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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
—That was some jubilee Tuesday
night.
—And the Hon. John Noll says it was
the happiest night of his life.
—Better come in now. In 1920 there
won’t be a Republican party.
—When Hughes drew the thirteenth
ballot at his election place in New York
the jinx was on him. 4
——Philipsburg Democrats had a big
jubilee meeting on Tuesday night that
outdid Bellefonte in one respect, at least,
as they had ten bands in the line of
parade which they claim was two miles
long.
— President Wilson had a popular ma-
jority of nearly half a million votes, he
had the largest vote ever cast for any
candidate for President and nearly a mil-
lion more than Taft and Roosevelt had
together in 1912.
Wall Street is learning. It now
knows that it can’t buy votes enough
to elect a President. It will probably
ascertain in the course of time that a
candidate chosen by the interests
can’t be elected at all.
—Really it was too bad that the news
didn’t get in early enough last week to
make it possible for the “Watchman” to
let all of its roosters out of the coop
And itis just as bad that it is too late to
get them crowing this week.
—Tom Harter threw his budding hope
of getting back into the postoffice into
the hell box, told the telephone exchang-
es not to “call the ‘Gazette’ office,” look-
ed at his “frozen up” linotype and swore
until “Boonastiel” was blue in the face.
—Those fellows who are still hugging
the delusion that there might be a mis-
take in the count of the vote in Califor-
nia that would put that State in the
Hughes column, would be far happier if
they would give it up now and get it out
of their system.
—Former sheriff Hurley left town the
morning after the election with several
hundred he had won in bets already salt-
ed down. But when he came back he
had to get the mazuma out of pickle, for
it belonged to the fellows who had the
other ends of the bets he had made.
—Here’s hoping that the Hon. Charles
Rowland goes back to Congress resolved
to represent the people of the District
that elected him. He can do it and do
it well if he exercises the same inde-
pendence of thought in public matters
that he does in the management of his
own business.
—The proposal to turn all clocks ahead
one hour from May lst to September,
30th, 1917, is being advanced as a means
of saving forty million dollars alone in
gas and electric bills. It might work out
all right every place else but not in Belle-
font. We can’t save in gas bills here.
The Gas Co., sees to that.
——Don’t blame the Democratic blow-
out on Tuesday night for it blowing up
cold on Wednesday, as that had nothing
to do with it. The weather man is giv-
ing us the first taste of real winter and
from the way it feels we are constrained
to remark that it will take more than
vapor to keep us warm during the cold
months.
—Hughes was evidently knocked
speechless by the shock of wakening up
to find out that he had been President
only over night—and then only in his
own mind. You will recall that he was
silent a long time before he finally ad-
mitted that he wanted to run for the of-
fice so that it is probably one of his char-
acteristics to be so silent now.
—The “Watchman” was the first Cen-
tre county paper to announce the re-
election of President Wilson. Its table
of electors, published last week was ab-
solutely correct at the time and the only
change thatis necessary to make this
week is to give him the two then doubt-
ful States of New Mexico and New
Hampshire, which makes his total vote
275 and Hughes 255.
—Trade papers announce that owing
to the scarcity of hides shoes might go
to $15 and $20 the pair. If that should
be the case we presume the ladies will
come across with a style that will run
theirs clear up to the knees. They cut a
few inches off their skirts to save in
dress goods and then demand shoes
four inches higher made from leather
that costs ten times as much as the dress
goods did.
—It really matters little to Democracy
whether it will control the next Congress
or not. We have already enacted into
law about all of the legislation embody-
ing purely party policies that is neces-
sary to give the country a thorough test
of our theories of government. All that
was needed was the opportunity to try
them out and that has come through
the glorious victory of last week. For
with a Democratic President and a Dem-
ocratic Senate there will be no emascu-
lation of the work of the last four years,
even if it should turn out that a Repub-
lican Congress has been selected. Then
too, if any changes or additions should
seem desirable we have from December
1st to March 4th next in which to make
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 61.
New Era of Prosperity.
For the first time since the Civil
war the capacity of the Democratic
party to govern the country will now
get a fair test. Between 1860 and
1884 the Republican party was con-
tinuously in control of the government
and its several administrations were
orgies of vice and corruption. In 1884
Grover Cleveland was elected and be-
gan a series of reforms and improve-
happiest results if they had been al-
lowed to continue for a reasonable
period. But four years later his re-
his beneficent policies were reversed.
At the subsequent election he was
again chosen but had to begin all over
and in 1896 corruption again triumph-
ed.
During the time that has elapsed
since Weodrow Wilson was inaugurat-
ed much constructive legislation of
great merit and value has been enact-
ed but the full force of its beneficence
has not heen revealed. The European
war hampered progress in some di-
rections and other adverse elements
retarded improvements in other re-
spects. But the triumphant re-elec-
tion of Mr. Wilscn will enable him to
continue the policies of the Democrat-
ic party until they have attained full
fruition and the bouniiful harvest of
advantage has been reaped. The re-
sult will be so satisractory to the
country that the people will never
consent to a return to the old order of
things or to the party responsible
for it.
So it may be said that the country
has entered upon anew era. The tax
ing through tariff processes for the
benefit of campaign contributors is
ended for all time. There will be
tariff laws for revenue with incidental
protection because it is a safe method
of providing funds for the expenses of
government. But there will be no
burdening labor in order that wealth
will be laid upon those best able to
bear them. In other vords the gov-
ernment of the United States will
hereafter be “a government of the
people for the people and by the veo-
ple” in fact as well as in theory and
this splendid result is the consequence
gon.
Peace and Prosperity Assured.
The re-election of President Wilson
policies of the government.
period which has elapsed since the begin-
neutrality has been maintained. The
markets for munitions and other war ma-
terials were open to any of the belliger-
olation of the rights of neutrals by any
tests. But the settled policy of the ad-
ministration was to keep out of the hos-
withstanding the difficulties encountered
in the process.
There were many reasons for the
peace policy of President Wilson. The
first and most essential was the fact that
the American people are peace-loving
and opposed to war. All our traditions
are along the lines of peace, our achieve-
ments in the arts of peace. We are not
weak, as history shows, or unwilling to
fight when honor and justice requires
such sacrifices. But at no period in the
history of the country have the people
war such as would ensue if we became
involved in the present European strug-
rection of preparedness but the work is
hostilities.
The alternative to the policies of Pres-
ident Wilson was war. Men may say
that a more vigorous course might have
but such statements are absurd. If the
as Roosevelt declares he would have
done war would have been inevi-
table and instant. If diplomatic
had been elected war would have fol-
lowed unless he adopted the Wilson poli-
of his pledges. The election of Wilson
averts all dangers, however, and guaran-
ity.
them, for the newly elected Congress
will not sit until December, 1917.
——For high class Job Work come
'to the “Watchman” Office.
ments which would have yielded the
election was prevented by bribery and |
may escapl its share and tax levies.
of the re-election of Woodrow Wil-
removes any apprehensions which may
have been felt of a change in the foreign °
During the |
ning of the European war the strictest .
ents that were willing to buy and the vi- |
power brought out equally vigorous pro-
tilities and that has been achieved not- |
shown an inclination to engage in war
for conquest or exploitation. At pres-
ent, moreover, we are not prepared for
gle. Progress has been made in the di- !
not sufficiently advanced to encourage
been pursued without engaging in war
interned German ships had been seized, |
Trust the People—They Know.
The result of the recent election has
completely dispelled one popular il-
lusion. It is the widely current im-
pression that Roosevelt’s running in
1912 caused Wilson’s election. Those
who took the trcuble to look below
the surface and analyze the vote ac-
! curately knew better. They under-
stand that if Roosevelt had not been
a candidate in 1912 Wilson would
have defeated Taft by large major-
{ ities both in the electoral colleges and
i the pouplar vote. In fact it is entire-
| ly clear to any one who gives the suab-
ject thought that in a contest between
Taft and Wilson or Roosevelt and
Wilson, Wilson would have been suc-
cessful and instead of being a minor-
ity candidate he would have had a ma-
jority.
It has suited the purposes of Roose-
velt to cultivate the false impression
during the period thet has elapsed
since the election of 1912. At and
previous to the Republican National
convention of this year he assiduously
used it as a “jimmy” te break into the
convention and steal the nomination.
But he was unable to put that trick
over and after the failure had no
alternative but to join the Republican
machine «nd try to make good. If he
had succeeded he might have been
able to fool the Republican managers
in 1920. But in the face of his failure
he will probably he kicked away from
the door of the next convention as a
useless and dangerous encumbrance.
If Roosevelt had not been a candi-
date in 1912 more than half the votes
that were cast for him would have
gone to Wilson. If Roosevelt had se-
vear nearly all the votes cast for Taft
would have gone to Wilson. As a
matter of fact the people of the coun-
try had determined to rebuke the Re-
publican party for its numerous in-
iquities of the past and the nomina-
! tion of Wilson by the Democrats en-
was a precisely similar situation that
was encountered ® by Roosevelt and
Hughes this year with the result that
Wilson is re-elected with a substantial
majority of the popular vote to his
credit. Trust the vecple. They
know.
——Mr. O’Leary and Colonel
Roosevelt might form a party of their
own. The late Josh Billings said
‘ “birds of one feather flock hy them-
selves,” and. O’Leary and the Colonel
have certainly lost a lot of feathers.
Mexican Troubles Greatest of All
\ No troubles of the President have
been as perplexing to his mind or as
damaging to his political estate as those
which come from Mexico. While Huerta
enjoyed his usurped power both Villa
and Carranza were constant sources of
‘trouble. If either had risen to the level
' of the occasion, he might have been
. made by President Wilson, the instru-
: ment of a peaceful rehabilitation of the
‘Republic. But neither measured up to
' the standard. Both revealed a selfish
| ambition which made it practically im-
possible to use them as constructive
| agents. The action of the represen-
| tatives of the Pan-American republics,
| however, compelled President Wilson to
| recognize Carranza as defacto First
| Chief.
' This fact and incident ought to have
iufluenced Carranza to “assume a vir-
"tue” of decency, but it didn’t. It ought
| to have convinced him that the United
States government has no selfish or
but it didn’t. Instead it filled his empty
head with pride and assurance and in-
fluenced him to make threats at a time
when such an attitude did infinite harm
to his benefactor. It proved that there
is no material moral difference between
Villa and Carranza. One is a murderous
‘bandit and the other a cunning and
treacherous miscreant. But Carranza has
been recognized by the Pan-American
republics and under solemn agreement
with them is, in a measure, the ward of
| the United States.
cured the Republican nomination that |
couraged them in that purpose. It
sordid purposes in relation to Mexico, |
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER | 7, 1916.
Paternalism on Right Lines.
If paternalism in government is
justified at all the activity of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Extension
Service is proceeding upon right lines.
According to information from Har-
risburg “a definite programme for in-
creasing ‘the sheep industry of the
State” has been arranged. Represen-
tatives of thirty-six counties, with
live stock associaticns and kin-
dred organizations will make a sur-
vey “gathering statistics as to the
number of flocks, the number of sheep
in each flock, the breed, the cost of
maintenance, prices obtained for pro-
ducts sold and profits of sheep breed-
ing.” The co-operaticn of farniers
and others interested is solicited.
Most of the movements of this sort
that are those projected and operated
by civic societies tend in the direction
of increasing the cost of living and
the enormous prices demanded and
generally speaking obtained for nec-
essaries of life are attributable large-
ly to the efforts of altruists to pro-
mote the interests of humanity. But
this particuar movement may be ex-
pected to head in the opposite direc-
tion because its result will be to in-
crease the supply of meat and wool,
both important elements in the life of
humanity. If the number of sheep is
materially increased the price of mut-
ton as well as that of wool, both ab-
normally high, will be decreased in the
nature of things.
Of course the proposed automobile
excursions in furtherance of this laud-
able enterprise might be cut out but
our Governor is a great traveler and
probably the jaunting feature is in-
tended for his encouragement. But
even with this draw-back to the plan
we hope the enterprise will be encour-
aged and that the breeding of all
kinds of food and service animals will
be included in the scheme. Pennsyl-
vania ought to be 2 splendid stock-
breeding territory and would be, no
ubt, if ‘the subject were thoroughly
and wisely considered. The benefi-
cent influence of a full employment of
opportunities in this directeion can
hardly be measured. Give this enter-
prise full encouragemert.
——We are coming to an agree-
ment with Colonel Roosevelt in some
things at least. On election night he
said he “will not dictate policies or
cabinet to the President” and the other
day he remarked that talk of his he-
ing a nominee for President in 1920
“is a pipe dream.” It’s worse than
that. It is a maniac’s nightmare.
One Bugaboo Laid.
Now that the election is past it may
be assumed that the nonsense about the
dumping of foreign products after the
war to the ruin of American industry
will be discontinued. The end of the
war is not in view and it may be a year
or two before that happy result comes.
But when it does come there will be no
danger of th: sort predicted by the ca-
lamity howlers during the campaign. As
we have previously observed the people
of belligerent Europe, crippled physical-
ly and impoverished financially, will re-
quire all their energies and resources to
rehabilitate their industrial systems and
put themselves in a self-supporting con-
dition.
That commerce between this country
and those now engaged in the work of
destroying each other will be resumed
at the end of the war and increased, is
probably true. As President McKinley
declared on the day that he was shot,
the time has come in which the indus-
trial energy of the United States must
seek a market for its products larger and
wider than the limits of our own bound-
| aries. But it will be legitimate business
| of reciprocal advantage and free from
the cut-throat character which the ca-
| lamity howlers predicted. We will ex-
| change commodities with them on a just
| commercial basis, drawing profits alike |
| upon what we buy and what we sell.
| In the new condition which will come
| before us with the close of hostilities in
| Europe the high cost of living will be re-
NO. 45.
Have Big Jollification
| Parade.
| Centre county Democrats may not
| have been a dominant factor in the
| glorious re-election of Woodrow Wil-
| son as President but they proved con-
i clusively on Tuesday evening that
they are not lacking in either patriot-
ism or enthusiasm, and that they
wnanimously approve the choice of the
nation. It was a rousing jollification
meeting held in this place to ratify
the President’s re-election. It is esti-
mated that between three and four
thousand people came to town to see
the monster parade, which was the
biggest thing of its kind ever pulled
off in Bellefonte.
Five bands were in line, namely:
Our Boys band of Milesburg, the Citi-
zens band of Ferguson township, the
Coleville band, the Howard and Snow
Shoe bands. Aside from the bands
and a company of horsemen the pa-
rade was made up entirely of auto-
mobiles, many of which had been con-
verted into floats, and in addition to
their patriotic decorations carried
banners appropriately inscribed. The
exact number of automobiles in the
parade cannot be definitely given, but
it is estimated that the number was
between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred. Automobilists were
here from all parts of Pennsvalley
Nittany valley, Bald Eagle valley,
Buffalo Run and State College, while
a special train from Pine Grove Mills
{ brought the Citizens band and the
Ferguson township delegation.
The big parade was made up of five
divisions. Col. H. S. Taylor was
i chief marshall and Samuel D. Gettig
chief of staff.. In order that every-
. body in Bellefonte could have an op-
' portunity of seeing it the parade
formed on High street and the route
covered was High to the Diamond,
| from the Diamond to Bishop, Bishop
| to Wilson, Wilson to Howard, Howard
{to Allegheny, Allegheny to Linn, Linn
to Armor, Armor to Curtin, Cin to
Spring, Spring tc Linn, Linn to Alle-
gheny, to the Diamond, and from the
Diamond to the railroad and counter-
march, a rcute which made exactly
two and three-quarter miles. An idea
, of the length of the parade can be had
t from the fact that when the last au-
tomobile turned the :orner at Alle-
| gheny and Bishop streets the first au-
| mobile containing the chief marshall
: was just turning off of Howard street
| onto north Allegheny.
Some of the features of the parade
were Miss M. Snyder representing
i olumbiaas the central figure on the
| “Peace and Preparedness” float. Im-
mediately at her rear stood Jack Lane
| representing the typical American
' soldier. It was an effective idea and
| was applauded all along the line.
Mike Hazel caricatured candidate
Hughes and “the wind blew through
his whiskers.” Fifty or more boys
| marshalled by John Cunningham led
‘a goat and sang “Don’t Bite the Hand
| That’s Feeding You.” A large party
_ of Democratic girls had a sail boat in
{ which they were taking Republicans
up Salt River. Geo. R. Meek and J.
; M. Cunningham had a boat 40 feet
long in which W. L. Daggett and
: Charles Morris were caricatured as
| rowing their melancholy way up the
river. There were mules, roosters
‘and G. O. P. coons and banners by the
| score bearing sundry political pleas-
, antries to the vanquished.
| War horses of Democracy were
| here from all parts of the county and
| one of the machines carried a qrar-
{ tette of veteran Democrats who
, fought the party’s battle when things
. were not as pleasant as they were
. Tuesday night. They were Col. W.
“R. Teller, S. A. McQuistion, Hon.
John Noll and P. Gray Meek, all well
up in the 70s and one of them 86.
' Just in the rear of the soldiers monu-
i ment was stretched a large banner
| Democrats
| paintings of Wilson and Marshall and
| several very trite expressions.
| It had been the intention to have a
| meeting in the opera house immedi-
But the Mexican troubles have reached | quced materially because of a greater ately after the parade but when the
a crisis and something ought to be done equalization of the supply and demand. latter was finished the hour was so
i
and in the near future. With Carranza’s | At present the demand upon our resourc- | late that no meeting was held. The
‘consent a punitive expedition, under | eg ig Jarge and the supply meagre. Nat- | five bands, however, were massed in
| States.
| with the fulfillment of that purpose.
| production will be multiplied and the
relations had been severed, as Hughes command of General Pershing, has been | urally such a condition causes high the court house yard and under the
inferentially suggested, the result would | sent into Mexico, to punish Villa for his | prices and the rate at which the wealthy
have been the same. Therfore if Hughes | crimes against the people of the United re willing to buy 1s the cost which the | of TEs i 8
Carranza has been interested | jeeq fortunate must pay. After the war ward, Christian Soldiers,” which was
| direction of L.F. Wetzler, of Our
' Boys band of Milesburg, played “On-
| a fitting climax to a celebration the
, like of which had never been seen in
cies and that would have been a reversal | The government of the United States ' nymper of consumers who are non-pro- | Bellefonte and which was a heartfelt
| undertakes no projects that are not just qyucers will be correspondingly diminish- | ovation for the successful candidates.
and worthy. The capture and punish-
{
ed. This will.work an immediate reduc-
tees us a future of peace and prosper- | ment of Villa for atrocious crimes com- tion in the prices of necessaries of life
mitted against the people of the United | nq make for relief rather than adding
States is both just and right. Because
of that the plan ought to be carried out,
notwithstanding Carranza.
i to present burdens.
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman”,
— Then we have got Perkins per-
manently out of the public life of the
country. Possibly justice may take
on sufficient energy to send him to the
penitentiary where he belongs.
: SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Bristol’s champion corn-cutter, Chas.
Cannon, has cut 7,000 shocks this year,
{ beating his own record.
—1It is said there are still 500,000 bush-
els of potatoes stored in cellars and barns
iin the Berks-Lehigh district.
—A canvass of Renovo and vicinity
{ shows that more than 200 girls can be had
| for work in a factory, if one is established
there.
—The strictly up-to-date school physi-
cian of Williamsport tells a newspaper
man that disinfection is obsolete and that
where disinfecticn is considered necessary
the books and desks may be washed in an
antiseptic solution.
—A portion of the loot taken from the
company store and postoffice at Eleanora,
Jefferson county, some days ago was found
in a coal barge at Buffalo. It was worth
about $500 and consisted of matters the
robbers could not sell.
—The employees of the Sewer Pipe com-
pany at Clearfield, about 150 in number,
struck for an increase of wages last week.
They now get $2.10 for a 10-hour day; they
want $2.30, or are willing to work eight
hours for $2. The trouble was adjusted
vesterday.
—John H. Herdman, steward and farm-
er at Clearfield county’s home, declares
that the home is the owner of the largest
cow in Clearfield county and probably in
the State. She weighs 1,614 pounds, ex-
ceeding the weight of a horse at the home
by 68 pounds.
—Clayton Jacobs, aged 26 years, suffer-
ing from a broken back sustained by a fall
from an apple tree on a Somerset county
farm, died in Mercy hospital, Johnstown,
while the hospital surgeons were in the act
of beginning to operate on him in the hope
of saving his life.
—Cyrus Kephart, of Osceola, drove a
team of mules to Philipsburg the other
day and was watering them at the public
fountain when a team of horses was driv-
en up. One of the animals in a playful at-
tempt to bite Kephart's mules got hold of
the man’s right ear, biting it almost off.
—Joseph Henson, of Carlisle, worked for
several hours on Saturday with his eye
out and didn’t know it. He was employed
at the quarry when a piece of stone struck
him in the eye. He bandaged it up and
kept on working. Late in the afternoon
he called on a physician. The eye was
then removed.
—Henry Knepp, of McClure, on Monday
shot the first bear to be taken this season
in the Seven Mountain section of Mifflin
county’s big game territory. The bear was
a large one, weighing in excess of 250,
and was shot in a wild apple orchard near
the home of Martin Wert while feeding on
the wild fruit.
—State Health Commissioner
Wednesday received a report showing
that the State’s fight against infantile
paralysis, from the start of the outbreak,
July 1, to October 1, had cost the Com-
monwealth 361,004.39, “There are some
few bills yet to come in,” said Dr. Dixon,
“but these will not be for large amounts.
I believe that the tetal expense will not
exceed $65,000.
—Mrs. Mahlon Saxton, of McElhattan,
was husking corn on her farm when a big
gray wolf suddenly appeared, chased by a
large dog. The wolf was making directly
for the woman, but her eries alarmed her
husband, who was nearby with his shot-
gun. He fired at the animal, killing it.
The beast escaped from the zoological gar-
dens at McElhattan last year and had not
been seen since.
—Jacob Holzinger appeared at the office
of the register of wills in Greensburg, Fri-
day and asked to be restored to life again
in the eyes of the law. Holzinger disap-
peared in 1901 and nine years later his
brother petitioned the court for letters of
administration for the missing brother
which were granted. Holzinger said he
went to the Pacific coast and is now inter-
ested in big fruit orchards there.
—The lifeless body of William Campet-
to, aged 20 years, of Larimer. Westmore-
land county, was found on the McGrew
farm, about two miles from his home. The
left side of the young man’s face had been
shot away. A single barrel shotgun was
lying by his side. His faithful dog was
guarding its master's body. The animal
was almost starved, as Campetto was evi-
dently accidentally shot last Saturday and
his body was not found until Thursday.
—Between 3,000 and 4,000 rabbits will be
distributed throughout Pennsylvania by
the State Game Commission after the close
of the season, which opened Wednesday,
according to an announcement made by
Joseph Kalbfus, secretary. The Commis-
sion has also contracted for 1,000 wild tur-
keys to be liberated within the State.
Game protectors throughout the State
have been requested to furnish informa-
tion regarding the status of rabbits in or-
der that a proper division can be made.
Dixon
—A trio of burglars who specialize in
looting dental offices and who have been
operating in central and western Pennsyl-
vania for a fortnight, invaded Huntingdon
last Friday night and forcing an entrance
into the office of Dr. C. V. Mierly, obtain-
ed $300 worth of gold. The burglars did
not molest any other valuable property in
the office. A promising clue left by the
burglars comprised a diary containing the
addresses of dentists already robbed and
prospective victims, and the picture of a
Young woman made by a Philadelphia
photographer.
— Thirty-five hundred barrels of Adams
county apples are at the bottom of the sea.
Of these, 2,000 barrels went down with the
“Rowanmore,” by the German submarine
U-53, and 1,500 barrels were sunk with the
“Alunia,” which was submarined in the
channel off the coast of England. The two
shipments which went down were but
parts of a purchase of 32,000 barrels of
York Imperials made for export to Eng-
land. Of this heavy purchase all but 10,-
000 barrels have already been sent out on
various steamships, and another consign-
ment of 5,000 goes forward shortly from
Baltimore.
—An event not on the program at the
entertainment givea by Miss Clara Cole,
teacher of the Foster school, Blair Creek
township, Columbia county, on Friday,
was the appearance of a big black bear,
which arose just in front of her as she
was taking a short cut across a field. She
was soon in the school house, with door
locked and a close watch kept for the pu-
pils. Two small sons of Charles Aten
were breathless when they latched the
door, for they were within 50 feet of the
bear. Telephone calls notifying the neigh-
bors to keep close watch on their children
were sent. The bear, however, did not
molest anyone.