THE CENTRE REPORTER.
CENTRE HALL, PA.
By JAMES
MORGAN
ANDREW JOHNSON
THE GREAT IMPEACHMENT
1808-—December 29, Andrew
Johnson born at Raleigh,
N. C.
1826—Opened a tailor shop at
Greenville, Tenn.
1827—May 17, married Eliza
McCardle.
1830.33—Mayor of Greenville,
1835.39—Member of legislature.
1841.3—State senator,
1843.53-—Congressman.
1853.57—Governoy: of Tennsssee.
1857-62—Senator,
1862.5—Military
Tennessee,
1864—E lected vice president,
1865——April 15, took the oath
as seventeenth president,
aged fifty-six.
1866—April, congress overrode
his veto of the civil rights
bill. é
governor of
©
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yor
LOUD rapping on his hotel door |
A in Washington awakened the vice
president, Andrew Johnson, to the]
startling news that the president had |
been mortally shot. Even before!
Johnson took the oath the next morn- |
ing, men were laving plans,
with unseemly haste, to have him re-
verse Lincoln's generous policy toward
the conquered south,
strong
1
tower quickly cooled the vindictive
kindled in Johnson by
long, bitter i with the southern |
leaders, and returned to Lincolu's |
of Wisely,
passions TE
fen
he
io
policy reconciliation.
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Wir was
r treason.
wl
rF a
HM any
rent
individual.
had
who
His Bod retly re-t
Johnson's accession, turned |
him furiously. It was easy for!
excite the doubt of the north
in southerner, and estrang
thie Republicans from this Democrat.
For t
i resident was
tion unfortunate condition ;
at his | tion vice president
had hoc 'h Sumner Into
starting a whispered discussion of his |
1 resignation. When be- |
sident his intemperance In
it color to exaggerated re
ports of his intemperance in drink,
upon
them {0
£11
LHR
it
to
he he sobriety
into
first time even t
enlled ques
as
arles
enifore he
came
NHN
pre
*h ler
For two years before Lincoln died,
the radical leaders had been Insisting |
that congress, not the president, should |
fix the of for the south-
ern states. They had angrily de- |
nounced him as a despot, an autocrat |
and a usurper,
of reconstruction.
terms peace
And congress had |
ators and representatives from the!
states which
his liberal plan.
Apart from the Republican
cians and a mere faction
ists, the north
coln's moderate policies.
politt- |
of extrem
But
and the radicals, the radicsls Won over.
tion of 1860.
1867—March 2, congress passed
the reconstruction act
over President Johnson's
veto.
Also the tenure of office
act.
1868—Feb, the House
peached Johnson,
March 5 to May 26, the
impeachment trial before
the senate, and Johnson
acquitted.
1869-—March 4, Johnson retired
from the presidency.
1872-~Defeated for congress.
man-at-large.
1876—~March 12,
Tennessee,
July 31, died in Carter
county, Tenn, aged sixty-
six.
2%
dey
im
senator from
NDREW JOHNSON'S presidency
began with great tragedy and
pear ending in another.
a two-thirds majority In congress, his
opponents selzed
control of
a
came
his vetoes,
stripped the
a
eneiny
overrode
reconstruction,
{f authority to
ret rid of
cabinet,
president o ismiss
postmaster or to
in h own bound
him hand and foot.
Although the president faithfu
the Inws
passed
right,
had been denied a pre
even is
lly ex
that
he
ecuted reconstruction
been over his vetoes,
asserted the which never before
to Choose
When he
Stanton,
sident,
liis own advisers,
tried to Secretary
-t, and for weeks held it, n
and day, and
post.
Emotion e
the house hastened to d
me of the h
ind of
we
to a foi
sleeping eating
havir supplanted reason,
ouse
the pe
do impend
{ the
and
» twelve
Unite
misdeme
president o
high crimes
there
parkable indictment, no
misdeme
«d, consisted
were specified and the
Wore
ite
most important trial
ory began on Ma
» senate chat
Justice CC
in the chair
spd
court
hers YAS a 2
that the
the
sans fl
INSy 2 €3
Wns
je of a Whi
enger parti whked to
MOY the
fouse evictlon—to see “Andy walk the
Wade of Ohle
to
7} y wort g
A el '
At te
1 % Ee
nok Senator
len
ufid to the
would he c¢
Was Ce
the senate, J
inaugural said
written and his cab lL I
General Butler of Massachusetts for
tary of
As the roll of
amid a hushed
senators all
chief
Fessenden,
the respondent, Andrew
the United
guilty of a high
charged in this
“Not guilty,’
guished senator
inet selected
fond
BeCTY gintle
the senste was called
% 2tutalaly
Repuldl.
Mv
SUSPOnee, the
can voted for coc
until
tion,
air.
Is
ores
the asked
frat .
Justice
how say your
Johnson
of Sintes,
gullty or
not misdemesnor as
article?
answered
from Malone,
‘ pa
diztin
had
the
a0
overrode the president's vetoes, and
congress took command of the govern.
went. The reconstructed states were
cutlnwed. The south was divided into
military provinces. The ballot
freedmen, notwithstanding it was still
of the north. At the same time na
franchised for disloyalty
the corrupt government of northern
jating the ignorant black vote and who
held It by force of federal bayonets,
As northern "fire eaters” pressed to
the front, on one side of the Mason
and Dixon line, southern “fire eaters’
took the lead on the other side. By
sigtit the Ku Klux Klan rode thelr sa.
ble horses in a campaign of terrorism
to frighten the blacks from using the
ballot,
Party and sectional politics, north
wud south, still was the marplot of the
Wnion. As it had fostered disunion
tefore the war, It was doing Its worst
to prevent reunion, now that the war
Was over,
Mrs. Eliza McArdle Johnson.
{ been in Lincoln's cabinet,
alignment was broken and Ir was again
broken In another moment by Senator
Grimes of lowa, who had been stricken
with paralysis under the strain of the
his fect when his name
Trumbull of Illinois, an old friend of
Lincoln, was another man of ability
nnd distinction among the seven Re
| publican senators who broke away and
| Joined the Démocrats. Yet there were
| thirty-five votes for conviction against
| only nineteen for nequittal, just one
{less than the two-thirds necessary to
| conviet,
By a single vote the unique inde
| pendence of the American presidency,
{ which makes it the most eminent and
| powerful political office In the world,
{was saved. Had congress triumphed,
| the first long step would have been
taken toward eongressional govern.
ment on the pattern of the parllamen
| tary governments of Europe,
(Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan)
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TABLE D'HOTE DINNER |
dinner is a suc- |
of saving money |
HE table d'hote
cessful method
the expense of the appetite,
The regulation table d'hote dinner |
cousists of three courses with one
guess, The patron is allowed to look
at a long, serpentine bill of fare which
to present untold possibilities
for BO cents, but after reading it all
the through and deciding to or- |
der everything in ght hi stumbles
onto an few lines of brusque fine print
which but the
roast This ex
plains why so many patrons rise up
from a table d'hote dinner wearing a |
wan and erestfalien look,
The table d'hote din
vented for the benefit of
are never hungry when it Is their turn
at
Seems
way
si
eliminates everything
beef and lced tea.
ner wis
in
people who
1 pont See (
wet! wet prosdiog an
fFORD T™
Me fon. This - Grog fo WutH
FROM (ONSOMME o y
Ee i
A Long Bill of Fare Which Seems to
Present Untold Possibilities for 50
Cents,
to buy, It is
restanurants because
that
wron
onstrated
oases the
fa striel
or
Chie g
gre
into the
| Shoe and Foot Troubles
Th commonest
bie is that v i
of as “fiat-foot.™ Of
at
form of foot
condition uh
soi)
wenkened
‘8 CRU
cles
exercise, and espe
shoes of poor tym
action
ind gives
foot
CEES ally
a faulty
0 the
When the barefoot rovage walks, his
’ nuts the
Dt
wrt nig the toes
step. In
in" gr
at each
leg
dons run hack of the
hitched
strong
gFrounag
of
onsequence
this, the muscles, whose ten
inner ankle hone
and are try the sole and the
toes, are and elastie from use
end hold up the arch of the foot.
With stiff shoes, especially with tight
the {
of toes
even
ar short action the
in
muscles
and tone,
If one stands much
tle, all the muscies
foot lose strength.
If one toes out in walking cr stand-*
(HIPR,
Oar
consequently
limited stopped, and the
lose elasticity
and walks It
of the and |
leg
MOTHER'’S
COOK BOOK
"Ta well In going through the world to
heed one's manners as carefully as one
wholda those of others Civility costs |
yothing tn this world and It buys every- |
thing «Lady Moniague i
SEARONABLE DISHES. }
ennned for a wir'ter
delicious. Choose |
amnll, even sized beets, wash and
lenve the stem of each an Inch long to |
save them from bleeding. Cook un- |
til tender in boiling water. Drop |
into cold water and slip off the skins,
Pack in jars, using a teaspoonful of |
salt and two teasspoonfuls of sugar to
each quart, place the rubbers and fill
to overflowing with boiling water, Put |
Young Leets
lift the jar. Place on a rack, cover
with hot water and boll for one hour,
temove, seal and set away for win.
ter use,
Corn With Peppers.
Remove the seeds {rom three green
peppers: boil them ip salted water 20 |
minutes, then drain and chop fine. Boll
glx ears of corn in the water in which |
the peppers were cooked. When ten.
der, cut the corn from the cob, Put
two tablespoonfuls of butter In a
saucepan and when hot add the comn
and peppers with salt (0 taste. Stir |
frequently and serve at once,
Neat the yolks of three eges, add
one-third of on cupful of sugar, and a
pinch of walt, add one cupful of milk |
and cook antll smooth and thick, add
Prune Parfait, |
——
tenance of an a la earte menu with-
The table d'hote dinner Ix doubt.
the country, where people know how
to live, it will never be adopted as a
(Copyright)
sens Prumomsente
Last Night's Dreams
— What They Mean
DID YOU DREAM OF STATUES?
"
i COUrse
HE modern scientific
dream
the prophet!
Except In one regar
4 r "ne
af phenomen:
say that perhaps——and they emphi
the “perhaps” —in the dream state some
inciplent disease or disorder of the
manifest itself in dream
which
eaxe or functional
in nifest
1g state
System
may
symbolism, wn id ipient dis.
ler would not
in
disore
to dreamer his
bie
nature
the
wnuse as vet of too
fl fo exert an Impress.
the mind while occupied by
That
‘ forte § wiv
uld be un : i ‘ay
there
people
! supers
o still
» RCIPNLISIR To hie
ps voehiol
been
overcoine
of th
ns we know it Is but |
thing of yesterday--ns late as 1740
a cow was criminally prosecuted in
# French court and n dog was exe
cuted for witcheraft {n Salem in 1602
when we consider this, it is not sur
prising that there linger in us psychic
remnants of the days when gur niked |
ancestors shuddered at the fugglery of |
the Druld priests in the circle of |
Stonehenge, i
civilization
To the ancients dreams were serions
begun
had
he
Ceusar the
at ns
Julius
weoff
of
to
wine
them, will remem
dream of Caesar's ife
the
w
night hefore (
fis
nation she dreamed that
rinning
nds
many wo
the thelr
Offense,
{ meen 1
Serious
ly
Life and Death
i
eres fwenf nine
[gigpards s doctor «
Wil you show wus
ele f | PR
sielefo mn , Ph i
—————————
Gi
1 de
how
hh
Lebekin
aprect new .
Settles wuss’ nh
shoe) the
increased
moreover, i® a slacking up of
support on the inner side of the ankle
rolling over inward (not really
result
many
in an stiff
weak muoscies
ing (as is easy
strain on in
there
and a
lameness In the arch and in
other places from strain.
‘Every foot can be rolled over
of
a tablespoonful of gelatin, softened
cupful, three-fourths of a cupful of
a lemon, Let stand in cold water, then
ice and stir until it begins
of whipped cream beaten stiff.
stiff enough to hold ite shape, turn
into A mold and set away to become
firm,
Banana With Bacon,
Fry thin sliced bacon until erisp,
drain on paper and place on a hot
In the bacon fat cook
cayenne
{Eh
and serve’ immediately,
1920. Western Newspaper Union
Pansies
« MILIT,
Ho. bec cpp
by-an-auto
Id-be- terrible
ol- COURSE
But- how: much
better. than - by
just: A+ PLAIN
if there were no rol!
walk in
not be
ra and
we could not »
roug:
but this should the usual posi
ton
ip
ple
Certain Con certain
peo-
to be sure, have low arches nstu-
Never.
ally rolls in-
ward in standing Is never natural.
wl Poss -—
The Woods
SUMMERTIME.
leaves upon
their hands, their little hands
An errant breeze
into laughter.
of sun went
lands, the fertile lands,
perfume of a rose came run
ning after.
A ray
The
river caught their
gmile, their cheery smile,
And rippled joy to ev'ry
comer.
A robin fluttered softly to the stile, |
the shady stile,
And raised his head to sing a song |
of Summer,
A dainty maid came tripping o'er the
grass, the springing grass,
The alder touched her gently on
the shoulder.
The zephyr Kissed the tresses of the
lass, the little Inss,
The saucy ray of sun was even
bolder,
The waters came to meet her, lapped
her feet, her tiny feet,
The roses threw their perfume all
around her,
Twas then 1 knew the Summertime,
the Summertime complete.
"Tis Summertime forever since 1
found her,
(Copyright)
snsvsatosndl Yoram
Seems We've Heard the Name,
A Philadeiphia periadieal prints a
line, “With apologies to the author of
Gray's Blegy.” Let's see! Who the
dickens was the author of Gray's El
egy 1—Ragton Transcript.
merry |
CANADR'S HARVEST
5 O0F
Threshing Shows Increase Over
Expected Yields.
The Winnipeg Free Press of a few
days ago contained a cartoon of which
the following is a copy:
et.
Wp Honary The yB Hawt home 8 On Somebody Bade fe
”
BOT
goes « at Ir uth-
Alberta to
cre yields will pot he uncommon,
there will be a good many yields
thirty ) hirtyv-five bushels
acre
we
port i} parts
«
rn and fifty bushels
the
while
of
to the
In
ince, ir
Lorem
the northwest f the prev.
Bat-
anadian
lovdminster,
snd
nar: «
pal
country surrounding
tieford the {
Nati
and
the vie
A larger
ix being thrashed ir
been estima
of the three
adiacent to
nal Raliway line to |
sonith the crops are excellent
id will be heavy
than wheat erop
It has
yield
will not be less
than 225.000.0000 may
be that 250.000. -
000 and 300.000.000 bushels will be the
final figure
Onts is
average
Manitoba
te] that the total
provinces
and it
between
bushels
somewhere
8 good in all three
This crop hax also grown
rapidly during the last two or three
weeks, Excepting from those fields
which were sown late for green feed,
the yield will be heavy and the grain
excellent. Barley and rye are above
the average. There was sufficient help
crop
Paramount Duty.
“Doesn't the sheriff spend a great
deal of hiz time at the card table?
“Yer” replied Cactus Joe.
“Instead of being on the lookout for
“He's doing the right thing. Mosi
of the unruly element Is assembled a
that particular place and all the pub
of Crimson Gulch asks
j« that the sheriff will enforce =
rules of the poker game.”
A terpid liver prevesis proper food ae
your liver with Wright's
indian Vegetable Pilla. They sect gent
Wisdom From Carlyle.
The werld is a thing that a man
must learn to despize, and even to neg
lect, before he can learn to reverend
it and work in it and for it.—Car}
nr