MAGAZINE SECTION. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics. MONEY FOR POLITICS. LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COR~ PORATIONS MAKING CAM-~ PAIGN PAYMENTS. Question of Taxing Patent Medicines to Be Discussed by Congress—One Method Suggested to Meet Deficit. prospects that two pleces wi strongly advo-| Zz § fon of Con- . however, will be They relate to the | There are lation Oo Er vigorously . E. CHANDLER.) political contribu- the question of taxation certain patent medicines, a though this latter is but a feature the general subject of overcoming th Treasury ficit t is expects refer in his and to will to he 3 18 { that the President annual message question of campaign contributions, and it is known that there are many Senators and Representatives who| would favor | act in the en- actment of prohibitive legislation, Chandler's Bill to Prohibit Con tributions, As far back as Senator Chand- ler of New Hampshire, introduced 2 bill to prohibit those national banks or corporations which do an interstate or foreign business from making any po litical contributions, and to prohibit | any corporations from contributing to} campaigns Involving the election of] United States Senators and Represen tatives, The bill was almost diately favorably reported to the ate, but it was near d of the short session and it failed of passag The evident fact tha t | 34) Ps rom pt on 1901, or oen- he e1 S026 in and ant up ana the ntire 1418) porations regu political partis the sugar 1 language that the Demo Publishing the Donations. winter | ind cation , with a ¥ as will prevent for « pt thal rats and 118Cus m next i 3 centre 4 Presi of Ri ew to dent's plan Capaign « ALA to framing such from being Every to have Issues properly certain need of money. tion and distribution of speeches and all classes of literature is quite gen erally regarded as not to be condemned, but as of advantage in having questions the day properly under- stood by he voters, Leaders in Congress in declaring that it al fi a pra« in greal political sted there Is The publica~ Lg nt conte th of are but only a when is money is expended in order to corrupt | voters that the expenditure can be crit fcised. But it is generally believed that this subject will give rise to an im- mense amount of debate im the Congress, There are a score of Sena tors and a large number of Represen- tatives who will wish to go on record saying things about the corporations and the practice of corporations mak- ing contributions to political cam- paigns. Propose Tax On Medicines. The question of the taxation of pat- ent medicines, which contain consider- able alcohol, is bound to receive seri- ous consideration by Congress, espe- cially if the present rate of the Treas- ury deficit continues. The deficit Is running about $5,000,000 & month now, which is considerably Jess than last | asite—the imme- | unis | next | REAL HEART OF THINGS, its Found Not in the Great Cities; But in Country Homes, may many great cities be | dominant, but It het and I would should I James J. Northern rafiroad. “In time the come be be day,” said | will ce, orry | years live Hill, I'reside: ihe Great | al wel- of | cts, nation prosp mining distri depends upon tl farm lands lumber camps—not on the growth Or many | Yet men stan tacie of a New York, amp where Crow ded tnke LED t! us striking yl nt 1 — hurrying he the H the urban hroug ne veins s hv vigor to all the New York, the heart of the Rather New York the par- blood A Giant Exhibition. At best, New York exhibit of the farms, cattle les, and of tl ie Tr born, land.” country? BUCKOYT. is but a monster of mi n 1 4) “8, is narvelous archi 18 It excites we i 1] a sense of enterprise and What it nd depres 3 of the nder, .) resents Of these three in appreci- erial, the handle It 1 gold to buy and i “ roduct, o 1 out of al. not one able quantity The raw mat men to sell the the ground ar New York, any other eft fir in the open SPAces Louis, or , has its inception in the | open country, and its existence is and ever will be dependent upon the latter None recognizes this more quickly than the city man. He knows experience that the city suffer last and most from any aster. Te go no further t strike of three from first, ional dis than the New % nat mek coal winters ago capital, la-| ghe even produce the men to handle them. A glance at biographies will f iptains of Industry merchant princes, men of art, profe fons, laborers, are cot bred, fro; A. T. Stewart (to go no further back to the Rockefeller { ren and all the rest of the present da) leade niry I's. A Even The People From The Country eminen recenti) York cit (TELAT in rif will depopulate itself demands wrk In i It is king bers brain tro Girdner, an sald NOW : Biter and o enter, and Dr. John IL New York physician, “Build a wall around tllow no nes years the city This city makes many upon who live and wie Thousands drop ott each month, too those em ess In the out-of-towi il past cloment and will i continue 10 be, is the constan out over ti is adequnts It is in this fact ' MIT Re Capital flow- ade Wall world. coun- L man | Mates country mistress he Li} re i . Cities Not Seif-Dependent. only Not ] endent upon the naterial for trade As oom int of money Spel ' ind even ¢ amount f 1 n buyers, i inhabitants mficance, In recog Merchants Associa annually Arrangs road for cheap transport with hotels for rock runs excursions {in the out-of-town buy During the month of August $00 buyers from the and wes were in New York, and during Septer ber this number Reckoning under verage years each merchant spent $10,000, and thus throug! of th Mercha han $400, more wa nition of tion of with ral tion, and rates, and ore over south increased of p ore tha the effort largely the nis (EY) (im) is t York faced that for a coal famine paralyzed er 1 ON fil A | most killed her poo Manufacturers | could not secure enough fuel to run their plants and women on the “east side”"paid ten cents for as much coal as would fill a quart pail. The suf fering in this city was out of all pro portion to that of the rest of the coun try. All food products come from the outside. New York uses three million CEES every day, aud beef arrives in whole train loads daily, The clty must go to the country for ite building ma terials, for wool. cotton. everything that is needed to run its factories, | stores and banks " Dependent on the Country, The reckless expenditures of city dweller are continually giving rise to the question, “Where does the mon ey come from?" of course. Every wildcat scheme that is hatched In New York, from Wall Street to Madison Rquare, In year, still it Is possible that it may increase to an annoying extent necessitate some action by Congress There has been a number of extra ex penses which has caused the deficit, and there are other extra expenses ahead, while It Is, of course, not certain to what extent Congress will inercas or pare down appropriations. A num ber of congressional leaders have bad in mind, as a partial increase in the revenue desired, a tax on patent medi cines, Patent Medicine Men Will Fight. The Commissioner of Internal Rev. enue has been called upon for unofeinl information and an opinion on these pon-revenue producing alcoholics, The patent medicine people recognize tha a fight is ahead and they propose t meet It. They will resist efforts impose special taxes upon them, claim ing with apparent fores that the aleo hol used in thelr medicines has al ready paid its tax, and | angurates its proceedings by send ing circulars into the country, enteh the dollars of the farmer. I The operations of the stock ex change are all based on the cond tion of the country A rt wheat crop, & #ump In the prodaction of grain, or the prospect of one, turns the floor of the Exchange pando onlin Sear hy » the even of moneyed interests are turned to earth, figuratively speakin and keenest minds of the metropolis are speculating as to what the farmer In going to have with his erops sh into n i the the ANC CONS millones of dollars. All knows what happens In when the cotton crop falls strike Inst year onused ment ish from a million family fables In New York city. In ges at 35¢ a dozen are too expensive % an article of diet for more than half the elty's population, Material and money she gets from the outside; and rarely, Indeed, does the country New York The boot fa Yan dining the | From the country, | to | the | The results of that speculation Involve |! sUminer | for the whole the mighty spectacle of the dramatic and ring house country. All commerce Is merely gorgeously staged representation of the n vy. material and men, which build up the metropolitan mech. anism and set it in tion's moa motion A Prehistoric Scuipture, An idea of the small brain capacity of be from a crude stone head, now on ex- hibition, which was recently found in a fleld at Moriches, Long Island The head while erude In its work- manship, pronounded by ethnolo- gists as doulstiess true to nature it representat of soe savage and prehistoric people who lived ages ago The head Is not a particularly pleas ing bit of sculpture, as It ealls up a vision of men and women with small { brain development and huge repulsive [Jaws but a degree above the other {aulmals primitive man ean gathered : in _— Fortunes ia Church Steeples. It Is the opinion of Rev Beeret of the Board of Extension Methodist Episcopal Church, | that enough money has heen expended, t may be said d, In building steeples, to pay off all the church debts of the country Besides, he says, steep a relle of barbarism, and money used In their construction can be more usefully expended A good any people will hardly agree with the reverend doctor in his opinion that church steeples are useless or serve no good end. Grace and beauty are lent to thousands of otherwise common place looking towns and eities by the spires rising here and there from their midst, Everything cannot be strictly utilitarian, and if a thing serves to please the eyes and senses of hundreds or thousands of people, It Is far from Dr. Forbes ir} winst i. ire THEATRE TRUST WAR. THE INDOMITABLE BELASCO GIV- ING THE SHOW COMBINE A FIGOT FOR ITS LIFE. Threatened With Fxtinction, He Has Organized an Opposition Which Has Attracted Some of the Bright est of the Theatrical Stars. number of war against it withot tan n great produc BLANCH One of Belasco's Stars, BATES In Sep- was ons will be a success or not, embers however, announcement ade that be, In conjuntion with the rt Brothers, had acquired con Laf ette Theatre In Wash md alse had taken up a 9% 1 the d ht! the on whith ths |] of i ! A Famous Theatre rh, honse Blaine Last year David Bela theatres ] in the nations closely barred doors. 1 to make the “Adrea,” Mrs. leslie ( uC ss, and found no Washington suitable for a o et into a theatre except Convent Hall probably the largest auditorium south of New York, and In years previous used for an ice palace, for six day bi cycle races, athletic meetings, and other institutions requiring great space, This had a hall some 150 feet in length by 125 feet In width, with a roof earried on huge seralcirenlar a ches rising to a height of nearly fifty feet above the floor. Buch a barn this Mr. Belasco in few days « ing nitia : ou mm i. n mn DAVID AND GOLIAN From Life, into the verted through a magle f foe h of gold fensive and defensive weapon against the combipe Money Spent Like Water, reguintions of the District of to protect theatre patrons the dang of fire, are ex rigorous it was thew that the trust used an a weapon to thwart Belasco In his endeavor 4 have this last production first appea) Washingtofl as have other plays which are known as general snecossos he buraen of expense for this wor did not fall upon the owners of Con vention Hall, but upon Mr. Belasco who paid, In order to make this ha) inte a modern fire proof theatre, at amount aggregating vearly $25 000 The present theatrical combine or “trust,” had first conauncted a legit! mate hooking syndicate, charging for the service five per contof the prof The Columbia igninet tremely ’ and in being useless, ita, an enterprise advantageous alike The larger vista « 1 Hen manger. dn swcuring of all the t kl to the dd with the tw noted, In th ! Fr ] ie ¥i and OTH pen has on Heat other Loosing the Dogs of War. knife . ana a i-thrust. Whet! unecessfaul and ndents, remains to not long as it | know their hod of the ‘ ap be r {to the trust wil indeg i t—— _- ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF | CHARACTER. By HI. S, BIGELOW, pigcess MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON Handsome Monument Frected by Patriotic Citizens. rlected Tomb, The other day I saw a group of boys arefully ms a theatre Ihe § a man in of plungi a dagger In the throat A Womnat The did not run Ten But their eyes were big and the of their faces showed r of the picture was not Near by were two playing together Their faces were mud made by the dish over the sidewalk, and the were themselves anning cture showed Fi of boy iS intens that the younger children the gutt with the running childre floa ti pool. Heflecting ame to mi here at ne smeared n amusiag ng nd other “alldhood scenes stled swoeet-breathed on re mirrored the |} the hills where ttle browsed and the branches of great trees were in crystal waters There wathouse and the swimming. and the spr and wmmer n ton, when 1 stars were bright wl the 8 t of the child looks n lent wonder. | In the race of life, in the contest of | physical endurance, in the moral tests that come, that child 1! it a fair chance who has sprung out of the mud of the streeis, To know the breath of lHlacs and the | rustle of autumn leaves, to be up with | lark, to wet one's feet In among whe vere hole ng there g-board; ghts the IM 1 wr “wu 18 IM modern pla rhouse | which he has found to be the most of- | the ’ the dew | the to to bed with the ng of the whip-poor-will--these mem- an angels, zon ¥ oh in the wlice, If citizen pasture, eo is a canal do is thot Lis a Bl i-{ Worse Than Tobacco Cigaretlcs. 1.01 wn is rey 1 to he yorted in the throes HR = Wi ety into a turmoll, but ng the attention of fraternity It the tea-leaf habit—one In which women | ning the chief adepts, and which they find great difficuity in over ing. Once the taste for the new ‘weed™ is acquired, It is sald the sen sation of smoking cigarettes is | quite pleasant. Dizziness is caused by coustant smoking and the victims clutch madly for invisible and imaginary objects to support them selves. They finally drop in an ex- hausted and stupefled condition, and then follows that wild state of dream { land sald to be as varied as that caused by powerful narcotics ~ is 0 atiract the dical is *arotte re Im tea or § in water | cigar stumps in the disgusting | upon that sad sight there | stood out in memory a little lake | colible | poster, | the act | | | MONUMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON. verses and the work on the monument was suspended, In 18M patri- tie woms formed the Wash- M Associat and by erect the iment th 18nd ! W, h the rton’'s mot rest. SOINe ument A Slory on Balzac. entered guests il mm two ot were Ons elegantly-dressed ted Ww 8 an d apparently highly edu man, > i eller was BONE Bh, Doisy and extre con- ceited As the pupil bid his host good night, be remarked: “The prob Wr _ ry simp i er the quiet well dressed gentleman ished In other Is evidently ought to be locked Smiling at his pupil, Esquire] told him that he was wrong. “The quiet well: dressed man,” he sald, “who talks so rationally, has for years labored under the delusion that he is God, the Father, while the other Is M. Honore de B the greatest French writer i" La atl un- cout nil, . is certainly line, but the lunatic, and up at once™ disting SOme a ile Lvery reader of this pap Illustrated by Ernest Haskell The, The romantic adventures of al the Court of Maximi witht john Diawi an in Mexico, where { the beautiful Jacque ling cont years “A remarkable first book. of epic breodih, rwervingly, A brilliant story study." «N.Y. Globe 135137 East 16th St, New York. I —— — Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. Missourian tie 1 The best romastic American novel of re DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. er should have this book. Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st 18TH THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, £1.50 win Lenlire nto conflict ris knamed his secre tis fn Cones “Has what so few of (ts clam possess, the elements of reality, wrought by infinite paing af detail, versoomilitude, rgpestion ft Louis Republic oarvied Lhrough wn. N.Y. Times Satunday Review ‘There (0 no more dramatic period in history, ond the ttory bourses every evidence of careful and prindaking »’ J
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