! Bellefonte, Pa., August 28, 1925.
JACOB M. HOWARD.
The Plain United States Senator.
By Levi A. Miller.
It has often been said that the news-
papers of our country are taking the
place of the orator. To my mind, the
latter has been greatly benefitted.
The late lamented W. J. Bryan once
said, “Oratory will live as long as
there are great issues which stir men’s
hearts;” that is, as long as the race
exists. Oratory has lost none of its
power over men, and never will, not
as long as eloquence gives expression
to sentiments in harmony with their
own. Great men rise to great emer-
gencies on occasions.
The world cannot boast of finer or-
ators than those produced in the Unit-
ed States. Our young nation went to
war for the second time with the most
powerful country on earth, and it was
the orator who put the righteousness
of our cause so plainly before the
world that this republic had the moral
support of most of the people of Eu-
rope. There would have been millions
who would have known nothing of the
justice of our side of the controversy
had it not been for the untiring ef-
forts of our orators, who would not
quiet their voices until all had been
heard of the outrages England had
perpetrated.
‘Who noble ends by noble means attains,
Or, falling, smilés in exile or in chains,
Like good Aurelius, let him reign or bleed,
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.
—Pope.
The subject of this sketch was born
and educated in Vermont, and after-
wards expanded into importance at
the west, where he was crowned with
the highest honor the State of his
adoption could bestow upon him. He,
with Mr. Z. Chandler, represented
Michigan in the Senate of the United
States, and the State never had an
abler representative. He had the cul-
ture of Cass, with a broader and more
liberal intellect, and a more generous
nature. Indeed, it is not extravagant
praise to say that, as an orator, he
was head and shoulders taller than
that shrewd diplomatist in the prime
of his life.
Cass was a statesman of the school
the students of which were cunning
politicians, and he devoted to his own
interests and political advancement
the energies he should have given to
his country. By accepting office, he
entered into a contract to labor for the
welfare of the nation. But he never
lost sight of the golden opportunities
which promised him personal emolu-
ment; hence he died rich in money, but
left only a moderate legacy of polit-
ical capital to his party.
Howard was a good statesman, but
a poor financier—his own interests
seem to have been lost in the all
absorbing interests of the State and
the nation. He represented Michigan,
not himself, at the capitol.
General Cass had many excelient
traits, but he could have used the lan-
guage of Lord Erskine to Lord Eldon,
who held high office for many years,
when he said, “Seals offered a good
living.” Howard was in statesman-
ship what Ward was in business—a
leader, a head-man, one who would be
driver, and would not be the horse.
His opinions were sure to be sound,
and he could’ express them with great
power and eloquence. Cold words may
be correctly spoken and elegant, but if
there be no heart-pulse in them, they
fall like flakes of snow from a stat-
ue of ice.
I do not over-praise the prototype
of this sketch when I say that he had
a strong mind. He had enlarged and
lofty views of political economy and
constitutional government, and looked
beyond and above mere local issues,
farther and higher than the district
which embraced his residence and the
bank where he kept his deposits.
Without neglecting the interests of
his constituents, he considered the"
needs of the entire nation; and when
he spoke in the Senate, he had a na-
tion for an audience, for his judgment
was considered authority at home and
abroad.
He may have been called a solid
man, a man of weight; his words
moved the scale in which they fell, and
they throbbed with thought and feel-
ing. He was a scholarly man, had
been a most industrious student of
books, and had gleaned a great deal of
useful learning, which he turned to
good account in his public labors. In
speaking he usually began slowly and
deliberately, as though he would have
caressed his lips into quicker life and
feeling. When he had measured his
audience and had fairly launched his
veice, the blood hastened to the vital
organs and the brain and he warmed
with the subject of discussion, every
syllable coming clean-cut and fervid
from his tongue, while his large eyes
glowed with magnetic fire, his whole
face lighting up with gleams of emo-
tion. There was no haste in his utter-
ance, and no hesitation; it flowed on
like “Pontiac waves,” gathering vol-
ume and power as it proceeded, sweep-
ing before it the sophistry and even
the argument of his opponent, as the
waves do the weeds of the sea. His
efforts were not of the spread-eagie
style; there were no rhetorical dis-
plays of language, no sophomorical
lugging in of figures for the purpose
of ornamentation. What he said was
pertinent, and in the plainest and
most effective English.
Mr. Howard’s funeral oration, in
memory of our late President, Abra-
ham Lincoln, was fully equal to the
effort of Mr. Bancroft on the same
subject. When at home in Detroit,
Mr. Howard was a regular attendant
at church on Sunday. Unlike some of
the men who have been honored with
the confidence of great constituencies,
he did not think it was beneath his
dignity to be punctually in his pew
on the designated day of rest; he was
and attentive listener, and I have no
doubt whatever, that he was also an
appreciative one. His word was that
of a man of honor and honesty.
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—Get your job work done here.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
The greatest man is he who chooses
right with invincible resolution, who re-
sists secret temptations from within and
without, who bears the heaviest burden
cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and
most fearless under menace and frowns,
whose reliance on the truth, on virtue, on
God, is most unfaltering.—Channing.
AND ELIMINATIONS IN LIN-
GERIE.
The second step in reducing is to
leave off about two-thirds of your lin-
gerie and cut down what’s left to the
present fashionable straight line.
There are still women in the world
who wear two petticoats and a che-
mise instead of a single slip with a
shadow-proof hem; who wear draw-
ers drawn up on a string around the
waist and make their lingerie of good
strong muslin or heavy sateen on
wide billowy lines. I have actually
seen women reduce their hip measure
three inches instantaneously by put-
ting on proper corsets and the right
lingerie.
No one today needs either a petti-
coat or a slip under a cloth frock or
tailored skirt. A very short chemise
cut on narrow lines and made of a
bodyless material such as crepe de
chine, radium silk, crepe satin, glove
silk, fine nainsook or long-cloth is all
‘one needs to protect the brassiere or
corselet. As to your nether limbs,
bloomers, preferably of glove silk if
you're stout, answer every practical
need and don’t add an eigthth of an
inch. to. your circumference. Under
light-weight or transparent frocks all
you need are the glove silk bloomers
and a slip of crepe de chine, soft satin,
crepe meteor, radium silk or fine sat-
een. See that the slip is cut on nar-
row lines to give the straight silhou-
ette and with no more width than you
actually require. :
French women of fashion always
have their lingerie made to order for
them by their dressmakers and fitted
as carefully as their frocks. Women
who want to reduce their size should
follow the same plan, making their
lingerie themselves so that they can
fit it properly and see that it doesn’t
carry an unnecessary inch of material.
And the material, as 1 have already
said, should never be heavy, clumsy
and thick. You can save enough by
cutting your lingerie on narrow lines
to use good materials in soft, cling-
ing qualities. .
THE LAST INCH.
The last inch that can be removed
will come off with the right size and
the right fit in your clothes. Large
women usually fall into one of two er-
rors. Either they wear their clothes
so tight that they look as if they were
about to burst out upon an astonished
world or else they wear them so large
that their size -is increased. Clothes
should be skilfully planned to hide
curves and to straighten and lengthen
lines, and a good deal of their suc-
cess in this respect lies in having
them exactly the right size. When
LINES
you buy a pattern, be sure to have |
your measures taken over your new
corsets and lingerie. You will be de-
lightfully surprised, especially if you
have been buying your clothes ready
made. Most manufacturers cut their
clothes on very scanty lines in order
to save material. As a result you
have probably been buying sizes for-
ty-four and forty-six when you only
measure forty or forty-two. The sizes
of good patterns are absolutely exact.
A forty fits a forty, and if you bought
a forty-four as you do in ready made
clothes it would simply drape on you.
The right size is most important be-
cause it takes less material, cuts out
all the work of unnecessary altera-
tions and gives you a smart trim fig-
ure.
Now there you have the three undi-
etary laws that will bring down your
figure by as many inches. You might
add a fourth rule and take off a fourth
inch. Choose your styles and mater-
ials with care. If you're large and
want to disguise the awful truth don’t
wear large hats, large plaids, bold ze-
braic stripes and vivid colors. Don’t
choose crosswise stripes, crosswise de-
signs or tiers. Wear long sleeves that
don’t fit the arm too closely, V necks,
surplice lines, draperies and panels
that break the line from side to side
and carry the eye up and down instead
of across.
Remember that half the slender
women you see are of no mean weight
on the bathroom scales and it’s not
the way you weigh but the way you
look that counts.—The Delineator.
Tea sets of plaid or checkered ging-
ham are pretty for gifts or for one’s
own use, and don’t cost much except
time, and not too much of that. Any
color combination may be chosen—
yellow and white, blue, green or lav-
ender with white—depending, of
course, on the color scheme of the
room in which tea is to be served.
For the cloth use a square of ging-
ham, making it the full width of the
material. Then for the napkins a
width of gingham will cut two, or
three, if you prefer them small. Six
will be the right number to make. The
hems are made and set on of white
cotton or cambric and, finished, meas-
ure two inches wide.
The corners are perfectly mitered,
and this is the only hard part. Cut
or tear a strip of the hem material
five inches wide and then lay the cloth
and napkins out flat. After creasing
the white material through the middle
on the length lay this strip along the
edge of a square of gingham and pin.
Then as a corner is reached it can be
mitered. Do this all the way around
and make the joining come in one of
the mitered corners. al
One edge of the hem is stitched on
the machine, using a half-inch seam,
and then the opposite edge hemmed
down over the seam on the wrong side,
making the stitches as invisible as
possible. Not even one stitch should
show from the right side.
Look through some of the needle-
work magazines and find an outline
pattern of a teapot and a cup and
saucer. Stamp across a corner and
outline in black. The teapot will look
well on the cloth, a cup and saucer on
each napkin,
Dip an onion for a moment in boil-
ing water, begin ‘at the root and peel
upward.
latter fact shatters the theory that the
‘been satisfactorily proved that the
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
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spell words both vertieaily and horizontally.
indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the pusale.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fll
the white spaces up te the first black square to the right, and a number under
“vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one
below. Np letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
except prover mamwes. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obso-
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CROSS-WORD
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PUZZLENo. 6.
For some reason best known to
themselves, frogs and toads are not
happy in each other’s company; they
are seldom seen together. Otherwise,
there are a hundred points of differ-
ence by which they might immediate-
ly be distinguished. A toad always
squats lower on the ground than a
frog; its head is also huddled down be-
tween its fore legs. When it is touch-
ed or otherwise disturbed, it turns
quickly aside and waddles away; it
can jump, but it much prefers to wad-
dle, and it can do this very quickly.
If you touch a frog it sits bolt upright
and stares at you, and suddenly it
takes a huge, startlingly long leap.
It is able to jump fifty times its own
length. A good way to visualize this
enormous jump is to compare it with
a man’s jump over a wall a hundred
feet high.
——Get the Watchman if you want
the local news.
Telling "Em.
I am employed as secretary in a
building and loan association. One
day a letter was received from a man
requesting a loan. My employer dic-
tated a reply which I wrote on the
typewriter.
In a few days a reply was received
frem the man which began in this
way: “I received your letter and I
want to tell you you needn’t print, I
can read.”
It was a hot day and seven cars
were waiting their turn at a filling
station. The last one was a steaming
little Rattler, with six rattles and a
button. Finally it got its turn and the
peevish attendant yelled: “How many
gallons ?”
The driver of the Lizzie held up one
nger.
“Say,” bellowed the attendant,
“what are you trying to do, wean it?”
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Horizontal. Vertical.
1—Division of a drama
4—Small speculator (slang)
9—Plaything 12—In behalf of
13—Fragrance
14—Period of time
15—Small branch
17—Donkey
19—To deface
22—Note of the scale
24—A newspaper
25—Part of “to be”
27—Number of years
29—Same as 27 horizontal
30—Bond of union
31—To propel a canoe
32—Printing measures
34—Period
35—Telegraphic transfer
36—Leafy
38-—Writer to the signet (abbr.)
39—Church bench 40—To utter
42—State of mind
44—New South Wales (abbr.)
46—Labor 49—Own (Scotch)
50—Chocolate drink
52—Fish eggs
53—Practice diligently
64—Fore part §56—Conclusion
18—To appear
2l1—Amount
Solution will appear Im next issue.
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TOADS AND FROGS.
Many people have hazy ideas about
the differences that exist between a
frog and a toad. To them the crea-
ture is a frog if it jumps, a toad if it
walks. But then a toad can hop quite
well if startled, and a frog often
walks, so this distinction is quite er- |
roneous. Some of the real differences, '
however, are pointed out by M. H. ;
Crawford in The Pageant of Nature. |
There are in reality very many dif-
ferences, the author states, through-
out life, from the egg-chains of the
toad and the egg-masses of the frog,
to the toothless tcad and the frog
with teeth in the upper jaw and across
the palate. The tongue of the frog is
lobed at the tip, but that of the toad
is entire. Toad-tadpoles differ from
frog-tadpoles in that they are smaller,
much darker in color, and rounder in
shape. But one of the fundamental
differences is connected with the
toad’s skin exudations, which are ad-
mitted to be of a very injurious na-
ture. What precisely the poison con-
sists of may not be quite certainly
known, but it is probably of an exere-
mentitious character, and, as such,
may be of use in supplementing the
action of the lungs in carrying off a |
portion of carbon from the blood. It
is inflammable and acrid, and there-
fore distasteful to most birds and an-
imals, though it is known that hedge-
hogs will readily devour toads; this
sole purpose of the exudation is to
provide protection for the toad
against carnivorous enemies. Exper-
iments show that it is both caustic
and bitter, that it has a disagreeable,
poisonous smell, and a yellowish col-
or; that, exposed to the air, it be-
comes solid, and, placed on glass, sca-
ly in appearance. Experiments have
also been made with a view to testing
its effect on birds and animals, and
the results have been sinister and de-
cisive,
It is on record that a child died from
being poisoned by these exudations
from a toad that he had taken out of
a hole. It is possible. But it is also
certain that there have been people
killed by wasp stings. The outcome
depended in both cases on the state of
the blood of the person poisoned, and
not on the potency of the poison it-
self.
Is it true that toads can live inside
rocks, with neither air nor food? As-
suredly it is mot true. It has never
toads that have hopped out of broken
rocks and stones have had absolutely
no access to the air.
What has happened certainly more
than once is this: Very young toads
have been washed down into fissures
in rocks in stone quarries. The flood
that washed the toad down will also
wash down after it tiny specimens of
insect life on which it can feed; this
will happen again and again, and the
toad, if it has space enough, will
grow; if not, it will die, and nothing
further will be seen of it. If it lives,
sooner or later a workman may split
the rock and release it. The fissure
by that time may be almost invisible,
filled up with earth and powdered
stone and clay; the workmen will see
the toad, but he will never notice the
crack in the rock that admitted the
toad. Toads can exist on very little
food, provided they do not take exer-
cise; and a toad that had found its
way into the heart of a rock by means
1—Toward the rear of a boat
2—Bovine quadruped
3—To ornament
5—Boy’'s name
6—Ceremonially clean according to
Jewish law
7—Printing measure (pl.)
8—Sun god 9—To thrive
10—Original state of iron
11—Sweet potato
16—To bind the mouth
18—To bring suit
20—Phenomenon appearing in sky
after a rain
21—Narrow passages
22—Face of a jewel
23—Authorized substitute
25—Glowing 26—Encounterw
28—Same as 7 vertical
29—To sum up
33-——Theatrical failure
36—Gave food to
37—To consume
39—Small horse
41—Days gone by
42—Chart. 43—Lubricate
44—Correlative of nelther
45—Was victorious
47—Small particle
48—QGuided
60—Compare (abbr.)
51-—Preposition
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