BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Only two weeks until Old Home
week begins.
—Really it feels as if summer were
actually here.
. —My, how the corn and taters are
growing! Recent rains and hot nights
are fairly shooting them out of the
ground.
—The human family is heir to about
twelve hundred different kinds of disease
and ailments. And about eleven hun-
dred and ninety-nine of them are out of
the way when a mortal has recovered
from a real good dose of grip.
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—The young men who are doing
things to make Old Home week a suc-
cess are not without their trials and trib-
ulations. Their'sis a case of d—-d if
you do and d—d if you don’t—and
‘there seems to be no middle road on
which they can travel.
—The President’s last note to Germa-
ny was disappointing to the Jingoes. It
wasn’t written with a sword, with blood :
for ink, and didn’t portray any big teeth i
or big sticks. It was merely what might :
_ have been expected from a great man
like President WILSON.
—Week after next the Old Home week
celebration will begin in Bellefonte. The
time will fly around before you realize it
so you had better get busy at that unfin-
ished work so that it will be all cleaned
up by the time the celebration begins.
You can enjoy it so much more if you
have nothing hanging over you.
—Let us give the Bellefonte house-
wives this bit of advice. If you have in-
vited guests to your home for Old Home
week don’t spend all of your time in the
kitchen cooking for them. They will
feel that they have caused you less
trouble and will be happier and you will
be happier if you just let them have
what the family is accustomed to hav-
ing.
—We are entirely at a loss to see how
Mr. BRYAN can hope to carry on his
campaign for a public endorsement of
his peace views without precipitating a
fight on President WILSON. The ex-
Premier may be amiable and broad
enough to preserve his own friendly
equilibrium, but not so with many peo-
ple. A fight is a fight and it is a far
easier thing to start one than it is to
stop it.
—The foreigner who was being nat-
uralized in the Centre county courts on
Tuesday came nearer the truth than he
thought when he answered the question:
“Who makes the laws?” by promptly
announcing “PENROSE” does it. The re-
ally unfortunate part of such a situation
is that forever this particular new citi-
zen will exalt PENROSE in his own mind
and probably think he will be doing his
new country a great service by voting
whichever way the Boss wants him to.
—Former Secretary of State BRYAN
has issued no recent bulletins. He is
probably catching his breath for another
great rush of words to the face. As the
surprise of his resignation subsides there
is more serious consideration of his mo-
tives and, as might have been expected,
there are many minds with many views.
Mr. BRYAN is not without friends. He
has hosts of them and while it is to be
hoped that he will not, as intimated, or-
ganize a propaganda against the Presi-
dent he has many adherents who would
follow him even to that length.
— The Pittsburgh Dispatch thinks that
because only four out of fourteen new
instructors recently called to the Agri-
cultural department of The Pennsylva-
nia State College are Pennsylvanians “it
does not argue very strongly for the pro-
ductive capacity of Pennsylvania as to
men qualified to give instruction in
agronomy, etc.” The Dispatch ought to
know that the State of Pennsylvania has
so neglected its one state institution of
learning that price rather than capability
is the thing that enters most into the
matter of securing instructors. And it
is quite possible that there are many
able Pennsylvanians who will not accept
calls to the Pennsylvania State College
teaching corps for the reason that the
State provides no salaries commensurate
with the service they could render or
with what land-grant colleges of other
States are able to offer them.
—It is altogether possible that ninety
per cent. of the men who are coming
back to Centre county for Old Home
week wouldn't have been half as well off
as they are if they hadn’t had the gump-
tion to get up and get out when they saw
nothing bright in the future here. Many
cases are there of the prophet not with-
out honor save in his own country. But
that is the commercial view of it.
Wherever they are, whatever they have
found of success that they could not
hope for here, sentiment is the same.
Centre county, Pennsylvania, is the Old
Home county and even though it offered
them so little that they had to fling its
paltry gifts aside; down in their hearts
its the one dear, loved spot, haunted
with memories that are gradually grow-
ing sweeter and more appealing as age
creeps on. It’s the call of the past that
will bring the old boys back next month,
Not the bang and the whirl of a modern
celebration.
ER Ss nal,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
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—A report is current that hog cholera has
| developed on a big farm near Ashtola, Cambria
| county, but the owners, who live in Johnstown
{ are non-communicative.
—New Washington, Clearfield county, has just
! lost a unique citizen inthe person of Adam Breth,
| a justice of the peace in that town for over 50
| years. He was aged 82 years. *
—The men and women who escaped from the
| Indiana county jail nearly a week ago have not
| yet been recaptured and seem to have had the
i assistance of very skillful friends.
VOL 60.
Dangerous Innovation.
Governor BRUMBAUGH perplexed the !
newspaper correspondents and officials
about the capitol, the other day, by an-
nouncing his approval of one bill which
he had previously vetoed, and his veto of
a bill which he had previously approved.
It was an unprecedented incident and an
innovation of dangerous possibilities. On
Monday announcement was made of the
veto of a bill “to supervise fire insurance
rate-making bureaus by providing for
their examination by the State Insurance
Commissioner,” and the signing of House
bill No. 738. On Friday the reversal ac-
tion was announced. In vetoing the insur-
ance bill he declared that “the body of the
bill is broader than the title,” which
would make it unconstitutional, and that
“it is an attempt to stifle competition
and increase the cost of insurance.”
What influence led to his change of
mind on this measure has not been re-
vealed. The constitution forbids the ap-
proval of bills subversive of that organic
instrument and if the body of the bill is
broader than the title it is subversive of
Section 3 of Article 3, of the constitu-
tion which reads: “No bill, except gen-
eral appropriation bills, shall be passed
containing more than one subject which
shall be clearly expressed in the title.”
The insurance lobby, always powerful
and persistent, was strongly in favor of the
measure. It was introduced by RICHARD
J. BALDWIN, floor mai.ager of the PEN-
ROSE machine, in pursuance of a recom-
mendation of acommission appointed dur-
ing the TENER adminstration. There is
no good reason for stifling competition in
insurance any more than in other things.
It is neither wise nor necessary to “in-
crease the cost of insurance.”
‘But the greatest danger in this innova-
tion is not in the fact that the bill in ques-
tion stifles competition and increases the
cost of insurance. The menace lies in
the enlarged power which such a prec-
edent gives to the Governor over legis-
lation. Four days elapsed between the
veto of the bill and the subsequent ap-
proval of it. If the Governor can change
his mind and alter his action upon a bill
after four days why not after four weeks
or four months? It was said by one of
the attaches of his office that the veto
had not been filed in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth and con-
sequently was not officially declared.
But that is a subterfuge. It was given
to the public, through the newspapers
with the Governor’s consent, and might
have misled citizens into important busi-
ness blunders.
That Note to Germany.
There is nothing inflammatory, no ul-
timatum and no declaration of war in
the President's last note to the German
Emperor. Itisa cordial expression of
genuine friendship from start to finish.
In the previous note the German Em-
peror had been politely admonished
against the murder of American men,
women and children by the brutal use of
submarines in the destruction of passen-
ger ships upon the high seas. The Ger-
man government side-stepped this admo-
nition by an evasive answer. It is not
on account of the value of the ships or
the destruction of the cargoes that the
President protests. It is upon the broad
principle of humanity, beyond and above
“diplomatic discussion or of internation-
al controversy.”
But the President of the United States
wants no evasion of the question. He
resorts to no evasion himself. To the
statement that the Lusitania carried
masked guns and a cargo forbidden clear-
ance by the laws of the United States,
he is clear and candid. “It was the du-
ty of the United States,” he says, “to see
that the Lusitania was not armed for of-
fensive action, that she was not serving
as a transport, that she did not carry a
cargo prohibited by the statutes of the
United States and that if in fact she was
a naval vessel of Great Britain, she
should not receive clearance as a mer-
chantman; and it performed that dnty
and enforced its statutes with scrupulous
vigilance, through its regularly consti-
tuted officials.”
The President asks the German Em-
peror to reply to questions of greater
moment with equal directness. If this
just demand is complied with there is no
more danger of war with Germany than
there is with Canada or Cuba. Ameri-
can citizens must feel safe in; the enjoy-
ment of natural rights. If, as we have
said before, Great Britain were trying to
shield munitions of war under the skirts
of American women part of the respon-
sibility for disaster would be upon her
shoulders. But the President settles that
matter by his candid statement of facts
and there is nothing to do but await pa-
tiently for the reply which the President
and all the people of the United States
hope for, compléte acquiescence.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. J UNE 18, 1915.
| —Clearfield hasa new fire alarm which was
| tried out for the first time last Saturday morn-
ling. It was heard in Ridgway, a distance of
, twenty-five miles, as the crow flies.
NO. 25.
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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
has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg.
It is not 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 sei vice for this work.—ED.
HARRISBURG, PA., June 16th, 1915.
Saturday is the last day for signing bills enacted during the recent session of
the Legislature and the Governor is working overtime to complete his arduous
task. The appropriation bills gave him a great deal of trouble as they have given
his recent predecessors more or less anxiety. The Auditor General threw a scare
into him in the beginning by stating that the appropriation bills exceeded the
prospective revenues by something like eleven million dollars. But the Chairmen
of the appropriation committees of the House and Senate reassured him and ac-
cording to the best information attainable he will only cut a couple of millions
out of the aggregate. ;
It makes a vast difference “whose ox is gored” and of course everybody in-
terested in appropriations is trying to find out which bills will be cut. Thus far
no intimation has been given on the subject and the Governor's inquiry of heads
of departments as to the actual needs of each is taken as an indication that the
question will not be determined by favoritism. If this expectation is fulfilled,
moreover, there will be no cause for complaint. The Legislature has no business
to appropriate beyond the revenues and excessive appropriations obtained by log-
rolling deserve to bz cut out. A rebuke of this kind administered in this way
may do a deal of good.
Among the bills signed within the week is that providing for the consolida-
tion of the Eastern and Western penitentiaries. It involves the abandonment of
the Cherry Hill prison at Philadelphia which is the oldest penal institution in the
State. It will also necessitate an enlargement of the Centre county property and
of the facilities for maintaining prisoners at that institution. The purpose of the
authorities, it is understood, is to change the methods of treating prisoners. That
is to say it is proposed to convert the prison into a sort of industrial home in
which convicts who are not hardened criminals will have opportunity to study the
principles of morality and the habits of industry.
The number of bills vetoed within a week justify the predictions that Gover-
nor BRUMBAUGH will make a record. Singularly enough Governors seem to take
pride in vetoing bills and the record made by TENER was easily his greatest
achievement. But the session of two years ago lasted six months while that of
this year ran only four months and twenty days. Still this session turned out a
larger volume of legislation. There was less friction in operating the machine
this year than last and the bosses had freer hand. : Naturally the result was a
greater number of questionable bills and a proportionate increase in the activities
of the axe. Yet more might have been accomplished in this direction. :
During the first half of the session, if current reports can be relied upon,
the Governor spent all his energies in negotiating for votes for the local option
bill. In a recentletter I referred to the action of BILL ADAMS, of Luzerne county,
on this measure. Since that it has been learned that the Governor had a hand
in the matter. On the day the vote was taken he sent for ADAMS and asked him
to vote for the measure. Being first on the roll his vote was important and
ADAMS asked the Governor what there was in it for him. The Governor is said
~ to have replied that if he voted for local option the influence of the administra-
tion would be exerted in his behalf in his aspiration for Sheriff,
That “listened” good to Mr. ApAMs but didn’t stampede him. The liquor
interest is strong in Luzerne county, he said, and his vote for local option might
defeat his nomination notwithstanding the influence of the administration in his
behalf. In that event, the Governor is supposed to have added, you will be
given a place in the State government equal in value to that of Sheriff of the
county, whereupon he returned to his seat, made terms with the liquor men and
voted for the bill. Possibly a good many pieces of legislation won approval by
similar dickers with others who had less reason to vote against local option. At
any rate a good many bills that ought to have been vetoed were approved with-
out reason.
The traction engine bill has been approved. It divides traction engines into
two classes, the first being used for agricultural work, road making and hauling
machinery, and may not exceed 28,000 pounds in weight. The second class is
machines used for hauling freight and are limited in weight to 32,000 pounds. All
such engines must be licensed by the State Highway Department, the fees being
for first class machines $5 and for those of the second class $20. There is a spe-
cial license for dealers, $10, and trailers of less than 10,000 pounds weight shall
pay $3 and those weighing between 10,000 and 24,000 pounds $4. There was a
good deal of contention over this measure during its progress through the Leg-
islature.
The bill escheating bank balances and interest accounts of persons long ab-
sent and supposed to be dead has also been approved. It is fondly hoped that
this measure will yield considerable revenue to the State though nobody ventures
even a conjecture as to the amount. Bank officers will be required to report all
such accounts to the State authorities and the monies may be recovered by the
owners any time within ten years. Strangely enough the savings banks are not
included and the greater number of neglected accounts are popularly supposed to
be in such institutions. One Philadelphia savings bank is said to hold several hun-
dred thousand dollars of that kind of money.
The bill increasing the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Charities from
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$3000 to $5000 has been approved as well as that increasing th. salaries of the
chief of the State Department of Mines from: $4000 to $5000 and that of his depu-
ty from $2500 “o $3500, but that increasing the wages of writ and process servers
in Philadelphia was vetoed because it would ' “make a serious charge upon the
taxpayers.” The reasons for this discrimination are not given though in some
measure it marks the difference between salasy and wages. The poor guys who
only earn wages are not entitled to much consideration and the public must be
protected against their predatory impulses. % * .
The following bills of general public interest have been approved: Making it
unlawful for attorneys, servants or employees to receive compensation for insur-
ance upon the lives of their clients or employers: authorizing boroughs to form a
State association; providing for burial of honorably discharged soldiers and ma-
rines at county expense; providing for the immediate registration of births and
deaths by a central bureau of vital statistics in the State Department of Health;
Other bills signed are fixing the fourth Monday in March as last
day for township supervisors to levy road tax and otherwise amending the 1913 law
for the construction and repair of township roads; fixing salaries of county com-
‘missioners in counties of less than 150,000 population.
Since this time last week twenty-five bills have been vetoed and it is expect-
ed that several of the twenty-eight measures’ yet on his desk will be similarly -
“set at rest.” The most important of the vetoed bills is that making Mayors of .
cities of the third class eligible for re-election. Nobody has been able to find out .
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' force.
| Europe’s head more menacingly than
now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the Warcaman | ally represents, in an unofficial way, the
| not the Big Business desire. This is not
From the Philadelphia Press,
a railroad station baggage room fora!
few minutes any day now he would easi-
ly see that he has no Presidential
Faom the Washington Post, "
bring Villa and Carranza too close (to
gother for the comfort of either.
a —The sheriff of Clearfield county has declined
| to permit the ministers of Clearfield to hold even-
ing prayer meetings in the prison, although he
i i has no objection to Sunday morning.
From the Altoona Times. {
5 { —The council of DuBois has decided to post-
There doesn t seem to be much re | pone the city hall project and to erect instead a
sponse je is country to the 2 ors, OL | hose house for the use of one of the fire com-
the volunteer Dutch peacemaker, Van panies, at a cost approximating $9,000.
Ghell Geldmeester. It seems that he re- —Over in Cambria county there have been 118
applications for aid under the provisions of the
Mothers’ pension act. Of these 14 have been ap-
proved and 61 remain to be investigated.
—Albert Hebden, aged 24, residing in the
vicinity of Philipsburg, ate two dozen bananas
last Thursday afternoon on a wager with one of
his friends. He accomplished the feat in twenty.
five minutes. 1
—Lewistown’s epidemic of typhoid fever is
probably due to infected milk. One dairyman
has ceased to sell his product for the present,
several of the fever patients having used milk
furnished by him.
—A Williamsport mannamed Campbell claims
to have invented a device for discovering the
location of submarines when submerged and
then destroying them. If he can make good he
has a fortune awaiting him.
—There is a growing conviction that the late
David Shearer, of Lock Haven, was not murder-
ed but that he committed suicide. The absence
of the eyes and other mutilations of the body
were probably caused by rats.
—A woman named Krumansky, wife of a miner
living near Karthaus, Clearfield county, was
found dead early the other morning in her home.
There was a bullet hole through her head and a
revolver lay by her side. Her husband says she
committed suicide, but the authorities want to
know.
—A jury at Clearfield this week awarded a ver-
dict ot $500 in favor of H. H. Bowes for the ar-
rest and conviction of John O. Keeler, the mur-
derer of Joseph W. Roessner, the Clearfield
brewer. Bowes was Keeler’s brother-in-law.
The Commissioners will appeal from the jury’s
finding.
—The jury which investigated the facts in con-
nection with the explosion in No.1 mine of the
Smokeless Coal company, Ferndale. Cambria
county, which resulted in the death of nine men,
find that the explosive was due to the failure of
the aforesaid company to provide safety lamps,
in accordance with recommendations of Mine
Inspector Nicholas Evans.
—Miss Honore Whalen, of Erie, the first girl to
be graduated from the school of agriculture at
Pennsylvania State College, announces that she
is going to undertake the management of her
father’s ranch in South Dakota, and specialize in
raising beef cattle as one way of reducing the
high price of meat. She completed the four-year
course in agronomy last week.
German Peace Hints.
sentiment of Berlin, and that Germany
is willing to talk peace if the matter can
be arranged without making her appear
eager about it. But the knowledge that
the allies are set inflexibly on the prose-
cution of the war has kept our govern-
ment and public from taking Mr. Geld-
meester’s proposals very seriously.
With all our love of peace, and our
desire to see the European slaughter
ended, most Americans seem to be com-
ing around to the view that the time to
talk peace is yet distant.
Every day that the war drags on brings
its harvest of calamity to the human
race. But thoughtful observers realize
that an abortive peace, a settlement that
Merely to stop fighting, with wrongs un-
avenged and fundamental issues unset-
tled, would be to usher in z period of
greater and more costly armament, in
preparation for the final arbitrament of
The sword would hang over
ever for a few months or years, and then
might come a conflict besides which even
this mighty war would be child’s play.
The struggle, apparently, must go on
as our own Civil war had to, until one
side or the other is definitely beaten.
That outcome may arrive suddenly,
through an unexpected military or diplo-
matic coup, bringing such preponder-
ance of force to one side that the other
cannot hope to stand against it; or the
conflict may drag on until it is ended by
the slow exhaustion of the weaker side
in men and material resources.
In either case, the peacemakers must
wait. We see now more clearly than we
did at first that the war is not an acci-
dental flareup, but that it isa real con-
flict of national ideals, and that it will
do no good to rush in and beat aside the
swords of the combatants if their minds
remain the same as before.
What is at the End?
From the Johnstown Denocrat,
“Mr. Wilson has put his hand to the
plow,” says the New York World, “and
he cannot turn back until he reaches the
end of the furrow.”
Let us hope that this is not exactly
true,
Let us hope that he still has resources of
diplomacy in reserve should those already
used fall short of the desired result.
Let us hope that the last word has not
been said, the last argument advanced.
Let us hope that the end of the furrow
may not be a sea of blood.
“In spite of Mr. Bryan's scruples,”
the World adds, “there is no public de-
site that he (the President) should turn
back.”
Perhaps this is true.
But the country may feel that the
precise course which he has chosen to
follow is fraught with danger which
might have been avoided had soberer
counsels prevailed. That there is any
public desire that the furrow shall be
followed to the end without regard to
consequences we are as yet unprepared
to believe.
On the contrary there are many evi-
dences that the public desire is that no
word or act of ours shall make it im-
possible for Germany to meet us on
peaceful ground for the adjustment of
such differences as may have arisen.
This is not the jingo desire. This is
—A big touring car carrying five persons on
their way from the Brethren meeting at Hershey
to their home in Ohio, rolled down the side of a
mountain, near Ligonier, carrying three of the
passengers with it, a distance of almost 100 feet-
Two were able to jump out before the plunge
was taken. Singularly enough, nobody was
badly hurt and the car little damaged.
—The stockholders of the Greenwich Coal and
Coke company have sanctioned the proposed
merger of the interests of that corporation with
those of the Tunnel Coaling company, which
has a number of operations in Cambria county.
The same officers will continue in charge. A
new ventilating system will be installed at the
Yellow Run shaft, Dunlo, in the near future.
—During the heavy thunder storm on Sunday
night about ten o’clock lightning struck the home
of John Warbo in North Philipsburg, the bolt
running down the chimney and setting fire to
the clothing of a fourteen year old daughter who
was lying on the floor of the sitting room. In
addition to the severe shock sustained by the
girl, she was painfully burned about the face:
side and hands. The child will recover.
—No. 20 mine of the Pennsylvania Coal and
Coke corporation, located at Hastings, has been
sold to the Rich Hill Coal company, which ope-
rates a plant nearby. The mine has been work
ed for nearly 25 years and is badly in need of re-
pairs, which will be made before it is again plac-
ed in operation. A tractof the best coal to be
found in that locality is included in the purchase.
The consideration has not been made public.
the desire of those who get their inspira-
tion from the reservoirs of Privilege. It
is merely the desire of the hewers of
wood and the drawers of water, of those
who make bricks without straw; of those
who do the nation’s work and who would
have to do the nations fighting and the
nation’s dying were the furrow to be fol-
lowed to a bloody end.
—A hotel keeper in Johnstown who asked per-
mission to remove his place of business to anoth-
er location because a church next door to him
objectsto his business, was directed by Judge
C’Connor to stay where he is. The judge re-
marked that the hotel was there long before the
church was built and if the church people were
willing to build there knowing the conditions,
they would have to put up with the situation.
Necessity’s Latest Progeny.
From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
The war, which has cut off the supply
of fustic used in producing yellow dye
needed in the leather trade, has spurred
on the chemists of the Government until
they have succeeded in demonstrating
that osage orange yields a good dye at
less cost than the imported wood. The
difference in favor of the American wood
runs from $6 to $8 a ton. The announce-
ment of the success of the Government
experiments was made at the meeting of
the American Leather Chemists’ Associa-
tion in Atlantic City.
Vegetable dyes were used in all textile
industries until the coal tar colors dis-
placed them. They are better than the
coal tar dyes, holding their color longer
and producing more beautiful effects.
The only advantage which the chemical
dyes have over the dyes which they" dis-
placed is the ease with which different
shades can be produced. So
The country is as full of dye wo
and herbs as it ever was. If our chem-
ists cannot use the secret processes em-
ployed by the Germans in producing
dyes—though this is by no means ’cer-
tain—they can succeed in perfecting sim-
ple and inexpensive methods of extract-
ing colors from the native products, ‘Ne-
cessity is ‘the mother of a numerous yee LOF agt compa
progeny and she is still in her prime. | The mules were ‘of good stock and
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- —Judgment for $20,000" awarded by Pennsyl-
.vania State courts to the Mitchell Coal and Coke:
company against. the Pennsylvania railroad as
three-fold damages for the railroad’s favoritism
to the Berwind-White Coal Mining company, in
car distribution ‘nearly ten years ago was affirm-
ed on Monday by the Supreme court of the United,
States. The court restored to the docket for anoth*
er argument appeals taken by the railroad com
pany from awards of damages to the Sonman
Shaft Coal Co.; andthe Stineman Coal ‘Mining
company, also of Cambria county, heard originally
with the Mitchell case. In these cases the State
court decided the shipments were intrastate.
—While operating upon Mrs. Catharine To-
taskai for gall stones, the surgeons of the Wil-
liamsport hospital discovered that both the gall
sac and the appendix were on the left side in.
stead of the right ani the heart was near the
medial line instead of in its proper place on the
left side. The woman suffered no inconvenience,
the functioning of these and other organs which
were also out of place being perfectly normal. i.
—Sounding the air whistle to frighten what was
supposedly a huge dog from the track, a Logan
Valley motorman was surprised to discover the
animal was a large black bear, late Saturday
night. Although the car, which was making the
final trip from Tyrone to’ Altoona, was running
at a great rate of speed, the motorman slowed
down for a crossing and was enabled to glimpse
the animal distinctly beneath the rays of the
headlight.) i: conclu iniiup aa 2%
* —The Coal Hill barn owned by the Queen's Run
Fire Brick company, which structure is near the =
mines at Queen’s Run, was burned to the ground
during Friday night. Three mules used at the
mines perished in the flames, while all the harn-
ness and a quantity of hay, straw and grain ‘was
also destroyed.. The origin of the blaze could not
be learned, but jt is reported to be the work of an
incendiary. This is the second barn that has
been destroyed for that company in recent years.
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