8Y P. GRAY MEEK. — Ink Slings. r —The Democratic state convention is to meet in Harrisburg on Wednesday, May 24th. —A circus is only ten daye off. Have you the price or do you know a friend who has a couple of Litho tickets. —1It is not $0 be expected that Governor PENNYPACKER’S pruning hook will be worked on the appropriation for the QUAY monument. —The Presid ent has left the mountain of Coloradoand the bears are happy again that is the ones whose hides will not be nailed on the white house stable doors. —A commission in lunacy is needed at the capital of Ohio. Governor HERRICK has predicted that Texas will gradually be- come a Republican State. —Captain RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON having sampled many of the kisses in the land, has served notice that promiscuous sampling is at an end, by announcing his engagement to be married. —Since ‘‘the party square’’ on the elec- tion ballot has been declared legal, is it a sking too much of the same authorities to make the elections square. —Judge PARKER, our erstwhile candi- date for President, says‘‘Demooratic organ- ization must begin with the voters.”’{Is this a voice from the tomb intimating’that we had no organization last fall. —Chicago wants municipal ownership of street railways, Cleveland wants three-cent car fares, Philadelphia wants eighty-cent gas and circumstances force Bellefonte to sympathize with Philadelphia. —Everyone is expecting the Japanese to spring a great surprice on the Russians ere long. Certain it is that the Japs have sleeve room enough to. keep something pretty large concealed. —1I¢ is reported that there are ten bank- ers in jail in Columbus, Ohio. The num- ber outside is not given, probably because they are not as important as the ten who have been able to do things. —1If it develops that Governor FOLK has succeeded in keeping all of Missouri dry next Sunday there will be a conviction in the minds of some that they must drink more on week days or the brewers will get ahead of them. —The most valuable handkerchief in the world is one of Venetian lace, valued at $3,000, in the possession of the Queen of Italy. It is probably a handkerchief for all purposes except blowing the royal nose on. : —Twelve thousand immigrants landed in New York on Saturday ; the largest number of any single day on record. It is safe to say that the man with the skim- mer was not at Ellis island and even if he had been there would not have been any cream to lift from that importation. —Certainly former Governor WILLIAM A. STONE cannot be charged with having any ulterior motives in his declaration in favor of dividing Pennsylvania into two States. Let him draw the line where he will there would not be a district which ‘the posteript’’ could control. —The Vassar girl who threw a base-ball 185 ft last Saturday certainly eclipsed all other women in throwing, but she will not beable to hold a front rank among us until it is recorded of her that she has climbed a tree and struck a match on the place that a man always finds so handy. —In his baste to catch the train for this place Tuesday morning, the special repre- sentative of our esteemed contemporary, the Lock Haven Express, forgot his nerve entirely with the result that just when he should have been busiest he fainted dead away. —With the Legislature out of business, NAN PATTERSON practically free, GREEN and DILLEN in the land of somewhere, and nothing doing between the Japs and Russians we really have a little time to think abont the great Centre county fair, which is goi ng to be greater than ever next fall. —We wourn with Tyrone in the death of so distinguished a resident as Major C. S. W. Jones. His was a life full of such works as make for the good of any com- munity and its passing is an event that calls for the most profound sorrow—nos only of his personal friends, but from those who revere the upright life everywhere. —In commenting on the fact that a rather famone New York woman wore $840,000 worth of jewels while attending a social function recently, the Pistsburg Dispatch suggests that she might just as well have worn a certified check for that amount. If the Dispatch intends its readers to infer that the check would have covered everything we are shocked at the positive indecency of the suggestion. —Now somebody is trying to raise a fuss because the Methodists accepted large con- tributions from WASHINGTON DUKE, the millionaire cigar and cigarette maker, who died in Washington Monday evening. What if it did? Was i not getting ite own? Just sit down and figure out how many pennies, nickels and dimes that had been given to good little boys for ‘‘Sunday school collection’ had to go clear around through the cigarette store and Mr. DUKE before it reached its original destination. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. _ VOL. 50 Governor Stone's Notion. Former Governor STONE, of Pittshnrg, publishes in one of the newspapers of that city an elaborated argument in favor of the division of the State of Pennsyivania into two Commonwealths. The State is at present too large in population and too great in Commerce and industries for a single State, he believes, and therefore he would sever it as nearly in the middle as possible. ‘‘A line starting on the north- ern border of the State,’’ he declares, ‘‘be- tween the counties of Bradford and Saus- quekanna and extending south to the Wyoming county line, thence along the line between Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan and Wyoming, Luzerne and Sullivan and Columbia and Lycoming to the Susque- hanna river to the south boundary of the State, will divide the State naturally and geographically and nearly equal so far as population is concerned and so far as its present congressional, legislative and sena- torial districts are concerned.’’ We regret beyond measure that we are unable to coincide with the former Gov- ernor’s ideas on this important question. He argues with much sophistry in favor of the proposition and while admitting in a way that the influencing cause of the sug- gestion is the preponderance of Philadel- phia in the politics and official lile of the State, he reasons so as to create the impres- sion that that is only a secondary matter. The equity of such a division is really the only cause that brings him to the considera- tion of the proposition he endeavors to prove and in that effort he shows that the division line which he proposes would leave the proposed new States almost ex- actly alike in size with respect hoth to population and area and adds, inferentially, that each of the new States would have abont as much influence on public affairs as the present State exercises. It would really be a great multiplier of offices. We greatly fear, however, that Governor STONE was not exactly candid in his state- ment of the reasons which led him to bis present frame of mimd. That is to say, his complaint about the usurpation of power by Philadelphia is probably true, but when it is remembered that this dominance practically began during his term of office as Governor his attempt to pose asa martyr doesn’t quite appeal to popular fancy. Buteven if it did it is not the real reason for Governor STONE'S at- titude on the subject. Before his term of office was half over he began yearnivg for a seat in the United State Senate and he knows that unless the State is divided he will have no more chance of realizing that ambition than the proverbial cat will have of a regular supply of ice cream in sheol. With the division he proposes he and Judge ELKIN would be practically the whole thing in western Pennsylvania and that is the “milk in his coacoa-nut. The President is Back, President ROOSEVELT has completed his vacation in the Rocky mountains and re- turned to civilization and his official duties. The result of his sojourn in the vast hills | was ten bears, according to the press re- ports. There may have been a few wild- cats, probably a wolf or two and mayhe some smaller game. But no mention is made by the press agents of any game ex- cept the bears and we are even left to con- jecture as to how many of them TEDDY slaughtered or under what conditions they were taken. That is to say, we have not been enlightened as to whether they were corralled for him by the guides or whether he followed them into their lairs and took them by force. : We are glad the President is back, how- ever, and that he enjoyed his sojourn in the mountains. He has plenty to do in Washington and the reinvigoration which he acquired during his ahsence will be of infinite advantage to him now that he is back. It is not that the routine work of his office has increased during his ahsence, for as a matter of fact it hasn’¢. But it is that Judge TAFT, heavy us he is, wasn’t able to keep the lid down and the result is that the atmosphere of Washington is simply burdened with scandals. RooSE- VELT may be able to crowd it back and, silence the gossip now current regarding it. But we bave doubts on that subject and anyway, it will require his best efforts to do so. It isa trifle sicgular that ROOSEVELT keeps about him men who are so susceptible to suspicion and gossip. While he remains at his post little is heard of suoh things but the moment he goes off on a trip of con- siderable duration rumors of venality burst out in all directions and they can’t be sup- pressed. During hie trip to the Yellow- stone park two years ago the Postoffice De- partment scandals alarmed the country and it taxed all his energy and resources to pre- vent a thorough investigation. He did prevent it, however, and by making a scape-goat of one or two unimportant fel- lows his administration was vindicated. Bat it looks as if the Venezuela affair would make great trouble. ' Bama A Suggestion Suggested by Tuesday. Was it morbid curiosity or love of exocite- ment that brought the great crowds of strangers to Bellefonte and caused our people to throng the streets as though in celebration of some popular fete day on Tuesday. Industries were actually sus- pended and a base-ball game was heralded as the afternoon attraction, after the hang- man’s gibbet had no more victims to be prated about and talked of as though the feat of being hanged by the neck until dead were something akin to the looping the gap act in the circus ten days hence. If no great moral lesson is to be drawn from the fearful last act of such an awful tragedy as the story of the CONDO murder then it were better that capital punishment be abolished and men who have taken the lives of their fellows be spirited away,never to be heard of again. We bave tried to force the belief that it is the American love for an onting——blind to the sad ocoasion——that made Bellefonte what it appeared to be on Tuesday. And that it was not a base desire to see men die. The execution of GREEN and DILLEN was the fifth to darken the illustrious pages of Centre county history and while that may be said to be a small number for a county that celebrated its centennial anniversary five years ago we look about us and wonder that any have been neces- sary. From our lofty mountain tops there are wafted into our peaceful valleys Nature’s sweetest songs. The church and the school house dot the landscape like finger-boards of hope. There is a plentitude of all things that make for the betterment of society, but some of those who ran will not read. Within the jail all was carried oat with that solemn dignity thas the majesty of the law and the awfulness of its mandate re- quired but without there was a scene that sickeued the hearts of sober men. Drunks lolled about with maudlin speculation as t0 how far necks would stretch and little children gathered the impression that only great men could occasion such a demon- stration. All day long the streets were thronged with gossipers and the innocent were drinking in every detail of their flip- pant comment on the gruesome affair. Some were sober and deeply impressed, however, with the serionsness of it all and to these we direst the question as to wheth- er it would not be better for Pennsylvania to have a prison to which all persons con- demned to death could be sent and there, without any knowledge to the outside world of the time, the ends of justice could be accomplished with that seclusion that would end such days as Tuesday. A Menace to Our Navy. CHARLES M. SCHWAB has undertaken, according to current reports, to supply Russia with a new navy within a few months which will make all the other *| navies of the world practically worthless, Thas is, if the statements concerning the matter which have been corroborated by himself are acourate, he has engaged to build a number of ships with the fighting qualities of battleships and the speed of cruisers. The present battleships are im- mensely powerful as destructive agents but slow. In arace of eight hours the other day while a number of them were returning from target practice at Pensa- cola, the fastest record was about twelve knots an hour. The record for cruisers is about twenty-two knots an hour. Commenting upon the information of SCHWAB'S agreement one of the most cap- able of our Rear Admirals said the other day that the fulfillment of that under- taking would reduce the other navies of the world to the value of the ships as sorap iron and that includes all those which are now in process of construction. In other words, the costly ships which are now be- ing built for the navy are condemned be- fore finished as worthless, for even the dullest landsman knows that a nation which has ships of the destructive power of battleships and the speed of cruisers will be able to send those of every other power to the bottom of the sea almost as quick as they could be brought into action. There would be no resisting them. This information confirms an opinion we have long entertained to the effect that money spent fora large navy is money wasted. There are improvements being made every day not only in warships byt in all other things, and warships that are not the best type and highest order of efficiency are absolutely worse than use- less. Everybody knows that Spain would have been infinitely better off without any warships in her recent war with this country. The calamity to her fleet off Santiago following the even greater dis- aster to ber fleet in Manila bay not only discouraged her people at home but actu- ally destroyed her credit and borrowing power abroad. If SCHWAB’S sea terrors materialize our best ships will be no bet- er than the worst of Spain’s’ bad bunch. ——The cash offer of $10,000 is now looking about five times as big as the -| Pruner orphanage. BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 12, 1905. The “Ripper” Approved. Those of our contemporaries who expeot- ed that Governor PENNYPACKER would veto the Philadelphia ‘‘ripper’’ have been disappointed. As a matter of fact he an- nounced on Friday evening that he bad ap- proved the only one of those infamous bills which amounted to a row of pins and he accompanied the announcement with an apology which is as silly as he is absurd. Power concentrated in the executive might work harm, he says in substance, if the executive happened to be a bad man, which is true. But power diffused so as to be exer- cised by a lot of ‘bad men without responsi- bility would be infinitely worse, though of course the vain old idiot refrains from ref- erence to that fact. The Governor signed the Philadelphia ‘“‘ripper’’ because he had no alternative. The corrnpt machine which procured his nomination by fraud and bribery ‘‘put the screws to him’’ and he was obliged to obey. That it makes him a partner in the atro- cious white slave trade made no difference to bis perverted mind. That it contribut- ed to the promotion of vice and protection of crime was inconsequential to his degen- erate heart. The facts are that he is not a free agent and that when Durham pipes he iz obliged to dance,and however iniquitous the service be has no alternative but to obey the mandates of the boss who liter- ally owns hin, body and soul. No other State has ever been cursed with such a condition. If the miserable old wretch had signed all the ‘‘rippers’’ without comment, the public might have come to the conclusion that be was mistaken but sincere. But he basn’t given us a chance for that charitable opinion of the matter. Ou the contrary, he vetoed two measures «of the same im* port and expressing the same principle. But they were innocuous and the machine managers didn’s care whether they were approved or not. The one which vested in councils the power to make the police department a shelter for oriminals and the police officials agents for the pro- mot ion and protection of crime, was essen- tial to the preservation of machine power and he approved it for that reason. . One Candidate for Judge, The efforts of machine Republican organs and assistant Republican papers to create the impression that Colonel GUFFEY or anyone else is trying to control the delib- erations of the coming Democratic State con-vention for sinister purposes have fail ed. We have been told that certain conspic- uous Democratic leaders have determined o nominate only one candidate for Judge of the Superior or urt whereas they might nominate three nd that Colonel GuF- FEY has determined that that one shall be his friend and neighbor, JorEN B. HEAD Eegq., of Westmoreland county. As a matter of fact so far as we know Colonel GUFFEY has not expressed a pref- erence as between one or three candidates or as to any individual candidate. We believe, however, that the vast majority of the thoughtful Democrats of the State favor the nomination of only one candidate for Judge for the reasons expressed in these columns last week. We can only elect one and the nomination of three would probably precipitate a contest with- in the party ranks among the friends of the several candidates. Moreover the con- vention might go farther and fare worse than by nominating Mr. HEAD, who is certainly an ideal man for the place. As the result of patient and persistent la bor the Democratic party of Pennsylva- nia is at present in a splendid condition, so far as organization is concerned. To our mind it would be supreme folly to jeopardize that organization and sacrifice the opportunities which it affords to gain in local elections throughout the State “this year and in congressional and legis- lative elections next year, by introducing vexatious questions such as would follow the nomination of three candidates for Judge. So far as we are concerned we favor one candidate and hope that Colonel GUFFEY and Chairman HALL will coincide with that view. ——The faculty of the Bellefonte Acad- emy are fast completing arrangements for the celebration of their centennial ia Jane ; and to make the event one of the impor- tance it deserves the citizens of Bellefonte generally should co-work with the Acad- emy faculty in not only getting all the surroundings into first class shape but in preparing for the entertainment of the large number of visitors and guests of honor who have already signified their in- tention to be present on that occasion. And the time to go to work in the matter isright now. ——The list of soldier’s names, publish- ed for correction, does not appear in the WATCHMAN this week, owing to the press of matter in connection with the execution of Green and Dillen. The next instalment of the names will be published in our nex issue. : TR NO. 19. The Transformation of the Farmer. From the Fulton (Mo.) Telegraph. The time has been when swindlers had a scheme to work, they immediately wens to the small towns and did their work among farmers. It used to he when a ‘‘sucker’’ was to be caught, the ‘‘sharper’’ baited his hook and dangled it over the head of a tiller of the soil. All of this has changed. Years ago there were ten farmers swindled where one city man was ‘‘hooked.”’ To- day they are caught by the score in the cities and only occasionally do we hear of a farmer being trapped. The get-rich quick artist, the vender of fake mining stock, the individual with a scheme to make money on the wheat market, no longer depend on the country men for their picking. The swindlers have found out that they will starve to death trying to work the farmers, and have turned their attension to the city ‘chaps, who think they are the ‘‘wise guys,” and they find business good with them the year around. Whatever may have been the condition twenty-five years ago in Callaway county, the country man of to- day is the equal in looks and intelligence of the city bred man. The boys and girls who attend the district schools come to college with minds just as bright as their oity-schooled olass-mates. Socially they wear appropriate clothing and understand the manners of polite people. Their par- ents, $00, can no longer be classed as jays.”” The farmer of 1905 is well posted on affairs of the day and can meet and con- verse with the leading men of the State without being referred to as ‘a man from the sticks.” On stock sales day in Fulton, a stranger cannot distinguish the average farmer from the city dweller. ‘He wears the largest cut in clothes,soft leather shoes, cares for his bair and beard and walks with an independent dignity that proves his intelligence. The truth of the matter is thas the city is beginning to realize that the country is the place to find conserva- tives, honest intelligence, a place to find men who have good, hard common sense, backed up with the bravery necessary to do the fair aud honest thing in the face of all obstacles. From events of the past few years, if it was not for the ‘‘country ele- ment’’ this great and glorious American nation would have gone to the devil social- ly, morally, religiously, and politically, if it had not been for the men who breathe the pure air of the country towns and the farms. The ‘‘hayseed’’ of a quarter of a century ago has disappeared, and in his place stands the stalwart, sinewy man of the country, who is as hard to be bu ncoed politically as he is to be faked with a gold TICK. Better Abandon ‘Them. From the Address of Rear Admiyal Melville, be- fore the Academy of Political Science in Phila: delphia, April 8th. : £ “During the past eight years there have been three inheritances that we have ac- quired, each of which is likely to prove a Pandora’s box of evils and disappointments to this nation. So long as the responsi- bility of administrating these three in- heritances remains with us, so long there will be a progressive increase in military and naval expenditures, and so long will it be necessary for us to weigh well the im- portant elements of naval conflicts. “‘The first inheritance that was thrust upon us by some evil genie was the Philip- pine Archipelago. These islands have been a tax upon the resources of every nation that ever possessed them. ““The second inheritance that was either assumed by us or was bequeathed to us by political necessity, was the obligation to build the Panama canal. ‘The third inheritance from which we will never receive an income or substantial benefit is our attempt practically to assume the receivership of republics whose treas- uries are empty as a result of national business conducted by intolerable adminis- trative methods. ‘It will subserve our financial, naval, commercial and pational interests to recog- nize the faot that there should be no hesitancy to give np distant foreign poses- sions which we could not hold in time of war against any possible enemy.” Just What Was to be Expected. From the Pittsburg Post. The action of Governor Pennypacker in one way is most surprising and in another it is not surprising at all. When we re- flect that he is the same individual who, shutting his eyes to the facts of history and ignoring the common knowledge of all in- telligent citizens of the State, declared that M. 8. Quay was a greater man than Clay or Webster, and a statesman, a patriot and an honest man ; that he is also the same man who accepted as a great honor a nomi- nation for Governor which was secured for him by methods which were of the vilest and most dangerous character; that he is also the same man who rejoiced when a band of armed ruffians broke into the Union party convention ‘ and pretended to give him the indorsement of that body, and that he is the same man who prostituted his official message to the Legislature to abuse the honest newspapers of the State and to demand their punishment; when we reflect on all this then there can be no surprise that Governor Pennypacker should have signed the most infamous of the Phila- delphia ripper bills. —————— Meningitis is Not Infectious by Touch. Dr. Curt Kreuschner, the noted expert in meningitis, endeavors to allay anxiety about the spread of the epidemic. Hesays since meningitis was known it has never appeared in such devastating form as yel- low fever, plague or cholera. Further con- solation is that isolated cases ocour at wide- ly separated spots without being followed by an epidemic. Spotted fever has undoubtedly existed for centuries, but until 1805 doctors olase- ed it as typhus. The first epidemic in Germany occurred in 1863, then, as now, in Silesia, and since then spasmodic ous- breaks have proved that the disease has come to stay. Neither climate nor the nature of the aoil has any influence in furthering the spread of the disease. Dr. Kreuschner holds there is no evidence tha it oan be communicated directly by one person to another. a Spawls from the Keystone. —There are now 47 cases of smallpox at Mt. Union. The quarantine of the majority of them will be lifted May 15th. —The faculty of the Altoona schools have entered a protest against Pawnee Bill's show exhibiting in that city on Memorial day. —Fifty girls are now employed in the Jersey Shore silk mill and twenty more hands will be added next week. This will make a force of nearly one hundred. —Dr. C. W. Fox, of Roaring Spring, Blair county, has been elected Junior Warden of the State Encampment, I. O. O. F. of Penn- sylvania. There were six candidates and out of 1720 votes cast, the doctor received 1349. —The survivors of the Ninth regiment, Pennsylvania cavalry, will hold their thirty- sixth annual reunion in Altoona on June 8th. Preparations are being made to give the veterans a warm welcome during their stay in the Mountain city. —@G. B. M. Welliver, of Lock Haven, who two years ago was barred by the National Trotting association, for cause, from enter- ing horses in his own name in the races, was reinstated by the board of review at its last meeting. —The body of Edward F. Koenig, an Al- toona, was found floating in the waters of ‘the Monongahela river at Pittsburg Satur- day morning. How the body came there or when Koenig was drowned is a mystery, but the body was in a bad state of decompo- sition. —While temporarily insane as the result of long ill-health, 19-year old Ella M. Sloan committed suicide by drowning herself in Lycomin g creek on Wednesday of last week. The rash act was committed some time be- tween 11 o’clock in the morning and 3.15 in the afternoon. —While plowing in a field in Brunswick township, Berks county, Alexander Bower- gox, a farmer’s helper, turned over an old stump, under which he found an old box containing gold coin to the value of $400. The coin was apparently buried about sev- enty-five years ago. . —Miss Florence Payne, daughter of E. B Payne, of Williamsport, recently returned from New York where she cleaned up $80,- 000 on a deal in American Smelter. While a guest with her father atthe Waldorf- As- toria, she was given a tip and acted prompt- ly. She sold on a recent rise. —The will of Thomas H. Forcey, late president of the County -National bank, at Clearfield, provides that the .bulk of this fortune, about $1,200,000, remain in the bank for20 years, during which time his four sons will receive the income. Then they are to get 10 per cent. of the principal yearly until it is all withdrawn. —Trout fishermen who have been angling along Fishing creek report that they have seen numbers of mangled trout in the stream near Colby’s gap, which has heen dynamited supposedly by foreigners, who failed to get all the fish they killed. The matter will no doubt receive the attention of the fish war- den. , —John Puff, of Centre Hall, has shipped a quantity of huckleberry bushes to Jared Osman, at Butler, Mo., who will try to raise "the berry in that state. Huckleberries are one of the few things that are not grown in Missouri, but if they grow there at all they will probably be two or three times as large as the Pennsylvania article. —The Baltimore and Ohio railroad com- pany officially announced Wednesday the contracts for 10,000 freight cars that will cost in the aggregate about $12,000,000 and which is the largest single order for cars ever placed by any railroad in the country. Most of the above order will be filled by Pennsylvania car building firms. —President Stahr, of Franklin and Mar- shall college, states that a letter has been received from Andrew Carnegie offering to give the college $50,000 for the general en- dowment fund or $37,500 for a new building of the academy on condition that the col- lege raise an equal amount for the same pur- pose. The board of trustees have decided to accept the $37,500 proposition and will at once endeavor to raise their share, —The Jamison Coal ‘and Coke company have purchased the holding of the Alexan- dria Coal company at Crabtree, the consid- eration being $1,250,00. The deal is one of the largest ever consummated in the coal fields of western Pennsylvania. The plant embraces a number of excellently equipped mines and 1,700 acres of Pittsburg seam coal of the best quality. The Jamison Coal and Coke company now own 6,000 acres of coal, all practically in one body. —Miss Lila Gates, of Tyrone, sold to John W. Gates, millionaire and rail- road magnate of New York, a cane that was given to her father by the proprietor of the Bingham House, Philadelphia, sixty years ago. The cane contains a sword on which is engraved a man’s head and face. Miss Gates valued it at $1,000, but John W. thought it worth a much larger sum and sent her a draft for. $5,000. The cane will become the property of ome of Mr. Gates’ friends now in Europe. —The contract has been let by the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad company for the con- struction of the largest reservoir in the State. This great dam, which will be located at Griffin, 35 miles from Pittsburg and 23 miles from Connelsville, will have a capacity of 30,000,000 gallons, The dam will be 286 feet long, 54 feet high and 39 feet through. It will be necessary to construct 8,450 cubic yards of concrete to hold so great a body of water. The dam will be one of the longest and heaviest pieces of stonework ever com- structed for such a purpose. The contract price approximates $52,000. —J.J. Yoder, a Cambria county farmer living near the Somerset county line says; “If there is a man in the country who can beat this let me hear from him. I was48 years old Sunday, and Thursday of last week my wife presented me with a fine daughter, making a grand total of 26 chil- dren—11 boys and 15 girls.” Mr. Yoder is a native of Bedford county and was married when but 14 years old. To this early union 15 children were born, 10 of whom are liv- ing. His first wife died and he married again in 1895, and to this union 11 more children were born, six of whom are living
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