Bevo tp.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Eighteen days until the election.
—Seventy-one days until Christmas.
—1It is up to CARRANZA now to pacify
Mexico.
~ —Cheer up, there is still Indian sum-
mer to look forward to.
—Of course the Phillies played good
ball—but not good enough.
—And Mexico hasn’t been the object
of all the “watchful waiting” after all.
—Anyway, ALEXANDER the Great is
still great in that he won the only
game the Phillies got in the series.
—For all the observance it got poor
old CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS might just
‘as well have not been the cause of Tues-
day’s holiday.
—With the new lighting system in-
stalled in Bellefonte it will be clear to
the outskirts of the town for those who
are most heard and not seen.
—MTr. JOHNSTON's withdrawal from the
judicial race clears the atmosphere and
leaves only one course to pursue for
those who think our court should be pre-
sided over by the ablest jurist possible.
—Everyone admits that Centre county
has seldom, if ever, had as clean and
efficient a set of county officials as it has
right now. If good officers are not to be
rewarded for good service what's the use.
—FRANK SMITH is going to be re-
elected Register of Centre county. Why
shouldn’t he be. He is a splendid man
morally. He is a splendid man officially.
He is a fine fellow socially and he is en-
titled to another term.
—As a Prothonotary DAVID FOREMAN
probably hasn’t a superior in any court
house in the State. Almost any attorney
practising at the Centre county bar will
tell you that. It is an office of peculiar
importance and it is only the part of
wisdom to have a competent man in
charge of it.
—PFacts and figures concerning what
has been done for the good of the coun-
ty by the present county officials have
no appeal to the “ragtag and bobtail.”
They seldom pay any taxes and economic
administration of public office counts
little with them. Their vote hangs in
the balance until election day and then
goes which ever way there is most
“in it.” :
—Mr. HUGH FULLERTON is some dope-
ster. In fact he has made such an im-
pression on us that we think we would
send for him to dope the outcome of
next month’s election were it necessary.
That is already a foregone conclusion.
The voters of Centre county are toc
practical and sensible to let go of such a
corps of splendid officials as the county
now has.
—When the present board of County
Commissioners went into office the coun-
ty debt was $139,505.84. On January 1st,
1915, it was only $6,585.61. That is cer-
tainly some business management. And
adding to it the fact that right now we
are paying less county tax than we have
paid since 1905 it must certainly look to
every practical voter as if we want no
change in that office at this time.
—In three years time the present board
of County Commissioners have reduced
* the county debt $132,920.23 and at the
same time they have reduced the tax
levy. What has any reasonable person
to complain of with such management.
Every taxpayer in Centre county, if he
wants to save money for himself, ought
to be hustling to keep Messrs. NOLL and
GROVE in the office they are now so
splendidly managing.
—In order that we are not deluged
with wild turkeys by our sportsmen
friends and to save ourselves the dilemma
of having two or more in the refrigerator
at the same time, because our refrigera-
tor is small, we will hang a large red
placard in the front office window when
a turkey has been presented to us. Those
of you contemplating hunting turkey
with the thought of presenting it to the
editor, if successful, will kindly arrange
your trips to the woods on days on which
the red placard is not displayed.
—Who pulled Centre county out of the
hole it was in four years ago? The pres-
ent board of County Commissioners man-
aged it and every other public official in
the county helped along by economizing
wherever it was possible, without inter-
fering with public service. All of them
are entitled to a share of the credit, from
the Sheriff down to the Auditors. They
are the men to whom the taxpayers of
Centre county owe a debt of gratitude
and such gratitude can best be expressed
by a vote to retain all of those who are
candidates for re-election in office.
—Whatever may have been the cause
of Mr. JOHNSTON'S withdrawal the effect
will be to put the Prohibitionists in a far
better position when a Legislator is to be
elected in Centre county than they would
have been had they insisted on keeping
him in the contest. He could not have
been elected Judge, hence they had noth-
ing to gain; while they stood to lose in
later contests the co-operation of a
great many people who are for state
wide or national prohibition, but who re-
garded the attempt to accomplish any-
thing through the present judicial con-
test in this county as more'harmful than
good.
‘President of the United States as much
lics was the last hope and the recogni-
“| would be futileand that the only remedy
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL 60.
Settlement of the Mexican Muddle. !
President WILSON has assented to the |
act of the A. B. C. conference which rec-
ognizes General CARRANZA as the head
of a de facto government in Mexico.
This action was taken after careful con-
sideration of the question in all its as-
pects. For upward of three years that
Republic has been in a state of anarchy.
War and brigandage have reduced the
people to want and wretchedness and
every attempt to restore order and re-
establish a government of law has fail-
ed. No other subject has given the
anxiety or a greater lot of distress. The
conference of the other American Repub-
tion of Carranza is the result.
. There is little in CARRANZA as a man
or in his career as a civil or military
leader to recommend him to popular
confidence. Measured by any available |
standard he is a narrow, selfish,sordid and’
ambitious pretender. But the close in-
vestigation which President WILSON has
made of conditions én Mexico has per-
suaded him that any outside interference
with internal affairs in that country
for existing evils lies in the recognition
of the strongest and fittest of the claim-
ants to power. CARRANZA has demon-
strated the fact that he most nearly ap-
proaches that requirement. HUERTA was
an usurper and a murderer and therefore
impossible. "“CARRANZA is not a criminal.
This expedient may fail of its high
purpose because CARRANZA may not ful-
fill the hopes that have been placed in
him. But the President of the United
States and the representatives of the
other American Republics will have the
consolation, in that event, that they earn-
estly tried to solve a difficult and vexed
problem and finally adopted the most
promising course to that end. If CAR-
RANZA has a spark of patriotism and a
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 15, 1915.
For the Consideration of Centre County Taxpayers.
Centre county.
merit in competent officials.
volved in an expensive campaign.
alone.
perience whatever.
those of their opponents.
ty officials have scored heaviest.
to whom we are talking.
modicum of good sense, there will be no
disappointment. He can restore peace
and prosperity to his countrymen if he
will and the only thing that is left for us
is to hope he will measure up to the re-
quirements. Any way President WiLsON
has done his part well. ~ bie
—1It may be remarked without much
risk that the “M. P. Pennsylvania,”
which excited so much popular interest
a few weeks ago, has not appeared upon
the White House register lately. Com-.
mercializing Presidential confidences is
not popular in that neighborhood.
Fast Ships Contemplated.
After a conference at the White House
in which the President, the Secretary of
the Navy and the Chairman of the House
Committee on Naval Affairs participated,
the Washington correspondents dope out
that the construction of a number of bat-
tle cruisers will be part of the naval policy
for the near future. Battle cruisers are
powerful ships of great speed and they
will be substituted for battleships which
are powerful without speed. We have
no battle cruisers now and no other
country except - Great Britain has any.
But it is said that they are exceedingly
efficient in sea fighting and as they will
cost no more than battleships it is
thought wise to add a few to our equip-
ment.
Of course the building of battleships
will not be given up and the probabili-
ties are that the coming Congress will
authorize one or two. But the enthusi-
asm for submarines which was so obvious
if not obtrusive a few months ago has
subsided to a considerable extent and
the expenditures in that direction will
not be as large next winter as they
would have been if the session had been
in July. Of late the German submarines
have not been doing much and if the
stories now current with respect to de-
stroyers of undersea craft are confirm-
ed, it may be safely said thatsubmarines
will not cut much figure in future naval
preparedness.
The Secretary of the Navy, according
to Washington dispatches, favors the con-
struction of six battle cruisers within
the next three years but is averse to in-
terfering with the battleship program.
The battleship program, it is un-
derstood, contemplates two new ships
a year and with a schedule of six
cruisers in three years it would mean an
expenditure of say $60,000,000 a year on
that type of vessels. This would be dig-
ging into the treasury pretty strong and
caution would suggest a softer pedal.
The work of preparedness is all right but
the danger of bankruptcy should be avert-
ed if possible. We are in no immediate
danger of invasion and there is no ne-
cessity for excitement.
——The belligerents are certainly bor-
rowing a lot of money and burning it too
for that matter, but that only shows that
the art of coining money out of sweat is
920.23 in only three years.
they close their second term.
kept at their posts.
In the contest for the county offices that are to be filled by your suffrage on
November 2nd the argument is so preponderatingly in favor of the present in-
cumbents, who are seeking re-election, that it seems almost like a waste of your
time and our space to discuss the matter at all.
However, there are some features entering into it that might be lost sight of
by the candidates themselves and it is for the purpose of bringing them clearly
to your notice that we direct this article to the voters who are paying the taxes in
The WATCHMAN has always maintained that even one term is too long for an
incompetent official and two terms, at least, should certainly be the reward of
In the first place the emoluments of any one of the court house offices today
are not large. And deducting the campaign expenses and other gratuities that
our county officials are compelled to make continuously, from their salaries for
one term it will be found that the net income is small indeed. Looking at it from i
this light, alone, it would appear that the competent ones, and they have all been
exceedingly competent, should really be given a second term without being in-
Looking at the situation from another angle everyone will admit that ex-
perience increases efficiency. All of the men who are seeking re-election on the
Democratic ticket have been in office for one term. They have had the advantage
of four year’s experience in the offices they fill and are now at the very height of
their efficiency, so far as service to the public is concerned. Therefor it would
seem only the part of wisdom to accord them a second term for this reason
By virtue of the experience gained no one will deny that they are better
qualified than the gentlemen who are seeking their places and who have no ex
-Without indulging in personalities it might be added that the candidates on
the Democratic ticket would have the balance of your favor were you to carefully
investigate their personal habits and mental attainments and compare them with
But over and above all these reasons there is that paramount one. That one
that appeals most directly to the voter who has to go down in his pocket each
fall and dig up enough money to pay his taxes. There is where the present coun
Men may lose sight of the fact that an officer has been clean, has been
courteous, has been competent, but they always remember as to whether he has
been extravagant or economical. That is, practical men do, and they are the ones
On January 1st, 1912, Centre county was in debt to the amount of $139,505.94.
Today the county is in debt only $6,585.61. Think of it !
A reduction of $132,-
Ah yes, some might say, that was easily done because the tax rate was raised.
Let us see. There was an increase of 2 mills in the levy in 1912. The same in-
crease was laid in 1913, while in 1914 only 1 extra mill was laid. The total income
from this extra millage for the entire three years was $58864.49. Deduct this
amount from the amount paid on. the county, debt in. t
‘still "$74,055.74 to be accounted: for. ' Where did that great amount of money
come from. It didn’t come from increased taxation. It came from actual saving,
through careful management in everyone of the county offices.
In other words, each year the present officials have been in office they have
saved the taxpayers $24,685.25. In addition to being competent and courteous
they have been, best of all, most economical.
Such surprisingly gratifying results have not been accomplished at the ex-
pense of the public service or public utilities either, for when we look further into
the matter we find that in addition to having actually saved the taxpayers the
stupendous sum of $74,055.34 they have spent $32,083.52 on public improvement®
such as bridges, road views and repairs to public properties.
The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. Every taxpayer in Centre
county today is having this all proved in the way that counts most with him. He
finds, in looking over the statement of his taxes, that his county tax is only 4 mills
Lower than it has been since 1905 and if the present corps of officials are re-elected
it will be 3 mills and possibly 2, with all of the county debt wiped out by the time
debt in three years and. there are
The election of county officials is a business matter. There is nothing else
to it and surely the voters who have to foot the bills will be wise enough to see to
it that men who have made such a wonderful recordin saving them money will be
Another Blundering Law.
Another of the new-fangled election
laws is causing no end of trouble and
confusion and may result in injustice in
some of the cities of the Third class in
which it operates in the nomination of
city councilmen. It is the law which
provides that in the nomination of candi-
dates for non-partisan offices candidates
receiving fifty-one per cent. of the entire
vote cast at the primary election, shall
“be the sole nominee for such office at
the succeeding election, and his name,
and none other, shall be printed as can-
didate for such office upon the official
ballots for use at such succeeding elec-
tion.”
Under the provision of this law Judge
JoHN B. HEAD, Judge GEORGE B. ORLADY
and J. HENRY WILLIAMS, Esq., have been
practically elected to the vacant seats
upon the Superior court bench. At least
no other candidates will be presented on
the official ballot and it is not likely that
a sufficient number of voters will take
the trouble to write in another name, to
defeat either of them. So far as Judges
HEAD and ORLADY are concerned the pres-
ence of other names on the ballot would
probably make no difference. They are
experienced, capable and thoroughly
honest jurists and would be elected by
overwhelming majorities in any event.
But Mr. WILLIAMS is not entitled to such
consideration and with an opposing can-
didate on the ticket it is not certain that
he would win.
In the cities in which candidates for
councilmen have received the necessary
vote it works confusion. Under the law
to which the act in question is a supple-
ment, the eight candidates having the
highest votes at the primaries are entitled
to be fully developed in the future.
to places on the official ballot at the gen-
eral election, there being four to elect.
But if one of them receives more than
fifty per cent. of the primary vote, his
name goes on the ticket without opposi- |
tion, the number to be elected is reduced
to three and one of the eight highest, and
probably the fittest of the lot, must be
dropped from the list of candidates, and
is thus deprived of a right guaranteed
him under the law. He incurred the ex-
pense and performed the labor under the
sanction of a law which is nullified.
Thus these bogus reformers and ama.
teur politicians are always playing into
the hands of the Republican machine. If
there were another name on the ticket
for the Superior court bench WiLLIAMS
might easily be defeated for election. His
only recommendation for the office, so
far as the public is informed, came from
the Republican machine and as the
friends of Judges HEAD and ORLADY were
anxious for their success, the vote for
the third place was divided among the
four or five candidates in the running.
At the general election there would have
been a concentration and the machine
candidate might have been defeated. In
view of these facts the law ought to be
repealed by the next Legislature.
—If our esteemed contemporary,
Hon. WARREN WORTH BAILEY, M. C. is as
wise as he is interesting and earnest he
will discern in the stars a message that
will admonish him against opposing the
administration plans for strengthening
the national defenses. Going up against
a buzsaw has never got much for an
one. :
British troops don’t cut much figure
in the operations on the firing line but
the British press is exceedingly valiant
in attacking the policies of the govern-
ment.
NO. 41.
LET BER VOTE. ~
If you think she knows as much
As the steerage Turk and such,
Let her vote.
If you think she has a mind
Equal to the steerage kind,
Let her vote.
If you think she’s earned the right
That you grant without a fight
To the foreign bedlamite,
Let her vote.
If you thing she is as good
As the burglar brotherhood,
Let her vote.
If she’s more deserving than
Any bum or hold-up man,
Let her vote.
You don’t bar out the thug,
Or the anarchistic bug,
Or the gin-mill ugly mug,
| Let her vote.
If you think that she is just,
And is worthy of the trust,
Let her vote.
If you think her heart beats true
For the right, it’s up to you—
. Let her vote.
If you think she’s earned her way,
Don’t be stingy with the pay,
Let her have her little say.
Let her vote. :
—Erchange
The Inviolability of States.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
i dependence of every other State. This
is a fundamental principle of the law of
‘nations. Respect for the independence
of a State implies respect for its sovereign
‘ rights; and among the sovereign rights
‘ of States none exceed in importance the
right of territorial inviolability and the
right to remain neutral in a war between
other States. These rights of sovereignty
being inherent to all States, they need
not be specifically guaranteed by treaties;
just as the constitutional rights of per-
sons do not need to be guaranteed by
express contracts with every potential
violator. If one comes by night and burns
your house, he has injured you in the in-
alienable right to security of life and
property, even though the incendiary be
not under contract to insure you against
loss by fire.
When a belligerent with his armed
forces invades the territory of a neutral
State he violates the neutrality, inde-
pendence and sovereignty of the State
invaded; and this is so whether or not
the invader has agreed by treaty to re-
spect such neutrality, independence and
sovereignty. It would have been just as
wrong for Germany to violate Belgium if
the convention of 1839 had not existed.
Nor is the violation of Greece by the
landing of French and British- tsoops. at
Saloniki justifiable by the fact that there
is no treaty specifically forbidding such
l invasion of neutral Greek territory by
belligerent armies. Of course, the con-
sent of the nation whose territory is in-
vaded would alter the case. The invasion
would cease to be a wrong; but the coun-
try invaded would have ceased to be
neutral. If King Albert had consented
to the entrance of the Germans he would
have become their ally.
King Constantine, of Greece, desiring
that his government continue in a state
of neutrality, has protested against the
French and British proceedings at Salo-
niki. Whether a mere protest will be
enough to save the Greeks from being
regarded as in alliance with the invaders
of their territory is doubtful. A State
incapable of making any resistance—
Luxembourg, for instance—might satisfy
the requirements by a verbal denuncia-
tion of a violation of its sovereignty. But
Greece has a considerable army. Her
passivity, therefore, would alter her
status from one of neutrality to that of
an ally of the Entente Powers. How-
ever, Germany, which is the only Power
likely to question the attitude of Greece,
would be in no position to make a" very
strong objection. The Greeks are doing
for the allies no more than the Germans
expected from the Belgians. -
The Cost.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Forty-eight first class battleships is the
figure set by the navy league. If Uncle
Sam has that number, the experts say,
the country is safe. If there is one less,
we are in for a trouncing. a
Forty-eight battleships represent an
investment of approximately $750,000,-
000, not counting the upkeep cost. ‘That
means an annual interest charge of at
least $36,000,000 a year. But the battle-
ships are only.a part of the projected
navy. Scout cruisers, torpedo boat de-
stroyers, colliers,submarines, and all that
sort of thing figure on the program for
$500,000,000 more. In other words, the
navy the jingoes have in mind represents
an expenditure of at least $1,225,000,000.
And that navy will have to be renewed
at least every ten years. This would
make the annual expenditure for ships
approximately $122,000,000. Every de-
cade, of course, there will be a turn over.
The big battleships will be scrapped.
Something new in the way of fighting
machines will make its appearance. The
old battleships will disappear and new
ones will take their place. :
But who is simple enough to suppose
that forty-eight battleships will satisfy
the navy boomers? Japan may have more
than that. Germany may exceed us in
tonnage. England may “put us to
shame.” The cry will inevitably go forth
that forty-eight battleships is not enough.
It will be argued that we must have “the
greatest navy on earth.” That will mean
more billions invested in preparedness.
The battleships, however, represent
only a part of the expense involved. The
more ships we have the more forts, the
more forts, the more big guns, the more
big guns and more marines, the more
munitions of war. And so the circle
widens. It is a big game the navy boom-
ers are playing. There are literally
“millions in it.” Col. Sellers missed his
. mission when he failed to launch a pre-
paredness campaign.
Every State is bound to respect the in--
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| De —
| —The will of the late Justice John P. Elkin be.
queaths all his property of whatever description
to his wife, to be disposed of according to her
pleasure,
—Notwithstanding the rigid quarantine insti-
| tuted in DuBois three new cases of diphtheria
| have been reported there and the quarantine is
! likely to be continued.
—Two robbers, early Monday morning, blew
open the safe in the postoffice at Menges Mills
and carried off $200 in stamps and $15 in old coins.
Nitroglycerine was used by the burglars.
—Some sharp politician is said to be frighten-
ing the foreigners who live in Conemaugh by tell-
ing them that they will not be allowed to keep
pigs and chickens if the Democrats get into pow-
er in Cambria county.
—By the explosion of a gas tank in the cellar
of the A. E. Bittner residence and restaurant, in
Boswell, Somerset county, the entire structure
was blown almost into atoms.” Nobody was kill-
ed although three persons were badly burned.
—Conscienceless burglars entered the resi.
dence of the United~ Presbyterian minister-at
Scottdale and carried away with them several
pairs of shoesand about $7 in money. This is
the second time robbers have taken shoes from
Pastor Miller’s home.
—Miss Edith Cummings is a candidate for reg.
ister and recorder of Union county on the Demo.
cratic and Washington party tickets. She is the
| Present assistant register and recorder and it is
said she has performed practically all the duties
of the office for the last three years.
—A large mill owned and operated by Napo-
leon McDonald and located at Home Camp, Clear-
field county, was destroyed by fire one afternoon
of last week involving a loss of $8,000. The struc-
ture housed four separate milling operations»
having been used for a saw mill, grist mill and
cider mill.
—Howard Kaufman, aged 21, of Altoona, was
sentenced in the United States district court at
Pittsburgh on Monday to serve five days in the
Allegheny county jail for passing counterfeit
money. He has already been in jail seven weeks
and the court took this into consideration in pass-
ing sentence. :
, Because he had no faith in banks H. G. Jef-
fress, a Pittsburgh tailor, kept his savings for
some time, amounting to $500, in the pocket of a
coat in the cellar of the building in which his
shop was located. A fire brok out in that part
of the building early Wednesday morning and
the money went upin smoke.
.—Orders were issued at Harrisburg last Friday
by Adjutant General Stewart, announcing the
commissioning as a first lieutenant of artillery of
Garrett Cochran, of Williamsport, and his assign-
ment to Battery D, Williamsport. Mr. Cochran,
who is a son of Senator J. Henry Cochran, was a
noted football player at Princeton several years
ago. .
—Charles B. Spatz, editor of a weekly news-
paper at Boyertown, recived a cablegram from
Germany telling him he is heir to a third of a
$1,500,000 estate left by an uncle, Frederick Spatz,
who died recently in Crefeld, Germany, leaving
the estate to. sons of three deceased brothers.
Spatz was the unsuccessful candidate for Con-
gress last year.
.—The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Redner,
of Coneville, some time ago swallowed a stalk of
hay. Every effort to dislodge it failed. The
stalk passed into the right lung, causing many
abscesses. Finally it workedits way out beneath
the shoulder blade, but the child’s condition re-
mains critical. The stalk was about three-
eighthsof an inch long.
—The Black Hand is held responsible for dyna
miting the home and store of Frank Antonuch,
at Creekside, Indiana county, early last Thurs.
day morning. Mrs. Antonuch was hurled nearly
twenty feet by the explosion; both arms were
broken and she received internal injuries. Sheis
said to be dying. Antonuch received many cuts
and bruises but was not badly hurt. "Two chil-
dren escaped unhurt.
—William H. Webster, a well known miner em-
ployed in the Electric Colliery near Osceola. was
instantly killed Thursday afternoon about four
o'clock by a fall of rock. He had completed his
day’s work, and was just leaving the heading of
the mine when the accident occurred which so
suddenly and unexpectedly crushed out his life
and brought deep sorrow to his family and
friends. The deceased was aged about 29 years,
was married and leaves a wife and two children.
—Charles Mullen, 39 years old, son of John
Mullen, Shamokin banker and manufacturer,
was killed when his automobile turned over two
miles east of Sunbury and his sisters, Helen Mul-
len and Letitia Mullen, escaped with superficial
hurts, late last Thursday afternoon. Harry Sny-
der, of Harrisburg, the chauffeur, suffered lacer-
ations of the head and face. Mr. Mullen was a
brother of W. A. Mullen, whe is well known in
Bellefonte, and an uncle of John Mullen, a for-
mer Bellefonte Academy student, now a Sopho-
more at State College.
—The ashes of John Mozanni, aged 21, of
Greensburg, Pa., who disappeared from his home
last December, were found on Monday afternoon
by his brother-in-law, Edward Chuchran, in the
morgue in Pittsburgh. Through a description
Deputy Coroner Hugh Gilmore found a record
showing that a man named Mozanni had been
cremated on January 7. The body had remain-
ed in the morgue several weeks following Mozan-
ni’s death in the Braddock General Hospital De-
cember13. He had been struck by a street car
in Wilmerding. Chuchran was given the ashes.
—"Good-bye, fellows; here I go,” cried an un-
identified man on Monday as he leaped under
the locomotive which Engineer Blake Bothel was
driving into Johnstown on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad in the Eighth ward. The man was
decapitated. Several lads playing beside the rail-
~road told the police that the man had followed
the engine a short distance before he shouted his
farewell to the engineer of the train. The man
was about 30 years of age, was fairly well dress-
ed and was an American. No money was found
in his pockets. The body will be held a few days
in the hope that identification may be established.
—Ira Van Horn, a Middleburg automobile deal-
er, is a sadder and wiser man, also poorer by
$375, as a result of a transaction several days ago
when he purchased a Ford automobile from a
pair of strangers for the above named sum.
Shortly after the strangers departed a sleuth ar-
rived from Philadelphia and identified Van Horn’s
newly purchased car as a stolen machine. A
description of the auto confidence men was fur-
nished the officer by the duped dealer and the ac-
cused men were arrested shortly thereafter in
the Quaker city. With the culprits under arrest
and the stolen car returned to its owner, Van
Horn is wondering where the 375 good round dol-
lars he paid out are going to come from.
—After having marked passages in the pocket-
worn Bible which was found in his clothing D.
M. Burman, once a prosperous real estate holder
of Williamsport, Pa., went to a high bridge near
Montgomery, Ala., on Sunday morning, where
he drained a poison phial and awaited the com-
ing of death. The poison proving slow, he cut
an artery near his elbow and then tried to find
the artery in his wrist, making several gashes.
Becoming faint he sat down on the edge of the
bridge and when unconsciousness came he fell
65 feet to his death. Burman had been in Ala-
bama but fourdays. He was without funds and
expected to find money. there. Saturday nigh
he left his suitcase at his boarding house, went
down town to a barber shop, paid his last 70
cents for a haircut, shave and a bath, and with
the poison already in his pocket, went to his
death. A brother at Williamsport was notified
of the tragedy.