INK SLINGS.
‘—=Tue was one of Nature's master
ie ix
- Greece and Turkey have arranged
a peace treaty but both sides have sus-
picions that the other has something up
his sleeve.
—Many Center county farmers are
unable to get their crops into their barns.
Now, if we had a Republican President
the calamity (?) would be blamed on
him.
—Washington police have decided that
a man is drunk when he can't walk a
chalk-line. But why worry about the
chalk-line so long as your tongue isn't
too thick to call a taxi?
—Now wouldn't it be mean if they
were just precipitating that trouble in
Mexico in order to cheat Secretary
BRYAN out of the opportunity to com-
plete his lecture course.
_—So far as taking the public into the
confidence of the man it elects to repre-
sent it is concerned A. MITCHELL PALMER
goes on the principle that when men like
himself are chosen it is already ‘taken
in"
—If Milady sticks to those split skirts
for a winter style we fancy the good old
woolen stockings that our grandmothers
knit will have to displace the gauzy silk
. things that peep out through the split
now.
—Mr. CHARLES J. VoOPICKA, of Chicago,
is to be our new Minister to the Balkan
States. We imagine that the appoint:
ment has been made contingent upon
any of them being left by the time he
gets over there.
—Of course it was a harmonious gath-
ering in Harrisburg on Wednesday. What
else could by expected when all the sore-
heads and kickers the party has known
in the past quarter of a century were
running things just to their liking.
—ROLAND S. MORRIS, the new chair-
man of the Pennsylvania Democracy,
may prove a very useful leader for his
party, and that usefulness will be lim-
ited only by the extent to which he per-
mits his organization to be formed and
run on the principle that it is the person-
al asset of PALMER and MCCORMICK.
—We fancy that Mr. Auditor General
POWELL is not actuated solely by inter.
est in the public welfare when he re-
fuses to sign warrants for certain expen-
ditures made by the last Legislature. It
is altogether likely that he wouldn't let
a chance pass to put the TENER adminis:
tration in a hole, and thereby boom him-
self and the rest of the Bull Moosers a
little.
—County chairman ARTHUR B. Kim.
PORT is to move to Montgomery county
where he will be engaged in farming—
not reorganizing the Democratic party of
that county. We understand that Mr.
KiMPORT feels that he drove his pigs to a
poor market when he turned over the
Centre county organization to PALMER
and MCCORMICK and has a lump in his
throat that sounds like a gold brick.
However that may be he's a nice fellow,
everyway but politically, and possibly a
change of environment will bring the op-
portunity to set himsclf right in that di-
rection.
—The Governor vetoed the bill mak-
ing the daisy the official flower of Penn-
sylvania. The red clover, the lilac and
the trailing arbutus had also been sug-
gested, but discarded when sentiment in
the Legislature chrystallized about the
daisy. So far as the needs of the Com-
monwealth are concerned it is not a
matter of great importance whether we
have a State flower or not, but the deeper
we delve into the political history of
Pennsylvania the more the appropriate-
ness of the daisy becomes apparent; for
of all the States in the Union Republican
Pennsylvania certainly is “the daisy.”
—A Chicago minister declared from
his pulpit on Sunday that the world is
growing better; so much better, in fact,
that were SoLoMON living today, and
living as the Mible records his life, he
would not be accepted as a member of
any ecclesiastical organization. We
velieve this and recommend it to the
sober consideration of those pious old
frauds who are continually exuding the
“Holier than Thou” atmosphere and
look like a dill pickle with the juice
squeezed out. The world is growing bet-
ter and that is the reason the real
christian is hopeful and happy and
effervescent with the joy of living.
—Chautauqua is over, so far as Belle-
fonte is concerned. We think those
skeptics who thought it would not be a
success have had ample cause to form
other conclusions; those uninformed who
thought Chautauqua meant a street car-
nival or a frivolous amusement enter-
prise have been brought to know of the
seriousness of the undertaking. It is
needless to say that we recall nothing
that has started people in Bellefonte to
talking and thinking of things out of
the ordinary groove of their lives like
the gatherings during the past week
have done. They have brought whole-
some instruction, as well as entertain-
ment and the one regret is that the op-
portunity could not be extended to more
of our people. Chautauqua week prom-
ises to be one of the fixed and enjoy-
able institutions of Bellefonte.
“Philadelphians look to the iniquities of
VOL. 58.
Corruption in Chicago and Philadelphia.
A well known Philadelphian who has
recently been spending some time in
Chicago professes to be greatly outraged
because a witness before an investigat-
ing committee testified that the buying
of votes is customary in that mid-west.
ern metropolis. “I do not know of any
specific case,” declared the witness, "but
it is common knowledge that votes are
bought and sold on the North side.
Every election must be taken by
itself,” he continued, "and must be
handled separately. You have to put up
money to get these people, a majority of
whom are known as ‘floating population,’
to come out and vote.” The Philadel
phian who makes reference to this mat.
ter suggests that politics be kept out of |
civil service. !
No doubt such a remedy would work |
improvement. If municipal party victo- |
ries carried no spoils of office there |
would be little inducement to corrupt the
electorate. It is largely the hope of |
reward, through the medium of |
lucrative office, that induces the agents |
of party or candidates to “come across” i
with the coin when mercenary voters |
or floaters demand cash for their!
votes. But we have a party gov-!
ernment and parties must be maintained |
in order to give force and effect to party Or apology. But because his frankness |
principles. The basis of party organiza-
tion is the small offices. If thecivil serv- |
ice is kept out of politics absolutely, |
there will be no party force to struggle |
for the maintenance of party princi:
ples.
But aside from this what reason is |
there for a Philadelphian to hold Chicago | had some understanding of the cost of |
1
up to popular contempt because votes
are bought with money in that city? For |
years Philadelphia has been the most
corrupt city in the country and if votes
are not bought with money they are
purchased with official patronage so that |
the people who receive no benefit from |
political victories pay the expenses in-!
stead of those who have direct advan-
tages through the spoils of office. Let
their own political methods rather than
criticise those of others. There is plenty
of ground for reformation in the Quaker
city to keep the citizens of Philadelphia
busy.
—There are lots of daisies in Penn-
sylvania, in every sense of the word, but
it isn't the “State flower.” Governor
TENER vetoed the daisy bill and speak-
ing of daisies there area good many peo-
ple who think TENER is a daisy.
Embarassing Rumors in Harrisburg.
The new Auditor General, who is the
political and official apple of BiLL FLINN'S
eye, has created consternation on Capitol
hill, Harrisburg, by announcing that he
will not issue warrants for appropri-
ations to departments of the State gov-
ernment created since the adoption of
the Constitution of 1873. That instru.
ment declares that "the general appropri-
ation bill shall embrace nothing but ap-
propriations for the ordinary expenses of
the executive, legislative and judicial de-
partments of the government, interest
on the public debt and for public schools.”
Strictly construed that would prevent the
appropriation in that bill of money for
the health depart nent, the highway de.
partment and others.
Of course the object of the Auditor
General in adopting the course he
threatens to pursue is to embarrass the
State administration. Deprived of funds
to meet the expenses of the health and
highway departments would certainly
play havoc with the service of those de-
partments. But the Auditor General is
sworn to “support, obey and defend” the
constitution, and unless he is interfered
with by the courts, he has the right to
put his own interpretation upon it. The
remedy, of course, is in a special session
of the Legislature and the passage of
separate bills to cover the operations of
all departments created since the adop-
tion of the constitution of 1873.
The Attorney General has been ap-
pealed to for a solution of the problem
which will be satisfactory to the threat.
ened departments and no doubt will
make such a response as is desired. At-
torney General BELL can always be de-
pended upon to twist the law to suit the
purposes of the Governor. But up to
the present time, Wednesday evening, no
decision has been rendered and in any
event the Auditor General alleges that
he wili not be deterred by an opinion of
the Attorney General. us pro-
ceedings are the only means of forcing
Mr. FLINN's friend and that will nec-
essarily be a slow and tedious method of
achieving results and may fail in the
end. : :
——No doubt Mr. MELLEN, of the New
Haven and Hartford, is convinced that
SELLE
STATE RIGHTS AN
FONT
Mr. Bryan and His Salary.
The Senate wisely tabled the resolution
of Mr. Bristow, of Kansas, asking the
| President to indicate what amount of
salary would compensate the Secretary
of State if he should give his whole time
to the service of the government. In the
first place the President couldn't answer
such a question, if he were disposed to.
Under the constitution Congress fixes
the salaries of all public officers and pub-
lic officers are expected to give as much
time to their work as is necessary to per-
form it well. One man may be able to
do twice as much work in a given time
as another. Besides it was a trifie im-
pertinent for a supporter of ROOSEVELT
to ask such questions anyway.
Probably Mr. BRYAN was in a measure
unhappy in his statement of the matter.
He announced that in keeping engage-
ments made before he became Secretary
of State he did so to supplement his
salary as Secretary so as to make it cover
the expenses of living in Washington.
That is to say the salary of the office is
not sufficient to pay the cost of living in
the style commensurate with the dignity
of the office, and he proposed to lecture
to make up the difference. He would
better have gone on with his lecturing
during his vacation without explanation
was a blunder is no reason why Bristow
should become impertinent. One offense
is as great as the other. v
Everybody knows that Mr. BRYAN is a
man of considerable means if not actually
| wealthy. When he accepted the office he |
knew what the saldry is and presumably
E, PA JULY 25. 1913
D FEDERAL UNION.
The Chestnut Blight Appropriation.
The Governor's veto of the appropria-
tion for the Chestnut Blight Commission
will put an end to the farce which has
and in that event the lesser amount pro-
vided by the present Legislature would
have been wasted. The fact is, however,
that though most if not all the appro-
priation of 1911 has been spent no ap-
preciable good has been obtained. The
blight has scarcely been arrested.
Unquestionably the chestnut blight is
a great evil and there is urgent need for
checking its progress through the forests '
of the State. But a movement which is
really intended to promote the political
interests of a party machine is necessa-
rily inefficient and unsuccessful and
there are reasons to believe that the
Chestnut Blight Commission was created
for party service rather than to obliterate |
an evil. It is said that as many as 200
persons were employed in the work and
it is known that a considerable number
of trees were cut down in the process of
the operation. But no report of favor:
able result comes from anywhere.
In any event the Governor was up
| against it and cuts had to be made in
| the appropriations to make ends meet. |
It may be charged that favoritism was |
shown in the operation and that some
Es
question
items which were not interfered with criticism and condemnation.
might have been cut while others which !
were torn to pieces would better have |
been allowed to remain. But that is a
matter of judgment and the Governor
living under the circumstances involved.
His statement, therefore, makes him ap- :
pear to be a money-grubber, willing to
put the dollar above the man. Moreover, |
it suggests that possibly the grape-juice
incident was more in the interest of
economy than morality, grape-juice being
cheaper than champagne. But what-
ever his motives it may be assumed that
Mr. BRYAN will fulfill his public and pri-
vate.obligations af in any event what
he does is in no respect the business of
Senator BRISTOW.
——The mayor of Richmond fined a
woman for wearing a split skirt on the
street and the chief of police of Pitts.
burgh declares that women may wear
what they like. When “doctors dis.
agree” upon such a question itis time
for the rest of us to take to the woods.
Democratic Harmony and Hope.
There was certainly a fine type of
harmony organized at the meeting of the
Democratic State Central Committee in
Harrisburg, the other day Every motion
was carried unanimously and so far as
our reports of the events go, there was
not a discordant note during the session.
Of course very few of those present and
participating knew Mr. RoLAND S. MOR-
RIS, who was unanimously elected chair-
man. But Mr. PALMER assured them all
that MORRIS is “all right” ard as Mr.
PALMER is the dispenser of patronage,
that was sufficient. Any fellow who
takes a different view of the subject
can eat husks with the cattle for four
years to come.
And as a matter of fact Mr. MORRIS
may be all right. He is a young man of
excellent character, clean life and ex-
emplary habits. There are active and
earnest Democrats in Philadelphia who
may think that he doesn’t know always
where his voting place is. But that
makes little difference. It is generally
believed in Pittsburg that former Chair-
man GUTHRIE could only find his polling
place when he wanted to vote the Repub-
lican ticket, yet because New York, Illi-
nois, Wisconsin and several other hither-
to Republican States gave Democratic
majorties last year, Mr. GUTHRIE is cred-
ited with having conducted a successful
campaign and certainly did well for him.
self.
The new Chairman will begin work at
once, we are led to believe, and it is not
unreasonable to expect that he will ac-
compiish considerable during the cam.
paign of this year, which is practically
only a preliminary skirmish before the
more important battle of next year, when
one of the reformers will aspire to the
Governorship. We certainly believe that
| Chairman MORRIS will do his best at any
rate and that is all that can be asked.
The only other aspirant for the Chair-
manship will probably be consoled with
the secretaryship, though of course this
will be a spontaneous result for reform-
ers never make bargains in advance and
those now in control are reformers
| surely.
——Chinamen are developing a won-
derful faculty for revolutions, but thus far
the original Republic continues to do
business at the oid stand. Still the re-
tariff tinkering is the worst thing that
could happen the country.
turns from the back townships are with.
| held.
i
is responsible to the people for his action. |
If there is fault it lies in the Legislature |
which is under both moral and legal obli- |
gations to determine not only what ap-
propriations shall be made but what
| amounts shall be appropriated in every |
| instance. When the Legislature abdicates |
we must take chances.
| ——In last week’s WATCHMAN atten-
ition was called to the very poor curb |
' market in Bellefonte this year and the |
| condition was not improved last Satur- |
| day, when only four wagons were there.
| This lack of attendance at the curb mar- |
ket is not entirely because of the short-
age in garden truck but owing to the!
scarcity of help on the farm. Farm labor |
has been hard to get all season and the
farmers have been so busy with their
{ regular crops that they have had no
| time to gather and market garden truck
| or berries. What has been brought to.
| market has been done almost entirely by
the farmer's wives and daughters. This
condition of affairs is rather hard on |
Bellefonte, as it is next to impossible for i
those who have no gardens to get even’
an occasional supply of fresh vegetables, |
while it has been many years since ber- |
ries were as scarce here as they are now, ;
notwithstanding the fact that they are
reported quite plentiful in the country
and on the mountains. i
— That home is only what you make
‘t and that any place where the hand of '
tarift is at work will be transformed into
a place of beauty is self-evident, and’
most wonderfully exemplified about one
particular home on Water street in Belle-
fonte. We refer to the yard and garden
that surround the home of Mrs. Will
Larimer. Once unsightly, uninviting and
a veritable dumping ground for refuse it
has been transformed as if by magic
into a lovely little bower, abloom with
flowers and green with carefully cropped
shrubbery and grass. A glance over the
fence there as one passes on the street,
is all that is necessary to reveal the na-
ture of the occupant and it is a striking
lesson to those who have no interest in
their environment, no concern about
making the home a home, no ambition to
get away from the ugly things when the
beautiful are so easily obtainable.
~=—Most of the farmers in Centre
county have completed their harvesting
and gotten their wheatin the barn. The
oats are beginning to ripen and it wont |
be long until they will be ready to cut. |
The Ladies Aid society of the
United Brethren church will hold a bake-
sale of bread, rolls, pies, cakes and ice
crezm, Saturday afternoon and evening,
in the room adjoining the church.
—There may be more or less public |
interest in Mr. BRYAN'S salary but it can
wait until after the tariff bill is disposed
of. The high cost of living affects more
salaries than one. ;
~The split skirt may be as bad as
its worst enemies paint it, but on the
seashore it would hardly attract passing
notice.
—
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
£3
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if
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common
ago,
Fadicabs criminality.
Then suggested
the Navy get
S386 he Nearly wistid the
suggesting that officers
the navy mess with the enlisted men.
Had that suggestion
5
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too, and one
De -;
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sent the whole
Now
for money, and
A a
a 0 government
the railroads. Admittedly tiete
question of taste involved but
is good enough for
Four Cabinet officers are already on
the list. Who'll come next?
SE ——
Protecting the Laborer.
From the New York World.
Tariff on food to sustain his life.
Tariff on clothes for f and wife;
Tariff on tables, tariff on chairs.
Tariff on carpet for floors and stairs;
Tariff on soap to make him clean.
Tariff, too, on the sewing machine.
Tariff on watches, tariff on clocks.
Tariff on cotton to darn his. Pu
Tariff on stoves;*of pans to v
Tariff, too, on his coal supply;
Tariff on buckets, tariff on tubs.
Tariff on the board where his good
wife rubs;
Tariff on wringers where the clothes:
are wrung.
Tarif on the line on which they're
ung;
Tariff on flat-irons, boards and wax.
Tariff on nails and tariff on tacks.
Tariff on hammers to drive them in.
Tariff on pie-board and rolling-pin;
Tariff on dishes and dish too.”
Tariff on the towels wi! washin's
Tarte os aiioke, 6 @njOVE At.pight
Tariff on the oil that gives him light;
Tariff on the paper where he reads the
news.
Tariff on leather to sole his shoes;
Tariff on washstand, bureaus and bed.
Tariff on the pillow where he rests his
Tariff on sweets for his children’s
Tariff on dolls and tariff on toys;
Tariff on ev'rything. Let me see—
Oh, no; labor enters duty free?
—George Alfred Maurer.
- Good for Switzerland.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
It is to the credit of the Swiss hotels
example of
Carry g
From the Detroit Free Press.
The Washington
wants to prevent
on the that it
, not
vent the use of
F
Sor $02 Des of State Bryan he t
can’
ive on his salary hence his Chautauqua
lectures. In his case speech isg
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Ten children died in Johnstown on Sunday,
~When the wheel mill of the Standard Powder
works at Horrell Station was destroyed by an-ex-
plosion from some unknown cause on July 18th,
Frank Myers, an employee, was virtually biown
to atoms.
—The much-talked-of New York Central repair
shops at Clearfield are at last to materialize, and
it is said will employ from 100 to 150 men. The
ground has been staked off for the shops, the
size of which will be 50x480 feet.
~Lycoming county will have another murder
trial. Edward Stiger is held without bail on the
charge of killing Clarence Moyer. The victim
lived for some time, but finally succumbed to his
injuries at the Williamsport hospital.
~Four.year-old William Norris, of Derry, is
one of those children hard to kill. He fell twen-
ty-five feet from the trestle of the Derry sand
works, landing on a pile of stones, and escaped
with a broken arm and a severely cut head.
~The State Grange will hold its annual meet-
ing in Reading, December 9th, 1913. This was
decided at a conference of officials of the State
Grange, chamber of commerce, board of trade
and Berks county Agricultural society at Reading
on July 18th.
~Charles Haas, of Hillgrove, and James Haas,
of Charlestown, W. Va., met afew davs ago at
the home of their sisters at Sunbury. They had
not seen each other for thirty-five years, and
neither knew the other was expected, yet the rec-
ognition was mutual and speedy.
| —Mrs. E. W. O'Brien, hurrying from a Wil
liamsport store to catch a Reading train for Mun-
cy, where she intended visiting friends, fell dead
opposite the court house, stricken with heart fail-
ure. She was 69 years old, a long time resident
of the city and an active Methodist.
—An Italian laborer on Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh railway work near Homer City was
told to get some rocks out of the way. After he
had turned over three stones and killed a copper-
head unearthed from under each, he requested a
change of job, stating his fear that the devil him-
self was in the neighborhood.
—With a bullet hole in his neck and a rifle at
found by two boys in the woods on the outskirts
of Altoona on July 18. He left home the Satur-
day previous, and it is believed he was accident-
ally shot while examining his rifle.
—Mrs. Guilla Patrelli, whose husband was
hanged at Greensburg on May 16, was married
was enraged when his wifeinformed him that she
ig be married soon after he departed this
~The worst mine disaster in Indiana county
since the tragedy at Sykesville two years ago
happened last week, when four men were killed
by a fall of roof at the Cummins shaft. Two wid-
ows, one with two children and the other with
one, survive two of the foreigners. One was sin-
gle and the only American, William Reed, was 19
years old.
—About two o'clock Saturday afternoon fire in
a rubbish heap in the rearon Market street, Lew-
isburg, between Third and Fourth streets, spread
to the barn of O. H. Kreisher and before it was
extinguished it had destroyed several structures,
done $25,000 worth of damage and fire companies
from Milton and Mifflinburg had been brought
to help in the fight.
—Home remedies failing to cure, Mrs. Henry
Feds, aear Shamokin, calle n, who
pronounced her ¢ small-pox.
Friends and neighbors had been visiting her for
ten days, prescribing various remedies. Mrs,
Foulds had visited a circus, it is said, and there
contracted the disease. Because of her many
callers, serious trouble is feared.
—Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shilling, of Pine town-
ship, Indiana county, are under arrest, charged
with paying Mrs. Shilling’s son, Peter Breth, $20
for burning their dwelling to secure the insur-
ance. The company became suspicious and
started an investigation. When the boy was
charged with the crime he is said to have made
the confession which implicated the parents.
—Sixty-seven cases of whooping cough have
been reported in Huntingdon and Secretary
Black, of the local board of health, is satisfied
that more than twice that manv more are not re-
ported. He has asked the state board to take
charge and is seriously considering resigning
himself because of criticism on his activity. Itis
feared now that the opening of the schools will
be delayed.
—The school board of Williamsport has select-
ed Kittanning brick for the new $210,000 High
school building to be erected in that city. The
bidding of brick manufacturers to furnish the
brick was keen and close. Samuel Larrivee, the
contractor, who has already begun work on the
building, was compelled to give bond for an
amount equal to the bid, as a guarantee that he
will complete the building at the price named.
~~The State Fish Department has been notified
that work has commenced by the McCall's Ferry
Dam company on the new fishway by which it is
proposed to let shad up the Susquehanna river.
The fishway will be sixty feet wide at the top on
the York shore, extending down from 600 to 1,
000 feet, the bottom of the new arrangement be-
ing made like the river bed so as to make the
shad believe they are following the natural chan-
nel.
—A gypsy woman at Mt. Dallas persuaded C.
H. Feathers, a railroad employee, to get out his
pocketbook, saying that she could foretell com-
ing events better if she could see money. When
father's life when he had his foot cut off by the
knives of his mower. Something was wrong
with the machine and Mr. Walker got off to ex-
amine it. While he was standing the horses
more than 500 pounds. The casket which was
made to order, was six feet three inches long,
thirty-nine inches wide and twenty-six inches