Arvin
INK SLINGS.
—The present Mexican revolution
appears to be “just another ome of
them things”.
—1If you are not in the market, get
in. That's the advice of the “Come
ons” for they know that the spring
is the time for shearing sheep.
—The robins are hopping about
on the trees, the children are on the
streets roller skating, onion sets are
being displayed in the store windows
and our feet feel too big for our
shoes, so we opine that spring is
@ither here or not very far off.
—If Clinton W. Gilbert keeps on
explaining why President Hoover fi-
nally decided that Col. Donovan could
not have a place in his cabinet he will
have the world convinced that there
was no other reason than that the
distinguished lawyer and soldier hap-
pens to be a Catholic.
— Having been held up by a traffic
cop on Tuesday night we want to
say that he went about doing what
he was sent out to do so courteously
that our respect for the unit of which
he is a member was heightened and
our reaction to the mandate of the
laws he was enforcing was not antag-
onistic.
—A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature authorizing cities, bor-
oughs or townships to lay a special
tax, not to exceed two mills, for the
support of a community band. Se-
ing a bit “hipped” on brass bands
we hacten to register our approval
.of the measure that the Senator from
Delaware county has had the temer-
ity to father.
— Many bills are before the sitting
Legislature that would annul the
«Blue Laws” of 1794 and make Sun-
day wide open in Pennsylvania. We
observe that Mayor Mackey, of Phila-
delphia, and Eddie Beidleman, of
Harrisburg, are opposed to all of
them. They say politics make
strange bedfellows. We can’t under-
stand how morals can do the same,
but, if they do, we're in the hay with
Mackey and Beidleman on this issue.
— Rattlesnakes are said to be be-
coming scarce in Pennsylvania and
a movement is afoot to protect them.
Golly, how compassionate people are
becoming. “Moonshine” is not quite
as deadly as rattlesnakes, but no one
seems to make a move to protect it.
Ere long we'll be hearing of a pro-
posed act of Assembly making it. un-
lawful to take a rattler with less
than ten buttons and limiting the sea-
son to the week between Christmas
. and New Year’s.
“calvin Coolidge, ‘occupant of a
forty dollar a month house in North-
ampton, Mass. is far happier man
than was President Coolidge, occu-
pant of the mansion most unobtain-
able in this country. We have on file
a severely critical letter that was re-
ceived three years ago, a few days
after we had stated in this column
that Mr. Coolidge was not a person
to be deified because he happened to
be chosen President of our United
States. We said that there were
thousands of other men in the coun-
try just as capable as he was and
that the only reason he attained
the exalted position that was his was
because he got the break. The trou-
ble with most people is that they
don’t understand that while political
preferment changes the official status
of a man it has no effect, whatever,
on the man himself.
—State Treasurer Sam Lewis is
the fly in the Republican organization
ointment. And Sam, like Banquo’s
ghost, won't down. He wants to be
the next Republican nominee for
Governor and while we are not in a
position to state it as a fact we have
dope to the effect that thats what the
powers that be want Sam to be ev-
erything but. It’s their nut to crack,
however,
We've always had a soft spot for
Sam. Not that he’s ever done any-
thing for us that we know of, but
he’s the one and only Republican po-
litical potentate we have ever heard
of in Pennsylvania who has consist-
ently plead for mercy on the bend-
ing backs of the tax payers of the
State. In all probability Mr. Grun-
dy will name the next candidate of
his party,but before doing so the
gentleman from Bristol would do well
to look before he leaps too far away
from Sam .
—We are glad to read that the re-
vival of “the Black Crook,” that is
now showing in New York, is being
received with enthusiasm. In its day
“The Black Crook” was the kind of
a show for the big cities that “Lillie
Clay’s Burlesquers” was for the one
night towns. Making it perfectly
plain they were “leg shows,” the
machinations of the devil and the
stolen sweets of senility and flaming
youth—We don’t think they called us
“flaming youth” in those days—no
such considerate designation was ap-
plied to the supposedly hellward
bound boys then. ‘The Black Crook”
the finished “leg show” of the last
decade of the last century is impress-
ing its audiences of today as a stage
production clothed with ideal mod-
esty.. The world moves on, view
points’ change and every day some
old “class meetin’ hypocrite” discov-
ers that his sinful (?) brothers
know that. there is a God in heaven
just a bit better than he does him-
self.
-
and we should worry.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
BELLEFONTE. P
Real Reason for Gas Tax.
It appears that the differences that
have arisen between factions of the
Republican party in Harrisburg are
more political than economic. In oth-
er words, the question of increasing
the tax on gasoline has more to do
with the selection of the party can-
didate for Governor next year than
increasing the revenues of the State.
The leaders of the party are com-
mitted irrevocably to Mr. Grundy’s
pledge that no tax will be levied on
industrial corporations, and to an ex-
tent stand pledged to a repeal of the
anthracite coal tax. These commit-
ments justify the demand for an in-
crease of the gas tax as the only
available means of maintaining the
existing revenue balance. But at
that it is only a transparent subter-
fuge.
With a surplus in the treasury of
from $25,000,000 to $35,000,000, there
is no necessity for continuing the
present revenue balance. The elimi-
nation of the coal tax would not prove
a serious matter so long as the other
sources of supply continued to func-
tion. But an impression has taken
possession of the official minds that in
is necessary to increase the gas tax
to four cents a gallon in order to pre-
vent the nomination of State Treas-
urer Sam Lewis for Governor at the
Republican primary election next
year. Mr. Lewis is the original out-
spoken opponent of the gas tax in-
crease. He is more familiar with the
fiscal affairs of the State than any
other, and his attitude on the sub-
ject has won wide, popular approval.
There has grown up a very bitter
antagonism between Governor Fish-
er and Mr. Lewis, but for what rea-
son has never been explained. Lewis
has nearly always been an obedient
follower of the machine and in the
famous, or infamous, primary cam-
paign of 1926 he was the campaign
manager of the Fisher-Pepper com-
bination in the central counties of
the State. He opposed all the con-
stitutional amendments that involved
appropriations last fall on the ground
that the revenues are ample to pro-
or can wisely disburse, and it is wide-
ly believed that his effective cam-
paigning compassed their defeat. But
the administration managers feel
that his nomination would ring the
death knell of their hopes.
a inl
——The agreement between church
and state in Rome, according to Mus-
solini, was a “peace without victory.”
A Significant Suggestion.
There is an ominous significance
in President Hoover's inaugural
statement that “there would be little
traffic in illegal liquor if only crim-
inals patronized it. We must awake
to the fact that this patronage from
law-abiding citizens is supplying the
rewards and stimulating crime.” It
may mean that in his engineering
mind there is forming a plan to make
the purchase of contraband liquor as
reprehensible as selling it. Public
opinion has been moving in that di-
rection for some time and it is pos-
sible that under the inspiration of so
potent a force as the President’s in-
fluence legislation might be enacted
to compass that result. Stranger
things have happened.
There is logic in the proposition. If
the demand for moonshine were cut
down the supply would diminish in
about the same ratio an
criminals purchased it th
There are plenty of criminals in the
country but few of them are so stu-
pid that they could be enticed to pay
the current high prices for ‘genuine
Scotch” that was manufactured the
night before in the cellar of an ad-
jacent alley. Only thirsty law-abid-
ing citizens are credulous enough to
be thus imposed upon. Eliminating
them from the market there would
be practically nobody left to victim-
ize and the bootleggers would be
compelled to turn their attention to
other mediums of acquisition.
It might be difficult to persuade
thirsty Senators and Representatives
in Congress to enact a law that would
land them in jail after a visit from
their “favorite bootlegger.” But the
to putting the “glorious experiment”
into that form. It would,
ful, cut out the salaries of the
Leaguers and curtail the importance
of the others.
A -. e. a
— Grundy and Hoover disagree
,on the sort of tariff revision required.
|
vide all the money the State needs,
i
A Long Needed Investigation.
Last week, during consideration of
pending legislation, Senator Wood-
ward, of Philadelphia, made a serious
charge against one of the Public Ser-
vice Commissioners and promised,
upon request, to name the culpable
Commissioner. On Monday evening
of this week the Public Service Com-
mission, as a body, assumed responsi-
bility for the action complained of
and the accusing Senator withdrew
his complaint. That settled the con-
troversy for the time being but it
doesn’t vindicate the action of the
service body. As former Governor
Pinchot is quoted as saying, “an in-
vestigation of relations between Pub-
lic Service Commission members and
utilities is needed in Pennsylvania.”
Such an inquiry is long over due.
. For several years the Public Serv- |
‘ice Commission has been a willing '
instrument in the hands of service
corporations to extort unearned mon-
ey from the public. Every application
made by corporations for increase of
rates within the last dozen years has
been allowed, sometimes in advance
of evidence on the subject. Because of
such action former Governor Pinchot
removed two of the present Commis-
sioners and curiously enough the
same corporation was concerned. The
Philadelphia Rapid Transit had in-
creased its rates and the action was
approved by the Public Service Com-
mission, notwithstanding a protest
by the people. The Governor con-
strued the action as cause for remov-
al, but the courts decided he had no
power to remove.
The purpose for which the office
was created was to protect the public
from corporate cupidity. It was not
the intention to deprive corporations
of just rights or in any way impair
their legal previleges. But it was
wisely reasoned that the purpose of
government is to shield the weak
against the greed of the strong. But
the Public Service Commission of
Pennsylvania has not, in recent
years, fulfilled that obligation. It
has not only permitted but encourag-
ed corporate aggression and injustice’
and it is time that it should be called
to account. The offense in the
case in point is both serious and pal-
pable. It would rob the people of Phila-
delphia of a vast sum of money and
leave them without redress.
——That Schuykill county woman
who furnished a condemned murder-
er a gun with which fo shoot his way
out of prison seems to have had a mis-
taken notion of “welfare” service.
Startling Evidence of Fraud.
Some rather startling statements
were made on the floor of the State
Senate at Harrisburg, the other day.
One was to the effect that it is a set-
tled policy of the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company to place officials
of the Republican organization on its
pay roll at high salaries. In sup-
port of this statement photostatic
copies of letters showing that when
Colonel Eric Fisher Wood became
chairman of the Republican State Ex-
ecutive committee in 1926, he was
put on the pay roll of the Traction
company at a salary of $10,000 a
year, and when he resigned the office
payment of the salary stopped, not-
withstanding the efforts of Albert M.
Greenfield to have it continued.
Another surprising exposure was
that the originator of the proposition
if only | that the city of Philadelphia purchase
demand all the charters of subsidiary corpor-
would soon touch the vanishing point. ! ations operated by the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company at a valua-
tion of $130,000,000 was at the time,
and is now, a member of the State
Public Service Commission. The use
of busses and the increasing number
of automobiles in service are cutting
into the revenues of the holding cor-
poration and the purpose of the en-
terprise was to unload upon the city
the obligation to pay rentals for the
underliers. A conservative estimate
of the value of these properties is
$80,000,000, so that the plan contem-
plated the larceny of the difference.
The first statement was made by
Senator Samuel W. Salus, of Phila-
delphia, and the other by Senator
George Woodward, of the same city.
The significance of them is that
vast patronage at the disposal of a they reveal a direct and criminal re»
new President has marvelous compel- lation between the Republican organi-
ling power an discreetly employed ' zation and the
as a great constructive mind might which are systematically fleecing the
use it, surprising results are possi- | people of both the citv and the State.
ble. It is not certain, however, that Incidentally it strengthens an im-
the high-salaried officials of the Anti- pression, already current, that the
Saloon League and professional and, proposed harmony deal which de-
political prohibitionists would consent ' thrones Vare and fits a crown on Mr.
corporate interests
Greenfield is nothing better. than
if success- } dumping the public out of the fry-
ing pan into the fire. Greenfield is
evidently no better, morally, than
Vare, and the substitution of one for
the other is a futile gesture.
—Read the Watchman for the news
A.. MARCH 15
. 1929.
NO. 11.
Victory for Business Morality.
The contest for control of the
Standard Oil company, of Indiana,
which ended a week ago by the de-
feat of Colonel Robert W. Stewar:
for the office of chairman of the
Board, was a matter of more than
local interest. The dividends of a
great service corporation are import-
ant to those who share in the prof-
its. But public confidence in the
management is a more valuable as-
set in the long run. Colonel Stewart
was a successful manager.’ He built
‘up a vast business which earned gen-
erous rewards. But his standards of
business ethics, as recently revealed,
were subversive of public confidence
and obnoxious to business morals.
For this reason the better element in
‘the organization opposed his election.
It had been clearly shown that he
‘had entered into a conspiracy with
other corporation executives to buy a
large quantity of oil and sell it to
their own companies at a great ag-
gregate profit.
received no part of the profit and had
no knowledge of the transaction. In-
vestigation subsequently exposed the
facts and he then stated that he
held his share of the “swag”
in trust in secrecy for his com-
pany. But he kept the funds, the
trust and the purpose in secrecy
i for six years and gave it the appear-
‘ance of a subterfuge, when he offer-
led it as a defense against a charge ' the boys the aim has been to turn
|of perjury, in the Supreme court of
' the District of Columbia.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., a minority
stockholder in the corporation, in-
censed at this duplicity, asked Colonel
Stewart to resign his office in the
corporation. But the Colonel refused,
the fight began and developed into a
gigantic struggle between million-
aires as well as a conflict between
business morals and devious methods.
Fortunately the better element pre-
vailed and in its triumph the hope is
created that the era of the buccaneer
in business is brought to an end. The
ewarts, the Sinclairs and the Do-
#eneys, veritable commercial bandits,
have built up colossal fortunes by
sinister practices and it is import-
ant that this sort of brigandage be
stopped. This may be the “begin-
ning of the end.”
— Bellefonte’s new milk control
ordinance will cost residents of the
town at least $10,000 a year. This is
based on a daily consumption of
about fifteen hundred quarts daily of
milk and cream. Some estimates put
the consumption in excess of that
amount. At two cents a quart, the
increase in price on April 1st, it will
mean $30 a day, and for 365daysin
the year $10,950. Of course the
large consumers, like hotels, restau-
rants, etc., will get their milk for 11
cents the quart, but this will be offset
by the increase in the price of cream.
Mr. Morris, representative of the
State Board of Health, whose insist-
ent persuasion resulted in the enact-
ment of the ordinance, estimated that
it would cost the milk dealers from
$150 to $250 to equip their plants so
as to furnish the kind of milk re-
quired. As there are ten dealers in
Bellefonte the initial outlay will be
approximately $2500. If these fig-
ures prove to be correst and the deal-
ers can get a yearly increase of $10,
000, it will be a pretty good business
deal for them.
——Cononel Lindberg’s last recep-
tion in Mexico was less tumultuous
than his first, but more satisfactory.
The smile of his sweetheart was more
agreeable than the shouts of the
crowd.
— The State Grangers are threat-
ening to take a hand in the gas tax
fight, as they have a right to do.
They have been carrying the burdens
of corporations a long time.
— The wild rose is the favorite
flower, according to a poll being con-
ducted by women’s clubs and schools
in thirty-one States. It deserves its
popularity.
— The Mexican revolution didn’t
reach the average length of such
things down there but it was more
destructive than usual.
rs — A ————
——By a newly discovered process
we are able to get our steaks, chops
and roasts frozen in Chicago and de-
livered by the postman.
—There are signs of another
Mexican expedition and a new source
of worry for the government at
Washington.
—_Who ‘could have imagined
there was so much naughtiness in our
neighboring counties of Lycoming and
Clinton. :
It is of record that :
‘he declared, under oath, that he had
Another Appeal For Near East Relief.
Last Spring Centre county failed in
the effort to raise the quota of $8861
assigned as its share of the $8,000,-
000 rudget necessary for carrying on
the Near East relief work five years
longer, and so completing the educa-
tion and training of the orphans in
its care without further appeals to
America for aid. On July 1st the
deficit was $2700. That has been re-
‘duced to about $2450. Some of the
communities raised their allotment
of the quota but the majority did not.
An effort is now being made to com-
plete the work. The time limit for
underwriting is June 30th, 1929.
When we were wrought up emo-
tionally by the horrors of the mas-
sacres, the deportations, the Smyrna ;
tragedy, etc.,, we gladly gave money
to save those children from death
and starvation. With the establish-
| ment of orphanages a splendid work
| was started which was to culminate
in giving the orphans an education
that would fit them to make their
living and to become useful citizens
with high ideals.
The orphans were not coddled. In
every orphanage, every child beyond
babyhood has an appointed daily
task to care for his or her own needs
—growing, preparing or serving food,
making and repairing everything
they wear, etc., as well as performing
most of the labor of all kinds in the
| care of buildings and grounds. For
them out trained workmen. A care-
ful study showed that some trades
were well supplied, but there isa
great demand for machinists, plumb-
ers, electricians, sheet-metal work-
ers, auto-mechanics, carpenters and
masons. These trades were especial-
ly emphasized, and the boys are
equipped, not only to make a meagre
| living, but to make a real contribu-
tion to the industrial development of
the country. The use of modern ma-
chinery depends on technically train-
ed men. In the Near East the supply
is notably limited. Athens, for ex-
ample, has not enough plumbers to
| make available the projected new wa-
"ter works. Southern Russia is im-
porting thousands of American tract-
ors and needs tractor mechanics. The
: majority of the orphans will have to
| make their living from the soil, so
special attention has been given to
! agricultural training. At Stepnaval
| experts from America 'and Europe
‘ are conducting a regular farm school,
in which there are 1000 orphans. For
the girls a wide opportunity for the
betterment of the Near East, as well
'as for making their own living, has
| been opened up by their training in
‘ housekeeping, nursing, teaching, etc.’
| This all sounds very well when we
i tell of those who have already taken
| their places as workers, but there
| are still 20,000 children in the care of
the Near East, and it will take four
i years more of orphanage care, and
one year of supervision afterward,
i to prepare them for a life work. Any-
thing less than one year of post-or-
phanage oversight would mean great
i danger for the children and partial
failure on the part of Near East re-
lief. The Smyrna tragedy and the
‘exchange of populations brought
many children later to the shelter of
the orphanages; which accounts for
the large number of children still un-
der ’teen age. ;
It does not seem possible that Cen-
tre county people who have given so
generously in past years, can falter
on the home-stretch and not succeed
in winning an honorable discharge
from this moral obligation. Charles
M. McCurdy, Bellefonte, is treasurer
for the county, and any money sent
| to him will be very gratefully receiv-
ed.
ese fp ree
—The workmen's compensation
board, at Harrisburg, has allowed
the claim for compensation of the
widow of Rev. Richard F. Gass, pas-
tor of the Dunning’s Creek charge of
the Reformed church, in Bedford
county, who was killed in an’ auto-
mobile accident on the railroad while
out on a trip making pastoral calls.
Rev. Gass was for several years pas-
tor on the Howard-Jacksonville
charge, in Centre county.
enmtrmer——p Aree.
Reserve of Natural Resources.
From the Pittsburgh Press.
A policy of conservation of natural
resources has been urged a long time
by keen students of conditions in the
United States. They are right in pro-
testing against waste though a bul-
letin of the Department of the Inter-
ior reveals how rich is the reserve
of such resources.
The bulletin tells. us that in the
public lands. of the United States
there remains an untapped coal re-
serve. of more .than 200,000,000,000
tons. There are also deposits of 8,-
000,000,000 tons of phosphates. Oil
shale areas will yield 60,000,000,000
barrels of oil.
These, of. course, are in addition to
the large reserves in private hands.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The resignation of every member . of
the Public Service commission has been
: demanded by the United Business Men's
association, of Philadelphia.
| —An order for 200 steel freight cars for
| the Lairinhailung railroad in China has
been received by the Berwick plant of the
i American Car and Foundry company. The
| plant also received an order for heavy
| repairs to 160 steel freight cars for the
: Carnegie Steel company.
—Ethel, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Palmer, of Meadville, who
has been suffering from sleeping sickness
for more than three weeks, remained in
about the same condition tonight. The
child has walking spells, it was said, when
she is perfectly normal, but these are gen-
erally of brief duration.
The new state highway between Renovo
and Sinnemahoning, U. S. route No. 120
was closed Friday by earth slides, the
department of highways announced Sat-
urday night. A portion of the side hill
from which the new highway was cut last
year collapsed and covered the roadway
a mile east of Keating.
—Extensive development is planned for
the new Cook forest park in Clarion
county. J. M. Hoffman chief of the State
bureau of parks, has consulted contrac-
tors, woodsmen and others so that they
can begin work as soon as weather per-
mits. It is planned to build an artificial
lake for boating and bathing.
—John D. Pennington,, prohibition ad-
ministrator, announced revocation of the
alcohol permit of the Barr Manufacturing
Company, makers of perfumes and toilet
waters, at Tyrone. Pennington declared
investigation disclosed products of the
‘ concern easily could be redistilled for use
as a beverage. The company is not charg-
ed with having distilled its products.
| —Catching rattlesnakes, like every other
! profession, is becoming crowded. Activ-
ity of professional hunters already has
been noted in Pike county. This activity
begins with the first warm days of spring.
Perfection of the methods used has so
depleted the Pike county annual crop that
some residents are considering a petition
to the Legislature to declare a closed sea-
son with the usual regulations.
| —Fire which started in a ground floor
store, on Sunday, spread to the upper
floors of the old National hotel, at Hunt-
ingdon, now an apartment house, and
drove several families into the street.
Several persons were assisted from the
building, among them George W. Black
. and his wife. A number of firemen were
| overcome by smoke and explosion and
were removed to their homes. Origin of
the blaze has not been determined.
—Lock Haven has a force of honest po-
lice. The day after George E. Kinley, of
Castanea, lost his wallet with thirty dol-
lars in cash in it, he had it returned to
him by patrolman O. D. Beck, who picked
it up on the street there, and found Mr.
Kinley’s name inside it. Several week ago
one of the Lock Haven officers found a
wallet containing thirty dollars in a
snow drift, and it was returned to the
owner within several hours after its loss
, was discovered.
— MASS Toy Vo ‘Bratton and her pupils
had a narow -escape when a wind storm
blew down the little brick school house,
one mile north of McVeytown. Miss Brat-
ton, seeing the rafters shifting apart,
‘dismissed the children and sent for P. K.
Knepp, one of the school directors, who
went to his home for tools. On his re-
turn the roof was gone and when he enter-
ed the building he was buried in falling
plaster, later the four walls caved in, mak-
ing a complete wreck of the building.
| —Harry L. Magee has announced that
fon the completion of improvements be-
ing made to a tract between West Main
street, Bloomsburg, and Fishing Creek he
will present the ground to the town for
a park as a memorial to his father, the
late James Magee. Curbs, sidewalks,
flower beds, shrubbery and trees will be
placed this spring. Thousands of dollars
already have been expended on the work.
The property is located along the main
east and west highway through Blooms-
burg.
—A youth was found dead and three
other persons unconscious, victims of car-
bon monoxide fumes, in a farm house 10
miles from Bradford on the Rock City road
on Sunday. A neighbor entered the house
after part of the day had passed without
a sign of life at the McCarthy home. The
house was filled with fumes from a gas
fire. The occupants apparently had been
overcome after they had retired for the
night. The Cornell boy and his uncle were
spending the week-end with the Mec-
Carthy’s.
—The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
& Iron company has announced plans to
build a dam across the Susquehanna Riv-
er and a $6,000,000 electric power plant at
Herndon, twelve miles south of here. This
is a part of its plan to electrify all of its
antharacite mining operations, according
to James A. Welsh, Shamokin, a company
representative. All operations above and
below ground are to be electrified in all of
the company’s thirty-seven collieries.
Mules are to be done away with and ma-
chinery adopted where possible.
—A strange motive for a suicide pre-
sented itself to Chester county authorities
on Monday afternoon when they investi-
| gated the death of George Leuskay, 60,
who was discovered hanging to the raft-
ers of his barn at Reeseville. It was
found that the farmer had started a fire
in an orchard where he was burning off
dead grass. The blaze got beyond his
control and threatened the buildings of
neighbors. After fighting it single-handed
for a time, Leuskay apparently gave up
in despair and went to the barn where he
ended his life. His body was found a
short time later by his wife.
With three bullets in her body since
1896, and totally blind for thirteen years,
Mrs. Gertrude Zucosky, 100 years and?b
days old, died at her home in Shenan-
doah, Pa., last Thursday, following
an illness of several months, due to the in-
firmities of age. She was the oldest resi-
dent of Schuylkill county. On June 3,
1896, : several men attacked her son,
Joseph, in front of the family home here.
The mother ran out to protect the son,
who was. shot dead. Mrs. Zucosky was
shot in the right arm and shoulder and in
the left hip. For weeks she hovered be-
tween ‘life and death, but eventually re-
covered. - She was the last member of her
family and made her home here with dis-
tant relatives.
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