__Mr. Pinchot hasn't yet told
Pennsylvania how dry he is.
__Even the Hon. Amos Woodcock,
the new director of
forcement, sees “the
the wall.”
__Post Master General Brown is
going to recommend an increase of
half a cent in the first class post.-
age rate. There will be a great
ado about that, but not from us.
We hate so to write a letter that
we'd be tickled pink if he were to
get the rate up so high that we
couldn't afford to buy 2a postage
stamp. Then our friends might
feel that - our direlictions would be
occasioned by other causes than
laziness.
__In Philadelphia, the other day,
Judge McDevitt told a group of
welfare workers he was addressing
that it cost ten billion dollars every
year to enforce the laws against
crime in the United States. In ad-
dition, he stated, that the loss
through crime amounts to over
seven billion dollars annually. That
means that every year crime costs,
either directly or indirectly, every
man, woman and child in this coun-
try $135.00. What a price to pay
for the futile attempt ‘to shunt on.
to the shoulders of blind Justice a
job that every man and woman who
bring children into the world should
do in their own homes.
Bishop Berry of our
prohibition en-
hand-writing on
church
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Our Candidate for Senator.
The community tribute paid to
Sedgwick Kistler, Democratic nom-
inee for United States Senator, at
his home in Lock Haven the other
day, is the most persuasive appeal
for. support that has been given to
any candidate for important public
office in Pennsylvania in recent
years. It was not a partisan ex-
pression of reward for political serv-
jce. It was a whole-souled mani-
festation of popular confidence in a
citizen and neighbor by an entire
community, irrespective of politics
or creed. Leading Republicans, in-
cluding candidates for office of that
party, and men and women of all
ranks in the social calendar cordi-
ally joined in this demonstration of
faith in, and affection for Mr. Kist-
ler.
And’ it was a tribute worthily be-
stowed. Sedgwick Kistler has been
an active contributing influence in
the prosperity and progress of the
community for many years. He is
preached in Bellefonte last Sunday the head of an industry which has
night.
Pinchot.
preach what he pleases, but either
he or Mr. Pinchot is wrong and by
way of attempting to reconcile their
differences we call attention to what
one is saying now and the other
said only a few years ago. Pin.
chot is on the stump calling “Bill”
vVare and his Philadelphia organiza-
tion all the bad names he can lay
his tongue tc. When “Bill's brother
Ed. died, and Ed. was the man be-
hind the gun in the Vare organiza-
tion, Bishop Berry gave him a
rhetorically grandiloquent pas s
right into Heaven. Don’t preachers
make a mess of it when they dally
with politics?
__ Mable Willebrandt must be a
regular Siren. A few years ago
she was an assistant to the United
States Attorney General in charge
of prohibition enforcement, Now
she is attorney for the grape grow-
ers of California. Then she had
all the Prohibition forces turning
hand springs Whenever she men-
tioned the awfulness of taking a
drink of anything that contained
mere~than one half of one per cent
of alcohol by volume. Now she
thinks. that. the industry «of ~het
clients would be ruined if snoopers
. were to go into their cellars and
find out that the grapes her clients
are eager to supply have been made
into wine of at least twelve per
cent alcoholic content. Mable is a
wise little woman, She has found
out that seventy-five per cent of the
people who are trying to reform the
other twenty-five per cent, have a
a little hand cider, elder blossom,
grape or dandelion in their own cel-
lars. What a hypocrite Mable is.
__Voters of Centre county would
be well advised if they were to con-
sider just what Mr. Pinchot’s at-
tack on the public utilities com-
panies might result in. It must
be remembered that the West Penn
Power Co. the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co. ‘the American Tel and
Tel, or any other corporation com-
ing under tne head of public utilities
is not a great leach sucking your
resources away from you in exor-
bitant charges. In reality, it is
you, if you happen to hold stock
in any such corporation. Not only
are your dividends threatened by this
blatant demagogue, but every man
who works for such corporations
would necessarily be threatened with
wage reduction if their right to
conduct their business as experts
think it should be conducted is fur-
ther hamstrong. We have no brief
to defend corporations, but when
Pinchot, for selfish personal pur-
poses, ‘tries to align the public against
companies that serve them we
think it is time for the public to
“Stop, Look and Listen.” .
Recently the price of grain
touched the lowest level it has
reached in twenty-five years. We
might turn this unfortunate con-
dition into a crack at President
Hoover, but we are not going todo
that. We are merely going to
claim that in our little way we are
a great deal bigger and broader
than President Hoover was when he
was a candidate for the high office
he holds, Then he promised he
was going to do something for the
farmers. He promised that in the
face of a fact that he ought to
have known that no legislation con-
ceivable can make a market for a
commodity that is produced in ex-
cess of the demand for it. Presi-
dent Hoover and the Republican
party are responsible for fooling
people into the notion that they can
wave a wand at the inexorable law’
of supply and demand and make
business go on as usual. Would a
Republican writer in the United
States have been fair enough to
write just such a paragraph as this
had Al. Smith been in the White
House today? We think not.
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pitious ¢
Prohibition and | °.
Heigeschey the ag op can given employment to many wage
| earners in ‘the community for forty
years, and during all that period of
time there has been no disturbance
in the friendly relations between
employer and employee in any of
his several plants. He has shown
quite as much concern for the com-
fort and prosperity of his employees
as for the success of his enterprise,
In 1890 a pension system was intro-
duced and since that time, without
assessment or tax upon the em-
ployee, a liberal pension has been
paid to all aged, or incapacitated
employees.
But this generous provision is not
the only beneficence bestowed by
Sedgwick Kistler upon the em-
ployees of his industry. We are
assured that the company ‘“main-
tains modest but comfortable houses
which are rentedat nominal sums
Notwithstanding the fact that taxes
have risen enormously and upkeep
costs have grown tremendously, the
rentals, as originally fixed, have
never been raised.” The company
has also made it possible for its
workmen, through small payments,
to buy their own homes. With
constant employment and these pro-
mosphere of contentment, a sense
o security and a guarrntee of pros-
perity is established.
Mr. Kistler has traveled much
and being a close student has ac-
quired an extensive understanding
of business and civic affairs. It is
said that no expert in economics in
the State or statesman in the coun-
try has a more thorough under-
gtanding of the intricacies of tariff
legislation. Constantly in touch
with the bus‘ness world, foreign and
domestic, he has acquired, by actual
contact, full knowledge of manu-
facturing and’ commercial- conditions
in all parts of the world. At this
time such information would be of
inestimable value tothe country and
it can be provided and utilized by
the election of Mr. Kistler to the
office which his friends, rather than
himself, are urging his election.
Sedgwick Kistler is a many-sided
man. Besides being a master in
manufacturing enterprise, a learned
economist and a practical business
man, he is a sentimentalist in some
measure, That is to say, he takes
great pleasure and some pride in
his farm near Lock Haven, where
he specializes in dairy farming. His
120 acres comprise one of the
model farms of the State, and his
specialty is the breeding of Hol-
stein cattle. At considerable ex-
pense he has acquired “Sir Fobes
Star Segis” scion of the only bull
that has won five times the grand
championship at the Chicago Na-
i1.0nal cattle show. With this ac-
quisition he finds infinite satisfac-
tion in seeing the cattle standard
in his neighborhood vastly raised.
But Mr. Kistler is first and fore-
most a Jeffersonian Democrat. He
believes in the political philosophy
of the great Virginian and though
he has never held nor sought office
he has served as delegate to party
conventions and is now a member
of the Democratic National Com-
mittee, a post high in honor and ex-
pense but with out remuneration.
— When those Gregg , township
Democrats volunteered to bring their
own band to the Hemphill meeting
last Saturday night we thought of
the good old days when all Penns
Valley Democrats were enthusiastic
as Saturday night's visitors were.
My, how that Spring Milis band
could play and what natty uniforms
they have.
— We are told that Senator Scott
is very badly scared. If it is so
he has company in his misery, for
Pinchot and Holmes are also said
to be having moments when their
hair stands right up on end.
“fnatritained an at-
Pinchot’s False Promises Analyzed.
An unusually well informed and
capable contributor to the Philadel-
phia Record’s ‘Mail Bag,” writing
fof Gifford Pinchot, says; “He dishes
put promises promiscuously, knowing
in his heart that there is- not a
possibility of
ment. He tells the farmers that
if elected Governor ne will build
£0,000 miles of roads but that their
taxes will not be increased a little
bit; he tells the people of Philadel-
phia how he will aid the port when,
as Governor, he vetoed bills design-
ed to benefit the Philadelphia port.
in summing up the character of
Pinchot,” the correspondent adds,
“the conclusion that irresistibly
presents itself is that he is a dem-
agogue and opportunist,”
This is the conclusion to which
thousands of voters are coming. In
this former campaign he promised
all sorts of reforms and ‘clean out
khe mess” was the feature of every
speech of a long campaign. But
a few days before the election he made
a secret bargain with the Vare ma-
chine, of Philadelphia, to make no
disturbance with the mess and for
more than two years every Vare
emissary retained his place on the
pay roll and the bad odor of the
mess continued to offend the nos-
trils of the people until Vare de-
clared opposition to the selection of
Pinchot as delegate to the Repub-
lican National convention of 1924.
Under the same agreement with
Vare mo ballot reform legislation
was even asked for by the Gover-
nor during that period of time.
y If Mr. Pinchot imagines that the
woters of Pennsylvania will ~ accept
his reckless and insincere promises
at full value this year he will be
sadly disappointed. No man or
woman of ordinary intelligence will’
believe a promise that is impossible
of fulfilment, and most of his
promises are of that kind. His
statement that he will vastly in-
crease the expenses of the State
Highway Department and reduce
the revenues of that Department is
absurb. Most of his other promises
are equally fraudulent. And in mak-
ing them he insults the intelligence:
of the voters of Pennsylvania and.
‘will ‘richly deserve their resentment
which will justly follow. He can’t
fool the people all the time.
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— Liberal as Gifford Pinchot is
with promises that mean nothing he
declines to promise to approve leg-
islation to repeal the blue laws.
Another Oil Scandal in View.
The record of Secretary of the
Interior Wilbur in allotting the pro-
ducts of the Boulder Dam strength-
“ens the charge recently made that
favoritism, if not something worse,
has been shown in dispensing leases
of the immensely valuable shale
“reservations of the government in
Colorado. The law authorizing the
| vast Boulder Dam enterprise specific-
ally provided that in the allocation
of power contiguous municipalities
should be accorded the preference.
But instead of complying with that
obviously wise provision Secretary
Wilbur began allotting it to private
| corporations thus creating opportuni-
!ties for exploiting the consumers of
power.
Ralph S. Kelly, chief of the Field
Division of the United States Gen-
eral Land Offices, now charges that
Secretary Wilbur has been following
a similar policy in leasing the oil
shale fields of the government in
Colorado and that the beneficiaries
of this favoritism are the same men
or corporations who defrauded the
government of the naval oil reserves
in California and Wyoming during
the Harding administration by brib-
ing Secretary of the Interior Albert
B. Fall. The property is estimated
to contain 40,000,000 barrels of
oil of the value of $40,000,000,000. The
operations have been in progress for
a period of five years and in the
face of strong protests.
Mr. Kelly, who has finally re.
signed his office because of the in-
justice to the public, declares that
these concessions have been grant-
ed to favorites “not because they
were rightfully entitled ‘to such con-
sideration but purely and simply
as conciliatory measures because of
great political or other pressure
brought to bear upon the Secre-
tary.” In other words the valuable
resources of the government are
disposed of in consideration of party
service or in the form of reimburse-
ment of campaign contributions.
Happily the turpitude which was in:
volved in the tramsaction between
Fall and Sinclair is absent in this in-
stance, but that’s about all the dif-
ferences.
— “Whom the gods would de.
stroy they first make mad.” Pin-
chot, slipping, appears to have lost
reasoning.
his power of
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STATE RIGHTS AND
pma—
their eventful fulfill-
EDERAL UNION
OCTOBER 10.
of Hemphill Might Mean
National : Victory.
“Tn a radio speech delivered in
Washington, on Monday evening,
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the
i gd House of Representatives,
truck an almost dispairing note in
referring to the approaching Congres-
sional “elections. “My reports,” he
aid, “are to the effect that in in-
trial sections the Republican vote
will be reduced, due to unemploy-
ment.” A survey of conditions in
Nebraska by Richard V. Dulahan,
Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, indicates that five
of the six representatives from that
State in the Congress will be Dem-
ocrats. In other sections of the
country similarly encouraging re-
of Democratic gains come
from reliable sources. ;
“These facts lead to but one con-
clusion and that is that the polit-
jesl tide has turned and the Presi-
dential election of 1932 will result
in a Democratic victory. If the
Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania is elected this year
that result will be made absolutely
certain, ‘With the Republican party
overthrown in Pennsylvania there
will be nothing left upon which to
build a hope for that party. This
prospect should inspire every Demo-
atic voter in the State, mot only
to support the splendid ticket which
‘has been named, but to renewed
energy in the work of getting a full
poll of the party in the State. It
‘will guarantee a wise and efficient
' administration of the State govern-
| ment and a certainty of a rescue of
the National government in the near
future.
There -i§ no reason for any Dem-
ocrat voting for Gifford Pinchot as
against John M. Hemphill for Gov.
ernor. . Pinchot is a selfish, profes-
sional politician and perennial of-
fice seeker. Hemphill is an able
lawyer, a capable administrator and
a profound student of the science of
gavernment. A man of the people,
he understands the needs of the
people. and has the courage to de-
mand and secure them. He is not
influenced by selfishness. His pur-
i
He will be a second Pattison and
any Democrat who fails to vote for
him will
ditional obligation.
___JIt seems that amother oil
scandal is impending. The odor of
: petroleum has an irresistible faci-
nation for Republican politicians,
Record of Two Candidates.
In the spring of 1917 the ruth-
lessness of Germany in destroying
lives and property of American
war, Following the call for troops
ko defend the honor of the country
John M. Hemphill, Democratic nom-
inee for Governor, entered the serv-
soldier. After the allotted period
in a training camp, he was sent to
France. He participated in the
battles at St. Mihiel, at Chateau
Thierry, on the Vesle and in the
Argonne Forest. For meritorious
was gradually promoted until he
attained the rank of Captain. At
the close of the war he was honor-
ably discharged.
In the spring of 1917 Gifford Pin-
chot was enjoying the luxuries of
office as Commissioner of Forestry
in’ Pennsylvania, the salary having
been increased on his personal So-
licitation to a figure that appealed
to his cupidity. He never * offered
his services to the government as
a soldier or civilian. He was a mil-
lionaire several times over and while
men of wealth offered time and service
at nominal recompense Giflord Pin-
chot clung to his lucrative and harm-
less job. Other men of large means
bought Liberty Bonds, some times
“till it hurt,” but so far as the
bought a single ‘bond, though his in-
herited but unearned wealth ran
far into seven figures.
There are a great many veterans
of the World war in Pennsylvania
and each one of them has an oOp-
portunity to express an opinion,
through the ballot box, as to which
of these gentlemen is most deserv-
ing of his favor, So far as fitness
for the office is concerned there can
be no doubt. One a young, capable,
vigorous and militant champion of
the people, who has earned the high
position in public confidence he oc-
cupies, and the other a perennial
political hack who has never done
anything but hold or hunt for of-
fice, are the alternatives.
Hemphill offered his life for the
honor and glory of his country. In
the great emergency ofthe century
Gifford Pinchot proved a “slacker.”
ice of the governmnt-as a private |
service and gallantry in battle Te |
record reveals, Mr. Pinchot never
Mr.
1930.
Is Farming to be Industrialized.
From the Philadelphia Record. ;
Henry Ford, in Paris, is reported
to have made the definite state-
ment. that his company will soon go
into farming. aes . 2
- He believes industry and farming
will ere long be combined.
He foresees a system in which men
will work nine or ten months in
the factory and the remainder of
the year in fields.
Is corporation farming destined to.
displace the old-time system of
family farming?
Is the cultivation of the earth to
be transformed from its age-long
status of individual enterprise on a
small scale to that of an industry,
organized and run like a manu-
facturing business?
Are the small-farm owners to
go? Is tenant farming doomed ?
Inexorable is the law of change.
Growing populations, increasingly
crowded into limited areas, the ur-
banization of life, along with mech-
anization of industry, have revolu-
tionized society.
Farming has changed less than
other phases of life; yet how dif-
ferent from what he knew would
today's farming appear to one Tre-
visiting the scenes of boyhood on
the farm of 30 or 40 years ago!
The home industries of Colonial
times disappeared as urban centers
developed. Barter gave way to
systematic trade that transportation
developed. The home spinning
wheel was carted off to the barn
loft or the garret, to gather dust
and ripen as a relic of antiquity,
when wool began to be spun in mills.
. Slowly, steadily, irresistibly, ways
of living change as new ‘discoveries
and inventions provide means of
producing more comforts with less
labor. :
The sickle gave way to the scythe.
The scythe yielded to the horse-
drawn ‘mower. The man with the
hoe, laboriously traveling up and
down long - rows of beans, corm,
potatoes, has a son who drives a
tractor cultivating areas the old man
never dreamed of,
The flail is gone. Threshers
run by mechanical power do the work
‘ of hundreds of pairs of hands.
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is to serve the people amd if .
economical and just government.’
be recreant to the tra.
The farm has changed—not so
fast, not so perceptibly as industry,
but to a degree much greater than
is realized until you stop to make
mental note of the new methods.
~ Sentiment will not stay the march
Romance will not check progress
in production.
That farming shall be revolution-
ized seems simply inevitable.
The
signs of the times, appears doomed.
In his place will rise a race of men
whose labor will be bought as that
of the city worker is bought, by
corporations.
Under such a system, painful as
“it may seem to those who like the
‘old ways and hate to see great
i changes, new skill
‘ knowledge of mature’s methods, but:
control- jained by heirs to settle the
ling amount !
citizens forced the government of ! g of production, and so | the dead farmer, is administrator.
the United States to enter the World |
in management
will brought to bear; not in
in regulating investments,
on.
to abandon his proprietorship and
enlist in the army of organized
farm labor will have some compen-
sations.
He cannot thrill with pride of
ownership ashe looks over the wide
acres of growing crops—but he will
not lose capital in bad years. He
may suffer wage cuts when flood or
drought destroys the crops, but he
will have organized power of re-
sistance.
To some farmers of today it may
seem as if they stand in the path
of an avalanche of ruin.
Others may welcome the promise
of the new era as relief from an
order that has failed.
But, whether it be with pleasure
or with dread that the change is
anticipated, it does seem clear that!
the next major movement in or-
ganization of our national lifé will
be in the direction of the corpor-
ation-owned, industrially-organized
system of cultivating the earth to
supply the nation with food.
tne fee epee
—Before us are several ‘news re-
leases” in which our former Judge
Arthur C. Dale, chairman of the
State committee of Pinchot for Gov-
ernor, tells the people of Pennsylva-
nia just what is going to happen.
We are not publishing them because
we know that former Judge Dale's
fulminations are nothing more than
wishes father to the thought. He
doesn't even know that there are
only twenty-four people on 'the street
he lives on in Bellefonte who are
minded to vote for his candidate.
—The residents of east Howand
street .shouldn’t worry council with
that surface water problem of theirs.
They should appeal to Pinchot. He'd
appoint a commission ‘next week”
to investigate their troubles and dig
a cess pool for them sometime in
the next century—maybe.
rm —— A ————————
—The “Afaleties” won, but Mr.
Cornelius McGilcuddy had a few
very moments after the
“Cardinals” tied it all. up in St.
Louis.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Emanuel Wirtshafter, dry goods mer-
chant of Philadelphia, was forced into an
automobile while on the way to his
bank Saturday, and robbed of more than
$400 by three bandits who brandished
guns. They then threw him into the
street and made good their escape.
—Fifteen minutes after seven young
bandits held up the Universal Gas and
Oil station on the outskirts of Easton,
on Tuesday, obtaining $212.84 from the
cash register and $35 from Norman
Trinkley, attendant, they were captured
‘lin ‘a roadhouse where they had gone to
divide their spoils. :
—Jacob B. Baumer, 53, of Milton, was
caught under a fall of earth in the rear
of a new home he was building and
suffocated. Fellow-workmen found . the
body in a standing position and three
feet under the fall, they said. Coroner
Fisher, of Northumberland county, said
death was due to suffocation.
—Issac Park, 33, of Knightsville, was
killed; Emery McQuait, of Clear Ridge,
| and Walter McConahy, of Saltillo, were in-
jured -seriously by a premature explosion
of a blast’ in Wayne Steel stone quarry
near Three Springs on Monday. The
men were preparing the blast by tamp-
ing dynamite into the rock when the
explosion occurred. Park leaves a wife
and five children.
—For fifty-seven years John Wesley
Campbell, of Sunbury, has held the same
job at the identical spot and now at the
age of 82 he has no thought of retiring.
He is the oldest employee of the Penn-
sylvania Power and Light company in
the Sunbury gas plant. The various
mergers and sales of public utility com-
panies never affected his job nor the
location of the local plant.
— Believing the gun unloaded, Leon De-
forrest, 23, of Turtle Creek, while re-
pairing sights on his father’s rifle at
the latter's home near Huntingdon, was
shot in * the breast when the weapon
was discharged accidentally. - He died
in 15 minutes. Leon, with four brothers,
all employed at Turtle Creek, went to
the home ‘of their father, Albert M. De-
forrest, Saturday, to prepare for this
season’s hunting.
__Otto Zimmerman, 74, of Emporium,
bought a new pair of pants. He donned
them, wrapping the old in a newspaper
and throwing them into the creek. Reach-
ing for change in his new pocket he
found that he had neglected to take $75
out of the old before discarding. He
hurried to the creek, found someone had
unrolled the package and found out what
it contained, but had neglected to search
the pockets. In consequence Otto re-
covered his cash.
__The car of Judge Albert Johnson, of
the United States. District Court, was
stopped and searched for liquor near
New Albany, on Saturday night, by
Walter J. Bell, former Bradford county
deputy sheriff, now a constable at Sayre,
Pa. It is- stated that when Bell stop-
ped the Judge's car he was told. -by the
jurist he was in a hurry, but Bell in-
sisted on making a thorough: search of
the machine. . Finding no rum the car
was allowed to go. . -
_ —W. M. Heddens, Civil war veteran,
of Danville, who recently observed his
85th ‘birthday, claims his family has a
unique war record. His great-grand-
father, William Heddens, served as cap-
tain in the Revolution; his grandfather,
i mes EE James
| fought in
| Heddens, was in the Spanish-American
| war, and a grandson,
independent farmer, by all'saw service in the World war.
|, —Public
| personal property of Harry M. Deitrich,
{ with an ax and then committed
lion their
| sonal
| policy, at $3,000. Assistant District At-
The independent farmer compelled |
gi gs, fought in the war of
He and his father, J. T. Heddens,
the Civil war. A son, J. T.
1812.
Armon Heddens,
sale of the real estate and
who killed his wife and children
suicide
farm near Spry, York county,
will be held on Saturday. The realty
has been appraised at $4,000 and the per-
property, including an insurance
four
8S. Laucks has been re-
estate, of
of
torney Samuel
which Alfred A. Dietrich, a brother
— Max Rapp, Marietta, was sent to the
York county jail for four months by
Judge Ray P. Sherwood for his part in
the theft of a bath tub and a copper boil-
er from the bungalow of A. H. Greer,
at Accomac. Rapp pleaded guilty to
the charge of larceny and receiving
stolen goods. Harry Ressler, who is
alleged to have been associated with him
in stripping the bungalod, is in the
Lancaster county jail on another charge.
Rapp told the Court that they sold the
copper boiler and tub in Columbia for $6.
__The cleverness of Sally Rekert, pret-
ty 18-year-old chain store cashier at
Columbia, Pa., in detecting a bogus $20
note used in a purchase at the store,
led to the arrest of a gang of three who
had operated extensively in Columbia
and Marietta stores. Danny Goreman
was named by James Wood and Wilson
Randolph as the man who furnished the
spurious notes and gave them $5 for
‘each one they passed. All three were
held in $12,000 bail pending a Federal
probe in an effort to get at the source
of the money, which is believed to come
out of the coal regions.
—The will of Wilson E. Stroudt, of
Philadelphia, adjudicated in orphan’s
court, bequeathed to his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Charles L. Stroudt, “all that parcel
of land from the Alantic to the Pacific
and all the trees and every thing
thereon.” To Mrs. Stroudt’'s son he
bequeathed ‘‘the four winds of the earth
that he may enjoy them the same as 1
have.” The will provided that the ‘‘per-
son who saw to it that he was buried
should receive his cash, stocks and
bonds to pay the expenses and keep the
balance.” The estate amounted to $421.
The doctor and funeral expenses were
$416. Mrs. Stroudt, who paid expenses,
+| receives $5.
— Joseph Kish, 46 year old resident of
Bethlehem, last Friday ended his life at
his home by strangling himself to death.
He had been in a highly nervous state
and had made three unsuccessful at-
tempts at suicide, each time being
prevented from doing so by the timely
interference of his wife. Prior to en-
tering his bedroom he kissed his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ethel Arnold, who had been
his favorite. Going into his room he
disrobed and drew a silk stocking tight-
ly about his neck, affixing the other end
to the top of an iron bed. With this crude
appliance fastened he knelt om the floor,
alongside his bed, drawing the stocking
taut and slowly strangling. :