BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. ES. Ink Slings. —The best way to save coal is to burn wood. ; —May the new year be one of prosperity and contentment for you all. —Many a man has to borrow money now to pay for the present his wife gave him on Christmas. —Is it the real stock or it is the watered that the United States Steel corporation is offering its employees ? —*“Clousin SAM?’ will soon have his an- cestral boots stowed away under the ma- hogany in the executive mansion at Harris- burg. Fi —If the Sultan of Morocco loses his fez and his head goes with it there will be a nice question for debate as to which was the greater loss. foi 0p! —The Democratic party in Pittsburg is entirely too fragile to last long under the manipulations it has been undergoing dur- ing the past two weeks. — Apropos of the apparent failure of suc- cessful fusion in Pittsburg we are constrain- ed to inquire : If so soon it is to be done for, what, Oh what, was it begun for ? —ROCKEFELLER is pouring oil into the lamp of wisdom that disseminates intelli- gence through Chicago university, but the public is expected to keep the can full. ' There is no doubt about the freezing properties of liquid air, but we know of a few ‘‘hot air’’ artists in this community who can raise a right respectacle ‘‘frost’’ $00. . ——When last heard from there were 501 inmates in the Huntingdon reforma- tory. 502, 503, 504 and a few other num- bers are still at large on the streets of Belle- fonte. © — DuBois boasts a specimen of the genus homo who got drunk on Christmas and beat his seventy-year-old mother un- til her pitiful cries for help were heard squares away. — From what we have been able to learn of the Christmas entertainments in several of the churches in this place recznt- ly it would appear that as an impressario old Santa isn’t a howling ‘success. —The coronation of the Vice-roy of In- dia at Delhi yesterday was one of the most gorgeous of oriental spectacles, They had thousands of soldiers, spectacularly cos- tumed natives and elephanis. Think of it. Elephants to ride and our own MARY LEITER was on one of them. —The important announcement has heen made that Senator Boise PENROSE and Is- RAEL W. DURHAM, the insurance commis- sioner, have rented a house in Harrisburg. This will help legislative matters very ma- terially—especially such matters as ‘‘the gang’’ happens to be interested in. —Wahile every employer naturally wants his employes to do better work during the new year that end might very easily be ac- com plished were every employer to remem- ber that an occasional kind and encourag- ing word will go further than all the growling and fault finding that can be made. —It is lucky for the society dames of ‘Washi ngton that Mrs. TEDDY, and not TEDDY himself, has taken up the matter of telling them how they must dress for func- tions at the White House, because if our strenuous President had preseribed the ap- parel his wild and woolly notions might not have heen carried out until they were all wearing buckskin breeches. —CARNEGIE has given $67,336,423 to various charities. ROCKEFELLER has giv- en $12, 750,000. All of which JoHN A. HossoN, the eminent English economist, classes as more of a conscience fund than genuine philanthropy. He says that inas- much as corruption contributed largely to its accumulation such wealth will not teach the great moral example it should. —The proposition to ran a cable up two hundred and fifty miles into the air and through it attract enough electricity to keep everything running sounds so much like a Chicago scheme that it is hardly necessary to inform you that a Chicago man is advancing it. In theory it may be all right, but there is likely to be some trouble in finding a person who will take "the cable up. _ —Prof. McGEE, of the United States bu- rean of ethnology, has decided that some- thing must be done this year toward the prolongation of human life. All us old fellows are interested in that, but we could prescribe for the Professor, himself, without ‘half trying. Let him lose his job and be compelled to move away from attractive, interest ing Washington. Then his life will be long enough. At least it will seem long. —The Illinois man who wants a divorce from his third wife because he says she hypnotized him into marrying her will have to get a better story than that if he wants the court to grants his prayer. Men have keen up against that peculiarly femi- nine game ever since the time of ApAM, and here is the first case on record of any one of them wanting to con test her right to the prerogative. ——Tbere are people who oppose the adoption of voting by machinery through fear that there may be a ‘‘job’’ in manufac- turing the machines. Whether there would be or not it is, of course, impossible tosay, but this fact is certain, the people of Penn- sylvania could stand a good-sized job in the manufacture of voting machines much het- ter and much more to their credit than they can the job of manufacturing Republican “majorities by the method now resorted to. [ 4 p I RO G i Tema STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. “VOL. 48 BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 2, 1903. NO. 1. The Machine Tricks. The QUAY-ASHBRIDGE machine of Phila- delphia is again making monkeys of the people of that town. That is the machine is securing its own safety from prosecution and punishment at the expense of the inte- grity of the courts by pulling wool over the eyes of the voters who ratify the arrange- ment. JOHN WEAVER, the present District Attorney, refused to try some politicians the other day in a court in which the jury was fixed. Counsel for the accused pro- tested with great vehemence that the action was an infringement of the rights of his client and a violation of the customs of the courts. But the District Attorney per- sisted in his demand for trial in another court and there was no alternative. The change of venue, which it practically amounted to, was allowed. The incident gave the machine a shock. 1f there can be no jury fixing in Philadel- phia the liberty of none of the leaders of the QUAY-ASBRIDGE machine is secure. That being true it became necessary to get WEAVER out of the office of District Attor- ney in the briefest time possible. Happily there was a chance to achieve the result. The office of Mayor is an enticing bait to almost any one and it will soon be vacant. This time it is worth nothing beyond the salary and the honor. With a machine majority of more than two-thirds in each branch of councils, the Mayor’s hands will be tied. Therefore Mr. WEAVER was tempted with the office of Mayor if he would resign that of District Attorney. He fell. That is he swallowed the bait jury fixing will be resumed in the courts and the people may get a fairly good Mayor. Although we have doubts even of this. There is no risk in predicting that from this out there will be a saturnalia of crime in the machinery of the courts of Philadel- phia. Under the law the board of judges of the city fill vacancies in the office of District Attorney. But the board of judges have already abdicated their prerogative and Insurance Commissioner DURHAM has selected for the place a man who had little to recommend ‘him except that his father went to school with Quay. That is sup- posed to have a mellowing influence ‘on his mind in.the event that QUAY or any other member of the gang should appear in the dock, charged with any offense political or otherwise. The defendants in the black- mailing case which brought about the result will probably be tried at some time by a fixed jury. The Governor's Cabinet. Two weeks ago the promise was published that Governor-elect PENNYPACKER would within a day or two make public the names . of his cabinet officers, but at this writing no more is known than then. Insurance Commissioner DURHAM will be reappoint- ed for the reason that he prefers that office to any other, though if he preferred any other he could be certain of having his wishes gratified. He prefers the Insurance Commissionership because it pays $20,000 a year and takes absolutely not a moment of his time. According to reports from Harrisburg he hasn’t been in his office five times within a year and a half, but he has drawn thesalary with scrupulous regular- ity. ‘ The impression that Secretary of the Commonwealth GRIEST will be reappoint- ed continues, though that officer is giving the machine managers a good deal of trouble. QUAY is said to bave assured GRIEST of his continuance and it is asserted with equal confidence that he pledged the place to one man in Fayette county and to another in Delaware county. Two of the three will necessarily be disappointed and maybe the delay in announcing the names is to give time to reconcile them to the gold brick. It is understood that both FULLER, the Fayette man, and MATTHEWS the Delaware man, have been asked to take other places and one of them has been of- fered the nomination for State Treasurer next year. ) But the real hone of contention is the Attorney Generalship. PENNYPACKER be- lieves that that ought to be a personal ap- pointment and according to rumors he has pleaded with QUAY to allow him to name his intimate friend HAMPTON L. CARSON, of Philadelphia. Against this the Senator has set himself unalterably. CARSON bardly treats QUAY with ordinary courtesy. He is one of those fine-grained gentle men who pretends to look with abhorrence on politi- cal corruption and QUAY can’t endure that type of citizenship. It has been intimated, however, that the old man may yield to the pleadings of Ceusin SAM if the an- nouncement is withheld until after the organization of the Legislature. Before that it might do harm. ——The Cameron County Press issued a twenty-four page Christmas edition, with a handsome colored cover. The departure is a new one in Cameron county jounalism and we imagine it met with the measure of appiobation it deserved. ——=Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN. Roosevelt’s Sublime Selfishness. That President ROOSEVELT will allow no division of the honors of his administration is clearly revealed by the tone of the “toady’’ Press. For example, during the McKINLEY administration whatever was achieved by the State Department in the field of diplomancy was attributed to the sagacity of Secretary of State HAY. As a matter of fact we had become so used to reading statements of his diplomatic triumphs that we had come to the belief that he was a genius in that line of states- manship. Now it’s altogether different. It is ROOSEVELT who accomplishes every- thing worth talking about. For example the reference of the Venezne- lan dispute to the Hague court of arbitra- tion for settlement the other day was bail- ed by the newspapers generally as a con- siderable triumph of diplomacy. Asa mat- ter of fact it was an unimportaut affair al- together. Great Britian and Germany hav- ing both suggested arbitration and they, as well as ourselves, being signers to the con- vention which created The Hague court, the mere suggestion of it bound all of the parties in interest, except Venezuela. Nevertheless when Great Britain and Ger- many agreed to the proposition and it was praised as an achievement ROOSEVELT claimed the credit and had a statement issued that it was accomplished ‘‘in spite of HAY.” The MONROE Doctrine was never involv- ed in the controversy and no credit is due to any one for keeping it out. But there is likely to be an important matter brought in and that is the export tax on flax in the Philippines. In fact it is not improbable that the dispute was created in order to give the allies an opportunity to demand concessions there and in that event ROOSE- VELT'S diplomatic triumph will dwindle to very small proportions. Viewed in its present aspect Secretary HAY can afford to contemplate the President's selfishness with complacency. The triumph may de- velope into a defeat which will rankle in the public mind a long time. Russia and the Misled States. The advocates of militarism are making slow, ‘probably, but certain progress in this country and unless the signsare misleading before the High school boys of to-day have reached middle life it will be as firmly fixed on us as it is now on. Russia or Ger- many. The militia bill now pending in Congress will practically create a standing army of 300,000 men and the demand for ‘‘a navy equal to that of Great Britain, in order that the MONROE Doctrine may be safe,’ will without much doubt lead to an investment of one or two hundred million dollars in floating war material within a few years or before the motion of the pen- dulum can be started in the opposite direc- tion. It is surprising, in view of the facts, that intelligent Americans follow so fatuous a policy. A third of a century ago Russia was among the richest countries in the world and 1f the people there were not bappy in proportion, it was because of the rigor and injustice of the system of the government of the Czar. Bat the soil was fertile and extensive and the fruits of the industry of the people were abundant har- vests which made that country the rival of the United States as the granary of the world. Militarism entered the hearts of the rulers,however, and from a small army, barely capable of performing the ordinary military duties, there has grown up a mili- tary establishment of a million men. The other day the papers published a cable dispatch from St. Petersburg to the effect that the government of Russia is up against the prosposition of feeding 15,000,- 000 starving peasants with the addition that men there are ‘‘selling their female relations in order to get money enough to buy oxen to plow the fields next spring.” This is the logical consequence of militar- ism. In supplying the army the industrial force bas been depleted, the fields neglect- ed, the factories silenced, the mechanical trades robbed and famine is the conse- quence. The money spent in maintaining an army in excess of the needs would sup- ply food to the starving millions. But in the light of experience we are going toward the same evil end. ——If his Honor, Judge LOVE, is not permitted to fatten on the} salary that is now assured to Judge MORRISON by his appointment to the Superior court bench, he will at least have the opportunity to contem plate Lhe size of the ‘‘gold brick” he got for the Patten township school ap- propriation decision. There is considera- ble difference between a seven thousand dollar salary and a political promise but some people are constituted in that way that if they can’t have the one their anx- jety to have something will be satisfied with the other, and its ‘‘the other’’ that Judge LOVE has as a reminder of his sub- serviency to the QUAY machine. ——Here’s hoping the new county offi- cials will find their jobs both pleasant and profitable. The First Collision. The first collision between Senator HAN- NA and President ROOSEVELT is likely to be bad for the President. It will be on the question of Cuban reciprocity and a ‘‘finish fight.”” A couple of weeks ago, when the reciprocity treaty was signed, there appear- ed to be no doubt of its prompt ratification. The President had canvassed the Senate and was convinced that the necessary ma- jority would vote for the affirmative. But Senator HANNA has been doing some can- vassing since and the face of the affair has been vastly changed. First doubts were discerned ‘‘no bigger than a man’s hand.” Now they cover the senatorial horizon and the friends of the treaty are in dispair. Three influences have been brought to. gether to produce this result. They are the ‘‘stand pat’’ policy, the beet sugar trust and the cane sugar growers. Senator HANNA has been the promoter of the force and hostility to ROOSEVELT is the influence which has moved him in the work. The beet sugar trust is a potent power but was indisposed to act. It is estimated that one- third of the Republican Senators are on its pay roll in the capacity of solicitors or counsel. The cane sugar growers can con- trol the votes of four or five Senators and the ‘‘stand patters’’ are at least half a doz- en. Two-thirds majority is necessary to ratify and these elements out there are not that many left. : Underneath all and over all is political intrigue. It is the beginning of the con- test between Senator HANNA and President ROOSEVELT for the Republican presidential nomination in 1904. The honor of the country is involved, but that makes no difference. The treaty is in the direction of fufilling our obligations to Cuba and the President has said that it is a moral duty. It may save the people as well as the gov- ernment of the young Republic from bank- ruptey. but to the political schemers that is of no consequence. There is in it an opportunity to excite the prejudices and greed of the tariff mongers and that is suf- ficient. We would be glad to see HANNA defeated. ——Several months ago the WATCH- WEN announced that something nice-would' fall in the way of SoL SCHMIDT, the veter- an Philipsburg Democrat ere long and the recent act of the County Commissioners, in appointing him mercantile appraiser ful- fills the prophesy. Mr. SCHMIDT is in every way competent to do the work satis- factorily and his appointment is in recogni- tion of his life long party service. It is an honor worthily hestowed. The Coming Legislature. The Legislature will assemble at Harris- burg on Tuesday next in a session which may be good or bad, useful or mischievous. This will depend entirely on the disposi- tion of the machine. If, as many now think, Senator QUAY hopes for a re-elec- tion to the Senate he may give the pro- ceedings of the coming session a respectable direction in order to promote the chances of continuing his control through another Legislature. On the other band, if he in- tends to withdraw from public life at the expiration of his present term, as he has, himself, stated, he will probably give loose rein to the cupidity and the venality of the majority. . That tha Senator is in absolute control is shown in the complete acquiescence in his plans for the organization. Representa- tive WALTON, of Philadelphia, had no am- bition for the Speakership but Mr. KUNKEL, of Dauphin county, had and because QUAY was opposed to KUNKEL he brought WAL- TON out. Nine-tenths of the members out- side of the Philadelphia delegation and not a few within it preferred KUNKEL to WALTON but QUAY’S wand moved them "to the other side and now it may be stated that WALTON’S election will be unoppos- ed. A member here and there may stay outside the breastworks. But they will bardly be sufficient in numbers to be call- ed a scattering force. The election of Mr. WALTON means that Senator QUAY will not only name the committees but will control the policy {of the chair. Probably with KUNKEL in the place he would have had equal'influence, but that gentleman supported {ELKIN for the gubernatorial nomination in the last state convention and that settled, him. As it is there is a chance that the session may be respectable, but that it will be is not likely. The infinitely greater proba- bility is that it will be a carnival of crime, asaturnalia of venality from start to finish and the sooner the finish is reached the bet- ter for all concerned. : —— The Christmas edition of the Pitts- burg Post was a newspaper of surpassing attractiveness. In addition to the great wealth of news carried daily to its readers by the one really Democratic metropolitan daily of the country it had a color section that was a work of art. Pittsburg is grow. ing in every direction, but the Post will never be left behind so long as it keeps up its present progress. see HSA Preparing Militarism. From the New York World. The annual reports of our secretaries of of war and the navy are as much alike as two peas—or as Croker’s famous dogs Guff and Stuff. Secretary Moody asks for a thousand more officers, for more men, for more money. While announcing that since the Spanish war seventeen great ironclads have been begun or authorized, he recom- mends ‘‘a continuance without interrup- tion of the increase of ships.”’ Secretary Root now chimes in with a modest request for four great national camps of military instruction and for a highly educated citizen army of 300,000 militia—a force, with the 60,000 regulars, as large as Great Britain’s active army and reserve, though Britain is at the very verge of turbulent Europe, while we are— or were—entirely out side of every zone of international disturbance. It we are to adhere to our traditional policy of avoiding ‘‘foreign entanglements’’ we do not need great armaments, but may well provide ourselves with small bust highly trained and well-equipped profes- sional fiighting forces both upon sea and land. If we are to join in the mad scram- ble for ‘‘aggrandizement’’ and to mix in the politics of Europe and the conquest of Asia, no force which Messrs. Root and Moody would dare to ask will be too large for our purpose. Where Exceptions Come In. From the Plattsmouth (Neb.) Journal ; ‘Ours is not the creed of the weakling and coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of high endeaver,”” says the President in his message. Except when ‘‘we’’ happen to bump into a tariff-protected monopoly or a criminal trust, and then ‘‘we’’ do not know exactly what ‘‘our’’ creed is. ‘‘We?’’ waddle, ‘‘we’’ dodge, ‘‘we’’ hedge, ‘‘we’’ duck, ‘‘we’’ trim, and ‘‘we’’ await develop- ments; for ‘‘we’’ are a candidate for re- election and ‘‘we’’ have been informed that ‘*our’’ loquacity is likely to get ‘‘us’’ into trouble. “‘Our’’ gospel of hope and high endeavor has au eye single to a nomination. That is what it all amounts to. What was to Be Expected. From the Dover (Del.) Index. It is now announced that there will be no extra session of Congress and no legisla- tion for tariff reform or anti-trust measures by the Republicans at the coming session of Congress in December. Nor any other session, for that matter, as long as the Re- publicans control the legislative mill at Washington. Meanwhile, the people can ents Ine Tareeotheirowr Baiibe-clov: ing the ‘‘friends of the high protective tarifi’’ to reform the tariff and castigate the wicked trusts which rob the general public with impunity ! Where Prosperity Strikes. From the Michigan City (Ind.) Democrat : That we are having plenty of republi- can prosperity is evidenced by the fact that Pierpont Morgan made $42,000,000 dur- ing the first ten months of 1902. The workingman may have some difficulty in seeing how this makes him prosperous, or to find his proportionate gains, but there can be no doubt that republican times are prosperous times for such hardy sons of toil as J. P. Morgan and Mark Hanna. Envious of Venc¢zuela. From the Pittsburg Post. It is figured that Pittsburg will owe $700,000 in January. That is more than the debt of Venezuela to the allies. Are not we going to have a blockade, or sink a few towboats, or something ? Roosevelts Make Dress Regulations. President and His Wife Prescribe Costumes For White House Events. Troubles the Women Wives of Cabinet Officers Must Wear White at To-Day's Reception. WASHINGTON, December 31.—President Roosevelt and his wife have inaugurated a drese reform crusade with particular regard to White House functions. They have prescribed regular costumes for formal events in the Executive Mansion, and the presumption is that penalties will be im- posed upon all persous who violate the new edicts. ; The regulations framed by the Pressdent apply to the wearing apparel of officers and enlisted men in the army and navy. He has devoted much time and thought to the matter and has issued an order directing that on occasions of ceremony officers of both services shall be attired as follows: DRESS FOR MILITARY MEN. Army, full dress; navy and Marine Corps, special full dress. + For ordinary occasions the army will wear dress unbi- form, the navy service dress uniform and the Marine Corps undress uniform. For evening wear the army will use full dress or evening uniform, the navy evening dress and the Marine Corps a special full dress. Some changes in the regular uniform are also ordered. The traditional white fac- ings of the infantry uniform are to be abolished aud robin’s egg blue substituted. The chaplains’ frock coats will be made longer to correspond with those of other officers and a border will be placed on the saddle cloths. Army officers will also have to wear black Wellington shoes without tips and all officers above the rank of cap- tain will have the coat-of-arms of the United States embroidered in gold in addi- tion to the shoulder knots. CABINET WOMEN TO WEAR WHITE. Mrs. Roosevelt’s part of the reform has’ caused some disturbance in the feminine circles of the capital. She has instructed all the wives of the Cabinet officers to wear white gowns at the New Year morning re- ception. There had been no previous inti- mation of this and many of the Cabinet women had intended to wear colored dress- es while standing in line at the White House reception to-morrow. Of course, the wishes of the President’s wife will be observed, although they have necessitated some hurried visits to dress- makers. iam Horn happened along. Spawls from the Keystone. —Small pox is spreading at Northumber- land. Fourteen cases are reported at pres- ent. —DuBois borough has twenty-six applica tions for licenses at the coming Clearfield county license court. —Antonio Lepanto had his neck and back broken by a fall of rock in a mine near Shaw- mut a few days ago. He may live. —Frederick Barto, aged 14 years, of Miller- ton, Tioga county, while visiting his father, who works in a saw mill near Galeton, fell on the saw and was cut to pieces. —George Shively, 62 years old, a farmer living three miles east of Mifflinburg, went to his pig pen Tuesday morning and with a butcher knife cut his throat. He was dead when found. —At Williamsport Saturday Constable Rob- ert Mitchell, John E. Brosious, Homer Cupp and William Yoder, all of Cogan House township, were each fined $100 and costs for using dogs while hunting deer. —The young child of Mr. and Mrs. Eleazer Waldron, of East Smithfield, Bradford coun- ty, got hold of a collar button which it put in its mouth. The button lodged in the child's throat and the infant choked to death. —Senator Quay has introduced a bill in Congress appropriating $2,625,000 to establish a permanent camp ground for instruction of troops in the vicinity of Somerset, this State. Fifteen thousand acres are to be acquired. —Mrs. Webb, of Falls Creek, was found dead in bed by her husband a few mornings ago. The woman had been in poor health and it is supposed that worriment over her husband coming home intoxicated the night before caused death. She leaves four chil - dren. —Colonel David B. Jenkins, of Wayne township, Mifflin county, has butchered the hog that gained fame about a year and a half ago when it walked into a cave and in root- ing about accidentally closed the door, re- maining there without food or drink for eighty five days. —Thursday a box of venison, the front quarters, parts of the rump and some steaks, were received at the Altoona hospital from Petersburg, Huntingdon county. It was sent by H. Nolder and O. V. Benner, who en- closed a note saying the deer had been shot out of season and had been confiscated by the game wardens who concluded to send it to the hospital. —Neighboring counties are being worked by a slick scoundrel who represents himself as an agent for a city clothing house and takes orders for suits at $15.00, receiving $5.00 down, the balance to be paid when the suits are delivered. That is the last heard of the man or suit. Those who deal only with their home merchants or tailors, do not sub- ject themselves to such rascals. —What will not man do for love? Here is a Philadelphia youth of twenty-one who has given up his position and the salary attached in order to wed a fair maid of thirty-nine summers. There are mitigating circum- stances, however, in the fact that the salary was $7 a week, while the maid had $300,000 in her own name and insisted on taking her “few found treasure on a tip to the South to spend their honeymoon. —Russell City, a small village near Kane, has about twenty-five cases of smallpox. A number of the state board of health has been investigating those afflicted and he pronounc- ed all of the cases genuine smallpox. The town has been quarantined, and every effort will be made to prevent a further spread, al- though many more cases are likely to develop as a large number of residents of the town have been exposed to the disease. —At the next election the voters of Du- Bois will be asked to vote upon a proposition to increase the indebtedness of the borough $30,000, in addition to the $35,000 recently authorized, which will bring the indebted- ness of the borough up almost to the limita- tion of the law. The increase of the indebt- edness is for the purpose of completing the water supply system from Anderson creek to DuBois. —Only six piers of the old Rockville bridge remain standing. The winter weather has not interfered much with the work of dis- mantling the old structure and it is thought the bridge will be entirely removed within the next six weeks. As fast as the iron is taken down it is removed on cars to Philadel~ phia, where it is being sold by the contract- ors. It is said that theiron is bringing with- in a fraction of what it would have cost four years ago. —Sylvester Dietrick and Grace McLaugh - lin, better known as “Grace Lawrence,” were licensed to wed at Williamsport. Their ages were given as 19, and the consent of their parents was filed. Dietrick met the girl in jail last June, when, in the religious services in the chapel, they shared the same hymn book. Each had been committed on the sam e charge—larceny. They became very fond of one another, and upon their release recently plighted their troth. —While a crowd of men with planks were endeavoring to save three boys who had fall- en through the ice while skating Monday evening at Galeton -on the mill pond, Will- Throwing aside ‘his tools, he plunged into the hole just in time to seize by the leg one boy, whose little fingers had relaxed their hold on the cake of ice that was keeping him afloat had disap- peared. By breaking his way: to the men with the planks, Horn handed the first boy out. The other boys were able to keep afloat until rescued one at a time by Horn, who was helped out almost exhausted. He had been twenty minutes in the water, and when he reached a fire his clothes were frozen stiff and his hand were black from cold. —An edict has gone forth from Harrisburg that all the troops of the National Guard or- dered on duty in the coal field by Governor Stone during the strike will be furnished with new uniforms, to be paid for out of the spe- cial fund for the suppression of industrial dis- turbances and not charged to the annual al- lowance account, Every enlisted man in the guard will be furnished with a blue flannel blouse, kersey trousers, campaign hat, leg- gings and a rubber poncho. The Eighth and Twelfth regiments, companies F and ( Fourth regiment, the Governor’s Troop Sec- ond Philadelphia City Troop, and the non- commissioned staff of the Third brizade will he furnished with canvas blouse and trousers. The old uniforms were literally torn to rags in the recent campaign, and will be returned to the state arsenal.
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