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holder or more eloquent champion
than it had. in the rich and patrician
young Marylander.
Always at the front, he was one of a
committee of three, with Samuel Chase
and Benjamin franklin, to visit Canada
to invite the people of that province to
unite with the Americans in their strug-
gle for independence; he was a member
of four congresses, signer of the dec
laration, United States senator, and for
many years a state senator. During all
this time, voice, hand and pen were en-
gagged in the service of his country.
Perhaps the greatest service he did
was in bringing Maryland into the
rank of states for independence. The
large majority was opposed to separa-
ton from the mother country, and the
state delegates we're pledged to oppose
the idea in congress. But Carroll was
for separation, and, by his untiring eff
forts he succeeded in changing the SEN
timent of his state to his side.
On the 4th of July, 1776, the very day
the declaration was passed at Phila-
delphia, he was elected to congress, and
thus became one of the immortal galaxy
whose names are affixed to that charter
of our liberties.
In 1910, when past his three-score
years and ten, Mr. Carroll retired from
public life, but he was not to retire from
public sight.
On July 4, 1921, the fact that only
Of ha clio r. he n Of
Independence were still living was no
ticed in many Of the newspapers of the
time. Thirty days afterward, one Of
them, William Floyd, of New York, was
dead. The death of John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1926, left
Charles Carroll the last surviving
signer. He lived almost seven years
longer. On July 4, 1928, after he had
passed the age of 80 years, in the pres
ence of a vast concourse of spectators,
and attended by an imposing civic pro-
cession, he laid the cornerstone of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He died
November IA, 1882, at the age of IS years.
1t is customary to suppose that only
the lower and middle classes embraced
the cause of liberty in the revolutionary
contest. But this opinion is not war
ranted by the facts. Many of the
wealthiest men in the colonies were
ardent patriots. Washington and the
Lees, of Virginia, were wealthy men.
John Hancock and Robert Morris were
each the most affluent individual in his
respective state. The Livingstons, of
New York, ranked among the greatest
landholders in the country. But of all
the patriots of the revolution, none
risked so much, none had so much to
lose, as Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
1t is pleasant to know that he handed
down an undiminished estate to his
children, one of whom was subsequent
ly governor of his native state. And the
name is still one of honor in Maryland.
Fred Myron Colby, in Golden Days.
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his. Every man watches his neighbor
as he writes.
| By the side of Samuel Adams, talking
] in friendly way. is a man every way
| different in look and dress. Adams is
| plain and democratic, even more so
than jefferson, and has been schooled
in the hardest of all schools-adversity
His companion is to the manor born,
rich and aristocratic as an English no.
BILE, and the inheritor of a great name
But his patriotism is as ardent as that
of the New England Puritan, and he is
willing to sacrifice even more.
And now it is his turn to go forward
to the table. He takes the goose-quill
and signs his name, in well-defned char
acters, with hand that does not trem-
| BILE: "Charles Carroll" A whisper
passes among his associates. If the new
confederacy is crushed by the mother
country, the trainers of this treasona-
BILE document would have to suffer for
their action. There were number OF
Charles CAROLS then living in the colo
| MES, and this particular Charles Carroll
had a chance to escape, which none OF
his colleagues could hope for.
The murmur reached his ear as he
| arose from the table. He instantly
turned back, picked up the pen again,
and completed his signature in man
ner that left no doubt as to which
Charles Carroll was accountable.
Doubtless many were wondering why
that one signature, Charles Carroll, OF
Carrollton," stands out different from
the rest. 1t is for the reason that the
signer did not intend his identity as a
patriot to be doubtful or misleading.
When he subscribed to that record OF
glory, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
was in his 10th year, and owner of the
largest fortune in America.
''There go a few Millions" said the
wealthy Virginian planter, Benjamin
Harrison Gather and great-grandfathe
of future presidents), as the rich planter
traced his name on the parchment.
Millions would indeed have gone--for
his possessions were princely not
success crowned the American arms in
the long and bloody struggle.
He was the grandson of an Irish gen.
tleman who emigrated to Maryland in
1859, and took up vast estate-one of
the last of the old immortal grants. The
manor house that he built still stands
near Annapolis-a huge, roomy old
structure, with its wings and outhouses,
covering an acre of ground.
In this grand old mansion house of
Carrollton the future signer was born
on September 20, 1887. Graded in af-
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LONG RUNS OF PLAYS.
Effect on Actors Of a Constant Repetition
of One Part.

Effect on Actors of Constant Repetition
of One Part.
Long runs, like most things, have
ti.eir good as well as their bad points.
Good, because constant repetition SO
Identifies one with the character imper-
sonated that it becomes second nature
to feel and act it. Iteration may IL
the end make one mechanical, but at
least it insures certain technique,
which, when inspiration fails, rescues
the work from crudity. Joseph Jeffer
son once told me that, in ''The Rivals"
ne had always gained an effect by pull
ing Off the fingers of his gloves separate
ly and deliberately TO accentuate GER
tain words; but that under inspiration
he would throw technique to the winds
and have the glove off with one jerk.
Who that has ever seen his Bob can
forget those brilliant green gloves and
The fun he got out of them! On the
other hand, the evil effects of long runs
are indisputable.
Prominent among them is genera
mental WEAKNESS which often causes
one to forget the most familiar lines
and turn blankly to the prompter's
book or to some friendly actor for the
words. This happened to me several
times, notably in ''The Winters Tale"
in London, where, after playing it 1OC
nights, I had to be prompted in several
OF Hermione's great speeches. Edwin
Booth, during his long run of Hamlet"
at his own theater, frequently called for
the lines. An actor who was in his COM
pany told me that Booth turned to him
one night and with a look of consterna-
His mind for the moment had become
blank. The actor gave him the word.
Booth began the speech, faltered again,
was prompted a second time, but, find
ing it impossible to continue, called
cut, in a loud voice: Ring down the
curtain"
Many other examples might be cited
tc show how weary the brain grows
after acting the same part six or seven
times weekly for 100 Or 200 consecutive
nights, with only the rest of Sunday
to distract the mind. Another evil is
that toward the end of a long run the
actor of any heavy or engrossing part
is likely to feel the inpersonated char
acter and its life slowly dispossessing
his own. During the hundred nights of
''Romeo and Juliet" at the Lyceum
theater I became so imbued with the
sufferings of Juliet that 1 continually
spoke of them in my sleep.-Mary An
derson's Memoirs.
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a CANNON CRACKER.
A Railroad Engineers Story of a Narrow
ESn

"A hdhTO1u 1LuS AuCCA . OCoAy VI q A>eAAAo ~
Escape.
am an old railroad man, having
spent the best years of my life at the
throttle, and have had a great many
hairbreadth escapes and thrilling adj
ventures on the rail. But one dark,
stormy night, nearly ten years ago, L
went through an experience that came
near ending my life, although was not
injured physically in the least.
In those days the railroad companies
used what is called the torpedo system
of signaling much more than at the
present time. The torpedo is simply
little tin cup filled with powder, to
which is attached cap, so that the
pressure of the locomotive in passing
over it will cause it to explode. There
was regular code of torpedo signals
and when an engineer heard the report
of a single torpedo, which meant stop
he lost no time in reversing his engine
and whistling for brakes.
Twas pulling passenger train, at the
time the event occurred, on what is
called the Cherryvale division of the X.
c., Fl. S. & M. Il. r., which runs from
Fort Scott, Kan, to Cherryvale. The
road had just been widened from narrow
gauge to standard, and as it had been
raining for the past week, the streams
were all swollen, and the roadbed was
soft, making travelling at any very great
rate of speed very unsafe. We made the
trip from Cherryvale to Fort Scott and
back in one day, and all the crew, there
fore, made their homes in Cherryvale.
On the morning of the Sd of July
left home for the roundhouse, prom
Using my little boy to bring him some
fireworks for the Fourth. / made the
purchases at Fort Scott, and among
the fireworks was large cannon
cracker, which tossed in the fireman's
seat-box.
We pulled out of Fort Scott on time,
and in such a rainstorm as L have never
since witnessed. By the time we arrived
at Pittsburgh we were 20 minutes late
on account of the storm. At the next
station we get orders to run to Chero-
kee and go in the hole" as we railroad
men call side-tracking, as a train had
been wrecked west Of that place.
We were due out of Cherokee at 5:15;
but before the two cars that had jumped
the track could be got back on the rails
it was eight o'clock, and raining as only
it can rain in southeastern Kansas.
After leaving Cherokee | opened the
throttle, and we shot along through the
rain at speed that was frightful, con-
sidering the softness of the roadbed
and the danger of washouts. But an
engineer never thinks of danger when
he is behind time.
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ers, the prosperous merchants, the lead
ing lawyers, the official magnates, the
sturdy yeomanry of the new nation
soon to be. Familiar to us almost as
the persons of our own fathers, they
cussing the all-absorbing question
shall these colonies be free and indie
pendent states?
There is John Hancock, the presi-
dent, patrician and courtly to the very
tips of his toes, and sandy-haired, long
Tom Jefferson, the most ardent of demo-
Gratis. Stout, pompous, red-faced John
Adams, and the white-haired, venerable
benjamin Franklin are there. There,
Goo, are the slight, wiry Elbridge Gerry,
and portly Benjamin Harrison, who
weighed nearly 300 pounds; Roger Sher-
man, grave and dignified, and the Qua
ker, Stephen Hopkins, who stands with
his hat on. We know them all we'll
They vote, and the declaration is passed.
America is free.
Then comes another day-August 2
of the same memorable year. Nearly
the same group is assembled in the same
hall. They have met this time to sign
the great charter of our liberties. There
is no hesitation, no hanging back, no
weakness, though every signer knows
full well the import of his action They
will all be marked men, decior red rebels
to the king, and perhaps be hung for
treason. But not a man refuses to slgn.
One after another the delegates go for
,,,ord tC the table and place their Sicr-
natures on the parchment, where John
Hancock has already placed his name
in that bold. defiant and ornate hand of
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A LITTLE NONSENSE.

-"Do you think you could eat an
other piece of pie, Tommy?" II think
could. ma am, if stood up."@Chicago
Dispatch.
Sure Preveptive.-"Why does Miss
Antique look in the glass so much? 2"
"She is afraid of becoming vain."-De-
troit Free Press.
-Hoax-"Does Sillicus know any,
thing about music?" Joax-'sNo; he
doesn't know the difference between a
string orchestra and rubber band."-
Philadelphia Record.
THAT woman over there looks as
If she were painted" Sir, that is my
wife," Il had not finished my sentence.
She looks as if she were painted by
Raphael and had just stepped out OF
the frame"
Friend-"Nice wheel you have. How
much did it cost your" Cyclist---
''Can't tell yet" Friend = ''How is
that?" Haven't you paid for it yet?"
Cyclist-"O, yes; but haven't had any
bill from my doctor since. Richmond
Dispatch.
lICdNCHly. - MIS-. DlOSSOm - i
dreamed last night I was in Heaven"
Mr.. Blossom-'What was it like?" Mrs.
Blossom = can immense dry-goods
store, and didn't have to do anything
but shop. And, oh Joe, you should
have seen the bargain counter! Why,
they had goods marked at 90 cents that
would cost a dollar here."-San Fran
cisco Call
"A country boy who was brought up
in remote region of Scotland had oc-
casion to accompany his father to vii
lage near which branch line of rail
way passes. The morning after his ar
rival, when sauntering in the garden
behind the house in which they were
staying, he beheld with wondering eyes
train go by. For moment he stood
staring at it with establishment, and
then, running into the house, he said:
"Fayther, fayther, come DOT! There's
a smiddy ran off WI a row O. houses,
an it's AVA doom by the back O. the
wn."-Opinion.
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wiles of the Bicycle Agent.

The bicycle agen. patted the saddle
of the sample wheel admiringly with
one hand, while with the other he held
fast to the buttonhole of the prospect
i've purchaser 81 tell you, sir" he said,
you hay. no idea what a wheel does
for man. 1 have known men, feeble,
weak, with tired-out brains and exhaust
ed bodies, striving day and night to
earn bare pittance; and l have sold
those men wheels and seen them in a
months time healthy, strong in mind
and body, and on the high road to for
tune" "You don't say sol" exclaimed
the prospective buyer. The agent be-
came extremely confidential. Il mean
it; every word of it. Why, not four
days ago-mark that, not four days ago
"a man came in here who didn't have
a .cent-not cent. ] talked to him and
he became SO interested that he went
out, borrowed 500, and bought wheel,
and now-pardon the slang-at this
very minute that man is fairly rolling
in dust."-Chicago Tribune.
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( X c . FTo SoN Nj .
1 OPENED THE THROTTLE.

a chasm-for Neosho bridge was gone!
The conductor came running forward
to see what caused US to stop, and when
he saw how nearly had came to pulling
the passenger train into the Neosho
river, he trembled like an aspen, and was
utterly powerless to move.
But about the torpedo signal?
When told the conductor how hap
pened to stop, in answer to his question,
he laughed at me. How could anyone
put torpedo on the track at that place
and no station within ten miles? / did
not know, but I heard it distinctly, and
so did my fireman, who could no more
explain its being there than I could.
One thing was certain-the bridge was
gone, and there was nothing for us to
do but to back to Cherokee and get
orders, and 1 jumped into the cab, feel
ing little more queer than ever felt
before in all my railroad experience.
ooh, Ned, look here!" said my fire.
man, as we stopped at the sidetrack at
Cherokee.
He was holding open his seat-box. ]
lOOhCu, dlO lllc WIOlG lllIuS dWucu
upon me.
There, in the bottom of the seat-box,
was a mass of torn, blackened brown
paper, and the freman's dinner-bucket
and his pipe. which he threw lighted
into the box when getting down from
his seat to 'put in a fire." and which
had ignited the firecracker fuse.
We were saved horrible death indi-
rectly by my little boy, and never al
lowed a Fourth" to pass after that with
out buying him a large supply of fire.
works.
When we told the story in Fort Scott,
the railroad fellows would not believs
it; but, after they found it was the
truth, they took up a collection, and now
Larry Doolen, the fireman, is the owner
of the finest meerschaum pipe west Of
the Mississippi.-Evert L. Paul, in
Golden Days.
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fiuence, the Oldest OF his fathers sons.
SIGNING THE DECLARATION.

f1uence, the oldest OF his fathers sons,
and heir to the immortal property,
young Carroll knew nothing of the
hardships of life. He was brought up
like young prince, had his horses and
hounds, and all the spending money he
liked. Nobody could have seen in the
slim, delicate, carefully -nurtured young
scion of the CAROLS, of Carrollton, one
of the sternest and truest Of patriots.
AT the age of eight years, Charles Car
roll was sent to France for the purpose
of obtaining an education. He spent
six years at the College of st. Omers,
and subsequently he was at Rheims and
Bourges.
In the year 1857 he went to England,
and commenced the study of law in the
Temple in London. There he made the
acquaintance of a number of young
Englishmen, VINO were afterward quite
as famous as he was.
He returned to America, in 1764, an
accomplished scholar and an accom-
plished man, just as the first mutter-
ings of the storm between the colonies
and Great Britain were heard in the
land. How would he, the young aristo-
crat, the heir of countless acres, the man
of European education and training
how would he bear himself in this
struggle between the tyrant and the
oppressed?
The archives of his country and the
rolls of his native state all show that
! Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, did his
duty nobly. Temptations there must
have been for him to take sides with the
loyal faction, but he chose the side of
the oppressed, and freedom never had
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The headlight burned with dim, yell
low light, and only pierced the darkness
to the distance of few yards. There
was but one bridge of any consequence
between Cherokee and Cherryvale, and
1 intended Stacking up for it. The fire.
man worked like a beaver to keep up
the steam, as the rain cooled the boiler,
making it more difficult to keep the
proper pressure. Along we sped through
the darkness. the flashes of lightning
lighting up the surrounding country
as bright as day, and making it almost
impossible to see at all by the sudden
return to darkness.
AS we neared the Neosho river slack
ened the speed, intending to run slowly
over the bridge, when distinctly above
the roar of the train. and the storm
sounded the report of a single torpedo.
Instantly shut her off, reversed the
lever and applied the brakes. She
slowed down quickly and stopped with
the pilot of the engine projecting over
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state house at Philadelphia, famous
ever since that day as Independence
hall. There are Sc, the representative
men of the colonies, the great land own
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nineteenth-century way
To celebrate the glorious date of indie
pendence day:
Or let him toll and strain and strive in
some athletic game,
Or else beneath broiling sun sit down to
watch the same,
Or join the hot perspiring crowds on an
excursion boat
That think they must be happy just be-
cause they are afioat;
Or let him do thousand things that eager
minds invent
To lure the wary dollar and corral the MIN
BILE cent
OF the patriotic citizen who tries hard to
be gay,
Because" thinks he. 81 ought to be-"
but doesn't know the way.
But let me rather steal away to some Sc
cluded spot,
Where, lost in sylvan solitudes, with all
life's cares forgot,
Unmoved by moss grown custom, or by
what the neighbors say,
I'll celebrate, at any rate, my Independence
day.
III. G. Paine. in Harper's Weekly
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IT him, who will.
burn powder, ring
bells. and make a
noise,
And list to windy
orators, If that's
what he enjoys
And deems a sane,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-20
"God in the Constitution" I"

Concerning the recent recurrence of
the. effort of certain sectaries to ''put
God in the constitution" the Roches-
ter Post Express speaks out with rota-
BILE force and directness. Replying to
the contention that formal recogni-
ton of the Deity by name is necessary
in our federal charter, it says: "A GEN.
tury of American history. witt, the
marvellous development of material re-
sources, the advancing civiliza ton. and
the progress Of religion as well. which
it has witnessed, has but confirmed
the wisdom of the fathers. and made
the principle [of the complete divorce
of church from statel more sacred in
the minds and consciences of the gen.
erations that have succeeded. 1t is ir-
reversible as against the assaults both
of fanatieism and of infldelity.
'"rhere is need neither of discussion
nor Of petition. at this late day. We
should as soon expect to see the graves
give uD their dead as to see the pro-
posed amendment, or anything like it,
adopted by this people. in the closing
days of the nineteenth century. 1t is
repugnant to all classes of citizens.
whether they worship at Christian or at
Jewish al.ars, or refuse to bow in the
temples of any faith. OF course. 1t re-
mains true that this is a Christian peo-
pie. but not Il Christian nation. The
genius of the republic allows all forms
Of religion, but cherishes none. BY not
so much as a fingers touch. can profane
hands be laid upon the freedom, within
which all creeds are protected, and the
performance OF all rites and ceremonies,
not inconsistent with the peace and
safety Of the state is assured. BY the
same persuasion, however. which
guards .he church. 1t Is ordained that
II may not interfere. in the slightest
measure, with the integrity Of the state.
IT u plainly seen that this absolute