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Bellefonte, Pa., May 21, 1897.
GUARDING THE TONGUE.
If each of us, as we pass through life,
Would bridle and curb the tongue,
And speak of only the pleasant things
To be said of every one,
What a wonderful difference there would be
Between this world of ours
And the paradise it might become
With all pathways strewn with Howers!
How surely a little reflection
Will show us as plain as the day
The mistakes we made when we hastily
Allowed our tongues full ‘syay.
When the day is done and we think it o'er
Ah, me! that it should be true— 2
There are few of us who can honestly say
There is nothing we would undo.
Too often the faults we clearly see
! In others are faults of gur own—
' And those who dwell in i of glass
Should be wary in casing a stone.
So, have charity, much gharity,
, The loveliest virtue of all,
And look well to the member unruly,
For it’s prone to slip and fall.
“I allus, held,’ said the Chronic Loafer,
as he stretched his legs along the counter
and rested his back comfortably against a
pile of calicoes, ‘‘that they ain’t no seech
thing as a roarinborin allus. I know some
sais they is electric lights, but when I seen
that big un last night I said to my missus,
an’ IT hol’ I'm right, thet et was nothin,
but th’ iron furnaces over th’ mo’ntain.
Fer, s’pose, ez’ th’ teacher sais, they is
lights up et th’ north pole, does you uns
believe cou see -’em all thet distance?
Well, now !’
He gazed impressively about the store at
the close of this discourse. The Miller, the
Shoemaker and the G. A. R. man were dis-
posed to agree with him, but the School
Teacher was sarcastic.
“If you had ever studied physical geog-
raphy,” he said. ‘‘vou would know that
the auror. borealis is not a light made upon
terra firma, but a peculiar magnetic condi-
tion of the atmosphere for which there is
no apparent accounting.” He looked to-
ward the Chronic Loafer. “And th» man-
ner in which you pronounce it is exceed-
ingly ludicrous It is not a roarinborin
always. It is speed a-u-r-o-r-a-b-o-r-e-
a-l-i-s.”
The Tinsmith, who was seated upon a
nail keg, rubbing his hands in the warm
rays of the stove, chuckled softly. The
Chronic Loafer noticed him and felt con-
vinced that the correction of his own gram-
mar had caused the other’s mirth.
‘‘What’s you uns so tickled about now?"
he asked grufily.
“I was jest thinkin,”’ the Tinsmith re-
plied, his countenance assuming its nat-
ural expression, ‘‘of the time my ole frien’
Quincy Murthersbaugh spelled down John
Jimison, who tot up to Happy Grove
school. He done et on thet very word.
My, but thet there was a bee.’’
‘Now, ’fore you git grindin’ 'way—
sence you’ve got on spellin’—I want ter tel
a good un on 7
*‘Let him tell us about Quincy Muthers-
baugh,’’ the School Teacher interposed, de-
cisively. ‘“‘Your good un can keep.”
Compelled to silence, the Chronic Loafer
rolled over on his back and gazed dej ectedly
into the dim recesses of the ceiling, while
the Tinsmith began :
“Some folks is nat’ral spellers, jest as
others is nat’ral musicians. Ag’in, et’s
jest as hard ter makea good speller hy
edication as et is ter make a good bass horn
player. Fer a feller that hain’t thet inborn
idee of how many letters is needed ter make
a world’ll never spell no better than th’
man thet haint a nat’ral sense of how much
wind’s needed for a note’ll play a bass
horn.” :
“I cannot wholly agree with you,’ in-
terrupted the school teacher. ‘‘Givea child
first words of one syllable, then two ; then
drill them in words ending in tion until
“We won’t discuss thet, Teacher, fer et
don’t effect our case. You never seen th’
like. John Jimison was a natural speller.
Give him a word of six or seven
syllables an’ he’ spell et out like et was.on
a blackboard right before him. When he
was 20 he hed spelled down all the scholars
in Happy Grove, an ’d won ’hout six bees.
Then he went to the Pikestown Normal
school, out in the western part of Pennsyl-
vania. When he come back you never
knowed th’ beat, he hed studied Latin and
algerbray, but I guess he must a spent con-
siderable time a-brushin’ up his spellin’,
fer there was only one fellow ’bout these |
parts who could keep up to him fer any time
at all. He was my friend Quincy Muthers-
baugh. You uns knows Quincy. He tot
two winters up et Kishikoquilla school,
and went west after he mawried. He was
a powerful good feller—still—and a fine
teacher, an’ speller-—but John Jimison had
th’ advantage of a normal school edication, :
an’ know’d it. fer you uns never seen th’
like of th’ way he kerried on when he was
teachin’ ter Happy Grove.
“Thet was th’ winter we had so much
snow. It had drifted in th’ roads, so we
drove through th’ fields (ef you uns re-
member. What with church soshibles an’
singin’ school and spellin’ bees they was a
heap sight going’ on.
‘Not a week passed but me an’ Quincy
Muthershaugh went some’eres, an’ before I
know’d et both him and John Jimison was
keepin’ company with Hannah Ciders. She
was jest as pretty as a peach, plump an’
rosy, with th’ slikest nat’ral hair an’ teeth
you ever seen. She was powerful fond of
edication, so when them two teachers was |
after her she jest couldn’t make up her
mind. She favored both. But et seemed
ter me like Qunicy was her favorite with-
out her knowin’ it. He'd go to see her
and set down an’ never say nothin much ; |
-but she kinder tho’t him pleasant comp’ny. |
He was good-lookin’ an’ sure an’ no fool. |
Jimison was amusin,’ tolerable in his looks
an’ hed th’ advantage of a normal school |
edication, and kinder dazzled her. Et!
allus ’peared ter me, still, as if he was a bit |
conceity, but then he took with th’ girls. |
“Hannah Ciders didn’t know which of |
them two to choose. [Et seems she figured |
on et all fall an’ well inter th’ winter. She |
begin ter get thin an’ lose all her color, an’ |
both them fellers was near wild with anx-
iousness an’ continual quarrelin’. Then
what yer ’spose they done ?”’
“E¢’ll take a long time fer ‘em to do |
much, th’ way you tells et,’’ the Chronic
Loafer grumbled.
‘She give out,’ eontinued the Tinsmith,
not heeding the interruption, ‘‘that she'd
take th’ best edicated.. Thet tickled Jimi-
son, who blowed round ter all his friends
how he was going ter win Hannah. Quincy,
he jest grit his teeth an’ said he was ready.
He was goin’, he put et, ‘like th’ male
knights of old, ter tilt in th’ turning
months fer his lady.” They agreed ter
hev it out on th’ quiet at th’ big spellin’
between their schools th’ followin’ week.
I thot Quincy was gone. He jest went ter
work. though, an’ for severa] days before
th’ bee I seen nothin’ of him. He was
stedyin’ the spellin’ book.
‘“The night come, an’ such a crowd as
they was et th’ Happy Grove school. They
was sleighin’ and fer a quarter of a mile in
front of th’ buildin’ they was nothin’ but
horses hitched ter the fences. Th’ school
room was all decorated with greens an’
lighted with ile lamps fer th’ occasion, an’
was jest packed. All th’ seats was filled
with girls, and th’ men was lined up four
deep ’long th’ walls an’ banked up on top
of one "nother at th’ back. On one side of
th’ platform, settin’ on a bench ’long under
the black-board, was th’ sixteen best scho-
lars of th’ Happy Groveschool, led by John
Jimison. He was smilin’ an’ conferdent
an, gazin’ longin’ at Hannah Ciders, who
was on one side of th’ front seats an’ ’pear-
ed rather nervous. He was all togged out
in a new Prince Albert coat fer her benefit.
“I was standin’ be th’ stove meltin’ th’
snow off me boots, when I had a few wopds
with Quince Muthersbaugh. He seemed
jest a little excited, an’ ’lowed et ud come
out all right. Then he he took his seat
with his sixteen scholars on th’ other side
th’ platform an’ the proceedin’s began.
‘Teacher Long from over in Lemon
township, called out th’ words from a
speller, while me an’ another feller kept
tally. The first word given out was sou-
peny, an’ Quincy missed et.
‘s-u-p-e-n-a.’ I jest felt sick when I mark-
ed one down against his side. Jimison
took her, spelled her all right, an’ coni-
menced ter smile. Muthersbaugh looked
solemn. The feller next on his side spell-
ed supersedes correct, while th’ man next
John Jimison missed superannuation, and
then Happy Grove and Kishikoquillas was
even. They kep’ thet up an hour an’ a
half, and I tell yer et was most excitin’ ter
see them trained spellers battlin’ when
they quit Happy Grove hed two les
misses then Kishikoquillas. Jimison com-
menced ter smile triumphant, but Quince
didn’t do nothing ’cept set there quiet like.
‘‘After a recess of ten minutes they be-
gin ter spell down. All the scholars lined
up in a row and whenever one missed a
word they hed to go set in th’ audience.
They spelled an’ spelled, tell finally they
was no one left but Quiney Muthersbaugh
an’ John Jimison, jest standin’ there glar-
in’ et each other an’ singin’ out letters~¥t
was a grand sight. Hannah Ciders was
pale and tremblin’, for she knowed the val-
ly of an idle word then. Th’ audience was
most stretchin’ ther necks outen joint, they
was so interested. Two lamps went out
an’ no one fixed ’em ; the air was jest blue
with th’ steam made by the snow meltin’
off the fellars boots, and the stove begin to
smoke, and the room was suffocatin’ but no
one thot ter put up a winder. the excite-
ment was so bad.
‘‘Sech words as penultimate, concatena-
tion, pentateuch an’ silhoutte come dead
easy ter them teachers. They kep’ glarin’
et each other and spellin’ like their life de-
pended on et. Poor Long's voice got weak-
er and weaker a givin’ out words. I was
thet nervous Icould hairdly see. They
spelled all the ations and entions, all the
words endin’ in ism, dle and ness, tell et
seemed they'd use up the book. Quincy
was gettin’ more excited ; Jimison’s knees
was tremblin’ visibly. .
‘‘Then Long give out Rorybory Allus.
You could heard a pin drop in thet room.
Jimison he begin slow, as ef it was dead
easy : ‘A-r-o-r-a, Aurora: b-o-r, Aurora
Bor ; e-a-1-i-8, Aurora Borealis.’
‘They was a mumble went over the
room, and he seen he was wrongan’ yelled:
‘A-u I mean !’
*‘Too 1d%®, says Long. Only one chanc’t
et a time tell one or the other spells et.
Th’ gentleman who gits et right first wins,
accordin’ ter rules.
‘“‘Jimison was white as a sheet an’ his
face and hands was a-twitchin’ as he stood
there glarin’ et Quincy. Muthersbaugh
looked at the floor like he was stedyin.’ I
seen Hannah Ciders lean fora’d and grip
the desk with her hands, and then I know’s
she’d made up her mind which she favored.
‘He begin : ‘A-u, au ; r-o-r, Auror; a.
Aurora ; B-o.r, bor, Aurora Boreal —’
Then he stopped and looked at the floor and
steadied.
“I jest,stood up. I was thet excited, for
I knowd what was wrong. I seen tears in
Hannah Cider’s eyes as she leaned for’d, not
breathin’ ; I seen Jimison grin and know’d
he remembered he left out th’ u and ’ud
spell et sure jest as quick as he'd get a
chance. I believed Quincy was going’ ter
say a, and thet et was all up with him, an’
thet Hannah Ciders know’d who she fav-
ored too late, fer shé wasn’t a’ girl ter break
a greemen.
**Then sudden a feller run in th’ door
and yelled : Some uns run off with teacher
Jimison’s horse an’ sleigh !”’
‘You uns never seen sech a panic. Th’
weemen jumped up and yelled, th’ men
jest piled out th’ door ; John Jimison climb-
ed out th’ winder, an’ teacher Long drop-
ped his spellin’ book an’ follered. Ter my
surprise Quincy Muthersbaugh never mov-
ed ; he jest stood there lookin’ at Hannah
Ciders an’ smilin’, while she was gazin’
back, as red as a beet. I was gettin’ out
th’ winder among th’ last an’ turned ’round
ter see ef Quince was behind me; thet’s
how I come ter notice et. I jest stopped
an’ Jooked et hoth of ’em. For three min-
utes them two stared et ‘each other an’
I stared et them, not knowin’ what ter
make of et. Meantime the room was clear-
ed. Outside we heard th’ sleigh bells ring-
in’ as th’ fellers started off after th’ thieves;
we heard John Jimison and teacher Long
callin’ to em ter go in this an’ thet direc-
tion ; we heard th’ weemen camplainin’
because they’d so many hev ter walk home.
‘Then th’ rear winder, right back of
where Quincy was standin’, slid up an’ his
young brother Sam stuck his head in, an’
when heseen th’ coast wus clear, whisper-
ed : ‘I jest give th’ ’larm in time, Quince,
didn’t I? T’ve hitched teacher Jimison’s
horse right here behind th’ school howse,
an’ you kin take her home jest as soon as
th’ last of these here fools gits away.’
“Quincy smiled an’ said : ‘I thot you
was never comin’ an’ I'd hev ter spell et
out.’
“But th’ winder was shet down an’ his
brother was gone.
“Then he steps down off th’ platform
an’ walks up ter Hannah Ciders, an’ says :
‘Th’ last syllable e-a-l-a-s.’
* ‘No,’ she says, quietlike, ‘et’s e-a-l-i-s.
But thet ain’t no dffference.’
“I slipped out th’ winder an’ started
home. But ten minutes later John Jimi-
son’s horse and sleigh passed me on th’
road, an’ from what I seen I jedged et
wouldn’t a done him much gogd, any-
way, ef he had a spelled down Quincy
Muthersbaugh.”’—New York Sun.
His Bluff was Called.
Reporter—That fellow who wanted his
name kept out of the paper called in to-
day. Oh, he was mad !
Editor—What about ?
Reporter—It seems we kept it out.
The Primary Election and County
will meet at the regular places for holding
the general elections, in their respective elec-
tion districts, on Saturday, June 5th, 1897,
to elect delegates to the county convention.
Under the rules of the party the election
p- m.
stated time will meet in the court house,
Convention. :
The Democratic voters of Centre county
will be opened at 3 p. m. and closed at 7
The delegates chosen at the above
in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, June Sth, 1897,
at 12 o'clock noon, and nominate one can-
didate for jury commissioner and one can-
didgge for county surveyor ; elect five dele-
gates to the state convention to be held at
Reading at the call of the executive com-
mittee of the state central committee, and
a chairman of the county committee to
serve from January 1st. 1898, to January
1st, 1899 ; and, to transact such other busi-
ness as may appear befor€ the convention
Snow Shoe Twp. E. P.L.
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Snow Shoe Twp. W. P.John T. Lucas Ch.
Spring Twp., N. P..L.
Taylor Twp...... Vinton Beckwith, Ch...... Hannah
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Walker Twp. E. P........ Sol Peck, Ch... .] Nittany
Worth
will hold a township election this spring instead
of precincts. David M. Whiteman will act as chair-
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8. P..Sam’l Wayne,........ Osceola Mills,
2 < Patrick Hefteron, :
id John Wayne,
Redding Ch.....Snow Shoe:
. C. Gilliland
£ 4 T. Kelly
“ Daniel Flannigan
John Confer
H. Wian, Ch........Bellefunte.
J. 8. Yearick
A. Hamilton
S. P. W. H. Noll, Jr. Ch. Pleasant Gap.
James Corl
J. Adam Hazel.
W. P. Phil F. Garbrick, Ch Bellefonte.
Dommick Judge
Abe Switzer
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Samuel Hoover
J.T. Merryman
Union TWp-......... Chas. G. Hall, Ch........... Fleming
te % 8. K. Emmerick
Mark Hall
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‘“ M.P. D.M. Whiteman Hublershurg
“ W.P. Harvey Shaeffer, Ch Zion
Twp.....A. J. Johnston, Ch....... Port Matilda
Nore.—The three chairmen of Walker township
man and the committeemen for the east and west
recincts, will assist in holding this election.
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BOYD MUSSER. +H. 8. TAYLOR,
Chairman.
SHIR,
Secretary.
He spelled it |
as follows
in the interest of the party.
APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES.
The number of delegates to which each
election district is entitled, as approved
and ratified by the Democratic county
committee on the 3rd day of May, 1897, is
ELECTION
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Centre Hall
Milesburg B
Millheim Bo
Philipsburg,
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Potter,
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WW. WV,
Howard Boro...
Ferguson, I.
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Unionville Boro.
Benner, N. P..
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Union.. 1
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Total 4.459 89
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Benner Twp., S. P....Jno.
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College Twp........J. A.
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Liberty Twp........J.
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Marion Twp......... J.
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J. L. Neff, Ch
W. Miles Walker
John Dunlap
Louis McQu
istion
H. C. Crissman
W. A. Sandoe,
J. M. Goodh
George Noll
art
Wm. Essington
B. F. Kister
E. E. Knarr
H. R. Greist
Wm. Keaters
1st W. J. Lukens, Ch. Philipsburg
2nd W. Ira Howe, Ch.
Vv
Albert Dress
E .C. Howe,
Frank
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P. Howe,
Harry Craine.
A. A. Miller
T. F. Kennedy
Henry Noll,
J. F. Heato!
Austin Fetzer.
Irvin Harvey,
Chas. Lucas,
Ezekiel Confer,
F. Poorman, Ch.... Mileshurg.
Ellis Kohlbecker..
James
A. V. Daugherty.
D. A. Grove.
Elis Lytle,
D. H. Kusterborder
Gregg Twp. N. P.....Geo. Weaver, Ch.... Penns Cave.
Fngard,
Roush
E. P...J. C. 6ondo, Ch......... Penn Hall.
Emanuel
Jno.
Curtin Twp........N. J. McCloskey, Ch......
Ferguson Twp. E. P.W
hy.
H. B. Herring,
F. M. Fisher.
C. E. Royer,
Harry Grove,
C. N. Weaver,
A. F. Bowe
E. P...R. E. Stover, Ch..... Woodward,
Tr,
Henry Reinhart,
Clair Kreamer,
C. S. Cross,
Wm. Lytle.
reereseds A. Swnbb, Ch.,
J. K. Page,
Philip H. Meyer,
Robt. Confer, Ch......... Howard,
A. M. Butler
W. F. Leathers
...Henry Hale, Ct
F. Craig,
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Geo. Campbell,
Ben Brown.
J. F. Condo,
H. 8, Yearick,
Miles Twp. E. P..Dan’l Harter, Cl
leceaas
Jerome Meyer,
Jerre Brumgard,
J. A. Deatrick,
J. F. Kern,
Elmer Bierly,
H. A. Detwiler, Jr.
P. A. Sel ers,
J. W. Biddle,
W. W. Royer
J. B. Fortney
G. H. Emerick,Ch...Centre Hall,
David Keller,
Thomas Moore,
Romola.
. H. Fry, Ch. Pine Grove Ms.
Jno. Dreiblebix,
J. L. Murp
W. P.S. Harpster, Jr. Ch.Gatesburg
OFFICERS FOR HOLDING DELEGATE ELECTIONS,
..John Trafford, Ch.....Bel
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“ ®°W., Ed. Brown, Jr, Ch. “
a Ss. D. Gettig te
£0 Chas. Brown, Jr. big
£8 W. W. Geo. R. Meek, Ch, ts
Centre Hall Boro...J. Witmer Wolf, Ch..Centre Hall
Howard Boro.........Abe Weber, Ch............. Howard
ie ¢ Joseph D. Diehl
£4 4 John H. Wagner
Milesburg Boro....Jas. B. Noll, Ch...........] Milcshurg
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m'l Weiser, Jr., Ch... Millheim
P. Brisbin, Ch.......... Fleming
N. Krumrine, Ch State College
S. Philipsburg Boro Henry Wilcox, Ch Philipsburg
Benner Twp. N. P.L.C..Rerick, Ch......... Bellefoyte
. Ishler Ch....... Bellefonte.
H. A. Wagner,
Boggs Twp. N. P...Henry Heaton, Ch.....Mileshurg.
Roland.
Rupp, Ch............ Oak Hall.
. H. Tibbens,
et W. P...Tno. Smith, Ch.....Spring Mis.
Haines Twp. W. P..W. I. Winklebeck Ch... Coburn.
Half Moon Twp,..... E. McAfee, Ch......Stornstown.
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Linden Hall.
Julian,
A. Bituer, Ch........Blanchard.
Chaney Delong,
WW. 0m, Ch.................. Waller.
Wolf's Store.
th W. P...Ed. Miller, Ch......... Centre Mills.
M.P.CJ Cronse, Ch.......Rebersburg.
Patton Twp... iis, D. L.-Meak, Oh.............. Waddle.
Penn Twp............4 A. P. Zerby, Ch ....Sober.
3 : J.P aati
4 A. R. Alexander,
Potter Twp. 8. P....J. F, Smith, Ch.............. Colyer.
lefonte
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nary of each and every year.
The regular rules of the Democratic party will
govern the conduct of both primaries and conven-
tion and for the benefit of our voters we append it
herewith : ¢
RULES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CENTRE COUNTY.
1. The Democratic County Convention of Cen-
tre county shall be composed of one delegate for
every fifty Democratic votes polled at the presi-
dential or gubernatorial election next preceding
the convention. The allotment of delegates to the
several election districts in the county shall he
made by the standing committee of the county at
its first meeting in every alternate year suceeed-
ing the presidential or gubernatorial elections
and shall be in proportion to the Democratic votes
cast in each district at” such election,
2. The election for delegates to represent the
different districts in the annual Democratic
county convention shall be held at the usual
place of holding the general election for each dis-
trict on the Saturday preceding the second Tues-
day of June in each and every year, beginning at
three o'clock p. m. The delegates so elected
shall meet in County Convention in the court
house, at Bellefonte, on the Tuesday following at
twelve o'clock p. m.
3. The said delegate clection shall be held hy
an election hoard, to consist of the member of
county committee for each district and two other
Democratic voters thereof who shall be appointed
or designated by the county committee, In case
any of the persons xo constituting the board shall
be absent from the place of holding the election
for a quarter of an hour after the time appointed
by Rule Second for the opening of the same, his
or their place or places shall be filled by an elec-
tion, to be conducted viva voea, by the Demo-
ératic voters present at that time.
4. Every qualified voter of the district, who at
the late general election voted the Democrati
ticket, shall be entitled to a vote at the delegate
election ; any qualified elector of the district
who will pledge his word of honor to support the
Democratic ticket at the next general election
shall be permitted to vote at the delegate elec-
tions.
5. The voting at all delegate elections shall be
by ballot ; upon which ballotts shall be written or
printed the name or names of the delegates voted
for together with any instructions which the voter
may desire to give the delegates. Each ballot
shall be aon the person voting the same
by a member of the election board, and by him
deposited in a box or other receptacle provided
for that purpose, to which no persons but mem-
bers of the board shall have access.
6. No instructions shall be received or recog-
nized unless the same he voted upon the ballot as
provided in Rule Fourth, nor Ra such instrue-
tions if voted upon the ballot be binding upon the
delegates unless one-half or more of the ballots
shall contain instructions concerning any office,
the delegates elected at such election shall be
held to be instructed to support the candidates
having the highest number of votes for such
office.
7. Each election board shall keep an accurate
list of names of all persons voting at such elec-
tions, when the list of voters together with a full
and complete return of such election, containing
an accurate statement of the persons elected dele-
gates and all instruction voted, shall be certified
by said board to the ounty convention upon
printed blank to be furnished by the county con-
vention.
8. Whenever from any district qualified Demo-
cratic voters, in numbers equal to five times the
delegates which such district has in the county
convention, shall complain in writing of an un-
due election, of false returns of delegates or of in-
struction, in which complaint the alleged facts
shall be specifically set forth and verified by the
affidavit of one or more persons, such complaints
shall have the right to contest the seat of such |
delegates or the validity of such instructions,
Such complaint shall be heard by acommittee of
five delegates to be appointed by the president of
the convention; which said committee shall
proceed to hear the parties, their proofs and alle-
gations, and as soon as may be report to the con-
vention what delegates are entitled to seats there-
in, and what instructions are binding upon such
delegates. Whereupon the convention shall
proceed immediately on the call of the yeas and
nays to adopt or reject the report of the contesting
parties ; in which call of the yeas and nays the
names of the delegates whose seats are contested
or whose instructions are disputed shall be
omitted,
9. All delegates must reside in the district
they represent. In case of absence or inability to
attend substitutes may be made from citizens of
the district.
10. Delegates must obey the instructions given
them by their respective districts and if violated,
it shall be the duty of the president of the conven-
tion to cast the vote of such delegate or delegates
in accordance with the instructions, and the dele-
gate or delegates so offending shall be forth-with
expelled from the convention, and shall not be
eligible to any office or place of trust in the party
for au period of two years.
11. Inthe convention a majority of all voters
shall be necessary toa nomination, and no per-
son's name shall be excluded from the list of can-
didates until after the third ballot or vote when
the person receiving the least number of votes,
shail be omitted and struck from the roll, and so
on at each successive vote until a nomination be
made.
12. If-any person who is candidate for any
nomination before a county convention shall be
proven to have offered or pz2id any money or
other valuable thing or made any promises of a
consideration or reward to any delegate for his
vote, or to any person with a view of inducing or
securing the votes of delegates, or if the same
shall be done by any other person with the knowl-
edge amd eonsent of such_candidate, the name of
such candidate shall be immediately stricken
from the list of candidates ; or if such facts be
ascertained after his nomination, he shall be
struck from the ticket and the vacancy supplied:
by a new nomination, and in either case sueh
person shall be ineligible to any nomination by
the convention or to an election as a delegate
thereafter. And in case it shall be alleged after
the adjournment of the convention that any can-
didate put in nomination has been guilty of such
acts or of any other fraudulent practice to obtain
such nomination, the charges shall be investigat-
ed by the county committee, and such steps taken
as the good of the party may require.
13. If any delegate shall receive any money or
other valuahle thing, or accept the promise of any
consideration or reward to be paid, delivered or
secured to him or to any person for such ecandi-
date as an inducement for his vote, upon proof of
the fact tothe satisfaction of the convention such
delegate will be forth-with expelled, and shall not
be received as a delegate to any further conven-
tion, and shall be ineligible to any party nomi-
nation.
14. Cases arising under the Eighth, Twelfth
and Thirteenth Rules shall have precedence over
all other business in convention until deter-
mined. : :
15. That the term of the chairman of the coun.
ty committee shall begin on the first day of Jan.
16. That the delegates from the several bor-
oughs and townships be authorized, in conjunec-
tion with the chairman of the county committee,
to appoint the members of the committee for the
various boroughs and townships.
Florida’s New Senator.
Stephen R. Mallory has been electedy
. United States Senator from Florida, on th
twenty-fifth Legislative ballot. Mr. Mal-
lory, who will succeed Wilkinson Call, was
born in November, 848. He served for a
short time in the Confederate army, and
afterward as a midshipman in the Confed-
erate navy. He was graduated from the
Georgetown College in 1869, was an in-
structor there for two years, and in 1872
was admitted to the bar in Louisiana. . In
1874 he began the practice of law at Pensa-
cola. After serving in both branches of
the Legislature he was elected to Congress
in 1890, and served two terms in the House.
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One of Man’s Best Friends. i
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A redent decision of the Supreme court |
of Louisiana sustains the validity of an act |
of the Legislature of that State recognizing
dogs as personal property when placed upon
the assessment rolls. In the course of the
opinion the court made the following re-
marks about dogs, as property :
The very fact that they are without pro-
tection of the criminal laws shows that
property in dogs is of an imperfect ot qual-
ified nature, and that they stand, as it
were, between animals ferae naturae, in
which, until subdued, there is no property,
and domestic animals, in which the right of
property is complete, They are not con-
sidered as being upon the same plane with
horses, cattle, sheep and other domestic an -
imals, but rather in the category of cats,
monkeys, parrots, singing birds and simi-
lar animals kept for pleasure, curiosity or
caprice. Unlike domestic animals, they
are useful neither as beasts of burden, for
draft nor for food.
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In spite of what the court says the dog
has proven of great value not only as a
beast of burden, but for draft purposes and |
for food, and wherever care has been taken |
to train him for that purpose. man has
found him a most valuable assistant. In |
Holland and Belgium and in some districts
of France the family dog is as much relied
on and as highly valued as the horse is else-
where. He is harnessed to the vehicle that-
transports the farmer's produce to market.
He works in the fields and gardens, tows
boats on the canals and does a prodigious |
amount of labor. In all the cities and |
towns of those regions he is in evidence |
everywhere, and such a factor in all indus-
trial activity that it is difficult to see how
the people would get along without him. |
His intelligence and docility particularly |
fit him for the tasks to which he is assign- |
ed, and the economy of his maintenance as |
well as his abilility to shift for himself !
makes him just the servant and beast of |
burden these people need.
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In the Arctic regions men could not exist
without him. He is in certain latitudes
the sole beast of burden employed and the
only one that could be employed. In all
accounts of Arctic explorations we read of
the use that is made of him in draw-
ing the sledges of travelers overthe inter-
minable ice and snow,and of how, when food |
runs short, he is sacrificed to fill the larder.
At various times many people have es-
teemed the flesh of the dog a delicacy, and
it is doubtless ag nutritious and palatable
as the flesh of many animals who go to fur-
nish our tables, and he is certainly as clean-
ly in his habits as many of those animals
the flesh of which is universally consumed.
Many people have been so impressed
with the usefulness of the dog asa draft an-
imal in those countries where he is so em-
ployed that they have favored the project
of his universal employment as one that
would improve conditions, everywhere.
But in this country he will probably re-
main what he has always been, simply
the faithful pet of the watchman and the |
hunter. In these capacities he has been
known from the earliest dawn of history.
In the most ancient sculptures that have
been discovered the dog is represented, and
it is siown that even then there were many
varieties used for different purposes. Stud-
ents of the progress of man concede that he
has been of the greatest service in the estab-
lishment of human society and that the first
possessors of dogs for hunting were enabled
by their aid to make the first sure step to- |
wards civilization.
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When we consider all’ of-this ; when we
recollect that he has been domesticated and |
has been the servant and household , friend
of man for ages, from the time he dwelt in
caves until he lived in palaces, and
when we consider how highly he is esteem- |
ed by millions, it seems strange that in the |
law he should be still classed partly asa
wild animal in which there can be only a
modified property by complying with cer- |
tain regulations. There is not one of us |
in a hundred who has not known dogs,
with whose traits we were as well acquaint-
ed as with those of any of our friends, and
for whom we had miore respect and affec-
tion than for many men that we knew.
Literature is full of stories of their faith-
fulness, their bravery and intelligence.
Go into any company and relate an anec-
dote ahout the intelligence of a dog and
everybody will have a dozen of them to
tell, many of them showing that the intel-
ligence and sagacity of the animal is al-
most human.
. There is no animal, not even among those
who go upon two legs, that is more grate-
ful and appreciative of kindness ; there is
none so long suffering, and there is none
that so attaches himself to his master and
who will stick as he does to him through
thick and thin and through all the varying
tides of fortune. If all the world besides
frowns upon you, and if every vestige of
fortune deserts you, you are still the same
to your dog and sure of a welcome and
greeting. Place one of them in charge of
a child and he will fight an army in its de-
fense. Set him to guard the house and it
cannot be harmed as long as he has the-
power to resist and to summon assistance.
Place him upon the scent of game and- he
will know no fatigue as long as he can as-
sist in pointing out its haunts to his mas-
ter. Train him to any service and he will
die in its performance if need be. Once
taught his duty, he knows no fear or falter-
ing in its performance, and yet the courts
class him, the most domestic of all, as oc-
cupying only a sort of middle ground be-
tween wild and domestic animals.— Pifts-
burg Times.
She Kuew.
‘‘Now, children,’’ said the school teach-
er, ‘vou have just read the story about the
little bird that fell in the spring and was
drowned. Who can tell me what a spring
is 2?
Several bright little boys and girls held
up their hands, and one was asked for her
answer.
“It comes before the Fourth of July,"
she said.
.““Oh, no ; I do not mean the season,’’ ex-
plained the teacher. “I 'nean the spring
that the lictle bird was drowned in.”’
A little girl waved her hand frantically.
“Well you may answer,’ said the teach-
er
“*A spring is water coming up out of the
rround with a-health resort built up around
it.’
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——Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has
given a horse valued at $15,000, to Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico. The freight charges
were $600 in gold.
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starts with : Backache meaus kidney ache,
lame back means lame kidneys, weak back
means weak kidneys, cure means Doan’s
Kidney Pills. Read about the free dis-
tribution in this paper, and call at F. Potts
Green’s.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,
The sweet girl graduate bobs up serenely
with the blossoming of the June roses, and
not the ieast of her anxieties is what to
wear on that memorable day when she feels
she has left her school days behind her and
life takes on a different character. Of
course, the material must be white, and
the more becoming and appropriate, though
many India silks, challies and albatross
will be worn with a view to utilizing them
afterward for dressy house gowns. A
gown designed especially for this purpose.
Has a sweet simplicity that makes it singu-
larly appropriate. The material is white
French organdy, and has’ a most becoming
bolero effect, arranged in' broad tucks,
slightly gatliered at the left side from the
shoulder down, where it fastens over the
full Spencer waist underneath. The full-
ness of the waist is gathered in at the waist-
line and held with a crushed belt of wide
white satin ribbon, which hangs in long
ends to the bottom of the skirt. The
graceful and much-worn mousquetaire
sleeve is finished at the shoulder with
three ruftled caps of organdy.
Some women never acquire the knack of
tying a bow-knot. In fact, many women
do not, judging from the strange, upside-
down, wrong-side-out affairs one sees in
ribbons and sashes and honnet strings.
The process is simplicity itself after it was
once learned. Always to put the upper
string over the under, and never the re-
verse, is the whole thing in a nutshell.
If this same upper string is again brought
through the middle loop before pull-
ing it smartly into place it will make
the -unloosable knot which is necessary
in shoe laces, for instance.
It’s a fad of the up-to-date woman to be,
or to affect to be, tremendously busy, to
have every moment of the waking hours
filled in, to rush from one engagement to
another, and to condense in 24 hours the
work of twice that number.
What is the object of all this? Heaven
knows, unless it is that no one woman
shall boast that her social engagements
exceed in number those of any other, for to
confess that one is not in a mad rush from
day to day is to acknowledge that one is
not in the swim—humiliating admission for
the progressive woman of the end of the
| century.
And who pays the piper for this continu-
ous round of occupations and preoccupa-
tions? Why, the woman herself and her
family. Who does not know the oft-re-
peated story, the tired-out wife and mother
the irritable, fault-finding mistress and the
hypereritical friend—the result of the effort
to accomplish a multiplicity of trifles in a
given time or period. And then the air of
martyrdom which the over-fatigued woman
assumes is not the least trying part of the
ordeal which the family of the too energet-
ic one must bear. She rides for instance,
20 miles on her bicycle when common sense
should limit her to half that number.
She comes home physically exhausted, and
for the remainder of the day her expression
of patient fatigue rivals that of an early
martyr.
Or during the house-cleaning period she
condenses the labor of two days into one,
and at nignt is so worn out and assumes so
palpable an air of uncomplaining resigna-
tion that the very sight of her is irritating
to the last degree, and instead of sympathy
she usually gets what she really deserves.
a wholesome letting aloneness or a good
i scolding for her foolish over-zealousness.
What women really need to learn is that
the life of a truly dignified, useful woman
is not given up to this mad rush from one
occupation to another ; that nothing good
or lasting is done in haste, and that hurry
is a fatal hindrance to the accomplishment
of any work of real and permanent value.
‘Let. us leave hurry to slaves,’’ said the
philosopher Emerson—a saying which
should be blazoned in letters of gold over
the door of the abode of every modern Mar-
tha whose soul is troubled with many
things.
Miss Frances McHenry, who was admit-
ted to the bar of Columbia county at
Bloomsburg ong day last week, is the first
woman lawyer in Central Pennsylvania,
Judge Ikeler, in his remarks at the time of
Miss McHenry’s admission, referred to this
fact. Miss McHenry is 22 years of age and
her tutelage in the law was had with Ike-
ler & Ikeler, in thistown. She is a gradu-
ate of the Muncy Normal School and Buck-
nell University. She is an enthusiastic
horse-woman, having spent her girlhood on
her father’s farm at Exchange, Montour
county. :
The new snmmer sleeves are tucked in a
variety of ways—some horizontally, others
in fine tucks extending the entire length of
the sleeve. Then there must he a frill or
puff, an epaulet or fancy cuff to give the
proper finish to the sleeve of silk or thin
goods. Cloth sleeves have braid or button
garniture. The untrimmed sleeve is slow-
ly passing into that limbo to which the un-
trimmed skirt has been reluctantly con-
signed—the limbo reserved for passe fash-
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A student of dressmaking, ata famous
school in New York city, has a method of
pressing seams which is most ingenious.
She has taken a rolling-pin, split it in half
so as to make a flat surface, then covered it
it as one would an ironing board. It sup-
plies just what is needed, a curving,
smooth surface, but one which remains
firm beneath the weight of the iron.
A daisy wedding is a singularly appro-
priate one, the daisy being a June blossom
and is symbolic of the girl bride, being
‘‘pure white outside with a heart of gold.’
Besides nothing could he sweeter or dainti-
er as a house or church decoration than
huge loose bunches of this pretty flower
and they are so easy to get ; they are very
inexpensive. Have the bridesmaids’ bou-
quets of them also.
White organdy is the wedding gown par
excellence for a girlish June bride. It is
not as heavy as satin and its airiness makes
it most becoming. When prettily trimmed
with lace it makes a charming wedding
| gown.
The shower houquet is the latest. In
this the flowers are arranged with stream-
ers of ribbon or tulle to fall almost to the
knees, there being a lot of pendant Hower?
| below the bunch at the top.
Watered silk poplin is once more in
fashion cut into small checks in
cream and brown, white and black,
grav and white ‘and in other colors,
such as dark blue and red or mauve and
cream, is extremely smart. It will furnish
very natty dresses when trimmed with
velvet and embroidery, or, more novel
still, with the metallic embroidery. It
saw its brilliant service at the war days,
and the belles of those days danced Vir-
ginia reels gowned in its sheeny folds.