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Free Primary Elections.
From the Philadelphia Press.
It is stated in some of the newspapers
of Luzerne that it will cost a candidate
to register for the Republican primaries
in that county in some instances as high
as SI,BOO to $1,500, the amount being fix
ed according to the supposed value of
theoflice.
These are large figures and wiil cer
tainly deter many from entering the
race. It would hardly be supposed any
man would caro to pay so much monoy
and take Lis chances at a primary elec
tion unless he could bo reasonably sure
of success.
It is claimed, howeyor, that the money
is needed to pay the exponse9 of the
primary. These must bo extraordinary
in Luzerne, where last year candidates
for the orphans' court judgeship nomin
ation were required to put up SI,OOO
each, and the one who was successful at
the primaries was defeated at the gen
oral election. Lackawanna is the only
other county where these assessments
are enormously high, though there are
many counties which havo the same
primary election system.
In Bedford county recently the party
chairman took what was left, after pay
ing the expenses of the primaries, and
distributed it as a short of consolation
purse to the defeated candidates. This
was fair, for the monoy had been paid
to cover the expenses of the primary
and the chairman had no right to use it
for any other purpose.
What reason there can be for the ap*
parently great cost of the primaries in
Luzerne has never been given, but
there certainly can bo no more need of
it there than in other counties. If it is
to be continued and the expense Is to be
assessed according to the valuo of the
offices it ought to bo paid by those who
got the nominations and havo some
chance of realizing on their investments.
The whole practice Is an additional
and forceful argument for the general
primary election law which shall make
the primaries free to every one in the
party, nojnatter how much money he
has or has not. Many of those best
qualified for public service cannot afford
to risk $1,200 or $1,500 on tho chance of
a primary, and many who could afford it
won t do it. There is noed of a free
primary for all.
If tho Philadelphia Times, which
bolted in 1890 and which has never been
Democratic enough to hurt, has a fancy
that it Is commending Itself to the 400,-
000 Democrats of this state who did
not bolt and that do not waver by ilings
at Mr. Bryan it may wake up some
time to its mistake. Mr. Bryan is still
as dear to tho affections of democratic
Democrats as he was when ho held
aloft the party's banner and polled a
million more votes than GroverCleveland
was over able to command. Only pluto
cratic Democrats ever sneer at thl9
masterful man who is as groat in defeat
as ho was splendid in battle.—Johns
town Democrats.
CABTOTIIA.
Boarß the Tilt Kind You Have Always Bought
"
CASTOHIA.
Bear, the Tin Kind You Hate Always Bought
CASTORIA.
Boars the /f The Kind You Hate Always Bought
WASHINGTON LETTER
[Special Correspondence.]
Four white wulls and a dark rod
roof, with piles of rubbish, broken
bricks, boards, scantling and splinters
of all sizes and varieties, with here
and there an excavation, tall pillars
of white Incased to u height of ten feet
In plain pine boards, iron railings in
every form of crookedness—all this In
the center of a beautiful park tilled
with majestic trees and tropical plants,
with a fountain playing on a magnifi
cent lawn, is tlie picture presented by
the White House us viewed from La
fayette square.
Its once handsome interior looks like
the track of a devastating Kansas cy
clone. It is undergoing a renovation
such as it has not experienced since
1815, after the British entered the city
and burned the building. As far as
the Interior Is concerned, the building
is being practically reconstructed and
will then be used by the president ex
clusively as a residence, as was origi
nally designed. By the Ist of October
the contractors In charge of the work
expect to have the new White House
ready for occupancy, and on account
of the short time they have to do the
labor the men are working almost from
sunrise to snnset.
The contractors seem never to leave
the vicinity of their employment. A
rough board building has been con
structed 011 the broad pavement be
tween the executive mansion and the
state, war and navy building, and here
the executive heads of the work of
construction can be found night and
day working out the plans they have
received from the architects and pre
paring the tasks for the laborers who
are tearing out the old to make way
for the new.
The Work of CoiiKrcNH.
Benjamin S. Piatt, enrolling clerk of
the senute, has prepared a statement
showing the extent of the business
transacted by congress during the past
session. According to this statement, a
far lurger number of bills and joint
resolutions was introduced than In
any previous session of congress, lar
ger, indeed, than in any previous con
gress whether of two or three sessions.
The total number of bills and joint
resolutions offered In the two houses
up to the time of adjournment was
22,022, of which 1,503 were sent to the
president. Of those introduced, 15,572
were offered in the house of representa
tives and 0,450 in the senate.
l'nfliilNh<>d Civil Service Work.
At the close of the week ended June
28, the last Saturday of the fiscal year,
there remained in the files of the civil
service commission 10,007 sets of un
marked examination papers. This to
tal exceeds by more than 3,000 the
record of last year and lias excited
somo discussion as to the iuadvlsa
billty of limiting the work of the com
mission by an insufficient clerical al
lowance. Under ordinary circumstan
ces the whole civil service force can
dispose of a few less than 1,000 sets of
paiH'rs each week. But with the extra
work now scheduled In the form of
special examinations it is unlikely this
pile of unfinished work left over from
the last fiscal year can be cleared away
before Nov. 1.
Cnnen From Historic Wood.
The repairs in the White House
brought to the mind of Colonel Wil
liam 11. Crook, disbursing officer of the
executive mansion, many memories of
the days when he served under Presi
dent Lincoln. The fioor in the room
where President Lincoln sat to trans
act business was torn up by the work
men recently, and Colonel Crook se
cured some of the flooring for preser
vation. From a piece of the flooring
on which the president often stood,
with Colonel Crook by his side, were
made a number of canes that have
been presented to friends. They are
much appreciated for their historic
value by the recipients.
A Costly Spoon.
Representative McAndrews of Chi
cago tells a story showing the way
Washington hotels are conducted.
"I was paying the hotel nearly my
entire salary as a congressman for my
meals and lodging," he said, "when I
becume indisposed and called a physi
cian. He decided that the Washington
climate did not agree with mo and
prescribed a tonic. After I had se
cured the medicine I found that I had
no teaspoon with which to measure the
dose, so I went to the hotel cafe for
one. They gave me one of those plated
affairs that sell for about CO cents a
dozen. The medicine corroded It badly,
but I must confess that I was some
what shocked to see an item on my
monthly bill of $1.25 for the teaspoon.
The hotel keepers have got so much
nerve here that guests have not the
heart to kick."
Dlnappenrnnce of Pennlen.
"What becomes of all the pennies?"
is a question over which Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw Is puzzling. The
United States coins and puts in circu
lation on an average about 75,000,000
of these little copper tokens every
year, and each spring and fall there
is a demand from everywhere for
more. It is the big department stores
that make the greatest demand. The
disappearance of many pennies is ac
counted for by the savings of children,
but these savings banks could not gob
ble up 75,000,000 a year.
Tlie SilthM€>nlui, Addition.
Arrangements are now being made
by tlie secretary of tlie Smithsonian In
stitution for carrying out the Instruc
tions of congress in relation to the
preparation of preliminary plans for an
additional fireproof steel frame brick
and terra cotta building, to cost not to
exceed $1,500,000, for the Uuited States
National museum, to be erected when
appropriated for on the mall between
ninth and Twelfth streets. For this
purpose an appropriation of $5,000 was
allowe.d, and the plans will he sent to
congress at its next session.
CARL SCIIOFIELD.
PEOPLE OF THE DAY
win 111- numilo Warden.
Cliurles J. Jones, popularly known
as "liuffulo" Jones, has been appoint
ed buffalo warden for Yellowstone
pnrk. Mr. Jones is well known as the
chief exponent for a number of years
of the proposal that the government
do something to prevent the complete
extinction of the American bison. He
has been -a hunter and trapper most
of his life and us a resident of Kansas
CHARLES J. JONES.
became familiar with the habits of the
buffalo and noted with much regret
the rapidity with which the king of
the plains was passing away. Mr.
Jones was largely instrumental in se
curing the appropriation at the last
session of congress for the establish
ment of a government buffalo ranch in
Yellowstone park. It is this establish
ment which will be under his charge.
Fred Run tils on Furminff.
Frederick K. Landis of Indiana, a
newspaper man, who was recently
nominated for congress to replace the
veteran Steele, Is one of the live broth
ers Landis, all of whom were horn on
a none too fertile farm in Indiana and
all of whom have made their mark.
One brother is now u member of con
gress, one is a physician in Cincinnati,
one Is postmaster of San Juan, Porto
Ulco, and one is a lawyer ia Chicago.
"Talk to me about the joys of farm
ing," said Fred Landis the other day.
"I know all about tbem. There were
five brothers of us on the old farm in
Indiana and father. We had a team of
wabbly old horses, and we five boys
and father worked from daylight to
dark to raise enough stuff to feed those
horses.
"Finally one of the horses died, and
that gave two of' the boys a chance to
go out in the world and see what they
could do. and when the other horse
died we all got away."
Dr. Pntton'M "Harry" Sermon.
When Dr. Fatton, who recently re
tired from the presidency of Prince
ton, was pastor of the First Presbyte
rian church at Princeton, before he he
came president of the university, he
consented one Sunday evening to
oblige a brother clergyman to deliver
a sermon at the Second Presbyterian
church in the college town. Dr. Pat
ton went to the pulpit with the inten
tion of preaching about Zaccheus.
While the congregation was singing
the first hymn it occurred to him that
he had preached on Zaccheus in that
church before. lie hurriedly consulted
an elder and ascertained that such
was the case.
Dr. Patton continued the regular
service and rummaged In his mind for
DR. FRANCIS L. I'ATTON.
another text. While the congregation
was singing the second hymn the
preacher sat in a big.armchair hack
of the pulpit and made a few notes oil
the back of a visiting card that had
been handed to him as he entered the
church. When the second hymn was
over, Dr. Patton placed the thirty or
more words that he had written 011
the visiting card 011 the reading desk
and preaclied for thirty minutes one
of the most brilliant sermons that he
had delivered since he had been in
Princeton. lie never once looked at
the card and left it 011 the desk when
he went away. One of the elders, an
associate of Professor Wilson, who
has succeeded Dr. Patton as president
of the university, keeps the card to
this day as a memento of the Interest
ing occasion.
FOR THE CHILDREN
Dogr Stopped the Truln.
Train No. 20 011 the Indianapolis
and Vlncennes railroad, in charge of
Conductor F. W. ltusse of Indianapo
lis, was tearing along toward Indian
apolis at fifty miles an hour. The train
was loaded with passengers and was
behind time. East of Edwardsport
Engineer Dorscy saw 011 the track far
ahead a dog that was jumping about
and acting in a peculiar manner. The
dog's actions looked suspicious, and as
a measure of caution Dorsey shut off
the steam so as to have his train un
der control. When the train reached
a nearer point, the dog stood and
barked at it, and then, with a yelp,
started for the woods.
Then it was that Dorsey saw that
there was something red between the
rails, and he threw on emergency
brakes and opened the sandbox. The*
train caiue to a standstill within ten
feet of a pretty flaxen haired baby in
a red frock. The child was about two
years old and had been playing with
the dog. The train crow ran forward,
and Ihiggageman Franklin picked up
the child, which laughed and crowed
and patted his face in glee.
About 800 yurds distant was a farm
house, and toward it Franklin started
with the huhy, to meet a man running
toward lilin like an insane person. It
was the child's father, who had missed
the baby just as the train stopped and
supposed that the little one had been
killed. llow it got so far away from
home and into such a dangerous place
110 one could understand. The passen
gers wore considerably jolted by the
sudden stopping of the train, but 110
one was hurt, and when they learned
the cause of it they clustered about
Engineer Dorsey and congratulated
him 011 his caution.—Philadelphia
Times.
IMoklnK Out n I'rofVsNlon.
Lot a boy decide upon his profession
at fifteen, and, though he may not Im
mediately enter it, he saves for prepa
ration all the time Ills companion loses
by putting off Ids choice until he Is of
age. And this early time is most valu
able time, for it represents the distinc
tively acquisitive period of life, the pe
riod when the mind receives impres
sions most easily and retains them
most tenaciously. The technic of any
trade or business or profession is read
ily acquired by a youthful mind. Later
011 It seems to be grasped slowly and
with difficulty. My advice to boys Is
that they anticipate their life work as
much as possible. (Jet Into the spirit
and atmosphere of it. Take the pre
liminary steps while you are full of en
thusiasm.— Harper's Young People.
How to llnlNc Flowers In the HOUNO.
A tiny garden can be made by cut
ting a piece of sheet wadding to fit the
top of a howl or a wide mouthed Jar.
which Is filled with water just high
enough for the bottom of the wadding
to touch It. Two or three small bits of
charcoal will keep the water pure, and
when all Is arranged the top of tin?
wadding Is sprinkled with seeds of
mignonette, sweet pea or any other
easily grown plant. The roots pierce
down through the wadding and are
nourished by the water, while leaves
and blossoms in a reasonable time con
ceal the top.
A Practical Difficulty.
Mamma had been impressing upon
the little ones the verse, "And unto him
that smiteth thee 011 one cheek offer
also the other."
After awhile Paul came in crying.
"Why, what's the matter?" said
mamma.
"Sister lilt 1110," said Paul.
"Have you forgotten about turning
the other cheek?" asked mamma.
"No," said Paul, "but I couldn't; she
hit me in the middle."
Suit and DOKH.
Among certain people there Is a
strong idea that nothing Is worse for
dogs than salt, but as a matter of fact
when administered in small quantities
it materially benefits tbem. There in
110 doubt, however, that to give dogs or
any other animals broth In which salt
pork or bacon has boon boiled would
he almost equivalent to giving them a
dose of poison.
IloyN Who Crow Very Tall.
The Norwegian hoy has for his next
door neighbors the Laplanders. When
the NonVbgiau boy grows up, he be
comes one (*f the tallest men in the
world, for there Is 110 other race of
men as big as the Norsemen. The Lap
land boy, 011 the contrary, never grows
very tall, although he is right next
door geographically to the Norwegians
mood Relations.
Willie—Mamma, what does "blood"
relations meau?
Mamma—lt means near relations,
Willie.
WllUe (after a thoughtful pause)—
TJien, mamma, you and papa must be
the bloodiest relations I've got.
Tlic Man Tliat Wakes Me Up.
I tell you w'at, I lovo my pa;
I love him 'most as much as ma;
He's awful good to me an* brings
Me lots of toys an' kites an' things.
Why, t'other day, as sure as fate,
He brought me home a tarrier pup.
I love my pa. hut, oh. I hate
The man that mornin's wakes me up!
My pa ho takes me flshln', too,
When he's got nothln 1 else to do;
I kctched a cattish, too, one day.
Though half way out he got away,
But pa s.rld I might count It, though,
An' somethln' 'bout the lip un' cup.
I dearly love my pa, but. oh,
I hate the man that wakes me up!
I'm always hearin' 'bout the ant
W'at gets up early, but I can't
See w'at that's got to do with me;
I ain't no ant, as I can see;
I'm Just n hoy w'at likes to Ho
Abed until It's time to sup;
Of course I love my pa. but I
Don't love that man that wakes me up*.
-William Wallace WhHelgck. .
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILBOAD.
May 18, 1902.
AKKANOKMKNT OF I'ASSBNOKH TRAINS.
LEAVE FHKELAND.
6 12 a in for Weuthorly, Mauoli Chunk
Allentown, Bethlehem, East on, Phila
delphia and New York.
I 729 a in l'or Sandy Hun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and Sernnton.
8 15 a iu for Huzleton, Weatlierly. Maueh
Chunk. Allentown, Bethlehem, Euston,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
Pot lav i lie.
9 58 a in for Ha/.loton, Delano, Mahunoy
City, Slienaivlonh and Mt. funnel.
1 1 45 a in for Weatherly, Maueh Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem, Kenton, Phila
delphia, New York, Huzleton, Delano,
Malianoy City, Shenandoah and Mt.
Carmel.
1141 a in for White Ilnven, Wilkes-Barre,
Seranton and the West.
4 44 Pin for Wentherly, Maueh Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlehem. Kaston, Philadel
phia, New York, Huzlctoii, Delano
Malianoy City, Shenandoah. Mt. Curiue
and Pottsville.
6 35 P m for Sandy ltun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Barre, Seruntou and all points
West.
I 729p in for Hazleton.
ARRIVE AT KREELAND.
7 29 a m from Pottsville, Delano and Iluz
lotou.
9 1 2 a m from New York, Philadelphia, Ens
ton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Maueh
(/hunk, Wentherly, lla/.leton. Mahunoy
City, Shenandoah and Mt. Curiuel
9 58 a m from Seranton, Wiikes-Barre and
White Haven.
1141 a in from Pottsville, Mt. Curiuel, Shen
andoah, Mahonoy City, Delano and
H a/.leton.
12 35 P m lroin New York, Philadelphia,
Euston, Bethlehem, Allentown, Maueh
Chunk and Weatherly.
4 44 P in from Seranton, Wllkes-Burre and
White Haven.
0 35 P m from New York, Philadelphia,
Kaston, Bethlehem Allentown, Maueh
Chunk, Weatherly, Mt. Carmel, Shenan
doah, Malianoy City, Delano arid Hazlo
ton.
720 f, ;v m s ™uton, Wilkuß-liurro and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Tioket
Ajrenls.
I ROLLIN ll.WlLßUß.(leneralSuperintendent,
30 Cortlandt Street, New YorkCitv
| CBAS. S. LEE, (leneral Passenger A front
ri i m r™£& r % n nt2 t . Btn?ot ' Now York City.
O. J. CILDROY , Division Superintendent,
Hazleton, Pa.
THE DELAWARK, SUSQUEHANNA AND
SCHUYLKILL KAII.KO AD.
Time table in effect May 19, 1901.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazie
Brook, Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roan
and Hazleton Junction at rtoo a.m, dally
except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 288 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Dritton for Oneida Junction,
"arwood Road, Humboldt Road, Oneida and
Sheppton at tf 00 a m, daily except Sun
day; and 7 07 a in, 2 38 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Onoida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road
Oneida and Sheppton at 6 32. 11 10 a m, 4 41 p m
daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 3 11 D m'
Sunday. , K '
Trains leave Derin*er for Tomhicken, Cran
berry Hai wood, Hazleton Junction and Roan
r#vT Tr * ' ,Ri ' v except Sunday; and 337
R m, B 07 p in, Sunday.
Tr 2 ,n oA le w e for Beaver Meadow
Jfll Stockton Hazio Brook, Eckley, Jeddo
2 Pf? •f.l* 6 pm ' dail >'' e*ept Sunday;
and 8 11 a m, 344 p n\, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Road, Stockton. Hazie Brook, Eckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 549 p m, daily.
e *crpt Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p m, Sunday,
i AH trains connect at HazletoD Junction with
electric cars for Hazleton, Jeaneevlllo, Auden
rled and other points on the Traction Com
pany's lino
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