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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Propose Amend nts
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DROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
l. CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR
REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PUR-
sUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section twen-
ty-six of article five of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Resolved df the Senate concuD, That
the following amendment to section twen-
ty-siX of article five of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania be, and the same Is here
by, proposed, in accordance with the
eighteenth article thereof
That section 26 of Article ", which
reads as follows: Section %. 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 law and the force and effect of
tls process ".'! judgments of such courts,
sNaH hc Hr n: and the General Assem-
by - G':.,y prohibited from creating
ether c0H'.a - exercise the powers vested
by this CONSTITUTION in the judges of the
kourts OF Common Pleas and Orphans
Courts" be amended so that the same
shall read as follows:-
Section 26. All laws relating to courts
shall be general and of uniform opera
| ton, 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 tu-
risdiction thereof. and to increase the
number OF judges in any courts now ex-
lsting or hereafter created. or to reorgan-
lie the same, or to vest in other courts
the jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
courts not of record. and to abolish the
same 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.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Rarina the Feet at Worship.

In India Hindoos and Mussulm
alike wear both sandals and shoes Is
pers) and the latter boots also, but
invariable rule is to remove them
entering a private house just W
stepping on TO the mat or carpe
which the visitor takes his seat. :
must be cast Off. the right boot or
first. before the worshiper enter
temple or mosque, and it is still
garded as an absolute profanadc
attempt to enter either fully shod.
the domestic habit arose out of its
vious propriety, and the religious
ual of the shoes of the faith
now and for centuries past obsel
throughout Islam, can be demonst
ed to have been dictated by. if inc
it be not derived directly from, the
versal social etiquette of the east
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
MARK TWAlN'S CLOTHES.
The Great Humorist Always Had Q
Relish Fer Personal Effect.

Relish Fer Personal Effect.
At the time of our first meeting
Mark Twain was wearing a sealskin
coat, with the fur out, in the salts
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.
l 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 be 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 fam
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 l once accompanied
1t down Broadway, and shared the
immense publicity it won him.
Clemens had always n relish for per-
sonal effect. which expressed itself in
the white suit of complete serge which
he wore in his last years and in the
Oxford gown which he put on for
every possible occasion and said he
would like TO wear all the time. That
was not vanity in him. but n keen feel
ing for costume which the severity of
our modern tailoring forbids men,
though it hatters women to every ex-
cess in it.-W. u. HowCllS in Har-
per's Magazine
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
SOUND WARNING
TO WAGE Farmers
What Democratic Victory Would
Mean to PehnSyi1aEjaNS.
VAST Interests kT STAKE

Prosperity Under Protection and Dis
tress and Free Soup Houses Under
Cleveland Regime.
A beastful and blatant Democracy
throughout the country is not cu.y o..
claring that the next house 0; con
gress will be Democratic, but rre
dieting that the successor to - dent
Taft will be a Democrat.
Late election returns have unqres-
tienably given the Democrats great
encouragement. and reports from GER
tain states until recently reliably Re.
publican put the result in November
In doubt. Thoughtful men, while
dreading the outcome, are at loss to
understand how the great American
people could return to pewer q party
which has caused so much misfortune
and distress, both to the business IN
terests and the wage.earners of the
Union.
1t has only been within the last few
weeks that the citizens of Pennsyl
vania have apparently begun to reel
ize the serious nature of the situation,
and there are evidences upon every
hand that the voters of the Keystone
State will not be carried away with
the tide of heresy and fanaticism that
Is sweeping over the country.
Warnings are going out in every
direction that Pennsylvania must
stand firm; that this bulwark of Re-.
publicanism must remain unsha aiken
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 state 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 the state
and the nation.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Wigs AND BEAnUS.
5ordered on the Grotesque In Engiar5 j
In Queen Anne's Time.

S0EoUfGo 0T uiG oFOtCoHhS tb
In Queen Anne's Time.
At the restoration wigs began to be
more generally worn. and in Quee
Anne's reign they became the mos
costly item of gentlemen's wardrob
sir Richard Steele's full buttone
black wig" cost 80 guineas labor
$3.50. and the fashion became so Gun
brous that Colley Cibber when pla!
ing The Fool of Fashion" TO satir,
the styles introduced wig of fax
large that it was brought on the sta
in a sedan chair. AS matter Of faf
the stagecoach lines were compelled
restrict the length of wig boxes
three feet.
John Taylor. one of the English m
nor poets. thus depicts the boards
his day:
Some seem as they were starched an
Like to the bristles of an angry swine.
And some, to set their loves desire o,
edge,
Are cut and pruned like a quick Sc
hedge;
COlHo limo u bpdues SoHIS lho u SOLI
square,
Some round, some moved like stubbi
some quite bare.
Some sharp stiletto fashioned. daggea
IKE
That may in whispering a mans eye OF
pyke;
Some like a hammer cut or Roman T:
These boards extravagant reformed mt
be;
Some with the ouadrate some triane
fashion
Some circular, some oval in translate
Some perpendicular in longitude,
Some like a thicket for their crassitude
Thus height, depth, breadth. trifor
square. oval. round,
And rules geometrical in boards abound
National Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
COLONIAL VIRGINIA.
The Naughty Planters Were Fier
Foes of Royal Tyranny.

The Naughty Planters Were Fier
Foes of Royal Tyranny.
In no part of the world were soc.
distinctions more rigidly defined tht
in colonial Virginia. The founders
that colony stepped from the brillia
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 slaN
Each formed a class apart from t
others, and almost at once there W
created quasi system of aristocrac,
The proprietor obligated himself
protect his tenants from the Indial
They in turn agreed to follow him
battle, precisely the system inaugur,
ed by William the Conqueror for
military defense of his realm. His
vironment naturally bred certain hs
its Of command, fostered capacity
directing the efforts of others and
posed a sense 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
cry aggression of royal tyrants. o
husband, one wife, one home, one XII
one God-this was the planters ere
But he reserved the right to renou1
a monarch who violated the anci
compact between king and people.
other people numerically as unimp
tant rs that group of Virginia settl
has given to humanity so many stat
men, soldiers, orators, patriots and !
losophers.-Everybody's Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29

and coordinate Jurisdiction. composed
of three judges each. The said courts in
Philadelphia shall be designated respect
lively as the court of common pleas num-
Der one, number two. number three,
number four, and 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
numbers Tho number of judges I'm any
of said courts. or In any county where
the establishment of an additional court
may he authorized by law. may be In
creased, from time to time. and when
ever such increase shall amount in the
whole to three such three Judges shall
compose n distinct and separate court as
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-
Der OF the said court. and the several
courts shall distribute and apportion the
business among them In such manner as
shall be provided by rules OF court and
each court. TO which any suit shall be
thus assigned. shall have exclusive juris-
diction thereof. subject to change OF
venue. as shall be provided by law.
In the county OF Allegheny all the
Jurisdiction and powers now vested in
the several numbered courts Of common
pleas shall be vested I'm one court of COM
mon pleas composed Of all the judges in
com mission in said courts. Such turis-
diction and powers shall extend to all
proceedings at law and in equity which
shall have been instituted in the several
numbered courts, and shall be subject to
such changes as may be made by law
and subject to change Of venue as pro-
vided by law. The president judge of
said court shall he selected as provided
by law. The number Of Judges in said
court may he hy law increased from
time to time. This amendment shall take
effect on the first day of January sue
ceeding its adoption.
A true copy of Resolution No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
TALKING IN FIGURES.
Significance of Certain Numbers In the
Telegraphers' Code.

Significance of Certain Numbers In tho
TeIesraphers' 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
story. but few outside the profession
know that 81 Is also a code sign. Rail
road operators, however, know that
this call is signal to the operator at
the other end to come back and repeat
train signals to the sending operator.
1t 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. Twcnty-four has also the lat
ter significance on some roads.
Five is simply an Interrogation
point and in the vernacular could be
translated Anything doingT Thirteen
ST. uifies DO you understand Twen-
ty-.ive means busy but nobody seems
to know how it came to have that sig
nificance unless perhaps it means that
the operator is still in the midst Of his
work. being some distance away from
80.
"Scventy-three means best regards
and newspaper men and operators en-
ploy this expression constantly. OF
course % has come to mean in this
numerical language just what it does
in ordinary parlance, 'skiddoo,' va.
moose or butt out or any of the thou
sand and one other equivalents. New
York Herald.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
The Governors Quick Wit.

While talking to a former governor
of Illinois. who was noted for the
Guickncss of his wit. an English tour
list spoke with special feryor of sight
he had seen in another state.
Il attended a Sunday service for
the inmates of the state prison" he
said. and l 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. Il am sorry to say il
is not so with us. But then" he add
cd sobery. lin Illinois, you see. most
of the respectable people do not come
to prison. n."-Lippincott'S.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Did His Best.

The young politician was as obliging
as possible, but there was a limit to
his possibilities When the reporter
asked him what his wife would wear
at the mayors reception ne assumed a
confidential air
"I'll tell you just as much as 1 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 | 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 | might have been
able to tell you more youths Com
panion.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Number Three.
A JOINT RESOLUTION

A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, so as to consolidate the
courts Of common pleas of Allegheny
County.
Section l. BE it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives. of the
Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania In Gem
eral Assembly met That the following
amendment to the Constitution Of Penn
sylvania be. and the same 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 6. In the county Of Phladel-
phia all tho jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the district courts and courts of
common pleas. subject to such changes
as may be made by this Constitution or
by law, shall he in Philadelphia vested in
fXA dlstlnc.- e.L.A sGGArats- courts OF equal
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
The Perfect Figure.

John, dear" queried the young
wife, glancing up from the physical
culture magazine she was perusing.
what is your idea of a perfect fig
ureY'
"Well." replied her husband, $780,
900 may not be perfection, but it's
near enough to satisfy a man Of my
.-Erle tastes."-Chicago Newa
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Chance of Front

The Groom-Great heavens, wh
this coming up? The Bride-V
that is Aunt Maria! The Groo
Well, have l got to embrace that
fairy? The Bride-Sh! 1t was
that sent US the handsome silver {
Ice. She's worth thousands.
Groom (kissing her rapturously)-
darling aunt!-London Answers.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
a Child's Charac1er.

No artist work is SO high. so noble,
so grand, so enduring. SO important for
all time, az the making 3t character IN
d child.-Charlotte Cushman
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Midht Have Nodded

Edna-It's Il good thing for me that
silence gives consent Ame!ia-Why?
Edna-Last night when George asked
me to be his wife lost my voice
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Horse Sense.

During heavy downpour Of rain an
Irish farmer sent his boy TO n distant
field to bring home horse. Some time
elapsed. and the messenger returned
without the horse.
Father-Didn't Oi send We for the
horse, ye gamoch? Is your head in
your brogues?
Little Boy (drenched to the skim
Sure, he was standin' in shelter as dry
as We loike. Bedad. he knows more
'han the two of US.
The BEST Girl" Habit.
why" asked her anxious and excit-
ed mother. do you think he is coming
to the point at last:"
We'll" the maiden replied. looking
demurely down at the rug. when he
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"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
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 united Penn.
sylvania Republican delegation un-
tiinchingly adheripg TO the policy of
protecting the business and industrial
enterprises of their home state, until
the bill became 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 al unprecedented period of
prosperity.
But the advance agents Of business
Generalization, of closed mills and
mines and of shut down factories and
workshops of every description are
abroad in every state. They are
preaching Democracy and disseminat.
ing false and misleading doctrines.
and especially are they holding out
false hopes to the worllinsmen, 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 federal patronage.
They make no mention of the sor.
rows and sadness that followed the
last national Democratic triumph in
this country. They DO not tell OF the
popular distress and the destruction of
manufacturing, commercial and all
other lines OF business brought about
through the enactment OF the Demo
cratic tariff bill
They show no pictures of the free
soup houses that had TO be established
by charitable individuals and. in some
cases, by municipalities where thou.
sands OF men, %u!uen and children
were out of employment for many
months. many OF them in 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
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
Elect Republicans &c Congress.

Pennsylvania must elect Republican
congressman 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 for governor, and his
colleagues on the Republican state
ticket, emphasize the fealty OF this
state to the cause of Republicanism
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
national greed and selfishness.

Forty-seven years have elapsed. The
American Negro, while hampered by pref
udlce, poverty and prescription, has had
time enough to show himself blessing
or curse. Have the conditions of free
dom exhausted him? Has he assimilated
as a man and citizen? Does he antago-
nize the Just ideals and traditions of the
American people?
He is interviewer into the being OF the
nation in its lifeblood, its homes, its
schools, its industries and enterprises, its
victories and defeats. Its legislatures
cannot enact a law, its courts render
decision, its political parties gain a VIC
tory, without considering him.
He is a permanent element of American
life. not dangerous to her well being, be-
cause he lis a Christian and progressive:
not vicious. because he is Industrious and
rapidly becoming intelligent: not a pau
per, because he is a taxpayer on over
$500. .OO0,00O in property.
One of the most essential elements OF
racial strength the Negro must have now
is an exalted race pride. The Negro who
is ashamed of his race ought to be driven
out and marked as traitor.
1t should be the highest ambition of
every black man to invest the race with
honor. dignity and power. We have moth
ing of which to be ashamed. Forty-seven
years of freedom read like a romance.
The Negro has no primrose path for the
future. He must rise on his merits every
time. He must make himself an indis-
pensable factor in American life and con-
tribute the best citizenship and sterling
worth into the community in which he
lives.
He must simply compel the community
to recognize his honesty and industry not
by servile. hat in hand policy, which is
more hypocritical than real and which
costs him self respect and the respect OF
all his neighbors. but manly, straight
forward course that shows him TO be re-
liable, honest, industrious. virtuous and
law abiding
We must organize in business. religion.
society, against lawlessness and crime,
for the protection of home, church, pol!t
ical right and every other thing that IL
sacred to the man and the citizen.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
Portland Voters Are Dissatisfied.

Complaint is rife among the colored
voters in Oregon Portland in partic.
ular-says the Advocate. that the boss
politicians as well as their understud.
les are giving them slim considera-
ton.
Vote insurgent whenever there Is
an opportunity. And, if not, vote with
the Socialist party or any other old
party save the regular Republicans.
They, along with Mr.. Taft. are max
Ing strong bid FOR the southern Dem
ocratic vote. For proof of the asser
tiOn note the number that are being
appointed 10 the offices which were
formerly held by colored men.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
St. Rarnabas Mems Guild Reopsns.

The first meeting for the fall of the
mems guild of st. Barnabas' Protes-
tant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, was
held on Tuesday evening, Oct. 4. Pres
ldent j. A. Thompson presided, and
after the formal welcome to the mem
bers and visitors the literary program
was rendered.
The speaker of the evening wa,
owen NJ. Waller, NJ. D., whose subject
was THE New Forward Movement" :"
Others who took part in the program
were Alfred White, Miss Lillian Jeter,
Miss Mary E. McClane, Charles Wat
ers, Amos Guerrant and Nine. Mar.
guerite Randall.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
Progress Of Downingtown School

President William A Credit and
faculty of the Downingtown Pa) In
dustrial school are greatly encouraged
over the outlook for a large enroll
ment Of students this fall. Work has
been going Oh at the institution dur
Ing the vacation season on the build!
ingS. which will enable the school to
accommodate large number Of stu
dents.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-22
Miss Il. COWDEN.
Hair Dressing
PARLORS.

Shampooing, cutting and curling.
All hair work made to order. Hair
tonics, scalp treatments. manicuring.
stage wigs for rent for theatrical use
or mask balls. Cheapest switches, 50
cents. Goods delivered out OF the ci.!
Phone Champa 1881
1919 21st street. Denver. Colo,