INK SLINGS.
—Just when the public is expecting
most from the Governor the Mrs.
goes off to Europe and leaves Gif all
sewed up.
Probably Sunday desecration
has nothing to do with it but Monday's
papers are always filled with accounts
of automobile accidents.
—A Memorial day without a peony
was very unusual.. Did you see one
in any of the floral tributes that were
laid in the city of the dead?
—A few weeks ago the missing sun
spots had us thinking that real sum-
mers were a thing of the past. After
the last few day’s experience most of
us are hoping that the missing spots
get back in their places and shut off
part of the heat.
—To our dear old friend Chaplain
Y., we suggest the idea that Al Smith
signed the repealer of the Mullan-
Gage law in New York because the
voters of that sovereign State elected
him with the understanding that he
would sign such a repealer if it were
put up to him. :
—They had a prize fight for a char-
itable benefit in Chicago last week.
Being a charitable affair the govern-
ment got no tax. The gross receipts
were fifty-five thousand dollars and
after the promoters and the pugs took
their share there were twenty-five dol-
lars left for charity. Now isn’t chari-
ty the tinkling cymbal and sounding
brass, in this year of our Lord 1923?
—The Philipsburg Ledger is con-
ducting a straw vote for President.
Among the possibilities named by the
Ledger as prospective candidates we
notice every name but that of Henry
Ford and our own. We can under-
stand why the Hon. Harry Scott, the
angel of the Ledger, passed Henry up.
‘That is because he never had to ride
in a fliver, but we're peeved—just
plain peeved—because he hasn’t given
the world a suggestion that we might
make a potential candidate.
—-Senators Pepper and Reed were in
DuBois on Monday on their much
touted tour of Pennsylvania. The
distinguished gentlemen are getting
acquainted with the back woods folks
who elected them as their representa-
tives in Congress. Of course there’s
no politics in their present pilgrimage
and for that reason the King boy who
blew off four toes while exploding fire-
works to acclaim their arrival at Glen
Campbell can’t hope to have a look in
for postmaster of that village while
they are in the Senate.
—We believe that Dr. Finegan is a
very competent educator. We do not
believe that Fineganism is a good
thing for the State of Pensylvania.
We also believe that Governor Pinchot
is proving himself a very “weak sis-
ter” by not coming out with a state-
ment that he will appoint or discard
Finegan. And if we were Dr. Fine-
gan, feeling as secure of our ability
and ‘usefulness, as his friends and ad-
vocates insist that he is, we’d tell Gov-
ernor Pinchot to go to with his
—————old job of being Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction for Penn-
sylvania.
—The residents of south Allegheny
street have given council a nut to
crack. They want that thoroughfare,
meaning the portion from Bishop to
the reservoir, “repaired and fixed up
in general.” They have a perfect
right to make such a request and any-
body looking at tl.e street will grant
that it is just. But what is council
going to do about it? The hill is so
steep that money spent on ordinary
paving would all be wiped out with
the first heavy rain storm, as has
been the case for years. It is doubt-
ful whether property holders in that
section would vote to bear their share
of a permanent paving debt and for
2
through road the rest of the town
would be justified in refusing a ma-
jor improvement such as paving with
cobbles would be. South Allegheny
has been renewed often and almost as
often the surface has had to be carted
away from the foot of the hill at Bish-
op street. It might be possible that
asphalt-macadam, if well rolled and
crowned, with capacious, strong gut-
ters, would hold as far as Logan
street, but above that council has a
problem.
—It is just possible we are away
off in our calculations, but as we hap-
pen to know that brick paving was
once laid at from fourteen to sixteen
thousand dollars a mile the thought
occurs that it might now be laid at
least for forty thousand. If we are
any way near right we suggest to
council the adoption of a policy of
laying a block or two of brick paving
in Bellefonte every year. On the ba-
sis of our calculation it would not
mean an expenditure of more than
three or six thousand dollars annually.
In all Bellefonte needs about seven
blocks of permanent road construction
to take care of every inch of heavy
traffic it has, outside of the thorough-
fares partially cared for by State
aid laws. We include High street from
the Diamond to the bridge, two
blocks; Spring street from Bishop to
Linn, four blocks, and High street
from the Pennsylvania tracks to
Thomas, one block. The entire dis-
tance is not more than half a mile and
could be made permanent, we think,
for less than the borough paid for the
two fire pumpers. Council made good
on its proposition to buy and pay for
the pumpers in a definite time and it
seems to us that the same brains that
worked on the pumpers might, very
advantageously to the tax payers, con-
sider a program for an annual outlay
on permanent street improvement.
?
section of street that leads to no’
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 8, 1923.
Finegan the “Fly in the Ointment.”
“Fineganism” is the fly in the Pin-
chot ointment. During the campaign
last fall Dr. Finegan employed every
agency of the school system in behalf
of Pinchot in consideration of his open
pledge that he would reappoint the
superintendent if the commission
which he had appointed would recom-
mend such action. The commission
investigated and cordially endorsed
Finegan. But Mrs. Pinchot, with or
without inquiry on the subject, has
taken the opposite view and the Gov-
ernor is “between the devil and the
deep sea.” The superintendent’s term
has expired and Mrs. Pinchot is in Eu-
rope. The Governor apparently won’t
appoint without her consent and she is
not even within telephone distance to
speak.
The constitution of the State re-
quires that an appointment to that of-
fice shall be for four years and the
tenure is beyond the control of the
Governor. That is to say, when the
appointment is made it stays for the
full period unless there is “cause” for
removal. The Governor tried to evade
this mandate of the organic law by
entering into an agreement with Fine-
gan similar to that made with Gover-
nor Sproul when he got his salary as
Commissioner of Forestry increased
in violation of the constitution. But
Finegan declined to join the conspira-
cy. His oath to “support, obey and
defend” the constitution probably re-
strained him, though the Governor’s
equally binding obligation was ignor-
ed.
Now the League of Women Voters
has taken the matter up and threaten
to “make it hot” for the Governor un-
less he appoints Finegan for the full
term. These women contributed
largely toward his election and are
sorely disappointed because the Gov-
ernor shows a purpose to make the
public schools a “foot ball of politics.”
They are unable to see how the Gov-
ernor can flout the constitution. “It
is clear,” the women declare, “that
the constitution intended that the Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction
should have a special rank and be as
far removed from politics as possible.”
But they don’t understand Pinchot.
There is nothing sacred to him except
his absurd ambition to become Presi- |
dent.
——Two cents a pound tax on
sugar costs the American consumers
a vast sum but the President doesn’t
think it worth while to strike off the
tax as long as the profits go to the
Sugar trust.
Bootleggers Will Suffer Most.
The ultra and unreasoning prohibi-
tionists of the country are comforting
themselves with the notion that the
New York Governor’s approval of the
bill repealing the Mullan-Gage law is
weakened by the inference that it is
a bid for the Democratic nomination
for President next year. There is
nothing farther from the fact. Gov-
ernor Smith, of New York, is not a
candidate for President and is not
likely to be beguiled into such an as-
piration. As he has himself said he is
quite content with his present job and
has no ambition for higher honors.
His aspiration is to measure up to the
highest standard as Governor, fulfill
his obligations to the people who
elected him and serve his State faith-
fully.
In carrying out the purposes of
these ultra and unreasoning prohibi-
tionists one of the minor news associ-
ations undertook to canvass the lead-
ing Democrats in the country on the
subject the other day, and submitted
questions to the National committee-
men of the Democratic party. In the
published result of this inquiry it is
not stated how many committeemen
were interrogated but those for Kan-
sas, Texas and North Carolina are
quoted as opposed to the modification
of the Volstead act and upon the ba-
sis the claim is set up that “Demo-
crats will repudiate Smith’s stand for
booze.” As a matter of fact Gover-
nor Smith has made no stand for
booze, and in any event the sentiment
of the States named will have little in-
fluence on the Democratic national
convention.
As we have said before, Governor
Smith was elected on a platform de-
manding such modification of the Vol-
stead act as will permit each State to
determine for itself the question of
licensing the sale of light wines and
beer. The approval of the repeal bill
was simply keeping faith with the
voters of the State. But it is not by
any strength of the imagination a nul-
lification of the Eighteenth amend-
ment of the constitution or the Vol-
stead law or in any way an endorse-
ment of the saloon. The repeal of the
Mullan-Gage law will not promote the
manufacture or sale of liquor as a
beverage and will injure no individu-
al or interest quite as much as it will
hurt the bootleggers.
Those captives of the Chinese
bandits ought to have promptly ap-
pealed to the Washington conference.
thing.
consummation of the plan.
The work of building Rockview
charge of its construction.
project has appropriated a specific
for only ninety-four prisoners.
where in Pennsylvania.
reservation.
completion of two great permanent
construction cost at $1.00 per man
Pennsylvania.
Half Truths That Are Lies in Effect.
—
Ever since the revelations of the scandalous conditions prevailing in
the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia the Public Ledger, of that city,
has been desperately throwing out a “smoke screen” designed to draw at-
tention away from the rotten mess there by spreading false impressions of
what has been done at the new Rockview institution in this county.
The “Watchman” holds no brief to defend Rockview, for it will be
well remembered that its lamented editor, P. Gray Meek, was almost
alone in his opposition to the location of such an institution in Centre
county. But the “Watchman” is fair and believes it a duty to challenge
the Ledger to tell the real facts about Rockview or admit that the stories
it has been publishing lately are only half truths designed to deceive the
public and create sympathy with a political scheme to start another great
expenditure for a penal institution in the eastern part of the State as well
as give the co-schemers in the western end opportunity to do the same
The story of the Rockview project is an old and long one. For our
present purpose it is sufficient to say that when the State bought the land
here it was with the ultimate purpose of confining all penitentiary prison-
ers in the one institution and later legslative action paved the way for
has been long, ’tis true, but that has
not been because of dereliction or inefficiency on the part of any one in
Each Legislature since the beginning of the
sum of money for the work, never
enough to proceed on the scale that should have been followed in such a
gigantic enterprise, so that any censure for delay should be directed at
Harrisburg rather than at Rockview.
been building never once did the Board controlling construction there go
to the Legislature asking for a deficiency appropriation.
its means always though the example of every other public enterprise in
the State might have prompted it to do otherwise.
The Ledger has sent broadcast the cost of construction at Rockview
and couples with it the inference that there is nothing there to represent
the outlay of millions by stating that it has permanent accommodation
It doesn’t tell that there are nearly six
thousand acres of the most beautiful and fertile land to be found any-
That there are miles and miles of permanent
roads traversing them; reservoirs dams and water lines supplying such
water as Philadelphia can never hope to have to all parts of this great
It doesn’t tell of the farm barns, and houses that have been
remodeled, of the vast equipment in farm machinery and stock and of the
And through all the years it has
It kept within
buildings.
It doesn’t want the public to know that an inventory taken at Rock-
view today .will show that there is there in realty and improvements
more than a dollar for every dollar the State has put into it.
When stating the cost thus far it Missembles’ aud deceives by
state that most of the rough labor was done by inmates and charged in
per day and thereby thousands and
thousands of dollars that the Ledger would lead the tax payer to believe
were taken from his pocket never cost him a cent.
But the -crowning deception of all this tissue of misrepresentation
that a great and supposedly reputable newspaper has been broadcasting
is its subtle play on the permanent accommodations for only ninety-four
men. That is for no other purpose than to lead the public to believe that
there are only ninety-four prisoners at Rockview after an effort of ten
years in building a prison. Yesterday the roster at Rockview was 666 in-
mates and almost from the beginning of the work there have been more
than 300 there; all better housed than any of the inmates of the old west-
ern institution or those of the eastern and with healthful work in God’s
great out-of-doors every working day in the year.
The only unfortunate who can’t be reclaimed at Rockview is the der-
elict who won’t be. The only real trouble they have ever had there has
been fomented by men who wouldn’t exercise, work or take the opportuni-
ty that is offered all there. And the Ledger, inspired by political intrigue
and abetted by a lot of mawkish parlor uplifters, urges the State to buy
more land to give her convicts more breathing space when there are near-
ly two acres of ground at Rockview for each inmate of a penitentiary in
General Assembly Yields.
Governor Pinchot seems to have
completely terrorized the Senators
and Representatives of the General
| Assembly. His latest threat is that
unless $20,000,000 of new revenue is
levied and the “administration code”
is passed, he will “call the Assembly
back to Harrisburg for a special ses-
sion.” According to one of the news
writers at the State capitol this
“threat spurred the would-be leaders
to some semblance of action and they
agreed to carry out the program of
the Executive.” In other words they
have promised to put a heavy burden
upon an already over-taxed constitu-
ency rather than face the wrath of an
exacting master. It is a lame conclu-
sion.
At the beginning of the session the
Governor protested that no new tax-
ation was needed and that with the re-
sources existing he would “clean up
the mess” in the "brief period of two
years. The law makers protested that
he was mistaken and insisted on levy-
ing additional taxes. So long as the
Senators and Representatives held to
this opinion the Governor was not on-
ly emphatic but persistent in his dec-
laration against new taxes. But when
the other side weakened he trumped
up the idea that there is a necessity
for more money to keep the schools in
operation and now he threatens coer-
cive measures in order to bring the
law makers to his feet. They must
prove their servility.
In view of this aspect of the case
we are unable to say why the Gover-
nor insists on the passage of the “ad-
ministration code.” The ostensible
purpose of that extraordinary piece of
legislation is to give the Governor
power to fitly administer his office.
But no Governor, no King and no Czar
has ever exercised greater power in
administration or more complete domn-
ination over the affairs of a Common-
wealth than Mr. Pinchot has claimed
and secured thus far in his office. The
Auditor General has shown that no
new taxes are needed for the schools
and the budget reveals the fact that
the additional revenues are for use in
promoting the ambitions of the Gov-
ernor.
——1If Governor Smith, of New
York, would express his real opinion
of Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania,
the series would probably stand “hoss
and hoss.”
Why Gravel Was Used.
Many times since the resurfacing of
the Nittany valley highway was be-
gun, we have been asked why a three
mile section of the road should have
been dressed with river gravel, hauled
here from Pittsburgh, when so much
limestone chips is being manufactured
here constantly.
The same question came into our
mind when driving over the road and
the explanation we gave to ourself
was that it had been done as an ex-
periment: To observe the durability
of gravel as compared with limestone
chips on the same road-bed.
The real reason, the one given by
the Highway office here, is that when
the work of the top dressing was be-
gun enough limestone chips could not
be secured here to keep the trucks
and men busy and the gravel had to
be imported from Pittsburgh to sup-
ply the deficiency.
Of course our knowledge of road-
making is very limited, but we have
been puzzled to know why the water
pockets in the surface were not all
brought up to the original grade be-
fore the top dressing began. In many
places they remain as depressions just
as they were before the work was
done. While they are resurfaced they
are still water pockets and will dis-
integrate very rapidly.
NO. 23.
Miscellaneous Business Transacted by
Borough Council.
Eight members were present at the
regular meeting of borough council on
Monday evening, the one absentee be-
ing Mr. Bradley, of the North ward.
S. D. Gettig appeared in behalf of
the trustees of the United Evangelic-
al church and explaining that it was
the intention to begin work on remod-
eling the church within ten days or
two weeks requested permission to use
the vacant piece of ground belonging
to the borough, lying alongside of Lo-
gan’s branch, as a temporary dump-
ing ground for the stone and clay
which it will be necessary te remove
from the foundations of the addition
to be erected to the church. This is
the piece of ground the church is anx-
ious to buy from the borough, but so
far council has reached no decision in
the matter. Mr. Gettig stated that in
the event of council’s decision not to
sell the land the church would remove
all or as much of the deposit placed
there as council might direct. His re-
quest was referred to the Water com-
mittee and borough manager with
power to act.
A petition was presented from resi-
dents of Reservoir hill demanding
that south Allegheny street be repair-
ed and fixed up in general. Referred
to the Street committee.
Residents of south Spring street
presented a petition asking that a fire
plug be placed in that section, as there
is no adequate protection against fire
in that locality. Referred to the Fire
and Police committee.
A communication was received from
D. C. Stackpole, state highway super-
intendent, notifying council that the
department will co-operate with the
borough in top dressing Bishop, Alle-
gheny and Linn streets to a width of
eighteen feet. The entire expense
will be $808.00, the borough to pay
| one-half. A resolution was passed ac-
| cepting the proposition and authoriz-
| ing the borough manager to execute
| contracts to that effect. :
| The Street committee reported
Thomas and Mill streets in shape for
station and that the pipe has been re-
; ceived for the extension of the water
| service to Coleville. The committee
further reported the collection of $12.-
{ 00 on the 1921 water taxes and $2.00
: for old iron sold.
The Fire and Police committee re-
| ported the resignation of G. Smith,
as a policeman, and the fact that there
are two applicants for the vacancy,
a Mr. Garis and a Mr. Geissinger, the
latter asking $110 a month. The lat-
ter is an ex-state policeman ‘while
Garis has on one or two occasions
served as an extra officer. The police
situation in general, and especially
the lack of enforcement of the traffic
laws in Bellefonte was thoroughly
discussed from all angles. Mr. Emer-
ick advocated posting the town with
traffic signs and then employing an
officer who would enforce the ordi-
nance, even if it is necessary to pay
him more money than the police are
now being paid. Half an hour or
longer was spent in discussing the
matter and finally a motion was pass-
ed that traffic signs be posted and that
, the burgess be requested to recom-
{mend a man for election as a police
officer to take the place of Mr. Smith.
The Fimance committee presented
i the report of the borough treasurer
showing a balance on hand of $3202,
77. The committee also asked for the
renewal of notes totalling $12,100,
which was authorized.
The borough manager reported that
. borough engineer Shattuck had made
| a survey of east Curtin and north Wil-
son streets, but so far had not return-
ed the profiles, so that no action on
the grading of the two streets could
be taken.
Mr. Brouse stated that complaint
had been made to him of the parking
of dray wagons on Spring street, op-
posite the Centre County bank build-
ling. Complaint was also made about
i the unsightly surroundings at the
Phoenix mill. Both matters were re-
ferred to the Street committee and
borough manager.
| Bills to the amount of $3214.40 were
| aproved for payment after which
council adjourned.
i ihe a—
Because they didn’t like the
. food served at the Rockview peniten-
tiary was the excuse given by some of
the prisoners transferred to that in-
stitution from the eastern penitentia-
ry for starting a rough house party
in one of the dormitories on Sunday
night. In the neighborhood of two
hundred and fifty inmates were in the
building with only one guard, James
Noll, a comparatively new man, and
he had his hands full trying to quell
the disturbance until help arrived. It
was somewhat on the order of a free
for all fight and five or more prison-
ers were knocked out, though none
seriously hurt.
—————— ———————
‘We haven’t heard anybody com-
plaining of cold weather for a week.
i
oiling. The committee also reported
| the receipt of $10 for a sewer permit.
pairs to the Phoenix milf * pumpin
'SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Dr. Charles H. Fisher, principal of the
Bloomsburg State Normal school, has an-
nounced that he has accepted an offer to
become president of the State Normal
school at Bellingham, Washington.
—Walter Snyder and J. F. Geaton,
Scranton employees of a Sunbury garage,
were held in bail for a hearing at Lewis-
burg charged with having knowledge of
the theft of $14,000 worth of diamonds
fram the Cherry Run bungalow of Federal
Judge Charles B. Witmer, of Sunbury.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad is plan-
ning to spend $1,850,000 on two four-track
bridges across the Susquehanna, between
Sunbury and Northumberland, according
to reports. They will replace two two-
span structures that are considered obso-
lete and an obstruction to the heavy
freight traffic at that point.
—Harry Long, of Deer Park, near Potts-
ville, tried to imitate the fire eaters at
Ringling’s circus and is in a serious condi-
tion as the result thereof. The boy filled
his mouth with gasoline and when the
flames started about him his clothes ig-
nited. He probably would have been fa-
tally burned if those near had not quick-
ly smothered the blaze.
—Louis Ross, aged 41 years, a Mount
Union Italian, was shot and killed by his
American wife after a bitter fight at their
home Saturday evening. A Mrs. Ross, who
is now in jail at Huntingdon, told the po-
lice that her husband had beaten her with
a heavy club and that she acted in self de-
fense. She fired five shots into his body.
One lodged near the heart and caused his
death, A coroner's jury declared her act
justified.
—Fire on Sunday destroyed the 1,200
foot covered bridge across the Susguehan-
na river between Northumberland and Blue
Hill, causing an estimated damags of
$250,000. The bridge was completed in
1826. In 1865, when General Lee was on
his triumphant march up the Cumberland
valley, residents stuffed the bridge with
hay and stood ready to burn the ancient
structure should Lee succeed in getting
that far north.
—Thomas J. Smull, who was postmaster
at Mackeyville fifty years, last week cele-
brated his eighty-ninth birthday anniver-
sary. .Mackeyville has had only two post-
masters and the name of each is Smull.
When Thomas J. Smull, who was the vil-
lage’s first postmaster, relinquished the po-
sition several years ago, he was succeeded
by his son Roy, who is also his business
partner in the general store he has con-
ducted nearly half a century.
—The Du Pont Powder company, of Wil-
mington, Del, has started construction of
the first of the series of five huge ware-
houses to be erected in an isolated spot
five miles west of DuBois, to be used as
storehouses from which the company’s de-
mands from western Pennsylvania will be
handled. The site is located a mile from
the lakes-to-sea highway and a new road
is being built over which the building sup-
plies will be transported from the trunk
line to the scene of construction.
—Arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, as a fu-
gitive from justice, Andrew L. Hepler, in-
dicted at Butler, Pa., for conspiracy and
embezzlement, was returned to that place
on Friday by Sheriff Avery. Hepler’s trial
is set for June 12. Hepler disappeared last
December. Later it was reported that he
aad been drowned in the Ohio river, The
tivities in promoting the Ideal Squab
company and the Citizens’ Insurance Agen-
cy and Mortgage company of Butler. Mrs.
Hepler is returning alone to stand trial.
—Lightning struck the large coal tipple
owned by the Altoona Coal and Coke com-
pany, Saturday afternoon, and the entire
structure was destroyed in the fire which
followed. The loss is estimated at $10,000.
The tipple was operated by Baker Broth-
ers and extends over the tracks of the
Coalport branch of the Cresson division,
Pennsylvania railroad. The heat from the
fire was so intense that passenger trains
were held up for two hours. The Cresson
fire department was called out, and worked
far into the night before the flames were
extinguished.
—Washington county peace officers be-
lieve that Paul Cherchi, of Perth Amboy,
N. J., whom they arrested on Sunday. is
the ringleader of the bandits who on
March 11, 1922, held up three emplayees of
the W. J. Rainey Coal company, and fled
with $26,000, the payroll of the Allison
mine, near Brownsville. Cherchi was rec-
ognized on the streets of Monongahela by
Albert Fleming, store manager at the Al-
lison mines, one of the three who were in
charge of the payroll when it was stolen.
He was arrested with Dan Rastelli and Or-
lando Favor, under surveillance for
months.
—William Felder, aged 33 years, a real
estate man, died at Warren, Ohio, on
Thursday morning from injuries suffered
on Wednesday, when an airplane in which
he was riding as a passenger fell and was
destroyed by fire. Kirk Harvey, of War-
ren, Ohio, the pilot, suffered burns and
cuts. Mr. Felder had just sold a number
of building lots at Warren when he saw
an airplane waiting for passengers. Tell-
ing one of his salesmen that he would like
to sec the property ‘from up above,” he
entered the plane, which later fell in
flames. He leaves his widow and four
children.
—ZElaborate plans for the official open-
ing of the Susquehanna trail in September
at Williamsport, are under way, accord-
ing to Dr. Charles T. Aikens, of Selins-
grove, president of the trail association.
When that approved route from Mason
and Dixon's line to the New York State
boundary is dedicated it is the intention
of the organization to have participating
in the exercises the Governors of Mary-
land, New York and Pennsylvania. The
association, at their late meeting, dis-
cussed plans for identifying the trail
throughout with Indian heads painted on
telephone poles. The men in charge of
that part of the program intend to have
the work completed by the latier part of
the summer.
—~Connellsville society received a jar last
week when it became known that Kathe-
rine M. Luce, daughter of Wash Herd, a
wealthy coal operator of that place, had
been granted a divorce from Eugene M.
Luce ,to whom she was married on Octo-
ber 22, 1922. The Luces lived together only
four days before their matrimonial trou-
bles bégan, according to Mrs. Luce. Mrs.
Luce, to whom she was married on Octo-
trouble began when she insisted that her
husband obtain a job. After making nu-
merous suggestions along that line without
effect, the wife said that she got the de-
sired position for her husband. He work-
ed about five weeks, according to the wife's
testimony, and when she upbraided him he
replied, “The Murphy's never work,” re-
ferring to his mother’s people.