BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
Everybody buy
—Buy bonds.
bonds.
—Don’t stop buying bonds, the Hun
isn’t licked yet.
—If Germany wants peace Bulgaria
has pointed the only road to it.
The registration in the cities
was light this year and curiously
enough the Republican machine is
worried about it.
Politics is adjourned but that
is no reason why the Kaiser should be
encouraged by electing Republicans
to important offices.
—You Bellefonters who haven’t
subscribed yet, do it today. The
house to house canvass is on and you
are a slacker if you hide.
—The Huns are still killing and
wounding our boys on the other side.
They are still sending ships to the
bottom. Peace is only talk.
—Today the general canvass in
Bellefonte will be completed and we
predict that Bellefonte will be with
Snow Shoe, Clarence and Orviston—
away “over the top.”
—The new moon is away to the
south and inasmuch as we haven't
had much of the dry weather during
which all signs are supposed to fail
we naturally look for warm fall
weather.
—Of course we are all buying
bonds, but while doing that it is not
out of place to keep in mind that our
District will elect a new Congress-
man next month and the man should
be Tobias.
Possibly it is true that the Kai-
ser still looks “every inch a Prussian
King.” But it is equally certain that
a Prussian King usually acts like a
vicious beast and Bill is “running
true to form.”
—The “Watchman” doesn’t presume
to set itself up in judgment as to
whether you actually can buy a bond
or not, but if you can and don’, it
doesn’t care who you are, you are an
unpatriotic citizen.
——Senator Sproul is not talking
politics as much as he was but he is
not neglecting opportunities to pro-
mote his political ambitions. Under
the pretense of supporting the Liber-
ty loan he is canvassing the State for
votes.
—With all the movies, and all the
clubs and all the pool rooms and all
the bars closed in Bellefonte the dad-
dies of the town are going through
the throes of dispair while their kid-
dies are transported with delight be-
cause the schools are also under the
ban.
-....Vicksburg and Gettysburg were
the two defeats that settled the fate
of the Confederacy, but history re-
cords that there were nearly two
years of terrible warfare afterwards.
Don’t let the German peace propa-
ganda fool you into slacking up in
your loans to the government. .
—The influenza put an end to the
oratorical drive that was being made
to sell bonds in Centre county, but
don’t let it be said that influenza kept
old Centre from going “over the top.”
Influenza is an ally of the Kaiser and
we want to show it that we can beat
the Kaiser and all of kis allies.
—We want no peace on this side of
the Rhine and when we get there we
ought to change our minds and de-
clare we will have no peace until Ger-
man soil has suffered some of the des-
olation that the iron fist and the iron
heel of Germany have caused in Bel-
gium, France, Serbia and Roumania.
—Don’t let Berlin fool you into
thinking that the war will soon be
over and that the money to be raised
by the fourth loan may not be need-
ed. The Huns are only talking peace
now to fool us into letting up in pro-
viding our boys with ammunition
with which to bring them to their
knees.
—The Potter-Hoy Hardware com-
pany is one hundred per cent. patriot-
ic. A poster in the window of that
concern carries the subscription of
every employee of the firm for bonds
of the fourth loan. And we know
that a lot of the employees there are
not earning the high wages that oth-
ers are drawing in other lines of em-
ployment who have not bought a bond
of any issue.
—Twenty years ago the late Pres-
ident Harrison said: “If the word
goes forth that the people of the
United States are standing solidly be-
hind the President the task will be
easy” but if opposition Congressmen
are elected “Spain will see in it a
fresh hope.” McKinley was Presi-
dent then and he had a Republican
Congress. Wilson is President now
and President Harrison’s words are
quoted to show that he should have a
Democratic Congress. Vote for To-
bias and show the Hun that you are
standing solidly back of the Presi-.
dent.
—Just twenty years ago our coun-
try was at war with Spain. At that
time THeodore Roosevelt was a candi-
date for Governor of New York. In
one of his speeches he said: “Re-
member that, whether you will or not,
your vote this year will be viewed by
the nations of Europe from one stand-
point only. A refusal to sustain the
President this year will, in their eyes,
be read as a refusal to sustain the
war.” If that was good argument
twenty years ago why is it not now
more irresistibly so. Vote for Tobias
Tor Congress and sustain the Presi-
ent.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 63.
1918.
Sproul Not the President’s Friend.
Nothing could be more preposterous
than the statement that voting for
Senator Sproul for Governor of Penn-
sylvania is either morally or mater-
ially supporting the President. Sen-
ator Sproul has never supported the
President in anything. In 1912 he
voted for Taft and in 1916 he voted
for Hughes for President. In both
campaigns he contributed liberally of
his ample means to the corruption
fund of the Republican machine to be
used legally or otherwise to defeat
the election of Woodrow Wilson.
Since the beginning of the war he has
cordially supported every movement
started by Penrose or anybody else to
embarrass the President, thus plain-
‘ly encouraging the enemies of the
country.
In view of these facts how could
voting for Sproul for Governor give
moral or material aid to the war poli-
cies of President Wilson? It must be
admitted that the war policies of
President Wilson express the highest
type of wisdom and patriotism. The
achievements of the administration
are the admiration of the entire civ-
ilized world. Statesmen in all parts
of Europe, friendly to the purposes
of the war, stand amazed at the vast
work accomplished within two years.
Yet Senator Sproul has always stood
ready to nag and confuse the Presi-
dent and impair his plans for the
prosecution of the war while his
sponsor, Senator Penrose, has been
and still is the most puerile of the
President’s unfriendly critics.
Would any intelligent man look to
his bitterest enemy for help in his
most crucial emergency? Is he not
more likely to appeal to those who
think as he does and are in full sym-
pathy with all his plans and purpos-
es? In this State Judge Bonniwell,
the Democratic nominee for Gover-
nor attached himself to Woodrow
Wilson in 1911 and has been his faith-
ful personal and political friend ever
since. In the primary campaign of
1912 he supported Woodrow Wilson
for the nomination and at the Balti-
more convention was among his most
steadfast workers. In 1916 he was
equally zealous and efficient in his
support of the President. All Judge
Bonniwell's friends, personal and po-
litical, are equally earnest and zeal-
ous supporters of President Wilson.
How then could supporting the
President’s enemy and opposing his
friend be conducive to the advantage
of the President? It couldn’t be. As
a matter of fact the only purpose of
Sproul’s candidacy for Governor, out-
side of his personal ambition, is to
hamper President Wilson in his pros-
ecution of the war. Penrose and
Smoot and a few other scurvy poli-
ticians and patronage brokers want
Senator Sproul elected because it
could then be said in Germany and
elsewhere that the people of the Unit-
ed States are not in sympathy with
the President’s policies as is shown
by the defeat of his party at the
polls. This is the sum and substance
of the Sproul candidacy.
Insufficient Evidence.
Colonel Roosevelt says that the war
ought to have been ended within
three months from the date that the
United States entered the conflict.
Of course the Colonel means that if
he had been elected President in 1912
the country would have been prepar-
ed to muster an army of two or three
million men by midsummer of 1917
and with the navy augmented in the
same ratio the Huns would have been
overwhelmed within a brief period
after the declaration of war. But he
has offered no evidence on the sub-
ject. He has produced no proof to
substantiate his statement and proof
is needed.
Colonel Roosevelt was President of
the United States for seven years and
a half and during that time he took
no steps toward preparing the coum-
try for any cataclysm that might oc-
cur. As a matter of fact during the
time he was President the army was
reduced in numbers several thousand
and the naval policy of building two
battleships a year was changed to
one a year. It is true that there was
no apparent reason then for main-
taining a big army and navy for there
were no signs on the horizen of an
impending world war. But - there
were no such signs in 1912 or later
until the European war came like a
clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
Colonel Roosevelt has made some
great sacrifices since the beginning
of the war and the whole country is
inclined to extend sympathy to him in
the loss of his boy who lies buried in
France. But he has no right to make
such statements as that we have
quoted because they, purposely or
otherwise, create discontent on our
side and give encouragement on the
other side of the firing line. Such ut-
terances would be tolerated from no
other man in the country and it
ought not to be necessary to admon-
ish him against them. The achieve-
ments of our government are amaz-
ing and belittling them is unpatriotic.
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
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legislation by insisting on a guarantee
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 11,
Unconditional Surrender or Fight.
While Chancellor Maximillian is
offering a false reason for a peace
conference the German Kaiser is
“spilling the beans” by declaring that ,
he will only consent to “an honorable |
peace.” And in his mind the only!
honorable peace that is possible is one |
that will prolong his career as a dis- !
turber of the peace. An honorable |
peace as interpreted by him would re- '
store conditions as they existed be-
fore the war until he had so augmen-
‘ted his strength as to make it possi-
ble to tear up the scrap of paper up-
on which it was based and renew the
war under more favorable auspices :
for him. He wants a peace which |
will make future atrocities safer and
more certain. i
Former President Taft has the
right idea of the sort of peace the
people of this country demand. It
must be on the same terms “as those
which were meted out to Bulgaria.”
That “rotten borough” surrendered
unconditionally. . After the surrender .
the King and Cabinet were told what
they had to do and they did it. King :
Ferdinand, a butcher almost as fierce
as the German Kaiser, was compelled '
to give up his crown and go into ex-
ile. That is precisely what the Ger- |
man Kaiser must do and besides that
he must take his chance of just pun-!
ishment for the crimes he committed :
through his brutal agents on land and
sea. That may not seem honorable to
him but it is what he will get.
The peace proposition was proba-
bly expected to serve three purposes. |
It was thought that it would impair
the sale of Liberty bonds in this coun- |
try, give the German high command |
a chance to recruit its depleted army
and afford the Kaiser an opportunity
to cultivate the alienated friendship
of the German people. But it will
not accomplish either purpose for the
reason that it will not deceive Presi-
dent Wilson or any one else upon
whom the responsibility of action de-
volves. It will be taken at its face
value and the allies on the firing line
will go on driving back the Huns to
their own soil until they offer the
terms of peace that can be accepted.
——Centre county Republicans just
now are between the devil and the
deep sea. They originally booked
their party menagerie of State can- !
didates for an exhibit in Bellefonte on !
Thursday, October 3rd, but were in-
duced to call off the visit on the
grounds that it might conflict with the
Liberty loan drive and do more harm
than good. Now they have staged an
exhibition for next Wednesday even-
ing, October 16th, but the Spanish
flu quarantine is on and gatherings of
any sort are prohibited. But Sproul
wants to come and Beidleman wants
to come and the local managers are
all at sea as to what to do about it.
Curious Market and Crop Gossip.
In market gossip and crop reports
that come from Chicago there are
some curious surprises. For example
it is stated that considerable wheat
surplusses may be expected next year
in Argentine, India and Australia
which, with the bumper crops in this
country, will cause a vast cut in
prices. But as Congress has guaran-
teed a price of two dollars and twen-
ty cents a bushel in this country
American farmers are not likely to
suffer, however severe the drain may
be upon the treasury of the United
States. In any event there will be no
competitive markets for however low
the price may go in Argentine, Aus-
tralia and India the surplus in this
country will come to that level.
This fact recalls the recent discus-
sion of wheat prices for future deliv-
ery in the United States Senate.
President Wilson and those about him
who enjoyed a fair measure of intel-
ligence protested that a guarantee of
two dollar wheat would afford ample
guarantee of prosperity to American
farmers. But a few demagogues held
out for months and almost imperiled
of two dollar and a half wheat. Fi-
nally a compromise was effected at
two dollars and twenty cents and if
the war should end before the har-
vest of 1919 the government will
stand to lose hundreds of millions of
dollars on wheat alone.
Of course this incident is ascriba- |
ble to various causes. Some of those
who demanded the higher prices had
no other reason than a desire to em-
barrass the President. Others may
have hoped to give encouragement to
the Kaiser and still others were influ-
enced by the demagogic idea of
catching the farmer vote. But what-
ever the purpose it was a mischievous
movement. The farmers who were
asked to increase their acreage were
entitled to a guarantee against loss
but there never was even the shadow |
of a reason for fixing a guarantee
price above two dollars while setting
it at two dollars and a half was ab-
surd if not dishonest. But such
things are to be expected from Gores
and Chamberlains.
——Buy a bond and bust ‘the
“bund.”
The Question of Peace.
How President Wilson will answer
the plea of Prince Maximillian for a
peace conference may be inferred
from his prompt reply to the similar
proposition of Austria. In curt terms
he declared that unconditional surren-
der of Germany presents “the only
condition to be considered. In that
he expressed the sentiment of the
people of the United States and in
the exact language which the aver-
age citizen would speak. Germany
forced the war on the world as a bus-
ness enterprise. It was expected that
it would yield to Germany vast prof-
its in territory and indemnities.
These expectations have been disap-
pointed and now the Kaiser desires
. to make the best of his bad bargain.
When peace comes it must be en-
during. Any terms to which the Ger-
man Emperor would agree would sim-
ply afford him time to recuperate for
another attempt at conquest. There-
fore he must be eliminated from the
conference that settles the terms of
peace. Germany is entitled to the
right of existence but not to an op-
portunity to deluge the world in
another war. The ruling dynasty in
that empire must abdicate and that in-
volves not only the Hohenzollern fam-
ily but the military autocracy which
is behind the ruling family. Hinden-
burg, Ludendorf and all men of their
type must go with Wilhelm into ob-
security if they are not actually
brought to answer for their crimes in
the criminal courts. :
President Wilson is by common
consent the spokesman of civilization
in the settlement of terms of peace.
The new German Chancellor recogniz-
es this fact in his appeal to President
Wilson and the world accepts the sit-
uation as in the nature of things. It
may be assumed, on this account, that
President Wilson’s answer to Prince
Maximillian’s appeal will be final and
that the war will continue until un-
conditional surrender is offered from
Pottsdam. This may be delayed for
another year and meantime the man
power and money to keep our armies
at the front must be provided. It
will be a heavy burden on the people
but it willbe worth the price it costs.
wi Wo Joi
' ==——Congressman Ben Focht, of
Lewisburg, says that his opponent,
Senator Leiby, ought to enlist. And
that is precisely what Leiby has done.
He has undertaken to capture the
seat in Congress of one of the most
pestiferous enemies of the President
and unless the signs are deceptive he
will succeed in his purpose.
Last Word on Woman’s Suffrage.
When President Wilson in his ad-
dress to the Senate on Monday of last
week asked support for Woman’s
suffrage legislation “as a war meas-
ure,” he uttered the last word on the
subject. Even if the matter had no
relation to the war the Senators in
Congress were under moral obliga-
tion to support it for the reason that
the platforms of both parties’ pledg-
ed them to that action. But when the
Commander-in-Chief of the army and
navy states in positive language that
“the concurrence of the Senate in the
constitutional amendment proposing
the extension of the suffrage to wom-
en is vitally essential to the success-
ful prosecution of the great war of
humanity in which we are engaged,”
affirmation should have been the only
answer.
What President Wilson says of the
helpful part the women of the world
have taken in the great struggle for
democracy against autocracy is lit-
erally true. They have been at the
forefront of every movement for en-
listing and equipping the soldiers and
sailors and for providing the neces-
saries and comforts of the soldiers
and sailors enlisted. They have been
admitted to every hazzard, to every
form of labor and to every sacrifice
which war entails and they have ful-
filled every expectation. But they
are still denied the only certificate of
citizenship that means anything. The
only recompense for full service that
is adequate is still withheld for some
unexplained reason.
The Senators in Congress for Penn-
sylvania, Boies Penrose and Philan-
der C. Knox, are among those who
refused to fitly reward the women of
America for their splendid services in
the war. They both participated. in
the Republican National convention
of 1916 in which the party was pledg-
ed to the principle. But they hold
out because they imagine party ad-
vantage will be secured by such reac-
tion. They expect to gain votes for
the Penrose candidate for Governor,
Senator Sproul, by repudiating a mor-
al obligation which they helped to
create or acquiesced in. Will the
women of Pennsylvania aid them in
their purpose?
Their influence can defeat the Pen-
rose plans by electing Judge Bonni-
well Governor.
— Next to buying Liberty bonds
there is nothing of more present im-
portance than urging voters to sup-
port the President by electing Demo-
crats to Congress.
GROUNDHOGS DO LAY UP FOOD.
At Least This Groundhog Has a
Great Liking for Rambo Apples.
From time immemorial it has been
the general belief that groundhogs
sleep all winter; that they.do mot lay
in a supply of food but go to sleep
with the first fall of snow and sleep
until groundhog day, February 2nd,
but the “Watchman” has finally re-
ceived what it considers indisputable
proof from a man who, if his word is
questioned, still has the material facts
to sustain his assertion that ground-
hogs, or at least one groundhog, do
lay up a supply of food. And the
man we refer to is none other than
Elmer C. Straub, who farms the old
Alexander farm above the Sunnyside
limekilns, and who is known among
his friends as “Waxey.” And here is
the tale:
Last week Mr. Straub put in sev-
eral days gathering in his winter ap-
ples. His apple house is located
against his ice house, the cellar of
the apple house, of course, being
about six feet below the foundation
of the ice house. By Thursday even-
ing Mr. Straub had stored away quite
a number of apples, including the
Northern Spy, two other winter vari-
eties and one barrel heaped full of
choice rambos. But when he went
to his apple house on Friday morning
the first thing that “Waxey” noticed
was that about a bushel of his ram-
bos were missing. He looked around
to find some trace of the thief or
thieves but could discover nothing,
and being of a rather philosophical
nature he blamed the loss on himself
for not locking the apple house.
Friday evening he securely nailed
every window and every little hole in
the house and then locked the door.
When he went out Saturday morning
nothing was disturbed but when he
went into the apple house he discov-
ered that about three pecks more of
his rambo apples were missing. Now
“Waxey” is not at all superstitious,
but this mysterious disappearance of
his choice apples kind of got his
nerves for a minute or two. Then he
proceeded to investigate. At one side
of the apple house, down near the bot-
tom of the wall he found a hole
further examination revealed = the
footprints of a groundhog in the loose
dust in the cellar. Then he recalled
the fact that a groundhog had a bur-
row under the ice house and had evi-
dently dug through the wall into his
apple cellar. In pursuing his exam-
ination still further “Waxey” found
where the little animal had been on
the different bins and sampled the
Northern Spy and other winter grades
but in each case he spit out the ap-
ple until he reached the barrel of
rambos, which were just to his liking
and in the two nights he had carried
away a bushel and three pecks of
them.
The more “Waxey” thought of the
matter on Saturday the more curious
he became to know what that con-
founded groundhog did with his ap-
ples. Along in the afternoon he got
a stick and prodded in the ground-
hog’s burrow but failed to feel.any-
thing like rambo apples. Then he
went into the apple house, looked in
every corner and under the stationary
bins, but still no rambos. While
standing meditating on the affair he
happened to glance upward and saw
something on the top of the wall that
looked peculiar. Climbing on the top
of the bins he discovered his rambos
piled very neatly on the top of the
wall, between the wall and the roof.
A peculiar thing in connection with
the apples was that they were piled
as neatly in rows three deep as they
could have been piled by the human
hand, and each apple bore two teeth
marks. And from all appearances
every one of the bushel and three
pecks of apples were there.
But the mystery to “Waxey” is
how the groundhog got them there.
He not only had to get the apples out
of the barrel but had to crawl up on
the bins and from the bins to the top
of the wall is easily two feet and a
half. But the apples were there and
from the tooth marks put there by
the groundhog. And notwithstand-
ing the fact that they constitute the
biggest share of Mr. Straub’s choice
rambo apples he is going to leave
them there just to see what happens.
He plugged the hole up leading into
the apple cellar and will keep it plug-
ged until he removes his apples to the
winter bins in his house cellar when
he will open the hole and leave mat-
ters up to the groundhog.
— According to an announcement
from the State Forestry Department
this week just 22,827 acres of wood-
land in Centre county were damaged
by forest fires last spring, while the
total in the State was 202,338 acres.
The cost for extinguishing the fires
was $26,000, while the estimated dam-
age to timber has been placed at
$360,000 and total damage of almost
a million dollars. Most of the fires
were the result of carelessness.
——Put your ad. in the “Watch-
man.” :
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Lest coveted war material fall inte
the hands of the Germans, rubber heels
are ripped from all old shoes sent by the
Hazleton Red Cross to the Belgians.
—Frederick W. Cranston, of Reading,
last week appointed a clerk in the Audit-
or General's Department, at Harrusburg,
fell dead at the Fourth street entrance to
Capitol Park Tuesday when he was on his
way to assume his new duties.
—A Holstein cow, on the Willow Spring
farm, near Marietta, scared by a cat, ram
into the barn, fell down a hay hole and
broke her neck. The supposition is that
the cow was lying down, when the cat
tried to get milk from the cow’s udder.
—Simon Miller, of Klinesville, last sum-
mer discovered a twin head of cabbage im
his garden. One head he labeled “Germa-
ny” and the other “United States.” The
German head burst, and Miller thinks this
is an ill omen and means that Germany
will fall to pieces and lose the war.
—Friday, October 18th, was officially
designated by Governor Brumbaugh as
“walnut tree planting day” in a proclama-
tion issued on Tuesday. The Governor
urges school children, boy and girl scouts,
sportsmen, farmers and “other well dis-
posed citizens” to plant on that date.
—W. H. Kelly, of Lambs Creek, is a re-
sourceful farmer. He could not find a corn
exactly to his liking, so he crossed a 22-
row Dent with an S8-row Flint, and pro-
duced a 14-row Kelly, that has yielded
200 bushels to the acre. The cobs are a
foot long loaded with jumbo kernels.
—All the tobacco in Clinton county this
year has been cut and placed on laths im
the sheds to cure, and the growers will
have no further reason to be uneasy on ac-
count of damage by hail or frost. The to-
bacco is of excellent quality and the crop
one of the largest ever grown in the coun-
y.
—Rev. James McK. Reilly, pastor of the
Methodist church at York; the Rev. I. C.
Shue, pastor of the Methodist church at
Saxton, and the Rev. Gordon Arch Wil-
liams, pastor of the Methodist church at
Osceola Mills, have gone to Camp Taylor,
Ky., to enter the army chaplains’ training
schools.
—Every man and woman employed by
the Standard steel works at Burnham,
4850 in number, has subscribed for bonds
to a total of $350,000, and an honor flag
was hoisted on Tuesday over the main of-
fice. The county’s quota, $1,200,000, will
be reached this week, a total of $934,300
being subscribed at the close of Tuesday’s
reports.
—Whether employees in casket works
are essential workers was a question put
up to the draft board at Hazleton last
Saturday by the Hazleton coffin works,
which wants William S. Schmauch given
deferred classification. It is claimed that
Schmauch could not be replaced without
giving his substitute a year or. twe of
training.
—When Janitor Klingensmith started
the furnace in the Bank and Trust office
building at Greensburg recently a huge
South American boa constrictor crawled
from the ash box. A fruit dealer in the
next building had received a big consign-
ment of bananas and it is supposed the
snake, which was 6 feet 8 inches long, was
concealed in the fruit.
—Charles H. Lay, treasurer of the Na-
tional Transit company at Oil City, has
No nd ie Prades
ha y § “predecessors, Mr.
Lay was graduated from Cornell Univer-
sity in 1874, and three years later became
an employee of an oil pipe line. He be-
came assistant treasurer of the Transit
company in 1898, and treasurer in 1908.
—Helen Elizabeth Grove, then three
years old in May, 1911, was placed in a
home at Huntingdon, from which she was
adopted early the next summer by a fam-
ily living near Bellefonte. The mother,
now Mrs. J. B. Clemens, R. D. No. 2, Lew-
istown, has been searching for her daugh-
ter for the past five years, but without re-
sults and would appreciate any informa-
tion.
' —When it seemed the lewer end of Cum-
berland county would fall behind in the
collection of peach stones for gas masks,
Rev. C. D. Rishel, pastor of the Church of
God, shed his coat and led the drive. The
result was the sending of eleven bushels
of the stones to the warehouse of the Har-
risburg Chapter of the Red Cross. The
pastor had the assistance of the school
children and teachers of the Enola schools.
—William Lansdale, aged 45 years, a
well known miner employed at Shaft No.
2, near DuBois, was foully murdered Sat-
urday night, September 28th, at 11:30
o’clock, while endeavoring to escape from
two highwaymen. Lansdale started to
run and was shot twice by one of the rob-
bers, a bullet entéfing his stomach and
causing his death. “A’companion who was
with Lansdale, Mike McAlonis, was robbed
of fifty cents in cash and an empty pock-
etbook, after being ‘struck down -uncon-
scious. The highwaymen made good their
escape.
—Mrs. Fred Fish, of Lewistown, has
taken out license for herself and husband
to hunt this season, and says she expects
to enjoy a couple weeks’ camping in the
open for big and little game. Mrs. Fish
has gained quite a reputation as a breed-
er of tame hares, and has one in her bur-
row that weighs eighteen pounds. In tak-
ing out her license. she said the cotton-
tail would have the advantage. of her, as
her sympathies went with the little ani-
mals with which she was brought in com-
stant contact.
—Limestone as a substitute for coal has
been proven to be a success by a Lancas-
ter county farmer, Christian H. Habecker,
of Rohrerstown. During last winter he
kept his house at above a normal temper- :
ature on a mixture of two-thirds coal and
one-third limestone. At times he used
half limestone and the results were just
as good. The stone is crushed into nut
size and mixed with the coal, ap the latter
is placed in the furnace. By mixing in
the bin there is danger of explosion from
gas. The method is especially commend-
ed to farmers, because the lime released
from the stone proves an excellent fertil-
izer.
— Increases that range from $30 to $60
a month are to be the reward of anthra-
cite miners, according to announcements
made at Wilkes-Barre, Tuesday, by offi-
cials of thelr organization. It is report-
ed that Dr. Garfield and Secretary of La-
bor Wilson will approve a direct raise of
$1.40 per day in the wages of company
miners and $2 a day in the wages of con-
tract miners. Pump runners and twelve-
hour men are to be Bsted at $5 a day. Of-
ficial announcement of the wage increase
is withheld, but is certain to be given di-
rectly, the miners’ chief declare. They in-
dicate the increase will be the greatest
ever accorded the hard coal workers.