T THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURft. P- II MIES IB B W MACHINE IS I II s He Voted for the Susquehanna Canal Dill Notwithstanding His Denial of the Fact. f. ilnd Record Made Worse by Add :ng Falm-hood to Ilorreancy. emotratic Campulgn in Full way aud Lively Times Expctted iu the Near Future. (Special Correspondence.) Harrlsburg, Pa., Oct. 16. Some days ago tho Philadelphia Record copied from a leaflet Issued by the Democratic State Committee a paragraph In reference to the bills Introduced Into the Legislature of the State "creating new water companies with vast powers and In creasing the already dangerous pow ers of some of the old companies." Tho statement added that Mr. Sheatz, the machine Republican candidate for Stale Treasurer, had supported Uise hills ;ni that "th most atro cIoub of all these Iniquities was known aa the Kingston bill. It was among those which were stricken from the calendar of the Senate on the la.st day of the session for the reason that Penny packer, weak a a he was. threatened to veto thoin If passed." Tho Philadelphia Record of Tues day, October Sth, contains this com munication or denial: Under ordinary circumstan ces 1 would nut reply to cam paign literature, as the general public, from long experience, has little time for, and much less In clination to believe the extrava gant writings, and In many cases absolutely false statements, of men employed for their ability In that Hue; but as you lay such stress on the so-called Water Snake bills, I feel that I muBt make reply to you, although knowing that the people have not forgotten. You say In your news col umns and editorially that I vot ed for the Infamous Sus quehanna Canal bill. Will you please look in "The Record" or any of the Phila delphia newspapers published under date of March 18, 1903, ind note the vote 170 to l- :he "no" coming from Repre sentative Sheatz, of West Phila delphia. At that time all the leading newspapers throughout Pennsyl vania commented most favor ably on my stand. I not only voted against, but worked a gainst the bills. There Is a proverb that a "guilty conscience needs no accuser" and It 18 completely exemplified In Mr. Sheatz'B action. He had not been accused of voting for the Susque hanna Canal bill but specifically de clares that he didn't. The denial of his vote for the Kingston bill is only inferential. That la, he says that he "not only voted against, but worked against the bills," note the plural. As a matter of fact he voted for, both the Kingston water snake and the Susquehanna canal bill. The Canal Bill wasn't classed among the "water snakes" at any time. It was Imply a repeal of the charter of the Susquehanna Canal, which had been abandoned years ago, and of that class of legislation which the late Mr. Josephs used to characterize as "a little thing for Poor Ped." ' There wasn't even the suspicion of bribery In connection with its con sideration, though a bitter opposi tion to the measure was developed in some way and for some purpose. The Record Contradicts Sheuti- Mr. Sheatz having magnified a mole hill into a mountain, however, his denial becomes important and the funny incidents relating to it interesting. For example the atro cious North American butted Into the affairs the day after the publi cation of Sheatz'a denial with this absurd editorial: It should be stated further that Mr. Sheatz took special pains to vote right on the Sus quehanna "snake." While In Philadelphia the day before the bill came up he Inquired of The North American when It was to be called. Upon learning that the vote would be taken the fol lowing day, be canceled an Im portant business engagement, and went to Harrlsburg specially to do his duty and vote against the measure. Now for the facts. The measure, House bill No. 279, was reported from the Committee on Municipal Corporations by Mr. Call of Phila delphia, March 4. Legislative Rec ord, 1903, page 1232. It passed first reading on March 5. Legisla tive Record, 1903, page 1304. It was rad the second time "and agreed to," on March 10. Legislative Rec ord, 1903, page 1870. It was taken up in its order for third reading on March 11 and defeated for final passage on the same day. Legisla tive Record, 1903, page 1520, the nayes being 79 and the ayes 40. Mr. Sheatz voted against the bill but not alone, as he states. There were 39 others on that occasion. On March 17 th Mr. Bhern of Philadelphia moved to "reconsider the vote by which Houtte bill No. 279, file folio 939, was defeated on final passage." The motion was seconded by Mr. Samuel Rlpp of PhllTidi.l, Via and prevailed. Legis lative Record, 1903, page 1690. Ob rtously the muchlne needed that bill m for every available vote had been summoned and it passed finally, the vote being aye 170 and nay 1, But Mr. Sheatz was not the solitary In dividual Who cast the negative rote. That distinction belongs to Mr. John Francles of the Second district, Alle gheny county. On the contrary Mr. Sheatz voted aye. Legislative Rec ord, 190, page 1691, or Journal of the House of Representatives, 1903, page 1081. He may have Intended to vote no when he left the pre posterous editor of the North Am erican who thinks he owns Sheatz and aspires to the control of the Republican machine. But when he reached Harrlsburg and came under the hypnotic power of Iz, he yield ed promptly and surrendered un conditionally. His denial, therefore, marks him as a falsifier as well as a recreant. Tho Klngntoii Iniquity. In view of these facts It is a mat ter of little consequence how Mr, Sheatz voted on any question or how he says he voted. The Legislative Record Is badly indexed, probably, no doubt, and it Is dilllcult .o follow the work of a Representative for the purpose of review. The truth is however, that Sheatz voted for the vicious Kingston water snake. It was the worst of the lot and the measure upou which the gangsters dependod. in protesting against it Mr. Creasy declared that it would give a corporation authority to "carry the whole body of a river around a city to change Its course." But protests were unavailing. The machine wanted the authority to put the people under tribute and the bill passed finally, ayes 105, nays 64. Legislative Record, 1903, page 2435. On what It known as the Filtra tion bill Mr. Sheatz voted no the second time it was considered on final passage. This was another of the bills upon which machine man agers depended. It came up on final passage for the first time on March 11 w hen Mr. Sheatz dodged. Legislative Record, 1903, page 1524. On March 12 the vote was recon sidered, on motion of Mr. Plummer of Blair county, on March 17 it was again "called up" for final passage by Mr. Colville of Philadelphia, and agreed to, Mr. Sheatz voting In the negative. On all the other water bills he either dodged the vote or voted In the affirmative. His state ment that he not only voted against but worked against the water bills Is, therefore, a falsification of tha facts. The Grafters Have 'o Fear of Conviction. "A wink Is as good as a nod to a blind mule," and it requires little perspicacity to see that the lawyers of the capitol grafters are not In the least worried about the promised criminal proceedings. If each of the accused was convicted on each of the counts upon which he is In dicted, they would all go to the pen itentiary for life. That being the case it is not likely that the cele brated criminal lawyers who repre sent them would have voluntarily relinquished any advantages of de lay or other technicalities unless they had obtained some sort of guarantees that their clients are in no danger of conviction. The other day they were arraign ed in court by proxy and all entered bail for appearance for trial on the 27th of January. The Attorney Oeneral wanted a speedy trial, the newspapers assure us, and the de fendants tried for delay. Tbey ask ed that February 2 be filed as the day for the opening of proceedings. Finally the 27th of January was agreed upon and the prosecuting lawyers imagined that they had ach ieved a great victory. The defend ants might have demanded prelim inary hearings which would have Involved delay and they might have done this or that to postpone the evil day, those hopefuls said. But they simply didn't do a thing but yield. Four or five days will not likely make much difference. If there is to be no actual trial or in the event that the trial is to be made a farce like the trial of Baiter who surrendered in much the same manner, it doesn't matter much whether it comes early or late. At beat it is a difficult matter to prove a conspiracy when most of the con spirators are corporations as happens to be the case in the matter in point. But when the prosecution is more anxious to prove the accused Innocent than guilty there is hardly a possibility of conviction. Every body knows that from Governor Stuart down to the tipstaff of the court the authorities are anxious to vindicate the party rather than Jus tice in the graft prosecutions. The Campaign in Full Sway. The Democratic campaign Is now well under way and during the next three weeks there will be lively times throughout the State. Mr. Harman has ceased to expect a fav orable reply to his challenge to dis cuss the Issues of the campaign with Mr. Sheatz in joint meetings. The Republican managers don't want the Issues of the campaign agitated much. There Is danger in bringing the facts Into view and a Joint dis cussion would have had that re sult. But Mr. Harman and other Democratic speakers will address the people wherever It is possible to reach them and tell the facts as they exist. The trial of the capitol grafters before the election would have set tled the question of the election, Just as a thorough exposure of the crimes would have defeated the Re publican party last fall. Then every Republican speaker denied that there had been any grafting and now the press and orators of that faith Insist that Republican officials will punish the grafters. Then the falsa statements were believed but I don't believe that the people are so credulous now. They know now that Mr. Berry told the truth then and they understand that he Is equally accurate now when he de clares that the election of John O. Harman Is essential to the comple tion of the reforms which he has begun. O. D. II. Sheats's Weak Hoa. From the Pittsburg Post. In his speech to the Grangers at Williams' Orove on Wednesday, John O. Sheatz, tho Republican candidal for State treasurer, said much about the achievements of patriotic I'enn ylvanians and of the high principles they bad bequeathed to the present feneration of citizens. His utter ances serve to recall very similar ones frequently indulged In by one Samuel W. Peunypacker, who seem ed to think that the good deeds per formed by Revolutionary and other old-time patriots must suffice to pre vent their descendants from being guilty of all wrongdoing. Mr. Pennypacker five years ago was presented to the people of the State as a most estimable and patri otic citizen, in whose keeping as governor the Interests of the State would be entirely safe. He was the candidate of the same machine that has placed Mr. Sheatz in nomina tion for State treasurer, aud every surviving member of the machine as it was constituted in 1902 Is work ing hard for him and declaring that the Interests of the people of the 8tate will be safe if he Is given the custody of their, funds. Mr. Sheatz Is no 'more respectable or honest or patriotic or Independ ent than Mr. Pennypacker was repre sented to be five years ago. Aud yet as governor the latter permit ted the State to be robbed of nillliono of dollars by the cupitol grafters. Every one of the latter Is now sup porting Mr. Sheatz uud hoping for his election. Mr. Sheatz protested that tho Re publican party ought not to be held responsible for the capitol steal. The men who perpetrated that Bteal, or connived at and m:ii It dokrI- i ble, however, owed their opportunity to do evil to the machine which has for years dominated the affairs of tho Republican party. That party is responsible for keeping that machine in power, and It therefore must bear the blame for the misdeeds of the creatures of the machine. Mr. Sheatz himself was selected as a candidate by that machine. His suc cess will be the success of the ma chine and of its creatures, the capi tol grafters. What tho People Would do To G rafters- From the Eastern Argus. If the people of the state had a voice in the matter the court trials would be attached before the date of the fall election. This Is the contingency the Republican machine of the state is fighting hard to pre vent. Its reasons In reality ought to react as an incentive to the offi cers in whose hands the matter rests to speed the action in order that the voters of the state may be made acquainted with all the feat ures of the capitol steal that they might apply the Information when they go to the polls In November to make their selection of a state treas urer to succeed W. H. Berry the man who started the ball rolling. RheatJ a Gang Man. From the Johnstown Democrat. Sheatz, the Republican candidate for state treasurer, Is a Oang man. If he were not he would not be the Gang nominee. Sheatz's record clearly shows that he will go right along with the Machine. During the legislative season of 1903 as the Dem ocratic leaders point out, Represen tative Sheatz "went along" with the Organization for what It wanted at Harrlsburg. Probably Sheatz's most notable offense In that session waa his vote for the Pennypacker-Salus-Orady "Press Muzzier," None but Gang men voted for that bastard. The Voters Know Now. From the Reading Telegram. It is manly in McNlchol to put up the Penrose flag early in the game, so that voters may know what is coming. Every citizen who wanta more of Penrose now knows he must vote for Sheatz. Mot Asking Too Much. From the Norrlstown Register. Surely the five hundred thousand Democrats in Pennsylvania are really not asking for very much when they seek to have only one representative in the state's government at Harrls burg. Give Harman a lift. The Democratic State Committee is doing splendid work at the head quarters in Philadelphia and Demo crats throughout the State ought to how their appreciation by giving it moral and material support. A mite from every voter who can afford to give it would create a pot ent agency for good and the improve ment in the administration of the State government would be a gener ous recompense for the might. The false Impression is being wide ly diffused that John O Sheatz voted for William H. Berry for State Treas urer two years ago. As u matter of fact he did nothing of the kind. He voted and worked for Plummer at that election as he voted and work ed with Plummer on nearly every machine measure considered during the legislative session of 1905. There will be no prosecution of the capitol looters until after the election and if Sheatz is elected the trials will be postponed until the end of time. The Republican mach ine can't stand the exposure which will follow a court trial. Vote for John O. Harman for State Treasurer In the interest ad ministrative honesty. It Is not a po litical office and the election of either candidate will be without poll. Ucal significance. SCIEXTIST'S NEW DISCOVER. Believes Picture Cnn.1v? Made by Concentration of Mind. An unexpected field of research has been opened to science by the announcement made by Command ant Dnrget on the subject of pho tographs of human radiations. At a recent meeting of the Soclete Unl verselle d'Etudes Psychlques In Pn rls, photographs made by Darget, which had been obtained by the oper ator merely touching the sentltlzed plate with his fingers in an absolute ly dark room for 10 or 15 minutes, while at tho same time fixing his thoughts on a certain subject. Without this concentration of mind the plates showed no mark whatever. On developing the plate the Imago of the subject thought of, or even of a scene called up In the mind of the operator, was found to be fixed on It, evidently by the eman ation of rays not yet known to sci entists. Cat Guards House. Cats, whllo not so quick to learn as dogs, nro equally Interesting to thoso who are fond of them. An In telligent comfortablo cat soon be comes an Important and attached friend to the family. A physician once had a cat named Tom, which was not at home one night when a guest came. In the morning tho host was obliged to leavo homo very enrly, tho friend rising for n friendly chat with him before his departure. When tho host loft, the cat miiRt have stepped In nt tho open door. Meantime the mistress of the house wan still In bed. Suddenly she was awakened by a loud caterwaul, to find Tom In tho middle of the floor, evidently much excited and quickly running toward tho open door. Imag ining that ho had been in the house all night, his mistress hastily put on a dressing gown and followed hliu down the stairs. Instead of going to the back door Tom ran to the sitting room, where tho guest was waiting for the rest of tho family to appear. At tho sight of the hostess simul taneously with the cat, he exclaimed: "What Is the matter with that cat? It has been growling at me and act ing as If I had no business horn." Which wns plainly the fact in the cat's mind. On three occasions he had shown a pronounced dislike to strangers, and, like a dog, always challenged people not well dressed when they attempted to come in at the back door. Ships With Fish Skins. A German Inventor has been ex perimenting for years with various preservative paints for the bottoms of ships. Among those used at the present time even the best permit the growth of barnacles and marine vegetation upon the wood or metal sheathing, and the ship has to go into dry dock to have her bottom cleaned of tho growths which so ma terially retard her progress. Tho inventor in question has de voted his time of late to the deter mination of the chemical construc tion of the coating found upon the scales of fishes. Ho declares that the agility of the fish Is due to this coating, which enables it to over come the resistance of the water, while at the same time It prevents the growth of foreign matter. He asserts that he is now able to produce this coating in a form permitting it to be used for vessels and that ships thus treated will not only be able to keep clean bottoms but that the paint will ma terially reduce the resistance of the waves and permit faster time to be made with the same expenditure of power. St. Louis Dispatch. Dick Turpin's I'lstoL The pistol here pictured, which Is shown In a London equestrian spec tacle, "Dick Turpin's Ride to York; or, The Death of Bonnie Black Bess," is said to have been the actual prop erty of the famous highwayman. It was found by a workman egaged in pulling down the Old Plough at Eal ing, an inn which Is known to have been one of Turpin's haunts, and which wns kept by his grandfather. The pistol bears the initials "D. T.," and the date "1737." Fitting Ont Men to Get Work. At last night's meeting of the Strand Board of Guardians an appli cation was received from an inmate of the workhouse named Kennedy for a set of false teeth. The appli cant stated that being toothless he was unable to get work. It being stated that a set would cost six guineas, it was doclded to see whether something cheaper could not be obtained. Recently the board paid three guineas for a false nose for another Inmate to enable him to to go out and get work, and some time previously a man was provided with a false ear for the same pur pose. London Telegraph. Slave Market in Morocco, At Marrakosh, in Morocco, is a great slave market. The proceedings are opened with a fervid prayer to Allah for a prosperous sale, and then the auctioneer marches the slaves, tricked out In gorgeous array, round and round tho slave yard, while tho prospective purchasers feel their muscles and observe their condition and bid oocordingly. u.jiij'miiii. AVcgctable Preparation for As similating tlicFoodandncgula ting the Stomachs and Dowels of Tromotca DigcstioaChrerfur nessandRest.Contalns neither Opium.Morphine norIiiicraL Not H arc otic. fry or om n-SAMCZL rrrcwft A period Remedy forConslipa rion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca Worms .Convulsions .Fcvrrish ncss mi Loss of Sleep. FacSimilo Signature c? NEW VOUK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER FCmiCTKLMXO A roXfJ T.IFM. Outward Signs Abundmit Pliysl duns Kunlly Interpret Them. Every person carries about with him the physical Indications of his longevity. A long lived person run be distinguished from a short lived person at sight. In many instances a physician may look at the hand of a patient and tell whether he will live or die. In the vegetable as well as the animal kingdom each life takes Its characteristics from the life from which It sprung. Among these In herited characteristics we And the capacity for continuing Its life for a given length of time. This capacity for living we call the inherent or po tential longevity. Herein are presented the two lend ing considerations, always present and always interdependent the in herited potentiality and the reaction ary Influences of environment. The primary conditions of long evity are that the heart, lungs and digestive organs as well as the brain, should be large. If these organs are large, the trunk will be long and the limbs comparatively short. The per son will appear tall in sitting and short in standing. The hand will hare a long and somewhat heavy palm and short fingers. Tho brain will be deeply seated, as shown by the orifice of the ear being low. The blue hazel or brown hazel eye, as showing an intermission of tempera ment, Is a favorable indication. The nostrils being large, open and free Indicates large lungs. A pinched and half closed nostril Indicates small or weak lungs. These are general points of dis tinction from those of short lived tendencies, but, of course, subject to the usual Individual exception. S; 1 11, It Is well acknowledged that the cha.actertstlcs noted are expressions of inherent potentiality, which hove been proven on the basis of abund ant statistical evidence. In the case of persons who hare short lived parentage on one Bide and long lived on the other side, the question becomes more involved. 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