A SA SO RS BA A RA ER
INK SLINGS.
—The candidates have only eight-
een days in which to get on or off the
ticket.
—An employer should expect noth-
ing from an employee without paying
for it. By the same token an em-
ployee has no right to expect pay
from his employer for which he has
not given honest, intelligent work.
—Look into their history thorough-
1y and you’ll nearly always find that
the man on your job who causes the
most trouble among his fellow work-
ers is the one who does the least work
for the coin that’s in his pay envel-
ope.
—Lots of people who were just dy-
ing to take a ride in one of the mail
ships, knowing that it is against the
rules for them to carry passengers,
have been strangely relieved of their
obsession since the arrival of a ship
in Bellefonte that is here for the sole
purpose of carrying passengers.
—Ridgway has reduced her police
force thirty-three and one-third per
cent. That sounds like a big reduc-
tion, especially if it has been due to
dry times up in Elk, but when we tell
the whole story that the reduction in
the custodians of the peace really
amounted to dropping one of her three
policemen it doesn’t sound so wonder-
ful.
—The cool nights we are having re-
mind us of the pleasures we have in
store when the good hot mince pie
comes in season again. But will it be
the good mince pie that a certain em-
inent dominie we knew was wont to
travel miles to eat while he studious-
ly avoided inquiry as to what gave it
the delectable flavor that made it his
epicurean hobby.
—Where is that “unlimited capital”
that Germans are said to be using in
» exploiting Mexico coming from. It
doesn’t square with the generally ac-
cepted belief as to the impoverished
condition of Germany. We are inclin-
‘ed to view the story as part of a well
laid plan to start something below the
Rio Grande for the benefit of other
interests than German.
—The constitution of the United
States gives the Senate no authority
‘to amend a treaty. It may accept or
reject it, but there its prerogatives
end. Senators of the United States
know this therefor their attempts at
amendment are clearly revealed as fil-
ibustering for party advantage while
.the country suffers because of the un-
settled condition in which it will re-
main until peace is restored.
—When the President told the rail-
‘road brotherhoods that they are now
getting quite as much as the railroads
can afford to pay them they were
shocked, no doubt. The trouble with
those gentlemen seems to be that they
thought the President had eyes or
thoughts for no one else, whereas
there are over one hundred million
other people in this broad land who
have to be looked after as well as
them.
—According to a recent order of
the state highway department all ad-
vertising signs and posters on fences
and poles along the state highways
are to be taken down. While it must
be admitted that the approaches to
nearly every American town are made
hideous by a riot of advertising colors
and signs and that the pictures of
many of the candidates do not convey
the impression that the good Lord
was making masterpieces when He
made them we doubt the authority of
the state highway authorities to re-
move either from fences or poles that
are merely along the routes and not
on the right of way.
—There is a very good reason for
the attitude that some of the big
banks of the country have taken with
regard to lifting the wartime prohibi-
tion. Distillers, brewers and retailers
accumulated stocks, after the armis-
tice was signed, believing that the ar-
my would be demobilized and the ban
automatically lifted in ample time to
permit of sale before the federal
amendment became operative. In or-
der to do this they required large
bank accommodations. If they are
not permitted to sell the stored stocks
there will be immense loss and inter-
ested banks are naturally moving to
protect themselves. As a general
proposition we lament the resumption
of the business, even for so short a
time as it could be permissible, but
since the situation is involved in so
many ways that few of us are cog-
nizant of it is just possible that lift-
ing the ban would work less injury
than keeping it on.
—The effects of Prohibition are re-
vealing many surprises. At first it
was hailed with delight by wives and
mothers as the end of their greatest
fear, but it has been in effect only two
months and already the women folk
are beginning to chaff at the pester-
ing presence of the old man about the
house. He has gone through a meta-
morphosis that has transformed a
night hawk into as much of a home-
body as the family cat. He is always
around. He occupies the centre of the
floor when the neighbor women drop
in for choice feminine gossip and there
is an end of that. They haven’t the
heart to slip out for an evening at
bridge and leave him moping about
the house alone, so they're tied in
tighter than they were when he spent
every night about the hotel or his
club. It’s a problem and unless some
solution for it can be found we will
not be surprised to find the women,
when they get to. voting, working to
repeal Prohibition because they are
just naturally growing sick and tired
of the sight of their men hanging
round all the time,
VOL. 64.
Vare’s Work in Public Life.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Partisan Bigotry Revealed.
BELLEFONTE. PA.,
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AUGUST 29, 1919.
NO. 34.
Impudent Assurance of Mexicans.
One of the stories brought out in: The amendment of the peace treaty { The semi-official demand recently
the Philadelphia Republican factional , by
fight indicates that Senator Vare has Relations is susceptible of but one in-
been using his peculiar political meth- | terpretation. The Republicans of the
ods in other matters besides acquir- | Senate are determined to indefinitely |
ing fat contracts in that city. It | postpone or else entirely prevent the |
seems that he has made his influence | restoration of peace to the world and
with or ownership of the Mayor of
Philadelphia as trading capital in se-
curing legislation for himself as well
as contracts for his friends.
During |
the last session of the Legislature he |
tried to force the Director of Sup-;
plies of the city to buy coal from
Senator Eyer, of Chester county, for
the reason that he wanted the Sena-
tor’s support on a piece of legislation
in which he was personally interested.
It is of record and we believe self-
confessed that he tried to get con-
tracts for other friends in considera-
tion of personal service and it is not
unlikely that he succeeded in most in-
stances, for the Mayor of the city
was very obedient to his orders. But
little good came of his successes in
these directions. He was to some ex-
tent responsible for the nomination
of Brumbaugh for Governor and in
full measure for the appointment of
Shunk Brown for Attorney General of
the State. Former Speaker and sub-
sequently Insurance Commissioner
Charles A. Ambler, and former Bank-
ing Commissioner Daniel F. Lafean
were among his proteges and they are
both under bail for court now. Tak-
ing his operations in public life to-
gether, there is little to commend.
In the light of these facts the pri-
mary municipal campaign in Phila-
delphia is a matter of more than local
interest. If his candidate for Mayor
is nominated and elected we have the
assurance of Dave Lane that Senator
Vare will undertake to select our
next United States Senator as well as
direct most of the affairs of the State
government at Harrisburg. If he
should give us in the future the type
of public servants he has chosen in
the past the reputation of the Com-
monwealth would sink to a lower level
than it has ever reached and that is
saying much. In the interest of pub-
lic decency, therefore, we hope the
many Centre county residents of Phil-
adelphia will vote to avert such
shame.
— James Ei Harter; of Ceburn,
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for County Treasurer, has been.
laid up for a week or ten days with
an injury to his foot caused by step-
ping on a nail in his store. This nat-
urally has kept him at home when he
would have liked to visit, among the
voters of his party, but he is getting
all right now and will soon be as good
as ever. *
Patience the Remedy.
The labor situation with respect to
railroad operation continues to be
menacing. In a statement addressed
to the railroad shop employees the
other day President Wilson appeals to
their reason and patriotism, but they
seem deaf to his arguments. The
high cost of living is a present evil.
But energetic efforts have been inau-
gurated to abate it. If this effort is
successful the present wages will be
liberal if not ample. An increase now
will defeat the effort to bring down
prices and compel a further increase.
That is inevitable. It would prove a
calamity for if the endless chain is set
in motion it cannot be stopped. In-
dustrial paralysis and commercial ru-
in must be the result.
No rational man ought to think of
striking for higher wages in view of
what the President has said. The
complaining shopmen now earn fifty-
eight, sixty-three and sixty-eight
cents an hour. The railroad admin-
istration proposes to add four cents
an hour to each of these figures, mak-
ing an advance nearly equal to their
demand. But it is said the leaders of
the men refuse to accept the proposi-
tion and have submitted it to a vote
of the employees. It is to be hoped
that reason will guide them in their
action. If the expectation of those
directing the fight against the high
cost of living is fulfilled the wages
will be generous. ’
Besides this is no time to invite or
provoke trouble. Expenses of living
are almost beyond endurance. It af-
fects millions of persons not connect-
ed with the railroad service and an in-
crease in the wages of railroad em-
ployees will multiply their distresses.
The aim of all should be to diminish
rather than add to these burdens. If
each will assume a small share of the
load it will be lighter on all. A strike
will make it heavier all around and
possibly may result in a break. Pa-
tience will prevent these evil conse-
quences of an abnormal condition and
workingmen should exercise the nec-
essary patience.
——One would think that many of
the Republican Senators would like to
try life in the trenches. Those who
have had the experience are anxious |
for peace.
——If the packers don’t employ
cold storage for profit as they claim,
it must be that they have adopted
that process for preserving health.
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the return of prosperity to this coun-
try. They imagine that the continu-
ance of a state of war and the inci-
dental but inevitable demoralization
of business and high cost of living
will be of advantage to their party in
{the approaching Presidential cam-
paign and they propose to make the
sacrifice. It is the most atrocious act
of partisan iniquity ever perpetrated
in this country. Germany never com-
mitted a more dastardly crime.
The peace treaty has taken nothing
from China to which she had a legal
or moral right. By treaty made
nearly a quarter of a century ago, un-
der the administration of a Republi-
can President and while there was a
Republican majority in both branches
of Congress China ceded to Germany
certain rights in Shantung. During
the recent war Japan drove Germany
out and assumed the rights of con-
quest, China having neglected or re-
fused to perform that service for the
allies. The peace conference, after
exacting a promise from Japan to re-
‘store the property to China at or be-
fore the expiration of the lease, con-
firmed Japan’s title. If China had
taken the initiative Japan would have
had no claim.
The constitution of the United
States provides that the President
“shall have power, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate to
make treaties.” That is to say the
President shall make treaties and the
Senate may ratify or reject them.
The Senate has never before under-
taken to exceed its authority in this
respect. It has the undoubted right
to reject -the pending treaty and it
may ratify the convention with res-
ervations clearly expressed. But it
| has no right to amend for that is
neither advising nor consenting which
is the limit of Senatorial power. But
amending the treaty will prevent the
restoration of peace and give the Re-
publicans an advantage in the Presi-.
dential campaign.
——The action of Cengress on the
matter of daylight saving indicates
that our statesmen are not in close
touch with public sentiment. Every-
body appears to favor the saving ex-
cept the Senators and Representatives
in Congress.
Rational View of a Problem.
The 30,000 employees of the Mid-
vale Steel company, in convention at
Atlantic City, the other day, express-
ed the rational idea of the twin prob-
lems of high cost of living and low
rate of wages. The increase of wages
and curtailing the length of the day,
they frankly declare, “leave the
working man worse off after he gets
them.” To correct present evils they
add, “all energies should be devoted
to lowering the cost of living.” The
Midvale company has plants at Phila-
delphia, Coatesville and Johnstown,
Pa., and is one of the most extensive
enterprises in the country. The em-
ployees hold conventions annually and
deliberate on the common interests of
employer and employee.
The position taken by these work-
men is that “an increase in wages
only gives the profiteer an opportuni-
ty to further advance prices of food
and clothing and that these price ad-
vances are greater than the wage in-
creases on which they are based.” To
avoid this evil result of an easy prop-
osition, they suggest “more work and
greater thrift en the part of work-
men.” The president of one of the
Railroad Brotherhoods expressed the
same view in a conference with Pres-
ident Wilson some days ago and the
President adopted it in a subsequent
appeal for patience upon the part of
workmen. In fact it has become a
wholesome sign of the times and is
likely to spread under the influence of
sober thought.
Workingmen are entitled to the
best of everything and the fact that
they aspire to higher standards in ed-
ucation and living conditions is most
encouraging. But in carrying their
demands to extremes they are injur-
ing rather than improving things. It
may be conceded that eight hours a
day is enough for work and it may be
within reason to demand as much rec-
ompense for the eight hours as was
formerly allowed for ten. But in
some lines of endeavor the demand
has been made to cut the day down to
six hours with an increase in compen-
sation above the former standard for
ten and that is as reprehensible as
profiteering in food stuffs. It is to be
hoped that these problems will be re-
duced to a basis of reason.
——The revenue service proposes
to use airships to reveal the location
of moonshine distilleries. But air-
ships can’t see under ground.
——It might be easier to solve the
high cost of living problem if there
were any such thing in prospect as a
low cost of dying.
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the Senate committee of Foreign 'made by the government of Mexico
that United States troops engaged in
the pursuit of bandits and murderers
be withdrawn from Mexican soil is so
rank an expression of impudent as-
surance that it can hardly be consid-
ered calmly. For four or five years
organized bands of Mexican maraud-
ers have been crossing over the bor-
"der at intervals and robbing and kill-
ing American citizens as they pleas-
‘ed. Before a force to resist them
could be organized they would with-
draw to their own side of the border
and leisurely divide the loot. Two
vears ago the President determined
to put a stop to this sort of brigand-
age and sent General Pershing into
Mexico after the bandits.
Of course the comity of nations
must be preserved and weak as well
as strong nations are entitled to their
rights. But governments which either
can’t or won’t restrain the predatory
impulses of border residents must pay
the penalty. If citizens of the United
States go into Mexico, commit out-
rages and sneak back before they can
be apprehended it is the duty of our:
government to arrest them and deliv-
er them over to the Mexican authori-
ties for just punishment. But this is
a reciprocal obligation. Mexico is
bound to do the same when conditions
are reversed and Mexico has not only
failed to do so but has actually pro-
tected the criminals after they have
gotten back into her jurisdiction.
In these circumstances the demand
for the withdrawal of the punitive ex-
pedition which has been sent . into
Mexico -should - receive no attention
from our government. On the contra-
ry, the contingent ought to be increas-
ed and the pursuit continued until the
last desire to invade American soil
had been completely driven out of the
minds of Mexican bandits. If Car-
ranza had had the wisdom of a
healthy clam the Pershing expedition
would have put an end to this sort of
piracy two years ago and at the same
time removed the most formidable
enemy to order in the Mexican Repub-
lic. . Villa would have been captured
and hung if Carranza had helped in-
stead of hindered the enterprise and
that would have stopped the disorders.
——Practically “all the soldier boys i
who went out from Centre county
‘have returned home and the “Watch-
man” offers the suggestion that the!
big welcome home banner that has
been suspended across High street the
past two months be taken down,
cleaned and carefully stored away. It
will not only be a public memento of
the safe return home of so many of
Centre county’s brave boys but in
years to come there may perhaps be
an occasion of some kind when it
could very appropriately be used
again. Anyway, it is too costly a
banner to be allowed to hang across
the street when the occasion for its
having been put there has passed and
flop itself to shreds with every gale
that blows up and down High street.
——Large quantities of fingerling
trout are being shipped most every
day from the Bellefonte fish hatchery
to different localities throughout cen-
tral Pennsylvania where they are put
in the best trout streams known in
this part of the State. All the trout
are at least a year old and from three
to five inches in length, so that they
are better able to take care of them-
selves than the smaller trout and fry
usually put out by the hatcheries.
The Bellefonte hatchery this year will
put out more trout than in any for-
mer year, but the exact number is not
definitely known.
——Maybe some people would hate
others as a result of the trial and
punishment of the Kaiser but the ma-
jority will hate harder to see that
monster escape punishment.
——Possibly the Temperance Alli-
ance is responsible for the delay in
ratifying the peace treaty. Anyway
the delay is keeping the war prohi-
bition law in force.
——While taking out your hunting
license bear in mind that an open sea-
son for profiteers is coming and plen-
ty of ammunition ought to be kept
for use then.
—The fact that the Grangers are
going to charge admission to their
grounds at Centre Hall may be as-
cribed to the high cost of picnicking.
——Hog cholera cost “Pennsylvania
over half a million dollars last year
in addition to the tax imposed by that’
vicious variety, the profiteers.
Mexico talks “sassy” to Eng-
land but it is a long way to London
and the water is deep.
——If you are in doubt as to where
to spend Labor day choose Philips-
burg. They are arranging for a big
time there which will include a pa-
rade, speeches, airplane stunts, var-
jous ‘sports, etc. All returned sol-
diers are invited to participate in the
big time.
—— Subscribe for the “Watchman.” '
The President and the Obstructionists.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The President, in his long confer-
ence with the Foreign Relations com-
mittee of the Senate, has most clearly
and emphatically demonstrated that
he is completely informed and entire-
: ly reasonable in all of his arguments
urging the ratification of the treaty
without amendment and without res-
ervations; particularly in the reasons
given in support of his conviction that
: the treaty itself includes the very res-
i ervations for which the opposing Sen-
ators have contended. This confer-
ence has thus far resulted in nothing
more significant than this demonstra-
tion of the rightness of the President,
: who is shown to be the most thorough
master of the subject. The continued
opposition of the objecting group of
Senators is thus reduced to mere
Sigbporn and unreasonable obstruc-
ion.
The reservations suggested by Sen-
ator Pittman may be noted as a well
meant, but mistaken, effort to achieve
something by compromise, but in that
connection it is to be noted that in
order to claim any consideration for
them the Senator found it necessary
to state that the President had no
knowledge of his resolution and to se-
cue from the administration leader,
eanior Hitchcock, a statement that
the move was in no sense inspired by
the administration. This is a gro-
tesque demonstration that the opposi-
tion of these Republican Senators to
anything coming from the President
may be taken for granted. They are
simply united to obstruct anything
that the President wants, no matter
how urgently it may be needed for
the good of the country and a trou-
bled world. They are ‘agin it,” and
their opposition is not more intelli-
gent or justifiable than that expres-
sion of benighted stubbornness sug-
gests.
There can be no doubt, however,
that the whole country is already sick
and tired of that sort of opposition to
the ratification of the treaty and that
public opinion, if it could find imme-
diate expression, would demand the
ratification of the treaty and accept-
ance of the covenant for the League
of Nations without further talk.
Propaganda has absolutely failed to
arouse alarm over the fancied danger
of the loss of our liberties, because it
needs only common sense to reply
that a nation that has just won the
greatest of wars has nothing to fear
from the greatest of compacts where-
Dy ti and <2p he no more imperil-
| an any of the nations signing.
i Whatever foe fadlts the bre
i and plan—and without doubt; there
| are many—there is no other plan for
immediate adjustment of internation-
al ‘relations. Immediate adjustment
is imperative, and we are much safer
under that treaty and covenant than
the other nations concerned. because
we are much stronger. Our own
prosperity and that of the whole civ-
ilized world waits upon the action of
the Senate and the small group of ob-
structionist Senators find themselves
in a most discreditable and unenvia-
ble position while they have only suc-
ceeded in increasing the prestige of
President Wilson.
Good Advertising for the U. S. A.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The American manufacturer knows
that, other things being equal, if he
can once introduce his products into a
foreign country he can hold the mar-
ket. We have sold goods all over the
world, but nearly everywhere we have
had to compete with the prejudice in
favor of the pioneer trading nations.
We have had to demonstrate to for-
eigners that they were not taking a
chance in trading with America.
From a Paris dispatch it appears
that one of the incidental results of
the war will be to scatter approxi-
mately a billion dollars’ worth of
American products, tractors, type-
writers, locomotives, plows, safety
pins, ete., all over Europe, and even
into Africa and Asia. These goods
are the surplus supplies which the
American army found on its hands
when the armistice was signed. The
French have accepted our terms of
sale, and will distribute or resell this
enormous accumulation of American
products as seems most profitable or
expedient.
These goods being made for the ar-
my, ought to represent our best work-
manship. It is conceivable that they
will open up new markets.
Food for Thought.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Those who think that their own
group or any other class can domi-
nate this country would do well to
read late American history. The Ger-
mans had an idea the German class
could hobble Uncle Sam. See what
happened to them! A while before
Another Possible Senate Investiga-
tion.
From the New York World.
The United States Senate has or-
dered an investigation of the coal sit-
uation. Before long Congress may
‘have to appoint an investigating com-
mittee to investigate all the other in-
vestigating committees and see what
they are doing.
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A Good Place for Bolshevists.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The punitive expedition having
withdrawn, it. might be a good idea to
send our Bolshevists, both parlor and
garden variety, into Mexico, to catch
o reside permanently with the ban-
its.
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A petition is being circulated among
the physicians and surgeons of Wiliams-
port for the closing of their offices three
nights a week and Sundays. It is meet-
ing with some opposition, the doctors
against the idea claiming such a movement
discriminates against the working people...
—John Skea, aged twenty-three years,
employed as a clerk at the old Corner ho-
tel, Williamsport, is being,sought by the
police for the theft of a thousafd dollars
in cash and checks, whieh he is alleged - to
have taken from the safe and cash regis-
ter. He has an artificial leg and walks
with a lmp.
—The.H. A. Moore company, of Milton,
last week began to work on the erectiom
of an addition to the Turbetville silk min,
the contract for which was awarded sev-
eral weeks ago. The building is to be
169x50 and 70x50 feet, brick and concrete,
and slow burning construction. Barring
unexpected delay, the contractors expect to
have the building completed in 60 days.
—Wm. T. Cummings, star baseball
pitcher of the champion steel foundry team
of the Standard steel works League, of
Burnham, and Oscar Rager and Robert
Leager, plead guilty to the charge of steal-
ing sixty sticks of dynamite from the
storage house of the Lewistown and Reeds-
ville Electric Railway company and were
paroled into the custody of Rev. A. H.
Spangler. .
—Shenandoah offieials and state police
are looking for Mrs. Stella Kodep and a
boarder, John Oranch, who disappeared
with $700: belonging to the husband, Con-
stance Kodep. Of this amount $200 were
taken from the husband’s trouser’s pock-
ets and the remainder from a MeAdoo
bank, where the bearder, it is said, repre-
sented himself as the husband and forged
a check for the meney.
—Gored by a bull which broke a heavy
chain and leaped over the manger to at-
tack him, William Gardner, of near Jer-
seytown, Columbia county, aged seveuty,
was shockingly injured and is in a serious
condition. His left arm is broken in two
places above the elbow, several ribs are
fractured and he is suffering from severe
bedy bruises. Only Mr. Gardner's cries
for help as the bull had him pinned to the
ground, saved him from being gored to
death.
—Premonition of death, whieh came to
him on three successive nights in dreams,
was followed last Thursday by Joseph H.
Lander, a lineman for the United Tele-
phone company, plunging from a small
swinging car attached to a cable. In
reaching back for a match to light a cigar-
ette, his arm struck a high tension wire
and he was picked up dead. Because. of
his dreams, his wife, who is the mother of
a week old daughter, has constantly warn-
ed him against accident and bade him
good-bye Thursday morning, crying. Lan-
der was widely known in Lancaster, his
home section of the State, as an athlete.
—When Alberto Santo, who conducts a
shoe repairing shop in Easton, picked up
a pair of lady’s shees on which work was
to be done, he ran his fingers into the toe
of one of them and was surprised to find
an obstruction. He pulled it out and
found it was a small pasteboard box con-
taining two coral decorations, a watch
charm, and a lavalliere, the latter a very
handsome piece of jewelry. When the
shoes were called for he learned they be-
longed to Mrs. Fred Seip. He sent for Mr.
Seip and the latter identified the jewelry
as belonging to his wife and the precious
find was returned to her just before she
She had not missed the jewelry.
ue was $1000.
—For ten years at least it has been
throught that the coal mining in the vicin-
ity of Tyler, Clearfield county, was near
its end, but mining of bituminous coal has
been going on constantly there, and there
The val-
seems to be enough to warrant the open-
ing of new mines on a large scale. The
coal mining companies allied with the
Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Rail-
road have a 600-acre tract between Tyler
and Penfield and have extended the rail-
road from Force, Elk county, to the new
tract. The vein is from three feet to four
feet thick and has been opened. It will be
developed at once and give employment to
a large number of miners. It is expected
that the first shipments of coal in quanti-
ties will be made in the near future.
—Harry, Isaac and Banks Sieferd and
Reed Rhodes, of McAllisterville, Juniata
county, arrested in Snyder county after a
fierce pistol duel plead guilty to the lar-
ceny of twenty-one hams and shoulders
taken from the meat house of Abram
Spicher, Belleville, before the court at
Lewistown on Monday, and they received
these sentences: Harry and Isaac Sieferd,
each to serve one year in the county jail;
Banks Sieferd, a world war soldier, to
see six months in jail and Rhodes to be
sent to the Huntingdon reformatory.
The four defendants took an automibile
in Perry county and used it to haul the
meat stolen by them in Mifflin county and
sold to Lewistown residents. Dressed in
soldiers’ clothes they escaped to Snyder
county.
Mrs. Ida M. Yenny, aged 50 years, is in
the Clarion county jail awaiting trial for
the murder of her husband, Andrew J.
Yenny, aged 50 years, a wealthy farmer.
Yenny died a year ago last spring under
strange circumstances, but at the time it
was not supposed he had met with foul
play. The body was recently exhumed
and an autopsy showed that there was
enough quicklime in his stomach to cause
death. Yenny was reputed to be worth
$100,000 at the time of his death. A rumor
of foul play started several weeks ago.
Neighbors began talking of the peculiar
manner in which he had died and an in-
vestigation started that led the authorities
to the belief that he had been murdered.
The accused woman has said nothing
about the death of her husband, except to
maintain her innocence.
_.A farmer named Miller, living along
the Conemaugh division of the Pennsylva-
| nia railroad, near Tunnelltown, Westmore-
Wall Street thought it was Uncle
Sam’s boss. Recall Wall Street’s
troubles!
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land county, has, he believes, unconscious-
ly solved the high cost of coal problem
for his family in an original manner. This
farmer has a big corn field facing the rail-
road for a quarter of a mile. As a pre-
ventive to keep crows out of his corn field,
farmer Miller constructed three modern
“geare crows” a foot inside his fence. He
secured and rigged up his scarecrows with
hideous and most grotesque false faces.
The scarecrows attracted the attention
and the aim of the brakemen on the coat
trains and every knight . of the brake
wheels made it his business every time his
coal train passed to shy a black diamond
at each scarecrow. Noting the growing
coat piles Miller constructed three addi-
tional scarecrows in his corn field, and
‘now. he figures, that in addition to raising
a bumper corn crop he will get. hig supply
of winter coal for gathering .it up. He
picks up the coal each week and the coal
bin is rapidly filling.
started on a trip to the Pocono Mountains.
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