many fellows would sooner have a license tag from State Highway Commissioner HUNTER than from Register EARL TUTEN. Because, as they think, the one would give them the right to run an auto while the other would give some one else the right to run them. —A lot of Bellefonters have their ears to the ground trying to discover what is going to happen in the Bellefonte post- office. You know the postmaster’s com- mission will expire in February and the wise ones are pow-wowing every day about it and one of their big medicine men says he fears an attack of the paint- er's colic for Brother HARTER early in March. —Six months ago the country was harping about “a safe and sane Fourth of July.” Why not try a safe and sane Christmas too. Let's get back to the days when an orange, a few peanuts, a pop corn ball and two clear toys filled the juvenile heart with as much joy as ten pounds of the painted mixtures of to- day do. Not to mention the quality of probably the most absurd of all. : responsible for it must have imagined _VOL. 55. Colossal Scheme of Plunder Squelched.' Uni The latest attempt of the Steel trust that Congress is made up of men who have escaped from asylums for the fesble-minded. So far as can be discov- ered the Secretary of War, Dr. LEONARD Woop, official head of the army and: that Crazy HOBSON, of Alabama, are the official agents of the conspiracy. Of was so preposterous that President TAFT, always a willing instrument of predatory wealth, "laughed it out ot court.” War scares are always sprung about this framed up about this time. For the last half dozen years the menace of an inva- sion of the country by Japan has been used with more or less success. The sion. They invented the story that our sea coasts are absolutely without defence against foreign invasion and induced Sec- retary Dickinson, Dr. Woop and Baby HOBSON to spring it upon the country in a confidential communication to Con- gress. i To fortify our sea coasts as Woob and Hosson would like to have it done would | probably cost ten billions of dollars and | give half the amount to the grafters. It I was the most colossal scheme of plunder | ever conceived. It would have made paupers of seventy per cent. of our popu- : lation before it was half finished and peons of ninty-five per cent of the people for all time. But the paid agents of the Steel trust in the official life of the coun- try would have gladly imposed that bur- den upon the public if there had been a chance. The enterprise was too big, how- ever. TAFT couldn't give it his approval and ordered the absurd confidential com- munication to be consigned to the waste basket, the joy that filled his stomach. —The Living Church, the organ of the National Protestant Episcopal church, as- serts that race suicide appears to be checking the growth of the Episcopal church, and has published a table of sta- tistics tc substantiate the declaration. The Sunday schools being the most posi- tive evidence for or against such a propo- sition, observation, locally, would lead to the belief that the Living Church has struck a hot trail in its efforts to find out what is the matter with the people. —JonN D. ROCKERFELLER'S latest gift of ten million dollars to the University of Chicago is his last, so he declared when he made it. He has withdrawn from the board of trustees and expects the big in- stitution to shift for itself. That profes- sor they have out there who has been startling the country periodically by his declarations as to how little a person can really subsist on will probably have to begin research work on how the Univer- sity is going to subsist without JOHN D. —Well, did you ever hear of or see a greater exhibition of asininity than the “Prophecy” the Gazette points to with pride in its issue of this week. If Editor HARTER thinks his readers ignorant enough to be taken over with such bun- combe he must certainly have a low esti- mate of the brains they possess. The depression in the iron business began two years ago and reached its lowest ebb in July, almost four months prior to the last election. Since that time it has been showing some improvement. —General LEONARD Woob, chief of staff of the United States army, said at a banquet in Washington, Tuesday night: “We believe that the country’s resources should be ready to defend her interests when necessary.” The cwilian believes that there isn't any “should” about it. The resources of the country always have been and always will be at the country’s command in time of need. But we don't believe in developing those re- sources into an expensive engine of war for which the country may never have need. —The State Department of Health has temporarily suspended the supply of eggs to tubercular patients of the various dis- pensaries of the State. The high cost of eggs and the desire to watch the results of oil as a substitute for them is given as the reason. We sincerely trust that any good work being done by these agencies will not be handicapped, for if there is one thing more appealing than another to every ounce of human sympathy it is the poor soul blighted by this awful mal- ady, who is unable to buy for himself the only proved successful commodities that will bring relief and often cure. The New Chief Justice. Obviously President TAFT is “playing politics” in filling the judicial vacancies. His promotion of Justice WHITE, of Lou- isiana, to the great office of Chief Justice can hardly be ascribed to his belief that Jus- tice WHITE is the fittest man for the place, Justice WHITE is a fine lawyer, unques- tionably, and a capable jurist. But there are so many men on and off the bench: who have higher standing in the public mind and in legal circles, who might have been chosen for this great distinction that most thoughtful men will search for another reason. As a matter of fact, moreover, they don’t have to go far for an answer to the inquiry. President TAFT wants to break up the “Solid South.” He is politician enough to read, in the returns of the recent elec- tions, the lesson that the next Republican , candidate for President must carry some southern States or go down in ignomini- ous defeat. He knows that Ohio, New ' York, Indiana, New Jersey and Connecti- cut are hopelessly lost to his party and that he must get some of the Southern States to recompense for this loss. Presi- dent TAFT first revealed an understand. ing of this fact when he appointed a that wasn't enough. suitable, for the appointment of Justice | WHITE. pressed the desirability of having a Cath- olic in his cabinet. He had a Hebrew he said, and representatives of various | other denominations, but no Catholic,and ' he wanted to work all the churches. Justice WHITE is a Catholic and no doubt | President TAFT hopes that that his pro- QIotion 40 the greatest lice, Test to the Presidency, will have an important politi- cal influence upon the followers of the faith he adorns. The bench is to be used, B it can be, like any other agency, to help AFT. i Ee ——— i Create No Tariff Commission. i The tariff-mongers of the country are unanimously in favor of a permanent tar- iff commission. It is the best possible method of delaying tariff reduction. A permanent tariff commission could fool away half a dozen years of time injunk- eting over the world under the pretense of searching for information and then make a report which would require anoth- er prolonged period to interpret. Mean- time the tariff-mongers would be looting the public tc their heart's content and building up immense fortunes to spend in costly vices and flout in the faces of those who suffer from their injustice. ‘The Democratic party, now that it is coming in to the control of the govern- ment should set its face against all sorts of commissions. The constitution of the succeeded, was the originator. But it the people but for tions in everything. they should be dispensed with at the ear- liest period practicable. Meantime no | more commissions should be created and This absurdity consists of a war scare. this is especially true with tariff commission. There are time of year for the reason that the ap- ep of draf propriations of Congress are always being 1 Hug Representative will be increased. fore create no tariff commission. ' ed out and men put in their places who have the necessary mental endowments. | If the President is too weak mentaily or, remedy is accessible to the people. Commissions have been multiplying course the Steel trust, which would have Both in thi po have and Beate Bovey been the principal beneficiary if it had They cost immensely and work, not for Congress of the country, and tries to be the trusts and corpora- | flippant at the expense of justice and rea- i son. The matter is entirely too grave to | be disposed of in that way and Mr. | MOORE is unjust to himself in trying to respect to a laugh it away. a House a just tariff law. In tant, doesn’t expect to unseat Mr. MOORE, the number of such ! and put himself in the place by the pro- There- cess he has inaugurated. Mr. MOORE, | running on three tickets, had a plurality For that reason on the Democratic side of A Significant Caucus. ment was officially made and that ends monkey with recalcitrants. There was a considerable volume of opposition to the re-election of OLIVER among the Allegheny county Senators and Representatives in the Legislature a few days ago and there is an over- whelming popular opposition to him among the pe there yet. But Mayor MAGEE, of Pittsburg, wants some legislation from the coming session Senator PENROSE has promised to give it to him in consideration of the solid vote of the local delegation for OLIVER. The I ation is probably vicious. Mayor rarely waits any other kind and he would hardly go into corrupt com- merce with PENROSE if he wanted just measures enacted. But it will be passed just the same. PENROSE keeps his word. The significance of this Alleghen county incident, however, is in the fact that it marks the end of Republican op- tion to the re-election of OLIVER. t gentleman represents all that is odious in public life. In the Senate he votes all time for the interests of the trusts and is the agent on the floor of the Steel trust. ALDRICH, LODGE, HALE and others have shown some contrition for their in fastening the PAYNE tar- iff bill with its burdens of high prices on the public. But OLIVER has made no apology. Heis “joined to his idols,” ma.hine is so complete in its dominance of the party that he doesn't have to even explain. g STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 25. 1910. ted States provides ample methods of | ‘Moore's Answer Disappointing. government. The legislative power is | = | vested in Congress and the executive in agents in Congress to loot the treasury is | = t and the : 2 im authorized by law. If Congressmen are incapable of legislating let them be turn- . We own to some surprise and a good deal of disappointment at the tone of Representative J. HAMPTON MOORE'S re- ply to the notice of the contest of his seat in the Sixty-second Congress. Mr. Southern man to the office of Secretary | protested that he will not be bound by | of War. Hc has since found out that... ...00 of the body. But that was a ' might make a vast difference in the com- ! | trivial incident, hardly worth mentioning | plexion of the Legislature and future elec- There is another reason, even mOre | rhe announcement of a unanimous senti- | tions throughout the State. MooRE shows spitefulness and ill-temper which are unbecoming. He asperses the character of his antagonist by innuendo too lazy to perform his duties the same _ 4 .cions his sincerity by inference. | He declares that the matter ought to have been presented to the district at- torney of Philadelphia rather than to the | Probably Mr. RAMSDELL, the contes- over Mr. RAMSDELL of 16,964 and a ma- jority over all other candidates of 13,319. potency of that bugaboo is exhausted, The Allegheny county delegation in That is a pretty safe margin and the however, and something new had to be the next General Assembly has already chances are that the most thorough in- found. But the fertile minds of the Steel caucussed on the Senatorial question and vestigation would fail to shake it all trust managers were equal to the occa- * declared itself unanimously for OLIVER. down. But Mr. RAMspELL and his friends The vote was not unanimous, as a mat- believe that a large number of the votes ter of fact, for one Representative placed cast for Mr. MOORE were false and fraud- the name of Secretary of State KNOX be- lent and that if the truth were fully de- fore his colleagues and subsequently veloped the effect would be wholesome upon the political life of the city and | Congress allows $2,000 to any defeated her In he SOHESHNrL with "it. The dissenter will be forced into line | candidate for a seat in the House of Rep- r MARIA,” THEODORE ROOSEVELT €X- | or gut of the reckoning, when the Legis- | resentatives, who believes that fraudu- i lature meets. Pittsburg politicians don’t | lent votes have been cast for his success- | ful opronent, to investigate the subject. An investigation usually costs more than that, however, and the insinuation that | the Mr. RAMSDELL has gone into the contest with the view of making money is both absurd and unjust. On the contrary he has undertaken to show that the political life of Philadelphia is putrid in corrup- Special tion and incidentally to make a correc- tion of the evil, in part at least, possible. That is not a trifling affair and Mr. MOORE ought not get gay in the discus- sion of it. ——Young Mr. Gill, from Pleasant Gap, had a rather unpleasant experience in town on Wednesday. He had driven in with his speedy little sorrel and had a fine sleigh. He hitched in front of the Centre County bank, but too close to another team, for the team standing be- low his started right in to make a meal off the back of his sleigh and before any one noticed it they had the upper part of the back and the upholstering torn out badly. Fortunately it had been stuffed with excelsior. We fear the entire sleigh had there been 2 EF gs g E E : i g : ; 2 i g I 1 have been elected sociates have been compelled to money for their support in | they t represent them in cils of nation. #4 § gE said 8 s% not yet strong h to force our lawmakers to grant remedial legislation. SE Two Unpopular Appointments. i Knapp to the federal court of commerce is satisfactory—to Big Interests, particu- ‘larly. Archibald, although the president may ! not have known it, was once u a time , the subject of a scathing arraignment in ! a decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme court, when an enterprise floated by him | was denounced as a “fraud upon the pub- lic” and a “disregard of the requirements ' of business honesty.” The suit was one | brought in 1885 by Hill, Keiser & Co, in ‘ the Lackawanna county court against | Archibald and others, doing business as | the Amity Coal Co., Limited. The suit | was carried to the State Supreme court. | The decision against Archibald was writ- ten by the late Justice Williams. It de- | | clares that the concern in which Archi- | bald was one of four partners was an | “empty shell” and its business, conducted ' on a fake capital of $25,000, a “fraud up- | on the public.” ! The nomination of Commissioner | Knapp is objected to on the ground that | Knapp has shown himself to be strongly in favor of railroad privileges and is therefore disqualified for service on a court which is to pass upon railroad questions. i Close observers at the capitol declare | there is nothing surprising about the ap- pointments. two nominees are of the same temperament as the men who are most frequently received at the White House, to wit: Aldrich, Hale, son, G im, Penrose. From the | first, the t's advisers have been plenty of snow on the ground and in some places throughout the county the roads are badly drifted. The worst fea- ture of allis the shortage of water. Many of the cisterns in the country are dry and farmers are compelled to drive their stock long distances for water. Some of the smaller streams are practically frozen solid and fishermen are somewhat con- cerned about the welfare of the trout in the streams. ——Superintendent of public instruc- tion N. C. Shaeffer has appointed Jonas E. Wagner, of this place; Bruce L. Mey- ers, of Philipsburg, and Miss Lulu B. Smith, of State College, the examining committee on permanent certificates for teachers for Centre county. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —1It is estimated that over 2,000 rabbits were killed in Wayne township, Mifflin coutny, during the season just closed. —Fire last Friday night destroyed the match block factory of Hollis H. Taylor,at Williamsport, entailing a loss of $15.000. ~The Milkmen’ s association of Reading in- tends to appeal from the decision of the Superior court in relation to the imposition of a $10 license tax on vendors of milk. ~Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker, believed to be the oldest woman in the State, died at her home in DuBois last Friday night. She was in the 105th Jeske age. having toen bom Augyn 20d, ~The recent census has caused an increase in the salaries of some county officials. Over in Clearfield the district attorney will get $4,000 in. slead of $2,500. In Huntingdon county the com" missioners will get a raise. ~The Johnstown Young Men'sChristian asso- ciation had last week what is known as “a right of way” week, which resuited in the addition of 500 members to the association. This brings the total membership close to 1,000. ~Petitions are being circulated among the busi- ness men of Lock Haven, the object thereof being toask Uncle Sam to appropriate $75,000 of his hard earned money for the purpose of construct- ing a federal building in that town. - —William Reblewski, residing in Phoenixville has been arrested, charged with manufacturifig spurious money. A complete counterfeiting out, fit was found at his home, from which, it is averred, many counterfeit quarters have been turned out. ~The only clergyman who will sit in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg during the com- ing legislative session is the Rev. Thomas J. minister, who was ~The rolling mill of the Shenango Iron and Steel company, at Wheatland, Mercer county, representing an investment of $500,000, was sold at bankrupt’s sale on Wednesday. The plant, which employed 600 men when running, has been idle for two years. —With his left side frozen and his right side so seriously burned that the doctors say he cannot live,an'unknown foreigner was found early Sunday morning at the plant of the Irwin planing mill company, in West Irwin, on a pile of ashes at the side of an exhaust steam pipe. —Three attempts have been made to burn down the home of Joseph Cohen, in Pottsville, within the last three weeks. Saturday morning the members of the family barely escaped with their lives, railroad men on their way to work having discovered the fire and broken into the house. ~Grant Mullen was driving a double team along the road near Clearfield last Thursday when a dead maple tree whichstood by the road- side was blown down, and in falling struck the team. Both horses were killed instantly. One horse had its back broken and the other its neck. —Miss Bertha Kepner, of Port Royal, threw a bottle containing gun powder into the cook stove under the impression that the bottle contained a i- | lot of old seeds. An explosion followed and the top and front of the stove were blown out and Miss Kepner was seriously burned about the face and arms. —~When the United States court meets in Wil- liamsport in February one of the cases called for trial will be a suit for $30,000 damages brought by Charles C. Ruckle, of Berwick, against the Ameri- can Car and Foundry company. The suit is the result of an accident at the company’s plant in December, 1909. SUT he State Supreme court in a recent decision ructed the Pennsylvania board of law ex- * | aminers to accept the diploma of Lebanon Val college in lieu of a preliminary law examina- tion. will be permitted to register as law students with- out preliminary examination. —A new fraternal organizatton, which the pro- moters hope will attain national prominence with - in the next few months, and known as the Mystic Order of the Sphynx, has been organized in Al- toona. The grand lodge has been formed and the first court in the organization was instituted recently. The work in other parts of the State will be taken up as soon as a charter has been secured. —The efforts of a dog to get out of a room ina Homestead residence attracted the attention of the wife of the occupant, Mrs. Max Adlcberg, who discovered that the house was on fire. The woman managed to escape with her three small children. While the fire was raging thieves managed to carry away 200 chickens, 25 ducks and 25 turkeys caged in crates and belonging to the Adleberg family. —The National Guard of Pennsylvania is to be equipped at once with olive drab overcoats, United States Army pattern, according to an order just issued from National Guard head- quarters. The new overcoat will replace the present blue kersey overcoat. The commanding officers are enjoined not to permit the olive drab coats to be worn except on military duty and men must not be permitted to take them to thelr homes. —A robbery. which was partially successful, was committed at Mill Hall, Clinton ccunty, Sun- day evening. As a result Nunzio Vondano is minus about $85 in money and Torrence Pagina is in the Lock Haven hospital with a badly cut face and head. Itisalleged that Pagina and a companion made an attempt to rob Vondano of . | his money—about $100—and that a fight occurred. Vondano wielded an ax with the result that Pagina was wounded. —Charles Jarnisky, of Blairsville, is an inmate of the Westmoreland county hospital at Greens- burg. Although he is willing to leave that institu” tion he is unable to do so from the fact that he has no clothes to wear beyond a pair of pajamas. He was admitted some time ago suffering from a broken leg. His clothing was badly cut up as the result of the accident and the remnants were burned. Since his admission to the hospital some one stole his clothing from his boarding house and Charles is now well but unable to return to his work and friends because of the lack of wear- ing apparel. —The annual meeting of the State Teachers League of Pennsylvania will be held at the Lochiel jeague, which was organized in Harrisburg a year ago, is composed of representatives of vari- ous teachers’ societies throughout the State. The date has been fixed because it is expected that most of the State's school teachers will be in Harrisburg for the annual meeting of the Pennsyl- vania State Educational association. ~The rabid dog which over four weeks ago went through the Seventeenth ward, the Eighth ward of Johnstown, Ferndale and surrounding districts, biting two children and attacking some others, evidently sank its poisonous teeth into the bodies of a numberof animals, as late develop- ments indicate. One of the most recent cases ascribed to the mad canine is that of Mrs. Joseph Jones, of 986 Fritz street, Eighth ward, Johns- town, The woman was bitten by a cat last Sat- urday. The feline was killed Sunday morning. Althoufih a bruising of the head prevented an ex- amination of the brain, the cat's actions con- a that it was afilicted with EER EEE tuling Geaduates to this institution
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