—The beans that were green on Sunday | were frozen black on Monday. So much | , for the 12th of May, 1913. | { —Naturally the near sighted man | thinks the slashed skirt in vogue for milady is a terrible creation. —With the new anti-cigarette law in | VOL. 58. BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 16, 1913. effect the pipe will more than ever be- ! come the conspicuous feature of Ye) Appropriations for Education. youth's face. | —— —Take heart, Democrats, reports from | The information that the appropria- Washington are to the effect that Sun- | tions committee of the Legislature has day's freeze did no particular damage to | $4,000,000 to divide among three worthy the plum crop. —We'll bet it took a good deal of booze later to wash down the temper- ance dinner that was given to Secretary = BRYAN, in Harrisburg, Tuesday night. | phia Record suggests that $2,000,000 be | given to State College and one million to —=THete would be a good deal more | each of the other institutions. Of course danger of a panic if the tariff mongers... p,q is influenced by a pardonable re no afd ht wero wilh | paca for the grat inition in i sult in an investigation | own city. Otherwise it would probably i | have suggested $3,000,000 for State Col- —If SNYDER TATE had known that jege and half a million each to the May was going to be as cold as it has others, That would be both a wiser and been there would have been a bit of con- | more equitable distribution of the fund. | solation in the thought when his ice house | State College has plodded along under was burning down last winter. ——The operations now in progress in | made good at every step of the way. The Chicago for the reorganization of the | Legislature has never been just to it] Republican party with TEDDY outside the | though it ought to have been generous breastworks is an additional reason why | from the start. Neverthelss it has moved ROOSEVELT should become King of | forward and performed its work with its Albania | limited means and facilities so efficiently —LINCOLN BEACHY, the aviator, de-| and conscientiously as to challenge popu- clares that he will never fly again. Of |lar respect. It has not progressed as as the similar institutions in’ course he intends such a declaration to | rapidly ‘ > apply only to aeroplanes, for surely he | Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri. But hasn't lost hope of getting a pair of wings | it has done quite as well in proportion to of his very own some day. its opportunities and now Peonmieds 5 i take rank among the foremost of t —At the Harrisburg dinner, Tuesday | : PAE night, Secretary BRYAN said: “It is even | educational institutions of the country, popular to be a Democrat in Pennsylva- | °° it has long held a lead in some par- nia now. Why, it is even popular to be | tore o 2 Bryan Democrat, sow” Then Vance] For these reasons we concur in Lhe McCormick and Geo. W. GUTHRIE went | PUR akin thei ears ag were all fuss: |; n of the $4,000,000 available for higher : | education State College should receive as —We hold no brief to defend boss ...h if not more than both the others. MURPHY, of Tammany, but we confess |, ;o eqeentially a State institution. to being unable to see much difference | No one but the Commonwealth has, in the degree of bossism represented by |orever can have, a dollars worth of him and that represented by Governor stock in it. Were it to be closed down to- SULZER. A boss is a boss, and it is often only a question of the power he has as | ji millions of dollars worth of buildings to whether he is a good or bad boss. —When Secretary BRYAN stated that | revert to the State. No individual, firm or men are not ashamed to admit they are corporation would benefit to the ex- Democrats now because President WIL- tent of a farthing. At it, tuition, inall de- SON has given respectability to the party partments is free, while at the two other he was casting an aspersion on himself | institutions, both of which are private and countless other men who were proud corporations owned and controlled by of their Democracy long before WoOD- | individual stockholders, tuition is higher ROW WILSON was injected into the polit- | than at any other educational institution ical equation. | in the State. Why the State should rob —A grim reminder of the horrors of | its own institution, to aid these private war is the requirement that each Bul- | and costly Universities that give, neither garian soldier must carry on different to the State or its people any returns for parts of his person six metal tags, each! the immense appropriations that they bearing his name, number and corps. | demand, is beyond our knowledge. This is done because of the terribly mu-|{ In the prosperity and achievement of tillating effects of modern artillery. If | the State College the glory as well as the | he be shot to pieces the probability is | advantage all goes to the State and no, that one tag would identify enough of | other institution of learning in the Com- | him to secure a christian burial. monwealth except the public schools de- —Mayor CAULIFLOWER, or something | serves so much at the hands of the Legis- | like that, of Johnstown, is being accused | lature. An appropriation of $3,000,000 of having gossipped with a street fakir A who later retold the gossip under the | by the next Legislature will guarantee glare of a gasoline torch on the streets State College its rightful place among of that city. And the stories savored of the institutions of its kind in the coun- scandal in high life. From this distance | tr¥- it looks as if the Mayor had better re- sign and take apartments in an old ladies | home where gossip is almost as essential | as discretion is to a Mayor's office. —Congressman H. OLIN YOUNG, of Ishpeming, Michigan, has resigned be- cause lately he has discovered that he had a majority over his competitor for the honor only through a technicality that deprived the latter of several hun- | would like to deteat it hadn't “the cour- dred votes that were really intended for | age of their convictions” and only at- him. Mr. YOUNG is a Republican and, tacked it in a covert way. That is to naturally, could have hoped to accom- | say they tried to reduce the minimum of plish little in the present overwhelming- | the income to be taxed to one thousand ly Democratic Congress, but he ought to | dollars instead of the figure fixed in the be sent back. A man with ability enough | bill. In other words they assailed the to secure a nomination for Congress and | measure indirectly rather than openly. with such a fine sense of honor is one of | The Republican leaders can’t reconcile the kind the public life of the country | themselves to the principle of levying cannot afford to lose, even if his service | taxes in proportion to the ability to pay. amounted to nothing more than an ex- | That party has always favored a system ample of perfect honesty. of taxation which burdened poverty and —Of the 750 Democrats who sat about | favored wealth. The corruption fund the festal board of the dollar dinner to | which has kept that party in power is Secretary BRYAN, in Harrisburg, Tuesday | and always has been a percentage of the night probably 746 of them would have | savings to wealth from unequal taxation. been inexpressibly happier had it been | The corporation, muitimillionaire or the federal pie counter they had their | monopoly which has been relieved of tax legs tucked under. But the Secretary, | burdens could afford to give a share of premier of diplomats and tacticians, kept | the savings thus obtained to the party the hungry so busy with other things | which managed the fraud upon the pub- that they never thought of pie until he | was gone, and it was too late. The in- cident recalls the practice of a cunning old Centre county farmer who in harvest time had many helpers with ravenous ap- petites. He would have the pies, that are invariably part of the dinner in the country, placed on a small table at his elbow. Then he would heap the plates high with potatoes and when the men were busy stowing them away he would | if there grab a pie off the side table, and describe alightning circle with it around the table. Before the men could look up he was handing it back to his wife saying: “Nobody wants pie, there's no use o’ cuttin’ that one.” The Income Tax. So far as results are concerned there was very little opposition to the income tax teature of the UNDERWOOD bill in the House of Representatives. That there is taxation is beyond question. But the Republican Members of Congress who There has never been a more righteous distribution of the burdens of govern- ment, however, than is expressed in the income tax feature of the UNDERWOOD | institutions, the State College, the Uni- | | versity of Pennnsylvania and the Univer- | sity of Pittsburgh, simplifies the work of | the committee. The esteemed Philadel- ' adverse conditions for many years and | view expressed by our esteemed Phila-, | delphia contemporary that in the divis- | day, its hundreds of acres of farm lands, | | and educational equipments would all’ or more this year and equal generosity deep seated antipathy to that form of | To Whom Had He Reference. When Mr. BRYAN, at the Harrisburg | JEFFERSON day banquet on Tuesday night i Need Some Enlightenment. It is strange how the ideas and senses of some people can change, or whatidiots ' President Wilson hag answered Tam- last, was complimenting the Pennsylvania and asses we Democrats have been mak- | gactV uy Poh and Boss Barnes, acting Democrats for the great battles they have | made, under such discouraging circum- stances, and the magnificent vote polled for himself each time he was a candidate for President, he must have forgotten it was to the influence and efforts of Col. James M. GUFFEY, more than that of any other score of individuals in the State, that that vote was attributable; or else must have wanted to rub salt on the old political sores of Mr. Geo. W. GUTHRIE, Mr. VANCE McCorMiCK and professing Democrats of their kind. It is both an undeniable and undis- puted fact that in the campaigns in which Mr. BRYAN received the tremendous vote in Pennsylvania to which he referred, and of which he now seems so proud, that while Col. GUFFEY was devoting his | entire time and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid in his elec- tion, Mr. GUTHRIE and Mr. MCCORMICK | both, in conspiracy with others of the | party leaders in the State, were just as earnestly, if not with the same liberality, | aiding the PALMER and BUCKNER effort ' to reduce the BRYAN vote to the lowest figures possible. To this end, Mr. GUTH- RIE made speeches, wrote vicious letters attacking the Democratic candidate, used every influence in his power and con- tributed $500; Mr. MCCORMICK tried to do equally well for that side. Notwithstanding the work of these men to disorganize and defeat the Dem- ocracy of the State and to cast odium upon its nominees, Mr. GUFFEY suc- ceeded in having polled for Mr. BRYAN, , each time he was upon the ticket, the largest vote ever cast for any Democrat | | in Pennsylvania, and almost 100,000 more | than was given to Mr. WiLsoN last fall, | when these men were all pretending to | work for him and the regular Democracy, as well as tens of thousands of Repub- licans, were doing their best to secure him a large vote. Certainly Mr. BRYAN'S words of praise for Pennsylvania Democrats could not have been intended for the men who not only voted against him themselves but who spent their time, influence and money, to induce others to do likewise; | nor do we really imagine him to be big ‘and broad enough to have purposed thanking Col. GUFFEY for his share in| that good work, after the unexplainable treatment the Colonel received at his | hands at the Denver convention. Really, we must wait further devel- opments before concluding just which | particular kind of Democrats Mr. BRYAN | really had reference to in the distribution of the taffy handed out at that supper. | Roosevelt for King of Albania. We hasten to join in the movement re- | cently inaugurated by the esteemed New ' | York World, to have THEODORE ROOSE- | | VELT elected King of Albania. As one | ! of the consequences of the Balkan war | that tract of land or section of territory | liefs or try to discover just “where we corted into the | is to be made a kingdom and the people, | or at least that part of the people which regulates things of that sort, have been | authorized hy “the powers” to select a | | King. They are not limited either by | | convention or tradition in making the there are men within the territory both | With characteristic enterprise our es- teemed New York contemporary dis- | day, for the purpose of suggesting THEO- | DORE ROOSEVELT as a fit man for the place. The New York ambassador reach- ed London about the same time that the Albanian deputation arrived there and promptly presented the matter with the result that ISMAIL KEMAL, Provisional President of Albania and chairman of the committee authorized to make the selection, candidly declared that “if ROOSEVELT desires the Kingship of Al- bania we will put him ahead of all others who have been named. “I myself,” the distinguished Albanian added, “would certainly vote for him.” This seems to us to afford a solution of an exceedingly involved, not to say | vexed, problem. ROOSEVELT has clearly spent his power of usefulness in this country and anyway he is not tem- peramentally suited for public service in a Republic while he is not even to be thought of as a private citizen. There- fore let him go to Albania and become King. That country has never had a King, at least not in recent years and will no doubt be willing to accept ROOSE- VELT upon his own terms and his terms will leave him free of restraints of any kind. What an such an en- tment wend Hin > Somat ROOSEVELT. capable and willing to assume the job. i patched a reporter to London, the other ing of ourselves for years. Since 1902 the Democratic Representa- | tives at Harrisburg have been trying to change the weak places in our elec- tion laws. They have proposed amend- ment after amendment, all of which have been voted down by the Republicans. During the last six years they have made a united and continuous effort to secure such enactments as would restore the honest and simple old way of voting known as the vest pocket system, with the addition of the use of an envelope, in casting the ballot, in order to pre- serve its secrecy and protect the voter from the espionage of a boss, or an em- ployer. It was recognized as a Demo- cratic idea and endorsed by Democrats everywhere. It had the united support of Democratic Senators and Democratic Members, because it was believed that its adoption would do away with eight” tenthsof the wrongs committed at the polls. Republican gangsters were against it because they felt that such a system would prevent any excuse for asking for | peopl assistance in marking the ballot—their strong-hold when seeking to bribe or boss the voter. A commission named several years ago to codify our election laws and suggest amendments that would simplify our system of voting—of which the Hon. W. U. Hensen, Attorney General under Governor PATTISON'S last administra- tion, and other distinguished citizens were members, recommended a return to the vest pocket system, with certain safe- guards added. Some Member presented these sug- gestions in a bill, early in the present ses- sion, and one day the past week, it was | voted upon and defeated—nearly every Member professing to be a “progressive Democrat” voting against it. To cap the climax of this inconsistency, we have since had a circular letter sent out by the present Democratic State | bosses—the State Committee—all of them claiming to be “progressive,” rejoicing over the defeat of this understood and believed to be Democratic measure as, “One of the gang election bills de-” “feated which would have brought” “about a return to the vest pocket” “or envelope system of ballots, in” “yogue a quarter of a century ago,” “paving the way for wholesale” “fraud coercion and corruption.” Surely it must be a wonderful halluci- nation that most of we Democrats of the State—the many who desired a return to the vest pocket system of voting—have been laboring under for years; or an | amazing crookedness of perception on the part of our “progressive” bosses ! when they denounce a measure that ! has been advocated by the Democracy | for years, and defeated by the Repub- lican gang every time it was presented, as “one of the gang election bills.” Really it is about time that some of us would get a new reckoning as to our be- are at,” politically. Nothing to Be Proud Of. The Gettysburg Compiler, at one time ‘one of the reliable and unpurchaseble | selection and as the committee empower. | DENIORFRLic Papers of the State, has an | From the New York Sun. | entire column, in its issue of this week, ed to make the choice has gone to Lon- ol don to deliberate the chances are that of gush about the glorious results that some foreigner will be chosen though have come to the Democracy of the State “since re-organization has been con- ducting its campaigns” and claims great | credit for Adams county because the vote of its representative “won the day giv- ing the re-organizers a majority of one.” Without referring to the results it alludes to, we only wish to say that if Adams county Democrats had any knowledge of | the “influence” that secured that vote, or the unenviable notoriety that was given them in consequence of that “influence,” they would be-the last people in the State to be either proud of it, or pleased to together as they always do when their ' mutual interests are imperiled, have suc- ceeded in adjourning the New York Legis- lature, thereby slaughtering the bills drawn in keeping with the party Pledges that had been pigeonholed by the New York State Senate. Governor Sulzer, apparently, has suffered a reverse. The gang has triumphed for the time being and Sulzer must look to an aroused pub- lic sentiment for his backing in any fu- ture fight he may make. If Tammany thought that its victory in New York would gain it tion in | Washington it now that itis mis- taken. President Wilson has refused | even to consider a M man for an appointment. The t has thrown down the gauntlet to Tammany and de- fied it to come on and whip him as it has whi Sulzer. are some victories that cost more than a defeat. It would not be at all strange if the victery over Sulzer prove to be such a one. For, after 78 for leadership, it he based his claim to leadership Spon: She g v : g g g of certain definite President Wilson has taken up the | fight at the very point where the tide i turned against the Governor of New | York. Victorious Tammany down swept | upon Washington with its recommenda- tions for appointments. It took the stand that it controlled the machinery of the and was therefore entitled to the party with the “o tion,” but he is break- ing in order to keep faith with the peo- ple. And in doing so the President is taking the un stand. He is siding with the defeated rather than with the victors. This takes courage. And yet Wilson is a better man because of the fact that he has with the New York “organization.” The President re- ceived his nomination partly because he | was brave enough to defy Tammany. He | would have failed in his leadership had he surrendered to it now. Murphy has apparently whipped Sulzer, but the fight has just n. He has yet to whip Woodrow Wilson. —— What Mr. Bryan Saw. | | From the Worcester Telegram. | Secretary of State Bryan was shown a i Japanese colony in California by Gov. | Johnson on an automobile trip. and in- | formed that it was a very un-American | colony prospering under un-American | conditions. Mr. Bryan told the reporters | that he had seen a Japanese colony and a | beautiful California valley. In that valley | there are 1,500 Japanese farmers, and | they control the grape and berry indus- | tries there though there are 400 Ameri- can farmers. Ten years ago there were not | more than 10 Japanese busy there. Jap- | anese girls work in the factories where | the boxes are made to market the grapes {and berries. Gov. Johnson said they | work for lower than American girls did for the same kind of work six | years ago. And there is much more of | the work to do because the Japs produce | more on the farms. The products of the | Japanese farmers are not sold for less ' on the markets than the produuts of the | American farmers, but they are put up | in better shape and have a wider reputa- | tion on that account. When Col. Bryan | returns to Washin he should be es- ouse and Senate and ' shown much more un-American condi- | tions than he observed in that prosper- | ous Japanese colony in the beautiful | California valley. | ———————————— Mr. Whitman's Real Service. More important and more useful than jailing a few rascals is the lesson District | Attorney Whitman has set for | tic Citizens. He has Hioved that the present penal law of the State comprises all that an honest tor needs to | bring punishment even to the “police | system. No new statutes, no new offenses, no new jury system, no new rules of evi- , dence; courts as they are, the law as | it is, sincerity of purpose, capacity for hard work; these have revealed the ! scoundrels, accumulated the testimony | against them, and written “convict” on | their brows. As old as their misdeeds was the machinery of their condign ret- on It has | § ik jay, Deglectiul asleep. Once aroused, it no novelties to make ven vil TE ropaten itis a fraud and i " a i handful of evildoers find something to lament about. One of New Cure for Souse Habit. them objects to killing whales for the | p/m the Detroit Free Press. reason that if those monsters are remov. | i ed herring will take to deep water and salmon which feed on herring will follow | for the souse habit. When a Milligan, of Swissvale, a suburb of a or ret a them out of reach of the nets of the | Tah is found denatured by alcohol and fs his duty shamelessly. A President has been in office more than three months and business is moving on just as if nothing had happened to inter- fere with it. the WATCHMAN Office. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. | =—The trial and execution of Frank M. Calhoun | cost Huntingdon county taxpayers $3,200. | —At the recent special election in Hooversville | to decide on a §12,000 loan for a new school build- | ing, two votes were cast against the measure and | seventy-seven for it. i ~The Jefferson county jail was emptied last | week when two men who were serving time com- ! pleted their sentences. It is long since Sheriff | Mayes has been without boarders. —Ground was broken Monday for the new | plant of the Davis Brake Beam company, at | Johnstown, which is to be capitalized at $250,000. ‘The plant is to be in operation in ninety days. —Alleging that he was injured in a trolley colli- sion on the Windber branch a year ago, Michael ; Simko, of Windber, has brought suit in Somerset county to recover $10,000 damages from the | Johnstown Traction company. —Nelson H. Collins, who graduates this year from the Yeagertown High school, has not miss- ed one day since he started to school at the age of 6 years. He had a sister in the Freshman class who has thus far matched his record. —A.G. Neff, a North Cambria justice of the peace, would like to know what brute in human form entered his stable and cut the end off the tongue of a fine cow. The author of the outrage would deserve all he would get if caught, —Threatening to shoot if they did not alight from the top of a passenger coach on which they were stealing a ride, Ted Brown, night station agent at Milton brought three men from the coach and handed them over to the chief of po- lice. —The Hartley Hall hotel, at Hall's station, Ly- coming county, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. It had been known as a road house for many years and more recently had formed a con- venient stopping place for Williamsport automo- bile parties. —Frank Ronello, convicted of killing Gulseppi Viscelli, near Ardenheim in July, 1911, is to be sentenced in Huntingdon county court this week. | Mrs. Rosa Saia Caruso’s trial for killing Maico | Pulastelli is to becompleted this week. Itis the third within a year. ~L. B. Martin, foreman at the bottling works at Newport and treasurer of the local castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, was found dead last week in the unoccupied spoke factory, after counts is blamed for the deed. —Mrs. Edward Brown, of Portage, went to the room where her two year old baby lay sleeping and was astonished to find the bed on which the baby was sleeping on fire. She carried the child out and called assistance in time to get ahead of the blaze without much damage. —The trial of three Italians on the charge of wounding Patrick Campbell, and killing Charles Hayes, near Portage, in 1904, is to be held at Mes- sina, Italy, next month. Mr. Campbell will be rep- resented by a Messina attorney. He has just re- ceived word of his appointment as postmaster at Portage. —At the May meeting of the Huntingdon coun- ty medical society, held at Huntingdon recently, a handsome loving cup was presented to Dr. Ru- dolph Myers in honor of his completing a half century in the practice of medicine. Dr. Myers gave an interesting address on “Fifty Years in Medicine”. —A board bill thirty-five years overdue, owed to a woman long dead, has been paid to her son, Edward McCutcheon, superintendent of the buildings of Washington county. Mr. McCutch- eon refuses to divulge the name of the former boarder, now living in a western city, who made restitution of $4.00. —Lewistown is still without a health officer and the epidemic of measles and scarlet fever contin- ues. Council is offering $15 salary and the lowest priced man in sight wants $25. Meanwhile the | Board of Health is receiving numerous com- | plaints about the unsanitary conditions in various parts of the borough. —It is possible that in the effort to bring the cost of Williamsport’s proposed new High school building within $225,000, the swimming pool, es- timated at $27,000, may be climinated. The floors may not be cork tiles and the base boards may not be marble, but the building may perhaps serve its purpose, even if the young folks are compelled to do their swimming elsewhere. —A cigar thrown away by oneof a party that stopped to repair an automobile near Everett caused a blaze that ran over eighty acres of land before it was extinguished. Valuable young tim- ber belonging to G. H. Gibboney, of Everett, was destroyed. The number of the car was ascer- tained as it passed through Breezewood, but the party was traveling too fast to be halted just then. —Mary Yaroski, aged five years, went with her mother from her home at Windber to Johnstown on Monday to see the circus. While her mother was calling on a relative, the little girl played in the street and ran in front of a brewery wagon. The driver stopped and so did the child. When he started again the littleone darted in front of the vehicle and was taken to the Memorial hos- pital, fatally injured. —Three persons, George W. Burger, aged 42 years, his son, George Burger Jr., aged 9 years, and Epward Sipe, aged 19 years, residing on Stauffer’s Island, in the Susquehanna river, op- posite Goldsboro, York county, were drowned on Tuesday morning shortly after 11 o'clock, by the capsizing of a boat in which they were rowing. Burger's wife and daughter witnessed the drown- ing from the edge of the island. —Cresson is seeing trouble ahead as to its wa- ter supply. Sankertown is about to build a mu- nicipal water plant, to be supplied from two fine artesian wells. Gallitzin is to have its own sup- ply and the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke compa- ny. which intended to supply the three towns, is not doing anything since but one wants its services. Cresson’s contract with the Pennsylvz- nia Railroad company expires next year. —Thomas Quinn, a Huntingdon barber, is said to be a practical joker and it is thought that some one with a desire to get even with him started the story of his being killed in a runaway on Sunday. By Monday morning it had grown to such proportions that his friends were calling to ascertain the funeral arrangements and a news- paper reporter was on his wav to the house to obtain data for an obituary notice. Then it was discovered that it was all a hoax. . —An accident, which resulted in the loss of the life of father and son, occurred last Saturday evening at Madera, when William Tozer and his son Ira, aged 10, attempted to drive acrcss the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad at that place. A train was running late, a fact that Mr. Tozer was not aware of, and he drove the rig in which he was seated with his son onto the tracks. The locomotive struck the buggy and both father and son were killed as was also the horse. Mr. To- zer was a resident of Coalport. —The most remarkable display of courage and devotion of duty that has come to the notice of the Easton Fire Department was discovered on engineer, nearly dead from burns, but conscious and giving directions to his assistants how to op- erate the plant. Stroble’s clothes caught fire while he was in the oil house, He ran to thecity fire alarm box, a couple of blocks away and sent in the alarm. His clothes still buining. he re- turned to the station and gave orders to the men, At the box from which Stroble sent in the alarm, the firemen found one of his shoes, burned to a crisp. being missed for two days. A shortage in his ac,
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