Brule
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
——Speaking of coffee that “third cup
is more than likely to be absorbed in the |
dregs.
——Again permit us to remark that
the Democracy is a party of principles
rather than a common scold.
—In the light of recent results that
vote of WEBSTER GRIM’S, back in 1910,
wasn’t so pathetically small after all.
—Let us start a campaign for brick
roads in Pensylvania, but don’t let us
get VANCE MCCORMICK or MITCH PAL-
MER to lead it.
—As yet Mr. McCorMICK hasn't filed
his expense account. When that is done
it will be time enough to figure out how
much each vote cost him.
—Whatever else may be said of the
developments of the foreign war about
the only thing that is certain is that
someone is going to get a good lickin’
ere long.
—If certain Democratic near leaders
in. Pennsylvania had been quarantined
for the foot and mouth disease last
spring there wouldn’t be so many sore
Democrats now.
—A report that two Akron, Ohio, girls
are afflicted with the foot and mouth
disease naturally suggests the query as
to whether all the girls will be put under
quarantine in the affected States.
—Nothing is as easily changed as the
mind of the American voter. He hops
from one side to the other with the ease
of a kangaroo and our side is the one to
which the next hop will be made. Mark
that.
——The defeat of Congressman ROB-
ERT E. LEE is one of the regrettable inci-
dents of the recent election and JIM
BLAKESLIE ought to be summoned to
“show cause.” It is the Postmaster Gen-
eral’s move.
—A resolution was presented at the
meeting of the American Federation of
Labor, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, call-
ing upon the Federation to work for leg-
islation making a six hour day manda-
tory. Verily, after while no one will
have to work at all.
—Already J. LEE PLUMMER, of Blair
county, is being groomed for the Repub-
lican nomination for State Treasurer.
Why not? PENROSE is in control in
Pennsylvania and shouldn’t he have his
favorite “Messenger boy” in Harrisburg,
if he wants him there.
—Some of you Democrats who expect
to run for county offices next fall had
”
better busy yourselves right nows digging {
a few post-holes to set those political
fences in that you will be starting to
build in the spring. Seed sown in a gar-
den that hasn’t been well prepared never
yields prolifically.
—Experts have figured out that eggs
for which farmers are receiving only
seventeen cents the dozen are selling in
New York at fifty. Experts alwaysjwere
handy with figures and shy of facts. Any
Centre county farmer will tell you that
he is getting twice seventeen cents for
every dozen eggs he can market.
—Two questions come up in our mind
as a result of a story that is being told
to the effect that certain Democratic
precinct chairmen offered four dollars
for votes for the Washington ticket. We
can’t understand where they got the four
or why they wanted to spend money to
get votes against their own candidates
for the Legislature, Senate and Congress.
—That Progressive candidate for Con-
gress, in the First Kentucky district, who
agreed with his wife to prepare to get to
Heaven, since there was no chance for
him to get to Washington, must stand in
a bad light before St. PETER. For the
way he put it makes it look very much
as if there might not have been any
thought of Heaven had there been a way
to Washington. Incidentally, there’s a
lot of others in the same boat with this
luckless candidate. About the only time
they think of Heaven is when every
other place is closed to them.
—In lamenting over the defeat of our
local candidate for the Legislature one of
the old-time Democratic war horses of
the county remarked, the other day, that
he hadn’t much of physical energy to
give any more, but he thought he was
still capable ‘‘of imparting a little sense”
to people who apparently need it. We
believe he is too, but we were amazed to
infer from his remarks that he is outside
the breastworks also. The ownership of
the Democratic organization in Centre
county is a far closer corporation than
we imagined it to be. More power to
the owners. The further they go the
less they have to own.
—Something surely must be wrong.
Can it be possible thdt Congressman-
elect Col. WARREN WORTH BAILEY'S
Johnstown Democrat has at last seen the
light? When the WATCHMAN warned
.the leaders of our party months ago that
it wasn’t Democracy to foist a star cham-
ber platform on the party in the State
and that they couldn’t expect men to
stand on a platform they had had no
hand in building the Democrat accused it
of being “sore.” Hearken now to these
words from the sage of the Conemaugh:
“The personally conducted party plat-
form is not likely to become a habit in
this State. One trial of it has, perhaps,
been sufficient.”
VOL. 39.
Gem of Campaign Literature.
For the real gem oof the literature of |
the recent campaign in Pennsylvania,
we are under everlasting obligations to
Harper's Weekly. Out of the prolific
brain of tke “immortal”
abnegation expressed when BRUTUS re-
SHAKESPEARE |
there came the marvelous story of self- |
fused the crown of the Roman empire, !
thrice tendered him by the political boss-
es of that time and place. But BRUTUS
events amply proved, for his abjuration.
those in Mexico now and wearing the
crown was more or less hazardous.
tion” so richly fertilized the campaign
literature of 1914, however, involved no
such dire consequences and the hero of |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 13, 1914.
President Wilson and the Election. |
i
Since the election three members of
the President’s cabinet have issued state-
ments to assure the public that the re-
sult is in no respect a rebuke to WoobD-
ROW WILSON or a popular condemnation
of his policies. Secretary MCADOO was
prompt in this service, having gone into
print before the actual figures had be-
come available. Soon afterward Secre-
tary Daniels, the perennial fountain of
had substantial reasons, as subsequent
! corroborative evidence.
The !
story with which the “journal of civiliza- |
|
balderdash, “spoke his little piece” and
! the other day Mr. BRYAN, having returned
Conditions in Rome then were much like |
from a western trip, added his opinion as
All these state-
ments were supererogatory. Nobody
with a grain of sense believed, or could
have bzen made to believe, that Presi-
dent WILSON or his policies were respon-
sible, directly or indirectly, for the re-
it stands as the luminous center-piece of ' sult of the election.
a radiant page of the history of friend-
ship and fidelity.
1
Candor and conscience combines, how- |
ever, to compel a denial of the statement,
by inference, that the story was withheld
from the public out of consideration for
the modesty of the hero. Ever since the
Baltimore convention the intimates of
the “six feet of Quaker flesh and blood,” | |
with “fire burning in his bones,” have
been stalking abroad trying to fasten it
in the minds and force it into the con-
sciousness of the public.
That this may |
|
| inet had a good deal to do with the Dem-
But it may be said with equal accuracy
| that in Pennsylvania, at least, some of
the members of President WILSON’S cab-
ocratic slump. When GRANT was Presi-
dent the pernicious activity of federal
officials, from cabinet members down, in
politics, became so general and offensive
that legislation was enacted against it.
In fact it was the one abuse that was
“denounced by all reformers as offensive
, and destructive, and the opposition to it
be understood it is well to say that the
story is JIM BLAKESLIE'S absurd fiction '
that somebody had offered the Presiden-
became so great and assertive that the
evil was practically eliminated. During
the administration of ROOSEVELT it was
revived, however, and within the last
tial nomination to A. MITCHELL PALMER, year DANIELS and BRYAN have done little
of Pennsylvania, in consideration of his
abandoning the support of WOODROW
WILSON and casting the vote of the Penn-
sylvania delegation for CHAMP CLARK.
Mr. PALMER could no more have cast the
vote of the delegation for CLARK than he
couid whip the German army with a
popgun.
Some months ago at a meeting. of
Democratic club members in Scranton
Jim BLAKESLIE sprung this preposterous
piece of fiction upon the surprised dele-
gates but as they say of vaccination
which fails, “it didn’t take.” JiM embel-
lished it somewhat with details of his
own conspicuous part in the comedy. “I
lit a cigarette,” he said, “and thought a
few minutes, and told ‘MITCH’ it wouldn’t
do.” What JiM thought with he didn’t
reveal and why he indulged in the naugh-
ty cigarette is left to conjecture. But
he made it plain that either the cigarette
or the thought or his solemn admonition
that “it wouldn’t do,” not only nominat-
ed and elected WoODROW WILSON and
rescued civilization from impending dis-
aster but it saved this glorious Republic
from the “demnition bow-wows.”” Veri-
similitude is a useful element in romance.
But the story of our esteemed heb-
domadal contemporary is no less absurd
than the figures of speech with which it
is introduced. It presents “MITCH” in the
form of a great crusader in the cause of
righteousness. “Bucking the bosses”
was “fine sport for him,” according to
the author of this story, and he is a
“birth-right reformer,” who previous to
the Baltimore convention “had risen rap-
idly to power in his own State.” Asa
matter of fact, if there is a creature of
the bosses living in this broad Common-
wealth it is A. MITCHELL PALMER. The
leaders of the party not only catapulted
him into public life but financed his ambi- |
tions and paid his expenses until VANCE
MCcCoRrMICK, for purely selfish reasons,
expressed a willingness to become “his
angel.” Then, McCorMICK having more
money than the others, PALMER denounc-
ed them as bosses.
The campaign is over and we have no
inclination to pour vitriol into old sores.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania are all
for Wooprow WILSON and this news-
paper suggested him as an available can-
didate for President before some of the
opportunists who now profess to own
him knew there was such a man. But
the most popular man on earth and the
most deserving public official can alien-
ate public confidence and if President
WILSON undertakes to force upon the
Democrats of Pennsylvania a leadership
that is abhorrent, his friends will desert
him just as certainly as “the day suc-
ceeds thenight.” Therecent vote proves
that the demagogues and hypocrites who
stole the livery of the Democratic party
three years ago are not the leaders of
the party and all the patronage of the
government will not debauch Democrats
into consent to such mastery.
——An esteemed contemporary sug-
gests that “Progressiveism in California
is developing ‘too much JOHNSON."” ' As
a matter of fact Progressiveism in the
entire country has fallen down under the
burden of too much TEDDY.
Ee ——
——The cotton problem is about solv:
ed in a rational if not the natural way.
That is to say, the banks of the country
| have practically completed a pool to
finance the crop without government in-
termeddling.
else than offend in this respect. They
have been butting in everywhere and do- |
ing as much harm as possible. :
In the primary contest for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of Penn- |
sylvania, both DANIELS and BRYAN took
the stump. in behalf of a candidate who
has since proved to be exceedingly un-
popular and against one who has an un- |
broken record as a winner. There was
no objection to the participation of Sec- |
retary of Labor WILSON in the campaign,
for he is a citizen of Pennsylvania. But!
BRYAN and DANIELS had no more right
to come into Pennsylvania and misrepre-
sent the President than they would have
had to dictate to the Emperor of Ger- |
many or the Pope of Rome with respect |
to the affairs of the German empire or
the Catholic church. Democrats of '
Pennsylvania resent such interference in
their affairs and the loss of several Con-'
gressmen is abundant proof of that fact. |
|
——It is intimated that Governor TEN- |
ER will distribute a number of official |
commissions to his friends as “Christmas |
presents.” The Governor should bear in |
mind that paying personal debts with ,
public offices is poor policy. Making |
patronage a currency is putting a good
thing to bad use.
soo
Olie James’ Huge Joke.
Of course Senator OLIE JAMES, of Ken-
tucky, was only joking when he suggest-
ed BoIEs PENROSE as the Republican can- |
didate for President in 1916. Senator
JAMES is a giant in stature and good hu- |
mor radiates from his ponderous frame.
The idea is absurd, to be sure, but Sena-
tor JAMES’ jokes are in the proportion of
his person and his suggestion with re-
spect to PENROSE and the Presidency is a
natural ebullition of his joyful spirits.
But it won’t take. Senator PENROSE him-
self will be the first to see the absurdity
of it, and to laugh it away. But Senator
JAMES might have made himself quite as
preposterous by naming others.
As a matter of fact PENROSE does rep-
resent the Republican party of the coun-
try more nearly than any man we can
think of. He is in favor of a prohibitive
tariff and pretends to think that high
tariff taxes produce revenue whether i
there are importations or not. In that!
respect he appears'to be in complete ac-
cord with the majority of voters of the
Republican party. He is also in favor of
monopoly, against reforms of all kinds
and “for the old flag and an appropria- |
tion” in every case. What other man
could better represent the policies of the
Republican party in this broad land of
promise?
Moreover, Senator PENROSE is not over
particular concerning the character of
his associates in politics. He is against
local option, employers liability and the
conservation of the health of women and '
children. Well so are the managers of |
his party in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. :
and so must be the voters of his party | |
for they vote for him with great enthu- |
siasm. Then why not nominate him?
He might break the solid South through |
the tariffites in Louisiana and ‘the whis: | |
keyites in Kentucky and no other ‘man |
could achieve that result. :
—Quite a number of Bellefonters
will go to State College today for the |
Pennsylvania Day exercises. A special |
train will be run to the College this
‘morning, and a return train this evening. !
Protest Against Bad Management.
{
:
|
NO. 45.
So Much to be Done.
The difference between VANCE C. Mc- | From the Johnstown Democrat.
CoRrRMICK’s vote and that of his associates
on the ticket represents the strength he
acquired by his immoral commerce with
BILL FLINN, the atrocious and unspeak-
able boss of the ROOSEVELT forces in
Pennsylvania. That is to say it may be
assumed that McCORMICK’S bargain with
FLINN for a place upon the Washington
party ticket netted him about 150,000
votes. It may be said that he received
in the neighborhood of 50,000 independ-
ent Republican votes, representing his
personal friends of Republican antece-
. dents throughout the State and those of
that part affiliation who knew him only
through the estimate of the Harrisburg
Patriot, freely distributed during the cam-
paign.
McCorMICK’s total vote in the State
will probably reach 425,000. Taking
from that total the 150,000 cast by the
| Washington party adherents, in pursu-
"ance of the corrupt deal with FLINN, and
the 50,000 cast by personal friends and
misinformed independent Republicans,
it is clear that not more than 225,000
Democrats voted for him. That is less
than any Democratic candidate for Gov-
ernor has received for Governor within
half a century, with the single exception
of WEBSTER GRIM, against whom Mr,
McCorMICK and. others formed a con-
spiracy in order to create an opportunity
to seize control of the Democratic organ-
ization. His small vote is the just expres-
sion of indignation for his perfidy on that
occasion.
The Democratic party is not in the
. minority in Pennsylvania to the extent
indicated by the vote of November 3.
This year it might and probably would
have been in the majority, notwithstand-
ing the vicious fight made by MCCOR-
MICK for the nomination, if the organi-
zation had revealed the least atom of
capacity in the conduct of the campaign.
But the stupid chairman of the State
| Committee and the worse than stupid
candidates repelled rather than invited
the defeated contingent in the primary
: fight and the result is precisely what
' might have been expected and was en-
tirely deserved. The resultis nota re-
buke to President WiLsON, however. It
is a protest against incompetent manage-
ment.
——Big trout and little trout, trout
' three inches long and trout two feet in
i length, with trout most any other size
can be seen in Spring creek every day
opposite the WATCHMAN office and be-
tween the bridge and the falls. This is
| spawning season for trout and they al-
: ways hunt the sandy and gravelly shoals
in shallow water on which to deposit
their eggs.
Regulating Canal Tolls.
That the financiers of the country
: hope to regulate the rates of toll in the
‘ Panama canal is already apparent.
In
an address before the ROBERT MORRIS
. club of Philadelphia, the other evening,
EMORY R. JOHNSON, a member of the
: faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
and of the State Public Service Commis-
sion, declared such a result is inevitable.
“Today, through the medium of the
canal,” Dr. JOHNSON said, “a 5000-ton
ship, sailing from New York to San Fran-
cisco, saves $38,000 on the voyage.” The
money trust can’t patiently contemplate
such a result.
+The remedy, according to this “author-
ity on transportation facilities,” is
for the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion to fix the toll ratés on a
basis that will equalize the expense of
shipping by raii or water. Probably
these economic doctors would consent to
a small difference in favor of the water
route to balance the difference in time
by the rail shipment. But it is incon
ceivable that there should be a saving to
| the consumers of so much money on so
small a quantity of freight. It would
literally divert all except very urgent
deliveries to the water course and great-
ly impair the incomes of railroads.
But that is precisely what the canal was
built for. Does Dr. JOHNSON or any other
spokesman of the money trust imagine
that the people would ' have consented to
the spending of nearly half a billion dol-
lars for the building of the canal if noth-
ing was to be saved to the people? If he
does he is a blooming idiot. The pre-
tense is that the canal ought to be put
upon a paying basis. But his plan would
simply prevent that result. With rates
the same, all shipments would be by rail,
and the cost of the canal a clear loss.
——SULZER may be the “same old
| BILL” but it must be admitted that he is
a badly battered specimen of the “has
beens.”
=—The Democratic reorganizers seem
to have reorganized, rejuvenated’ and re-
suscitated the Republican Machine.
Now that the political campaign is all
over people begin looking around to dis-
cover that there is so much to be done.
Stricken Belgium cries out to us for aid,
and there should be a generous response.
Then there are boots to be made, blan-
kets to be fabricated, ‘military gear to be
collected for the warring hosts in Europe.
We must help the suffering civilians on
the one hand, while supplying the wants
of the fighters upon the other.
The role may seem to be a contradictory
one. There are idealists to whom the
thought that we should cease to supply
any materials that might in any way give
strength to the nations engaged in the
war or enable them to prolong the
slaughter i isbound to occur. But after
all it is altogether likely that the nations
whose financial resources are exhausted
will be the first to fall. We cannot re-
frain from selling goods to Canada and
whoever sells to Canada sells to England.
Moreover, there is but little mercy in
the idea of sending a soldier to his death
hungry instead of sending him forth to
fight amply provisioned.
Evidently just so many men must fall
before this war is ended and it will mat-
ter very little in the long run whether
they perish as a result of slow starvation
or as a result of rifle fire.
So there is plenty to be done. . In ad-
dition to meeting the demands placed
upon our resources we must keep the
peace, we must manage the affairs of
many nations in many different capitals
and we must do the major portion of the
seed sowing and manufacturing for the
world. Conditions created by the war
may hamper us in the performance of
those tasks, but those difficulties will be
conquered one by one. For, even though
Europe become a wilderness, we must
survive in the interest of civilization. It
is our duty to preserve the ideals of
peace and the arts of peace. Noman
living can estimate the possibilities that
lie back of the war fires now burning. It
is within the range of possibility that an
exhausted Europe, a Europe rendered
desolate by a prolonged war, might yet
be swept by fanatical Moslem armies.
Africa, Asia, Europe are now all involv-
ed. To attempt to define the limits of
the conflagration is to attempt the im-
possible. So there is plenty of work
ahead and itis well that we have as
President a man who can be relied upon
tp “watch his step.”
The “Doubtful” States.
; Ey oJ
From the Philadélphia Record. : oe
We learn from a Washington dispatch
to a Protectionist newspaper that the
Democrats are bitterly disappointed by
the results of Tuesday:
This is particularly true in regard to the
election returns from the States with the big
votes in the electoral college. which are ordi-
narily counted doubtful, and upon which
every Democratic candidate for the Presiden-
cy must depend for his election. Such States
are New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio.
Reflect upon what this means of the
decadence of the G. O. P. Pennsylva-
nia, Massachusetts, Illinois and Ohio are
doubtful States, Republican gains in
which are highly cheering to the Repub-
licans. Pennsylvania is one of those
doubtful States which a Democratic can-
didate for President must carry in order
to be elected. Here is a fine revelation
of political geography!
It isn’t a great many years since the
Republicans would have scouted the idea
that Massachusetts and Illinois were any
less certainly theirs than Pennsylvania,
and now they are reduced to the point
of making gains in Pennsylvania an oc-
casion for cheerfulness. Evidently there
is nothing in the country that is safely
Republican. In Massachusetts, where
they are cackling over their gains, the
Republicans failed to elect their candi-
date for Governor, who is one of the big-
gest and strongest men of the party.
But he was beaten in the Bay State by
only about 10,000, and that is a hopeful
indication to the crushed Republicans.
They failed to elect their Senatroial can-
didate in Illinois, but they made gains in
the State of Abraham Lincoln, and in
their present mood that is enough to
thrill the souls of Republicans with hope.
They have probably elected a Senator
in the State of Grant, Garfield, Hayes,
McKinley and Taft, and for this they are
giving thanks and congratulating each
other, and pluming themselves upon en-
couraging signs.
The Democrats retained the House of
Representatives after “tinkering with the
tariff.” That is more than the Republi-
cans did in 1884, 1890 and 1910. But the
phenomenal Democratic majority in the
House has been reduced to normal pro-
portions, and that is enough in this Dem-
ocratic era to awaken hope and confi-
dence in the party of Mark Tapley.
T. R’s Foes on the Result.
From the New York Sun.
The salient feature of the voting
throughout the United States, or rather
throughout that part of the country
which is reasonably indicative of politic-
al change, was the compelling evidence
of Republican reunion. The Progressive
advance is not only checked, the Pro-
gressive forces are almost annihilat-
"And what does it signify to the great
architect of Republican ‘disruption? His
discovery of November, 1914, is no river
of doubt, this time. It is a positively,
definitely, unmistakably onflowing and
overwhelming tide of disaster for him
and his larger hopes. Col. Roosevelt,
who labored for weeks with a strenuous
altruism of which he himself was per-
fectly unconscious to persuade the voters
that the issue was what it was not, gets
—well, as the copy books used to say,
virtue is its own reward.
elf you always want to have the
best take the WATCHMAN and you'll
have it.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Having authorized a bond issue to the amount
of $32,000, the people of Hastings are looking for-
ward to the erection of a municipal lighting
plant.
—*“0ld Man” Wallace, a famous hunter living
in Clearfield county, had a streak of luck last
week when he slew a bear, three coons and a few
birds, and found three well-stocked bee trees.
—Mifflinburg has ten well-defined cases of
diphtheria and several children are ill with
symptoms of the disease. The schools, churches
and theatres have been closed for the present.
—The Star Glass plant at Reynoldsville which
cost $100,000 to build was sold last week at sheriff
sale to Charles Herpel for $5200. The sale was
made at the instance of the bondholders of the
company.
—An effort is now on to extinguish the present
indebtedness of the Clearfield hospital, amount-
ing to $4,000, A. W. Lee agreeing to give the in-
stitution $25.000 in that event. November 28th,
is the closing day.
—Charles P. Munch, a prominent citizen of Du-
Bois, hasbeen arrested on the charge of having
fraudulently concealed $500 of the assets of the
C. P. Munch Coal company, a bankrupt. He
denies the allegation.
—Anna Boyer, of Sunbury, was stricken with
diphtheria. She passed into a comatose state,
and was pronounced dead by a physician. When
an undertaker arrived 10 hours later she sat up
and greeted him to the great joy of her weeping
relatives. The girl is recovering from the dis-
ease.
—Paul Caro and Ralph Mastriano, the two
Italians who killed a fellow countryman at
Clearfield on the 19th of June last, were sen-
tenced by Judge Bell at Clearfield on Monday
morning. Caro was given from fifteen to eigh-
teen years in the western penitentiary and Mas"
triano from five to eight years.
—William Hendricks, the Clinton county man
who was arrested on suspicion of having had a
hand in a store robbery in Mill Hall, because he
tried to exchange about 400 pennies for money of
a larger denomination, was completely exonerat-
ed at thehearing it having been shown that the
pennies were the property of his wife.
—While Miss Blanche Ives, a resident of Hun-
tersyille, Lycoming county, was running a cream
separator her hair was caught in the machinery
and her head was drawn in. Her screams at-
tracted the attention of her mother who stopped
the machinery, but not until the girl’s head was
badly injured and a blood vessel ruptured.
—Anna C. Ritter, 20 years old, a prominent
member of the German Lutheran church of
Sharpsburg, Pa., ended her life by swallowing
poison. She was despondent because she be-
lieved there was so much crime in the world and
individual efforts failed to improve conditions.
She had threatened several times to end her
life.
~The European war is declared to be respon-
sible for the failure of the Eastern Facing Mills
company, manufacturers of foundry supplies,
with plants in Williamsport, Jersey Shore and
Antes Fort, whose personal property was sold at
sheriff’s sale Tuesday. The concern was doing a
prosperous business up to the outbreak of the
war.
—Railroad Officer C. M. Kerns on Saturday
while covering his beat in the Altoona yard hap.
pened upon a young man by the name of James
A. Smith. The fellow proved to be a deserter
from the United States army. He deserted from
Fort Howard and was making his way west.
Officer Kerns took him back to Fort Howard on
Sunday.
—Wendell Ream, aged 45 years, a prosperous
farmer of Fairview township, was - instantly kill-
| ed shortly after five o'clock Monday evening
when he was kicked by one of his mules after he
fell from the wagon seat while he was driving to
his home. The accident occurred a few minutes
after he conversed with his brother, Eli. A
widow and four small children survive.
—The Punxsutawney Water Company has filed
suit against that borough for a water bill of
nearly $3,000. This is not for fire plug rental
which has not been paid for since June, 1913. The
contention of the borough is that the borough
was not getting the fire protection it was paying
for, hence have not been paying the bill. The
water company now sues for the amount they
claim due them.
—Because boys in Sandy township, Clearfield
county, have been in the habit of standing on the
trolley track until the car almost reached them
and then jumping off, a 10-year-old girl named
Lillian Daesy, had her right foot practically cut
off the other afternoon. The motorman thought
she was trying to fool him, but her foot was
wedged between the car rail and a plank. The
foot was amputated at the DuBois hospital.
—Calvin Gensimore, aged 16, who resides near
Tyrone, came near bleeding to death on Satur-
day morning when the tendons and arteries in
his right wrist were severed by a corn shredder
at the farm of D. H. Waite. The knives in-
flicted three deep gashes, just back of the palm
of the hand. The boy was given first aid treat-
ment, after which he was rushed to the Altoona
hospital, where the injury was further dressed.
—Frank G. Hohl, bank bandit and fugitive
from justice, driving a big blue touring car bear-
ing an Indiana State automobile license tag,
drove up to his formor home, 315 North Court
street, Harrisburg at 12.30 o’clock Sunday morn-
ing, unlocked the door with a key, entered the
house and emerged a minute later with a hand-
bag. This he threw into the automobile. Then
he drove rapidly away without letting anyone
know of his destination, according to the Harris-
burg papers.
—On his way home through the South Moun-
tains the other evening State Forestry Com-
missioner Conklin was proceeding slowly by
automobile along the road above Mount Holly,
looking at the forest fires on the hillside. As he.
turned to look ahead three fine deer crossed the
' road about 60 feet in front of the car, and they
did not seem to be in very much of a hurry. One
of them, a huge buck, to show his agility, leaped
clear across the road in one bound, stopped and
looked at the Commissioner as if to say, “You
can’t do that,” and then strolled leisurely into
the underbrush.
—Clarence McSherry, a farmer living near
Seven Kitchens, lost half of his apiary Monday
and had the fright of his life when three bears
tore his hives apart and devoured the contents of
six of them. He heard a commotion among his
hives and went out to look after them. He was
stunned when he saw three bears devouring his
honey with much gusto. They paid little or no
attention to the surprised owner, but appeared
as happy as children with candy. he said. Re-
covering from his fright,he summoned neighbors
over the telephone, but when they arrived the
animals were gone.
—Agents of the Pure Food Division of the
State Agricultural Department have been or-
‘dered to keep a close watch on those who are
disposing of eggs that are not fit for food, the
dealers taking advantage of the cold weather to
dispose of stale eggs, hoping to avoid detection.
Reports were received recently that in Philadel
‘phia nine dealers in rotten eggs had been found,
all of whom have been prosecuted, along with
one dealer in rotten sausage and one dealer in
rotten fish. The department is also after food
gamblers who have stored a great amount of
food in cold storage warehouses and are now
bringing it out for sale. This food is remarked
with a different date of storage and made to
the law.
wi
appear as fresh, which is strictly a violation of *