Bellefonte, Pa., July 19,1912.
IMMORTALITY.
Two caterpillars crawling on a leaf,
By some strange accident in contact came;
Their conversation, passing all belief,
Was that same argument, the very same,
That has been “proed and conned,” from man
to man;
Yea, ever since this wondrous world began.
The ugly creatures,
Deaf and dumb and blind,
Devoid of features
That adorn mankind,
Were vain enough, in dull and wordy strife,
To speculate upon the future life,
The first was optimistic, full of hope—
The second, quite dyspeptic, seemed to
mope.
Said number one, “I'm sure of our salvation.”
Said number two, “I'm sure of our damnation.
Our ugly forms alone would seal our fates,
And bar our entrance through the golden
gates,
Suppose that death should take us unawares,
How could we climb the golden stairs?
1f maidens shun us as they pass by,
Would angels bid us welcome to the sky?
I wonder what great crimes we have cemmit-
ted,
That leave us so forlorn, so unpitied?
Perhaps we've been ungrateful, unforgiv-
ing.
"Tis plain to me, life is not worth the living.”
“Come, come, cheer up,” the jovial one re-
plied—
“Let's take a look upon the other side:
Suppose we cannot fly like moths and mil-
lers,
Are we to blame for being caterpillars?
Will that same God that doomed us crawl the
earth,
A prey to every bird that's given birth,
Forgive our captor as he eats and sings,
And damn poor us because we have no
wings?
If we can’t skim the air, like owl or bat,
The worm will turn for a’ that.”
They argued through the Summer—
Autumn nigh;
The ugly things composed themselves to
die—
And so. to make their funeral quite complete,
Each wrapped him in his little winding-sheet.
The tangled web encompassed them full
soon—
Each for his coffin made him a cocoon.
All through the Winter's chilling blasts they
lay.
Dead to the world, aye, dead as any human
clay.
Lo! Spring comes forth with all her
warmth and love;
She brings sweet justice from the realms
above—
She breaks the chrysalis—she resurrects the
dead—
Two butterflies ascend, encircling her head.
And so, this emblem shall forever be
A sign of Immortality.
~—By Joseph Jefferson.
LOVE AND THE TERROR.
Before the long virgin-pine piazza of
Elixir Springs Hotel upon which she sat,
with a complement of unim t
adults, Thomas Jefferson busied
with making a grave in the sand for the
limp remains of a hawk—his choicest
possession, as affording the basis of an
unending series of funerals in which there
resided, to his mind, a charm which age
could not wither ner custom stale. If he
reckoned, besides, upon the seduction of
the sight of her, he reckoned wildly. A
dainty mite of a girl, in a crisp, white
dress, a large, blue bow, perched like a
butterfly on her short, blond curls, she
drew near, and stood watching him with
absorbed and respectful attention, he ap-
parently oblivious of her presence.
“I want to bury the bird,” she mention-
ed casually.
Thomas Jefferson took no notice.
“Boy,” she said in a tone more per-
em , “I want to bury the bird.”
e slowly and clumsily proceeded with
his task as if she had not
“I want to bury the bird,” she wailed
with sudden tears; and then there dawn-
ed a faint, beatific grin upon Thomas
Jefferson's chubby countenance, which
imself | her
{fund of innocent Reinert ent giles. |
i t
hero-worship awakened by the more ac-
| complished whittlers of sticks and chew.
ers of tobacco among the gentlemen, to
| the deep joy of experiment upon the
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of frill
of stocking—what did it matter to
im? He only knew nebulously that there
She was "different, entrancingly differ-
ent; so much, at least, was certain—cer-
tain from his first
stocki and small, pink sli uk
match the bow in her curly head,” It wa
a vision ue in experience;
then HEL A succumbed, had he but
known it, to the rosy sli and stock-
ings. But when could the masculine
heart analyze the spell to which it yield-
She was different, amazingly different.
The little girls whom he had known
habitually wore colors which would not
show dirt in shoes and stockings and
dresses, and plaited their hair in tight
little Di Jails, and held fast to the rule
that children should be seen and not
heard; while she was a little queen, as
accustomed to adoration as to pink stock-
ings and slippers she had also, he was
su uently to discover, and white. And
her attire was always like that of the
flowers of the field. And the whole place
did her homage, and sought her capri-
cious favor. ly Thomas Jefferson held
aloof, though never far aloof.
Feigning to ignore her presence, he
tu somersaults before her—or came
acquisition of accomplishment per-
mitted. Puffing his cheeks like a young
Boreas, he achieved painful snatches of
windy whistle. He threw stones with
large intention, if not with conspicuously
certain aim. He ostentatiously paraded
peripatetic feasts of his favorite bread,
molasses and other delicacies for her
envy, and took, for her astonishment, the
hugest mouthfuls possible for his powers
to com He snatched off the caps of
babies in the laps of objurgatory nurses.
He hit at unoffending small .boys. He
laid himself across main doorways and
defied the passage of the public. In a
word he spared nothing of accomplish-
ment or of derring-do to command him
to his fair. And yet, I repeat, he ‘was not
of the common herd who surrounded
her with flatteries: When, upon rare
occasions, he addressed himself to her, it
was with a fine masculine scorn.
"You are urgly,” he would say to her,
in his slow, deliberate speech, looking at
askiiece from behind the obstruction
of his cloudy steel-rimmed glasses, and
kicking negligently in the dirt with his
bare, brown heel. And she, unused to
contempt would hte » Joe voice i
weep, or perchance, in less melting
strike at him with her little hand; in
cither case crying passionately, “I ain't
"You, Thomas Jefferson Tunbury, I'm
going to tell your pa on you, and make
him whip you,” Miss Betty told him more
than once, obtuse to the subtler aspects
of the situation.
“An’' I goin’ to make the bears eat you
up, an’—an’ I goin’ to make the rattle-
pinakes bite you,” he would retort calm-
y.
Miss Betty was a plump, little old lady
who had retired with a m com
tence from the career of milliner in a
contiguous mountain town. compe-
tence was in part the fruit of her own
honest toil, in part the legacy of a recent-
ly deceased brother, to whose me
she scrupulously paid the respect of in-
as near furiing them as his imperfect |
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odest pe-
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flounced, ai Sadar clea, o
adornmen
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her mother
rs. debarred
open
that very time
what avail her prohibitions when |
J new an? Of what aval pe
“They 't want any your
Thomas erson,” when
wake of his charmer
or
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and me and show us the way to the
store?” she asked with a winning smile.
Thomas jefiereom, Fontinved ig
sorbing occupation ng a -
head, tied 40 astring, in long, slow cir-
“No,” he said com, z
Nevertheless, he saun behind when
they set out under the escort of another
—Willie White, her open slave, and a
rival not to bedespised; he being Thomas
Jefferson's senior by three years, and
richer than he by two jposingly large
front teeth of the second issue.
Jefferson, I say, followed, and not alone
because the store, picturesquely situated
in the second story of a saw-mill, and
tastefully embellished at the entrance
with a wooden box covered carelessly
with a pane of glass and containing two
large and lively rattlesnakes, was to him
an enchanting place—indissolubly asso-
ciated with large, pale ginger-cakes of a
brown-paper flavor, and sticks of candy
gorgeously striped with the rich red of
aniline. Habitually he attached himself
to anybody who was going anywhere.
And how much more to a party contain-
ing his small enchantress. in a little, sky-
blue cambric bonnet as different from the
old established sunbonnet of his experi-
ence as she herself was rare and exotic?
He went as a matter of course, and so
there befell to him the bitterness of hear-
ing Willie's boast :
“You love me the best of everybody
here, don’t you, Fredericka?” and her
gua concession, barbed for himself
with a glance of scorn:
“I love you the best of Thomas Jep'-
son.”
Ah, many 2 stick of the striped candy,
many a givgercale, it took to dull the
sting of that ingratitude! Was it not for
her that he had "shown off” to the utter-
most, and not, as he might well have flat-
tered himself, wholly in vain? Had not
her bright eyes rained influence only that
morning, as, kneeling beside a convenient
rain puddle much frequented by the pigs
of the establishment, he had made mud
marbles—made them in ostentation of |.
the power to make, rows of them drying
on the edge of the
piazza, to say nothing of the pocketful
already in active service? Had she not,
with tears, begged to share the fruit of
his skill, coyly withheld from her? Truly
in femininity resides eternal mystery.
He had not yet, however, fully tried
with her the power of discourse. Dis-
daining the partiality of addressing any
particular member of the party, he re-
marked, on their homeward way, as to
the circumambient air, in a voice husky
with ginger.cake,
“We have fo’ caouws, but we ain't
got but three caouws naouw. I don't
keer if they did kill Belle, she was sech a
mean ol’ caouw! An’ we had her for din-
ner yestiddy, an’ for supper las’ night, an’
for breakfas’ this mornin,’ an’ I ken have
all of her I want, an’—"
“And my share,” Mrs. Brantley inter-
polated, with generous haste; “only,
please, please, Thomas Jefferson, dont
call her Belle!"
But why should auld acquaintance be
forgot, even when in the form of irregu-
lar chunks dished up in soup-plates! No
reason whatsoever was apparent to
Thomas Jefferson then or subsequently.
"I feel as if we were a party of canni-
bals,” Mrs. Brantley said to her husband.
“And the cooking! And the flies! And
there aren't any children here now for
Fredericka to play with—"
* ’s Thomas Jefferson,” he said,
a
here theoe. weskar dhe toed ata
ree oquently.
“And now, if you are ready to go, I am.”
was embellished by a large pair of steel variably wearing a short, on the other hand, was not
rimmed spectacles with so curious- | moreen petticoat with the cream-colored iopether ly.
ly bedimmed with dirt that he was - | lace- -sack, or whatever | * don’t want to go,” she said; “there
ed to look around rather than th else of quaintly cheerful t she | 's so much nice dirt here—and Thomas
them—a necessity which imparted to his tted herself to assume for the even- Jepson.”
expression a sinister quality out of keep- As part of Elixir ngs, But he is always making you cry,”
ing with his tender years. she made set a earnest apology to expostulated. And the child,
“You are a cry-baby,” he remarked | small rl's mother ( Isaac by i of her own sex
sionately. . Brantley) for Thomas Jefferson, and | from the fair retort, "And what, pray, is
yas ," she vet so Diese Other things about the establishment that 1o the juipiee? wah BE aller.
mother—an a; to criticism, uen isclaim - ware blow impendi
of the day before—flew from the weve) | to en Sienty aii ayy in
and carried her off. And so ended the
first chapter of Thomas Jefferson's first
romance
It had already been a wonderful sum-
mer for Thomas Jefferson even before sham
she came, one i
formation im to goers. arrivin
Yo ae ie, “Go : pre
minary entirely , “Go away,
Thomas Jefferson!” addressed to the i
staring small scn of the house.
That of f sel; was something ev that
perpetual “Go away, Thomas Jefferson!”
which added y
fore she came—a summer of proud privi-
lege, such as that of going to sleep in
the middle of the room where they danc-
ed at night, upon the dancers the
whole Ie bility Dt Sxoiding one’s
prostrate form, instead o prosaic-
; of having all priv d
so much of pipuancy to
staying.
A wonderful summer, truly, even be- turies.
oF knw things ate wot like what
used to,”
“Isaac!” Miss Betty exclaimed blank-
“Isaac? reckon j
over him, Thomas Jefferson made pies in | around the house
his favorite mud-hole
i she in morning fresh-
ng, as she approached ing f
ness of white frock and smal
bonnet.
“I'm
she
had passed from regret to ; and
only pleasurable anticipation in
her tone.
> of is onsiica ro
posure, at
“Huh?” he said.
“I'm going home to-morrow on the
choo-choo cars,” she vaun
He turned upon her his red-calico
shoulder, and dipped his once more
in the plastic mud.
: i dowt keer 'f you are,” he said val.
antly.
Aud in maintenance of the ghastly pre-
ence on the fal
wanted sprightliness: kicked at
and with more
trod perti y upon the .
stolidly
ies relative to his every belonging,
the meaning and motive of his every act,
Solemnly, at last, his heated
brow, the man .
wi
Se of the general public. He had
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of ion.
But he no heed. The very kick
with which, as always, he rewarded his
rescuers. was absent and dreamy. Was
not her dainty hand throwing him kisses?
A moment the miracle A moment
more, and in all the fair mountain land-
scape there remained, to testify of it and
her, only a thin trail of smoke.—By Annie
Steger Winston, in the Century Magazine.
A New Cure for Insomnia.
“I sleep fairly well,” said a man, recent-
ly, “but seldom soundly, and I frequently
wake in the morning with aches in my
limbs, joints, and vertebrz. 1 never feel
supple until I have had my cold bath and
a brisk rub with a rough towel.”
Sleep should be invigorating, not en-
ervating, and the following theory was
advanced by a man who, in his earlier
days, had slept for many months under
the stars in veltd and jungle:
“It is the mattress and the pillow that .
are responsible for half the troubles of
the insomniac. The ideal resting-place
is the ground, with its natural covering
of soft grass. The next most comfortable
bed is a wood floor overlaid with a soft
carpet or rug. The yielding mattress
does not rest the muscles, which remain
all night in a condition of alternating re-
laxation and tension. When the sleeping
place is fixed and hard they adapt them-
selves to it and remain quiescent.
“Furthermore, the spine and nerve cen-
ters ot the bed-sleeper are exposed all
night to the heat of the mattress, which
is the cause of the sense of enervation
so commonly felt when one awakens.
“The pillow is even more enervating
than the mattress. A well-stuffed sad-
dle, whose cleft center permits the cir-
culation of air, soft, yet unyielding, is the
ideal head-rest. Next to it, perhaps,
should be placed the Japanese neck-block.
“When the discomfort of the experi-
ment has been overcome by a few nights
of perseverance a wonderful improve-
Sent will be discerned in the quality of
eep.”
There is a certain languid, dull feeling
which overtakes an energetic man some
times. He wonders what can be the mat-
ter with him. He has no ambition. He
loses interest even in his business. In
such a case the man usually stirs up his
liver with the first pill or portion which
comes convenient to his hand. But stir-
ring up is not what he needs. He needs
building up. Unconsciously he has put
into his work more strength each day '
than could be made
food and each day's sleep. So that with |
every day there's an increasing overdraft
Hains: his'account in the Bank of Health.
at overdraft has to be made good be-
fore the man will recover his strength
and energy. The use of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery gives marvel-
ous results in such cases of “run-down” |
health. It contains no alcohol. It is not
a whiskey medicine. It strengthens the |
stomach, cleanses the blood, increasing '
the quantity and richness of the vital
a healthy appetite and sound refreshing |
sleep.
~The ent of Agriculture has
issued a Farmers’ Bulletin No. 464 on
"The Eradication of Quack-Grass.” |
ed on the knowledge of the author's close |
study of the grass under field conditions
has resulted in a complete, cheap and
ractical method of icating the pest.
This bulletin can be had applying to
an or di
ture.
dictionary,”
he said. Certain it is that about the only
place $i Which some women could | Hm
or sympathy they need, would
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———
—Little Ruth was crying piteously
because of an tooth, ig her
father said: "Ruth, I have been over to
see your Cousin Hugh, and he has the
measles.”
“Well,” sobbed the little sufferer, “why
didn’t he send me some?”
The conditions under which we live
and Solk have pe the Ametjcan peo-
na users. Naturally many
plea ma on the market that are sim-
ply to meet the requirements of
those to whom any pill is a pill, and one
De a pe Ty
even
stand Dr. Pierce’
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got
clothes mixed. “Oh, mamma,” she cried, |
fis
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
Heaven give our years of fading strength
Indemnifying fieetness.
And those of youth, a seeming length,
i to their sweetness.
~Campbell.
Mrs. Gesine Lemcke, the cooking teach-
er, is a strong advocate of a vegetable
diet for the summer. She says the dishes
included in a vegetarian diet are quite as
nourishing as meat dishes and are dain-
tier to serve.
“When you talk to women about the
no meat dinners,” said Mrs. Lemcke, to a
New York Sun reporter, “most of them
at once think of fish. Fish is a delicate
and delightful food, but it must be ad-
mitted that its cooking calls for a certain
amount of care and dexterity in its prep-
aration. When it is fried, rather than
baked or broiled, great care must be
given to ventilation so that odors may be
av
“But beyond fish there are many kinds
of food which may chops and
steaks and Shickens. re js rice, for
instance, which is not properly appre-
ciated in this country, although the fa-
mous curry chef Joe, who was at Sherry's
for several seasons, did much to popu-
larize it.
“There are the various paste foods
used by the Italians which are far more
in favor with Americans than rice. The
natives of Italy are natural vegetarians, i
living largely on green salads, breads and
various garden products.
“Fruit salads, made from fruits com-
bined with lettuce or romaine and served
; with a French dressing, are finding Seat
y
approval with American diners.
are refreshing, appetizing and quite as
satisfying as the usual meat dishes at this
summer season, when the palate demands
a change.
Bananas, which are among the most
nourishing of fruits, should have a place
in all fruit salads. Oranges and grape-
fruit appear among the best salad fruits:
pears and apples combine delightfully
with celery. Every no-meat dinner
should have a bountiful dish of fruit
salad, varied from day to day as to ma-
terials. It should be kept in a cool re-
frigerator for an hour or so before being
served, as this improves it largely in
flavor.
“One of the 400 or 500 dishes made
from eggs should appear at the no-meat
dinner. In this country we associate
eggs with breakfast, but the French cooks
have taught us the delicious things that
may be prepared from eggs in combination
with vegetables and sauces which make
them pleasing to the eye and the palate. |
At the old Hoffman house they made a
a combination of a tomato, peeled and
scooped out und filled with egg, baked |
and served with a bearnaise sauce. This
was called eggs Benedict and was famous
with epicures. But eggs and omelets
, offer an almost unlimited field for vary-
ing a bill of fare. You could serve eggs
in a different style every day of a year |
and still have several unused recipes.
“Cheese is another of the misunder-
stood foods. Many people think of
cheese as something that comes after
. dinner, but it makes the best part of the
up by each day's |
talian dinner in its many combinations
with vegetables and macaroni.
“Then there is the cheese, fondue—
cheese cooked together with eggs and
baked till golden brown. These are
among the dishes that should be cultivat-
. ed for the home table.”
In spite of all examples of white and’
black, the fact remains that more colors
than black are eombined wie white this |
' season, says 2 New York Sun writer. i :
fluid. It nourishes the nerves and gives There is a decided liking for the light . Sich. case the vice President “shall act as
clear greens with white, for blues of the
cornflower class and even darker tones
prestige in Paris. In sheer stuffs over
white these tones are very lovely, gay
without being too vivid, and even in the
heavier materials they are cooled and
softened by the predominating white.
The Bac) Srestmalers are even
using orange shades tangerine
class and with considerable success. A
tangerine taffeta and draped back
bodice with a skirt, chemisette, big
collar and short, wide undersleeves of
linen a jour sounds startling but was
picturesque, and a fanciful little coat of
tangerine lace trimmed taffeta looked
exceedingly well over a frock of sheer
te.
meant more than | whi
Coats separate and en suite are im-
portant factorsin summer dress this year
models.
Some of these, in silk,are softly girdled
and have skirts or We
is said
vogue, at least so far as house
evening wear are concerned, will
over into the winter. Yes, already
is talk of fall and winter modes.
even been a few fad open-
Jil
counting, but of course the model frocks
exhibited merely serve the purpose of
exploiting the materials. Sometimes they
the guesses of clever folk and
| doubtless be modish enough when
comes, but there is no way of know-
ing positively at this moment which way
the cat of fashion will jump in the au-
tumn.
The designers of these far-in-advance
modes have taken up the plaited skirt
idea as a safe compromise nar-
row and full skirts and have done a
deal with plaited flounces and evenskirts
entirely plaited. As materials the manu-
facturers seem to have faith in
loose woven stuffs and in the con-
tinued popularity of weaves on the tow-
eling order, and also of the corded and
ribbed woolens.
but a continuance of the
late Jesson favorites, with emphasis
placed, naturally, on the deeper tones.
All the browns, especially on the ecaille
are prominent, and certain
ed to do well, as are
LR peo ie
m avor sum-
mer, though there are innumerable gray-
mixture of She gray ald white or gray
or tailored costumes.
Monitor.
E
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office. |
on what the manufacturers are fi
Deadlock on President po
Vice President Not
Improbable.
SITUATION UNIQUE.
Ko Candidate Has Majority of Electors or States
as Far as Pigured.
—
Out of the complicated political situa-
tion, as it now appears, may arise a dead-
lock that will prevent the selection of
either a President or vice President be-
fore March 4, 1913. In that event the
functions of the Presi would de-
volve upon the Secretary of State, who
would continue to act as President until
the new solved the deadlock or
a new election was held.
This is but one of the knotty problems
that have grown out of the involved situ-
ation resulting from the determination of
Colonel Roosevelt to head a third party
movement. Thatitis a real possibility
is proved by an examination into the
facts as they exist.
The electoral college consists of 531
Yokes, Ald a majority v3 266, With Taft,
Roosevelt and Wilson making a three-
cornered fight, it is quite possible that
neither will get the required majority.
The States that can be counted as cer.
tain for Wilson are: Alabama, 12; Ari-
zona, 3; Arkansas, 9; Colorado, 6; Flori-
da, 6: Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 13; Louis.
: pp, 10;
Missouri, 18; North Carolina, 12; Okla-
, homa, 10; South Carolina, 9; Tennessee,
112; Texas, 20; Virginia, 12. This gives
him 184 electoral votes, or 82 short of a
majority. The best fighting ground for
the Democrats would found in these
States: Indiana, 15; New York, 45;
Ohio, 14; West Virginia, 8, and Pennsyl-
vania, 38, a total of 130 votes. If Wilson
fails to get 82 out of this 130 or else-
where, the election is most certain to be
thrown into the House of Representa-
tives, since the remainder of the States
doubtless will be divided between Roose-
velt and Taft.
Under the provisions of the Constitu-
tion, if no candidate for ident re-
ceives a majority of the electoral votes,
then the House of Representatives shall
proceed immediately to elect a President
from the three candidates having the
highest number of votes. In making
this selection each State shall have one
vote, and in order to elect it is necessary
for a candidate to have a majority of all
the States. As there are 49 States, it
will require 25 to elect.
According to the political and faction-
al complexions of the delegations the
States would line up as follows:
For Wilson—Alabama, Arizona, Arkan-
sas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
| sippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia, a total of 22.
For Tatt—California, Connecticut, Del-
aware, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts,
‘ Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Ver-
mont, Wisconsin and Wyoming, a total
of 15.
For Roosevelt—lowa, Kansas, Minneso-
ta, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon and
Washington, a total of 7.
Thus Wilson would lack four votes of
a majority. . Taft would be short 10 votes
and Roosevelt 18, Four States, Maine,
Nebraska, New Mexico and Rhode Is-
land, have tied delegations, in which
there are just as many Democrats as Re-
publicans.
The Constitution makes provision for
a deadlock in the House over the elec-
| tion of a President by specifying that in
President, and it provides for the elec-
tion of a vice President by the Senate,
i
"and for the violet, which has gained much requiring that the Senate take the two
candidates having the highest votes and
from them choose a vice President. Each
| Senator has one vote and it requires a
| majority to elect.
| nder this provision the contest proba-
| bly would be between Marshall, the Dem-
ocratic candidate for vice President, and
either Sherman, the Republican nomi-
nee, or the running mate of Colonel
Roosevelt, whoever he may be. As but
two candidates can be voted for in the
Senate, it would be a fight between a
Democrat Sng a Repetlican, hich
would, at first, a to sim
situation. But one existing condi-
tions a deadlock would be just as proba-
Ble here as over the selection of a Presi-
t.
As there are 96 members of the Sen-
ate, a majority would be 49. As now
constituted there are 44 Democratic Sen-
ators and 50 Republicans, with two va-
cancies. The Democrats are short five
votes of enough to elect a Democratic
vice President and if the Republicans
were to vote solidly for the Republican
candidate, they would have one more
| could prevent the Republicans
i herman.
ge
the other hand, if Roosevelt's run-
ning mate should be the candida
foe Marsiiall there ould,
enty of Regu
would deci ne to vote and thus ent
| an election. Many of them would prefer
to see a Democrat occupy the office rath-
er than have the Roosevelt ticket win.
Under these circumstances a deadlock
over the selaction of 2 Prosiden; or Lice
President in Congress is a » possibili-
, Neither President Taft nor vice
dent Sherman oa Serve a yi Lig
longer than noon o ourth 0
March, as the Constitution specifically
Himits Shei term to our YS
ut t aw provi succes-
sion to the Presiden
vice
President and the of State is
nine es kn Cot
uen
ue 4, when the Presidential
term upon
devolve the duties of and ities
capacity until the deadlock was broken.
a the Secretary of State is not
limited by the Constitution, but he serves
until his successor is appointed and con.
firmed by the Senate,