Demorralit Wade
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Some of the corn is in shock but
there has been little frost on the pump-
kin, as yet.
—Accept it gracefully, gentlemen.
Remember, that a poor loser finds very
few sympathetic listeners.
—Drivers of automobiles who will not
stay on the right side of the road should
have their license revoked.
—There isn’t an old official in Centre
county who need be afraid to go before
the voters on his record of the past four
years.
—More married women of today would
still be languishing in single blessedness
had their dupes seen them as the milk
men and the ice men did.
—Wednesday morning a great many
peopie in Centre county woke up to dis-
cover why the WATCHMAN has so fre-
quently called him HENRY CUTE.
—Boston paid fifteen hundred dollars
to hear Mr. BRYAN talk peace for one
hour. It evidently costs almost as much
for the air gun of peace as it does for
the nitro-bombs of war.
—Anyway, there is more money in a
good law practice than a Judge's salary
amounts to. This might be some con-
solation to the three gentlemen who got
the distance flag in the first heat.
—If HENRY FORD'S idea of having a
“little pill on the end of a pole” revolu-
tionize naval warfare then, we presume,
there will be nothing more to the old
idea of the longest pole knocking the
persimmon.
—A few days make a terrible differ-
ence. Last week we would have mur-
dered Col. TAYLOR had he turned the
steam heat on the town. Today lots of
us would vote him just the nicest man
in the place if he did it.
—Centre county will have to do with-
out a fair this fall. The gentlemen of
the fair association think there has been
too much doing already in Centre county,
this season, to undertake another week
of excitement before winter sets in.
—The Treasury Department's idea that
business is good because small change is
in such great demand isn’t the idea of
many men engaged in the mercantile
business. We have often heard . wise
ones among them say that good times
always mean plenty of big bills in ‘the
cash drawer.
—The defeat of HARRY BADGER for re-
nomination for the office of overseer of
the poor for Bellefonte was one of those
strange political happenings that occur so
frequently and are utterly unexplainable.
Mr. BADGER was an’ exceptionally con-
scientious and capable official and it
seems to us that he was entitled to anoth-
er nomination at the hands of his party.
—Commissioners GROVE .and NoOLL
have worked wonders in reducing the
county debt. They might have made
some enemies during their service to the
county; very likely they have. But tax-
payers realize that they have saved them
money and prudent tax-payers are not
going to swap horses in the middle of the
stream. They want GROVE and NoLL
kept in office until the county debt is
paid.
—The trial heats being over all the
spectators are advised to stand up, turn
around, shake the cricks out and then
settle themselves to witness the real race
between the Buick and the Ford. It will
be forty-six days of go-as-you please and
there is sure to be some real excitement
in it. Keep your spark plugs clean, gen-
tlemen; your gas tanks always full, a few
blow-out patches under the seat, don’t
use your cut-outs and keep on the right-
hand side of the road. Go!
—If our Prohibition friends are true to
the government they are trying to up-
hold they will not undertake a sticker”
campaign for a third candidate in the
judicial contest. They would not have
even a remote chance to elect such a
candidate. Pique, retaliation and a desire
to get even might be the incentive of
political minority parties but certainly no
such thoughts should be entertained by
the christian gentlemen who constitute
most of the Prohibition party. What they
should do is rally to the lesser of the two
evils, if they regard them as such, in the
present contest and bide the time when
they can fight for their cause in the Leg-
islature, for there is where the matter of
Prohibition or no Prohibition must ulti-
mately be settled.
—Temperance people in Centre coun-
ty who were so indignant because they
had no ticket to vote on Tuesday should
have stopped to consider the fact that
they had no one to blame but their fel-
low temperance people. The opportunity
was given them at the last general elec-
tion to vote for men of their own pro-
clivities but some of them preferred to
vote for others, with the result that their
vote fell short of the percentage of the
total required to give them a ballot at
the next election. Naturally the law
couldn’t countenance givingla Democratic
or Republican or Washington party
ballot to a voter who had declared him-
self a Prohibitionist, for that would be
defeating the very purpose of the pri-
mary Act, whichis to prevent the raiding
of one party primary by the voters of
another party.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 24, 19135.
“VOL. 60,
Next Years’ Issue Not the Tariff
throughout
in the face of the most adverse condi- |
tions.
would have been no industrial paralysis. !
were most auspicious.
merce for a time.
trade closed tight instantly.
last.
every steel and iron mill in this country
could have been operated to full capacity
in profitable business. At any time with-
in the same period every railroad in the
country could have handled double
betterments that would have diffused
prosperity in all sections.
Republican party to power and renew the
license to loot through the medium of
tariff graft, the tide of prosperity was
It was a conspiracy against the people of
this country that ought to be punished
by imprisonment.
But at last the flood has proved too
strong for resistance and mills, factories
and shops are humming in every direc-
tion. And the beauty of it is that the
prosperity will not be limited to the
tariff barons and graft beneficiaries. It
will be distributed broadcast and the me-
chanic and laborer will get their shares,
and their shares are a considerable part
of the whole. The future business
operations will. show that men are not
taxed into wealth and that robbing a
man isn’t putting money in his purse.
The Democratic administration has had
{adversity to battle against but it has won
the fight ‘and: stands fully vindicated.
The cz _issue | of next year will not
'be the tariff. 3 :
—It would be a little premature to be
ordering a judicial ermine made, but
we’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that HENRY
CUTE has already looked over that silk
lid and Prince Albert and made up his
mind that both being a trifle worn, it
wouldn’t come amiss to have new ones
in the wardrobe even if things don’t
break right in November.
Strengthen Our Defences Rationally.
Most thoughtful people share the
opinion that Congress should during the
coming session, make some provision for
strengthening the defensive forces of the
country. Our splendid isolation and vast
resources in men and material are, as
they have always been, our greatest pro-
tection and until less than a third of a
century ago, we felt perfectly secure with
practically no navy and an army of about
lation since and multiplied in wealth in
far greater ratio, so that maintaining an
army of four times the strength and a
navy of ample force will be no more: a
burden now than the smaller force was
tion to the reasonable increase.
But preparedness for defensive action
strued as converting our industrial life
into a military machine. Europe is now
suffering the penalties of the German
policies in that direction and however the
war results it will leave to the world a
now the question of providing men and
money for the armies is a problem of the
greatest gravity and little more than a
year has elapsed since the first gun was
fired in the conflict. If we ‘had been pre-
pared, as the jingoes understand that
the ability and aversions of the Presi- |
dent, long ago.
No doubt Congress will approach the
grave question in the light of reason and
make such additions to our military and
naval equipment as the President and his
Cabinet suggest. The poverty of Europe,
already too obvious, should admonish
against profligacy. There is no great
hurry in any event, to enlist soldiers and
build battleships. For more than ten
years to come there will be no govern-
ment anxious for war and in less than
that time land and sea forces can be
created and equipped of sufficient strength
to serve any military purpose that ought
to be considered. Strengthen our de-
fensive forces but do it in a sensible and
rational way that will make the burden
as light as possible.
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The complete revival of industrial life | |
the traffic which it accepted and might
easily and safely have given orders for
But in the!
hope that dull business would restore the |
held back by every possible expedient. |
25,000 men. But we have tripled in popu-
then. Therefore there will be no objec- |
in the event of war should not be con-
heritage of destitution and poverty. Even |
term, we would probably have been forc- more effective to hire competent men
ed into the participation, notwithstanding for such services.
Roosevelt’s Ambition Defeated.
That THEODORE ROOSEVELT is a candi-
doubt. He is obsessed with the ambition
If the war in Europe had not] for a third term and realizes that the’
broken out thirteen months ago there ; only chance of attaining it is through the
! Republican party. If any other party
The conditions for a prosperous future , gave brighter promise he would embrace
But the breaking ' it. Prohibition, Socialist or even Anarchist
out of the war simply destroyed com- | are alike to him vehicles for getting into ;
All the avenues of the limelight.
Without principle and
In a very : thoroughly selfish he courts the favors of
short time the signs improved but the any party and gives allegiance to no
promise of political advantage induced ; party.
all the tariff mongers to discourage in- |
dustry and ever since they have continu- 'publicans as undesirable and condemned , “
ed a campaign of calamity. But the 'the leaders of the organization as trai-!
back of resistance has been broken at tors. One year ago he undertook to
| “tear WILSON to pieces,” by identifying
At any time during the last six months | himself with a faction of the Democratic
Four years ago he denounced the Re-'
party of Pennsylvania with the view of
alienating members of that party faith
from the President. His vitriolic attack
upon the Germans had for its aim the
concentration of voters of opposite views
in his favor. He is as utterly conscience-
less as he is completely sordid and
selfish.
But Mr. ROOSEVELT’S expectations will
be disappointed. There is no possible
chance of hisrestoration to popular favor.
People have come to understand him.
His demagogy no longer allures or de-
ceives. It is accepted at its actual value
rather than upon his estimate. He will
not get the Republican nomination or
even influence the platform of that party.
His attacks upon WooDROW WILSON no
longer challenge attention. His opinions
upon public questions no longer appeal
to any considerable number of people.
He is a ‘“dead duck.”
This is a happy symptom, moreover.
It indicates the restoration of reason, the
return of rationalism. We have been
passing through a period of political and
social hysteria. Demagogues' and hypo- |
crites have been in the front for a time.
But they have reached their tether. They
will never again dominate in this coun-
try and probably not in any other coun-.
try. It is an encouraging sign. And
“giving the devil his due,” it must be ad-
mitted that ROOSEVELT'S extravagance of |
speech and carelessness in statement is
responsible for the fact.
—Of course the Hon. “Deacon” HARRIS
was very far away from the fifty-four
per cent. of the total vote that he had
predicted for his pet candidate, but the
Hon. “Deacon” must be given credit for
having organized - some campaign for
him.
Brumbaugh’s Next Expensive Junket.
Governor BRUMBAUGH, who has just
returned from an expensive junket to
California, is now busy making prepara-
tions for a tour of the State, at public
expense, for the ostensible purpose of in-
specting the public highways. It is said
that he will take a considerable number
of officials and others with him on this
tour and in the nature of things the cost
will be high. The real purpose of the
Governor, it is intimated and widely be-
lieved, is to repair “political fences.” He
aspires to make the next Legislature
completely obedient to his caprices in
every respect and the impending tour is
for the purpose of laying the lines to
that end. x
All of us want good roads and will
cheerfully nay our share of tae legitimate
expense to acquire them. But how is
this result to be promoted by such an
enterprise as the Governor contemplates?
He is not an engineer nor even an ex-
perienced road builder. Possibly when a.
boy he may have worked a day or two
on the mud roads of his neighborhood to
discharge, in part, the family tax for
local road maintenance. But that fact
doesn’t qualify him as an highway ex-
pert whose opinions on the subject are
worth to the people of Pennsylvania the
vast amount which his coming junket
| BAUGH is setting an example of profligacy,
will entail. It would be cheaper and far
As a matter of fact Governor get. |
inefficiency and proprietorship in the
public life of the State which can have
no other than a baneful influence. Dur-
ing the first session of the Legislature |,
after his inauguration he not only under- |
took to dominate legislation but entered
into the most demoralizing bargains to
influence votes upon pending measures.
Since the adjournment of the session he
has been junketing almost constantly at
public expense and letting the govern-
ment jog along at the mercy of sub-
ordinates. But BRUMBAUGH is a profes-
sional reformer and professional reform-
ers invariably turn out to be official
nuisances.
—Speaking of misplaced confidence
Dr. DUMBA’S real mission in life is con-
(the same as before.
representation.
ducting a street car.
Non-Partisan Ballot a Failure.
Again the experience of an election has
the country is the more | date for the Republican nomination for failed to vindicate the wisdom of the
gratifying because it has been achieved | President next year no longer admits of non-partisan ballot for electing judges.
Judge JoHN B. HEAD has been nominated,
it is true, but it was because the Republi-
can machine permitted it. That course
on this occasion was “good politics.” |
Judge HEAD had so completely won pop- |
ular favor that an attempt to retire
him from the seat he so conspicuously ,
‘adorns, might have defeated all other
plans. But with respect to Judge HEAD’S
asssociates on the ticket it is precisely
The Republican
machine managers selected them in
star chamber” fashion and issued orders
for their election. It is a travesty on
non-partisanship.
Two years ago there were no Demo-
crats on the non-partisan ballot and the
fact that WEBSTER GRIM got on in 1911
was “a slip-up.” It was intended then to
prevent an increase of the number of
Democrats on the appellant benches of
the State. But GRIM slipped through and |
threw a scare into the machine managers
which will not be soon forgotten. This
year they realized that the defeat of HEAD
would have been regarded as scandalous
by the public and as one Democrat on:
the bench can do little harm they “made
a virtue of necessity,” and let him go
through. But so long as the system ob-
‘tains, unless a political revolution ensues,
not more than one Democrat will be al-
lowed to each of the higher courts.
It might have been possible to nomi-
nate another Democratic jurist if another
of the distinguished lawyers of that faith
had entered the contest. But it was gen-
erally believed that an attempt to get
another seat would have resulted in los-
ing the one we have and no effort was
made to secure another member. Under
the old system such a manipulation of
the vote would have been impossible for
in the circumstances that were present
this year the minority - voters could have
combined their strength and compelled
the election of one of their number. But
‘under the system which allows each
vote to select to the full number to bel
chosen it is easy to prevent. minority
——The State Medical Society proposes ;
to “make Pennsylvania the medical cen-
tre of the world.” That is an ambitious |
enterprise though not an impossibility.
But the profession must be taken out of
politics as an initial step. Too many
doctors have their eyes focussed on the
spoils of office to help much in the laud-
able purpose expressed by the new presi-
dent of the Society, Dr. JouN B. Mc-
ALLISTER, of Harrisburg, the other day,
at the meeting in ‘Philadelphia.
——A number of enterprising women
of Williamsport who are interested in the
cause of woman suffrage got out a suf-
frage edition of the Williamsport Sun
last Saturday. The edition was plan-
ned and edited throughout by the wom-
en and it was a very creditable piece
of work. Of course practically all the
reading matter pertained to the cause of
suffrage, but that was the purpose of
the women in charge.
——Of course the billion dollar loan :
' constructed, great machine shops erected.
will be consummated sooner or later and
real money may be transferred from one
bank to another in the transaction, now
and then. But the actual need of the
allies is something to check HINDEN- | ago could
BURG’S drive of the Russians in the
neighborhood of Poland.
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Getting Rid of Mexico.
From the Altoona Times,
If General Carranza can handle the
Mexican situation himself, let him do it.
There has never been a time during the
Mexican reign of terror when this nation
would not gladly have upheld Carranza’s
hands if we could have been sure that
he had the requisite power, that he
meant to carry out the legitimate pur-
! poses of the revolution, and that he |
| would treat the United States and other
foreign governments with the proper
consideration. Nearly all Carranza’s
troubles have been caused by his own
arrogance and unreasonableness.
He shows signs now of common sense
and discretion. His reply to the invita-
tion that he join in the conference with
representatives of the United States and
Latin-American powers to consider the
restoration of peace in Mexico has been
_ dignified and courteous. At last he
recognizes the “sincerity and noble de-
sires” of the governments making the
proposal. He is still opposed to any show
of “foreign intervention”— which has not
been suggested by the American powers
—and is willing to confer on matters of
international interest. He proposes a
conference somewhere in his own terri-
tory, and maintains that there can be no
question now of his right to speak for
i Mexico because he controls ‘‘the greater
part of the national domain.”
How well Carranza controls it is open
to serious question. Anarchy is still re-
ported in many sections, and certainly
northern Mexico is far from peaceful in
spite of Villa's defeats. ..
Nevertheless, Carranza today wields
more power apparently than all the other
rebel chiefs together. And if he really
can subdue the remaining malcontents
and conduct himself as the head of a
responsible government, by all means let
our government recognize him as soon
as the necessary assurances have beén
given. It would be a tremendous load
off our na j mind at this vexing time
to be rid of
earns.
This Mad World.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The universal comment upon the news
that the Arctic explorer Stefansson has
been heard from for the first time since
April of 1914 is—“What a lot of news
there is for him.” When Stefansson dis-
appeared in the vast, icy desolation of
the Arctic the whole world was at peace,
save for the dull glimmer of war in Mex-
ico and the usual Balkan k and Latin-
American sputterings. Now when we
| have news from him there is a great deal
of amazing news for him, and the news
that he has to give us seems barr Lin:
“deed~—the discovery of ¢ late -
inhabited lands which are “not
likely to be of any use to mankind. But
he news that we have to give him is
t worse than barren, as we new see it,
although we cannot see it clearly; news
of the far spread havoc of war between
the greatest of nations and with the use
of destructive agencies never before ap-
plied; war in the air and under the wa-
ter; war with artillery of such power
that it operates beyond the range of
vision and wrecks the most impregnable
fortifications as by earthquake; war by
trenches, labyrinths, mines and counter-
mines along fronts extended on both side
‘of Europe for many hundred miles, ap-
plied with all the facilities that science
and invention can offer, eagerly paid for
with life and treasure by the millions.
And all for nobody knows what!
Well may Stefansson exclaim. “The
world has gone stark mad.”
And yet the world thought him mad
when he plunged into the Arctic.
The ‘Menace of of Invention.
From the Johnstown Democrat,
The modern implements of war are a
byproduct of our industrial establish-
ment. Wars, as we fight them nowadays,
are made possible by reason of the fact
that great railroad systems have been
War takes charge of every invention and
| uses it for its own purpose. It forces the
telegraph and telephone into service.
The industrial conditions of fifty years
not have sustained a mod-
rn war. We are forging ahead as far
as mechanical invention goes, but we are
| paying a fearful price for progress. ‘The |
militarists tell us invention has served to
——Young Mr. ROCKEFELLER’S “swing. i make the Atlantic a menace rather than
ing a pick in a Colorado coal mine,” is
not likely to fool any except the most
credulous. If he would give justice more
chance to swing in the mines in Colorado |
and.elsewhere, under his control, better
results would be achieved.
——The Boston and Maine railroad |
spent $841,267 to influence legislation in
New Hampshire within a period of three |
years. The Boston and Maine railroad
is now struggling under a burden of debt
which threatens to crush its life out.
—ToMm SWITH having been nominated
by the Republican machine for Mayor of | i
Philadelphia SAM SALTER is probably
beginning to believe that politicians may
“come back.”
——All persons in Centre county con-
templating making contributions to the
Suffrage campaign, will please send their |
money to the county treasurer as soon
as possible.
——Berlin is certain that the Hesperian
was sunk by a mine but has no evidence
to offer on the subject. Berlin is “nim-
ble in speech” but not persuasive in
statement.
——There will be no Centre county
fair this year, but the big Milton fair will
be held next week.
a protection to us. If invention simply
increases the dangers, the woe, the mis-
ery of the world, why call invention pro-
. gress? If modern industry simply goes
about the task of elaborating engines of
destruction, what a pity it is that the
race ever pessad out of the shepherd
stage!
Preparedness.
. From the Houston Post. 3
When we see a sensibly dressed girl
' looking at the display windows of the
: furniture stores and inspecting the fry-
. ing-pan counter at the hardware store in
August, our guess is that she expects to
have him in the little vineclad corral
. about November 10.
Another Call : for Democratic Rooster.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Canada’s hens are not doing their duty
i in this hour of trial, so Uncle Sam is
shipping eggs by the million across the
er. Here is something to crow about.
Ah, Ring Of.
From the Pittsburgh Sun. .
Ohio has four “favorite’’ sons to enter
‘in the next Republican presidential cam-
paign. There is a strong suspicion that
-at least three of them are ringers.
Just Like Christians.
From the Washington Post.
Although sincere to their religious be-
lief, the Turks probably would prefer
ceding a section of paradise to parting
with any of the home grounds. :
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—George Woods, watchman at the Johnstown
municipal hospital, has been suspended for ten
days for kissing the cook without having first ob-
tained her consent.
—After suffering intensely for a week, the re-
sult of a scalding received when he fell into a vat
of boiling liquid at the Mahaffey tannery, James
Marshall, aged 20, died in the Clearfield hospital.
—John Cole of Philipsburg, solicitor and col-
lector for the Prudential insurance company, is
out just $75 which some light-fingered thief ap-
propriated from the Cole domicile the other day.
—Paul Taylor, a resident of Williamsport, saved
Lydia Moyer, aged 21, of Friedens, and Margaret
Aderhold, aged 15, of Logan Station, from drown-
ing in Lycoming creek, near Cogan station. The
girls were wading in the creek and plunged into
a hole twelve feet deep.
—Garfield Larson, 25 years old, member of the
firm of Larson Brothers, lumber and coal dealers
of Renovo, was instantly killed on Monday when
a sharp pointed plank was hurled from a saw in
the Larson mill and penetrated his neck. His
head was nearly severed.
—Brigadier General Charles M. Clement, of
Sunbury, commanding the Third Brigade of the
State National Guard, is being talked of as a
possible successor to Major General C. B. Dough-
erty, who will retire this month. An appoint-
ment is not looked for for some time.
—The famous big white beaver hat worn by
Colonel William Fairman, of Punxsutawney, to
many national and state political conventions,
was utterly destroyed one day last week at the
cleaners. The man who was cleaning the vener-
able headpiece was using gasoline and got too
close to the fire.
—=Wholesale arrests have been made in Sun-
bury, Milton and Watsontown for alleged viola-
tion of the State Labor Law. Some are charged
with employing boys and girls under 14 years of
age, others with employing women for seven
-days a week and for more than the specified
number of hours per day. -
—The Lycoming Edison company on Monday
offered to light the city of Williamsport for the
next three years at the rate of $39.60 per arc
lamp, the cheapest figure for street lightingin the
history of any city. The bid was made in com.
petition with the Citizens’ Electric company
‘whose figures were $49.74.
—The will of the late Peter C. Morgan, who
was found dead in bed at Williamsport last week,
contains a provision directing his executors to
forgive his debtors and to furnish each one who
owed him anything at the time of his death and
who offers to make a payment, witha receipt in
full without taking the money.
—In sentencing Dr. John R. Robinson, who
had been brought back from Colorado on a
charge of wife desertion, to serve a year in pris-
on, Judge Whitehead, of Lycoming county, said
he was determined to treat such a type of man as
he would proprietors of houses of prostitution by
imposing the maximum sentence.
—Dr. D. A. Cowdrick, of Clearfield, who sued
the New York Central railroad for damages be-
cause he had contracted a sickness which prov-
ed expensive, due to exposure and detention for
almost an hour while one of the defendant’s
trains blocked the crossing, was awarded $875
‘| damages by a Clearfield county jury last week.
—While in W. G. Murray’s store at Shawville,
Clearfield county, Willard Dickson, of that town,
was stunned by an electric flash and remain-
ed unconscious for several hours. He was in
the act of taking a drink of water when the bolt
-struck the Murray residence and was conducted
to the ‘store, reaching Dickson, who had his hand
He has recovered.
—James Zorn, of Connellsville, an engineer on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was fatally shot
or: Tuesday morning while the engine was tak_
ing water near West Newton. George Myers,
: | the fireman, is. under arrest charged’ with the
‘all, i
. in"his fore-
head, inflicted by Zorn with a wrench. The fight
followed a dispute over their work on the en-
gine. :
—Rupert Hornick, of Johnstown, is dead. as the
result of a singular accident. He was working in -
one ofsthe Cambria company’s rolling mills,
standing about seven feet from the ground. He
lost his balance and fell backwards. A heavy
sledge hammer stood on the floor directly under
him. He landed squarely on the handle. It
broke his backbone and punctured a lung. An
hour later the man died.
‘—George Woods, a Clearfield contractor,
claims to have been robbed of $130.00 at the Penn-
sylvania railroad passenger station in Philips-
burg, Monday evening of last week, while wait-
‘ing for the traih to go to Wallaceton to pay some
of his men who’ are working at the Harbison—
Walker brick yard at that place. The money
was, in a purse, which was taken from his pocket.
"No clue to the thief has as yet been discovered.
—Following an inquest into the cause of the
death of the infant daughter of Leo Eck, of Col-
lomsville, Tuesday morning the coroner's jury
brought in a verdict declaring death was due to
violence at the hands of the child’s father. Eck,
who was placed under arrest on Tuesday at his °
home in Collomsville by County Detective Tepel
has been a prisoner in the county jail. A charge
of involuntary manslaughter will likely be made
against Eck.
—PFifty dollars was what it cost Ray Wirick, of
South Fork, to flourish an evil-looking butcher
knife on Washington street Wednesday night of
last week. That was the amount of the fine as-
sessed in police court against him the next morn-
ing. Wirick informed the court that he had arm-
ed himself with the big butcher knife as a matter
of precaution. He said he had an idea he would
need it to defend himself, but he couldn’t exact-
ly explain why he had tickled the breasts of a
couple of young men with its sharp point.
—Outbreaks of typhoid fever which have been
reported from Western Pennsylvania boroughs
are declared by State Health Department officials
not to be of an extensive or serious nature, al-
though each one is being watched with the great-
est care, and inspectors and engineers have fol-
lowed up every case. Most of them have been
found due to local conditions, which have been
quickly discovered and provided against, while
the number of cases following a report of the
outbreak has seldom increased.
—On Monday night when E. K. Waite and
Walter Sweitzer were returning to their home at
Warriorsmark from lodge in Tyrone, two men
rushed upon them from behind the bushes near
Stover station. The one caught the horse, while
the other rushed toward the buggy and demand-
ed the money of the occupants. Mr. Sweitzer
jumped out of the buggy in the excitement and
Mr. Waite called for help with all his might and
put up a desperate fight. Finally, when he was
about to give up his fine new gold watch and
some money, Earl Nearhoof and Lawrence Whip-
po, who had also been at lodge, appeared on the
scene and the robbers took to their heels and fled.
—Missing his horse which had been put out to
pasture, Allen Moore, a Lower Augusta town-
ship, Northumberland county farmer, Sunday,
made a search and found that” it had broken
through the covering of an abandoned well,
which the farmer did not know existed, and had
fallen the twenty feet to the bottom. Moore ob-
tained help, a temporary block and tackle was
erected on a tripod of heavy timbers, and twenty
.| men hauled the animal to the top, when it was
discovered that an old, rusty bucket was caught
in one of its shoes. Moore removed the bucket,
cut open the top, and out rolled a stream of coins
of a Spanish mintage of a half century ago.
There were more than fifty doubleuns and many
ilver pieces, and the Whore al decl:
silves oces value was eclared