ed fae , Ink Slings. © =The two minute trotter has come at last. Everything is getting faster except the Shamrocks. —About the only way Sir THOMAS can ever win is to have a Shamrock IV built in this country. ‘—Remember that September 2nd will be the last day for registering voters and no ‘September 4th. . - ~Poor little Hiawattia ! She promises ‘to besdme as much of a nuisance as that Georgia Camp Meeting once was. —The average walking delegate seems 40 be abont as crooked as some of the em- ‘ployees of the Post-office Department. —The trouble with Mr. ZIMMERMAN, st Ohio, is that there was too much JOHN- soN for him at Columbus on Wednesday. —The ‘“‘special session of Congress that was to have been called has evidently gone to hunt that post-office investigation that was promised. —Summer arrived on Sunday, but the weather man wakened up Wednesday night to discover it was too late, and straightway turned off the heat. —Since QUAY has said Pennsylvania will be for ROOSEVELT that little matter is settled without mueh worriment to the subservient Republicans of the State. —The question now arises. Will PULIT- ZER’'S two million dollar school of jour- nalism propound the World style of jour- nalism or aim at something higher? —Down in Arkansas one candidate for Governor knocked the other off a four foot stand on which they were jointly speaking up to the time when actions spoke louder than words. —Now is the time to get everything in shape for next year. Make the organiza- tion as complete and efficient as possible, for there is work to be done, work that everyone should be interested in. —Senator QUAY’S announcement that he will not be a candidate for re-election $0 the Senate would be much more satis- factory if he would only say how much his successor will be expected to pay for his seat. © With the Turks killing scores of christians all though Macedonia and the Turkish cigarettes killing scores who ought to be christians right here in our own coun- try, isn’t it about time the Turks be put out of the killing business. - —Mrs. MARY HENDERSON, who died at Franklin on Monday, was ninéty-one years | = °" old and had smoked all her, life. Here is the pipe isn’t as bad as it is said to be. —~Socialism as a dream of a government that supplies every need of its subjects is as harmless as a sunbeam, but socialism as a cloak for anarchy to hide its destructive principles under is entirely too dangerous to be given even a moment’s consideration. —The mimic war that is being carried on off the coast of Maine would be far more like the real thing if the Secretary of the Navy would jump in and pay a fabu- lous price for all the old unseaworthy tubs he can find tied up in the various Atlantic ports. —Col. EDWARD PRUNER is pushing his candidacy for Senator from the Blair dis- trict right along. At a picnic on Saturday he made a speech that is reported as a‘‘rouser,’’but whether it will rouse enough votes to secure the nomination for the Colonel remains to be seen. --President ROOSEVELT has given union la bor its bumps through the stand he has taken in the government printing office. It is said that Wall street advised him to do it on the ground that they won’t furnish any campaign funds for him unless he takes a stand against union labor. —The Sultan has made some more promises of reform in Macedonia. The appearance of some Russian boats in Turk- ish waters started the Prince of Promisers to telling what he would do, if they would only give him one more chance, and now he will start right out to do the same old thing again. —Few bridegrooms have the spectacular receptions that was accorded R. A. BECK and his wife last night. With a hand and two fire companies to escort them to their home mid the glare of red lights even the eyes of that notoriety loving chap at Oyster Bay might have turned a shade of green had he been standing on Bellefonte streets to witness it. —The Johnstown 7Zribune, in discussing the boodle features of politics, remarks “For, il there’s nothing in it, what's the " use of being a Democrat ?’’ Are we to infer from this daring declaration that the Iri- bune is Republican for what is in it? It is hard to arrive at any other conclusion and harder to believe that any legitimate fews- paper would have temerity to make such a confession. —To set at ease the mind of some @®s- thetic person who oraves a more refined past-time than foot ball, base ball, tennis, eroquet, polo or golf the Harrisburg Patriot suggests archery. The suggestion is all right, but it can hardly be regarded as be- ing needed since archery has been a de- cidedly important feature in all of the sports mentioned,ever since they have been sports. In fact were it not for the oppor- tunities given for romance by little Dan Cupid and his how gun there would be very few past-times of any sort to enjoy. other stumbling block. for the anti-to-| VOL. 48 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Spectacularism in Public Life. Ex-Senator Hin, of New York, has greatly incensed the ROOSEVELT maniacs of the country. In a speech before the pioneers of Western New York the Sena- tor referred to what he appropriately des- ignated as the ‘‘spectacnlarism’ of the present public life of the country. He didn’ mention ROOSEVELT’S name. He didn’t allude to the President of the United States. He simply said that it has become the fashion of high officials to ex- ploit themselves in spectacular ways and through the medium of press agents to tell the public what they do morning, noon and night, and on every possible occasion to do such absurd things as to compel people to comment on them. As we have said, no mention was made of ROOSEVELT and there was no direct al- lusion to the President. But every reason- ing man and woman in the broad land knew to whom allusion was made. Certain gypsy antics in the southern swamps and the clownish operations in the Yellowstone wilds came instantly to the minds of every- body who reads and thinks and the ROOSE- VELT-maniacs at once declared that the ex- Senator of the Empire State had committed lese Majestic for which he ought to be punished. Maybe he ought but who will frame the indictment and before what tri- bunal will the cause be tried? An inter- ested public is anxiously awaiting the an- swer to these questions. The facts are that what Senator HILL bas said is scrupulously true. Since the accidental elevation of that clown to the Presidency the country has been scandal- ized by a series of performances which in an ordinary citizen would be followed by an application in court for a commission to inquire into the sanity of the man concern- ed. That such a thing has not happened is a matter for popular congratulation. But there can he no doubt of a mental infirm- ity. No man unafflicted in that way would think of doing the things which be has done and however patient the public people and to the intense satisfaction of our War Lord on Sagamore hill. That is to say twenty or thirty of onr war ships are pretending to make an attack on the land defences of the coast at some point and the amusement is costing the people something like twenty or thirty thousand dollars a day. But what’s the odds as long as there is plenty of money in the treasury. Such expenditures keep the people poor and everybody knows that as long as they are poor they will be unable to resent wrongs or resist oppressions. Tyranny desires no surer ally in a fight against liberty than the poverty of the oppressed. As long as the people are paying a hun- dred millions or so more in revenues than are required for the maintenance of the government, and a billion or so extra every year in exorbitant prices for necessaries of life through the operations of the tariff taxes, the people of the country will be too poor to resist any outrage. When one of the Kings of France was admonished against the danger of oppressing the people he replied that there was nothing to fear for the reason that the people were too poor to resist. Hungry men have no coor- age and those who are naked will not fight, he answered in substance. - But the people saved out of their poverty and the guillotine was his ultimate answer. The policy of the present administration in Washington is precisely that of the French King who paid the penalty of his folly with his head. In other words the plan of the President is to so impoverish the people as to make them docile for want of strength to be otherwise. With that purpose in view all manner of profligacies are being practiced in order that an excuse may be found for continuing needless taxes and excessive exactions. But the people may take the notion to save out of their poverty, as the French did, and smite their oppressors. There is no excuse for the waste of treasure in the play at war on the New England coast. It comes to no good and is vastly expensive. ———————— A Correction. Last week the WATCHMAN stated that September 4th would be the last day on which voters can be registered. The state- ment was based on the old interpretation that made the registering of voters possible up to within sixty days of the election, but according to a different ruling of the courts September. 20d will be the last day. On the 3rd the assessors must make their re- tarn to the county commissioners. Remember this day and don’t put the matter off. You must be registered if yon want to vote and while it is presumed that the assessor has you on his list it is better for you to look after the matter personally and see that you are registered. Rw The Real Issue of the Campaign. Any attempt to eliminate the press muzzler from the pending political contest is a mevement in the inter- est of the QUAY machine. The most un- popular piece of legislation enacted in re- cent years is that iniquity. - The reason of its unpopularity is tbat it is subversive of every principle of personal liberty and in- dividual right. The freedom of the press is the corner stone of political indepen- dence. With a muzzled press there is no possible ‘means of enforcing integrity in public life. Venal public officials can laugh at the complaints of individuals if the press is restrained in its right to oriti- cise. There can be no redress of wrongs if the press is compelled to remain silent. Those who would ignore the press muzzler as an issue in the contest in which a Senator who voted for the measure is a candidate for the chief office, say that the measure'is a dead letter and in fact dis- appointed its authors. That is true but it is not for the reason that its authors have changed their opinions or altered their pur- poses. It is because the measure so out- raged public sentiment and so revolted popular conscience that its authors have been afraid to put it to the test. Uncon- stitutional, infamous, unjust and iniquitous its friends wouldn’t trust it to a judicial examination though it expressed their views, their expectations and their hopes on the subject to which it referred. As it is the press muzzler represents nothing but the malice of a condemned political machine. = But it represents that in every line'and to the full measure. If it is condoned by silence in the campaign and endorsed by the election of State Sena- tor Wi. P. SNYDER it will no longer be a dead letter. Then it will be enforced and every criticism of official venality will be punished by the application of the pro- visions of that law. For that reason it ought to be made not only an issue but THE issue in the campaign and the only man on the ticket of either party who voted for it in the Legislature condemned to popular execration by an overwhelming defeat. . ——Let others dispute about the date shat registration ehould legally close as ‘as they p . Goand get ter ed at once and be sure you are on the safe side. Root and Miles. In accepting the resignation of Secretary of War Root, the President shows a dif- ferent temper than that which influenced him in retiring General MILES from com- mand of the army. RooT had served ROOSEVELT with the zeal and fidelity with which Cardinal WooLSELY had served his King. MILES had served his country with an ability and energy which bas rarely been revealed in the public life of any country. MILEs was dismissed with a sneer and without a word of commenda- tion. His forty years of faithful and hazardous service were over-looked and disregarded. But he had served the coun- try and pos the individual. He was guid- ed by conscience and patriotism and not by personal interest. In dismissing Root it was different. *‘It is hard, indeed, for me to accept your resignation,’’ he wrote with a sob in each sentence. ‘‘I do it,”’ he added, ‘‘nos only with keen personal regret, but with a live- ly understanding of the gap which your withdrawal will create in public life. My sense of personal loss is very great; and yet my sense of loss to the Nation as a whole is even greater.”” What loss has the Nation sustained by the resignation of Root? What has he done for the good of his coun- try ? He has Europeanized the army and imperialized the country. He has flouted the constitution and insulted every tradi- tion of the fathers of the Republic. But he has flattered the vanity of the clown in the White House. The people of this country bave just rea- son to be grateful because ELIHU Roor is leaving the publicservice. Every day that he sat in the office of Seoretary of War he stood a menace to the liberties of the peo- ple. He created discontent and built up a personal machine to take the place of the army. - He advanced favorites for no other reason than that they were subservient to his whims and those of the President and humiliated faithful soldiers and grizzled veterans because they failed to show obedi- ence not to the constitution and the laws but to Roor and his clownish master. He has resigned and in his resignation the country bas escaped a great danger. ——Young men who voted on age last year must be registered if they want to vote next fall. Wednesday,September 2nd, is the last day on which you can register. ——Labor day means that you are to take a day off and come in to town to see the Eagles flying round. ——Don’t forget that next Wednesday will be the last day on which you can be registered. ed th'escape been brought’ to justice. That is what BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 28, 19083. ‘Senator Depew’s ldea. Senator CHAUNCY M. DEPEW, of New York, returned from Europe on Monday and as usual began talking politics the mo- ment he landed. Every newspaper in the city had been notified of his coming and of course each one had a reporter at the pier to meet him and he chattered to them with characteristic energy and = enthmsiasm. “How about politics ?’” ventured one of them cautiously. ‘‘I am of the same opin- ion as when I went away,’’ he replied. *‘It will be ROOSEVELT in 1904 by acclama- tion.” “You said then,’”’ continued the reporter, ‘‘that President ROOSEVELT'S election depended somewhat on the way he handled the postal scandal,’’ and the Sena- tor promptly answered, ‘‘yes, I did, and I am glad to say he is handling it well.” Let us review the record of the handling of the postal scandal by President ROOSE- VELT. On his return from the West he found the Department in confusion and demoralization. The wife of the solicitor general for the Department had invaded the office from which her husband had been suspended and abstracted from the same every scrap of evidence of his complicity in the looting operations. It had been shown that PERRY S. HEATH, secretary of the Republican National Committee and for- merly first assistant Postmaster General had pragtically organized the frauds and that venality was rampant in every division. A couple of unimportant subordinates had been suspended and indicted when the Pres- ident returned from the Yellowstone, and he dramatically declared that he wouldn’t leave Washington until a thorough exami- nation had been made and every rascal punished. How did he keep that promise, Imme- diately afterward he ordered that investi- gations be made in secret and for a couple of weeks there was a great pretense of energy in the search for frauds. But at the expiration of that time he left Washington for Oyster Bay without bringing a single rascal to justice. Then he gave his atten- tion to other thinge and the time limit for prosecutions was allowed to pass without even an attempt being made to indict PERRY HEATH. Subsequently BEAVERS, one of the indicted conspirators, was allow- scape and npot.a single criminal has Senator DEPEW calls handling the postal scandals well. It is certainly handling it weli for the criminals, for it guarantees im- munity from punishment for every one of them. ——The young Democrat who voted on age last fall should bear in mind that he cannot vote at all, at the coming election, unless he is registered. This must be done before 9 o’clock on the evening of Septem- ber 2nd. Supersensitive, In a recent issue of the WATCHMAN the following paragraph appeared : Since the post office system has been reor- ganized it would be very convenient if postmas- ter Montgomery would correct the collection cards on the mail boxes. The next day the Daily News published what we presume to be an answer to it as follows : Postmaster Montgomery wishes us to state that the time mentioned on the collection cards on the mail boxes is correct. There was one ex- ception, that of the box in front of the Warcu- MAN office. Where it says 1:40 p. m. for the. after dinner collection it should read 1:30 This is due to the fact that the time of leaving for the Lewisburg passenger train has been changed from 2:15 to 2:00 p. m. A small piece of bared with 1:30 written on it has been pasted over he 1:40 thus making the correction. The Warca- MAN was a little hasty in criticising postmaster Montgomery in this matter iu this weeks issue. There is no more paingtaking official in the gov- ernment employ than Mr. Montgomery who does everything in his power for the improvement of the service. After reading the four line paragraph and then the silly reply the sensible reader can come to only one of two conclusions: Either the postmaster Montgomery is su- persensitive or the News is a fool. The WATCHMAN had no intention what- ever of ‘‘slarring”’ the ‘‘painstaking offi- cial’’ and we fancy that even the News might have found its magnificent command of English taxed just a trifle to have more politely called the attention of the post master to a matter that needed it. Since the post-office was moved up town there has been an evening collection of mail made from the boxes in the business district down-fown, just as was the up town collection when the office was in the old quarters. This collection is made at 7 o'clock p. m. and as the last hour of col- lection stated on the card on the box was 4 o'clock it will be readily seen that there was considerable confusion as to when a letter could really be dropped in order to catch the evening mails, out-going. If calling the attention of such a dis- crepancy, in the politest language possible, can be construed into a slur by the post- master all we can say is that he is Snper- gensitive and we have no apologies to offer. If the News flew to his defense without inspiration, which we wonld prefer to have been the case, the incident may be regarded as olosed, as it is only the News. ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. ae HSIEH ‘a good adviser. NO. 34. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. : The samples of the new ballot which goes into use for the first time at the com- ing election show it to be still far from per- fection, yet a vast improvement over the old form. In the first place it is smaller and, therefore, more convenient than the large sheet formerly used, while we: get | a step nearer to the real Australian ballot by the abandonment of the party columns and substituting therefor the names of candidates in groups under the title of the offices for which they have nominated. No candidate’s name is printed more than once no matter by how many parties he may be nominated. : Under the old form a single name could appear in any number of columns, and politicians took advantage of this provis- ion to confuse and mislead enwary voters, by a multiplication of the columns. This will no longer be possible, but there is still likely to be some confusion by having two ways to mark the ballot. : . The ballot reformers desired one system of marking, justly contending that where there was but one way the chance of blun- dering would he reduced to a minimum; but the Legislature refased: to carry the re- form to that extent, and yielded to the de- mand of those who insisted «that there should be provisions by which a straight ticket of any party could be voted by a single mark. In the old ballot this was done by making a cross in the circle at the top of the party column; in the new ballot it is provided for in the column ‘of party names down the left side of the sheet. The ballot in its new shape’ may not al- together realize the hopes of the most pro- ‘nounced reformers, but it certainly is an advance in the right direction. Now let some method of ensuring an honest count be found, and the ballot may at last be- ‘come expressive of the real voice of the people. And This from a Republican Paper. From the Altoona Tribune. 4 The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic pays a just if gen- erous tribute to Lieut. General Miles in the resolution concerning his brilliant and long continued services in the army of his country. The Tribune concedesthat Gen- eral Miles made some mistakes, but all the mistakes of his official life put together would be far from equaling the great blunder of President Roosevelt in permit- ting the vengeful temper of his Sedretary of War to lead to the curt retirement of Miles, without a word in acknowledgment’ of his splendid services. It did not hurt Miles, bus it did hurt the President and it demonstrated that the Seoretary of War, in spite of his very considerable merits, is pot The Reliance Wins the Second Races. First . and NEw YORK, Aug. 23.—In absolutely perfect yachting weather and nothing to mar the fairness of the trial, Reliance on Saturday beat Shamrock III by seven min- utes and three seconds, corrected time, over a thirty mile course, fifteen miles to windward and return. The American yacht gained three minutes and twenty seconds on the Briton on the beat to the turning mark, and then, in one of the pret- tiest runs home before the wind ever wit- nessed, gained an additional five minutes and thirty-nine seconds. In actual sailing, boat for boat, Reliance beat Shamrock nine minutes in the thirty miles, and demon- strated even to the doubting ones that she is the better all around boat and is able to hold the cup. esi It was a glorious fifty-second anniver- sary of the victory of the old America in the first race for the now celebrated cup. Bright sunshine, a steady smooth sea greet- ed the cup racers and the great fieet of ex- cursion boats that met at the old red Sandy Hook lightship at 11 Saturday morning. But the wind was from the southwest, and that necessitated a shift in the starting place to a point some distance out to sea, in order to be able to lay the course into the wind and not endanger the yachts by sending them into shoal water. This change delayed the start of the race forty-five minutes, but that proved no hardship to the excursionists, for the race, once started, was soon over. The thirty mile course was covered by the American sloop in three hours, thirty- two minutes and seventeen seconds, which bas been but once beaten in a windward and leeward cup race. That one time was in October, 1893, when Vigilant beat Valkyrie II in three hours, twenty-four minutes and thirty-nine seconds in a fif- teen mile to windward and back course from the Scotland lightship. But tbat match was sailed in a gale of wind, where- as yesterday twelve knots was the strongest, aud it often softened to eight knots an our. Reliance Took Second Race! NEw YORK, August 25.—In a glorious whole-sail breeze, over a triangular course, ten miles to a leg, the fleet footed cup de- fender Reliance again to-day showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger, taking the second race of the cup series of 1903 by the narrow margin of one min- ute and nineteen seconds. It was as pret- ty and hard a fought contest as has ever been sailed off Sandy Hook and, had the wind not fallen during the last ten min- utes, the record for the course, three hours, twelve minutes and fifteen seconds, made by Columbia two years ago in her memor- able race against Shamrock II would have been broken. As it was Reliance sailed the thirty within miles two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of the record, which pesky wonders for her speed in the wind that was blowing. Reliance’s victory, nar- row as it was, would have been even smaller had not Captain Wringe, the skipper of the British ship, bungled the start, sending his craft over the line nineteen seconds after the last gun and handicapping her to that extent. At every point of sailing the defender’s superiority was demonstrated. She gained one minute and fifty-one sec- onds in windward work, forty seconds on the run to the second mark, and forty- five seconds on the close reach for home. iy 3 -. Spawls from the Keystone. —A Cambria county farmer declares that the country’s potato and wheat crops are far above the average this year, : —The Thirteenth Pennsylvania. Veteran Cavalry association will hold its annual re- union at Jersey Shore on Thursday, Septem- ber 17th, 1903. —Adam Schaefer, of Williamsport, inven- tor and patentee of an eyeless and wireless umbrella, which he has been making for some time, has just equipped a new factory and will manufacture on a larger scale. —Helen M. Young, aged six and a half years, daughter of groceryman T. J. Young, of Altoona, was ¢ badly burned Friday that she died Saturday night. The child was playing with matches and her clothing took fire. ' —Miss Esther Murphy, of Chester Hill,the victim of the shooting affray at the Alle- gheny house, Clearfield, a week ago last Sun- day, hasso far recovered as to be able to leave the hospital. She is again ‘at the Alle- gheny house and recovering rapidly. . —Early Thursday morning last a dog knocked a lantern over in the barn of Frank Mirely, near Cassville, Huntingdon county, and the barn, with all its contents,except the stock and some machinery, went up in smoke. —William Silas Shaffer, brakeman on the Tangascootac railroad, several days ago dis- tinguished himself by killing two large rat- tle snakes with one stone. Asa testimonial of the unusual feat his friends now refer to Mr. Shaffer as ‘‘Rattle snake Bill.” —Sherman Freeman, of Mammoth, met a tragic death while hauling pit posts Friday afternoon. He was on top of the load when the wheel of the wagon dropped into a rut. He was thrown from the wagon falling under the wheels which ran over him, crushing his head. He died soon afterward. The dead man was 34 years old. —A man whose name is unknown, but who has been in the vicinity of Rockwood grind- ing scissors for some time, was struck and in- stantly killed near that place by excursion train No. 13, running from Cumberland to Pittsburg Saturday evening. Little is known of the victim save that his home was sup- posed to be in Punxsutawney. | —Harry Moore, aged ten years. a son of J. Hollinsworth Moore, of Williamsport, was drowned at 4:30 o'clock Saturday. Thirty" five boys were syimming nearby and none saw him drown. When the boys were ready to go home the little fellow was missed and his clothes lying on a trestle where he had left them were mute testimony of Lis death. ‘The body was recovered at 7:30,just as it was becoming dusk and hope of finding it was on ‘the wane. —While passing through Antia, near Du- Bois, on Wednesday of last week, with her daughter, Mrs. Peter Conroy, and a little daughter, the horse driven by Mrs. William Couch, of Rossiter, became frightened ata locomotive and backed over an embankment about thirty feet high. The horse and vehi- cle fell on top of the occupants. Mrs, Couch sustained injuries from which she died at?2 o'clock, and Mrs. Conroy and the child were both severely hurt and are in a critical con- ditien.. dish “ ~The mangled body of a man named James Casey,of Braddock, was found Sunday morn- ing on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks about one mile east of Summerhill. Casey had been seen about Summerhill for a week or so. It is supposed that late Saturday night or early Sunday morning Casey started to walk to Lilly or Cresson, when he was struck by a train. His watch was found on his body and the hands pointed the hour of 3:30, and itis believed that it was at that time in the morning he was killed. The body was badly mangled, both legs being ground off and his head terribly crushed. —The camp meeting at Newton Hamilton is now numbered with the past religious gath- erings of the year 1903. It wasa successful meeting from the beginning to the end. A writer speaking of the work done by many faithful people, says special mention is due to the efficient and faithful services of Miss Ida C. Nearhoof, of Warriorsmark, who pre- sided untiringly at the organ throughout all the services from the early morning each day to late at night. Her sweet spirit and patience won the admiration of all. Miss Flow Stouch, of Altoona, and all who were active in the various sessions were well pleas- ed and declare their intention of returning next year. —The Pennsylvania railroad is pushing the work of building its telegraph pole lines to replace those destroyed for the Western Union company, and expects to be able to turn them over to the Postal company by October 1st, when the telegraph company will rush the work of stringing its wires. A large force of wen is at work at present erect- ing poles between Tyrone and Altoona, and along the Northern Central and Cumberland Valley railroads. The Pennsylvania rail- road : will own all the poles along its right of way, under its contract with the Postal, and will merely lease them to that company, in order to remain in command of the situa- fion. Work is being pushed on the new telegraph office at the Broad street station, Philadelphia, and it will be ready for service in a few weeks. —On last Wednesday night or very early Thursday morning, as a son or employee 0 John C. Goss, whose home isin Clearfield county, but at present is doing some contract work in the vicinity of Grafton, Huntingdon county, was driving in a carriage near Graf- ton, his horse plunged over a steep bank by the roadside, and was killed. The driver himself was uninjured. Mr. Goss was in- formed of the loss of his horse and the man- ner in which it occurred. He at once in- formed the supervisor that he would make a claim of $125. Rather than have a suit over the matter the supervisor and some of the leading citizens of the township where the accident occurred, thought that it would be best to settle the affair at once, for they real- ized that the law strictly and definitely pro- vides that all public highways shall be made safe to travelers, and they well knew that proper precaution had not been taken by them. They, without very much delibera- tion. decided to pay the damage claimed by Mr. Goss, and on Saturday morning Anthony Forshey, the supervisor, paid over to him $125 for the loss of his horse.
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