i A EEE Hl AN i THE OENTRE Resonren }; : | 1008 Arbor Day. [ The following poem, by W. A. Krise, was spoken by Miss Lois Krise at the Arbor day ex- ercises in Jas, B. Strohm's school | We used to read a pretty poem Called, * Woodman, spare that tree,” Where oft beneath its ample shade We played with childish glee. But now, alas! that tree Is gone, Its stump no shade affords, The lumberman has cut it down And sawed it into boards, The lumbermen have spoiled our woods By cutting down cur trees, And as the traveler passes by The stumps are all he sees The whistle of the steam saw mill Still echoes through the vaie, Each day its sounds reverberate Far over hill and dale, The saw mill's days will soon be o'er, The trees will all be cut, And then we'll build with concrete blocks From palace down to hut, Our state has bought large tracts of land, To save our mountalo streams From drying up in summer time Beneath the sun's hot beams. Now on this A rbor day we meet Each one to plant a tree, That for the future boys and girls A shelter it will be Our teacher who Is very kind Will take the lead today, And give to every one a chance His little speech to say mn ————] DEATHS MRS. JOHN Mrs. Elizabeth BANEY Baney died at the age of years and six days. Brush Val- ley at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Arabella Hou'z, cared for her during the las: few months of her life, as well as for her sadly afflicted hus- band, John Bapey She is survived by ber husband and four children: Albon, of Port Matilda ; David, of Sinking Valley, Blair county; Mrs. Lucy Walters, of Altoona Mrs, Clarence Hou'z, of Madisonburg. Three brothers survive her: Zachariah Hershberger, of Milesburg ; H. H. Hershberger, Esq., of Belle fonte, and Dr. Bamuel Hershberger, of Port Matilda; also two sisters, Mrs, John Yearick, of Bellefonte, and Mrs. Mary Lohr, of Pasadena, Cal. Ioter- ment wae in Zion cemetery. Services were condicted Rev, L. N. Fleck. seventy-three Death occurred lu who and Hit ar als by her pastor, M. W. BENNER. M. W. Benner died on the 22d ult, at Oak Hall, aged fifty-five years and twelve days. Deceased is survived by a wife and five children: Marian, Laura, Harry and Edwin, at home, and Irs Benner, of Houserville ; one sister and two brothers ;: Mrs. W. H. Close, of Oak Hall ; Philip, of Houser- ville, and Harvey, of Rock forge. Cause of death was cancer of the liver. Interment at Meyer's cemetery. E. R. JONES, E. R. Jones, a well known citizen of Port Matilda, died at his home aged sevenly-two years. For some time he had been suffering from rheumatism, but about two weeks ago he was seized with an attack of hiceoughs which could not be stopped, and which re- sulted in his death. MRS, JOEN SCHLAGEL. Mra. John Behlagel died at her home at Wolfs Store aged thirty-two years. She leaves to survive her husband and two children. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev, F. Wetzel, Interment was made at Aaronsburg. WILLIAM L. WILSON Wm. L. Wilson, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Half Moon Valley, died at his home of diseases incident to old age. He was born September 5, 1818, and had resided in Centre county the greater part of his life, MI88 IDA K. YOUNG. Miss Ida Klinger Young, dsughter of Henry Young, of Spring township, died at the Bellefonte hospital Batur- day evening. Bhe had been operated upon for appendicitis the Thursday previous. Her age was twenty-six years, ELIAS SPANGLER. At the age of eighty-nine years, nine months and thirteen days, Elias Bpangler died at his home in Middle- burg. Two brothers survive, one of whom is ex-Bheriff John Bpangler, of Centre Hall, JACOB COOK. Jacob Cook, aged sixty-three years, brother of ex-Sheriff C. C. Cook, of Howard, died at Marlboro, Md, and was buried at that place, LOCALS, Election day : Tuesday, November 0. Sunday school convention at Bpring Mills Friday of this week. Two car loads of cattle and hogs were shipped from Coburn last week, Messrs, J. 1. Potter and John Garver recently shipped a car load of potatoes to Pittsburg. A census of Altoona, just taken, shows that the population is now 65, 000, » goin of 156,000 in two years, In making up y nur ticket don’t for- get the jury commissioner. The name is the last on the ticket, but important, Bate up for 3. Adam Hazel. MERY REOPENS BRIBERY CASES MoNichol, Who Won $5000 on Mar- shall’s Election, Invited to Court, Incidental to speculation om the outl- some of Contractor James I. McNich- ol's challenge for production of proof by Lewis Emery, Jr, that McNichol bought five votes at $15,000 aplece to elect Marshall speaker of the house fn 1801, is the recollection that Mc- Nichol's deep interest in that neces- pay preliminary to Quay's election as Inited States Senator, prompted him o bet $5000 that Marshall would win, n the present woe of the Ganguters bver the revelations of new capitol graft, the forcing upon the public of reminiscences of the notoriously large amount of big bribery done in what, 4p to that time, was “The Gang's” worst legislature, makes the capitol Veurnishers' ’ burden of worry unbear- able. But the McNichol controversy natin- rally recalls that on the eve of the vote on Marshall and Koontz for the speakership, McNichol, while at din. her in the Commonwealth Hotel with Broker Frank F. Bell, of Philadelphia, and one or two others, offered to make the $5000 bet with “Archie” Mackrell, bt Pittsburg. Mackrell agreed, and went out to consult with “Bill” Flinn Mackrell soon had the “wherewith” and he and McNichol put the $10,000 into the hands of Broker Bel as stakeholder. That's all, and it is only interesting now as a reminder of ths FAush” his story of the allegation against Me- Niehol. But the from a published narrative is also ap- ropoOSs: Carnival of Bribery. From the very hour opened, on January 1, the time the gavels fell at final ad- Sournment on June 25 the carnival of fraud, bribery. corruption, debauch- ery and riotous Alsregard for the rights | of the people was continuous. Among incidents to show the desper- ation of the Gang in efforts to organ- ize both branches, one anti-Machine [Republi can member from a county ad. Soiniag Philadelphia was offered $60. boo if he would go into the “regular” speakership caucus and take the two other anti-Machirne members from his county with him. The same sum wai pald for three of the Democratic votes recorded for Marshall, but the men who did the voting did not get all the money, A member ele Re pt a spul vote f session 1801, down te the machine when the leg but turned up He is when he ted as an anti ean stayed AWAY was organized or Quay on Jan $10 000 riches todd re to uary 15 sald to be than WR 5 elem Ackawanna Hy wr ' Fr 12 0 he B” Republican after loyal insurgs and Marshall, coast his vots WHS Qui as a 35008 and majority EAST nt IX BEANS: Quay § sted rt ‘regularity nher elected as an in. n time (O save on the list ol 000, and the ex- intermediary an member from eastern inty sold his vote on the irg Ripper to both sides, and the Gang would not buy him refused to vote at all few Incidents were only among the preliminaries to the wholesale buy. selling on through the session and Barefaced,” Said Gobin. regu an Pitesh becan twice These se and “Open The Republi an Lieutenant Gover nor John Pp 8. Gobin, always an “or. ganizat ' man, who personally pre sided over almost every session of the machine-controlled senate, said In Pittaburg, on September 8. 1901, as quoted in the principal newspapers of the state “I am dons with politics Jegislature settled me to drive any man out.’ “How is that, Governor? | uite catch what you mean,” ‘mer Senator J W. Leo, Who WAS present. ! Why, you've heard about all the Btories of bribery and corruption down at Harrisburg,” replied the Lieutenant [Boyernor, in a tone that indicated he lieved every man, woman and child in Pennsylvania should know of the outrages that had been perpetrated al the state capitol while the freesbooter: were in session “Oh, you mean the bribery of the legislators Yes, 1 know what you mean, now,” replied Mr. Lee. The followed a discussion about the spen buying of votes of members of the nasembly, “Open,” exclaimed General Gobin “I never heard of anything like it Never knew a time when it was sec wpen and barefaced. Why, everybody seemed to know it People on the treets talked about it, and pointed out this and that man who had received so much for his vote on this or thal bill, The knowledge of it was nol onfined to the politicians, by any sans, Everyone seemed to know and alk about the prices paid and who got em, and neither side seemed to hx raid of the other. Why, even the en who bought the votes talked and ughed afout it, and the men who re. ived the money talked about it amons themselves.” Emery says he has nothing to re Rraect, and is ready to give the ale joann an airing in court. MeNichol ext to Penrose, is now the chief Phil ag boss of the Gang Machine, fon’ That last It was enough don't asked for. of Franklin GANG BEGS 0 PROBE ouldn’t Trust It to "Earmae Creasy and Anti-Machine Legislature. ' Very appropriately the “Republican” {date for Auditor Oeneral, Robert . Young, hurried down from Greens. rg to the Bellevue-Stratford in Phil. slphia, to collaborate with the badly “advisers” of Penrose and Wes. ey R. Andrews, upon an “address” ng the public not to defeat Young a Stuart or their colleagues on the cket on account of the State Capitol i i Young was from first to Inst the soifcl- tor pa!d by the state to keep the Capi- tol Commission from going wrong, he must have either known all about the graft or been such an unobservant and unrophinticated “Solicitor” as to be as unfitied for that place as he has proved himself to be for the Auditor General- ship. But the Penrose-Andrews annex mas- querading as the "Btate Advisory Com mittee” evidently considered that Young ought to know more than any of them about the plundering, and, there- fore, they called him into the confer- ence which drew up the “statement” to the public, asking that no credence be placed in that man, Berry, Although every well informed eciti- gen in the state knows that the capitol graft is second to nothing among the fssues agitating the commonwealth, the “advisory” statement alleges that “"Em- ery and his colleagues. are turning away from the real issue of the state campaign.” is declared to be the issue, although the President would have excused himself from attending the “dedication” of the capitol if he had received the invitation after Berry began to lift the lid. As it was, Roose- velt, in his speech, did not even men- tion the capitol or make the slightest reference to its existence. The Presi. dent skipped everything in Pennsylva- nia affairs from the rise of Quay down to the present moment except the éx. tra session of the legislat The “advisers” that the -machine the cnn Roosevelt ure asinine ant! men make | an issue’ The “ad however, Tree out must punished or to have the inves NO INSURANCE IF Grafters Strove to Hide Underwriters’ Demand For Costly Tearing Out of “Extras” Before Adjust ing Rate. Every time the Comm hysterical i Dec “Advisory King Penrose State Treas somebody nto ahead makes some new exposure of the capl to! graft While Be has been thus employed, oth have dug 1 be did hot soem tk instance, It {f fire ifs which and Andrews hallenges Berry to take court, Derry just gEovs and rey er probers up things of wh be aware that For DOW appears inderwriters of have the board niddle department declined the costly or de inspec to hear that not be insured pending settle trouble with the If the bullding burned state would be at a dead loas all the millions that may honestly put into the gor probably, of most » evidence upon which it have the grafters convict. diggorge by a genuine investigating committee ap pointed by an honest legislature Isn't it a comforting thought to the voters that the $2.000.000 chandeliers, the $1.800000 Ailing cabinets, the mil lion dollars’ worth of chairs, tables goias and carpets, etc, are without any protection ‘i of fire? Instead of steps to rectify the conditions which have been condemn. ed by the fire underwriters, the bulld- ing and grounds commissioners, who include Governor Pennypacker and Auditor General Snyder, are evidently waiting until after the election. It is now an open secret that the gang grafters hoped that at least this fea- tire the vast scheme of plunder would not be uncovered before No vember 6. Overwhelmed by the storm of protests which has been raging throughout the gtate since the dis closures of Berry were first made pub He, caution has Ween counseled lest any steps that might be taken toward adjusting the defects should add to the fiiry of the tempest. It is strongly in- fimated In insurance circles that the roguisite changes in the electrical ays. tem will be very costly-—-the estimate varying from a quarter of a million to a half mililon dollars. Fear Wires Would Melt, At the general offices of the under writers, on Walnut street, Philadel phia, it is admitted that their inspec. tors declined to pass favorably upon the completed work, and that no rate on the building has been adjusted. An. swers to queries made to men famil far with the electrical work In the cap: ftol indicate that several thousand more lights than were originally pro vided for in the specifications, have been put in the building, on account of on new #8 shail be the wy, madae Li which in has been insurance allation by the ling enough api nd that WO y existing Hoan own the of not have only heen geovg pile, but also of the tangiii fas b ed and ned to compelled to CAaRe taking imme iiate Of of the holdup ap installation of wires and words, Lhe cause pears to be the that are too siuoll out, Mon av evel to disclose will be re ferved investigating Hoy iave for committee, But out may mean, As the wires rua in conduits through the ceilings, the job of putting in larger wire, if that is what is required, will be enormous. In places the walls, decorated at great expense, and the ceblings, cov- ered with expensive gold leaf, will have to be opened. The heavy chande- liers, many of them weighing tons, may have to be taken down, and the cost of the entire labor involved may therefore be estimated at a staggering figure. Not only would the electrical contractors be called upon to do extra work, but plasterers, decorators, paint. , will also have a finger fn the ple which is still to be cut. A'hile Berry is going on with the analysis of the “overcharges,” which he estimates as amounting to half of the $9000,000 for “extras, ex-Btate Treasurer Mathues, as if panicstriek. rest of the Penrose outfit, an extremely lame sffort to ex- plain the fact that between the time of Berry's election and his taking charge of the treasury, was such ish of payments of bills to grafters that settlements nearly three and a half made with them during Mathues, as treasurer, The hustling were afraid would not graft and It has recen vents that the gang was excellent, concile it with ailing last sum- that the cat before the ers, gilders, ete en ke the makes AWAY there Ie that money the EALE got in Aryl nna it out the : 0 1 the payments t ‘ Vt y Tes her Yass 2. fase he admits, was on the the one for but lows Mm parquetry got “wise.” a poor fist of it is to do about treasury « hooks in hes makes ; that “Berry Hable ng the in saving t chaos. and ines me.” Mathues may means that the pub so much that irprised to find out in his estimate reyr ¥ half right if he lic § already learned . ‘ a woul not he 8 is too ow that of the total Berry graft QUARTER MILLIONTO CARE FOR CAPITOL That's What the Gang Demanded in Scott Bill to “Employ” 166 Care- takers Under Peany- packer's Board Presidant Pennypacker’s board of pud- buildings appear to he care of the capitel to bullding the trees prunasd and right without the ic grounds and able to and the grounds; floors scrubbed, the squirrels fed all army employes that would have been “employed” there (killing time in one another's way) as soon as Btone's commission “finished” its work if Phil. adeiphia Senator John M. Beott's won. derful bill of the last regular session had become a law » That proposed law would have sad- died upon the taxpayers a biennial &p- propriation of $251.520 for the care ot the capitol and grounds. The scheme was part of the general plot for capitol graft in the light of recent revels tions. the Scott bill is now evidence that, while the people were to be kept in the dark. the machine bosses and a of their legislative servants were deep In the graft plot in the session of 1905. Both houses passed the bill, and Governor Pennypacker stated as his reason for vetoing it that it would be time enough to pay the squirrel keep- ers and othor caretakers a quarter of a million dollars biennially from the date of the completion” of the capitol which, according to Stone, and even ac cording to the $520,000 architect, Hus- ton, was done early this year, Let the voter run his eye over the amazing let of all sorts of “chiefs” and “assistants.” mechanics, assistant mechanics, cecretaries, electricians, la. borers, charmen, charwomen, watch men, messengers, assistant messengers and what nota total of 1668 persons Even Pennypacker's veto seemed to ad- mit that when the capitol would be “finished” all those people would be wanted to take care of it. If eo, how has it been taken care of without them and without the proposed now law dur- fng all the time since the building was ‘completed?’ The date fixed by the building law for “completion” was the first day of this year. Indeed, 21 of the new places were to be filled just after the 1905 session, and yet the su- perintendent got along without them during last year, Has Pennypacker’'s board been caring for the grounds and bullding during the last nine and one-half months with the annual expenditure of only $18. $00 allowed by existing law? If so, where is the necessity of adding to that amount, as Scott's bill would have done, $107,160 a year by Increasing from 19 to 166 the number of employes under the board thus appointing 147 new employes? In the salaries of tus 1# persons authorized by existing -x, Te a micro empat Cr ABBE Dm ew the take have of fow Bs Toati Bi Soil an at Th reases amounting to $9000, tucluding $2000 addition te the superintend- Following are the Scott bill's partic Jars of the salary incroages and of Che added to the old force at the begin- ning of thic year Salary Increascs At Once (1908). Superinjendent of public §roun gs and bulldings, P$3000 o Gardener, $1000 to § fpe sant Of police $l ight watchman, $900 to $16 Assistant superintendent Assistant gardener... Secretary Mensenger Assistant messenger. Florist ‘es ( JonssEyAlORY ‘watchman Foreman of groun Bix caretakers, $72 One carpenter. . Bix additional park ‘policemen, $900 each each. Total new places at once. ... $18,800 To Have Been Appointed When New Capitol Was Finished. For the mechanical plant: Chief engineer .ets Assistan t chief e ngineer Night engineer. .. Nat assistant engineers, $1000 each . Six firemen, $900 BE lectrician Assistant electrician Two Wifetpen Machinis Machinist's helpers, $720 each. Plumber . Plumber's hel per. For care and maintenance: Cabinstwaker chun pholsterer 4 mechanios, $900 ea. *h Thirty-six guards, $72 Twelve elevator men. each .. Mistress of ch arwomen Thirty charwe omen, $240 each. Bight charmen, $720 each...... Two female attendants, $360 each : Two male attendants, $730 each Three male telephone operat- ors, $360 each ‘ac h Additional for Total annual Annual cost C986,5 a ane 18,600 $128,760 Thus to make the biennial ap- propriation for taking care of the capitol and grounds .3261.628 Of course, 8 Pennypacker board that socrelly absiracted $8 000,000 for “ex- tras” on the capitol, may baws had its own surreptitious way of speading without warrant of law the quarter of a filion ealled for by the Scott bill. Who knows? Such a transaction would be no more astounding than what has been done Now, the thought that as Pennypacker would have ep- proved this $251,520 grab if the capitol bad been finished, what bettsr could be expected from another Penrose Gowver- por and GCang-owned jeglalture?! The plot of what the Gang has dong and of what more it aimed 0 do, throtigh the Scott bill, is sow laid bare. If the people indoree the Gang en November €, will not the successful candidates consider that they have popular war- rant from the polis to go ahead and consummate the stupendous gram? new capitol. than. ..... . that time..... addi at for the voters is YOUNG EXPOSED AS “FAKE” INDEPENDENT Buneoed the Inturpeite For the Benefit of Old Gang Bosses and Always False to His Prefegsions. The hitherto unwrittem record of Robert K. Young, “Republican” candi date for Auditor General, proves him to bave been from the very outset Just as much of a “false” Independent as he has heen while Solcitor of the Capitol Commission and, later, as one of the four Penrose-Andrews nominees on the state ticket In 1895 ho was state delegate fram Tioge county, uninstrooted, heving been elected prior to the beginning of he fight to defeat Quay for state chair man. Having posed for several years as a reformer. the anti-Quay people expected his vote. Many of them say that he gave them every reason to believe that he would be with them. When he arrived at Farrisbuwrg he was taken in hand by Willlam A. Stone and carried to a private house where he could not be found. He was vouched for at the Quay cawces that night and the next day voted for “Jack” Robinson, the Quay candidate for chairman of the convention. The next year, 18968, he was taken up by the Quay managers as a candi date for the legislature and was put through against an avowed asti-Quay candidate. When he turned up in the count of the “76” the Quay people were crazy In 1808 Charles Tubbs was put in the field by the Tioga “insurgents” as a candidate for United States senator againet Quay. Stone, then a eamildate for Covernor, had placed a ticket of state delegates. The “insurgents” brought out an opposition ticket and John Wanamaker went into the coun: try to make speeches, One dark night Mr. Youmg induced the anti-Quay state delegates to sign a statement saying that because was a native of Tioga they would vote for him if they were slected, and that they believed Stome could not be con trolled by Quay. The “insurgents” were so enraged over this that they refused to vote for the state delegates, and while Quay Jost the county by 1000, Stone's slated delegates of the Quay hrand were elected. While Young as a representative was playing as an “insurgent” leader, For the Children To succeed these days you must have plenty of grit, cour- age, strength, How is it with the children? Are they thin, pale, delicate? Do not forget Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. You know it makes the blood pure and rich, and builds up the general health in every way. 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