BY PP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Mr. WANAMAKER’S board of strategy is getting in some fairiy effective work. —The best advice we can give the Cubans now is to quit raising the devil and get to raising cane. —The home-coming of the soldier boys is playing thunder with the winter pros- pects of the fatted calf. —This is the only war on record in which death has cut a wider swath in the camps than on the battiefield. —Maine had an election on Monday and the result is mainly on the side upon which it usually is found up there. —We have such reason not to forget the bad treatment of our soldiers that we may cease to ‘remember the Maine.’’ —Judging from returns from Maine, it might be well for the Republican choir to begin practicing the political doxology. —It has been discovered what was the matter with the soldiers. ALGER says that their food was to rich for their blood. —Fashionable dresses are to be cut a lit- tle lower in the neck than usual this fall. A kind of ‘‘a lo! and behold’’ style as it were. —The career of a President elected by MARK HANNA'S boodle couldn’t be any- thing else than scandalous whether in peace or war. —Chairman ELKINS appears to think the Republican machine is entitled to great credit for not entirely bankrupting the State. —The beauty of colonial possessions is already showing itself in AGUINALDO pre- paring for hostilities with the United States. —Republican audiences have already discovered that the defenses of their party are provided only with the smallest and most unreliable guns. —If its true that ‘God hates a coward” what a slim chance the fellows who have worn the QUAY collar, until their necks are sore, are going to have. —Other businesses may not be prosper- ing, but the defective flue can be counted one with a great certainty to resume opera- tions at a very early date. —One of our exchanges has an article on “Rogues in High office.”” It’s got the range of the enemy exactly. Rogues don’t bother much about low offices. —What was left of Republican promises and pretensions after candidate JENKS got through with them at Bradford, on Thurs. day, wasn’t worth gathering together. —It may be that MARK HANNA’S in- clination to take everything within reach induces him to say that ‘‘we must take our place in the Orient.” MARK is great on a grab. —The plan to rid the war department of ALGER by dumping him into the United States Senate is not to be commended. That body has already too much of that kind of truck. —Kiss the baby while you can’ is a new song just out. The song may become popular but to be sure of enjoying the advice right well we would prefer waiting until it wears bangs. —Since Mr. JENKS has started on the trail of the State Machine, chairman ELKINS assortment of trouble has increased faster than the State expenditures under Republican rule. —Common precaution would induce Sec- retary ALGER to pay particular attention to his politieal coal pile. The cold wave that seems sweeping in his direction shows no signs of a let up. —If Mr. AGUINALDO don’t quiet down the next thing he may find will be one of our courts firing an injunction at him. They are easy put off and, are considered by some, great silencers. —The heads of the war department made a great mistake in regard to the work they had in hand. Instead of managing a war they thought they were laying the wires for a Presidential election. —There may be some truth in ALGER’S diagnosis of the sickness in the camps. He says that the soldiers were only homesick. There can be no doubt that the treat- ment they received made them very sick to get home. —It is to be hoped that the Republican management will soon raise the embargo they placed on candidate DALEY’S mouth. Something of the kind must be done or there’ll not be a bit of fun in the whole campaign. —Pittsburg papers are boasting that there was plenty of music at the opening rally of the Republican campaign in that city last week. And judging from their own re- ports of the gathering, its about all there was a plenty of. —When our manufactures can be im- ported to Europe with a profit, and the DINGLEY act is creating a deficit, there is no resisting the conclusion that neither for protection nor for revenue is the Republi- can tariff of any account. —The difficulties with our ‘‘Johnnys” is that they can’t ‘‘come marching home." Republican war department management has knocked the march out of them, and most of the poor fellows will be brought home in hospital cars and on stretchers. —Doctor SWALLOW has been making such a forceful exhibit of the iniquities of the QUAY machine that we can’t see how he can reconcile it with his conscience not to vote for the candidate who has the only chance of defeating the machine’s nominee. Co onl AH CILACTALLC: 9 RO 7 yy ® STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. OL. 43 ~ BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT EMBER 16, 1898. NO. 36. The Maine Election. Some people are easily satisfied, and wher we come to think of the Republican leaders and Republican papers that are professing satisfaction over the result of the election in Maine, on Monday, we are com- pelled to concluded that they are of that class. The returns from that State, as for- warded by the Republican State chairman, and which Republican papers are parading as a victory is the kind of a victory that no party can stand more than once. From the Philadelphia Press report we clip the following : ‘The Republicans carry the State by 25,000 or 30,000 plurality re-electing Governor Pow- ers, Congressman Reed, Dingley, Burleigh and Boutelle, and electing a majority of the Legislature, which will re-elect United States Senator Eugene Hale. The total vote is about 87,000 compared with 123,515 two years ago, and 107,975 in 1894. The Republican vote is cut down 33 per cent. while the Democrats have sus- tained loss of two per cent. over 1894 and have made a gain of over 10 per cent. over two yearsago. But the fact must be taken into con- sideration that the Republicans made no ef- fort as they did two and four years ago, making no speeches and sending out no cam- paign literature.” Go : The Democrats succeeded in increasing their vote in the Senate two, and in the House of Representatives ten. The report is from Hon. JOSEPH MANLY, chairman of the Republican State commit- tee, and we presume can be relied upon as being as favorable to his party as the re- turns will allow. And what a victory! Think of it. A reduction in the Republican vote of 33 per cent. and a gain of 10 per cent. in the Democratic vote, basing the calculation on the presidential vote of two years ago. The same kind of a ‘‘vietory’’—that is what the Republican papers call it—would give New York to the Democracy by over 60,000 majority ! It would make Ohio Democratic hy 141,- 000 majority ! It would carry Indiana by 120,000 ! It would place Illinois in the Democratic column with 167,000 votes to spare ! In fact the same kind of a result in the other States of the Union, will carry every one of them for the Dem- acracy with the exception of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin. It would give the Democrats 193 majority on the electoral vote, secure them Congressiby an overwhelming major- ity and chamge the political complexion of the United States Senate. Surely our friends, the enemy, are not in earnest when they profess to be satisfied with such a result. It is a pretense. An effort at keeping up courage and prevent- ing a stampede. A loss of 33 per cent. to Republicans and a gain of 10 per cent. for the Demo- crats in Maine, is a most telling rebuke to the McKINLEYS, the HANNAS and the ALGERS of the Republican party, and the brightest promise of Democratic success in 1899 that could he given. ——It could not be expected that the Democrats would carry Vermont, but they reduced the Republican majority up there to a size that is always the fore-runner of a sound Republican thrashing at. the November election. In that respect Ver- mont is a reliable political thermometer. Loading Himself With Algerism. General J. P.S. GoBIN, who holds the second place on the Quay State ticket, considered it the proper thing as the retir- ing Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, at its recent annual con- vention, to laud Secretary of war ALGER and commend his administration of military affairs during the war. This was a hold thing for General GoBIN todo in the face of numberless witnesses of ALGER’S mismanagement, and in contradic- tion to testimony from every quarter where the army was stationed as to the disastrous effect of what was either his official in- capacity, or something worse. The commanding General of the army as well as the disease-stricken private sol- dier have testified against ALGER’S method of conducting that part of his official duty upon which the health and physical well- being of the army depended, and the in- formation of every leading journal, obtain- ed from reliable correspondents at the front and in the camps, was to the effect: that the soldiers suffered from management that was either stupidly inefficient or criminal- ly neglectful. This was the spontaneous and concurrent testimony from all sources, yet in the face of it General GOBIN is not deterred from giving this generally condemned official the benefit of his commending endorsement. If General GOBIN thought that this was due to ALGER as a Republican official, coming from the head of the G. A. R., he did that organization an injury, and per- haps an injustice, by making it appear to be a political machine. If he thought that it was good politics and would benefit him as a Republican State candidate, he will find that Quayism is a sufficient load for him to carry in this campaign without adding to it the odium of Algerism. Duty of Republicans to Smash their Party Machine. Those Republicans who are conscious of the debased condition of the public affairs, of this State, and who sincerely desire im- provement in the State government, should bring themselves to a realization of the fact that there can be no such reform as ex- isting conditions require without the defeat of their party both as to the Governorship and the Legislature. A vicious combi- nation of self-seeking politicians have been allowed to become the masters of the party. They have made themselves the representa- tive power, exercising through the party machinery a control that can be taken from them only through the party’s defeat. The issue presented in this State election will put intelligent Republicans to the test as to whether they are merely partisans, whose interest extends no farther than the success of candidates who have secured the party nominations for State offices, or independent citizens who are not willing to believe that partisan triumph pays them sufficiently for the injury inflicted by bad State government. There is no reason why any political party should be successful unless that suc- cess inures to the public welfare. Can any Pennsylvania Republican believe that the success which his party would score in the election of the QUAY State ticket, and candidates for the Legislature, would be beneficial to the State ? Is there any moral obligation for Republicans to support what they have every reason to know is injurious to them? Will it not be paying dearly for their party pride to continue machine mis- rule which is declared by the highest Re- publican authority, such as JoEHN WAN- AMAKER and the Business Men’s League, to have debauched the government of the State and profligately squandered its revenues ? If it were the Democratic party that had been in power in the State, through a long succession of years, until its protracted con- trol of affairs had encouraged the forma- tion of a ring that used their power for the spoliation of the people, it would be the duty of every conscientious Democrat to help to defeat his party if there were no other way of getting rid of its corrupt ring- sters. A party has no right to rule if it rules badly, and there is sufficient to con-, vince the thoughtful Republicans of this State that the QUAY machine can not fur- nish any other than bad government, which can not be corrected without the defeat of the party which that machine controls. And to do the State the good which it so greatly needs, it must be a thorough and not a partial defeat. The success of an Independent candidate for Governor would be merely a four years’ interruption of ma- chine rule. The election of an anti-QUAY Legislature with a machine Governor would be but a half-way measure of reform. In either case the situation would not be such as to make it difficult for the machine to regain its power. It was the misfortune of the State that the election of Governor PATTISON was not followed up by the election of anoth- er Democratic executive, accompanied by Legislatures that would have aided in reversing the order of administration, and legislation, with which the long continued exercise of machine power has afflicted Pennsylvania. The interruption of ma- chine misrule by PATTISON’S disconnected administrations, unaided by supporting Legislatures, was too short and ineffectual, and without sufficient permanence, to teach the QUAY corruptionists that they had not a perpetual right to misrule and plunder this Commonwealth. The Pennsylvania Republicans have now an opportunity of doing their State a benefit from which they have been too long with- held by considerations that put their party above their public interests. Swallow’s Illogical Candidacy. Candidate SWALLOW continues his at- tack on legislative corruption, and machine rule with no abatement in the vigor of his denunciation. In his speeches he pro- claims that ‘‘Pennsylvania is under worse surfdom than Russia ever knew.” He charges that the bosses have stolen money from the state treasury right and left. He charges them with ‘having diverted for political and personal use money that was intended to educate the children of the State. He makes charges against the head boss that would be grossly libelous if not true, but he defies QUAY to vindicate himself by legal prosecution. The prohibition candidate can make these charges openly and fearlessly because they are true, but their truth puts him in a false position as a candidate. Being so thoroughly acquainted with all the evils of machine rule, what logic can there be in his candidacy which will divide the vote that must be united if the machine is to be destroyed ? The people believe and appreciate all that Dr. SWALLOW says in showing up the corruptionists in their true light, but they have but a poor appreciation of his move- ment that is more calculated to help them retain their power than to destroy the strength of their machine. The Bottom of the State Corruption. Giving JOHN WANAMAKER and Doctor SWALLOW such credit as may be due them for helping ‘to expose the iniquities of QUAY’s rotten rule in this State, they, however, lay bare but a fraction of the cor- rupt politics by which the machine has taken advantage of a confiding people. Mr. WANAMAKER has said much about padded pay rolls, fake investigating com- mittees, unearned salaries, indemnity bonds for false payments of public money, and the misapplied profits of State funds deposited in banks.. Doctor SWALLOW has made ugly charges about Grace church stealings, wholesale plunder by false hills for building material, and other villianies, even including the charge of State capitol incendiarism .These are common scandals, inseparable from the well known practices of machine politicians. Everybody ac- quainted with the machine record knows, from surface indications, that these charges are in the main true, and Doctor SWALLOW vouches for his charge that machine ras- cals burnt the State capitol from a desire for the stealings that could be gotten out of the building of a new one. The ordinary intelligence of the people does not admit of their doubting the truth of the WANAMAKER and SwALLOW charges, which are merely corroborations of the Democratic indictment against the machine corruptionists ; but in addition to this there stands charged against them a corruption of far greater magnitude in the exorbitant increase of the State expenses which expanded from $7,203,295.42 in the last year of Governor PATTISON’S adminis- tration (1886) to $17,619,655.40 in 1898. This shameful increase can be distinctly traced as having its cause in profligate measures of machine government. Giving credit for an increase of $3,000,000 in the school appropriations, there remains a $7,- 000,000 annual increase of State expenses under machine rule since 1887, directly chargeable to such practices of bad govern- ment as the increase of unnecessary offices to benefit political dependents; the en- largement of salaries for the profit of such beneficiaries ; the creation of a useless State court to furnish places for judicial hangers-on; costly legislative investigating and junketing committees designed as much for the ‘pleasure’ as: the profit of their members; fake election contests got- ten up for no other purpose than to give the parties a chance to get some of the State money; and various other devices by which the machine's dependents and henchmen could get their share of public funds. WANAMAKER and SWALLOW have skim- med but the surface of machine iniquities. We must get down deeper to discover the profligate methods by which the State government is made to cost $7,000,000 more a year than it did in the last year of Governor PATTISON’S first administration. ——President McKINLEY’S intention to have no other investigation of the war de- partment’s army management than that which would be made by the Secretary, would have been equivalent to allowing ALGER to do the white-washing himself. Public indignation appears to have con- vinced him that this wouldn’t do. re NIN——————— From Five to Thirty-two Thousands. A startling illustration of how expendi- tures are increasing in the different depart- ments of the state government, is furnished in the amounts now found necessary, or thought to be necessary, to run the State Board of Health. According to the general belief, people lived to just as great an age, twenty, thirty, forty and fifty, years ago as they do to-day. According to the same belief the general health of the public was just as good then as it is to-day. At that time, with no sanitary advan- tages, with sewerage and plumbing in the most primitive conditions ; with few phy- sicians and many opportunities for the spread of disease; with abundant reason and excuse for a general over-seeing of all those conditions that prevent sickness and prolong life, our State Board of Health struggled along and. accomplished effective work on $5,000 a year. Now, with all our sanitary improve- ments ; with all our medical discoveries ; with schools and physicians and druggists without end, and with every means with- in the reach of every community to pre- vent and stamp out disease, this same or- ganization is costing the State $32,000 per annum. It is not only this department that has multiplied its expenses six times, but the cost of every other department of the State government has increased in proportion. It is to be wondered at, that the taxpay- ers are beginning to think that it is about time to change administrations, and to see if some power, other than that ofa machine boss, can not be found that will take care of the public interests without pommit- ting the robberies that of late years has characterized the rule of the Republican party ? No Cheese-Paring Reformation Will Do. From the Harrishurg Star Independent. Padded pay rolls have been dwelt upon by Mr. Wanamaker in his anti-Quay speeches as a sample of the methods which the party managers employ to grease the wheels of the machine, and Dr. Swallow has declared that he can prove that the burning of the capitol was the work of an incendiary. But these things do not ac- count for the fact that the cost of adminis- tering the State Government has grown from $7,203,295.42 for the last year of Gov- ernor Pattison’s first Administration (1886) to $13,043,887.84 in 1897 and an estimated expenditure in 1898 of $17,619,655.48. An increase of upward of eighty per cent. is thus shown for the decade beginning in 1887 aud of over 140 per cent. from 1887 to 1898. We are met by the makeshift ex- planation that the appropriation to the com- mon schools has been increased three mil- lions of dollars per annum since 1887. But this explanation fails to explain. It really begs the question, for the increased appro- priation to the common schools was simply a device of the machine managers to placate the rural taxpayers as well as to cover their schemes of plunder. But allowing credit for this increase in the school appropria- tion, there still remains an excess in ex- penditure over that of 1886 of $2,840,692. - 42 for 1897, and of $7,416,360.06 for 1898 (estimated). How is this enormous in- crease for either of these years to be ac- counted for? Not merely by padding pay rolls or burnt capitol buildings or contracts for supplies, but by lavish appropriations to favored institutions, many of them not under State control, by the multiplication of offices, additions to salaries, cost of legis- lative investigating and junketing commit- tees, of fake election contests, the establish- ment of the Superior Court (that fifth wheel of the judicial wagon), the erection of almost every other county into a judicial district, and by many other devices intend- ed to pension off the dependents of the ma- chine. A thorough, sweeping reformation of all these abuses cannot be made by a mere cheese-paring process of whittling down contracts for supplies and the like. That will answer as far as it will go. But if the burdens of the people are to be ap- preciably lightened the reformation must strike at the whole policy of buying the political support of the classes and _ institu- tions that are pensioned by enormous ap- propriations. The State must either he- come the proprietor of such institutions and regulate their operation directly, or it + must cease to make them subventions that exhaust its Treasury. As for the policy of placating a class of voters by relieving it of taxation at the expense of other people it is utterly at varianee with the genius and traditions of a government fo on the equal rights of all. and Legislature can be chosen possessing sufficient moral courage to see to it that favoritism shall not be shown either in the imposition of taxes or in the appropriation of the revenues of the Commonwealth, no adequate relief can come to the people. —— Admits the Rascality. From the Clinton Democrat. John Wanamaker telling tales out of the Republican school of Quayism, has caused John P. Elkin, chairman of the Republican state committee, to reply to the former postmaster general; and now the ‘‘kettle calling the pot black’ campaign is on. Up to date, however, Wanamaker is in the lead. Elkins, if he wishes to convince the independent voters that Wanamaker is wrong, must either hire some one else to write his letters, or must pursue a different line of argument. In his letter to Mr. Wanamaker, Elkins, in his efforts to uphold the ‘‘established rules and customs of his party’’ with refer- ence to paying extra employes of the legis- lature large salaries and using the money paid by favored banks for campaign pur- poses, virtually admits that the evils com- plained about BY MR. WANAMAKER ARE TRUE AND CORRECT. As these two corrupt practices with many others, have caused the opposition against Quayism to reach its present magnitude, these admissions of Elkins will not be palatable reading. Surely the Quay supporters have reason to exclaim, after reading their chairman's reply, ‘God save us from Elkins’ letter writing.” ? Because of Mu. Alger’s Contribution. From the N. Y. Times, (Rep.) Does the President not know that the lives of American soldiers sacrificed in peaceful camps at home out-number those lost on the field of battle in Cuba and Manila ? Does he not know that these losses, in- flicted while our men were under the im- mediate care of our own government, are more cruel for the victims, more infuriating to the people, than had they been due to defeat in battle ? Does he not know that measured by the destruction of life he has caused, the suf- fering and injury he has inflicted, Mr. Alger is a worse enemy than Spain has been or could be ? Does he not know that the shame, the horror and the rage that Mr. Alger has sown in the hearts of the American people are as poignant as could have been caused by an act of treason ? If he knows these things, why does he keep Alger in his cabinet ? Reckoning Day Approaching. From the Williamsport Sun. Had the last Quay legislature not squan- dered the public monies the hospitals of the state would be much better prepared to at- tend to the wants of soldiers who, having jeopardized their lives to make an Alger holiday, now seek to secure surcease from suffering from pain in the hospitals. Hav- ing expended the people’s money in reck- less and needless appropriations the legis- lature was unable to give the hospitals the money required to enable them to meet the additional demands coming from the men who have been compelled to be imprisoned in the fever-infected camps of the country. Quayism! What sins are committed in thy name, and what a reward is waiting for you when the people come to realize your iniquity! Unless a Governor | Spawls from the Keystone. —Five hundred students are enrolled at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, which opened yesterday. —A mass of rock falling in Storr’s colliery, at Priceburg, Lackawanna county, killed Evan Thomas, the father of a large family. —From blood poisoning, caused by the ir- ritation of his cheek by a tooth, Simon Martin died in Dickinson township, Cumberland county. —A week of Criminal Court opened at Reading on Monday. There are four hundred cases on the docket for trial, an unusually large number for Berks county. —Cumberland county has recovered from the State Department for the care of the in- sane patients who are now at the County Home, for the last six months, $2,160,64. —The employes of the Catsburg and Quill coal mines, in the third pool of the Pittsburg district, went on a strike on Tuesday, and between 1500 and 1800 men are now idle. —A plum tree on -the Palsgrove farm, in Nittany valley, is now in full bloom. A short time ago the leaves all fell off the tree and shortly after the blossoms began to ap- pear. —Mistaking a red lantern carried by a man on the track for a danger signal, Fireman William Charles, of Jersey Shore, jumped from a Beech Creek engine and was fatally injured. —The 6,000 employes of the Mineral Min- ing Company and the Union Coal Company, at Shamokin, have been notified that the mines will be operated six days per week until further notice. —Blackbirds have hecome an intolerable nuisance in Hollidaysburg and Gaysport, where they roost by the thousands in the large shade trees. Some of the citizens are shooting into flocks, trying to frighten them but the little fellows are hard to chase away. —Fever is not confined entirely to low- lying districts, as witness the fact that Clear- field county is just now undergoing quite a siege of the prevalent malady. The village of Brisbin has 31 cases of fever at present, and other parts of the county are similarly afflicted. —The Forty-ninth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, will hold their annual reunion at Newton Hamilton September 28th and 20th. The campmeeting association has given the boys the use of their tents, and the citi- zens of Newton Hamilton will provide the rations. : —Burglars made a big haul in Sandy Creek, a small Mercer county town, Sunday night. The place is without police protection and the burglars had full sway. Half a dozen stores'and several residences were entered and over $2,000 in money and valuables car- ried away. —Rev. Dr. IL. C. Pershing, one of the best known Methodist Episcopal ministers in the State, died at Cambridge Springs on Monday of pneumonia. Dr. Pershing was born at Johnstown about sixty-five years ago and for twenty-six years was president of the Pitts- burg Female College. —Workmen engaged in putting up a mon- ument in the Holy Trinity Catholic cemetery at Scranton found it necessary to re-inter the Temains of the late Joseph Keller, who died seven years ago. When an effort was made to raise the casket they found it next to im- possible, and on opening the casket they discovered that the body was undergoing: petrification. It weighed nearly 2,000 pounds. —Highland Lake, the beautiful and pic- turesque summer resort on top of the Alle- ghenies, in Lycoming county, about twenty- five miles northeast from Williamsport, was last week, the scene of a disastrous fire, and the large Hotel Grand View is now no more, having been totally destroyed together with its contents, the only things saved being the piano and the silverware. —While Benjamin Burtt and Henry Pierce, employed in the moulding department of Jones & Laughlin’s mills, were moving a large ladle, filled with molten metal, on Tuesday it was overturned. They saw their danger and tried to get from under the seeth- ing mass. Burtt stumbled and fell. The contents of the ladle poured down on him. His hands and feet and part of his head were burned off. —The first fatal hunting accident of the season is reported from DuBois. Near that place on Wednesday, Joseph Beliboni, an Italian, was fatally wounded by receiving a full charge of shot in his body. The man was hunting rabbits, and was drawing his gun towards him, when a twig caught the trigger of the gun and it was discharged, the hunter receiving the load of shot in his right side. —P. H. Weigal, of Cogan Station, Lycom- ing county, who some time ago found a vein of copper ore on his farm, has received a re- port from the assay office in Leadville, Colo., showing that the ore contains 9 per cent of copper and a small amount of gold and silver. The ore will be worth about $12.50 per ton, according to the estimates of experts. Mr. Weigel has not decided whether to operate the mine himself or to form a stock company to carry on the work. —Farmer Hempfield, of near Belsano, Cambria county, has a very queer pumpkin vine on his place which he expects to exhibit at the Carroltown fair. It started out like any ordinary vine, but when about three feet long the stem began to flatten out, and continued thisshape until 1t was from twelve to fifteen inches in width, one inch thick and ten feet long, resembling a flat piece of green bark. It contains fully 1,000 tiny pumpkins about the size of walnuts. —A few daysago the people of Philadel- phia witnessed the sale of one of their historic buildings, Assembly Hall. It was built just one hundred years ago and was used for the entertainment of illustrious people, Washing- ton, Franklin and Presidents and statesmen down until a few years ago. According to the agreement this building was used for social affairs for one hundred years and then sold. The sale took place one hundred years from the date of the agreement. —The Sheridan Troop of Cavalry arrived home at Tyrone on Sunday morning at 8 o'clock, and received a rousing reception by the entire community. Thousands of people lined the sidewalks and were gathered about the depot. The troop was escorted from the depot to the armory by the Grand Army post and drum corps and the Tyrone Band. An ample breakfast was served in the armory. A reception committee of business men wel- comed the soldiers.
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