Gehoral Wood’s Absurd Scheme.
| General LEONARD Wo0OD, who was rais-
‘ed to the highest rank in the army, dur-
ing ROOSEVELT’S administration, as a re-
, ward for favors to ROOSEVELT in earlier
life, proposes the - organization of a re-
: . i serve military force to be known as “the
.notes. if they are handed him from a»... can Legion.” This is a new kink
-mailed fist. in the campaign toward militarism. The
~ —In three years a Democratic board of | scheme contemplates the ~ caifing’ of
County Commissioners have praetically | RoosevELT to the colors and investing
Hifed out 2h nei tne of S192 0040 | him with the Sona of is force of
and have put the {gx rate down to - 300,000 men. It would give him a new
It pays, doesn’t it to elect business men . gpportunity to stand in the lime light
to manage the county's business. 1 and flourish the big stick.
. —These “Twilight Sleeps” and “Sun- { This country needs no “reservists” or
‘rise Slumber” methods of bringing the ! other military force other than the regu-
little ones into the world may be all that | lar army and navy and it might well
their advocates claim for them, but, take | curtail in the expenses of those depart:
‘it from us, there isn’t any twilight sleep ' ments of our government. So long as
or sunrise slumber when the output gets we remain within ourselves and practice
‘the colic. the arts of peace and pursue the courses
—Of course if the “Jitney” bus is only Of industry, no foreign power will have
run in competition with street cars we Occasion or opportunity to make war
needn’t look for the “Jitney” in Bellefonte 2gainst us. Under existing conditions
soon. However, we’ll manage to get the dangers from that source are dimin-
where we want to go so long as EMERICK ished rather than increased for the
and RERICK, and THOMPSON, and MACKER fighting nations have all they can attend
and our own legs hold out. | to taking care of themselves.
—The Public Ledger announces that! When the European war ends, and we
Pennsylvania is “swept by a tidal wave Sincerely hope that will be soon, the |
of Temperance.” It always is up to the | participants in it will be so impoverished
time that a new Legislature is to be financially and exhausted physically, that !
elected, then the tidal wave subsides war will be impossible. Already there |
long enough for those who have heaved are signs of exhaustion in every country |
it up to vote the same old way. | involved in the struggle and if hostilities ,
{that is continue another year their resources
~That German Peace Droposa he ) = | will be so completely dissipated that they
heralded as being on the way to publicity | will be objects of charity. What is the
will probably be as one sided as the toast: | use in distressing the American people
“Heres luck to the Dutch let the Irish | with burdens to meet such a condition?
pick rags.” However it may prove the po ., prepare to offer help when needed.
entering wedge by which a stop will be | But' ROOSEVELT'S lust for power is
put to the awful devastation abroad. insatiate and every sycophant who has
—We have just heard of a fellow who | profited by his favoritism in the past
Took three spools must strive to promote his ambitions.
aa 3 Og LEONARD Woop is an officer in the serv-
And the blamed thing ran. ice of the government and his endorse- |
Inasmuch as this genius evidently made l ment of this military enterprise is an :
offence against discipline which should
no provision for the rattle we doubt |
whether it really was a Ford that he be sharply rebuked. Let ROOSEVELT re-
main where he is, in private life. He
turned out.
: § will be able to do considerable harm
—In his weekly healtly talk Dr. Samu there and’thay be depended upon to do!
‘DixoN, Commissioner of Health, has for : : : .
his text: “Cleanliness is next to Godli- all that is possible. His lust for power is
ness,” and he announces that accumula- equal to his lust for blood.
tion is a mania with some people. He
was speaking, of course, of the habit
many have of allowing all manner of |
junk and useless things to litter up the
home and the back yard. But this is not
the only habit of accumulation that peo-
ple have. Some accumulate on them-
selves real estate enough to make breed-
ing beds for millions of bacteria.
your Uncle SAMUEL is
‘beaded for Vera Cruz with a menacing
looking lot of battle ships. CARRANZA
_ ‘may pay more attention to our polite
——The Republican conference at
Delmonico’s, New York, the other day,
has been likened unto Belshazzar’s Feast.
The last imitation of that luxurious
monarch’s culinary extravagance put the
late Mr. BLAINE out of business and there
are other Burchards in the bushes.
Sowing the Seeds of Anarchy.
There will be no abatement in the
calamity campaign unless the Republi-
can managers fail in their purposes. Last
week a conference was held in New
| York in which the chairman of the Re-
| publican National Committee participat-
ed, for the purpose of outlining a system
of “howling” against the UNDERWOOD
tariff law and the WILSON administration,
' two-thirds bottles of beer a day. And if and similar meetings are to be held in
that is what they call being temperate sections of the country. Discontent will
down there we retract most everything | be the gospel which these wealthy “graft-
we have said in the past about the ex- ers” will preach and misrepresentation
cesses of our own “Poo Poohs.” | the vehicle of spreading it abroad. The
—Up to this time we have not com- measure of the enterprise will depend
pleted our annual diagnosis of the state. | upon the credulity of the people of the
ment of Centre county's business affairs country.
which was made public last week. We| No domestic economic policy could
have given it some attention and by next | have averted the commercial and indus-
week, possibly, we will be able to set be- trial disturbance of the European war.
fore you a condensed statement of what | The revision of the tariff and currency
has been accomplished by competent offi- | laws mitigated the evil to some extent
cials in the way of cleaning up the coun- | because one of these measures lightened
ty indebtedness. At this time we can |the tax burdens of the people and the
say, however, that there is practically no Other prevented a panic of dangerous
county debt and that the tax rate is to be | Proportions. But the current of com.
reduced to four mills next year. That | merce was completely checked for atime
part of it is too good to keep longer, so | and the process of readjustment is in-
we tell you of it in, advance. { complete so that industry is stagnant and
a . .. | markets practically closed. This condi-
—Secretary REDFIELD'S investigation ' yo; oon he aggravated or abated accord-
of thebusiness depression in Montgomery | ingly as the captains of industry and the
county ‘reveals the fact that ‘only fty |1e 004 in commerce’ treat -the subject.
. per cent of the industries there manu-
facture goods that can possibly be affect-
ed by a tariff. Among these it was found
that unsound business practices, more
than anything else, are responsible for |
their present depressed condition. It’
seems to us that if the foreign war has |
done one thing more emphatic than
another it has exploded every tariff argu- | of ype consumers, but it would register a
ment known of. Practically nothing is | yjumph of national immorality and con-
being imported into this country and we !
summate industrial outrage. Yet the
have more consumers at home than ever. Republican managers have elected to
Now why aren Son = oe all our | pursue this course and to that end have
factories a ne oe ani by Yorates sey arranged for a series of meetings
We can and demand a tariff to prohibit | i,q hou the country to promulgate
. - . |
foreign His factures om Coming - to | the doctrines of discontent and revenge.
supply the demand. The war has built | They are planting the seeds of anarchy
a greater wall of protection around this
h tariff d in order that the people may reap a
country ghan uny tant ‘ever enacie h yet i harvest of death and the conspirators
they say our industries languish. |
The | . 2
. increase their profits.
truth of the matter is that we are a pro- | P
ducer nation and that we have been over-
stocking for several years and foreign |
markets being closed to us we are not
able to use all we can make.
—North Carolina has enacted a real
temperance law. That is, they call it
temperance in North Carolina. Under
this new and real temperance idea of
theirs no one man can have more than
two quarts of whiskey and ten gallons of
beer in a single month. Based on a
“two finger” size, that would give each
fellow one drink of whiskey and two and
ly chosen to knock rather than boost.
It was “a lame and impotent conclu-
sion.” The restoration of the tariff
schedules adopted by the Congress of
1909 would increase the profits of pro-
tected manufacturers precisely in the pro-
portion that it multiplied the sufferings
——There are nearly two billion dol-
lars worth of gold coins in this country
but we are not covetous. Yellow backs
or long green are good enough for us,
BELL
| The Republican leaders have deliberate- |
Brumbaugh’s Conservation Bill.
Governor BRUMBAUGH’S proposed Con:
servation bill may be justly characterized
as a codification of existing conservation
legislation. It has the merit of concen-
tration of power now diffused among
several departments into one in which
responsibility may be fixed, and that'is
sufficient to commend it, if there were
nothing else in its favor. The depart-
ments it would abolish are the Game,
Water Supply, Fish and Forestry. These
would be merged into the Department of
Conservation, under the direction of a
Commissioner tobe appointed by the
Governor. This reform would make for
efficiency and economy. The measure
was prepared by Attorney General BROWN
and reflects credit upon its author.
The Game Commission as at present
constituted is a travesty. Its purpose
appears to be to annoy hunters and
spend money. The Forestry Department
is only better because of the personal in-
terest of two members of the Commis:
sion and one of them is Mr. J. LINN HARRIS,
of this place, while the capable and con-
scientious Commissioner of Fisheries has’
been hampered in his work by political :
| exigencies almost from the beginning of !
his service. The consolidation of these
departments under a head with under:
standing and courage might accomplish
wonders for the benefit of the public.
“The Water Commission is an expensive
luxury at present and its useful functions
might be better performed by a man
trained to the duties and big enough to
administer the affairs of the consolidated
service.
The only new features in the bill in
question might better be provided for in
a separate law. That is the improve-
ments in Sandy Lake and Sandy creek in
Western Pennsylvania and the draining
of Pymatuning swamp in the same sec-
tion. These items contain the symptoms
of jobbery and should not be concealed
within the body of a bill general in its
character. Much valuable land might be
reclaimed by the improvements proposed
but the benefit would be to individuals
clear why the State-should~ pay the ex
penses of the enterprise. We would sug-}
gest to Governor BRUMBAUGH that there
are signs of serpents in these clauses and
it would be well to look sharp.
——There was plenty of music at the
adjournment of Congress but curiously
enough HOBSON, of Alabama, was quiet
on the occasion. And a HOBSON “swan
song” would have been singularly appro-
priate.
Drastic Remedies May be Necessary.
The conditions in Mexico grow more
distressing, according to news dispatches.
The people in the city of Mexico are
actually starving owing to a plan formed
by General OBREGON to force enlistments
in the CARRANZA army. Offers of relief
have been declined in discourteous lan-
guage and the suffering is intense. Presi-
dent WILSON has been compelled to
forego his contemplated trip to attend
the formal ceremonies at the Pan-
American exposition, scheduled for next
week, on account of it, and still these
ambitious ‘“greasers” pay no heed. CAR-
RANZA supports OBREGON in his cruelties
and there seems to be no remedy.
This Mexican problem has been per-
plexing from the beginning of President
WILSON’S administration. He has hand-
led it in a masterful manner and offered
i opportunities to the people of that un-
happy country to establish just and stable
government in half a dozen ways. But
unfortunately there is an entire absence
of patriotic spirit among those who have
the wealth and education to assume
leadership and the opportunities have
been wasted. CARRANZA has proved
himself to be little if any better than his
murderous predecessor in office. He
simply wants power for himself that he
may abuse it.
The time will come and it may be that
it is already present when it will become
the duty of the United States and the
other American Republics to intervene
in a more drastic way than has hereto-
fore been adopted. In other words it
may be necessary in the near future for
the governments of North and South
America to send a force into Mexico and
hang every usurper with the instincts of
the beast who imagines it is his right to
torture, rob and oppress the people at his
fancy. General OBREGON and CARRANZA
would be shining marks for such treat-
ment and the sooner that policy is adopt-
ed the better.
——ROOSEVELT would like to be Com-
mander-in-Chief of the army and navy
of course, but heis willing to compromise
on a less powerful post and offers to take
command of the proposed “Legion.”
—June 7th will be Pennsylvania Day
at the San Diego Exposition.
TATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EFONTE, PA. MARCH 12, 1915.
| cident.
the regular routine of such institutions
Significant Organization in University.
The organization of a body composed
of a considerable number of the stu-
dents of the University of Pennsylvania
to insist upon the right of free speech, is
a new and significant development of
student life. SAMUEL GOMPERS, president
of the American Federation of Labor,had
been invited to address the students in
one of the University building. The
University authorities prohibited the
-use of the building for the purpose.
Thereupon Mr. GOMPERS was in-
vited to address the students on the
campus and the use of the campus for
the purpose was forbidden by the au-
thorities. Then a neighboring hall “was
hired” and last Friday evening Mr.
GOMPERs spoke, after which the organiza-
tion was formed
Some weeks ago the student body of
Princeton University invited BILLY SUN-
DAY to preach at that institution of
learning and the President of the Uni-
versity intervened and prevented the in-
Hitherto such diversions from
have been allowed if not encouraged and
a year ago BILLY SUNDAY spoke at the
University of Pennsylvania and if our
memory serves us right made a profound
impression upon the student body. Mr.
GOMPERS is the recognized head of an im-
portant element in the industrial life of
the country. He is said to be an able
‘and eloquent speaker and the morality
of his teachings has never been question-
ed.
"Of course the discipline of these great
institutions of learning must be main-
tained. The student body, as a rule, is
made up of earnest and capable young
men who may be trusted to discriminate
between right and wrong and there can
be little reason for forbidding them to
hear leaders of thought in the discussion .
of public questions, economic or sociolog-
ical, so long as they refrain from im-
moral or dangerous doctrines. We may
not all agree with Mr. GOMPERS in the
things he talks about but young men of
University age ought to enjoy the privi-
rather than to the public and it is not |
of determining that for themselves
after a fult hearing. Besides the freedom
of speech is a cherished asset in this
country.
——An effort is to be made to pass a
bill at the present session of the Legisla-
ture providing for a convention to revise
the Constitution of Pennsylvania. The
present constitution was adopted in 1874,
and in the forty years since then section
after section ofthe Constitution has been
amended until the original document is
hardly recognizable. On the other hand
are the advocates for a revision really
sincere in their belief that the Constitu-
tion needs revising, or are their efforts
being put forth mainly to furnish fat ap-
pointments for favored gangsters? This
latter might be the “snake in the grass”
of the entire movement. But if the time
ever comes when the Constitution is re-
vised one of the first clauses should make
it a penitentiary offense for Members of
the Legislature to introduce and insist
upon the passage of the fool bills that
clog the calendar of ever Legislative
session.
——The Bellefonte police deserve cred-
it for their prompt rounding up of the
three young men who robbed the Miles-
burg Store company on Saturday night.
Within seventy-two hours after the deed
was committed the men were behind
bars and one of them had confessed to
the crime. While the amount stolen
was only of nominal value the degree of
crime was just as great and had the men
gone undetected it would only have been
a question of time until they would have
pulled off a job of greater magnitude.
Chief of police HARRY DUKEMAN as well
as policeman HARRY DUNLAP deserve
commendation for their ability and de-
cisive action in handling such cases.
They not only seem to smell crime but
have the bloodhound scent for criminals
and because of that fact Bellefonte and
surrounding community are kept partic-
ularly free of wrong-doers.
——In his appeal to A. MITCHELL PAL-
MER for help in his local option campaign
in the Legislature, Governor BRUMBAUGH
says the Pennsylvania Democratic plat-
form of last year declared for that policy.
As a matter of fact there was no Pennsyl-
vania Democratic platform last year and
Democratic candidates for the General
Assembly ran on individual pledges with
respect to local option and all other
issues.
——Wall street has sent out a tip that
the war in Europe will soon be over but
it is unwise to place confidence in Wall
street tips. Many a lamb has been shear-
ed by listening to that song.
——Next Wednesday will
Patrick’s day.
~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
be St.
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NO. 11.
|
The Wheat Outlook.
i From the Philadelphia Record.
One of the momentous consequences
of victory by the allies in their efforts to
force the Dardanelles and thus bring
Russia into free and uninterrupted ac-
cess to the Mediterranean will be the re-
lease of the vast .stores of wheat, esti-
mated as high as 300,000,000 bushels,
which have been locked in that country
through the Turks’ control of the straits
leading from the Black Sea. The proba-
bility that this huge amount of foodstuff
will begin to move to its material mark-
ets in a few weeks gives a keen interest
to the wheat situation in our own coun-
try and the probabilities of the coming
year. It is not customary for the gov-
ernment to issue its report on winter
wheat until after April 1st, but from pri-
vate sources of information it is claimed
that the outlook is excellent. An in-
creased acreage has been sown, and the
winter as a whole has been favorable.
It is calculated, therefore, that with
average conditions of winter and yield
the prospects are good for a wheat crop,
both winter and spring, of at least 900,-
000,000 bushels. This would compare
with the record crop produced last year
of 891,017,000 . bushels, which has been
abundant for this country and allowed us
to export great quantities abroad for the
benefit of the nations at war. There are
still in farmers’ hands holdings of the
1914 crop estimated at from 120,000,000
to 170,000,000 bushels.
If we are blessed with a crop as great
as last year, and to this are added Russia’s
accumulations from 1914 and a normal
.crop planted this year, not to speak of
the supplies from Rumania, India, Ar-
.gentina and other countries, it can be
seen that the outlook is bright for a sup-
ply of wheat ample not only for our own
needs, but for those of Europe as well.
Possibly the farmer may not receive as
much for his yield as last year, but the
consumer will benefit accordingly. In
this day of high prices it must be ac-
counted a gain if bread is held down to a
reasonable figure.
Now for Business.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
We usually think that the adjournment
of Congress is a good thing for business
on the theory that congressional legisla-
tion is disturbing to it, while it is being
agitated, and that when Congress ad-
journs business men can take their bear-
ings and sail ahead in the direction they
give them. Doubtless there is something
in the idea, and we will now learn ggeed-
ily whether there is a CIA)
‘ing in it now that Congress has ddjourn-
ed and that business is clearly in“a con-
dition in which great improvement is
possible; and we have even come to think
that it is probable, since it has been so
long depressed, and nobody knows just
why it should be, and everybody believes
that it will not long so continue. Now
that Congress has adjourned there is no
reason in uncertainty as to the laws to
charge business depression upon. And
there seems to be a great deal less un-
certainty as to the war issue to keep
business guessing. There is, in truth,
nothing discernible in the business situa-
tion in the early future that does not
indicate its prosperous movement; and if
it does not move off at a cheerful gait it
will only be because of unforeseen in-
fluences, all the perceptible ones being
of cheerful import; so that we feel sure
that when Congress reconvenes in De-
cember it will be in the midst of a world
peace and a struggle of business every-
where to get a good gait on; which must
be pretty well favored in the countries
that have not been crippled by the war,
and that will be ready to exploit its busi-
ness in full measure. We will certainly
be established in better condition than
ever to lay claim to a full share of the
business of the world, which we may feel
assured will come our way readily.
Legislature Not Overworked.
From the Williamsport Sun.
Some mathematician with a penchant
for accurate figures, has figured out that
in the two months covered by the pres-
ent legislative session, actual sessions of
either body have not totaled thirty hours
in all. In the sixty legislative days cov-
ered between January 5th and the pres-
ent time, the Senate has met seventeen
times, aggregating sessions of twenty-
one hours in length, and the House on
twenty-one occasions having aggregated
twenty-nine whole hours in its sessions.
The reply, of course, is that the actual
work is being done in committees, but
anyhow, the usual legislative penchant
for killing time cannot be concealed.
Also Russia is Bottled Up.
From the Des Moines Capital.
In Russia wheat is selling at 35 cents
a bushel. In America it is selling at
$1.50. Russia is at war. America is at
peace. Here is a fine opportunity for
those philosophers who know all about
economics, the laws of trade, the doctrine
of supply and demand, the logic of trans-
portation rates, etc, etc. There is some-
thing wrong somewhere, but the satis-
factory diagnosis is not easily obtained.
Post-Operative Feeding.
From the Pottsville (Pa.) Republican.
No food of any kind will be permitted
to be taken in the Shamokin hospital for
the patients because one woman took
her husband, who had just had a delicate
operation performed on him, four hard
boiled eggs and five frank-furter sand-
wiches, which he ate during the absence
of the nurses, and became violently ill.
| ———They are preparing to give BILLY
SUNDAY a big donation in Philadelphia
at the close of his campaign against
| Satan and he deserves all he will get.
' He went up against a hard proposition.
hit
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—“At least 1,000 people in Johnstown are ad-
dicted to the use of morphine or cocaine in one
form-or other,” is the declaration of a Johnstown
physician.
—Osceola has had seventeen cases of scarlet
fever since the outbreak of the epidemic, most
of them a light forni of the disease. No deaths
have occurred.
—The union painters, paper hangers and deco-
rators of Johnstown are asking that they be paid
the same wages eight hours that they now re-
ceive for nine hours’ work.
—A young Italian answering to the name of
Joe Cosamento, alias Joe Love, has been arrest-
ed at Gallitzin on suspicion of having murdered
John Harley, near Philipsburg, on the 24th ult.
—Charles Calvin Stringfellow, a twenty-one-
year-old resident of Clinton county, residing near
Mill Hall, has been arrested charged with having
sent Black hand letters to a citizen of Lock Ha-
ven.
—Judge Rice, of the Superior court, has writ-
ten the lawyers of Huntingdon county thanking
them for their kind words but reiterating his de-
termination to retire at the end of his present
term.
—Some citizens of Vandergrift, Westmoreland
county, are trying to have Councilman Sheplar
removed because the firm of which he is a mem-
ber sold the borough eight yards of toweling at a
total cost of 64 cents.
—The handsome edifice which the ‘members of
the Grove Avepue Methodist Episcopal church,
Moxham, Johfistown, recently enlarged at a cost
of $30,000 was rededicated last Sunday by Bishop
John W. Hamilton, of Boston.
~The large barn of L. L. Shank, in Cherry Mill
township, Indiana county, was burned to the
ground a few mornings ago and cattle, chickens,
grain, farming implements and other articles de-
stroyed. Several head of horses were rescued.
—The new Cunard mine near Morrisdale has
had a marked effect in stimulating building op-
erations all through that neighborhood. New
dwellings and business places have been spring-
ing up on every hand, and others are in course
of erectien or projected.
—By the will of the late Mrs. Alice Mary Wil-
liams, widow of a former Mavor of Williamsport,
the Williamsport hospital is awarded $10,000, the
home for the friendless was given $5,000, which
is to be paid on the death of a relative, while the
boys’ industrial home gets $3,000.
—George Stanley, aged four years, a Williams-
port lad, saved his younger brother from burn-
ing to death the other day when the latter stuck
a celluloid ruler in the fire. The blaze set the
child on fire but George threw him to the floor
and extinguished the flames by smothering them
with a rug.
—The farmers of Lower Lancaster county,
headed by D. F. Magee, Esq., who is a large own-
er of farm lands in the lower end of the county,
will meet today at Fairmount, to begin war on
what the farmers term the “Milk Trust,” which
now controls the purchase of milk in lower Lan-
caster county.
—DuBois is the home of one of the meanest
men in the State. He has rigged up an electrical
contrivance which turns on a light in his chick-
en coop at an early hour each morning. When
the hens see the light they get off their roosts
and begin laying eggs. The fellow says his egg
crop is now double what it used to be.
—While at work on the farm of Jesse Horner,
near Boswell, Somerset county, cutting down
trees, Frank Deitz was struck on the top of the
head by a heavy limb. His skull was crushed
and he died about three hours later, not having
regained consciousness. Deitz was aged 41 years
and is survived by his wife and two children.
~—Two big gas gushers have been struck in the
fk county gas field within the last ten days and
excitément is again at a high pitch. The wells,
drilled by the Talmage Natural Gas company, of
Johnsonburg, and the Ridgway Light and Heat
company, of Ridgway, registered 4,500,000 feet
each. The wells were struck at a depth of about
2,600 feet.
—Philip Mushino, aged 70, employed on the
Lycoming county farm of Miss Rosa Deitz, arose
about 5 o'clock the other morning, it is believed,
kindled a fire in the kitchen range and sat down
to read. When Miss Deitz entered the kitchen
about an hour later she found Mushino lying on
the floor, dead, the book on the floor and his
spectacles in place.
—James Ferlo, residing near Indiana, called
his wife out of the house the other evening, ask-
ing her to bring his coat to him. He took the
garment and suddenly slashed the woma: with a
razor, inflicting a ghastly and probably fatal
wound in her throat. Then he disappeared.
Mrs. Ferlo says they had not quarreled and she
does not know why he did it.
—Ten years ago Mrs. Arthur Heckert, of Wil.
liamsport, while wiping dust from around the
edges of her carpet ran a broken sewing ma-
| chine needle into the palm of her right hand.
| Last Saturday the needle was removed from her
left hand. It had traveled from the right palm
! up through the arm, across her body and down
her left arm, emerging from her left hand. It
would be hard to find a similar case.
—Wounded in the war of the Rebellion, fifty
years ago, Ellert Ramsey, aSpringfield township,
Huntingdon county farmer, has just had his right
leg amputated. During an engagement of the
war, Ramsey was struck in the right leg by a
shell. An army physician dressed the wound,
deciding amputation unnecessary. A few days
ago, the wound of fifty years became infected in
some way and gangrene developed. The opera-
tion followed.
—John Wolf, a rural mail carrier of Johnstown,
suffering from toothache, wrapped an electric
light globe in a towel and took the warming pad
into bed with him. The ache stopped and Wolf
went to.sleep. About one o'clock the mail car-
rier dreamed there was a fire and that he was
fighting his way through smoke and flame. He
awoke. The flames were in bed with him. The
bulb had ignited the bed clothing. Wolf’s home
was damaged.
—Miss Lillian Simmons, of Bareville, Lancas-
ter county, was badly crippled by having her
right hand cut off by a circular saw. The gitl
lived with the family of Willis Herr, in Manor
township. She was assisting to saw wood and
for the purpose a circular saw was being used.
‘The girl was feeding the saw when she had her
hand caught. The hand was cut completely off,
while there was a deep cut in the shoulder and
another in the chest.
—Picking up what she thought was a glass of
water in the darkness at her home in Point
township, Northumberland county, Sunday, Miss
Alice Rhoads, 18 years old, got hold of a glass
containing tacks and pins, which stood close to
‘where she thought the water was, and swallowed
a mouthful of them. She was rushed to a hos-
pital, where an effort is being made to relieve
her of them without an operation. Doctors say
her recovery is in doubt.
—Walter McJunkin, assistant cashier in the
Clearfield National bank, took his own life at the
Dimeling hotel by shooting himself through the
head some time during Monday night. He was
found in bed, covered, with the revolver in his
right hand. Nothing is known of the circum-
stances that led to the rash act, other than that
he had been in poor health during the past year,
and only the evening before complained of severe
pains in his head. His financial matters were
found to bein good shape. Deceased was aged
‘about 60 years. i