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Bellefonte, Pa., September 13 1907.
Democratic Can for
State Treasurer Officially
Advised of the Honor.
Splendid Meeting of Democrats
Confidence in the Coming Victory
the Feature of the Great Event
Berry, Black, Harman and lkeler
Make Eloquent Speeches—The
Campaign Opened Auspiciously.
(Bpecial dispatch)
Bloomsburg, Pa., Sept. 11, "07.
The meeting to notify Hon. John G.
Harman of his nomination by the
Democratic State convention for the
| In a brief and informal accept-
| ance made on the day of my nomina.
| tion, I stated I was in hearty accord
; With the principles contained in tae
platform adopted. I repeat it here.
As the official utterance of a party
i convention assembled it is a 42
claration of principles to the support
of which every follower of the party
| can safely, and without the sacri-
fice of conscience or respect, sub-
scribe. It is more than that. Tis
principals are a safe harbor for
every man, woman or child of this
plundered Commonwealth who earn-
estly seeks and desires a remedy
for the conditions in this state which
! have attracted the adverse criticism
| of the press of the United States,
. and compelled even the party in
. power to cry out against.
Issues of the Campaign.
| Mere issues, alone for political
| purposes, sre not lacking on which
| to wage a campaign. If all the elect-
!ors of this State heretofore should
| have been of one mind politically,
| sufficient justification for our plat-
| form coming into existence could be
office of State Treasurer was held | found in the single instance of the
here this evening and it was am | loot of the public treasury in the
epoch in the political history of | erection of a capitol building which
Columbia county.
born and brought up in this town and
it can be said that every man, wo-
man and child is his friend. He is
easily the leading lawyer at the bar
but his splendid professional suc-
cess has not changed him from the
good natured, manly fellow that he
was when his father was a mechanic
in one of the industrial establish-
ments of the community.
It is within the limits of conser-
vatism to say that John G. Harman
is the most popular professional man
in Bloomsburg and one would take
no great hazard in adding that he is
the most admired citizen of this
community.
demonstrated by the meeting to-
night for every man in attendance
acted as if the honor bestowed on
Harman there was a concealed com-
pliment to the town and county.
There was a practical suspension of
business, the streets were crowded,
the buildizgs were decorated and the
people were in feastive mood. The |
fine theatre in which the meeting
was held couldn't have held a frac-
tion of those who came from all sec-
tions of the county to participate in
the ceremonies. But as many as
could got in and cheered to the echo
the eloquence of State Treasurer
Berry, who delivered the notification
speech and his successor in office John
G. Harman, who responded.
There was something about the
meeting to-night, indefinable, possib-
ly, but palpable, which marked it as
a peculiarly auspicious political
event. Berides Berry and Harman,
the present and prospective State
Treasurer, the speakers were Jere S,
Black of York and Fred T. Ikeler of
this town. What memories of great
achievements in politics and in juris
prudence these names arouse? Jere
Black, the living image of ais d's-
tinguished grandfather {is scarcely
less eloquent than that great jurist
and statesman and Fred Ikeler is |
even more an orator than his father,
who grace! the bench of this county
during nearly a full term of service
when he ‘‘died in harness.” so to
speak. Bui. the enthusiasm was
more impre.sive than the eloquence.
The people were the spirit of the oc-
casion. The thousands who came
from east, west, north and south
of Columbia county made the even’
JOHN G. HARMAN.
Mr. Harman's speech follows*
Mr. Berry and Gentlemen of the
Committee.
In accepting the nomination of
which you, as the representatives of
the late Democratic Convention, have
come to officially advise me, I do so
with some degree of personal satis-
faction, but with a larger degree of
pride and pleasure do 1 appreciate
the honor "~~ m the fact that the
great part) .ch you represent saw
fit to com: to my native county of
Columbia for its candidate to le.
the fight for a continuation of tna
magnificent work just begun in this
state by that sturdy and sterling
citizen and official, William H. Berry.
And from the fact that I have never
asked but that I have received poli-
tical endorsement from the people
of my county I feel that I have the
right to thank you in their behalf, as
well as for myself, for the honor
thus conferred.
I accept it too, with a profound
sense of its responsibilities, Were I
to consult my personal comfort, the
arduous labor of a campalbn would
not appeal to me. But having been
unanimously called by a party cap-
able of polling upwards of half a
million votes, at a time when the
value to the Commonwealth of a
free and independent exercise of the
rigkt of suffrage was never more
thoroughly demonstrated than in the
res. 'ts flowing from the last election
tor this office, no man has a right
to shirk a call to duty such as this
Mr. Harman was | instead of being, as was hoped, our
pride, has become our shame. And
yet my friends, the result to be
| attained in this election is more than
& matter of mere party success. It
means more to me as a citizen than
my mere elevation to office. Should
that follow it is but secondary. It
means more to the people tian a
mere triumph of numerical strength
between contending political forces.
That is often the greatest calamity
| that can overcome a community or a
| state. But this election will deter
! mine whether we shall continue to
| keep the State Treasury out of poli=
| tics, and beyond the reach of the
| political brigands who for years ex-
| ploited it for their personal advan-
restore the conditions which made
| possible our in the most
| monumental steal of modern history.
Happily the Democratic party is
not so poor in issues that it must
| sleze upon a single instance of de-
| reliction of duty as its excuse for
| challenging the right of the opposing
| party to control the public treasury.
| Nor will it be driven from the fight
{ upon the simple promise of a can-
| didate for that office, backed by his
| party's platform, to punish official
{ wrongdoing in that connection. We
can turn the pages of history for
forty years and show the record of
! Republican control of the office of
| State Treasurer to be a history, in
| many instances, of broken lives, and
| fortunes, and of self-slaughter. We
| can instance looted banks and trace
the trail of political connection there-
with from Allegheny to New Mexico.
We can turn from this unpleasant
canvas and show an aroused
and outraged people regardless
of political affiliation placing in
that offica for the first time
(in upwards of thirty years, a
| follower cl another faith than that
of his predecessors, with the result
| that a condition undreamed of was
| unearthed in the Treasury, and the
| schemes of a band of conscienceless
| rascals to extract from the Siate
twenty millions more of our money
was mpped iu the bloom. With such
an object lesson as this, with such a
record of wanipulation of our Treas-
{ury in behalf of political interests as
. hus been repeatedly charged and un-
aiuy proven, no turther or better ex-
cuse or reason could be asked for or
| glven for asking of the electors of
| this state a calw and sober consider-
| ation of the issue which confrouts
| us.
{ in national politics, my friends,
| men way differ. On the great econo-
(mic and lendawwential principles of
Boverument constantly agitated in
our national elections, it is not
strange there suould be honest con-
flict of opinion. But I take it we
are all on common ground in deciar-
ing that that system which nas re-
suited in our injury and damage and
discredit (at home and abroad) in
our own private state affairs should
be eradicated. You ask me what
‘system’ dc I refer to and I an-
swer that of keeping all the officials
charged with the expenditure of .ue
public moneys of one political faith.
You ask me the remedy and I state
that I firmly believe the solution lies
in putting into practical effect that
plank in our platform calling for
minority representation on the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings.
Had this been in effect but within
the past few years, plaster and putty
would not have been paid for by the
state at the price of carved Mahogany
“Pennsylvania made” globes, good
enough for us all, would not have
been paid for to a principal contract-
or at a price which approaches lar-
ceny,; three millions of our money
would not have been spent without
warrant of law; and eighteen prom-
inent citizens of our state would not
now be impaled on the sharp points
of the civil and criminal law—with
more to follow.
Relations of Treasurer and Auditor,
It is plain that it was never in-
tended by the men who framed the
provisions of the law creating the
offices of State Treasurer and Audi-
tor General that they should be con-
ducted upon the ‘‘hand-in-glove”
principle, but rather in a manner of
watchful care—each over the other.
The proof of this lles in the theory
of the necessity for their existence,
as well as in the statute law of the
state. The Act of Assembly of March
80, 1811, provides: ‘‘The books and
papers in the office of the State Treas-
urer and Auditor General shall be
at all reasonable times open for the
free inspection of each other.” The
same act in the fifth section gives
the State Treasurer the right to re-
fuse payment and question any ac-
count or claim against the State,
whereupon with his reasons for re-
fusing payment attached, the claim
must be decided by the Governor
and payment is made or withheld as
he decides. With such safeguards
around the Treasury we have seen
successive administrations permit
these laws to become dead letters
upon the statute hooks, and militons
of our money paid out without so
much as a wink of the eye (or else
with a very large one)’ until the very
air in the Cassell-made cabinets
tured to gold to his unheard of
profit.
We see the propisition we contend
for in every day practice in the
counties of our state in the law giv-
ing minority representation on the
boards of County raglan. i
principle is as to
the lt have A er
necessity its to
And so firmly
am I convinced of the soundness of
this principle that I have expressed
my willingnes to defend it, and my
candidacy thereon, at any time and
any place, as indicated by the fol-
lowing letter this day dispatched to
the rival candidate for this office.
to Public Debate
Bloomsburg, Pa., Sept. 11, 07.
Hon. John O. Sheatz,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Sir.—The platform of the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania,
has invited the attention of the vot-
ers of the state to the question of
the expediency and advisabilly of
keeping a member of a minority
party on the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings. Your election to the
office of State Terasurer will rer:lt
in that board being solidly Republi-
ority representation as at present. To
the end that there may be a full,
fair and free discussion of this ques-
tion for the information of all inter-
ested, I hereby invite you to public
debate of this proposition at five,
ten, or more, meetings to be arrang-
ed for that purpose in different parts
of the state. You to have the privi-
lege of naming dates and pia-es.
The Trail of Crime.
It will not do for our friends,
the opposition, to take refuge in the
haven of might. The citizenship of
this state has on more than one oc-
caslon shown itself capable of right-
ing a wrong. Nor has any political
| party the right to ask a continuation
This was abundantly | tage and gain, or whether we shall | in popular favor by excusing the
| system and blaming the individual
| From the day when State Treasurer
Kemble wrote his famous letter con-
taining his reference to ‘‘addition,
division and silence,” everywhere ac-
cepted as the shibboleth of cerrupt-
fon, to the “plum tree’ message of
the late M. S. Quay, the connection
between the State Treasury and po-
litics was reapetedly charged and
finally conclusively proven. And
from the Enterprise Bank and the
suicide of its cashier, from the rail-
road of “Bull” Andrews to the pres-
| ent loot of the Terasury; from the
| “per pound” and “per foot” rule of
| measurement as a means of covering
'
:
, it by meanness and by denying one-
can, my own election will mean min.
| a steal to the absence from the state
| of many of those directly connected
| therewith, and the threatened indict.
ment of every one high or low (with
| exceptions) responsible for the out-
| rage, there is a logical and conclusive
| sequence v hich smacks of guilt and
! collusion.
| The conclusion is therefore irre-
| sistible that there is a weak spot
somewhere in the system which pro.
| duces these results, and it is but be- |
| Ing fair to ourselves, and common
| business prudence prompts us, to
| seek a remedy, partially if not wholly
| effective until something better is
prescribed. In the event of Republi.
can success the result will be acclaim.
‘ed, of course, as an “organization”
| victory, with the old time party har-
‘mony restored on “the Hill,” and
however meritorious the career of a
| candidate may have been, I mean no
personal reflection or discredit to my
(opponent when I answer that no polit.
ical alchemist has yet produced in
| Pennsylvania a beneficiary of the
| “gang” completely independent of it
| after his election at their hands.
Not Pleasant But True.
| borers that infest wood will bore holes
| through books and also that cockroach-
These things, Mr. Chairman, are |
i not pleasant to say. The pity of it is |
‘en different kinds of borers that do
| that under our form of government
i conditions should exist to invite such
| eriticism. Nor should we be surpris-
{ed in view of it all to meet with
|some criticism when we ask for an
| application of Holy writ to Pennsyl-
vania politics. Certain It is that
they have not been so clean but
that an apnlication of Holy writ or
the penitentiary is needed. And we
would shirk an imperative duty if
we permitted the evil which we
charge produced present conditions
to continue to eat its poisonous way
without challenging the right of its
continued existence. If we are wrong
in our conclusions I invite the argu-
ment of my opponent to convince us.
One thing more in conclusion. My
| nomination for this office came un-
{ sought for and unasked. It carries
with it no obligation to any one. If
successful 1 will owe my election to
the people of Pennsylvania to whom
alone [ will be responsible for the
administration of the affairs of the
office. To them I here pledge the
work begun by Mr, Berry will be con.
tinued. .Investigation will not cease
until the last stain is removed, and
every stolen dollar recovered, in so
far as I can assist therein, As trustee
of the people I will render my ac-
count to them. For success I know
I must and do appeal for the con-
certed action of the enlightened
citizenship >f this State, confident
that appeal will not be in vain.
Awaiting your pleasure, I beg to re-
main. Very truly yours,
JOHN G. HARMAN.
SHEATZ ONLY A FIGUREHHEAD.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The question is asked as to what
Mr. John O Sheatz has to say of the
purpose of making the re-election
of Boles Penrose the issue of this
state contest. In fact, Mr. Sheatz.
though osteneibly the figurehead of
the machine campaign, is ‘not in
it,” so to speak. No matter how
much he may squirm, he cannot es-
cape from the issue, which is to de-
termine not merely whether Boies
Penrose is to return to the United
States Senate, but whether his Ma-
chine shall maintain its prestige and
power in the Commonwealth. That
is the paramount issue. Should John
O. Sheatz, who is but the king's
pawn in this game, be elected State
Treasurer the result would be justly
hailed as a victory of Penrose and
as a confrmation of machine rule. On
the other hand, the election of John
G. Harman would shatter the Mach-
ine, put an end to the career of
Penrose and open the door to all
Republicans in making a choice of
Upgited States Senator.
MISERLINESS.
Starving and Saving For Others to
Spend When You're Dead.
At the
“I'm not opposed to a man saving o By
money,” remarked the undertaker, Spelling CAROLINE
lighting a fresh cigar, “but I can’t help SPENCER.
feeling that it is wrong for one to do
School.
Copyright. 197, by Mary McKeon.
self comforts. It is because | see so
much of this that I feel this way.
“Whatever is the reason I must say
Is that when one has saved ap mosey | PU Seymour. von of Farmer Sey.
up mon kare . 4 Hatan '
by this self denial the ones who re-: oun hy gt ven a . Smting oF pary
ceive the money after death usually | 'S '2¢ cup bush. and his in
waste it. | numbered a dozen of the young men
“To illustrate this let me tell you of and girls of the neighborhood. Such
a specific case. A few years ago an parties are always given with the last
elderly woman died in our city. I was | run of maple sap and are simple af-
called to care for the remains. I as-| fairs. The guests all gather at the
sure you that the room into which I sugar bush, where the sweet sap has
went was one of the barest and most already been boiled down to thick
desolate places I ever saw. There was | sirup. and seat themselves on a log
none of those little things which go to |
make a room comfortable and cheer- | wille the sirup Is bofled a Jel Ton
ful. 1 couldn't but help thinking that | 0d then served around on clean maple
the poor woman's life had been a chips. There is snow yet left In the
dreary one. In a way I still think so. woods, and a dab of sirup dropped
“She was a maiden lady about sev- | on the snow produces maple wax.
enty. In the town was one woman
who had heen her friend. She sent |
word to me to bring the remains there, |
No one supposed the deceased had a |
cent In the world, When we were |
about to remove the body the people |
of the house called my attention to a !
small box which they said contained
all the effects of the dead woman,
“When we opened that box we found !
that it contained £35,000, the old lady's |
saving of a lifetime,
“In her efforts to hoard up this mon-
ey she had gone without comforts and
necessities: had denied herself every
little luxury. What for? Answer it
if you ean. I can't.
“A relative, the nearest one and the
only heir, came on from a middle At-
lantic state and took the remains home
with her for burial. She ales took the
money. On the day of the funeral she
had several hacks at a cost of $15 each,
then she made the driver of each hack
a present of 85, gave the driver of the |
hearse the same sum and each of the
two men who dug the grave $5 and
spent $2500 for a monument. The
rest of the £5,000 she blew. At the
end of six months every dollar of it
was gone,
“And that old lady had gone without |
necessities of life to accumulate it. |
“And, my friend, that is but one of |
several cases—yes, of scores of them—
that I could recite to you did I have
the mind."—Lewiston Journal.
BOOKWORMS.
There Are a Dozen Different Kinds of |
the Borers.
“One of the queerest superstitions,”
says a secondhand book dealer in this
city,” is the idea that the bookworm |
commits Immense ravages among
printed volumes and yet has never |
been seen. People think it bores holes |
through books and eats out large cavi-
ties in the middle of a volume, then
disappears, and the superstition even
goes so far as to assert that the book- |
worm will eat a hole that would hoid
a marble right in the middle of a
book, then vanish without leaving any
exit.
“The plain truth is that almost any
es do about as much harm to books
as any other insects. There are a doz-
more or less damage to books, and
the reason why the insects are not
more irequently caught is that they do
their work and generally leave the
book to enter the chrysalis state in oth-
er quarters. None of the boring worms |
are large, and even when a borer is
actually at work the sudden opening
of the book allows the insect to drop
out unobserved.
“American made books, however, are |
‘very little troubled by borers. There
are so many different kinds of chem-
feals used in the covers, bindings, pa-
per and paste that boring insects gen- |
erally get very sick at the stomach
before they have made their way far
into an American book, In southern |
Europe, however, great damage is of-
ten done to libraries not only by bor-
ers, but also by ants, which eat their
way into the heart of a book and leave |
galleries and chambers easily mistak- |
en for the work of the borers.”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, |
A Knocker That Meant Life.
80 cruel were some of the punish-
ments meted out to criminals in Eng-
land centuries ago that it was small
wonder the poor wretches claimed the
“right of sanctuary.” If they reached
a church or some other privileged place
the law could not touch them. A cur.
ous relic in connection with this cus-
tom exists today in the form of the
quaint knocker on the door of Durham
cathedral. The applicant having ham-
mered at the portal, one of the priests
inside would inspect him through the
eyes of the copper mask above the
knocker and after due parley would
admit the frightened criminal,
Following Instructions.
“Here, my poor man,” said a kind old
lady, “here Is a shilling for you. Now
don’t go and spend it in vile drink.”
“Thank you, ma'am,” answered the
tramp heartily, “I'll not. [ suppose
you was a-referring to the wretched
stuff they ‘as at the Dun Cow, mum?
Ah, but I'll go to the Black Bull. They
keep the right sort there!"—London
Spectator.
Active Enough.
Physician (reflectively)—H'm! The
case is one, I think, that will yield to
a mild sthnulant. Let me see your
tongue, madam, If you please. Hus-
band of Patient (hastily)—Doctor, her
tongue doesn’t need any stimulating. —
Pearson's Weekly,
| mother's possession.
' about it.
There is a general stickiness, a general
state of hilarity, and the girls go home
with wet feet and the young men with
wax on their chins,
In one sense this party referred to
was a great success. In another it was
a calamity. A sewing machine agent
| had been stopping at Farmer Haliday's
for the last two weeks while he beat
up the country. He happened to be a
young man and a taking fellow, but
there was no earthly reason for Burt
| Seymour to be jealous of him. Eunice
! Haliday and Burt had been engaged
for three or four months, and while
| she was naturally flattered at the com-
pliments paid to her by the agent,
whose name was French, they didn't
turn her head by any means. She saw
from the first that Burt was inclined to
be jealous, and she was therefore more
circumspect, but Burt's jealousy stiil
rankled. He took good care that the
| stranger shouldn't be Invited to the
sugar party, to which Eunice was duly
escorted by the host, but cheek is a
part of the stock in trade of agents of
all sorts, and no cne was greatly sur-
prised when Mr. i'rench showed up as
cool as a snow bank and took the big-
! gest chip in the collection.
As old Aunt Martha used to say, all
girls, that arrount to anything have a
spice of deviltry in their nature. Be
they ever so sweet and nice, there are
times when they like to hector. When
Eunice saw. with all the others, that
| the coming of the agent annoyed her
| lover and that Mr. French was in-
clined to put himself out in another
and more agreeable way to make
things a success, she came as near
! flirting with him as she could and miss
it. The harder Burt scowled and the
more he showed his vexation the more
reckless slic became. She didn't in-
tend to go too far, but just far enough
to punish him. He would be sullen
and sulky going home, but she would
make up with him before they reached
the gate—that is, she thought it would
be that way, but she was mistaken.
Burt referred to the agent as a “snide,”
a “squirt” and several other things,
and, elthough she only defended mild-
Iy, it was sufficient to keep his tem-
per hot. He announced that he had
been disappointed in her; that there
was uo such thing as loyalty known to
her sex: that a few compliments from
a “masher” were valued by her more
than his enduring love, and when the
gate was reached she announced that
she wouldn't submit to be browbeaten,
aud he flourished his arm in reply and
exclaimed:
“Farewell. false girl! [ have loved
you as no man ever loved before, but
vou have let a fool part us. I may be
; sunstruck this summer or die of a
broken heart or commit suicide, but
‘twill not mutter to you. You will have
| simply broken one more human heart—
shattered the faith of another man in
woman's integrity.”
Of course Eunice went into the house
prepared to brave it out, and of course
it wasn't fifteen minutes before her
mother suspected that something had
transpired. nad whisked her into the
family bedroom to say:
“Now, then, has that Hattie Jones
| been saying mean things about you
again?"
“No, ma!” replied the daughter as
she burst into sobs. >
By and by all the details were in the
The girl did not
deny that she had flirted a bit, but
she had not really meant anything seri-
ous. She was deeply in love with
Burt Seymour, and as she thought of
his dying of sunstroke and going to
his grave believing she cared for any
other man, no matter how many sew-
ing machines he could sell in a week,
it almost broke her heart.
“Well, now, stop crying while I talk
to you,” said the mother. “You should
not have flirted, and Burt should not
have made a fool of himself. He's
gone away to chew the rag, as your
cousin Ben puts it. He thinks he'll get
a letter from you in a day or two ask-
ing his forgiveness. Then he'll take a
week before coming around and con-
descending to make up. First and
foremost, you are not to write him a
line. Second and hindmost, he's got to
come to you if there is any coming
Your father was just another
such Idiot when he was running after
me, and I made him crawl. That's
why I have always had the whip hand
of him.”
“But you know how set Burt is in
his ways,” pleaded Eunice.
“But you can be just as set In
yours.”
“But suppose he's found dead with
my photo on his broken heart.”
“Suppose our old dog should bark
his tail off! You are going to do just
as [ say, and tbat ends it. I'm your
mother, and I know something about
men, and if I don’t help you to bring
that smart young man back within two
weeks I'll never darn another pair of
tocks for your father.”
One event invariably follows the oth-
er in the country. After the suga:
party. about two weeks after, cones
the lust duy of the district school, or
the close of the term. Word goes out
for ten miles around. and the 200 young
sud old who attend manage somehow
to get into the schoolhouse. Then twe
persons choose sides, and the whole
crowd lines up, and the schoolmaster
pronounces the words. The spelling
school for the Seymour district was
announced for a date two weeks su*.
sequent to the sugar party and the
lovers’ quarrel. No Burt called at the
Haliday farmhouse to make up. The
days passed, and poor Eunice went
about with tears in her eyes. Even
her father noticed that the daughter
was looking red eyed and pale faced
and asked the wife if a doctor had not
better be consulted.
“Don’t you worry, Joseph,” was all
the reply he got, and about all he ex-
pected, but to the daughter the mother
said:
“Eunice, when the spelling school
comes off | am going to bring that
young man to the mark. He Is one of
the Lest spellers around here, isn’t he?”
“Yes, ma.”
“Well, so are you. Some folks say
you are better than he is. If you ave
on one side and he on the other, you
are going to beat him.”
“But suppose I can't”
“I'm just going to pray that you
will.”
“Then he'll be madder yet. Maybe
he'll go right home and commit sutf-
cide.”
“And maybe he'll go right home and
get some sense in his head. I'm run-
ning this show, and I want you to do
Just as 1 tell you.”
There was the usual big turnout
when the evening came. The sewing
machine agent had departed for othe
fields, and Eunice arrived at the school-
house in the company of her father
and mother. Almost immediately she
heard that Burt Seymour had come
alone with his horse and buggy. She
also heard that their misunderstanding
wag being gossiped about. The school-
master was well known to the Hall
days, and a few whispered words from
Mrs. Haliday perfected her plans. It
was announced that Mr. Burt Sey-
mour and Miss Eunice Halliday would
choose sides, and they found them-
selves at once the center of interest.
Each sought to decline, but each was
pushed forward Each line when fili-
ed numbered eizhty, and then the
spelling began, The first five minutes
did the business for twenty.
In a quarter of an hour there wese
only ten spellers on their feet. Five
minutes later Eunice and Burt alone
were left. They stood facing each oth:
er, though not looking Into each other's
eyes. Burt looked obstinate, and the
girl had her chin in the air. It was
called the greatest contest of the doec-
ade. For twenty minutes the teacher
hunted out the hard words. but could
trap neither. Then Burt was caught
and went down, and the victory was
awarded the girl amid cheers. Five
minutes later the cYowd broke up, and
Eunice was huntinz for her wrops
when a hand was laid on ber arm and
a voice whispered:
“Euny, how do you spell ‘idiot,’ ‘for-
give’ and ‘love? ”
“The simplest way.” she replied as
she turned to Burt.
“Then ride home with me.
my buggy on purpose.”
“Of course it worked,” said Mrs.
Haliday that night to herself after
making a cackling noise in her throat.
“If it had been left to Eunice, now—
but it wasn’t. When a smart young
man thinks he's smarter than an old
married woman it's time he was spell-
ed down a few and made to take a
back seat.”
I brought
Duel Averted.
Carducci, the great Italian poet, came
near having a duel one day. He pos-
sessed a fine spirit of contradiction and
had the characteristics of a fighter.
Once while traveling in Lombardy he
was in a railway compartment with an
army officer, who did not recognize
him. Conversation turned upon the
latest literary productions. They spoke
of a poem by the author of “Odes Bar-
bares,” which had just appeared.
“This Carducel,” exclaimed the offi-
cer, with enthusiasm, “is a superb gen-
ius, the greatest since Dante, the equal
of Dante himself.”
“Humph!” said the other.
ius? That's too much to say.
him mediocre.”
“Mediocre, sir? You don't know any-
thing about it.”
“Oh, you are incapable of judging.”
apm
“You!”
“Sir!”
“Sir!”
The officer handed his card to his dis-
putant. The other smiled. “There's
mine.” And on it was the name “Glo-
sue Carducci, professor at the Univer-
sity of Bologna.”
The officer, removing his hat, polite-
ly bowed.—Le Cri de Paris.
“A gen-
I find
Heirs of the Air,
The owls, solemn birds, strongly im-
bued with the obligations of the mar
ried state, mostly begin to sit as soon
as the first egg appears, so that the
eggs, having a fair field and no favor,
hatch out in precisely the same order
as that in which they are laid. With
the majority of smaiier birds another
habit prevails, for these do not com-
mence to sit in earnest until the full
clutch, perhaps a dozen In number, is
complete. This obviously means that
the earlier eggs in the nest have had
time to grow cold and must be warmed
up again. As a result, the eggs are
hatched out in the inverse order of lay-
ing. It is a good thing that bird life
is devold of litigation, otherwise what
terrible arguments this difference be
tween first lald and first hatched might
lead to.