BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
Potatoes will be plenty this fall,
but don’t waste any merely because
there are lots of them.
— Uncle Sam has promised to tell
us on September 1st just what price
we may lawfully sell our 1917 crop of
wheat at.
—_Alabama was the fifth State to
enfranchise women in 1917. There
are now eighteen suffrage States in
the Union.
__If south Water street is paved
with brick the borough council will
have extracted another thorn that has
ever been pricking it.
—Right now is the time to fill your
coal bin for the winter. And when po-
tatoes get down to the right figure
buy and store your winter’s supply.
—The government is planning to
use conscripted men who claim ex-
emption because of religious scruples
against fighting as helpers in camp
kitchens, supply houses and in the
medical corps.
—_The Hon. “Deacon” Harris having
been landed in a four thousand job in
Harrisburg Judge Quigley will pro-
ceed to put another lieutenant in
training in Centre county. The Hon.
“Deacon” earned all he got and the
«Watchman” is mighty glad he got it.
— The Johnstown Democrat won-
ders why everyone should not be keep-
ing a pig in the parlor, especially
since they are selling at $17.10 a hun-
dred in the Kansas City market. Pigs
can be found nightly in the parlors of
a great many homes, but they are the
kind that wouldn’t bring thirty cents
a hundred on any market.
~ —When they get old politicians
talking to church congregations, as
was the case in Bellefonte Sunday
morning, it is only natural that things
should be expressed in political famil-
jarities and that is why one of them
went so far as to tell his auditors
that if they wanted the church heated
right they would have to increase the
registration. Increased registration
always brings about a good hot polit-
ical fight.
— The minimum price of two dollars
. per bushel for wheat does not apply
to the 1917 crop. It is applicable to
the .1918 crop and was designed to
stimulate the seeding of a large acre-
age this fall. There is no price fixed
by the government for this year’s
crop, but if we farmers get toc gay
in our own price fixing Uncle Sam re-
serves the right to step im and take
the whole crop over to be sold at a
price that he thinks would be fair to
us and the consumer.
—Our first conscript army is to be
in camp by October 1st. The first
thirty per cent. of our quota will be
called on September 5th, the next
thirty per cent. on September 15th,
the next thirty per cent. on September
30th and the remaining ten per cent.
as soon thereafter as possible. Penn-
sylvania’s contingent will go to the
cantonment at Annapolis Junction,
Md., and because the trip will be a
short one they will not be provided
with sleeping cars.
—The retirement of Judge Harry
Alvan Hall from the contest for ve-
nomination in the Cameron-Clinton-
Elk judicial district was something of
a surprise. The really mysterious
feature of the incident, however, is
how the political and social reform-
ers of Clinton county who started out
to get Judge Hall’s scalp because, as
they charged, he was lined up with
the booze crowd, finally lined up with
the booze crowd themselves in the
hope of bringing about his defeat.
Reform is rarely anything else than a
sham in politics.
— After many months of persistent
pecking the Clearfield Republican has
succeeded in getting a rise cut of the
Board of Commissioners of Clearfield
county. The Progress has at last
come to their defense, but we fear it
has put its pen to a hopeless task. The
Republican has been so specific and
open in its charges of mismanage-
ment of the county affairs that it
would seem that there can be no de-
fense of officials so indifferent to the
interests of the tax payers. The
Progress, if it has finally drifted so
far from its original ideals as to have
beconie a machine Republican paper,
might apologize for the Board, but de-
fense is futile if what the Republican
charges is true and no reputable
newspaper dares to make charges that
it can’t substantiate.
—The “Watchman” this week be-
gins a very interesting series of arti-
cles on milk, its treatment and values.
A bacterial count was made of speci-
mens of milk bought from the various
dairymen supplying Bellefonte and
this count has been made the basis of
the articles that will appear during
the next five weeks. Milk consumers,
dairymen, farmers, everyone should
be interested in an intelligent discus-
sion of milk values and we urge your
careful reading of the first article.
Don’t be frightened at the millions of
bacteria that were found in a cubic
centimeter of dairyman A’s milk.
Possibly, if you live in Bellefonte, you
gulped millions of them down with
the cereal you had for breakfast.
Read the comparative table, and note,
especially, the wide disparity in the
numbers of bacteria found in the dif-
ferent milk specimens. None of them,
of course, could be entirely free but
greater cleanliness and proper hand-
ling of the milk would help some of
them wonderfully.
A enacnt
RO
vol. 62.
Republican Candidate for Governor.
The quadrennial parading of Mr. |
James Scarlet has begun and nearly
every machine Republican paper is |
now giving him the “honorable men- |
tion.” Mr. Scarlet lives in Danville
and is “rated” in the political Brad-
streets as a Republican. When the
Democratic State Treasurer, in 1900
exposed the grafting operations in
connection with the construction of
the State capitol, an investigation
was ordered and Mr. Scarlet employ-
ed as counsel.
telligence and ability he sent some of
the grafters to the penitentiary and
others to the grave. Ever since that
when the machine contemplates a par-
ticularly atrocious piece of party pi-
racy it trots out Scarlet and a few
other men of high character and ex-
hibits them as probable candidates.
Then it nominates the machine favor-
ite and brands him as the choice of
the people in an open fight.
In pursuance of this policy Mr.
Scarlet is now being discussed as a
fit man for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor next year. His hon-
ored name was used in the same way
four, eight and twelve years ago. And
there is no more intention to nomi-
nate him this year than there was on
either of the other occasions. But the
mention of his name gave color to
the subsequent claim that he had his
chance and because his friends were
less alert or not quite as resourceful,
John K. Tener was nominated on one
occasion and Martin G. Brumbaugh
on another. Mr. Scarlet’s name was
not considered at all and it was not
intended that it should be. If he had
shown the least inclination to treat
the matter seriously every machine
politician in the State would have
been summoned to the fight against
him. They would have taken Dr.
Swallow in preference.
The candidate of the Republican
party for Governor next year will be
Senator William C. Sproul, of Ches-
ter. He is president or director of a
dozen manufacturing corporations, 2
number of banks, a lot of institutions
and has more money than the average
farmer has hay. These are the quali-
fications, as Auditor General Snyder
freely admitted the other day, that ap-
peal to the Republican machine man-
agers and his wealth will operate as
a magnet with equal force upon the
Penrose pirates and the Vare bur-
glars. They want the money and
Sproul has it. Scarlet is well off, no
doubt, and certainly worthy, but good
character is no more a lubricant for
political machinery than soft words
are a sauce for parsnips. The candi-
date for Governor is chosen by less
than fifty leaders and all others have
to accept the inevitable and look
pleasant if possible.
Treasonable Practices Must Stop.
Mr. Charles Edward Russell, who
has recently returned from Russia
where he was on the commission with
Root, utters a lamentable truth when
he declares the peace taik in Congress
is doing more harm to our allies in
the European war than the troops of
the German and Austrian empires.
And the chances are that it is intend-
ed to have precisely that effect. Those
who have been delaying war legisla-
tion and are now urging peace reso-
lutions are working for the Kaiser
either for pay or gratis. But they are
serving his purpose better than any
of the spies or the conspirators who
have been trying to destroy munition
factories in this country ever since
the war began.
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, Sena-
tor Reed, of Missouri, Senator LaFol-
ette, of Wisconsin, and one or two
others have been bending all their en-
ergies to the work of discouraging the
allies abroad and preventing enlist-
ments at home. We regret to say
that Senator Penrose, of Pennsylva-
nia, has been contributing to some ex-
tent to these treasonable operations.
That he is not reflecting the senti-
ments of the people of the State is
self-evident. Pennsylvania has con-
tributed more troops to the army and
more sailors and marines to the nawy,
than any other State and only one
other State has contributed more mon-
ey to the expense fund of the war.
These facts leave Penrose withcut an
excuse for his actions.
Giving aid and comfort to the ene-
mies of the country in time of war is
treason and the actions of these Sena-
tors work that result. Why shouldn’t
they are apprenended, in these circum-
stances, and brought to trial for trea-
son. The penalty is death but we can
spare traitors, especially those who
are in public life. In some countries
and probably in some sections of this
country, trial would be regarded as a
waste of time. But the average citi-
zen of the United States is law-abid-
ing and lynch law is abhorrent to him.
Therefore the processes of the courts
should be invoked without delay for
treasonable operations must be stop-
ped. They jeopardize the lives of too
many brave men.
S——
——Subseribe for the “Watchman”.
Through industry, in- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Kaiser’s Message to Wilson. |
The significance of the Kaiser’s
personal message to President Wil-
son, delivered to Ambassador Gerard |
in August, 1914, is given a great deal
| more stability by the semi-official
| attempt to question its authority.
| The message revealed the obliquity of
' the imperial mind as well as his in-
indifference to truth. While obvious-
ily trying to shift the onus of starting
| the war on England it admitted the
| neutrality of Belgium had keen vio-
| lated for tactical reasons or because
it had been reported that France con-
templated a similar act from the other
side. Of course that was no justifica-
tion for converting a treaty into “a
scrap of paper,” but that happened.
was begun is of comparatively little
consequence now. This country is not
involved in it because Belgium was vi-
olated or for the reason that ‘he
crowned heads of Europe had family
quarrels which they were unable to
settle by peaceful methods. At the
request of the President Congress de-
clared a state of war for the reason
that Germany had outraged the Unit-
ed States in the open sea and reveal-
ed a purpose to wage war against our
people, .as a money-making enter-
prise, after the hostilities in Europe
were ended. We are in the war for
the vindication of our sacred rights
on sea and land and for self-preserva-
tion against a national monster desti-
tute of honor.
But the personal message of the
Kaiser to the President of the United
disposed of by subterfuge or denials.
It is a shameful exhibition of perver-
sity, a complete proof of duplicity and
a positive evidence of mental and mor-
al degradation. It is characteristic,
moreover, of the conscienceless bully
who hoped to destroy the liberty
which had been acquired by centuries
of civilization in order to enhance his
own power and perpetuate the princi-
ples of autocracy. The Gerard
memoirs will reveal other facts equal-
ly repugnant to justice and morality
and denials by sycophants of the Kai-
ser or even by himself will not deceive
the public or cloud the issue.
_. ——The railroads .report pe
dinary prosperity and they are cer-
tainly improving in equipment and
efficiency. It may be assumed, there-
fore,
merely the result of a bad habit.
Commissioner Black Hits Hard.
In a letter tendering his resigna-
tion as Commissioner of Highways,
Mr. Frank B. Black reveals Governor
demagogue Governor Brumbaugh un-
dertook to prostitute that important
service of the State government to the
basest uses of machine politics and
because Commissioner Black refused
to co-operate in the purpose his res-
ignation was demanded. But he
didn’t acquiesce tamely as some oth-
ers who have lost their official heads
for the same reason have. On the
contrary he gave the Governor a part-
ing shot of sufficient force to pene-
trate the hide of a rhinoceros and that
ought to make every Republican citi-
zen of the State blush with shame.
Obviously the Governor wanted the
funds appropriated to the Highway
Department disbursed upon the same
system that he dissipated the contin-
gent fund of the Executive Depart-
ment during the last two years. The
Commissioner had apporticned the
money upon an exactly equal basis
giving to each county a share in pro-
portion to the mileage of road to be
taken care of. But that didn’t suit
Brumbaugh. He wanted to favor
those communities which had support-
ed his absurd ambition to be a candi-
date for President at the expense of
those more rational anc demanded the
resignation of the Commissioner be-
cause that official preferred to serve
the people rather than the politicians.
The executive officers of the State
are under moral as well as legal ob-
ligations to administer the govern-
ment of the State in the interest of the
people and disburse the funds honest-
ly.
guration of Brumbaugh, this obliga-
tion has been fulfilled fairly well. But
since that public misfortune scandals
of the rankest kind have developed.
Every public service has been prosti-
tuted to the schemes of a rotten fac-
tion. The plans and purposes of a
corrupt contractor have been followed
at the expense of every principle of
honesty and decency and it is small
wonder that Commissioner Black de-
clares he doesn’t care to be associated
with such an administration.
etree
We haven’t raised a million
men “over night,” as a distinguished
pacifist promised but we will have an
army of two million on the firing line
within a year from the date of the
declaration of war.
rr rire,
——The success of the “wet” candi-
date for Governor of Virginia, sug-
gests that the “drys” have been over-
doing things.
Why or where or by whom the war
‘no people is more anxious to convert |
States is an actuality which cannot be |
that the constant kicking is
Brumbaugh in his true light. A cheap |
Of late years, or until the inau-’
BELLEFONTE, PA. AUGUST 17, 1917.
The Pope’s Peace Proposal.
The Pope’s peace proposition re-
veals his absorbing anxiety to achieve
the mission of his great office, the
restoration of “peace on earth.” But
| it fails to meet the requirements of
| practical life.
' show that for more than a year the
| German Kaiser has been anxious for
But he wants peace on terms
peace.
' which are impossible to the world. It
is not likely that the Pope is greatly
interested in the secular prosperity of
He is vastly interested, |
the Kaiser.
however, in the affairs of the Kaiser's
principal ally, Austria, and proposes a
plan of settiement which would res-
' cue that unhappy and suffering em-
| pire from the slough of despond.
The entire world wants peace and
| the sword into plowshares than that
i of the United States. But having en-
tered into the war for an ideal it is
‘impossible to consider the question of
| peace until that ideal is fulfilled.
. Peace on the terms proposed by the
. Pope would result in the restoration
' of conditions before the war. It is
true that he proposes a reduction of
| armaments. But such reduction would
‘be proportional and leave the German
‘empire in a position of military as-
cendency which would guarantee her
‘mastery to the degree that created
the belief that she could conquer the
! world and encouraged her in the effort
' to that end.
i The Pope’s peace proposition sim-
ply expresses the amiable impulses of
‘an earnest christian gentleman. But
| existing conditions are not such as to
| justify the belligerents allied against
Germany in acquiescing in his plans.
Peace is desirable now only on terms
which can be accepted honorably by
peoples who have been scourged by
the evil of militarism and the propo-
sition of the Pope does not meet these
conditions. The existing conflict is an
irrepressible difference between de-
mocracy and autocracy and the fight
must be to the finish. Autocracy is an
evil which must be eliminated from
the earth and the present war must
continue until that result is achieved.
There mus: be some kind of a
hoodoc hanging over Bellefonte as a
ma~xet town. Notwithstanding the
fact that hundreds of crates of huck-
leberries have been shipped through
‘here during the past several weeks
from towns in Pennsvalley to merch-
ants in Altoona and Johnstown, not a
single quart of the berries have been
offered for sale by the merchants of
Bellefonte, so far as the writer knows.
In fact, since the strawberry season
closed there have been comparatively
few berries of any kind offered in the
Bellefonte markets. Located as Belle-
fonte is, right in the heart of a moun-
tainous country, with huckleberries,
blackberries, ete., growing in rich
abundance on the mountains it would
seem as if our market ought to be lib-
erally supplied and why it is not is a
question hard to solve.
Withdraws as a Candidate for Re-
election. >
In a letter to the press last Thurs-
day Judge Harry Alvan Hall, of Ridg-
way, announced his withdrawal as a
candidate for re-election as judge in
the Twenty-fifth judicial district,
composed of the counties of Clinton,
Cameron and Elk. Ill health is given
as the cause of his withdrawal. Judge
Hall’s withdrawal leaves R. B. Mec-
Cormick, of Lock Haven, the only can-
didate to come before the voters at
the primaries to be held in Septem-
ber. When Judge Hall completes his
present term he will have served
twenty years on the bench in that dis-
trict and his many friends hope that
by his retirement from active life his
health will so improve that he will live
to enjoy many more years.
If Senator LaFollette had half
the courage of his convictions he
would express his views in the Ger-
man trenches instead of the United
States Senate and his views would be
less harmful there.
——1It is said that the Kaiser has
distributed two million Iron Crosses
since the begitming of the war. He
has also placed a few double-crosses
where he thought they would do the
most good.
A —
Russia will be all right in
time, no doubt, but the conditions are
such that delay is more than danger-
ous. Russia ought to be repelling her
enemies now instead of running away
from them.
: The guarantee of $2 a bushel
for wheat ought to secure an abund-
ant crop next year and unless the
signs are misleading the biggest crop
ever will be needed next year.
EN eenrres
——Of course everybody should
avoid waste but that doesn’t mean
that we must live on scraps im order
that all good things may go to Eu-
rope. E :
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
Mr. Gerard’s memoirs |
NO. 32.
| Peace Talk Troubles.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.
The President and other executive
officials of the government who have,
{up to date, discounted the extent and
effect of the peace move and its col-
lateral agency—opposition to military
| service—are believed to have been
' aroused by recent developments. Con-
gressional leaders who are in close
touch with their respective districts
‘are not surprised at the thinly dis-
guised efforts to embarrass the gov-
ernment in th2 existing emergency.
They have communicated their be-
lief to the President and have urged
him to take steps to arouse the coun-
try from what one of his most earn-
est supporters has described to be a
“state of apathy and disinteredness
in the crisis facing the nation.”
Some executive officials are inclined
to attribute any apathy and indiffer-
ence there may be to the wa» and mil-
itary obligations of the g vernment
to agitation and criticism in Congress.
Congressional leaders who appreci-
ate the vast undertakings imposed up-
on it by the war reluctantly hold to
the opinion that the government itself
is responsible for such conditions.
They indicate the lack of activity on
the part of the War Department in
stimulating interest in its war pro-
gram, the imposition of indefinite cen-
sorship regulations that has discour-
aged discussion of the tremendous
problems confronting the country and
apprehension among the people as to
the great financial burdens involved.
At any rate it is admitted by some
of the government’s most ardent sup-
porters that there exists a regretta-
ble lack of interest in the war plans
of the government now developing.
According to one report in Congress
the President will take advantage of
the first opportunity afforded to re-
move the cause, whether executive or
legislative, for the undesirable condi-
tions.
In the meantime a substantial and
aggressive minority of Senators and
Representatives is planning a full dis-
cussion of the situation confronting
the United States and the exploita-
tion of various peace projects by
which they believe it can be saved
from actual participation in the su-
preme effort to destroy German mili-
tarism.
Whether justified by the circum-
stances or not, a number of Senators
and Representatives without openly
questioning the motives and methods
of the President himself insist that
peace is not unobtainable, even while
‘the country is preparing for the
greatest national and humanitarian
struggle in which it has ever been
called upon to participate.
Some of the President’s supporters
hold to the view that he will move de-
cisively to dissipate this theory with
characteristic intelligence and virility.
They believe that he will shortly go
before Congress and make a state-
ment calculated to clear up any mis-
conceptions Legislators may entertain
on this point and to demonstrate con-
clusively that the government is
adopting the only course open to it
compatible with the honor and digni-
ty of the country.
If the President has any such inten-
tion—and it is possible that he has—
members of his official family do not
know it. They do not doubt, however,
that if he is convinced that such a step
is necessary he will take it without
loss of time.
Not so Bad in Russia.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Elihu Root speaking in Chicago the
other day, remarked that if the only
reports dealing with affairs in this
country that reached Russia concern-
ed themselves with I. W. W. affairs in
the west, race riots in East St. Louis
and anti-conscription campaigns in
Oklahoma and other States, the Rus-
sians would have about the same idea
concerning conditions here that a
great many Americans have concern-
ing conditions in the land of the
former Czar. While there are dis-
turbances, Root says that Russia as a
whole is law abiding and that “con-
ditions there are very much like con-
ditions here.”
It is interesting to compare the
fatality figures of the anti-Jewish
demonstrations that have occurred in
Russia in recent years—with the
fatality figures piled ag as a result of
our own race riots. The tabulation
shows that we have been killing more
negroes than Russia killed Jews. But
we did not consider that our land was
in the throes of anarchy. Russia is a
country with a population exceeding
that of the United States. If wild
disorder prevailed, hundreds of thou-
sands of people would be slain.
El Paso.
From the Mexican Review.
El Paso was glad to have Don Luis
as a resident. I: was glad to have
the late Victoriano Huerta until his
last dollar was gone. He then died in
peace. Part of El Paso would not be
averse to war with Mexico. The city
is glad to have the militia of other
States there. Many of its business
interests would stand aghast at the
prospect of quiet in Mexico. It all
means dollars and cents to El Paso
and in a lesser degree to every other
city or tank station in Texas or along
the New Mexico and Arizona border.
Whose Other Name is Militarism.
From the Springfield Republiean.
Whether the Crown Prince or the
Kaiser, or the junkers initiated the
war is a question of tweedledum and
tweedledee. Kaiserism did if.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Ridgway Chapter, American Red Cross
acknowledges a gift of $1,000 from Judge
Harry Alvan Hall. The Chapter is in-
debted to Judge Hall for many donations
of furniture, etc., and for a previous gift
of $250. This $1,000 will be used for ma-
terials to make the surgical dressings.
—Two men sleeping in a stable at La-
mott, Montgomery county, early Sunday,
were burned tor death when the stable
caught fire and trapped them in their
room. They were George Smiley, aged 40,
and John Lang, aged 35, both of Lamott.
They were employed by Edward Ganley, a
contractor, owner of the stable.
—Sheffield, Warren county, boasts of the
largest lumber mill in the State. It is now
employing 200 men a day, and will increase
the number if it can get them. It is busy
on government work night and day, and is
turning out 150,000 board feet of lumber a
day. Nearly 1,000,000 feet of lumber is
piled in the yards, and shipments are be-
ing made as fast as the cars can be ob-
tained.
—Wahile in the hay fields a few days ago
driving a horse in a hay-rake, Mrs. Joseph
Gunsallus, of near Beech Creek, had a very
narrow escape from serious injury when
the horse kicked over the shafts when an-
noyed by a biting fly and became mixed
up iu the harness and rake. Mrs. Gunsal-
lus escaped by jumping but the horse got
away with the rake to the extent that it
was badly wrecked.
—Miss Margaret Mary Golden, of Wil-
liamsport, is made the chief beneficiary in
the will of her sister, Mrs. Ellen Golden
Ewald, of Louisville, Ky., who died a few
weeks ago, leaving an estate of $500,000.
The sum of $2,000 is bequeathed to James
Golden, a brother, and $1,000 to Rev. John
Costello, both of Williamsport. With the
exception of $4,000 more, which Mrs. Ewald
bequeathed to charitable institutions, the
remainder of the estate goes to Miss
Golden.
—The retrial of Ernest Haines, convicted
for complicity with Ward Mottern in the
murder of his father, William Haines, at
Sprankle Mills, in May, 1915, is this week
being held at Brookville. After refusal by
the State Pardon Board to commute the
death sentence of Haines and Mottern to
life imprisonment in deference to State-
wide appeals, the fight in their behalf was
carried to the Legislature where a bill to
abolish capital punishment was finally
drafted. Their cases were appealed to the
Supreme court and a new trial secured.
—Two western Pennsylvania towns that
are badly in need of houses are Franklin
and Grove City. The Franklin Board of
Trade seeks to meet the situation by or-
ganizing a corporation, capitalized at $100,-
000, that will build 100 houses and sell
them on the easy payment plan. Grove
City, which cherishes the dream of 10,000
population by 1920, may have to adopt a
similar plan. It has been inviting new in-
dustries there without providing homes
for the workmen, and it is estimated that
75 mechanics are compelled to maintain
their families elsewhere.
—Frank Ronello, of Huntingdon, twice
convicted of murder in the first degree and
acquitted on a third trial, enjoyed his lib-
erty but a little more than a month. He
was struck by a westbound passenger
train cn the Pennsylvania railroad near
Huntingdon on Sunday and instantly kill-
ed. Ronello was charged with the murder
in July, 1912, of Giuseppe Viscello. Fol-
lowing his acquittal a few months ago,
Roneilo procured a job as track watchman
for the Pennsylvania railroad. He was
walking on the tracks in a heavy fog and
failing to notice the approach of a fast ex-
press, was hit and cut to pieces.
—J. Morris Colley, young son of Morris
J. Colley, of Muncy, has been suffering for
the past few days with a very sore foot,
the result of a peculiar mishap. In com-
pany with a number of other boys young
Colley was wading in the creek near the
wagon bridge north of the town. A large
turtle seized his right foot in the fleshy
part, and in the struggle to get loose the
frightened youngster jerked the turtle off,
tearing the flesh. The wound became in-
fected and very sore and the attention of a
physician was necessary. He is now recov- -
ering, however, from his unusual experi-
ence. Since that time the boys have stu-
diously avoided that part of the creek for
their aquatic sports.
—W. E. Gheen, of near Antes Fort, has
made a record as a farmer this year. He
has eighty acres of the best corn in Penn-
sylvania. Most of the stalks are from ten
to twelve feet tall and the ears seven feet
from the ground. The crop is estimated
at 12,000 bushels. There is thirty acres of
oats, nine acres of which was cut recently
by P. D. Gramley from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p.
m. The wheat was excellent. There was
seventy-five acres, all of which is cut and
stacked because one of the large barns
was racently destroyed by fire. Mr. Gheen
has purchased a large tract of timber
which will furnish lumber for a new struc-
ture. The barley was geod but twenty-
five acres of it had to be cut with the
mower.
—A log train on the Dahoga & Highland
railroad was held up for half an hour by
two large black bears three miles south of
Highland, Potter county. The train was
moving slowly up the hillside, when En-
gineer Johnson discovered two large bears,
weighing about 300 pounds each, standing
on the track a few hundred feet ahead. As
the train approached the spot the bears
failed to move. Johnson pulled the bell
cord, but neither the clang of the bell nor
the blast of the whistle frightened the
bruins, which stood and gazed admiringly
at the approaehing train. Knowing that
it would be impossible to kill the bears at
the speed his heavy train was moving,
Johnson stopped the cars and, badly
frightened, watched the bears for abouf
half an hour, when they slowly wandered
off into the forest.
— Richard Wehrle, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Wehrle, of Punxsutawney, formerly
of Indiana, has been accepted by the Indi-
ana exemption board as a soldier and
“Dick’s” efforts to get into his country’s
services breathe a sterling brand of patri-
otism that few have evidenced in the pres-
ent crisis. Shortly after the declaration
of war Dick made an effort to join the W.
S. navy. He was under weight and upon
the examining surgeon's advice he return-
ed home to “fatten up.” A couple months
later he made a second effort but he was
still under weight. Recently he offered
his services to the army but again the un-
der weight bugaboo got him. He was eall-
ed for examination at Indiana on Thurs«
day. Half an hour before reparting for the
test he went to a local restauran€, drank
thirteen glasses of milk and two glasses of
water. When he “weighed in” he was just
half a pound under weight and the emam-
ining surgeon accepted him.