BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The tracks of the Wabash ate not so far away from Pittsburg now. —This Venezuela affair is fast passing the stage where it can laughingly be referred to as a joke. —If QUAY is to have a monument on Capitol bill nothing but brass will fill all the ideals of the public. —The ground hog saw his shadow and skinned back into his hole, but the shadow didn’t scare him half as bad as the price of coal. —The father of the eight hour a day labor bill is a gentleman and a scholar, but if some fellows had to work one hour they would ~saise an ‘‘awful holler.” —It might be well for Germany and England to read a little of the late doings in the Philippines before they run the risk of having us benevolently assimilate them. —The contemplated expenditure of $275,- 000,000 for improvements during the year by the various rail-roads of the country comes too late to relieve the coal situa- tion. —Senator WELLINGTON’S rbpenition to have the wealth of an individual restricted $0 $10, 000,000 is all wrong. Why with such ‘a law in force half the country newspaper men in the land would be idlers by the time they reach middle age—maybe. ~ —The German Emperor's personally drawn diagram showing the relative strength of the German and British navies ‘explains why WILLTAM ‘is so anxious to ‘hold hands with EDWARD in the Vene- .zuealan embroglio. —JoHnN C. DELANEY has been given a job at the expense of factory inspector: JAMES CAMPBELL, who has ‘to step down and out a year before his term expires be- cause PENNYPACKER wants to reward DE- LANEY for securing the WATRES delegates for him, _ —Xf DowiE is to follow -the BARNUM “show in Madison square Garden, New York, hisadvance men had better ges:to word. And if he imagines he is going to ohristianize that great oity with a. one week’s stand he had better give his marble maker another job. —Young men don’t take HORACE GREE- LY’s advice and go west. But stay at home and read law and then go to the United States Senate. Sixty-one of the eighty- eight members in the upper house of Con- gress are lawyers—and some of them not very good ones at that. —The DURHAM —ELRIN—PENROSE push ; in the Legislatore gave Mr. QUAY and his cousin SAMUEL a decided set back on Tues- day night when they voted down the CAM- ERON statue bill on final passage. It is be- ginning to look as if there might: be some fun at Harrisburg after all this session. —In the House, Monday night, chaplain MCNALLY prayed for ‘‘the protection of the Commonwealth from all those, who, like Balaam of old, would hold up to ridi- cule the constituted authority.” No oue . heard tbe Honorable PUSEY, bus i is very probable that he joined in the ‘‘Amen.’”’ —The proposition to increase the salary . of the President to $100,000 per year is a good one-—for the President. While $50- 000) per vear seems ample remuneration, and there is. no likelihood of our running short of Presidents because of the paucity of salary, the fact that many corporation presidents receive more than that and good: lobbyists and hunco steerers turn up their noses at such a paltry sum we had better raise the President’s salary before it gets to be looked upon as a thirty cent job. —The bill that was introduced in the Legislature on Monday requiring that $40 be the minimum salary paid school teach. ers in districts receiving state appropriation would prove a blessing in certain parts of Centre county, if passed. . There is no de- nying the fact that salaries are too low to seoure the best instruction for the scholars in the schools of our rural distriots and the State would do well to step in and put a stop to the present misapplication of the funds it gives for the betterment of the schools, rather than to redace the taxation to practically nothing. | —Representative MOYER, of - Lehigh, wants the State to treat golden rod and daisies as it does Canada thistle, that is, put a penalty on permitting them to grow. What heartlessness. To think thata Dem- oorat would undertake to rob the fields of the beautiful fall flower and the hay fever victims the —object of their choicest anathemas. . Then, too, what would the love-sick maidens do for the floral witchery the daisy plays for them while they pick its petals off, one by one, in expectant ecstasy of finding ‘‘he loves me’ or the cruel disappointment of ‘‘he loves me not.”’ - —Lieutenant HOBSON, of Merrimac and osculatory fame, would like to resign from the navy because he believes that he is be- ing badly treated in the matter of assign- ments. Inasmuch as the construction corps to which he is attached is very short - of men an effort is being made to in- duce the young lientenant to reconsider. . If nothing else will prevail wa would sug- gest that Unole.SAM import a few of the " ‘Sultan of Salu’s Iadies as an inducement for him to remain in the service. Since that old scalawag’s death they probably haven’t been kissed once and, in any event, they’d be someihing new for even a HOBSON. "leges of protection are helped by it. ‘dent. “Vor. 48. "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Shaw's Curious Notion. In a speech delivered in New York the other day Secretary of the Treasury SHAW expressed the opinion that ‘‘free trade is theoretically correct but protection is prae- tically correct.”’ In other words according to that public functionary theory which is the base or science, of a proposition is less desirable than the practice which may be a perversion of the science. Take medicine, for example, the science is the theory. That is to say the knowledge which teaches that existing conditions may be changed by the application of certain remedies is of less consequence to the afflicted than the skill in applying the remedies, in the esti- mation of our Secretary of the Treasury. Free trade expresses the economic prin- ciple that all men are equal under the law. One man endowed with certain men- tal faculties, but: without prominence or wealth, is entitled to precisely the same ‘opportunities, privileges and liberties that another similarly endowed bas the possessor of more property. Protection, on the other hand, aims to make the poor man a beast of burden for the benefit of the rich. It taxes him out of reason in order that his fellow being, no more deserving, may be paid an unearned bounty through excessive charges for the necessaries of life. One represents equal and exact justice among men and the other the payment of unearned bounties to favorites. Protection is practically advantageous to those who ges the benefit of its operation. That is the few who enjoy the ‘unearned bounties and exercise the exceptional privi- But she business of government is not to serve -the purposes of the few at the expense of ‘the many. : ‘and giving them equal privileges while It is to treat all precicely alike exacting equal fidelity enables all to work out their own destinies. This being true it is not easy to conjecture how Secretary SHAW reaches his conclusion that protect- ion is practically correct except upon the hypothesis that according. to his notion goverament is for the benefit of the favor- ites. Quay and the Democratic Senators. Senator QUAY is still striving for the pas- sage ‘of hie omnibus Statehood bill and with: the old. disregard for rules or order Last week h it attached to two of the regular. appropriatica bills by a motion in direct ‘conflict with the rules and a refer- ende which was'as absurd as it was impu- Bub so far as the signs indicate that senrvy trick didn’t promote his purpose in the least. It gave the opposition a scare for a brief period and aroused QUAY'S hopes to the extent that he took strichnine pills in- stead of calomel a night or two later and had to be pumped out. But after be had carefully inventoried the facts he discover- ed that he was no further on than before. We can’t understand what fatal folly in- fluences the Democratic Senators to follow ‘QuAY’s leadership in this matter. Tt is true that QUAY helped the Democrats in the territories embraced in his bill and al- together likely that he has promised to give them Lalf and probably more of the United States Senators to be chosen in the event the bill becomes a law. But nobody who knows the ‘‘old man’’ puts any dependence on his political ‘promises. = After he bas achieved bis purposes he doesn’t care how much others are disappointed and his prom- ise of help to the Democratic Sevators will be like his promised ballot reform to the people of Pennsylvania. The right course for the Democrats to pursue is to ont away from Quay. No party gains strength by association with such men in politics or anything else. If New Mexico, amd Arizona bad been admit- ted to the Union during CLEVELAND'S ad- ministration they woald probably have be- come Democratic for the first election would have heen conducted * by the Demo-, oratic territorial officers. Bat if they come into the Union now they will be Republi- can and the six Senators elected will be of ‘the QUAY variety, with *‘Bull”’ ANDREWS as the bell wether. How the Democratic Senators imagine that we of Peunsylvania can apologize for such a condition is beyond our comprehension. Ki the Commissions. The. Legislature “appears to be running wild on commissions. Bills have been in- troduced to oreate commissions to do al- most every conceivable thing. If one hill -is passed the roads will be built by a well paid commission. Another provides for an expensive commission to codify the ocor- poration Jaws. Still another provides for a commission to manage barber shops. The horse-shoers must be examined by a com- mission and commissions are wanted for all other things in which there is an oppor- tunity to obtrade a nose that doesn’t be- long there. We are likely to become a government of commissions for the politi- cians. 2 The main purpose of this strange ten- denoy is to oreate patronage for politicians to use in corrupting voters and debauching Legislatures. It is not ouly vastly the safest bus infinitely the cheapest way of bribing men. Many of the commissions are without salaries other than the ‘actual expenses will be paid,’”” as the projectors term it. But even at that there are plen- ty of men in every section of the State who will sacrifice their conscience, honor and manhood to earn a place on one of these commissions and take chances of making ib yield something in the shape of an mn- earned bounty. This is strange but true. The safe thing for Legislators to do is kill every bill which has a committee at- tached to it. The founders of the govern- ment never intended that such subterfuges should be introduced to loot the treasury and Senators and Representatives in the Legislature are faithless to their obligations it they permit such legalized robbery. Laws ought to be passed by the Legisla- ture and executive duties performed by those properly chosen for the service and not hy commissions. We trust that nota single one of the many measures intro- duced which carry a commission with them will be enacted into law. Grosvenor in the Shadow of Scandal. General C. H. GROSVENOR, of Ohio, who was known as the mouth-piece of the admin- istration during the Presidency of Mr. Mc- KINLEY and aspires to the gift'of propbecy in political matters, has gotten himself mix- ed up in a nice little scandal. It appears that he bas written a book entitled ‘The Book of the Presidents,” which consists of sketohes more or less carelessly written, of all the Presidents from WASHINGTON down to ROOSEVELT. It was to he bound in any style’and illustrated in such manner as the purchaser desired and sold by subscription for any price from $26 to §250, according to the liberality of the purchaser and the style i of the binding and illustration. ‘During the past several months wealthy gentlemen throughout the country have been receiving what appeared to be auto- graph letters of General GROSVENOR, args ing them to-buy a copy of this very ambi tious publication. The letters were writ- ten on congressional stationery and ‘had every appearance of genuineness. Soon af- ter they were received a book-agens would | call upon the gentlemen and solicit sheiry pr. ine presence of a large and fashion- subsoriptions, suggesting as a spur to liber- ality that the proceeds. of the sale would gd. to ‘buying General GROSVENOR, who is very poor, a brick house. Most of the tariff pen- book giving checks for the amount made payable to the General himself. Now it appears thas the whole thing isa swindle and GROSVENOR is doing all sorts of things to clear his skirts of the scandal. He admits having written she sketches, buf declares that he was paid for that service at the time and has no further responsibility for the work. The investigation throws at least the shadow of doubt on that, howev- er, for some of the checks have been en- dorsed by him, and it is known that the publisher of the book is an adventurer whom GROSVENOR himself once unsuoccess- fully defended in a criminal court on the charge of obtaining money under false and fraudulent pretenses. In faot it looks as if the old man had been toying with the fates in order to get a little ahead. A Pretty Fight. If Governor PENNYPACKER is sincere aud determined in his purpose to enforce such provisions of the state constitution as relate to the question of apportionment the preseat Legislature may yet take on an in- teresting form. The Governor can hardly recede from his purpose, either, for his oath of office to ‘‘support, obey and defend’ the constitution, must spur him on. Tt is almost equally certain, moreover, that the leaders of the QUAY machine will resist the. purpose to reapportion the State into Sena- torial and Legislative districts; © The pres- ent unjust and unequal apportionment is, next to the bad ballot law, potential in pre- serving their power. Berks county has 300 more population than Lancaster, yet Lancaster has two Sena- tors and Berks only one at present. This is an aggravated case, it is true, but in al- most the same proportions there are in- equalities in other sections of the State. . These discrepancies in the Senatorial ratio enable the Eepublican party to maintain its vast majority in the Legislature or at least in that branch of it. In the other branch the injustice is almost if not. alto- gether as potential and DURHAM and his crowd are not likely to give up such ad- yantize aud opportunities without astrug- gle Governor PENNYPACKER may not care for such unjust political advantages and if QUAY is really satisfied with respect to political ambitions he may he content to let the Governor have his way. But DUR- HAM and ELKIN will not be so complacent. They will insist on holding every ad vantage possible until their ambitions are also ful- filled and that will be a long time in the future. fight over the affair. PENNYPACKER doesn’t know much about the nse of forces in such political contentions but he can learn and there will be plenty of willing teachers among those who are ready to as- tach themselves to him in consideration of party patronage. Bnt we may havea very pretty BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 6, 1903. Onur Views Endorsed. City and State, a high class weekly pub- lication of which Mr. HERBERT WELSH is the editor, coincides with the views express- ed by the WATCHMAN on the matter of the endorsement of District Attorney WEAVER by the Municipal League for the office of Mayor of that city. Mr. WEAVER bas done nothing before or since his election to his present office, that journal says, to entitle him to such an endorsement but has done many things, both before and since, which deserve the opposition ofall who pretend to stand for honest administration and bet- ter government. This is precisely the view that any sincere supporter of reform meas- ures must entertain. In the first place Mr. WEAVER would never have been district attorney of Phila- delphia if he had believed in rewarding fi- delity to the interests of the public and in- tegrity in the performance of public duties. Mr. ROTHERMEL could have been district attorney all his life if he had agreed to al- low the cause of the people against M.S. with the unlawful use of tbe public funds, to go by defanlt. But tecause he prose- charged with crime the machine managers determined to defeat him for re-election and they found JOHN WEAVER a ready instro- ment in. their bands to accomplish the wretched work. If Mr. WEAVER had been. a scrapulousiy honest and honorable man as the half doz- en others who were approached before him on the subject were, he would have refused to become a candidate for the purpose of defeating ROTHERMEL. But he isn’t of the ‘metal of men who do such things. On the contrary: he accepted with avidity the serv- ice of the machine and ae he was little [known and not under suspicion he was ac- cepted by the people on the promise that he would do whats . RorHERMEL did. But as a matter of fact he did in the SALTER case just what ROTHERMEL refused to do ill the QUAY case and his nomination for Mayor is the reward for his perfidy. Le | The Becser ‘Memorial augura ted. Organ Une able audience the ‘magnificent pipe organ t which _ the BEEZER. Bigs., of, Pittsbarg; ve placed in8s. a Ben or Si {#his place, as a memorial to their parents, sioners of the country feel under obligations. to the General, and as a rule they bonghta { ‘was inaugurated on Wednesday evening. The program that had been, arranged to show the possibilities of the great organ was most artistic and every number was given critical attention, with the result that much pleasure was derived by all who were there. While most interest. natnral- ly centered in the organ itself and the mas- ter manipulation of Dr. D. D. WooD, the blind organist of St. Clements in Philadel- phia, Mrs. WooD’s exquisite singing, and the other numbers received the appre- ciation they deserved, but over and above , the swelling symphonies of the organ and the sweet songs of the singers the greatest significance of this auspicious event in Bellefonte was hinted at by Rev. MCARDLE, in his olos- ing words of thanks. The organ is a magnificent gift, but more magnificent is the character that its gift reveals in two young men, MICHAEL and LEwIs BEEZER, twin brothers, who left this place not more than fifteen years ago, endowed with nothing more than stout hearts, honest purposes and a determina- tion to succeed. They were sober, indus- rious, christian boys and in the very first flush of their success as architects they bring back this beautiful tribute to the dear old parents whose humble training had inspired them with the highest ideals. Rich men are dying ‘all about us and are leaving nothing to suggest to coming gen- | erations. that they are of any value to their eommunities, bus here we have an illustra- tion that many might emulate who profess to be more than these modest younog architects ever hope to be. The BEEZER memorial organ is grand, but the spiritin which it was given is sublime. Ce—Ab # ‘meeting Monday night the council of Jersey Shore voted to banish all bogs fiom that borough. Of course only others will still be permiited to stand on the street corners and swear as ladies are passing, pollute the pavements with spit, scratch matches on the woodwork and walls of public places and damn every self-re- specting person who hasany ambition to be more than they are. Aod Jersey Shore is not the only town that has banished the most preferable of the two classes of hogs. ——A bill bas been introduced in the Hounse by Representative Wetzel and in the Senate by Senator Patton, asking for an ap- propriation of $10,000 for the Bellefonte hospital. © —- ~The Sportsmen’s League of Centre county will meet in the office of John J. Bower, in the Eagle block, this eveniag at 8 o'clock. QUAY, when that gentleman, was charged | ‘outed Quay just as he would any one else | the four footed variety is proscribed. The’ NO. 6. Nothing but Some Rumors ‘After All From the Lincoln, Neb., Commoner. Doubtless yoa have | heard it stated Knox would prosecute combines, Well, it’s nothing but a rumor after all. And that greed would do full justice to the men who work the mines. Well, it’s nothing but a ramor after all. It may be that Rockefeller will reduce the price of oil As an answer to the people's earnest call. But you'd better not believe it as your plans i haye to spoil— 1t is nothing but a rumor after all. Once we heard that civil service was the love of Roosevelt. Well, twas nothin, That a Late for croo all suppose he felt. But it ‘seems ’twas only rumor after all. With a Clarkson put in office then sent over southern States Civil service seems a virtue ‘rather small. Once 'twas told he wanted good men, but his action indicates That ‘twas nothing but a rumor after all. but a rumor after all. ed workers we must Once the g. 0. p. was quoted asa friend of true reform. Well, it seems ’twas only rumor after all. ‘That for honesty and justice it had friend- ship true and warm, But ’twas nothing but a rumor after all. ‘Pwill reform the Dingley tariff and deal equal justice 'round,” We Were told from early spring till late in But since -trustin we have fou That twas nothing but a rumor after all. it to do it to our sorrow Doubtless yom have heard the’ story that . tis peaceful in Luzon. Well, it seems tis only rumor after all, That it was a peaceful picture which we ought to gaze upon. Bat ‘was nothing only rumor after all. When id ve got to bribe the dattos and go for Ladrones zh the trackless jangle timber thick and tall, All this talk of peace we're given in such bland and oily tones— Well, it seems that it ist rumor after all. A Job at Foolin’ People That Wont Work, i From the Harrisburg Star. Star Independeit. ‘“The mountain’ labored and “brought forth a mouse.” bluster and promise of legislation to re. strain and control the trusts’ we ‘have af |. last got what? Why a measure upon which the President, the Senate’ and tlie fry magnates are’ agreed. It ‘provides for Commissioner of Corporations’ at. of $5,000 a year and’ an’ ‘assistant at and they shall investigate a ‘and report to the President who ‘may regom- mend Jegislation to ‘now and then, What a farce all this ie?" All that it amounts to'is a few new offiées to ‘be used in discharging political debts mostly to the trusts, who will get such men as they $o make the kind of investigation thoy ht gire and such as will clode “the Se lic eye and deceive the publiowiind. urally the trust magnates v what! ‘the arrangement. Tt’ is h oe oe pan The President pleased, ¢ Ie state. ' It | down easy.’ a From: the: ‘beginning. President, trust question. We will put: them under control, he said, by such a method one day and by’ a different process another, but he never intended to put them under control. He is quite as much the servant of the trusts as any of the trust officials and his pretense of a desire to control them is false and fraudulent. ' He imagines. that he is fooling the public, but he .is only fooling himself. ; A A Big Job for Pusey. . From the Philadelphia Record. : It is no worse to depict a man as an ‘‘un- human animal’? than to describe him as such,and from Aesop to Uncle Remus ‘“‘un- human characteristics. F. T. Pusey, of Delaware county, will have to, expurgate English literature if he would eliminate all references to men who are as wise as owls, brave as lions, crafty as foxes, fierce as snakes, garrulous as magpies, imitative as monkeys and parrots, or stupid as asses. Putting she thonght into a cartoon or cari- | cature does not make a man more an ob- ject of hatred, contempt or derision than putting the thanghs into words, and the cartoon or caricature is without effect un- less it reflect the sentiment of a large part of the community. The Governor says there are too many laws; why make anoth- er one? Hanging 1s What He Deserves. From the Columbia Independent. - Henry E. Youtsey, who is serving a life sentence in the Kentucky penitentiary for complicity in the Gobel murder, has: made a confession, in which he says that ‘‘James B. Howard, of Clay county, fired the shot that killed ‘Goble,’ and that he was em- ployed by Gov. Taylor to do the deed, in consideration of a pardon for murder and $1,600 in money. And this Gov. Taylor is the same man who received a magnificent ovation in the ‘Republican. National Con- vention that convened in Philadelphia in 1900 and which nominated McKinley and his State. He ought to be kidnapped, tried, and if convicted, hung. An Underlying Cause. From the Philadelphia North American. Down in Delaware things are getting so exciting they are said tobe sitting on a voloano. It's easy to see that Addicks would prefer a seat in the Senate to a seat like that. Hits That Nail on the Head. From the Louisville Courier Journal. election reform in Wisconsin. The farther from home election reform is the ‘better it suits ‘Philadelphia. Bill to Pension Ninety-Day Veterans. sentative Hemenway, of Tudiava, today in- troduced a bill to pension all soldiers and sailors who served at least 90 days in the Civil war, at the rate of $12 per month, and all widows of such soldiers and sailors married prior to Jane 27, 1890. That ‘is ‘after all the [ro Rogeerelt has been playing the: demagogue this’ human animals’’ have been used to typify | tigers, vain as peacocks, treacherons as Roosevelt, and is to-day a fugitive from The Philadelphia Press ic whooping for. WASHINGTON, D. C.; Feb. 2.—Repre- Spawls from the Keystone. —Y ork robbers like canned fruits as well as more merchantable plunder. kl a South Bethlehem dance $400 was cleared for the building fuud of the new church. —Miller George Schaffer was caught and ground to pieces in the machinery of his ce- ment plant at .Wazareth. —Kate Mickley has hiccoughed for 10 weeks at Virginia Mills, near Hanover, and has nearly starved to death. —At Carlisle Charles Dent and George Kelly were convicted of robbing Alexander Duncan, arich farmer, whom they bound and gagged with his wife. ~ —The Renovo News is urging the residents of that hustling town to petition Congress- man Deemer to secure for them free mail delivery. Get a move on, neighbor, what's worth having, is worth striving for strenu- ously. —The Williamsport Clutch and Pulley company, is the latest industry secured by the hustling board of trade of that city. The company is capitalized at $100.000 and will give employment to about 100 men at the start. —William Smithman, a 17-year-old boy, was locked up at Williamsport Monday night for repeatedly cutting a freight train which was leaving the yards, because the conductor refused to allow him to ride in the caboose. He is also accused of throwing switches. —The Jersey Shore Water company have begun work on their line crossing Pine Creek. The work will necessarily beslow on account of the high water. Until the work is com- pleted Oak Grove industries will be supplied with water by the use of a temporary pump that has been fitted up for the occasion. —John Packer, was arrested at Huntley, Cameron county, Tuesday by Samuel H. Myers, deputy constable, charged with wife desertion and was brought to Lock Haven. Packer skipped out last September, accord- ing to his wife’s story, leaving no visible means of support for her or her child. ‘—James W. Clarke, a veteran Williams- port printer and newspaper publisher, died Tuesday . morning after a lingering and painful illness. Mr. Clarke wasone of the pioneer. newspaper men. of = Williamsport, of whom only one or two are left. He was married to Miss Packer, a daughter of Gov. Packer. —The Mann Edge Tool company, of Lew- istown, have issued a notice to their em- ployes in which they offer them an. equal share in all profits accruing to the firm over and above 8 ‘per cent. on the actual paid up ‘stock of the company. ‘They also invite the ‘mén‘to become stockholders of the concern. , Forty-five school teachers of Logan town- ship. Blair county, have established a pre- : cedent which may create trouble for directors throughout that county. They striick fora ten per cent, inerease i in wages and came ont ‘victors. ‘The directors.’ first refused, but afterwards, rather than gee the schools closed, granted the imgrease. The schools were all open Tuesday. {i =Abont 5 o’clock Tuesday morning some- ‘one shot a lot of dogs ont the Austin porch on “Washington avenue, in Tyrone, the bullet a front window ‘of the home over the head ‘of Miss. Mary , who: was in the. room at, the. time. ded against a partition duis, | ped to the floor. Its course was about a foot above Miss Austin’s head. It is said that passenger trains on the Beech Creek and Bald Eagle roads, which leave Mill Hall shortly before 4 o clock in the afternoon, frequently engage in a race, which affords considerable amusement to the passengers. The speed attained is often close to a mile a minute and it is seldom that eith- er train gains any great distance on the oth- er. Several evenings last week passengers | on these trains witnessed exciting races. ~—As Thomas: Maroney, fireman on the Elk Lick Lumbe¥ ‘Cé’s ‘toad, was passing a string of loaded cars Tuesday night the load gave way and three logs rolled over him. At the point where the accident happened the snow was deep and Maroney was crushed into the snow practically out: of harm’s way. Had the ground been bare there could have | been but one result—instant death. For- tunately his injuries were “nothing more than a few bruises. : —A few years ago, fireman Walker, who Monday morning, was firing an engine on which his father was engineer. At the fath- er’s request the men were put on different trains, so that if eitheP one met death while on duty, the other would be left to care for the family. A short time after this, engi- neer Walker was killed in a wreck, and now the son has met death in the same man- ner. —A combine of all the manufactures of refactory brick who are outside the Harbison- Walker combine has been arranged with a capital of $15,000,000 and will be financed by Colonial Trust company. The out-put of the plants will be 2,000,000,000 bricks yearly. The plant of the Reese Hammond ' company at Curwensville and the Climax Brick com- pany, at Climax, are in the combine, togeth- er with others in the Clearfield district. —The report of the state board of charities on the amount of the state aid recommended for each institution will soon be presented to the Legislature. Among the recommenda- tions are the following: Huntingdon re- formatory, $183,955; Philipsburg hospital, $22,600; Clearfield hospital, $2,000; Cone- maugh Valley hospital, Johnstown, $30,000 ; Williamsport hospital, $25,000 ; Altoona hos- pital $25,000; DuBois hospital, $4,000; Lock Haven hospital, $10,000; Girls’ Training school, Williamsport, $4,000; Williamsport Home for the Friendless, $12,000; Florence Crittendon home, Williamsport, $2,500. —E. B. Thurston, game-keeper at the park of the Otzinachson Rod and Gun club in Grugan township, Clinton Co., was found dead in the woods several miles from camp Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Thurston started out earlier in the day with his two dogs. Some hours later one of the animals return- ed and barked and acted in such a strange manner that the other men at the park, led by the dog, started out to discover what was wrong. Proceeding some distance, they heard the other dog barking loudly far away. Following in the direction from whence came its sound, they found Thurston lying on the ground dead. It is Supposed heart disease caused his death, wall and drop- . was killed in the wreck near St. Mary's Mio AE
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