How Joan Took the Country : : § i ge HH he il : : | hil i i g | : i E § f li g Ei hit Eikgee il iy} ih fit Ed gil : 2 8 g I i gl E g Efe l il x pi “Geed-ap!”’ reiterated r roused to effort by this insinuation and smartly slapping the reins across the steed’s ample back. “He doesn’t ‘geed-ap’ very fast” commented Joan. “Do you earn your own living, too?’ asked the old man, turning to her quickly. “I hope to,” she replied modestly. “I take pictures. I expect to take your whole country.” “I hope it brings you more than writ- ing poetry,” he said, with a glance at Lucile. “The Hedgeton Gazette only pays for it in subscriptions and trade.” Joan gave an ecstatic laugh. “But Lucile writes for big maga- zines. She is paid by the word.” “You don't tell me! She must be awful rich.” “But sometimes I sit for hours and can’t think of a word,” confessed Lu- clle. “Words are plenty enough,” he de- clared scornfully. “You can get them out of a dictionary.” “I never thought of that” she re- plied naively. At nearly every farmhouse en route Mr. Bates ‘“whoaed” to deliver pur- chases. Now it was the farmer's wife who came out to the wagon and again it was a bashful boy or a giggling girl. In every Instance Joan's camera was active, The last commission was not deliv- FTE17ED E10REaTRIR REE FA sll HR HHO pil lpi © I il ies | scious of a slight motion of the house, accompanied by a most peculiar sound. She awoke Lucile, who sat up to 2 8 i g 2 g y 2 A Mhttht Eipatpineg Poe! coed ri jill | Lt sie! to the table, which was covered with photographs of all styles and sizes, snapshots of the country folks In and about Hedgeton caught in unpremedi- tated poses—Parmer Lange booking np the team, Mrs. Lapps feading chickens, Bessie Graves churning, Jed Strack- hom milking, the little Blatchfords go- ing blackberrying, Lane's Carlo bring- ing home the cows, etc. No one was overlooked. Also there were pictures of home, barns, cattle, the church, the cemetery, schoolhouse, sawmill and many old landmarks, all on sale, not to mention pictures of the Locke girls. The news spread, and every newcom- tures long denied them by coy damsels, At the close of the evening her hand bag was well filled with coin. “This,” she sald, extending the mon- ey to Mrs. Bates, “is my contribution toward the Locke estate.” As she suspected, she was besleged for many days by people from miles city, “that the country and I are now on intimate terms, and with the sale of pictures and proceeds of the dance, not to mention contributions from the neighbors, I can see at least two years of prosperity far the Locke girls.” FOUR DROWNED AT ATLANTIC Father Goes Down With Daughter He Tried to Save. surf claimed four victims within on» hour. All met death under sensational circumstances. A father lost his life in a vain at tempt to save his drowning daughter; a young man drowned after a friend nearly lost his life in a heroic en- deavor to rescue him, and a middle aged visitor was fatally stricken with fiemorrhage while bathing. The dead are: Robert L. Thomae, 49 years old, of Camden. Miss Helep D. Thomae, 13 years old, of Camden. C. W. Sharpless, 28 years old, of Jenkintown, Pa. Walter N. Whitlock, 57 years oid, of 205 East Grace street, Richmond, Va The drowning of the Thomaes is at- tributed to the negligence or coward ice of lifeguards. Helen Thomae was wading in the water, when she was caught in the strong undertow and swept beyond her depth. She called on her father for help and he dashed through the surf, but before he could reach her the current had carried her bevond his depth. For fully 70 min utes he battled in the waves, when old Captain Clark, a life saver, came up, but made no effort to enter the water. Another life guard attempted to reach the struggling father and daughter, but did not succeed. Visitors then launched the life boat and secured the body of Mr. Thomae. A half hour later the girl's body floated ashore. FOU RTEEN CONST ABULARY SLAIN Pulajanes Rout Philippine Police With Heavy Loss. Manila, July 24—A detachment of constabulary, Lieutenant Williams commanding, encountered a band of 60¢ Pulajanes, near Buraen, on the Island of Leyte. Lieutenant Worswick, 12 pri. vates, and McBride, a civilian scout, were Killed. The constabulary were driven back The Puinjanes secured 14 rifles and wick, McBride and 10 privates were re- station. Major Nevill, commanding the mili tary, has ordered a company of 24th regulary infantry to be hurried to the scene. Major Nevill reports that thers are from 400 to 1600 Pulajanes in the field. Atlantic City, N. J., July 23.—The two revolvers. The bodies of Wors: | envercd. Reinforcements of constabu- lary have been sent from the nearest PICTURE ON A HILL. | The Long Man of Wilmington, Eng- land, Measures 240 Feet. About midway between Berwick and Polegate stations, at a point where the side of the hill is very precipitous, those who know exactly able to 87833 ial : Ihe iit i! : ; : £8 + I | i i k | iit Hin leh : E Litiesl : ¥ i : 2 : il I 1 : i . 7 : £ feet in height, in the turf so as to appear through. In time these depressions In became almost impercepti- 5 i i 51 FFEE £3 g3 § : that at last it was only possible to make out the form at a dis- tance when the slight hollows were marked by drifted snow or when the oblique rays of the rising or setting sun threw them into a deep shadow. In or- der to preserve the form of the Long Man, and to render it at the same time easily distinguishable at a distance the outline i TH g } i g 38752 i i § ¥ E g g if 7 : is a local saying in Sussex, bly of great antiquity, in which the Long Man is mentioned in refer- ence to the weather. It runs: When Firlie hill and Long Man has a cap We at A'ston gets a drap. ~London Standard. Football In Burma. “Chinlon,” the Burmese form of foot- ball, is the national game. The name means “round basket,” writes Mr. Kel- Iy in his book on Burma, and the chin- lon is really a ball about six inches in diameter formed of plaited rattans. The game is played by several youths or men, who stand in a circle a few feet apart. The ball having been thrown into play, the one nearest to whom it falls kicks it up into the air with the instep, knee or side of the foot. The effort is to keep it in the air as long as possible and without losing possession of the ball. A fancy stroke is to turn about face as the ball falls and kick it with the sole of the foot, although the elbows, head or any part of the body except hand and toes may be used. While playing no one leaves his place, but waits until the ball falls within his reach, when he in turn endeavors to retain its possession. It is a very pretty game to watch, and the skill of the performers is often surprising. The Smallest Screws. | The smallest screws ever made are | used in the manufacture of the minia- | ture watches which are sometimes fit- : ted in rings, shirt studs, bracelets, ete. | They are the next thing to being in- | visible to the naked eye, looking like minute grains of sand. With a good glass, however, it may be plainly seen that each is a perfect screw, having a ! number of threads equal to 1,260 to the | inch. These tiny screws are four one- thousandths of an inch in diameter and seven one-thousandths of an inch in length. It is estimated that a lady's | thimble of average size would hold | 100,000 of them. No attempt is ever made to count these “tiny triumphs of mechanical Ingenuity” other than to get a basis for estimation. The method usually pursued in determining their number is to carefully count 100 and then place them on a delicate balance, the number of a given amount being ; determined by the weight of these. i { } Cars For Man and Beast. 1 From Salzburg you go to Munich. . While traveling through the mountains . of Bavaria you drop suddenly from the , sublime to the ridiculous by catching . a glimpse of a car bearing a label of * which this :s the translation: © “For thirty-two men or six horses.” {On inguiry you learn that the Bava. rian railroads run fourth class cars, on ; which the very poor may travel for a trifle or which may be used at the op- tion of the railroad to transport equine freight. Later you have an opportu- nity to inspect some of these fourth class ears, and you find them to be similar to our own freight cars, al though much smaller. Plain wooden * benches form the seats, which may be removed to accommodate the live stock. + Most of the European freight cars and many of the passenver cars have only four wheels and look like toy affairs compared to our own.—Chicago Post. such an extent was the fig- | in his letter of acceptance, asserts in grafters, and insists that the higher should be his punishment. The first order, by compelling the corporations his letter is as follows: Linccln State Convention. | Hon. John T. Lenahan, Chairman, : Democratic State Convention. Dear Sirs:— Your letters of July 17, 1906, were received. I accept the nomination for the high office of governor, from the Lincoln and Democratic parties of Pennsylvania. Aside from its opportunities to serve the public, the position in itself has for me no attractions. The prospect is bright that the united effort of patriotic men may now shake off permanently the debasing thraldom that has hampered and dis- graced the commonwealth. The gravity of the obligations to be assumed and the consciousness of my own limitations, would forbid my vol- untarily becoming a candidate, but the crisis that has produced the fusion of your parties, and the extraordinary submersion of party feeling, raise the proposition above personal considera- tions. It is at this time the duty of every faithful citizen to respond to ell”calls for service. The tender or acceptance of the nomination for governor commits no one to any national policy. There ought to be no difference of opinion among good citizens as to the vital issues involved in this year's contest in Pennsylvania. Our model constitution has been treated with contempt; our laws have been defied, public property and office have been used as personal and party spoil, and the government has been ad- ministered as an incident to the ‘schemes of corrupt politicians in con. spiracy with the manipulators of pre- datory wealth. This has been possible because the voters, the overwhelming majority of whom are honest and patriotic, have in the past been deluded by party cries of no significance in regard to state or local matters. The Lincoln and Democratic party conventions have carefully excluded from their platforms, as I understand them, all possible inference that our joint action this fall can be construed as an endorsement of or pledge to any of the leaders or theories which may come before us in the national arena. The united efforts for purer politi cal purposes and practices, for civil and commercial equality and for im- partial enforcing of law, regardless of the numbers, wealth or intrigue of the violators, is in accord with the teach- ings of the nation’s most illustrious leaders, and is of the same patriotic sentiment that has led the best men to disregard party lines in support of righteous measures in federal adminis- tration. The same bosses who dictated the nominations opposed to yours, exer- cised absolute control of the lesisla- ture of 1905, and compelled their ser- vile tools to insult the president of the United States by rescinding the resolution approving his efforts toward bringing the defiant corporations with- in the limits of just laws. We will not be deceived by hypocritical professions contradicted by words and acts when they were arrogant in their supposed invincible power. The same self-perpetuating oligarchy that, as the result of last year's defeat and in fear of this year's further pun- ishment, allowed to be placed on the by the people, but by the machine bosses heretofore contemptuously re- fused, now scheme to regain control form of their own foul record and promising future impossibly gnod be- haviour. Their discomfiture in the preliminary skirmish of last November brought them to their knees. Their complete rout in the impend- ing battle will force them to uncondi- gn7ern themselves uncheated and un- bossed. Variant views may be held as to economic theories and federal policies; out all true men may and ought to filled with consuming ardor for EI || statute books just laws long demanded by denunciation in an insincere plat- | - The Fusion Candidate Accepts the Nomination. A RINGING DECLARATION Lewis Emery, Jr. the Lincoln and Democratic candidate for governor, his own incisive manner the well nigh forgotton principle that the people are the rulers and officeholders only ser vants. He demands places of trust for honest men and prison stripes for the position of the offender the greater duty of the citizen is to free the com- monwealth. Instead of submitting to a system under which corporations make the laws the McKean county candidate demands a reversal of this to obey just laws. The full text of the grasp of her spoilers. To this righteous crusade I pledge | all my power. In this crisis we must bz more and better than Republicans and Demo- crats. We must be champions of the glor- fous czuse of re-establishing constitu- tional representative free government, Indifference to civic duty has for 40 years kept the state in bondage to an unholy alliance of political corruption and corporate greed. The militant spirit of crusaders is needed. Theodore Roosevelt, the incarnation of moral back-bone, leads the way. | The example of such stalwart official integrity as that of Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, and Mayor Guthrie, of Pittsburg, is an inspiration. Animated | by the same lofty semse of patriotic | duty, the people of Pennsylvania should wrest the state from control of the men who have despoiled and dis- graced her. So long as lawless corpo- ' rations control political organizations, and so long as these organizations are composed of men banded together for illicit purposes. popular government is a mockery and honest administration is impossible. { We do not aim to destroy, but to regulate and make it impossible for the corporations to do wrong. The first step is to break the political machin- ery by means of which the wrong is accomplished. Instead of submitting i to a system under which the corpora- ; tions make the iaws, we should see to ! it that the corporations obey laws just- | ly conceived and fairly drawn so that | neither the interests of the public nor i the rights of the corporations shall be endangered. The first duty of the citizen is to free the commonwealth, Legislative re- forms will follow as a logical sequence. While the chief executive is powerless to do more than recommend needed | legislation, and interpose his veto be- tween the people and legislative wrong, it 1s essential that he be in hearty sym- pathy with reform and in no wise obli- | gated to or associated with men whose interests would be subserved by per. petuation of existing conditions. The realization of genuine reforms depends upon the election of a legis- lature which will work in harmony with the executive branch of the gov- ernment. Our election laws must be so amend- ed as to eliminate the party square on the ballot, restrict the giving of as- | sistance to voters except in cases of physical disability, and checkmate fraud by providing for a recount of the ballots when the ends of justice demand. The enactment of adequate penal laws, and their rigid enforcement, as a means of correcting the evils which have grown up under the regime of the corrupt machine are imperatively demanded. Imprisonment for offences against the public is more essential than the infliction of punishment for | crimes against the person. The re. | sponsible heads of corporations should be amenable to penal law for granting unfair rebates, for discriminating among shippers and for other trans- gressions against the public. We de- mand government by enlightened pub- lic opinion in place of government by bosses and corporations. We de- mand a state government in whic’ those in power shall remember that their authority is delegated by the people. The people are the masters, the office holders are the servants. There should be no place outside a prison for a venal official. Compared with him who uses his political power : for dishonest ends, the common thief ‘is almost a respectable citizen. The rule should be—Places of trust for honest men, prison stripes for graft. ers. The higher the position of the of- fender the greater the need of pun- ishing him. The certaisty that im- prisonment would follow the co-rupt use of power would purge the state of degrading practices. It is especially incumbent upon Pennsylvania to take vigorous action along these lines. This state was the pioneer in the anti-discrimination movement. it was my privilege more than a quarier of a century ago {o assist in wringing from the political powers at Harrisburg an anti-discrimi- nation law. The fight was long, hard ! - » — ow and bitter.. The people of the oil 3 cions were being reduced to end their property was being confis- cated by a conspiracy between ftandard Oil company, the Pennsyl- : | clause destroyed its effect, and the re- | lations existing between the pelitical | machine and the corporations nulli- | fied the law in a great degree. ! To Pennsylvania belongs also the credit for having taken the first step toward the enactment of the inter state commerce law. The idea was born out of the travail of the people who were oppressed by the corpora- tions and robbed by the companies. I had the honor, in 1872, to be a member of a committee to car- , ry to Washington the draft of the bill upon which, 13 years later, the inter- state commerce law was modeled. It i= worthy of note that the same influences which killed the penal | clause of the Pennsylvania anti-dis- ! erimination bill, also caused the penal clause to be stricken from the inter- state commerce act. ! For 34 years, therefore, have I, and i Hon. Vivian Frank Gable, Chairman, | redemption of the commonwealth from | Others who are associated with us, | fonght along the same lines upon which President Roosevelt has taken | his stand. Pennsylvanians were first | to feel the crushing effects of rebates and discriminations. Pennsylvanians were early victims of the Standard Oil company, whose methods, gradually extending throughout the country, have borne fruitage in the creation of the many trusts which oppress the public. But Pennsylvanians, the | shackles will, next fall, be stricken from the state, and the message car- ried to President Roosevelt that we have struck a mighty blow to aid him in his warfare for pure politics, for the rights of the public and for the cause of good government. In this fight of the people it is note- worthy that among our leaders are found no grafters, none with necks scarred by collar of boss, no franchise grabber, no political contract manipu- lator, none whose names are associat- | ed with political pollution or public infamy. The horde of ballot-box stuf- fers, macers, camp followers of the army of pillage, are against us to a man. This fact cannot fail to have a powerful moral effect upon the intel ligent citizens of the commonwealth, Of equal significance is the fact that against us, and our most active foe, is the corporation which more than any other has amassed colossal fortunes by means of special privileges granted at the cost, and in violation of the rights, of the people of this state, and by means of advantages seized and en- joyed in defiance of both the moral and the statute law. As a means of carrying into effect the principles of good government, ad- ditional legislation ic needed along the lines of the merit system in the public service, revision of the revenue laws with a view to equalizing taxation, granting to electric railroads the right to carry freight and express, effective ! pure food laws, prohibition of the own- ing by railroads of the products they transport, fixing a maximum rate of two cents per mile for passenger traf- fic, the abolition of the system of ex- tortion practiced in exacting 50 per | cent. excess of the regular rate in the | sale of mileage books, and other meas- ures needed to secure to the public a just share of the benefits of progress and the blessings of prosperity. The closer we get to the people in matters of legislation, the more se- ' curely do we safeguard the state against abuses, and the more nearly do we approximate to an ideal repub- lie. The principles cf the referendum af- ford a practical means for ascertain. | ing the popular will concerning ques- | tions of special interest to the public. A reference to the people of such mat. | ters as the election of United States | senators, local option, the extraordi- ' nary exercise of the police power of the state and other questions of simi- lar general character, would resoive legislators, and remove important is- sues from the sphere of pernicious in- fluences. The triumph of our cause will save Pennsylvania from ever again suffer- ing the humiliation of the taunt that men known to be guilty of robbing the public cannot be punished. In accepting the standard you have | committed to me, I dedicate to the cause of the people whatever talent and energy I possess. Thirty or more years of my life I bave spent in battling for civil rights and for the dignity and honor of state. If I can bequeath a heritage duty faithfully performed, if I strengthen the faith of the ng - eration in the honesty and trustworthi- ness of public servants, if I can help to demonstrate that government by the people is not impossible, if I can leave to the state the record of a clean ad- ministration, characterized by high ambition to safeguard popular rights and interests, my life will be crowned as J wish if fo be crowned. It will give me pleasure to meet you of tions. [I suggest Tuesday, the 28th day of August, and the city of Pittsburg, as a time and place that may be con- venient for the meeting which you pro- | pose; when the issues before the people | of Pennsylvania and our opportunities, duties and responsibilities in regard thereto may be discussed. : With great respect and appreciation, am Sincerely yours, doubts which unsettle the judgment of and the committees of your conven- TR BS RR
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