FREELAND TRIBUNE. EsUbUahel 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY" MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY TUB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. j LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.51) I Six Months 75 Four Months M Two Months 3f ; The date which the subscription is paid to is ou the address lubel of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes u receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in adrauce of the present date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is uot received. Arrearages must bu paid when subscription is discontinued. Afake'all money orders, checks , rtc., payable to the Tribune Printiny Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA.. APRIL 24, 1899. j Mr. tjuay Not a Senator. From the Philadelphia Press. Governor Stone lost no time in ap pointing Matthew S. Quay United States senator. The constitution of Pennsyl vania gives the governor no authority to appoint a senator under any circum stances, but he pretends this authority under Section 3, Article 1, of the consti tution of the United States, which de clares: If vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise during the recess of the legis lature of any state, the executive thereof may make appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then (ill such vacancies. As the vacancy which the governor assumes to till by this appointment did not occur during a recess of the legis- ; laturc, but did occur while the legisla- ' ture was in session, this provision of the j national constitution does not apply to this case, and the executive has no authority to make an appointment. The United States senate has repeat edly had this question before it, and in several recent cases has refused to admit to seats senators appointed by the gov ernor to fill a vacancy occurring by the expiration of a regular term. That is a vacancy which the constitution distinct ly provides shall bo tilled otherwise—by election by the legislature. These facts cannot be unknown to Governor Stone, who certainly docs not expect the senate I to reverse Itself and put a totally dlfTer- ' ent interpretation upon the constitution from that heretofore held just to enable Mr. Quay to get a seat iu the senate | which th§ Pennsylvania legislature de cided it did not want him to have. There is no such expectation. Neither the governor nor Mr. Quay entertains I such a hope, no matter what may be pre tended. The appointment is intended only for political effect. The Quay ma chine is greatly in need of bolstering, and this act of Governor Stone is to bolster it. It is expected to affect the electious of ; delegates to the Republican state con vention to be hold in August and to in- I dieate that Mr. Quay is still in control j of the federal patronage. As the senate will not meet until December, and can not before then reject Mr. Quay's flimsy claim, he will be carried over the cam paign of this year, iu which he has a doep interest, as a state treasurer Is to be elcctod. The act of the governor—mere boy's ; play so far as making a senator is con cerned—is conclusive, however, on one point. It is an assurance to the people ; of the state that there will be no extra session of the legislature. It is worth j something on that account. The Adjourned Legislature. From the Philadelphia Record. The adjournment of the legislature has left the state administration iu such a shape that it can pinch along as it has done for the past two years iu a con dition of linancial default, or, if politi cal reasons should indicate that advan tage would result from the reassemblage of the legislature, plausible excuse may be urged for calling an extra session. The governing motive which will doubt loss influence tbo executive will be a conviction of the possibility of electing a United States senator and of the ad justment of factional quarrels by some compromise agreement for the distribu tion of future spoils. If such an ar rangement cannot be consumated there will be no extra session. The history of the legislature just ad jeurned may be very briefly told. It has accomplished only routine work, without having wittingly enacted any other wholesome legislation. The house has provod a check to bad legislation and the senate to proper legislation. As a result of this deadlock great negative good has been done. Quay has been defeated for the sonatorship; the state capitol job has been blocked; the Re publican machine has been more thor oughly divided against itself, and a hundred petty schemes of jobbery have been frustrated. Undoubtedly the failure to pass rev enue bills adequate to provide for all justifiable expenditure is a temporary misfortune; but it is a relief to reflect that the noney for increased reveuue remains in the pockets of the taxpayers. The fact that but few new laws will go on the statue book must bo set down to the credit of the legislature. The more laws the worse. We are goverened too much. PLEASURE CALENDAR. April 29.—Renefit hop at Yannes' opera house. Tickets, 25 cents. May 29.—Annual ball of Fearnots Athletic Association at Cross Creek hall. Admission, 50 cents. May 30. —Annual tea party In base ment. of the English Baptist church. Tickets, 25 cents. THE FURPLE BEECH Lonj Lived and of Undoubted Value foi Ornamental Planting. ! The large purple beech at Wnl than), of which an illustration ap | pears here, is no doubt one ol the Hnest Individuals of this vari | ety planted in the United States | Downing, who was familiar with tht I f.yman I'lace, does not, however, men f tion it in his "Landscape Gardening,' written forty or fifty years ago; anc | it Is probable that tlie specimen whlcl was growing at that time at Throgg'l ! Neck, iu Westchester County, am which Downing declared was the fin est in the United States, is now, if stll alive, much larger than the Waltlinii tree, which lias lost a good deal frou overcrowding and from tlie gardei wall built close to the trunk, whict lias destroyed the lower branches There is no tree which demands niort room for free development than tht beech; and a beech, standing on lawn or in a garden, on which then are 110 lower brunches to sweep dowt to tlie turf, lias lost a large part of tht characteristic beauty which makes ii valuable. The stem of the beech, i. it true especially of the American spe cies, has great lieuuty and a chain peculiar to Itself, hut It is In the wooi ' or iu the forest that this beauty shoulc he seen ami admired; and beecliet should not be planted In oruamenta grounds where light and space cannot j lie afforded them for full and 1111 j checked growth In every direction. The purple beech Is a tree of much Interest apart from its undonbtei value for ornamental planting. It i> one of the few examples among trees where nil abnormal bud variety lias retained its cliaructer for more than a PURPLE tIF.ECH AT WALTHAM. century, though hundreds of tliou j sands of individuals, nil sprung from | a single branch (discovered toward the middle of the last century upon a tree 1 in the German forest), either directly | from grafts, and now sometimes by j seeds; for the plants raised from tlie seed of a purple-leaved tree preserve j more or less constantly this character | to a greater or less degree. The seed from certain trees yield more purple, I leaved seedlings than those from other trees, although the proportion of tlie purple-leaved seedlings from the same | tree vary in different yenrs, and among purple-leaved seeilllugs there is 1 always a great variety of shades of , ; color. In other words, a race of pur ple-leaved beeches is gradually hecom- | ing "fixed;" and if it was not 111 prac tice more convenient and satisfactory to propagate the best varieties of this tree by grafting, it would doubtless he ■ perfectly possible, at the end of a few j generations,to raise from seed,beeclics ; with leaves of almost any shade of j ! purple with as mueli certainty as dlf- [ ferent races of the cabbage arc on- j taineil from seed. There is 110 reason to doubt, therefore, that the variety j j will be as permanent as the type from which it originated. Educating Influence of Arbor limy. \ The observance of Arbor Day has al ready led to tlie planting of myriads of ! ■ trees in this country. Important as is ' 1 Ibis result, the educating Influence of this work is of still higher value. One of these educating forces begins when children are thus led to plant not only | trees, hut tree-seeds, acorns, nius, j drupe-stones or pits, and then to ob serve the wonderful miracles which j Hie tree life they have started is work | ing out before them. What interest and profit, what growth of mind and i heart they will gain, as they watch tlie mysterious forces of these living germs, their marvelous assimilating J power, carrying ou a curious chemis try in their underground laboratory, linked with the mysterious apparatus of tlie leaves above, transforming ; course earth and even offensive tiltli into living forms of surpassing beauty and fragrance. It Is something for a j child, who has dropped such a germ in the earth, to feel that he has made n lasting contribution to the natural beauty around them for there is noth ing more ennobling than the con sciousness of doing something for fu ture generations, which may prove a j growing hciicfnctlon in coming years— | 1 better monument than any In bronze or marble. The trees which children plant around the homestead and - watch the seed, to shoot from hud to limb, and from flower to fruit, will lie increasingly prised with n senti ment of companionship and almost of j kinship as they grow into living mem orials of happy, youthful days. Thus, the educating influences of Arbor Day | will manifest themselves more and more ns the years go by, especially to all who apply Dr. Holmes' advice mil "make trees monuments of history ltid character," or appreciate Ills say ing, "I have written many poems, hut the best poems I have produced are j the trees I have planted," or the strik ing words of Sir Walter, "Planting and pruning trees I could work nt from morning till night. There Is a sort of self-congral illation, a little tickling self-flattery in tlie Idea that while you ire pleasing and amusing yourself, you rrc seriously contributing to the future , j welfare of the country." His Chief Difficulty Graham—Tty the way. when you were nhrond. didn't you ttml It difficult talking French? Itynn—Not particularly. The great est difficulty was to make people un derstand it.—Bostou Transcript. THE INDIAN'S PROPHECY. But I behold a fearful sign. To which the white man's eyes art blind. Before these fields were shorn out tilled. Full to the brim our rivers flowed. The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood, And torrents dashed and rivnleti played. And fountains sported In the shade. These grateful sounds are heard nt more. The springs are silent in the sun, The rivers by the blackened shore. With lessening currents run; The realm our tribes are crushed t< get May be a barren desert yet. —Bryant. MOVEMENT IN PLANTS Trees are living things like our selves, and this gives them special in terest for us. I.iviug things have what we call organs, or instruments by means of which the life or life princi pal acts and performs its work. Sc the trees have many such organs a." we have, and thereby resemble us. They have organs by which they take in food, they have lungs by which they breathe, and they have organs of di gestion and a circulatory apparatus, by which their food is prepared and carried to all parts of them and causes tliem to grow and reach their perfec tion. The tree cannot move about from place to place as we and most animals do. But they are none the less alive although they remain in the same place all the time. There are many pluuts also thai have a limited power of motion. There are what we call the climbing plants, which climb trees or walls just as truly ns boys often do. Most plants love the light and sunshine, and these climbing plants seem to climb up for the pur pose of getting out or the shade of oth er plants and securing to themselves the needed light. So they lay hold of any upright object near them, a stick or a tree, and winding around it, or fastening their tendrils to it, climb up. Here there is motion all the time, and it can be seen very easily, especially when such a climber as the morning glory fastens upon a short support. When it gets to the top of this it is not satisfied, hut wants to go higher; so you may see it reaching out side ways and feeling around to And a new support and it will sweep entirely around a circle, from right to left or from left to right, in order to And something to lay hold of by which It may rise still farther. Then there are plants, like the Vir ginia creeper ami the Japunese and Knglish ivies, which clinth walls or other objects by means of tendrils, which they stretch out like arms, and which sometimes have at their ends little disks like the stickers which boys mnke out of leather and with which they lift stones and other things. The Ventts's flytrap shows motion in a different way. It has at the end of Its leaves an expansion like two lenves of a book ready to fold to gether. or like the shejls of a clam. Around the margin of these leaves are bristles, with other more delicate ones In the centre.. When an insect alights on the open lenves and touches the centre bristles, the lenves shut to gether so quickly that it Is caught and held there until It dies. Other plants show motion in different ways. The locust tree and some others fold tip their leaves at night as though prepar ing to sleep, and spread them open again In the morning. In all trees, al so, there is in the roots a constant movement, at least during the growing season of the year. At the very be ginning of Its life the root as it sprouts front tin* seed insists upon going down ward Into the earth. Turn the sprout ing acorn so that Its root or radicle shall point upward, and very soon it will turn and double upon itself, if I necessary, In order to tuke 11 down ward course, and though you turn it again and again, it will persist in Its I determination and die If necessary rather than give ttp the struggle. So when a tree is established and grow lug. though Its stem must remain In I tlie sunte place, its roots are all the j while pushing out in various dircc ! tions. winding uroiuul obstacles of ' one kind or another in pursuit of tools ! tare and nourishment and making 1 their way steadily on. so that nothing I will so well describe the clinrncter of i that part of the tree which is under ■ ground as to say it is In n state of mo- I lion. Darwin, the eminent naturalist, goes so far as to claim that all the | growing parts of plants above as well j as below ground, manifest voluntary I motion, describing circles or circular spirals continually, "circumnutnting." as he calls this movement. "If we look." lie says, "for instance, nt a i great acacia tree, we may feel assured j that every one of the innumerable I growing shoots is constantly describ j Ing small ellipses, as is each petiole, tnbpetlole and lenflet." The action of the life principle In the Irccs also often manifest astonishing force. Darwin found that the trans feree growth of the radicle of a sprouting bean was able to displace a weight of .1 pounds four ounces in one rase and 8 pounds 8 ounces In another. | One can hardly walk where trees arc | growing among rocks without seeing Instances of the splitting asunder of great masses of them by the growth of the tree roots which have gained i intrnnee into their crevices when | small, and in growing have expanded with Irresistible force. So. also, it is a common thing to see the walls of buildings disturbed and much injured jby the roots of trees growing near them. Experiments made by Profes ! >r Clark, at Amherst College, led him | to think that the force exerted liv n squash in growing was equal to about S.OOO pounds. Darwin, speaking of the motion of die root-tips of plants, says: "It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle, thus eii- Jowed and having the power of dlrect ng the movements of the adjoining Darts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being sented within the anterior end of the body, receiving Impressions from the sense •rgaas. aud directing the several movements." ABOUT PLANT WORSHIP Carifliu riißtomi of Aaolent Tim.., Som. of Which Still Survive. The "plant worship which holds tw prominent a place in the history of th< primitive races of iunnkiud would ap pear to have sprung from a pereeptioi of the beauty and utility of trees. Sur vlvnls of this still linger 011 In man, parts of Europe. The peasants in Bo j hernia sally forth Into their garden! before sunrise on Good Friday, and ! fulling upon their knees before a tret will exclaim: "1 pruy, (> green tree that God may make thee good." At night time they will run to and frc about their gardens crying: "Bud, 0 trees, bud, or I will flog you." In out own country the Devonshire farmer! and their men will to this day go out Into their orchards after supper on tht evening of Twelfth Day, carrying with them a Inge milk pall of elder, with roasted apples pressed Into it. All present hold iti their hands an earthen ware cup tilled with liquor, and taking up their stand beneath those apple trees which have borne the most fruit address them in these words: "Health to thee, good apple tree, Well to bear pocket fulls, hat fulls, Peck fulls, bushel bag fulls." simultaneously dashlug the contents of their cups over the trees. The ob servance of this ceremony, which Is locally known as "wassailing," is en joined by Thomas Tusser in his works entitled "Five Hundred Points of Hood Husbandry," wherein he bids the husbandman "Wassail the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear; For more or less fruit they will bring. As you do them wassailing." In most countries certain plants are to be found associated with witches and their craft. Shakespeare causes one of his witches to discourse of root of "hemlock dlgg'd 1' the dark;" like wise also of "slips of yew sliver'd in the moon's eclipse." Vervain wnsinold en times known as "the enchanter's plant;" rue, again, was regarded as an antidote against their spells and ma chinations. This partiality for certain plants is well known. According to Hrlmm. the trystlng place of the Nea politan witches was a walnut tree near Benevento. la walnut and older trees they are also said to be in the habit of lurking at nightfall. Witches, too. had their favorite flowers. Among these the foxglove was known as the "witches' bells;" the harebells as the "witches' thimbles." Tradition usserts thai on moonlight nights they might he seen flying through the air mounted 311 the stems of ragwort, reeds or bul rushes. Throughout Germany It is be lieved that witches' career through the midnight skies on hay. Many plants were pressed Into service as charms and spells for the detection of witches anil evil spirits when wander ing about on their nefarious errands, particularly the St. .lolin's wort, still largely worn by the German peasantry as a kind of amulet 011 St. John's eve. It was an old belief that all baptized persons whose eyes had been steeped lu the green Juice of the inner Imrk of Ihe elder tree would be enabled to de lect witches anywhere. The same property, according to Uerman folk lore, is possessed by the wild radish, Ivy and saxifrage on Walpurgls Night. Among other plants which have hail the reputation of averting the crafts and subtleties of wltheraft Hie juniper, holly, mistletoe, little pimpernel, herb paris, cyclamen, an gelica. herb beton'y, rowan tree, brack en, and twigs of the ash may be men tioned. In the Rhine district the water lily Is regarded as antagonistic to sorcery. I,avendor Is believed In Tuscany to possess the power of averting the evil eye. Olive branches are said to keep the witches from the cottage doors in the rural districts of Italy, and the Russian peasantry will lay aspen upon the grave of a witch to prevent her spirit from walking ibroad or exercising any evil influence over her neighbors. -The Ueutleineu's Magazine. Tri In Their Leaflet!* .State. It is interesting to give atten lo the bare trees nnd notice the characteristic forms of the vari ous species, the manners in which their branches are developed and lira aged among themselves, for a knowledge of these things will often 'liable one lo distinguish Ihe different kind of trees more readily and certain ly than by any other means. The foliage often serves as an ob scuring veil, concealing, iu part at least, Ihe individuality and the peculiarities of the trees. But if one is familiar with their forms of growth—he will re cognize common trees at once with only a partial view of them. Some trees, as the oak, throw their limbs out from the truuk horizontally. TitEE IN ITS I.EAFI.ESS STATE. As Dr. Holmes says: "The others shirk Ihe work of resisting gravity, the oak defies it. It chooses the horizontal di rection for Its limbs so that their whole weight may tell, and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet so that the strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting." Some trees have limbs which droop toward the ground, while those of most, perhaps, have an upward tenden cy, nnd others still have nn upward llrectlon at first and later In their {rowth a downward inclination, as in the ease of the elm, the birch, and the willows. Some, like the oak. have comparatively few but large and ■itrong branches, while others have many slender limbs, Ilka some of the jirclies and poplars. WITH THE LAW-MAKERS. Continued from First Page, lating of savings banks and Institutions without capital stock, established for the encouragement of saving money. The governor's objections to the fore going resolutions and the bills were sustained by the house. The veto of the bill to protect the public from the unlawful use of bottles, jars, vessels or other packages in the sale and delivery of milk and cream and their products was also sustained. The bicycle bill, which is now a law, will be of interest. It provides that, upon petition of at least twenty-five freeholders, residents of a county, who are bicyclers, the court shall appoint three resident wheelmen as side path commissioners, to serve without com pensation other than necessary ex penses. A tax of sl, or so much thereof as may bo recommended by the side path commissioners, shall be paid upon each bicycle in the county. Returns of the number and ownership of the wheels are to be made by the regular assessors. The taxes shall constitute a side path fund, to be used for the construction and maintenance of the paths, which shall be built between the roadway prop er and the abutting land and shall not bo less than throe nor more than six feet wide, measuring from the outside of the ditches. There has been some quiet talk dur ing the past week about an extra ses sion. As it Is there has not been enough revenues provided yet to meet all the requirements. Tho state's finances are not In shape to allow of an extra session and It is doubtful whether the governor would reconvene the legislature may the necessity be ever so great. Yot, on the other hand, an uncompleted capitol, a depleted treasury and a disrupted party may cause some of the Republican lead ers to resort to pretty desperate meas ures before election times come again. Of the thousand bills that were pre sented not more than fifty of these reached the governor; the balance fell by the wayside. Nissloy. Tho news of Quay's acquittal by a Philadelphia jury on the charge of con spiracy and his immediate appointment by Governor Stone as United States senator from Pennylvania did not create tho excitement here which such Import ant news might have been expected to stimulate. In fact, the latter move had been discounted, and instead of causing people to wonder at the bold stroke of the politicians, the action of the gover nor was accepted as a matter of course. The war in ranks is now on, and nover before has the party in Pennsylvania been so hopelessly divided as it is today. What the outcome will be no man can positively prodict. Wo must all wait and see. N. The Delaware and Anthracite Rail road Company, which has a road on paper from Tomhicken to Matamoras, running through Luzerne, Carhon and Pike counties, was sold by the sheriff on Thursday at Mauch Chunk to Joseph R. Perry for 53.000. \ The Cure that Cures i P Coughs, & \ Golds, 1 a) Grippe, (k \ Whooping Cough, Asthma. 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