Demon, ap
Bellefonte, Pa., August 29, 1902
IN AUGUST.
All the long August afternoon,
The little drowsy stream
Whispers a melancholy tune,
As if it dreamed of June
And whispered in its dream,
The thistles show beyond the brook
Dust on their down and bloom ;
And out of many a weed grown nook
The aster flowers look
With eyes of tender gloom.
The silent orchard aisles are sweet
With smell of ripening fruit.
Through the sere grass, in shy retreat,
Flutter, at coming feet,
The robins strange and mute.
There is no wind to stir the leaves,
The harsh leaves overhead;
Only the querulous cricket grieves,
And shrilling locust weaves
A song of summer dead.
— William Dean Howells. | |
HONEST STRATEGY.
‘Please, Mrs. Karl, come and play ten-
nis,’’ said Cleva Culloh appealingly.
‘‘It‘s too hot,” said Mrs. Karl lazily.
“I’m too old to frisk in such weather.”
‘‘Hear! Hear!’ cried Roy Kendall.
‘“What an honest woman !"’
“From compulsion, Roy. I was born
here.”
*‘In the year of our Lord’’—Cleva added.
‘‘Eighteen hundred and sixty,” com-
pleted Mrs. Karl easily. ‘I am thirty-
eight, you see.
“Thirty-eight I’ repeated Roy. *‘It
can’t be you are ten years older than I
am!”
‘‘Yes,’’ she answered smilingly.
Slender, graceful, charming, she looked
scarcely thirty and knew it.
With a pout Cleva started for the tennis
court, followed by Roy Kendall and Madi-
son Harding.
And it was hot! Soon Harding began
to breathe heavily. As they finished the
game he held out his racket and panted :
‘‘Here, Brady, I'll leave you and Miss
Temple to whitewash Kendall and Cleva.”’
‘‘Are you warm ?’’ said Mrs. Karl as he
joined her on the veranda.
“Am I warm? Well!’ reaching eager-
ly for the ice water on the table beside
her.
‘‘No,”” she commanded. ‘Go change
your clothes. Not a cold plunge, remem-
ber—just a rub and dry linen.
He laughed, hut obeyed.
When he returned, she handed him a
glass of water, then a nicely pared peach.
“Uh!” he grunted. ‘‘This beats ten-
nis.”
‘I think so,”’ she said.
They chatted for some time.
asked suddenly :
“Why haven’ you married again ?”’
‘“The usual reason,’’ she answered.
‘A beautiful woman, with twenty thou-
sand a year, ought to find Mr. Right sure-
ly.»
‘‘Madison,,’ she said softly, “I never
loved Robert. Now—well, I must be sure
of myself and him.”’
: ‘‘Robert was a good man,’’ he said grave-
Then he
y.
‘“Yes,’’ she repeated. ‘‘Yet I hated him
at times, because I could not love him.”
‘‘But you married him.’
“Yes, and I deserved to be more unhap-
py than I was. He was forty-eight, I was
twenty-two ; he rich, I poor ; he ready to
settle down, ‘I ready to have a fling with
life. Somehow, Madison, I think he ought
to have known better than to have asked
me. He ought to have known I couldn’t
love him.”
a not ?’’ His voice was constrain-
ed.
‘“Youth loves youth. Much as Robert
loved me, I think the first few years were
equally disappointing to both. I was ready
for my fling and had it. I know now how
bored he was with it all. It’s glorious to
do stunts when one is a colt, but after-
ward”’— She langhed merrily and hand-
ed him the peach she had been paring.
‘‘But afterwards ?’’ he repeated.
‘‘One wants to jog along,’’ she continued
‘The normal woman past thirty-five can
say what she may, but the excitement and
strength taking amusements that she revel-
ed in during her teens and twenties—ah !
they’re not worth the price !”’
His answering smile quickly disappeared
as she went into the house. He was forty-
five, Cleva Culloh twenty-two ; he rich,
she poor; he had had his fling, she just
ready for hers. He had accepted Lorene
Karl's invitation to spend the month of
August at her country home because Cleva
was there. He had determined the latter
should be his promised wife before they
left, but—
He slept little that night. A picture of
Robert Karl, wearied and surfeited, danec-
ing attendance on the gay, untiring Lorene,
rose before him. “To jog along” had a
soothing sound, but a vision of Cieva’s
laughing, girlish face made bis jaws set de-
terminedly.
It rained during the night.
was cool aud clear.
‘Oh, me! Oh, my!” said Mrs. Karl.
“Why am I not a seer? If I had known is
was to be such a charming day, I would
have had our dance tonight. By Friday it
will probably be as hot as blazes.” °
‘What's the odds ?’’ said Cleva.
dance if it registers a hundred.”
“So can 1,” said Roy—*‘with yon."
“*Then I shall give you the first and last
dance and two in between,’’ she said, with
a gay laugh, glancing from under her long
lashes at Harding. :
“I'll take the rest,”” he replied prompt-
ly, ‘if it registers two hundred.”
Friday night simply blazed forth heat,
but Cleva and a crowd of young folks danc-
ed as merrily as though Jack Frost were in
the air.
Harding noted a wondrous sparkle in
Cleva’s eyes as she and Roy swung around
the room, and he looked sadly disgruntled
as he joined Lorene Karl.
*“This is our dance,”’ he said listlessly.
““Go change your collar,” was the an-
swer, ‘and put some talcum on your neck.
Then we will sit under the trees—sit, not
walk.”
When he retnrned, he asked curiously :
Where did you learn so much wisdom ?”’
‘I was married ten years,” she said care-
lessly.
She gazed at him contemplatively as he
tilted back against a tree and silently
smoked a cigar. The bright moonlight fell
fall upon him. Tall, broad, handsome, he
yet looked his age.
“You havesaved my life,” he said langh-
ingly as they sauntered back.
*‘And my own. This is one of the things
that’s not worth the price.”
As he came for their next waltz she shook
her head and laughed.
“Come,” said he.
turn.”
Next day
“I can
“We'll risk: one
He put his arm around her and made a
move to start, then stood suddenly still
and stared down at the shapely brown head, .
his own giddy with the thrill that held
him.
He drew her closer. As the music stop-
ped he released her with a reluctance he
could scarcely define.
‘I enjoyed that dance,’’ she said.
‘It was worth the price, then ?’’ banter-
ingly.
“Fully,” she uttered softly.
Until daybreak he sat on the veranda
smoking and thinking. He tried to adjust
the Lorene Karl he had known for eleven
years with the woman he had discovered
during the past week. He had condemned
her for marrying for money. Though gay,
even audacious, she had never coquetted.
Ashe danced with Cleva his mind. had
been alert to her beauty, to. her bubbling
spirits, her glorious youth, but as he held
Lorene Karl there had come a sudden con-
tent, blissfully human and spiritually ten-
der in one.
In the weeks that followed he fonnd
himself in a tumult of thought that made
him abstracted and erratic. Now he loung-
ed beside Mrs. Karl, and, again panting
and perspiring, he followed where Cleva
ed
The day before they were to leave the
entire party went for a row down the bay.
Mrs. Karl, smiling and picturesque,
stood under the trees and waved them
goodby.
‘‘Mrs. Karl is a dear,”’ said Cleva com-
placently, ‘‘but I hope I'll never get so fogy.
She has an awfully stupid time. If she
would only exert herself a little she could
have as much fun as any one.
A couple of hours later Mrs. Karl saw
Harding jump from a rickety buggy and
come coolly toward her.
*“Where are the others ?’’ sheferied, af-
frighted.
“On Rogers Point dancing,’”’ he answer-
ed, seating himself.
The disgusted tone of his voice made her
laugh.
‘“Well,’”? she asked, as he did not ex-
plain, ‘‘what brought youn back ?’’
*‘You,’’ he answered, putting his band
on hers.
Her eyes still questioned.
“For the last week I couldn’t find a min-
ute to talk to you, Lorene, and to day I got
desperate. Only in the past month have I
discovered that I'm the biggest ass in the
country and you are the dearest woman in
existence. You opened my eyes, then my
heart. Now I intend to make you love
me.’
“But if you cannot,’’ she said in a low
tone.
“I must!’ impetuously. “I must ‘jog
along’ with yon, dear one, or else—no ;
there can be no else!’ he cried, taking
hold of her and kissing her determinedly.
“I will make you love me !”’
“It’s all done,” she murmured.
loved you for eleven years.”
A langh, a daring something in her eyes,
made him understand.
‘You plotter !"’ hecried. ‘‘You—you 2”?
‘‘Yes,’’ she whispered, joining in his hap-
py laugh, ‘I did !"’—By Vene Kennedy.
“I’ve
Alligators Hunted to Death.
Persons who visited Florida a few years
ago and saw the rivers, swamps and bayous
literally teeming will countless thousands
of alligators, will be surprised to learn
that these large reptiles are fast becoming
exterminated. The constant and whole-
sale warfare that has been made againet
them has, thinned them out so completely
that unless a balt is soon called, their total
extermination is only a matter of time.
While they were formerly numerous as far
north as Georgia, they have gradually be-
come extinct, until now they are found in
great numbers only along the coast line of
the extreme southern states. In Florida
they are practically extinct, with the ex-
ception of Manatee, Lee, DeSota and Dadd
counties.
It was not until the hide of the saurian
became a factor of commerce that its ex-
termination began in earnest.’ The skins
when tanned make excellent leather for
the manufacture of such articles as trunks,
traveling bags, purses, pocket books, and
all kinds of leather novelties. Books, are
also bound with it, and it is even utilized
for upholstering chairs. Each county, on
the East coast of Florida, sends to market
about 50,000 skins annually, while the
number from the counties on the west
coast reaches fully 125,000 each year.
There is one firm in New Orleans that
handles over 500,000 skins annually.
In addition to the wholesale slaughter
of large alligators for eommercial purposes
a feature of recent developement is the
preparation of young ones for the summer
trade. Dealers pay $15 a hundred for the
little reptiles while they are from 5 to 10
inches in length. They are disembow-
eled, pickled in a preserving solution,
stiffened by the insertion of wires into
their bodies, stuffed with sawdust and
then varnished. They are mounted on
pincushions, pin and jewelry trays, paper
weights, etc., and retailed at an average
price of 50 cents each. One firm in Flori-
da sell every winter thousands of these
little stuffed ‘‘’gators’’ to tourists, and. as
many more thousands every summer at
Asbury Park and other northern resorts.
Since the skins of the alligators have be-
come such a valoable article of commerce
all countries where they thrive are being
scoured for them. A New York firm re-
‘cently sent a band of Seminole Indians to
India to hunt them. Most of the skins
used in the United States come from Mexi-
co, while nearly all of the product of this
country goes to Europe. Florida formerly
produced more skins than any other por-
tion of the United States, but now furnish-
es less than any other section where the
reptiles are to be found at all.
“Kill Your Dog and Buy =a Pig”
An exchange says : ‘Kill your dog and
buy a pig with the dollar you save on dog
tax. The scraps youn feed the dog would
make the pig weigh 300 pounds, and then
you could sell it and give your wife the
money.”’ Yes, kill you dear old faithful,
mindful, thankful, trustful dog and buy a
pig. But when you come home after a
hard day’s toil don’t expect that same pig
to meet yon two blocks away with a joy-
ful little ery of welcome at every jump.
Sometimes when you feel unusually ‘‘blue’’
and it seems as if the whole world was
‘‘knocking’’ against you, don’t expect it
to nestle up to your side, and laying its
head within your lap wag out its unalloy-
ed sympathy. Don’t expect it to forsake
its meal of ‘‘seraps’’ just for the privilege
of being your companion on a lonely drive
or walk. Don’t expect it to do any of
these ‘“‘little things.” There's a vast dif-
ference between your most constant friend
and a pig.—Our Dumb Animals.
Low Shoes Caused a Blister.
John Bauder, of South Williamsport,
was operated on Thursday, by two physi-
cians for an abscess on his ankle, which was
the result of wearing a blister by low shoes.
| Leffler, a dead sister.
More Than a Billion,
The Extravagance of Congress Shown by Official Fig-
ures. Big Deficit Likely, and at Same Rates the
Fifty-seventh Congress May Reach the Two Billion
Dollar Mark. ;
From official figures given out at the
capitol on Tuesday setting forth the exact
sum of money appropriated at the recent
session of Congress, it appears, in the light
of estimates made by the treasury depart-
ment, that this government at the end of
the present fiscal year will be confronted
with an apparent deficit amounting in
round numbers to $423,815,331.
The millions of dollars appropriated by
the first session of the Fifty-seventh Con-
gress are shown by official figures to have
been-apportioned as follows :
Agricultural, coc. ooeriiee arenes $5,208,960 00
ATIY...oooitnisiesvseaiviririnsass 91,730,136 41
Diplomatic.i..... cic nn 1,957,925 69
District of Columbia.............. 8,644,469 97
Fortifications ...........cc.ssrveress 7,298,955 00
Indian... coiic seri iain einanis 8,986,028 10
Legislative... 0 nl 000000 25,396,681 50
Military Academy.. ....2,627,324 42
Naval...... i ..'78,856,363 13
Pension... 7X apniiessardsn 139.842,230 00
Postoffice......... rises erste ears 138,416,598 75
River and barbor................. 26,774,442 00
Sundry:eivil..... . .cchuiiis ..60,143,359 13
Deficiencies... ou: rss serersannae: 28,050,007 32
Miscellaneous............ e0usenenns 2,722,795 13
Isthmian canal.................... 50,130,000 00
Permanent appropriation.....123,921,220 00
Congress at its recent session appropriat-
ed the enormous amount of $1,063,335,-
961.65. Thus it is shown that the Repub-
lican Congress is fairly over the first half of
the road to the two billion dollar mark.
The expenditure of this sum is far in ex-
cess of the revenues to be derived daring
the year, and the result may be a bond
issue.
The appropriation figures for the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-seventh Congress were an-
nounced on Tuesday by the clerks of the
committees on appropriations. The total
of more than $1,000,000,000 includes money
to be spent during the year, as well as
money to be disbursed under the continuing
contract system. During the last days of
the recent session statements were given
out by Representative Joseph G. Cannon,
chairman of the House committee on ap-
propriations and Leonidas F. Livingston,
the ranking Democrat member of the com-
mittee. Mr. Cannon avoided the question
of total appropriations in rendering his
statement. He was satisfied with simply
declaring that there would be a disparity
between the total amount appropriated and
that expended. The latter amount he fig-
ured at $600,000,000.
Mr. Livingston, however, after careful
calculation, thought that the total amount
appropriated would reach $1,059,577,052.
His figures fell short, however, as the total
amount authorized is several millions more
than that sum. Mr, Livingston also gave
an interesting comparison of figures show-
ing that during a corresponding session of
the last Democratic Congress the total
amount appropriated was only $550,000,000
or about one half thesum appropriated dur-
ing the reeent session.
The statement given out shows in de-
tail the amount appropriated to be ex-
pended this year was $800,624,496.55,
and the amount under continuing contracts
was $262,711,465. These contracts include
$21,069,500 for additional ships for the navy
$15,943,650 for additions to old public
buildings and the construction of new
buildings, $38,336,160 for the improve-
ments of rivers and harbors, $3,500,000 for
the improvement of buildings and the erec-
tion of new buildings at the Military acad-
emy and $150,000,000 for the construction
of an isthmian canal. It might be observ-
ed in this connection also that the canal bill
passed by Congress authorized the treasury
department to go into debt in the sum of
$36,000,000, that amount representing the
value of bonds to be issued as a part of the
expense of the waterway.
Another item of appropriation during the
session, which involves an increase over
that of wo years ago relates to new offices
created. These new offices and employ-
ment of a civilian character specifically au-
thorized amount to 5,221, with aggregate
compensation for the year amounting to
$5,054,514.50.
In addition to the new civil offices es-
tablished the statement shows an increase of
65 in the military establishment at an an-
nual cost of $42,308 and 300 officers, togeth-
er with 3,000 seamen and 750 men in the
marine corps, whose total yearly pay will
amount to $1,343,777.50.
Salaries of government officials are in-
creased ' to the amount of $105,486.10, af-
feoting 709 persons. rg
Comparisons of the total appropriations
made during the late session with those of
the corresponding session of the Fifty-sixth
Congress shows an increase during the first
session of the Fifty-seventh amounting to
$70,285,920.56. Increases are made in the
agricultural, diplomatic, the District of
Columbia, legislative, naval, military acad-
emy, postoffice and deficiency appropria-
tion hills, while the river and harbor bill
and isthmian canal bills are counted as in-
creases in their entirety. There appears,
however, to have been slight reductions in
the amounts carried by the army, fortifica-
tions, Indian and sundry civil bills, and
also in pursuance of certain requirements
of the pension appropriation bill.
Mrs. Fair's Will Revealed.
An Annuity for Mother and $10,000 for Each Brother
and Sister.
The will of Mrs. Charles Fair disposes of
an estate consisting of cash, real property
and bonds approximately valued at $300,-
000
To her mother, Mrs, Hannah A. Nelson,
of New Market, N. J., Mrs. Fairleft the
sum of $2500 to be paid her annually dur-
ing her life. Mrs. Nelson is about 79 years
of age. William B. Smith, Charles Smith,
and Frank Smith, full brothers, are be-
queathed $10,000 each. Abraham Nelson,
a half brother ; Mrs. Elizabeth Bunnell, a
sister, and Mrs. Joshua Leonard, another
sister, are each bequeathed $10,000. She
also provided for the children of Mrs. Sarah
The children live in
Orange, N. J., and all the other relatives
also live in New Jersey. The remainder of
the estate Mrs. Fair left to her husband.
The above provisions in Mrs. Fair's will
distribute her entire estate, but if her rela-
tives will agree to forego all claims to any
part of the estate of Charles Fair, that por-
tion of the estate which Mrs. Fair left to
her husband, and which reverts as a matter
of law to his heirs, will be divided among
Mrs. Fair's legatees, share and share alike.
——Now that President Schwab, of the
United States Steel Corporation, has finally
sailed for Europe in search = of recreation,
rest and increased strength, but manifestly
not the wreck in body and mind that has
been so commonly reported, perhaps the
steel magnate may be permitted, for a
while, to pass into obsenrity.
The President’s Trip.
President Roosevelt’s stop in Hartford on
his New England tour was marked by great
enthusiasm by the crowds, and he showed
bis pleasure at the reception he received.
Hartford was in gala dress to welcome the
president, the weather was perfect and
there was no hitch to mar the proceedings.
The president on his arrival at the depot
there Friday afternoon was cordially
welcomed by a committee of representative
citizens. He was taken for a drive around
the city, occupying, with Colonel Jacob L.
Greene, a handsome Victoria automobile, in
charge of two expert New York chauffeurs.
He was enthusiastically cheered all along
the route. In Pope Park the president was
greeted by 10,000 workingmen, who pre-
sented him with a magnificent floral horse-
shoe inscribed ‘‘Workingmen’s Welcome to
Our President.”” Father Michael Sullivan
made a few remarks of welcome, in which
he commended the honesty and sincerity of
purpose of the presidentin all his acts. The
president responded and his remarks were
frequently interrupted by applause.
Five thousand men and women crowded
the Coliseum last night to hear the address
of President Roosevelt. At least two-thirds
of the andience were workingmen and the
enthusiasm manifested by them when the
president alluded to the rights of the toiler
aroused the keenest interest. In speaking
of the isthmian canal he aroused mirth by
saying that one of the problems in connec-
tion with the great engineering feat would
be to procure 50,000 patriotic Americans
ambitious to work for a $10,C00 fee.
After being introduced to the audience
President Roosevelt said :
“I wish to allude to an incident which
happened this afternoon which struck me
as more important than anything I have to
say to you. On being driven around your
beautiful city I was taken through Pope
Park and stopped at a platform where I
was presented with a great horseshoe of
flowers, the gift of the workingmen of Hart-
ford (loud applause )to the President of the
United States. I listened to an admirable
little address by Father Sullivan. Now in
his speech he was kind enough to allude to
me personally, but he laid primary stress,
as he ought to lay it, upon the fact that it
was a gift of welcome from the wage work-
ers,upon whom ultimately this government
depends,and he coupled the words of greet-
ing with certain sentences in which he ex-
pressed his belief that I would do all that I
could to show myself a good representative
of the wage workers. Gentlemen, Ishonld
be utterly unfit for the position that I oo-
cupy if Ifailed to do all that in me lies to
act, as light is given me, to represent the best
thought and purpose of the wage workers
of the United States. (Loud and contin-
uous applause. )
*‘We are meeting problems which will
require all our ability to solve, and while
there are occasions when, through legisla-
tion or administrative action, the govern-
mental representatives of the people can do
especial service to one set of our citizens,
yet I think you will agree with me that in
the long run the best way in which to
serve any one set of our citizens is to serve
all alike well (loud applause); to try to
aot in a spirit of fairness and justice to all;
to give to each man his rights, to safe-
guard each man in his rights, and, so far
as in me lies, while I hold my present
position, I will be true to that conception
of my duty.’ (Applause. )
President Roosevelt concluded his
speech by reviewing the work of the Unis-
ed States in Cuba, Porto Rice and the
Philippines, and predicted that Cuba
would soon enjoy reciprocity with this
country which would add to our prosperity
and greatly assist in the developement of
the new republic.
A Great Religious Revival in
tralia.
Aus-
Australia has been looked upon by many
persons as the land of wild and reckless
living. But a change has come over it
within recent years. Melbourne, especial-
ly, has lately been the scene of a noteworthy
revival. In agreatsimultaneous mission’’
no less than 214 churches took part. It was
preceded by a far reaching league, .in
which some 15,000 persons participated.
The missioners numbered fifty, and the
services were held, not in the ordinary
churches, but in two halls or tents. De-
nominationalism was lost sight of, for the
time being, and all Protestrnts gave them-
selves, heart and sonl, with the utmost
unity and fallest co-operation, to the com-
mon work of soul-saving, >
The popular response was spontaneous
and cordial. No building appeared to be
large enough to hold the crowding audi-
ences which assembled to hear the Word
of Life. Even the exhibition building, an
immense structure, was so filled at times,
while crowds gathered about it, that it
seemed, it is, said, like ‘‘a besieged build-
ing.”” The theatres lost their fascination
for the many, and the Christian service
evinced the greater drawing power.
One writing of the depth and extent of
the gracious work maintains that it estab-
lished, as never before, ‘how deep and
strong is the religious instinct in the Aus-
tralian character,’ and ‘‘how overwhelm-
ing is its response to any adequate ap-
peal.”” Several facts are mentioned in sup-
port of his declaration. Australia bas,
‘‘proportionately, more churches than any
other country, the number being 6,013, or
210 to every 100,000 people.
144 churches to every 100,000. = Russian
only fifty-five to the same number.’
Ate Fifty Ears of Corn and Died.
William Hafner, a farmer, of Frempea-
lean, Wis., bet a farm band that he could
eat fitty roasted ears of corn in twenty four
hours, and is dead. Mr. Hafner had an
especial liking for green corn, and at din-
ner Thursday ate twenty four ears. He
pursued his regular occupation during the
afternoon, and at the evening meal dispos-
ed of fifteen more ears.
No bad results were noticed, and Mr.
Hafner retired for the night in his usual
health and spirits. He was awakened in
the night by an intense craving for more
corn, and, rising, proceeded to devour
eleven more ears of cold corn. Next morn-
ing his wife awoke to find her husband dead
at ber side, he having apparently died in
great agony. :
An Epidemic of Small-Pox.
The British steamer Trent, which arrived
at Kingston, Friday from West Indian
ports, brought news of an alarming increase
of cases in the second outbreak of small-
pox at Barbadoes, where the bodies of the
dead are being thrown into the sea. Af
Bridgeton there have been 1,876 cases of
small-pox since July 13.
The Trent also brought details of the
murder of Mavor, a Scotchman, by 150
riotous East Indian immigrants in British
Guiana. During the rioting which foll ow-
ed the military were forced to fire, killing
21 persons and wounding over 40. The
incident created great excitement at De-
merara. :
England has |
“Pennsy’s” New State Capitol.
The Structure is to be Completed in October,
1905. The Contractor to be Paid Monthly.
And From Time to Time He Will be Required
to Submit Photographs of the Building. $150,
000 for Descriptive Palnting.
While the advertisement for bids for the
completion of the new Capitol has not as
yet been made public, intimation of the
character of the specifications has been
given out to forecast the requirements of
and regulations governing contractors, as
follows :
The Capitol Commission will not recog-
nize a sub-contractor supplying labor or
material to the "contractor, nor will the
Commissioner be responsible for any claims
of such persons heyond requiring that the
contractor shall furnish a penal bond, with
the additional obligation that the contractor
shall make prompt payment to all persons
furnishing labor and material.
The right to make any addition to,
omission from or changes in the work or
materials called for by the drawings and
specifications, and to require the contractor
to discontinue the service of any workman,
foreman or superintendent employed on
the work who is unskillfal or otherwise
objectionable, is reserved by the Commis-
sion, It also reserves the right to accept
any part or parts of the bids made and to
reject any and all proposals.
PAYMENTS TO BE MADE MONTHLY.
The contractor will be required to insure
at his own expense the work and materials.
Payments will he made monthly on esti-
mates of the work done and materials in
the building. The Commission reserves
the right to suspend any portion of the
work embraced in the contract, whenever,
in its opinion, it would be inexpedient to
carry on such work. The final inspection
and acceptance of the work shown by the
drawings and specifications, and forming a
part of the contract, shall not be binding
and conoclusvive upon the Commonwealth if
it shall subsequently appear that the con-
tractor shall have fully or fraudulently sup-
plied inferior material or workmanship, or
has departed from the terms of the contract.
In such case the work may be completed
at the expense of the contractor.
Each bidder, before submitting a pro-
posal, is expected to examine the draw-
ings and specifications, and make a thor-
ough examination of the work in place.
COMPLETED IN THREE YEARS.
The contractor will be required to pro-
cure and pay for photographs to show the
general condition of the work from time to
time. as directed. He must furnish a bond
equal to one-half the amount of the con-
tract, with sureties satisfactory to the Com-
mission, guaranteeing completion of the
work within the time stipulated and the
prompt payment of all persons furnishing
materials or labor. The entire contract
must be completed on or hefore October,
1905. 2
The building will be erected in the fol-
lowing order; North wing, middle wing,
sonth wing, connecting wings. Each por-
tion shall bave a foreman and a separate
complete working organization, equipped
with derricks, tools, ect. The contractor
shall allow in his bid $300,000 for exterior
marble and bronze sculpture on the west
front of the building. The sum of $150,-
000shall be allowed for all interior de-
soriptive painting on the walls.
All necessary grading around the build-
ing and approach to the terraces must be
done by the contractor as soon as possible.
The entire outside facing of the walls,
pillars, ete., shall be of approved white or
light blue gray granite.
A cold drinking water plant is provided
for, and there will be numerous small lifts,
elevators and all provision of a modern
public building. There will be a tele-
phone exchange for the Capitol.
The Wisdom of Cheerfulness.
Gladuess is health-giving. It prolongs
life. We all know the good of cheerful-
ness in the sick room. It is just as much
needed in everyday life. It adds zest to
work. Whistling or singing at one’s task
makes time pass more swiftly and less
tediously. Work cheerfully done is better
done. One puts something of one’s per-
sonality in one’s work. If we have troub-
les to bear, so do all others. Do not add
to the burdens of others by going about
with a gloomy face and presence. Think
of the cheerful things.
Do not repine at a failure. What seems
such may not he so. Out of failure one
may reap riches of character. There is no
failure so great as failure of spirit and heart
in life. If we are sincere, if our work is
real, no misfortune, no lack of apprecia-
tion, no malice, can ruin us. With trath-
fulness and earnest endeavor in us we can
face the world with a smile on the lip and
gladness of heart shining in our eyes.
Then whatever comes to us in life, let us
seek the gladness of it. There is always a
bright side. Let us make the best of all.
If we give each day all of the cheerfulness
that we can, life will be full of blessings.
It is a glorious thing to carry a fund of
gladness as we go through life.— Milwaukee
Journal. :
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Woman Dies from Poisoned Teeth,
Physician Says Dentist Used Brass for Filling Instead |
of Gold.
Mis. Opie Rolfe, of Luzerne borough, a
small mining settlement at Wilkesbarre,
died in the City hospital on Saturday,
evening from a severe and peculiar attack
of blood poisoning.
Several weeks ago she came to Wilkes-
‘barre and had her tecth filled and capped.
A few days afterwards her teeth began to
ache and her mouth to swell. She applied
local remedies, but they brought her little
relief. Finally her limbs began to swell
and pain her excruciatingly, while at the
same time everything that she ate had a
metallic taste. She also suffered terrible
pain in her stomach.
Her physician told her that she was suf-
fering from metal poisoning, due to the
filling in her teeth, which he said was not
gold, but brass. Mrs. Rolfe was at once
taken to the City hospital, but in a few
days she died from the effects of the metal
poisoning.
The coroner has been notified, and her
death will be fully investigated.
’
Deadly Kerosene Can.
Six Killed by Accident in Igniting a Fire in Nebras-
ka.
Four more victims, making six in all,
died on Tuesday as a result of burns re-
ceived Monday night by the bursting of a
kerosene can which was being used to
ignite a fire at the home of C. N. McCom-
sey, at Gering, Neb. The list of dead is:
C. N. McComsey, Mrs. C. N. McComsey,
infant child of Mr. and Mrs. McComsey,
two year old son of same parents, two
daughters of L. A. Cook, a neighbor.
County Treasurer - Whipple, who carried
four of the victims from the building, is al-
so badly burned about the face and hands.
Luther Marsh Dead.
Noted Spiritualist Passed Away At the Age of 89
Years. :
Luther R. Marsh, widely known as a
spiritualist, died at his home at Middle-
town, N. Y., on Friday, after an illness of
several weeks. He was 89 years old.
Some days ago Mr. Mash summoned,
Justice Bartlett, one of the Court of Ap-
peals to his bedside, and, it is believed, he
then made final disposition of his great li-
brary and picture gallery.
Luther Rawson Marsh was born at Pom-
per, Onondago county, N. Y., on April
14th, 1812. He was admitted to the bar
in 1836, and began practice in New York
city. But a year later he went to Utica,
and practiced for five years. In 1841 he
returned to New York city and entered in-
to partnership with Oscar W. Sturtevant.
When Daniel Webster, having left the of-
fice of secretary of state under President
Tyler, went to New York, he associated
himself with Sturtevant and Marsh until
he returned to the Senate.
Mr Marsh delivered many lectures and
public addresses. He was for six years a
vice-president of the Union League club.
In 1888 he came to Middletown, where he
afterward made his home, retiring from ac-
tive practice. His public service, in addi-
tion to that as a member of the commission
which secured 3,840 acres of park lands
for New York at the cost of nearly $10,000,
000, was as chairman of the commission ‘to
estimate the damages to the proprietors of
the lands taken for the International park
at Niagara Falls,
For many years Mr. Marsh, whose tastes
were more for literature than for law, was a
diligent student of the writings of Emanuel
Swedenborg, and he was led to undertake
the investigation of the phenomena of mod-
ern spiritualism. i
In 1885 Mr. Marsh became acquainted
with Mrs. Ann Odelia Diss de Barr through
her alleged spirit pictures and her influence
over him became so great that he was in-
duced to wake over his property in New
York to her for a nominal consideration.
Notwithstanding the exposures of her meth-
ods. Mr. Marsh continued his faith in her
alleged portraits of Bible-characters, and
in spiritualism.
John Biack’s Long Drive.
From Arkansas to Connecticut in a Prairie Schoon-
er—Women Along.
In a canvas covered prairie schooner,
which rumbled into Danbury, Conu., last
week, John W. Black and his family have
travelled the 1,500 miles lying between
Bentonville, Ark., and Connecticut. For
three months and ten days Black, his wile,
their daughter and two sons have lived
and travelled in the vehicle, riding by day
and camping at night on the prairie or in
the woods. They reached their destina-
tion, Southbury, fifteen miles beyond Dan-
bury Friday.
In May, Black sold his farm in Arkansas
loaded the personal effects that he wanted
to take with him into the big white-topped
wagon, tied a cook stove on behind, and
with his family started east to visit rela-
tives in Connecticut. Two powerful farm-
horses drew the outfit the entire distance.
Sometimes ten miles was covered in a day
and occasionally twenty-five. On pleasant
nights the women of the party slept in the
wagon and the men swung their ham-
mocks near by. On stormy nights there
was room enough beneath the big cover for
the entire party. :
‘‘It was hard at first,’ said Mr. Black
‘‘especially upon the women; but we began
with short jumps and spent much time in
camp, gypsy fashion. We went directly
to St. Louis and, crossing the river there,
headed for Indianapolis and took an almost
straight route to the Hudeon River.
‘Costly? Yes. It would have been far
cheaper to have traveled in Pullman cars.
but we desired to see the country and had
plenty of time at our disposal. We bad a
few adventures and met with a mishap or
two, but none worth speaking about.’
Mrs. Black and the daughter, a pretty
young woman of 20, were pictures of health,
and declared that the journey had been the
greatest experience of their lives. The
family expects to settle in Southbury.
Luck for Negro in His Bad Aim.
Dave Girard, a member of the contract-
ing firm of Girard & Strawn, of Connells-
ville, Pa., was shot through the leg by
Robert Bruce, a negro hod carrier, in a
Main street saloon.
For a while after the shooting Bruce's
chances for being lynched were excellent.
only the fact that the wound was not im-
mediately fatal saved Bruce from the mob
that quickly gathered.
Girard has been having considerable
trouble with his men recently. Last night
he quarreled with Bruce over the latter’s
wages, and Girard struck Bruce, knocking
him down. Bruce went to a hardware
store and bought a 38-calibre revolver,and,
returning in a few minutes, shot the con-
tractor. As he left the saloon he was ar-
rested by two constables who were stand-
ing outside.
Bruce was taken to jail at Uniontown
at once.
Girard’s wound is serious, but not fatal.
Drowns His Four Children.
Kansas Farmer Then Shoots Him-Self And Will Likely
Die.
Joseph Anderson, a farmer living east of
Salina, Kan., in a fit of despondency Tues-
day, drowned his four children, three girls
and one boy, in a cistern, and then shot
himself with a pistol, :
Anderson is still alive, but prohably will
die. Financial troubles had affected his
wind. .
The crime was committed in the absence
of his wife. The oldest child was 6 years
old,and the youngest a baby of four months.
Anderson left a note on the table notifying
his wife that the children could be found
in the cistern.
——The fall of the Campanile of Venice
has brought to mind many prognostics of
even greater catastrophes foretold for the
‘‘Queen of the sea.”” Both Humboldt and
Professor Moriat, of Lausanne, drew at-
tention to the great geological movement
which is gradually sinking the northern
shore of the Adriatic under the level of the
sea. Last year the Italian geologist. Big-
garo, again spoke of this danger, but was
unheeded. Now Professor Wagner, of the
Vienna University, states the foundations
of the city are unsound and can no longer
support the immense weight.
Pennsylvania's Farms.
When it is known that Pennsylvania
has within her borders two hundred and
twenty-four thousand and forty-eight
farms, valued at more than a billion dol-
lars, it will be readiy appreciated that her
space is not entirely occupied by her min-
eral resources. In'the number of her farms
she stands second. * :