INK SLINGS.
Ruthless Yanks just couldn’t
win. :
—There are plenty of coal bins that |
"are empty only because the family
- purse is in the same depleted condi-
Things are coming toa pretty
pass when leading Republican papers
of the country start calling the pres-
ent one “a calamity Congress.”
; —Our treaty with England was
. wrong, but the recent practical repu-
diation of it through the action of
Congress on the Panama Canal tolls
makes a bad matter worse. Is it a
Germanized Washington that is view-
ing treaties as scraps of paper?
__We notice that William Jennings
Bryan's testimenial to the Ingersoll
watch is to the effect that he always
times himself with one when speak-
ing. It is interesting to know that
Mr. Bryan uses an Ingersoll. If he
were to use a Ford car, a triumvirate
of noisy efficiency would be formed
the equal of which is beyond conjec-
ture.
__ Bituminous coal can be bought at
the mines for less than it costs to
transport it to Bellefonte, but how
can the railroads haul it any cheaper
when their employees won’t help re-
duce the cost of operation by accept-
ing wage reductions. Certainly it 1s
not the bituminous mine owner or the
railroad stock-holder who is getting
the money.
— The calibre of the men in charge
of affairs in Washington could not
have been more strikingly revealed
than it was through the announce-
ment of the list of distinguished men
who will be invited to attend the cer-
emonies at the burial of America’s
unknown hero, in Arlington, on Arm-
istice day. That Woodrow Wilson
was not definitely on the list is a
smirch on the honor of the Nation.
That he was not is because our gov-
ernment is now in the control of men
obsessed with jealousy, short of intel-
lectuality and far too small for the
great places they bluff at filling.
—_ The national conference on unem-
ployment has concluded that there are
three things that should be done at
once if business is to be revived and
employment furnished for the mil-
lions of men who are idle. Railroad
freight rates must be cut, taxes must
be revised and some sort of a tariff
bill enacted. Just how such things
are to make jobs for men now is rath-
er more than we care to attempt to
explain. The unemployment confer-
ence is looking too far in the future.
Bread and coal are needed instanter,
not after Congress has fiddled months
and months with taxation and tariff.
“The starving’ workers wilt all be dead’
before succor can be hoped for from
such a dilatory body.
__We are delighted to hear that a
Princeton professor was robbed while
traveling in Rome. We are more than
delighted to hear that another profes-
sor at Old Nassau can’t support his |
family on less than $42,000 a year.
Up to the moment of learning of
these interesting incidents we had
been laboring under the impression
that a preacher, professor or editor
never could be robbed for the very
good reason that they have nothing to
rob. And as for that $42,000 Prof.
his predicament proves our oft ex-
pressed theory that there’s no use olf
paying preachers, educators or we ed-
itors good money anyhow, for none of
us seem to have brains enough to hold
onto it and that is the reason Wwe
VOL. 66.
BE
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
LLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 14, 1921.
NO. 40.
Judge Bonniwell for Supreme Bench.
Though the official vote has not
been declared it is certain that Hon.
Eugene C. Bonniwell, judge of the
Municipal court of Philadelphia, has
been nominated by the Democrats of
Pennsylvania as their candidate for
Justice of the Supreme court. He
was not a candidate for the nomina-
tion. The party organization having
neglected to provide a candidate some
friends of Judge Bonniwell projected
him into the arena. They knew that
he would assume any burden the par-
ty could impose upon him. Thus far
he has not indicated his purposes in
the matter, but we feel that he will
accept the nomination, even though
it seems like “a forlorn hope.” As a
matter of fact, though, it is not that.
The framers of the constitution of
Pennsylvania contemplated a non-
partisan judiciary. For years, with
the consent of both parties, the mi-
nority party was represented on the
Supreme bench. Since the death of
the lamented Judge Mestrezat, how-
ever, there has been no Democrat on
the Supreme bench. Certain corpora-
tions which control the Republican
machine and through it manage the
State government prefer a unani-
mously Republican and completely
servile court. Governor Sproul,
through appointment, has already
placed three men on the bench. One
of them is now an aspirant for elec-
tion and it was the hope of the ma-
chine that he would be able to slip
through without opposition. Friends
of Judge Bonniwell, not in sympathy
with those plans, presented his name
been nominated.
This gives the people of the State
an opportunity to make effective the
intention of the framers of the con-
stitution to give the minority party
a voice in the court of last resort.
Moreover it affords a chance to place
a man on the bench of the Supreme
court who is not ready and willing te
obey the mandates of the corpora-
tions. If ever there was a time with-
in the history of the State that such
representation was needed it is now.
Most important questions are likely
) udged within the next few
to be adjudged
years and a mil
people rather than the corporations
is needed to pass upon them. It is
the duty and ought to be the pleasure
of every Democrat in Pennsylvania
to vete for Bonniwell.
——If the impression that the dis-
armament conference is for the pur-
pose of defeating the aims of the
League of Nations increases much the
conference will be a failure. The
League is a fixture.
ete eee.
Confused Political Conditions.
It looks as if the Sproul faction
has actually got under the Penrose
faction of the Republican party of
Pennsylvania at Washington. This
is the more surprising because Pen-
rose is on the ground and capable of
didn’t know any of the trio could be
“frisked” of anything.
—The sudden death of Senator
Philander C. Knox, at his home in
Washington, on Wednesday evening
closes a life that has been distinguish-
ed in Pennsylvania for years. Sena-
tor Knox was a Republican of the old |
school, a very able lawyer and a gen-
tleman of unimpeachable character.
His public life, however, has contrib-
uted little of the initiative or con-
structive. Neither as Attorney Gen-
eral, Secretary of State oras a Sena-
tor in Congress has he written into the
record any outstanding achievement
that might establish claim for him of
a place among the country’s great
public men. He was a good man and
may be the influence for good that he
had over his fellows may be more
lasting and of greater real value than
great leadership in affairs of state.
—On the occasion of the inaugura-
tion of Penn State’s new president;
today there will be such a gathering |
of high brows at the College that in-
numerable conferences had to be ar-
ranged so that each one of them
might have opportunity to pursue the
lines of least resistance. = While the
big problems of the arts and sciences
all came in for a bit of solution the
particular problems of State seem to
have been entirely lost sight of. What
was the use of theorizing on the rela-
tion of the College to the basic indus-
tries, the relation of the engineer to
industry, the future of chemistry, the
social significance of home economics
and kindred subjects when the State's
parsimony permits the College to
function in no closer relationship to
any of them than that of a forty-sec-
ond cousin. What they needed up
there yesterday was a fellow like Bill
Hays. He knows how to get the
money and with all respect to the ul-
tra honorable vocation of the educa-
tors we know a very few of them who
know the first thing about that very
essential requisite to the development
of the seats of learning of the coun-
try.
doing infinitely: more good or harm
for the President. The Republican
party in Washington is “all tattered
and torn.” The leaders can’t even
agree on a tariff bill and on all other
questions they are as wide apart as
the ocean. The western Senators, all
more or less tainted with Populism,
are opposed to the administration tax
bill, the administration bill for help-
ing the railroads and are not over
friendly with ‘the separate peace
treaty. Under. existing conditions
Penrose could create havoc. ;
But the President doesn’t seem to
understand the situation or appraise
the danger. Senator Penrose had
chosen a nice little friend of his in
the person of Judge Witmer for Gov-
ernor, and to make his undertaking
| ed prohibition agent. It is a power-
ful job viewed from a political slant.
Booze is a potent agent at all times.
Now it is a greater force than ever,
and as the State agent can appoint
as many subordinates as he wants,
McConnell promised to be the domi-
nant influence in selecting candidates
next year. But “there’s many a slip
twixt the cup and the lip,” and just
as McConnell was getting his forces
in order, the Sproul influence inter-
vened and threatens his tenure in the
office, according to current gossip.
Anyway there’ are rumors in the
air that a lot of spies have been dis-
patched from Washington to check
up on McConnell and that their re-
ports are very unfriendly. Gossip as-
i the Governor who might have been
| President if Penrose had been willing.
| Probably this is the solution of the
{ problem and possibly not. Pittsburgh
| seems to have developed a candidate
for Governor in the person of John A.
' Bell, a banker and coal operator out
| there who is likely to be favored by
| Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, a
| close business associate.
Treasury is boss of the prohibition
agent.
do with it all,
to the Democratic voters and he has
| easy had Senator McConnell appoint-
EE
Nobody Cares Now.
The esteemed Philadelphia Record
declares “there must be something
rotten in the records when those who
have been in charge of them appear:
to be afraid to exhibit them to the
light of day.” There is something
rotten. Since the present Auditor
General entered upon the duties of
his office, less than six months ago,
he has dismissed frem service a num-
ber of useless employees, whe upon
the statement of his predecessor in
office, were held on the pay roll to pay
political debts and discharge party
obligations. During the term of his
predecessor in office embezzlements
and misuse of public funds by em-
ployees were of frequent ocurrence
and no prosecutions were made for
partisan reasons.
The Auditor General in office dui-
ing that period is now State Treas-
urer as a reward, probably, for feed-
ing and sheltering the “lame ducks”
and embezzlers. The publication of
the records would expose the names
of the beneficiaries of this malfeas-
ance in office and might impair the in-
terests of the party. For that rea-
son no records have been published
covering the Tour years in which
State Treasurer Charles A. Snyder
was Auditor General. One of the em-
bezzlers has since been arrested and
indicted by the Dauphin county grand
jury. But his trial has been post-
poned for some reason. Possibly the
purpose is to further delay the expos-
ure which the evidence might force.
It is said he was a confidential clerk
and familiar with the operations of
the department.
| Our Philadelphia contemporary al-
so complains that the school appropri-
ations have not been paid. “Who
cares,” the Record states, “despite
the fact that the Philadelphia school
district alone lacks over $1,000,000 of
the appropriations due it by the
State, and almost every other school
district in the State is short of the
funds due?” Nobody, of course. It
is the rule of the party. When Mi.
Berry was State Treasurer, school ap-
propriations were paid promptly but
immediately after his retirement the
next few old practice of withholding the funds.
ysé fealty to the
was resumed. The money is n
for other uses. The party “lame
ducks” must be fed and sheltered and
besides, there is no money to pay.
The treasury is bankrupt.
— Henry Ford wants judicial sal-
aries raised to a high level and he
may have a good reason for his inter-
est in the matter. But we haven't
heard of any judges threatening to
resign because they are underpaid.
Vierick or His Personal ‘Choice.
| President Harding is a cruel and
ungrateful creature if he refuses to
yield to the demand of Mr. Sylvester
_Vierick and his associates in an or-
ganization of German sympathizers
which succeeded the German-Ameri-
can Alliance, forced to dissolve dur-
ing the war. Mr. Vierick visited
Harding at Marion, after the election, ]
when the “great minds” of the party |
were being summoned for consulta-
tion, and must have been promised
something substantial, for he came
away pleased with his interview. It
was freely believed that a cabinet
portfolio was to be the reward for the
six million votes Vierick assured the
President-elect he had delivered. But
this expectation was disappointed.
What Dr. Vierick now demands is
a trifle, comparatively speaking. It
is that upon resumption of official re-
lations between this country and Ger-
many an Ambassador to Germany be
appointed from among those ardent
German sympathizers in this country
‘who applauded every atrocity perpe-
‘trated by Germans, approved the
sinking of the Lusitania and aided in
the various acts of sabotage that cost
the country so much and gave Presi-
dent Wilson mental anguish. He
names a few from which choice may |
be made with his approval and gives
a list of those who are anathema and
Hunting Season Will Soon be Here.
The attractive displays of guns and |
ammunition in various shop windows
all over the country emphasizes the
fact that hunting season will soon be
here. In fact raccoon and woodcock
are now in season, having come in on
October 1st, but woodcock are too
scarce in this country to afford good
sport and it is yet a little early for
. ‘coon hunters to be abroad. But hun-
dreds of hunters in Centre county are
anxiously waiting for November 1st,
only seventeen days away, when the
season will open for wild turkeys,
squirrels, pheasant, rabbits, quail and
bear—in fact for all kinds of game
native to this section with the single
exception of deer, which do not come
in season until December 1st.
| Naturally with the opening of the
| season so near the average hunter is
| already getting his paraphernalia in
! order for the opening day. The tang
i of winter in the air sets the blood of
i the average American to tingling, not
| so much with the blood-lust to kill or
for the pure joy of killing, but mainly
with a desire to match his wits with
of the forests in an effort to capture
them for the sole purpose of getting
a taste of wild meat. Here again the
primitive man is in evidence. There
domesticated animals is more palata-
ble fot eating purposes than any wild
meat, but there is a delicious taste
about a nice plate of broiled par-
tridges, roasted pheasant or wild tur-
key that cannot be had from any oth-
er bird.
Of course, the main thing Centre
county hunters are interested in is
the quantity of game in the woods
this fall. This question can only be
definitely determined when the hunt-
er goes on the trail, but game of all
kinds ought to be fairly plentiful. The
hatching season was most favorable
and the summer was just about right
for young game of all kinds, so that
taking everything into consideration
there ought to be good sport ahead of
the hunters this year.
¢
—=The people of Milesburg expect
on "Armistice day, November 11th.
While the program for the event has
not yet been made public the people
of that town can be depended upon to
make the occasion one that will ap-
peal to the patriotism and American-
ism of every individual. Looking
backwards, it hardly seems possible
that three years have passed since the
termination of the great world war.
Three years in which there have been
so much of political bickerings and
party strife that reconstruction both
at home and in the countries devas-
‘tated by the war has been woefully
neglected. Today every man, woman
and child is paying the penalty, not
of the war, but the aftermath which
has followed in its trail and which our
present government at Washington
seems unable or unwilling to cope
with.
—They say the atmosphere on
Mars is so thin that a person living
on the planet would be able to lift
seven times as great a load as he
could lift on earth. My, how Presi-
dent Harding must long for a Mar-
tian atmosphere to help him lift the
load that his party is staggering un-
der in Washington.
——A good many hard conundrums
have been put before the world but
“Where does the Soviet government
| of Russia get the money.”
— Senator King, of Utah, wants
the profiteers sent to jail. Maybe he
| hopes to solve the unemployment
| problem by setting a few million of
i . 3 Pa
! men to building jails.
— While feeding babies in Russia
| care should be taken to leave some-
| thing for the children of the idle mil-
| lions in this country during the com-
the cunning of the birds and beasts
is no question but that the meat of ;
none more difficult of solution than
Bankrupt Leadership.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The existing situation in Washing-
ton, where the so-called agrarian
bloc in the Senate has forced chang-
es in the tax bill that nullify prac-
tically all the Republican pledges of
reform and reduction, recalls strong-
ly the blundering performances of
the Taft Administration, regarding
whose head somebody wittily remark-
ed that he was “a large body entirely
surrounded by men who know exactly
what they want?” We would not ap-
ply this cutting phrase to President
Harding, but it is certainly applicable
to the Senate, where the Republican
leadership is so feeble that it is ut-
terly unable to make any effective re-
sistance to the strong and determined
group of western Senators who place
the interests of their constituents
above those of the rest of the coun-
try, especially of the Eastern States.
They know exactly what they want,
and they have forced the members of
the Finance committee to adopt their
Jems in the changes made in the tax
ill.
It is now nearly three years since
the war ended, and it is two years and
seven months since the Republicans
came into control of both branches of
Congress.
urged upon them a vigorous reduction
in Federal taxation, but they scorned
his suggestions. For two years noth-
. ing whatever was done in this direc-
tion by the logislatite branch of the
' government. Since March 4th the in-
competent leaders have been wrest-
ling wearily with the problem, but
have made little or no headway. Be-
ing politicians, they have regarded
every suggested change from a polit-
| ical standpoint and have shown little
| patience with the recommendations
, made by Secretary Mellon and busi-
| ness men. In the muddle thus creat-
ied the agrarians of the West come
| forward with certain fixed ideas of
i their own, and, because they are posi-
| tive and determined, they compel the
i vacillating so-called leaders to capit-
ulate. It is a remarkable situation
because it reveals the mental bank-
| ruptey of the men now nominally in|
| control at Washington.
| One must go back to 1910, when the
. Progressive rebelled against the au-
| tocratic methods of Senator Aldrich
: and Speaker Cannon, to find anything
| at all paralleling it. Republican le
ip was then decisively . re
5 pountry,; and ti
{ be a: repetition of that r
11922. To go from gene
| sonalities, we find in that thoroughly
| independent journal, The New York
| Times, a very accuraté deseription of
| the men from whose feeble grasp the
| Western group has snatched the real
| control of legislation. In denouncing
the changes made by this group in
| the tax bill of the Senate’s Finance
: committee The Times says:
"The Republicans in Congress are in a
| condition of moral auperism, economic
| destitution and intellectual beggary.
| Leaders, they have none worthy of the
{ name. It is only the shadow of the name
| that remains in the Senate. Nobody any
longer pays much attention to Mr. Lodge.
! Mr. Penrose is enfeebled by illness. He
has not the courage and the strength for
the responsible position he holds as chair-
man of the Finance committee. Mr. Knox
D
has no qualification whatever for leader-
ship. e rest are nowhere. In the
House, there are Mr. Fordney and Mr.
Mondell, to be sure, but they live in the
past, in a past hopelessly remote. No-
body speaks with the authority of the
party in either house; there ix no dis-
Nobody is listened to with re-
spect. There are few or no ideas advanc-
ed worthy of respect. The farmers
“ploc”’ appears to have made political
cowards of them all.
reer
A Policy of Bad Faith.
From the New York Tribune.
Senator Colt, who was for many
years a Federal Circuit Judge, has at-
tacked the Borah Panama Canal tolls
bill from a new angle. - In his opinion
the Borah measure attempts to settle
a judicial question by statute.
Treaties exist between two govern-
! ments. If there are differences of
opinion as to their interpretation the
proper method of settling them is by
joint action. Conflicting interpreta-
tions may be submitted to direct ne-
gotiation or to arbitration. To dis-
pose of them by legislation on the
part of one signatory is a brusque
and offensive expedient, even if it be
conceded that Congress has the power
to modify or annul a treaty, so far as
cipline.
President Wilson strongly -
od | fax 2s 13, Knows
Be ons othe
ities to per-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
, —Infantile paralysis has caused one
.ideath in McKean county, according to re-
_ ports from Bradford. ‘
—Montour county’s lone jail prisoner is
: causing all kinds of trouble. The furnace
{ in the jail was taken out several days ago,
“with the intention of putting in a new one,
! but the.new one hasn't arrived, and the
_cold nights are severe on the prisoner, he
| says. A temporary heater will be placed
for his accommodation.
—While a fire that destroyed $200,000
worth of property at Braddock on Sunday
was at its height, Mrs. Joe Balsome was
seen to plunge into the burning frame-
work of her home. She emerged almost
immediately with $2,500 in bills which she
had hidden behind a picture and which
had fallen from the wall on a pile of
clothing kept moist by the firemen’s hose.
—Burgess E. Katz, of Jeannette, has
‘gone on record emphatically against the
practice of joy rides. “Girls who S8irt
with men on Jeannette streets in order to
secure an automobile ride, and men who
flirt with girls for the same purpose are
going to find themselves behind prison
walls,” said the - burgess in instructing
Jeannette police officers to place all of-
fenders under arrest.
Helen Peha, 13 years of age, of Port-
age, was seriously injured when she was
struck by a bullet fired by a man in a
passing automobile. She was taken to a’
hospital in Johnstown. The girl was
walking home from a store when two men
passed in a speeding auto. As they passed,
the one man fired a revolver and the bui-
let lodged in the girl's right shoulder.
The identity of the man has not been dis-
covered.
—John Hoffman and his son, Russell
Hoffman, of Mifflin county, were taken to
the county prison at Lewistown last Fri-
day and held without bail on a charge of
inveluntary manslaughter on the infor-
mation of M. A. Davis, sheriff. Justice of
the peace Robert W. Patton, before whom
the information was made by the sheriff,
ignores the fact that the charge is not a
felony and refuses to admit them to bail.
The charges grew out of the shooting of
Irma Rhoades, 14 years old. in front of
the Hoffman farm house on the night of
April 27.
— That bears are as plentiful in north-
ern Columbia county as rabbits, is the
declaration of many who have visited that
section. Returning from a trip to the
inountains, one day last week, Frank Hos-
ler, Ralph Knouse, Harry Welliver, A. J.
Hartman and Omar Ash say they were
compelled to stop their automobile be-
cause of a “bear party” in the road ahead
of them. There were ten bears romping
in the highway, two old ones and eight
cubs. This is the largest number ever
seen together in that section, old hunters
declare.
—Kvery day last week “Clover,” the 51
year old horse of Rev. Dr. TU. Myers, a
Lutheran minister at Catawissa, attended
the county fair at Bloomsburg, the min-
ister driving him to and from Blooms-
burg each day, Bred in Kentucky, the
animal was foaled in 1870 and was on the
, race track for six years, having a record
| with the old-fashioned high-wheeled sul-
| ky of 2.17. Dr. Myers has owned the ani-
| Mal for 38 years and has definite record
for. 13 years prior te his ownership, So
“Clover” is the oldest Liv-
~ —“Personally I would like to work en
{ you three fellows for ome solid hour in
ithe woodshed,” Judge George A. Bald-
win told three Beaver county school stu-
dents last 'Phursday, whe were before him
on charges growing out of hazing. Luther
Arnholt, David Cullen: and Harold Marr
were alleged to be three of thirty upper
classmen, whe used nitrate of silver on
the faces of Freshmen, causing burns and.
sears that may be permanent. Judge
Baldwin sentenced them to pay the costs,
! doetor bills and fines of $30 each. They
| were placed on parole for two years.
—“I am going to fine you $1 for euch
potato—$7 or seven days im jail,” said
Magistrate Borland in the Pittsburgh po-
lice court last week to Joseph Linchopski,
60 years old, of Twenty-seventh street.
“Judge, my wife and T needed food and I
took the few petatoes for we must live,”
pleaded the old man. “Can you not show
me a little merey.” “I ean, and I will,”
declared his honor. “I remit your sen-
tence, and here is some money to get food.
Also, take this card and go see the man
whose name is on it. He will give you a
job suited to your age, that will pay
enough to keep you and your wife.”
—The J. H: & C. K. Eagle Co., Inc, the
largest silk manufacturers. in central
Pennsylvania, announced last Thursday,
| according to a Shamokin dispateh, that
all plants would be put em a three-day-a
week working schedule effective at once.
Curtailment of operations was made nec-
essary by the unexpected slump in the
silk market, executives stated. The com-
pany employs 3000 operatives in Shamo-
kin, Kulpmont and Treverton. The or-
der also affects plants in Phoenixville,
Kulpmont and "Treverton. The order al-
so affects plants in Phoenixville, Bethle-
hem, Gettysburg, Mechanicsburg, Austin
and Bellefonte.
| —Two years and six months in theeast-
| ern penitentiary for stealing chickens wag
i the sentence imposed on Hobart Benner,
of near Dry Sawmill, Juniata county, by
the United States government is con- | Judge Barnett at a special session of court
cerned, by subsequent hostile legisla- | held last Friday, with associate judges
tion. : | Meiser and Boyer on the bench, Benner
The Senator from Rhode Island is a brother of Charles Benuer, now in
carries the Borah argument to its log- | jail at Mifflintown, awaiting trial for the
ical conclusion when he says that if | murder of constable Thomas M. Ulsh, of
cribes this activity to the influence of
Now as a’
| matter of fact the Secretary of the |
Maybe that has something to
consequently must not be favored.’ 1 ,
His demands were presented in the | ing winter.
form of a resolution adopted by the _
Society in which he is the leading | ——1If it is true that the earth has
light. | fourteen movements it is safe to pre-
There can be no doubt of the value | dict that President Harding will try
of Dr. Vierick’s services to Mr. Hard- | to get on both sides of all of them.
ing during the campaign. Vierick | > - :
himself claims that he delivered six | ~——FProhibition officer McConnell
million votes and everybody knows |has resigned his seat in the State Sen-
that every ‘voter in the country who ate and he will be in hard luck if his
actively sympathized with Germany | other office is taken away.
during the war, voted for Harding, §
whether the number was one million +———1If prohibition has made no per-
or six.’ It ‘is equally certain that | ceptible improvement in crime condi
without this element of the electorate | tions it has certainly had the effect
Harding could not have been elected. | of multiplying liars.
It follows, therefore, that the Presi- | -
dent owes Dr. Vierick a debt of grat- | ——There are signs that the dis-
itude and the custom of Republican armament conference is to be chang-
officials is to pay personal-obligations ed into a committee for butting into
in the coin of political: patronage. Far Eastern affairs.
Taking one consideration with anoth- |
er the German Ambassador should be |
| Vierick or his nominee.
——Judging by present industrial
conditions Germany is the only com-
| batant in the late war that came out
——Come here for your job work. ahead of the game.
le
rule here, every treaty ratified by this
- government ought to contain a provi-
| so reserving the right to Congress to
{ put its own interpretation on the
‘treaty’s provisions, regardless of the
| wishes of the other contracting Pow-
| er or Powers. Such a program is one
| of international lawlessness.
| Congress made the mistake of
| passing a tolls exemption bill gimilar
| to Mr. Borah’s. It afterward: honor-
| ably repealed it. ‘Why fall into the
error a second time? No occasion
certainly. could be.less propitious than
| the present one for an. experiment in
would create doubt as to the value of
| international engagements into which
the United States had voluntarily en-
tered.
Queer Divorce Plea.
| Irom the Washington Post.
A Chicago woman is suing for di-
vorce because her husband wouldn't
! give her a nickel. A woman who asks
for only a nickel ought to have any-
thing she wants.
islative nullification is to be the |
| one-sided treaty amen dment, which i having recovered consciousness.
Liverpool, in Turkey valley, Juniata coun-
ty, on the 1st of September. In imposing
{ the sentence Judge Barnett stated that he
| was’ going to be severe because this was
i Benner’'s second offence and, also because
(of him having . been implicated, in the
| stealing whit led to the murder of Con-
stable Ulsh. ,
Pe — With his head and face covered with
lacerations, his right ear torn off, his chest
{ ¢rushed and twelve ribs broken by the
{‘hoofs of the old family horse, John Weis-
| er, a merchant and farmer of Roadside,
{near Waynesboro, 35 years old, died at his
home last Wednesday evening, without
Weisner
| was removing the harness from the horse
{ Phen it knocked him down, continuing to
kick and trample him. It was with the
utmost difficulty that the mangled victim
| was removed from the stall. The horse
| had been in the family for twenty-five
vears and ordinarily was very gentle, but
had a peculiar aversion for blood and was
thrown into a frenzy at the smell of it. It
is supposed that the blood from the first
kick crazed the animal and made it vie-
ious beyond control. It was shot the
next morning.