ARES
INK SLINGS.
—Not quite three months until the an-
nual crusude against the trout will begin.
—It may be a little hard to hit the hay
these cold nights, but it is incomparably
harder to crawl out of it in the morning.
—There has been enough of winter
within the past few days to inspire the
hardiest to pray for clouds on ground-hog
day.
~The process of forming a Republic
in China is slow but not altogether sure.
Wooden shoes are not becoming to free-
men.
—Judging from the number of charters
that are being applied for all of Centre
county will be electrified before we
know it.
—Report has it that the milk men have
suffered more than any others from the
cold weather. Most of it due, of course
to the freezing up of their pumps.
——Probably the cold weather may be
attributed to the chill between TAFT and
ROOSEVELT. Anyway it has been equal-
ly severe at Oyster Bay and Washington.
—A western preacher would have mar-
ried men wear a ring. The idea, of
course, is to safe-guard unsophisticated
maiden against falling in love with
another's hubby.
—It is not surprising that Wall street
should be financing the ROOSEVELT cam-
paign for the Presidential nomination.
ROOSEVELT was always obliging to Wall
street and “one good turn deserves
another.”
—What if civil service should come
along and fix him in office for life just
after HENRY CUTE names the next post-
master for Bellefonte? You know they
are already planning to extend the rules
to cover postmasters.
—In the light of the mercurial tumbling
around here last Saturday and Sunday
mornmg we are almost persuaded that
both PEARY and Dr. Cook are fakirs
when they lay claim to having located the
north pole anywhere else than in Centre
county.
—Do you recall those awful days we
had about the Fourth of last July when
the thermometer was recording from 98
to 100 degrees in the shade every day
for a week? Think how you longed
for cooler weather then and think how
ungrateful you are now that you've
got it.
—Show me the man who can accept
the situation philosophically when he
rushes to the plumbers to find fourteen
other similarly afflicted mortals [there
ahead of him waiting for help, and 1 will
show a man too good for this earth. He
is already prepared for translation.
—Dr. HORACE FLETCHER, the man who
believes in making the teeth do what so
many rapid eaters ask the stomach to
look after, has justdeclared that after an
experiment carried on for days he finds
that he feels fine on a diet of nothing
else than potatoes. What joyous news
to the poor if potatoes were only cheap
as they used to be.
~Mr. McDevitt, the Wilkes-Barre
millionaire for a day, is not to be laughed
at. He knew just how long he could
keep up the pace and quit when the one
day of high living had consumed his
$2500.00. He was that much wiser than
the rest of us who try to live like mil-
lionaires all the time and are ground to
death in the struggle to foot the bills,
~The "turkey trot,” the "grizzly bear,”
and the “bunny hug” are new dances
that we hope may die a bornin before
they get out into this neck o’ the woods.
It is quite enough for us to see the young-
sters grabbin’ each other in a death hug,
picking out a corner on the dancing floor
and tettering away there like mechanical
toys in something they call the Boston.
—Madam SCHUMANN HEINK, the great
contralto, is instituting a divorce pro-
ceeding against her husband because he
can't understand her children. Inasmuch
as she had eight of them when she mar-
ried WILLIAM RAPP probably the song-
stress has not given the young man time
to study out the psychic relationship that
should exist between a young step-father
and his ready-made family.
—Why government control of telegraph
lines? Why government control of any-
thing else than government? The least
governed people are the best governed
people and to our mind this piling up of
government supervision over and espion-
age into everything that the individual
undertakes is growing so nearly akin to
a monarchical form of government that
unless there is a line drawn somewhere,
and soon, there will not be much left of
our vaunted Republican form of govern-
ment.
—The unfortunate death of the late
SAMUEL WiLLiAMS has precipitated
another fight for the postoffice in Belle-
fonte. Gossip is already busy making
postmasters and most of it seems centered
around the names of H. C. VALENTINE,
W. L. MALIN and W. I. FLEMING. We
do not know that any of these gentlemen
are aspirants for the appointment, but
we do know that their loyal party service
recommends them and that their per-
sonalities are such that either of them
would prove generally acceptable to the
patrons of the office.
VOL 57.
Carnegie Hypnotized the Committee. Mr. Carnegie’s Absurd Claim
In the course of recent events there In his testimony before a Congressional
has been nothing more curious, more sur- committee last Friday ANDREW CARNEGIE
prising or more alarming than the ex-| said: “The Commission shoud Jive
amination, last week, of Mr. ANDREW power to fix prices from month to month.
CARNEGIE, before a Congressional com- | It should visit plants, take notice of
mittee. At the conclusion of this ordeal A changed conditions. The Commission
Mr. CARNEGIE declared that he had en- | could say ‘you may not get as much as
joyed himself immensely. He simply had You did before, but you will geta sure
fun with the ten or twelve Congressmen return,” A sure return on what? Obvi-
who composed the inquisition. They | ously on the capitalization, including the
summoned him to tell the truth and all | water in the stocks. The Steel trust, for
the truth, so far as he had information | example, in which Mr. CARNEGIE is inter-
on the subject, concerning the organiza. ested as theowner of bonds, is capitalized
tion of the Steel trust. He told them in | at a billion and a q iarter, half of which
a jocular way his impressions on various | Ee . CARNROlE dll] ave the
ical questions, in no way con- |
el te subject under a — Pex sant by sia! amount when only half
tion, and laughed at their disappointment. | 3 money.
If Mr. Er had been a poor man | These captains of industry have come
things would have been different. If he | to the conclusion that stock inflation has
BELLEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 19, 1912.
had been honest. frank and sincere, | reached its limit and now hope to be pro-
another result would have been register-
ed. But because he is worth at least
$400,000,000, his own sworn estimate, he
presumed to make fun of the committee
and sustained the bluff. In other words,
from start to finish, he had every mem-
ber of the committee hypnotized by the
force of his wealth and h~ laughed at the
helplesness of the bunch. He talked
to them like a pirate and every member
of the committee was aware of the fact,
but not one in the lot dared to call him
down. It was a case of absolute surren-
der of law and conscience to the power
of wealth and every member of the com-
mittee knows that that is the truth.
Yet the incident is not without its use-
ful purpose. The public is not as sus-
ceptible to sinister influences as the Con-
gressional committe and while Mr. CARr-
NEGIE bluffed the committee he didn’t
altogether fool the people. He admitted
that on a former occasion he had sworn
that all his interests in the steel industry
were worth only $48,000,000 and that the
Steel trust had paid him in bonds of the
Steel corporation as much as $480,000,000
for his interest and now he wants a gov-
ernment guarantee of a fair proki on
what he got, That would be robbery of
the worst type.
A ——
——For that matter the profits out of
the merger of the Tennesee Coal and
Iron company with the Steel trust would
more than pay the expenses of a success-
ful campaign against TAFT in the inter-
est of ROOSEVELT.
Mr. Hitchcock's Proposition.
Of course there are various reasons for
Postmaster General HITCHCOCK'S desire
to acquire control of the telegraph sys-
tems of the country. Some of them are
personal and some political. There never
was a man in authority who didn’t covet
more power. This is shown in every line
of life. From President to township con-
stable it is the same. The practices of
ROOSEVELT have accentuated this ten-
dency. Everybody wants to imitate him.
The merger of the telegraph service
with the postoffice activities would be a
step in the direction of centralization
moreover. It would greatly enhance the
power of the government at Washington.
The telegraph service employs a vast
army of men and women. The political
machine would be vastly strengthened
with this increase of official patronage.
The power of the Postmaster General,
under such conditions would be almost
illimitable and certainly irresistible.
There are no patriotic reasons for the
proposed innovation, however. The tele-
graph service would not be administered
better or cheaper, by the government.
The general public would not be benefitted
in any respect by the change. An es.
teemed contemporary has said that “the
only excuse for government ownership of
anything is the ability of the government
to serve the public better than private
interests can or will do.” Thereis no
such excuse in the proposition of HiTcH-
COCK.
The Postoftice Department is not well
managed at present. Mr. HITCHCOCK has
increased the burdens of labor upon the
employees but has abated no abuses or
corrected no real evils. But if he had
control of the telegraph service as well
as the postal operations he wouid be a
much more potent force in the affairs of
the people. Probably his desire has its
origin in that fact. Mr. HITCHCOCK is an
ambitious as well as a self reliant young
man.
~The United States Supreme Court
having declared the liability act constitu-
tional THEODORE ROOSEVELT may con-
clude to let that tribunal -ontinue in bus-
iness for awhile longer.
~—This was examination week for the
Senior class of the Bellefonte High school,
and the standing of the students at gradu-
ation will depend very much upon the
grades made now.
wor high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
tected by law in their iniquity. Admitting
that capital is entitled to a just recom-
| pense the Steel trust might claim a guar-
-antee of a sure® return on the capital '
actually invested. In other words hav- !
prise, the consumers of steel might be
expected to pay prices which would |
operate and maintain the plantsin a state
of efficiency and yield a profit of five per |
cent. upon the investment of that amount.
But it has no right, in justice or reason,
to ask a sure return or any other sort of
a return on the other $625,000,000 which
represents water or bogus capital.
As a matter of fact, however, the gov-
ernment owes no industry a guarantee
of “sure returns” on any investment. The
farmers don't ask such a guarantee and
when crops fail they bear the conse-
quences with such philosophy as they
can command. The merchants ask no
government guarantee of profits on their
business and the mechanics would be re-
gaided as insane if they should appeal to
the government for relief when an employ-
er fails to pay them for their labor. In fact
nobody except the bankers and manu-
facturers ask for such protection against
their own follies and we can see no va
reason why they should be thus favor
at public expense. Mr. CARNEGIE and
his kind have been expensive luxuries.
——Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER an-
nounces that he will make a tour of the
State, previous to the April primaries, in
the interest of Governor WILSON, of New
Jersey. Inasmuch as there is no oppo-
sition to Governor WILSON in Pennsylva-
nia, the falsity of that pretense is obvi-
ous. Asa matter of fact Mr. PALMER
will tour the State in the interest of him-
self. He has never, in all his life, done
anything for anybody else.
Mr. Palmer's False Pretense.
After his complete and proper rebuke
by the Democratic National committee,
ast week, Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER an-
nounced that the incident was unimport-
ant and that the people of the State will
settle the question at the primary elec-
tions in April. In other words he an-
nounces himself as a candidate for the
office of National committeemen and ap-
peals to the people to support him.
Upon a correct statement of the facts
Mr. PALMER would have had only one
vote in his favor in the Democratic Na- |
tional committee, and that would have |
been his own, purchased from the mer-
cenary Representative of the Mormon
member for Utah. No intelligent man, |
properly informed, could have voted to
support his false and fraudulent pretense |
to a seat in the committee, without the |
sacrifice of conscience and the absolute |
surrender of principle.
Mr. PALMER had, previous to the meet-
ing of the committee, falsified the facts
and appealed to his associates in Con- |
gress, to support him, right or wrong.
Congress is a close corporation. Most-
ly, as was shown in the CARNEGIE hear-
ing, the members are selfish and sordid.
They determined to support their associ-
ate and every vote in the committee, for
Mr. PALMER, outside of his own, was in-
fluenced by that Congressional atmos-
phere which is stifling to decency.
In the decision of the question which
will be made by the people of Pennsyl-
vania at the primary elections in April, a
different element will obtain. Mr. PAL-
MER'S absurd ‘ambitions and preposter-
ous promises to various candidates for
President will not serve as blinds. The
actual conditions will be presented and
the people will not vote to make GUTH-
RIE, MCCorMICK and PALMER what they
are working to be—the bosses of Penn-
sylvania Democracy.
—Mr. HITCHCOCK forgot to mention
that when the government operated the
meagre telegraphic service of seventy
years ago there was no water in the
stocks then and even with that advan-
tage in operation the enterprise was
abandoned.
ing invested $625,000,000 in the enter- | make common cause in the preliminary
—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
STATE RIGETS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 3.
Mr. Bryan and Colonel Guifey. Is Mr. Taft Out of Politics.
Mr. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is will- | Frdte the Pittsburg Post. i
ing to forgive everybody on earth except western newspaper commenting on
present condition .
Colonel james M. GurrFey. When he | the 2 iE Loe Taft
was first nominated for President, in| “is not doing any kind of politics” This
1896, and the Democracy from Maine to | is certainly a bit of startling information
. Sami his ar- to the country which has been led to be-
California was ingpited to hope by Bis ar. | [T (I2 CONDEY WIE! BaE exciting was
dor and eloquence, GEORGE W. Surame | in the wind. The Pe A not doing
was among the first to sprag the party | politics? Then in the same sense what
wheel by bolting the nomination. He |is he doing? What means all this tur-
Presidential Elector, Moil that re-echoes from the White
had been named for tial "| House? Are we to believe that these
declined the honor and contributed liber- | mid-winter “swings around the circle”
ally to the MCKINLEY campaign aud. | are merely the seasonal dismatsit to the
But Mr. BRYAN has forgiven him freely A mid-summer vacation tour? a-
A ia lorgiven Sim recly | macs mapial ws os wot oo 0 DA
. | in August are we to infer that it is too
workers in the movement to make Mr, | oid for comfort in January? But with-
GUTHRIE the party leader in Pennsylva- out any attempt to answer these ques-
nia. | tions the significance of the agitation
. is | Cannot be concealed.
Governor WILSON, of New Jersey, is | “a "= Tore the indications. are
also on record as an opponent of MF. | that the Presidentis very much
BRYAN. He wrote to a friend in another | with the existing political exigencies. He
State expressing regret that no plan had | has his hands just about as full as he can
: hold, and the business is far
been discovered to knock the garrulous more pressing than the Rcy.
Nebraskan “into a cocked hat.” But, he, | tive. His numerous to Con-
too, has been forgiven. In fact it was | gress are based on politics. recom-
announced that Mr. BRYAN and Governor
WiLson have “pooled issues” and will
Presidential campaign to defeat Colonel
GUFFEY, though that gentleman has de” up hi
clared that he is not a candidate for any | F7aricy and shouts to the people that he
office or public favor. Why is Mr. BRY- | islation for their relief
AN so amiable in one case and so vindic-
tive in another?
In all Mr. BRYAN'S campaigns for the lican
Presidency Colonel GUFFEY was among
his most active, earnest and liberal sup-
porters. He labored assiduously and
gave freely to overcome the efforts of
Mr. GUTHRIE and others in the interest
of the Republican candidate and the sin. | up to his neck, and is in danger of being
ister policies of the money powers. But
Mr. BRYAN is now willing to accept any
adverse report of him and act without
reason or understanding agaiist him.
Probably Colonel GUFFEY has not always
agreed with Mr. BRYAN. Possibly he has
dissented from some of the heresies
which the eloguent Nebraskan has ex- |:
ploited one year and repudiated the next.
But at that he ought not to be so inexor-
i. in his hatred. _Itisn't becoming his |
ter or profession !
use the
-Aldrictr tariff S80
, | now until close November 5th,
i
——One day last week John Stover | there need be little conjecture asto the
and family moved from Pennsvalley to! Who doubts but that if the Dingley
Yeagertown and when driving across the sarld bill Jad both) Khloe and re
i i generally as tax
railroad at Reedsville with a load of | the McKinley tariff bill as the McKinl
down. Realizing that it was almost train | as the Payne-Aldrich tax bill, the ub-
time he unhitched the other animal and | lican party would not be in power
took it away but before he could get the |, The word “tariff” is too indefinite.
fallen horse on its feet a passenger train | There are hundreds ot Shousands of men
, rough
came around a curve and struck it. | would be to their advantage in some in-
knocking it from the track. The ani-! direct, mysterious way to vote for a tariff,
mal struggled to its feet, ran two | Dut who could not be led or coerced
into the conviction that it is to their indi-
hundred yards and dropped dead. The | yiqual good to vote for a tax on every-
sled was badly wrecked and most of its | thing eat, wear and use.
contents demolished. Miss Bertha Bi-! If Democratic editors will make it a
i standing order in their offices to substitute
Ble, of Potters Mills, Wito wason the sled, | A gr re
saved her life by jumping just as the paving to do with on, and if every
train struck the vehicle. The train was | stump speaker will carry on a similar
not wrecked. i crusade, and if the movement will be
Es ri i””’ibzn { made nation wide, the problem of revers-
——The Woman's Club of Bellefonte ing Republican victories at the polls will
has appointed Mrs. J. E. Ward chairman have been solved.
|
of a large committee to immediately De
start work on the gathering togethera, ie a tion.
1 , From
er Ap ec Ot hy Shar hrc ui of
: hg | the membership of the Democratic party
which will be given to the Bellefonte jn Pennsylvania are corrupt and conten-
hospital. A house to house canvas of . ted, WIRE Fhe other quaner fs Shuste
the town will be made, and the paper and celestial, it is : Yeo
collected at regular periods, to be stored the party oy pling The hoe and
in a room secured for the purpose. Every- | faith and simplicity vote the ticket year
one is asked to save all kinds of clean after year and ask no questions, are to be
paper, pile or tie it in bundles and save thrust into utter darkness, whilst the
it for the wagons doing the collecting. | nis goin a oar of
These women being very anxious to get are sinners and saints in all po-
the full twenty tons, constituting a car- litical organizations; but the saints can-
load, a special appeal is made to every | not be trusted to draw the dividing line
one to aid them in the work. | preferences “and pre udices, Asa ie
To | the Pharisee in cs is the wo 0
—The S. A. E. house at State Col-: his kind. wl
lege was badly damaged by water at the, This is a proposition, however, that
rd-headed
beginning of the recent cold spell. When | heed not be Sips upon the ha
the students went home for their holiday | od Sahstors W 0, wake D the body of
vacation they left a young man in charge. | They very el now he Sifterence be
At the end of two days he locked up and tween a a re-organization
left. The recent cold froze the} water Of parties—the difference between
pipes so that they burst cn the third floor | isgrart and bringing together
a —
and when the heat was turned on to practically unttainable. eg of |
Votes is the
thing desired by the
crats of Pensylvania. It may be
achieved under a wise leadership.
Why Not in Bellefonte.
From the Emporia Gazette.
At the butcher may be found
chickens at and 15 cents a
pound. Pork varies from 10 cents a
pound to 15 cents for the best roasts and
ghops varies from 8 cents
boiling meat to 15 cents for the
roasts and 18 cents for the best
warm up the house for the students ati
the expiration of their vacation the pipes
thawed out and the water poured out on
the third story, running for two days be-
fore it was discovered. Naturally the
house was deluged from top to bottom,
ceilings fell off and carpets and furniture
ruined. The damage is estimated at sev.
eral thousand dollars.
ville, was a business visitor in Bellefonte
over Wednesday night. In addition to | peef F pork sausage is 15 cents a
supplying the people in that vicinity | pound
with everything they need in the line of —
general merchandise he is becoming quite Wilson’s Way.
a land owner. This week he purchased | From the New York Evening Post.
the John Hoy farm near that town which | No wonder that ublicans say that
is the second he has bought within a few
years. In addition to being a merchant
and farmer he is also somewhat of a
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While attending the funeral of her sister, in
Pottsville, Mrs. Joseph Callahan dropped dead.
She had not been ill and her death is attributed to
shock at her sister's death.
—Enforcement of the state anti-cruelty law has
been started in Hazelton by the state constabu-
lary in the cases of horse owners and drivers who
fzil to blanket their animals.
—Fruit growe:s in Adams county are saying
that the cold weather is just the right thing for
this time of year and they are predicting a large
crop of apples and peaches next fall.
~The Scranton iron works was compelled to
Ro into the hands of a receiver because its map-
ager, Herman Behrns, was in jail for running
down and killing a man with an auto.
—The school board of Washington announces
that it means to install a moving picture machine
in the public schools to be used principally in the
study of history, geography, chemistry and bot-
any.
—Pike township, Potter county, has just been
mulcted in ‘the sum of $9,200 because the super-
visors failed to cover an exposed gas pipe and be.
cause they neglected to repair an insecure
—Ermin F. Hill, Esq., of Hughesville, has for
of
declares that he is now “in the sunshine of
life.”
=It is reported that the prolonged cold weather
has brought the game birds of the mountain dis-
tricts of the State to the verge of starvation. In
some sections humane sportsmen are carrying
food into the woods for the benefit of turkeys
and other birds.
~Ellsworth Allen, who escaped from the
Washington county jail nearly a year ago, rang
the sheriff's door bell the other morning before
daylight and begged to be permitted to serve out
his term of imprisonment. The cold weather was
entirely too much for him.
—The pupils of the school at Blue Rock, West-
moreland county, were somewhat startled and
amazed the other day when a huge cake of ice
came hurtling through the door and a lot of beer
kegs began to pile themselves up on the porch,
A brewery wagon had upset.
~Jefferson Harris, former sheriff of Fulton
county, was sentenced a few days ago on a charge
of gross negligence in permitting Russell Sipes,
charged with arson, to escape. Sipes was re-
captured and the sheriff convicted in October.
He is to pay $100 fine and costs and stay in jail
for two months. .
—John and Stephen Tunstall, the oldest twins
inthe State, celebrated the 89th anniversary of
their birth at the residence of John W. Pellio, of
her uncle John for her father, an incident that
greatly amused the old gentlemen.
—One of thelines of the Nippenose Telephone
company recently went out of business in a most
unique way. Linemen hunted the trouble for
two days before locating it at a house where a
phene had been taken out. The wires had been
left sticking through the wall and one of the new
tenants had wrapped the ends together and hung
something on them.
=In the United States court at Williamsport
last week, F. J. Schaffer, of Hummelstown, was
the mail
paid one cent postage. This was not his first
offense and he had been warned by his postmaster.
It is safe to say that he will now try,some other
way to save his small change.
through
ina newspaperon which he had
~Records of the state railroad commission
show that during 1911 there were 1,114 persons
Filled and 8,449 injured on the steam railroads in
Pennsylvania, and on street railways 193 persons
? | were killed and 3,752 injured. There was a de-
crease of 61 killed and 1518 injured on steam
roads and an increase of six killed and a decrease
of 364 injured on trolley lines, as compared with
the year 1910.
—When J. B. Ragan, of Johnstown, went to his
czllar a few nights ago to see that everything
was all right for the night, he found the stone
foundation wall ablaze. A gas main in the wall
had burst and the gas leaked through in a num-
ber of places. Wood work in the vicinity had
caught and firemen were obliged to keep a
stream on it until somebody arrived who could
turn the szas off.
~Having read in his Monday evening news.
paper about the death on Monday of J. Woods
Mussina and Lewis D. Rauck,his lifelong friends,
Charles D. Fisher, a veteran blacksmith of Wil.
liamsport, Monday night remarked to his wife
breath, and before shecould procure a light, he
had died of apoplexy.
~The State Highway Department has turned
into the State Treasury $168,209 as receipts from ’
automotile licenses for 1912, establishing a record
for the first twelve days of the year. The de-
partment has registered 16,361 cars and 6,144
chauffeurs. In addition registration has been
granted to 673 motor cycles and to seventeen
special paid drivers. The number of dealers re-
ceiving licenses is 1,540.
~Sleeping under short covers, John McLung, a
bridge worker, boarding at the home of Louis
Beidler, in Allentown, is being thawed out at the
hospital there after being frostbitten in bed. He
retired early Monday night with the hope of get-
ting a long sleep, but was awakened Tuesday
morning by a stinging sensation in his toes, ears
and nose, which were all frozen. His toes were
affectedthe worst, and may have to be ampu-
tated.
—~Former Sherifi John E. Shields, of West-
moreland county, convicted of misconduct in
office and sentenced to serve two years nd four
months in the western penitentiary, -is still at
liberty, having appealed to the Superior court,
which will not meet until next month. In the
meantime Shields has assumed his duties as com-
missioner of Westmoreland county, to which
office he was elected in November, receiving the
second largest vote cast,
~Officers of the Pennsylvania Textile company
of York, Pa., will issue $2,000,000 in 6 per cent
gold bonds, which will besold to put in operation
the bankrupt York Silk Manufacturing company
and the old Monarch Silk company. This action,
according to Michael S, Niles, president of the
new company, means that the silk industry in
that city will be revived. The financial difficul-
ties have already been straightened out and the
three big mills there and the one at Carlisle will
be opened between now and February 1st.
~Sheriff Allen Fultz, with his deputy, M. M.
Bricker, Thursday visited the cell in the jail at
Lewistown of William Schrader, sentenced to
hang January 25th for the murder of his sweet-
sister visits him daily, but his parents, who reside
SY at w wiles fromm lie ial, have not seen him