1 SE tag Deworatic: {atc BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Some people court trouble so long that they come to think they are married to it. — Every time Judge LovE looks at those figures from Clearfield, the question comes to him: ‘‘Am I to be the next?" — After all there is some consolation in not being ANDREW CARNEGIE. No one pokes at us a tax-bill of $141,367. —The queer thing about itis that the President has recognized the government of Panama before it has been able to recog- nize itself. / —Monday wae the day fixed for Hon. “Jor” CANNON to go off, but so far we have not heard of any damage heing done by the report. —Whatever else we may say or think about ourselvesas Pennsylvanians the elec- tion returns furnish the evidence that most of us would rather be rotten than right. —Tammany may be tough, as our Re- publican friends charge, but even with all its toughness it don’t propose that New York shall be Low during the next two years like it has been the past two. _ —Science has discovered, by radiometer e xperiments, that the heat from Saturn :e quals that of a tallow dip ten miles away. “Saturn must be about as blisteringly hot as the ordinary Philadelphia reform move- ment. — After considering carefully the com- plete returns from Pennsylvania, we are forced to the conclusion that General APATHY accomplished more than all the others leaders combined. Here are our congrats’ to General A! —Somehow or other the Stock market don’t seem to waken up to the fact that the party of ‘‘progress and prosperity’ won such a ‘glorious victory’’ on the 3rd inst. A nd the Stock market is usually as quick to see a point as any one else. —Senator HANNA threatens to throw the next individual who mentions the Presi- dency to him out of the ‘‘sixth-story win- dow,’’” which leads us to conclude that the connection of his name with this office, is influencing the old cock to roost rather high. --The Democrats who insist that there ought to be a better Democratic organiza- tion within the State than there is, is right ti—solearly right. And the way to get it is ei For each one of these fellows to begin the _M*pettering’’ process right in his own dis- trict. —While it might not be rapturously consoling it should at least keep Judge BELL, of Blair county, from swelling up _ with.egotism:to occasionally remember that the voters of his district, by a majority of 1713, declared their preference for another kind of a Judge. —I¢ is truly wonderfal how many im- p ure food dealers that press-bureau, of Dr. WARREN, has heen able to discover, and how infinitely few the courts bave any knowledge of. Really it is beginning to look as if that press-bureau is the only thing at work in the Department of Agriculture. —SAM PARKS, the walking delegate, whe is ‘*‘doing’’ time in Sing-Sing for robbing labor organizations and black-mailing em- ployers. may mourn his fate, but he still has the consolation of knowing there are others just as deserving of it as he. SAMUEL is not the only black sheep in that flock. —The Clearfield elections evidently has put a little life into the supposedly extinct judicial boom of Col. EDWARD CHAMBERS. The wriggle in the tail of it since the GOR- DON turn-down, shows that it is not as dead as those who thought they had it scotched imagined. Tt may not be dan- gerous but still it lives. : —One might imagine from the amount of straw hail that has heen put up in Phil- a delphia that that city was as prolific in its agricultural products as in its election day repeaters and its dealers in white slaves. Bunt then for recognized greatness in any crooked business Philadelphia has never yet failed to ‘‘take the cake.”’ —JOHN BRISBANE WALKER, of the Cosmopolitan, should shake off the shivers that come over him when contemplating how Russia may swipe us off the map when it gets its borde of Chinese trained as fight- ers. Mr. BRISBANE evidently don’t know that we have a Major General CHARLES MILLER, in this country,or he wonldn’t be scared. —Since the slump in the value of po- litical Judges, as shown by the Clearfield elections, his Honor, Judge LOVE, has been busy re-margining his stock and praying for some power that will aid him in ‘‘bull- ing’’ the market for the next twelve months. Really it looks as if stock in a political judgeship is little, if ‘any, better than in Lake Superior or Steel common, and the fellow who is loaded with all of these has a hopeless out-look indeed. —Verily onr faith in the efforts and efficacy of the pulpit has received a dis- couraging back set. The Shamokin goat that breakfasted, last Sunday morning, on Rev. JouN DOHENY’S sermon, is said to be just as ‘‘wicked and wayard’’ as ever. Now if a belly-full of sermons wont faze the devilishness of a billy-goat, how can we expect the little the public gets of them to prove of lasting benefit to the equally stub- born, even if more intelligent, creatures who listen to them. VOL. 48 . STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Don’t Get Gay. The esteemed Philadelphia Press imagines that it 1s having all kinds of fun with the editor of the WATCHMAN on account of his analysis of the vote of the several States, and of this State,at the recent election pub- lished last week. The Press, which ap- pears to have sacrificed its manliness as well as independence and become the most subservient QUAY organ in the State, is unable to see how any Democrat can ex- tract any comfort out of the returns though just before the election it assured its read- ers that Maryland would go overwhelm- ingly Republican, that Kentucky was a doubtful State that Tammany and the Democracy of New York would be snowed under, and that its party would hold its own everywhere else. As a matter of fact later returns confirm- ed our estimate, hastily made last week, that there are abundant reasons for Democratic exultation over the result of the election. Not a fissure has been made inthe Demo- cratic entrenchments in , the South. In Iowa, Massachusetts and Connecticut Democratic gains were made which, if sus- tained, on a full vote next year will put all those States in the Democratic column. Then New York has been made certain for the Democratic presidential candidate next year and Delaware, and West Virginia are as certain to be in that classification -as Texas or Alabama. In this State we have only to add to our presentation of the situation that an esteem- ed Harrisburg contemporary reminds us that we overlooked Dauphin county in our estimate. In the second district of that coun- ty, with three Representatives in the Legis- lature,the Republican machine was defeat- ed by nearly five hundred majority and the organization of Democrats and Indepen’ dent Republicans which achieved that re- sult is to be continued so that next year there is certain to be a loss to the machine of three Assemblymen there. Altogether we have nofhing to retract from our former estimate. = Admitting the claim of the Press that the Repub- licans won back the Bucks, and Wayne— Susquehanna senatorial districts, and adding the Dauphin and Cumberland Democratic gains, which were overlooked, to our list of Representative districts, it still leaves a net gain for the Democracy of One Judicial district, ~~ 14 Two Congressional disbricts, Two Senatorial districts, And twelve Representative districts. This certainly should be sufficient to at least admonish our Philadelphia contem- porary that it is not exactly a condition which would justify it in getting to gay. ——Col. NED CHAMBERS, gives every appearance of believing that if he could only get a chance to run for Judge that he could show himself to be in the Lou Dil- lon class. But then there is often a great difference between what some fellows think aud what they can do. reer Bane of Organized Labor. On his way to Sing Sing penitentiary the other day, SAM PARKS, the New York walking delegate who has been levying tri- bute upon the workingmen of that city and blackmail on their emplogers for several years, halted the melancholy procession long enough to utter a word of admonition to. his victims. ~ Don’t do as I'have done, he faid,or you will all come to where I am go- ing. In other words he cautioned them against the vice of avarice because, as he stated it, that will not only bring them into trouble as individuals but it will ultimate- ly work the destruction of labor organiza- tions. No truer word bas ever heen spoken and though it came from a bad souice it is none the less worthy of attention. The bane of labor organizations at pres- ent is the walking delegate, the legislative agent, the lobbyist or to sum them all up in ‘one general characterization, ‘ the man who draws a salary. Probably, as PARKS said himself, when those men are first put in position they are honest, earnest, sincere. But before they are long in the place they learn to think that the para- mount use of a labor organization is to maintain themselves in luxurious idleness and they forget the interests of their asso- ciates in the anxiety to better their own condition. From/'that time on they simply manipulate labor conditions for their own personal advautage and reap the harvest for themselves out of the sorrows of their fel- lows. ° g We baveseen it in this State dozens of times. TERRENCE V. POWDERLY grew opulent in purse land powerful in politics by farming the Knights of Labor and JOHN JARRETT, as president of the Amalgamated. Association of Iron and Tin workers, made himself rich as his fellow workmen grew poor. GARLAND, who succeeded JARRETT, worked himself into the office of Surveyor of the Port at Pittsburg and SHAFFER, the present incumbent of the station, has been paving the way for a similar soft snap for himself. And so it goes and has gone from the beginning. If the labor organizations want to continue they will cut off the pen- sioners at once. An Extraordinary Action. The extraordinary action of President ROOSEVELT in declaring a protectorate over the mushroom Republic of Panama will promptly and properly be made a subject of congressional investigation. It is sus- pected that in his zeal to consummate the negotiations for the Panama canal, the President had something to do with pro- jeoting the so-called revolution and the haste with which he declared the protecto- rate justifies the suspicion. It is to be hoped, however, that the investigation will disprove the accusation. Such a thing would bea grave violation of the principles of international law and though it may not involve us in serious war, it would cer- tainly provoke the contempt of the civiliz- ed world. It is a well established rule among the nations, which recognize the principles of civilization, that it is the duty of every country to discourage revolutions and other forms of disturbance of peace and tranquili- ty. This rule is essential to the preserva- tion of order and authority. In its ab- sence there would be constant conspiracies among nations influenced by covetnousness. and sordid passions, to provoke revolu- tions in order that the stronger might ac- quire the weaker by conquest growing out of services in defence or attack. That the United States should be the first in many years to violate this manifestly just rule of conduct would be a subject of humiliation to all the people of the country. But that is no reason to doubt the Presi- dent’s culpability in the matter in mind. He has already proved in a hundred ways an utter indifference to the obligations of his office. Even before he became Presi- dent, and while yet serving as Governor of New York, he refused so obey the constitu- tional mandate which requires the Gover- nor of one State to surrender to the au- thorities of another a man accused of crime and a fugitive from justice. Since his ac- cidental and calamitous elevation to the Presidency he has frequently shown an utter disregard of his moral and official duties and if he bas, in order to serve a selfish purpose or feed his inordinate vani- ty, violated his oath of office and his obli- gations to the world, he ought to be brought to account for the grave offense at the earliest moment possible. oR ——Hon. JoEN SHARP WILLIAMS, has been chosen as the minority leader in Con- gress, from which it is but natural to infer that there will be some cutting work done by the Democrats. : Snyder’s Full Vote. Senator WILLIAM P. SNYDER, the Re- publican candidate for Auditor General, fell 13,357 behind his associates on the ticket—hardly enough to ‘‘make it worthy of mention.”” There are hundreds of rea- sons in his devious course in the Legisla- ture why he should have been opposed by even the strictest partisans. His constant obedience to the commands of corporate in- terests, his utter indifference to his obliga- tions of office and citizenship, and his abso- late servility to the machine should have produced that result, but it didn’t. Finally it was confidently believed that his active support of the press muzzler would influence a considerable number of | ‘votes against him. Ymmediately after the’ passage of that measute the Republican editors of the State were unanimous in their denunciation of it asa culminating atrocity. They urged the organization of newspaper men into a body for the purpose of manifesting their reprobation of any man who supported the iniquity, and they fairly frothed with indignation whenever the subject was brought into notice. Later in the campaign they showed the servility of the Republican press by accepting SNY- DER as a proper candidate and gave to him the same support they gave the other can- didates on that ticket. The inference is that raucerous party bigotry has taken so complete a hold on the average Republican, whether news- paper publisher or not, that nothing will turn him from his party ticket. Senator SNYDER has shown his unfitness for the office of Auditor General by his zealous service of corporations in the Legislature and every Republican editor in the State was aware of the fact. Bub they sacrificed their own convictions, the material inter- ests of their neighbors and every oconsid- eration which should govern them in order to preserve that party fetish called regu- larity. The result is they have SNYDER and the press muzzler both and no hope of getting rid of either of them. ——Even after the returns from his own town showed a falling off of almost 200 Republican votes, chairman REEDER had the gall to wire the newspapers,on election night, that Centre ‘county would give the Machine ticket 500 majority. On the average vote the majority was 17 the other way. All of which goes to show how little Mr. REEDER knows of the politics of the county, or how little respect he has for the trath. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 13, 1903. Wage Reduction Set In, Following in the wake of the election comes information of decreases of wages in all sections of the country. On Friday and Saturday of last week a number of mills about Philadelphia and at Columbia, Lancaster county, this State, gave notice of reductions in wage rates of on an average of ten per cent. and on Monday the Read- ing Tube and iron company posted notices of a reduction in the wages of puddlers from $4.50 to $4 a ton. At Harrisburg similar reductions were made in some mills while others shut down altogether, the reason being, presumably, to make it easier to force the men to consent to the reduc- tions. x Manifestly the notices of these reductions were withheld until after the elections for political reasons. The men were allowed to continue under the false notion that prosperity is unimpaired until they bad cast their votes for the party which pre- tends to act as Providence for the indus- trial element of the country, and having conveyed an extension of power for another year at least, the truth is presented to them in the cruel and forbidding form of a notice of a decrease in wages. It is poor com- pensation for their services and servitude. But it is about what might be expected from the pampered tariff pensioners who are fitly represented in the public life of the country by MARK HANNA. There has been no diminution of the cost of living to salve the bruise on the hearts of the deceived workingmen which the de- crease in wages will involve. The sober, industrious and honest mechanic who hoped to increase the comforts of his family out of the fruits of an uninterrupted prosperity will be obliged to smother that delightful expectation and do the hest he can with diminished revenues and unaltered neces- sities. Meantime the public profligacy will go on unimpeded and HANNA and the hoarde of hungry beef-eaters who cluster about him will enjoy their plenty while idle workmen suffer from want. The Place to Begin. The Williamsport Sun is showing great perturbation of soul in consequence of the shert vote polled by the Democrats at the recent election, and demands that ‘‘there should be some house ‘cleaning by the _Demifratic party” of Pennsylvania.” We | agree with the Sun that there is something ‘seriously wrong,”” but when we come to look at the returns we find that there are just as ‘“‘serionus wrongs’ in Lycoming as in any other county of the State, if the total vote polled is to be considered as the re- sult of these wrongs. In no section of the State, even taking the demoralized and dis- ‘honored condition of the party in Phila- delphia into consideration, do the returns show worse for the party than in the Sun’s own county. And then when we take into consideration the fact that within that county there is more wealth among the Democrats, and possibly more influential and prominent men who are members of the party, than in any other county of the State outside of Allegheny and Philadel- phia, the wonder comes, ‘‘what is wrong in Lycoming ?”’ Verily if there is to be a Democratic house cleaning it might be well for us all to begin at home. Co}. McClure’s Appointinent. If there were no other reasons for a feel- ing of satisfaction over the appointment of Colonel A. K. MCCLURE to the office of Prothonotary of the Supreme conrt for the Eastern district, the fact that it shuts Speaker HENRY F. WALTON, of Phila- delphia, out of that important position would be sufficient to make all decent citizens rejoice. During the last session of the Legislature Speaker WALTON sramped ‘took au oath to ‘support, obey and .de- fend,” violated the rules which he was sworm to enforce and protect, and sacri- ficed every principle of decency in order to serve the machine. His reward for this unjust and criminal service was to be the appointment to the office in question. “It is altogether the most valuable political prize which has been accessible for many years. The emoluments amount to nearly $15,000 a year and the term of office is during life. There is practically little to do and it brings the incumbent into intimate asso- ciation with the Supreme court judges, the leading lawyers and most delightful people in the State. It would have been a great pity if such a place had gone to ove of the depraved moral fibre which must make up a man who has no respect for his oath. But there are other reasons for satisfac- tion in the appointment of Colonel Mec- CLURE to that office. He just fits it and it fits him. A man of splendid intellect: ual equipment, profound learning in the law, striot integrity and in every conceiv- able respect well qualified for the place, bis appointment is creditable to 'those respon- sible for it, honorable to himself and a guarantee to the people of the State of ex- cellent service while he lives and we hope that will be long. We congratulate Col. McCLURE on his good fortune. It gunaran- tees him an easy and contented evening of i 1ife and he deserves that. By —————— on the constitution of the State, which he | NO. 45. Our Heroic (3) President, From the Johnstown Democrat. It is certainly an off day ‘when President Roosevelt fails to deliver himself’ of a homily. He keeps himself constantly. at the centre of the stage and in the full glare of the lime light. And if we were to take him on his own valuation we should be constrained to rank him with the a and saints in virtue and with the martyrs in moral courage. ; To a magazine he has just contributed a ‘letter which describes the writer as a man ahove the petty weaknesses of his kind. It paints him as a hero and calls the atten- tion of an admiring world to his sturdy in- difference to the ordinary considerations of party and friendship when the call is made upon him for the rigid discharge of duty. ‘‘Any one who is guilty,” he declares, evidently thinking of the McKinley men who are now under fire and who in due course are to be supplanted by Roesevelt men, ‘‘is to be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law. I care nota rap for the political or social influence of any human being when the question is one of his guilt or innocence in such a matter as corruption in the government service. If anyone is to be alienated from me by the fact that I directed the prosecution of gross wrongdo- ing, why, all I can say is let him be alien- ated.” : That is indeed brave. That is indeed worthy of the hero of San Juan hill. That is indeed like the man who has made Dr. Leonard Wood famous and who let Gen. Miles leave the army after 42 years’ service without a ocvurageous word. But how about the Hon. Perry S. Heath, secretary of the Republican national committee, pro- tege of Mark Hanna, late first assistant postmaster general and recent beneficiary of the statue of limitations? What has Mr. Roosevelt done in the matter of bring- ing this thrifty statesman to hook for the corruptions in government which Mr. Bristow lays at his door. Mr. {Roosevelt's words and deeds do not travel well together. They constitute an unruly team. They are always at sixes and sevens. Yet the president is a vir- tuous man and a moral hero. We know it because he himself hath said it. Kansas Prosperity. From the Meadville Democrat. Kansas has had a trial of a chan, a Democratic-Populist administration to a Republican administration, which bas given the people some costly experience. The Republican legislature increased taza- tion on real estate 35 per cent withont making any improvement in the public service. The eight thousand seven hun- dred miles of railroad in the state is taxed at a rate of 15-10 mills on the valuation while farm property is taxed at a rate of 10 mills on thedollar of valuation. . +; » To compensate the farmers for this gress from inequality the Republicans eclaiin to'bave | given to the farmers the splendid crops of corn and wheat that they have just har- vested. This claim of the local state government of Kansas must be considered a political heresy, as the prerogative of sending good crops to the farmers of this country must be ascribed to Roosevelt, Quay, Platt and Mark Hanna, who must. be recognized as the sole dispensors of national prosperity. The disastrous flood that destroyed millions of property in Kansas must be blamed on Bryan and the Democrats. Republican prosperity, to farmers comes through an invisible tariff tax of fifty per cent. added to the real value of everything that they need in the economy of their homes. This prosperity tax is needed in the incubation of millionaires, who pay Republican campaign expenses. Machine Egotism. From the Meadeville Democrat. Is would appear that the climax of audac- ity has heen reached by the Republican hosses of Pennsylvania, in their representa- tion of the political condition of the State and the trend of public opinion in regard to the record of machine-rule. Senator Penrose is given as authority for the statement that ‘‘the people of Penn- sylvania are satisfied with their national and state governments and they are deter- mined to ‘‘let well enough alone.’”’ *‘They do not want a change in either the methods or the policies of the national or state gov- ernment.”’” That is to say, ‘‘He that is filthy, let him be filthy still.” Let bri- bery, political lust and usurpation of pow- ‘er hold high carnival in the State and without restraint. : Whether such conclusions are correct or not it is the determination of the machine bosses, with their characteristic audacity, to force that construction of the public's anlahes down the throats of the ‘peo- ple. i If the egotistic boasting of the Penrose declarations have any semblance of truth, God save the Commonwealth and the rights and liberties of the people. . i For Show and Blow. From the La Cygne (Kas.) Standard. What's happened to President Roose- velt’s trust-busting crusade? The silence regarding his proposed shackling of cun- ning trusts is almost painful as the time for renomination approaches, His pro- found quietude upon the subject tends to create a suspicion that hie instructions to the attorney general about prosecuting trusts and his strenuous talks in public in condemnation of them are like the lady's two handkerchiefs—*‘one for show and the other for blow.” How the New Plan Will Work, From the Grand Island (Neb.) Democrat. Under the new Republican financial scheme, the people will be compelled to bear an even larger burden of taxation that will pile up an enormous surplus in the treasury that may be loaned at a low rate of interest so that the banks may loan it to the people at a high rate of interest. By this meaus the people will get money to pay more taxes to create another treasury surplus. : HE tles | more ways than one. Spawls from the Keystone. —Vaccination physicians scratched 1229 arms in four days in Allegheny. —The State Sabbath School Convention wily be held at Harrisburg on November 16th and 7th, and the Pennsylvania National Reform Convention at the same place November 18th and 19th. —Forest fires are raging in many parts of Schuylkill county and Pottsville is practical- ly surrounded by conflagration. In the sub- urbs ‘brush’ gangs are fighting to save their homes. —Seventy five churches in Schuylkill and neighboring counties, on Sunday, lifted a special offering for the benefit of the Potts- ville Hospital. It amounted to several thou- sand dollars. —Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, of Pittsburg, who is dead in London, and whose $50,000,000 in lands draws enormous ground rents, and who gave Schenley park to the city years ago, willed nothing to charity. . —Thomas J. Whittaker, who has just been elected sheriff of Schuylkill county, is but 30 years old, and when he goes into office on January 1st, he will be the youngest sheriff who ever held office in the county. —Burglars failed in an attempt to crack the safe in the post office at Osceola Mills Wednesday night. They fired several shots at a passing citizen who escaped unhurt. A policeman fired a few shots at the fleeing burglars, but without any result. ; —S8. C. Harrison, 55 years old, who lived in Buffalo township, near Forest Hill, Union county, Saturday afternoon was struck bya Reading train while driving across the tracks at Lewisburg and instantly killed, as was al- go his horse. Mr. Harrison is survived by his wife. : BA —With simple and unostentatious ceremo- nies ‘William L. Elkins’ body was placed in the handsome: family maussoleum in Laurel Hill cemetery on Tuesday. In accordance ‘with 'the request of the late financier, his funeral was’ a quiet one, and only members of the family followed the remains to their last resting place. i. 4H ¥ % ’ eu ¥ —Turkey buyers from all over the country are scouring Lehigh county looking for tur- keys for the Thanksgiving trade. They are scouring in vain, though. Itis many years since this bird has been so scarce as at pres- ent, and where farmers used to have flocks of 50 and 100 turkeys each at this time of the year, they are now lucky to have half a dozen. HERS ~ —Dr. F. E. Weddigen has brought suit against the Lycoming county commissioners for holding two autopsies on the bodies of Pietro Crasho and James McElwee, which were ordered by Coroner Trainer. The com- | missioners: claim the post mortem examina- tions were unnecessary, but are willing to compromise on $150, which the physician de- clines to accept. SiR —Mrs. Jobn S. Barner, of Susquehanna township, sister-in-law of Absalom Barner, tried and acquitted on the charge of mi ing Adam Goodling, in Juniata cour and a half years ago. was shot and Ki some unidentified person in ambush home on Friday. The tragedy’ 8 while. Mrs. Barner was aiding her h in some work about the barn. She most at her husband’s feet. —Ex-Mayor W. G. Elliott, of Williams- port, sold his home at the corner of West Fourth and Elmira streets to the newly or-- ganized Congregational church for $29,000. It is the intention of the Congregationalists to convert the mansion into a house of wor- ship, as soon as they get possession on March 15th, 1904. The house was built by ex-Con- gressman W. H, Armstrong from 1863 to 1866 and cost Mr. Armstrong $40,000. — Railroad officials at Harrisburg “are still talking about the collision Friday night of the Chicago Limited with the rear end of a Cumberland Valley freight in the yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad 'in that city, in which the passenger engine leaped into the air and alighted on a gondola loaded with ore. The engine made the julp as graceful- ly as if it had been lifted to its lofty position by the aid of a steam derrick. It weighed 134,000 pounds and was found’ to be damaged but little. . 1 ¥ —The question has been raised as to what Judge Bell's salary in Blair Co.,will be after Jan. 1st, 1904. The act of assembly of ‘April 14th, 1903, fixing the salaries of the judges of the various courts of Pennsylvania, gives $5,- 000a year to the judge of a county having a population of less than 90,000 and $7,000 where the county has only one judge and a popula- tion of between 90,000 and 500,000. Although Blair connty has undoubtedly over 90,000, the last official census only gives it 85,099, and Judge Bell’s salary will depend upon whether or not the law recognizes only the census figures. —The Meyersdale Republican tells a fish story that is, to say the least, remarkable in It avers that a man got a box of apples together with a six pound bass from Paw Paw, Va., and that the bass was alive and flopping when the box was opened at Meyersdale. Making no allow- ance for transportation delays, and assuming that the box came through as quickly asa 2 4 LE | train could haul it, the fish would have been out of water five or six hours. If it was alive at the end of that time, it was a pretty tough fish; but we incline to the view that it is the story that is tough, not the fish. —The most mysterious cases of starvation among cattle with good appetites, that are well fed. which the State Veterinarians have ever encountered, have been reported by farmer M. O. Reagle, of Bangor, Pa. He has lost 36 cows in that way, and neighbor- ing farmers have suffered similar but not such extensive losses. The first of Reagle’s cows to die of the mysterious ailment baffled veterinary surgeons several years ago, and since then the malady has repeatedly mani- fested itself, always with fatal results, to his. herds and those of his neighbors. Last week two experts from the University of Pennsyl- vania visited Mr, Reagle’s farm and made a post mortem examination of one of the ani- mals, but were unable to discover what had caused the sickness, for they found all the vitals of the cow in a perfectly healthy con- dition. Now one of his cows will be treated at the University veterinary hospital, as a case of vital interest to all Pennsylvania live stock owners,
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