-
INK SLINGS.
—We know one Bellefonter who
has stuck onions and sowed lettuce
already.
—There is no longer any doubt
about it. Bellefonte is actually going
to have a silk mill.
—The first day of spring was cer-
tainly all that the most exacting
might have hoped it would be.
—My, what glorious weather we
have been having this week and how
the ice and snow drifts are disappear-
ing.
—A bag of golf sticks or a fishin’
pole would feel much better in our
fingers today than the pencil we are
pushing just now.
—That the attitude of labor is still
sane is seen in its intention to re-elect
Samuel Gompers as president of the
American Federation.
—We fear the Philadelphia Public
Ledger will expire if it doesn’t suc-
ceed in landing Herbert Hoover at the
head of the next Republican presiden-
tial ticket.
—Philadelphia councils have repeal-
ed their recently passed daylight sav-
ing ordinance so that the chickens
down there can continue to go to bed
with the sun—but the kind Philadel-
phia has most of won’t.
—Sims admits that he was indis-
creet in saying some of the things he
did and probably wouldn’t have said
anything if he had been well balanced
enough to know that everybody has
trouble enough without having more
needlessly piled on.
—1It has been so long since we have
seen a policeman steer a souse to the
borough lock-up that we almost wish
the dry law could be declared off for a
day so that the old sight might not
be so speedily placed in the “once
upon a time” stories.
—The spring fever microbe is lurk-
ing on every street corner and pol-
lutes every leaning post in town. If
you want to keep your old man or
your able bodied son in good working
humor keep them so busy that they
can’t stop long enough anywhere for
the germ to get them.
—General Wood has gathered in
South Dakota delegates and thereby
adds another State to his presidential
kite. Again, let us remark, that he
may get pretty near, but not enough
delegates to make him the Republican
nominee. He is not a candidate after
the heart of the bosses.
~—The peace treaty having been
finally rejected by the Senate of the
United States the Germans are get-
ting gay again, Ireland is stripping
for a revolution, the Spaniards are
showing signs of wanting to upset
something and the whole world is.
aflame with unrest. What a mess has
been made of all our sacrifices and for
this did all those brave boys of ours
lay down their lives.
—The fancy price that creameries
and condensaries have been paying
for milk and butter fat for some time
has had a back-set. Exports have
been cut off and the supply now ex-
ceeds the demand so that this impor-
tant commodity is on the toboggan
back to pre-war prices. The slump
has already had its effect on the sale
of cows at vendues within the county
during the past week.
—So it was Admiral Benson who
told Sims we would as soon fight the
English as anyone else, if it should
prove necessary. Strange, the met-
ropolitan papers didn’t play up this
interesting revelation like they did
Sims’ original assertion. Then the
the administration phobes left the im-
pression that it might later be traced
to President Wilson or Secretary
Daniels and while they were quick to
create a suspicion they are despicably
slow to dispel it.
—The “Watchman” cannot let pass
the opportunity to express its admira-
tion of the work done by the commit-
tee on Near East Relief in Centre
county. It was purely an appeal to
the hearts of people who have just
come through three years of recurrent
demands on their resources and that it
was so splendidly successful is due
primarily to the persistent, yet tact-
ful presentation of the cause by a
chairman who not only was the advis-
ing head of the committee but a most
diligent worker as well.
—Notwithstanding the fact that it
is rather a case of heaping coals of
fire on the heads of Methodists of the
Williamsport district, in which are lo-
cated the Bellefonte and State College
churches, we cannot refrain from con-
gratulating the churches of the Sun-
bury district for their selection of
Prof. Fred L. Pattee, of State College,
as their lay delegate to the National
Conference. Prof. Pattee is so emi-
nent in literary circles, so earnestly
devoted to church activities and soci-
ology that his will be more than pas-
sive representation at the coming
great conference of Methodists.
—We don’t know whether it was the
consuming interest of Rev. Scott’s
sermon or whether she was practicing
self-control in anticipation of becom-
ing a voter soon but it is reported as
an actual fact that a lady sat through
the entire service at the Methodist
church a few Sundays ago while a
mouse cavorted about in her bonnet.
She couldn’t understand why the lid
wouldn’t stay put. It kept dancing
about all the time and she was nearly
frantic keeping it on straight until
she took it off after church and the
mouse, that had had a nest in it and
didn’t have time to vacate, jumped
out.
TA 6 EIA TE ar ER ASS TENA A SO ANAS aN A000 rest opin 8
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 26, 1920.
Conviction of Senator Newberry.
The conviction and sentence of Sen-
ator Truman H. Newberry, on the
charge of conspiracy to violate the
election laws of the United States and
the State of Michigan ought to have
a wholesome influence on political
methods and morals throughout the
country. Senator Newberry is a very
rich man with aspirations for high
political honors. A graduate of the
Naval Academy, an officer in the Na-
vy and during the administration of
the late President Roosevelt, for a
brief period Secretary of the Navy,
he must have been acquainted with |
the laws which he violated. But he
entered into the conspiracy, neverthe-
less, probably confident that his vast
wealth would shield him from the con- !
sequences.
Senator Newberry may have been
himself a vietim of circumstances
The Republican leaders throughout
the country had determined to reverse
the political complexion of Congress
at any expense in morals or methods.
The Democrats had nominated Henry
Ford, the multi-millionaire automobile
manufacturer, and it was realized
that his election would defeat the plan
of the Republican leaders to carry
the Senate. It was expected no doui:t
that Mr. Ford would spend money
lavishly to gratify any Senatorial am-
bition he may have had. Newberry
was possessed of nearly equal re-
sources and a much greater capacity
for spending and was induced to run
for the office. The evidence shows that
he spent nearly a million dollars in
the campaign.
It turned out that Mr. Ford spent
money sparingly but the voters of the
State had such confidence in his integ-
rity and patriotism that his election
seemed certain. He is an idealist and
before the United States became in-
volved in the war was a pacifist. But
the menace to the country aroused
his patriotism and he practically
turned all his resources over to the
service of the government without
price or promise of reward. His rec-
ord as an extensive employer had
drawn the friendship of wage earn-
ers, moreover, and though the party
he represented was an insignificant
minority in Michigan, the signs point-
ed to his election. Mr. Newberry un-
dertook to stem the tide by dumping
large sums. of money into the chan-
nels of corrupt politics.
It was a fatal mistake and his sen-.
tence to two years in prison and a fine
oi $10,000.00 is a just penalty for his
folly. The Senatorial toga is an
adornment which he coveted, no
doubt. But Senatorial togas are not
commodities for sale in the market.
They are tokens of honor to be given
in reward for distinguished service to
the country. In the State of Michi-
gan this fact has not been appreciat-
ed hitherto. Vast fortunes acquired
by profiteering in timber and other
essentials have been employed too
frequently out there to buy civic pre-
ferment and it is to be hoped this
event will bring a change. Senator
Newberry says he will not relinquish
his purchased seat. But he may
change his mind about that.
eee eee ee.
—— Gifford Pinchot still wants to
be a delegate to the Republican Na-
tional convention but he is not likely
to fight Penrose there or elsewhere.
In fact he may entertain the body by
publicly eating out of Penrose’s hand.
ree pepe
——The Paris newspapers blame
President Wilson for the failure of
the Senate to ratify the peace treaty
which makes the rest of the world
wonder what sort of men Paris ed-
itors are.
— Senator Lodge has had his fling
but the people will speak on the sub-
ject in November and the refrain will
sound like “Oh for. a Lodge in some
vast wilderness.”
——————————— lee.
—Mr. Bryan probably imagines
that there would be honor in posing as
the “beerless” leader. He has over-
worked the peerless role.
——No matter who else resigns
from the Cabinet Secretary of Labor
Wilson may be depended upon to stay
until he gets another job.
——Governor Sproul is trying to
please the Vares and satisfy Penrose
at the same time but is meeting with
poor success.
——
——That little event in Berlin last
week can hardly be called a revolu-
tion. Anyway it failed to kapp a cli-
max.
ee fee.
Did you see the aurora borealis
on Monday night? If you didn’t, you
missed one of the most brilliant pyro-
technical displays nature has staged |
in the sky in some years. According
to those who were fortunate enough
to see it they aver that it was at its
best about two o’clock in the morning.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” |
Colby’s Nomination Confirmed.
The confirmation of Bainbridge Col-
by as Secretary of State indicates
that the Lodge wrath against the
President is at least partially appeas-
ed. The nomination was held in the
Senate committee on Foreign Rela-
tions for more than a month, though
the business of the State Department
suffered materially because of the de-
lay. Secret hearings were held and
an impression created that grave
charges against Mr. Colby were being
investigated. But the committee re-
ported unanimously in his favor and
the vote for confirmation, without the
formality of the roll call, was equally
unanimous. Senator Lodge must im-
agine that the President has been
knocked out so completely that furth-
er punishment is unnecessary.
The time honored custom of the
Senate is to confirm nominations to
the cabinet promptly and in cases of
conspicuous merit without even ref-
erence to committee. Cabinet minis-
ters are supposed to be members of
the President’s political family chos-
en by him because of personal rea-
sons. Because of that fact no opposi-
tion has been offered, as a rule. But
the Lodge enmity to President Wil-
son forced the violation of that kindly
rule. It was thought that the inci-
dent presented an opportunity to an-
noy a man, already worried almost in-
to his grave, and the other Republi-
can members of the committee were
willing to indulge his evil passion.
But after the defeat of the peace
treaty they relented.
Little is known about Mr. Colby’s
fitness for the office but he has served
the government in various capacities
during the war and invariably with
credit to himself and advantage to the
government. He is a lawyer of New
York and previous to the war enjoy-
ed a lucrative practice. He was a Re-
publican before the war and since
1912 has been associated with the
Roosevelt faction. He is said to be a
fine speaker and his recent relations
with President Wilson have been inti-
mate and satisfactory to both. Most
of the original friends of the Presi-
dent will probably think he ought to
have chosen a Democrat but it is his
own affair and whatever weal or woe
follows is for him. = ** = mln
——Miss Kathryn Dale, of Boals-
burg, brought to Bellefonte‘on Friday
a very liberal donation of jellies for
the Bellefonte hospital, contributed
through the flower mission of the W.
C. T. U. of Boalsburg.
Sims’ Molehill Mountain.
mittee on Monday Admiral Sims de-
clared that Admiral Benson advised
him, previously to his departure to
take command of the fleet in Europe,
to “not let the British Admiralty pull
wool over his eyes,” and added, “we
would just as soon fight England as
Germany.” Sims had given this out
in a shroud of mystery, some time
ago, conveying inferentially, that
either the President or the Secretary
of the Navy had shown indifference to
the result of the war against Germa-
ny. It was plainly a half-lie, uttered
with malicious purpose and did infin-
ite harm. Dishonorable dismissal
from the service of the navy would be
a just punishment for the offense.
Admiral Sims is a Canadian by
birth and an Anglomania by inclina-
tion. Admiral Benson, who was Chief
of Naval operations at the time, un-
derstood his weakness and no doubt
sincerely advised against it. But his
statement that “we would just as
soon fight England as Germany” was
obviously a joke. He is known as
among the most faithful and efficient
of our splendidly faithful and efficient
naval staff and was no more capable
of entertaining a disloyal thought
than of planting a bomb in the flag
| ship of the fleet. But Sims, who was
disappointed for some inexplicable
reason, with the administration of na-
val affairs, imagined he could do the
| Secretary an injury by quoting it
| with a sinister slant.
i The American navy did admirable
| work in the war and won the cordial
: approval of all the governments con-
| cerned in the war against Germany.
| But Admiral Sims has been trying his
| best ever since his return from Eu-
| rope to discredit the service and put
| censure on the Department. Possibly
| he is a constitutional grouch and can’t
| help his actions. But the absurdity of
' his attitude is apparent to all observ-
ers. The country was unprepared for
| war at the time it was begun and yet
| he insists that every recommendation
| he made for sending ships and muni-
! tions, ought to have been complied
with though he knows, if he knows
| anything, that it was impossible to do
| 80.
—That Michigan jury has decided
| that if money could buy Newberry a
i seat in the United States Senate it
could also buy him a cell in the feder-
| al prison at Leavenworth.
——Get your job work done here.
In testimony before a Senate com-
i
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Palmer’s Last Perfidy.
At no time since his inauguration
as President in 1913, has President
Wilson needed the moral support of
his friends so much as during the
clesing period of his heroic fight for
humanity in the ratification of the
peace treaty. William Jennings Bry-
an, who deserted him four years ago
probably in the hope that the
German Alliance and other trait-
orous organizations would reward
the treachery, arrived in Wash-
ington just in time to inject the
virus of disloyalty into the veins
of such recreant Democrats as may
still be influenced by his sophistry,
and every other sinister agency avail-
able was invoked to mislead Senators
and others into attitudes adverse to
President Wilson. It was literally
the last ditch struggle.
Mitchell Palmer has been banking |
on his fidelity to the President and
posing as the mainstay of the admin-
istration ever since the inauguration
in 1913. He has been trading on the
favors of the President during all
that period. But at the moment that
the helping influence of genuine
friendship was most needed in Wash-!
ington Mr. Palmer was running the
gutters and sewers of Michigan poli-
tics, like a ferret, hunting support of
his absurd and insincere ambitions. If
he had been a true friend of the Pres-
ident he would have remained at his
post of duty during that crucial time,
sustaining him in his great effort and
urging others to loyalty and fidelity
ata time and in circumstances unpar-
alleled.
The President lost, temporarily, in
his conflict with partisanship and mal-
ice, because those morally bound to
sustain him failed in their obligations.
Chief among the recreants is Mitchell
Palmer, because no other man in the
country has so persistently and sys-
tematically traded on the President’s
favors for aggrandizement. But it is
not an unusual episode in Mr. Pal-
mer’s life. He betrayed his party in
Pennsylvania two years ago in order
to make the election of his college
chum as Governor of Pennsylvania
certain and thus increase his assets
as office broker by adding the minor-
ity #tate patronage. to his stack jr
tradé. Will the friends of President
Wilson in Pennsylvania reward him
for this new act of perfidy.
——In the conviction of Senator
Newberry there ought to be a valua-
ble lesson to some of the millionaires
who are trying to buy a delegation to
the San Francisco convention which
will obey orders from Palmer.
emer
Platform and Peace Treaty.
Those Democratic Senators who
voted with the Republicans to destroy
the League of Nations with reserva-
tions annulling its provisions are or-
ganizing behind William Jennings
Bryan to prevent an expression of ap-
proval of the President’s attitude in
the San Francisco Democratic plat-
form. “It, would be a mistake to
make the treaty a party issue,” Sen-
ator King, of Utah, declares. “If the
President attempts to write into the
platform an endorsement of it as he
submitted it to the Senate, without
reservations,” he continued, “he will
have a desperate fight and split the
party. William J. Bryan has said
that he would oppose any such propo-
sition.” Well let him. The conse-
quences will be on his own head.
The peace treaty is already in poli-
tics and no power or influence can si-
lence the popular demand for its rat-
ification in form and substance as it
was submitted to the Senate. Eng-
land, France, Italy and Japan have
already ratified it and for more than
six months the world has been wait-
ing, more or less impatiently, for the
government of the United States to
give assent in order that the great
work of readjusting and reorganizing
industrial life might be undertaken.
If recreant Democrats in the Senate,
like Reed, of Missouri; Gore, of Okla-
homa, and Shields, of Tennessee, had
not set up a senseless opposition it
would have been ratified long ago for
there were enough patriotic Republi-
cans in the body, before partisanship
had been injected, to carry it through.
These party traitors are now anx-
ious to keep the question out of the
platform. “They assert,” writes the
Washington correspondent of an es-
teemed contemporary, “that such ac-
tion on the part of the party would
leave them in an embarrassing posi-
tion, exposed to their enemies.” Of
course it would and that is a very
good reason why such action should
be taken. They violated faith, be-
trayed their implied pledges and for |
one reason or another prevented the
restoration of normal industrial and |
commercial conditions, to the detri-
ment of the Democratic party and
the advantage of the Republican par-
ty in the coming Presidential cam- |
paign. If Mr. Bryan alligns himself |
with these traitors, let him go. |
iL bein {
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
uses on the baby and there is a fax
help +o reduce the cost of living: ands
give us, both as individuals and-trade
| ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Taxation.
From the Williamsport Sun.
Mr. McAdoo talks taxes, Mr. Carter
talks taxes, Mr. Kahn talks taxes, Mr.
Houston talks taxes, Congress talks
taxes. Taxation is one of the favorite
topics of discussion and conversation
in national official circles, and well it
should be, for there is nothing, abso-
lutely nothing, that touches more peo-
ple in one way or another than taxa-
tion. Every man, woman and child in
the United States is bearing the
heaviest taxes in our history. Oh, no,
not every one is making a return to
the income tax collector, not every one
is paying a direct excess profits tax,
corporation tax, etc., but every one is
helping to settle in some way or other
for the taxes some one else pays.
From the cradle to the grave there
is a tax to pay somewhere along the
line. There is a direct tax paid or a
tax absorbed on the powder the nurse
paid or a tax concealed somewhere in
the bill that a man’s estate pays the
undertaker. Every time you buy any-
thing, whether it be an automobile, a
loaf of bread or a paper of pins, you
pay either a direct tax on the pur-
chase or you pay a tax that has been
taken up somewhere in the selling
price. But, mind you, you pay the
tax. You can’t escape that. !
Taxation is a vexatious problem. It
bothered people in the beginning of
this world and it bothers them more
today. In the last few thousand years
various schemes and methods of lift-
ing taxes from people have been de-
vised and tried, but as yet the world
awaits the ideal system of taxation.
We Americans know a lot more about |
taxes than we did five years ago. That
is one of the lessons of the war. Chief
among the things we have learned
about the subject is that our present
method is far from being satisfactory,
either from the viewpoint of the gov-
ernment or the people.
True, it raises a lot of money, but
not enough to meet all demands, and
it operates in a way that is not condu-
cive to an immediate or even reasona-
bly near return to the pre-war condi-
tion of things for which every one is
hoping and praying. It is quite ap-
parent that the federal system of tax-
ation stands in sad need of revision,
looking to the discovery and adoption
of some plan that will help to relieve,
instead of continually increase the:
burden of the people, business and
financial interests, some plan that will
organizations, the right and room to
move about without all the. restrain-
ing and hampering bonds of present
day taxation.
The average man and woman thinks
about taxes only when they pay them.
They give little attention to the sub-
ject when it is up for discussion in
Congress. All of us pay the penalty
for that neglect as many otherwise
good thoughts on the matter are still
born through it. The time to object
to the present scheme is passed, this
is the time to think and talk about the
plan for the next year. The subject
will soon come before Congress. The
people canill afford to turn the mat-
ter over to that body for sole consid-
eration and settlement.
You, reader should be just as much
interested in the subject as any other
person in the land, for you must pay
or make good your share of the bur-
den. We, therefore, appeal to you to
make a study of the problem, talk
about it, read about it, ask questions
about it, discuss it as you do the peace
treaty. You should know as much
about the business of your country as
you do the politics. You will not get
very far into the subject before you
will come to discover the crying need
of a revision of our federal taxation
system, but you can’t expect Congress
to listen to any of your suggestions or
ideas unless you have an intelligent
understanding of the question.
a
Justice to the Army and Navy.
:
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Influenza is believed to have cured
Mrs. Lillian Benny, of Lewistown, who
has been deaf for forty-seven years in the
left ear, through an attack of scarlet fe~
ver when she was three years old. She
' can now hear a watch tick on the left side
twelve feet away.
—After he had performed a marriage
ceremony, the Rev. J. Emory Weeks, of
Altoona, was given a box by the groom,
which was found later to contain 100 pen-
nies and several gold pieces. This, he
says, is the strangest sort of marriage fee
he has ever received.
—Unable to rent a house, Mr. and Mrs.
George Dwyer, of New Castle, applied to
the city council for permission to occupy
the city pest house during the summer.
They occupied this dwelling years ago,
when Mrs. Dwyer was matron of the hos-
pital. Permission was granted.
—Game law violators are still being
rounded up in the north tier of counties.
Four Emporium men paid $105 each for
illegal deer killing. And last week it cost
five Rouletters $125 for illegally having
ferrets in possession without a license.
Two paid $50 each and the others $25.
..—Curtailment in the number of em-
ployees of the Pennsylvania railroad has
been decided upon as a matter of econo-~
my, was the report from Harrisburg this
week following the transfer of a number
of men. It was said that approximately
2700 men in central and eastern Pennsyl-
vania will be affected.
—Gust Kipgen, of Bradford township.
McKean county, was shot and killed by S.
M. Whiteman, a farmer, during a pistol
and shotgun duel Saturday night, follow=~
ing four incendiary fires in the neighbor=-
hood. It is alleged Kipgen had menaced
Whiteman’s wife, daughter and son and
when Whiteman appeared Kipgen opened
fire. Whiteman then shot Kipgen dead.
—What disposition shall be made of
thirty gallons of forty-year-old wine found
among the effects of Mrs. Martha J. Camp~
bell, widow of a Presbyterian minister
who died recently in Northumberland, is
a question that is causing no end of wor-
ry to George B. Reimensnyder, a Sunbury
lawyer, himself a foe of rum for twenty
five years, who is executor of the $25,000
estate. ,
—The corporation which recently ac
quired the factory site on Kapps Heights,
Northumberland, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, is the McVey Novelty
company, with headquarters in Wilming-
ton, Delaware. The company operates a
largé plant in Delaware. The deal for the
Kapps Heights site, which was sold by
the West Branch Realty Co., to the Mec-
Vey. people, has been finally closed, it was
stated Saturday. Work on the new facto-
ry is to be started just as soon as the
weather permits.
—An object of charity in his declining
years, listed as a government deserter on
the official records at Washington, Isaac
Rake, 82 years old, hero of Gettysburg,
died at his humble home in Sunbury last
week. - Rake served through all the im-
‘portant engagements of the Civil war.
Through some army regulation he was
1 classed as a deserter, because of being ab-
| sent without leave when his battery was
mustered out, and he was never able to
get the blot erased by Washington. Rake
lived in poverty while thirty-day men all
around him were getting $36 a month pen-
| sion.
ed at Weikert, in Union county, suffered a
fractured rib in a strange accident. He
was repairing a footpath on a Penn’s creek
bridge, and fell from the structure. He
fortunately caught one of the upper sup-
porting cables but the wash of the swift
stream bumped his body against the
bridge so severely that one of his ribs was
broken. Moreover, his body became en-
tangled in other cables, and suffering from
the pain of the broken bone, he was una-
ble to free his feet from the mesh. He
clung to the cable like a drowning man to
a straw, until saved by James Pursley.
—Dr. Karl Schaffie, of Philadelphia, for
eight years head of the tuberculosis dis-
pensary working in the State Department
of Health, and Dr. Dorothy Child, of Phil-
adelphia,, for the last year directing the
Child Health Bureau of the department,
on Monday tendered their resignations to
Colonel Edward Martin, State Commission-
er of Health. Dr. Schafile will leave May
1st. These two resignations are the fore-
runners of a general reorganization which
will include bureaus of the department and
tne erection of a division which will su-
pervise all activities in regard to trans-
missible diseases. The bureau's dealing
with children will also be reorganized.
—Special fishing device permits will not
be issued in Pennsylvania before April 15,
according to an announcement by the De-
partment of Fisheries. Under the act of
1919 the Commissioner of Fisheries is au-
thorized to issue special device permits
for outlines, fish baskets, eel racks, gigs,
spears and other devices. ‘While last year
the permits were restricted to the county
From the Philadelphia Record. " i
The army pay bill which has passed |
the Senate and is now in the House |
ought to be passed speedily and re-
ceive the approval of the President. |
The men in the regular army of this !
country have long been underpaid,
but, considering the great work in!
which they participated during the
past few years and the higher cost of
living, too much time has already |
been lost in dealing justly with them. |
The officers in the regular army are, |
as a rule, men of extraordinary abil- |
ity, who in civilian life could com-
mand much Jor compensation than |
it is proposed fto give them under the
bill which has passed the Senate. Their
lives are devoted to the service of
their country, and there are peace-
time duties confronting them which
they should be free to proceed with !
unfettered by the worries of the
mounting costs of living for them-
selves and their families.
|
System That Works.
! From the Kansas City Star. |
It is suggested that if all the wom- |
en would stick together they could |
elect a woman President of the United
States. That's the secret—united ef- |
fort and stern organization. It works
every time. You see it every year in
Congressional elections—the business
men join forces and elect lawyers;
the farmers join together and elect
lawyers; the laboring men get togeth-
er and elect lawyers. It’s an infalli-
ble system, and the women will not
be slow to take advantage of it.
cm——p A en setae.
in which the applicant resided, this year
the applicant will be allowed to select the
county. Under the rules as laid down, an
applicant can secure any one of the seven
permits or all of them. The State makes
no charge for the permit. Distribution of
trout will be started in certain sections by
fishery authorities next month.
—Discouraged and disheartened on ac-
count of being afflicted with an incurable
malady, which caused considerable suffer-
ing for the past fifteen years and growing
worse with the passing years, Charles 8S.
Baney, of Rote, Clinton county, ended his
life on Friday by shooting himself through
the heart with a bullet from a 32 caliber
revolver. He made his home with his
mother and brother, and at 6:30 o'clock
Friday morning his mother went to the
door of his bedroom and calling him ask-
ed him what he desired for breakfast? He
replied that he would be down soon. Ten
minutes later he called from his room,
“Good-bye, mother,” and the next instant
the report of a pistol shot was heard.
— Norristown police have eight gallons
of whisky on hand. It fell into their lap,
so to speak, early last Wednesday morn-
ing, when it was tossed from a Reading
Railway express train which had come
from the coal regions. A suitcase lined
with copper made an effective receptacle
for the illegal booze. The train from Wil-
liamsport does not stop at the station at
Norristown, but the suitcase was put off
as per orders. But there was no one to
receive it, and when the cap was unscrew-
ed and the contents noted, the police were
informed and the booze confiscated. Po-
lice Chief Elder learned that several simi-
lar suitcases were put on the train up the
road and put off at various stations, indi-
cating that there is a concerted movement
on foot to sell booze illegally.
David Libby, a state forester.station-.. -