BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —There is likely to be a shortage of the ! next turkey crop, because the Russians | have captured most of the male birds. —When those Oklahoma Legislators | started fighting and throwing inkwells at one another we thought, right away, of our Ink Slings. —Next month the farm sales will oc- cupy the attention of all the farmers who have their home work cleared up | and of a lot who haven't. —Whenever JoHN D. decides to reduce the price of gas the automobile to which | 23cts. a gallon was the skidoo number, will begin to race through the country again. —Judge JOHNSON having refused to grant license to any of the hotels in Lewisburg, all of Union county is now dry. The dry counties are gradually closing in on us. —Six inch ice is now being harvested but it has been badly honeycombed by the soft weather. It is getting so late in the season that few care to take a chance on getting anything better later. — “The Governor’s Lady,” the delight- ful story that begins serially in this issue of the WATCHMAN would cost you $1.50 at a book store. We give you the oppor- tunity to read and enjoy it without this extra outlay. —It is just as important not to work vour life away as it is not to fritter your time away. There is a time for work and there is a time for play and in every normal being the diligent pursuit of one is quite as important as is the other. —The little break in the wheat market started Centre county farmers to selling in a hurry. Many have found out through experience that it doesn’t pay to hold for the last cent and when a fair price is insight it is the wise thing to take it. : . —Well, the County Commissioners have finally selected a sealer of weights and measures. Our sympathy goes out to the eighty odd disappointed applicants and our congratulations to Mr. DEEMER PIERCE, of State College, the fortunate recipient of the Commissoner’s favor. —Extravagance ran riot at the steam heat works last Saturday night. Radia- tors in some places in town were actually hot at eleven o'clock. Few people knew it, however, because most of the con- sumers have gotten into the habit of going to bed at nine o'clock in order to keep warm. —Rev. BIEDERWOLF, an evangelist, is reported to have said that there is but one difference between hell and South Bethlehem and that is that South Beth- lehem has railroad lines running out of it. While we know little about South Bethlehem and less about the other place we are of the opinion that what the evangelist says is not true else every resident of South Bethlehem would flee the place ere the railroads are abandoned. We are sure that there wouldn’t be a lost soul in Hades a minute if there were such an avenue of escape. —Here's a pretty mess. Hon. C. L. GRAMLEY, of Rebersburg, is coming back at the Hon. HARRY B. ScortT, of Philips- burg, for having taken the nomination for Legislator away from him two years ago. By all the precedents of party cus- tom GRAMLEY was entitled to a renomi- nation but his record in Harrisburg didn’t suit the Republican bosses, so they threw him and sent the rich young coal operator to represent Centre county. You'll remember that local option was injected into that campaign and notwith- standing all the “big talk” that we are accustomed to hear from Centre county “drys” most of them voted for SCOTT, who was non-committal on what he would do if elected. He was not a local optionist in Harrisburg and now Gov- ernor BRUMBAUGH is after his scalp, the Hon. CEPHAS is after his scalp and a lot who talk temperance and don’t vote it are after his scalp. There is going to be some fun and we want you all to have your share of it hence this advice to keep your eyes open, your ears to the ground and—need we add—your mouth shut. —It used to be that theatrical managers who were putting on a new show would “try it on the dog’ first. That is they would send it out for some one night stands before it was presented in the large city in which it was hoped it would have its initial and long run. Last week the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce visited Bellefonte. There were a great many people curious to know just what the motive was and such eminently truth- ful gentlemen as the president of the Commonwealth Title and Trust Co., and the trust officer of the Mechanics Trust Co., of Harrisburg, personally assured us that it was purely “a sociability run.” But along comes the Harrisburg Patriot presenting membership cards to a few more eligibles to the Ananias Club by stating that the party was gotten up “to give some of the young men of the Cap- itol city an opportunity to practice speech making in towns where it didn’t matter much.” So you see, they were trying them “on the dog’’ and Bellefonte was it. That explains, also, why the visiting band was so tight with its music. It was “wind jammers”’ not “leather- lips” that our delightful visitors were exploiting. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL 61. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, FEBRUARY 25, 1916. Negotiations Will be Resumed. The negotiations between the diplo- | The only hope of the Republican party | President WILSON’S treatment of the . vexed questions which have grown out mats of this country and Germany con- cerning the Lusitania and other subjects | growing out of the sinking of that ship! will be resumed on March 1. The latest | aspect of the dispute is in relation to the | claim of Germany that submarine at- | tacks upon merchant ships carrying de- | fensive armament is allowable under | international law. By defensive arma- | ment is meant a small gun or two, which | it is customary for merchant ships to carry. Germany contends that such guns could be made offensive against subma- rines. Possibly that is true for subma- rines may be destroyed by ramming without any guns. But international law authorizes the light armament and cannot be altered upon the motion of one belligerent during a period of hostili- ties. Of course the government at Washing- ton will not consent to this German con- struction and demand and for a few days after the reopening of the negotiations the atmosphere may be filled with war rumors. But there will be no war in consequence of this entanglement. The war lords in Berlin will blow and bluster and the war maniacs in this country will overwork their jaws. But Germany don’t want war with the United States on any account and the sane citizens of this country, who are happily largely in the majority, don’t want war with Germany. Thus far the negotiations upon disputed points have invariably been decided in favor of this country and this new dis- pute will be disposed of finally in the same way. But it may take a little time. Meantime the assurance contained in a Washington dispatch to an esteemed Philadelphia contemporary “that the leaders of the two Houses of Congress have promised the President that they would exert their influence to prevent Congress from adding to the gravity of the situation by meddling until asked to do so by him.” If Congress will keep out of it the President may be depended upon to guide the - ship safely through | the breakers. He will not insult the in- telligence of American citizens by warn- ing them against travel in any ships they ! desire to go and he will compel ample | tied upon their heads. The Democrats will learn something. reparation and complete satisfaction for ! every injury inflicted upon an American | citizen traveling abroad in pursuance of | business or pleasure in any merchant ship afloat. | ——So long as the fellow who ‘struck BILLY PATTERSON” remains undiscover- ed it’s hardly worth while to worry over the mysterious disappearance of JIM | MULVIHILL. Caution to Pennsylvania Democrats. Any man who tells the people of Pennsy.vania that President WILSON desires that any particular man, or set of men, or faction shall control the Demo- cratic organization of this State, is delib- erately falsifying the facts for a selfish and probably dishonest purpose. Presi- dent WILSON knows that every Democrat in Pennsylvania favors his renomination and re-election, and will invoke every legitimate method to compass those re- sults. Therefore he has no selfish inter- esl in favoring one faction against anoth- er and nothing except a selfish interest could influence any man to favor one faction as against another in a State in which he is not a citizen. Four years ago the Democrats of Penn- splvania were practically a unit in favor of the nomipation of WOODROW WILSON. But under the false representation that there was a dangerous opposition tc him in the State certain gentlemen wormed themselves into his favor and subsequent- ly converted his friendship into sub- stantial salaries as public officials. One of the gentlemen conspicuous in this dastardly false pretense has been openly charged with having subsequently put the Presidential friendship and confi- dences on a bargain counter and sold them at high prices for questionable uses. But President WILSON is “on to their curves’’ now and any attempt to use him in factional disputes will be sharply and promptly rebuked. Pennsylvania Democrats are for WooD- ROW WILSON “first, last and all the time.” The lordly PALMER and “Pussy-foot” GUTHRIE can’t muster them as personal property again. The attempt will be made, however, and before the primary election emissaries of these office brokers and party pirates will be traveling throughout the State insinuating that they are the representatives of the Presi- dent urging the retention of the stupid or venal management which brought ROOSEVELT into the State two years ago to “tear WILSON to pieces.” These men are not for any man or principle except themselves and their selfish interests and they will richly deserve the rebuke that is coming to them. Stupid or Venal Party Managers. | lies in THEODORE ROOSEVELT. As he tersely stated the case, he is the only man who can “tear WILSON to pieces.” | Senator RooT and others have undertaken | to divert the current of opinion in another direction. They have been and are making speeches quite as inflamma- tory ard almost as preposterous as any of his utterances. But they get no re- sponse from the public. Those who be- lieve as the Colonel talks want ROOSE- VELT and will accept no substitute, and those who think as RooT thinks realize that he is masquerading. If ROOSEVELT is not nominated there will be a split in the party which will destroy all chances of victory. His nomination means a hard fight. ROOSEVELT was as dead, politically, as CAESAR’s ghost until the stupid or venal Democratic managers in Pennsylvania applied the pulmotor and brought him back to life. They knew, if they knew anything, that they were creating trouble for the Democratic party. But one of their number was obsessed with an absurd ambition for office, and they en- tered into a corrupt bargain with WIL- LIAM FLINN, of Pittsburgh, to restore ROOSEVELT to the center of the stage. FLINN didn’t care for MCCORMICK but he abhorred WiLsoN and worshipped ROOSE- VELT. The bargain gave him opportunity to serve one and injure the other. He got the Colonel on the stump at the ex- pense of WILSON’S party managers and the ripping operation was performed wherever a crowd could be gathered. The stupid or venal managers who perpetrated that outrage upon the Demo- cratic party are now plotting to continue themselves in positions in which they may repeat the act of treachery or perpetrate others equally atrocious. Ina recent interview Mr. A MITCHELL PAL- | MER declares that “we will have no State wide primary contest.” Does he propose to name the candidates as he and three or four others undertook to make the ‘platform two vears ago? If such a thing ; lar vote of the people in 1915. He isa] happens again the party will resent it i with such emphasis that the office brok- ers and party hucksters will think the’ “seven viols of wrath” have been emp- of Pennsylvania will not be betrayed again. i ——On March 1st the British debt will amount to about $11,000,000,000, : i which is a per capita of $250.00. Of | course that isn’t of much importance to us, who won’t have to pay, but it ought | to suggest that there will be little dan- ger of dumping manufactured products at our doors after the war is over. rm mer i Significant Expressions by Republicans. Two incidents of the WASHINGTON | birthday celebrations in Philadelphia are | significant. At the annual exercises of | the University of Pennsylvania Hon. J HAY BROWN, chief justice of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, declared that “national security, peace and prosperity are constantly menaced on one hand by the acts and utterances of those who | clamor for war on every pretext, and on | the other hand by the hysterical cries of | equally unreasonable creatures for peace at any price. The public welfare is in! as great danger from one of these classes as from the other, and it seems to be impossible to reason with either, if there be any reason in them.” About the same time of day, in another part of the city, Senator BolES. PENROSE addressed an audience of patriotic orders engaged in celebrating the birthday of GEORGE WASHINGTON. He began his oration by saying: “GEORGE WASHING- TON warned the young nation against en- tangling foreign alliances. I think that advice is as good today as when it was given. By following it we have kept out of any European wars and avoided for- eign politics. In this war our neutrality should be rigidly enforced. We have no sympathy ‘with those who would drag us and the demands went to the full limit into this great war. We hope that when the time arrives our great moral influence : may be exerted to bring about a lasting peace.” Chief justice BROWN is a Republican of the most stalwart type. Before his elec- | tion to the Supreme court he was active : and capable in the leadership and man- agement of the Republican party of the State. Since that event he has refrained from party activity without the least change in his political allegiance. We | all know PENROSE. He is the steadfast, uncompromising, tireless Republican | partisan. Yet on a patriotic occasion they ! come together in a practical endorsement | of the foreign policies of our great Demo- cratic President and join in condemnation | of the sinister partisanship expressed by | ROOSEVELT, ROOT and “Jim” BECK. Does it mean a new alignment? —Have your Job Work done here. Wilson’s Eloquent Champion. of the German submarine operations, needs no defense. It is the highest stand- ard of diplomatic achievement. Germany has practically yielded to every demand of right and reason. Germany might have refused to acknowledge the claims of the administration at Washington or to recognize the justice of the claims. Thanks to the energy and industry of the leaders of the Republican party the war office in Berlin was 2s fully informed of our unpreparedness to enforce demands as were those in the war office in Wash- ington. But by patience, honesty and skill, the President got about all he asked. Since the Republican leaders of the country have determined to make a political issue of President ¥WILSON'S dipfomatic triumphs, however, it is just as well that notice should be taken of the matter. People get wrong ideas if propositions, however absurd, are per- mitted to go unanswered. “Silence gives consent,” is an old adage too frequently accepted in these busy times when men in authority have no time to waste on trifles. Lies travel in amazing velocity and truth follows “with a leaden heel.” Therefore the friends of the President throughout the country will be glad to learn that Senator WILLIAM J. STONE, of Missouri, has determined to speak on the subject. And the President could hardly have a more capable champion. WiLLiAM J. STONE has had a long and varied ex- perience in public life. He was born in Kentucky in 1848 and moved to Missouri in early life. Graduated from the Uni- versity of that State he became a lawyer in 1869 and was elected Prosecuting At- torney in 1873. Subsequently he served three terms in Congress and four years | as Governor of the State. He was elect- ed Senator in Congress in 1903, and re- elected in 1909 and chosen by the popu- man of studious habits, great industry and analytical mind. He is known as among the most eloquent orators in the west and when he speaks the country ——The annual banquet of The Penn- sylvania State College association of New York held in the winter garden of the Hotel McAlpin on Saturday night marked an epoch in college association banquets never attained before. The Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Francisco associations banquetted at the same hour and all four were linked "together by a trans-continental telephone line, every guest being provided with a telephone receiver and thus able to hear all that transpired at the four places. Moving pictures of Penn State activities were also a feature. Among the guests at the New York banquet were H. Walton Mitchell, of Pittsburgh, president of the board of trustees of State College; Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, president of the Col- lege; J. F. Shields, a member of the board of trustees; Dean R. L. Sackett, Dr. G. G. Pond and graduate athletic man- ager Ray Smith. ——1If you are not now a subscriber of the WATCHMAN and are fortunate enough to receive a copy of this issue containing the first installment of “The Governor's Lady,” read it and then enroll your name as a regular subscriber and be sure to get every installment of this enticing story. It alone will be worth the price of the paper for one year. ——The movement to make ROBERT LANSING Governor of New York will probably fail. Mr. LANSING is making history and reputation as Secretary of State and as WILSON’S re-election is practically assured, he is not likely to look for other fields of labor for some time to come. ——There are forty-nine prohibition bills now pending in Congress and it is a safe guess that all of them will fail of passage. If the Prohibitionists would get together they might accomplish more. : ——Building local postoffices is of great importance to the communities in which they are erected,but they wouldn't help much in repelling an invading enemy. ——Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, wants to annex all adjoining territory to the city. That is one way of making cities grow. ——ROOSEVELT is in South America but will be back in time to listen to the noise of the Republican National conven- tion. WS v . . ——They are all good enough, but th WATCHMAN is always the best. Solving Compensation Problems. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. As the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Law are becoming more fully understood throughout the State its acceptance becomes more general, and employers of every class of labor recog- nize its wisdom. Of course there will be a great many disputes arising in the early stages of the law’s workings, but in due time all sorts of disputes will have been settled, pre- cedents established and the law will work smoothly, though undoubtedly some amendments will be made by the next Legislature. The referees, as a matter of course, will have their time very tully occupied in hearing and settling the complex ques- tions that arise from the very outset. A case in point is reported from Harris- burg where a grocer’s clerk was killed re- turning from the delivery of goods after. the close of his day's work, an action said to have been entirely voluntary with him, but still, it is claimed, in the line of his duty. The question is whether it will subject his employer to the payment of the insurance. It rests with the ref- eree to adjudicate this claim, and in doing it he will establish a precedent for all time. The Philadelphia referee hasjust made the first ruling in a disputed case where a man claimed compensation for disabil- ity caused by a strain made as he was lifting a heavy object in the line of duty. It was held that the strain was not caus- ed by work the man was compelled to do, but the referee decided otherwise, and the man will receive compensation. These two examples show the wide range the judgment those enforcing the law will have to take and suggest the many complicated cases they will be called upon to settle, but once having established precedents it will be only a question of time when there will be a ruling for each character and class of claims. The state officials charged with the in- terpretation of the law are desirous of doing so in all fairness to the employer and employed, whether the man injured be insured by the state fund or other- wise. The law is not infallible, nor are the enforcers of it, but there are strong evidences that it is the intention of the State to enforce it with fairness and equity. The Russians in Turkey. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. . 2 Russian advices from the Caucassian front indicate well prepared efforts to push the Russian invasion of Turkey along several lines and the fall of Erzerum makes this possible. The Petrograd dispatches tell of an advance along the Black Sea coast upon Trebizond, to which point artillery is said to have been shipped by sea. Between Trebizond and Erzerum a rugged mountain range in- tervenes and extends through it running North and South. It will be seen by reference to the map printed on another page that a Russian advance to Trebizond and along the coast would parallel the Westward advance from Erzerum to- wards Sivas which would most naturally follow the capture of Erzerum, and would give short routes of supply from the sea coast for the army thus advancing. It is also evident, from a study of the map, that the Russians should now be within easy reach of the railroad that runs down from the Black Sea through Sivas and Kharput towards Bagdad. If they can win that line they will threaten to cut Asiatic Turkey in two by achiev- ing, also, a base of supply on the Medi- terranean; an accomplishment which would be with adequate railroad devel- opment, of the greatest value to the whole empire, and may. indeed, be the chief object of the whole campaign. . ¥ot An Undisputed Right, But — From the Altoona Times. Every American citizen has an undis- puted right to go to sea on any ship of commerce, armed or unarmed— provided any guns it may carry are intended only for defense. Nevertheless, there will be mighty few Americans taking passage hereafter on any vessel mounting so much as a Quaker cannon. There's small comfort in reflecting that inter- national law is on your side when you're dodging shells and torpedoes. Bobs Up Like Banquo’s Ghost. From the Charleston News and Courier. Justice Hughes has given his Presi- dential boom another rap on the head. But it’s a tough old boom, and, while it may be stunned, we doubt whether it has beenkilled. =. May Be that Includes Bob! From the Louisviile Courier-Journal. Wisconsin is making 365 trainloads of cheese every year, but still is more wide- ly known as the producer of Senator La- Follette, which shows what advertising does. Deliberately Unfriendly to Rud. From the Kansas City Journal. Mr. Kipling would wipe out Germany with a stroke of his facile pen. But Germany shows no disposition to serve as a pen wiper for Rudyard. ——An immigration bill containing a literacy test has again been introduced in the House at Washington. Three bills have been vetoed on account of that provision but some men wouldn't take a hint if a brick house should fall upon them. ——Senator RoOT is too old to go to war, which fact probably accounts for his war talk. 8 - SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —A recent analysis of the water supply of Du- Bois reveals a very satisfactory condition. Yet DuBois has considerable typhoid fever. —Almost every term of court over in Clearfield | county Judge Bell sends from one to three wife deserters to the penitentiary. A very righteous judge. - —For selling as fresh, eggs which were not what the label claimed for them, C. P. Stewart, of Landisburg, Perry county, was obliged to pay $68.52 fine and costs. —Friday of last week was the first anniversary of the big fire at Ebensburg. During the year much progress has been made by way of replac- ing the burned structures with stately and mod- ern structures. —MTr. and Mrs. Lyons Mussina, of Lock Haven, aged respectively 90 and 88, celebrated the 61st anniversary of their wedding on Saturday. No special ceremonies marked the passage of this notable anniversary. —Fire on Monday destroyed the Queensware wholesale store of John P. Hackenberg, at Mil- ton, causing a loss estimated at $90,000. The fire, it is believed, was started by tramps who were smoking in an adjoining barn. —Rev. I. Lane, a colored preacher living in Williamsport, has been arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $1,140.70, said.to have been contributed by white and colored philanthropists for a charitable institution in Arkansas. —A private school at Valier, Jefferson county, started last fall by some opponents of vaccina- tion, has been closed by the State Health De- partment and its patrons have agreed to send their children back to the public schools. —Governor Brumbaugh on Monday night is- sued a respite staying the execution of H. E. Fil- ler, Westmoreland county, from the week of February 28 to the week of May 1, to allow the United States Supreme court to dispose of an ap- peal. : —The commissioners of Westmoreland county are considering the propriety of erecting a hos- pital for their insane. They now occupy a por- tion of the county home and are so greatly in ex- cess of the accommodations that many of them’ are obliged to sleep on the floor. —The Pennsylvania State Game Commission has just placed 97 head of Yellowstone Park Elk in Pennsylvania preserves as follows: 25 in Pot- ter county, 24 in Cameron county, 25 in Carbon county, 10 in Forrest-Warren preserve, seven near Altoona, and six in Blair county. —John Noble, aged nearly 66, a well-known printer and one of the founders of the first daily newspaper published in Lock Haven, died at his home in that city on Saturday last after a week’s illness which started with la grippe and termi- nated in paralysis. Mr. Noble was a native of Howard, this county. —Thirty minutes after she received a life in- surance policy she had just taken out, Mrs. Car oline Troupe, aged 57, of Yatesboro, fell over dead. She received the policy while eating sup- per Wednesday evening and when she [finished the meal took up the policy to inspectlit and died before she had concluded. ' —The Aetna Explosives Co., has purchased the plant of the Warren Chemical Co., at Irvineburg, Warren county, and will take charge immediate- ly. The plant was capitalized at $100,000 and the purchasing company paid $300,000 for it. The capacity of the plant will be tripled and will turn out about 200 tons of high explosives each month. —A coroner's jury at Indiana, Pa., on Wednes- day, the 16th, exonerated the Jefferson and Clear- field Coal company from all blame for the explo- sion in mine No. 2 of their operations at Ernest Friday, February 11th, in which 27 men lost their lives. Explosion of gas ignited by. an uuknown cause was held responsible,for the deaths of the victims. —The commissioners of Westmoreland county have awarded $400 out of the $500 offered for the capture of Charles Douglass, the convicted murderer, to Chief of Police Frum, of Irwin. Seventy-five dollars was given to Mrs. Christian Painter, who spread the word of Douglass being in the neighborhood, and $25 to her husband, Ed- ward Painter. —A Lock Haven fish dealer lost a $5 bill a week ago last Friday while making change for a cus- tomer. He advertised in the town papers with- out result. Exactly a week later while going over the same route he saw what looked like the edge of a bill sticking through the snow and up- on investigation discovered thatlit was his mon. ey. Nobody had observed it during the week. —William H. Armstrong, of Philadelphia, con- victed, with other officials of the International Lumber and Development company, for fraudu- lent use of the mails, will not have to serve the two years’ imprisonment imposed upon him. In- stead he will serve six months in the Eastern pen- itentiary, his sentence having been commuted to that period late on Friday by President Wilson. —Fearful of the exactions of modern society, E. W. Jenkins, a victim of wanderlust, who has been loafing about Uniontown saloons by day and sleeping in warm cokeovens near that place by night, has flatly refused to return to respectable living in Canton, Ohio, where there awaits him a one-third share in an estate of $15,000, left by his motherjto her three children. —E. P. Saxman and other officials and em- ployees of the Ebensburg Coal company, who some months ago were found guilty of assaulting officials of the United Mine Workers of America, were before Judge Stephens, at Ebensburg a few days ago, for sentence. Saxman was fined $200 and the others from $50 to $25. The defendants had already paid between $400 and $500 in costs. —Owing to insufficient ventilation in the Unit- ed Evangelical church of Lewistown during the session of the Sunday school, Sunday morning, three persons were overcome and had to be tak- en to their homes. They were Rev. George Jos- eph, a retired clergyman; Wm. Hetrick and Miss Mary Wertz. It is believed all will recover, al- though the two men were pretty sick for some time. —Fire at the plant of the Pennsylvania Stave company, Sheffield, Saturday, caused a loss esti- mated at $200,000. Three warehouses, with 200,- 000 hardwood barrel ataves, were destroyed, With the thermometer standing at three degrees below zero and a shortage of water the firemen had a hard time saving the plant from being de- stroyed. The dried barrel staves burned rapidly, and in less than 30 minutes after the fire was dis- covered in warehouse No. 1 the flames had spread to the adjoining warehouse. The origin of the fire is unknown. —While riding a horse over his farm at Sandy Hollow, near Connellsville, Fayette county, two years ago Judge J. C. Work of the Orphans’ Court of Fayette county, lost a valuable gold sig- net ring, supposedly when he pulled off his glove. Last Thursday Russell Woodward, son of the caretaker, John Woodward, rode horseback over the same field. When he returned to the stable he noticed a glittering article on the shoe of his horse. It was the Judge's ring, slipped over the caulk of the shoe. The horse had stepped on the ring and the rain-soaked earth prevented it from being damaged. —Charles N. McNarl, a shop hand in the rail- road shops at Altoona, can sympathize with the fellow who has undergone the painful experience of having a hornet seek a roosting place in the recesses of hisshirt-back. Mr, McNarl’s encoun- ter was with a red-hot rivet which he endedvored to catch in a bucket after it had been pitched to him by a man at the furnace. Striking on the rim of the bucket, the rivet bounded and drop- ed down the back of McNarl’s neck, burning a scarred path from hair to hip. The rivet burned | its way out through the seat of his trousers, or it might have left a streak from head to foot.
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