smn
a
Dewan
INK SLINGS.
— Think of it! Only fifty-four more
days until Thanksgiving.
—The boom in the market for Lib-
erty bonds will please the fellows who |.
held onto theirs.
The primary election proved
conclusively that Philadelphia “is cor-
rupt and contented.”
—The opposition to Mayor Hylan
in New York is growing so weak that
by November it will probably be less
than one-half of one per cent.
— The Socialists and the rest of us
Americans agree on one thing, at
‘least: That is, that Soveitism is not
to be thought of in this country.
—Reports from primaries all over
the State lead us to the conclusion
that woman has waived the chance to
prove herself superior to man in poli-
tics.
— Probably if Lloyd George and
De Valera would step aside and let
Englishmen and Irishmen “counsel to-
gether,” a peaceful understanding
might be reached.
—The apple crop in Pennsylvania
being about seventeen million bushels
short this season the fellow who ex-
pected to replenish his diminishing
cellar with cider is facing a long, dry
winter.
— Anyway, if it hadn’t been for the
Volstead act the army of the unem-
ployed would have been far larger
than it is. Think of the hordes of
boot-leggers who would have been out
of a job.
—Last year at this time frost had
killed all garden produce and flowers.
The country is green and beautifu!
now as in mid-summer. Everywhere
late flowers are in bloom and the land-
scape gives little evidence that fall is
here.
__Of course most of us believe in
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NO.
VOL. 66.
Death Knell of the Fordney Tariff Bill.
convention has administered the final
and fatal dose of dope to the Fordney
tariff bill. It has been limping its way
through Congress for several months,
blindly, until the party managers, re-
alizing its hopelessness, determined to
lead it to the slaughter and Senator
Calder was chosen as the executioner
and the New York State convention as
the scene of the tragedy. The instru-
ment of death is a resolution, unani-
mously adopted by the convention
| which declares: “As we must sell as
| well as manufacture, no tariff law
should be enacted in the unsettled ec-
| onomic condition of the present that
| will prevent us from re-establishing
| the profitable exchange of food stuffs
| and commodities by burdening those
' to whom we sell to such an extent as
! to make it impossible for them to sell
"to us and, therefore, to buy from us.”
| The Fordney bill was framed in no
such spirit of reciprocity. It was de-
| signed, not to promote the economic
“welfare of the country but to fulfill
| the campaign promises of the last
{ campaign made to those who contrib-
| uted the vast fund used for purchas-
| ing votes for the Republican candi-
| dates for President and Congress.
{ Under its provisions international
| commerce would have been entirely
. destroyed. No American importer
BELLEFONTE, PA.
The New York Republican State
"building just for the rare old wine in
the immortality of the soul, and, there- | (v.14 have been able to purchase
for, find it quite difficult to become in- | gproad and the foreign markets for
terested in the latest suggestion of oyports would have been automatical-
Saienes 2 he eect that el ly closed to our producers. The result
of the flesh is not beyond the range | would have been over production im-
of Pie a tell ho assitiug ipediaiely Bd Tnensitigl paralysis §1
—Probably the fellow who went up timately. e home consumption
to the jail 2 Monday x oe gone of | would have been unable to absorb the
his pals, who were behind the bars, | product and shutting up mills and
knew that sheriff Dukeman wanted to factories would be the only possible
Jose hin end pedhaniy ne die) Be ves OF mwa ting Sankiiptey individu-
that as it may, the sherill di nd in- ' ally and dry rust collectively.
sisted on his spending a few days or | Happily there is enough intelligence
so on the hill. left in the Republican leadership to
— Come to think of it, isn’t there a “avert this calamity. But it was not
bottle of wine cached in the corner- : found in the White House, for the
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stone of a great many public buildings President was in full favor of the ru-
“in this country? Time was when all | inous measure. until the evil
‘corner-stones were loaded up and time quences were pointed
.may come when. seme. one (nay ebay a8 t in ;
ough. to buy an e public’ Way
have been.
It was not in the Senate,
its corner-stone.
— More “squealing” is expected
from the fellows who have been im-
plicated in the postoffice booze pilfer-
ing and, rumor has it, that seventeen
gentlemen in Bellefonte are praying
like they never prayed before that the |
ones who have already been caught |
| though chairman Penrose of that com-
‘mittee, announded from his sick bed in
. Philadelphia some months ago that he
i had changed his mind on the tariff
| question. It came from the Senators
| of the middle west, those composing
| the “Agricultural Bloc,” who had been
deceived by the operations of the
Emergency tariff bill enacted early in
Herculean but Hopeful Task.
ference” is in session at Washington
and under the guidance of Mr. Her-
bert Hoover will try to work out a
plan to put the millions of idle men in
the country to work. It is an hercu-
lean task and will tax the mental re-
sources of Mr. Hoover to the limit. He
is already a rather busy man in Wash- |
ington and elsewhere. He is not only
under obligations to successfully man- :
age the Department of Commerce of
the government and exercise a watch-
ful care over most of the other de-
partments but to advise the President
on all subjects, clothe and feed the
millions of destitute children in Rus-
sia and keep the world in order in two
hemispheres.
But it may be hoped that he is equal
to the emergency that is before him.
He has not always succeeded in past
enterprises but probably it was for the
reason that he wasn’t really in earn-
est. He undertook to influence the
Republican Senate in the last Con-
gress to ratify the covenant of the
League of Nations and join in with
the other progressive nations of the
world in an effort to banish war from
the universe. But before his work
was completed he was lured by ambi-
tion to join the enemies of the enter-
prise in a war against Woodrow Wil-
son and thus laid the lines which are
largely responsible for the unemploy-
ment he is so anxious to remove. It
was a mistake of the head, probably,
but a sad one.
In his present undertaking we sin-
cerely hope he may meet with greater
success. The army of unemployed
has grown to immense proportions
but it may be managed so as to mini-
mize the evil of it and reduced so that
it will do no great harm in this coun-
try of vast: resources and opportuni-
ties. But he will not achieve such re-
sults by building tariff walls around | wor
must be the }-
the industrial life which
medium of improvement
Atti]
the administration with which Mr.
Hoover is affiliated has not been help-
ing. : 2
: To the average mind General
Atterbury takes too gloomy a view of
the transportation question. The
Pennsylvania railroad is not as near
bankruptcy as he tries to make the
public believe he imagines.
SEPTEMBER 3
The so-called “Unemployment Con- :
Senator Borah Tells the Truth.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, may not be
a safe guide in public affairs, but he
has “the courage of his convictions”
and candor to utter plain truths when
he is inclined to do so. In opposing
the ratification of the peace treaty
ate on Saturday, he availed himself of
rebuke upon his Republican colleagues
of the Senate who supported his viru-
‘lent opposition to the Versailles
' treaty, during the last session of Con-
gress. Mr. Borah was opposed to the
Versailles t because he imagined
it involved this country in the affairs
of Eurepe in contravention of
_ Washington’s warning on the subject.
| But the separate treaty does the same | f
| thing.
i In his opening speech in opposing
| the ratification of the separate peace
treaty with Germany Mr. Borah said
| that while he is in favor of withdraw-
ing American troops from Germany he
is not in favor of “claiming rights and
benefits under the Versailles treaty
which French troops secure. If we are
to have their advantages,” he contin-
ued, “then every moral sense insists
that we shall do our part in the exe-
cution of the treaty. We cannot take
the position, and maintain it before
the world, that we will place on
France the burden of executing the
treaty and then claim all the privileg-
es. It is an intolerable, an indefensi-
ble position, and I predict we will not
maintain it long.”
The only merit in the separate
treaty lies in the claim that it accom-
plishes that intolerable thing. The
only substantial reason given in sup-
port of the separate treaty is that it
provides for us the benefits of the
Versailles treaty and relieves us of
all the expense responsibility of
exectting it. No right minded man or
ndeda nn
ly to the Versailles treaty. We can
never get any benefit from it except
as we help to execute it.”
— A civil service examination will
be held at Philipsburg on October 14th
to give aspirants an opportunity to
qualify for the position of postmaster
in that place. The term of Roy
Rowles expired on August 6th, but of
0, 1921.
es
with Germany, submitted to the Sen-
an opportunity to bestow a deserved ;
= bl ha 9,57 A nt 8. 1.4
will be struck dumb before they get a | 410 socsion. But we shall not “look a |
course he will continue to draw the
chance to tell all they know.
—1Is not the noise of traffic these
days wrecking human nerves faster
than the strain of trying to subsist in
the strenuous life we lead. One can
expect little of rest or quiet in thick-
ly settled communities by day, but
nights, that once were restful and
soothing to tired muscles and quiver-
ing nerves, are now made so hideous
by honking horns, unmuffled mufflers
and racing motors that the average
resident of city or town spends them
more restlessly than restfully.
— Whether it was on the initiative
of the district attorney, the sheriff or
the state police the entire community
is reassured by the recent arrests for
robbery and boot-legging in Belle-
fonte.
cared what became of the whiskey in
the postoffice cellar. But every good
citizen should be and is vitally con-
cerned when the laws of our land are
openly flouted and officers, who are
sworn to uphold them, are charged |
with having winked at the violation.
—Gratifying indeed is the an-
nouncement made on Tuesday that the
* health of our former President, Wood-
row Wilson, has improved even beyond
the expectations of the most sanguine
«of those who knew his real condition.
Tuesday was the second anniversary
of his physical collapse and that it
should have found him so far out from
‘the shadow of death in which he lin-
gered so long is a wonderful comfort
to many who believe that Woodrow
“Wilson is our greatest living states-
“man and that there is much for him
vet to do.
—What the country needs now,
more than anything else, is somebody
at Washington with a policy and the
courage to stand for it.
of cure alls have been suggested since
President Harding and his Congress
took up the reins of government, but
none of them have been given a trial,
unless it may be said that the Emer-
gency tariff bill was one. The Presi-
dent, the Senate and the House have
taken up this, that and the other, muil-
ing things over and getting nowhere.
Now it looks as though the much her-
alded Fordney tariff bill is to be
thrown into the discard and another
start made. How long the country
can stand such governmental indecis-
ion the Lord only knows, but there
must be some one among all the Re-
publican statesmen in Washington
‘with brains enough to suggest some-
thing practical and gumption enough
to back # up.
It is not that anybody really.
All manner |
| gift horse in the mouth.” The fact
, that the bill is dead is gratefully ac-
cepted. :
Democrats and the Treaty.
: The conservative Democrats of the
| country will regret to learn that Sena-
tor John Sharp Williams, of Missis-
| sippi, has determined to vote against
| the ratification of the German peace
‘treaty. Of course it means “desertion
| of the Allies,” as Senator Williams
| says, and equally of course it creates
i “disgust and desperation.” But it does
nothing else either helpful or harin-
| ful and the Democrats of the country
| would have been glad to see the Sena-
‘tors of their party line up solidly for
- ratification in order to show that scur-
vy partisan prejudice has no influence
on their minds in discharging their of-
ficial duties. Notwithstanding the
truth uttered by Senator Borah, Dem-
_ocrats favor ratification.
| Senator Williams has one of the
| keenest minds in public life and ana-
lyzes public questions with singular
, accuracy. What Shields, of Tennes-
| see; or Reed, of Missouri; or Watson,
cof Georgia, does or says is of little or
no importance from a party stand-
point. But what Mr. Williams does is
! significant because like Underwood, of
Alabama; and Hitchcock, of Nebras-
“ka, he speaks the language of the
| Democratic party, as a rule, and the
' policy of the party on the question of
| the German peace treaty is to let the
administration which is responsible
' for the make-shift have its own way.
i The onus will be on the Republican
| party and as Senator Borah says it
.may be “the first step toward enter-
ing the League of Nations.”
The German peace treaty was con-
i ceived in hate and represents partisan
| bigotry. But it is the logical result
| of the restoration to power of a party
| which has no aspiration above loot and
{ no hope except in graft. The Demo-
'crats in the Senate might easily de-
| feat ratification of such a convention,
| but what’s the use. It would not hast-
len and might delay the solution of
{ problems which must be met and solv-
ed sooner or later. For these reasons
| we hoped those Democratic Senators
| who truly represent the party and re-
| ally express its purposes would quietly
{let the ratification resolution go
, through. There is no necessity for
{ urging it. Let the Republicans do
! that if they like.
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| Suitable Gubernatorial Timber.
| The esteemed Philadelphia Record,
| interpreting the result of the primary
{ election as an expression of the as-
| pirations of the Republican voters of
the State, suggests that the logical
, candidate of that party for Governor
‘next year is Senator Vare. No doubt
! our esteemed contemporary is influ-
enced in part, at least, to.that opin-
ion by local pride or environment.
Senator Vare is a conspicuous figure
in the public affairs of Philadelphia
and his political aims and ambitions
are in full and happy accord with
those of a vast majority of the people
of that city. But he is hardly the sort
of man the voters of the State outside
of Philadelphia would select as their
Chief Magistrate.
Senator Vare is an orator, copious |
and eloquent, but he speaks a dialect
peculiar to Philadelphia and the vot-
ers in other sections of the State
would hardly understand him, while
the custom of the voters of Pennsyl-
vania has been to choose for Governor |
a man who speaks the English lan-
‘guage. In the early history of the
State the Pennsylvania-Dutch dialect
“might have been heard in the execu-
. tive offices but within the last seventy-
five or eighty years only men capable
of and accustomed to using fairly cor-
rect English have been named for or
elected to the office of Governor. There
being no constitutional or statutory
inhibition on the subject, however,
Senator Vare might qualify.
Recent political gossip
that there are other aspirants for the
Republican nomination for that office
whose claims are endorsed by the pri-
mary vote recently cast quite as clear-
ly as that of Senator Vare. State
Treasurer Snyder, of Pottsville, has
announced that he is a candidate for
the Republican nomination and Sena-
tor Vare has nothing on him in the
matters of qualification and equip- |
ment. Mr. Snyder has, in as full
measure as any other, practiced poli-
indicates !
salary until his successor is duly ap-
pointed and qualified, Zo.
i wii rtf fp A ep
— John L. Knisely received his
| commission as postmaster of Belle-
fonte on Tuesday and will take charge
tomorrow, October 1st. Here’s wish-
ing him luck and hoping that his ad-
ministration will be a success in every
way.
| ——Two new members have been
(enrolled in the League of Nations
i which would indicate that in world
: opinion Harding’s enterprise is not
| going to disrupt the Versailles organ-
| ization.
— Tomorrow will be the first day
of October and while we will probably
have many days of nice weather be-
fore winter sets in the cool nights and
frosty mornings will soon be here and
the coal bills begin to pile up.
— Tt is said that Mexico has taken
up baseball and if that is true a grave
, mistake has been made. Foot ball is
"the thing for Mexico. There is more
kick in it.
— The number of conferences be-
ing held in Washington suggests that
| somebody in the “higher-up” class is
interested in hotel properties.
—If meaningless platitudes could
make business President Harding
would bring prosperity every time he
opens his mouth.
——1It may be only a coincidence
| but the number of the unemployed in
| the country just about equals Hard-
ing’s majority.
| ——The signs point to an early fall
{ but the prices of anthracite coal are
| not affected by the weather signs.
——The clerks to the county com-
missioners are now hard at work
, compiling the returns of last week’s
|
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i Japan’s Naval Propesals.
{ From the New York World. >
i Two radical proposals aimed at the
limitation of naval armaments, ac-
gording to the Asahi Shimbun, of To-
kio, will be presented by Japan at the
coming conference in Washington. In
substance, are that the powers
ne have no naval bases
and that their relative
! a
sweeping ch
| of the nations to confer at Washing-
ton on the fedustion of Stmaments.
ott: the vi OO bon}
that i powers would be
Yestricteq Iu the use of Jneir
shed fact.
Japan, in return, would be pledged
for. :
ies a matter much discuss:
what might be her real designs in
Tae
If Japan gained these points,
ing her safety attack, her ve-
sponse should be in reason to consent
to a Timifation of her, naval forces
measured solely according er own
defense. Her arguments are Seana to
work both ways, in her own favor and
in that of other co
in the Pacific, she must meet
even terms and accept the o
that her naval strength there
no superiority, ~~...
In Ee x 3
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Anifh ike
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tle if any net reduction. iy
They are now playing politics with
the situation and they lack the cour-
age to play for anything else. They
are narrowly looking out for the elec-
tions of next year and not for the in-
dustrial stress of the country this year
or next. They were, at least, to do
something drastic in the way of giv-
ing business a chance to pick itself up
from under the war taxation which
~rushes it, But the best they can now
promise is that business can expect no
relief, as from the excess-profits tax-
es, until the collection bills begin to
comie in year after next.
For the masses of income and other
tax-payers there is not so much as a
promise of relief either next year or
the year after. They must struggle
along as best they can. But they have
votes, and this is why politics creeps
in to boss the job of the professed re-
ductionists. There cannot be a reduc-
tion all along the line because the in-
ternational policies of the Harding
Government are such as to keep the
nation on a war footing. And there
cannot be any considerable reduction
for business and the wealthier classes
for fear of the votes of other taxpay-
ers.
This is where Washington is drift-
ing in the matter, and the country
may better take notice now than later.
The United States and Japan.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The United States does not intend
to have immigration and racial equal-
ity submitted to the limitations con-
ference. Japan does not intend to
have Yap and Shantung submitted.
Thus the two nations are determined
to have an harmonious conference by
excluding subjects that might provoke
acrimonious disputes. Immigration is
distinctly a domestic question. No
country in the world would allow its
right to determine who might and who
might not come in to be impaired by
the interference of other nations.
Apart from immigration, “racial
equality” is a meaningless issue be-
cause Japan has already won its place
among the five great Powers, due to
the fact that it is the third naval Pow-
er in the world. Shantung was dis-
posed of by the peace conference.
Japan insists that Yap was, and the
United States denies this, but there
are indications that tiie controversy
will be settled between the two princi-
pals before the meeting of the limita-
tions conference.
Holland a Safe Retreat.
| AG
| From the Philadelphia Record.
Doorn, in Holland, so little heard
tics of the Quay and Penrose variety | primaries and arranging the success- | from of late, appears likely to have
and besides, according to his own ad-
mission, has maintzined something
like a school for crooks and an asy-
lum for embezzlers. Why should his
claim for preferment be overlooked by
the party bosses?
———The unemployment conference
will not %e likely to recommend -the
auction block method recently adopt-
ed in Boston and by the same token
it will hardly find any other solution
of the problem.
| ful candidates in each election district
lin the order in which they will appear
upon the regular ballot to be voted at
| the September election. Considering
' the fact that there are sixty-three dis-
| tricts in tHe county and there will be
| an entirely distinct ballet for every
district it is a stupendous task to com-
| pute the vote of every candidate in
each district, then arrange the suc-
cessful ones in legible copy from
* which the official ballots can be print-
ed.
| its foreign population considerably in-
| creased if the news from there is not
| greatly exaggerated. The Erzberger
! murder, so the story goes, has created
| such feeling in Germany against the
| old junker class that members of the
| Hohenzollern family are rushing into
| Holland for safety, and for company
| in their misery. “Here,” says the dis-
| patch, “they are expected to remain
| with the ex-Kaiser until they consid-
| er conditions in Germany are favora-
ble to their return.” May their stay
be long!
injury in co
eee
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—4“The Ku Klux Kian will have mo oc-
casion to take justice into its own hands
in this country because the courts are too
lenient,” said Judge Smith, of Susquehan-
na county, last week, when he sentenced
Isaac Kiervits to the penitentiary for five
years on a charge of stealing money from
a sleeping man. wr, RR
— Marcus Garcia, found guilty of second-
degree murder in court at Huntingdon last
Saturday was given a minimum sentence
of nineteen years. Garcia demanded money
of Charles Steele Kerr, a Huntingdon -
blacksmith, and being refused, struck him
a fatal blow on the head with a heavy iron
and robbed dim.
__After her throat had been slashed from
ear to ear by her jealous husband last
Thursday night, Mrs. William J ushinki, of
Northumberland county, saved her life by
running into the basement, As Jushinki
followed he broke his skull with a hatchet.
Both are at the state hospital at Fountain
Springs, in a critical condition. The wom-
an’s jugular vein is mot severed, but the
windpipe is cut.
__Robert Peters, a well known farmer of
Millstone township, Elk county, was held
up by two armed highwaymen while driv-
ing to his home at Marionville last week
and relievd of $140 in cash. Deputy sher-
iffs from Ridgway are investigating the
hold-up, but it is believed to have been the
work of men who have left the section.
Neither of the men wore masks, but Peters
was unable to give a good description of
thom.
—Otto Yeager, of Pittsburgh, hanged
himself on Sunday. Neither he nor his
wife had had a bite to eat since Wednes-
day previous. Mrs. Yeager found the body
hanging by a fope in a stairway leading
to the attic at their home, 602 South ave-
nue, North Side. Yeager was insured for
$336. He had not been able to get work in
a year. The only son, Clarence, aged 23, a
world war veteran, has net worked in sev-
en months. But Mrs. Yeager scrubbed
floors. wo :
—Mrs. Jacob Martzolf, aged 57 years, of
Allegheny county, met death by strangula-
tion last Friday when she fell into a hole
in the cellar of her home and was unable
to extricate Herself. The body was found
by the woman's husband when he return
ed from hiz work. The hole in which Mrs.
Martzolf met death had been dug to store
potatoes, it was said. Physicians who ex-
amined the body declared that she had
been dead for several hours before the
body was found.
—Dr. H. H. Holderman, of Shenandoah,
surgeon for the Lehigh Coal company, in a
Jetter to commissioner Sadler, of the State
Highway Department, asked that the de-
partment, before granting licenses to &u-
| tomobile
\ drivers, exact the promise that
they earryitst-aid kits for use in case of
1 in collisions or in running down pe-
Holdérman has treated
‘had been knocked
to wind up in some revision but inlit- | Lyx
£5 iri
Wednesday 8 3 }
place about midnight. The remains
were shipped Thursday morning to Cata-
ract, Clearfield: county, where the funeral
was held on Saturday.
Two men were burned, one of them
seriously, and damage estimated abt $10,-
000 was done early on Monday when the
large barn of John Kitchen, in Columbia
county, was destroyed by fire thought to
have been caused by spontaneous combus-
tion. The two men burned were William
and Paul Kitchen, sons of the owner of the
farm, who got most of the farm machinery
from the barn floor before it was burned.
They were terribly burned about the face
and hands. William Kitchen’s clothing was
almost burned from him, His condition is
critical, ry pen ep Ee
—_ Charles Bowser and George Marsh, of
Huntingdon, were held in $1000 bail each
for the October term of court charged with
having broken into the postoffice and min-
ers’ supply store at Naginey about a month
ago, from which they stole $6.33 in cash
and some merchandise. Sheriff M. A. Da-
vis and other officers testified that they
found a greater part of the loot in a hole
in the mountain side near the home of
Reed Rhoades, following the robbery.
Rhoades made a full confession of the rob-
bery, admitting that he drove the other
two men to the store.
__William Fenton, of Bradford county,
charged with being implicated in the re-
cent hold-up of a trolley car, made his es-
cape from the county. jail by climbing
through a ventilator flue and dropping
from the roof of police headquarters. Fen-
ton had to climb twenty-four feet inside
the flue and squeeze himself through bars
placed ten inches apart. The escape was
not discovered until some time later, when
officers took up the chase. It was learned
that Fenton had hurried to his home, se-
cured his clothes and departed for parts
unknown. Some time ago Fenton made his
escape from the county jail in the same
manner. .
One man was killed and two others
were injured on Friday in a rear-end col-
lision of two trolley cars at a switch near
South Avis shortly before seven o'clock.
The dead man is Alexander Peterson, of
Jersey Shore. The injured are G. I. Mess-
ner, of Jersey Shore, motorman, both legs
broken, and arm broken and shoulder dis-
located, and Lester Homler, also of Jersey
Shore, a passenger, arm broken. The cars
were carrying workmen to the Avis shops.
The first car had stopped at a switch
when the second car, also carrying work-
men, operated by Messner, crashed into it.
Several of the passengers were cut and
bruised. Messner was injured so severe-
ly ‘that he is unable to make any state-
ment of the cause of the crash.
__ Robert Toland, banker, sportsman and
c¢lubman, shot and Killed himself early
Saturday at his home, in Kent road,
Wynnewood, near Philadelphia. For more
than six months he had suffered from se-
vere headaches. He believed he soon would
be deaf. Relatives say the pain and wor-
ry obsessed him. On arising he went to
his den and shot himself in the head with
a revolver. Other members of the house-
hold did not hear the shot and the body
was not found for several hours. Mr. To-
land was 60 years old and unmarried. He
was a brother of Baroness Meyer de
Schauensee, formerly Miss Matilda Toland,
who lives in Philadelphia. Before his re-
tiroment he was a member of the firm of
Toland Brothers & Co., now out of busi-
ness.