Bemorvaty Weldon, BY P. GRAY MEEK. ne man Ink Slings. He rolled out in a horseless carriage, | His fiance he was going to meet : Her pet bull dog was not for their marriage And he rolled back on a seatless seat. —The six week’s sway of the ground- hog ended last Friday and, like a dying mule, the marmot prognosticator kicked in all directions. — With a few rays of sunshine, many skurrying showers, with frequent snows and gusty blows, March welcomes the spring flowers. —In China they ram bank defaulters into a big cannon and shoot them against the Great Wall, until they look like an over-ripe tomato that has heen pasted up against the garden fence. In America we have to catch them first. —The ‘*‘T'wo Johns” was once very popular as a farce comedy all over the country, but we’ll bet its palmiest days wouldn’t be a marker to the business that could be done in the blue grass country with a melo-drama of the two Govs. —If the women keep on flaring their skirts at the bottom there will be nothing left for men to do but get up in the air. It was hard enough to keep off those demi- trains when they were worn behind only, but now that they have got them before and on both sides there is room for nothing else within a radius of five feet. —The announcement that President Mc- KINLEY is to act as professor of law in the new American University has too much of the ‘maybe’ about it to be taken seriously. There are too great conditions to be overcome before such a ramor could be realized by the fact and they are these : First, the American University has to be built. Second, President McKINLEY would have to study up a little law. —The good Methodist brethren in ses- sion at Hazleton washed their hands clean of responsibility for the policy of Dr. SWAL- LOW’S Pennsylvania Methodist. The preach- er editor has become most too much of a free lance and a trifle too honest for some of those dyed in the wool old Methodists who imagine that the world would stop going round were it not for the Republican party and the Methodist church. —The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that Bishop POTTER ‘‘sees a new light’’ in the Philippine situation, merely because that eminent divine has recently expressed the opinion that expansion is right. Now it might all be true that Bishop POTTER has seen ‘‘a new light’’ but if it shows up the expansion theory in a favorable light to him all we have tosay is that he didn’t have his lamps trimmed and burning dur- ing his recent visit to the Philippines. —With sixteen thousand dead soldiers in South Africa JOHN BULL may well re- sort to passing around the hat for ToMMY ATKINS’ widow. This is only part of the terrible price England will have to pay in human blood for the extinction of two small struggling Republics. And this great civilized, christian world stands with hands folded while theslaughter goes on and the sands of South Africa and the Philippines are being hespattered with the blood of thousands of innocent, faithful soldiers. —The chickens of our peace conference with Spain in Paris last year are just com- ing home to roost. It is now discovered that our commission, in addition to paying Spain $20,000,000 for the Philippines, which were ours by right of conquest, they agreed to pay all just claims for Spanish wantonness in the islands. - Now these claims are beginning to come in and aside from the fact that they are likely to run up into the hundreds of millions we have to have a special cours of adjudication for them at an annual cost of $50,000. This expansion business is coming high, but the President says we must have it. —The Supreme courts decision, sustain- ing the constitutionality of the Texas anti- trust law, will prove fitting grave-clothes for the Republican movement to hide the trust issue behind a proposed amendment to the constitution. To protect the people against trusts the constitution don’t need to be tinkered with. All that is wanted is to put men in power who will pass the nec- essary laws and thus enforce them, to ac- complish this. This the Supreme court has decided. It is what the Republican party fears and fails to do, and it is the issue it will have to meet. There can be no more dodging this question. —The millionaire members of the United States Senate must imagine that all of the poor souls who pay the taxes and bear the burdens of goverment are as blest with this world’s goods as they are themselves. On Tuesday there was not a dissenting voice to the proposition that voted each Senator a messenger at a salary of $1,440 a year. When it is considered that the gov- ernment already pays $1,500 a year for a private secretary for each of its money-bag members of the upper house of Congress, provides them with a barber shop at which they get shaved for nothing and furnishes all manner of other little necessaries that the taxpayer bas to pay for himself, it ap- pears as if our platocratic Senate has fallen a prey to the idea that the willing horse should be worked to death. What Senators need with $1,440 messengers no one seems to know. Those of them who have im- portant committee positions are already provided with such servants, but the ones who have nothing to do must now have them also, to assist in the ardnous work of drawing salaries. And the masses foot the bills. ' s————. 0 EY fir fi ~N Il RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 BELLEFONTE, PA., MAR. 23. 1900. A Chance to Down the Machine. When the contending factions in the Republican party figure up the losses and gains that each have to point to, so far in their contest in this State, they will discov- er that neither has much to boast of. Up to the present honors and successes ate about even, and if the counties that are yet to hold primaries hang to their former pre- dilections, as have those that have already held them, there will be but little chance of the success of Mr. QUAY when he comes to ask a re-election to the United States Sen- ate. Four weeks ago the QUAY newspapers were boasting that their wing of the party was just wiping up the political floor with the antis. That was just after the first batch of primaries had been held and Mer- cer county had been captured by them. It don’t look that way now, however. On Saturday last a number of counties made their nominations,and there were nosweep- ing majorities, nor overwhelming senti- ment expressed for either side in any of them. So far the primaries of that party have been held in fourteen counties. In these the only changes that have been made, when comparison is had with two years ago, are in Mercer, Armstrong, Lackawan- pa and Franklin. The former changed its two representatives from anti-QuAy to QUAY, while in thethree latter a gain of one member in each was made against him. So that up to this time every indication points to a condition of affairs in the next Legislature very similar to that whichjex- isted throughout the entire session of the last one. Mr. QUAY will have a majority of the Republican caucus and can make himself the nominee of his party for the United States Senate, but there his power will end. The opposition to him is bitter- er and more determined against him than it was two years ago, and from present in- dications is prepared to go farther to ac- complish his defeat than it was then. Whether or not advantage will be taken of the conditions that exist in the Repub- lican party, and a fusion of Democrats and anti-QuAy Republicans be made in the counties in which the QUAY element has been successful, is not known. It should be, but we are free to confess that present indications give little promise of even an ordinary effort being made in that direction. An honest and fair fusion would sweep from Mr. QUAY’s clutches a number of the counties in which he has been able to dic- tate the nominees for Legislature. In fact, if systematically attempted azd honestly carried out it would give to the combined opposition to QUAY entire control of the Legislature and to the State the assurance of such Legislation as would stay the work of the machine, and secure laws under which we could have honest registration, honest elections, and fair taxation. This is a big stake to play for, and it is well worth the risk and effort it would re- quire. Another such an opportunity to re- lieve the people of the incubus and the disgrace of machine rule may not come for years. In fact may never again be present- ed, and it is our plain duty as Democrats to take advantage of it now. Will those who are carrying the flags for the Democratic procession and have charge of the practical work of the organization in the State and counties waken up to the situations? There are great opportunities offered them now. The people are ready for any movement that will crush the machine. They will follow any road that leads to this end. Will those who are entrusted with leadership lead the right way ? Will they direct the masses in the proper course? A grave responsibility rests upon them now. Will they size up to the situation ? —SAM G. HAMILTON, writing from Eustis, Florida, to the Altoona Tribune says that orange growing on that peninsula is forever ended. He attributes it to chang- ing climate, cansed by the devastation of ‘the great protecting pine forests that once stood across the northern boundary of the State. As the saw mill cree ps further south the frosts and snows follow and he predicts that it will not be many years until sleigh- ing parties will be one of the regular sea- son’s sports at Jacksonville. It seems al- most incredible that seventy-five years ago all the oranges grown in the South were raised in the country between Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. It is none the less true and is a sad reminder of the folly ot forest destruction. The Clearfield Public Spirit issued a promoting edition last week that was a credit to editor SAVAGE and set forth in an attractive manner, the manufacturing ad- vantages of the place. Clearfield has be- come wonderfully progressive of late. The town has shaken off that business inertia that hung to it for years, and bids fair to become one of the active manufacturing centres of thissection. It certainly has ad- vantages in natural resources over many of its neighbors and that makes the wonder all the greater as to why Clearfield didn’t waken up years ago. In The Shadow of The Gallows. It is dangerously near the hanging line that the Republican procession in Kentucky finds itself to-day. Nearer than decent peo- ple in that party believed it would go, and much nearer than the public generally had any idea it would venture. But it is there now, and its leaders, it they don’t dangle from it, will stand forever in the shadow of the gallows and their followers be known as men who, to secure a political victory, would encourage conspiracy and condone assassination. The confession of one of the men in the plot to steal the State from the Democracy, and if necessary to the success of the scheme assassinate the Democratic Gover- nor-elect, tells how trains were chartered and paid for, and who by, how arms and ammunition were furnished and the board and expenses of desperate men paid to go to the State Capital to thwart investigation and intimidate the Legislature and the courts; how conferences of leading Republicans were held at which the murder of GOEBEL was discussed and agreed upon; how the first plan to create a riot in the Senate and do the killing while it was in progress was given up because of the danger in which the leaders of the riot would be placed ; how afterwards a poor wretch who had been hir- ed before to de murder was induced to come to Frankfort for a money considera- tion and the promise of immunity from ar- rest and a previous pardon by the Republi- can Governor to do the deed; how he was concealed in the office of a Republican state official until an opportunity offered to com- mit the crime; how he was protected by the state militia under order of Republican state officers and was sent home gloating over the success of the job, with the blood money in his pocket, is all laid bare by a conscience stricken participator, a sergeant of the militia and a Republican named GOLDEN. It is the uncovering of a conspiracy such as has never blackened the political record of any party, or disgraced and dishonored the government of any State. A Republi- can conspiracy to maintain office and con- trol power and patronage, and one, which, unless we are greatly disappointed in the spirit of the people of Kentucky, will make useless forever the efforts of that party to again take charge of the affairs of the State. It is the exposition of a crime that will make every Southern State solidly Demo- cratic for years to come, and should bring the blush of shame to any man living North or South who is identified with the party that seeks benefit through such path- ways or would hold power by such means. ~——Thenew editor of the Republican had his first coat of fresh paint rubbed off on Friday morning. It must have been very funny to see editor HARRIS up against his first case of real trouble, but if reports be true he handled it like a past-master. He took the bull by the hoins as it came in and gave its tail a twist as it went out. Thus while Rev. SHELDON was showing the people in one end of the land how ‘*JESUS would run a paper’ editor HARRIS was showing those in another how JIM JEF- FRIES would do it. Rev. Sheldon and the Jesus Paper. Rev. SHELDON has had his week of news paper work and is doubtless glad it is over. Swinging into the tail of his novel excur- sion into the field of journalism now comes the opinions upon its effect. Some are good, some are bad ; the latter apparently are preponderating. No matter what the consensus may be, in our judgment, such an effort can not but have scattered broadcast seeds for good. A single thought or act re- flected in type before the world’s eye is freighted with good and if Rev SHELDON’S week of labor caused one christian reader to stop and think a moment over his mor- al and spiritual self it did good, even more good than many men and many papers ac- complish during their entire career. Of course as to the example of & human attempt to do a thing as the Saviour would do it Rev. SHELDON’S work is worthless and his idea of even associating the person- ality of the Divine Being with a news- paper enterprise is looked upon by some as sacrilegious presumption. We do not be- lieve that the latter is the case, however, for the Topeka minister is eminently a christian man, his work as an author is incontrovertible evidence of his intelligence and force and his quiet refusal of all man- ner of flattering offers to make a public exhibit of himself on the lecture platform convinces us that he is not a seeker after notoriety, but that in the zeal of his daily effort for good he thought that perhaps a revolution conld be worked in civilization’s greatest agent, the press. In this. he was mistaken... A legitimate newspaper is es- sentially an agent of good morals, but it is also a newspaper. And any attempt to run a newspaper without the news would prove as futile as the frequent cases of run- ning churches without Christ that we see. The broadening, enlightening work of civilization cannot go on without a thor- ough dissemination of the news of the world. Some of it may be unwholesome ’tis true, but vice that is concealed can never be subverted. The vast majority of papers actually strive to promote the moral wel- fare of the community in which they ecir- culate, they are invariably arrayed against wrong in every sphere of life and their daily or weekly endeavors is for good. Only the comparatively few have abandon- ed a high moral tone and sunk to the hell- ish work of feeding depraved minds with foul stories and vulgar pictures. These are the ones against which Rev. SHELDON should direct a crusade. Wipe their filthy pages from the news stands and mails and when you come to the summing up you will find that the real newspapers will have a mighty balance on the credit side of the good ledger. Making Place for More Toll Takers. . We do not believe they will succeed in deceiv- ing the plain people or make them believe that it is dealing harshly with a people to collect a trifling duty on their goods and then hand the money collect- ed back to them.— Philadelphia Press,March 17. After you have read the foregoing para- graph and thoroughly digested it, won’t you, just for your own satisfaction, try to imagine the sense there is in a policy that proposes collecting ‘‘a trifling duty’ on goods imported from Porto Rico simply for the purpose of ‘‘handing the money collect- ed back’ to the people from whom it was taken. Govermental policies usually have some purpose in view. It may be a wise, or it may be an unwise one, butit always has some end to accomplish and that end is generally believed to be for the good of the people in some way or other. . But here 1s a new proposition. An original idea in govermental work. The levying and col- lection of a tax simply to return it to those from whom it was taken. And for what? That is the question. A tax collected on Porto Rican importations, and handed back, would protect no indi- vidual, industry or enterprise in this coun- try. It would in no way relieve or henefit the people of Porto Rico. It would add nothing to the public income nor would it stimulate business either at home or on the little island to which the policy is to be ap- plied. What then is its purpose ? The collection of custom duties is not made for love or patriotism. Itis not a job that is done for fun. The keeping open of custom houses, public store and gover- mental ware houses, and the payment of the salaries of the swarms of appraisers, clerks, inspectors, weighers, watchmen, workmen and collectors, that it requires to do the work, costs money. In many in- stances it costs more than the money col- lected amounts to. And it might prove so in the Porto Rican case. But whether it would or not, have we not good reasons to believe that the un- derlying reason for this new and startlingly strange departure in govermental purposes, is designed more to make places and fat snaps for political heelers than for any other purpose ?—To furnish a govermental mile and toll takers through the operations of which the fattening process of Republican office holders can be carried on at the ex- pense of a struggling and helpless people. Surely there can be no other object than this in the policy announced. And it is for the ‘‘plain people’ to say whether or not such a policy becomes a great government, such as we believe we have, and whether they will approve and endorse it by their support of an administration that originates and attempts to enforce it. The New Commissioner. On Monday last Judge LOVE announced the appointment of ABRAM V. MILLER as County Commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. RIDDLE. This appointment is equivalent to an election and will entitle him to the honors, the emoluments and the troubles of the office, for the full term for which Mr. RIDDLE was elected last fall. As to Mr. MILLER’S fitness for the place or the kind of a Com- missioner he is likely to prove, we have neither criticism to offer nor predictions to make. He has the appointment, the office is his, and we only hope that he may prove one of the best officials the county has ever had, for that will be for the county’s bene- fit, as well as to his own credit. That he was deserving of the appoint- ment as political pay for the service he has rendered his party, and particularly that faction of it that looks to Judge LOVE for its political guidance, there is no question. In season and out of season he has done what he could to down Democracy. He has stood up manfully and been downed himself by it on several occasions, and his party owed it to him, when it got the chance, to repay him for the lost time and money expend- ed in leading its forlorn hope. We congratulate Mr. MILLER upon his appointment and as sure him that he will have the cordial support of the WATCHMAN in every ef- fort he may make to reduce expenditures, to economize in the management of county affairs, and to lighten the burdens that rest upon the shoulders of the taxpayers of the county. The New Diocese Will Not Be Formed. There Will Be No Division—The Protests of Priests Probably The Cause. It was officially announced on Thursday that the proposed division of the Pittsburg diocese of the Roman Catholic church had been indefinitely postponed, or, in other words’ abandoned. The information will be of interest not only to the people of the diocese in general, but particularly to those of the mountain district of the dio- cese, composed of the counties situated up in the mountains. The new diocese was to have been called the Altoona diocese, Altoona having been selected as the seat of government for the new diocese. The project for a new diocese in the mountains meant more than a division of the Pittsburg diocese. It affected also the diocese of Harrisburg, and fora time it was believed that the Erie diocese would be affected by the change. It was pro- posed to take the counties of Cambria, Huntingdon, Somerset, Bedford and Blair from the Pittsburg diocese and the counties of Centre, Clinton and Fulton from Har- rishurg diocese. The latter is not consid- ered a wealthy diocese and the loss of the three counties was to have been compen- sated by the addition to it of Schuylkill and Carbon counties, taken from the archi- diocese of Philadelphia. The Pittsburg diocese is very extensive and when the project for a division was under consideration, it was said tbat Bish- op Richard Phelan would not take sides on the question, or that he was not opposed to a division, because his advancing years made it difficult for him to attend to the duties of such an extensive diocese. How- ever, the strongest objections came from the priests themselves, especially those in the country parishes. They held that the creation of a new diocese would prevent them from getting desirable charges in the cities or big boroughs. Whether their op- position was the chief factor in postponing the division of the diocese or not, or whether there were more weighty reasons, is not known, but it was giver out on Thursday that there is to be no division. The diocese, as at present constituted, at one time consisted of two dioceses, they being known as the Pittsburg diocese and the Allegheny diocese, the chief church of the latter being St. Peter’s, on Ohio street, Allegheny. Scale Adjusted. An Increase of Wages is Granted the Bituminous Mine Workers. After a two-day deadlock on the scale question the miners and operators reached a peaceful agreement at Altoona, Saturday afternoon, when a scale was adopted for: the current year, beginning April 1st. It is as follows : The price of pick mining to be 60 cents per gross ton, or its equivalent, 53} per net ton. Machine loz ling to be five ninths of the pick mining price, 33 5-6 cents per gross ton, or ite equivalent, 30 cents per net ton. Machine cutting and scraping to be advanced the same percentage of increase paid for pick mining namely, 20 per cent. Drivers now receiving less than $2 per day to be advanced to $2.25 per day. Drivers now receiving $2 per day or over to be advanced 20 per cent. All other la- bor employed in or outside of mines enga- ged in the production of or handling of coal to be ad vanced 20 per cent, including ex- isting dead work. When authorized the operator will make such collections through his office as the employes may agree upon. all other conditions are to remain as they now exist. This means that no general dead work scale will be granted, no thick and thin differential scale introduced, or any regulation made in regard to the hours to be worked each day. In addition to an increase of wages all around the miners have been granted the check-off, which is probably the greatest concession. This is only in effect at a few mines and it means, that a check-weighman will be placed on every tipple. In accordance with the power vested in them by their respective organizations the members of the joint scale committee sign- ed the agreement at the Logan House late Saturday afternoon and that ended the wage question for a year. There was no need for a joint conference afterwards and none was held. One of the provisions of the agreement between miners and opera- tors is that they meet in joint conference in Altoona on the second Thursday of March, 1901. Sheldon too Radical. Owners of the Topeka ‘‘Capital' Decide not to Follow Out His Plans. ToPEKA. Kan., March 16.—The stock- holders of the ‘‘Capital’® held a secret meeting yesterday afternoon to consider the advisability of continuing the paper as a Christian daily. It was decided that the continuance of such a paper as Mr. Shel- don conducted would be a mistake and a losing venture. F. O. Popenoe, the principal stockholder said afterward that it had never been his intention to try to follow the Sheldon plan yet he desires to conduct the paper on high- er lines aud ake of it a publication that will be welcomed in any Christian home, giving all the news of the world and elim- inating bad news and objectionable adver- tisements. This is the scheme as agreed up- on. General Hudson will remain in editor- ial control, but Popenoe expects to have the authority to employ a managing editor to censor all dews. He hopes to hold many Sheldon ‘subderibers and foreign advertisers under this airangzment. The ‘‘Capital” will continue as herete- fore the Republican organ of Kansas and all matter of a socialistic trend, such as was exploited prominently in the Sheldon edition, will be eliminated. \ ——FRANK HARRIS is having troubles of his own in Clearfield county where he wants to be renominated for the Legisla- ture. He was an out and out QUAY man during the last session, he is a QUAY man still, and for that reason it looks as though he might be out of the next session. Spawls from the Keystone. —W hile wrestling with a comrade recently Neimond, son of J. N. Keller,of Mifflintown, fell and dislocated his right ankle. —Jacob Frank died at his home in Howe township, Perry county, on Sunday, March 4th. He was in the 91st year of his age. —The streets of New Bloomfield, Perry county, will be lighted by electricity during ‘the ensuing year. Two additional lights will be put in position. —Milton Piper, who is employed at Luth- er’s planing mill, at Patton, had the mis- fortune to get his left hand caught in one of the machines, badly lacerating that member. —A new postoffice kas been established in Perry county. Itis named Olmsted and is located in Buffalo township. The office will be opened on April 1st. Horace M. Bair is the postmaster. —The building occupied by Emerald hose company at Ridgway, was destroyed by fire Sunday. The firemen succeeded in getting their carts and hose out, but the uniforms, billiard tables and furniture were burned. —E. L. Ettla, of C .earfield, a representa- tive of the Clearfield Brick company, was arrested at Shamokin Friday charged with conspiracy in connection with the council- manic bribery cases. He furnished $500 bail. —David Geiswhite, a blacksmith at East- ville, near Loganton, was making a wedge Saturday morning with an axe. The axe slipped and struck Mr. Geiswhite on the left hand. The thumb was nearly severed. A physician dressed the injury, it requiring eleven stitches to close the wound. —Joseph Barta, aged 30, was killed, and Joseph Severka, aged 26, fatally injured on the railroad near Greensburg, Saturday night. The men were caught by an engine and rolled nearly 200 feet underneath the engine. The bodies were found wrapped around the axles. —Mr. Robert Weicht, of Everett, had the misfortune a few days ago to break his right arm. He was doing some work about the barn and fell from the hayloft. Mr. Weicht has been particularly unfortunate in this direction, as this makes the second time he has suffered a fracture of the right arm. —Miss Michael, of Everett, met with a very painful accident a few days ago. While engaged in working about the stove, she ac- cidentally stepped upon a piece of coal, and losing her balance was thrown with her face against the hot stove. A badly burned face and an ugly cut on her lip was the result. —A dispageh from Harrisburg states that William I. Schaffer, of Media, has accepted Governor Stone’s tender of the position of supreme court reporter, and his appointment will probably be formally announced on Wednesday. Mr. Schaffer will take the place of Major Wilson C. Kress, of Lock Haven, who was appointed by Governor Hastings on March 21st, 1895, for the full term of five years. The position is worth $3,000 a year. —Fred Keller, son of Richard Keller in the sixth ward, Tyrone, was playing with a 32-calibrerevolver Friday when the weapon was accidentally discharged. The bullet ploughed a hole in the end of the little finger of one of his hands and went through the fleshy part of the hand near the wrist. No bones were injured, but the lad, who is eight or nine years old, will have a pretty sore hand for awhile. —A wealthy resident of Cortland, N. Y., attempted suicide in the village of McLean a few months ago, but failed to accomplish his object, and, repenting, called in a physician. The latter rendered all necessary services, both medical and surgical, and saved the man’s life. Later the physician sued his patient for $10.000, claiming that the man’s life, which he had saved, was worth that amount. The claim of $10,000 was not al- lowed, but the plaintiff was awarded $900. —The opening of the handsome new First Presbyterian church at Altoona took place Sunday, the services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Bain, assisted by Rev. Joseph H. Mathers. of Bellwood, and Rev. Wm. M. Decker, of Lewistown. The offer- ings at the morning and evening services to pay off the debt on the church amounted to $12,000, the entire sum required. The church and ground represent an investment of $75,- 000. The organ, the gift of Andrew Carnegie, cost $5,000. —Rather than to submit to arrest, Charles Green, of Canton, Thursday night ran away from officer McCraney in a half dress- ed condition, and almost perished from ex- posure. When the officer went to Green’s house to arrest him on the charge of larceny Green was in bed. After putting on his shirt and trousers he made a dash for liberty, with the officer in pursuit. In order to es- cape Green waded through a creek in his bare feet, the ice cold water reaching to his hips. Friday morning he was found lying in a clump of bushes, nearly dead from ex- posure. —A band of eight postoffice robbers have just been run to earth by postoffice inspectors Dickison and Gregory after a year’s chase. Three are in jail at Altoona—George A. Lea, Edward Kelley, and John Fowler—while the others are confined in various western Pennsylvania jails. Nine robberies are charged against them, among them those at Barnesboro, Spangler and Hastings, Cambria county, Natrona, Allegheny county, and California, Washington, county. The rob- beries were noted for boldness and the thieves secured in all not less than $5,000. Lea, Kelley and Fowler were given a hear- ing at Altoona before United States Commis- sioner MacLeod. —The Pennsylvania fish commission has prepared a series of trout eggs in various stages of development for distribution among the public schools of the State. The object in preparing this series is primarily to give assistance to teachers in natural study and object lesson teaching among the pupils and secondarily to advance the interests of fish culture and protection. The embryos in the eggs prepared are plainly visible to the naked eye and will be sent free, except ex- press charges to the cities. Small cities and towns may be supplied through the state superintendent of education at Harrisburg. The commission also announces that a syllabus for the guidance of teachers will be- furnished by the assistant secretary before the beginning of autumn season. All appli- cations must be made immediately to insure their being filled.
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