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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-
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accompanied by a most peculiar sound.
She awoke Lucile, who sat up to
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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
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marked by drifted snow or when the
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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.
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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
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by denunciation in an insincere plat- |
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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
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and bitter.. The people of the oil
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cions were being reduced to
end their property was being confis-
cated by a conspiracy between
ftandard Oil company, the Pennsyl-
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| 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
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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
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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-
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