Beware Waid.
INK SLINGS.
—If April showers are to bring
May flowers surely we may look for
some gorgeous gardens next month.
— Swat the first fly you see. A swat
in time will surely save nine and may
nip the eventual appearance of nine
thousand little fles in the bud.
—The first straw hat has been seen
on Bellefonte streets, but the hurdy-
gurdy and the barefoot boy must put
in an appearance before we will be
convinced that spring is here to stay.
— Michigan has refused to legalize
the sale of light wines and beer in
that State. The vote was overwhelm-
ingly against the proposal, the wom-
en, voting for the first time, were sol-
idly against it.
—Those German officials who are
going to Paris to learn the terms of
the peace treaty will have one on the
Kaiser, at least. They will get a din-
ner there that Bill Hohenzollern didn’t
get the chance to eat.
— Next Tuesday will be the last
opening day of the fishing season that
that stimulating old friend, John Bar-
leycorn, will be with you. In his day
he has caused a lot of fun and a lot of
trouble for fishermen and his passing
is no trifling incident in piscatorial-
whiskatorial outings.
—Williamsport had the pleasant
sensation of a big drop in coal prices
on Tuesday. Bids for the city con-
tract were made at $5.30 per gross
ton of pea and at $6.60 per gross ton
of stove. It is welcome news to all
the announcement that fuel is show-
ing signs of getting down to the point
where the prudent housekeeper does
not have to shudder with each lump
of coal she drops into the stove.
—The government forecast of the
winter wheat crop for this country is
837,000,000 bushels, which will be
152,000,000 bushels in excess of the
record crop of 1914. Should no unfa-
vorable weather conditions reduce the
final harvest the problem of taking it
all off the farmer’s hands at the guar-
anteed price of $2.26 per bushel is
going to be one that will make Uncle
Sam bite his finger nails nearly off be-
fore he figures out how to get out
from under without a loss that will
well nigh bankrupt him.
— With a train that carries both
mail and express leaving Bellefonte
at 8:15 each evening it is impossible
to consign either a parcels post or ex-
press package after six o'clock. Be-
cause stamps cannot be bought after
that hour and the express office is not
open. Public service doesn’t mean
much in the way of service and Fed-
eral control of public utilities contin-
ues to demonstrate the long estab-
{ished fact that it is not in it for effi-
ciency with private ownership and
management of business.
—Here and there we note a dispo-
sition on the part of labor to go back
to pre-war wages without a grumble.
The instances are isolated, however,
for in many parts of the country
strikes for still higher wages are
either actually on or brewing. Invar-
iably the demand for advances is
based on “the high cost of living” and
labor can’t or won’t see that because
labor constitutes the major cost of all
manufactures if advances are grant-
ed the “high cost of living” will be
higher still. We were mighty pros-
perous, happy and satisfied with our
condition just prior to July, 1914, and
there is no economic reason why we
would not be the same way if labor
were at once to go back to that basis,
for then the price of all commodities
would fall, business would revive at
once and there would be employment
for everyone.
—Governor Sproul’s investigation
of the proposed advance in the price
of anthracite has resulted in an offi-
cial sanction of the increase. One of
the reasons justifying the advance is
that royalties have gone higher. The
Girard estate, of Philadelphia, owns
large hard coal fields and among oth-
ers, has increased the pound of flesh
it demands. Why? Only a year or
so ago it was announced that that es-
tate was amassing such wealth that
its trustees were in a quandary as to
what disposition to make of the mil-
lions it was piling up. In fact statis-
tics were made public showing that in
a relatively short time, at its then
vate of accumulation, it would control
the entire gold supply of this coun-
try. If such was actually the case it
is a crime now to permit that estate
or any other owner of coal properties
to increase royalties when business
stabilization requires falling instead
of rising prices.
—The Pennsylvania Legislature is
to be congratulated on having defeat-
ed the Powell bill, which proposed to
require every person who desires to
spend an hour or so fishing along the
streams of the State to take out a li-
cense. The excuse offered for the
measure was that it would bring in a
large revenue that would be used in
increasing the fish in the streams.
The public long ago discovered the de-
ceit of such statements. The hunters
license was designed to increase game
and the automobile license was prom-
ised to be returned in better roads but
notwithstanding the fact that both of
these impositions have converted mil-
lions of dollars into the state treasu-
ry practically all of these vast sums
are consumed in the administration of
the departments, by furnishing places
for political favorites and greasing
whatever political machine hap-
pens to have control of them. As the
“Watchman” stated several weeks
ago, the people are in no mood to be
trifled with longer and the Legisla-
ture has wisely killed this pernicious
measure.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 64.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 11. 1910,
NO. 15.
Why Bolshevism DMenaces.
In justifying the proposed increase
Sentiment for the League.
In his speech in New York on the
in the price of anthracite coal, during | eve of his departure for Europe after
the coming summer Governor Sproul
has disappointed the hopes of a vast |
number of people. When he announc- |
ed the purpose of investigating the |
question it was expected that prices
would be forced down for the suffi-
cient reason that no fair minded per-
son could discern an excuse for a
price four or five fold greater than a
few years ago because wages had in-
creased less than two-fold. But the
Governor declares that taking into
consideration the increased cost of la- |
bor, royalties and railroad rates, the
increase in price is justified. In oth-
er words he holds that because own-
ers, transporters and retailers rob,
the operators have a right to rob
also.
Everybody knew before Governor
Sproul made his grand stand play the
cost of production of anthracite coal
had increased. It was perfectly un-
derstood that the railroads were ex-
acting “all the traffic would bear,”
and that the owners of the minerals
were adding to their royalty charges.
But nobody thought that he would
give official sanction to such extor-
tions. The Girard estate was increas-
ing its royalties with even less reason
than the railroads were adding to
their carrying rates and it was ex-
pected that Governor Sproul would
frankly tell them so, and demand a re-
versal of their practices. Instead of
that he tells the operators that it is
all “a game of grab” and their duty
is to take their toll. It’s hard on the
consumers but let them go hang.
The Girard estate, left as a charity
to the service of the public has in-
creased the royalties on coal mined
under their soil from twenty-five cents
to a dollar a ton. The carrying com-
panies have increased the freight rate.
in equal ratio. The distributors have
joined in the profiteering operations
and Governor Sproul can’t see why
the mine owners should not have a
slice of the melon. Less prosperous
men in office and out might be able to
interpret the conditions differently.
Most reasoning minds would have
reached the conclusion that instead
of advising fhe .operators.to join in
the looting operations the Governor
might have suggested to the other
looters to let up. But the Governor
adopted the opposite course and we
wonder why Bolshevism threatens.
—If they keep on monkeying in
Paris we would not be surprised to
learn that the President is packing up
his troubles in his old kit bag and
smiles, smiles, smiles as he prepares
to sail for home to let those who don’t !
have world vision to fight it all over
again.
Bobby Burns Vindicated.
Recent events at Harrisburg have
completely vindicated the playful ob-
servation of the late Bobby Burns to
the effect that the “best laid schemes
o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley.”
Anticipating all sorts of trouble over
the impending legislation for Phila-
delphia, Governor Sproul found it con-
venient to get sick and his obliging
physician ~ prescribed ‘the absent
treatment” and rest for two weeks,
curiously enough that being the time
required for the consideration of the
perplexing, not to say vexatious meas-
ures. Acting upon the safe and sane
suggestion of his doctor the Gover-
nor escaped on the eve of the reas-
sembling of the Legislature for the
consideration of the troublesome bills.
Naturally His Excellency imagined
that he had solved the difficult prob-
lem and while he was enjoying the sa-
lubrious air of a most attractive win-
ter resort his friend Senator Vare,
could revel in the exquisite enjoyment
of tying the amateur reformers in
various kinds of knots and holding
their keen disappointments up to pub- |
lic ridicule. The expectations of help
from the executive office would be
disappointed, of course, for however
earnest and anxious the Governor may
be for reform legislation, illness and
absence rendered help from him im-
possible and the crafty Vare would
have things his own way. A careful-
ly thought out conspiracy could have
afforded Vare no better service.
And here is where the Bobby Burns
observation fits in.
tion of the party assembled in Phila-
delphia just as the gubernatorial train
was speeding to its sunny and salu-
tary destination and determined to
“recess” the Legislature for the per-
iod fixed for the Governor's absence,
thus postponing the consideration of
the Philadelphia legislation until he
returns and receives a cordial though
probably somewhat mandatory invi.
tation to “fish or cut bait” from both
elements in the controversy. It was
an unkind thing to do but necessity
knows neither politeness nor law and
the dodger, however artful, deserves
all the disappointments that happen
to come to him.
— There is no use in quoting past
utterances of Senator Lodge. He
cares as little for consistency as for
patriotism and his prejudices are
stronger than his sense of honor.
| the adjournment of Congress, Presi-
dent Wilson expressed confidence that
the American people were largely in
favor of the League of Nations for |
which he is and has been striving.
The Literary Digest, an unfriendly
"but high class weekly journal there-
upon made what is now popularly
known as a “survey” of the country
on the subject. It addressed letters
to every daily newspaper of the coun-
try asking the attitude of the editor
upon “the proposed League of Na-
tions.”
justify President Wilson’s claim. It
will be said, of course, that many of
the newspapers replying to the inqui-
ry are provincial and exercise little
influence on the public mind. But
measuring them by circulation the
Of 1,377 answers to the in-
quiry 718 declared in favor of the en-
| terprise, 181 against and 478 condi-
tionally in favor.
This record would seem to amply
The Penrose fac- |
odds are nearly as strong in favor of
the League. That is to say that of
the replying papers those in the affir-
mative have a circulation of 9,886,
449 to 4,326,882 against among which
are all the Hearst papers, nine, of
very large circulation, all of which
were pro-German during most of the
war period and are perverse at all
times. It is safe to say they repre-
sent more than half of the opposition
in the matter of circulation.
It may be added that more than
half of the papers against the League,
outside of the Hearst publications are
influenced by politics rather than pa-
triotism. Then there is a group of
papers which have been Roosevelt
worshippers that oppose the League,
not because it lacks merit but for the
reason that Woodrow Wilson defeat-
ed Roosevelt’s ambition for a third
term of the Presidency and Wilson is
the dominating influence in the peace
conference in favor of the League.
The New York Sun, Washington Post,
Buffalo Express, Kansas City Star,
and Chicago Tribune, all of large cir-
culation, are in that class and reduce
the opposition for valid reasons to a
meagre force. :
—Germany is considering the ad-
visability of requesting the Allies to
: police that country until order can be
restored. It would be a nasty job, but
| if it becomes necessary it will be done
i and done right.
Director General Hines Right.
The new Director General of Rail-
roads, Mr. Hines, reveals the right
spirit in refusing to accept the price
fixed by the War Board for steel rails.
He believes that steel rails can be
made and sold for considerably less
| than the price fixed by the War Board
and as the purchases are to be paid
for by public funds, he insists on the
lowest rates. In this he is not only
| right but just. For a long period be-
{ fore the war railroad treasuries were
! looted by excessive charges for rails.
| The railroad officials in many instanc-
i es held large interests in rail mills
! and small interests in the railroads
and they fattened the mills at the ex-
pense of the roads.
All these War Boards and commis-
sions, with the singte exception of the
Food Administration, seem to have
set their heads to compel high prices.
The Fuel administration started out
by fixing a higher price for coal than
had been previously asked. The ad-
ministrator of the telephone and tele-
graph service began by increasing the
rates of service when in some instances
the charges were excessive before. In
this State, fortunately, the telephone
companies have been restrained by
the Dauphin county court from in-
creasing rates. But in Illinois and
probably in other localities the in-
creases have been made and are be-
ing enforced. It looks as if the pur-
| pose is to impoverish the people.
Rents are high, food expensive and
nearly everything that enters into the
lives of the people is unnecessarily
costly. Then why should the burdens
be increased by excessive charges for
| the service of utilities. The telephone
| has become a necessity to the public.
The people no longer have time to go
from store to store to make their pur-
chases and the only other medium is
the telephone. Yet the cost of the
| service is being increased without rea-
son. All these increases fall upon the
consumer. Exorbitant prices of steel
rails and increased charges for tele-
phone service are alike met by the
user and some interest ought to be
shown in his behalf.
— Of course they won’t be called
war gardens this year but they will
be just as useful and the lettuce will
be quite as lucious and the corn as
sweet as if the killing in Europe were
still in progress.
— It’s just one thing after anoth-
er. Some complain because they have
to pay income tax and others worry
because their income is not big enough
to be taxed. And there you are.
— Whether set up or framed up it
is certain that the German govern-
ment will have to settle up.
League of Nations Secure.
| There are many reasons for hoping
that within a week the covenant of
| the League of Nations will be com-
| pleted and adopted. Some unimport-
{ ant changes in the phrasing of the
measure have been made since the
: President resumed work at the peace
table after his brief visit home but
the principles expressed in the origi-
nal draft as prepared by President
Wilson remain in full force. The
Monroe Doctrine will not be impaired
and no other cherished policy of the
United States will be interfered
with. The purpose of the League of
Nations is to make peace rather than
war and a peace that will endure for
all time. The great powers engaged
in formulating a peace treaty have
set their hearts on that.
| The principal purpose of the war
| was to make future wars impossible.
{ There were collateral reasons in abun-
: dance but that was the dominant idea.
| The people of all races and nationali-
| ties are against war. And the only
guarantee of perpetual peace is in an
international agreement. The alter-
native is “the balance of power” plan
adopted at the Vienna peace congress
after the Napoleonic wars. It proved
entirely worthless. Its utter ineffi-
ciency was revealed frequently and at
the beginning of the late war was em-
phasized. Every intelligent man in
the wide world realizes this fact.
What possible reason could be given
for renewing it in the face of these
facts?
The covenant now approaching com-
pletion is the work of the best minds
of the civilized world. Not a single
selfish thought has been written into
it. It is the fruit of the highest ideals
developed by the greatest care. Those
who oppose it are not good citizens.
They care more for party than for
country. Even though it may not be
perfect it is the nearest approach to
that standard that is possible and any
patriotic citizen would accept it in
the hope of correcting its faults, if
any, in the future. When the consti-
tution of the United States was adopt-
ed many men opposed it. But after
it had done service a hundred years it
was pronounced the greatest mental
product of all time.
——The trout fishing season will
open next Tuesday morning and as
usual there promises to be a general
turnout of Centre county fishermen,
every man hunting his favorite trout
hole where he caught the biggest last
year. And from present indications
the opening of the season next Tues-
day morning should be under more
favorable conditions than have char-
acterized the “first day” in a number
of years. The streams are not too
high, the water is in good condition
for fly fishing and the weather is most
auspicious. The only thing necessary
to make the opening an ideal one for
the fishermen is an abundance of
trout. And in this respect every man
will have an equal chance to get what
trout he can. The fact that there was
comparatively little snow during the
winter, and that none of the moun-
tain streams were frozen dry, should
result in good fishing in any trout
stream in the county.
The Philipsburg Daily Journal
entered the thirty-second year of its
history on Wednesday of last week
with a sprightliness that is indicative
of a long life ahead of it. During the
past year editor Bair installed a Hoe
perfecting press and increased the
size of the Journal from a six to a
seven column folio. He has also add-
ed other features which make it the
equal of any inland daily published in
a town the size of Philipsburg and
the “Watchman” congratulates him
upon the prosperity daily manifested
in the make-up of the Journal.
— In order to insure Bellefonte
against future epidemics and for civ-
ic pride, do your bit by joining in the
clean-up campaign to begin at once,
and to last until every corner of the
town is rid of all unsightly rubbish
heaps. The week of the 5th of May
every one is asked to do special work
for this campaign.
— Train robberies are decreasing
in number according to statistics but |
it may be for the reason that when a |
passenger pays for his ticket he hasn't |
enough money left to encourage the
bandit.
——Joe Bailey is cruelly unkind to |
himself. What he ought to do is
peacefully slumber in his seclusion to |
which he was committed by popular ;
voice as soon as he was found out.
——1It is said that the former Kai- |
ser is anxious to go to a warmer cli- |
mate and it may comfort him to know |
that his ultimate destination will be
hot enough.
— Several car loads of potatoes |
were shipped from the Coburn station
to eastern markets during the past |
week, the buyers paying the farmers |
seventy cents a bushel delivered on |
the car. Last fall they could have
gotten from $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel
for their tubers.
A
tn
) : Don’t Give a Damn.
From an Unknown Author.
i We have no quarrel to pick with the
medical profession, but do believe that
there is more than one way of killing
{a rat. Some doctors do not think so.
| Our opinion stands regardless,
Physicians there are—and this is
! gospel—who do display human intel-
‘ligence at intervals. We stick to the
pill-rollers, however, not wanting to
| appear rash enough to include law-
| yers or barbers.
{© You’d be as safe with those birds as
| you would be with the German army
up a dark alley.
Nobody could get out with a whole
skin. Except, of course, Charley
Chaplin, but then that’s something
else again yet.
The writer is not a Bolsheviki or
Spiritualist and has some slight scru-
ples against wife-murder. But at
that some cases do contain mitigating
circumstances.
And before you go further, remem-
ber that this is not a patent medicine
ad.
We'll take our’s straight, so long as
the taking remains with us.
But we'll hark back to the sane phy-
sician before the side-track gets us
for keeps.
And the tale of the Doc concerns a
well-to-do business man as well.
This man had suffered for three
years with nervous troubles. He had
gone to many physicians and had sent
them many checks. ;
But the villain still pursued him.
The Old Jinx remained—his nervous
troubles stayed and his bank roll
dwindled.
Then a friend told him of a doctor
out west who could cure anything.
His fee was stiff and you had to do as
he said. But he cured. a
The business man was willing to
take a chance. What good was the
bank roll without easy nerves?
Mr. and Mrs. Man bundled up and
hied themselves toward the land of
the setting sun. He then busted into
the physician’s office and blurted out
his troubles.
“T’ve been sick for three years,” he
told the doctor, “have tried all the
physicians at home and am as bad as
ever. Can you cure me?” ;
“Surest thing you know,” gaily
answered the doctor. “I can make
you well inside of six months, but you
will have to do exactly as I say. My
remedy is like whiskey, not hard to
ake.” ; su
“P1] take a chance” replind the suf-
ferer, “so go ahead and giver me the
instructions.” ’
“How much ready cash have you?”
asked the pill-roller; if we may now
call him such.
“Qh, about $25,000.”
“Then my fee is $5,000.”
“Pretty stiff,” remarked the man.
“Yes, it is,” answered the physi-
cian, “especially when you consider
that I give you no medicine and will
be through with you forever in ten
more minutes. But that is my charge.
You know whether it is worth that
much to get well.”
“I'll pay it,” decided the man. He
wrote out his check, turned it over
and awaited instructions.
“You must do explicitly as I say,”
commanded the doctor. “I want you
to make me a solemn promise that no
matter how silly my treatment may
appear to you—no matter how ridicu-
lous it may appear to your friends,
that you will follow it exactly.”
«] promise,” pledged the man.
«Here it is,” began the wonderful
doctor, as he stood up and surveyed
his man from head to foot. “When-
ever anything comes up to disturb
you, whether it be important or unim-
portant—I want you to say: ‘IT don’t
give a damn,’ and I want you to mean
‘I don’t give a damn.””
“What else?”
“That’s all.”
«And do I pay $5,000 for that?”
asked the man. ; :
“You already have paid it,” said the
doctor. “You also have made a sol-
emn promise and I expect you to keep
it, just as I expect to keep my prom-
ise that I will cure you.
“Now,” said the physician, (proba-
bly an outcast for not writing a pre-
scription and filling his patient with
dope) “stand up. You gave me $5,000.
Are you sorry?” :
“No,” said the man, “I don’t give a
damn.”
“Are you sure?” asked the doctor.
“I said, I don’t give a damn, and I
don’t give a damn,” said the man, and
he emphasized his words by bringing
his fist down on the doctor’s desk
with a man’s sized wallup. He show-
ed more energy in this rap than he
had displayed for three years. ;
“You're getting well already,” said
the doctor.
The next morning brought a tele-
gram telling the man of business
trouble at home. He wired back: “I
don’t give a damn.”
His wife disapproved of the treatment
and fee, and with more emphasis than
courtesy, he replied: “I don’t give a
damn.” aad
He came back east. His friends
thought by his numerous “damns”
that bats had entered his belfry.
In 2 month the man had gained 15
pounds. vay
In ninety days his most pessimistic
friends admitted that he was perfect-
y well.
And he didn’t give a damn.
emmy
— Chicago has the record among
American cities for atrocities and it
is small wonder that its mayor is a
pro-German and a Republican.
ume le mEpmagast——
——Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
wants an international Supre.ne court
but what he really needs is a commis-
sion in lunacy.
{ of the variety
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Mrs. Eula Margraff, of Osceola, has
been appointed matron of the I. O. O. F.
Home at Sunbury.
—Large quantities of Mexican quail have
been liberated in the lower counties of the
State during the week.
—A stylish thief broke into Phillips’
second-hand store, Allentown, passed by
a lot of jewelry and other valuables and
stole only a full-dress suit.
—Allentown guinea pigs are being ship-
ped in large numbers to Ohio. Some
breeders at Allentown have gone into the
business of supplying hospitals for bac-
teriological experiments and are making a
good living.
—The State Forestry Commission has
purchased tracts of woodland to add to
reserves in Huntingdon, Tioga and Lack-
awanna counties and is considering pur-
chases in Clearfield and Potter counties
near present holdings.
—Mrs. Daniel Brought, of Granville,
Mifflin county, has an early cherry tree in
full bloom and while the temperature was
down to fifteen degrees above zero along
the mountains where she resides only last
week, the fruit was not injured.
—A lumber firm has a timber job near
Kane that will require six years to finish,
being one of the largest untouched pieces
remaining in the State. It consists of 6,«
500 acres, much of which is virgin forest.
The tract is estimated to be worth $1,-
000,000.
—Even the bees have entered in the high
price combination, for at the public sale
of Daniel G. Stine, of Windsor township,
York county, they brought $3 per hive.
Of course no one knows how many bees
there were, as no person had the temerity
to count ‘em.
—At his Diamond Station farm, Jacob
Andes, perhaps the largest grower of to-
bacco plants in Lancaster county, has al
ready seeded 400 of his 600 beds, and in
one to two months he will be fairly im-
mersed in his business of disposing of the
plants. Only very exceptional weather
conditions would do them damage.
—The State Zoologist at Harrisburg
stated recently that no reports indicating
serious damage to fruit trees had been re-
ceived as yet. The buds have been opened
up in Pennsylvania orchards and gardens,
it was explained, and the trees and shrub-
bery are in fair shape to withstand such
weather as prevailed a short time ago.
—Charged with having rifled the United
States mails of $8,000 worth of war savings
stamps, Robert Bradley, of Chambersburg,
was taken into custody late Saturday by
Deputy United States Marshal Harvey T.
Smith, of Harrisburg. Bradley is railway
mail clerk and is also accused of taking
about $15 in cash and a gold clock valued
at $100.
—Henry W. Bucher, a farmer living near
Lititz, Lancaster county, has an Alderay
grade cow which gave birth to twins. At
two weeks of age the calves weighed 230
pounds, and since they have been taken
away the cow has been averaging 13
pounds and 10 ounces of butter a week.
Mr. Bucher’s five cows yield 53 pounds of
butter a week.
—'Squire J. P. Williams, ' of Graham
township, Clearfield county, had two sons
on the other side during the war, one with
the engineers and one with the artillery;
also a third boy ready to go when the arm-
istice was signed. The boy in the engi-
[anereo tive home recently. The other
boy is. in the army of occupation ten miles
from Coblenz, Germany.
—A three hundred pound safe, contain-
ing between $1,100 and $1,200, was stolen
‘from the office of the Express company in
the P. R. R. station at Beaver Falls dur-
ing Sunday night. The robbery was dis-
covered Monday morning. It is believed
that the strong box was taken away in an
automobile. The police are searching the
hills in the belief that the robbers blew
the safe open in some isolated spot.
—Fox hunting, which for years has beea
a papular sport in Chester, Delaware and
Montgomery counties, will soon be intro-
duced in Bucks county. One of the wealthy
Philadelphia hunt clubs has already pur-
chased a number of farms, embracing hun-
dreds of acres in Southampton township,
for fox hunting purposes, and contem-
plates buying many more. The territory
purchased is regarded as ideal fox hunt-
ing country.
—John Matula, who was shot by Mike-
Hrenicic as he and Mrs. Annie Hrenicic
were alighting from an automobile on
Main street in Conemaugh, Sunday even-
ing, March 30th, died at 4:30 o'clock the
next afternoon in the Memorial hospital,
Johnstown. After the shooting of his wife
and Matula, Hrenicic boarded a freight
train and rode to Portage, where he hired
an automobile and was driven to Ebens-
burg. He went immediately to the county
jail and after waking up the attendants, -
told them he wanted to be locked up. The
woman will recover.
— With orders for the capacity of their
plants booked for more than six months
to come, and more business being offered
the Watsontown Brick company, and the
Paxtonville Brick company, of which con-
cerns Edgar Summers, prothonotary of
Northumberland county, is president, have
confidence in the business prospects, es-
pecially in the business trades, and is op-
timistic of a boom during the coming
year. The two concerns have a joint ca-
pacity of 100,000 bricks a day of all class-
es within the range of the shale used there
and will probably enlarge.
— John Beegle, of Newry, visited the
headquarters of the Blair county Game,
Fish and Forestry association and turned
in the hide of what is possibly the largest
weasel captured in that-vicinity. It was
known as the New York
weasel, of which a measurement of sixteen
inches from tip to tip is considered large.
This particular rodent measured just
twenty-one inches. Mr. Beegle received
the $1 authorized as a bounty and left the
hide to be exhibited. The weasel of the
type represented by the hide is one of the
most destructive animals known, and will
kill great numbers of chickens, birds or
small animals for the mere joy of killing.
— John Henry Dickson is the proudest
negro in Uniontown. “Dixie,” as he is
known to hundreds of pe sons there, is a
chicken fancier extraordinary, and for
three years has conducted experiments in
feeding his fowls that would drive Luther
Burbank crazy. His feed formulas are 2
carefully cherished secret and are design-
ed to produce multiple-yolk eggs. Last
summer his hens began to lay dauble
yolkers fairly regularly, but one day last
week the ambition of his life was realized.
He found a triple-yolked egg in the nest
of his favorite hen. The egg weighs sev-
en and one-half ounces, and is a pure
white in color. “Dixie” claims that by
1920 he will have four-yolked eggs regu-
larly.