Seni
INK SLINGS.
—Honestly, it does seem funny that
every time we read a list of price
drops we can’t find a single item in it
that we seem to be in need of.
— Meantime arrangements ought
to be perfected to guarantee just pun-
ishment for Lenine and his partner in
crime when the break-up comes in
Russia.
——If Harding’s plan to form a
partnership between government and
business is adopted it is a safe bet
that business will hold the upper hand |.
in the enterprise.
——Senator Harding thinks it’s dis-
courteous to “heckle” a candidate for
President, and .we concur in his opin-
ion. But he allows the Republican
National committee to employ at large
salaries a big force of ruffians to fol-
low Governor Cox and heckle him
wherever they can.
_ —A Congressman named Edmonds
of Philadelphia, wants to impeach
President Wilson. We give the gen-
tleman credit with having brains
enough, at least, to have discovered a
way to let the country know that there
is a person named Edmonds, from
Philadelphia, holding down a seat in
Congress. ;
—Lots of people hold brewery stock
but there is only one of them who is
a candidate for President and that one
is Senator Harding. It’s nobody’s
business but his own, of course, but it
is everybody’s right to know why the
Anti-Saloon League is backing a man
who has a big sheaf of brewery stock
in his own name.
—Senator Harding was in Altoona
Monday morning. Yes, he has left
the front porch and is carrying his
dissembling statements right to the
voters. During his short stop in the
Mountain city he addressed some rail-
road workers assembled at the sta-
tion. During his remarks he took oc-
casion to comment on the pay of rail-
roaders but, as usual, had nothing
constructive to suggest nor had he the
courage to admit that the railroad
workers owe neither him, nor any of
the Senatorial oligarchy back of him,
anything for the advances they have
been given in the past three years.
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—The scandal in the baseball world
has revealed the depths to which
some men will go for money. Eight
players of the Chicago team have been
suspended for selling out in the
world’s series of last year. It is
rather late to discover that Cincinnati
won her victory in 1919 because a lot
of gamblers had bought enough men
on the Chicago team to throw the
games and put them in the position of
being “sure thing” betters. -Late as it
is, it is most fortunate. For the na-
tional game must be purged of such
crook professionals if it is to hold its
place in popular favor and manager
Charles Comiskey, of the Chicagoans,
has taken the only course open to him
by dismissing eight of his best play-
ers, even though their loss may cost
him the pennant this year.
—The District Attorney of Centre
county is in a “brown study.” He
doesn’t know whether something that
happened in court Wednesday morn-
ing was merely accidental or whether
it was lese majesty. Mr. Furst was
examining a witness concerning the
size of stones that are supposed to be
covering a certain road in Taylor or
Worth township. He asked him:
“Are they as large as my fist?” The
witness answered: “Yes.” Then Mr.
Furst pressed the inquiry further by
asking: “Are they as large as my
head?” “Well,” replied the witness:
“Some of them are as high, but I don’t
think any of them are as thick!” In-
tentional or not so, the court and the
courtiers saw the point that the Dis-
trict Attorney had unwittingly drawn
out of the stolid witness and every-
body laughed.
— The recent census reveals that the
country is not quite as densely popu-
lated as was supposed. Forecasts had
put the number at one hundred and
ten million, but the count has pro-
gressed far enough to indicate that
the total will not be more than one
hundred and seven million. The qual-
ity, and not the quantity, of our pop-
ulation should concern us most. The
census will show that about one-
eighth of our people can neither read
nor write and that fifty-two per cent.
of them live in the cities where the
congestion is conducive to illiteracy
and is not calculated to engender that
broad spirit of Americanism to be
found in the rural districts. These
are none too pleasant revelations, but
we are fortunate in having them for
they should admonish us that quality,
not quantity, is the thing we should
strive most for.
—The Philipsburg Ledger announc-
es that Tom Beavers “good, cool
judgment will give us representation
at Harrisburg like we used to have.”
It being inconceivable that the Ledger
could want such representation as
many illustrious Democrats have giv-
en Centre county inthe General As-
sembly we rise to inquire of the Ledg-
er just who, of its own party, it had in
mind when setting a goal for Tom:
Was it the Hon. Phil E.,, or John K.
Thompson, or Ives Harvey, or the
Ledger’s own “good angel,” Harry B?
But why worry about this anyway.
Frank Naginey will represent Centre
county in Harrisburg. Nobody has
anything against Tom Beaver person-
ally, but there are a lot of people in
Centre county who think he had no
right to jump in and snatch two years
of the Honorable right out of the life
SS
the safety of humanity. The task
‘istration of the
of “poor, dear Mr, Harvey.”
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
Harding Degenerating into a Scold.
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EFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 1, 1920.
NO. 39.
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Campaign of False Pretense.
Senator Harding is going from bad i The amazing thing in the campaign |
to worse. He has degenerated from a | is that the Republican party relies en- f
common demagogue to the lower lev- | tirely on the credulity of the public | York newspaper on Sunday Senator |
el of a mendacious scold. In his | for its hope of victory. All the news-
speech before the commercial travel- | papers and speakers of that party the defeat of the Democratic candi-
ers on Saturday, he said: “A nation | faith from Senator Harding down are | date for President would be worth a
which prides itself upon its business | falsely pretending that the League of |
sense has been forced to see its gov-
ernment twisted into a monstrosity of
waste and slipshoddiness.”
statement might be expected from a
candidate for borough constable, but
not from an aspirant for a higher of-
fice. Everybody knows that the cost
of the war was enormous but not
wasteful. The money was honestly
spent for the good of the country and
could not have been performed for
less. And it was worth the price.
In the Civil war, under the admin-
lamented Lincoln,
something like five or six billion dol-
lar’s worth of government bonds were
sold within a period of about four
years. Some of these bonds were sold
as low as seventy cents on the dollar,
and the whole financial world was the
market. During the world war thirty
billion dollar’s worth of bonds were
disposed of in a market limited to this
country and without the discount of a
farthing, within a period of a year
and a half. Does that look like slip-
shod financiering on the part of the
present administration? Does it look
like inefficiency? Nobody has ever
charged Lincoln with extravagance or
wastefulness. He did the best he
could.
In the Spanish-American war the
administration of President McKinley
enlisteed a volunteer army of a trifle
more than 300,000 men and assembled
them in training camps. They were
provided with paper-soled shoes, shod-
dy clothing and inferior arms. They
were fed rotten food and within three
months after enlistment from forty to
sixty per cent. of them were suffering
Such a |
| Nations is an instrument which will
| provoke wars rather than conserve’
peace. The preface to the covenant of
the League declares its purpose is “to
promote - international co-operation to
achieve international peace and se-
curity.” If the distinguished gentle-
men who composed the Peace Confer-
ence had had the opposite purpose in
mind they would not have employed
that language.
Moreover the Conference left noth-
purpose of its members was to be
brought about.
mote international co-operation and
curity,” by “the acceptance of obliga-
scription of open, just and honorable
relations between nations; by the firm
by the maintenance of justice and a
scrupulous respect for all treaty obli-
gations in the dealing of organized
peoples with one another.” Liberally
construed this means simply the
adoption of the Golden Rule by the
nations of the world.
The pretense that the covenant of
the League creates a supergovern-
ment, that it confers upon some alien
authority the right to call our citi-
zens into military service abroad or at
home, that it impairs the sovereignty
of the United States or that it weak-
ens the force of the Monroe Doctrine
is equally false and absurd. Article
X binds the government of the United
States to fulfill its part in an obliga-
tion assumed by all alike, to preserve
from diseases. During the world war
five million men were enrolled, assem-
bled and trained. They were sup-
plied with the very best clothing and
equipment and the mortality in the
camps was no greater than that in the
best regulated cities of the country.
More than two millions were shipped
‘across the sea without the loss of a
life. :
Will a comparison of these records
justify the charge against the present
administration of inefficiency and
wastefulness? We don’t think so. Of
course it costs money to raise and
equip an army of more than four mil-
lion men, provide them with the best
of everything, preserve them in health
and maintain a high standard of mor-
ale. But the problem was one of men |
or money, the sacrifice of human lives
or the expenditure of a comparative-
ly few dollars out of an abundance.
We were forced into the war. Repub-
lican administrations for a quarter of
a century ‘before had failed to pre-
pare the country for such a war and
urgent necessity made hasty prepara-
tion expensive. But there was no
waste or inefficiency.
In the same speech Senator Hard-
ing added: “The people knew very
well that only an intelligent opposi-
tion prevented the present administra-
tion from making an expenditure of
over $11,000,000,000 in a peace year,
and the $11,000,000,000 would have
been a reasonably large draft upon a
people who in 1916 paid $1,000,000,
000 for their current expenses of gov-
ernment.” The average bar room
loafer would hardly venture so malig-
nant a libel. When the $11,000,000,-
000 appropriation bills were framed
the war was in the height of fury and
no living man expected it would end
within a year. The estimates were
made for a year of the most intense
and expensive war of all history.
Every right-minded man concurred in
them.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, in re-
sponse to suggestions of President
Wilson, an armistice was agreed upon
and hostilities ended. President Wil-
son immediately asked Congress for a
decrease in appropriations’ and dimi-
nution in taxes. The Republican Con-
gress cut down the appropriations but
refused to reduce taxes because the
jaundiced minds of the Republican
leaders imagined that the high tax
rates would supply campaign mater-
ial in the Presidential contest this
year. The $1,000,000,000 expendi-
tures of 1916 represented the standard
of an efficient Democratic administra-
tion, for President Wilson was then in
the White House and the people re-
newed his lease for that historic dom-
icile “for four years more.”
——The women of Pennsylvania will
have an opportunity to vindicate their
claim that woman suffrage will im-
prove the morals of politics. The
Philadelphia Ministerial association
condemned Boies Penrose as unfit for
important office.
ee ——— a. mn
——Senator Harding told railroad
employees in Altoona that they de-
served the best, and intimated that in
his opinion the Cummins-Esch law is
good enough for them.
i other expedients fail,
the peace of the world by force if all
and nothing
«more. But it compels all other na-
tions to do the same and thus guaran-
tees the territorial integrity _ of the
small nations created by the destruc-
tion of the German and Austrian Em-
pires. : 4
It also accomplishes another resuit
which is repugnant to the minds of
the corporation lobbyists who manage
the affairs and shape the policies of
the Republican party. It compels all
members of the League to “the reduc-
tion of national armaments to the
lowest point consistent with national
safety.” That would put a crimp in
the enormous profits of the gun and
powder makers of the country and
those industries to their
within the League
maintain fair and humane conditions
of labor for men, women and chil-
dren.” This is a set-back to the pur-
pose of the Republican machine to re-
enslave labor in this country.
Appeal to Ignorance and Perfidy.
That the Republican party depends
election becomes more apparent every
organized sabotage enterprises dur-
ing the war are the most enthusiastic
supporters of Senator Harding. Syl-
vester Viereck has personally assured
him of the unanimous vote of the Ger-
man sympathizers and a drive for the
Italian vote is now in progress. Pres-
ident Wilson’s protest against an at-
tempt upon the part of the Italian
jingoes to convert the victory of the
allies into a land-grabbing triumph is
being made the instrument for this
propaganda.
Professing to be 100 per cent.
American, Senator Harding is not
only permitting but encouraging the
use of the slush fund to bribe the for-
eign language press of the country to
deceive their Americanized country-
men. Even the Irish-American voters
are being appealed to under the false
| Nations a Democratic President
| would help England to retain control
| of Ireland, notwithstanding the fact
‘that the covenant of the League
would forbid such an interference if
it were undertaken. And Harding is
ready and willing to promise anything
that will entice voters to him.
could influence foreign born voters to
support Harding. One of these is ig-
norance and the other perfidy. The
appeal to the German vote is perfidi-
ous. It is a-scheme to punish Presi-
dent Wilson for the important part he
performed in defeating the ambitions
of the German autocracy. The appeal
to the Italian and the Irish voters is
to ignorance and cupidity. No intel-
ligent man can be deceived by the
false statement that the League of
Nations will work injury to the aspi-
rations of Ireland for self-govern-
ment. No intelligent Italian believes
that President Wilson was wrong on
the Fiume question.
——Subscribe for the Watchman.
ing to conjecture as to how the high |
It proposed “to pro- :
achieve international peace and se-
tions not to resort to war; by the pre-
establishment of the understandings
of international law as the actual rule
of conduct among governments, and
probably cut out the fees paid by!
agents in |
Congress. It also requires all nations
“to secure and
upon the hyphenated vote to carry the |
day. The German sympathizers who
pretense that under the League of!
There are only two things that
’
| Harding’s Election Worth $100,-
: 000,000.
In an interview published in a New
i Penrose expresses the opimion that
hundred million dollars to the coun-
try. He makes light of the seandal of
and refers flippantly to a charge
made by Mr. Bryan in 1896 and by
Mr. Parker in 1904, which failed to
shock the conscience of the country.
But the funds of those years were
trifling compared with the colossal
collection of this year. In 1904 Judge
Parker said Mr. Harriman had col-
lected $275,000 from corporations and
. Colonel Roosevelt thought it deserved
a denial which he entered promptly
and vehemently.
It was the fat frying of 1896 and
_the corporation contributions made to
Mr. Harriman ‘ in 1904 that aroused
public sentiment against excessive
campaign funds. The open purchase
.of a seat in the United States Senate
‘by Truman H. Newberry, of Michi-
gan, following those sinister incidents
strengthened the fear now firmly set-
tled in the public mind that unless a
. stop is put to this evil our popular
government will degenerate into a
public auction of offices. No govern-
ment can endure such a condition.
The predatory corporations and graft-
ing politicians would speedily enslave
labor and destroy legitimate com-
merce because their interests would
be conserved by wrecking rather than
building up business.
The results of the Republican com-
mittee’s “drive” for funds prove that
other rich men and selfish politicians
are in full accord with Penrose on the
value of a Republican victory this
year. The flow of funds into the par-
ty treasury has grown to the volume
of a deluge and every contributor is
persuaded that he is making a wise
investment. With a return to the old
system of tariff and other forms of
graft they could soon realize. profits
of a hundred millions and within four
years their net gain might easily run
into the billions. But labor and indus-
try must pay the tribute that yields
them such profits. They can’t get
their money back from just salaries or
fair business rewards.
Betting in Wall Street is in fa-
vor of Harding, but in 1916 big odds
were given by the same gamblers that
Hughes would be elected. In betting
as in other things the wish is father
| to the act and the gamblers of Wall
street feel that they would be safe
| with Harding in the White House.
Origin of the Opposition.
During his speech in Baltimore, on
. Monday evening, Senator Harding
| practically confirmed the statement of
| Senator Hiram Johnson, of Califor-
! nia, that in the event of his election
i he will “scrap the League of Nations.”
: Mr. Taft, Mr. Root, Mr. Wickersham
"and others who favor the League pre-
tend to think and freely state that Mr.
Harding favors the amendment of the
covenant and the adoption of the
League in that form. But Senator
Harding has cut the ground from un-
der them completely. He said in re-
ply to an inquiry, “the Democratic
nominee for President says he’s in fa-
' vor of going into the League as fash-
ioned at Versailles. I’m not in favor
! of going into that League.”
However party managers and polit-
ical manipulators frame the issues of
the campaign, the dominant purpose
of the American people is to promote
permanent peace. Mr. Taft, the late
Colonel Roosevelt, Senator Lodge and
i all the leading thinkers of the coun-
try agree that the only hope of this
result lies in a League of Nations in
which each unit is pledged to support
the others in enforcing peace... The
League of Nations as fashioned at
Versailles is already in existence
with thirty-nine nations supporting it.
It is functioning and has performed
important service. It is not possible
| to create another League or “find
another plan for an association of na-
tions.”
| The opposition to the League of Na-
tion makers, artificers of war mater-
ials and profiteers. Senator DuPont,
of Delaware, who made a profit of a
quarter of a billion dollars during the
world war, was the originator of. the
nefarious enterprise and he enlisted
Senate of the woolen and cotton bar-
ons of New England. It was easy to
entice Penrose, Smoot and the other
Senatorial lobbyists of special privi-
lege into the scheme under the pre-
tense that it would promote Republi-
can success. But the patriotic, home-
loving people of the country are for
peace and will elect a President who
favors the League of Nations, Gover-
nor Cox. :
—James D. Connelly, our candidate
for Congress, visited parts of Centre
| county last week and reports have it
that he made a very good impression.
a fifteen million dollar campaign fund :
tions originated in the minds of muni- |.
the support of Lodge, agentin the’
: The Presidential Role.
, From the Philadelphia Record.
It is one of the curiosities of con-
temporary politics that just as the Re-
publican bosses are seeking to change
| our form of government by substitut-
ing a Senatorial committee for the
' President in the control of executive
functions, the French Republic is
' swinging in the other direction and is
discussing the advisability of giving
: the President more power and respon-
: sibility. This is the plan favored by
! M. Millerand, who succeeds M. Des-
i chanel, and it seems a perfectly logic-
i al outcome of the situation developed
i by the war. Ever since the establish-
i ment-of the Republic, in 1871, the
| President has been little more than a
| figurehead, whose time is devoted
largely to ceremonial functions and
who exercises little real authority. Re-
sponsibility rests with the Premier,
and during a large part of the recent
war it was to M. Clemenceau, and not
to President Poincare, that the French
people looked for guidance and inspi-
ration in their long hours of trial.
The recent illness, followed by the res-
ignation, of President Deschanel
seems to have convinced them of the
weakness of this system, and it is not
surprising that M. Millerand’s de-
mand that, if elected to the Presiden-
cy, he shall have some real power has
received strong support in political
circles.
While France thus seeks to
strengthen its President’s hands our
Republican would-be masters aim to
tie those of the man in the White
House. Senator Harding, sharing the
natorial poimt of view, is perfectly
ling to be demoted, if elected Pres-
ident, to the position of executive di-
rector of the G. O. P. oligarchs, tak-
ing his orders from the Penroses,
Lodges, Smoots, Johnsons, etc., and
filling all offices according to their dic-
tation. In a word, he is to hold an of-
fice much like that of the executive
director of the Philadelphia Republi-
can City committee, subject to the au-
thority of the party bosses and cheer-
fully obedient to their exalted rule.
To most ‘Americans this will not
seem a dignified role for the President
of the United States, and there is no
reason to suppose that such an exper-
iment can be made a permanent suc-
cess. The great Presilents—Wash-
ington, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson,
Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Wil-
son—have always upheld the honor of
their high office and. “had .ire-
| quent clashes with the Senate.
lis almost inevitable where the White
House is occupied by a man of strong
{and commanding personality. A col-
! orless individual like the proprietor of
The Marion Star may be willing to
sink to the level of an office boy, but
he will not gain popularity thereby. It
seems to us that in this very impor-
tant matter the innovations proposed
in France are more in keeping with
the trend of events than the plans of
the Republican oligarchs for making
the Presidency an annex of the Sen-
ate. -
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Falsehood or Ignorance?
From the New York World.
Senator Harding’s inaccuracy of
statement is so persistent that to as-
cribe it to infentional misrepresenta-
tion would be a severity which most
Americans would gladly escape, but
for a man in his position reckless mis-
Jformiion is almost as discredita-
e.
Discussing the Shantung award in
the treaty of peace, Mr. Harding said
that China had been persuaded by the
United States to enter the war on the
side of the Allies, and yet, “when the
war settlements came about, China
sought to be represented at the peace
conference, and they ought to have
been represented, but for some reason
they were not,” and for this reason
millions of Chinese “were delivered
over to a rival nation with the consent
and approval of those who spoke for
America in Paris.”
Without considering the merits of
the Shantung dispute, this statement
contains so many untruths that its ac-
ceptance cannot fail to vitiate any
judgment founded upon it.
Real Americanism.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
“The shrines of government are in
the communities of the land.”
In that one sentence, fresh from his
heart and brain, Governor Cox shows
more real Americanism, more sympa-
thy with the visions and ideals of our
country, than can be found in all the
deliberate utterances and calculated
phrases Senator Harding ever wrote
or spoke. :
It is in the communities of the land
—the small country communities as
well as in the great metropolitan
cities—that the shrines of govern-
ment, the altars of patriotism, the
councils of Americanism, are found.
It is not in great organizations, not
in theatrical leagues or political clubs
that the foundations of our nation are
laid. It is in the quiet homes, on
farms, in the villages and towns, as
well as in cities, that the broad and
Joep basis of the fabric of our nation
is laid.
——A separate peace with Germa-
ny would be dishonorable as well as
dishonest, but what else can be ex-
pected from a man who follows Sena-
tor Lodge?
——If Senator Harding follows the
example of Senator Newberry an elec-
tion to the office of President will be
an empty honor.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Q@Governor William C. Sproul granted &
respite staying the execution of John Mor-
rison and Samuel Coles, of Philadelphia,
fixed for Monday of this week, until the
week of November 1, which will permit
their cases to go before the meeting of the
State Board of Pardons in October.
—Raymond Malanapy, aged 12 years,
was drowned fn Jack creek, near Lewis~
town, late Sunday afternoon while swim=
ming in company with other boys. Johm
Malanapy, aged 13, tried to save his broth-
er, diving twice into the deep water, but
‘was unable to drag him to the shore.
—Finding a purse containing several
hundred dollars in the waiting room of the
New Jersey Central station, at Allentown,
Benjamin Benow, a newsdealer, scurried
about until! he found the owner, a woman,
whom, he says, not only did not reward
kim or say “thank you,” but “looked dag-
gers” at him.
—Three men were killed by lightning
during a heavy storm which swept Butler
county on Monday. Two of the men took
refuge from the storm in a miner’s shanty
at Fepelton. They were killed when light-
ning destroyed the shed. The third was
struck by lightning while working in a
corn field near his home.
—While digging a grave in the Reform-
ed cemetery at Osterburg, Blair county,
sextons P. C. Carn and Frank Otto discov-
ered a den of copperhead snakes in a pile
of rubbish on the lot next to the one at
which they were working. They dispatch-
ed twenty-seven reptiles ranging in size
from eight inches to three feet.
—Displaying plenty of: nerve, burglars
early last Thursday entered the Liberty
jewelry store in the heart of Scranton and
stole jewelry valued at $3000. Four patrol-
men were on duty within a block of the
store at the time. The burglars put up a
ladder and climbed up ten feet and went
over a transom. Watches, rings and sil-
verware were taken, while diamonds val-
ued at $50,000 in a safe were not touched.
—W. H. Bohen, of Philadelphia, found a
wallet in the Hotel Redington, at Wilkes-
Barre, one day last week. He gave it to
the clerk, Gerald O'Neill. O'Neill opened
the wallet and counted $100,000. Just as
he finished a Russian rushed in and fram-
tically cried: “I lost my pocketbook!”
O’Niell gave him his $100,000, and the Rus-
sian said to Bohen, ‘Here, have a cigar.”
Bohen doesn’t smoke, so the Russian gave
him a $5 bill. The $5 wasn’t stage money.
—Mr. and Mrs. George Lopek, residing
near Vanderbilt, threw a wrench into the
the high cost of living machinery last
week when they were married in the pres-
ence of their families, consisting of twen-
ty children. Lopek was a widower with
eight children romping around. Mrs. Kas-
asink, a widow, living nearby, had twelve
young hopefuls. Lopek and the widow
talked matters over, and when she told
him she needed a strong supporting arm,
Lopek wasted no time in preliminaries.
—Henry Carson, of Slate Run, Lycoming
county, shot a bear several days ago, but
no action will be brought against him. He
killed ‘the bear for stealing his pigs. After
the animal had carried off two small pork-
ers from Carson’s pen the farmer waited
for it to return. The bear came back late
the next night. The moonlight gave Car-
son a good view of the animal as it am-
bled up to the pig pen and one shot from
his rifle killed it. Joseph Smith, of Mun-
Lo¥, state game warden, decided there was
no cause to prosecute Carson.
—A frightened rabbit that was running
a losing race with three hounds that had
been taken out by the owner for early fall
‘training dashed into the kitchen of Mrs.
Samuel Koffel, near Montgomery, Lycom-
ing county, last Saturday, and leaped in-
to the oven of the range. There was no
fire in the range at the time and Mrs. Kof-
fel quickly shut the door. The hounds did
not follow the rabbit into the house. She
chased the dogs away and in a few min-
utes opened the range door and the rabbit
scampered out and disappeared in a near-
by thicket.
—To have his wife beat him was beara-
ble, but when she stealthily tigtoed up to
him while he was asleep, poured oil over
his body and then set fire to it, was toor
much, he declares, so Frank Halluch, of
Claridge, Westmoreland county, Has filed
suit against his wife for divorce. In his
libel, Halluch recites a long list of alleg-
ed abuses he has undergone at the hands
of his helpmeet. Six months after they
were married, according to Halluch, his
wife assaulted him. On several of these
occasions he was forced to protect himself,
and for doing so was arrested and fined.
—Albert Warren Swang, 19, is at the
Lewistown hospital in a precarious condi-
tion from burns sustained Sunday evening
when he lighted a cigarette with his nude
body saturated with gasoline, applied to
remove grease and dirt accumulated while
at work. Swang, as was customary, re-
moved his clothing, then applied the gas-
oline in the bath room. His chest and
neck were covered. Then he lighted a
match and touched it to the cigarette. A
flash of flame and he rushed for the bed-
room to smother the fire in a blanket. Dr.
W. S. Wilson sent him to the hospital,
where physicians report his condition as
serious.
—Mrs. Annie O. Fulmer, of Williams-
port, who died last week, left a fortune to
charity. She bequeathed $30,000 to the
Home for the Friendiess, the principal of
which may be used for the erection of an
addition to the home to be known as the
Obits-Fulmer Memorial. To the . Wil-
liamsport Training school for Girls she left.
a valuable property in the residential sec-
tion of the city, which if used by the in-
stitution is to be called Obits-Fulmer Me-
morial hall. To her step-daughter, Lola
May Fulmer, is left a bequest of $10,000
and in addition the sum of $30,000 is left
in trust for her, the income of which is to
be paid her. Upon her death the entire
principal reverts to the Lycoming county
Childrens Aid society.
—Announcement was made last Friday
that the Valley Smokeless Coal company,
operating mines in the vicinity of Johms-
town, had sold its interest to Weston,
Dodson & Co., coal operators of Bethle- *
hem. J The company was owned by Brown
Bros. & Co., of Philadelphia. The consid-
eration was not announced, but it is un-
derstood that the transaction involved a
figure approximating a million dollars.
The Valley Smokeless Coal compary has
local offices in Johnstown and the output
of its mines is about 300,000 tons of bi-
tuminous coal annually. Everett Ake, of
Glen Campbell, has also dispased of his
remaining two coal mines to a company
composed of Punxsutawney and Pitts-
burgh men. The consideration was not
given publicity, but it is understood that
Mr. Ake realized handsomely on his invest-
ment. Both mines are in Indiana ceunty,
near ‘Glen Campbell,