INK SLINGS.
—We Bellefonters should worry.
Philipsburg will have sixty-three mills
of tax to pay.
- _Texas apparently is to remain
safe and sane. They declined to nom-
inate Mr. Looney for Governor.
— Recent carryins on in Ireland con-
vince us that they may still be “wear-
in ’o the green,” but they're actin ‘o
the red over there.
— Now that the yacht race is ended
will some wise guy rise and show us
what we have got worth the million
or so that it has cost to win the vie-
tory?
—_Candor compels the writer to ad-
mit that after tomorrow he hopes, at
least, to be of a bit more use in this
world, than he has been since the
first of last April.
— Senator Capper, of Kansas, de-
clares that Harding is strong with
the farmers and former Ambassador
Gerard has told Mr. Cox that the
west is swinging to him. Now all we
need is to establish the degree of
credibility of the respective witness-
es.
__It wasn’t so long ago that Sena-
tor Harding opposed the government
fixing the price of wheat because he
said it was too high. Senator Cap-
per must surely be seeing things if he
thinks the farmers of the country are
turning to the man who thought a dol-
lar a bushel was high enough for
wheat.
__Mister Jack Johnsing, former
champion heavyweight of the world
and more recently in exile for viola-
tion of the Mann white slave act,
has come back to this country and is
now in jail in Joilet, Il. “Li’l Artha”
has decided to take his medicine and
the good of society demands that it be
an alopathic dose.
—_Anent all the fuss over the noti-
fication of Cox and Harding that they
have been nominated to run for
President a lady said to us, the other
day: “Neither one of them ought to
have been taken up. Men who don’t
read the papers enough to know what
was done at San Francisco and Chi-
cago are too old fogey to be President
of this country.”
~The Resolute has retained the
stody of the
N pin
ev nd Sir Thom-
an is entirely right.
has insisted that the Prohibition ques-
tion cannot, properly, become an is-
sue in the presidential campaign, for
Congress must enforce or modify the
Volstead Act and if it does its duty
in that respect the preferences of the
President, whoever he may be, will
avail nothing.
—In Kansas they call it “jick” and
in Philipsburg the name is “ja-ka,”
but there’s nothing in a name. The
results are what count as “jick” and
“ja-ka” both carry a kick stronger
than any one-hundred and ten proof
regular stuff that was sold before the
great drouth. Those who are after ef-
fect and not merely social effervesc-
ence should worry so long as com-
pounds of Jamaica ginger are pro-
curable, for that is the trade name
for both “jick” and “ja-ka.”
—_The weather has been so cool for
the past few evenings that early ris-
ers Tuesday morning were convinced
that a frost had fallen. Thermom-
eters registered in the forties and it
was unseasonably cold, but if there
was a frost, vegetation showed none of
the effects of it. In this line we
might add that some of the almanacs
show an “ice-box” for August, so if
you believe in signs be prepared for
more of the kind of weather that
we have been having recently.
—1If you have marveled at the trans-
formation that has been wrought in
the bit of “no-man’s-land,” just where
the “old town road” leaves South Wat-
er street, in Bellefonte, and have giv-
en a moment’s thought to the beauti-
ful town we might have if all such
eye sores as it was a few months ago
could be made to radiate charm in-
stead of sloth,let some of your leis-
ure moments be devoted to the same
recreational and uplifting work that
those of Mrs. William Larimer have.
— Kansas has raised a point con-
cerning the operation of woman suf-
frage that few of us have thought of.
When the women register for voting
they will have to give their age. Now
it seems to us that there has always
been more or less difficulty over the
matter of establishing the vintage of
certain girls and as the law must be
obeyed, if they would vote, we are not
looking for any assignments to duty
in issuing registration certificates lo
them. One can’t tell a woman's years
by her teeth and in these days of cos-
metics, lip-pastes, and brow-sticks,
none of them look more than sixteen,
so that it is going to be the job of a
diplomat to find out whether they’re
over twenty-one without friction. The
Attorney General of Kansas has ruled
that they may evade the direct age
answer by answering that they are
twenty-one plis which solves the
problem for the men of the Sun Flow-
er State but takes none of the gloom
out of the future for a lot of election
officials in Pennsylvania.
| candidates
| nomination.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., J ULY 30, 1920.
NO. 30.
VOL. 65.
Party Reorganization Necessary.
Any movement to reorganize the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania de-
serves encouragement. For more
than seven years the country has
been under control of a Democratic
administration with an executive head
worthy of the highest praise. In ev-
ery other State in the Union the party
has been strengthened and its force
increased because of this fact. In
Pennsylvania the opposite effect has
been felt. Every year population in-
creases but the Democratic vote di-
minishes. There must be a substantial
reason for this. Such things do not
happen without cause. Presumably
the cause is inefficient leaders and iil
management. In either event the
remedy is reorganization.
Soon after the present managers of
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania
assumed control of the organization it
was announced that every friend of
the previous leadership would be
driven out of the party. It was de-
clared with equal emphasis that ev-
ery voter who disagreed with the
same leader upon a certain moral
question would be ostracised. In
pursuance of this purpose and policy
party affiliation was made so difficult
that thousands of earnest Democrats
withdrew from active participation in
political work and other thousands,
equally active but less earnest, reg-
istered with other parties. Some of
them continued to vote the Democrat-
ic ticket but reduced the enrollment,
thus impairing party prospects and
destroying party confidence.
Besides the recent campaign for
delegates to the National convention
was so openly and atrociously corrupt
that self-respecting Democrats are lit-
erally disgusted with the present man-
agement. No previous party organi-
zation had every taken an active part
in behalf of one candidate or set of
or against another for
The function of an or-
ganization is to elect the part) ticket.
he present organization invariably
set out to select the candidates, and if
it failed, it as invariably bolted and
ried fe, opposite party candi-
ingtion of the party
aN ER 1 : ‘ :
—President:Gompers, of the Amar-
ican Federation «of Labor, declares
that the Democratic platform is bet-
ter than that of the Republicans, and
Secretary Morrison, of the same or-
ganization, says Coxisa better candi-
date than Harding. In the face of these
facts it may be hard for the Republi-
can machine to hire labor agitators
for use in the campaign.
Latest Acquisition to Bitter Enders.
An important addition has been
made to the small number of people
in the world who are “fighting Presi-
dent Wilson” openly. There are Sena-
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts, and
Hungry Hi Johnston, of California, of
course. The mental malady common
to creatures of their type brought
them together early in the controversy
over the League of Nations and Hard-
ing, the “rubber stamp” of the Repub-
lican machine, as well as Borah and
a few “bitter-enders,” joined the force
as soon as party exigencies made it
expedient. Then the ex-Kaiser de-
clared his sympathy with the move-
ment “to down Wilson” and the rem-
nant of Junkerism which has survived
the wreck of the war followed him
into the group.
The latest acquisition to the crowd
is Lenine, the blood-thirsty tyrant of
Russia, who cordially tenders his mor-
al support to those who are opposed
to the League of Nations. This mon-
ster, who has been looting the so-call-
ed Soviet Republic mercilessly for
nearly two years, realizes that such
government as he represents could
not survive a moment after the es-
tablishment of a world league that
stood for peace and prosperity, and he
has sent to this country assurances
of his opposition to President Wilson
and sympathy with the political as-
pirations of those here, including the
“yubber-stamp” candidate for Presi-
dent, who are fighting him. It is a
natural and logical acquisition.
The aim of the League of Nations,
as expressed in the covenant adopted
at Versailles, was permanent peace
and prosperity. The plan was the
mutual co-operation of all civilized
nations in an effort to establish jus-
tice among men. No country con-
cerned was asked to make concessions
or render service that all the others
were not freely pledged to give. The
statement that joining the movement
involved the sacrifice of any element
of sovereignty is absurd. The allega-
tion that it impaired the force of the
Monroe Doctrine is preposterous. It
simply gave a guarantee to all nations,
strong or weak physically, of the ab-
solute right to self-determination, and
Certainly Bold and Probably Wise.
Governor Cox was certainly bold
‘and probably wise in demanding a
weekly publication of the receipts and
! expenditures of the campaign. An
| abundance of evidence has already
been revealed of the ambition of the
| predatory interests to seize the con-
'trol of the government. Grafting
"has been a dormant industry since the
beginning of President Wilson’s ad-
‘ministration and those who so long
jenjoyed the privilege of looting the
public through one medium or anoth-
er are exceedingly anxious to “resume
business at the old stand.” Those
who contributed a million and a quar-
ter to secure the nomination of Gener-
al Wood, having failed, are said to
be ready to supply a good deal more
than that to elect Harding.
means to promote the .success of a
cause in which he has deep interest.
Like contributions to the church, such
donations for a principle, if the money
is properly used, are not only excus-
able but commendable. But when
large sums are contributed to political
or other purposes with the expecta-
tion of reimbursement in devious
ways, they are dangerous instruments
in the hands of designing men. No
sane person doubts that most of the
contributors to General Wood's cam-
paign fund expected returns of equal
or greater value in the event of his
election. Senator Harding’s pledge
to favor protective tariff legislation is
the bait thrown out to catch such
*| contributions.
There are various ways of disguis-
ing campaign contributions so as to
make them look like public beneficenc-
es and it is not certain that Governor
Cox’s plan to publish weekly the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the cam-
paign committees will entirely prevent
the corrupt use of money in the cam-
paign. But it is a step in the right
direction and will help to compass the
desired results. For example, if sev-
| eral millions of dollars are paid to
campaign wind-jammers under the
false pretense of
only the very credulous
ed. Likewise the pretense that vast
sums are at get the voters
ocratic party of Pennsylvania so as
to eliminate the misfits who have been
in control during recent years is the
more welcome because it is morally
certain things can’t be made worse.
Senator Harding’s Speech.
given to man to conceal his thoughts.”
This old time adage is exemplified in
his speech of acceptance by Senator
Harding, the Republican nominee for
President. In a wide and dense for-
est of verbiage he “boxes the com-
pass” of every conceivable issue and
actually commits himself to no policy
except such as is without dispute. He
is strong on government for and by
the people, and so is everybody else.
He is equally frank and emphatic in
professing Americanism, but no man
aspiring to office, who is outside of
an insane asylum, would be anything
else. He is for peace because only
an idiot would declare for war with-
in so brief a period after the worst
of all wars.
Senator Harding has vindicated his
reputation as a skillful phrase maker.
His language is admirable. He also
justifies the charge that he is reckless
in statement and indifferent to facts.
Referring to the League of Nations
he said: “We do not mean to shun a
single responsibility of this Republic
to world civilization.” Yet he justi-
fied the refusal of the Senate to rati-
fy the peace treaty, though the auth-
orized peace commissioners of this
Republic, in the peace conference at
Versailles, pledged us to an approval
of the treaty. The invasion of Bel-
gium by Germany, in violation of a
treaty, was reckoned the most atro-
cious crime of the world war. But
it was no more a violation of a treaty
than the action of our Senate was.
In even a more reckless statement
he declared “we debased the dollar in
reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty. Deflation on the one hand
on the other ought to have begun on
the day of the armistice.” If cur-
rency legislation that made panics im-
possible and enabled this country to
pass safely through the greatest cris-
is of its history is debasing the dol-
an assertion and attempting to re-es-
was declared would be foolish.
Republican party in power.
Any man may give freely of his |
General Foch and the League.
. Marshall Foch, commander of the
| great and successful army in the great
| war, is under no delusions as to ex-
‘isting conditions in Europe and
|throughout the world. “It is most
!likely,” he said in a recent statement,
“that the United States is partly re-
sponsible for the present uneasiness
‘of the world. It should have ratified
the peace treaty with us. By keep-
ing apart from us, America has help-
ed to promote disorders in Central
Europe and prevented the ectablish-
ment of the economic equilibrium.”
These gre irrefutable facts. And the
‘great Ceneral might have added that
ithe fai'ure of the United States to
‘ratify the treaty has inspired auto-
' cratic Germany and soviet Russia with
a hope of ultimate victory.
The war was fought and all the sac-
i rifices attending it for the purpose
of creating just such a League of Na-
ions as has been zi2a-ly expressed in
the covenant adopte1 by the Versail-
ies conference. The principal agents
in this splendid achievement were
Great Britain, France, ltaly, Japan
and the United. States. Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan
\promptly ratified the covenant. Each
of these nations has as much pride
1
|
|
1
‘in sovereignty and faith in liberty as
the people of this country. But the
statesmen charged with the conserva-
tion of their interests could see no
menace in pledging to the common
purpose of helping all to the realiza-
tion of the highest ideals of Chris-
tian civilization.
But Republican partisans in the
United States Senate saw peril, not
to the people of the United States,
not to the purpose of promoting the
educating the public | eral Foch remarks,
will be fool- !ly prejudiced our own interest,” as
i well as
. in, Central Europe.”
and
—The talk of reorganizing the Dem- |
'sign the peace treaty and the cove-
Voltaire once said that “speech was
and restoration of the 100-cent dollar
lar, we plead guilty. But no other
than a demagogue would make such
tablish commercial order before peace
It
took five years to resume specie pay-
ments after the Civil war with the
of course Lenine is against it.
a
ing.
—It may be said that Hi Johnson
is the man who put “hard” in Hard-
— While the railroad men and man-
agers are deliberating upon the ques-
tion of accepting or rejecting the
wage scale the public has nothing to
do but devise means to pay the price.
' cause of humanity, but to the expecta-
tion of Republican politicians of a re-
newal of their license .to loot the pub-
lic treasury. They imagined that the
i consummation of a League of Nations
| under the auspices of a Democratic
| President would securely entrench
| that party in power for a long period
1
of time and to prevent that, as Gen-
“they have grave-
“helped to promote disorders
The issue to be
determined by vote of the people in
A mber is whether or not this con-
cy shall be endorsed. =
—Turkey having finally agreed to
nant of the League of Nations, only
Russia, Mexico and the United States
are on the outside. And the Republican
leaders picked our company for us.
Will Women Get the Vote?
Many women in Centre county, as
well as all over the country, are just
itching to know if they will get a
vote this fall, and we might add for
their benefit that it looks highly prob-
able. The ratification of the nation-
al suffrage amendment by only one
more State is all that is necessary to
make woman suffrage constitutional,
according to judicial opinions openly
expressed, and inasmuch as the Gov-
| ernor of Vermont has called the Legis-
lature of that State to meet in extra-
ordinary session on August first to
consider the ratification of the amend-
ment there is a possibility that Ver-
mont’s action will be favorable, which
will be just what is needed to give the
women the vote, provided!
"And the proviso is that they be
properly registered at least sixty days
prior to the election and shall have
paid a state or county tax not less
than thirty days before election day.
Upon the advice of attorney General
W. I. Schaffer, the Centre county Com-
missioners have ordered the necessary
blank sheets for the regisration books
in order to be in shape to make the
registration promptly in the event the
not been advised as to whether the
the work or not. But it will be a rush
job, whoever does it, as it will have
to be completed before September 2nd
in order to make it legal for the wom-
en to vote this fall. Then they will
have another month in which to pay
their tax, and thus qualify for the
vote. So it is now up to the women
to get themselves in shape.
ai ee El
—Poland’s total debt to the United
States is one hundred million dollars
and Red Russia is about to swallow
Poland. Did we hear you say that
we are not interested in what is go-
ing on on the other side ?
e——— ee
—If Senator Harding had spent
another week or so preparing his
speech and then burned the manu-
script a good many sensible people
think his party would be ahead of
the game.
diam t
—The former Crown Prince says he
would like to come to this country to
live if he can’t live in Germany. But
the people of this country would rath-
er see him in a hotter climate than
either.
——Subsecribe for the Watchman.
Tow Tom
same is ordered, but so far they have |
regular registration assessors will do
| AMERICA’S BILL FOR LUXURIES
' TOTALS $8,710,000,000 YEARLY.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
| People of the United States spend
$8,710,000,000 for luxuries annually,
‘according to Miss Edith Strauss, head
of the Women’s Activities Division of
the Department of Justice campaign
against high living costs. She class-
es in her luxury list such articles as
motor cars, pianos, carpets and “lux-
urious clothing,” in addition to to-
bacco, candy, soft drinks and the like.
Tobacco leads the list of luxuries
Miss Strauss has prepared, and on it
the male population spends $2,110,
000,000 each year. Cigarettes bring
$800,000,000, snuff and loose tobacco
a like sum, and cigars $510,000,000.
According to her list, approximate-
ly $2,000,000,000 goes for motor cars
and their parts. Candy-makers reap
a harvest of $1,000,000,000 and $50,-
000,000 is spent annually for chewing
gum. Soft drinks cost the public $350,
000,000; perfumery and cosmetics,
$750,000,000; furs, $300,000,000; car-
pets and“luxurious clothing,” $1,500,-
000,000; toilet Soaps $400,000. 000, and
pianos, organs an onographs $250,-
000,000. b graphs §
“The labor and capital employed in
producing these luxuries might oth-
erwise have been turning out necessary
food,” said she. “In other words, ‘the
nation might have had more bread if
it had had less cake. And, as is al-
ways the case, the*dancer is paying
the fiddler. In this instance the lux-
ury consumer is paying a higher price
for his necessities because he is ab-
normally consuming luxuries.”
Miss Strauss said the statistics
were collected by the Treasury De-
partment.
WHEN DO LUXURIES BECOME NECES-
SITIES?
Our annual bill for “luxuries,” as
compiled by Miss Edith Strauss, head
of the Women’s Activities division of
the Department of Justice, is shown
to be $8,710,000,000—a staggering
figure even in this day when the work-
ingman thinks in terms of $15 silk
shirts and $20 shoes. But it is in the
items themselves rather than in the
amounts that interest lies. Miss
Strauss, we imagine, will have con-
siderable difficulty in convincing many
members of her own sex that some cf
the items she has listed as luxuries
are not necessities. Of course, the $2,-
100,000,000 spent by mere man for
tobacco may be set down at once as
a sheer luxury; for years American
women have. ding
spent. But how about the $1,000,000,
000 that goes for candy and the
000,000 for chewing gum? Are the
ladies, including those in the Depart-
ment of Justice itself, quite willing
to concede these as luxuries?
And then the $300,000,000 for furs
seems paltry compared to the warm
feeling superinduced in equal parts
by the furs and the satisfaction of
wearing them when the thermometer |
And!
is cavorting in the nineties.
$750,000,000 for perfumery and cosme-
tics—part of the armament of every
woman in these days, when it is their
“duty to look good as well as do good.
A luxury? Perish the thought.
most disputation is $400,000,000 for
toilet soaps. What woman would
want to go out in the evening after
performing her ablutions with kitchen
soap, leaving an olfactorial trail, in--
dicating that she had just finished the
family wash? This contingency
might give pause even to Miss Strauss
and her luxury-hunting co-workers.
| And the last is $250,000,000 for pianos
‘organs and phonographs. Some of
'us, afflicted with these implements in
| the unskilled hands of the neighbors,
might even classify them as nuisances,
i rather than luxuries; but did not
President Wilson himself, during the
| stressful days of the war, declare
music to be a necessity? He did, ev-
'en though it be conceded that all
| which emanates from these instru-
ments is not music. Miss Strauss’s
| classification of American luxuries if
! put to popular vote might reveal al-
most as much difference of opinion as
the recent Democratic convention.
eng ee lp peer
Has No Appeal.
¥rom the Harrisburg Telegraph.
| The slippery, slimy,
| third party formed in Chicago by a
' combination of ultra-radical agitators
| will serve one purpose at least—
the vote it polls in November will
give us a fair idea of the number of
these malcontents in the country, and
we predict the registration will be so
low that it will not affect a single
' electoral vote in any State.
| These agitators have been making
‘a tremendous amount of noise, but
fortunately for the country noise
"does not indicate numbers and there
is nothing in the anarchistic plat-
' form adopted nor in the obscure can-
| didates named to lead the movement
that would appeal to any voter with
'a drop of real Amrican blood in his
| veins. Those back of the so-called
“third” party, although it scarcely de-
' serves the appellation, are notoriety
| hunters, seizing upon the foolish at-
| tempt of those other notoriety seek-
l ers, the “forty-eighters,” to get their
‘names before the public and place
‘themselves in position to obtain pub-
|licity for their views. They have
been as shrewd as they have been un-
i scrupulous, but they have overplayed
their hands, for in November the
country will learn that they have no
strength and that all the noise has
been made by a tiny group of loud
mouthed, flannel tongued trouble
makers with no following worth con-
sidering.
, SPAWLS FROM THE KEYS1ONE
—While digging up a sewer for the city
of Pottsville, last week, street hands struck
a vein of coal only three inches below
the surface, directly in front of the court-
house.
—The State Highway Department has
{issued a statement that it did not have
authority under the automobile law to re-
voke the license of a person convicted of
theft of an automobile. That informa-
tion was issued in response to a request
from Centre county.
—D. A. Bixel, forest ranger, while in-
specting a fire route, near the intake dam
on McElhattan run, saw three deer and a
large black bear, a few days ago and es-
timates the weight of the latter at 250
pounds. The bear came so close that he
hit it with the coat he was carrying.
—Six-year-old Charles Kocher, of Schuyl-
kill county, owes his life, his parents
believe, to the fact that when the boy fell
head foremost from the haymow in his
father's barn, instead of striking a cobble-
stone floor he landed on a big rooster
and a duck. He suffered concussion of
the brain. but will recover, physicians
say.
—John J. Gallagher, of Chester, was shot
while walking along Madison street on
Monday morning, a bullet from a rifle
lodging over his eye. The injury is seri-~
ous, but not fatal. The matter has been
reported to the police and arrests are
likely to follow. Gallagher could not un-
derstand, he said, why anyone should
want to shoot him.
—Angeline Petrelli, 10 years old, wis
drowned in a hole at the Naginey quarries
near Lewistown on Tuesday. The child
was bathing with her father, Albert Pet-
relli, when he slipped into a deep hole
and called for help. Although unable fo
swim, she went to his rescue and lost her
life. Petrelli made his way to the bank
almost exhausted, but later recovered his
daughter's body.
—Sam Finger, steeplejack, contractor
and painter, has climbed to dizzy heights
on church spires; he has painted the tops
of swaying flagpoles high in the air, but a
common, ordinary, seraggy cherry tree
proved his downfall. Finger climbed to
shake down the fruit on a farm near Kane
and now he is nursing severe injuries
sustained when -~ he fell with the usual
“dull, sickening thud.”
Enforcement of the Pennsylvania dog
license law: in rural sections of central
Pennsylvania counties has gone ahead so
vigorously that between 500 and 600 cases
are now pending against farmers who
neglected or refuséd to take out licenses
for their canines. It is expected at the
Department of Agriculture, which has been
directing the arrests, that the fines will
be paid and licenses taken out in most of
these prosecutions without further action.
—Miss Nora Bell, a well-known woman
of Uniontown, never had been on a motor-
cycle, until Sunday, when Frank Ross, a
neighbor, passed with his machine and
offered her a ride. Miss Bell accepted and
Ross perched her on the handle bars.
While rounding a sharp curve on - the
Pittsburgh road, within sight of the young
woman's home, the motorcycle collided
with an automobile. Miss Bell suffered a
fractured skull and died a féew hours later.
___A second train load of bones passed
through Sunbury over the Pennsylvania
railroad late Tuesday afternoon. The train
consisted of 45 gondola cars and was en-
route from Philadelphia to Detroif, Michi-
be n dit “dh 2
— roa lurge chemical:
Ris roy pte
But the item which would arouse [5 Doan,
un-American
/ i firm. The bones were shipped to this
$50,- |
_ similar train passed through Sunbury last
‘week and like this one attracted consid-
country from France and Germany. A
erable attention, as the cars were with-
out cover.
__A tumor that was heavier than the
patient from whose body it was takem
was removed by surgeons at the Shamo-
kin State hospital, a couple weeks ago in
an operation upon Mrs. Edward Haas, of
Hahantango Station. According to Dr.
George H. Reese, superintendent of the
hospital, the tumor weighed 100 pounds.
The patient, after the immense growth had
been removed, was found to weigh only
The tumor is the largest ever
seen by the Shamokin surgeons.
— Thirty-nine patriotic units, Sons of
America camps, organized the Central
Pennsylvania Association of the order in
Altoona last Friday. 150 delegates repre-
senting 12,000 members were present. Offi-
‘cers elected: President, TF. M. Anderson, Al-
toona; vice president, J. 0. Bergantz,
Huntingdon; master of forms, the Rev.
George F. Snyder, Altoona; ‘secretary, C.
H. Silknitter, Huntingdon; treasurer, M.
R. Johnson, Bellefonte. A resolution for
compulsory military training in the
schools was voted down.
— While gazing with pride at his pen of
fast-fattening hogs and dreaming fond
dreams of juicy hams during the com-
ing winter season, Gustav Stoney, of
near Montgomeryville, was awakened from
his reverie when a goat butted him over
the rail of the pigsty among the pigs,
The porkers crawled all over him and
Stoney and the pigs gave vent to a med-
ley of grunts, squeals and yells. Finally
Stoney’s son came to his father’s’ rescue.
He chased off the pigs and Stoney, the
elder, emerged from the pigsty. He was
cut and bruised.
__The Nason hospital, at Roaring Spring,
Blair county, received a donation a few
days ago of $10,000 as an endowment, this
being in the form of 7 per cent. preferred
stock in a substantial business. The don-
ors are Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Robb, of Roar-
ing Spring. Mr. Robb is the head of the
paper mill and various other industries
in that section, and has for years been a
trustee and generous supporter of the
hospital. Mrs. Robb has been president
of the Ladies’ Hospital Association, which
has given one to three thousand dollars
each year to the hospital.
With seventeen children in his family,
Delmar F. Campbell, a farmer of Lower
Augusta township, Northumberland coun-
ty, has money in eight banks. He testi
fied to this fact before Judge Cummings
on Monday in defense of a suit his wife
has brought for an accounting on farm
income for the past twelve years. Camp-
bell declared under oath that he paid all
the taxes on the place, clothed and fed
the family and paid for property improve-
ments. Lawyers say bank deposits total
more than $16,000. The Campbells have
been married more than 20 years. For
several years past they have lived in the
same house and eaten at the same table,
but do not speak. Husband and wife
have each employed high-priced lawyers,
and inasmuch as both sides to the suit
will have to take their expenses out of
the family fund, “No matter who wins,
both must lose,’ one of the lawyers said
of the case.