Sa : Dewan. —Buck deer can now roam the moun- tains without fear of the red capped gun- ner. —A glass factory can be started in Bellefonte if some one will take enough pains to raise the money. —Many a good woman's daily fear of being made a widow was minimized when the deer hunting season closed. —The war is on. Council has told the borough engineer to take the strip off the dam in Spring creek and KEEP IT OFF. —Thank the Lord! The bunny hug, the grizzly bear and the turkey trot are no longer considered fashionable for dancers. —How about that Christmas shopping? Are you doing it now or are you putting it off until the last minute like you did last year. —When tried out at football the sea legs of the Navy seem to have more steadiness and speed than the land legs of the Army. —Congress is in session; a sort of fall house cleaning to be ready for the new tenants in the spring will probably be the order of things. ——Just the same if Wooprow WiL- soN hadn't changed his mind he could easily knock Mr. BRYAN “into a cocked hat” in the near future. —Don’t forget that you can send the WATCHMAN to any friend fdr an entire year for $1.00. It would make a most acceptable Christmas gift. —There is plenty of unhusked corn in the fields of Centre county and tardy farmers can’t expect anything else than cold fingers as the penalty for not having gotten at it earlier. —If DEXTER VERY, the wonderful State end, had been a Yale man he would prob- ably have been on WALTER CAMP’S first All-American eleven in big black type, but having gone to a school where every man stands on his own legs, both in scholastic standing and athletic success- es, he is given a place on the second eleven. —Having spent more money and polled fewer Democratic votes than in any pres idential election in Pennsylvania for thir- ty-two years chairman GUTHRIE has call- ed his State central commitee to meet in Harrisburg on the 19th to tell the Dem- ocratic Legislators-elect what the wishes of the people of Pennsylvania really are in the matter of legislation. It is to laugh! —When the new foundry gets well un- der way in Bellefonte it might be well for those in the community who will have the most cause to rejoice over whatever business that it has brought to remember that in the last analysis Mr. J. HOWARD LINGLE is the man they should take their hats off to. He was the gentleman who told the present owners where the oppor- tunity was to be found and sicked them on it. —President-elect WILSON'S suggestion that he be quietly inaugurated on March 4th and that the ceremonial function be deferred until the last Thursday in April might possibly reduce the number of pneumonia cases that invariably follow a presidential inauguration celebration, but it seems a good bit like inviting Santa Claus down the chimney on Christmas eve and then not looking to see what he brought until the Fourth of July. —Latest gossip has it that Mr. BRYAN will decline any cabinet office President- elect WiLsoN might offer him and has rented a suite of offices in Washington where he will edit the Commoner and do other newspaper work. There are those who “view with alarm” and those who “point with pride” to the plan, but among them be the argument. In all probabili- ty Mr. BRYAN will do exactly as he pleas- es and the country and the Democratic party will survive whether his efforts be constructive of destructive. —Just before the close of his first ad- ministration GROVER CLEVELAND issued an order putting all railroad mail clerks on the civil service list. Within a month country without as much as a formal ex- amination of their fitness President WiL- SON will have a precedent to fall back on should he revoke the order and call on them to be examined like anyone else who is ambitious to get into the govern- ment service. —Governor TENER is a much inter- viewed man these days. It is interesting to note that whatever reporter gets his ear the same “dope” as to the next ses sion is forthcoming. The Governor in- sists that he does not intend training with any faction, that all legislation must “come clean” to the executive office be- fore it will secure his approval and that he wants Pennsylvania's Legislature to redeem the State in every way possible. TEMER is young and TENER is ambitious. He came into the Governor's office with little but he might go out to greater things if he proves that he means what \ LL ILS ON a = 1 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. of the reassembling of Congress Repre- sentative UNDERWOOD, of Alabama, chair- man of the House committee on Ways and Means, indicates the program of the Democrats of that body with respect to the revision of the tariff downward, dur- ing the special session which is promised soon after the inauguration of WOODROW WiLsoN. He says, substantially, that the work will be executed with “neatness and dispatch,” to the end that doubts in the minds of men may be promptly removed and business interests relieved from anx- jety. This is precisely what the people expected, and is, moreover, in strict con- formity with the pledges of the party during the campaign. The Ways and Means committee will give ample opportunity for such of the tariff mongers as imagine that they have a right to instruct Congress on the sub- ject. to speak their little pieces before the Committee, but it will be before the opening of the special session and not afterward. The personnel of the com- mittee of the next Congress will be prac- tically the same as that of the present House and within a week the hearings will begin, to continue during the in- terval between the close of the present session and the opening of the next. In other words upon the day the new Con- gress is organized the work of tariff re- vision will begin and it will proceed with- out interruption until finished. ment lies in the fact that it means the entire elimination of that most preposter- Commission. That body of “beef eaters” was created for the purpose of delaying tariff reduction and incidentally affording an asylum for a few political “lame ducks.” It has cost hundrends of thous- ands of dollars directly and hundreds of millions indirectly and has been of no more service to the public than a com- mittee of High school boys would render if sent out to serenade the man in the moon. The assurance, therefore, that this ex- pensive and useless luxury will be dis. continued immediately is most gratifying and encouraging. ——President TAFT may be influenced by the purest motives in putting the fourth class postmasters in the civil serv- ice class but there are a good many peo- ple who will doubt. There are 40.000 of them, or more, and TAFT wants to be President again. That many grateful office holders would make a hopeful nu- cleus for a campaign force and TAFT has done so many small things since he be- came President that suspicions of his motives are simply natural. Economy the Keynote, The various heads of departments of the government at Washington estimate that expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, exclusive of the postal ser- vice, will aggregate $823,415455.14. This is an increase over the appropriations of the present fiscal year of $72,078,348. Of the increase $28,312,220 is for the Navy Department which contempiates the con- struction of three battleships instead of the one provided for during the last ses- sion of Congress. There will be an in- crease of $20,000,000 in the pension ap- propriation, in accordance with the pro- visions of the SHERWOOD law passed dur- ing the last session. An increase is also asked for public buildings. One of the greatest dangers which the Democratic administration will encoun- ter during the early period of its opera- tions will be the tendency to extravas gance. Of course the increase in the pension appropriation is unavoidable and the people will not grudge the additional sum that goes to relieve the wants of the veterans of the several wars through which the country has passed. But there is neither rhyme nor reason in the fur- ther increase of the Naval appropriation. During the last session the Democratic majority of the House set its face against the construction of two battleships and the recent Democratic landslide was one of the results. There ought to be no de- parture from that policy. President TAFT had an inordinate pen- chant for commissions. In addition to his absurd Tariff commission he had an Economic and Efficiency commission and the Department estimates provide for the maintenance of both of these tax-eating bodies. We sincerely hope that during the present session both of them will be eliminated and that the Commerce Court will be similarly disposed of. The key- note of the Democrats in the present ses- sion should be rigid economy in every- thing and the best way to put such poli- cies in force is to cut out all the need- less bodies created from time to time to provide berths for superannuated party serfs. And there are other ways to econ- he is reported as saying now. AS omize. The gratifying feature of this state- | ous of all legislative humbugs, the Tariff | Put Flinn to the Test. We most cordially approve the ex- pressed purpose of the Democrats in the | Legislature to put the sincerity of Boss FLINN's professions of political con- | trition to the test at the openingof the Legislature. Mr. FLINN protests with much unction that he favors the rule of the people and the elimination of bossism from the government of the Common- wealth. His first opportunity to “prove his faith by works” will come in the se- lection of the standing committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Democrats will propose that the committees be named by the bodies of which they are organs rather than by the Speaker of the House and President pro tem. of the Senate, as heretofore. We do not concur in the absurd view expressed by the Harrisburg Patriot, that the present system of selecting commit- tees in the General Assembly of Pennsyl- vania, and until recently in the House of Representatives in Washington, was a device of the bosses to serve the inter- | ests of the bosses. It is the system that has been in vogue both in Harrisburg and Washington from the beginning of legislative organization in those capitals. But of late years it has been perverted to the base uses of the bosses and be- cause of that fact it ought to be abol- ished in Harrisburg as it has been in Washington. Considerable good may come from the proposed change and that makes it worth trying. The experience in Washington justifies the change in Harrisburg, moreover. It | curtailed the power of the Speaker ma- terially both in the committee rooms and : i Obviously the “interests” are trying to “make good” on their pre-election pre- dictions that in the event of the election of Wooprow WILSON, industrial paralysis would follow. In a statement made by the Secretary of the Treasury, recently, and commented upon in these columns last week, it was alleged that the secre- tary has power to create a panic when- ever he is so inclined. It is equally cer- tain that the industrial trusts, by com- bination and collusion, can similarly crip- ple the industrial life of the country. The discharge of 900 employes of the CAR- NEGIE Steel company at its Pittsburgh plant the other day is ominous of a pur- pose to exercise this outrageous power. Four men in the employ of the CAR- NEGIE Steel company were discharged, recently, for circulating petitions asking the company for improved industrial conditions. Their fellow workers to the number mentioned, demanded the res- toration of these men to their places and last Saturday held a conference with the president of the company, A. C. DiN- KEY, who demanded that they return to work without a promise of the fulfillment of their request. They refused to do so and were immediately discharged, which drastic action threw 11,000 men out of employment. Of course times will be hard in that neighborhood so long as the lockout continues, and the calamity howls of the late campaign will be in some measure justified. As a matter of fact there has been no actual change in industrial condition since the election of Wooprow WILSON and there will be none unless it is forced by conspiracies as that which resulted upon the floor of the House, but did not, as the congressional bosses predicte | retard legislation or im) | of the chair in | patching business. - We doubt FLINN'S willingness to make the change, how- ‘ever. It will vastly curtail his control of | the membership and legislation and that | is what FLINN wants to avoid. He is in | the game for the power it promises to | give him and we are greatly mistaken in | the man if he willingly relinquishes any | opportunities to boss the job. i ——————————-— i ——Anyway those importunate office | seekers who are breaking into President | elect WILSON'S period of rest by deluging | him with letters ought to pay the postage. It is said that he has been obliged to pay a considerable sum on postage due thus far and no man is entitled to an office who will put such a burden upon him. President Taft's Message. President TAFT'S last annual message to Congress sounds like a “swan song.” It treats only of our foreign relations and diplomatic achievements and from begin- ning to end it carries a note of fear that some of the policies may be changed. The President would regret beyond ex- pression if the “Dollar Diplomacy” which he inaugurated, and in the imaginary suc- cess of which he takes so much pride should be forced aside in order that a di- plomacy which recognized human rights as more important than dollars, should be substituted. We sincerely hope his apprehensions upon the subject will not be disappointed. The President is careful, moreover, to dwell upon the non-partisanship of his diplomatic force. “Three ambassadors now serving held their present rank at the beginning of my administration,” he declares. “Of the ten ambassadors whom 1 have appointed,” he adds, “five were by promotion from the rank of minister. Of the thirty ministers whom I have ap- pointed, eleven were promoted from the lower grades of the foreign service or from the Department of State.” But as anship in it from first td last, We are not inclined to captious criti cism either of President TAFT’S adminis. tration or his message. He has been an amiable, well-meaning, but sadly disap- pointing executive. His message reads well and will no doubt interest the public considerably. But it palpably reveals a policies may be true from his point of view but the country will suffer no evil if there is a complete reor- ganization and renovation of the service. ——The complete though not official election returns show that ROOSEVELT polled only a trifle more than half a mil- lion votes more than TAFT and an analysis of the figures indicate that WILSON would have been elected if only one of the two had been in the field. in the absorption of the Tennessee Coal ind Iron company in 1907. That such a conspiracy is now impending is plainly indigated by this action of the CARNEGIE Steel company and it ought to be check: ed if there is any legal process available to accomplish that result. We have no sympathy with heedless strikes nor pa- tience with riotous strikers. But this is so palpably an infraction of the rights of citizenship that it can’t be condoned or should not be permitted. ——When former Speaker CANNON ap- peared on the floor of the House on | Monday he was generously applauded by his associates in the body. But nobody | indicated, thus far, whether those who | applauded were glad for his defeat or that he will never appear at another open- ing of the session. ——Every evening the passenger train on the Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad is from fifteen minutes to three quarters of an hour late, caused by the time it takes to load milk cans at various stations throughout Pennsvalley.for shipment to the milk condensary at Mill Hall. Dur- ing the summer a sub-station was built at Spring Mills and a month or six weeks ago a special car was put on to be loaded at Spring Mills and ready for the after noon train. It was believed that would solve the problem of late trains but now so much milk is shipped from other stations in Pennsvalley that it takes considerable time to handle it. ——A dispatch from Detroit, Mich, states that on Sunday, November 24th, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncy F. York was burglarized and jewelry valued at three thousand dollars taken. The thief was arrested and the jewels recov- ered on Thanksgiving day, but when re- stead of real gems. The thief declares he did not make the substitution and Mr. York claims the jewels were never out of thie family possession before and how the substitution was made is inexplicable Mr. York is a son-in-law of Col. Emanuel Noll, of this place. ——A recent order from the War De- partment at Washington detached Capt, Walter B. McCaskey from the Twelfth infantry and gave him the assignment of construction quartermaster, with resi- dence on Alcatray Island, a government presidio in the bay of San Francisco. The captain is thus virtually placed in charge of the construction of all the buildings to course of lectures and demonstrations this year will be equal to those given in past years. covered they were found to be paste in- | would -A Hole in the Tom-Tom. From the Johnstown Democrat. i ; 5 i § g 2 g i § E : g i is 3H i 7 Ir B § i 2 : : if hs Ih ] i th fs TH d : i je i5 7 ies Eo ® BoigE From the Harrisburg Star-Indep.ndent Compilations of the vote cast at the Presidential election this year indicate a falling off of nearly six hundred thousand in the popular vote as compared with that of 1908. But, as the returns are not complete; as the tables include unofficial as well as official returns, and as the vote cast in fifty counties and parishes was not obtainable when that of all the States was compiled, the loss is much more apparent than real. The difference be- tween 1908 and 1912 will be greatly re- duced when all the returns are in. In the last sixteen years there has not been a normal increase in the popular vote cast in Presidential elections. In 1896 the total was 13,962,000. In 1900 it increased only 18,000, to 13,880,000. There must have been a much larger increase in the number of citizens who had reach- ed the voting age in that time. Worse still, there was an actual decrease of more than 400,000 in 1904, when the total was only 13,525,000. However, the decrease can be attributed to the candidacy of Parker for the Democratic vote was more than a million less than in 1900. In 1908 this | the popular vote jumped to 14,888,000. That there should be any slump this reason- turns are at hand. All the parties were fighting hard during the entire campaign. was more political matter franked by Congressmen than ever before. The committees’ bureaus of publicity worked as never before. There was a greater effort to reach individual voters with a wits whom the slence of munici- a opportu. Ptyor a passing occupation, but a pro- von JM mg gl years, and in to all in rhere Lhave found the Shy sessio of what belongs 1o the SE SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~W. D. Krebs, aged 20, started from his home in Renovo to ride to Lock Havenon aN. Y. Cen tral freight. His mangled body was found a short distance east of Hyner. ~While workmen were cleaning out the fire- place in a vacant house at Sunbury, they came on the body of a male child. There is no clue to the identity but the matter is to be investigated. Twelve had been seen by the party but only this one with horns. ~The Progressive Oil and Gas company, com- _ =—Edward Mansell, of Morrisdale, was chop- ping kindling when a piece became fast under a stump. When he tried to pull it out, he fell back- ward, breaking his leg. He lost a foot ina mine accident some years ago. —John A. Carns, aged 69. of DuBois, has been jeata dil asics Swe-390. amu 39 MEY —State veterinarians report that “blackleg,’” which made its appearance in the northern part .of Cambria county a few weeks ago, is now under control and there has been no further spread of hog cholera which broke out near Hastings re" ~—Fred Yueston is under arrest at Greensburg, charged with having been watchman for yeggs who dynamited the safe of the Eureka Supply company store at Herminie, near Greensburg. The booty was $2,000 cash, $600 checks, jewelry worth $1,000 and a quantity of clothing. —Miss Minnie Snook, aged twenty-five years, —~Three coal miners were seriously injured near Philipsburg on Monday. Charles and Irvin Meyers, of Lock Lomond, and William Hughes, of Hawk Run, each has an injured back, Hughes having the vertebrae partially dislocated. Charles Meyers has three ribs broken and an injured —Passengers on a trolley car coming into Du- Bois a few evenings ago heard a splash as they approached Falls Creek and saw two hands reaching up out of the water. An hour later the body of Gordon Harris, aged 48, a resident of Reynoldsville, was recovered. He had fallen from a foot bridge. ~The uncons:ious form of Archie Morris, an engineer on the Williamsport and North Branch railroad, was found beside his engine a few momn- ings ago. His fireman was ill and Morris was working alone at the engine. It is thought that there must have been an explosion, as he was {rightfully burned. He died later at the Williams- port hospital. ~—A son of John Stone, of Wheatfield township, Perry county, recently took a new rifle with him to the field when he went to bring in the horses and cows. He fired several shots, just to hurry them along, and soon after they reached the barn two of the horses and one cow fell dead, The boy didn't think the gun would shoot hard enough to hurt them. ‘ —There are two men named Henry Wenner, one of whom lives in Williamsport and one at Bastress. Each has a son and the boys have the same birthday, although they were not born in the same year. Recently the boy in the city fell and broke a collarbone and the boy at Bas- tress within an hour had hisleg badly mashed in acorn sheller. —While hunting rabbits in the woods near Mt, Union. Huntingdon county, Miles Preston, of that place, discovered the skeleton of a man last Friday evening. A gold watch, chain and eye- glasses were identified by relatives as belonging to George Banawalt, aged 60, of Mt. Union, who disappeared from that place last June. Apoplexy is believed to have been the cause of his death. —Stephen Barrett, of Franklin, who has work. ed more than forty-eight years for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad without a vacation and without missing a whole day, went on the retired list Sunday. His record for fidelity is so remarkable that D. T. Murray, division superintendent, and other officials went to Frank- lin Saturday night on a special train and gave the retiring employee a banquet. —Leo Sprout, aged 14, a farmer boy residing near Chest Springs, met a terrible death the last of the week by being dragged more than a quarter of a mile by a frightened cow. The ani- mal became unmanageable when an automobile suddenly bore down on her in the narrow high way. She turned and ran the other way, drags ging the helpless boy, who had tied the rope to to his wrist. He was dead when found. . —A posse of private citizens scoured Bald Eagle mountain, south of Williamsport, Sunday in search of a bold highwayman who held up | Samuel Miller and stole his money and watch at a lonely spot along the public road Saturday afternoon. Miller was returning fron Williams- port where he attended market. Gunshots were exchanged and the robber was wounded, but at last reports had not been apprehended. ~The associate judges of Columbia county, Messrs. Krickbaum and Houck, overruled Presi- dent Judge Evans and exercised mercy to Mrs. Martin Probst and Mrs Cora Houck, who had pleaded guilty to stealing $100 worth of merchan- dise from seven Bloomsburg stores in less than two hours. Judge Evans thought they merited The woman was alone on the farm, her husband having started for market at Sunbury when the fire was discovered. The horses were all {that the plucky woman succeeded in saving... The barn went up in a $3,000 blaze, and with it five cows, several hundred dollars worth of new,farm- ing implements were consumed, :
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