«a to the sea. BY P. GRAY MEEK. m— Ink Slings. —The roarin’ Rocky lion 1s a layin’ down and dyin’ And the mountain goat's a climbin’ high and higher For Teddy is a eyein’ With them lamps so big an’ spyin’ And out West he's set anew pace for big liars. —The Centre county court applied that expected coat of white wash to Governor STONE yesterday. —We haven’t beard of the full dinner pail bringing on a general attack of dyspep- sia in any locality in the country yet. —The Pittsburg ring is not far from Agvinaldo’s platform at the present writ- ing. Its principal demand is for self gov- ernment and no outside interference. —1It is far easier to find fault than it is to find a word of encouragement for an em- ployee and, possibly, that is one of the reasons of the continual clashing between employers and their workmen. —In poor JENNIE BOSSCHIETER’S case the wages of sin was death, but in that of the men who caused it there was a far worse fate. They must spend thirty years in prison, which is praetically a life term. —A Mrs. KALMBACK, of Hardscrabble, was stricken with paralysis recently. Is ib any wonder? But there is something in a name after all. With paralysis the name of KALM BACK is a very suitable one in- deed. -=The young Duke of Cornwall and York, heir apparent to the British throne, is suf- fering with an attack of German measles; which simply goes to show that one kid > ia no better thau the other when it comes to measles or mumps. —The™ “death of Queen VICTORIA has proven to the “world that the masses of the English people aro {ar More devoted to no- bility and a monaronical form of govern- "ment than the sons of Republics secretly gave them credit for being. ‘ —The death of VERDI, the great 1:alian composer, is to be ‘regretted. The worla would be a sad and dreary sphere were it not for music and men who are touched by grand melodies will revere the memory of those who have made the sweet harmony that speaks to their souls. —The Northampton Democrat devotes half a column of space to advice as to how to fight grip, which may be all right in some cases, but in most the ‘wise man will throw up the sponge the minute grip eoters the ring and lie down until it’ has had all the fun _it wants out of him, ~The German Emperor has ordered five bu, ndred tons of sauerkraut for the delecta- tion of hig soldiers. Talk about hauling coals to New Castle! Here is a case that has far more significance. "Who would ever have ‘thought of America, or any other country for that matter, shipping sauer- kraut to Germany? —We agree with Minister Wo Tine FANG when be says “I helieve all relig- ions teach men to he good,”’ but the trouble with some propounders of religion is that they forget this fact in their higoted effort to make it appear that all other re- ligions, than the one they profess them- selves, teach men to be bad. —The President wants to pay Spain $100,000 more for two little sand patches that were supposed to have belonged to the Philippines when we bought Spain off last time, but it is now claimed that they were not in the lot and we are to pay $100,000 more for the privilege of running bayonets into the black souls who inhabit them. '—A fine satire on what is expected to be done by the present Legislature is'the -greation of a committee on retrenchment “and reform, Where the QUAY machine found the two principal words to designate its ‘new committee with we areat a loss to understand, for there are certainly no such words as retrenchment or reform in the QUAY dictionary. —The Philadelphia Inquirer answers the Gazette’s plea for peace by saying that peace can only come in the Republican party when the last Insurgent is driven in- Does this mean that’ Love, CHAMBERS. GRAY and Sam DIEHL are watching their chance to chase HASTINGS, Jonn-P. HARRIS, REEDER and MALIN in- to the ¢ chilly waters of Spring creek ? /~Senator QUAY has been heard from in Florida. He has evidently stopped long enough. from baiting his | hook to think of the folks at home and sends a bill to the Senate authorizing the ‘payment of pen- sioners every month, instead of quarterly, as is ‘the case now. Such an act would re- quire far more clerks to write checks in the Interior Department and places for some of his friends is probably ‘the nigger in this wood-pile that QUAY is building up. _—TIt seems that Kansas is always ready with some human skyrocket. INGALLS had scarcely shocked the world with his unprecedented language in. the United States Senate and lost his position, until’ Governor WAITE jumped into the breach and swore that he would ride bridle-deep in blood before he would see capital grind labor under its heel. Then came MARY ELLEN LEASE to the fore, with her populis- tic harangues and inclination to ‘‘wear the pants’ in her family, but no sooner had she made up her mind to return to the care of her. ‘husband and babies’ than another ope goes up in the air and Mrs. CARRIE NATION is seen smashing in saloon win-. dows, pummeling saloon keepers and call- ing the Governor of the State ‘“‘coward and perjurer.”’ What ext, ‘may we expect | from Kansas. ~ ’ A Proper Movement if Confined to Prop- er Limits. A newspaper announcement tells us that ex-Collectors of Customs, JOHN CADWALA- DER and JOHN R. REED, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMP- SON, SAMUEL DixoN and DWIGHT M. LoweRyY Esq., 8. DAVIS PAGE Esq., anda host of other formerly well known, but of late years supposed to be dead, Philadel- adelphia Democrats, purpose giving a din- ner on the 22nd of February, at which it is “hoped to bring together representative Democrats from every part of the State.” The purpose of this bringing together, it is said, is to start a movement for the re-or- ganization of the party, not ~only in Penn. sylvania but “throughout “the entire coun- try. The WATCHMAN is particularly pleased to learn, as it does by this announcement, that the many heretofore distinguished Democrats, whose names are mentioned in connection with this movement, still live, breathe and have a being. It ‘has heard and known so little of them for the past eight years that it had come to believe they were buried beneath the wreckage of their party in Philadelphia, and so deep that hereafter politics and political organi- zations would know them no more forever. In this it appears we were mistaken and it is admitting but the trath to say that we are thankful that we were. For bruised and battered as they must be after crawl- ing from under the party debris that they helped pull down upon themselves, they can still be useful as workers and advisers, abd af assistance i in building up the organi- zation to where it was before they permit- ted and assisted iu its disintegration. There is one mistake, however, that we fear that they are makiug that may nullify their efforts and prevent such resnits as every Democrat would be réjoiced to see come from their movement. It is the fact that they propose taking the party of the entire country under their care 2ud consid- erate keeping. This, we submit, is entirely £00 big a jo ch for Democrats, unable to organize a party within the limited ‘bounds of the city in which they reside,’ or, if able, unwilling ¢ to ‘take a hand Th “that work. ‘There i¥ | no spot on God’s green earth where Democracy: is known that offers more opportunities and is in g1 cater need of harmonious, effec- tive ‘organization; than right in: Philadel- phia; and if these gentlemen will justshow their ability to do for their party in their own city, what they propese doing for it in the country at large, we have an idea that they will reach the limit of their enthusiasm ‘and good intents long before the work is completed. In this line they need not ‘wait for the 220d of February to begin the good work. If they are in dead earnest ahout seeing the party on a solid footing again, and about taking an active interest in its welfare, let them waken up to the importante of elect- ing at least one honest man on each election board in Philadelphia, and thus prevent Republican rascality from returning from 80,000 to 100,00 fraudulent votes against the party they profess to be interested in, at next fall’s election. This would be a most promising prologue to their proposed play of the 22nd. Magnifying Benefactious. It bas become the fashion with Mr. | Andrew CARNEGIE, or with some one for him, to publish, yearly, a list of his contri- butions to public libraries, institutions of learning and for other charitable purposes. The most recent list of them is just going the rounds of ‘the papers and show the munificent sam of sixteen millions of del-- lars as the total of his benefactions to the public. Unfortunately for Mr. CARNEGIE’S glory there seems to be padding in this list, just as we sometimes see in the Re- publican pay rolls: at Harrisburg. How much of this there is we do not know, but: when we know there is’ some it éasts an ugly suspicion over all. = In the new list that is going the rounds, the State College, in this county,is charged with receiving $200,000 for a public li- brary and our neighboring town of Tyrone is said to have received $50,000 for the same purpose. Whether there are more of the | same kind of benefactions credited to Mr. CARNEGIE'S liberality we do not know,but the facts are that neither the State College nor Tyrone ever received a penny of the It is true that he made. ‘advertised gift. the proposition to these places to donate ‘the. som stated for the purposes mentioned, ‘but care was taken to hedge his generosity. about ‘with such conditions that neither of the places could afford to accept the offer. ‘How many more such benefactions are in ‘the long list that is given is unknown, but the fact that these two are there,and not a cent of the money said to have been given ‘them was ever received by either, creates a very strong suspicion that Mr. CARNEGIE’S public gifts have been magnified many times to make the sum tatal of sixteeis million dollags.. ih meee —— Subcribe for the WATCHMAN. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. Too Many Weak Spots in It. If the eopy. of “the proposed primary election law, introduced in the Senate by Senator FLINN, and which we find pub- lished in the daily papers, is a correct transcript of that measure the chances are that as a reform measure it will prove a dismal failure. In fact, its weak places far out-weigh any good that could be ex- pected to come from its adoption. And here are some of them : . It is calculated to prevent the nomin- ation of any one, for any office, who is un- willing to become an office seeker or who hesitates to solicit the support of the people to secure a nomination. It extends the booth voting system to primary elections and allows and provides for assistance in’ the booth, so that the now practiced at the general elections, can be resorted to at them. By failing to require the numbering of both stub and ticket it offers opportunities for the use of unofficial ballots through which the briber and intimidater can get in their work with every assurance of sue- cess. 1t prohibits any distinction being made in the general appearance of party tickets, thus making it possible for the party large- ly in a majority in a district, through col- lusion with its election hoard, to cast enough of tickets for the weakest candi- dates of the minority party to insure their success, notwithstanding the closest watch- ing. It prohibits the challenging of votes, ex- cept as to party affiliation and residence, thus allowing anyone, whether a qualified voter or not, to vote in any district in which he will swear he has resid- ed twenty days. This would simply leg- alize colonization and place the nomination o&candidates in the power of any gang of men who niight bappen to be located in the district at the time of the eleotion. It makes no provisions for the number of ballots to be farnished nor does it prescribe any penalty for the failure of the County Commissioners to supply a safficient quan- tity for the needs of the voters. It provides no way for the determination oF Bases herd contests arise, nor. does it req wire the opening Of ‘the ballot boxes or the recounting of ihe votes in cases where frauds are alleged. > It recognizes the right of candidates to be nominated by nomination papers, bub makes no provision as to the manner in which this sball be down ; nor does it pro- vide for the printing of sickets nominated by this method. These ar: a few of its weaknesses and its faults. Some of them can be remedied easily. If they cannot be, it would be better to continue the custom we now have than adopt any new maasure as lame and impotent as this one appaars to be. _— —The first issue of My. BRYAN'S Commoner made its appearance ‘last week, and in npeatness, force and Democracy comes up to the expectation of the people. It is not a large paper only, eight pges of 11x14 inches, hut wha it lacks in size is made up by the vigor and originality that characterizes it. It is devoted to no pas- ful manner presents its distinguished edi- which the political public is interested. If succeeding numbers are kept up to the standard set by the first issue there will be no reason why the Commoner will not prove a great success, financially, as well as a lending exponent of Democratic thought. ite his attempt to humiliate and be- little leading ‘members of ‘the Senate, by placing them in subordinate positions on unimportant committees, because of their opposition to the state machine, President Pro-tem SNYDER has only exhibited his own innate littleness. It was known be- fore his election that he was a slave to that machine—that he would serve it in every ‘way possible—but that-he would show the narrowness of soul of the subservienoy to the demands of the whipper-snappers that run after it that he has exhibited was neith- er believed nor anticipated. Asa pea-nut politician SNYDER can hereafter pose in the front row. -—Thé committee assignments given the Centre county Members of the Legis- lature by Speaker MARSHALL are : THOMP- SON, on judiciary local, geological survey, mines and mining, insurance and labor and industry. ALLISON, on forestry, counties and townships, retrenchment and reform, and accounts. SH forte ——The new crime of spitting in street cars has had its first hearing in New York, where a man was made to pay $25 fine for ‘the offense. A few such examples ought to pus an end to the, filthy practice and ‘conserve $0 the public health. The fellow with an itch: for office will ‘soon be in a position to get ssratehed. same wrongs—bribery and intimidation— |. ticular subject but in a fair and peace=: tor's view on nearly every question in A Distinction With Little Difference. In speaking of the election of Senator QUAY, tire Buffalo Times says, ‘‘he is in no sense the representative of the best Repub- lican thought in Pennsylvania.’”’ Which may and which may not be true. The trouble is'to know just what constitutes the ‘‘best Republican thought in Pennsyl- vania.’’ We, who have lived right here among it for years; rubbed elbows with those who are supposed to think it all our lives ; heard them express their thoughts before, and witnessed their actions at elec- tions, have a diffienlty in distinguishing any difference between any ‘‘thought’’ that might be considered Republican, and that which emanates from the boss and domi- nates the organization which he has so long controlled. It is true that there are many Republi- cans in Pennsylvania who profess to be better, than Mr. QUAY. They cry ont against and denounce him and his purposes for 364 days in the year and on the 365th | ‘they go to the polls and assist in electing the men he has named as candidates and upon whose success depends the power to enforce the purposes he has in view. Tt is thig class of men, who, for the past ten years; have given him the power he possesses and to whose actions can be traced directly the responsibility for the success of QUAYism, whedever and wherever it has succeeded. Since 1891 there has not been. a general election at which, if the Republican vote that professes to be better and purer than is Senator QUAY, had been cast against his candidates, that they would not have been defeated and an end putto his rule and methods in Pennsylvania. But these voters have been content to think one way and vote another, and thereby to pose as op- ponents of the very policy their acts make possible and the corruptions their words denounce. Is‘ the ‘‘Republican thought,’”’ that blathers and blows ahout the manner in which Mr. QUAY does things, and. assists him each yea: by supporting bis candidates, in continuing to do just as he pleases, any better than the Republican thought that frankly and loyally announces its belief in is at least honest in that it attempts- to practice ‘what it preaches. The former shows every evidence of cowardice and sub- serviency. ~-To us it is clear that if there is any “hest?? betw? =an these two, it is fhe one that practices no decepuivs 30d leaves the people know exactly what they -may ex-|- pect in case of the success of its way of thinking. And if this conclusion is right, then Mr. QUAY represents ‘‘best,’’ as he surely does, the controlling and corrupting Republican thought of Pennsylvania. ——Mrs. CARRIE NATION has started swinging the ax with a vengeance in Kan- sas. In open defiance of a state law, pro- hibiting the sale of liquor at all, saloons are run everywhere and officials wink at the violation. Mrs. NATION is a leader in the W. C. T. U. work and armed with an ax she as been traveling over the State smashing windows, mirrors and bottles, wherever she finds a saloon. The saloon keeper is prevented from defending him- sel or his property in the courts ‘because be knows his business is unlawful and Mrs. NATION goes on with her crusade of smashing. Time to 0 Speak Out. It has been suggested that a special meeting. of the State Editorial Association be called to enter its: protest against the proposed chan ges in the libel laws. The WATCHMAN heartily endorses this sug- gestion. There is not a hief i in the country, who’ would not rejoice tu 8 see us hack under the old law that was so aonetrued as to declare the “‘greater the tregh the greater the libel.” There is not a scoundrel running |! at large who is not hoping ¥nd shouting that | the present law be stricke: from our stat- ute books and immunity secured to in- famy and the infamous a he re-enaot- me nt of the provisions of she f\rmer act Honest men and decent people ary satisfied with the libel law as it stands. Ibjnjures: no reputable person; it gives -license to no publisher; it.is fair to the public; it is fair to the newspaper man ; aod\it should ‘be 1¢ft alone. Those who are interested the most in\{ this matter are the men to come to the frout in opposition to the suggested change and there are more who have a deeper in- terestin it than the members of the State Editorial Association. TT od X ——8enator Wa. C. HEINLE, represent- ing the 34th Senatorial district. has been assigned to the following committees : Ag- riculture, canals and inland navigation, centennial affairs, education, forestry, ju- diciary, legistative apportionment, library: and pensions. S——————————— ——The Daily News seenis to be dy exorcised lest some Republican vote for a Demociat for a borough office. There will be afew of them who will be liberal guongh to do it Lowerer. FEB. 1.1901. Uibility. ‘of Mr. Quay 2. The latter | Another Endless Chain. From the Commoner, Secretary Gage recently appeared “before a House committee and urged the enact- ment of a law specifically requiring silver dollars to be redeemed in goid on demand. He argued that, as the legal tender law makes silver the equivalent of gold, the government might as well offer to furnish gold in exchange for silver as to allow sil- ver to he presented in payment of rev- enues. % * ®.0o.® + *. g% After the custom of redeeming in gold was established the financiers poi out that the redemption and re-issue of treas- ury notes formed what they call an endless chain for the draining of the treasury. This argument was used with great effect in securing the: repeal’ of the purchasing clause of the Sherman Law. As soon as that legislation was accomplished the finan- ciers set to work to secure the retirement of the greenbacks as well as the treasury notes on the ground that the greenbaeks also constituted an endless chain when re- deemed and re-issued. Now that the greenbacks and treasury notes are in pro- ‘cess of retirement an attack is to be Made upon the silver dollar. j The argument that worked so well agaist government paper is now to be used against coin. The present law does not ‘require the redemption of silver dollars: a bill containing such a provision passed the House a year'ago but a republican’ Senate ‘was not willing to go on’ record as favor- ing such a measure at the beginning of a presidential campaign, so the matter was left to executive construction. . Now that the election is over the Repub- lican leaders are a little more bold and will probably make the law specific in. Teguir: ing redemption. Next will come the demand for the re- tirement of silver dollars by an issue of bonds, or for a withdrawal of their legal tender qualities. As a reason for retiring silver dollats re- deemed and then re-issued forms another endless chain. It will be pointed out that there is no limit ' to the amount of gold that may be drained from the treasury if silver dollars are paid out again after they are once redeemed. The same argument made against the greenback and treasury note will be repeated against a redeemable silver dollar. The redemption of the standard silver dollar is the first step toward its ultimate retirement and those who. are | fee retirement will not be induced to aid in aking it redeemable. He * any the gold standard is grap, , gold ing the campaigns and will s years between campaigns urging legisla- plans. For the Benefit of the Machine, From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. It is expected that the bill to create a new &80tiiy iii + uuacespnia will be *‘rail- roaded’’ through the House of Representa- tives quite as expeditiously as it was rush- ed through the Senate. There will be an urgent and impudent lobby, composed of the traders of both par- ties, in and about the hall of the House while the measure is pending. Men who have no right to the courtesy of the floor will jolt and crowd those who have, but there will he no complaint for the intruders will be working for the machine. The promise of spoils is a potent influence on the mind of the political hucksters and in. this treasury looting measure there is the hope of plunder. There is no conceivable need for this ad- ditional court in Philadelphia and it will cost the people of that city and the State something like $60,000 a year. But it will create additional party patronage which the atrocious political machine can “use with wonderful effect in its effort to give immunity to crime apd license to immor- ality. To pass it will he a crime against the people and an outrage upon justice. fat it will be passed and with indecent te. And Its Ouly the the Beginning. From the Philadelphia Pres Press. The opinion appears to be pretty general that $6,000,000 is rather too much to ex- pend on a State Capitol already officially declared to be completed. : Perhaps the amount is large for the building, but it is small for the expectant jobbers. TEAL Ontstrip the re Constitution. From the PINdiohi Record. ‘Whatever may be the differences as. to the liniitations ih the Constitution, there is mo question ‘that the promoter and the -carpet-bagger ‘‘follow the Haz”. wherever there is a scent of spoils. ; 1 Size and i Coutnge; Washington Star (Ind. Cd ‘ Venezuela is another example of the fact that small countries, like small men, are always anxious to show peopled that they are not afraid. I ——————. \ No Armor Plate Contract. r Ordered Work at Hore When Carnegies Were Rody. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan 28.—A cotrich which Colonel Hunsicker, the London agent the Carnegie Steel company, sought, for 2,500 tons of armer plate, has been jude itel y postponed. e Emperor told the minister of marine thadhe observed a good many contracts for tie material for the navy Were. being given to foreign companies while Russian works were idle. The ministers. answered that théve were many things which foreiguers cold produce better: ‘and. more cheaply than. the Russians, ‘for .in- stance, armor plate,” When the Emperor learned that a contract was about to be awarded to the Carnegie works he is stated t0 have ordered that it be given to the | - Kolpina iron works, new tks city. opposed to will be the only pap: oney. 1 ntil_ this end is reached the | ‘any agitation of the m mo wi i - dur- | “people. Rev. the tive enactments in ; furtherance of their esi iy weeks ago. ‘perience and learned muel about the island. E Spawls from the Keystone. —Daniel Collins, of York, this State, is the father of four pairs of twins. The last pair” was presented by his wife a few days ago. All have been born within eight years. —The oldest water works in the country is that of South Bethlehem. The original mains were made out of cedar logs, some of which have been recently taken up in a good state of preservation. —The west bound passenger train on the Beech Creek road Thursday struck a de- mented inmate of the Clearfield county poor house, near that place and ground him to pieces. His remains were buried. —Garret Cochran, son of Hon. J. Henry Cochran, had a displaced ligature in his nose removed Wednesday in Philadelphia. The ligature was knocked out of place some time ago by a ball striking the young man oa the nose during a cricket match. —The longest train in the history of the Pine Creek road passed northward through Stokesdale Junction Saturday morning. It consisted of ten distinct trains gf the usual length coupled together. There were miles of freight cars drawn by twenty engines. —Nine regiments of infantry will be de- * tailed by Adjutant General Stewart to repre- sent the Pennsylvania National Guard at the inauguration of President McKinley. The brigade commander will designate the regi- . ments and Major General Miller will be ‘in command. ~The safe in the postofice at New Bethle- hem, near DuBois, was blown open early Saturday morning and completely wrecked. The robbers secured $6 in money and $30 in stamps. They were traced to Hawthorn, where they stole a horse from the barn of liveryman Doverspike and escaped. —A lady living in Milton recently saw an advertisement in a newspaper promising three dress patterns and a set of dishes in return for a little canvassing and $1.25. She complied with the eonditionsand Wednesday morning received two sheets of paper on which were printed three dress patterns and a set of dishes. : —Three British army officers of the Re- mount Department arrived on the Cunard steamship Etruria at New York Sunday en route. for New Orleans, where each will take command of a steamship carrying about 1500 horses and mules bought in Kansas for re- mounts’ in South Africa. Altogether, about 50,000 American animals have been purchas- ed for the British army in Africa. —James Kennedy, in an effort to bag a muskrat along Tuscarora creek, near Port. Royal, Saturday, lost his leg. The animal had taken shelter in a pile of stones and drift. Kennedy laid - his ‘gun on the pile. The gun slid off and was discharged, the load entering and shattering the leg about the knee, The mb was Amputated. Sri —Rev. E. E. Hoshour, formerly pastor of the Bellefonte Lutheran church, was on Sunday ‘installed as’ pastor of the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran church in Philadel- Lohia, Rev. J. F. Hartman, D, D., delivered the “charge to the pastor and Rev. Charles S. - Albert, D, D., delivered the charge to the ° Hoshour pronounced the “benediction. A large congregation Wises the ceremony. ~—Banks township, Indiana county, can’ - '} boast of a pauper who displays peculiar views even under distressing circumstances. William McCullough, who lives in a little | leg house in a secluded part of the township, has been‘ill with typhoid fever since Christ- mas, and accordingly to a statement made by the physician, the sick man has been lying in bed with his trousers and a pair of heavy boots on and will not allow either to be re- moved, : a contract has been signed by which Guffey and Daley; owners of the big oil well - recently struck near Beaumont, Texus, will build a pipe from the well to deep water at Port Arthur, and the necessary reservoirs for storing the oil. = The consideration involved includes right of way for the pipe line, a distance of fifteen miles, and 150 acres of land on the water front at Port Athur, for the refinery and tanks. The pipe line and storage tanks are to be Goustroenid im- mediately. —A few days. ago Frank Bumgarder was instantly killed while in the employ of Mr. Austin, at Sizerville, Cameron county. He was assisting in loading logs on the cars for | Goodyear Bros., when’ one of the pieces of timber struck him and threw him to the ground. The log rolled over him, and broke every bone in his body. The blood gushed from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Death . was instantaneons. It is not known where his home is, but a sister, Mrs. Oliver Liver- more,. resides at Cogan House, Tyeoming county. —An engine on the Pennsylvania railroad ran away. from Sunbury the other morning { and covered a distance of over four miles be- | fore the steam became exhausted. The engine had been fired up and was left stand- ing on the main track for the engineer and fireman. The throttle, either by accident or ‘design, was thrown open in their absence and the engine started up the track at a high speed. The operator in the tower at Sun- | bury noticed it was without a crew and tele- graphed to Montandon, eight miles distant, to have the engine ditched, About four miles below that plaee the steam gave out. Seven minutes later the Erie mail train, west ‘bound, came along, ‘—Charles T. Swigast’ arrived ifi Tenat Monday. He enlisted in Sheridan Troop in - | the United States volunteer servite in the spring of 1898, and with the organization went to Porto Rico, but did not come home with it, remaining on the island, where he was employed by the quartermaster’s depart: ment as corrall master; ete., until a couple He had quite an interesting ex- The horses that the troop left behind when sailing for home were under, his care for some time, but in groups were finally issned. to cavalry and artillery organizations and otherwise disposed of until they all 1éft the vicinity of Ponce except Trumpeter Stewart's Ben and another or two of the outfit which aré still there. Charley is ‘in good health and éarries with him a much larger quantity of avoirdupois than he possessed when the transport Mississippi left Porte Ponce Sept. 3rd, 1898, beariug Sheridan Troop and other crganizations to the home land.
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