—
INK SLINGS.
—Have you made your onion bed
yet?
—Are we going to save daylight in
Bellefonte? Let’s do it.
'— When Harry Mackey declared
his independence of the Vare influence
he winked the other eye at Brother
Ed.
— Pinchot is getting so strong that
there may be no need of the other fel-
lows withdrawing for the good of the
party.
— The prospective Democratic tick-
et for State, district and county of-
fices certainly goes a long way toward
exploding the old theory that a few
can do things better than many.
—Just about the time Mr. Lloyd
George is supposed to be about to
take off from the head of the tobog-
gan chute he changes his mind and
so do the English who are working
for the undoing of the crafty Welsh
Premier.
—Now what do you suppose the
King of Siam wants with ten thous-
and wives. It would take him twen-
ty-seven years and five months to dis-
cover their charms, if he devoted only
one day to each of them, and if he un-
dertook to do that there would be no
King of Siam.
— Thus far six women have filed pe-
titions as candidates for Legislature
in Pennsylvania. Bradford, Centre,
Chester, Crawford, Delaware and
Philadelphia are the counties in which
it remains to be seen whether politics
will also recognize the chivalric prin-
ciple of “Ladies first.”
—Wouldn’t it be funny if Sproul,
Grundy, the Vares, Magee, Leslie,
Fisher, Beidleman and Mackey and
all had to climb onto the Pinchot
bandwagon. We know exactly what
a happy feeling it would be for them.
We used to have the same kind every
time we had to have our neck and
ears washed when a kid.
—The Episcopals are going to take
the word “obey” out of the woman’s
marriage vow and to square things oft
with the man they propose that he
shall not endow his bride with all his
worldly goods. Having been tied up
by an Episcopal service we are inter-
ested and would like to know whether
this new vow is to be retroactive.
—The authorities have their eye on
a young fellow who is knitting a
throw-net here in Bellefonte. He
doesn’t know that they know that he
has told a few companions in confi-
dence that he is going to try for the
‘big trout below the falls above this
office some night. And he doesn’t re-
alize what danger he is in for he al-
ready has the reputation of being a
bad actor so far as illegal fishing is
concerned and when the authorities
get him he will get the limit.
—In the news from Pleasant Gap
that appears elsewhere in this edition,
is a bit of impressive advice. Of course
we know nothing of the inspiration
that moved our Gap editor to-such ful-
some dissertation on the value of na-
+ture’s remedies for ailing manhood,
but we do know that his dope is good,
for we've tried it. We are wondering
whether he is taking a crack at the
“pever-sweats” of his community.
“His idea of exercising in the open air
sufficiently to produce “free but not
copious perspiration” is something the
lazy man or woman will never get,
yet if they did how much better off
‘they would be both physically and
financially.
— The Republican muddle in Penn-
.sylvania was still so muddled when we
went to press last evening that no one
.could guess what would happen before
midnight, the last moment for filing
papers for Governor. All day Wed-
nesday and up to last evening stren-
uous efforts were being made to bring
the warring factions together on Geo.
E. Alter, the one best bet offered in
‘the whole campaign, but our latest ad-
vices were to the effect that no suc-
cess had been attained. We will prob-
‘ably waken up this morning to find
“that Alter has been persuaded to file
papers and that the real fight for
nomination will be between Alter,
Pinchot and Fisher. Of course there
is a possibility of the withdrawal of
Mackey and Beidleman. They have
until midnight of today to do that.
_ The Finance committee of the
“Bellefonte council wants each depart-
ment to state what its expenditures
will be for the coming year, so that it
can fix the millage for tax assessment.
That is getting to a budget system; a
very practical and lately popular
method of conducting public business.
In former years it puzzled us a lot to
“know how council figured when it laid
six thousand dollars for street pur-
poses and then paid the Edison Elec-
tric Illuminating Co., fifty-eight hun-
.dred a year for lighting alone, having
only two hundred dollars left to pay for
all the work on the streets. They did
it by some hocus-pocus, but we've
gotten away from those practices in
a measure and now it looks as though
a real business-like step is to be tak-
en. We rise to inquire, however, how
the Street department of Bellefonte
is going to tell how much it will need
during this spring, summer and fall.
If it had old Jup. Pluvius sitting in at
its deliberations it might be able to
estimate how many times jail, rese-
voir, Quaker and Bunker hills are to
be washed down onto the streets be-
low and carted back again, but unless
it knows that no estimate it can make
will come within thousands of dollars
of being fair.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 7.
Anxiety of Republican Leaders.
Up to this time the Republican
managers have been unable to agree
on a candidate for Governor. The
harmony in the Democratic party and
the obvious fitness and availability of
the distinguished gentleman who has
been recommended to the voters of
our party for the office have admon-
ished the machine manipulators that
the strongest candidate must be se-
lected. But selfish interests and per-
sonal antipathies among them are so
strong that agreement seems to be
impossible. The fittest men among
those mentioned are Alter and Gifford
Pinchot. But the friends of the oth-
er candidates can agree upon noth-
ing except that they are equally op-
posed to Pinchot. Banking Commis-
sioner Fisher is personally clean and
politically regular. But the bosses
are averse to nominating him. The
better element in the party is unal-
terably opposed to the other candi-
dates.
There must be something more co-
ercive than party loyalty and polit-
ical principle influencing the machine
managers in this matter. Of course
the attitude of the Vares is easily un-
derstood. It is estimated that there
will be $100,000,000 expended in high-
way construction and maintenance
during the administration of the next
Governor. Having been driven by
outraged public sentiment out of the
contracting business in Philadelphia,
that contracting firm wants a Gover-
nor who would favor its predatory ex-
pectations and were demanding the |
nomination of Mr. Mackey. The in-
timate relationship between W. Harry
Baker and Mr. Beidleman accounts
for Baker’s insistence on the nomina-
tion of Beidleman. But the attitude
of Governor Sproul is inexplicable.
Why should he be so deeply concern-
ed for the defeat for the nomination
of two members of his cabinet?
The profligacy of the Sproul admin-
istration is more than likely to be one
of the leading issues in the campaign
for Governor. But that fact ought to
influence Mr. Sproul to favor rather
than oppose a member of his cabinet.
The nomination. of either Pinchot or
Fisher would be a vindication of his
administration. Mackey is also a
member of his cabinet and it is said
he is willing to accept Mackey. Why
this discrimination among equals?
Can it be that Mackey, who thinks
only with Vare’s brain, may be relied
upon to suppress facts in the event
of his election while the others are
less obliging? The Governor prefer-
red Mr. Griest, of Lancaster, to either,
it was said, but the effort to inject
Griest into the fight met with such a
frost that the first mention of him was
the last. Mr. Griest is a machine pol-
itician of the most sordid type. But
devotion to party and loyalty to
friendship are potent elements in poli-
tics and conspiracies. Possibly that
is the explanation.
Manifestly there is some deep rea-
son for the present hysteria among
the Republican leaders. It cannot be
that fidelity to party principles or
pride in policies create such a meas-
ure of anxiety to continue the party
in power. If the books balance and
the records reveal no misfeasances
the election of a Democratic Governor
can work no great harm to present
Republican officials. It might be that
certain party pensioners would lose
their opportunities to graft and that
some grafters would be brought to
punishment. But that ought not
frighten honest officials into “connip-
tion” fits or drive patriotic citizens
into despair of the future. There is
certainly something else that makes
the gangsters afraid, and that some-
thing else ought to make the voters
more alert and determined to elect a
Governor who will see to it that the
facts are revealed.
— What a wretched official family
Governor Sproul must have. Nearly
all the members are fighting each oth-
er for future favors and the head of
the house seems to be against all of
them.
emr——— pent
— The Legionaires want to be en-
tirely fair with Senator Pepper. They
voted at a recent meeting in Harris-
burg, to give him another chance to
express his views on the bonus ques-
tion.
—The ex-Kaiser has written a book
on cultivation of orchids. He proba-
bly thought it would be a work of su-
pererogation for him to waste time
studying the forget-me-not.
ere fp Ameen
— Secretary of Labor Davis ad-
vises parents to make their boys work.
If they take his advice some of them
will be fined for violating the law.
me t— ey ———
——Having exhausted the Chautau-
qua circuits William Jennings Bryan
is now working the Methodist confer-
ences.
Selling the People into Slavery.
The future purpose of the Republi-
can machine of Pennsylvania is ex-
pressed and the past practice of that
organization is clearly shown in the
character of the men agreed upon as
| candidates for United States Senator.
' George Wharton Pepper, according to
reports, was selected for appointment
i by the Pennsylvania Railroad compa-
‘ny. When his commission was pre-
sented to him one of the vice presi-
dents of that corporation was present
and when he was installed into the of-
fice the president and two of the vice
presidents were in attendance. It
would therefor seem that Mr. Pep-
per is to be an unopposed candi-
date for a future term in the office,
not as a representative of the people
of Pennsylvania, but as an attorney-
in-fact of the corporation.
An attempt was made to dispose of
the other seat in the Senate for the
State by the selection of a rich bank-
er, of Pittsburgh, who is affiliated with
and agreeable to the Steel trust. But
the deal was exposed and its consum-
mation thus made impossible. There-
upon the favor was shifted to the at-
torney of the Steel trust, David A.
Reed, of Pittsburgh, who is also to get
the nomination without opposition. If
the bargain with the Pittsburgh bank-
er had been completed he probably
would have financed the campaign.
As it is the burden of paying the ex-
pense will in all probability fall largely
upon the two great corporations which
are to be served by the Senators. Of
course there will be outside contribu-
| tions. Other corporations will chip
in.
There was a time when covetous
| corporations depended upon State leg-
| islation for favors. Then lobbies were
| maintained at the several State capi-
‘tals. But in recent years laws and
interpretations have lodged all, or
i nearly all, powers over corporations
in Congress and the corporations have
. centered their attention on the selec-
| tion of Senators who will favor their
| predatory schemes. With George
| Wharton Pepper and David A. Reed
| on the floor of the Senate the man-
| their interests will be taken care of,
i even if every right and interest of the
| people must be sacrificed to achieve
that result. It is up to the people of
the State, however. They can pre-
| vent the plan.
eres rere.
White carnations will always
' be popular, of course, but they are
not likely to become the principal
flower of the campaign next fall.
Finegan’s One Good Act.
We have neither the inclination nor
the authority to speak as the cham-
pion of Dr. Finegan, the imported
head of the educational department
of the State government. He is charg-
in the administration of his office, and
apparently with reason, and he is ac-
cused of introducing methods that are
inimical to public interests and sub-
versive of educational progress. But
he has recently performed one serv-
ice which deserves popular approval.
He has shown that the people of Phil-
adelphia and Pittsburgh are exempt
under the law from one burdensome
tax that all other citizens of the Com-
monwealth are compelled to pay. We
feel it our duty to say that much for
him.
Under the school code enacted by
the Legislature of 1911, still in force
and effect, the school districts of the
State are divided into four classes, in
the first of which are the two big
cities. In districts of the first class
the total annual school tax levy “shall
not be less than five nor more than
six mills on the dollar.” In school
districts of the second class the levy
“shall not exceed twenty mills on the
dollar,” and in districts of the third
and fourth class the levy may run as
high as twenty-five mills on the dol-
lar. But that is not the only or even
the greatest discrepancy. In Pitts-
burgh and Philadelphia there is no
levy of an “occupation tax” whereas
in second, third and fourth class dis-
tricts such a tax may be levied “of
not less than one dollar nor more than
five.”
According to the esteemed Phila-
delphia Record there are 758,000 tax-
ables in Philadelphia and an equaliza-
tion of the levy for school purposes
even at the minimum rate would cost
the tax payers of that city $758,000 a
year while the maximum levy which
is assessed in many parts of the State
would produce a revenue of $3,790,
000 annually and put that vast bur-
den upon the tax payers. This unjust
unconstitutional discrimination in fa-
vor of the people of Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh may easily be accounted
for. It is an unearned and unlawful
reward for the false and fraudulent
majorities regularly given to the Re-
publican candidates in those cities.
It is the price of perfidy and reward
of crime.
agers of railroads and trusts Feel that'|
ed with all manner of extravagance
Spoil System Coming Back.
That President Harding intends to
restore the spoils system with all its
evil consequences no longer remains
in doubt. Only a few days ago, in a
statement before a committee of the
Senate, Attorney General Daugherty
openly condemned the “merit system”
in the civil service as a medium mak-
ing for inefficiency. Almost immedi-
ately following that declaration Pres-
ident Harding, by executive order,
shot the merit system full of holes
by dischaging all the executive heads
in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing “for the good of the serv-
ice.” No other reason was given
though an intimation was permitted
to circulate that irregularities had
been revealed. This imputation was
subsequently denied.
Under former Republican adminis-
trations the spoils system had work-
ed such demoralization in the civil
service of the government that it be-
came odious to all right minded men
of both parties. In order to check its
evil consequences party lines: were
largely obliterated in 1884 and Gro-
ver Cleveland was elected President,
defeating James G. Blaine, who was
regarded as the apostle of the evil.
Upon the induction of Cleveland in-
to office the merit system which had
been previously considered cursorily
was considerably advanced and from
that time to this, though it has re-
ceived a jolt now and then from the
bolder spoilsmen, no one in authority
has undertaken to set it back.
But Harding has apparently made
up his mind that it must go, not for
the good of the service, but in the in-
terest of the party. His action means
a restoration of the abuses which de-
veloped the Star route and whiskey
scandals of a quarter of a century
ago and the strife for spoils which
ended in the murder of President
Garfield. But Harding will not get
away with it without opposition. An
investigation of his executive order
dismissing the officials of the Bureau
of Printing and Engiaving has al-
ready been asked in both branches of
Congress, and unless the liberty of
speech is - “entirely suppressed the
country will be fully informed of the
facts and admonished of the danger.
The seven machinists who have
been trying to forge a candidate for
Governor for the Republican party
may set up the claim that the mater-
jai given them was absolutely worth-
ess.
Henry Ford May be Right.
In an interesting interview given by
Henry Ford to a correspondent of the
New York World, the other day, that
captain of industry expressed some
surprising views about the manage-
ment of railroads. Jt will be remem-
bered that some months ago he bought
a crippled railroad property and be-
gan the work of rehabilitation by first
increasing the wages of its employees
and then applying to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the right
to reduce freight rates. The request
was denied on the ground that other
railroads couldn’t stand the reduction
in rates and therefore it would drive
them into bankruptcy. It was prob-
ably because of these incidents that
his views on railroad operation were
asked.
At the outset Mr. Ford diagnoses
the railroad maladies differently from
the common idea of the subject. The
principal trouble, he says, is that
“freight rates are too high.” Most
shippers will probably agree to that
proposition, however radically the
railroad managers might dissent. The
managers will also dispute his defini-
tion of the purpose of railroads.
“What’s a railroad for except for
transportation?” he asks. “You
would think,” he adds, “that a rail-
road wasn’t built to ship goods but
that the goods were manufactured for
the benefit of the railroads.” If we
accept his definition of what a rail-
road is for, he continues, there isn’t
any grand mystery about railroading,
or difficult problem of finance.
As a matter of fact, however, rail-
road managers do not accept his in-
terpretation of the mission of trans-
portation corporations. In the first
place they imagine that railroads are
agencies for regulating the world.
Some of the railroad managers have
adopted the idea that it is their prov-
ince to select Legislators, direct legis-
lation, local and general, and in var-
ious other ways control the communi-
ties in which they operate. Mr. Mec-
Adoo told a congressional committee
that before we entered the world war
the railroads of this country were the
most helpful ally of the German Kai-
ser. After the government assumed
control of the roads they became help-
ful under difficulties. May be Mr.
Ford is right. ;
Sn — A ————
——Another world war might give
Turkey control of the whole world and
then things would hum.
1922.
NO. 14.
HOPE!
By Will Truckenmiller.
The winter sun is low
And the winter winds blow cold,
At every window and door
The frost is exceeding bold.
But rejoice, my heart, rejoice
We laugh at winter’s reign,
Knowing it shall be short—
Soon spring shall come again.
Soon the south wind will blow,
Soon the birds will sing;
And up from the teeming sod
The flowers and grasses spring.
The new year is young and strong,
And ever his hopes run high,
And he tells of the things that shall be.
Under the bright June sky.
So what care we for the snow,
And we have no fear of the cold;
We and the year are young
With a youth that shall never grow old.
For body is less than soul,
And when time shall cease to be,
The soul shall be ever young .
In the spring of Eternity.
“Twenty Years” of Harding.
From the Wildwood Sun-Tribune.
It seems as though I have been
President for 20 years.—Presi-
dent Harding in a speech at the
National Press Club.
Not only to you, Mr. President, but
to others does your service of one year
seem like two decades. To the follow-
ing citizens it seems all of 20 years—
or longer. >
. The 4,000,000 men who are tramp-
ing the streets under your Adminis-
tration looking for jobs.
The farmers who are burning their
corn and who cannot sell their prod-
ucts at a profit because their foreign
markets have been destroyed by your
party’s policies.
The business men who have been
waiting in vain for a revival of busi-
ness, which you and your party prom-
ised, while business conditions have
steadily grown worse.
The legitimate capitalists who
would invest in industrial enterprises,
instead of tax-exempt securities, if
industry had been revived as promis-
ed by you and your party.
The owners of factories whose
plants are closed or running on reduc-
ed time by reason of the failure of you
and your party to redeem your elec-
tion pledges. age Cnn
The average tax-payer to whom you
promised a reduction of taxes, which
they are still looking for.
The ex-service men who have
watched you play hide and seek with
the bonus and who have been discrim-
inated against in appointments to
postmasterships. :
The producers and shippers who
have waited in vain for a reduction
of freight rates.
The genuine friends of the civil
service who have witnessed your
mockery and contempt for civil serv-
ice principles.
The man whose emblem was once
the “full dinner pail,” but is now the
empty pocket.
The man who voted for a change—
and got it.
Yes, Mr. President, it seems like 20
years—all of 20 years.
Income Tax an Endless Chain.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
It is all a delusion and a snare that
most of the income tax is paid on or
about March 15, June 15, September
15, and December 15. It is being paid
every day of the year, the taxpayers
following each other in an everlast-
ing merry-go-round. We are all in a
lockstep to the collector's office,
though many may not know it. The
manufacturer pays a tax and adds it
to the price of his goods to the jobber.
The jobber passes the manufacturer’s
tax, together with his own to the
wholesaler. The wholesaler repeats
the pyramidal process, the retailer
does the same, and the consumer pays
all the previous taxes to the retailer.
That is not the end of the chain. The
consumer has only one way to recoup
himself, which is to buy less goods,
and thus the impost is passed to the
retailer, the wholesaler, the jobber,
the manufacturer and round about
again. The farmer may have had an
unprofitable year, and paid no tax di-
rectly to the government, but he has
to contribute his share in helping to
pay other people’s taxes in everything
he buys. The salaried man or women
or the laborer may have exemption
equal to his earnings, but cannot es-
cape any more than the poorest far-
mer. Those who draw salaries great-
er than their exemptions undoubtedly
pay the largest amount in proportion
directly to the revenue collector, as it
is almost impossible for them to con-
ceal their earnings.
There is no more fatuous folly than
the talk of politicians about framing
a tax so that it will hit the capitalists
or the rich harder than others. It
can’t be done.
Legs Bend Under Taxation.
From the Pottsville Journal.
Every tax that is levied goes round
the cycle and then finds its final rest-
ing place upon the shoulders of the
people. In Pennsylvania the fact is
frequently referred to that we have
no State tax. True, but we have tax-
es on coal and gasoline and what not,
and these, together with the county
and municipal taxes and the national
taxes, form a weight under which the
legs of the average person almost
double.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Two children of A. Dumbreski, of Mc-
Keesport, a girl of 12 and a boy of 10,
were burned to death when their home
was burned Saturday morning. Their
mother collapsed and was taken to a hos-
pital.
—Spencer Zeigler, af Saltsburg, was shot
dead by a companion with whom he had
been having a crap game. The man accus-
ed of the shooting escaped but was said
to have been killed by a train on a rail-
road near Pittsburgh.
—Governor William C. Sproul, in a proc-
lamation made public at Harrisburg Sat-
urday, designates the week of April 16th
to 22nd as “Forest Protection Week” and
calls on the people of the State to aid in
the movement to prevent forest fires.
—Seven hundred and twelve saloons in
Lackawanna county quit business with
the going out of March. As the court has
decided to license breweries, some of the
retailers want to ask the court to recon-
sider the license question, but nothing has
been done as yet.
—Anthony Vagnine, said by police to be
a non-union miner, was shot from ambush
on Friday on his way to work in the mine
of the Beaver Valley Coal company in
Scotch valley, eight miles from Blooms-
burg. Physicians said his wound proba-
bly would prove fatal.
—T. Bethas, proprietor of the Presto res-
taurant, at Lock Haven, who left town
suddenly some weeks ago, was found at
Mahanoy City, where he and his wife
were stopping at a hotel. He will answer
at Lock Haven to the charge of forgery
and of drawing checks without funds to
meet them. .
—Just after he was wedded E. R. Reed,
of Waverly, N. Y., handed Rev. Edward
Simpson, pastor of the First Baptist
church, Williamsport, a check on a bank
that didn’t exist, and got seven good dol-
lars from the preacher. After a warrant
was issued for his arrest, the groom made
settlement to the alderman who had the
case.
—A change of venue will be asked for
Charles Benner, 25 years of age, of Tur-
key Valley, Juniata county, just granted a
new trial after his conviction of the first-
degree murder of Constable Thomas M.
Ulsh, of Liverpool, on September 1st. At-
torney W. Justin Carter, of Harrisburg,
expects that the case will be taken to the
Mifflin county courts in Lewistown for
trial.
— When Freda Hurwitz, 24 years old, of
521 Kressler Court, Scranton, leaped off
the Dodgetown bridge into the Lackawan-
na river last Friday afternoon, in an at-
tempt to end her life, 13 year old Louis
Bozon plunged into the swollen stream
and managed to drag the young woman to
safety on the shore. Parents of the girl
said that she had been suffering from des-
pondency.
__Urvian Wagner, aged 18, of Spangler,
was instantly killed at the sub-station of
the Penn Central Light, Heat and Power
company, near the Riley mine at 1 o'clock
Monday afternoon, and Leo Farbaugh, his
companion, also of Spangler, was serious-
ly, if not fatally burned when an electric
wire which they were stringing near the
sub-station came near to and “snapped
into” a high extension wire.
Binding a revolver to a bedpost amd
tying a string to the trigger, William Bak-
er, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer near
Washington, Pa., lay down on his bed and
with his heart in line with the weapon's
muzzle, he gave the string a jerk and died
instantly with a bullet through his body.
The act was committed while his sister,
with whom he lived, was absent from the
house. No cause is assigned.
—If Diogenes was unable to find an hon-
est man he could at least find an honest
woman in Beaver Falls. She is a woman
who “works out” during the day. After
her day's work last Friday, the woman
employing her, handed over $3. The wom-
an handed back 50 cents. ‘The price for
a day’s work for women in Beaver is $2.50,
and the women in Beaver Falls should not
be charged any more,” she said.
— Theresa Trunzo, aged 16 years, a Jun-
jor at Indiana State Normal, while on the
street at her home in Homer City, was
slashed across the face with a razor by a
rejected suitor with whom she refused to
converse. She was carried by witnesses to
a doctor's office where fourteen stitches
closed the wound. He locked himself ina
pantry in a nearby house, but was cap-
tured and taken to the county jail.
_ Sheriff A. C. Kemberling, of Lewis-
town, blocked a jail delivery on Sunday
when he discovered the shank sawed off
the big lock on the door of the lower cor-
ridor leading into the yard. Bruce Sea-
sholtz, the turnkey, was in the cellar when
he heard a rasping noise and informed the
sheriff. Two nine inch hack saws were
found secreted behind the commode in the
bath room. How the prisoners got the
saws is a mystery.
—Kight days, seventeen hours and fifty-
two minutes—excepting the time taken
out for eating and sleeping—was spent by
an Indiana county jury arguing over the
fate of Mike Jiangioppo, charged with
murder, before Judge Langham finally
discharged them on Wednesday. One man
is said to have held out for conviction
against eleven others, almost from the first
ballot. Jiangioppo was charged with kill-
ing Freeman Walker, at a mine riot at Ed-
ri, last January.
—Awakened by a noise in the dining
room of her apartment in West Chester
early last Thursday, Mrs. James F. Mec-
Bride aroused her husband. He tiptoed
into the room and then turned on the
light, coming face to face with a burglar,
with whom he grappled at once. Mrs. Mc-
Bride ran to police headquarters, a block
distant. Patrolman Martin returned with
her and took the captive to headquarters.
There he said he was Charles Carter, 18
years of age, of Philadelphia, an inmate
of the Glen Mills school, from which he
and four other boys had escaped early in
the evening.
— Pleas of the’ Fifth ward election offi-
cers of Pottsville, convicted of ballot
frauds, that they be allowed to spend hol-
idays at their ‘homes before beginning
their six month’s jail sentence, went un-
heeded, and after over thirty months’
fighting for liberty, they were placed be-
hind bars on Monday. Four of the men
involved presented themselses at the jail
and were locked up. Edward Gormley,
the judge of election, insisted upon being
escorted to jail by Sheriff Jenkins, He
was accommodated in short order. The
next move of the men will be to try to se-
cure a parole, °