BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Tomorrow we will celebrate the an-
niversary of LINCOLN’S birth.
— Anyway, the ice man is beginning to
wear a more hopeful expression again.
—Congressman RAINEY, of Illinois, is
being talked of as President WILSON'S
running mate.
—TEDDY must expect those “six un-
born grand-sons” to be ushered in with
khaki clothes on. |
—The efforts of the opposition papers
to stir up discord in the Democratic
ranks in Centre county are laughable.
—Between BRYAN peace and ROOSE-
VELT militarism, President WILSON is
trying to keep in the middle of the road.
-—Bellefonte surely was a dry town
Monday, but even our temperance friends
were unable to stir up any enthusiasm
over it. .
—The New Jersey Senate voted for lo-
cal option on Monday and BILLYJSUNDAY
fairly danced the tabernacle at Trenton
off its foundations.
—The ground-hog may not have seen
his shadow, but he has been making
weather very like he had been scared
back into his hole by something.
—The London and Paris news writers
talk flippantly of Col. HOUSE and his
mission principally because he wasn’t
flip enough to gratify their curiosity.
—The revenue derived from automo-
bile licenses up to last Friday amounted
to $1,184,380. That is a pretty nice be.
ginning for state road work when spring
opens up.
—If Jack CARDIFF, BILLY SUNDAY’S
old trainer becomes a revivalist next year,
as he announces he will, it will be inter-
esting to watch the results of the jump
from the prize ring to the pulpit.
—Commissioner JACKSON announces
that six thousand workers are to be
killed and three hundred thousand injur-
ed in the various industries of Pennsyl-
vania during 1916. The Commissioner
must be having bad dreams.
—Men'’s spring coats are to be two
buttoned sacks, single breasted with
drapery over the hips. The advance
fashion notes are not quite specific as to
whether the ‘*‘drapery” will be in the
form of a ruffle or a flounce.
—If the Harrisburg business men are
curious enough to want to see how Belle-
fonte does things let us be genial enough
and enthusiastic enough to show them
that we do everything right; and especial-
ly when entertaining the stranger with-
in our gates.
—Judge BEN LINDSAY declares that
Germany must have milk, else her babies
will starve. The Judge addressed his
remarks to the American people instead
of the German cows, which is only
another evidence of how frequently the
jurist barks up the wrong tree.
—With millions of gallons of water
running down the stream there
was not a drop to be had from any of the
pipes in Bellefonte Monday. Troops of
boys were selling water on the streets
and there was a continuous parade of a
bucket brigade to the Big Spring.
—Admiral BLUE has stated before the
Congressional investigating committee
that our Pacific fleet is ready to meet
and take care of any foreign fleet that
might attack the Pacific coast. We are
glad to know that we have one optimist
in the Navy who is blue only in name.
—The Lusitania incident is practically
closed. Germany has practically acced-
ed to all of the demands of the United
States and there yet only remains the
matter of reducing the agreement to
writing. How much better this is, even
though it has been long drawn out, than
fighting.
—If the fight really comes between
BRUMBAUGH and PENROSE for the control
of the Republican party in the State, as
present indications assure, Centre coun-
ty Republicanism will stan@ with PEN-
ROSE. But when it takes that stand a
couple of local Republican celebrities
who have longing eyes on jobs at Harris-
burg will take tumbles clear out of the
range of the plum trees.
—It takes a catastrophe like Monday’s
break in the main water line supplying
Bellefonte to point out the necessity of
having supplies on hand to meet any
emergency. While the town has proba-
bly never before been so uncomfortable
for eighteen hours in succession, with no
water, no steam and no gas, we are as-
sured that council will at once take steps
to make a few small changes in the sys-
tem which, if they had been made} years
ago, would have obviated much of Mon-
day’s trouble.
—Since 1860 there have been three
Democratic Presidents of the United
States, yet every night some Republican
backs a poor, timid Democrat into a cor-
ner in the store and threatens to annihi-
late him, calls him a rebel and a country
wrecker, all because a Democratic Presi-
dent who has been in office a little over
two years, hasn’t built the biggest navy
and army in the world, eaten Mexico up,
and wiped Europe off the map. And the
Democrat pipes a pean of peace or sneaks
home. But that was ever the Republi-
can way. Do noething and claim every-
thing.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 61.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 11, 1916.
NO. 6.
Declaration of War Confirmed.
Speaker AMBLER has
eral and thus the declaration of war be-
tween the factions, made by BILL VARE, '
a week ago, is ratified and confirmed. |
Probably those responsible for this situa-
tion fail to appreciate its importance.
Possibly they imagined that PENROSE will
yield as he did to BILL FLINN in the State
convention four years ago when he left
Harrisburg without even a protest; as he
did when AMBLER was forced upon him
as Speaker of the last Legislature, a year
ago, and as he did when SMITH was nom-
inated for Mayor of Philadelphia by the
VAREs and BRUMBAUGH, last spring. But
viewed from this distance from the
theatre of war it doesn’t look as if the
Senator will give up.
In the present situation it is political
life or death for PENROSE. Four years
ago he could lose to FLINN without im-
pairment of his title to leadership and in
fact he strengthened his chances for re-
election to the Senate by yielding. In
the Speakership he gave up a shadow
rather than substance for he had little
interest in legislation and evaded re-
sponsibility. In the Mayoralty affair it
looks as if he was plainly cheated. In
other words SMITH, who had been his
most servile follower, sold himself to the
opposition and betrayed a friendship of
long standing. Now the Senator must
win or vamoose and we have every rea-
son to believe that he will engage in the
fight with such energy and intelligence
as to guarantee victory in the primary
election.
Of course such a battle for control of
the organization will leave deep scars
and ugly sores on both sides and greatly
impair the strength of the party. But
the Republican majority is so large and
the management of the Democratic
forces so stupid, that there is scarcely a
possibility of Republican defeat at the
general election. What a pity that the
Democracy of Pennsylvania has fallen to
so low a level. Four years ago WILSON
ought to have carried Pennsylvania by a
large majority but the selfish and in-
competent managers were so intent
upon dividing the spoils among them-
selves that opportunity passed them by,
This year things may be different. “It
depends upon the primaries.
incompetents are thrown out PENROSE’S
victory will be barren.
——“HAMPY” MOORE is greatly dis-
tressed because Congress is inclined to
levy taxes on the wealthy rather than |
the poor. “HAMPY’S” party has always
followed the opposite course because the
poor can’t furnish campaign funds.
Unreasonable Criticism.
The unreasonableness of the Presi-
dent’s critics is most pronounced in their
insistence that he do something other
than write notes of protest against be-
ligerents which impair our commercial
interests or perpetrate outrages upon
our citizens traveling abroad in pursuit
of their [pleasure or business. Colonel
ROOSEVELT is not mentally responsible
for what he says and of course nobody
pays any attention to his mouthings.
But some Senators and Representatives
in Congress and certain newspapers,
hitherto regarded as respectable, insist
that the note writing be discontinued and
diplomatic relations with the offending
governments severed. That of course
would mean war.
Now, in the name of reason, what
would the government of the United
States go to war with? Mr. GARDNER, of
Massachusetts, and other Congressmen
have openly declared that our navy is a
farce and our army a shadow. Experi-
ence teaches that a call to arms in this
country gets prompt and generous re-
sponse. But what would be the use of
an army, however big, if we had no guns
for them to shoot or ammunition to
load? As a matter of fact we haven't
even the facilities for sheltering or drill-
ing a large army or resisting the diseases
and infections which invariably attack
armies in camp impronerly equipped. If
we were prepared to nght and refrained
through fear, there would be cause of
complaint.
The authorities in every capital in Eu-
rope are as well informed as to our un-
preparedness as our capable and efficient
Secretary of War. In fact it may safely
be said that the criticisms of ROOSEVELT,
GARDNER and others in and out of Con-
gress are uttered for the purpose of in-
forming military authorities of other
countries that they may flout us with
impunity. ROOSEVELT would gladly pay
that price for a personal and political ad-
vantage. But the people of the country
are not so unpatriotic. The President
has asked them to give him the equip-
ment and they will grant his request.
Then there will bo no quibbling. Europe
will then know that a just demand -of
the United States must be met.
formally an-
nounced his candidacy for Auditor Gen-
! dent under
If the!
| Breweries and Other Evils of Politics.
The Tariff Commission Folly. i
LITTLE GIRL.
Mr. F.Lowry HUME, United States | Opposing the proposed tariff commis- From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
District Attorney for the Western Dis-
: trict of this State, has instituted a judi-
cial investigation of the recent political
{ activities of breweries. Mr. A. MITCH-
ELL PALMER who ran last in a three-cor-
‘ nered fight for Senator in Congress for
(this State in 1914, imagines that the
breweries defeated him by contributing
i funds to his opponents. He brought the
: matter to the attention of the Senate but
i after a preliminary inquiry that body,
i though the Democrats are in substantial
| majority, declined to give it serious at-
; tention. Various reasons were given,
{ some of them sinister, for this action up-
ion the part of the Senate, but nobody
was publicly questioned as to the wis-
dom of it.
If the breweries of Pennsylvania have
been corrupting the politics of the State
they should be exposed and if they have
violated any law through their political
activities, they should be punished se-
verely. Pennsylvania is too big and the
standard of morality among her people
| too high, to be influenced by the rum
i power through improper agencies. But
Federal District Attorney ' HUME, of
Pittsburgh, is not the sort of man to
whom we should look for earnest cr hon-
est reform work and if he is employing
the instrumentalities of the courts to
poultice the disappointments to MITCH-
ELL PALMER'S absurd ambitions, he is
committing a crime against the public
interests of the country greater than
| that which is alleged against the brew-
eries.
i A man who would embarrass the Presi-
the pretense of friend-
ship as Mr. PALMER did when he pro-
| cured a postponement of the sentence of
"the lumber pirates, now justly serving
! sentence in prison and as he did by be-
coming involved in the scandal over the
leakage of State secrets to German
| agents, is not entitled to much considera-
| tion at the hands of the agencies of gov-
ernment or the officials of a Democratic
! administration. Punish the brewers if
they have violated the law and eliminate
‘the rum power from political influence
' and activity if possible. But don’t pros-
titute the courts to the service of cor-
‘ rupt politicians and mercenaries.
——Speaking in war terms the con-
. quest of the Middle West by President
! WILSON was about the most complete
' thing in that line in recent years.
1
Mr. Bailey and His Plans.
|
| The announcement of Congressman
| WARREN WORTH BAILEY, of Johnstown,
! that he will not be a candidate for Unit-
| ed States Senator will be regretfully re-
{ceived by a large number of earnest
Democrats in Pennsylvania. We are not
in accord with Mr. BAILEY in all his
ideas of public policies. For example,
upon the question of preparedness, now
the paramount issue in the public mind.
But Mr. BAILEY is so honest, earnest and
President, most of his Democratic associ-
ates in Congress and a vast majority of
the Democrats of the country, he is ab-
solutely within his right.
It is gratifying to learn, however, that
Mr. BAILEY will be a candidate for re-
hope that he may again be successful in
that contest. Four years ago he rescued
his district from Republican control,
having secured a plurality of 938 against
re-elected, though by a decreased plurali-
ty, but sufficient to show that his splen-
did services were appreciated by the peo-
ple. By attaching himself to a selfish
faction he had offended a considerable
number of Democratic voters, but be-
cause he was personally unselfish and
sincere, he was supported loyally by
Democrats and elected while most of the
other factionists were defeated.
ripe judgment and earnest purpose. Be-
ing human he errs at times but being
with full front. He has not absorbed the
preposterous notion that a handfull of
selfish and sordid office holders and office
ly declares that he doesn’t covet a seat
vention. He asks the support of his
such an expression of popular approval.
We would be better off if we had ‘more
like him there.
giving its attention to fishing when that
German tramp started out to prey on
commerce and capture the Appam.
on the trip. They have arranged for
{ luncheon at the Brockerhoff and Bush
, houses: and will also visit some of the
Harris, president of the Bellefonte Board
| of Trade.
we are diametrically opposed to his views
. tion will go to Lock Haven, Williamsport
capable that he is entitled to free mental !
action, and though he disagrees with the |
election to Congress and we sincerely |
' prehensive of an alliance between Ger-
a Republican plurality two years previ-
ously of 10,464. Two years ago he was
Mr. BAILEY isa man of fine ability, '
honest he assumes full responsibility for the throat.” If that be true there will
his action and meets the consequences probably be some chewing when the grip
: is relinquished.
brokers in Washington compose the Dem. | tO be a Delegate-at-Large to. the Demo-
ocratic party of Pennsylvania and frank- | cratic National convention. JIM wants
in the coming Democratic National con- |
constituents in his just'and laudable am- | go¢5line has gone up he can probably
bition for re-election and he deserves ford the expense.
| had ever since, the ground-hog must at
er | least have seen something on February
——The British navy was probably 5,4 -
sion is no sign of hostility toward Presi-
i dent WILSON. During the last Congress
some of his warmest friends in the House
and Senate fought the ship-purchase bill
and the fact made no difference in the
relations between them. Independence of |
thought is essential to true friendship
and assuming that President WILSON |
resents the exercise of mental freedom |
is a reflection upon his character and an |
aspersion upon the intelligence of his |
friends. Therefore in objecting to the
tariff commission we are expressing no :
spirit of opposition to the President.
There can be no such thing as a non-’
partisan tariff commission. The proposi-
tion to take the tariff question out of
politics is equally absurd. Those who
favor high tariff are on one side and the
supporters of low tariff on the other, and
in the minds of each the others are par-
tisan and partial. High tariff and low
tariff are opposite policies. = Any
tax which takes from the pockets
of the people money in excess of the
actual needs of the government is rob-
bery. The purpose of high tariff is to
compel one set of tax payers to pay in
order that another set may get unearned
bounties. Its effect is to take from the
earnings of one man to bestow the mon-
ey on another.
It is as reasonable to ask a man to
favor burglary as it is to ask him to sup-
port high tariff when the proceeds of the
operation is to benefit one at the expense
of the other. No commissicn can make
burglary a virtue or the perpetration of
crime an expression of righteousness.
All it can accomplish is to gather statis-
tics of no value and take money out of
the treasury for worthless services. The
President may adopt another view of this
subject. He may view it from another
angle as he has a right to do. But to
our mind tariff legislation is the work of ;
Congress and we admire Woobrow WIL-
SON just as much as if he agreed with
us.
——The Harrisburg Chamber of Com-
merce has practically completed. the ar-
rangements for its trip through the cen-
tral part of the State for the purpose of
booming the capitol city. Bellefonte will
be one of the towns visited and the spe:
cial train of five cars will arrive here be-
tween twelve and one o'clock on Thurs-
day of next week, February 17th. About
one hundred and fifty members with a
band of twenty-two pieces are expected
main points of interest in the town,
among which will be Bellefonte’s famous
spring. After luncheon a brief meeting
will be held in the court house which
will likely be presided over by J. Linn
The meeting will be held for
the purpose of giving Bellefonte business
men an opportunity to meet the visitors.
From Bellefonte the Harrisburg delega-
and Sunbury.
—Next week the county papers will
publish the names of all the owners of
dogs in the county and the boy who
owns the most miserable cur will get
just as much space as the fellow with a
pedigreed canine.
——Senator LEWIS, of Chicago, is ap-
many and Great Britain to attack the
United States. Obviously “JIM HAM” is
talking through his purple whiskers.
——England is preparing for an im-
portant shift among cabinet and other
officials. Well, some sort of a movement
was needed there to prove that the peo-
ple have some interest in the war.
——The balance in the State treasury
is smaller than the favored banks like,
no doubt, but as long as it is above a
couple of millions there is no danger of
bankruptcy or default.
——0One of Berlin's great editors de-
clares that “Germany has the allies by
—Of course Jim BLAKSLIE will want
to put the party in safe hands.
——Mr. ROCKERFELLER has gone to
Florida to play golf but as the price of
— From the kind of weather we have
—For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
When you buy them, what's the cue
Those are very pretty shoes,
Little girl,
Are they truly number twos,
Little girl?
They're so radiant with dyes
That they dim a body’s eyes
In the matter of the size;
Little girl.
One cansee them for a mile,
Little girl.
Are they nothing but the style,
Little girl?
They're so dainty and petite
In the throng upon the street,
One is just a little beat,
Little girl.
When you buy them, what's the cue,
Little girl?
Do you ask for red or blue,
Little girl?
Or in women’s sweet estate
Where the shops are up to date,
Do they dye them while you wait,
Little girl?
We are very much afraid,
Little girl,
Of the tendency displayed,
Little girl.
Not to speak of what we see
Now and then of someone’s knee
When the wind is wild and free,
Little girl.
, Are they making women’s suits,
Little girl,
To display the newer boots,
Little girl? ’
If they are, it might be wise
For the men to bind their eyes,
For the boots are on the rise,
Little girl!
Just a moment at the gate,
Little girl.
The effect of it is great,
Little girl.
Only this, to close the rhyme:
Though your booting issublime,
We are looking all the time,
Little girl.
The Blatancy of Borah.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
It is now generally conceded that our
war with Spain was a stupid blunder and
a national disgrace. A weak and oblig-
ing President and a spineless Congress
were forced into it by a mendacious and
unscrupulous press. The United States
obtained nothing in trade and ¢2
A financial burden was saddled upon the
people that was wholly unnecessary and
which it was a national crime to make
them bear.
When broad-minded statesmen like
Senator Borah, blatant demagogues like
Theodore Roasevelt and discredited dip-
lomats like Henry Lane Wilson unite in
demanding intervention in Mexico, it is
proper for the average citizen who must
pay the bills to demand to know what
obligations morally or politically the
people of this country are under to re-
store peace and order in Mexico.
Senator Borah in the Senate excoriat-
ingiy denounced the Administration’s
policy in Mexico as a “compromising
side-stepping, procrastinating, un-Ameri-
can policy of leaving the American citi-
zen to struggle for himself against the
bandits of an adjacent country.”
The Senator of course is profoundly
impressed that such silly prattle strikes
a responsive chord somewhere in the
anatomy of the American people. But a
moment’s reflection ought to convince
him that the American citizen who re-
mains in Mexico to struggle against ban- |
dits is doing so of his own volition. He
is free to quit the struggle with bandits
at any time he feelsso disposed. There
is no fugitive law to restrain him or
bring him back if he escapes.
But one thing is certain. He has no
right tostay there and involve his na-
tive country in a stupid, brutal, object-
less war. If he is a true American, a
sincere patriot, the last thing he would
think of doing would be to bring the hor-
rors of war on his native land.
Disposing of the Appam.
From the New York World.
Holding that the British ship Appam,
now at Newport News, is legitimately a
German prize of war, Secretary Lansing
solves the first and perhaps the simplest
of several complicated questions. The
Hague Convention of 1907 undertook to
rule that in cases like this the prize
should be compelled to put to sea, and,
failing to do so, should be turned over to
her original owners. A section in con-
flict with this gives to prizes the right of
asylum in neutral ports pending the
decision of a prize court, but the United
States never subscribed to this, and The
Hague Convention has been reduced
almost to blank paper by the actions of
the belligerents themselves.
Directly bearing upon the point isa
section of the treaty between the United
States and Prussia of 1828, an instrument
which both Powers have repeatedly rec-
ognized during the present war. By the
terms of this agreement, prizes are to
have asylum in all ports of both parties
and are free to come and go at will. As
Germany is not likely very soon to be in
a position to carry its prize to a home
port, there is nothing to do so far as the
Appam is concerned but to give it safe
harbor. :
Beyond this, and with reference to the
final disposition of the ship, its cargo, its
military prisoners and its crew, there
are many things to determine, responsi-
bility for which will rest upon the United
States alone. We have been attempting,
not always with success, to maintain
international law. In this case the State
Department will be both judge and jury,
and the more closely it approaches jus-
tice rooted in treaties and law, the more
vehement the protests of interested bel-
ligerents are likely to be.
{
{ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
Ti ierce
that it could not have obtained by treaty.
—James Hobson, residing near Philipsburg, on
the Clearfield side, married, committed suicide a
few days ago by shooting himself. Nobody
knows why he did it.
—The new board of commissioners of Indiana
county announce that the office will be open six
days in the week hereafter, the Saturday half
holiday being abolished.
—William Melvin, who died last Sunday at his
home in DuBois, at the age of 83, had been blind
for a half century, his eyes having been blown
out in a mine explosion in Luzerne county.
—Mrs. John Hughes, of Westmont, a suburb of
Johnstown, has had a steel needle removed from
one of her knees that had been there for eigh-
teen years and only recently began to give her
pain.
—An epidemic of mumps has been prevailing
| among the youngsters of certain sections of
Clinton county. In Chapman township all save
one of the fifty pupils have been suffering fro
the disease. }
—Some Jefferson county hotel men, since all
licenses were refused last Thursday by Judge
Corbet, are talking of closing their houses, while
others propose to try to do business without the
aid of bar receipts.
—A few seconds after leaving her son, to whom
she had taken his dinner, Mrs. Ida Frey, aged
47, of Casselman, Somerset county, was struck
by an engine and instantly killed. The accident
happened Sunday afternoon.
—Two of the three men who broke jail in
Westmoreland county recently and were captured
were sent to the penitentiary last Saturday, one
for not less than two years, the other for not less
than two years and six months.
—The Red Men's lodge of Morrisdale has ap-
propriated $500 for the equipment and uniform-
ing of aband. This will give that growing ceal
town its second musical organization. O. W.
Weiler, of Philipsburg, is to be the leader.
—AIll male students of the Kittanning High
school over five feet, six inches tall have joined a
military company of that school which is re-
ceiving instructions and being drilled by Prof.
E. B. Roberts. Thirty have joined the company.
—Measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
have closed a dozen or more rooms of Johns-
town public school buildings for fumigation and
are responsible for the absence of many pupils.
Of measles 214 caes were reported at the begin-
ning of the week. :
—Dogs, horses and cows will be quarantined
for a long period in Milford township, Somerset
county, as the resuit of an analysis of the brain
of a dog which was shot after it had bitten other
dogs, cows and horses. The analysis showed
that the canine had rabies.
—Miss Bella Greenleaf, of Colerain, Lancaster
county, 76 years old, who had been confined to
her bed for nearly fifty years as an invalid, died
Saturday night from infirmities of age. She
taught school when quite young and her illness
resulted from a fall. Two sisters survive.
—The Board of Commissioners of Clearfield
county that retired with the close of 1915 ap-
pointed H. L. Bowman, one of their number,
mercantile appraiser. The new board has ap-
pointed James Hall, and legal proceedings have
been instituted to determine who really is mer
cantile appraiser.
—Walter Walthour, a seventeen-year-old
school boy of Greensburg, fell while crossing a
barbed wire fence on his way to school recently
and broke his neck, dying instantly. Walthour
was a Senior in the school and was walking with
a lady friend, taking a short-cut to the school
when the accident occurred.
—Alleging that he was put off a car and whip-
ped by a conductor on the Shamokin-Mt. Carmel
Transit company’s line when he asked for his
change out of a 25-cent piece, afterhe had paid
for a 5-cent ride, Victor Stroh, of Mt. Carmel,
Saturday brought suit in the Northumberland
county court for $5,000 damages.
—Three hundred Williamsport sidewalks that
have not been cleared of snow were reported to
the highway department of that city last week
and the officials have as many men as could be
secured at work removing the snow and ice. The
bills will be sent to the property owners. We
have no such policy in Bellefonte.
—John W. Mack, aged 40, a colored resident of
Mount Union, bad the fingers frozen on one of
his hands during the January cold snap, and did
not give the hand the attention it should have
received. In consequence he contracted lock-
jaw, of which dreadful disease he died in the
Blair Memorial hospital, Huntingdon.
—Jesse Allen, now an inmate of the DuBois
hospital, having been shot in an encounter with
an officer who urdertook to arrest him on the
charge of being implicated in the Rowles mur-
der, at Clearfield, is improving in health and
will soon be removed to the county jail at Clear-
field. He laughs at the officers who have been
trying to persuade him to confess.
—Four stores at Williamsport were entered
late Saturday night, or early Sunday morning,
and the cash registers in three of them were re-
lieved of their contents. The biggest haul was
made at the Miiliner drug store, where $57 was
secured. At the Otto book store and the Cox
shoe store $5 was taken from each place. At the
Lester shoe store the thieves apparently left
empty-handed.
—While repairing doors of the motor barn at
the Frazer mine of the Lennox Coal company,
near Barnesboro, Frank Feighner was crushed
to death by a runaway motor. The motors go
down grade when entering the barn. This one
got away from the motorman and crushed
through the door on the inside of which the man
was working. He leaves a widow and eleven
children, the oldest only 22.
—Early last Wednesday morning the firemen
of Meyersdale were cailed out to a fire that de-
stroyed the residence ef the late William Da-
berko, who died under peculiar conditions a few
days previous. When the firemen reached the
place they found Mrs. Daberko standing outside,
fully dressed, with a trunk by her side. She
said she did not know how the fire caught. She
and her late husband had lived in the same house
but in different apartments.
—Fred Blakeslie, of Meadville, aged 69, was
sentenced to pay fines and costs amounting to
$1526 for hunting game out of season and selling
it. Blakeslie was induced to go hunting by Game
Protector George M. Langdon and then sold four
pheasants and four rabbits he had killed to the
game protector. This isa case that should be
inquired into very carefully by the State Game
Commission and, if the facts as reported are
correct, the above game protector should be
summarily dismissed and compelled to pay a
portion of the fine. Such action on the part of
game protectors should not be tolerated one day,
as they are the real instigators of the violation
of the law.
—The body of Miss Hazel Schoenfelt, aged 20,
of Altoona, was found floating in the Allegheny
river at Pittsburgh on Saturday. Miss Schoen-
felt, who was a student in the school for nurses
at the Allegheny General hospital, Friday gave
medicine, prescribed by one of the hospital physi-
cians, to the wrong patient. According to Her-
bert Beamer, who Saturday relinquished his posi-
tion as superintendent of the institution and who
identified the body, Miss Schoenfelt admitted her
error, and was dismissed. She at once put on a
| heavy coat, and hurrying to the river, three
blocks away, walked into the water until it covered
her head. Pedestrians who witnessed the act
from a bridge, were unable to save her, and her
identity was not disclosed until the body was
recovered.