—The new Pen. goes to Peru. —Don't ask Santa for too much. —Just ten days more until Christmas’ —It will all depend on who is going to drive the steam roller at the Chicago convention. —The 12th of December in this year of our Lord would have been a most fit- ting one for “clean up” day in Bellefonte. —They had better get the first boat through the Panama canal before they begin fighting over what the tolls shall be. —Abrogate the treaty with Russia and New York city’s population will not in- | crease as rapidly as it has done in the past. —Iit is generally conceded that the new commissioners have done very well in the choice of men to fill their appointive offices. —They'li have to go some to do it, but La FoLETTE and RoosEVELT will play the game to the limit to defeat Tarr for a renomination. —An epicurean says that crow makes better cating than chicken, but the fel- lows who have to eat crow oftenest are not epicureans. —There are more good little boys in the country just now than the most opti- mistic could hope to find again before this time next year. —A London physician says bigger ba- bies are being born now than formerly: Notwithstanding, we know some pretty big ones that were born forty or more years ago. —Tuomas A. EpisoN has turned his attention to the manufacture of concrete furniture. We hope he will be discreet enough to keep the concrete out of the seats of his chairs. ——-1t is probably true that any Demo- i : > VOL. 56. : i | Mr. WiLLiam H. Berry has taken the | | trouble to reply to the absurd statements | made by former Governor PENNYPACKER | in relation to the grafting operations in | i the construction of the capitol at Harris- burg. These statements were contained in a book recently published for private | circulation, entitled “The Desecration | and Profanation of the Pennsylvania; Capitol.” The ex-Governor made no | reference to the substitution of cheap | and inferior materials for the expensive | and superior articles enumerated in the | specifications. He offers no criticism of the fact that specially designed chairs | which might have been designated “spe- cially designed,” under one provision of the contract made with SANDERSON, and taken for $26 net, each, were taken under a “per foot” provision in the contract and | cost four times as much. He discussed ' none of the defects in the work. Only | that which is meritorious appealed to | him. He had no eyes for the forbidding | features of the affair. | Nobody hasever denied that the capitol | is a beautiful and an imposing building. No one has ever alleged that the process | of construction was tardy or that the payment of the bills involved the State in | debt. The efficiency of the Auditor Gen- eral, who was a member of the Building Commission and of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, in the perform- | ance of his duties as a fiscal officer has | never been questioned. Yet three-fourths Berry's Reply to Pennypacker. | geralic STATE RIGHTS AN Senator PEncose. of Pennsylvania, and others know that any candidate nominat- ed by the Republican convention will be defeated and they naturally reason that it is better to "throw it into” TAFT than anyone else. This is why the machine is for TAFT and incidentally why he will be nominated. Roosevelt is a Candidate. The latest information from the polit- ical centre casts a doubt upon the sincer- D FEDERAL UNION BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 15, 1911. In Memorium. Our esteemed contemporary, Mr. Joux | | F. SHORT, the bone, sinew and main | | vertebra of the so-called Democratic re- | organization contingent, appears to be | | disappointed with the fruits of his en- terprise. In the last issue of his news- paper, the always able and invariably in- | | teresting Clearfield Republican, Mr. SHORT | says some sharp things on the subject. In !an editorial under the caption “Don’t | ! Want PALMER,” our esteemed Clearfield | cratic candidate for President will be | of the ex-Governor’s preposterous publi- elected next year but that fact doesn’t | cation is given to the laudation of the absolve the party from the obligation to | hyilding, the expedition of its construc- ity of Mr. ROOSEVELT'S declaration that | contemporary states that “Colonel JAMES | he is not a candidate for President next | M. GuFFEY has announced that he will | year or else it confirms the suspicion that | not seek another term as member of the | Mr. ROOSEVELT is never honest, even Democratic National Committee from with himself. Within a few days he has A Pennsylvania.” This fact is supplement- declared positively that he will not ac- cept the nomination of the Republican National convention to be held next June, notwithstanding that his partisan | friends are supporting him with great en- thusiasm for the nomination. The plain inference is that they don't believe a word he says. His bitterest enemy could hardly as- perse him more directly. The late Mr. HARRIMAN asserted that he wouldn't believe any statement utter- ed by ROOSEVELT. Mr. GeEorGE H. EARLE, who was re- cently Senator PENROSE’S candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, testified before a Congressional committee that THEODORE ROOSEVELT had lied to him and the pub- lic in relation to the Sugar trust robber- ies. Mrs. BeLLamy STORER practically proved that ROOSEVELT had lied in the matter of the effort to have Archbishop A. MitcHELL PALMER claims the place.” Of course Mr. SHORT knows as well as ous. In fact he states that “aside from Mr. PALMER, Jim BLAKESLIE, VANCE McCormick and GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, there does not seem to be any Demo- crats in the State who want Mr. PALMER in the National committee.” He might have added, however, that that curious quartette of assistant Republicans want him there very badly. His presence in that body would have created a political trading post from which those recreants might have operated as conspicuous party hucksters. But we infer from the re- marks of Mr. SHORT that they have been found out. Mr. SHORT adds that “when Vance McCorMick started his ‘house- cleaning’ job he enlisted Mr. PALMER and Mr. GUTHRIE. What they did is part of the recent political history of the anybody else that the claim is preposter- | i nominate the best candidate. ——There is a movement on foot to compel an abrogation of the Russian treaty. The Russian government refuses to treat American Jews as American citi- zens and TAFT feels that he needs votes. —Neither the Governor of North Caro- lina, nor the Governor of South Carolina, is with that train of traveling Governors, but we fancy they are not missing any because of the absence of the suggestive gentlemen from the South. —Lists of the twenty greatest men, living or dead, are becoming 80 plentiful as to be a nuisance. The women are getting at it now, but we haven't yet been able to find CARRIE NATION, CASSIE CHADWICK or “dear MARIA” in any of their lists. —And it cost eighty dollars a day at Delhi while the Durbar was going on , Of course the visitor wasn’t compelled to stop at the hotels, but as there was noth- | ing else between him and the hot sands | of the Indian suburb he coughed up and swore he'd never go back again. —SHUSTER is still holding out in Per- | sia. The Russian army is advancing on i tion and the efficiency of the Auditor General in collecting revenues and other moneys due the State. There was no complaint against these things. They were, are and always will be subjects of praise. The complaints were against the frauds perpetrated. The substitution of Beaver glass for Baccarat product, of lead-filled chandeliers for solid bronze and of cheap composition for expensive | woods. These crimes were permitted in | order that the profits of the conspirators | might be multiplied. | At was hardly worth while to reply to | the silly vaporings of a man so lost to | shame and oblivious of moral obligations | as the book proves Mr. PENNYPACKER to | be and yet we are glad that Mr. BERRY has taken the time and trouble to do so | for one reason. He has presented former | Governor SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER to the public in his true light. “1 was ex- cluded from the conferences of the at- torneys,” Mr. BERRY writes in reference to the investigation of the frauds and subsequent trial of the conspirators, “but protested to Mr. SCARLET against the ex- clusion of the then Governor from the ! indictment. He was as guilty as any of | | IRELAND made a Cardinal. Former Lieutenant Governor WHITNEY, of Massachusetts, alleged that Roose- vELT lied in the matter of a statement concerning the tariff on wool. ROOSEVELT is the first President of the United States who was ever accused of falsification. But all the other lies that have been charged, and proved, against ROOSEVELT, are trifling compared with the one of which he now stands accused. If he is even a receptive candidate for President in opposition to TAFT he is guilty o go freighted with moral turpitude that thoughtful man could ever again take his word, even if supported by his oath for anything in which he is personally con- cerned. It will simply stamp him not only as a common liar but as a betrayer of the most sacred pledges of friendship. And in view of all the facts we are ready to believe that he is a candidate for the nomination. ——The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail- road, eight miles long, pays annual divi- | purpose has been defeated. As Mr. | State. They had the power to work good for the Democratic party but instead of bringing about harmony they formed the PALMER-MCCORMICK-GUTHRIE burlesque Democratic organization that is neither respected, feared nor hated by anyone.” The case could hardly be more ac- curately stated though it may be assumed that Mr. SHORT reluctantly does justice to the real Democratic organization of Pennsylvania. There were ample rea- sons for asking a new deal. The would have left PALMER, MCCORMICK and { GUTHRIE out of the reckoning. That was no part of their purpose. They wanted to butt in and under the false pretense that they intended to supply vast sums of money enlisted every mercenary and crook who had been “camp-following’’ | the organization for years, in their en- | terprise. But their selfish and sordid nd in ~ rf NO. 49. Only a Soretante. From the Johnstown Democrat ; Twenty-one million dollars! This is approximately the decrease in | estimates, submitted by the treasury de- partment, for. the government | during the next year, under the amount asked for by the same Republican and department heads cabinet members last year The amomt that these officile think they can along with next ust $21,283,021.43 less, than a ; t would be required a year ago. significance of these figures becomes more apparent when compared with estimates formerly submitted Republican ad- Rr follow: nistrations. Annual These ed by the observation that “Congressman 1503 £ i] i $ | g : BE : : g e i i 8 : g i i il gg Es f i ; ; | i5s | B : g £ : : E I 5 deceived Jrisnmant. the Inter- and Structural Workers, The name of the president national Bridge the McNamaras is to which belonged, significantly absent from the statement, though Samus Gompers, president of the n Federation of Labor, says that this fact is nothing significant, since the president of the Structural Workers was out of Washington when the state. ment was written. But it is obvious that his signature dends of 334 per cent. But Mr. CARNEGIE, | Short inferentially declares, they are | could have been wired for, and we may who owns most of that road, needs some- | | “dead ducks in the pond.” him from one direction and, as the Per-| the rest of them. If he was innocent, thing like that return for his money in| sians are getting cold feet, it looks very much as if he would have to meet the Czar's forces single handed. Blamed if we don’t think he could lick em at that. ——Those Western Governors have had the time of their lives during their trip East, now drawing to a close. But they got nothing except that which was coming to them. The west is the great section of this splendid Republic and while the people of the East must eat ; nd drink and be clothed, they are neces- rarily obliged to pay respects to the source of their supplies. ——The Meat trust magnates are de- dending upon the statutes of limitation to save them from the penalties of their crimes against the public. But they are only pursuing an illustrious example. If the late Senator QUAY had not invoked the statute of limitation he might have .died in prison and in that event even PENNYPACKER would hardly have pro- "posed to put hisimage in the State cap- itol. —From acting president and general fiscal agent of a great educational insti- "tution to the “big smear” of a Georgia nut tarm get-rich-quick scheme is a long jump up the ladder of fame. That is, if you are nutty enough to see it that way. When the classic shades of old State Col- lege couldn't lull him into forgetfulness of the gold that wasn't in the buttonless business how could it be ex- pected that Jupson P. would stay there and leave the nuts of Georgia unsold and the “nuts” of other States unsold, as well. —We are spending ten thousand dol- lars to replace the unsightly High street bridge, we are going to pave the streets near it in order to add to the, beauty, then we are going to erect expensive and ornamental lamp posts to add another touch to the splendid improvement. Then we are going to permit the York Bridge Co. to put a thirty cent hand rail on this ten thousand dollar bridge. Look at the bridge. Look at the hand rail, you tax paying citizen, and if you intend “to stand for it telegraph Dr. WELSH to come up and sell you a nut farm. You are about ripe for such a game. they were all innocent.” That isliterally true. It may be said that he was the chief offender for they were all influenced by his interpretation of legal questions. He probably got no part of the swag but was promised a seat on the Supreme bench and as “Bull” ANDREWS has said of the Republicans of New Mexico, if he had been told to burn down a barn for that consideration he would have burned the barn. . Taft Will be Nominated. We can imagine nothing more improb- “able than the nomination of any man other than President TAFT, by the com- ing Republican National convention, for the Presidency. He enters the contest with an absolute mortgage upon the seats of all the delegates from the Southern States, nearly one-third of the total mem. | bership of the convention. He is.equally certain of the support of every federal | office-holder in the Northern States. The | reactionaries, the stand-patters and the , big interests are quite as certain to be for + him. There is nothing left but the con- tingent known as “stragglers,” and they don’t count. It the face of these facts how can any reasoning mind pretend to believe that another candidate might be nominated? It is true that LAFOLLETTE may have the delegates of Wisconsin, lowa and Oregon, in the event that ROOSEVELT'S name is not presented to the convention. It is | also possible that Kansas, Minnesota and | one or two other States may be beguil- ed into the support of another candidate. But Tarr will have two-thirds of the votes of the convention on the first ballot, | unless, meantime, he should conclude to | withdraw from the contest, an altogether improbable incident, from the present . viewpoint. | It is universally admitted that TAPT is | the weakest candidate that could be ' named by his party and it may be sur- prising to many that many of those who understand this fact best are nevertheless for him. But that is an easy problem to solve. Such experienced and shrewd politi- | cians as Senator CRANE, of Massachusetts, order to be a philanthropist at other people's expense. The Simplicity ot the Tariff Question. In an address before the Pennsylvania Society of New York, on Saturday even- ing last, Representative NICHOLAS LONG- WORTH, of Ohio, advocated a permanent tariff board for the reason that the tariff question is too complicated to be consider- ed in any other way. Yet in the course of his remarks he clearly refused that prop- | osition. “When men give up the desire to sell the things they produce at the highest possible price, and to buy the things they consume at the lowest pos- sible price,” he declared, “then and not till then will the removal of the tariff from politics be anything more than an iridescent dream.” In that sentence Mr. LONGWORTH ex- pressed the complete philosophy of tariff legislation. Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest is the sum and substance of that branch of political economy which is covered by tariff taxa- tion. There is nothing complicated about it. The bricklayer who abandons his work to make a pair of shoes for himself is violating a fundamental principle of economy. He would better sell histime to a house builder and pay a shoemaker for the shoes. The same principle governs communities and even States. If neces- saries can be produced in one place cheaper than another the consumers will promote their own interests by seeking the cheaper market. A permanent taritt commission is not intended to promote the interests of the consumer or increase the volume of com- merce. Its purpose is to prolong the per- iod of tariff graft by postponing the date of tariff reduction. The veto of the Farm- ers free list legislation and other tariff bills enacted during the special session of Congress last summer robbed the con- sumers of this country of $500,000,000 and put that much money into the treas- uries of the trusts. It was expected that a part of this unearned money would be contributed to a campaign fund to re- elect TAFT who vetoed the bills, . | —=An item in the WATCHMAN last . week told of a big bear crossing the John S. Dale farm from the Barrens to Nittany mountain, on Wednesday forenoon. Mrs. Dale came to Bellefonte on the train that morning and about noontime called up Luther Dale and inquired what became of the bear. Without any hesitation Mr. Dale stated that they got the bear and it dressed 474 pounds, while the hide was large enough to make a rug that would cover a good sized room. He told her to be sure and get home that they were going to have a bear steak for supper. Naturally Mrs, Dale was considerably ex- cited and was on the point of giving the story to the newspapers when Al Dale suggested that she call up the Shuey home and get the story corroborated. She did so and imagine the lady’s chagrin when she was informed that they never, saw the bear after it entered the woods The fact of the matter is they tracked bruin about a mile to where thesnow was all gone when they gave up the trail. | ———Even if bad comes to the worst President TAFT has no just right to com- plain. ROOSEVELT catapulted him into the White House under an expressed or implied agreement that “My Policies” would be followed during an interval of four or eight years, until the real repre- sentative of the "cult” should feel like “coming back.” TAFT failed to fulfill his part of the agreement and there is noth- ing the matter with an enforcement of the penalty. ——The concrete curb for the brick paving between the High street bridge over Spring creek and the bridge over the race is a. in place and contractor R. B. Taylor expects to go right ahead with grading the street and putting down the brick. The present almost impassible condition of the street is the best argu- ment in favor of completing the brick paving as soon as possible. The work of | putting the concrete and brick on the new High street bridge will depend alto- them to | of Samuel | Eether on the weather, as it will be im- | possible to do good concreting in freezing i weather. : | safely assume that it was purposely with- held. We may conclude that the Struc- tural Workers’ officials were not able to stand with their associates in repudiating the McNamaras. We may note, also, that Burns, the detective, who brought Gompers; so as to Seny reliability as a voucher for or the course of Gompers been such as to recommend him ; and that has not first rule of war is always to jump on a weaker nation, And Maine Still “Dry.” From the New York Tribune. The world consumed Z.000,000:000 A lons of beer last year, and, ew York's water supply, the consumers hold that not a gallon of it was wasted. { catch | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. Some of the eastern farmers have been mak | ing desperate efforts during the warm spell to get their belated corn crop gathered. =8. P. Leider, a Juniata county farmer residing at Centre, raised 116 bushels of com and 225 bushels of turnips from one-half acre of ground. ~This week the Superior court will hear the appeal of Sheriff John E. Shields, of Westmore- ! land county, sentenced to prison for misdemeanor ! in office. | —Grow and Jones, the ballot box men, have been ordered back to jail at Pottsville, having already been in and out of prison four times on one case. —Counterfeit hall dollars caused the arrest of five foreigners at Huntingdon on Wednesday. Their stories as to how they got the money are | being investigated. | —Joseph and Anna Bach. of Lower Yoder | township, Cambria county, lost two children within four hours, of diphtheria. The boy was 2 years and his sister 4. _—Farmers in several of the counties of the Commonwealth report the loss of an unusually large number of chickens this season because of the increase in the number of foxes. so ary ravi, charged with the robbery of rom office Bare Milling company, at Roaring Spring, gave $500 bail for his appear. ance at the January sessions of the Blair county court. —Mrs. Minnie and Emma Liggett, Carlisle women in the centre of the rebelious zone of China, have sent home their insurance policies and inventory of personal effects, as they fear _ | death. —Elmer C. Burkholder, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, was instantly killed in a collision of cars just below the scales at Derry Sunday morning. He was aged about 22 years and was married. ~The regular Juniata county December court was held in Mifflintown last week. The judges were all on the bench and routine business was transacted, but both grand and petit jurors were notified that there was no work for them. —Harry W. Wike, a Huntingdon electrician. fell recently from the top of a thirty-five foot pole on which he was working and landed on a pile of lumber on the street. He was unconscious for an hour, but his most serious injuries are said to be bruises to his back and hip. —Joseph Hipps, aged 68 years, while returning to his home at Patton after attending court at Ebensburg, was, it is supposed, stricken with apoplexy. He was able to get to a coal house near the road, where he died. His frozen body was found on Thursday morning. —Peter Bovd, lawyer and president of the Tradesmen's Trust company, of Philadelphia. now in the hands of a receiver, shot and killed himself late Saturday afternoon in his office, in the North American building. Worry and anxiety over the affairs of the bank caused it. —At the request of General Manager Creigh. ton, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Governor Tener has appointed Archibald J. Mc Carthy, Layee T. Simmons and Forrest E. Bowers to be policemen for the company along the line of the Middle division. McCarthy was a member of the 1908 Altoona team’s pitching staff, —Wilmer Cook, the y hunter of Cherry Tree, who accidentally shot while hunting in the vicinity of his home town on Wednesday morning of last week, died at the Spangler hospit- al the same evening at 7:30. The charge of the shotgun he carried tore away his left thigh. He was aged 16 years and is survived by his mother and two brothers, of Cherry Tree. aa +. ashie'was leaving town but he vsed hy | knife on the fleetest of the bunch and sprinted so well that he made good his escape. Police round about have been notified to watch for him. —After holding the office for thirty-two years, justice of the peace P. Gallagher, of Osceola Mills, has retired. His son, J. A. Gallagher, of Dublin township, Huntingdon county, is just entering upon the second term. He did not send asingle case tocourt during his first term. His father and grandfather preceded him in the office and were able to administer the law in a manner that tended to settle neighborhood disputes. =The little lumber village called Arrow several miles from Windber, will be in a few weeks wiped ofi the map so far as activity is concerned. The Babcock Lumber company has finished cutting out the timber in that locality and the mill has already been removed. The kindling wood fac tory will wipe up the supply in about three weeks- Arrow will then have no more industries. The lumber company owns all the houses in the town. about sixty in number. The majority of the families have already moved to other places. ~Miss Fannie V. Rumbarger, manager of the Western Union telegraph office at Tyrone, has through her attorney, H. A. Davis, esq., entered _ | a trespass suit against George W. Bailor, a news correspondent, to recover $1,000 damages for slander. She alleges that defendant complained to the Western Union district manager, that she closed up the Tyrone office too early at night, and he was therefore obliged to forward his news items to the Philadelphin North American, Record and Inquirer, through the Postal office, which complaint was not founded upon fact. “The out- come of the case will be watched with consider: able interest. ~As Burgess W. H. Blough of Scalp Level was returning from No. 40 mine Monday night he was attacked and beaten by robbers, who secured in the neighborhood of $200 that he carried. Mr. Blough had been at No. 40 mine on business. He was driving back to Scalp Level when he met two men, one of whom asked him for a match. Ashe reached into his vest pocket to accommodate the fellow one of the men seized him and a struggle took place in which both highwaymen joined. The pair finally succeeded in subduing Mr. 4 left their victim in the roadway and ade gar- | Blough after using him up pretty badly ard then Hewld Sant [ctcied 8 van iv the seisissrued ot a ~Poor Director H. H. Pensyl, of Altoona, re- ceived a complete surprise Monday forenoon when he went to the residence of John Benden to take charge of Mrs. Sarah Nason, aged 86 years, who had applied to him for admittance to the
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