BY P. GRAY MEEK. —Yesterday was hot enough to need only a circus to convince everyone that it is real summer. —We wonder whether Mr. BRYAN ever thinks of asking VANCE MCCORMICK how many times he voted for him. —Mr. BRYAN is showing the country that he can play the “second fiddle” quite as capably as he could be the “Peerless Leader.” —The fact that leading Republicans of the country are trying to get together to reorganize their party, is, at least, an admission of weakness. —The government's efforts to reduce the dangers of coal mining do not seem to be bearing fruitenough to prevent the usual number of terrible explosions. ——Those forty-three wool Democrats couldnt pull the wool over the eyes of the rest of the Democrats in Congress though they did their best in that direc- tion. ~—If Mr. BRYAN gets into the habit of apologizing to people he has villified, during his career as self-appointed party boss, he will be kept busy a considerable part of his time. —Montenegro has gone ahead and captured Scutari in defiance of the ad- monition of The Powers to withdraw from the city. Now all of Europe is threatened with war. The License One of the members of the New York plumbers’ examining board has testified that the graft from that source in that State amounts to about $100,000 a year. This tainted money is obtained by giving licenses to practice plumbing to persons who are not qualified, for a considera- tion, the price for such favors ranging from $200 to $2000 according to the ability of the applicant to pay. The method of the New York board was to write out the questions put in the exami. nation and the answers to them and give the applicants for license time to com- mit them to memory. Under those cir- cumstances no technical knowledge was needed to get a license. A good many people have wondered why men of this vocation or that have been so anxious to put operatives under the necessity of undergoing an examina- tion. The license costs money and men are averse to wasting money as a rule. But a board of examiners for plumbers, or barbers, or blacksmiths afford lucrative positions for a consider- —It is quite evident that the ambitious Mr. A. MitcHELL PALMER would have Pennsvivania believe that he is the Presi. dent's mouth piece. It is equally evident that the Congressman isn’t in as close touch with the President as he tries to make believe. —The Johnstown Democrat yesterday launched the boom for A. MITCHELL able number of men and the testimony | of these New York plumbers shows that it is also a considerable source of graft to those “on the inside.” For it may safely be assumed that what the exami- ners in the plumbing trade do the exami- ners in all other trades do. Human na- ture is pretty much the same all over | the world. | At every session of the Legislature dur- | | | The Democracy of the entire country = The tariff bill introduced by Mr. UN- Will be glad to learn, as it has through DERWOOD at the beginning of the pres. | recent dispatches from Washington, that ent session of Congress was finally per- the entente cordiale between Speaker | fected by the Democratic caucus on Sat- CLARK and Secretary of State BRYAN has urday evening last and formally put upon been restored. Mr. BRYAN has frankly its passage on Monday of this week. declared that he didn’t mean to asperse Some unimportant changes have been the Speaker in the several speeches de- | made in the measure and some compro- livered during the Baltimore convention | mises effected. But in its present form and the Speaker with equal candor ob- ' it is a better bill than the original draft, serves that while the harm done by the is assured of a practically unanimous aspersions is irreparable, he forgives the support of the majority party and is Secretary of State in the interest of party equally certain to pass the Senate harmony. This is really a beautiful ex. without material alteration. That is a hibition of self-abnegation upon the part great achievement for the Democracy , of the Speaker and a characteristic ex- and will be of vast advantage to the peo- pression of BRYANism on the part of the ple of the country. Secretary of State. For years previous to that of the last bility and courage of the Democratic Presidential nomination Mr. BRYAN and ' majority in Congress could be given. As Mr. CLARK had been fast friends. Mr. has been said in these columns before, BRYAN was always a candidate and CLARK | every expedient to divide and distract an obedient and faithful follower. During ' the Democrats from their duty and pur- the canvass for the nomination last year pose was invoked, but without success. Mr. BRYAN played fast and loose with A few were beguiled by selfishness to an- several candidates but in his own State 'tagonize the rate of duty on sugar and supported Mr. CLARK with much earnest- another group were induced by the same ness. As a resultof his endeavors Mr. impulse to oppose the placing of raw BRYAN was elected a delegate-at-large to | wool upon the free list. But the party the Baltimore convention and had himself was morally bound to carry out the pur- instructed to vote for and support Mr. pose expressed by the Ways and Means CLARK for the nomination. Subsequently Committee on both these items and ful- he discovered that he could do better for filled the pledge with practical unanim- himself by supporting another candidate ity. and he abandoned Mr. CLARK. It is estimated that the passage of this |" Of course Mr. BRYAN had to give some | bill will cut down the customs revenues PALMER, for Governor. We don’t know | ing the last quarter of a century bills reason to justify the perfidy and the most by about $80,000,000 but more than that whether it was intentional or by accident | have been introduced to put some line available excuse was traducing Mr. amount will be obtained by the graduat- that our esteemed contemporary failed | of work or another under a board of ex- CLARK, which he proceeded to do with ed tax on incomes and an inestimable to state what ticket Mr. PALMER proposes to run on. When all the circumstances are considered the omission is significant, —No, dear reader, the president of council was not in collusion with the breweries when he insisted on putting up the water rentals. It might look as though he were trying to make water cost you more than beer, but don't believe it, for the president of council is one of the very few simon-pure temperance men in Bellefonte. —The Japs are working themselves into a fury over California's proposed land law that is designed to prevent them | from becoming free holders in that State unless they become citizens of the United States. The Jingoes are howling for war, but the Mikado knows that hunting the American eagle is a very different game from that of hunting the Russian bear. —"The Murder Dance” and “the Kitchen Sink” are two of the latest terpsichorean fads in New York. If the girls who are evidently spending so much time figuring out these latter day scan- dalous wiggles would put in a little more time around the kitchen sink their homes would be happier and the country not so frequently shocked by vulgar new dances. —The late J. PIERPONT MORGAN may have been the ruler of our financial world, but the very first paragraph in his will reveals the fact that he knew and recog- nized the Supreme Ruler of all the uni- verse. He made no attempt to buy favor with bequests to churches and charities, but resorted to the same means that you and I must use if we hope to attain it and that is prayer. —The Surveyor of the Customs at the port of Philadelphia will have two deputies to appoint, each with a salary of $2500 a year. Where could two better men be found to fill such places than W. Mies WALKER, of Bellefonte, and Col. Joun A. WooDWARD, of Howard. Both are able men and Progressive to the core, though we confess that we use the word “Progressive” without knowing exactly what it means. —Mr. BRYAN has started to California to confer with the Governor and the Legislature of that State on the matter of the proposed Japanese land law. | aminers. As a rule the fellows who ex- pect appointments upon the boards do the lobbying and they are ably assisted | by politicians who expect to share the | graft. But only a few have been able to | accomplish their purpose in this State thus far. The others will continue to try, however, until it is plainly revealed | to them that in the opinion of Legislators those who are anxious to tax and trouble themselves have some ulterior purpose to subserve. Hconest men never impose useless burdens upon themselves. a ——— ——The one thing about the UNDER- woob tariff bill which the tariff-mongers detest is the advalorem duties. They are awfully afraid it will have a tendency to the falsification of values and that would be atrocious. But they may compose their perturbed souls. The market value of products will be known to customs officials and undervaluations will be promptly discovered and penalized. The graft of the tariff barons will be stopped, however, and that is the real source of objection. | | | The Illustrious Ty Cobb. Mr. Ty CoB has contributed both to the “gayety of nations,” and the pleasure of the world many times and in various ways since he began his stellar career as a base ball player. But he has never per- formed a more useful service than he has just rendered in kicking up a row over the peonage which prevails in the base ball world. Because Mr. CoBB under- took to exercise the fundamental right of contract in his relation with the Detroit team, he has been driven out of the game by a process which is little, if any, short of barbarisni. Refusing to accept terms made for him without his acquiescense by one club he is blacklisted by all clubs. Ty CoBB is easily the best base ball player of this or any other time. His sensational and successful achievements have caused more thrills to the base ball fans than those of any other half dozen players. Thousands patronized the game for no other reason than to witness his performance on the diamond. Yet the | game is to be deprived of the advantage | of his genius and the fans of the pleasure he gave them because a tyrannical man- , agement undertook to deny him a right characteristic vehemence and acerbity. gain will lie in the fact that the new tax It is believed that the result was the de- | will be upon wealth rather than poverty. feat of Mr. CLARK and the nomination of | The iniquity of our tariff tax sys. | Mr. WILSON at the time and a break in tem, under Republican usage, is in | the friendship between the gentlemen ' the fact that the heaviest burdens were subsequently. But they met at a social | put upon those least able to bear them. function in Washington, the other day, The new system will reverse this and when Mr. BRYAN shook hands with Mr. send comfort and hope throughout the CLARK, forgave him for living and later land. The emissaries of privilege will de- issued a public statement in which he | lay the consummation as much as possi- alleged that he didn’t mean what he said ble, no doubt, but the end of tariff graft and the public had no business to think is near. ; he did mean it: Mr. CLARK could hardly do otherwise than be satisfied. —~—Qf course California will be less No better proof of the integrity, capa- | j te 8 2 £8 ~~ ii the an lncidets 2s the alien aw presents a oppor- tunity to the a 3 te even overthrow p Japan has been aying the game lately. cal is not uni- y popular. The . along the path of pe . Consequentl the opposition,w hysterical more ships with which to Hh obstreperous when the “sober second thought” asserts itself, as it will in due time. The way to prevent alien Japanese . from buying real estate is to forbid all aliens from doing so and that is what the B81 go . | Club, of have united in pro- ~——Ten days of the trout fishing sea- as inthe U ff | son have passed but there have been no | bill, and t the Vali labor pills reports of phenomenal catches or unusu- Tt enact these ally well stocked streams. A few fisher- say that Sho ena A men who went to the mountains and whipped the mountain streams have made fair catches, probably one of the most successful being postmaster Phil D. finally. | just as enthusiastic an angler as he is a ! hunter and he must have a nose for trout, ' because he hardly ever fails in bringing present agitation will resolve itself into Foster, of State Coliege. Mr. Foster is | man re i" look ing 3 a J a upon an re- ey of duties as a po Mo against in- The Women Suffrage Question. To the surprise of both friends and foes of the measure the joint resolution ' proposing an amendment to the consti- tution providing for female suffrage pass- | ed the State Senate on Tuesday by the constitutional majority. It had been’ postponed twice to save it from defeat and when the roll call was ordered for the final vote nobody dreamed that it had a ghost of a show. But like many other unexpected things it happened that way. Men who voted for it openly and candidly declared that they are op- posed to the proposition. Others remain- dustry, commerce, prosperity and Jeofte In every campaign the club has s - of Ben teil ca business Ta Do home a nice basket from one of the va rious streams in the Seven mountains. Since the pening day no. big catches 11200110 be Mamed much fr fo have been made on Logan's Branch and | ang Spring creek, though a few trout are be- ing caught almost every day. There are still some big ones in Spring Creek, as was proven on Monday evening when a dozen or more fishermen threw all kinds of enticing bait at two trout in the stream opposite Beezer’s garage, that must have been at least twenty inches long, but they were not feeding at that especial time. the Nothing but giving the of their own house, as well only a few months ago. . is doing what everybody knew it would do and almost everybody wanted od sink on the sublest and wiked af-| The State Railroad Commission rmatively in the hope that enough hag recommended to the Central Rail- j others would vote the other way to de- road Company of Pennsylvania that the pv But they were disappointed. | rate for the transportation of lime—five e arguments in favor of the resolu- ' dollars per car—from the plant of the tion centered around the proposition that | Empire Lime company to the Pennsyl- it is a vital question and the people have | vania railroad junction near Bellefonte, a a right to pass upon it. An argument | distance of 7,976 feet, be reduced to such iat ja sve beyond question. Many of 12. sn as will constitute a reasonable of woman suffrage have charge. The rate charged by the de- no idea however that it will finally be-| fendant company for hauling limestone come a law, but much worse enactments | from the American Lime and Stone com- have been passed and there are many substantial reasons why it should. car, and it is the judgment of the com- Neither the President nor the Secretary of common toall American citizens and one bilities are against the consummation of this submission even with the advantage it gained on Tuesday. It will have to pass both branches of the Legislature mission that this is a greater difference in rate than the difference in distance and material would seem to justify. State are assunting to interfere with the rights of California to make laws of her own, but the conference is to be held merely to avoid writing anything into the California Act that may be out of harmony with our treaty obligations to Japan. —Not that he is objecting to paying whatever share he may have to of the income tax HARRY FENLON has a little theory, all his own, as to how the deficit occasioned by lower tariff duties could be made up. He thinks postmasters should be done away with, that is, all salaried officers. As a matter of fact the assistant postmaster in every office is quite com- petent to do the work and could do it along with his own very handily, thus saving the government the salaries paid the postmasters. Mr. FENLON is preach- ing his doctrine so broadcast that there certainly can't be any truth in the rumor that he expects to be on his toes when the bunch of applicants start the race for the Bellefonte postoffice. which no thorough American would re- linquish for any price or under any, cir- cumstances. We can imagine no greater outrage. But Mr. CoB doesn’t propose to let the base ball magnates “get away” with their trick. At least the friends of Mr. CoBB propose to institute proceedings which will not only restore him to his rightful place in the world of national sports but will enable all other experts in the game of base ball to assert their | manhood. In other words Congressman | GALLAGHER, of Illinois, proposes a con- | gressional investigation of the methods of base ball managers with the view to | putting an end to the peonage and other forms of slavery which, have been toler- | ated too long. We hope the matter will | be carried to an ultimate conclusion and | that Ty will be vindicated. | ——Probably the Japs are only making an excitement to keep RICHARD PEARSON HoBsoN in mental exercise. HoBsON feeds on “wars and rumors of war.” again before it is submitted to the peo-. ——It cost the borough of Bellefonte ple and the next Legislature may not be just $42.46 for formaldehyde for fumigat- of the same kind as that now in ses- ing the houses in which there were cases sion. In other words the next Legisla- ture will be chosen under different au- were not many cases at that. All told Be; it ubay not accept what many. believe | to be the paroxisms of agitators as the | to people being afraid to come to town voice of the people. Maybe by that time | cannot be accurately computed. But it public sentiment will favor female suf- | isall over now and the one hope is that frage and in that event it ought to pre- | it will never occur again. vail. But there is no positive evidence of it now perceptible. ~The freeze we had on Saturday | and Sunday nights may have done seri- | ——Besides it is not improbable that ous damage to fruit, though itis too most of the war rumors are invented by | early to tall. Ice half an inch thick was the press agents of the powder trust and ' formed and magnolias in bloom in gar- the ordnance makers. A rumor that will | dens on Curtin street were frozen black. force governments to buy war materials A is quite as useful to those fellows as a| ~—Judge Ben Lindsay, of Denver, the real war. world famous jurist and originator of S——— treatment for juvenile offenders, is to be ——The tariff lobby at Washington is | one of the lecturers who will be in Belle- as powerless as it is disconsolate. There | fonte during our Chantauqua week in are no open hands for its “arguments.” ’ July. | of smallpox during the winter, and there | spices and though it may be responsive the disease will cost the borough over | of tha to the will of the people, as it ought to five hundred dollars when the bills are em all paid, while the loss in business owing | | One would not to be of great a time and hi ng ch their time, came BF SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The entire board of health of Burnham has resigned, owing to friction which nobody con- cerned will talk about. ~[t is expected that the contract for the new hospital at Indiana will be let this week yet and that active work will begin in a few days. —William Heivley, who killed a robin near Elimsport nearly a year ago, was taken before a Williamsport alderman last week and fined $10. —The “Safety First” campaign is being car- ried on by the H. C. Frick Coke company in Westmereland county by means of moving pic- tures. ~Charges of criminal negligence have been preferred against three officials of the Ligonier Valley railroad in connection with the fatal wreck last summer. —Operations have been resumed at the Patton silk mill, which has been idle for some time be- cause a strike in New England rendered it impos- sible to secure material. —A true bill has been found against H. F. Bar- ron, charged with embezzling $43,000 of the funds of the Somerset National bank. There are six counts on the indictment. ~The First Presbyterian church at Johnstown is to raise $40,000 by April 29th, in one of those whirlwind campaigns that have become so popu- lar as a way to raise money. ~The plant of the Clearfield Brick Manufactur- ing company, located four miles from Clearfield, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. The loss is about $25,000, and it is said there is no insurance. ~Claude S. Ardner, of a Lock Haven manufac- turing plant, was caught in the belting and whirl- ed around a shaft several times before the ma- chinery could be stopped. Strangely enough, he escaped with minor injuries. ~The wood pipe plant at Williamsport is hav- ing serious trouble on account of breaks in the machinery which are strongly suspected to be malicious mischief, due to a desire to prevent the firm from filling certain contracts on time. ~The well known Kiskiminetas school, near Saltsburg, has bought a farm of 136 acres and will spend $50,000 on new buildings. A new firm is at the helm of the old school and greater de- velopmeats are cxpected in the way of better- ments. ~John Enterline, who was discharged recently by the Jefferson county grand jury on a murder charge, has sued Dr. Frank A. Lorenzo, who prosecuted the case after the coroner's jury and the justice had cleared Enterline. Thedamage is fixed at $10,000, —A large quantity of the stolen pipe and quite a number of spigots and like supplies were found on the creek bank. near Latrobe, where police had followed two boys whom they suspected. The boys got away, but the police are convinced of their identity. —When the special trains from Mt. Union and Robertsdale arrived at Orbisonia on Saturday evening, thirty people weredisappointed to find that Landlord Shaffner had closed his bar. He was not accommodating that particular portion of the “traveling public.” —Regina Cerwinski has sued the borough of Windber for $25,000 because of the death of her daughter, Martha Cerwinski, who was killed during a Fourth of July celebration when 2 piece of pipe exploded and a fragment hit her on the head. The girl was 18 years old. Judge Bal rije ia af Somerset Yhig, Wael, Saving Juage ~Clarence Terrell, of Stone Creek, near Hunt- ingdon, went fishing in the stream that gives the place its name on Thursday and caught a fifteen. inch black bass, He didn't know a bass from any other fish and was surprised when he was told that he was a law breaker. The justice was lenient and gave him an opportunity to work out the usual fine, —T'liere was no one at home when Miss Lelia Lewis, of Latrobe, returned from school a few days ago and decided to bake a pie. She used kerosene to revive the apparently dead kitchen fire and was terribly burned in the consequent explosion. Her screams attracted a neighbor, who succeeded in extinguishing the flames be- fore she was fatally burned. ~John Perry Sutton has been missing from his home at Apollo for ten days. He and his wife had decided to go to the soldiers’ home at Day- ton, Ohio, and Mr. Sutton had gone to the bank at Apollo to draw out his deposit. He was last seen at Vandergrift and relatives fear that he was taken suddenly ill and fell into the river or wandered away and died of exposure. —Hundreds of acres of mountain land were devastated near Williamsport by fire supposed to have originated from matches carelessly dropped in the woods. The same kind of a report comes from the ridges of Westmoreland county in the vicinity of Youngstown. In the latter case, the mountain had been previously burned over and there was not much left for the flames this year. ~J. L. McGregor, of Kane, visiting his former home at Flemington, went fishing a few days ‘ago. He lost his balance and went into the river before | at the chute above the dam. He was carried through the swamp for fifteen minutes before he was able to make his way to the island a little farther down stream. He is 81 years old and was heavily clothed, which makes his escape from drowning all the more remarkable. After recovering from his exhaustion on the island he was obliged to swim to the shore, ~Sheridan Maloy, of Curwensville, is in jail at Clearfield charged with arson. He had left the town some years ago because of a forged check and some time after his return was heard to say that he would get even with those responsible for hic leaving. Within a month three barns, the old grist mill, a large store building near it and the band hall have been burned and many other build- ings have been saved only by timely discovery. A detective traveled with him for some days and called the police in time to have them see him fire a building. —Robert S. Flemming was arrested at Lewis- preferred by Deputy State Fire Marshal J. William Mor- gan, in connection with the burning of his auto- mobile garage in that place on September 13,1912, in which eleven machines, the property of busi- ness and professional men, were destroved, at a loss of $30,000. Flemming went to Lewistown from Belleviile and started in business with the idea that the state road through the Narrows would be finished last year. Its failure affected his prospects and he is said to have been bank- rupt when the garage burned. He waived a hearing and bail for $1,000 was furnished by his father. —A meeting of the stockholders of the Hunt. ! company.
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