a BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Four years of good times ahead. —Well, we all know who the Cabinet is now, and we all know that it is a good one. —My, but news is getting scarce, there isn’t even a new case of small pox to re- port this week. —Anyway the design of the new nickel leaves no doubt as to which side is head | and which is tail. ———Just the same those Mexican Presi- dents are setting a bad example to their successors every time they remove a rival by murdering him. —State College is to have a $75,600.00 public building. Congressional “Pork Bar’l” bills are all right, so long as Cen- tre county gets some of the pork. —President WILSON surely is a lucky man. It always seems to break well for him. No such inaugural weather as he had has ever been known in Washington. —The artistic temperament of Ameri- can women—suffragettes—runs to look- ing pretty when on parade, rather than fantastic like their English co-agitators. —The Democracy of Centre county was not particularly conspicuous at the inauguration. Just why so few went down is probably a purely personal mat- ter. —The blizzard that arrived last even- ing was not exactly a welcome visitor, but then we must always be thankful that conditions are no worse than they are. —The Government's announcement that “Ketchup” is “Catchup” promises a Catch as Ketch can wrestling bout with the public before it will be peisuaded to pronounce it that way. —Just two more weeks and the first day of spring will be here. Then it will be Decoration day, Fourth of July, afive- seventy-five trip to Atlantic City, the Fair and winter will be on again. —President WiLsoN has announced that he will have no office seekers hang- ing around the White House, but as we hadn't contemplated asking for anything we don't regard this as notice to keep out. —Did you read the inaugural address- es of the President and Vice President. They are worth the reading, both of them, for they reveal just the character * of men who are presiding over our gov- _ —The North American is authority for. the statement that A. MITCHELL PALMER is piqued because he did not get a Cabi- net portfolio, but only those who try to put faith in that erratic journal will be- lieve such a story. —Now that WooDROW has gone it wil] be interesting to follow the course of leg- islation in New Jersey. If his followers there are the men they assured him they were there will be no gradual settling back to the old order of things. —Philadelphia has an eighty year young man who eloped with his house- keeper to Atlantic City, two weeks ago, and was married. Come to think about it that is just the right age to elope at, for there are no irate parents about to be begged for forgiveness. —President WILSON went into office with the largest crowd cheering that has ever assembled in Washington. We all hope that his administration will be so satisfactory that the regret at his retire. ment will be as genuine as the enthusi- asm at his inauguration. —As to the Mexican situation Vice President MARSHALL made this pertinent remark: “I would spend every dollar I own to avenge the spilling of a drop of good American blocd, but I wouldn't spill one drop of good American blood to protect an American dollar. —President WILSON's first appointment was a Republican whom TAFT had pre- viously appointed and the Democrats in the Senate refused to confirm. Thus the new President starts right out to be the President of the United States and not the President of the Democratic party. . =—=The families of the new administra- tion at Washington are coming in for their share of the exploitation and, to tell the truth, their pictures proclaim them. good to look upon and their biographies reveal that they are women quite capa- ble of intellectual leadership in the Na- tion s capital. —The falling of their church steeple surely must have been of fearful potent to our Presbyterian brethren, for they have gotten their minds so thoroughly concentrated on their business since that they are having cottage prayer meetings every evening and a half-hour mid-day prayer in the chapel. If they are perturb- ed in mind and soul hungzy they are tak- ing the only course possible to find peace and satiety. ~S0 Mr. JOHN BLANCHARD proposes to be a live wire as president of the Board of Health. And with an officer paid the munificent sum of five plunks per month he is going to see that the milk men don’t water the milk, that dead dogs and cats are not left decaying in the alleys, that that dam splash board is removed and that we all keep clean. More power to you JOHN, but we fear you will have VOL. 58. The Wew Cabinet. msm Cabinet though most of the names which | compose it were discussed in the Mr. GARRiSON, Secretary of War; Mr. HousTON, Secretary of Agriculture, and | Mr. McREyNoLDS, Attorney General, | have been little in the public eye. But! measure up to the high standard the new ! administration aims to attain. The oth- | ers are widely known and have been free- | ly talked about in connection with the | public service to which they have called. The appointment of Mr. BRYAN to the office of Secretary of State was so uni- formly anticipated that if it had failed of fulfillment wide disappointment would | have been the result. It may and we sincerely hope will prove a wise solution of a difficult problem. Mr. BRYAN has ability and experience to make him among the greatest Secretaries of State. If he will attend to the duties of that office it may be safely predicted that he will take such rank. But if he under- takes to run the administration, as many fear he may, he will not only fail in his own office but impair the usefulness of his associates in the Cabinet. Mr. McADoo, the new Secretary of the Treasury, is a new man in public life and for so conspicuous an office, a man young in years. But heis a man of splendid ability and excellent capacity and we predict for him a career of great achieve- ment in his new office. It may reason- ably be said, moreover, that the new Cabinet will be loyal to to its chief, to the Democratic party and to the country and that will guarantee not only efficient but safe work. The administration means to make good and has begun right. That President WILSON purposes see- ing that the welfare of the laboring peo- ple is properly cared for as well as that of the other great interests of the coun- rtment of Labor of the Hon. W. B. WiLsoN, of this State. His appoint- ment is neither a political nor personal one. It is purely and exclusively a posi- tion given to the working men of the country, and to one who is more a labor representative than a Democrat. Possibly in the entire country there is no man better acquainted with the needs of the great mass of laboring people, or has a better idea of how the government can: best protect and benefit them without worrying other interests than Mr. WiL- soN. The appointment is an excellent one, and we congratulate the great mass of working people in having one of their recognized leaders as head of this new Department. ——The present Legislature may have begun business with excellent intentions but as a matter of fact it appears to be doing just about as its predecessors of recent years did in the matter of fritter- ing away time and wasting opportunities. New Administration and the Old. The inaugural address of President Woobprow WILSON is characteristic. Calm, carefully thought outand conserv- ative in tone it voices the highest stand- ard of civic philosophy. Above partisan- ship it breathes the spirit of patriotism and places the President on the high lev- el of citizenship. Not the head of a par- ty as ROGSEVELT assumed to be under similar circumstances but a leader of a great people our new President enters upon his new duties under the most au- spicious conditions. His inaugural ad- dress is a classic in diction and as happy in thought as it is admirable in tone. In the change of government to which the President refers at the outset there is the promise of improvement not only in policies but in methods of administra- tion. The Democratic party through President WILSON has become the instru- ment of the people for correcting abuses and introducing reforms which have long been desired but have been delayed through the perfidious betrayal of pledg- es in the past. President WILSON, not boastfully but emphatically, declares that there shall be no such perfidy in the fu- ture and he will set himself at once to the task of carrying out his pledges. The President of the United States is necessarily a party man but officially he should not be a partisan. That is the rock upon which the TAFT administration was wrecked. Following the example of ROOSEVELT TAFT set himself up as the official head of a party rather than the head of the Republic. In the moment of his greatest exaltation Wooprow WILSON said, “this is not a day of triumph; itis a day of dedication.” Therein is express- ed the sentiment which marks the differ- ence between the new administration and the old. It is a wholesome difference to plead near sightedness many a time. and the people are to be congratulated. B try, is evidenced by his selection as head |’ of the Depa STA ELLEFONTE, Were the People Buncoed ? of this State are to receive as the result “progressiveness,”” is a very doubtful TE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Pa: MARCH A. PATO Postponed for the Present. There were some sufprises in the new | How much, if any, benefit the people | The correspondence between the gov- | From the ernment of the United States and that of public | of last falls “reform” victory ,with organi- | Colombia in reference to the Panama ca- prints as possibilities or probabilities. | zation of new parties,its “re-organization” | nal zone has been submitted to Congress. | ed Tammany a whole lot, but he never of old ones and its noisy pretenses of | No settlement of the points in dispute | has been made and in its final communi- ——————— —— mr Los. ! The Colonel or the Tiger? Johnstown Democrat. Theodore Roosevelt is to start out after the hide of Tammany. That is a great and good work. The Colonel has hunt- really got its hide. He seldom even | its goat. - Tammany and the Colonel have guess at this time. One thing is certain. | cation the government of Colombia asked | 801¢ along, not in accord, itis true, but however, we are not going to get any- | for a reference of the whole subject to products of the poransoud » they are gentlemen of character and | thing like the reforms promised, or a’ same grea ability and may be depended upon to | shadow of the political betterment that was promptly and emphatically declined the public has a right to expect. The Legislature has already been ‘in ' But it will have to be met sooner or later. | The Colonel's scheme session over two months, and if anyone knows of any improvement it has been latures that have preceded it, it would be a great satisfaction to the public to be told just wherein, or in what way, that improvement has been shown. To be sure, the speaker of that body, by a | change of rules, was deprived of the power of dictating its committees, the minority party was given a small—a pitiably small—fraction of its useless officials who are kept on the pay roll only to suck the public teat; the Mem- bers of the House assumed the right to make up and control its own committees, and with these so called “reforms” the “reforming” business seems to have stop- ped. We were promised that “economy” in everything would be practised; that “reforms” in legislation and without limit would be made; that all that was good and was needed for the public good would be given us at once, and that all that was bad or vicious in our present laws would be stricken from them in- stanter. And here we are after ten weeks—half the time of an ordinary ses- sion—of pretentious work and not a “re- form” measure of any kind enacted into law; not a vicious measure upon our statute books changed or repealed; not an effort to economize in anything; not a useless office abolished; and not an evi- dence of “progression,” as the people understand that word, to be pointed to or seen in anything that has been done alt ‘weeks of legis ti ; ally its beginning to look as if the people, who cried so lustily for the cruci- fixion of the old parties and prided so greatly in the fact that they were “pro- gressives,” will eventually turn out to be the veriest fakes that ever buncoed a gullible public. . ——Now let us hope that Mr. BRYAN will play first base to the best of his ability without trying to usurp the func- tions of field captain and manager. The Money Trust Investigation. The Pujo committee of Congress has not agreed upon a report. The chair- man and six Democratic members have signed a statement prepared by Mr. UTENMYER, attorney for the committee, asserting, substantially, that there isa “money trust” and that it is responsible for most of the financial evils from which the country has suffered in recent years. But on the other hand three Republicans of the committee submit a report to the effect that there is no “money trust,” though they admit that unfavorable finan- cial conditions prevail, which might re sult in harm to the country. Another member of the committee, a Mr. MCMOR- RIN, of Michigan, denies everything al- leged by the majority. Of course it was expected that there would be a disagreement in the commit- tee. The Republican party has been fos- tering the financial system which oper- ates in the nature of a trust from the be- ginning and no doubt all the members of the committee would have been glad to in the nature of a conspiracy to discredit the Republican machine. But the propo- sition was too raw for three of the four Republican members. The evidence that MORGAN and his associates in Wall Street had been manipulating the financial af- fairs, to their own advantage for years, was too clear to be ignored by even ra- tional Republicans. Under the circumstances there is noth- ing to do except treat the minority re- ports as if they had never been made, and proceed to enact the legislation rec- ommended by the majority of the com- mittee. This involves government con- trol of the New York and other stock exchanges, but inasmuch as this regula- tion is largely a matter for State Legisla- tures, it is as well to leave them to the several States. The Governor of New York has already inaugurated proceed- ings to take charge of and correct the evils of Wall Street, and he may be safely left to complete the work. Other State Legislatures or Governors may take up the work as the interests of the people require and put the “money trust” out of business. —Even nature favored the great change that was made in governmental affairs on Tuesday. be able to join with Mr. MCMORRIN in |i the declaration that the investigation is the Hague tribunal. This proposition | by the State Department at Washington. | We were willing to pay a cash indemni- ty, according to the correspondence, but been | Over the many gang-controlied Legis- not to have the subject opened up for , review from beginning to end by a tribu- nal which would play no favorites. , The greatest international crime of ; modern history was the stealing of the Panama canal zone from the government of Colombia by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A brother-in-law of ROOSEVELT and a | brother of TAFT had acquired, through aegotiations conducted by a friend of both, the franchise of the canal which , had been previously owned by a French corporation. ROOSEVELT procured the purchase of this franchise by the govern. , ment of the Unifed States, at a fabulous profit to the brother-in-law and brother. | To make the transaction available, how- " public refused to comply with the condi- tions and ROOSEVELT organized a rebel- lion and established a rump government styled the Republic of Panama. With this bogus government the government of the United States treated and procur- ed the concessions which the rightful owners had refused. The proposition to refer the questions in dispute to the Hague would open up for review every part of this conspiracy and reveal to the worid the atrocious per- fidy of the ROOSEVELT administration. It would expose to popular indignation throughout the entire civilized world the dishonesty and dishonor of THEODORE ROOSEVELT and properly force the gov- such reparation as a just tribunal would assess. We have escaped this conse- quence for a time, because TAFT'S broth- er was as deep in the mire as ROOSE- | VELT'S relative was in the mud. But we will not be able to suppress the truth for ever. It will ultimately demand its toll. i rr— ———Only nine days more of the ground- hog’s reign and then he will be relegated to the rear until 1914. Easter is but a little over two weeks away and spring will be here before we realize it. Sun- day's weather was very lion-like for the second day of March and if there is any- weather should prevail the latter part of the month. At least it is to be hoped that “winter will not linger in the lap of spring.” Fortunately the weather all winter has been of a kind that the alarm- ists cannot spring their old stories about the peach crop, the strawberry crop and other fruit crops being ruined by the cold weather. ——The Bellefonte fish hatchery is still sending out yearling trout but the stock is pretty well reduced and will be cleared up entirely before long. All told , about two hundred thousand yearlings will be put out of the Bellefonte ery this year. While very few of are of a size large enough to catch most of them will be next year and it i i : fee hope that the last sacrifice of his wife will be the final one. : ganization which marched in the in- augural parade to the music of bag-pipes must have received a wrong tip as to the nationality of the new President. —In speaking of demagogues who “inculcate disrespect and even contempt for the constitution,” President TAFT may not have been thinking of ROOSE- VELT but we have suspicions. ——President TAPT admits that his be- setting sin is disinclination to work. But it is hard to imagine thata man so ready and willing to travel on the slightest pro- vocation is lazy. ever, it was necessary to obtain certain | wor out their devious designs concessions from Colombia. That Re-| York city. These interests are mon-par- elyment of the United States to make |’ thing in the old-time adage = at least contera usly. ae , logic of events made it necessary that | one or the other disappear from the | litical map most people outside of New ! York would miss the tiger the for | many is a non-partisan m running on the Progressive ples that are of local applica yore y efficient, Heretofore Tammany has - A Tammany ticket and a Tam- many ticket whenever it wanted There were a whole lot of good people who understood the and ally thought they were A ne course, strictly speaking, Tamman . Tammany is the organi- interests tredited in the 4 Representatives A come a law. It directs Age i col- lected by county officials be turned into the treasury for the use of the county and that all officials, whether elected or and their subordinates be paid SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The Presbytery of Huntingdon will hold its next regular meeting in the church at Hunting- don, opening at 7.30 o'clock Monday evening, April 7. —Huntingdon spent $519.38 for the health works during 1912. Three hundred and twenty-five quarantines were placed, of which 201 were for measles. ~—Daniel Gore, of Latrobe, sleeping in the fur- i mace yom of the Hotel Loyal at that place, fell | asainst the heater and was so badly burned that he died in the hospital. ~Schools at Frostburg and Walston, near Punxsutawney are closed on account of a scarlet fever epidemic. There have been two deaths and seventeen new cases within a few days. —Mrs. Rebecca Croyle, of Johnstown, over 82 years of age, took her first dose of medicine a few days ago. She had a slight cold. Her health is remarkable and she is possessed of ali her facul’ ties, having a keen enjoyment, =The mountains of Schuylkill county are being scoured by Troop C, of the State Police, in search of two murderers and it is believed they are hidden in mine breaches and are being fed by got | friends. Both are Italians. —Residents of DuBoistown and South Williams- port had a draught of fishes a few days ago. | Silver carp were so plenty they were taken from | the Susquehanna by hand, by garden rakes or in nets. Suckers and eels were also included in the catch ~Mrs. Katherine Murray, of Dushore, laid her purse on a step in Williamsport to tie a package. A little later she missed it. It is thought she didn’t pick it up. It had $75, two gold watches, a gold chain rosary and anoie book with her name on it, ~The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Smith, of Whipps Cove, Fulton county, was robbed a fort- night ago, of $1,485 while the aged couple were at church. A marked $5 gold piéce led to the arrest of the thieves at Hancock, Md. Most of the | wioney {4 ina hotel sale at Hamcuck, —Rev. Father J. M. Ratz, pastor of the Roman Catholic Magyar church in Johnstown, bought the property at a sheriff's sale, held at thein. stance of the Construction company. The price paid was $8,725. The title, which has been under a cloud for some time is now cleared. ~Mys. Harry Crow, of Brookville, shot and killed George Brooke, also of that place, when he entered her home at night. Her husband was working and she was alone in the house with three children. When she heard the intruder she picked up her revolver and when he opened the door she fired. ~The city of Williamsport received a magnifi- cent gift Monday night when Councils received a communication from Mr. and Mrs. J. Roman Way transferring to the city two properties con- tainingtwo and a half acres, at the corner of Fourth and Maynard streets, for a public park, to be known as “Way Garden.” ~The Mifflintown hosiery mill, the leading in The fire also destroved the home of John Dunn which stood near the mill. The mill was owned by a man named Schutt and about 90 persons, mostly boys and girls, were employed there. —Robert Watt, for nine weeks a patient at the DuBois hospital, after breaking his back in the Coal Glen mine, has been taken to his home with. out any hope of improvement. He is paralyzed from his waist down but is likely to live until something else causes death. Mr. Watt has a large family of his own, besides six step-children. ~ —Andy Mickla, a former employee of the Greensburg-Connellsville Coal and Coke company for $25,000. He alleges that the company knew that the mule he was driving was unsafe and that its tantrum was responsible for his being kicked, Shen un over by the wagon and crippled for ~—Agents said to represent the Manor Real Es- tate & Trust company of Johnstown, are negotiat- ing with Johnstown and Conemaugh owners of a 10,000 acre tract of coal land near Garway. Itis not yet known whether the prospective buyers wish to take the land over as a speculation or are purchasing for the Pennsylvania Railroad inter ests. ~The Pennsylvania Railroad company has placed orders with its Juniata shops for the con- | struction of 170 new locomotives of various types | and eighty new cars. The size of the order when it was made known last week from the Philadelphia offices of the company came rather as a surprise for it was not thought that the order would be so large. —The fourth death from scarlet fever at Rose- crans, Sugar valley, occurred on Monday evening and the victim was Miss Lizzie Harmon, aged 16 | years, daughter of Mrs. Leah Harmon. This is | the third death in that family within five days, and another child is ill from the dread malady. Of the 25 or more cases now in that village, none are yet regarded as critical. —Mrs. Lucretia Lingafelt, widow of James Lingafelt, former postmaster of Holidaysburg, after | and mother of Guy R. Lingafelt, prothonotary of the Blair county court, in a fit of despondency, caused by extended illness, cast herself from the upper window of the Roaring Springsihospital at 4 o'clock last Thursday morning. Death was instantaneous. She was a social leader]'of the town and county. | strongest trucks for their size ever erected in Altoona. Each has a wheel base of only six feet but is able to carry 160,000 pounds, or 80 tons’ They are the only cars of their kind ever erected | in Altoona for the government. ~The Lock Haven Fire Brick company is mak- ine a special order of fire brick for the English government, which are to be used in new battle- ships now under construction. This shipment consists of about 25 to 35 different shapes and will fill a freight car of 100,000 pounds capacity During the past year at least six cars of special shape fire brick have been shipped to the English government for use in war vessels. —State VeterinarianC. J. Marshall has direct- ’ ed prosecution of H. N. Shaffer, a cattle dealer of Palmyra, Lebanon county, on the charge that he violated the interstate cattle law by driving cat- tle over the Ohio State line into Pennsylvania. It 1s alleged that the cattle were bought in Ohio and driven into Mercer then were shipped into Leb anon county by rail. The live stock sanitary board officers have been at work on the case for some time. . 000 worth of windows occurred at Reynoldsville a few days ago. One thousand pounds of the stuff, intended for use in blowing off the top of a hill where the brick company gets its clay had been stored in a shanty. The foreman went to the shanty, saw the stove upset and the building afire just in tiie to call the workmen to escape. ‘They were about seventy-five yards away when the explosion occurred. ~Three men entered the store of Ralph A. Blice, near Rossiter, a few nights ago, and after gagging and binding and beating into insensi- bility the proprietor, took all the cash in the store, $150, and three new revolvers. They bought and paid for the rope with which they bound him,then asked for quilts. He took a lamp and escorted them upstairs to show them the quilts. The lamp was broken when he was knocked down, but the quilt smothered the flames. When Mr. Blice recover, ed he managed to release himself, but the men had escaped.
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