rn backward, O Time in thy esskvars “flight, dive us tne entenoia aging just for one night The part that. we want most. then made men profane . The ‘ground soaking, splattering, down-pour- ing rain. —BRYAN'S speech at Indianapolis was probably the greatest vote maker that will be developed during’ this campaign. —One ‘swallow doesn’t make a summer, but a few swallows of soda water or ice cream often wins out a summer girl. —Tt takes more than the sun has been able to do around here for the past two weeks to wilt the starch in some people. —Monday’s papers announced that the allied forces were within sight of Pekin. As they haven’t seen it yet they evidently figured that it cost too much to go in. —Mr. HANNA has announced his cam- paign advisory committee, but a miero- scopic examination of the list has failed to discover any name that looked like QUAY. —England’s declaring the war over in South Africa dor=+’t make it so when the Boers are all there yet and have nearly all of their big guns and millions of stands of rifles. _—The Board of Health in Manila has : reported that there are thirty thousand lepers in’ the Philippines Think of it, they cost us $60,000. Tsu’t it about time to take. another fall out of Spain and get our money back. _ —Sthtistios are ‘being used to show. that the 'valne of bogs has advanced $3 per head within: the pastsix months. If this is true HANNA ‘might turn his increased valuation of, $3 over to the McKINLEY campaign fund, . = Bren after the allied forces get up to Be gi reat wall that surrounds the Chinese capitol they will have some tall work cuf out for them. It is fitsy feet high and broad enough on top for two coaches to i ve abreast. "It will take very heavy ar- tillery to make a hole in such a wall, even large enough to peek into Pekin. ~“LWhen HENRY LABOUCHERE's London Truth can say ‘nor would - we be surprised it, in view of their continued prosperity, | n cousins were to act as our e fnture, in a good many in- not time for. us to let our ~understand that it isnot for the kind of money we will ur : years ago, we were world. We had a full 6. among the: Shat time we have licked ih be licking war revenue 1 four years more. g rescue of the Americans in he settlement of the indemnity ps should be withdrawn as . they were sent there. We id the embroglio that is cer- cha orto Rico and the Philippines, with ] ing or snatching more trouble in Pp HUNTINGDON, the rail- ite who died on Tuesday night r camp in the Adirondacks was idred million or more. He school when he was only old and began by peddling straps. He was consid- but the contact with the | the sharpening straps ts effect on him, as his pile cents a day until be grows orld will turn an attentive e while. Because he is of Chicago University. and hig live in the slums and see how much attention to his Ssonomin] 4 discus; adignation marched ‘them to ain about as soon as the Presi- t¥ morial day trom May 30h to unday in May was probably in- ‘because of the: growing tend- ke it a gala day for sportsmen, period of mourning aud eunlo- ose who have laid their lives on ntry’s altar. The great athletic May. 30th. have come to over- that of any ather. connections by kin, by, marriage; rans br ! "all in its latest issue, _ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Working for a Bell Wether. Republican managers evidently believe the people vote, as sheep run in flocks, af- ter a ‘‘bell wether.” And this may be so, even if it is not complimentary to the gen- eral intelligence and independence. of the average American citizen. If it is not the belief of those who con- trol the management of the Kepublican campaign, if there is not some basis for presuming that there is a good deal in hav- ing a “bell wether’ to induce the balance of the flock to follow, why the extraordin- ary efforts now being put forth to keep the Republican majority in Maine up to its usual figure. That Maine is a hide-bound and undisput- able Republican State, none but a political idiot would ‘think of denying. = Whether. 1 the majority it gives its state ticket two months before the general election be ten, or twenty, or forty thousand should have no influence upon the voters of other States. But Republican politicians think it will and are laboring to point to Maine as the weather vane of this presidential contest. With innumerable local slang-whangers, who are expected to abuse the Democracy and glorify McKINLEY at every cross roads, they have arranged for an army of outside speakers, such as has never invaded any State, and carried brass and hewilder- ment to any people. In the eightecn days during which it has been decided to run the Maine campaign, over 700 hundred speeches are to be delivered by imported Republican speakers. And this in. addi- tion to its cross-roads and store-box gather- ings and’ the $500,000 of a campaign fund that is to be thrown in to waken Maine enthusiasm, and prove the stability of Maine Republicanism. With such efforts and such expenditures there should be no question about the ma- jority they may bave to show. But why should this influence intelli- gent people, unless the ‘‘bell wether” theory i8 Songeen - Of all the States in the Union the action of Maine on political matters shonld have less influence on the geperal public than a intercourse are more elosely allied to ‘the. | British ideas than to those held by the peo- ple of the other States. Over one half of the population were taught their political faith in the provinces of Quebec or of Nova Scotia. They are anti-American at heart, by educa- tion and by absorption. In the nature of things they couldn’t be anything but Re- pu blicans and Imperialists. A large ma- jority of the balance of its population have never been outside of the influence that this imported balf has exercised over them and to-day they are as narrow, as bigoted and as prejudiced against the prin- ciples of free government as are the Kan- uncks, from whom they inherit their polit ical ideas. With less to boast of of their own forks with less to point to in the way of states- manship or political advancement; with less to show for any industry, enterprise or intelligence on the part of its people; with more of bigotry; of crotchety-cranki- ness and a more general acceptance of un- natural beliefs and long-named isms, than | is found in any State of the Union, that it should be selected as the ‘‘bell wether’’ in | politics is certainly anything but compli- | mentary to the general intelligence of the voters of other States. ‘As a ‘“‘bell wether" Maine may do to lead Republicanism, as taught and practiced by McKINLEY. “It will hardly be followed | by the flock of voters who understand that the tinkle of the bell is moving towards the arid ‘wastes of Imperialism -and ‘the scorched: deserts from which trusts have absorbed all nourishment, ~~ © —— —Word comes from Lancaster, Ky, to Y | the effect that a deaf mute has recovered | ber power of speech by the. process of | ¢ | spanking through . which her mother. was - | putting her on Thursday. HANNA Hemp- HILL is the girl's name and she was sixteen , | years old when ber dear old mother pad- dled her until she broke out bawling so loud that the whole. ‘neighborhood heard and was amazed. Maybe she hadn't been deaf at all.’ She might just have’ bad fall- ing of the larynx which would naturally be knocked back to place when her ‘mother | gave her a few wea jis on: elte “egher end. : . ——The Republican ee out a a lenge to judge LOVE, calls Secretary JouN HAMILTON “Ole” and throws a “look” | be into the artist who. wrote . the editorial leader in the. State College Times last week, made things interesting in the Republican | camp and when it. sings. there is a con- tinnally growing crowd down on the chorus. — Former U. 8. Senator Jon J, Th GALLS, one of the most brilliant orators and astute Legislators of his day, died. yesterday. = BELLEFONTE; P ET A Few Changes that Would Make Bryan President. Few persons who “have not gone to. the trouble of looking over the returns of 1896 carefully will realize what a slight change | e at that time would have made Mr. BRYAN President of the United States, and proba- bly saved the country the thousands of: precious lives and millions of dollars that have been thrown away up to this time in the support of the imperialistic idea. In 1896, when the world resounded with the gloating triumph of the gold over the gilver issues, the victory seemed over- whelming, but in realify it was not so great. A change of forty-eight votes in the electoral college would have changed the victory to the silver side and made Mr. BRYAN the President, instead of the creature of the trusts and jobbers who has placed in the public service men who have heen found guilty of every crime from that. of feeding putrid beef to helpless soldiers down to robbing the post offices of the poverty stricken Cubans. At that time the votes of Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, California and North Daketa would have gone to the Democratic nominee on a turn around of 52,067, and would have given him a majority in the electoral college and made him President. = Ohio, Kentucky, California and Oregon could have been turned with only 26,957 votes off McKiIN- LEY and given to BRYAN and they would have elected the latter. + There are numbers of similar combina- tions of States in which the gold majorities were so small that the margin by which President: McKINLEY really was elected is ‘very surprising and exceptionally seo rag? ing to Democrats. The money question is settled. It can | not possibly be taken up for six years to Fo Edy - Tobe told that we are now paying 57% oral of the entire revenues of the gov- ut for military purposes may not be sews fo Som, but will certainly surprise othets. The report of the Treasury De- partment for the year ending July 2nd, 1900'shows this to be a fact and as the Re- publicans are using the figures given in the report to magnify their charities to the old soldier they will have no excuse for either doubting or denying them. . The report shows that the total revenue receipts for the year given amounted to $568,988,948. The amount paid out for pensions dur- ing that period was $138,462,172, or 24 per cent of the amount of revenue received. The amount : expended by the War and Navy Departments for the same time was $190,743,980. or 33} per cent. of the total revenues, - Adding these percentages together we have 57} per cent, or over one-half the entire income of the gover nment paid out for such ‘ purposes as are incident to militarism. And we are only starting on that road. Militarism in this country bas heretofore been an unfelt and an unfeared evil. Prior to ‘MeKINLEYism we knew -noth- ing of it. During a single adrsinistrative Adi with him at the head it has gained such a foot-hold and. grown to such proportions that the cost: of maintaining it already amounts to more than does that of all the other departments of the government, com- bingd, including interest on public debts, . public improvements and all other govern- mental expenditures. , AUG. 17. penditures, - Think what this means. ‘Russia spends but 26 per cent of her 1900. ‘Astonnding Facts About Military Ex- before that time. and issue in the coming campaign. ago, is settled also wobbling, - vacillating, . even cringing. . Time has shown, beyond. reasonable doubt, that ‘BRYAN y come, because the political complexion ‘of. the United States Senate cannot be changed Therefore it is elided as The question as to Mr. BRYAN'S stability, ich was an important one four years by his unparalleled work singe that time, Where he has shown- the (inflexible, coumrageous spirit of the great statesman the President has been subservient and ‘stronger man ol thie two. ‘These being the: ay two great questions of the campaign of ’96, -and both settled now, it leaves nothing but ‘the ‘‘paramount issue’’ of imperialism. total revenues for the maintenance of her army and the payment of pensions ; Ger- many 24; and France 22, for the same pur- poses, and we look upon them as miliny ‘governments. - ‘What in the name of sense are we, witli our boasted. ideas of a Republic—a govern- “ment of the people, by the people for the people—and our expenditures of 57% per bof ¢ our entire Tevenues for iliary en we e ound Ressin i in a pg impose upon our people for military pur- poses is it not time to consider what we are Agitist. Imperialism and Mekintey. From the Philadelphia a Record, Ind. The great Western States 6f Ohio, In- diana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, with not far from a million voters of German birth, will be the battle-ground of this cam against imperialism, as they were in the campaign of 1896 for sound money. The German element is an object of dread and repugnance to the politicians, because ib cannot be counted upon in a great contest like the present by the party astil sergeants. In the new turn of the political Sn Carl Schurz finds himself once more in harmony with the great majority of his conntrymen of German birth on the issne of imperigl- ism. Dr. Swallow Prefers Bryan. : From a recent speech. Dr. Swallow, candidate of the United Christain party, says: ‘‘If we must choose between the two candidates of the two old parties, I must say that I would support the man who clings to principle and ad- than the haan whom the people never knew where to find on any vital issue, who was. against the liquor traffic at one time, and is now for it; who was for free silve is now for gold: who was for free-trade with! Porto Rico, and Athen fora Porte Rican ta Situation Desperate. g 8ir Claude MacDonald's Description of Affairs in Pekin. A Massacre is Yet Possible. ‘More Particu- lars of the Taking of Yang-tsun—Fourteenth United States Lost Heavily—Were Fired on Through Mis: take. Our Facilities for for Getting News. LONDON, August 14.- 14.—3.50. A. M.~—The' British consul at Canton; says the Daily Telegraph's correspondent here; has receiv- ed the following dispateh, August 6, from Su laude MacDonala; British minister | in, ekin: days our food supply will be atan end. Unless we are relieved a general: massacre is probable. The Chinese offer to escort us to Tien Tsin, but, remembering Cawnpore; | we refuse the offer.. There pd over 200 European women and children in this le- tion. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express, wiring yesterday, . says: ** The allies at noon Saturday were with in twenty miles of Pekin.”’ . As General Chaffee’s report, which is the only authentic news received here. - ing the advance, located the Spal forces about forty miles fi in on Friday, it seems probably hai report is optimist. It sh } “ {likely that the allies conld nee -miles inias many hours. mew nb A Yangtsun dispatch, dated August a giving details regarding the egpture of thas lace, says: ‘The Russians and French Birr ———r Spawls from m the. Heysone: : heres to what he believes to be right, rather “Our situation here is desperate. In ten is The question as to whether we are to con- tinue as a Republic or eschew republican doing it for 2 When we more than double Germany in one of empirical form. to the honor of a free people. Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, ideas and resolve our free government into This can be the only question of the coming campaign and.it needs but a look ahead to see how easily it could be settled On the certainty that BRYAN will carry Alabama, Georgia. the tax-burdens we load upon the citizens to maintain our army bave we not reached a point that calls for a halt? Weare at that point now. We exceed the world in military expenses and Mr. Me- KINLEY and his policy of imperialism would make us double our efforts in the eld the left, the British left centre, the Americans right centre, and the Japanese the extreme right. The @ British and Americans advanced on the village at a rapid rate for 5,000 yards, under a severe shell and rifle fire. The Russians opened and the British-American advance became a race for positions, culminating in a bril- liant charge, The heaviest loss of the day was sustained by the Americans, the Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, South “Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming he will have 174 votes to start with, without even a ‘contest for them. Since the outrageous murder of Governor GOEBEL in Kentucky even Republicans admit that there is no question ahout where she will place her thirteen votes. BRYAN in-hand. same line. Imperialism and militatism maroh hand- They both demand increased armies, increased expenditures and increas- ed taxation. These are what a continuation of Me- KINLEYism promises. The Republican has | ready to 0 bear will get (Lem and his total will be 187. Democrats in stand that Senator WEL makes that State a run the BRYAN total up to 195. that time Mr. crats hi Bi dnd the bankers very city in the le State were w ked. +> ‘last resource to overcome Torked a conditions are. wonderfully Shangedl, er “because of his secret ling Boers. i n Sout are conditions that seem certaix n to mi change of 9,091 votes in that State. electorals and his total will be 210. to say that California, with out of lier nine votes; and North Dakota, with her 5,649 Republican majority an three electors, can be urned around with three electorals. Oregon votes and West Virginia is hy yond being a | bh it seems most 1 mentioned could be made th e see Democratic viotories.. dp These are ibiljtice, not Beans, in in the calenlation we have dropped N York, Illinois and Ohio clear out of ¢ sideration. to the ' former State, however, as by al precedent’ it will candidate for Preside Tooking over the field in a careful, unbia few comparatively trifling changes wil the United States. The uniting of the warring factions of | yland, > fouled with fhe GTON has taken Democratic certainty. Of course it will only be. getting back where it belongs but the eight votes will Indiana is the next State we can look to hopefully. Four years ago McKINLEY carried it by a majority of sly 18,181. At BRYAN was hissed on the streets of Indianapolis, the Gold Demo- ‘held their convention in that and money interests fo High street most of the day. will be no gold Sees pre, question to ish as and his failure to oi | neon eme, fog “nese It they do BRYAN will have fifteen more With the victory mark of 224 then only | 14 votes distant it is not esting ops try 2,797 majority that gave MARINE eight Delaware will be a BRYAN certainty, ELKINS sage, will be the result a n’s four votos would go to at Vii on a change of 1,169 no. eans ef a porilier” though ly that the first ey We do not relinquish’ — for the Democratic ent this year, but in manner we cannot fail to ‘discover’ ‘that & ‘make Mr. BRYAN the next President ‘of Profane Loafers. It is not to be wondered at that placards warning against loafing are becoming so numerous ahount the fronts of Bellefonte buildings. On ‘Tuesday the editor of the Republican was compelled to resort to that means of trying to rid himself and bis em- ployees of a nuisance shat. becomes almost unbearable. sire rather ‘than. necessity, congregate on the bridges and available: steps on west Their con- ‘Tush of the farmers to BRYAN, This io versation is anything but edit, ng to the | unwilling ears it reaches and for the most ary the, wien of nst the | Such foul creatures as must show their iso oy i TAY bas bees t0 India th the puny ‘vocabularies by continued ecourse / a sith > demonstration en | to oaths would probably not feel the dis- any Bile’ Le. Coupled wi | grace of imprisonment, but if afew of them | - ions 3 he a I00¢ | were to be fined for thelr ge : Hin Eat all openly sion Me- ‘would p robably be an en : ‘in decent oss that. offends, : everywhere. riba 4a se TR | S——— the steel-clad and truth-proof ri g leaders, | “the finish, and that in the political také as to whom they tclong. This, Mr. out counting anything from districts in which fusion is resorted to or that are. sei. | Ch ably Democratic. A sare thing ina case like this onght to be. a good thing and if this estiniate is correct, or is not the veriest risking it all by putting’ the hos on the | | stump ‘and giving the ple so 1 niuch more of QUAY than they expect or care for. Too | 1| much of one thing often becomes nanseous, and ‘i. there is any one thing that has sickened the political stomachs of the voters of Pennsylvania it is the persistent 1| and ever-lasting doses of QUAYism they | have been compelled to take ® Joring. the past decade. eC Crowds of men and hott, idle from de. part is accentuated ‘by shocking profanity. | nes min hic prem of Fugland has issued a statement to the effect ‘that | t Mr. Quay will be in the senatorial ‘fight | ¢ boll 8, of Senators. and ‘Members the |. ring will have 162 votes with its ‘brand;burn- ; Yt ed in them in a way that no one will mis-' braggadccio, we fail to see the sense in | Fourteenth infantry having one killed, 62 wounded and several missing. The Bengal lancers unsuccessfully attempted to ous oft the Chinese. retreat.”’ Another Yang-tsun special says: *‘Owing to a mistake, British and Rus- sian guns shelled the Fourteenth United States infantry during the night, wound- ing ten.”’ Commenting upon this. occurrence the Standard says. ‘It is melancholy to learn that the losses of the Americans; - who seem to have born themselves with conspic- uous gallantry, were increased by a deplor- able error, in consequence of which one of their regiments were pounded by Russian and British cannon- The incident empha- sizes. the necessity of that: close co-opera- tion which ie not easily obtained without a single cammander and a general stafl.’’ ‘Official advices from Yokohama dated yesterday, say that the allies propose to ad ] vance on Angust 7 to Nan Tei -Tsum, be- tween Yangtsun and Wau Sing. The Japanese suffered no casualties at Yangtsun, but the. official reports. sy thew b bad 300, a Peitsung. be : i LR ent dec | e an as sealed the tate of ern huria. were tak: n nia. Hou S s Wholesale ‘when the battle was or the Cossacks oo und rode over SheSeld, killi with the butt ot th i my ment to secure Ren an ahead of the fat | world. “It is to piping vii ie fh iene Daily Ne Sonat ‘we are | for ne pint tug he front. That ——Mr. Attorney-General ELKINS, one 3 Sed yi gah iy 7 is oy irs than .. In some res] Delsaes Still its su anor Ee _ It may be observed that rate fiaell rom she es.” i. = ns » oie wifi fhe a DID ena or, expanding. The drain of a and nd South 4 i upon En i) 8 ‘stores is so grea evi privz e firm has been ask “help the government to supoly the Seti and restore the re- ‘serves. which is much below par. All the tion firms are’ y workitg night efforts to meet the gov- government in Porto. Rico,” shouts a Re- publican orator. And judging ‘from the politieal stench that comes up from it we must concede that he kuows what be ‘is talking about and has Slisesed the Kind of government the Repubiicans have given |g ‘them down there, the first pop. TAY government does of seem fo ! {ed intoan unshapely mass, the result of a | railway ‘accident Sunday’ evening, —~Rains wore general a all over the central patt of the State yesterday. While not near enough, the fall was Sufficient for temporary 2 relief. “—John IL. Whelan di died near DuBoistown, Wednesday, aged 70 years. Mr. Wheeler was an old riverman and was one of the men who assisted John E. DuBois to shackle the first boom at Williamsport. ~Michael Kirsch Sr., who, resides nepr Spangler, is believed to be the oldest and best bicycle rider for his age in Cambria { county. Mr. Kirsch is about 76 or 78 years old, but rides a bicycle equal to a youth of - 120. —Dr. David W. Conaghy, aged 72 years, died at Latrobe Friday morning. He wasa prominent Mason, a leader in medical socie- ties, and a prominent figure in Latrobe man- ufacturing enterprises. .Dr. Conaghy issur- vived by his wife and one sister. So —Martin, the 5:year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirsch, living about a mile from Nicktown, Cambria county, met with a seri- ous accident Tuesday of last week, ‘While a traction engine was passing the house the child jumped on an empty truck and fell off, the wheels passing over his breast. —Miss Anna Miller, of Durward, Juniata county, is. likely to go blind, the result of wiping her eye with her. hand, while working among parsnips. The eye became poisoned, and for the past couple weeks she had been confined to a dark room, her suffering being intense. —The 1-year-old son of Charles Gehring, of Greensburg, was the victim of painful burns. The little tot was playing in the kitchen and while his mother was absent pulled a kettle and shoulders. His face and shoulders were terribly scalded. + —D. C. Rannels has brought suit against and | the Pennsylvania railroad company. to recov- er damages for the loss of his stock of goods in the store building which was burned early pt ‘spring at Port Royal. He claims the re caused by sparks from a focomative which had a defective spark arrester. He claims $2,500 damages. 1 ~—Two! remarkably large bass: bave been caught within the last week near Clearfield. According to the Rafstman’s Journal one of fii : big bass was caught by Cyrus Wilson. weighed nine pounds and was twenty al inches in length. Squire Moore, caught a bass which was nineteen inches. Jong: and weighed seven pounds. ~The surveying party on the “Hopkiiia tion, Clinton county, has reached a oint n the southern boundary of the Par- i: . One day this week while the men: Were. in their dining tent they heard a noise ‘behind them. Looking around they ‘saw inside the tent door a large Tattle- snake. The reptile was killed by Edwarg Ball. : : —~While Mrs. Jacob Thomas, of near Pat- ton, was standing on a chair to reach the up- per shelves of the Kitchen cupboard: a few days ago, the chair in some way tilted, throwing her to the floor. The lower part of her spinal colimn and also the hip bones ely were injured, Latest reports, however, say ‘is getting mlong as. well.as. about 65 years of age. er young man of McConnellsburg were driv- ing'overthe mountain to Mercersburg, last Sunday evening, at a point a short distance above the old Hollenshead distillery they noticed a large snake threshing around in the dust under the horse's feet. They got out to investigate and found that the horse had tramped squarely upon the head of a rattlesnake nearly four feet long. A singu- lar fact was that, although the snake was one of the largest ever killed in that vicinity it had only two rattles. —Half an hour after bidding good by to his home folk, death in a horrible form came to Brakeman William F. Edmiston, of Altoo- na, Saturday evening at about 6:15 o'clock. He fell underneath a draft of steel cars, at the head of the classification yards and was almost instantly killed. He gave up lifea short time after being placed aboard an en- gine, to be taken to the Altoona ‘hospital. The injuries inflicted to the dead man con- sisted of a crushed skull, while many of his bones were broken, caused by being rolled. —Hall and Kaul, the lumber operators on Fishing creek, about ten miles from Empor- ium, were heavy losers by fire this week. The flames were started by a spark from a locomotive. The bark, logs and other prop- erty destroyed will cause a loss of about $20,- 000. , C. B. Howard & Co., of Emporium, lost about $2,000 worth of logs. Frank Lockwood and other jobbers were also losers by the fire. Fires were also’ raging, on Wednesday, i nthe direction of Salt run and Cauley run,’ in the pine and’ hemlock forests operated by F. H. and C. W. Goodyear. -—Mrs. Catharine Wertz: was atch oe a | ‘cow made mad by the intense heat; at her | home near’ Madison, Westmoreland county, Thduley, and terribly injured. She. ter- ed the pasture field carrying her baby Che: C | animal, which had been acting strangely for some time, made a rush for the woman and knocked her down. The babe was thrown from the mother’s arms and was badly hurt. The crazy animal then pounced upon the ‘to | woman, trampling ber and plunging its horns ; into her. ‘Her cries brought to the scene two ‘neighbors, and with great difficulty. the ani- mal was driven away. The muscles of one arm were completely torn. away. .—With the lower part of his Jefe Teg crash. Oscar Pratzmann, aged 15 years, of Sunbury, hop- ‘ped on one foot for nearly a square to sum- mon a hospital ambulance. The boy, with several companions, was jumping on a freight train on the Reading road. Pratzmann rode ‘a half asquare and jumped off: When he ‘attempted to get on the second time, his foot slipped and he fell under. Failing to attract ‘the attention of ¢ anyone by his cries, fhe bound his leg with bis handkerchief and. with the | stoicism of a western Indian, traveled unas- sisted to a grocery store. Culling for the hospital on the telephone he told of his mis- hap and ‘asked himself for the ambulance. Weak from the great loss of blood, the boy swooned away before the o orgie) attendants arrived, but soon recove The leg was mputated two inches Yered: the knee, He wil récover. of boiling water from the stove upon his head . —While Charles E. Goldsmith and SE ? ~ could “be expected ‘consdoringehat- shia rr mane Codie
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