“Bellefonte, Pa., October 24, 1930.
EL SS!
CUTTIN’ CORN.
Folks may hanker all they keer to
Fer th’ country in th’ fall,
They may rave about th’ beauty
Of the autumn leaves an’ all
They may talk about th’ glory
Of th’ sunshine an’ the haze,
They may gush about th’ grandeur
Of th’ gold an’ purple days,
But they's just one reckollection
Makes me glad as sure’s your born—
Gee, I'm glad ’'at I'm not out there
Cuttin’ Corn!
+ Spanish needles in yer jumper
An’ yer threadbare overalls;
Cockle-burrs as thick as hops that's
Growin’ on the garden walls:
Dead ol’ blades that keeps a sawin’
At yer blistered neck an’ ears—
I recall it just as easy,
Though it's been a heap 0’ years
Since I ust t’ take my cutter
An’ go growlin’ out at morn
To put in a whole long day at
+ Cuttin’ Corn!
Heap o’ things a man don’t fancy
In this city life o’ ours,
Where ye've got t' keep a-spurrin’
At yer min’s an’ body's powers;
Sleep don’t find yer eyes so easy
As it did when you was tired
With the long day’s tug an’ rustle
That th’ farmin’ work required,
But ye’ll never catch me frettin’
Ner a pinin’ ’round forlorn,
While I realize I'm safe frum
Cuttin’ Corn!
THE END OF THE TASK.
The sewing machines whirred like
a thousand devils. You have no
idea what a noise thirty sewing
machines will make when they are
running at full speed. Each machine
is made up of dozens of little
wheels and cogs and levers and
ratchets, and each part tries to
pound, scrape, squeak and bang and
roar louder than all the others. The
old man who went crazy last year
in this very same shop used to sit
in the cell where they chained him
with his fingers in his ears, to keep
out the noisc of the sewing ma-
chines. He said the incessant din
was eating into his brains, and, time
and again, he tried to dash out
those poor brains against the pad-
ded wall.
The sewing machines whirred and
roared and clicked, and the noise
drowned every other sound. Braun
finished garment after garment and
arranged them in a pile beside his
machine. When there were twenty
in the pile he paused in his work—
if your eyes were shut you would
never have known that one machine
had stopped—and he carried the
garments to the counter, where the
marker gave him a ticket for them.
Then he returned to his machine.
This was the routine of his daily
labor from seven o'clock in the
morning until seven o’clock at might.
The only deviation from this routine
occurred when Lizschen laid the
twentieth garment that she had
finished upon her pile and Braun
saw her fragile figure stoop to raise
the pile. Then his machine would
stop, in two strides he would be at
her side, and with a smile he would
carry tne garments to the counter
for her and bring her the ticket for
them. Lizschen would cease work-
ing to watch him, and when he
handed her the ticket she would
smile at him, and sometimes, when
no one was looking, she would seize |
his hand and press it tightly against
her cheek—oh! so tightly, as if she
were drowning and that hand were a
rock of safety. And, when she re-
sumed her work, a tear would roll
slowly over the very spot where his
hand had rested, tremble for an in-
stant upon her pale cheek, and then
fall upon the garment where the
needle would sew it firmly into the
seam. But you never would have
known that two machines had stop-
ped for a moment; there were twen-
ty-eight others to keep up the
roaring and the rattling and the
hum.
On and on they roared. There
was no other sound to conflict with
or to vary the monotony. At each
machine sat a human being work-
ing with hand, foot, and eye, watch-
ing the flashing needle, guarding
the margin of the seams, jerking
the cloth hither and thither quickly,
accurately, watching the spool to
see that the thread ran freely, oil-
ing the gear with one hand while
the other continued to push the
garment rapidly under the needle,
the whole body swaying, bending,
twisting this way and that to keep
time and pace with the work. Every
muscle of the body toiled, but the
mind was free—free as a bird to fly
from that suffocating room out to
green fields and woods and flowers.
And Braun was thinking.
Linder had told him of a wonder-
ful place where beautiful pictures
could be looked at for nothing. It
was probably untrue. Linder was
not above lying. Braun had been
in this country six long years and
in all that time he had never found
anything that could be had for
nothing. Yet Linder said he had
seen them. Paintings in massive
gold frames, real, solid gold, and
such paintings! Woodland scenes
and oceans and ships and cattle and
mountains, and beautiful ladies—
such pictures as the theatrical post-
ers and the lithograph advertise.
ments on the street displayed, only
these were real. And it cost noth-
ing to look at them!
Nineteen—twenty!
That complet-
ed the pile.
It had taken about an
hour, and he had earned seven
cents. He carried the pile to the
counter, received his ticket and re-
turned to his machine, stopping on-
ly to smile at Lizschen, who had
finished but half a pile in that time
and who looked so white and tired,
yet smiled so sweetly at him—then
on with his work and thoughts.
He would take Lizschen to
them. ng
It was probably all a Me,
but the place was far, far up-town,
near Madison Square—Braun had
. never been north of Houston Street
—and the walk might do Lizschen
good. He would say nothing to her
about the pictures until he came to
the place and found out fer. him-
self if Linder . had told the truth.
Otherwise the disappointment might
Oo or Lisechen! | A: tesling of wild
i Poor schén! A ng ¢ '
blind rage ovérwhelted BA gE
an instant, then passed away, leav-
ing his frame rigid and his teeth
, tightly clenched. ile it lasted he
worked like an automaton, seeing
nothing save a chaotic tumult in his
heart and brain that could find no
i vent in words, no audible expression
‘save in a fierce outcry against fate
! —resistless, remorseless fate. A few
! months ago these attacks had come
i upon him more frequently- and had
lasted for hours, leaving him ex-
hausted and ill. But they had become
rarer and less violent; there is no
misfortune to which the human
mind cannot ultimately become rec-
onciled. Lizschen was soon to die.
Braun had rebelled; his heart and
soul, racked almost beyond endur-
ance, had cried out against the hor-
ror, the injustice, the wanton cruel-
ty, of his brown-eyed, pale-cheeked
Lizschen wasting away to death be-
fore his eyes. But there was no
hope, and he had gradually become
reconciled. The phyisician at the
public dispensary had told him she
might live a year longer, he could
not foretell more accurately, but of
ultimate recovery there was no hope
on earth. And Braun's rebellious
out-bursts against cruel fate had be-
come rarer and rarer. Do not im.
agine that these emotions had ever
shaped themselves in so many words,
or that he had attempted by any
process of reasoning to argue the
matter with himself or to see vivid-
ly what it all meant, what horrible
ordeal he was passing through, or
what the future held in store for
him. From his tenth year until his
twentieth Braun had worked in fac-
tories in Russia, often under the
lash. He was twenty-six, and his
six years in this country had been
spent in sweat-shops. Such men do
not formulate thoughts in words;
they feel dumbly, like dogs and
horses.
The day's work was done. Braun
and Lizschen were walking slowly
up-town, hand in hand, attracting
many an inquiring, half-pitying
glance. She was so white, he so
haggard and wild-eyed. It was a
delightful spring night, the air was
‘balmy and soothing, and Lizschen
coughed less than she had for sev.
eral days. Braun had spoken of a
picture he had once seen in a shop-
window in Russia. Lizschen’s eyes
had become animated.
“They are so wonderful, those
painters,” she said. ‘With nothing
but brushes they put colors together
until you can see the trees moving
in the breeze, and almost imagine
you hear the birds in them.”
“I don’t care much for trees”
said Braun, “or birds either. Tlike
ships and battle pictures where peo-
ple are doing something great.”
“Maybe that is because you have
always lived in cities,” said Lizschen.
“When 1 was a girl T Tived in the
country, near Odessa, and oh, how
beautiful the trees were and how
sweet the flowers! And T used to sit
under a tree and look at the woods
across the valley all day long. Ah,
if T could only—"
She checked herself and hoped
that Braun had not heand. But he
had heard and his face had clouded.
He, too, had wished and wished and
wished through many a sleepless
right, and now he could easily frame
the unfinished thought in Iizschen’s
mind. If he could send her to the
country, to some place where the
air was warm and dry, perbaps her
could not. He had to work and she
had to work, and he had to leak on
after day, without end, without hope.
The alternative was to starve.
They came to the place that Lim-
der had described, and sure
enough, before them rose a huge
placard announcing that admission
to the exhibition of paintings was
free. The pictures were to be sold
at public auction at the end of the
week, and for several nights they
were on inspection. The young
couple stood outside the door a
while, watching the people who were
going in and coming out; then Braun
said:
“Come Lizschen, let us
is free.”
Lizschen drew back timidly. “They
will not let people like us go in.
It is for nobility.” But Braun drew
her forward.
“They can do no more than ask
us to go out,” he said. “Besides I
would like to have a glimpse of the
paintings.”
With many misgivings Lischen
follcwed him into the building, and
found herself in a large hall, bril-
lianted illuminated, walled in with
paintings whose gilt frames shone
like fiery gold in the bright light of
numerous electric lamps. For a
moment the sight dazzled her, and
she gasped for breath. The large
room with its soft carpet, the glit-
tering lights and reflections, the
confused mass of colors and the air
of charm that permeates all art gal-
leries, be they ever so poor, were
all things so far apart from her life,
so foreign not only to her experi-
ence, but even to her imagination,
that the scene seemed unreal at
first, as if it had been taken froma
fairy tale. Braun was of a more
phlegmatic temperament and not
easily moved. The lights merely
made his eyes blink a few times,
and after thathe saw only Lizschen's
face. He saw the blood leave it
and a bright pallor overspread her
cheeks, saw the frail hand move
convulsively to her breast, a gesture
that he knew so well, and feared
that she was about to have a cough.
ing spell. Then, suddenly, he saw
the color come flooding back to her
face and he saw her eyes sparkling,
dancing with a joy that he had
never seen in them before. Her
whole frame seemed suddenly to be-
come animated with a mew life and
vigor. Somewhat startled by this
go in. It
days might be prolonged. But he |
and watch her toiling, toiling, day
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
I, H. E. Dunlap, High riff of the Coun- |
ty of Centre, Commonwealth of Pennsyl- |
vanis, do hereby make known and give
notice to the electors of the county afore-
said that an election will be held in the |
said County of Centre on the first
dar after the first Monday in November,
1930 being the,
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4th OF NOVEMBER, 1980.
for the purpose of electing the several |
pérsons hereinafter named, to-wit:
ONE PERSON to be UNITED STATES
SENATOR.
ONE PERSON to be GOVERNOR.
ONE PERSON to be LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR.
ONE PERSON to be SECRETARY OF
AFFAIRS.
INTERNAL
0. PERSON to be JUDGE OF THE
SUPREME COURT.
TWO PERSONS to be JUDGE OF THE
SUPERIOR COURT.
ONE PERSON to
TIVE IN CONGRESS
ONE PERSON to be SENATOR IN
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
ONE PERSON to be REPRESENTA-
TIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
I also hereby make known and give no-
tice that the place of holding the elec-
tions in the several wards, boroughs, dis-
tricts and townships within the County
of Centre is as follows:
For the North Ward of the borough of
Bellefonte at the Logan Hose Co. house on
East Howard street.
For the South Ward of the borough of
Dieljszonte, in the Undine Fire Co. build-
ng. |
For the West Ward of the borcugh of |
Bellefonte, in the stone building of Guy |
Bonfatto. : |
For the borough of Centre Hall, in a
room at -Runkle’s Hotel.
For the borough of Howard, in the
public school building in said borough.
For the borough of Millheim, in the new
Municipal building. i
For the borough of Milesburg, in the
borough building on Market street.
For the First Ward of the borough of
Philipsburg in the Reliance Hose house.
For the Second Ward of the borough of
Philipsburg, at the Public Building at the
corner of North Centre and Presqueisle
street.
For the Third Ward of the borough of |
be REPRESENTA-
|
|
|
ed for that
Tues- at the City Hal
Philipsburg, at Brattom's Garage, north-
east corner of Seventh and Pine streets.
For the borough of Port Matilda, in the |
han the Knights of the Golden Eagle,
For the borough of South Philipsburg, |
borough
in South Philipsburg.
For the borough of Smow Shoe, in the
Borough Build
For the borough of State College, East
Precinct, on College Avenue at the odd |
Fellows Hall.
For the borough of State College, West
Precinct, on Frazier street at the Fire-
men’s hall.
For the borough of Unionville, in Grange
Hall, in said borough.
For the township of Benner. North
Precinet, at the Knox school house.
For the township of Benner, South
Precinct. at the new brick school house |
at Rockview.
For the township of Boggs, North Pre-
cinct, at Walker's school house.
For the township of Boggs, East Pre-
cinct, at the hall of Knights of Labor, in
the village of Curtin.
For the township of Boggs. West Pre-
cincet, at the Grange Hall, Central City.
For the townshin of Burmside, in the
building owned by William Hipple, in the
village of Pine Glenn.
For the township of College, at the
school house in the village of Lemont.
For the township of Curtin, North 1l're-
cinct, at the school house in the village of
Orviston
For the township of Curtin, South Pre-
cinct, at the school
Mann's.
For the township of Ferguson, East Pre-
cinct, at the public house of R. R. Ran-
dolph, in Pine Grove Mills.
For the township of Ferguson,
Precinct, at Baileyville school house, in
the village of Baileyville. |
For the township c¢f Ferguson, North
Precinct, at Grange Hall y
For the township of Ferguson, North
west Precinct, at Marengo school house.
For the township of Gregg, North pre- |
cinct, at the Murray school house.
For the township of Gregg, Fast Pre-
ciurt, at the house occupied by William |
| A.
Sinkabine, at Penn Hall
cincet, in Grange Hall at Spring Mills.
For the township of Haines, East Pre-
| einet, at the school house in the village of
| Woodward.
For the township of Haines, West Pre-
cinct, at the residence of I. A. Dower in
Aaronsburg.
For the township of Half Moon, in the
Sheriff's “Election Proclamation
house, near Robert |
West |
For the township of Gregg, West Pre- |
I. 0. O. F. hall in the village of Storms-
- town.
For the township of Harris, East Pre-
‘cinet, in the building owned by Harry
| MeCellan, in the village of Linden Hall.
cinct, in Malta Hall, Boalsburg.
For the township of Howard. Iu the
townshi» public buil .
For the township Huston, in the
towuship building in Julian.
cinet, at the school housé in Eagleville.
| For the township of Liberty, West Pre-
{cinet, in the school house at Monument.
| For the township of Marion, in the
| Grange Hall in the village of Jacksonville.
| cinet,
| Showers at Wolf's Store.
For the township of Miles, Middle Pre-
| cinet, in Bank building at Rebershurg.
| For the township of Miles, West Pre-
| cinet, at the K. of G. E. hall in Madison-
burg.
| oe the township of Patton, at the
| Township building at Waddle.
For the township of Penn, in a building
| formerly owned by Luther Guisewite ai
| Coburn.
| For the township of Potter, North Pre-
| cinet, at the Old Fort Hotel.
| Tor the township of Potter, South Pre-
| cinct, at the Hotel in the village of Pot-
ters Mills.
For the township of Potter, West Pre-
| cinet, at the store of George Meliss, at
| Colyer.
| cinct, at the township Poor House.
| For the township of hush, East Precinct,
‘at the school house in the village of Cas-
| sanova.
For the township «tf Rush. South Pre-
at the Firemen’s Hall in Sandy
| cinet,
| Ridge.
| For the township of Rush, West Pre-
cinct, at the new school house along the
| State Highway leadirg from Osceola Mills
to Sandy Ridge.
For the township of Snow Shoe, East
| of “Clarence.
Precinct, at the heuse of Alonzo D. Groe
(in the village of Moshannon.
For the township of Spring. North Pre-
' cinct, at the township building erected
near Mallory's blacksmith shop.
For the township of Spring, South Pre-
| cinet, at the public house formerly own-
ed by John C. Mulfinger in Pleasant Gan.
For the township of Spring, West Pre-
ginet. in the towaship building in Cole-
| e.
SPECIMEN BALLOT
purpose. This shall count as a vote
either with or without the cross mark.
For the tewnship of Harris, West Pre-
For the township of Liberty, East Pre- |
For the township of Miles, East Pre- |
at the dwelling house of G. H.
For the township of Rush, North Pre- |
Precinct, ac the school house in the village |
For the: township of Snow ‘Shoe, West |
Kor the township of Taylor, iu the house
| erected for the purpose at Leonard Merry-
man’s.
For the township of Union, in the
ship public building.
fo ee vane. Bape Pre
| cing 1 uilding own olomon
Peck, ip the village of Huston.
For the township of Walker, Middie
| Precinct, in the Graige Hall, in the vil-
lage of Hublersburg.
For the township of Walker, West Pre-
| cinet, at the dwelling house of John Royer,
in the village of Zion.
For the township of Worth, in the Lau-
rel Run school house in said township.
towan-
LIST OF NOMINATIONS.
The official list of nominations made by
| the several parties, and as their names
| will appear upon the ticket to be voted
| for on the fourth day of November, 1930,
| at the different voting places in Centre
i county, os certified to respectively by the
| Secretary of the Commonwealth and the
| Commissioners of Centre County are given
in the accompanying form of ballot.
| Notice is hereby given that every per-
| son, excepting Justice of the Peace, who
| shall hold any office or appointment of
profit or trust under the Government of
| the United States or this State, or of any
| City or incorporated district whether a
commissioned officer or otherwise, a sub-
ordinate officer or agent who is or shall
be employed under the Legislative, Ex-
ecutive or Judiciary department of the
State or the United States or any city or
incorporated district, and also that every
membe: of Congress and of the State Leg-
| islature, and of the Select or Common
i Council of any city, of Commissioners of
any incorporated district, is, by law, in-
capable of holding or exercising at the
| same time th: office or appointment of
| judge, inspector or clerk of any el
{ of this Commonwealth, and that no in-
| spector, judge or other officer of any such
! elections shall be eligible to any office to
be then voted for except that of an elec-
tion officer.
Under the law of the Commonwealth
for holding clections, the polls shall be
and closed at 7
open at 7 o'clock A. M.
| o'clock F. MM.
| GIVEN under my hand and seal at my -
| office in Bellefonte this 7th day of Oc-
| tober, in the year of our Lord nineteen
| hundred and thirty and in the one
| hundred and fifty-fourth year of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America.
H. E. DUNLAP, (Seal)
| Sheriff of Centre County.
To vote a straight party ticket, mark a cross (X) in square in the FIRST COLUMN, opposite the name of
the party of your choice. ; .
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divide his or her vote by marking a cross (X) to the right of each candidate for whom he or she desires to
vote. For such office votes shall not be counted for candidates not individually marked.
'Lizschen was looking at a painting.
First, Column United States Senator Judge of the Superior Court |} Ser ator in the General Assembly
(Vote for One) (Vote for Two) (Vote for One)
To Vote a Straight Party Ticket :
i : James J. Davis, Republican William B. Linn, Republican Harry B. Scott, Republican
Mark a Cross (X) in this Column
x Sedgwick Kistler, Democratic James B, Drew, Republican Don Gingery, Democratic
i a Clarence A. Keise
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° S. W. Bierer, Prohibition George F. Douglas, Democratic
Democratic i
ww mes | William J. Van Essen, Socialist Peter Muselin, Communist
. ref Tr re Secretary of Internal Affairs
Communist Mux Sie. Gononiss (Vote tor One)
| Ida G. Kast, Prohibition Philip H. Dewey, Republican
Judge of the Supreme Court Tn
g (Vote for pe L Co _ || Lucy D, Winston, Democratic
George W. Maxey, Republican Frank Note, Communist
[Protibition | lowe ver won Can
. Fred W. Litten, Prohibition
Hemy?. Niles, Dasiveratic Lieutenant Governor -
i (Vote for One)
: gs Charlotte F. Jones, Commuist David Rinne, Socialist
Socialist rrr Edward C. Shannon, Rep.
Charles Palmer, Prohibition
| Americas Farmer Labor | |] son w-stavton, soctaust ; Se
fat Samuel Lee, Communis Representative in the General
Assembly
Mabel D. Pennock, Proh. Yoke 07 Oot)
Governor Mary Winsor, Socialist John L. Holmes, Republican
(Vote for One) FT ES Re 2:
John G. Miller, Democratic
Rep.
Gifffford Pinchot, oy
Proh. on
> Representative in Congress
Sarna (Vote for One)
Dem.
John M. Hemphifi, J. Mitchell Chase, Republican
Maxwell J. Moore, Democratic
Frank Mozer, Communist
James H. Maurer, Socialist
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transformation he followed her gaze.
He found several others and was
“What is it, dear?” he asked.
“The picture,” she said in a
whisper. “The green fields and
that tree! And the road! It!
stretches over the hill! The sun will
set, too, very soon. Then the sheep
will come over the top of the hill.
Oh, I can almost hear the leader's
bell! And there is a light breeze.
See the leaves of the tree; they are
moving! Can't you feel the breeze?
Oh, darling, isn't’ it wonderful? I
xigver saw anything like that be-
fore!”
Braun looked ' curiously at the
canvas; To his eyes it presented a
woodland scene, very nautral, to be
sure, but no more natural than na-
turé, and equally uninteresting to
him. Ht looked around him to se-
lect a painting upon which he could
expend more enthusiasm.
“Now there's the Wind I like,
Lizschen,” he said. “That storm on
the ocean with the big picture over
there with all the soldiers rushing
to battle.”
i mire in them, when,
pointing out what he found to ad-
happening to
look at his companion’s face, he saw
that her eyes were still fastened up-
on the woodland picture, and he
realize that she had not hear a
word of what he had said. He
smiled at her tenderly.
“Ah, Lizschen,” he said, “if I were
rich I wowd take that picture right
off the wall and give them a hundred
dollars for it, and we would take it
home with us so that Lizschen could
look at it all day long.”
But still Lizschen did not hear.
All that big room with itslights and
its brilliant colorings, and all those
people: who had come, and even her
lover at her side had faded from
Lizschen's consciousness. The pic-
ture that absorbed all her being had
ceased to be a mere beautiful paint-
ing. Lizschen was walking down the
road herself; the soft breeze was
fanning her fevered cheeks, the
rustling of the leaves had become a
reality: she was walking ove" the
hill to meet the flock of sheep, for
she could hear the shepherd's dog
barking and the melodious tinkling
of the leader’s bell.
From the moment of their en.
trance many curious glances had
been directed at them. People
wondered who this odd-looking, ill-
clad couple could be. When Lizschen
| became absorbed in the woodland
scene and stood staring at it as if
it were the most wonderful thing on
earth, those who observed her ex-
changed glances, and several on-
lookers smiled. Their entrance,
| Lizschen’s bewilderment, and then
ecstasy over the painting had all
happened in the duration of three
or four minutes. The liveried at-
, tendants had noticed them and had
| looked at one another with glances
, that expressed doubt as to what
{ their duty was under the circum-
j stances. Clearly these were not the
| kind of people for whom this exhi-
bition had been arranged. They
were neither lovers of art nor pros-
pective purchasers. And they look-
ed so shabby
poor and ill-nourished.
and so distressingly
Finally one attendant, bolder than
the rest, approached them, and tap-
ping Braun lightly upon the sleeve,
said, quite good-naturedly:
“I think you've made a mistake.”
Braun looked at him and shook:
his head and turned to Lizschen to:
see if she understood. But Lizschen
neither saw or heard. Then the:
man, seeing that he was dealing
with foreigners, became more abrupt
in his demeanor, and with a grunt,
pointed to the door. Braun under-
stood. To be summarily ordered
from the place seemed more natural
to him than to be permitted to re-
main unmolested amid all that.
spendor. It was more in keeping
with the experiences of his life.
“Come, Lizschen” he said, “let us
go.” Lizschen turned to him with a
smiling face, but the smile died
quickly when she beheld the attend-
ant, and she clutched Braun's
arm. “Yes, let us go,” she whisper-
ed to him, and they went out.
On the homeward journey not a
word was spoken. Braun's thoughts.
(Continued on page 7, Col. 1.)