Deo Matdy.
INK SLINGS.
"——That parting of Dave Lane
and Hampy Moore was sad but not
exactly tearful.
«—Possibly the one great failure of
Andrew Carnegies’ life was his futile
effort to die poor.
—TUrge your boy to hang onto his
army insurance. He'll never get more
as cheap and good as it is.
—Let’s see, how long ago was it
that the new Republican Congress
promised to cure all our ills in a few
weeks and then adjourn and go home?
—The apple crop being almost a
complete failure in Centre county
those who have been looking forward
to storing a little hard cider for mince
pies and other purposes can eat
the pies without the kick in ’em and
look for something else to satisfy
those other purposes.
—When men work eight hours a
day instead of ten they lose two hours
of production. When production de-
creases cost increases and will contin-
ue to do so therefor the disgorging of
cold storage warehouses, the selling
of army food supplies and threatened
prosecution of meat packers are but
temporary palliatives for the high
cost of living.
—Hecla Park is a resort located at
Mingoville, near the centre of Walker
township, Centre county. It has thir-
teen houses, a brick mill, an ice bar-
racks and a baseball team that had
the nerve to horn into Bellefonte’s
inter-ward league and put the cleaner
on its leaders so effectually that Belle-
fonte is all upset and Lawrence Mec-
Mullen, Joe Herman and Charley
Workman are so swelled that the su-
pervisors of Walker are about to be
petitioned to move the road fences so
the highways will be wide enough to
let them through.
—1It is beginning to look very much
as though there might be an oasis of
about four months in the Prohibition
desert. We have no inside informa-
tion to warrant the statement but we
would not be surprised if the Presi-
dent were to declare the army demo-
bilized some time next month and the
war-time Prohibition ban lifted. When
the army is demobilized he will have
no alternative in the matter though it
seems too bad that since the country
is taking so gracefully to the new or-
der of living that the old should be
given even so short a come back as it
would have until January 26th next,
when the new federal amendment will
become operative.
—Because the “Watchman” last
week published the fact that the larg-
est grand total of children borne by
one woman is recorded as sixty-two
an anonymous correspondent writes
from Pittsburgh to the effect that he
believes it to be in line with seme of |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 32.
YO oy
BELLEFONTE. PA., AUGUST 15, 1919,
Opposing Another Treaty.
Some weeks ago Republican Sena-
tors in Congress protested vehement-
ly because the President had with-
held an agreement made in Paris be-
tween the representative of the Unit-
ed States, Great Britain and France
in which a pledge was made that in
the event Germany attacked France
after the withdrawal of the army of
occupation, the United States and
Great Britain would immediately in-
tervene for the protection of France.
That was the right kind of a treaty,
they said, because it meant some-
those eminent advisers of Republican
Senators, Judge Hughes and Elihu
they have seen the instrument they
have changed their minds.
Now they are quite as openly op-
posed to that agreement as to the
peace treaty and for reasons that are
equally absurd. “It is a confession
of the worthlessness of the League of
Nations,” one of them declared the
other day. “The League of Nations,”
he added, “is intended to prevent war
and if it is of any value at all the
agreement for the protection of
France will not be needed.” As a
matter of fact the agreement is in-
tended to serve the purpose of pro-
tecting France from German ven-
geance until the League of Nations
becomes operative. - That is quite a
formidable undertaking and consider-
able time will be required to put its
machinery in force and get it into op-
eration.
Meantime France is naturally ap-
prehensive of an organized attack
from Germany as soon as the army
of occupation is withdrawn. The late
war was very destructive to France
and exceedingly exhausting. On the
other hand Germany suffered com-
paratively little in material resources
and being stronger in man power as
well as richer in everything except
patriotism, might easily make hostile
incursions, into the already: impover-
ished territory of France. The agree-
ment was for the purpose of preven
ing such disaster during the period
in which the League of Nations is in
process of formation.” But President
Wilson had a hand in shaping both
the stories we have told of our catch-
es of fish on Fishing creek. While
we are utterly at a loss to know who
in Pittsburgh dares to question the
truthfulness either of the “Watch-
man” as a purveyor of news or the
writer as a fisherman his nom-de-
plume: “An Ardent Admirer” must
certainly have been inspired by envy
of the daddy of those sixty-two and
not by anything the “Watchman” has
ever said or done.
—1It is a pleasure to note that the
‘Hon. William H. Keller will have no
opposition to his candidacy for a full
term on the Superior court bench.
The time for filing nomination papers
for that office having passed without
any other jurist essaying to contest
the election with him his name will be
the only one to appear on the ballot.
While Mr. Keller is an uncompromis-
ing Republican and he would certain-
ly be elected, no matter what Demo-
crat might have entered the lists un-
der that polite subterfuge ‘“non-par-
tisan,” we are pleased that it is as it
ig for we know of no Democrat or of
any other Republican, for that mat-
ter, who could carry a cleaner char-
acter, more conscientious devotion to
duty or more scrupulous integrity to
the bench of Pennsylvania than will
the Bellefonte boy who has become an
honor to his profession in Lancaster.
—The time for the county prima-
ries is approaching. There are many
men aspiring to become the nominees
of one or the other of the two politic-
al parties. All of the aspirants may
be regarded as good citizens and far
be it from us to traduce the character
of any of them but we have a word to
sav to both the Democratic and Re-
publican voters of Centre county. A
word in their own interest. From
the men to be chosen as your nomi-
nees next month the managers of the
business of forty-twe thousand peo-
ple will be elected. They will have
charge of the deeds to your homes,
the mortgages, the wills, the appraise-
ment of your properties, possibly the
welfare of your orphan children, the
levying, collection and disbursement
of taxes you will pay; in fact of
everything in which you should be
most vitally interested. While all of
these aspirants may be good men it
doesn’t follow that they will make
good officers. Use your judgment in
voting for them at the primaries, be
as careful with your ballot as you
would be in putting a man in the way
of taking care of your personal mat-
ters. Just because you have a person-
al acquaintance with this one and not
with his competitor is not a good rea-
son for voting for the one whom you
know. Find out something of the
other fellow, his character and his
ability, and if he seems better fitted
for the particular office for which he
is a candidate than the one you know
personally you are a better citizen if
you vote to nominate him and
Jeave the personal element out of it
. the opposition. ¢
covenants. and that ‘is. the . reason of
3
Thus. far. Senator . Borah has
not- charged President Wilson with
abducting Charlie Ross but he hasn’t
exhausted all his opportunities yet.
He has made many equally absurd
accusations against the President and
may come to that later on.
-
Death of Andrew Carnegie.
The death of Andrew Carnegie
calls to mind his long continued and
extensive activities in philanthropy.
It is said up until June of last year
he had given away the vast sum of
$350,695,653, all of which was dis-
bursed for the benefit of mankind as
he understood it. He established
2811 free public libraries at an ex-
pense to himself of $60,364,808. It is
true that his beneficences along
cases burdensome, on the communi-
ful beyond estimate, nevertheless.
They presented to millions of people
opportunities for acquiring knowl-
edge that would have been denied to
them otherwise. This is greatly to
his credit.
Mr. Carnegie did much valuable
philanthropic work in other direc-
tions also. His contributions of
| church organs helped greatly in pop-
ularizing as well as strengthening .the
religious efforts and organizations.
His Carnegie Foundation, Carnegic
Institutes and Carnegie Hero Fund
have served the purposes for which
they were designed with equal benefit
to the causes of science, research and
civilization. But probably his great-
est public beneficence was his opposi-
tion to monopoly. Unfortunately he
abandoned that too soon. When he
sold his steel properties to the Steel
trust he registered an unconditional
surrender to the
had previously antagonized.
Of course the world was bettered
by Mr. Carnegie’s munificence in the
various courses his benevoleft mind
ran and though “charity covers a mul-
titude of sins” his beneficences can-
not obscure the fact that his great
| wealth was the fruit of a vicious sys-
| tem which impoverished millions
while it made a few men rich. With
an understanding of the facts Mr.
Carnegie contributed his moral and
material support to a system of tax-
ation, under the pretense of protec-
tion, that enabled him to seize an un-
earned share of the wages of his em-
ployees until his wealth had grown
to satiety. He made better use of his
money than most of the tariff graft-
his philanthropy.
——Just by way of prediction.
There will be no candidate for the Re-
publican nominatien for Mayor of
Philadelphia against J. Hamilton
Moore, on primary election day. In
entirely.
other words the Vares will support
Hampy.
thing. In this view of the matter
Root, cordially concurred. But since
these lines imposed taxes, in some !
ties he favored. But they were help- |
sinister forces he
ers but the record casts a shadow over
! General March is Right.
© Most of the thoughtful civilians of
the country will concur in General
{ March’s views on the subject of chem-
{ical warfare. “The War Depart-
! ment,” General March stated before
| the Senate committee on Military
| Affairs, the other day, “is opposed to
the use of poisonous gasses and be-
lieves chemical warfare should be
abolished.” Senator Chamberlain, of
Oregon, who hasn’t done much else
than criticise the War Department
within the past two years, took issue
with the military expert. “More than
thirty per cent. of the American cas-
' ualties in the great war were by gas,”
' he declared, and for that or some oth-
er reason he is opposed to abolishing
| chemical warfare.
The use of poisonous gasses as in-
| struments of torture in war was in-
| vented by Germany and shocked the
| humanitarian sentiment of the whole
! civilized world. Next to that twin
atrocity of the German mind, the sub-
; marine craft, it was depended upon
| to destroy the opposing armies and
| the fact that thirty per cent. of
| American casualties are ascribable to
| gas it may be said the worst expecta-
| tions concerning it were fulfilled. But
| that is no reason why it should be
i continued as an instrument of war.
{ The tendency of advanced thought is
" against the greater atrocities both in
i war and peace and the policy of the
. War Department at Washington to
| oppose chemical warfare is both hu-
| mane and creditable.
It is said that during the war
American chemists developed a gas
| more deadly and effective than any
used by Germany and no doubt if the
subject were pursued American gen-
| jus would find the lead in this as it
'has in most other things. But the
j aim of recent years has been to re-
duce rather than augment the horrors
of the war and it is creditable to the
‘military authorities of the United
States that a willingness to lead in
‘the movement is expressed. While
"the hope that wars are ended for all
time may not be realized the desire to
minimize the cruelties of war may
i still be continued and the first step in
. that direction should be to -abolish
| chemical and undersea warfare.
{~__Painters in New York are strik-
ling for a forty hour week and one
dollar an hour., A lot of strike-
i breakers .might be recruited here for
| Bellefonte is full of pood painters who
| are putting in about twelve hours a
day walking the streets and doing
; nothing at all.
Exact Statement of the Case.
| When President Wilson said in his
| referring to the high cost of living,
or elsewhere until the
| treaty of peace is out of the way and
| become the chief concern of our gov-
ernment and the other governments
. cisely. “Until then,” he added, “bus-
iness will inevitably remain specula-
{ that, with heavy losses or heavy
gains as it may chance, and the con-
| gains and the losses. There can be
| financial and economic system is on
a war basis.”
| rection of the chairman of the Repub-
| lican National committee the leaders
' address to Congress, the other day,
| that “there can be no settled condi-
: tions here
| the worl—ef liquidating the war has
, of the world,” he stated the case pre-
tive and sway now this way and again
| sumer must take care of both the
| no peace prices so long as our whole
By concerted action under the di-
| of that party are striving to continue
| this state of uncertainty. They esti-
| mate that their chances of success at
| the approaching Presidential election
| is strong or weak in the ratio that the
| people of the country are prosperous
' and contented or suffering and discon-
' tented. With the high cost of living
harrassing every household in the
: land the party in power is blamed for
financial and economic blunders and
these scurvy politicians are ready te
multiply public distress in order to
increase their chances of victory in
1920. That is the crux of the matter
and should be treated accordingly.
With the restoration of peace con-
ditions prosperity would come in
every line of endeavor. Manufactur-
ers are eager to operate their mills
and factories and commercial enter-
prises are impatiently awaiting the
opportunity to move forward. But
the uncertainty of the future restrains
all agencies of business from action
and the Republican Senators are hold-
ing up the ratification of the peace
treaty to prolong the doubts and in-
crease the distress. Legislation may
mitigate and investigation lessen the
trouble but neither can cure the mal-
ady from which the country is suffer-
ing almost to the breaking point. The
Republican party is responsible for
the present suffering throughout the
land.
——The successful investigator of
the high cost of living will direct his
inquiries toward the cold storage
warehouses.
——The repeal of the tax on ice
cream probably expresses the Repub-
licam method of reducing the cost of
. living.
“#4 Tjeut. E. R. (Dick) Taylor,
Senator Lodge’s Foolish Speech. | Dr. William Frear’s Opinion of Tioga
County Potash Deposit.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, de-
livered his long promised, or threat-| Farmers in Centre county, as well
ened, speech against the peace treaty | as the State at large, were unusually
on Tuesday, and as Senator Williams, | interested in the story spread broad-
| 3 i i ae a | cast last week of the discovery of im-
| 5 2 S) Jims T. Oifge isc par | mense beds of potash in Tioga county
jm of i e Sena 2 orm ee on oo ‘and in order to satisfy himself as to
Sign Be Shon ox y SMa fo 5% y i the Ahondn of the alleged discov-
nt. ery Dr. William Frear, vice direct
has been in Congress for a quarter of | i chemist of the orien ory
a century and ought to be familiar tion at State College, visited the
with the public life of the world. Yet! mountains in Tioga county where the
after three months of preparation he | big “find” was made and his report
was able only to rehearse and reiter- | on same is not of such a character as
2% the ig in Befinjor | to induce farmers to indulge in any
= oe, os as mater Borah, | Sesssive jubilation over the possibil-
al ato randagee, of ; j i
Connecticut, have been doling out to! Sia Som in Pe = oe
confuse the public mind for months. | Dr. Frear’s complete report on same
His strongest point was a compari- | is as follows:
son of the League of Nations to the! «The deposit reported i i
1 : the Tioga
Holy Alliance. No honest man with count D Forte in
Ly : y potash discovery was one of
the intelligence of an oyster would | niter or saltpeter, the nitrate of po-
assert an analogy in these proposi- | tassium. This compound is formed in
every soil by the action of certain
tions. Then he asserted that the cov- ‘ ]
enant of the League of Nations would | bacteria upon nitrogen-containing or-
| ganic matters. We are not certain
bind the government of the United | 3 a A 2
States to send troops to help King | that, in nature, it is formed in consid-
Hussein to suppress an insurrection Stuble milly. ia pny oiher way a
_in Hedjaz; that it bestows upon Japan | s0. 5 ur arid regions, in BD ro
or China the right to regulate our! tected from the rain, such as covered
immigration laws and upon any na-! barn yards, stable floors, bat caves,
tion interested to frame our tariff | etc.
laws. If he believes those things his | “The material is very soluble in
proper place is in some asylum for water; hence large accumulations do
fechle minded invalids and if he) lot occur in the soils. of humid re-
: 3 gions; but the drainage waters carry
doesn’t believe them his statement | it away. Deep re wells often
qualifies him for a cell in some State | .ontain a very little nitrate. It is
prison.
probably present in the moisture con-
As a matter of fact Senator Lodge | tained in many rocks, so far as that
has written himself down as a cheap | moisture is derived from soil drain-
demagogue willing to sacrifice his|age. But no large accumulations of
country for a vague hope of partisan | it are known in any rock bed below
advantage in the future. The whole | surface in the humid regions of the
: : fo world.
world is patiently waiting for the res- These: facts make. the. oxivtence in
tortion of peace in order that indus- | pappsylvania of any great, rock-con-
try and commerce may resume activi-, tained deposit of saltpeter improba-
ties and restore prosperity. But Sen-' ple,
ator Lodge holds everything up for, “On Tuesday I visited the rock in
the reason that he imagines the de- | question. It is a weathered mass of
feat of the treaty will help the Repub- | Small size projecting from the hill
lican party into power and some of Slope. It is much stratified, that is,
his friends to opportunities to loot. It mals up o numerous Shin layers iy
is to be hoped that his sinister expee- | fon; orad € Crovices Bro ted from
tati al be di ted. Bat the action of rain. White to brownish
ation will be disappointed. ut | white encrustations appear on the
meantime the people of the country | surface of these crevices in the mid-
should charge their memories with | dle and lower parts of the exposed
the record. | front of this jutting rock. This-en-
! crustation, a sample of which I took,
: containes niter. ve
military instructor at the Huntingdon “However, several facts of possible
reformatory and a candidate for the importance give rise to a questioli” as
nomination for sheriff ‘on the Dem- to the immediate source of this niter
ocratic - ticket’ in Centre county, crustation extends through the great
spent Sunday with his family in this | 3 Lr
place and brought home with him a! hay fe Fock of Thich mis jutting
copy of “Brother Jonathan,” a paper. “I was told that this outcrop had
i published by Wilson & Co., in New long been known locally as ‘the salt-
| York, being the issue of July 4th, peter rock,’ but that otlfer outcrops
1846, over seventy-three. years ago. | that occur at the same elevation on
" : 3 ! i ;
The ‘paper, according to its heading , £10, 5070 NE B20 R0 SCh, TREES. ve
was issued but twice a year, the jon
Fourth of July and Christmas, and it | the floor of which is covered with the
a | dung of wild animals. This dung may
must have kept the printers of those | be the source of the saltpeter.
days pretty busy, at that. It is an| «Whether the niter encrustations
eight page sheet, eight columns of 17 | appear also in the great mass of the
. ems measure to a page, and the pages | rock back under the hill is now being
were 24x36 inches in size. The paper | determined, If they do not, the de-
was extensively illustrated with wood | posit is scientifically interesting but
engravings of a very high class and | not commercially important.”
the quality of the paper and ink they WILLIAM FREAR.
used in those days were evidently
vastly superior to those of the pres-
ent day, as the paper still retained its |
Farm Hands Destroy Tradition.
From the Christian Science Monitor. :
and as to the extent to which the en-.
original color and the pictures were
as sharp and bright as when the pa-
per came off the press. The first page
was devoted to a lengthy review and
, two big illustrations of the capture
and execution of Major Andre dur-
ing the revolutionary war, and a pic-
There is very likely a good deal of
truth, although the situation is one
that invites exaggeration as it gets
into print, in the complaint of farm-
ers in the United States that men
coming home from the war and en-
gaging for work on farms are de-
manding shower baths and well-aired
sleeping quarters. In many cases
these re 53d to re youn men who
HWatihrman? ia 4 ._, 1 worked on farms before they went to
ore bir r Poca: the war and never thought of such a
of a pamphlet published by the 'enn- | thing as a shower bath; but the life
sylvania State Chamber of Commerce, | in the camps has established new ideas
Harrisburg, containing a complete list | of living, and the bath is essential.
of laws adopted by the Legislature | Report comes from the farms in the
at the 1919 session, as compiled by | Delaware valley that fully 80 per
Robert Haight, director of the legis- | cent. of the men who return to farm
lative bureau. The list is classified | work are more insistent on baths and
under various headings and while | fresh air in ther Toome Ehan onhigy
; : | er wages.
they are naturally but brief epitomes | percentage of the new farm workers
of the various laws they are explicit | stood for this program, it would show
enough "to cover the Act in general. | that military training had inculcated
In brief it is a valuable work for! some very good habits, and it will
ready reference as to what laws were | probably well repay the farmers to
passed and approved by the Gover-: install the shower bath and consider
NOT. i it a useful farm implement.
ture of the city of Milkaukee, Wis., as
it looked at that time.
——Mr. Carnegie said it would be a ! Get Them Out of the Country.
disgrace to die rich but it will hardly | ... = ine DuBois Express
be necessary for friends of his be-| Commissioner "Cominetti of the
Toaved dependents 0 take up 3 colies- , immigration service, says he has in
on fo pay the expenses oi his iun-, tow 3,600 undesirable aliens all rea-
eral. 1y Jor deportation, and i pias ask-
Tr i ed for an army transport for that pur-
kt ay be remarked ie a pose. He says it would cost about
considerable part of the working $800 a person to send the undesirables
force of the Republican party of Phil- | away on ocean liners, and he feels |
in the West Chester | that is too much. By deporting these
; all at one time on an army transport,
i the cost would be greatly lessened.
— It is said that the Philadelphia ; That’s the idea; get rid ‘of the entire
North Penn bank didn’t collect inter ' lot as quickly as possible.
est en loans. Well it didn’t pay the =a
principal on deposits either.
adelphia is now
jail.
| Fit Punishment.
“From the Wheeling Intelligencer.
4 ; It appears in the news from Amer-
Se a , ongen that Mr. Hohenzollern has had
; to go house hunting. Now his real
sion and be equally truthful. Rta begins. g
: Most everybody agrees on the |
proposition that everybody else ought
to economize in order to reduce the
cost of living.’
| From the Louisyille Courier-Journal.
| “President Wilson is giving serious
: Si————————. _ | attention to the hight cost of living.”
: ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” | He’s a salaried man, you know.
SR RR Ee lle
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The Luther League of Pennsylvania
will hold its annual convention at Te
highton on the 26th, 27th and 28th of Au-
gust. ! :
—Out of 6770 students examined in the
rr
#
-
: Altoona schools last term, 5834 were found
to be physically defective. Only twenty-
three per cent. of the total enrollment wag
normal. : ’ :
—The Susquehanna Silk Mills company,
a corperation having widespread interests
in Central Pennsylvania, is floating a $4,~
000,000 bond issue for the purpose of plant:
improvement, purchase of new machinery,
etc. The company gives ity assets as
property worth $19,000,000 unincumbered.
—Dr. John C. Bateson, of Dunmore,
Lackawanna county, instituted mandamus
proceedings last week in the Dauphin
county court to compel the State Board of
Licensure to reinstate him as a practicing
physician in Pennsylvania. His license
was. taken from him on what he declares
to be false charges. :
—J. E. Flook, collector of county and
State tax in Salladasburg borough, Ly-
coming county, has settled his 1918 dupB-
cate. He asked for only one exoneration
and that was for eighteen cents. This is
the smallest exoneration ever asked by any
tax collector in Lycoming county, and
probably in any other county in the
State.
—The Clinton Natural Gas and Oil com-
pany, which holds options on nearly 20,-
000 acres of leases and two natural gas
wells in the Kettle Creek region, expects
to drill ten new wells this season and
build trunk gas lines to Renovo. Dr. J.
D. Coney, of Williamsport, is the treasur-
er of the company, and W. P. Felix, also of
Williamsport, the secretary.
—Strawberry growing will be one of
the new industries of the Lehigh valley
next year, according to the farmers, who
say they have arranged to plant hundreds
of thousands of strawberry vines this fall. -
The failure of the crops from the New
Jersey section to reach Hazleton each
spring leads agriculturists to believe they
can capture the trade in that part of the
State.
—The equipment of the Coryell Con-
struction company, of Williamsport, locat-
ed at Avis, Lock Haven, and on the state
road near the upper island bridge in Clin-
ton county, was recently sold at sheriff's
sale. Abram Fischer, of Williamsport, one
of the plaintiffs, purchased considerable
of the equipment, and other parts of it
went to Max L. Mitchell, representing
another of the plaintiffs.
—Edward Davis, aged 65 years, of Mun-
son, Clearfield county, who is alleged to
have dynamited his own home and that of
a neighbor, a month ago, was taken to
jail at Clearfield. Davis was discharged
from a Philipsburg hospital, but when he
arrived at the jail the physician in charge
found him in such shape that he had to
be taken to the Clearfield hospital. Ome
of his ears is said to bé in such shape’
that amputation may be necessary. ° :
. —The first application in Pennsylvania ’
for the incorporation of an air transporta- -
tion company has been laid before the .
Public Service Commission. The concern -
is’ the Easton Airplane Service company. :
Its proposed capital is $10,000 and Jacob
Beck. of Easton, is treasurer. No route'is
specified. Another application from Pitts-
burgh, for the incorporation of a company
to manufacture airplanes and conduct a
common carrier business, was rejected as
it was a two-fold proposition. .
~ ~—~What remains of the crops not ruined
by the recent rains in Lancaster county
is threatened now with destruction by the
army worm, so called,. which has appear-
ed at Clinton. All the growing oats in a
large field on the stock farm of Adolf Go-
ble, near Annandale, one of several in-
stances, has been practically destroyed by
these worms, which eat away the heads of
the oats. To prevent the pest from
spreading to the corn and ether crops, the
oats was saturated Saturday and Monday
with kerosene and the entire field burned.
—New State Highway designs to indi-
cate detours and announced as ‘‘stage-
coach red” in color, with a white arrow,
have made their appearance on many roads
of Pennsylvania so that the people may
know which way to go to avoid construc-
tion work which is under way on more
than 400 miles of main highway this
month. Heretofore black and white card-
board signs have been used, but they have
been ripped to pieces by storms and have
proved unsatisfactory in other ways, and
metal signs that can be seen for consider-
able distances will be employed.
—Michael Kobylmyk, a grocer, of Ches-
ter, was fleeced out of $900 last Thursday
via the gold brick route. Two men called
at his place and offered to purchase his
business. The owner showed great inter-
est. The strangers went out and returned
in a short time with a third friend. The
third man exhibited something that look-
ed like gold and told Kobylmyk that he
had plenty of the gold and that he could
get him $1000 worth of it for $900. The
keeper of the small grocery took the bait,
went to his safe and produced $800 in $20
bills. The stranger took the money and
was to return in a short while. The other
two men at a time when Kobylmyk was
waiting on some customers left the store.
The police have little hope of securing the
money.
—The members of the Hakanaki Camp
Fire Girls, of Northampton, near Allen-
town, had the greatest scare of their young
lives a few nights ago, when their cabin
on the Pocono mountains, where they are
having a two weeks’ outing, was visited by
a huge black bear. The girls as a rule
slept on the porch but that night, because
of the cold, they went indoors. “About
midnight there was a terrible commotion
on the veranda when chairs began to tum-
ble about, tables upset and general rough-
house was started. Some of the bravest
of the girls looked out and saw the bear
but made no effort to disturb him and in
half an hour he left after having stoleu all
the victuals and milk. The bear was seen
half a mile away the next day and natives
say it was a very large one.
—Much excitement attended a calithum-
pian serenade tendered Clarence Brown
and his bride, of near Corinne, Delaware
county, recently, when several hundred
residents of the locality appeared at the
home of the young couple equipped with
horns, tin pans, drums and other uoise-
producing affairs, including a ‘horse fid-
dle” the tones of which could be heard for
several miles. During the height of.tRe
din a driving horse belonging: to Walter
Hoopes and valued at $300, bolted and
broke its neck in a fall over a wire fence.
Following this Miss Maude Brown, sister
of the groom, suffered a serious attack of
heart trouble. due to the excitement, and
a physician worked a half hour to restore
her. The bride and groom, after the ex-
citment had ® subsided, tendered all the
members of the party a treat of ice cream
and cake.