Denar Wada Bellefonte, Pa., October 19, 1906. “Jnly a dog!” You wonder why 1 grieve so much to see him die. Ah! if you knew How true a friend a dog can be, When friends were few! “Only a dog—na beast,” you sneer: “Not worthy a sigh or tear.” Speak pot to me Such falsehood of my poor dumb friend While I have language to defend His memory. Thro' ups and downs, thro’ thick and thio, My boon companion he has been For years and years. He journeyed with me miles and miles, 1 gave him frowns, I gave him smiles, And now, sad tears. Before my children came, his white Soft head was pillowed every night Upon my breast. So let him lie just one time more Upon my bosom as refore, And take his rest. And when u tenderer love awoke, The first sweet word my baby spoke Was “M-a-t."” Poor Mat! Could I no other reason tell, My mother-heart would love you well Fer only that, Together boy and dog have laid Upon my lap; together played Around my feet, Till laugh and bark together grew. So much alike, I scarcely knew Which was nct sweet, Ah! go away, aad let me cry. For now you know the reason why I loved him so. Leave me alone to close his eyes, That looked so wistful and so wise, Trying to know, At garden gate or open door You'll run to welcome me no more, Dear little friend. You were so kind, so good aud true, I question, looking down at you Is this the end? Is there for you no “‘other side?’ No home beyond Death's chilly tide And heavy fog, Where meekness and fidelity Will meet reward, although you be Only a dog! “Ye has nosoul.” How know you that? What have we now that had not Mat, Save idle speech? If fromthe Bible I can read Him soulless, then I own no creed The preachers preach. My dog had love, and faith, and joy— As much as had my baby boy— Intelligence; Could smell, see, hear, and suffer pain. What makes a soul if these are vain? When I go hence. “Tis my belief my dog will be Among the first to welcome me. Believing that, 1 keep his collar and his bell, And do not sav to him farewell, But good-by, Mat, Dear, faithful Mat. —Prini Rivers, JOE SCHNEIDER'S PARTNERSHIP, Joe Schneider waiked slowly along the country road with his hands in his pockets, and his wind deep in thought. Joe always thought slowly. The German part of his inheritance had stamp-d the characteristic of ponderousness not vuly upon his stocky body, hut upon his mind as well. had given him also the companion traits of thoroughness and fidelity that made him such reliable help in Amos Jones's store. Back of him along the road he bad juss traveled came the sound of footsteps which Joe recognized. There was only one man in all that part of the country who walked like that. “Nice worning,’’ said a voice at Joe's side. “Yes, 1t ie,” he nuswered slowly. The new-comer was a wan thirty veam of age, hut he was scarcely as tall as the boy, and of a much smaller frame. He bad restless dark eyes, and a wiry body, every movement of which indicated a nervous, decisive energy. “Made up your mind yet?’ he asked, eyeing Joe sharply as he was passing him. No,’ replied Joe. ‘I'm just thinking aboat it. Yon said I could have a week.” +8p I did,” responded the other, hasten- ing on. Joe watched him as he rapidly covered the ground and became smaller and smaller to the hoy’s sight. “Guess he won't go at that pace when he's lived up here a little longer,” thousht Joe. *‘I wonder why he wants me to work for bim anyhow. I ’m not much his kind, but he’d ought to know what I'm like when he asked me. The money would be pretty nice, bat Amos has always been awluily good to me, and Amos doesn’t like him any too well.”’ Arrived within sight of the store, a new subjects for thonght met him. Though he could scarcely helieve his eyes, there could be no doubt that the ground in front of the store was piled high with boxes and barrels. What conld it mean? He bad worked at Amos Jones's store for five years, and fre- quented the place on errands for a good many more, and never in all that time had he known such a thing to occur. “Hurry up, Joe. I've been waiting for you. We 'vegot a lot of work abead of us,” said the old man as he caught sight of Joe. A single huggy stopped on the road in front of the store, and the doctor thrust out his head. “Well, Amos,”’ he called in a tone of curious interest. Whatever are you up to this morning ?"’ “I 'm taking stock,” returned Amos proadly, and after a second’s hesitation, he walked to the road, and resting one foot on the step of thedoctor’s buggy, wenton in a voice plainly aodible to Joe: ‘‘Yon see, doctor, the time's come when we've got to adopt city measures. For twenty years I 've had the only store for miles around in all this here country, aud now a few months ago, thas puny little city chap with them snapping black eyes comes along and sets up a citified store. He thinks juss be- canse he ’s on to them city ways, he can run me ont, but I'm nr’ to show him he ’s mistaken.”’ “I hope you will Amos,” replied the doctor heartily. *‘I hope you will.” This enconragement was very sweet to the offended spirit of the old storekeeper. He leaned nearer the doctor and lowered his voice. “Doctor,” he said, ‘‘what I 'm goin’ to Bat it | say is confidential. I’ve been thinkin’ about that boy, Joe. You see he’s been workin’ for me a long time, and though I've never said anything about it, it's been kind of understood that some day when I got too old to be any good, he'd bave the store. He sa good boy, and he 's worked faithfol, and I 'm pretty fond of him. Bot be 's slow and be ’s no. the sort | for city ways. I want to he square by him, but 'm afraid be 's not the sort to help my | business now I "ve got a competitor. Idon’s | know what to do about it.” Joe had not meant to be an eavesdropper. It was the storekeeper’s own absorption that kept him from noticing the hoy’s nearness as Joe had advanced to ask a question, while the buggy top shut the boy from the doctor's sight. A [feel ing of bitterness and resentment arose in Joe's heart as he heard Amos’s words, and be could not restrain the impluse that made him linger to hear the doctor's au- swer. “Well, [ don’t know Amos,”’ the doctor said; ‘I would n’t be too quick if I were on. That boy may be a little slow, but | he ’s no fool, and there 's good stuff in him. He goes to the bottom of things and | he 's very reliable. You know there are lots of Germans in this part of country, and they re always conserva¥ve. They won't change their trade quickly. They re clannish, too, and that boy Joe's father is Jopeler among them, and they ’re glad to elp his son along all they can. I'd take my time, Amos, if I were you. I'd take my time.” The doctor straightened the lines on the mare's back, and flapped them gently asa signal for the horse to move on. That day was a strenuous one in Amos Jones's store. Not only was there the counting and sor.ing of varied and nomer- ous articles of trade, but the news that Amos was cleaning store and taking stock spread throughout the country rapidly, and made business brisk. Joe, too busy Shivkioh aud nourishing the hart in bis heart, did not stop to en- in conversation with the customers. Still, he worked faithfully and uncom- Plaibisgly, and now and then made a sug- est on. “Don’t let 's pile everything together, when we ’re putting things back,’’ he said to Amos. ‘‘Let’s take all the shelves on this side for the groceries, those ou the other side for the hardware, and let 's put the dry goods on the end shelves.” *“That ain’t a bad ides,’’ was the answer- ing comment of the circle about the stove. “You 've got a good head, Joe.” As for Joe, he was at last reaching a decision. The doctor's word that morning, clinching au idea which had already oc- curred to the boy, bad made him aware of bis own importance, utter amazement, while relief and consteraation stroggled in his heart. “What be you goin’ to do?’’ he asked sharply. Joe hesitated a moment before answer- jog. ‘‘Mr. Simpson has offered me a place in his store, and he 'll give me ten dollars a month more than you.” The bitterness Amos strove to hide, orept into his voice in spite of himself. “Well, T suppose yon 're gettin’ modern, Joe, and call that enterprisin’. Accordin’ to the old notions I was broeght up by, "t ain't square.” Joe's cheeks flashed and his eyes showed | afire. For the first time in all their inter- | course the hoy spoke impertiently to bis employer. ‘I uness it '» as square a3 what you said to the doctor this morning. According to that, I 'm just helping yon out. Idon's think I°d hase gone if [ had u's heard that, although I did n't mean to listen.” They turned in opposite directions hone: ward, and each tock a his companion, a heavy heart Strange to say, in his thought=, each blamed, not the other, but the storekeeper Simpson, for the unhappi- ness he felt, “It '« all us fault.” thonght Amos hit- terly. The next week Joe wens to work for Simpson. He found the atmosphere of the new store very different from that of the old. In his new gnarter= everything was mn wystematicatly. Order prevailed throughout, and time was considered valu- able. When not actually selling, his new empluyer kept Joe hasy sorting and rear- ranging stock or tidying ap the store. The show windows were another new featnre, and the strict system of hookkeeping. The new clerk secon hegan to draw trade far be- yond Mr. Simpson's expectations. At the end of the third month he raised Joe's sal- ary another five dollars. Still Joe was not happy. Every morn- ing and evening on his way to and from his new place of employment, he passed Amos Jones's store. Not infrequently he mes the old man, and even occasionally called out some hearty bantering remark as of old. The way Amos's business was Juiting off bad hecome the common talk of the neigh- borhood, and Joe knew well that, however much this loss of business storekeeper’s finances, the hurt it meant to his pride would be far more deeply felt by the old man. “And it is all my fault,’’ Joe whispered to himsell again and again, watching Amos with observant eyes. The gray of the old storekeeper’s r was rapidly becoming white; the wholesome obeer of his face changing to lines of care and nervous anx- jety, which told severely on his aged frame. Each day the old man’s footstep became heavier, his figure more bowed. Aud each 4 day Foame ik to Joo asit Be coun no longer the weighs of unhappi- pess all had brought upon himself. Yet 3 eid that he was ina very complex position. His new problem was this. If he had wronged Amos hy leaving him and going to Sips, he could not now leave Simpson retarn to Amos without wronging his new employer. Sim had always treated him fairly. So week after week Joe thoughts ahout it, and then at last decided on what seemed to him the most honorable action. He offer- ed Simpson his resignation, and left that part of the country. 1t cost Joe a good deal of effort to leave that country he loved, and where he bad meant to spend his life. The city he went to was very big and at first, bot gradually he began to fit into is. The training Mr. Simpson bad given him, and bie Sites) shrift served him all. He ound employment in a large wholesale grocery that sold to country merchants, and here he learned mooh aud rose stead- ily. He came to see that Mr. Simpson's establishment, which bad a 80 im- to his country eyes, was in reality a aod then an am novelty of his store aud the curiosity of the at. Joe worked in the city two years. All his life it had been his habit to save money. When ke went to the city he had a little ected the WHAT PENN SAW BEFORE THE DEDICATION SE per] - . sam in the hank, and during his city life he added to this steadily. At the end of the second year he wrote a letter to Simp- Joe had never known impatience as Lie did doring the week that followed. On Simpson's answer depended all his future hopes, —the fulfilment of the ambition he had nourished until it had hecome a part of him, the plans for restitution to the old man whom his conscience told him he had wronged. On the eletenth day, the an« wering letter came. Joe opened it with trembling fingers, read it once hurriedly, and then a second and a third time more slowly, each time with greater satisfaction The next day he took the train for home. It wa< a very different hoy from the one who had leit that country two years be: fore, who arrived at the station late the following afrernoon. This boy was far more dapper and more business like in his manner. He moved more quickly, the ex- pression of his eyes was keeher aud more ohservant; he had a poise that came from intelligence won from contact with pro- gressive men. And yet the country had never seemed more beautifal to him. In the west the sun wae setting wlorion:ly, spreading iw last weakening tays over the fields and into available spots of the forest laud, as the shadows of twilighs fell. Over all the world there seemed to he the wonderful sense of country peace. For two years Joe had known nothing so beautiful. True to his city principles, however, he wasted no time hefore performing the er- and that had brought him home. All that evening he spent closeted with Simp- son in the latter's front parlor, talking, arguing, drawing on papers; and from that room Joe emerged finally, content, at least for the moment, with all the wld. There was one more thing to do before he conld reat in satisfaction. Early the next morning, hefore it was time to open, be sought Amos Jones's store, delightfully aware that now he conld greet his old em- Jlorer with a free conscience. He waited aptly on the front doorstep for the man to appear. ‘Well, Joey,’ said Amos after the first astonished greeting, laying hia hand un the broad fellow’s shoulder. ‘‘What a young man we are, and so citified too. Who- ever 'd thought it? Well, I 'm glad to see you. I'am mighty glad to see you, come right along in.” *T 'd like to speak to you privately on a little waster of business, Amos, if I may,” said Joe as Amos pened the store-door. “Certainly, certainly,’ Amos answered. “We ’ll ser down right bere. Nobody's likely to come in this time o’ the mornin’, ! ily in baying time. Here, Jim,” he called toa small boy who was lounging op the counter, ‘‘you run along out, until I call you.” ‘Amos.’ said Joe again, after they were comfortably settled, ‘I 'm coming hack into this part of the country to live. Last nighs, I made a bargain with Simpson to boy him ous, and made my first payment on his stock.” The old man grabbed both arms of his fel and leaned forwatd, while his lower w fell. ceBought Simpson out?’ he exclaimed after a long gasp. Yes,” went on Joe. ‘‘And what I wanted to see you about was to know if you and I could n't come to some settle ment about a partoership. e never t to be more than one store in this borhood, and I think you and I conld a Josey good team, and make a suc- cess of I 've had quite a little ex. perience in the city lately and have got some new ideas. It would be pretty lucky AR Rae ly man w your long y and is so well known everywhere. Would yon he willing to think abont it?" The old man, who had been sitting on the edge of his chair waiting with great impatience for Joe to finish speaking, rose in stiff eagerness and grasped Joe by hoth country side were becoming things of the | should ers. " “Do it?" he oried in jabilant tones “Do jee hig I Jom fuens I will. pn you w ain't angt in the i Bets gon me happier. Bn business ain't #0 much any more *’ “Then we ’ll make it something,” re- turned Joe confidently, smiling in the old man's face. As he read the answering expression of the face above his, with ite happiness and content, Joe was ret to thinking. The ex- perience he had gained for himself was much, So was the position he bad won, and the hope it had given him for the fature, hut this was the hest of all,—the happiness he had hrought to this old man of imple faith and child-like confidence — By Sarah France« Lindsay in St. Nicholas. SOME STARTLING CAPITOL SEGRETS Specifications Involving Millions Sec- retly Altered After Con- tract Award. . Plunderers’ Daring Methods of Charg- Out Bidders Had Figured On as Parts of the Building. mission President Stone and the head of the builders, George F. Payne, seems to have been the entering wedge to the coming revelations of the re cipients of the millions of new capitol tracted to get the something less than $4,000,000 for merely the walls and the specifications would show that Payne didn't tell the truth and had been bound down by the commission to include in his work and supplies everything to make the building com- plete, and with nothing to be added to make it fit for occupancy except * what would come under the ordinary common-sense meaning of “furniture.” This startling declaration immedi- ately started the probe to find out how and by whom the legerdemaln Louis Emery, Jr. Fusion candidate for Governor. The im- placable enemy of corporate greed and life wel- if relieved of their contract obligations and given the nearly $4,000,000 for a mere shell, while Pennypacker and his | En 2 » he added, his eyes suddenly clouding, “my ing Up as “Extras” What Frozen, The lie direct between Capitol Com- graft. When Payne said that he con- roof, Stone got mad, and declared that fellow commissioners of public grounds and buildings drew upon the surplus in the favorite banks for the extra $9,000,000 which went partly for real furniture and largely to put in the mahogany window frames, mantels, fireplaces and wall sheathing, the fan- cy flooring and other permanent at- tachments which the builders should have put in along with the “shell” for what the bare walls and roof cost. In this hocus-pocus appears to he the key to the entire graft, for it enabled the grounds and buildings department to “go the limit” for the favored “fur- niture” contractors, notably John H. Sanderson and Congressman Cassel's “construction” company. At the outset, in competition with Payne, contractors, including Hender- i son & Co., Doyle & Doak, William Mil ‘ler & Son, the Roydhouse-Arey Con- , tracting Company, Colonial Construc- , tion Company and Norcross Bros. ! (Boston), bid amounts ranging from | $3,548,000 to $4,138,980, while the | Payne concern bid $3,600,000 to put up ‘a “complete” capitol under specifica. | tions covering almost every conceiv- able class of work necessary to make ! the building suitable for occupancy, the following being a part of it: Excavations and founda - ing the incidental ois work. Terra cotta. Cut stone, includ- ing the carving and modeling. Fire- proof floors and itions. Roofing and met~] work. Plastering and fur- ring of the walls. Painting and ing. Mural and ceilin ecorations. Gl mosaics. Decorative glass. In- terior marble work. Tile work. Lum- ber for flooring and scaffolding. Tile ad marble [osajes. | Mail chia dum chute. ware, inc r- knobs, locks and sash weights. Vault doors. Plumbing. Mill work, including the mahofany wainscoting of the various chambers, the window sashes and frames, the doors and ail other finished woodwork which go into a building. Structural orusmelital Jon work. Fleating lating p Electric and complete electric wi eva- tor work. Bronze work, w , besides the massive doors for the main en- trance, also included elevator doors, window grills, lamp posts and pilas- Nearly all of the foregoing, except the material and work for the bare walls and roof, is paid for as “fur- nishings” out of the suplus, without a specific appropriation, thus enabling the builders to take the original capi- tol appropriation for the “shell.” How this trick was worked so as to crowd a on those essential parts of the build- ing, is one of the main objects of the coming probing. : Amazing Relevations. | Under “mural and celling decora- tions” of the specifications for the builders was included the artistic work in the house of representatives, in the senate, the dome, the executive cham- ber, ete. The specifications were so : it that it was even prescribed «... the more artistic effects should bz executed by E. A. Abbey, In make ing up their bids the general contract. ors received estimates from the deco- rative and painting firms, naming Mr. Abbey as the superviior of the fine work and providing for his pay. The parquetry floors and mill work, involv ing almost $175,000, were also includ. ed. And yet Payne, in direct contra- diction of Mr. Stone and the specifi “ey cations, declares: i: am positive that nothing but the shell was to be pro- vided for. That's what my firm bid on, and that’s what we have done.” That these specifications were alter. ed after the award and a large portion of the work called for was re-let by the public grounds and buildings commis- sioners and charged up as “furnish- ings” in the report of Auditor General Snyder and Governor Pennypacker is asserted by contractors in close touch with the Harrisburg doings, and who will be called upon to testify. Their word, in connection with Mr. Stone's, appears enough for a prima facie case of conspiracy to defraud the common- wealth. Practical builders and manu- facturers of the articles used smile at the idea of the prices having been legitimate. Lawyers assert that con- ditions already exposed warrant im- peachment proceedings, as they do not believe that Pennypacker and the oth- ers could have been deceived into spending such vast sums of money in violation of law, It is now positively known that the nly things not included in the speci- fications to turn out a thoroughly equipped building were the illuminat- ing fixtures and necessary actual fur. niture. Only in isolated cases, where legitimate extras developed In course of construction, were no estimates ask- ed, and architectural experts are won- dering how the extra $9,000,000 wers expended, The elaborate summary of expenditurce {issued by Pennypacker and the machine auditor general shows that items in the building specifica: tions are charged up as “extras,” and responsible informants who were among “frozen-out” bidders charge that even after the general contract had been awarded and signed the specifi: vations were deliberately changed and new contracts made with sub-contract. ors. . In the original specifications, inter. for marble, tile work and and marble mosaics were included, and prices for them ranged from $900,000 to $1,200, 000, but in the Pennypacker-Snydet statement there is an extra of $278. 109.47 for “marble wainscoting, man- tels and bases.” All along the line there has been duplication of work provided for under the original speci- fications. Despite the building speci- fication for $60,000 worth of decorative glass there is a Snyder-Pennypacker charge of $138,000 for “Bacaret cut- glass panels,” and, aside from the glass mosaics in the building specifications, there seems to have been an “extra” of $28,759.20 for the same material Vaults were to be part of the building, but vaults and safes are charged as an “extra” $66,000. God's Free Air “By the Foot.” Firproof cement or concrete floors were specified for the builders, but are charged up as “extras” to “receive the parquetry flooring.” For painting anc glazing and ceiling and wall decora- tions the building specifications amounted to nearly $200,000, but in the Pennypacker “extras” are $779,472 for “gilding, decorating and painting,” $14, 660.50 for “mural paintings,” and $222, 887.50 for Edwin A. Abbey, although it was stipulated originally that the decorations were to be executed unde: his direction, and that bids should be based on a calculation that he was to be remunerated for his services. When the proposals for the $2,000,000 chan deliers were asked competition was sc limited that one prominent manufac- turer, who had formerly got contracts for chandeliers in some of Philadel: phia’s largest buildings, was shut out, and was refused permission for his designer to prepare any bids on the work. John H. Sanderson, whose share o. the “extras” was $5,416,682, has so fax foiled all efforts of reporters to get 1 him. Of the rest of the $9,000,000 it “extras,” Congressman Cassel’s “enn. sylvania Construction Company” go $2,000,856.20: George F. Payne, $596.- 074.27; Architect Joseph M. Huston {fcr “furniture” designing, over and | above the $185,000 he got for design- ing the walls and roof), $339,685.4: and Artist Abbey, $273,548.00. Cass’ and his fellow Lancaster county Pen- rose politicians got, in addition to the $1,534,856.20 for the metal filing cases, $400,000 for the “bronze postoffice fronts, bronze railings, screen in treas- ury department and bronze trimmings on fireproof filing cases.” Cassel’s con- cern bid “by the foot.” Metal tele- phon booths “by the foot” took in sc many cubic feet of God's own free air. The “extras” comprise $889,940 for “carved panels wainscoting, mantels and designed woodwork,” although in the building specifications it was stipn- lated that the joinery work was to “furnish and do all joinery. trimming, etc., necessary to finish the building, complete in every respect, and to the fuil intent and meaning of the drawings and specifications.” The McNichol-Penrose-Durham-Mar- tin crowd would never have dared to club its subservient legislature into making a $9,000,000 appropriation for “axtras” over and above the original $4,000,000. The Gang well knew what a cyclone that would have raised, and so they jist sneaked the millions out of the depositories, thinking that, just as “furniture” had been surreptitiously procured in smaller quantities during the 11 years since “Bull” Andrews and Penrose, as state senators, “passed” the “furnitnre” act of 1885, the present crime would pass unnoticed also. But they had reckoned without Mr. Berry. Died of Football Injuries. Toronto, Ont, Oct. 13.—W. Glinn Ellis, aged 21 years, of Toronto, a fourth year modern history man at Torrmto University, and manager of the third Rugby team last year, died from injuries received in a practice foothall game on the 'varsity lawn on Wednesday afternoon. He walked to his home after the game, and no seri | ous results were looked for until Fri- | day, when he suddenly collapsed. It is believed he was kicked in the head.
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