Demooraic Wald
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
— Peace might be nearer than any
of us surmise.
— Anyway there seems to be enough
life left in the Tammany organization
in New York to stir up a first class
fight.
—Only six more days of August
and then the first fall month will be
here. Have you thought about that
Christmas shopping yet?
—A few more such drives as the
Allies have made within the past two
weeks will recover all cf the great
iron and coal fields of France that
have been in German possession for
the past two years.
—The bare legged girls at the sea-
shore ought to be arresied for giving
aid and comfort to the vnemy. They
are straining the eyes ¢f many men
who might otherwise qualify as first
class gunners in the navy.
—The government should draft
every striker into the federal service
at once. They should be made to see
that patriotism demands some sacri-
fice on the part of the worker who is
not called upon to make the supreme
sacrifice that going into the trenches
calls for.
—At last Germany is regarding
America’s entrance into the war seri-
ously and coincidental with this ac-
knowledgement comes the news
stories to the effect that she is expect-
ing peace within six months. All the
signs seem to indicate that the Ger-
man autocracy is getting ready to
quit.
—In the seven hundred mile motor
run just completed by the writer over
the best highways in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey the most durable
looking, the cleanest and easiest rid-
ing section of road traversed was a
stretch of about three miles of brick
that had been laic on a concrete base,
with a concrete curb.
— Centre countians will likely look
upon the statement with incredulity
but it is none the less the fact that
right in the heart of the finest truck
garden section of New Jersey choice
roasting ears were this week selling
at forty cents the dozen, and potatoes,
though there are acres of them on all
sides of the roads, are retailing high-
er than equally as nice ones can be
bought for from our local farmers. .
—The great disparity between the
estimate of the cost and the bid that
was received for bricking south Water
street was probably due to the fact
that the estimate was made before the
cost of material and labor had mount-
ed to the present high prices. It may
be possible that the contractor who
did bid on the work didn’t want the
job and bid high in order that he
wouldn't get it. Let us hope that such
was the case for if it is possible at all
to conmplete the improvement at a
reasonable cost it should be done.
— The examination of conscripts in
Centre county has resulted in the ac-
ceptance of sixty-nine men oat of the
first call. Forty-seven more are need-
ed to bring the number up to the full
quota of one hundred and sixteen men
required from Centre county. While
ithe number of exemptions for other
reasons than physical disability seems
high it is no higher than the average
observed in other counties. The Pres-
ident has made it very plain that he
does not want married men to go at
present; and as most of our exemp-
tions have been claimed upon the
ground of a “wife” or “wife and chil-
dren” they are only what might nat-
urally and properly have been ex-
pected.
—The peace plan of the Holy See
might be regarded as a means to an
end, but nothing more. It propeses a
status quo ante bellum which could
not possibly be acceptable to the Unit-
ed States, for if it were the ground
upon which we entered the war would
be cut from under us. We are fighs-
ing not for indemnities nor for terri-
torial acquisition, but for a world de-
mocracy and to end the conflict with
no assurance that Prussian autecracy
will be unable to rehabilitate itself for
another campaign of carnage would
be the veriest waste of the sacrifices
already made. If general disarma-
ment could be secured and the wealth
of the German military class, as well
as her colonies, confiscated with which
to restore Belgium, Serbia, Rumania
and the devastated part of France
then we think the United States would
feel that something had been achiev-
ed.
—The President’s order cutting the
price of soft coal at the mouth of
Pennsylvania mines to $2 and $2.25
per ton would be great news to the
public were it certain to guarantee
coal at that figure. We believe that
while it might be the means of cutting
down the price it will, at the same
time, make the product harder to se-
cure, for the reason that many small
mines will have to cease operation.
Mines producing from one: hundred to
four hundred tons of coal per diem
and paying as high as $1.50 per ton
for mining have overhead charges so
large that they cannot produce coal
at $2.00 per ton without a considera-
ble loss, consequently they will have
to close unless the order is modified
as affecting them. It is out of the
question to assume that the miners
working in such operations will ac-
cept a lower scale for their work and
it would only be through a drastic
reduction of the mining rate that the
small mines of Pennsylvania would be
able to continue in operation.
VOL. 62._
Tale of Two Cities.
Public Service Commissioner W. A.
Magee having resigned, temporarily,
in order to run for Mayor of Pitts-
burgh, guarantees a boodle campaign
for Chief Magistrate of the second
city of the State. We say temporari-
ly for the reason that his seat on the
Public Service Commission will be
kept open until after the election so
that he may be recalled to the office
in the event of his defeat for Mayor.
That is a way Governor Brumbaugh
has of making his political patronage
an asset in his business as a wulitical
manipulator. He appointed Mayor
Smith, of Philadelphia, a Public Serv-
ice Commissioner in order to give him
standing to justify his subsequent as-
piration for Mayor of Phila :elphia.
It is a new method of commercializing
politics.
The Penrose candidate for Maycr of
Pittsburgh will be E. V. Babcock, a
wealthy lumber broker, who has scrv-
ed as a stalking horse for the Senator
at various times. Mr. Babcock is very
liberal and quite popular and the
Brumbaugh adherents despaired of
beating him with the candidate who
had been chosen to represent them in
the contention, Dr. J. P. Kerr. Com-
missioner Magee had served a term
as Mayor and given popular satisfac-
tion, so that it was thought that he
might “pluck victory from the nestle
danger,” and as his ten thousand dol-
lar job could be kept open it was no
great sacrifice for him to resign while
his election to the office of Mayor of
Pittsburgh would be a vast advantage
to the Brumbaugh faction. But it all
means corrupt politics.
The factional differences in Phila-
delphia are more easily adjusted and
it may be said that an agreement has
been reached among the leaders.
Neither McNichol nor Vare would
know a political principle from an
automobile truck and Penrose is ab-
solutely indifferent to anything ex-
cept spoils. So it was easy to come to
an understanding upon a basis which
would divide the spoils comparatively
equal among them. Of course Vare
will demand the lion’s share of the
plunder. He wants both feet in the
trough all the tirae and as the others
are satisfied with an occasional
mouthful the matter has been readily
adjusted. But the people of both
cities will suffer alike from the war in
one and the peace in the other, for
war or peace means plunder to pi-
rates.
It is suspected that the German
fleet, safely secluded in the Keil canal
contemplates a run out in the open
sea, but the suspicion is without foun-
dation. Big ships cost a lot of money
and Germany is not likely to expose
those she has to the danger of de-
struction or capture.
Twenty-Sixth District Judicial Contest
The withdrawal of Christian A.
Small from the contest for the nomi-
nation for President Judge in the
Twenty-sixth district, composed of
Columbia and Montour counties,
ought to guarantee the election of
John C. Harmon Esq., at the Septem-
ber primary. Mr. Small is a lawyer
amply capable and eminently fit for
the high office to which he aspired.
But he recognized the fact that a dis-
trict so substantially Democratic
ought to have a man of that political
faith on the bench and that a division
of the Democratic voters this year
might result, as it did eleven years
ago, in the election of a Republican.
Consequently he has gracefully with-
drawn in favor of Mr. Harmon, as
possessor of the stronger claims.
John C. Harmon is among the most
capable lawyers of Pennsylvania.
Clean, keen and conservative, he pos-
sesses a mind peculiarly judicial and
essentially open. He has practiced
his profession with great success in
Columbia and adjacent counties for
twenty years or more and his record
is radient in achievement. He has
served as District Attorney, as Repre-
sentative in the Legislature and led a
forlorn hope as the candidate of his
party for State Treasurer. In 1906 he
carried the district for the Democrat-
ic nomination for Judge but another
aspirant for the honor ran as an inde-
pendent and compassed the election of
the Republican nominee. It was a
grievous disappointment to phe major-
ity of the voters of the district.
Since that legislation has convert-
ed the office into-a non-partisan serv-
ice. But the Republican machine of
the State asserts itself in every judi-
cial election and in the present con-
test in the Twenty-sixth district is
prejecting every “ism” and “ology”
known to the political vocabulary in-
to the contest in the hope of defeating
Mr. Harmon. Our information, how-
ever, leads to the confident belief that
they will be disappointed and that
John C. Harmon will receive the nec-
essary fifty-one per cent. at the Sep-
tember primary to make his election
complete. We sincerely congratulate
Mr. Harmon on this prospect and pre-
dict for him a distinguished career on
the bench.
BELLEFONTE, P
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Beginning of the End in View.
Reports from the firing line in
France and Flanders clearly forecast
the final result of the fighting. The
German successes in the East are of
minor significance. They are the re-
sult of German bribery and Russian
perfidy. But even there the victories
are diminishing in number and impor-
tance. The indications are that with-
in a brief period the traitors will be
weeded out of the Russian forces and
the vast power in moral and material
strength of that great people will as-
sert itself. Meantime the real battle
ground is in France and Flanders.
The war will be won there and the
certain and constant movement for-
ward of the French and English bat-
tle lines indicate the victors.
The work of expelling the German
invaders from the soil of France and
Flanders has been slow and expensive.
Equipped as no army in the history of
the world before, these legions got a
foothold before their antagonists were
aware of the danger and entrenched
themselves almost invulnerably. But
they have been yielding constantly
during the last four months and are
now almost or the verge of dispair
They have fought courageously and |
with a spirit worthy a!
persistently,
better "cause. But the beginning of
the end is in sight. It may require a
year or two to complete the work, for
desperation makes stubborn resist-
ence.
until the end is achieved.
Before long the soldiers of the
United States will be on the firing
line. For some inexplicable reason
the German Kaiser and his military
sycophants pretend to have supreme
contempt for the soldiers of this
country. They will change their opin-
ions upor this question before many
days. Soldiers of the United States
have never been defeated. They have
never learned to yield and they are
not going to learn new lessons in
warfare on foreign soil. They are
there now not to yield but to win and
may be depended upon to accomplish
their purpose. Their mission is in be-
half of the highest ideal to which
men might dedicate themselves. They
aim tc plant democracy in every sec-
tion of the world and will accomplish
that glorious result.
After a sleepless might we are
unable to work up sympathy for the
Americans in Germany whom the Kai-
ser is forcing into military service.
Any American who has remained in
Germany since the beginning of the
war ought to be made pay some sort
of penalty.
re ———
Wipe Out the I. W. W.
The information that the govern-
ment proposes to round up the mem-
bers of that traitorous and murderous
organization which impudently styles
itself the Industrial Workers of the
World ought to give universal satis-
faction. Composed of emissaries of
Germany and vicious loafers in this
country, this organization has been
committing depredations of various
kinds for several years. Now and
then one or more of the leaders have
been apprehended and punished, but
as a rule they have been able to defy
the law, flout authority of States and
the nation and commit crime ggcord-
ing to their depraved fancy. Recent-
ly the military authorities in the West
have taken charge of the matter.
Half a century ago, or thereabouts
there was a murderous organization
in certain sections of this State which
operated much on the lines which this
infamous gang is following. Through-
out the coal regions they terrorized
officials and citizens and refusal to |
obey their crim‘nal mandates was
promptly followed by tlhe murder of
their victims. Finally a courageous
and capable district attorney in
Schuylkill county declared war on the
organization and convicted several of
them, in that and adjacent counties,
of murder. That put an end to the
Mollie Maguire. menace. The organi-
zation was secret, strong and vicious
but when the law got after it in earn-
est it promptly ran to cover and dis-
solved.
The Industrial Workers of the
World ought to be treats everywhere
precisely as the Mollie Maguires were
treated in Schuylkill, Columbia and
Carbon counties about 1875. In the
first place they have no right to the
name they have assumed and prosti-
tuted. Industrial workers wherever
they happen to be are law-abiding,
peaceful and good citizens. Those
who compose that organization are
criminal loafers who have never earn-
ed an honest day's wages in their
lives. Besides that their criminal op-
erations are destructive of the earn-
ings of men who do work and that is
of itself reason why their activities
should be checked. Let the authori-
ties who have undertaken the work of
annihilation proceed. :
—How many of our back-yard gar-
dens paid? All of them. Even if
they produced nothing more than a
means of wholesome exercise.
A. AUGUST 24, 19
But there will ke no yielding |
| defeated his plans. Therefore, he must
Peace Terms that Will Satisfy.
A bone-head correspondent of an
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary,
featured as a writer of distinction,
sees no reason why the proposal of the
Pope should not be adopted. It would
stop the slaughter, he says inferen-
tially, and that ought to satisfy any-
body. He professes to be unable to
see why Germany should be required
to make restitution to Belgium. “If
Belgium must have restitution,” he
continues, “then what of Serbia, what
of Poland? The Pope is right; if you
begin you cannot stop.” That is alike
absurd and false. If you begin you
can stop when justice is fulfilled. Bel-
gium, France, Serbia and Poland are
entitled to restitution and when those
debts are paid the books can be bal-
anced.
But those debts must be paid if it is
necessary to coin the blood of that
imperial monster, the Kaiser, to
achieve the result. We want no peace
upon the conditions that invited the
war. The world cannot afford such a
settlement of the war. The German
Emperor began the war with the view
of acquiring the sea coasts of Bel-
gium. He didn’t invade Belgium as
he said in his message to President
Wilson as a strategical step to reach
France. He did it to conquer Belgium
and subject her people to his control,
and he failed of his purpose because
the entire world understood his pur-
pose and Belgium put up a fight which
pay as Germany made France pay.
The United States are in the war
not for the purpose of exacting resti-
tution but to wipe out autocracy. The
Pope’s proposition would defeat that
purpose quite as effectually as it
would exculpate Germany from the
payment of indemnities to the coun-
tries she has devastated. Both these
obligations must be fulfilled to the
full - measure before the American
people will consent to peace. The pre-
posterous notion that any man is
born invested with Divine right to
rule, much less to rob and murder peo-
ple, must be obliterated entirely and
forever, before peace can be agreed
to and that even if it be necessary to
plantievery Hohenzollern in dishonor-
ed graves. This is not official but ab-
solutely true.
——Of course the obvious purpose
of certain labor leaders to take advan-
tage of governmental necessities to
force unreasonable demands, is fun-
damentally wrong but the insistence
of Prohibition cranks and Wom-
an Suffrage fanatics on riding their
hobbies into the statute books at the
expense of public safety is equally
reprehensible.
—Maryland’s new law requiring all
male persons between the ages of
eighteen and fifty tc work went into
effect on Tuesday. We know one or
two gentlemen in Bellefonte who
must be mighty glad that Bellefonte
is in Pennsylvania and not in Mary-
land.
er
—Thus far in the war the Kaiser
decorated his troops with forty-seven
tons of iron crosses. Go to it Bill
The more iron you use “1p in this way
the less you will have from which to
manufacture more destructive ‘agen-
cies of war.
——Nick Romanoff is safely se-
questered in Siberia and it remains
for those managing the war to find a
quiet retreat for Bill Hohenzollern
He will be out of a job when the war
ends and wil need a rest.
—Penrose and the Vares have de-
cided to divide Pennsylvania politic-
ally on a fifty-fifty basis. The wel-
fare of the Commonwealth may be re-
garded as secure until the next gu-
bernatorial fight at least.
——Wheatless and meatless days
may be all right for those who feel
171.
BY GOSH!
Johnny get your gun, your sword and
] your razor.
We are going to fight mit Bill, der German
Kaiser.
Load your gun mit beer
Squirt him in der ear
Dot will make him skee=>
By Gosh!
Johnny get your cap, your boots and your
rattle.
We are going to fight mit Germany a bat-
tle.
Stuff your boots mit kraut
make him strong and stout
Der smell will knock him out
By Gosh!
Johnny get your fife, your drum and your
monkey.
We are going to play for Bill der German
Donkey.
Play “Yankee Doodle Dardy,”
Feed him pills of sugar candy,
He will hunt his aunt Mirandy
By Gosh!
Johnny get your rake,
your sickle.
We are going to put der Germany in pickle
Cut for him some lolly-pops
Make a brew with malt end hops
Dot vill beat Von Schneiders Schnops
by Gosh!
your scythe and
“PRISCILLA.”
How an Early Decision May be Forced
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The strongest new force now in
sight and aimed at the ending of the
war is the little noticed, but rapidly
developing force of the American em-
bargo upon supplies to the neutral
neighbors of Germany.
There are two neutral nations upon
which this policy may be expected to
take effect before many weeks—Hol-
land and Denmark—and two others—
Norway and Sweden—which may be
almost as quick to respond to it. Al-
though they have been subjected to
many outrages and have suffered
heavy losses by the small regard paid,
in many instances, to their neutrality
these States have not failed to profit
greatly by their neutral trade.
It is not at all doubtful that these
neutrals have supplied Germany with
importations from America; neither is
there reason to doubt that the stop-
ping, or even the limiting of their im-
portations from America would hit
them in their pocket-books and bank
accounts. Lo vy
It is an old maxim, that 2a nation
hurt in its pocket-book becomes hel-
ligerent, or, at least, truculent.
Holland has often been grossly of-
fended by Germany. She has given
warning that such offenses must not
be repeated. If the benefit of very
profitable war trade with Germany
should suddenly be removed, if Hol-
land should even feel, herself, the
pinch of want of American supplies,
she might be forced, in desperation,
to yield to popular indignation at the
next German offense and suddenly join
the war. That she would do so with-
out a moment’s warning would be dic-
tated as a strategic necessity far more
pressing and justifiable than the Ger-
man invasion of Belgium.
The same is true of Demmark, and,
in hardly less degree, of the two other
Scandinavian States.
Such a development would throw
open new and wide war fronts and un-
limited possibilities of allied naval of-
fensive. The long expected great na-
val battle involving the mightiest bat-
tle fleets would come, literally “at the
drop of the hat.” Sea power would
assert its determining value, as our
Admiral Mahan showed it has been as-
serted in every chapter of history and
blows sudden and swift, by land as
well as sea, would be made possible
by that opening of new lines of attack
and fields of war. This is not a blind
guess, but a distinctly evident pros-
pect.
eer
Far From the Madd'ing Crowd.
From the New York Evening Post.
After all, the Czar wasn’t looking
for a regular summer resort. He has
had enough excitement. Plain coun-
try food and reassuring country nois-
es, the rooster’s crow and the cow’s
mooing, ought to sound pretty sweet
to him.
rset eed
The Upward Trend of Art.
| bor problem would be
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Anthony Kline, aged 52, of Wilkes-
Barre, who sold his homestead and then
rebought it at an advance of $17,500,
brooded so much over his loss that he
snot himself in the head and died on the
way to the hospital.
—The Williamsport Steam Heating com-
pany of Williamsport, has filed notice with
the Public Service Commission that effec-
tive September 20, it will discontinue the
supply of steam for heating purposes to
the public. The Lock Haven plant will
also be allowed to remain idle next winter.
—Announcement has been made that the
Berwick plant of the American Car and
Foundry company will build 1000 box cars
for the government. These will probably
be used in France. Announcement was
made it the same time that the company’s
Milton plant would build 300 tank cars for
the government, also to be used in France.
— William Blackburn, 35 years of age, of
Freeport, Pa., was killed and H. McClean,
25 years old, of Breckenridge, was wound-
ed last Thursday night when Policeman
McWenny fired five shots at the occupants
of an auto, who were trying to make thelr
escape after having beaten up the officer
who had attempted to arrest them. Bldck-
burn was hit by a stray bullet as he
watched the fight. McClean was in the au-
tomobile.
—-Clyde Doney and Halleck Webb, two
young men of near Falls Creek, who es-
caped from the Jefferson county jail at
Brookville, Wednesday night, August 8th,
in much the same manner that Ward Mot-
tern secured his release one night last
winter, are still at large. Although an ac-
tive search has been made there is no clue
to their whereabouts. The young men -are
charged with breaking and entering and
receiving stolen goods.
—Crops in Fayette county are spoiling
in the fields on account of the shortage of
farm labor. Farmers in the northern part
of the county claim that they were urged
to plant larger crops to aid in the food
production and were assured that the la-
solved for them.
High school boys who were sent out into
the country to assist in the harvesting
found that higher wages could be obtain-
ed in the coal mines, so they deserted the
farms.
—The mysterious disappearance of $6,-
000 from the Harrisburg Pipe & Pipebend-
ing company three weeks ago, was cleared
up in an alleged confession mode by Chas.
Shomeaker, an employee of the firm, and
his arrest on Monday by police. Shoe-
maker, according to the police, wrote a
letter to the firm declaring that he had
taken the money, and because of worry
had thrown it into the Susquehanna river.
Detectives have been searching the river
since the theft became known but up until
late Monday night it had not been recov-
ered.
— Evidently in anticipation of a coal
famine during the coming winter and dif-
ficulty in securing fuel from the mines,
owing to abnormal traffic conditions, the
Pennsylvania railroad is storing a large
quantity of coal in the lower yards at
Sunbury. A force of possibly one hun-
dred men is at work unloading coal. Sev-
eral thousand tons will likely be stored
there. Similar action was taken by the
Pennsy last year, and a large heap of coal
was placed in the yards for use in case
of emergency. During the spring of this
year, however, the fuel was removed and
used.
James Wileman, 20 years old, died at
the Blair Memorial hospital, Lewistown,
on Sunday night from a bullet wound in
the right temple, self inflicted. Wileman,
whose home is at Oakland, Juniata county,
was a rookie in Company M, Eighth regi-
ment, N. G. U. S., who are quartered in
the market house at Lewistown waiting or-
ders to entrain for the south. He was at
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth LaMay, of Yea-
gertown, and was handling a 32-calibre re-
volver. After a caution to carefulness, he
was whirling it about when it accidentally
discharged, the bullet lodging above his
right eye.
Attorney M. A. Kilker, of Girardville,
on Monday filed suit at Sunbury for $10,-
000 against the Pennsylvania Lighting
company for the death of William Cun-
ningham, of Ashland, who was electrocut-
ed near the Cameron colliery a year ago
last month. The suit was brought at the
instance of Cunningham's mother, Mrs.
Bridget Farne. Cunningham was employ-
ed as an electrician by the United Tele-
phone company and was working on a pole
along the state road below the Cameron
colliery when a high tension wire fell
across the telephone wires. He was in-
stantly killed.
—Stephen Gracian, Austrian shooter at
the American Steel and Wire company’s
quarry. at Wertz, Blair county, was acci-
dentally blown up and instantly killed at
8:30 o'clock Monday morning as the result
of a misunderstanding between he and his
helper as to time. His face and head were
frightfully mutilated. while the body and
limbs were intact. He had been with the
company a number of years and was con-
sidered one of its best and most reliable
men. His reputation for thrifty habits
was confirmed, when it was disclosed up-
on examining the body that he carried on
his person at the time of the accident the
sum of $2,060. He was born December 26,
1878, and was unmarried.
— Jealous because his wife started to
‘that the price is fair when it reaches
like doing penance to an idea but if
needless waste of foodstuffs is avoid-
ed there will be no actual necessity
for either.
— It may be said safely that Miss
Rankin will be the last woman in Con-
gress as well as the first. That dis-
tinction has been fairly won by voting
wrong upon all important questions.
eer eet
—1It behooves Bellefonte to hold on-
to certain of her borough officials who
have really taken their positions seri-
ously and worked for the best inter-
ests of the tax payers.
knee.
the bay turned
ing of its power.
——Senator LaFollette is certainly
earning all the German government
pays him. But he is accomplishing
nothing except delay of the inevita-
ble.
—If soft coal is to be $2.00 at the
mouth of the mine let 1t be seen to
the cellar door.
—Look every situation squarely in
the face. Meet it like a man and you
will be doing all you can do.
Sa—————————————————_——
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
the information himself.
From the Springfield Union.
Now that “Mary’s Ankle” is prov-
ing such a success, we anticipate that
some earnest playwright will try to
elevate the drama by writing a play
about Maude’s or Mabel’s or Edith’s
p——————————S EE
1t is Still Quite Wild.
From the Baltimore American.
Even though the periscope seen in
out to be a pole of a
fishing net it is comfortable to know
that native imagination has lost noth-
— Rev. James P. Hughes, princi-
pal emeritus of the Bellefonte Acad-
emy, walked up to two gentlemen
standing at the postoffice yesterday
morning and asked the altitude of
Bellefonte above sea level.
one could tell exactly and he proudly
announced that it was just 809 feet
and State College was about 1000. He
then requested that this information
be published for the benefit of those
who don’t know the altitade. It later
developed that the reverend gentle-
man had spent a half hour in the coun-
ty surveyors office before he could get
Neither
ride home in an automobile owned by her
brother, after spending Saturday at a
Sunday school picnic at Rock Glen, near
Hazleton, Clarence Bankes, twenty-eight
years old, of Fern Glen, shot her through
the breast late that night. After firing
three more shots at the car, he ran into
the woods and shot himself in the abdo-
men. The woman will recover, but Bankes
is in a critical condition. Both are at the
State hospital, but neither knows the oth-
er is there. According to the wife, Bankes
was of an extremely jealous disposition
and frequently placed a revolver against
her breast and told her that some day he
would kill her. The shooting broke up the
picnic.
—Henry H. Whitney, who was named by
President Wilson on Monday, the 13th, as
one of the brigadier generals in the new
arm, is a son of Rev. W. P. Whitney, «<a
well known member of the Central Penn-
sylvania M. E. conference and who at one
time, was located in Philipsburg. General
Whitney graduated from Dickinson Semi-
nary in 1884 and from West Point in 1889.
During the war with Spain he made an en-
viable reputation, going to Cuba and Porto
Rico as a spy and making the maps used
by the United States troops in their cam-
paign in those islands. He served on the
personal staff of General Miles and made
the tour of the world with him. He was a
colonel in the coast artillery when raised
to his star.