Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. Centre femo BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18,1006. v 1. Farm Notes, Choice Fiction, Current Topics. THE STATEHOOD QUESTION. LIKELIHOOD OF THE ADMISSION OF OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY. Disposition to Grant Them Statehood Irrespective of Arizona and New Mexico—~New Congressional Align- ment on Question. The assembling of congress will bring new blood in both the House and Senate. There is promise of a long and very important session. New policies are to be discussed and material changes in existing economic conditions are to be proposed. Coming upon the eve of a congressional elec tion, the session will feel the effects, to a certain extent, of political consid erations. The admission of new states to the Union will be one of the hold-over questions to occupy the attention of the new congress. It appears now that there will be a decided shifting of position on the statehood problem, some new lights having dawned since statehood was discussed at the last session, It is understood that the committees on territories of both House and Sen ate are inclined to stand by the old program of creating two states out of the four territories, but it will not be a surprise If this program falls to meet the approval of a majority of the republican senators and representa- tives. Since the question of hood for these four southwest tories was brought into many senators and representatives have personally investigated the exist- ing conditions in the territories, and the result that public sentiment among public men is crystaliizing In terri- CONEress 18 = homa and Indian Territory to hood and, if necessary, letting Arizo- na and New Mexico walt There to be few voices against the proposed : seems dissenting HSsion state | | the favor of the plan of admitting Okla- state- | of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Difference of opinion does exist as to whether the two territories should be admitted as one state or whether they should be admitted as separate states, but on the main proposition the preparedness of these two terri tories for statehood—there is little dissenting opinion, In fact, the pre- vailing view is that statehood has already been too long delayed In the case of Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory. It is almost disgraceful, well informed public men are saying, that these two progressive territories should be held baek simply because of disagreement as to whether those unprepared territories, Arizona and New Mexico, should be admitted. It is high time, many men declare, for congress to cut the Ari loose from zona and New Mexico proposition, no | matter what form it may take, and admit Oklahoma and Indian Territory. ap rown The Royal C “Uneasy is the head that wears the un" The crown of Enghnd costly toy and is better to look upon than to wear, Around the circle there are twenty dlamonds, worth $7,600 of England. Crow HUMORIST ENTERTAINS GROUPS OF AUTHORS AT BANQUET, At Three Score and Ten He Is Hale and Hearty—Gives Views on How to Live-Never Smokes or Drinks While Asleep. Mark Twain, that prince of humor. ists has reached the limitation of life as laid down by the Seriptures—three score years and ten. And yet he is still able to give us gems of humor and wit—such gems as attained fame for him years ago when Huckleberry I'inn, Tom Sawyer and Innocents THE is a | each, two large center diamonds, $10, | 000 each; fifty-four smaller ones at the angle of the former, $600 each; crosses, each composed of twenty-five § four large dia- at the top of the crosses, $20 000; twelve diamonds contained in the £50,000; eighteen smaller ones In same, $10,006; pearls, dia monds, upon’ the arches and crosses, $50,000; also one hundred and forty-one small diamonds, $25,000; twenty-six diamonds in the upper oss, £15,000 and two circles of pearls the rim, $15,¢)., The cost of precious alone Is nearly half a million dollars. MALIN monds he ; fleur-de-lis, ele. er about stones nearest relative, bring her back. Here lies my wife's All my tears cannot Therefore I weep four | | MARK TWAIN, TO-DAY. | Abroad were first given to us. On De the honor rate cember Oth he was it a dinner his seventieth guest of to cele The to and about present, nearly half . very guest received ouvenir a bust of Mark Twaln, y guests closely literature, confine —— THE CHINESE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER. Visitors to the Chinese Washington ha often been ’ to a tiny little figure perched at the head of the grand stairway It is al- ways there when a dinner party is go- fing on or when Sir Chengtung Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister, is giving a reception, It never falls to appear, and the uninitiated have been heard to remark in undertone that it is a queer little figure which guards the head of Legation at attract 1 16 the stairway However, it Is a very animated some. body after all, for it is no other than | the young daughter of the Minister, | Miss Liang, who, though barred] through the custom of her country and her youth from taking actual part in these entertainments, is, nevertheless, determined to see as much of them as she possibly can, Perhaps her father, the Minister, does not know she Is there and perhaps he does, but nobody knows. for no mention of the fact has ever been made to him, and Miss Liang continues to enjoy these many social affairs from afar This dainty little Chinese maid has been in this country ever since her fa ther was delegated to represent his emperor at Washington, She is just seventeen years old, and until she came to America she did not know what it was to be allowed to go out unat- tended, Over in China the women never show thelr faces on the street, but with the appointment to Washington of Wu Ting Dang, former Chinese Minister, members of the legation, and especially the women, were given greater freo- dom and now they go about with never a thought as to the propriety of the ex- perien would not dare Society is eagerly awaiting the ex- pected announcement that Miss Liang will be formally presented this season. She has learned to speak English ex- ceadingly well and is a familiar figure in a box at the theatres on Monday nights. When she wishes to go shop- ping she does po unhesitatingly, and her carriage is frequeniiy seen stand- At home they ing In front of some of the fashionable shops Fewer girls, especially among those who have not been presented to so- clety, are more popular than this charming daughter of the Chinese Min- | ister, She has made friends with every girl in Washington soclety, and her chief delight is to jump In her car- riage In the afternoons and about, calling on her young American friends. They are all delighted to pee her, and no matter what is on the pro- gramme it must wait if the attractive little Miss Liang happens to call, She fs #0 piquant, and appreciates an American joke as well as any of her American associates Miss Liang is the constant compan- fon of her father and accompanies him on all his drives. They are great friends and apparently enjoy every minute of their time together, The Minister Is very proud of his daughter's progress In learning American cus toms, and it is not unlikely thet before many more years are past the Chinese Legation will be enjoying even to a greater extent the American freedom in livin which many hands are always ready. | It drive | which makes the assignment of Washington a diplomatic plum for + when you awful d ) aside the decent pressed you for a gener nd unafraid and unal our seven-terraced summit arrive at a you reserves wl gnity: when ow " sia and ‘ i i : 3 (Gok drwm rm Arrest upot & can tell the world how you got there, ig what they all do. You shall ver tired of } it d ite | telling by w or about gol is one and that diet—wl I have Ix t in WZ to the agree with me of got the Ix I got the best of it ng 1 stopped fi with mince ple after midnight then I had always believed it londed For thirty years I have | coffe 1 bread at 8 In the ind no bite nor sup until 7.30 evening “I have made It a rule Dpeve to smoke more than one elgar at a time. 1 have no other restriction as regards smoking began to smoke: 1 only know that was in my father's lifetime, and that 1 was indisereet. He passed from this { fe early in 1847, when I was a shade [past cleven: ever since then I have smoked publicly As an example to others, and not that 1 eare for moder {ation myself, | rule never to smoke when asleep never to refrain when awake. “As for drinking, 1 have no rule about that, When the others drine like to help: otherwise | remain dry, by habit and preference. This dry | ness does not hart me, but it could { onslly hurt you, because you | different. You let it alone, : First Standard Ol Trust, “Since 1 was seven years old T have seldom taken a dose of medicine and have still more seldom needed one, But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines, Not that | need. od them, for 1 don't think I did; but it was for economy. My father took a drug store for a debt, and it made cod liver ofl cheaper than the other break. fast foods. 1 was the first Standard Oll Trust. 1 had ft all. By the time the drug store Was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me ) which didn't or the Until lately fut Ia unt i othe r us © An and sp! have never taken any exercise, ex. cept sleeping and resting, and I never MARK TWAIN AT SEVENTY, writers ! I do not know just when 1 it has always been my | are | Exercise is loath- be any benefit I was always intend to take any. And it cannot you are tired; some, when tired. “have lived a severely moral life jut It would be a mistake for other people to try that, or for me to rec ommend it. Very few would succeed, You bave to have a perfectly al stock of morals, and you cannot get them on a margin; you have to the whole thing and put them in your box. Morals are an acquirement--like music, lke a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them, I wasn't myself, 1 start ed poor. colos have lili WHAT A STRIKE COST. Chicago Obliged to Divert Money Needed For Improvements Into Payments For Police Service. It will never be known definitely just what the recent strike of the teamsters cost the people of Chicago. That the total would run well into the millions, however, {8 a conserva tive estimate, judging from the single {tem of the expense to the municipal ity for extra police protection, Some time ago it was discovered that the city could add $5,000,000 to its bonded debt, and the people au. thorized an issue of bonds to thi amount for specific public improve found $2,000,000 of these bonds still ursold and an emergency strike debt of some $365,000, To pay this bill the council has retired the $2,000,000 of bonds and opdered their reissue in such form that they may be used for general corporate purposes, Thus $365,000-—or {cost of lowering the | nels—goes to pay extra pol { defending the lives of citizens and pro the estimated two river tun y icemen for city administration practically gave license to the striking teamsters to make the ordinary business of peace ful citizens full of turmoil and haz ard. Money that the people intended to go into sorely needed permanent im- | provements has been diverted to meet the cost of lawlessness that never should have gone to the extent it did. The cost of this one sirike is the 365,000 the city pays for extra § pl what the county has to special deputy iffs, plus to merchants, railways ufacturers, etc, in busine wages to strikers, plus other items that it would to enumerate, And this als braces money cost It takes no ac count of inconvenience to citizens, of assaults on citizens, of the killing of (5 L8 b4 — ——————————— s It is a tremendously expensive thing to fight a labor war in a great city. , Is for 1 logs the Throne. ng, who . wr sir ard at Washington } A Ring for a Miss Josephine private retar) Congress ring that by Louis Phillipe The ring has a will be remembered that Phill in this ox He ir WAS for pe | an Zanesville, winter with WAS exile, ments. The end of the teamsters’ strike | tecting thelr property while a supine | olice | 4 AMERICAN LAND MONOPLY. IS BEING FOSTERED BY OUR PRES ENT SYSTEM OF LOOSE LAND LAWS. Homestead Commutation and Desert Land Act, Supposed to Encourage Settlement—Largely Utilized for Land Grabbing. Land monopoly is a black cloud of dread from which Ireland Is just emerging, and we applaud England's act, while we may yet possibly be a little skeptical, in providing a plan whereby free Ireland may become a fact. Yet we ourselves are as rapidly ap- proaching land monopoly in America as it is possible to do, considering our vast extent of territory, Land monop- oly brings with it more slaie evils than can be recounted in any single article, It retards every velopment, it smothers individual ef- fort and enterprise and finally it transforms the stem and fiber of the individual citizen from that of a sub- stantial, self-reliant rier government to a indifferent and passionle mental and m sturdy an hi have made America the grea in history. “Land P218¢0 BUpi supine, in those which ral v Pe poise and qualities H A you say?” says the an i grabber “Why, there nough land for the children of the nation for generations if not The gov ernment alone near- ly half a and how can there be any land monopoly when this vail area | to free entry under our vari 1 did lan i ntiur ry ceniur f ms Owns law Half Billion Acres Remaining. It is true that the valuable lands in the West yet remaining open to entry, or land which will valuable shall have boen { furnished irrigation, but | what is ption of this half billion acres yet maining under Uncle Sam's cont: t reasonable to suppose that i 1 land oper- ators, living re are at least when it water f be cri the general de internal de- | of free! 8 individual, lacking in | st name | if “here is a cla lost sight deral land laws, from the home law down, and eve fore the tead law, d for the of osterir making of for nation; they sex 0 think, and pust be sed that they have cessfully put into prae- tice thelr belief, that laws are to be construed into passing on the title from the 0 private hands wi regard to | homemaking when | the public private ownership it becomes taxa property and this helps the and the State, and the quest wred as to whether men upon that land and make rear families. The foll oy appar« ntiy f« stead home purpose homes the no Were enacts th 16 m " | {em conlis he government int h abBol The domain vy coun on is | and women homes EO and owing part of the report of the Public Lands Commission shows that the commutation clause at pres ent is a farce and that land can be entered under it t immed} ately added to already large individual | holdings The Ce recoms | mends that the lence extended from } | three years and thi actual and not constructive, as at pre With enforced the evil tion clause would be largely 5 howev« | ol man ¢ 1 alr ana amo y be fo at lence be it is a law strictly commutas obviated. 6 that ime- years ent 81 a | nd, have not skimmed the land, and are not doing ®« lay-—the fertile valleys where waler can i cal lo, just vast There map tance, of for an in { preponderance Are XHY {drs vame ss reduced ince you mu appear for the BORIC is on m iis map a but fr hink the entire Lt chain uj bu it range of aving the | © Was com- | n chain | . * MN) uniiiabie | Denounced by Commission. of land monopoly 8 fostered through in the n the | 3 N : He J n an ir nent of which A COUPLE OF “HOMES” IN THE WEST. | | 8 Gen, Morgan Neville, a rich ploneer and taught the district school. He had word from France that there was a chance to regain the Bourbon throne [if he could but get to Paris, but he | hat not money enough for the trip, Gen. Neville lent the prince the money, something like $800, and the prince gave ir, pledge the ring that Miss Strong now wears, Going to New Or leans by boat, Phillipe got to France {and the rest is history. He regained | his throne and the money lent by Gen. | Neville made it possible, The king sent | back the amount of the loan, told thd general to keep the ring and asked him to visit him at the royal palace. The ring Is a pear shaped diamond, set in black enamel and Is naturally highly prized. “edt evs ey E—— lato the Earth's Bowels. At Bendigo, Australia, there is a gold mine 3900 feet deep, or only 60 feet short of threoquarters of a mile, Thiz is said to be the deepest gold mine in the world, - - NERY RTH 2 NR UR ENR) is published in these columns, com- ments upon these two land laws The commutation clause originally provided that after eight months of residence on a homestead claim & man could “commute” by paying to the government $1.25 an acre and get immediate title to his land. After a number of years of operation it was conceded that this clause had opened the door for much land acquirement without settlement, and amid a great blare of trumpets, Congress, In a spasm of virtue, extended the time to fourteen months. What has been the result of this amendment? The op ponents of the repeal of the commuta- tion clause have presented specific reasons why this law should not be touched; that the entryman needs to “prove up” and get title to his land po that he can mortgage his property and with the money buy groceries, tools, ete, with which to work his farm, which may sound well, but the fact seems to remain that the great bulk of the commuted homesteads are not today homes, FREDERICK inser of th Commission, he would be unwilling to pax BLE acre for immediate title, when { REeXt Week article. Commutation Clause of the Home- stead Act. i r tha ding report state. t a investiga ns of the homestead We were Jd 0 recom- lp car ae r } operat the fF mend its reps ried on during have COR Vinee } nat mpt action i ction and ent, the uld be great. ns year » of the passing Cor ra The was pri the land char. created nmutation was the of ad of 1 : il of to ; ter 80 that the wilderness The cot ( added a ater undoubtely intended to assist honest settler, but like many other well-intended acts its original intent has been gradually perverted until it is apparent that a great part of all commuted homesteads remains unin habited. In other words under the commutation clause the number of patents furnishes no index to the number of new homes. To prove this statement it is only necessary to drive through a country where the commutation cause has 2 . 160 a tural in hon 08 " ns Gate, been largely applied. Field after field i= passed without a sign of per | manent habitation or Improvement | other than fences, The homestead | shanties of the commuters may be (Continued on next page.) Do You Use Acetylene? if so, We Want to Send You A SAMPLE BURNER , mention kind of Gene ator used, enclose § cents in stamps cover postage, and will send yOu ia A Sample Burner W. M. CRANE COMPANY 1131-33 BROADWAY Room 10 New York, N. YX.
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