VOL. LXXXII.
| PENSIONS YOK WIDOWS
The expenditures for pensions last
year ware upward of $§155,000,000. All
the prophecies and estimates made
to the effect that the pension pay-
ments would "in the course of nature’
decline, appear to have been erroneous,
If the new pension laws of the past
four years had not been passed, the
payments for the year named would
have been about $120,000,000, The
new proposal in the bill passed by the
Benate is to provide for a class of
widows against which all previous
Congresses have strictly drawn the
line.
The act of 1890 provided pensions
for widows, but stipulated that the
marriage must have been contracted
before the passage of the act. The law
of 1908 excluded widows who had
been married since 1890. The pro-
posed act would let down the bars to
20,000 women, at an annual cost of
several millions.
It is improper legislation. The time
limit on widows was made in the first
instance for the purpose of preventing
known scandals and abuses. The coun-
try is eager to be both just and gener
ous to the old soldiers, and the testi.
mony to that effect is to be found in
the laws and in the Treasury pay-
ments, but Congress should have the
courage to combat the vicious notion
that any young woman may enjoy a
pension for life by marrying a soldier
for that purpose.
Press Must Expose Wrongs.
In denying a motion to set aside the
verdict of a jury in favor of the New
York Times, in a libel suit brought
against that newspaper Bupreme Court
Justice Guy made it clear that it was
the duty of the press to expose all
wrong doings, no matter by whom
committed.
“Not only is it permissible for a
newspaper to publish an expose of
wrong doing,” said Justice Guy, * but
it in its duty to doso
“ The defendant was engaged in the
publication of a newspaper not merely
for the dissemination of news, but
with the additional purpose of uphold.
jog a high standard of public decency
and morals in the community, snd it
was ita duty to publish truthfully so
much of the facts a8 with decency it
could publish, so that even if the
machinery of the criminal law proved
inadequate to reach malefactors of this
class, they might be held up to public
scorn and contempt.”
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The Ben Greet Pinyeors
The famous Ben Greet players will
give two performances in the State
College auditorium, Baturday, Febru
ary 27th, afternoon and evening, under
the suspices of the State College Liter
ary club. They will play BSbakes-
peare’s ** Merchant of Venice '’ at the
matinee and ** Macbeth ’' in the eve
ning. These sre two of the most
popular of the productions of that well
known dramstist sod are presented
with the staging and costuming of the
poet’s time. These are also two of the
plays required for examination for en-
trance in any college and will be most
helpful to students preparing for a
college course. This will be as rare
treat, as it is seldom that a company
of this character and ability 2omes to
this section.
The company which will be seen at
Btate College on February 27th will in-
clude Miss K-ith Wakeman, the well
known player and for many years KE,
B. Willard’s leading woman, as well as
Otis Bkinner’'s, Many snow of her
besutiful portrayal of ** Portia" and
will be glad of the opportunity of hear-
ing her ; Leonard Bhepard, the well
known English s'ar, who at the head
of his company in Eogland played
“ Bhylock,” * Iago,” '* Macbeth '’ and
“ Hamlet,” will be seen here ss Shy-
lock. Io addition Frank Mclatee,
Stanley Drewitt, Augusta True, Helen
Drewitt, Mark Wilson and others will
fiii their parts with the same wonder:
ful insight into the beauty of Bhake-,
speare as they have heretofore done
under the direction of Mr. Greet him-
self,
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“Fhe Plok Label.
This week the Pink Label appears,
Remember the labels on all papers
printed this week are Pink. This color
is used to call the attention of those
who have paid subscription since
January 6th that the label hus been
changed and credit given. It would
be next to impossible to put the pink
Jabel only on the papers sent sub
soribers who paid during the specified
time.
The effect of the pink label should
be magic like—it should onuse a broad
smile when the figure indicates pay-
ment in sdvance, and when the
figures show your subseription In
arrears, it should cause such a commo-
~ tion among the coins in your pocket
that you will want to part with them,
and if they do, send them this way.
x ——— A Mien,
The Pink Label this week.
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URIMINAL LIBEL-FEDERAL CGOURTS,
An uid snd Supposedly Settled Jurisdie
tional Question Reopened in Suit
Agninst The World and The News,
Hy the Indictment of the editors
{and owners of The New York World
{and The Indianapolis News for alleged
[libelous publications referring to the
| ourchase by the United States of the
| French eompany’s Panama Canal
| rights, an old acd supposedly settled
{jurisdictional question has been re-
{opened, The indictments were found
by a grand jury of the District of Col-
umbia, the alleged libels were pub-
| lished in New York aud Indianapolis,
| respectively Many years ago an
effort was made to arrest the late
Charles A. Dana, editor of The New
York Sun, in a suit for criminal libel
instituted in a Federal district a
thousand miles away from the place
of its utterance. It was asserted by
the prosecution that the sale and cir-
culation of the offending newspaper
in each of the hundreds of cities where.
in it was distributed constituted a
publication of the defamatory matter,
and that the publisher was amenable
to the Courts in any or all of these
numerous jarisdictions. This elaim
was repudiated by the United States
Bupreme Court with considerable
emphasis
A perann accised is not to be trans.
ported from one end of the United
States to the other on the authority of
a Bench warrant issued by a distant
Federal Court. The assertion that the
circulation of an alleged libelous pub.
lication in each place where the news.
paper containiang it is distributed
might be regarded as a distinet offense
was combated with much spirit by
former Becretary Eliha Root, who was
Mr. Dana's counsel. If this were per.
missable the editor of an extensively
read newspaper might be successively
dragged before the Courts of sll of the
forty-six States and the fifty or more
judicial districts of the United States,
There are some two thousand military,
postal and other Governgent reserva.
tions in the country; and if the offend-
ing sheet could be shown to have been
read in any of these reservations the
editor would be indictable in each and
healed before a Federal Court, mayhap
at the fartner side of the Continent.
The niere statement thereof shows the
theory to ba preposterous. Civil se-
tions for libel may stand on a different
footing, but criminally 8 person
charged with publishing a libel is an-
swerable only once, at the place of
publieation.
A more recent decision of the United
States Bupreme Court seems to modify
the doctrine laid down in the Dans
case; but it is only a seeming modifica
tion. It has been held that the pro-
cess of a Federal Court extends juris
dictionally to all parts of the United
States. Thus a warrant issued in Ore-
gon might be executed in Florida, or
vice versa. Bat this applies only
when a statutory crime against the
United States is charged in the war.
rant. The manages of a criminal
Trust, though residents of New York,
might be made to answer an indict.
ment under the Sherman act found by
a Federal grand jury in Omaha. Bat
libel Is not in the li-t of Federal
statutory offenses,
AAAS,
Bhreckengast-Armbraster,
Harry M. Bhreckengast, of Mill.
mont, and Miss Catharine Armbruster,
of Farmers Mills, were married at the
home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Elmer
C. Hettinger, near Centre Hill, Wed-
nesday evening of last week, at eight
o'clock. Rev. B. F. Bieber performed
the ceremony.
The young couple will take up house.
keeping at Farmers Mills, where Mr.
Shreckengast will be engaged at the
carpenter trade. Both bride and
groom are popularly known in thelr
respective localities,
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Methodist Qonference,
The forty-first annual session of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference of
the M. E. church will be held this
year in the Fifth street church, Har
risburg, the week beginning March
6th. Rev. H. H. Hart is pastor of the
church and will be the Conference
host, while Bishop John W. Hamilton
will preside over its sessions. The
annual temperance address will be
made by ex-Gov. Joseph Hanley. of
Indiana,
Rs Sf
Transfer of Real Estate,
Herbert 8. Bmull et ux to John
Brungart, Aug. 7, 1907; lot in Smull.
ton, $425,
Katharine McKinney to Clara B.
Quay, Oct, 17, 1008; lot of ground in
Howard borough. $180
Thaddius D. Stover ot ux to C. C.
Bmull, president of the Smuliton
Water Company, March 36, 1908; tract
of land in Miles twp.
George B. Waite, executor and trus
tee of Mary Waite, deceased, to Thad.
Pp Saver, April 1, 1905; in Miles twp.
Advertise in the Reporter.
&
E HALL, PA.
// TE Pe qussTon. NM
County, City or Borough to Maintain Abandoned or Con-
demned ‘I urnpikes, >
[By D. F. FORTNEY]
On the 20th day of April, 1905, there | opening toll roads to the use of the
was an act of Assembly approved public, but that the act was in form
which provided, ‘ That when any and legislative intention new law,
turnpike or part thereof, has been or! complete in itself, and did not require
may hereafter be appropriated or con- | the enforcement of any other statute
demned for public use, free of tolls to give it effect.”
under any existing laws, and the as- |, It is not necessary to go into what
sessment of damages therefor shall | the Court said on the other objections
have been paid by the proper county, | raised to the constitutionality of either
such turnpike or part thereof, shall be | of the acts. They were all overruled
properly repmired and maintained at and both acts declared to be within
the expense of the county, city or | the limits of the constitution.
borough in which the said turnpike, The reader will note that the amend-
or any part thereof, lies, or the same ment of the set of 1805 by the act of
may be improved under any existing | 1907 very much enlargedthe scope and
law: by said city or borough.” purpose of the original act.
This act was enlarged by an act ap- In this county there are a lot of old
proved April 25th, 1007, by inserting | pikes abandoned years ago. If they
after the words, ** paid by the proper are now to be thrown on the county,
county ”’ ; ** Or when any turnpike it will have a tremendous load to
company or association has heretofore | éatry. There is the Philipsburg and
abandoned, or may hereafter abandon Tyrone pike, the old pike extending
its turnpike or any part thereof ; or from Bellefonte to the Susquehanna
when any turnpike company or asso- by way of Buow Bhoe, the Bellefonte
cistion owning any turnpike, bss and Philipsburg pike, extending from
heretofore been dissolved or may here. Unlonville Philipsburg. These
after be dissolved by proceedings under | pikes snd perhaps others were aban-
existing lawe of this commonwealth '’, doped because railroads to Philipsburg,
and before such turnpike etc, as in Soow Shoe, and from Lock Haven to
the original act. Tyrone made them useless, and too
When the act of 1905 came out, and | burdensome to keep up as turnpikes,
townships desired that the county I'he clause in the act of 1907 amend-
should repair the turnpikes condemn- ing the act of 1905 is as broad ss lan-
ed, and for which the county had paid gusge can well make it. The first
the damsges, the county resisted on | clause reads, ** Or when any turnpike
the ground that the sct was unconsti- company or association has heretofore
tutional : First. Because the title was abandoned or may hereafter abandon
defective and therefore in violation of its turnpike or any part thereof ; . .
the third section of Article 111, of the + sich turnpike or part thereof
constitution relating to title of acts of shall be properly repaired or main.
amembly, tained at the expense of the county,
Becond. Because the act was In vio- city or borough in which the ssid
lstion of the sixth section of Article turnpike or any part thereof lies.”
I11, of the constitution relating to the The expression ** heretofore aban.
revival or amendment of acts of as- donned” may go back any length of
sembly. time, snd cover turnpikes abandoned
Third. Because it was in violation thirty, forty or more Years ago.
of the first section of Article IX, of the There must be at least one hundred
constitution relating to uniformity of miles of condemned and absndoned
taxation, turppikes in this county, perhaps one
Fourth. Because the sct was local hundred and fifty miles. The county
or special legislation and therefore in cannot maintain this without the ex-
violation of section seven of Article penditure of Inrge sums of money, it is
I11, of the constitution. true that county commissioners
In an elaborate opinion the Buperior have ihe right to raise the necessary
Court, in the case of the Common- funds by taxation, but when they do
wealth, ex. rel, ve. Bowman, which the people should remember why it
went up from Cumberland county, is dope.
filed February 29, 1908, over-rules all Whilé the Courts held that these
objections and declares the act to be acts of assembly are constitutional the
clearly constitutional. , system is wrong, the repair of these
In the case of Clarion county vs. pikes which under the law have be-
Clarion township, where Lhe same come public roads, either by being
objections were raised, and which was abandoned or by condemuation, should
taken up after the passage of the sct of be under the care of the local authori.
April 25, 1907, the same Court held, ties.’ The movey to be expended in
that both acts were constitutional. Oa their repair will be better expended,
appeal from the Baperior to the Su- more care will be exercised and better
preme Court the first case was affirmed oversight given to the work that is
on the opinion of the Superior Court, done. Of late there has been an im-
snd the second case by reason of the meose amount of legislation which
sffirmance of the first case by the Bu- puts burdens on the cointy with the
preme Court, was never appealed from | idea that it relieves the several town.
the decision of the Superior Court. ships, but this is not really the case,
Io disposing of the secotd objection because the county is obliged to in-
set out above the Court held * That crease toe taxes in order to meet the
the act did not extend any old law, extraordinary expense put upon it by
vor was it part of a system devised, for | this system of legislation,
Lo
the
LOCALS,
February will show up well as a wet
the dry months of 1908, ‘ Congratulations,
E.C. Roms is busy taking down the Harry Douty’s saw mill, located
old Dale mill, which be has purchased | east of Rebersburg, was destroyed by
and intends using to build several | fire one night last week,
bouses in Lemont. “Let the buyer beware!” John
Mrs. Mary Shoop, who had been in | Parr says is the watchword of the
Harrisburg for several monthe, is now | Wall Street manipulator. His article
in Washington, D. C., where she will in the March Everybody's is called
remain for some time. | ** The Stock Yards of New York.”
Editor Kister, of the MiMlinburg! Mn. Harriet Rimmey, who makes
Times, while feeding a job press, had her home with her son David Rim-
one of his hands badly squeezed, but | mey, st Pleasant Gap, is in very deli
no bones were broken.
Postmaster G. M. Boalsnd B. D.
Brisbin were in Bellefonte Monday,
and shook hands with the many “old
boys "’ who wore the blue during the
sixties,
Willard McDowell, of Howard, wao
has been confined to his bed for the
past several faonthe from rheumatism
and in an entirely helpless condition,
was able to sit in a roller chair to take
his meals Inst week. .
Roy Shaffer moved from Graysville
to the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mra. B. F. Shaffer, east of Centre Halj,
where he and the family will remain
until the first of April when he will
become tenant on the Uharles A.
Krape farm, adjoining where the
senior Mr. Bhafler lives,
A flock of wild geese passed over
Centre Hall Saturday evening. About
eight o'clock they hovered over the
town, having come olose to the ground.
It is presumed they became bewilder-
ed on their northern flight by the
street lights, and Stopped to lnvesti-
early season
in or ken as an
gate. It :
tofl it is in-
nF wd ita te
spring.
*
| cate health, and owing to her advanced
| agedt is feared she will not recover.
Mre. John Frazier is assisting to take
care of hei,
When President-elect William H.
Taft was made a Mason ‘on sight
in Cincinnati, the Pennsylvania jurie-
diction was represented by Grand
Master George B. Orlady, of Hunting
don, aud other Masons of high stand-
ing in the state.
ry H. Luge, of Centre Hall,
Thursday of Inst week returned from a
visit (0 his sister, Mrs. (Dr.) Ed. L.
Miiler, at Johnstown, and also stopped
at Tyrone for several days. He
under the impression that there
considerable doing in those cities,
is surprised at the complaint of
times by the residents there,
5. 1909.
Edgar E, Austin Killed,
Tuesday evening of last week Edgar
E. Austin was fatally injured at the
East Tyrane engine house. While re
pairing a locomotive in company with
other machinists it was found neces
sary to run the engine out of the build-
ing and just as the cab was passing a
partition Mr. Austin stuck his head
out of the window and was caught
between the engine cab and the baild-
ing. Everything possivle was done
to help the man, but his injuries were
such that he died. within about an
bour.
Edgar Eogels Austin was born at
Boalsburg, and was aged forty-seven
years. When a boy he moved with
his parents to McAlevys Fort and later
went to Tyrone, where he has since
resided. Three brothers survive, name-
ly : James M., of West Winfield, But
ler county ; Alfred F. and William
W., of Tyrone. ,
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From Johstown,
From a letter published below, re-
ceived from 8B. M. Goodhart, who is
employed by the Rothert Company,
house furnishers, in their branch es-
tablishment in Johnstown, it appears
conditions in that city are not work-
ing on the border of prosperity, Mr.
Goohart writes thus :
We appreciate the Reporter very
much ; itis a most welcome visitor to
our home,
The Flood City has not as yet seen
very much of the * prosperity '’ wave.
The mills are not working to any
great extent, and business is spas-
modic, and, in general, thiogs are
rather in bad shape.
We are having real mild weather
bere at present, with plenty of rain.
fall.
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King - Haft,
George Norman King, the versatile
entertainer, of Pine Grove Mills, was
married to Miss Helen Huff, of Lock
Haven, last Friday, by Rev. Lewis
Nichols, at 8t. Paul's rectory, in
the presepce of the immediate rels.
tives of the bride and groom. The
Lock Haven Express thus comments
on the nuptial event :
The bride is the daughter of Theo-
dore Hufl, of East Water street, and is
an estimable young lady. For some
time past the groom has been the vo
calist at the Pastime theater, but re-
cently assumed the masosgement of
the Bellefonte opera house, which is
one of the places of amusement con
trolled by Manager Jones, of the
Pastime theatre in this city.
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Potato Statistion,
The United States bureau of statis
tics bas made an inquiry among
potato growers and interior dealers in
the principal potato growing sections
of the United States as to stocks of
potatoes on hand, January 1, 1900.
From the replies received it appears
that on that date about 325 per cent.
of the crop raised for market in 1908
was held by growers and 11.3 per cent
by interior dealers. Growers held 13 3
less and dealers 12.7 per cent. less than
they did on January 1, 1908. The total
potato production in the United States
in 1008, as estimated by the bureau
was 279,000,000 bushels, or about 10 per
cent. less than in 1907.
From Kansas,
From Jewell, Kansss, comes a bit of
information that will be kindly re-
ceived by the Reporter readers. The
writer of the lines below Is Benjamin
Musser, president of the Citizen's
State Bank, in Jewell, Kansas, and is
well known to many of the readers,
Mr. Musser says :
We have real winter weather here
now. In fact have had short spells of
winter about every other week for
some time, the alternate spells of
weather being the other extreme
warm and spring-like. I hope to visit
my Pennsylvania relatives and old
acquaintances some time within the
present year,
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The Wieland Farm Soid--Perhaps,
The Wieland farm, at Linden Hall,
was recently sola to Merchant John
M. Wieland, of Boalsburg, for $8500,
according to ramor, but papers have
not been signed.
The Wieland farm contains about
one hundréd and eleven acres, and Is
in good tilth., David Bayder, now
tenant on the Prof. P. H. Meyer farm,
east of Linden Hall, will move to the
w farm.
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oo Death of & Baby,
The five months’ old son of Mr,
and Mrs. Milton Bradford, at Old
Fort, died Bunday morning. Inter
ment was mate Wednesday afternoon
ne. -
Tho death of the child was due
inflsmmation of the bowels,
NO. 8.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, -
FROM ALL PARTS.
The Pink Label this week. ‘
A flock of wild geese, a blue jay—
both signs of spring—have been seen. ,
Bell telephone was installed in
the residence of Mrs, Mary A. Ross, in
Centre Hall,
Mrs, Herbert Brungart, of Jeannette,
was the guest of the family of ex-
Bheriff Brungart, in Centre Hall,
The Btate College Times has been
enlarged and is now a six column,
eight page paper, being in form and
size the same as all the county papers.
Claude E. Wert, of Tusseyville, will
begin farming after April first, at
which time he will succeed his father
on the farm occupied by him for a
number of years,
Messrs, John R. and James H,
Behrack, of Lemont, were in Centre
Hall Friday, and were among the Re-
porter’s callers. The Schracks are car-
riage builders, and are doing a nice
business,
This February has not made s record
for being the coldest month in the
year auyway. There is a March in
each year, however, that rarely fails to
make a record of some sort distasteful
to most of us,
It will be news to most of the Re-
porter readers to know that Mrs. J.
Frank Ross, st Pittsburg, hss been
seriously afflicted with rheumatism,
Her condition was gfch that the
knowledge of the death of her father
was kept from her,
Mrs. Charles H. Meyer and Mrs. D.
W. Reynolds, of Reedaville, drove to
Centre Hall Friday and returned
Wednesday. Before returning, Mrs,
Reynolds visited the families of
Chaney Hicklen, M. I. Gardner and
F. M. Crawford, in Bellefonte,
The Tressler Orphans’ Home, at
Lioysville, has a serious diphtheria
outbreak with twenty or more child
ren sick. The institution has 8 popu-
Iation of two hundred and forty in-
mates, and is owned and supported by
the General Bynod of the Lutheran
church.
Because congress failed to appro-
priate money to establish free delivery
at new offices, Btate College will be
obliged to wait for that couvenience
until cash is forthcoming. Otherwise
8 free delivery system would have
been put in operation there the first
of March.
The conundrum supper given Batur-
day evening by the ladies of the C. E,
Society of the Presbyterian church in
Grange Arcadia, was well attended.
I'he menu was elaborate, and every
dish was prepared with great skill,
The Isdies were dressed Martha Wash-
ington style, and the young men said
they looked pretty.
Constable Charles D. Frazier, of near
Colyer, was a caller Friday, but neither
tapped the editor on the back nor read
a notice in his hearing. Constable
Frazier says the people in Potter town-
ship are all too good to support an
officer of his standing. That is quite
creditable to the citizens of Potter
township, but mighty hard on con-
stables.
A girl of sixteen years, dsughter of
Grant Showers, of Philipsburg, died
from blood poisoning a short time Ago.
A pimple on her forehead was picked
with a pin, blood poison developed,
and death ensued within a week. This
emphasize: the necessity of being
very carefull not to use befouled instru
ments of any character when coming
in contact with open wounds.
H. J. Lambert, the toi
shear man, just returned from a tHp
through the south, having been as far
down as southern Florida. His trip
was a successful one. During the com-
ing summer he contemplates improv.
ing his home, on east Church street,
purchased a few months ago, by build-
ing a porch, repainting the whole
structure, and will also do some in
lor remodeling. °
'E. C. Johnson snd F. A. Randolph,
of Pine Grove Mills, were in Centre
Hall Friday and called on the Re
porter. Mr. Johnson represents the