VOL. LXXXI._ ENCROACHING ON STATES, The EXecutive Branch of the Uovernment of Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt's latest message Was | made a continuing congressional news | item, and as it illustrates Rooseveltism | as a campaign issue, repeated reference | tn it is excusable One branch of the | document exhibits in calcium light the peculiar lack of perception by the President of the wonderful harmony, arranged in 1787 and working marvel ously well since, between the Federal and State governments. He would disrupt it and make not alone the National power autocratic, but the executive branch of that power omnipotent, He says the Minnesota and North Carol'na rate decisions ghow “how impossible is a dual con- trol of National commerce. The States cannot control it. All they can dois to control intrastate commerce.” How do the decisions illustrate these mutual limitations, which are imbedded in the Constitution and which weére not violated in substance, but only a man- ner, by either named State? These cases involve intrastate rates alone. The litigation was over not the power to regulate comwmeree, either in Nation or Btate, but whether a State could violate the National constitution by impairing the property righ's of citi- zens of the United States. It is by such confusion of thought, by similar perversion of facts in court cases, by astonishing repugusnce toward the dual system of American government that Mr. Roosevelt easily reaches his climacteric idea of haviug his own appointees determine whether all corporations, engaged in intrastate commerce, are ‘‘good’” or ‘‘bad” and if a corporacion be ‘great and wealthy” that the burden of proof shifts to it to prove “its right to exist.” Boldly he says courts should have but supervisory powers and all the old bulwarks mast vanish. That feeling of security animating American bressts that recourse may be had to courts shall be supplanted by obeisance to bureaucrats, the creatures of a solitary will, gauged by political worth. A — ——————————— Were the Merchants Staang 7 Under the above head the Bellefonte Watchman relates a story like this : A. T. Limeberner and C. W. Dick. enshied, both of Philadelphia, put in an appearance in Bellefonte, and rep- resented that they were interested in an association that was making an ef. fort to have the mercantile tax law re. pealed. The next day after their ar rival in town they got busy, and by noon had canvassed the greater part of | the business firms paying this “‘per- nicious ’ tax. Mr. Dickenshied ap- pesred to be the spokesman. He ex- plained to the merchants that vast | sums are collecten from business | houses, but that a small per cent. ever got into the Btate Treasury. Theo a petition to have the law repealed was presented, and, of course, the merchant readily signed a document thst he thought would belp to relieve him of the taxes, After the signatures were obtained, Mr, Dickenshied bad another story to tell, which revealed that the move- ment entailed great expense, and the merchant was appealed 'o to make a contribution to meet these expenses. In most instances the merchant slap- ped down from t=o to five dollars, which the stranger took care of, The parting of money brought the hitherto easy merchants to a deep study; and toward evening they be gan comparing notes, By that time, however, the two men had left the town, for a new fleid, EE ——— A SA —— Interesting Religious Statistics, Dr. H. K. Carrol, the religious sta- tistician, writing in the New York Christian Advocate, gives the net gain of the religious denominations in the United States for 1907, as 2301 ministers, 4 214 churches and 627,546 communicants. The five Vrotestan' bodies making the largest gains are: Baptist, 108,385. Methodist, 101,695. Lutherans, 65, 172. Presbyterians, 49 627, Disciples, 20,865, These are also the five largest de. nominations, the membership of each being as follows : Methodists, 6,660,784, Baptists, 5,224,305, Lutherans, 2, 022 604. Presbyterians, 1,821, 504. Disciples, 1,285,123, The above figures include all bodies under the general name as Methodists, 17 bodies ; Baptists, 14 bodies ; Luther- sans, 28 bodies and Presbyterians, 12 bodies, Unclaimed Letters, : The following letters remain un claimed in the Centre Hall postoffice, - G. M. Boal postmaster : Mrs. P. W, Boyles, William Laird, NOT DEGRADING THE : JUDICIARY To Perform Duties Required by the Inter- esta of Justice and the Safety of the Publi, The agitation of the license question in various parts of Pennsylvania has lead ex-Judge Porter to offer, with much reason and force, a protest | against degrading the judiciary by im- posing upon the Judges the duty of granting and refusing liquor licenses. It seems like rather small business, and not very nice business at that, to re- quire Judges to pass on the character of saloons, the need for hotel licenses in various localities, and the records of applicants for them. And yet the Judge looked at the matter 100 much from the standpoint of the bench and too little from that of the communit -. The interests of the latter are more important than the feelings of dignity, by the former. Judges are presumably men of superior character us well as ability. They are further removed from the influences of partisanship than any other public of- ficials. Every community recoguizes that the saloon business is one that calls for very strict supervision and regulation. It was perfectly natural to suppose that the welfare of the com- munity would be safeguarded by put- ting the control of licenses into the hands of such men as Judges are sup- posed to be, and such as they usually sre. The License Court has it in its power to promote good order and good citizenship, and such a fanction as that is far from degrading. And it may well be questioned whether the Bench can be degraded by any duties intimately connected with the public welfare, Can the Bench be degraded except by its own act 7 Can a man be dishonored except by him- self ? The honor of the Judges is in their own keeping If they are sub- servient to the malign political infla- ences which nominated them for their offices, and may nominate them again, or may refuse to do it, they are degrad- ed, but by their own subserviency, and not by the duty the law imposes upon them of protecting the community. It isa most unpleasant duty to sends man to the penitentiary ; it is a most distressing duty to send a msn to the gallows, Yet these duties are pot de- grading if required by the interests™of justice and the safety of the public. Even an humble duty may be per- formed by the Courts without degrs- dation, and even with the highest h »uor. fA LOCALS, After a weeks visit at Reedeville with their son, Charles H. Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Meyer returned to Centre The citizens of Penn township have petitioned the court to have the county build a new bridge across Penn creek at Wingards, Mrs, Lillie Alexander has opened her home in Centre Hall. Duriog the winter she spent the time with her brothers and daughter, Mre. Vogt, the latter at Pittsburg. Mra. W. B. Bresler, of Altoona, accompanied by her children, came to Centre Hali Monday, and from here went to the home of Mr, and Mrs, W. A. Curray, at Potters Mills, F. E. Arney’s “heunies’’ made a record for the month of April. There are just one hundred and ove of them, snd their product in eggs was 2148 for the thirty days in that month. During the past week Al Osman hs een confined to bed for the great. er part of the time on account of a dis. arranged stomach. He is at the home of Mr, snd Mrs. J. W,. Whiteman. Elsewhere in this issue appears the program for the Bunday-school con- vention to be held at Farmers Mills Friday, 156th inst. The topics to be discussed wil! be found te be of un- usual interest, Henry Royer, of near Centre Hall, whose address is Bpring Mills, route four, isthe local agent for the Hoosier grain drill and Hoosier corn planter, and spnounces that he isalsoin a position to sell repairs for the Hoosier machines, The 28th Annpual Encampment of the Pennsylvania Division of the Bons of Veterans, U. B. A., will be held at Williamsport during the week, begin. ning June 8, 1008. It will be an afiair of far more than ordinary importance, since preparations are being made to have this the largest and most impos ing encampment ever held by this meritorious organization, Mr, and Mrs. E. A. Zeigler, of Wash ington, D. C , have been among friends in Centie county during the past few weeks, Mr. Zeigler has been at Peon sylvania State College in the Interest of the forestry movement, while Mrs, Zeigler spent the time st the home of her Putonts, Mr. and Mm Joseph Centre John C E. C. Bell, Mfg Co., THE TARIFF IDOL IN I'S TEMPLE, The Tariff Declaration of the Pennsylvania Machine is to Decelve With False Promises, Before the platform of the Republi- cans of Penpsylvania drops into oo- livion a word or two may be said of the pronunciamento on the tariff io a State where its worshippers are most numerous, if not most sincere. No- where else save in Pennsylvania would a Republican State Convention declare, with real or feigned gravity, that the tariff is *‘the cause of America’s popu- lation, power and prosperity.” Yet it is 80 written down in this platform in the presence of the outward conditions that pervade the State as well as the country at large, ani that sre becom- ing more aggravated in Important branches of industry, despite the mi- raculous power attributed to the tariff divinity. Whilst every body earnest. ly desires that there may soon be a wholesome reaction against those con- ditions, those who repose their hopes of returning prosperity upon the tarifl system are the willing victims of such absurd boasts as are made in this Pennsylvania platform, No stand- patter, here or elsewhere, unless he be a Republican officeholder whose salary has undergone no dimin- uation with the general decline of earnings and profits, or some complas- cent beneficiary of Trust spoliation, ean deny that the prosperity based on this tariff system has vanished. In Pitts burg, whence came a troop of dele gates to the Republican State Conven- tion sioging bymns to the tariff, msny thousands of working men have been thrown out ff employment for months and have crowded the return- ing steamships to Europe. While the author of this alliterative platform sang of “population, power and pros perity,’”’ the Bteel Trust, greatest of all tarifl’ beneficiaries, was writing ofl millions of earnings and profits. For the first three months of 1908 the net earnings of the Trust have fallen to $18,229 005 from $39,122 492 in the same quarter of 1907, Btill more untoward is the decline in its orders during these relative periods. What an eloquent comment is the piain and honest re- port of the dteel Trust upon the cant ing and dishonest pretences of this Re publican Machine platform ! Io every manufscturing center in Pennsylvania the di tress of many thousands of em- ployees in the protected industries bears the same conviociog testimony to the hypocrisy of its boasts of tarifl- made prosperity. For what, then, is this tariff declara- tion promulgated by the Penpsylvania Machine except to deceive the unwary with false promises of reform and to confirm the ignorant in their supersti- tious belief in the dogmas of Protection in the face of the grievous and wide- spread evidences of their falsity ? I ——— ES xe Fark Theatre, Philadelphia, Reports concerning the new Nixon & Zimmerman production of “Li'l Mose,” have reached us from time to time, and the indicatious pointto a real hit, The title of the piece, “Li'l Mose,’ is a misnomer, in that it offers no sug- gestion as to the magnitude of the play. Recent advices from the Nixon & Zimmerman office states that the company is one of the largest they have put out Io recent years, numbering some eighty-six people, The story of the piece bas to do with the amusing adventures of “Li'l Mose,” while touring Earope with an eccentric Irish widow. his ultimate re turn to America, and his final appear. ance asa bank clerk in a big Wall street house, The Mose of the new plece is really a reincarnation of the Mose of “Simple Bimon Bimple’’ days, for, at that time he was nothing more or less than a cartoon character. The sentiment of the plece concerns the affection of a romantic young American girl for a handsome Italian tenor, whom she has heard singing in St. Mark's Church, The course of true love never runs smooth, but in the end the lovers are reunited and all ends happily. Mesirs. Nixon & Zimmerman are not starring any one io the piece. On the contrary, they have secured a cast of exceptional ability, which is headed | by May McOabe, Charlotte Leslay, Florence May Smith, Belle Robinson, Count De Vasey, Bert Kalmar, Ben Ross, diminutive Martin Healey, and the famous Ellis Nowlan troupe. Falled to File Accounts, Mifflin county has a question before it relativeto the corrupt practice act, George A. Butler and Frank Brooks are the minority nominees for the of- floe of County Commissioner. The Iatter filled his expense account within’ the prescribed time, while Butler fail. ed to do so, yet his nomination was be | certified, Brooks now claims that he is the only minority party nominee, and will inalst that Buuler's name can- LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Parngraphs Picked from Exchanges of Interest to Reporter Readers, Millheim Journal— Albert Wetzel, of Bhamokin, spent Baturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Wetzel, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Relfsnyder spent several days the past week visit- ing at Bellefonte and Milesburg. William M. Hartman, of Williams- port, sper@several days visiting with relatives iu this place during the past week, Mr. snd Mrs. Riley Bower and two children, of Jersey Shore, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Bower's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bmith, Oliver Alter, who is employed by the Western Union Telegraph come pany at Greensburg, is visiting his mother, Mrs, Elizabeth Alter, on Peon street, Mrs, Mary A. Miller has sold her dwelling house and farm lots in this place to Mre, Kate E. Musser, Con- sideration $3000. Mrs. Miller expects to move to Htate College about Bep- tember 1st, James Breon, of Aaronsburg, while cutting wood on Brush mountain Bat- urday, met with a severe accident. He was tNmming s boom pole to bind a loud of wood when his axe slipped and entered his foot severing one of his large toes, F. Bright Barker, son of F. P. Bark- er, the veterinary surgeon of Ingleby, is Very ill at the home of his parents several weeks ago Bright had an at. tack of pueumonia and was for a time in the hospital st Bunbury. From there he was taken to his parent's home at Ingleby, but his condition is still considered serious. Democratic Walchman-— During ths twenty years the Belle- fonte council Royal Arcanum has been in existence they have paid out on sc- count of deceased members the sum of $29.500, Willis Shuey holds the record so far for having caught the biggest trout in this vicinity. On Friday last be land- ed a fine specimen from Logan's branch, in the vicinity of Axe Mann, which measured just twenty inches and weighed three pounds and two ounces, * The Bellefonje Central railroad com- pany have succeeded in over-coming the defects in their new motor combi. nation car and it was given a thorough trial trip last Friday with the result that it worked satisfactorily. Itis very likely the car will be used to make a regular run in the near future, ——————— I A ———— LOCALS, After spending the winter at Bum. rall, Mississippi, Mrs. Nancy A. Bum- merson returned to Binnemahoning. Namuel Miller, a cigar maker and Robert Sheffer, the mixologist at the Braut House, Bellefonte, took supper at the Fort on Habbath. F. C. Hettinger, who had been em- ployed by the Southern Express Com- pany, in Savanosh, Georgis, is now located in York, this state, Harris township will begin road building under stale management, it haviog been granted the privilege of buildiog that portion of the road be- tween Boalsburg snd Oak Hall station under the Sprowl road law. Begloniog of this week John D. Moore finished huskiog his 1907 crop of corn. The quality is said to have been good, aod unipjured by being left stand in the flelds over winter. Usually Mr. Moore is well up with his farm work, but last season was an ex- ception. The three last days of husk- ing was performed by C. J. Shafter, Monday, 15th inst. is the opening of the regular May term of court, and the average citizen in Centre Hall is won- dering whether the local constable will have the nerve to report his observa tions with reference to drunkenness, He wi nessed a spectacle, some weeks ago, that was a disgrace to the com- munity, and terminated in the abuse of dumb brutes. Thomas A. Lucas is back to Howard, and Is now preparing for aspeeial civil service examination. He had been lo- cated at Chicago and later in Greens field, Massachusetts, being engaged in teaching short hand and type writ ing. Mr, Luces laid the foundation of his education in Centre Hall, and will be recalled by many readers of the Re- porter who attended the select schools here during the early 80's, Rev. J. Max Lantz, of Spring Mills, the new pastor of the Methodist church on the Penns Valley was in Centre Hall last week to social ly meet the members of his church, The Methodists are fortunate in secur. ing such an able and well educated young minister. He entered the min istry largely to gratify the desire of _NO. 19. FAST EMPTYING TREASURY, Deficit for One Month ls Nearly 816 000, 000--Deficit for Fiscal year Almost 02 Miljlon, The condition of the revenues as re vealed by the Treasury statement for April amply justifies the warning which Mr, Tawney, Benator Hemen- way and other Congressmen have been sounding in an effort to check pro- fusion of expenditures. The deficit for the month exceeds even the expects tion of Benator Aldrich, who predicted $11,000,000. The actual expenditures over receipts was $15,970,678 52. The largest expenditure for the fiscal year to date was for pensions, more than $128,000,000., Next in order was civil snd miscellaneous, $124,000,000. Third was the navy, which ealled for $00,400,181.01. The War Department requirements footed up a little over $93,000,000. The deficit for the fiscal year was $61,645,820 87, Last year at the corresponding date the receipts had exceeded expenditures by $56,474,886 One of the most marked features of the statement is that tbe customs re- ceipts continue to fall off more rapidly than internal revenues. ——— A ———— May Establish Exchange, There is a probability that the Penn- sylvania Telephone Company will establish a telephone exchange at Spring Mills. The business of the Bell company on the south side of the country has grown to such an extent that to give the patrons the best ser- vice a fourth exchange is the only solution. The establishing of rural telephone lines under the system of The Patrons Rural Telephone Company is the se cret of the growth of the Bell com- pany in Penns Valley. There are now ten rural line circuits leading to the Centre Hall exchange, and one ander contemplation. The Georges Valley-SBpring Mille-Penn Hall com- pany now erecting a pole line of from fourteen to eighteen miles will connect al Bpring Mills if a new exchange is established there, and in Brush Valley another company, along the Brush Valley road is in the embryo stage, ns fs fp Ss —— North Ameriean's Baseball Edition, Exceptional as were the special base. ball editions that marked the opening of the baseball seasons of 1906 and 1907, the twelve-page supplement in colors, which will be a feature of the North American of Bunday, May 10, will eclipse them both, Never before has there been such baseball activity se this year. In ad- dition to the organizations of last year, the American, National, Atlantic, Tristate and Intercounty leagues, a host of new leagues are in the fleld, including the Ugion, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, North Penn, Main Live, Lebanon, Busquehanna, ete. The back page, in colors, is given up to two striking groups, profile studies of every member of the Phillies and Athletics, something that every fan will want to keep. Altogether, the names of 10,000 play- ers figure in this edition. Thousands were unable to get copies Jf previous baseball editions, Order from your newsdealer now, Transfer of Real Estate. Thomas Wilson et al, to Joel Loud. er, July 29, 1850, 100 scres in Half Moon twp ; consideration $1900, T. M. Hall, sherifl to Thos. Wilson et al, Aug. 31,1841, 100 scres in Half Moon twp ; consideration $2399, A.B. Brown et ux, et al to Centre Coal and Coke Co., March 1908, 1 acre in Rush twp ; consideration $1.00, Alexander Chaney et ux to Joseph Williams, April 20, 1908, 100 acres in Worth twp ; consideration $2400, Jacob Lee et ux,toJ. H. Heory Stoner, April 2, 1908, premises in Pot- ter twp ; consideration $1100, Barah A. DeHaas et al, to Joshins Rupert, April 16, 1908, } acre in Bald Eagle valley ; consideration $40, J. H. Reifsnyder to M. OC. Speigel meyer, April 20, 1901, lot, 50 feet in Millheim ; consideration $175. 8B. T. Williams to Elizabeth sShellen- burger, April 18, 1908, premises in Philipsburg : consideration $65, M. A. Colyer et al, to B. D. Brisbin et al, May 29, 1907, land in Centre Hall Boro ; consideration $1200, Mary 8. Burchfield et al, to Blanch Hayes Heller, April 20, 1908, cemetery lot, No. 185, in Bellefonte ; considera. tion $1. J. A. B. Miller ot ux, toT. J. Bex- ton, March 21, 1908, three tracts in Snow Bhoe et al ; consideration $1. AIM i, An Ink Pencil Almost For Nothing, Everybody nowadays is buying an ink pencil. A first class ink pencil is wort $2.50. Yon can get the Commer cial Ink Pencil, one made by a reliable American m TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF F LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. The merry widow and her hat ! Dairyman W. J. Bmith offers for sale seven colonies of Italian bees, Progress Grange announces that it will hold a festival on evening of Me. morial day. Mr, and Mrs, Nip’ Bmith, of Belle. fonte, visited friends at Spring Mills on Bunday. Wilbur Henney, the blacksmith, had a Bell telephone installed in the Henney residence recently, The Bmulton water company com- pleted the laying of ite pipes and each family in that village is now supplied with water from the new system, Rav. C. W. Rishell, now located at Montoursville, was in the valley Mon- dey and Tuesday, and spent the time looking after the interests of his farm, south of Centre Hall. Mise Emma Watkine, an operator in the Bellefonte Commercial Ex- change, was the guest of Miss Margaret Jacobs, an operator in the Centre Hall exchange, over Bunday. May lst arrived with a blanket of snow for Western Pennsylvania, freez. ing temperature in old Centre, and rain down east—a variety of weather that rivaled the best efforts of April This time it was not the horny- handed farmer that got skinned, but the merchant, It is the farmer's turn to chuckle, and offer the consoling words that they might have known he was a skinner by the way he acted. William Walker, who was injured beginning of April on a railroad cross. ing west of Centre Hall, is able to walk about some at this time, but is not strong enough to do work of any kind. The injury to his back is the cause of his weakness. D. K. Keller is making extensive improvements on his farm buildings, east of Centre Hall. A new slate roof has been put on the mammoth stone dwelling house. new window frames inserted, and the interior is also re- ceiving attention. New telephone subscribers on the Colyer rural line, a part of the Patrons Rural Telephone system, are Messrs, C. A, Miller and Roy Miller at Colyer, snd Foster Frazier, on the Bwartz farm, at Tusseyville. The telephones have already been installed. The latter part of last week Irvin Bbowers captured a common loon at the foot of Nittany Mountain, and is holding him in captivity. About the same time George Black, at the Old Fort, shot and Killed -a bird of the same species, and it is supposed they were mates, Mr. Charles Romig, of Bnydertown, stepped on a rolling stone and fell and broke his leg. He is well up in years and as he always has been a hard work- ing, energetic citizen, he deserves the sympathy of everybody in his misfor- wpe. For a year or more he was a res- ident of Centre Hall, and his acquaint ances here will regret to hear of his misfortune. Ever since early last fall, Farmer Frank Moyer, east of Centre Hall, has been on the sick list. Several weeks ago he was able to come to Centre Hall, and he was hopeful that the warm sunshine usually prevailing in the spring time would prove to be beneficial, but during the past week, although not confined to bed, he hss again been under the doctor's care. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bitts and baby, of Pittsburg, arrived the latter part of Inst week at the home of the Bible sisters, east of Centre Hall. Mr. Bitts is & machinist, and wae obliged to leave the city on account of his health, He came here with a view of buying a home somewhere in Centre county, where the atmosphere is healthful, Mra. Bitts will be remembered as Miss Anna Durst, dsughter of the late Hiram Durst. Among the Reporter's callers Satur. day was H. E. Bhreckengost, of Far- mers Mills, who was on his return from Colyer where he just finished ready for plastering, a dwelling house for George R. Meise. Mr, SBhreckengost is assist. ed in his bulldiog operations by his Sister, BH. M. 8h of Milk ; Henry Gettig, of Colyer, and w. Wr a and always ready for new or repair work. While P. F. Confer and his son, Harry were plowing io a fleld east of Millheim, they were surprised to see a strange animal crossing the field near them. Upon close examination they saw that the animal was a black wolf, with bushy tall and pointed ears. The wolf came off Brush north of Milihelm and as far as they could wee it travel, was mouking for the Seven mountains ju the neighborhood of *
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