Fs BY PP. GRAY MEEK. ink Slings. When you're runnin’ for an office And a hustlin’ round for votes There are lots of funny little things . The tireless hustler notes, Some fellows tell him they're all right While others work the game Of making him believe they are When ferninst him, just the same. Then some recall each little thing He's ever said or done, And frankly make him feel as if He didn’t want to run ; But of all the propositions That the hustler has to chase The meanest, most despicable Is the one with double face. —Mr. DOBLIN seems to be an artist as a liar, but there are others. —1903 seems determined to outdo her predecessor in rail-road horrois. —The course of true love grows rougher than ever when little cupid takes the chaffeur’s seat in the automobile. —There is no doubt about honesty being the best policy, but the trouble with most men is that they make too much of a policy game out of it. —The soft weather of the past few days has been taking the snow very fast, but the early gardener basn’t begun to shine up his spade yet. : —The blockade of Venezuela is to be raised, but the blockade of QUAY’S omni- bus state hood bill shows no sign of being broken in the Senate. —When courtesy costs so little and ac- complishes so much it is surprising how few people number it among the necessaries of their personal habiliment. —The campaign for local offices is pro- gressing so rapidly in Bellefonte that the average man commences to grin as soon as a’candidate approaches him. —Cousin SAM isn’t going to let the car- toonists of the country make a parrot out of him any more, if the Pennsylvania Leg- islature can be used to prevent it. —Next Monday his hog-ship will have a look at the weather and tell us how much more winter we will bave. Let us hope that he hasn’t entered the coal and rail-road combine. —With all the advance there has heen in surgery and medicine within the past fifty years there seems to be less danger than ever of the undertakers being driven ‘out of business. —When the war in Venezuela, tae coal stringency, Congress and the Legislature at Harrisburg are things of the past we'll all have to fall back on the weather as the old reliable topic of conversation. —The independence of America might have been secured by the efforts of farmers but the returns of last fall don’t indicate that the Governorship of Mr. PENNY- PACKER was secured through the same agency. —1It is said that if China is duly econom- ical she will be able to pay off all the in- demnities she owes the allied powers. Does this mean that the poor celestials will have to get down to something even cheaper than rats and rice. : —The Republican says ‘‘we must have some changes io our ballot laws’ because it was promised the people during the campaign last fall. How surprising that the Republican should make such a demand, when it knows that Mr. QUAY has prom- ised Pennsylvania so many reforms that never have heen made. —The Philadelphia Record is of the opinion that Senator MORGAN has lost his battle for the Nicaragua canal unless he can throw doubt as to the existence on the map of the Panama route. Aud that isn’t 80 much of a joke either, for if one or two of the volcanoes or earthquakes get into action down there it might be up to more than the Panama lobhyists to prove that there is such a place. —General McARTHUR has developed quite an alarmist turn. He says there is to be an European invasion of America. That is, he says the foreign countries are about to concentrate on a well defined course that will disrupt and disintegrate our Republic entirely. How interesting. Why bless your soul, General, it wonldn’t matter how completely they broke us up any one of the particles lef6 would be strong enough to lick the stuffin’ out of all the European and Asiatic powers combined. —LAMBRO FRANCESCO, an Italian, un- dertook to rob the postoffice at Gallitzin a few nights ago and when caught in the act he pulled out a revolver and shot himself in the ear, with suicidal intent. FRANCESCO | is not dead yet and explains his act by saying that he understood that the penalcy of the crime was shooting and he wished to impose it himself. Poor, misguided <dago that he was, not to know, as the ‘‘Hon.”” SAMMY SALTER, of Philadelphia, does, that the laws of this country seldom £o to extremes of punishment and—some- ti mes—don’t punish at all. —The bill before the Legislature that proposes $0 impose the costs on the de- fendant, the prosecutor or the magistrate sending the case to court, or all three of ‘them, when a hill is ignored by the grand jury, will bave a tendency to keep many petty cases out of court. Under the pres- ent system justices tou frequently give law $0 individuals for the sake of the fees ac- craing from their action and if there were some way to get back at them when they do not exercise good judgment many of the spite cases that take up the time of courts and pile costs on the taxpayers Fm di] enact a STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 30, 1903. RX 7 . ys NO. 5. VOL. 48 They Owe an Explanation. Those so-called reformers of Philadel- phia who have so hastily abandoned their professed purpose of improving the politic- al morals of that city in order to give their support to district attorney JOHN WEAVER for mayor owe some sort of an explanation to the public. A little more than a year ago the odious machine of that city determined to punish district attorney ROTHERMEL because of his fideli- ty to the people and Bis obedience to his oath to office and his conscience. The cor- rupt managers had a good deal of difficul- ty in putting their plans in execution. They couldn’t find a reputabie lawyer at the bar who would take their nomina- tion for the reason that it clearly implied a complicity in a nefarious conspiracy to punish a man for doing his duty. Aftera considerable search, however, Insurance Commissioner DURHAM dug out from among the lower strata of the legal no- bodies Mr. JoEN WEAVER and he under- took the work. By the skillful operation of ballot box stuffing, false counting and various other forms of ballot frauds, Mr. WEAVER was declared elected by a comparatively mea- ger majority. He entered upon his duties a year ago the first of this month. Aft that time SAMUEL SALTER and three of his com- panion ballot box stuffers were fugitives from justice and between four and five hundred other political criminals were un- der indictment for ballot frauds of one kind or another. The evidence against SALTER and his companions in crime was overwhelming. They knew that they badn’t the shadow of a chance of escaping the penitentiary if the case against them was honestly tried and they remained in concealment. The other criminals had managed by perjury and subornation of perjury to postpone their trials until after the expiration of ROTHERMEL'S term of office and the induction of JOHN WEAVER into the office. An honest prosecution meant ' certain conviction and they all knew that. On the first Tuesday in January, 1902, Mr. ROTHERMEL retired from the office and WEAVER took his place. Within a month from that time the community was startled by the announcement that SALTER and his fellow criminals had returned to the city and presented themselves at the office of the district attorney for trial. They were no longer afraid. They had a friend behind the proceedings then and felt secure. They impudently strutted into the temple of justice and stared the Judges out of countenance. Their bail was renewed with the consen t of the dis- trict attorney and though the forfeit had not been paid they dared to meet hones men and claim to have been wronged. In due time their cases were called for trial and there was no evidence against them. The district attorney had failed to make a case and providing an alibi by obviously perjured evidence they were acquitted. For that miscarriage of justice the dis- trict attorney ought to have been sent to prison. Subsequently the four or five hundred other ballot box stuffers were discharged from custody on motion of district attorney WEAVER with out trial and his debt to the machine was paid at the expense of his own honor and the interests of the public. Since that ballot box stuffing in Philadel- phia has become more common than ever. Last fall it was done in the open because every scoundrel who practices the crime felt that he was immune from punishment. As a reward for this vile service to the machine JOHN WEAVER has been nomi- nated by the machine for the more impor- tant office of chief magistrate of the city and strangely enough the reformers, the municipal leaguers, and the other whited sepulchers who have been hypocritically posing as political Saints have come out in support of him. It is the most disgraceful proceeding that has put a stain on the political history of Pennsylvania from the beginning. It proves that Philadelphians are incapable of self-government. Senator Quay’s Great Time. Senator QUAY is having the time of his life in Washington according to the news- paper reports of the proceedings of Con- gress. He is impatient to ges his omnibus statehood bill through, it appears, but makes no headway. His option on specula- tive property in one or more of the terri- tories is drawing to a close, probably. and he wants to realize. But everything gets in his way. All the various cunning little tricks of his cunning but varrow little mind which he bas used in the past are being invoked now to confuse him and he scarcely knows how to turn. If he weren’t sach a despicable creavure one might sympathize with him now in bis agony. QUAY'S bill ought to be defeated and we sincerely hope it will be. There was a time when New Mexico and Arizona were entitled to admission as States in the Union. But that was when the covgres- sional ratio was less and the population of would never be heard of, the territories greater. QUAY was dead against their admission then, however. He imagined at that time that they would elect Democrats to the United States Senate and they probably would during CLEVE- LAND’S administration when the territorial officers were Democrats. But those po- litical agents are Republicans now and of the QUAY type and they ought not to be given the chance to increase the QUAY kind of men in the United States Senate. Even if all the territories were entitled to admission as States, moreover, QUAY’S omnibus bill ought to be defeated. That manner of legislating is against the spirit of the constitution. It isa device of the lobby to ride bad legislation into the statute books on the back of good legislation. We believe that Oklahoma and the Indian Territory ought to be joined together and erected into a State. Probably New Mexico and Arizona might be properly admitted by a similar consolidation. But in the omnibus form the very idea of passing them is abhorrent to political morality and we are glad to believe they will be defeated. The Lee Monument. Colonel A. K. McCLURE made a very interesting address in the ball of the House of Representatives in Harrisburg on Tuesday evening in behalf of his own hill introduced by Colonel THOMAS VALEN- TINE COOPER providing for the appropria- tion of $20,000 to pay half the expenses of a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield in commemoration of the services of the late General ROBERT E. LEE for the Confed- eracy on that historic and sanguinary field. The bill provides that the State of Virginia shall bear the other half of the expense and Colonel MCCLURE asserts that the purpose is to establish accurate historic data. Whatever good might be achieved in the way of marking the positions and lines of the two great and heroic armies which were in blood contention on that pivotal field of the Civil war, it is certain that the proposition of Colonel MCCLURE fulfilled would contribute to the elimination of any remnants of bitterness between the North and South which may still exist. It is probably. not going too far to say that there ought to be no such feeling on either side at this time, for when the manhood of the North and South went elbow to elbow into bloody encounter with a foreign enemy in defense of a common country and the flag of which each was equally proud all such differences ought to have disappeared. But it may be predicted that Colonel MCCLURE has over estimated the magna- nimity of theaverage Republican Legislator of Pennsylvania. A few veterans of the war like Colonel COOPER who bear on their bodies the scars of rebel bullets fired in manly encounter each striving for what he believed to be right, may forget the en- mities of a past generation, but the small spirits which fill the hearts of narrow vermin like Representative CHAMPAIGN who tried to prevent Colonel MCCLURE from being heard will never be reconciled to a magnanimous movement and, unbap- pily, they are in the majority in the Penn- sylvania Legislature. J Fix the Courts at Harrisburg. The resignation of Judge PORTER from the Superior court bench is less to be re- gretted now than if it had occurred a month ago, for the reason that it may be assumed that Governor PENNYPACKER’S regard for the integrity of the judiciary will guaran- bee a fit snccessor. But it is to be re- gretted, nevertheless, for Judge PORTER has proved a capable and conscientious jur- ist. The causes which led to his retire- ment are, therefore, worthy of considera- tion on that account, if for no other reason. But as a matter of fact they deserve the closest scrutiny and more careful investi- gation anyway. : Judge PORTER states, in commenting on his resiguation, that the duties of the office were agreeable to him but thas he was con- strained to resign because he couldn’t en- dure the labor and trouble of the move- ments of the conrt from one seat toanother. Such flittings, be said in snbstance, are not only distressing but actually dangerous, and as the compensation of the office is much less than he is able to earn by prac- tice at the bar, he was not inclined to con- tinue the sacrifices in order to serve a not too appreciative public. There is more truth than poetry in the judge’s statement of the case and the Legislature ough to give it attention. The trath is that there is as much reason for the seat of the judicial branch of the government being at the capital of the State as there is for executive and legisla- tive branches being there. The sabordi- nate courts are properly located in the sev- eral connties but the courts of review —that is he Gapreme and Superior courts ought to be in Harrisburg, which is accessible to litigants from all sections of the State and offers to the attorneys the advantage of the splendid state library for purposes of research. The present Legislature ought to alter the laws governing the ‘judiciary 80 as to give the higher courts a permanent seat at the state capital. Absurd Praise of Hay. Some time ago negotiations were opened with the government of Columbia for the right of way to construct an Isthmian canal on the route of the practically abaudoned Panama canal. For some reason the Presi- dent preferred that route to the Nicaragua line which bad been recommended by a commission composed of the most illus- trious civil engineers of the country and the Attorney General was dispatched to Paris to purchase the franchise from the company which owned it. He made a pro- visional bargin to pay $40,000,000 for the ditch provided the government of Colum- bia would consent to a transfer of the authority which had been given to the French company to build. At that stage of the game Secretary HAY took charge of the affair and bas heen pressing it ever since. To the first proposition the Government of Columbia demanded a bonus of $10,000, - 000 and an annual payment of a quarter of a million with a few other things such as a guarantee of its own sovereignty over the territory covered, a zone of six miles wide across the country, and Secretary HAY pronounced the demand as absurdly and outrageously high. The $250,000 a year, he said was all right and the other things were within reason, he added but the $10,000,000 cash was cut of the question and would never be considered. Then he began bluffing and blustering. We will never allow anybody else to build a canal across the Isthmus he declared and your poor little government will be deprived of the revenue which it would produce. Last week, however, he signed the treaty as originally proposed by Columbia and it is now in the Senate for ratification. We have no particular fault to find with the treaty. In view of the recent incidents in the neighborhood of Venezuela we need the waterway and it is cheap at any price or may be if Emperor WILLIAM gets too gay. But we most emphatically protest against lauding Secretary HAY to the skies as a genius of diplomacy as the adminis- tration orgaus are doing for if there was any diplomatic victory in the affair it was achieved by the little South American Re- public. “This memorable instrument,” say one of these offensively sycophantic organs, ‘‘is an epoch-making milestone in our national progress to world-wide power and powers.”” An epoch-making fiddle- stick. It was simply the performance of a perfunctory duty which any clerk in the office might have done quite as well as the Secretary of State. —If the parrot is to be cut out of ‘‘Cousin SAM’ what more will be left than those ancestral boots ? A Matter of Monuments, The proposition expressed in a bill in- troduced in the House of Representatives in Harrisburg by Democratic State chair- man CREASY, on Friday morning, and in the Senate by Democratic Senator HERBST, on Monday evening, to erect a monument at an expense of $150,000 in the capital park at Harrisburg, to the memory of the heroism, valor and patriotism of the Penn- sylvania soldiers who participated in the Civil war, deserves the gravest considera- tion. Nearly every State in the Union has already expressed its appreciation of the courage and manhood of the soldiers of that great conflict, but through all the years which have since intervened Penn- sylvania has been silent, though the dom- inant party in all the time has professed a guardianship of the soldier’s interests. This year appears to bean era of monu.. ments, however. Under circumstances which indicate orders from the machine manager a bill bas been introduced appro- priating a considerable sum of money for the construction of a monument in which to commemorate the services of the late SIMON CAMERON. Among the conspicuous acts of that gentleman was the bribery of members of the Legislature to vote for him for Senator in Congress and the payment of a large award to Indians in notes of the Middletown bank which were subsequent- ly bought back ata vast discount, thus yielding an immense profit. We recall nothing else except his services in the War Department at the beginning of the Civil war under circumstances which almost led to a public scandal. To our mind it would be infinitely bes- ter to spend the amount designated in the bill of Representative CREASY and Senator HERBST, or even twice that sum, in erect- ing a memorial to the courage and patriot- ism of the soldiers who offered their lives for the preservation of the country than to give one-hundredth part of it to the erect- ion of a monument to SIMON CAMERON. We owe much to the soldiers and the fail- ure to repay that debt of gratitude is a present reproach to the people of the Com- monwealth. But there is nothing coming to S1MON CAMERON who turned his public service into a generous source of profits, died the possessor of a colossal fortune ac- quired by means which will bardly bear investigation. As Others See Him. From the New York Post. Ifany one had a lingering hope that Governor Pennypacker might yet indicate some desire to better political conditions in Pennsylvania, it must now have received its death blow. If Pennsylvania is ever to be raised from the low estate into which she has fallen under the domination of Quay and his gang, the first step must be a reform of the ballot law. This is common knowledge in Pennsylvania, and indeed so patent that both parties, in their platforms last year, promised modern registration laws and other measures to prevent frauds on election day. The necessity for such en- actments, moreover, was rendered more clear than ever before by the very election which made Judge Pennypacker Governor. The most barefaced frauds in Philadelphia were exposed by the election figures. We quoted at the time the returns from several Philadelphia wards, where, according to the official tables, the total vote more than doubled that of the year before, the in- crease being made up wholly of alleged Re- publican votes. Of course, no such votes were ever cast. Surely, with his party platform before him Governor Penny- packer should have bad the scant courage required to say something about these frauds. But not a word does he utter. He does not say that the present law is ‘‘cum- bersome and inefficient,’” and suggests that it be changed, but he hastens to add that ‘‘the thought that something ought to be done by means of the law to encourage in- dependent voting and to make it difficult to vote a full party ticket 18 mere vicious theorizing.’’ What can the cause of decent government hope from a man, however respectable his antecedents, who thus ex- ‘hibits himself on his entrance into office? Quay is laughing in his sleeve, and he has a right to, over his sworn enemies who sup- ported the learned and virtnous Penny- packer. Our Mothers. From the Altoona Tribune. While it is true, as a valued contempor- ary suggests, that the mothers have not re- ceived as much honor from the pen of the historian as the fathers, yet the fact remains that the mothers have been far more in- fluential in shaping character and moulding destiny than the fathers. They have the boys during the formative years of life and impress upon them lessons that are never forgotten and which influence the whole life. It is true that some men forget the mothers who bore them and plunge them into grief, but the majority of mankind never get bad enough to he unmoved by a picture of a good mother kneeling with her little child by its bedside, hearing the sim- ple prayer which it has heen taught to re- peat each evening.. Some of the greatest men the world has ever known have been the result of mother love and mother care. The good mother deserves to live forever on the marble tablet, we admit; but better than that, she lives in the hearts of her children and in the influences which they set in motion under her inspiratian. His- tory may take little note of her efforts, but the invisible genius of the future holds in sacred trust her eternal fame. Preserving the Plum Tree. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. Observing that Governor Pennypacker recommends a small tax for good roads. The Philadelphia Record innocently asks why not take for this purpose some of the money loaned to banks at one and a-half and two per cent. With a nine million dollar surplus it seems to think the tax un- called for. Great Scott !| Has the Record forgotten the plum tree? The surplus must and shall be preserved in order that there may be plums to shake in the shape of deposits at one and a-half and two per cent. in banks that lend at five and six per cent. Otherwise there would be no pleasure or profit in politics. » “ Expenses. From the Philadelphia Record. That is a good bill of State Senator Fox for arresting the industrious zeal of com- mitting magistrates and aldermen in send- ing petty cases to court for the sake of ac. cumulating fees. In order to check this iniquitous abuse of justice the bill provides that in all cases ignored by grand juries (felonies excepted) the costs may be im- posed on the defendant, the prosecutor or the magistrate, or on all three of them. Such a law would exercise a more salutary restraint on the fee business, and it onght to be passed. Seems to Be Acquainted With Them. From the Clearfield Republican. Pennypacker’s cabinet appointments, save alone that of Hampton L. Carson, are about the worst ever inflicted. A reform ‘administration with Frank Fuller, Bob McAfee and Jim Shoemaker up close to the throne is neither sublime nor ridiculous to look upon. The unsophisticated who have business with the new top-notchers at Har- risburg ~hould carry deoderizers and leave their valuables in the hotel safe. Mont Pelee’s Cone Blown Off, Big Party of Excursionists had Narrow Escape from Death. CASTRIES, B. W. L, Jau. 25.—Half of a party of 400 excursionists that went from here on the steamer Esk, on Saturday, to visit St. Pierre, had a narrow escape from death due to the sudden eruption of Mount Pelee. Volunteers from the Esk's passengers who had remained on board, assisted the crews of the ship’s boats in hastening to the rescue. After 40 minutes of excite ment, all the passengers were brought back safely to the ship. Apparently about 800 feet of the cone of the volcano has been blown away. Deuse clouds of smoke pass- ed three-qnarters of a mile from the Esk. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Spawls from the Keystone. —A report from Jersey Shore is to the ef- fect that hereafter all southbound coal trains going over the Beech Creek road will go to Newberry over the Pennsylvania road instead of going into Oak Grove and going down over the New York Central as heretofore. —Clarence Edward Smeal, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smeal, of Coalport, choked to death recently. The family were at dinner and the baby bad just taken a drink of water when it began gasping for breath and before the doctor could reach the house it was dead. —There are now 1,700 cars stored on the Altoona and middle divisions of the Pennsyl- vania railroad company and nothing can be done with them. Sixty seven were stored on the Petersburg cut off Monday night. Lack of motive power and men are the cause of the tie-up. —The tunnel built by the Pennsylvania Railroad company on the middle division, 2 miles east of Altoona, has been completed. Monday the tracks were connected and trains went through. The tunnel, one mile long, was built for the purpose of eliminating a curve. —At Milton Friday, Mrs. Margart A. Port- er, widow of Rev. J. Frank Porter,leaned too far over the balcony of the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M. H. Barr, and fell to the brick walk. She was picked up unconscious, and expired in a short time. She was nearly '69 years old. —The 3 year old son of August Nelson, of North Braddock, died Monday, making six children of Nelson’s who have died within 14 months, all from pneumonia, the last two within the past week. A seventh and the only remaining child of the family is ill with the same disease. —Mrs. Ellen Ramsey, of Williamsport, died of consumption Monday morning. Sixteen years ago her husband was murdered in the coal regions, leaving her with seven children, the youngest twins three weeks old. Within the last two years five children have died of consumption. —The body of Carlos Reshaun, the six- | year-old child of Francis Reshaun, of Latrobe, who was drowned Tuesday afternoon of last week, was not recovered until late Thursday afternoon. The little cold hands still tightly clasped the sides of the sled on which he had coasted to his death. —A stuffed calf’s hide owned by William Fisher, of Mt. Union, is quite a curiosity. Some time ago the calf was born at Johns- town but died in three weeks, and the skin was stuffed in Buffalo. It.is made up of one head, two eyes, three ears, two bodies, two tails and eight legs. —A dispatch from Coudersport says that Representative Mocre is using his influence to have a state fish hatchery located in Pot- ter connty. He has been assured of consid- erable support. A natural park with water courses at Seven Bridges, is contemplated as a site. It is the centre of a good fishing country. —Henry McDowell, a colored dyer of Will- iamsport, during one of the recent cold nights bathed his legs in gasoline to relieve rheuma- tism. While sitting near the fire, there was a sudden flash and his legs were ablaze. Be- fore the flames could be extinguished, both legs from the knees down were badly burned. —A bill introduced in the house at Harris- burg Wednesday prohibits the shooting of pigeons released from traps. The bill is aim. ed at the practice of shooting clubs in using live birds as targets, and provides a penalty upon conviction of twenty five dollars orim- prisonment for thirty days, or both at the dis- cretion of the court. —The Methodists of Clearfield are going to build a new church just as soon as the weath- er permits the tearing down of their present structure. Architect Weaver, of Harrisburg, will have supervision of the work and the new church will be of stone with a tower 100 feet high. The total cost of the building is estimated at $50,000. —Professor N. W. H. Schafer, of Sha- mokin, took a hot brick to bed with him last Monday night, and was nearly burned to death. The brick set fire to the bedding, but fortunately the Professor got awake in time to prevent serious consequences to either himself or the house, although four quiltsand a blanket were put out of service. —The Oak Grove town association is ar- ranging to build 50 houses in that place in the spring, the work to be started as early as the weather will permit. Stone for the foundations of the new buildings are being havled now while the sleighing is good. It is stated that several hundred new houses will be put np at Oak Grove the coming sum- mer. —Mrs. Rachel Brode, of Altoona, and her nephew, Berry Dodson, were convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the Blair county court on Saturday. While Mrs. Brode was holding a masquerade party at her home a party of boys congregated dutside. A quar- rel ensued between the masqueraders and the boys, and in the melee a boy named Ambrose Gehl was shot and killed. ! —Thirteen men were being taken to their work in the recesses of the Bellevue mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Co. on an electric engine Tuesday morning. They had a keg of powder with them. A spark from the naked lamp of one of the men set off the powder and a terrific explosion followed, blowing the men in all directions. William Hughes was terribly burned about the face, bands and feet and will die; Walter J. Need- ham, John Mangan and Edward Miller were also badly injured. but will recover. —It is estimated that a half a hundred peo- ple in Clinton, Cameron and Potter counties are making from $4 to $9 a day gathering rat- tlesnake oil and ginseng root. The two voca- tions can readily be followed at the same time—indeed, it is a noticeable fact that where ginseng grows there one invariably finds rattlesnakes. Ginseng root sells for from $3 to $5a pound, according to size and quality, and with rattlesnake oil a remarka- ble article at the rate of $2 an ounce, the out- look for the ‘‘bushwackers’ this season is ex- ceptionally cheerful. A Mrs. Norman, of the vicinity of Keating, in one day last summer ‘killed seven rattlesnakes, from which she ob- tained eleven ounces of fat. This amount at $2 an ounce, made her a pretty good day's wages.
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