“ Beworalacr. Another man with his ear to the ground Another petition passing ‘round Another candidate is found Who swears, by jinks, he can’t be down'd. —English theologians are discussing a plan to shorten the Ten Commandments: some Pittsburgers would probably vote to do it by cutting out the seventh and eighth. —1It is rather an anomalous condition of affairs but it is a fact nevertheless that Centre county is spending an awful lot of money most zealously guarding a boarder whom she would be only too happy to be rid of. —Today there will be announced the most substantial bequest that has ever been given a Bellefonte institution, by any resident of the town. We honor the donor, we congratulate the recipient, but withhold the facts for fear of robbing the little ceremony of part of its delicious el ement of surprise. —Something has come out of that Mexican revolution at last. JACK LON- DON is in jail for having been caught at the head of a party of insurrectos. Thus it is that the valor of the war corres- pondent is proclaimed from a more dan- gerous point than the sutler’s tent or the somehow, somewhere. Bellefonte has more of everything but people than she had ten years ago. And only two years ago we started a mammoth new North ward public school building to provide for posterity that the new census tells us isn't going to poster. —Rumor has it that it is a woman who is to become the first of Bellefonte’s sub- stantial philanthropists. And we have a sort of sneakin' notion that the first shall be last, as well, because we fear that the men who could be, either wont or will die trying to figure out how they can beat her without costing as much. —The /Jemocrat thinks that Johnstown is assured of being a city worth while be- cause she is soon to be a city of sky scrapers. Happy the lot of those Johns- towners who live on the top floors of the coming sky scrapers because they will be the first residents of that city who could ever see anything without lying on their backs. —Before another issue of the WATCH- MAN reaches you the harmonizers will have tried to benevolently assimilate or sand-bag the old organization of the De- mocracy in the State. And we want to tell you right here that no matter which way the cat jumps the WATCHMAN will remain a Democratic paper, true to its colors and its principles and never a yammerin', sour-balled flipper-flapper like the most of these distinguished harmon- izers have been. ——1t is not likely that the Game Com- mission cares much for the revenues which might be derived from the license tax on gunners proposed in the pending legislation. What they want, wealthy and estimable gentlemen as they are, is to exclude from the privilege of hunting all the farmers and others who are close to the soil, thus multiplying the opportunities for the commissioners and their friends, who can’t shoot much, to get a greater proportion of the game. —With its characteristic tendency to be honest (?) and not deceptive (?) the North American on Monday announced in startling headlines “Pennsy Monopoly on Water in State Covers 26 Counties.” Then it proceeds to place Centre county as caught in the tentacles of the octo- pus (?) by naming a few wells and springs, here and there, from which the Pennsylvania railroad company draws water for its tanks. Why can’t some newspapers state facts as facts without trying to distort them for the purpose of inflaming an already unduly excited pub- lic. ——The new capitol park extension bill proposes to prolong the work so as to limit the disbursements to $400,000 a year, if the treasury is not able to afford more and that isa good idea. In an ex- penditure of $400,000 a year there is not much chance for graft and it is well to guard against even suspicions in that di- rection. But in the capitol park exten- sion there wouldn't be very great oppor- tunities for graft anyway, except in the matter of acquiring title to the property and the right of eminent domain which is a feature of the Fox bill is a pretty certain guarantee against frauds in that way. —Some fifteen or twenty years ago when our friend WiLuiAM I. SWOPE, of Clearfield, was budding in journalism and using the Raftsman’s Journal for the dissemination of his effervescent effu- sions, there appeared an appealing edi- torial to the boys to stay on the farm. It was laughed at then and BILLY'S heart was almost broken because he had put into it all the literary skill of a Harvard man of letters and all the profundity of argument that might have gone to cli nts who hadn't called for it up to that time. The condition of things today proves that WiLLiAM had taken a longer lock into the future and seen more of the light than the most of us thought possible and we therefor take great pleasure in apolo- gizing for a very slighting comment we made on that particular article of fifteen or twenty years ago. OL. Be. RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. STATE : BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 24, 1911. An Indiscreet Congressman. Congressman A. MITCHELL PALMER, in a rather belligerent statement published in an esteemed Philadelphia contemporary last Sunday, reveals that lack of informa- tion on the subject he discusses, which | characterizes most of the so-called re- organizers, of whom he claims to be the jeader. For example, he declares that “all the county chairmen, who comprise the State committee, are clected at the primaries.” As a matter of fact only eight of the sixty-seven county chairmen are elected at the primaries and of the eighty-three members of the State Central committee only the seven county chair- men so chosen are thus elected. In his zeal for war Mr. PALMER has lost his | Postal Rates and [Revenue Deficits. bearings and his discretion. The eight counties which elect county chairmen by popular vote at the pri’ maries are Centre, Clarion, Elk, Forest, Juniata, Monroe, Perry and Pike. Monroe is the county in which Mr. PALMER lives and Pike is in his district. Clarion, Forest and Elk counties are in the Senate district at present represented by Hon. J. K. P. HALL, and it is generally under. stood that he has a good deal of influence among the people. The others are not influenced by either of these gentlemen, presumably, but it may be assumed that if Senator HALL wanted to be the political boss which Mr. PALMER imagines him to be, he would probably have another method of electing county chairmen than by popular vote. Aside from this, however, Mr. PALMER is approaching the proposed reorganiza- tion meeting breathing a spirit which is ominous. Obviously he doesn’t want harmony at any price. Ninety per cent. of his associates in the demand for re- organization refused to support the ad- mirable candidate of the party justly and fairly nominated last year, and Mr. PALMER insists that they must have their way or else he and they will fight those who did their duty as Democrats until the destructive end has been reached. That kind of talk rarely produces good results and is scarcely becoming in a young man who has been signally hon- ored by his party in the past: The olive branch is better than the sword in such emergencies and Mr. PALMER would bet- ter change his tactics. ——Senator SPROUL'S excellent good roads project might have been organized at less expense to the State, moreover. A salary list of $142,000 a year for bosses alone is ominous of a too profligate ma- chine to accomplish good results. In other words the bill ought to have pro- vided for fewer officials and lower sal- aries. Canadian Reciprocity and Tariff Taxes. If we had the least confidence in the veracity and sincerity of President TAFT we would be glad to see the pending leg- islation to give force and effect to the Canadian reciprocity agreement fail of passage. The President has said that in the event that the agreement is not rati- fied he will call the new Congress into extraordinary session and thus procure immediate tariff revision. The Canadian agreement would work an instant de- crease in the cost of living. It would put a number of products on the free list and reduce the tariff taxes on other commod- ities produced in Canada. But it is real- ly a “tub to the whale,” to divert the public mind from the purpose to make a general tariff revision. Therefore, if the agreement is not rati- fied by the present Congress it can be made the basis for tariff legislation of a general character. In other words, in the event that the present Congress adjourns without affirmative action on the Cana- dian agreement and President TAFT calls the new Congress into session the agree- ment can be amended by striking out the word Canada and make it applicable to all countries. It must be admitted that if such legislation with respect to Canada is good it would be better if widened to a broader area. The only drawback that can be conceived, therefore, is in the fact that failure now would delay the consum- mation. But such a bill could be passed in a week or two. The ew House will be Democratic by a large majority and the Republican ma- jority in the Senate, including the insur- gents, will be reduced to eight or nine. More than that, many insurgents have been acting with the Democrats for more than a year and the only objection any of them has raised to the Canadian agree- ment is that it only reduces tariff taxes on agricultural products and leaves the schedules on manufactured articles in- tact. This can easily be remedied and the measure pushed forward with such celerity that the few weeks of delay would be more than compensated for in the greater efficiency of the bill. The trouble is, however, that TAFT is prob- ably lying. He won't dare call an extra session. Good Roads and State Debt. While the road building plan expressed | in Senator SPROUL'S proposed legislation is of the highest merit we can see no reason for borrowing $50,000,000 in order to put it into force and effect. The framers of the constitution wisely restricted the borrowing power to the purposes of sup- plying “casual deficiencies of revenue, repel invasion, suppress insurrection, de- fend the State in war or to pay existing - debt.” There is nosubstantial reason for | departing from this safe and sane policy ' at this time for any purpose. The SPROUL | bill can easily be adopted and carried into | : effect without changing the constitution | and declare enormous dividends by the or altering the policy of the Common- | operation. The express companies are ' wealth in this respect. certainly not losing money. | The most energetic highway officials | These statisticians overlook one import- | could not wisely spend money in road ant point, however. They forget that construction fasterthan at the rate of say the express companies deal with the rail- | $5,000,000 a year. There is at present a road companies on a business basis. | revenue surplus of about $10,000,000 and There are no obligations between these | 3 revenue redundancy of nearly half that two fictitious personages except that of | figure. During the years in which the rendering service on one side and paying | construction and furnishing of the State the price on the other. Business corpo- | capitol were in progress, the demands rations are neither emotional nor senti. upon the treasury were met and the reve- mental. In agreements between each oth- | nyes were considerably less then than er they cut to the closest figures and | now. As high as $6,000,000 was taken hold to the requirements of the bond. In out of the treasury in one year to meet transactions between the government and | these extraordinary payments and yet a the railroads things are different. The | safe balance on the right side of the railroads contribute generously of their | jedger was never menaced or seriously shareholders’ property when the public impaired. There is no reason to appre- officials need help and the public officials | hend that road construction under the are equally liberal with the people's money | Sprout bill would put a severer strain on when the railroads need favors. the resources of the State. If the government bargained with the | [f the friends of the SPROUL measure railroads for transportation services as | are wise, therefore, they will divorce this the express companies do it is more than | meritorious enterprise from the purpose likely that present postal rates would be | to amend the constitution and borrow adequate to make postal receipts equal | §50,000,000 for road construction. There expenditures and the magazine publish js something suspicious if not actually ers could keep on giving their measly | sinister in the proposition to put so large $20,000 to $50,000 a year to the Republi-|a sum of money in the treasury to be can corruption fund. But in that event | farmed out by political managers among the railroad companies would be tempted | favored bankers. The people of Penn- to cut out their vastly greater contribu- | sylvania want the good roads contem- tions and the political machine managers | plated in the SproOUL bill and they would lose by the operation. Obviously | believe the plan expressed in that measure faith must be broken with one or the oth- | js the correct one to achieve the purpose. er of these campaign contributors and But they do not believe that it is either TAPT and HITCHCOCK are smart enough “Jiecessary or desirable to borrow so vast to twist the nose of the one whichis of a sum of money at one time in pursuance least use to them. of it. Those enterprising magazine publish- ers whose profits are threatened and con- fidence betrayed by the increase in the rate of postage on the products of their presses, are summoning statistics to prove that there is no necessity for the drastic legislation proposed. They are procuring the testimony of experts to show that the distribution of their wares is not respon- sible for the postal deficits which the. President and the Postmaster General are striving to avert. They have brought forward evidence to the effect that ex- press companies carry commodities of equal bulk and weight for less money — Uncle Jok SIBLEY is still too sick ~——During the filibuster in the House | to stand trial on the charge of corrupt of Representatives in Washington, the | nomination for Congress. Uncle JoE stopped all legislative machinery for three was very robust when he was violating ' or four days, several of the Pennsylvania | or well, in order to test the efficacy of a | cratic committeemen how to perform well conducted jail as a health resort. their duties and as a rule men who under- | There are differences of opinion on that take to attend to the business of other | subject that ought to be settled. | people haven't time to attend to their | — — ! own affairs. | Meagre Grist of the Legislative Mill. | The Legislature is making slow prog- | Where Help iis‘ Heelad, ress with its work. Eight weeks have ' While the Jingoes of this country, in| elapsed since the organization of the body | order to secure great Ee for | and only one bill has been enacted into unneeded war vessels and the graft that | law and parts of it were vetoed by the can be gotten in this way, are crying Governor. The usual recess for the about the danger of war with China and February elections was not this year and it was expected that preparation for that dire event, the Seat- | legislation wor'1 be expedited on that ac- ' tle Commercial Club, co-operating with ! count. But the contrary has proved true. the Red Cross Society, are sending out The body meets on Monday evening of appeals to the American people for aid to each week and adjourns on Tuesday or stay the hunger and distress now depop- | Wednesday. No committee work is be- ulating China. The Clubs's letter is as fol- | i ing done, meanwhile, and the people are ows: | government. is quite evident at this particular period of political activity that “a consid- | people” are very much in earnest in their demands for the | i i beginning to wonder what it all means. | You are Scthans familiar with the work In other words, suspicions are beginning | ¢ lub, Se gperating with he XS of i to arise. the famine sufferers in China. \ i | The fact is that the Legislature intends | 11 a ou] Te axing gis: to enact very little legislation during the | Thos on the Wound and, familiar with the present session and that little will have | now will save the life of some man, woman or | he Wahine Radon blows in the bot- | Sontributions of any amount will be accept, | e appropriation bills will be passed, | {0 rst BN a nor o of course, and the duty of fixing the Fade tothe onder he Seattle Commerc | amounts, which will be bestowed on the | ting may re ya charitable institutions, will be left to the | uid in the most" effective ‘and economical Governor, as usual. Outside of that the | ‘Ave there not readers of thispaperwho | ¥ product of the legislative mill will be re- are able to send a little to aid in this duced to a minimum. The school code work for humanity? A single dollar to will probably be passed in some form and buy food for a starving Chinese, would do the legislation recommended by the Mc- more towards making and cementing NICHOL tax revision commission will be put Jasting bonds of friendship between that through “to save McNicHoL's face.” The country and this, than all the warships road bill will also be chalked for passage if there is a guarantee that $50,000,000 will be borrowed and buried in favorite | banks. | Of course there are a great many sub- jects of legislation in which a majority of the Senators and Representatives are in- terested and if conditions were favorable most of them might get through. But on the other hand a lot of bills have been in- troduced which the machine managers can afford to neither pass nor kill. The result is that the Legislature is literally obliged to “loaf on the job," and in so far as possible stifle such measures in the committee. That is precisely what is meant by the present dilly-dallying of the Legislature. Most of the members go home to spend the long recesses with the result that the machi is getti - ged and in the oI a i ax final adjournment only marked will get attention. — President TAPT'S declaration that enacted by the Sixty-second Congress, even though it is drawn on the lines of the Canadian reciprocity agreement, re- veals that demagogue in his true light. He would grind the people to the limit of starvation rather than allow the Demo- crats to relieve them of their burdens. But Mr. TAFT will change his feeble mind on thie question as he has on other sub- | up to the reprobation of the public, not- | withstanding the sycophantic press of the country which is trying to make him ap- pear like a Providence. measures come the modern bull in a China shop. | profession is the Jingoes can build in a century. om Lobbying fcr Lorimer. From the Johnstown Democrat. With the next couple of days. dent to all that a vote is near is conceded that did more Lorimer cause than all of the mer pathizers , I er Lorimer’s cause Bailey made it look as if The activities call the fii g 8 Bhi i Sg= 7g ment. Judging from this remarkable declara- the law with the Standard Oil millions | Democrats were absent. They were BT the log 1 and he ought to be brought to trial, sick | probably busy at the time showing Demo- | profession is superior to the people, a | of reasoning directly at variance with the | principle of majority rule on which the ! foundations of this Government are so solidly and substantially laid. This is a strong tribute to the power and influence of the legal fraternity, but it will not strike a responsive public chord. Mr. Wickersham says that | radical change in our Government has the face of the oppo- considerable majority of the ever been made in sition of a i American bar.” Attorney General have considerable majori bar” is superior in j e would fail because “the legal : Toh i " to . practices in his late campaign for the ' other day, by which one man completely | ward movement in our Dy Aha I us believe that “a | of the American | i x der ent or influence | taken japan and the necessity of immediate = EE a er, very wise and sagacious lawyer, may be SPAWLS ~The tannery at Westover is running right along and farmers are hauling large quantities of i ~The Pennsylvania Forestry association has | decided to hold its annual convention at State i —As the result of an explosion of a Rochester { lamp the store building of Emil Braudt, near | Munson, caught fire and was totally destroyed on | Monday night. ~DuBois policemen will soon be equipped with portable telephones, which they can use for hur- ry-up calls by simply attaching to a socket in telephone poles equipped for their use. ~That was a singular experience the lone oc” cupant of the borough prison of Warriors Run Luzerne county, had the other night when two masked burglars broke into his cell and robbed him of $29, —An unknown man committed suicide in his room at the Clifton hotel, McKeesport, on Sun” day afternoon by inhaling gas. He registered as JossyP Joe but this name is believed to be + | Improvements at the DuBois glass factory are completed and fires in the produce plant were s'arted on Monday. In due time the plant will be running at full capacity and no summer shut down is anticipated. which will take effect March 1. It is said his re- tirement from public life is prompted by a desire to engage in private business. - ~Great activity is reported among the lumber- ‘men along the North Fork railroad, and it is said that as soon as the weather permits one of the largest band mills ever erected in Somerset coun- ty will be in operation at Humbert. —Of fifty-eight houses in one row at Lewis- town, only thirty-four are occupied at the present time. They are rented for $8 per menth. Dur ing the boom a few years ago none of the houses rented for less than $15 and $20 per month. ~Coleman K. Sober, of Lewisburg, has donated two acres of his celebrated Paragon chestnut trees to the Masonic Home property at Elizabeth- town. These trees will be set out in a few months and will be a valuable addition to this wonderful property. ~Harry Falconer, of Red Lion, York county, finding a thief running away with five of his chickens, filled his face full of shot, recovered the chickens, took the thief to a physician's office, had the shot taken from his face and then gave him his freedom. —A man whose identity is unknown, who ina “Black Hand" letter threatened Milton C. Pyle, cashier of the West Grove, Pa., National bank, was fired upon when he appeared to collect the money he had demanded, but he escaped un- hurt. ~While Constable Jerry Shaffer, aged 50 years, a farmer residing near Somerset, was milking at his barn on Wednesday morning, he was shot from behind through the heart. His 19-year-old son found him aftera time. The state constab” ulary put blood hounds on the trail of the mur- derer. —A superintendent has been chosen for the) C. Blair Memorial hospital at Huntingdon, in the personof Miss Rena Schneider, for fifteen years superintendent of the charity hospital of Montgomery county. She was formerly a resi- dent of Huntingdon. The buildings will be ready for furnishings by April 15. ~The campaigners who started out to raise $50,000 for a new Young Men's Christian Associa- tion building at Indiana did not reach the coveted goal at the appointed time, February 16th. But they started at once to “try again” for the last $15000 and at last reports were still working away, confident of success. —Nurserymen say that more trees have been planted in Pennsylvania during the past year, and more orders are now waiting to be filled in this State. then in any other State in the Union. This is chiefly because of the activity of the per. sons officially engaged in advancing the interests of orcharding in this State. —A resident of Ephrata, Miss Lizzie Grant, 67 years old, lost her voice 33 years ago and could notin all these years speak above a whisper. Last week she was attacked with the grip, and upon her recovery was surprised at regain- ing the full use of her voice. It was the first time since 1878 that she heard her voice. —An officer of the state veterinary board will look into conditions in Indiana county soon. It is believed that, owing to the rigid quarantine “no thoroughly versed in all the mysteries Of | ogablished in various parts of the county, the legal ju tutional interpretation, but his knowledge has apparently dwarf comprehension as to the part the have to play under our system of men It erable majority of the vilege of electing and their Senators sure are to Senate will defeat it. The sen feelings of antagonism. readers of to Hamtin. the income tax, the election of Senators by the people and the initiative and ref- erendnm. What does the New York | World think of that? The western Demo- ~The Russian bear seems to have be- crats are not afraid of Foss. He is a ; strength to his arm. te repre- ts and embodies their most ardent and skilled in consti- | epidemic of rabies is checked, but expert advice Briar | is wanted. Dogs acting suspiciously are prompt his | 1g gnot, and no additional livestock has been fected. —Running to greet the young woman to whom he was to be married in a few days, Michael Durwan, of St. Clair, was instantly "killed on the ! railroad in full view of his horrified sweetheart. . Durwan had eyes for nothing but the girl as soon to | a8 he saw her, and stepping across the track, he walked directly in front of an express train, which tossed him high in the air. —Favored patients in different hospitals of Pittsburg Sunday had chicken broth, in which the ingredient chicken was worth $500, The feast was the result of a raid of a cocking main the in- self- gamecocks, | James Bell, of the Western Pennsylvania society. | —Hon. Andrew Carnegie has donated a second tract of land near Cresson to the Commonwealth for the use of the state health department. The tract, which is a small one,is adjacent to the prop- erty which he conveyed to the State two years ago and upon which the State's western sanitorium for tuberculosis is being built. The sanitorium e buildings at Cresson will be pushed to completion as soon as the winter is over and will enablean extension of the work which the State is doingfor consumptive poor at Mont Alto. —At a meeting of the board of trustees of Dick inson college, Carlisle, Pa., held in Philadelphia, Thursday, the Rev. Dr. Geo. Edward Reed stat- ed that it was his intention to resign as head of that institution on or before the commencement in June. At his requesta committee of seven was selected to choose his successor. Dr. Reed, who has been president of Dickinson college for twenty-one years, said that the duties of his posi- tion were becoming too burdensome for a man of his years. He will continue as a trustee. —Search for a mad dog at the Black Diamond mines, Mineral Point, last week caused the acci- dental shooting of N. A. Barnette, a miner who was killed instantly by Joe Frezrow. The latter had gone to Barnette's house in pursuit of the mad dog and had killed him, firing four revolver — Foss urges the ratification of .shotsinto the animal. Frezrow then playfully turned the weapon on Barnette, believing he had emptied the weapon, and when he pulled the trig- ger the bullet struck Barnette in the heart. Deputy Coroner Mainhart went to Mineral Point and held an inquest the verdict of which was accie dental shooting. Frezrow was not arrested.
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