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BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Doctors are puzzled over the sudden
| going blind of Miss Hazel Still, aged 19
years, of Shamokin Dam. She was at
work in a silk mill when she says her vis-
jon became blurred and then she went
blind.
It is likely that Lock Haven will have
a big demonstration on July 4th, to cele-
brate the almost complete recovery from
the flood and in honor of the firemen from
other towns and cities who worked so
faithfully to pump the city dry.
—Joseph Cattron, of Altoona, a miner
and totally blind is numbered among the
employees of the Altoona Coal & Coke Co.,
at their Delaney mines. He works every
day and earns as much as $200 a month,
doing his work as well as those who cam
see.
— When the ice moved off Penns Creek,
at New Berlin, the piers of the big cover-
ed bridge in that place were so badly dam-
aged that it will require considerable re-
pairing, and the County Commissioners
figure that the cost will reach approxi-
mately between $500 and $600.
—Lumbering along like a big tank over
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— Dr. Munyon is dead, but “there is
hope” left.
— In less than a week the first day
of Spring will be here.
— Licking a thrift stamp is an-easy | ————
way to help lick the Kaiser.
—Russia’s autocrat went, Roman
VOL.
O’Neil and Sproul Spatting.
off. Her democrat went, Trot sky.
—The President is determined not
to let Russia slip into the arms of
Germany if he can help it and he is : — : :
right. Evidently J. Denny O'Neil, High- |
It is awful to contemplate but it ey SOR and Sandidag i
2 e Republican nomination for Gov-
is none the less to be expected that ernor lists the support of Governor
Brumbaugh as a liability rather than
an asset. Some days ago he emphat-
ically protested against the Gover-
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 15, 1918.
| Democrats Will Furnish the Man. !
63. NO. 11.
Do We Eat Too Much Food?
The message of President Wilson Yrom the Pittsburgh Post.
It is now acknowledged by many
prominent members of the medical
Timely Sympathy for Russia.
Senator Sproul’s conversion to the | ¢ :
policy of the Prohibition is not en- to the Congress of the Soviely in Rus-
tirely surprising. Correctly or oth- | S1a can hardly ial to have a earten- : lig
orwise there is a current impression ing influence on the patriotic people | profession that the recent food strin
ency, which has come upon us be-
| that Prohibition sentiment is surging | of that country and we are persuaded 1 EEneY of the war and Pig attendant
| over Pennsylvania
in a vast tidal { that a great majority of the vast pop- | conditions, may serve largely as a
Senator Sproul wants to be | ulation of Russia are patriotic.
the more we read of brilliant Ameri-
can raids in France the longer we can
expect the appended casualty list to
To wave. ie i It is | blessing in disguise. __. |tne trenches, a delivery truck in Jersey
: \ ; nor’s order to job holders to circulate | Governor and he has every right to likely, moreover, to exercise a help- | This is distinctly reassuring in view | Shore on Monday passed over a street
— Our boys are getting the habit of | is petitions and since he answered | entertain such an ambition. He has ful influence on the minds of those of | of the panic-stricken attitude of the |aiteh which its driver failed to see and
going “over the top” in France and
recent reports are to the effect that
every time they do there are a goodly
number of Germans who have “gone
west.”
— There is no “No-Man’s land” in
front of the American first line
| majority of housekeepers who view
| the belligerents who are our allies in | Major : Yo |
| with increasing alarm the imminent
i this world war as well as upon those 3
| of people who have remained neutral. I
ji conveys to the world an expression 'A careful examination of the fight-
2 sympathy for those who are sacti- | ing morale of the European soldiers
| ficing for democracy and an assur- who have lived for several years now
the Governor's offer to take the stump | all the qualification® required by pres-
for him by declaring that he has no {ent day leaders of all parties. That
entangling alliances and is no man’s is to say he has a big barrel of money
candidate. The protest against the {and a willingness to spend it freely.
activities of the job holders didn’t | What more could be desired? Just
stop their operations, however. They | one thing and his declaration for Pro-
continued to circulate
the axle of the car carried away the hat
of Benjamin Biery, who was digging the
ditch, and ripped off a portion of his scalp.
— Unusual sad circumstances surround
the death of three children of Mr. and
Mrs. John Clark, of Snyder county. Their
five year old daughter died of diphtheria
trenches in France. Our boys make it
so hot for the Huns who venture into
it that they now regard it as Uncle
Sam’s front yard.
—A great Pittsburgh grocery house
has had to close fortwo months as a
penalty for having profiteered on food
stuffs. It’s a wise grocer who takes
no chances with the government reg-
ulations these days.
—If you don’t want the other fel-
low to bear all the burdens imposed
by wartime regulations. If you real-
ly and truly don’t and aren’t grum-
bling because some of them rest on
you, you have patriotism.
—Secretary Baker is in France and
it is really surprising that up to this
moment none of our trouble-making
Senators have introduced a resolution
of criticism because he went without
first telling them all about it.
—Mr. Scott’s platform for a third
election to the Assembly is evidently
to be a play for Prohibition support.
“When the devil was sick, the devil a
monk would be; but when the devil
was well the devil a monk was he.”
—The fact that so many aspirants
for office in Pennsylvania are declar-
ing for the ratification of the Prohi-
bition amendments must start the
fellow who is still on the fence to
thinking that it is a good time to get
in out of the wet.
—Potatoes are getting down to-
ward fifty cents a bushel. That is
where they ought to be, at least until
the war is over. We can grow pota-
toes and we can live on potatoes al-
most alone so let us keep planting
more and more of them and thereby
keep them as cheap as possible.
— Local Prohobitionists might do
the town a good turn if they were to
point out to Highway Commissioner
and Prohibition candidate for Gover-
nor O'Neil the fact that it would be
easy to make a portion of Bellefonte
dry if he were to push that Water
street paving proposition to speedy
completion.
—1In talking with a thrifty house-
keeper in Bellefonte Monday she told
me that up to tha: time she had
not had to buy a can of vegetables or
fruit since her garden began to pro-
duce last summer. For the first time
in many years she canned all her sur-
plus vegetables and has just begun to
discover that it has netted her quite a
little balance in her house expenditure
account. That’s what gardening and
canning will do for everyone.
— That Standard oil tank truck will
fool around until it gets into real
trouble some of these days. It has
been operating out of Bellefonte only
a few years, yet in that time it has
knocked the front out of Wallace
White’s house at Axe Mann; tried to
push a freight train off the tracks at
Milesburg and on Monday morning
caught fire on a main street in Belle-
fonte while it was loaded with 720
gallons of gasoline. If that load had
ever let go the whole southern end of
our town might have been in ruins
now.
__Since there is to be a campaign
to enlist High school and other boys
for work on farms in Pennsylvania
during the summer wouldn't it be well
to begin right now a series of talks
to the boys on what they may expect
to find in the way of housing comforts
and what they will have to do in or-
der to make themselves useful. Any
boy can be useful on a farm, but few
town boys are, for the reason that
they are not accustomed to rising at
4:30 in the morning and crab when
they are asked to do it. Any boy six-
teen years of age can make a full
farm hand by doing nothing more
than the chores: that is getting down
the hay and bedding, doing the feed-
ing, slopping the pigs, watering the
stock, ete. All of this takes hours of
the farmer’s time each day and if it
were done by a boy he would be re-
leased for that many more hours in
the fields. But the average boy isn’t
content to do what he can do well,
slights the chores and convinces the
farmer that he is of no use whatever.
If the boys are to go onto the farms
they should go only with the thought
that no matter how early and late
they may have to work, no matter
what discomforts they may have to
put up with they will be suffering less
for their country than their elder
brothers in the trenches are doing and
it is really for their elder brothers in
the trenches that they are to be en-
rolled for farm work.
his petitions
and his campaign work has all been
done by State employees and at pub-
lic expense.
Moreover all his campaign
State. Under the pretense that he is
conducting an educational campaign
in the interest of good roads he is
talking temperance and denouncing
Sproul and Penrose with hypocrisy
and false pretense in declaring for
the Federal constitutional amendment.
“Mr. Sproul,” he declares in a state-
ment recently issued, “has been the
tool and the beneficiary of liquor deal-
ers, never was and is not now and
never will be a sincere advocate of na-
tional prohibition.” Probably that is
true and it might be added that Mr.
O’Neil has not always been. When
he was a servile follower of Quay he
was for what the boss wanted all the
time.
But there is no use in the “pot de-
claring that the kettle is black.”
These ambitious gentlemen are both
“tarred with the same stick.” They
want to be Governor and while pro-
fessing prohibition they are equally
willing to accept support from the
liquor dealers. Four years ago Brum-
baugh was the candidate of the Per-
sonal Liberty party composed entire-
ly of liquor dealers though he was
ostentatiously professing to be a
Prohibitionist. As a matter of fact
he was a grafter just as O’Neil is and
solicited the votes of everybody he
could fool with false pretenses of be-
ing a reformer. The only way to stop
the official corruption is to defeat both
these false pretenders and, elect: a
PISoE
Democrat Governor.
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— Tt has been suggested that be-
cause the Wisconsin Legislature has
censured LaFollette he may resign.
Not on your tin type. Poltroons never
do anything decent and LaFollette
will hold on to the good thing he has
as long as possible.
Other Important Questions.
There is a great deal of public in-
terest in the pending amendments to
the Federal constitution. That pro-
viding for nation-wide prohibition has
already passed both branches of Con-
gress and will be before the next ses-
sion of the Legislature for ratifica-
tion. The other has passed the House
and will soon be up for consideration
in the Senate. They are equally pop-
ular and deserve support. They are
twin reforms and make for moral
progress. But they are not the only
important public questions before the
people. There are other matters of
pressing importance to be determined.
The political calendar is very full and
quite interesting.
For example, an esteemed Philadel-
phia contemporary, the Record, of a
recent date contained the following
statement of facts: “The Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania is by virtue
of his office chairman of the State
Board of Pardons. Pardons are is-
sued by the Governor only on recom-
mendation of the Board of Pardons.
John R. K. Scott, a lawyer with an
extensive criminal practice, is a can-
didate for the Republican nomination
for Lieutenant Governor. “Enough
said.” In other words the danger of
putting a man on the Pardon Board
who could serve his own clients by
the perversion of his power as presi-
dent of the Board of Pardons is infer-
entially reprobated.
Then there are other important
questions to be considered. At the
primary election in Philadelphia last
fall a policeman was murdered be-
cause he interfered with the opera-
tions of a bunch of gunmen brought
over from New York to carry the pri-
maries “at any cost.” The man main-
ly responsible for this outrage is now
being solicited by the leaders of both
factions of the Republican party to
support their candidate for Governor.
The candidate of at least one of these
factions thinks it is a crime to affili-
ate with liquor men but entirely all
right to fraternize with murderers.
In other words the liquor question is
not the only subject of human inter-
est.
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——The boy who runs away to en-
list because his parents refuse to con-
sent may be a trifle naughty but he
is not fundamentally bad.
——Somebody in London has dis-|,
covered that heart-beats may be tak-
en by telephone. Must have been the
kind that go “pitty-pat.”
trips
over the State are financed by the | true,
| men learned politics
hibition ‘proves he has that too. It
|is an accommodating conscience which
| can be shifted into any direction that
will serve a purpose.
Denny O’Neil beat him to it, it is
for Denny has been preaching
Prohibition for some years. But he
| was not influenced to this course by
| conscience. He discerned the senti-
| ment sooner. Being a perennial office
seeker and on the outside, he got his
(oor to the ground and caught the
| rumble of the approaching force while
Sproul, on the inside, was oblivious
of the noise. But he heard finally and
got out of the “wet,” just as O’Neil
would have got in if the signs had
| been on the other side. Both gentle-
in the same
school and are equally proficient. As
| a matter of fact we have every reason
| to believe that Quay regarded Denny
as the more artful in the tricks of the
trade.
As a matter of fact, however, it is
of little consequence, so far as pro-
moting the policy of Prohibition is
concerned, whether the Governor be a
Prohibitionist or not, if he be an hon-
est and conscientious Governor. The
Senators and Representatives in the
General Assembly will ratify or re-
fuse to ratify the Prohibition ameng-
ment and the Governor cannot exer-
cise the veto power on their action.
If the Governor is willing to trade pa-
tronage: for votes he might help eith-
er side but that would be a violation
of the constitution, his oath of office
and every principle of integrity. What
is really needed by the people is an
honest and capable Governor
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There are a hundred Democrats
in Pennsylvania who would make ad-
mirable Governors and the notion
that a candidate must be wealthy is
absurd. The last three successful
candidates of the Democratic party
in Pennsylvania were poor.
Pen Mr. Hutchinson Up.
Mr. William L. Hutchinson, presi-
dent of the International Brotherhood
of Ship Carpenters and Joiners, is
again disarranging the program of
the ship building of the government
under the mistaken notion that he can
do as he likes about everything. It
appears that there is a considerable
shortage of ship caulkers in the plants
where wooden ships are being built
and the builders wanted to put ap-
prentices to work to make up the de-
ficiency. But ‘Mr. Hutchinson refuses
to allow apprentices to work. He
says there are plenty of caulkers but
unless conditions which he had previ-
ously declared with respect to other
things are met they will not be allow-
ed to work either. .
The one present great need of the
country is ships to convey troops, sup-
plies and munitions to the soldiers in
service abroad. Working up to the
full hundred per cent. of efficiency the
ship yards would be incapable of
meeting the requirements of the gov-
ernment. Impairing the producing
power of the ship builders, therefore,
is imperiling the lives of troops al-
ready in the trenches, prolonging the
war indefinitely and adding hardships
to the other horrors of the war. In
the face of these facts Mr. William L.
Hutchinson, president of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Ship Carpenters
and Joiners, is crippling the ship
building industry and inviting all the
evils involved.
A few weeks ago he ordered a
strike in the ship yards on the Atlan-
tic coast and impudently declared it
would continue until the President in-
vited him to a personal conference
that he might give his tale of woe di-
rect. The President declined to is-
sue the invitation, however, and in a
tone of voice that meant business.
Then the strike was called off and the
important work of building ships was
resumed. But the vanity of Mr.
Hutchinson has again asserted itself
and he is interfering with work on
the Pacific coast. In this he is render-
ing most valuable service to the ene-
my and it would be a good idea to fix
him so that he would have to direct
operations from behind prison bars.
— With Berger indicted and La-
Follette denounced by the Legislature
there is a chance for Wisconsin to de-
velop into a decent Commonwealth.
— The German people may not be
bad but there is something convinc-
ing in that Missouri habit of demand-
ing a show down.
o |iets. L
ance of substantial support
government which the Russian people
may establish. It was a timely as
well as a wise word.
{The people of Russia are certainly
{ serving of pity. In their struggle
to get away from the most rotten
form of autocracy which has ever pol-
luted the atmosphere they fell into a
band of thieves who after looting
them mercilessly betrayed them into
the hands of their worst enemies. The
Bolsheviki, whatever its original pur-
pose may have been, degenerated into
a gang of traitorous pirates whose on-
ly aim was to enrich themselves.
Lenine and Trotsky with German
money in their pockets swept the sim-
them in the flood of corruption into
the jaws of political death. But there
is hope in the assembly to which
President Wilson has addressed his
sympathy.
The first government of the Rus-
sian revolution had the virtue of in-
tegrity well developed but was like a
child in experience and intelligence.
Nevertheless our government was
wise in promptly extending a helping
hand. The administration of Keren-
sky promised better results and
though it was deficient in important
respects the help extended by this
country to it was wisely placed. Re-
fusing to extend aid or comfort to the
conspiracy of Lenine and Trotsky was
equally wise because it impaired their
power for evil and created the foun-
dation for the hope that now lies in
the impending Congress of the Sov-
didn’t change the politics of the four
Congress districts which filled vacan-
cies last week. After all it may be
discovered that female suffrage is not
such a bad thing.
Must Get Information from News-
papers.
Howard Heinz, food administrator
for Pennsylvania, has great faith in
the power of the press and in a rul-
ing promulgated last Saturday stated
that beginning Monday, March 10th,
and thereafter until further notice,
all orders, regulations, rulings, de-
cisions, appeals, and other communi-
cations intended to inform the public
of actions taken by the United States
nia will be issued through the medi-
um of the newspapers.
Such communications will not be
put forth in any other way and all
persons interested will understand
that they are to depend on the public
prints for information as to their du-
ties in connection with the conserva-
tion, distribution and purveying of
food in Pennsylvania. It will be of
prime importance to keep in touch
with the newspaper reports to prevent
possible trouble and prosecution un-
der the food laws of the United States
and of Pennsylvania.
The public is urged to watch the
columns of the newspapers carefully
for new orders, rulings, regulations
or anything which pertains to the food
control.
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—__If it is true that there are 2,
100,000 German soldiers on the West-
ern front that section is likely to be
the biggest grave yard the world has
ever seen by the Ides of November.
— The trout fishing season will open
just one month from today and nat-
urally lovers of the sport are wonder-
ing whether trout will be plentiful
this year or scarce. The long spell of
cold weather which froze many of the
smaller streams to the bottom may
have resulted in the destruction of
some fish but the chances are they
sought deeper water down stream.
The high waters that followed the
breaking up were hardly swift enough
to carry the trout down stream and
the probability is that when the open-
ing day comes around the usual num-
ber of trout will be found, if the fish-
ermen are able to catch them. So far
the water has been too cloudy to even
see a trout, so that it is impossible to
get any idea as to their number or lo-
cation, but before the snow melted
and Spring creek became high and
muddy, quite a lot of trout could be
seen in it, right opposite the “Watch-
man” office.
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—On April 6th next, we will cele-
brate the first anniversary of our dec-
laration of war on Germany.
to any |on a strict economy fare
‘them in their rations,
ple people off their feet and carried:
C
" seeThe women voters of New York
Food Administration for Pennsylva-
doled out to
undoubtedly
disproves the theory that less food
means a deterioration of physical
strength.
On the contrary, the exact opposite
has been found to be true. The va-
rious troops and the people them-
selves are in better physical condi-
tion now than they were three years
ago when the war began. Scientists
and physicians of note have given re-
peated warnings against over-eating,
but these warnings have heretofore
been frankly pooh-poohed or ignored
entirely.
Now we are compelled to face the
truth squarely and without equivoca-
tion. Overeating is a crime of which
all of us are more or less guilty. We
do not realize that it places a tremen-
dous strain on the bodily organs to
convert all this food into a form that
can be properly utilized.
Not only do we squander food
recklessly, but we waste an enormous
amount of energy in taking it in and
out of the body. Besides this, a not
inconsiderable quantity of food re-
mains to act as a toxic poison to the
entire system. And many constitu-
tional and accidental derangements
of the body have their inception in
these superfluous and unused food-
stuffs.
In Germany, Doctor Boas, a physi-
cian of wide repute, has discovered
that the restrictions placed on the un-
due consumption of certain kinds of
food in that country are responsible
for the marked decrease in the num-
ber of diabetes cases there. Also, on
the principle of periodic starvation
used in treati i; , there has
decid i
been a
nditi
Sufferers from gout and many oth-
er diseases due to the unnatural con-
ditions of our civilized life, are like-
wise greatly benefitted by a material
reduction in the intake of food. Any
excess, therefore, is evidently frank-
ly injurious, as well as being waste-
ful. How many physicians are called
upon to prescribe in illnesses due to
the effects of under-feeding? A very
small percentage. On the other hand,
how many there are whose entire
practice is made up of patients made
ill by over-feeding!
We must conclude, then, that our
diet can be restricted in quantity, even
as much as one-third or one-half,
without any direct harm, and even,
frequently, with remarkably beneficial
results. But in doing this, especial
care must be exercised not to restrict
it in variety. A mixed diet of small
proportions is far better than a mo-
notonous diet of one or two things,
without any change or variety.
The well-known malnutrition of the
poor comes not from lack of quantity,
as a rule, for they are generally heavy
eaters, but from lack of variety in the
food. They try to get enough vita-
mins for all the needs of the body
out of one or two elements and un-
thinkingly imagine that bulk will
make up for variety. Accordingly,
considerable thought must be given to
the matter of securing a well rounded
diet. Only when we are sure that the
necessary variety is obtained can we
safely cut down the quantity.
For this reason, foolish and hap-
hazard attempts to limit the amount
of food we eat must be avoided. No
real good will be accomplished unless
a careful study is made of the subject.
When this is done, then we may with
safety cut down the wholly unessen-
tial and excessive amount “of food
which we are at present consuming.
In this way some of the appalling
waste in food will be eliminated and
an impending food famine safely
averted. But best of all, there will be
a wonderful improvement in the gen-
gral bodily health of the whole na-
ion.
Why Not Face the Facts?
From the New York Herald.
There still is a harping at Wash-
ington upon what public sentiment in
Russia may think of the Allies
through Japan preventing war sup-
plies in Siberia and Eastern Siberia
itself from falling into the hands of
Germany. Why not face the actuali-
ties? What is the sense of permit-
tion action to be delayed by consider-
ation of something that does not ex-
ist? The only public sentiment in
Russia able to manifest itself is that
of the Bolsheviki, and that is for sur-
render and destruction. There are
patriots in Russia, many of them; as
individuals they deplore the plight of
their country, but in one of the great
crises that test the quality of men
they have proved themselves very im-
potent. If there is any doubt of the
wisdom of Japanese action toward
and in Siberia, that ought to be dis-
pelled by the discovery that such ac-
tion is being strongly opposed by
every element in this country which
is openly or overtly pro-German.
ent ' in the
and the day she was buried the three year
old son died of the same disease and the
day he was buried the parents returned
and found their eight year old daughter
dead.
—An illicit whiskey still, estimated to
be worth $1,000, and more than 1,000 gal-
lons of newly-made liquor, were seized by
Federal revenue agents in a raid on a
house in East Pittsburgh on Friday night.
Mike Eshik and Karl Kuncz were arrest-
ed. The officers said that it was the most
daring attempt at moonshining ever made
near a large city.
— Convicted of spreading propaganda to
obstruct the draft law, Charles T. Schenck,
general secretary of the Socialist party,
in Philadelphia, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment and Dr. Elizabeth
Baer, recording secretary of the executive
of the party, was fined $500 and sentenced
to 90 days in prison by Judge Thompson
in the Federal court on Monday. They
were later admitted to bail pending an
appeal.
—Alex Dale, who was convicted of mur-
der in the first degree at Pottsville on Sat-
urday for the killing of Charles Swartz,
of Mahanoy Valley, will figure as an im-
portant witness against Mrs. Swartz, for
whom a warrant has been issued charging
her with complicity in the murder. Dale
says Mrs. Swartz so constantly importun-
ed him to “knock her husband in the
head” that the suggestion stuck in his
mind and he finally did it without contem-
plating the seriousness of the crime.
—Mayor Adam Haag, of DuBois, drop-
ped a sensation bomb into the municipal
police mess at the council meeting Monday
night when he directed the hazy hand of
suspicion at practically every policeman
who has served DuBois since it became a
y by having read into the records
) Ce
Ss a es U 1e
missioners are to be called together for
the purpose of hearing charges preferred
by the mayor against every policeman, ex-
cept one on the DuBois police force
—What is generally thought to be the
last virgin tract of pine timber in the
central part of Pennsylvania, except the
Cook tract, will soon be a thing of the
past. In a week or two the woodsmen will
begin the cutting of the timber on the Joe
M. Magill farm one mile north of Baxter,
Jefferson county. In the tract is about
300,000 feet of virgin pine and about 400,-
000 feet of hardwood. One tree on the
tract has been estimated to contain 5,000
feet. It might also be interesting to note
that not a single raft was sent down the
north branch of the Susquehanna this
spring, the first time such a thing occur-
red in more than half a century.
—The State Supreme court on Monday
dismissed the appeal of William H. Berry,
collector of the port at Philadelphia, from
the decision of the Chester county court,
which refused to grant a change of venue
for the trial of the suit brought against
him by State Senator T. Larry Eyre, of
Chester county, to recover $50,000 damages
for illegal libel. The court says it was
not shown that the judge especially pre-
siding in the lower court had abused his
discretion in dismissing Mr. Berry's peti-
tion for the trial of the suit, to be held
outside of Chester county. Mr. Berry im
political speeches is alleged to have con-
nected Mr. Eyre’s name with the State
capitol scandal.
__At the home of Eliza Jane Maffett nine-
ty years old, a spinster, in Duquesne
Way, Pittsburgh, last Saturday, relatives
of the aged woman found a small fortune
hidden in various parts of the house. They
had gone to the house to clean it, the
woman having been removed to a hospital
after she had been found unconscious
from the fumes of a small gas stove. For-
ty thousand dollars in cash and bank
books showing deposits in Pittsburgh
banks aggregating $100,000 were found in
the house. Independent and refusing aid
from relatives who believed her in poor
circumstances, the woman had lived vir-
tually im seclusion for many years. Re-
peated attempts to have her abandon the
place were futile. Her relatives are una-
ble to explain how she obtained her great
wealth.
— The automobile bandit who on August
15, 1917, wounded Dr. J. L. Mansuy, of
Ralston, after Mrs. Mansuy had thwarted
an attempted hold-up on the highway near
Marsh Hill, Lyconming county, has been
jdentified by Mrs. Mansuy as “William
Harris,” a convict who was sent to the
Huntingdon reformatory from Sullivan
county for assaulting a girl near Eagles-
mere a few days after the hold-up. The
case against Harris was worked up by
Peter L. Link, a member of the State po-
lice force, located at Muncy, whose atten-
tion to —the Sullivan county case Was
drawn by a description of the culprit
printed in a local paper. After the bandit
had wounded Dr. Mansuy he was captur-
ed, but shot his way out of the posse, se-
riously wounding constable Harry French.
Officers scoured the mountains for days
and a number of mounted men from Bat-
tery D, First Pennsylvania field artillery,
them waiting for orders to move to Camp
Hancock, took part jn the chase. The
identification at Huntingdon was made by
Mrs. Mansuy om Saturday.