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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
—This day last year was Good Friday.
—At this time last year jonquils- and
hyacinths were peeping through the
ground.
—Maybe if Spring puts on a hobble
skirt she won’t have lap enough for win-
ter to linger in.
—More people are already planning to
go fishing than there are planning to dig
garden, we'll bet.
—President WILSON has scored another
success. He is in a class of his own as a
matrimonial manager.
—It is a pity for the United States ex-
press company, but it just drank itself to
death at the expense of the public.
—We have seen the boys with balls and bats
And heard the robins sing
But not until the house is cleaned
Can we enjoy the spring.
—Wednesday was the last day for par”
ty enrollment. If the assessor didn’t
have your name on the list then you
can’t vote at the May primaries.
—Sunday and Monday were days that
were calculated to make us feel that the
long, hard winter was only part of the
great scheme to make the spring feel the
more cheering.
—In the ten years BILLY SUNDAY has
been doing evangelistic work he has
evangelized over $423,000 in voluntary
gifts from the people into his own pock-
ets, with all his expenses paid. Is he to
be blamed for quitting baseball?
—It is reported that the reorganizers
up in McKean county have only dangled
the Congressional bait in front of BEN-
SON’s ambitious eyes in order to switch
him off from the postoffice at Mt. Jewett,
which plum they want to give to another
fellow.
—There is a certain ambitious to be a
political leader young man in our midst
who is reported to be dealing in hotels
just now. Inasmuch as he is not cover-
ing his tracks very well we sound this
warning before his Prohibition friend
McCoRrMICK hears of it.
—Everybody had his or her own idea
of how the great blanket of snow that
covered the earth last week could be
moved without causing a disastrous flood.
Probably no one had an idea that the Su-
preme Power in all such things had
planned to have it go just as it did; ap-
parently just dried up.
—The McCoORMICK visit to Bellefonte,
planned for last Monday, was called off
without notice to this paper, consequent-
ly we are not to blame for the disap-
pointment any oné felt who was led to
come here to meet the candidate for
Governor through our announcement
last week that he would be here.
—The news bureaus that are sending
out columns filled with glowing accounts
of Mr. McCorMICK’S wonderful achieve-
ments have forgotten, entirely, to tell of
his heroic efforts to beat BRYAN every
time he ran for President. Sometimes it
is convenient to forget and this is one of
the times that BRYAN’s friends are sup-
posed to have a lapse of memory.
—Candidate PALMER has proposed that
PENROSE and PINCHOT join him in a joint
Chautaugua campaign should they all be
nominated at the May primaries. What
a clever scheme that would be. They
would all get paid for campaigning for
themselves and the public would have to
pay to hear candidates who otherwise
would be running free trains and free
lunches to induce the voters to rally
round them at their meetings. Surely
politics is progressing.
—Lest we forget just now when many
things are being suggested in the minds
of the uninformed by daily reference to
the so-called “notorious DONNELLY—RY-
AN gang of Philadelphia” let us call to
your memory again the fact that the
RYAN part of the gang died eighteen
months ago and that except for an in-
come for the care of his wife he left
every cent of his vast fortune to estab-
lish a fund to buy bread and coal for the
poor. Probably he was the “notorious”
purt of the gang. If he was, it was a
kiud of notoriety that will cause those in
distress to revere his name long after
the imposters who would feign traduce
it have dropped into their well merited
oblivion.
—The old fellows who take a look at
the sky and then venture a prognostica-
tion as to what the weather will be do it
from experience obtained through fre-
quent observations of atmospheric con-
ditions, the direction of the winds and
the character of the clouds. They have
many little weather-wise maxims and one
of them seems to have held good this
spring. When the heavy fall of snow
came a few weeks ago there was general
and well founded concern lest a disas-
trous flood would follow its melting. One
of the old fellows we have reference to
made a snow ball and held it over a can-
dle. The snow absorbed the heat from
the candle and did not at once melt
down into water. Then he predicted
that the sun would just dry the snow in
question up and that it would not be car-
ried off by rains. So far as this commu-
nity is concerned the prediction has near-
ly come true, for most of the two feet
and mare of snow has disappeared and
the streams are little ‘above low water
mark.
‘tigation; and the great” influence he ex-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 20,
Many Voters Disfranchised in Centre
County.
The nev, primary law has its flaws. As
usual, mistakes were made in framing
the Act though it is possible that the one
referred to occurred purely because no
one thought of its effect at thegtime.
Wednesday of this week was the last
day on which those desiring to vote at
the May primaries could be enroiled. If
they were not enrolled then they cannot
vote. John Doe lives in Benner Twp.
He is a tenant and is going to move into
Spring township on April 1st, which is
moving day in Centre county. It would
have done him no good to get enrolled in
Benner on Wednesday because he will
be living in Spring on the day the pri- :
maries are held. He couldn’t have been
enrolled in Spring on Wednesday because
he was then residing in Benner.
many voters are going to move on April !
1st. There will be hundreds of them and
everyone will be disfranchised because
of this imperfection in the new law.
And unless the law is changed the same
thing will occur every spring. ! |
How
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Should be More Specific. |
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If Mr. W. H. BERRY, who is now going
up and’down the State proclaiming the
great things Mr. VANCE CAMERON Mc- |
CorMick did to insure the investigation
of the capitol building frauds, and how
he offered to “stand behind” him in bear-
ing the expenses of that job, would only
be a little more specific in his assertions
and take the public into his confidence
as to the amount Mr. MCCORMICK put up
to secure that investigation, and to whom
and for what he, Mr. BERRY, paid that
money, it would have a very much great-
er effect upon the public mind and be in-
finitely more convincing, of Mr. McCor-
Mick’s liberality—for the public good,
than all the blather he can get off about
the great interest he took in that inves-
erted in having it started. |
There is nothing in the records of that
investigation, or in any of the accounts
What a Democratic Board of Commissioners Has
ma
NO. 12.
Done
in Two Years.
It will be recalled that in the fall of 1911 this paper was the only one in
Centre county that presented the question as to who should be elected Comj
missioners of the county as a business proposition. It indulged in neither
abuse nor defamation. It took the figures as they appeared on the county
statement and showed flagrant mismanagement of the office in such startling
amounts that the facts were unanswerable and the opposition press no longer
had the effrontery to even try a defense.
At that time, we argued, that Messrs. NOLL and GROVE, both being active,
successful business men would carry into the office, if elected, the same meth-
ods in handling the county’s business, that they had employed in their own.
That they would not be the victims of bad advice because they knew some-
thing of business themselves. They were elected, we think, more for that rea-
son than anything else, and what has been the result at the expiration of just
half their term.
When they went into office there was a balance of only $2788.10 in the coun-
ty treasury. Now there is $14,674.85.
When they went into office the total indebtedness of the county was $139,-
506.85. Now it is only $38,540.82. Which means that they have saved for
you, in two years, $100,966.63.
Think of it! By this time next year the county will probably be out of
debt. That is, it will and it won’t.
For while there will probably be a bal-
ance on the credit side of the ledger there will remain that bungling bond is
sue of $100,000 that can’t be paid off for twenty-seven years. With the coun
ty practically in the position to pay every cent itowes it can’t wipe out its
debt until $192,000.00 in principal and interest have been eaten up to pay off
$100,000 in bonds. But that is one of the mistakes Messrs. NoLL and GROVE
inherited from their predecessors in-office. And a mistake that we do not
think their predecessors would have made had they acted on their own iudg-
ment and not listened to the advice that was given them.
This wonderful showing after only two years of good management has not
been made at the expense of the dignity of the county or at the public serv-
ice rendered. It has been accomplished through prudent, watchful business
methods and it is a showing that the WATCHMAN is especially pleased in call-
ing to your attention because we felt that you would get exactly what you
have gotten when we advocated the election of Messrs. NOLL and GROVE.
But individuals are slow to be concerned about the public's business until
the individual pocket-book is touched.
Then they are aroused. That is what
got the taxpayers of Centre county interested in the election of Messrs. NOLL
and GROVE. Everything has been going so swimmingly since that many of
you have practically lost further interest in these men who are managing your
business. But your pocket-book will be touched again in 1914 and you will
waken up to find your new Commissioners dropping money into it, instead of
taking it out; FOR THEY HAVE REDUCED YOUR TAXES THIS YEAR,
just as this paper told you they would in it’s last
a
Outside Influence Not Effective.
It will probably make little or no dif-
of the trials following, showing that any ference to Senator PENROSE whether
one, excepting the Commonwealth of
Senator BORAH, of Idaho, and Senator
Pennsylvania, paid any of the expenses CuMMINs, of Iowa, butts into the prima-
of procuring the testimony that was se- |
cured. Nor is there any evidence or
proof anywhere showing that Mr. BERRY
ever spent a penny to procure any of the :
evidence the committee had to act upon. |
That was furnished by the books of |
the different departments at Harrisburg,
by the various witnesses subpoenaed |
and paid for by the State; by the report
of the experts of the New York Audit- |
ing Co., whose work the State paid for, |
and by an examination of the materials ;
used in the building, and the furniture |
bought for it.
Inno way and atno time,do any ofthe |
minutes, memoranda, records of pay-
ment, bills of expenditures, receipts filed, :
or any other document on file in any of
the departments show that either Mr.
MCCORMICK or Mr. BERRY ever put up a |
penny to aid or push this investigation |
along. They should, if it is true that they
did what the ex-Treasurer now claims
was done by them. |
In this connection we have no desire to '
do either Mr. MCCORMICK or Mr. BERRY !
any injustice, but must insist on knowing |
why, did Mr. BERRY, if Mr. MCCORMICK !
was standing “behind” him financially to
the extent that he now claims credit for
doing, go, before proceeding with the ex-
pected exposure, to a joint caucus of
the Democratic Senators and Members of
the House, as they will testify he did, and |
assert his inability to go ahead with the
investigation because he was too poor to |
meet the small expense required to begin
the work, and secure from that body a
resolution pledging that it would see that
the money would be furnished and that
all expenses necessary to secure a most
rigid and thorough examination of the
alleged wrongs would be guaranteed.
If Mr. BERRY spent any of his own
money in that investigation, or if Mr.
MCcCORMICK put up any money to insure
its being prosecuted, it’s a matter that
can very readily be shown and it’s due to
Mr. McCoRMICK’S reputation, and to Mr.
BERRY'’s truthfulness, that more specific
evidence, than has yet been furnished,
be given a doubting public.
If Mr. McCorMICK did what Mr. BER-
RY says he did, but which none of the
records connécted with the matter give
any evidencejof his having done, it is
due him, and:due those who are support-
ing him, to have the facts made known,
fully and explicitly, as to the amount he
put up, to whom it was paid, and when,
and for what purpose it was used.
Please, Mr. BERRY, let us have some
facts disproving the records, which show
your statement to be not only wrong, but
without truth. ~~ ©
ry campaign in Pennsylvania, or not.
They are good talkers and influential
Senators and BORAH has a reputation for
regularity. But the natural prejudice
against outside interference in local con-
tests would probably counteract any good
which they might do. Besides CUMMINS
is somewhat of a heretic upon the tariff
question. It was he who conceived “the
Towa idea,” more or less a disturbing ele-
ment in the Republican party a few
years ago, and still a source of trouble to
the leaders of the high tariff element.
Under existing conditions no outside
influence can prevent the nomination of
Senator PENROSE. He is the favorite of
eighty per cent. of the voters who still
adhere to the Republican organization
and no others have a voice in the matter.
If the so-called Bull Moosers could partici-
pate in the Republican primaries, as they
did in 1912, the result would be different.
Either PINCHOT or DmMMICK could easily
command sufficient support to beat PEN-
ROSE and possibly in a three-cornered
fight one or the other of them might be
able to get a plurality. But practically
all the Republicans who are opposed to
PENROSE have enrolled themselves as
: Washington party men and are not eligi-
ble to vote for Republican candidates at
. the primary.
Besides, the “game is not worth the
candle.” Neither PENROSE, DIMMICK nor
PINCHOT can be elected Senator for this
State, this year. Political conditions are
against them. The Republican party is
practically split in the middle. In 1912
two-thirds of the voters of that political
faith supported ROOSEVELT and because
of incompetent management one-third of
the Democrats refrained from voting,
with the result that ROOSEVELT carried
the State. But the magnetism of ROOSE-
VELT will be absent this year and the
PENROSE vote will be increased over that
of TAFT sufficiently to about equalize the
strength of the factions. This will guar-
antee the election of a Democratic Sena-
tor unless those now at the head of the
organization drive one-half of the party
away by their attempt to use its organi-
zation to advance their own selfish ambi-
tions, at the expense of other Democrats.
——Mr. LEwis NixoN, shipbuilder, be-
lieves in ship subsidies, the armor plate
makers are unanimously in favor of build-
ing battleships and the powder makers
want war. Every selfish interest hopes
for government aid in one form or an-
other and the tax payers have no hobby.
Thus the expenses of government are
multiplied and we wonder why the cost
of living keeps up.
week's issue.
Lok
TEE
Wail of Poor Millionaires.
The “Pennsylvania Protective Union”
is an object of pity. It is an off-shoot of
the Philadelphia Manufacturers club and
composed of a hundred or more million-
aires who see the country going to the
“demnition bow-wows,” in spite of all
they can do. Mr. JosepH R. GRUNDY,
who has shed enough tears over the de-
struction of the tariff to float a navy; !
Mr. NATHAN T. FOLWELL, who has wept
a thousand times for every lamb in the
land because of the menace of the pau-
per sheep of Australia, and Mr. THEO-
DORE JUSTICE, who has declared a mil-
lion times that the country cannot sur-
vive tariff reform legislation even for
a brief period, are among the leading fig-
ures in this new organization.
The object of and incidentally the ex-
cuse for the “Pennsylvania Protective
Union,” is the re-election of BOIES PEN-
ROSE to the office of Senator in Congress
for Pennsylvania. “We regard this one of
the critical periods in American history,” |
these gentlemen declare in an address re-
cently issued, urging support of PENROSE,
“perhaps not less than the epoch which
was marked by the birth of the Republi-
can party, the death of slavery and the
emancipation of American industry from
the baneful influence of world competi-
tion.” When this tremendous event oc-
curred is left to conjecture but it may be
assumed that it was upon the occasion
of the signing of the PAYNE-ALDRICH
tariff bill which has been overwhelming-
ly condemned by public opinion in two
elections.
But that, excruciating as it sounds, is
not the sum and substance of the wail
of these grafting millionaires. “The re-
tirement of Senators PENROSE and OLI-
VER,” they add, “would make Pennsylva-
nia’s voice in the Senate hushed for
years, for no new Republican, however
able, could fight our battles.” What bat-
tles are there to fight? These million-
aires have robbed the public of some-
thing like two million dollars a day for
more than a quarter of a century and
are striving for a renewal of their license |
to loot. But the people have no interest
in the perpetuation of this crime against
the country and if PENROSE is defeated,
as now seems certain, there will be no
loss.
—So the Johnstown Democrat contin-
ues to evade and dissemble. Evades de-
nial or admission of the charge that
the Democratic State Organization, as an
organization, is working for MCCORMICK
and against RYAN. Dissembles, to make
its readers believe that all who are not
for MCCORMICK are against President
WILSON.
of the campaign it is now carrying on
and the surprise of it all is that the
Democrat could fall to such a position.
This is the sum and substance |
Inroads on the Express Business.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
When William Adams, more than half
a century ago, began the carrying of ex-
press packages for his neighbors to and
from Boston on his daily trips and there-
by conceived the idea of establishing an
express business, he little thought that
his humble venture would in time reach
worldwide proportions. He did not fore-
see that it was the beginning of an en-
terprise that would take charge of the
quick dispatch of freights in all coun-
tries, be backed by many millions of dol-
lars and have in its employ many thous-
ands of men, transacting a business that
has enriched many to the extent of mil-
lions. And if in the contemplation of
the far-reaching magnitude of his hum-
ble beginning, Mr. Adams had been sud-
denly confronted with conditions now,
he would be just as much astonished.
We read to-day of the decision of a
great express company,—the United
States,—to liquidate its affairs and dis-
solve in the shortest possible time, and
it may follow that other companies must
either follow its example and dissolve or
else do a decreased amount of business.
What hath wrought this great change?
There is only one answer: The parcels
post. For years the public knocked at
the doors of Congress for relief from the
exorbitant cost of carrying small parcels
so that the rates would be a real conven-
"rience, but the public found no relief so
long as the men at the head of the ex-
press companies ruled in the halls of
Congress. !
It was only a matter of time, however.
The American public is patient and long-
suffering, but it knows that in the end
fair play must triumph, and it has tri-
umphed in its deliverance of the public
from the express companies. The com-
panies recognize that the parcels post has
come to stay, that its ramifications will
grow with time and that, perhaps, it will
not be long before the express business
will be reduced to such an extent that
one company will be enabled to do it all.
Idle Men and Farm Work.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Speaking of the plan favored by the Gov-
ernor of New York whereby unemployed
men from the cities would be shipped to
rural regions where they might get work
on farms, the New York Tribune says one
difficulty is that few of the idle men
know how to do farm work.
Too often is heard the remark that
Smith, or Brown, or Jones ‘‘is a farmer,”
because he does bungling work! “He
should be back on the farm!” is fi nt- |
ly heard. And yet today the successful
farmer is a man who if he applied him-
self as diligently in other lines of endeav-
or as he applies himself on the farm
would meet with just as great if not
greater success. The haphazard manner
of farming has gone out of style. Time
was, perhaps, when a man could grub a
living from the ground were he to em-
ploy such tactics, but that day is past.
So that the idle men from the cities
would be quite useless on a modern farm,
| for a time at least. Farming successfully
| means farming modernly. The man who
made two blades of grass grow where
one grew before was once regarded as a
benefactor, but today the progressive
farmer makes six or eight blades grow
where grew the one; and when the sea-
son for that crop is over he grows anoth-
er of some kind before snow flies.
There are untold possibilities on the
farm, but they do not become
possibilities without much hard work and
much exercise of a specific knowledge of
agriculture.
A Matter of Honor.
From the New York World.
Abject subservience to Great Britain is
the charge leveled at the Wilson admin-
istration by ship subsidyists who insist
upon using the Panama canal free of tolls
in violation of a treaty.
It happens that the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty was something more than an
arrangement between the United States
and Great Britain. By the terms of that
instrument the rights of ‘all nations’ were
safeguarded. We conceded no more to
Great Britain than to Germany or France.
As a consequence of its North American
possessions, Great Britain is more directly
interested at the moment in the observ-
ance of the treaty than any other country,
but ultimately and in a larger sense the
obligations which we voluntarily assume
must apply with equal force to every
one of the great commercial powers.
In this matter the United States and
| Great Britain acted for civilization. They
| mutually pledged themselves to a policy
' at the Isthmus, which on terms of equal-
| ity would promote peace and trade. No-
body has ever questioned the binding
force of that compact except the repre-
sentatives of a coastwise shipping mo-
! nopoly which hopes to increase its riches
: by new favors and privileges.
| Good faith at Panama is not subserv-
| ience to Great Britain. It is honorable
' recognition of the right of all nations. It
is the strict observance of a pledge. “Bad
faith in that quarter will involve us as
' wretchedly at Paris and Berlin as at
London.”
Oscar Underwood’s Blunder.
| From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
It is no less essential that political parties
| shall correct their mistakes than itis that
! individuals shall do so. The Democratic
party realizes its mistake in this instance
and is going to correct it. It is unfortunate
that Mr. Underwood, instead of taking
the lead in this correction, is to make a
very serious mistake of his own by op-
posing it.
Serious, undoubtediy it will be, though,
because of his achievements and char-
acter, we do not believe it will be fatal.
But it will be sorrowful as well as
serious to hear our Oscar Underwood
defend so mischievous and undemocratic
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The commissioners of Cambria county have
also agreed to pay bounties on the scalps of
noxious animals and birds, thus introducing to
some of their neighbors a prolific source of
revenue.
—A Jefferson county man recently drove a deer
into his barn, after the animal had been almost
run down by a pair of dogs. Later the animal
was crated and shipped to Brookville where it
was released.
—DuBois has adopted a fine method of dealing
with the ‘“mashers” who perform in that com.
munity. Several were arrested last week and
sentenced by the burgess to labor on the streets.
That is likely to work a cure.
—The Harbison-Walker Refractories company,
which has plants in various nearby counties, has
issued orders to all superintendents of plants
that any employee discovered with intoxicating
drink in his possession or under its influence on
the company’s property, shall be discharged.
—J. W. Lewis, who has been employed as a
cook in alumber camp at Moorehead, Ky., since
early last fall, arrived at his home in Lock Haven
Thursday, and will remain in the north. While
dozing on the train between Pittsburgh and Ty-
rone, Mr. Lewis was relieved of $50 which he had
placed in his hip pocket.
—While mining coal in a private mine on a
farm near Boswell, Somerset county, William
Speicher, 33 years old, was killed by a fall of coal
on Tuesday evening of last week. His body was
found by his wife on Wednesday morning, his
protracted absence having excited her fear and
led her to go in search of him.
—James Dunn, superintendent of the Loyal-
hanna brewery. Latrobe, was found guilty of a
violation of the liquor laws, in the Indiana coun-
ty court, Judge Telford ruling thatit is unlaw-
ful for a brewery to sell in any county in which it
does not have a license. It is rumored that the
case will be taken to the Supreme court.
—At Jenneatte one evening last week a young
girl sustained a broken leg, a young man suffer-
ed a similar misfortune and two others were
badly hurt, all in a coasting accident. On the
same day George Battey, of Mount Pleasant was
terribly injured, one of his kidneys having been
practically destroyed. Itis believed he will die.
~—Game Warden Berrier went to the Caledonia
forestry reserve last week, found six dogs that
had been killing deer in that section, promptly
killed them, as provided by law, and brought
their ears back as proof of their death. The dogs
had been running, and killing deer in Franklin
and Adams counties all winter, and there was
much complaint.
—The Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Carver, of Morris:
dale, celebrated the thirty-ninth anniversary of
their marriage one day last week. Unconscious
of that fact several of the ladies of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which Mr. Carver has been
pastor for the last six vears, invaded the par-
sonage and spread a fine dinner. It wasa very
pleasant’ coincidence.
—James Alfsen, the little 5-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron Alfsen, of Ludlow, was killed ,
Monday morning while riding ontop of a load of
logs, which his father was hauling from Wetmore
to Ludlow on sleds. The sleds, which were
heavily loaded, skidded into the ditch and toppled
over, the little lad who was seated on top, being
buried beneath the heavy logs.
—A young man calling himself C. M. Spangler
and claiming Altoona as his home, hired a horse
and buggy from a Lock Haven liveryman, saying
he wished to drive to Avis. He did not return at
the stipulated time and the owner of the rig, hav-
ing located it in Williamsport, sent after it while
a constable picked up Spangler because he had
left an unpaid board bill in Lock Haven.
—Charles H. Ament, a resident of Latrobe, has
‘been complaining for some months past of a pain
in his right lung. The other day he was seized
with a severe spell of coughing and bleeding at
the nose during which he coughed up a great
clot of blood. In this was found a wire nail
somewhat resembling the kind with which cigar
boxes are put together. He suspects he swallow-
ed it several months ago when he had several in
his mouth.
—The Mill Hall brick works are making prepa-
rations to increase the output of their plant in
order to be able to fill the many orders they are
receiving for their product. A new pan and
other up-to-date machinery will be installed soon
and a new steel overhead bridge put in across
the New York Central railroad, over which their
clay comes from the mines to the plant. In the
mean time, the plan? will be kept running to its
full capacity.
—Charles Russell Muir, the man who disap-
peared from his home in Juniata on the day be-
fore Christmas, has been located, or, more ac-
curately speaking, his body has been found. Mrs.
Muir on Saturday was notified by a message
from her parental home in Wallace, Clearfield
county, that her husband died on Friday at
Niagara Falls, details, however, being entirely
omitted. The remains of the wanderer were
shipped to Wallace.
—A gas well which was drilled on the P. R.
Smith farm, three miles from Ridgway, attained
a capacity of 1,000,000 feet. The depth of the
well is 3,414 feet. Drilling will be continued until
the bottom of the sand is reached, which is about
100 feet. The well is about tw¢ miles from the
one on the Van-Orsdale farm which produces
4,500,000 feet. Ten wells are being sunk in the
territory and when the weather opens sufficiently
at least that many more will go down.
—Charged with importing diseased cattle from
Maryland into Pennsylvania, Henry E. Brown, a.
cattle dealer, of Lyles, Lancaster county, has
been indicted by the federal grand jury at Phil-
adelphia. It is alleged that Mr. Brown purchas-
ed eight tuberculosis cows in Maryland and took
them to a farm near Lyles, Lancaster county,
where they were located and quarantined by
agents of the State livestock sanitary board.
The cattle were killed later and found to be in-
fected. 4
—Prof. J. P. Stewart, experimental pomologist
of the Pennsylvania State College, will deliver an
address before the Cambria county Pomona
grange in Patton Monday, April 6th. His sub-
ject will be “Cultural Methods, Clover Crops and
Fertilization in Apple Orchards.” Professor
Stewart conducted the experiments of the col-
lege in orchards in different parts of the State for
the past six years and prepared an account of
these experiments in bulletin No. 121, published
by State College.
—An epidemic of scarlet fever has settled upon
the Seraphic Home in New Derry, and ten new
cases were reported Tuesday. The first case
was reported last Saturday, two boys, who had
just been admitted to the home from Pittsburgh,
being the first to become sick. Ten cases devel-
oped that day, and at present there are twenty-
four children in bed with the malady. A specialist
has been summoned from Pittsburgh. The home
was known formerly as the Toner Institute, and
is supported by a Catholic society of Pittsburgh.
—Following the arrest of eight persons in Al-
toona on charges of having engaged in the hand-
ling of heroin and other drugs, the officers of the
Mountain city started a vigorous sweating pro-
cess to compel the dope fiends to divulge the
source from which they obtained their supplies.
Word from Altoona is to the effect that the of-
ficers had secured several confessions and that
these implicated one of the most prominent drug-
gists in Johnstown. A plan of action against the
local dealer had not been mapped out, according
to a statement of the Altoona police. An Altoona
a policy as that of ship subsidies.
druggist is also implicated.