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| life. The temple was in the city. It must
| be there, for where else could the worship-
| ing throngs be gathered together ? Some
time, when he was twelve years old, per-
— | haps, he would be taken up to the temple.
All children were carried to the house of
God and presented to him when the proper
Jesus was taken to-the temple
“Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1902
MY VALENTINE GIRL.
The maples sway in the blast, and blow, i time came.
And the poplars bend "neath the weight of | when he was twelve years old. That was
the snow, a long time to wait; but he had to get
And the moon's pale gleam shows a world all readv. There was the Gift? What gift
white, { had he that be would dare lay in the
For winter is ruling the earth to-night. priest’s hand to be offered to the Most High
But here in the firelight's flickering shine God ?
I sit und dream of my Valentine. | own. How his little possessions shrank
Her cheeks arc flushed with a wild-rose and cheapened when he thought of carry-
pink, | ing them to the temple and offering them
And her hair is a golden or brown, I think; | to God ! If the priest should refuse his
And her.eyes are wonderful wells of light | wift and hand it back with a stern, re:
As out from the fire's gleam, red and proachful look, it would break his heart;
bright, he would die of shame where he stood.
She smiles and nods for a fleeting while. Was Sere hotbing Te Souls give which
; i irl aan smile | won e rich and rare enough r
Axcnly my Valentine gir) oan smile. like roadside trash beside the least of these
gifts which the people of the great city
would heap in splendid, glittering masses
on the altar of God? He thought over all
his treasurers, but there was nothing at all
bus the gold doilar that would bear think-
ing of for an instant. And that was so
little ; oh, he never could offer such an
atom as that !
The dinner-horn sounded, faint and far,
and the temple fell into airy nothingness
around him. He looked a moment at the
Her trailing robes are of snowy lace,
And as white is the beautiful, mocking face;
And it dim’s in the firelight's fainter play
As it fades and dies into ashes gray.
And I sigh as I think what my sonl could
feel
1f my beautiful Valentine girl were real.
Chambersburg, Pa., Feb. 4. L. TE.
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LLEWELLYN’S OFFERING.
1
outlying island on the shore of conscious |
It must be something of his very |
|
“He loves her,”’ thought Llewellyn.
“That is the way the Captain looked when
the Lady Iuez gave him the glove ;”’ and
and he stole softly away, forgetting all |
about the kitchen in his pure delight at |
having seen so beautiful a thing.
Then Aunt Martha discovered him and | The Watchman is windicated oy
took him into the great audience-room. |
which was packed full to the steps of the |
galleries. That might be the place, only it |
was so light and the people’s faces had such |
different expression. Small creatures hav- |
ing no adequate language have to judge by |
tones and expression. :
Silence fell on the assembly, and then the |
tall man who stood so long in the parlor
shaking hands with people, stepped for-
ward on a bare platform and said : “Let us |
pray.’’ !
Llewellyn knelt quite simply, not notic- |
ing that no one else did so, and clasped his |
bands reverently. For a few brief mo-
ments he was happy. The sympathetic
baritone voice lifted in prayer thrilled him |
with a sweet joy, and started his visions, so
that he did not know when his praying |
ceased. :
Aunt Martha touched his shoulder pres- |
ently and he resumed his seat, holding his
gift ready. His heart beat fast, and his |
eyes shone with expectation. i
Then the lady with the long black |
gloves swept an immense train across the |
platform, swirled it deftly about, and step-
ped back into the coil of it with a graceful |
bow. An original poem of welcome was |
N TRIAL
FOR LIBEL.
a Clearfield County Jury.
Twelve Good and Lawful Men Find that the Editor of the
Watchman did not Libel the Next State Treasurer When
% he Said that He Might Well Lay Claim to the Title of
«Ring of the Crooks’ and from ‘‘Betraying his
Constituents in the Legislature of 18gg He Be-
came an Unblushing
Bribe-Taker in that
of igor.”
The WATCHMAN of last week gave the
proceedings in the Ha RRIS-MEEK libel case
up to the hour of going to press on Thurs-
day, the greater portion of that day being
taken up with preparing and presenting to
the court statenients of what the defense
proposed to prove, and in obtaining rulings
upon them. Its reports closed with Mr.
fore, was not made maliciously or negli-
gently.”
On the second offer Judge Gordon ex-
cluded all the testimony as to probable
cause down to the alleged Haywood letter,
and it is generally accepted that the testi- |
mony on the letter and on the hospital ap-
propriation will be given to the jury.
REVIEW OF THE CASE.
asked that he reduce to writing the con-
tention he made. That work consumed
more than two hours and after the conten-
tion was submitted in writing the court
sustained the objection. ;
Before Mr. Meek was ruled practically
off the stand by Judge Gordon, he gave
some damaging testimony. Mr. Krebs ask-
ed : ‘Did vou at any time have information
that Mr. Harris, while a member of the
Legislature, made a demand upon the
trustees of the Philipsburg hospital for
money ?’’
i 14g.
| ‘*When was that ?'’ Mr. Krebs asked.
‘‘Abont a year ago,”’ Mr. Meek answer-
ed, and then explained that his information
had come from Robert M. Foster, a former
member of the Legislature from Centre
county. Mr. Meek said he had investi-
gated the information given him by Foster.
and had found it to be correct.
“State whether Mr. Harris said he had
received a check from Benjamin Haywood
that he could use provided he would vote
for Senator Penrose, the Becker bill and
other measures that Haywood would desig-
nate 2” Mr. Krebs asked.
*‘T had such information from a gentle-
man in whom I have implicit confidence, D.
L. Krebs,” Mr. Meek answered.
Clarence Wolf, of Philadelphia, banker
and broker, and one of the Philadelphia
elevated railway promoters, was cailed by
the defense. Ex-Judge Krebs made anoth-
er long offer tc the Court, proposing to
Llewellyn lived in the country, and he
had never been to church since he could re-
member. So he built one for himself ; on-
ly he called it a temple. The different
meanings of the word ‘*¢hurch’’ were get-
ting separated in his mind ; but, as the
architectural meaving got appiied to a
sohool-house where there was intermittent
preaching, he promptly rejected it. Some-
still pool and the feathery hemlock branch-
es, got his bearings, and stood up among
the ferns. Then he ran swiftly through
the woods toward the house.
At the dinner-table Llewellyn heard
mueh talk ; and his eyes shone as he hegan
to understand its drift. There was to be a
reunion at the church in the city, to the
membership of which Aunt Martha used to
The following statements in
were put on record :
In the Court of Quarter Sessions Clear-
field county, Pa.. Feb. 6th, 1902.—P.
Gray Meek, witness on the stand. It is
proposed to prove by the defendant called
in his own behalf that while at Harrisburg
at the times mentioned in the testimony,
which has already been offered and receiv-
the case | prove the expenditure of large sums of
money tosecure the passage of the railways
bills. The witness said he was a banker
and broker, lives in Philadelphia, and is
an incorporator of the Philadelphia elevated
railways. Asked whether he was interest-
ed in the measures, he said :
~ “T was interested so far as being one of
read with much elocutionary skill, and | ,, oR
temperately applauded. Two or three | BIGELOW on the stand and objections to
other numbers followed rapidly ; and then | his stating if he knew
everybody stood up and began to talk. | heen used to procure legislation at Harris-
Llewellyn put his gift in his pocket with a burg last winter. As to what was proposed
feeling almost i . 1 :
ps 3g alvjost of dismay. He lm Jel so | to be proven and what testimony was ruled
so different. ; | out the following will show :
Then a door opened on either side of the | ATTORNEYS FILED OBJECTIONS.
of money having
toda ty : : ; | ; A the incorporators of the company.’’
thing in his brain, probably inherited from belong. The guests had come to see ber | platform and be was swept with the throng | When Mr. Meek was supplying the jury ed, that he had conversations with mem- “Were your articles of incorporation
his Celtic grandfather, arose in might and | about it. It was to be a great occasion ; | into the supper-room, where he ate nothing | with the evidence which it was contended | Pers of the House, namely, Wm. T. Creasy, | signed before the bill was past?”
shut a strong door almost audibly against
such a use of the sacred term.
Llewellyn loved the shadowy and indefi-
nite. Cleai-cut outlines and bright, even
illumination’ made him uncomfortable.
There was the old sea-chest in the attic.
He did not know whom it belonged to
when it was afloat, nor any single thing
about it. He made romances about every-
thing iu it, from the navigation books in
the top locker to the soaked and discolored
but; having absorbed the fact, Llewellyn
escaped to fill in the details himself. The
talk about turkeys and squash pies could
not be endured for an unnecessary moment.
His best way was to go back and tell the
fishes ; besides he felt unhoused trying to
think of it till he could build his temple
again.
“1 shall not have to wait till Tam twelve
years old. Do you hear, Grampus? They
and stared about him so curiously that | would aequit him of the charge against
Aunt Martha whispered a sharp reproof. | him, the attorneys for the prosecution filed
After supper the crowd began to thin rap- | emphatic objections. Mr. Krebs argued
idly, but the babel of talk did not for a that the testimony, not the court, required
moment cease ; and Llewellyn sat with | him to put the offer of evidence in writing.
listless hands and bowed head struggling | After an hour’s preparation Mr. Krebs sub-
| mightily with his disappointment. | mitted the following :
But hope returned to him suddenly when | «Qpe—It is proposed to prove by the
they were going out through the audience: | witness on the stand and by other wit
room, where most of the lights had been | yegqes to be called, that he and the several
A. J. Palm, Mr. Myers, of Cumberland;
Wm. Allison, of Centre county; Dr. Thom-
as, of Westmoreland; Gen. William H.
Koontz, of Somerset, and of the Senate, J.
Henry Cochran and William Heinle, and
with the members of the press (I. E.,) men
representing the Philadelphia Press, Phila-
delphia Z%émes, the Record, of Philadelphia;
the Public Ledger, the Pittsburg Zimes, of
Pittsburg; the Pittsburg Post. viz., John
This was objected to. Ex-Judge Krebs
said the question was preliminary to his of-
fer, which was not read to the jury. Judge
Gordon said the offer embraced the same
questions offered yesterday and the objec-
tions were sustained. ‘‘You may retire,
Mr. Wolt,”’ said ex-Judge Krebs, and an-
other steel-plate, homb-proof lid was kept
down on secrets of the last Legislature.
George D. Herbert, of the Star-Independ-
turned out.
‘paradise Lost,” full of dried leaves, in a
tiny drawer only an ch deep which he
discovered by accident. and the long soft
lady’s glove, wrapped in oilskin and tied ’
with a blue string. The chest had been
stove by shot. The ship that carried it
must have at some time been in action.
There were all the elements of a romance
ready to his hand ; and how he reveled in
the yarn as he built it up, putting in pi-
rates to stave the chest with grape-shot, a
missionary on his way to the Cannibal
Islands to read the ‘Paradise Lost,”” and
marooning a young lady in a white ball-
dress and pearl gloves on a coral reef, for
the captain who studied the navigation
books to rescue !
are going to take me to the temple this
very week—in two or three days ; and oh
dear, good Speckle ! do help me to think of
something beside my little atom of a dol-
Jar to take with me for a gift.”’ Just then a
darting fish led his eye to a white, egg
shaped pebble in the shallows at the edge
of the pool. Llewellyn stared at that peb-
| ble for a full minute, thinking hard.
“Why, of course, I can put the dollar in
the pink cotton in my little hird’s-egg box.
It won't look so small then; and perhaps
the priest wili understand that it is all 1
have got. If he talks with me, T will tell
him that. if he will accept it, when I am a
man I will bring, ob, the splendidess gifts!
But God will’ know all about it, If I can’t
tell the priest.”
He glanced back as he neared
the door and saw a man all alone in a rail-
ed inclosure above and behind the plat-
form. That must be the priest. He
would not have to carry his gift away, and
feel forever that hie could not find God. He
ran back to the dim passage leading to the
chapel, found the stairs, slipped off his
shoes, and softly went up. The stair was
very narrow and steep ; but strait is the
gate and narrow is the way that leadeth
to—
The organist stared so violently that he
dropped the books he had been gathering
up. Never had he seen anything like that
child-face, rapt, seraphic, pale, almost lu-
minous, with eyes like stars. He only
saw the face float out of the shadow be-
| Jannary, A. D. 1901; during which session
| ¢lass,” and commonly known as the ripper
witnesses to he called were at Harrisburg
during the sitting and session of the Legis-
lature for the session beginning the Ist of
the prosecutor, Frank G. Harris, as is al
ready shown by this indictment, wasa
member of the House of Representatives;
that during said session the act of As-
sembly, act No. 14, entitled, ‘An act for
the government of cities of the second
bill, was passed; that large sums of money
were supplied and paid to members of the
Legislature to procure its passage by the
House of Representatives ; to be followed
by other witnesses to prove that the prose-
eator took an active and leading part in the
P. Dwyer, of the Philadelphia Press; Peter
1. Hoban, Public Ledger; Geo. D. Herbert, |
of Harrisburg;
Robert W. Herbert, of the Pittsburg Zimes;
Lawrence Goshorn, of the Pittsburg Post;
Peter Bolger, of the Philadelphia Record,
all of whom were present at the daily sis-
tings, and sessions, of the Legislature of |
1901, and also by James M. Guffey, and |
that he was informed by them that large
amounts of mouey were being used and
paid to procure the organization of the
House by the election of Mr. Marshall as
speaker and for the election of Mr. Quay to
the United States Senate and for the pas-
sage of what was commonly known as the
“Franchise bill,” and also for the passage
of the *‘ripper bill”’ and other bills, all of
of the Star Independent,
ent, Harrisburg, was called. He said he
was a Democrat, familiar with the work of
the Legislature through conference with his
party leaders and conversations with others.
“Pid you hear then from them and from
others?” began Judge Krebs, again trying
to lift the lid.
LID AGAIN SHUT DOWN.
“‘Hold on. Hold on, there. We object,’’
shouted Attorney Cole.
‘“That is in your offer,’ said the Court
to Judge Krebs, and the lid was still down.
Ex-Judge Krebs again read a decision on
the right to discuss the conduct: and char-
acter of public officers.
The offer was to prove by the witness
that Harris was always spoken of as one of
i y ‘passage of the same. ; | & Sul ; :
One day, when he was lying on a heap Then Llewellyn lapsed into a day-dream | hind the organ. Then, because he had ! ! In Be port of his offer Mr. Krebs con- said persons being reputable men and citi- the Rang x mel who bad: been: ins
of quilts in the window-seat arranging the | in which solemn pictures formed and faded | been frightened, he spoke sharply. tended that the question of privilege was Zens. uenced by the use of money. Herbert
very last scene, aunt Martha came up the
stairs with company ; and among other old
furniture she showed them the tough-iook-
ing old chest. When she hegan to talk
about that, Llewellyn startled the whole
party by springing up with a sharp cry and
rushing downstairs. He never stopped
running till he approached a large, fern-
shaded pool in the middle of the hemlock
woods where there was perpetual twilight
and seclusion.
Lying down on the bank, he unbuttoned
his wristhand and thrust his hand into the
water, moving his fingers gently. Tiny
fishes came glancing forward from every
direetion and dabbed their soft, cold noses
against his hand. Then a big one came
swimming slowly along, and the small fry
made way for him. Llewellyn curved
his fingers and ran them along the sides
of the spotted beauty ; then he began to
talk in a voice that blended perfectly with
the marmur of brooks and the sound of the
wind in the trees. 2
“Think of it, Gramp Speckle !”’ he said.
“She was going to tell about the sea-chest,
just as I got the captain to the island ( most
of the sailors were drowned in the tornado
that wrecked the ship, ) and the lady—her
pame is Inez, you know—Lady Inez had
just lost one of her gloves. She was going
to tell the honest-truly-truth, do you un-
derstand, Grampus. Wouldn't that have
been awfnl ?’’ 3 ; :
The fish curved gracefully this way and
that in lazy enjoyment, but made no other
reply. Llewellyn knew he could talk if Le
wanted to.
‘‘Go away now, Grampy. Here's Max
and Jennie and all of their children.”
The newcomers crowded about the boy’s
band eageily ; and he took a biscuit from
his pocket and crumbled it in the water,
laughing softly to see the darting, strug-
gling fishes devour their dole. When they
grew quiet, he propped his chin in his
palms and began to work on his ecathe-
dral. $ :
. He wove romances ‘in the attic. and ly-
ing undzr the orchard trees : in the barn,
on the fragrant hay and yellow heaps of
straw ; on the rug before the dining-room
fire ; and often with his book open before
him on his desk at school ; but he always
labored at the building of his temple when
he lay by the still pool in the woods.
tle made the temple large and gray and
solid as a mountain, with a vast roof,
broken by a hae of windows, sloping away
under the branches of tall-trees,and a spire
that reached to the sky, and opened wide,
cavernous doors in the front of it which
led to a checkered expanse of stone floor.
And he made the roof within full of hol-
lows between the great beams, springing
like branches from stone pillars set in long
rows ; and away back at the end of the rows
of pillars he set candles that burned with
soft splendor before the Holy Place where
none but the priest might go, and he onl;
softly, after long prayer, with bare feet be-
cause the ground was holy. Somewhere in
the dimness behind the high screen God
sat in a great carved chair and looked down
on the kneeling people, and bowed down
his ear graciously to listen to their confes-
sions. ar :
The Lord is in his holy temple ; let all
the earth keep silence before Him.
The words surged and thundered in a
mighty volunie of remembered sound, and
died away among the arches of the roof ;
and silence that could he felt succeeded.
Then it was a clear picture without any
need of words ; throngs of kneeling wor-
shipers, very still, each telling God What
was in his own heart. Only the priest
and were succeeded hy other scenes in
which he walked with hushed footsteps, or
stood or knelt with a vast, adoring throug
in the temple where God makes his home,
and heard wonderful music throbbing and
trembling and swelling and surging through
the dim aisles and up to the shadowy roof.
And, born forward by the holy sounds, he
went up to the altar and Jaid his poor little
gift in the priest’s hand, fearfally and in a
terror of humility, because it was so very
small. And the priest smiled, and called
him by his name, and laid his hand on him
softly as a leaf falls, and then he went back
to his place among the people, oh, so glad
that his gift had been accepted !
Llewellyn’s heart beat so fast with the
excitement of the thick-crowding fancies
that he shook himself free from his revery
and stood up and walked ahout among the
brown columns of hemlocks. From that
time he felt no more anxiety about his gift.
It was dark when they reached the church
on the evening of the reunion ; and the
people were rapidly assembling. Llewellyn
kept close by Aunt Martha, with the little
bird’s-egg box clasped tightly in his band.
The throng flowed steadily into
church ; they would come to the place of
kneeling pretty soon. It looked different—
almost like a house, only the rooms were
larger. After a while they came to a
brightly lighted, carpeted room where a
tall man in black and a lady with long
black gloves stood side by side ; and all the
people went towards them in a row, shook
hands and passed on. Llewellyn presently
saw Aunt Martha and Uncle Johu were
moving in the same direction. He watched
the expression of their faces, and grew un-
certain in his mind. There must be some
other place where the people prayed and
offered gifts,
“I don’t want to stay here, Aunt Mar-
tha,”? he whispered, pulling her sleeve ;and
she bade him go and make friends with the
other children.
He was free; and he started to find the
priest at once. He might loose his gift,
and then—but that was too dreadful to
think about. He wandered through a
series of side rooms. where young men
were rearranging the seats and rolling open
wide doors. Not there,
Then he came to a much larger room,
and paused in astonishment. The room
was full of long tables ; and young ladies
were fluttering about them, placing dishes
of food, bread, cake, platters of meat,
pickels, everythiog that vould be thought
of that was good to eat. They all wore
white aprons, but were dressed very pretti-
ly. Llewellyn stood in a doorway and
watched them for a few minutes with eon-
siderable interect. That was not the
place. {
He clasped his gift tightly in his hand
and made his way around the side of the
room towards the rear, He must leave no
unexplored places behind him. But there
he did not even pause. The cooking-ranges
with its steaming coffee-tanks and kettle,
of chowder, the carving and dishing of
food, the hurry and clatter and confusion,
all blended iin one shock of repugnance that
was a physical pain. He ran swiftly back
and huddled against the wall of a dimly
lighted passage.
Before him was the open door of a little
room with only one light burning over a
table in the center. By the table stood a
gir), taking flowers out of white boxes,
and a young man was putting water in
vases and handing them to her. She ar-
ranged the flowers deftly, and the young
man bore the filled vases away.
“Just one !"’ he pleaded coming back to
the"
“What do you want ?”’
“J—was looking for—something,’’ said
Lewellyn. turning blindly away and grop-
ing down the stairs. Near the bottom he
fell ; and the organist, springing lightly
down, stood him on his feet.
. “*Not hurt, are you, sonny ?
are barefooted !
wanted to find ?
‘My shoes?
I must harry.”
Llewellyn went down the long aisle,
with the shoes in bis hand. Aunt Martha
was looking for him.
‘‘Here he is; and barefoot! Of all
things, Llewellyn! what did you take
your shoes off for? I know you said they
hurt you ; but new shoes always do burt.
You must wear them and set them to your
feet. Sit down right here, and put them
on. We shall miss our car.”
Llewellyn bent over the shoes, but he
fumbled the lacings, and great tears drop-
ped down on his hands.
Unicle John was almost stamping with
impatience.
“Take the shoes, Marthy,’”’ he said at
fast. ‘I'll have to lug him,”’ and, hoist-
ing the hoy in his arms, he strode ont to
the car-tracks. 2 nol
Aunt Martha was stricken with remorse |
for having spoken sharply to the mother-
less child, when he buried his face in Uncle
John’s shoulder and cried as if his heart
would break. In the cars she put on his
shoes and spoke tenderly and soothingly to
him ; but Llewellyn still clung to the
broad shoulder, and sohbed and sobbed.—
John Farrell, in The Outlook.
sanshine for Comnsumptives.
Why, vou
Was it the shoes you
Here they are.’
Oh, yes. Thank you, sir;
New Health Resort in the Colorado Desert.
The new ‘‘City’’ of Sunbath, in the cen-
tre of the Colorado desert in California and
Arizona, is to he made a national health
resort, says the Santa Fe New Mexican. A
large building is to be erected for the
health-seekers and a town site has been
laid out. The city consists at present of 60
tents, all occupied by consumpsives. A
majority of tenters are, or were, consump-
tives in the last stages, given up to die by
the physicians of Phoenix. As a last hope
these “‘lungers’’ decided to try the sun-
bath treatment, and went to the location
in the desert. In two years there had been
but two deaths in the colony, and the ma-
jority of the so-called hopeless cases have
improved to a wonderful extent. Fifteen
haye returned to their eastern homes en-
tirely cured. If only the vast army of dy-
jug consumptives in the United States
knew that life in the air and sunshine
would save their lives, what great hap-
piness it would bring to many homes.
Engaged Girl Gets $6,000 Damages.
An Iowa jury has just awarded $6,000
damages to a young woman because the
man to whom she was engaged died before
the date fixed for their marriage. The
plaintiff's allegation was that the dead wan
had once postponed the ceremony, and, al-
though there was no proof to show that he
did not intend to fulfill his promise at the
time which was set by their mutual con-
sent later, the gallant jurymen insisted
that his estate should compensate the
claimant for the loss she had suffered. The
men who sit in Western jury-boxes are
proverbially obliging to the fair sex, but
this example seems to go a step beyond all
precedents. If the verdiot stands, prudent
Towa swains who are not in the best of
health will probably demand short engage-
for the jury and not for the court to decide.
The question of negligence is also with the
jury. Mr. Krebs contended that the whole
question that should govern the case was
whether the defendant was justified by the
information he had that the charges made
weretrue. Mr. Krebs contended that prob-
able cause for belief was sufficient. He
then explained the impossibility of secur-
ing evidence agaiust the bribe taker, ‘‘bhe-
cause,” hesaid, ‘‘it is like larceny; it is
committed behind closed doors and in the
darkness.”
Mr. Krebs sustained his position by a
dozen or more decisions. Theattorneys for
the prosecution argued for their objections
and submitted many decisions in favor of
their contentions. In concluding his argu-
ment to sustain the objections Mr. Wood-
ward said unless the court is prepared to
judicially adopt the last Democratic plat-
form their offer has no standing. He argu-
ed that as Mr. Harris had voted with 102
other Republicans the offer was not pre-
sented seriously.
SECOND OFFER AND RULING.
Thomas H. Murray, for the defense, ar-
gued for the offer and cited case after case
in his support and immediately after his
offer had heen disposed of a second offer
and a ruling were made as follows :
Second—That at the same session of the
Legislature, of 1901; there was also intro-
duced and passed act No. 251, entitled, |
‘An act to provide for the incorporation and !
government of passenger railways, either
elevated or underground, or partly elevated
and partly underground wi'h surface rights |
commonly known as the ‘franchise bill,’ |
and large sums of moucy were furnished |
by different persons and paid to members
of the House of Representatives, of which
the prosecutor was a member, as shown by !
the indictments, to influence, control and
procure the votes of members of the said
House in favor of its passage, and that the
prosecutor was also a leading and active
this voting of the passage of said ‘franchise
bill 3’ to be followed by proof of other wit- !
nesses that the prosecutor took an active :
and leading pars in urging aud procuring ag most is mere ramor. It is farther ob-
the
fore the Legislature that were reputed to.
have been passed by the use of money ; to
be further followed by proof of these
facts, and other facts of like charac-
ter, were communicated = to defendant
by members of the House of Represent-
atives of which the prosecutor was also
a member and by reputable citizens living |
at the seat of government. as well as by a |
number of other reputable men whose busi- |
ness it was to be in daily attendance upon
the sessions of the Legislature prior to the
publication of the article complained of
and ses out in this indictment ; to be fol-
lowed by further proof that the prosecator
was a member of the House of Representa-
tives, during the legislative session of 1899;
that he demanded compensation from the
Cottage hospital, located at Philipsburg,
Pa.. a charitable institution, and supported
mainly by the State, for ‘four days’ bard
work done on the floor of the house,’ in
procuring the appropriation for the main-
tenance of said institution, and for one
‘special trip to Harrisburg to see Gov.
Stone,’ and presented a bill and made de-
mand for $100 from the trustees of said
Cottage hospital. To he followed by fur-
ther proof that during his candidacy for
nomination or election to the House of
Representatives, he received a letter or let-
‘ters from Benjamin Haywood or John P.
Elkin inclosing him a check for a large
And further it is proposed to prove by
the defendant that he was informed by
William T. Creasy, A. J. Palm, or Dr.
Thomas, William Allison and Mr. Myers,
of Cumberland county, that Frank G. Har-
ris, the prosecutor, was taking av active
and influential part and aiding in the pas-
gage of all these public measures and bills
known to be pushed from improper mo-
tives or known to be corrupt; that George
G. Herbert, Eobhert Herbert, Peter Hoban,
John Dwyer, Peter Bolger and Peter I.
Hughes also spoke of him and informed the
defendant that the prosecutor, Frank G.
Harris, was active, influential and concern-
ed in procuring and pressing the passage of
the hills aforesaid and the election of Mar-
shall as Speaker,and Quay as United States
Senator, and that he. the prosecutor, Frank
G. Harris. could always be found inside of
and assisting in the passage of measures
known to be corrupt or supposed to be cor-
And further, it is proposed to prove
by thedefendant that he had a conversation
with Charles E. Voorhees, a member of the
House of Representatives, in which he re-
ferred to him, the prosecutor, F. G. Harris,
as having forced the leaders of our party,
i. e., the Republican party, to take care of
“him politically in return for his betrayal
of Col. E. A. Irvin, and now has the gall
to demand a divvy on everything that is
going on here, the said Charles E. Voorhees
being a reputable and creditable man and
This information from all of the
| parties named was given to the defendant
prior to the publication complained of this
' offer being made and the testimony is of-
fered for the purpose of showing that the
publication was not maliciously or negli-
rupt.
citizen.
gently made, but was published
‘‘probable cause’’ to believe the things com-
plained of iu the article to be true.
(Signed)
DAvID I.. KREBS.
Attorneys for Defendant.
The offer as a whole is incompetent, irre-
1 } levant and unnatural generally, and is ob-
member on the floor of the House in urging ' jected to for that reason. It i¢ further ob-
not give or pro-
investiga-
jected to, as it does
pose to prove
tion made by the
any
defendant,
passage of each and all of the bills be- | jected to, as it does not pretend to prove
that the prosecutor ever received a bribe of
any kind, and fails to connect Mr. Harris
with any corrupt action or motive. It is
not proposed to show that Mr. Harris voted
for any measure from any but proper mo-
tives, and the charge could as well be made
against any other member who voted for
the same measures.
(Signed) WooDWARD, COLE &SWOPE,
Attorneys for Complainant, by the Court.
| On the question of probable canse and
| lack of negligence whatever the witness,
the defendant in the case may know of his
own knowledge and what may have heen
communicated to him from reliable and
trust-worthy sources is evident. But mere
floating rumors. Or authors of the reports
in cirenlation are not evidence. These
would not justify a defamatory publication
and make it privileged. The offer of evi-
dence as to corruption existing in the Legis-
lature, and in the passage of acts of Assem-
bly for which the prosecutor may have
voted, are not sufficient to establish proba-
Nor is the alleged conversation
with Hon. Charles Voorhees sufficiently
direct circumstantial and positive be evi-
ble cause.
dence of justification.
(Signed )
THOMAS H. MURRAY.
CYRUS GORDON.
Mr. Meek was the first witness called by
the defense. He stated in telling the jury
that he was 60 years old, that he had been
an editor for a lifetime, and that he had
was taken off the stand. The defense next
proceeded to call witnesses to prove the
hospital and Haywood letter transactions,
and the proceedings became very warm.
THE PHILIPSBURG HOSPITAL.
William P. Duncan of Philipsburg was
sworn. Duncan said he has lived at Phil-
ipsburg 24 years and has been a member of
the board of trustees of the Cottage State
hospital there since its establishment. The
‘hospital, he said, receives injured persons
trom Clearfield, Cambria, Huntingdon;
Blair and other counties. He has been Sec-
retary and Treasurer of the board of trustees
and was succeeded by William Irwin.
Asked if he had received a letter and bill
from Harris, he replied ‘‘Yee,”’ and pro-
duced the original documents, which were
as follows : :
Frank G. Harris, Representative from
Clearfield county, to G. H. Lichtenthaler,
et. al., trustees, ete. :
Gentlemen—At your request I nere-
wi th present my bill for services in con-
nection with your State appropriation of
$12,000. In doing this I feel safe in saying
that your hospital would not have received.
over $10,000 had I not taken up your cause.
Gov. Stone had arranged to cut you down
to $10,000 and absolutely refused by tele-
gram to give me a hearing, but concluded
to give you the $1:2,000 on my personal ap-.
peal, when I went to Harrisburg, at the re-
quest of your Mr. Dancan. This was not
my cause, and because I spent at least four
days of hard work on the floor of the House
in your behalf, by arrangement with Mr.
Zeigler, and afterward made a special trip
to Harrisburg to see Governor Stone for
you. [feel that 1 have well earned the
money. Very truly,
FRANK G. HARRIS.
Cottage Hospital, Philipsburg, Pa., to’
Frank G. Harris, Dr., Attorney-at-Law :
April, 1889.
For professional services—To services in
obtaining State appropriation including
extra trip to Harrisburg, $100.
Harris - put on his glasses to examine
them. ‘No objections,’’ said his attorneys.
The lester head was that of the House of
Representatives, and the date of the letter
and the bill Oct. 18th, 1899. Duncan said
about three-fourths of the injured who
came to the Philipsburg hospital are from
Clearfield county, which Harris represents.
HAD ASKED ZEIGLER TO ACT,
He also said he had asked Zeigler to see
Harris and request him to stop at Harris-'
burg to see the Governor while on his way
to Philadelphia. :
“Did you ask Mr. Harris for a bill ?”’
“tJ knew nothing about such a request.”
“Did the trustees pay the hill?”
‘They refnsed to pay it.”’
Zeigler, Duncan said, is employed as the
attorney for the hospital, paid for looking
after this particular matter of appropria-
tions, at a salary of $200 a year. When
Duncan resigned he passed the Harris let-
ter and bill to his successor, Irwin, who is
in very bad health and could not be pres-
ent on that account. On cross-examina-
tion Duncan said the $100 asked by Havris
had never heen paid, nor was it offered to
Harris. :
The witness never told anybody that
Harris was paid or offered a bribe. He
never told Meek so. He never had a con-
ference with Robert Foster or Meek. Any
business was done by George W. Zeigler.
He didn’t remember the expenses of the
Harrisburg trip. The Board of Trustees
usually ordered the payment of fees He
said he paid the expenses of Harris,
stood up in the sacred place before the dim- | her side. ments hereafter. — Philadelphia Bulletin. sum of money to be used to defray his ex- | heen duly arrested for the alleged libel on | but mot the fees. He said he bad
ness aor which God Den and listened | ‘No, no. I can’t spare one. You don’t 2 penses as a candidate on condition that he | Mr. Harris. That was about all he got to | not talked with Harrie. Attorney
so benignantly. That was the Temple. | know how hard I worked, begging movey Terrible Mine Disaster. would vote for certain measures to come | say however. After reciting that he fre- | Cole for Harris produced a letter
God stayed there all the time.
*‘He makes that house His home.’' The
verse swept through his mind in tall-vol-
umed barmony, the final word lengthening
and diminishing into silent vibrations that
thrilled him with sweet, glad awe. :
It was o floating memory of St. Ste-
phen’s Church, where Llewellyn had been
carried when almost a baby, detached from
all connected events and surroundings, an
to get them. But I was determined to
bave my table decorated the best. Mamie
Evans has got nothing bus dahlias, and
Sadie—’ ;
. “But you won’t miss one.’’ :
“Well, take one ; and do hurry with the
vases.”’
Stooping to select a rose, the young man’s
lips just touched the tiny curls on the girl’s
forehead. :
mes
Advices from Eagle Pass, Tex., state that
a dust explosion has caused a great loss of
life in Mine No. 9, of the Hondo Coal Min-
ing Company, in Mexico, some miles south
of le Pass. : :
Eighty-five bodies have been taken out,
There were 165 men in. the mine at the
time of the explosion and it ie feared that
many more were lost. .
before the session of the Legislature, as
inted ont and mensioned in said letter,
and thas he accepted and used said check ;
that these matters also were communicated
to the Sefendant prot 6% foe publication of
e artiole complained of, for the purpose
Be eataE that the defendant had probable
canse to believe that the mattersand things
set forth in the publication complained of
were true, and that the publication, there-
quently visited Harrisburg, Mr. Krebs ask-
ed: “What did you learn in connection
with the use of money at Harrisburg dur-
ing the organization of the Legislature or
subsequently ?”’
“An objection was promptly made and for
10 minutes Mr. Krebs contended that the
question was
pertinent and relative.
recited again just what be
written by Duncan io Philadelphia on
this subject, saying he had met Harris
there. A letter from the Governor on the
appropriation was also ‘produced. Cole was
severe in his oross-examination, but it did
not change the aspect of the case.
Duncan denied calling up Harris by
‘phone and asking him to go to Harrisburg.
proposed to prove
and after he concluded his talk the court
( Concluded on page 4.)