the boroug: . needs more revenue lay
Peworealic, Wado
INK SLINGS.
" —QGermany is heading toward a,
condition of chronic revolution. |
" —It wasn’t much of a climax that |
Kapp capped in Germany after all.
—It seems reasonably certain that
the water will be both high and cold
for the opening of the trout season.
—After reading his Harrisburg
speech almost are we persuaded to be-
lieve that Mitch Palmer put up the
moon.
—Yesterday made us think of one!
of those rare days in June, though we |
listened and looked in vain for a rob- |
in or a blue-bird.
—Piles of ice and snow everywhere
remind us that winter intends to lin-,
ger in the lap of spring for awhile, at
least, after it’s arrival on Sunday.
—If the price of anthracite is to be
advanced thirty per cent. we know of |
no easier way of making a little mon- |
ey than invesing in your next winter’s
supply of coal right now.
— Gen. Wood is gathering up a few |
delegates here and there. In fact he |
has more than any of the other Re-
publican aspirants, but that’s no sign
that he'll get a look in at Chicago.
—Emigration is exceeding immi-
gration in this country, so the port
records show, and inquiry as to the
cause brings the information that for-
eigners declare that if they have to
live in a desert they prefer Sahara to
the United States.
—A consignment of three thousand
gallons of good red likker on its way
from Baltimore to Henry Bradley, of
New York, was discovered and held
up by Philadelphia police on Tuesday.
Poor Mr. Bradley, how near he came
to being a mighty popular fellow.
—Might we ask those who are so
terribly afraid that our joining the
League of Nations will involve us in
foreign warfare how we became in-
volved in the late unpleasantness?
Could any agreement we might make
with ‘other powers occasion greater
self denial and sacrifice than we are
just now starting to recover from?
The League at least aims at and
points toward security and is there-
for that much better than no League
at all.
—Why put water meters on the
homes of Bellefonte? With millions
of gallons of water overflowing the
spring every day certainly scarcity
doesn’t necessitate a check on con-
sumption. Water is the one thing we
have plenty of in Bellefonte and of
all of nature’s gifts it is one that we
should use lavishly, if it is to be had,
and we are to keep clean and well. If
the tax necessary to raise it on the in-
terest or street “duplicates for the
water rent is and has been more than
paying its way. Why make the frugal
wife of the poor man hesitate every
time she starts to scrub the kitchen
or back porch lest the wheels on the
meter roll up a few cents more of
tax? Why put a penalty on keeping
the dust layed on the streets in sum-
mer, or washing off dirty pavements:
with a hose? Furthermore, meters
cost more now than they ever did and
we doubt whether the additional in-
come or saving in expense of pumping
that they would produce would pay
the interest on the inflation in their
present price. The borough would
have to buy them because the water
is a rent and not a tax and the con-
sumer cannot be charged, directly,
with the device for determining what
the rent shall be.
—Both the Gazette and Republican
have gone into hysterics over the
«Watchman’s” analysis of the work
of the old Board of County Commis-
sioners, which we published in last
week’s paper. We are at a loss to
understand why either one of our con-
temporaries should become so excited
unless they both came to the conclu-
sion that neither one of them have
been paying any attention to matters
of real public interest for years and
hoped to cover up their delinquency
as public newspapers by making the
grandstand play they are doing this
week. The Republican thinks the
county treasury was “virtually de-
pleted” when the new Board took
charge yet it doesn’t deny that they
found $10,720.85 more in the treasury
than was there when the old Board
took charge eight years ago. Nor does
it deny that the new Board has $115,-
363.27 less debt staring it in the face
than the old Board had to contend
with in 1912. Facts not theories count
in such matters. And the Gazette il-
Juminates the situation with the pro-
found statement that “a Democratic
Board can’t pay any more debts with
the same amount of money than a Re-
publican Board.” What idiocy. It
isn’t paying bills that the people of
Centre county are concerned about
half as much as making them. Econ-
omies in government are not effected
through paying the bills. They are
results of prudent and careful expen-
ditures. Furthermore, the “Watch-
man” stated during the campaign last
fall that in all probability there would
have to be a raise in the county taxes
and it believes with the increase that
has been announced the new Commis-
sioners should at least break even at
the end of this year and that their
statement to the effect that with this
extra millage they will still be forced
to go in debt $20,000 more this year
is not an accurate forecast of their
hopes. It is designed, as we stated
last week, to give them a great mar-
gin of safety and a claim to having
made good and for the sake of the tax
payers we would be delighted to see
| amendment, the Velstead
i =
Diemer
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 19, 1920.
NO. 12.
Mr. Palmer’s Weak Sophistry.
Mitchell Palmer, in formally solic-
iting the support of Pennsylvania
Democrats for the nomination for
President, takes issue direct with the
expressed opinions of William C. Mec-
Adoo, Champ Clark, Governor Ed-
wards and even William Jennings
Bryan on the question of instructing
delegates and with characteristic stu-
pidity justifies himself by a fallacy.
In a public statement issued in Har-
risburg last Saturday he says: “The
members of the national convention
are delegates, not representatives, and
they are supposed to speak the mind
of the people who send them. In or-
der that they may surely do this,” he
continued, “it seems to me eminently
proper, that wherever State law per-
mits, the people should instruct the
nation and platform.”
This is a fair sample of the soph-
istry which dishonest pettyfoggers
hand out to more or less illiterate
country squires to confuse their
minds. According to the Standard
Dictionary a delegate “is a person ap-
pointed and sent as by another with
power to transact business as his rep-
resentative.” By the same authority
a representative “is one who or that
which represents another person or
thing. Specifically one who or that
which is fit to stand as a type. A
person commissioned to represent his
government at the court or in the
country of another.” The Dictionary
also gives “representatives” as a syn-
onym for “delegate.” Webster’s dic-
tionary defines the words: in practic-
ally the same language. But Mr. Pal-
mer imagined that he could cloud the
minds of those who are supporting
his absurd ambition by drawing a line
of difference.
Mr. Palmer may have had another
purpose in his ambiguous statement,
however. When the wave of prohibi-
tion swept over the country during
the war Mr. Palmer outswallowed our
amiable friend Silas C. Swallow, in
zeal for that cause. He enlisted every
available agency of the government in
the enforcement of the Eighteenth
act and all
other RE s db
‘Saloon League. Recently:
have appeared on the political horizon
indicating a strong reversal of public
sentiment on that subject and with
the instinct of a practiced demagogue
catch the changed drift of the wind.
He is striving to enlist the support of
the liquor traffic by inducing liquor
dealers or those in sympathy with
them to stand as delegates in his be-
half and imagines that he can cover
his own desertion of the prohibition
Two years ago Mr. Palmer perfid-
iously betrayed the nominee of the
Democrats of Pennsylvania under the
false pretense that the liquor inter-
ests exercised a potential influence in
his selection. Now he is exhausting
all his resources of sophistry and hy-
pocrisy to induce liquor men to favor
him. Not only that but he is invok-
ing every expedient known to politic-
al tricksters to gain support. A can-
didate for borough constable couldn’
dig deeper into the mire of chicane
than he has done and is doing and for
three months he has been partially
neglecting the public business for
which he is paid in order to campaign
for delegates to the San Francisco
convention. Even now he is cam-
paigning in Michigan while the busi-
ness of the department of which heis
the head is being done by assistants.
—_——————————
—The hope that there would be an
appreciable cut in income and excess
profits taxes soon is not to be realized.
The government will need all the
funds it can command, at least until
1922, so all those who come under the
levy will have to continue sharing
with Uncle Sam. As for us—well, we
should worry.
—_——p—————————
—Just about the time the average
person accumulates enough of this
world’s goods to enjoy life a little his
blood pressure runs up, he gets dys-
pepsia or rheumatism, buys a flivver
and then discovers that there ain’t no
such thing as taking things easy.
—————— eee
—While all is apparently placid on
the surface of local politics there is
much of dissatisfaction underneath.
From what we hear it would take very
little agitation to start a movement
that would upset well laid plans in
both parties.
——p
—As Commissioner of Forestry for
Pennsylvania the Hon. Gifford Pin-
chot will probably prove an eminent
success, but as a part of the regular
Republican organization he’ll be a
monkey wrench in the machinery all
the time.
eet eee
—Bolivia and Peru are on the point
of starting something. Possibly they
imagine a little war down there would
them pull it off.
through Uncle Sam.
delegates with respect to both nomi- |
rabonis
Mr; Palmer is trimming his sails to!
cause under the pretext that he was in- |
structed by the voters to favor booze.
prepare the way for a little financing
Pinchot’s Appointment Surprising. |
Mr. Palmer’s Absurd Boasting.
— | pepe)
The appointment of Gifford Pinchot | Mitchell Palmer addressed the Uni-
to the office of Commissioner of Forest-
‘ry was a complete surprise to the
| public. Not because Mr. Pinchot is
' incompetent or unfit for the job. As
a matter of fact measured by the
standard of fitness it was an ideal se-
lection. In similar work for the
United States government he proved
his value beyond question. It can
hardly be said, on the other hand, that
a fit appointment is surprising. Gov-
ernor Sproul has made several admir-
able appointments and close observers
‘were coming to the opinion that such
‘appointments were to be expected.
His Highway Commissioner, his At-
‘torney General, his Secretary of the
: Commonwealth and one or two others
.are all that could be asked. :
The appointment of Pinchot was
| surprising, nevertheless, just as his
| appointment of Vance McCormick to
' the Commission to revise the Consti-
tution was surprising. Mr. MecCor-
| mick had had no experience and had
never revealed the least adaptability
for the work. He had traitorously
supported Mr. Sproul for election,
! though as chairman of the Democrat-
"jc National committee he was moral-
ly bound to oppose him to the limit.
But it was imagined that he would: re-
ward the perfidy in another way. Ap-
| pointing him to office was a trifle raw.
In | the Pinchot case itis different.
The surprise in his case comes from
the fact that he has so long and so ve-
hemently denounced Senator Penrose
' as a moral monster and the appoint-
ment is like taking him into the arms
i of Penrose. .
i When Pinchot ran for United States
‘Senator against Penrose six years
‘ago he declared that he was simply’
fulfilling an obligation to decency in
thus protesting against the election
of Penrose. He has the reputation of
being a high minded man and in ac--
cepting office, under Sproul he infer-
entially declares a readiness to affili-
ate with the man he then so bitterly
denounced: Probably that is the rea-
son why his appointment was so sur-
prising to the public. If Penrose had
shown symptoms f change ‘in meth-
on a’ urpl
veloped and the conclusion is forced
that ‘Pinchot must have changed. But
“politics: make strange bed-fellows.”
— Admiral Sims is just as likely
as not to accuse the administration of
supplying the German army with war .
materials. Now that he has gone in-
‘to the accusing business he doesn’t
know where to stop.
_—————————
Peace Treaty Practically Defeated.
The vote of the Senate on Monday
upon the adoption of the Lodge reser-
vation to Article 10 of the peace
treaty plainly writes the defeat of
the instrument. As President Wilson
has stated the reservation ‘“‘cuts the
heart out of the treaty.” With it is
a condition to ratification no true
American Senator can vote for it and
if there are a sufficient number of
recreant Democrats in the body to
carry it through, it will be the duty
of the President to withdraw it and
he may be depended upon to do so.
In that event the irreconcilable Re-
publican Senators will have achieved
_ their purpose, the war will have been
in vain and the grand ideals which in-
fluenced the country to action sacri-
ficed.
i Article 10 of the peace treaty ex-
1 acted nothing from this country that
| was not freely promised and promptly
| fulfilled by the countries associated
, with us in the beneficent enterprise of
crushing autocracy. Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan have all as-
sented to every condition we were
asked to approve.
different there from that here. The
love of country is no more deeply
seated or strongly felt here than
there. But they cordially agreed to
| conditions admitted to be essential to
the peace, progress and prosperity of
the world and we refuse because in
the bigoted mind of Henry Cabot
Lodge a personal hatred, an insane
enmity against the President, has de-
veloped.
The appeal must now be made to the
| people and it only remains to see that
the case is presented to this last great
tribunal in its true light. The friends
of the treaty are handicapped by the
attitude assumed in the vote by such
political traitors as Senators Ashurst,
Gerry, Gore, Henderson, Kendrick,
i Myers, Nugent, Phelan, Pittman,
Pomerene, Reed, Shields, Smith, of
| Georgia, and Walsh, of Massachu-
| setts, who voted with the Republicans
| for the reservation. These recreants
| were elected as Democrats and were
| morally bound to support the Presi-
| dent in the great work for humanity
he has performed. But they served
| the enemies of Woodrow Wilson and
‘ the country by voting to negative his
achievements.
Mr. Lloyd George also had a
mistaken idea concerning President
| Wilson’s illness.
a gathering of college men,” and act-
“ed the part. College men dearly love |
-ascénding.
“workers and
Patriotism is not’
| versity club at Harrisburg, the other
| evening “as a college man addressing |
|
to sound the mote of self-importance
and as usual Mr. Palmer pictured
himself as the Atlas of the day and
generation. “The questions which
the war has bequeathed to us for so- |
lution are of an unparallelled nature,” |
he said, “and the Attorney General :
has been the favored legatee. I have |
thought at times,” he continued, “that
there has been a tendency on the part
of other executive departments to
throw such problems to this branch.”
Happily we had an Attorney General
equal to every emergency.
Most people have imagined that
Woodrow Wilson has been a man of
action and achievement in dealing
with the problems of the period. But
Mr. Palmer complacently, if not com-
pletely, proves they were mistaken.
“Last fall,” he assured his college-
men audience, “when the coal strike
became a nation-wide menace, the
President made an earnest appeal
without success. The Secretary of
Labor called a conference without
success. Another appeal by the Pres-
ident was a failure. Then a messen-
ger was sent to the Department of
Justice with a request that the strike
be settled and be settled quick.”
And the Attorney General settled it
by allowing the coal operators to sad-
dle the entire cost of the terms of set-
tlement on the public.
But that was not the only bogus
achievement of the Attorney General,
according to his narrative to his col-
lege men audience. “A. little while
earlier,” he solemnly declared, “the
high cost of living had been consider-
ed a serious matter. A messenger ar-
rived from the President asking that
prices be reduced and reduced without ;
delay.” The Attorney General
promptly issued a proclamation that
prices must come down and they with
equal promptness and unexpected ce-
lerity started up, and still seem to be
An audien
college:
Tn.
college are not so credulous. :
_——————
——Mr. Hoover says he was an in-
dependent Republican before the war
and a non-partisan since. That is
hardly satisfactory. There has been
mighty little excuse for being any
kind of a Republican since 1912 and
less for being anything but a Demo-
crat since the beginning of the war.
_———————————
Reason for President’s Anxiety.
President Wilson is justified in ex-
pressing with some vehemence an ob-
jection to the reservation with respect
to Article 10 of the peace treaty. It
is the heart of the instrument and
without it the treaty means nothing.
It makes for the ideals for which the
war was fought and won. It binds all
concerned to peace and if eliminated
will leave the world in practically the
same state as it was before the war
began. As the President states it al-
ters no policy of administration and
changes no process of action. But it
“represents the renunciation by Great
Britain and Japan, which before the
war had begun to find so many inter-
ests in common in the Pacific,”
against territorial aggrandizement.
The President is naturally anxious
to preserve this important feature of
the treaty because without it the
treaty will be a worthless scrap of pa-
per. The other countries associated
with us in the great war admit that a
League of Nations without the United
States would be impotent. With Ar-
ticle X eliminated the treaty would be
impotent even with the United States
included. This is the reason that
President Wilson feels so keenly upon
the subject. The government and
people of the United States made vast
sacrifices in life and treasure in the
war to guarantee that for which the
treaty provides and the President is
reluctant to relinquish the victory for
peace and justice thus achieved.
There are men and possibly women
in the United States who do not want
enduring peace. It would interfere
with their business in profiteering.
Vast fortunes are made in every war
and those who profit by the processes
of war are opposed to peace. The
Senators in Congress who have oppos-
ed the treaty represent that element
of the people of the United States
rather than the welfare of the coun-
try. But the people are in accord
with the President in this great strife
for right and he will win because he
is in the right and has the public be-
hind him. We still hope to see the
treaty ratified but a treaty with Ar-
ticle X eliminated would be of little
consequence now or hereafter.
— tpt
— Turkey is to lose its army and
navy but that is unimportant. What
ought to be taken away is the vicious
disposition of the Turks.
her wage-earners Who |
have never enjoyed the advantages of-
The Overturn in Berlin.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
That the Allied governments will
let the German people settle their own
governmental affairs would seem to be
the only possible attitude they can take
in the face of the overturn in Berlin
which, up to the present, is a change
in the personalities in charge and not
a country-wide junker revolution in
the interest of Kaiserism.
Whatever may be thought of the
character of the men who have come to
i the top, Kapp and his assouciates, and
whatever may be the immediate griev-
ance that has led the new group to call
for a new deal and a new National
Assembly, on the face of it that they
propose honorably to fulfill the treaty
of Versailles gives the Allied Commis-
sions and the Allied governments a
chance to deal with them along recog-
nized lines. ~~
With all the possibilities of over-
turn that lay in a weak government
with a man like Ebert as president, a
man who, by reason of his own mea-
ger abilities, never rose to the occa-
sion and really represented new Ger-
many, it is not surprising that there
were large and powerful groups, not
necessarily reactionary nor monarch-
istic, which would desire to change
things and put men in charge more
representative of Prussia, if not Ger-
man, efficiency. At the same time, the
apparent ease with which those who
from their associations stand for the
Pan-German ideas and represent the
irrecconcilable elements have brought
about the Berlin coup indicates a
much weaker control over affairs than
it has been supposed that Noske had
secured through his control of the mil-
itary forces. It is apparent that the
recent rioutous frothings of Prince
Joachim and his Cafe-Chantant fol-
lowers did represent an undercurrent
of hostility to the government and to
the Allies which has come to a head,
despite the apparent ability of the Eb-
ert government to discipline Joachim
and maintain order at home and
friendly relations with the Allies.
However, Berlin' is not Germany,
and the success of any governmental
overturn depends upon the ability of
the groups in control to rally the
country ‘and the States, espectall A
varia, which have been ng
friendly, to Prussian dominati
matter what party was on tor
)a
From the Columbus Dispatch.
“They talk of destroying capitalism.”
says a public speaker in discussing
the radicals, “but what is a capitalist
in the last analysis but a man who
spends less than he earns?”
According to the Bolshevist’s defi-
nition of capitalism, every man in this
country who‘owns a home, every man
who owns an automobile, every one
who has a Liberty bond or savings ac-
count—every individual who has laid
aside a single dollar of his earnings
for a rainy day—is a capitalist. Fur-
ther, according to these same Bol-
shevists, every one who employs a
barber to shave him'is a burgeois. In
Russia the man who employs a boot-
black to shine his shoes is denied the
right to vote, for he is an employer of
labor. One cannot take part in the
soviet if he hires a cook or a washer-
woman, or if he pays a portion of his
wage to any one for performing a
service for him.
Under communism a man could not
legally save a penny. If he did so,
that penny would belong to the State,
not to the individual. The State
would, and under communism does,
take the potatoes a man raises on a
piece of land, for since the land be-
longs to the State no one has a right
to cultivate it for his own private use.
Even under socialism as it is preach-
ed by many of our Socialists, a man
could not lay aside a portion of his
wages, for the moment he did so he
would become a capitalist, to be set
upon by those who oppose capitalism.
The craving for proprietorship, the
desire to own something one can call
his own, the determination to save a
part of that which one produces to-
day for the exigencies of tomorrow—
these things are as old as the human
race and they are the fundamental
principles of capitalism, if indeed not
capitalism itself. No theorist has ever
been able to offer a substitute that
will work; no school has ever devis-
ed anything better to take its place;
no one has ever dreamed of a system
that makes for greater happiness.
—— eee
They Keep on Joining.
From the Springfield Republican.
Norway joins Denmark and Sweden |
in deciding by a large majority in fa-
vor of joining the League of Nations
without reservations; the vote in the
Storthing was 100 to 20, 18 of the op-
ponents being Socialists and the other
two extreme conservatives. In Switz-
erland the State Council took similar
action, following that of the National
Council; the vote was 30 to 6. In
none of these countries is the League
of Nations or its covenant accepted
as perfect; on the contrary criticism
has been quite as acute and searching
as in this country. But it is recogniz-
ed that the League is a forward step
and the best hope for the preservation
of peace, and the small States of Eu-
rope are falling into line.
————e eee
Yesterday and Today.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Before the discovery of mechanical
flying few believed it possible. The
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Edward Walton and Clarence Downs,
both of West Chester, Chester county,
were arrested at Sharon on Monday for
violating the Harrison drug law. They
were taken to Pittsburgh by federal
agents the same night.
—Leaving. the ministry to go into the
tombstone business, the Rev. C. A. Sellers,
of Brodheadsville, pastor of the Evangel-
ical church at Sailorsburg, Monroe county,
has resigned. The Rev. Mr. Sellers has
been a pastor there for the last three
years.
—Four thousand of the 30,000 Mexican
quail ordered by the State Game Commis-
sion last year for re-stocking of areas in
Pennsylvania have reached this State and
many of them will be liberated as soon as
weather conditions improve. The quail
are being secured from the highlands of
Mexico, where climatic conditions are not
unlike the middle States.
— Thirty ex-soldiers from as many dif-
ferent counties in Pennsylvania arrived at
State College recently to study agriculture
for four weeks, through the national Y.
M. C. A. scholarship plan. A special
course has been prepared for these men
that they might be provided with some of
the minor fundamentals of modern and
scientific farming. Many of them came di-
rect from farms.
—Wanted for a murder in Geneva, New
York, eight years ago, Angelo Orfino, aged
37 years, an Italian steel worker, was ar-
rested at Reading Sunday night by Police
detective Britton. A money order at a
telegraph office was used to decoy Orfino,
who has lived at Reading for three years
with an American wife, into a police trap.
He used the name Frank Fiero at Read-
ing. A brother, said to be under arrestin
Rochester, N. Y., is wanted for complicity
in the case, it was reported.
—Searchers found the charred body of
Frank Shultz, 48 years old, of Edge Grove,
Northumberland county, in the ruins of
the Haffeliinger wall paper plant, which
was ‘destroyed by fire last Wednesday, en-
tailing a loss of $250,000. Shultz, an em-
ploye, was seen after the discovery of {he
fire, but has been missing since. It is now
beleived he re-entered the burning build-
ing to recover his coat, which contained a
large sum of money, and being overcome
by smoke, perished. A widow and son
survive.
—Numerous nominating petitions sent
to’ the elections bureau in Harrisburg for
filing in advance of the May primary have
been rejected as defective and sent back to
the ‘senders. The rejected petitions con-
sist mainly of papers on which the neces-
sary affidavits are lacking. IR one or two
cases the number of signers fell short of
the requirements to qualify candidates.
George Thorn, chief of the elections bu-
reau, has called attention to the fact that
the dates of signing must be affixed after
signatures and that the affidavits of per-
sons circulating petitions must be in form.
—The Robinson Tile company, of Akron,
Ohio, said to be the largest concern of its
kind in the United States, has purchased .
the Clearfield Sewer Pipe Works’ plant, at
Weaverhurst, adjoining Clearfield. The.
consideration is said to be approximately
0 | $1,000,000. The plant was erected six years
10 | 289 by a company of capitalists. of Patton, .
| Cambria county, headed by, Geore E. Prin-
‘| and coal acreage adjacent.
* | Robinson company will greatly increase.
|
|
{
) sident of
is
a ala
the capacity of the plant.
.—Evan D. Blatt, a young man from up-
per Berks county, who was sued for ex-
penses incurred in the burial of his child,
said he resisted payment because the bill
included $30 for groceries for a funeral
feast, more than the child’s funeral alone
cost. The case was heard last week be-
fore Judge Wagner, who ruled that Blatt
should pay the undertaker’s bill, $25, but
that he need not pay the $30 grocery bill
incurred in providing food for the attend-
ants.
tors, “want that kind of a funeral let them
pay for it,” the court said.
—Imagine diving twelve feet through’
the air, striking your head squarely on a
rock and living! That was the remarka-'
ble experience of Willis A. O'Neil, of Mil-
lersburg. He was assisting in the repair
nf a Wiconisco creek bridge which had
been damaged last week by ice and water.
A sliding timber pushed him from the
trestle, and he fell head foremost on the
large stones at the base of the abutment.
His companions were sure his neck was
fractured, when they picked up the body
of the dazed man, but he suffered only a
laceration of the scalp and a slight contu-
sion of the spinal column,
—Blair Ebersole, aged 21 years, of Ca-
noe Creek, Blair county, the only survivor
of the powder explosion at the Standard
Powder company plant, at Horrell, which
on January 22nd, instantly killed Freder-
ick Gorsuch and injured Walter Burkhold-
er so seriously that he died about ten
hours later at the Altoona hospital, is well
on the road to complete recovery. The
young man expects to be discharged
from the hospital in a few days. His face
has completely cleared up, his hair has
grown in again and the onl’ thing that
now keeps him at the institution is some
slight in fection in the wounds of his legs.
—Worrying over the shocking death of
her son, five years ago, when he was kill-
ed while dynamiting stumps and appar-
ently tired of living, Mrs. Mary D. Gloss-
ner, wife of Fred C. Glossner, a prominent
farmer of Beech Creek township, Clinton
county, ended her life last Friday in a
dramatic manner. Waiting until her hus-
band had left the house to go to Lock Ha-
ven, and when alone, she carried water in
a pail and filled a barrel used for pickling
pork, three-quarters full of water. She
then removed her shoes and a portion of
| her clothing and standing on a lard pail
plunged into the barrel head-first. When
her husband returned in the evening and
not finding her about the house a search
was made and the body found in the bar-
rel.
__Charles Hattie, of Pittsburgh, easy-
going as a rule, reached the limit of his
patience when he appeared before Magis-
trate Wallace Borland at the Saturday
morning hearing in the Frankstown ave-
nue police court. Mrs. Hattie, a tired-
looking body, testified that her husband
had not worked for fourteen years. This
was more than Mr. Hattie's good nature
could stand, and he wrathfully interrupt-
ed with: “Judge, that statement is not
true. It’s an insult for that woman to
stand there and say such a thing. It has
been only—let me see—twelve years since
I stopped working.” Hattie is thirty-five
years old, and Magistrate Borland, aftcr
remarking that 23 was a rather early age
trouble is that now everybody believes | for retirement, fined him $25. “Hattie had
everything possible.
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been picked up for loitering.
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