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A Voter's Catechism.
D. Have you read tke Consti
tution of the United States?
R. Yes.
D. What form of Government
:s this?
R. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution of
the United States?
R. It is the fundamental law of
this country.
D. Who 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. Tkeo. M. Kurtz.
D. Who is tke chief executive
the United States?
R. President.
D. For how long is the
Pressident of the United States
elected?
R. 4 years.
D. Who takes tke place of the
President in case he dies?
R. Tke Vice President.
D. What is his name?
R. Thomas R. Marshall.
D. By whom is tke President of
tie 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
state of Pennsylvania.
R. The Legislature.
D. What does tke 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.
P. By whom was it written?
R. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States?
R. Waskington.
D. By wkom 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, (the
ratio fixed by Congress after each
decennial census.)
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
R. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has
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 votea
has the state of Pennsylvania?
R. 38.
D. Who is tke ehief executive
of the state of Pennsylvania ?
R. Tke Governor.
D. For how long is ke elected?
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.
D. Are you an anarchist ?
R. No.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not be
ieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or poli
gamist ?
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or poly
gamist ?
R, One who believes in having
mors 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 anj
lr Wf of the United States?
R. No.
D. Who makes the ordinances
for the City ?
R. The board of Aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain
permanently in the U. S.?
R. Yes.
Broken Peace
By F. A. MITCHEL
1 was gittin' on well enough, inde
pendent as a wood sawyer's clerk,
when that consarned Jim Simpson
come along and put an idea Into my
head that sp'iled the hull business. I
had Jlst done my week's washin' o' the
dishes, havln' put 'em on to the wagon
and driv 'em Into the crick and mopped
'em, and was takin' out the horses
when Jim come along.
"What y* been doin'?" he says.
"Washin' the dishes. • Next week I
got to change the sheets, seein* they
hain't been changed in two months.
Saturday'll be the last day o' the
month, and that's my sweepln' day."
"By gum, Enoch," says Jim, "that
hain't no kind o' work for a man.
Why don't y' git a wife to do it for
you?"
"I don't see," says I, "how any wo
man could do it any better'n I. She'd
take a lot more time about it, and
mebbe the winders would git washed
occasionally, but my opinion is that a
woman is always kickin' up a dust for
nothln'. My way o' doin' it is to let
the dust git settled before disturbin' it
again. Y' can't git a woman to do that."
Jim and I walked to the house, and
he come in. Fact is he wanted to find
somepin to find fault with. And he
did. He said that it was the dirtiest
house he'd ever been in. When he was
goin' away he said:
"Enoch, I got a wife that when we
was first married used to stir up the
dust a lot. I complained, and she told
me that if I preferred dust in bulk
rather than at retail she didn't She
said a man's place wasn't in the house
anyway when a woman was cleanin'.
So I made it a p'int to find somepin to
do outside when she was stlrrin' up the
dirt, aud when I come back again ev
erything looked spick and span, and I
got used to havin' it that a-way and
couldn't stand it t'other way."
"It's all a matter o' habit," I says.
Jim went away, but he'd put a flea
into my ear. There was a likely gal
at Bunker's farm—Bunker's wife's sis
ter. I reckoned that I'd go down and
see her. Mebbe I might take her in
for the house work if she'd come. Nat
urally I got to tellin' her how I washed
the dishes and the other things. She
larfed and said that I was very ingen
ious. She'd never thought about doin'
dishes thst a-way. And as for sweep
in', she thort my way o' leavin' the
dust to settle before stirria' it up again
was a food idea. Anyway that was all
right for a man who didn't know how
to do sich things without a lot o' trouble.
"Well, I sot up to her for a month or
N en Sunday nights, at the end of
which time we was married and went
to my house to lire. My Aunt Emily
says to me afore I was chained, says
she, "Enoch, you don't mean to take a
wife into that house o' yourn without
havin' some woman go into it and cart
away the dirt, do you?" And I says:
"Aunt Emily, what I'm glttin' married
for Is to have some one to keep the
house In order. She mought as well
begin at the beglnnln'." Aunt Emily
says, says she: "Yer beginnin' the
wrong way. When a couple starts In
to keep house together they ought to
have smooth sallln' at the commence
ment Instead o' that, you're goin' to
begin with a fine inducement for a
scrap."
I was mighty feared when she said
this that I'd better have gone on as I
was, but it was too late for that now.
So I tuk my wife right inter the house
just as it was.
"Enoch," she says, "take all the
buckets and go out to the well and fill
'em."
I did this, and when I came back I
found that my bride had taken off her
weddln' outfit and put on scrubbin' uni
form. That was the beglnnln' of It
The first quarter o' the honeymoon was
given up to a whirlwind o' dust; then
buckets o' soap and water and all sorts
o' dirt kill In' contrivances come on.
Just as I was hopln' the end was com
in' and the furniture would be put
where It belonged, another cleanup
commenced that took up what remained
o' the honeymoon.
After the cleanin' had wore me out I
said, "I s'pose we kin rest"
"No," she says. "I've been a month
puttln' the house in order, but while
I've been doin' one thing the dust has
been accumulatin' elsewhere. The first
week I washed the winders. That's
three weeks ago. I got to wash 'em
again."
"How about the sweepin'?" I asked,
gloomy like.
"The sweepin' 'll come the day after
the winders is washed."
One day—it was in the last week o'
the honeymoon—l was walkin' along
the road comin' toward my happy
home, over which hung a cloud o' dust,
when I met Jim Simpson.
"Look a-there," I says, pointin' to the
house. "That's what y' done by dis
satlsfyin' me about my housekeepin'."
"Is yer house afire?" he says.
"No," says I, seein' a stream o' wa
ter be a tin' agin the upper story.
"That's my wife playin' the hose on
the winders."
"Groo'by," says Jim, and he lit out
I'm gittln' used to It now, and it
don't trouble me so much as it did, but
I often sigh for the happy, quiet times
when I used to drive the dishes Into
the crick and do my sweepin' when I
liked and let the dirt alone and lived
in peace. But them days has gone for
ever. In my home there's perpetual
scrubbin' an£ washin', and every
spring I'm transferred for two weeks
to the barn while the spring cleanin' is
goin' pn.
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