Demonic; Waldo
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
The Institute.
Next week the county pedagogues
Are coming in to town,
To hear a lot of “high brow" stuff
And salt the wisdom down.
We know they’re always on the job
They have no time to mope,
Because there’s nothin’ changes like
The modern teachin’ dope.
—Often the most trifling thing makes
a child the happiest.
—This will be the last copy of the
WATCHMAN you will receive this year.
—Surely this must be winter. With
twelve inches of snow on the ground and
the mercury flirting with zero we know
not what else to call it.
—Look over what the WATCHMAN ad-
vertisers have to tell you this morning
and finish up that Christmas shopping
ere all the choice things are picked out.
—Brother BRYAN led the Prohibition-
ists to the very summit of expectancy a
few weeks ago and now he heads them
back to the vale of dispair which he
finds'in “States Rights.”
—It certainly must be that old Duke
of Yorkshire, so famous in song, who is
at the head of the Austrian army. It is
marched into Servia nearly every week
and then it marches back again.
—What'’s the use of building more bat-
tleships now. After the war is over our
navy will probably be the biggest one
in the world and it will take the other
countries years to build enough to
match it. :
——President FARRELL, of the Steel
trust, predicts vast improvements in bus-
iness and great prosperity in the future.
The election being over President FAR-
RELL has no reason for predicting any-
thing else.
—In Manila all new houses must be
made rat proof. In America we couldn’t
promulgate such an order because the
Independent Order of Rat Trap Makers
wouldn’t vote for us if we stood for such
a business killer.
—The Erie Dispatch advises you to
keep your window open at night and
your heart open during the day. What
a healthy world and what a happy world
this would be should all of its inhabit-
ants follow such a course.
It may be only a word or smile,
That you have to give this year,
But it may count more than golden gifts
To some one who holds you dear.
So don’t be stint of these costless gems,
That were given you to give,
They may be treasures in the life
Your brothers have to live: *
—The Rev. R. OSBORNE, head of the
campmeeting at Sterling Junction, Mass.,
last summer had a woman’s chorus to
whistle all the hymns. He called it his
“Canary” chorus. It seems to us that
he should have named it the symphony
of the birds of Paradise.
—The shop windows in Bellefonte
never looked more attractive. Most of
our merchants have gone to considerable
trouble and expense to brighten up for
the Holidays and the WATCHMAN hopes
that each and every one will find the re-
ward in satisfactory patronage.
—Anyway the European war has giv-
en the nobility the opportunity to show
that it can do other things than stand
off its creditors and angle for American
heiresses. There are quite as many of
those caricatured gentlemen on the
firing line as any other class and they
don’t have to be shamed into the service
either, if reports be true.
—THe new superintendent of the Phil-
adelphia mint condemns the new gold
pieces and the Buffalo nickle because
they are hard to mint and accumulate
filth in the dépressions. Let us see,
seems to us that we heard that term
filthy lucre long before St. GAUDENS
started the work of making our coins
look more like medals than money.
—With the advent of zero weather be-
fore the middle of December we just
couldn’t help expressing our sympa-
thy for Col. TAYLOR and his steam
heat works. But in the midst of convul-
sions of regret at the way he will have to
shovel in the coal we reserve the right
to cuss him out as usual if he doesn’t
~ shovel it in fast enough to keep us
warm. :
—After you have enjoyed this, our
. Christmas number, to the fullest, and ex-
* pressed the opinion that it is fine, just as
we hope you will, then slip a dollar and
a half into an envelope and send it in
for your own or a new subscription. The
WATCHMAN has been thinking of you
else it wouldn’t have tried thus to please
you. Won't you think of it long enough
to comply with this request.
—This is the childs’ season and it
doesn’t matter whose child it is, some
act of kindness on your part might leave
an impression on the little heart that
will last through its life time. Only the
other day a gentleman met a little boy
on High street whose bare feet were pro-
truding through a pair of shoes so far
gone that they were utterly useless. He
took him into his home and put a pair
on him that protected the chubby toes
from the cold pavement, whereupon the
child heart swelled to the bursting point
"and with tears streaming down ‘his
cheeks he sobbed his gratitude in a way
that was as impressive as it was unex-
pected.
VOL. 59.
Militarism Raging Mad.
“Colonel JoHN A. WEIDERSHEIM, of
Philadelphia, a retired officer of the Na-
tional Guard, not only wants the federal
government to be prepared for war with
the whole world, but thinks the State of
military force capable of “licking the
State ought to have ten bdtteries of ar
tillery instead of three.
Colonel laments, moreover, that “the mi-
litia does not have within its ranks a
single man trained in the use of pieces of
ordnance corresponding in range and
size to the siege guns used by the armies
of Europe.
Of course Colonel WEIDERSHEIM favors
the payment of militiamen. “The Na-
tional Guard must be put on a better ba-
sis,” he adds, “and to do this you must
compensate the men. To do this you
«must have regular army officers as drill
masters,” he continues. “A few consci-
entious military men can do a great deal
toward whipping into shape a compara.
tively untrained body of men.” Marvels,
he might have said. But a few such of-
ficers would not be sufficient to whip in-
to shape an army properly proportioned
with thirty or even ten batteries of artil-
lery. A large number would be necessary
and the expense would be enormous.
Even the meager force we have costs con-
siderable and though the money is well
spent, probably, times are hard and taxes
burdensome. Multiplying the cost by
ten would involve hardships. ;
The militia forces of the States should
be fostered and made efficient. It is the
defensive force favored by WASHINGTON
and encouraged by JEFFERSON. But the
militia force they had in mind was liter-
ally as well as figuratively a state institu-
tion. The Federal government had no
voice in its management or share in its
maintenance. Probably the system now
existing is better. State Legislatures
might be reluctant to provide the funds
necessary to guarantee efficiency. In
fact, even with the appropriations by
Congress, some off the States are woeful-
ly delinquent. But our military friends
should not be exorbitant in their de-
mands. They shouldn’t let the gold
braid on their gorgeous uniforms turn
their heads. The head of the regular
army declares that even the Federal gov-
ernment has no use for the big guns used
in Europe.
——Mr. BRYAN admits that a man may
tionist, which is a good deal of a conces-
sion upon his part. As a rule, anybody
must think as Mr. BRYAN thinks in or-
der to maintain a place in his party and
he wants to be the judge himself.
Co-Operative Land Banks.
There will be two pieces of legislation
introduced during the coming session of
the General Assembly which will deserve
careful and probably favorable considera-
tion, One of these will be entitled “An
Act to Create Co-operative Banks for
Personal Credits” and the other “An Act
to Create Co-operative Land Banks for
Realty Credits.” Both of these measures
come from the same source. The author
of them is Mr. HERBERT MYRICK, presi-
dent of the ORANGE JUDD company, pub-
lishers of agricultural papers and litera-
ture. The Co-operative Finance League
has been organized to present the meas-
ures to the several State Legislatures.
These bills are intended to serve the
purpose of the legislation referred to by
President WILSON in his recent message
to Congress under the head of Farm
Credit banks. The first is for the bene-
fit of persons not owners of real estate
who desire to save with the view of ac-
quiring property. The other is intended
to supply farmers with a way of procur-
ing needed additional capital to finance
their operations or make improvements
to their properties. Both are hedged
about with conditions which would make
customers and share holders equally se-
cure and the institutions themselves in-
struments of public good.
Of course there is always hazard in
control of other people’s money. It has
been said that no bank which is honestly
and intelligently managed can fail and
presumably these co-operative institu-
tions would be put under the control of
honest and capable men. Nevertheless,
great care should be exercised in consid-
ering such legislation. We have a rea-
sonably good banking system in Pennsyl-
vania now and facilities for saving are af-
forded to the thrifty in nearly all commu-
nities. But farmers are at ‘a’ disadvant-
age compared with commercial men and
manufacturers which is not altogether
just.
Pennsylvania ought to be equipped witha
stuffin’ ” out of any government on.
earth. In an interview published in an
‘esteemed Philadelphia contemporary, the |
other day, Colonel WEIDERSHEIM said the |
“I am almost in- |
clined to believe,” he added, “that thirty
batteries would not be too many.” The |
be a Democrat without being a Prohibi- |
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legislation which gives a group of men
STATE
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Then with stiffened hands unbarring
Behold, on the storm-swept threshold
Appleton, Wis.
| Loretta, the wood-cutter’s widow, dwelt, old and very poor,
: In a hut on the edge of the forest, beyond the desolate moor,
And while through the lighted village the voice of gladness rang,
And merrily parents and children the Christmas carols sang,
She cowered at her blackened hearthstone and heard the keen winds blow,
And, beating at crack and crevice, the onset of the snow.
On a sudden a sound of knocking came faintly to her ear.
“God pity,” she said, “the stranger, whoever has wandered here!”
In her feeble arms she raised him and, speechless with amaze,
The last of her sheaf of fagots she threw on the dying blaze.
From his hair she brushed the snowflakes, she chafed his hands so sweet,
In the cloak from her own thin shoulders she wrapped his small, bare feet,
And a barleycrust from her cupboard empty of all beside, :
She crumbed at his lips, soft smiling to see him satisfied.
But e’en as she held him closer, intent on his infant charms,
A dimness fell on her vision, and he faded from her arms!
All trembling she reached the doorway, and lo, the storm was done!
And the moon and the stars in splendor from the bending heaven shone.
She peered through the thronging shadows—no gentle guest was there,
But a new and wonderful fragrance thrilled all the pulsing air,
And the track of a child wound whitely amid the circling snows,
And in every tiny footprint blossomed a crimson rose!
“ "Twas the Christ Child! sobbed Loretta, and sank upon her knee,
Up the ruddy throat of the chimney the fire roared merrily,
Showing the fresh-cut fagots piled high on the earthen floor,
With’ steaming loaves in the larder, a sweet and plenteous store!
So he, says the ancient legend, who, giving his all, has fed
One needier vet and weaker, has cherished his Lord instead,
While doubled into his bosom the measures of blessing flow,
And out of the heart of winter the Christmas roses blow.
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BEIL.LLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 18, 1914. |
ou The Liégend of the Christmas Roses.
the door to the tempest wild,
she saw a little child!
By Mary A. P. Stansbury.
Independence of the Philippines. |
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No feature of President WILSON’S mes- |
sage is more deserving of prompt and
favorable consideration by Congress than
that which urges completion of the pend-
ing legislation providing for the “ulti-
mate independence of the Philippines.”
Governments are all and always under
suspicion. When the government of the
United States declared that its purpose
in assuming control of the Philippine
Islands was temporary control, the world
was clearly credulous. The lust for con-
quest and the’ desire for expansion of
territory which is common to most peo-
ple led to the belief that the promise was
a subterfuge and would be violated. The
policy of “benevolent assimilation” gave
color to this impression.
A Republican government can have no
subjects. A free people must be equal
before the law. The relations which
have been maintained between the peo-
ple ‘of the United States and the Filli-
pinos since the end of the Spanish war
have not fulfilled these conditions. Those
people are as much subjects of our gov-
ernment as the people of India are sub-
jects of King GEORGE. Possibly they are
not fit for self-government but who
knows? They have not been a self-gov-
erning people but how did we acquire
the right to measure their intellectual
capacity without putting them to the test?
The aim of the legislation in question is
to advance them as far as their capacity
will justify. !
The release of the Fillipinos from the
alien sovereignty under which they have
been living for more than fifteen years
will be the consummation of a pledge as
rare as it will be beneficent. It will set
| the government of the United States on
| a higher plane than has ever been occu-
! pied by any people. From the beginning
| of his administration WOODROW WILSON
| has been moving in that direction. In
| so far as it seemed expedient the natives
' have been entrusted with governmental
| functions and they have met the highest
| expectations. Therefore it is the duty of
i Congress to hasten the completion of the
‘work begun so auspiciously. It will
| prove the crowning glory of a splendid |
| administration. . |
——General CROZIER, of the army, also
imagines that we have some war defen-
| sive armament worth. speaking about
| but then General CROZIER is only a train-
| ed soldier and educated gentleman. To
| thoroughly understand the question it is
| necessary to be a Massachusetts politi-
' cian. ?
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——After a dangerous illness of sev-
eral days the Kaiser is again preparing
to go upon the firing line. You couldn’t
keep the Kaiser off the firing line with a
trip hammer.
——Representative GARDNER, of Mass-
achusetts, got a hint from the Commit-
tee on Rules of the House which ought
to do him good, but it won’t. Nothing
but death will cure GARDNER.
——Anyhow there will be fewer chips
on shoulders after the war ends but un-
fortunately, in the same ratio, there will
be fewer shoulders to carry chips.
' fied before the House committee on Na-
. President WILSON had previously deliv-
ER and ScOTT are men of actual war
Real Warriors Confident.
The jingoes in Congress received a
sharp and just rebuke when Admiral
FLETCHER, of the Navy, and General
Scott, Chief of Staff of the Army, testi-
val and Military Affairs upon the ques-
tion of “preparedness,” the other day.
ered a “solar plexus blow” upon their ab-
surd pretentions, but the President is not
only a civilian but a pacificist and men
of his type make little impression upon
the minds of war maniacs. But FLETCH-
with ability and experience to justify
their opinions and lend credence to their
views. What they say will challenge
‘public attention.
Admiral FLETCHER declared in his tes-
timony that the navy of England is the
only navy in the world superior to that
of the United States. “I think,” he’ add-
ed, “that our more powerful fleet could
keep control of the seas as against Ja-
pan.” He expressed, moreover, the high-
est appreciation of thé efficiency of our
warships and navy in general and refused
to give the jingoes the least encourage
ment. General SCOTT is equally opti-
mistic and confident of the adequacy of
our defensive forces. “The conditions
of the national defence are constantly
improving,” and he laid before the com-
mittee a list of our armament and am-
munition to prove his estimate.
Representative GARDNER and his fath-
er-in-law, Senator LODGE, who are lead-
ing the senseless agitation in Congress,
got little comfort from these real sol- |
diers and sailors. They favor the policy
of President WILSON in quietly improv-
ing conditions and strengthening our re-
sources along defensive lines, but are not
panic stricken or willing to sacrifice the
material interests of the country in order
to make capital for partisan purposes.
FLETCHER and ScorTT fight on, the firing
lines and with instruments of war, while
the jingoes fight with their jaws in the
security of their walls. The intelligence
of the country will discriminate between
them beyond question.
——Tyrone has a twenty-four hour
rule for the cleaning of pavements after
a snow fall. And it does not mean just
the sweeping or shoveling off of the
loose snow, but all packed snow and ice
must be removed. If it is not the street
cleaning department is put to work on
the morning of the second day and all
pavements cleaned at the cost.of the
property resident. And the cost is just
about douple what the resident could
have gotten the work done for. If such
an order were in vogue in Bellefonte a
few weeks it might result in property
holders giving more care to cleaning
their pavements, and would certainly
avert the danger of pedestrians getting
a neck, leg or arm broken in a fall.
——Congress is setting an example of
industry and assiduity that ought to
work a decrease in the cost of living.
——Italy will probably get into the
war in order to give Turkey a swipe, if
no better reason can be discovered.
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From the Altoona Times.
Unless there is disappointment in the
final accounting for November, our trade
balance at the end of the eleven months
of this calendar year was not far from
$200,000,000.
December now promises to close up
the year with another $100,000,000, mak-
ing a total of $300,000,000.
The war has brought this sudden and
swift rise after the persistent balances
against us for several months preceding
the war.
When the war broke out it was esti-
mated that our indebtedness abroad on
current accounts was about that very
sum, $300,000,000.
The indicated trade balance for 1914,
therefore, not to mention the more than
$160,000,000 of gold which we shipped
abroad in the first ten months of the
year, would about wipe clean that slate
of foreign current debits agains us,
Now must come, as long as the war
continues, the piling up of foreign trade
credits. x
With the international trade balance
tending at this moment to range in our
favor at the rate of $100,000,000 a month,
with cotton at last beginning to go across
the seas in great volume, with millions of
tons of goods ordered weeks ago. but
only now coming out of the mills and
factories for shipment, with the needs of
all the rest of the world increasing as
supplies previously stored away are .eat-
en up and worn out—with all this, it is
no wild dream to picture in the very
near future trade balances in our favor
of $200,000,000 a month.
These are stupendous figures. But
they are cold facts.
When we have anything like that, Eu-
rope, compelled to sell us back its Amer-
ican securities to pay for its imperative
purchases of our products, can send over
our stocks and bonds by the bale, and
we shall be able to take them without
even turning a hair. .
Uncle Sam is to be no idle looker-on
at the great conflict. Neutrality may re-
quire a stiffer backbone and sterner
courage than war. And it may require
stricter activity, too. ’
Signs of the Times.
From the Erie Dispatch.
There never was so much to think
about and talk about as now. Of course
we are doing our Christmas shopping
early, some of us are broke already. We
have read the President’s message, no,
address, and we think he is all right ex-
cept where he is in error. We note that
the ladies’ skirts are no longer to ‘be
.tight and one line of vision will be cut
off and the street car companies will not
have to go to the expense of lowering
their steps—but they are going to come
higher, we mean the skirts, though even
that can be interpreted in two ways. And
Chicago—well Chicago is going to adopt
Eastern time. It’s bad enough for Erie
and Pittsburg to have two kinds of time.
Uncle Sam is going into the shipping
business and with his Panama railroad
will soon be all kinds of a-plutocrat. We
are beginning to find some good old-
fashioned American news on the front
page mornings and we don’t really see
that it is anybody’s business if Champ
Clark did get that way, he knows what
is good for a cold as well as the rest of
us. We still favor finding out the physical
valuation of the railroads, even if it does
take $50,000,000 and a hundred years or
so to do it. As for Congress this session
don’t interest us in the least. We want
the one that’s coming with Uncle Joe and
Nick Longworth and our own Mike
Liebel, Jr. But the most important news
is the revelation of Giolitti. Don’t know
who Giolitti is? Well he is not the new
President of Mexico, he is the late pre-
mier of Italy and he knows what started
the war. Locally we are glad the Majestic
is going to have a stock company to give.
speaking plays that we can alternate
with the movies and if you don’t shovel
the snow from your sidewalk we will
cross over on the other side of the street.
Oh there’s plenty to think about these
merry, happy, sneezing days. Keep your
window open at night, your heart pen
during the day and thank your stars you
live in the good old United States of
America. :
One Justification for Law.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The detestable stamp tax has justified
itself after all. It has rendered and will
propably continue to render areal serv-
ice as long as it continues in existence.
use of the stamp tax it is now nec-
essary to disclose the figures involved in
all real estate deals. Deeds will no
longer read “one dollar and other 'valua-
ble considerations” in listing the price
paid.
To undertake to guess how much
property has escaped taxation simply be-
cause purchase prices have not been list-
ed in deeds would be a perilous under-
taking. Of course, it is quite likely that
some way will be found to evade the
stamp law. But there will be some risks
involved in that sort of business.
Taxes are supposed to be assessed on
real values. If sales cannot be taken as
an indication of values there are few
guide posts to steer the assessor on his
way. Since the public has a real inter-
est in the subject of taxation the public
has a real interest in the prices quoted
in deeds. Real estate transactions are
not purely private transactions that con-
cern a few people. The public has a
right to know what a certain piece of
land sells for in order that the public
may be certain that the assessor is on
the job. When the stamp tax disappears
there should be state legislation compell-
ing all those who transfer property to
list the consideration in the deed. Such
a law would put a crimp in the practices
of many a tax dodger. ; ba
—For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office. *
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE,
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~The family baby overturned a lamp inthe
residence of W. H. Bowden, Johnstown, and the
| resultant fire damaged the premises to the value
| of $450,
i —During the Sunday evening services in Johns-
! town’s Presbyterian church two overcoats were
! stolen from the vestibule, one a new one that
| was purchased only last week,
Philipsburg’s recent church parade, participat-
red in by the Presbyterian, Methodist, United
| Brethren, Baptist and Lutheran congregations,
i numbered about 1,600 persons.
i —Two students of Dr. Connor's Dickinson
{ Seminary, at Williamsport, saw snow last week
| for the first time, and regarded it as a wonderful
| spectacle. They are from Central America.
—Mrs. A. T. Parker, the oldest woman in Jer-
sey Shore, and believed to be the oldest inhabit-
ant of Lycoming county, celebrated the 96th an-
niversary of her birth on Friday of last week.
—Robert, the 13 months-old son of Harry Grein-
er, of Williamsport, managed to find some
strychnine pills in the family cupboard the other
day and is dead as a consequence of eating them.
—The snow and wind storm which passed over
Lycoming county last week was the most costly
in Nippenose valley in thirty years. Hardly a
section of the valley escaped without some
damage.
* —A feminine “fortune teller” was arrested in
the mayor, who left her go until the next day,
hen she put up $10 as security. Next day she
appeared and was fined $50 and costs.
—Marion Sheppard, a 15-year-old student of
the Greensburg High school is under arrest.on
the charge of attempting to destroy the school
building by fire. He admits his guilt and says
he did it because he was tired of going to
school.
—Mrs. Harriet Leeper, the oldest resident, is
dead at Burnham at the age of 99 years, afteran
illness of two weeks. She retained her mental
faculties and could read without glasses until the
last and is survived by two sons, fifteen grand-
children and thirty great-grandchildren.
—James J. Lemon, of Arnold, Westmoreland
county, was awarded damages in the sum of
$11,500 in his suit against the People’s National
Gas company. By an explosion of gas in
Lemon’s home his wife was fatally injured and
himself and two small children badly hurt.
—Franklin Koontz, former tax collector of
Quemahoning township, Somerset county, who
disappeared nearly two years ago, leaving a
shortage of about $6,000 in his accounts, has re-
turned home and is to be given a chance by his
bondsmen to refund the amount they paid for
him.
—They have a man named Frank Bernard in
the Westmoreland county jail charged with send:
ing threatening letters to a Greensburg bank,
declaring he would blow it up unless he was
given $5,000. He is believed to be the man who
threatened to blow up the jail unless given a
similar sum.
—A man who plead guilty to selling liquor
county, before whom the transgressor from
Earnest appeared, that he had paid various per-
sons monthly sums for which they guaranteed
that he would not be prosecuted, Judge Telford
is with-holding the names for the present.
—The grand jury of Cambria county last week
recommended the employment of a practical
farmer to manage the farm connected with the
county poor house, believing that the steward
has plenty to do in attending to the inmates. It
also recommended the employment of the in-
mates of the county jail on the farm so far as the
law will allow.
—The Westmoreland county man who was re-
leased from jail the other day to care for his six
children, his wife having died of exposure and
incessant toil, is now back in jail, having pro-
ceeded to get drunk again at the first opportu-
nity. The people who are willing to furnish
liquor to such a man should be compelled to sup-
port the children.
—In response to a “supposed telephone mes-
sage from the residence of J. L. Frick, in Irwin,
S. C. Braner, a traveling diamond salesman,
started out with about $10,000 worth of diamonds
in his possession. He was held up by two men
who carried off ‘the diamonds and his money.
No message had been sent from the Frick house.
The robbers got away.
—A fairly well dressed young man entered a
Johnstown 5 and 10-cent store the other night,
jauntily announced to a clerk who stood near
by that he was the “new assistant manager,”
looked over some goods and finally went to a
cash tegister, opened it and extracted the con-
tents, walking out before the stunned employees
could make a move to stop or arrest him.
—Lucas Keltz, a prominent citizen of Ligonier,
left his home last Monday a week, intending to
visit a stone quarry operated by him near Johns-
town. He carried a large sum of money with
him, planning to pay the employees of the quar-
ry. Nothing more was heard from or about him
until Monday of the present week, when word
reached Ligonier that his dead body was found
in Washington.
—Former prothonotary and clerk of the courts
Ned F. Church, of Miffinburg, Pa., was accident-
ally shot to death by Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin
at hi§ boarding house on Washington avenue,
Scranton, on Sunday. Church was unpacking a
suit case and handed the woman a revolver say-
ing: “Shoot yourself while your happy” when
the gun went off accidentally in her hands. The
police are investigating. *
—A strange series of accidents occurred while
butchering one hog on the farm of James P.
Ardoe, in Point township, Northumberland coun.
ty last Friday. Miss Bertha Eyster’s finger was
caught in a sausage grinder and cut off. Hardly
had she been taken to a doctor, when William
Hower stumbled over the head of the hog and
suffered a broken leg. He was taken to the Mary
M. Packer hospital at Sunbury. A few minutes
later John Byrem got a thumb in the same ma-
chine, where the young woman lost a finger, and
it, too, was cut off.
—Harry Wayne, of Huntingdon, was awarded
$2,000 damages in court on Tuesday because Ww.
H. Nycum, of Saltillo, had had him arrested
on a theft charge several months ago. WWayne
was the chief witness in his own behalf and the
suit was not contested by the defendant. Wayne,
a barber, told how he had found a pocketbook
containing $100, which he had returned to Nycum,
the owner. Later when Nycum came to Hunt-
ingdon and lost his pocketbook a second time he
had Wayne arrested, charging him with steal-
ing the money from his coat while in the Wayne
barber shop. Wayne was then taken before
Justice of the Peace Isenberg, who discharged
him. Wayne then brought suit for damages.
—A sheer fall of 36 feet in the new shaft of the
resulted in serious injuries to Cyrus Hawkins on
Friday. He is suffering with a dislocation of a
‘shoulder, a fracture of the nose, many bruises
and abrasions and possible internal injuries. The
new shaft, which is 60 feet in depth, is being
lined with concrete and the work has proceeded
from the ground up about 40 feet. The shaft
connects with No 3 mine at Rossiter. Hawkins
had made his way underground to the shaft and
started up. When he had climbed about 36 feet
he slipped and tumbled to the bottom. He was
taken on a trip to Rossiter and despite his inju-
ries he walked to the doctor’s office. Just how
badly he is injured cannot be determined for
several days. 8 y <
Johnstown the other evening and’ taken before °
Clearfield Bituminous Coal corporation at Juneau |
without license told Judge Telford, of Indiana °