BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Sings. —Now the work of census taking Has started women quaking About that delicate little matter—their age, And the careful census takers Will find most women fakirs Of skill, unequaled, in any clime or age —The ticket is a good one. —The Boer capitol, Pretoria, has fallen, but the germs of liberty still live in the breasts of the South African Germans. —If the farmers had a little butter, of the Billy-goat type; it would knock JOHN- NY PAN and STONE, both out at the very first swipe. — There were 448 inmates in the Huntingdon reformatory on Saturday and all who are entitled to admission are not there yet. —The way the Democrats got together in New York on Tuesday was enough to cause a BRYAN earthquake from Tammany Hall to DAVE HILL'S retreat at Woolfert’s Roost. —Are we going to get into the mix up in China? Of course it is necessary for us to look after our missionaries over there, but after that is done won’t you please bring our soldiers and flag home again, Mr. President ? — —As a chairman local conventions have rarely witnessed a more competent man preside than was Dr. F. K. WHITE on Tuesday. He was cool and impartial at all times and carried tbe business along in a diplomatic manner. —1It has been announced—not officially— that the Republicans intend to nominate the Hons. DAN Hastings and Fill-up WoM- ELSDORF for the Assembly. This seems like notice to SAM DIEHL and JOHN A. DALEY that they need not apply. —AGUINALDO holds the record for dying these days. If our army reports are to be believed he is worse than the proverbial black cat, for he has died more than nine times within the last month and always hobs up serenely somewhere to prove that be won’t down a bit easier than did BAN- Quo’s ghost. —The twenty-seven tourists in southern California who were held up by one lone highwayman will not be apt to tell their story very often. The fact that they had twenty-seven to the highwayman’s one and were held up makes it a story that the less it is talked about the happier they will be. —When the Hon. TIMOTHY WOODRUFF, of New York, gets that sarcophagus, in which he intends to bury himself and one each year of America’s greatest men com- pleted we are certain that he intends re- questing the Hon. TIMOTHY FENLON, of the West ward of Bellefonte, to permit his bones to lie among the notables of the fu- ture in that costly tomb. —ANDREW CARNEGIE has heen credited with the assertion that “no man ought to die rich.” Inasmuch as his firm is scoop- ing in contracts in $10,000,000 and $30,- 000,000 bunches it is beginning to look as if ANDY intends making a martyr of him- self by trying to keep the other steel mak- ers of the world from being rich when death overtakes them. —The peaceful prosperity that papers prate about as pervading the land prevails in St. Louis, doesn’t it? On Wednesday three hundred and fifty armed men left Philadelphia on a special train to take the place of the striking street car men out there. They were instructed ‘‘to shoot to kill,” if they are disturbed by any of those who are striking for enough wages to live on under the present high prices of neces- saries of life. —Hackensack, New Jersey, has a pro- fessed minister who advises his hearers that the proper way to spend the Sabbath is to ‘‘play golf, base ball, whist or such other games’ as they enjoy, and to ‘‘read the Bible if they can find no better book.” It is not often that such instructions come from the pulpit, but when it does it helps explain to sensible people why there is a scarcity of manure haulers and ditch dig- gers and a plethora of preachers in the country. Some fellow has made a mistake in his calling. —The Bible has suffered a temporary set back as a christianizing agent in China and now the President is hurrying a few of those christianizers, that he has heen working on the Filipinos for two years to the scene. If the ‘‘Boxers” won’t lay themselves open to christian conviction a few bullet holes will make the openings and instead of being ‘‘Boxers’’ any longer a large percentage of them will nndoubted- ly be boxed. If that is the method they pursue in burying in China. ——When Mr. McKINLEY began his career as chief executive this country was at peace with all the world. The Ameri- can flag was respected and the lives and property of American citizens were safe in every country on the globe. Now we have a military force in Cuba as large as our standing army was at that time. We have another small army 1n Porto Rico, while a fighting force is maintained in both Hawaai and Guam. In the Philippines we have 70,000 soldiers and a war that promises to be interminable. We have complications in Germany that threaten trouble there, while with China, we are on the verge of what may prove an oppressive and destruc- tive war. If the kind of statesmanship that has brought these conditions about, in a little over three years, is the kind that the people think best for the prosperity, good name and purposes of this govern- ment, they know how it can be continued. — Democratic i( STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 Will Know When Prosperity Strikes Them. In less than two weeks from this writing President McKINLEY will be renominated. From that time on, until the November election decides who is to be Lis successor, the people will continue to hear wonderful tales of the prosperity the country is enjoy- ing, and will be made to believe, if they are foolish enough to allow themselves to be deceived, that the land never enjoyed such an era of prosperity or such a time of general contentment and happiness. It is upon the presumed prosperity that is now said to be blessing the people, and upon this alone, that Republicans will at- tempt to make their campaign. The real issue will be hidden behind what they will parade as ‘smoking stacks,” ‘‘whirring wheels,’ “‘increasing exports,”” and other indications of ‘‘good times’’ for somebody, if it is possible to do so. Imperialism, militarism, trusts, Cuban scandals, Porto Rican robberies, continued war taxes, the effort to deny home-rule to the fFilipinos, entangling troubles that threaten war both with Germany and China and secret alliances with Great Britain, will be hid behind the prosperity that trusts enjoy and the bettered condi- tion of syndicates of capitalists that are reaping rich rewards out of the advanced prices the people pay for everything they must have. This will be their program and to this fact the public can attribute the greatest amount of the prosperity they will hear about. In Republican newspapers the peo- ple will all be prosperous—no matter what conditions their pocket-books are in, or how empty the larder ‘is. Content, we will be told, reigns through- out the country, notwithstanding the fact that strikes and lock-outs are on every hand, and labor is receiving less, in pro- portion to the cost of living, than at any time within the past fifty years. Plenty, we will be assured, awaits all who want it, while tramps trek the country in increas- ing numbers and beggars crowd the back doors of all who give promise of ability to hand out a cold lunch. Conditions make it necessary that such should be the claims of the party. The policy and work of their administration has been fruitful of nothing but war, ex- travagance and the strengthening of mo- nopolies. These have not created a day’s work for honest labor, nor given an impe- tus to any legitimate business. They have been exclusively in the interest of the few: combinations of capital, place hunters and governmental speculators. For this reason that party will fear to make a contest on what it has done. Be- cause it has done nothing to better the con- dition of the great masses to whom it prom- ised so much, nor will it dare make an honest, frank issue of what it proposes to do for imperial power, and the consolidat- ed wealth of the trusts and syndicates it has given birth to. _Fortunately for the people, prosperity is a matter that each individual can judge of by his own condition. It needs no one to tell a man that he is prosperous, for him to know if he is; nor will the telling him that he is make him so if he is not. Itis in this way that the people can judge for them- selves as to the amount of prosperity there is to boast of. If a labor, is getting an advance of twen- ty per cent on the wages he receives and is compelled to pay from fifty to two hund- red per cent more for the necessaries of life he certainly is deriving no benefit from such a prosperity. If the farmer is com- pelled to sell the products of his acres at the same, or a less, price than he did four years ago, and is required to pay double for everything he purchases he is certainly not bettered by the conditions that Mr. McKINLEY'’S policy has brought about. If the merchant or the mechanic has less to show for his season’s work, after paying the exorbitant price he must for all his neces- saries, he is not prospering. And so on through the whole line of working men,no matter what particular class or calling it may include. Each individual can tell for himself and measure the prosperity of the country by his own condition. To each man the country is prosperous as he is pros- perous. There can be no excase for sensible men being deceived in a matter of this sort, hut this will not prevent Republicans attempt- ing to do it. There’ll Be No Injunction In This Case. Three thousand more workmen have been added to the great army of unemploy- ed, and striking laboring men, by the sud- den and unexpected closing down of the Illinois steel plant. Without notice to its employees or explanation of any kind, this great concern closed every department of its works, drew the fires from its furnaces, and quit business, for an indefinite period, on Saturday last. Had its thousands of employees decided to quis work in a body and have kept that decision a secret from the company until the moment for action arrived, there would have been a terrible howl gone up about BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 8. 1900. the outrage by workingmen on the rights and interests of their employers. But as this movement of a great corporation sim- ply leaves three thousand laboring men and from ten to fifteen thousand women and children without bread until work can be procured elsewhere, we suppose we will hear little about it, from those who are in the habit of denouncing every movement to benefit the laboring people as an attack on capital. This child of the great steel trust, sure- ly owed it to those from whose labor it has been reaping immense profits, to give them some intimation of its intention to close down, that they might have the opportu- nity to look for labor elsewhere. But it did not. Without thought of their condi- tion, welfare or necessities, it took into ac- count only its own benefits, and leaves three thousand men with families depen- dent upon them, without labor and many of them, possibly, without bread. With such illustrations of the heartless- ness of monopolizing corporations it is not to be wondered at that labor claims the right to quit work in a body and without notice to its employees. Nor is it strange, that it protests so bitterly against the in- terference of the courts, by injunctions to prevent such action on its part. No court would issue an injunction re- straining a corporation from doing just as this steel plant has done. What excuse have they then for interfering by injunc- tion when labor retaliates or acts in the same manner ? Ripening Already. And now the report is out that the ‘‘ir- regularities,”” or in plain language the thieving, in the Porto Rican postal service are greater and more general than those un- covered in Cuba. It is alsocharged that this corruption is not confined to Mr. McKIN- LEY’S Porto Rican appointees, ficials in Washington are involved in it. And this would not be strange. An ad- ministration that would allow the govern- ment to be defrauded of $400,000 by the sale of hogus postage stamps, and the people, whom we are pretending to teach what good government is, robbed of over $40,- 000 in three months by a single official, is rightly chargeable with gross carelessness, or collusion with the rascals. There is or can be no excuse for this kind of work down in Cuba and Porto Rico. Both these is- lands are over-run with examiners, inspec- tors, special agents, agents of the secret serv- ice, overseers and a whole army of officials who have been sent down there to give the natives an exemplification of what correct and honest government means, as well as to draw fat salaries. Among this host there should have heen some one who could have detected or seen that dishonest work was going on. To one at this distance it looks as if the entire public service in these dependencies was in the hands of public thieves, and as if every thieving rascal in the United States, who had a political pull at home, had been sent down there to draw gov- erment salaries while they robbed the peo- ple we are professing to protect. If such universal and unlimited robbery is the rule among Mr. McKINLEY’S public officials so near to the home department at Washington as Cuba and Porto Rica are, what in the name of all that is honest or just, must it be in Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippine islands, that are so distant that detection would scarcely be feared and conviction be delayed for years ? It is possible that we will all live long enough to learn tbat imperialism means much for thieves and public pap-suckers, and but little else than disgrace and ex- pense to the government that is back of it. Expenses in both Cuba and Porto Rico show this. The fruits of imperialism are ripening al- ready. More Troubles for Imperial William. There seems to be no end to the troubles that are arising in the pathway of Mr. Mec- KINLEY’S aspirations or of Mr. HANNA'S hopes. The latest move, and one that may prove exceedingly dangerous to the expec- tations of imperialism, is the action of the bishops and mini. ters of the African M. E. church, backed by prominent editors and lawyers of that race, in deciding to organ- ize a party and place candidates for Presi- dent and Vice President of their own peo- ple in the field. The first meeting to ac- complish this purpose was held on Tuesday last, in the rooms of the African M. E. book concern in Philadelphia. It was pre- sided over by Bishop Levi J. CorPIN and was largely attended by prominent men of that race. It was finally determined to nominate a presidential ticket, and to cut loose from all other party affiliations. Com- mittees were appointed, resolutions passed and all the work of a preliminary organiza- tion, looking to this end completed. With this movement added to the many other obstacles that are getting in the way of Mr. McKINLEY’S ambitions,. surely we havea right to believe that hopeful as he may try to feel and imperial as he would like to be, be too ‘‘has troubles of his own. but that of- The Connty Ticket. The convention of the Democrats of Cen- tre county on Tuesday has left the party with a ticket about which all can rally in the fall; a ticket for which ro one need apologize; a ticket that was made in ac- cordance with the plainly expressed will of the people and without even an intima- tion of manipulation hanging to it. There were no contests in the conven- tion. The nominations to be made were few, but none the less important. There never was a time in the history of the coun- ty when it was as necessay to elect Demo- crats to the Assembly as it is today. With the Quay regime on the verge of falling, with the putrid smells of foul but- ter arising from the Agricultural Depart- ment and one crooked official trying to save his own political neck by charging crimes to another the time is here, if never before, for the Democrats to flush the State clean of this quivering organization. of rot- tenness and give it the clean, fresh govern- ment it needs to build it up in new vigor and power among the sister Common- wealths of the Republic. Centre county has heen faithful in the past. Let it not be said that at the crisis she fell short of doing her duty. No, we must elect the ticket that was nominat- ed on Tuesday. Not alone because the men are worthy of support, but because the State needs them now, as never before. Hon. J. H. WETZEL needs no introduec- tion to the people of Centre county. He was tried during one of the most crucial tests ever applied to Members at Harris- burg and returned to his constituents un- scathed. He was never absent from his seat in the House and was ever faithful to those who commanded his services. J. W. KEPLER, the other nominee for Legislature, is a younger man, but one whose earliest years have been identified with public life and whose training, both in school and out, has heen along lines that peculiarly equip him for legislative serv- ice. He is sprung from one of the oldest and most i:.fluential familiesin the upper part of the county. His ancestors were pioneers there, pioneers in settling and pioneers in Democracy. His father, the Hon. J. M. KEPLER, owned and edited the Forest Democrat for years and on that pa- per our nominee made a name for himself as a journalist. Mr. KEPLER is an intel- ligent, hard working young man with far more brains than the average and if he is sent to Harrisburg we do not hesitate to make the pledge for him that he will come home with a record of which all can be proud. The naming of the veteran Democrat FREDERICK RoBB, of Liberty, for Jury Commissioner gives that end of the county splendid representation on the ticket and adds considerably to its dignity. Mr. ROBB is one of tbe old line Democrats who has been tried time and again and merits the united support of the party. In the selection of JOHN J. BOWER for county chairman for 1901 the convention continued the practice, recently instituted in Centre county, of putting the reins into the bands of the young men. Mr. BOWER is thoroughly competent to make a good chairman and he will be one if he is active and aggressive in his work and ever mind- ful of the fact that his office must be kept free from the smirch of being used in any interest other than for the general good of the party in the county. A Big Army or Colossal Lying, What a wonderfully large army the Filipinos must have had when this war began ! There has not been a battle or a skirmish in the two years we have been fighting them that the enemy did not out number our troops—if reports are to he relied upon--ten to one, and in every one of these we have killed or captured from fifty to a hundred for each man we have lost. At the present time our army of 70,000, or that portion of it able for duty, is divided into innumerable bodies and scattered all over those islands. Town af- ter town and district after district is garri- soned by them. When we hear from any one of these forces they are always sur- rounded by overwhelming numbers of the enemy. If a skirmish is had, no matter how small the force, there is always hun- dreds and up to thousands of these ‘yellow bellies” to lick, nor do they ever get away without each one of our boys dropping from a dozen to twenty of them. When we remember that we have lost over 4,000 men since our army began the conquest of those islands and the Filipinos never got off with a loss of less than twenty to our one, we must have captured and killed about 80,000 of them up to this time. Then we have still a force of 66,000 in the field and no matter where it or any part of it meets the enemy we are always out- numbered ten to one, there must be a fight- ing force of Filipinos, yet to subdue, close unto 660,000. It must be understood that these are not our figures. They are careful estimates made from the reports that the daily papers give of the work of ourarmy in the Philip- pines. They may not be exactly correct, but whether they are or not they prove one thing conclusively and that is that either the Filipinos have the biggest army on the face of the earth, or our war news makers are the most colossal liars in the business. The Convention of the County Demo- crats, There was very little of interest to at- tract a large crowd to the Democratic Coun- ty Convention here last Tuesday, for with only two important nominations to make and the contest for them settled by the pri- mary instructions of the previous Saturday there was little chance for what Republi- can spectators would have called ‘‘fun”’ and a certainty that everything would be satisfactory. Notwithstanding this lack of incentive there were many of the leading workers from all parts of the county on hand and every precinct but Burnside had its regularly accredited delegate in his place. It was just noon when county chairman Johnston called the convention to order. After reading the call secretary Bower call- ed the roll of delegates to which all but the one mentioned ahove responded. Jno. D. Brown was substituted for Thos. F. Kelly, of East Snow Shoe, and Chas. Wilcox, of South Philipsburg, was admitted on his father’s credentials. The convention was then ready for business and chairman John- ston announced his readiness to receive nominations for permanent presiding officer. N. T. Krebs, of Ferguson, named Dr. F. K. White, of Philipsburg. The motion was seconded by D. J. Meyer, of Centre Hall, and as no other names were present- ed Dr. White’s election was made unani- mously. D. R. Foreman, of Potter, and W. F. Smith, of Penn, were appointed to escort the gentleman to his chair and upon taking it Dr. White made a clever speech of thanks for the honor and hopeful politic- al prognostication for the party. Mr. Foreman moved to make M.S. Me- Dowell, of State College, and D. R Wil- son, of Howard, secretaries. The motion found a second in William E. Frank, of Rush, and was carried by acclamation. S. W. Smith, of Centre Hall, responded to the call for nominations for tellers by naming former register G. W. Rumberger, of Unionville, and D. R. Foreman, of South Potter. His motion was seconded by W. D. Zerby, of Penn, and was also made unanimous. The name of former prothonotary W, F. Smith, of Penn, was presented by Juo. F. Potter, of West Boggs, for reading clerk and he was chosen by acclamation. The chairman then named as the com- mitte on resolutions, the following dele- gates : John C. Rowe, of Philipshurg; L. D. Orndorf, of Haines; W. D. Zerby, of Penn; D. E. Robb, of Curtin; Michael Smith, of South Potter; W. H. Fry, of Ferguson, and J. F. Merryman, of Taylor. The resolu- tions committee retired at once, after which Walter Gherrity, of South Potter, propos- ed an order of business that was adopted. It was down to the matter of nomina- tions then and the chair announced the convention ready to entertain nominations for Assemblymen. This brought Mr. Frank to his feet again and he presented the name of J. W. Kepler, of Ferguson. J. C. Sauers, of State College, followed him with the best nominating speech that has been heard in a county convention here for years and after a prettily worded introductory pre- sented the name of Hon. Robert M. Foster, of State College. Following this came the names of Hon. J. H. Wetzel, of Bellefonte, presented by Edw. G. Jones, of the Second ward of Philipsburg, and J. W. Conley, of Potter, presented by S. W. Smith, of Cen- tre Hall. A call of tlie delegates was made at once, the ballot resulting as follows: Wetzel........cocvesennernncennrirvesensecssstsssssssesssreeeessarrens Kepler. NE Foster. For some unknown reason the delegate from Liberty voted the wrong instructions, but the error was corrected by chairman White’s directing that the vote be recorded as provided by the instructions. The next business in order was the selec- tion of a candidate for Jury Commissioner. John F. Potter named Lewis Aikey, of Boggs; Burdine Butler, of Howard, named Frederick Robb, of Liberty, and the last nominee was D. W. Harter, of Miles. Mr. Aikey’s name was dropped under the rule requiring a candidate to register with the county chairman at least three weeks be- fore a convention, so the ballot was taken for but Harter and Robb. It resulted RODD Lo. sireriiivisisisiiesnsnirestisiinnniinin sunivaris ante Harter. ....cicienniciie ns snsiiinissainied sins ivsrassssesnass Resolutions were then declared to be in order and H. E. Fenlon, of the West ward of Bellefonte, read the following : Resolved that this convention betel heartily endorses the candidacy of Hon. J. K. P. Hall for Congress and that R. M. Foster, gs "A. Me -Quistion and A. J. Graham are hereby named as Congress- ional Conferees with instructions to support and use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Hon. J. K. P. Hall as the candidate for Con- gress from this the 28th District. The resolution was unanimously carried and immediately after the vote had been taken Wm. Barnhart, of the North ward of Bellefonte, arose and read a resolution naming Col. J. L. Spangler, of Bellefonte; A.J. Graham, of Philipsburg, and Ellis Shaffer, of Miles, as Congressional Conferees. As the question had already been settled chairman White ruled the resolution ont of order. Concluded on page 4. Spawls from the Keystone. —The extensive lumber mills of James Curry & Sons, near Arrow, Somerset county, were destroyed by fire. Loss from $30,000 to $40,000, with $20,000 insurance. —Running to catch a train at Johnstown Thursday, Stephen H. Herdman, aged 40, dropped dead as he was about to mou nt a ear his body rolling down an embankment. —A muscular woman attempted to hug a colored barber on an Altoona street Tuesday night. “Jennie the hugger,” as she has been christened, followed the man several squares after making the attempt to encircle im with her arms. —John H. Winters, the oldest printer in this section of the State, died at Muncy, Sat- urday, aged 79 years. He was employed for forty consecutive years on the Muncy Lumi- nary. He is survived be six children. The funeral took place Monday. —The Lock Haven Woodworking com- pany expect to begin operations in full the last of this week. Thirteen machines are in position, some of which are already run- ning. Contractor Charles Straub has com- pleted the new building for this indust- ry. —Hundreds of men have been laid off work in the Cambria Steel company plant at Johnstown, and hundreds more are promised a season of idleness before many days. The company officials claim that the slack is only temporary and is usual during summer months. —Jerry Daily, of Latrobe, Friday night met with a very strange accident at the La- trobe steel works. While working at the big hammer the lever flew up and struck him on the side of the neck or jaw. His jaw bone was broken, several teeth knocked out, besides sustaining other injuries. —David Lansberry, of near Woodland, whose back was broken by the descent of an elevator at the Harbison Walker fire brick plant March 28th, died Wednesday. Every effort was made to help him to recover, but it was of no avail. He leaves a widow and two children. —On Sunday morning a week while Mr. H. J. Shallenberger, of MecAlisterville, Ju- niata county,accompanied by his family, were driving to church in the family carriage, the horses began capering and Mrs. Shallenberg- er becoming frightened jumped out and re- ceived a fracture of one of her legs. —Five young gentlemen from Lock Haven while wheeling from 3 Packer's to Lock- pert Tuesday night, struck a pole cat. Each of the wheels ran over the animal, and the animal returned the compliment with a last- ing smell. There was enough ‘‘perfume’’ in the immediate vicinity of those gentlemen to knock a horse silly. —At Loretto, Cambria county, on Sun- day, the corner stone was lain for the new St. Michael’s Roman Catholic church, founded by Prince Galitizin, the pioneer Catholic missionary of the Alleghenies. The oration on the occasion was made by the Most Rev. John J. Keane, of Baltimore, archibishop of Damascus. —Walter Miller and Robert Stahl, the 12- year-old sous of two prominent business men of Meyersdale, Somerset county, while in the woods Monday, partook of some poisonous herb, mistaking it for sweet anise root. They became violently ill on the street and Miller died a few hours after. Stahl is still alive, but will probably not recover. —Mr. aud Mrs. Mark Goss were driving over the mountains from Cameron to Bailey run a few nights ago, when what is supposed to have been a panther gave chase. The horse ran with race track speed while the animal kept up a continued howling and yelling of the most hideous character. After keeping up the run for a mile and a half, the panther gave up the chase. —C Caterpillars have taken possession of many of the trees'in Lock Haven as well as in the country, and will in a very short time do immense damage, if they are not exter- minated. After a brisk wind the sidewalks are in many places alive with the pests, but they find their way back to the trees ing very short time. The robins are doing what they can to exterminate the caterpillars. —Mrs. George Roofs, of Johnsonburg, Clinton county, was the victim of a fatal burning accident Saturday night. The house in which the Roofs family reside caught fire from the explosion of a lamp. Mrs. Roofs while endeavoring to rescue her children, was so badly burned that she died Sunday morning at 4 o'clock. The children were rescued from the burning house by neighbors. —State Forestry Commissioner Rothrock has decided to begin proceedings against all County Commissioners who refuse to comply with his request to appoint detectives to fer- ret out and prosecute those guilty of causing the burning of timber lands. Deputy Attor- ney Elkin advises Dr. Rothrock that the commissioners who disregard his request are guilty of misdemeanor and that it is the duty of the District Attorney to prosecute the of. fending officials upon information furnished by the forestry commissioner, or his agents. —Monday afternoon, Carson R. Quiggle, of Pine, hitched his driving horse to a heavy truck wagon to haul water from the river for the setting of tobacco plants. There being a small flood, Mr. Quiggle drove in about twelve feet of water. Before he was aware of it, the horse became entangled in the har- ness and before assistance arrived the animal was drowned. Had it not been for the time- ly arrival of ferryman Ed Fargus, Mr. Quig- gle, who became entangled in the lines, would have shared the same fate. Mr. Quiggle suffered a hemorrhage Tuesday morning, the result of being struck by the horse in his struggles. —Joseph Parks recently came into posses- session of a relic which he values highly. It is a receipt given by his father, Joseph Parks Sr., for wages received as engineer on the old Allegheny Portage railroad in 1840. The receipt, sixty years old, was found among some old papers in a house in Johnstown where the Parks lived for many years. The elder Joseph Parks was one of the first engineers in America, his service dating back about to 1834. He was a mainstay of the Allegheny Portage road when it was op- erated by the State of Pennsylvania. Joseph Parks, now road foreman of engines on Ty- rone division, is himself one of the veterans in the service, his acquaintance with the throttle having been made as early as 1852,
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