Bellefonte, Pa., December 4, 1903.
LIFES SCARS.
They say the world is round, and yet
I often think it square ; ’
So many little hurts we get
From corners here and there,
But one great truth in life I've found,
While journeying to the West :
The only folks who really wound
Are those we love the best,
The man you thoroughly despise
Can rouse your wrath ‘tis true ;
Annoyance in your heart will rise
Ag things mere strangers do;
Butjthose are only passing ills,
This rule all lives will prove;
The aching wound which aches and thrills
\ Is dealt by hands we love.
The choicest garb, the sweetest grace
Are oft to strangers shown .
The careless mien, the frowning face
Are given to our own.
We flatter those we scarcely know ;
We please the fleeting guests ;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Love does not grow on every tree,
Nor true hearts yearly bloom,
Alas for those who only see
This cnt across a tomb !
But, =oon or late, the fact grows plain
To all through sorrow’s test :
The only folks who give us pain
Are those we love the best.
—Ela Wheeler Wilcox
THE QUIET LIFE.
Forty years ago Ezekiel Anders, A. B.
Yale, aged twenty, came ous of the cultur-
ed East and settled in a little trans-Mis-
sissippi town as professor of mathematics
in Blockis college
Dr. Orson, president of the little fresh-
water school, was also a graduate of Yale,
and he welcomed the coming of Prof.
Anders. Together they would raise the
lamp of learning so that its rays should
shine far into the thick weeds and over the
limitless prairies, where the pioneers were
raising homes in the wilderness. They
were men of the noblest ideals and of a
self-sacrificing spirit which is almost lost
in these days of ready-made universities.
‘‘Mr. Anders,’’ said President Orson, as
he met the newcomer at the steamboat
dock, ‘‘I shall be glad to have you make
your home at our house. We are rough
aod crude in the West, and perhaps you
may feel more at home with us than else-
where.”’
* ‘Thank you, sir,”’ said Prof. Anders, a
tall, thin young man with small brown
side whiskers and a serious face. “You
offer a pleasant solution to a problem which
has perplexed me greatly.”
Prof. Anders moved his chest of hooks
and his trunk into two rooms on the sec-
ond floor of President Orson’s cottage.
There he settled down to a lifetime of
teaching trigonometry, solid geometry, and
the higher mathematics.
The two rooms in which he lived grew
to be a part of life. On the table in the
corner of his sitting room always Jay his
badly worn eopy of Milton, his Dante in
the original, his dog-eared Horace, relic of
college days, and his Meditations of Mar-
cus Aurelius. On the shelf just above the
table were the rest of the British poets.
Behind the door were his slippers ; hie
dressing gown hung on the third peg from
the right on the inside of the closet door.
The portraits of his father and mother hung
side by side on the west wall.
Before he was forty the irreverent stu-
dents of Blockit College called him ‘‘Old
Zeke,’’ and loved him as the personifica-
tion of all that was scholarly, gentle, and
unworldly.
When Prof. Anders first came to live in
the home of President Orson the other oc-
cnpants of the house were the President,
his wife, and their daughter an only
child, Alice, then a happy little girl of
eight. From the beginning the professor
and Alice were friends and chums. Nat-
urally the shyest of men. Alice was too
small and too lacking in self-consciousness
to embarrass him. She simply took it for
granted that everybody liked her, and,
without thinking ahout it at all, the pro-
fessor found himself willingly taken into
the circle of her intimate friends.
The professor read her little verses, told
her wonderful tales of fairies; and on one
occasion at least was detected down on all
fours, with Miss Alice mounted in state
upon his neck.
‘‘He’s a lion."’ exclaimed the little girl,
as the professor scrambled up in embar-
rassment from the floor, ‘‘and I’m the lion
tamer.’”’ ;
Which was, perhaps, nearer the truth
than she imagined.
When Prof. Anders had lived in the
house ten years Miss Alice was a beautiful,
blooming girl of eighteen. As the profes-
sor saw her budding into womanhood he
started to shrink back into his shell. But
the girl would not allow it. She insisted
on remaining in her old position of friendly
intimacy, and even went so far as to dis-
cover an unexpected fondness for the prob-
lems of higher mathematics.
There was never anything like a love af-
fair between them. As least not even the
mothers eye of Mrs. Orson could detect
any symptous of tender fondness, though
it may be that, in discussing the future
of their daughter with her husband, she
raised the question as a remote possibility.
But for some reasen Miss Alice Orson
did not marry. She bad suitors a plenty.
Almost every one of the younger members
of the enlarged faculty laid himself at her
feet, to say nothing of countless oollege
students, who, as a rule, was obliged to
worship Miss Alice at a distance, for, as
she often said, she had no idea of hecom-
ing a ‘‘college widow.”’
Twenty vears went by without at all
distarbing the relations of the four dwel-
lers under the Orson roof. Prof. Anders
had become more and more prim and pre-
cise. Hisdays were spent in a routine
that rarely varied. His rooms and every-
thing in them had become a necessary part
of his life. If he had not heen able to
reach out bis hand in the dark and touch
his Horace or his Plutarch; if he had awak-
ened some morning and not seen, first of
all, the portrait of his mother looking down
at him from the wall, it is likely he would
have died of the shock.
Miss Alice, a mature woman of twenty-
eight, was looked upon as a lady who had
deliberately chosen that part in life. She
was even more beautiful than in the hey-
day of her youth, and she took an active
part in all the social life of the little col-
lege town.
Then, suddenly, came the deluge. Presi-
dent Orson died suddenly, and his wife,
stricken by the shock, survived him only
a month, leaving Miss Alice an orphan.
Prof. Anders felt that his little world had
been shaken to pieces by a convulsion of
nature. For a week after the funeral of
Mrs. Orson he was even more absent-mind-
ed than usual. Then one evening he sat
down at his desk in the corner of his sit-
ting room and wrote the following letter :
Dear Miss Alice : We—or at least I—
are confronted with the most serious and
perpiexing problem. I realize the impro-
priety of my remaining longer in your
house now that yom aze without your
natural protectors. At the same time lI
feel a strong, and, I believe, a natural re-
luctance to remove myself and my posses
sions from their accustomed surroundings.
This feeling has taken a most compelling
hold upon me and makes me bold enough
| to suggest that possibly vou, to some ex-
tent, may also be reluctant to see old as-
sociations broken by removal. If I am
right in this suggestion, may I venture to
suggest further that 1f you could see your
way clear to a matrimonial alliance, with
myself as one of the parties, I should feel
myself honored far beyond my deserts,
and at the same time the problem which
confronts us would be solved.
Awaiting your reply with more than
my usoal impatience. I beg to remain
your most obedient servant.
EZEKIEL ANDERS.
Having folded this letter and inclosed it
in a stamped envelope addressed to Miss
Alice Orson, the professor slipped out of
the house, and, with many a glance bekind
to see if be was observed, dropped it into
the mail box two blocks away.
Next morning the professor left the
house an hour before the mail carrier ar-
rived, and he sent home word during the
afternoon that he would not return for din-
ner in the ‘evening.’ When he finally let
himself in the house was in darkness.
But on his desk he foand the following
note :
Dear Professor : Tam glad that your
mathematical training has put you on the
track of the only reasonable solution of the
problem which ‘‘confronts us.”’ I sball he
glad to see you before yonr classes in the
morning.
Well three months later they were mar-
ried. That was nearly twenty years ago.
Prof. Anders and his wife, Alice, are still
living, and if they are not the happiest
married couple in the country there is at
least no visible sign of the slightest ripple
on the even tenor of their married life.
The professor can still reach out in the
dark and find his Horace in the same old
place, and Mrs. Anders is still counted one
And, in all essentials, this is a true tale,
in nothing exaggerated or overdrawn.—
H. M. H., in Chicago Tribune.
The Dining Table.
An Important Feature of the Christmas Decora
tion. One Way to Use Mistletoe.
The dining table should be a feature of
the Christmas decorations to receive special
attention, says The House Beautiful. For
this day at least set aside every ornate
epergne or elaborate centre vase, and sub-
stitute something which speaks, not of ex-
pense, but of good cheer, for a generous
bow] of shining apples is more to be desired
than costly lace or satin and American
beauty roses at this time. An effective
table once seen had for a centrepiece a
Jerusalem cherry tree, with many berries,
the earthern pot being concealed by tissue
paper matching the red fruit bound in
plece by a bit of green ribbon. This, in
turn, was practically concealed by a mass
of fruit, oranges, apples, grapes and raisins,
with green leaves at intervals, all so ar-
ranged as to form a kind of pyramid to-
ward the top of the plant. Another dec-
oration, very suggestive for an evening din-
ner, is a tiny tree, whose many candles
furnish the entire light for the table, and
whose branches bear nuts, bunches of
raisins and crystallized fruits, the whole
made glittering by the use of a very little
cotton sprinkled with diamond dust.
A FORMAL DECORATION.
At a more formal dinner was seen on the
white damask cloth a slender glass vase,
whose base just filled the centre of a holly
wreath. The branches of specially chosen
holly which filled it were so high that they
did not interfere with the guests’ comfort
in seeing one another. Four candles in
glass candlesticks were shaded by green
shades, to which tiny hunches of holly
were fixed. In and out around the central
vase and the four lights graceful curves
were traced on the cloth in holly leaves,
gathered at the corners in feston fashion,
with a stiff rosette of scarlet ribbon, not
usually desirable at table, was, in the case,
quite justified by the results, and the
effect was further enhenced by the use of
name cards to which sprigs of holly were
attached by ribbon knots. An amusing
feature of this dinner was the serving of
the Christmas goose, accompanied by an
appropriate verse for each guest from the
nursery Mother Goose book.
THE USE OF MISTLETOE.
A very artistic Christmas dinner table
was one in which mistletoe was promi-
pently used. The table linen was of ecru
tins, and the round table accentuated by
dividing off its centre from the edge, where
the utensils were set, by a wreath effect,
executed in the wine-colored shades of
galax leaves. These were sewed flat ona
piece of tape and secured to the cloth by
occasional pins. At four equally distant
parts of this circle were placed cups, seem-
ingly of mistletoe, but really of stiff paper,
to which the mistletoe wassewed. In each
of these was placed a candle of ecru wax,
unshaded, like those of our ancestors. A
delicate line of mistletoe led from these
candles to the centre of the table, where
was placed a flat hed of the same wax-like
flower, from which rose a highly-polished
brass loving cup. This, in turn, held roses
of deep cream color, the edges of the petals
just touched with dark tints suggestive of
the galax coloring, and so few in number
that the beauty of each rose could be fully
appreciated. The whole effect, subdued
and soft in tone, was very unusual and
pleasing.
These Tin Plate Mills Will be Dark.
An order has been sent out from the
beadguarters of the American Tin Plate
company in New York to lay off all men
employed at the two mills in New Ken-
sington. All men who are paid a monthly
salary, including the office force, will have
to go. After December 1st when the order
goes into effect, none will be employed
about the mills except the watchmen.
Linvge Barn Burned Near Lewistown.
About 11 o'clock last Wednesday night
a fire was discovered in the barn of James
Muthershough, about two miles west of
Lewistown. In a short time the doomed
structure was a mass of flames and nothing
could be done to save it. Two calves, one
cow, all the summer’s crops, including a
large quantity of grain, and various farm
implements, were destroyed. The loss is
estimated at $3,000, insurance, $1,500. In
attempting to save his stock, in which he
was largely successful, Mr. Muthershough
was severely burned about the face and
hands. :
of the prettiest women in her native State.
FORESTRY.
An Opening for the Young Men.
The next tine you go out notice the
things that are made of wood, and guess at
the amount of that material demanded by
our civilization. Do not forget the fuor-
nishings of the room when you set out, nor
fail to take count of the matches or pencils
in your pocket. Multiply the matches or
the pencils by a few million, to be conser-
vative, and they stand fora good deal of
timber. When youn have looked about for
a few minutes consider other uses for which
wood is necessary. Think of the amount
of wood that is used hetween the Atlantic
and the Pacific, the Lakes and the Gulf, of
the wood exported to other countries as
raw or unfinished material, for such pur-
poses as telephone and telegraph poles, rail-
road ties, fences, posts, foel, building,
either frame or otherwise, ships and a thou-
sand other things. Do not forget paper.
Do yon know that to supply just one of
New York's great daily newspapers, for
example, if is necessary to destroy ten
acres of spruce forest every twenty four
hours? The point of all this is to get some
idea of the amount of wood taken from the
forests of the United States. Those who
have studied the question place the figni«s
at 500,000,000 tons every year! Is’nt this
a pretty heavy demand upon the supply ?
Nor does this represent anywhere near
the full amount of the constant drain upon
the forests. The destruction of forest fires
is tremendous, wiping out in a few days
what it has taken years or centuries to
create. Wind, lightning, high water, ice,
insects, natural decay, the grazing of stock
among baby trees, carelessness and ignor-
ance, the almost criminal waste of ordinary
lumbering—all these contribute to the de-
struction of the tree supply. And the legit-
imate demand increases annvally from 3
to 5 per cent. with the increase of popula-
tion and industry.
The United States must furnish its own
lumber, for we are too isolated from other
countries to import such bulk and weight.
Canada is the only outside resource, and,
even if she should alwz ss be willing, Cana-
da has been aroused to the fact that her
supply will not always be adequate to her
own needs. Only a portion of our country
is wood producing. How long will the
supply last. How could we get along with-
out wood ?
The problem means much more to us
than timber and paper. From trees we
draw our supplies of various gums and ex-
tracts, resin, maple sugar, turpentine and
its by-products, the dammar and gutta-
percha of the Philippines, tan, osiets and
many other commodities. The forests not
regarded as timber products are extremely
valuable as they stand. It is well known
that they modify local climate and rainfall
to a marked degree, that they affect the
size’ and regularity of streams, and con-
serve moisture. They are an aid to irriga-
tion in dry districts, and by them man is
able to reclaim sand dunes, swamps, har-
rens and burnt or exhausted lands, which
would otherwise lie useless. As windbreaks
and shelterbeds for crops, orchards, stock
and buildings they go far to enhance the
value of farm lands.
Need, demand and consumption, then,
are tremendous. How large is the supply ?
Is anything being done to conserve or in-
crease it2 How long will it last ? The
most sanguine estimates of timber standing
predict an entire exhaustion of the wood
supply in less than thirty years if things go
on as they are. The probable life of the
supply of spruce and white pine (from
which, respectively, we get paper pulp and
much of our soft lumber) and of other im-
portant conifers is measured by even a
shorter time.
Here, then, is the situation. The prob-
lem it presents cannot be how to decrease
the demand, but must be how to conserve
and increase the supply. Itisa problem
in which the whole country must soon be-
cowe vitally interested, yet there is today
probably not one man in a hundred thou-
sand who has the training, experience and
broad knowledge to set to work intelligent-
ly the solution. In these days of fields of
life work crowded with well equipped as-
pirants, here is a field worthy of considera-
tion by the young man who is weighing the
question of what his life work shall be.
His opportunity lies not so much in the
way of himself securing timber lands as in
teaching others how to care for their wood
suppy or in farnishing this skilled and
scientific eare himself.
The country is only just comprehending
the need of some general and scientific sys-
tem of procedure to save us from coming
wood famine.
In 1882 the American Forestry Associa-
tion was formed in Cincinnati. Arbor day
and some slight attention to the subject in
the schools, while excellent in their way,
are abont as adequate as a handful of
crumbs thrown to a starving mob. The
Government and State experiment stations
have done some good work that is mainly
theoretical and experimental. Occasional
private owners, individuals, clubs or com-
panies have been aroused to the necessity
of better managements of their properties,
there being some few who hegan experi-
ments quite a number of years ago. Three
colleges of forestry have recently been es-
tablished, one at Biltmore, N. C., one at
Cornell, one at Yale. In 1901 the Division
of Forestry at Washington became the
Bureau of Forestry, and its splendid work
has grown in scope and value. Of late the
Departments of Agriculture, the Interior
and War have evinced greatly increased in-
terest in the problem, the Secretary of War
having asked for scientific forestry aid on
eight military reservations and in the or-
charding of turpentine in the South. The
Geological Survey has also carried on in-
vestigations. New York has led in a defi-
nite forestry policy for State funds, and
many other States have their forestry com-
missions. But in the main the work has
been preparatory, and until very recently
confined to experiment aud the conserva-
tion of government forests.
At last a realization of the vital import-
ance of the question ig beginning to spread,
and the few that really know are doing all
in their power to spread it farther and to
increase the good heginnings they have
made in the practical applisation of a rem-
edy. At the head of the movement is the
Bureau of Forestry, but its work is dread-
fully hampered by the lack of trained for-
esters. Other obstacles are the general ig-
norance on the subject and the commercial
spirit of many owners, who can or will only
consider the immediate returns from a
wholesale removal of the timber on their
holdings. The most serious feature of the
case is the lost time. Many of the virgin
trees felled in such vast numbers have re-
quired two hundred years or more to attain
their present size, and for most of the best
commercial trees sixty to a hundred years
is considered the scientific age for cutting.
Practically nothing bas been done to re-
place them as they were destroyed, and un-
der any conditions it will be years before
new trees can fill the gap. Yet many valu-
able trees will mature in less time than the
above, and still more will reach sufficient
size for most of the commoner purposes,and
forestry is wont to wait and to look ahead
by years instead of months. In Europe
they have practiced scientific forestry for
more than a century, and consequently in
some countries, notably France and Ger-
many, the forests are now holding their
own and proving good business investments
with steady yearly crops. In Germany
forestry has heen carried on for two hup-
dred years, and maguificent results have
heen obtained. We are late in starting,
and must make the best of it, profiting by
the experience of other countries in so far
as it is applicable to conditions here.
But just what is forestry ? In general it
is the art of utilizing the forest and at the
same time perpetuating it. Three kinds of
forest are recognized—supply forests, pro-
tection forests for soil and water flow and
luxury forests for sport and pleasure. The
objects of all three kinds are simultaneous-
ly attained in the managed forests, of Eu-
rope. But the art is almost entirely utili-
tarian in its essentials, since its chief object
is to raise crops of wood from the ground
just as a farmer raises wheat from it. Its
difference from ordinary lumbering lies in
its obligation systematically to replace the
harvested crop. ‘‘The many methods of
reproducing a new crop (silvicaltural meth-
ods) which are practiced vary mainly in
the rapidity with which the old crop is re-
moved, namely, from immediate absolute
clearing (when the crop must be either arti-
ficially planted or is secured by seeds from
a neighboring old stand), through various
degrees of gradual removal (when the old
crop is entirely removed in two to twenty
vears, the crop being secured from trees on
the area hy seeds, and rapidity of removal
of the old crop being gauged by the need
for light of the new crop), to the so-called
‘‘selection’’ forest (in which only single
trees, here and there, are removed fiom
time to time, and nature alone is left to re-
produce the crop as hest it may in the small
openings made).”” No method of repro-
ducing is the only right one, for everything
depends upon the particular circumstances
of each case, but in genera! the selection
forest system may be said to be the poorest
and a combination of the two other methods
perhaps the best.
The whole art is based on a cycle of
eighty to a hundred years for most trees,so
that a clear-eyed general survey of the en-
tire field is absolutely necessary. A little
mistake in the beginning may go on mak-
ing trouble for a century. The true forest-
er must he the product of a special trzining
for his work. He must have a knowledge
of forestry as practiced in other countries
and of American forests in all their variety
in the North, the East, the West and the
South. He must know all about commer-
cial trees and their markets. He must
make his way among the conflicting theo-
ries and varying conditions, and know just
what to plant and where and how to plant
it, and hew best to care for it. He must
know the causes of forest fires, those ruth-
less destroyers of the growth of ages, and
how to guard against them and how to
fight them. In addition to being a bota-
nist he should he something of an etomolo-
gist, and be able to deal with his enemies
among the bugs and worms, and a little of
a chemist so that he may understand the
gums and extracts and wood treatment for
preservation. Some engineering knowledge
is also essential, for he has roads and skid-
ways and fire belts to make, and the prob-
lem of transportation is a vital one and
ever present. He must know how and when
to remove dead or unsound trees, how to
guard against waste, how to make proper
thinnings and improvement cattings, how
large or small a diameter is to be the limit
for cutting in consideration of natural and
commercial conditions at a given place,how
close to the ground to cut the stumps, the
proper amounts of sun and shade, what
trees to leave for seed, and a hundred other
things.
In 1899 a section of the Division of For-
estry was organized for the purpose of co-
operating with private owners and for
special investigations in tree planting. On
application by any one wishing to adopt
scientific forestry methods on his land, a
field agent will make an adequate study of
the ground and make out a planting plan
suitable to its peculiar conditions, giving
help in the selection of trees, information in
regard to planting and instructions in
handling forest trees when planted, the
owner paying only the necessary expenses
outside of salary. This plan is particular-
ly adapted to small woodlots of farmers,
and is designed not only to help the indi-
vidual but also to furnish an object lesson
on how the value of land may be greatly
increased by forestry. T.ast fall these ap-
plications had reached a total of 4,709,120
acres, but from lack of money and trained
men the bureau was forced to neglect or de-
fer over ninety per cent. reaching only the
comparatively insignificant total of 382,463
acres. Of the 58,850,925 acres of govern-
ment forest reserves only a small part has
been covered by plans for conservative lum-
bering. During the past year field work
has been completed on seven large private
forest tracts, and preliminary examinations
made of 1,620,000 acres, but when we con-
sider that the proportion of forest land un-
der private ownership is so overwhelming
that the immense acreage under govern-
ment control is comparatively small beside
it, we see what a drop in the bucket is the
work done.
gun to wake up.
The good work will go on. Favorable
state legislation, the awakening of public
interest, the winning over of many of the
lumbermen, clubs and private holders to
the benefits of forestry. the increasing ef-
forts of the government and the estal!ish-
ment of schools of forestry all point to more
extended operations in the future. People
are being convicted that by careful and
scientific methods tree farming will not
only conserve the country’ssupply of wood,
continue the protection afforded by forests,
and ultimately prove a paying investment.
but that it will in many cases bring in a
steady revenue in a comparatively short
time, enbance the selling value of the land,
aud even be more profitable than a whole-
some destruction of timber trees by the old
methods.
In addition to the three schools already
mentioned, the Bureau of Forestry has
created the position of student assistant,
which nos only gives the recipient practical
training, but pays him $25 a month and ex-
penses while in the field, with the chance
of office work in Washington during the
winter at $40 a month. -The number of
appointments muss be small, and those who
have already bad some experience have the
preference. The position of field assistant
at $720 to $1,000 a year in the beginning
is open to trained foresters under the Civil
Service Commission. The Yale Forest
School is supplemented by a summer school
near Milford. Pa., on a tract of sixty acres
loaned for the purpose. No entrance ex-
seven weeks, and the tuition is only $25.
The course at the Yale school itself covers
two years. This year a party of sixteen
students, the senior class, in fact, bas been
working for the War Department on the
military reservation at West Point, esti-
mating the amount of timber and making
out a working plan by which the water
supply may be conserved and the forest,
And the country has just be- |
aminations are required for the term of |
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which has suffered both fire and injudicious
catting, can be improved and made to yield
a steady supply for the post.
In 1898 the New York College of Forestry
of Cornell University was established by
act of Legislature, the first institution of
its kind in the country. It bas for actual
experiment and practical training a tract of
30,000 acres of state land,and the four year
coarse is excellent. It bas tarned out thus
far, however, only a half dozen graduates
annually. The third school of forestry is
at Biltmore, N. C.
The opportunities for forestry education
are good, and they will grow still better as
time goes on. The future for the trained
forester looks much more certain than that
of many lines of life work, for the field,now
only iv its infaney, is already in need of
skilled men, and when the field grows with
the great rapidity with which it must grow,
the demand for men will increase propor-
tionately. The demand will come in many
forms. from government, companies, club
reservations, private owners of lumber
lands and pleasure forests, and from farm-
ers aud small owners. Our island posses-
sions are a bright field by themselves. In
fact, the demand has begun already. A
young man, especially a young man who
likes the healthful, outdoor life, may well
find his best field to be a forest.—By Ar-
thur Sullivant Hoffman iu the Household
Ledger.
Wave to Resign.
Will Give Up Pension Office and Return to Kansas.
It can be announced that Eugene F.
Ware, the commissioner of pensions, will
retire from that office by about the middle
of November of next year, and will return
immediately to the practice of law in Kan-
sas. His contemplated action is understood
among Kansas politicians, and has been the
subject of several interviews with the Pres-
ident, which have been kept secret.
The decision to resign and return to pri-
vate life is the result of his long felt dissatis-
faction with the nature of the duties of his
office, a feeling that has grown steadily
since the early days of his administration
of that bureau. Mr. Ware has steadfestly
refused to discuss the matter when asked
for information on the subject, despite the
gevera! understanding among those in a
position to know, and when asked about
the report of his plans he declined to admit
that he bas, or ever had, any intention of
tendering his resignation.
Mr. Ware’s acceptance of the President’s
tender of the office shortly after the ap-
pointment of his predecessor, H. Clay
Evans, to the post of consul general to Lon-
don last spring, created considerable sur-
prise at the time. He had a law practice
that was one of the largest in Kansas, and
it bronght him considerable more income
than his salary as commissioner of pen-
sions.
He had not heen in the office long before
he began to feel the effect of the large
amount of routine work that devolves on
the head of the office, and as time wore on
the demands that this work made on his
time and strength and the constant friction
that has been incidental to the office under
every administration led to his distaste for
the position.
Mr. Ware has insisted on the expedition
of the work of his bureau and improvement
of the standard of service performed by his
subordinates. It is said to be probable
that the work of the office will be brought
up to date by July 1st, the beginning of the
next fiscal year.
Ex-Representative Richard Whiting
Blue, who was the representative-at-large
from Kansas during several sessions of Con-
gress, and ex-Representative. Samuel W.
Peters, of Kansas, have been mentioned in
connection with the successorship to Mr.
Ware. It is said that the President has not
yet reached a decision as to whom he will
select, though it is presumed that war serv-
ice will be recognized in the choice.
Mr. Ware's plans have become known to
a number of officials in Washington, and
they have been expecting announcement of
his resignation at any time.
Will Save Millions.
Southern Pacific's Wonderful Cut-off is Completed—
Goes Over Great Salt Lake.
One hundred and two miles of track com-
posing what is known as the Ogden-Lucien
out off across Great Salt lake, was formally
declared completed Thursday and made a
part of the Harriman system.
The dedication of this track, which has
cost the Southern Pacific Railroad company
many millions of dollars, but which, it is
estimated, will result in a saving of more
than $500,000 yearly in operating expenses,
as well as reducing the running time he-
tween Ogden and the Pacific coast by two
hours, was the occasion of the assembling
of 50 of the most prominent railroad offi-
cials in the country, including E. H. Har-
riman, president of the Southern Pacific,
and the heads of practically all the lines
forming the trans-continental system known
as the Harriman lines.
The last spike was driven several days
ago at a point on the fill nearly opposite the
place where 34 years ago was driven the
golden spike that closed the gap between
the lines of the Union and Central Pacific
railroads and Promontory Point.
Thursday night President Harriman,
fourth vice president J. Krattschnett,
passenger traffic manager E. O. McCor-
mick and other officials continued west from
Lucien, Nev., to make an official inspection
of the improvements in the road between
that point and Reno, Nev. Several mil-
lion dollars have been spent on the system
across Nevada involving a practical rebuild-
ing of hundreds of miles of road.
At the Alta club banquet Wednesday
night Mr. Harriman spoke briefly referring
to the improvements made by the Union
aod Southern Pacific systems. saying that
during the past three years improvements
on the two roads have cost a total of $153,-
000,000, and that when the work is com-
pleted the running time to the coast will
be mechanicaily lessened.
For Shock at a ‘Phone, $8,000,
The arbitrators have given an award of
$8,000 for the minor children of Thomas
F. Delahunt, the Chester florist, against
the United Telephone company.
Mr. Delahunt was killed in his green-
house on April 9th, 1902, by a shock of
electricity while he was answering a call
at the telephone, and it was shown that a
wire of the defendant company was crossed
with an electric light cable. The company
will appeal the case.
Brakeman “Held Up.
Robbed On His Train at the Point of a Pistol—The
Thief Escapes :
H. L. Haner. a Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman, was held up and robbed by a
masked man near Wilcox early Friday
while his train was running at the rate of
forty miles an hour.
He was covered by a revolver in the
hands of a man on a box car, and compell-
ed to give up his watch and his money.
The fellow escaped by jumping from the
train, getting a good start on the detective.
Clendennin’s Watch and Ring Have
Been Found.
In Possession of a Tramp. The Watch Was Secured
and 8ent {0 the New Vork Central Officials—@George
Hammersley, From Whom Clendennin Bought the
Timepiece, Went to Oak Grove Saturday Afternoon
to Identify It.
The watch stolen from the body of oper-
ator Clendennin was found Saturday at
Swithboro, a small village a few miles west
of Bingbamton. It was traded to Frank F.
Dean, a Smithboro farmer, on Tuesday by
a stranger, who was undoubtedly the mur-
derer.
The watch was secured by Alex. Craw,
of Corning, claim agent for the New York
Central, who has taken it to Youngdale for
Clendennin’s mother to identify.
The stranger was in the vicinity from
Friday, less than 17 hours after the murder,
until Tuesday evening. It is accordingly
certain that he had nothing to do with the
other railroad robberies in Pennsylvania
during the past week.
THE MAN WAS NERVOUS.
The fellow appeared at Unoin, just west
of Binghamton, hefore noon on Friday and
tried to sell a watch and ring, with exact-
ly the description of those stolen from
Clendennin’s body, to several people. He
was nervous and acted as if he were badly
frightened.
After selling the watch at Smithboro the
fellow went west on an Erie freight train,
but that evening was seen by the Smithboro
ticket agent coming east on another freight
train toward that place.
On Friday morning between 11 and 12
o’clock, station agent Wilson saw a stran-
ger alight from an east bound freight train.
He started up the road and accosted a farm-
er, to whom he tried tosell a gold watch
and ring.
Failing to sell the articles to the farmer,
the man came to the station and tried to
sell them to the ticket agent. Mr. Wilson
looked at the articles carefully, so that he
is certain about their description.
The fellow wanted $7 for them, but
finally came down to $4, but Mr. Wilson
refused to buy the jewelry.
The watch was a gold filled, hunting
case time piece, with a Standard company
movement. Inside the case was a picture
of a locomotive. Mr. Wilson also noticed
that the cases were loose.
The ring was a beavy band gold ring
with a stone in it, no one who saw it re-
members exactly what kind of a ring it
was.
HUNG AROUND UNTIL LATE.
After he failed to sell the things to the
ticket agent, the stranger went out and
around until late in the afternoon, trying
to sell the articles to several people.
Mr. Wilson thought little about the mat-
ter for several days. He does not take any
daily paper, the only paper that he takes
being a weekly paper published in Corn-
ing. He accordingly knew nothing of the
murder at Brown, antil Tuesday when he
received his Corning paper.
In that he read an account of the mur-
der, and a description of the watch and
ring that were stolen from the murdered
‘operator. :
ATTRACTED BY DESCRIPTION.
The first thing that attracted his atten-
tion was the description of the watch in the
paper, saying that the cases were loose.
He then read the description of the stolen
articles carefully and became convinced
that there was no doubt that the articles
offered to him were the ones stolen from
the murdered man. The make of the
watch, the picture of the locomotive, and
the kind of a ring fitted the case exactly.
Instead of notifying the Binghamton or
Broome county officials of what he had
learned Mr. Wilson wrote to the superin-
tendent of the Beech Creek road at Corn-
ing.
REPORTED TO HUMPHREY.
That official in turn reported the case to
chief detective Humphrey, of the New
York Central, at Alabama. Mr. Hum-
phrey today telegraphed to chief Moore of
Binghamton and detective Stephenson was
at once detailed on the case.
Mr. Stephenson came to this village and
spent the afternoon in trying to get some
trace of the murderer.
Mr. Wilson says that the man was ex-
tremely nervous and acted as if he were
frightened half to death.
The man was about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches
tall, stoutly built, weighing from 165 to
180 pounds and had a light sandy “mous-
tache. The first thing Mr. Wilson noticed
abons him was that he had a wide, pro-
truding forehead.
He wore a black soft hat and a long
black coat resembling a ‘‘Prince Albert,”
but not exactly a ‘“‘Prince Albert.”’
Not a Candidate.
Former President Cleveland Says His Determination
is Unalterable. Writes Brooklyn Eagle.
Grover Cleveland has sent the following
letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily
“Eagle? :
“PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 25, 1903—MyY
DEAR MR. McKELWAY—I have wanted
for a long time to say something which I
think should be said to you before others.
You can never know how grateful I am for
the manifestation of kindly feeling toward
me on the part of my countrymen, which
your initiative has brought out. Your ad-
vocacy in the ‘Eagle’ of my nomination
for the Presidency came to me as a great
surprise; and it has been seconded in such
a manner by Democratic sentiment that
conflicting thoughts of gratitude and duty
have caused me to hesitate as to time and
manner of a declaration on my part con-
cerning the subject, if such a declaration
should seem necessary or proper.
“In the midst of it all, ard in fall view
of every consideration presented, I have
not for a moment heen able, nor am I now
able, to open my mind to the thought that,
in apy circumstances or upon any consider-
ation, Ishould ever again become the nomi-
nee of my party for the Presidency. My
determination not to do so is unalterable
and conclusive. This you, at least, ought
to know from me, and I should be glad if
the ‘‘Eagle’’ were made the medium of its
conveyance to the public. Very sincerely
yours, “GROVER CLEVELAND.”
The Brooklyn ‘‘Eagle’’ to the editor of
which Mr. Cleveland’s letter was addressed
announced Friday that the support it had
given Mr. Cleveland for the Democratic
presidential nomination would now he giv-
en Alten Parker, at present chief justice of
the courts of appeals of New York.
$50 An Hour for Arbiters.
Fifty dollars an hour for a period of five
bouts per day and for thirty days during
the year, making a total of $7,500, is what
the anthracite coal operators will pay each
of their three representatives on the con-
ciliation board, or $150 an hour to the
trio.
The levy of half a mill per ton to raise
funds for the payment of .conciliation. ex-
penses will amonnt to $33,000, as this
year’s tonnage will run about 66,000,000
tons. About $10,000 will go for clerk hire
and incidentals.