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INK SLINGS.
— Have you noticed how the days |
are lengthening?
— Wouldn't a January thaw make
a peach of a flood now.
— Senator Newberry may say that |
he didn’t know so much money was
being spent to secure his election, but
only those who have never run for of-
fice will believe him.
__Bellefonte’s new pumpers have
been in action and the fact that their
first victim suffered more from water
than it did from fire would seem to be
proof that they pumped some.
All the Centre county Farm Bu-
reau need do hereafter, when it wants
a large attendance at a meeting, is to
let it be known that some movement
is afoot designed to throw a monkey
wrench into the machinery of Pomo-
na Grange.
—The Republican organization in
Pennsylvania will never have another
Penrose. Not because there aren’t
hordes of them who would move heav-
en and earth to get into his political
toga, but because there isn’t the mak-
ings of a Penrose among them all.
— Decause turtles and crabs have |
made their appearance in the Dela-
ware old river-men about Wilmington |
declare that the end of winter is at!
VOL. 67.
STATE
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| — Police aid was asked to prevent the
{ Rev. J. R. Bennett, pastor of the Calvary
! Baptist colored church, in Chester, from
conducting the regular Sunday services,
. but the church was well filled at the day's
| services and no violence was attempted.
| —The Anderson Construction company.
i of Parnassus, has been awarded the con-
tract for construction of 32,669 feet of state
i
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NUARY 13, 1922.
NO. 2.
George Wharton Pepper, Senator.
Mr. George Wharton Pepper, the |
newly appointed Senator in Congress
for Pennsylvania, has ability and
learning to qualify him to fill the high
office with credit to himself and hon-
or to the State. He is a high class
lawyer and citizen of irreproachable
character. He has never held public
office and is without experience in the
practical work of official life but he
has been active and helpful in civic
affairs and his legal training gives
assurance of cfficient service. His ap-
pointment marks a new departure in
the policies of the party machine
which he will represent in Congress,
if he lives up to the ideals expressed
in his social and professional life.
We are not persuaded, however,
that the appointment of Mr. Pepper
hone Se is PORES oe | was influenced entirely by a purpose
day. Immediately we searched the | ne dg
ig sud ih banks of Sore i | wealth. Our Republican contempora-
Not a crab or a ture was | vies have been framing a radiant halo
seen; so we concluded that while the around the head of Governor Sproul
winter might have went on the Del- | for the reason that he effaced himself
aware it had just came on Spring |
creek.
—We note that Harry Baker, sec-
retary of the Republican State com-
mittee, is to have the last word on
federal patronage in Pennsylvania |
now that Penrose is no more. of
course we can understand why Sena-
tor Pepper would be agreeable to such
an assignment but Senator Crow is a
horse of another color. He is a poli-
tician, pure and simple, and he must
be either a very sick man or in bad in
Washington if the only Senatorial
work that he is really fitted for has
gotten away from him. ¢
—Many people have called to com-
ment on what a wonderful edition the
«Watchman’s” first one in 1922 proved
in the selection of Mr. Pepper when
he might have secured the seat for
himself by entering into a deal with
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman. As
a matter of fact there are strong
symptoms of a deal quite as obnoxious
to public morals in the appointment
which has been made. Mr. Pepper in
his statement to the public distinctly
declares that he will only ask to re-
main in the office until the end of
Senator Penrose’s term and that is
about the time Governor Sproul had
fixed for donning the Senatorial toga.
The people of the State have rea-
son to be thankful that so capable a
man as Mr. Pepper has been appoint-
ed to the vacancy. In his previous
appointment to the same office Gov-
ernor Sproul was less discriminating
. The praise is flattering and we |
bli) little pride with iin to it. | and the same type of man named to
The “Watchman” always was and, we | succeed Senator Knox would have had
ie ) ab y ve | better chance of long tenure. It is
hope, pImays v i fw Food i 2 od | Obvious, however, that Governor
‘paper, > R Oe g 1 Tast | Sproul covets the honor and that he
ews 5 Yas igen al > OS isa | will have an opportunity to enjoy it
w cause or ooht | at the expiration of Senator Penrose’s
amount of news. course we Might | yoy; Meantime Mr. Pepper may be
have fallen down in gathering and |
serving it, but we didn’t. Everybody |
doesn’t take the “Watchman” but,
nearly everybody who can lay hands |
on it reads it and they read it whether |
they like it or not.
—In naming George Wharton Pep-
per to take the seat of the late Sen- |
ator Penrose Governor Sproul has
been more than mindful of the welfare |
of Pennsylvania than of the exigen- |
cies of politics. While the “Watch- |
man” has always believed Mr. Pepper |
to be utterly wrong in his evaluation |
of the treaty of Versailles it regards |
him as a man of signal ability and |
relied upon to fulfill every obligation
to the Republican machine. He will
‘by voting to retain Newbe:
Eo TE
ly as he supported J. R. K. Scott, for
Lieutenant Governor, he will help
along any iniquity that the party
Jang deem expedient or desira-
e.
——Senator Vare’s bluff turned out
to be only a bob tail affair.
The Newberry Case in the Senate.
The Newberry case occupied the at-
strong character. He is a partisan | tention of the Senate in Washington
and he may be a politician but he has | Jast week. This case has been inter-
other attributes and not the least of | mittently occupying the attention . of
these is ability to represent Pennsyl- | the Senate for a couple of years and
vania in the upper branch of Congress i has attracted considerable public at-
comprehendingly and creditably. We | tention for even a longer period. It
congratulate Governor Sproul. He |g 3 matter in which every citizen of
chose from the best and not from the | the country ought to be interested. 1t
mediocre of his party’s material. ‘involves the question of the right of
— We've gotten into trouble every | an ambitious and conscienceless plu-
time we have essayed a paragraph on | tocrat to buy a seat in the Senate of
the Irish situation, so we face the in- | the United States and hold it in the
evitable again with certainty of cen- | face of positive proof of the violation
sure and small hope of approbation. | of the Act of Congress and the laws
A lot of the sap in our own family | of the State which he aspires to rep-
tree is of Emerald hue, but we don’t resent. It is a question which touch-
claim that as justification. The Irish 'es the integrity of the ballot and the
question in Ireland, we have finally | validity of legislation.
concluded, is a question at all for | Mr. Newberry was nominated as th:
the very same reason that our inter- | candidate for Senator in Congress by
mittent elucidations of it have been the Republicans of Michigan in 1918
questioned by every Irishman around | over Henry Ford by a majority of a
here who has read them. No matter trifle over 4000. His campaign was
what we have said some have been for | an orgie of corruption and bribery.
and others ferninst it, with never | An investigation developed the fact
unanimity in anything. We are glad | that $178,568.08 had been spent in his
that the Dail declined to reseat Pres- | behalf, and it was admitted by his own
ident de Valera after he resigned and friends and supporters that probably
we do believe that Cardinal Logue | as great a sum was spent and not ac-
‘gave his people wholesome advice counted for. In 1904 he was a can-
when he told them to accept what they | didate for Congress and spent money
got from England and make the most | so freely that the Governor of the
of it. We'll hold open house to our | State urged the Legislature to enact
Irish friends for discussion of this | legislation limiting campaign expens-
paragraph Saturday afternoon at |es and penalizing corruption in the
four. { future. The legislation was enacted
— Because the congregation hadn’t but entirely ignored by Newberry and
paid his salary the janitor of a Rich- | his friends in 1918. After his elec-
.ardson Park, Del., church, closed the
doors, cut the bell rope and wouldn't
leave the flock worship in the build-
ing. We have never heard of such an
arbitrary performance on the part of
a janitor.
Bellefonte church who took the bull
by the horns thusly. He didn’t appear |
in the pulpit for the Sunday morning
service and when some of the elders
of his congregation called to inquire
as to whether he had been taken sud-
denly ill, for they had seen him the
evening before, they were amazed to
find him comfortably ensconced in an
easy chair in his boarding house. Up-
on inquiry as to why he was not going
to conduct service the venerable D. D.
politely informed his callers that in-
asmuch as his salary had not been
paid he did not propose to preach to
them. It is needless to say that there
was some excitement among us
Methodists and some digging up of
«delinquent ‘church subscriptions.
We once had a pastor of a |
| tion to the Senate he was indicted in
| the United States District court at
| Grand Rapids, Michigan, convicted of
i violating both the National and State
laws, and sentenced to prison.
At the opening of the session of
| Congress on March 4th, 1919, the vote
' of Newberry was necessary to give
' the Republican party a majority. The
success of the conspiracy to defeat
the ratification of the’ covenant of
| the League of Nations depended upon
a Republican majority of the Senate
and Newberry was admitted to the
seat notwithstanding his tainted title.
His conviction in the District court
was subsequently appealed to the Su-
preme bench and reversed by a par-
tisan vote on the technical ground
that an Act of Congress doesn’t ap-
ply to debauchery of primary elec-
tions. The question now to be deter-
mined is whether or not the Senate
will admit to membership a man le-
gally convicted of corruption.
BELLEFONTE, PA, JA
Ireland Secures Home Rule.
The ratification of the treaty cre-
ating the Irish Free State by the
Dail Ereann in session in Dublin on
Saturday justifies the hope that the
seven hundred years’ struggle of Ire-
land for self government has been
successful. There will be both in Ire-
land and England men and women to
protest against the settlement for
various and different reasons. There
are those in England who believe that
Ireland has been justly held in polit-
ical bondage during all these years
and there are those in Ireland who
believe that absolute sovereignty and
complete autonomy should have been
allowed. But these are extremists
who have hindered rather than help-
ed the cause of Irish freedom and
Inglish justice.
Until very recently Irish leaders
have asked only for home rule and the
illustrious Irishmen who gave the
best of their useful lives, as did Par-
nell and others, never dreamed of
more than has been given them in the
treaty ratified by a meager margin on
Saturday. The Home Rule measure
enacted by Parliament on the eve of
the world war, which fully satisfied
the Irish statesmen who forced its
passage, gave Ireland much less. If
the war had not come the chances are
that that bill would have become the
law of the land and continued for
years in the future. But the protest
of Irishmen like Sir Edward Carson,
who is content to be a flunkey, and
the disturbance of the war intervened
to defeat it.
The new treaty places Ireland on
the same level as Canada in the Brit-
ish Empire. She will have her own
army, her own parliament, collect and
disburse her own taxes and govern
her own educational processes. In
fact it may be said the people of Ire-
land will enjoy greater freedom from
dominance by the central government
than citizens of Pennsylvania. - The
British parliament will not have the
authority over Ireland that Congress
has assumed and expressed in the pas-
sage of the Volsted act and the adop-
tion of the Eighteenth amendment to
the Federal constitution. It is said
that the leading Irishmen in America,
and there are more here than in Ire-
“gre” gatisfied” and alt - others
ought to be.
—The Republican party whip is
to be cracked in both branches of Con-
gress, and any Senator or Represen-
tative of that party faith who lets
conscience guide his votes will find
life a burden.
Mr. P. B. Belknap’s Grave Mistake.
It is to be regretted that Mr. P. B.
Belknap, the more or less erratic, al-
ways critical and sometimes amusing
contributor to the Philadelphia Rec-
ord’s mail box, has tied a string to his
consent to become a candidate for
Senator in Congress for Pennsylvania. .
Mr. Belknap lays down certain condi-
tions as essential prerequisites to his
‘ candidacy, first among which is “that
the nomination shall be tendered by a
new party formed especially for the
purpose and pledged to the policies”
which he outlines. The first of these
is economy, which he appraises as
“transcendental.” The second is great-
er Americanism, which contemplates
the annexation of Mexico and Canada.
Mr. Belknap being an analyst and
philosopher must know that it is im-
possible to organize a new party of
the character he describes within the
brief period of time between now and
the May primary election at which the
successors of Senator Knox and Pen-
vose are to be named. There are a
good many veters in Pennsylvania
who might be allured to enlistment
under his banner if there were suf-
ficient time to canvass the State. But
it would hardly be possible to cover
the major lunatic asylums with prop-
aganda within the limited time allow-
ed under existing election laws.
Therefore the more prolific sources of
supply of voters likely to be enticed,
the patients in institutions for feeble
minded and cranks outside would re-
main uninformed of the movement un-
til too late.
Besides most of those who are in
sympathy with the policies Mr. Belk-
nap professes to favor are already
tied up in the Republican party. They
have in the person of President Hard-
ing a leader who has Belknap shunted
off the map as a compromiser and fix-
er. He has shown not only his ability
but his willingness to take both sides
of any question in dispute and, if nec- |
essary, project a good word for the
middle. Therefore Mr. Belknap
makes a grave mistake in demanding
a new party as a vehicle of catapult-
ing himself into the United States Sen-
ate. He ought to offer himself as an
especially fit candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination and appeal to Pres-
ident Harding as a fellow laborer in
the vineyard of sham.
ete
——What Harding needs is some
strong-armed guy who can knock the
block off that agricultural bloc.
» xB pe
Trouble Over the Tariff.
The rumbling of discontent against
the absurd provisions of the Fordney
tariff bill seems to have reached the
White House. Nobody except Fordney
appears to favor the measure though
it was pressed during the special ses-
sion under orders of the President.
Iron and steel makers as well as con-
sumers have protested and wool grow-
ers and woolen goods makers are dis-
satisfied. The plan of levying the tax
upon American valuation is as offen-
sive to importers as it is abhorrent to
consumers and the only feature of the
measure which has met with approval
at all is the tax on hides, which is en-
dorsed by the big meat packers who
stand to make millions out of it.
The other day the President called
a lot of Republican Senators, Repre-
sentatives and cabinet members to the
White House to discuss the subject
over the dinner table.
who succeeded Senator
chairman of the Senate committee on
Finance, and is supposed to be a trifle
heretical on tariff, was grilled. In ad-
dition to Fordney, of the House, Mon-
dell, the floor leader, and Madden,
chairman of the Appropriations com-
mittee, were in attendance. Of the
cabinet Attorney General Dougherty
and Secretary of War Weeks were fa-
vored and it is presumed that the pur-
pose of the conference was to come
to an agreement to let the President
fix the tariff rates.
Fixing tariff rates is essentially
legislation. The constitution of the
United States declares that “all legis-
lative powers herein granted shall be
vested in a Congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a Sen-
ate and House of Representatives.”
It has been agreed since the beginning
of the government that Congress can-
not delegate this power of legislation.
The proposition of President Harding
is that the power be delegated to him
so that he might fix high rates for one
citizen and low rates for another. It
would put a potent force in his hands
to make or break men engaged in bus-
iness, and the fact that he has sworn
to “support, obey and defend” the
constitution makes no difference to
kim. i i 3 ¢
| ——Ex-County Commissioner D. A.
Grove, William Dreiblebis and Mal-
colm Longwell had a thrilling exper-
ience in an auto ride down Nittany
mountain last Saturday that pales in-
to insignificance the famous ride of
Paul Revere, of revolutionary fame.
They were on their way over to Cen-
| tre Hall to attend the horse sale.
Longwell was at the wheel and when |
about half way down the mountain
the hub on one of the rear wheels
ground out and the dirver had
nothing wherewith to control the mo-
mentum of the car. It quickly picked
up speed and notwithstanding the fact
that he threw into low the momentum
of the car could not be checked. In
fact its speed increased every minute
until the car and occupants were lit-
erally flying down the mountain. For-
tunately the driver did not lose his
nerve but guided the machine with
unfaltering hands. Mr. Grove want-
‘ed to jump but he was prevailed up-
or not to attempt it and the wild ride
continued. Under the skillful manip-
ulation of the wheel, and with the
good fortune of meeting no cars, the
machine was kept on the road and
took every curve and turn and finally
thundered down the last grade and in-
to Centre Hall. After running half
| way through the town Longwell man-
| aged to turn into an alley or side
! street and run up onto a bank where
the machine was stopped and the
| three men took a long breath, thank-
| ful that they had come through the
| ride safe and sound.
—Did you read “The End of Steel”
"when it ran in the Saturday Evening
| Post last fall? It was the story of
{ travel in the great north. If you did
| you will probably agree with our he-
| lief that Dr. Meek’s Alaska letters
' running in the “Watchman” are quite
| as interesting as tales of travel.
i
i
— Snows like Wednesday’s may look
| beautiful to people who live in apart-
| ment houses but to the fellow with a
| hundred feet of sidewalk to clean the
beauty of them is less than skin deep.
— With two or three more disap-
| pointments President Harding is like-
ily to reach the conclusion that he
| can’t even fool himself most of the
t time.
cnn ene seem —— a —
It may be remarked that vice
| president Atterbury, of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, freely consented to the
| appointment of Mr. Pepper.
— If the Vare-Magee combination
| gets its hooks in the people of Penn-
sylvania would better supply them-
selves with life preservers.
A —— ie
——Governor Sproul’s halo is not
on straight.
‘4, By no word or act has he sought
Roosevelt, who assumed that his chief
Senator Lodge
Vv res nator McCumber, 3 :
vas present and Sena gan il public affairs.
| Mr. Wilson’s interest was never keen-
|
1
| From the Louisville Courier-Jourgil >
| features of the Taft Administration
Woodrow Wilson at 65.
From the New York World.
When Mr. Wilson left the White
House somebody asked him what he
intended to do. In answer to the
question he said that he was going to
show the country how an ex-President
of the United States should behave.
He has done so.
Mr. Wilson has a remarkable gift of
speech, but he also has a remarkable
gift of silence, and he has been em-
ploying that talent ever since March
to embarrass the Harding Adminis-
tration or add to the difficulties of his
successor. All attempts to induce him
to criticise Mr. Harding’s policies
have been unsuccessful. Mr. Wilson’s
conduct has been diametrically oppo-
site in every respect to that of Mr.
mission in life was to pull down any-
body else who was President.
The silence of Mr. Wilson in re-
spect to the Harding Administration
is not the result of a waning interest
On the contrary,
er or more alert. Nor does he regard
his political leadership as a closed
chapter in his life. It is inevitable
that while he survives a very large
percentage of the Democratic party
will derive its political inspiration
from him, as it did from Jefferson
after his retirement from the Presi-
dency. In that respect it is a leader-
ship of intellect and character that
nobody can challenge, but it is also a
leadership that Mr. Wilson shows no
disposition to use for mere partisan
ends, ..* & x =
This is Mr. Wilson’s sixty-fifth
birthday, and he can hardly fail to be
gratified by the knowledge that the
great policies for which he all but sac-
rificed his life have been making
steady and uninterrupted public prog-
ress during the period of his retire-
ment. The principles of internation-
al conduct that he represents were
never before so strong as they are
now. He left his vindication to
events, and events have proved a most
eloquent champion. More clearly than
ever he stands forth as the one states-
man of his day who had clear and
comprehensive vision of the means
that civilization must adopt to escape
destruction and insure peace.
eee tee ple en ett.
“Ballingerism.”
Reports from Washington that “Old
Guardsters” of the Republican party
are seeking to place the Division of
Forestry, now connected with the De-
partment of Agriculture, under the
Department of the Interior revive the
memory of one of the most sinister
when “Ballingerism” became a stench
in the nostrils of the nation.
‘were due to accidental or careless
Mr. Ballinger, Secretary of the In-
terior at the time, was charged by
Gifford Pinchot with permitting and
aiding timber barons to denude Amer-
ican forests for their own aggrand-
izement.
The issue was clear-cut. Mr. Pin-
chot, a highly intelligent and patriot-
ic man, resigned in disgust as head of
the Forestry Division. His resignation
was the beginning of the end of the
Taft Administration’s popularity.
Steadliy thereafter the tide of protest
arose against the “Taftites” through-
out the country. It was Gifford Pin-
chot who met Theodore Roosevelt
when that gentleman emerged from
the African jungle and reported to
him the reactionary trend of the Re-
publican party. The rest is history.
Now when public attention is en-
grossed with the Arms Conference
the leopard of unchangeable spots be-
gins once more to prowl, being led
about in this case, as it happens to be,
by Albert B. Fall, Secrctary of the
Interior, somewhat after the fashion !
he was paraded twelve years ago by |
one Ballinger, occupant of the same
office. ?
Gifford Pinchot, however, is still
“on the job,” ready and willing “to
take a fall” once more out of the ex-
ploiters of America’s forests. Behind
Mr. Pinchot is the mass of the Ameri-
can people.
_ Stealth is at work at Washington
in more places than in the Arms Con-
ference. Low cunning once more is
active there. The tiger that was
wounded by Theodore Roosevelt and
Gifford Pinchot, twelve years ago is
daring again to come out of his lair.
He and his keepers should be watched.
ie mi paren
|
Almost a Perfect Day.
highway in Clearfield and Indiana coun-
ties, 6908 feet being in the former county.
The figure is $267,452.50. It is a county
aid project.
—Eighteen of the deaths during hunt-
ing season and 45 accidents were due to
self-inflicted injuries, while nine deaths
dis-
charges of firearms in the hands of other
persons, according to official figures re-
corded at Harrisburg.
—John Jones, 9 years old, was drowned
when the thin ice broke while he was play-
ing with several other boys on a small
reservoir of the Morrellville and Cambria
Water company at Johnstown, on Monday.
The body was recovered by the police
about twenty minutes after the accident
occurred.
_Seven nieces and nephews of the late
Joseph Cassell, of Lansdale, lived up to
the stipulation of their uncle’s will and
profited to the extent of $1700 thereby. He
directed in his will that the nieces and
nephews should share in the estate provid-
ed they attended his funeral or give a sat-
isfactory excuse why they did not. 8. D.
Conver, of Lansdale, the executor, reports
that all seven attended.
— Mrs. Bertha Hook, mother of six chil-
dren, went before Judge W. S. McLean at
Wilkes-Barre on Monday and pleaded guil-
ty to two charges of forgery. She was
sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and costs and
to serve one year in the county jail. The
woman admitted forging the name of
Catherine Perry to a check for $35 and the
name of Grace Mitchell to a United States
government check for $419.
—The meanest thief in Pennsylvania
paid a visit to Nippenose valley one night
last week. When Frank Bower, of Col-
lomsville, entered his woodshed early in
the morning to get an armiocad of fuel to
make a fire in the kitchen range he first
rubbed his eyes and then was convinced
they did not deceive him. The woodshed
was empty. During the night some one
had quietly carried away his winter's sup-
ply of fuel.
— Laziness has become a ground for di-
vorce when a husband suffers from it
chronically, that being the cause for di-
vorce given by Mrs. Mary K. Shannon,
awarded a decree at Bloomsburg from
Ralph Shannon. Shannon was indolent,
his wife said, did not like to work and she
was obliged to support the family, her tes-
timony showed. Judge Whitehead, of Ly-
coming county, specially presiding, grant-
ed the decree.
—-Convicted of the murder of William E.
Neihaus, of McKeesport, an insurance
agent, in Altoona, August 30, last, Gilbert
McCloskey, of Altoona, was on Monday
sentenced by Judge Thomas J. Baldridge,
at Hollidaysburg, to die in the electric
chair. Edward Yon and George BE. Laf-
ferty, his accomplices in crime, are serv-
ing twenty years sentences. All three men
were charged with holding up the Manhat-
tan Limited over the Pennsylvania at Gal-
litzin last August.
—Confronted by a masked burglar in
the kitchen of her home, Mrs. Edward
Elsnor, of Reserve township, Allegheny
county, seized a large butcher knife and
sprang at the intruder. With a shriek of
fear he jumped backward, leaped through
an open window and fled, with Mrs. Els-
nor close behind. Several times the pur-
suing woman was able to get within arm’s
length of the highwayman to give him a
jab with the point of the knife, causing
the fleeing man to shriek. He finally es-
caped.
—The big plant of the Nickel-Alloys
company, at Hyde, Clearfield county, which
has had an erratic history in the last ten
years, has just marked up another epoch,
having been sold at receiver's sale to Har-
ry B. Wassel, of Philadelphia, for $50,000,
‘he property was sold subject to mort-
cages totalling about $150.000. Mr. Was-
sel did not indicate for what interests he
was acting, but residents of Hyde are
hopeful that the new transaction will be
followed by the resumption of operations
at the plant.
—Attorney Henry P. Keiser, represent-
ing Helen Davis, the Reading girl who
helped the authorities to capture the six
Wyomissing bank bandits last year, has
filed a claim in court for a share of the
$5000 reward offered by the robbed bank.
The latter recently asked the Berks courts
to apportion the reward among numerous
claimants. The girl accompanied the ban-
dits on a motor trip to Philadelphia and
New York, not knowing until after the
robbery and the trip that the men were
the bank bandits.
—J. Harry Rakestraw, a Montoursville
dairyman, found that one of his valuable
Holstein cows was not producing its usual
amount of milk. Accordingly, the cow
was killed for beef, and an investigation
made of its stomach, whieh was found to
be punctured by nails and other pieces of
metal the cow had eaten. In the cow's
stomach were found a ten-penny wire
nail, an eight-penny cut nail, an eight-
penny wire nail and a six-penny wire nail,
three shingle nails, two barbed wire sta-
ples and other pieces of metal. The cow
was valued at $500.
—Judge Strouss, of Northumberland
county, who took his oath of office a week
ago, officially showed the new jury com-
| missioners, Frank 8. Pilarsky, of Shamo-
From the Philadelphia Record. | kin, and J. Stanley Lewis, of Mt. Carmel,
From the veracious columns of the that he is the Judge when he read them
Evening Bulletin, a great admirer of | Be i Yirecied Bia In nae Ary
: : : nik e wheel containing Northumber-
Dee Soon Ci jortn tine in jad jurors’ names in the vault in the of-
lure of golf at Pinehurst was suffi- | Dos rere Phillips. oe Custom
cient to divert him from his | for eighteen years has been to keep the
the ye b im, Cot ah jury wheel in the office of the sheriff, ac-
‘at home’ to Eugene V. Debs, and also cording to Sheriff Martz, and the Sherif?
sot across the table from William R,|2£reed that he 41d ‘not “eave If the jury
Hearst at luncheon.” wheel was taken out and chopped up.”
Truly a great day’s work! In the! —Colonel George S. Beck, retired news-
morning a charming and familiar | paper man, who died at Reading last
tete-a-tee with a “peripatetic vender week, left an unique will, probated last
of State sedition,” to use Disraeli’s | Friday. He left only $5000, but establish-
words, just released from the prison |ed trust funds for orphanages at Womels-
to which he was properly sentenced ' dort, Topton and Reading, as well as mak-
for preaching disloyalty to the gov- | ing bequests for two daughters and a
ernment. At noon a cosy lunch with | housekeeper. Beck directed that his re-
Hearst, the pro-German editor and | mains be not exposed to public view at his
enemy of everything decent in Ameri- | funeral, and that a coffin, without silver
can politics. What a pity that in the ! trimmings and of the kind used at alms-
afternoon George Harvey or George | houses, be provided for his remains. The
Sylvester Viereck could not drop in to | will further provided that the “poorest
bring to its close a perfect day! paid pastor” in Milroy, Pa., place of bur-
ial, was to conduct his burial, and to get
Subscribe for the “Watchman ' $10 for the service.