INK SLINGS.
—1It's a cold day when the political bee |
isn’t buzzing around the head of a new |
patriot in Centre county. |
—Philadelphia may be slow in a great
many ways but she certainly knows how | —=
to raise money for Y. M. C. A. work. |
—Government by commission wouldn't
suit Bellefonte because there would be
nobody to be governed. They would all
want to be the commission.
—Yesterday was the 2nd of February,
It was ground-hog day, but not all of
them were looking for shadows. Some
were still knocking on PINCHOT.
—Lhe plan to have the terms of all
public officials end in even years will
probably mean that a lot of odd jobs
can't be ended until the job-holders get
even.
—Sleeping in a flimsy, frame house
stuck on the top of a rock promontory
on a windy night, like last Monday, one
is in danger of having less respect for
that scriptural advice against building on
the sand.
~The Socialists are running Milwau-
kee and the bills they are piling up|
threaten to bankrupt the city. The So-
cialist theory is to take care of every-
body and everybody seems to have a
hook in in Milwaukee.
—After all the church is about the
only place you don’t hear much about
“protection to home industries” therefore
we can't expect to hear a howl because
that New Jersey congregation has called
a preacher from Scotland.
—Prof. ELwoop, of the University of
Missouri, might have told us when he
stated that “men of all ages have prefer-
red blondes to brunettes” whether he
went far enough with his study of condi-
tions to discover whether the women of
some of those remote ages knew any-
thing about peroxide.
——It is hardly worth while to waste
time and money in getting opinions on
the school code pending in the Legislature.
If that measure promises to promote the
interests of the machine it will be enact-
ed and otherwise it will be defeated. Its
value as an educational agent will have
nothing to do with the case. This is not
official but absolutely certain.
Jf itisa fact that all the so-called
. Democratic chairmen, who have demand-
of State chairman DEWALT that he
state central committee together
s of allowing them to reor-
left the party last fall
support of Mr. BERRY,
i nder the rules of the party,
have they to a voice in anything.
—If there is to be any legislation look-
ing to the reorganization of the State
Highway Department, it is to be hoped
that it will settle the matter of mainte-
nance of roads built by state aid. The
millions we are spending annually for
road building will all be a total loss in
four or five years unless some compulso-
ry measure is passed fixing responsibility
for the proper care of it after itis built.
—We notice in the Pittsburg Sun that
“take it from me” is a pet phrase of Con-
gressman BARCHFELD, of that city. When
the Hon. ANDY was here to lecture two
years ago it was whispered about that he
had a new building for the Bellefonte
Academy tucked away under his ample
frock coat, but we truly rurals didn’t
hear him say “take it from me” else we
might have had it before he ever escap-
ed from the town instead of being on the
anxious bznch ever since.
—GEORGE SCHREIDER, of Wilkesbarre,
deserted his wife because he said she
painted and powdered worse than an In-
dian chief. Mrs. SCHREIDER had him ar-
rested and denied the charge, but the
Justice sent her to a chemist to have
her skin tested for paint. Girls can make
themselves look more like a fool with a
rabbit foot and a box of rouge and right
here in Bellefonte we have a few that the
Board of Health should certainly haul in
before they get an epidemic of painter's
colic started among the boys.
—-The Union and Southern Pacific rail-
road companies are to start at once the
expenditure of seventy-five million dol-
lars in double tracking their lines, be-
cause they both see better times ahead
and are hastening to be prepared for it.
Last fall the counrty went Democratic be-
yond all expectation and so soon two of
the greatest railroads on the earth begin
to spend seventy-five million dollars. We
presume our neighbor of the Gazette will
be too busy arguing with his office cat as
to what closed the Bellefonte furnaces
that he won’t see anything in the big
work that is beginning all over the coun-
try.
—Under the bill that was introduced
by Senator POWELL, of Allegheny, in the
Senate on Monday it will be no easy job
to get married in Pennsylvania, should
the bill be enacted. It prohibits the issu-
ance of license to imbeciles, indigent or
pauper persons and to those known to
have transmissible diseases of any kind.
Also it provides that persons prohibited
from marrying in Pennsylvania will find
their marriage void if they go into anoth-
er State to be married and then return to
reside here. Such an act is rather rad-
ical legislation for Pennsylvania but there
can be no argument as to its far reach-
ing good.
! tively.
| Monday of July” when these county
VOL. 56.
Well To Remember. |
If the gentlemen w"0 are talking so as-
siduously about the re-organization of the
Democratic party of the State (whatever
that may mean) and are 50 seemingly
determined to begin that job at once, will
bear in mind the following facts they will
possibly avoid the mistake of not only
jeopardizing the authority and legality of
the Democratic organizations within the
State but that of every county ticket the
Democracy may place in the field this
fall as well.
First. The law requires all party
organizations or party tickets to be made
in strict conformity with the rules of the
party of the State or counties respec-
Seconp. The State rules fix but two
dates upon which organization can
be effected, changes in it made or re-
organization attempted, if the work is to
be done legally. |
THIRD. These dates, this year, are |
Saturday,June 3rd, at the primaries when
a number of the counties elect their
county chairmen, who by their election |
as county chairmen become their mem. |
bers of the State committee, and others,
on the same day and in the same manner,
elect their county committeemen, who at
a subsequent and fixed date choose their
county chairmen who are thus made
their representatives on the State com-
mittee. The other date referred to is
the “first Wednesday following the third
chairmen, acting as members of the State
Central committee, are required to meet
in Harrisburg to elect a State Chairman
and Treasurer, organize the committee
and attend to such duties as are neces-
sary to perfect and complete the organi-
zation of the party.
Any changing, or organizing, or re-
organizing the Democratic State com
mittee in any other manner than as
prescribed in the rules, or at any other
time than the dates given, or by any
other people than those chosen by the
Democratic voters of the different coun-
ties as provided by their rules, would
make the State committee an illegal and
unauthorized body of men and subject
every ticket, whether State or county,
put in the field under the name of
Democracy, to show cause why it should
not be set aside, because it would not
be the ticket of a legally organized party,
And there are men professing to be
Democrats within this State who would
rejoice to see the party placed in this
position if they cannot become its dicta-
tors and controllers.
Of these trouble makers it would be
well to beware.
It is harmony more than anything else
the Democracy needs, and any date is a
good time to try to bring that about.
Possibly an African in the Woodpile.
Even if the proposed Canadian reci-
procity deserved all the praise that has
been bestowed upon it we are not so cer-
tain that it should be enacted into law.
It puts poultry and potatoes, butter and
| beets and a lot of other things, now heav-
lily tariff taxed, on the free list, if they
are imported from Canada. But why
shouldn't this free list be extended so as
to cover all other sections of the world in
which such commodities are grown? At
least it might have covered the American
continent, so as to give us the benefit of
free access to the products of Mexico
and the fruits of South and Central
America. If good in its limited form it
must be much better in the larger area.
Isn't it just possible that the Presi-
dent's Canadian reciprocity scheme is an
expedient to head off the more useful and
desirable tariff reform which the Demo-
cratic party was commissioned to under-
take by the vote of the people last fall?
It is reasonably certain that the Presi-
dent's tariff commission project is nothing
else than a plan to postpone tariff reform
for a few years at least. Within that
time vast fortunes could be drawn from
the earnings of the people by excessive
tariff taxes. This Canadian reciprocity
may be only to serve the same purpose
in another way. In other words it may
be intended to sacrifice one part in order
to secure another. This is worth consid-
ering.
The Canadian reciprocity measure con-
templates putting some vegetables, cere- |
als and fish imported from Canada, on
the free list which is unquestionably an
advantage. But a scientific revision of
the tariff would achieve the same result
not only with respect to products import:
ed from Canada but those brought in
from all sources. Besides it is quite as
important that clothing and other neces-
saries of life, now tariff taxed to ashame-
ful degree, be relieved of this burden, in
order that such essentials to modern civ-
cheapened
ilization be to the consumer.
“Half a loaf is better than no bread,” to
be sure, but what's the use of goi
ng wild
over the tender of half a loaf when the
Satire ol 7 a bakery can be had
or
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
STATE
BELLEFONTE, PA. FERBUARY 3, 1911.
Ignorance or Untruthfulness—Which? Taft Gets Unearned Praise.
It is strange how anxious some people | Some of our esteemed contemporaries
are to show how little they know of con- |
ditions they talk about, or how willingly | aa
they will tell an untruth to deceive those | count of the Canadian reciprocity agree-
who listen to them. We refer now to our ment made public the other day. Itisa
friend Tom MCCLELLAND, of the Mt. Jew- |
resentatiyes HILTON and BENSON—whom | public official has indulged within the
the people of that county sent to the | memory of man. But the mercenary |
Legislature as Democrats—which were | "eWspapers pretend to imagine that it re
cast for Mr. JULIAN KENNEDY, an unre. | Veals a great awakening of conscience and
lenting, life-long Republican, for U. 8. 2 splendid exhibition of patriotism. The
Senator, Mr. MCCLELLAND says: Philadelphia Record, for example, which
Me. Huron and Mr. BENSON, while: bot | USUAlly damns Democracy with faint
Democrats from the soles of their feet tothe | Praise, illustrates it in a front page pic-
topmost hair of their heads, are honest men ; , ture in which the President is represent-
men standing honestly for honest Democracy,
Sut Whe CE SO Ne | on the people the favor of free food.
States Senator, neither of them were able to The truth of the matter is that Presi-
so prostitute themselves as to cust ba ballot | dent TAFT has reluctantly yielded to the
for the Hon. J. HENRY COCHRAN, of Williams. | jnevyij i .
Ee er Dae. itable in the matter of Canadian rec
The last man of prominence, who, when
MATT QUAY was beating, crowding, bribing.
purchasing his way to the high and sacred
position of United States Senator from Penn-
sylvania, that he might there prostitute him:
self at the behest of the interests: assist in
manufacturing legislation for a price in the
interests of those who have long controlled
this government under the cloak of the Re-
publican party—]. HENRY COCHRAN stood to
| ing been exposed by the voters at the re-
| cent election TAFT is offering himself as
| may thus escape the penalty which his
| late associates in crime are certain to
suffer. Within a few months he was eu-
| logizing the ALDRICH tariff as the highes
recom aa Bo | revo
While Senator COCHRAN neither asks | . ins tie Col sonal elect d
nor needs defense, we simply want to ex- win out n nEressl e ion an
the opinion that if Mr. M CEL | Ob from their tainted profits a
press : | corruption fund sufficient to buy his re-
LAND knows no more about what he is : :
TT ET wrt
the actions of tof RAN during | rates and offers them as a sacrifice to se-
the contest referred to, than the above... ..0 oun safety
would indicate he is no better fitted to There is nothing to admire about WiL-
edit a newspaper, even up among Mc-| Ly Tipr He has not confessed to
Kean county Republicans, than a blind the rim 25 that his in
pig would be to make telescopic observa: |. office did, but he By ge BO a
tions for an astronomical observatory. :
During the many weeks the real Dem- | fast ee oy Ship eae Deas
ocrats of the State were trying to defeat | this Canadian reciprocity affair. The
the re-election of Senator QUAY, the Hon. CLEVELAND administration : i a
GEORGE A. JENKS, who was the Democrat. reciprocity convention with Canada which
Sr rating Jas swell Gels og the Site
Joun Hay, during his service of Secreta-
This not only the Senate records will . . .
ee ry of State, negotiated thirteen reciproci-
show, but any Democrat who visited Har. ty treaties all of which were killed in tt
risburg to aid his party, and every Demo-
cratic Senator and member of the House¢ Senate. Dozens of treaties have been
will verify. Even Mr. MCCLELLAN'S go ward by the Senate and unless the
present i A VAN. | signs are misleading this illegitimate
poi Tagg elphia North chitd of dishonest diplomacy is destined
be i oe at "to the same fate. This is a pity but a
of Pittsburg, were the principal anti- fact
QuAY leaders in this contest, will attest. .
The untruthfulness of the reasons he!
gives for the actions of the members from |
McKean, and the unfounded excuses he We are awaiting, with such patience as
frames up for their course, will be so it is possible to summon, an explanation
much more apparent to their constitu- , of the vote of the Democratic members
ents when they learn that the man they of the present committee on ways and
voted to make United States Senator— | means of the House, in Washington, in
Mr. JuLiaN KENNEDY, of Pittsburg,—was | favor of a permanent tariff commission.
one of Mr. QUAY's most enthusiastic sup- | Hitherto the Democratic members of that
porters up until that gentleman got out ' committee have consistently opposed such
of politics and into the Beaver cemetery; | legislation. It is said that they have al-
that he never entertained a Democratic tered their opinions on the subject be-
idea; never endorsed a Democratic prin- ' cause the Democrats will be in the ma-
ciple; never voted a Democratic ticket, ' jority in the next Congress and want the
and was one of the State Machine's most | benefit of the information which economic
subservient and active members, until experts will be able to give them on the
the people of Pittsburg became aroused | subject of tariff taxation. If that be true
and began war upon its political bank- | they have given a very lame excuse for
wreckers and council bribers. When this ' palpable political recreancy.
work began and those with whom he had | The only warant for the levy of tariff
always worked stood in the shadow of | taxes is contained in Section 8 of Article
the penitentiary, he sought safety under | 1 of the constitution of the United States
the cloak of reform, and allowed his for- | which declares that “the Congress shall
mer “pals” to take care of themselves. | have power to lay and collect taxes,
If it was any credit to any Democratic | duties, ‘mposts and excises, to pay the
member to vote the highest honor the | debts and provide for the common de-
State had to give, to a candidate of this | fence and general welfare of the United
kind, it is left for our Mt. Jewett friend | States." That is to say Congress may
to explain in just what way he was enti- | levy tariff taxes to meet the legitimate
titled to that honor, or how his friends | expenses of the government, economically
represented the anti-QUAY—PENROSE Ma- | administered. If there are not Democrats
chine sentiment of their county by vot- in Congress capable of performing this
ing for him. ! duty they would better resign and con-
rr, fess that they have acquired positions
under false pretense. Any man incapable
of performing that service is unfit to oc-
An Inexplicable Situation.
Right From His View Point.
JOE ALEXANDER has done more for Clearfield
county in the three weeks he has been State | CUPY 2 seat in Congress.
Senator than GEORGE DIMELING did in all the | In the first place the fundamental law
four years he served as an appendage to the tail | provides that “all legislative power herein
end of the &. o.b. Senatorial truck wagon. —Clee" | granted shall be vested in a Congress of
Yes brother SHORT, in some ways he | the United States, which shall consist of
has. It took Mr. JOE ALEXANDER less | Senate and House of Representatives.”
than three weeks to put Clearfield county | Therefore if commissions are created to
in a front seat on the Machine band | legislate they are without the sanction of
and to prove that that county can | the constitution. If they are merely to
be counted upon, at least while he js | advise their creation presupposes the in-
Senator, to stand by any dirty work the capacity of those elected to perform the
bosses may want done, or any vicious , Service. Such an aspersion upon the in-
on the PENROSE—MCNICHOL gang | telligence of the Democratic party is
laghslation th His vote bothin caucus manifestly intolerable. For that reason
and the Senate for—GEORGE T. OLIVER— | We are unable to understand the vote for
the PENROSE candidate for United States | @ permanent tariff commission by the
Senator may be a great thing for Clear. | Democratic members of the committee
field county from Mr. SHORT'S point of |O0 Ways and Means. We hope the threat
ened rebuke will be administered.
view, but from that of the honest Demo- |
crat and Independent, it looks very dif-
ferent. Senator DIMELING may weil feel
proud that no acts of his during his entire
service in the Senate, either discredited
or disgraced his county, as has JOSEPH
ALEXANDER'S in the three short weeks he |
has been acting as its Senator.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
——The President is very much in fa-
vor of commercial freedom with Canada
at present, we are led to infer. The Con-
elections last fall indicated that
the people have been giving some thought
to that subject and are inclined in the
same direction. “When the devil was sick
of the sycophantic class are freely throw- |
ing bouquets at President TAFT on ac- |
complete reversal of the previous attitude
ett, McKean county, Herald. In trying Of the President on the tariff question |
to make an excuse for the votes of Rep- and as startling a stultification as any | who are there for the
| after the interests of the Steel
. House appoint a committee
something that the United States Attorney
i ed as a smiling benefactor bestowing up- |
| iprocity. The protection conspiracy hav- | tre Jaw,
| “state’s evidence” in the hope that he |i
made by Secretaries of State and unmade copi
From the Johnstown Democrat .
ke Desuitative Augustis O
ucky, is making a fight
: : rrr
he figh
habit
Theref:
ing ui
Mr. Stanley Sg working to
of nine
General ought to do but has failed
the fact that the Steel Trust
managers of the Republican
The Attorney General's office being
practically useless so far as in
with the trust is concerned, Mr.
wants a committee to make
ne whether the trust
ence in violation of the Sherman
all facts touching
Steel Trust with the Tennessee
Iron company. Both the President
Attorney General opposed a favorable ro.
port on this resol and it was a sur-
prise when he secured a favorable report
from the judiciary committee. The At-
torney General said that all statements
and communications in his department
ly a violation of the anti-trust law—first,
on account of its immense size; and sec-
ond, because it was operating in more
open and flagrant violation of the law
than any other combine.
He produced documents to show that
the nine companies consolidated into
what is now the United States Steel cor-
poration were merely instruments in the
ds of J. P. Morgan; that Morgan had
arranged the deal by which the -
tion was to be created and Carnegie’s in-
terests procured at a cost of over $520,
rs nley also produced fied
r. Sta a certi
es of suits to which the Carnegie
Steel company and others now interest-
ed in the Steel Trust were parties, in
which Carnegie and his associates had
stated under oath that the book value of
their property was little in excess of $75,-
000,000, the same p ies that were
afterward sold to the United States Steel
corporation at over $500,000,000.
Chairman Dalzell asked Mr. Stanley
why he did not present these facts to the
Attorney General. For answer Mr. Stan-
Joy prodaced a published interview in
which Judge Gary of the Steel combine
asserted t Wickersham had already
investigated the tion and had giv-
eit him a clean bill of heaith and in which
Judge Gary defied Congres to investi-
gate it, threatening to bring on panics
and depression.
Taft’s Tariff Pact.
From the New York American.
The last words of the last public ad-
dress of President McKinley, the high
apostle of protection, were an appeal to
the country for free trade through reci-
procity with our closest neighbors, includ-
ing Canada. Ten years of constant pres-
sure by the people of Canada and of the
United States—the producers and con-
sumers of both countries—has at last
borne fruit, and the result is in the high-
est degree creditable to President Taft.
A reciprocal trade agreement by com-
missioners of both countries was per-
fected in Washington last week, and
Monday the President sent a special mes-
sage to Congress urging immediate legis-
lation to confirm it. Food, lumber and
pa
r are to be put on the free list.
hus a notable victory in the field of
commerce and economics will be scored
to the credit of enlightened statesman-
ship assisted 1 representative joni,
agreement is not to be negotiated
in the fori of a ttedty, but thretigh cur.
rent legislation on part of Congress
and the Canadian parliament. There is
question, therefore, of a two-thirds
majority of the
Stanley, of
for a Con-
| rind and al of the Republican 3
y
has anything to do wi Me Winker,
| sham’s indifference is known only to the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A few days ago a $12,000,000 mortgage was
recorded at Clearfield. It was by the Pennsylva-
nia Coal and Coke company to the Scranton
Guaranty and Title Co.
~The State Livestock Sanitary board will vac-
cinate a number of hogs in McKean county be-
cause of an outbreak of hog cholera near Brad-
ford. The vaccination has worked successfully
in other places.
—On January 27, Harry M. Black, a clerk in the
Lewistown postoffice, was taken into custody
by U. S. Postoffice Inspector. E. Lucas, of Lewis-
= | town, charged with stealing and embezzling let-
ters from the U. S. mails.
~Christian Eckard, of Uniontown, has received
from the Keck-Connellsville Coke company the
sum of $28,000 for a tract of a 9-foot vein of coal
—At a recent meeting of the trustees of Juniata
college, Huntingdon.the erection of a new science
hall was discussed. Over $10,000 has been sub-
scribed. The endowment fund has reached $5.”
380. 1t is planned to make it $200.000. The pres-
ent trustees were re-elected.
~Tyadaghton valley, near Cedar’ Run, Lycom-
ing county, will soon be the scene of extensive
fruit culture operations. Nine hundred acres of
land belong to a company of Williamsport capi-
talists. Peach, plum, quince and apple trees will
be planted.
~The county of Cambria had sixty-five young
men and boys confined in th state reformatory at
Huntingdon last year and the bill for their main-
tenance was received recently. The sixty-five
were charged for at the rate of 25 cents a day
and the total bill amounted to $3,447.45.
—~William Reed, senior member of the firm of
William Reed & Sons, Huntingdon, on Friday
last received from the department at Washington
anew designed gold medal issued and presented
to him for conspicuous bravery in the line of duty
before Vicksburg during the Civil war.
~The damage suit of Miss Grace Leonard, of
Fossilville, against the estate of John Anderson,
deceased, of Bedford, was settled last week by
the payment of $4,000. Plaintiff received injuries
by falling on the icy pavement in front of the de-
fendant’s property on December 19, 1907.
treasury certificates of A. D. Yokum, formerly of
Meadville, Allegheny county, who died not long
ago at Boraopolis, it is found that the total wealth
is $64,250 in cash and bank balances. Of this
amount more than $30,000 was in gold coin.
—William Dull, aged 53 years, a resident of
Honey Grove, Juniata county, had never seen a
trolley ear until this week, when he went to the
Lewistown hospital to see his wife, who was a
patient there. It required considerable effort to
induce Mr. Dull to board a trolley at Lewistown
Junction.
~The work of installing the gas-producing
plant at the A. F. B. Glass factory at DuBois, is
progressing rapidly and it has been definitely an-
nounced that the fires will be lighted soon and
that the actual work of blowing will start about
February 18, or not later than March 1, and will
probably continue all sunmer.
—Somerset county has 200 bridges, built ata
cost of about $100,000. Thirty-five are wood, 155
steel or iron, five stone arches, three of concrete
construction, two stone and concrete culverts.
The superintendent traveled 3,400 miles last year
in performance of his duties. Ten new bridges
were built in 1910 and five are scheduled for
1911.
—The highest mountain peak in Pennsylvania
is located in Lincoln township, in the northwest-
ern part of Bedford county. It is known as Blue
Knob, and has an elevation of 3336 feet above
mean sea level. The nearest approach to it in
Pennsylvania is Big Bald Knob, 3.000.7 feet above
tide a few miles southwestwardly from Blue
Knob, at the Bedford and Somerset county
line.
—Alexander Haslet, an iron worker, whose
home is in Philadelphia, while rigging up an
elevator in the annex to the James hotel, lost his
foothold while working on the eighth floor and
plunged down the shaft. The man is noted for
his agility and managed by catching at a couple
of protruding boards to so break his fall as to es-
cape with a slight fracture of the skull and a few
minor bruises.
~The will of the late Thomas Barnes, of
Barnesboro, headof the Barnes & Tucker Coal
company, and malti-millionaire has Jjust been
filed at Ebensburg. John Barnes, of Wayne, Pa.,
his only son, is sole executor. The widow, Mrs.
Anna Barnes, received the handsome homestead
and all personal propeety at Barnesboro, with a
half interest in the income from the entire re-
mainder of the estate. The six children are to
receive the income from the other half inter-
est.
—Indiana county is threatened with an epi-
demic of rabies, as a result of the running at
large of two mad dogs recently. Eleven dogs,
either infected or with well developed symptoms,
have been shot at Dixonville, where a week ago a
dog went mad and bit several others. All live
stock in that vicinity is threatened. At Wehrum,
where seeeral children were bitten, a number of
dogs believed to be infected have been running
at large and a general quarantine is ordered.
Drs. S. C. Woomer and J. H. Elkin represent the
state board.
—Rev. W. A. Stephens, D. D., and wife celebrat-
ed the forty-fifth anniversary of their wedding at
their home in Clearfield a few days ago. Fifty
friends were entertained at dinner. T. H. Mur-
ray, Esq., in be-half of a few friends, presented
the host and hostess with a purse containing $45
in gold. Dr. Stephens is a Methodist
minister, is widely known and just as widely be-
loved. He and his wife have the congratulations
of many friends outside Clearfield and lots of
good wishes that their wedded happiness may
continue many more years.
—Frank Guninzburg, a wholesale liquor dealer
who has a license in Clearfield county, was sen-
tenced the other day in Jefferson county for seli-
ing illegally. His sentence wasto pay a fine of
$1,500, costs in the case and to undergo imprison-
ment in the Allegheny workhouse for a period of
three months. The sentence provided that should
the fine and costs be paid within ten days the jail
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immediately taken to the higher courts and as
some fine law points are involved the case will be
watched with interest.
—Lloyd J. Iredell, business manager and part
owner of ilic Clhisshicleand News, died at his home
in Allentown last Friday night from injaries re-
hospital.
—Over 1100 applications have been made to
Professor H. A. Surface, state zoologist, Harris-
burg, Pa., requesting him to accept orchards be
longing to the applicants for the purpose of su.
pervising or directing this year, to show how to
control pests, and manage the orchard insucha
way as to produce the largest, most perfect and
most profitable crop of fruit. In response to
these requests Professor Surface is sending his
exeperts into every county of the State,arranging
a systematic tour of the preferred orchards in
each county, in a way as to give the individual
service requested.