BY P. GRAY MEEK. s— —-— BE Ink Slings. Are you comin’ to the centenary Of good old Centre county? There'll be fun for everyone to take, Without a cent of bounty. There'll be races and pink lemonade, And ginger cake and speakers Who will clear their throats and try to drown The thousand other squeakers. There'll be bands a playin’ musie, And sharks a playin’ games, In which our good old rubes will fuss And git skint out for their pains. There'll be firemen and soldiers, And the air’ll be full of rents The burgess’ll wear a ten dollar sash, But he’ll feel like thirty cents, There'll be every kind of business doing, Of which you've heard folks tell There'll be a hot old time in this old town There will be, sure’n—Well, you come. —Hi1LL made himself more than a possi- bility for 1904. —1It is to be hoped that the Japanese dry-dock will prove a speedy Kure for our noble battleship Oregon. —1It will be in order now for some of our fanatical Republican contemporaries to ac- cuse BRYAN of being in sympathy with the atrocious Boxer outrages in China. —The cows of the workmen in the fire clay mines at Monument broke into a shed up there, a few days ago, and ate up all the miners’ caps. It is said they are giving milk by rag-time now. —The boat in which BowsgR shot the whirlpools of Niagara on Monday is mis- named. He calls it ‘‘the Fool-Killer,”’ which is certainly a misnomer, since Bow- SER escaped with his life. —The banking of five big iron furnaces in Lebanon on Saturday, for an indefinite suspension, will probably give the fifteen hundred idle employees opportunity to realize that all of MCKINLEY’S prosperity is mot gold that glisters. —Some people have out that onions are among the most “antique vege- tables that are grown. - They ‘say that the Egyptians regaled themselves -with them thirty centuries ago and we believe it, for if there is anything in a strong smell indi- eating old: age onions certainly have the indication. —Do yon think ‘those good old men would have signed. the Declaration of In- dependence away back in '76 had they known that one hundred” and twenty-four vears later their posterity would be cele- brating the event, in real primeval custom, by sacrificing the lives of 125 persons and maiming 1,325 others? That was the rec- ord of the country. on the last Fourth. t society is threatened with ies. What a troublesome Set this sas- siety is anyhow If Mrs. Gould had halt the gumption that ought to endow every American girl she would snap her fingers at those who are trying to keep her ont and make no effort to get in. They'll come to her afterwaids. —The terrible atrocities in China have developed that among the semi-enlightened orientals of that land there are Christian martyrs, just as they are told of in the scriptures. On July 3rd four hundred Christian Chinamen were burned at the stake Dy the Boxers because they had fed and succored their besieged Christian friends. Though the gospel was not able to save the mortal lives of these poor souls it had an eternal home prepared for them when the murderous Prince TUAN ordered their death. : —The Japs are the dogs cof war that should be turned loose on China. ‘The little brown soldiers of the Mikado stand ready and willing to begin the woik that no other nation on earth dare attempt to ac- complish alone. The surprising part of it all is that Japan should concern herself in the least about the murder of European Christians in China when it was the powers behind these same European Christians that forced her to withdraw without the fruits of her brilliant victory over the Chinese several years ago. Japan has been in a position to have reached Pekin, ere this, with a sufficient. army to rescne the legations and restore order, but the sordid jealousies of the land-grabbing gov- ernments of the earth have signaled “hands off’”’ to the dauntless Japs and they are just crafty enough to heed the warning that says, plainer than so many words, rather have thousands of Christians eacri- ficed than lose the chance of acquiring a slice of territory. —The colored vote of the United States is enough to defeat the election of McKIN- LEY and ROOSEVELT if cast against them. It is hardly to be inferred, however, that | the colored people will do anything else than go on blindly supporting the party that has no other use for them than their votes. At the National Convention in Philadelphia the committee flatly refused to-entertain or have anything to do with distinguished col ored delegates from the South whose vo tes were good enough to insure MoKINLEY’S nomination, but whose black faces excluded them from the company of the fastidious white Republi- cans. It was TEDDY ROOSEVELT, too, whose Rough Riders were saved from be- ing cub to pieces on San Juan hill by the unpraised colored troopers, who tried to elittle the heroie aets of his black sav- sors. Republicans have no other use for the colored voter than for his vote, but the pity is that the colored voter refuses to see through the game. in the history of the country. gress should he disregarded by the military STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 The Democratic Platform Proclaims the Leading Issues of the Campaign. The work of the Democratic National Convention, in this closing year of the nineteenth century, will stand unparalleled Its conse- quences will be of that momentous charac- ter that will class it among the greatest events in the annals of the Republic, un: surpassed in the importance of its service in checking the growth of public evils that threaten the perpetuity of our free institu- tions. It is exactly one hundred years since THOMAS JEFFERSON, the first Democratio President was nominated and elected. The principles he represented, and upon which the liberty of our people is based, are reaffirmed by the platform of the Con- vention which, a century later, proclaims his doctrine of popular sovereignty as the very essence and vital principle of free government, a principle that is being im- periled by the encroachment of wealth as the ruling factor in public affairs, and by imperialistic schemers whose designs would eventually make the will of the people subordinate to military power in the con- trol of the government. ; The greatest platform that confronts the Republie is the one which the Democratic platform sets forth as the paramount issue in the presidential conflict. It is an issue that is pregnant with the fate of our country. It involves the question whether the government is to maintain its popular character,.with all the freedom and privi- lege that is assured to the people by con- stitutional guarantees, or whether it shall give way to the schemes of imperialism, which, in alliance with capitalistic inter- ests, design to acquire colonial dependen- cies, goverened by authority extraneous to the constitution, and requiring the employ- ment of a large military force. - This is the issue which in its vital im- portance, as affecting the existence of our free institutions, transcends all other ques- tions that are presented for the action of American citizens in the nding cam- paign. Iti ig for thin reas hat it is given the first plase. in the I ocratic endeavor illustrious and venerated authors of their liberty. The occasion for the alarm which this issue should arouse is so evident that no artifice can disguise it. : There is an ohvious tendency on the part of our Republican rulers to change the character of our government by the devel- opment of a military power unauthorized by the constitution and inimicable to pop- ular freedom. Taking advantage of a war that was de- manded by the American people for the re- lief of the Cubans from Spanish oppression, and intended for no other object, the Re- publican administration, departing from that object, has conceived a policy of colon- ial expansion, which requires a largely in- creased military force, and has placed our country in the list of land-grabbing na- tions. Consequently a large army is: employed in occupying .the territory of unwilling subjects. The work of slaughter and devastation that characterizes the performance of con- querors, has’ been’ Resigned to Amerisan soldiers. They are engaged in what McKINLEY himself declared ‘to be ‘‘criminal aggres- gion.”’’ Contrary. to the principles of our govern. ment, which are based on: the consent of the governed; the"military arm of this Re- public is being exerted for the subjugation of a people whose resistance manifests $hejr non-consent. : The criminality of this aggression is made the more reprehensible by its being practiced against a people who were our allies in the war with Spain. Those whom they hailed as deliveters haveassumed the hostile attitude of conquerors, devastating | their country, and destroying more of their lives than were lost in their many years of conflict with the Spaniards. In this “criminal” departure from the principle that government ghould be based on the® consent of the governed, appears |. the danger of MoKINLEY’S imperial scheme that is forcing a foreign rule upon a resist- ing people by the exertion of military pow- er. The crime ig rendered the more re- pulsive by its cost of blood and treasure, a sacrifice demanded by the mercenary commercialism that inspires the Republi- can colonial policy. The prospective profits of speculative syndicates and greedy franchise grabbers, not only require that the lives of thousands of American soldiers should be lost in the conquest of the Phil- ippines, but also that the pledge’ of Con- retention of Cuba. The “criminal”? policy that wold” is: card the principle of consent in govern- edt BELLEFONTE, PA., aggressive military power, with the ex- pense of a great standing army burdening the people, and the rule of the soldiers menacing their liberty, fully justified the Democratic Convention in making imper- ialism the paramount issue in the Presi- dential conflict. Second to this leading issue in its im- portance—and second only because it does not strike so directly at the fundamental principles of free government—is the ques- tion of industrial despotism, which in- cludes such monopolistic organizations as the trusts. On this subject the Demo- cratic platform makes its declaration in terms that clearly define the Democracy’s hostility to an evil which menaces the commercial freedom of the country, and for which Republican policies are solely re- sponsible. The platform specifically and truthfully arraigns the Republican party for its sub- servience to the capitalistic interests that have hrought all departments of industrial production under the control of avaricious combinations. That form of monopoly which despoils the general class of consumers for the profit of syndicated capital, and secures its plun- der through the agency of the trusts, has had its origin and its growth under Repub- lican administration It can be traced to no other source. It has had no other encouragement and support than that which was amply ex- tended to it through Republican favorit- ism. } The party that has had the government in its charge continuously for years past, with no material intermission of its power, can show no efforts made for the supres< sion of the trusts, while all the measures by which it has regulated trade have been devised for the encouragement and support of the monopolies that are consuming the substance of the people for the enrichrent of a class-of ‘millionaires. The trust octopus is a monster generated by the alliance of capitalistic greed with the corrupt policies of McKINLEYism. Mutual interest is the incentive to this yaboly communion. 3 #00 ih HY presidential elections are - carried - and Re- publican Presidents are elected. + In return for such corrupt aid the party in control of the government fails to de- fend the people against the plunder of the trusts. ~The Deniveratic leaders, through thieir platform, with clarion voice, call upon the general mass of, citizens, to relieve them- selves of the trade bondage and industrial serfdom to which they are being reduced by the allied power of avaricious capital and corrupt politics. The bill of indict went presented against the Republicans on the trust question by the’ Democratic platform is complete. There is vot'a flaw in the arraignment, The trusts owe their existerce to Re publican favoritism. 1 They have been nourished by the preter: ential provisions | ofa monopoly tariff. : The only’ disgonragement they ever re- ceived from a Republican source was a fake anti-trust law, artfully framed with a view to easy ‘evasion, which has been facil- itated by Republican Presidents appointing interested corporation lawyers to the At- toryney Generalship. : The efforts of the Democrats at the lass session of Congress to annul that class of abled to practice most of their ‘extortions, Republican majority. To complete the ‘Arraignment: “of the fact that the chief supporter and avowed defender of the trusts has been given the management of the Republican presiden- tial campaign, and will draw from: that monopolistic source the largest part of the fund with which he will attmpt. to sorrupt the election. . “The Democratic platform calls upon the people to check the further growth of the industrial’ despotism of the trusts as loud- ly as it invokes their interference with McKINLEY’S imperial designs. ——According to the report of the finance committee of the Bellefonte school board an'increase of 1 mill in the tax levy will be necessary for this year. Instead of having 4 mills for school and 2 for build- ings, as was the case last year, it will be ‘5 for school and '2'for buildings. The in- ‘crease is small, but none the less hard ‘to ‘bear. Of course, you understand, that. we are under obligations to Governor SroxE E for it. He made ar unlawful cut in the school appropriations and we are to make |. up for it by settling, with the tax colleator | in the fall. 5 : ; ————— Taming Hall ‘wouldn't be near the ‘monstrous organization that. it appears to ment, ‘converting this Republic into an : - Protected “monopoly contribites the | : dnd {bulk “of the. corruption. fund by which sk ment that be rivers to them from ‘the tariff duties through which trusts ‘are en- monopoly party, it is enough to state: the. The Democracy’s Great Leader. The Democratic party is fortunate in baving its presidential candidate so well suited to the principles, as set forth “in its platform, upon which it will battle for the deliverance of the government from the many abuses and manifold corruptions that | have been developed under Republican ad- ministration. There is'a remarkable adaptation of the candidate to the platform. The principles enunciated in that document are the same, in spirit and purpose, as ware given as an inheritance to the Democracy by THOMAS J EFFERSON. - An especially urgent reason for the maintenance and enforcement of those principles is presented at this time, when the influence of wealth and the im- perial aspiration of military power threat- en to subvert the government of the militarism conspiring to control th govern- and “body, in the Possession of which no other public man of this period equals the leader whom the Democrats hive put at | the head of their presidential ticket. Heis thoroughly fitted for the momentous and arduous work that has been assigned him. The force of his intellect bas been proven. His persuasive power is mun- matched. His singleness and honesty of | purpose are admitted,even by his enemies. Steadfast in what he believes to be right, there is no shadow of turning from the. straight path in which he directs his course. Firmpess, as one of his. characteristics, is equaled ‘by the integrity which furnishes’ the basis and supplies the motive for his: public acts. And when to such mental and’nioral qualities are added ‘physical en-’ . | durance and tireless energy that render’ him capable of the. most arduous exertion, | ° ‘he is found to be possessed of all the equip- ments necessary for leadership in combat- | 8 ing ‘the corrapt and dangerous power that ‘has intre itself i in the government. “There “is a time | in the history of every y when & menaping situation calls for | “fore sao “of: oa oh 1eade pa view: |G ab the pebuliar fangersthat threaten the Re: public at this tine, the appearance of Wit LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN upon the stage of public action, at such a juncture, looks much like a providential interference for the preservation of our free government. The Bitter—Sweet. : “The farmer, ‘Biechanic and’ laborer has, within the last few days, been’ Joined, by Vf BE complaint they. have been giving expression 1 to for some time over the advanced prices of, necessaries, caused by the trusts... : The economic: woman feels herself robbed by the sagar trust.’ “Within a week’ the price of granulated sugar has Rone ap to ‘seven cents per pound , and this increase, coming right in the midst of the canning aud jelly making season, ‘has started wom- an’on' a tour of mental investigation to learn ‘the ca e. mo giibin hes . From statistics she diseovers ‘that. the weekly melting of raw su r at the ‘various refineries’ in the United ited States is about 41,- 000 tons or the equivalent of 266,000 bar- rels. Over eighty per cent of this she dis- covers is the product of refineries controlled by the trast. Then she goes a step farther and learns tha the minimum net profit to the producer on a a of Tot. granulated | sugar-is $1.75, Multiplying the number of was defeated by the’ unanimans vote of the barrels produced in'a week by- this amount she is taitly fstounded at the answer. $465,500, a week on the net earnings of the sugar trast on grannlated sngar alone. - “It isn’t much wonder that the women are indignant and have joined forces with the farmer, the ‘mechanic and. laborer in condemnation of a President and party who favor: legislation that builds up Sach extortionate organizations. i ‘Seven cent sugar is the direct result of McKINLEY trust. Iti is. the Pisterswest of Republicanism. AT { S— i —— Philipsburg papers are complaining because the council of that borough recent- 1y entered a contract for the rebuilding of the Reliance Fire Co’s house at an expense of $3,175. They say the town is bankrupt now, with no money to pay overdue inter- est on'its debts. Well, what of it? The most valuable thing any municipality has is its fire department, whether paid or vol- unteer. Philipsburg has two excellent volunteer companies and no expense her council would iucur for their comfort or equipment would begin to compensate for the service they have already rendered that ‘town. Shing ‘in the world a’ town should. hedge | Xt is all well enough when there isno a ‘but when the terrible alarm of fire ' |soundsin the dead of the coldest winter |- night, or in the middle of the hottest sum- mer_day who is expected to drop’ every- | thing and ron, and work and risk lite and. ruin clothing for nothing?—The voluntcer be to some Republican journals, 4 if it were Republican in faich. i fireman. JULY 13; 1900. With such a danger menacing the Republic, ; : the Jools turn to no other leader the positiv a fight agai a | combined power of commercialism and A fire company ‘is the. last | NO. 27. The Situation in China. From the Philadelphia Record. Much of the alleged news from Pekin— and more particularly the harrowing reports of wholesale massacre-of foreigners in the legations— may be set. down as shrewd sur- mise or partial invention by the ‘‘penny dreadful’’ press of London. The diplomat- ic world has no direct news from the Chinese capital, nor have the great news- papers of London, whose money is poured out like water to secure early information of important international events. The situation at Pekin and the fate of the for- eign Ministers there is largely matter for conjecture. Putting her the scraps of informa- tion secured by active and profoundly in- terested officials, the conclusion arrived at is decidedly adverse to the theory of an un- opposed barbaric outbreak at Pekin. The defection of Prince Ching and the opposition of his troops to Prince Tn: army, the sympathy and secret accorded to “the legations by C general on i new civilization eT ly to oo ‘peaceful conquest of Eastern Asia. JIn'the ‘meantime military preparations for a march upon Pekin by the allied forces continue unabated. Japan, only 900 miles away, has 23,000 troops available for speedy service; Russia is roshing soldiers forward as fast as possible, and re-enforcements for the British, French and German battalions are en ronte to the Taku forts. But if riotin, and rebellion should continue in Peoohicli months would elapse before any effective demonstration could be made hy the allied. Powers, even should their consuls prove. be’ entirely harmonious. It is the rainy sea- son in Northeastern China; the coputry is flooded; the railway to Pekin Se been, practically obliterated, and any measure of relief for the legations under such condi- tionsis out of the question. If the foreign, ers at the Chinese capital are to escape it must be through the agency of frie Chinese officials who! antagonize the’ Eo rusade. “As the Chinese Minister at Washin hae steadily contended, there is no lac thy among the intelligent classes bd China for the sentiment which prompt Pacey Council shonld be oe ay any wild dream of national exclusiveness. They are involved in the toils spread by the ey ers and rebels, and shonld be the first to come to the rescue of their country from threatened dismemberment. If they can not suppress the Boxers and their Ee task will be accomplished ‘none the less, no matter how Anany, THEOaps it Jag sequirg Io restore order. LD docs pr Bryaws Any. BIRG b gz Post, . The Boston Beern. 4 po Tolcheddsst Rep ublican. thal they “will make a fatal mistake if they underrate Mr. Bryan’s abilities or his popularity,” When the leaders do so the are shamming, = Others do so throng gnomnes and prejudice. The ‘Beacon’ Maing all due ‘allowance for the ex- aggerati of He political partisanship, it isa ‘tact that Mr. Bryan represents the broad pr sie of Democracy—the rule of the pat sg peor] e as distinguished from the the dominance of a plutocratic class, .opposition to trusts, his aversion to the | ¥ quirement of forej, ign territory, except with a view of making it an integral part of the United States, his declaration against the maintenance of standing armies and in his attitude regarding economic questions gen- erally, be represents what has come: to’ be regarded as aah ‘popular side. ‘The Repub- lican managers will make a fatal mistake if they underrate Mr. Bryan's abilities or his popularity. Stil iiss for Trouble in Soin Afeten. From the Altoona Tribune. While the’ belief is" gerd © hot. the South African war is almost at an end, yet some fighting is still going on, and Lord Roberts, it" is reported, is’ unwilling to | spare any of his troops for service in China. Even ough the Boers be about willing to give up the hopeless struggle in: which a they “have shown so much gallantry, it would be a dangerous experiment to ma- : | terially weaken the British forces opposed | to them, for: the reason that such a, step might lead to a renewal of their fury. 3 CS | Big Snipment ot Postal Carts, A large shipment of postal cards was made from the United States postal card factory at Piedmont, W. Va,, Saturday. That day 24,000,000 cards were shipped, filling six large box cars, one of which went to the Philadelphia office, and contained 4,000,000 cards. The shipments are worth to the government $240,000. The demand for postal cards continues to increase and the shipments each month grown heavier. The force of hands will have to be increas- ed to keep the output equal to the demand. thnk Tr ~The ‘inventory of the personal estate ol the late Vice President GARRET A. Ho- BART shows that he was worth $2,268,941. He Keld bonds in twenty-six ‘corporations nd stock in over one hundred. Ee jit ~eecGion. J. 1, Curtin has been Sion Special agent . of the census burean for ‘Bellefonte to eolleos Statistics, of wangfac- tures. Sit : | ib was forced to retire. , warns the Republicans | Spawls from the Keystons, —Joseph Clymer, a Clinton’ cotinty aan, was raking hay into winrows last week when a wind storm came on and the wind picked up nearly a wagon load and carried it into the tree tops of a wood near by. . —One day last week Mrs. Annie Baker, of Falls Creek, stepped on a garden rake. One of the teeth penetrated her foot. The wound refused to heal, blood poisoning developed, resulting in lockjaw. She died a few days later. . —A tarantula whose body is three inches long with a nine inch spread of legs was found in a bunch of bananas at Altoona the other day. Itis a huge specimen of the vi- cious insect and is on exhibition by the deal- er who captured it. Langenberger, of White Deer Valley, was struck by lightning while seeking shelter with his team under a tree. His clothing was torn Lalf off and he was severely injur- ed, but will recover. —=Marion Smith, a 19 year old son of James ty, was struck by lightning and instantly killed while at work in the hay field Satur- day afternoon. The lightning shattered a body and down his right leg, tearing the shoe from the foot. manager of the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad, died at his home at Huntingdon Thursday, aged 73 years. Prior to 1873 he was a prominent railroad man in the east. | He is survived by his wife and two children, * | one of the latter being Carl M. Gage, the pres- ent general manager of the Broad Top. ~ —Ex-Sheriff C. L. Johnson, of New Bloom- | field, Perry county, is minus his magnificent | | bronze gobbler weighing forty pounds. : i day morning as the train east was coming & | down back of Johnson's stable, the big fellow “*# | squared himself on the track in a most angry .. | fashion for fight with the engine. Despite the warning whistles he refused to budge and was bowled over and killed. —At Williamsport on Tuesday a 6 year old child of Theopolius Bey met with a serious and “painful accident, The little one was playing in the yard around its home and started. to climb over an iron picket fence. In some manner it slipped and fell, striking its chin’ against one of the sharp pointed iron prongs. The iron penetrated the flesh, pierc- ed the tongue, and striking the roof of the mouth, knocked. loose two teeth. —Farmer Niles Johnson, of Tioga village, near Wellsboro, Friday afternoon attempted by: telephone to intercept his 14-year-old daughter Edith, and her lover who ran, away to Corning. ‘When a policeman accost- : ed the pair he found they had been married a half hour. When Johnson arrived a little later on the caboose of a freight train he was furious, but, cooling down, forgave the child’ | bride and her young husband, and took them home to live with him on the farm. ! —Nine year old Harry Lamont,’ of Cogan 8 Station, Saturday, saved his7 year old broth- er from being gored to death by a bull. The: patwid: animal attacked the younger ‘boy’ "i god vad forte. him uto the ur twice before et. to. his _ assistance. Wit ‘attacked the bull, and 50 severely did he injure the animal that The older boy assist ed hig brother to his feet, and succeeded in, getting him over a fence as the bull rushed. at them again. —Thel 14 year old daughter of eo Mary Jones, of Newfield, Potter county, has been (missing from home since Saturday, and it is ‘believed she is a prisoner in an Italian camp. Sunday a young Italian came to Mrs, Jones’ home and reported that the missing girl was | being kept » prisoner in an Italian camp near Galeton, He said he would not “dare lead rescuers to the camp, as his countrymen ‘ would kill him, | hut he gave directions that will probably lead to finding the girl. | ~Christian Shearer and Harvey Whitton, both residents of ‘Kylertown, were very ser- iously burned on the Fourth by the explosion of powder. - They were helping celebrate In- dependence Day by shooting powder out of an anvil. ‘A tin can afforded them a recepta- cle in which to keep their powder. At an uu- guarded moment some one maliciously threw a lighted . cigar into the can, with the result that a fearful explosion followed, badly burn- ing both of the men about the body, hands and face. Mr. Whitton is said tobe in a very serious ‘condition, Both are married men. * —An order has been issued from National Guard headquarters. at Harrisburg, giving the per diem pay of officers and privates at the coming encampment at Mt. Gretna, as follows: Major general, $20 83; brigadier general, $15 28; colonel, $9 73; lieutenant col- onel, $8 33; major, $695; captain, mounted, $555; chaplain, $4 17; first lieutenant, $4 17; regimental quartermaster, $5; first lienten- ant, mounted, $4 45; second lieutenant, mounted, $417; first sergeant, $3; sergeants on non commissioned staff, $3: sergeants, $2 corporals, $1 75; privates, $1 50; musicians in brigade band, $2. Pay will be allowed only for the number of days that officers or enlist - ed men have been in camp. —The bridge across the old eanal bed at Mifflintown collapsed Wednesday afternoon and carried with it into the ditch below, a distance of about forty feet, thirty people, men, women and children, who had crowded it to witness a tub race in the river a short distance away. Twenty of the victims were seriously injured. One may die and the re- mainder were slightly injured. Of all that took the fall not one escaped some injury, but nine got off with only contusions and slight cuts. - An unknown weaver iv a car- pet mill was injured so badly that he will die. One of his legs is broken in two places and he is injured internally. All of the oth- ers will likely recover. —Bark peelers in one of the tracts on the Treaster valley side of Beatty’s knob, in Mifflin county léased by Joseph Kelley, fell-! ed a large tree one day last weok, and on go- ‘ing along the trunk a distance of 35or 40 feet they discovered two black snakes, one 6 feet 9 inches long, the other 6 feet 6 inches long, their’ bodies closely interlocked, one of which ‘had its tail caught in the crack of a big limb ‘which had sprue apart’ and then closed again, thus holding his snakeship fast. The monsters were killed by one of the men and the above measurements made. The snake that was lobse would not leave its companion preferring death to separation, thus sxiihl- y. gould eg’ the af ectionate side of snake | nature. —During a storm Saturday evening, Frank A. Smith, of Grove Summit, Clearfield coun- ~ fork which he was using, went through his George F. Gage, for 24 years general Mon- \
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