ntorTaiic A atcm
INK SLINGS.
When your feet grow large and
shoes seem small
And the robins begin to sing
And the grass crops up with a lawn mow-
er call
Oh joy! Be gosh, its Spring.
—Its dying. Only once this week
have we seen the word jazz on the
front page of any of the metropolitan
journals that come to our desk.
After all, the onion’s is not such
an unhappy lot. It gets stuck only
one or two months in the year. All
of the twelve are open season for hu-
man suckers.
— The nine year old lad who call-
ed Chief Justice Taft from his duties
in court in order to shake hands with
him has the nerve that will get him
somewhere, though it may be the jail.
— The Senate Committee on Elec-
tions has reported out the Governor’s
ballot bills but that doesn’t guarantee
them passage through hoth chambers.
Thera are only a few big city Senators
on that committee.
While Soviet Russia is celebrat-
ing the deliverance of China from
“foreign domination” it might explain
to the world how its interference
in China’s affairs escapes classification
as “foreign domination.”
_Of course we don’t wish Judge
Furst any bad luck, but if he is super-
stitious at all he had better cross his
fingers. The history of the judiciary
of Centre county shows no case where
an appointed Judge has succeeded in
succeeding himself by election.
__Some time ago a lot of pigs were
stolen from the penitentiary at Rock-
view. A few nights ago somebady un-
dertook to “blow” the safe in the bus-
iness office there. Don’t be surprised
if some morning you are informed that
the electric chair has been toted out
of the death house.
— In his-eminently commendable de-
cision in the Browning— “Peaches”
Heenan separation suit Justice Seeger.
of the New York Supreme court, has
taken much of the gold out of “gold
diggers.” It willbea wholesome lesson
to girls who trade on figure and face
to gain fine clothes and “lazy, luxur-
ious indolence. The pity is that there
was no punishment that might have
carried some admonition to the
Brownings, as well.
—Govenor Fisher raturned from his
over Sunday visit to the Mellon club
house at Rolling Rock very uncertain
as to what would become of his elec-
tion reform bills now before the Leg-
islature. The Governor's admission
is discouraging. Even though we op-
posed his election we thought John
Fisher a strong enough man, especial-
ly when backed by the power of the
patronage at his sommanil, to be a
real Governor of Pennsylvania.
— The new Secretary of Health for
Pennsylvania has announced a cure
for “spring fever.” He prescribes
“ayercise and plenty of fresh air, with
plenty of work, a goodly dash of play,
eight hours of sleep and the consump-
tion of more fruit and vegetables.”
One wouldn’t have to hold his nose te
down such a tonic, but how much more
enticing it would have been had the
solicitous Secretary advised the public
to follow it with a chaser of antique
Appel juice. :
— Talking about gardening. We al-
ways listen’ with suspicion to the
stories of the early gardeners who tell
us. of having “just dug up a little patch
for lettuce and onions.” We don’t
believe them. If they dug up a little
patch it was with the hope of finding
a few angle worms to be canned
against the fifteenth of April.
It is rumored that the Keystone
Power is to put another rate reduction
schedule into effect about May 1.
Speaking as one of a number of con-
sumers who found that the last “re-
duction”? actually raised our rate
nearly thirty per cent. we are not go-
ing to celebrate because of this rumor
until we discover what we are to cele-
brate for. The proof of the pudding
is in the eating thereof, so we shall
wait until the bill comes in on May
1st before we believe that the good
news is anything else than a snare and
‘a delusion.
—Aaron Sapiro’s attempt to pry a
million dollars out of Henry Ford by
exploiting the Jewish race has failed.
Judge Hammond, of the Michigan
courts, has ruled that alleged malice
of Ford toward Jews, as a whole, can-
not be brought into Sapiro’s libel suit
against Ford’s paper, The Dearborn
Independent. We might be wrong,
as we very often are, but we see little
else to this litigation than an attempt
to get money from a person whom
every man or woman who could pos-
sibly be called to jury duty knows
could well afford to be separated from
a million or so.
— Charles P. Long, of Spring Mills,
has announced that he would like to
be the Republican nominee for Coun-
ty Treasurer. Former Sheriff W. E.
Hurley will probably make an an-
nouncement, ere long, that he, also,
aspires to that honor and opportun-
ity. As County Commissioner, H. E.
Holzworth, is already in the field for
the nomination another very pret-
ty fight is in the offing. All three are
sagacious, crafty politicians and so
potential in their individual strength
that we imagine that the Scott and
Dorworth factions will be very wary
about slating either one of them for
fear of consequences.
—
your
GR
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FRO
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Jatchm
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
Counterfeit $20 bills are being passed
in many parts of the Pittsburgh district,
according to a warning issued by bankers
on Monday.
—Agreeing to forego dancing, jazz, pet-
ting parties, cigarettes, drink, and all
other such things, more than 100 young
men and women of Sayre, Pa., have organ-
ized a “slow club.”
—The stockholders of the Mifilin county
fair association have decided to hold the an-
nual fair this year one week earlier, from
VOL. 72.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 25. 1927.
August 16 to 20, inclusive, on account of
the National Mennonite Conference, which
Mifflin county will entertain the week of
August 22.
—The Susquehanna Silk Mill company
NO. 12.
Progress of Ballot Legislation.
A line seems to have been clearly
drawn between Governor Fisher and
the Republican machine on the ques-
tion of ballot reform legislation, if
the Governor adheres to his expressed
purpose. The machine is opposed to
any legislation on that subject which
will impair the opportunities of the
leaders to create any majorities in the
big cities that are necessary to elect
their candidates. The Governor, on
the other hand, professes to favor
such measures as will guarantee a
fair vote and just return of the elec-
tion. The Senate Committee on Elec-
tions, after waiting for a word from
State chairman W. L. Mellon, report-
ed out ten ballot bills, six of which
are machine made measures introduc-
ed by Homsher, of Lancaster. The
bills sponsored by the Governor were
not included.
The whole purpose of the Homsher
bills is to prevent independent politi-
cal action. One of them would re-
Pennsylvania’s Ballot
Frauds.
Defending
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| At a meeting of the Slush Fund
committee of the Senate in Washing-
ton, on Saturday, it was unanimously
| agreed to continue the work interrupt-
ed by the final adjournment of the
| sixty-ninth Congress. The Sergeant-
| at-Arms was directed to proceed
| with the impounding of ballot boxes
‘in Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne
| and Schuykill counties. Senator Keyes,
' of New Hampshire, chairman of the
| committee on Contingent Expenses,
having previcusly refused to appreve
! expense warrants for the service,
' chairman Reed volunteered to advance
| the money. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry,
| Republican, refused to perform the
! duty and the committee designated
Jere South, now counsel for the com-
| mittee, as a substitute.
| Thus the evidence that the Republi-
i can managers know that William S.
| Vare was defeated for election to the
| Senate multiplies. When earlier in
quire twice as many signatures t0 a | {10 proceedings Mr. Vare assured the
petiiion as the present law. Another { Slush Fund committee that he was en-
forbids a candidate who has been de- | tirely willing to have the ballot boxes
feated for pomisys 2 one py | of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh im-
2 iy wi) es 9 Mle > one = | pounded an impression was made that
i one x i > o 5 A ® | whatever the facts, Mr. Vare pelievee
run on two tickets. The others are ps had an honest majority of the
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kindred measures intended to stifle | votes. His subsequent resort to every
independence in politics and more | device, technically and trick to pre-
firmly entrench the bosses in their
strongholds. If these measures have
the approval of the Republican organ-
ization, as presumably they have, the
prospect of political rejuvenation as
the result of the work of the Legis-
lature is poor indeed. Mr. Mellon at
first seemed to favor the action of the
committee but later protested sym-
pathy with the Governor’s purposes.
The ballot reformers in the Legis-
lature will not accept defeat, however,
without a struggle. Miss Martha
Thomas, of Crawford county, chair-
man of the Pennsylvania League of
Woman Voters, promptly issued an
address in which she declared the “sit-
uation in the State Legislature is rap-
idly drifting to a point where a dom-
inating featuye of the session is the
play and interplay of selfish, mercen-
ary and machine politics. An instance
of this is the reporting out of com-
mittee of the Homsher bill to cripple
and kill political independence. Unless
there shall be at once an uprising of
public sentiment, a State-wide insur-
rection of sound public opinion, this
session will end without an enactment
of stronger election laws.” That this
call to battle had its effect may be in-
ferred, for chairman Mellon, who ap-
proved the action of the committee on
Monday, repudiated it on Saturday.
The Governor has also indicated a
purpose to fight for the measure he
regards as just.
on hearing of the action of the com-
mittee.
ed, “must be made by the Legisla-
ture. After the Legislature has acted
Ill have my say.” That sounds like
the promise of a veto. In such a
course the Governor would have the
approval of nine-tenths of the voters.
But a veto will afford no relief from
the ballot crooks and all the power
of ‘the State machine will be invoked
to influence him to change of mind.
He spent last week-end as the guest
of chairman Mellon, at a millionaire
club in Western Pennsylvania, and
though no information has been giv-
en out on the subject it is certain there
was no violent disagreements in that
atmosphere of corrupt politics.
Chairman Mellon appears to have
an uncertain mind on ballot reform.
At the opening of the session he fav-
ored effective legislation and cordially
approved of the purpose of the Gov-
ernor to sponsor suitable bills. When
the Senate committee reported out the:
Homsher bills Mr. Mellon seemed
highly pleased and indicated that the
Governor’s bills were impractical and
needed modification.
will have his support. What happen-
ed at Ligonier is a sealed book as yet.
Possibly the Governor’s enthusiasm
for ballot reform has abated and may-
be the chairman has changed his mind
again. In any event it may be assum- !
ed that the Governor’s bills will be
reported in due time, and the machine
and the reformers will have a fight
on the floor.
—Justice has to give way to pol-
itics when the Vare machine is in con-
trol. The Dave Reed filibuster in be-
half of Vare is closing up most of the
Federal courts of the country.
—Now if Daddy Browning will
make application for permanent resi-
dence in some asylum for feeble mind-
ed we will try to forget how many
kinds of an idiot he has been.
more eg erases
——We'll soon know how far Mr.
Vare’s control of the Pennsylvania Re- '
publican machine goes.
“I have made my |
move,” he said to the correspondents
“The next move,” he continu- |
Then he went :
away from Harrisburg for a brief -
period and upon his return declared
‘the Governor’s bills are all right and
vent the opening of the ballot boxes
now in custody of the committee or
to get possession of others in suspect-
ed neighborhoods has dispelled this
favorable opinion and forced a vast
majority of the people to believe that
William B. Wilson won.
It is understood that the efforts of
the Slush Fund committee are to com-
plete the investigation it has so well
begun. Senator Dave Reed, of Pitts-
burgh, declares he will invoke legal
methods in restraint. He doesn’t in-
dicate how he will proceed but it may
be assumed that the plan is to get
some subordinate court to issue an
injunction against the Slush Fund
committee on the ground that it died
with the Congress that created it. But
the best legal minds, not only of the
Senate but the country at large, have
anticipated this and arranged to re-
fute it. Besides there are three or
; four very able lawyers on the com-
, mittee. “Jim” Reed can take care of
himself in law matters.
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The Supreme court has refused
to intervene in behalf of Earl Carroll,
| the theatrical manager who staged a
bath tub scene in a New York theatre
some time ago. The law refuses to
be a cloak for indecency.
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Tax Manipulation for Politics.
An intimation comes from the
: White House that the next Congress
| will make a substantial cut in the in-
| come tax. The next Congress will sit
"for its long session during the winter
i and spring before the next Presiden-
| tial election. The surprisingly large
! surplus in the treasury at this time is
! given by the official spokesman as the
reason for the contemplated action.
' The real reason is, as frequently stat-
"ed by Democrats during the discus-
| sion of the subject in the last ses-
sion, that a considerable tax cut im-
| mediately preceding the Presidential
| election will be of great help to the .
| Bepublican candidate who is more
| than likely to be Calvin Coolidge.
| At the opening of the last session
of Congress Mr. Garrett, ranking
{ Democrat on the House Committee on
| Ways and Means, publicly declared
| that at the close of the March collec-
tion of income tax there would be 2
"surplus of half a billion dollars, and
that it would be an outrage to con-
tinue drawing from the pockets of
the people money that was not need-
ed by the government and couldn’t
even be wisely used. He introduced a
bill to cut the income tax that amount,
and, sustained by his party in Con-
gress, urged its passage. Of course
it would not have cut the present sur-
plus but it would have prevented a
repetition of it and save the taxpay-
ers that useless burden for next year.
The truth of the matter is that tax-
ation, as well as every other function
of government, is being perverted to
partisan uses. If the Democratic plan
of tax reduction had been adopted
. when the present law was enacted the
, surplus which gave so much concern
i a year ago, and the greater surplus
| now. reported, would have been left
with the people to be used in their
business affairs. That plan provided
. for a tax reduction of half a billion
dollars, just the amount of the pres- |
| ent surplus as reported by the White
{ House. Half a billion dollars in the
hands of an industrious, intelligent
and thrifty public would have con-
tributed materially to public prosper-
ity and comfort.
——A headline reads: “Motor In-
' dustry Due for a Shock.” Judging by
complaints in the recent past the
shock is considerably over due.
Cunningham Will Get Plenty.
The decision of the United States
Supreme court in the Sinclair case re-
moves sll doubt as to what will hap-
pen to Tom Cunningham, of Phila-
| delphia, when he appears before that
{ tribunal in December. Harry Sinclair
! was the head of a group of oil opera-
| tors who enticed Secretary of the In-
| terior Fall to lease to them certain
' government reserves on terms that
| greatly wronged the government. An
' investigation, conducted by Senator
' Walsh, of Montana, followed, during
which Mr. Sinclair refused to answer
certain pertinent questions. Senator
Walsh reported to the district attorney
of Washington and asked for an in-
dictment for contempt of the Senate.
Sinclair was convicted and appealed.
The Supreme court affirmed the judg-
ment.
Pending the investigation of the
Slush Fund expenditures in the Re-
publican primaries, in Pennsylvania
last May, Tom Cunningham testified ,
that he had contributed, in currency,
to the Vare campaign the sum of $50,-
000. Cunningham had been earning
$8000 a year and the contribution
seemed rather large to Senator Reed,
who suspected that its source was il-
legal. Therefore he asked the wit- |
ness where he got the money. There
' were various rumors afloat on the sub- !
ject, among them being that it came
in part from bootleggers and in part
by a levy on the Philadelphia munici-
pal officers. A State law forbids levy-
ing on municipal officials and the idea
‘ of taking funds from bootleggers is:
| abhorrent.
i Chairman Reed, of the committee,
was exceedingly lenient with this
contumacious witness. He gave him
| every opportunity to purge hirself
bof contempt. But Mr. Cunningham
appears to imagine himself above the
law and persisted in his obduracy. He
probably imagined that Vare could
shield him. But when Harry Sinclair’s
millions were unable to shield him
from a prison sentence there is not
much chance for a man of Vare’s
: % to turre the trick: ~ The" people
"of Pennsylvania will be glad to see
him get a severe punishment. Such
‘men create contempt for law and the
‘sooner they are brought to punish-
ment the better. Cunningham’s sen-
| tence will have a restraining influence
! on others of his kind.
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| ——Baseball enthusiasts in Belle
fonte have so far not been able to put
much punch in the movement to re-
_organize the Susquehanna league for
the season of 1927. The dropping out
of one of the Williamsport clubs,
las well as the Renovo club,
leaves only four teams of last year’s
league, and this number is hardly suf-
ficient to make up a good and inter-
‘esting schedule. Lewistown would
like to come into the league but an-
other club will be needed to fill it out.
*, Tentative overtures were made to
, Philipsburg fans but the Centre-Clear-
field league has been reorganized and
that cuts out Philipsburg. Now if
, Tyrone just had -a team how nice it
, would be to get it in the league, as
that would complete a good circuit
"and also locate the teams close enough
to create enthusiasm in the game.
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—— Motoring in from Snow Shoe
through the heavy fog, on Monday
morning, Harold Zimmerman, clerk in
Mott’s drug store, ran headon into a
large doe which jumped out into the
road right in front of his machine.
The car was not seriously damaged
but the doe was killed. Mr. Zimmer-
man reported the incident to game |
protector Thomas A. Mosier, who went
out on the mountain and got the car-
cass. Finding the meat unfit for use
the carcass was turned over to Smith’s
animal plant. Last Thursday a small
doe was killed by the train on the rail-
road near Julian.
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| ——Spring began officially at ten
o’clock on Monday morning and was
ushered in with a steady downpour of
rain which began on Saturday and
continued throughout Sunday and
Sunday night. Fortunately the tem- |
perature remained above the freezing :
point, so that we got very little of
the western cold wave. |
——We have a very useful Auto- |
Strop Safety razor all done up in a!
neat little velvet lined metallic case, to '
give to everyone who sends or brings
a new subscription to the Watchman
————A Ap ——————
——Many nice strings of suckers
are being caught in Bald Eagle creek
during the high water.. Catches range
as high as ten fish measuring from a
foot to eighteen inches in length.
mma fp smn mer—
——Maybe the Governor of South
Carolina had good reason for vetoing
a bill liberalizing the Sunday laws.
The Governor of North Carolina hasn't
said anything for some time.
at Lewistown will close down from Friday
evening, April 8, until Monday, April 18.
The mills at Sunbury, Jersey Shore, Lock
ee : Haven and Milton and at Marion, O., will
One of the great advantages to the | close the same period. The cause given is
, public in having access to a mod- | “no market for the goods.”
ernly equipped hospital, such as we | —John Bokitus, 11 years old, of North
have in Bellefonte, is that the physi- | Center street, Freeland, was richly reward-
cian has there the most improved fa- ed for his honesty last Saturday when he
cilities and appliances for diagnosis returned a wallet lost by an insurance
! not otherwise available to the average agent. The wallet contained more than
| physician $500 end valuable papers, and the owner
| .
generously gave the boy a 25-cent reward.
§ To know the exact cause and loca- | __ 4 pan who said he was Dr. C. P.
' tion of a disease is half the cure, and | whitman, of Swarthmore, was arrested in
| the science of medicine is doubly ef- | Philadelphia, on Monday, and charged with
‘fective today because of such appli- | practicing medicine without a license. He
ances as Basil-metabolism apparatus, is 81 years old. When arraigned, he al-
blood testing, X-ray equipment, ete., most burst into tears as he pleaded with
which are too elaborate and expensive the magistrate not to notify his parents.
to be operated and maintained in the Sid and father Is 104 years
laboratories of ordinary practicing ? :
| physicians, but in an up-to-date, gen-
| eral laboratory such as there is in the | carry employes between Sunbury and
! Centre County hospital, any doctor | Northumberland yards, dropped dead in
| ean take his cases there and determine | the cab of his engine on Saturday morning.
| scientifically the nature and malig- | Raising his hand to the throttle after re-
"nancy of the disease he is combatting. ceiving the conductor's signal to go ahead,
; . the engineer reeled and fell to the floor of
0 Gm 2 soa Mi his eab. He was due to retire in one year.
science has made at strides in that ~=ifomer W, Hitugor, 2gad Iweniy-{wo,
e v . great S fi d AV lis dead at his home at Sheridan, in the
direction since that not distant ay in | west end of Schuylkill county, from
1902 when the hospital was establish- | joss of blood caused by nose bleeding.
. Klinger was a miner. His nose began to
In the private library is a very ex- bleed several days ago. Its continuance
haustive cyclopedia, comprising 12,000 left him in a weakened condition and phy-
ages published in 1895, which at sicians found it impossible to permanently
Pan x The most | Stop the flow, owing to the thin condition
> i * . of the man’s blood.
' complete compendium of scientific in-
| . 11: — There is much excitement in the vil-
| formation that had ever been publish- |}, 00 of Renrsburg, Berks county, over a
‘ed, It was compiled by thirty-six | report that Mrs. Isaac Merkey found $8000
learned editors, assisted by the most | in gold in the cellar ¢f her home, believed
| eminent scholars of every profession |to have been the fortune of three brothers
| and University in the world, and the | who owned farms in that section. Mrs.
/ compilation was directed by the presi- Merkey is the widow of one of the broth-
dent of one of the best Universities in |
y So race : :1 : little of their wealth was found after their
| America; yet this splendid treatise death. Mrs. Merkey denies the discovery
| does not contain one word about the of the money, but villagers declare that it
marvelous X-ray and its possibilities was found.
in diagnosis. This defect is explained | _ , arch thunderstorm on Monday
by the fact that the X-ray was not played an accompaniment to a bolt of
discovered until in 1895 (the same | jightning which destroyed tbe radio set of
year the cyclopedia was published) by | Thomas English, of Oil City, who was seat-
professor W. K. Roentgen, of Wurz- | ed near the set when it burst and seatter-
burg, Germany, and all the develop- {ed in pieces. No sound was heard by the
ment and medical utility of ‘these in- | OWwrer who found upon investigation that
visible rays Have. been miade.~in-he lightning had struck the serial. . The elec-
brief span of thirty-two years which | rical enersy followed . the wire into. the.
: : ; b house through a window without harming
has intervened since that day. In the window. The ground wire melted
those early days physicians were often | of in the water to which it was fastened
compelled to probe for hours to locate | in the cellar. :
a bullet lodged somewhere in the anat- | accused of having shot Mrs. Hazel
omy of a person who had been shot, | Troxell and robbed the general store be-
land often their labors were in vain. | longing to her husband at Barrett, two and’
| Today an X-ray-ograph reveals the [one-half miles southeast of Clearfield, on
| exact location of the missile, greatly Monday, Alfred Miller 24, of Pittsburgh,
simplifying the labor of the surgeon is a prisoner in the Clearfield county jail.
and lessening the suffering of the pa- Miller admits implication in the robbery,
. : . ' but declares anether youth, whom he calls
tient, sometimes saving a life. In Bright Kantner, also of -Pittsburgh, did:
those days a fracture of a bone Was | ne shooting. Mrs. Troxell, with a bullet’
much more likely to be attended With | wound in the head, and two more in the
complications and future inconven- | chest, is in a critical condition in the Clear-
ience to the patient because surgeons | field hospital. ar
were compelled to set a bone blindly, | Claiming that she has been permanent-:
guided only by the sense of touch and | ly disfigured by scars on her face and
seldom with the assurance that it was | knees as the result of injuries Which she ‘re;
in perfect articulation. Today the X- | ceived in an automobile . collision, MES.
ray reveals the exact location of any |Pora E. Cumens, of Downingtown, they
, chance slivers or pieces of shattered RO for SOM, Sng IL
s . any, OL,
iin and Fad i has been set, it West Chester. Her husband, Alfred: W.
shows whether the broken ends of the Cumens, also sued for $1000 for medical
bone articulate perfectly, which expenses he was required to pay for his
greatly enhances the possibility of the | wife's injuries. On January" 14 Mrs.
. member functioning properly after the | Cumens was riding in her brother's car
, bone has knit together. when it was struck by a bus operated by
i The skilled X-ray technician at the |i" employee of the defendant concern.
, hospital and the physicians tell of —tell, I still have my wagon,” were
many interesting cases coming to their the first words Michael Mignon, ten
attention at the Centre County insti- | years old, of Jeannette, said when he was
, tution which could not have been treat- found Sie i hawng Passed ghia
: 3 A half-mile sewer which runs under
Ly ie town. Michael was delivering papers with
| y >
be his coaster wagon and took the vehicle to
case was that of a man who sustained | Bull Run to wash off a wheel. A strong
' a fractured skull in an automobile ac- | current came up, carried the wagon from
cident and was taken to the hospital | his grasp, and Michael jumped in after it,
‘for treatment. The X-ray pictures | being carried into the sewer. ‘A boy
enabled the specialist who had been chum, who saw the incident, gave an
called on the case to issue instructions | 2am end a squad of rescuers arrived just
for treatment within a few minutes in time to see the smiling youth emerge
| after the development of the plates, ae ve Li Be passage; Mis Wage
which resulted in the recovery of the :
' patient. They relate the incident of
,an injury to the fore arm of a young
‘man resulting from a fall from a
horse. The searching eye of the X-
ray revealed a double fracture of the | roundings, thanks to the ingenuity of
ulna and radius. By careful munipula- | Game Protector Benson, who has erected
: tion the surgeon was able to adjust |a stronge wire screen at the entrance to
and set the two ends of the larger | the cave. The mother bear is enjoying her
bone, but it was impossible to secure beauty sleep after an all-winter snooze.
proper adjustment of the broken ends When the game protector was informed of
vis 3 ing
of the smaller bon the X-ray Tes the find he visited the scene, and fear
vealing the defect. 8 that maranding dogs might kill the cubs, he
S : The young Man | erected the screen. Visitors can watch the
was placed under an anesthetic, an | cubs at play and can also dimly see the
incision was made in the arm, giving | form of the mother bear in the rear of the
access to the fractured ends; the jag- | cave.
ged ends of the bone Were trimmed —The road from the hospital to the jail
off, small holes were drilled through | was traveled by Bertha M. Saeger, 35-year.
each and the ends were laced togeth- | old bookkeeper, of Allentown, charged with
er with kangaroo tendon. The inci- | forgery. Four years ago Miss Saeger was
sion was then carefully closed, and an | arrested in Ardmore for masquerading as
immediate X-ray made, showing a |? man. At that time, William Miller, a
most satisfactory: alignment and ad- furniture dealer and a neighbor, gave her
justment of the fracture, thus render- employment. Last October he swore out
. ? . warrants accusing her of embezzling $1771
ing the arm as straight as it was be- through forged checks and payroll jugg-
fore the accident.
ling. To an officer who went to her house
The X-ray is of inestimable value in | to arrest her she begged leave to go up-
the diagnosis of incipient tuberculosis, | stairs to feed her canary and she attempt:
enabling the physician to see condi- | ed to escape by jumping 20 feet off a porch
tions in the lungs to which he would roof, breaking her left leg. On Saturday
be blind. Many cases of tuberculosis, she was well enough to be discharged from
qa 3 the hospital but was unable to furnish
while in the first stages, have been or- | 5009 pail because a sister and brother-in-
dered to the State sanitoriums for | jaw, who had signed a bond, unfortunate-
(Continued on page 5, Col. 2.) ly for her, had died in the meantime.
Modern Diagnosis at the Centre Coun-
ty Hospital.
— John Faux, engineer of the “Annex,”
a Pennsylvania passenger train used to
—A mother bear and two tiny cubs, in
a natural cave on a wooded hillside near
Bordell, 38 . miles northeast of Kane,
are attracting many visitors, who. are’
able to see the animals in their native sur-
All were reputed to be wealthy, but,
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