Bewora aca
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ER ——————
INK SLINGS.
Its been sprinkling dollars for the
past two weeks and we're certainly ex-
pecting the “shower” tomorrow.
—Don’t forget the WATCHMAN'S dol-
lar shower. If you can't get in for the
deluge we expect come in on the clear-
ing-up storm that ought to follow it.
—The skeptic does not believe in
Santa Claus, but thank God, the dreams
of all the little folks are not turned to
nightmares by those who would make
them skeptics.
——Mr. CARNEGIE having reduced his
fortune to $25,000,000, or thereabouts, is
delighted with the prospect of dying a
poor man. Yet to most of us country
newspaper men that seems like a fairly
safe competence.
—Two hundred and five big dollar
drops that have fallen into the WATCHMAN
office in the past two weeks make the
prospects good for the big “Shower of
Dollars” we asked for about the 20th.
The preliminaryjsprinkle is fine. Now for
the deluge. $
—Really it begins to look as if the
people of the country had come to an
accurate estimate of WILLIAM SuULZER,
the deposed Governor of New York. The
effort to make a martyr of him failed for
the reason that martyrs are not made of
the metal from which crooks are mould-
ed.
—As long as love, and generosity, and
devotion and simplicity rule human
hearts Santa Claus will live and be real,
though unseen, in the minds of the little
ones. Will you take him away from
them? Will you prick the bubble and
change the merry sparkle of the child's
eye tosadness and distress. Will you
shatter the gladsome memories of the
chimney-corner and break the charm of
the one beautiful legend of childhood?
—BILLY SUNDAY closed his six week's
campaign in Johnstown on Monday with
a record of over twelve thousand con-
verts. His collection on the last day
amounted to $16,064 or at the rate of
about $1.30 per convert. That's certain-
ly cheap enough and we'll bet the old
straw hat against anything you name
that lots of those converts have already
more than saved the price per by stay-
ing away from the old places that got
their coin before BILLY got them.
—The Surveyor of the Customs at the
port of Philadelphia sends word to the
home folks up in Centre county that he
is really doing more for them than they
know. Those who have been expecting
a job in the service on the Delaware are
told to cheer up and cheer c. r. k. because
he has already promoted an old Centre
countian, whose promotion was recom-
mended by his predecessor, and extended
his wonderful influence into the post-
office in Philadelphia and had the salary
of an employee there raised. Can't you
just see our old friend ARTHUR KIMPORT
cheering when the great news leaks into
his new home down in Montgomery
county.
—Editor FRED C. KIRKENDALL, of the
Wilkesbarre Times-Leader, has been made
collector of internal revenue for the
Lancaster-Scranton District. Mr. Kigr-
KENDALL is qualified to give the govern.
ment splendid service and, knowing him,
we know that he will measure up to
every requirement of the office, which
becomes unusually exacting through the
operation of the new income tax law.
The Johnstown Democrat will please note
that the WATCHMAN knows that there is
something more of virtue in Mr. KIr-
KENDALL and something more to recom-
mend him than the mere fact that he
was a front rank Reorganizer which
latter the Democrat seems to think was
all that was necessary.
—The Democratic State committee has
opened a publicity department in Phil.
adelphia with Mr. KENNETH M. Pray, a
real newspaper man in charge. The use-
fulness of the department will be ex-
actly proportionate to the tact Mr. PRAY
displays in handling the situation that
confronts him. If he doesn’t damn the
Old Guard he'll be damned by some of
the Reorganizers. And if he does damn
the Old Guard he might as well close up
shop, because there can be no Demo-
cratic victories in Pennsylvania until all
the Demorcats get together. And al! the
Democrats won't get together until Mr.
PALMER and his understrappers stop
harping about a bi-partisan machine and
stop emphasizing the fact that no one
but Reorganizers will be recognized
either for federal offices or in the state
councils,
—Last year the WATCHMAN advised
spirit, more than the Christmas gift,
counts. You may not know who would
cherish a smile from you, the one
whom you think least of cherish it
most. This is a a
and gre at joy. See to it you
your part in making it so,
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VOL. 58
The Old Guard and the New.
In his speech at the Kennett Square ban-
quet, to which we made reference last
week, Judge BONNIWELL, of Philadelphia,
declared that “had there been any capaci-
ty exercised in the last National campaign
the electoral vote of Penasylvania would
have been counted for Woobrow WiL-
SON For the moment we are obsessed
with a leadership both vain and incompe-
tent.” The accuracy of this statement
can hardly be questioned. The party has
never had a more popular candidate.
No campaign was ever conducted under
more auspicious conditions. Every Dem-
ocrat in the State had confidence in an
overwhelming victory and local leaders
throughout the State were inspired with
the hope of substantial reward, in the
subsequent distribution of patronage.
But the vote was less than for any
Democratic candidate for President with.
in a quarter of a century, ‘with one ex-
ception. For example, in 1884 Mr.
CLEVELAND'S vote in Pennsylvania was
398,875. In 1888 the same candidate
polled 446,633. In 1892 his vote was in-
creased to 452,274. In 1895 Mr. BRYAN
was the candidate for the first time and
though GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, VANCE C.
McCormick and most of the other con-
spicuous reorganizers fought him from
beginning to end he polled 427,125 on the
Democratic ticket and received 6,103
votes on the People’s party ticket. In
1900 with GUTHRIE, MCCORMICK and the
rest of that bunch still fighting him Mr.
BRYAN received 424,232 votes, nearly the
vote polled by CLEVELAND in 1888.
The campaign of 1904 will long be
held in unpleasant memory by the Dem-
ocrats of Pennsylvania. Mr. BRYAN had
resisted the nomination of Judge PAR-
KER, with all his mental and physical
strength for nearly a week and after the
nomination had been accomplished the
candidate further offended the then
idolized Nebraskan by demanding the
elimination from the platform of the on-
ly plank which BRYAN cherished. The
result was that in Pennsylvania nearly
all of Mr. BRYAN'S friends refused to
vote, or voted for the opposition candi-
date, and Mr. PARKER'S total was only
| 335,430, more than 5,900 less than the
| vote polled for CLEVELAND twenty years
| before. It was the inevitable result of a
divided and hopeless party. The voters
could not be brought to the polls.
| In 1808 Mr. BRYAN was again the can-
; didate of the party and though he had
unjustly and inexcusably meddled in a
local factional quarrel his campaign, con-
ducted by what is now known as “the
Old Guard,” meaning Colonel J. M. GuF-
FEY and his friends, resulted in a vote of
448,872 votes. In 1884 BLAINE'S majority
was 81,019, in 1888 HARRISON had 79,458
majority, in 1892 HARRISON had 64,347
majority over CLEVELAND. In 1896, with
the help of GUTHRIE, MCCORMICK and
their crowd the Republicans were able to
run McKINLEY'S majority over BRYAN to
the enormous total of 301,175, and with
the same help in 1900 the Republican
majority was kept up to 288,533. RoOOSE-
VELT'S majority in 1904 was 505,519, this
enormous total being ascribed to the rea-
sons stated above.
In 1908 the political conditions in Penn-
sylvania were most inauspicious. The
district delegates that year had been
chosen by direct vote of the people and
appeared in the convention at Denver
with certificates of election from the of-
fice of the Secretary of State. Notwith-
standing this fact, however, Mr. BRYAN,
by telephonic communication, ordered
the convention to throw out six honestly
and regularly elected delegates and sub-
stitute men, some of whom had not been
voted for at all. This extraordinary
and revolutionary course was taken to
prevent the re-election of Colonel Gur-
EEY to the office of Member of the Na-
tional committee. Nevertheless the ma.
jority of TAFT over BRYAN was reduced
to 298,997. Colonel GuFPEY and his
friends were faithful to the party.
Now we come to the campaign of 1912,
The very atmosphere was charged with
the spirit of Democratic triumph. The
candidate, WOODROW WILSON, was the
practically unanimous choice of the Dem-
ocrats of the State. We believe that we
can justly claim that the WATCHMAN was
the first paper in the country to suggest
his name for the nomination, which it
did in 1904. In any event, however, he
was an unusually popular candidate and
the party was in an unusually hopeful
frame of mind. But the highest vote
polied for any elector was 395,619 and
the average less than 395200. The Re-
publican party was split in the middle
and yet one faction had 51,807 majority
over WILSON and together they had 325,
112 majority over the Democratic candi-
date,
It is well known that hope of victory
is the greatest asset in political cam-
paigning. In the contest of 1912 no rea-
soning man had the faintest hope of the
election of either ROOSEVELT or TAFT.
STA
that of a rabbit, ever doubted the elec-
tion of WiLsoN. Yet this “vain and in-
competent” party leadership was able to
bring to the polls for such a candidate,
and disbursed, but the party vote dimin-
ished rather than increased as the result
of the labor of our leaders.
As a matter of fact the campaign was
begun wrong and managed wretchedly.
Before the convention Messrs. GUTHRIE,
PALMER, McCORMICK and a few others
assembled in “Star Chamber” session
made a ticket, composed in most part, of
political derelicts, party lame-ducks, in-
veterate office-seekers and social adven-
turers, and compelled a servile following
to ratify it. Then a series of dinners
was inaugurated and “hot bizds and cold
bottles,” paid for out of the campaign
fund, radiated mutual admiration, while
Mr. BLAKESLIE promised victory in ex-
travagant periods. But there was no at-
tempt at organization, no effort made to
get the vote out. It was simply a riot of
self-laudation and a revel in a broad
field of incompetency.
At these dinners the speakers were
coached to denounce the former Demo-
cratic leaders. Those men who had
given their time, labor, brains and money
during years of adversity were to be
thrown overboard. I: was realized that
the task was difficult and the plan of
“giving them a bad name’’ was resorted
to. The charge was set up that those
who had made all sorts of sacrifice for
the party were in collusion with the
common enemy and a credulous few and
a selfish many believed. The cry “mad
dog” invariably starts missiles into mo-
tion and faithful Democratic leaders be-
came victims of slanderers and scandal-
mongers. The impending national vic-
tory and the consequent promise of spoils
“they lied like pirates.”
But the records have not been destroy-
ed and the facts are not obliterated. By
the records we learn that Colonel GuUF-
FEY became the leader of the party in
the State, with the practically unanimous
support of all who remained faithful to
the candidate in 1896. In every im-
portant campaign which has ensued the
party was divided on some question be-
yond the control of the leader, When
Mr. BRYAN was the candidate GUTHRIE
and McCORMICK were in opposition. The
first grave problem which confronted
him was the resignation of Mr. GUTHRIE
from the ticket as candidate for Elector-
at-Large, for the reason, as he stated
substantially, “that he, (GUTHRIE,) was
unwilling to prostitute the Democratic
party to the service of Populism.” Others
of his type harrassed him in other ways.
Notwithstanding these discouraging
facts, however, Colonel GUFFEY con-
tinued his unselfish &fforts to strengthen
the party. We say unselfish because
during all these years he never put him-
self forward as claimant for remunerative
office. But he kept the party in trim,
won victories now and then and with the
single exception of 1904 when Mr. BRry-
AN'S friends openly opposed the candi-
date, brought to the polls a larger num-
ber of voters of the faith than the re-
organizers were able to summon last
year though the candidate was the most
popular, the conditions more auspicious
and the hopes higher than in any cam-
paign since the GUTHRIE desertion of
1896. Nothing except stupidity or perfidy
could have accomplished such a result.
These are the facts and it is the duty
of the Democratic voters ot the State
to analyze them. The leaders are either
incompetent or perfidious. The result
last year indicates one and the refusal of
the organization to promote the election
of GRIM indicates the other. The lesson
is equally plain. The party can't afford
either incompetency or perfidy in its
management. If we hope to prosper in
the future we must turn these selfish
office-seekers out and put unselfish men
in their places. Our splendid President
must be supported in his policies and
purposes in a more substantial way than
the present organization has supported
him. An increasing vote will strengthen
his arm and that is possible only through
a change in leadership.
~The Senate majority hopes to get
a vote on the currency bill by tomorrow.
| But LA FoLLETTE is likely to break out
with a six to ten day speech any time be-
tween now and Saturday and delay the
final vote another week.
TT ——
——Senator TILLMAN, of South Car-
olina, drinks a gallon of hot water every
‘day which probably accounts for his
neglect of the pitch fork exercise which
formerly made him famous,
TE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 19), 1913,
No man with analytical capacity above
had made these ghouls ravenous and |
Proseat and Past Methods,
1 ——
The four gentlemen who assembled in
i
Washington a few days ago and selected |
| From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor Glynn, of New Y. has
broken all precedents in celeity Gf og
securing the wi
candidates for the Democratic party re- | lation by
under such circumstances, only a few | vealed an unexpected measure of lucidi- | the
more votes than were polled in 1884, | tv in naming Justice MESTREZAT for the |
nearly thirty years previous. There can | Office of Senator in Congress. As we
be but one reason for this and that is the | Said in proposing him to the Democratic Pennypacker
utter incapability of the party managers. | electorate as an available can iidate for Assert,
The largest campaign fund in the histo- | Governor, he has all the qualifications | extenced
ry of the party in the State was raised | for public service. He is able, honest | Weeks, and this has until now remained
; and earnest and such a man is not like-
ly to go wrong in any office. Itis the in-
| competent pretenders who force them-
selves to the front, that make trouble.
But there is nothing in the office of Sen-
ator in Congress, unless there is some
certainty of long tenure, to entice a man
from the Supreme court bench.
In the event, however, that Justice
MESTREZAT should hearken to the siren
of these self-appointed leaders and ac-
cept their appointment to a place on the
Democratic ticket, he would see the dif-
ference in the methods of the present
party bosses and those of the “Old
ty organization when he was nominated
neither one of whom could be elected to
the office of school director in the com-
munity in which he lives, meet in Wash-
ington and bestow upon him a nomina-
tion. Then he met a score of worthy
competitors in a convention] chosen by
the people and after two strenuous days
of strife and balloting, he was nominated.
When Justice MESTREZAT was nominat-
ed in the Democratic convention for the
high office he now adorns, Colonel JAMES
M. GuFPEY was his intimate personal
friend and close neighbor. No man in
the convention was more earnestly for
Mr. MESTREZAT than Colonel GUFFEY.
No voice in the State was as potent in
the party at that time as that of Colonel
GuUFFEY. Yet while he made no conceal-
ment of his preference for MESTREZAT
he refused to use his power in behalf of
his candidate. Let the convention make
choice from the several worthy aspirants,
he said, substantially, and after a long
drawn out but honorable contest, Mes-
TREZAT was nominated. Now four indi-
| viduals meet and appoint the candidates,
‘and then go out and announce that the
| Democratic people are having their say.
| ——Germany is delighted with the
| Congressional resolution to take a naval
{ holiday. The people of Germany are
| groaning under the burdens of militarism
' and their satisfaction with even a sign of
! relief is not surprising.
! There Will br No Panic,
i
| If the statement issued by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture at Washington, the
| other day, to the effect that the value of
| the fourteen principal crops this year
| will aggregate $4,940,301,000, be anything
like accurate, the calamity howlers, in-
| cluding Congressman MANN, may as well
! “close their traps.” With such a contri-
' bution from the soil to the public wealth,
| supplemented by the value of the other
| crops, the most expert panic maker who
: has ever cursed the industrial life of the
country, couldn't paralyze industry.
| Even the late PIERPONT MORGAN, with his
| genius for public and private looting,
| would fail to create a panic under such
| circumstances.
There are two reasons for forcing a
panic at this time. One is to prevent the
passage of the pending currency bill and ||
| the other to compel the Interstate Com-
| merce Commission to allow an increase
| of freight rates, through which the pub-
{lic would be robbed of something like
| $100,000,000 a year. Incidentally, of
course, there is a desire among the mon-
| ey magnates to discredit the Democratic
| party, but we will let that pass. It was
| believed that both these objects might be
| obtained by dismissing men from the
| railroads and the steel and iron mills.
' But the currency bill will be enacted
| within a few days and the Interstate
Commerce Commission may have nerve
enough to turn down the proposition to
| increase rates.
| Inany event there will be no panic.
| The railroads will probably pay for a few
‘accidents that might have been avoided
| by keeping their equipment in repair and
| the steel mills will resume in order to
‘meet demands for their products and
| make profits. The harvesting, carrying
| and disposing of such a crop will compel
all forces to hustle and the hustling will
make industrial and commercial activity
; @ necessity. The calamity howlers may
, be disappointed for a time but in the
prosperity which will follow they will
ute their share to the general content
| ment of the country. These are inevita-
ble facts, :
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~—If TEDDY don't come home pretty
quick his party will have completely dis-
solved when he returns from the south-
ern jungles.
Guard,” which was in control of the par- Drafti
for the Bench. Now four gentlemen, | tion
forget their disappointments and contrib- |
period of a five days’ session, of a re-
form program of unsurpassed compre-
and importance. peni-
tential session, to which Governor
summoned the General
of Pennsylvania in 1906,
through more than six
unexcelled as a Legislative speed record.
The program out by Woodrow
Wilson in his inaugural address as Gov-
ernor of New Jersey in 1911 was not put
until the best part of four
months had elapsed—and Jat was a
noteworthy performance
both to the number and the act
the measures enacted.
The Governor of New York called his
Legislature to meet on Monday, Decem-
ber 8, and by the following furday a
Workingmen’s Compensation law, a Di-
rect Primary law, a new Ballot law sub-
stituting the Massachusetts form for the
fraud-promoting -column
te rig eS
n tates tors r vote
and a law to create a Legislative Bill-
been placed
2
ng t, had
on the statute books of the State. The
of the W
's Com -
w, the most t De
and
most liberal enacted in an
had Best m possible Shiga few weeks
previ y the adoption of a Constitu-
Yona) hy he, at the November elec-
on
The criticism that this was hasty leg-
islation will hardly bear examination.
The ballot reform now accomplished has
been under discussion for a generation
and is a by the best sentiment of
the entire nation. The Worki n's
Compensation law had been under dis-
cussion in the State for more than six
Judrs and the State-wide direct primary
been insistently demanded by the
people almost everywhere. The Tamma-
nyized Democracy of New York had this
fact driven home to it by the defeat suf-
fered in the recent election because of
its dalliance with this issue. Therefore,
when the New York Legislature was
called on Monday last it had to do only
with well-drafted measures, which had
been matured by years of discussion and
were backed by an overwhelming public
opinion.
The People’s Postoffice.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
The further great increase in the
weight of that may be sent by
parcel post in the first and zon
accompanied by an important reduction
in postage on parcels in all the zones
which will go into effect on the first of
next month, emphasizes the fact, already
apparent, that Postmaster General Bur-
leson means to conduct his department
primarily in the interest of the people,
for their convenience and benefit.
This is what was intended when the
department was established, but for a
great many years that intention was
nullified and subverted by C. un-
der the influence of the express lobby.
One important member of that | was
for many years a Senator of the United
States.
Under that malign influence the post-
office department, so far as the trans-
mission of parcels was concerned, was
conducted not for the benefit and con-
venience of the people, but for the profit
of the express monopoly.
The Jopie of events proves that the
same policy would have been pursued
downto the present time had not the
people risen against this and many other
forms of injustice that Congress was im-
posing upon them and placed the Demo-
crats in power, first in the House of
Representatives and later in the Senate
Presidential chair
and in the chair.
General Burleson by his
conduc of the posto d
uct e ce t dur-
ing the last months has relbeved the peo-
ple of grevious burdens in the form of
excessive express charges, and
be further relieved w
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—Nathan Stahl, aged 55, a wealthy Quemahon-
ing township, Somerset county farmer who had
been in poor health for some time, was found
hanging in his slaughter house a few mornings
ago.
—Clearfield is suffering from a mad dog scare,
not less than a half dozen persons having been
bitten recently by dogs which are believed to
have been mad. Three of the animals have been
killed.
—Lewistown is seriously contemplating remov--
ing all smallpox patientsto the pest house. Five
Cases in four houses entail an expense of $16 a
day for the guards. besides the cost of looking up
contracts and feeding those under quarantine.
—Thomas Casey, proprietor of the Central
hotel, Curwensville, in which Daniel Ryver was
recently killed by a blow inflicted by the clerk,
has informed Ryver's widow that he will not
permit her to suffer by reason of her husband's
~The State Department of Health on Wednes-
day caused the arrest of Dr. W. C. Sitler, of Ma-
honing, Carbon county, for failing to make a
report of a smallpox case. It is charged that he
attended a case for two weeks and did not re-
port it.
—The Calvinistic Methodist congregation of
Ebensburg, after an existence of seventy years,
has voted to dissolve. The membership has been
dwindling and those who remained concluded to
wind up the affairs of the church. All its debis
have been paid.
=A new high price for hogs was established in
Westmoreland county at a sale at the farm of
James Loughner, near Greensburg, last week.
The combined weight of the pair was also a rec-
ord breaker. The two hogs weighed 1,400 pounds
and brought $200.
—Indiana sheep raisers around South Mahon-
ing have been greatly annoyed by the raids of
dogs in the past few weeks. Five flocks have
been attacked recently and many sheep killed
and wounded: The loss from this source is
placed at fully $300.
=Two ladles of molten metal toppling into the
Conemaugh river on Monday resulted in an ex-
plosion that shattered windows for a mile in
every direction and injured many employes of
the Cambria Steel company, two of whom are in
a critical condition,
—By January first the State will be the posses-
sor of a million acres of forestry reserve lands.
The State now owns 994,062 acres and has just
signed contracts for 8,485 acres to be delivered
January first. The new purchases are in Clinton
and Potters counties.
—Kicked by a livery horse he was driving in
place of the regular horse belonging to Brein-
ing's grocery store, Williamsport, a month ago,
Arthur J. Maffett died at the hospital at that
place. He had been thought to be improving,
but suffered a relapse.
—Father Smelko, pastor of the Slavish Catheo-
lic church of Winburne, is an inmate of the Phil-
ipsburg hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds
caused by the accidental discharge of his gun
while he was on a hunting trip. His right hip
and the calf of the right leg are injured.
=In the Clearfield court William Currie, indict-
ed for the murder of David George, entered a
plea of guilty of murder in the second degree. It
was accepted by the court and the prisoner was
given an indeterminate sentence to the Hunting-
don reformatory not to exceed twenty years,
—John James Hurley, aged 20 years, has just
rejoined his mother, Mrs. William Hughes, at her
home in Jefferson county, after a separation of
fourteen years. He was stolen by his father, John
Hurley, Sr., and later abandoned. He has been
paddling his own canoe the last three years
and accidentally located his mother a few weeks
ago.
=~Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust
has arranged to institute suits in Centre, Venan-
®o and Clearfield counties against packing firms
on the charge of violating the cold storage law
in shipping to this State meats and products from
cold storage which are placed in so-called cool-
ingrooms. This will start a test of the cold
storage law.
—The State Game Commission has reports to
show that about 1,000 buck deer were killed dur-
ing the season in this State, as against 800 killed
last year. Less than a quarter of the number of
hunters were killed and wounded this year as
compared with the number last year, but sev-
eral hunters were killed by other hunters taking
them for game in the woods.
~—Mercer Hasiton, aged 73, is in Franklin coun-
ty jail, rather than pay his wife, aged 69 years,
the sum of $23 a quarter. She is the mother of
nine children and claims her husband deserted
her in Shippensburg two years ago. He said she
wouldn't move from Shippensburg, to avoid the
high cost of living, but doesn’t state where he
intended to go to get out of the draft.
~Frank Huff was convicted of murder in the
first degree by ajury in criminal court at Clear-
field on Sunday. Huff killed his wife at Penfield,
Clearfield county, in 1913, during a quarrel.
Counsel for Huff pleaded insanity. The tolling
of the court house bell announcing a verdict had
been reached. mingled with the tones of church
bells calling Clearfield people to Sunday morning
services.
=W. C. Anderson, a Blairsville druggist who
pleaded guilty to selling liquor without license,
was sentenced to pay $1,000 fine and serve six
months in the Allegheny county workhouse. He
is a prominent citizen and was convicted at the
preliminary hearing largely on the testimony of
Burgess Graham, who will be charged by Mr.
Anderson with selling liquor illegally at the Elks’
home in Blairsville some two years ago.
—Killing wild ducks by the light of the coke
ovens at Glasgow proved expensive sport for
fifteen residents of that vicinity, A dam near
the ovens attracted the wild fowls on their south-
ward journey and they congregated in large
numbers. Some of the hunters didn't have
license, some shot quail out of season and some
simply shot after night. But the fifteen men paid
the game warden a total of $225 and he let them
off at the minimum fines.
—Following a night of revelry, Mamie Lindsay
shot and instantly killed Joseph Anderson, who
boarded with her, at Lancaster. Anderson and
his son, Howard, were both infatuated with the
woman, and it was said that a quarrel arose over
the attentions paid by the woman to Andersoz’s
son. The elder Anderson started the trouble
and when he became threatening, the woman
pulled a gun and fired, killing him almost in-
stantly. Anderson came to Lancaster a year ago
from Philadelphia, where he has a wife living.
The woman gave herself up to the authorities.
—A new proposition has been put up to the
tion in rates for service. It comes from the
Citizen's Water Company, of Scottdale. This
company now sells water to the churches in that
town at a half-rate, and the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, which has recently erected a
building at Scottdale, desires to make a contract
for water on the same terms as are given to the
churches. The company wants to know if such
apractice would be allowable _~der the law
creating the commission, and also wants advice
as to whether the churches are to be notified that
their special rates will cease after January
first.