SEO BY P. GRAY MEEK. -_— 6 a i NY Ink Slings. —The man with the hoe can be found in any back yard these days. —Doctors QUAY and GUFFEY were un- able to pull old Bill Ballotreform through and they were not able to bury their mis- take, either. —The Bellefonte business man who is advertising for a ‘‘well built” wife must be looking for some one to chop the wood in the morning and make a living for the family over a wash tub. —With all the supposed oil in Texas there wasn’t even enough to grease the ways of any of the small craft that were endeavoring to be launched in the sea of riches. —1TIt is too bad that HANNA is not with the President on that western trip. Bou- quets are flying so fast that perhaps he might have ‘‘copped’’ a few from the over- flow. —Notwithstanding MATTHEW’S recent declaration that ‘‘the world grows sad and lonely’ we haven’t noticed an inclination on the part of any of his friends to desert him at the pie counter. —The old Shamrock has beaten the new Shamrock over a twenty-mile course and it is beginning to Jook as if the Constitution won’t have any kind of a run for her mon- ey when the new Irish yacht comes over to try to lift the America’s cup. —Russia declares she has no ‘‘hostile sentiment toward China.”’ Oh no, nothing of the sort. Russia entertains no hostile feeling, whatever, it is merely one of those cases of henevolent assimilation like we have in the Philippines. —The other day a masseur happened to press a little too hard on the ear of the Sultan of Turkey while he was giving him treatment, when the ‘‘sick man of the East” grasped a pistol and shot the physi- cian to death. It is but natural to infer that there has not been a rush of applicants for the position made vacant by the irritable old heathen who rules over the Turks. —J. P. MorGAN Esq., financier and, in- cidentally, owner of nearly everything in the United States, has cabled home from Paris that his business associates ‘‘are a lot of idiots and a pack of scoundrels’ for per- mitting that flurry in stocks last week. Perhaps they are, but then what’s that to the poor devils that lost all they had in the flurry ? —Will MARK HANNA be called upon to suppress the rioting at Albany, N. Y.? Not now. There is no presidential elec- tion in the balance and MARK doesn’t have the same vital interests at stake that made it necessary for him to intercede for the anthracite coal workers of Pennsylvania last fall. —QUuUAY’s latest speech is a remarkable conglomeration of dry wit, oratory and phrophesy. After saying ‘‘at three score years and ten the world grows lonely’”’ he continues with this remarkable declara- tion: ‘My political race is run.’”’ So it might be but the old man’s saying so doesn’t prove anything. It was only last fall that he said ‘‘I will support any good ballot bill the Democrats present.’”” Did he do it? —Governor NASH, of Ohio, and Presi- dent McKINLEY, also of Ohio, ran together, at’ Los Angeles, Cal., the other day with their rival celebrity shows and the Presi- dent did all the business; leaving the poor Governor to show to deserted stations everywhere. There came near being an open jar in Ohio politics right there in California, until some of NAsH’S party suggested stealing some of the President's dates and they slipped off ‘ahead on their special train. —At the QUAY banquet in Philadelphia on Tuesday night five hundred of his fol- lowers paid $15 each for the satisfaction of tucking their Trilbies away under the same table with the ‘‘old man.”” It is in- cidentally stated that they drank one thou- sand quarts of champagne and no one got drunk, all of which goes to prove that the average QUAY man is just as handy at do- ing away with Mr. Mum's best product as he is at getting away with the funds of Pennsylvania. —JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE, the Chi- cago faith “*healer,”’ is skating on very thin ice just now. The police are after him for permitting a woman and her little daugh- ter to die without proper medical treat- ment and indignant citizens are declaring they will lynch him the moment they lay hands on him. The ‘‘laying on of hands’’ seems to be DOWIE’S forte, but so far as the intention of the would-be lynchers is concerned they will produce the same result with a rope that DOWIE has evidently ac- complished with his hands. —The christian people of every land are holding church fairs and seraping up every nickle and dime possible to keep missionaries in China ; the world at large has been called upon to contribute to the relief of the famine that is now raging in some parts of that Empire, but that doesn’t deter the six wealthiest powers of the earth ip demanding $259,000,000 indemity for the Boxer uprisings, a sum which China is not at all able to pay. The powers would do far better by insisting on the corporal panishment of the offenders than by extort- ing what little bit of money they have from them. AA CHIOEEIL RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 46 BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 17, 1901. Falsification of the Record. When a Member of the House of Repre- sentatives in Harrisburg arose in his place the other day and declared that he was recorded as voting on a measure upon which he had not voted, the Speaker of the body coolly replied that ‘‘the journal is the only evidence in the matter and it showed that he had voted.” Was there ever in the parliamentary history of the world as brazen a declaration in favor of fraud. The gentleman said that he was not within the chamber when the vote was taken. Three other gentlemen made similar declarations with equal emphasis and subtracting the four fiom the number of votes recorded for the bill reduced the number below that required by the con- stitution to pass a bill. Yet the Speaker would recognize no evidence except the falsified record and if a Member had not interposed a motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill was alleged to have pass- ed, it would probably have gone to the statute books as a law properly enacted. When a Representative in the Legisla- ture protested against so infamous a decis- ion of the chair, the answer . of the Speaker was that he was fulfilling the rules of the House. ‘This is a question far beyond the rules of the House,”' said the properly indignant Representative in reply, ‘‘it af- fects the integrity of the constitution, the fundamental law of the State,’”’ and the Speaker stood sullen and silent. It was a machine measure that was in the balance and the Speaker intended to force it through. It provided for the legal robbery of the State of a large and valuable tract of land on the shore of Lake Erie for the benefit of alot of ring politicians and the machine intended that this should be accomplished. But the motion to reconsider couldn’t be ignored. Even a member of the minority has the right to make such a motion and a Speaker, however arrogant, has no alterna- tive bat to put it. The motion was put and carried and the subsequent effort to pass the bill failed. In this connection it may be remarked that persons who have frequented the halls of the Legislature this year agree that with- in the knowledge of no living man has there been such palpable falsification of the records of votes. On the motion to postpone the consideration of the capitol removal biil the other day a ‘‘division” was demanded and the clerk made the count. After pretending to make an esti- mate of the House he reported that forty- nine had voted in the affirmative and ninety-five in the negative. The machine was averse to postponement as the measure was being used as a whip against some pet schemes and the motion was deliberately counted out. Others who made the count differed as to the result by a few votes, but agreed that it was close. The official counters gave a result, however, so ab- surdly incorrect that everybody laughed and before the ayes and nays could be de- manded, the chair had announced the totals and disposed of the matter. That has been the rule of the clerks from the beginning of the session. Various expedients to remedy the evil have been invoked but without avail. For a few days after such an episode as that referred to some pretence at honesty will be made but in a short time tuere is a relapse into the old rut. The machine was wise in the selection of Speaker and clerks this year, if its purpose was to pass legislation whether the body -vas willing or not. Those oc- cupying ! hose positions will take any chance te serve the machine and it isa miracle that they haven’t been impeached and punished before this. : ——The Philadelphia Zimes, that has been on the bargain counter since it passed out of the possession of Col. MCCLURE and the MCLAUGHLIN estate, has become the property of ApoLrH S. OcHs Esq., pro- prietor and publisher of the New York Times. Mr. GEo. W. OCHS, a brother of the proprietor will have the general man- agement of the property and purposes con- tinuing the Zimesas a ‘‘fundamentally”’ Democratic Journal—whatever that may mean—divorced from all factional feuds and independent of partisan conventions, partisan organization or political leaders. It will avoid the startling display heads, pictorial and double-column sensational features now sn prevalent among the class of newspapers that mistake display for en- terprise and imagine unauthorized gossip to he legitimate news, and will depend up- on its ability to give ‘‘all the news that is fit to print,’’ and its general decency as a newspaper for its recommendation to the public. That it will succeed on the lines laid out and again become one of the great newspapers of the country there can be no question providing its ‘‘fundamental Dem- ocracy’’ is of the kind that will retain ‘for it as patrons the great Democratic masses who are honest believers in Democratic principles. Worth brings success and every indication promises ‘that the Zimes, under its;new management, will bé worthy the confidence, the respect and the support of the public. Tom Johnson Making History. ToM JOHNSON, the new and entertaining Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, declares that he is making history, and he is. It is not the heroic variety that Mr. JOHNSON is work- ing on, and there are no battle scenes or hairbreadth escapes in the illustrations. But he is making history tbat stands for the betterment of the people and contrib- utes to the comfort of those who need the kindly word and gracious opportunity. It is not the kind of history in which MARK HANNA delights or J. PIERPONT MOR- GAN would think worth while to give much thought, but it satisfies Tom JOHN- soN and a lot of his friends and that is enough. For example, the other day ToM took a stroll out through the park in Cleveland of which, by virtue of his office, he is one of the commissioners. Some of the parks at Cleveland are really beautiful spots adorn- ed as they are with green grass, radiant flowers and beautiful shade trees. Tom enjoyed all these gifts of nature and works of art to the limit, as CHIMMIE FADDEN would say, and he strolled about for a con- siderable time. But there was one thing in evidence at every turn which marred his pleasure. The ‘‘Keep off the Grass’’ signs were an abomination in his eyes, and after he had finished his inspection he called on the keeper of the park and ordered the re- moval of all of them. Of course the park keeper was amazed at such an order and naturally concluded that His Honor the Mayor was suffering from temporary abberation of the mind. But he concluded that he would humor the whim and after saying that the signs would be removed proceeded to recite the various un- fortunate things that would happen after the order had been fulfilled. The grass will be tramped down, he said and lose all of its beautiful tints and exquisite fresh- ness, and as a matter of fact he said before the summer is half over the park wouldn’t be fit to be seen. The poor people of the city, he added will make ita playground, and their children will romp over the green from morning till night. ToM JOHNSON was greatly impressed hy the remonstrance of the subordinate servant of the city, but he didn’t change his mind on the subject of the signs which offended his eyes. Wouldn’t it be possible, he ask- ed in his guileless way to keep the grass green and the parks beautiful even if the children and others, who have nowhere else to run, would use them for that purpose, and after that was reluctantly admitted he repeated his order to have the signs remov- ed and added that if the attendants didn’t perform their duties and keep everything in order they would be discharged and more efficient men put in their places. The Nigger in the Woodpile. Representative VOORHEES, of Philadel- phia, makes no concealment of the fact, now that it is all over, that his capitol re- moval bill was intended toserve an ulterior purpose. ‘‘We had no idea of passing it,’’ he remarked to a group of listeners in the corridor of one of the Harrisburg hotcls a day or two after its defeat on final passage, and never dreamed that it would pass sec- ond reading. But it achieved its purpose he added, exultingly, unless the signs are misleading. It frightened those who are opposed to the removal of the capitol into agreeing to a bill for the completion of the capitol at Harrisburg. ‘DURHAM may not have understood the matter,” con- tinued Mr, VOORHEES, ‘‘but his brother-in- law did,and others saw through it clearly.” That last sentence conceals the ‘‘nigger in the woodpile.”’ Insurance Commissioner DURHAM’S brother-in-law is an architect in Philadelphia and if the present expecta- tions of the machine are fulfilled he will be commissioned to make the designs and saperintend the construction ¢* the work on the new capital building. In that event, whether the present building is completed or torn away to make room for an entirely new structure, it is safe to predict that a the pockets of the machine managers. There has been no hint given out thus far as to who the commissioners will be in the event that the Fox bill is concurred in by the House, but it is certain that they are known to the bosses for a secretary has al- ready been chosen. All together this is a nice feast of plunder and pillage which the machine is preparing for those who compose it at the expense of the people of Pennsylvania. In an inter- view published in one of the Harrisburg papers of Monday evening, Senator Fox, the author of the bill, remarks that the amendment of the bill by the House com- mittee requiring the construction of heat- ing and electric lighting plants without in- creasing the appropriation is unimportant. It is estimated that such plants will cost from half to three-quarters of a million dol- lars so that if it is unimportant the original plan of robbery must have been on a large scale. Under the circumstances it would be a good plan to cut down the appropria- tion or insist that a commission be named that will select someone other than Is. DurHAM’S brother-in-law” to superintend the work of construction. large share of the appropriation will go into NO. 20. ——— To Get Rid ot the Tramps. The tramp is the fellow the Philadelphia Inquirer is after, and the fellow it declares ‘“‘must go.”” Much as all of us would be delighted to see him go, and go to stay, there are many who doubt if he can ever be gotten rid of until the conditions that breed him are changed to others that will give every man an equal chance. Prior to the birth of the Republican party such a creature as a tramp was un- known in this country. During the early years of the existence of that party, the war, and conditions growing out of gov- ernmental policies that had been establish- ed by the Democracy, furnished oppor- tunities to men that prevented excuses for either indolence or want. As soon, how- ever, ag the effects of Republican policies and Republican practices began to be felt, conditions changed. The country swarmed with men out of employment, and our highways were black with those seeking work and bread. It has been so ever since. No matter what the situation might be, whether during the pains and privations of a panic, or under Mr. McKINLEY’S vaunt- ed prosperity, it has been the same. And it will continue so. Republican policies tend only to extremes —extremes of wealth or poverty. They are the foster-father of the centralization of wealth—the compost heap out of which cormorant corporations and avaricious trusts spring. These strangle individual enterprise, crush personal efforts, lessen the opportunity for honest labor, centralize wealth in the hands of the few, and leave the many with no prospects but a life time struggle against poverty and want. There are those who have the courage to make and continue the fight against these conditions for at least a show of living. There are others who lose hope and courage and manliness— give up all expectations of better things and simply fight for an existence. These become the traveling beggars that every man’s hand and effort is against. I6 is not the nature of man to be a tramp. It is situations and conditions that make him. Just as it is the footed swamp that breeds mosquitoes. Change these situations- remove the conditions that create and he will disappear just as the draining and purification of the swamp will ob- liberate the mosquito. To check the evil, the cause must be re- moved. This cause is traceable plainly and directly to the policies of the Republican party. In these are the bacilli of the scolirge now upon the country. It is to these that the remedy must be applied. Do away with these. Make the party that has created and is enforcing them “go.” When it goes--its polices which are the breeding beds of trampism—will go ,and with them will disappear the tramp. In this lies the remedy the Inquirer seeks. The People Want to Know. The most frequent inquiry heard in rela- tion to the Legislature at present is why is the session being prolonged ? Four months and a-balf have elapsed since the organiza- tion on New Year’s day and during all the intervening period the labor has been to kill time. During the first two weeks less than five days were spent in session and in all the first six weeks only the actual legis- lative time of two weeks was eonsumed in the transaction of business. Even now the Senate only sits one or two days a week and on Friday morning last the House ad- journed until ‘Wednesday evening of this week for the ostensible purpose of attend- | ing a dinner in honor of QUAY in Phila- delphia on Tuesday evening. But the time drags on and the Legisla- ture does nothing. The general appropria- tion bill has been reported and is on the calendar of the House, but there is no hurry to reach it.. A few of the other customary appropriation bills have been reported and put in position to be taken up at leisure. But the small appropriations, those pet measures of the politicians which are used to draw money from the State Treasury in order to bestow it on the county, township and ward bosses, are still held where they are under absolute control of the machine. The managers know that until each Mem- ber has secured the appropriation for bis own little hospital he will remain in Har- risburg if he can’t pay his boarding. But what is the cause of the delay ? The machine managers understand that there is great bazard to the party in power in keep- ing a legislative body distinguished for nothing but venality and subserviency in session. They are aware that the wretch- ed tools who compose the present body are liable to break into some orazy freak at any moment. And still they take all these chances in order to keep the Legislature together. And for what? Are they wait- ing the action of the Supreme court on the ‘‘ripper”’ or is it that QUAY intends to re- sign and it is important that his successor shall be chosen at once ? The people would like to know. : uf ha —— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. New Element in Speculation. The Wall street flurry, during the con- tinuance of which grave men ran wild and wise men became fools, has developed a new element in speculative life, which may have an important influence on future operation. In other words that marvelous as well as artful legal dodger, the injunc- tion has obtruded into the speculative arena, and if it is able to retain the position it has usurped the matter of buying or sell- ing long or short will become a farce of the most magnified type. In the case in point it is to be hoped it will fail, however, for it appears to be the expedient of a broker During the excitement of last Thursday, it appears, a broker whose name has not been divulged sold Northern Pacific short, and after the fever had subsided he was unable to fulfill his agreement at the price fixed or any other figure. Thereupon he applied to Judge GILDERSLEEVE for an in- junction against J. P. MORGAN & Co., KunN, LoEB & Co., and all others who might want the shares of that corporation, to restrain them from enforcing contracts. The reason he assigned for making such a request of the court is that the broker who purchased from him was acting for parties who held all the stock at the time, and knew that it was impossible for him to car- ry out his contract and deliver the stock. Of course that was a false and fraudulent pretense and the Judge ought to have “laughed him out of court.” But he didn’t do anything of the kind. On the contrary he issued the restraining order, and thus showed that he isn’t afraid of the financial leviathans on one hand or the ‘consequences of taking liberties with the law on the other. This is probably the last extremity to which government by in- junction can possibly be stretched and most people will be pleased, rather than of- fended, because its last whack was at those who went into conniption fits because the Chicago platform told the truth about it in 1896. ——SAM Cross, a Philipsburg resident, put a $10 bill in a cupboard for safe keep- ing, but a rat found it and carried it off and already SAM is of the opinion that that rat has been mixed up with Philips- burg politics at one time or anetigr ge Leave Cuba to tiie Cnbans. From the Philadelphia Times. An interesting interchange of courtesies took place at the border station of EI Paso between the President of the United States and the President of Mexico. It must have suggested the idea that a Spanish- American Republic can exist and pursue its peaceful way side by side with the United States, without disadvantage to either. To be sure, this peaceful condition was not worked out without much friction be- tween the two countries, and the President will say that in the case of Cuba he has been trying to provide against a recurrence of the difficulties that kept the United States and Mexico so long at odds. Bat if the history of Texas, recalled by the Presi- dent’s journey, teaches anything it is that the best way to promote freedom and in- ‘dependence is to let people work out their liberties for themselves. The annexation of Texas came about by natural process after its independence was secured. No outside power is now threatening the independence of Cuba. Our interference there has accomplished its purpose and we shall be perfectly safe to let the Cubans alone. If they should afterward wish to come into the Union, like Texas, itis for them to say so; if they should prefer to keep by themselves, ‘they can do us no harm. : : Mexico has remained entirely Mexican; Texas has become entirely American. The two civilizations may be observed, side by side along the border, but one predominates on either side. The attempt to operate two differing political systems or ideals in partnership is never likely to prove suo- cessful on a large scale. Until Cuba is Americanized it will be better to leave it to the Cubans. hy Circumstances Alter Cases From the Venango Spectator. In his sermon last Sunday, Dr. Park: hurst made this salty and sarcastic com- ment on the notion which some people have of prayer and its uses in human af- fairs : ‘‘A good many members of this con- gregation have asked that prayer might be made for themselves or their friends when about to sail for Europe. But so far as I remember not a soul ever solicited such prayerful remembrance when about to start for San Francisco by the overland route. Land is more solid than water and many are filled with the thought that it takes less God to see a train safely across the con- tinent than to see a boat safely across the Atlantic. = People are devout when they are a little scared, but recover and turn esthetic when they strike terra firma. The liveliest prayer meetings ever held were on the decks of vessels foundering or afire.”’ Catches It Both Ways, From the Hughesville Mail. - An international trust protected hy a tariff of forty to fifty per cent. now controls the supply of that useful article, sewing thread to American tailors, sewing women and households. . The best of the joke, for all trusts are merely harmless jokes, is that the trust, called the ‘‘American Thread Company, ’’ was really organized in England and is an English concern, which sent over its agents to appraise the value of all the American establishments which were taken in, The trusts now run pretty much every- thing from a railroad to a spool of cotton, or your coffee, sugar or the oil in the house- hold lamp. All pay tribute. That patient beast, the American consumer, catches it | coming and going. Spawls from the Keystone. ; —Joseph Gainer Jr., a tanner at Falls Creek, dropped on the street while on his way home Saturday evening and expired. He was 27 years old. : —The dead bedy of a man named Farnham was found along the P. and E. tracks at Emporium Monday morning. It is supposed the man fell asleep on the road and was struck by a train. He leavesa wife and four children. —1In a coal mine near Somerfield, Somerset county, which has been worked for fifty years, the discovery has just been made of a four foot vein under the five foot vein, which had been worked all these years. The dis- tance between the two veins is only a few feet. —Jacob Brodbeck, a leading citizen of Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, while in a field at work Monday was stricken with paralysis and at once lapsed into unconscious- ness, in which condition he remained until a late hour that night, when he died. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock Wednesday af- ternoon. —A carload of orphans passed through Ty- rone Tuesday morning on St. Louis express enroute from New York to Missouri, where homes have been found for them. T here were 53 of them and they were in charge of a member of the state board of charities of New York and several nurses. None of the children was over 5 years of age. —The citizens of Williamsport have put up a $215,000 guaranty fund, and it is expected to wield great influence in the securing of in- dustrial concerns for the town. Subscriptions to the guaranty fund range from $500 to $5,- 000 and the manner of its disposal is placed in the hands of an executive committee and a board of trustees. —Recently a meteor fell near Hyndman, Bedford county, and exploded when within 200 feet of the ground. Windows in the up- per part of the town were rattled and the ex- plosion was heard forseveral miles. It light- ed up the heavens, and was seen distinetiy at Hoblitzell, some miles away. The explo- sion occurred a short distance above the Close planing mill. —The Rev. R. P. Miller, who has been pas- | tor of the First Presbyterian church of Home- stead for about fourteen years, has tendered his resignation ‘as pastor there and has ac- cepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Philipsburg, where, he states, on account of lighter duties and the salubrious climate in the Alleghenies, he expects to regain his health, which has been failing of late. —Friday morning at Mt. Dallas, Bedford county, the locomotive No. 15, of a fast freight on the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad blew up. Four men being instantly killed. Their names are A. G. Bergstresser, engineer; C. A. Hollingshead, conductor; R. C. Ritchey, brakeman; E. S. Edwards, fire- man. All of the men were residents of Sax- ton. They were all single with the exception of Ritchey, who had been married a few weeks. —The fine dwelling of David Johnson, near Home Camp, Clearfield county, which cost $5,200 when..it was built, was burned on the morning of the 4th inst., with its contents. Mr. Johnston had just come home from Du- Bois, had hung up a pair of pants with $90 in one pocket, and this went up in smoke. The women were baking and ironing and had a pretty good fire, but just how it caught is not known. There was but $800 insurance on the property. —A Greensburg paper is authority for the statement that black diphtheria has broken out among the foreign element at Export, Westmoreland county, and the people there are very much alarmed over the matter, hav- ing taken every possible precaution to prevent its spread. It is said that two deaths from the disease have occurred in one family at Export and that two more cases have developed. —The Elder township, Cambria county, school directors, it is said, propose suing the Pennsylvania Railroad company for the de- struction of the Libby school house, near Hastings, by the fire started by sparks from a locomotive on the Hasting branch of the Cambria and Clearfield division on May 3rd. All the books and records of the school were burned. The sparks set fire to the woods near the tracks, the blaze spreading and do- ing much damage. —It issaid that Congressman M. E. Olm- sted, of Harrisburg, had 100 shares of North- ern Pacific and tried hard to sell them when the stock was up around the $1,000 mark. He was unfortunately in Harrishurg with his stock certificates and as telegraphic orders were ruled out at the New York stock ex- change and Mr. Olmsted could not reach the market in time to unload he lost an opportu- nity of adding many thousandsto his already comfortable fortune. —The Rev. W. Emerson Karns, Methodist minister at Jersey Shore, who advertised that he would distribute money to every one at- tending his church Sunday evening last, kept his promise. The church was packed tothe doors. To each person was given an envelope containing one cent. The clergy- man preached his sermon from the parable of talents, and said he expected every per- son to whom he had given a penny to invest it and turn in the proceeds on September 1st, to help pay the church debt. —William Williams, colored, aged 28 years who says his home is at Williamsport, Md., and who has been working for Contractor Patton in the construction of the new West Branch Valley railroad, was arrested at Philipsburg Monday morning on the arrival of the 12:10 train by officer Harry Simler on a warrant sworn Sunday by a Frenchville justice. He is charged with having on Sat- urday attempted to murder Grant Gates and threatened to kill James Rider, one of the bosses. He was taken to Clearfield jail that evening. —Mrs. Louis Null, of Winterset, Cambria county, was fatally burned Saturday. Mrs. Null’s apron caught fire, and in her effort to extinguish the flames her hands were burned to a crisp and she was unable to remove her clothing. In terror Mrs. Null ran a quarter of a mile to a neighbor, who was working in a field, but as her clothing had nearly all burned off her, she retreated, going back to the house. Then she tried to get into the spring house, but the door was locked. Go- ing half a mile away to where her husband was working, Mrs, Null arrived too late to save her life, ;
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