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© INK SLINGS.
.—Don’t turn over any new leaves
unless you are absolutely determined
to keep them clean.
— Possibly the New England man-
ufacturers of war materials got the
Presidential ear first.
— Our old friend Venezelos has
“got his old job back,” but he may not
be able to work at it long.
If the average boy had to earn
the money with which to buy the gas
and the tires it would be a long time
between rides for him.
— If Henry Ford could control
votes as successfully as he builds au-
tomobiles his support of Coolidge
would be of some value.
. —About one more invention like
the radio and another game like mah
jongg and productive work will cease
entirely in many households.
— An earth tremor shook Tennes-
see the other day but Tennessee
shocked the Democrats all over the
country when it voted for the Repub-
lican candidate for President three
years ago.
—Here’s wishing the retiring coun-
ty officials good luck, in whatever
lines of endeavor they may elect to
follow, and their successors in office
exceptional capability in doing what
they were elected to do.
— While from all sections of the
State come reports that New Year's
eve was about as wet as boot leggers
could make it far more of Bellefonte’s
celebration came out of bells and
whistles than out of bottles.
— This is leap year, of course, but
even leap year ain’t what she used to
be. The flapper works too fast to re-
spect the old time limitations that
were put on her sisters as to their
right to pop the question.
—The only comfort that the dawn
of 1924 brought to the lot of organ-
ization Republicans who reluctantly
crawled onto the band wagon and
saved the day for Pinchot is that he
has only three more years to trouble
——Selling war materials to Mexi-
©o may make grave trouble for this
country in the future, but it provides
a promising market for New England
manufacturers of such wares now,
and everybody knows that “a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush.”
—My, Oh my! What might the
Woods boys not have done had their
distinguished daddy been elected Pres-
ident. If with the prestige of pop’s
being Governor General of the Phil-
ippines they could clean up millions
they would have Rockerfeller looking
like a piker had they had opportuni-
TA
Na pht,
—If you happened to know what
flashed through the old bean just now
you’d understand why the hundredth
day from this date looms big. It wiil
be the 15th of April. Momentarily we
recalled what a strenuous job we had
last fifteenth “kiddin’” two compan-
_Jens into cutting enough wood te-keep-
us warm while we told them how to do
the rest of the chores about the
camp.
sun spots were the cause. We have
just come through what has probably
‘been the mildest fall within the mem-
ory of most of you and of course we
look to science for explanation. As
always, science is there with the
‘high-brow stuff for us to swallow or
let alone. The Japanese earthquake
not only rent Nipon almost asunder,
but so transformed the bed of the
ocean that the gulf stream has been
thrown five hundred miles out of its
former course and in consequence we
are more favored by its warm winds.
Not being scienced in anything ex-
cept, possibly, the matter of starting
an“argument, we shall not attempt to
throw *dny: light of our own. on the
unseasonable weather further than to
say that if this gulf stream dope is
good and was responsible for our
thermometers standing at 52 degrees
when the “bells were ringing in the
New Year we advise every one to pack
all the ice they can get for we're cer-
tainly in for some torrid weather next
July.
‘—We once thought that the parents
were the only happy ones when vaca-
tion days were over for their little
folks and there was surcease, for a
few hours in the day, in the trials of
managing them. However, since the
schools have made study a pleasingly
‘interesting occupation, rather than
the drab, monotonous grind it once
was, we think the little ones are re-
ally glad to get back to their desks.
In truth we know a lot of them to
whom vacation is positively a bore,
after a day or so of it. They seem to
be unable to either amuse themselves
or occupy their time in any way and
for the most part are utterly at a
loss to know what to do next. Per-
haps this condition is due to the fact
that the yougster, the lad especially,
doesn’t play like his dad did. He
doesn’t seem to find any thrill or
pleasure in lugging store boxes or old
boards to some outlying common and
building a cabin and then organizing
a gang to lick the crowd that tore it
down the very next night after he had
it built. There is little of the rough,
muscle building ‘out of door play that
develops resourcefulness in the small
_ town boy of today. Pay amusements
shave diverted him and, we think, to
an extent are mollycoddling him so
that he must be given as much money
to spend as his dad dared to “blow”
when he had reached young manhood.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 4. 1924.
Justly Condemns the Propaganda.
In declaring that the organized
propaganda to force the Mellon tax
bill through Congress is a conspiracy
Representative Garner, of Texas, may
have been a trifle immoderate in lan-
guage. A conspiracy is “a combina-
tion of men for an evil purpose.”
That there is a combination scarcely
admits of doubt. Hundreds of thous-
ands of letters in precisely the same
language could hardly have happened
without understanding among those
who sent them or procured their send-
ing. But there may have been an
absence of evil in the purpose. Secre-
tary Mellon stands to save $100,000 in
his personal tax bill by the passage
of his tax bill and it would be unfair
to say that was any evil, so far as he |
is personally concerned.
But Representative Garner is fully
justified in protesting against the
propaganda. It is an insidious meth- |
od of accomplishing a purpose of |
doubtful character. The plain intent
is to compel senators and Representa-
tives in Congress to act under penal-
ty of the.enmity of those who write
the letters. In many cases the sign-
ers of the letters do not know the con-
tents of them. They are framed by
those who have a selfish interest in
the subject and are frequently signed
under duress. Every citizen has a le-
gal right to appeal to Representatives
in Congress to vote on any question
pending. But a citizen has no moral
right to compel or beguile others to
write letters which they don’t under-
stand for a selfish purpose.
Besides the propaganda of which
Representative Garner complains is
based on a false foundation. It is
said that unless the income tax on big
incomes is greatly reduced capital
will be withdrawn from industry and
commerce and that the industrial life
of the country will be paralyzed.
This is plain bunk. The owners of
capital which is earning from twenty
to fifty per cent. will not resort to
three per cent. securities because part
of their incomes is taken for taxes.
Any one who does that is heading for
the “bug house.” The multi million-
aires can afford to pay. The protec-
tion of their property and interests
Od mich ar Tuy to Te oll
ing to pay their share of the expenses.
——New York bankers are trying
to find out how much gold has been
deposited in banks outside of Germa-
ny by German capitalists and the es-
timate runs anywhere from one hun-
dred million to two billion dollars.
Either figure would go a long way in
settling the reparations question.
War Cleuds Hovering.
We sincerely hope that an incident
which occurred at a recent social event
at the White House will not lead to
grave international complications.
Grave international complications are
serious matters and should be avoid-
ed. But the newspaper writing men
at Washington are apprehensive. It
seems that at the last White House
dinner the German Ambassador, Dr.
Otto Wiedfeldt, was assigned as the
escort to the table of Baroness de
Cartier de: Marchienne, wife of the
Belgium Ambassador, and the lady
refused to accept the arrangement.
In other words she exercised a right
enjoyed by every American woman
and probably some others to select
her own escort.
There is'a good deal of feeling be-
tween Belgium and Germany as the
result of certain features of the late
war and the diplomatic men and wom-
en assume’ that they represent their
governments in social as well as oth-
er things.” Presumably the charming
Baroness had no other reason for ob-
jecting to the proximity of the learn-
ed German Ambassador on the occa-
sion in question. But diplomatic gos-
sip has aseribed to the incident some
sort of sinister slant and somebody is
now trying to conjure up a cause of
quarrel between Belgium and the
United States on the ground that the
Baroness insulted a guest of the Pres-
ident and’ thereby created a casus
belli between two friendly nations.
Of course President Coolidge is in
no respect responsible for the unfor-
tunate incident, though such a thing
has never gccurred before. One might
think, too, that it ought not to have
occurred. There could be nothing
more probable than a feeling of hos-
tility between the diplomatic repre-
sentatives ‘of Belgium and Germany,
and there would seem to be so many
ways of avoiding the juxtaposition
which would have occurred if the
leading lady in the comedy had been
less courageous or more acquiescent:
But the worst consequences, may be
avoided if ithe trouble is handled dip-
lomatically. It was obviously a sec-
retarial blynder and the statement un-
officially that Slemp slumped may
solve the problem.
— Senator Smoot, of Utah, the
“wise guy” of the Republican machine
in Washington, is of the opinion that
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Conference May Do Good.
The conference which opened at
Harrisburg, on Wednesday, for the
declared purpose of “enlisting the aid
of the people of Pennsylvania for the
suppression of lawlessness,” may ac-
complish much good. It is sponsored
by five non-political organizations
that have long been active in civic
‘improvement and have already achiev-
ed splendid results. They are the
Pennsylvania federation of churches,
the Anti-Saloon League, the Penn-
sylvania Women’s "Christian Union,
the Pennsylvania Sabbath School as-
sociation and the Pennsylvania Chris-
tian Endeavor Union. The Pennsyl-
vania State Grange, the Pennsylvania
State Teachers’ association and the
Federated Women’s Clubs of Pennsyl-
vania are participating in the work.
It may be assumed, though it has
not been announced, that the princi-
pal purpose of the conference is to
devise means for the better enforce-
ment of the prohibition laws. There
is much reason for anxiety on the part
of those composing these civic organ-
izations on this subject. There are’
most drastic laws on the statute
books for the prevention of the sale
and use of intoxicants as a beverage
but police records in the principal
cities indicate a woefully lax enforce-
ment of them. Good citizenship re-
quires the strict obedience to all laws
and whether in sympathy with the
aims of such legislation or not every
man and woman in Pennsylvania
should strive for improvement in the
methods of enforcement.
There is equal or even greater lax-
ity in the enforcement of other laws
which should receive the attention of
those composing the conference in
Harrisburg. The violation of the
election laws, for example, has been a
source of shame and scandal in Penn-
sylvania for many years, but no ser-
ious effort is made to enforce the laws
forbidding such evils. Corrupt use
of money at elections is forbidden by
the fundamental law of the State yet
candidates for office spend far in ex-
cess of the amount that might be dis-
bursed for legitimate expenses and no
complaint is ae or if prosecutions
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flicted.
anxiety.
——Taking advantage of the usual
lull in business during the holiday
season the areo mail service was cut
out from the day before Christmas
until the day after New Year... Durs
ing that period every ship in the
service was gone over and thoroughly
stabilized so as to reduce to a min-
imum the possibility of accidents in
the future.
Detrich’s Resignation No Surprise.
The resignation of Mr. A. Nevin
Detrich, who since the adoption of
the administrative code has been di-
rector of publications in the Pinchot
official family, is not surprising. De-
trich is a shrewd politician and
doesn’t underestimate his value. He
probably contributed more than any
other individual to Mr. Pinchot’s nom-
ination, which was accomplished by
fooling the leaders of the opposition.
They never suspected that Pinchot
was spending money with unexampled
liberality. Detrich handled the funds
and did it so skillfully as to complete-
ly decieve such past masters as chair-
man Baker and those associated with
him in the support of Mr. Alter. It
was a striking example of political
finesse.
Naturally Mr. Detrich expected that
the value of his achievement would be
appreciated after the election of his
candidate. In this expectation every
experienced observer of politics con-
curred. Nobody supposed he would
be placed in a station below Secretary
of the Commonwealth. But the best
offered him was superintendent of pub-
lic printing under the old regime. Yet
that wasn’t a bad job. The salary
was fairly generous and it was an in-
dependent department. The adoption
of the code altered conditions, how-
ever. Director of publications is a
minor office under the director of pub-
lic grounds and property, which is a
sort of bureau under control of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
And there’s the rub. Dr. Clyde
King, who knows about as much prac-
tical politics as the average puddler
knows about constructing a watch,
and is said to be as arrogant as Cae-
sar, began butting into the affairs of
the bureau of publications and made
the official life of the director intol-
erable. Protests made no impression
on the hypnotized mind of Pinchot and
Detrich had no alternative but res-
ignation. Of course he leaves the
service ‘of the administration in any-
thing but an amiable frame of mind
and the chances are he will attach
himself to the opposition tc Mr. Pin-
chot’s future ambitions. It may be
added that he will have no trouble in
getting an assignment to service.
the bonus get will be passed over the
President's. veto.
— "May every day of the new year
bring happiness to our readers.
District Republicans in Conference at
DuBois. :
Leaders in the Republican organ-
ization in the counties composing the
21st Congressional district met in Du-
Bois yesterday for the purpose of
forestalling, if possible, troublesome
developments in the coming campaign
for delegates to their National con-
vention.
County chairman Frank Mayes, ed-
itor T. H. Harter, of the Gazette, and
prothonotary Roy Wilkinson were the
representatives from this end of Cen-
tre county. 3
While we have no report of the ac-
tion of the conference if it ran true
to the pre-arranged program the two
delegates from the District were as-
signed to McKean and Clearfield coun-
ties and it is to be understood that
whoever they may be they will be for
Coolidge.
As to whether editor Harter un-
dertook to throw a monkey wrench
into the machinery by injecting his
friend Pinchot into the discussion on
“the favorite son” basis and, if he
did, how far he got with it, we are not
advised. Mr. Harter was about the
only active Republican leader in the
county who was for Pinchot as
against Alter, but as his recompense,
up to this time, has been the tender
of only an honorary job—with no pay
—it may be possible that he has aban-
doned Gif. as a potential plum tree
hope.
Whatever the outcome of the con-
ference may have been the way is not
smooth as it might look. If Hi John-
son and Pinchot should finally decide
to go after the Pennsylvania delega-
tion and set up candidates in this Dis-
trict there is likely to be as much fun
as there was four years ago, when
Col. Theodore Davis Boal and Mel-
ville Gillett, of McKean, catapulted
themselves into the race, after the
conference slate had been announced,
and made a runaway of it.
——Many people in Centre county,
and especially down Nittany valley,
remember Will Truckenmiller, the
farmer poet who years ago used to
a regular x3 of verse to the
ew
his far off home in Blackfalds, Ont, |
he sent a ting to this paper be-
fore Christmas in which he reported
splendid weather there with the far-
mers just completing their threshing
season. The wheat yields there av-
erage from 60 to 70 bushels to an.
acre, with high yields at 105. Oats
“turn out from 150 to 200 bushels.
Wheat, however, is selling at 73
cents a bushel, oats 25, rye 40 and
barley 30. Eggs bring 45 cents a
dozen, butter 35 cents a pound and
milk 10 cents a quart. Many of the
older residents of that country are
selling out and going to California to
spend their declining years.
em — eimai.
Pinchot Has Leaders Guessing.
Governor Pinchot has « the Republi-
can leaders of Pennsylvania guessing,
according to the political dopesters of
the Sunday papers. He refuses to
“show his hand.” The United States
Senators, the chairman of the State
committee and most of the Congress-
men want to declare for Coolidge for
President and are afraid to do so un-
til Pinchot has indicated his program.
That vast fortune of the Pinchot fam-
ily, constantly increasing by inherii-
ances from one source or another, is
the disturbing cause. If he taps his
barrel there is no telling what may.
happen, and there is a constant fear
in the minds of the bosses that he will
“spring the bung” any old time.
If the Governor would declare him-
self a candidate for President the
tension would be relieved. It may be
said that the leaders are not much
afraid of Pinchot as > candidate. He
has made so many blunders as Gov-
ernor and alienated so many of his
former friends by his eccentricities
that even the most profligate dis-
bursements of funds would not make
him formidable. But there is a cur-
rent suspicion’that he may open his
barrel in the interest of Senator Hi-
ram Johnson, of California, and that
is a menace to be seriously consider-
ed. Hungry Hi has a considerable fol-
lowing among the radicals of the par-
ty and it is greatly feared that with
Pinchot’s help the Roosevelt forces
might be organized for him. oe
The leaders have practically agreed
upon the eight delegates-at-large to
the Cleveland convention. Senators
Pepper and Reed, State chairman Ba
ker, former Governor Sproul, Mayor
Kendrick, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Bér-
clay Warburton, of that city, and
Secretary of the Treasurer Mellor
Pittsburgh, are certain to be
Governor Pinchot can have the othe
seat in the delegation if he ‘will yrom-
ise to be good, and the honor will be
kept open for ur
iim for some time yet.
But if he fails to “toe the mark” with-
in a reasonable time Congressman
McFadden, of Canton, will ‘be given
the place. He is a prime fayorite
'sylvania and should prove of
= | the ascertainment of the exten
which the operators. of the
‘land other details concerning the bus
| mess... No rules yet «devised are s¢
jer | enforcing; ‘and there must be
NO. 1.
Hanna Tactics Recalled.
From the Philadelphia Record. } 2
Announcement by Senator am
Johnson that he intends to make a
vigorous campaign for the election of
Southern delegates favorable to him-
self to the Republican National con-
vention, in opposition to President
Coolidge, will recall to some old-tim-
ers the historic contest of this kind
which was just getting under way 28
years ago. The leading Republican
candidates for the Presidential nomi-
nation at that time were Governor
William McKinley, of Ohio, who was
actively backed by Mark Hanna;
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, of ine,
and General Russell Alger, of Mich-
igan, who had nothing to recommend
him except the possession of a for-
tune of several million dollars, a con-
siderable part of which he was will-
ing to expend in the purchase of ve-
nal G. O. P. statesmen from the
Southern States. Nobody else. con-
sidered Alger in any way fitted for
the Presidency, but he had the ob-
session badly, and for several years
had made the bagging of mercenary
politicians rather a specialty of his
own.
Fully appreciating these alluring
tactics of the Michigander, Mark Han-
na resolved to outwit him, and early
in the winter of 1895-6 found that his
health made it imperative that he
should spend the cold season in the
more genial climate of Georgia. Tak-
ing up his temporary residence there,
he spread his nets for the drab birds
of the Gulf region and adjoining
States, and managed so adroitly that
when General Alger’s emissaries ap-
peared on the scene with plethoric
pocketbooks they discovered that they
were too late. The whole South sim-
ply reeked with McKinley enthusiasm,
and it was with great difficulty and at
terrible expense that an Alger dele-
gate could be picked up here and
there. When the national convention
met, in 1896, Hanna’s man had a
walkover in carrying off the nomina-
ion.
The Hanna tradition has descended
to ex-Postmaster General Frank H.
Hitchcock, who practiced his methods
with pronounced success in 1908 and
1912. Indeed, it was largely because
of the shameless manner in which the
Southern delegates were manipulated
in 1912 that Theodore Roosevelt balk-
ed the nomination of Taft and ran as
Moose candida ~ And 1 ow
“Senator Johnson's 3
paign manager, and it is announced
that he will make a fight for the Cal-
ifornian in the Alabama primaries.
Against him will be pitted that purist
in politics, Private Secretary Slemp,
of Virginia, who is no novice in the
game, especially as understood by
southern Republicans. There may be
an interesting fight, but we doubt it.
Unless all signs are at fault, Mr.
Coolidge and his private secretary
have the contest well in hand, just as
Mark Hanna had, by exercising a wise
provision, and there will probably
be no more vociferous Coolidge dele-
gates at Cleveland than those who
will travel up from the sunny South.
Democratic Hopes Running High.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Woodrow Wilson’s confidence that
1924 “is to be a year of Democratic
triumph” will be shared by many mil-
lion Americans, judging by all recent
election returns. One thing that is
producing this reaction is the appar-
ently inevitable Republican propensi-
ty to what may be gently termed
financial looseness. Just at present
there is very much in the public eye
a stripling of 26, son of a prominent
personage, who pretends that he has’
cleared up nearly $800,000 in a year
by long-range speculations. This is
such an astounding performance that
Congress is anxious to learn just how
it was done. Then there was the
leasing of the Teapot Dome oil re-
serves by Secretary Fall to Sinclair,
the oil magnate, who soon after gave
him $10,000 for a European trip. Con-
currently with this scandal came those
in the Veterans’ Bureau, in many
ways the most shocking revelations of
official mismanagement since Civil
war days. And there are many oth-
ers. Compare all this rottenness with
the eight years of clean Democratic
administration, and it is easy to see
why Democratic hopes are running |,
high.
Survey Should Prove of Value. bi
From The Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A motor-transport survey carried,
on jointly by Federal and State high-!
way officials, is being made in Penn
most value in determining nl
the volume and character, the*ro
and the commodities, but in assist
in the laying out of new: roads and*
deciding upon the:material best
ed to the service required. of it. A
er useful result of the survey will
ul a=
transport vehicles' obey the reg or
tiohs ‘governing ‘the’ maximum weig
way of making really effective 8
wholesome regulations; for the pr
vatign of the road surfaces and
protection of the rights of all who
the public highways as experie
dient.
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with corporate interests and big buss
iness and always willing to serve on
wait. : vi o
— President Coolidge’s interest in:
the common. people increases as the
Presidential election approaches.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—T¥Four thousand five hundred and fifty-
two eriminal cases were disposed of im
Allegheny county in 1923.
—After serving the Pennsylvania rail«
road for 50 years, Samuel E. Hyle, station
agent at Spruce Creek, will go on the roll
of honor Monday. :
—The Northumberland Commissioners
awarded $10,800 of gasoline tax money to
Sunbury and Upper Augusta township to
be used in improving roads entering the
city.
—T. Van C. Phillips, justice of the peace
in Chester county, has received a hand-
some gold chronometer which had come to
him recently from the estate of the Duc
de Moro, of England, whose title he in-
herits.
—Railroad detectives claim that more
than fifty robberies from Pennsylvania
Railroad freight cars have been cleared up
with the arrest on Saturday of John C.
Kirkpatrick, of New Kensington; Frank
BE. Wagner, of Natrona, and John T. Bar-
bour, of Pittsburgh.
—Robbers entered the Cohen Brothers
furniture store at Uniontown on Saturday
night, worked the combination of the
vault and escaped with $2,200 in money.
Merchandise in the store was not disturb-
ed. An entrance was forced by sawing
steel bars over a rear window.
—1In an’ open letter Dr. F. W. Black,
chief surgeon at the Lewistown hospital,
offers $2,000 reward for information trac-
ing the origin of stories reflecting on his
character and also leading to the discov-
ery of the identity of persons who, it is al-
leged, have made two attempts upon his
life.
—Cyrus E. Woods, American Ambassa«
dor to Japan, was taken to the Universi
ty hospital, Philadelphia, on Saturday
afternoon suffering from inflammation of
the right shoulder, with which he was
stricken while in Washington, last Wed-
nesday. His illness is not considered of
a serious nature,
—On petition of creditors, Judge Thom-
as F. Bailey, of Huntingdon, last week
appointed Andrew S. Webb, of Philadel-
phia, receiver for the Joseph E. Thropp
company, Inc, which operates iron and
coal mines and coke ovens in Pennsylva-
nia and Virginia. The assets were given
as $2,400,000 and the liabilities $1,300,000.
—Because he proved to be a friend as
well as an employe, David M. Foulkrod, of
Jersey Shore, has been named sole execu-
tor and heir to about $30,000 in a will made
by the late Mrs. Anna Klasner, The en-
tire estate of the deceased save $100 left
for the upkeep of her cemetery lot, was
left unreservedly to her friend and em-
ploye, David M. Foulkrod, and his heirs
and assigns forever.
is a master diamond thief, was arrested
on the back porch on the second-floor
apartment of J. M. Lloyd, at Sunbury, on
Sunday night by Northumberland police
after Mrs. Lloyd had called them by tel-
ephone. In his pockets were more than
$100 and $300 more at his boarding house.
He denied any intention of crime. Dor-
man as already served three terms in the
penitentiary. A
—B. J. Gill, one time state policeman,
but recently chief of police of Coalport,
was convicted in the Clearfield county
i :
ing and furnishing Hquor illegally, ‘and
will be sentenced some day this week. For
a time Gill was assistant chief of police of
Philipsburg. A moonshiner named Bloom !
testified that Gill would come to his place
and carry away moonshine without pay-
ing a cent for it.
+Following a drunken Sunday carous-
alion poisoned liquor at a lumber camp
fiear Alexandria, Frank Leitz and his’
brother Robert, lumbérmen, quarreled, and
Frank was ejected from Robert's shanty.
About midnight Robert went to Fran
shanty with a shotgun, and is alleged to!
have shot his brother in the! back ‘inthe’
presence of his wife and three! childiién.
The wounded man died about 3 o’elgcky
Monday morning before medical aidicomld
reach him. dala
—Jacob W. Wisler, of Montgomery
county, left an unopened will which will”
govern the future distribution of his es-:
tate of nearly $25,000. In an. adjudication
announced by Judge Soily, Wisler gives
his wife the use of property at Trappe,
together with the income of his whole ‘es-
tate, with the right to use some of the
principal ‘as may be necessary, so long as’
she remains his ‘widow. In case of Her’
remarriage, or at her death, the remainder!
of the estate is ‘to! be distributed in ac-,
cordance with another will, which is to be.
opened only upon either the death or re-
marriage of his widow. : ¢
—Hidden away in boxes and.trunks and
out-of-the-way nooks and corners in the,
house in, which she lived, more, than $200,
in various, amounts and denominations
have been found by relatives, since .the
death’ of Mrs. Catherine GeeSey Kember-
ling, in her former home ner Reese Sta-
tion, Blair county. Seventy dollars of the
sum found was in’ bills ranging from $1,
2, $5, to $10; the sum of! $27.50. was (in
gold ; $20 was in silver half‘dollars and $6
in dimes. Besides this there was a num-
ber of silver and trade, dollars, nickels,
silver half dimes, three and two cent piec-
es, a quart of pennies and a lot of old
copper cents and half cents. hon
} —An_ explosion of gas last Thursday,
ceked, the ome of Samuel Mears, at
dge, and caused serious injury, to
iri members of the family. “The entire
ond’ floor’ was. blown: high into the air
the roof’ Hitact until “ft fell. The ex’
n occurred whet, (Mears touched a’
{the New York tral gy
ing that his" pension’ would Svide'
: rts ‘of life fort his wife,
| been an“iiivaiid for the past twelve’
nee Gaba te fel 1 daneek dl ah itda
may find to be necessary and expes: Johnson'in a fit! of mental depression; ides.
ton’ gas stove in a'second floor (béd-
and fell to the first floor, the ceiling
g Having. collapsed. , His wife and .a daugh-
tl iter, Catherine, who ‘were in the room be-
ow, were buried under’ plaster and debris.
Tarold' Mears, a son, was carried up with
tHe ‘roof.’ All'were badly burned’and tak-
boii. to .a" hospital. | The detonation’ broke
any ‘windows in' the vicinity.’ {wl
s% || “__yodeph ' H. Johnson, of Beech Creek,
who wounded himself in the right cheek
when Nel fired" a revolver into his head ’be-
low. the right ear in an: attempt to end
his life, is (recovering and’ will soon be; re-
‘stored; to his uspal health. Mp. Johsson
: was. rereutly placed om, the ‘honor roll of
entral railroad, ‘and fears:
A
the comforts of life h
years,
‘cided to shoot:-himself. In the past twelve
| years he has<not only worked steady ito
bring, a.substantial income into the home;
but, has had entire care of his wife, losing
much sleep, which brought about a ner
ous bieakdown and’ nielancholia. !
—Arthur Dorman, who, the police say, :
court on charges of transporting, possess-
3, He was blown, through ‘a foursinch: