BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
© —Now who do you suppose planted
that bed of mint in the White House
garden and what for?
—Be it known that the associate editor
of the Outlook can never write authorita-
tively on the joys of a jag.
—Well, it looks like the base-ball fans
will be run off Hughes field in order to
make room for an automobile factory.
—This is the hey-day of the sweet girl
graduate and the June bride. After this
every day will be Labor day with the
latter.
—*] love the whole world,” said THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT, in Chicago, on Sunday.
Not even excepting Mrs. BELLAMY
STORER.
—Pittsburgh papers are trying hard to
make as much out of the HEETER case
as the THAW and HARTJE scandals net-
ted them in sensational heads.
—Since Mr. BRYAN was the man to
_VOL. 58.
Governor Tener's Reform.
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE,
Roosevelt’s Vindication.
There is much basis for hope in the | ygipiony ended very much like a “frame-
reports which come from Harrisburg up.” After the car load of distinguished
with respect to the reform purposes of | po pup: + retainers had testified to the
Governor TENER. He is greatly outraged,
the news dispatches from the State capi-
tol indicate, because the Republican State
Senate has not shown a dispostion to en-
act legislation in the interest of wage- |
earners which the FLINN platform of his
party promised. The Governor's com-
plaint is against an amendment offered
by Senator Crow, of Fayette county,
effect that TEDDY is the most exemplary
man that has ever adorned the public or
| private life of the country the defendant
corroborated their evidence and protested
| his profound regret that he had been
‘misled into the inexcusable error of
, charging, during the heat of political
| campaign, anything that could be tor-
| tured into an opposite view. Thereupon
sign it wadn't it unfortnate that it was inserted into the Workmen's Compensa- | co} for the plaintiff asked that Mr.
not the sixteenth instead of the Seven-
teenth amendment to the constitution.
" —ROOSEVELT sued for $10,000 and got
6cts. Well, the defendant was a country
editor and the verdict was probably in
keeping with the traditional condition of
the country editor's exchequer.
—CHARLES M. ScHwAB still holds onto
his belief that this is going to be the best
year the steel trade ever knew. CHARLEY
has not been specific enough. He should
state whether he means steel or steal.
—ALFRED AUSTIN'S death is to be
lamented. Just as is that of any other
good man, but it is casting no aspersion
on his character to remark that the
poetic muse did not go to the grave with
him.
. =If you are a Bellefonter and are |
thinking of entertaining guests during
the summer why not arrange to have
them during Chautauqua week. There
would be a daily help in entertaining
them.
—Every Monday morning the Metro-
politan papers record the tragic deaths
of many who might have been alive
today had they been spending a part, at
least, of Sunday in the good old church
at home,
—After all that Ishpeming court didn’t
clear the matter up much. We still
don’t see any particular difference be-
tween a man who really gets drunk and
one who is crazy enough to appear so to
the public.
—Don’t be hasty in thinking that
Ambassador PAGE is either knock-kneed
or bow-legged because he declines to wear
knee breeches at the Court of St. James.
Give him credit with being just a plain
American.
—[f the Department of Agriculture
makes good in its promise to give us
crowless roosters what in the world will
the Democratic papers use to express |
their elation when WILSON is re-elected
to the Presidency.
—JACK JOHNSON, champion pugilist of
the world, has been sentenced to a year
and a day in prison and $1000 fine for
violating the MANN white slave act. The
best part of the news is that the courts
have refused a new trial of the case.
—Gradually they have worked us
down from ham and eggs, fried potatoes
and mush for breakfast, via the soft
boiled egg and cereal route, until now
there are those who are trying to make
us believe that it is more wholesome to
eat no breakfast at all.
—A Chicago boy celebrated Memorial
day by swallowing a toy cannon, and the
same day a Chicago girl laughed so
heartily at a story told by her fiance that
a false tooth came loose and, falling into |
her throat, choked her to death. Surely
Chicago is a wonderful place.
—Eleven nations of the world have re-
sponded favorably to Secretary BRYAN'S
peace plan. Viewed in the light of what
has been accomplished at The Hague in
the past, this probably means that they
are all for peace so long as there isn't a
piece of some other nation’s territory to
be gobbled up.
--The fight among the Progressives at
Harrisburg is on. It was sure to come
and has been precipitated by the im-
peachment proceedings instituted against
Judge UmseL, of Fayette county. E.
Lowry HuMes is the fomenter and the
design is to keep BRUCE F. STERLING out
of his way for the position of state chair-
man
—The program for the Fourth of July
celebration in Bellefonte that has just
been made public is attractive enough to
please the caprice of most any commu-
nity. The arrangements are in the hands
of ladies who do things well or not at all
and the second of Bellefonte’s safe and
sane anniversary’s of the Nation's birth
may be looked forward to with much
pleasure in anticipation.
—The investigation of the lobby in
Washington will probably not reveal a
single case where a Senator or a Con-
gressman has directly sold his vote. It
will serve the purpose, however, of elimi-
nating pressure that is brought to bear to
influence them through friends, through
business connections, through tips on
all those
ked by men too clever MR god
wor! .
temp bribery. y
tion bill by the Committee on Corpora-
| tions of that body, which it is said, takes
the teeth out of the measure. “To pass
the bill with this amendment,” the Gov-
ernor says, “would be a farce.”
“When the devil is sick, the devil a
, monk would be.” Governor TENER has
| at last discovered that the people of
Pennsylvania will no longer tolerate the
outrages which have been perpetrated
| by his party at every opportunity within
| recent years. He has finally learned
| that unless there is an immediate and
' radical reversal of the policies of his
| administration and the Republican ma-
| chine the close of his term of office will
mark the disappearance of Republicans
from the public life of the Common-
wealth. Senator PENROSE wants to be
re-elected in a couple years and the am-
bitions of the Governor himself have not
been entirely fulfilled. But in the ab-
sence of a change in policies at Harris-
burg both of them might as well bury
themselves in a nunnery.
His recent change of heart is the re-
sult of these reflections.
| But the Governor can hardly hope to
| fool the people by this transparent pre-
tense of reform. Senator CROW has been
the mouthpiece of the State administra-
the present session of the Legislature be-
gan and no doubt the amendment
to the Workmen's Compensation bill
was inspired from the executive man-
sion. * Senator CROW is not the sort of
fellow who dumps the fat into the fire of
his own volition. He is a keen, calculat-
ing and shrewd politician and it is a safe
bet that the mistake was not his. But
| PENROSE has recently been in Harrisburg
| and the gubernatorial change of front
| may be attributed to that fact and the
| Governor remembers that “when the
i devil got well the devil a monk was he.”
——There is probably no truth in the
| report that President WiLsON will pro-
| mote the candidacy of one man for Sen-
| ator in Congress for Pennsylvania, and
| that Secretary of State BRYAN will take
| part in a contest for Governor of the
| State in behalf of another gentleman.
| President WILSON and Secretary BRYAN
are not likely to “butt-in” in factional
fights in States other than those in which
they vote.
The Lobby Investigation.
The proposed investigation of the
Senate with the view of smoking out the
lobby promises to be exceedingly inter-
esting. The sub-committee which will
conduct the inquiry will ask each Senator
to answer eleven questions and if they
| are frank and truthful in their replies,
the evil is certain to be exposed. The
questions are all pertinent as well as
pointed. “They go to the bottom of the
affair and leave nothing to conjecture.
In the event, however, that there is a
lack of candor the public is invited to
give information. It may be predicted
that the most important evidence will
come from the outside.
Some years ago there was an investiga-
tion of the Senate upon somewhat similar
lines. A tariff bill was pending then, as
now, and it was charged that Senators
who had acquired secret information
with respect to proposed changes in
schedules, speculated in the products af-
fected. Senator QUAY, of Pennsylvania,
was among those under suspicion and
when questioned promptly owned up and
added that he had made considerable
money by his transactions under the
circumstances. - He protested that he
saw nothing wrong in such operations
and his friends concurred in his views.
It made no difference in his relations
with the people of the State and es-
pecially with the captains of industry.
But public sentiment is different now.
The speculative operations of a Senator
in commodities affected by pending legis-
lation was as nearly stealing from help-
less children as it could possibly be and
at present will be so estimated in the
public mind. There is no accusation of
that kind now but it is charged that in-
terests which have been looting the pub-
lic for years are concerned in a lobby
aiming to prolong their graft and certain
Senators are under suspicion of aiding
and abetting the iniquity. The proposed
investigation will reveal the truth and in
so doing will accomplish a great good.
tion on the floor of the Senate ever since
! ROOSEVELT be permitted to make a state-
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| didn't want damages other than the
' nominal six cent verdict and the case
| If ROOSEVELT intends to run for Presi-
| dent again he very much needed the
i vindication which this dramatic incident
implies. There was a wide-spread popu-
| lar impression that ke is addicted to the
| drink habit and it is not unlikely that
| he lost a good many votes at the election
| of a year ago because of this fact. We
| are forced to believe that it was a wrong
| impression for the evidence of his ab-
stemiousness was so overwhelming that
| nothing is leftto doubt. But if the evi-
‘ dence had not been brought out, if the
! impression had been allowed to continue
and increase as itcertainly would have
done, until the opening of another Presi-
| dential campaign, it would have grown to
such proportions, that the protest of
ROOSEVELT and his satellites would have
failed to check it.
If the trial was a frame-up, however,
itmust have been an expensive luxury
for such a demonstration as the Colonel
made at Marquette costs a lot of money,
The managers of BARNUM & BAILEY'S
shows assert that no feature of their ex-
pense account runs up like those of trans-
portation and the street parades, and the
ROOSEVELT (expedition to Marquette was
strikingly like the movement of a circus
from one town to another and the street
pageant which follows its. arrival at its
festination. . But La e i
to be a candidate for President in 1916 it
was worth all it came to for it removed
the erroneous impressions of thousands
| cause they imagined that he was a drunk-
ard, whereas he is only erratic.
—Five years ago there were two
electric light companies in Tyrone and
the borough council made a contract for
street lighting for $39.40 per arc light
' and $15.00 for incandescent lights. Since
| then the one company has absorbed the
other and now the one company in ex-
istence demands $50 per arc light and
$20 for incandescents, and a contract for
five years with the privilege of ten. This
is the disadvantage of non-competition.
The Ledger's Conniption Fit.
Our heart bleeds for the esteemed
Philadelphia Ledger. It is suffering from
some sort of malady and writhes in its
distress. Obviously it has swallowed
something that disagrees with it. Its
Ladies’ Home Journal digestion is inade-
quate to the task of assimilating the
pabulum upon which modern newspapers
feed and it is suffering excruciating pain.
We pity it, of course, but can offer no
Post poultice would hardly do any good-
If the patient were in the adolescent
period of life, vermifuge might serve. But
being rather superanuated there appears
to be no remedy. 5
The trouble with our esteemed con-
temporary is the result of recent inci-
dents in Washington. The movement
inaugurated in the Senate to drive away
the corrupt lobby which has been retard-
the progress of tariff reform legislation
seems to be the last straw. “It is high
time,” our esteemed contemporary
shrieks, “for sober reflection at Washing-
ton. This country is not yet prepared
for a hysterical tariff reduction, although
it needs a careful and prudent downward
revision.” Probably such a revision as
was expressed in the PAYNE-ALDRICH
law would satisfy our Philadelphia con-
temporary and those in whose behalf it
speaks.
Nobody in Washington or out objects
to manufacturers speaking in their own
behalf whether they speak for or against
pending legislation. But there is grave
objection to manufacturers or others car-
| rying legislation through the methods
that Philadelphia politicians carry
elections and though every “galled
jade” in the country may wince
such practices will be stopped. Mean-
time we advise our esteemed contem-
porary to compose its perturbed spirits.
| The country is not geing to the dogs and
no amount of calamity howling will dis-
turb the industrial prosperity which is
present and promises to remain indefi-
nitely.
The ROOSEVELT libel suit at Marquette,
of people who were opposed to him be- |.
alleviative. Even a Safurday Evening
D FEDERAL UNION.
PA. JUNE 6. 1913.
Deadly and Indecent Innovation.
The State Senate refuses to be coerced
by the Governor and properly too. Ir-
to time, give the General Assembly in-
formation of the State of the Common-
- wealth, and recommend to their consid-
eration such measures as he may judge
expedient.” Having done that, however,
' he is at the limit of his power over the
| ment. Permission being granted the Legislature. In going beyond that he is are
Bull Moose chieftain declared that he | usurping authority and encroaching upon | gro 1
| the functions of a co-ordinate branch.
Until within less than a quarter of a
century no Governor would have dream-
| ed of forcing the Legislature into action
i for or against any pending piece of legis-
| 1ation. Previous to that time Governors | i
| exercised their constitutional authority
| in a constitutional way and being able
| and forceful men they did it well. But
there were no “administration measures”
in those days. The Governor made his
recommendations and if they were
enacted or bills in conflict with the con-
stitution passed he vetoed them in digni-
fied and decorous manner. But he never
lobbied or organized others to do so in
his stead or behalf.
It is vastly different now, however. At
the beginning of the session numerous
bills are mrked “administration meas-
ures” and every appointee and employee
in the executive department is sent upon
the floor of the chambers to solicit sup-
port, trade patronage for votes and
threaten the veto of legislation favored
by Senators and Representatives, who
refuse to obey orders from the executive
chamber. The present Governor has
been conspicuously bold and offensive in
this respect. He scarcely attempts to
conceal his interference or mask the
form
department of labor and industry and
appointed dean John Price Jackson, of
State College, as the commissioner. The
new department will take over the duties
and powers of the department of factory
inspection. Three bureaus are created
by the bill, inspection, statistics and arbi-
trations. The commissioner will receive
a salary of $8,000 per year and there will
be a chief inspector at $5,000, a chief
clerk at $2,000 and other office at-
taches, together with an attorney at
$3,000.
——Memorial day was fittingly observ-
ed in Bellefonte last Friday afternoon.
The old soldiers were assisted in their
and the school children. Following the
services at the cemetery the crowd gath-
ered in the court house where Judge
Walters, of Mt. Carmel, made a splendid
address. Later the old soldiers were en-
tertained at the Elks home from five un-
til seven o'clock. a
—Possibly the next Democratic can-
didate for Governor will not be chosen in
secret conference in Washington. That
is one of the things that has not been
delegated and the people may attend to
it themselves.
me MT. COREY, former president of
the Steel trust, will certainly get himself
disliked. He says the talk about the
He might have said poor stuff at that.
—Qut of that six cent verdict the
Colonel will be able to ‘pay street car
fare and have a penny left for the con-
tribution plate the next time he goes to
church.
The two per cent. interest on funds of
the National government will yield con-
siderable revenue but it will close up a
generous source of campaign contribu-
tions.
——Probably Colonel ROOSEVELT never
drank enough to make him hilarious but
in that event he has lost some oppor-
tunities to have a “corking” good time.
—Fourteen murders have been com-
mitted in Schuylkill county this year
and there are some people left who
might be spared.
—Something ought to be done with
the memory of the President who plant-
ed that mint bed in the White House
garden.
—Even if Mr. BRYAN'S “peace plans”
remains that ROOSEVELT copped the
prize.
adopted he approved the bills when they |
came to him. If vicious legislation were
loving and patriotic work by Company L '
UNDERWOOD bill closing mills is “stuff.” | they become
comes up to every expectation the fact Whi
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A Stirring G. 0. P. Drama.
| vious Senators of the people's bill;
' Antony Tener’s grief and horror and his
' noble excoriation of the base conspira-
tors; the rush to hisside of those splendid
| Senators, so Roman in their virtue, Pen-
| rose, Vare, McNichol, Salus and their
ilk; the crash of arms on the banks of
‘ the Susquehanna; the victory of the
| champions of the populace, and the
| wreaths of laurel for the triumphant gen-
erals.
What wonderful ity it shows,
and what Seri) origiua: strategy!
Could any one without the brain power
of a Penrose have devised such a coup?
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
! —The outlook for a milk condensary at Clear-
field is encouraging. That town has a live
chamber of commerce.
—At theWestern Pennsylvania Firemen's associ
| ation convention to be held at Punxsutawney, a
, total of $1,500 has been secured tobe awarded as
prizes in the various contests.
—State Forester Dutlinger, of Westport, has
just completed the planting of 90,000 white and
| Scotch pine trees on the Hopkins reservation, in
; the upper end of Clinton county.
—Mrs, Elizabeth Wilcosky, aged 52 years, died
near Latrobe recently of blood poison, caused by
her shoe rubbing a toe and something in the
stocking acting as poison to the tender flesh.
~The new bridge over the Susquehanna at Mc-
Elhattan is now open for traffic, much to the
gratification of residents on the north side of the
river who have waited long for the improvement.
~The Hyde city rolling mills, near Clearfield,
which have been idle for several years, and re-
cently leased by the Newell Engineering Co., of
Philadelphia, will be started at once in every de-
partment.
—Delayed four times as she was about to cross
the big water, Mrs. Antonio Cucchoi arrived
from Italy to join her husband at Williamsport.
Her coming with her little folks was the occasion
of great rejoicing.
—Miss Erma Frye, of Latrobe, is suffering from
a nervous collapse. She went to a picnic and
danced all day. then went to another dance in
the evening. Next morning she collapsed and
has since been seriously ill.
=]. B. Themas, a carpenter employed in Canoe
valley, being unable to obtain alcoholic stimu.
lants, drank a quantity of bay rum and was taken
to the Huntingdon hospital, where he died some
hours later. He was 60 vears old.
—Derry must pay a balance of $1,195.34 claimed
by the contractor who installed its sewer system.
The borough officials claimed that the job was
not completed according to the contract, but the
evidence in court was against them.
—Falling through an elevator shaft in the Na-
than building, Johnstown, Abraham Kadetsky
dropped from the fourth floor to the bottom of
theshaft and was instantly killed. He was 17
years old and had been employed by the store
for only eight days.
—Charles Isenberg, a Canoe valley boy, was
driving a team drawing a wagon load of stone
down a hill when the brake lock broke. The boy
was thrown and the wagon passed over him, for-
tunately, however, at so great a speed as to leave
him without fatal injury. )
—Paul Guibert and John Conrad, two Civil war
veterans who are walking from Pittsburgh to
Gettysburg for the semi-centennial celebration,
accepted an auto ride for a short distance in the
vicinity of Latrobe. They are taking their hike
by easy stages and enjoying it hugely.
—Ridgway has decided to celebrate the coming
Fourth of July in old fashion style, with a num-
ber of new fangled notions mixed in among which
will be flying machines and the like. The board
of trade of the city has taken charge of the mat-
ter and it is now down to a business basis.
—Over 21,000 veterans of Pennsylvania regi-
ments and veterans of the Union and Confederate
armies resident in the State have filed applica-
tions for transportation to the Gettysburg battle-
field and quarters in the camp for veterans dur-
ing the celebration of the semi-centennial of the
battle next month.
‘+==Charles Kuhn, aged 15, and Harold Bankert,
aged 16, were riding a motorcycle at DuBois a
few days ago at so high a rate of speed that when
they came to the railroad crossing at the same
time as a passenger train arrived, they could not
get the machine stopped, but dashed into the
train. Young Kuhn was killed and the other lad
seriously injured.
—Twenty-one boys and girls made up the grad-
uating class of the Philipsburg High school. One
of the number was in the hospital suffering from
a fractured skull. He was hit on the forehead
with a ball while playing at his home. The acci-
dent cast a deep gloom over the class, but the
hope that he will recover cheered them and they
carried out the program all right.
—Governor Tener his signed the Senate bill re-
pealing the section of the act of May 1, 1909, pro-
viding for the catching of fish in fish baskets and
issuance of licenses. Under the act the use of
fish baskets was permitted if licenses were grant.
ed by the county treasurer of the county. The
repealing of the act makes it illegal to use fish
baskets to catch eels, suckers or any kind of fish.
—In November, 1911, Master Walter Paul, of
Summerhill, fell from a shed roof and was impal-
ed on an alder sapling. Three times he was tak-
en to the Memorial hospital, Johnstown, for an
operation, but died before the third one was per-
to formed. Hewas 11 years old and particularly
dear to an aged grandfather, who stayed ata
nearby hotel all the time the boy was in the hos-
: | pital
~Plans for the reunion of the Isenberg families
in Pennsylvania which will occur at Lakemont
park Thursday, August21, will be completad at a
special meeting announced by the committee at
Huntingdon the evening of Thursday, June 12.
The program for the day and other matters of
importance will be taken up at this time and the
various other committees appointed by the gen-
eral committee.
—Between $15,000 and $16,000 has been placed
in the First National bank of Altoona, discovered
in the coat of Willis Browning, a hermit who died
alone in his cabin across the ridge from Barree
Forge, on Tuesday night. There is no one to
claim it. The money was found in the inside
pocket of the only coat Browning was known to
possess. $15,000 were in large bills and almost
$1,000 in small bills,
—William H. Page, of Mineral Point, has in-
structed attorney Francis J. O'Connor, of Johns-
town, to bring suit against the Johnstown Water
company for $10,000 as damages for injuries re-
ceived while at work on a tipple at the new Salt-
lick dam last October, when one of his lungs was
pierced, an arm was broken in two places and a
hip was badly injured. Dr. Page alleges negli-
gence on the part of the company.
—On May 6, the Supreme court ordered the
commissioners of Huntingdon county to pay the
scalp ordersheld by justice of the peace B. F.
Isenberg and they accordingly began paying the
orders held by all justices or trappers all over
the county. Up to June 1, they paid out during
the month the sum of $8,355 for bounties on wild-
cats, minks, weasels and foxes. Farmers hunt-
ed up all orders dating as far back as 1908.
~The capture of a stolen auto at Lewistown
last week proved to be the spoiling of an elope-
ment of a college student and a 16-year-old girl
from Boston. They had walked from Boston to
Philadelphia, had stolen the auto at Haverford.
When they reached Lewistown their hunger and
lack of funds impelled them to try the charge
trick on the local store, which led to their undo-
ing. The girl was taken home by her parents
and the young man to Philadelphia to answer the
charge of theft.
=--David Everett made a written confession on
Monday to District Attorney Strouss that he mur-
dered Henry E. Miller in Sunbury last year.
‘When on trial for his participation in the crime
he placed the blame for the murder upon Fred-
erick Nye, who was his companion, and Nye was
sentenced to be hanged, Everett receiving a sen-
tence for maaslaughter, The case was taken to
the Supreme court, which declined to interfere,
an 1 an appeal is now pending before the pardon
be vd. Robbery was the motive for the murder.