and’ first ‘work in France, is’
in such delightful si feit
itd
“BY P. GRAY MEEK
- .—Chautauqua is on. Are you at-
_ tending the interesting sessions regu-
larly?
* . —Pray oftener for the boys. They
“are up on the front lines and God
“knows they need and have merited
your prayers.
. —The government is calling for
‘buglers for the army. There seems
* to be a dearth of them, but not of the
kind who blow their own horns.
. —Blight seriously threatens the po-
“fota crop in Centre county. Many of
the plants are withered and brown
“with only half formed potatoes at
- their roots.
© Don't lose sight of the fact that
. the Hon. John Noll is going to fight
to get back to the Legislature with
* exactly the same grit that he fought
for the Union from ’61 to '64.
—The present one may be Germa-
‘ny’s “peace offensive,” but up to this
time all that it has resulted in has
been an opportunity for the Allies to
get a piece of the German army.
—The sons of America’s greatest
men are laying down their lives that
the world may be made safe for De-
mocracy. Former President Roose-
velt’s youngest son was shot down
and killed while flying behind the
German lines on Sunday. No one has
heard of any of the Kaiser’s sons get-
ting near enough to the front to be in
danger.
—A gentleman who said he knew
what he was talking about told a
“Watchman” writer a few days ago,
that John Noll was sure of three
thousand Republican votes for As-
semblyman from Centre county. If
that’s the way our friends, the oppo-
sition, feel about it now why not make
it unanimous by the time election day
rolls ’round.
—If there be any shortage of boats
in which to send the German prison-
ers we are capturing over there back
to the States, where they might be
brought to save the trouble of ship-
ping food over to them, we would sug-
gest that we might absorb enough
German kultur to make us believe
that it would be all right to force them
to start to swim across.
he “Watchman” is singularly for-
being able to publish else-
this issue a series of letters
1 known physician sol-
Because of his
written
ty and cov-
ers so much detail that we know all
of our readers will be greatly inter-
ested.
—The cables that have been coming
from France within the past few days
must thrill the hearts of the parents
who have sons over there. What val-
or, what noble determination to win
they have shown! Surely the world
has never seen such joyful martyrdom
in a righteous cause as has been re-
vealed in every assault they have met
or made. It must be a wonderful
thing to be the parents of such sol-
diers, to realize that in the acid test
of supreme trial all of the uncertain-
ties of his childhood and youth are
dissolved and the clear, clean MAN
is revealed.
—There have been quite a few re-
sponses to our brief appeal of last
week for remittances on account that
will aggregate enough to pay for a
car load of paper that has just arriv-
ed. We were desperately serious
when we made that appeal and we are
just as serious now in repeating it. If
you are in arrears even for a month
in your account with the “Watchman”
won’t you please send your check or
postoffice order for $1.50. Positively,
we will have to have the money to
meet this and other bills and the prof-
it on the paper has been reduced by
the high cost of all materials to the
point where we can ill afford to spend
three cents on postage to write a per-
sonal appeal to each subscriber. Do
it now. It means little to you, but a
lot to us.
—Congress is approaching the levy
of the proposed eight billion dollar
revenue measure with a purpose that
seems to us will make it the fairest
tax raising law that has ever been
imposed on our people. The present
intention apparently is to make it a
direct tax, a level levy on every tax-
payer according to his means and that
would be as it should be. While it is
all right to say that the rich should
pay most of the taxes it is all wrong
to permit some classes to escape en-
tirely as has been the case under pre-
vious war measures. Many classes of
labor, for instance, with their wages
increased four hundred per cent. and
their living cost increased not more
than one hundred per cent., have not
contributed in any way to the support
of the government, yet in many ways
they have profited out of all propor-
tion to others because of the demand
for their services. A direct tax will
exact something from everybody and
especially, if it affects labor, it will
produce the salutary effect of im-
pressing on the minds of such per-
sons the seriousness of war and the
duty of citizenship. The thing that
the average man gets for nothing he
rarely values highly and that might
be one of the reasons that labor is so
prone to strike while the government
is in a fight for its very existence.
INK SLINGS.
notoriety |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 19, 1918.
NO. 28.
Germany’s New Drive.
That the
western front has been resumed with
great earnestness and vigor appears
to be certain. On Sunday operations
on a front of sixty-five miles long was
begun, the main objective being the
American troops on the Marne. Lit-
tle progress was made, however.
Some troops got across but no sub-
stantial gains resulted and the enter-
prise was most expensive. The fight-
ing has been continuous since but the
net result to the Kaiser is disappoint-
ment and dimunition of force. Not
only have a vast number of men been
killed but on the first day the Ameri-
can troops, in a well-directed counter
attack, captured a considerable num-
ber of prisoners.
Of course the failure of this effort
will not end the war for the Kaiser | Democratic candidate for Governor so |
and his associate butchers realize that
nothing will save their status and
death in one way is quite as satisfac-
tory as in another.
safely predicted that this failure will
end the efforts to reach Paris or the
Channel ports by force. Since the
21st of March, when the movement
with that purpose in view began, more
than a million lives have been sacri-
ficed, and though there are not as
many miles between the German army
and those objectives as there were,
the achievement is just as far off. In
other words at the Marne the Kaiser
is no nearer Paris than at Soissons.
The part performed by the Ameri-
can troops in this encounter is justly
a’ subject of pride to all Americans.
They were as ready for action as the
German veterans and as efficient as
any soldiers could be. Mention of
their service by Chancellor Bonar
Law in the British Parliament was
greeted by cheers and the French
commander conveyed his appreciation
of their prowess in a congratulatory
telegram. These are cheering inci-
dents of a grave tragedy but at the
same time admonitions to activity in
supporting them with men and muni-
tions. America has accomplished
ch already but there is much yet
or in the last analysis it is up
— Congress is entitled to a rest.
It has achieved much during the near-
ly eight months since the present ses-
sion began and a good deal of its
work was valuable. But considerable
time has been wasted in talk and some
in politics: of the sinister variety. If
it will behave after its return in Au-
gust, however, all errors will be over-
looked.
Elect Democrats to Congress.
Voters in Pennsylvania should keep
in mind the great importance of send-
ing genuine friends of President Wil-
son to Congress. The Republican
machine is bending all its energies to
electing Congressmen who will oppose
the President’s war policies. The sin-
ister plans of these machine poli-
ticians is to prolong the war until
‘after the expiration of Woodrow Wil-
son’s term of office. That course will
cost the country hundreds of thous-
ands of lives and hundreds of millions
of treasure. But it would let the ma-
chine managers in for a share in the
loot which they hope will flow from
the adjustment of affairs after the
war. They have been away from the
spoils so long that they are desperate.
Just as certain as fate the election
of a Republican Congress will result
in a reversal of the war policies of the
government and the sacrifice of all
the good that has been accomplished
since the moment war with Germany
was declared. From the beginning
the Republicans in both branches of
Congress have been striving to em-
barrass the President. It is true that
in the end most of them have voted
for such measures as he asked but on-
ly after they have failed to bluff him
into accepting their plans. They are
afraid to vote as they desired because
they know that the vast majority of
the people are in accord with the
President’s views and that adverse
action would be properly construed
and resented.
If their party were in the majority
in either or both Houses of Congress
their tone would be different. They
would then oppose the President in
everything and compel him to yield
to their treasonable demands and
questionable policies. The expense in
life and money is of no importance to
them. The spoils is the object of their
hopes and the measure of their de-
sires. Therefore party lines have no
place in the’ Congressional contests
this year. It is a question of patriot-
ism against partisanship. Those who
favor the speedy and successful end-
ing of the war against autocracy will
vote for candidates who are in’polit-
ical as well as personal sympathy
with the President.
——The Presidential veto saved
Congress from some of its worst blun-
ders and the recess has postponed if
it hasn’t prevented some others.
—— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
German drive on the,
But it may be
| Palmer Has Burned the Bridges.
In ostentatiously entertaining Sen-
, ator Sproul, Republican candidate for
‘Governor of Pennsylvania and con-
'spicuously ignoring Judge Bonniwell,
i Democratic nominee for the office,
during their recent visit in Strouds-
burg, Mitchell Palmer plainly expos-
‘ed his purpose in holding on to the
‘control of the Democratic organiza-
'tion. It was obviously to use the ma-
| chinery of the party to defeat the can-
'didate of the party for an office over
which he hopes to exercise influence.
{An attachment formed in college and
| strengthened by kindred ambitions
|for social distinction and political
powers offers greater opportunities
{than an ordinary party alliance that
| never developed personal admiration.
| Mr. Palmer wanted to select the
that in the event of the election of
| either Mr. Sproul or his own man he
‘might be “the power behind the
throne.” His failure to accomplish
(his purpose at the primary election
ileft him the alternative of helping to
| secure the success of his friend in the
jultimate contest. To this purpose he
‘bent his energies from the moment
{the primary polls closed until the
i meeting, for re-organization, of the
'State Committee nearly a month
later. He had attempted to fool the
public during the primary campaign
by compelling his own hand-picked
| candidate to make a false pretense of
favoring prohibition and then under-
(took to fool the nominee by forcing
upon him a hand-picked campaign
manager.
But he didn’t fool the candidate any
more than he fooled the public and
now he has “burned the bridges be-
hind him” by openly showing his
preference for the candidate of the
opposition. Greater perfidy has never
been revealed in politics in this or any
other State. It will not succeed, how-
ever. The Democrats of Pennsylva-
nia will not approve such palpable
treachery. They are a fair-minded
folk who understand that Judge Bon-
niwell was fairly nominated and justly
entitled to an honest and friendly or-
ganization to manage his campaign.
“| Mr. Palmer admitted the justice of
{this claim on the floor of the commit-
tee and the Democratic voters will not
ratify the outrage then perpetrated.
German General von Ardenne
admits that there may be a million
American soldiers “over there,” but
thinks they are not up to the military
standard. If he goes up against a
contingent of these Yankeess he will
have a rude awakening.
Mr. Wanamaker’s Great Error.
In responding to felicitations upon
his eightieth birthday Mr. John Wan-
amaker, the Philadelphia merchant
prince, perpetrated a faux pas which
is likely to get him disliked. Answer-
ing the very kindly and appropriate
telegram of Secretary of the Navy
Daniels Mr. Wanamaker wrote: “The
unparalleled achievements of the
President, yourself and his adminis-
tration, to speedily win the war, de-
serve the unqualified support of all
the people who have any American
blood in them by birth or adoption ir-
respective of race, face or place.”
That is certainly a fine sentiment and
handsomely expressed but hazardous
in the face of the facts. Moreover it
is not unanimous.
Mr. Wanamaker ought to know that
nine-tenths of all the real American
blood in this country radiates from
the heart to the several extremities
of the body of Theodore Roosevelt
and the Colonel doesn’t share in the
great merchant’s appreciation of the
President, the Secretary of the Navy
or the Cabinet of Woodrow Wilson.
On the contrary the Colonel, who
knows everything, understands that
nothing has been achieved by either
of these agencies toward speedily
winning the war and that the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of the Navy and
the Administration haven’t done a
thing since the beginning of the war
except put the country on a toboggan
slide to “the demnition bowwows.”
Mr. Wanamaker is a great merch-
ant, a generous philanthropist and an
admirable citizen, beyond question.
But he doesn’t know much about war
or government or he wouldn’t have
permitted himself to make such a
“slip of the pen” as is expressed in
his amiable reply to Secretary Dan-
iels’. congratulatory message. No-
body has a right to attribute any
great merit to any man who is not
able to dwell in the twilight of Colo-
nel Roosevelt’s affections. President
Wilson forfeited this privilege when
he put the everlasting “mark of de-
cay” upon Roosevelt’s absurd ambi-
tion to organize a dynasty in this
country. But Mr. Wanamaker will,
we hope, live down his error:
——1It is rumored that von Hinden-
burg is dead but some rumors are too
good to be true.
——The surest way to help Russia
would be to strangle Lenine and
Trotzky.
Send Democrats to Congress.
National committee is constantly
striving to change the political com-
plexion of Congress. He pretends
that he is engaged in a patriotic work
and that the achievement of his pur-
pose will promote the success and has-
ten the end of the world war. But
;analysis of the facts refutes his
‘claim. Some Republican Congress-
men are in the habit of supporting
the war measures and where the fu-
tility of opposing them is obvious
| nearly all of them vote for adminis-
tration measures. It is plain, how-
ever, to every close observer, that
they are acting so, not from patriot-
.ic motives but in order to support the
'false claim of Chairman Hays. It is
, camouflage.
With a Republican majority in the
| House of Representatives in Washing-
{ton the war policy of the administra-
tion would be reversed even though
the operation cost millions of lives
and prolonged the war for years.
This fact is shown clearly by the at-
titude of the leaders of the Republi-
can party. The spokesman of the
party in unofficial life is Theodore
Roosevelt. The mouthpiece of the or-
ganization in Congress is Boies Pen-
rose. Both avail themselves of every
opportunity to revile the President
and create distrust of his war poli-
cies. With a majority in Congress
behind them they would muzzle the
President and convert the war office
into a political machine to promote
their sordid ambitions.
There is no obligation upon the
electorate of the country as binding,
this year, as the duty of supporting
the President in his splendid efforts
to suceessfully conduct the war to a
speedy conclusion. The only certain
way to accomplish this is to elect
Democrats to Congress. They will be
bound to the President by bonds of
political sympathy and ties of party
pride. At any other time and under
any other circumstances an effort of
the opposition to win the party suc-
cess might be justified: But no pur-
pose other than that of winning the
war is tolerable now, and the way to
win the war is to support the Presi-
dent in Congress and out. Vote for
Democratic candidates for Congress.
——German troops on the western
front are in a bad way. If they move
forward at once they are certain of a
licking and if they remain where they
are the forces of the allies are being
so augmented that they will get a
worse licking later. “Between the
devil and the deep sea.”
| No Pheasant Hunting in Centre Coun-
ty This Year.
Centre county will not be the dump-
ing ground for pheasant hunters this
year. The State Game Commission,
at a meeting in Harrisburg last Wed-
nesday, declared every county in the
State with the exception of Philadel-
phia and Delaware (where there are
no pheasants) closed to the hunting
of ruffled grouse, commonly called
pheasant, effective at once.
The “Watchman” has persistently
taken the stand that it was unfair for
hunters who had secured the closing
of their home counties, going into
other counties to kill the game, not-
withstanding the fact that they were
entirely within their rights in doing
so. - But they did it, just the same,
and the result is that the past two
seasons pheasants have been so scarce
in the Centre county mountains that
there was no sport in hunting them.
Just what the result of closing the
season for one year will be cannot
now be told, but this year has been a
good season for hatching and rearing
of young birds and unless we have
another long, hard winter ahead of
us, it ought to result in making pheas-
ants more plentiful next season.
Of course, the increase in the num-
ber of pheasants will depend to a
great extent on how the hunters obey
the law. If every man religiously re-
frains from shooting the birds, the
closing of the season will probably
bring about the desired result, but if
a few hunters kill the birds regardless
of the law, taking their chance on be-
ing caught at it, the ruling of the
State Game Commission might just
as well not have been made.
To win the war while a Demo-
cratic President is in office will break
Senator Lodge’s heart but we hope
operations will not be checked on that
account.
——*“Qutwitting the Hun” the thril-
ling war experience of Pat O’Brien,
begins in this issue of the “Watch-
man.” Don’t fail to read it. :
——The action of Congress on the
price of wheat shows scant respect
for the patriotism of the farmers.
—The boys on the other side are
certainly doing their duty over there.
Are we doing ours here?
—Anyway we haven’t heard “Is it
hot enough for you?” very often this
season.
Chairman Hays of the Republican |
|
GERMANS MADE ANOTHER
DRIVE ON WEST FRONT.
Checked Within Ten Hours by Amer-
ican and French Army. Ameri-
cans Fought True to Tra-
dition.
The new German drive—the fifth
phase of the enemy’s west front of-
fensive—was checked within a few
hours.
Starting at daybreak Monday, the
Germans’ advance was stopped at
mid-day. From then on the allies ap-
parently assumed the initiative on
most parts of the fifty-mile front,
pushing the enemy back by counter-
attacks.
Completely halted in their initial
rush, the German command called off
its infantry in the evening, and the at-
tacks had not been renewed up to 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. .- A compos-
ite report on Monday's fighting shows
the following: :
INITIAL RESULTS IN GREAT DRIVE.
The Americans holding the allied
left wing threw the Germans back
aeross the Marne, after the enmey had
advanced about three miles south of
the river. Between 1,000 and 1,500
Germans were captured, including an
entire brigade staff.
Farther to the left, a minor Ger-
man attack was met by the Ameri-
cans, west of the Chateau-Thierry,
and completely repulsed.
. Another secondary enemy opera-
tion, still farther to the left, in the
Ourcq river region, was stopped by
French artillery fire.
On the allied right wing, another
American force (probably to the
north-eastward of Hurlus) broke up
wave after wave of German infantry
and failed to lose an inch of territory.
Along the Marne to the right of
the Americans, between Passy-Sur-
Marne and Mareuil-le-Port, a front of
about eight miles, the Germans evi-
dently progressed as far as St. Aig-
nan and La Chapelle-Monthodon, four
miles south of the river, and still
maintain a large portion of their
gains.
Between the Marne and Rheims,
the enemy advanced an average depth
of three miles, from Chatillon-sur-
Marne north-eastward to Bligny, pen-
etrating the villages of Belval and
Pourcy.
East of the Rheims, the Germans
progressed on two sectors. ‘Between
Prunay, seven miles southeast of
Rheims, and the Suippe river, sixteen
miles east of Rheims, they advanced
to Prosnes, a penetration of four
miles. Further eastward, the Ger-
mans advanced to Souian and Perth-.
§5/l0s-Furiuss, a penetration of two
miles. ,
AMERICANS FOUGHT BRILLIANTLY.
The German attack began at 3 a.
m. Initial attempts of the enemy to
bridge the river were frustrated by
Aweriean artillery and machine gun
re.
As the boche fire was concentrated
on the American positions in the bend
of the river, from three sides, our men
gradually fell back in perfect order
and the Germans succeeded in throw-
ing six pontoons across.
Following the cleverest dictates of
strategy, the American retirement
continued until our men reached the
base of the salient created by the bend
in the river. There they halted at 10
o'clock and resisted all efforts of the
boche to dislodge them.
Coolly, despite the harrassing fire,
the officers began preparing for a
counter-attack. Shortly after noon it
began. Slowly and methodically as
though executing some training ma-
neuver, the Americans pressed for-
ward. Their advance was irresisti-
ble. They drove the Germans back
more than two kilometers, (a mile
and a quarter), before there was any
slackening of the attack. When it
did halt, it was voluntary.
The counter-attack was resumed
after a brief pause. This time the
American assault was conducted with
an almost unbelievable ferocity. The
boches were caught up in the cyclon-
ic rush and great numbers of them
were hurled bodily into the river.
Co-operation of the American ar-
tillerymen and machine gunners was
perfect.
in the rear, dropped shells on the en-
emy’s pontoons with the greatest ac-
curacy. When the boches reached the |,
river bank they were compelled to
plunge in and many of them were
drowned. Others were caught in the
rain of shells and machine gun bul-
lets and the stream was soon thickly
dotted with shattered bodies.
Numerous stories are told of indi-
vidual bravery of the Americans. One
artillery outfit maintained such a con-
stant rapid fire that it ran short of
ammunition. Volunteers were called
for to go three miles over a road,
every inch of which was swept by
shell fire. Every man volunteered.
The necessary number was picked.
They drove their horses, dragging the
bumping caissons, at a gallop through
shell bursts. Several horses were kill-
ed. Returning, more horses were
killed.
The number of horses were so re-
duced that the men were forced to
substitute themselves. They would
leap off, cut loose the mangled bodies
of the faithful animals, then grasp
the traces and run along beside the
remaining horses. When this strange
cavalcade—half man, half animal—
arrived at the battery, the men serv-
ing the guns paused long enough iu
their deadly work to cheer their hero-
ic comrades. :
S————————————————————
— They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
{ Springs,
! money in his home at night.
{ night thieves ransacked his residence and
| got away with $600 in stamps and govern-
The gunners, firing from far
[SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—When workmen arrived at the Mam-
; moth coke plant at Mt. Pleasant, Sunday
! morning,
| sticking out of a coke oven. The body had
: been burned.
they found the legs of a man
—John L. Gibbs, postmaster at York
kept his stamps and postoffice
Thursday
ment money.
—Fire of undetermined origin on Satur-
day destroyed the breaker of the Harleigh,
Brookwood Coal company, at Harleigh,
Luzerne county, which was operated by
Madeira & Hill. The loss is estimated at
$200,000 and 200 men have been temporarily
thrown out of work. The average daily
production was 400 tons. Arrangements
are being made to continue mining and
sending the fuel to nearby collieries.
—Through his counsel, C. W. Miller
Esq., 8S. Constine, of Watsontown, last
week brought an action in assumpsit
against the Direct Supply company claim-
ing $1,535 with interest. The claim is
brought for services rendered at the Wat-
sontown ostrich farm as laborer and care-
taker of the ostriches and the use of cat-
tle, farming implements, grain, and for
freight on the same from Binghamton, N.
Y., to the farm.
—While her husband is at war, Mrs.
Richard Jones, of Nanticoke, will fill his
place as bank teller in the First National
bank of Nanticoke. Mr. Jones enlisted for
special service under the selective draft
and left on Monday for State College. His
wife, who was patriotic enough to waive
.exemption claims, has gone to work to fill
the vacancy in the banking institution
caused by her husband’s call. Mrs. Jones
is a graduate of Bloomsburg Normal
school.
—Charles MecColm, aged eighteen years,
of Belleville, had a leg crushed when his
motorcycle collided with aan auto in Kish-
acoquillas valley on Sunday afternoon.
He was taken to the Lewistown hospital,
where the injured member was amputated.
The accident was witnessed by Alph Baum,
of Bellefonte, who happened along just as
it occurred. The young man was riding
on the majn road and ran into the automo-
bile just as it came out of a side road onto
the main highway.
—Miss Anna McGill, eighteen years old,
of McVeytown, encountered a large black
bear Sunday night as she drove the dairy
herd from the pasture. The cattle ‘were
pasturing in an old field along the moun-
tains and ¢s a young heifer passed thrugh
some thick underbrush, Bruin made a
spring from her, but, forewarned, the heif- ~
er made her getaway and the bear ambled
off into the brush. James McGill, the
father of the girl, took his gun and spent
several hours trying to round up the bear,
without results.
—On the first day that he worked as a
brakeman on the west hump at .the North-
umberland yards late last Thursday after-
noon, W. F. Geiger, aged twenty-eight
years, and married, of Bloomsburg, suffer-
ed both feet crushed in an odd accident.
He was rushed to the Mary M. Packer
hospital at Danville, where both feet may
hive to be amputated. Mr. Geiger was a
brakeman, and took two cars down the
track. He could not hold them, and when
they met other cars, the impact caused
the load on a gondola which he was riding,
to shift, and caught his feet between the
end of the car and a heavy box.
—QGreensburg is without a postmaster.
Postmaster John M. Zimmerman resigned
several weeks ago, his resignation taking
effect June 30, fifteen days before his term
expired. Justice of the Peace J. Q. Trux-
al was appointed acting postmaster and he
now announces that he does not want the
job. John Painter, for several years as-
sistant postmaster, is in charge. The
Greensburg office has a very heavy vol-
ume of work and lately was given the ex-
tra duty of auditing the accounts of 101
small offices. It was at first believed that
there would be a big scramble for the
place, but the heavy duties make the job
unattractive.
—Exhausted or seized with cramps as he
was swimming across the Juniata river at
Tuscarora Sunday afternoon, Thomas
Laird, aged twenty-one years, went down
and was drowned. His body was not re-
covered until 8:30 by the members of a
party with whom he was camping. Young
Laird had started out to swim across the
river and back on a wager and was on the
return trip when he sank. He was a son
of H. 8S. Laird, formerly P. R. R. super-
visor at Lewistown. His mother is dead.
He was a student at the University of
Pennsylvania and was spending the sum-
mer vacation with his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. B. Weber, of Lewistown.
—County Food Administrator Grier
Hersh, of York, on Friday compelled Max
E. Kunkel, proprietor of a flour mill to
return to his customers excess profits re-
alized on the sale of bran and middlings.
Kunkel had been charging $2.00 per hun-
dred for bran and $2.10 per hundred for
middlings. The government prices are
$1.50 and $1.75. The price of bran and
middlings is made on the basis of the gov-
ernment’s set price for wheat which is
$2.10 per bushel. The mills of that vicinity
have been selling middlings at $1.80 at the
mill and $1.90 a hundred when they deliv-
ered for their own make. They sold west-
ern middlings at $2.50 at the mill, and $2.60
delivered. Sit
—The heroism of Miss Pearl S. Kipel,
twenty-eight years of age, signal opera-
tor in a Pennsylvania railroad tower, near
Herminie, Westmoreland county, who ran
several hundred yards with her clothes
ablaze, for help, became known on Friday.
Alone in the tower at an early hour Thurs-
day morning the oil lamp over her key
dropped. Instantly the splashing oil set
fire to the girl’s clothes and to the build-
ing. She tried in vain to put out the blaze
and then ran to the first farm house,
where her burns were dressed. The signal
tower was burned to the ground with a
loss of $1,725 and the interlocking switeh-
ing system was thrown out of commission
temporarily.
— The 1918 maple sugar crop in Penn-
sylvania is estimated at 993,000 pounds
and the syrup at 440,000 gallons. The
weather in the maple tree sections was fa-
vorable for a good flow of sap, the cold
nights, alternating with warmer days.
The flow furnished a very good quality of
sap. It is estimated that there were
1,220,000 trees tapped in the State during
the season and that the average as sugar
was 3.7 pounds to the tree and as syrup
46 gallons. This is a much better flow
than a year ago and an increase in pro-
duction as nearly 100,000 more trees were
tapped than a year ago. Last year the es-
timated yield of sugar was 988,000 pounds
and syrup 370,800 gallons from 1,130,000
trees.