BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
. ~The weather man is about as pop-
ular now in this neck-o-the-woods as
the Kaiser.
—Melting snow is likely to make
the streams too high and cloudy for
good fishing on the opening day of
the season, next Monday.
—Had Tuesday’s snow kept up
‘much longer farmers would have had
to use snow-plows on their fields be-
fore they could have resumed plowing.
— Just as we turned the clocks
forward somebody seems to have
turned the season back and nearing
the middle of April we are enduring
the most atrocious type of March
weather.
—1Js Centre county going over the
top with the third Liberty loan. Of
course she is, and with the fourth and
fifth and sixth as well; should they
be necessary to equip and feed our
boys right.
—The lovely (?) snow storm that
made Centre county look like January
in April made us feel like yanking a
lot of personals off of page 8 of this
edition that tell of sundry families
who have arrived home to “open their
houses for the summer.”
— Australian wheat is now begin-
ning to find its way to our allies and
will continue in greater quantity as
the pressure for ships for other serv-
ice is relieved. It is interesting also
to note that Australian farmers are
receiving only $1.54 a bushel for their
crops.
—The revelation that American
submarines have been working in for-
eign waters since early last fall is
another gag in the mouths of those
misinformed claquers who are contin-
ually railing about our government’s
not having done anything since enter-
ing the war. ’
—The robin, the daffodil, the onion
and the saplin’ bender snows must
have formed an alliance for they all
came together on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday and buried everything under
nearly a foot of “the beautiful,” if
that is what it can be called when so
unacceptable.
—There seems to be a lull in the
fighting on the other side. About the
only news we have had during the
past few days has been estimates of
the German casualties and they run
so high as to lead to the belief that
the Kaiser must be running short of
cannon fodder.
—Gradually the patience of easy-
going America is being worn to the
breaking point and you need not be
surprised if, ere long, a lot of loud-
“mouthed seditious characters who
"mistake liberty for license in this
country are stood up against a wall
with a firing squad in front of them.
—Judging from the -amount of in-
terest farmers are evincing in the new
Liberty loan we will not be surprised
if they play a very important part in
putting it over. They have been won-
derfully prosperous; the government
has been most considerate of them
and, if for no other reason, one good
turn deserves another.
—Hindenburg is telling the German
people to “wait.” Not to get uneasy
because his much heralded drive on
the west front has been checked. But
if Hindenburg and the German peo-
ple wait much longer we will be there
and he'll have no chance to wait. He'll
beat it for the Vaterland with an
American bayonet jabbing under his
coat tail at every jump.
—Col. Hugh S. Taylor is in the field
for the Democratic nomination for
Congress in this District and the Hon.
John Noll has a paper in circulation
that is designed to make him eligible
to entry in the race for the nomina-
tion for Assembly. A few more sur-
prises of this sort and Democrats will
begin to sniff some political activity
that if it does nothing more will at
least put a little pep into an organiza-
tion that certainly needs it.
—On April 6th we celebrated the
first anniversary of our entrance into
the great world war. A resume of
our work in that time shows much of
mistake but more of achievement than
even the most optimistic had hoped
for. We are going fine now and can’t
be stopped until the best traditions of
American chivalry and determination
have made their impress on the world.
Let us all stand behind the President,
with noble impulse and hopeful pur-
pose.
—A recent compilation of the cost
price of a loaf of bread from the time
the grain leaves the granary on the
farm to the time it reaches the con-
sumer reveals the startling fact that
the farmer receives forty-five per
cent. of the whole cost. In other
words, practically all of the increased
cost of bread today goes to the far-
mer in the increased price he is al-
lowed for his wheat. In 1913 the far-
mer received only twenty-six per cent.
of the cost of the bread.
—Charles M. McCurdy, chairman of
the Liberty Loan committee for Cen-
tre county, makes quite an address to
the public in this issue of the “Watch-
man.” You should read it, because it
is the opinion of the head of one of
our splendid banking institutions, the
judgment of a man who has spent a
life time in weighing financial prob-
lems in their relation to the economic
welfare of the country. Mr. McCurdy
looks like Col. House, the President’s
confidential consultant, and is very
like him in the respect that he doesn’t
often make public his thoughts, but
when he does the public may well
ponder over them seriously.
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VOL. 63.
War of the Republican Factions.
Interest in the Republican faction |
fight seems to have shifted within a |
week from the contest between Sena-.
tor Sproul and Denny O’Neil to the
strife ‘between John R. K. Scott and
State Senator Beidleman, of Harris-
burg, for Lieutenant Governor. The
candidacy of Paul W. Houck for Sec- |
retary of Internal Affairs has stirred
up some feeling among the factionists
of Schuylkill county but is unimpor-
tant otherwise for Houck will be dis-
tanced in the first heat. But there are
all sorts of dickering over the second
place on the ticket. The Vares insist
on Scott and Penrose is equally “set”
in his determination to nominate Bei-
dleman. Several offers of harmony
have been turned down in order to
keep Scott off the ticket.
On Saturday last at the weekly con-
ference in Philadelphia an offer was
made to withdraw Houck if Beidle-
man would also be withdrawn. Butit
was indignantly rejected. It is under-
stood that Sproul would have been
willing to make this deal for he real-
izes that one Quarter Sessions law-
yer on the Pardon Board is quite as
good as another and Beidleman’s
practice has been largely in that
court. Besides Sproul is not as con-
fident as Penrose. He realizes that
the road to success, after the momi-
nation, will not be strewn with roses
and that it will tax the party resources
of the organization to elect any can-
didate even with an entirely harmo-
nious party behind the ticket. There
are a good many voters who are in-
clined to support the President re-
gardless of past affiliations.
But Penrose is compelled to op-
pose Scott’s nomination. In the fight
against the Vare machine in Philadel-
phia last fall he made such pledges to
the reformers as to make the support
of a Vare emissary utterly impossi-
ble. Heretofore he has not been so
particular about keeping political
promises but heretofore his promises
were made to men of the rough neck
variety and didn't require any subse-
quent consideration. Now it’s differ-
ent however. His pledges to oppose
the Vares in all their ambitions were
made to men of social and commercial
standing and the betrayal of them
would involve important consequences.
The Senator -is particularly anxious
to stand right with big business and
business men are afraid of Vare.
——The German press may misun-
derstand the President’s Baltimore
speech in some respects but it will
hardly misinterpret the notice con-
tained in the text that the terms of
peace will not be framed in Berlin.
Senator Vare’s New Departure.
We have heard of “Satan reprov-
ing sin,” and there is a tradition that
“when the devil was sick, the devil
a monk would be.” But neither of
these incidents is as ludicrous as Sen-
ator Vare, of Philadelphia, publicly
urging his rough neck followers to
“cater to the church vote,” for the
reason, as he stated it, that that vote
has “to be reckoned with in the com-
ing primary.” Stuffing ballot boxes
and employing gunmen can no longer
be depended upon to carry elections
even in Philadelphia and Senator Vare
advises the adoption of “the livery of
heaven,” as an expedient worth while.
“If any candidate has been set aside
because he was for prohibition,” the
Senator added, “the mistake should
be rectified.”
Possibly it. is true that “there are
many churchmen willing to aid” his
gang, and he may, be wise in warning
his friends “not to cross the church
people.” But to those who have ob-
served his methods and estimated his
associates from a distance it seems
incredible. From the beginning of
his political activity he has been affil-
iated with the toughest element of the
slums. A collector of garbage his
companions were of the lowest type.
But his influence with them was com-
pelling and he became an important
figure because their servility was com-
plete. Petty criminals invariably
found a safe refuge in his friendship
and in them he had a dependable po-
litical asset. That was the source of
his power. fet :
But the Senator has always been
ready and willing to adapt himself to
existing conditions. His admonition
to his followers means that the time
for rough-housing in politics is end-
ed. This year at least he believes that
the appeal must be made to decency
rather than to base passion and he
makes the pretense of virtue. But he
is not ready to go the limit. That is
he is not willing to abandon his can-
didate for Lieutenant Governor
though he frankly and freely advises
the adoption of reform methods as a
bait for the “church vote.” How far
he will succeed in his purpose remains
to be seen. To what extent he will
fool “the decent element” is problem-
atical. But he will do his best.
——FEngland and France are buy-
ing wheat in Australia at $1.54 a
bushel but Senator Gore is helping the
Kaiser by holding out the promise to
American farmers of $2.50 a bushel.
not express the full measure of the
’ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
President Wilson’s Baltimore Speech.
On the anniversary of our entrance
into the great world war, at Balti-
more, President Wilson made clearer
than ever the ample reasons why we
took that epochal step. On behalf of
the people of the United States he had
asked Germany whether her purpose
in the war was “justice or dominion.”
Germany had closed the seas to our
commerce and ruthlessly murdered
our men, women and children. In a
spirit of kindness he appealed to those
who had a right to speak for Germany
why these outrages were perpetrated.
The military leaders who are the real
rulers of Germany replied that their
purpose was “dominion, and the exe-
cution of their own will upon the oth-
er nations of the world.” |
To prevent this world wide calami-
ty the Congress of the United States,
on the 6th of April, 1917, declared
that a state of war between this coun-
try and the German empire existed.
In behalf of all civilization as well as
in the interest of our own national lib-
erty and safety this action was taken
and the cheap conquest which Germa-
ny has achieved over Russia, proves
the wisdom of the act. But to make
the declaration effective, to fulfill the
purpose for which it was made, the
vast cost of the greatest war in his-
tory must be met and the great pro-
portion of the burden is upon the peo-
ple of the United States. It was be-
cause of this that the President, at
Baltimore, on Saturday, recited the
facts and drew the conclusions.
The medium of meeting this obliga-
tion which is upen the ‘people of the
United States is the Liberty loan.
Every man, woman and child in the
land must contribute to this achieve-
ment. It is not a gift, for the govern-
ment guarantees the repayment of
the money and a generous interest for
the use of it. But even if it were a
gift it would be wise to supply the
funds for if the war is not won every
sort and description of the resources
of the people will be confiscated to re-
imburse the Huns for the expenses
they have incurred in the conquest of
the world. The government asks but
a moiety of this vast aggregate but
the Hun will take all and other things
of greater value to honorable men and
women. Petr
Of course lynching alien ene-
mies who use their mouths too freely
is to be deprecated. But Congress re-
fuses to provide a proper method of
administering just punishment.
Sheep Killing Dogs Must be Stopped.
In Ohio, during 1917, dogs killed
24,000 sheep, according to the exper-
iment station of that State. The
same authority estimates the total
number of sheep in Ohio as 3,000,000,
so that the per centage of loss from
that cause is small. But under ex-
isting conditions it is vastly too large.
The country needs every pound of
wool that can be produced and more.
The loss of that number of sheep
means the loss of nearly 150,000
pounds of wool. It is estimated that
twelve pounds of wool will clothe a
soldier for a year so that the product
of 24,000 sheep would clothe 150,000
soldiers. With three or four millions
of soldiers to supply, the country
can’t afford this loss.
There probably never was an Amer-
ican, sound in mind and body, and
with red blood coursing through his
veins, who didn’t like a dog. He is
the most faithful and affectionate
creature in the world if properly
trained. But dogs of that type don’t
kill sheep. It is the vicious type of
dog, such as were underfed in puppy-
hood and compelled to forage for sus-
tenance, that develope the destructive
habit. Persons who breed and keep
dogs under such circumstances ought
to be punished. It isn’t always the
fault of the dog that he does things
that are reprehensible. Sometimes
they are taught to do wrong and oth-
er times they are forced by hunger
or exposure to commit depredations.
But they ‘must quit killing sheep.
Wool is too valuable and necessary to
be wasted.
Moreover the loss of wool and meat
of sheep actually killed by dogs does
evil of sheep-killing dogs. In a sec-
tion where sheep-killing dogs operate
extensively farmers become afraid to
breed sheep and thus the wool pro-
ducing power of the community is di-
minished in a ratio that can’t be esti-
mated. All know that there is always
a ready market for wool and at prof-
itable prices. But if a considerable
portion of the clip is to be lost every
year because of sheep-killing dogs the
enticement of markets and profits is
lost and for the reason that the pro-
duct is reduced the government is un-
able to properly clothe men who are
entitled to the best of everything.
Von Hindenburg is simply dem-
onstrating that defeat comes high
when an enterprise for “victory at
any price” fails.
——A tip to von Hindenburg: “He
who hesitates is lost and he who
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 12, 1918.
German Defeat a Certainty.
years and it may end in six months
but when it ends it will be in a vie-
tory for Democracy and in the elimi-
nation of autocacy. The recent drives
of the German forces have made these
facts plain. With brutal disregard
for human life the helpless Huns have
been driven up against the deathly
fire of the allied guns to be slaugh-
tered. If such a sacrifice of man pow-
er had been rewarded by achievement,
it might have been justified as a mili-
tary necessity. But it accomplished
nothing of value. It failed of its pur-
pose in every respect. It cost nearly
half a million men and yielded no rec-
ompense. The grand total was a dead
loss to the German empire.
The German man power has been
taxed to the full measure of exhaus-
tion. Every male inhabitant of the
empire between the ages of sixteen
and seventy has been taken into the
ranks. There is no reserve capable
of bearing arms and enduring the la-
bor of military life in war. Finan-
cially the empire is equally exhaust-
ed. The debt is greater than the val-
ue of all resources. The interest on
the debt created for the prosecution
of the war amounts to more than the
revenues of the empire. That means
national bankruptey as certain as fate.
It makes universal poverty inevitable.
Even a victory without indemnities
would be of no value to a people thus
burdened with debt and dishonor.
Under these adverse conditions the
Kaiser may be able to keep up a pre-
tense of war and inspire in the hearts
of his helpless victims a hope of ul-
timate victory for some time. It all
depends upon what the allies do and
largely upon how the people of the
United States act. If envious and
malignant traitors are permitted to
give aid and comfort to the enemy by
wilfully lying about our achievements
a forlorn hope may be maintained for
some time. If our troops and those
of our allies are not abundantly sup-
plied with food, clothing and war
equipment, the enemy will be encour-
aged to struggle on. But if the trait-
ors are silenced and the Treasury kept
full the beginning of the end will soon
oe aX Lr re a i
‘The very fact'that many young
men in Centre county have not volun-
teered for service in the army but
have waited their call for the nation-
al army is no evidence that they are
lacking in either patriotism or cour-
age. On Wednesday one of the young
men who was summoned for examina-
tion and who lived quite a distance
to come to Bellefonte by automobile
on aceount of the deep snow so he got
out one of the old farm horses and
rode the distance of fourteen miles to
Bellefonte. Since the advent of the
automobile farmer’s sons have gotten
out of practice at riding horseback
and when the young man above re-
ferred to stripped for examination be-
fore the local exemption board he
looked as if he had gone through a
German barage, but smilingly told the
members of the board that any man
who could ride horseback fourteen
miles through a foot of snow to re-
port for examination ought to be fit
for service, and he was passed by the
board.
— Thomas Beaver has been shorn
of his glory of being first lieutenant
of Troop C, Pennsylvania reserve mil-
itia under an order issued Monday
by Adjutant General Frank D. Beary
to Capt. Edgar McKinney, of Tyrone,
to proceed at once to complete the or-
ganization of the troop by enlisting
all its members at Tyrone. In conse-
quence thereof Capt. McKinney has
recommended the appointment of
John Elliott Trego as first lieutenant
and Charles T. Snyder as second lieu-
tenant. Under the new order Belle-
fonte will not contribute any mem-
bers to the cavalry troop.
—There are some sections of Cen-
tre county where some of the resi-
dents have so far persistently refused
to turn their clocks ahead the one
hour, according to the recent act of
Congress. Others in the same com-
munity have turned on their clocks
and the result is rather confusing. In
fact, it is stated that the preacher in
a certain locality has set his preach-
ing hour just midway between the old
and new time so that he can catch his
parishioners coming and going.
——1If you have given all you can
after having determined to cut out
every possible needless expenditure,
you have fulfilled your obligations to
the country, but not otherwise.
——If Roosevelt would pay some
attention to public opinion he might
discover that unjustly knocking the
President is a poor way of getting
public favor. :
——Anyway Lenine and Trotsky
gained nothing by their perfidy aad
there is some reason to hope that they
have lost a good deal.
A
——They are all good enough, but
doubts is damned.”
the “Watchman” is always the best.
i
The war may continue for three
from the railroad, found it impossible.
NO. 15.
' New Rules for Wheat Conservation.
comm
Patriotic conservation of wheat
requires that we limit our family con-
sumption to one-third that used in
normal times and in no case to ex-
ceed a total wheat diet of six pounds
per month per person including flour,
macaroni and wheat products of every
kind, nature and in every form what-
ever, including flour used for thick-
ening gravies, binder in quick bread
and other culinary purposes; this to
continue until the next wheat harvest,
or further notice.
To permit wheat conservation in
this degree, it is necessary to employ
in the family diet, an equal quantity
of the official cereal substitutes or,
with every pound of wheat product
used in any form a pound of corn
meal, corn flour, buckwheat flour, bar-
ley flour, oatmeal, oat flour, rice or
rice flour, feterita flour, and meals,
potato flour, rolled oats, corn starch,
hominy, soy bean flour, corn grits,
sweet potato flour, tapioca flour.
These. cereals should be mixed with
wheat flour in home bread making as
nearly as possible in the proportion
of one pound of cereal substitute to
two pounds of wheat flour, and in no
case should more wheat be used than
in the proportion of one pound of ce-
real substitute to three pounds of
wheat flour. The balance of cereal
substitutes should be used without
wheat flour in the preparation of eorn
bread and muffins, buckwheat cakes,
breakfast cereals, ete.
In the application of these regula-
tions to families dependent upon bak-
ers’ bread and doing no home bread
making, it should be understood that
the baker’s “Victory” loaf contains
only 25 per cent. substitutes. Patri-
otic observance of the conservation
rules requires a limit in the use of
“Victory” bread to 13 pounds per per-
son per week. Where this amecunt of
bread is used, only one-half pound of
flour per week per person may be used
for all additional purposes of cooking
and pastry, as macaroni, crackers,
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals ‘and
every other form combined.
The foregoing rules apply to fami-
ly practice only and do not affect in
any way the regulations for wheat
consumption in public eating places,
clubs, etc.
Public eating places, clubs, ete., will
continue to observe two wheatless
days per week as heretofore, Mondays
and Wednesdays, on which no wheat
product will be served in any form
whatever, except in “Victory breads
| or other “Victory” products.” Né pub--
lic eating place, club or similar estab-
lishment will serve more than two
ounces per service of breadstuffs, of
any kind, including bread, rolls, pas-
try, cake, crackers, macaroni, and any
and every form of food containing
wheat. No public eating place, club
or similar establishment will place on
tables or offer foods containing wheat
in any form unless especially order-
ed. No public eating place, club, or
similar establishment may buy wheat
flour, wheat products or wheat food
in any form, in total combination, in
excess of six pounds per month per
person entertained, figuring on the
basis of three meals served per day
per person.
Retail grocers and other retail deal-
ers in flour, including flour millers
who retail, shall not sell or deliver
wheat flour to individual consumers,
residing in towns or cities, in quanti-
ties in excess of 24% pounds, nor to
any individual consumer in rural or
farm communities in quanties in ex-
cess of 49 pounds. In no case shall
he knowingly sell or deliver to any
individual consumer an amount of
flour which will make the purchaser’s
total supply greater than is reasona-
bly required for his household or es-
tablishment during the next thirty
days, on the basis of six pounds per
month per person. This rule is not
intended to authorize at any time
sales in an amount in excess of that
above prescribed. ;
The dealer (including the miller)
shall not sell or deliver wheat flour to
any individual consumer thereof, un-
less the buyer purchases at the same
time one pound of wheat flour substi-
tutes for every pound of wheat
flour purchased, or in case of whole
wheat or graham flour containing at
least 95 per cent. of the entire wheat,
six-tenths of a pound of wheat flour
substitutes for every pound of such
whole wheat or graham flour pur-
chased.
Bakers may not purchase wheat
flour in excess of seventy per cent. of
the average consumpion during four
months preceding March 1, 1918.
Manufacturers using edible wheat
flour or other wheat products for non-
food purposes will cease such use en-
tirely. :
To furnish our allies with the
amount of wheat required to main-
tain their war bread from now until
the next harvest, is a military neces-
sity which can only be met by a rigid
observance by all American people of
the foregoing rules as an irreducible
minimum of wheat conservation.
Those among our population who are
well-to-do, and thosé engaged in the
lighter occupations, as well as those
in agricultural districts, when cereals
other than wheat are abundant and
where housewives are more skilled in
their preparation, can make greater
sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than are here provided for.
Many thousands of patriotic families
throughout the land are using no
wheat products whatever except the
very small amount required for cook-
ing purposes and are doing SO In per-
fect health and satisfaction.
WwW. F. REYNOLDS, .
Federal Food Administrator
of Centre County.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—John G. Thompson, aged 72, poor di-
rector of Westmoreland county, died last
Thursday at Mt. Pleasant. .
—Last Saturday twelve members of the
| Johnstown police force rounded out am
even decade of continuous service—the first
time in the history of the city that any
policeman has attained to ten years’ serv-
ice without interruption.
—DeWitt Spencer, of Williamsport, re-
ceived an injury recently while nailing
the floor in a chicken house. He struck
a nail, the hammer hitting the edge and it
flew up, the end going into the ball of the
eye. It was not known whether or not
the sight would be lost.
—The Cresson Board of Health officials
have ordered the closing of the first six
grades of the public schools for a period
of two weeks owing to a number of con-
tagious diseases in that community. This
is the second time this term the Board of
Health has closed the schools.
—By order of the federal food admin-
istration the flour supply of the James-
town Supply company, Jamestown, Mer-
cer county, has been confiscated and the
company forbidden to deal in flour fer
sixty days. It was alleged that the rules
of the administration were violated.
—The first arrest of an illegal trout fish-
erman under the new fish code has been
reported at the Department of Fisheries.
The man was arrested in Elk county for
fishing two weeks ahead of season and
having forty trout, or fifteen more than
the new legal limit in his possession.
—E. B. Dysart, a Tyrone lad, seventeen
years old, cannot go to war, but he is do-
ing. his share at home by buying ‘war sav-
ing stamps and Liberty bonds. The chap
has already purchased $175 worth of
stamps, owns two Liberty bonds and ex-
pects to purchase two more of the late is-
sue.
—The fire that swept over 8,000 acres of
forest lands along the old Coudersport
pike last week proved very destructive.
The fire spread over 5,000 acres in Clinton
county and 3,000 acres in Lycoming coun-
ty. The roar of the flames could be heard
for a quarter of a mile and came with such
a rush at times that the fire fighters had
to flee for safety.
—Four girls employed by the govern-
ment as clerks at the aviation and ord-
nance depot construction developments
near Middletown were injured and four
others bruised when the automobile in
which they were riding from home to their
work struck a pole and was overturned.
They will recover. One of those injured
was secretary to Major William B. Gray,
officer in charge of construction.
—~—Because he failed to report to the city
authorities that a case of smallpox exist-
ed in his home, H. Shiffen, of Morrellville,
near Johnstown, was sentenced to pay a
fine of $25 and costs or serve thirty days
in jail. He paid the fine. City physician
L. W. Jones, testified against the defend-
ant. It was brought out that the defend-
ant’s daughter and a boarder at the Shif-
fen home had the disease in February.
—Frank Krise, aged thirty-six years, of
Roaring Branch, Lycoming county, fell
from a hay loft at the home of his moth-
er on Saturday afternoon and died with-
out regaining consciousness. XKrise had
just returned from Florida. He left the
house about 9:30 o'clock to go to the barn
to look for eggs and when he did not re-
turn a search was made for him, result-
ing in the finding of his body by his aged
‘mother about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.”
—Approval has been given by the Pub-+ |
lic Service Commission to the mergers and
lease of various companies of the Pure Oil
system. Some of the Pennsylvania and
New Jersey properties are transferred to
the Ohio company. The formal transfers
to the Pennsylvania Railroad of the Corn-
wall and Lebanon and Susquehanna,
Bloomsburg and Berwick Railroads were
approved and the Hog Island branch of
the Pennsylvania in Philadelphia approv-
ed for two years.
—The State Livestock Sanitary Board
has placed an embargo against importa-
tion of dogs and cats from the State of
Wisconsin. This action was taken on in-
formation received from the Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture, that serious
outbreaks of rabies, or hydrophobia, had
occurred in twenty counties. Rabid dogs
running at large through the southeastern
part of that State have bitten and caused
the destruction of a number of valuable
farm animals.
—Under the act of July 11th, 1917, it is
incumbent on the register and recorder of
every county in the State to carefully in-
vestigate and report on the death of each
individual in the county from infancy to
old age, to the Auditor General, so that
the direct inheritance tax may be collect-
ed in all cases. This work makes necessa-
ry an additional clerk in the office of the:
register and recorder, to be known as an
investigator of deaths, who will also be
assistant deputy register and recorder.
—After terrorizing passengers on a Chi-
cago-Pittsburgh express on the'P. BB. R.,
for several hours on Monday, and forcing
two of the crew to jump for their lives,
Karmino Carcio, a Mexican, 60 years old,
barricaded himself in the baggage car and
was shot and killed by George Martsolf,
a railway detective, when the latter went
to arrest him when the train reached Pitts-
burgh. The Mexican, thought to have
been crazed, went through the sleeping
cars and with a long knife slashed the
berth curtains and threatened the people.
—The Watsontown Door and Sash com-
pany has just booked a contract for twelve
thousand sash, through a New Yerk con-
tractor. The sash are for the U. 8S. Navy
Department, to be used in the construc-
tion of a big storage building. The sash
will contain six lights each, requiring sev-
enty-two panes of glass, the glazing being
no small part of the job. The contract
will tax the capacity of the sash depart-
ment of the plant for several weeks, but
the hustling managers are confident of
completing the work in good order and on
time.
—The State opened two of its large
camps for the reforestation of large areas
of land in central Pennsylvania on Mon-
day and by the time the tree planting
season ends Forestry Commissioner Rob-
ert 8S. Conklin hopes to have 9,000,000
young trees in the ground. It will be the
most extensive tree planting operation
ever conducted in Pennsylvania. Seven
million trees will be planted by the State,
while two million will be planted by coal,
water and other corporations on their
open lands or by organizations interested
jn reforestry. The State has grown the
trees in its own nursery. The two camps
opened are in Union county, one of which
will plant two million trees. Later on
camps will be opened in Lycoming, Potter
and Tioga counties. The coal companiés
which will reforest have programs cover
.ing years.