SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A strike at the Patton silk mill has been set.
tied by the non-union employees joining the un-
| ion. Wage differences had been adjusted.
—If Clearfield wantsto own the water plant it
v will have to pay the company $360,644.51 for it,
according to the statement furnished the Clear-
! \ field council by the water company.
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"BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS. |
—Small cottages are being erected at the Cres-
son sanatorium and it is expected thatthe bigin-
stitution will be ready within two months. Many
—Talking about a backrward spring it |
isn't keeping the grass from forward
i : victims of tuberculosis have already applied for
jumping. admission.
—WOODROW WiLsoN is in the lead of 3 ———— ; = — EE EE a EE — — —Lewisburg is without a burgess, Ww. W. Wolfe
the Democratic aspirants for the presi- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. having refused to accept the appointment at a
dential nomination.
— “The smile that never comes of” is| VOL. 859. BELLEFONTE,
not being exploited so much from the - - we ——————————
White House these days. Mr. Ritter’s Statement.
salary of $50. Council has voted to increase the
0 EL
BA. APRIL 20.1012.
—Twenty large excursions will be run to Get-
Happy Solution of a Problem. Proper Place for Conmspirators. Let Us Have Peace. sour un Momseial day by the lout vullsouts
: icy z —_— : a reach that historic town. These trains
—The flies and the lawn mower are| =o To ocratic! It looks as if there is, or will be,| We can imagine nothing more pre. | From ihe Harms ar GdeRuel carry more than 10,000 people, and Gettysburg is
getting ready Seti 1s that all Ys Ho State Central committee, issued a state- | another hat in the Republican ring. Dur- posterous than the recent suggestion of a_i Siagetely hoped hat there wil looking to one of the biggest crowds of any Me-
sunshine in the good, old summer “| ment, the other day, which ought to com- | ing the course of an address delivered in GEORGE W. GUTHRIE that Hon. WALTER i
morial day.
this year—or any other year. If .
—With hay selling at thirty dollars the | 4 jiceif to every Democratin Pennsyl- | New York, the other day, Mr. WILLIAM E. RITTER, chairman of the Democratic | both classes of workers strike at the | —Several DuBois boys a few days ago madela
ton all the farmers will be looking With | opis [¢ aeserts that more than one | JENNINGS BRYAN observed that the State Central committee, meet him in | same me Joe cringe conisame?, hoi Saudi ofe Sibe of Youd. THEY vere Savin
envy on CURT WAGNER'S gasoline engine | pnired of the delegates to the Demo- | quarrel among the aspirants for the Re- | Conference for the purpose of arranging =o Jithou ne Jong batik neck and j lord Stage, aged 12 years, terribly about the head
plow. It doesn't eat hay. cratic State convention which assembles | publican nomination may become so bit- Bo piminasies 3 the Sokging ‘Dat | into forty fathoms of water. wae ad fue zand blowing a hole nearly through the
—Every time there is another straw | in Harrisburg on May 7th, are in favor | ter that the progressives of that party | © convention. imina- | If the rai men miners -
vote taken President TAFT probably thinks | of a re-organization of the party on lines | will “draft” him, Mr. BRYAN, into service | Fics of the coming Democratic State hte demaniie or incroused wages, The . giiah Xischer, of Beech Crock, who paid Li
he would rather have a threshing ma- | which will eliminate all the faction breed- | as their candidate. And he expressed no | Convention will be arranged this | Goo CL, To Jind certai That is an as- five Visi 10 PHladciohia sevens yiwo yous i» go.
chine than a steam roller. ers. “Colonel GUFFEY will, under no |alarm or surprise over the situation. In |¥ear precisely 5 Ue June of ip fact, from which iste joi Jio ascape. his grundeitven fn Guat city. He isnow 88 years
—The floods along the Mississippi circumstances, accept the position, (mem- | fact he rolled it under his tongue like a | Previous Democratic : conventions mine operators com- t to enjoy the marvelous changes
valley are of such frequent occurrence | ber of the National committee) again,” sweet morsel. He talked as if he would have been arranged. That Isto ay the | panies will Bot pay he Wage advances Sal io ses isk. 24. fell stairs at Ok
that the world does not appreciate the | Mr. RITTER writes. “He and those asso- | welcome rather than repel such an inci- Democratic State executive committee | i020 |i" PCIEER ME PSill add | 1umoma: near Dubois, fracturing his skull and
terrible destitution that they cause. ciated with him in the regular organiza- | dent. will assemble at noon of the day previous | them to the cost of operation and the | breaking his back. He is paralyzed from his
— Governor Dix, of New York, may | tion,” continues the chairman, “are anx- | Mr. BRYAN has never concealed his ad- jo the Solivention atl sels the po ny | Sonsumens wail | 2ay 2 wie griming waist down, but regained his senses. The young
’ : s Bead sett : : ROOSEVEL cers in rippled before accident,
foi be tie reid VEioEs of ug Couey he, , a ho i 2 - Mr. Gurikie will have nothing to do fede by 4 strike the condition will be barber and had many friends. i Haye
i admitted he is in the | the pa y A > Lace oe 3 much worse, and it deplorable jab
oa i ae ea He vetoed 143 that it will not end if afew ambitious | FOLLETTE. He believed in what they ad- about it. both classes strike at the same time and rales Bares yo Doles te trvidi 0 futhoms the
Fk the. other day inone single mes. | men, seeking to control the re-organized | vocate even to the extent of obliterating Mr. GUTHRIE, A. MITCHELL PALMER | railroads and anthracite mines be f0rced | ya found in a park with a bullet in his head. He
| party, shall obtain personal and factional | State lines and centralizing all govern- and VANCE C. McCoRMICK have entered jo sutpend ot vpelations OE be | was to have been married that day and, as no
sage. : Soi mental r in Washington. In fact he into a conspiracy to destroy the Demo- weapon was found near him, his friends think
he various cl who declined | Power in the convention. Powe saggering, And the consumers would | i= wi
—The various clergymen To avert such an evil chairman RITTER | was in advance of both of them in these | cratic organization of Pennsylvania in y be obliged to more for) Ses iealous rival killed him,
to perform a marriage ceremony for Col. peculiar noti ALEXANDER HAMIL- | Order that they may establish a political | necessaries after the nay mn matter | —To prevent boys and girls from carrying on
tet fal did so conscientiously, but | takes himself as well as Colonel GUFFEY notions of which side clandestine correspondence, Postmaster A. E.
ASTOR last pi y but | =f the reckoning and simply asks |TON and the Federalists of his day. He | trading post upon the ruins. GUTHRIE'S won. p
they have probably come to the conclusion impudent uest for consultati out-
: that GEORGE W. GUTHRIE and A. MITCHELL | was also among the first to advocate the Pp req ation, are still . The meat barons are | ery of letters at the general delivery to minors
now that he had some stuff in him that | JO ETL UT elf.sacrificing ex- | government ownership of railroads. | ide of the rules of the party, in the mat- | making Sins
and Yislpiess pute poy whose parents are local residents, unless ona
they never dreamed was there. ample. Thus far neither of these trouble ROOSEVELT and LAFOLLETTE stopped at ter of arranging the preliminaries of the | the Sou dnd Mors of $0 fight | written order from the parents.
mmf looks very much as if the worst | | 040 c has responded to the call to |complete regulation but BRYAN was for State convention was a feature of this | against je_Syerman . sisal The Joumown Leader says that he =n
suspicions with respect to the sinking of | 4.4, Some days ago Mr. GUTHRIE de- | ownership. conspiracy. In 1896, 1900 and 1908 these pisquce feveably school year will witness the installation
i a head .
the Titanic are to be realized. The inci- | 1. 4 that he will not consider such a| It is true that these heresies were not arch traitors attempted to accomplish the | which one ® iii Bar Highschool Srincionl Jn thik ng Tueoreschd
dent not only might have been avoided | oon cl TE Cor onal ambition is of | original with Mr. BRYAN, either. As early | Same result by a different and more hon- | years ago now costs twenty Sea But | home is at Bellwood. The Leader does not in any
but the great loss of life is ascribable to | oto" "V0" himself than party | as 1892 a national convention held at St. | Orable process. But they failed then, it is unnecessary to harp on this subject, | way reflect upon her administration.
the cupidity of the owners of the ship. | po. no or political success. He hopes | Louis promulgated all these notions and though they helped to defeat the Demo- | goo a negsimist Shdent docs that there | —Two days after landing in this country from
—The fact that we know not at what | to be the dispenser of patronage in the | launched the Populist partyas the ex- cratic candidate for President, and they | will but peace in wa Givas
hour the Son of Man cometh was ex-|event that a Democratic President is | emplar of them. But Mr. BRYAN wasn't will fail again for the reason that the | trial world, and that modest salaries may She Wilkes Barto police th Mia wilt Jaa diac
emplified aboard the ill fated Titanic. If | elected and he will sacrifice the party | far behind. Within a few years from that chairman of the Democratic State com- ad) souls and bodies together for a | peared h
ar who were playing cards on Suni | gether than relinquish the hope of this|time he was on the stump advocating) mittee will treat the request with silent pA——
day night had known that they would | selfish desire. But the convention will | them with all the force and eloquence of | Contempt. . Blocked by Senate Standpatters. | ome time.
probably have been at divine service |do for him what he refuses to do for | which he is capable. In 1900 he would Those of the conspirators who were fi
instead. himself. That is to say it will take him live oem acted Brodie if be li He Flected delagants 10 the Demooraliy State ohmatown Democrat, burelars a few sights #
—We that the Court will appoint | out of the consideration and having thus | mi the Kansas City convention, which present proper- | .iives started out, in this session of Con-
ro rope amantont men to. view the | wisely begun its work it will proceed to | nominated him, to omit some of them |17 executed proxies of men who were gress, to cut, down the expenses of gov Suve Kua Ha soskitiosk, Somision too
completed High street bridge before it is | the completion by a safe and sane re- | from its platform. regularly elected, will be admitted to |ernment. 3 I made ito
finally taken off the contractor's hands. | organization of the State committee. And we are inclined to join Mr. BRYAN | Seats in the convention upon the pre- | BVRRF CIC) RO were frightened away.
Now is the time to see that it is all right, | There has never been any excuse for | in the hope that the Republicans will | sentation of proper credentials. But they | carefy] study. The effort to save money | —C. H. Davis, of Philipsburg, recently received
in every detail. Not after it has been | the rump State committee maintained in “draft” him, if he really indulges it. It|Will comport themselves with proper | was thoroughly honest. a summons to appear before a Philadelphia mag-
paid for. Harrisburg under the auspices of Mr. would be a happy solution of a vexed humility and take the places in the con- The ecunciny Fandt me Democrats, tga w wngwes 3 chasusol suo peta in
Welcome to the Fifth's Spanish. |GUTHRIE, VANCE MCCORMICK and A.|problem in our own party. If the Re- Qention bo sich lacks ecreants are op ee Sanat Saat Wie Rave b
American war veterans who hold their | MITCHELL PALMER. A session of the |publicans should nominate him at their no parleying nl back into the
reunion here to-day. Fighters, every Democratic State Central committee in | convention in Chicago he would hardly ‘them, no trifling. They are conspirators all or a large of amounts | didn’t journey to the Quaker city. Another Phil
= inch of them, when duty called. This oc. | July eptbrating both factions would have | have the temerity to “butt in” to ous Rd entitled to little, if any, consideration Joft oki OF Shem 45.8 left ipsburg autoist had a similar experience last
* _ | settled the differences then. It may be convention in Baltimore, a week later. the hands of the veterans who have The Democrats millions year.
casion is one of pleasure and reminis . maintained organization under the army bill and three from the | oie bodyof a week old girl baby was
cence so that while fighters they are no that in such a meeting the present capable | Mr. BRYAN certainly covets the lime a party ‘eT District of Columbia bill, cutting out the found in the river near the shoreat Sunbury, Mon.
fighting will they do and efficient chairman, Hon. WALTER E. | light and has a yearning for nomina- adverse conditions for years and jin spite public buildings bill altogether. This day evening by two boys. The coroner and chief
ng : RITTER, would not have been chosen, | tions. But thus far he has been satisfied | Of treachery. These facts should be latter bill, in past sessions, has been the
i i of police are investigating the case. At present
oe Pract Trey Whe al ne is BIYe" | though no man was freer from factional. | with one at a time and if he should get thoroughly understood. |r et oe pe 0 millions oldolints there a no clue tothe parents of the chil. A post
speech Col. ROOSEVELT will be a very ism at the time. But it is certain that | the Replica nomination the Demo-| _p annears that after all there was i pat asiopto the Practice, prevalent, marke) exNmination tion dhawed the ney asi
busy man for some days explaning things; GeorGe W. GUTHRIE would not have been Sra SD ame asther welt gen- | a deficit in the Postoffice Department last | 10g. OE agar po ha Fe. | was decided it was dead when thrown into the
while the public is likely to hear some in- | *¥¢" considered 108 ue Wajonty of éyen | tieman without auch trouble year notwithstanding Mr. HITCHCOCK'S | gards the right to dip into the treasury | “¥*"
side Republican history that won't inspire | his rump committee be dragooned | « __. . _ |report to the contrary. There is a tradi- | at will as a God-given prerogative,prompt- | —A McKeesport young man some time ago ad-
much confidence in either ROOSEVELT or into supporting him. That is why there again ae Cane Sommisdion tion that figures won't lie but it must be hy placed the items §4 back in the iN miles vertised for a wife and, after some correspond-
TAFT. was not a joint session then. Mr. GUTH- Cf 4 A unters | imitted that they can be made to mis- Democrats drastic action, will | ence, the lady who answered the advertisement
carry the old amounts. ; went to that town to be married. Arriving at
The Democratic leaders have threat- | night she didn't like the quarters provided for her
take that drastic action; and un- | and said so. The young man took her to a hotel,
less the Senate yields in conference the | then disappeared. She paid her own way back
HE wanted to be chairman and in a ses. | license law through the next Legislature
|
| Bemacrats may stir up a fuss that will | to New York and both were glad to call ofé the
’ : represent things. i
—Rumors are coming out of Pittsburg ion of the committee with factionalism but nobody is greatly alarmed. The bY
that boss FLYNN, who routed boss PeN-| ou he would have kad no chance. No- | Game Commission threatened the same
ROSE at the recent Republican primaries | | 4. 10 knows him favors him for any | thing two yearsago and failed so badly
Expose the Political Pharisees.
relies on more subservient help from boss | : : : that it never found out what hit it The House of Representatives at Wash- | arouse the whole country. bargain.
: | publicservice. Selfishness is the dominant . :
GUTHRIE, of the reorganized Democracy, | ojament in his make-up. eee ington has passed an act requiring the i One of ie seasons, iF Dok te pain - so blo aged wie, Sars 3
than boss GUFFEY of the old order of : + Mr. Moon is Too Amiable. publication of the sources of revenue and €as0 stand $ dasife ly of unt .
things ever accused of giving to | At the coming convention, however, he the amounts Jor. op by . spen nent money so avishly, is | lv while igsans; because ounded jealousy,
i - { they hope, poin 0 arge Stephen Imon, 0 rmer, des ended
PENROSE. will be compelled to meet the represen Representative MOON, of Tennessee, dential candidates. This action is the re- expense of running the pi Mada from an upper room of his home near Lincoln-
to afternoon
3, _ | tatives of the party and accept their ver- | chairman of the House Committee on asserti Represen justify the all necessity for a ville, Crawford county, Sunday en ad
—Quite like Mr. BRYAN to be giving | dict upon his pretenses. The convention | Postoffices and Postroads, is entirely too So of a ta hte yo a that. only a hich forced histerrified Foun! i on 0H on Well
the Pennsylvania Democrats advice. | will be composed of delegates chosen by | polite to his colleagues. He is very much | Topr campaign, that GEORGE W. PER- | tariff will bring in sufficient revenue. | OCCT i fps gh
_ After he succeeded in having those he | popular vote and the certificates of their | in favor of parcels posts and felt inclined : : :
didn't like knocked out of the party | election, issued by the County Commis- | to provide for an experimental service a he. 1 Tee “Why! of roti, ce nih oe htop del
management he imagines that a mere | sioners, will be their credentials. Mr.|wherever the rural free delivery is in | other offensive and notorious trust mag. | From the New York World. Guard of Pennsylvania will be equipped with new
word from him will be sufficient to put | GursrIE can't side-step the issue. He | operation, bv means of a paragraph in | nates are financing the ROOSEVELT 6" |" Why should George W. Perkins contrib- | olive drab service uniforms, patterned after the
them all scrambling to get under the. can't dodge the question. He must face | the postoffice appropriation bill. But he | .: Re 0 8 Cam- ie $150,000 to help Mr. Roosevelt carry | coats worn by the men of the United States army
banner of the new leaders. the music and if the Democrats who are | imagines that country merchants would | Lie ooether £ T managers were the Republican primaries in New York | in all respects, except the trimming used to devs
i . ks : altogether too free with money in New State? nate their membership in the state militia. The
—The WATCHMAN hopes that council | present are just to the traditions of the | be opposed to such legislation as inimical | york and Pennsylvania, the story goes, IS it because Mr. Perkins is an ardent | requisitions are to be made by the commanders of
will very seriously consider the proposed | party they will administer him a rebuke | to their interests, and that if some of his | 5.4 the Tarr adherents are curious to | believer in the initiative and referendum? | organizations without delay, as the uniforms will
gift of a fountain for the public square of | which will stand for generations as an | colleagues supported such a proposition, : : Isit because his confidence in "a pure | not be issued after June I.
Bellefonte before it is accepted. A foun- | admonition against selfish ambition. they might be defeated for re-election. know where it came from. To our mind Democracy” is such that he is willing to
tain might be a very great utility for the sem—— For this curious, but amiable reason, Mr. it i a Pp gag o tA to'that | fake aly finnele) sacs 02 non at | peyburg, Clarion county, seporied tiie i horse
streets of Bellefonte, but its location in! ___n accordance with the custom es- | MOON is disposed to let the matter 20 | (jas of political Pharisees one aneation oJ it because he bebieves that Theo- | had beenstolen and since seaseh
ore which
wo i has been maintained by an association of
the Diamond would be a doubtful orna- | tablished two years ago, Bellefonte will | over until a more opportune time. the integrity of everybody else and are ig Te Rosie Jee Sniy SEMIN Yio heisa member. The vt has been located at
ment and a probable nuisance. have its third annual Clean-Up-Week in We do not believe that there are many | snameelves steeped in iniquity. In the be President? Johnstown, and had changed hands many times
; ?
—Have you stopped to consider honest- | May, beginning with Monday, thirteenth, | country merchants who are opposed t0| campaign of eight years ago when Oris it because Mr. Perkins "finds in before being found. The last owner
ly and conscientiously just what you | Having known from observation the im. | the parcels posts for that reason. The | poogpyerr age yO a every | MI. Roosevelt the most serviceable | nocent purchaser and has compromised with Lau.
: x : : ~ | er by giving him a reduced but fair price for the
would have done had you been aboard | provement it has made in our town, and | service of the express companies is al- | yryg¢ and corporation a als, {apn for destroying the Shermat uti re
the Titanic. Of course no one actually ' from experience the satisfaction given to | Ways open to those who want to order ” , :
knows what he would do in a crisis until | every resident who responded to the ap- goods from distant points and though the Slew Reorally. ed wp ki re Da hy {gine C. Savion resides, and Rroderise
he finds himself there, but you can get a | peal of the past two years, the committee | cost for such service is extortionate it | oy4rageous operation was professing polit- is a director of the Steel Trust. Heis a
very fair line on yourself, if you don’t|in charge are anticipating a general and | doesn’t prevent the operation. The con- | jeq) righ and lly jot | Sizesioe. of the Stendard Off bask He y_ mansion
cheat, by figuring out just what you think | thorough cleaning out of everything that sequence is that while the local merchant | joo in the infan cortion.. This aC i ng opel organ the Bayless dam at Austin September
you would have done had you been on |is unpleasant to the eye or a menace to | loses the trade anyway the consumer is | year he js pursuing the same course and | life insurance for the Roosevelt | ed the Supreme court of Pennsylvania to grant a
that ill fated ship. health. However small or large the | obliged to pay more for the product and | se friends of TAFT propose to expose campaign fund in and he is a very | change of venue for their trial, alleging that they
—Already, out of respect to public properties may be, look to it that you | the cost of living is to that extent aug-|pim How far they will succeed depends practical man, cannot secure a fair trial in Potter county, be-
If he gave $150,000 to the Roosevelt | cause of the popular prejudice which there exists
opinion, all the big steamship lines have | burn or remove all rubbish and ashes, mented. As a rule civic ambition and | 450, the action of the Senate for if that fund in New York, how much | against them.
fered hn | Which is surely distasteful to you and | local pride induce consumers to buy from | ody concurs in the House bill, publicity | has given to the Roosevelt campaign brid Lewis
life Bed he athe every soul | Most unpleasant for your neighbor. Clean ; home merchants as they ought and are | i certain to follow. PUPIEY | fund in other States, and why? a company § of tio bri of he Lewis-
aboard. While all this is very good jt | YOUF Butters, clean your yards, clean out | in honor bound to, and the presence Or | jn this State the Democrats have more mpmene
3 trike be a Calamity. ard branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
must be remembered that it takes more | YOUT Stables, clean up the alleys, help absence of parcels posts have little OF | than an ordinary interest in this legisla- 5 he Tyrone
than life boats to save ship wrecked peo. | lean behind the buildings you have done notliing fo do with the matter. tion for while it does not contemplate an | From the Altoona Times. and trolley companies, will be a unique piece of
5 i One of the engineering as the present old wood structure
. It takes seamen capable of launch. | YOUF Share in littering up, nail on the of 5 yecent Postumasiie = Generals | exposure of the expenses of local candi-| A grave responsibility 683, UeOY the
Pe manning them rapidly. The last loose pails of your fence, plant flowers, | expressed opinion four prin- | gates it will give an excuse for inquiry a Tis of placed by one of steel and that too with little or no
boat on the Titanic was not even loosen. | C1€ar your buildings of unsightly adver- cipal reasons that parcels posts have not
i upon that subject. In Harrisburg, for | Locometive Engineers. A general strike
ed from her davits when the great ship tisements and help in every way possible been provided by Congress are the four example, there is a political Pharisee of engines on these lines, if carried Pennsylvania Steel company, of Steelton, has the
bottom to make our beautiful Bellefonte more | great express companies which have re- | op 0. expenditures ough inaired with sufficient thoroughness to erection of the new bridge, at a cost of about $85,
We £0 the beautiful. sisted the movement because it would |; .0 we SSargs Ought 10 be inquired Je up the trafic. would create a condi- |
c=Siaviug dhassvud tat Rugiter Bohne sv. ROCEEVELT eid deprive them of a large proportion of the | McCopaick, who was elected a delegate | eastern States. Mrs. Mary A. Duggan and Timothy F. Duggan,
3 Bas estaved the joie of Anyway A" has it | graft which they collect annually from |, he Democratic State convention, after | The simple question of securing ade- | her husband, brought suit against the city of
for a base ball team in Bellefonte it is | impossible to elect TAPT even if he is | the consumers of products in the United | 3, orgie of bribery and corruption which | quate food supplies i the later cities | Williamsport Friday afternoon, for damages in
time, right now, for would-be Representa. | nominated and TAPT is about to make it | States. If a farmer wants a piece Of | pag not been equalled since he ran for | Tight produce a situation of the utmost | the sum of $10,000 each, alleged to have been sus-
tives GRAMLEY and FOSTER to begin | impossible to nominate ROOSEVELT even | machinery, which of necessity must be | nfayor of the city and votes were openl ho,
down
framing bills for presentation at the next | if he could be elected. . | procured in the city, the express com-
bought for him at ranging from in countless . that Mrs. Duggan tripped and fell over a
session increasing the salaries and com- — pany holds him up for as much or nearly ten to twenty npr Some meth. | prises through inability to their be 3 when she was passing’ another pedestrian
missions of County Registers. If this is| ——The Commerce Commission threat- | as much as the article costs. If we had | 4 «+ be discovered to check these output or to secure ies. on the sidewalk. The board was loose and one
not done and FRANK holds onto the base | ens to adopt drastic measures with the | parcels posts this source of graft would | onc pirates or popular gov- pa afew. woeks t fhe sels shoul ulway elevated when the oles Sussirey, Heid
ball team as long as some others did here Express companies. We would suggest | be closed up and Representative MooON Millionatise pasty Pirates oF ~ Od be joined by thousands upon and that it became necessary to expend
we can see him walking back “over the | an order forbidding further extortion as | will be helping himself and his colleagues I—— of other idle workers, while hundreds of | $1,000 for surgical and medical relief and that she
mountain” when his second term expires. a beginner. by hurrying it on. ~=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. thousands of dollars would be lost.