BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The frost is on the pumpkin, And the fodder’s in the shock; And “your uncle’s” started humpin’ To get his ulster out 0’ hock. —If HANNA'S legis what is troubling him it will certainly hang on longer than ever, after those Ohio heelers get to pull- ing it. —Tt is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” The government will get two mil- lion dollars war revenue tax from the es- tate of the late CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. —Notwithstanding the reported stringen- cy in the money market in New York they will be burning it over -there when DEWEY comes home. —If they could only send Tod REED abroad again and have him return on the same boat with PERRY BELMONT perhaps that recalcitrant Democrat would step ashore in New York as thoroughly won back to his old love as was RICHARD and CROKER. —If the ‘“Adobe itch’’ is as bad as it is reported to be in the Philippines it is little wonder that the President has set his heart on those islands. He has had the office seeking form of that virulent malady for years and his hankering for the sun baked home of the Filipino is the best of evidence that he has a light touch of this ‘‘Adobe”’ form of it. —The latest report is to the effect that Gen. OTIS contemplates purchasing a news- paper through which to fight his eritics. What an expensive and long way around it. Why, General, all you need to do is to get to work and fight the Filipinos then you will have no critics to fight. You are employed to lead brave men, not to run newspapers and suppress the truth when it happens to reflect upon your dilatory tac- tics. —Lieut. PEARY is about to start on an- other trip in search of the North pole. Judging from the number of astempts this young explorer has made to hide himself in the ice bound regions of the North the public can come to but one conclusion: Either the pole is as elusive as the pot of gold that is said to be at the end of the rainbow or the Lieutenant doesn’t know what it is to feel areal severe ‘‘frost’’ right here at home;such as lots of poor actors could tell him about. —The Lehigh county commissioners who tacked their own names, as well as those of their solicitor and clerk, onto the hand- some soldiers’ monument recently erected at Allentown, were rudely awakened from the dream they must have had that the monument was for the perpetuation of their memories. Judge ALBRIGHT very politely informed them that the real purpose of the monument is to perpetuate the memory of the “soldiers: of the county and that their names must be removed at once. —There has been bloodshed at the mines about Carterville, I1l., and six dead negro miners is the record of Sunday’s work by the strikers out there. This terribly fatal culmination of a labor problem gives rise to another. Why are there such things as strikes? Why is there unrest that leads to murder among laborers? The answer comes back: Because laws are only a hollow mockery of justice and men can’t bear the terrible yoke of oppression that is placed upon them by organized wealth. —In concluding his letter of thanks to the people of the First Maine congression- al district and wording the epitaph for the memorial to his long connection with its politics the Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED, now of New York, says: ‘Whatever may happen, I am sure that the First Maine dis- trict will always be true to the principles of liberty self government and the rights of man.” If ever a people have been ‘‘true to the rights’’ of one man those of the First Maine have been true to those of ex-speak- er REED. And the rights arrogated to himself were such as no man ever as- sumed before him or is likely to assume in the future. —Governor JOHNSTON, of Alabama, doesn’t have a world wide reputation for inhumanity but he has lately gone on rec- ord with an act, the conditions of which will certainly be the cause of the drowning of one poor negro in his own mouth water. The coon had been sentenced to a year in the penitentiary for stealing chickens, when the Governor commuted it to twelve month’s total abstinence from chicken eat- , ing, whether the fowl be procured by do- nation, purchase or theft. Might just as well have ordered that poor black to stand on a block of ice in his bare feet for the same time. The predicament couldn’t be any more trying. —If the five million Grangers in the United States could only be brought to realize that the greatest drawback to their prosperity is the trusts how speedily the octopus could be wiped out. If a man is not to vote for his own best interests there is very little use of his voting at all and there is no question of its being to a Grang- er’s best interest to vote with the party that is allied against the trusts. The Dem- ocratic party is irrevocably committed to fight any combination of capital that has for its purpose the advancement of prices or commodities which the poor, alone, need. The Republican party is fostering trusts by acts of favorable legislation and exempting corporations from bearing their fair share of taxation, all of which places the burden the heavier on the shoulders of the poor. Choose, ye, Grangers as to which column you should use when you come to vote for your own hest interests. \ yy “VOL. 44 Only a Suggestion. The question of a diplomatic dress or uniform for high officials of the United States is being agitated at Washington again and while it is the consensus of opin- ion that something in this line should be adopted to distinguish our representatives from hotel waiters and flunkeys, generally, no one has been able to suggest an appro- priate uniform. Of course we appreciate the fact that when such dress is adopted it ought to be done for all time; consequently too serious thought cannot be given to the end that it shall be refined, elegant and while re- splendent enough to compare favorably with that of foreign powers will not be so much so as to appear gaudy. Such condi- tions are hard to harmonize, but it must be done before we can have just what will be in thorough American taste. Inasmuch as Secretary HAY is seemingly exercised about the embarrassments to which our diplomatic representatives are subjected on account of their simple fune- real suits of black we would suggest a dress for temporary adoption. One particularly appropriate for representatives of this ad- ministration. The hair should be worn long and woolly, suggestive of our desire to assimilate the Filipinos; it should be powdered also, as this administration has great faith in pow- der as an aid to assimilation. Instead of the regulation linen collar a stock or chain should be fastened about the neck, for that would show at once that the present policy of Mr. HAYS superior is favorable to the trusts and syndicates that are chaining labor to the lowest depths. A shirt front of the star spangled banner would carry out the idea that where the flag is once placed it would be disgraceful to remove it. The old style shad-belly coat would be a very proper caper with ornamental gold buttons fashioned after the dollar mark and having a miniature of MARK HANNA emblazoned on each. The shad-belly cut would leave no doubt as to the general re- lation to the gudgeon family. The trous- ers should be cut ala Honolulu, so that should any of the foreign establishers of money values wish to fiddle a little Presi- dent McKINLEY’S representatives could give them the real thing in the way of a dance. Socks would be quite unnecessary. —JERRY SIMPSON didn’t wear any—and as for shoes plain United States leather prod- ucts, with the number of small tanneries closed by the octopus stamped on the soles, would be just the thing. A chapeau to carry on the arm might be made of a stuffed eagle in the beak of which could be fas- tened a tiny black Filipino, in one talon a Puerto* Rican, in the other a Cuban, and immediately under the tail could be sus- pended a rosette with ALGER and EAGEN as its centre piece. Taken as a whole it is our opinion that such a dress would be a very proper and suggestive one to be adopted by the present administration, but let it be distinctly un- derstood that it must be abolished with the end of the McKINLEY tenure. Why They Should Be Worked For. Aside from the pride every good Demo- crat should bave in party success there are other and more important reasons for working for the county ticket this fall. The business management of the county is bidding fair to surpass in looseness and ex- travagance that of the State and unless something is done at once to halt it we will be plunged hopelessly in debt by a board of commissioners who seem to think that all they need do is reduce millage to delude the tax-payers into believing that affairs in that office are all right. The Democracy presents a ticket, the make-up of which has never been surpassed in the history of the party that always pre- sents the best men for your support. We herein challenge contradiction of the as- gertion that every man is competent to fill the office he seeks. Aye, more than com- petent. For while being qualified for the various clerical duties that will devolve upon them they are men of such courteous dis- position that it will be a pleasure to trans- act business in the court house with them as public servants. In addition to this reason, sufficient in itself for arousing a feeling of interest in all Democrats in the county, there is the other and more important one of working to prove that the colors of Democracy in Centre will not be struck before the baleful and corrupting money element that has lately been injected into local politics. The Democratic party is not ready to ac- knowledge that this county, in which it has had a majority of the voters ever since its erection, has become so debauched as to be bought and sold like the pug dog, re- peater precinetsin Philadelphia. The par- ty has and will stand for more than such a debased condition of affairs. Its record for purity in the past must not be smudged by any departure at this late day. ——The Philadelphia Times didn’t ex- actly ‘‘get there Eli” after all with its great ‘‘scoop’’ on the SHAW case. v euracratlic; RO il ; STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 22. 1899. The Farmer and His Troubles. The time of year has come when the farmer finds the season’s work gradually diminishing, the evenings are becoming longer and instead of dragging himself wearily off to bed after working in the fields until dark he has time to sit down and hold converse with his family or read a little after the evening meal. Naturally his mind will run to estimating the profit he has made during the long hastle that began with the spring plowing and will not end until the corn is husked and in the crib. No class of workmen know longer hours or more continual toil, or are called upon to exercise more brain work, if they hope for any return, than do the farmers, yet they are the poorest paid class of all. ‘The Centre county farmer who sits in his quiet country home these September even- ings and looks at his situation soberly will almost shudder when the discouraging facts are laid bare before him. With scarcely half a wheat crop, corn eaten by the worm or dried to nothingness by the drought, he has only his oats to fall back on and the price of the latter is so low as to make it a mooted question as to whether it is not grown at a loss, even when there is a large crop. This is the view he will have of his own productions; the result of all the labor of his family and hirelings for a season. There is no way for his income to be in- creased one farthing. He has done his best and it has yielded him but little; now comes the despairing work of making ends meet. With the scant surplus of grain he will have to sell, after his needs for family, stock and seed have been taken out, at prices lower than they have been for years, he will try to figure out enough to pay the bills that have been running through the season. : Alas, for the poor farmer. He will find it a hopeless task. Just as reasonably might he try to make five by adding two and two as to try to figure out a living and pay his bills this season. Everything he has used, his plow-shares, binder twine, implement repairs, all necessaries in which iron is used, much of his food stuffs ard clothing, as well as his taxes, have increased in price, while his products have dimin- ished. Can a more dispiriting condition of affairs be imagined. Yet it will not be an. idle dream when the whole discouraging pano- rama passes in review on these long fall and winter nights. The sensible farmer will shake off the horrible spell and begin to look about him for a cause. He knows that his work, if expended in any other vo- cation would have netted him something at least, and it does not take a long head te figure out that there must be something wrong with economic conditions some- where. Taking Census Bulletin 378 and the fig- ures of the official statistician of the De- partment of Agriculture, he finds that the the value of farm products for the average farm in the United States was $538.94. Al- lowing 5.64 persons to each farm, as report- ed by the census, and dividing the $538.94 among them equally, he finds that the ag- ricultural population receives an average annual per capita income of $93.89. Divid- ing this amount by the number of days in the year (365), and he discovers that for those who depend on the farm for a living an average per capita income of 23.8 cents a day is all that they have. Further investigation of the question discloses the fact that the $538.94 is the gross income of the average farm ; not the profits. “‘It includes that portion consum- ed on the farm as well as that portion sold. Out of this amount the farmer must pay his taxes, insurance, interest, the cost of seed, hired help, wear and tear of farm im- plements, repairing of fences and buildings, and feed for his teams for one year while cultivating the crops. All these items must be paid out of the $538.94 before the farmer can have anything for himself and family. The question then is, how niuch will the average farmer and his family have for their own support after paying all these items? Will they have fifteen cents a day per capita? No. Will they have ten? Possibly yes, it isa question. For argu- ment’s sake, however, we will admit that our agricultural population receives a per capita income of ten cents a day, with which to buy food and clothing, educate the children, and pay incidental expenses.’’ Here is the bald truth confronting him and it is little wonder that the farmer knits his brow in amazement. Here are facts and figures taken from the most reliable source possible to obtain them. The farm- er is figuring and thinking in his own home. He is not being confused by cam- paign distortions, but is where his judg- ment is cool and undisturbed and he is looking at the matter squarely and fairly for himself. Shall he sit in indiffereuce or conclude that he is well enough off when such appalling facts and figures stand staring him in the face from the pages of the open Census Report ? Or shall he make up his mind to join forces with those who are striking to readjust our national econom- ic, aud financial systems so that the farmer shall be called to bear only his equitable share of the burdens of citizenship and that he will be protected against the rapac- ity of corporate greed, that leeches upon him whether his crops be bountiful or a failure. He will realize that all he need do is to rally with his fellow husbandmen at the ballot box and the burden will be lifted. But he must strike and strike desperately against the party that is in power and per- mits such an iniquitous system to exist; that permits the combinations of wealth to rob the poor ; that permits the exemption of corporations, brewers and liquor dealers from just taxation in order to curry their favor in elections; that permits school funds to be robbed that useless officials may be retained ; that permits the increase of taxation on those least able to bear it. The interest of the farmer is certainly not with the Republican party now. Are the Taxpayers Being Fooled. Has any Republican paper given you any reason why you should vote to continue in as important an office as that of county commissioner, the same two men who have been controlling its affairs for the past two and a half years? We have not read, or seen a word, either attempting to justify their management or explanatory of their short comings. We know that they went into office under a pledge of reforming everything about that office. They were elected because the taxpayers believed a change in the management of county af- fairs would be to their advantage, and now after two and a half years experience with the kind of reforms they have made, and the changes their management has brought ahout, we ask the people of the county, what reason or excuse has any man to give for voting for them a second time. Since they went into office both county expenditures and county taxes;have been in- creased. To do this they have put in more days and charged the county higher rates for their service than any other board of commissioners that ever held office in the county. They have not only done this but they have failed to give an intelligent state- ment of the county finances, and have con- spired to cover up the real condition of af- fairs by publishing that kind of an ex- | hibit, that no one understands, and which, while claiming a balance in the treasury, shows in plain figures a deficit of over $15,- 000 a year. The WATCHMAN last week gave the figures, just as the commissioners furnish- ed them, showing that the total taxes levied and collected by them amounted to less than $41,000 yearly, while the expenses claimed to have been met each year was over $60,000. Had there been an available balance in favor of the county at the time these men went into office, such a thing as paying out more money than they. were taking in might have been accomplished, but unfortunately for their statement, that with an acknowledged shortage of over $15,000 a year between the amounts levied as taxes and the amounts paid out as ex- penses, they actually claim to have increas- ed the balance in favor of the county. . It don’t take any special financial ability, to see how false or fraudulent this claim must be. Youcan’t pay $60,000 with $41,- 000. Yet that is what Messrs. FISHER and RIDDLE, certify they have done and then to magnify the deception have reduced the tax levy one-half mill, so that their income for the present year will be less than $35,- 000, while their estimate for county ex- penses for the same time is fixed at $53,000. In all earnestness we ask, are men who will thus deliberately attempt to deceive the taxpayers by certifying to a statement that bears such evidence of either incom- petency or fraud upon its face, the kind of men the taxpayers should choose to manage their county affairs? This is a matter of most serious import- ance to every tax-payer. It is due them that they have the fullest knowledge of the financial condition of the county. This is the one thing they are interested in. It is the one thing about which they should demand the most minute and defi- nite information. And yet which one of them know anything about it, except that we are paying out yearly over $60,000, and taking in less than $41,000. Everyone knows what this means a county deficit, which means a county debt, increasing each year at the rate of $19,000. And this is what Messrs. RIDDLE and FISHER bave given us. ——Not withstanding the increase in pop- ulation since 1892 and the consequent in- crease in the consumption of beef that might naturally be expected the receipts of cattle shipments to the four great mark- ets of the West have fallen off 612,554 head in the year 1898, as compared with 1892. The beef trust has done it and the result is an advanced price for the consum- er to pay, while statistics show that the grower receives less for his stock. The trusts are keen to cut at both ends, but they always keep themselves in. the mid- dle. * NO. 37. A Fall Jingle. From the Altoona Times. Beside the old brass kettle now The country maiden stands, As drips the sweat from off her hrow Into the fire's brands. But faithfully she works away With thoughts too fierce to utter, For she must roast the live long day, And stir the apple butter. The Grange at Last Waking Up to Fight 1ts Enemy. From the York Gazette. The National Grange has actively enter- ed into the fight against the trusts and if this body. which consists of over 5,000,000 farmers, gets thoroughly aroused something is going to happen. The Grangers believe that they are di- rectly injured by the policy pursued by the trusts in limiting production, shutting down factories and crushing out competi- tors. They believe this stifles enterprise and progress and will, if continued. sub- vert all the principles fought for and gain- ed by our forefathers. They declare that trust methods are no better that robbery and that the attempts by the trusts to in- fluence legislation and the courts should meet with the condemnation of every hon- est, honorable and loyal citizen. In response to questions coming to him from people of all kinds, Aaron Jones, of Indiana, master of the National Grange, has issued the following suggestions to those who desire to organize in the fight against the trusts: “First. Prepare petitions to Congress and cir- culate them to have them signed by all the peo- ple who favor freedom and the rights of property and forward these petitions. ‘Second. Prepare like petitions to your several Legislatures in your respective States and de- mand strong anti-trust legislation. “Third. Attend your political caucuses in whatever party you affiliate and demand a strong anti-trust plank in your platform and see to it that every officer nominated shall be in full sympathy with this plank. “Fourth. Think more of your country and the rights of labor and property than of your party and give all parties to understand that all patriots will stand together on thisissue. This issue over- shadows all others. What difference whether we have free trade or protective tariff—whether the outlaying islands of the sea, proximate and re- mote, are made colonies or not—if the individual is deprived of the free use and benefit of his labor and property. “Fifth. Give your party and the country to un- derstand that resolutions alone will not suffice, but that effective laws must be passed and enforced. “Sixth. Supplement all this by being active in educating the public to the great dangers that menace the industrial interests of our country. We commend these suggestions to every citizen of any party. The Grange is nota partisan organization and it does not direct- ly enter a political fight in favor of one party or another, but it has very decided opinionsand it knows how to fight for them and if, in the case of this issue of the trusts, it transpires that the Republican party as is naturally expected, becomes the defend- ers of these combinations ‘and the Demo- cratic party takes up the cudgels against them, this fact of the parties thus aligning themselves should not deter any citizen, whatever his political views, from support- ing the contention of the Grange. It is to be remembered that parties do not exist merely for the purpose of winning victories and gaining offices. They exist to enforce principles and furnish the people good government, and when any party fails to live up to this standard it no longer de- serves the allegiance and support of its members. y However, the question is still open, na- tionally, and there is no reason, partisan or otherwise, why every member of every par- ty should not to the best of his ability fol- low the suggestions of the master of the Grange and do everything he can to create a sentiment in favor of destroying or con- trolling these monopolies. Democratic Headquarters. CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Chicago will he the working centre of the Democratic national committee during the campaign in prepara- tion for the next presidential election. This was decided to-day at a meeting of the executive committee held here, thus definitely settling rumors that the head- quarters would be changed. J. G. Johnson, of Kansas, it was decided, will bave charge of the headquarters’ of- fice. Those present at the conference were: Ex-Governor Stone, J. G. Johnson, J. M. Head, of Tennessee; George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts; J. M. Guffey, of Penn- sylvania, and J. B. O’Brien, of Minne- apolis. : It was decided that the members of the executive committee meet in Chicago every sixty days to confer with Mr. Johnson, and to aid him in carrying out the party plans. The ways and means committee was call- ed together during the afternoon by chair- man John R. McLean, and the present mat- ter of financing the campaign was discussed. The press committee was also convened by Mr. Johnson,and plans looking to the effec- tiveness of that committee were discussed. Hanna Must Look to Ohio. From the Pittsburg Post. Mark Hanna arrived in New York yes- terday on a hurried call from home that the services of the eminent dollarmark states- man were badly needed in Ohio just now to save his friend McKinley from a disas- ter that would have a decisive effect on the Republican national convention. Mr. Hanna will have his hands full of money and work for the next six weeks. Every federal office-holder in the United States will be pinched for a contribution. What is left of civil service will go by the boards, and the trusts will be invoked to put their shoulders to the wheel. True, Hanna had his Ohio convention denounce the trusts, but he did it with a wink that the trusts well understood. Mr. Hanna affects to be well isatisfied and content with John R. McLean’s nomination, but as he could say nothing else without giving up his case the opinion does not carry much weight as a genuine expression. He Led the Snake Into Temptation, From the Big Run Tribune. Chief of Police Dickey says that while he was riding his bicycle to Punxsutawney the other day he encountered a large rattle snake on the McCracken hill which took after him and chased him to the bar-room of the Washington hotel. Spawls from the Keystone. = —It is estimated that 60,000 people visited the Williamsport fair during the four days and the total receipts were $12,000. —George W. Meyers, of Liverpool, Perry county, raised a potato this year which weighs thirty-two and one-half ounces. —On account of the spread of diphtheria at Sinnemahoning, a representative of the state board of health has ordered the schools to be closed. —After a lingering illness Henry Pater- son, a well-known resident of Johnstown, died at his home in that city on Sunday, aged 51 years. —A few days ago John Wilett, an employe of the steel foundry at Burnham, Mifflin county, was so unfortunate as to have one of his feet smashed by an 8 pound weight fall- ing upon it from a crane overhead. —The Coudersport window glass company, with its plant just completed and ready to begin operations, has sold out to the trust, the American window glass company. This will delay starting up for about a week. —Daniel Pye, colored and aged 31, is now in the Memorial hospital, Johnstown, a suf- ferer from a knife wound in the abdomen, which he received in a drunken brawl which took place near Morrellville Saturday night. —The total production of coal in this State for the year up to September 1st shows an increase over the previous year of 5,392,000 tons. The total tonnage of coal moved from that district during the year was 29,145,000 tons. -—Burglars broke into the residence of A. H. Borland, at Kane, Monday night and chloroformed that gentleman and his wife. They did not regain consciousness until late Monday, and both are very ill. The burglars did not get any booty. —Mrs. Edith C. Rick, wife of the late Chaplain Rick of the Twelfth regiment, who died of typhoid fever, has been granted a pension of twenty dollars a month. The chaplain ranked as captain, hence the pen- sion is in keeping with the rank. —At Williamsport a few days ago, Martin Weasner. of 1017 Franklin street, was repair- ing a shed at his home. He slipped and fell, and alighted in such a way that one of his arms caught on a picket fence. The arm was jerked out of the socket, and the ligaments were badly torn. —His ginseng plantation having been raid- ed by thieves, J. G. Osborn, of Westfield, Tioga county, set guns and strung wires so that no robber could lift any ginseng with- out shooting off a gun. The job was finished at dusk Friday evening and as Oshorn was leaving the field he accidentally ran against one of the wires and was filled with bird shot. —Morris Conrad, a dairyman, drove over a twenty-five foot bank at Sunbury, Thursday morning, and was probably fatally injured. The horses hung for an hour by their har- ness to trees which they struck in their descent. The accident was discovered by the vietim’s wife and son while on their way to market with a load of produce over the same road. —The biggest dog and the smallest pony in Pennsylvania, possibly in the United States, are owned in Ulysses, Potter county. The dog is the property of D. C. Chase. It is a half St. Bernard and half English mastiff, of imported parents. It weighs 218 pounds and is about four feet high. The pony is a Shet- land, stands 37} inches high and weighs 225 pounds. —Bishop William Taylor, of the Methodist Episcopal church, is the guest of his brother, Rev. A. E. Taylor, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wrightsville, York coun- ty, with whom he will make his home. The Bishop’s voice has failed and incapacitated him from active church work. He has preach - ed fifty-five years, most of the time as a missionary on the Pacific coast and in Africa and India. —An old gentleman walked into the Perry county railroad station in Duncannon on Friday last, and asked if this was the train to Landisburg, saying ‘it is seventy-one years since I was in Perry county.” No doubt he saw many changes. The gentle- man was Solomon Dunkleberger, now a resi- dent of Waterloo, Iowa. He was born in Spring township and left when he was 7 years old. —Frederick J. Shollar, a Tyrone architect, is the successful competitor for the designs for the new hall and library building to be erected at Alexandria, Pa., his designs hav- ing been accepted by the builders in prefer- ence to those of several other architects, four of whom came from Philadelphia. T he building will cost in the neighborhood of $12,000 and, when completed, will be a handsome structure and well adapted for the uses intended. —A Lehigh county jury decided that as- sessments made on candidates for office are legal. The decision was made in the suit of Dr. S. A. Rabenold vs Joseph C. Rupp. In 1896, when Rupp was a candidate for the Legislature, the county committee assessed him $125. He paid $75 of thisin install- ments, but when defeated declined to pay the balance. Or. Rabenold, who was coun- ty chairman, brought suit for the recovery of the balance and won the case. —Two new and serious cases were admit- ted Saturday for treatment atthe Cottage hospital Philipsburg, the first, Fred Wilkin- son, a miner, who was run over by a trip of eight cars in the mines at Munson, sustain- ing a compound fracture of the leg, injuries to the spine and internal injuries; the other, John Bruno, of Patton, aged about 18, who fell and had his right hand run over by a mine car, terribly injuring the right hand and forearm. —The state board of health ina circular letter issued with reference to the spread of smallpox in this State gives the information that since the disease was first reported in Bedford county, in the month of November, 1898, it has made its appearance in twenty- one counties and more than 100 different localities. The number of cases reported has been about 900 and the number of deaths seven. The board urges that in all com- munities the proper precautions be taken in the way of general vaccination, isolation of patients, and the providing of emergency hospitals.
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