SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Dr. Nathan C. Shaeffer was this week re-ap- pointed superintendent of public instruction for another term of four years. He has held the po- -_ a i | —Harry Goldberg, of Berlin, awaiting trial on ; | a charge of arson, has been refused his freedom a — dw it aid ef by Judge Rupe], of Samestet COiky, sftet raw: — Really have forgotten . h ments in a habeas corpus proceeding. come in, but March certainly went out —Typhoid in its worst type prevails at Ralph- like & lion on a rampage. ton, Somerset county. Six cases have been tak- en to a Johnstown hospital, one proving fatal, —Bellefonte has been responding most and others have been treated at homes. generously to the call for help from the] —=—————————————————= aa nr dire STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Toso a a oe Berbers ws ot flooded districts do this. Some of the proprietors are quoted as —The ble just with the Te le su Bo rd Yo VOL. 08. BELLEFONTE, PA.. APRIL 4. 19138. NO. 14. Apiay lit weiss Yuey wel Ueease Hest Sete hey where he is or is likely to come out at. " —————— EE ————————————— mn . - s— gi Bdgaria’ may Ue goiting: close to NO Reasws 5% Dimppoistmest. | | Neatness a Great Virtue. The Question of Ambassador. The Case For Free Meats. TI butane Rd CL peace, but it’s evidently not the kind of a| The Governor has again defeated the The wholesome influence of good ex- | pp. nog perplexing problem which | From the Johnstown Deworat. RL SC IE ig piece her people thought they were fight. | expectations of reformers by signing the ample has not been lost upon Mr. JOHN | pociaer Wirson has encountered thus _ Accordingto a statement issued by the years he had been a somnambulist. ing for. “five judges” bill, the pet measure of the P. BRACKEN, of Carnegie, Pa., an aspirant | ¢. io shat of securing fit men for forei , | Department of Commerce there are now | —Soucial quarantine officers are patrolling ® President WiLsow's critics will at | Philadelphia Republican machine. There for the office of Collector of Internal | goryice Under Republican i | gal SEU cattle of the, JIL 19 Fhe | Bevakodle. co account of move Sam 2) cuses 8 a new Page in that ambassadorship ap- | Philadelphia than there is for five tails on BRACKEN has submitted his application | oo, co The favors government ' February of this year, head of | dren forbidden to congregate anywhere pointment to the court of St. James. (adog. The vast preponderance of the for appointment in the form of a beauti- | Lo, i ou fie ogee ii cattle were exported, as compared with Thome erecta ot Forint —The unhappy condition of having | people of the city had remonstrated ful volume bound in morocco the front | vriv. ions and any old “money-bags” who auoaths exjoried’i the united in thei opinion 2a to the necessity of a wh spout isthe & ing | against the measure and all the leading cover decorated with the words “To the | }o4 been suffici ly hi tin pavieg the okths of 1907. The Suantity of lie new High school building at that place and are outlook that faces the Republican worker | lawyers had protested against it. But Secretary of the Treasury. Application | cojjector would serve for any ambassa pounds, as com with 170000p ) 2soirviag to get thivwth 2 WEMFS for wrtet BCE : i JouN P. BRACKEN, of Carnegie, Pa., for Ls asta Six i paving in the region of the school building. since WILSON's policies are being put to the politicians of the city need the new " ’ dorial post. But President WILSON I Ca aE ne tion of ie lifeless body of Eugene Rentz, aged the test. judges for trading purposes. They will Collector of Internal Revenue. Twenty- | yop0q 5 different view of the subject. H duting the § while 12501 | ey a barn oi J be made an instrument of closing the third District of Pennsylvania,” in gold “ in 1913; the of | was BY His san # the i the —It is said that brooding over troubles ng feels that such offices should be filled by the cattle exported $21,000,000 in | Tear of the hotel at Ralston, of which Mr. chasm between the PENROSE machine and letters. The volume contains the origi- . 1907; in 1913 it nly $760 . | Rentz was proprietor. He had several times capable men and experience in accumu it was only $760,000, a fall- | \ 0, to take his life and this time had man" is the surest way of hatching more. Just ; 1 nals of letters of endorsement written i over 000. imagine what a nest full some fellows the VARE contingent. The VARES will ominent Democrats and Xt written by lating money isn’t always a qualification ing off of $20,000, i aged to elude his friends. for office probably be allowed to put five of their P ts substantial | go 4inlomatic work. It isa whol Sesp! shortage you know to be looking must 1 the and as it is handsome. esome in our supply of beef cattle the Trust | —State Senator Jacob E. Stineman died at his be bringing out. servile tools on _ bench € PENROSE | There is xan. in. the oe reform in the practices of our govern- is protesting lustily against any reduction home at South Fork Tuesday morning of erysipe- LaF sists that hes WHE the legislative delegation. a tradition in the neighbor- | on of the tariff on cattle and beef. las. While he had been ill for about a month, it —Sena tor La FOLLETTE insists It is an iniquitous prostitution of political hood of Pittsburgh of a candidate for an | Tp. are two ways to solve the prot The Taft-Aldrich tariff law imposes a | was only on Monday that his conditien was re- is still a Republican, which makes it $0 |. 4 |ooiglative power to thus pervert the important federal office who was chosen | q;, ¢p, : tax of $2 a head on cattle under one year | garded as serious. At one time he was the larg- much the harder for any of us to be cer- : f tical from a considerable number of aspirants em thus presented. One is to increase old; $3.75, if valued at not more than $14 | est individual coal operator in the State. tain just what a Republican stands for, urs mio ne OF SOU polivica equally well supported in other respects, the compensation for ambassadorial ser- h head} and if valued a Hore than tisk a| —Mrs. Albert Seager, of Shamokin, after flee . vice so that men of moderate wealth or cen orem. Swine | ing recently from a hospital times, fearing now that they have lost the offices. fidence in the integrity of the courts now | because of the superior neatness and 4 as . 3 tires 4 t . . no wealth at all could accept the respon” —Poor old Philadelphia seems to be | and anything which tends to increase the | method of his application. The story is | gjpjjity and the other is to si : to sim the . arranging its affairs to getback as quick- | public distrust in the judiciary is harm. | that several years ago upon a change of | einods of living of foreign Spite Se ee S.J. ed sffotis of the men. who Flanged ito the strum ly as possible into its former political | gu]. The Governor and the Legislature | administration at Washington several ’ * sessed 3 cen to rescue her, but they brought her ashore. : ji and ministers. When CLEVELAND became 300 are at 1 ts a wallow. And its most voluble “re-|ought to join forces in an effort to re: worthy gentlemen aspired to the office of | precident he adopted the latter and better Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, aio ot Wiliamuagart Soya. Reyes Dent formers” are the fellows busiest on the | tore confidence in the judges of the Postmaster at Pittsburgh. The uniform | ond He inted. Mr. BAYARD, of not specially provi Ag 25 per cent ad | 0 vio nard.a seven SE job. State. But this open trade between the | excellence of the candidates, the equally : of meat, 35 cents orem. a Delaware, ambassador to the Court of pound, and fluid 15 ts a | in @ clay pit at the brick yard up to his chin. The —The wise guy informs us that it is | PENROSE and VARE machines must work strong support given by their friends and po nl sR ae a three boys formed a human chain and by lying the theories that are not sound that | the contrary result. Everybody knows the proportionate personal and party a tha 0 avg ans Mr. "It wil be seen at a glance that the Tuy ase Sho wi : s : : . 2 pr veached prisoned usually makes the greatest noise; a that courts thus created are essentially Aiding of the en perplexed the ap-| Bavagrp was in such pecuniary circum- Beef Trust a pot forgotten when i he i g A in dave 000 Juseih} Hotoniowom, the statement that a remembrance of the | wicked and dangerous. But the Legisla- pointing power. Finally the problem was | ianceq that he was obliged to live on the distributing i Lota AF Lp Munson, accompanied by two other boys of days of Democratic “re-organization” in | ture passed Senator VARE'S bill and the solved by a COMparson of the papers salary but we have never heard that the of the people. With the rapid in | about the same age, Slavish and Polish, left their Pennsylvania fully verifies. Governor has signed it notwithstanding | filed, the appointment going to the man . =In the list of flood relief contributors the effect upon the public mind. | whose application was neatest and most country suffered. on account of that a Kinds of Satie - he high pin abouts wil be thankfully ——— "vy Charles i But why should the reformers be dis. | methodical. Tact. + it is not surprising that there has been a | Herondowoes, Munson, Pa. in Altoona we notice this line: “Cash, a y shou "IW th i The salary of an ambassador is about raise in domestic prices. —Two little children of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton boy, ...05" A trifling amount, to be | appointed with the Governor’s action. It e appointee had failed to make |g17000 a year but WHITELAW REID paid Unless the tariff is abolished entirely | Thomas, near Blue Ball, amused themselves on sure, but large enough to tell the world is true that he had inferentially promised | good the example would probably never the expectation of lower may as | Saturday stirring up the ashes of an out door fire that here is a boy with a heart in the | to veto the bill but that ought to have | have been followed. But his conduct of bandoned. The right place and pumping good red blood more than that amount for a house to ay pe a on which water had been poured to extinguish it. fooled nobody. Governor TENER is a | the office was as admirable as his appli- all through him. source of revenue and fortunately he had cious trust any longer. Meat of all kinds | ing of Dorothy, who died the next morning of her plenty to draw from. But some of his should be put on the free list. burns. She was 4 years old. predecessors in the office had less salary —John Enterline, the Sprankle Mills youth who live in. Manifestly he had to have some ple ik pion 1d Enough embe: s remained to set fire to the cloth- politician of the ordinary type. Ever since | cation was excellent and no doubt Mr. his induction into the office he has been BRACKEN had this case in mind when he hive BO ey on ot | prostituting the power of his position to | prepared his papers in an application or | and no other means of getting Punish the Grafters. Biot orien together probable that there will’ be an the level of a cheap lobby. Take the | the favor of an administration which is and performed the duties of the Office From the SE Rost lieseation ia wine by Wiskiog Hum ovet tie lewd a. Resident Hunters’ license bill, for ex- | looked upon as likely to be more or less Pittsbu ashovel. has been rearrested after being quite as well. President WILSON has The result of an investigation into the cleared by the coroner's jury. He had left for made a tender of the office to two or Indian situation in Oklahoma has just Ohio after his plea of self defense was accepted three distinguished gentlemen who have Bett reported So thie Interior Depattmen, and was only recently located. z extensive | —The strike or walk-out of Pennsylvania rail- been obliged to decline it for the reason graft by the whites in dealings with EO Crk ede. wits started on te Carden that they couldn’t hold the REID pace in the wards of the Government. The March 5th, reached Altoona on Tuesday cipenditures. But either of them might step in this matter should be PL Lh pe mp in the have exceeded the REID pace in every ment of the grafters. It is shown that | railroad yards either failed to go to work or much of the allotted to the Indians | walked away shortly after other respect. has been acquired by the whites thro way Tegerting for Wolk. eles of h yr Ree ei beli Tie demand ts for higher Wages, The Yuen get ~The Wiberality OF the American SSBOLER GHEE, We do ee Ae | fox 8 teu host day aud they wank 2 1, people, as shown in the generous con- with these land thieves. The facts are Riding is Hio10 so 15 Khe sid ol.a patient > S : home su water, «Se, tributions to the flood sufferers, may be known and it is said the evidence is at|w pice of Northumberland, was thrown into accounted for in partat least, by. the pub- hand. six feet of water when his motorboat upset in a lic confidence that a decrease in the cost HaThis. county lias been soups ot flooded section of Sunbury, Sunday night. The of living will follow the approaching habitants, but it cannot denied doctor was rescued after some difficulty. Only hs, be that | fact that he had been Democratic revision of the tarifi—down- the Government has been generous in|... a ExDeit Aimer ward, providing for those that came under its ® his college days saved him from being —— care. the Indian wars ended the drown: - Nag race was given every opportunity to | —Entering the argaret in Go br 15 oho, oleae he | Tem It white men got in robbing the Indians | cut to ? fine a Hae RE red yi ome ii of the Government's bounty. The taking | carpets, draperies and bedding and avery Rev. BWITT, ace, of this unfair advantage is worse than | Piece of furniture in the house with the exception would accept a foreign consulship under the ordinary form of graft practiced of the furnishings of her bedroom. The police the new administration should it be ten- the whites, and calls for a severer appli- lave ua sive: 36ias Weinice says ss hasio ote. cation o WW. can give no cause for Tr Suet 5 10 Wheres there is any foun- “no Co remaining Indians deserve | home. Theloss will reach $500. such a rumor we know not protection. Many the tribes have| —Miss Marie Johns, of Williamsport, didn’t ex- and giving it even this publicity may reached a of civilization, and | ercise good judgment in her choice of a location prove very distasteful to our distinguish. if let alone will able to care for | from which to view the swollen Susquehanna a ed resident. However, the WATCHMAN | themselves. The crafty thieves who | few days ago. While she was standing on the | have been depriving them of their lands | Reading switch tracks, talking to a friend, a draft seizes the opportunity to say that Presi- | have been found out, and that is suffi- | of empty cars came up behind her and knocked dent WILSON could tender such a post to cient. Let the remedy be applied. her down. Shehasa broken leg and both feet no man who would be superior to Rev. EE —— somewhat crushed. Only a short time ago she HEWITT in the conception of his duties Forcing Hunters’ License Bill had three ribs fractured in a fall down stairs. or in the intelligent and tactful exercise 'p = 10 Ak Thee... —A deal hasbeen consummated by which John of them. Holding high rank among the A vigorous lobby maintained at Ha Lochrie, of Windber, a prominent coal operator, ; T- | Jeases 400 acres of coal lands near Dunlo, owned rectors of his church, being grand prelate i, so-called sportsmen’s associa- | ,o Matthew Colvin and Mrs. Eliza C. Smith, of of the Grand Commandery of Pennsylva- succeeded in securing the re: | yoigaysburg. A shaft will be sunk at once and by ons nia Masons, having been actively identi. Consideration and passage of the hunters’ |; js expected that 1,000 fons of coal daily will be fied with movements for civic improve- conse Wil, and it is Eo or mined within a short time. The agreement pro- in ment in many parts of the country» Itis behalf of this measure yiden shat Mz: Liochrie shall sisi: ust 138 ties he is a typical American with that thatit will protect wild game by dis- | en contemplated are completed couraging lawless killing out of season, ae e finish only secured by wide intercourse 4 10 afford greater protection to| —John Mouse, a Somerset county murderer, with people of all classes. hunters, as it will in large measure elimi- | has abplied to the Board of Pardons for a commu. Personally, he is a man of much nate reckless and incompetent hunters. tation of the death sentence to imprisonment for magnetism and most admirably endowed In practice, however, it is probable that | life. Mouse was convicted of killing a mail car- by nature for just such a position asa just opposite results will be achieved. rier named Harrison Brown, who traveled one of f Ishi It has been a hopeless and im ble | the rural routes. On September 14, 1912, Brown oreign consulship. If Central Pennsyl- tagk to prevent clandestine hunting, and | went on his usual route carrying $90 and did not vania is to be honored by the WILSON the enactment of additional rigid regula- | return. Seareh was made and his dead body was administration with such an appointment tions will tend to further lawbreaking. A | found in the road, the money gone. Suspicion we know that this entire community will t body of will resent the new fell on Mouse but he had disappeared, but was heartily join in the WATCHMAN’S predic- and justly so. t upon their rights, | finally caught at Cumberiand, Md., taken to Som farming population | erset, tried and convicted. tion that only honor to the WILSON ad- cannot they should be : ministration would follow the prefer- taxed to hunt over —Hawk Run, Clearfield county, was visited by ment of Rev. JouN HEWITT. while “sportsmen “What's the matter with the lights ill destroying property and slaying every | jy yer damage. The fire started shortly after on the corners of the court house?” is a Rvidlg Shing that comes within range of | yy g'clock at the home of John Condon, and question the writer has been asked sever- If sportsmen are sincerely desirous of Sen eps So She uidiboeios dulce of Loon al times lately. So far as we can see protecting game they wil’ ur} the en- | 4 "ime changed the course of the fire sufficient- there are no lights there, and why there et of an a oes ly to save the two adjoining buildings, and the are not can possibly be best explained ism and will be resented by a large body flames, leaping over to the church building, re- by the county commissioners. When of citizenship. Sucel it to uihed 00 Sow. witatien The onan, the bracket lamps were put there it was — sowe Pela ware suffic of offices to go around the silence, about the great things they were oing to do for the future of the party, grown to be really painful. —Some Wellesley girls have organized a club and pledged themselves not to marry until three years after their gradu- ation unless they get an offer from a man with five thousand a year. The man with five thousand a year who would marry any girl before she has been out of College for three years didn’t earn the coin himself. —The late PAT McCAFFREY, of Lock Haven, was a man whom we shall miss very much. One of the oldest, as well as one of the staunchest friends of the editor of this paper, his passing away carried with it a feeling of personal bereavement, because as years creep on the friendships of earlier days become mellower and are cherished to the fullest. He was an un- ostentatious, clean man, full of kindness and with a character inflexible and in- trepid in right doing. Lock Haven lost a good citizen when PAT MCCAFFREY, one of the old-fashioned sort that coming generations are not being schooled to re- place, passed to his reward. —As the College boys would say: Our new President certainly has the pep. When the first call for help came out of the flood devastated territories of Ohio and Indiana WILSON didn’t hesitate a moment. One clear, decisive order sent every trained resource of the army, the navy, the light house crews and life savers flying to the scenes of disaster with ali the rations and tents they could gather together. The President said: "Get the relief to them as quickly as possible, there is no time to parley about the cost.”” That was the kind of action that makes a citizen realize what having the government back of him means. It was the kind of action that makes the world honor the man at the head of this ‘particular government. —When Dean Homes, of The Penn- ample. He knows, if he knows anything, | punctillious. Of course it would be a bad that its only purpose is to create new | rule to invariably favor a man because offices for use of the PENROSE machine | Of the neatness of his papers in applica- in the next legislative fight and yet he |tion but it certainly wouldn't be a bad sentatives to support it. His promise to | Pplicant, all other things being equal. A veto the “five judges” bill was evidence of | sloven is not likely to be much better in intention to sign it. | one thing than another. —— | —— ——The_ parcel post has about twenty, | ~~ 1 he members of WILSON'S cabinet five per cent. of the business of the ex. tackle the problems precipitated by press companies and there would be | calamity as if they were used to all sorts something like poetic justice in the fact | Of governing questions. President WiL- if the loss tothe express companies had | SON'S cabinet is not made up of dummies. been doubled. Those legalized robbers | If ROOSEVELT were in the White House had a long lease of graft in this country all help would emanate from one source and the people have reason to rejoice be- | °F not reveal itself at all. cause the grip is loosening. Causes for the Vote The Hunters’ License Bill. The vote in the State Senate on Tues- The final passage of the Resident Hunt- | day on the question of postponing the ers’ license bill by the House of Repre. { SOnsideration of the joint resolution to sentatives on Monday night, after it had amend the constitution so as to provide been defeated on a previous vote, meas- female suffrage will probably not be the ee the conuility. of the Legislature to | 125t word upon that subject. during: the the power of the executive or the hope- present session of the Legislature, but it less stupidity of the average Member of JOOVAGED LH WILITHAD Setous of the rete oe antes a md thr the Pan, | te messure fell fve votes short of ROSE machine needs help in an impend- and Siettionel : ais on Sug Passage Jue ompoat: te the nine absentees would have voted in ment. But his work would have proved theaffirmative. The vote is more or less abortive if Members had not been de- significant, however. ceived by promises of achievement under That there is considerable public senti- the bill which are impossible. ment in favor of female suffrage among For example the: lobby which filled the | 2 Yoters of Peansylvanials shown, by corridors ofthe House while the bill was | JiP3rY incidents. The activities of worn- a en in the political life of the Common- i Sweetin assured Members | Loop, are constantly increasing and the t the passage of the bill would guar- | 400.0 t4 appeal to mothers antee anample fund to secure the ex-| ..; otters is becoming oe rmination | * predatory iy Jin we do not believe that the majority of the hetens | people favor unlimited female suffrage rin of to kn. Tn ron fo 207 2% 10, ps \ of to She automate wikia) of Janse fom which the people have not comejbut the ys al pe Wi rl | defeat of the joint resolution in the Sen- bers voted for the bill on that account. | 380, 6 ORs day. i9 not attributable to The exemption of farmers from the tax, | if they own and cultivate ten acres or There could be no real harm and prob- more, is palpably unconstitutional and | DIY there is little actual objection tosub- void. | mitting the question of female suffrage to No-dout; liowever, the Senate'will pu | 2.702 OF .the people and the resulution the seal of its condemnation upon the | Was not defeated on that account. But measure when it comes up for consider. | MI: GEORGE W. GuTHRIE, chairman of 2 | ation fu that body, There is enough in. | 12 Democratic State committee, project. selligenee and veopeet. for official obliga. | 0 Mimself into, the equation andjwe are tions in that chamber to compel obed. | 258ured that a number of Senatorsjvoted ence to the mandates of the constitution | 253inst the resolution as a rebuke to his in the framing of legislation and if as. | iMPpertinence. Representatives | of the are too old to be bad any more, as he people are patient but someti te Pable. 1 —Present indications point reopening put it, but most of them had many less serted the bill will find a safe and certain | tthe t pats mes they | for a double effect, to light the exterior Setiolary i is ore ifiations Ssh to 5¢ Seopuritg Cf temptations in their youthful days than | grave with the rest of the legislative | Toor usa authority. of the court house and its surroundings pom the Chicago Journal. the east end of the Lewistown Narrows. This and show it off as a beautiful publicbuild- President Wilson stands almost alone was one of the chief industries of that section ing, and also to prevent it becoming a in this country as a scholar in public life. prior to the flood of June 1, 1889, when the ore loafing place for undesirable people. But Across the water scholars in public was shipped by canal boat to the furnaces of the for weeks and months there has been no tions are common. James, Bryce, : bassado America, will canal was so badly damaged by the flood that it light. Whether it has been cut off as a aibassador 10 long after his mis- was abandoned a short time later. There being matter of economy or the lamps burned sion is forgotten. Poincare, president of no facilities for transportation, the mines were out and merely a case of neglect in re- France, is an authority on art Momm- | closed and Minersville became an abandoned vil had lage. Some years later an attempt was made to placing them is a question that can be the German. Reichstag; and Lop, who ferry the ore across the Juniata to be loaded on swered: only by those in charge. just resigned as chief of police of Paris, is | steam cars at Denholm, but floods again destroy. -r—— accomplished lawyer ed the enterprise before it was fully established. —Jf the English government had ol shed lawyer and art critic. John Heydan, of Greensburg, has now sccured a begun sooner to treat the militant suf- ~—Anyway there wasn’t much reminder long term lease on the ore deposits and will trans. fragists as other violators of the law are of the English Suffraget in the manner portit by wagom over the new State sud, her treated, a good deal of useless trouble in which April started its campaign On | ies where it will be put on board the cars for might have been saved. Tuesday. shipment. rubbish of the present session. Meantime ~~ ——The election of “HAM LEWIS to we congratulate the people of Centre | the United States Senate by the Legisla- county upon the fact that our Represen- | ture of Illinois is a new expression of the tative in the Legislature, Mr. GRAMLEY, | fact that people don’t care as much as not only spoke eloquently but voted em- they used to. phatically against the measure. | — Happily President WiLsoN had no ——When President Wooprow WiL- hankering for that picture of ROOSEVELT SON on Tuesday got that check for $5,625 'which had been inadvertently left in the for his March pay as President of the White House and TAFT is welcome to it. United States he doubtless realized more | BE Er fully than ever before how much better ' his present job is than being president progressive in art matters. He anathe- De Pent lege or Governorof New matizes the Futurists and Cubists as ever best Lather orvotist op Jersey. lunatics.
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