‘soon.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ink Slings.
—Gesture language is said to still exist
in some parts of Australasia. Can it be
the new Jew-runsalem ?
—Seoretary TAFT needn’s be in so much
of a harry about declining a presidential
nomination. He hasn't been nominated
yet.
—Canada feli off nearly a million dollars
in the consumption of spirituous liquors
last year. She probably spent the saving
keeping the water-wagons brightened up.
—1¢ is ramored that Messrs. JENKINS,
FENLON and WisE have given up going to
council during Lent, at the end of which
period they expect the habit to have be-
come fixed.
—Filty years from now «the sole survivor
of the present Panama canal squabble will
be telling bis curious friends that ‘‘a’balf
century ago the great ditch was just about
as near finished as it is today.
—Jonx OLEWINE has bought himself an
automobile. If his works like most of the
others around here it ia probable that JOHN
will need “‘doin over” when we Methodists
have our annual revival next fall.
— After all that love-making a year ago
it begins to look as it both Fiance and
Germany were insincere when they were
hanging on each others necks and kissing
the kiss of everlasting and undying friend.
ship. :
—There is such a thing as rejoicing too
It may have been a season of bard
luck for the plumbers, but the ice man
still has his “anti” in the ‘‘pot’’ and there
is no telling what it may cost to ‘‘see
him.”
—The Philipshurg Ledger bas formally
announced the candidacy of the Hoon. Fill.
up WOMELSDORF for Senator. Thus is the
honey stolen from the bee that has been
buzzing around the headjo! HENRY]CUTE
QuicrLEY Esq.
—The Lenten season is on now and a few
of the ladies of Bellefonte who have been
doing little else than play cards for months
past will have time to get acquainted with
their families and do a little brushing up
about the house.
—In twenty daye gentle spring will be
here. Think of it ; the time when the odor
of the fragrant moth ball is wafted through
the house filled with sticky fly-paper and
the whirr ! ! ! of the lawn mower is dulce
music to all——bat the man bebind the
gun.
—It is well Uncle SoLLY bas decided not
to go back to Congress. The House com-
mittee on Agriculture on Tuesday decided
to cut off the appropriation for free dis-
"tribution of seeds and with that ocoupation
‘absolutely nothing for
the nice old gentleman to do in Washing.
ton.
—Prol. SAMUEL P. LANGLEY, the noted
scientist died on Tuesday, at Aiken, South
Carolina. He was a leader in mathematics,
astronomy and physics, but in his air-ship
experiments he was just like the rest :
usually tangled up in a mess of wreckage
immediately under the elevation from
which he undertook to fly.
—The Japs are considering scientific
means of increasing their stature. They
think they can do it by thought aod im-
proved diet. The end might be accom-
plished in this way bat it will take cen-
taries to do it ; whereas the men who are
floating the new Japanese bonds will be
able to pull the Jap leg out to any desired
length in a very short time.
~The forthcoming county statement,
which bas been somewhat delayed because
of the length of time it took the auditors
to finish up their work will be mighty in-
teresting reading for the taxpayers of the
county. It will show the county indebted-
ness to be over $32,000 over and above all
its assets and will make it a matter of
necessity, just as the WATCHMAN pre-
dicted, to increase both the valuations and
millage.
—Where are our Republican friends whe
bave made themselves hoarse yelling ‘‘fire
brand!” “‘anarchist’’ and every other epithet
they could hurl from their ignorant tongues
at the Senator from South Caroliva. He
seems to have been the only member in the
upper House of Congress whom the Presi-
dent conld trast with his railroad-rate bill
which is supposed to be the most important
piece of legislation of the ROOSEVELT ad-
ministration.
—Young JOHN ROCKERFELLER has as-
sured bis Sunday schoo! class that JosEPH
did the smart thing when be cornered the
corn of Egypt and took the lands of the
famine stricken in retarn for it when they
were in distress. We are not going to
criticise JoSEPH hut we must commend
the cleverness of the son of the Standard oil
pirate in finding such a biblical parallel as
an apology for what his sire is doing with
the oil of the land today.
There is only one way this question
abont JOSEPH'S smartvess in cornering the
corn of Egypt can be settled. If young
Mr. ROCKERFELLER could get word to Pa
LEITER and bave him look JOE up his ex-
perience with bis own JOE whilz on earth
makes hima very competent judge as to
whether the JOE of the Pharoahs was really
in a olass with the modern corner artists.
Of course this means of finding ont will not
be effective if JOE and Pa LEITER are not
both up there and if ROCKERFELLER Jr.
is not in communication with PErsr’s
realm.
VOL. 51
Apportionment Bill to be Attacked.
Few thoughtful citizens will be surpris-
ed to hear that the constitutionality of the
senatorial apportionment law enacted dur-
ing the especial session of the Legislature
is to be tested in the courts. Notice was
given during the consideration of the meas-
ure that such action would be taken in
the event of its passage and the defects
were peinted out. Bat the protests were
disregarded. The Governor bad asked for
legislation on the subject and the machine
legislators behind reform masks refused to
listen to any other voice. The constitu-
tional mandate must be obeyed, they said,
aud the manner of obeying made no differ-
ence to them. In fact is is not certain that
some of them would know a constitution-
al provision if it took them by the throat.
That the senatorial apportionment bill
passed at the special session is unconstita-
tional admits of no question. Section 16
of Article II of the fandamental law de-
clares that ‘no county shall be divided
unless entitled to two or more Senators.”
There is nothing uncertain about that.
There is no ambiguity in that language.
It means precisely what it says. But not-
withstauding that mandate the county of
Lancaster, with a population of 159,241, is
divided. Of coarse that is unconstitutional
and the court will be obliged to so declare.
Bat it was necessary to the exigencies of
the machine. A number of the political
serfs of Lancaster county were necessary
to hold the independents of Lebanon
under sabjection.
The Representative apportionment bill
enacted during the special seasion is equal-
ly worthless. For exactly similar reasons
the fandamental law of the State was dis-
regarded in the preparation of that legie-
lative monstrosity. The counties of York
and Lehigh were divided accordingfto the
constitution because such division would
impair Democratic interests. Bat Fayette,
Erie, Dauphin, Cambria, Lancaster, Mont-
gomery and other counties having ‘‘over
100,000 inhabitants,”’ were not divided ac-
cording to the constitution, and therefore
the measure is not only unjust bat invalid.
The machine members of the General As-
sembly understood that Governor PENNY-
PACKER either doesn’t know the organic
law or doesn’s 3are for bis cath of office
and therefore the matter would be lefs to
the courts. Experience with the courts,
moreover, justified their confidence that
the constitution doesn’t count and the un-
just bills were passed because they helped
one party and harmed the other.
If the appeal to the courts is insisted on,
however, the expectation may be disap-
pointed. We don’t say it will because we
have in mind the perjared bench which
declared the Judges’ salary bill of 1903
constitutional. But we do assert, withont
the fear of contradiction, that any just
court which passes on the question will
declare both the Senatorial and Represen-
tative apportionment bills unconstitu-
tional.
Expensive snd Extensive Supernamer-
aries.
During a debate on the army appropria-
tion bill in the House of Representatives
in Washington the other day, somewhat
startling statements were made. ‘With an
army of 60,000," remarked Representative
Prince, of Illinois, ‘‘there are now 903 offi-
oers on the retired list drawing ar average
of $3,000 a year, or a total of $2,700,000.”
Of these, three are lieutenant generals,
twenty-one major generals, two hundred
aod forty-five brigadier generals, seventy-
six colonels, seventy lieutenant colonels,
two hundred and twenty-six majors, one
hundred and sixty-nine captains, fitty-five
firet lieutenants, eleven second lienten-
ants, sixteen chaplain majors and eleven
chaplain captains.
There would be little or no cause for
complains io this expensive and extensive
list of military supernumeraries it it were
the result of legitimate processes. That is
to say, if the roster of that army contingent
was made up of men who had grown old
aod infirm in the service of their country
either in the field or the rendezvous. Bus
according to the same authority, sixty-two
of the brigadier generals on the retired
list bad only served one day actively in
that rank, while another Representative
inferentially declared that any man in the
service might secure promotion at any time
by agreeing to retire immediately at the
higher rank. Io other words, the price of
promotion in the army is consent to enter
a conspiracy to loot the treasury.
This is anything but a flattering ocondi-
tion of affairs but it is the natural avd log-
ical consequence of the ROOSEVELT system
of favoritism. The President wants to ges
his own personal friends into the control of
the army and it is said that no veteran of
the Civil war, ho worthy, can get
promotion to the rank of brigadier general
unless he will give ass of
tirement. a ora re.
of the Rebellion and those who won dis-
tinction in battles with Indians on the
plains get no consideration at the bande of
the President. It is his comrades of the
comparatively bloodless battles in Caba
that receive his favors.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
An Absurdity Brushed Away.
Mr. PERRY BELMONT objects to the
statement of a club committee that Presi.
dent RoosevELT is ‘‘a born Democrat.”
The statement is made in what might be
called the prospectus of the ‘‘Democratic
Club of New York,” which aspites to the
title of the National Democratic Club. As
a preliminary to this expansion enterprise
a circular was issued in which the objec-
tionable phrase ocourred. Mr. BELMONT
as a member of the club protested against
sach use of the President’s name or to any
An aovalysis of the vote of Pittsburg at
the recent municipal election shows that
7,000 fraudulent votes were cast for the
Republican machine candidate for Mayor
and that bas for the vigilance of a tempor-
ary Superintendent of Police, Mr. RoaER
O'MARA, the number wonld have been
increased to 10,000, a sufficient number
to have compassed the defeat of the admir-
able Democratic and Reform candidate.
The most elaborate plans had been per-
fected for this purpose and the fact that
use of it in that connection for various rea- | Governor PENNYPACKER withheld his
sone. In the first place, he says it is in-
accurate and inappropriate. ‘‘President
RoosEVELTY'S father,”” he writes, ‘‘was an
honored office-holder under a Republican
administration and the President himsell
has always been an active and bitter Re.
publican partisan.”
Mr. BELMONT might bave ‘‘rested’’ his
case there, as the lawyers say, and made
paigo
good. No man deserves to be called ‘‘a' aud immoral millionaires of that city were
bore, Deuiocran”. who bua ph Seoord, known to be conttibutiog fabulous sums
ut he goes further a | tor es of bribery and other forms of
position. He adds that the President bas | TE . Biers, Frick, whose vast
ever been ‘unwavering in his hostility to | fortune has been acquired through special
Demooratic principles and unsparing in bis | favors and graft, bad cast the full influence
criticism of all Democratic leaders from | of his money and power into the coatest.
THOMAS JEFFERSON to the present day,in- | His associates were giving all the time
approval of the Corrupt Practices act, pass-
ed during the special session of the Legis-
lature, shows that the state machine and
the state administration were in sympathy
with the iniquity.
For weeks previous to the February
election the Republican machine of Pitts-
burg was notoriously engaged in a cam-
of force and fraud. The profligate
cluding Mr. CLEVELAND and Mr. BRYAN. they could spare from their immoral
The President and his cabinet officers for
him,” Mr. BELMOXT continues, ‘‘proclaim
upon every suitable occasion that he isan
orthodox organization Republican.’’ Clear-
ly, ‘any Democratic committee wouald
stultily itself in the eyes of the country hy
asserting that the President is in reality a
Democrat.” It may be said that that is
“drawing it mild.”
But Mr. BELMONT is not content even
with that overwhelming proof of his prop-
osition. In conclusion he declares that
“President RoosiVELT does not cherish a
single principle of this government which
the founders of the Democratic party
taught.”” His position on the railroad rate
question ‘‘is merely an agreement upon a
policy and not upon a principle,” while he
“has made other concessions to the railroad
interests which a Democratic President
would not have made.” His constitu.
tional advisers from Secretary of State
Roor down, and ‘his most enthusiastic,
earnest, persistent and effective supporters
not holding official positions, have been and
are today, men who represent and are in
control of the great railroad systems of the
country.” This ought to put an end to the
absard rubbish about RoosEvELT'S Dem-
oorzey.
Carson Agrees With Ammerman,
Attorney General HAMPTON L. CARSON
is of the opinion that the actuarial fees col-
lected by Insurance Commissioner DUR-
HAM to phantom employes, or persons who
rendered a service, can also be recovered
for the State, but there is nothing to be
gained by criminal proceedings, the Attor-
ney Geoveral adds. There is no evidence
of conspiracy in the operation, for though
one commissioner followed the precedent
of anotber, it was not the result of collu-
sion while the penalty for malfeasance in
office, the only obarge that would lie, is
dismissal from office and the guilty officials
are already out.
When the question of investigating the
Insurance Department was under consider-
ation daring the special session of the Leg-
islature, Representative AMMERMAN as-
serted both in his resolution and epeech
that the salient point was the recovery of
the money belonging to the State and im-
properly diverted to the use of individuals.
He contended that under an act of Assem-
bly, all fees and perquisites received by of-
ficers and employes of the State must be
accounted for to the Auditor General and
that the Actuary of the Insurance Depart-
ment is an officer or an employee of the
State. In this opinion the Attorney Gen:
eral entirely concurs and recommends
equity proceedings to enforce the provi.
sions of the law. His opinion is a vindica-
tion of Mr. AMMERMAN'S position.
But there are reasons to apprehend that
the vindication comes too late to be effec
tive. In other words, the time that hasjor
will necessarily intervene before legal pro-
cesses can be completed will give the de-
linquent officials ample opportunity to pre-
vent recovery of the money. Il Mr. Am.
MERMAN'S resolution, which provided for
a searching and adequate investigation bad
been adopted, there would have been no
chance for escape from she responsibility.
Not only that bat the full measure of oul-
pability would, in that event, have been
revealed, and the conspiracy between the
Insurance Commissioner and his subordi-
nates established. That is probably the
reason that the AMMERMAN resolution was
rejected, however, and that of Mr. Pusey
adopted.
——[f there is avything in the weather
prophet’s predictions that the last Friday
governs the following month March onght
to be nice enough for the most exacting, as
last Friday's weather was ideal for this
time of year.
pleasures and domestic scandals and were
equally liberal and earnest in «npport of
the machine. Nevertheless Governor
PENNYPACKER failed to interpose his
prerogative ip the interest of decent gov-
ernment and pure politics.
If there were any doubts as to the atti.
tude of the Governor on the) sul jot of po-
litical reform this incident removes them.
The approval of the Corrupt Practices act,
even as late as Friday before the election,
and the Legislature adjourned the day be-
fore that, would have admonished Mr.
Frick and his criminal cronies agaiost
the frauds which they had in mind.; Bus
Governor PENNYPACKER declined to act
before the election. He approved other,
and less important meascres on that day,
and plamed himself on his achievements
for reform. Bat he let that measure go
over until after the election because be
wanted to give frand one more chance for
vietoek-.
In that he made himself as culpable as
any ballot box stuffer who was put in jail
in Pittsburg on that day.
Not an Unsatisfactory Situation.
The Iriends of the railroad rate measure
pending in Congress have no reason to dis-
pair because Senator TILLMAN, of South
Carolina, has been selected to manage the
fight for it in the Senate. If that service
had been assigned to Senator ELKINS or
Senator ALDRICH, things might have been
different. In that event a friend of the
President but an enemy of the polioy in-
volved, would have been in control. Bat
as it is the measure will be championed by
a man who is cordially, conscientiously
and earnestly for it whether the President
changes his mind or not. In fact it may
be said that if the President should de-
fault the champion would become the more
earnest.
. We bave no doubt that Senator ALDRICH
hoped to cripple the measure when he
moved that TILLMAN should bave charge
of it. ALDRICH represents the Republi-
can antipathy to legislation inimical to the
trusts. He gets orders from the offices of
the Standard Oil conspiracy and the Steel
trust every day and he is a slave to those
criminal combinations. He understood
that there is a deep feeling of enmity he-
tween Senator TILLMAN and the Presi-
dent. TILLMAN is constitutionally oppos-
ed to hypoorisy and false pretense. There-
fore ALDRICH moved that TILLMAN
should have charge of the measure
in the hope that such a condition would
provoke a quarrel between the friends
of the policy. Bat he is likely to be
disappointed.
We are not entirely inaccord with the
principles expressed in the HEPBURN hill.
HEPBURN doesn’t believe in the measure
himselt and his support of it was a false | fua
But there should be some
legislation to restrain the carrying corpora-
tions from discriminating against shippers
and in the interest of favorites and the
HEPBURN bill is better than no regulation.
Therefore if ALDRICH bas put the matter
+| ins the bands of enemies of the corpora:
tions, that is his look out rather than ours
and the corporations which employ him
should hold him to account. Meantime | cents.
the friends of fairness in the matter of rate
charges may rest assured that TILLMAN
will do his duty and if there isa quarrel
between him and the President he won't
pretense.
get the worst of it.
—John C. Miller, an old Bellefonter
who got his initial newspaper training in
Bellefonte, and who is now editor of the
Barnesboro Star, wae elected burgess of
that town at the election last week.
—Begioning yesterday, March first,
the Pittsburg Post began the publication of
an afternoon newspaper.
i
the Girard (Kan) Appeal! to Reason.
Spawis from the Keystone.
—
—To the 7,500 men ou its r¢lls the Bethle-
hem Steel works last year paid out in wages
and salaries $3,500.000.
~Coal is being taken out of the old Green-
wood mine, near Tamauqua, in which fire
has raged for nearly fifty years,
—John A. Mowery 53 years of age, a well
known Lewistown citizen, died at 5 o'clock
Friday evening at his home, No. 312 Valley
street, death resulting from Bright's dis-
ease.
—Ridgway has a remarkable record. The
Y. M. C. A. wasorganized only three years
ago and last month a new building, costing
$15,000, was opened and dedicated. The
membership is 400.
—Mrs, Elizabeth Woolridge, widow of the
late William Woolridge, died a few days ago
When Lincoln Steffens announced thas | at the home of her daughter, Rebecea Shirey,
he Raa golug to Washington, and he |in Bradford, township, Clearfield county,
oat potas, nataraty sors why had fol, | "074 shout 95 years.
w -
I bis series again o had ex-| —Bloomsburg Masons are preparing plans
pected great things. Steffens has been the for a temple, which will be erected on the
one man site of the Y. M. C. A. building. The build-
er of ing will be 70 by 180 feet, three stories high,
han 3 ued and the estimated cost is $40,000.
—Paxtang park at Harrisburg is to be
fing a improved at an expense of $6,000. Railroad
was not grade crossings at the entrance will be
a cage abolished, swimming pools and bath houses
ington will be built and additional grounds will be
TN ss
Save ech 2 —Rev. D. A. Winter, of Lehighton, who
known bas been collecting old stamps for years and
all selling them for missionary funds, has ship
Sfotnes ped 381,000 to his market this week. He
about them just has collected more than 3,000,000 stamps
Roosevelt likes to be caged. Is is v
convenient to throw the Faponaily -
some one else’s shoulder.
beef trust investigation, for
course, Roosevelt started ont with
best intentions. Bust he tamed do
siderably. Then there was the r
merger a few days ago. It was nothing.
But now it has heen discovered that it em-
braces practically all the eastern railroads
and that it bas the whole country in its
'h Yell Suid have 11 oe
e was n o the
bars of his cage. Let ue A that Steffens
will exercise the same powers of discovery
that shamaterised his work in the outlying
How the Old Thing Works.
From the Springfield Republican.
Ex
tion with combinations of
donoers. Hetellsof a man in
City who is doing a large busi
ing American-made watches in ;
can market at much lower f
makers offer them. It isa simple matter.
Following a prasiice among the
vin Bl nations, American
watch manufacturers are keeping prices at
home up to the tariff limis, and selling
abroad at whatever they oan get for the
uct which cannot be sold here. Their
oreign prices ave eaid to be from 25 to 50
pet Seiad. below what are charged buyers of
watches under the new beneficent shelter
of the tariff, and this New York dealer is
able to maintain agents abroad to buy up
American watches sold there, bring them
back here and then offer them, at a profit
to himsell, at lower than the mann-
factarers will make for this market. The
same trick could be worked to the discom-
fiture of most other protected combinations
were their product as valuable in propor-
tion to weight and bulkiness as is that of
the watch manufacturers. This is proteo-
tion for the benefit of foreigners, not Amer-
A Hero “and His Achievement.
From the New York American.
Mr. Roosevelt is quoted by a contempo-
Jusy.an suyiog duns where are two stories of
his going up Juan Hill ; one that he
wens up San Juac Hill so far ahead of his
troops as to be of no service, and the other
saying fiat he went up San Juan
Hill eo far behind them as to be disgrace
A Belated Discovery.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
It is understood thas the defeated Mr.
Grosvenor desires a position in the diplo-
matio service. The Ohio statesman shoald
he sent to Switzerland, where he might
imbibe a few of the principles of popular
government. The only t fact
that he ever discovered as a result of bis ex-
American statesman
said the “‘hoeses licked him.”
No, It's the Difference Between Remun~
eration and Profit y
From the Philadelphia Press.
It ie a part of the fanny logic of the rail-
roads thas they can carry e two ways
Jok $We vde a mile, ug | w Shey are
taken one m charge three
tween retail and wholesale rates ?
A Timely Suggestion.
From the Helena State.
If this Republican congress goes into the
business of subsidizing it should vote
an open subsidy to the
EE ulin he:
committees,
——Two young men of Snow Shoe were
arrested on Tuesday for trespassing on land
on which ‘‘no trespass’’ notices had heen
put up. The young men were given a
hearing before a justice and the prescribed
fine and costs imposed.
since he began the work.
—On account of the establishment of the
rural free delivery route in Nittany valley,
the postoffice at Rote will be discontinued.
Farmers and others in that section who are
not near the route will hereafter get their
8 | mail at the Salona postoffice.
~It is estimated that 500 foreign miners
have already left the DuBois coal district.
Many, fearing a strike and having accumu-
lated money, will spend the summer at their
homes abroad, while others have gone to
British Columbia and West Virginia.
Thomas Barnes, of Barnesboro, has sold
his coal field in Green and Pine townships,
Indiana county, to the Pennsylvania Steel
company. The teritory embraces about
8,000 acres. It is not known whether the
territory will be developed soon or not.
~Clearfield’s board of trade has appoint.
ed ex Congressman James Kerr, E. A. Leit-
zinger, H. J. Flegal, W. W. Howe and Matt
Savage a committee to examine silk mills
at Patterson, N, J., with a view of having
some of the concerns locate at Clearfield.
—Harry Walters, aged about 19 years and
a resident of Drury’s Run,Lycoming county,
killed an immense catamount Friday. The
animal measured four feet, six inches from
bead to tail and made the eighth that this
young man has killed within the past two
years.
—Fire recently destroyed the plant of the
Dunbar Firebrick company at Pachin sta.
tion, Westmoreland county. The fire start:
ed at 7:45 o'clock and in an hour the works
were in ruins. ‘The loss is placed at $75,000.
One hundred and thirty-five men are thrown
out of employment.
—State Health Commissionsr Samuel G.
Dixon, acting for the state department of
health, will at ounce prosecute a number
of teachers in different parts of the State who
have absolutely refused to comply with the
vaccination law and who in defiance of this
law are admitting unvaccinated children to
their schools.
—A namber of improvements are being
made at the camp meeting grounds at New
ton Hamilton. Ten new cottages will be
erected and farnished by the association
while twenty-five kitchens will be built. A
number of other improvements will be made
to the grounds, which will be opened to the
public about July 1.
—Edward Horn, of Williamsport, was
robbed of $200, a gold watch and a pair of
trousers while be slept on Saturday night.
Mr. Horn is a produce dealer in the market
house at Williamsport and he has been in the
habit of taking his cash home with him on
Saturday night and depositing it on Monday.
The thief evidently knew this and acted ac
cordingly. Nothing else in the house was dis-
turbed and the burglary was undoubtedly
the work of au expert.
—Jacob Lippman's department store at
Portage was broken into Thursday Jmorning
about 3 o'clock and merchandise to the
amount of a couple of hundred doliars stol-
en. Among the lost articles are $75 worth
of watches,about $25 worth of watch chains,
a considerable quantity of other jewelry,
some clothing anda valise containing $90
worth of jewelry samples, the property ofa
Mr. Schultzer, who was there on businées
and had left his belongings in the Lippman
building.
—Some excitement has been aroused in and
about Clearfield by the appearance of several
representatives of oil and gas interests and
their activity in the matter of getting leases
on farms and cut-over timber lands in the
county. Two years ago several thousand
acres were leased by the Philips company of
Butler, aud its men are about to put down a
test hole within two milesof the town on
the Mt. Joy ridges, in the southern end of
the county. The agents are also reported
as very active in getting leases of large
tracts. The drilling is expected to begin in
a few days.
—A unique social fanction was held at the
St. Charles hotel, Lock Haven, last Friday
evening. Sheriff J. Harris Mussina and A.
L. Lichtenwalner, having only a pair of
arms between them, conceived the idea of
giving a banquet to the other one-armed
men of the city, They forthwith issued
invitations to the other seven one-armed
men of the city. Only seven whole hands
were in the party. The nine men lost their
arms as follows: T. M, Stevenson lost his in
a threshing machine when a boy, W.R.
Johnson and J. Caldwell were crippled in
railroad accidents, W.R. Charles had an arm
shot off, John W. Blesh and Richard Em-
‘erick had theirs torn off in thrashing ma:
chines, RB. W. Pedigree had an arm cut off
by a boloman while on picket duty in the
Philippines, J. W. Mussina was knocked off
a coal car while unloading coal and was run
over and A. L. Lichtenwalner had his shot
off in a hunting accident last fall.
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