BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—So far as groundhogs* residing in this
vicinity are concerned they certainly had
no chance to see their shadows on Tues-
day.
—European fiction-writers seem to
have taken charge of the correspendence
. bureau and to be putting in extra time
on the job.
—The physician who declares that it is
possible for a man to hold his breath for
two minutes, evidently has no personal
- acquaintance with Secretary BRYAN.
—That New York charity organization
that spent $1432.92 in salaries and only
$90.00 in relief work last year, is evident-
ly a believer in the doctrine that charity
begins at home.
—If things keep going on as they have
been, a lot of fellows now in the trench-
es throughout the European war zone
won't be bothering about the condition
they are in when the spring fighting be-
gins.
—*“A Long Way to Tipperary” was
written by HARRY WILLIAMS, a resident
of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1912. Knowing
this there doesn’t appear to be a very
‘flagrant violation of neutralty in any
American’s singing the song.
—From the result of that shooting
just across the border in Mexico, a few
days ago, we should judge that General
VILLA was neither seriously injured nor
suffering from his wound. In fact, re-
ports tell us he was only about “half
shot.”
—It is now reported that Mr. PALMER
will refuse to be a candidate for re-elec-
tion to Congress nor will he accept
an appointment by President WILSON.
The latter statement’ only shows how
little the fellow who started the re-
port knew the individual he was talking
about or cared whether he told the truth
or not.
—The notice of the Postoffice Depart-
ment to post masters all over the coun-
try to reduce expenses wherever possi-
ble without impairing the efficiency of
the service is rather interesting. If any
compliance at all is possible it is equiva-
lent to an admission that there has been
waste and mismanagement in the offices
effected.
—Happy sounds are these that we are
beginning to hear favoring the abandon-
ment of so many commissions in our
government. The WATCHMAN has al-
ways believed that we send Congressmen
to Washington and Members to Harris-
burg. for, the purpose. of making. laws,
but in recent years it seems to have been
the fad for them to take their seats,
draw their salaries, then turn the work
over to some commission or other. We
don’t recall any commission excepting
the one that was appointed to codify the
school laws of the State, that has done
more than spend barrels of the people's
money and are still of the opinion that
we ought to do away either with Legis-
latures and Congresses or Commissions.
—While Dr. ORR’S Monday night talk
in the armory on “Faith” was so simple
and so splendidly illustrated that it
ought to have been understood by all,
some of his side trips into the psycholo-
gy of religion must certainly have star-
tled a few of his congregation. “Experi-
mental religion” is as real to some as it
seems impossible to others. Rarely do
we find two people with the same per-
spective and the same temperament and
while there can’t be anything else than
unanimity of thought as to the funda-
mentals of christianity there will always
be a difference in the manner in which
people give expression to their concep-
tion of them. After all religion in itself
is merely the outward form a christian
employs to express what he feels, there-
for it seems to us perfectly natural that
it should vary in exact accordance with
the characteristics of the individual
christian.
—We said repeatedly during the cam-
paign last fall that we couldn’t under-
stand what Mr. HARRY Scott, of Phil-
ipsburg, warted to go to Harrisburg as a
Legislator for. We tried our best, of
course, to save him from himself, but the
people wouldn’t have it our way and
now he is the Honorable gentleman who
represents us in the General Assembly.
With the hope that Mr. Scorr will do
some work that will really merit the
handle we will take pleasure in attach-
ing to his name ever after this, the
WATCHMAN makes the suggestion that
he become the originator of a propaganda
among his fellow Members to build noth-
ing but brick roads in Pennsylvania. Be-
lieving that in the last analysis brick
will be found to be most durable, cheap-
est and most satisfactory some one
ought to start the agitation and keep it
up and years hence it may be a great
honor to be referred to as the father of
brick highways in Pennsylvania. Ma-
cadam roads vary in cost from $8,000.00
to $12,000.00 per mile. Brick varies
from $12,000.00 to $16,000.00. But it costs
$1000.00 per mile per year to properly
keep up a macadam road whereas the
cost of upkeep of a brick road is only
$75 per mile per year. Knowing these
facts anyone can see which would be
cheapest in the long run, aside from the
inestimable comfort of having freedom
from dust. Think the matter over, Mr.
ScorT, for here is a chance for you to
do something worth while and enduring.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 60.
BELLE
FONTE. PA. FEBRUARY 5, 1915.
President Wilson's Veto.
In vetoing the Immigration bill Presi- i President WILSON delivered an address |
dent WILSON followed the example set by
President CLEVELAND and concurred in
by President TAFT. The literacy test
was the reason given in each case. It is
obnoxious to the spirit of our institutions
and the traditions of our government. It
is un-American and un-Democratic. If it
had been adopted in the beginning thous-
ands of excellent citizens. would have
been denied the right of asylum and the
development of the country would have
been retarded. It is a vicious growth
from the seeds of prejudice and bigotry
and has never prospered and will never
prosper in a soil of liberty and independ-
ence. Let us hope that it is now stifled
forever.
The purpose of our naturalization laws
is to keep out of our population the
criminals, paupers and infected people of
foreign lands. The literacy test doesn’t
achieve or even make for that result.
The criminals who seek entrance are
not, as a rule, illiterates. The anarchists
who come to plant the poison of their
evil purposes are well equipped educa-
tionally. The indigents who apply for
admittance are sometimes well read and
well informed. Both of these objection-
able elements could meet the literacy
test easily. But industrious, thrifty and
well disposed men and women who are
seeking opportunities to live well and
lead just lives would be rejected because
the conditions they left denied them edu-
cational facilities.
The measure which has been vetoed
would not improve the quality of immi-
grants. It would simply decrease the
quantity. The anarchists, forgers and
murderers would have no trouble in
answering the questions which would be
put to them. But the healthy and hope-
ful young men who came from the rural
regions of the old world where there are
no public schools would be deported and
the country would be the greater loser.
Some of the children of illiterate immi-
grants have been among the best and
most useful citizens of this country and
is not only undesirable but actually
harmful. The President will be com-
mended for his act.
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legislation which would exclude that type
——The encouraging news comes from
Washington that the leaders in Congress
favor economy and think of cutting ap-
propriations “to the bone.”
only wise way to deal with revenue defi-
cits and we hope that the “pork barrel”
will be smashed.
Our-Public Charities.
The report of the Board of Public Rnon-partizan provision in the election
Charities, submitted to the Legislature 1aws, so far as it relates to judges, is an
on Monday evening, is an unusually in-
teresting document. It shows the expen-
ditures of the State for charitable purpose
for a period of sixty-five years and the
rapid increase in recent years is astonish-
ing. For example in 1850 the total was
$124,934 while the appropriations of the
last Legislature reached the enormous
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aggregate of $12,728,766. In the early
period covered by the report, however, |
the increase was comparatively trifling.
In the 90's the high pressure was put on
when political exigencies required large
campaign contributions. Then hospitals
and other charitable institutions were
created for trading purposes. !
But the merit of the report centres in
the recommendations for future opera-
tions. The habit which has grown com-
mon of appropriating large sums for im-
provements in institutions not under
State control is condemned and a more
rigid account and closer inspection of the
semi-public institutions is suggested.
That will not impair the efficiency of
either for theservice they are expected
to perform butit will work a considerable
saving to the people of the State. Money
appropriated by t!.e Legislature to private
institutions operated for profit is misused,
however honestly it may be disbursed.
The people should only be asked to pay
for operating expenses of State institu-
tions.
Commissioners are not inclined to
adopt a cheese-pairing policy, either.
They wisely recommend liberal appropri-
ations to charitable work and indicate a
purpose to maintain the public institu-
tions at a high standard of efficiency.
This will also meet with popular appro-
bation. Pennsylvania is rich in resources
and her people are generous in mind.
The unfortunates like the poor, “we have
always with us,” and suffering must be
‘except how to compiain. Of course it
' made at the instance of reformers, have
' vert the electoral conditions to their own
alleviated. Therefore the people will re-
joice that there is not likely to be any
curtailment of the volume of charity, .
though happily there is a prospect of im-
provement in the method of dispensing
it. No deserving institution will suffer.
———Whether the ground hog saw his
shadow or not on Tuesday is a matter of
little concern to the fellow with a fairly
full coal bin.
'and men of understanding instead of
“given $250,000,000 tc philanthropy, as his
| will be a change.
Hopeful Indications of a Change.
to the American Electric Railway Associa-
tion, in session at Washington, last week,
in which he expressed a truth that he
might himself ponder, if his purposes
with respect to Pennsylvania patronage
have been accurately stated in the public
prints. “I have always maintained,” he
declared, “that the only way in which
men could understand one another was
by meeting one another. If I believed all
I read in the newspapers, I would not
understand anybody. I have met many
men whose horns dropped away the mo-
ment I was permitted to examine their
character.” The horns had been devel-
oped by misrepresentation and malice.
In some way and at some time Presi-
dent WILSON fell under the influence of
a group of selfish political mercenaries of
this State, who poisoned his mind in re-
lation to the faithful Democrats who had
borne the burden of the party organiza-
tion during its long period of adversity.
These party traitors had opposed the
candidates of the party in every cam-
paign in which they were not represent:
ed on the ticket and gave it scant and in-
sincere support even when one of them
had a nomination. But when President
WILSON was inaugurated they got hisear
and maliciously traduced and deliberate-
ly slandered the very men who had put
them in place. And President WILSON,
not knowing the facts, accepted their
statements and fed their selfish ambi-
tions. po
If President WILSON ‘understood the
men who contributed their time, energy
and money to the maintenance of the
Democratic party and the preservation of
its principles during the time it was in a
hopeless minority and who unselfishly
relinquished to others their claims to
party favor when their industry and fi-
delity worked out a victory, now and
then, the horns which malignant traduc-
ers have developed in his imagination
would drop out of his mind and the trad-
ers and traitors would be scourged from
his confidence. We sincerely hope that his
appropriate fgilive of Speseh will be ap.
plied to the party conditions in this State
and feel certain that in that event there
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——BILLY SUNDAY is recruiting the
army of prohibition in Philadelphia with
startling rapidity but it’s a long, long
way to theelection and results are un-
certain until the official count is com-
pleted.
Proposed Ballot Law Change.
It is universally admitted that the
absolute failure. It has not eliminated
politics from the choice of judicial offi-
cers and has vastly decreased the oppor-
tunity of the voter to make wise selec-
tion of candidates at the ultimate test.
In the selection of municipal officials in
cities of the third class, it is little, if any,
better. The officials are chosen on po-
litical lines and being fewer in number
than councilmen under the old plan,
each of them is capable of doing greater
harm, and as a rule, according to the
newspapers of cities of that class, he ex-
hausts the possibilities in that direction.
The truth of the matter is that our
election laws have deteriorated in the ra-
tio that so-called reformers have been al-
lowed to create them. The BAKER bal-
lot law was the product of an agitation
begun by reformers who knew nothing
proved a failure and every change which
has since been made, and all have been
made things worse. The politicians per-
use and in every case are able to make
the restraints in voting cloaks for fraud.
If intelligent men, with some understand-
ing of politics would draft a ballot law
there might be some hope of getting
honest elections.
But the deficiencies in the existing
laws do not justify the drastic measures
which the Republican machine is said to
have in contemplation now. Such atro-
cious political deals as took DRAPER
‘LEWIS off the Washington party ticket
and substituted the candidate of another
party, and one who couldn’t possibly
have been nominated by the Waskington
party, ought to be prevented. But a law
making independent parties impossible
and independent candidates out of the
question would work harm instead of
good. The ballot laws are bad, but
changes must be made with the view of
improvement rather than impairment
professed reformers must do the work.
——Possibly Mr. ROCKERFELLER has
son declares, but it is a safe bet that he
kept enough to live comfortably the rest
of his life.
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Concerning the Constitution. gs
The expense of a constitutional conven-
tion is not a valid reason against it. If a
new organic law is needed the million
dollars, estimated as the probable cost,
should not stand in the way. Amend-
ments to the present constitution have
cost nearly that much in the last six
years and are likely to cost that much
more in the next half dozen years, if it is
allowed to stand. The present constitu-
tion was adopted in 1874. It served its
purpose admirably for several years
though the Legislature failed to provide
for the enforcement of many of its most
important provisions. But the numerous
amendments proposed within the past
few years indicate that it has outlived its
usefulness.
There is a good deal of hazard, how-
ever, in undertaking a framing up of a!
new constitution.. For the past several |
years the public mind has been in a sort |
of frenzy and some of the follies which
demagogy has brought forward would be
practically certain to insinuate themselves |
into any fundamental legislation which
might be framed at this time. The initia-
tive and referendum, the recall and other.
populist vagaries might be provided for
in a constitution prepared and adopted at
this time, whereas it is practically certain
that within a few years all these caprices
will haye passed out of the popular mind.
For'that reason it might be as well to
wait awhile. Public sentiment will be in
a better frame later. ;
The reasons given by the author of the
pending bill for wanting a new constitu-
tion will hardly excite enthusiasm, how-
ever. Mr. RONEY gives as the principal
reason his desire for "the establishment
of a State wide Common Pleas court.”
Unless such an arrangement would cur- |
tail the number of Judges we can see no
merit init. A “graded system of taxa-
tion” might be of doubtful utility, though
the “removal of restrictions that now
hamper labor legislation,’”” and “home
rule for cities and incorporated boroughs,”
are desirable and would be worth the
a convention. There is also
election laws and need for the better
regulation of State charity appropriations.
—*“Ezekiel, let that woodchuck go!”
Let him scamper around to his heart's
content. Even if he roamed around all
day Tuesday he failed to see his shadow,
so was not frightened enough to go back
into his hole and pull it in after him.
And now we'll see if there is any truth
in this old groundhog saw. Everybody
can remember that the hog saw his shad-
ow last year and we certainly had six
weeks of hard winter afterwards. So far
we have had nothing but a hard winter
since Thanksgiving day, even last Friday
and Saturday mornings being below zero.
But now the groundhog prophs prognos-
ticate a breakup and naturally milder
weather and an early Spring and that at
least is comforting. Easter this year
comes on April 4th, and that also pre-
sages an early Spring, so be an optimist
and look for better weather, more work
and better times in every way.
—=We have heard the name of J.
LINN HARRIS, of Bellefonte, mentioned
among the possibilities for appointment
to Commissioner of Forestry under the
BRUMBAUGH administration. While we
do not know that Mr. HARRIS is even in
a receptive mood, so far as the accept-
ance of such a post is concerned, we do
know that should Governor BRUMBAUGH
prevail upon him to take the head of the
department he will secure to the service
aman who will render a splendid ac-
count of his stewardship. Practically
all of his life Mr. HARRIS has been active
in the luinber business and during the
past four years most earnestly interested
in the work of forest conservation, so
that he would bring to the office a de-
gree of intelligent ‘administration most
desirable.
—Judging from. the names we hear
mentioned as possibilities for Republi-
can candidates for county office we are
led to believe that the opposition is lay-
ing plans for a wonderfully aggressive
fight in Centre county next fall. Some
one with an eye to workers, locality and
money seems to be making bullets pret-
ty fast, but of course there is always the
question as to whether the rank and file
will shoot them.
——In another month RICHARD PEAR-
SON HoBsoN will be a private citizen and
meantime every body else has something
to look forward to gratefully.
——The war has cost nearly six bil-
lion dollars already, without counting the
incidental expense of lost commerce and
high living.
——Everybody in authority in the war
zone continues to deny responsibility for
“have been the case had he
The Issue of “Hallism.”
From the Lock Haven Express.
Already the reorganizer Democrats
have resurrected their old ghost from
the closet and are putting in shape
celestial choir for a grand rendition of
the old scare chorus, “Hallism.” The
people of this county are perfectly famil-
iar with the results of the recentelection,
and at the same time they know that the
Hudge from the extreme opposite end of
the district” took no part, directly or in-
directly, in the contest in this county.
i There was no bi-partisan combination
between Democats and Republicans, but
there wasa mighty revolt within the
Democratic party itself. When the
smoke of battle cleared away the confi-
dent reorganizers were found to be ly-
ing on the flat of their backs, kicking up
in the air like a lot of roaches.
‘What else could be expected to hap-
pen a self-appointed leadership that set
up a little oligarchy of its own prior to
: the primary election, and decreed who
should be permitted to run and wiio
should be boycotted and side-tracked for
the nomination for local or district of-
fices? This arbitrary action on the part
of the Palmer and McCormick beneficia-
‘ries naturally resulted in a wave of in
dignation that took on practical and con-
‘ crete form at the polls in November.
Having nominated their slate by the
help of automobiles, a slush fund and
other despicable (but at the same time
notorious methods in some of the rural
districts) the new Board of Governors of
the Clinton Democracy began to harp on
the old string “Hallism,” notwithstand-
ing the fact that a few years ago, when
the Hall star was more in the ascendan-
cy, you could not separate them from
hanging on to the coattails of the presi-
dent judge with a dynamite bomb. Judge
Hall, however, did not come into the
county, the old line Democrats, who
were denounced as rank bipartisans, held
their peace, but when election day came
they quietly went to the polls and exer-
cised the right of franchise as granted
them by the Constitution.
Veto of Immigration Bill,
From the Altoona Times.
No matter what action he might take on
the immigration bill, with its much-dis-
cussed literacy test, President Wilson
was doomed to be damned. Now that
‘he has vetoed the measure, following the
example and adopting the reasoning of
former Presidents Cleveland and Taft, he
{is not more severely censured than would
bill. Sentiment is squarely divided, and
there could be no compromise when the
difference between advocates and oppon-
ents of the literacy test is irreconcilable.
As President Wilson stated in his veto
message, the effectuating of the drastic
bill with its restricting features would
have completely changed the policy of
the nation toward immigration. He does
not believe that a majority of the people
of the United States seek or are ready for
this change. And we believe that the
President has accurately gauged public
sentiment. : ;
While as a general proposition we be-
lieve that the literate immigrant is more
desirable than the illiterate stra ‘ger at
our gates, we are not satisfied that edu.
cation is always an assurance of many
desirable citizens and leave in many edu-
cated undesirables. With public intelli-
gence in the United States none too high,
at the best, it comes with rather poor
grace to make demands upon the seeker
after an enlarged opportunity that would
bar many of our own people were they
to knock for admission.
If the literacy test had been in effect a
century ago, the ancestors of many of
those who are now demanding its enact-
ment would have been turned back when
they landed at our shore. Some of us
approach the subject of immigration as
though all our ancestors had always re-
sided in this country.
Mr. Hearst Approves the Veto.
From the New York American. ’
In his veto of the immigration bill
President Wilson has done and said pre-
cisely the right thing. It is deeds, not
words, that count, and in view of this
action” Mr. Wilson's earlier remarks
about “the worthless immigrants who
come to our shores” can be forgotten.
Indeed if his present position should be
due to a desire to counteract the effect
of these earlier utterances, that should
not in the slightest degree detract from
his credit. It is, perhaps, more to his
credit that he changed his mind in the
right direction. It comes with the bet-
ter grace and the more convincing effect
from a President who, because of his
own academic cultivation, might have
been expected to take the side upon
which so many of the collegians have
ranged themselves.
© German Atrocities Discredited.
From the New York World,
Information in possession of the State
Department in Washington shows that of
the thousands of Belgian refugees in
England, none are victims of German
atrocity. This confirms the results of
the World's own investigations. We
have run down report after report of
atrocities and have yet to find one that
stood the test of investigation. The
charges of fiendish mutilations commit-
ted by German soldiers seem to have as
little substantial foundation as the Ger-
man charges that Belgians were in the
habit of cutting out the eyes and cutting
off the ears and noses of German
Help! Murder! Police |
From the Columbia State,
As we understand the situation, this
is the first White House baby since
Theodore Roosevelt was there.
the war. Probably it just happened.
—Have your Job Work done here.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
by John McKenzie, a Johnstown desperado, is
| dead and McKenzie faces the death chair.
—Williamsport is just now suffering from an
epidemic of whooping cough, measles, chicken-
| pox and other minor contagious diseases.
—Mrs. Canno Hallo, residingat Ernest, Indiana
county, while ill wandered away from her home
one night last week and was frozen to death.
| She was aged 33 years. :
i —Cherry Tree is expecting a big boom in
business next spring. The mines are working
better time already and the iron company’s
orders are increasing.
—John Houser, a well-known lumberman, while
engaged in loading logs near Wallaceton, drop-
ped dead from heart trouble. He was aged 43
years and is survived by his wife and three small
children.
—The Blairsville enameled ware plant, which
has been closed for some time on account of
financial trouble, has been taken over by H. L.
{ Taylor, its largest stockholder, and will soon
their |
resume operations.
—An incendiary placed oiled waste in almost
every room of a vacant house in Patton, the
property of P. C. Stritmatter, and kindled sev-
eral fires. Yet the blaze was discovered and the
hou.e saved from destruction.
—It is said that engineers are about to go to
work on the proposed road between Johnstown
' and South Fork, the construction of which is
urged by the Johnstown Chamber of Commerce
and prominent residents of South Fork.
—At this late day one Balmos George, of Mount
Union, advertises that he lost the sum of $230 last
October. The lost money, covered with cloth,
was enclosed in an envelope bearing the address,
‘ “Harbison-Walker Refractories company.”
—By a contract closed between Thomas A
Edison and the Cambria Steel company, the
former has obtained the right to build a plant to
extract benzol from coke gas. Construction of
the plant, costing $250,000, has been started.
—A gas explosion at the residence of Mrs. Mary
Harter, in DuBois, resulted in the death by
suffocation of Miriam Catherine Harris, the
2-year-old grand-daughter of Mrs. Harter, and
the almost complete destruction of the house.
—Van Horn, the murderer of aged Mrs. Ful-
mer, of Wilhumsport, says his crime was the re-
sult of a sudden notion while he wasin Mrs. Ful-
mer’s house telephoning. He admits that he has
been a loafer all his life and accuses rum of un-
doing him.
—His mind unbalanced by a religious mania,
H. H. Woods, a B.& O. telegraph operator, lo-
cated at Harmony, Butler county. Pa., shot and
killed his wife, aged 35, and three daughters,
aged respectively 15, 6 and 2 years, and then kill-
ed himself.
—The Methodist church at Oriole was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning, entailing a loss
estimated at $2,500, of which $700 is covered by
insurance. The parsonage was on fire several
times, but was saved through the efforts of a
bucket brigade.
—The Rev. J. Max Lantz, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Curwensville, was re-
* | cently arrested charged with having killed a doe
during the hunting season. The offense was
committed in Centre county and the fine was
paid at Snow Shoe.
—Julian Crozier, formerly treasurer of the
Clearfield Textile plant, has been killed in the
fighting in France. He left Clearfield about six
months ago to join his regiment in the French
army and was struck and killed by a fragment of
a shell the day before Christmas.
—Fifteen residents of Kittanning have brought
Sous aggregating S130,000 against the Kittanning
Water company for damages incident to ascourge
of typhoid fever which swept that town last fall,
due the plaintiffs allege, to impure water sup-
plied from a contaminated storage reservoir.
—Mrs. A. L. Ritchey, of Bullskin township,
Fayette county, has brought suit in the courts of
that county to recover $50,000 damages for the
death of her husband, who was killed on the
Pennsylvania railroad near A. O. tower a year
ago. The Ritcheys were residents of Youngwood
at the time.
—It is said that one Jesse Lee, of Mahaffey,
Clearfield county, was befooled by a widow
whom he sent $5 to pay her car fare to Mahaffey,
she having made Mr. Lee think she was eager to
marry him. It may comfort him to know that it
cost .he handsome widow $1,000 for this and
similar tricks.
—Charles A. Phillips, who murdered Emanuel
T. Leib, at his home in Muncy, may not be tried
until the June term of the Lycoming county
court, as he is said tobe in a serious condition
physically. Van Horn, who murdered Mrs. Ful-
mer, is likely to be tried. First degree verdicts
will be asked for in both cases.
—A modest Lancaster county miller, with 25,000
bushels of wheat in his mill, that cost him a trifle
less than a dollar a bushel, is contemplating $7.50
a barrel for flour with some degree of com-
placency, the while he looks around his neigh-
borhood to invest a fortune the European war
has made him. It’s an ill wind, indeed, that
blows no good. i
—William C. Gessner, captain of company D,
Fourth infantry, N. G. P. of Allentown, was ar-
rested on Monday on a warrant issued on com-
plaint of a surety company, charging him with
the embezzlement of about $900 of State funds.
He gave bail for a hearing. It is understood
that he has been dismissed from State service by
Adjutant General Stewart.
—Thomas A. Prideaux, of Smith Mills, Clear-
field county, aged 75, collapsed in the Masonic
temple, Williamsport, while attending a con-
sistory meeting, and for a time was in a serious
condition. His sons, Dr. H. T. Prideaux, of
Cresson, and Dr. W. A. Prideaux, of Twin Rocks,
Cambria county, were summoned and after he
had recovered somewhat removed himto Cresson.
—F. W. Zettle, residing on the old Reeder
homestead in Georges valley, Centre county, was
deprived of the sight of his right eye recently by
a singular accident. He was attempting to tie a
calf which had already grown short horns when
the animal threw up its head, one of the horns
penetrating his eye and cutting a hole in the
eyelid. It is hoped the other eye will not be
affected,
—Samuel Rosen, of Northumberland, a cloth-
ing merchant, has been held without bail for
trial at court by a magistrate of that town on the
charge of arson. On Monday night of last week
a fire of suspicious origin, destroyed his stock,
valued, it is claimed, at $1,500, upon which he
had an insurance of $3,000. Suspicion rested
upon Rosen and the state authorities were notified
and a deputy marshal was sent to Northumber-
land, who found that kerosene had been placed
near a stove and on electric light wires. On this
evidence Rosen was arrested. :
—Thirty of the 100 head of white tail deer con-
tracted for from large Michigan preserves for
propagation and restocking purposes in the
woods of Pennsylvania by the State Game Com-
mission have been received and set at libertyin -
the covers chosen for them. These deer are hard
to catch, but they are being shipped 10 at a time
as they are caught and turned loose at once so
that they will not be injured by being kept in
captivity too long. One or two out of every
bunch of 10 are bucks, the remainder being does.
Ten have been turned loose in Fayette county,
not far from Uniontown, 10 have been consigned
‘to Jefferson county and 10 to the northern part
of Cambria county. More will follow, most of
| which will be distributed in western Pennsylvania
counties.
—Daniel Carpelli, who was shot some days ago *