BY P. GRAY MEEK. |
INK SLINGS.
—The Centre county taxes are lower :
than they have been since 1905. |
|
—Only 78 days until Christmas. Itis
time to begin looking around a little.
—President WILSON and most of the |
members of his Cabinet came out square- |
ly for womans’ suffrage this week. |
—Germany is almost down the tree |
and only those who hoped the United
States would become involved in war
with her are'disappointed.
—Automobile accidents are multiply-
ing and the increase is due mostly to
failure on the part of some drivers to
recognize the other fellow’s rights on the
road.
—This warm weather is especially ap-
preciated by the corn huskers. Sitting
astride a shock of fodder with numb
fingers isn’t the pleasantest work in the
world. .
—Laying politics aside we think that
every man who can form a judgment.
not swayed by party bias or personal an- |
imosity will admit that the gentlemen
who are aspiring to office on the Demo-
cratic ticket in Centre county are better |
equipped for the duties than their oppo-
nents.
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—The tax payers of Centre county
haven’t forgotten the thirty year mort- |
gage that was plastered on their homes |
six years ago by incompetent manage-
ment in the commissioners office. They
know there is no incompetency there
now and those of them who are wise will
vote to make no change.
——President WILSON declared for
Woman Suffrage and announced his
engagement to Mrs. NORMAN GALT, a
wealthy Washington woman on Wednes-
day. And yet some people have mar-
veled at the way in which he has hand-
led the foreign diplomatic situation dur-
ing the past fifteen months.
—In twenty-five days the election will
be here. There are some mighty serious
questions for the voters of Centre county
to consider in that time. The WATCH-
MAN proposes to help them make up
their minds by a fair and dispassionate
presentation of each and every element
that can properly enter into the discus-
sion. We have faith in the good judg-
ment of the voters of Centre county and
we are going to put it to the test by ap-
pealing to them purely on the: grounds
of reason.
.. —The man who pays taxes in Centre
county will think a long time before he
can make up his mind that it is wise to
change control of the commissioners of-
fice at this time. Messrs. NOLL and
GROVE found the county overwhelmed in
debt when they went into that office four
years ago. They gave it a business-like
administration .at once with the result
that the debt is being wiped out rapidly
while the tax levy is being correspond-
ingly reduced. They assumed a great
burden for the tax payers of Centre
county and are entitled to the honor of
being kept at their posts until they roll
it away.
—If every taxpayer in Centre county
were to declare that the county’s busi-
ness should be run just as carefully and
efficiently as he runs his own, and then
vote that way, there would be no ques-
tion of the re-election of DAVID FORE-
MAN, FRANK SMITH, FRANCIS SPEER, WIL-
LIAM NoLL, DANIEL GROVE and the oth-
ers who seek re-election. And, after all,
why shouldn’t it be locked at in that way.
They are men of the most experience.
Everyone of them is the equal and some of
them the peer of their opponents in the
traits that go to make the character of
men we believe should be chosen as our
county officials.
—Upon the occasion of installing him
pastor of the Market Square Presbyterian
church, at Harrisburg, Dr. MOFFAT said
some things to Dr. GEORGE E. HAWES
that were evidently designed as a gentle
hint to the distinguished divine who re-
cently left Bellefonte that politics and
successful church work do not go hand
in hand. While we recognize that there
are a great many angles from which this
question can be looked at we think we
are quite within the truth when we say
that in nearly every case where minis-
ters of the gospel get mixed up in polit-
ical controversies discord is sure to fol-
low in their own congregations and their
influence in the community at large has
been lessened.
—The highway department should is-
sue a code of road rules when it issues a
license to the driver of an automobile
and it should enforce their observance
by revoking the license of drivers who
fail to observe them. Action of this sort
would probably have the effect of reduc-
ing the number of accidents because it
would compel drivers to keep in their
places on the highways. Within the last
week we have had personal knowledge
of four cases where serious accidents
were only averted by a miracle and each
one of them was due to unintelligent
driving. We do not think that any of
the cars in question were being reck-
lessly driven. Merely that their drivers
ran into pinches where they had no right
to be and where the other driver had no
‘and express with just emphasis and :
| stantial service, they felt it a duty, as it
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 60.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 8, 1915.
NO. 40.
Veteran Heroes Approve the President.
The veterans of the Civil war who at- |
tended the encampment of the Grand |
Army of the Republic in Washington last |
week expressed their approval of and |
pledged their moral support to President :
WILSON with practical unanimity. Those !
: grizzled heroes know what war is and :
: want no more of it. They are not afraid ,
to fight as their records show but they pre- |
fer peace. Therefore they commend the
foreign as well as the domestic policies of
WooDROW WILSON publicly and privately |
candor their detestation of those who are
trying to embarrass him in his arduous
work of administering the government
for the good and safety of the people.
The old soldiers were not in Washing-
ton as partisans. They didn’t make their
pilgrimage to the National capital to
promote the political ambitions of any
man. But as patriots who have earned
the right to be heard by the most sub-
was no doubt a pleasure to give the
President the encouragement of an as-
surance of their sympathy and support.
And they did not underestimate the
value of their action. The President was
not only cheered but he was strengthen-
ed by their spontaneous but none the
less earnest words of approbation. It is
the sort of moral support that braces
honest and earnest men to their highest
achievement.
What the Grand Army veterans did is
precisely what every American citizen
ought to do. No President since LINCOLN
has had such burdens to bear and no
President since Washington has borne
his burdens more uncomplainingly. In
spite of the efforts of unpatriotic and sel-
fish men to embarrass him he has follow-
ed the even tener of his way fulfilling
his obligations and performing his duties
faithfully and courageously. The veter-
ans understand these facts and appre-
ciate them. They have seen the country
in trouble and offered their lives to res-
cue it from the danger it was in. They
are no longer young and strong physical-
ly but their moral force is unimpaired
and it is behind the President.
——Italy may be making some pro-
gress in her purpose to invade Austria
but not enough to get on the front page.
Still the Italians are persistent and it is
possible that they are reserving their
noise until some of that of the others has
died out. :
Silliest Calamity Howl.
Probably the silliest calamity howl that
has ever issued from the throat of any
human being is that now freely indulged
in by machine Republicans to the effect
that at the close of the war Europe will
dump surplus products upon the unpro-
tected people of - the United States and
submerge them under a tide of cheap
goods. When the war closes, if it con-
tinues much longer, Europe will have no
surplus of any kind and the greatest
scarcity will be in labor. They are Kkill-
ing and maiming men over there at the
rate of half a million a month and those
who escape with their lives will have all
they can do to produce food and cloth-
ing for themselves. They will be im-
porters rather than exporters.
Even if it were true that after the ces-
sation of hostilities the millions of Amer-
ican people who are consumers would
have an opportunity to feed and clothe
themselves at lesser expense than that
of recent years, it could hardly be re-
garded as a great hardship. High prices
benefit producers and burden the con-
sumers and as the ratio is about one pro-
ducer to fifty consumers it will strike
the average mind that such a condition
might be endured for a time without
much just reason for complaint. The
tariff tax on most of the products of Eu-
rope under the UNDERWOOD law will pre-
vent “dumping” to some extent and the
anti-discrimination laws now in force
will do the rest.
There will be no dumping of the pro-
ducts of pauper labor or of any other
kind of European manufactures after
the close of the war. In the nature of
things all the belligerents, and that
means all of Europe that is worth while,
will bend their energies to the work of
recuperation and instead of exporting
the products of their mills and factories;
they will be husbanding their resources
for their own use and asking the United
States to help them feed and clothe their
crippled communities. The fellow who
originated such an absurd calamity howl
is out of place if he is at liberty. He
ought to be in the custody of some well
regulated institution for the feeble
minded.
——There may be good germs asa’
medical authority asserts but they are
An Appeal to Reason.
What some of the no-license advocates of Centre county hope to accomplish by
inaugurating a “sticker” campaign for a third candidate for President Judge of
our courts we are totally at a loss to understand. They can scarcely deceive
themselves into the belief that there is the slightest chance of the success of such
a movement and such being the case we can ascribe no other motive to them
than that of consistency.
But are they consistent in undertaking such a movement? Are they not,
Judge, fraught with such grave import
jurisdiction.
In short, they would then be in the
who advocate it.
at the primaries will vote for him at the
tion, as he will.
the election of such a candidate.
by either of the latter motives.
are to have license or no license.
to have.
not be an incentive, for the reason that
in a contest of this sort.
has both of these to an unusual degree.
monwealth.
ticket and votes cast for any candidate whatever,
pasted or written on the ballot, at the coming election will be counted only as
votes for that individual and not as a basis upon which to establish a percentage
that might secure a regular ballot for the Prohibition party at the next election.
All these facts being true it seems to us that there can be no purpose either |
of principle or strategy to be served that is not overshadowed by the demand up-
on every good citizen of the county to make his vote count to its fullest by voting
for one or other of the two regular nominees.
Personally we have nothing whatever to say concerning either Judge ORVIS or
Mr. QUIGLEY. Most of you know both of them and are capable of forming your
own conclusions. The personal element, however, should scarcely be considered
What does count and count over and above every other
consideration is judicial temperament and profundity in the law. Judge ORVIS
rather, losing sight of their greater duty to the community? If the matter of
license or no license were the sole issue involved then the case would have a dif-
ferent aspect, but the disposition of licenses is a mere incident to the duties of a
to every individual over whom he has
If the burden of disposing of the license questions were not imposed upon our
courts the no-license people would have no other interest in the present contest
than to choose between the two candidates who have been regularly nominated.
Under such conditions they would measure the qualifications of the men and give
their votes to that one who gives the greater promise of a sincere, fair and effi-
cient administration of the office in the interest of law, order and justice to all.
same position as that occupied by the
great majority of the voters in Centre county today.
Happily the hopelessness of a “sticker” campaign makes a discussion of the
equipment of the gentleman whom we are informed is to lead it altogether unnec-
essary. The utter futility of such a movement alone should show its folly to those
Certainly few of those who voted against the no-license candidate for Judge
general election and it is equally certain
that the two regular nominees will receive relatively as large a proportion of the
vote that was not out at the primaries and that might be out at the general elec-
Add to this incontrovertible fact the disadvantage the no-license
candidate will be at because his name will not be printed on the ballot and we
think any reasonable person will be compelled to admit that there is no hope of
When there is no hope of election the only motives behind the candidacy of
any person for any office are either an expression of principle, a political deal for
the furtherance of the interests of another candidate or pure malice.
We feel quite certain that our no-license friends are not knowingly actuated
As we have intimated above we are inclined to
the belief that the whole movement, if there be such, is predicated onthe question
of principle. And again we ask the question: Are they not blinded to a greater
duty by a misguided effort to express a principle.
Everybody knows that there is not a true Prohibitionist in Centre county who
would waver for an instant if his vote were the deciding one as to whether we
But that is not the question.
beyond peradventure at the primaries, when the no-license nominee ran third and
had the support of many personal friends who voted for him for other than the
principles he represented and who will not vote for him at the general election
as a “sticker” candidate: ©. 7 4 a a
Knowing then, as they must surely know, the futility of such a movement is
it not THEIR GREATER DUTY TO WAIVE AN EXPRESSION OF PRINCIPLE
AT A TIME WHEN IT CAN BE OF NO AVAIL and lend their energies to give to
the courts of Centre county the very best judicial attainments that it is possible
That was settled
Even the matter of maintaining the integrity of the Prohibition party can-
it is too late to nominate a Prohibition
whether his name be
He had both of them before he was
elevated to the bench ten years ago and they have been developed during his dis- «
tinguished service until now he is regarded as one of the ablest jurists in the Com-
Game Protectionists Should be Consistent.
The State Game Commission recently
declared the counties of Blair and Indi-
ana closed to the killing of deer and
pheasants at the request of the Hunters’
and Sportsmens’ Game Protective asso-
ciation of the two counties. Cambria
has been a closed county for two or
three years and all told there are now a
half dozen or more counties in the State
closed to deer and pheasant hunting, all
closed at the request of hunters resident
therein who gave as their reason an
earnest rlesire to give the game a chance
to propogate and increase.
This action on their part is a very
laudable one and merits commendation
from all lovers of wild game, but if they
desire to prove their sincerity in thus
seeking to protect the deer and pheas:
ants they will stay within the confines of
their own counties during the coming
hunting season and not go a hunting in’
counties not closed.
Every year hunting parties from Blair,
Cambria, Somerset and Indiana counties
have spent from one to three weeks
within the borders of Centre county and
at no time have they exhibited any
tenderness of heart when a majestic
buck or a nice fat pheasant came within
range of their guns. And Centre county
hunters have never waxed wroth when
they saw the invaders returning home
with well filled game bags. But it does
seem as if the same spirit of true sports-
manship that led the hunters of the
above mentioned counties to ask for a
closed season there would cause them to
hesitate and consider very deeply before
not as active.as the other kind nor as
presumption that they would be.
prolific.
they invade another county to help kill
! and destroy the game therein.
| ——The death of Justice JoN P.
| ELKIN is a cause of keen regret to a vast
number of people in Pennsylvania to
whom his charming personality had ap-
pealed. He was more politician than
jurist but he was an adroit lawyer and a
stances. In political office he served his
party faithfully but on the bench his
serve the public with equal fidelity.
——The court reports show that Indi-
ana politicians are “some pumpkins” in
the art of ballot box stuffing but Pitts-
burgh and Philadelphia has those Hoos-
iers beaten to a frazzle. Such trifling
frauds as those perpetrated in India-
napolis never would have been found
out in our metropolis.
——SCOTT NEARING’S successor ap-
pears to be of the same mind as SCOTT
Probably there will be another vacancy
on the staff of the Wharton School and if
the school were abolished no great pub-
lic loss would be inflicted.
——The World's Series begins today
and there will be a period of tense inter-
est for the fans from Maine to California
until it is ended. Of course we are all
for Philadelphia but not sufficiently en-
thusiastic to bet high on the result.
——Bulgaria may get a high price for
are those of a cheap mercenary.
——Only one week more until the
opening of the hunting season for small
game.
pleasant companion under all circum- |
understanding of the law enabled him to
with respect to some economic questions. |
taking part in the war but her methods '
| A BUSY STREET.
: aa
| I love a busy, hustling town!
3 One day they put the paving down,
| All nice and smooth and sweet; and then
Next day they tear it up again,
From one end of the street back to
! Its other end, that’s what they do;
| And then they get it smooth and flat,
i And give it its last loving pat,
| And then there is a shriek of fear
Y Comes from the city engineer—
; He has mislaid his monkey wrench!
! And instantly they start a trench
And toss the pavement all around
Until the monkey wrench is found!
And then they tamp the dirt in tight,
And get it levelled off all right,
And surface it with hard concrete,
| And make a street as is a street
i By putting sand and brick on that,
' And the steam roller makes it flat,
Then they pierce that pavement through and
through
To lay a line of pipe or two!
Then they repair that, and it lies
Smoothly beneath the summer skies
For, it may be, a day or two:
Then there's a sewer to run through!’
Now, when some one you chance to meet
Talks of the “busy city street,”
That’s what he means, in this man’s town,
The street that’s getting up and down
And rolling over that way, till
It just seems like it can’t lie still.
—Judd M. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The War Order Boom.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
! The results of the efforts of banking
interests—if indeed any such efforts are
seriously being made—to curb the wild
speculation in ‘‘war order” stocks were
faithfully depicted in a New York World
cartoon the other day, which showed a
furious bull madly plunging through Wall
street, with a banker clinging to his tail
in mid-air, the scene being tersely de-
scribed by the line, “Putting on the
Brakes.”
Enormous profits are undoubtedly be-
ing made by a large number of corpora-
tions working on orders for munitions
and other military supplies of varied
; character. In many cases these orders
are “firm” —that is, they are not depend-
ent upon the duration of the war. On
the other hand, it is also true that spe-
cial facilities have had to be provided by
the interested industries, at great cost,
for the execution of the work. Expen-
sive plants have had to be erected, and
costly machinery installed, for manufac-
turing processes which are bound to be
comparatively short-lived. The war or-
der business is not a permanent uni
i taking. When the war is over, a great
' many of these mushroom plants are
! going to be idle. Excessive profits will
stop. The holders of stocks bought at
' highly inflated prices, which in some in-
stances would only be justified by perma-
nent business of the same volume as the
present temporary undertakings, are
going to be stung.
Enhanced prices for the shares of in-
dustrials participating in the war busi-
ness for a reasonable phenomenon based
on the sound judgment of investors. The
{ speculative element, however, has taken
the situation out of the hands of the in-
vesting element, and turns a deaf ear to
i the warnings of sound finaneial authori-
ties, who see in the war stock orgy
a greater menace to general stability
than in the complicated foreign situation.
The infection of the gambling fever is
hard to check. Victims of the disease
see huge fortunes made almost over night
through the soaring war stocks, and are
tempted to adventure among the top-
heavy industrials. These may not yet
have reached the height to which it is
possible to build without defiance of the
law of gravity, but past experience teach-
es that when they topple there is going
to be death and disaster in the ruins.
The remedy ought to be in the hands
of the bankers, with whose money the
speculation is promoted. If the orgy is
beyond their control, as hinted by the
World, it could be quieted by publicity.
| The publication of the truth, from offi-
cial sources, about the earnings and
prospects of many of the war-order in-
dustrials would have a salutary effect in
! affording a basis for reasonable estimates
of their value.
'.
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! Ploughshares and Absinthe.
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, From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
The changes which the Great War has
' made in the minds of men cannot be bet-
| ter symbolized than by the insignificant
incident of absinthe. The liquor was
considered by Frenchmen and foreign-
| ers alike to be the curse of Paris. To-
day it is being turned to uses of war.
i The important thing, though, is not
‘the change in France. That country is
' sufficiently hard put to it to go to any
| extreme. The truly significant thing is
that the world which was wont to praise,
| with a deep sincerity, those who beat
' swords into ploughshares, will now praise
those who distil absinthe into ammuni-
tion.
We have come to understand that war,
when it is necessary, has its triumphs no
less than peace.
Right, You Are.
From the Anaconda Standard.
Theodore Burton, of Ohio, is a good
man, but he’ll find it imposible to eradi-
cate from the public mind the belief that
he’d fall down if he ever attempted to
Wobble around in Woodrow ilson’s
shoes.
~ ——An important meeting of the Cen-
tre county temperance league will be held
in Petrikin hall Saturday, October 9th,
at two o'clock p. m. All friends interest-
"ed in temperance are urged to be pres-
ent.
For high class Job Work come
the WATCHMAN Office.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Shortly after the threshers finished their
work on the Perry county farm of J. P. Wilson
the grain garner burst and wheat to the extent
of 800 bushels was poured into the barnyard.
—The discovery of a number of saws in the cell
of James Miller, an inmate of the Greensburg
jail, is believed by the warden to haye thwarted a
plot of several of the prisoners, including some
in for serious offenses, to escape.
—The Dixon Run Land company has led the
contract for 25 houses to be erected at Clymer,
the total cost of which will be in the neighbor-
hood of $30,000. The mines and brick plants
there are being worked to capacity.
—Citizens of Williamsport who are anxious to
prevent the election of Jonas Fischer to the
mayoraity of their city are endeavoring to per-
suade Charles C. Krause to allow them to carry
on a sticker campaign on his behalf.
—Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust
has given notice that no unloading of old or stale
nuts kept over from last year will be permitted
this fall. The nuts offered for sale must be fresh
and State inspectors will get after the wormy
chestnut dealer.
—Alonzo Albertson, who lives at “Sunny
Acre” farm near Hughesville, made a peculiar
discovery late last week while working in a field
near asmall stream. He unearthed 39 gold band
rings, all of them being still bright and shiny.
How the rings got there remains a mystery.
—A large mill owfled and operated by Napoleon
McDonald and located at Home Camp, Clear-
field county, was destroyed by fire one afternoon
last week involving a loss of $8,000. The structure
housed four separate milling operations, having
been used for a saw mill, planing miil, grist mill
and cider mill.
—Frank L. Johnson, a brakeman on the Renovo
division of the Pennsylvania railroad, stepped in
front of an approaching trainand was instantly
killed. He was 23 years old. Johnson’s young
wife, to whom he was married a month ago, is
an inmate of the Lock Haven hospital, suffering
from typhoid fever.
—The typhoid epidemic at Shippensburg has
already on its list 40 cases and several suspects.
The state health department is doing everything
in its power to check the advance of the typhoid
wave, which gives every indication of having
been caused by the water supply, although no
statement to that effect has been definitely given
out.
—Having noticed that the milk and the news-
papers had not been removed from the porch for
several days. neighbors sent one of their number
into the home of Mrs. E. M. Deiffenbacher, the
aged widow of the Rev.C. R. Dieffenbacher, of
Greensburg, and discovered that she was dead
in bed. She had evidently been dead two or three
days.
—Henry Haase, the man who broke jail at
Hollidaysburg, will not be returned to Blair coun-
ty from Baltimore for at least four months. On
Wednesday he was found guilty of larceny and
sentenced to four months in jail. The Blair
county warrant will be held as a detainer after he
has served his time and then he will be taken
back to that county.
—Washington Camp, No. 855, Patriotic Order
Sons of America, of State College, has presented
each of the nine borough schools with a United
States flag. The camp has also offered cash
prizes of $5 and $2.50 to pupils of the High and
grammar schools for the first and second best
essays upon some historical subject to be selected
by a committee from the camp.
—Charles Pensinger, a young man residing in
Westmont, has been arrested on the charge of
burglarizing one of the McCrory stores in Johns-
town. A box was taken containing $179.80 in
cash. A youth named Swanger told the au-
thorities that Pensinger wanted him to help in
the burglary, but he refused. Later on Pensinger
called him on the ‘phone and said he “pulled off
the job.” The accused denies his guilt.
—The State Board of Game Commissioners has
in view the purchase of a 1,000 acre tract of the
T. D. Collins estate in Forest county, which it
will convert into a park for the 45 deer loosed
there last spring and for 100 more which will be
loosed this fall. The deer have caused some
troublein the counties in which they were re-
leased. Around Tidioute and Tionesta they were
chased by dogs, as a result of which over 20
canines were shot.
—Ora Mothersbaugh, of Tyrone, who sued the
Pennsylvania Railroad company in the courts at
Huntingdon, following an accident on the Bald
Eagle Valley railroad near Mill Hall in which
Mothersbaugh. then an employee, sustained in-
juries that resulted in the loss of the sight of the
right eye, was awarded the sum of $293, following
a hearing held in Huntingdon last week. The
jury brought in the result after a lengthy debate,
being locked up for six hours.
—The Ebensburg Inn, Cambria county’s noted
summer resort, has closed it’s doors and put up
its shutters for this season. The house had a
very successful year, having all'it could accom-
modate during the summer. I®is understood
that Mr. and Mrs. R. Van Gilder, who have had
charge of the Inn for the past two years will not
return next summer. They intend giving al}
their time to a hotel they have conducted in the
East End, Pittsburgh, for some years.
—No successor to Major General C. Bowman
Dougherty, of Wilkes-Barre, as Major General
of the National Guard, has yet been announced
by Governor Brumbaugh, and it is not thought
that the Governor will be in a hurry to name the
Guard's head. In the meantime Brigadier Gen-
eral Charles M. Clement,of Sunbury, commander
of the Third Brigade, is acting Major General,
as he is the oldest in commission of any of the
brigade commanders. General Dougherty’s
commission expired last Friday.
—Coal operators are complaining of the scarcity
of labor and in view of present market conditions
and the promising outlook for the winter, some
of them are making extraordinary efforts to in-
crease their forces. The head of one of the
largest operations in Cambria county states that
he has not had a single application for employ-
ment in the past several weeks. He attributes
this condition to the fact that no new men are
arriving from Europe and many have returned
home to take their places in the armies of the
Allies.
—Held as prisoner for fifteen hours by a mining
machine in the Ganagan mine at Arrow, Somer-
set county, Thomas McCabe smoked and talked
with his rescuers as they burned away the steel
with an oxygen flame. McCabe was about to
quit work, when in some manner his leg was
caught in the machine and although the flesh
was cut to the bone he was securely held. Inthe
hope of saving the leg miners hurried to Johns-
town for the necessary apparatus to cut away the
steel and skilled workmen finally released him.
He was taken to the hospital at Windber Friday
morning, but physicians found that it was nec-
‘essary to amputate the leg.
—The receivers’ sale of the personal property
and real estate of the African Ostrich Farm and
Feather company at Bloomsburg on Saturday,
finally marked the end of the connection of the
former president, W. H. Hile, the promoter, with
the company. Wilkes-Barre stockholders, in a
pool, outbid him on the three farms the defunct
company owned, and got title as well as 56 of the
company's 66 ostriches. Hile got the other 10.
The highest price per pair paid was $1,000, this
being paid for African birds, while American
birds brought as low as $30 a pair. They were
supposed, during the company’s prosperous days,
to have had a total value of almost $1,000,000.