Montour American
FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor.
Danville, Pa. Sept 29, 1910.
BERRY IS JOLTED
BY MANY BOLTERS
Hot Over Desertion by Former
Treasurer Siieatz.
HE HELPED FCRSI PARTY
Control of Movement by Bryan Demo
crats Too Much For Independent
Republicans.
A series of desertions from the Key-
Stone Party last week greatly embar
rassed the Berry campaigners.
The trouble was due to the fact that
the coterie of Bryan Democrats who
have captured the Independent organi
zation persist in Indorsing Democrats
for congress and the legislature. This
Is resented by Independent Rapubii
cans, few of whom have any heart In
the movement since a Democrat,
Berry, was put at the head of their
ticket.
The most sensational break from
the Berry forces was the resignation
Of former State Treasurer John O.
Sheatz, who was one of the organis
ers of the Keystone Party and was
chairman of Its first committee on or
ganization.
Sheatz wanted an independent Re
publican named for governor by the
Keystone Party. He took an active
part In the convention, but he and his
associates were defeated by the Demo
cratic combination headed by Eugene
C. Bonniwell, who landed Berry at
the head of the ticket. Then they put
up Casey and Scully for secretary of
Internal affairs and state treasurer re
spectively, leaving but one independ
ent Republican, Glbboney, on the
ticket. He is supposed to be running
for lieutenant governor.
Too Much Democracy.
Following up their victory in the
convention the Berryites have indors
ed a big batch of Democrats for con
gress
In resigning from the Keystone
county committee of Montgomery,
Charles Hober Clark, who was a
prominent delegate in the Keystone
Party's state convention, wrote a
scathing letter In denunciation of the
indorsement of Diffenderfer, Democrat,
for congress on the Keystone ticket,
in which, among other things, he says:
"1 will never permit myself to be
used for the undermining of the na
tional house of representatives of that
protective tariff system which, In ray
judgment, is of vital importance to
the weilare, not only of wage- earners,
but of ail the people of the land. I
ana confident that the election of a
majority of Democrats, or even a ma
jority of fanatical tariff revisionists,
to the next congress will produce
widespread depression of business
and millet hurt upon multitudes of in
nocent people. My bands shall be
free from the guilt if helping to pro
duce that great < ai«r>i!ty."
On the following day, former State
Treasurer Sheet/ sent a letter to State
Chairman Thomas L. Hicks request
ing that his name be taken from the
list of the committee
Mr Piieatz u. commenting upon his
action «iid he resigned because he is
« Republican He found that his
business- associates In Philadelphia,
members of the Manufacturers' club,
the I'nlon League and other organiza
tions, are virtually aii going to vote
for John K. Toner for governor and
the full Republican ticket Many Inde
pendents who started out with tne
Keystone Party when Mr Sheatz was
temporary chairman of the state com
mittee of the Keystone Party and for
mally opened the state convention,
have since cc-me out for Tcnc-r for gov
ernor
Former Congressman H B Parker,
of Tioga, who was earned op the Key
stone Party state committee was
Bir.cEg the first to decline the appoint,
ment He is a Republican who cannot
stand for the Berry-Bcnnlweli Demo
cratic outfit
The Berry movement Is practically
without organization. In manv coun
ties they have been unable to organize
meetings, and ir> oth»r« r>crrv has
gone to find no preparations made <•>
receive hie- or to notify the people
that he waF coming.
Might Have Nodded.
Edna—lt's a good thing for me that
silence gives consent. Amelia—Why?
Edna—Last night when George asked
me to bo his wife 1 lost tny voice.
A Child's Character.
No artist work is so high, so noble,
so grand, so enduring, so important for 1
all time, as the making .>f character in
a child. —Charlotte Cushmati
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COLUMBIA COUNTY
!F -A. X "R
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
OCTOBER 4 TO 7, 1010
For this occasion EXCURSION TICKETS will be sold October 4, 5, <">,
and 7, good returning until October from NEWBERRY,
LEWISBURG.LYKENS.MT. CARMEL.TOMHIOKEN.WILKES
BARRE, HARRISBURG, and intermediate stations to East
Blootnsbnrg. Consult Ticket Agents.
J. R. WOOD, GEO W. BOYD,
Passenger Traffic Manager. General Pass. Agt.
SOUND WARNING
TO WAGE EARNERS
What Dsfsccrstic Victory Would
M22ii to Pennsyinanians.
VAST INTERESTS LI STAKE
Prosperity Under Protection and Dis
tress and Free Soup Houses Under
Cleveland Regime.
A boastful and blatant Democracy
throughout tiie country Is not on.y de
claring that the next house o con
gress will be Democratic, bv.'„ !"-e
dieting that the successor to .*■ ident
Taft will be a Democrat.
Late election returns have unques
tionably given the Democrats great
encouragement, and reports from cer
tain states until recently reliably Re
publican put the result in November
in douht. Thoughtful men. while
dreading the outcome, are at a loss to
understand how the great American
people could return to power a party
which has caused so much misfortune
and distress, both to tho business in
terests and the wage-earners of the
Union.
It haa only been within the last few
weekß that the citizens of Pennsyl
vania have apparently begun to real
ize the serious nature of the situation,
and there are evidences upon every
hand that the voters of the Keystone
State will not bo oarrled away with
the tide of heresy and fanaticism that
is sweeping over tbe country.
Warnings are going out In every
direction that Pennsylvania must
stand firm; that this bulwark of Re
publicanism must remain unshaken
and that every vote must be polled,
so that the election returns shall
sound a trumpet blast to the world
that the sane and sober citizenship of
the Keystone State has rallied again
around the banner of true Republican
ism and protection.
Pennsylvania as the foremost indus
trial stato has more at stake than any
other commonwealth, and her vast
army of wage-earners, the workers in
the mills and the mines, realize the
interest each and every one of them
has in a continuance of Republican
domination of the affairs of tbe state
and the nation.
A Pennsylvania Tariff.
The tariff is more of a vital issue
today than It has been at any time In
the last decade.
The tariff act recently framed and
now in force were drafted with partic
ular reference to the fostering of
Pennsylvania interests, with Senators
Penrose and Oliver and a united Penn
sylvania Republican delegation un
flinchingly adhering to the policy of
protecting the business and industrial
enterprises of their home state, until
the bill becamo a law with these in
terests all protected.
If this tariff, with the few minor
changes proposed, shall be allowed to
stand. Pennsylvania wage-earners and
Pennsylvania capitalists can look for
ward to an unprecedented period of
prosperity.
But the advance agents of business
demoralization, of dosed mills and
mines and of shut down factories and
workshops of every description are
abroad in every state. They are
preaching Democracy and disseminat
lng false and misleading doctrines,
and especially are they holding out
false hopes to the workingmen, upon
whom they count to swing the elec
tions in every debatable district. To
the Democratic politicians they are
holding out promises of postmaster
ships and other fedeial patronage.
Tbey make no mention of the sor
rows and sadness that followed the
last national Democratic triumph in
this countrx. They do not tell of tbe
popular distress and tha destruction of
manufacturing, commercial and all
other lines of business brought about
througli the enactment of tho Demo
cratic tariff bill.
They show no pictures of the free
soup houser that had to be established
by charitable individuals and.in some
cases by municipalities where thou
sands of men women and children
were out of employment for many
months, many of them in a starving
condition, children without shoes or
clothing, and families evicted for non
payment of rent.
Pennsylvania voters will be called
upon at the coming election to send
men to congress who will stand by the
Taft administration and resist every
effort to change or amend the tariff,
especially those provisions Inserted to
protect Pennsylvania capital and
Pennsylvania wage-earners
Elect Republicans tc Congress.
Pennsylvania must elect Republican
congressmen to block the schemes of
the Democrats, who will without doubt
be sent from many doubtful districts
in other states.
Pennsylvania must, by the size of
her Republican majority for John K
Tener, nominee lor governor, and his
colleagues on the Republican state
ticket, emphasize the l'ealtv of this
state to the cause of Republicanism
end tne loyalty of tne Republican* or
tbe state to the national administra
tion.
Should the Democrats be successful
in November In electing a majority
of the members ui t!io neirt national
house of representatives, a disastrous
period of two years to tbe mercantile
end manufacturing Interests would in
evitably ensue, and If this period be
followed by the election of a Demo
cratic president a calamity would be
fall the country far greater than was
experienced following the last Demo
cratic presidential victory.
Warnings now going out to wage
earners from the most intelligent of
the men affiliated with labor organiza
tions point out that now is the time
to avert the disaster.
Business men, appreciating the com
mercial and Industrial heights this
country has reached during the last
twelve years, and the scope and mag
nitude of our foreign trade, demand
that Pennsylvania shall remain stead
fast to the cause of Republicanism for
their own protection and the safety
and salvation cf the millions of citi
zens of this prosperous commonwealth.
Pennsylvania, the Gibraltar of na
tional Republicanism, it is predicted,
will roll up a tremendous Republican
majority on N'ev 8 and will send prac- j
tlcally a solid Republican delegation J
to congress
MARK TWAIN'S CLOTHES.
The Great Humorist Always Had •
Relish For Personal Effect.
At the time of our first meeting
Mark Twain was wearing a sealskin
roat, with the fur out, in the satis
faction of a caprice or the love of
strong effect which he was apt to in
dulge through life. Fields, the publish
er, was present
I do not know what droll comment
was in Fields' mind with respect to
this garment, but probably he felt
that here was an original who was
not to bo brought to any Bostonian
book in the Judgment of his vivid
qualities. With his crest of dense red
hair and the wide sweep of his flam
ing mustache Clemens was not dis
cordantly clothed in that sealskin coat,
which afterward, in spite of his own
warmth in it, sent the cold chills
through me when I once accompanied
it down Broadway, and shared the
immense publicity it won him.
Clemens had always a relish for per
sonal effect, which expressed itself in
the white suit of complete serge which j
he wore in his last years and in the j
Oxford gown which lie put on for>
every possible occasion and said he'
would like to wear nil the time. Thnt [
was not vanity in him. but a keen feel-1
lng for costume which the severity of
our modern tailoring forbids men,
though It flatters women to every ex
cess in it.—'W. P. Ilowells in TTar
per's Magazine.
HIS BLACK EYE.
How He Got It and the Worst That
Was Yet to Come.
"Gracious: That's a peach of a black ;
eye. Where did you get it"'"
"Got it on the left side of my nose, j
Where did you think I got it—over the ,
ankle bone?"
"Don't get heated. llow did it all '
happen V" !
"That's different. It was all a piece I
of my confounded luck. I was up on j
the Blue Cliff roiid looking at a piece j
of real estate when along came a coat
less and bareheaded fellow running
for dear life with a lot of panting pur
suers stretching in a long line behind
him. 1 joined in the chase. Being j
fresh, I mpidly overhauled the fugi- j
tivo. I had nearly collared him when
a big rut Man grabbed me and profane- I
ly told me to clear out. I spoke rudely !
to him and kept ou running, and ho
suddenly reached out a list I Ike a ham
and knocked me iuto a ditch. And
what do you suppose it nil was?"
"Give it up."
"It was a rehearsal 'or a moving pic
ture film, and now tny portrait will go j
all over the country and be seen in
thousands of theaters as a bruised and
battered butter-in who got just what
was coming to him!"— Cleveland I'lain :
Dealer.
The Cow Decided.
A peasant living in the village of
Predeal, near the Hungarian frontier,
lost his cow. About two months ago ■
he happened to be standing at the |
railroad station watching a train load '
of cattle auout to be sent across the I
frontier. Suddenly he gave u shout. >
"That's my cow!" he cried, running!
toward one of the cars.
The trainmen only laughed at him,
and he went before the magistrate, j
This good man listened to tiie peas- j
ant's story patiently. Then he pro
nounced this judgment: "The cow shall j
be taken to the public square of Pre- j
deal and milked. Then if it goes of its '
own accord to the plaintiff's stable it 1
shall belong to him."
The order of the court was carried j
out. and the cow, in spite of its ten '
mouths' absence, took without hesita- j
tion the lane which led it a few min- j
utes later into the peasant's stable.— 1
Chicago News.
Did His Best.
The young politician was as obliging j
as possible, but there was a limit to ;
his possibilities. When the reporter |
asked him what his wife would wear i
at the mayor's reception tie assumed n j
confidential nlr.
"I'll tell you just as much as I know
myself," he said. "Last night she told >
me she should wear white. This
morning at breakfast she said she'd
decided on her rose colored gown, and
when I said goodby to her she had
spread a gray one beside the rose col
ored on one chair and her black lace
beside the white on another and was
taking something else out of the closet
If her hair hadn't caught on a hook as
she turned round I might have been
able to tell you more."— Youth's Com
panion.
The Perfect Figure.
"John, dear," queried the young
wife, glancing up from tbe physical
culture magazine she was perusliig,
"what Is your idea of a perfect fig
ure T
"Well," replied her husband, "fIOO,-
000 may not be perfection, but It's
near enough to satisfy a man of my
ila&it tastes."—Chicnco News.
HIRED APPLAUSE.
Th» Great Rachel Made the Claqua
Earn Its Money-
Speaking of applause In theaters, a
theatrical man relates the following
concerning the great actress Rachel:
"It seems that upon a certain open
ing night Rachel received enthusiastic
applause, hut on the second night it
WHS BO noticeably slim that the actress
felt deeply grieved and bitterly com
plained that the claque was not doing
Its duty. The leader of the hired 'ap
p'-u'.se makers' on hearing of her dls
pli-nsure wrote her a letter in which he
endeavored to excuse himself from any
blame.
" 'Mademoiselle—l cannot remain un
der the obloquy of a reproach from
such Hps as yours,' ho began. 'The
following is an authentic statement of
what really took place: At the first
representation I led the attack in per
son not less than thirty-three times.
We had three acclamations, four hilar
ities. two thrilling movements, four
renewals of applause and two indefi
nite explosions. In fact, to such an
extent did we carry our applause that
the occupants of the stalls were scan
dalized and cried out a la porte!
" 'My men were positively exhausted
with fatigue and even Intimated to mo
th:it t hey could not ngaln go through
such an evening. Seeing such to be
the case, I applied for the manuscript,
and after having profoundly studied
the piece I was obliged to make up my
inind for the second representation to
certain curtailments in the service of
my men.'
"The writer thus goes on at some
length to assure the actress he will
try to make future amends and re
quests her to believe In his profound
admiration."—Exchange.
TALKING IN FIGURES.
Significance of Certain Numbers In the
Telegraphers' Code.
"In the telegraphers' code numbers
have special significance of which the
general public is not aware," remarked
a veteran key night the other day.
"Most everybody knows that 30
means 'good night,' or the end of a
story, but few outside the profession
know that 31 is also a code sign. Rail
road operators, however, know that
this call is a signal to the operator at
the other end to come back and repeat
train signals to the sending operator.
It also has another meaning, 'Train
order to be signed by conductor and
engine driver.' Nineteen, on the other
hand, means that the train order is not
to be signed by conductor or engine
driver. Twenty-four has also the lat
ter significance on some roads.
"Five is simply an interrogation
point and in the vernacular could bo
translated 'Anything doing?' Thirteen
si, nitles 'Do you understand?' Twen
ty :ive means 'busy,' but nobody seems
to know how it came to have that slg
i nificance unless perhaps it means that
; the operator Is still in the midst of his
work, beiag some distance away from
! 30.
"Seventy-three means 'best regards,'
| and newspaper men and operators em
ploy this expression constantly. Of
i course 23 has come to mean in this
numerical language just what it does
in ordinary parlance, 'skiddoo,' 'va
moose' or 'butt out' or any of thethou
' sand and one other equivalents."—New
I York Herald.
The Governor's Quick Wit.
! While talking to a former governor
i of Illinois, who was noted for the
quickness of his wit. an I'nglish tour
ist spoke with special fervor of a sight
he had seen iu another state.
"I attended a Sunday service for
' the inmates of the state prison," he
, said, "and I learned that of the 20S
; persons now confined there all but
twelve voluntarily attend religious
, services held in the prison chapel twice
each Sunday."
"Most extraordinary." said the gov
ernor musingly. "I am sorry to say it
is not so with us. Hut then," he add
ed soberly. "In Illinois, you see. most
i of the respectable people do not come
to prison."—Lippincott's.
A Misplaced Title.
Among obvious misnomers one Lon
don theater is to be found. Drury
t.ane theater is not in Drury lane, and
no reason can be assigned for giving it
the name of that thoroughfare. The
first theater built on the present slta
was at one time frequently referred to
: as the theater in Covent harden. On
1 Feb. 6, 1603. Pepys notes: "1 walked
up and down and looked upon the out
side of the new theater building In
! Covent Garden, which will be very
tine." In those days no theater ex
isted in Covent Garden, the predeces
sor of the present opera house having
been opened In 1732.—Loudon Chron
icle.
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Amend nts
Cot. - itution
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
•*- CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OP PENNSYLVANIA. AND PUBLISH
ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PUR
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF TIIE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section twen
ty-six of article live of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Resolved (if the Senate concur). Thai
the following amendment to section twen
ty-six of article live of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania be, and the eame is here
by, proposed, in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof:—
That section 20 of Article V., which
reads as follows: "Section 26. All laws re
lating to courts shall be general and of
uniform operation, and the organization,
jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of
the same class or grade, so far as regu
lated by 1;\ and the force and effect of
t' '• r • •! judgments of such courts,
fVill bo 1.1 ♦* .r»: and the General Assem-
L'> if . prohibited from creating
en;/' exercise the powers vested
by this < or - ;:ution in the Judges of the
of Common Pleas and Orphans'
T'ourts," he amended so that the same
shall read as follows:
Section 2»1. All laws relating to courts
shall be general and of uniform opera
tion, and the organization, Jurisdiction,
and powers of all courts of the same class
or grade, so far as regulated by law, and
the force and effect of the process and
Judgments of such courts, shall be uni
form; but, notwithstanding any provi
sions of this Constitution, the General
Assembly shall have full power to estab
lish new courts, from time to time, as the
same may be needed In any city or coun
ty, and to prescribe the powers and Ju
risdiction thereof, and to Increase the
number of Judges In any courts now ex
isting or hereafter created, or to reorgan
ize the same, or to vest in other courts
the Jurisdiction theretofore exercised by
rourts not of record, and to abolish the
Fame wherever it may be deemed neces
sary for the orderly and efficient adminis
tration of Justice.
A true copy of Resolution No. 1.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Consti
tution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
I sylvanla, so as to eliminate the require
t ment of payment of taxes as a qualifl
j cation of the right to vote,
j Resolved (if the House of Representa
tives concur). That the following amend
■ ment to the Constitution of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania be. and the same
jls hereby, proposed, in accordance with
j the eighteenth article thereof:
I That section one of article eight be
amended by striking out the fourth
numbered paragraph thereof, so that the
! said section shall rend as follows:
j Section 1. Every male citizen twonty-
I one years of age. possessing the follow
ing qualifications, shall be entitled to
i vote at all elections, subject however to
such laws requiring and regulating the
registration of • lectors as the General
Assembly may enact.
First. He shall have been a citizen of
1 the United States at loast one month.
Second. He shall have resided in tho
State ono year (or if. having previously
I been a qualified elector or native-born
citizen of the State, he shall have re
| moved therefrom and returned, then six
months), immediately preceding the elec
| Hon.
Third. He shall have resided in the
I election district where he shall offer to
vote at least two months immediately
! preceding the election.
A true copy of Resolution No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
, Proposing an amendment to the Consti
tution of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania. so as to consolidate the
courts of common pleas of Allegheny
County.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House «»f Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In Gen
eral Assembly met. That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn
sylvania be. and the eame Is hereby, pro
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof:—
That section six of article five be
amended, by striking out the said sec
tion. and Inserting in place thereof the
following:
! Section In the county of Philadel
phia all the Jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the district courts and courts of
common pleas, subject to such changes
as may l** v :>de by this Constitution or
i>y law, shall be in Philadelphia vested In
flXii. distill'-: ugurt^oiLeauui
Horse Sense.
During a heavy downpour of rain an
Irish farmer sent his boy to a distant
field to bring home a horse. Some time
elapsed, and the messenger returned
without the horse.
Father—Didn't Oi send ye for the
horse, ye gamoeb? Is your head in
your brogues?
Little Hoy (drenched to the skin)—
Sure, he was standin' in shelter as dry
ns ye loike. Redad. he knows more
the two of us.
Ths "Best Girl" Habit.
••Why/* asked her anxious and excit
ed mother, "do you think he is coming
to the point at last':"
"Well," the maiden replied, looking
demurely down at the rug. "when bo
took me in his arms and kissed me last
night he said he'd got so used to me
he didn't believe he could ever break |
himself of the habit."
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS
NIAGARA FALLS
Oct. 5, 1910
Round Trip $7.30 from So. Danville
SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, ami Day Coaches
rauuing via the
PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE
Tickets (rood coins on Special Train anil connecting trains, ami gocxVreturning on regule
trains within FIFTEEN DAYS- Stop-off within limit allowed at Buffalo returning,
lliiitri'.-'i !t > i<l» 1 112 ill tnf irmv.ion miy b® oxilaei frotn Ticket Agents.
J. R. WOOD GEO. W. BOYD
Passenger Traffic Manager General Passenger Agent
I 1 co-orrtlrmte Jurisdiction; composed
of three judges each. The said courts In
PhPa.lelphla Khali be designated respect
ively as the court of common pleas num
j ber one, number two. number three,
number four, nnd number five, but the
number of said courts may be by law
Increased, from time to time, and shall be
In like manner designated by successive
n>*mln ra. The number of Judges in any
ef said courts, or In any county where
the establishment of an additional court
may be authorized by law. may be In
creased, fror*" time to tlm<\ and when
i ever such increase shall amount in the
whole to thr«'»\ such three Judges Khail
I compose a distinct and separate court an
aforesaid, which shall be numbered as
aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall
be instituted in the said courts of com
mon pleas without designating the num
ber of the said eourt, and the several
courts shall distribute and apportion the
| business among them in such manner as
, shall be provided bv rules of eourt. and
each court, to whleh any suit shall be
! thus assigned, shall have exclusive juris
; diction thereof, subject to change of
venue, as shrill !>e provided by law.
• In the county of APegho.nv all the
; Jurisdiction and powers now vested in
! the several numbered courts of common
{ pleas shali be vested In one court of com
-1 mon pleas, composed of all the judges In
commission in said courts. Such Juris
diction and powers shall extend to all
, proceedings at law rind in equity which
( shall have been instituted in the several
j numbered courts, and shall be subject to
' such changes as may be made by law,
' and subject to change of venue as pro
] vldcd by law. The president Judge of
i said court shall bo selected as provided
by law. Th«- number of Judges in said
! court may b° !>• law Increased from
1 time to time This amendment shall take
effect on the first day of January suc
i ceedlng its adoption.
A true copy of Resolution No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Pour.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
I Proposing an amendment to section eifrht.
I artiele nine, of the Constitution of Penn
i sylvania.
I Section 1. He it resolved by the Senate
i and House of Representatives of the Com
• monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following Is pro-
I posed as an amendment to the Constltu
, tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia, in accordance with the provisions of
| the eighteenth article thereof:—
Amendment to Article Nine, Section
Eight.
Section 2. Amend section article
nine, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania
which reads as follows:
"Section 8. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school district, or
other municipality or incr :ed dis
trict. except as herein provkl hall nev
er exceed seven per ccntutn upon the as
j sessed value of the taxable property there
in, nor shall any such municipality or
district incur any new debt, or increase
its indebtedness to an amount exceeding
two per centum upon such assessed val
j uatlon of property, without the assent of
j the electors thereof at a public election in
I such manner as shall be provided by law;
I but any city, the debt of which now ex
• ceeds seven per centum of such assessed
' valuation, may be authorized by law to
j Increase the same three per centum, in
i the aggregate, at any one time, upon such
valuation," so as to rend us follows;
Section 8. The debt of any county, city,
borough, township, school district, or oth
er municipality or incorporated district,
except as herein provided, shall never ex
ceed seven per centum upon the assessed j
value of the taxable property therein, nor
| shall any such municipality or district in
cur any new debt, or increase its Indebt
edness to an amount exceeding two per
, centum upon such assessed valuation of
property, without the assent of the elec
j tors thereof at a public election in such
j manner as shall be provided by law; but
any city, the debt of which now exoceds
! seven per centum of such assessed val-
I uatlon, may be authorized by law to in
, crease the same three per oentum, In the
j aggregate, at any one time, upon such
| valuation, except that any debt or debts
: hereinafter incurred by the city and coun
ty of Philadelphia for the construction
and development of subways for transit
' purposes, or for the construction of
wharves and docks, or the reclamation of
land to be used In the construction of a
system of wharves and docks, as public
J improvements, owned or to be owned by
said city and county of Philadelphia, and
which shall yield to tlie city and county
of Philadelphia current net revenue in ex
] cess of the Interest on said debt or debts
and of the annual Installments necessary
| for the cancellation of said debt or debts,
may be excluded in ascertaining the pow
er of the city nd county of Philadelphia
! to bee rm otherwise indebted: Provided,
1 Thai . (■ '.i . : fund for their cancellation
shall be * ft bitched and maintained.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEK,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Way* of Voles.
Among common animals few have
been less studied in their life history
than the mole. An English natural
ist, Mr. Lionel E. Adams, says that
under the "fortress" which the mole
constructs above the surface of the
ground will always be found a series
of tunnels ruuning out beneath the
adjacent field. A curious feature al
most Invariably found Is a perpendic
ular run penetrating about a foot be
low the bottom of the nest and then
turning upward to meet another run.
1 A mole is never found in his nest, al
though it may be yet warm from his
body when opened. Guided by smell
and hearing, a mole frequently locates
the nest of a partridge or pheasant
above his run and, penetrating It from
below, eats the eggs. The adult mole
is practically blind, but there are em
j bryonic Indications that the power of
i sight in the race has deteriorated.
WIGS AND BhMnUS.
Bordered on the Grotesque In Englard
In Queen Anne's Time.
At the restoration wigs began to be
more generally worn, aud In Quee.
Anne's reign tliey became the mos
costly Item of gentlemen's wardrob
iSlr Richard Steele's "full buttont
black wig" cost 50 guineas (abor
$255). and the fashion became so CUD
brous that Colley Clbber when pla:>
log "The Fool of Fashion" to satir*
the styles Introduced u wig of Cax
large that It was brought on the Bta
in a sedan chair. As a matter of fa<
the stagecoach lines were compelled
restrict the length of wig boxes t
three feet.
John Taylor, one of the English m'
nor poets, thus aeplcts the beards
his day:
Some seem as they were starched an
tine.
Like to the bristles of an angry swine,
And some, to set tbelr love's desire o
edge.
Are cut and pruned like a quick er
hedge;
Some like a spade, some like a fork, son:
square,
Some round, some mowed like stubbl
some quite bare,
Bome sharp stiletto (asnloned, dagge
like
That may In whispering a man's eye ot
pyke;
Some like a hammer cut or Roman T;
These beards extravagant reformed mv
be;
Some with the quadrate, some trlanf
fashion
Some circular, some oval in translatlo
Bome perpendicular In longitude,
Bome like a thicket for their crassitude
Thus height, depth, breadth, trlfor
square, oval, round.
And rules geometrical in beards abound
—National Magazine
COLONIAL VIRGINIA.
i
Th« Haughty Planters Ware Fiar
Foes of Royal Tyranny,
In no part of the world were BOC
distinctions more rigidly defined thi
In colonial Virginia. The founders
that colony stepped from the brill la
court of Elizabeth Into the forests
Virginia. The lord-proprietor trar
ported to his estate a little army
gentlemen and Indentured servani
and afterward came the negro slai
Each formed a class apart from t
others, and almost at once there v
created a quasi system of arlstocrac;
The proprietor obligated himself
protect bis tenants from the Indlai
They in turn agreed to follow him
battle, precisely th« system Inauguri
ed by William the Conqueror fort
military defense of his realm. His <
vironment naturally bred certain h:
Its of command, fostered a capacity 112
directing the efforts of others and 1
posed a souse of responsibility up
the planter for the lives that were
his keeping.
Above all else the planter Jealous
guarded his rights as an English fr
man. When liberty languished in E,
land the Virginian sturdily resisted i
ery aggression of royal tyrants. O
husband, one wife, one home, one kl
one God—this was the planter's ere
But be reserved the right to renoui
a mouarcb who violated the anci
compact between king and people,
other people numerically as unimp
tant as that group of Virginia settl
has given to humanity so many stat
men, soldiers, orators, patriots and i
losophers.—Everybody's Magazine.
Baring the Feet at Worship.
In India Hindoos and Mussulm
alike wear both sandals and shoes (s
j pers) and the latter boots also, but
! Invariable rule Is to remove them a
| entering a private house just w
] stepping onto the mat or carpe
j which the visitor takes his seat. \
must be cast off. the right boot or s
' first, before the worshiper enter
1 i temple or mosque, and it Is still
J garded us an absolute profanatic
| attempt to enter either fully shod,
j the domestic habit arose out of Its
J vious propriety, and the religious
; ual of"the shoes of the faith:
! now and for centuries past obsei
I throughout Islam, can be demonst
i ed to have been dictated by. if Inc
; It be not derived directly from, the
! versal social etiquette of the east.
Change of Front.
The Groom—Great heavens, wh
this coining up? The Bride-V
that Is Aunt Maria! The Groo
Well, have I got to embrace that
fairy? The Bride—Sb! It was
that sent us the handsome silver i
ice. She's worth thousands.
Groom (kissing her rapturously)-
darllng aunt!— London Answers.
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