INK SLINGS.
—Writes H. H. G. to Levi P., I quite
agree, that a “nip” o’ “tea,” is just the
thing for you and me.
—Possibly Secretary Mellon is mad
‘because Senator Couzens has pretty
_ near as much money as he has:
- —Among the appropriation bills re-
ported out of committee on Tuesday
‘was one for $1,055,000 for the west-
ern penitentiary.
—Herbert Hoover is still in the
“Cabinet, but one hears little of him
‘these days. Can it be that Herb. has
xun out of ideas?
—The Schantz bill providing for the
retail sale of oysters by count, instead
of by measure as now, will get the
purchaser nowhere. Dealers will just
«charge that much more for the bi-
‘valves and be in the soup.
—-Senators LaFollette, Frazier,
‘Brookhart and Ladd, having been
summarily kicked out of the Republi-
can household, are probably not wor-
rying as much about where they will
go as are those who evicted them.
—We’re for the bill introduced in
the Legislature, Monday, by Repre-
sentative Derby, of Lackawanna. It
is designed to prevent candidates for
-office from running on more than one
party ticket. It will not be passed,
but it ought to.
—If the Legislature were smart it
‘would pass its special hospital bills,
put them up to the Governor and then
act on his pet measures in the light of
what he does to the bills the Members
and their constituency back home are
really most interested in.
—TRobins are here aplenty, spring is
just eight days in the offing, winter
flannels are getting scratchy, rhubarb
is bulging through the ground and the
lawn mower is looking like it needs
sharpening and grease. But wait—
the saplin bender, the poor man’s ma-
nure and the onion snows are yet to
come.
—The President gave one of his
«clerks a ten dollar prize for suggest-
ing possible economies to be effected
in running the White House, then he
rode to the other end of the Avenue
and signed the bill increasing the pay
.of Senators and Congressmen to the
aggregate of nearly a million dollars
a year.
—The House committee on railroads
killed the full crew bill on Tuesday.
It was a very proper action, for a full
«crew, as the bill interpreted it, merely
meant a few more needless men riding
on trains at present sufficiently man-
ned, and being paid for the snit by
shippers of freight and passengers on
the same trains.
—The technical reason for the de-
motion. Mitchell is given as
criticism of his superior officers. The
~real reason was fear on the part of
his swivel-chair over-lords that the
country ‘would discover that when it
comes down to real knowledge of con-
«ditions in the army and navy General
Mitchell has no superior officers.
—Suggestions for saving what the
enemy is disposed to describe as “the
wreck of the Democratic ship” are as
numerous as those for the cure of
coughs, cold and consumption. Every
political quack in the country has a
nostrum to be tried. The party has
been doping itself with that kind of
stuff too much these last twenty
years. It is not a wreck. It is only
in a fog that has thrown it off its
course. Let us chuck the un-Demo-
cratic panaceas overboard and sail the
course charted by Jefferson and Jack-
son and it will come into a port of vic-
tory in 1928.
—We hear that residents of south
Spring street are going to fight the
proposal to widen that thoroughfare.
The block in question is no narrower
than five others on the same street
and is exceeded in width by only two
other streets in town. It is wider
than many city streets that are carry-
ing far heavier traffic and, naturally,
some of its residents are up in arms
against the proposal. Council will
probably do as it pleases in the mat-
ter, but, from news filtering in here,
not before there has been a show-
down as to the rights of the borough
and those of the property holders.
—In sustaining a verdict for ten
thousand dollars awarded a Philadel-
phia woman by a lower court for in-
juries sustained by her husband, when
he was run down by an automobile at
a street crossing, the U. S. Circuit
court of appeals, on Tuesday handed
down an opinion of great interest to
every automobile driver. The court
held that on a street crossing the pe-
destrian has the paramount right and
every driver of a car, no matter what
the signals or other conditions may
be, must approach a crossing with his
car under such control that he or she
can stop on the shortest possible no-
tice.
—Vice President Dawes could have
saved the President the humiliation of
having his appointee for Attorney
General of the United States rejected
by the Senate, had he been in his place
on Tuesday to cast the vote that would
have broken the tie and confirmed the
nomination of Charles Beecher War-
ren. Gen. Dawes may plead misinfor-
mation as to when the vote on War-
ren would be taken but the public re-
members that Warren, chairman of the
resolutions committee at the Cleve-
land convention, was the only member
of the Michigan delegation who refus-
ed to vote to put Dawes on the ticket
for Vice President. It was the first
rejection of a cabinet appointment in
fifty-seven years and there is likely
to be a “hell and Maria” time about it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
Couzens Refused Seat on Finance
Committee.
The press dispatches from Wash-
ington indicate pretty clearly that
boss government is to be the rule in
the future. The action of the Re-
publican Senators in excluding from
their councils all members of that
body who supported LaFollette was
promptly followed by similar ostrac-
ism in the House. Now it appears that
recalcitrants, whether they supported
LaFollette or not, are to be penalized
and only those who swear allegiance
to the machine may expect favors.
This was demonstrated beyond ques-
tion in the refusal of the Republican
Senatorial caucus to give Senator
Couzens, of Michigan, a coveted seat
at the table of the Senate committee
on finance, though his fitness for that
office is obvious.
Senator Couzens is a very able man
and has had much experience in big
business affairs, but he is a trifle too
independent. When he entered the
Senate, by appointment, as the suc-
cessor of the disgraced and despised
Newberry he might have assumed a
leading position in the chamber. But
he didn’t approve of some of the
methods in vogue by the party mana-
gers and as the head of a subcommit-
tee charged with an inquiry into oper-
ations of the treasury aroused the
antagonism of Secretary Mellon. His
opposition to the Mellon tax bill fur-
ther incensed the party managers and
vent his election. This was deemed
unwise, however, and he was allowed
to go through.
Bat recent events lead to the belief
that he has not been forgiven. His
efficient service in the investigation
of the Treasury had given him a fond-
ness for details in treasury opera-
tions and he expressed, “through the
regular channels,” a desire for a place
propositions.
agencies have been set in motion to
defeat his ambition in that direction
and the caucus decided to fill the va-
cancy on! that committee by appoint-
ing Wadsworth, a harmless but par-
tisan nobody. Couzens will be chair-
map of the, Gixil Service committee,
aaa be able to make
the machine regret that it snubbed
him by refusing his modest request.
——Those Democratic Senators who
forces to organize the Senate are
sufficient rope is provided the Repub-
lican machine will “hang itself.”
Not an Enduring Triumph.
The little flurry of independence re-
vealed in the Senate, in Washington
on Saturday, when in spite of the op-
position of the administration forces
the consideration of the nomination
of Charles B. Warren, for Attorney
General, was in open session should
not be construed as a guarantee of
future freedom from machine control.
So many Senators had committed
themselves on the subject in advance
of the crisis which came unexpectedly
on Saturday that any other result
was impossible. A refusal to treat
the subject in open session would have
been stultification to all those Sena-
tors who demanded publicity during
and before the Harding regime.
Through a temporary victory over
invisible government the event was
an achievement of considerable value.
It enabled Senator Walsh, of Mon-
tana, to lay before the country the
record of the nominee and inferential-
ly expose the influences which con-
trol the Coolidge appointments to
office. “Confirm this nomination,”
Senator Walsh declared, “and you
may as well hang out a sign that for
the life of this administration the
Sherman act is suspended. Confirm
this man and extend an invitation to
every plundering monopoly in this
country to do what it pleases.” Mr.
Warren served the Sugar trust not
as an attorney but as an agent to
crush out opposition and create a
monopoly.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, led the
independent forces against the ma-
chine and made the strong point that
in discriminating against the Sen-
ators who voted for LaFollette the
constituents rather than the Senators
were penalized. But it is not safe
to depend on Borah in future emer-
gencies. He “thunders in the index”
but yields to the force of circum-
stances and the machine has a way
of getting and using him when it
needs his services. In this instance
he served the public well and maybe
willingly. But in a graver matter he
is likely to serve the machine with
equal zeal and efficiency. The result
of his course was satisfactory on Sat-
urday but not an assurance for the
future.
The late President Ebbert, of
Germany, didn’t accomplish much but
the people there will be lucky if his
successor does as well.
for a time it was their purpose to pre- |
on the committee that handles tax |
But some underground ;
indirectly helped the administration |
probably acting on the theory that if |
Impending Fight for Senator.
The friends of Senator Pepper pro-
fess complete confidence that he will
be renominated and re-elected next
year, notwithstanding the opposition
of Vare, Grundy and Pinchot. It is
| certain that this triumvirate will be
against him in whatever form will
! prove most effective. Vare and Pin-
chot are aspirants for the favor and
i each hopes that he will be chosen as
i the entrant. Mr. Grundy would pre-
fer a candidate of his own selection
but is willing to yield to exigencies
and accept either of the others. But
they will go the limit to defeat Pep-
‘per. They are all practical men and
political traders who will hesitate at
‘nothing to accomplish their purpose,
“which is to force Pepper “off the po-
litical map.”
The friends of Senator Pepper base
"their confidence in his success against
the combination of Vare, Grundy and
Pinchot, in whatever form it may as-
' sume, on an analysis of the vote for
; delegate-at-large to the Republican
, National convention last spring. In
: that contest Mr. Pepper polled 560,133
{ votes against 500,950 for Vare and
304,036 for Pinchot. Pepper and Vare
| had the support of the organization
{ alike, so that it is obvious that Vare
is the weaker as between them. Pin-
chot’s strength may be characterized
i as purely personal, though in the ear-
| ly stages of the campaign he was in the
; machine favor. In the impending con-
| test Vare will be opposed by the ma-
' chine outside of Philadelphia.
The combined vote of Vare and Pin-
chot in the selection of delegate to the
convention considerably exceeded that
of Senator Pepper, but it is not prob-
able that it could be combined on eith-
er of them even under agreement of
the leaders. In Philadelphia most of
those who supported Pinchot last year
would go to Pepper against Vare and
the personal following of the Gover-
nor in the rural sections could hardly
be delivered to Vare as against any
other candidate. Still there is an ele-
ment of uncertainty in the equation.
Pinchot and Vare are both very rich
men and in support of their ambitions
exceedingly liberal. Both of them
have long cherished a desire to occu
py a seat in the United States Senate.
——The good of the service, accord-
ing to the interpretation of Secretary
Weeks, requires subordinate officers to
perjure themselves to cover up the
| blunders of their superiors.
Undesirable Legislation.
The Newspaper Legislative bulle-
tin, to which we made reference last
week, calls attention to a pending
measure the purpose of which seems
to be to conceal information that
ought to be made public. It is known
as Senate bill 390, and provides for
“the repeal of all laws requiring the
publication of mercantile appraisers’
lists.” It was introduced by Senator
Griswold on February 18th, and is
still in committee. No reasons have
been given for such legislation though
it may be assumed the purpose is to
save the expense of publication. A
cursory examination of the measure
fails to reveal any merit to justify it.
It might cause loss rather than gain
to the taxpayers.
As the bulletin observes, there is no
, demand on the part of the public that
this information be withheld. It is
important that the people should
know what mercantile taxes are paid
and which of the merchants in the
several communities pays them, and
the expense of the publication of the
lists under existing laws is not great.
The author of the measure may have
imagined that his action would spite
some local publisher or punish some
personal enemy. Or he may have had
some other good or ulterior idea in
his mind. But he has adopted a
doubtful medium in either event. Pub-
licity does no harm to any just cause
and saving money is not always wise
in public affairs.
Secrecy is not desirable in the ad-
ministration of public affairs. More
crime has been covered up, more graft
encouraged by concealment than in
any other way. Public officials who
are performing their duties properly
have no need of concealment. As a
rule they prefer full publicity of their
operations. The public is not nig-
gardly, either. Just obligations are
cheerfully met and discharged. It is
only wasteful expenditures that are
complained of, and giving needed or
desired information to the public is
not wasteful, if the cost is fair and
reasonable. Senator Griswold should
recall his legislation on this subject.
Or it should be defeated.
rn ps — fr ————
——The Senate may adopt a clo-
ture but it will not be moved to that
‘action by the methods adopted by
Vice President Dawes.
The sarcophagus of King Sene-
fero has been discovered and the
search for ancient relics is making
gratifying progress.
Brigadier General Mitchell has paid
the penalty of telling the truth con-
cerning the - inefficiency of certain
bureaus of the government. He has
been reduced to the rank .of Colonel
and will probably never be allowed to
rise higher. Beaurocratic govern-
ment can’t afford criticism and a sub-
ordinate officer who has brains must
suppress his opinions or withdraw
from the service. General Mitchell
felt that it was his duty to give the
public information upon a subject of
which he is an acknowledged master.
His superior officers assumed that the
public has no right to know how well
or ill they perform their work, Mitch-
ell was admonished to remain silent
but paid no heed.
The beginning of the quarrel was
in’ the publication of opinions which
General Mitchell held with respect to
the relative value of the air service as
a defensive agent compared with the
army and navy. Before venturing an
expression he submitted the matter to
the President who replied that if his
theories were not objected to by his
superior officers they might be pub-
lished. Thereupon he outlined his
theories to his immediate superior
who offered no objection to the publi-
cation of a series of articles in a mag-
azine. But the Secretary of War
adopted a different view of the ques-
tion and controversy followed which
led to a Congressional investigation
in which bitter animosities developed.
In beaurocratic government secrecy
is essential, for the blunders as well
as the crimes of those in control must
be kept in concealment. That being
true, if it is the policy of our public
officials to promote beaurocratic
methods General Mitchell made a
grave mistake in exposing the secrets
of the service. On the other hand, if
the purpose of those in authority. is to
take the public into their confidence
and strive for improvement, if not
perfection, in administration, it would
seem that General Mitchell has been
unjustly punished for the fulfillment
of a moral obligation to the people.
In any event it would seem to any
falt minded observer that there is
ymething wrong in Washington. |
——Unless the present Legislature
changes the date it is just thirty-
three days to the opening of the trout
fishing season and we know a number
of men who are already becoming as
restless as a one armed paper hanger
with a bad attack of hives. Of course
the tang of spring is in the air, the
sap is running and the lure of the
great outdoors is coursing through
the blood of man. Then it is also re-
ported that this should be a good
year for trout. Most of the streams
were liberally stocked last fall and
while the winter was long and. cold
none of the mountain streams were
frozen dry so that trout fishing should
be good.
—The Governor and Dr. Ellie Pot-
ter think that appropriations to state
hospitals should be made in a lump
sum so that Ellie can dole it out to
them according to the whim that seiz-
es her. Section 15 of Article III of
the organic law of the State specific-
ally says that all such appropriations
“shall be made by separate bills each
embracing but one subject.” - But
what’s the constitution between Gif.
and Ellie.
—The United dry bill is having its
own troubles in the Legislature. The
druggists, the paint manufacturers,
the candy makers, all have been pick-
ing it to pieces and the Grange pro-
tests against placing its enforcement
on the Department of Agriculture.
Even Dr. Clyde King, Pinchot’s yes
man, refuses to assume the burden of
having his department take it on.
——A movement has been started
at Mifflinburg to induce the State
Highway Department to take over the
fourteen mile Narrows between that
place and Woodward, Centre county.
Petitions will be sent to the depart-
ment in the near future presenting the
reasons why the State should add this
piece of road to its primary system.
——It is said that our Governor
was the most picturesque feature of
the inaugural parade and nobody en-
joyed the distinction more than Giff.
——The leases of the Teapot Dome
may be broken and the government
rights restored but the credit is not
due to the Republican party.
mm — pf ————
——Senator Couzens may get him-
self into a law suit but it is a safe bet
that the other fellow will find trouble
in pressing it. ‘
————————— a ———
~——President Coolidge preaches po-
litical morality but practices machine
methods.
——Experience is a dear teacher
but in most cases it is worth all it
costs.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 13, 1925.
| Punished for Telling the Truth. |
From the Philadelphia Record.
‘compensation on a higher level than
NO. 11.
Johnny Ward, Oldtimer.
The recent announcement from
Georgia of the death there of John
Montgomery Ward must have stirred
the heart-strings and the memories of
many a gray-haired baseball fan; and
it should also have drawn the inexpen-
sive tribute of a tear from every pro-
fessional ball player of this day, for
it was Ward, more than any other one
man, who made possible the princely
salaries that the athletic employees of
organized baseball now enjoy.
Long before he became John Mont-
gomery Ward, Esq., of the New York
bar, Johnny Ward was a big figure in
the national game. Since he was born
in Bellefonte (the date was March 3,
1860), it was natural that if he went
to college at all the State College
there should get him. It did, and he
made the baseball team, of course. It
was there that he learned (among the
first) to pitch a curved ball. He pitch-
ed later for Renovo, for the Philadel-
phia Athletics and other teams in this
State; but it was with the old Provi-
dence Grays that he made his first big
hit in the professional ranks. Then
New York got him, and in the metrop-
olis he attained a popularity which
was a match—or as near as it could
be in those days—for that now enjoy-
ed by Babe Ruth. ;
Ward was a great player—a great
pitcher and a still greater shortstop
—but it is as an organizer and a fight-
er for the rights of his fellows that
he will be longest remembered in the
game. When the Brotherhood fight
broke out in 1890 he took the Brook-
lyn Players’ League under his leader-
ship and won an honorable peace.
From this grew those several agree-
ments between magnates and players
which gave the latter the large share
of profits many of them now enjoy
from their athletic activities.
The Irresponsible Conflict.
Frank Simonds in American Review of Re-
views. f
Only the French veto prevents Ger-
many from being as great or even
greater in the Europe of today than
she was in the Europe of 1918. If the
Europe which was created after the
war endures, it will be Plainly Because
French power has supplied to the new
States that period of time necessary
for them to become feneible States
Themselves. If Germany is n t, a
quarter of a century hence; Tiamas-)
cause France has prevented it; and
French policy is based ‘ the ines-
capable fact that in a Europe domi-
nated by a supreme Germany, French
security and French independence are
both impossible * *
. If Germany were actually crushed,
if it were possible to imagine such a
condition, French security would be
absolute; if France were smashed
there would be no single force or com-
bination of forces in Europe which
could deny Germany a continental su-
premacy greater than that of any
State since the age of Napleon the
Great. But, as it stands, the mini-
mum of each, from its own point of
view, seems to the other to deny a
corresponding minimum. Compro-
mise has proved impossible, funda-
mental conditions have worsened,
Franco-German relations have been
and are unmistakably leading all Eu-
rope toward another abyss. That is
the solemn fact, the supreme fact of
contemporary European history.
Brighter Plumage for Man.
I'rom the New York Sun.
With the arrival of Monsieur R. de
Tirtoff Erte from Paris the life of the
American male at once becomes pros-
pectively brighter. M. Erte is a de-
signer of clothes—a fashion arbiter,
in fact. But he is less cruel to the
American husband, brother and father
than such of his fellow arbiters as the
great Murdocke of England.
Mr. Murdocke came here last De-
cember assuring us that man was just
a background and that his clothes
should accordingly match subdued
things like twilights, mice, spider webs
and London fogs. The ladies, it seem-
ed, must have them so to set off their
own brighter plumage. But M. Erte
is kinder—or more rebellious. He de-
fies Mr. Murdocke and the ladies. His
goal seems to be a bright red suit for
evening wear. He has already design-
ed and wears one of a beautiful
brownish violet.
To be sure, even M. Erte is a com-
promiser. He does not advocate a re-
bellion that will affect man in his shop
or office. He would leave daytime
clothes sober grays, browns, blacks
and blues. Still, the prospect of
emancipation for a few hours at night
is alluring. Man, who used to wear
tunics of crimson and togas of purple,
who achieved plum colored coats and
plumed hats and gorgeous hose, may
eventually get back a portion of his
sartorial freedom.
An evening suit of brownish violet
—him— Still, all great reforms must
have their beginnings.
—————
Salary Juggling.
From the Scranton Times.
Fixing the pay of subordinate coun-
ty officials by statute is a wrong
practice, one that has been frequent-
ly resorted to in recent years by un-
derstrappers in an effort to put their
could be
wrung from local salary
boards.
——Vice President Dawes will be
ee
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—William Trimble, 70 years old, sexton
of the Indiana, Pa., cemetery fell dead into
a grave last Friday, which he had been
digging for Mrs. Joseph Welteroth. Heart
disease caused his death. He was dead
about five hours before his body was dis-
covered by a person walking through the
cemetery. :
—Members of the Legislature from the
mining counties will decide whether bare
legs are proper or not on a theatre stage.
Representative Thomas J. Burke, of Phil-
adelphbia, has introduced a bill to bar bare
legs from theatre stages in the “State.
Speaker Bluett has referred the bill to the
House committee on coal and iron.
—Suit was entered in the Clearfield
county courts on Monday of this week by
Bell & Brockbank and Liveright & Chase,
representing Mrs. Sophia Gleason, against
the Continental Casualty company in an
effort to recover $15,000, the amount of an
accident policy held by the late James A.
Gleason, of DuBois, in that company.
—Alleging alienation of her husband's
affections, Mrs. Elizabeth Degroot, af Cata-
sauqua, has filed a suit in court at Allen-
town against Mrs. Annie Kemmerling, a
widow of that city, for $50,000 damages.
Mrs. Degroot is the head of the mothers’
pension fund in Lehigh county and mem-
ber of the Republican county committee.
—B. B. Hunter, former cashier of the
Peoples’ Bank of Marianna, Washington
county, arrested last week on a charge of
embezzlement of funds of the institution,
waived a hearing before an alderman and
was held under $15,000 bail for court.
Bank officials announced the shortage
would be less than the amount of the bond
instead of $41,000 as originally stated.
—After pleading guilty to defrauding
the East Prospect State bank in York
county of $23,000, Ernest L. Burg, former
cashier of the institution, and Roy J. Sit-
ler, merchant, were each given a two-year
suspended jail sentence and fined $25. The
defendants were paroled because the mon-
ey taken was returned without loss to the
bank and because of the former good repu-
tations the two men bore.
—Arrested by postal inspectors three
months ago on charges of using the mails
for purposes of extortion, Chauncey F.
Pyle, of Chester, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury. Pyle is alleged to have
written T. Woodward Trainer, prominent
Chester resident, demanding $5000 for the
release of his 18 year old son, whom he
said had been captured by rum runners.
Before the demand was made, the youth
was drowned at Cape May while trying to
rescue a drowning girl, ard kis body has
‘not been recovered.
— The United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals last week sustained the federal dis-
trict court of Philadelphia in awarding
$35,568 insurance money to the estate of
Oscar W. Rosier, of Philadelphia, who
with his stenographer, was shot and killed
by Rosier’s wife. The award was made
under a double indemnity clause of four
insurance policies for an accidental death.
The insurance companies paid the single
indemnity but fought the double payment
on the contention that Rosier met death
while “violating the law.”
—-On information sworn out by Val
Shoenberger, postal inspector for the east-
ern district on Thursday afternoon, Harry
J. Kramer, postmaster of Laureldale,
Schuylkill county, was arrested on charges
Tithe postoffice at that place. He was held
under bail for court by Federal Commis-
sioner Malzberger, of Reading. Kramer
was relieved of his position and A. C. Go-
heen, a druggist, sworn as acting post-
master. The charge alleges funds slightly
less than $1,000 were taken.
—An attempt to steal a kiss from dam-
sels fair upon the broad highways consti-
tutes attempted highway robbery Judge
Johnson ruled in the Delaware county
court last Thursday, in sentencing James
Irvin, 23 years of age, of Addingham, Pa.
to from six months to a year’s imprison-
ment. Irvin, who recently went to Media
from Tennessee, pleaded guilty to the
charge, made by two girls. A passerby, in
the role of Knight Errant at the time, it
was testified, rescued the distressed fair
ones, and unromantically turned Irvin over
to the police. 1
— Entering the office of the ‘Butler Oil
company, in Altoona, by way of a side
window, thieves early Saturday morning
made away with the company safe contain-
ing $245 and a number of checks. The safe
was found on Saturday afternoon lying
along the road leading from Llyswen to
near Eldorado where it had been thrown
after being blown open and rifled of the
contents. Members of the Hollodaysburg
detachment of State police are working on
the robbery but as yet have learned but
little regarding the identity of those who
committed the theft.
— Mrs. Charles Buhrman and Mrs. Daniel
Garver, of Waynesboro, were attacked by a
young Holstein bull on Monday, but were
saved from serious injury by the arrival
of James Reed. Both women were knock-
ed down, and when the former fell, her
chin struck a stake, which inflicted an ug-
ly wound and which broke one of her
teeth. While Mrs. Garver was on the
ground the bull ran up to her and struck
her in the side with its horns, causing a
bad wound. Reed stood on the running-
board of an automobile and roped the ani-
mal after a chase into the business section
of the town. Scores saw the capture.
— Refusing to divulge the combination of
his safe in which was stored his life's
earnings to even his wife, Simon Horo-
shack, Shamokin groceryman, died two
two weeks ago. In the safe were stored
considerable change placed there by Mr.
Horoshack the night before taking ill, in-
surance and other valuable papers and his
will bequeathing his entire estate to the
widow. In answer to urgent summons,
Russel Blauvitz, expert locksmith, the
other night and before members of the
family grouped about the room, swung
open the iron doors of the safe, with little
difficulty, revealing its valuable contents
intact.
—The bodies of three young girls werd
recovered from a reservoir mear Johns-
town late on Saturday, after the girls had
been drowned when a thin coating of ice
over the dam gave away beneath their
weight. The dead are Frances Doubt, aged
10 years, and Olive Doubt, 13, sisters, and
Carrie Randolph, aged 12 years. An hero-
ic effort to save the girls was made by Em-
ma Grace Randolph, 14 years old, a sister
of Carrie Randolph, and the fourth mem-
ber of the party that had been spending
the day playing on the ice-covered dam.
Her efforts were unsuccessful and the girl
finally was forced to save herself. She
then ran a half mile in her wet clothing to
procure assistance, but when help arrived
the bull in the Senatorial china shop.
| the girls had disappeared.