. INK SLINGS:
- —A desire for thrills is becoming
a too frequent excuse for crime.
© —Aviation is still taking its usur-
ious toll. Commander McComb, of
the navy, is its latest victim.
—We are not prepared to say just
what answer we would make were we
asked: “Do you believe in capital pun-
ishment?” Since it is the law of
the State of New York we see no
reason why sex should differentiate
its victims. If Judd Gray goes to
the chair and Ruth Snyder is saved
it will be a case of mawkish senti-
ment making a travesty of justice.
Gray probably did the actual killing
of the Snyder woman’s husband, but
he would never had such an incentive
had she been a faithful wife.
—The: first thing he knows Dean
Wendt of the school of chemistry and
physics at the Pennsylvania State
College, is going to have such a horde
of light corporations on his tail that
it will be sorer than that of an anti-
equestrian at the end of an enforced
ten-mile horseback ride. The learned
gentleman, in ‘elaborating on the hun-
dred per cent. efficiency in lighting of
the humble firefly, might be encour-
aging the establishment of “lightnin’
bug” farms. Then we can foresee
dessicated “lightnin’ bug” tails in tab-
loid form and the end of electricity
as an illuminant. And, gosh, what
a babel there would also be from the
ladies who had just bought new
bridge lamps.
- —Law is a tricky thing. Often the
lay mind is convinced that black has
been made white by devious legal
verbiage, so we approach with uncer-
tainty the desire to express admira-
tion of our Honorable Court lest it
might be construed as contempt.
Judge Furst is presiding in Philadel-
phia this week.. On Tuesday he sat
on the Boulden acid-throwing case.
Relevant testimony was the exhibit
of Mrs. Stanistreet’s knees and we
note in the report of the trial that
the Judge left the bench to personally
examine the exhibit. Judges have to
do a lot of unpleasant things in line
of duty that might be regarded as
naughty were some of the rest of us,
who never miss a chance to get an
eye-full, to undertake them.
—There is a possibility of Centre
county’s having a judicial contest.
While the petition of Mr. Walker to
have the ballots of two wards in Phil-
ipsburg recounted doesn’t necessarily.
mean a contest, such an appeal would |
necessarily follow should any irregu-:
larities be revealed by the recount.
Contests have not been popular po-
litical manoeuvers in Centre county.
However, corruption of the electorate
“4d juggling of the returns have be-
come so common elsewhere in the
State that .a move of this sort seems
justified. Even should. it reveal that
Mr. Walker was. credited with ‘all the
votes he received in "the questioned
precincts the public gratification at
knowing that Centre has not been
tainted with the putrid politics of some
other counties would be worth all it
costs in time and money.
—The last person in the world we
would have expected to do it guessed
us out before 10 o’clock last Friday
morning. You will recall that we of-
fered a year’s subscription to the first
five persons who would give us the |
gist of a mental flash .we had for a
January paragraph while writing the
column last week. William A. Shope
- VOL. 72.
Disappointing Harmony Feast.
If the comments of the newspapers
throughout the State are accepted as
an expression of public opinion the
recent Belshazzar’s feast tendered to
Colonel Eric Fisher Wood was a flat
failure. The real purpose of the feast
was to create substantial and endur-
ing harmony among the potential
leaders of the party in the interest
of Senator Dave Reed’s aspiration for
re-election. The Mellons are deeply
interested in this project. Their varied
interests require a capable and re-
sourceful attorney on the floor of the
Senate and Mr. Reed has proved his
fitness for the job. And when the
function was turned into a vehicle for
the laudation of Vare Colonel Wood
expressed his resentment by resign-
ing his office as chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee. .
This change in the purpose of the
feast was not made without the
knowledge and consent of State chair-
man Mellon and Senator Reed. On
the contrary it is widely believed that
the plan is the product of the Mellon
mind with the expectation that it
would establish an alliance between
the Vare and Mellon machines that
would guarantee not only the nom-
is agreed among all concerned that
Vare’s support is essential to Reed’s
nomination, and in order to obtain
Vare’s support Reed must manifest a
supreme interest in Vare’s political
ambitions, It was for this reason
that Reed declared in his speech at
the feast that the paramount ques-
tion for present consideration is
the verification of Vare’s bogus claim
to a seat in the Senate.
But “the best laid schemes of mice
and men gang aft agle.” A consider-
able number of the subscribers to the
expense fund of the feast are not in
sympathy with the conspiracy to rat-
ify the frauds perpetrated at the
primary and general elections of
1926, or willing to establish a prece-
dent which will make Senatorial elec-
tions in Pennsylvania a matter of
“bargain and sale,” and before the
i dishes were washed sounds of protest
| were heard in all directions. Since
then the volume of sounds has in-
creased to a mighty roar. Mr. Mel-
lon has been busy trying to abate
the hostile feeling and has even ap-
pealed to Mr. Beidleman, of Harris-
burg, for -help, but without success,
and there is even talk of an alliance
. between Beidleman and Joe Grundy.
|
i —If Harry Sinclair persists in vio-
{ lating law he may finally find his way
iinto prison.
| Coolidge Will Be Nominated.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York World writes that the
opinion of President Coolidge’s po-
i litical associates is “rapidly getting
i back to where it was when the crypt
ination but the election of Reed. If.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
“BELLEFONTE. PA.. DECEMBERE |
The city of Philadelphia is literally
“humping itself” to secure the Repub-
rary, The Record, in a commendable
co-operative spirit says, “we can pro-
vide ample and satisfactory hotel ac-
commodations. We have an equable
summer climate as compared with
other eastern cities. We have ade-
quate housing for the convention it-
self and convenient means of trans-
portation to the proposed site. And
we have a special claim upon the con-
‘sideration of the National committee
in that Philadelphia is neutral
ground.” These are appealing reasons
and when supplemented by an assur-
ance of an abundant expense fund
ought to “bring home the bacon.”
But is it exactly true that “Phila-
: delphia is neutral ground” in the com-
{ petition for this substantial party fa-
{ vor? Pennsylvania is owned and con-
| trolled by the Mellon and Vare po-
litical machines and the hotbed of
the third term propaganda. The first
suggestion that President Coolidge
might be “drafted” as the candidate,
notwithstanding his ambiguous state-
ment that he does not “choose” to
run, was made by Governor Fisher
while a guest at the Black Hills sum-
mer capital, and the Republican news-
papers of the State have been sing-
ing the chorus ever since. In the
light of these facts it would be more
reasonable to classify Philadelphia as
a partisan of the third term enter-
prise.
'
i
“the right hand” of the Coolidge ad-
ministration and the “head and front”
of the Pennsylvania Republican ma-
chine, He likes his job and is anxious
to remain in control of the finances
of the Nation. Mr. Vare means
nothing in the equation. He is for
anybody whom Mellon wants and
willing to change over night, as he
did on the booze question after his
nomination for Senator last Spring.
But under the influence of Mellon the
Republicans of Philadelphia and Penn-
sylvania are practically unanimous in
favor of the renomination of Mr.
step in the achievement of ‘that re-
sult.
—Soviet. Russia, will participate in
: some of the activities of the League
of Nations at Geneva this month.
That is a welcome sign of progress.
i
|
| Prosperity Propaganda Refuted.
The boasts of national prosperity
| issued by President Coolidge and oth-
ers at regular intervals, are complete-
ly refuted by statistics of the gov-
| ernment covering railroad, banks and
_ internal revenue receipts for the pres-
"ent period. Reports of three of the
leading railroads of the country show
large decreases in revenue for 1927 as
of the Shope Lumber Co., called and : announcement came out of Rapid City, | compared with 1926, while Irving
165i ‘us ‘We had the old ’ fishin’ itch and such people as Senate majority ; Fisher, professor of economics in Yale
and were thinking of the opening of
the trout fishing sesaon. William was
dead right, so he gets the Watchman
a year for knowing our weakness so
well. - Former sheriff Whart. Cronis-
ter, who wrote from Altoona to say
- that we were thinking thusly: “W.
Harrison Walker, Esq., was sworn in
as Judge of the Courts of Centre
county last Monday morning,” gets
the brown derby. He was too far
away to get a place on even the sec-
ond team of Watchman All-American
guessers.
—If we were in Congress today do
"you know what we would be doing?
Instead of fooling around with such
footless matters as deficiency bills,
Mississippi flood control and Boulder
Dam projects we’d be introducing a
bill declaring Friday, December 2, a
national holiday. Why? you ask.
Because this is the day that Lizzie
Ford is to convince the world that
she is really Miss Columbia.
—Hidden away down in the bowels
of the earth—otherwise for the pres-
ent purpose on page two, three, five
or six of this edition—is an article
on luck by Dr. Joseph Jastrow, pro-
fessor of psychology at the Universi-
ty of Wisconsin. When we got half-
way through with the foregoing para-
graph on the advent of the new Ford
we suddenly became a convert to Dr.
Jastrow’s theory that most people get
rich because of luck. Some years ago,
in the Duquesne club in Pittsburgh,
for the two hundred dollars we had
won that day because State had ac-
tually beaten Pitt, we were offered
the chance to delve into a satchel that
was under the table and grab as
much as we could. You will be skep-
tical, of course, but it is the fact,
nevertheless, when we tell you that
the satchel was full of original Ford
stock. That’s luck for you, maybe.
But what if we had grabbed out a
few certificates. When it ran up ten
or twenty points we'd have sold and
thought ourselves just as lucky.
leader Curtis and national chairman
! Butler voiced the idea that it merely |
| presented the President's
i
personal
preference and should not be read as
necessarily eliminating him from the
race.” The Washington correspondent
of the New York Times reinforces
this estimate with a statement that
“with the arrival of Senators and
Representatives in Washington the
impression has been created that
[Igsdeny Coolidge will be renominat-
This is precisely the opinion which
any thoughtful analyst of Mr. Cool-
run” declaration must come to. It
was not made for the purpose of
eliminating him from the race. On
the contrary its real purpose was to
make his entrance into the contest
certain. With his views on the third
term on record and available he could
not be a candidate of his own choice,
however much he desired to secure
another term. But he could and did
extend an invitation to his political
friends and business beneficiaries to
force him into the running. The plan
number of candidates, a dead-locked
convention and a carefully-staged
stampede.
Without any underground wires to
the White House or confidential re-
lations with the Republican managers
it may safely be predicted that Cal-
vin Coolidge will be the next Re-
publican candidate for President. He
wants the job as eagerly as any child
ever wanted an attractive toy, and the
party leaders and the corporation in-
terests want him to have it for the
reason that the nomination of any
one else would split the party and
elect the Democratic candidate, who
would serve the people rather than
the corporations. The “I-do-not-
choose-to-run” declaration was a sub-
terfuge issued to deceive the public
and it fooled comparatively few.
Those who knew the President well
interpreted it correctly.
idge’s perplexing “I-do-not-choose-to-
was simple and easy of execution. A
i University, estimates that the aver-
age income of 93,000,000 people of the
United States out of a total of 117,-
000,000, in 1926, was “about $500.”
At the present prices of the neces-
saries of life such an average income
affords little cause for apprehension
of national decadence because of ex-
cessive prosperity.
The purpose of the President and
those who are aiding him in his en-
terprige is to deceive the people into
the belief that Republican. adminis-
tration of the government guarantees
and that the present administration
in particular has afforded conspicuous
service in that direction. Of course
the people of each community realize
that business is poor and economic
conditions bad so far as their ob-
servation goes. But “just around the
corner” things must be different and
the prosperity there may spread all
over in a short time. But as a mat-
ter of fact there is no prosperity any-
where except in the minds and possi-
bly in the hopes of those dispensing
false figures.
With a tariff tax system which col-
lects $4,000,000,000 a year from the
earnings of the people in order to pay
unearned bounties to political favor-
ites; and State, county and municipal
taxes at the highest peak in the his-
tory of the country, the average in-
come of $500 a year is considerably
impaired before the cost of living is
taken into account at all, and when
these unavoidable charges are summed
up and paid the average family has
little left to “lay up for a rainy day,”
or any other purpose. The truth is
that so far from the country being
exceptionally prosperous at this time
it is in the worst condition, econom-
ically speaking, that it has ever been.
“Turn the rascals out.”
—If the Republican National con-
vention is held in Philadelphia next
year the hoodlums of Vareville will
have the time of their lives.
Philadelphia and the Convention. ! Just Reward for Crimi
lican National convention next year.
Our esteemed Democratic contempo-'
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is |
Coolidge, and. holding the. convention
in Philadelphia will be an important ‘he helped his eriminal employers lit-
industrial and: economic prosperity,
Service.
The information from Washington
that Harry F. Sinclair and William J.
Burns have been cited, with other less
conspicuous offenders, “to appear be-
fore Justice Siddons, of the District
of Columbia Supreme court, to show
cause why they should not be pun-
ished for their part in the surveilance
of the Fall-Sinclair Teapot Dome
jury,” in the trial recently ended by
mistrial in that court. Sinclair and
; Burns are particularly rank offenders
. against the just and orderly adminis-
tration of law in this country. Sin-
‘clair is already under conviction for
contempt of the Senate and by %he
liberal use of his money has escaped
"just punishment. Burns is a frequent
‘and flagrant offender. :
Speaking of Burns the New York
“Nation says: “He was in charge of
; the United States secret service when
. the ‘Sinclairs and Dohenys were loot-
ing the nation’s oil and when Daugh-
erty was selling favors at the Depart-
ment of Justice. ' Indeed he was
Daugherty’s man; he boasted of their
forty-five years’ friendship.” While
the investigation of Daugherty’s in-
iquities, under the direction of Sen-
ator Wheeler, of Montana, was in
progress, Burns sent three United
States agents to Montana under in-
structions to “get something on
Wheeler,” and they combed the State
in a fruitless search for anything
that might be interpreted as damag-
ing to his character. He has been
equally bold and lawless in other
cases.
When the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy.
trial began in Washington the arch-
eriminals felt the lines of justice
tightening about them. The Supreme
court had just previously pronounced
their operations in the Teapot Dome
lease fraudulent and they realized that
the best they could hope for was de-
lay through a “hung” jury or mis-
i trial. Then Burns was called in to
{ execute the- plans for such a result.
He had the jurors trailed and traced
to discover a way to reach a weak
point through which to coerce one or
! more of them and “hang the jury,”
| ‘procure a mistrial in the manner
pmplished that result.” But
itle and now faces a prison sentence
as his reward. :
——Pennsylvania State College stu-
{ dents have never had the privilege of
- seeing their mail leave State College
‘on Sundays, and are now preparing to
i petition the federal postal authorities
| to provide at least one outgoing mail
| on Sundays. Matter mailed after 5.45
, on Saturday now does not leave town
until Monday morning. The student
, council, emphasizing the fact that the
j local post office has had first class
post office rating for many years due
to the large volume of business han-
dled, will present the petition.
—Sheriff-elect Harry E. Dunla
has so far not been bothered with
applicants for appointment as deputy
sheriff, and he is well satisfied, as he
does not intend appointing any when
he is sworn into office. He is going
to do the work himself for a while,
at least. D. R. Foreman, who has
been sheriff Taylor’s office assistant,
will become deputy prothonotary un-
der C. Claude Herr.
—Among the several reasons we
had for not going deer hunting yes-
terday one appears to us to be rather
creditable. It would have been sheer
waste had we gone out and killed a
buck. The weather is ‘so warm that
it would have spoiled before we could
have eaten it all up.
—The controversy over the selec-
tion of Bellefonte High as the west-
ern conference football champions
waxes warm. We should worry!
We're the champions and we're con-
ducting ourselves with becoming dig-
nity.
——p rr ————
—It would be a wonderfully happy
Christmas in this office if every pa-
per we hope to mail on January 6,
1928, should bear a label indicating
that it is paid up, at least to that
time.
— “Politics makes strange bed-fel-
lows,” but an alliance between Grun-
dy and Beidleman would be a start-
ling combination.
—No section of the globe is ex-
empt from floods this year. A recent
deluge in Morocco has taken a heavy
toll in life and property.
—The recent conference between
Chairman Mellon, Governor Fisher
and Mr. Beidleman must have been
a spectacle,
——Half a dozen prisoners were
brought in from Pittsburgh, on Tues-
day, and taken to Rockview peniten-
tiary to complete their sentences.
1927.
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NO. 47.
Real Business Job Confronts Congress.
From the Philadelphia Ledger. ;
| * The Seventieth Congress, 8s, which will |
‘ convene next Monday, will have its
work “cut out’ for more distinc-
tively than in the case of any prede-
cessor in recent years. This is not
only because of the numerous new and
pressing measures that will be pre-
sented but also by reason of the large
amount of unfinished ' business left
over from the last session that must
be taken up afresh.
The Senate filibuster in its closing
hours killed ' important essential |
measures that must now be revised .
and enacted, such as the alien prop-
erty, the general deficieney and the
public buildings bill. With. these dis-
posed of, Congress can le tax re-
duction, naval expansion, farm relief, ;
Mississippi flood prevention, electric-
power development and eontrol and
other subjects of vital import. This
is .a formidable program the more
so because every item on it, thoughso
easily labeled with a phrase, is ex-
ceedingly difficult to define in ‘terms
of agreement. i : i
The issues raised by these various '
questions are so sharply controversial
that unless the spirit of reasonable
compromise governs the eoming ses- |
sion, little can be looked for in the
way of constructive legislation. For-
tunately, there have been evidences
of this spirit among some of the lead-
ers preparatory to the meeting of
Congress. The Ways and Means Com-
mittee, after listening to the good
advice of Secretary Mellon regarding
tax reduction, promises a conserva-
tive recommendation to the House on
which its Republican and Democratic
members should be able to agree, The
tax-reduction measure of last year
deserved its nonpartisan label, and
there are gratifying indications that
its successor will embody the same
spirit. a iS 4 of
Concerning = the Mississippi flood
problem, Congress should guided’
largely by the illuminating and im-
partial report of the army engineer-
ing experts. As to farm relief, there
is no insu le obstacle to some
practical legislation if those who have
been holding Wo by their extrava-
gant demands will get together on a
lan that will not burden the ma-
ority for the sole benefit of a single
lass. ‘But the; have to
c t they wil and feel vo re.
vision at the" a
One of the “big” questions that
Congress cannot ignore will be the
regulation of the huge superpower or-
ganizations. In view of the unwise
agitation for the entrance of the Gov-
ernment into this field of activity on
its own account, it will be its duty:
to lay down a definite policy. In ad-'
| dition to the private enterprises, the
i mere mention of Muscle Shoals,
Boulder Dam and the St. Lawrence
River suggests the magnitude of this
problem. The other water power pro-
jects, all demanding Federal atten-'
tion in some form or other, are legion, |
and they extend from Maine to Flori-
da and westward to California. Con- |
gress cannot longer evade its duty in:
this matter.
With such a program of imperative !
business before it, the temptation to :
Congress to play politics and loaf on!
its real job will be particularly pow- !
erful. The “coming event” that fills
the congressional mind, the presiden-
tial campaign and the one which will
spell re-election or defeat for so many
members of both houses will cast its
shadow before. There is a familiar
saying that little need be expected
from a Congress that meets on the
eve of a presidential campaign. The
responsibility of the Seventieth Con-
gress will be doubly great. And the
best polities it can play will be to
give the country legislation that will
help to solve some of its gravest
problems. :
Luck and Success.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Dr. Joseph Jastrow, professor of
psychology at the University of Wis-
consin, has just made a public state-
ment which should be immensely pop-
ular—except with the fortunate few.
“Success,” says the learned doctor,
“is generally due to a combination of
lucky circumstances and outside in-
fluence.” He adds that “many have
achieved success without any undue
display of mentality.” This will not
be denied by those of us who are com-
pelled, day after day, to observe (with
envy) many of our neighbors who
are either more prominent or more
wealthy than we feel they should be
—or, what is more to the point, more
prominent or more wealthy than we
are. We can agree perfectly with Dr.
Jastrow that these successful ones
had “only brains enough to keep from
standing in the way of success.”
Yet there is something more to be
said. ' In many cases the fortunate
ones must be credited with the wis-
dom, or wit, of being on the job when
Opportunity knocked. There is the
fable, for instance, of the man who,
when the wolf appeared at his’ door,
suddenly opened the portal, seized
and killed the creature and with its
pelt set himself up in what subse-
quently became an extensive fur busi-
ness.
—Prince Carroll, of Rumania,® is
waiting for an invitation. President
Coolidge will be satisfied with nothing
less than a draft. Yet both act like
the late Mr. Barkus.
Bign toads D8 5 § 3 em—m—— Sani
the death’ of Charles H Datt, of Gibsénia,
member of the contracting firm of Nicholl
& Datt. He was working on a wall when
he lost his balance and fel and fractured
his skill LIOR AOD CI00
—William Banks, aged 23, of Wind-
burne, is being held in Clearfield county
without bail chargéd with manslaughter
following the death of Mrs. George Mason,
of Woodland, who was instantly killed
when hit by an automobile near her home.
Banks is said to have admitted being the
driver. Margaret Mason, 12 years old, wa
badly injured in the accident. .
—Appointment of H. M. James, a Har-
risburg newspaperman, who was the press
agent of the Beidelman gubernatorial cam-
paign committee last year, as personnel
director of the State Treasury Depart-
ment, was announced on Saturday by
Treasurer Lewis. The appointment is re-
garded as a slap at Governor Fisher, who
is reported authoritatively to have pro-
tested the naming of the former Beidle-
man publicity man. A
—Police are searching for C.'E. Hugus,
of New York. who is alleged to have dis-
appeared from Pittsburgh last Thursday,
with several thousand dollars wagered
by Pitt students on the result of the
Pitt-Penn State game. According to the
| complaint, Hugus claimed he represented
“C. L. Darnell & Co., of New York,” which
had a large amount of cash to wager on
the outcome of the game. Pitt undergrad-
uates rushed to cover the bets and put
‘up several thousands of dollars, it was
reported. Hugus then disappeared.
—Pleading guilty to using the mails to
defraud in a matrimonial scheme, Mrs.
Frank Hazlett, of Oil City, was fined $100
and paroled for two years in federal
Court at Pittsburgh, on Friday. Postal
inspectors testified that Mrs. Hazlett, un-
der the name of Hattie Pernatt, obtained
money from numerous suitors for trans-
portation and other expenses incident to
a wedding. Then. it was testified, “Bes-
sie Gormer” would take up the corre-
spondence, writing the suitor that Hat-
tie was sick, later sending notice of her
death. ; ] .
—The practice of pulling down the rear
curtain of a closed automobile when driv-
ing at night will be illegal after January
1, when the new motor code becomes ef-
fective, Benjamin G. Eynon announced on
Saturday. He placed this practice, along
with that of using posters and placards
on the windshield, side wings or side or
rear windows of a car which the code
forbids. “The practice is dangerous. as
well as illegal,” he said. “A motorist
should be able to adjust his mirror so
that it will not reflect in his eyes and:
annoy him while driving.” ;
"—On a tip from ‘a truck driver soon
after midnight, Friday night, police’
searched for some large bundles reported
lying in a road in the lower section of"
Allentown. After diligent looking in a
| dense fog, they saw an expensive auto-
mobile apparently abandoned. It con-
tained four bales of silk, worth $2,500,
that had been stolen from a Lehigh Val-
ley Railroad freight car, several rifles and
much ammunition. The silk consigned
to firms in’ Allentown and Pottsville, was
restored. The automobile and guns are
| awaiting: owners at-eity hall, ~~
—After pleading guilty to ‘charges of
circulating counterfeit bills, five men were
sentenced in Federal court at Pittsburgh,
on Saturday. to the penitentiary at At-
lanta, Ga. They were charged with having
flooded that region with $5 notes raised
to $20. I. H. Robinson, leader of the gang.
was sentenced to three years: Clarence
Bates, Eugene Roxby and John W. Rox-
by, the latter two of Wheeling, W. Va,
drew two years each, and William Roxby,
also of Wheeling, was given one year.
Robinson will start his sentence after
serving seven years for counterfeiting in
Alabama, the Court holding he violated a
parole. ]
—Quentin R. Ehrhart, 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Ehrhart, was found dead,
hanging from a half-inch rope in an out
building near his home in York, Pa., on
Monday. He was found by his mother,
who, in passing down the yard, saw his
body as the wind blew open the door of
the building. The lad is believed to have
hanged himself some time after 3:30
o'clock Sunday afternoon, when he was
last seen by members of his family, A
motive for his suicide, police believe, is
found in the fact that the boy and two
others were apprehended last Saturday
after snatching a purse from the hands
of a woman. ;
~—After Harry Geltmacher and Emma
Mec¢Gaughren, of Drytown, York county,
had been married by Justice of the Peace
Stevenson the bridegroom discovered the
ring he intended placing on the bride's
finger still reposed in one of his pockets.
He doubted the strength of the union
without the use of the ring. Just to
set Geltmacher’s mind at ease the justice
remarried the couple with the use of the
ring and told them that if the double
knot ever slipped they should return and
he would refund their money. The new-
lyweds left the office happy in the belief
that the ring ceremony had bound them
more securely.
—Somebody broke into the New York
Central passenger station, at Jersey Shore,
on Saturday night and made away with
a pay station telephone and its contents,
a lot of small change. The telephone was
torn out of its booth and carried away.
Efforts were made to get at the coins
in the weighing machine but the thieves
were unsuccessful in this attempt. Several
bank books were taken and'a traveling
bag. The bank books were found along
the railroad tracks some distance from
the station. The traveling bag was also
found, one of its sides cut out with a
knife. The miscreants broke out a sash
in the front of the station to gain ad-
mittance.
—The Carlisle Indian school, after being
given up for a decade by the Govern-
ment, stands a good chance of restoration
in somewhat improved form, if plans now
being laid by a number of prominent In-
diang are carried out. The former school,
operating on industrial lines, may be suc-
ceeded by an outstanding college for high-
er education, which Indians all over the
country are hoping.to endow and estab-
lish, Representatives of the aboriginal
races want to see Indian youths offered
educational facilities of the highest or-
der in an eastern environment under the
control “of the Indians ‘themselves. Al-
ready substantial funds have been pledged
to the furtherance of the plan.
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