w
=
INK SLINGS.
~ —In just twenty-two days it will be
here.
Rl
- he passing of the cootie traps
revealing the fact that girls really
* have ears.
~ —The organ still drones for the
* reason that the skating rink didn’t
“
rr
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. tose last Saturday night, as we were
: “The Irish can’t stop fighting
among themselves long enough to give
the world a comprehensive idea of
- what they are really fighting for.
_ —President-elect
: Harding could
earn his salary mighty easily if he
were to let every one who seems dis-
- posed to run his administration have
a hand in it.
“ —The “Watchman” holds an unique
. position among the Democratic week-
_ ly papers of Pennsylvania. It always
seems to have the editorial opinions
of their editors just about one week in
advance.
~ —The Portage Sentinel has gone to
3 join the great throng of country news-
_. papers that have been “croaked” with-
in the past two years by abnormal
- production costs and subnormal
charges.
—Every man who becomes the own-
er of property adds another to the ar-
my that is camping on the trail of the
assessor and wanting to know why
taxes are so high. It isn’t a bad army
to have, at that.
—If Rev. Johnson’s vigilance com-
* mittee really starts to vigilatin’
__there’ll be a lot of deacons and elders
and trustees and some W. C. T. U. sis-
ters, as well, burying spirits that are
not wholly dead.
—To those of our hunting friends
_ who are considering sending us a mess
' of venison we feel like saying that we
+ ~doesn’t matter
have never made a practice of looking
-a gift horse in the mouth so that it
whether it is the
-“haunch of an old or a spike buck.
° —A Mitchell Palmer is making a
= bid for notoriety again.
] As a last
‘fling he is going to dissolve the meat
trust. At least, he says he is. Ar-
_ ‘them should worry.
Be
“
|
“ato
“mor, Morris, Swift and the rest of
They've heard
itch talk before.
_ —Probably it’s because nobody likes
. to talk rough to a sick man that May-
or Moore, of Philadelphia; Governor
jproul, Crow, Grundy and all the rest
2 Lief the warring Republicans in Penn-
_sylvania are making calls on Spruce
_ Street and coming out smiling and
. $hen, probably it ain’t.
. —President Wilson has acceded to
world request that he offer his serv-
5 mediator in an effort to com-
the differences between the war-
Saetions in Armenia. Naturally
epublican Senators are up on
their hind feet already, slashin’ their
tails and pawin’ the air. What a
bunch of asses do get to the fore in
this country.
—Personally we are just old fash-
ioned enough to be in entire sympa-
thy with the aims of the Lord’s Day
Alliance, but we are not fool enough
to imagine that they can be achieved.
To our mind fanaticism is being al-
lowed to make the Alliance so radic-
al that it will accomplish few of the
many of the desired changes in Sab-
bath observance.
—Every day another great Ameri-
can mind is making the discovery that
we must eventually enter the League
of Nations. And as the League is still
what our Republican friends denounc-
ed as “the Wilson League” we are bid-
ing the time when they will swallow
the dose and try to look pleasant
while fooling the people into believing
that they haven't eaten crow.
—That colored gemmen over in
New York who is trying to start a
migration of colored brethren from
the States to Africa evidently knows
his fellows. He has a negro jazz band
of sixty pieces, all ragged out in red
coats and yellow pants, at every one
of his meetings and has announced
that the emblem of his new republic
is to be a chicken. Jazz bands, gaudy
uniforms and chicken are well nigh
irresistible.
—The Lewistown Democrat and
Sentinel has succumbed to the strain
that high priced news print and high
priced labor put upon it. It was a
good paper and we shall miss it but
the people of Mifflin county evidently
didn’t share our view else they would
"have supported it more generously.
The Gazette has taken over the list of
the defunct journal and under a cap-
tion “One by One We Die” tells of the
demise. While the Gazette doesn’t
look anemic or as if it has the maras-
mus it talks rather mournfully of at-
tempts to hold on until the storm
blows over then consoles itself with
the thought that “it is no disgrace to
die.”
—1In their stories of the Thanksgiv-
ing foot ball game between State and
Pitt the Pittsburgh papers, almost
without exception, stated that Pitt ap-
peared to be the stronger team ‘“to-
day.” We agree with them entirely.
Pitt was the stronger team last
Thursday mainly through her advan-
tage in weight. But to those who
know what could reasonably have
been expected from Way, Haines, Kil-
linger and Snell on a dry field Pitt re-
ally looks about two touch-downs
weaker than State even with Davies
going through all periods. State’s
real offense this season has been in
open and aerial attacks and the mud
on Forbes field made “duds” of both
of them.
Memon
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 48.
VOL. 65.
Surprising Slight to Taft.
Senator Harding, who is now en
route home from Panama, will soon
begin a series of conferences with
men whom he calls statesmen with | tor Penrose is not the popular idol in | campaign fund.
the view of framing up a foreign pol-
icy. He has sent out several invita-
ator Knox, of Pennsylvania; Senator
Borah, of Idaho; Senator Reed, of
Missouri, and Senator Shields, of Ten-
nessee.
League of Nations.
were elected as Democrats and betray-
ed their party in every instance when
support of the war policy of the ad-
ministration was concerned. Knox is
the author of the separate peace with
Germany proposition and Borah is the
chief bitter-ender.
We can fully understand the invita-
tion of Shields and Reed. Each of
these party recreants carried his
State for Harding and thus earned
special consideration at the hands of
the beneficiary of their perfidy. The
invitation to Knox is also easily un-
derstood. Senator Harding owes
something to Sylvester Vierick and
the other hyphenated voters who fa-
vored the success of Germany in the
world war and there could be no finer
way of showing his appreciation of
their support than by paying a spe-
cial compliment to Knox. Borah’s
preferment is a natural consequence
of his all-around cussedness. Senator
Lodge and Hungry Hi Johnson need
no special invitation of course.
But we are inexpressibly pained be-
cause of the failure to include our fat
friend, William Howard Taft, among
his counsellors. That gentleman real-
ly made greater sacrifices to secure
the election of Harding than either of
the others. He has occupied the
highest office in the world and though
defeated for President in a greater
rebuke than was ever administered to
a candidate in the history of the coun-
try, he still retained a considerable
measure of popular esteem. But to
secure the election of Harding, in or-
der that he might be restored to the
pay roll, he made himself the most
contemptible of men. He may get the
office he covets; if Wall Street con-
sents, but.will: never recover public
respect.
——1f the working men of the
country are discouraged at the future
prospects they can reflect that they
are largely responsible. Most of the
industrial centres cast big votes for
Harding.
Irish Hopes Impaired.
One of the principal reasons fox
Irish misfortunes was vevealed in
Pottsville on Sunday evening. A con-
vention of the friends of Irish free-
dom was in session in that city at the
time. Everything seemed hopeful.
One of the speakers confidently de-
clared that “independence for Ireland
looms closer than is generally realiz-
ed by Americans; an Irish parliament
will be sitting, unmolested, perhaps
before the expiration of the next
twelve months,” Another equally en-
thusiastic orator added: “The aspira-
tions of Irish patriots and martyrs
from the time of Robert Emmett to
Sir Roger Casement and Mayor Mac-
swinney will be realized by the pres-
ent generation.”
Nothing could be more encouraging
or satisfactory than an atmosphere
which inspired that sort of oratory.
But before the echo of the exultant
voices had ceased to sound in the hall
a disagreement arose among the del-
egates and one group deserted the
meeting and organized an opposition
convention in another hall. Thus the
unity which is essential to strength
was broken, and though there was no
abatement of enthusiasm, it goes
without saying that there must have
been a diminution of hope. Each
group elected officers and made prep-
arations to function. But the force
of their purpose was necessarily weak-
ened by the division. Two bodies are
not as efficient as one if there is no in-
crease in numbers.
From the beginning of the struggle
for the independence of Ireland such
differences have been encountered at
irregular intervals to the great injury
of the cause. No doubt both elements
in the meeting at Pottsville were sin-
cere and each believed that its cause
of contention was just. But it result-
ed in a division of force and paralysis
of reasonable hope. Just as similar
dissensions have destroyed the expec-
tations of similar groups “from the
time of Robert Emmett to Sir Roger
Casement.” And we very much fear
it will be that way always. The Irish
are brave, sincere and manly but they
are not fraternal. Each group thinks
its way is the only way and the differ-
ences bring disaster.
——The millionaires are decreasing
in number in this country according
to the income tax record. But the ag-
gregate incomes show no diminution
so it must be that the millionaires are
eating each other up.
BELLEFONTE,
These are the “high binders”
of the Senate in the fight against the .
Reed and Shields |
{ Penrose the Supreme Boss.
The highly esteemed Philadelphia
Record, in a recent issue, goes to a
good deal of pains to show that Sena-
| Pennsylvania which his frequent elec-
' tions to important offices would indi- |
tions and has included in his list Sen-
cate. In the recent poll, according to
our Philadelphia contemporary, his
aggregate vote fell 150,000 below that
of the presidential candidate of his
party. But that is not convincing or
even substantial proof of the proposi-
tion. The 150,000 votes polled for
Harding that were lost to Penrose
were cast for the woman candidate for
| Senator and probably for the two rea-
sons that they were not needed to
elect Penrose and were required to
“save the face” of the ultra suffra-
gettes.
As a matter of fact the figures cited
by our Philadelphia contemporary
sustains rather than refutes the claim
of the friends of Senator Penrose that
he is a popular party leader. In 1914
he received only 519,801 votes and
this year his total was 1,067,989. Of
course the addition of the women vot-
ers to the list of eligibles at the polls
accounts for part of the enhanced
Penrose vote but not for all of it. The
female vote didn’t double the total
vote but if the vote of the woman can-
didate is added to the Penrose vote
the Harding total is equaled so that
Penrose got the full Republican male
vote and a fair proportion of the Re-
publican women’s votes. Besides his
gain over six years ago was great.
But the popularity of a party lead-
er cannot be accurately measured by
the number of votes he gets at an
election. His success in shaping the
plans and policies of his party is a
safer and truer standard of measure-
ment. Now recent incidents show
conclusively that Penrose is not only
the supreme boss but the recognized
master of the Republican party. From
a sick room more than a thousand
! miles away he controlled the last Na-
| tional convention and since the elec-
tion leaders from the Atlantic to the
Pacific are making pilgrimages to
worsnip at his shrine. In fact we
learn from the Philadelphia Record
that the Governor of Pennsylvania
in and receive orders.”
— Probably if those shipping
hoard officials had been paid fair sal-
aries instead of a dollar a year, some
of the scandals now being aired might
have been avoided.
Lodge Gives a Real Reason.
In his speech at the Union League,
Philadelphia, on Saturday evening,
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, re-
vealed the real reason why the special
interests financed the Republican
campaign for President so liberally.
“Incidentally,” he said, “in this elec-
tion we saved the country from hav-
ing in all probability four vacancies
on the Supreme court filled by Mr.
Cox, and that was worth doing.”
court, with the three named by Pres-
ident Wilson in 1914 and 1916, would
have made a clear majority of pro-
gressives on the bench and for many
years held the court as a tribunal of
the people against the purposes of the
reactionaries.
Ever since the Civil war the Su-
preme court of the United States has
been a citadel of the money power.
Whatever interpretation of the laws
the capitalistic class required could
be depended upon. Three of the Jus-
tices were named during the period in
which the late Mark Hanna exercised
practically absolute control of the ex-
ecutive department of the government
and two were named by Mr. Taft, The
chief justice, Mr. White, was appoint-
ed by President Cleveland and serv-
ed, in so far as it was possible, as a
buffer against reaction. But he is
among those likely to be retired dur-
ing the coming administration and
his successor will be of the type Re-
publican Presidents prefer.
When Senator Penrose said during
the campaign that the defeat of the
Democratic party would be worth
$100,000,000 to the special interests
he probably had in mind this impend-
ing change in the personnel of the Su-
preme court. With Justices McRey-
nolds, Brandies and Clark in commis-
sion, Governor Cox as President
would have given the country a court
of last resort which would have held
to the line of justice as between the
people and the special interests in the
event that the appointment of four
judges had fallen to his lot. The spe-
cial interests do not want such a fu-
ture and Lodge and Penrose accurate-
ly appraise the result of the election
of Harding in this connection.
-—=So long as the world thinks so
well of Woodrow Wilson he needn’t
worry about the opinion of Henry
Cabot Lodge.
——That young fellow who refused
a million inheritance may have had
plenty of money himself.
will “shoulder an olive branch, walk
These four Justices of the Supreme |
PA.. DECEMBER 3, 1920.
Making Up Deficits.
The Republican managers have
wisely chosen the right time for mak-
ing up the considerable deficit in their
They are striking
| “while the iron is hot.” It is not al-
ways easy to raise a fund of a million
and a half of dollars. If the election
had gone the other way it would prob-
ably have been impossible. Not that
it would have made a great difference
in the end. The loans were made as
contributions and were given before
the election as investments. The
lenders like the contributors, more-
over, were sportsmen. They took a
chance, knowing that if they won the
profit would be great and if they lost
it would simply be a bad investment.
But by taking the matter in hand
now all the money will be raised and
the incidental gain, the principal in-
centive to the action, will be “velvet.”
Every aspirant for office from Maine
to California and from the Canadian
line to the Gulf will be eager to get
his name on the list of contributors in
the expectation that it will count in
the distribution of patronage. Repub-
lican politics is pure commercialism.
There is no sentiment associated with
it near or remote. The contributors
to the fund will be influenced by pre-
cisely the same impulses that moved
the lenders to take the chance in ad-
vancing the money. They pay their
money with full confidence of a liber-
al return.
Now the Democrats proceed in like
circumstances along different lines.
Take the Pennsylvania State cam-
paign of 1914 for example. After the
defeat it was discovered that there
was a considerable debt hanging over
the organization. Of course the can-
didate in whose interest the debt was |
created could have paid the amount
out of his generous bank balance with-
out feeling a dent in the roll. But he
passed it on to the office holders and
made an assessment on the postmas-
ters, postal employees, revenue offi-
cers and other beneficiaries of party
success, and levied an assessment on
their salaries to pay the debt. Prob-
ably if Harding had been defeated
some difficulties would have been met.
of the laying off of some fifteen hun-
dred men by the Pennsylvania rail-
road company in Altoona. In speak-
ing of the lay-off the Altoona Times-
Tribune in a recent issue stated that
while the discharge of the men was in
the line of retrenchment which the
company deems necessary at this
, time, they were also taking advantage
tof the fact to weed out workmen who
were not giving value received for the
, wages paid them. For some time past
the company has carried on a check-
up system on every workman in its
employ and in this way they were able
to discover just who was giving faith-
| ful service and who was soldiering on
| their job. When it came to a matter
"of retrenchment there wasn’t any
question as to the men to be discharg-
ed. In this connection it might be
stated that for several years past all
' classes of labor have taken advantage
of the demand for its services to. do
pretty much as it pleased, and too
many men failed to give a just return
for the wages they were paid. This
was not only unfair to the men who
employed them but also to the honest
workman who geve faithful service.
. From all indications the days of re-
construction are here and while the
faithful laborer need have little fear
for himself the man who worked(?)
merely for the big money he was get-
ting may soon find himself in the po-
sition of hunting a job.
ett se ere A
—Whether it was his personal or
political support that Governor Sproul
offered those who are combatting the
movement to bring about a continen-
tal Sunday in Pennsylvania doesn’t in-
terest us greatly. What we are inter-
ested in is the fact that the Governor
is ready to turn one, possibly both, of
his streams of influence toward the
cause of a holy Sabbath. The only
link that is left between some people
and their Creator is the sacred atmos-
phere of the day of rest and if it be
given over to secular pastimes entire-
ly our country will breed Bolshevism
almost as prolifically as Russia.
rn nares fp prensa. ar w—
——A lot of grocers are talking of
prosecuting the Sugar trust. Not
long ago the general public was hop-
ing somebody would prosecute the
grocers.
—In Buffalo they have to have a
physician’s prescription to get a ton
of coal. In most other cities you need
a dollar to get a bucket full.
—-It may safely be said that the
probable change in the federal offices
in Pennsylvania will not materially
injure the Democratic party.
——The fact remains that if Lloyd
George had not been elevated to the
Premiership the Irish question might
have been settled long ago.
The “Watchman Tast week told
School Week Proclaimed.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Life nowadays is just the observ-
ance of one week after another, devot-
ed to the consideration of some spe-
cial subject; but that fact should not
be permitted to dull interest in
“School Week,” as the period from
December 5 to 11 has been designated
by Dr. Claxton, United States Com-
missioner of Education. If there is
one subject which, more than any oth-
er, deserves the attention of the peo-
ple, it is that of the schools. ey
possess the greatest power for good
of any element in our civilization; we
express our realization of this by com-
pelling every boy and girl to attend
them. It is to the maintenance of the
sehools that a large part of our taxes
go; and so every adult, as well as
every child, has reason to be concern-
ed over the way in which they are con-
ducted. The business of public edu-
cation, if properly conducted, yields
its stockholders, the citizens, rich re-
turns in the form of progress in every
field of human activity that is worthy
of cultivation.
Dr. Claxton asks the citizens to stu-
dy the schools and their methods dur-
ing “School Week” with a view to dis-
covering their needs, and to make sug-
gestions for their improvement. Gov-
ernors and superintendents of educa-
tion are called upon to furnish the
people with such information as will
form a basis for discussion. Cham-
bers of commerce, women’s clubs, la-
bor unions, farmers’ organizations,
and civic and patriotic societies are re-
quested to hold a meeting for the con-
sideration of educational require-
ments. Community gatherings are to
be held in the school houses on Friday
afternoon and evening of the week to
let the tax-payers air their views. In
fine, the plan is to have all the people
of the United States take counsel as
to ways and means of bettering the
national school system.
Good should come of this. Nearly
every one has been to school and
knows something about the subject.
Every thinking person has ideas on it.
The educational authorities have de-
cided in recent years that modern con-
ditions called for a change in educa-
tional methods. Teachers for many
generations have been guided by the
traditions handed down from the Mid-
dle Ages when Latin and Greek were
the languages of scholars and the
classics of antiquity were regarded as
‘ the subjects most worthy of study.
: But of late there has beer Le
hauling of the cn be +b ng
in the High schools, it has extended
to the primary institutions. There
has been a questioning of the value of
some of the time-honored courses
without which a liberal education was
regarded as incomplete. Other things
have been substituted for them. There
has also been a questioning as to the
time-honored ways of teaching. The
“whining schoolboy” used to go reluc-
tantly to school. The modern teacher
aims to make school days agreeable
to the children.
Educational methods are under-
going a revolution. The advice of the
people will be helpful in determining
be course which the revolution shall
ake.
Dead or Alive?
Irom the Springfield Republican.
America must abandon the idea that
the rest of the world is willing to
scrap the present League and to. join
with her to organize a new one. It
never would be possible to get togeth-
er again these forty-two nations for
the formation of another League.—
Lord Robert Cecil at Geneva.
This supports Mr. Root’s cable mes-
sage to Mr, Harding last August: “It
is very unwise to call the League dead.
ay It would not be true.” Yet
Mr. Lodge in Boston Saturday night
declared that “the League is dead, so
far as the United States is concern-
It is an awkward conflict of opinion.
The difficulty might have been avoid-
ed if Republican strategy in the Pres-
idential campaign had not dictated
that the League should invariably be
called “Mr. Wilson’s League.” Mr.
Harding and Mr. Lodge are now oblig-
ed out of deference to a 6,000,000 plu-
rality to say the League is dead be-
cause the only League in existence,
the one now in evidence in Geneva, is
the same ¥Mr. Wilson’s League.” .
. . . France indorses what Mr.
Root said: “Abandoning the Versail-
les treaty is impossible. To attempt
it would bring chaos and ah entire
loss of the results of the war, and gen-
eral disaster involving the United
States.”
Consolations for Democrats.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Some of the consolations with which
the Democrats may comfort them-
selves are already coming to light.
Ever since the election there has pro-
ceeded a rapidly increasing drop in
prices, and, whatever the ultimate re-
sult of this, the immediate result is to-
work hardship on many. Thus in one
New York city industry alone there
are 35,000 persons now. idle, and the
number of unemployed in Brooklyn is
estimated at 60,000. If the Democrats
had won the election their political op-
ponents would have pointed to that as
the reason for the economic difficul-
ties which are now developing and
which are going to be felt more and
more as time passes. A great many
people would have believed the charge
and the Cox administration would
have been heavily handicapped from
the beginning.
———Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
‘Coal company.
{The deal
—
T
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
+~Three hundred chickens were burned
to death in a fire that destroyed the big ’
chicken coops of Corporal Leonard Rich-
ardson, of Troop A, state police, loca
near the barracks, Latrobe. *
—The Juniata Valley Telephone Co., op-
erating in Mifflin county, and the Limer-
ick Telephone Co., of Montgomery county,
have filed notices of advances in rates with
the Public Service Commission. ~
—The state fiscal year closed Tuesday
night with prospects of the revenue touch-
ing more than $60,000,000 without includ-
ing proceeds of the road bond issue. That
is almost $8,000,000 above the record of last
year, which was the high-water mark.
—After the death of Marshall N. Warren,
an eccentric character of Lancaster, at the
General hospital in that city, money and
securities to the amount of $12,000 were
found under the pillow. When he entered
the hospital he refused to give up his ef-
fects. Distant relatives will get the mon-
ey. .
—An unknown alien was murdered on
the streets of Aultman, a mining town,
near Indiana, with five bullet wounds that
bear evidence of the accuracy of the per-
son who handled the revolver, with which
the crime was committed. Indiana county
authorities have not even established the
identity of the vietim.
—Mrs. John Sunday, aged 35 years, and
her four month’s old baby were burned to
death in her home near Shartlesville, Berks
county, on Monday. When a small fire in
the kitchen was extinguished the two bod-
ies, burned to a crisp, were found on the
floor. It is supposed her clothing ignited
while she was building a fire in the stove.
-—¥ollowing their policy of strict adher-
ence to the law and no leniency to any of-
fenders the state policemen stationed at
Carlisle, recently haled two farmers liv-
ing in that vicinity before Justice Boyer,
on the charge of driving horse-drawn ve-
hicles without lights. Each was found
guilty and sentenced to pay a fine and
costs amounting to $10.50 each.
—The Wilmore Real Estate company,
controlling a large number of farms im
the vicinity of Somerset, had some bumper
crops at the close of the harvest seasom.
The cabbage crop is probably the largest
ever known in that section, as over 400
tons of the finest kind . of cabbage was
raised. Hundreds of bushels of apples
and potatoes was also part of the crop.
-—~Hunters on Mahantongo mountain, a
mile and a half from Higgins, in Schuyl-
kill county, found the safe stolen October
18th from the Reading station at Ashland.
The door had been blown open, all cash
and express money orders stolen, but rail-
road tickets and a pay check for station
agent Francis Meehan, Shamokin, were
found under the safe. Four thieves stole
the big safe from the station and carried
it away in an automobile. *
—-Michael Cronin, steel worker of Pitts-
burgh, drew a nice pay on November 20—
something like $178.80 for less than fen
day's work. Because of frequent hold-ups
in that vicinity, Cronin decided to “play
safe” so he placed his $178.80 under a brick
in a remote part of the mill yard. Sever~
al days later Cronin reported for work,
but before entering ithe mill thought he
would take a peep at his money. He look-
ed, and looked in vain. His money had
vanished. 3
—~Yeggmen who blew open the safe of
the White Milling Co., at Bloomsburg, ear-
1y on Tuesday, obtained $1150 in cash and
negotiable papers and $1000 in unendorsed
checks, but overlooked more than $24,000
in bonds and other securities. Entrance to
the mill was gained through a window,
and a tool box just inside furnished them
with all the tools necessary for the job.
They even stole the tools after looting the
safe. State police and private detectives
are working on the case.
-~Mrs. John Bolets, of New Brighton,
was sewing a button on her husband’s
trousers one day last week when a letter
dropped out of a pocket. She read it. The
epistle told of Bolet’s wife and a few chil-
dren in Austria. Then chief of police Wal-
ters raided the house on information sup-
plied by the American Mrs. Dolets, and
found a copper still of eight gallons ca-
pacity, and two barrels of raisin mash.
Bolets, Mike Oesterik and Louis Yohades
were arrested for violating the Volstead
act and held in $500 bail for federal court.
Referee Thomas Seidel, of the state
compensation beard, has announced an
award of 6805 to Mrs. Kate Oshute, of
Shenandoah, against the Lehigh Valley
This is one of the largest
awards ever made, due to the fact that the
woman has a number of children. Mrs,
Oshute's husband was overtaken by a rush
of water in the mines and walked homein
wet clothes, bringing on a fatal attack of
pneumonia, The company claimed no
award could be made under these circum-
stances, but the referee decided otherwise.
—Patrick H. Vaughn, “model landlord,”
of Harrisburg, who refused to raise rents
of his numerous properties during the war
period, in his will, probated on Monday,
set aside ten of his houses in which the
families of worthy blind may be permitted
to live rent free. The will also provides
that out of his $200,000 estate there is to be
provided a home for aged women, to be lo-
cated in that city, and that a £10,000 fund
is to be set aside, the income from which
is to be distributed equally between the
Sylvan Heights home for orphan girls,
Harrisburg, and the Paradise Protectory
for boys, in Adams county.
—I. 1. McFarlane, of Timlin, Jelferson
county, has closed a deal by which he and
several associates in Brookville and Kit-
tanning purchased 5000 acres of coal land
in Pine and Boggs townships, Armstrong
county. "The price is said to be $400,000.
is the largest reported in that
neighborhood since the days when the Al-
legheny River Mining company startled
coal circles by its gigantic deals. The
property has a three-mile frontage on the
Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad, near
Tidal Junction, and includes 2700 acres of
the Frank Williams tract of ground, the
remaining 2390 acres coming from various
OWNETrS.
—Three well known men of the vicinity
of Quarryville met with tragic deaths in
three successive days. Franklin Barritt,
superintendent of the Octoraro pumping
station, at Pine Grove, was discovered be-
neath the turbine wheels, evidently having
fallen into the water while inspecting the
machinery. The following day Christian
Nissley was struck by a westbound freight
train on the low grade and died a few
hours later, and the next day John O.
Scott, one of the most prominent farmers
of that section, was terribly injured by a
cornfodder shredder bursting and hurling
fragments of iron in every direction. He
died in a few hours, without regalaing
consciousness.