Bema adn
INK SLINGS.
—Well, the lines are drawn for the
big battle in November.
—The frost is on the pumpkin, but
we haven’t noticed much corn in
shock.
—1If the Governor of Oklahoma lives
through his fight to oust the K. K. K.
it will be a wonder.
—The navy was about as keen to
go chasing rum runners as was the
army, some years ago, to build the
Alaskan railroad.
—If saying nothing really means
that a man is sawing wood President
Coolidge must have an awful pile of
jit ranked up somewhere in the White
House.
——Centre county is going to re-
deem herself in November. She is
going to make good her obligation to
the soldiers by electing Dick Taylor
sheriff.
—The striking anthracite miners
went back to work on Wednesday, the
19th. We need a few more special
days in order that we have excuse for
doing no work at all so why not have
a Pinchot day and make September
19th it?
—“Coolidge brown” having failed
to affect the modes of women like
“Taft pink” and “Alice blue” did aunt
Mary has come forth with a recipe for
making mayonnaise that may keep
the family name fresh in the minds of
the new voters.
—We note that it has been a quar-
ter of a century, on Monday, since
Findlay Douglass won the national
golf championship at Morristown, Pa.
How time do move. The first game of
golf played in America seems to us to
have been only yesterday.
—All of the newly elected Republi-
can members of the Irish Parliament
are in jail. Without discussion of the
justification of their incarceration we
rise to remark that we Democrats
would have a snit if we could only
get rid of Republicans over here like
they are doing in Ireland.
— Think of it! Dempsy and Firpo
fought for just three minutes and fif-
ty-seven seconds in New York, on
Friday night and the former received
nearly half a million dollars and the
latter one hundred and fifty-six thous-
and. The rest of us fight all our lives
and scarcely ever get more than a
lemon.
—Now that the primaries are over
we want to notify all the good women
and all the good men of Centre coun-
ty who want to help us clean out the
court house that the date set for the
jobis the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. And it will be |
none too early to begin preparing for
it to dav." Ae TREN
——While Germany’s floating debt,
expressed in marks, runs into so many
trillions that we don’t know how to
express it, measured in American dol-
lars it is only twelve million and a lit-
tle over. This being so it looks as
though it ought to be easy for Berlin
to hock enough of something to buy
twelve million American dollars, pay
off all of her debts and start all over
again.
— Putting it low Bill Brown has
already taken down $33,000 for serv-
ices to Centre county. If he is elect-
ed sheriff he will have grabbed off
$45,000 and then he will try for treas-
urer to run the grand total of his
pickings up to $61,000. Some Bill!
As an easy money getter Jack Demp-
sey’s the only fellow who has any-
thing on him.
— Geographically Schuylkill coun-
ty is not half so far away from Pike
as it seems to be politically. Pinchot
from Harrisburg and Bill Leib from
the eastern penitentiary joined hands
in the effort to can the Hon. Charles
“Pickle” Snyder, but pickles is pick-
les in Schuylkill and the Pinchot-
Houck-Leib combination got nothing
but the brine.
—Governor Pinchot was in the
Schuylkill county primary fight to
help the Houck-Heaton combine
against State Treasurer Charley Sny-
der. Schuylkill being the center of
the hard coal region the miners were
urged to rally to the Pinchot-Houck-
Heaton ticket because Pinchot had
settled the fight favorably to them.
Of course every consumer of coal
knows he settled it favorably to every
other interest than that of the con-
sumer, but they didn’t expect the Gov-
ernor to admit it.
——Take it from us, what the east
precinct of Snow Shoe voted for is
what the real, underground power in
the Republican organization in Centre
county wanted. The ticket was
Brown, Burket, Sasserman, Mrs. Tu-
ten, Harnish and Yarnell, and Love.
Rees carried east Snow Shoe, but
that was a personal matter. All of
this ticket carried Philipsburg, split
about even in the Rushes and got
away with College township in every
case but that of Sasserman who lost
to Rossman in Chairman Mayes’ home
precinct.
—Senator Capper, of Kansas, ad-
vises farmers to quit the soil in or-
der to stimulate the price of wheat.
Young Mr. Roosevelt advises them to
combine and hold their products out
of the market until scarcity forces
higher prices. Neither Senator Cap-
per nor the son of “Strongheart” are
farmers. Both, however, are Repub-
lican politicians who are concerned
about holding the rural vote for their
party and measured by such a motive
their advice is worthless, even if either
one of them knew anything about the
problem they are volunteering to
solve. :
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. €8.
Disappointed in the Governor.
The independent Republican voters
of Dauphin county are greatly disap-
pointed in Governor Pinchot, accord-
ing to the Harrisburg correspondents
of Philadelphia Sunday newspapers.
The issue between the old Baker-Bei-
dleman machine and the followers of
Pinchot in his contest for nomination
a year ago was clearly defined in the
campaign for the nomination of can-
didates for local offices, and the Gov-
ernor was appealed to for help
by those who helped him. But he |
turned a deaf ear to all supplications.
He refused to utter a word that would '
contribute to the success of his friends
of last year or the confusion of his
enemies. He is secure in his title and
emoluments of office and entirely sat-
isfied.
During the several administrations
previous to the inauguration of Mr.
Pinchot the Baker-Beidleman machine
had been sedulously working to create
a compact party force by the use of’
official patronage of the State govern-
ment. It is estimated that at the
close of the Sproul administration at
least two thousand followers of the
Baker-Beidleman machine, residents
of Harrisburg and vicinity, were on
the State pay roll with little to do ex-
cept repair political fences. Notwith-
standing this substantial entrenchment
the independents put up a great fight
and came very near carrying the
county for Pinchot. Naturally they
expected this work would be fitly re-
warded by a transfer of the spoils of
office from the defeated to the suc-
cessful forces.
But nearly a year has gone by and
comparatively little has been done to-
ward a change. The Governor was
importuned to act but failed to re-.
spond. The Baker-Beidleman follow-
ers continued to draw the pay envel- !
opes on the recurring pay days. Then
the more hopeful independents focus-
ed their expectant eyes upon the local
offices feeling confident the Governor
would help them to undermine the ma-
chine by taking away these powerful
supports They organized a league
and invited the Governor to co-op-
erate. They knew that the right Yond
from ft tive chamber is wort
He Howord
did not come. The Governor hied
himself to his Pike county retreat and
left his followers in the cold.
——Well, Well, Well! Our predic-
tions as to the strength of the Leslie
crowd in Pittsburgh did come true.
They have taken a good share of the
' county office nominations from the
Oliver-Magee-Flinn combination and
gained a majority in council in the
city. Friends in Centre county will
be pleased to know that the Hon. John
Francies ran away with the nomina-
tion for Clerk of Courts. He was on
the “Combine” ticket, but he sort of
had the pass word for the “Regular”
camp too.
Coolidge and the World Court.
It has been semi-officially announc-
ed in Washington that President Cool-
idge “will not undertake to dominate”
the action of Congress. This may be
accepted as a concession to the oppo-
nents of the world court. It was gen-
erally understood at the time that
President Harding's trip to Alaska
was in part to “create atmosphere” in
favor of the court, and his first speech
of the trip delivered at St. Louis ton-
firmed that idea. But his successcr in
office, if rumors correctly express his
purposes, intends to let the subject
die out. That is precisely what the
“bitter-enders” desire, but it is hard-
ly carrying out the policies of Presi-
dent Harding, who was committed to
the court project.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington, published on Sunday,
states that “the question of American
participation in the world court is re-
garded at the White House as one
still pending before the Senate for
such action as it may decide to take
upon it. Inquirers have had their at-
tention directed to the faot that Pres-
ident Harding submitted the matter
to that body last February and have
been told that in the circumstances
there remains nothing for President
Coolidge to do, at least for the pres-
ent.” Since that the Sixty-seventh
Congress has expired by limitation
and all unfinished business pending at
the time died with it.
That being the case there is some-
thing for President Coolidge to do if |
he is in agreement with his predeces-
sor in office in the matter of entrance
into the world court. He must resub-
mit the proposition in the original or
modified form. Having done that he
may urge the Senate in oral or writ-
ten address to adopt it or silently
watch the Senators in their process of
emasculation or crucifixion of that
paramount Harding policy. In his St.
Louis speech the late President re-
vealed signs of a willingness to recede
on some important points. But that
speech did not reflect the sincere de-
sires of Mr. Harding. It was an ex-
pression of his tendency to compro-
mise rather than assert himself.
Misunderstanding of Governors.
The Governor of Wisconsin is op-
posed to the plan of the Governor of
Pennsylvania as expressed in the set-
tlement of the local strike. The Pin-
chot plan is to increase the wages of
the miners ten per cent, add to the
profits of the operators and distrib-
utors about a dollar a ton and compel
the consumers of the product to “pay
the piper.” In answer to an invita-
tion to the Governor of Wisconsin,
sent by the Governor of Pennsylvania,
to join in a conference to carry out the
i plan, the Governor of Wisconsin re-
plies that a scheme must be devised
which will exempt the consumer from
payment of the proportion of the cost
which the Pinchot plan provides. But
he fails to point the way.
| We are in full accord with the Gov-
ernor of Wisconsin on this subject.
We have no objection to the increase
of ten per cent. in the wages of the
miners but Mr. John Hays Hammond,
chairman of the National Coal Com-
mission, states that the profits of the
operators are large enough to absorb
all the expense which the increase will
involve, and if that be true there is no
just cause for taxing the consumers
to pay what the operators ought to
pay willingly and cheerfully. More-
over if the profits of the operators
are sufficient to absorb this increasse
in the weges of the miners, and the
profits of the carriers are as great es
Mr. Hammond says they are, the cost
of coal to the consumer ought to he
reduced rather than increased.
{| Obviously, however, the Governor of
| Wisconsin hasn’t correctly interpreted
. the purpose of the Governor of Penn-
| sylvania in inviting him to confer-
ence. The Governor of Wisconsin
seems to imagine that the Governor of
Pennsylvania wants to relieve the coal
consumers. As a matter of fact what
the Governor of Pennsylvania wants
is to be helped out of the hole into
which he fell in increasing the wages
of the miners and the profits of op-
erators at the expense of the consum-
ers. It was expected that the terms
of settlement would not be understood
by the public and be accepted as a
benefaction. , But he has discovered
that the people do. understand
resent the attempt to fleece t
the price of coal. :
——It happened just as we surmis- |
ed it would when Ira Burket came out.
While the rival factions of the old or-
ganization were dividing up between
him and Gehret the Pinch-hitter, Hev-
erly, slipped in.
Mr. Sproul’s Foolish Notions.
Former Governor Sproul, who made |
such a “mess” in Pennsylvania during
, the four years of his administration
some time and availing himself of
, every opportunity to get into the lime
light. In Paris, the other day, he
managed to get himself interviewed
‘and reiterated his opposition to the
| League of Nations. “One of the out-
standing things I have gathered from
‘my Democratic friends who have been
observing,” he stated, “is a quiet but
none the less forceful admission in
some conspicuous quarters that they
believe that the United States was
fortunate in escaping the League.”
: The admission must have been exceed-
"ingly quiet. Probably it was a dream.
The Senators and Representatives
who have been in Europe as “observ-
ers” recently are mostly Republicans
who were opposed to the League from
the beginning, mainly for the reason
| that they represent constituents inter-
| ested in the manufacture of war ma-
| terials and favor frequent and de-
| structive wars. The exceptions are.
Underwood, of Alabama; King, of
Utah, and McKeller, of Tennessee,
| who sailed only a few days ago. Sen-
lator Underwood has returned more
than ever persuaded that the League
i of Nations is the only agency which
| will guarantee speedy readjustment of
world commerce and industry. Sen-
ator King expresses strengthened
| faith in the League and McKeller has
not spoken, but no doubt agrees with
"his colleagues.
Governor Sproul may have absorb-
ed some of the ideas of Hi. Johnson
| and Senator LaFollette, whose confus-
| ed notions of state craft are much in
accord with Mr. Sproul’s practice of
the science while Governor of Penn-
sylvania. But we question the accu-
racy of his statement of the views of
any Democratic “observers,” at home
or abroad, on the subject of the
League of Nations, and in any event
he will not have much influence in
shaping the platform of either of the
parties for the next campaign. With
the end of his term as Governor Mr.
William C. Sproul slipped into an ob-
livion so deep and dense that absurd
interviews, however frequently pub-
lished and industriously circulated,
will not rescue him,
——=Swabb and Spearly will be the
next Commissioners of Centre county,
not alone because the public wants a
because there is luck in alliterations.
as executive, has been in Europe for
BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 21, 1923.
Senators Reed and Pepper Issue a
Threat.
After a visit at the White House
Senators Pepper and Reed have come
to the conclusion that “they found it
unwise for the present to express any
preference between Mr. Coolidge and
{ Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, for
| the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent.” This action indicates that the
President has not met the expecta-
tions of the Senators in the matter of
patronage. It will be recalled that a
similar disagreement arose between
the Pennsylvania Senators and the
late President Harding some time ago.
The Senators called a conference at
Atlantic City and issued a similar
statement whereupon the late Presi-
dent is said to have yielded to a sat-
isfactory compromise.
Pennsylvania Republican leaders
are gluttons for patronage and our
Sen&itors are brutally frank in their de-
‘mands. But we fail to see any reason
for President Coolidge to be scared at
the present threat of opposition. Con-
gressman Vare has already assured
Mr. Coolidge that Pennsylvania Re-
publicans are for him and unless his-
tory reverses itself that settles it.
Brother Bill is the potent power be-
hind the Pennsylvania Republican ma-
chine. He has forced Governor Pin-
chot to do exactly what he wants both
in legislation and dispensing favors.
What the Senators say or think may
seem important to them but is of no
consequence to the public. Mr. Vare
is the head and front of the force that
determines.
Of course the Senators will trim
their sails to the breeze at the proper
time. After Mr. Harding had placat-
ed them on the previous occasion re-
ferred to another conference was call-
ed at the summer retreat of Congress-
man Kiess and an “oath of allegi-
ance’ was taken promptly not only by
the Senators but by all the Congress-
men of the State. This time the dec-
laration will be fealty to Vare instead
of to the President but it will serve |
the purpose. The patronage mill will
be set in motion and the Pennsylva-
nia delegation to the next Republican
convention will be “Solid for Mul-
and will continue to be done so long
‘as plunder instead of principle rules.
——At a trial of a Ku Klux leader
in Georgia one witness testified that
he had been flogged for eating his
lunch at restaurants and another de-
clared that his offense was taking a
i drink of whiskey. The Kluxers down
there seem to be easily provoked to
Vilente:
Sasserman ran strong in Phil-
ipsburg because once a Moose is al-
ways a Moose over there. Not so in
Bellefonte where each one of the oth-
er local candidates carried his own
ward by impressive majorities.
—If you failed to get a nomination
i for the office you were after on Tues-
. day it was probably not because your
i successful opponent was a better citi-
zen. He was merely a better vote
getter.
{ ——The big black night crawlers
were in evidence on Wednesday morn-
‘ing, following the rain of Tuesday
! night, which is a sign of warm weath-
er, according to old-time weather
seers.
——An esteemed contemporary ex-
presses the opinion that if all the laws
to which anybody objects were repeal-
ed there would be greater respect for
law. Most people will concur in this
view.
——1If Trotsky had died as report-
ed and Lenine had induced Senator
LaFollette to take his place the law
of compensation would have been
functioning properly.
——Brown got forty-one—ninety-
fifths of his vote, or nearly fifty per
cent. in Bellefonte, Philipsburg, Col-
lege township and the east precinct
of Snow Shoe.
——The primaries being over to the
satisfaction of the successful candi-
dates the work of laying the lines for
the real battle will begin.
——The anthracite miners have re-
sumed work and the coal consumers
will work harder than ever to pay the
increased price of coal.
——There is an epidemic of saxa-
phone stealing in New York and a
strong suspicion that outraged neigh-
bors are responsible.
——Senator LaFollette is due for
his return from Russia and it is a safe
bet that he will expect to hold the
first page for a week.
——The present problem is to lo-
rather than to place the credit.
And. heaiy.” ~Tt-is the way things are done |
NO. 37.
Kings and Autocrats.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The times change, and Kings change
with them. If they don’t change, the
thrones are tipped over and they are
dumped out. George V seems per-
fectly secure, and there is every,
chance that Baron Renfrew will suc-
ceed him; but it is only becaause the
British throne has become a revolving
chair, and the King faces any direc-
tion that the House of Commons does.
The Vicar of Bray could not change
his opinions more quickly than His
Majesty of England can.
The King of Italy and the King of
Spain are still on their thrones be-
cause they joined the revolutionists
instead of trying to suppress them.
Mussolini attained supreme power by
the methods of a revolution that only
stopped at the throne, and stopped
there because the King was willing
to go with the crowd. A similar rev-
olution has just occurred in Spain. A
Captain General and a good part of
the army mutinied. The Ministry
asked the King to authorize them to
suppress it. Probably the King did
not believe they could do it, and the
result of attempting would be the de-
molition of the throne: The Ministers
had Sowing do then but to resign
and flee. e King invited the leader
of the revolution to form a Ministry.
Primo Rivera accepted the invitation,
beginning with martial law over the
entire country, and the pursuit of the
recent Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Kings of Spain and Italy
their titles and their civil lists by
mitting gracefully to the reve
ists. Both are figureheads; both
puppets in the hands of revolutioni
whose success may be presumptive,
but is certainly not conclusive, evi-
The man
dence of popular Support.
with a gun may not resisted, but
he is not necessarily an exponent of
government by the people, and ‘of the
people, and for the people. 2
vidently autocracy has not gone
out of style. Hereditary night ‘may
not be much esteemed, but it is not re-
placed in Latin countries by anything
that we can recognize as dem Ve
Mussolini and Primo Rivera appear to
be military despots who achieved pow-.
er by force, and who ‘would, like Na-
poleon Bonaparte, put crowns on their
own heads if crowns were not rather
out of date. : ‘
At this distance not much i$ known
of Spanish politics, but two or three
facts stand out conspieur 04%
dustrial population of Barcelona is So-
cialist when it is not Cummunist, and
it is very largely the latter. Repeat-
ed insurrections have occurred there,
and they have generally been compro-
mised; no Spanish government ven-
tures on drastic measures in Catalo-
nia. The army is tired of being sent
to Morocco, where it is generally poor-
ly supplied and badly led, and has
been repeatedly and disastrously de-
feated by the Moors. There have been a
great many mutinies, large or small,
troops ordered to Morocco having fre-
quently refused to go and killing
some of their officers before they
could be overpowered and driven on
board the transport. We may assume
that Primo Rivera will let the Moors
alone and keep the army in Spain,
where it is safe and comfortable and
near its family.
Disgrace to the State.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Judge Gordon’s characterization of
the York county jail as “a disgrace to
the State,” following the hearing in
which the conditions under which the
prisoners are compelled to submit
were revealed, will strike most hu-
mane and civilized persons as perhaps
the mildest term that could have been
used in connection with the case. For
the appalling fact is that the York
county jail is only one of many in like
condition. For the filthy condition of
the institution and the slops the con-
victs are compelled to eat are the di-
rect fruits of a vicious system which
must be totally abolished before there
can be any hope of improvement.
That system puts the prisoners at
the mercy of the sheriff who is de-
pendent upon fees and upon what he
can save out of the sums allowed him
for the maintenance of the prisoners
for his livelihood. Or if not for his
livelihood, for the profits which the
average county politician of the level
from which sheriffs are usually chos-
en looks for as the inalienable perqui-
sites of the job. Under these condi-
tions, it is pretty hopeless to look for
any real reform to result from scath-
ing judicial rebukes such as that ad-
ministered to the sheriff of York coun-
ty in the present proceeding relative
to the custody of the convicts trans-
ferred from the eastern penitentiary.
The absence of any intelligent over-
sight of the jails by the county com-
missioners and the element of person-
al profit that ordinarily blinds the
jailer to every consideration of hu-
manity or decency are obstructions
that will yield only to drastic refor-
matory legislation.
Who Gets the Difference?
From the Washington Star.
The farmer and the city dweller
have not yet held a conference to in-
vestigate why wheat is so cheap in
the field and so dear after it comes
out of the baker’s oven.
,——1t is predicted that the “lobby”
will be in great form and full swing
in Washington during the next ses-
sion. of Congress. The lobby is just
cleaning out in the court house, but cate the blame for the coal strike, recovering from the frost it got dur-
to be visible across the ocean. The in-"
SPAWL FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Charles Rubsir Jr., aged 5 years, of
Monessen, was killed by an ice cream truck
in front of his home.
—The Blair county Tuberculosis socie«
ty has been formed, with Charles E. Tore-
rance, of Altoona, president.
—O. P. Rockefeller, of Sunbury, sold
the Montour house, at Danville, to H. 8.
Williams, of Berwick, for $43,000. ’
—More than 25 per cent. of the jurors
summoned to serve during the third week
of the September term of court at Union- -
town, are women.
—Murder trials in Allegheny county are
being held up by the lack of sleeping
quarters for jurors, G. W. Connor, clerk .
in the district attorney’s office, announced
on Saturday. Until new quarters in the
jail building are provided, they will be
omitted from the lists: 2
—Automobile accidents resulted in deaths
of 548 persons in Pennsylvania during the
first six months of 1923 according to rec-
ords of the State Bureau of Vital Statis-
tics, announced recently. There was a to-
Ital of 18,385 deaths during the six months
period and 113,191 births.
—The contract between the city of Wil-
liamsport and the Lycoming Edison com-
pany, providing for the construction,
maintenance and operation of a system of
underground boulevard street lighting,
has been approved, the public service com-
mission announced on Saturday. The con-
tract runs for a ten-year period.
—A car load of merchandise on a switch
at the Tioga junction of the Erie Railroad
was broken into one night last week and
every last thing stolen except a large
tombstone. The burglars must have had a
sweet tooth, for among the plunder was
3500 pounds of sugar consigned to an Ar-
not grocer. A case of oil stoves was taken
to forestall any coal strike.
—Burgess Haines, of Sayre, recently ve-
toed the meaasure to reduce his salary
from $400 to $100, and his reasons for do-
ing so were read at a meeting of the bor-
ough council, but seven members of the
eight present voted to again pass the
measure. The ordinance fixing the bur-
gess’ salary at $100 a year was declared
carried over the veto of that official.
—Thomas Burns, of Erie, shot and ser-
iously wounded Mrs. Ruby Hill, his sister-
in-law, and then turned the weapon on
‘himself dying instantly, Monday afternoon
at the home of the young woman’s mother.
The shooting resulted when Mrs. Hill re-
fused Burns’ attentions, according to the
police, who said Mrs. Hill had previously
married the man’s brother but was divore-
ed.
—Announcement was made on Monday
of the merging of the Wilbur Coal Mining
company, the Knickerbocker Smokeless
Coal company and the Somerset Mining
company. under the name of the former
with a capitalization of $1,200,000, effective
September 1. The company will have its
offices in Johnstown. All the operations
of the merged corporation are in Somer-
‘set county.
- —Two bodies found within a few hours
of each other at Chester, Pa., has caused
the authorities to believe they are those
of two stowaways who leaped overboard
from a vessel at Marcus Hook some weeks
| ago. Both dead men, according to Coro-
mer Drewes, were Germans. One had 70,-
1000 marks in his pockets and the other had
40,000: "hey wore hurled on Saturday in.
{ potter’s field. hai :
—HBzra Yoder, 60 years old, a farmer re-
siding in the Kishacoquillas Valley, suf-
fered serious injuries on Sunday when
rolled between a telephone pole and an au-
tomobile. Yoder was walking home, after
attending an Amish church service near
Belleville, when he mounted the running-
board of an automobile driven by the Rev.
Jonas D. Yoder, who looked back to see
if his passenger was safe, it is said, and
the car collided with the telephone pole.
—With the closing down of the Claire
blast furnace at Sharpsville there are now
only six of the thirteen stacks in that dis-
trict in operation. There is every indica-
tion that the plate company, at Farrell,
will work steadily throughout the remain-
der of the year. Books are well filled with
orders and the mills running at capacity.
The Carnegie Steel company is also oper-
ating all departments at Farrell. Inde-
pendent steel companies are running their
plants at near capacity. :
—A Heffelfinger, for seventeen years
president of the East End Trust company,
of Harrisburg, shot and killed himself on
Friday in the basement of the bank build-
ing. Mr. Heffelfinger was 68 years old and
had been ill since April. The death of his
friend, City Commissioner W. H. Lynch,
several days previous, weighed heavinly on
his mind. State banking officials confirm-
ed announcements by officials of the Trust
company that its funds were intact, and
there were no financial difficulties.
—Attracted by a man leaving the Milady
Hat Shop in Pittsburgh with a sledge
hammer over his shoulder, early Sunday
morning, patrolman Paul Moore gave
chase and arrested the man. Returning to
the shop they found the safe cracked and
empty. Miss E. Benstead, manager of the
store, said she had placed $1,100 in it Sat-
urday night. The man gave his name as
Wilfer Wiltman, and his wife, who was
also taken into custody, said he was em-
ployed as a waiter at a local hotel.
—It has long been the custom of the
good housewives of McEwensville, just
before retiring Saturday night, to place
on the front porch or stoop milk buckets
with money sufficient to pay for the quan-
tity of milk they desire the peddler to
leave on his early morning rounds on Sun-
day, when the village usually sleeps a tri-
fle later than on other mornings. Some
thief, learning of this practice, last Sun-
day morning took advantage of it and
stole all the buckets with the entire vil-
lage’s milk money. He discarded the
buckets in an alley, where they were found
later in the day.
‘—Renewed efforts to extinguish a coal
mine fire near Mauch Chunk that has been
. burning for nearly sixty-five years are in
progress at the site of the old mine. Holes
are being drilled and these are to be fill-
ed with culm in an effort to smother the
flames. The mine, which is located on
Summit Hill mountain, was found to be on
fire early in 1859 and frequently since then
efforts have been made to extinguish it but
without success. The mine has been flood-
ed with water, holes have been drilled and
filled with culm and water and trenches
have been dug and barriers erected, but all
attempts have failed. Although the seat
of the flames is within the veins of coal
beneath the surface, the fire occasionally
makes its appearance, sometimes in blaz-
ing jets of gas and again in smoke and
steam, shooting from fissures in the
ground. How it started is not known, al-
though various stories have been told as
i ing the Wilson administrations,
to its source. es