RT ———. I Eo. BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Earthquakes ate not unuscal. They are unpleasant. —Tomorrow the ground hog will set our minds at ease as to what it is to be, for the next six months, STAT E RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, —It is a harmless corporation that isn't being introduced to the stern requirements of the law these days. —The skating rink is really a place of very innocent amusement yet why do so many people sit down on it? —The primaries are over. Now let the best man win. Iucidentally, you will find him on the Democratic ticket. —One of the most economical overseers of the poor Bellefonte bas ever had is what Mr. HOWLEY has been. His record proves that, —Giraffes and aot eaters have tongues nearly two feet in length, but all of the long-tongued species are not giraffes or ant eaters. —‘'Salome’’ t.'2 new opera that has been introduced in New York couldn't be ex- pected to be other than bad ; having had sach an anthor as OSCAR WILDE. —There has just passed into history one January without the January thaw. Of course there was plenty of thawing weath- er, but at that time there was nothing to thaw. ~Mr. swelled-head SWETTENHAM has resigned as Governor-general! of Jamaica. And the victims of the earthquake that devastated a portion of that island have not, as yet, petitioned him to reconsider. —If anybody knows of anything that hasn’t been soggested as needing some law at Harrisburg will they kindly commani- cate with the one or two Legislators there who have failed to introduce a bill up to this time. ~——All the men put in nomination by the Democrats at their primaries last Sat- urday evening are worthy of yonr support, and it will be no tronble to elect them if Democrats do their duty and torn out on election day. ~—1I¢ is all right to talk about what BERT TAYLOR and SNYDER TATE are doing but we want to tell you right here that ‘‘old man SPEER’ is the fellow who is cutting the ice in Bellefonte now and he is going to be elected Treacurer. —That jawing match that the President entered into with Senator FORAKER at the Gridiron club banquet, in Washington, Satarday night, neither contributed to the dignity of the Chief Executive of the land nor the edification of the public. —It is highly probable, thongh by no means certain, that the professional stock market manipulators are trying to scare the country into a state of business paral- yeis in order to hold up the adverse legis- lation that is threatening in so many of the States. — Reports from all parts of the State where the new primary law was followed are to the effect that the results were not as satisfactory as anticipated. For some unaccountable reason there was not nearly as large an attendavee as under the old system. —To think of it! GEORGE BURNHAM Jr., the convicted counsel general for the Matual Reserve Life Insurauce Co., is now the printer's devil in the prison at Sing Sing. Probably if he hadn’s played the devil with the business that was firs entrusted to him be wouldn't be playing it now. —Mr. HANKS, a college chum of Presi. ident RoosevELT at Harvard, is working for the Interstate-Commerce commission at one thousand dollars per year. Inasmuch ashe isa millionaire and lives in hotel apartments that cost him four hundred dollars per month it looks like there “isa nigger in the wood pile’ somewhere. —That fight between a bull and a bal- falo in Texas on Sunday was so repulsive that it bas stirred up po end of righteons indignation that such brutal sports shonld still appeal to civilized man. However great that excitement may be the fight be- tween the bulls and the bears in Wall street bas wore people spending sleepless nights, —Because peopledon’t like the idea of being banded a lemon it is actually assert- ed that the trade in that fruit has fallen off awmaziogly since the slang expression has been built ona lemon foundation. If there is a lemon trust—and if there is not somehody, somewhere, has been dereliot— here is a chance to mules the public for de- stroying its business. _VOL. 52 Hollow Mockeries Indeed. The credulity which permits certain of our esteemed contemporaries to hope for re- form from the present Legislature and the state administration is past under- standing. Nothing has been done or said by any of the leaders outside of Governor STUART himself to indicate the least change in purposes and the reform promises of Mr. STUART are contradicted by the character of the men whom he has called into his of- ficial family. So far as the legislative leaders are concerned what better evidence of their purpose to resume the old wethods could be imagined than their attitude to- ward General GopiN? There can be no question of his fitness for the promotion that was conferred upon him by Governor PENNYPACKER. Bat for the reason that some years ago he denounced the iniquities of the machine his confirmation has been held up and is likely to be defeated. For nearly forty years General GoBIN has been an officer in the National Guard. Daring the war of the Rebellion he took his primary lessons in military affairs on the battlefield and emerged from that great practical school as a Colonel. Soon afterward he entered the National Guard as a line officer and advanced by quick and earned promotions to the ravk of Brigadier General in which grade he served faithfully and well for fifteen years. Seven or eight years agobe was entitled both by service and capability to the com: wiseion as Major General but was prevent. ed from receiviog that reward for his ser- vices by political exigencies. QUAY need- ed votes in the Legislature which were se- cured by the appointment of CHARLES MILLER, a creature of the Standard Oil company. Bat when that gentleman re- sigoed a year or so ago QUAY bad no political interests and GoBIN was nominat- ed for the office. For years the National Guard bad been suffering from dry rot. The appointment of GOBIN to the office of Major General instantly put life into it. Tbe avnual en- campments were changed from worthless ontings to practical training schools in military tactics and practices. The men were edncated in the actual duties of sol- diers and trained to march, bivouac and and take care of themselves as they would be obliged to do if in actual military serv- ice. The result was most satisfactory. The National Guard was converted into an efficient force ready for any emergency aud the men took pride in their work as they improved in fitness. Bat all this advan. tage is to be lost now, it seems, because General GOBIN, a few years ago, refused to “‘go along’ with the iniquities of the machine. Pretenses of reform in the face of such facts are hollow mockeries indeed. ~The THAW trial is costing vast sums of money but young THAW always was an expensive luxury. An Inquiry Easily Answered. The other day a Congressman of inquir- ing mind but obviously not given much to thought, introduced a resolution *‘calling upon the Secretary of Commerce and Lubor to investigate the high prices now prevail. ing in lumber.” Even some of the Con- gressmen have come to understand that the ‘high prices now prevailing in lamber” are working infinite harm. They limit home building to a minimom and dimin- ish she fraits of thrifs. Men who are well employed and inclined to provide their families with homes are prevented from fulfilling that laudable ambition by the ex- orbitant prices of materials. The result is an impairment of prosperity. At least it works an unju<t discrimination in the di- vision of the prosperity which prevails. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor won’t have far to look for the causes of the evil of which the Congressman complains. The cause of ¢! e high prices of lumber is the tariff tax on lumber which esables the lumber troet to add $2 a thousand feet to every consignment of lamber it sells and it handles practically all the lumber of com- merce. The repeal of that iniquitous tariff tax would bring the price of lumber down to a fair level and cause such a stimulus to the building trade as would work a vast improvement in all brauches of industrial life. This is not a matter of conjecture. It is a palpable fact patent toany reasoning mind. The tax is too greata barden to be endared at all except by persons who are absolutely obliged to build. That burdensome and mischievous tax ought to be repealed for another substan. tial reason, moreover. It forces the denu- dation of our rapidly disappearing forests. One of the prime absurdities of the present administration is the fact that while we are spending immense sams of money for the preservation of forests we are at the same time forcing the destruction of our forests in order to put money in the pockets of the millionaires who control the lumber truss. Bat for that tax the vast timber lands of Canada would be open to our use and would afford ample material for our build ing operations until our own forests had had time to renew themselves. ~Io the light of evidence recently pro- cured in the Presbyterian church in this place it must be confessed that a large por- tion of that congregation is suffering with partial paralysis of the arm. While the apparent affection has not cansed enough interest to encourage an investigation it is none-the-less singular that so many people of this particalar denomination should be afflicted in the same way. The trouble would probably never bave been revealed bad «ot a certain sin-cure dootor very un- expectedly found is out. With a charch tuli of people he asked all those who were ‘christians to hold up a hand. It was pa- thetic ; the tortures some went throogh to raise a hand even as high as the shoulder ‘and maoy of them could not get one even that bigh. The result was the discovery of a form of Preshyterian paralysis that -only the faith cure will relieve. Mr. Carmegile's Quack Notions. Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has a new pana- cea for the evil effects of fortunes that are too great and is babbling over it in his vsual absurd way. There should bea tax of practically confiscating proportions on inheritances, he says. Big fortunes are earned, not by the individuals who happen to possess them, be declares, but by the communities in which they were acquired. Therefore, Mr. CARNEGIE reasons, the in- dividoals who never owned the properties ought to be permitted to enjoy them to the full measure of possibilities until they die and then the work of disintegration should set in io the interest of justice, morality and homanity. At least more than half should be given to the public. To Mr. CARNEGIE av income tax is ab- horrent. It would create ‘‘a nation of liars,” he imagines, and besides that, he adds, the tax official to whom the taxed millioraires applied to swear off his taxes might be a bank officer and when the man subsequently applied to him for a discount might say, you have sworn that yon are not worth as much as people think and consequently the hank can’t accommodate you. That would be a great hardship, Mr. CARNEGIE thinks, and entirely unoecessa- ry. He would prefer that the temptation to commis perjury should be kept away from his platoeratic friends and therefore recommends that no attempt to tax their vast wealth be made until after they are dead. Mr. CARNEGIE is an arrant humbug if not av egregious false pretender. Even millionaires can be kept from swearing falsely by stringent laws providing for the punishment of perjury. As a matter of fact, there ought to be both income aud in- beritance taxes and while the income tax might properly go to the Federal govern- ment the inheritance tax belongs to the State for the reason referred to by Mr. Car- NEGIE that vast fortunes are created by the community rather than by the individ- ual. Ap income tax would enable the public to share in the enjoyment of the for- tune at present and the inberitance tax would contribute to the community at the death of the icdividual who happened to control it. But neither income nor inheritance taxes will prevent the accumulation of perni- ciously large fortunes so long as special privileges are bestowed on certain individ- uals by the goverument and those thus fa- voted are subsequently allowed to use them to acquire fortunes by sinister, if not criminal, processes. For example, Mr. CARNEGIE made millions upou millions of dollars upon inventions of other men pro- tected by government patents and supple- mented by tanfl legislation. He made other millions upon millions by overcharg- ing the government for supplies of which be bad a monopoly through government fa- vor. If such things were made impossible by law there would be no fortunes of soffi- cient magnitude to make trouble, and for. tunes that don’t make trouble are not barmfal. The Philadelphia Machine. The Philadelphia primary elections re- vealed the temper of the machine. There is no reform to be expeoted if the candi- dates nominated by the gang are successful at the polls. The candidates represent the most vicions elements in politics. JoHN E. REYBURN, the nominee for Mayor, has been a servile follower of the machine for nearly a quarter of a century. There bas been nothing too rank for him. He may nos participate in the orgies but he acquies- ces in them. He is a moral nonentity if not a pervert. He is selfish, sordid and grasp. ing. He is without human sympathies or patriotio impulses. The candida e for Receiver of Taxes is the man who was taken from the ticket ia 1905 for the purpose of famigating the pol. itios of the city. When the reform spirit spread over the city such men as Huan Brack touk to the tall timber. Their presence in the lime light was offvnsive to the public conscience. Even some of the leaders realized that it was wise to keep them oat of view, and in ohedience to that bealthfal pablie opinion Mi. BLACK, who had been nominated for City Commissioner, was compelled to reign from the ticket. The moral sense of the community was shocked by his candidacy. But the gangis not afraid to put him forward now though they resorted toa cheap subterfuge to disguise their plans, That is they pretended to have a difference among themselves as to candidates and hope to make the public believe that there was a real contest. Bat there was nothing far- ther from the facts. The coutention was a false pretense. No member of the gang ever desired the nomination of any candi: date other than REYBURN and Brack. If it bad been necessary to their success DAVE LANE and DAVE MARTIN would bave worked with MCNICHOL and for their nowination. Bat the people are not de- ceived. Unless the city is ** corrupt and contented’ the machine ticket will be overwhelmingly defeated. BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1907. Berry's Overwhelming Answer. State Treasurer BERRY'S answer to for- mer Astorney General CARSON'S absurd defense of the capitol grafeers is the moss complete exposure of a false pretense ever brought to public notice. Carsox, who pretends to be a lawyer and professes to be a mao of honor, declared that hecause no evidence of criminality had been shown by the State Treasurer the accused were inno- cent or at least beyond the reath of meas- ures to compel restitation or inflict punish- ment. Mr. BERRY shows that in the room of the capitol building which serves as the State Treasurer’s private office there are 800 square feet of wainscoting which out- side of the contractor's profit conlda’t have cost over §1.000. Bat the charge for wain- scoting that room was $15,000, and it was paid. Aw a matter of fact, in the correspond- ence which Mr. CARSON bad with the con- tractors and others who bad relations with the job, he revealed the fact that there was graft in almost every transaction. In ex- calpating the grafters in his final report, therefore, Mr. CARSON indicates a deliber- ate purpose to shield the grafters from the just consequences of their crimes. This makes him a party to the crimes, an acoces- sory after the fact, and quite ns amenable to the law as any of the principals in the transactions. In fact he is the more dan- gerous criminal because he understood the enormity of the crimes and for the reason that be bad been employed by the State to prevent such outrages from any source and especially from other employees of the State. State Treasurer BERRY didn’t offer any expert testimony to support the charges of graft for the reason that he has not been supplied with fands to pay the expenses of procuring such evidence. Bat he is ready to offer such evidence if the means are pro- vided. In other words, if the lature or the Attorney General will authorize him to employ experts and make a thorough examination he will do so and there will be no misunderstanding the consequences. He will prove beyond the shadow of a doahi not only a conspiracy in which the y Governor had guilty knowledge it be didn’s actually participate in the spoils, and that Mr. CARSON subsequently perverted the facts in order to shield the guilty from just and deserved punishment. ~——The expenses of registration for the spring election in Pittsburg were very high, seven dollars a vote, according to the pub- lished reports. Bat everything is high in Pittsburg except morals and they are very low. A Centre Shot, The legislative committee of the State Grange, of which Hon. W. T. CrEAsY is the alert and capable chairman, made a centre shot at its meeting in Harrisburg, the other day, when it demanded legisla- tion for the improvement of the Highway Department. “Complaints are made against the great expeuse of building state roads,’’ the committee declares in a reso- lation, ‘and to satisfy these we believe thas the State Highway Department should be supervisory in its character, as is the School Department, and that each county should have a competent engineer, who, together with the Connty Commissioners, should have the control of making these roads.”’ The committee was considerate enough to refrain from reference to graft though it it bad been inclined it might have proved that the Department to which it refers is the most noisome sink of inignity which has ever disgraced the name of the State. Before it was in existence two yeas there was organized within the staff of the ohief a coterie of grafters who publicly adversis- ed to sell the secrets of the Department to contractors and when the facts were brought to the attention of the head of the Department he intimated that he couldn’s see mach wrong io is though in deference to public opinion he would order that the syndicate be dissolved and the secrets of the Department kept secret. It has been alleged that from the organi- zation of the Department until the present time there bas never been a contract awarded for road building that bas not yielded a ‘‘rake off’’ to some one or some group of employees of the Department. From $200 for a small piece of road to $2.000 for a large contract the Department or sume of its employees exacts in every ivstance and whether the ‘‘corruption money" is handed up to the eource of ap- pointments or not is the only thing that is left to conjecture. Batin any eveot it is a must scandalons condition of affairs and if the Legislature is just to the people it will not appropriate a dollar to the De- partment until is is completely reform- ed. ~The machine revealed its claws in ordering the investigation of capitol grafs. It kept the master under control so that the whitewash may be put on without protest. Bat it will hardly fool the peo- ple by such tricks. eNO: 8. That Subsidy Bill. From the New York World, President Roosevels has not only convin- ced himself that the other great commer- cial vations of the world are in a conspir- acy to subsidize their steamship lines, but he says that higher wages and greater cost of maintenance of American crews make competition almost impowihle. It has nos 80 proved as least in the Pacific, where Hill and Harriman lines already in operation be- tween Seattie and San Franesco and the Orient are promised the full benefits of the subsidy bill. Toere is alrea'y an Ameri- can line to Samoa, New Zealand and Aus- tralia. Several years ago congress fixed a time when the carrying trade between the Philippines and the United States should be restricted to American bottoms, bus so few American owners were attracted to the business that it had to extend the time limis barring foreign ships. The extra in ducement of a subsidy is now to be hung up before their eyes in the hope that it may permit the enforcement of the coast- wise trade laws, As for the encouragement of oar ship- yards, which President Roosevelt desires, why not read what his owo commissioner of navigation has to say in his last report? For example, there is printed on page 115 a conparison of the prices of steel ship plates in the United States and Great Britain. In October, 1900, the price in the United States was $2464 a ton, a agnainss $38.88 iv Great Britian. In April, 1901, the American price was fixed at $35 84. With the exception of the six months from September, 1904, to Febroary 1905, inclasive, this price bas heen main- tained without change. The Brisish price during this period bas fallen as low as $26.15, aud except for a period of three wonths in 1901 it has never equalled the American price. During most of the time there has been a difference of from $5 to $8 a ton in favor of the English ship-build: er, and the Steel Trust has successfully met British competition at these prices while paving the freight from Pittsburg. Is Mr. Roosevelt sure that the first step in the direction of an “‘adquate’’ ship sub. sidy does not lie in a revision of the Diog- ley sched ales? S— The Roosevelt Third Term Boom. From the New York American. We are not writing for those with a ten- dency to revert to the monarchial form of government, who feel thas nniversal suf- frage and government by the people 1epre- tent a hasty mistake. We write for those who would do over again the work that was done in 1776, and to them we xubmis these questious: > Is not every argnmens advanced in the platform of the ‘Third Term Roosevelt League’ an argument in favor of the per- manent presidency of Mr. Roosevelt and a reflection upon the capacity of the people to govern themselves? Does not a movement of this kind threat en our republican form of government more than that government is threatened by Trusts or any other modern menace? Assuming Mr. Roosevelt to contain all that his admirers see in him, is it the fact that he is the only honest mau, able man, energetic man in America whom the peo- ple could elect to the office of President? If Mr. Roosevelt is the only man in the United States honest, able and fit to become President of the United States, have we not reached a condition in our pational life which proves our form of government a failare? Does it not hecome clear that Mr. Roosevelt should be continually elected and that our form of government, having proved itself faulty, should be modified or abandoned? EE AS————— Ship Sabskdy Methods. From the New York Press (Rep.) It is to be observed that while the ship subsidy grafters ‘*pack’’ a house committee to get their measure reported out, the de- termining work is done hy members who have either heen kicked out of Congress by their constituents or retired for other rea- sons, their terms ending with the present short session. Bat, while this sors of dark- lantern job can be performed in gesting out of the committee what the country does not want, the measure can never pass the whole house without the votes of mem- hers whose careers are not already ended. If those votes are forthcoming the public will vee that a large addition is made to the mortuary list headed by Grosvenor, who, with others whose terms soon end, has succeeded in skinning the measure through committee after packing it to per- mit the perpetration of the job, A ————— International Amenties. —— From the Chicago Public. Two vations, England and the United States, bave been wroughs up toa high pitch of excitement (in the newspapers), and the rest of the world is paralyzed with the sensation, because an American admiral was asked by the British colonial governor of Jamaica to withdraw armed troops that he bad landed without aathor- ity. The sarcasm of the governor's letter was truly enough in bad taste for interna- tional corespondence; but, on the other band, bis irritation was not wholly with- out cause. Sappose Canadian were to cross suspension bridge without Ameri- can permission, be the occasion what it might be, is it inconceivable thas the gov. ernor of New York might become belliger- enily sarcastio, or the ent of the United States get ont his big stiok? —————————— » Stineman's Distinguished Colleague. From the Philadelphia North American. Senator Stineman of Cambria convulsed the senate a few days ago by referring in a speech to Sevator Algeruon B. Roberts as “my ecolleagne, Mr. Angora Roberts, the senator from Montgomery county.” With the exception of probably two or three of his colleagues, Mr. Stineman is the wealth- fest member of the Senate. He made his money in coal mining as South Fork after the Johnstown flood. He was the first Re- publican elected sheriff of Cambria county. Alyn ie had ii 8 roa fot office he served one term 8 tafuanza tac tives, from which he was prom to the senate. Spawis from the Keystone. —The nineteen puddle furnaces in the new addition to the Oley street mill of the Reading Iron company, in Reading, are to i be put on double turn. =A broken gas main in Lebanon on Mon- day night endangered the lives of about half a dozen families, as gas filled their houses while they were sleeping. Some of the in- mates were quite sick. —Owing to a defective flue the Methodist Episcopal parsonage in Mifflinburg, Union county, one of the finest residences in the town, was badly damaged by fire on Sunday morning. Loss, $4,000; covered by insurance, ~The Sandbach hotel and stables, in Wellsboro, were gutted by fire on Sunday morning, entailing a loss of over $11,000, The intense cold caused great suffering among the firemen, who resembled men of ice in a short time. —Lancaster county, noted for its immense yield of tobacco, is famous also for its fine livestock reared. At present the local papers are reporting the heavy hogs slaughtered, very many of which weigh from 400 to 600 pounds, dressed, and some much heavier. ~Charles W. Schuler, former treasurer of Bethlehem council, Junior Order United American Mechanics, who was charged with having stolen $3,800 of the funds of the coun- cil, and ran away to escape arrest, has re. turned and given himself up to the authori. ties. —Mrs. Elmer Shultz, of Raven Creek, Columbia county, had a tooth extracted last Friday. The cavity bled freely and all ef- forts to stop it were without avail until Sat. urday night. The loss of blood was so great that Mrs. Shultz became unconscious and several times it was thought she was dead. —On Saturday a stranger found two in- fernal machines on the street in Homestead. They were dynamite cartridges connected with wires and a battery. Several weeks ago four boys found one of these devices and all were injured by its explosion. Why they should be thus scattered on the streets isa mystery. —A valuable paint deposit which has the elasticity and smoothness of white lead, bas recently been discovered near Marshlands, Tioga county, which promises to be an ex. tensive bed. A vein just struck at several places is more than half a mile long, forty rods wide in some places and fifteen or more feet in thickness. —8ix hundred pounds of dynamite ex- ploded at the Rock Hill stone crushing plant, near Perkasie, Bucks county, while the dyna - mite was being thawed out by steam. Build ~ ings in the neighborhood rocked and consid- erable glass was broken. A hole fifteen feet deep and ten feet wide was torn in the earth. Two Hungarians were slightly injured. —If war were declared by the United States Westmoreland county could furnish 21,354 citizens for military duty. The coun- ty commissioners Thursday completed the military roll for the boroughs and townships. The boroughs have 11,559 eligible for soldier duty and the townships 9,795. Greensburg leads all boroughs and townships with 1,696. —The weighing house at the Harbison Walker works, at Mt. Union, was destroyed by fire on Monday of last week. The weath- er being very cold, the weighman had made a hot fire, and during his temporary absence the building caught fire, being very small it was entirely consumed in a few minutes. A number of coats and dinner buckets belong- ing to workmen were destroyed. —John W. Bubb, who left Danville in 1861, at the age of 18 years, a poor boy. returned to his early bome for the first time, last week, a brigadiers general of the United States army. ‘During the Civil wur he partie: ipated in a number of very important bat- tles and was a prisoner in Libby prison, Belle Isle and Salisbury for nine months. He has sinco been in the regular service all the time, —Edward Northeraft, night foreman at the Queen's Run fire brick works, in Clinton county, fell from a car last Friday morning at the works and was severely injured. Mr. Northeraft bad climbed to the platform of the car, which was standing on the trestle work, to be unloaded, and in taking a step to get to the top of the car his foot slipped and he fell to the trestle work and then to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet. —Lester Hackett and a companion from Lewistown Junction, had a narrow escape . from instant death one night last week whiie driving iu the middle of the tracks of the Lewistown and Reedsville Electric rail- way, near the Logan Steel works, and were run down by a car running at a high rate of speed. The horse was killed and the carriage smashed. Hackett sustained a broken jaw and severe lacerations of the head and face, while his compavion escaped with a few bruises, —William H. Busick, aged 18, of Broad Top township, Bedford county, was con- victed in the Bedford county court last Wed- nesday night of manslaughter. District At- torney Humphrey D. Tate conducted the trial for the Commonwealth and Coungress— man Reynolds and ex judge Jacob H. Lon- genecker defended Busick. Busick shot Hartman Oneal at a dance last August and Oneal died in two days. The cause of the quarrel which led to the shooting was an insult to a woman. —Coustable D. P. Lawhead, of Woodward township, Clearfield county, convicted at the December term of court of voluntary man. slaughter, was last Thursday afternoon sen- tenced by Judge Smith to a term of one year and & half in the penitentiary. The prisoner was then released under a bond of $5000, pending an appeal to the superior court. Lawhead shot and killed Lodis Cardollo, a Slav, who worked at Hawk Run, October 220d, 1906, after the man had been placed under arrest and started to run away. —Several days ago while plowing on the Graham farm, near Guffey station in North Huntingdon township, Westmoreland coun- ty, Joseph C. Funk unearthed a skeleton, supposed to be the remains of an Indian who had been buried there more than 100 years ago. The plow struck a large stone and was partly dislodged. After some effort Mr. Funk succeeded in removing it. Underneath it was a small sepuichre several feet square where the skeleton was found ina sitting position and is in a good state of preserva- tion. Mr. Funk took the skeleton home and the head he placed on his book case as an ornamant,
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