He rm emeatea raremm————————’ -_ | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | For diamonds said to have been ost in tran- sit, J. A. Lepsch, of Ridgway, has recovered | $3,307.10 from the Adams Express company. = BY P. GRAY MEEK. I | be royally entertained at Johnstown on April 18. INK SLINGS. | Two hundred delegates will be in attendance. ~The first flying machine built in Lewistown Tomorrow. was tested last week. The model was successful — | and it may lead to the manufacture of something Have vou got your bait, ! larger shortly. Your oak. your ius, | , your boots bottle ! Ye I ots | === its spring term with a record breaking at- To keep wettin’ at your throttle. —Hard times, business depression, un- certainty as to the future are over. The VOL. 56. baseball season was formally opened on | -o me Wednesday. te gage] THO Roevelt's Confession. | Remedy for Industrial Calamities. | —May 25th having been set as — . : — : Go : : In a speech delivered in California, Mr. JouN MITCHELL, former president Johnstown hanging of Frank Lee, the Lewistown of wiich the Legilatwe wil Hjouth recently, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, formerly | of the United Mine Workers of America, | strenuous efforts to convert the public to That the doorkeeper of the House of | murderer. meanwhile the board of pardons wil there is something for the State to be y . . - Representatives has his thirteen-year-old be importuned to commute the sentence. Sor: President of the United States, declared | discussed the lamentable coal mine disas- belief in the heresies known as the | daughter on the payroll as “clerk to the The i church to Maka for. iow conts | SsANaly that he selsed Whe Pasiuni | ter wear Sceanion, recently, in & speech | intistive, relerendor and Sell A | aorkerssr he sag of SLERO © yea cently destroyed by ive at Kylertown, Cleared — | canal zone from the Republic of Colombia. | delivered before the American Academy | Harrisburg, the other night, Senator | with an extra month’s pay, was one of | county, will be replaced by a neat brick-cased worth of lime scattered about the dank |, ov | of Political and Social Science in Phila- | OWEN, of Oklahoma, and Senator BOURNE, | many unique discoveries made by Con- | structure. The contract has been awarded and If 1 had followed traditional, conservati ¥ of the W Stra places on your premises may save many | =o 00 ON ur would have sub | delphia, last Saturday evening. In the | of Oregon, addressed a meeting in the | Sui Mear Mitchel PaluiCh: Of the WAYS | work Wel bestin a auce. dollars in doctor's bills. mitted a dignified state paper of probably | course of his remarks ie said that “thous- | hall of the House of Representatives on | ing useless positions on the House pay- ety —A dollar on that subscription account | 200 aces to Congress, and the debate | ands of easily preventable accidents oc- | the subject, and waxed eloquent in pre- | roll. Palmer's retrenchment program was | joseph Shaw timber tract, in Lawrence township, of yours, mailed in at once, would help | woui4 have been going on yet; but I took | cur annually.” That the accidents occur | dicting the political utopia which would unanimously he of | Clearfield county. They are likely to put in an- buy a few onion sets and keep the editor | «wo canal zone and let Congress debate, | is a painful fact of which we are all cog- | be certain to follow such a subversion of membership, greatest of | oiher mill to cut this tract. from being outstripped by his neighbor's | ;ng while the debate goes on the canal | nizant. That they are easily preventable | our government. For it certainly would garden. goes also." is not generally known, though the other be a subversion. The founders of the i] your own horn, if you are a That is a confession of the usurpation fact asserted by Mr. MITCHELL that in| American Republic aimed to create a candidate. Don't defame your competi- | of power and the violation of international this country three times as many per- | representative government. With that tor. If you should be lucky enough to get law of which every honest citizen of the | sons, in proportion to the number em- | purpose in mind they enacted that all the nomination you are after remember | United States ought to be ashamed. It | ployed, are killed, as in any other coun- legislation shall be vested in a Congress, tendance. Nearly 500 are already enrolled or ex- pected in the near future. ~The Century Stove Manufacturing company has, since the first of the year, been operating a chandelier factory at Moxkam. The business is rapidly outgrowing its present quarters. —Governor Tener has fied May 11, as the date BELLEFONTE. DA. re 1 { PEE State Normal school opens is Re or a a Jue of the Mess of vie House: chamber of commerce that much sickness is due to the lack of a sanitary sewerage system. The Although the clerks’ document room | "Port discloses the existence of shocking condi- therein was abolished | to" ~The ladies of the various societies of DuBois ; : . ing $6,260) went right on. The - | recently presented Mayor Schofield, of that place you might need the friendship of the man | was asserting the doctrine of might | try in the world, is substantial evidence which shall consist of a Senate and | you vanquish, as well as the friendship of | against right. It is an acknowledgment of the accuracy of his statement. House of Representatives." They made no zon machine needed the batrousge Sad Sith duduiiet Dekition Javan aes 2 sign. his friends. of piracy in its worst form. Mr. MITCHELL suggests remedies for | provision for other initiative than that | 5 statute? which have been given in the theatre of that —The Legislature is going to pass up It has been asserted that WiLLIAM NeL- | this unfortunate state of affairs. He de- exercised by Senators and Representatives the constitutional requirement to make SON CROMWELL, associated with the broth- clares that the factory and mining laws in introducing measures of legislation, no an appointment based on the new census. er-in-law of THEODORE ROOSEVELT and a of all the States should be greatly extend. | recall except that which is implied in It will make little difference, however, to | half-brother of President TAFT bought | ed and enforced with the utmost vigor. | short tenures of office. But those things the minority parties for they could not | the Panama canal franchises from the | He adds that “the force of factory and | are not sufficient for Populists. ; hope for a fair representation and the French speculators who owned them for | mine inspectors should be largely in- Of the three heresies with which these machine has the State already gerryman- something like $10,000,000 and sold them creased” and finally that ‘‘the inspectors | political agitators have become enamor- dered as bad as it can possibly be. to the government of the United States should be removed from the sphere of | ed, the most absurd is the “recall.” That ally wit Carat, free 40 for $40,000,000, thus enriching themselves | political influence.” Probably the factory | is a sort of contrivance with which a pub- Reciproci meats, flour, umber beyond the dreams of avarice. The gov- and mining laws are inadequate and cer- | lic official may be removed from office by cultural implements, meats, flor, WA | ep experts and army engineers had | tainly the factory and mine inspectors | popular vote whenever a small fraction uote, shoe, Worleus salt isthe | recommended another route for the |should be removed from politics. But | of the voters in his State, city, district or gg songressional 10 the lett Isthmian canal and if the “traditional, | what chance is there for accomplishing | county may become dissatisfied with him. and pulled off with all possible haste the conservative methods” had been followed these results In Pennsylvania, for exam- | Carried to its logical conclusion it would ountry will certainly have no reason to in ratifying this robbery of the treasury, ple? The factory and mine inspectors make it absolutely impossible for the egret the change it made last’ fall. there might have been an exposure that here are chosen on account of their effi- | minority party in any community to elect L : would have defeated it. But the ROOSE- ciency in politics rather than because of and retain a man in office. To illustrate ~The death of Tom L. JOHNSON, for| =... oom. cr families had too much at | fitness to discharge the real duties of their this point suppose for one reason or anoth- many years mayor and leader of public | ou. ind revolutionary measures were | offices. er the minority party should elect its philanthropies in Cleveland, removes a |, 004 py seizing the zone. In this State there is a perennial de- | candidate for Congress in this district. It man whose zealous pursuit of an ideal | “poo iative RAINEY, of Illinois, has [ mand from the Chief Factory Inspector | would be an accident, of course, ascribable cost him his life and, as is so often the oo. " iecover all the facts in |and the Chief Mine Inspector for addi- | to the personal popularity of the man or his labors will not be x case, the fruits of this infamous transaction. He has in- | tional deputies, but the accidents occur | some unexpected eruption in the majority fully appreciated until he is beyond the | oo 4. resolution in instruct | notwithstanding. The laws might be |party. The moment he assumed office Congress realm where a grateful people will make |. oo House Committee on Foregin Af- | changed so as to make them more ef- | however, the machinery for recall would personal acknowledgement of them. fairs to inquire into the matter and tothe | fective, but the Legislature is under the be set in motion, and at the second elec- —Mr. fish commissioner MEEHAN may | end that the investigation may be thor- | control of the employing corporations and tion the majority, profiting by the experi- imagine he is making himself solid with | ough, he would authorize the committee | the factory and mine inspectors spend | ence of the past, would pull itself togeth- the fishermen of the State by hissing | wo send for books, papers and documents, | more time: apologizing for the delinquen- er and elect its man. them onto Centre county streams for |gummon witnesses and take testimony.” cies of the political machine than they Another evidence of the injustice as trout, but we fancy that few foreign | Of course even if the worst is revealed, give to the work for which they are paid | well as the fallacy of this expedient is re- would be greatly elated with | RoosgveLT will be immune from the | by the State. | vealed in the proceedings of the Pennsyl even a large catch of those worn out old | hunishment his crime against both this An increase in the number of factory vania Legislature every week. In other ‘buck trout that were dumped into Lo- country and Colombia, deserves. But it | or mine inspectors enlarges the army of words the motion to reconsider a vote by gan’s branch and haven't yet gotten the | may have the wholesome effect of reveal political workers, but never lessens the | which a measure has been defeated in Chicago packing house liver out of their | ing to the people of the country the real | number of industrial calamities. That is Senate or House is simply another appli- systems. character of this grafter and pirate. No the principal difficulty in Pennsylvania, | cation of the principle expressed in the ——CHAMP CLARK'S speech upon as- | other President has ever brought such at least, and Mr. MITCHELL should ad- | recall. The friends of a pending measure, suming the duties of the great office of | shame upon the people and in the inter dress himself to the reform with that | confident of a majority in its favor, call Speaker of the House of Representatives | est of morality he ought to be exposed. understanding. jt 9p. The vote reveals their mistake for ton ko mol oS po mato | Th Com Ta wn ota |r hrf emir | Bp, hal oe 0 candor vil Svs: Mwai CLARK es use . ae pale IGjouiY Nunossary and Be falls. Butithe bor may be ghey burdened,” hs ville house. five Swans and 2 tat vinis > of clearly i mocratic majority in Congress : doesn’t worry friends rt. | Wi isappeared. Three Pennsylv - Democratic majority in Congress ought | can spread J EY and disgust for safe keeping then swallowed the cap- | They simply set the machinery for the | ment after another be taken up by | road freight cars were opened. One was nop to do and it is a safe bet that if his pro- hele : f the sule when his hour for taking medicine | rocall in motion by moving a reconsidera- the Democrats and wherever they have | molested and goods taken from the other two a carried out there willmotibe among t ocratic voters of the coun- | arrived is, of course, lying at the point of | gion of the vote last had on it. On the | the power they will abolish useless offices | were destroyed. a ue El om yr Sy nor seve way than by Jer-| death. If he recovers it can't be said | second vote, their weak points having and substitute a business administration | —When the Centre county courthouse * | mi President TAFT to e t - is tichis remodeled ion of the House within a generation. It Lk programme for the extra ses- that ! ho pen is mightier than the——sur- | heen exposed on the first, they are vic- a EE Phllisrbe ag asked for and seueiy. is also a good bet that Mr. CLARK'S pro- | gion. geon's mle. Scions. 1s “as easy i tuiiag off 3 Wearing Joseph's Coat. September but has tot been put in place setbe- me will be carried out to the letter. | Presiden ; og,” and as certain in its ts. From the Pittsburg Post. Cause 't been any toputit. Mr. Somme . £ TAPS S7061Y Ow thik he hee —_ minority would have no more chance of | It will reanire considerable of an effort | Schoonover, who is replacing his burned build- —If the Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRY- | no sympathy with Democratic policies. The moti ale Senator La FH ; “Uncle Joe” Re ing, offered to provide a tower for the clock. AN would only permit himself to believe| He openly claims to be the actual head motion made by tor LA FoL- | long existence than a snow ball in that ay i pil a this | Whereupon some other people went on record as el itor eo panier, party and hap inter] J "0 of Wisconisi, the other doy, tht et piace the preachers tell children | TC 0 mmu tS | being opposed to placing it anywhere but oa the oie totes of Congress |entialy tivsstened that he will veto way |e LORMER case be seopemed wee is |obont. =~ hide-bound disciple of Republican, regu ER Fudan. TRON fo 0 7 ceil un he ho be delgaicd by ego enact during he special se HE, Fhe Js 3 MOM SOM, Coco Phiadipin, Rear | amo mbevale 11 fr mean | Ss ho ew or Kn ed the Democracy to personally conduct its | sion which is in fulfillment of the pledges nal . © | is constrained 10 X that “the foolish | simply that the political millennium may | years, who died recently at Gilmore's Mill, Con- affairs at Washington there would be far | of Democractic platforms, State or Na- § ly ogi # Io gutted out Ske en performance of two or three Democrats not be very far removed and it is in order | nellsville township, Fayette county. Deceased greater hope of the party's getting safely | tional corruption through the delicate situation it is now | Yet he has set himself the task of di. | LORIMER was overwhelming. Senators who are seeking personal advancement | haf acd the Eat a. Re. | Four of th daeghters married Leichiters, win mn. The who are sitting in this Con- | recting the proceedings of the De tic | and Representatives in the Illinois Legis- through the efforts to reorganize the | publican t advocating the enact- | daughtérs married Tannehill brothers, and two in. men ng recting the proceedings of the Democratic | 0 0 pad confessed to participation in | Democrats of Pennsylvania has gone far | ment of a Democratic principle that is | other daughters married Buttermore brothers. gress know just what they were sent | newspapers in his absurd, not to say in- the orgie of ‘bri Coryol ive. ovis ough.” The silly twaddle whichjema- older than the Republican party. But re- | Another daughter married a Gallentine. Nine there to do and they are entitled to at|solent purpose. Tg! y- . port says i- | children and many grandchildren of Mrs. King : : dence was abundant and convincing. Yet | nated from the upper bowels of Mr. | ngs” is about to align himself on the side least a chance to make good without the | President TAFT desires that the McCALL Are 3 survive her. meddling of outsiders. will Sy giat io operation the ‘Catalin jC Political retsons a ‘putiber of Sena- | JAMES I. BLAKESLIE, the other day, forced | of t —~John Slagle, 50 years old, a life long resident —The State guaranty for banks is evi- | reciprocity agreement be hurried through tors voted against the Motion 10 re Hie Tair dens pi met a yo oppose the Canadian of Lewistown swab found Send, yun Sou he dently a failure in Oklahoma, where the | the House in precisely the form it passed his seat vacant and others for other and our contemporary and it ty. towpath of the old Pennsylvania canal, west largest banks are deserting the plan at that body during the last session. The the probably worse ‘reasons joined in the isn’t half what may be expected in the : : ployed as a tire borer in the tire mills of the in trad whitewashing operation. future. Mr. BLAKESLIE has been for administration; he is to desert the |g, 4.4 Steel works for the past quarter of a theiyute bf one 2 day. ‘Ther 41) Sagres AR Ee But the people of the country wouldn't | some years one of the most inefficient ake of the Fegulare; wo TovifSe ie gun century and it is said there never was a better that in theory the plan is ideal but in : y n it. Repre-| —dforit. Public sentiment had been county chairmen in the State and his atisiie Je Ue ue. t | workman. He leaves a wife, two daughters, both practice it hasn't worked out because | sentative McCALL, of Massachusetts, isa | 3 from ol | absurd ambition to become a party leader : t, NOW | 5 home, and one brother, Major L.N. Slagle. politicians have gotten awa! with the regular and radical Republican so that if ong e of the country to | that he is a plain member on the floor, if now employed in the state department of health. guaranty fund as fas A nis his bill should be the only legislative the other. The Illinois courts continued | has frequently been a source of annoy- | he didn't do something irregular? YOUr | ry cause of his death his not been learned. a Oklahoma ba politicians Be SA to investigate and the Illinois Legislature | ance to Democrats in is section, He} Uncle Joseplt’ioin far fru 3 ho- n. patterned after some we have in Penn: majority would be the laughing stock of proceeded with the probing. The result has invariably neglected to impart infor- mor and he proposes to assert inde-! —Sayre is fortunate in having as patrons the sylvania the world will at least have to the country upon its adjournment. Presi : pendence with never a solitary care as to | members of the Packer family. The Packer was the discovery of new evidence. Of mation to the State Committee, of which | the possible effect on the administration. | family gave Sayre its fine hospital. Mrs. give them credit for having had the de- dent TAFT is assiduously working to that cency to allow the original fund paid in end, and the sycophantic so-called Demo- the course the evidence of the $100,000 slush he is a member, even when addressed | What cares he for the administration, | Mary Packer Cummins gave the Wilbur house to last for twenty-nine months. Chances | cratic papers which are demanding that Six useless but expensive House com- | place. mitiges have been abolished. Saving, | —Biairsville had a $7,000 fire on Saturday mom- year. ing. whena large portion of the plant of the of $3,000 a year will be effect- | Blairsville Enamel Ware company was consumed dE a with the services | by fire, casued by the explosion of a gas meter. A lack of water pressure handicapped the firemen. created when the | There is ample insurance. ~After waiting thirty years for her to become a was widow, George Sleegarm, of Wilkes-Barree, has then the two attendants have nothing to | yo 11. ried to Mrs. Marietta Tohern, of Hazle- : | : : : i ] ; | ; i g§ | | i . ; | : f Hi i i i i | I ~The Sunbury /fem takes this malicious fling at Pittsburg: “Those Mt. Carmel girls who stole money in order to go to Pittsburg showed very poor judgment. A good many residents of Pitts- burg steal money to get away from there and some of them land in the penitentiary and do not complain that the change is so very unpleasant.’ -=John Wright and Charles Sweitzer, two well the war,” says MT. | ;nown young men of Oil City, started early Tues- day morning for a motor canoe trip of 2,500 miles down the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Their destination is New Orleans and the latter foot made stages. part of the trip will be in easy The eight extra policemen were added. They | young men have been at work fora number of Hap “ di : tal 2 i ft i I i 5 # weeks equipping a motor canoe, driven by a The Palmer committee believes the |; ee danger is now over and will have thirty- horse power engine, for the journey. te and one lieuten- ~The recent epidemic at Iselin, said to have re- a t leave of absence. | S¢mbled typhoid fever, is now traced to the eat- Saving, $39,000 annually. ing of pork affected by cholera. Foreigners there, six boarders are still victims of the disease. --Burglars paid the town of Ashville, Cambria county, a visit recently. At Cawley's general COMMILEES..................c0.cri coresserisremres 12/000.00 store they took jewelry and other articles tothe Cannon is going to take issue with that place, zt noon Sunday. Slagle had been em- might have | stamped envelopes have been furnish- ? property to the hospital for endowment. fund : been brought out long and A hie is only one more straw fluttering | She later gave a fine parish house to the being equal we fear Pennsylvania would not have done so well. | ed him for replies. Most of the ineffici- |; —The Democratic house cleaning in Congress revealed some rare cases of graft. For instance the thirteen year old daughter of the chief door keeper of the House was on the pay roll at $1400 a year as clerk to the door keeper. Of course there was nothing for her to do, so she did nothing and her dad drew the Congress obediently follow his sugges- tions are stupidly or otherwise promoting his plans. The Canadian reciprocity agreement is a step in the right direction but not the full measure by a long shot. It would no doubt have the beneficent effect of re- ducing the cost of foodstuffs materially. But the expenses of living would re- main ruinously high even after this im- that kind of evidence. It was organized of these delinquents are striving to make to vindicate LORIMER and its verdict personal political capitol out of their ditions is too apparent to be misunder would have been a vindication if Lowi | treachery. in the a which serves to t | Episcopal church, and now she has given $500 for KoHLSAT and Epwarp H. HINES could ency of the Democratic State organiza- the direction in which the Republican a juvenile library for the Coleman Memorial par- Pi pearing ish house library. Bellefonte has a numberof residents who could very well emulate the Packer leaders like Joseph G. Cannon de- | family but so far none of them have evinced such sert the standard the evidence of con- | heart-whole interest in the Bellefonte hospital. wearing case, of course. The Republican majori- CLARK doesn’t make good F Springfield Republican citing the interest of the latter on the subject, extra salary. There hasn't been a tele po ik Hf the wat of apparel ty in the Senate is already feduced ort | and if Mr. 4 t is eS RE Towra iit Cates also by addressing large audiences they will be- woolens for purposes were not pulchritude won't save him from public come preachersof good roads and finally news- graph instrument in the capitol since tel- | ovo" juced Moreover Democratic | Slender margin and they can't Spare 2 censure. But CLARK is as attractive men- ful his sincerity as a tariff reformer will | |, , win publish reports the good have been sitting at dead k ; mind obtained his morally as already. He has lately been urging operators a eyS | on farming implements, tools, glass, lum. | Public mind of having seat 1 and the country will lose nothing in | against the Canadian reciprocity agree-| —Returning to duty after a three months’ siege all these years and the government has | 1. oj other materials essential to life | bribery and fraud. ~PeNRost abd elected a handsome man to the | ment the point that under the most fa- | of typhoid fever, William Cephart, 30 years old, of having been paying them $1400 a year each. and comfort is practically abolished. GALLINGER are not particular about the speakership of the House. vored nation clauses of our treaties we | Lewistown, was caught under a failing door at These are the kind of parasites that the | pu. Lov ois tor the majority to | Character of their associates and so_long | r— ay be eonpelled 0 A aman Sheet A oeuias new Democratic organization swept Off | ort her 0 i0ihe enactment of these | 25 LORIMER votes with them they will de-| ——An esteemed contemporary, vejor. | SOulitHes Li JeCuce Sie gj ihatban lems Shed, The git aS hile by effecting a saving of $182,680 a year. |... afterward. It need not take long to a Mormon apostle and supporter of po- | gation of Pittsburg, observes that that | to a support of the President's agreement | the entrance to the steel foundry when a travel- It was time there was a house cleaning | pepieve tice results and it will be the |VE2MY is not only a trusted associate | city is now ‘constantly in the public, than turn him ast fe 3 would mean ing crane with hooks and chains swinging and and the public will be saving money if | one ping but one held in the highest esteem. fil" Iteuweis end incidentally itis’ iL more tariff seduction, and) fu -is | clanking. apwpmichied, Alois Hook cust the Congress takes all spring and does it That being the case what's the use in offensively in the public nostril with equal dof ll he can to discredit himself as a | from White's back, but Kephart was less fortu. right. ——=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. kicking about LORIMER. pertinacity. reformer. nate.
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