The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-06-18
Thursday, June Is, 1896.
Letter From Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 1G, '9G.
EDIroR PosT:
The Committee of the Senate. com
posed of six Senators of Pennsylva-
MIA, will resume official operations
on Thursday, June 18th next, at .
o'clock y. m.. in room $50 of Phila-
delphia's twenty million dollar City
Hall, a building famous the world
over for its magnificent proportions
and costly features of modern arch.
itecture. Ordinarily to speak of
the Committee of the Senate"
would convey. to the average 80 l1gc r.
''J,-...,isysn } puJa IA vague, inde, mite
and inadequate idea, as there are
committees, commissions and spec
ial sub. bodies of Legislative organi-
cations without number +; but IN
this instance there will be. | believe,
no special difficulty i'll reaching the
conclusion that THE Committee of
the Senate is the one called into eX-
istence in the very last hours OF the
legislature of the session OF 1870, by
the provisions of II resolution pre-.
sented in the Senate Chamber by
Senator Boics Penrosc, the brilliant
young Phlladelphian who for ten
years past has been winning his way
steadily into the popular esteem and
affection, by his admirable public
course, us Il legislator, lawyer and
writer upon public affairs. The
Committee of the Senate has been
STYLED by the yigilaut and keenly
alert newspaper men who sat and
daily watched its movements last
winter as The Probcrs. 1t is Il
fitting and I'M apt coguomen. 1t is
Il enthusiastically trite and sen
tentious expression. The term does
the gentlemen of the press due hon
or and it does not dCtract at all from
the efficiency and well meaning pur-
pose of the Committee. II is IA
catching phrase, apt to sink into the
mind without effort and arrest the
rambling eve of the reader rs he
rolls furtively over his morning pa
per while the steam is arising from
his hot coffee. The Probcrs' is n
very modern phrase, as terse with
respect to the space 1t would occupy
in cold type, upon an immaculate
sheet of paper, rs 1t Is apparently
mcrcilcsS in its intent to the common
understanding of Il warm hearted In
dividual. 1t is cold and ironical and
makes you think of the gllttering
blade, the polished steel of the sur
geon's knife which goes deep and
cuts out the fostering cancer. The
term conveys Il decisive idea of deft
movements, the flourish of the skill
ed anatomist, the almost tiendish
purpose of the we'll trained and per-
laps heartless man of the scalpel
who revels in blood and rs physi-
clans say loves to cure 1t is a
nervous expression which would
have n tendency to CONCEAL the mar
row in the spinal column of an over.
wrought sensitive nature, and II
much meditated upon by an easily
impressible brain, might lead to
what we read of III the books, rs
Hysteria, a mild and quite common
ailliction to which gentle femlninity
is subject, in very universal degree
"The Probers' sounds heroic. II
conveys n suggestion OF quick, sting
ing action or perhaps of the more
prolonged and industriously per.
serving effort Of the man OF medicine
the diclple of Esculapius, who re-
alizing that he has chronic case on
hand. sufficiently desperate and in
trcate to test his skill and place in
jeopardy well earned reputation,
goes ut his ease with determine
tion and resolution.
So bloodless and cruel and appel,
lation as THE Probers' affixed to a
Commission which derives all its au-