Penni dan.
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—And this is spring.
—Have you any onions in yet?
— Plowing has begun in many parts
of the county.
—Let’s all plant more potatoes than
we did last year and then let’s a lot
of us sell them sooner.
— Seldom has this community ex-
perienced such delightful spring
weather as we have had during this
week.
It is to laugh. On one of their
recent air raids over Paris the Huns
bombed their own embassy building
in that city. Now they want France
to pay the damage.
Tt is costing a lot of money to
win the war but to lose it will cost
vastly more. For that reason every-
body should cheerfully chip in to pay
the price of winning.
A Hun shell exploded within for-
ty feet of Secretary Baker in France
and he wasn’t hurt. That’s Yankee
luck. And Yankee luck and Yankee
pluck are going to win the war.
__A test vote in the upper house of
the New York Legislature shows that
up to this time the dry forces have
not mustered enough strength to rat-
ify the Prohibition amendment in that
State.
If the hoarders of potatoes and
wheat lose nothing other than the dif-
ference in price they are lucky. A
sentence that a quart of blood be tak-
en from each one would about fit their
crime.
—If you don’t get home until five
o'clock on the morning of April 1st
then set your watch on one hour it
will be six o’clock and you'll have to
turn around and start the work of a
new day.
Some say ships will end the war
and others declare that food conser-
vation will accomplish the result. But
nobody has undertaken to predict that
talk will turn the trick. and Congress
might take a hint.
— Wisconsin has finally and deci-
sively repudiated La Follette. Len-
root has been nominated for United
States Senator over Thompson, the
man whom the present seditious Sen-
ator from that Commonwealth was
supporting.
—Just now when the call is going
out to every one to raise a chicken
and help save the meat we are Te-
minded of the fact that there are a
lot of “chickens” racing around the
streets of Bellefonte that show no
signs of having had any raisin’ at all.
Fon:
5. signed the
of March 31st we will all have to set
our clocks forward just one hour.
‘When we get up next morning at six
o'clock we will all have our first and
real April fooling, because it will act-
ually be five o’clock.
A Pleasant Gap boy stole a pole-
cat skin from a neighbor and it didn’t
take a very keen scented sleuth to get
the culprit into the toils. But Judge
Quigley evidently thought the propri-
etor of a polecat skin suffers enough
without being slapped by hard fisted
justice, for he let him go.
— Talking about profiteering, it isn’t
all done by the traffickers in foods.
We are told that carpenters at Hog
~ Island are paid $9.00 a day for week
days and $13.50 for Sunday work.
Many of them work Sundays and take
down the $13.50, then lay off on Mon-
day when the rest costs only $9.00.
— Don’t talk in your sleep. Samp-
son Mayfield did it and he is now in
jail where he will have three month’s
time in which to get over the habit.
He stole a box of candy from a fel-
. low workman, then went to sleep and
talked about the goodies until some
one heard him and caused his arrest.
— The women are keeping Centre
- county in the very front rank of effi-
cient service in Red Cross work.
Shame on us, men, if we can’t hold
the same rank in our activities. Let
us make the enrollment of men and
boys for farm labor so great that Cen-
tre can prove to her sister counties of
Pennsylvania that her sons are made
of the same self sacrificing, patriotic
stuff that her daughters are made of.
—The Rev. John Richelsen, of Brad-
ford, aspires to be the Republican
nominee for Congress in this, the
Twenty-first district. Mr. Richelsen’
has made a very good impression on
some of the Republicans in this com-
munity who seem to scent a bar’l
that might be tapped very easily.
Preachers are not often accused of
having funds to play with in the polit-
ical game, but there are those who are
sure that if the Rev. John doesn’t
have a bar’l himself he knows some-
one who does.
—If a few of the really leading and
capable Democrats of Pennsylvania
would publicly announce their willing-
ness to lead the party in the next gu-
bernatorial campaign the problem now
confronting the party would be solved.
Such men are needed now as will not
have the taint of having been select-
ed or put forward by any particular
faction or coterie of bosses. Men,
and there are plenty of them, with
known capacity for the high office in
question; men who, though they may
have no personal ambition to become
Governor, are capable of command-
ing the confident and united support
of the Democracy as well as of those
Republicans who are unwilling to see
their State offices made the pawn of
contending party plunde:icrs.
VOL. 63.
Desperate Expedients Adopted.
which
the Republican factions are resorting
The desperate expedients to
in the hope of restoring harmony re-
veal the utter hopelessness of their
future. The latest information from
the seat of their activities indicate |
that the Penrose faction has offered
to take W. A. Magee, of Pittsburgh,
on the Sproul ticket for Lieutenant |
Governor. Of course this is a dernier
resort to prevent the nomination of J. |
R. K. Scott for the office. But if there |
were any other avenue of escape this |
plan would not have been thought of.
Magee has long been known as an |
arch-enemy of the Senior Senator and
if the Brumbaugh faction had taken
any other candidate than Denny
O'Neil Magee would have been fore-
most in the fight.
Sproul will be nominated easily over
O'Neil as the Republican candidate
for Governor, but his defeat is inevit- |
able unless the Republicans are unit- |
ed in his support. Pennsylvania has |
long been a Republican State and un- |
der normal conditions is so now. But |
conditions are not normal and there
are thousands of Republicans in the
State who will vote the Democratic
ticket for the reason that they want
to sustain the President and under-
stand that that is the only way to do
so. With the remaining thousands di-
vided and waging a war of extermina- |
tion against each other, the Demo- |
cratic candidate will be elected if he!
be a fit man and has the support of
the Democratic voters.
And that sort of a man will be nom-
inated by the Democrats this year.
The four or five mercenary office
holders in Washington will not be al-
lowed to pick the candidate and plas-
ter him with a label of their owner-
ship. They tried that the other day
and after making the selection invit-
ed a few dependent friends from va-
rious sections of the State to ratify
their action. But they were disap-
pointed even by those they trusted.
Their suggestions fell flat on the con-
ference and the Democratic people of
the State promptly condemned their
insolent bossism. There is plenty of
gubernatorial timber in Pennsylvania
0€ | ond the best specimen of it will be
taken to defeat the candidate of the
Republican factions.
Experience has made one point
clear. The old notion that fire isthe
most effective element to fight the
devil with has been verified, and re-
prisals must be employed to fight the
Kaiser. When a few spies are stood
in front of a firing line and a few
bombs are dropped into German cities
the militarists of Berlin will find out
that civilized methods must prevail.
The Keystone Division.
The welcome news comes from
Camp Hancock that the Pennsylvania
troops when they go to the trenches
“over there” will remain together and
be known as the “Keystone Division.”
Of course under whatever circumstan-
ces these gallant Americans appear
in front of the enemy they will be-
have themselves well. But there was
an unpleasant apprehension current
in army circles that they would be di-
vided into small units and absorbed
in other larger commands, thus de-
priving the State of the glory of their
achievements. But an official order
issued by the Commanding General
on Monday removed these apprehen-
sions. They will preserve the pleas-
ant relationships throughout the war.
This is another proof of the
thoughtful consideration for the com-
fort and welfare of the soldiers on the
part of those who are charged with
the direction of affairs. Every Penn-
sylvanian in uniform will meet every
obligation under any circumstances
and the heartless Hun will have fre-
quent opportunity to learn the prow-
ess of our representatives on the bat-
tle front. But their duties might
have been made more burdensome if
they had been separated. At least
their service in the camp would have
been less pleasant. And the authori-
ties fully realized that fact. Men eat
better and sleep better and fight bet-
ter when their environment is agree-
able.
The new order indicates, moreover,
that preparations are being made to
send the Keystone Division to the
trenches in France or Flanders in the
near future. Recent inspections have
revealed their preparedness and Camp
Hancock has become a “show” can-
tonment. It was a visit to that camp
and an observation of the skill and
equipment of the Pennsylvania troops
which converted Senator Hitchcock,
of Nebraska, into an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of the War Department’s work.
A couple of weeks ago he was sup-
porting the slanderous statements of
Senator Chamberlain but now he is
both emphatic and enthusiastic in
praise of the methods employed and
the results achieved by the govern-
ment.
— The experiment of Socialist
government in Russia ought to put
the idea of Socialism in America out
BELL
Has Penrose Cold Feet?
Is Senator Penrose developing cold
feet? Last week his political friends
in all sections of the State assembled
in Philadelphia in the expectation
that he would meet them, praise them
for their fidelity, and give them
words of encouragement and advice
for the future. ‘He had invited them
to come and promised to meet them,
but failed. Other engagements, he
telegraphed to his office clerk, occu-
pied his time. What sort of engage-
ments was left to conjecture. Some
said it was public business which held
him to his seat in the Senate. Others
| alleged that he was detained by Wil-
lie Hays, chairman of the Republican
National committee who kept him to
plan for harmony elsewhere.
Harmony is a great thing in poli-
ties but its value is qualified by geo-
graphical lines. For example, har-
mony in Illinois or Indiana is a neg-
ligible entity if the absence of it in
Pennsylvania threatens the party
prosperity of faithful henchmen and
it must be admitted that Denny
| O'Neil is tossing the alfalfa on both
sides of the highway with reckless
disregard of consequences. In these
circumstances Senator Penrose ought
to have kept his engagement with his
| followers. They need encouragement.
| They have been out in the cold for
some time and coal is high, the tem-
perature has been low and the future
looks gloomy. Human nature is
weak at best and temptation hits hard
on a yearning mind.
Moreover, it seems that Senator
Penrose had another important en-
gagement in Philadelphia which he
failed to keep. He had promised to
meet a party of suffragists to dis-
cuss his proposed action on the pend-
ing suffrage amendment to the con-
stitution. The suffragists came but
the Senator was absent and naturally
there was more or less indignation ex-
pressed. This type of cold feet is
most deplorable. If the Senator is
afraid to meet the ladies he ought to
say so for militant women hate a cow-
ard and “faint heart ne’er won fair
lady.” They have no vote as yet but
they have powerful influence and are
likely to exercise it if they imagine |
they are being trifled with. 2 wr
And Roosevelt hasn’t uttered a
word of apology for his mischievous
falsehood that “for the first eleven
months of this war the inefficiency at
vital points in our government, nota-
bly in the matter of shipping and in
the management of the War Depart-
ment, was worse than anything Rus-
sia herself has ever seen.”
Senator Reed and Mr. Hoover.
A great many causes of wonder
have arisen in Washington since the
opening of the present session of
Congress. The outbreak of Senator
Chamberlain has never been account-
ed for though the environment of a
New York banquet was suspected.
The absurdities of Senator Hitch-
cock’s attack on the administration
has not been explained though the in-
fluence of Bryan with the President
at the beginning of his life in Wash-
ington might be a reason. The fail-
ure of the Senate to take action in re-
sentment of LaFollette’s perfidy re-
mains a mystery though his vanity
and ambition may have convinced his
colleagues that he is not responsible
and finally Senator Reed’s hostility
to Hoover is unaccountable.
So far as information is available
it appears that Senator Reed, of Mis-
souri, is a second rate quarter ses-
sions lawyer who resides in Kansas
City. That is one of the homes of the
Beef trust. All the piratical meat
packers have extensive plants in that
city and from their offices there di-
rect the predatory operations in price
fixing and corrupt legislation. Pos-
sibly, therefore, Senator Reed has
been retained as one of the agents in
Washington of these conspirators.
They blame Mr. Hoover with interfer-
ing with their plans to loot the gov-
ernment by selling bad meat and
charging exorbitant prices for their
products and are using Reed to un-
dermine public confidence in his work
for the government.
During the Spanish war it will be
remembered, these piratical meat
packers sold ship loads of rotten meat
to the government for the use of the
soldiers and when a state of war with
Germany was declared they imagin-
ed it was the beginning of a new era
of graft for them. But President
Wilson, who has no sympathy with
such enterprises suggested the ap-
pointment of an agent of the gov-
ernment who could prevent such trea-
sonable frauds. Of course the disap-
pointed meat pirates set all the agents
and lobbyists to barking at the heels
of Hoover and Reed is heard more
than the rest only because he has bet-
ter opportunities to obtrude himself
into the activities of the gang.
If Greece is still paying tribute
to King Constantine somebody ought
to go hungry there and it is a safe
bet that no real Greek is responsible
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
EFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 22, 1918.
of mind for all time.
for it.
2 |
Time for Some One to Act. !
Unless the “Watchman” has been
misinformed there is one person at
State College who has been far see-
ing enough to discern the ultimate in-
jury that might be done that commu-
nity if the student body of the insti-
tution is to be further encouraged in
the spirit of boycotting. Surprising
as it may seem the one person who
has had the temerity to speak out in
tones of sanity and reason is the ed-
itor of the student’s own publication
“The State. Collegian.”
It has been a month or more now
since the students of The Pennsylva-
nia State College inaugurated a boy-
cott against a moving picture show in
that place. It has not only been vig-
orously enforced, but it has been ex-
tended to the mercantile establish-
ment in which the management is af-
filiated with that of the picture show.
There is no need at this time to dis-
cuss the causes leading up to the boy-
cott. We know them and know that
there are two sides to the question.
The serious phase of it; the one that
makes it of greatest gravity to the
great institution itself is the spirit of
the young men who are at the bottom
of it. The evidence is there that it is
not a spontaneous movement at all,
that it has a focal point and that a
sub-rosa organization has been main-
tained to keep student - sentiment
chrystalized. All the while the col-
lege authorities look on, we presume,
with the idea that to the Student
Council has been delegated the duty
of student government.
Meanwhile the news gradually per-
colates through the State and the pub-
lic frankly wonders whether its one
great educational institution is en-
couraging student thought and stu-
dent activities along the lines of an-
archy. They may think it socialism,
but socialism, in the last analysis is
too altruistic to comprehend the spir-
it of the boycott in its tenets.
Three times within recent years the
students of State have resorted to this
cowardly method of attack. It is be-
neath them. It is beneath the spirit
of the institution. It is the weapon
of a mentality much lower than the
plane on which young men upon whom
‘the future of our country must de-
pend should occupy.
If this spirit is to be encouraged by
tolerance now we shudder at the
thought of its capabilities of develop-
ment in the future. We do not, we
cannot believe that it is the spirit of
the real Penn State man. We are
rather inclined to the belief that it is
the thoughtless effort of a clique with
whom the clearer thinking students
do not care to make an issue. Because
of this belief the “Watchman” con-
gratulates the editor of the Collegian,
whoever he may be; the one person at
State College who up to this time
seems to have had the courage of his
convictions and spoken them.
We forsee the time when, if this®
spirit is permitted to grow, invested
capital at State College may be at
the mercy of the whim of any group
of boys yet in their teens. Capital
shrinks from uncertainties and what
could be more uncertain than an in-
vestment in a place where covert as-
saults are made upon it and condoned
as “a college boys’ prank.”
If the students won’t it seems to us
it’s time that the college authorities
take a sight along the trail the Col-
legian so courageously blazed for
them.
What Centre County Has Done.
The citizens of Centre county are
proving their patriotism by deeds, not
words as the following will show:
CASH CONTRIBUTED.
Fitst Tiberty Loalleo.siv-srans $ 512,150.00
Second Liberty Loan... ... 1,026,300,00
Y. M. C. A. War Work. 5,720.61
Red CrosS.....eceeeccossescnece 19,792.43
Thrift Stamps to date......... 69,940.00
Total. .s.vecavasviniss $1,663,903.04
THE RED CROSS.
Mem. Cash
Bellefonte Chapter.......... 5527 $7,711.23
Philipsburg Chapter........ 5000 6,923.95
State College Chapter....... 2976 5,157.25
Total.....ovoerees. 13548 $19,792.43
MEN IN SERVICE............ veianeioe 705
Turn Your Clock Ahead One Hour.
On Tuesday President Wilson sign-
ed the Daylight bill passed by Con-
gress which provides that on the night
of March 31st all clocks shall be set
ahead one hour, and on the night of
the last Sunday of October they are
to be turned back one hour. This, it
is argued will conserve daylight and
save fuel and artificial light. Wheth-
er it will or whether it won’, is be-
yond argument now. The bill is now
the law, and the only thing to do is
to turn your clock ahead one hour the
night of March 31st.
——
— Col. H. S. Taylor was at Spring
Mills last Thursday evening where he
delivered a patriotic address to the
home defense company organized by
Robert Musser. The Colonel is also
busy organizing the boys’ working
reserve and thus doing his bit to help
along in these strenuous times.
ee
— They are all good enough, but
NO. 12.
The Brighter Side.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Out of the war and our participa-
tion in it there is coming a wealth of
idea and an awakening to facts that
nothing less serious could have
brought about. As a people we have
been spendthrifts, not greatly given
to saving. Our resources have been
great and subsistence easy for the
great bulk of the people. But un-
der the urgent necessities of war we,
as a nation, are learning to save and
loan and give and restrain and sacri-
fice in large ways that were heretofore
thought impossible. We now find
that we can stint for a great cause.
We now realize that money alone
will not win the war, but that things,
many things must be grown, made
and saved. That spirit of sacrifice is
strong among all, rich and poor alike.
We are learning that if we are to
be a physically fit people for peace
or war, the preparation must begin
1m the early years of life. Such prep-
aration must be both compulsory and
universal. There must be general
physical development for all, not the
mere training for the athletic event
of school or college. The war has
taught us, too, patriotism of effec-
tive action in contrast. to loud and
meaningless profession. We have
found that mere sentiment, however
finely phrased in words, gets us no-
where, unless reduced to concrete per-
formance. The fruits of this discov-
ery are seen. We are using our time
and resources freely. We are finding
that the big values of life and coun-
try are not expressed either in the
sign of the dollar or in terms that
are commercial.
We are being unified and absorbed
in our thinking. Questions as to mat-
ters that are worth while are now
getting a proper hearing. We are be-
ginning to get a true perspective of
what real Americanism means. We
realize the obligations as well as the
privileges of citizenship. Too many
men on coming to this land have fail-
ed to pay in fealty for the gift of cit-
izenship bestowed upon them.’ That
fault will not continue. Mental alle-
giance to another land will not be per-
mitted in the future. The conflict has
revived our national spirit. It has
brought the country face to face with
vast neglected opportunities, and has
taught us lessons which will not
soon be neglected or forgotten.
Taxes in Installments.’
From the New York Analyst. °
The suggestion in Congress that the
income tax be made payable in in-
stallments instead of in a single pay-
ment comes at an opportune time.
Many persons who have never before
paid an income tax, and many others
who have paid but never in any such
amounts as they are called upon to
pay this year, are now engaged in the
task of making
government, and the amounts which
they will be called upon to turn into
the National Treasury will be incon-
veniently large in many cases. It
would cost the government nothing,
and would add to the ease with which
the tax could be paid were the privi-
lege granted to pay in installments
instead of all at one time. The dates
could be fixed at the convenience of
the treasury with due regard to its
own financial transactions, but that
done the additional work imposed
upon the government would be slight
compared with the advantage which
taxpayers would gain.
A Change that Should Be Made.
Fron the New York Herald.
Thére should be no delay on the
part of Cengress in enacting into law
the bill introduced by Representative
Flood, of Virginia, providing that “no
person not a citizen of the United
States shall be permitted to vote at
any election to be held for President
and Vice President or for Senators
of the United States or members of
the House of Representatives, who is
a subject of any State or Nation with
which the United States is at war.”
It will surprise many Americans to
know that such legislation is needed,
but it is. In 10 States alien residents
are given the right of the franchise.
Some day the country will have a
Federal election law under which all
such dangers and all inequalities will
be done away with. An act of Con-
gress barring enemy aliens from the
polls would be a beginning in that di-
vection. It is needed as a measure of
national defense.
—
The Echo in His Heart.
From the New York Sun.
«Your words have found a lively
echo in my heart,” answered the Kai-
ser to the despairing cry of the Esth-
onians, and his general, hearing the
echo, plundered the Esthonians of
what the Red Guard had not taken
from them, and then plundered the
Reds of what they had taken.
And They Fell Down.
From the Memphis News Scimitar.
We are disappointed. We thought
surely when Russia gave the women
the right to vote all her troubles were
over, and now it seems that the Rus-
sian women are as unreliable as the
men.
— _There’s nothing in a name.
Russian Soviets and Bolsheviki are
equally poltroons and one is quite as
unworthy of sympathy as the other.
— The householder’s flour report
blank will be found on the third page
the “Watchman” is always the best.
of today’s paper.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The week of April 8 was named last
Thursday as the time for the electrocu-
tion of Mike Uptic, of Westmoreland coun-
ty, convicted of murder in the first de-
gree.
—Garry Hoover, of Curwensville, is an
82 year old young man. Last fall he
tramped through the woods on a deer
hunting expedition, and the other day
climbed up a ladder to the roof of the pub-
lic building in that town, up another lad-
der on the roof to the belfry, where he
leisurely made needed repairs.
—A company has taken over an eld tan-
nery in Pittsburgh with the intention of
operating it hereafter exclusively for the
handling of fish skins. The company ad-
vises the bureau of fisheries that at the
outset it will be able to handle 150 skins
daily and that it is in the market for any
shark skins two feet or more in length.
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—Joseph Liscritski, of Scranton, wants
to fight for Uncle Sam, even though he
has both legs missing. He applied at the
local recruiting station and was rejected.
Liscritski was surprised upon the officers’
refusing to accept him, remarking that
with his artificial legs he can get about
better than many men with sound limbs.
—Run over by a handcar on the Penn-
sylvania railroad, Lewis Hoffman, a sec-
tion hand, of Middleburg, was pickeu up
apparently dead, and his associates were
figuring upon calling the coroner when
he suddenly regained consciousness and
declared he was not hurt. He resumed
his work in a few minutes and finished
the day out.
—J. Ira Thomas, of Philipsburg, has
been appointed Mine Inspector of District
6, in the DuBois territory, to take the
place of the late Elias Phillips, who died
recently. Mr. Thomas’ father was the
first mine inspector of the district many
years ago. The appointee has been em-
ployed as a mining engineer by Cambria
Steel company.
—Mrs. Abby Trauger, aged cighty-five
years, was found dead in her home in
West Second street, Greensburg, when a
neighbor went to investigate when the old
lady did not make her appearance for sev-
eral days. In the house with the women
were seventeen cats. One of them was
asleep on its mistress’ breast. Mrs. Trau-
ger had no relatives.
—The Public Service Commission has
ordered the St. Mary’s Gas company, which
serves Emporium and other towns in Elk
county to supply gas to applicants in its
territory and dismissed the objections of
the company, which had raised the inter-
esting question whether the general state
of supply gas was any reason for refus-
ing to add new consumers.
—Dr. and Mrs. 8. 8S. Koser, of Williams-
port, have leased their hospital to the doe-
tors associated with the private hospital
recently destroyed by fire, and will take
an extended vacation. They expect to
spend two years in California and Alaska.
They had intended to journey to Japan,
but on account of the war conditions will
not likely visit that country now. °
—John C. Troutman, twenty-nine years
old, of Sunbury, employed as a brakeman
on the Shamokin division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad met a terrible death Sun-
day morning when, after completing a
night’s work, on that division, he stepped
their return to the|
from the caboose of his train to a main .
line track, was struck by a light yard en-
gine and so terribly crushed that he died
within a short time.
—Domineck Demigone, aged 23 years,
had his left arm almost ground off while
working at the Vanadium-Alloys Steel
plant, Latrobe, Saturday morning. He
was employed on the rolls and in some
way got his hand caught in the cogs of
the mill, his arm was drawn in and crush-
ed and mangled all the way to the shoul-
der. The arm was amputated at the shoul-
der, at the Latrobe hospital.
—County detective Samuel L. Minser,
aged 45, died in the Indiana hospital on
Tuesday as the result of injuries sustain-
ed when he was assaulted by foreigners at
Lucerne mines, Indiana county, two weeks
ago while securing information relative te
speakeasies. The attack occurred at night,
and Minser lay unconscious in a field for
several hours before being found by a pe-
destrian. He leayes his widow and several
children.
—Governor Brumbaugh has announced
his intentions of accepting an invitation
to speak at Selinsgrove on May 14, when
a tablet will be unveiled at the mansion
built by Simon Snyder, who was Governor
of Pennsylvania during 1812. The State
Historical society has charge of the prep-
arations. The home is now owned and oc-
cupied by Harry A. Coryell, who was re-
cently elected district attorney of Snyder
county.
Private Spencer C. Heiges, of Harris-
burg, Pa., attached to the quartermaster’s
department at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.,
was on Monday sentenced to eight years at
hard labor in the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta, Ga., on charges of selling army
stores. Heiges was formerly a public
school teacher at Harrisburg. Before the
court martial’ it was charged that in ci-
vilian clothing he visited a grocery store
in that village and represented that he was
a salesman for a Boston commission house.
Later it was charged Heiges hired a team-
ster to call at the quartermaster’s stores
at Camp Devens and turned over to him
1,300 pounds of sugar and four tubs of
butter for delivery to the local merchant.
—A cast iron pot containing $115,000 in
gold coins was hurled into the air on the
old Isaac Shaffer farm, near Hillsville,
Lawrence county, last week, when a charge
of dynamite was used to loosen deposits
of limestone. Employees of the Carbon
Limestone company rubbed their eyes
when the shower of gold fell with the
fragments of limestone. A lively scram-
ble for the scattered money disclosed the
kettle, shattered, but still containing the
bulk of the hidden gold. The kettle had
been sealed and buried under a huge boul-
der in an old well. The money goes to the
heirs of Isaac Shaffer, who for twenty-five
years had conducted an intermittent search
for the treasure. Thirty years ago Isaac
Shaffer, a close-fisted cattle dealer, died
suddenly of apoplexy. Before he expired
he uttered the single word “gold” and
pointed to the farm. As he left no will,
the heirs were convinced a fortune had
been secreted. The farm was bought by a
cousin, John Shaffer, who died nineteen
years ago after a fruitless labor to find
the fortune. When the limestone rights
were sold to the Carbon Limestone com-
pany, however, the heirs supervised the
turning over of every yard of soil. Wed-
nesday the site of the old well was reach-
ed and on being dynamited the gold was
unearthed. ~