INK SLINGS.
. ——After the primaries are over
baseball will get more attention.
° —Talking about the eternal fitness
of things how about its being a Byrd
that was first to fly over the North
pole.
—Up to this writing we know from
our observation that the frosts have
not damaged either the plums or
cherries in some parts of Centre coun-
ty.
—By way of explaining the large
amount of political advertising in this
jssue we merely pause to say that
they pay us the money and you take
your choice.
—The only reason we’d like to see
Vare nominated next Tuesday is that
then there might be a chance for
Pennsylvania to send a real Senator
to Washington in the person of Wil-
liam B. Wilson.
—Mrs. Pinchot toured Centre coun-
ty on Wednesday. A very pleasing
woman is the Governor's lady and Gif
will be doing her an injustice if, after
he hears the returns of the primaries
he gets it into his head that he sent a
boy to do a man’s work up here. Four
years have made a great change In
Centre’s estimate of Pinchot.
—The coming of Mr. Secretary
Mellon to the hustings of Pennsylva-
nia proves our statement of last week
that the Pepper--Fisher ticket doesn’t
have everything its own way, as its
sponsors would have the public be-
lieve. It must be a very real extrem-
ity that has scared Andy MeHon into
making a campaign speech. He never
.did such a thing before.
— Should brother Dorworth deliver
Centre county as unanimously into
the Pepper--Fisher camp as his last
week’s Pittsburgh interview indicates
he intends doing we want to tell you
right here that a new Republican boss
will have appeared on the scene. Ap-.
plications for jobs in Washington and
Harrisburg won't amount to much
then unless they have “0. K.” C. E. D.
scribbled on them somewhere.
—How are the Prohibition folks of
Centre county, who are rushing in to
the Pepper-Fisher-Smith camp, in
order to beat Vare, who is already
beaten, going to square it with their
own consciences? Colonel Smith, edi-
tor of a Democratic paper in Wilkes-
Barre, and Republican candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, because it was
thought he could help Pepper and
Fisher by being on their ticket, ad-
mitted by letter to Governor Pinchot,
under date of July 11, 1923, that he
hadn’t then convinced himself that he
> e water
Colonel's ‘admission was ‘the ho
thing to do. But what we are trying
to get at is this: Prohibitionists are
being deceived. The real fight ‘among
the Republicans of Pennsylvania isn’t
one of enforcement of the Volstead
act or its modification, or support of
“The Grand Old Flag” and President
‘Coolidge. Its for political supremacy
in the State. There’s not a candidate
to be nominated next Tuesday whose
election would make the country any
drier or wetter than it is right now.
—The Republican mind has always
been an enigma to us. It seems to
have such a pitiful estimate of grey
matter that happens to be stored
away in any other cranium than one
begotten of Republicanism. Here they
are in Pennsylvania, washing their
dirty linen, calling one another every-
thing but honest gentlemen, exposing
their party corruption and proving
beyond question its present unfitness
to represent Pennsylvania in any way.
And, after next Tuesday, if we should
happen to refer to any of these little
exposures, our Republican friends will
look us squarely in the eyes and say:
“Where’d you get that idea?” “You
must be dreaming.” They know we're
not, however. They’ll all turn in to
elect whoever is nominated on their
ticket and look on us as a half-wit
when we quote their own language to
show that their candidates are unfit
for office. No God, don’t turn Repub-
licans into Democrats, but please {urn
enough Republicans into men and
women big and broad enough to see
that the welfare of a great State
amounts to more than a struggle over
who is to boss it and scatter the poli-
tical manna around.
—Nine years ago we sat in the
Bellevue-Stratford, in Philadelphia,
and listened to George Wharton Pep-
per Esq., eminent lawyer and church-
man, extol President Wilson. He
talked with tears as big as horse
chestnuts in his voice and so holy like
that we looked for vestments and
acolytes. Then this man, who had
impressed us as being some-one more
than ordinary, was appointed to repre-
sent Pennsylvania in the Senate of the
United States. Almost the first thing
he did there was to vote against the
unseating of Truman H. Newberry.
‘The next was to curry favor with his
present opponent’s gang by assuring
them that he was so much of their
ilk that he wasn’t “afraid to spit in
the eye of a bull dog.” Then he
joined forces with those in the Senate
to prevent the consummation of the
very things that he had extolled
President Wilson for attempting. We
are not urging Republicans to vote for
Pinchot or Vare. We are only telling
those of them who happen to read
this paragraph that Senator Pepper
is in our mind—if he was sincere as
we thought him to be in 1917—one
willing to sacrifice principles for polit-
ical expediency.
wagon. The
Innovation in Political Life
For the first time in the history of
the government the administration at
Washington is committed to activity
in primary politics. Other Presidents
and other “leading” Cabinet members
have written and occasionally spoken
in campaigns for the general elec-
tions. But “taking the stump” by the
President or Cabinet officials in a
contest between members of their own
party nomination is an innovation,
the good or evil of which remains to
be seen. In such contests the rule has
been for the high party officials to ap-
pear neutral. There may have been
preferences but they were so care-
fully concealed as to be inoffensive.
But this year it is different. This
fact may be ascribed to unusual party
conditions or attributed to tempera-
mentally different officials. In any
event it has been announced that
President Coolidge will take part in
the contest for Senator in Congress
for Massachusetts in behalf of his
friend, Senator Butler, chairman of
the Republican National committee,
and that Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon will make the first
political speech of his life in the in-
terest of Pepper and Fisher, candi-
dates for Senator and Governor on
the Mellon ticket, in this State. This
event will be staged at Pittsburgh
this (Friday) evening and he will put
the moral as well as material support
of the administration behind the so-
called Mellon ticket.
There is no written law against
this procedure and custom cuts no
figure when the matter of self- pre-
servation is concerned. But the inno-
vation suggests a frenzied state of
mind both in Washington and in the
localities to be affected. If the ad-
ministration were certain of its place
in public confidence it would hardly
resort to the unusual methods about
to be adopted, and if President Cool-
idge were not obsessed with an ambi-
tion to succeed himself he would hard-
ly shatter the traditions of American
politics as he proposes to do. Be-
sides, “the game may not be worth
the candle.” Butler may be nominated
and the Mellon ticket succeed at the
primary and«be beaten at the general
election.
Vicious Proposition Blocked. °
The Democratic Senators in Con-
gress recently blocked the most im-
pudent as well as the most dangerous
movement in the direction of central-
ization that has ever been attempted.
For many years it has been a custom
in Congress to group the several bills
appropriating funds for public build-
ings and approved by the proper coin-
mittee in a “blanket” measure. This
year the idea was conceived to ignore
the recommendations of Senators and
Representatives in the matter of pub-
lic buildings and make an appropria-
tion of a couple of hundred million
dollars to be placed in the hands of
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to
be spent at his discretion. The Dem-
ocratic Senators opposed and defeat-
ed the scheme. .
The public building bills and river
and harbor measures, appropriately
named “the pork barrel,” have always
been a source of graft out of which
has grown many foul-smelling scan-
dals. By log-rolling methods vast
sums have been drawn from the treas-
ury on appropriations to build struc-
tures that were not needed and im-
prove streams that were of no use for
any purpose other than supplying
campaign funds for the Senator or
Representative who sponsored them.
But bad as that system is the proposi-
tion to vestinan individual the power
to erect buildings at any cost wherever
his fancy led him to bestow the favor
is infinitely worse. That is precise-
3 what the attempt had in contempla-
ion.
Mr. Secretary Mellon has certainly
and suddenly come into popular favor
among the Republican politicians.
One of the candidates of the party
for Governor asks for support on the
ground that “the Mellon leadership”
depends upon his nomination. A ean-
didate for Senator in Congress pro-
tests that his nomination is essential
“to preserve the leadership of Mr.
Mellon.” Newspaper writers have
come to the habit of referring to “the
Mellon party” as an entity in polities.
These gestures are harmless, however.
They mean little or nothing. But
placing a couple of hundred million
dollars in the control of Mr. Mellon
to do with as he liked would mean a
whole lot. It would make him the
Czar rather than leader.
retest fp fen. seem
We hate to disturb the pleasant
expectations of anybody but Pepper
and Vare will be sadly disappointed
in their expectations of getting a con-
siderable part of the miners’ votes.
——Mr. Mellon will probably be
rudely shocked when he finds that
many of the purchasable voters re-
fuse to “stay bought.”
STATE RIGHTS AN
Campaign Talk “Through the Hat.”
In Pittsburgh a couple of weeks
ago, Charles H. Kline, Mayor of that
city, addressed a group of municipal
employees in a public meeting, called
to promote the interests of a faction,
in which he said, according to press
reports, “let me tell you, it doesn’t
require any intelligence to cheat. But
the only unfortunate part of it will
be that it will take me only to May
19 to find out who did cheat, and if
then I find out a man who cheated—
notwithstanding we have civil service
in Pittsburgh—I would not keep him
five minutes after I have discovered
it.” This was clearly a violation of
the civil service law of the State as
well as the primary election law.
Governor Pinchot promptly called
the attention of the Attorney General
to the misdemeanor and it is said that
the Mayor will be arrested. The
State committee, who is an un-oppos-
ed candidate for the Legislature in
Cameron county, declares that he will
inaugurate proceedings to impeach
Mayor Kline immediately after the
opening of the session of 1927. But
the offending Mayor is not the least
bit worried. He feels that this is
campaign talk which will be forgotten
after the election and knows that if
this expectation is disappointed a
Pittsburgh jury will not convict him
in the courts and a Republican Senate
will not impeach him.
Besides his friends allege that Gov-
ernor Pinchot has been employing the
same methods and for that reason
neither the Attorney General nor the
Pinchot-for-Governor chairman will
be eager to agitate the matter after
election. It is true that the charges
against the Governor are not so spe-
cific. They allege that he has written
letters to State employees demanding
“loyalty,” and that a certain clerk in
the State Department was dismissed
because he refused to work for Pin-
chot. But none of the letters have been
printed and a statement has been
made that the discharged employe
was inefficient. Still the accusations
persist and serve as a buffer against
the counter charges, . ;
EE :
i . ———— Ap ns,
——Hundreds of people lined south
r Shab % 4
looking at the big trout in Spring
creek and viewing the surroundings of
the town’s big spring. Just now the
big trout are upstream in large num-
bers and are a great attraction for
motoring parties going through Belle-
fonte.
The Great Strike in England
The labor strike in England may
civil war. The latest information
indicates a strengthening of the
purpose as well as an expansion
of the numbers of the strikers. Be-
ginning with a force of 3,000,000,
which has since increased to probably
5,000,000, it has caused an army of
unemployed of 1,000,000 to increase
to 10,000,000. Appeals to sympathy
are increasing the striking force con-
stantly and adding to the unemployed
in the same ratio. There have been
meetings and marches throughout the
city of London but thus far little vio-
lence has been reported and up until
Monday only one arrest made.
Fortunately there is little inclina-
tion shown among the labor organi-
zations of this country to interfere in
the trouble. President Green, of the
American Federation of Labor,
promptly expressed sympathy with
the purpose of the strikers but with-
held any promise of material help.
That, he intimated, is a matter for the
separate lodges to determine. But he
clearly expressed an absence of sym-
pathy with “sympathetic strikes.”
That form assumes the nature of op-
position to the government and Mr.
Green adds “public opinion in Great
Britain might support the workers
in their demand for the redress of
just grievances, whereas it would
solidly support the government in its
effort to maintain control.”
From the meagre information ob-
tainable it would seem that the coal
miners of Great Britain have just
cause of complaint against the at-
tempt to reduce wages. Their work
1s not only hazardous but onerous and
there has been no decrease in the cost
of living to justify a cut in the rate of
wages. But no patriotic people will
sacrifice their government in order to
secure even just demands for a group,
however considerable in size it may
be. If the strikers resort to violence
they will fail while, if they press their
claims by peaceful methods, they will
likely succeed. In that case there
if be generous help from this coun-
ry.
tm
—If the world ever finds out
what was accomplished by that lonig
drawn out hearing on the wet and
dry issue there will be much rejoic-
ing.
chairman of the Pinchot-for-Governor |
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 14. 1926.
"Mr. Bailey Still Has a Chance.
The refusal of the House committee
on elections to grant Warren Worth
Bailey’s request to open all the ballot
boxes of the election of 1924 and re-
count the vote does not entirely de-
stroy hopes of justice in the determi-
nation of the contest. The question
of discrepancies in the returns in the
districts of which the boxes were
opened and the votes recounted is yet
to be determined, and if the result re-
vealed by the recount is approved the
seat must be awarded to Mr. Bailey.
The official returns gave Mr. Walters
a small majority. The recount re-
versed this result but the courts, for
partisan reasons, decided that the re-
count was illegal.
The recount having shown that Mr.
Bailey had a majority of the votes
legally cast it is not easy to imagine
how the judges arrived at the opinion
that his opponent was legally elected.
But that is precisely what happened,
for the certificate of election was
given to Mr. Walters and he has been
occupying the seat and exercising the
functions of an honestly elected Con-
gressman, including the drawing of
i the salary, ever since. But if the
; committee recounts the ballots in the
! disputed districts, as the chairman de-
clares it is the purpose to do, the
election of Mr. Bailey will be shown
unless the contents of the boxes have
Water street, on Sunday afternoon,
develope into a cruel and devastating |
: been tampered with since.
| Taking one consideration with an-
! other, however, it is a matter of no
| great importance what the committee
' dees. An adverse decision will be an
| outrage against justice, will rob Mr.
Bailey of his just emolument as a
| member of Congress and give official
! sanction to a most villainous violation
of the election laws. But it will make
Mr. Bailey's election to the next Con-
gress and every future Congress so
long as he lives and has a desire to
remain a member of the House abso-
lutely certain. He has been renomi-
‘nated by the Democrats of the district
| and a vast majority of the voters will
: show their resentment against the
| wrong perpetrated by putting his ma-
, Jority far out of reach of partisan
{ Da
-
{ ——A Washington correspondent
has made the statement that Secre-
‘tary Hoover declined to express an
‘opinion on pending legislation be-
cause it concerned another depart-
ment. That is the surprise of the
- period.
i
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1
1
——Some of the prohibition leaders
are unable to see any difference be-
tween Pinchot and Pepper, and it is
not impossible that the Mellon mil-
| lions have thrown gold dust in their
eyes.
a ema gis
——Thermometers in Bellefonte on
Tuesday morning were down to within
two degrees of the frost line, while
a few of the colder sections of the
county reported a very decided frost,
om ————— A ————————
——Every Democrat in Centre
| county ought to vote for the candi-
dates of his or her choice next Tues-
day. A full vote shows the right
spirit. : 4
mr ———y el tree
——1It is estimated that the labor
strike in England will cost this coun-
try $27,750,000 a week. That is a
high price to pay for other people’s
folly.
Win or lose Senator Pepper may
amuse himself after the primary
figuring out whether Max Leslie or
Bishop Berry rendered the better ser-
vice.
ecm em e—
——1It may be predicted that after
next Tuesday the interesting corres-
pondence between “Dear George* and
“Dear Gifford” will be discontinued.
——With Congress split between
the McNary-Haugen bill and the
Tincher measure the agricultural in-
terests may get no help at all.
——-Looking back fifty years recalls
the fact that when the centennial ex-
position opened on the 10th of May,
it was an unfinished plant.
——Probably the Senate favors
the Tincher bill because the President
has expressed a preference for the
McNary-Haugen bill.
——The achievement of Mr. Byrd
has not diverted Amundson from his
purpose. He is going on with his trip
over the pole.
——Tener appears to be the’ only
candidate: who' is getting real enjoy-
ment out of the campaign. ;
——There is no exaggeration in
saying. that Richard E. B is “a
bird iii
Fd Nhs
NO. 20.
The Loss of Paper Profits.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Congressman Jacobstein, who does
not hail from the corn belt, but from
Rochester, N. Y., evoked the applause
of his colleagues by his discussion of
the farm relief bills from an econo-.
mic standpoint. We regret that so.
little of his speech got into the news~
papers, but in due time we shall get
But one statement of his does get in-
to the news of the day. It is that
the farmers have lost $13,000,000,600
in the last five years.
. This is evidently based upon the
contraction of the values of erops and
farm land in the past five years. If
Mr. Jacobstein had gome back six or
seven years he might have figured
the losses even greater. The war
boom of farming reached its height
probably in 1918 or 1919, and could
hardly have been later than 1920. The
shrinkage of price and the decline in
farm values since that date have been
very marked. .But this shrinkage is
simply a part of the restoration of
the world from the chaos and confu-
sion of the great war to. peace and ap-
proximately normal conditions.
The farms produce as much és they
did in 1920, but their paper value has
declined radically, because the peo-
ple of Europe have stopped fighting
and resumed farming, and it is not
necessary to feed them . from this
country. Mr. Haugen thinks peace
is a calamity to the farmers, and he
is trying to provide a substitute,
which he admits will raise the cost
of living to a very large proportion
of the urban population, which is not
nearly so well off as the farmers.
The value of farm lands in the en-
tire United States, exclusive of build-
ings, implements and livestock, was a
little over 18 billions in 1900, and a
good deal over 28 billions in 1910,
This takes no note of the increased
value of farm buildings, equipment
and livestock. In 1920 the value of
the land alone was nearly 56 billions.
The increase in the value of farm
lands in the decade durihg which the
war occurred was $26,354,000,000,
That increase is more than double the
value of all farm lands in 1900. That
is a good deal of an increase. If we
include the value of buildings, imple-
ments and livestock the egate
farm property increased fi over
20 billions in 1900 to very nearly 41
000,000,000 -in. 1920. This -epormous
increase in the last decade is clearly
due to the war, which was on the
whole and to the world a calamity,
but a perfect windfall to the Ameri-
can farmer. He could not expect
the war to go on indefinitely, and he
has no equitable claim to the main-
tenance of war conditions. :
Take that conspicuous item in the
corn belt, the State of Iowa. The acre-
age of farms from 1900 on has varied
little. The number of farms has de-
creased slightly, indicating a little
increase in the size of the average
farm. Some of the farmers have
bought out their neighbors. The
value of farm lands in 1920, without
buildings, implements or ' livestock,
was $6,679,020,577. The value had
very much more than doubled since
1910, when it was only $2,801,978,-
729. The increased value of farm
lands in 10 years was $3,877,047,000,
There may be better businesses than
farming, but these figures do not
suggest it. The valué of farm lands
in 1900 was only $1,256,751,980. In
each of the last two decades the value
has considerably more than doubled.
In 1920 it was a great deal more than
double what it was 10 years before,
and well over five times as great as
it was 20 years before.
The trouble with the corn belt is sim-
ply that the war is over, and that
the values created by the war have
been shrinking. Is the entire urban
population to be heavily tvxed in or-
der to keep war profits of agriculture
up to the world war level ?
———— iene
Status of the Polar Air Expeditions.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer. ;
The relentless opposition of the
elements in the Arctic and the factor
of luck which seems so essential to
any success in exploration there are
evidenced by the situation as the dir-
igible Norge arrived at King’s Bay,
Spitzbergen, and made fast to the
mooring mast erected for it.
Wilkins, who “had the jump” ap-
parently on all his competitors a few
weeks ago and * was preparing to
take off by airplane from a base at
Point Barrow, Alaska, on the shore
of the Beaufort Sea, is smashed. One
plane; the Alaskan, with which he
had made the round trip of more than
1050 miles between Fairbanks and
Point Barrow several times, has been
damaged in a landing accident. A
second has been unable to get over
the Alaskan Mountains. Also Wil-
kins has to contend with a broken arm
and - apparently a partly jettisoned
store of supplies which were being
sent to Point Barrow.
Commander Byrd, heading the
American airplane expedition based
on Spitzbergen, has had a test flight
with one plane and is ready for the
first fair weather to “hop” to North
Greenland. - Amundsen and Ellsworth
have little choicé apparently but to
take advantage of the first “fair
breeze” and make their dash over the
polar area in the dirigible Norge,
Weather conditions in Spitzbergen
are not particularly favorable to the
continued presence of a large dirigible
moored to a mast. :
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The banks of Berwick and Nescopeck
have decided to close Wednesdays through
the summer at noon. :
—John Stauffer, aged 67, of Lititz, died
in the hospital at Lebanon from a frac-
ture Sustained when his car was ditched.
—The West Hazleton School Board has
awarded to Buecher Brothers the contract
to erect a five room and auditorium annex
to the high school for $67,000.
—Rev. Thomas Philips, of the First
Baptist church will preach the baccalaure-
ate sermon to the 92 graduates of the
Lewistown High schools, June 6.
—Vietor: Sehernek, aged 20, of Erie coun-
ty, was killed late Wednesday when a
tractor which he was operating on his
father’s farm near there, turned over, pin-
ning him beneath it. Young Schernek’s
neck and back were broken.
—A: new fish hatchery is to be built by
the State about 25 miles north of Bedford.
R. N. Buller, sectreary of fisheries, with
Chief Engineer J. S. Ross of the fisheries
department, has started a survey of the
site- at Sprimg Meadow, which will be pur-
chased for $15,000.
all of it in The Congressional Record. T —Johm Beal, 35 years old, employed at
the Spase Slate Grinding company at
Delta, Pa., was instantly killed on Satur-
day aftermoon when a poker, with which
he was attempting to clean the flue of a
steam shovel, came in contact with an
overhead high tension wire. He was dead
when fellow workmen reached him.
‘—Someone stole 75 hens from the coop. of
Mrs. Emma Brown in Hickernell, Crawford
county. Her husband died recently and
she has six young children to care for.
Neighbors have donated 60 hens to, replen-
ish her loss. A short time ago a large
number of chickens were stolen from the
Crawford County Old Ladies’ and Chil-
drens’ Home.
—Nick Delbianco, 23 years eld, of Blair
county, married on May first was admit-
ted to a hospital in Altoona last Satur-
day suffering from self-inflicted knife
wounds in the breast. During the bride's
absence that morning he is said to have
placed the knife against his chest and
used a rolling pin, to drive it in. His con-
dition is serious,
—On the eve of the day he was to aps
pear in court at Norristown as a defend-
ant in a damage suit, Howard C. Cress-
man, of Perkasie, lost his life in the ma-
chinery of a tractor he was operating on
his farm there. He was hurrying te com-
plete his work. The suit against Cressman
was the result of an automobile e¢ollision
and was brought by Katie D. Greer.
—“The Delaware whipping post should
be established in Westmoreland county
for men who run off with other men's
wives,” Judge William T. Dom observed
in criminal court Saturday when George
Menzi of Unity township, was arraigned
before him. Menzi admiited he ran off
with a neighbor's wife and lived with her
for several weeks, He was fined $100 and
costs,
—Three oil tanks and four oil wells
were completely destroyed Sunday night in
a forest fire that burned over more than a
score of acres on the J. J. Sheasley lease,
[between Bully Hill and Ajax, four miles
south of Franklin. Lease men, Boy scouts
and State fire wardens battled for four
hours to coptrel the blaze, bui were nu.
able to save the power house, The loss
will exceed $20,000,
A verdict of $8,585.50 against the York
Railways company was returned by a jury
on Saturday in favor of Emma G. Ness,
of Mt. Wolf ; Elwood R. Ness and Florence
R. Ness, her son and daughter-in-law, The
suit was the result of an accident which
occurred July 4, 1923, in Brookside park,
where A. H. Ness, husband of Emma G.
Ness, was killed, and Emma and Florence
Ness were injured.
—Miss Gertrude Deibler, a teacher in
the public schools of Shamokin, is round-
ing out her fiftieth year on the staff of
teachers. With the ending of the present
term, May 28, Miss Deibler will have comni-
pleted a half century of service in the
Shamokin school district. Miss Deibler
started in the fall term of the year 1878
{aching the primary grades and at pres-
ent is teaching the junior high, or seventh
and eighth grades in the Grant school on
North Shamokin street,
~ —Although April 30 was the date set
when the gates of the enclosure which heid
in captivity a big bull elk at the John
Campbell farm, near Sandy Run, Pa., were
opened, the animal declines to leave the
premises. He arrived in February, 1925,
and the State furnished the wire fencing
to protect him thorugh the game and the
blizzard seasons. As was the case last
spring and summer, the elk is drawing
auto parties from several States, and he
likes the apples, potatoes and other food
the visitors bring.
—Mrs. Lillie Reed, of Milroy, Pa., has
been released from the Mifflin county jail
by order of president judge Thomas F.
Bailey under a writ of habeas corpus on
the grounds that the manner of arrest and
centents of the commitment lacked essen-
tial legal requirements to imprison a wo-
man for taxes. Walter Reed, tax collec-
tor of Armaugh township, was the prose-
cutor. Mrs. Reed owed taxes for three
years, county tax 84 cents, school tax $15,
and road tax $1.08, with the 5 per cent.
added, 85 cents, made a total of $17.77.
—An appeal was allowed by the court
of Columbia county last Saturday to C.
A. Raseley, proprietor of West Side Park,
at Berwick, from a fine of $50 imposed by
Burgess Kitchen, for violation of the
borough ordinance imposing a license fed
of $10 on dances and ordering them to
close at midnight. Rageley kept the Wed-
nesday night dance going until 1 a. m.
and appealed from the fine. Judge Evans
granted a rule to show cause why the or-
dinance should not be modified. Raseley
alleges the borough to be without power
to regulate the closing time of dances.
—Two Somerset county men who tried
to move a stubborn yearling heifer by
building a fire under the animal are now
charged by the State Forestry Department
for the costs of a forest fire extinction.
According to reports H. P, Hay and Sher-
man Berkley were leading a yearling
heifer along a road. The creature either
got tired or stubborn and refused to go
any farther. They coaxed and used
every means of persuasion to get her to
move, but without avail. They concluded
to build a fire near her and compel her to
move. The fire not only moved the heifer,
but spread to adjoining forest land. Hay
and Berkley will pay the bill for cost of
extinction.