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Bemorri tcp
INK SLINGS.
—A glance into the average garden
these days will tell you quickly why
June is called the month of roses.
— Standing for a principle has kept
popularity away from many a man
until it was too late to be of any use
to him.
__A week from tomorrow will be
the longest day of the year. Better
begin to give the coal bin some
thought for next winter.
— Bolshevism won’t thrive where
there is fair play. Remember this
when you are tempted to do to the
other fellow what you wouldn’t want
him to do to you.
—_A Memorial day without a thun-
der shower was so unusual that it was
asking too much of the weather man
to give Penn State a baccalaureate
Sunday without one.
— Today Germany will be handed
our answer to her counter proposals
and she will be allowed only five days
more in which to sign or reject the
peace covenant. We adhere still to
our belief that she will sign.
— Wisconsin and Michigan have
joined Illinois in ratifying the Suf-
frage amendment to the federal con-
stitution. Governor Smith, of New
York has called that Legislature of
that State in extraordinary session
for the sole purpose of acting on the
amendment.
—1In the eyes of the average Re-
Publican Penrose becomes an able
leader and a great statesman just as
soon as he proves that he is still in
the saddle. When he shows signs of
losing the reins many of them believe
what Elihu Root said of him not so
very long ago.
—Gradually our pleasant relations
with England are being strained by
the ulterior motives of pin-headed
statesmen and the yellow press of this
country. It is to be regretted for just
such steps lead on to the serious situ-
ations from which we are now trying
to extricate ourselves.
— The Williamsport Sun raises the
question as to whether the returned
soldier will be contented on the farm,
after having seen Paris. All of our
intercourse with the returned soldier
leads us to believe that he has never
had so much respect and love for the
farm as has sprung up in his heart
since seeing Paris. :
—In other words the American
Federation of Labor is insistipg that
over the rail-
other people’s
the government take
roads by mortgaging
property and giving to it wages high- |
er, almost, than amy other class of
and, in
on of the net.es
that.
AR
roads., Wo h
proposition. Ee
—The latest tip that the “old tank”
is passing around is to the effect that
the saloons will close on July 1st, but
open again by authority of Congress
on Labor day. This is based on a
supposed poll of Congress which
shows it favorable to rescinding the
war-time regulation on Labor day, at
which time the army will be entirely
demobilized. What's the use? A
man who has gone dry all of July
and August might as well stay dry as
have to go through all the throes
again in January.
—The very evident interest which
the foreigners in our midst are tak-
ing in the local movement to Ameri-
canize them is proof of what the
“Watchman” said long ago to the ef-
fect that if these new comers are left
isolated, with no opportunity to in-
termingle and fraternize with the na-
tive born there can be little hope of
their ever being anything else than
foreigners. Be a part of the great
melting pot. Greet and treat your
non-English speaking neighbor like
you do the one who speaks your own
tongue and you will make a wonder-
ful friend and help make a good
American citizen before you know it.
—Ex-President Taft spoke at Lew-
istown Monday night and his argu-
ment for the League of Nations was
as forceful as all of his speeches on
the subject have been. When he ans-
wered critics of the League who in-
sist that it will keep us embroiled in
foreign warfare by comparing its in-
ternational powers with our local po-
lice force he brought home to the least
comprehensive mind the fullest real-
ization of how it will have force to
compel respect for its mandates, but
will not have to use it any more
than the police of a town have to use
their billies to preserve order. It is
their uniform that commands respect
for the laws they are commissioned
me
to enforce and they rarely have to |
club heads and shoot down people.
—If Borah, Lodge and a lot of oth-
ers in the Senate would get down to
constructive legislation it would be
more to the point than spending all
their time in criticism and investiga-
tion of matters of which the public
cares little. Here they have started
a laborious and expensive investiga-
tion of how the full text of the peace
treaty fell into the hands of some un-
named New Yorker before any Mem-
ber of Congress got a glimpse of it.
What difference is it going to make
to anyone? The digest of the treaty,
as cabled here upon its presentation
to the Germans, is admitted by these
obstructive Senators to be a true
resume of the covenant in every re-
spect except in some unessential de-
tails. The Germans had the complete
text and could very ¢ sily have sent
copies of it to this country to fall in-
to the hands of bankers, bakers or
candlestick makers. It seems to us
that all this ado about nothing might
more appropriately emanate from
some old ladies home than from the
Senate of the United States.
“be the cxoft 1 0. that.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The annual reunion of the Fifth regi-
ment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry,
Spanish-American war veterans, will be
held at Clearfield this year, and arrange-
ments are being made to make it the big-
gest in the history of the organization.
—Permits for over 400 camp sites on the
State’s forestry reserves have been issued
by the State Department of Forestry to
people who wish to use the public lands
for summer camps and for fishing. Thir-
teen such permits were issued last week.
—Over 2,500 foreign born residents of
VOL. 64.
Prohibition Fixed Finally.
In their contention that the Prohi-
bition amendment to the Federal con-
stitution was not legally ratified, the
liquor interests are plainly “trusting
in the staff of a broken reed.” Their
some of the State constitutions pro-
tent to act on such a matter without
referring it'to the vote of the people.
concern that might be true.
ance, governed entirely by the provis-
ions of the Federal constitution and
in so far as the State constitutions
conflict, the higher power controls.
This fact is well established.
Article V of the Federal constitu-
tion declares that “the Congress,
whenever two-thirds of both Houses
shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to this constitution, or,
on the application of the Legislatures
of two-thirds of the several States,
shall call a convention for proposing
amendments, which, in either "case,
shall be valid to all intents and pur-
poses, as part of this constitution,
when ratified by the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the several States,
or by conventions in three-fourths
thereof, as the one or the other mode
may be proposed by Congress.” In
the case in point the simpler method
was proposed by the Congress. That
is to say two-thirds of both Houses of
Congress proposed the Prohibition
amendment to be ratified by the Leg-
islatures of three-fourths of the
States and forty five out of forty-
eight State Legislatures ratified it.
From the beginning of the govern-
ment under the constitution no
amendment to the constitution, after
being ratified by three-fourths of the
Legislatures, has been repealed or
revoked. With the present number
of States a resolution to repeal the
Prohibition amendment would require
hirds majority in each House
and ratification by the
] a
1 he only process left is in
| “the application of the Legislatures
of two-thirds of the several States”
for a convention to revise the consti-
tution. Work in any other direction
is wasting labor.
er riipepamt—
——It cost the public treasury
$500.00 to get the spurious copy of
the covenant of the League of Na-
tions printed in the Congressional
Record but as Senator Borah doesn’t
have to pay much of the amount he
doesn’t care for the expense.
Governor of Texas Sounds Alarm.
Conditions on the Texas border
may not be as tranquil as they might
but the Secretary of War was wise in
asking for corroborative evidence of
the alarming state indicated by the
Governor of Texas in asking that a
couple of brigades of Texas cavalry
be called into the Federal service to
protect the people of Texas from Mex-
ican banditti. Texans are proverbial-
ly excitable and since the elimination
of booze from that section of the
country it is not unlikely that the bal-
ance wheel has slipped a cog. In any
of Texas is extraordinary and should
be carefully considered. Adopting
war measures on suspicion is a dan-
gerous operation.
Texans are emotional and ready
fighters but they are also prudent folk
and in the matter of self preservation
“look long before they leap.” Possi-
bly, therefore, the Governor of Texas
is simply taking a long view of indus-
trial conditions and has in mind the
providing of employment of a consid-
erable number of Texans who might
otherwise be idle during the period
of passing from war to peace condi-
! tions. For many years the average
Texan has enjoyed life in the saddle
and nothing imaginable could be more
congenial to the Texas ranger than a
service of this kind with fairly good
pay ‘and comparatively little hazard.
Of course there would be some danger
in the service but not much.
On the other hand things do look a
trifle menacing on the Texas border
and on the principle that “a stitch in
time saves nine,” it might be well to
provide against possible danger by
making it more difficult. But what-
ever steps are taken with respect to
our relations with Mexico it should be
kept in mind that Carranza is one of
the most despicable creatures mas-
querading in human form. But for
his perfidy three years ago all danger
of disturbance on the Mexican border
would have been removed forever.
Now that his interests are being
mussed up by the same agency that
disturbed our equanimity then it
would be quite as well to keep Ameri-
cans out of danger.
— The Democrats in Congress
should see to it that the investiga-
tion of the war service is vigorous
and thorough. The people of this
country have no objection to expens-
es if the money is honestly spent for
a righteous purpose.
If it were a question of purely State
But the !
issue is one of nation wide import- |
event the suggestion of the Governor
|
eminent lawyers hold that because
vide for a referendum, the Legisla-
tures of those States were incompe-
| vote. onthe"
STATE RIGHTS
Confusing Features in Legislation.
The record of those Philadelphia
reform bills in the Pennsylvania Leg-
islature is confusing.
twenty-one members. The Vares de-
clared that they would consent to on-
ly a single council with a member-
ship of twenty-seven. The Governor
endorsed the Vare proposition
promptly and with some emphasis. |
Penrose, an eleventh hour but very
derous person behind the reformers
and for several weeks carried on a
fight for twenty-one members. Final-
ly the Vares agreed and the charter
bill passed the Senate with an under-
standing that it might be altered
somewhat in the House committee.
Early last week the measure was
taken up for consideration in the
House committee and at the instance
of the reformers amended to provide
for a councilmanic body of twenty-
seven members, the number original-
ly demanded by the Vares and en-
dorsed by the Governor. But the
Vares and the Governor appear to
have changed their minds and de-
manded a council of twenty-one mem-
bers. The voice of Penrose proved
potent, however, and the number orig-
inally demanded by the Vares and ap-
proved by the Governor was report-
ed out of the committee. But the
Vares and the Governor would not
stand for it and the game of shuttle-
cock was renewed. Last Monday the
reformers again yielded and the bill
assumed original form. -
Last Monday a vast force of re-
formers went to Harrisburg but om
the way compromised with the Attor-
ney General on a council of the pro-
portions originally demanded by the
reformers. It appears that in the
smaller body the Vares have a better
chance of securing a -majority and
with it goes the cream and cake. But
the dilly dallying has given rise to
the opinion that neither side in the-
contest was sincere and that the
changing about of fronts on the ques-
| tion of numbers was merely a subter-
fuge to eat up time so that &
poned: until after the close of the ses’
sion. It is a perplexing problem to:
say the least. But Penrose is a skill-
ful reform leader. :
— Governor Sproul has promised’
the suffragists of this State that he
will urge the ratification of the Suf-
frage amendment at this session and
we will soon find out who is boss of
the General Assembly.
Disreputable Trio in New Party.
We avail ourselves of the earliest
opportunity to congratulate or com-
miserate the public upon the fact that
Senator Reed, of Missouri; Senator
Borah, of Idaho, and William Ran-
dolph Hearst are about to start, or
organize, or launch, a new party. The
event is contingent upon the ratifica-
tion of the peace treaty. To accom-
plish this result it is necessary that
both Democratic and Republican Sen-
ators vote affirmatively on the sub-
ject. Senator Reed, elected as a Dem-
ocrat, and Senator Borah, elected as
a Republican, are opposed to ratifica-
tion and will refuse to affiliate with
parties which thus stultify them-
selves. Like in everything else
Hearst is influenced in this matter by
pure “cussedness.”
A new party is the invariable ref-
uge of a political grouch who for any
reason has lost the confidence of the
party to which he had previously been
attached. Senator Reed, for example,
a mischief making blatherskite, has
been repudiated by his party in Wash-
ington and at home. Recently every
Democratic Senator and Representa-
tive in the Missouri Legislature offer-
ed to resign and appeal for a re-elec-
tion, if Reed would do the same. But
Reed refused because he knew that
he couldn’t get enough votes in the
entire State to elect a county auditor
in the smallest county. Borah is tol-
erated only for the reason that the
Republican majority in the Senate is
so scant that his vote is necessary.
With respect to Hearst it is hardly
worth*while to speak. During the re-
cent war he was at heart a traitor but
maintained a false pretense of loyalty
in the hope that it would bring prof-
its to his several yellow newspapers.
A party projected by such men and
under such conditions could not possi-
bly enlist another voter outside of the
insane asylums or the penal institu-
tions. But we are glad they are
forming a new party. The fact re-
moves from the Democratic party the
odium attaching to Reed’s profession
of membership. The party has en-
countered many adversities and
weathered many a storm but it is
doubtful if it can long survive an af-
fliation of rotten Jim Reed, of Mis-
souri.
— We can hardly believe that
Reed, Borah, and Hearst will organ-
ize a new party without inviting
Lodge and Jeremiah O’Leary to come
in as charter members.
C——————————_—
— The tax on soft drinks makes
many a man and woman “kick.” :
In the begin- |
ning the reformers asked for a char- |
ter providing for a single council of
| the big newspapers of the country |
enthusiastic reformer, put his pon-
Senate pass House bill 285 which pro-
vides for the protection and improve-
| to the “Watchman” office.
AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA..
JUNE 13,
1919.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, |
whose partisan malice has made him |
mad, revealed another mare’s nest the |
other day. He visited New York to
attend a funeral and upon his return
League of Nations.
was a matter of small public concern |
for several weeks ago a summary of |
that instrument was published in all |
for popular information. But the
Massachusetts madman gave the mat- |
ter a sinister aspect by injecting into |
his statement an inference that the
text had been given secretly to Wall |
street for use in manipulating job- |
bing operations by brokers.
If Senator Lodge had said frankly
that one of his rich New York friends
had shown him the convention and
given the name of the person, his an-
nouncement would hardly have creat-
ed a ripple either in the Senate or
throughout the country. But his in-
nuendo that the administration was
secretly co-operating with the specu-
lative element in manipulating val-
ues, naturally created a feeling of in-
dignation among the friends of the
President and a demand for an inves-
tigation justly followed. Of course
the inquiry will exculpate the admin-
istration from blame, but the false
impression will linger a long time
and may never be entirely eradicated.
Lodge didn’t expect the action that
was taken and he is in line for a ser-
ious disappointment in the end.
As we have perviously stated the
covenant of the League of Nations is
a part of the peace conditions which
are yet in process of preparation.” It
was the intention of the Peace Con-
ference to make no part of the work
public officially until all parts were
complete. But the copy which was
necessarily and confidentially furnish-
ed to the German delegates was given
out in Berlin and copies of it made
there may have been sent to New
oe is fact there was m
harm but Senator 1 e with an evi
Senate - justly condemned the - perfidy
involved and Lodge is likely to be the
greatest sufferer.
0
There have been a good many
strong reasons advanced in favor of:
prohibition but the strongest of all is
that it will put an end to after dinner
speeches. :
— The Pennsylvania State Grange
is working hard to have the State
ment of the forests of Pemnsylvania,
and among the reasons given are the
facts that there are six million acres
of land in the State that are either
too rough and mountainous, or in oth-
er ways unsuitable for cultivation;
that Pennsylvania uses 2,300,000,000
feet of lumber a year and that the
freight bill alone in 1918 for bringing
that lumber into the State was $20,-
000,000. And it might also be added
that the majority of it was not very
good lumber at that. Any person
that does anything in the building
line these days knows that one big
item of expense is the high cost of
lumber, and when that is compared
with what it used to cost one can bet-
ter appreciate what the conditions
might be now had the people of Penn-
sylvania been less reckless and waste-
ful of the virgin forests that at one
time covered most of the State. And
even now it should be one of the most
forceful lessons of conservation and
reforestation. The greatest destruc-
tive agent of young woodland today
is the forest fire, started through
the heedless act of careless and un-
thinking people, and every year the
loss in this direction in Centre county
alone amounts to many thousand dol-
lars. For this reason any good meas-
ure that will in any way protect the
growing forests of today and induce
the planting of trees on waste land is
worthy of support.
—Tllinois has had the honor of be-
ing the first State to ratify the feder-
al suffrage amendment. The vote was
unanimous in the House and had but
one dissenter in the Senate.
— The Sunday Dispatch, of Phil-
adelphia, recently contained a very
good picture of select councilman Ira
D. Garman, of the Forty-sixth ward,
that city, who is favorably mentioned
as one of the members of councils un-
der the new city charter that is now
being pushed through the Legislature.
A Republican, with rather independ-
ent proclivities, councilman Garman
has kept himself free of all the in-
trigues and entanglements, political-
ly and otherwise, in the governing
power of the Quaker city, and because
of his always steadfast stand for
what he believes to be right and for
the best interests of the city and the
people he has become a power that
cannot be ignored in reconstituting
the city councils under the new char-
ter.
——For high ciass job work come
made |
g
By James J. Montague.
We used to consider it smart to belong
To the calm, philosophical school,
| We stoutly contended that nothing was
wrong;
“Why worry ?”’ was always our Fule.
' solemnly declared that he had been | we nadan't th t h h
| shown a copy of the covenant of the : = hadus he may a
So we rented a trim little flat.
Of itself this | “We'll be just as happy,” we said to our
spouse,
“And add to our savings at that.”
When liquor went up to a dollar a drink
It garnered our goat for a while,
But after a long, philosophical think
We awaited July with a smile.
“Perhaps we've been taking a trifle
much,” :
We murmured, stout-hearted and brave;
| “Hereafter we'll tipple on sodas and such.
And think of the money we'll save!”
The violent jump in quotations on meat
We viewed with no inward disquiet.
We calmly determined we only should eat
an all-vegetarian diet.
“Why worry?” said we, “though but slen- |
der our means,
Meat eating is bad for the health.
They cannot charge much for potatoes and
beans,
And soon we’l accumulate wealth.”
But flats cost a lot more than houses
day,
And sodas as much as straight rye.
Potatoes and beans have gone soaring
away
To the uttermost heights of the sky.
We have lost all the fun we ought to have
had,
And haven't got money enough
To pay for a half dozen eggs—from a
shad—
So we're off the philosophy stuff!
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLAG.
Glorious Record From January
1776, to Its Proud Position in
the World in 1919.
The Stars and Stripes were raised
ston on Janu-
ary 18, 1776, and the British troops
believed it to be evidence of submis-
The Betsy Ross:
on the heights near
sion to the king.
flag, the official flag, came later.
After the declaration of independ-!
the first salute toit:
ence, July 4, 1776,
‘was given by ;
a en y
into the Unio:
stars were placed on the field, but
they were discarded after much de-
bate in Congress: and the original
thirteen were restored in 1818.
The first flag that floated over a
foreign and captured fort was at Nas-
sau, January 28, 1778. The first car-
ried to London was on a vessel Feb-
ruary 3, 1783. It floated in China in
1784.
It was carried around the world!
t The first blood
shed under it was in Ireland in 1790
during a mob riot over a bridge built
from 1787 to 1790.
by American engineers. The first
lute to it given by an English vessel
was in May, 1791.
One of Napoleon’s generals remark-
ed to the illustrious man that senti-
lace in the thought of
; “Sen-
timent concerns what most enriches
ment had no
a country. apoleon replied:
life.”
THE FINDING OF OLD GLORY.
When the daycame that our revo-
lutionary fathers needed to design a
flag for the new nation of their heroic
founding, they had but to lift their
eyes to the heavens to find the ban-
ner of their faith and pride.
_ In the glowing West, in the burn-
ing clouds of a sunset sky—streaming
across the wide hotizon in alternate
bands of flame and mist—they saw
the symbol of their own fair dreams,
mystic, mighty and baffling.
And as they looked, there came a
sudden rending of the fleecy mass by
a wind of liberty’s own sending, and
through the monster rift thus made
they then beheld a patch of azure sky
set thick with silver stars.
The stars-—the stripes—the blue—
01d Glory, blazoned in beauty across
the wonder of God’s great heaven, for
It is our flag—
it.—Anne
Rankin in Southern Woman’s Maga-
all the world to see.
God make us worthy of
zine.
* WHAT THE FLAG SYMBOLIZES.
In 1777, within a few days of one
year after the declaration of independ-
ence, the congress of the colonies
the confederate States assembled and
ordained this glorious national flag
and advanced it full high before God
and all men as the flag of liberty.
It was no holiday flag, gorgeousl
emblazoned for gayety. or vanity.
was a solemn national signal.
truths and pu
our
ary war.
laration of Independence means.
means all that the Constitution of our
people meant in organizing for jus-
tice, for liberty, for happiness.
— General Pershing protests that
he didn’t ask permission to cross the
sea in a flying machine. The luxuri-
ous liners are good enough for the
General.
——The German Chancellor is do-
ing his best for the Fatherland but
Senator Borah has him distanced a
mile in efficiency at the work.
orev sp m—
— Now that he has done his best
to serve them it is to be hoped that
the Vares will cancel their mortgage
on the Governor.
NO. 24.
Senator Lodge’s Mare’s Nest. A REFORMED PHILOSOPHER.
When
that banner first enrolled to the sun,
it was the symbol of all those holy
oses which brought
together the colonial American con-
gress! The flag means now all th
fathers meant in the Revolution-
It means all that the Dec-
Northumberland county, principally from
Shamokin, Mt. Carmel and other coal re-
gion cities, have filed applications for nat-
uralization papers in the office of the Pro-
thonotary of that county. The naturali-
zation court will be held in September.
—Over in Saxton, living peacefully
along the shores of the Raystown branch,
and in love with Bedford county’s hills,
resides David B. Weaver, the last surviv-
ing member of the party which first dis-
covered the placer mines of Montana.
He is now arranging to make a trip back
to that State.
—Last week was one for fractures for
the A. B. Ellis family, of Blossburg. His
son broke an arm cranking a motor car.
Next day his daughter fell down the river
bank and broke an arm. The following
day the family cat came home dragging
one leg behind her, and investigation
proved also a fracture.
—Private Cyril McCarthy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. McCarthy, of St. Marys, is
said to be the youngest soldier in Elk or
adjoining counties. He enlisted in the
aviation service in December, 1917, being
then just three months past sixteen years
of age. A few months after enlisting he
was sent to France and transferred to the
signal corps, being attached to the 117th
field signal battalion of the 42nd division.
—The Bureau of Statistics Department
of Agricylture, reports that the prospect
for a full crop of fruit in Pennsylvania is
as follows: Apples, 81 per cent.; pears, 66
per cent.; peaches, 60 per cent.; plums, 65
per cent, and cherries 62 per cent. As this
information was gathered on or about
May first, only a few days after the freeze
of April 24-26, the next report may show
condition and outlook much above or be-
low these figures.
—While working along the Pennsylva-
nia railroad track near Juniata bridge,
east of Altoona, last Saturday, W. F. De-
haven was struck on the head by a whis-
key bottle thrown from a passenger train,
sustaining a painful injury. Railroad po-
lice charged James Thomas, of Amatol, N.
J., with disorderly conduct and malicious
mischief. Thomas was taken off the train
at Altoona, pleaded guilty and paid a fine
of $10 and costs of $4.40.
—With potato warts in the ground, 17-
year locusts on the surface and starlings
appearing in the air to chase off insectiv-
orous birds, farmers in the nertheastern
part of Pennsylvania were further dis-
couraged this week to learn that the clo-
ver weevil has put in an appearance to
‘menace the hay crop. This pest strips
whole fields in a few hours and farm
agents acting for the State have begun a
campaign of instruction to agriculturalists
in the proper use of arsenate of lead.
i»=Ruth, the two-year-old daughter of
‘Mr: and Mrs, Claire Neff, of Coalport, was
&{ gtaun co. picces Thursday the Seb when
‘she toddled in -front of a train‘on the
too
to-
18,
Came | cambria ‘and Clearfield division. Engineer --
| W. A. Callan, of Cresson, who was in
charge of the train was unable to see the
child until a few feet away owing to hav-
ing just rounded a curve, The train was
not traveling at a high rate of speed and
Callan made every effort to bring the en-
gine to a halt. Witnesses to the accident
exonerate the engineer, who is greatly
broken up over the accident.
—The Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows of Johnstown was
attended by 1200 delegates, with about 400
representatives to the annual meeting of
the Daughters of Rebekah. The annual
report of the secretary showed a member-
ship in the State of 173,902, that more
than 1100 members engaged in the war
had been killed in action and that almost
300 were wounded or died in camps in this
country. More than $1,000,000 was paid
out in death and sick benefits within the
year. The total assets of working lodges
in the State are almost $8,000,000.
— Much excitement has been created in
the vicinity of Lyndell, Chester county, by
the discovery of oil on the McClure farm
by John J. Lewis, a storekeeper, who no-
ticed it floating on the surface of the
Brandywine and gathered samples. The
oil burned frecly in a lamp and Lewis
consulted an expert, who made an investi-
gation and reported that oil® existed in
the ground of that section. Capital has
been enlisted and three wells have been
started on the farm, but so far oil has not
been found in paying quantities. The
wells will be bored much deeper in hopes
of finding a flow that will pay.
Cash was the only thing Jonas Wiest,
a wealthy resident of Herndon, would ac-
cept from Sheriff Jeremiah, of Northum-
berland county, in settlement of a $5000
judgment the Sheriff had collected for
him. The writ was marked satisfied and
Deputy Frank Adams was making out a
check for the amount, but Mr. Wiest de-
manded cash. Then Adams offered to
have the check certified, but cash was the
ony thing he would have. Adams then
went to the First National bank at Sun-
bury and got him his money all in new
$20 bills. Wiest was satisfied. He stowed
it away in a huge wallet and went his way
rejoicing.
—Strangely, a bolt of lightning that
struck a steel flagstaff towering above the
Pennsylvania railroad yards at Northum-
berland, shattered the metal, splitting it
in twain, but failed to damage a single
thread of a United States flag that hung
at topmast. The bolt hit squarely on the
top of the pole, and slivered the steel
downward as though a wedge had been
driven into it. One slender piece remain-
ed upright and on it still flies the flag.
The emblem was not as much as scorched
by the lightning. Several men sitting in
an office close by were shocked. Harold
Reigle, a caller, was hurled across the
room, but was uninjured.
—When she was seized with cramps
while in bathing in the Susquehanna riv-
er at Sunbury, Miss Minne Lufar, eigh-
teen years of age, had gone down twice in
twelve feet of water, when Palmer Whee-
land, just returned from overseas service
jn the national army, rescued her after
desperate efforts. The young woman was
unconscious, but was revived by other
bathers. Last summer Wheeland, single-
handed, saved two young men from drown-
ing at almost the same spot. An effort
will be made by witnesses to all three of
his rescues to have young Wheeland'’s acts
of heroism placed before the Carnegie He-
ro Fund commission. He, talks lightly of
his daring, only saying that almost any
person would do the same thing. .
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