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INK SLINGS.
—In just twenty days spring will
be here.
—Not all people who sleep their
lives away have sleeping sickness.
—We have had such a pleasant win-
ter that no one will care if March
does come in like a lion.
—Anyway Mrs. Harding’s gowns
will be no surprise to Washington.
She has posed in them too much.
—Von Tirpitz posing as “a friend
and admirer of the United States” is
an insult to the memory of the victims
of the Lusitania.
—Nature should arrange to send her
snow storms on other days than Sun-
day. So many are prone to seize up-
on any excuse to remain away from
church.
——If Europe really can’t pay us
back what we loaned her during the
war what would you sooner do: For-
give the debt or fight to make her
pay it?
—So the first thing the new Hard-
ing administration will do is to make
peace with Germany. The second will
probably be to make was with every-
body not identified with big business.
—The appointment of Charles Evan
Hughes to be Secretary of State in the
Harding administration doesn’t by any
means inspire much confidence in the |
deliberations of “the best minds of
the country.”
—There are still ten of Centre coun-
ty’s one hundred and fifty-six orphan
children in Armenit to be looked after.
Have you done your bit toward pro-
viding food and clothing for these des-
titute children?
—While eggs are selling at thirty
cents a dozen itis the wise house-
keeper who puts enough down in wa-
ter glass so that she can smile when
the hens go on strike and the price
flits back to seventy-five.
—Next month the public sales will
begin in Centre county and we venture
the assertion that the wild and
thoughtless bidding that made mints
of vendues during the past three years
will not be so much in evidence.
—Just to remind us that the snow
shovel must have its fling before the
hoe and the lawn mower come into !
their own some ten inches of “the
beautiful” greeted our surprised eyes
on Sunday morning when we awoke.
—The Altoona Tribune thinks “it
will be a fine thing for the nation and
an omen of good for the future when
our young people are saturated with
Bible knowledge, as their grandfath-
ers were.” By the way, father, mother!
do you ever suggest reading a chapter
from the Bible to your children?
—While the tentative personnel of.
Mr. Harding’s Cabinet is not meeting
with that public approbation that pre-
sages general confidence in the start
off of the new administration would it
not be better to refrain from criticism
of what the appointees have been at
least until we see what they intend to
be in their new positions.
—The Republican muck rakers are
after Bernard Baruch, another one of
the able men who served the govern-
ment without pay during. the war, | are the two that are at present fo- |
| menting the very growing tendency of
Schwab met the same band of ghouls
with tears. Dawes turned them back
with a volley of oaths and, Barney | wittingly develop a disrespect for law. |
Dr. Conwell’s proposal would clarify
should wrench their lying tongues
from their throats so that there may
be an end of this miserable devilish-
ness.
—Anent the discussion as to the ad-
visability of having daylight saving
in Bellefonte during the coming
spring and summer there doesn’t ap-
pear to be any real reason why Belle-
fonte couldn’t set her clocks an hour
ahead without working inconvenience
to farmers or other transients having
business in the town. Practically all
of the business mails arrive here in
the morning, so that banking and
commercial institutions would not be
interfered with and the only possi-
ble inconvenience would be that to the
very small number of out of town peo-
ple who visit our stores between the
hours of five and six in the evening.
——The argument that it would
cost this country thirty-five million
dollars if we were to abandon our pres-
ent naval construction programs for
just six months is fallacious for the
reason that we would save an equal
amount in the expenditure for the
work. It is true that labor and man-
ufacturers of the materials consumed
would suffer from suspension of such
work, but if the only object is to fur-
nish employment wouldn’t it inure far
more to the public good if all this vast
expenditure were to be made for
works of peace rather than of war. If
the government must find employment
for men why not build hospitals and
roads?
—President Wilson has announced
that he will not write a history of the
peace conference. He prefers to leave
that to a professional historian whose
views might not be biased by the per-
sonal equation. It is a pity. Wood-
row Wilson is the one man who sat in
Paris whose motives were wholly un-
selfish and altruistic. He is the one
man probably to whom more of the
intimate secrets and aims of the oth-
ers were revealed than to any other.
He is a born writer and coupling with
this talent the aptness at beautiful
phraseology the literature of the
world has lost a possible classic as
well as an authoritative record of its
most momentous event in this decision
of the President to devote his remain-
ing years to work for peace rather
than recording efforts already made
in that direction.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL CGNION.
VOL. 66.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 25, 1921.
NO. S.
Dr. Conwell’s Timely Suggestion.
The proposal of Dr. Russell H. Con-
well for a referendum that would give
the people an opportunity to definite-
ly state their attitude on the construc-
tion of the Eighteenth amendment is
a good one,
While there can be no doubt as to
the intent to bring about Prohibition
when the amendment was ratified
there always was a reasonable doubt
as to what extent it should be enfore-
led. Since the Volstead enforcement
act has become the law of the land
wide divergence of opinion has been
i revealed as to its fulfillment of the
| hopes of those who supported ratifica-
| tion. Some insist that it is not dras-
i tic enough. Others hold the view that
(it goes beyond the limitations they
had in mind when urging ratification.
For the purposes of this discussion
,it is not relevant that the wishes of
| those opposed to Prohibition should
! be considered, for the government is
| of democratic form and in a pure
| Democracy the will of the majority
prevails. That will has been express-
| ed as being in favor of Prohibition as
a general proposition, but we think
we are quite within the facts when we
state that at no time when the ques-
tion was before the people was there
a clearly defined statement as to just
what Prohibition would prohibit.
Judges, lawyers, intellectuals and
others who look merely at the practic-
al side and do not pretend academic
discussion of the law, are already at
variance, in many instances, over the
many angles that have appeared since
the law has become effective. Natural-
ly this discord among those whe fa-
vor the proposition is being turned to
the purposes of those who oppose it
and unless unanimity among those
who favor can soon be brought to pass
there is a very grave danger of legis-
lation looking to its repeal being un-
dertaken. ‘
We dare not hide our heads in the
sand and delude ourselves with the
thought that it will all come out right,
because dissatisfaction and disappoint-
ment over the present operation of
the law is liable to make many of its
friends merely passive opponents
should an attempt to repeal it be un-
dertaken. ; i et ja
Most of the dissatisfaction has
come because the Volstead act is im-
possible of clarification. There is a
| conflict over the respective rights of
the federal and State governments,
as well as over the possible infinge-
ment of the ancient principle of law to
the effect that a man’s house is his
i castle. While there are many other
points of difference these two are the
vital ones, in our opinion, since they
' all classes to evade and thereby un-
i the situation very much. He suggests
| that “Congress. should be urged to!
| submit to the people an amendment to
| the prohibition amendment defining
i accurately what the people. meant
when they used the word ‘manufac-
ture’ as applied to natural fermenta-
tion; what they meant by the term
‘intoxicating liquors;” what = they
meant by the word ‘beverage,’ and
what they meant by the word ‘concur-
rent.’
“The wide divergence of interpre-
tation now breeds disrespect for all
law and may lead to the repeal of the
whole amendment, unless the people
themselves are again consulted now.”
Primarily Prohibition means to pro-
hibit and when applied to intoxicating
beverages it would appear that they
should be totally prohibited. But the
question arises out of that as to
whether such was the desire of all the
people who supported prohibition.
Whether they were ready at the time
they ratified the amendment to give
up all right to do as they please in
their own homes and refrain from the
manufacture of home wines and
brews, for it must be apparent that if
Prohibition is to prohibit and it does
not those who connive to prevent it
are violating law and engendering dis-
respect for it.
Never was there a time when the
country needed respect for constitut-
ed authority like it does today and the
operation of the Volstead act has done
more to make the masses look lightly
on their duty as citizens than any oth-
er enactment that has been written in-
to the statutes. Because no definite
interpretation of it has been made
every one puts his own construction
upon its intents and purposes and its
enemies fan the flame of disappoint-
ment that has sprung out of this am-
biguous situation.
erm essnecn lp eeeee
——Everywhere in Pennsylvania
plans are being laid for revival of
county fairs on more elaborate scales
than ever. They serve a wonderful
community purpose and the thought
comes to us that the Business Men’s
Association of Bellefonte might well
consider a revival of the Centre coun-
ty fair." It has pushed several other
constructive projects to successful
conclusion why not the fair?
| The New Cabinet.
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Up from St. Augustine, Florida, has
been flashed the news that President-
| elect Harding has arrived at a tenta-
| tive decision as to the men who will
be called upon to counsel with him in
the capacity of Cabinet officers.
While the list includes the names of
of two men who have not been gener-
ally discussed by those who have been
busy gathering an official family about ,
the President ever since last Novem-
ber all of the others have been more :
or less associated with one or other of
the portfolios since the moment Mr.
Harding’s election was assured. The
evidence of payment for services ren-
dered is quite apparent, though in
such instances it may eventuate that
the public good has not been sacrific-
ed on the altar of personal obligation,
for Mr. Daugherty and Mr. Hays may
have more ability than thejr very
caustic critics credit them with hav-
ing.
The selection of Mr. Denby, of
Michigan, for the Navy is the one sur-
prise on the list. His name had not
been publicly discussed in connection
with any of the Cabinet offices and the
naming of Herbert Hoover as Secre-
tary of Commerce was apparently
contingent upon the reception such
announcement would receive by Sena-
tor Penrose, who has a personal
grudge at Hoover, and Senator Lodge,
who is opposed to him because of his
unalterable position in favor of a
League of Nations. No sooner was
the list given to the press than Mr.
Daugherty, who has been the Presi-
dent-elect’s handy man for years, left
St. Augustine for Washington pre-
sumably to study Penrose and Lodge
while they were in the act of swallow-
ing Hoover. If the food controller’s
name stands it will mean either that
Harding intends to be his own boss in
some matters or that Penrose and
Lodge were not insistent in their ob-
jection; the result revealing the real
situation through later developments.
On the whole the Cabinet gives lit- |
tle evidence that the much talked of |
conferences of “best minds” are likely
to assure anything out of the ordinary
in the accomplishments of the new
administration. It is reassuring
grave doubt as to its composite abili-
ty to solve the mighty problems that
Mr. Harding has been given a man-
date to work out.
Subject to last moment changes the
new President’s official family will be
composed of these men:
Secretary of State—Charles Evans
Hughes, of New York, former Governor,
Justice of the Supreme Court, and Repub-
lican nominee for the Presidency.
Secretary of the Treasury—Andrew W.
Mellon, of Pennsylvania, a banker and
financier, member of a family reputed to be |
, among the wealthiest in this country.
Secretary of War—John W. Weeks, of
Massachusetts, former United States Sen-
ator, and in 1916 a candidate for the Pres-
. idential nomination.
Attorney General—Harry M. Daugherty,
of Ohio, who managed the pre-convention
campaign resulting in Harding's nomina-
tion.
Postmaster General—Will H. Hays, eof
Indiana, chairman of the Republican Na-
tional committee.
Secretary of the Navy—Edwin Denby, of
Michigan, a former member of Congress,
who has served as an enlisted man in both
the navy and marine corps.
Secretary of the Interior—Albert B. Fall,
of New Mexico, now a United States Sen-
ator.
Secretary of Agriculture—Henry Wallace,
of Iowa, editor of farm publications.
Secretary of Commerce—Herbert Hoover,
of California, former Food Administrator
and conspicuous leader in various move-
ments for European relief,
Secretary of Labor—James J. Davis, of
Pennsylvania and Illinois, a former union
steel worker, who has become highest offi-
cial in the Moose Fraternity.
——Labor demanded and received
advances in wages to meet advancing
hours or greater production. As a
matter of fact, in most instances,
shorter hours were given and decreas-
ed production resulted. It is fair to
assume, then, that labor gave no re-
turn for the high wages paid during
the war that it had not given during
wage scale. It is certainly evident to
the most radical mind that the public
refuses to accept reductions in wages
of living. -
Cabinet, but
sents to Hoover's appointment.
in
spots, but is so constituted as to raise
cost of living. The increase was not
paid as compensation for either longer
the pre-war period at a much lower
is not going to pay for something it
does not receive and this is exactly
what labor is asking it to do when it
commensurate with the lowered cost
—Mr. Harding may Hooverize his
it remains to be seen
whether he can Hooverize Penrose. It
will be recalled that as recently as last
spring Herb informed the public that
“I am a Republican, but not the kind
of a Republican that Penrose is.” The
differentiation. was construed at the
time as being decidedly uncomplimen-
tary to the senior Senator for Penn-
sylvania and, naturally, Penrose is
expected to talk Turkey before he con-
Giving Harding a Chance.
Why not give Heading a chance?
asks the New Republic. The public
answer will be: Give him all the
chance he needs to develop under the
power and responsibilities of the Pres-
idency. Only Providence can inter-
vene to prevent four years of suprem-
acy of his conception of how the gov-
ernment should be conducted. He is
our President and whether we look
i with misgiving or hope or actual as-
surance on his administration the fact
of its functioning for at least one
term is almost immutable.
Democrats everywhere appear dis-
posed to return good for evil. There
seems to be no general disposition to
i prejudge him and it has remained fox
his own party to provoke bitter con-
| troversy over the wisdom of his choice
| for several Cabinet members. We
| might, with justification, retaliate for
| the merciless propaganda that Mr.
| Harding’s friends started the moment
Woodrow Wilson entered the White
House, but to what good end would
that be working. The Democratic
party has ever been ambitious for cen-
structive work and, indeed, the past
eight years of its dominance has been
more fruitful in this respect than any
corresponding period in the history of
the government, so that its very prin-
ciples actuate it to carry on rather
than be guided by the spirit of jeal-
ousy, disappointment and covetousness
that inspired its enemies to the defa-
mation of everything Wilsonian.
Mr. Harding is a mediocre man.
But, as the New Republic says, so
were McKinley and Harrison when
they assumed the Presidency. Like
them, we hope, he will develop under
the great responsibilities that will be
his and prove that the country made
no serious mistake when it lifted him
out of semi-obscurity and placed him
in the most important office in the
land.
Yes, let’s give Harding a chance.
Even if he is to be a failure the ill ef-
fects of his incapacity must be suffer-
ed by all, Democats and Republicans,
alike and the more co-operation he re-
ceives the less of inefficiency there will
be.
We do not intend, of course, to re-
“frain from constructive criticism nor
is that to be desired. But we do hope
that Mr. Harding will not be the ob-
ject of an organized campaign of op-
position that distorts, misrepresents,
traduces his every act and motive such
as was directed against President Wil-
son by the Senatorial oligarchy that
set out to accomplish his downfall the
moment it discovered that the Presi-
dency was vested in the White House
and not in the Senate end of the cap-
itol building.
| ——Dr. Hugo Bezdek, if we may
take the liberty of hanging a few fid-
dle-de-ds onto the plain Czech name
of the man who has cured all State’s
athletic ills and is setting about the
ical derelicts in the student body, evi-
dently made a hit in Hollidaysburg on
Tuesday night. He was the principal
speaker at a Father and Son banquet
given by the Y. M. C. A., and the Al-
toona Tribune says it was “one of the
best talks ever heard in the county
capital.” He advised .the boys to
“stick to dad” and also advised dad to
“stick to the boy,” both bits of wis-
dom being but the natural outcome of
mutual understanding and proper re-
lations between father and son.
——The principal trouble with gov-
ernment is that it governs too much.
Every near statesman thinks he must
rush some new notion into statute
form, commissions for. this, that and
the other thing must be appointed to
nose into and worry business men and
individuals; public health and social
welfare associations are constantly
urging more inquisitions into person-
al habits. State and federal regula-
tions are such that we can scarcely
take in a cent or buy a cheap cigar
without reporting it along with every-
thing else we do either to Harrisburg
or Washington. The purpose of every
one appears to be to pile troubles on
and take none off. Isn't it about time
to stop, look and listen; to find out
whither we are drifting. Government
human being and follow it with pro-
scriptions clear to the grave. Is it
any wonder citizens chafe and rebel ?
——The first criminal prosecution
for railroad ticket scalping to be made
by the Pennsylvania Railroad company
in Pennsylvania for twenty years was
concluded in Philadelphia last Friday
when three offenders were convicted
and sentenced to prison. Ticket scalp-
ing once was a profitable and very
common practice but the principle was
wrong and laws were passed to pro-
tect both the public and the carriers
ahd the action of the Pennsylvania
company in bringing to justice these
culprits is commendable if for no oth-
er reason than it stimulates respect
for law.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
work of rehabilitating all of the phys-
regulations control the inception of a
Hiram Prepares to Fight.
From the DuBois Express.
In declining to make public at Sen-
ator Hiram Johnson’s request the ne-
gotiations between the United States
and Japan on the California land
question, Secretary Colby no doubt
was influenced to this decision as
much by a desire to leave the Califor-
nia Senator free to make trouble with
Mr. Harding and his Secretary of
State over the Japanese difficulties as
to side-step a disagreeable contro-
versy himself during the brief period
he is.to continue in office. Senator
Johnson claims to have information
that Roland S. Norris, United States
ambassador to Japan, and Baron
Shidehara, Japanese ambassador to
this country, in the negotiations re-
cently tentatively concluded, agreed
upon a treaty “which in effect repeal-
ed the California alien land law.”
Secretary Colby has mildly disclaim-
ed that Senator Johnson has a correct
impresion of the negotiations as ten-
tatively concluded, but in his zeal to
protect the sovereign rights of his
own State, the latter insists that the
people of the West are entitled to
know what the report contains before
any more binding obligation is enter-
ed into.
Of course, Senator Johnson is not
alarmed at the prospect of a treaty
based on these negotiations being
sent to the Senate before the ad-
journment of Congress and the end
of the present administration. Rath-
er, he is getting himself in fighting
trim to make his power felt in deter-
mining what the foreign policies of
the next administration shall be. An
unsettled Japanese question will be
one of Senator Johnson’s most valu-
able assets in his dealings with the
incoming administration. His failure
to join the consulting minds invited
to Marion by no means implies that
he was without points of his own up-
on which he will insist when it comes
to determining the policies of the
Harding administration. The more
he wants at other points, the less'
yielding will he be in allowing the
United States and Japan to close up
their controversies with some mutual
concessions at an early day, in which
the Pacific Coast will be sacrificed.
He means to hold a strangle hold on
American foreign relations by reason
of his veto on Japanese negotiations
and in that aggressive attitude he will
prove to be a formidable acer in de-
termining what form of ‘world asso-
ciatior?® this country shall enter into.
So, Mr. Harding and his Secretary
of Stafe will soon discover that the |
Senator from California is not a Sen-
ator who can be ignored when any
policy affecting our foreign relations
is to be undertaken. On the Japan-
ese question he commands a big fol-
lowing, and he can be depended on to
use that strength for all that it is
worth in bargaining on many matters.
Hiram is a fighter who refuses to ac-
cept defeat in anything on which he
has set his heart, and as such, admin-
istration leaders will not be slow. to
recognize the wisdom of keeping him
in a conciliatory attitude.
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The Italian Spirit.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Charles M. Schwab is undoubtedly
right in his opinion, uttered after a
brief sojourn in Italy, that the indus-
try and the indomitable optimism of
the Italians will see them through the
' present industrial crisis without a cat-
aclysm. Bolshevism has done its best
to wreck many a going concern; but
even the most receptive minds among
. the Socialists have fought shy of ac-
cepting the whole program whose out-
| workings have brought woe upon the
! workers of near-by lands. Finance
"and commerce in Italy have suffered
| grievously because of the war, as the
{ world knows, andthe unwillingness
lof the workers of the Fiat plant in
Turin to make implements of war is
"but one more sign of the general ab-
horrence of militarism that _prevails
lin Italy today, where the Socialist in-
| fluence is so strong.
Workmen who might turn a deaf
ear to the official supplication of the
government have been taught by the
critical economic situation that the
rampant individualism of Russia's
railway shops and mines and cotton
mills and other factories does not pay.
Italy understands the need of inces-
sant application to make up for the
years that were not merely unproduc-
tive but destructive. It is not an itin-
erant dilettante, but a field marshal of
big business, who reaches the satis-
factory conclusion: “Though great
perseverance may be necessary, Italy
will pull through.”
Smuts Has Faith in Wilson.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It may take a few years for Repub-
licans to reach a point at which they
can understand it, but General Smuts
has joined the very large number of
foreign observers who do justice to
President Wilson’s eminence and his
services to the world. “Hundreds of
years hence,” he says, “Wilson’s name
will be one of the greatest in history.
The League, which will be one of the
most potential things in the future of
mankind, came from the hearts of
peoples, and embodied inspirations
born out of the sufferings of the late
war.” But the Republicans beat the
League because its creation was the
work of a Democrat, and the Ameri-
can people were foolish enough to fol-
low their lead.
——When in doubt as to your pa-
per take the “Watchman.”
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
} —President Judge Barnett, of Juniata
county, has denied a new trial to A. J.
| Burke and W. A. Miller, members of the
| state constabulary, who shot F. E. Whit-
{ zel, a fugitive from justice, who resisted
arrest on a bench warrant.
—Samuel Goldstein, a shoemaker, of Al-
toona, reported to the police last Friday
that he had been robbed of $1045 by a
stranger who came to his shop, gave him
several cigarettes which made him ill and
looted the safe while he went to his apart-
ments to get something to check the nau-
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—Henry J. Weaver, 84 years of age, of
Rushtown, six miles from Danville, is “sot
in his ways.” Determined to have a shave
and a haircut one day last week, he de-
cided he would walk to Danville to get
them. He did, and walked home as well,
despite the fact that roads are almost im-
passable to vehicles because of the deep
mud.
—Arbor day dates for Pennsylvania have
been changed to April 8 and 15, according
to an announcement by the Department of
Public Instruction. This change was made
for the purpose of co-operating with the
Liberty Bell Bird Club, which has done
considerable work toward recognition of
the second Friday in April as a national
bird day.
—One hundred and fifty snow shovelers
on the Sunbury division of the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad, who got their meals, with
pie as dessert, besides $1 an hour, went on
a strike on Monday, demanding tobacco
and cigarettes. The foreman refused to
accede to the demand, cancelled the order
for pie and discharged fifty who stopped
passersby for the “makin’s.”
—A second attempt within a week to rob
the safe of the Sunbury bottling works
was frustrated by the police Saturday
night, when neighbors told of seeing
strange figures around the place. A door
was found forced. In the snow was clearly
seen footprints of a woman’s shoes. Chief
Smith asserts that it is the belief that a
woman dynamiter is doing the work.
—A robber entered the home of Mrs.
William Clark, on Brandywine avenue,
Downingtown, for the third time within
a few months. A trunk on the third floor
was broken open and a sum of money tak-
en. Visiting the room of an aunt of Mrs.
Clark on the second floor, the robber took
a purse containing $25 from beneath a pil-
low, while the woman slept. The maraud-
er escaped without his presence being de-
tected. :
—The body of Mrs. Sadie White, wife of
Terrence White, of near New Castle, was
found in a haymow. Mrs. White has been
missing since December 24th, 1920, when
Terrence White was married for the second
time. He has been in jail at New Castle,
charged with bigamy and adultery, and
has steadfastly refused to tell where his
first wife was, insisting he had sent her
to Chicago. He will now face a charge of
murder.
—O. R. Wike, a resident of Lewistown,
has developed a mania for building hous-
es. He has built twelve houses in the last
ten years, selling each ome just after he
completed his work and had moved his
family into his new home. He does not
build through a contractor, but purchases
his own material and does the work him-
self, and it is his boast that when he final-
iy settles down in his own home it will be
a real one, built with experience and the
best lumber, just to suit him and mother.
—Albert J. Waddell, a young farmer liv-
ing near Pottstown, who got a medal for
bravery in the world war, last Friday won
a $100 reward for capturing Frank Smith,
a stranger, who in broad daylight threw a
brick through a plate-glass window of a
jewelry store, grabbed some watches and
fled. Waddell heard the crash and, leav-
ing his farm team stand on the street, ran
after the thief. They scaled fences, and
Waddell said that he never ran after Ger- .
mans as fast as he ran-after Smith. Smith,.
who gave his home as “Anywhere,” is al-;
SO an ex-service man.
—A series of robberies occurred in the
Juniata Valley last Thursday night that
indicate, the passage of a gang from one of
the nearby larger cities. At Mifilintown
the tobacco store of Charles Middagh was
broken into and about $30 worth of tobac-
co taken. §. Nu Harts’ blacksmith shop
was visited and $60 worth of tools taken.
A front window was broken in the little
store of William Hoffman, on Monument
Square, Lewistown, and a diamond ring °
and two watches were taken and all the
way through the Big Valley thefts from
poultry houses and smoke houses are re- .
ported. Ee
—James Crow, sixty years old, residing
at Blairs Mills in Huntingdon county,
was called to jury service in Huntingdon o
last week and as a result took his first
ride on the steam cars. Crow has lived all
of his life on a farm two miles across the
Huntingdon county line. A quarter of a
century ago the Tuscarora Valley Railroad
was completed within two miles of his
til last week when he traversed its 15
miles to Port and thence over the Penn:
sylvania Railroad to Huntingdon, the con-,
ductors of both trains taking most excel-
lent care of him.
—Treated for neuritis and rheumatism:
until his case was considered hopeless,
Michael Hays, of Conway, a Pennsylvania
railroad locomotive driver, has obtained
complete relief by the simple procedure of
pulling a large needle from his shoulder.
Five years ago he was making his sched-
ule run near Pittsburgh when he felt a
sharp pain in his left shoulder. He was
taken to his home and confined to bed. A
few weeks ago he went to Hot Springs,
Ark., where his negro attendant discovered
a sharp point protruding from his skin.
This proved to be a needle, and when ex-
tracted Hays was cured.
—William Mourey, a Columbia county
farmer, maintained in court at Bloomsburg
on Monday that he was not a millionaire,
but that he was forgetful, and asked the
court to name a guardian. He had placed
$200 in gold in a bag of ‘‘snitz,” and then
sold the bag to a Mount Carmel baker, for-
getting all about the money. The baker
returned the money, however. He had hid-
den $150 in a tin box which he placed un-
der a refrigerator on the back porch. Lat-
er cleaning up the porch, he threw the tin
can into a box of junk, and his grandson
recovered the money. Mourey didn't be-
lieve in banks and when he planted pota-
toes last spring he hid several hundred
dollars in the potato field. He hired men
to dig the potatoes, and thinks they pock-
eted the money, or it grew into the pota-
toes. At least he never got it. He didn’t
think about it until Sunday, he said. Ir-
vin Kreisher was named guardian ‘for
Mourey, who is 70 years old.
home, but he had no occasion to use it un-