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Bellefonte, Pa., April 10, 1925.
ALL MEN ARE TYRANTS.
By Levi A. Miller.
Thinkest thou that there is no tyranny but
that
Of blood and chains? The despotism of
vice—
The weakness and wickedness of luxury-—
The negligence—the apathy—the evils
Of sensual sloth, produce ten thousand
tyrants,
Whose delegated cruelty surpassés
The worst acts of one energetic master,
However harsh and hard in his own bear-
ing.—Byron.
Man is born a tyrant. Animals,
from the smallest to the greatest, are
tyrants.
Women wear iron heels and delight
in grinding them into yielding, quiv-
ering flesh. Vegetable growths are
tyrannical in their way, and the very
stars seek to rule each other. The
word itself is hateful to a civilized, in-
telligent people, but Darwin overcame
that by using the expression, “Survi-
val of the fittest.” It is but a syno-
nym for tyranny. The disposition of
one man to take advantage of anoth-
er is just as natural as for one dog to
snatch a bone from another. It is
through fear only that one dog is re-
strained from robbing every other
dog. So with low-cast humanity. The
savage snatches everything he can
get his hands on, regardless of the
rights of the owner.” He is only re-
strained by fear of punishment. The
thief who depends on pilfering for a
livelihood is only kept from stealing
everything he sees through fear of
being caught.
Were the laws against robbery sus-
pended for a time, what alot of
thieves we would have. This reminds
me of an incident that occurred some
years ago, at Pittsburgh. Two ty-
rants robbed a poor cripple of all the
money he possessed, which was only
fifty cents. They became so enraged
because the amount was so meager
that they dragged him to the incline
railroad track and bound him secure-
ly to a rail and left him. A pedes-
trian passing by noticed him in his
sad predicament and cut the ropes
that bound him just four minutes be-
fore the incline train came crashing
along and thus saved his life. This
verified my contention, that all men
are tyrants.
This merely goes to show that a
great many only lack the opportunity
to become regular freebooters. They
may not know that they are thieves
and robbers, and if an opportunity is
not afforded for developing the latent
disposition, they may never know it,
and die honest and respected.
In some, the disposition to take un-
due advantage, and to get that which
belongs to another, without an equiv-
alent, is so strong that it crops out in
their business transactions. If caught
at it they are sometimes denounced
as rascals, but oftener pointed out as
shrewd, sharp business men.
This is one of the fashionable forms
of tyranny. The tyrant has a grip on
his victim, and will not relax it until
he has squeezed all the gold out of
him he can. Moreover, he delights in
making his victim feel that he is at
his mercy. He may not do this in a
particularly offensive way, yet he does
it. The victim may be humble; kiss
the hand that throttles him, and pay
homage to the fellow-creature that
lords it over him. He may cry out
against tyranny and oppression in bit-
terest tones; swear by all the gods
that if he were in that man’s place he
would make the hearts of his subjects
glad, and all that sort of thing. If,
perchance, the wheel of fortune stops
at his niche in the great living wall,
does he cling to his benevolent ideas?
Does he use his influence and means
to make the burdens of the downcast
lighter, to lift the prostrate to their
feet, and to bring prosperity to those
who, like himself, had a hard battle
with the world? Occasionally, or
probably only semi-occasionally. He
soon gets over the habit of walking
over the heads of the common herd;
gathering where he has not sown, and
dispensing favors where they are like-
ly to bring the largest and quickest
return.
In slavery times it was fully dem-
onstrated that slaves made the hard-
est masters. The common field hand,
who had writhed and smarted under
- the last of the cruel driver, when rais-
ed to the position of overseer plied the
whip with a heavier hand, and increas-
ed the task with less mercy than the
boss of whom he complained so bitter-
ly while yet a common hand. The
same is true in nearly all the classes
of laborers. It is not every one who
will be thus, but the spirit is there,
and it remains through all ranks. In
some it is much stronger than in oth-
ers.
The under dog in the fight howls
and whines, and begs for quarter un-
til it gets on top, then it growls and
chews, and tears with a vengeance,
never once thinking, much less caring,
for the pain and injury it is inflicting
on the other dog.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
tle lye was put into the water, and
they were allowed to boil hard for
some time.
When they were lifted out each egg
was beautifully decorated with the
Spring began the other night,
colors and pattern of the calico.
At least so Mother said,
But I can’t find a single trace
Of her to save my head.
In Austria eggs are given as pres-
| ents at Easter, and the Emperor pre-
| sents a great number of them to var-
ious people. They are frequently
composed of silver or gold, mother-of-
| pearl or bronze, and often contain
some useful present, a piece of jewel-
! ry or some little knicknack intended
. to give pleasure to the recipient.
The pussy willows haven't mewed
The four o'clock is late,
High prices make the buttercup
A very doubtful fate.
The crocuses can’t seem to croak
Nor dandelions to roar
I wonder if it all is due
To that old German war?
Easter Hare Everywhere.
If you are going to give an Easter
party the invitations for it may be; Everywhere along with the candy
written on egg-shaped pieces of thin and hard-boiled eggs in confectioners’
white cardboard, or they may be in the | windows we see the rabbit, or more
form of a little chick. correctly, the hare. He trundles a
‘eight inches long and three
When your guests arrive let the |
first game be an egg hunt. |
Give each one a little fancy basket |
filled with finely cut tissue paper, in
which to put the egg that he finds. |
The eggs can be hidden all over a:
certain part of the house, and in as!
funny places as possible. The best
kind of eggs to use are those of white
china, or you could cut them from
white paper yourself.
If you wish to give a prize for the
greatest number of eggs found, you
could have a little chick or rabbit filled
with candy.
After this is over seat your guests :
around a big table and let them make
Easter flowers.
Give them first some red cardboard
and let them make little flower pots.
Take a strip of the cardboard, about
_ inches
wide, and roll it so that it is silghtly
wheelbarrow filled with eggs, or else
drags a single egg. Children are told
hares lay Easter eggs and are sent to
the fields to look for them. They are
also told that “babies” come in the
form of hares. The hare, the same
as the rabbit, in symbolism is, in fact,
“the type of the moon itself across |.
whose disk endless numbers of Hindus
have painted the little animal.” Budh-
ha took the shape of the hare that he
might feed his hungry fellow crea-
tures and was translated into the
form of the moon and in that form j
evermore abides.”
Indian mythology says Indra, dis-
guised as a famished pilgrim, was
' praying for food when the hare, hav-
ing nothing but himself to give, threw
himself into.the fire that he might be
roasted for his benefit. Out of grat-|
itude Indra translated him to the
moon.
The spirit of petty tyranny is often |
shown in those who are both master |
and servant. They are all gentleness
and humility toward those above
them, and all austerity and dignity to |
those below them. They bend the
knee and bow the head to those in au- |
thority; yet crack the whip and turn a |
deaf ear to those below them. As a
rule, the more servile they are to the
one, the more exacting and unfeeling
they are towards the other.
treee——— A ————
Easter’s Date Depends on the Moon.
It is well known that Easter Sun-
day seldom, if ever, falls upon the
same day of the month two years in
succession. Indeed, it does not always
apear in the same month, for, while |
it usually comes in March, this year
it comes in April. This variation is
traceable to the phases of the moon.
Easter Sunday is always the first Sun- |
day after the first full moon of spring.
As spring begins on March 21, this
means that Easter Sunday never |
comes earlier than March 21 or later
than April 25.
wider at one end than at the other. |
Pin the roll together and then with |
the scissors trim it so that it is even |
all around. Then paste a piece of pa- | Ir barnyard manure is applied to
per inside at the small end, and your the garden every year an unbalanced
little flower pot will be complete. i condition of fertility results. This
_ Fill it with brown tissue paper, cut may be corrected by applying seven to
in very fine bits, for earth. | ten pounds of acid prosphate to each
Have on the table for samples a ‘square rod of space. Work it well
number of artificial flowers, and give , into the surface inches in preparing
each guest sheets of green, brown and | the seedbed. When poultry manure is
any other color tissue paper that they | used it should be applied after plow-
may wish. Some paste and fine milli- | ing and worked into the surface soil.
ners’ wire also will be necessary. | Where garden soil is stiff, sifted coal
_ Each one can then start to make a ashes may be utilized to improve the
little Easter plant. The flower can be physical condition.
made of tissue paper, as nearly like
the sample as possible. The leaves
can be cut from the green paper, and
then both flowers and leaves can be There is said to be but one small
pasted on the thin wire, which should | section in the United States where
be first wound round with green pa- | Easter lilies will grow profusely and
per. : ! blossom at Easter time. This is Las
When the plant is complete it should : Palmas, a few miles below Browns-
be fastened so that is seems to grow , ville, Texas.
out of the little flower pot.
Your dining room should be deco- |
rated with as many flowers or plants’
as possible. :
In the center of the table have a toy
chick or rabbit on a nest of Easter
eggs. Let a ribbon or a twisted strip-
of yellow tissue paper lead from the
nest to each guest’s place, and at the
end of the repast each child can pull
his ribbon and get as a favor one of
Improve Garden Soil.
Easter Lilies Grown in America.
names across the bottom. |
Cut circular plate doilies of yellow
crepe paper and have them under each
plate. Have all the yellow and white
china possible on the table, and at
Sack guest’s place have a yellow daf-
odil.
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Serve chicken and egg sandwiches,
cocoa, and if you have ice-cream have |
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it in the form of an egg, resting on a
the eggs. i
For _the.place cards cut out chicks
and paint them yellow. Put a little
standard at the back and write the
nest made of candied orange peel or “ Eagleville .
little yellow candies. Mill Hall.
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About coloring eggs for Easter. It ||
is much more fun to color our own, |
and, although it is not quite as easy to
get a lot for dyeing as it was many |
years ago, when they were about 12
cents a dozen, still we can all have a )
few at least and have some fun with [Ug
them. | fd
Almost every one knows how to dye of
eggs. First of all, you know that they
must be boiled hard in clear water be-
fore they are put into the dye.
There are so many dyes to be
bought now already prepared that all |
you have to do is to decide on the col-
or you want, and then buy a package
of that color at the nearest drug store.
Directions are always printed on the
outside of the package, so that any
one can learn how to do it. It is mere-
ly a case of putting a small amount of
the powder in the water and boiling
the eggs in the mixture for a short
time.
A great deal of care must be taken
not to splash the dye over vour cloth-
ing. An old pan must be used for the
work, and plenty of newspapers
should be spread around on the table,
so that you do not dye that, too.
An old spoon can be used to lift
them from the pan, and you had bet-
ter have some papers ready to drain
them on. es
Possibly you would be interested to
know how the children used to dye
their eggs in your grandmother’s time,
when it was not possible to buy the
dye already prepared.
One grandmother, in fact, told me
of how she and her brothers and sis-
ters used to do when they were chil-
dren.
In the first place they had a little
brass kettle, which was their very
own, and sacred to the use of the Eas-
ter dyeing.
Down in their orchard was a place
where they always built 2 small bon-
fire, and the boiling and dyeing al-
ways was done there.
Two forked sticks were stuck in the
ground several feet apart and a long
heavy stick was laid across them. The
fire was in the center, of course, and
the little brass kettle was suspended
from the cross stick over the fire.
Their dyes were very simple and
easy to get.
The outer skins of onions boiled in
the water with the eggs made them a
very pretty brown or tan.
The catkins of one of the alders
made a beautiful yellow.
Best of all, though, were the gor-
geous colors and patterns they could
get from gay calicoes.
Going to their mother’s patch bag
they would select the gayest bits that
they could find.
Then they would sew each egg up
securely in the patch with the right
side turned in against the egg. A lit-
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