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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—Wednesday’s cold tan was just
another little backset for the May flowers.
—The prospects of dry Sundays in Af-
lantic City ought to serve as an impetus to
the bottle business iz Jersey.
—With ten thousand camels in Egypt
named ROOSEVELT it is little wonder that
our President bas such a bump on most of
the time.
—Germany thinks i is all right for oth-
er powers to talk peace or limitation of
armament, bus as for her! Well, that isa
different matter, entirely.
—*“The Black Hand" outrages are sim-
ply the product of unurestricted immigra-
tion. We are responsible for the latter so
why be outraged so by the former.
—With the present Governors of North
and South Carolina tee-totalers there is a
strong probability cf a certain very much
used invitation phrase becoming obsolete.
—The benefits of owning Cuba are being
manifested every day. Now it will be an
expensive investigation into the assault on
the Tacoma marines by the Havana police.
—Ipasmuch as Secretary TAFT now
weighs two hundred and seventy pounds
his fight with FORAKER in Ohio will re-
veal how much of it is brains, il it results
in nothing better.
—Lieut. PEARY's proposed trip to the
pole has been temporarily balted. We
presume he is waiting for some two-cent
fare legislation ; inasmuch as it is the price
that is bothering him.
——Sinoe the starting of the Nittany
furnace two weeks ago it has been doing
splendidly, the output being up to ome
bundred aod thirty tons of pig iron
every twenty-four hours.
—It will be only a wee< or so now until
your boy will be coming home looking blue
around the gills. Don’t get scared and
dose him with a lot of worm medicine for
he has only been swimmin’.
—The Akron, Ohio, woman who drown-
ed herself in a bath sub after seeing the
play ‘‘the Roof Garden Tragedy’’ wouldn't
have had go much to answer for had she re-
sorted to the tub before going to the play.
— After losing a few million in the recent
stock market panic JOHN W. GATES is re-
ported as having retired from speculation
for about a yeac's rest. News like this
ought to be a warning to the little traders
to look well to their cover,
—What has become of the old fashioned
May day picnics we had as children ? Per-
haps the children of today wonder what
has become of the old fashioned May days,
when, they are told, there were flowers in
profusion and the woods a lovely bower of
warmth and shadow.
—There is inconsistency some where.
Engineer WALLACE says the food served to
the canal diggers is so vile that uno one can
eat it. Then he adds that those who ask
for a second helping are arrested and thrown
into prison. Either one of the conditions is
bad enough but both can’t be true.
—The University of Pennsylvania is try-
ing bard to make itself a ward of the State.
Its latest trick nas been to offer one echol-
arship for each senatorial distriot, but with
one great institution of learning to support
and be proud of we can see no good reason
for Pennsylvania’s taking on another.
~The fight between ELKIN and PEN-
ROSE for the control of the Republican par-
ty in Pennsylvania is on—go 'tissaid. Be-
tween the two there can be no honest
choice. PENROSE is bad, but should those
who are honestly seeking to purify the
party forget why ELKIN left HasTINGS'
cabinet.
—Some of his critics declare that ROOSE-
VELT is to the nation what BEN TILLMAN
is to South Carolina. The comparison is
not a bad one, for, after all, there is not
muoh difference between the big stick and
the pitob-fork and recent utterances of the
President show that he can be quite as in-
temperate and violent in his ohoice of
lsoguage as the southern Senator.
——1It the law-makers at Harrisburg
were in session in Bellefonte now they
could not belp but be impressed with the
fact that the people of the town were inter-
ested in the support of the Bellefonte hos-
pital. With the shirt waist skate and dance
on Wednesday evening, the entertainment
in Petriken hall next Thursday evening
and the big base ball game one week from
today, all for the benefit of the hospital,
there is surely no lack pol earnest support.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Allegheny county has 236 prisoners in
the western penitentiary.
—Sunbury councils will sprinkle the
streets with oil instead of wate:
—George Pierce, of Chester, has made the
best haul of shad in the Delaware this year
thus far, as on Thursday he caught 200.
—QOver $51,000 was paid out to the miners
employed by the Beech Creek Coal and Coke
company on the lest pay day at Patton.
~The Union City chair factory, one of the
largest of its kind in the state, was destroyed
by fire Monday night, causing a loss of $250,-
000.
—More than 500 women and girls employ-
ed in the stores in Scranton met the other
night and formed a union, the purpose of
which is to better their condition.
—The Westinghouse Electric and Manu.
facturing company of Pittsburg will issue
new stock to the amount of $5.000,000 for the
purpose of making improvements.
—Hundreds of acres of land in Wilmington
township, Mercer county, were on Thursday
leased by John M. Patterson, of Pittsburg,
for oil and natural gas operations.
—On Sunday morning, in thirty minutes,
the congregation of the First Presbyterian
church at Wilkinsburg raised $30,000 that
was yet resting on their $100,000 church.
—After an idleness of fourteen years the
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 3, 1907. NO. 18.
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Recreant Legisiators.
The failure of the House of Representatives
at Harrisburg to pass the OsTER bill, which
provides for the sale as public anction of all
unused or misused railroad charters, was a
most defiant violation of one of the pledges
of the Republican platform. The bill was
aimed at the Pennsylvania railroad and in-
tended to infuse life into the South Peon
railroad, the construction of which was
stopped when the Pennsylvania acquired
control of the stock. The measure was
negatived by the House committee on Judi-
ciary General and the resolution to pat it
Roosevelt a Hypoerite. i,
President ROOSEVELT'S insistance on rail
road regulation as the paramount question
of popular intercst and political morals is
the crowning absurdity of the age. It
would probably be impossible to exagerate
the evil of railroad discrimination in rates
or the danger of corporate excesses. But it
doesn’s follow that federal control of the
matter will either abate one or avers the
other. In fact recent events indicate that
the State Legislatures can accomplish more
in both directions than federal control and
ROOSEVELT'S zeal to shield PAUL MORTON
From the New York Sun.
Is is made known everywhere, and it is
acquiesced in with docility, thas Mr. Wil.
liam H. Tals is to be the nominee of the
next Republican National convention.
That it isso accepted is a most sinister
compliment to that able and honest gentle-
man—we mean to thas gentleman, for the
word does not admis truly of qualification.
A gentleman may not be other than honest,
nor yet a liar, nor even the canse of lying
in others.
Do people assume that William H. Tals
views this nomination passively? Is he no
agreeable personality, a Pea
of all individun) pie
It reports are not misleading the capitol
probers are due to produce many additional
facts. That is to say, according to current
gossip a witness will testify in the near fo-
ture that SANDERSON'S bid for the bronze
electrical and gas fixtures was not the low-
est. The records show that his bid was
three per cent. off of she maximum price
and his bills for the work are on that basis.
But another bid was for twenty per cent.
off, so that the award at three per cent. off
was invalid because it wasn’t the best or
lowest bid. The secretary of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings, the story | on the calendar failed for wans of a consti- after his coufession of rebating as an of- od ty save only such as is de- Valley Iron works, at Coatsville, resumed
goes, read the SANDERSON bid at twenty- tational majority, though it had a substan- ficial of the Santa Fe railraad is conclusive Po he Toit whi bs Bue, operations yesterday, under the management
proof that federal control would be a farce.
PAUL MORTON was vice president of the
Santa Fe raiiroad and held the same office
in the Colorado Fuel and Iron company.
Dealing as a railroad official with himsell
as an official of the Fuel company he die-
criminated to such an extent that every
competitor of one of them was rained. Yet
when the [acts were notoriously current
President ROOSEVELT called MORTON into
hiscabines and afterward refused to allow
criminal prosecutions against bim, not-
withstanding hie confession of guils, for
tial majority of those present.
The contention of those who opposed the
OsTER bill was that the Pennsylvania rail-
road baving paid a vast sum for the charter
the seizure of it would be an injustice. As
a matter of fact, however, the purchase was
a viclation of the constitution of the State
and consequently coutrary to public policy
and invalid. The charter was given to the
South Penn company for the purpose of
creating a competing railroad between
Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Some parts
of the right of way were donated with that
expectation. But the Pennsylvania rail. | the reason that the oriminal was the per.
road prevented the consummation of that sonal friend of the President, and be sharp-
desirable result by the purchase of the stock ly rebuked counsel of the government be-
and charter and made it impossible to | ®8use they insisted on a ‘‘square deal’ in
three per cent. off, however,and that would
bave made it the lowest. But the charges
were on the basis of three per cent. off so
that there was both fraud and collusion in
the transaotion.
The same witness, it is understood, tried
to get a share of the profits of the work,
notwithstanding bis failure to get the con-
tract, however. In other words, baving dis-
covered that he had been juggled ous of the
contract and the State was being robbed, he
presented to the contractor the alternative
of giving him one-third of the work or be-
ing exposed. Fora time he was put off
with the promise of part of the work, bus
wae ultimately turned down altogether.
The contractor probably reasoned that a
of Worth Brothers company, who recently
purchased the property from the Kuriz
estate.
—Four brothers met at Danville Monday,
whose ages aggregated 319 years. They were
James Grove, of Shamokin, aged 86 years;
William, aged 80; David, aged 78, and Uriah,
aged 75, all of Danville. James is the father
of 22 children.
—The Keystone Furnace at Reading, cwn-
ed by the Reading Iron company, which was
compelled to go out of blast March 6 because
of a break in the bosh, was put in blast again
on Thursday. The furnace has a capacity of
1,800 tons weekly.
~The residence of C. T. Saylor, at Cas
tanea, Clinton county, was broken into by
some unknown individual recently and a
Does anybody who has bimself the faculty
of 2e\z-Jespent and ho believes that the
people coun are more ac-
connt than sheep—does an roch mae be-
lieve for one moment that William Tals
What is there in his hy
Bi dha bd agi a)
career which leads people to take is for
granted that be is a mere mirror for Mr.
Roosevelt? He is no man’s man, no man’s
slave, any more than Mr. Roosevelt is him-
self—who is, indeed, the slave of his own
idiosyncrasies.
Therefore, it will not do so lightly 0 im-
pute a candidacy of sucha character toa
of William H. Taft's make-up, for
is every inch of him a most assured man;
a man who could not for the life of him
harbor a @ishonest or a selfish thought, nor,
though it won him the world, do a sordid
man who was willing to compound a felony | achieve it for all time. the matter. or a mean thing. solid gold watch, a suit of clothes, some
for a covsideration couldn't accoraplish| The paid agents of the Pennsylvania As a matter of fact ROOSEVELT is meith. | How is it ble to contemplate such a | wearing apparel and all the provisions in
much by exposure and determined to blufl | railroad on the floor of the House sacrificed | *F trathfal nor just. He will deliberately us going before. aa) wi Shy house Wate Sako.
the matter away. But the other party | the interests of the public to serve the pur- Shei was yowrar) whom he is ouliieute Usted States, with a dog collar around his | Hue Shap 2.900 potas, a
: y ntationsly boost a orim neok, a ous badge of - | drove all nix P -
carried the matter to Senator PENROSE who | poses of the corporation. They deliberate- ial a a | SK, & ro fous by ae + § mon] and jo od the funosal of Miss Belle Stroup who, on
ly violated a solemn platform promise and
put upon an important section of the Com-
monwealth an irreparable injury. So long
as that franchise is held by the Pennsyiva-
nin ¥ailroad there can be uo railroad con.
structed through the southern tier of coun-
ties. Ifthe authority to sell bad been
given this transportation facility would
bave heen provided and all the people
would have been benefitted by the compe-
tition. This opportunity and advantage was
sacrificed by recreant legislators led by Mr.
BEIDLEMAN, of Harrisburg.
promised to do something in the case.
Later the Senator admitted that he was
nnable to make SANDERSON divide. Mean-
time BERRY had made the exposure and to
prevent the corroboration of his statement
by positive oral and documentary proof the
payment of $10,000 of ‘‘hush money’’ was
procured. :
Such testimony not only proves collusion
between the contractor and the political
managers of the machine but it reveals a
conspiracy to rob the State. PENROSE eeti-
mated that proving the BERRY charges
would defeat the Republican ticket last
fall and he tried to prevent the exposure.
But in doing so he saved the ticket by
sacrificing: himself. In other worde, be
committed a felony in trying to prevent an
exposore and if be forfeits his personal
liberty as a result of the indiscretion it is
bis own fault. Meantime the trend isin
the direction of tracing the course of the
graft. Of course the contractor furnished
the money if any was paid and it was taken
out of the profits of the work. It isa small
part of the aggregate, of course, but it isa
beginning which may ultimate in reveal-
ing the whole mystery.
Wednesday, shot and killed herself and
Thaddeus S. Ross at Oil City, a few hours
before he was to have married another girl.
—The fourteenth annual reunion of the
First district, Knights of Pythias, will con-
vene in Clearfield on June 13. The district
is composed of Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson,
Indiana, Elk and Clearfield counties. Itis
expected that 5,000 Knights will be pres-
the Automaton Equivalent of Me. I have
incarnated in him My Policies, My Princi-
ples, My Supernal Sagacity, in the lan-
guage of Morton Prince, of Boston, whose
devotion to me I appreciate. Tals, after
the fonrth of March, 1909, will be a Dis-
sociated Personality and I shall py his
premises moss of the time. 1 shall be he
and he will be Me all the same; his name
is Taft, and as President he will be Me
ue. ith ent.
ys Wi
204 Souise acl Kill Taft, = his —The large brick plant owned by R. H.
other rons what prospect is there of u | Montgomery,located one mile west of Lewis-
sane convention of either Republicans or | town Junction, along the line of the Penn-
Demoorats in 1908? sylvania railroad, was entirely destroyed by
It is, therefore, nothing more than fair | fire last Thursday night. The loss will reach
Sat Mr. Roosevelt's eyes should be opened | ghout $4,000, partly covered by insurance.
loth e ral char gl Jia Sesfelary - It is thought the buildings were set on fire.
pa : —Mrs. Mary Pekoski, a Polish woman of
one whom we would so gladly see eleated
to the Presidency as William H. Tals, the | Chester, was robbed of $600, all her savings
choice of him by Mr. Roosevelt is moss un- | while sleeping on Friday night. She had
bappy. He is utterly unfitted to be a lo- | her money ina purse fastened to a string
cum tenens forany one, and he will kick | ground her neck, and she states that she had
over traces. Besides, we have always held | | 3 0am that there were robbers in the
that while there was no one else who could | , = 0 (win she awoke her purse was
gone.
make a more brilliant ron for ‘ office, when
—Judge Porter, of Fayette county, on
it comes to running for a nomination Mr.
Taft would make no run at all. Of the
Monday afternoon decided the law prohibit-
ing the sale of cigurettes to boys under 21
great art of cramming oneself down the
public throat he knows nothing at all. We
30 pos sink be will got the Bominaion, years, unconstitutional because the title
lanoed ’ specifies it is to prevent sale to persons ad-
planned that it should come, be will mot | oo 0 "0 ole of cigarettes, while the
body of the act declares no person under 21
may purchase them.
accept it.
Another Treasury Raid.
—About three years ago Mrs. Mary Ros-
siter, of Chester, gave a man who appeared
to be a tramp, a shirt,stockings and 25 cents,
as she took pity on him because of his for-
lorn looking condition. On Thursday she
received a brief letter from a stranger recall:
ing her kindness and enclosing $25 asa
token of appreciation.
—Abraham Barnhart, an inmate of the
Danville poorbouse, died in that institution
on Thursday, after having been a charge on
the poor district for 56 years. He has no
living relatives. He was sound mentally,
but was deformed about the feet. Since 1865,
when the almshouse was established, he has
never been away from the building one day.
MASTERSON, for example. Not long ago
the President received him with the most
generous expressions of confidence. Yet he
is a notorious ‘‘tin-born gambler,’’ an out-
law and has been accused of murder with
probability of guilt far greater than that
against the men in the Idaho prison whose
conviotion he has tried to compass with all
the arts of a resourceful and unjust enemy.
ROOSEVELT is a hypocrite as well as a
traducer and no important interests are
safe in his hands.
The Most Gigantic Swindle.
The State paid Congressman CASSELL'S
construction company for 100,000 square
feet of metal filing cases at $18.40 a foot
which were never delivered. On this over-
payment Architects HusTON got $36.000
for designing the cases though he didn’t
design them at all. Thus on a single item
of the capitol furnishings, the loot amount-
ed to $1,500,000. Besides this the materi-
als used were not up to the standard re-
quired hy the specifications. The able
An Honest Expression.
The Legislature expressed the real oenti-
ment of the Republican machine, the other
night, when it refused to vote its thanks to
State Treasurer BERRY for exposing the
looting operations and declined to pledge
him moral support in his endeavor to pro-
tect the treasury from further predatory
raids. The machine feels under no obliga-
tions to Mr. BERRY for that valuable serv-
ice to the State and has no desire to pro-
tect the treasury. It ‘‘needs the money”
and is a or a return to the old i lawyers who are conducting the investiga-
ods and the old results. The Republican tion express the opinion that this money
majority in the Legislature would much - Jo usovera by legal process. Proba-
rather bury B ®
a a Be i the | tis now admitted that the building of
opposite view of the subject. They are grate- the capitol was the most gigantic swindle
of all time. The looting which attended
ful to Mr. BERRY for his prompt and cour-
ageous exposure of frauds. They will be the construction of the capitol at Albany,
glad to see the stolen money returned to the erection of the city hall of Philadel.
' i phia and the operations of TWrED in New
Wied pe wey and tbeal wel lo Vallis York city were child’s play when compar-
pi y ed with this. They covered a longer period
proving the hospitals of the State. They | jo, 104 produced for the grafters less
cheerfully pay taxes when the revenues are P
appropriated to such uses. Bat they ob- than half the amount of loot. That shows
that the Pennsylvania machine is more av-
ject to plundering operations and until asic Was bolder aad skilltal
their last breath they will be thankfal to ouSa8 wall 4a; 3a der ABE mute ski | 4
robbers. It indicates that orime is pro-
Be. BhRR fue ble 5 lity Fo duty 4 be gressive and that it bas reached a climax in
R 1 the operations in question.
Repti uy bs agmidal ta ©! There should be no time lost in proceed-
: for the recovery of this money. Itis
We are glad, moreover, that Representa- ing
said that some of the looters are already
tive FLYNN, of Elk county, pat the preposi-
Sioa belore tue Lagislature, The people | Siaposing of their pioperty and the chauses
are that unless there is a cause for criminal | gig a $ retrenchment the 1
OE ts Ireesentative | 20t0n there will be no voluntary pay- oe tanicn. ne snlates of eapieyess | of the mines there and quit work at noon,
a rig ow. Representatives | =e. Men who are guilty of such crimes | Who now receive more than they are worth saying he was going fishing. The supposition
think on the subject of common honesty. Fg to give up what they bave to the state or to any other employer who | is that he was stricken with illness and fell.
They are now able to see which of the men » wd » a t services. In this re- | A bruise on his head indicated that in fall-
they have trusted are in favor of honesty in acquired auless compelled to and; . Speck the bill is a salary grab, and merits |'ing he struck the root of a tree.
publip life and who among them desire to oo of Goa Pet) fo dhe wiosh potent | he o} —The little town of Sterling, in Fayette
shield the looters. We believe that Gov- compelling torve. For fandom POPU county, on the Monongahela river, promises
ernor STUART ie honest and will doall that to become the centre of the greatest coke
One of
rations for criminal prosecutions should be TAAEY 91 She goverot: which is now $10, -
made simultaneously with those for civil 0 development in the country. A year ago it
is possible to have the frauds exposed and was all farm land, but now a plant represent-
d
ished 3 suits. No opportunity for escape should | Stuart nor any of bis predecessors bas yet
St vrlmige have oul se i be allowed. was i0- | ing an investment of upwards of $1,000,000
; any, help from ad There is no with a capacity large enough to charge 300
the Legislature in the matter. —— This is the season for wild ducks and | the salary should be raised, and it would | os has been established and by another
quite s number of the birds are passing not be surprising if the governor vetoes the | _ J sown with a population of 3,500 is
over this seotion of the State in their migra- | pe are willing thas Sheiz public | Predicted.
tion north to she lakes. Eb gpm poupie | ins —The thirteenth sonual reunion of the
flock of fitsy or more seitled on Spring | strenuoutly object to such onslaughts Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry Association
creek above Lingle's foundry and were She Setiuly 4 is now plaoned. Rather will be held on June 3and 4 at Easton. It
A ry A 1 the
there most of the day. Though they were | should be Jpreier Shu {ip Joyroll | occurs at the same time aad place as
Dot molested $0 any great extent some per- | sionaries who for years have been living at Sitio Sussuptuchs 24 Grund hey) of the
son took a shot or $wo at them, as one of | the public expense. Republic, thus veterans
the benefit of the low excursion rates at
She dead Winds Wil Wie ous the stream Big or King. that time. Company G, of the Eleventh
‘below the foundry by a passer-by. It was eee cavalry, was raised in Blair county, and
quite a number of the servivors live in Al-
toona or in the county.
~The contract for the erection of an ad-
dition to the Odd Fellows orphanage near
Sunbury has been awarded to W. 0. Weaver
& Son, of Harrisburg. The contract price is
$30,000. The building is to be finished by
Janusry 1. In the new structure will bea!
boys’ dormitory, a girls’ dormitory snd an
administration department. It will be three
stories high and will have its own electric
plant, and there will be a laundry in the
basement. On the the first floor will be the
98 | third floors will be rooms enough to accom-
. | modate 200 children.
Says It's “Four of a Kind."
The maligoity of President ROOSEVELT'S
batred is shown ina correspondence be-
tween him and some representatives of la-
bor in relation to the character of the citi-
zenship of a couple of men who are acous-
ed of beiog inculpated in a murder in
Idaho. He knows that the men in ques-
tion are illegally in custody. He is aware
that they were kidnapped in Colorado and
taken to Idaho without warrant of law and
that even if they bad been taken red-band-
ed in the crime, there was no jostification
for such a proceeding. Bat he has tried in
every possible way to procure their convio-
tion by prejudicing the public mind against
them. Our purpose in referring to this,
however, is not to create sympathy for the
prisoners in the Idaho jail. He wants to
convict them, no doubt, because a Colorado
roffian who bad served in the Rough
Riders was somewhat interested in the cap-
ture of them. But that purpose was only
a secondary feature of his correspondence
with the labor leaders. His main purpose
was to incite public enmity against E. H.
HARRIMAN who had recently excoriated
him. It will be noticed that in the corres.
pondence in question he associates the
name of Mr. HARRIMAN with those of the
alleged murderers whenever it is possible,
and anathematizes them as alike ‘‘andesir-
able citizens.’’
Mr. HARRIMAN is probably no better
than he ought'to be but heis quite as
good now as when he was not only the in-
timate but the very ‘‘dear”’ friend of the
President. Is will be remembered that
during the presidential campaign of 1004
Mr. HARRIMAN raised a large amoont of
money at the request of the President to
promote Mr. ROOSEVELY'S political ambi-
tions and that as a reward for the service the
President inferentially promised to allow
Mr. HARRIMAN $0 ‘‘edit’’ his annual mes-
sage. If that meant anything it meant bri-
bery and there isn’t much difference, mor-
ally, between briber and bribed. There-
fore if HARRIMAN is an undesirable citizen,
which we will not undertake to deny,
ROOSEVELT must have something the mat-
ter with his citizenship also.
S—
~—There are several more oases of the
automobile fever in town and the victims
bave almcst reached the oritioal point
where only a machine will cure them.” - |
From the Altoona Times.
Not only has the legislatare been ex-
ceedingly generous in its future provision
of itself, by doubling the salaries of the
members, bus there is a disposition to ac-
cord the same treatment to employees of the
legislative and executive branches of the
government. While itis no doubt true
that there are instances where salaries are
not equitable, it is likewise true that in a
majority of cases the compensation is more
than liberal considering the service per-
formed.
A bill is now before the legislature osten-
soy nitude o avige ot equslize the sal-
es paid employees of the departmen
and is has merit in that it reduces -
number of employees of the senate and the
house, of whom there are undoubtedly too | —Frank Schlatter, aged 23 years,of Houtz-
many. Some of them are pay roll orna- | dale, was found dead last Monday morning
ments, doing little or nothing in return for | jy some miners while on their way home
their regular stipend. Bat under cover of | rr; work, He bad been employed in one
——Tuesday morning when the officials
in the Bellefonte Trust company attempted
to'spen the lower safe in their vault they
were nonplussed to find the handle would
not turn, even after the combination work-
ed apparently all right. Is was finally con-
oloded that something was. wrong with the
lock and Maurice Jackson offered a solu-
tion in the fact that perhaps he bad for-
gotten to wind the clock on Saturday after-
juss before closing. Of ‘course the only
shing to do was to wait and eee, they all
figuring that if euch was the case the lock
would open about four o'clock. When
thas hour arrived, however, the door séill
refased to budge and again they set their
hope on the hour of eight o’clock. Luckily
their conjucture proved corrges this time
and at just three minutes of eight the time
look opened and they were able to get in
the safe, after which it was set fo open at
——The kind of weather we bave been
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