“They are counterfeiters, ‘are found
INK SLINGS.
— Nobody can help you like you
can help yourself.
— These are the days when the cool
little cucumber can produce the hot
colly-wobbles before you know it.
—What’s the use of asking the
price of an article if you don’t know its
value and how many people there are
who estimate value merely by the
price asked.
— Those scientists who used to tell
us that the earth is gradually cooling
off are probably forming a syndicate
now for the manufacture of ice mak-
ing machines.
If motor accidents are to continue
with the awful frequency of recent
months we will be forced to admit that
the makers of munitions of war have
little on the automobile manufactur-
ers when it comes to destroying hu-
man life.
__With both Spring and Fishing
creeks running red with mud there are
a lot of available harvest hands in the
community who are of no avail. A
fellow can swelter casting a fly with-
out noticing it half so much as he
would pitching hay or mowing grain.
__ President Harding promised us
“less government in business” and
then called General Dawes in to help
him do it through the anomaly of
“more business in government.” The
thing is not impossible, but its success
depends wholly on whether the public
is willing to immediately eliminate
luxuries and get down to pure essen-
tials.
—In one hundred and thirty months,
ten years and ten months, St. Peters-
burg, Florida, has had only sixty days
without sunshine. Wonderful, isn’t it,
and we sure do envy Bob Morris the
luxury of such a climate, but once
upon a time we visited Florida and we
have never forgotten that some na-
tive down there told us that “it is the
most wonderful climate in the world
but the land don’t amount to a conti-
nental damn.”
—Some think the Democrats in Con-
gress are not taking advantage of
their many opportunities to make par-
tisan capital out of the inconsistent
legislative work of the majority par-
ty. We don’t. By declining to essay
the Republican role of obstruction they
are showing the country that the Dem-
ocratic idea is something bigger than
mere spoils and at the same time giv-
ing the opposition so much rope that
it is sure to hang itself.
— Advertising is truly said to be the
life insurance of a good name and its
potency lies in the fact that it publie-
commits the advertiser to keep hi
ly
troth with his customers.
out and fail. Happily the “Watch-
man” has none such, for. its policy
ever has been to serve its patrons and
it will not accept business, however
profitable, from concerns that publicly
proclaim promises that privately they
do not fulfill.
—Gen. Jan Smuts is credited with
having brought about the temporary
cessation of hostilities between Eng-
land and Ireland. The General told
the Sinn Fein leaders something of
his own experiences as 4 Boer in
South Africa and they must have ap-
pealed to the Irish rebels, for not un-
til his conference with them has there
been the slightest indication or desire
to compromise rather than fight out
differences. Let us hope that the par-
ley results in peace, for the world
needs rest now in every quarter.
— Since telling you in the last issue
of the “Watchman,” who is to be the
next postmaster of Bellefonte we have
been told a lot of things we didn’t
know, also that we think we know a
lot that we don’t. We express grati-
tude for the former and indifference
for the latter, because it is “old stuff”
in the paragrapher’s ear. State Col-
lege and Bellefonte are all “het up”
over examination papers, age limits,
pulls, partisan quarrels and other
things that enter into the making of
postmasters but we have seen or heard
nothing since making our prediction,
two weeks ago, that warns us to hedge
on it.
—The death at Clearfield last week
of former State Senator George M.
Dimeling removes from the ranks
another of the Stalwarts who always
stood for pure Jeffersonian Democra-
cy and refused to trail along with that
band of usurpers whose sole object in
getting control of the Democratic par-
ty in Pennsylvania was the selfish aim
of personal aggrandizement. As the
leader of the party in Clearfield coun-
ty and during his two terms as chair-
man of the Democratic State Central
committee Mr. Dimeling displayed
wonderful ability as an organizer and |
in solidifying the party strength. He
spent his time and his money without |
a single thought of selfish gain, and
the office of Se
{| ry, and, indir
|
VOL. 66.
BELL
EFONTE, PA., JULY 15, 19
Soldiers’ Bonuses and Railroad Lar-
gesses.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
has admonished Congress against the
pending legislation providing for a
bounty or bonus for soldiers of the
late war and President Harding has
joined him in the opposition. Both
gentlemen protest their cordial sym-
pathy with the proposition to help the
soldiers. But they declare that the
treasury is not in shape, at the pres-
ent time, to stand such a strain upon
its resources as the measure would in-
volve. It would take three or four
hundred million dollars, they say, to
pay the bonus the bill contemplates,
and however much the soldiers need
the money and however just their
claim for it may be, it would be haz-
ardous to enact such legislation now.
A day or two after Secretary Mel-
lon had expressed this view and the
President had personally importuned
the Senate to accept his judgment, the
Secretary, with the assent and co-op-
eration of the Presiient, urged Con-
gress to advance a trifle of five hun-
dred million dollars to the railroads of
the country, to reimburse them for the
expenses of betterments made to the
railroad equipments and other prop-
erty of carrying corporations during
the period they were under govern-
ment control and management. It
was generally believed that the gov-
ernment paid for these betterments at
the time they were made, but if that
be true the corporations think they
ought to be paid again and the Sec-
retary concurs.
It is said that Secretary Mellon is
largely concerned in the ownership of
railroad property of the country. Up-
on entering upon the duties of his of-
fice he resigned from the directorate
of some of the largest of these cor-
porations but he did not relinquish
his financial interest in them. It is
easy to imagine, therefore, why he
cannot see how to pay bonuses to
soldiers but can discern the possibili-
ty of paying largesses to the railroads
to a greater amount. - The railroad
operators paid liberally to the fund
that secured the election of Harding
and incidentally provided Mellon with
etary of the Treasu-
money paid to the railroads will go in-
to his own pockets.
——If the Christian Endeavorers
and other religious bodies were as
frank as they are earnest they would
declare positively for the League of
Nations. Resolutions for the League
“or some other association” are with-
out force.
Common Cause for Rejoicing.
The administration at Washington
is justly elated over the progress of a
plan for an international conference
on disarmament.
osition made by President Harding
and Premier Lloyd George expresses
the opinion that Japan and China will.
readily assent. France appears to be
in an attitude of uncertainty, though
ready to join in if the project prom-
ises success. Italy doesn’t seem to
have been considered but burdened
with taxation to pay the war debt it
is not likely that she yearns for con-
tinued war expenses. In fact there ap-
pears to be nothing in the way of as-
sembling such a conference in the
near future. It is alike safe and sane.
In his statement of the case in the
House of Commons on Monday night
Lloyd George revealed the reasons for
his willingness, even his anxiety, to
promote such a conference. Great
Britain is staggering under a killing
load of taxes. Unless disarmament is
accomplished she will not only contin-
ue to suffer, but the burden will be
increased for the reason that it will
be necessary to patrol the Pacific as
well as the Atlantic. Without the
concurrence of the United States no
disarmament agreement could be
reached. Lloyd George was afraid. to
l make the tender on the part of Great
Britain. But he is naturally delighted
with the offer of the United States to
act as “cat’s paw” in “pulling the
chestnuts out of the fire.”
The people of the United States, es-
pecially the Democratic people, may
share in the rejoicing of the adminis-
tration in the progress indicated. We,
too, are suffering from heavy tax bur-
‘deal of the
The government of |
Great Britain has accepted the prop- |
Three Convincing Reasons.
The esteemed Jeffersonian-Demo-
crat, of Brookville, gives three con-
vincing reasons why the proposed
constitutional convention enterprise
should be opposed by the voters at the
primary election. “One is,” our con-
temporary states, “that neither the
world nor Pennsylvania has recovered
from the war, and a time of hysteria
is no time for such an undertaking.
A second is the tremendous cost
which will be involved—hundreds of
thousands of dollars and perhaps mil-
lions. A third, and perhaps a great-
er reason than any, is that twenty-
five members of the convention, if it
be authorized, will be appointed out of
hand by the Governor, and Governor
William C. Sproul is not to be trust-
ed.”
Without endorsing or even reiter-
ating the animadversions our esteem-
ed contemporary puts upon the Gov-
ernor, we cordially commend its atti-
tude upon the subject. No man
should be given the right to appoint
nearly a third of the members of a
body convened to draft the fundamen-
tal law of a State. It invests him
with a power over the destinies of the
people which no man has a right to
claim. The constitution is the su-
preme law of the State. It is above
the executive, the legislative and the
judicial branches of the government
and holds them all in leash of the peo-
ple. Why should any living man be
given a power which might be used to
dominate such a convention?
Governor Sproul is not a superman.
His gifts in intellect are not greater
than those of any and all of his pred-
ecessors in office. Possibly he means
well in his official actions but he is a
partisan of the strongest type and in
the exercise of the appointing power
he has been both selfish and partisan.
His administration of the office of
Governor, moreover, has not justified
his claim to unusual public favor. Re-
cent developments have revealed not
only unparalleled profligacy but a de- |
plorable absence of business method
the proposed constitutional convention
ought to be postponed for a time.
: titution will serve for
hfe dn
——Hunters and sportsmen in Rush
and Taylor townships are up in arms
. against the proposition of Pittsburgh
| people to establish a private game
preserve on the Allegheny mountains
in the upper Bald Eagle valley and
will protest against a charter being
granted them. Said hunters claim
| that the territory has been stocked
, with game by the State and no set of
{ individuals should be granted exclu-
| sive right to hunt or fish in that lo-
cality.
Right Thing in a Wrong Way.
Mr. Bruce F. Sterling, chairman of
| the Democratic State committee, has
| very properly called a meeting of the
! executive committee of the organiza-
‘ tion to nominate a candidate for Con-
| gressman-at-Large, to fill the vacancy
| caused by the death of Mahlon M.
| Garland. But he has gone a step be-
i yond his prerogative in selecting Mr.
i John P. Bracken as the nominee. “Re-
garding my opinion of Mr. Bracken,”
the chairman states, “I believe he is
entitled to be seated and not only
should receive his party nomination
but a majority of the State electorate
votes as well.”
We have no personal objection to
Mr. Bracken. He was nominated for
the office a year ago and polled the
highest vote on the ticket. He is a
man of ability and measures well up
to the Jeffersonian standard of fitness,
for he is honest and capable. But it
is no part of the chairman’s right or
privilege to select party candidates
| for that or any other office. Primari-
| ly that is a prerogative of the people.
! Under the rules of the party it is a
prerogative of the executive commit-
tee and that body should approach the
duty of selecting the candidate un-
prejudiced and with a purpose single
. to serve the interests of the party.
| Party organizations are created and
, maintained to elect candidates rather
| than select them. In recent years it
has become the custom of the party
organization in Pennsylvania to select
i the candidates and if they fail in that
purpose, to defeat them. This is a
when the party wreckers got control | dens which may be greatly diminish- | form of usurpation which is particu-
he stood steadfast in the ranks of |
those who adhered to the old-time |
principles of the party faith. While |
the writer of this item was not in as
close touch with him politically as ' ment, binding alike on all participants, ja party boss.
tis a complete vindication of the posi- | State, male or female, who aspires to
others connected with the “Watch-
man” during his active political ca-,
reer we had the pleasure of an inti- |
mate social acquaintance, and we
know that Clearfield or any other com- !
munity can ill afford to lose men of
his type. Senator Dimeling was in
the prime of life and deep as the re-
gret may be at his passing away his
family and friends have the consola- |
tion of knowing that he lived a fear-
less, upright life and was at all times
a “man amongst men,”
ed under an international agreement |larly obnoxious to the Democratic |
to disarm. That is a cause of satis-
faction to all the people. But the
concession to an international agree-
tion of President Wilson and the Dem-
ocratic party during the time since
the armistice. Joining the League of
Nations would have achieved the re-
sult but the Republicans objected to
that for the reason that it would do | pretense of harmony. There is some
J just what they are now trying to do. ! spirit in the ash cart.
——Not a cent for the soldiers but
is the way Secretary Mellon para-
- phrases Pinckney’s sentiment.
mind and chairman Sterling deserves
i rebuke instead of encouragement in
his bold assumption of the functions of
' the office, is entitled to a fair chance.
——Political gossip in Philadelphia
| indicates that Vare is not inclined to
' affiliate with Penrose even for a false
rm — fp snr —
——The American Legion boys con- |
' hundreds of millions for the railroads | tributed a lot to the big majority of
and efficiency. Because of these facts
Any Democrat in the
| Senator Penrose and Mrs. Warburton.
Senator Penrose is not in full agree-
ment with Mrs. Barclay Warburton, of
Philadelphia, upon the treatment of
the women voters of the State by the
Republican State commitéee. Senator
Penrose was the last bitter fighter in
the last ditch against female suffrage
and Mrs. Warburton was a leading
figure in the long warfare which cul-
minated in the enfranchisement of the
women. When the Republican State
committee reluctantly gave the Re-
publican women voters a back seat in
her entire satisfaction with the action.
Now Senator Penrose declares that
instead of the back seat accorded
them the women are entitled to any
seat they want.
Obviously Mrs. Warburton measur-
ed the rights of women upon the
vard stick of her own vanity. The
Republican committee decided that
the women voters of the State might
properly aspire to the offices of vice
chairman and assistant secretary of
the committee and promptly elécted
Mrs. Warburton to the choicest of
thesé honorary positions. That was
enough for her. It m her the of-
ficial head of the Republican women.
But other women who were not so
highly favored were not so easily sat-
isfied. They pointed out that the
Democrats had been more liberal in
their treatment of the women of their
party faith. They made female mem-
bers ‘of the party eligible to any office
in the organization.
It is not probable that any woman
will ever aspire to the chairmanship
or secretaryship of the State commit-
tee of her party. It is a hard job and
as a rule poorly rewarded. But it can
hardly be said that women are in the
enjoyment of complete equality with
men so long as there are any offices in
the organization to which the women
may not aspire. This is the point
which the Republican women have
raised and to which Senator Penrose
now yields assent. Women who have
been influenced during the period of
contention for “equal rights” by prin-
ciple rather than ambition are vastly
he lin 2 majority and Senator Penrose
3 i “to the inevitable,” re-
luctantly or otherwise. He is a real
politician. : :
——In another column of this pa-
per will be found an article describ-
ing at length the improvements con-
templated by James R. Hughes on the
grounds and approach to the Belle-
fonte Academy. The plan: he has
mapped out will necessarily entail
considerable expense but the project,
when carried through to a finish, will
be not only permanent but a decided
improvement to that part of the
town. Mr. Hughes will be at consid-
erable expense repairing his burned
Academy building and as a number of
old students have volunteered contri-
butions toward a fund for improving
the driveways and grounds he has de-
cided to give all old students an op-
portunity to chip in, as it will be a
lasting memorial to them. Read the
article published elsewhere.
—The unprecedented hot spell that
we have been having has been as dis-
astrous, almost, to vegetable and ani-
mal life as it has been to humans.
From all parts of the country come
stories of parched and dying gardens
and fatal heat prostrations. While
we have had very few human fatali-
ties in Centre county the time has nev-
er been known when so many horses
have fallen dead in the harvest field.
i ——————— ——————
——The secretary of the National
Board of Farm Organizations told a
Congressional committee the other
day that during the past year the far-
mers of the country have lost $7,000,-
000,000. That emergency tariff bill
must have slipped a cog.
——Some statistical chap has fig-
ured out that America spends a bil-
lion dollars a year for soft drinks, and
the Kentucky “Kurnel” is certain that
is a waste of good money.
—Rumors have it that the coming
primaries, especially in Bellefonte,
Philipsburg and State College, are to
| bring out some strange alignments on
‘local offices.
——We notice one marked differ-
ence in the method of Warren Gama-
| liel and Woodrow. Wilson called the
i Senators to him and Harding goes to
them.
| ——The hot wave is accounted for.
| Meteors have been pelting the sun un-
til Old Sol has become thoroughly
“het up.”
esti tee lp ereeseeaee———
——Chief Justice Taft has achieved
| the ambition of his life but he paid a
high price for his victory.
————— pe —————
i
——The diminishing foreign trade
Harding but other people were fooled has no terror for the Republican Con-
too.
gressmen,
21.
ee SE,
the party organization Mrs. Warbur- | Court was the leading item in the
ton somewhat ostentatiously declared
Versailles by Indirection.
From the Philadelphia Record.
How much short of the peace treaty
are we likely to come? Every action
of the Administration indicates a pur-
pose of getting as close as possible to
the terms of the peace treaty. It looks
at present as if we should end by ac-
quiring all the liabilities of the treaty
without the assets.
We have adopted a declaration 0
peace. Our representatives have par-
ticipated in framing the International
Court provided for by the peace
treaty, and there have been semi-offi-
cial statements that the International
President’s project for an association
of nations in place of the League. It
will be quite effective unless there
shall be some compulsion in resorting
to it, and if resort shall be.compulso-
ry we have the greater part of the cov-
enant in operation. ;
The President is understood to be
getting ready to prepare to begin ne-
gotiations with England and Japan for
a reduction of armaments. This will
amount to nothing in the case of Eng-
land and Japan, and probably nothing
in our own case, unless other nations
shall be brought into the agreement;
and when this shall be accomplished
we shall be bound by some of the re-
strictions of the covenant of the
League which the Republicans have
been denouncing as unconstitutional.
In fact, we cannot agree on disarma-
ment with England and Japan without
abridging the power of future Con-
gresses to fix the extent of our mili-
tary and naval forees.
In his Memorial day address the
President promised that we should not
pursue a parochial course, but that
we should recognize our obligations
as a member of the family of nations,
and that we should at any time re-
spond to the call of humanity. In his
Fourth of July message to The Lon-
don Times the President speaks of the
“complimentary power for good” of
the two nations. Now, these expres-
sions may be mere rhetoric, but we
have too much respect for the Presi-
dent to assume this. We presume he
meant what these expressions would
naturally be understood to mean. In
that case, he is accepting for this
country the moral obligation to join
other nations in restraining war; yet
the Republican Senators rebelled at
assuming even a moral obligation.
: The value of the League of Naviong
is that it is waning rning all ge. 9
bellicose sso that they will not be
allowed to violate the peace of the
world. The purpose is not to end a
war that has been begun, but to pre-
vent any nation from beginning a war.
While we keep out of the League we
are not helping the rest of the world
to intimidate bellicose nations and
preserve the peace. But if the Pres-
ident is using the words of peace and
soberness, then we are assuming a
moral obligation to join other nations
in suppressing a belligerent. We are
not taking the place among the na-
tions where our influence could be
used to avert war, but we are agreeing
to make ourselves useful if war should
occur.
the Republicans would frankly admit
that they had deceived and misled the
country, and make the only reparation
in their power by a belated union with
the League. Gi
: House-Cleaning.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
General Dawes, as Director of the
Budget Bureau, has ordered a survey
of surplus equipment, supplies and
material in government possession.
The property not wanted goes to the
General Supply committee of the
{ Treasury.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt has
under way. a similar survey of old
ships, property and material in the ju-
risdiction of the Navy Department.
Obsolete vessels are to be sold or
scrapped. It is a pity that some of
“the good gray ships” must go, for
traditions have clustered about them
thick as barnacles, but we need the
money. The proceeds accrue for safe
keeping to the Treasury Department.
These and parallel operations in
other branches of the service mark
the purpose of the government to
economize and to reduce the blight of
“squandermania.” Washington is do-
ing what every forethoughtful house-
holder feels called on now and again
to do. Governments, like domestic es-
tablishments, need a periodical house-
cleaning.
But while Uncle Sam and Aunt Col-
umbia are up on the attic under the
eaves and down cellar among the dust-
bins let them be reminded that in their
prospective rummage sale they will do
well to include a lot of hand-me-down
sinecures. There are obsolete clerk-
ships as well as obsolete battleships.
Let the clean-up include them all.
The Appropriations.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Luther S. Kauffman, of Philadel-
phia, recently sent to Auditor General
ewis the names of ninety institutions
in the State that he believed to be un-
der sectarian control. The Auditor
General has notified the heads of the
aforesaid institutions that he is with-
holding the appropriations voted them
by the Legislature. He has also noti-
fied Mr. Kauffman to present proof of
his allegation. It is very unfortunate
to grow up in this State in defiance of
the plain mandate of the constitution,
' for enforcement of law will create
much distress.
v
‘by Preston M. Savidge,
It would be a great deal better if
were net paid one cent of interest.
that conditions. have been permitted.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—While tying a wire to an insulator on
a steel pole in the Pennsylvania Railroad
yards at Altoona Saturday, William Ober;
aged 39 years, an electrician, came in con-
tact with a live wire and was electrocuted.
—While passing in front of a row .of
horses in a stable at “Honesdale J. W.
Houser stopped and patted one of the ani-
mals on the nose. The horse, by way of
reprisal, snapped at the man and bit off
his nose. t
—Purchase of 15,000 rabbits, 2000 fox
squirrels, 5000 ringneck pheasants and
10,000 bobwhite quail have been authorized
by the State Game Commission. For the
first time in its history, the commission
has elected a vice president, John M. Phil-
lips, of Pittsburgh, second oldest membeg
of the commission. : i
—Steve Brodie in his best days nad
nothing on John Willis, 38 years old, of
Brownsville, who fell a distance of seven-
ty-five feet from the river bridge in
Brownsville to the waters of the Monon-
gahela river. Although not a scratch was
to be found on Willis’ body, he was re-
moved to the Brownsville general hospital,
where he seems to be suffering from fright.
—Judge Harman, of Columbia county, ap-
parently dissented from the view that Cat-
awissa is ‘too slow” when he granted a
divorce to George W. Miller from Jennie
Miller. Mrs. Miller, her husband set forth
in his petition for divorce, left him with~-
out just cause and went to Reading. Im
reply to his pleadings for her to return,
she: said “Catawissa is too slow a town for
any one to live in.”
=The gas well recently drilled by the
T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil company on the
T. W. Moot farm, two miles south -of
Marchand, Jefferson county, is producing
several hundred thousand feet daily. The
gas was struck at a depth of 2,000 feet.
The well was a wild-cat proposition on the’
part of the Phillips company and the
heavy flow of gas encountered vas some-
what of a surprise to the drillers. More
wells are to be put down at once.
—While searching for trouble in the
switchboard at the Jersey Shore electric
power house, together with several com-
panions, all of whom, including himself,
were electrical experts, I'red C. Gaylor ac-
cidentally touched a live wire and was
electrocuted before his fellow-workers
could assist him. The cause of the mishap
is a mystery, as all wires on the board
were heavily insulated and all known pre-
cautions had been taken to prevent acci-
dent or injury to workmen.
—Despite the Supreme court decision
upholding the legality of women as jurors,
it has been decided by the Pittsburgh
courts and jury commissioners to use only
unmarried woman as talesmen. This de-
cision, it is said, was made so that moth-
ers would not be taken from the care of
their offsprings as well as from other du-
ties of their households. Housewives, who
can show the court they are needed at
home to keep hubby going ‘good and
true,” will also be exempted.
—Mrs. Abagail E. Geissinger, donor of
the six hundred thousand dollars George
I’. Geissinger memorial hospital at Dan-
ville, died at the institution last Thursday
of general debility. The end was hasten-
ed by a fall which she suffered two weeks
previous. She also rebuilt the Mahoning
Presbyterian church, the Y. M. C. A,, and
gave largely to other charities at Danville,
including Linéoln University at Tully, Ga.
Her husband’s fortune was made out of
the stock of the Kingston Coal company of
Danville.
—That the poison in the Susquehanna
river which has been killing the fish is a
serious matter was shown on Saturday
when four blooded Holstein cows, owned
of Montandon,
died shortly after drinking the water, and
ten more are critically ill. According to
veterinarians, the stomachs are full of
holes and “raw red,” indicating that some
acid has been taken in copious quantities.
The cows were turned out to pasture
along the open stream, and when brought
back they were ill.
—JFrank Shrefller, fifty years old, of Mif-
flin county, was painfully burned last
week by a bolt of lightning during a heavy
electrical storm that passed over the Juni-
ata valley about six o'clock in the even-
ing. Mr. Shreffler was standing in the back
yard with his hand resting on the clothes
line talking to a neighbor and it is believ-
ed the flash followed the line as no place
could be found where it struck in that
neighborhood. Shreffler was seen to stag-
ger and fall unconscious, but soon recov-
ered from the effects of the shock other
than the burns.
—Divorces will cost more, under a new
rule filed in court at Reading by the Berks
county judges, increasing the various fees,
end effective at once. Instead of a deposit
of $60, as heretofore, the applicant must
file $80, unless an order of publication is
required, in which case the deposit must
be $100. The masters in the cases used to
get $25 and the stenographer $5. Under
the new order, the master will get $40 and
the stenographer $10, unless no evidence is
taken, in which case the master’s fee will
be $25. If there is anything left by the
time the decree is entered, the applicant
will be paid the balance of the deposit.
—Several hundred Pittsburgh church-
goers shortly after noon on Sunday wit-
nessed an exciting fight to the death be-
tween patrolman Raymond Holaday and
a bull which had beem at liberty since
Tuesday, when it escaped from a herd in
Penn avenue. Holaday was a busy man
for fifteen minutes. Every time the bull
charged, Holaday side-stepped. Once the
bull’s horn caught the policeman’s leg, in-
flicting a deep gash and wrecking his
trousers. After much maneuvering Hol-
aday, who had been able to use his revol-
ver only once during the fight, took his
station at a spot where he could fire at the
bull without endangering human lives. He
took careful aim and sent a bullet square-
ly between the beast’s eyes.
—That the Sunbury & Selinsgrove Rail-
road company, a corporation operating a
trolley line six miles between the two
towns, earned more than $70,000 in the
eight years it was in the hands of Fred J.
Byrod and Charles Grant, as receivers, was
shown by a statement filed by the receiv-
ers, who turned the property over to new
owners, of which John H. Whitaker, of
Harrisburg, is president. Bondholders will
get little, and during the long receivership
The
record shows that J. Fred Shaffer, a Sun-
bury bank president and lawyer, was .al-
lowed more than $10,000 in fees as counsel.
for the receivers, and that other expenses.
piled up until approximately $50,000. 0f the.
profits were used, leaving a little more than
$20,000 to satisfy the defaulted interest and
bends of more than $106,000,