Bmore adam
Bellefonte, Pa., March 10, 1905.
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THE MAKING OF A WOMAN.
A Hixpoo Myrn
It was faraway in Creating time
When Twashtri* thought of a plan *
By which he might add to the joysand griefs,
And perplexing helps to man.
But, woe and alas ! no solid was lett
From which to ereate a mate
For the solidest thing on the solid earth ;
And he pondered long and late.
Then took of the brightestand lightest things
The bitters and sweets of earth ;
The fairest and fragilest things that be ;
The essence of grief and mirth.
There were danzing lightness of summer
leaves ;
The bright, soft glance of the fawn ;
The joy-giving radiance of noontide sun ;
The tears of the misty dawn.
The changeable ways of the veering winds ;
The timid start of the hare ;
The peacock’s pride in its glorious garb ;
The sweetness of blossoms rare.
The softness that lies on the swallow’s throat,
The swiftness of tiger-feet ;
The splendor of gems in a monarch’s crown ;
The flavor of honey sweet.
The mystery of moonlight; the gleam of
stars :
The hearth-fire’s sacred glow ;
The shadow of clouds, and the lightning’s
flash ;
‘I'he chill of the mountain snow.
The lightest chatter of sparrow and jay ;
The coo of the turtle dove :
He melted them all, and he gave to man
The wondrous result to love.
But a week had passed when the poor man
pled,
“My lord, the creature you gave,
She poisons the fountains of life for me—
Receive again from your slave.
“She takes my time, and all else that J have
Her tongue, it is never still ;
For nothing at all she grieves and laments ;
And, then, she is always ill |”
But another week, and he came again ;
“Oh, mine is a lonely life :
The glance of her eye and the sound of her
voice
Were worth the troubles and strife.
“I now recall that she danced full well
To every tune that was mine,
And played with my mood when my heart.
was low,
And clung like a lovely vine.”
Yet only three days, and again he came,
Abashed and sorely perplexed :
“Alas ! the pleasure is less than the pain—
Take her ; I'm puzzled and vexed.”
«Nay, go you your way,” cried the angry god,
“And take you the ill with the good,”
«But I cannot live with her,” cried the man
“Neither without her you could.”
— Jessie Annie Anderson.
*The Vulean of Hindoo Mythology.
A COAST TALE,
The cottage, old and crumbling, stood a
stone’s throw away irom the narrow salt
river that crept in from the ocean, a mile
to the east. Its unpainted clapboards were
black and silver with the stress of the
weather; the stunted trees about it were
twisted from the force of the winds sweep-
ing in from the sea or down from the great
wild north. It was a bleak and forbiding
place, unneighbored and unoccupied. The
straggling, grass grown path that wandered
into the unkempt front yard from the main
road was seldom used, and it had been
years since smoke curled from the falling
chimney.
To one woman, old before ber time with
the bard toil of farm and house, the place
had been for years a shrine. Letty Lancom
remembered her entrance into it, a ‘bride,
more than thirty years before the time of its
utter dilapidation. It bad been new, and
its unpainted boards were bright and there
was still a trail of shavings about the kitch-
en porch.
She remembered bow she had set out
dahlias and nasturtinms and red poppies
beneath the sitting-room window—vivid
things that it would warm the heart to see
in the bleak ocean-side country. Some-
times, even yet, in the summer she made a
furtive pilgrimage to the place to catch a
glimpse of neglected scarlet or orange in
the weeds and the rank grasses thas crowd-
ed close beneath the broken window Bas
she never mentioned this pilgrimage to her
son and daughter. She knew they did not
sympathize with her sentimental recollec-
tions of their father, the father who had
deserted her and them, and lefc¢ them to
wage the bitter fight of life alone.
She was sitting in the kitchen of her son
Hiram’s well built house in the village,
thinking it all over. A pearly mist of Feb-
ruary snow blurred the air. The fire
gleamed rosily through the grate of the pol-
ished range, the kettle sang gently, the oil-
cloth shone with the lustre of its afternoon
mopping, the tins and blue agate sparkled
on the shelves. Hiram’s wife was as nota-
ble as a housekeeper as Hiram’s mother
could desire, but Letty sighed as she look-
ed ahout her.
“It’s her own house thas a woman
wants,”’ she said and lapsed into recollec-
tions.
Is bad been such a day as this that Tom
“bad sent her her first valentine. They were
ten years old. They bad walked and talked
and fought and made up for the first three
or four years of their acquaintance; and
Tom, lurking in the neighborhood of his
big sister, bad lately heard rumors of val-
entines. So he sent one to Letty, leaving
it at the kitchen door in the gray of the
February dusk and the Febraary snow.
Letty saw him scampering away, a swilt,
dark blur in the twilight. She had rushed
to the door, found the hig envelope, and
in another instant entered the world of
romance on the wings of
“If yon love me
As I Love you,
No kuife can cut
Our love in two."
Romanee had been short-lived, for Tom
bad stuck his tongue oat at her the nexs
morning when she had failed in her geog-
raphy lesson.
all the days of their childhood and early
youth Tom Lancom had sens a valentine to
Letty Blake. - And when they were twenty
they were married and had gone to live in
the little house at the hend in the river.
Likeall his people, Tom was a fcllower of
sea. He went to the Banks in the season,
and Letty toiled and waited with the fatal-
istic philosophy of the fisherman’s wife. At
other periods he worked his small farm,
sewed sails, mended seines, carried sailing:
parties out to sea. Once in a while he
shipped for a short voyage and ¢ame back
from Boston or Providence fall of tales of
wonder. Letty, practical, resourceful,
managed the place and the two children in
But from that time through
bis absence. She never sympathized with
his enthusiasm for strange sights.
“There's a plenty to do and see right
bere,”’ she used to proclaim, making a thin
line of her lips. ‘‘I ain’t got nouse fora
woman that gads.”” And Tom used to look
at her with hall-wondering, balf-admiring
eyes.
There came a day when he had to go to
Portland. Supplies for the house were to
be ordered, something was needed for his
sloop. He was to be away overnight, but
the dauntless woman he had married was
used to loneliness. He was to drive to the
city, and she came to the gate of the yard
to bid him good-by. She could see the
scene yet—the gray river, the rough stretch
of frost-bleached fields, beyond it the woods,
a tangle of gray branches with the black
points of firs accentuating all the drab of
the landscape. A pale winter sun bad been
shining over everything, and the sky was
unubrilliantly blue.
“Well,” Tom had said, looking with af-
fectionate pride on the woman, who pro-
cared from her apron a hot brick for his
feet, ‘‘yon’re the one to think of every-
thing sure. Guess I'll bring yon a present,
Letty. What'll you have?”’
“Now, don’t you go spendin’ your mou-
ey on foolishness,” commanded Letty,
crisply. Then she added more tenderly,
‘Jest you come home yourself, safe an’
quick. But don’t forget Hiram’s shoes an’
the red hood for Lizzie.’
““An’ I ain’t goin’ to forget a valentine
for you, old lady,”’ declared Tom. ‘‘It’ll
be Valentine's Day when I get back. Re-
member how I aways used to send you
one?’
“Don’t you go buyin’ no truck,’’ warn-
ed the thrifty wife again.
“You'll see,’”’ insisted Tom.
give us a kiss, an’ I'll be startin.”
*‘Go along with you,’’ Letty had answer-
ed, blushing. Kisses had been given up
with the valentines. Shealmost felt that
an impropriety bad been snggested to ber
established matronhood.
Tom had laughed and driven away, and
ghe bad never seen him again.
In the cosy kitchen of her son’s house
she lived over again the whole agonized
year that followed. She lived the dreary
days that he did not come, the fears that
assailed her, search revealing that he had
successfully attended to his business, the
absence of any proof that it was death
which bad caused bis disappearance. She
saw hersell taking up all the burden of
life, working early and late, at home and
abroad. She saw her faithful old suitor,
Abraham Sindeckes, offering her, at frst,
all the help in his power and then the old
attentions aud the old proposals. And she
saw herself declining is all and going on
with her labors. She heard again the vague
ramors, blown on far sea airs, that Tom
bad been seen here and there in the antip-
odes; and finally she saw once more the let-
ter from the far East, in which a son of
Maine told, briefly, and among questions
concerning kinsfolk and friends, that he
bad met Tom Lancom in China. Even then
she had resisted all pressure brought to bear
upon her that she should divorce the man
who had abandoned her. And as the si-
lence had again closed in upon Tom and
the years of his absence grew, she had stead-
fastly refused to regard herself as free, or
to accept the offer which faithful Abraham
renewed from time to time.
*‘I never was one of your shirks,’’ she
said proudly to herself as che reviewed her
life. She had sewed for the neighbors,
she had tilled her small vegetable garden,
she bad washed and ironed the clothes of
strangers, pursed their sick, sat by their
dead. She had aged—oh, she aged terribly
in the first ten years of Tom’s absence!
He had left her little, wiry, fiery, dark.
As the end of the first decade she was bent,
withered, gray and wrinkled, a woman of
forty who might bave passed for sixty. But
tbe stricken frame held an unconquerable
spirit. She did her work right manfully.
Her son and danghter went to school as
long as any children in the neighborhood.
They were as warmly clad, as well fed. As
eighteen the hoy, Hiram, bad gone into a
general merchandise store as assistant.
Now, at thirty, he owned it and the com-
fortable house in which his mother sat.
And the girl, Lizzie, ‘‘had married well”
and lived on a big farm outside the village.
From the time that Hiram had gone to
work in the village the riverside cottage
bad been deserted. His mother and sister
had come into the village to live with
him. Letty’s occupations were chiefly in
the more settled part of the scattered neigh-
borhood, and it was easier for her to live
there. But with an obstinacy which had
provoked many a family unpleasantness
she had absolutely resused to let or sell her
own home. Reason availed not at all with
her. The considerations of economy she
utterly ignored. Never bad her children
seen her so determined in folly—not even
when ber last rejection of the suitor, Abe
Sindecker, had aroused their wrath.
‘Marry?’ Letty bad said on that occa-
sion, when Hiram and Lizzie, then aged
seventeen and fifteen respectively, urged
her to accept the rich farmer, ‘Marry? Now
you listen to me. I married once, an’I
married a man I had knowed always an’
one that knowed me. An’ I was a well-fa-
vored girl then—not one of your big ones,
but well favored. Well, your father, that
I thoughts I knowed by bears, he left me. I
don’t take chances with any stranger.”
So the cabin bad remained untenanted and
the de-erted wife or widow unwed. When
ber children both married, she spent her
time between them and her old clients.
Hiram and Lizzie might fret and fume at
ber going out as a nurse or a house-cleaner
or a sewing-woman, but she wens.
“Iv’s all very well,” she used to answer
them, *‘for you to talk ahout takin’ care of
me, an’ I know you would, an’ he giad of
the chance. But I'm used to workin’, an’ I
don’t calculate to sit twiddlin’ my thumbs
in front of another woman’ssiove. Jennie’s
a nice girl, Hiram, an’ grudges me nothin’
—especially when she knows she ain't got
to give it. An’ Jo is a geod man, Lizzie,
“Come,
and all the better to your mother because.
he don’t have her under his heels the whole
endurin’ time. I'll keep on as I am.”
To-day in the quiet of the orderly kitoh-
en she recalled all these speeches to her
children, recalled them with some pride in
her own ability to put her case clearly, and
now, in her own mind, she added the
words:
“I's their own homes that women want,
their own homes,’’ she sighed to herself.
Then rhe looked deeply into the onals.
Across her furrowed fnce there passed a
lighs that might have been the reflection of
the fire.
“If I'd only kissed bim good-by like he
asked me to,”’ she whispered.
The longing grew upon her to go to the
place which had heen so long nnvisited ex-
cept by memories. She struggled against
is for a while. The afternoon was wearing
late; the snow had brought an earlv twi-
light. Hiram and Lizzie always obj-oted
$0 her stolen visits to the cabin. She pick.
ed ap her knitting and made the needles
fly tor a while, hut stronger and stronger
grew the desire to see the old place.
‘It almost seems as if some one is callin’
me,’’ she said to herself. Then she shook
her practical bead impatiently.
“What a goose you're gettin’ to be, Let-
ty Lancom,’” she said impatiently. “You
jest xet still and don’t go catchin’ your
death of cold trapsin’ around the country.”’
Her mind was quite made up to this sen-
sible course, but when she had pursued i
for five minutes she arose. - She listened
carefully. There was no sound of appioach.
She tiptoed across 1h 100m, caught a shawl
from the nail behind the door, opened it
and was swallowed up in the grayish blar.
She made her way quickly to the outskirts
of she village. Ounce on the long road that
wound across the bleak northern country,
she went more slowly though steadily.
When she reached the forlorn place she
stood still and drew in a deep breath. The
heavy saltness from the tide, the heavy
dampness from the snow, were to her de-
licious.
She went along the obliterated path to-
ward the dark cottage. Her heart was
beating tumultuously as it had not beaten,
it seemed to her, even in youth. There
was a sharp pain in her throat, the pain of
strangled ories.
The door was sagging on its hinges. She
pushed it open and entered the empty room
that she had come to a bride, so long ago.
She looked ahout her. Desolation every-
where—on the dust encrusted windows,
on the discolored walls, the rotten planks
of the floor, the fallen bricks of the fire-
place—desolation utter and complete. Yeb
she drew again a deep breath of satisfaction.
“It’s her own home a woman wants,”
she whispered.
On the ledge above the fireplace by and
by she canght sight of an old tin box. She
took it down and unclasped its rusty hd
with some difficulty. In it were some
packages of matches.
“Providence iy pointin’ me the way,”
she said to herself, and in afew minutes
she was coaxing to a blaze the broken
pieces of a box which had been moldering
the years away in the kitchen, and some
palings fallen from the front fence.
She was on her knees blowing at the thin
flame when a gust from the opening door
threatened it with extinction. She looked
quickly abont—and there he stood, Tom
Lancom, big and bluff and white-baired
and scared-looking, uumistakably Tom
Lancom, who had driven away from the
door 0 many Febroaries gone. She sank
down and stared at him whitely, and he
looked back at her without a word.
In all her laborious life Letty Lancom
had never known what it was to faint, but
as she looked at her returned husband, she
felt the world slipping from her, memory
slipping from ber—hearing, sight.
She recovered with a sputter. Brandy
was burning its way down her throat. She
struggled up and puehed away the hand
holding the flask.
‘“fom Lancom,’’ she said severely,
‘‘don’t you know I never tech spirits?’’
So with a crisp commonplace the silence
of years was broken. Tom stammered.
‘Of course, I remember, Letty,”’ he said,
“hut this—this seeems sorter different.’’
Then he straightened himself.
*‘Mayhe I orter say Mrs. Sindecker,”’ he
added stiffly.
Letty stared.
‘‘Not unless you’re piumb crazy,”’ she
said. Why, what on earth do you mean?”’
Then Tom stumbled through his story—
the tale of how he, not sharing Letty’s
principles in regard to spirits, had been
shanghaied that night in Portland, how the
blow that had reduced him to submi-sion
before he was impressed into the crew had
left his mind a blank concerning the past,
how he had sailed to China, and from there
had drifted half round the world for two or
three years until on some corner of the
earth a familiar face from Maine bad
brought back his memory with a rush. Bat
it was the owner of that same familiar face
who bad told him the story of Letty’s mar-
riage to Abraham Sindecker.
“J remembered how he had always been
after you,’’ Tom stumbled. ‘An’ it was
too much for me. Times I was for goin’
home and walkin’ in on him an’ you an’
throttlin’ him—an’ then I thought of you,
an’ the sort of disgrace of it, an’ that there
might be other children. So—well—you
ain’t married to him? Or to anyone else?’
““Tom,”’ said his wile, I thought you had
left me. An’ I always said if IT couldn’s
keep one husband—a husband I knowed—
from running away, I wasn’t goin’ to try
no atran:er.”’
Tom looked at her hard and hnngrily.
“‘T came back now,’’ he said, ‘‘because—
oh, well, because I couldn’t stay away no
longer. I just wanted to see the place—if
it was standin’ still, an’—an’—oh, I don’t
know—I jest naturally had to come. It
was gettin’ on to Valentine’s Day. Do you
remember how I always used to send you
valentines when we was young?"
“Yes.”
‘‘Wilel, well, I ain’t brought you any
this sime, not knowip’——"’
“Tom Lancom, you're all the valentine
I want,’’ sobbed his wife in a sndden rush
of sentiment. Awkwardly he drew her to
him, and awkwardly she submitted to the
the unfamiliar caress.
And then, band in band, as when they
were children, they walked out into the
snowy twilight and down into the village.
—By Anne O’Hagen, in the Delineator.
About Easter.
T he latest date on which Easter can fall
is April 25. It falls this year on April 23.
Three times within the nineteenth century
there was a late Easter. In 1848 Easter
Sunday was April 23; in 1859, it fell on
April 24, and in 1886. beautiful sunshine
and blossoming flowers hore witness to the
fact that April 25 represented the date of
the great spring festival. During the pres-
ent century there will be two late Easters
beside that of this year. In 1943 is will
occur on April 25, and the year 2,000 will
he marked by the chronicling of the holi-
flay on April 23. Lent begins on March
th.
The date for Easter is determined by the
first calendar m on on or after March 21.
Count 14 days from the calendar moon and
Easter will be the first following Sunday.
This year the calendar moon is April 4;
add 14 days, and the first Sunday follow-
ing will be Easter.
The Bald Knight.
Once upon a time there lived. a knight
who wore a wig so hide his baldness.
One day he was ont hunting when all of
a rudden there came along a big wind and
carried away the wig.
When people saw him they all laughed
and made fun of the big bald spot. This
did not make the knight angry, but instead,
“he laoghed, for he said: Ido not expeos
that another man’s hair would stay on
me when my own wonldn’s.”’
~——An Oklahoma man bas discovered
thas there were departmut stores in ancient
Hebrew days: He quotes the fourteenth
verre of the fourteenth chapter of Job:
“*All my appointed time will I' wais till
my change come.’’
THE LITTLE FATHER.
Nichol, Nichol, little Czar,
How I wonder where you are !
You who thought it best to fiy,
Being so afraid to die.
Now the sullen crowds are gene,
Now there’s naught to fire upon;
Sweet your sleigh bells ring afar,
Tinkle, tinkle little Czar.
Little Czar, with soul so small,
How are you a Czar at all ?
Yours had been a happier lot
In some peasant’s humble cot.
Yet to you was given a day
With a noble part to play.
Asan Emperor and a Man ;
When it came—*‘then Nicky ran.”
Little Czar, beware the hour
When the people strike at Power ;
Soul and body held in thrall,
They are human after all.
Thrones that reek of blood and tears,
Fall before the avenging years,
While you watch your sinking star,
Tremble, tremble, little Czar!
+ —London Punch.
Facts About Mushrooms.
Mushrooms are grown in large goss
ties in Paris. They extend some miles un
der the city and are from 20 to 160 feet be-
peath the surface. Is is difficult to obtain
permission to visit them, avd even when
the permission is obtained it requires con-
siderable courage to avail one’s self of the
privilege.
The only entrance to the caves is a hole
like a well, ont of which a long pole pro-
jects. Through this pole, which is fastened
at the top only, lovg sticks are thrust.
This primitive ladder, which swings like a
pendulum in the darkness below, is the on-
ly means of reaching the caves. Disused
stone quairiesare used for the caves, and
the interior reminds one of a rock temple
with galleries leading in every direction,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The industry is at first expensive to cul-
tivators. . The most perfect cleanliness
must be observed in the beds, which are
covered over with silver sand and a whitish
clay and 1un in parallel lines, with only a
narrow passage between them.
The manure, collected from the stables
of Paris, has perhaps to be carried a couple
of miles to the quarries. There it is made
into flat heaps near the entrance to the
shafts and watered from three to six weeks
before the necessary fermentation
takes place. When the manure is sufficient-
ly prepared it is shot down into the cave
through one of the convenientshafts.
Next comes the formation of the beds.
These are one and a half feet wide and igh
and arranged 1» rows, these conditions hav-
ing proved the best adapted to bring the
manure to the proper temperature neces-
sary for the frucsification of the fungi.
The method of constructing these beds is
peculiar. Each workman sits astride his
bed, as if on horseback, fills his arms with
the manure and presses it down between
is legs, thus moving along the bed with
he jolsing motion of the rider. In this
manner, the beds are evenly pressed like so
many furrows. When the beds attain the
proper temperature the spawn is sown.
One of the first requisites of mushroom
c¢altare is fresh air, and the farmer must
know just how much of the oxygen is nec-
essary for the respiration of the favgi. Air
holes are bored here and there, beneath
which in many places, coke fires are lit.
This insures the renewal of fresh air.
Hard on Quail.
The present winter has been a very hard
on= on quail, in this State, especially dur-
ing the first part of February. The ground
has been almost continually covered with
snow, and the extremely cold weather kept
a bard crust on the snow. These highly
prized little game birds were therefore un-
able to secure sufficient food, ard their
bodies not being properly nourished, they
would gaickly succumb to the cold. It is
a well known fact that some of these birds
migrate southward in the late fall, but
doubtless greater number remain in the
northern States during the winter months.
The quail hunt the heavily wooded ridges
and thickets during she cold months, and
are able to endure very cold weather if they
can obtain sufficient food to keep them
alive. Unfortunately, unlike most other
birds the quail do not fly into trees and
bushes to obtain food from the buds and
leaves, etc., but feed on seeds on the ground,
and fiom low bushes and plants, and when
covered with deep frozen snow, the birds
quickly die of starvation. A severe winter
has little or no effect on turkeys or pheas-
ants, as they are fully able to take care of
themselves, and can al ways find enough to
eat to keep them from starving.
They eat laurel, sumack seeds, immature
birds, by flying inso trees and bushes. Some
quail are kept alive in this State during
the winter months by being trapped and fed
byfarmers and sportsmen. It is not likely
that these birds will furnish much sport for
the hunters next fall, as the severe weather
of last winter caused great mortality among
them and there was very little quail shoot-
ing in the scotion of the State last fall.
Therefore this winter there are not many
birds in the woods and fields, and the ma
jority of them have probably died from
starvation.
Protection im Drought.
To guard against a scarcity of water for
its locomotives, during times of droughs,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
completed plans to build a pipe line paral-
lel to its tracks from Pittsburg to Harris-
burg, 249 miles, and in this way provide
an ample supply at various points along
the road.
These plans were adopted as a result
of the great damage caused to the locomo-
tives during the recent drought, when
nearly all the big engines on the system
were crippled through using impure
water.
The traffic over the line is too heavy to
permis of any interference from this cause,
and the company purposes to spend several
million dollars building the pipe line and
erecting reservoirs.
The line wiil be laid gradnally, a nom-
her of miles each year, until it is comples-
ed, and as it goes along, water companies,
ope being formed in each town, with Penn-
sylvania railroad capital, will tap the
main. Some of the towns may purchase
water from the railroad company, which,
in time, would pay for the improvement.
This is a part of the general plan of im-
provement of the P. R. R. Co., and after
the pipe line is laid between Pittsburg and
Harrisburg, the same thing will be done
all along the company’s main line, at least
from Pittsburg to New York. A pipe line
of this character will prevent any further
embarrassment ip time of dronght and the
company will be able to make considerable
money throngh the sale of water to the
small towns along the route,
“ ——One of the best things to do before
we criticise others much is to begin an in-
telligent study of ourselves.
Indian Republic in Carolina Mountains.
Not far fioms the magnificent Bilimore
estate of George W. Vanderbilt and in the
shadow of the millionair:’s hunung lodge
on Mount Pisgah, near Asheville, in the
recesses of the mountains, there is a highly
civilized band of Cherokee Indians who
form a nation separate and distinct from
the state government and based upon the
theories of Democracy.
The people who eompose this na‘ion are
fall blooded red men, though far removed
from the savagery of their ancestors. The
scheme of their government, while adher-
ing to many traditions of their tribe, is far
in advance of any existing among other of
she original natives of the soil.
The chief or president of the Republic is
elected by a plurality vote by the qualified
electors of the country. He must be at
leass thirty years old and a native of his
Indian Republic. He holds office for four
years. Should the president be authorized
by his Congress to leave the country on
publio business his compensation is fixed
at four dollars a day aud expenses, includ-
ing railroad mileage.
This president is not only the chief exec-
utive of the pation, but its first citizen
and he isalways regarded as the personal
friend and adviser of his neople in their in-
dividual capacity, and it is frequently the
case that he adjusts disputes and settles
controversies in order to save his subjects
the expenses of litigation.
Ex-President Chaldohih’s daughter, who
was educated in Boston, is said to have
been the most beautiful and popular wom-
an of the nation, and daring his adminis-
tration she was the Dolly Madison of the
little Republic.
PRESIDENT IS A FARMER.
Jesse Reid, the present incumbent, is no
ordinary man. He is giving his small
domain one of the best business adminis-
trations it ever had. President Reid is a
prosperous farmer and stock raiser and he
prefers his beautiful home on the Soco river
to a residence in the capital
The Vice President of the Republic, Stil-
well Sannonkih, isan interesting character.
Daring the war between the states in the
603, the Republic espoused the cause of the
South, and one of the red men, Standing
Wall, rose to the rank of a brigadier.
His command was composed largely of
his own people, and one of his most gal-
lant and most trusted officers was Major
Sannonkih. Since the war the major bas
been noted for his enterprise and he is the
most popular man in the nation.
The legislative branch of the Republic is
vested entirely in one grand council or
House of Representatives and this body is
almost omnipotent. Its members are elected
biennially. They mus be citizens and
freeholders of the Republic. ' twenty-one
years of age, and during the time for which
they are elected they receive one dollar a
day. .
The Speaker of the Indian Congress,who
is elected by that body,has a compensation
of a dollar and a half a day, while the House
is in session.
AN INDIAN MINISTER.
Matters of foreign relations are in the
hands of the House, but usmally the work
is delegated to a Minister. James Blye,
the present incumbent, is a remarkable
man.
There are few Americans whose use of
pure and accurate English excels his. He
is possessed in a high degree of the qual-
ities of statesmanship, and of these the
most marked is his judicial temperament.
These faculties make of him a Minister
whose policies are followed and not pro-
scribed. He goes regularly to Washington
every year to look after the interests of his
people.
He also represents them at Raleigh, the
state capital, when it is necessary for hie
people to transact any business with the
Common wealth.
Spea’ er Joseph Cornsilk, of last year’s
Indian Congress, is a full-blooded Chero-
kee, an able man and a fine presiding of-
ficer. It was through his efforts that the
Indian subjects in the legislative body
adopted the ‘‘Reed rules.”
THE RED MAN’S LAWS.
All real property is primarily vested in
the government, but when an Indian citi-
zen reaches the age of sixteen or a Chero-
kee girl marries a white man the right ac
crues to select a portion of wunappropri-
ated land, and upon application to the
Legislature it is segregated, and the appli:
cant becomes its owner to all intents and
purposes except sale, which is prohibited,
unless the purchaser be native; if the title
is acquired hy intermarriage with a Chero-
kee and she dies the title reverts to the
government, unless she leaves heirs, and
in that case it descends to them.
The Indiaus in this model republic have
never been a polygamous people and some
of their most stringent laws are directed
against plural marriages and deseorations
of the Sabbath. They are, peihaps, the
only citizens living in two separate and
distines republics.
His Liltle Scheme.
A small boy who is not familiar with
rural wayswas taken by his fond mamma for
a brief stay in the country. On a farm in
a neighboring county he waxed fat and
sunburnt, and picked up a wondrous store
of astonishing experiences. One dav the
farmer smilingly said to his mother, ‘‘Just
ask your boy what he hid two eggs in the
stable for.”’
So at the very first opportunity the moth
er said to the six-year-old : ‘'My dear,
what did yon do with those eggs you took
from the hen honse ?”’
“Oh, mamma,’ replied the boy, ‘I didn’t
want you to know ahout it.”’
“Why, it’s all right,”’ said mamma, ‘‘I
only want to know what my boy did with
them.”
‘I hid them in the stable,”’ said the lis:
tle fellow.
‘And what for ?”’
‘1Canse it’s my scheme.”’
‘Your scheme? And what
scheme 2?’
‘‘Why, you see, mamma,’’ said the little
philosopher, ‘‘when eggs is borned in a
chicken-house they is always chickens, an’
I fink if they were borned in a stable dey
might be little horses !”’
It is needless to add that ap to the time
of his leaving the farm the miracle was
still unaccomplished.
is your
‘fhe Horseshoe ‘for Luck.”
Here is an explanation of the old hoise-
shoe superstition : ‘‘St. Dunstan was a
skilled farrier. One day while at work in
his forge the devil entered in disguise and
requested Dunstan to shoe his ‘single
hoof.” Thesaint, although he recognized
his malign customer, acceded, but caused
him so much pain during the operation
thas Satan begged him to desiss. This 8s,
Dunstan did, bat only after he had made
the evil one promise that neither he nor
any of the lesser evil spirits, his servants,
would ever moless the inmates of a house
where the horseshoe was dieplayed.”’
Pennsylvania Grange Items.
CONFERENCE OF STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.
On the 16th avd 17th of Jan. the Mas-
ter, Seoretary and Lecturer, the members
of the Executive and Legislative Commit-
tees of the Penna. State Grange held a con-
ference at Harrishuig. Every phase of
grange work was considered. The prosper-
ous condition of the order in the State in-
spired all with enthusiasm and a determi-
nation to work for still better results. I$
was again agreed to offer baoners as prizes
to the five granges making the greatest
gain during the year. 2
The Executive Committee concluded
contracts with a number of new business
houses. The Legislative Committee re-
ported progress on the bills in the lines in
which candidates were interrogated hefore
election. In support of these measures
there will be co certed action all along the
line. ‘Every Subordinate and every Pomona
grange is urged to bave legislative commit-
tees to co-operate with the State committee.
The complaints of bossism are heard on
every hand. There is no doubt entirely
too much just cause for this. - But even
the hoss is amenable to the will of the peo-
ple. These need only organization and
edacation to make them trample under
foot the dictator and the corruptionisst.
The grange is gathering in the farmers and
uniting them as one man in defence and
advocacy of the rights of their class. We are
asking for legislation only that which will
benefit the farmers and work injury to no
legitimate business. If we do not ge it
the thousands of our membership will ask
the reason why.
Grange fire insuiance has proven very
profitable and is becoming quite popular.
Two pew companies were organized in the
State last year. One in Butler Co., and
one in Chester and Delaware counties.
There are now eleven companies in the
State thas insure only the property of
members of the order. Their risks aggre-
gate not far from $30,000,000 00. Some of
these companies have been doing business
for a quarter of a century or more. The
cost to the individual bas been less than
one-half of what cash companies charge for
the same service.
It is urged against Direct Legislation
thas, in this country, the purchasable vote
holds the balance of power. If this is so
and there is no remedy, it does not require
a prophet to forsee the future of the Re-
public. If it is so, and we do not believe
it, it must not necessarily remain so. The
honest, intelligent people are large in the
majority. They simply need to get closer
together. This the farmers are doing
through the grange. A man with evil in-
tent in his heart and graft in his pocket
would be woefully out of place in a grange
meeting.
GROUT LAW CONVENTION.
It is many a day since a stronger demon-
stration was made in a mass meeting on
proposed legislation than was made in
Harrisburg, January 16th, against the re-
peal of the Grout law. Addresses were de-
livered by Governor Pennypacker and U.
S. Senators Penrose and Knox.
Fally 250 farmers had come from all
parts of the State at their own expense. It
developed that at least three-fourths of
them were members of the grange. In
this great organization farmers are led to
shink for themselves. They keep posted
on current events and are ready to act
promptly when their interests demand it.
There is little doubt that the oleo people
have given up the fight for the present ses-
sion of Congress. There is no more doubt
that they will be at it again in the future.
Does any one doubt that if the granges
of the land were all to disband, the oleo
combine would soon wipe the Grout law
off the statute books, and with it all profits
ont of the dairy business. With even half
of the farmers in the grange their efforts
would be hlocked for all time.
Fellow farmer, do not these facts appeal
strongly to you to join the grange and
belp ?
GRANGE BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS.
The State Grange has made trade arrange-
ments with various business houses in dif-
ferent parts of the State where members of |
the grange can purchase almost anything
they want ip the house or on the farm at
reduced prices. Those who wish to avail
themselves of the opportunity thus offered
can save a snug sum on their purchases in
the line of groceries, hardware,implements,
fertilizers, binder twine, dry goods, shoes,
notions, clothing, ete. Members are vot
required to deal with these houses. While
we can, in most cases, effect a considerable
saving on our purchases, yet we donot by
any means claim this feature to he the prin-
ciple object of the Grange. This branch of
the work, however, is well worthy of a full
and careful consideration by our member-
ship when wishing to make purchases
Michigan has 719 granges and 44013
members. There are 400 giange hall~ in
that state owned by the grange. One
county alone has 24. Kansas added 6000 to
her membership in 1904.
One grange in Maine has 800 members.
And yes there are some people who say
thas the grange is diying out.
Two years ago many patrons and others
as well had the pleasure of hearing brother
A. E Moise, of Maine. If several Pomona
granges will airange meetings and give
brother Morse an invitation he will attend
them with hut little oc: st to any one. There
is enough possible pleasure and profit in
this to prompt the hope that action will be
taken.
The State Grange endorsed the series
picnic idea. So another series will he held
during the coming summer. The Exeon-
tive Committee has placed the whole mas.
ter in the hands of our Worthy Master W.
F. Hill. He will begin work eaily so that
all details may receive careinl attention.
These picnics have done good during the
past two years. They can do mueh more
good and will do it if a few essentials of a
snceessful picnic are ohserved. The coun-
ties that want to he inoluded should rend
their application to Brother Hill as soon as
possible, His address is Chambersburg,
Penna
Roycroft Receipts.
Receipe for having fii ends :
Be one.
Recerpe for educating your ohildren :
Edacare yourself.
Reoipe for securing love :
Love.
Recipe for perpetoal ignorance :
Be satisfied with yonr opinions and con-
tented wish your attainments. — Suggestion.
—— Subserile for the WATCHMAN,