Deora Aaa.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Only nineteen days until Christmas.
Are you ready for it?
—Deer hunting is on. Let us hope
that it won’t be dear hunting so far as
any precious lives are concerned.
—From the way the Italians are fight-
ing the Austrians England may discover
that deeds, not threats, count most.
—A baby was born in Ohio last week
with a full set of teeth and we’ll bet one
of those intensive farmers was its pop.
—Now is the time to advertise Christ-
mas wares. Don’t wait until your com-
petitor has skimmed the cream from the
holiday business.
—Judged from the results of that foot-
ball game in New York on Saturday the
Board of Strategy has the needs of the
country doped right for once. The Navy
did show the greatest lack of prepared-
ness.
—HENNY FORD certainly ought to have
ROOSEVELT with him on his Christmas
peace ship. If everything else fails he
could then do a little advertising by ex-
hibiting TEDDY as the original “Rough
Rider” from which the Ford has evo-
luted.
—Communities expecting the comple-
tion of located federal buildings through
appropriations by the new Congress for
that purpose may as well understand,
right now, that the “pork barrel” will be
taboo. All the money Uncle SAM can
scrape up will be needed for other pur-
poses.
—With $3,194,258 in the general fund
of the State Auditor General POWELL is
quoted as having said that the State does
not have a comfortable working fund.
He probably means that the State’s depos-
itories do not have as much cheap mon-
ey to handle as they are accustomed to
having.
—When we come to think of the vast
numbers of men who spend much of the
summer along the banks of their favor-
ite fishing streams and much of the fall
in the woods hunting we are forced to
the conclusion that there really was some-
thing in that old song of “Everybody
Works but Father.”
—The present war tax law ends by
statute on January 1stnext. Don’t, how-
ever, get it into your head that that will
be the last of it. When there is nothing
coming into the country from which to
derive revenues we have to foot the bills
of government by these more direct
methods of taxation.
—The blowing up of another powder
plant, near Wilmington, Del., with the
loss of thirty-one lives adds fuel to the
flame of indignation that is sweeping
over this country concerning the alleg-
€d causes of these horrors. The sooner
Uncle SAM deports every alien upon
whom any degree of culpability, direct-
ly or indirectly, can be fastened the less
the danger of more serious consequences
will be.
—As an example of the art preserva-
tive Governor BRUMBAUGH'S Thanksgiv-
ing Proclamation, embossed and embel-
lished as it was on the brochure he sent
out, was ‘a distinct triumph for its print-
er. There was nothing unusual in its
composition, however, so that we feel
quite justified in remarking that the Gov-
erncr is not only extravagant, but the
proprietor of an unusually hard worked
bump of vanity.
—The wail that is coming from Har-
risburg about a future scarcity of funds
that will curtail departmental endeavor
will fall on many deaf ears in the Com-
monwealth. If the Departments are as
extravagant with everything else as they
are with the matter of disseminating
“news” in which the public is not gener-
ally interested it is no wonder the funds
are running low. Tons upon tons of
stuff are sent out from Harrisburg every
day that are far more of an annoyance
than they are beneficial.
—The President’s message to the new
Congress, which he will deliver in per-
son this afternoon or tomorrow, is ex-
pected to be one of the most patriotic
documents ever issued from the White
House. If he lashes the foes of our
country who are now being harbored
here more than its open ones abroad no
surprise will be occasioned, for he is
known to have very decided views on
such infamous activities. Whatever the
message may be it is certain to be a mas-
terpiece of rhetoric and phraseology, as
all of WoobrRow WILSON’S utterances are
that. }
—We need three thousand dollars be-
fore January 1st, 1916. We don’t intend
to buy Bethlehem Steel with it, either.
We want to pay bills and put in some
equipment that will help us to make the
WATCHMAN better even than it is. Will
you look at the label on your paper right
now and see if you are in arrears at all.
If you are, send us something before Jan-
uary 1st. If you all chip in a little our
hopes will be realized and we won’t both-
er you again fora long time. The
WATCHMAN never annoyed you with bills,
but we regret to say the time ‘has come
when we'll have to dig up a little Mazu-
ma somewhere and we know of no
source from which it has more cheerful-
ly flown in the past than from the very
responsive readers of this paper. Who'll
be the first to come across?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 48.
VOL 60.
The Progressive Plan.
The Progressive National committee of
which Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS is chair-
man, proposes to conscript Colonel
ROOSEVELT for the campaign of next
year. At a mesting of the committee
held in New York on Monday it was
agreed: That there shall be a Progres-
sive Presidential ticket and no deals with
Republicans or Democrats; that Colonel
ROOSEVELT shall be urged to run for
President “if only to hold the major por-
tion of the votes cast for him in 1912;”
that the National committee shall meet in
Chicago on January 11th, 1916, to fix the
date and place of the National conven-
tion and that the convention shall not be
held until the Republicans and Demo-
crats have put their tickets in the field.”
These are interesting facts, all things
considered. In the first place itis sur-
prising that Colonel ROOSEVELT is to be
urged to run. With PERKINS’ money
guaranteed to pay the expenses of the
campaign they couldn’t keep ROOSEVELT
from running with a derrick. He has
been living during the last three years
with no other object in mind or incentive
for existence. He would prefer to run
on the Republican ticket, probably, and
has been shaping his actions and regu-
lating his movements with the view of
inducing the Republican convention to
nominate him. But he has not put “all
his grain in one bag” at that. He is will-
ing to take any nomination that comes to
him and will grab the first.
Colonel ROOSEVELT is not hampered by
political principles or any other kind of
conventions. He wants to be President
because no other office affords the same
opportunity for “a bully time,” and
TEDDY is all for that sort of thing. He
was the obedient servant of the late J.
PIERPONT MORGAN while he occupied the
Presidential chair and was always ready
to serve any other interest which could
help him in his ambition to run things.
Even MELLEN, of the Hartford road, had
him at his beck and call while his wreck-
ing operations were in process and
he wants another opportunity to serve
his friends in the same way. Mr. PER-
KINS doesn’t-have to draft ROOSEVELT.
All that is necessary is to honor ROOSE-
VELT’S drafts.
——Representative MANN failed to cre-
ate enthusiasm with his impertinent an-
swer to President’s WILSON’s invitation
to conference. So far as the records in-
dicate he didn’t even get approval.
Most Important Present Duty.
In an address delivered in Philadelphia,
the other evening, Colonel J. CAMPBELL
GILMORE, of the National Guard, declared
that “50,000 trained troops could land on
the Atlantic coast and walk through the
United States without effective interfer-
ence on the part of the American peo-
ple.” In support of this absurd assertion
he gave some statistics which an esteem-
ed Philadelphian pronounces “startling.”
He said that during 1913 only 36,194
three-inch shells were manufactured at
the Frankford arsenal and during 1914
only 102,818 shells of that calibre were
made. Itis small wonder that such a
record would make an amateur soldier
worry. He probably thinks thathe is the
only shell factory.
We really sympathize with Colonel
GILMORE. “A million men here might
respond to the call of arms,” he says,
“but what would they fight with? Well,
if the enemy consisted of only 50,000 men
we could fight with our teeth and literal-
ly “eat ’em up.” But we have other re-
sources. The “woods are full” of nice
saplings and we could cut them into
clubs and beat the brains out of the
trained soldiers during their “walk
through the United States.” Or for that
matter we might borrow hat pins from
our wives, daughters and sweethearts
and pick the 100,000 eyes out of the 50,-
000 trained soldiers who had the temerity
to walk through the country if they
swaggered the least bit.
The truth is that Colonel GILMORE
wants an army of a million men under
arms to avert an invasion which could
find focthold in the imagination ef only a
very much excited man. Even if the
Frankford arsenal only made a meagre
number of shells in 1914 the country now
has facilities to turn them out at the rate
of nearly a million an hour and even
German troops of a total of 50,000 would
find “a triumphal march to San Francis-
co” anything but a picnic. Our greatest
danger at this time is not from an invad-
ing army, but from twin evils, a bunch
of militarists on one hand and a group of
peace-at-any-price advocates on the oth-
er. Both are nuisances and the most im-
portant duty is to abate them.
——The trouble with Lord NORTH-
CLIFFE is that he is too fresh. He never
ought to have been honorod with a title
that swelled his head. It is a clear case
of a beggar on horseback.
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BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 3, 19
Trading Post in Action. |
The office brokers of Pennsylvania met |
at the Trading Post in Harrisburg the
other day, according to press dispatches, |
Business and Politics.
When business got bad during the Re- |
publican administration the Republican |
press and politicians promptly declared |
15.
Refusing the Presidency.
From the Altoona Times.
The reiuctance of Kansas Republicans
take Justice Hughes’ name off the bal-
shows how hard it is for political lead-
to
lot
presumably for the purpose of dividing | that it was because the people appre- | ers to understand how any man can re-
what remains of the spoils of the victory | hended a Democratic victory in the near : fuse the honor of a presidential nomina-
of 1912 among their friends. There are
quite a number of postoffice vacancies
coming in the near future and Mr. A.
MITCHELL PALMER, Mr. Vance C. Mc-
CorMICK and Mr. JAMES I. BLAKESLIE
are “keen on the scent of them.” The
meeting in Harrisburg, the gentlemen
assured the press reporters, was purely
accidental. Mr. PALMER was in Harris-
burg on professional business and the
others “just happened” to be there. The
question of dispensing spoils was in-
cidental.
During the session of the brokers Mr.
PALMER talked freely of politics, State
and National, and declared that Presi-
dent WILSON will be re-nominated with-
out opposition. An intelligent public
hardly needed that information. For
more than a year it has been evident
that no sane man would undertake to de-
feat him. As CHAMP CLARK said two
years ago, “if the WILSON administration
is asuccess no one can defeat him for
the nomination and if it is not a success
the Democratic nomination would not be
worth while.” That the WILSON adminis-
tration has been a splendid success is
beyond question. It has more than ful-
filled the most sanguine expectations of
the President’s best friends.
But Democratic sentiment is no more
a unit for President WILSON now than it
was four years ago in Pennsylvania. Yet
ever Since the Baltimore convention Mr.
PALMER has been posing as the champion
of civic righteousness who forced an un-
willing party to nominate him and has
been trading upon the spoils of office in
consequence of his achievement. After |
the nomination he did little or nothing to
promote the election of President WIL- |
SON. He was too busy pulling wires to :
get his friends into office during the cam- |
paign and during the nearly three years
which have intervened since he has been
cultivating party schisms and assiduously |
marketing his influence withthe Presi- |
dent. 4
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——Captain Boy-Ep, of the German
embassy at Washington, ought not to:
complain because his name was men-
tioned by a witness in a New York court
the other day. If he had got a good |
swift kick there would have been some |
cause of complaint.
Brumbaugh’s Waterloo Coming.
The political war for control of the
Republican National convention increases
in public interest as it progresses. That
Governor BRUMBAUGH will invest the full
measure of his influence and invoke every
expedient to win votes is obvious. But
his methods are abhorrent. He is too
coarse. He lacks finesse. His bald com-
merce with BILL ADAMS during the last
session of the Legislature expresses his
idea of political sagacity. He asked
ADAMS to betray his pledges and promised
recompense if the perfidy cost him any-
thing. No successful practical politician !
would “cut it out” so raw.
But late developments indicate that no
sort of trading or bargaining will com- ,
pass the triumph for which the Governor
hopes. The rank and file of the party
are dead set against him. Reports from
Pittsburgh, Erie, Scranton, Harrisburg
and Philadelphia are of the same tenor.
The PENROSE machine is not only pre-
pared for war but has the victory cinch-
ed. The delegates have been chosen,
the plans of campaign laid and the work
well on the way. There has been no
trumpeting, no band playing, no shout-
ing. That isn’t the PENROSE way of pro’
ceeding. But a thoroughly systematic
and effective plan of campaign has been
laid and will be pursued to a victorious
conclusion. !
In Philadelphia the change is most
apparent. Since the election of Mayor
SMITH the VARES have been keeping him
under surveilance so closely that every-
body thought they would dominate the
new municipal administration. That
was while PENROSE was away. He got |
back the other day and promptly asserted |
his property rights in the new Mayor !
.and sent his local antagonists into seclu- :
sion. - It is now understood that PEN- |
ROSE will practically name and certainly
control the important offices in the new |
city government and that BRUMBAUGH
will get no aid from that source in his |
political ambitions. The result of the
primary will be a Waterloo for the Gov-
ernor and an end of his methods. |
|
——There is likely to be some restric-
tion put upon filibustering in the Senate !
by the rules which will be adopted at the !
opening of the coming session, but it will |
hardly take the form of a radical cloture.
Respect for tradition still ‘continues in |
Washington.
' future.
‘a time when the high tariff was in its
greatest prosperity. But for the pledge
! ating class.
| and we're going to set it in ten point
When business is brisk and the i
country is prosperous under a Democrat- |
ic administration, the Republican press |
and politicians with equal promptness
declare that it is because the people ex- |
pect a Republican triumph in the near |
future. Thus the Republican press and
politicians hope to catch credulous vot-
ers coming and going. In both instances
they are perpetrating a fraud upon the
people but they don’t mind that. The
Republican party has been maintained
upon false pretences for a long time.
The panic of 1903 set in as early as
February 1892 with a strike at Bethle-
hem. It reached its climax with the!
Homestead strike and slaughter in July,
1892, and largely because of it GROVER
CLEVELAND was elected President in
November, 1892. In March, 1893, CLEVE-
LAND was inaugurated and the WILSON
tariff bill was passed a year and a half
later though to this day the Republican
press and politicians declare that the
panic which was intense in July, 1892, is
ascribable to the operation of the WIL-
SON tariff law which was enacted and
went into operation in October, 1894.
Possibly there are some persons outside
of insane asylums who are deceived by
such rubbish but we protest that there
are not many.
The panic of 1907 came upon us dur-
ing a period of Republican control and at
made in 1908 that the party would re-
form the tariff downward the Republican
ticket would have been overwhelmingly
defeated that year, and it was defeated
in 1912 because that pledge was violated.
The split in the Republican party in 1912
had little, if anything to -do with the
election of WooDROW WILSON. He was
elected because the people demanded a
decrease in the rate of tariff taxation
and knew that the Republican party
would not give them such relief. If
there had been no war in Europe good -
times would have followed instantly. |
—Dr. H. Walton Mitchell, of Pitts- |
1917 at Penn State, which will dedicate
to him its issue of the La Vie, the most |
imposing of the student publications. Dr. |
Mitchell was graduated from the college |
in 1890. He is president of the board of :
trustees. On the twenty-fifth anniversary |
of his graduation, last June, he delivered
the commencement address to the gradu-
He was the business man- |
ager of the first La Vie published at the
institution, in 1889. In the opinion of !
the students it was fitting that the publi-
cation which Dr. Mitchell was instru
mental in organizing should be dedicated
to his name twenty-five years after he!
left the college. |
—Already the dear women are prac-
tising machine politics. At the conven-
tion of the Pennsylvania Woman Suf-
frage association, in Philadelphia, on
Tuesday, their party machine drove the
“steam roller” right over the opposition
to the slate for officers of the Associa-
tion. You fellows who voted against
giving them the franchise because you
thought they didn’t know enough about |
political issues must certainly admit now
that they do know something about po-
litical practises at least.
——The season for wild turkeys, pheas-
ants, rabbits and squirrel closed on Tues-
day, but you can still hunt deer and bear.
The latter, ‘by the way, will be lawful
game until the last day of December.
——The W.C. T. U. will this year as
formerly publish the names of all signers
to liquor license petitions. Any one de-
siring to have his name withdrawn may
do so by permission of the court.
—We're expecting a bit of Christmas
jingle from “Priscilla,” our . pet poetess,
with a big head all because we know it
will be something good.
——HENRY FORD may not be able to
get any distinguished people to join his
peace mission, but he has succeeded in
making a donkey of himself.
——Work is plenty and money abund
ant, according to current reports, and the
only persons in actual distress at present
are the calamity howlers.
——December 3rd and the calendar is
on the final lap of 1915, and the 1916 in-
fant will be out of its swaddling clothes
before we realize it.
——Greece seems to be the conundrum
of the big war and come to think of it
Greece always has been a smooth article
tion.
To the politician, it is inconceivable.
He regards the Presidency as the natural
goal of every public career, and he is
certain that even a losing fight for that
prize as champion of a party is an honor
to be grasped at eagerly by any ambi-
tious American.
It is a wholesome thing, then, for the
politicians and for the nation at large to
be reminded that there are men whose
eyes are not dazzled by visions of the
White House, and who recognize in the
Presidency only one of the many honor-
able offices worthy of high ability.
Charles E. Hughes would rather have
his present job than Mr. Wilson’s. He
considers the Supreme court of the Unit-
ed States as not inferior to the office of
the chief executive. He thinks he can
serve the nation better where he is, and
he knows that he will be happier there.
And Justice Hughes isn’t the first man
who has been so minded. William H.
Taft, it may be remembered, wanted
above all other things to be a Supreme
court judge, and ran for the Presidency
unwillingly.
It is customary in America, if a man
shows conspicuous ability in any public
place, to begin immediately talking of
him for the Presidency. It is unfortu-
nate that this is so. There are many
public jobs besides the Presidency that
demand first-class men. Moreover, the
ambition that this practice incites tends
to make a public man dissatisfied, view-
ing whatever place he may hold as a
mere stepping stone to something higher
—when, as a matter of fact, whether it
be a mayoralty or governorship or sen-
atorship or judgeship or any of a dozen
other forms of public service, it may be
the one place in which he can do his
happiest work and render his most ef-
fective service. Presidential ambitions
have ruined far too many fine public ca-
reers in America.
The Lusitania Deadlock.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
It is gratifying to learn that there is
absolutely no foundation for the repeated
statements that the German Ambassador,
Count Von Bernstorff, has offered, on be-
half of his government, to pay five thous-
and dollars a piece for the one hundred
and ten American lives lost by the sink-
ing of the Lusitania, refusing, “at ‘the
same time, to “disavow” that horror as
an illegal act.
It has seemed unbelievable that the
German government would deliberately
assume the position that our government
burgh, has been honored by the class of | must be content to have its slain people
paid for at so much a head without any
admission on the part of Germany that
she had noright to thus sink a passenger
steamship regardless of the humane re-
quirements of international law. There
could hardly be a more contemptuous
or offensive offer of settlement than that,
for it would practically affirm the taunt
that Americans care only for money and
that the grossest outrage against us may
be tolerated if paid for.
There is an admitted dead-lock in the
negotiations which are still dragging
along at Washington over the Lusitania
matter but both sides emphatically deny
| the five thousand dollar story, the diffi-
culty being apparently over the terms of
the ‘“disavowal” which Secretarv Lan-
sing insists that Germany must make;
for while Germany offers all sorts of ex-
i pressions of regret it is said that she still
refuses to admit that her war zone de-
cree was illegal.
Whatever the final adjustment of this
matter it is evident that the horrors of
submarine warfare may be expected to
continue over a wider area, but under
increasing limitations. The sudden lull
in news of that sort from the British sub-
marine war zone has been followed by a
ghastly record from the Mediterranean
and other seas, but the means of fighting
submarines have evidently been multi-
plied and the effect of such warfare
modified. The submarine has utterly
failed to affect the preponderance of sea
power.
Three Ways to Get Money.
From the Los Angeles Times.
The three legitimate ways to get mon-
ey are to inherit it, to marry it, or to
earn it.
Inheriting it is the most comfortable.
But it is an accident, sheer luck. Neither
skill nor merit plays a part. It brings
the least amount of genuine satisfaction
in its train. Unless one has undergone
severe probation of poverty inherited
wealth is rarely fully appreciated and en-
joyed.
Marrying money may be luck, too.
Sometimes it is strategy, occasionally
merit. But for masculinity, at all events,
it is rarely satisfactory. More generally
it is highly ignominious. One has to earn
every cent of it in the end, one way or
another, with never an iota of credit for
one’s pains.
But earning money—that is pure satis-
faction. It is never luck. Money earn-
ed represents a happy quid pro quo that
no other method of success has to offer.
It is the one way of self-respect, proper
pride. Itisusually a hard way, fraught
with tribulations and discomfort, the
overcoming of constant difficulties and
disappointments, demanding perpetual
vigilance, patience, resourcefulness. But
it is the one way to get money that
leaves least regrets. The man’s way.
——Possibly the Kaiser's forces are
working as hard as ever, but we don’t
hear as much about drives as formerly.
——The effort to raise a campaign is-
sue out of the conditions in the Philip-
and slippery.
pines is altogether too far-fetched.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Pennsylvania State Grange of the Pa-
trons of Husbandry will hold its next annual ses-
sion at State College December 21-24.
—Over in Willliamsport many turkeys were
taken back home by the farmers who were
unable to sell them at the price demanded the’
day before Thanksgiving.
—William H. Stevenson, one of Lock Haven’s
foremost citizens, former mayor, is dead at his
home in thatcity at the age of 62 years. Heis
survived by his wife and four children.
—Cambria county has nearly 650 public school
teachers and when they all gathered in
the court house at Ebensburg last week here
was little room to spare for casual visitors.
—Jefferson county is also to have a farm bu-
reau. The commissioners have appropriated
$1,000 for that purpose and private subscriptions
to the amount of $1,500 have already been se-
cured.
—Centre Methodist Episcopal church, the old-
est society of that denomination in Clearfield
county, will celebrate its centennial during the
first five days of December. An elaborate pro-
gram is being prepared.
—Peter Malenofski, aged 35, a Slav residing
at Osceola Mills, shot and killed himself, follow-
ing an illness of about two weeks. He used a
shot gun, the charge entering his neck and pass-
ing out at the top of his head.
—Mrs. Sol. Roach, of Windber, who can fish
and hunt as cleverly as her husband, who has
won renown, accompanied him to Centre county
on a recent hunting trip and shot a large fat wild
turkey. She did it with a clean rifle shot which
killed without fussing up the big bird.
—In Clearfield, Judge Ruppell, of Somerset,
specially presiding, has affirmed the verdict of a
jury which awarded one Harry Bowes $500 re-
ward offered by the commissioners of Clearfield
county for the capture of John O. Keeler, wanted
for murder. Bowes is brother-in-law to Keeler
and the commissioners refused to pay him the
money.
—Edna Schlesinger, aged 26, whose home is
near Avis, Clinton county, wandered away from
home last Wednesday while suffering from men-
tal hallucination and has not yet been located
She has dark hair, dark brown eyes, about 5 fee,
6 inches tall, weighs about 130 pounds'and when
she left home was attired in a brown and white
sailor suit.
—C. O. Confer, one of Warriorsmark’s best
known farmers, suffered a peculiar but none the
less painful injury on Thanksgiving day. Mr.
Confer had been husking corn and finishing his
arduous task, attempted to rise, when the large
bone in his right leg snapped off below the knee.
The fracture was reduced by Dr. Thomas Tobin,
of Tyrone.
—LaRue Myers, proprietor of the Heidelberg
hotel, of Williamsport, has brought suit against
Frederick R. Heller, of Reading, owner of the
hotel Brighton. in that city, for recovery of $15,-
000 damages for the death of his wife, Ida K.
Myers, who was fatally hurt in an elevator in the
hostelry last August. The papers in the suit
were filed at Reading Friday.
—George Shaffer, who conducted a store about
three miles from Elderton, Armstrong county,
was found dead in his wagon shortly after day-
light the other morning. He had been to Kit-
tanning during the day and his failure to return
worried his wife. Early next morning she saw
the team standing between the barn and the
house and upon going out discovered that her
husband was dead.
—Six attendants at the Danville state hospital
for the insane were on Monday held responsible
by a coroner's jury for the death of McNelis, of
Indiana county, a patient at the institution, who
died Saturday from injuries alleged to have been
‘inflicted by the men named by the jury. The
coroner’s jury exonerated the management. The
men held responsible for McNelis’ death have
not yet been prosecuted.
—An application will be made to the Governor
of Pennsylvania on December 21 for a charter for
an inten®ed corporation to be known as the Penn
Milk company. The object of the company is to
manufacture, buy, sell, import, export, trade and
deal in milk and dairy products. It is stated that
the proposed company will erect a large milk sta-
tion at Spring Mills and the milk and cream pur-
chased in that district will be shipped to the con-
condensary at Mill Hall.
—W. Atlee Burpee, head of the seed firm of W.
Atlee Burpee and Company, and a noted horti-
culturist, died at his country home in Doyles-
town on November 26th. He was 57 years old and
had been in failing health since last July. Mr.
Burpee was a director in several financial insti-
tutions in Philadelphia and owned large seed
farms in New Jersey and California. His farm at
Doylestown was one of the largest in the coun-
try, devoted to seed raising.
—E. W. Rodgers and William ‘S. Snyder, of
Lock Haven, went coon hunting in the vicinity
of McElhattan on Saturday night. Rodgers shot
at a coon in a tree, wounded the animal but not
killing it. The coon came down with a bump
and soon was engaged in a battle royal with the
dog. Mr. Snyder took upon himself the task of
rescuing the coon from the dogs, and as a reward
the desperate animal bit him on both hands and
took a big chunk out of one of his trouser legs.
He got the coon just the same and it tipped the
scales at 27 pounds.
—To safeguard upwards of $10,000,000 worth of
materials for several of Europe’s warring na-
tions now stored on 2,000 freight cars in the
East Hollidaysburg classification yards,the,Penn
sylvania Railroad company has placed a num-
ber of railroad policemen on duty to patrol the
yards. The yards are now the scene of the great-
est activity.’ Shifting engines are busy during
the entire twenty-four hours of the day. Owing
to the great congestion of freight in New Jersey,
the cars are being detained in Hollidays-
burg. Much of the detained freight is for Rus-
sia, and is composed of steel cars, wheels, etc.
—Thejig’s up with Sidney Hollister,of Munson
Station, Clearfield county, Pa., who spent $5,000
in less than a year and is now penniless and in
the jail in Washington, D. C., awaiting a trial on
a charge of stealing an automobile from a man to
whom he had sold it but a short time before.
Hollister’s run of hard luck started with the
death of his wife two weeks after they were
married, he told the police. That was more thana
year ago. Then he lost a leg on the railroad and
got $5,000 damages from the railroad company.
With the $5,000 he started out for a good time
and he landed last summer in Washington with
an automobile and no money. He got ajobina
garage and worked for a time. Then he sold his
car and suddenly disappeared, the car [vanishing
simultaneously. He was arrested in Harrisburg
and returned to Washington.
—The largest timber sale that has been made
in this section of the State for some time was
successfully closed on Friday/of last week where-
by John R, Thompson & Son, of Salona, purchas-
ed from J. B. Furst and Alpine White, both’o
Lock Haven, what is considered to be the best
tract of white pine and white oak timber stand-
ing in Clinton county today. This valuable tract
of timber is located only three miles from Mill
Hall, and composes what is known as the Joseph
Miller and Charles Grieco tracts, consisting of
175 acres of solid timber, estimated to cut 1,000,
000 to 1,200,000 feet of white pine and white oak.
Over one-half of this timber isof the very finest
quality of white pine, and J. R. Thompson & Son
mean to erect an up-to-date mill on the property
to convert it into the valuable lumber it will pro=
! duce in the very near future.