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A Voter's Catechism.
D. Have you read the Consti
tution of the United States?
R. Yes.
D. What form of Government
is this?
R. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution of
the United States?
R. It is the fundamental law of
this country.
D. W r ho makes the laws of the
United States?
R. The Congress.
D. What does Congress consist
of?
R. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives.
D. Who is our State Senator?
R. Theo. M. Kurtz.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the United States?
'R. President.
D. For how long is the
Pressident of the United States
elected?
R. 4 years.
D. Who takes the place of the
President in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
D. What is his name?
R. Thomas R. Marshall.
D. By whom is the President of
the United States elected?
R. By the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
elcted? e
R. By the people.
D. Who makes the laws for the
stete of Pennsylvania.
R. The Legislature.
D. What does the Legislature
consist, of?
R. Senate and Assembly.
D. Who is our Assemblyman?
R. Wilmer H. Wood.
D. How many State in the un
ion?
R. 48.
D. When was the Declaration
of Independence signed?
R. July 4, 1776.
D. By whom was it written?
R. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States?
R. Washington.
D. By whom are they elected?
R. By the people.
D. For how long?
R. 6 years.
D. How many representatives
, are there ? ..
R. 435. According to the pop
ulation one to/every 211,000, (tht
ratio fixed by Congress after eaci&
decennial census.)
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
R. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators ha*
each state in the United States
Senate ?
R. Two.
D. Who are our U. S. Senators ?
R. Boise Penrose and George
T. Oliver.
D. For how long are they elect
ed?
R. 2 years.
D. Who is our Congressman?
R. S. Taylor North.
D. How many electoral rotes
has the state of Pennsylvania?
R. 38.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the state of Pennsylvania?
R. The Governor.
D. For how long is he elected 1
R. 4 years.
D. Who is the Governor?
R. Brumbaugh.
D. Do you believe in organized
government ?
R. Yes.
D. Are you opposed to organiz
ed government?
R. No.
13. Are you an anarchist?
.R. No.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not b<
ieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or poll
gaiuist?
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or poh
gamist?
R. One who believes in having
more than one wife.
D. Do you belong to any se
cret Society which teaches to
disbelieve in organized govern
ment?
R No.
D. Have you ever violated au\
I,'vvs of the United States?
R. No.
D. Who makes the ordinance"
for the City ?
R. The board of Aldermen.
D. Do yon intend to remai
permanently in the U. S.?
R. Yes.
The Guilty Man
3y M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
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1 was not a tramp, but I had to be
come the next thing to one in a sense.
With my having been ill and out of
work for months, with my being penni
less and seedy and discouraged, with
my asking for a meal here and a bed
there as I tramped the highways be
tween London and Liverpool, no one
could be blamed for sizing me up as a
"professional" and treating me accord
ingly.
One night, in the county of War
wick. I came upon a farmer who had
neither wife nor children, but was
living alone on his small holding. His
name was Ilolborne, and, though gruff
at first, he finally gave me a hearty
supper and the privilege of passing
the night in his barn. When supper
was finished and he had heard my
story, he offered me a pipe, and we
sat at his door and smoked and chat
ted for an hour. It was agreed that 1
should turn to next morning and work
with him in his fields for half a month.
While we were chatting, a neighboring
farmer named Saunders came up and
halted for five minutes, and two others
•passed on the highway and saluted
Holborne with a good evening. It was
10 o'clock before I went to the barn,
anil, being tired and sleepy, I was soon
in dreamland. How long I had slept
when I was awakened by the sound of
voices in anger, I could not say, but I
heard what seemed to be a quarrel be
tween Holborne and another man. The
voice of the other was high pitched
and had a catch in it. It was not a
stammer, but a sort of gasp, as if
catching his breath. I was not fully
aroused, nor did the quarrel continue
long.
It was sunrise next morning when I
woke and turned out. The house was
only about five rods away, and after
looking about to see if Holborne were
in sight I moved along to the house.
His dead body was on the grass before
the open door. He had been struck on
the head with a club and kilfed by a
single blow. I was upset by the dis
covery, as you may believe. After
touching his face and finding it cold 1
started off on the run for the nearest
farmhouse, half a mile away. The
farmer was milking his cow, and his
wife was preparing breakfast, but they
returned with me at once, and other
neighbors were called, and a boy was
sent off to the nearest police station.
I told my story to the people, and all
believed me, as why should they not
when Saunders was among them? And
yet when the police came their very
first move was to arrest me as the
murderer. A tramp had passed the
night in the barn. Of course the tramp
had murdered the farmer.
If you agree that the police were
asses you will agree that the others
were fools. No sooner was I charged
with the murder than all turned
against me. Saunders suddenly re
membered that our conversation was
heated as he came up. The two who
passed by thought they heard me use
threatening language. A farmer whom
I had not at all the evening be
fore claimed to have come near enough
to the house to have heard me ask
Holborne for the loan of £2. I was an
gered, but not frightened. I asked the
police to investigate my bed on the
straw, and they found it still warm. I
asked them to look through the house,
and they found nothing disturbed. I
asked them to note that the body was
cold, and the doctor who was sum
moned said that life had been extinct
for seven or eight hours.
I was examined by a magistrate,
who said I would no doubt get my
just deserts, and the police made no
move whatever to find another party.
Even the jailer and the turnkeys
chuckled over the hanging that must
result. I told of having heard the
quarrel, but they said I lied. I told
of the arrangements made to go to
work for Holborne in the morning,
but they smiled in derision.
I was almost ready for the assizes
and the hanging whefi a person, whose
identity I do not know to this day and
who must have been moved by a spirit
of fairness, sent me a lawyer and gave
the lawyer money to work with. Prestb
change! Why. a born fool could have
picked up the threads of the case and
cleared me. Within six hours after 1
had told the lawyer of the quarrel and
the man with the catch in his voice
they had the murderer spotted. His
name was Jamison, and the quarrel
was over the lease of the farm, and
the club with which he had delivered
the blow, having lost his temper, but
not meaning to kill, was found in his
house. More than that, he broke down
and made a full confession, and when
the. assizes came on he stood in the
dock in my place. Nevertheless, in
setting me at liberty the judge did it
grudgingly and with a warning that
my crimes must sooner or later find
me out, and I was scarcely clear of
the courtroom when the humiliated
and chagrined police overhauled me
and said:
"It is just possible that you did not
commit this crime, but only because
iomebody else got ahead of you. We
know you had planned to do it and are
a dangerous man to be roaming about,
and if you are not outside the county
by sundown you shall be run in on
suspicion I"
Jamison was hanged for the killing,
and a long confession was left in writ
ing over his own hand, but there were
scores of people who still believed that
"the tramp" had something to do in
I some way with that murder.
PINKNEY'S PUCE IN HISTORY
His Fame as the Greatest Lawyer th#
United States Has Produced
Is Secure.
Even that tritest of truisms, the
ephemerality of a lawyer's fame, offers
no adequate explanation of the obscur
ity in which sleeps the genius of Wil
liam Pinkney. For Pinkney was not
merely a great lawyer. According to
testimony that leaves no room for
doubt or controversy, he was the very
greatest lawyer that this country has
ever produced.
Nor was this all. He served his coun
try with distinction and success in the
labyrinths of diplomacy, at the cabinet
table, in the halls of congress and even
on the field of battle. Above all, at a
most critical point of our history, when
the clamor of contending sections dis
turbed the tranquillity of the Sage of
Monticello, "like a fire bell ringing in
the night," to use Jefferson's own ex
pressive phrasp, it was Pinkney who
rose to the occasion and recalled sena
tors to a sense of their duty and pa
triotism.
Of him John Marshall said that he
was the greatest man he had ever seen
in a court of justice. Of him Taney
wrote in 1854: "I have heard almost
all the great advocates of the United
States, both of the past and present
generation, but I have seen none equal
to him." Of him Story remarked:
"His clear and forcible manner of put
ting his cases before the court, his
powerful and commanding eloquence,
occasionally illumined with sparkling
lights, but always logical and appro
priate and, above all, his accurate and
discriminating law knowledge, which
he pours out with wonderful precision,
give him, in my opinion, a great su
periority over every man whom I have
known.".
When such a court unanimously con
curs in rendering judgment, bold in
deed the man who claims an appeal.—
H. H. Hagan in Case and Comment.
Accent on the "Know."
Marks—lf you had to live life over
again would you marry the same wo
man? Parks—You j'jst bet I would. I f
know what she is, and women arc too
uncertain for me to experiment with
another one.—Exchange.
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Cow's Fondness for Roses.
Because E. R. Patterson's milch cow
walked into Walter G. Hyman's rose
garden and consumed a sundry assort
ment of blossoms, Haywurd Park, a
fashionable residence district of San
Mateo, is in the throes of a Civil war,
avers a San Mateo (Cal.) telegram
to the New York World. The law has
beeeti invoked and threats and coun
ter threats are breathed.
Hyman filed a written complaint
with the San Mateo city trustees, who
referred it to Poundmaster George
Maggi.
Kecently Patterson made public the
following letter to Hyman:
"I hand you herewith my check for
$3.25 to cover the full amount of dam
ages, as claimed by you, done by my
cow when she recently broke loose
and got into your yard. In view of
The very childish 'tell-the-teacher* at
titude you took in taking this small
accident up with sundry city officials
and others, I think I might have felt
that I was justly absolved from any
financial obligation to you. However,
I guess your action carries with it its
own punishment, as I know that I
should hate to carry the brand real
men put on one who assumes the at
titude you did on this occasion."
Chapel in the Trenches.
In one of the French trenches the
men have constructed a small chapel
underneath the earth. It is sufficient
ly large to admit 20 men at the same
time. Every effort has been made by
the clever workmen who have built it,
skilled miners from the district of La
Loire, to make the underground chapel
difficult of bombardment. The inte
rior ornamentation has been carried
to high perfection, for a parquet floor,
carpets, candlesticks, kneeling chairs
saved from the ruined churches are to
be found In it. A wooden altar has
been erected in the trench chapel, and
a magnificent French flag, the gift of
an officer, has been hung in it.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor
away. And what will you do, doctor,
when your business is gone?"
"Guess I'll hedge," replied the un
perturbed medico. "Just invest in or
chards."
The first standing army, consisting of
guards and regular troops, was formed
by Saul in 1003 R. O.
SIMPLE WAY TO TEST CREAM
French Scientist Has Given to th«
World a Discovery That Is of
Distinct Value.
Professor Llndet of the French
Agronomic Institute has given to the
Academy of Agriculture a very simple
process for calculating rapidly the
quantity of fatty matter in cream.
It is the fatty matter that gives cream
its quality, the more of this butter the
better the cream. This is the process:
A drop of cream is placed upon a
sheet of paper and Introduced at once
into an oven heated to 105 degrees
centigrade. The watery part of the
cream evaporates and the fat, ab
sorbed by the paper, forms a spot
whicn enlarges rapidly at first, then
more slowly as the edges of the spot
Increase their distance from the point
at which the drop has been placed.
At the end of a specified time the area
of the spot is measured and compared
with that of a spot formed by a drop
of pure grease of the same size de
posited at the same time and under
identical conditions.
Professor Llndet uses drops of 1-100
of a cubic centimeter in size, and
places his paper In wooden frames to
prevent it from curling up in the
oven. He removes it before the spots
have spread to more than three or
four centimeters in diameter.
Corpus Christ! Day.
Corpus Ohrlsti kept today by nil
Roman and Anglican Catholics, Is
connected with two towns prominent
in the present war. It arose from the
dream of a religious lady at Leige, and
was formally sanctioned in 1264 by a
bishop of Verdun who became Pope. It
came to England about 1320, and was
soon made a popular fete. In Wales
on this anniversary the doorways of
houses were decked with flowers, tho
maidenhair fern being chiefly selected
for the purpose. Previous to the re
cent Anglican revival Corpus Christl
day was kept at the Oxford college. It
has been observed for five centuries
in the city of London by the Worship
ful company of Skinners, who attend
in state their special service at St.
Mary Aldermary. But the "Skinners"
who walk in the procession now carry
posies of flowers instead of the "war
torches" mentioned by Stow. —London
Chronicle. QUADRI PATRIOTTICI
Cartoline mostrate. Libri d'ogni specie dietro ordine
Il rinomato DIZIONARIO TASCABILE Italiano-Inglese e viceversa
edito dai Fratelli Treves di Milano.
La nuovissima GRAMMATICA ACCELERATA del De Gaudenzi
Corso completo por imparare a scrivere, parlare e capir bene
la lingua inglese in tre mesi senza maestro
Agenzia Italiana
Indiana Pennsylvania
La macchina del
business man
Macchina unica a caratteri visibili
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