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Bellefonte, Pa., October 12, 1906.
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Poem Asked For.
“The proper way for aman to pray,”
Said Deacon Lemuel Keys
“And the only proper attitude,
Is down upon his knees?
“No, 1 should say the way to pray,”
Said Rev. Dr. Wise,
“Is standing straight with outstretched arms
Aud rapt and upturned eyes.”
“Oh, no, no, no," said Elder Slow,
“Such posture is too proud;
A man should pray with eyes fast closed,
And head contritely bowed.”
“It seems to me his hands should be
Austerely clasped in front,
With both thumbs pointing toward the ground,”
Said Rev. Dr. Blunt.
“Last year I fell in Hedgken's weil
Head first,” said Cyrus Brown,
“With both my heels a stickin’ up,
My head a pinting down;
Arn’ I made a prayerright then an’ there—
Best prayer I ever said,
The prayingest prayer I ever prayed—
A standing on my bead.”
——God fashioned the earth with skill,
And the work that he began,
He gave, to fashion after his will,
Into the hands of man,
But the flower's uplifted face,
And the sun and wind and sea,
Bear witness still of the beautiful place
God meant the world to be.
BARBARA'S «sp.
To Barbara it seemed that every boy and
girl in town excepting herself been
Sivas # sutptise party. And how she wans-
one
The fifteenth—only ten days away now
—was Barbara's twelfth birthday, and for
Wed snl mouths Barbas bad bgen long-
ng for a surprise party on y
had thought of it, dreamed of 3 Say, even
planned is all out, picturing just how she
would act, and just how * ** she
would be. But how in the world was she
to bring it about? One couldn’t tell one’s
friends that ove wanted a surprise party at
a certain sime, and shen to be sur.
prised when the party arrived !
Barbara was y puzzled. She could
see no way to bring her wish to pass, yet
her longing for the party grew stronger and
stronger every day.
Is was on the sixth of the month that
Barbara's big brother Frank said gaily :
‘Well, Puss, I know somebody who is
going to be twelve years old preity soon.
Was) qom that somebody want for a pres-
ent
Barbus Sab her buont with : litle
ory. er cheeks grew a deeper pink.
‘Ob, Frank, if I only conld 1 what I
wans I” she exclaimed.
“Well, well,” laughed Frank ! ‘so there
is something you want! What is is 2”
Barbara shook her head. ‘I can’t tell,”
she almost sobbed.
‘Nonsense ! Tell ? Of course you can
tell,” insisted her brother, good-naturedly.
*‘Come—out with is, Pass I"
Again Barbara shook her head. This
time two hig tears rolled down her cheeks
much to Fraok’s distress and amazement.
“Why, Barbara, you poor little girl I’
be comforted. ‘‘Come, come, tell us all
about is ! Is it such a dreadfully big thing
that you don’t dare to ask for it? Maybe is
costs a lot of money; is that is 2"
“It isn’t big as all,—"" faltered Barbara;
‘‘that is, I wouldn't mind if it wasn’t big,
it I only bad one. And I don’t shink fi
costs much—not 80 very much, anyhow,
‘cause Tom and Bessie and Mary Ellen
bave bad them, and they're poor—real
peor. Everybody’s had themm—only me,”
she finished, with a little break in her
voice.
‘‘But what is it?"
“I can’t tell.”
‘‘Bat you'il have to tell—else how are
we to get it ?"’
‘Bos, Frank, Aan’t you see ?—I can’t
tell,” reiterated Barbara, earnestly, ‘‘for if
I do tell, it won't he—it, at all.”
The young fellow sisting in the window-
win yowudd Frank wa in college, and
to problems; but was a .
‘‘It won't heir,” he re ily.
‘Well, I give is up, Pass. You've got me
this time. Spell it, can’t yon ? What les-
ter does it begin with 9”
“18,” said Barbara, brightening. (If
they only conld ‘‘gaess,” it might come
out right after all, she thought.) *‘It be.
gins with the lester 8 and—and it’s gota
etter p in is.”
“An “SP?
Barbara nodded vehemently.
‘Yes,’ she cried.
“An SP, mused Fraok, aloud. “Hm—
n; must be ‘soap,’ he declared quizzically.
Barbara uptilted her chin. She smiled,
but her eyes were wistlal as Frank left she
At ‘the su table that night the entire
family ih gr non io
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“Maybe it's a om ap the
small boy at the foot of the n ’
“Pooh ! It 's a ‘silk '" an.
suspicions—and indeed be did wear a very
Wike air Sbroug all 4he Tout ob the weal.
es: “weal tke plas i=
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whiff of something particularly good
ing :
aaa 300 will be all ready if we want
togo and call on Bessie and aunt a lis-
tle later—we will see.”’
Barbara was scarcely dressed before Frank
called her into the li ,
*‘Puss, I have two puzzles here. Come
in and see if you can work them out.”
So into she library Barbara wea, trying
all the while to keep her feet from dancing,
aod ber lips from smiling—as if she didn’s
know that Frank usually bad other things
todo than to stay at home in the middle of
and ask ber to play with puz-
closed —Frank
perforated
pasteboard and a now ! Ab last there
came three ne on the floor
above the library.
That those knooks meant something Bar-
bara did not doubt for an instant. She
bad not long to wait before Frank spoke.
“Ob!” he said suddenly, as if he had
just thought of something. ‘‘There’s an-
other puzzle in the narlor on the table.
Suppose, you ran and get is; will you,
ease
With a skip and a bound Barbara wae
half across the room before he had stopped
speaking. They were all there, of course
—her own su party—jusi the other
side of the parlor door, ing and wait-
ing. How delightful it would be to sur-
prise them !
She ran quickly to the door and threw it
wide open.
‘Why, what—'' she ,then stopped
short—there was no one there !
All the light and joy fled from Barbara's
face as she looked about the silent, disap-
pointing room. Could it be that they bad
not known after all ?—that they had not
guessed what she wanted ?
Over by the window Barbara saw a big
table laden with packages and a ourious-
looking card of pasteboard a foot or more
long. Was that the puzzle Frank asked
her to get? Very slowly she orossed the
room and picked up the card.
‘‘For Barbara,’’ she read, written in her
brother’s olear, bold band. ‘“‘Each one is
sn SP. We gos all we could think of. We
hope that somewhere you'll find the one
you want.”
Barbara could bave oried. The table
was heaped with packages—big, little, and
medinm-sized—bot she knew without
opeuing a single one that her own beloved
SP was vot there; for surely one could nos
wrap np a surprise party in hiown paper
and tie it with a string !
She opened one e, then another,
then a third. In spite of her disappoint-
ment, a smile otept to her lips, then a laugh
~-then another as she saw more and more
of the contents of those packages. Some of
the things were wonderfully pretty,andjust
what she wanted of their kind; others she
did not know even by nnme--hut that each
was an “SP she did not doubt at all, for
bad she vot Frank’s assurance of that ?
There were thirty-five packages, and this
is what they contained :
A spoon, a spool, a sponge, spoke,a splint,
a splasher, n spindle, a spigot, a spike, a
stamp, a silk petticoat, some sugarplums,
some sweet peppermints, a slate pencil, a
small sprinkler, a spider (dead, fortunately,
and in a neat little box), a sperm candle, a
speller, a spread, a small sphere (with a map
of the world upon it), a spiral spring, a sweet
pickle, a spice cake, some sweet peas, some
spaghatti, some soap, some spectacles,a silver
pin, a sweet apple, a sour apple, some slip.
pery elm,a spade and a spear (in miniature),
some spurs, and some slippers.
Barbara was standing, baif laughing,
half erying, in the midst of this array, when
the heard a subdued chuckle from the up-
. The pexs instant there came the
olatter of feet down the stairs, and
measured tread of steps along the ballway.
Then in a wild p they Aiahed into
parlor— Bessie, Mary, , Harry
and all the rest, flushed, laughing,
bright-eyed, until t stood in a long
line before Barbara made & low bow.
“And we ate the last SP,’’ they
ed as they all wished her ‘‘many happy
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Wast Millions While Insane
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The North Warren State Hospital toe
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State, is in deplorable shape. Conditions
are almost incredible to those famil-
iar with affairs inside bleak vative
stone walls, where, in room originally in-
tended for 700 patients, there are now
cramped and crowded like sheep in a pen
nearly 1150 insane.
Even in the daytime the insane cannot
and are not given the attention that, as
wards of the State, they require. Only
about 125 nurses and attendants are em-
Bored in the building and these are divid-
ed into wight and day shifts. Many of the
wards require four and some more attend-
ants, and they are sadly overworked and
overtaxed. Over 11 patients is the average
to each attendant, and fresh air, light and
sympathetic care cannot be given under
such conditions. A few are taken out
walking each day, but those suffering from
acute mania bave nothing but their ward
walls continually before them.
Many patients are huddled together in
each ward and in many wards the patients
are almost devoid of all bat animal in-
stinote and make no pretense of taking
care of the demands of nature. Almost
constant care is bere demanded of the at-
tendants to keep the wards clean, and the
odors of deodorizers and disinfectants hang
heavy ou the air. Science recognizes fresh
air as au aid to clearing the mind of mania,
bus here it cannot be secured.
The sitting rooms are not sufficient for
the number of patients that are supposed
to use them, and in the better class wards
of the institution conditions are such thas
many do not secure the needed recreation
for mind and body. Constans contact with
those, who, crowded out of che «ritting
rooms, pace up avd down, brings on the
enilessiiens 80 detrimental to the diseased
mind.
Night briogs horrors that must be seen
and heard to be appreciated. Sleeping
uarters are overcrowded and cots are
Blaced in the corridors. Hundreds try but
fail to eecure rest on these. In many in-
stances lodging is found for dozene in the
upper corridor, high up under the roof.
Conditions there during the past summer
were awful. The rays of the sun beating
down on the slate above heated this corri-
dor until it was almost suffocating and
here the patients lay night after night
pasting for breath and batbed in perspira-
on.
Conditions in the winter are not reliev-
ed as, in place of the heat, comes the cold.
With the thermometer standing at 20 de-
grees below zero chill winds fan the sleep-
ers and colds result. Pneumonia and Jung
disease is common, and nearly every post
mortem taken shows the patient suffered
from a pulmonary disease. The death rate
is high and on an average about four
patients bave died per week during the
past two years.
The officials of the institution are not to
blame for conditions that exist, as Snperin-
dent Morris 8. Guth suffers greatly from
lack of belp as he has only five medical as-
sistants, including the pathologist—six
physicans endeavoring to take care of and
administer to the wants of over 1100 souls.
In all of the 25 years she hospital has
been conducted only 957 patients bave
been restored and 1072 improved, while in
that time 4232 have died. It isa fervent
prayes with Warrenites that their relatives
ie before they enter the hospital, as all
ere familiar with the existing conditions
and know of the horrors that lie deep he-
hind the forbidding walls and barred win-
dows. The institution needs more physi-
cians, more nurses, better quarters, and
increased appropriations for maintenance
and conduot.
FORCED TO SLEEP IN HALLWAYS.
With accomodations for 1800 patients
the State Hospital for the Insane at this
Plate now has 2450 inmates crowded within
ts walls. This condition bas filled every
ward and every bed and forced the hospital
authorities to quarter 485 insane Jerson,
men and women, iu the ballways of the in-
stitution. Every night mattresses are
spread in the hallways, which are taken up
iu the morning and stored in a room.
These hallway sleepers are of all condi-
tions. Some are violent and dangerous,
and the night nurses in attending to their
duties are forced to thread their way among
them, rousing and disturbing them fre-
quently. So far it bas been possible to
keep the men aod women in separate ball
waye, bus the rate of increase of the insti-
tarion’s population is constantly growing—
they are coming now at the rate of more
than one in ev
from moral
NEEDED $200,000; RECEIVED $50,000.
The iussitution asked the last Legisla-
a ob ee planned
crease of accommodations
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State Insane Hospitals was called to the
ttention of the islature, daring the
seseion of 1905, a number of ications
were made by the institutions money
to make such additions to the buildings
to at least relieve the congestion
. yy every jatiens could ae a
. It was represen the patient
pot ouiy where huddled on cots in the
corridors, but even the vurses were com-
pelied to sleep in double deck beds, and
the situation was deplorable.
Representative Lee Plummer was chair-
man of the House Appropriation Commit-
tee, and, acting under the orders of the
Boas Mansion clique he ruthlessly refused
to give the hospitals what they asked. Io
Stead he gave SUID SpPIUpLintiun of $35,-
000 to build temporary one-story
wooden buildings covered with sheet iron,
Is was a sheer waste, but the gang would
give no more hecan-e it wanted money for
Capitol trimmings and desired to keepa
$10,000,000 surplus in treasary to loan vus
to hanks for the henefit of gangster 10
haild railroads and open gold mines in
New Mexico, which incidentally wrecked
a bank, cansed a cashier to commit suicide
and created endless mivery.
The Harrishuig Sate Luvatic Hospital
was ove of the institations that a-ked for
larger accommodations, Is was horriniy
overcrowded, but it was given only to haild
a temporary structure to accommodate 100
patients, At present the ho-jutal can ac-
commuodate comfortably 900 patients, but
it has 1050 in charge. Its pressing needs
are two new cottage buildings ove for the
recent acnte caves and ove for convales-
cents.
For years its trustees have heen
the State to decently care for its helpless
wards by at least giving them rooms in
which to sleep and for years the State, by
direction of the Machine, bas turned them
down. It has accommodations on the
male side for 450, bunt manages to squeeze
in 537. On the female side there is com-
fort for 450, but 530 are crowded in.
Superintendent Orth said tonight he wa«
thankful for small favors, as the tempor-
ary building helped a listle to keep down
the overcrowding and the sleeping accomo-
dations were better,
“*We need very hadly two new cottage
buildings to accommodate 125 patients,”
sl Dr. Orth, ‘‘and we sadly peed a chap:
el.
The next Legislature is expected to re-
lieve the treasury of some of thas $10,000,-
000 surplus and provide decent quarters
for the insane.
Big Kansas Products.
Lawrence Correspondence Topeka Capital,
W. A. Laoderbach, who lives on the
bottom land of Baldwin’s Branch, near
Lake View, went out into his cornfield,
cut the tallest stalk of corn from a hill in
which there were six stalks of corn, tied is
toa pole to keep it from breaking and
brought 18 to this city for exhibision. The
stalk is 15 feet high. Is bears but one ear,
there having heen too many stalks to the
bill to make heavier bearing possible. That
one ear is 15 inches long and it is just nine
feet from the ground to the bottom of she
ear. Think of having to use a ninefoot lad-
der to gather the corn this vear!
C. P. Miller, of Lone Star, brought in
five apples, the latgon of which weighed
over one pound. e total Weigh the
five was nearly five nds. Mr. Miller
did not know the variety of the fruit. They
are the largest home grown apples shown
io Lawrence this summar.
Mr. Miller has a tree ten years old load-
ed with two or three bushels of this fruit.
He says the tree began hearing at two years
old and the frait was very large from the
first. It bas borne so much fruit it has
never grown very large.
What ie probably the largest leaf ever
grown on any plant in Kansas is now grow-
ivg on the lawn of the Lutheran Jousnege
of this town. It is the leaf of a Calladiom
eleghanta, or elephant ear, and Rev. E. E.
Stauffer raised the plant with an eye to
having the largest possible leaves. He
gives the following description of the plant:
Largest leaf 4 feet 3 inches long, 3 feet 1
inch wide and 11 feet 8 inches in circum-
ference. [It has three leaves and two that
are a trifle smaller. A new leaf is coming
out which will he the largest yet. The
plans stock just above the ground meas-
ures 18 inches in circumference.
Prunes for the Million.
When one thinks of all the boarding
house breakfasts in the coun is is not
surprising that more than 000,000
s of prunes are eaten yearly in the
nd
United States.
Prior to 1886 the supply came almost
wholly from France the Danubian
provinces and sold under the designation
of French or Turkish
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PENROSE RENAMES
ENOUGH T0 CONTROL
Over Fifty ‘White Slave’ Dealer
Protectors Run For Harrisburg,
ROBERT K. YOUNG BACKS THEM
Present Republican Tickets Made Up
of Legislators Who Supported Vie
ious Bills and Put State to Encrm-
ous Expense For Forced Extra Ses-
sion.
More than 50 Republican state rep
resentatives who, in the last regular
session, voted to protect the “white-
slave” dealers, gambling hells, speak-
easies and other vice dens of Phila-
delphia against the present fusion
nominee for district attorney, D. Clar
ence Gibboney, who has led the cru
sades against those evils, have been
renominated by the “Republicans’
througheut the state to serve in the
voming session of the state legislature.
All this renominating of ihose sub-
servient creatures of the old bosses
has been done quietly while Penrose,
Martin and McNichol were prompting
their gubernatorial nominee, Stuart,
and other stump speakers to strive to
divert the people's attention away from
the plot to have the coming legislatur
controlled by the same old gang agains!
which the commonwealth has been io
revolution for more than a year,
Among the shields behind which the
vice-den protectors, ripper voters and
opponents of honest elections are striv-
ing to hide in the hope of thwarting
the whole people of the state in the
coming legislature, is the “special cam-
paign committee” which is acting as an
auxilliary to Penrose’s state commit-
tee under command of Wesley R. An-
drews. A strenuous helper in the
stumping cfforts to keep the popular
mind off of the evils which can be cor-
rected only through the election of the
state candidates headed by Lewis Em-
ery, Jr., and of an honest legislature,
is Robert K. Young, Republican nomi-
nee against Representative William T.
Creasy for auditor general. Candidate
Young proclaims that there is no long-
er any ground for independent fighting.
He has special reason to dread that
fighting, for, with Creasy as auditor
general, “Bob” Young would not have
a chance to audit his own capitol com-
mission and public grounds and build-
ings accounts. He would have no of-
ficial connection with the full exposure
that is bound to come if the people
vote right in November, of the $9,000,-
000 “furnishing” graft over and above
the $4,000,000 cost of the new capitol's
walls and roof.
Shielded By Creasy’s Opponent.
The Republican nominee for auditor
general, Young, was solicitor for the
capitol commission throughout all that
“grafting.” When the commission
boasted that it had completed the capi-
tol without expending quite all of the
$4,000,000, Young acquiesced. He was
silent. Until after State Treasurer Berry
started the exposure Young had never
said a word to the public upon the sub-
ject. No man was in a more advan-
tageous official position than Young to
know how the people were being de-
ceived to the extent of an extra $9,000,-
000. Yet he remained silent while the
grafters schemed to keep the whole
ugly business quiet until after the
coming election. Now this man as a
stump speaker joins in the attempt to
enable half .2a hundred of the worst
members of the house of representa-
tives, not to speak of the equally venal
senatorial nominees, to sneak back,
unobserved, to Harrisburg.
Outside of Philadelphia and Alle-
gheny the following 25 Republican rep-
resentatives who are all on the ma-
chine's present tickets, voted for the
measures which would have checked
hin” Wika L. Wood. Fasets
AT North, Jefferson; J
Tho J E_Watkins and the re-
i Nl : Frank B, Here: eon
8. a nee; Ny
Lebanon; James L. Marsteller,
Lehigh machine county Shaivinan;
Williams, : ; Bi rin
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nominated, was “absent or not voting”
on the Puhl and Ehrhardt bills, al
though he must be credited with vot.
ing against the Philadelphia Ripper.
Other renominated members “absent
or not voting” on the Puhl bill were:
John W, Carson, Beaver; R.
Kiess, Lycoming, and J. Ww. Bas
Somerset, with the following 1
Wood "Sova! Timi tn, Yo J
Ross, Mohn and Farley.
Omitting the counties, except in
caseof men not named in theforegoing
lists, the following Republican mem-
bers now before the people for re
election voted for what was the pri
mary cause of the commonwealth’s
upheaval, the Philadelphia Ripper:
Wiig, Bramball S Coun-
Kriss, Landis, Marsteller, Mc-
Clain, McLane,
, North, Ross, C.
A. Snyder, W. J. Watkins and
Williams; with Charles A. Ambler and
John H. Roland
C. Pomeroy, Juniata.
The renominated representatives
who were “absent or not voting” on
the Philadelphia Ripper were Carsdn,
Farley, Jones, Mohn, Reynolds, Weida,
Wickersham and Farley, with George
T. Weingartner, of Lawrence county,
and Andrew B. Hitchcock, Tioga.
The renominated Philadelphians,
who not only voted for the vice-den-
protection bills, but also for the Phila
delphia Ripper, the city passenge:
railway franchise grabs and other out.
rageous schemes of the power-intoxi-
cated bandit chiefs, were:
Joseph Call and John H. Riebel, 20th
ward; James Clarency, 19th; William
J. Cool, 26th; John R. Huhn, 86th;
Edwin H. Fahey, 10th; William H,
Funston, 30th; James A. nnedy,
Blog, TI. ‘mabert Hi. Sint, och. an
Walter Strading, 31st.
To avoid any confusion from th
foregoing analysis of the vicious vot
ing, and to provide the “country” vo
ter with something valuable to keep
in his vest pocket until election day
the following list of the bunch of re
nominated Republican representatives,
outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny,
is given:
Beaver—John W. Carson, R.
Blair—William H. Irwin, R.
Bucks—Roland Flack, R.; Joseph S
Thomas, R.
Cambria—Edmund James, R.
Cameron—Josiah Howard, R.
Clinton—Cliver 8. Kelsey, R.
Dauphin vad 5 Beiienan, 2,
uphin— 3 eman,
Frank B. Wickers R.
Delaware—Th el
kawanna—Willlam J.
{2incs =. Watkins, R., Fred, C
Lancaster—Frank B. McClain, R.
John G. Homsher, R. T. Wel
wren rge T. Weingartner,
R.; Walter S. Reynolds, R.
Lebanon—Gabriel M. Moyer, R.
Lehigh-—James L. Marsteller, R.,
Calvin 8. Haines, R.
Luzerne—Edward H. Williams, R.;
George H. Ross, R.; Sridin E. Jones, R.
ess,
on e les A. Ambler, R.;
Josiah M. Landis, R.: John H. Rex
R.; George A. Weida, R.
orthumberiand-—James Bramhall, R.
Potter—Frank D. Councilman, R.
Schuylkill—Alfred B. Garner, R.,
Charles A. Snyder, R.; John W. Wood-
ward,
Somerset—James W. Endsley, R.
Tioga—Andrew B. Hitchcock, R.; An
drew B. Dunsmore, R.
Union—George C. Mohn, R.
Waren—James Brann, R.
Washington—Frank Craven, R.
Wayne—Harvey N. Farley, R.
As seen in the previous lists, all
but very few of these men supported
the infamous measures which precipi:
tated the political revolution in Phila
delphia and the state. They were a.
servile as the worst of the Philadel
phia freebooters, under the lash wield
ed in the Boas mansion by Israel W.
mas,
. Ehr-
By standing against all the reforms
demanded by the people, they put the
commonwealth to the expense of mor.
than a quarter of a million of dollars
for the extra session, and
ask the people to re-elect them so
they can block complete exposure
the new capitol grafting, and preven
just restrictions upon monopolies and
law-defying corporations.
F. W. FLEITZ'S CONDITION GRAVE
Deputy Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania Submits to Painful Operation.
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 8.—Deputy Attor-
ney General F. W. Fleitz continues to
suffer much pain as the resuit of the
fracture of his hip bone eight days
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