INK SLINGS.
—Each State is entitled to two Sen-
ators in Congress but it isn’t neces-
sary that one of them shall be a po-
litical bandit.
—The introduction of the new
“fliver” was a howling success and
sets a pace which it will be difficult
for even Mr. Ford to maintain.
—President Coolidge has increased
the tariff tax on cherries from two to
three cents a pound. This is probably
a sop to the agricultural whale.
—Either Mrs. Lilliendahl and Willis
Beach are innocent or the impressar-
jos. of the country have passed up the
two best actors it has ever produced.
—Instead of having the fire depart-
ment clean off the Capitol building in
November Washington might have
set “the gold dust twins” to doing it
in December.
—Insanity is the favorite plea of
the modern murderer. And when the
fee is big enough there is always an
:alienist to reveal some new form of
it in the slayer.
—You ask how that porous plaster
we put on last week helped. Well,
it’s: drawing some, but not nearly so
hard as we expected it to do. The
trouble is that every time we appeal
for funds those who don’t owe us any-
thing remit and put us further in debt
while most of those who do either
turn the other ear or are “lookin’ out
the window” when we hold what we
think is the winning hand.
—They are dragging skeletons out
of the English royal closets now. It
appears that the late King Edward
lost two million at Monte Carlo one
night and when his “I O. U” didn’t
look good to the croupier a gentleman
by name of Cassell made tae King’s
stack good. Later the royal pride
- saver was knighted and is now Sir
‘Edward Cassell. Think of it! Two
million to be knighted. For that pile
of mazuma we'd want to be mornin’d,
noon’d and even’d, too.
—This Mr. Haldeman-Julius, rich
publisher of Girard, Kansas, seems to
be another human the fool-killer has’
overlooked. In order to save his fos-
{ter daughter the humiliation of learn-
ing of her humble origin he publicly
«declared that she was the daughter
-of his own wife—born out of wed-
Jock. What a mental slant a man must
"have who tries to save a woman from
something she has nothing to be
ashamed of by impeaching the char-
acter of the wife he professes to love.
. - —The “Y” drive is over, the High
school booster drive is over, the Red
Cross enrollment ended Saturday, we
have paid for our Christmas seals and
Salvation Army support for Novem-
ber and if we can dodge a few festival
ticket sellers between now and Christ-
mas we might manage well enough to
buy the family a few Baby Ruths and
some Alaska, pies for the festal -oc-
«casion. - Near-East Relief is in the of-
fing. That’s a worthy cause, too, but
right now near-Christmas relief is
‘what we're praying for most.
—Those of our friends who are in
‘the woods hunting for the sole pur-
pose of getting a mess of venison to
send us certainly understand, because
we have spoken of it often enough,
‘that we don’t care much for deer
meat unless it is cooked in a sauce
«of currant jelly and sherry wine. A
present of venison to us should be
:accompanied by the trimmin’s. As-
suming that our friends know this we
‘want to assure them that there will
‘be no hard feelings if they fail in
‘bringing down a buck. It will be all
right with us if they just send the
sherry.
—The recount of the votes in the
several precincts of the county in
which it was thought errors had been
‘made that might change the results
for the offices of Judge and Prothono-
‘tary has made little change. The few
errors found were for the most part
clerical and such as might have oc-
curred under circumstances far less
‘trying than those under which elec-
tion boards have to work. While the
recount has probably kept Messrs.’
Fleming and Herr on a very anxious
‘bench it has served a good purpose,
since it has been revealed that Centre
county election officers would not
qualify for such positions in certain
districts in Philadelphia and Pitts-
‘burgh.
—Honestly, Pennsylvania needs a
commission on lunacy. It seems that
no matter what crowd goes to Harris-
‘burg things are so ridiculously rotten
that the public is provoked to laugh-
ter rather than retribution when it
discovers what has been done. In the
new office building down there there is
said to be a big hole in the plastering
-above every door. When a visitor in-
‘quires as to why it is there he is in-
formed that it is an aperture de-
signed for a clock. Should his curios-
‘ity prompt inquiry as to: why the
clock is not in place he would proba-
bly get this reply: Well, you see, af-
ter the architect fixed it all up by
putting a clock niche above every
door so the clock sub-contract would
be a nice piece of public pie he forgot
and put eleven doors in one room.
That was too much. There were pros-
pects of too many clocks to watch and
the State employees threatened mu-
tiny. The architect, the clock sub-
contractor and those who approved
the plans and specifications, of course,
‘knew that the guileless public would
swell with pride and start hollerin’
that our State Capitol has more
«clocks than any other in the world.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Hard Lines for Mr. Beck.
Absurb Demand of Philadelphia.
The Chamber of Commerce in Phil- |
adelphia is running “true to form” in
instructing the Senate to admit Will-
iam S. Vare to a stolen seat in that
body. The National Chamber of Com-
merce had just previously been re-
buked by the President for ordering
Congress around on the question of
If Congress should accept the in- |
| Pinchot’s Just but Futile Complaint.
In an open letter addressed to Sen-
| terpretation of the Pennsylvania elec- ator William M. Butler, of Massa-
tion law recently handed down by
Judge Howard O. Davis, of Philadel-
phia, with respect to residence quali-
fications for voters, it will make hard
lines for Mr. James M. Beck, corpora-
tion lawyer and political shifter. Mr.
| chusetts, chairman of the Republican
' National committee, former Governor
| Pinchot implores that commmittee,
soon to assemble, to consider “wheth-
er the Republican party in the Unit-
‘ed States: Senate will seat William S.
tax legislation, but that made no dif- | Beck has hitherto been able to make | Vare and thus condone and encourage
ference to the self-appointed
pending in the Senate presented an
opportunity and they have availed
themselves of it. That the Chamber
of Commerce of the borough of Bit-
tercreek hasn’t dictated opinions of
the Supreme Court of the United
States is an evidence of forbearance
rather than an absence of authority.
The Philadelphia Chamber of Com-
merce informs the Senate that “the
right of a Senator duly elected by one
of the States of the Union to take
his seat is a fundamental question.”
But the Governor of the State of
Pennsylvania at the time of the elec-
tion at which Mr. Vare was a candi-
date refused to certify that Vare was
“duly” elected as required by law, and
declared that his alleged majority was
“partly bought and partly stolen.”
This certificate left the matter in
doubt. Article 1, Section 5, of the
constitution of the United States, de-
clares that “each House shall be the
judge of the elections, returns and
qualifications of its own members.”
That is quite as “fundamental” as
that “the Senate of the United States
shall be composed of two Senators
from each State.” .
The claim of Mr. Vare is based on
the hypothesis that his rejection will
deprive Pennsylvania of equal and
constitutional representation - in ' the
Senate. But that is a matter of lit-
tle, if any, concern to the Senate. If
Pennsylvania elects a man less than
thirty years of age, or one who has
been a citizen of the United States
less ‘than nine years, or not an in-
habitant of the State when elected,’
he is unable to qualify and the rep-
resentation is unequal. If a man is
elected by fraud he is disqualified and
inequality in répresentation is the re-
sult. But that is the fault of the peo-
ple of the State, and unequal repre-
sentation is a just penalty for the
failure of the voters to elect fit men
to represent them.
—The Republican caucus . turned
down the pastor of President Cool-
idge’s church who was a candidate
for chaplain of the Senate. It seems
to be a habit with Republicans in
Congress to turn down the President’s
friends.
Waste in the Highway Department.
The information made public a week
ago that by slovenly management dur-
ing a period of four years the State
Highway department has wasted $1,-
500,000 of public money surprised
some people and shocked others. It
may be only a coincidence that the
mismanagement occurred during the
Pinchot administration and the reve-
lation at a time when the former Gov-.
ernor is actively engaged in an ex-
posure of the iniquities of the “Mel-
lon-Vare partnership.” But analytic-
al minds may put one and the other
of these facts together and build up
a plausible suspicion. Considerable
time has elapsed since the former
Governor relinquished control of the
department and the new administra-
tion assumed charge.
During most of the four year period
covered by the expert audit, Mr. Paul
D. Wright, of Erie, Pennsylvania,
was Secretary of Highways. Mr.
Wright is a business man of high
standing and unquestioned integrity.
He resigned the office a few months
before the Pinchot administration end-
ed because of a disagreement with
the Governor on the subject of rout-
ing an improvement. Mr. W, H. Con-
nell, of Philadelphia, was deputy sec-
retary and engineering executive of
the department, and neither his capa-
bility nor his integrity has ever been
disputed. Upon the accession of the
new administration he was dismissed,
not for inefficiency, but to make room
for a friend of chairman Mellon.
It may be that the waste complained
of has been made and that the ex-
posure of it was a civic and patriotic
duty. It will be recalled that nearly
a year ago, in a public speech deliv-
ered at Uniontown, State Treasurer
Samuel S. Lewis sharply criticised the
methods of management of the High-
way department. Having served four
years in the office of the Auditor Gen-
eral Mr. Lewis had abundant oppor-
tunities of gathering the facts and
knowing the truth. But his criticism
elicited no response from the present
administration. On the contrary ev-
ery effort was made to discredit or
at least quiet him. But now that Mr.
Pinchot is taking an active part in
the fight against Vare it is timely
stuff.
con- | his party activities very profitable.
trollers of the universe in Philadel- | He began as a Democrat and contin- | will condemn or rebuke it.”
phia, The slush fund controversy ued to preach the doctrine of that
i party as long as the late Mr. Harrity
could find fat jobs for him. Then he
switched to the Republican party and
began feasting on the fat spread on
the tables of the party leaders and
corporate monopolies. His latest ser-
. vices have been in behalf of William
S. Vare.
Every voter in Pennsylvania must
be a citizen of the United States at
least one month, a resident in the
State one year, “or having previously
been a qualified elector or a native-
born citizen of the State shall have
removed therefrom and returned, then
six months.” The constitution of the
United States declares that no per-
son shall be a Representative “who
shall not, when elected, be an in-
habitant of the State in which he
shall be chosen.” Judge Davis, in an
opinion recently handed down, de-
fined residence of voter as where his
family lives. Mr. Beck and his fam-
ily live in New Jersey in summer
time and in Washington during the
winter season. Recently, in compli-
ance with an agreement, he rented a
room in Philadelphia in order that
-Vare might appoint him Congress-
man.
There was no vacancy in the Penn-
.| sylvania delegation at the time this
agreement was made but Mr. Vare's
brother-in-law, James M. Hazlett, held
title to one of the seats. Hazlett was
promptly ordered to resign and Mr.
Vare named Mr. Beck as his succes-
sor. Meantime Mr. Beck has been ful-
filling his part of the agreement by
rendering important legal service to
Mr. Vare. Some months ago he pre-
pared and published an argument as-
“partly bought and partly stolen; ac-
cording to the certificate filed by the
Governor. The other day he prepared
for Vare's sighature an elaborate
statement on the subject. If he fails
of his recompense he will be’ in hard
“| luck.
—Paris fashion formers are pre-
paring “dolls for men.” Well, why
not? Infringment of rights ought
not to be entirely one-sided.
The President’s Message.
President Coolidge persists in the
belief or delusion that the country is
in a high state of industrial prosper-
ity. Railroad earnings are diminish-
ing, banking operations decreasing,
the steel industry languishing in all
directions according to the best in-
formation attainable. Yet in his an-
nual message to Congress the Presi-
dent states that “it is gratifying to
report that for the fourth consecu-
tive year the state of the Union in
general is good. The country as a
whole,” he continues, “has had a pros-
perity never exceeded. Wages are at
their highest range, employment is
plentiful.”
The President is not too modest to
appropriate to himself a considerable
share of praise for this condition, real
or imaginary. “Without constructive
economy in. government expendi-
tures,” he writes, “we should not now
be enjoying these results or these
prospects.” It will be noticed that he
fixes the beginning of the prosperity
coincident with his elevation to the
office of President. But he neglects
to say that the expenditures of the
government have increased each year
since that, to him, important event.
He has boasted freely of economy but
the records show that insofar as the
executive department is concerned
there has been no saving.
The message on the whole is an in-
teresting and well constructed public
document. It treats in graceful pe-
riods most matters of current public
interest. He favors the Mellon plan
of tax reduction, throws a few bou-
quets to the farmers without greatly
encouraging the hope of giving them
what they want. He pays tribute to
the merits of tariff taxation and is so
enamored of good roads that he wants
operations in that direction to cover
the entire western hemisphere, and he
is unqualifiedly in favor of prohibi-
tion law enforcement. Taking one
consideration with another the mes-
sage will offend nobody.
—If Dave Reed and Bill Vare should
both be candidates for Senator next
year there would be a slush-fund del-
uge in Pennsylvania.
—The President has Congress on
his hands now and indications point
to a troublesome period.
serting the constitutional right of Mr.
Vare to the seat which Had “been
‘ corruption of the ballot or whether it
This
is a timely and pertinent inquiry. If
Mr. Vare’s bogus claim is ratified by
the Republican majority of the Senate
men of the type of Vare and Smith,
“the slush fund twins,” will soon be
in control of the legislation in Con-
gress. Senate seats will become com-
modities for bargain and sale.
The Steel trust has its attorney on
the floor and the Oil trust, the Beef
trust, the Sugar trust, and last but
not least, the Electric trust, want
their interests equally well protected
and they have both the money and in-
clination to buy, at whatever price is
demanded, the influence which will
serve their purpose. Mr. Smith, of
Illinois, was elected Senator by votes
bought with money of the public ser-
vice corporations and it is widely be-
lieved that most of the funds used in
buying votes for Mr. Vare was col-
lected from the bootleggers, dive keep-
ers and other criminals in Philadel-
phia and other cities of Pennsylvania.
If the Republican Senators ratify
these transactions they are equally
culpable.
Gifford Pinchot, for some inexplica-
ble reason, affiliates with the Repub-
lican party though he knows of its
iniquities. He is personally honest
and sufficiently independent and cour-
ageous to denounce the frauds and
crimes that his party leaders perpe-
trate and encourage. But he seems to
lack that essential element of the cru-
sader which would lead him to cut
loose from the evil association and
attack from an angle that would be
effective. Writing to chairman But-
ler will have no better result than
complaining to Max Leslie or Tom
Cunningham. If he would subdue his
absurd prejudices and join the Demo-
cratic party thousands of others who
believe in him would follow such a
wholesome example.
—If “Big Tom” Cunningham had
told the tfuth to the Slush Fund com-
mittee Vare would have nothing on
Smith, of Illinois, as to the source of
his campaign fund.
Important Dietary Problem.
The relative food value of home-
cooked and canned vegetables has fin-
ally become the subject of newspa-
per discussion. For many years the
fifty-seven varieties of one establish-
ment and the products of many other
concerns dedicated to the same indus-
try have formed the subject of con-
versation among people far and wide.
The can-opener as a culinary imple-
ment has had supporters and detrac-
tors in every community and the ques-
tion whether the can-opener has been
more destructive of human life than
the frying pan has been debated in
millions of kitchens.
definitely settled but common consent
ascribes to both considerable respon-
sibility for the prevalence of indi-
gestion in various forms.
A correspondent of the New York
Times has recently undertaken to
prove that canned are superior to
home-cooked vegetables, measured as
a nutritive agent. He says that “a
number of foods have been critically
studied at Columbia University under
the direction of Professor Walter H.
Eddy, of Teachers’ college, and it was
found that the canned foods are ac-
tually richer in vitamin than similar
foods purchased in the market in New
York and cooked in the home eco-
nomics department of Teachers’ col-
lege according to the modern method.”
This is not altogether convincing in
the absence of a description of the
modern methods in the home econom-
ics department of the college.
But even if it be true it is more
or less confusing for the reason that
in the average mind there may be
confusion as to the value of vitamin C
in the processes of nutrition. If one
only knew what vitamin C does to a
“fellow and how much of it he needs
in his system, the greater supply in
canned goods might be worth consid-
ering. The writer in question may
or may not be able to qualify as an
expert, and as he writes from Wash-
ington he may be only one of the vast
army of swivel-chair oracles who draw
large salaries for preparing essays on
one subject or another to confuse the
public mind, in which event his opin-
ion on the relative value of canned
22 cooked cabbage would be worth-
ess.
—Speculation is rife as to who Gov-
ernor Fisher will appoint Senator to
i fill the vacancy caused by the oust-
ing of Vare.
It has not been:
BELLEFONTE. PA.. DECEMBER 9, 1927.
NO. 4S.
No Election Conetest in Centre County.
There will not be any election con-
tests in Centre county, according to
the decision arrived at on Wednesday
morning by W. Harrison Walker and
prothonotary Roy Wilkinson, after a
recount of the vote in six election
precincts failed to show any evidence
of fraud or sufficient change from the
official count made after the election
to warrant any further effort. A few
minor changes were found but not
enough to effect the result either way.
The count of the votes in the Sec-
ond and Third wards of Philipsburg
did not show evidence of wilful or in-
tentional fraud, although there were
clerical errors found in both wards.
The count started at 9:30 o'clock on
Friday morning, J. Randall Miller, of
Millheim, having been substituted on
the computing board appointed by the
court for Eben Bower, of Bellefonte,
who had made a prior engagement.
It took until 1:30 o'clock Saturday
morning to complete the count which
showed a gain of three votes for Mr.
Walker and four less for Mr. Flem-
ing, or a net change of seven votes.
Roy Wilkinson gained five votes in
the count against S. Claude Herr.
The votes in the Third ward were
counted on Saturday, when Mr. Walk-
er gained one vote and Mr. Fleming’s
vote was the same as returned by the
election board. Mr. Wilkinson gained
four votes, which with the five in the
Second ward cut S. Claude Herr’s ma-
jority down to sixteen. The slight
increase in Mr. Walker's vote cut
Fleming's majority down to forty-
nine.
On Monday Mr. Wilkinson filed pe-
titions for a recount of the votes cast.
in the South and West wards of Belle-
fonte and the East precinct of Lib-
erty, following it up on Tuesday by
another petition for a recount in Pat-
ton township. The affidavits to the
petition for a recount in the South
ward were made by Henry Kline, Ja~
cob Marks and Frank Smith, and
those for the West ward by Thomas
Fleming, James H. Rine and Harry
Jones.
To count the vote cast in the South
‘ward the court appointed Harry -N.
Meyer, John J. Bower, “Eade. Harris
‘Hartranft, H. Laird Curtin and Fred
J. Healy. For the West ward, Rev.
Homer C. Knox, Harry Murtorff, Carl
Deitrick, Gideon Payne and Daniel
Clemson, and for East Liberty, Leo
Toner, E. E. Ardery, Mrs. Eben Bow-
er, Mrs. Violet Morris and Miss Verna
Chambers. All the above boards went
to work on Tuesday morning before
the Patton township box was brought
in.
In the West ward of Bellefonte
Wilkinson gained one vote and Herr
two, while Fleming gained one. In
Patton township Wilkinson made a
gain of two over Herr, while the
count in East Liberty came out ex-
actly with that returned by the elec-
tion board.
One or two minor changes were
found in the South ward, of Belle-
fonte, but they were not sufficient to
make any material
status of the candidates.
The recount has shown two things,
at least. One is that no human being
is infallible, and that slight clurical
errors are liable to creep into any
computation of figures, but the most
satisfactory thing was the entire ab-
sence of intentional fraud on the part
of Centre county election boards;
National Guard Officers Favor Larger
Camping Grounds.
At a meeting of high ranking of-
ficers of the National Guard of Penn-
sylvania, held in Scranton last Friday,
a resolution was adopted unanimously
calling upon Governor Fisher to ap-
point a committee to act on the gues-
tion of making Mount Gretna of suffi-
cient size to accommodate the entire
guard at one time. ' In the event that
sufficient land cannot be obtained to
do so, the committee was urged to
purchase the site offered the State
at or near Benore, in Centre county.
The latter site, by the way, has been
under consideration for some time and
would be large enough for all pur-
poses.
—“Less government regulation of
business” is an announced policy of
the administration. Tariff tax reduc-
tion would be an excellent method of
putting that policy into practice.
—Senator Dave Reed’s first filibus-
ter resulted in the defeat of much
meritorious legislation. His second
venture of that kind ended in a fluke.
—Probably Mr. Insull had visions
of electrical legislation in mind when
he contributed so liberally to Frank
Smith’s campaign fund.
—There are a million motorists in
Pennsylvania who failed to apply for
license tags for next year.
——The Watchman gives all the
news while it is news.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Thieves entered the ladies’ and gents’
furnishing. store of William Cohen, Le-
highton, early on Monday, and took fur’
coats ‘and silk dresses to the value of
$3,000.
—Another meanest man has been dis-
covered in the person of Lewis E. New-
comber, of Williamsport, for whom a war-
rant has been issued charging him with
stealing $150 his stepfather had saved to
buy a marker for the grave of the young
man’s mother.
—Taking offense at remarks of Presi-
dent Judge Fuller, of Luzerne county,
about “squealers,” H. F. Boyle, former
member of Hanover school board, says he
will refuse to testify in future trials of
the former directors, who have already
been sentenced to two years’ imprison-
ment for graft.
—Surprised while robbing the residence
of Mrs. L. N. D. Schurch, adjoining the
Plymouth country club, in Montgomery
‘county, a burglar dropped a fur coat, val-
ued at $600, as he was going over the fence
in his haste to escape. A man’s coat,
valued at $45, and a silk scarf were the
only articles taken.
—When John Conlon, janitor of Sacred
Heart Cathelic church, Pittsburgh, died,
he left $200 to the poor of the parish. The
Rev. Thomas ¥. Coakley, pastor of the
church, has announced that Conlon’s name
will be carved in a memorial to be con-
structed for the sanctuary. Conlon was
the church janitor for forty-four years.
—Thomas J. Cassady, of Aspinwall, en-
gineer of a westbound freight train on
the Pennsylvania railroad, was fatally
scalded Sunday , morning by escaping
steam after his locomotive was derailed
near Summerhill. Death occurred the same
afternoon at Cambria hospital, in Johns-
town. J. W. Brewster, Aspinwall, fire-
man, and E. L. Bowser, Homewood, brake-
man, sustained minor injuries.
—John R. Gonser died the other day leav-
ing an enduring monument in good deeds.
He was a banker and manufacturer of
Kutztown, not interested in establishing
a social autocracy or any superficial lead-
ership, but content to do good. His es-
tate, conservatively estimated at $700,000,
goes to foster children, churches, charita-
ble homes and other institutions. Again
a lesson for the stewards of wealth.
—Three masked bandits visited the
Rosedale Inn, at Youngsport, Dauphin
county, about 9:30 o’clock Sunday night,
held up the proprietor and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Coltright, and escaped
with $30 in cash. Mr. and Mrs. Coltright
were the only inmates in the building at
‘|'the time the three men arrived. While
one stood guard on the outside the other
pair, with guns drawn, entered the build-
ing and rifled the cash drawer.
—Struck by an excursion train and
knocked from the Bald Eagle Valley rail-
road tracks; about a mile southeast of
Lock Haven, Sunday, Mrs. Harry Perri,
of that city, miraculously escaped with
bruises and lacerations. Mrs. Perri had
become bewildered on her way home from
chureh, and wandered up the railroad
tracks. The train was going about twen-
ty miles an hour, but the locomotive
struck the woman ‘before it could be
stopped.
—Another well-known Harisburger who
will go. traveling inthe west shontly de
riculture, now president of the National
Ice Cream Manufacturers’ association, with
headquarters in Harrisburg. Mr. Rasmus-
sen will address conventions of ice cream
men in many cities aii the way to Los
Angeles. The ice cream business is grow-
ing by leaps and bounds, and Mr. Ras-
mussen looks for a still further develop-
ment, as the business is placed on a
scientific basis.
—Mrs. R. CQ. Chronister, of York, Pa,
although only 38 years old, has been mar-
ried seven times within twenty years.
Four of her husbands met tragic deaths,
only one being divorced. Her first met
his end between two rollers, a handsaw
accident proved fatal to the sa2cond, num-
ber 3 met his fate on railroad tracks
and the fourth was burned to death. The
fifth died a natural death and the sixth
change in the’!
marriage ended in divorce. Her present
venture is proving one of ihe happiest
of the lot, she said recently.
—Twenty-five members of the Clinton
county Fish and Game association and
other sportsmen of the county, distributed
8400 brook trout sent there from the State
fish hatchery at Corry, Friday. Some of
the distributors did not complete the work
until after midnight, due to the heavy
snow and the high mountain streams.
Seventeen cans were placed in MecElhat-
tan Run; twenty-five in Chathams Run;
{ten in Lick run; fifteen in Scootac creek;
five in Fekney run; five in Long run; thir-
ty-three in Fishing creek and ten in
Queens run.
—The Rev. J. Miles Pheasant and Mrs.
Pheasant enjoyed rather a strenuous ten
days which included a motor trip from
Macon, Ga., which proved a race with the
stork. The Rev, Pheasant, a former mem-
ber of the Central Pennsylvania confer-
ence of the Methodist church, was called
to Grove Memorial church of Lewistown
to succeed the Rev. Ralph R. Miller. The
Rev. and Mrs. Pheasant left Macon No-
vember 23 and reached Mill Creek, the
home of Mrs. Pheasant’s mother, a few
hours before the stork presented them
with a fine boy.
—Letters continue to pour in on Mary
Luzuske, of Frackville, the pretty nine-
teen-year-old daughter of a Frackville
miner, who recently offered to sell herself -
to any man who would liquidate her
father's debts, amounting to $9,000. The
girl received forty-three letters on Friday
and almost as many on Saturday, but she
has announced that her offer was made
in fun, although she admitted soliciting
the aid of a New York newspaper to help
in finding her a $9,000 husband. She says
she has burned all the letters received,
but when asked, “Did you read them
first 2’ she refused to answer.
—James Jackson, a Creek Indian, charged
with attempting to pass $1 bills raised
to $20 notes, was well supplied with the
bogus currency when arrested at Reading,
on Saturday. In his possession were found
$4450 worth of raised notes as well as $51
in good money. He will be turned over
to Federal authorities. Jackson, 56 years
old, hails from Muskogee, Okla., and came
to grief late Saturday night when he tried
to pass one of the bills on John Orth, a
Reading merchant. Orth called police,
who found a revolver hidden under the
prisoner's armpit. Examination of his
cash this morning disclosed the spurious
bills, which defied detection except under
close scrutiny.
‘Fred Rasmussen, former Secretary of Ag- '