BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
——The Centre Hall postoffice fight is
still agitating the residents of that town.
—Philipsburg had a great time this
week. Everything came true but the fif-
ty thousand crowd that the Hon. ELLIS |
FREEMAN was to produce.
—The first frost of the season fell in
many parts of Centre county Tuesday
night. It was quite a heavy one for so
early, but it is thought the late corn was
not damaged. 3
_WitLiaMm DRAPER LEwis, the Bull
Moose nominee for Governor, has with-
drawn from the fight and will throw his
strength to MCCORMICK. If PINCHOT.
were to do the same thing the chance of
beating PENROSE would be greatly ad-
vanced.
—It seems to us that A. RusTiM BEY,
Turkish Ambassador to this country,
could have made his expose of what he
terms “a vulgar British trap” without
digging a lot of skeletons out of our clos-
et. The Sublime Porte ought to recall
his indiscrete representative to this
country.
—Candidate PALMER is out with his
fifty “counts” against PENROSE.. In num-
bers there is supposed to be strength,
but it seems to us that the Congressman
* would stand more chance of putting the
boss down and out if he were to put all
of his punch into ten of them. That
would be plenty.
—The new postmaster at Spring Mills po
is a very estimable and capable young
man. The disappointed applicants down
there have no reason to be sore at him.
The people they should get after are the
ones who promissd them the office in re-
turn for services rendered when they
knew they couldn’t deliver the goods.
—President WILSON was a school
teacher. A year and a half of experience
"has taught this country that it was a
wise thing to put a pedagogue in the
White House. Mr. W. E. ToBIAS, candi-
date for Congress in this District, was a
school teacher. A splendid one too.
Don’t you think it would be better to
send him‘to Congress to support Presi-
dent WILSON than to send a man there
who would fight his policies.
My, how Americans are kicking be-
cause it will be necessary to raise an ex-
tra million ‘dollars by taxes on luxuries
to‘reimburse the treasury for losses oc-
casioned by the falling off of import du-
ties since the war began. It is estimated
that one hundred million will keep up
‘our treasury balance until the war is
over and customs. have returne some-
thing near ‘normal. It is costing
one-half that much every day.
urope
—As an emergency war revenue meas-
ure the government will probably put an
extra tax on incomes of one and one-half
per cent. and reduce the exemptions to
$2000 and $3000 respectively, for unmar-
ried and married people. An extra tax
of fifty cents a barrel is to be placed on
beer but no one will suffer much by that
because the bar keep will merely puta
little higher “collar” on the schooner and
save the tax by taking more glasses from
the barrel.
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—JouN W. BURGESS, American his-
torian and dean of Columbia University,
N.Y, is of the opinion that, primarily,
King EDWARD VII, of England, was re-
sponsible for the European war now rag-
ing and that, in a round about way, our
own ex-President THEODORE ROOSEVELT
was an accessory after the fact. - TEDDY
will probably be tickled sick with this
authoritative opinion that he had a hand
in stirring up the biggest fuss that his-
tory will in all likelihood ever record.
—The time is drawing nearer. Elec-
tion day we mean. Don’t let the war
news absorb all of your attention. Look
into the qualifications and intentions of
the men who are asking for your votes
in November. Now is the time for you
to judge from the character of each one
of them whether he intends to represent
you or scme one else. You are the man
whose vote the candidate needs. You
are the man who has the right to know
to whom and to what purpose you give it-
—The opening of a potash plant in
California may be the beginning of
another great American industry. Al-
ways we have imported practically all
the potash we consumed from Germany,
notwithstanding we have natural depos-
its of it in Arizona, Utah and California.
Now that we can’t get it from Germany
American plants are starting to supply
the demand. Once they get into active
‘what happened! Selfishness set in and
‘MICK and MITCHELL PALMER are running
‘out. Each committeeman present
operation they ought to be able to con-
tinue after the close of the war, with the
probable result that there will be a ma- |
terial reduction in the cost of the product |
—Centre county takes a particularly
kindly interest in the candidacy of W.
H. PATTERSON for the Senate. While his
home is in Clearfield county he is closely |
related to many Centre county families |
and has been a frequent visitor to the
upper end of the county for many years.
The fact that he is a nephew of the late
W. C. PATTERSON, of whom State College !
was very proud, should be recommenda-
tion enough, of itself, to the farmers of
Centre county, for we know no man in
whom they had more confidence than
the veteran superintendent of the exper-
imental farms at the College.
Europe there has
! paralysis to this country and incidentally |
a threatened revenue deficit. This might |
might have
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
__ BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 11, 914.
Reformers Who | Want office. 4
The esteemed Allentown Democrat de- |
clares that it is “always suspicious of a
reform element that insists on having
offices.” It is a just ground for suspicion.
Selfishness is a most despicable vice and
reformers or others who are always
striving to put themselves in office are
essentially selfish. Most ot the leaders
of the Bull Moose party are of -this type.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT has been in office
almost without interruption from the day
he emerged from college. In this State
BILL FLINN kept himself in office as long
as he could and has been constantly try-
ing to get back on the roster ever since.
Local Bull Moosers are mostly men who
have been shaken from the official teat
by one party or another.
But we don’t have to go to the Bull
Moose party to prove that most political
reformers are selfish office seekers. The
fact is clearly proved by ‘the record of
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania.
‘During the long period of our political
adversity there was an unselfish contin-
gent which kept the organization togeth-
When we occasionally succeeded in’
electing a candidate they recommended
the division of the rewards of victory in
the order of merit among the faithful
workers , but asked for nothing them-
selves. Just previous to our success in
1912 a set of reformers seized the organ-
ization by devious methods and look
assumed control of the feast almost from
the moment of the victory. . i
The so-called reorganizers of the Dem-
ocratic party were, in the ratio of activi-
ty, GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, A. MITCHELL |
PALMER, VANCE C. McCORMICK, JAMES I.
BLAKESLIE, W. B. WiLsON and FRANCIS
FISHER KANE. The first to get into office
was BLAKESLIE and GUTHRIE soon fol-
lowed. Then WILSON got a cabinet job
and PALMER was elected member of the
National Committee. FRANCIS FISHER '
KANE got the office of District Attorney
in Philadelphia and now VANCE McCoR-
for Governor and Senator in Congress,re- '
spectively. As a matter of fact every one
of the leaders in the reorganization has
already anchored “himself 3a ‘office or
0 o | Hopes to'Within-a : “fim ;
-the esteemed Democrat we are suspic; ;
ious of a reform element that insists on |
having offices.”
re A vy interesting meeting of the
Democratic county committee was held
in the grand jury room at the court
house on Thursday of last week and a
general line of the fall campaign mapped
re-
ported conditions very satisfactory in his
district.
Wise Solution of a Vexed Question.
In asking for an additional internal rev-
enue tax of $100,000,000, President WIiL-
SON reveals the caution of a prudent
statesman. There is no treasury deficit
and there are various ways of providing
for anything that might happen in that!
direction. But owing to the war in Eu-
rope the expectations of revenues from
importations have been disappointed,
temporarily, and his object is to prevent
a deficit that, in the nature of things,
might occur and might prove damaging
to the credit and honor of the country. |
Under similar conditions one of his re-:
cent Republican predecessors prepared to
|
buy gold by issuing bonds. He prefers! d
the franker and honester method of in- |
creasing the revenues.
As the President suggests, this is no
time to borrow money by bond issue.
Most of the capital of the world is tied '
up, or inaccessible, on account of the
European war. Consequently bonds
could have been taken only by domestic
capital and money thus invested would
have necessarily been withdrawn from |
the channels of domestic trade, where
every available dollar is needed. The
collection of the amount needed by ad-
ditional taxes, mainly upon luxuries,
however, will draw, almost imperceptibly
from hoarded wealth, and will embarrass
nobody particularly or greatly. The ac-
tion of the President is, therefore, the
wise conclusion of a thoughtful man ina !
perplexing emergency. It is a sane solu- |
tion of a vexed problem.
If there had been no disturbance of
the commercial relations between this’
country and the world it is safe to say'
that the revenues would have been abun. !
dant to meet all the demands of an eco- |
| nomical administration of the govern-
ment. But “out of the disturbance in |
come commercial ;
have been
ditures.
jet by curtailing the expen-
The River and Harbor bill |
en cut out of the appropri-
ations and Public Buildings bill, held
for a more convenient season. But these
remedies would have been attended with
industrial distress and the plan the Presi-
dent has adopted is safest ad best.
; close contest
would witness an absurd situation in
Fusion and its Consequences
The first day’ 's registration in the vari-
ous cities of the State show clearly the
reasons for the anxiety of the leading
Bull Moosers for fusion with the Demo-
crats. The Bull Moose party has de-
- generated into a negligible quantity and
T
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i
i
THEODORE ROOSEVELT and his sattelites
in Pennsylvania hope ta conceal the facts
from the public by merging them with
the Democratic forces.
party is simply an instrument with which
ROOSEVELT hopes to force himself upon
the Republican party as its candidate for”
The Bull Moose
President. If its decadence in Pennsyl- .
vania is revealed by a square vote on its
candidates, it will be useless to Mr.
ROOSEVELT for that purpose.
Under these circumstances the fusion
proposed by the leaders of the Bull
Moose party and which is being encour-
aged by certain selfish men in the Demo-
cratic organization will of necessity ope-
rate to put a formidable candidate for
President in the field against WOODROW
WiLsoN in 1916. As things now stand
neither the Republicans ‘nor the Bull
Moosers can hope to make a formidable
‘fight against Wooprow WILSON. But if
ROOSEVELT is able to keep up the false
pretense that the Bull Moose party is
strong, he may be able to compel the Re-
publicans to nominate him and in that
event we would have not ouly a hard
but a dangerous fight on our hands in
. 1916, with the changes: slightly against
us.
Besides fusion is to be avoided for
other reasons. Any agreement A
‘ the Bull Moose bosses and Democratic
managers involving fusion would bind
Vance C. McCoRMICK to contribute with
equal liberality to the Democratic and
Bull Moose campaign funds.. Money
contributed by him to the Bull Moose
party organization would be used to de--
feat local Democratic candidates in every
in the State. Thus we
which the head whi the Democratic ticket
——DBeef cattle on the hoof are now
selling at 94 cents a pound in the local
fish men have deserted their postsin|’
markets; and they are not very good beef
at that. But if all the meat that is now
in cold storage in Pennsylvania was re-
leased it would undoubtedly relieve the
market and bring down the price.
The War in Europe.
The war news continues to perplex
| rather than enlighten the reading public.
: We are able to learn that Russia has
President Wilson Helps, His Pocky. ;
“In declining to appear on the stump.
during the pending campaign President -
WILSON has expressed a fact which has
been presented. in these ‘columns .repeat- i
edly. Itis that the public official who re-:
mains at his post constantly and per- |
forms his duties well is doing the best
service to the party he represents.
“Bvery patriotic man,” he writes, “ought
now to. stay. on the job, until the crisis is |
past and ought to stay where his job. can |
best be done.” In other words that man .
“serves «his ‘party best who serves his
country best,” and a public official whose :
job is in * Washington can’t serve his :
country well if he is absent from his post
of duty. ever though he imagines that
his | re-election “or promotion is a public
necessity.
‘But the President is not unmindful of
his political obligations though he de-
clines to make speeches in the interest of
his party candidates. In his letter to
FRANK E. DOREMUS, chairman of the
“could in a dozen speeches, even if he had’
Democratic Congressional Committee, he
has done more for his party than he
the eloquence of WILLIAM JENNINGS
‘BRYAN and the zeal of a dozen party
managers.
conscience of the country which will
command, attention and his audience i is
the entire electorate of all the States. As
‘the head of the Democratic party he
‘points out’ the ' good that has been
achieved and asks for a ‘vote of confi- |
dence through the re-election of those
who have co- operated with him in the
hievement.
gg ik are great questions ahead of us,
‘the President writes, and as he inferen-
tially points out it is the duty of Demo-
cratic Congressmen to remain in Wash-
ington'until they are disposed of.
‘the President disappointed because sel-
‘order to promote their own ambitions.
President WILSON is anxious to satisfy
his own conscience by fulfilling his per-
‘ sonal obligations to the people who have
entrusted ‘him with vast
t is the spirit Which wing f
nS in order to appear- othe- stump he
is helping his party in the most substan-
tial way.
——The first frost of the season was
very noticeable on Wednesday morning,
though it was not severe enough to do
any damage to the farm or garden pro-
' duce. However, it was sufficient to re-
. mind us that summer is almost over and
‘autumn will begin a week from next
been successful in Austria and that Ser- |
the Austrian forces.
been partially successful though the
movement toward Berlin is less rapid
{than it was in the beginning. At the
centre of activities, however, the theatre
| of the conflict for the capture ot Paris,
the Germans have been surprisingly suc-
cessful.
Up until within the last few
days their movement was practically un-
impeded. The French fought valiantly
and the British effectively but they could
not resist the advance of Germany.
The only point that has been clearly
eveloped thus far is that the war will
not be a matter of a short time. With
an expense account of more than $50,-
000, 000 a day most of us naturally jump-
| ed at the conclusion that such a burden
couldn’t be endured long and that one
side or the other would soon seek peace.
But this impression is giving way to the
belief that hostilities will continue for a
; considerable period of time though every
| day of its duration will mean poverty to
; via appears to have gained victories over !
It may be believed !
that the Russian invasion of Prussia has
| millions of people in theend. Even Lord
KITCHENER seems to have changed his
mind on the subject for he is now enlist-
ing British soldiers for a term of three
years while originally he predicted peace
_in ‘half the time.
Another point almost definitely settled
| by the operations thus far is that if there
rare any future wars the activities will be
mainly in the air. Before the beginning
of this disturbance men of military minds
spoke conjecturaily of dropping bombs
, upon ships and armies from the clouds
| but nobody took such tales seriously.
| The operations of flying machines of one
kind or another in this war has changed
opinion, however, and now everybody
| sees the immense potentiality of airships
{in war. Of course this will stimulate the
development of these instrumentalities
j and it is safe to predict that they will be
more and more depended upon to deter-
{ mine results of battles.
|
——County chairman Arthur B. Lee
has opened Democratic headquarters in
a room on the second floor of Crider’s
Exchange, where members of the party
are welcome at all times.
Monday with winter coming on apace.
Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here
before we realize it.
Proposed New Taxes.
Obviously the President has no hope
that Congress might be prevailed upon
to give up the “pork barrel.” Cutting
out the River and Harbor bill for a coup-
le of years and dropping government
building operations not already begun,
for a like period, would have decreased
expenditures sufficiently to balance the
decrease in revenues caused by the Eu-
ropean war for that length of time. But
Senators and Representatives in Congress
must have these sources of graft for fa-
vored constituents and the President was
obliged to invoke the alternative. Ac-
cordingly he has asked Congress to en-
act legislation to provide additional inter-
nal revenue to the amount of $100,000,-
000 a year.
Increasing taxes is not popular how-
ever wisely the levy but treasury deficits
are disastrous. The Democratic Con-
gress ought to have prevented a deficit
by curtailing expenses but didn’t do so.
The Baltimore platform pledged an eco-
nomical administration but the expenses
have been increased rather than dimin-
ished. That fact is in itself a just cause
of complaint which will be felt in the
vote in November. But the increase of
taxes will be a stronger reason for a
quarrel with the party and though pro-
found confidence in the patriotism and
wisdom of President WILSON may pre-
serve the Democratic majority in the
House of Representatives, those respon-
sible for it are taking long chances.
The President has left to Congress the
determination of the subjects upon which
the additional taxes will be laid and specu-
lation upon the subject is running riot.
The probabilities are, however, that the
burden will be put upon beer and gasolene.
A good many people imagine that most of
the gasolene is used for touring and racing
automobiles and will, therefore, be light-
ly felt. But this is not an accurate esti- |
mate of the subject for gasolene is exten-
sively used for other purposes and is a
necessity in thousands of poor homes
throughout the country. The increase
of the tax on beer will not work hard-
ship, probably, but even that will not be
popular among the consumers.
He makes an appeal to the |
The’
~work has been retarded and the hopes of
4 ally rejolces and oT
‘| complished his purpose.
: ; The Modern Vandals.
"From the Johnstown Democrit. :
If the Russians ever get’ very far i into |
: Germany the patrons of the arts will shed
many a.tear because of the atrocities
| that will undoubtedly follow the invasion; |
i The Czar’s soldiers will have but scant
respect for historic buik for art col-
lections or for great It is un-
fortunate that the re should have
furnished a precedent for the Russian
atrocities by their own action in destroy-
. ing Louvain. ‘Nothing that the Germans |!
can ever do will replace the buildings:
razed to the ground. All the . wise men
1 in Germany cannot replace the treasured |
manuscripts that disappeared when the
great libraries went up in smoke. Lou: |
vain was'an ancient city. It had been a
landmark for centuries. To destroy it
was to rob civilization of an asset. 'Lou-
vain did nok belong simply to the whole.
world of letters. It belonged to ail ;
‘those who loved the beautiful. Germany
‘wronged itself when the city was distroy-
ed because Louvain was a place dear %.
many a | an.’ 3
- Consider ‘Paris.v There are buildings i in
that city that it would be a crime against
humanity to destroy. There are places
there familiar to every student of history
that belong to all mankind. It is stated
in dispatches from the French capital
that the St. Germain woods may be cut
famous forest in the world. Kings with
‘their gorgeous trains have walked in its
shade. It has figured in the romance of
history. It has been the home of adven-:
ture. There never can be another St.
Germain’s woods. And if the forest is
destroyed the palaces reared by Louis
XIV must likewise be razed.
Then think if you will of destroying
‘Notre Dame de Paris with a modern
‘shell. Few wars of the past have sacked
the monuments the race has reared in its
inspired hours. ‘Even the Huns respect- |
many and France and England cannot
‘find it even in their war-enflamed hearts
to wipe out the landmarks civilization
thas reared on her onward march. It is
‘horrible enough that the soil of Europe
should be stained with blood, but it is
unthinkable that: every art should be
made to reel beneath the blow of the
mailed fist.
Daredevils of Air.
From the Altoona Times.
Evidently there is one branch of the
military service in such of the ‘en-
gaged in the Butopean conflict that actu-
gest themselves. :
Though there has been expressed con-
siderable disappointment at the apparent
ineffectiveness of efforts at assault' from
the upper air, the zroplanes and dirigi-
bles having suffered loss entirely dispro-
portionate to the amount of damage
wrought on the several objectives, the
armies have not lost faith in their rial
forces and expect great things to be ac-
complished by them before the hostilities
are ended.
It is by all agreed, also, that the feats
of daring daily being accomplished by
airmen demonstrate great intrepidity
which often amounts to foolhardiness.
Some of the dangerous flights over ene-
mies’ cities seem to have been made
in the spirit of pure bravado, as little, if
‘any, advantage was to be gained there-
by. Thus we have German air craft
sailing over Ostend and Paris and French
aviators circling Brussels, each dropping
notes of encouragement or warning and
each in constant peril at the hands of
hundreds of sharpshooters. One of the
flyers is reported to have been “looped 2
the loop” in the full sight of and quite
within the range of the enemy.
These demonstrations, however, do not
constitute service in any effective sense
and the airmen must learn to better di-
rect their energies if they expect to be-
come a factor of significance in bringing
about results desired by the forces under
whose flags they operate.
Who is Looney Now?
From the Boston Journal.
Governor Haines, of Maine, makes a
mistake when he says in his public ad-
dresses: “The foreign policy of this Ad-
ministration has made us the laughing
stock of the whole world. The whole
thing would be humorous were it not so
intensely pathetic and tragic.”
Three months ago that would have
been all right. Itis not all right now,
and it will not appeal to one thinking
man of any party. President Wilson
mapped out a certain line of procedure
during the Mexican crisis. It succeeded.
If it had failed, criticism would have been
in order, but without plunging the coun-
try into disastrous war the President ac-
Governor Haines does not say that our
foreign policy is the laughing stock of
Europe, but that was said only a few
months ago. Europe is not laughing
much nowadays.’ Our foreign policy has
marked elements of superiority over that
which has blossomed into a European
war’; We commend to Governor Haines
this recent statement by the London
News on the subject of diplomacy: “The
example of the United States must here-
after become the model of the civilized
world.”
Sympathy Misplaced.
From the Somerville Journal.
Don’t let yourself be carried away too
quickly with sympathy for the under dog.
You may find out that he was fool enough
to start the fight.
Practical Genius,
From the Galveston News.
Our idea of a genius is a man who can
make a mountain out of a molehill and
‘Funk died four hours later.
of |,
«down. St. Germain is probably the most |
ed cathedrals and palaces. - Surely Ger- |.
ee EEEEE———
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~Practically very industry in Punxsutawney
A is runing to its capacity, and the Wightman
glass plant, a new industry, is expected to begin
business in a féw days.
—On the farm of W. F. Brion, of Jackson town,
ship, Lycoming county, may beseena wild tur-
key hen and six young ones associating on terms
of friendly equality with Mr. Brion’ s tame tur-
keys.
Glass company at DuBois was sold at sheriff's
sale on Friday last, the purchaser being J. W.
Allison, who had recently been sales manager
for the company.
—Frank Corbone, a young Italian, has been
"held to answer the charge of incendiarism. He
is accused of having set fire to the house in Which
[ he lived in Johnstown, and considerable evidence
has been accumulated against him.
. —Perry Heeman, arrested in connection with
the robbery of the Sommerville store at Win-
.burne last spring, escaped from the Clearfield
| jail on Tuesdav of last week and no tidings 5
| his whereabouts have been learned.
—Michael Hart, a well-known young resident
“of DuBois, wentinto a restaurant Saturday after-
‘noon and ordered a: cheese sandwich. While it
- was being made he toppled off the stool on which:
‘he was sitting and died in a few minutes.
' —~Swallowing a small quantity of diluted car-
‘bolic acid in mistake for medicine, Mrs. Thomas
52 years and is survived by a husband whose
present location is unknown, and four sons.
' —Some inhospitable residents of Greensburg
:procured an injunction forbidding the admission
“of non-resident’ pupils to the High school, and
193 of the latter were refused admission when
they presented themselves Tuesday morning.
—Ralph Rash and Joseph Shubert, each aged
‘about 18 years, inmates of the Clearfield jail,
‘fer to the reform school at Glen Mills, escaped
‘early Monday morning and “have not been ap-
'prehended.
a
| —At the Sixtieth anniversary of the marriage
iof Mr. and Mrs. John I. Bloom, whose home is
‘near Curwensville, over 500 relatives and friends
were present. Among the number was Darius
D. Ritter, of LaJunta, Colo., who was one of the
‘wedding guests sixty years ago.
—Judge Ruppel, of Somerset county, has de-
| cided that when a citizen of one school district
finds it" necessary to send his children to the
reimburse him for the amount paid for tuition.
—A Derry man was losing his: chickens.
accused a neighbor, a woman, of stealing them.
The case went to court. ‘The man failed to prove
his case. The j jury acquitted the defendent and
put’ the ‘costs; amounting to $92.58 on the ac-
cuser. He spent a few hours in the Greensburg
jail While, his wife wentto Derry after the money.
—While walking toward his home in Boswell
late Monday night in company with three men,
The
police of Boswell are searching for Joe Moravic,
DeSanto.
—One Westmoreland county murderer, con-
victed of murder in the first degree, respited
seven or eight times, and finally granted a new
trial, saved his life by pleading guilty to murder
in the second degree. The night before his plea
was en’ered a young Austrian was stabbed to
the heart during a christening rumpus at Hos-
‘tetter, same county.
—Mrs. George Droveny, aged about 19 years
prosecution at a hearing last Saturday which
} deve ped that she had treated a step-son, aged
“4 two an
* | She said ‘She wanted her husband to ‘take the. .°
one-half ‘years, - “with “éxfreme Cruelty. =
child to the poor house. She wished it was dead
but “didn’t like to kill it.”
hotel at Bedford for the last 40 years and one of
the best known residents of Bedford county, died
while seated in a chair atthe Arandale Monday
evening. Those who saw him reclining believed
Mr. Alsip to be sleeping and it was some time
before it was finally discovered that life had
taken its departure. Mr. Alsip, who was 68
years of age, served two terms as riember of
the State Legislature from Bedford county, his
service extending from 1903 to 1906.
—Ten cases of typhoid fever have been lo-
cated in Cresson within the last few days, six of
the patients being inmates of St. John’s orphan.
age. ‘It is not believed that the condition of any
of the patients is of a critical nature. Samples of
the water supply have been sent away for
analysis. The orphanage supply ordinarily comes
from the Cresson system, but the water has
been very low of late and a new supply from
wells and springs has been in use at various
places in that immediate section, including the
orphanage.
—A sweeping victory for the pure food depart-
ment of Pennsylyania was won in the Bedford
county court on Monday, when J. H. Brown a
large flour manufacturer of Loysburg, plead nolle
contendre on twelve counts charging him with
selling bleached flour to merchants in Bedford
and Huntingdon county. Earlier in the year
Brown was convicted of the same offense in
Blair county. In addition to paying fines and
costs, the manufacturer also agreed to cease
manufacturing bleached flour until such time as
| this practice is permitted by law.
—Joseph E. Kelly, 25 years old, quarterback of
last two years principal of the Marshwood school
of the Olyphant school district, Lackawanna
mortally wounded on Monday while he was
walking over the Marshwood mountain road
toward the school.
the back and as hefell a man unknown to Kelly
bent over him and demanded his money. Kelly
gave up $3.06 to the robber, who then fired two
more shots into his body and left him lying on
the roadside. No motive can be found for the
shooting. Kelly is not expected to recover.
—Hunters this year must wear the white tags
issued from the State Game Department, or
render themselves liable to arrest. Last year the
tags were on buff cloth and it is said that some
hunters to evade paying the $1 this year are going
to use the sameold tag, but the game wardens
have been charged to keepa sharp lookout and
any hunter caught wearing last year’s buff tag
will be arrested on sight. Thus far every county
treasurer in the State has been furnished with a
full complement of licenses and tags, and all who
apply will be served. The hunting season is on
now for some birds, but within the next four
weeks the season will be open for a number of
birds.
—An hour’s kindness to a friend will net John
Domalkus, a Coal township, Northumberland
‘county resident $5,000, according to the terms of
the will of Wasil Bilshak, which was probated in
the office of John I. Carr, register of wills here
Tuesday. Domalkus is named the sole bene-
ficiary of the estate, which is worth more than
the amount mentioned. Several years ago while
Bilshak was walking along the street near
Domalkus’ home he was taken ill, and Domal-
kus took him in and called a doctor. This
kindness took up an hour, after which he was
able to move about again. He always declared
that he would remember Domalkus in his will.
Last week he died ‘and made his benefactor his
"then sell it for gravel.
sole beneficiary.
The lady. was aged °
—The plant of the American: French Belgian
‘where they were confined awaiting their trans- *
‘schools of another district, gearer his home, the +
school directors of his home district may legally
He. :
*
Pasquale DeSanto was the victim of an attempt .
on his life, being shot at several times and pain-
fully slashed about the face with a knife.
an Italian charged with being the man who cut
| of Johnstown, was fined $25 and the costs of
Two shots struck Kelly in
—Joseph T. Alsip, proprietor of the Arandale :
the Bucknell foot ball team of 1909, and for the
county, was shot from ambush and probably