f —The circus, the hurdy gurdy and the | straw hat are abroad in the land, but where, oh where is spring. —The latest veils for my lady's face must have imitation spiders on it. sort of come into my parlor suggestion for the only man. —Four days in succession of sunshine | and balmy weather have done more for billious humanity in this neck o’ the woods than a ton of calomel could do. —Governor WiLsON, of New Jersey, must certainly be out for President. He is planning a rear platform tour through | the west and south. Certainly that's a! symptom worth watching. —Those Los Angeles dynamiters are caught at last, so the detectives say, but the faith of the public in detectives has been so severely shaken that Mr. BURNS will have to make it very clear that the men he has are the right ones. —The Daughters Congress was war from start to finish. That of the Moth- ers of America as placid as a May morn- ing. Possibly the Daughters would not have so much ginger to work off in their annual rumpus if a few more of them were Mothers. —That New Jersey woman who has de- manded to know of Col. ROOSEVELT why his own family doesn’t show twelve chil- dren evidently doesn’t understand that the Colonel has been a very busy man recent years and has had to spend {much of his time away from home. —It must be said in justice to the vic- tim that DELIGE did his part in the hor- rible affair of Tuesday in a way that re- duced the unpleasant features of official duty to a minimum. He must either degenerate or sin- conscious of his for- been a hop = have been. —Don't stand around on the street cor- ners talking hard times. If you are tem- porarily out of employment fix up that garden and yard of yours. They can both be made to yield prolifically in vege- tables and pleasure and your home will appear bright, even if the industrial pros- pect is dark. President TAFT has been called upon _to name the Kentucky family. He might suggest Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith that the country had in him, hope that he has succeeding himself and charity that the public should now enshroud his failure a President in. —Again the Pennsylvania Legislature has blasted the hope of the old soldier. The bill to pension him has been killed in the Senate. Possibly Harrisburg is only considering this bill as a sort of “teaser” until the last of the Vets have gone to a place where their votes will not be need- ed. And the good Lord knows they are going fast enough. . —Justice LEE of the Superior court Rhode Island, has ruled that amanis jus- tified in slapping his wife for rifling his That may be the law in Rhode Island, but it is far from our sentiment. The man who degrades his wife to the point where she is compelled to through his pockets is the one who ought to be slapped, according to our notion. —The Guttenberg bible, printed 1450, brought fifty thousand dollars the HOE sale in New York on Monday. It was the first book to be printed from movable type. The one grand thing about this sale is that while few of would have fifty thousand dollars to give for a copy of the book of books, a fifty cent copy contains just the same sublime truths and points the way to the Home where riches make as little difference persons as price does in the contents the bible. —The Republican’s story of how Mr. QuicLEY and Mr. Hurley have both record of the battleship Dela- ware in running thirty thousand miles under continuous steam is another remind® er of Uncle SAM'S superiority in all things and we might have time to get pretty well swelled up about it before some muck- raker figures out what the coal bills must A Em rset "STATE RIGHTS AN VOL. 56. BELLE NTE, PA., Either Ignorant or Untruthful. Taft and Tariff Reform. It is perfectly natural for Senator PENROSE During the debate on the Canadian rec- islature, to do What hiss Sun S0.aasist the aia. resentatives, last week, leading Republi- for years have been their allies in the misrule of the State. The bills to postpone the election of commit- teemen until next year's primaries, and to de- | pass the Senate or, if it does, will be ve- These are twin measures intended the demands of the rank and file. This has been perfectly understood from the begin- The free list bill which origi- nated in the Democratic Ways and Means committee of the present House will rec- ompense the farmers for any loss caused by the reciprocity agreement, by abolish- ing the tariff tax on agricultural machin- ery and other implements and supplies used by farmers and decreasing the rates on cotton and woolen fabrics. Some weeks ago President TAFT inti- mated that he would not approve legisla- ning. The foregoing we take from Mr. VANCE McCormick's Harrisburg Patriot of Tues- day last. One would imagine that an individual big, or broad, enough to aspire to the position of leader of the Democracy here in Pennsylvania would hesitate to show how little he knows of the Democratic party or its organization, within the State, by the publication of such unmitigated rot; or at least would try to find some excuse for attempting to disorganize and discredit the party he seeks to boss other m asserted that the Senate would not enact than through such unfounded charges | such a measure. For that reason we be- and insinuations as are contained in the | lieved that it would be wise to enact the _ | free list bill first and make the executive » pio a condition precedent to ) if | the of the reciprocity agreement: they did not show themselves, and this | That course would have made the pas- would-be “boss” appears to be one of | sage of both measures certain, for the them. President's anxiety to secure the Canadi- The facts are that the bills referred to | an measure would have influenced him to by Mr. MCCORMICK, as being passed “by | approve the other. But the Democrats Senator PENROSE and his lieutenants” to | in Congress elected to adopt the other “assist the discredited and deposed Dem- ocratic leaders who for years have been their allies,” by “postponing the election of committeemen until next year’s pri- the Democratic side of the of Republicans have a majority of ten in that chamber and the ratio maintained on both sides would guarantee the pas- it as Mr. MCCORMICK pretends to. sage of the bill by a safe majority. But Additional evidence of Mr. MCCOR- | the vote on the free list bill is another MICK's untruthfulness in his charge t| story. The insurgent Republicans, op- this bill is being pushed by Senator PEN- | posed to reciprocity, ge likely to favor ROSE in the interest of the men he sts | the other measure. to as “discredited Democratic leaders,” | The attitude of the President is next to and will aid them in continuing their | be reckoned with. If signs the reci- present membership in the state commit- | procity bill and vetoes the free list meas- tee, is proven by the fact that four of the | ure he will have used the Democratic eight counties named—Forest, Montour, | majority in Congress taiserve his person- Perry and Pike, have as their members of | al purpose. He will also be serving the the committee, men who stood cheek by | interests of the trusts which shamelessly jowl with Mr. MCCORMICK, at the com- | oppress the farmers by taxing their im" mittee meeting, last March, in his effort | plements and supplies. But on the other to foment additional trouble for the party | hand he wili have to face the just indig- and to continue the division and demorali- | nation of the agricultural element of the zation of the Democratic forces of the | population, the strongest voting power in State, thus showing that the bill he uses | the country. President TAFT owes this as an excuse for his dirty fling at the real | sinister service to the trusts, but we and regular Democrats, gives exactly the doubt his courage to fulfill the obligation. same aid, if aid is given to any, to his | By falsely pretending that he favored pre- own little disorganizing faction that it | cisely the tariff reform which is expressed does to those he charges as being “al- | in this bill during his last campaign he lies of PENROSE and his machine.” converted impending defeat into victory. And this charge of Mr. McCORMICK is | But he can't fool the people this time. on a par with every other charge that he e—— or any other of his disgruntled followers | __Representative A. MITCHELL PAL- have been able to hatch out against the | ygg of Monroe county, is satisfied that the fight the Republican Machine has | taken to destroy the Democratic party of been waging against the Democracy for | Pennsylvania, has chosen the only man years and years back. Itis the kind of | in the State who is capable of filling the stuff they have been using for years | office of member of the Democratic Na- of go in at in of filled and never will be until he gets in. These malcontents, for whom Mr. McC- | The Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER is CorMICK, through his paper, seems proud | much pleased with the Congressman to pose as leader and speaker, began this | the Twenty-sixth district, morally, men- work in 1896. They have stuck to the | tally and physically. job persistently ever since. Some of nes it but Mr. H. E.. Huntingdon, of Los An- geles, raised the bet a thousand and got the prize. But Mr. WIEDENER need not ll er dispair entirely. He may be able to secure against the party and its nominees than for it or the ticket its people had nomi. nated. . theiefwork as PALMER and BUCKNER ad- ; ——There are signs of “ ” al herents showed them how much more ef- ae of “eld fet’ 3 ready on the so-called excise commission bill. It will be recommitted, according to the gossip in the lobby, for amend- ment and we predict that it will never again escape from the committee room. { mains in their tails, these stories allege, D FEDERAL UNION. Harmon in the Field. | A Stubborn There is a serpent wriggling its way = From the Johnstown Democrat. in Harris- | The formal the real rep- | boom been accom ) There Congress under of Senator Pomarene. It remains to naturalists, | be seen with what winds and which are difficult to Their heads | SCs Jt Will be a ine 1002 may be crushed and their broken, Perhaps there is significance | that Senator Pomarene has made himself but they refuse to die. Pernicious life re- | responsible for Governor Harmon's | aspirations. His own of the Harmon the Ohio are snakes, according for hours after the heads have been re- duced to pulp and the more venomous the snake the more tenaciously life sticks | to it. The bill to require resident hunt. ers in Pennsylvania to take out licenses | to hunt appears to be a serpent of this variety. It has been smashed in every conceivable way, but refuses to die. Four years ago this serpent of graft first appeared in the legislation of the State. By a fraudulent operation it was reported from the committee of the House and wriggled its way on to the calendar when representative DERSHAM, of Union county, heaved a rock at it with apparently fatal effect. It did retire it for that session and another, but early in the present session it again made its ap- pearance. Mr. DERSHAM again got busy and the Hunters’ and Anglers’ association as well as a number of his colleagues in the House gave him earnest and effective support, with the result that the measure was defeated in the committee of the House by a practically unanimous vote Everybody thought that would be the end of that legislative snake for the present session at least. But it wasn’t. The snake was only scotched, not killed. It sought another field of operation, however, a safer jungle for legislative snakes. A couple of weeks later it was discovered in the Senate committee on Game and Fish. There were plenty of enemies there to give it a quietus, but its friends begged that it be given a chance on the floor, which was agreed to. On Wednesday of last week it came to a vote and was defeated by a vote of twenty-five nays to thirteen yeas. In all decency that ought to have ended it, but it didn’t After most of the Senators had left the ‘chamber a motion to reconsider the vote idential a a8 advanced that hi ve Harmon has i i i I i ji 2 H i Es | REF Reg 5 REY g 8 1 d i g g g : ] g 8 § ¥ : ¢ g i it i As F i fe i g» : bh Fg 234 F 2g § ES : if; i 3 : E i gE | | : g £3 ] i | z 8 g i 5 £2 | 1 i i; i i : I 3 I " i | i : i | £ ; i ! Be i g i te i f : : ] f : i 11 i : SE — Amending the Constitutiot. would scem that the of i is besome Such Ih cient. nonsensical piece of claptrap popular legislation, that it is the ambition modernize it and wiggled its way back upon the calendar, its friends hoping, possibly, that some day in the rush of business they will be able to sneak it through. The Forestry Department. The resolution introduced by Represen- duced 25 mahy resolutions lo amend it a5 : there are bills to change e tative FLYNN, of Elk coun Monday A ew | gam evening, ought to have some effect in| ipa, a dozen such resolutions have been clearing the atmosphere of the Forestry | introduced. There are half a dozen on Department. Like some r depart- the calendars that were Safes Wh last . night— four in louse two in ments of the State govern t this one | SFO a Ee ix Ta is always reaching out for more power | and coveting greater authority. The commissioner is never satisfied with his administrative duties and executive ob- | . : ing an amendment to allow Stal ligations. He is constantly yearning for | patrow be . new worlds to conquer. rp SS0000000 53 be weed in the con struction of roads. The improvement of ought not only to control the State for- roads in this State is one of the great ests but the forests of the people. He is | public necessities of the day, for the re- as ambitious as Ceasar and not near as sults of piecements have not always been brainy. best. Hence the comprehensive It has been charged that the Commis- sioner of Forestry has been conducting the Department over which he presided in the interest of his own family rather than in that of the public. Some say that he has been operating saw mills for the manufacture of lumber out of timber taken from the State forestry reserves. It has been alleged that he is at the pres- ent time constructing a boulevard through a forestry reserve in order to make an automobile drive for some Phil- adelphia millionaires who own a club house adjacent. There are suspicions that a number of his brothers, cousins with generous recompense not because they are efficient but for the reason that they are relatives. These accusations have been current in the form of rumor and gossip so long that they ought to be cleared up. We have even heard it said that the purchase of land for the purpose of forestry re- TV fi sal 3 se oe pa. to 89 in the negati evidence of sentiment | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~All the social clubs in Franklin and Oil City have been reported to the grand jury of Venango county as violators of the liquor law. i —While blacking her stove a Pottsville woman | was blinded by an explosion of the polish. This is an argument in favor of the new “brown’’ stove. | —Robbers made a haul last week at Vintondale, at the general store of Sam Bretts, the Rose jewelry store and Mrs. Isaac Myer's home. The booty amounted to $200. ~Philipsburg is to have a new opera house, to be erected on the site of the one recently destroy- ed by fire. It will seat 1,600 people. will be on the ground floor, entirely fireproof and of substantial construction. —By direction of State Health Commissioner Dixon, the butter produced in the greater part of Lower Macungie, a rich agricultural township of Lehigh county, has been quarantined on account of scarlet fever. ~The Trinity Methodist Episcopal church of Lock Haven will have new windows, redecorated walls, new electroliers, new carpet and various other improvements, the total cost of which will be about $10,000. ~Thirty sheep, fifteen lambs, three cattle, farm- ing implements, hay and corn went up in smoke on the Robert Weilson farm in Centre township, Perry county, when the large bank barn burned. ‘The loss is $5,000. —Joseph Frischkorn, of Johnstown, is the fath- er of thirteen children, all of whom spent Easter Sunday with him in honor of his seventieth birth- day anniversary. Twenty-three grand-children were also present. ~Charles Lepener, of Quarryville, gets his name in the paper once a year by reason of his capacity for Easter eggs. This year he managed to eat sixty-four for his Easter morning breakfast, three more than a year ago. —~George Pearce, of the coal firm of George Pearce & Sons, of Portage, died suddenly a few days ago at the age of 80 years. He was smoking after dinner when stricken with apoplexy. For many years he was a resident of Houtzdale. —~George W. Herbert, of Harrisburg, who is something of a bass fisherman and a good deal of a newspaper man, is to be editor of the Moun" tain ahd Stream Journal, a monthly publication, that will be issued in the interest of and by the Hunters’ and Anglers’ Protective Association of Harrisburg. ~The Valley House, in Lewistown, was closed last week. Mrs. Susan Breneman was proprietress of the house for fifty years. The hotel, when first opened, one hundred and eleven years ago, was known as the “Black Bear.” The property was recently purchased by Harry Smith, who will convert it into a clothing store. —Despondent because of continued illness, which occasionally brought irrational moments to him, Harvey Galbraith, aged 53 years, a well known farmer of West Taylor township, Cambria county, committed suicide about 4 o'clock Mon- day morning in a hay shed on his farm, firing one barrel of a shotgun into his brain. ~The West Virginia pulp and paper mill, at Tyrone, is to be enlarged by the erection of a building 100 feet wide and 250 feet long, made of concrete, in which bleach and soda ash for the use of their paper mills at Tyrone and Williams- burg will be made. It will have a capacity of 30,000 pounds of bleach and 15,000 pounds of soda ash daily, and will give employment to a large number of men. ~Professional decorators are already at work in Berwick putting the principal buildings in gala | attire for the meeting of Odd Fellows there on April 26th. Word has already been received from thirty-one lodges and it is known that no less than eighteen bands will be in line. Following the parade there will be a massed bands’ feature, together witha grouping of I. 0.0. F. banners ~DuBois will have good reason to itself a convention centre this year. It will the State convention of the Knights of Columbus the week of May, when 1,000 or more dele- are expected. May i6th-19th are the dates for the State shooting tournament, which will about 500 marksmen to the city. In August Central Pennsylvania Firemen's association guests of the town. —Mrs. Catharine McCune, Bedford county's oldest resident and no doubt one of the oldest in the State, died last Friday at Hyndman at the age of 105 years. She was born in Londonderry town- ship and for a number of years had resided with her daughter, Mrs. Catharine Luman, at whose home she psssed away. The funeral was held on Sunday aud was attended by a large number of people, by whom this aged lady was held in high esteem. —On Monday a resident of Barnesboro while drilling a water well, struck oil, which is flowing at the rate of 100 barrels an hour, A score of Pittsburg oil men left that city the same night for the | the purpose of leasing all the ground available in that vicinity with a view of drilling. As soon as the oil was struck the fortunate Barnesboro man $50, | immediately notifieda Pittsburg oil man, and a special train was made up at Sharpsburg and two. car loads of piping were rushed to Barnesboro and the oil tanked. ~The new Baltimore & Ohio tunnel through the Allegheny mountains at Sand Patch, Somerset county, the cost of which will approximate $1, 250,000, will greatly facilitate the operation of the Baltimore & Ohio by providing three tracks in one of the busiest sections on its main line to Pittsburg and Chicago. Work on the improve- ment will be started without delay. The new tunnel will be of standard Baltimore & Ohio de- sign, with a bore of about 4000 feet 30 feet in * | height, double tracked throughout and lined with brick. —William Larkey, aged 17 years, of Falls Creek. Clearfield county, was the victim of an accident last Saturday afternoon which deprived him of the sight of one eye and fears are entertained that he may lose the sight of the other. Young Larkey is employed as a machinist's apprentice at the Osburn Machine company and was assist- ing in doing some chipping at the time. Young Larkey happened to pass in front of the chipping hammer about the time a big piece of steel was unloosened and it hit him fairin the left eye and | —When the National Guard goes into next Jilly, Governor Tener have todo taking adventag: big catches with seines and dip nets.
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