INK SLINGS.
—Farmers are plowing; at least
those who didn’t get it all done dur-
ing the fall and winter.
—In losing its daily contact with
Dr. Ezra H. Yocum a benediction will
have gone out of the life of Belle-
fonte.
—The buds and vegetation are so
far advanced that a good, hard freeze
would put a erimp in the prospects for
a good fruit crop.
—The lovely spring rain of yester-
day was all that the farmer and ear-
ly gardener could have desired, and
more.
—The reason that spring hasn’t
done any lingering in the lap of win-
ter is probably because poor old win-
ter was too frail to have a lap.
—No, Mabel, all Italians are not
cobblers, though it must be admitted
that a look around Bellefonte busi-
ness places would encourage such an
idea.
—Strange as it may seem the price
of horses and cattle will drop with the
close of the last farm sale in Centre
county. Nobody has been able to ex-
plain it, but it is the fact that purch-
asers will pay from twenty-five to fif-
ty per cent. more for articles at a
public auction than they can be per-
suaded to give for one of equal value
when it is offered privately.
—The adaptability of a man for
certain kinds of work is always meas-
ured by the ease and facility with
which he falls into its long establish-
ed routine. This being so it must be
admitted that the new councilman
from the South ward was born for the
place. Bellefonte would have the fin-
est streets and alleys of any munici-
pality in the country if it would only
be possible to change all of the coun-
cilmen every year.
—The great army of Centre county
boys who went to the front will be
home ere long and we ought to begin
now preparing a reception sufficiently
elaborate to offset any of the great
demonstrations: we had when they
were going away. Certainly we don’t
- want them to think that we were hap-
pier to see them go than we are to
have them back, yet what other con-
clusion can they come to if we don’t
have a far more rousing welcome
than any farewell we gave.
—Isn’t it funny! Always some one
is looking for an ulterior motive in
everything some one else does. Now
they say the temperance folks are
cultivating a taste for dandelien; not
that they need it especially as a
spring stomachic or cholagogue, but
they are going to dig it all up and eat
it so that there will be no plants left
to blossom and furnish the dandelion
wine that appeared as the one ray of
hope on the dry horizon that the old
tanks will look out upon on July 1st.
—It is just such governmental as-
ininity as is displayed in the propos-
ed law to compel everyone who cares
to spend a day, or a part of one, fish-
ing in Pennsylvania streams to take
out a license, that has brought about
the lawless Red army that is now
menacing the entire social fabric of
the world. The quicker Harrisburg
comes to realize that the people are
already chafing under too much petty
legislation and that they are in no
temper to be incited with more the
happier the future will be for all of
us.
—The Legislature of Pennsylvania
should pass th: Bolard bill. Legal
notices should not be published in
foreign language newspapers. In
truth foreign language newspapers
should not be published at all in this
country. They retard the Americani-
zation of the foreigner on our soil and
are an ever present menace to our
customs and institutions. If we cater
to a tongue other than our own how
can we hope to make intelligent citi-
zens out of people who will never
know our language and can only read
of our ideals through the minds of
editors of their own tongue.
—The collapse of the Hungarian
government and the giving over of
that country to Bolshevik exploita-
tion is, to say the least, alarming.
The civilized world seems to be on the
crater of a volcano that only the so-
berest and most unselfish treatment
will keep from eruption. America
wants nothing but peace out of the
seething caldron, but being almost
alone in this we will not be able to se-
cure it unless the attempt to discred-
it the President abroad by a few self-
willed men at home is suppressed.
The sooner Lodge and Reed and a few
others realize that they are playing
with a fire that is likely to consume us
all the quicker peace will be secure
and the world’s unrest composed.
—The fact that there were applica-
tions for nearly $80,000 in farm loans,
when the Federal farm loan bureau
was organized in this county Wednes-
day, is probably explained by the
large number of young men who have
bought and contemplate buying farms
on small cash resources. While there
is plenty of local money to supply
such needs the government’s offers
are slightly more attractive in the in-
terest rate and the indefinite time for
which such loans can be negotiated
may also be an object to borrowers.
We see another salutary condition in
such loans that might not be generally
thought of. The government is an
impersonal creditor and the prompt-
ness with which it will require its in-
terest payments will have a tendency
to keep its debtors jacked up all the
time and stimulate that essential ele-
ment of success in all business—
prompt meeting of obligations.
WERE 3
NY
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 28, 19
NO. 13.
Rare Record of a Congress,
The achievements of the Sixty-fifth
Congress are justly praised in a re-
view published in the monthly “Com-
pendium of the House of Representa-
tives” issued the other day. The
wind-up of the session marked a rath-
er discreditable exhibition of parti-
sanship, but on the whole the Sixty-
fifth Congress achieved much and
probably for all time will stand in the
history of the country as the epoch
maker. How it came to be misled by
Lodge, Knox and Borah at the close
to cast patriotism to the winds and
foster partisanship will probably nev-
er be known. But it may safely be
predicted that time will take an accu-
rate measure of the men responsible
alike for the good and the bad work
of the Congress.
The Sixty-fifth Congress assembled
in special session in April, 1917, and
though the world was then in the tur-
moil of war this country was in the
enjoyment of peace. “In the inter-
im,” the review states, “a war had
been declared, a war had heen won
and a war had been ended. So this
issue carries legislative history of a
character that perhaps never again
will be duplicated.” Let us hope that
is true. Meantime it is worth while
to say that within the two years com-
prising the life of the Congress $57,-
000,000,000 was appropriated; 346
public laws and 48 private laws were
enacted and 48 resolutions were
adopted while a total of 22594 bills
and resolutions were introduced in
both Houses.
There were some curious incidents
in the Sixty-fifth Congress, according
to ‘the Compendium, and many prece-
dents established. For the first time
in the history of the government laws
were signed in a foreign country, the
important revenue bill was signed on
a railroad train, the President ad-
dressed the Senate in favor of a pend-
ing measure, the woman suffrage
amendment to the constitution, and
about one-fourth of all the bills pass—
ed during the three sessions of the |
Congress were signed during the last
nine days of the closing session, while
fifteen Representatives and ten Sen-
ators died during the period from the
beginning of the first session to the
close of the final session
3
i
i
——1It would be wise as well as ex-
pedient for the Germans to accept
Foch’s amendments to the armistice
as soon as they are submitted They
have to accept in the end and prompt-
ness saves humiliation.
Fish License a Needless Nuisance.
There are a good many measures
of legislation pending in the Gener-
al Assembly at Harrisburg that de-
serve promp slaughter. Conspicuous
amongst these is the bill entitled “An
Act for the better protection of fish,
requiring citizens of the United States
residing within and without this Com ~
monwealth to procure a license to fish
or angle in the waters of this Com-
monwealth. The ostensible purpose
of the measure is to acquire funds to
be used for the propagation of fish.
The real purpose is to put an onerous
tax upon a healthful and rational di-
version and vest in some parasites at
Harrisburg control of the streams of
the State and direction of the pleas-
ares of the citizens.
Some years ago the Legislature
was persuaded or dragooned into en-
acting a law imposing a license upon
the resident hunters of the Common-
wealth. It was said that the money
thus obtained would be used for the
propagation of game on so extensive
a scale that within a brief period the
woods would be full of all sorts of
game birds and mammals and Penn-
sylvania would be converted into =a
paradise for sportsmen. Bu! though
additional legislation cut out all hunt-
ing in most of the counties in the
State game has become as scarce as
the proverbial hen’s teeth, There is
something like three-quarters of =a
million dollars in the treasury allotted
to the fund but so far as observation
goes it is of no use.
If the State authorities would pro-
ceed along lines of reason there would
be no necessity for artificial propa-
gation of fish beyond the capacity of
the hatcheries now in existence, Na-
ture is prolific in fish life and if the
slaughter of fish at power plants and
the destruction of fish life hy poison-
ous chemicals is discontinued there
will be plenty of fish for food and
abundance of sport for fishermen
without imposing a needless tax up-
on those who enjoy the recreation ox
need the fish for food. There is en-
tirely too much government in this
countr; and too many people who
want to manage the affairs of others.
This fish license bill is an expression
of that form of nuisance.
————
———President Wilson oughtn’t to be
asked to tackle the Irish problem un-
til the other troubles in which he is
involved, and there are plenty of
them and they are perplexing, are
disposed of.
——Nobody knows what the Rus-
sians want but most of us could tell
what they ought to get.
Hasten the Peace Conference.
There are very many reasons why
the work of the Peace Conference
should be expedited rather than re-
tarded. President Wilson is commit-
ted to remaining away until his work
is finished and there are a lot of
things to do in Washington that re-
quire his presence here. But this is
not the gravest reason why the work
of the Conference should be hastened.
A peace protocol and the covenant of
the League of Nations are necessary
to check the progress of Bolshevism
and other disorders in Europe. Noth-
ing else can achieve that result and it
must be done. The evil is spreading
in Europe and menacing even this
country. The proposed League of
Nations would supply the medium of
stifling it at once.
American soil is not adapted to the
growth of anarchy. The doctrine of
disorder is repellant to the American
mind. But Republican politicians
have been cultivating discontent for
several months and bad influences
work surprising results. By with-
holding the necessary funds from the
railroad administration the vast army
of transportation employees has been
demoralized and disappointed hopes
easily lead to violence and that is a
step in the direction of worse disor-
ders. A vicious propaganda industri-
ously employed in such circumstances
might produce the evil consequences
which are devastating Russia and
menacing all Central Europe. It is a
sad subject for contemplation by
thoughtful Americans.
The completion of the work of the
Peace Conference is the remedy in |
sight. Through the medium of the
League of Nations it will create a
force that will compel obedience to
law and the fulfillment of the just ob-
ligations of citizenship. And when
President Wilson is released from his
arduous labors in France he will re-
turn and the scurvy politicians and
cheap demagogues who have been :
nagging at his heels will be forced to |
Before the logic of Woodrow |
cover.
Wilson the sophistry of Lodge and
Knox will melt away and anarchism,
Bolshevism and other disorders will
disappear from the United States.
We are a freedom loving people but
ours is a freedom regulated by law.
——The liquor interests have little
right to complain because there was |
no referendum. When the question :
was put in the form of local option
legislation, the referendum plain and
simple, they opposed it.
Chance for Valuable Experiment.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, has a
fine opportunity to test the sentiment
of his constituents upon the question
of the League of Nations. Some days
ago he addressed the Legislature of
that State and vehemently denounced
the League. Thereupon the Demo-
cratic members of the body adopted
a resolution asking him to resign, of-
fer himself for re-election and take
the consequences. He suggested that
they resign to test the matter and fif-
ty of these declared that if he resigns
his office they will resign theirs, thus
putting the elements on an equality.
Several days have elapsed since the
last offer was made and Senator Reed
has not accepted the challenge.
Senator Reed knows that the peo-
ple of Missouri are overwhelmingly in
favor of the covenant of the League
of Nations and that the Democrats of
that State are practically unanimous
in that opinion. But he has joined the
opposition because of a personal quar-
rel with the President. It is not a
matter of either politics or principle
with him. It is purely a question of
spite. A second rate quarter ses-
sions lawyer he got into the Senate
by accident and was disappointed at
his reception in Washington. He
thought the proper way to show re-
sentment was to oppose the party that
sent him to Washington and he began
to fight the President at once.
Aside from the character of fitness
for the office he holds, however, the
proposition made to Senator Reed
would be worth considering by other
Senators who have joined him in an
unpatriotic attitude. Senator Lodge,
of Massachusetts, imagines that he is
strong with the people and the distin-
guished president of Harvard said the
other day that he is more than a pub-
lic official, “he is an institution.”
Lodge might try the sentiment of the
people of Massachusetts and Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, could
strengthen his hopes for the Presi-
dency if he would undertake the ex-
periment and win. But the chances
are none of them will do so. “A bird
in the hand” is safer for them.
——Now that Mr. Bryan has influ-
enza we may be able to find out the
relative value of grape juice and red
liquor as a curative of that malady.
—-~Germany is now getting all the
“blood and iron” she wants and the
indications are that a little goes a
long way.
——Obviously Lenine is crazy. He
expects to borrow $2,000,000 from the
United States.
Absurd False Pretense.
The anxiety of the Republican lead-
ers for the safety of the Monroe Doc-
trine is pathetic. We are unable to
discover where or how the Monroe
Doctrine is in danger or the reason
19.
i
i
The Soldier Asset.
From the Philadelphia Press.
In some quarters there seems to be
a great misunderstanding of what the
American soldier represents. There
is the expressed fear that the return
| of the man in khaki will seriously dis-
| for the anxiety on the part of the Re- | turb the labor market or will swell
! publican leaders. But it is clear that
| they are greatly worried over it.
| Probably they apprehend that Great
| Britain or France or some other pow-
: er contemplates the seizure and ap-
| propriation of it for its own use. That
; would be a terrible thing. The Mon-
: roe Doctrine is a policy which forbids
; monarchical powers from intervening
i in affairs on this hemisphere. It is a
i sort of mind your own business man- |
| ifesto to the wide world. But no-
{ body ever imagined that it was pat-
: ented.
! The principal objection to the cove-
‘ nant of the League of Nations advo-
| cated by President Wilson at Paris is
‘ that it might work a revokation of the
i Monroe Doctrine. The covenant pro-
{ vides for the protection of small or
| weak governments from the avarice
| of the more powerful. When it was
| promulgated by a Democratic Presi-
dent the infant Spanish-American Re-
publics were threatened by the “Holy
! Alliance” and it was a ‘sort of warn-
ing to “keep off the grass.” But for
, nearly a hundred years the politicians
opposed to the Democratic party took
| no interest in it. Now they are going
{ into “conniption fits” because of an
apprehension that another Democrat-
ic President is trying to destroy the
i work of his illustrious predecessors in
| office.
Like the glory of destroying the
| Spanish fleet during the recent scrim-
| mage with that country, the Monroe
Doctrine is big enough to go around
and if it may be used to protect Bel-
gium, Servia, Poland and the several
other small countries who aspire to
“self-determination” no harm will be
| done to it. It certainly will not be
impaired in force for the purpose it
was created, namely, the protection
of the weak South and Central Amer-
!ican republics. Moreover the anxiety
i of the Republican politicians on the
| subject is absurd and hypocritical.
i The only fear they have is that the
| adoption of the covenant of the
! League of Nations will benefit the
{ Democratic party the head of which
is Woodrow Wilson.
——At the same time the Southern
: planters will not gain anything by
leaving their lands idle because the
price of their product is not as high
as they would like to have it.
Dr. Yocum to Leave Bellefonte.
At the recent Central Pennsylvania
conference of the Methodist church in
session at Sunbury Dr. Ezra H. Yo-
cum, for eight years pastor of the
Bellefonte charge, voluntarily re-
quested the Bishop to make a change
in his pastoral relations here. As to
the reason we have nothing to say.
As to the result which takes this lov-
able, brilliant clergyman from Belle-
fonte and places him in the little,
country charge of Woolrich we can
only conclude that truly God does
work in a mysterious way his won-
ders to perform.
We feel that we speak for the peo-
ple of Bellefonte collectively when we
say that the departure of Dr. Yocum
will be a matter of profound regret.
We know of no other man who holds
the peculiar esteem in the minds and
| the affection in the hearts of all class-
es of our people as he does. Of giant
intellectuality, brilliant oratorical
powers and seventy-five years young
in spirit and energy he was a great
asset to this community, aside from
the daily lessons of what the real
christian man is that his mere pres-
ence on our streets taught.
——The groundhog weather proph-
ets will have to hunt up some other
kind of an animal to base their prog-
nostications on, as the little wood-
chuck fooled them this year. In fact
the groundhog’s time limit passed so
easily and unconsciously that few
people realized it until it was over.
To be exact it is almost two weeks
now since the groundhog’s six week’s
snooze came to an end but during the
time he was supposed to be holed up
there wasn’t a day that he couldnt
have come out without getting frost-
bitten. So henceforth and forever-
more it’s good-bye, groundhog.
You've lost caste as a weather prog-
nosticator and no further reliance can
be placed in you.
——No doubt those Republican
Senators are just as bitterly opposed
to the League of Nations as they say
they are but it is equally certain they
will vote for ratification. They know
what the people want.
——The Steel trust sets a good ex-
ample in reducing prices. A similar
scaling all along the line would great-
ly help the restoration of industrial
and commercial prosperity.
——The victory three cent postage
stamp was placed on sale at the Belle-
fonte postoffice on Wednesday morn-
ing.
the ranks of the Bolsheviki. There is
no ground for being an alarmist of
this sort. The soldier will be neither
' a burden on the nation nor a drug on
| the market. He is a producer, and no
producer can be anything but an as-
set to the nation. The man who can
do things is vitally needed at this
time. And the returned soldier is es-
sentially a worker, and not an agita-
tor.
The man who has been under fire
on the battlefield can be fully trusted.
He has no idea of training with the
enemies of his country. He has met
the enemies of America face to face,
and has conquered them abroad. He
will be in no mood to deal lightly with
those at home. He knows well what
would have been the result had the
nation listened to the advice of its
pacifists, and to the agitators of vari-
ous types who did all in their power
to keep the nation from taking up
arms. His mighty service has given
him clear, sane, healthy mind. In
it there is no fertile und for the
sowing of the seed of Socialism or any
other ism that conflicts with the na-
tional good. His experience has
taught him the exact opposite of what
agitators would now have him believe.
There is room in the industrial field
of the United States for every pro-
ducer. The soldier is not looking for
leisure, nor to make trouble if im-
possible wishes are not satisfied. He
is looking for honest, productive work,
and every man of that type is needed
in the reconstruction work of this
nation. He has the ambition to be
effective. He has been trained to dis-
cipline and hard work. He has come
out of a life where idle leisure was a
thing unknown. He seeks nothing in
the way of charity or gift, merely a
square deal and an opportunity to be-
come a real part of the nation’s work.
In his return to his own country, there
is cause for congratulation to Ameri-
ca, not for alarm.
Democratic Renegades.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is distinctly encouraging to note
that the Democrats of Missourijwant
Senator Reed to resign because: sf his
betrayal of his party by his attitude
toward the League of Nations and
other important questions on which
he has been consistently wrong. Too
much leeway has been given to this
wretched blatherskite and the two or
three other Democratic Senators who,
for purely personal reasons, have
placed themselves in opposition to
President Wilson and his administra-
tion. No one takes seriously Reed’s
contention that he is actuated by pa-
triotic motives and profound constitu-
tional reasons in taking his present
stand with Republican Senators. At
home he is known as a police court
lawyer who, by some strange freak of
Missouri politics, has been elevated to
a post of high honor. There he has
been a great detriment to his party
ever since the war began by reason of
his obstructive tactics. There is not
a measure of any constructive value
to his credit. His record is one of
purely factious opposition, apparent-
ly designed to give aid and comfort to
the Republicans.
There is no way in which the Reeds,
Chamberlains and Gores can be forced
to resign, but indignant Democrats
misrepresented by these party rene-
gades ought to take concerted action
to impress upon them that their
course is disapproved of and that con-
tinuance in it means political suicide.
Possibly such action as that taken by
the Missouri Democratic Legislators
may bring Reed to his senses. Men-
tally he is a feather-weight and with-
out influence outside of his own State.
If that State repudiates him he may
conclude that treachery to the party
which has honored him beyond his de-
Sots is by no means a paying propo-
sition.
Hungarian Revolution.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The imps of improper government
are dancing in glee in Moscow today
as they read reports of the Hungarian
revolution which means the associa-
tion of that misguided land with the
Bolshevik of Russia through the for-
mation of soviet government and the
overthrow of everything which tends
to order and cleanliness in the admin-
istration of a nation’s affairs. A fine
show of gratitude this is to the en-
tente which did more than any other
power, to break the back of a milita-
ry autocracy which was rapidly grind-
ing out the national spirit and the na-
tional life of Hungary. The mixture
of the Hungarian proletariat with the
Bolshevik of Russia in itself is hard-
ly serious, but taken in consideration
with the possibility of the spread of
this governmental wildfire to other
countries of the former central pow-
ers and particularly to Germany, it
strikes another harsh discord in the
Paris peace conference. It is too ear-
ly at this time to predict that Hunga-
ry will go the way of Russia. It will
not, if the allies can find a means to
strike and strike quickly. That means
is closer at hand in the new 1evolu-
tion than it was in the case of Rus-
sia, which was permitted to conduct
its own upheaval without interference
until too late to successfully squelch
it. In the face of Hungary's threats
the only instrument to be used is
quick and decisive military action.
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Pennsylvania woolen manufacturers
used the seeond largest amount of wool in
the United States during 1918.
—Former Congressman J. D. Hicks, of
Altoona, Department Commander of the
State of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., will de«
liver the address on Memorial day for
John W. Geary Post, No. 90, of Philips-
burg.
—Lancaster is the wealthiest agricule
tural county in the United States, and
ranks first in Pennsylvania in the yield of
wheat and tobacco and in the number of
horses. That county contains nearly elev<
en thousand farms.
—Mrs. S. R. Peale,
years old, entertained her three sons,
Rembrandt, John and Frank, of New
York, on the anniversary of her birth.
Mrs. Peale is the widow of the late Sena-
tor 8. R. Peale, who was prominently
identified with the Democratic party in
this State for many years.
—The farmers who have sheep are pre-
paring for the shearing, which will begin
before long. They are all a good deal in-
terested in the wool market, and hope to
realize fully as much as last year, when it
sold for 60 cents. In the last two years,
the wool proceeds have been quite an item
for there are more sheep raised than for-
merly.
—A southbound Pennsylvania Railroad
local freight train crew while passing Ma-
gee siding, north of Tidioute, saw a herd
of five deer 200 yards from the tracks.
One of the deer trotted off to a clump of
bushes, but the others stood watching the
approach and passing of the train without
showing the least sign of fright, although
the engineer turned loose the whistle.
—Over four hundred camp sites have
been granted by the State Forestry Com-
mission for summer outing, fishing and
hunting camps for clubs, associations,
schools and individuals on State lands.
The number has increased rapidly in the
last few years. The use of the sites is
given for ten years subject to certain reg-
ulations as to use of fire and firearms.
—Curt North, of Panic, Jefferson coun-
ty, has a pig-producing record which he
thinks wil stand unequaled by other
swine raisers in any part of the State.
May 6, brood sow, half O. I. B. and half
Berkshire, mothered nineteen pigs; Octo-
ber 27, thirteen, and on Monday, 14. For-
ty-six pigs for one sow in ten months is
a record that looks like a hard one to beat.
—Taking the position that churches
have as much right to advertise as any
business concern, Coatesville pastors have
launched a newspaper advertising cam-
paign with a view to attracting large au-
diences. They are placing large and at-
tractive display advertisements in daily
newspapers in which they announce ser-
mon subjects and other matters of inter-
est,
—The Wellsboro Realty company was
formed last year, with $100,000 capital, to
build houses to accommodate employess of
the Corning gloss works, if the capacity
of the factory was doubled. It hasn’t been
yet, but the demand for houses in Wells-
boro is so insistent that a committee was
authorized to build twenty-five or more,
according to their discretion, at a recent
meeting of the company.
—Sunday, as a freight train on the Buf-
falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad
was slowly pulling through the yards at
Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, the fire-
man, from the cab of ‘the engine, noticed
a package on a loaded coal car. He reach-
ed out of the cab of the engine and grab--
bed it as he was going past. It was a box,
and when he opened it he found the re-
mains of a baby boy apparently only a few
hours old. The Punxsutawney authorities
are investigating.
—Leaping from his seat on his crane,
thirty-five feet in the air, Peter Williams,
a crane runner at the plant of the Penn-
Seaboard Steel corporation, at Chester,
dived through a sheet of flame and landed
in a barrel of sand below. He escaped
with slight injuries. A gas main explod-
ed, sending a solid sheet of flame to the
roof of the No. 2 foundry, and for a time
the plant was threatened with destruction.
The roof was burned off the building. en-
tailing a loss of about $5000.
—Kindness shown Mrs. Kate A. Kal-
bach, widow of Nathaniel Kalbach, a
Richland grain merchant, brought its re-
turn to Miss Florence Wenrich, a trained
nurse at the Grand View sanatorium, Wer-
nersville, and Harvey Reber, a bellhop at
the institution, in the form of substantial’
bequests. In disposing of a $15,800 estate,
Mrs. Kalbach gives Miss Wenrich $2,500
and considerable of the contents of the
Kalbach homestead at Richland, while Re-
ber receives $200. Bethany orphanage at
Womelsdorf, is given $200.
—~Carl Shenk, a young farmer of Me-
chanics Grove, Drumore township, Lan-
caster county, has a flock of 400 Plymouth
Rock chickens, which is one of the finest
flocks in that part of the county, as well
as one of the most profitable, as they have
been producing on an average 200 eggs a
day, and they even do not take Sunday off.
This they have kept up during the whole
winter. Mr. Shenk is very proud of his
poultry and takes the very best care of
them, having them properly housed and
carefully and regularly fed.
—There has just been removed from the
plant of the Titusville Iron company, at
Titusville, a whistle that was in use for
more than 50 years, according to a state-
ment made by Robert Butler, who has
been an employee of the works since
March 29, 1865. The whistle was used to
announce Lee's surrender to Grant at Ap-
pomattox on April 9, 1865, and in Novem-
ber last it announced the armistice in the
world war. The whistle, now replaced by
a new marine whistle, will be preserved
for its historical associations.
—A half hour after they had eaten roots
which they thought were artichokes,
George Derr, aged 5 years, and James
Derr, aged 4 years, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Derr, of Plum Creek, near Sunbury,
died early last Friday. James Thomas,
aged 6 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Thomas, is critically ill, and is not ex-
pected to recover. The children were play-
ing along Shamokin creek, near theiz
home, and it is not known just what they
found. The supposition is that they pull-
ed some wild parsnips and ate them in
mistake for artichokes.
—J. Wallace Strunk met death on
Thursday afternoon last near his home at
McAlevys Fort when he was struck on the
head by the limb of a falling tree. Strunk
was a teamster working on the lumber op-
erations of E. B. Alexander, of Belleville.
He was driving past a tree that was be-
ing cut down by David Keller and Frank
Rudy. Just as he was passing the tree
they called to him but apparently he did
not hear them. The limb of the tree
struck him on the back ef the head in
falling, crushing his skull. Death result<
of Lock Haven, 85
ed in less than an hour afterwards.