SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
- ~The Central District Firemen's asfociation
will hold its annual convention at Jersey Shore
| August 20th-22nd.
—A Lock Haven merchant sued a
customer for $10.17 due on account. alder-
man gave him a judgment for 40 cents.
—The Huntingdon Water company is to bring
its books into court at the June term to show
cause why its rates should not be reduced.
—At Delmont, Westmoreland county, David
Beaver, aged 59, was sitting on the porch at his
hosne when Struck: and instantly, Xiied' by light-
—Cross Fork, Potter county, will have its last
railroad train on May 31st. It was once a thriv-
ing lumber town of 1500 people but now has
scarcely 200.
~John Williamson, of Jersey Shore, spent two
| - days in jail because he refused to pay the fine for
: TF notsending’his son to school. The boy will now
| , ; attend regularly.
~The contract for the Williamsport High
school building has been let to Samuel Larrivee.
The price is §210.360. The Keeler company will
get $23,000 for the heating plant.
~The Lewistown board of trade has endorsed
a proposition of the Oriole Chocolate company to
place a candy factory in the town. The cones
had its plant destroyed in the recent flood.
~The Kiskiminetas Springs Academy will on
June 4th celebrate its silver anniversary. The
1,200 alumni who have received diplomas in the
past twenty-five years will be invited to a great
INK SLINGS.
~The straw hat is waiting in the hat-
ter’s cases for the weather man to give
it a chance to be seen.
Besides the chances arethatunless |
the Republican party is reorganized soon |
there won't be enough left for a decent
nucleus.
—Paying an income tax may be a great | we
hardship, but its a thunderin’ sight more |
trouble getting along without an income
to pay it on.
—Now if those English Suffragettes
would only confine their depredations to
golf greens the public condemnation of
Senator PENROSE'S movement to delay
cratic State platform upon charity appro- tariff legislation soon spent its evil life. |
i of | The Senator hoped to prolong the tariff |
| versary, on Sunday. : He denounced, in |i
substantially that no State appropriations | nounced a short time ago in.the most
ly under State control. That would have | aegistance, but unavailingly. Things are |
compelled institutions like the Bellefonte different in the Senate now. The major- | S1'P
hospital to relinquish their local manage- | jty of that body is no longer willing to | 38ainst the people as atrocious as this. |
ment or give up State aid. Without | allow the beneficiaries of each schedule | It multiplies the cost of govergment abd Tigers
State aid such institutions couldn't possi- | to write the tax rate upon it. The in. | robs labor of millions, annually, in order |
bly fulfill their missions of mercy. With- | terests of the people are considered be. | to enrich the few who get money out uf {187 $0 Bis Reet.
and practically worthless to the commu- | of the masses are paramount to the priv- |
—If you haven't a little toddler of your | suitable invective, She vibsicisel patri- | He craquered the
own borrow one for tomorrow because it otism which seeks reate r because
will be circus day. And circus day is
the summer Christmas of the little folks.
—Governor Hi Jounson, of California,
with BRYAN on the east of him and the
Japs on the west, will have the time of
his life getting out of the muddle he has
gotten into.
—The Harrisburg Patriot is so busy
kicking Democrats out of the Democrat-
ic party that it seems to have overlooked
the necessity of coaxing in enough to
make a party.
—Verily it seems that none of us can
be satisfied. The fellow who has to pay
an income tax complains because such a
tax is imposed and the fellow who don't
makes equal complaint because his sala-
ry is insufficient to be taxed.
—King PETER, of Servia, is the latest
of the Balkan monarchs who is anxious
to give up his job. For ten years PETER
has probably been seeing the murdered
—Charles T. Huston, of Williamsport, has just
been sworn in for the nineteenth time as over-
seer of thepoor. He is one of the oldest public
officials in the State, as well as one of the most
efficient.
—An overdose of headache tablets caused the
death of Calvin C. Henry, aged 31 years, at Lewis
town, a few days ago. He is thought to have
taken about twenty tablets without sufficient
intervals of time.
—Johnstown expects shortly to have two new
industries. Machinery for the rubber reclaiming
plant is on its way, and a branch factory of the
largest shirt manufacturing firm in the world is
ordnance and powder. It has Always | cure reoneding the
nities which had created and fostered | jleges of the classes. Senator Pexgose | been part of the Republican program to | its destruction
them. The absurd platform declaration, | has not correctly interpreted the spirit keep the people in hopeless subservien- 28 far 3s human te
therefore, drove thousands of voters | of the times. cy to power. fe Suidsie] the
away from Democratic candidates. In three months the tariff barons could For a third of a century the ship build-
That there have been, are now and for | extract from the pockets of the people | &™ armorplate, ordpance and powder |
some time will be abuses in the distribu- | more than a million dollars. In less than | makers have employed Senators and.
tion of State aid to charitable institutions | that time uncertainty as to future con- | Congressmen to promote their in
is self-evident. But the remedy is not | ditions might have developed industrial by creating war scares and agitating jin-
along the lines suggested in the Demo- | unrest of the gravest character. There go enterprises to frighten public
cratic State platform. There are better | js no danger of industrial paralysis in ment into a demand for army and
of the work it does annually. Those | perity in prolonged uncertainty. Senator JornNsoN, of California, to exploit his jin-
who have been instrumental in creating | PeNroSE was willing to pay this high goism in connection with the Japanese
and developing it are justly proud of | price for personal and political advan.
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spooking about | their achievements. To ask them to re- | tage. But the majority of the Senators like JouNsoN draw personal profits or | Gonting the rea
AAR ond Ds nerve is gone. | linquish control and turn the institution | couldn't be deceived into aiding his pur. Politics advantages and they Co (168 | bOILIE Take, Lves. Destroying the f aie of Sry
A playin’ in the Square would be asking too much. Yet that is | full of Republicans were so destitute of small wonder that officials’ charged with tre Ba But fighting it ai- to jail for a year, besides being fined and sen-
We'd like to hear some Remson’s hits precisely what the Democratic State | patriotism. They made a sorry exhibi- | the preservation of peace with the na- ways seems to be one of the things that | tenced to pay costs.
A floatin' in the air; platform pledged. And as Pennsylvania | tion of themselves. ‘tions of the world become disgusted. can wait. The crusade against the fly is| —The little mining towns of the Frick Coke
We'd like to see the boys all out : Every new battleship is public notice one of the big-little things that are plt | company in the vicinity of Latrobe are the scene
Ne arr welt, Democrats are known to keep platform | Without intention to do so, however, 2 Bote | trom day today, . a oe OF TE He foene
And hear Sam blowin’ Classics pledges, thousands of Democrats voted |Senator PeNmose performed a useful | Of @ desire to scrap. Every naval parade | Tyr, ig ty. He conquers the world | ture. The company awards prizes each year for
And Rags ard Turkey trots. for Republican candidates. service for the Democratic party and the represents a bully on the highway with a | _,n4'vet a him; destroys his | the best gardens and the best display of flowers.
—It will be interesting to watch how | This subject has been brought to our | country in his attempt to delay tariff re- chip on his shoulder. The recent battle : spreads pastlience among bin Competition is lively.
our Democratic Legislators vote on the | mind at this time by the fact that within | form legislation and prolong the graft of ship tour around the world was an invi- rand gets away with it, Mall Bb ilphey. ~The jury in the case of White & Straft vs. the
: +he | tation to somebody or to tread | He swallows nS | Miller township school directors, in which an
appropriations to charitable institutions a few days hundreds of charity appropri- | the tariff mongers. He revealed the |™ at a gnat he likewise strains at a fly. Eo I I on Sh an
not under State control. You know that | ation bills have been reported from com- | splendid solidarity of the Democratic upon our coat tails. The enormous ex-| The fly js more to be feared than the | yoived, rendered a verdict in favor of the school
the platform they stood on last fall fool- | mittees of the House and placed upon | majority in the Senate. The two Sena. |Penses of these jingo demonstrations hog Pa ea Sufitiou i» De board, holding that had the coal dealers pre-
eH asia sn | th cada. And they ar no. diferent | oa fo Louisan, wh are. nie good | Oe uC of the carnings of labor and | tn 135 1 VEL SELCL J | med 0, ir, vod eve hoe
such appropriations. from those similarly considered by other Democrats nor good Americans, deserted the profits go to the ‘subsidized patriots and it lives. The best we can do is a They held it four days.
who would scuttle the ship of State for a —There is one townshipin Armstrong county
—Eighty-three year old THOMAS MoOR- Legislatures. Of course we have no | to the enemy and LAFOLLETTE revealed a o few spasmodic “swat the fly” cam dE A I an
xis, of Los Angeles, tried to spank his | Means of finding out what happened in | himself in his true colors. They will no | few thousand dollars. We are glad that You, man 8 i OG a borders. It is Hovey township, that narrow
Sty thres year-old’ son JAMESKfor disos| Sommities. The. Democratic Members ( longer foul anybody. Their measure has Mr. BRYAN has denounced them as he) "Rol. 000 EL El 7 lt some Of . the lit. | #7iDin the extreme upper end of the county,
dav. “At -the may have figuratively worked the shirts | been taken and the Democrats in Con- has. Itis a wholesome sign of an awak- tle things that he now dismisses as be- lying between the Allegheny river and the Butler
bedience, the other day. Saline i the plat. ening of official life in Washington to |; county line, It is small in area, has about 25
time he would probably have thought his off their backs trying to express the plat- | gress and the Democratic President will ing a bit beneath his notice. a ie ls a a)
grand-son was saying something cute had | form pledges in. the legislation. But if | know how to place them in the future, In grimes that lave : been encouraged. in eg and convenient to send their children to the
he called him an old fool. they did they failed in everyinstance and | the absence of this revelation they might | high places for many years. Tariff Bill Hearings. Parker aod Foxburk school than to maintain 3
Tho acre that hey suveving Tolet the party lost Heavily, in legislative | have done harm at some time. A.A Dale Esq, will deliver the | From the Harrisburg Starindependast. hii BE
up because our coast defense is useless, ahigenk ep the State poiiaclane ——Mr. D. M. PARRY, formerly presi- | Memorial day address at Spring Mills on | If there are to be more on the | oot ire hospital in a critical condition, having
since they are not designed to defend an dent of the National Association of Man- tariff bill they ought to be Se-| heen accidentally shot in the left side during a
attack from the rear, is all a scare. If
they are any good in front an enemy
would never be able to land a force that
could knock in the back door.
—Lewistown, Clearfield and Punxsu-
tawney, all much newer and no more
deserving hospitals than Bellefonte, get
larger appropriations. Why? Because
the appropriations committee fjust can't
help playing favorites first and giving
what's left to other institutions.
—Statisticians have figured out that a
woman, between the age of six and sev-
enty, spends two hundred and forty-two
days standing before a mirror. And that
isn't half as long a time as the man who
has to wait for her when going to the
theatre or a party will think she spends
there.
—All the time there has been a tariff
on wool the difference in price of that
commodity in Boston and London has
never been more than one cent. With
this fact staring him in the face it will
be rather difficult for the American wool
grower to figure out how the tariff has
helped him.
—In resorting to “team work” to ac-
complish the “reforms” he has in view,
President WiLsoN will find no lack of
willing “leaders,” among the posing “pro-
gressives,” now trying to get their noses
into the feed trough. Its the ‘‘wheel
horses” he may experience a difficulty in
getting into harness. :
—Feeding chickens sand and gravel
just before they are landed in the New
York market looks terribly crooked when
shown up under big scare heads in the
city papers, but how much worse is it
than feeding cattle salt and then giving
them all the water they crave just before
the butcher calls to buy them? And this
right here in Centre county.
~The Hon. JosePH MOULTHROP, Mem-
ber from Ciearfield county, and expect-
ant candidate for Senator from this dis-
trict, voluntarily assured those interest-
ed in the welfare of the Bellefonte hos-
pital that he would personally see to it
that Centre county “would be more than
pleased” with the award made our insti-
tution by the appropriation committee,
of which he is an influential member.
The assurance was very gratifying and
Mr. MoOULTHROP'S offer was most gra-
cious, but inasmuch as the Bellefonte
hospital received no more than it has in
the past Centre county will likely not be
greatly pleased. And it can't help feel-
ing that either Mr. MOULTHROP was
“stringing” its representatives or he isn't
as big a noise in the appropriation com-
mittee as his.assurance would make be-
lieve.
made absurd platform pledges.
——Even the Harvester trust, the in-
fant industry to ROOSEVELT'S “angel,”
Mr. Geo. W. PERKINS, is doing fairly
well under the Democratic administra-
tion. The profits thus far, this year,
amount to $16,395,597 and large gains
are being made in both foreign and do-
mestic business. If this thing keeps up
PERKINS will hardly have a chance to kick
in the next campaign.
Governor Sulzer Adopts Right Course.
Governor SULZER, of New York, has
summoned the Legislature of that State
into extraordinary session to fulfill the
pledge made by the party of which he is
a member and upon which he was elect-
ed to the high office he adorns. The par-
ty unequivocally promised, in the event
it had power in the Legislature, to enact
a State-wide direct primary law. Upon
the assembling of the Legislature in reg-
ular session Governor SULZER prepared
such a bill and had it introduced. But
the bosses in both parties, by conspiring
together, prevented the passage of the
measure. The Governor has now called
it back and appeals to the people of the
State to join him in his purpose to com-
pel the fulfillment of the pledge.
This is the highest service which a
Governor could perform for the people
and requires courage as well as capabili-
ty. But he knows that if the Democrat-
ic people of the State are equally coura-
geous as he, the will of the people will
not be defeated and the pledges of the
party will be fulfilled. It is now up to
the people. If they are fit for self-gov-
ernment the confidence of the Governor’
is not misplaced.
It is not always wise or invariably safe
for a Governor to interfere with the pre-
rogatives of the Legislature. The en-
croachment of one branch of a govern-
ment upon the functions of another is
always hazardous and sometimes peril-
ous. But extraordinary situations re-
quire unusual treatment and the offense
against the people of New York in this
case is so glaring and atrocious, that
Governor SULZER had no alternative. He
has adopted the right course and should
pursue it with the zeal and intelligence
that has characterized all his work as
Governor of his native State. Party rec-
reancy must be checked for all time and
if party leaders are just it will be.
——Really Colonel GEORGE HARVEY is
amusing under all circumstances, but
when he puts himself in the position of
teiling President WiLsoN what he must
do, he skins ARTEMUS WARD'S kangaroo
a thousand ways.
ufacturers, is worried to the verge of
nervous prostration with fear that the
proposed measure will be class legisla-
tion. The proposed measure will prob-
ably make the millionaire class pay some-
thing like a fair share of the burdens of
government and if that is class legisla-
tion Mr. PARRY is welcome to make the
most of it.
The Vares and Their Enemies.
There is something more than shadowy
comfort in the rumors of war among the
leaders of the Republican party in South
Philadelphia. The rumors are that dif-
ferences between the VARES and men
who have hitherto been abject followers
of the VARES have become so wide and
deep, as to be irreconcilable. In fact they
have already begun hurling epithets
against each other and threatening ex-
posures of one sort or another to the
disgust of decent citizens of the neigh-
borhood. That fact creates no certainty
that they will be opposed to each other
at election time, however. Men of their
type usually forget differences when pow-
er, or patronage is endangered.
It is true that the VARE control of pol-
itics in South Philadelphia is the most
shameless example of corrupt bossism
that has ever been revealed in this coun-
try. Ignorant, arrogant and course, those
brothers have for years exploited every
civic interest for their own personal and
political aggrandizement. Even the pul-
pits in their neighborhood have been
prostituted to their service and no
man has had courage to challenge their
control except on the occasion when
Senator PENROSE intervened in the nom-
ination of one of them for Mayor of Phila-
delphia and that will probably cost him
his Senatorial toga.
In the opposition now asserting itself,
however, there is at least a chance of ac-
complishing things. Mr. BURK, the lead-
er of the movement may be little, if any,
better than the VARes. But he repre-
sents the ROOSEVELT forces and is likely
to have BILL FLINN'S boodle and TEDDY'S
voice behind him, two potent forces in
disreputable politics. But whether he
wins or loses in the impending conflict
let us hope that it is irrepressible, for
there is an adage that “when rogues fall
out honest men come by their own,”
and there are plenty of honest men in
South Philadelphia who might be able to
elevate the tone of politics there. fo
Crop reports from the west are
most encouraging which suggests that
even nature is in a conspiracy to discredit
the calamity howls of the Republicans
during the recent Presidential campaign.
Friday of next week. Mr. Dale achiev- nei nor " The
ed a reputation as a Memorial day 'ora- Gey as gither Hight » ro a Sop
tor a few years ago when he made the and not for any secret coterie of benefic-
address in this place and every year since any private
he has not only been very much in de- | go'to Washington to tel the committee
mand but has added new laurels to his ba X wh
wreath. So that the old soldiers and the | by way of “protection”
Puc in genera of Spring Mill and vi | Tusk Five, Formerly th procs we
cinity are to be congratulated upon the'| hearings they wrote their own schedules.
fact that they will have the opportunity of They catiiol write schedules nowadays,
demand hearings. But nobody
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hearing Mr. Dale and not a man, woman
workingmen and therefore of consumers,
who, they say,would be unable to consume
to be shipped by the Woman's club, as iE they were unable to earn wages where-
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their benefit for the hospital, will please’| If there be
be ready for the general collection which ]
—Those who have been saving their
L. H. Gettig, chairman of the conimi
in charge, at once, as she is anxious
a full carload and especially anxious
a good showing of magazines, owing to
their greater weight and value.
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as suckers are concerned but on
day one of the grapplers undertcok
hook a large trout by the tail and man-
aged to grapple it lightly but i
loose and got away. Grappling trout’
a violation of the law and any person | them. It
who does soand is caught, will have only | not done; now it wants
himself to blame. “| low tariffs will do.
—In order to systematize he work
of the borough’s drayman, Cyrus Solt, it |. xu
) : From the Johnstown Leader.
is asked that the sweeping and cleaning |p .cident Wilson, defeated in his at-
of gutters by the individuals in front of interference with California's
their houses be done the latter part of land ition, Ras ‘Sufyitind a
the week, that it may all be taken a asa 2 likel
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ready for him Friday and Saturday.
—]t has just been discovered that all
of our coast fortifications are defective {on
for the reason that they are open to at-
tack from the land side. As a rule,
however, coast fortifications are attacked
from the other side and so long as they
can prevent the enemy from landing
troops there will be no danger of en-
trance by the back door. :
whole coast of he will
There California
are no objections to stand- himself busier than he was last fall after
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From the Boston Adveriser.
If Hiram Johnson has to defend the
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Slavish wedding celebration at Morrisdale. Carl
Boynyak had pulled his revolver from his pocket
ff to do the “firing act” when it accidentally dis-
charged. He was so frightened that he at once left
the vicinity, but has since been taken into custodv
and is in the Clearfield county jail to
result of Harviella’s injuries.
await the
—Four young ladies of Punxsutawney, Jefferson
county, Misses Catherine, Elizabeth and Mary
Couch and Miss Martha Rogers, decided that the
best way to stop the wagging tongueof a young
man of that place was to take the matter Jr
own hands. They armed themselves with clubs
and when the four met the offender on the street
gave him an unmerciful beating. The girls have.
announced that they will follow up with another -
beating should they be annoyed further.
—~Standing beside an electric light pole, plan-
ning for a ball game ‘on the morrow,
Adams, Jr., of ‘Latrobe, captain of am amateur
team, somehow received a shock that caused him
to fall lifeless to the street. So quickly did the
d tragedy occur that no one could tell whether he
had caught the ring attached to the rope or
whether the ‘pole had become charged. The
young man was aged 20 years and was to have
ere | pitched in his team’s first game of the ‘season.
as |" =A negro thief, supposed to have been a dis-
charged employee of the Hagenbeck-Wallace
show, made a bold daylight haul at Huntingdon.
Some time during the afternoon he entered the
. | home of Fish Warden J. D. Sizer by forcing open
a back window and rifled Mr. Sizer's desk. He
took $32, a valuable revolver, a watch and chain,
a dress coat and food from the refrigerator. He
walked around the home of Mrs. Gertrude Tif-
fany, but her daughter was at home and when he
saw her running to call help he disappeared.
—With a revolver clutched in his right hand
and an open Bible on'a table near by, Frederick