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“HLUDORE'S DAY TO SHOUT.
Of course it is Theodore Roosevelt's
~ uy to shout, and we would not if we
could inflist upon him the terrible pun-
ishment of silence. Bat the election
is not much of a victory for him after
all
becsu-e he was Mr. Roosevelt's sandi-
date, but in spite of it. After the tur
voll and agitation and distrust which
country, the voters took Mr,
cause he was the most conservative of
all the candidates in the
was legislation in restraint of corpora-
tions and there were prosecutions of
corporations before the Roosevelt ers,
and they aroused no public distrust
and did not knock the bottom out of
the market. Cleveland and McKinley
and Harrison maintained the right of
the community to protect itself from
mismanaged corporations, but they
did not threaten anybody ; they did
not attack wealth, property, or even
corporate management Under Mr.
Taft there may be further corporation
legislation and there may be prosecu-
tions of railroads and industriale. But
there will be no such language in mes-
sages to Congress, in speeches and in
letters for publication, as the President
has been distinguished for, and the or
dinary course of legislation and litiga-
tion will proceed as it did befor. Theo-
apostle of righteousness, the general
manager of the United States, and tie
placator of the social revolution,
which 80 far as it exists at all, js of his
own creation
MP ce sns—
much fun out of the job as I have
had,” Mr. Roosevelt says. It is only
fair to Mr. Taft to presume that he
will have some other purpose. While
the present occupant! has been having
“fun ”’ aod “amusement” he has
shared Ifttle of either with his con-
stituents. Hundreds of thousands of
men, women aod children hve been
deprived of ** fun” snd “amusement”
during Mr. Roosevelt's administration,
Let us hope that Mr. Taft may fiod
diversion in trying to correct some of
“my policies ” of his predecessor. By
80 doing be will merit the respect of
all.
The importance of correctness is em-
phasized by the returns in Unlon
county when F. L. Dersham, Demo-
crat, was defeated by J. Gundy Wolf,
Republican, for assembly by two votes,
The tally sheets in the West Ward of
Mifflinburg varied just five votes. The
one posted gave Dersham 136 votes
and the sheet returned but 131 votes,
Hada the posted sheet been returned,
Dersham would have been elected.
There may be a contest.
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Joseph Kelley, well known in this
county, was elected by the Mifflin
county Republicans to the legialature,
Mr. Kelley was not pledged on the lo
cal option question, but since he is a
temperate man, if noc a teetotler, he
will undoubtedly vote his personal
feeling on the question, which by his
friends is assumed to be for the local
option measure,
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There is ove consolation, on March
4th the freak President will retire and
be rucceeded by a man who ia not like-
ly to make as big 8 dunce of himself
during bis term of office,
a ————
Repeat Dose Until Relieved,
From The Commoner,
For that defeated feeling try Dr.
Hopeful's triple extract of Optimism.
———— AM AA
There is a real business boom to fol
low the Taft election, but no defiuite
time has been set for its beginning,
MI MS tl RSA
If capital is timid now it ought to
pick up courage when Teddy goes to
the jungles to hunt,
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Two Accidents.
The following accidents are reported
by the State College Times :
A chapter of accidents occurred last
Baturday. While McClellan Rossman
and A. O Tyson were homeward
bound from the Way sale, their horse
suddenly started, throwing Mr. Tyson
out of the vehicle backward, catching
his foot between tbe axle and spring,
and receiving psinful ivjuries before
the horse could be stopped.
The same day Lloyd Ewing, of
Charter Oak, had a mule team to ran
away, throwing him out. The wheels
passed over his body, breaking several
ribs. His condition is serious,
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Will Balld New Church,
The congregation of the State Col-
lege Methodist Episcopal church is
making plans for the erection of »
handsome edifice lo the very near
future. Ata congregational meeting
over $7,000 was subscribed. The build.
the Nabject With All Fairness.
[By Rev. D. Gress.]
{ PART 11.)
called in duriog times of emergency.
| evil, the greatest evil in the world.
{tion
[ never before, the warnings of Solomon.
The dawn of a better day has come.
| hibition is rolling with
{ power over this Republic.
| this nation, ge weraphically, is now by
legislation emancipated from
{ saloon.
| have been won
| known,
| mand for the abolition of the saloon
| swakened a «mile or provoked a sneer.
{ Today that demand is the fixed pur-
| pose of thousards of oar best fe low
Leitizans sud it is being fulfilled
states — Muine,
{ Oklahoma, Ge rgis, Alabama —are now
| prohibition states
| sale and manufacture of intoxicating
liquors,
[the most significant and
signs of the times
| North Carolina has gone against the
saloon, Mississippi has a prohibition
legisl+ture and a prohibition governor,
and 90 per cent. of the state has barred
liquor, Tennessee has voted the sa.
loon out of 92 of her 96 counties. Ken-
fucky, which has been called the
drinking state, has voted the saloon
out of 102 counties out of 119, and
sever Ly-five per cent. of the populstion
are living in prohibi fon territory
Two-thirds of Louisiana has no Bae
loons ; three-fourths of Florida has no
saloons ; in 148 eounties in Texas there
A" no i one-half of South
Carolina hss put sway the saloon, and
80 with nearly all the Bouthern slates
There are practically ten prohibition
states in the Uni n today Twenty-
two out f twenty-eight millions of
people south of the Mason and Dixon
live live in no liquor territory,
The temperance movement has
taken hold of the North also. Maine,
Kansas aud North Dakota sre enfore-
ug their prohibition laws with new
vigor. Two of the three counties of
Delaware have voted out the saloon,
Sixty-four counties of Ohio are with-
out the saloon. The rapid progress of
the movement may be learned from
the story of Missouri. On January 1,
19056, there were but three counties
whic" prohibited the sale of liquor,
Today, in less than five years, there
are eighty-four counties prohibition.
In thirty-seven states sdvanced tem-
perance legislation has been enacted,
while there has not been a single
measure adopted by any state favor-
able to the liquor traffic Pennsylva-
nis and New Jersey alone are on the
black list. No legisiation whatever
has been enacted in order to give the
people a voice in the matter, such ss
the other states have had. Bat efforts
are now being made in our own state
to give the people a voice, such as the
Oller states have had, through local
option,
inspiring
saioons
There is not a single case on record
where a county or city or town that
closed its saloons has eported a de
crease of business. You know some
people will say that business will go
when the s:loon goes. On the con-
trary, the money that goes into the
saloon till will go for bread, sugar,
coffee, clothes, shoes and the necessl.
ties of life. Statistics prove that
where the saloon has gooe cut of busi-
ness, The Lord is abundantly able to
lake care of and prosper a community
that takes a stand for righteousness.
Some will say, either through preja.
dice or through lack of correct infor-
ation, that take away the saloon and
drioking will increase, but again ex-
the saloon goes out there is only from
seven Lo ten per cent, of the drink
business. That is true of towns and
two per cent. of the drink used today
| as long as drink is manufactured it
{ will be sold. But there is a better way
of putting that and a more modern
way : As long as drink i» sold it will
be made, as long as there is a demand
there will be a supply, In the state of
Ohio since 64 counties have gone dry
demand no supply made.
it is a better way to put it. As long as
liquor is sold it will be made. Btop
the sale and nobody will want to make
it. In the state of Kansas there is not
a single brewery today, because there
is no call for it, Take awny the saloon
and you take away the teaptation
from drinkiog men and’ from the
young people We know of saloons in
the city where sawdust is placed on
the pavement during the night and
drinks sprinkled over it in the morn-
ing to entice workingmen into the
saloon on their way to work. Take
Away the saloon and the individual
who drinks is himself responsible for
hix wrong doing and the responsibility
ia removed from the citizen
Much is being s id by the liquor in.
terests about the money which they
and the allied interests pay to the citys
Bo you gee
al government for taxes and licenses
They way eliminate the
would be to undermine the foundation
of the country’s revenues,
to saloon
Tuis eoun-
try does not depend upon blood money
for its rupport. The fact is the country
would be better oft without the traffic,
aod taxation upon every other busi
would be lessened. For every
dollar that the liquor interests pay to
the county, it costs the county $2 to
maintain the asylums, homes, alms
houres, jalls and such jvstitutions ss
Tien
maintain the courts and prosecuting
machinery
Governor Hoch, of Kansas re cently |
said that in forty-two counties of that
prisoner in the jails, nots erimipal in
the penitentiary, not an inmate in an
almshouse. But thirty years ago,
when they had the saloon, they were |
all full. The population hss now
doubled. He also said, that men who
once went in rags now have decent!
clothes, that their bank sceounts have
many times multiplied. That 20 000
young people in that state, between
the ages of fifteen and twenty, have
never seen a saloon or a drunken man. ]
Is it worth while to put away the!
asloon ?
The saloon js a highway man of the |
baser sort, and a pirate of the worst |
type. It has simply been tolerated be- |
cause it has seemed impossible to get |
rid of it. But now the issue is drawn, i
the battle is oun. The foe is adroit, |
cunning, resourceful, unscrupulous, |
desperate. The liquor men have spent |
millions of dollars, which have come
largely from the poor man's pocket, to
bead off measures against their inter.
ests, and yel they will say, “ If you
take away the saloon, there will be
more drivkiog '’ They are not in |
favor of local option, they say it will
increase drinking If they believe
what they say, then they would want
the saloon removed and local option
measures pasced, for it would increase
their business. but they don’t want
these. You do not often hear of men
working against their own interests.
The liquor forces are being marshalled.
Christian men must meet this foe with
loflexible and determined purpose,
In facing the conflict it should be
clearly understood that the warfare is
not sgaiost a legitimate business, a
business which men have an inherent
right to pursue. The traffic is on a
status entirely different from any busi.
ness enterprise. There Is no Inherent
right to engage in this business. An.
other fact that should be borne in
mind as we face this conflict is that
the burden of obligation for the sup
pression of the liquor trafMo rests upon
the citizen. Where it does not seem
possible to remove the saloon under
the present legislation, the laws should
be strictly enforced by the citizen.
The saloon is the colossal law-Lresker
of the community, It defies legisla-
tion and cowes legislation,
And then there is avother sacred
obligation of citizenship, and that is
that christian and moral men shall
cast a vote in behalf of an fssue that
will give the people an opportunity to
say whether they shall have the saloon
in their midst or not,
Bome people will persist In telling
us that prohibition fails, that it does
not prohibit, that they do drink in
prohibition states. Yes, they do, a
little. A commission travelling
through the state of Maine for three
months, found three bottles of drink
in the whole state. They were hunt-
fog forit. It will be sold and used
secretly. The old drinker in » pro-
hibition state goes up and down the
street. He looks around for some man
Peunsylvanis Day.
November 20 is Penvsylvania Day
at Pennsylvania State College for 1908,
and the celebration bids fair to rival
even the most memorable of past
occasions. Assurances of attendance
have ome from prominent men of the
state. The program for the day will be
arrauged with the thought of convey-
lng to the visitors some adequate con-
ception of the daily life of the twelve
hundred students. Therefore, in ad-
dition the public meeting and address
es io the Auditorium and besides the
inspection of the shops, laboratories
and buildings, the regiment of college
cadets will be officially inspected and
% game of football will be played be-
tween the Sophomore and Freshman
teams, which is the event of the col-
lege year in athletic life,
meets
The Peounington Cem etery.
I'he Pennington cemetery, located
tre ‘ial, is being cleaned up in gen-
direction of Hon. Leonard Rhoue, for
the descendants of those whose bodies
are buried there. At present the tomb-
wlones are being straightened up and
tue mounds re-marked, and later the
proved so that it will present an ap-
pearsnves lo Keeping with the impor-
part those buried there had in
bulidiog up this immediate com-
munity.
Toe site of the first Methodist church
‘0 this part of Penns Valley is near by
the burying ground, and this old Isnd
mark should also be marked, so that
the present geveration might be able
Lo s2¢ Lhe location of the place of wor-
ship of their ancestors. This could be
done without great expense, and
the New Englanders, who have been
to properly mark all
historic sites
ce ee reson
Notice to Clean Alleys
I'he citizens of Centre Hall are here-
by given notice to clean from the
This order is given to sid in preven.
toation of disease germs, aod it is the
council to enforce
his notice is given so that no one
can complain if expense is made to the
the ordinances referred to.
Tie Towx CouxciL.
( Continued from previous co lumn.)
drinking ? Of course prohibition does
not absolutely prohibit. Bat laws
hibit stealing, but they do cause less
stealing. There are laws against slan-
der, but they fio not prohibit malice
and lyiog successfully. There isnot a
law on the statute books of this state
but is broken. Men may be able to
get liquor io Kansas and Maine and
they can also break into banks in both
wiates,
I do not have any faith in any high
liceuse system, such as we have in our
stale. There are some saloons that
pay $1000, $2000 and $3000 license.
some look at this as payiog so much
for permission for the state to sell
liquor. Why should the saloon keeper
pay this? 1 hold that the license rep
resents wtate’s determination to penal.
ize the traffic and compel those who
join in it to pay for the wastes and the
losses that society must incur through
it. In other words, to belp make good
the evil they do. Although it only
pays & small percentage of the losses.
But high license does not lessen the
number of saloovs. The profit in the
business is so great that the license fee
is soon paid. Iam in favor of getting
rid of the saloon in Any way it is pos-
sible to do so,
But I am also in favor of the will of
the msjority of the citizens of any come
munity, town, county or city. The
law now governing the liquor trae
in Penn’a, in many cases, allows one
man to decide for an entire county, or
in some cases to decide for as many as
three counties, in many cases the li-
cense being granted when four-fifths
of the voting citizens did not want ft.
As Lhe la ¥ now stands the people have
#0 little say in the matter. Those
who do not waut the saloon will now
and then rise up and make it known.
And yet we som ‘times bosst of our
freedom. Some men will say, you
take away our freedom if you take
away the saloon. Is it freedom for a
man to belittle himself, to ruin himself
and family, to starve his children and
Abuse his wife and destroy the home,
and cause his fellow men to fall ? If
that is freedom, we want but little of it.
But why not submit this problem to
the people. Why not let the people
rale? Why not have the liquor traf
fio fn this state, se In
1908.
Repairs for Homan Body,
Dr. Alexis Carrel, the distinguished
surgeon and experimenter of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search of New York, is telling some
wonderful results of surgery. The leg
of a dead dog has been grafted on a
dog that through an accident had but
three legs and a stab ; kidneys were
transferred from one animal to an.
other ; human arteries have been put
in dogs ; the stiff knee joint of one
man bas been sawed out and a perfect
knee Joifit of a leg amputated removed
and substituted ; glands kept in cold
storage for sixty days were transferred
from ove cat to another,
If surgery keeps on advancing, re
pairs for the human body can be se
cured from the dog, the cat, the
monkey, the ape and substituted for
the defective parts,
There is in sight a valuable asset in
dilapidated limbs, slightly defective
hearts, lungs and livers for the hen
dreds of hospitals throughout each of
the forty-two states in the Union.
Within the next decade you will be.
come familiar with advertisements of
this character :
LIVER FOR BALE-The undersigned of-
fers for sale a liver used but for forty years
by a maa of prominence who discarded it for
& Call's ver a bit more active , the liver has
been brushed up, scraped and is now in first
Class condition and able to perform its funo-
Lons for fifty years more; liver has a gall
stlached that is remarkable for its size. This
outfit will sult any man or woman engaged
in any business re quiring nerve.
PICKLED EKXEE JOINTS--These goods
were secured from the various {ostitutions of
learning when their respective sthietie leans
were remodeled ; they have been repolished
and are given ten hours exercise each day by
being attached to the latest improved ma
chine to relimber old joints. These knoes are
good enough for any one wishing to use them
for ordinary use, indeed, some can be made
very fast.
STOMACHS SUPPLIED~If the other parts
of your body are in ordinary condition and
you have misused your stomach to such an
extent that it no longer fills your needs, we
Can supply you with & hog's stomach guar
anteed to give satisfaction. Swill or solid
food mey be forced into it in any quantities,
and no danger of its owner becoming punchy.
No goods exchanged,
William Wolf Badly Hare,
The following dispatch appeared in
Monday's Philadelphia Record :
William Wolf, aged about twenty
years, of Greenfield avenue, Ardmore,
son of J. Witmer Wolf, an insurance
broker, well known on the Main Line,
fell and suffered severe injuries Satur
day night, while engaged in a game of
basketball in the gymuossium of the
Lower Merion Y. 81, C. A. Young
Wolf slipped, his head coming in con-
tact with the floor, and he was ren.
dered unconscious. Dr. H. A. Arnold
was called, and the young man was
carried into the Y. M. C. A, dormitory,
where surgeons continue to give him
medical attention,
It is feared that he suffered concas-
sion of the brain, and may not recover.
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Dwelling Barns on Marsh Oreck.
Monday night of last week the house
of George Hendricks, on Marsh Creek,
was entirely destroyed by fire together
with most of the furniture and practi
cally all of the clothing of the entire
family. Mr. Hendricks had gone to
Beech Creek on a business trip, and at
8:30 o'clock Mrs. Hendricks with her
#ix children went upstairs to retire for
the night While they were undress-
ing the lamp exploded, the oil splat.
tering around the room. It took fire
almost instantaneously and it was all
Mrs. Hendricks could do to save her-
self and children, Neighbors managed
to get syme of the furniture in the
lower part of the house out but évery-
thing on the second floor was burned.
The house was in ashes when Mr.
Hendricks reached home, His loss
will be about two thousand dollars,
partially covered by six hundred dol.
lars insurance on the house and two
hundred on the furniture,
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Injuries Prove Fatal,
Last week Irvin, the fourteen-year
old son of William F, Thomas, of Far.
well, formerly of Centre Hall, while
altemptiog to get on a westbound
freight near North Bend, fell under
the train and had his left leg near the
hip terribly crushed.
The lad was taken to the
hospital at Renovo, where Drs. Full.
mer and Rosser gave him
Attention. Later the Injuries proved
fatal. Interment was made Bunday,
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Bear Dines on Crow,
One evening last week W. B. Mo-
Closkey, of Curtin township, set a bear
trap near his home, baiting it with a
plece of meat as ls customary, After
the trap had been set a crow, tempted
by the meat, was caught and that
night a bear happened that way and
ate both the crow and the bait. He
set the trap again next evening and on
NO. 45.
aim
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
Men’s moose hide shoes, 10 inches
high, 2 top buckles, $3.50 at Yeagers,
Few equirrels and rabbits have been
killed up to this time. Bquirrels
especially seem to be scarcer than ever,
Miss Jessie Kerstetter, of Millbeim,
has entered the Bellefonte hospital to
qualify herself to become s trained
nurse,
Rev. Bergstresser, the successor of
Rev. C. T. Aikens as pastor of the
Pine Grove Mills Lutheran charge,
has accepted a eall to Altoona.
H.J. Lambert moved his family in-
to their new home on east Church
street, last week. Mention was made
recently of the purchase of this home
by Mr. Lambert,
Thanksgiving comes Thureday, 26th
inst. Remember your friends by send-
ing them a Thanksgiving card. You
will find a fine and varied assortment
at the Reporter office,
Mrs. Barah Btover and daughter,
Miss Anna, the latte part of last week
returned from Altoona, where they
had gone to see the new baby: that
came into the family of Alvin feyer.
Bupervisors in various townships are
substituting concrete for plank on iron
bridges. No doubt the new material
will be more durable and give more
general satisfaction than wood for the
roadway on bridges.
Charles M. Arney was the first of
the Centre Hall sportemen to kill
game of any consequence. Friday of
last week he came home from a hunt
on Nittany Mountain and brought
with him a wild turkey.
Bert Musser, of Pine Grove Mille,
was thrown from the saddle horse of a
four horse team, and sustained painful
injuries, His foot caught in the stir-
rap, and as a result the ligaments
about the left ankle were badly torn.
Carpenter Aaron Thomss and
daughter, Miss Jenule, attended the
funeral of Irvin Thomas, at Renovo,
returning home Monday. The youth
was a grand-nephew of Mr, Thomas.
An account of the death appears elee-
where in this issue.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kreamer moved
from the Bible farm, esst of Centre
Hall, to the Stiver property, near the
school house. Mr. Kreamer is ems-
ployed by Chas. D. Bartholomew, and
the change of residence will make it
much more convenient for him.
While walking on the streets of
Bellefonte one day last week, Samuel
Homan, of Hecls, became violently
ill from acute indigestion and feli to
the pavement as though he had been
stricken with paralysis. He soon re.
covered sufficiently to be taken home,
A. A. Dale, Esq., was seized with an
attack of vertigo on Friday afternoon
and fell to the pavement in front of
the Catholic church sustaining several
bad cuts on the nose and face, states
the Watchman. He was taken to the
Bellefonte hospital where he had hie
wounds dressed.
The famous trotter, knowa as All
D., owned by Dsurie Stroup, of Belle-
fonte, and A. Reed, of Reedsville,
is admitted~to be one of the fastest
horses in the state. He has a standing
record of 2.13} and has secured for the
above gentlemen in different parts of
the state prizes amounting to $1000,
Torrence Shearer, Republican, in
Clinton county, was defeated for
sheriff by W, Howard Klepper, Demo-
erat, by about 500 majority.
Shearer was up for a second term,
having completed his fret term three
years ago. He is well known in this
county, and will have Republican
sympathizers,
E. C. Harter and Dr. H. F. Bitner
will make sale of their farm stock and
large quantities and have it shipped in
bss wo foundation. The greatest
who has » sign hung out on his face ;
the two go solemnly off foto an alley,
drinkers are the 6 and 10 cent men, they whisper to one another and start
who hardly ever have three or five of up a blind stairway. They creep up|”
at|ten dollars to send awa, for Stairs like a couple of thieves. Can|
the trap, having come back during the
night for another meal, ug
A A AANA,
jog and its furnishings, locluding the
parsonage, will cost in the neighbor
hood of $80,000,
_ Ladies’ storm rubbers, 48: