Demorralis, atc
Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1906.
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OVER THE HILLS,
Over the hills and far away
A little boy steals from his morning's play,
And under the blossoming apple tree
He lies and he dreams of tae things to be;
Of battles fought and of victories won,
Of wrongs o'erthrown and of great deeds done—
Of the valor that he shall prove some day,
Over the hills and far away—
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away
It's oh, for the toil of the livelong day!
But it mattered not to the soul aflame
With a love for riches and power and fame !
On, ok, man! while the san is high—
On to the certain joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon of day!
Over the hills and far away—
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away
An old man lingers at close of day ;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won—
The old time honesty and truth,
. The truthfulness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother—where are they?
Over the hills and far away—
Over the hills and far away !
By Eugene Field,
THE MASTER HAND.
It was four o'clock. School was out and
the sunshine had gone. Klaus came into
the sober front lor, his round cheeks
red with the cold, and lit the candles for
his practice hour. Wonderful the candles
were to Klaus, for father and mother
bad brought the silver candlesticks from
Germany in that dim pn before the dawn
of things, when little Klaus was not.
Time was, a year ago, when Klaus bad
hated his fiddle to the very pegs. But it
had bappened late one afternoon, when
Klaus was watching the strange, slow
boats on the Saal, that he bad heard
somebody playing in an upper room near
by, playing so sol that Klaus bad to
creep into the alley to hear. From there
he could catch a glimpse through a win-
dow, of a white, powerful band Sweeping
in soft, sure curves, a motion that seem
pars of the sound itself.
Of a sudden the hand quivered like a
bird hovering, and a great shower of notes
came fluttering down into the alley. That
was ‘‘bouncing-bow,’’ the impossible feat
to Klaus, whose bow drew so slantingly
over the strings or became so cramped in
bis fingers.
Then there was a moment's pause, and
Klaus was turning to go home when a
wonderful melody rang out in the twilight.
It was so real, so lovely and fall of a gen-
tleness all new to Klaus, that he stopped,
trembling. Poor little Klaus ! he listened
and listened, wondering at first, then for-
getting even to wonder, so tender of heart
was he.
Long after the music had ceased, Klaus
stood there in the narrow place against the
wall. When he came out, the canal lay
like smooth gold between straight banks,
and the very air was ‘filled with golden
motes out of the setting sun. The Old City
Hospital looked like a castle against the
light ; and down the caval a few blooks
away a boat floated upon the gold, so still,
80 strange, it seemed to Klans as though
it, too, cou!d think and listen even as he
went bome scarcely knowing when he
turned the corner.
When we have lived in this wooderfol
world awhile we find that to each of us
comes an hour like the hour of sunrise.
Such to Klans—though he did not know it
—was that evening hour when he listened
against the wall. He did not know why
he began to practice more carefully, or
why he slipped away from other boys, to
listen to the string quartette that rebears-
ed on Saturdays 1 his father’s room.
Bat his father, who played the 'cello so
many years to give Klaus bread and buster
—the wisé father saw aud understood ; and
because he was wise he said nothiog, until
one day he came in and caaght Klans play-
ing very sweetly and clearly on his fiddle.
Then be took him by the band and led
him over to the great professor at the Mu-
sic College, who received him without a
word into his class. And it became Klaus's
one ambition to hear the old professor say
thougbtlully and slowly, when the lesson
was finished : ‘‘Good ! good ! Now do bet-
ter nexs time.
But the praises were few and tke frowns
came almost every day. So it was that on
this winter afternoon Klans came in haste
to light the fire ard the candles. He set
his fiddle against his knee and pulled its
little black ears to pus is in tune. Then he
began to w-exercises before a
mirror, carefully and with tbat patience
which is given jnet to certain years of our
life. The Herr Professor bad called him
‘‘stupid, stopid !"’ and the cold boyish
fingers trembled on the finger-board re-
membering it. ‘‘Practice is to think,’’ he
bad added with wise uplifted fioger—‘‘to
think, so fine, so clear ! Lessons do noth-
ing—only that.”’ And eo Klaus set his
face bard toward the task.
Presently he was roused by some one
brushing along the narrow hall, and iwo
of the orchestra men pushed slowly in,
| ou the ice,”’ said one. “It's
Klaus seemed to be dreaming. His father
sank into the big chair, while one of the
wen carried the 'cello over to the corner,
setting it down in silence. As be did so
the father looked up and made a gesture
BE te aE Sh
would nos again— er, wi
had played always ?
It was a busy evening. Grandmother
brought down the liniment which she had
made herself, so mach better than the doo-
tor’s ; mother with pale, set face ran has-
tily up and down the stair. But upon the
subject of the 'cello they kept silence. It
stood in ita corner, its polished scroll ourv-
ing nobly, its graceful , of which fath-
er was so , glimmering with elusive
lights shadows. Klaus paseed its cor-
ner hy with averted face and swelling
tears. :
That night Klavs found his mother sit-
sing pale and wearied-looking by the kitoh-
en fire.
““You are tired,” he said ; ‘you must
rest now a little.”
“Oh, Klaus, what shall we do? She
suddenly, dropping her hands
Token upon her lap. * Te little
moliey now.
“Oh, don’t mother,” he said as she bent
her head and hid her face from him.
"Da a] bel said again §
‘Iw you, sal ua
new voice. And his mother rose and laid
her head against his shoulder as if he bad
pi a man. Then they went up-stairs to-
er. .
Next morning Klaus went stampiog
down the street, blowing his fingers for the
cold. He found his way to the office of
the baodmaster.
*“What can you play ?’’ he asked, look-
ing doubtfully at Klaus’s red face.
“I can play—anything !
he could—that y
once,” and Klaus’s face
smile. “Well,” said
slowly. ‘‘Perhaps—Could you play the | y
cymbals ?’
“Oh, yes !"’
“Then come this afternoon at two.
There is a funeral.”’
Sarely never beat so happy a heart ata
funeral as that of Klaos as he marched
along the street behind the glittering bass-
horn. Klaus played with a will, striking
the cymbals past each other with the same
free movement that men had used before
him in old pt, before the days of Chuist.
The powerful sound of them seemed to sur-
ro him and to shiver through his very
veins. Bus every few moments the edge
of the disks in his unskilled bands came
striking sharply against his wrists, so that
bled from the cuts.
t night Klans drop) two shining
siiver thalers into his mother’s apron.
Bat the reckoning came on the morrow
when Klaus must go to his lesson, for the
cuts on his wrists grew stiff and sore in the
night, and bis bands were swollen.
‘‘Never mind the bow-exercise today.
We will take first the efude,’’ said the pro-
fessor, as he toned Klaos's violin to save
time.
Klaus began—
““‘Sawristi! The bow is slanted,” cried
the Herr Professor, striking Klaus’s stick
off the strings, in a temper. ‘‘So, again !"’
And Klaus began again at the beginning,
only to play worse than ever.
“It’s my bands,” he said, with a listle
le io his throat.
“Not the hands merely but a stupid
carelessness,’’ returned the Herr Professor,
striding scornfally up the varrow room.
“‘No, truly it the hands,” pleaded
Klaus. “I cut them yesterday on the cym-
bals.””
“‘On the cymbals !"’ the master,
ng direotly before Klaus. ‘‘Dread-
ful, dreadful! Pat up the fiddle,” he
continued, sternly, and Klaus obeyed in
trembling haste. He bad koown pupils
who were sent home from the lesson, but
it had never ha to him before. As
he opened the door the master called to
him :
**I will come soon to thy house. I will
see thy father.” But Klaus paid no heed
to further disgrace or rebuke. He turned
for hiding into a vacant room. The tears
were mastering him, and he was far too
miserable to take up at once the thread of
his childish day.
Presently he beard the master’s heavy,
emphatic step go down the ball and away.
Klaus longed to run after him to beg for
just five minutes—for a single moment,
even—of trial. Bat the iookaps died in.
to silence while he hesitated. Then Klaus,
tenacious little German that he was, crept
back into the master’s room, determined
to wait for his return and beg his lesson
once more.
The Herr Professor had no thought of re-
turning, but went briskly along the bank
of che canal and up the crowded ways. As
Klaus’s door-step he stood quite still, rub-
bing the back of his head, and sayiog be-
tween his teeth, '* Blockhead ! Fool 1
What am Idoing?'’ Then he turned away.
At the corner he met the horn-player who
bad helped to bring Klans’s father to his
home.
“Are vou woi to Herr Kunckle's?"
be demanded. ‘*What can you say to him ?
What can you say to that poor fellow ? He
has broken his left wrist. Why, man, he
will never play again! Do you under-
stand ?"
‘Yes, said the hoin-player, moving
his hig feet nneasily, as if he bad heen
caoght in mischief. ‘But one must say
something. Youn wooldn’t—"'
“Say something! Ach Himmel! That
is a worse stapidity than mine. Rut go—
go! Perbaps mou noderstand to comfort.
Never to play—and such a tone—such
good, wholesome playing | Ach Himmel !"'
and with a great gesture the Herr Professor
strode hack to the Masic College.
Klaus had crept back into the master’s
alcove, musty with old German bhooke and
music He was silent as the master came
in. He had no wish to spy, but how could
he speak when the master was striding up
avd down ? Klaus quite lost his courage
and forget all that had been in his heart to
say. Presently, without warning, the mas-
ter whipped open his double fiddle-case
and from it his precious Guarnerius.
Was Klaus to hear him play, indeed! In
the lesrons, he had given only fragments
in burning tones, runs oli thrillin,
from the fingerboari, or n only aw
or a gesture that showed the heart of
things. Now he was to play ! The violin
trembled and rang under the attack of his
opening obords, and then the clear ‘‘first
melody’ soared forth, rich as the color of
tolips in the sun—the very melody that
had uplifted the heart of Klaus long ago
in the spring twilight, when he bad | -
ed in the alleyway—that bad held hi
flitting now, now coming to him in fal
light. Long hours bad Klaus himself
wrestled with it when he was alone—now
remembering aod again filling in she lost
spaces with his own musical thought, play-
ing, hamming, erying sometimes with ea-
jgeruess dud vexation. Why bad he not
n before? That white hand, that
tone, they al! were his master’s.
Klaus came out of his corner as if he had
been called ; his face had upon it a look of
wisdom and wonder, as of something hid-
den away in the heart that cannot speak.
The master saw him and stopped.
‘Klaus, child, art thon still here?
What is it with thee? Wilt thou play ?"’
for Klaus's eyes were fixed upon the violin.
*“Yes—oh, let me try,” said Rau,
breathlessly, quite forgetting the inj
3.
He tucked the precious Guoaruesius un-
der his chin. His bow wondered a little,
for he could not master the chords ; then
from him also floated the marvelous melo-
dy. The boy's tone was different from his
Major's very orude at Sue, but ever
again struggling out ts bands into
glorious Doiruge) ng individuality. It was
the heart of Klaus, and none ,
Herr Professor bad sometimes seen its faint
premely. The melody came to a ol
and Klaus went on with his own i
visation, threading his way to the second
melody which remained in his memory.
*“The young rascal !"’ muttered the Herr
He walked to the end of the room, nod-
boy Link rises Bey lpia
or o
of a modulation. As there
the music bod
never so lightly, as if it were
on a flame, giving
a er
oy . us
the master’s presence. It was only when
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The | College and as a forestry school will have
be bad closed the music with fall, slowly |
declining notes that he became shy again, |
and longed to lay hy the violin and ron
away.
Bat the Herr Professor laid his hands on
bis shoulders, looking down into bis face
as Klaus bad neverseen bim look before.
“Klaus, dear child, dear child,” he said
softly, ‘‘voun are to play. Remember. it is
a God-gift to you. Donot imagine is is
ourself.”
He still held him, locking at him, and
Klaus had no words to answer.
Suddenly the Herr Professor's face
brightened. ‘‘Come,’’ he said, ‘‘let us go
to that good father of thine. He shall play
again in hisson. I was an old blockhead
before.”
Klaus watched him, wondering, as he
bundled himself again into his greatcoat
with its broad far collar. Then the mas.
ter took Klaus by the hand and they went
out .
e who them on the street
wondered where the great musician had
found the shy, rosy cheeked boy, and why
he smiled so lovingly upon him, as il he
were his own.—By Caroline Dale Parke in
8t. Nicholas.
A Monster Shark Captured
Sharks often attain a very large size
along the Pacific enast, especially off the
shores of Southern California. Very re-
cently, a monster shark was captored by
two Italian fishermen in San Pedro hay,
that isclaimed to be the largest fish of that
kind ever caught in the world. Berond
doubt it is certainly one of the largest ever
captured anywhere.
hen drawn oat of the water and killed,
this sea monster weighed 14,000 poonds,
It measured from tip to tip 32 feer. aud
the circumference of the body joss forward
of the bugedorsal fin was 15 feet. Across
the fearful mouth—horizontally—when
opened it was 2} leet, while from the tip
of the snout to the point of the lower jaw
it measured 3} feet. The size of the hage
mouth may be jndged by the photograph
being e enough for two children to he
comfortable seated therein.
The shark became hopelessly enmeshed
in some 1,500 feet of the fishermen’s net.
The net he speedily tore into strips, but in
the giant creature’s efforts to escape, the
strings and were wound many times
around its gills, and the shark was held a
fast prisoner. Despite its long and frantic
st les for freedom, the shark was finally
stranded and killed with harpoons. The
struggle lasted for more than av hour. The
monster's stomach was found full of fish.
It was engaged in robbing the net when
it became entangled.
So far as here known, the largest shark
yes caught was 22 feet long—10 feet shorter
than the San Pedro bay monster. In
capturing the latter the two fishermen bad
many narrow escapes from being snapped
up hy the creature. It made a long, savage,
and desperate struggle for ite life. The
shark was skinned and stuffed, and has
been placed on exhibition. Efforts, it is
understood, are being made by the Smith.
sonian Institution to secare this splendid
specimen of the shark family—Seientific
merican.
“The Great Secret.
September 15, 1906.
One of the most remarkable stories writ-
ten in recent times and which will create a
big sensation, will begin in the Philadel-
phia Sunday Press on September 30. “The
Great Secret,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim,
is one of the best stories that has ever heen
published in any newspaper, and as the
anday Press bas «et a standard of excel-
lence in this respect, this new story will he
looked for with great interest.
During the past year the Philadelphia
Sunday Press has printed a great serial
story by Conan Doyle, which was received
with tremendous interest, and ‘‘Sopby of
Kravonia,’”’ by Anthony Hope, also attain-
ed tremendous popularity. Immensesams
of money are paid for these stories, and
they are seeured exclusively for the Phila-
delphia Sunday Press. You cannot read
them in any other way ; they are not pub-
lished in book form. Be sure and get the
Philadelphia Sunday Press on September
30, and begin reading ‘‘The Great Secret.’
The Philadelphia Sunday Press is also
filled full of very interesting features and
the tremendous gains made by it are the
result of its excellence in every depars-
ment. Tell your newsdealer to serve the
Philadelphia Sanday Press to your home.
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The Search for Diamonds.
Never before in the history of the United
States has there been soch a demand for
diamonds as there was in 1905.
quantities were imported, bus the country
produced none. In 1903 it produced dia-
monds to the value of $50, in 1901 it had
an output worth $100, in 1900 ite produc-
tion was valued at $150, and i n 1899 the
country boasted native diamonds to the
value of $300. Diamonds have been dis-
covered in the United States in four dil-
ferent regions, bus their actual place of
origin is in every case unknown. All have
been found in loose and superficial deposits,
and all accidentally. It is not at all im-
probable, however, that some day ths sii-
ial #ources of this queen of gems may be
iscovered.
The high price of diamonds has made the
recent search for these precious stones in
United States and Canada keener than ever
before. A careful watch for diamonds was
kept during the examination the
and platinom sands at Lewis and Clark Ex-
position in Portland, Ore. A lookout for
diamonds has also been kept by a number
of people who have heen d ng for
on an extensive scale in the rivers of Cali-
fornia. In neither case have any finds been
reported.
Forestry in England.
A very interesting forestry school has
been established in the midst of the Chop-
well woods in the county of Durbam, Eog-
land. These woods, while only contai
about 900 consist of larch, spruce,
Scotch pine, oak, ash and many other va-
rieties, all of which were planted about 50
years ago.
The school will be attached to Ar
absolute control over the woods and the stu-
dents will have ample pity to gain
an intimate sawledge the handling of
probleme. It is intended to make
ool the centre of
forestry in-
struction in the United om.
—We bave nothing to lose but our
Shiaiga,” growled the humble member of
8a .
‘You forget the matter of mileage and
the possi of a constructive recess,’
responded a ve, who bad madea
study of American methods.
——-Owner (irately)—Yes, if you badn’s
to take up that girl in your ma-
chine yor would bave won the race. Yon
were beaten by a mile. Chauffeur —Well, |
you know a miss is as good as a mile.
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CREASY AND |
BERRY A TEAM
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When They Hitch Up Together Vast |
Graft of New Capitol Will
Be Revealed. !
When Representative William TT.
Creasy, Democratic nominee for audi
tor general, shall be installed in of
fice, he und State Treasurer Berry will
constitute a team that can be relied
upon to turn on the light fully for the |
purpose of revealing the entire ex:
tent of the colossal buncoing done to
the commonwealth in making the new |
state capitol cost more than twice the |
$4,000,000 for which the law said it
was to be “completed.” Under Mc |
Nichol-Penrose-Martin conditions the
latest report from the auditor general
is for 1504, and from that it appears
that $703,194.29 was spent upon the
capitol in that year. Of this sum $252.
781.83 went to John Sanderson, of
Philadelphia, who has supplied or will
supply nearly everything that can be
properly called movable furniture, as
well as such permanent fixtures as
the carved facings and finishings of
the windows and dcors, and of the
fireplaces and walls.
This Sanderson firm will get the
greater part of the four or five mil
lions of the expenditures over and
above the original appropriation for
the capitol. Another item in the 1004
amount is $435,412.46 paid to the Lan: |
caster county Republican politicians |
forming the Pennsylvania Construc: |
tion company, of Marietta, for the me |
tallic filing cases in the departmental |
roome. About a million dollars is the |
estimated cost of those cases, and it
comes out of the general fund without |
an appropriation having been made
for it. Such is the manner of getting
the payment for everything in or on |
the capitol except the bare walls, |
which took all of the $4,000,000 appro |
priated by the legislature. The public |
buildings and grounds commissioners |
have worked apart and separately
from the eapitol commission, and have
supplied the actual furniture as well |
as the so-called “furnishings” without !
limit, under the claim that the law
allows this to be done as long as an
unappropriated dollar of the ten mil
lion surplus remains in the treasury.
Assuming that the law permitted all |
of the original appropriation to be ex
pended upon a “completed,” but un,
furnished, building, how are the build |
ing and furnishing authorities going tc
justify the taking of millions of the
general fund, without an appropria
tion, for floors, doors, windows, man
tels, wainscotting, chandeliers an
many other permanent fixtures in the
edifice? Each department and bureau |
chief has his room walls covered from |
ceiling to floor with polished mahog:
any, fastened there as firmly and fir
removably as the brick or granite
walls themselves. And yet, all that |
as well as the frescoing and other dec |
orations, is paid for as furnishings
out of the extra millions. “There is
$40,000 worth of gold leaf in this
building,” says Superintendent Shu
maker. The ceiling of the hall of the
house of representatives is a dream
of barbarian splendor in gold, and
that, together with the gorgeous green
and gold of the senate chamber, all
comes under the head of “farnishings’
to be paid for out of the surplus, re
gardless of the wishes of the legisla
ture or the people.
It is a practical certainty that the
real cost of their capitol is already
not much less than $9,000,000, despite
the boast with which campaign capital
was to be made for the Penrose-Mc:
Nichol organization, that the new
state house, at its dedication on Octo:
ber 4, will have been “completed” for
a sum within the $4,000,000 appropria-
tion.
The capitol has thus really cost
more than double what had been ex:
pected by nearly every person in the
state.
The law of 1885 authorized the su-
perintendent of public grounds and
buildings to buy furniture for the two
branches of the iegislature, and every
general appropriation bill since then
has contained a blank apprepriation
of whatever sum was expended for
furniture. By an arrangement between
the capitol commissioners and the
commissioners of public grounds and
buildings the former have been en-
abled to keep within their appropria-
tion because the latter, who had an
unlimited appropriation, expanded the
word “furniture” to cover not only the
bronze chandeliers and the cut glass
shades, which are innumerable and
the least of which cost $300, but the
mahogany window casings, the carved
mahogany mantels and the parquetry
floors. .
These are not furniture; they are a
part of the biulding, and paying for
them as furniture is not only a piece
of jugglery, but it is a violation of the
following proviso attached to the ap-
propriations of 1908 and 1905 for the
purchase of furniture:
“Provided that expenditures
made under this section shall not
be so construed as to authorize
the commissioners of public
grounds and buildings to complete
the present capitol building.”
Fairly construed, the
laws have not given the of pub-
lic grounds and buildings the slightest
authority to expend a dollar for “com-
pleting” the new capitol. In apparent
! 060 appropriation?
DEMOCRATS
jealousy of any interference with the
capitol commission, a recent provision ;
of the law expressly declares that the
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board of public grounds and buildings
“shall make no expenditure to com-
plete the capitol building.” It is ab-
surdly describing essential parts of | on
the new edifice as “furniture” that the | ed in
board has evaded the law, if a flat vio-
lation of this provision can be called
an evasion.
Conceding, however, that upon an
impeachment this board could escape
conviction because of a confusion and
c
uncertainty in the laws, how stands
this transaction in the forum of pub-
lic morals? Who clothed the building
| commission with unlimited power to
expend the money in the treasury upon
the new capitol while fixing a sum
of $4,000,800 for its comstruction and
| completion? The machine legislature.
Who have so wantcnly exercised this
power as to swell the cost of the new
capitol to pearly $10,000,000, while
boasting their honesty and economy
in keeping the cost below the $4,000,
Machine officials,
every man of them. Not one Fusion
Republican, not one Democrat, had
! the least connection with the scandal
from first to last. It was not until an
anti-machine treasurer entersd upon
his office and became a member of the
board of public grounds and buildings
that the people of Pennsylvania learn.
ed how grossly ther had been deceiv-
ed by machine ofiicials as to the whole
history of the new capitol.
THE PIONEERS
in Legislature They Blazed Way
For Great Reforms That
Must Come.
Wholesome thinking follows a glance
over the records of the ineffectual ef-
forts made by the Democratis senators
and representatives, in the state legis-
lative session of 1905, to bring about
immediately the great reforms of which
some were undertaken a year later in
a half-hearted, slip-shod way, by the
Republican organization, when in ter-
ror over the prospect of its being ut-
| terly destroyed by the long-suffering
people. Another specimen of the pio-
. neer work then done by the Democratic
: legislators, and which can be carried
to perfection if the voters, who want
honest, economical government, shall
do their duty at the November elec-
! tion, Is found in the following resolu-
tion and remarks from Democratic
Senator Herbst, of Berks county:
Whereas, Article two, section 16, of
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, pro-
vides that no county may be assign
a senator unless exceeding one-half a
ratio of the required population.
Whereas, The senator! ratio, ac-
cording to census of 1960 is 126,042,
and the population of Lebanon county,
' constituting the 27th district, is only
523,827, or 9194 less than the required
half ratio; therefore,
Resolved, That the judiciary general
! committee of the senate is hereby in-
structed to consider the constitutional
status of the 27th district and report
its findings to the senate without un-
necessary delay.
“It is your privilege and duty,”
said Mr. Herbst, “to make a con-
stitutional senatorial reapportion-
ment as a matter of justice to your
own people, not as a favor to us
Democrats. You are not punish-
ing us, but your own people, by
not doing it.
“Over 400,000 Democrats in Penn-
lvania ask no favors, fear no po-
litical punishment. We try to be
free men, slaves of no man or set
of men. You have gobbled up our
sycophants and pap-suckers and
dough -faces aml our majority has
e 80 grea you groan un-
der its burden. If you can send
any more of our time-servers, our
Reynolds or Sibleys at a Teyard for
pping, to congress, ignoring your
men of principle who stood
go ou when it tried men’s souls
to do so. 1 are welcome to them,
and we will rejoice in the riddance.
We will still remain a great un-
trammeled, unfettered, unbossed
arm of free men, unwilling oo
e pregnan
knee that bei may in fawn-
ing’ and firmly believing that there
is a ‘Power, not ourselves, that
makes for teousness’ in the
end, in the ny of nations and
states.
“Be just and fair to your Repud-
lican people. Is it right for my two
friends from Lancaster to sit
here
and smile in self-complacency re
159,000 people. at their
resenting
(icuguc 210.0007 Why singly
jus-
tice to your t Republican me-
Hopols’ of the western end, and
give them the six senators are
entitled to instead of four? ny
al ls as many
one re
ple an the two senators from
cause our faith es us to obey
the mandates of our constitution.”
DEEP PROBING NEXT WINTER
Honest Legislature Needed to Check
Law-Defying Corporations.
If the people in November elect the
right sort of a state legislature there
will be no danger of such blocking of
the probe as was done by the present
state senate, when Democratic Sena-
tor Grim, of Bucks county, offered the
following resolution in relation to the
deal of the railroad corporations to
wipe out enormous Quay financial ob-
ligations in return for the slating and
election of the successor to the “Old
Man” in the United States senate:
the Bogor of Penusyivasih In ‘rlati3s
United States Renator 10 represent this
Knox to his seat in the senate as well,
if it should be ascertained he was
be
Resolved, That the president of the
senate, immediately u
of this resolution, ap, ta
ree senators,
be to thoroughly investigate the truth
or falsity of the said charges, with full
power to employ eounsel, to issue sub-
nas, and require the attendance be-
ore them for examinaion of all per-
sons and for the production of all
that m hohe, Boke ue t take the
t ma necessary, an
Toy in the matter and report the
Ee ett om aon, to the
e mon; n,
on or before the first day of March
next.
Of course, this was promptly voted
down by the McNichol-Penrose-Dur-
ham majority in the senate. But
things will be different in Harrisburg
next winter if the voters elect the
fusion state candidates and a legisla
tore upon vhom an honest governor
can rely for faithful support in all
matters relating to corp rate abuses,
Paper from Cotton Stalks.
The mavufacture of paper from the fiber
of the cotton stalk is one of the latest in-
ventions which are said to have passed the
experimental stage. It is asserted that all
srades of paper, from the hest form of linen
to the lowest grade, can be manufactured
from cotton stalks. In addition to this, a
variety of hy-produoets, soch as alcohol,
pitrogen, material for gunn cotton and
smokeless powder can also he secured in
paying quantities. Mills for the use of
cotton stalks in that way may become gen-
eral in the cotton-growing States. It is
estimated that on an area of land produoe-
ing a bale of cotton at least one ton of
stalks can be gathered. Upon this basis,
from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 tons of raw
material could be secured for the produc
tion of paper, which would increase the
value of the Soath's cotton crop neariy
ed | $10,000,000.
Accordiog to a letter in the Manufac-
tarer’s Record, of Baltimore, a company
has heen organized under the laws of
Maine, with a capital stock of $15,000,000,
preferred and common, for the parpose of
manafacturing pulp and paper from cot-
ton stalks. Mr. Harvie Jordan, president
of the Southern Cotton Associarion, has
been elected president.
A Saving Scheme,
—
There was a struggling writer in the
front studio and a stroggling artist in the
back. The straggling artist wax very nice
to the struggling writer for » time. He
even helped her wash her windows once.
Theo it came about that ane Friday he saw
that she had a well filled envelope which
onntained some fives,
“I wish,’ be said," *That you would lend
we one of those fives. I'm bard up this
week. I will pay you back next.’
The struggling writer knew all about
those ‘‘next weeks’ of the struggling
artists,
“I would,” said she, ‘but I am afraid I
will lose your friendship if I do. Things
like that have happened to me.”
He looked at her sternly.
“You'll lose it i you don’t,” said he
nnd set his teeth hard.
“Well, anyway,’’ returned she, witha
sigh, ‘I'll save my five.”
Caltfornia Grape Industry.
Upward of 250,000 acres are devoted to
grape cultare in California, which State
produces more than two-thirds of the en-
tire grape output of the country, the an-
nual production of wine being over 30,-
000,000 galions. At a conservative esti-
ae a cai
nroia, in viney. cooperage,
distilleries, machinery, and capital to carzy
on the business, t an investment
of at least $85,000,000. The dry and sweet
wines produced in the last ten
amount to 255,000,000 gallons, an annnal
average of 25,500,000 gallons, and the
brandy produced during the same time
amoanted to about 26,850,000 gallons.
~——A family recently purchased a cow,
greatly to the excitement and joy of the
children of the household.
The following Sunday as the dessert,
which consisted of ice cream, was placed
on the table, the three-year-old son of the
family announced em to the assembled
guests :
“Our cow made that {"’
———A French lady, on her arrival in this
country, would eat only such dishes as she
was acquainted with, and being ou one oo-
casion pressed to eof a dish new to
her, she politely replied, thinking she was
ex herself in admirable English :
‘No, I thank you; I eat only my ac-
quaintances.”’
——Lawyer : ‘I say, dootor, why are
vou always runping us lawyers down.”’
Doctor (dryly) : “Well, your profession
doesn’t make angels of men, does it ?"’
Lawyer : “Why, no; you certainly bave
the advantage of us there, doctor.”
——*'80 you will make a dash for the
Nony Pole hy airship. Have you the ship
y
i No-o, Koi exaotly.” wi
How are your ons
‘We have the Air." prope;
a—— —Pa bas forbidden you the
house. John—I wouldn't have taken it
asrway with the mortgage he has got on
—Hewitt—Will you wateh my trunk
for a minnte? Jewett— What do you take
me for, a chest
SER