Beuoriftcan
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—_Centre county hasn’t had a slack-
er yet. Don’t let the record be spoil-
ed next Thursday.
—The much talked of Hindenburg
line seems to be only a geographical
demarkation, after all.
—It may be said that President
Wilson didn’t detract anything from
the significance of Labor day.
—_Unadulterated wheat flour bread
is in sight again and candor compels
us to admit that we welcome the
sight.
—The Water street improvement
will have to hurry along or the frost
will get the concrete base for the
paving.
—If Germany could only see the
vast army that will step up to regis-
ter next Thursday her declining mor-
ale would collapse entirely.
—Yes, the Hon. John Noll is still
in the race for the Legislature. He
is going fine now and has a lot more
speed in reserve for the finish.
—Some few have sown, others are
sowing, but most of the wheat in Cen-
tre county will be put in the ground
next week, weather permitting.
—Talking about corporal punish-
ment for the Kaiser and his fellow
friends would it be proper to put them
each in a cage and sink them, one at
a time, on the very spot that the Lu-
sitania went down.
—There were 1160 gallons of gas-
oline less sold in Bellefonte last Sun-
day than on the preceding Sunday.
Think of it, and then imagine what a
proportionate saving all over the
country must have meant.
—Next Thursday will be registra-
tion day in Centre county. The polls
will be open from seven in the morn-
ing until nine at night so that there
will be plenty of time for all within
the stated ages to register. Let us
have a hundred per cent. registration.
—Sunday was about the loveliest
day Bellefonte has known since Hen-
ry Ford, et al, started gas wagons
rattling over our thoroughfares. The
town had an old fashioned Sunday
look and the relief from honks,
fumes, rattle and dust was such as to
make it really a day of rest. Dr.
Garfield may have started out to save
gasoline but if he keeps it up the dis-
covery will be made that he has saved
a lot of nerves and contributed to the
moral welfare of every community,
as well.
—The willing and general compli-
ance with the request for a gasless
: Sunday is the best evidence in the
_world that
a real democracy ‘is the
ideal form of government. It was
only a request, yetit brought the re-
sult desired far more cheerfully than
if it had been the command of an au-
tocratic ruler. In this country the
people are not asked to do things un-
less they are for the public welfare
and, knowing that such is the case,
they do them without compulsion and
without resentment.
__If what Mitch Palmer says about
Bonniwell is true then what he says
about Sproul is also true. According
to his statement in Harrisburg Wed-
nesday both nominees for Governor
are bound, hand and foot, to Penrose
and the liquor interests. If Palmer
is telling the truth, which we doubt,
then it behooves the drys in both par-
ties to select a candidate with person-
ality and character strong enough to
represent them in the gubernatorial
race this fall. For the question as to
where Pennsylvania stands ought to
be settled.
— The state chairman of the Pro-
hibition party, Rev. dePrue, spoke in
a church in Bellefonte Sunday morn-
ing and by way of criticizing the gov-
ernment went the colored minister,
who addressed an audience in the
same edifice some time ago, one bet-
ter. He said, “If 1 were President
we would have national prohibition
before the sun sets tomorrow. I
would get a good Secretary of State
and I think we would have a better
government than we have today.”
What asses some men make of them-
selves when the opportunity is af-
forded. The church is a very proper
place to discuss the liquor traffic be-
cause it is a moral and not a politic-
al issue, but in or out of the church a
man who stands up and declares that
he could give our country better gov-
ernment than Woodrow Wilson is giv-
ing it today brands himself such a
oollossal egotist that he is only to be
laughed at.
—The very sensational charge
which A. Mitchell Palmer made
against candidate Bonniwell, on Wed-
nesday, on the occasion of the meet-
ing of the Democratic state central
committee, at Harrisburg, will prob-
ably amount to little more than a
scramble to prove some one a liar.
To our minds the whole crew of them
are tarred with the same stick and as
justification for such a conclusion we
need but point to the Allentown con-
vention at which Mr. Bonniwell made
practically the same accusations
against Webster D. Grimm that Pal-
mer now makes against Bonniwell.
Bonniwell then organized the Key-
stone party and with William H. Ber-
ry as its candidate, succeeded in mak-
ing the election of John Tener sure.
Now Mr. Bonniwell’s chickens are
coming home to roost. He started
Palmer and McCormick in their fight
to disrupt the Democratic party in
Pennsylvania and if they now employ
their talents on disrupting him it is
unfortunate, but we can’t say unde-
served.
STATE RIGHTS
AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 6, 1918.
NO. 85.
The Blow that Killed Father.
Marshal Foch, General Pershing |
and Marshal Haig have been handing
the Kaiser some pretty hard knocks |
within the period of five or six weeks
since the counter drive was begun but
“the blow that killed father” was ad-
ministered in Washington last Satur-
day when President Wilson wrote his
approval of the man power bill. That
is the death warrant of Kaiserism
and all other forms of autocracy. It
is the mandate of the whole American
people to drive the Hun hordes out of
France and Belgium and corral them
on their own soil where they may be
punished as they deserve. It was an
official order to muster the full force
of American manhood and hurl it
against the barbarism of the German
beast.
General ‘March has stated that with
four million American troops in line
the German defences can be broken
at any place and time. This measure
of legislation will make available a
force of thirteen million men from
which it will be possible to put more
than the four million on the firing
line in time for the summer campaign
next year. With such an army inspir-
ed by the purpose for which patriotic
men offer their lives the movement to
Berlin will be rapid. and certain.
Hindenburg and Ludendorf will be
alike impotent to check the progress
to final victory and the beastly mili-
tarism which the Kaiser has so care-
fully fostered for forty years will be
forced out of existence never to re-
turn.
But this great result was not easy
of achievement. The Republican ma-
chine at Washington resisted its
progress to completion with as much
zeal as the Kaiser invested in the
hope for its defeat. Senator Penrose,
who is now trying to select a Gover-
nor of his own type for the people of
Pennsylvania, fought it into the last:
ditch and next to the final vote was
the defeat of his amendment intend-
ed to delay the consummation. We
are now on the right road and will |
continue our progress to victory un- |
less checked by an adverse result of |
the elections next fall. The election
of a Penrose Governor in Pennsylva-
nia this year might set us back but
nothing else can. ;
— There will be four million
fighters in the uniform of the United
States army on the firing line in Eu-
rope before the Fourth of July next
year and everybody knows what that
number of men of that type can do in
a few months. i
Mr. Carnegie’s Financial Troubles.
Our heart bleeds freely, not to say |
copiously, for poor Andrew Carnegie. |
We learn from a writer in the Wall |
Street Journal that he had to appeal |
to one of his “old boys” for money to |
pay his taxes recently. Mr. Carne-
gie’s “old boys” are a bunch of fel-
lows he made rich, such as Charlie
Schwab and others of about the same
financial standing, and it may have
been a hardship for one of them to
accommodate him with a few hundred
thousand dollars, presumably neces-
sary to “get him by” the tax office.
Then “boys” are not always appreci-
ative of past favors and some of them
may be ungrateful, so that it is easy
to see that the cautious and canny
Scotch Laird is to be pitied.
But after all it may be felicitation
rather than commiseration that is
coming to friend Andy. Some years :
ago he spoke rather disparagingly of
wealth and intimated in somewhat se-
vere language that he had his own
opinion of a man who dies rich. The
writer in the esteemed Wall Street
Journal modifies the terms used by
Andy in expressing his dislike for
over-rich corpses. The popular un-
derstanding is that he said that “the
man who dies rich dies disgraced,”
whereas he only said “the day is not
far distant when the man who dies
leaving behind him millions of avail-
able wealth which were free for
him to administer during life, will
pass away ‘unwept, unhonored and
unsung.’ ”
That is a good deal more poetic and
though it might be tortured into the
statement first quoted, is much more
like the cautious Carnegie. But the
fact that he was a trifle short of
funds when his taxes were due is not
to be taken as proof that he is in
want. It is a safe bet that he could
have gone to any of the big banks in
New York on the very day he called
on “one of his boys,” and put up
enough collateral to draw sufficient
funds to pay his own taxes and those
of some of his richest friends. In
any event we shall try to reconcile
ourself to his financial suffering and
hope that “the boy” who obliged him
will have no trouble in getting it
back.
— Recent events are not adding
to confidence in the wisdom of one
von Tirpitz either in Germany or
elsewhere.
—War savings stamps cost a cent |
more now than they did in August |
but they are still worth the price
asked.
Sentences Not Too Severe.
The sentence of some of the I. W.
W. leaders to twenty years’ impris-
onment and others to lesser terms
was anything but severe. These men
have been guilty of the gravest
crimes and the evidence shows that
| every offense was deliberate and ma-
licious. One result of their criminal
operation was prolonging the war and
the sacrifice of lives. The death of
thousands of our war heroes will be
" ascribable to them. The property
loss of their activities was great but
let that go. The buildings and
bridges they destroyed can be repro-
duced. But the lives they were in-
strumental in taking cannot be restor-
ed. The loss incident to prolonging
the war cannot even be estimated.
The purpose of the organization | for his accusation against Judge Bon- |
Mr. Palmer Makes Grave Charges.
| The Democratic State committee, |
. assembled in Harrisburg on Wednes-
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The Baffled Bernhardi.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A particularly delightful flavor is
given to the news of the victorious
advance of the British under General
adopting a platform, at the instance | Byng by the statement that the Ger-
‘and for the purposes of A. Mitchell | man army corps he is so continuous-
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i ty and destroy its candidate for Gov-
‘ernor. Mr. Palmer read before the
! committee an account of the conspira-
‘cy in which Judge Bonniwell and cer-
"tain Republican politicians are accus-
‘ed of being involved, and declaring
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attempted to crucify the par- | ly defeating, is commanded by Gen-
eral Bernhardi, author of the well-
known books, setting forth the sinis-
ter philosophy and barbarous militar-
ism of Pan-German ambitions. Bern-
hardi is being beaten at his own war
game by a better method.
Bernhardi advocated, and, no doubt,
his repudittion of the candidate asked | personally applied the most ruthless
‘the committee to formally follow his methods of warfare. The certainty
! example.
i ly made up of postmasters and reve-
' nue officials, it was restrained only by
| the absurdity of the proposition.
| The authority given by Mr. Palmer
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As the committee is large- | of wholesale slaughter of his own men
in mass attacks would not weigh with
him more than the massacre of a neu-
tral population, when seeking any ob-
jective necessary for establishing
German mastery. Human beings,
hether they served, or opposed Ger-
was to destroy property and life in niwell was a wholesale liquor dealer man military autocracy, or stood neu-
the interest of Germany. Even if no
success had been achieved in the ne-
farious enterprise it was treasonable
and treason is punishable by death.
But considerable success was achiev-
ed. Many honest and industrious men
were killed by their sabotage and
many others will be killed by contin-
uing the war beyond the period it
might have been stopped. Therefore
the leaders of the organization are
murderers and the penalty of murder
is death. For these reasons the lead-
ers who have been sentenced to twen-
ty years in durance ought to have
been sentenced to death and the oth- |
ers to the longer periods.
One of the results of the war is the
awakening of the public conscience to
a proper estimate of the turpitude of |
these emissaries of evil. In that a
public good has been promoted. Be-
fore we were actually engaged in war
miscreants of the I. W. W. type were
looked upon as evils to be regretted
but amenable to no law. From this
time on they will be invoiced at their
true value and condemned as rabid
dogs and venomous reptiles are con-
demned in the public mind. Some of
those sentenced by Judge Landis to
long terms may live to get out of pris-
on but they will not survive the exe-
cration they deserve and in future
their crimes.
Most of the opposition to the
proposed new revenue law comes
from the wealthy. Some of that sort
can’t approve the philosophy of levy-
ing taxes on those who can afford to
pay rather than on those who can’t
get away from the collector.
Agreement on One Point.
Upon one important point all in-
formation coming from the seat of
war is in complete agreement.
Whether from Flanders or France
news dispatches indicate a declining
morale on the part of the enemy. The
spirit of earlier attacks are absent
now and the enthusiasm which made
the German forces almost irresistible
a couple of years ago has gone. The
Huns fight when they can’t avoid it
and they destroy because it is their
nature. But they hold back when
possible to do so and surrender when
the opportunity presents itself. It is
not the same army that drove over
Belgium four years ago or that
emerged from the trenches under the
command of Ludendorf less than six
months ago.
The news telegraphed from Lon-
don or Paris or the firing lines is not
the only evidence of this change in
the spirit of the German army avail-
able. The information which géts
out of Berlin and Moscow corrobor-
ates the impressions created by the
news from friendly sources. The tone
of the German press is changing rap-
idly and the swagger of the officers
is no longer in evidence. Germany
feels that she is licked and the Ger-
man army knows that it is licked. It
will fight on, of course, for every
man has been trained to military du-
ty and that requires obedience to or-
ders even though death is certain to
follow. But the fighting until the
German line is reached will be un-
willing.
If the German authorities had as
much military intelligence as they
have military skill they would have
known that the moment the United
States got into the war they were
doomed. The United States never
go into war for fun and they never
permit themselves to be defeated.
They are in this war because it was
a necessary step to preserve the
ideals which are the life of the Amer-
ican people. The atrocities in Bel-
gium and the murders on the high
seas were provoking but the menace
to civilization, the danger to civil and
religious liberty throughout the world
are what brought us into the war and
the hopes of the Huns have been wan-
ing ever since the declaration of war.
——Germany is losing faith in its
spy system but the fault is in the
bone-heads it employed to conduct
the system in this country. From
Brensdorff down or up to Boy-Ed they
were a bunch of criminals.
——Probably the Kaiser didn't
know that there was such a person as
Foch in the world.
{ of Philadelphia, named Sinnott. Sen- |
| ator Penrose and one or two others
| were mentioned as participants in the
| conspiracy and large amounts of mon-
i ey were employed in putting it in op- |
| eration. Why Mr. Sinnott should
‘take Mr. Palmer into his confidence
or for what reason he betrayed hfs
confederates, if his statement is true,
| was not revealed. But he gave Mr.
' Palmer material for weaving a fine
i tale of perfidy to accomplish no pur-
: pose for he confessed that both he and
| Penrose knew that Sproul’s pledge to
! the Prohibitionists was insincere.
The committee did not act upon
{ Mr. Palmer’s advice to repudiate the
| Democratic candidate for Governor
{ but it put upon him an aspersion by
holding the matter over for considera-
[tion and the insult of selecting for
. chairman of the committee to fill the
| vacancy created by the resignation of
{ Mr. McLean, a man known to be most
| offensive to him. Thus Mr. Palmer’s
| purpose to promote the election of his
college chum and personal friend,
Senator William C. Sproul, though a
| Republican of the machine type, to
the office of Governor of Pennsylva-
nia is advanced by easy stages. But
the expectation may be disappointed.
| The voters may not be fooled. Mal-
i ice sometimes o’erleaps itself and re-
| they will be given punishment to fit | venge frequently reacts.
Ul — Without assuming to be in the
confidence of anybody in authority or
professing any occult powers we pre-
dict the end of the war and the elim-
ination of autocracy within a year
and a half from this date.
The Fourth Liberty Loan.
The campaign for the fourth Lib-
erty loan begins September 28 and
closes October 19. While the amount
| has not yet been announced, it is gen-
! erally conceded it will be for a larger
amount than any of the preceding
loans. The American people, there-
fore, are called upon to raise a larger
sum of money in a shorter length of
time than ever before. There is need,
therefore, for prompt action—prompt
and efficient work and prompt and lib-
eral subscriptions.
We have a great inspiration for a
great effort. The news from the bat-
tle front inspires every American
| heart, not only with pride and pa-
triotism but with a great incentive to
do his or her part. There is no shirk-
ing, no shifting of the individual bur-
den, no selfishness by American sol-
diers in France; there should be none
here. We are both supporting the
same country and the same cause—
our army in one way, ourselves in
another. Theirs is the harder part,
but at least we can do our part as
promptly and loyally and efficiently
as they do theirs.
If there is one woman in Cen-
tre county who is doing her part to
help along with the war work it is
Mrs. Charles Zeigler, of Spring town-
ship. The Zeiglers live on the A. C.
Grove farm. Recently the young man
who was working for them was called
for service. Nothing daunted Mrs.
Zeigler mounted the sulkey plow and
did the plowing. Her husband fol-
lowed with the harrow then she rolied
the ground. In addition to her regu-
lar household work she has been feed-
ing seven little pigs with the bottle,
owing to the piggies mother being
sick and not in a condition to furnish
them proper nourishment and when
she had all her chores done up she
came into Bellefonte on Tuesday
evening to see the motion picture of
“Pershing’s Crusaders” at the Scen-
ic. If ever the government decides to
give medals to those persons who have
faithfully performed their duties in
the civil walks of life as well as the
military during the war, Mrs. Zeig-
ler’s name ought to be well up on the
list.
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It may reconcile some to the
high cost of living to learn that the
cost of dying is increasing in about
the same ratio. The undertakers are
awake to their opportunities as well
as others.
And Germany is just now find-
ing out that the toboggan increases
its speed as it goes down the slide.
—The price of wheat for 1919 has
been fixed at $2.20 per bushel.
tral, were to be considered as the
dealer in live stock considers animal-
life—the mere raw material of ruth-
less enterprise. >
It is a doctrine of “blood and iron,”
but it encounters something stronger
and better in the matching of brains
and soul and high resolve against
brute strength. The manner of the
attack against Bernhardi’s corps—
the manner of all the allied offensives
—has been the opposite of the Ger-
man, although equally bold and un-
flinching. By tank attack and flank
attack. By no waste of the lives of
their own men, but a careful count-
ing of the cost, and conserving of
morale, along with constant change
of immediate aim and effort, Generals
Foch and Haig and Byng and the oth-
er French and British commanders,
as well as Pershing and the Ameri-
cans, are putting Bernhardi and his.
class, with all his philosophy and
strategy in a plight of desperate dis-
credit. Positions which the Germans
won in the spring at appalling cost,
by their mass attacks—their doomed
battalions swarming over one anoth-
er as insects swarm, heedless or help-
less of their fate under the tugging
yoke of military rule—the positions
won by them at such costs are taken
from them with small losses to the
allies and further cost to them.
How? Why? By the skillful
choice of time and place for each
blow; by no stubborn persistance in
seeking to take any position at any
cost, but constant effort to Bpare the
man-power; and, most of all, by the
fine and high morale of that man-
power and its intelligent apprecia-
tion of what it is fighting for.
Tanks and Cavalry.
From the St. Louis Republic.
(All the reports of the fighting in
Picardy give credit to the small tanks
and cavalry for effective work in
clearing the way for the infantry and
artillery. The tanks especially have
played an important part in wiping
out the two salients—that resting on
the Marne and extending toward
Amiens and past Montdidier—which
represent the two great Allied victor-
ies of the year. To General Byng
and his ill-fated dash for Cambrai
must be given credit for the form of
attack which has proved so effective
in Picardy, although the tanks had
been used by the British at the
Somme with surprising results. Had
Byng made his effort on a wider
front and with proper “follow-up,”
the campaign of 1917 might have had
a different ending. Whether or not
General Haig is able, with French
and American assistance, to push the
enemy back to the Somme, or even to
the old Hindenburg line, his victory
is a notable one. It shows the Brit-
ish have fully recovered from their
heroic efforts of the spring. It shows
better than anything else, however,
that unified command under a gen-
eral like Foch was all the Allies need-
ed to beat the Germans at their own
game. For while Hindenburg and
Ludendorf launehed their great of-
fensive of March 21 against the point
of contact of the French and Brit-
ish armies, hoping to split them
apart—and very nearly succeeded—
Foch launched his offensive of Au-
gust 9 at precisely the same point,
but with this difference, that in the
meanwhile the two armies had been
so welded that the rough “joint” of
weakness at the point of contact no
longer existed.
Will Spain be Next?
From the Altoona Mirror.
Spain is on the ragged edge with
Germany. It has delivered an ulti-
matum stating that for every ship of
hers sunk by a German submarine,
she will seize a German ship interned
in her ports.
This looks like business. Moreover,
if the Germans play their usual game
of irritating their former friends in-
stead of pacifying them, it will not be
long before Spain joins the lengthen-
ing list of the allies.
Spain has been theroughly soaked
in German propaganda for a long
time. But the difficulty with false
propaganda is that sooner or later it
clashes with known facts. The facts
stand, and the propaganda goes to
smash. The sooner Spain finds out
the truth about Germany, the better.
When once she realizes how she has
been duped, the rest will follow in
short order.
Come on in, Hispania! The water’s
fine. And your exhibits would add so
much to the picturesqueness of that
triumphal procession through the
streets of Berlin.
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” effice.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Infantile paralysis in Franklin county
has taken a more serious turn. Three new
cases and one death were reported on Sun-
day, making the total number in the coun-
ty seventeen and the number of deaths
five.
—Following a fight over how many
bricks should be carried in a hod, Allen
Miller is in a Harrisburg hospital with a
fractured skull and Frank Johnson is in
jail with knife wounds, charged with ag-
gravated assault.
—A Williamsport woman was arrested
last week charged with holding the hand
of her stepson over a flaming gas jet to
punish him for petty thieving from a
dealer who said he knew nothing about it.
It is also charged that she tied her two
stepsons, one of them being the burned
lad, to chairs, for hours at a time while
she went out rialtoing.
—Punxsutawney, which is largely noted
for the annual feast of the Groundhog
Club, which has placed that old Dutch
town in the limelight, is quite eclipsed by
Elmira, where the chuck are sold in the
city market by country hucksters. Eleven
were disposed of Tuesday by one dealer
at 75 cents each. Punxsy says they are a
great delicacy and other places are find-
ing it out.
—Winfield Scott, aged 55 years, of Van-
dergrift, was shot and instantly killed by
Justice of the Peace Edward S. Williaths,
of East Vandergrift, in the Eagle's club,
on Monday night. The shooting is said
to have resulted from bad feeling between
the two men over the sale of a piece of
property. Williams is serving his second
term as justice of the peace of East Van-
dergrift. Scott was married and was the
father of six children. He was a roller in
the steel mill at Vandergrift.
—After obtaining Liberty bonds said to
be worth $5,000, “Sergeant Walter H. Mil-
ler” and “Captain Earl French” are being
held at Uniontown awaiting the action of
the federal authorities. These masque-
raders went through the mining districts
of Fayette county and on pretense that
the Liberty bonds needed the seal of the
United States government, managed to
get hold of many bonds owned by foreign-
ers. “Miller” has turned out to be a man
named Schlatt, a German, and ‘“‘French”
is believed to be a man with a prison rec-
ord.
—She’s ninety-seven years of age, works
every day and is as spry as many young-
er persons. That's Mrs. Martha Wonna-
cott’s record. She is the oldest resident
of Wayne county, but declares she doesn’t
feel a bit older than she did twenty years
ago. Mrs. Wonnacott has complete control
of her faculties despite her advanced age,
and does a number of chores about her
home every morning. She reads the dai-
ly newspapers and during the recent
huckleberry season she picked a number
of quarts. Mrs. Wonnacott was born in
England in 1821.
—It was a native Shippensburger, rais-
ed so infectiously close to the Franklin
county line as to be well entitled to all
that he won of Franklin county’s higher
spirit and ennobling purpose, who gave to
Harrisburg its great romper day, its re-
currence being this last week. Samuel
Kunkle left of his large fortune a bequest
of $7500, the interest of which is used an-
nually to provide a complete luncheon for
Harrisburg’s children. This year provis-
ions were supplied for 3000 children, and
ample arrangements made for all the chil-
dren of the city.
—The Board of Health of Chambers-
burg orders the school board to defer the
opening of the public schools until further
notice. This notice in the Saturday’s edi-
tiom of Chambersburg’s newspapers
brought great relief to the hearts of hun-
dreds of that town’s parents who have
been apprehensive about the opening of
schools September 3, as originally decid-
ed. The presence of infantile paralysis in
that community and nearby towns and ru-
ral places has created alarm and numbers
of parents wrote or phoned the Board of
Health to defer the opening of schools.
—William L. Kimberly, of Mercer, on
Monday afternoon appeared before Judge
James A. McLaughry and entered a plea
of guilty to the murder of his wife at
their country home near Mercer on the
evening of April 19th, when crazed by pre-
tracted intoxication. Testimony was tak-
en to determine the degree of the murder
and Dr. Mitchell, superintendent of War-
ren asylum, testified as to the responsi-
bility of a person in Kimberly's condition
at the time of the murder. The defense
asked that the crime be placed at second
degree and the court announced that he
would give his decision Friday at ten
o’clock.
—The establishment of the motortruck
line between Coatesville, Philadelphia and
New York, in conjunction with the Con-
estoga Traction company, has been so suc-
cessful that it has been found possible te
cut the tariffs. The line was opened to
tap the rich agricultural section through
Lancaster and Chester counties and ena-
ble fresh produce direct from the farms
to be shipped into the large cities. Every
afternoon large quantities of butter, eggs
and vegetables are picked up by the trol-
ley line, transferred at Coatesville to the
waiting trucks, and the journey to New
York is begun. The produce is delivered
in time for use in the morning.
—An automobile contalning Sour men
was struck by an express train at the
Henderson street crossing of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Lock Haven on Satur-
day night. The men were Henry Crider,
82 years old; Charles Crider, aged 18;
Daniel Crider, 65, and Irvin Welsch, a
young man residing at Haneyville. Hen-
ry and Charles Crider are nephews of
Daniel Crider and reside on the Castanea
road near the city line. Daniel and
Charles Crider and Irvin Welsch were bad-
ly hurt. They were taken to the Lock
Haven hospital. Henry Crider was caught
under the fender of the locomotive and
dragged some distance. He was dead
when extricated.
—Albert A. Aal, a Reading merchant,
who died on Sunday, was not only the
first man in the Reading directory for the
nine years he lived there, but won consid-
erable fame through an incident that hap-
pened there when Roosevelt was cam-
paigning against Taft and ‘Wilson for the
Presidency. Roosevelt had finished his
address to a great assemblage in front of
the Mansion House, the crowd reaching as
far as Aal’s store, two doors away. Aal
and others were standing in the crowd,
not far from the balcony from which the
ex-President was speaking. Roosevelt did
not know Aal, but as he closed his speech
and was about to leave the balcony, he
waved his hand toward Aal and shouted
vigorously, “Goodby, alll” The ex-Presi-
dent perhaps never understeod why a
laugh went up after the applause. “That's
me,” said Aal, returning the President’s
salute in his direction.