sm —
$15,000. A jewel case containing diamonds
an a
. ' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—
| —Theft of $246 from the home of Si-
eutorTalic ? mon Patterson was reported to Pittsburgh
i police on Saturday. The burglar, appar-
be es SH TT ently by design, left jewelry valued at
INK SLINGS. |
—1It is reported that hogs are de- |
creasing on Pennsylvania farms. That |
might account for the increasing
number of them one meets on the
highways.
—At the recent county inter-scho-
lastic track meet at State College the
Class B boys made new records in ev-
ery one of the running events. Who
said the kids are not getting faster
and faster?
—With two of Bellefonte’s most
popular young people's resorts out of
business a lot of the boys and girls
of the town will probably be bored
stiff because there is no place to go
but home. ;
—The United States Senate has
passed the McNary farm-relief bill
by a vote of fifty-four to thirty-three.
It will probably die in the House,
however, so that the President will
be saved the embarrassment of veto-
ing it—which he surely will do, if it
passes.
—An item in our “Fifty Years Ago
in Centre County” furnishes food for
-eflection. It would appear that
olks of 1879 were about the same as
the people of 1929. They did go
nachinatin’ with the devil and ren-
jevouzin with sin despite the pious
yrofessions of a lot of them.
—Dr. Georges Claude, French
scientist, says the Dead Sea is an
ocean of gold from which fifty billion
dollars can be extracted in fifteen
years. He can’t understand why the
French government doesn’t go after
it. Probably the French government
san't understand who's holding Dr.
Feorges.
It appears that the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the birth of the Re-
yublican party is due for celebration.
3ut just where and when it was born
1as given rise to rather acrimonious
ontroversy among their leaders. We
on't propose to help them a bit in
he matter of where and when it was
orn. All we're concerned about is
/here and when it is going to be
uried. . :
—The Chicago Medical Society has
nitiated a movement that seems to
1s is the most humane and charitable
indertaking we have heard of in a
lecade. It has started to reduce the
ost of getting well, so that even poor
yeople have a chance to have the
ame surgical and medical treatment,
he same hospitalization, that only
hose with the money to pay can
ave Now.
—President Hoover’s commission to
tudy economic changes and their
robable effect on the country has
‘one far emough with its survey to
eport that we have merely “touch-
d the fringe” of the prosperity we
re to enjoy ultimately. Isn't that
svely. There'd be hope in that, peo-
le, if we were sure that Mr. Hoover
ron’t apply that “pat” phrasing of
is to the declaration and say: Fringe
nd more fringe.
—We should think the alley park-
g regulations would be a little
earer to motorists who leave their
urs in ‘the alleys of Bellefonte if the
ithority that posted the cards were
» hang a compass on each one. How
strangers,
any people, especially
1ow which is the “north” or which
the “west” side of any one of our
leys? Unless they can see the sun
* the north star some of them are
ding "to be in a devil of a fix.
‘ouldn’t it have been much simpler
have had the notices simply read:
Park on this side of the alley, only.”
—Those of our readers in distant
arts who own Centre county as
ome will be interested in the drive
1at is on for maintenance for the
ospital here. Of course we under-
and that many of them have calls
! this nature from institutions in the
>mes of their adoption, but those
ho have been fortunate enough—
1d we hope all have—to arrive at
ie point on the highway of success
here a little financial tie back home
ses no serious inconvenience
ight find much pleasure in enrolling.
'e have a hospital that no one need
yologize for and while we hope none
* you will need its services, it’s here
r you should you fall sick or be in-
red while visiting in the county in
hich you were born. It’s here for
ur early day friends, some of
hom, perhaps, are unable to carry
eir share of its maintenance.
—A mutual friend has informed us
at Ham. Wilson, of Altoona, is a
t peeved because we gave his pres-
t address as Heaven in this column
veral weeks ago. We can’t see that
at’s anything to get sore about, es-
cially after we’d been charitable
ough to send good old Ham to a
al that there might be some ques-
n as to his reaching if left entirely
his own resources. We don’t know
st how we got it into our head that
was one of the band of friends who
ve gone on the great adventure.
rhaps a little story that we often
ld to the amusement of our lament-
father will explain our mental
erration in regard to Mr. Wilson!
:ars ago, on one of our first trips
Fishing creek, we met Jonathan
wile, who had moved to Sugar val-
r from Rebersburg. Upon being
|d our name, he said “Meek—Meek,
mew a man by the name of P. Gray
sek one time, but I guess he must
dead now because I haven't heard
him for so long.”
1
allman,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 74.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 17, 1929.
NO. 20.
Mr. Vare’s Bad Luck.
In spite of anything we can do in
restraint our sympathies are arous-
ed in favor of Bill Vare. Every time
he shows signs of substantial recu-
peration of health something bobs up
that not only prostrates him but
plunges his lawyers and physicians
into paroxisms of distress. Last
summer and early fall he was mak-
ing gratifying progress toward com-
plete recovery when Senator Jim
Reed, of Missouri, suggested that it
was about time for him to fulfill his
promise to appear before the Senate
Slush Fund committee and present
his defense against the charge that
he had violated the law in his cam-
paign for the Republican nomination
for Senator in 1926. His “artful dodg-
ing” had created weariness in Wash-
ington.
_ That was an unexpected as well as
a terrible blow to Mr. Vare and his
lawyers and doctors. It caused him
a relapse and compelled his lawyers
and doctors to bundle him up, wrap
him in blankets, put him in a wheel
chair and send him off to Florida in
pursuit of health and happiness. Then
the lawyers and doctors appeared be-
fore the Senate committee and tear-
fully exhibited a mental picture of
an enfeebled patriot engaged in a
desperate but barely hopeful strug-
gle with the ‘grim reaper.” Jim
Reed's big heart melted before the
sad spectacle and another indefinite
postponement of the hearing was al-
lowed. The strategem scored in
Washington and signs of returning
health in Florida, renewed the hope
of ultimately donning the toga.
Some weeks ago Mr. Vare return-
ed from Florida, not in perfect but
much improved health. No word
from the Slush Fund committee came
to disturb his serenity or retard his
progress toward recovery. He soon
resumed his activity in politics and
his Sunday sessions at the sea-side
began to crowd other events off Lhe
front pages of the Monday newspa-
pers. Meantime Senator Robinson, of
Arkansas, who succeded Senator
Reed as chairman of the Slush Fund
committee, began “taking notes.”
The. other day he called the commit-
tee to consider the case and the Phil-
adelphia politicians and Mr. Vare’s
lawyers and doctors were thrown in-
to a panic. It remains to be seen
whether or not Robinson is as easy
as Reed.
'! — It must be admitted that Char-
lie Snyder, Pottsville’s perennial of-
fice holder, is cutting a fine figure as
a reformer. He has the G. O. P. bosses
of Schulykill county in a panic.
erence eee
Juggling the Constitution.
Representatives Garner, of Texas,
pointed out a grave fault in the tar-
iff bill, now under consideration in the
House of Representatives in Wash-
ington, when he referred to the prd-
vision which authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to determine finally
the question of valuations. This pro-
vision is a long step in the direction
of lodging in the executive depart-
ment of the government the legisla-
tive power, which under the constitu-
tion belongs to Congress. The trend
in this direction has been noticeable
for many years. The most direct ex-
pression of it previous to this is con-
tained in the present law which em-
powers the President, by proclama-
tion, to increase or diminish tariff
rates.
That is clearly legislation whether
interpreted literally or according to
custom. From the beginning of the
government until the time the pres-
ent law was enacted Congress invar-
iably not only cited the articles to be
taxed but fixed the rates of taxation.
Article 1, section 1 of the constitu- |
tion declares “all legislative powers
herein granted shall be vested in a
Congress of the United States which
shall consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives.” The only power
that is given to the President in con-
nection with legislation is ‘to recom-
mend to the “Congress for consider-
ation such measures as he shall
judge necessary and expedient,” and
he may veto any legislation that does
not meet his approval.
| Section 8 of article 1 of the con-
stitution says “The Congress shall
have power to lay and collect taxes.”
Webster's dictionary defines lay when
used in such connection as “to assess
as a tax,” and according to the same
authority assess means “to fix or de-
termine the rate or amount of” the
tax levied. In abdicating this power
and bestowing it upon an individual,
whether he be President, Secretary
of the Treasury or a messenger in one
of the departments of the government,
the fundamental law of the country
is violated. This would be bad enough
if it were done for a good purpose but
when done to defraud it is simply
atrocious. In this case it is intended
to legalize larceny.
Wise Change of Party Policy.
There is a substantial basis for.
confidence in the action of the Dem-
ocratic National committee in setting
up permanent party headquarters in
Washington. Heretofore it has been
the practice of the Democratic par-
ty to organize four or five months be-
fore each Presidential election and
conduct a hectic campaign covering
the brief period intervening until the
election, then relapsing into a state of
dormancy until the approach of the
next national campaign. The result
has been that the party is always un-
prepared for efficient service and the
time that ought to be employed in
real campaign work is necessarily
spent in getting ready. The present
movement indicates a wise change of
policy.
The new national headquarters of
the Democratic party will be in
charge of Jewett Shouse, a political
manager of much experience and
marked ability. His home is in Kame
sas City, and he has served in the
Missouri State Senate, the Congress
of the United States and as assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, in charge
of the bureau of Internal Revenue,
during Woodrow Wilson’s second
term in office, While in Congress he
contributed much to the perfection
of legislation establishing the Farm
Loan law and the Federal Reserve
act. ‘Organization, publicity and re-
search” work will receive his espe-
cial attention in the immediate future
and his reputation for industry and
assiduity is a guarantee of efficiency.
Mr. Shouse will not undertake to
boss the party. On assuming the of-
‘fice, the other day, he said, “I don't
propose to recognize any factional
differences. I want this office to be
a place where all Democrats may
meet in fellowship. My attitude is
“let’s forget everything unpleasant
that happened in the past and look to
the future.” That is the frame of
mind which should guide every Dem-
ocratic leader and voter in the coun-
try. The party is stronger today than
it has ever been in the’past, and with
wise leadership and militant rank
and file behind them there are abun-
ant reasons for confidence in the fu-
ture. But the entire burden must
not be placed on the national head-
quarters. Every voter must do a
part.
EE ———
——President Hoover entertained
Senator Borah at lunch, last Sunday,
and corridor gossips are speculating
on the result. Senators have been
changed from crusading opponents to
servile followers by a White House
invitation.
| A ——————————
| Real Truth About Parity.
During the discussion of the ques-
tion to strike from the farm relief
bill the debenture provision Senator
Johnson, of California, Republican,
declared that “this proposition is the
only one in the farm bill which would
do that which was promised in the
last campaign, put agriculture on a
parity with industry.” The Kansas
City convention was equivocal in its
language as to how this result migit
be achieved and Mr. Hoover's
speeches were equally ambiguous. But
there was no uncertainty in the lan-
guage of the pledge of parity. Mr.
Hoover dwelt on that point frequent-
ly and emphasized it as essential to
justice and fairness to agriculture.
Senator Borah and Senator Brook-
hart guaranteed it.
Under the provisions of the pres-
ent tariff legislation, and even to a
greater extent under the provisions
of the bill now under consideration in
Washington, the manufacturers are
assured of prices for their products to
the full extent of the difference in
cost of production, and the bonus is
|in the form of a levy on the consum-
ers. Mr. Hoover says that the de-
benture feature of the farm bill
would cost the tax payers
country $200,000,000 a year. The
tariff bill bonus to the manufacturer
of the country costs the consumers
$4,000,000,000 a year, and as the con-
sumers are the tax payers even a
magnifying glass of the highest pow- |
er will fail to reveal any difference.
The farmers of the country ought
not to have permitted themselves to
be fooled as they were last fall by
specious promises of crafty politi-
cians. Mr. Hoover never intended to
favor legislation that would “put
agriculture on a parity with indus-
try.” His entire life had been spent
in the service of corporations and
syndicates engaged in enterprises
that ran in an opposite direction. He
was the candidate of monopolists and
though professing sympathy for the
people could not conceal his predilec-
tion toward corporation interests. If
the farmers of the corn belt fail to
get relief legislation from the present
Congress it will be their own fault.
They betrayed themselves.
of the
Mrs. Willebrandt’s Hard Fight.
Mrs.
assistant Attorney General in charge
of prohibition enforcement, has taken
on a fight which will tax her influence
as well as her ingenuity to the limit.
We have no brief to support this en-
terprising politician in her ambitions
but are not willing to withhold sym-
pathy with her in her present under-
taking. She has set out to defeat
Senator Dave Reed, of Pittsburgh,
and the Vare machine in the matter
of selecting a federal district attorney
for the eastern district of Pennsji-
vania, and as President Hoover is
under some obligation to Mr. Vare
she is likely to have “a hard road to
travel,” though her cause is worthy
of success.
The present district attorney for
the district resigned some time
ago, presumably to avoid an in-
vestigation for malfeasance in office,
and the Vare machine, with the help
of Senator Reed, presented for the
vacancy Mr. Vare's personal attorney.
The Prohibitionists of Philadelphia
roared so vigorously against such a
perversion of the appointing power
that Mr. Vare consented to the sub-
stitution of Howard M. Long, who is
almost equally objectionable to tne
dry element, and Mrs. Willebrandt
has undertaken to sponsor their op-
position. She has the support of Dr.
Dorman, the prohibition commission-
er, and Colonel Wynne, prohibition
director for the district, but political
exigencies may force the President
to turn her down.
It seems that when Senator Reeq
and the Vare machine consented to
‘the withdrawal of the name of Vare's
attorney they were promised that Mr.
Vare could fill the vacancy provided
he would select a man “who would
be satisfactory to the friends of pro-
hibition enforcement.” Mr. Long does
not measure up to this standard and
it is believed both in Philadelphia and
Washington that no lawyer willing
to accept an appointment at the
hands of Vare will meet the condi-
tions so long as Mrs. Willebrandt re-
mains the arbitrator. And the Pres-
ident owes something to Mrs. Mabel
‘Waker Willebrandt. She influenced a
good many votes in the campaign by
her appeal to religious prejudices.
——The Centre County hospital
drive is now in full swing and, while
not sufficient returns have been made
to justify giving definite figures, the
people of Bellefonte and Centre coun-
ty are responding to the call for aid
and at this time it looks as if the drive
will be more successful than that of
last year. Should any one be over-
looked by the committee in making
its canvas contributions can be mail-
ed direct to the hospital and due cred-
it will be given.
——Based on adequate food menus,
complete separation of men and wo-
men prisoners, increase in industrial
activities and betterment of sanitary
conditions the State Welfare Depart-
ment has given the Centre County
jail a grade of 370. 1000 is a perfect
score and the Allegheny workhouse
came nearest that mark with a grade
of 875.
.
rts Gp sp
—The special session of Congress
has gotten under way far enough to
indicate that the President will be
wary about calling another during his
administration. A burn’t child dreads
the fire.
' ——Tt has been discovered that su-
gar made from cotton seed husks
will keep women slim. But Senator
Reed Smoot will probably find a way
to tariff tax it out of the market.
——Publicity is a potent force. It
has compelled the officials of the
Washington jail to treat Harry Sin-
clair nearly the same way it treats
other prisoners. :
——It may be said that Senator
Copeland is already disliked by some |
leaders in his church, and if he isn’t
careful he may be expelled from
membership.
—
| ——Prohibition enforcement cost
the country $936,000,000 last year,
which might have been little enough
if there had been any real enforce-
ment.
——Mexico is offering inducements
to American tourists, but possibly
with the purpose of passing them ov-
er to bandits after they get there.
——Washington has at last taken
the real measurement of Ed. McLean,
the whilom chum of Harding, Daugh-
erty and Albert Fall.
! ——FEric Fisher Wood is again in
the lime light. His name has been
brought into the Schuylkill county
scandals.
|
Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
The “Los Angeles” Made Flight Over
Bellefonte.
The United States Navy's big dir-
igible, the “Los Angeles,” sailed
gracefully and majestically over
Bellefonte, about 11:35 o'clock last
Friday morning, and most everybody
in town got a splendid sight of it, as
it was
utes.
in view at least twenty min-
it appeared, as it reached Sunbury at
12:10 o'clock.
The Los Angeles, with Lieut. Com.
H. V. Wiley in charge, was return-
ing from a twenty-four hour flight
to Cleveland, merely a 1000 mile
jaunt to keep it’s machinery in good
working condition. On the return
trip from Cleveland to Erie the gen-
erator operating the radio sending
apparatus got out of order and while
the operator could receive messages
he was unable to send any. Conse-
quently at Erie a message was drop-
ped in a parachute, addressed to the
commandant in charge at Lakehurst,
notifying him of the disabled appara-
tus and also stating that the big ship
would be back by sundown.
The Los Angeles circled over the
Bellefonte field and dropped a mes-
sage asking for weather conditions
east to Lakehurst but the message
fell in the grass and could not be
found until long after it had passed
out of sight.
Built in Germany the Los Angeles
was flown across the Atlantic ocean
five years ago and since that time
it has cruised the American skies to
the Pacific coast and return, south to
Cuba and various trips to the middle
west and south without a single mis-
hap. This is ample evidence that it
is constructed on scientific and trust-
worthy lines, and new ships now be-
ing built for the Navy, while bigger
and more modern, will be patterned
along the lines of the Los Angeles.
The normal crew of the latter ship is
about forty officers and men.
——Among the
stories of the week
landing of a 19 inch trout, on Wed-
nesday night, by Geo. S. Denithorne,
owner and operator of the Moore steel
fabricating plant here. After telling
you that Mr. Denithorne broke his
“pole then pulled the fish in, hand
over hand, on the line” we need say
nothing more to convince you that
he is a novice. Be that as it may,
he got the fish whereas some of the
rest of us so-called experts would have
fooled around until all we’d have had
for the evening would have been the
usual story of the whale that got
away. A railroad man fishing above
the Lewisburg railroad trestle, the
same evening, caught five trout and
an eel that measured 37 inches.
interesting fish
Transcontinential Busses.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Dispatch.
Reports from Denver that two
great railroads, the Pennsylvania and
the Great Northern, have purchased
substantial interests in the company
resulting from the merger of three
large transcontinental bus lines prob-
ably means a new era for this grow-
ing branch of transportation. In the
Pittsburgh territory, the Pennsylva-
nia is preparing to enter the bus field,
so that the interest in the coast-to-
coast route is in line with its policy.
Operation of the busses under railroad
supervision will find the Pennsylvania
on the eve of combining aviation, also,
with its lines. The new company has
a capital of $12,000,000, which carries
with it conviction of reliability. It
all shows the extent to which the bus
business has grown in comparatively
few years. The source was probably
in the neighborhood jitney, which
picked up passengers as it traversed
a specified route. The trade has
reached proportions now which ‘en-
title it to consideration in the strong-
holds of finance.
Buying
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
We wonder, and perhaps smile,
when we read that a Wisconsin wo-
man, who was left a lot of money,
spent thousands of dollars filling her
house with wholesale lots of clothes,
furniture, bric-a-brac, clocks and mir-
rors. .
It was filled from garret to cellar
so that there was barely room to
walk around. She had fifty house
dresses, thirty pairs of shoes, and
hundreds of pictures for which there
was no room on the walls. Her es-
tate was turned into a gift shop.
But perhaps there was as much
sense in her buying habits as in those
of many of the rest of us. We all buy
things we do not need just to gratify
the sense of possession or to feed our
vanity.
——It is said that Pennsylvania
imported several thousand car loads
of apples last year from other States.
Doctors must have had a dull year if
“an apple a day keeps the doctor
away.”
While it was apparently flying
low and at a low rate of speed, it
was really higher than it looked to
be and was also traveling faster than
is that of the
; valued at $15,000 was found unopened near
‘the house, where it was believed the bur-
glar had left it.
|
{ —After spending fifty-two consecutive
years in the service of the public schools
in and near Hanover, Thomas Jefferson
Bankert, secretary, truant officer and busi-
ness manager of the Hanover school dis-
trict, will retire on June 30, in accordance
with legal requirements because he has
passed the retirement age of 70 years. Al-
though he will be 71 years old his next
birthday, he is reluctant to sever his con-
nection with the schools.
—Charles Gates, Cambridge Springs
musician, has brought suit for $25,000
damages against the Potter Title & Trust
company, of Pittsburgh, executor of the
estate of Eugene C. Gates, as the result
of an automobile accident near Johnstown
in which Eugene Gates was killed and
Charles Gates claims he suffered injuries
which interfere with his work. Eugene
Gates was the driver, the papers in the
suit said, while Charles Gates was a pas-
senger in the machine.
—An Exeter, Luzerne county, woman,
widow of a World war veteran, collapsed
in the First National bank, Wilkes-Barre,
when she was told that a war insurance
check which she presented to be cashed
was for the sum of $5600 instead of $56,
which she believed to be the value of the
check. Not being able to read, the woman
had been told by her young children that
the check was for the latter amount.
Bank officials revived the woman and con-
vinced her that Uncle Sam hadn't made a
mistake.
—While in her sleep Miss Florence Tay-
lor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Taylor, of Glenville, York county, walk-
ed from her bed to the window of her
room on the third floor, opened it and
leaped to the ground. Her parents, who
were in the kitchen at the time, heard
the noise but they did not pay much at-
tention to it until the girl walked iuto
the house. The girl seemed as though she
was still asleep and somewhat dazed. Dr.
R. R. Stoner was called but he could find
no injuries except some slight bruises.
—All one-way bridges in Pennsylvania
which are located on State highways will
be replaced by new concrete structures
as soon as detailed surveys are made and
plans drawn, State Secretary of Highways
James L. Stuart declared Friday. There
are 2127 county bridges on State roads, of
which 245 are constructed of timber, 896
‘of steel, and 936 of stone and concrete.
The timber spans will be replaced within
'the next five years, the Secretary said.
All the bridges must be taken over by
July 1, 1930, under the terms of the Gel-
nett bill recently signed by the Governor.
—Clayton S. Gates, of Tyrone, has heen
appointed as a cadet to West Point and
will report July 1. To win a West Point
appointment is no little hcnor and the
Tyrone youth is to be congratulated. Just
what this achievement means may be
gleaned from the fact that he was placed
fourth in a group of 38 who took the first
examination last March and in April he
with 140 other members of the National
Guard from all over the United States
were given final examination mn Washing-
ton, D. C. His appointment was the re-
sult of being among the first 40. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuzl C. Gates,
Tyrone, and is a member of the senior
class of the Tyrone High school.
—Lawrence Freeze, 14 years old, of
Mill Hall, charged with sending threaten-
ing letters through the mail to parents of
Mill Hall girls, had a hearing on Satur-
day before Alderman Faye R. Gustin, who
held him in $1500 bail for the June term
of Clinton county court. Freeze, in his
missives, demanded $50 from parents of
girls whom he knew in Mill Hall and in-
timated bodily harm to their daughters
if they did not comply. He told newspa-
permen the Hickman case inspired him to
| do it. Police believe a confederate op-
, erated with Freeze. Whether the govern-
ment will prefer charges against the boy
is uncertain, though his deportment was
a violation of postal regulations, postal
inspectors say.
—That a gas stove is no safe place in
which to keep valuables, W. H. Snyder,
of York, Pa., now knows to his regret.
Snyder last Friday night received a fat
bank roll in a business transaction, and
as it was after banking hours, he hid it
in a gas stove which had not been in use.
During the evening a clergyman called at
the Snyder home. As the night was cool
and the room in which the clergyman was
being entertained was not comfortable,
somebody in the household connected the
gas stove and lighted it to warm the
room. Later smoke and odor filled the
room, and Snyder bethought himself of
his money. He disconnected the stove and
found his money in ashes. His loss is said
to have been $1100.
—Yeggs forced entry into the Leinbach
and Company department store, at Lan-
caster, some time Saturday night, cracked
two safes in the establishment and escap-
ed with approximately $1400 in currency.
, The store is less than a half block from
| police headquarters. The robbery was
| discovered early on Sunday by an em-
i ployee of the firm. The robbers gained
| entrance by removing the lock at one of
the main entrances, then went to the main
office on one floor, drilled open one safe
and blew open another larger and stronger
one. The robbers used merchandise found
in the other departments of the store to
muffle the sound of the explosion. About
| thirty-five coats and a large number of
| rugs were draped about the safe to drown
| the noise.
i
—A sharp breaking curve from the
southpaw delivery of a pitcher in a boys’
baseball game almost changed the facial
contour of deputy sheriff Wililam FH.
Eisenhart as he was coming out the front
door of his home in York. The official
had barely stepped onto his front porch
and was lighting a cigar when the horse-
hide pellet struck him squarely on the
mouth. The terrific impact extinguished
the match, then struck the cigar and al-
most pushed it down his throat. It was
several seconds before Mr. Eisenhart real-
ized what happened. He was so frightened
by the suddenness of the accident that he
could hardly speak. It is believed that
the ball would have knocked out several
of his teeth had the. cigar not broken its
speed. Eisenhart sustained a cut lip and
the loss of a good cigar.