Biemorrai atc. BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —The battleship Pennsylvania cost $15,000,000, and ten years from now she will be practically obsolete. —The first day of spring was only a calendar product. There was nothing else about it to indicate that the winter is over. —Anyway, the Rev. BILLY SUNDAY can’t dodge the income tax if he would. What he earns seems to be- most every- body’s business to keep tab on. —The Austrian fortress, Przemysl, has capitulated to the Russian army that had invested it for the past four months. It was a hard one to capture, but just about as hard to pronounce. —There will be plenty of snow in the mountains of Centre county on April 1st. At this time last year, you will remem- ber, there was good sleighing on many of our mountain roads. —Swat the first fly you see and every other one that comes within your reach. If Dr. GORGAS could exterminate the mosquitoes on the Canal Zone we can, at least, reduce the fly population some. —President Judge ROBERT E. UMBEL, of Fayette county, has resigned his seat on the bench, to avoid impeachment pro- ceedings brought in the Legislature by a fellow attorney whom he defeated for the nomination for the office he held. ——The aggregate value of live stock in Pennsylvania, according to the Depart- ment of Agriculture is $157,107,172. Con- sidering the ravages of the foot and mouth disease recently this is a surpris- ingly good showing, though there is room for five times as much. —Here’s hoping that the Bible class now meeting every Sunday in the halls of the Legislature will not merely putty up the cracks in some of the old sinners who may wander in there. May it be the real thing and no mere religious ve- neer for political purposes that they get. —BILLY SUNDAY converted 45,324 peo- ple during his eleven weeks campaign in Philadelphia and that city voluntarily presented him with a draft for $51,136.85 besides innumerable presents of trinkets, apparel, etc. It was the most wonderful campaign in the history of evangelism. He redeemed one soul every 23 minutes he was there and received 46 cents for every minute. —Dr. DixoN’s weekly health talk in- veighs against stoop shoulders. They do disfigure the body and impair the health and we quite agree with the Commission- er of Health that they can be corrected by physical exercise. There is another way, however, “of correcting them. It can be done by mental exercise. If everyone were to fasten his eyes on the stars and see the bright things in life and understand that with all our troubles, there are wonderful blessings to be thank- ful for, there would be an end of stoop shoulders, shallow breathing, depressed and melancholic people. —The WATCHMAN has differed with the opinion of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN on a number of things. It has likewise coincided with many of his views, but of them all we believe that we are most heartily in sympathy with the following closing paragraph of a recent speech he delivered on the subject of “Why We Should Disarm:” “My friends, the building of these great battleships, these preparations by Christian nations to fight one another, is a challenge to the Christian civilization of the world; it is infidelity to the doc- trine taught by the founder of the Chris- tian religion. Christ taught no such doctrines; He taught us the power of love, not the power of the sword; and those who have tried to put into practice this doctrine are the ones who have suf- fered least from the use of force. I be- lieve that this nation could stand before the world today and tell the world that it did not believe in war, that it did not believe that it was the right way to set- tle disputes, that it had no disputes that it was not willing to submit to the judg- ment of the world.” —Gradually the tariff, as a political issue is going the way of the “bloody shirt.” When Republican papers fill their columns with such reports as the United States Steel Co. has published of its 1914 business it is either a sign that they don’t expect their readers to remember long or that they realize that, after all the tariff is only a local issue. The greatest steel company in the world as- cribes its poor showing for 1914 to two causes, viz: “Falling off in its foreign business and a drop in prices after the beginning of the foreign war.” If the foreign business of the United States Steel-Co. was so great that its loss re- duced the income of the company to the point where it couldn’t pay any dividend at all on its common stock that business must have been far greater than the tar- iff mongers would want the public to know. And if it was so great the tariff evidently wasn’t affecting it at all. On the other hand, if a protective tariff pro- tects American industry from foreign competition why should prices have fall- en off when the foreign war began and there was no competition from abroad? In the face of such facts and especially at a time when there is no need of mak- ing political capital out of it we fancy the protectionist papers are admitting that the tariff hasn’t anything to do with it and that, in the last analysis, it is real- ly the law of supply and demand that regulates all business activities. VOL. 60. Political Ideas of Two Statesmen. { Mr. RoLAND S. Morris, Chairman of | the Democratic State Committee, can see ! no reason why A. MITCHELL PALMER | should resign his seat in the Democratic | National Committee. Mr. PALMER has | been appointed to a seat on the bench ! of the United States Court of Claims and ' newspapers and others expressed the ! opinion that the judicial service would : take him out of politics. But Mr. MOR- RIS doesn’t take that view of the subject. “There is no law which disqualifies a | judge from service in a political commit- tee,” he declares. There was no law which prohibited the use of money con- tributed for the maintenance of the party organization to pay for “plate matter” for factional candidates, either, and Mr. MORRIS so used it. There is no law, fundamental or stat- utory, which prohibits the Chief Justice of the Suprene Court of the United States from running a peanut stand on Pennsyl- vania Avenue in Washington and we know of no statute which prohibits the | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennyslvania from conducting a pool room in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. Eth- ically speaking such a thing would be in- congrucus but that wouldn’t make any difference to Chairman MORRIS. His idea of political obligation is to distribute the spoils of office to the best advantage for the faction to which he is attached and let the consequences take care of themselves. Political honor has no place in his philosophy. Happily for the party and the Presi- dent Mr. PALMER takes a different view of the question. In an interview given to the public from his home, the other day, he states that he will resign his seat in the Committee upon assuming a seat on the Bench. But he will delay the action as long as possible, and in making the concession to propriety, he will vindi- cate his reputation for thrift. That is to say he “will take the oath of office,” get his name on the payroll, about the first of June, but he will not take his seat on the bench until October. That will give him at least four months of fine business in office brokerage and ample opportuni- ty to choose hi successor. ——Bishop MCDOWELL predicts a “re- ligious wave” after the close of the foreign war. After reading the Philadel- phia papers for. the past three months we were almost persuaded that a relig- ious deluge is due. Scandal in the School Department. The Commissioners of Dauphin county uncovered something like a scandal in the Department of Education at Harris- burg. During the teachers’ institute of the city of Harrisburg, Dr. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, Superintendent of Public In- struction, was one of the lecturers. In the bill of expense of the institute there was a charge of $30.00 paid to Dr. SCHAEFFER as recompense for his serv- ices as a lecturer. The Commissioners refused to pay the bill on the ground that the Superintendent’s salary covered all such services. An inquiry which fol- lowed developed the fact that while Dr. SCHAEFFER makes no charge for institute lectures it is customary to give him a “gratuity” of from $10.00 to $100.00. The salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is $5000. As secreta- ry of the State Dental Council he gets $1200. As ex-officio member of the Bu- reau of Medical Education he draws down $500 a year and expenses, making a total of $6700, besides gratuities that certainly amount to a couple of thousand dollars annually. Yet Dr. SCHAEFFER de- fends the gratuities and regrets that he can’t command as big pay as BILLY SUN- DAY and Secretary of State BRYAN. He declares that he has as much right to charge for institute lectures as the At- torney General has to charge fees in pri- vate practice. If the Attorney General charges for professional services in cases for or against the State, that is true. But we have not heard that he does so. : The truth of the matter is that this case of Dr. SCHAEFFER simply reveals the evil of dual office holding and multiply- ing salaries. What his predecessors did is not in question because he has had no predecessor for thirty-two years and we are not certain that there were paid lec- turers at teachers’ institutes before he became superintendent. But be that as it may the fact remains that gratuities to men connected with the Department of Public Instruction are simply a form of “graft,” which should be dispensed with at the earliest opportunity. Those men are paid for performing that sort of service and they ought to be required to fulfill their public obligations. ——They raised $22,780.50 for the Y. M. C. A. in one day in Allentown and nobody has ever suspected that Allentown is a centre of piety. But then you never can tell. } STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities. Feeling that the people of Centre county have a personal interest in what is being done by the Legislators at Harrisburg and that laws that may affect the future of every individual more directly than ever before are under consideration now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the WATCHMAN has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg. It is net the purpose to go into detail of the various Acts proposed and furnish ! you with a burdensome account of them. Merely to set them, and whatever else is deemed of interest to the people of this community, before you in a general, unbiased statement that will keep you informed of the progress that is being made. The contributor of this Summary is one of the most capable and best informed of Harrisburg’s newspaper men and the WATCHMAN has been very for- tunate in enlisting his service for this work.—ED. HARRISBURG. PA., March 24, 1915. The atmosphere on Capitol Hill is charged with political dynamite and there is likely to be an explosion at any moment. Little legislation has been completed thus far this session and even now the activities are mainly in the committee rooms. The Governor's attendance at committee hearings is an innovation and the appearance of the Attorney General as a partisan on pending legislation caus- ed something in the nature of a shock, the other day. But these incidents are simply expressions of the spirit which passes for progressivism and nothing else goes in this era of agitation and unrest. Governor BRUMBAUGH is a problem to the politicians. He wants his own way in everything and his persistence in forcing his views upon the Legislature: suggests that he has in mind the experience of another great educator who took the political bull by the horns and broke a trail through a forest of uncertainty to a splendid triumph. WoODROW WILSON, as Governor of New Jersey, treated the public to a series of surprises about four years ago which opened to him a | rose-strewn path to the White House. that BRUMBAUGH hopes that his defiance of the machine will have a similar effect in 1916 and he is working it to the limit. Probably the surprise of this week was the resignation of Judge UMBEL of Fayette county. Two years ago Judge UMBEL was threatened with impeachment on account of expenditures in his campaign for the nomination in 1909. Judge UMBEL was among the conspicuous reorganizers of the Democratic party and ac- cording to report, Senator CROW intervened to shield him. Since then CRow and he have had quarrels, as the custom among Fayette county politicians, and CROW interposed to have the impeachment proceedings renewed. Anticipating removal UMBEL entered into an agreement with his accuser, the man he defeated for the nomination in 1909, that he would resign in 1917 and interpreting that as a corrupt bargain CROW adopted it as a cause for impeachment and had a resolution reciting the facts and inaugurating the proceedings introduced. The resignation has pu an end to the proceedings. - Tuesday afternoon the Senate and. House Committees on Railroads held a who favor the repeal were heard and the incident brought a considerable number of railroad officials to the capitol. These men dwelt upon the expenses of -a full | - crew and blamed most every evil which has gecurred within the .past two years, with the exception of the European war, upon the operation of that law. Rail- road lawyers and officers of allied industries did the talking and alleged that the law put 1705 men into the service of the railroads of Pennsylvania. But there was no suggestion that “safety first” is the declared policy of the railroads of the State and that the Full Crew law is essentially in the interest of safety. The Com- mittees have promised another meeting for the purpose of hearing the other side. Another public hearing held on Tuesday afternoon was in the interest of the Workmens’ Compensation bill, drafted at the instance of the Governor by the At- torney General. At this hearing “safety first” was the slogan, the Governor was present and the Attorney General the principal speaker. So far as we have been able to discover nobody opposes the principle expressed in this measure. But there is objection to some of the details of the bill. For example one of the speak- ers, representing the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ association held that the pro- vision exempting farm and domestic employees from its operation put it in the category of class legislation and would destroy its validity. Singularly enough the same speaker recommended the elimination of the provision for the compen- sation of injured aliens which would as completely destroy its universality as the feature in relation to farm workers and domestic employees. The labor organizations and advocates are generally satisfied with the bill and generously applauded the Attorney General during and after his speech. But they are not exactly enthusiastic. That is to say they believe that the recompense for injured or killed workmen ought to be greater. The bill provides for a pen- sion of fifty per cent. of their wages at the time of the accident and the working- men think it ought to be sixty-six and: two-thirds per cent. But it may safely be predicted that the measure will be accepted by workingmen generally if passed in its present form and it is equally certain that a measure embodying the substance of the administration bill will be enacted. There may be some changes in the phrasing of the law but the substance will be preserved. No man who has closely observed the drift of events in and about the Legis- lature durirg the past several weeks can fail to see that the administration local option bill is doomed to defeat. A good many observers have come to the conclu- sion, for that matter, that those who have been most vociferous in supporting the measure want it defeated. Governor BRUMBAUGH is sincere, no doubt, in his ex- pressed anxiety to enact such legislation but he offended a good many Senators and Representatives by publicly applying processes to force them to vote for it. Then, it is freely declared that the Governor made a grave mistake in calling upon A. MITCHELL PALMER and State Chairman ROLAND S. MORRIS to whip the Demo- crats into line for the bill. Democrats are not, as a rule, cheerfully obedient to boss orders and those of them in the Legisature who were passively opposed to the measure, are inclined to resent the “butting in” of outsiders. Moreover Chairman MORRIS has injured the cause in another way. With characteristic stupidity he opened hig campaign for the bill by casting an imputa- tion upon the personal integrity and political sincerity of the Commander-in-Chief of his forces, Governor BRUMBAUGH. Such things ought not to count, probably, among full grown men of sufficient intelligence to secure election to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. But they do count and it is safe to say that in his reference to BRUMBAUGH'S relation to the Personal Liberty party, ROLAND S. MOR- RIS drove more votes away from the measure than he could bring to it in half a century. As a matter of fact, however, outside interference hasn’t made a vote for local option on the Democratic side of the House. The Democratic party had no platform last fall and every candidate on the ticket made his own platform. Some of them are and always have been for local option and will no doubt express their sentiments in their votes. Others are opposed to sumptuary legislation of all kinds and in obedience to Democratic principle and traditions will vote against the measure. But none of the real Democrats in the Legislature will be cajoled or coerced into voting one way or the other by self-appointed and incapable party osses. The Legislature has been a good deal of a joke, thus far, this session, but signs of improvement were revealed this week. In other words up until this week the Senate has held two brief sessions a week and the House has adjourned for the week every Thursday. Of course little work can be expected in that desultory way and it may be added that for several ses- sions the Senate has done little deliberating and less thinking. But the Senate began work this week on Monday evening, as usual, and held sessions on Tuesday and today. Committee work may have occupied a good deal of the time of Sen- ators during the early period of the session, but it has not been perceptible to the naked eye. Generally speaking Senatorial Committee work is done on the floor or in the corridors by those interested in particular bills and though that method shows scant respect for the constitution it serves the purpose. . . The House, on the other hand, is an industrious body this year, though an imitation of the House of Representatives in Washington ‘would work improve- ment. In the national capitol the House works six days every week and occasion- ally gets in a little over-time. A few years ago it was the rule in Harrisburg to put in five full days in the chambers and the committee rooms. But there was less ready-made legislation than now. * Every man had to write his own bills tnen while in recent years such labor is performed by a bureau liberally paid for the service. This is the first Legislature in the history of the State, however, that has had a Bible Class of its own. rs" AE BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 26, 1915. | Long, Long Way to Constantinople. i i | NO. 13. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. In the light of the most stubborn re- sistance that is being offered to the Al- lies in their efforts to force a way through the straits of the Dardanelles, as instanc- ed by the news of the sinking on Thurs- day of two British and one French bat- tleship and the damaging of several oth- ers, it must be concluded that those per- sons who a few weeks ago were inclined to picture Constantinople as in imminent danger of falling into the hands of the enemy were, to say the least, somewhat too rapid in their calculations. : It may have been, as represented by the men who draw the funny cartoons for the newspapers, that Constantinople was in panic and that the population was precipitately making its way into Egypt, but if that were true it was a premature panic based on the overwrought state of the people’s nerves rather than on any real danger of a very early attack on the city by the battleships of the Allies. It will be recalled that while much of SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The Tipton store and postoffice was robbed on Saturday evening, the thieves getting about $35 in money and a lot of groceries. It is estimated that Williamsport has 500 vic- tims of the drug habit, all of whom will need assistance in breaking their bonds. —Chief of police Jeffries, of DuBois, raided all pool rooms, stores and gambling places and con- fiscated all slot machines of a gambling charac- ter. —Although many glass plants over the country are closing for thirty day periods, the plant at DuBois will not suspend operations, at least not until after the firing season. —Four drunken hoboes got mixed in a fight at .| Punxsutawney and one attacked the Salvation army. A woman put them to rout with a well directed blow with her tambourine. —Lewisburg will spend over $100,000 in a build- ing boom this year. A Trust company building, United Evangelical church, fraternity house and several other structures are included. —Woodward township Clearfield county, is minus a High school as the result of a fire that completely destroyed the building, entailing a loss of $12,000. The origin of the fire is a mys- tery. —E. C. Cochran, aged 67, a traveling man whose home was in Punxsutawney, was found dead in an Indiana hoiel the other morning. Heart trouble is believed to have caused his sud- den death. —The Civic League of Meyersdale is contem- plating the launching of a flower culture cam- paign for the coming summer. Prizes will be awarded for the most successful efforts to pro- duce flowers. —James Brown, aged 60, a Lycoming county man living near Liberty, sold a farm on which he had lived for twenty-five years and then blew out his brains while members of his family were packing preparatory to moving. —Judge O’Connor was recently found guilty of The rumors current here are to the effect | public hearing, in joint session, on the bill to repeal the Full Crew law. Only those | Witt got on the wild talk about the “imminent dan- ger” of the Turkish capital was going the rounds, confident statements were | being given out from Berlin that there | need be no alarm felt for the safety of | Constantinople; that the fortifications, ‘all along the more than one hundred miles of waterways from the western end of the Dardanelles straits, through the Sea of Marmora, to the city, are very strong and that there are plenty of arm- ed forces and inland intrenchments to | make land operations by the Allies most hazardous. In fact they said the posi- | tion of Constantinople is impregnable. This statement was discounted ‘in the public mind, perhaps, as coming from an ally of the Turks. A good many people regarded it as a mere bluff to reassure the friends of Germany and its Allies. ! Yet it is absurd to think that Germany, | which has displayed such wonderful pre- ' paredness for war in all other directions, | could have overlooked the necessity of effectively closing to its enemies the tre- | mendously important waterway between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It can be taken as absolutely certain that the Germans have rendered such as- sistance to Turkey by shoring up her de- fenses, officering her fighting forces and, perhaps, even sending German soldiers and machines of war for the protection of the water route, that the Allies will met all the way with the most possible sort of resistance, . With the strong hand are likely to find it Constantinople. Enter the Dish Inspector. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Texas Senate has passed a bill re- quiring hotels, restaurants and eating houses to sterilize all dishes, glass-ware and cutlery into boiling water as often as they are used. “We suppose.” says the Huston Post, “that after the bill becomes a law it will be in order to enact further legislation for the creation of an office of state sup- erintendent of dishwashing with a corps of assistants sufficiently numerous to maintain effective oversight of all the dish washing that is carried on in the establishments named in the bill.” Unfortunately the worst effect of a lot of the faddish laws that are placed on the statute books is the augmentation of offices or the accumulation of boards and commissions. It is exceedingly difficult to abolish an office once it has been created. In the great majority of cases it remains a burden on the state revenues —sometimes long after its usefulness, if it ever had any, has ceased. And its oc- cupant very early discovers the need of “extra help.” If Texas goes into the business of su- perintending dishwashing at the hotels and restaurants it might appropriately 1 create the office of ‘‘chief cook and bot- tle washer,” and no doubt there would be plenty of politicians ready to “take the cash and let the credit go.” But there will be no such title in the event the hill becomes a law. There will be merely a few additions, to begin with, to the grand army of inspectors, and by and by the chief inspector will find the work growing so onerous that he will want an addition to the inspectorial staff every time a new hotel is built or a new dairy lunch is started. It must have been a wise politician who conceived the idea of regulating the dishwashers. To effectively enforce such a law in Texas, inspectors would have to be as numerous as grasshoppers in Kansas. { Fifty-five Years of Bryan. From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Mr. Bryan, who was 55 years old on Friday, can look over his life with pride and satisfaction. His fellow citizens can | contemplate his career with wonder. In | 1896 he was a twenty-four-dollar-a-week- | reporter, converirg the St. Louis conven- i tion for his paper. By the magic of his eloquence and by his ability to make the yearnings of his party vocal he won the nomination for the Presidency against all his opponents. There is not on record in American history any more remark- able achievement than this, unless it be the success of the same man in retaining for 18 years the hold on his party which he won by his crown of thorns and cross of gold speech. He could not be Presi- dent, but he has become Secretary of State in the Cabinet of a President whom he assisted in making. Mr. Bryan may not be a good Secretary of State, but no { one will deny that he knows how to play the game of politics, whether he isa statesman or not. ot ; ——If BILLY SUNDAY doesn’t look out he will get himself disliked at Oyster Bay. There can be only one popular idol while the Colonel lives. be} FA to reading a newspaper in the court room] during a lull in a case. He smiled, or rather grinned, when his attention was drawn to the fact that news- paper reading was prohibited in the Ebensburg Court. —Benjamin Valbrath, a Lancaster traveling man, was waylaid by highwaymen near Way- cross, Ga., Sunday and so badly beaten that he is in a serious condition. He was robbed of some valuable diamond jewelry and several hundred dollars in money. —A cigar store, butcher shop, pool room, 5 and 10 cent store, shoe making shep, and sewing machine agency are all located in a shop 17x20. J.J. Palmer, of Blacklick, the proprietor, has been burned out so often, that he finds it nec- essary to consolidate these businesses. —James Hartless, of Reynoldsville, Jefferson county, aged 35 years, drank a half pint of a | mixture of whiskey and carbolic acid when his | wite refused to live with him, and died in about | fifteen minutes. He had tried to persuade the woman to take a drink of his “whiskey,” but she declined. . —Messrs. Brineck and Malieck, both of Thompsontown, claimed a her with fourteen chicks. Justice of the peace Tierney took the chickens into a field between the two homes, and allowed them to go to the home they chose. They went‘to Brineck’s coop, and Malieck cheer- fully paid $10 in costs. —Mr. and Mrs, Clyde Crissey, of Nant-y-Glo, - who ir o 7 og og ha ia unty, aged HG (0, TeSpeCHIYe Ys “within two hours of each other onday. They resided together and Thomas, who was the last to die, was not told of Roger's death. .| Thomas was an oil man and Roger a farmer. Both had been tax assessors in Warren county for twenty years. —If Keith Dalrymple, the missing Port Alle- gheny boy, returns home now, after an absence of more than eight years, he will find that the fortune of $365,000 is about all that awaits him. The missing heir’s mother, whose death occurred a year ago as a result of worry over her missing son, has been followed by the death of Hugh Dalrymple, his brother. —Road supervisor Frank R. Miller, of West- moreland county, had a marvelous escape the other day. His buggy, in which he carried fif- teen sticks of dynamite, collided with West Penn street car, near Hostetter, was dragged 150 feet and badly wrecked. Yet the dynamite failed to explode and Miller was able to extricate himself from the buggy without injury. —A special election has been decided upon by the Johnsonburg borough council to be called for April 20th at which the question of raising the present indebtedness of the borough to the amount of $45,000 for the purpose of erecting a sewage disposal plant and for a new bridge over the east branch of the Clarion river at Centre street in that place will be submitted to the vot- ers. . —Angered bya red bandana handkerchief he carried, a big bull owned by James Miller, a farmer living near Kline's Grove, Northumber- land county, attacked and knocked him down. Miller was being seriously gored and trampled upon when his 18-year-old daughter, Mrs. George Thomas, heard his cries, and seizing a pitchfork, drove it off, but not before her father suffered deep gashes across the face and the shoulders, and was unconscious. —After spending time and money for medical treatment to relieve violent pains in his stomach, James Smith, residing on the Swamp road, in Vernon township, Mercer county, was seized with a fit of coughing on Sunday and evidenced great relief after it was over. Investigation showed that he had coughed up a small frog, which, after a few moments, began to show signs of life. Smith remembers swallowing something while drinking from a brook one day last summer. —A number of Curwensville men have or- ganized a company which will erect a plant for the manufacture of reconstruction stone. This stone is a product which has recently been de- veloped and has proved to be a better and cheap- er material for building purposes than wood, brick or stone. The product is manufactured from crushed stone, sand and cement, compress- ed to 35 ton pressure and made in any shape or color. They expect to have the new stone on the market by the first of May. —At Eldred, McKean county, on Saturday af ternoon, J. March, trustee, sold at public auction the land of the Eldred bank assets to Austin Shaw for $165. Notes of formerly rich men were sold as follows: About $70,000 worth of J. D. Downing’s paper brought 55 cents; $20,000 worth of C. P. Collins’ paper, 55 cents; $16,000 worth of A. R. Sloan’s paper, 20 cents; $6,000 of Cutlery notes, 65 cents; $1,500 worth of Krest & Mount notes, 15 cents. The Eldred bank closed its doors about five years ago. —Bya decision of the State Supreme court handed down an Monday, former county: treas- urer P. F, Duffy, of Lackawana county, will have to return to the county $14,000, representing in- terest on county: funds collected by him during his tenure of office. Mr. Duffy on retiring from office signified that he would be willing to turn over tne money if the courts so ordered.. Judge E. C. Newcomb, before whom the test cases were heard, decided against the former treasurer, and this decision is now finally affirmed.
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