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INK SLINGS.
—We want to tell you right here
that there is moonshine these nights
where moonshine never penetrated be-
fore. :
—No, dear reader, the San Fran-
cisco platform won’t be built of green
lumber even if there should happen to
be one damp plank in it.
— Governor Sproul is so frequent
and earnest in his endorsement of the
ticket that one is almost compelled to
say “he doth protest too much.”
—Probably those seismic tremors
felt along the California coast were
caused by the concentration of so
much Democracy in San Francisco.
Hi Johnson hasn’t endorsed the
work of the Chicago convention as
yet. But Hi has the reputation of
saying what he means or remaining
silent.
—It wasn’t because of anything he
has ever done that Harding was nom-
inated. It was because he has done
nothing in a public way that he was
given the honor.
— President Wilson may not be as
strong, physically, as before he was
taken sick, but recent utterances re-
veal no impairment of his mental
force or depreciation of his courage.
——General Wood may contemplate
the result of his campaign for the
Presidential nomination complacently
but those who put up the million and
a-half to meet the expense account
may think it wasn’t worth the price.
—Of course Mr. McAdoo will al-
ways cherish the delightful memory
that he could have been nominated
and elected President of the United
States had he but said the word. This
will be true no matter which way the
cat jumps in November.
—The Milesburg band seems to be
about as successful in bringing rain
for its scheduled concerts in this place
as was the baseball team that repre-
sented the Burg at the confluence of
Spring creek and Bald Eagle in our
inter-borough league last season.
—The western end of Centre county
is suffering greater damage by the
wheat fly than any other section. |
While it is bad in many sections far-
mers in west Ferguson are being dam-
aged to the point where they don’t ex-
pect much more than half a crop.
—The Altoona Times-Tribune
thinks “the. right sort of a League of
Nations would be a long step toward
international = brotherhood.” So does
everybody else except Hi Johnson but
some of us don’t seem to be able to get
together on what would be the “right
sort of a League.”
— Colonel Harvey’s own version of
how Senator Harding came to be the
Republican nominee for President
gives rise to the suspicion that he was
trying to get in the Jim Blakeslie
class as a maker of Presidents. The
Colonel thinks he did it, just like Jim
thought he nominated Wilson. Only
the Colonel didn’t light a cigarette
and think before he gave the eventful
decision.
— With a boost of eleven mills in
the taxes for borough purposes in
Bellefonte, with a very probable in-
crease of three mills in our school tax-
es and the increase of two mills in the
county tax the grand aggregate of fif-
ty-six mills is staring Bellefonte prop-
erty owners right in the face. Some
people laughed when we predicted last
fall that it would be fifty but it has
gone even beyond that high mark.
—The big ccuservation picnic to be
held today at Boalsburg should have
something of interest for every man,
woman and child in Centre county.
No sane consideration of how and
what future generations are to do for
essential natural commodities can be
made without conjuring a very
gloomy prospect. If our posterity is
to be blessed with the water supply,
the timber, the game and fish that we
have wasted so ruthlessly it is none
too soon to consider ways and means
of conserving what is left. It is every-
body’s duty to try to leave the world
as pleasant a place to live in, at least,
as he or she found it.
— There is one exceedingly hopeful
and encouraging advance notice of
what is to be done at San Francisco
next week. All wings of our party
seem to be in accord in the determin-
ation to build a platform that will talk
to the people in language they can un-
derstand. There is to be no “pussy-
footing,” no dissembling, no evasion.
The party platform is to state clearly
the exact stand we take on all of the
great issues of the day. - And that will
be as it should be. We want no such
meaningless platitudes as came out of
Chicago last week. We want the
world to know, beyond any possibility
of misinterpretation, just what De-
mocracy stands for. We want to win
or lose on well defined issues.
—Many people are curious to know
how the population of Bellefonte could
have decreased during the past de-
cade when most of them are aware
that many new residences have been
built in the town within that period
and that the housing situation has
never been as acute as it has been
during the past two years, It does
seem that the figures and the facts
don’t square. However it might be
accounted for partially by a condition
that few of us stop to consider. Twen-
ty years ago, and even ten, many of
the old and larger homes in Belle-
fonte were occupied by families aver-
aging from five to eight persons,
whereas now those families are scat-
tered so that less than half of their
former members are left to have a
permanent residence here.
emo
VOL 65.
Details of a Great Event.
Colonel George Harvey’s statement
of the causes which brought about the
nomination of Senator Harding at
Chicago would have been interesting
even if he had been less candid. .Col-
onel Harvey is always ornate and in
supreme confidence of his own power
as a master politician, sometimes pic-
turesque. He imagines that he is re-
sponsible for the nomination and elec-
tion of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and
has been . more or less peeved ever
since because the President failed to
put the same appraisement upon his
friendly services. Of course the
thought of commercializing polities
never entered his mind but he has
been giving powerful influence and
potent support to the Republican ma-
chine ever since.
In an interview given to the writer
for the New York World of Sunday
last Colonel Harvey epitomizes the
history of the Republican National
convention in the frank declaration
that Senator Harding was nominated
“because there was nothing against
him and because the delegates wanted
to go home.” In these wants combin-
ed there was ample reason for making
a quick decision in the selection of a
candidate for High constable, no
doubt. But in choosing the candidate
for President one would think that
graver reasons would impel action of
the representatives of a great party.
But Colonel Harvey,
vision penetrates a millstone as far as
that of any other man could discern
no other reason for Harding.
It seems that the selection was
made in Colonel Harvey’s room in a
Chicago hotel at three o’clock of the
morning upon which the act was con-
summated. Several gentlemen had
casually called on the Colonel “dur-
ing the wee small hours” and the can-
vass of the candidates and the process
of elimination began. Sproul, Knox,
Coolidge, Lodge, Lenroot and Allen
were brought out in order, but “they
didn’t get beyond the stage of mere
suggestion.” Then Harding was trot-
ted out. “I suppose his name had
been in our minds all along,” the Col-
onel adds. Anyway “the word came
back that he would do,” and he was
promptly sent for and asked if he
knew any reason why he should not
be nominated.
When some years ago, the late Mrs.
Theodore Tilton was accused of mis-
behavior with the late Henry Ward
Beecher as co-respondent, Mr. Beech-
er was called as a witness. In most
imposing manner and dramatic fash- |
ion Mr. Beecher said: “I declare the
woman innocent of this great trans-
gression.” Harding was equally posi-
tive. He mentally reviewed his rec-
ord, carefully searched his soul, and
“protested that his conscience was
void of offence, and we were satisfied.”
The convention was allowed to pro-
ceed for a time, however, as if noth-
ing had happened. The sixth, sev-
enth, eighth and ninth ballots were
taken but on the tenth the order was
issued and the diminishing strength
of contestants vanished.
To Colonel Harvey names are “un-
considered trifles,” and in his inter-
esting narrative of the convention he
uses them sparingly. Of course he
speaks of the striking figures and
mentions Senator Brandegee, Senator
Lodge, Senator Wadsworth, Senator
Calder, Senator McCormick, Senator
Smoot and Senator Watson who com-
posed with himself the controlling ca-
bal. There is one other in his galaxy
of greatness. It is Mr. Joseph R.
Grundy, of Pennsylvania. As the
Colonel put it “last of all came Grun-
dy.” But he came with bells on.
“The virtue of Grundy’s advice,” con-
tinues Colonel Harvey, “lay in the
fact that, as we knew, he saw things
as Penrose would have seen them had
he been there.”
And there you are. “The strategy
Grundy outlined was the strategy
Penrose would have proposed,” so
“that with Grundy present and assist-
ing we felt ourselves safeguarded on
every salient.” No doubt Governor
Sproul will find great comfort in this
assurance that Penrose was the mov-
ing spirit in the nomination of Sena-
tor Harding and that Grundy, who is
his “pet aversion,” was the sick man’s |
alter ego in Chicago.
——The big German gun which was
whose mental
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Hopeful Note from San Francisco.
An encouraging note comes from
the “advance guard” of the Democrats
who will compose the National con-
vention of the party at San Francisco,
next week. National chairman Cum-
mins, who will be temporary president
of the convention, declares that the
platform will be frank and explicit on
all questions to be considered in the
campaign. Mr. Cummins consulted
with the President before his depar-
ture for the seat of the convention
and probably got his inspiration con-
cerning the platform from that source.
In a recent interview the President
said: “Whatever else the Democrat-
ic party may do, I hope that its con-
vention in San Francisco. will say just
what it means on every issue.”
This hope will be cordially shared
by every right thinking Democrat in
the country. The Republican plat-
form is a jumble of ambiguities la-
boriously and stupidly brought to-
gether to conceal the purposes of the
party leaders and deceive and confuse
the minds of voters. The Democratic-
platform should be the antithesis of
this. A League of Nations created
for the purpose of averting war and
securing prosperity throughout the
world for all time has been a cherish-
ed hope of the people of this country
for many years. The covenant creat-
ed and adopted by the peace confer-
ence at Versailles promised the fulfil-
ment of this great ideal and the Dem-
' ocratic convention at San Francisco
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presented to Bellefonte last summer |
by W. Harrison Walker, chairman of
Group 3, war savings division, and
which ever since has occupied a place
of honor in the triangle in the Dia-
mond, was taken down to Milesburg
on Saturday to be repainted in as near
the original color as it is possible to
do. When the job is completed the
gun will be brought back and install-
ed on a foundation to be put down by
the County Commissioners in the
southwestern corner of the court
house yard, opposite the soldiers mon-
ument, where it will be permanently
anchored as the one trophy secured by
Bellefonte and Centre county from the
great world war.
——It’s all here and it’s all true.
Read the “Watchman” and see.
i cation without
should and will declare for its ratifi-
“nullifying reserva-
tions.”
The Republican platform straddles
every important question of public
interest. It failed to express the pur-
pose of the party on the beverage
question, the Irish question, the labor
question and all other questions and
hopes the voters will imagine what-
ever they would like to have on all
these issues is meant. It is to be
hoped the Democratic platform will
take the opposite view and state what
the party intends to do. - The people
are not fools. They know what they
want and appreciate the value of
candor and honesty. The Democratic
party has always been faithful to its
pledges and obligations and if the
convention is true to the party there
will be no ambiguity in the platform.
——Nobody will ever know what
Senator Harding’s intentions with re-
spect to Mexico are until
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rose opens his mouth on the ject.
Slighting an Interesting Event. 4
Reports from Chicago concerning
the Republican National convention
were entirely too meager concerning
one of the incidents. In the dispatch-
es published on the morning of the
final sessions of the convention a brief
reference was made to a dispute
among the Pennsylvania delegates
which occurred the night before. The
inference to be drawn from the casual |
reference to the affair was that an old
grudge between Senator Crow, chair-
man of the Republican State commit-
tee, and Joseph R. Grundy, president
of the Manufacturers’ Club, had brok-
en out afresh and that these two dis-
tinguished party leaders “had almost
come to blows.” It seems to us that
such an episode deserved more atten-
tion than was given it.
The old grudge between Grundy and
Crow originated during the last ses-
sion of the Legislature. For some
unexplained reason Governor Sproul
had inferentially made pledges before
his election that certain legislation de-
manded by labor and humanitarian
bodies would be enacted and Senator
Crow as the recognized representa-
tive of the Governor in the General
Assembly undertook to fulfill the
pledge. Mr. Grundy representing the
manufacturers and incidentally the
campaign fund contributors, objected
to the proposed legislation and a bit-
ter quarrel ensued. Grundy threaten-
ed to prevent Crow’s re-election to
the chairmanship of the committee
and before the reorganization began
work to carry out his purpose. Mu-
tual friends interceded, however, and
the quarrel was amicably settled.
Soon after the delegates to the
Chicago convention reached their des-
tination it was discovered that Grun-
dy was exercising more authority in
the movements of the delegation than
his position as a district representa-
tive warranted. In other words it de-
veloped that Grundy represented Pen-
rose as well as the Eighth Congres-
sional district and the real bosses of
the convention appraised Penrose 2s
more important than the State. At
the final meeting of the leaders held
in Colonel Harvey’s room Grundy rep-
resented the State and he had never
been sincerely for Sproul’s nomina-
tion. This was the reason of the al-
tercation between Crow and Grundy
and a full account of the affair would
have been interesting.
i er ———
— There is some comfort, also, in
the thought that Chauncey Depew’s
Chicago convention address was his
last offense.
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McAdoo and the Administration.
| The statement of William G. Mc-
Adoo forbidding the presentation of
| his name to the San Francisco con-
| yention as a candidate for the Presi-
| dential nomination has been regarded
' by the public with varying interpreta-
tions. “I am unable to reconsider the
position I have consistently maintain-
ed,” he writes, “namely, that I would
not seek the nomination for the presi-
dency.” If he had stopped there his
declaration would have signified little
in the popular mind. But he adds:
“I cannot, therefore, permit my name
to go before the convention. This
decision is irrevocable, as the path of
' duty seems to me clear and unmis-
takable.”
! © We are constrained to express ad-
| miration for the genuine spirit of self-
| effacement plainly expressed in this
positive declaration of the great fin-
ancier and statesman who has given
it utterance. But we are not per-
suaded that it completely eliminates
him from the consideration of the con-
vention as those who would like to
have him eliminated profess to ima-
gine. In every reference Mr. McAdoo
has made to the matter he has said
that he would not seek the nomination
and he has been scrupulously faith-
ful to that pledge. But hitherto he
has always added that no man in-
could refuse to answer a call to duty
such as the nomination of a great
party for President implies.
In view of these facts we sincerely
hope that the friends of Mr. McAdoo
in the San Francisco convention will
not only consider his name ‘hut: nom-
inate him. The delegates in the con-
vention representing the Democrats of
Oregon are instructed to name and
support him and they have no altern-
ative. For seven years he served the
country with transcendent ability and
at immense personal sacrifice and we
| believe that if he is nominated at San
Francisco next week he will accept
the call and serve the people in
‘the future as he has in the past.
| Therefore let us hope that he will be
nominated for in that event his elec-
, tion is certain. A
| ——1It is suspected that President
Wilson’s mind was moving in the di-
rection of Nebraska when he wrote
“jie other day that he does not believe
"that the delegates in the San Francis-
| co convention “will permit themselves
to beled astray in order to gratify the
| vanity or promote the uncharitable or
| selfish impulses of any individual” -
Issues of the Campaign Fixed.
1
| The Republican press as well as the
| leaders of that party are extremely
| anxious to divert the issue of the
| campaign from the League of Nations
{ to some questions upon which the
public mind is less settled and the
i candidate of their party less vulnera-
i ble. Even ex-President Taft is ren-
| dering lip service to the party ma-
chine in this matter and in an address
| recently delivered insists that other
: questions are paramount. But the
. people will not be fooled in that way.
| The Republican party by the action of
| the Senate in refusing to ratify the
treaty has forced that issue and it has
| been accepted. There is no getting
away from the inevitable and the is-
sue must be met.
Moreover conditions are particular-
ly auspicious for the treatment of the
League of Nations as the dominant
issue. The Republican nominee for
President is largely responsible for
the failure of the Senate to ratify the
treaty. At the organization of the
Congress Senator Lodge in pursuance
of his enmity against the President
packed the Senate committee on For-
eign Relations for the purpose of hu-
miliating Woodrow Wilson. In carry-
| ing out his plans he selected two
| classes of Republicans for service on
| the committee. One sort was the ir-
| reconcilables like Hi Johnson and Mo-
ses and the other negatives like Hard-
| ing. In the nefarious work both sorts
| cheerfully got together under the
| leadership of Lodge.
If the people of this country favor
| permanent peace and freedom for all
| future time from the horrors, destitu-
tions and destructions of war they
will vote to condemn the conspiracy
through which Senator Lodge by the
use of such men as Harding was able
to prevent the ratification of the
treaty. There is no other question of
equal importance to this and it must
be determined. The ratification of the
treaty eight months ago as might
have been done would have saved the
people billions of dollars wasted
through industrial uncertainty, com-
mercial paralysis and high cost of liv-
ing, purposely kept high by the Re-
publican Congress for partisan rea-
sons and use in the impending cam-
paign.
——The only frank features of the
Republican platform are those which
denounce President Wilson and they
occur so frequently as to create the
impression that the platform makers
had no other issue in mind.
BELLEFONTE. PA. JUNE 25, 1920.
| fluenced by the spirit of patriotism | P
NO. 26.
Bryan and Johnson.
Irom the Northampton Democrat.
Both the great political parties pos-
sess radical elements and between
these radical elements there is greater
harmony of priciples and action than
there is between the radicals and the
remaining elements of their respective
parties. Just how long these radical
elements will remain within the lines
of the old parties is a much discussed
problem that only the future can an-
swer. Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin,
who received considerable support for
the Republican nomination for Vice-
President, has expressed his regret at
the nomination of Harding, but will
support him at the election. He de-
clared, however, that he would be
“among the first to join a new politi-
cal party if when elected President
Harding would adopt reactionary pol-
icies and be controlled by the Old
Guard.” Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, an-
other Republican, issues a warning
to the Republicans that they “may as
well get over the idea that the elec-
tion is a cinch” and announces his de-
termination to fight any domination of
Congress. Having been out of power
for over seven years, the only issue
that holds the party together at the
present time is to get in power and
opposition to Democrats.
The Democrats at San Francisco are
likely to meet the same trouble with
the radicals as the Republicans had at
Chicago. William J. Bryan will be
there as usual as a disturber of the
eace. He is now upon the pay roll
of the Anti-Saloon League and will
try to earn his salary by fighting for
an endorsement of the fanatical Vol-
stead law. Between Bryan and John-
son there is supposed to be a wide
political gulf, but as a fact they are
one in political sentiment. Bryan sat
in the front row at the Johnson meet-
ing in Chicago, smiling and applaud-
ing the speech of Hell-Roaring-Hir-
am. What Johnson attempted at
Chicago will no doubt be the program
of Bryan at San Francisco. Both
deal in threats as to whati#hey will
do if they are not permitted to have
their own way. Their attitude is one
of intimidation and menace, support-
er by superior airs and pretensions
No doubt Johnson will return the com-
pliment and be on hand at San Fran-
cisco to applaud the efforts of Bryan.
Damon and Pythias never had any-
thing on this pair of political American
Beauties. It would be an evil fate to
keep them apart and they should form
a party of their own.
The radical sentiments of these gen-
Hespen extend sil slong the line of
eir supporter rom La et
Borah ana. Mayer Thompsohs: he
cago, down to Hearst and his follow-
ers. Just now ‘the Republicans are
coddling this element in the hope of
using them at the next élection, but
if suecessful they will only come’ back
to plague them in a worse way. Both
parties must sooner or later stop play-
ing fast and loose with their radical
elements. The great mass of the peo-
ple of this country are not radicals
and would welcome a radical show-
own.
Hot Weather Food and Drink.
From the Omaha Bee.
Much of the discomfort of hot
weather comes from unintelligent eat-
ing. We are all prone to carry over
into summer our winter tastes at the
table. If we can summon up fortitude
to discard those foods which develop
heat—the rich meats, gravies, pastries
and sweet things generally, which
build fires in our tummies and raise
the temperatures of-our bodies—we
shall all be saved not only much dis-
comfort, but also many of the perils
of hot summer suns.
The vegetables and fruits are the
things to “play up” on the table now.
The vegetables are the great blood
purifiers. They rid the blood of what
it called for in cold weather, those
qualities which resist cold; and they
leave us in condition to combat exces-
sive heat, while the acid and juicy
fruits ably reinforce them. Of all the
fruits the lemon yields the most whole-
some acid. It is as pure gold to pig
iron, when compared with vinegar.
It is a good rule never to use vinegar
as an acid when a lemon is available.
And if you would be cool while oth-
ers sputter and bubble with heat, eat
lightly! Hot meats, rich puddings,
sweets, all heavy foods, have to be
burnt up in the body. Therefore shun
them if you would not have a con-
flagration within while the sun is
raging without. And drink pure wat-
er in abundance at cellar coolness. All
iced drinks react unfavorably on the
system. In the days when cold beer
—%jce cold beer”—was sought by the
heated crowd, those who knew how to
take it regarded ice on or in it as an
abomination. In Europe, which has
been drinking intelligently much long-
er than America, cellar coolness is
the rule. Ice has permanently injur-
ed more stomachs in this country than
all the beer ever guzzled into it.
—
— Bellefonte may yet have a safe
and sane Fourth if the boys and girls
continue shooting off the fireworks at
the same rate as they have already
started doing, notwithstanding the
fact that some Bellefonte stores are
exhibiting good-sized stocks of the
red explosives.
———————
—The wise man will lay up his win-
ter’s supply of coal for no man know-
eth what the conditions will be when
winter comes again.
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——Read the ‘Watchman.” pg
‘| night.
|
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The American Legion at Lewistown is
to have a new home. A committee of bus-
i iness men took over a $14,000 building for
the boys, and propose to pay for it by
i popular subscription.
| —Wwilliam M. Hargest, of Harrisburg.
{ deputy Attorney General since 1909, and
‘one of the active members of the Dauphin
| county bar, was last week appointed judge
of Dauphin county to succeed the late
Judge George Kunkel. He assumed office
immediately.
—State and local police are investigate
ing the death of Carmelli Bonjimoni, aged
28, whose body was found with a bullet
wound through the head, at Aultman, a
mining town near Indiana, Pa., early Sun-
day morning. It is believed that he was
murdered during a fight on Saturday
—In July it is thought the last log will
be sawed at the big mill of the Norwich
Lumber company, McKean county. This
will complete the operation of cutting
about 35,000 acres of timber. The mill is
one of the largest in the State and will
be moved to Clarion county, where
another tract of timber is to be cut.
—Joseph Lazawich, 7 years old, of Shar-
on, was accidentally shot and killed Mon-
day morning by his brother Nicholas, 9
years old, while the latter was playing
with a revolver at the home of their par=-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lazawich, of Farrell.
The father purchased the pist®l after he
had been: held up and robbed of $2500
three weeks ago.
—Three years ago five holes twenty
feet deep were drilled in rock at the
Potomac Valley Lime Company quarries
at Pinesburg, Lycoming county, and load-
ed with dynamite. A bolt of lightning
set off two and the other three could
not then be located by the workmen.
During last Thursday’s thunderstorm
lightning set off the remaining three.
—Thomas Gibbons, making $30 a week as
sexton of St. Matthias Roman Catholic
church, Conshohocken, was found guilty
in criminal court at Norristown, of steal-
ing altar articles, valued at about $250,
and pawning them for $8. He told
Judge Miller that he did it to get money
for drink. The court censured him, but
suspended sentence, placing him in charge
of a parole officer.
—A Clearfield county miner a half mile
under ground was so badly injured by
lightning during last Thursday’s storm
that he is now in the hospital. Ohmar
Whitsell worked in the mines, at Frost-
burg, and was leaning on his shovel which
was on an iron rail when a bolt of light-
ning followed the rail into the mine, shat-
tered the shovel and knocked the miner
unconscious. He was badly cut.
—A six-feot flood in the river at Clear-
field last Wednesday uncovered the fact
that deer are being killed illegally and the
local game wardens have started out to
find the violators. A large box came float-
ing down the river and stopped in an ed-
dy near the Market street bridge in that
town. Boys pulled the box ashore and it
was found to contain the hide and head of
a buck deer which had been killed within
the last three weeks.
—A combat between a buck deer and a
five-foot blacksnake was witnessed last
week in a field near Youngdale, Clinton
county, by Emanuel Arnold. The fight
was short, for the deer trampled the life
out of the big snake in a few minutes. Mr.
Arnold says he saw the buck and a doe in
a field, and the next instant he beheld the
buck leap in the air four times in succes-
sion, eoming down with its feet close to-
gether. As he started to make an investi-
gation the deer ran into the woods. On
reaching the spot where the animal had
been jumping, Arnold was surprised to see
a large blacksnake, crushed by the hoofs
of the deer.
— Although 2300 electric volts flashed
through his body for an instant at the
Lytle colliery near Pottsville on Saturday,
William Katerman, of Minersville, is alive
to tell the tale, his life having been saved
by an occurrence which seems miraculous.
Holding a pipe which he was fitting to
another end, which had a naked high ten-
sion wire wrapped around it, the current
suddenly connected with Katerman’s body,
knocking him senseless. Pipe and man
were whirled around with lightning swift-
ness, when the pipe suddenly became con-
nected with another pipe, grounding the
current before Katerman was electrocuted
and releasing him, not much the worse for
his startling experience.
— Two of the largest beer and near-beer
producers in Central Pennsylvania, the J.
and A. Moeschiln; Inc., Sunbury, and the
Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing corpora-
tion at Shamokin, have suspended opera-
tions. No brewed products will be made
in the future, it was said. At the Sunbury
brewery less than twenty-four barrels of
near-beer is on hand, it was said, and in
Shamokin there is very little of that. The
only other brewery in Northumberland
county, the Mount Carmel, suspended op-
erations last week. Some of the brewers
are said to be bitter at whiskey bootleg-
gers and sales by those who have drug-
gist’s permits. These, they say, pay no
license but are permitted to ship booze by
the car load.
— Placing a ladder against the side of
the residence of James Carr, a Norwood,
Chester county policeman, thieves enter-
ed the house by a second story window, a
few nights ago, and ransacked Carr's bed-
room, where the cop was peacefully sleep-
ing. The burglars took Carr's trousers, in
the pocket of which was his gold watch
and a wallet containing $25. They also
gathered other booty before they were
interrupted by the barking of a d&g. This
awakened Carr, who found the men de-
scending the ladder. When he attempted
to follow, the thieves jumped and pulled
the ladder away from the house. Then
Carr got his automatic pistol and began
to pump lead at the burglars, who fled,
leaving Carr’s pants, but not the contents
of the pockets.
—Tranky Talemento, a dapper Spaniard,
of Pittsburgh, who astounded the court
with linguistic accomplishments far be-
yond that of the official interpreters, was
fined $50 by Magistrate Fugassi, on Mon-
day morning, after he had confessed to a
charge of stealing a kiss from Miss Helen
Maurice, who declared she had no ac-
quaintance with the prisoner. Miss Maur-
ice had refused to flirt with Talemento
while passing ‘down the street. Not dis-
comfitted, Talemento took matters into his
own hands, and as the pretty young wom-
an entered a candy store, he placed his
arm around her shoulders and kissed her
full on the lips. When asked why he act-
ed in such an ungallant manner, the Span-
jard said: “It was well worth the price.
I will buy many more at the same price,
if the young lady is willing.” She was
not.