ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION Foe of Archbald Claims Men in Boat Shot at Him Scran ton, Aug. 17. —William I'. Bo land, president of the Marion Coal company and instigator of the impeachment charges in the United .States senate against Commerce Court Judge R. W. Archbald,speak ing of the attempt reported to as sassinate him at his summer home at Moosic Lake, near here, by four men in a boat, who lired a volley of shots at him while he was stand ing on the shore, declares his belief that the attempt was the result of his light against the railroads and others. "I have been expecting it for some time," he said, "because of the threatening letters I have been receiving which stated that il I did not cease 1113' light on the combination T would be killed. The previous night I saw two strang ers eyeing me closely as I sat 011 the front veranda with my family." Mr. Boland said that he was walking along the edge of the lake when he heard revolver shots. He turned quickly and several bullets whizzed past his head. "You <l pirates, what are you trying to do, kill a man ?" Boland said lie shouted to the men in the boat. They did not answer but pulled their hats down over their eyes, lie said, and started to row to the other shore. He said he did not report the matter to the police at once for the reason that lie want ed to do a little detective work of his own. He has refused a body guard. Highway Improvements Every township in Pennsylvania that continues toaffiict the'travelling public with that relic of less enlight ened days known as the water break or "thank-ye-ma'ni" is laying itself open to the payment of heavy dam ages. Competent authorities in road huiiding have long since decided that water breaks are absolutely unneces sary on a properly constructed road, and now the Superior Court of Penn sylvania has ruled that townships are liable not only for the damages but for the inconvenience caused by these useless things. The Pennsylvania Motor Feder ation is urging friends of good roads everywhere throughout the State t<> direct the attention ot supervisors and other township officials to this decision of the Superior Court. It was rendered in the case of Lesher versus Lemon township, Wyoming county. The plaintiff' was thrown from his vehicle by reason of the ex cessive height of a water break, and the imposition of a substantial bill of damages on the taxpayers of the township was sustained by the high er tribunal. Not only that, but the Superior Court goes even further than the county court, saying: "The trial judge did not go even as far as the act of Asseinby would authorized him togo in ruling 011 the points to the answers to which exception was taken, having confined the attention of the jury to the dang erous condition of the road, as occas ioned by the obstruction placed therein by the direction of the super visors, and leaving out of view en tirely its convenience. In the con struction and repair of public roads, particularly in view of the increased rapidity of travel upon them, it is important for the supervisors to keep in mind convenience as well as safety \ in the construction and repair of these avenues of public travel." As the cost of failure to comply with the law in respect to safe anil convenient highways must fall even tually on the farmers and other tax payers of the townships, it is expect ed that a few more damage awards in accordance with this latest inter pretation of the law by the Huperior Court will tend to bring the "thank ye-ma'm" into general tiisuse as a substitute for a properly arched road way, which is the cheapest and best in the long run. Attempts Suicide. Clinton Loomis a Tunkhannock high school student attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself in his home at Lemon, Wyoming county lawt Friday afternoon. He was cut down before life was extinct, but is still in a precarious condition. No reason is assigned for hia action. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY Oil DBR OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. Number One. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to article nine, section four, of the Constitu tlon of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, authorizing the State U> issue bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars for the improve ment of the highways of the Com monwealth. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following amendment to the Constitu tion of the Commonwealth "of Pennsyl vania be, and the same is hereby, pro posed, in accordance with the eigh teenth article thereof:- — That section four of article nine, which reads as follows: "Section 4. No debt shall be creat ed by or on behalf of the State, ex cept to supply casual deficiencies of revenue, repel invasion, suppress in surrection, defend the State in war, 01 to pay existing debt; and -the debt created to supply deficiency in rev enue shall never exceed, in the aggie grate at any one time, one million ot dollars," be amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. No debt shall be created by or on behalf of the State, except to supply casual deficiencies of rev enue, repel invasion, suppress insur rection, dofend the State in war, or to pay existing debt; and the debt creat ed to supply deficiencies in revenue shall never exceed, in the aggregate at any one time, one million of dol lars: Provided, however, 'mat the General Assembly, irrespective of any debt, may authorize the State to issue bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars for the purpose of improv ing and rebuilding the highways of the Commonwealth. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Two. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to section seven, article three of the Constitu tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per mit special legislation regulating tabor. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following is proposed as an amend ment to the Constitution of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac cordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article thereof. Amend ment to Article Three, Section Seven. Section 2. Amend section seven, article three of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads as fol lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or Bpecial law authorizing the creation, extension, or Impairing of liens: "Regulating the affairs of counties, oitles, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts: "Changing the names of persons or places: "Changing the venue in civil or criminal cases: "Authorizing the laying out, open ing, altering, or maintaining roads, highways, streets or alleys: "Relating to ferries or bridges, or Incorporating ferry or bridge compan ies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form bounda ries between this and any other State: "Vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys: "Relating to cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not of the State: "Authorizing the adoption or legiti mation of children: "Locating or changing county-seats, erecting new counties, or changing county lines: "Incorporating cities, towns, or vil lages, or changing their charters: "For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting: "Granting divorces: "Erecting new townships or bor oughs, changing township lines, bor ough limits, or school districts: "Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in coun ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec tion or school districts: "Changing the law of descent or succession: "Regulating the practice or juris diction of, or changing the rules of evidence in, any judicial proceeding or Inquiry before courts, aldermen, justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters In chancery, or other tribunals, or providing or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing Of Judgments, or prescribing the effect of Judicial sales of real estate: "Regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen, justices of the peace, magistrates or constables: "Regulating the management of public schools, the building or repair ing of school houses and the raising of money for such purposes: "Fixing the rate of interest: "Affecting the estates of minors or persons under disability, except after due notice to all parties in interest, to be recited in the special enact ment: "Remitting fines, penalties and for feitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury: "Exempting property from taxation: "Regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing: "Creating corporations, or amend ing, renewing or extending the chart ers thereof: "Granting to any corporation, asso- ciation or individual any special or ex clusive privilege or immunity, or to any corporation, association or Indi vidual the right to lay down a railroad track. "Nor shall the General Assembly in directly enact such special or local law by the partial repeal of a general law; but laws repealing local or spec ial acts may be passed: "Nor shall any law be passed grant ing powers and privileges in any case where the granting of such powers and privileges shall have been provid ed for by general law, nor where the courts have jurisdiction to grant the same or give the relief asked for." — so as to read as follows: Section 7. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law authorizing the creation, extension or impairing of liens: Regulating the affairs of -counties, citie3, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts: Changing the names of persons or places: Changing the venue in civil or crim inal cases: Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, or maintaining roads, high ways, streets or alleys: Relating to ferries or bridges, or in corporating ferry or bridge compan ies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form bounda ries between this and any other State. Vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys: Relating to cemeteries, graveyards, or public grounds not of the State: Authorizing the adoption, or legiti mation of children: Locating or changing county-seats, erecting new counties or changing county lines: Incorporating cities, towns or vill ages, by changing their charters: For the opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the place of voting. Granting divorces: Erecting new townships or bor oughs, changing township lines, bor ough limits or school districts: Creating offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in coun ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec tion or school districts: Changing the law of descent or suc cession : Regulating the practice or jurisdic tion of, or changing the rules of evi dence in, any judicial proceeding or inquiry before courts, aldermen, jus tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters in chancery or other tribunals, or pro viding or changing methods for the collection of debts, or the enforcing of judgments, or prescribing the ef fect of judicial sales of real estate: Regulating the fees, or extending the powers and duties of aldermen, justices of the peace, magistrates or constables: Regulating the management of pub lic schools, the building or repairing of school houses and the raising of money for such purposes: Fixing the rate of interest: Affecting the estates of minors or persons under disability, except after due notice to all parties in interest, to be recited in the special enact ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for feitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the treasury: Exempting property from taxation: Regulating labor, trade, mining or manufacturing; but the legislature may regulate and fix the wages or salaries, the hours of work or labor, and make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of persons employ ed by the State, or by any county, city, borough, town, township school district, village, or other civil di vision of the State, or by any contract or or sub-contractor performing work, labor or services for the State, or for any county, city, borough, town, town ship, school district, village or other civil division thereof: Creating corporations, or amending, renewing or extending the charters thereof: Granting to any corporation, asso ciation, or individual any special or exclusive privilege or immunity, or to any corporation, association, or in dividual the right to lay down a rail road track: Nor shall the General Assembly in directly enact such special or local law by the partial repeal of a general law; but laws repealing local or spec ial acts may be passed: Nor shall any law be passed grant ing powers or privileges in any case where the granting of such powers and privileges shall have been pro vided for by general law, nor where the courts have jurisdiction to grant the same or give the relief asked for. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2. ROBERT McAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, proposing an amendment to section three of article eight of the Consti tution of Pennsylvania. Section 1. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania (if the Senate concur), That the following Is proposed as an amendment to the Con stitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article thereof: Section 2. —Amend section three of article eight, which reads as follows: All judges elected by the electors of the State at large may be elected at either a general or municipal election, is circumstances may require. All the elections for judges of the courts Tor the several judicial districts, and for county, city, ward, borough, and township officers, for regular terms of service, shall be held on the municipal election day; namely, the Tuesday next following the first Monday of No vember in each odd-numbered year, but the General Assembly may by law Six a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each House consent ing thereto: Provided, That such elections shall always be held In an odd-numbered year," so as to read: Section 3. All judges elected by the elector* of the State at large may be elected at either a general or mu nicipal election, as circumstances may require. All elections for judges of the courts for the several judicial dls and tor oounty, cits, ward, bor- ougb, and township officers, for regu lar terms of service, snui. uv. che municipal election day; namely, the Tuesday ui xt follow ing the first Mon day of November in each odd-number ed year, but the Genera, Assembly may by law fix a different day, two i birds of all the members of each .louse consent!::; du do: Provided, That such ele; ti ill bo held in ui odd-number <> ..tar: Provided i'ur fier, That all judges for the courts ui tiie several Judicial n .- ricts hold ing office at U. ■ present whose teiiiis of offk may end m an odd numbered yeai shuli continue to hold itieir offices un.il ihe first iuonday of January in thi next succci.ing even numbered year. A true co, oi Concurrent Resolu tion No.'3. ROBERT -\i 'AFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to section one of artici nine 01 the Consti tution ot' Peniis.vhania, relating to taxation. Section 1. lie it resolved by the Senate and House ot ttepresemuti.os of the Commonwealth of i'eutisy.. ;uiu<, in General Assembly met, That ihe| following is proposed as an amend ment to the Constitution of the Com-j monwealth ol 1 ennsylvauia, in ac-, cordance with the provisions of tlio: eighteenth article thereof: Section 2. Amend section one of article nine of the Constitution of i Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: "All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levy ing the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of leligious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institu tions of purely public charity, ' so as to read as follows: All taxes shall be uniform upon the •ante class of subjects, within the ter ritorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and col lected under general laws, and the subjects of taxation may be classified for the purpose of laying graded or progressive taxes; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, ex empt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or cor porate profit, and institutions of pure ly public charity. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4. ROBERT McAFEE, I Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Five. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to the Con stitution of Pennsylvania. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener al Assembly met, That the follow ing is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the j eighteenth article thereof: Article IX.. Section 15. No obligations which j have been heretofore issued, or which I may hereafter be issued, by any coun ty or municipality, other than Phila- : delphia, to provide for the construe- j tion or acquisition of waterworks, subways, underground railways or street railways, or the appurtenances thereof, shall be considered as a debt, of a municipality, within the meaning of section eight of article nine of tho Constitution of Pennsylvania or ofj this amendment, if the net revenue i derived from said property for a per iod of five years, either before or-after the acquisition thereof, or, where tho same is constructed by the county or municipality, after tho completion thereof, shall have been sufficient to pay interest and sinking-fund charges during said period upon said obliga tions, or if the said obligations shall be secured by liens upon the respec tive properties, and shall impose no municipal liability. Where munici palities of counties shall issue obliga tions to provide for the construction of property, as herein provided, said said municipalities or counties may' also issue obligations to provide toi the interest and sinking-fund charges; accruing thereon until said properties shall have been completed and in op-« eratlon for a period of one year; and? said municipalities and counties shallj not be required to levy a tax to pay* said interest and sinking-fund charges, as required by section ten of articlo* nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl vania, until after said properties shall have been operated by said counties' or municipalities during said period of one year. Any of the said munici palities or counties may incur indebt edness in excess of seven per centum, and not exceeding ten per centum, of the assessed valuation of the taxable property therein, if said increase of indebtedness shall have been assented to by three-fifths of the electors vot ing at a public election, in such man ner as shall be provided by law. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. B. ROBERT McAFEE, j Secretary of the Commonwealth, j The Advertised Article (Is on* la which the merchant himself ha* Implicit faith •Ise he would not advertise it. . Yon are safe in patronizing the merchant* whose ade appear In this paper because their good* are up-to-date and never shopworn. IDOHNOWSSI Answer of a Soldier. When Napoleon was a student at Brlenne he happened to be asked by one of the examiners the following I question: "Supposing you were In an Invested town threatened with starva tion, how would you supply yourself with provisions?" "From the enemy," replied the sub-lieutenant of artillery; 1 and this answer so pleased the exam iners that they passed him without further questioning. ] Uncle Pennywlse Says: Countless ages of time passed, as we compute time—before the earth was prepared for the advent of man. The oldest civilization known is that of Egypt, and the pyramids are things of yesterday compared with the for mation of the alluvial plains of the Euphrates, or the delta of the Missis sippi, not to mention the Laurentlan rocks. The Wedding Ring. The wedding ring Is of foremost in terest to the groom and a new wed ding ring is to be had, called the "al liance ring." This appears to be one solid ring, but Is actually two, the joints being invisible, and whenever engraved, the ring is separated by In serting a pin in the Inside pinhole, which separates the ring and the mar king is done on the Inside surface. For Unbelievers. "Why did you cover that board with paint and lean it against your gate post?" "That," replied Mr. Growcher, "is a sample for the benefit of the people who won't believe paint is fresh until they have rubhed their fingers across it." —Washington Star. To Mend Sheet Music. Cut a piece of manila paper, the I size of the sheet of music, as you | would for a picture mat, paste this I over the edges of your worn sheet of i music, and it will last for years.— j Woman's Home Companion. Discovery of Carborundum. Carborundum first was produced by ; a chemist who, while experimenting with electricity, happened to place car bon electrodes connected with a dy namo into a bowl containing some crushed coke and clay. Composition of Whalebone. The whalebone is not hone, strictly speaking, but bristles found In the mouth of the whale, by which the ani mals are enabled to entrap small tlsh for food. When Philosophy Comes Easy. A philosopher who died recently left a fortune of $1,000,000, which, we might say, accounts for the phllosophl i calness of his philosophy.—Detroit Free Press. Little Time for Good Books. Nowadays a good book is like a sin gle seed planted. In a garden surround ed by 5,000 weeds; It possesses a very poor chance of succossful develop j ment. Man's Power In Nature. "Victory over things Is the office of man. Each man is a new power in nature. Ho holds tho key of the world in his hands —no truth which I he cannot see." Kindness. 1 "Has my boy been kind to the dumb I animals today?" "Yes, grandma. I | let your canary out of her cage, and i when my cat caught It I set Towser | on her."—Fun. I The Wealth of a Man. i Tho thoughts of his heart, these j are the wealth of a man.—Burmese | Saying. A Silk Mixer, i Sign in a downtown window: Silk , Bartenders' Vests. —Boston Globe. Iff Dependable l|| _ §KSik® §§ Goods. $g • y Wk handle goods that aro cheap, hut, not 2^^ cheap goods. Wo want our goods to become **** w: ' &*£? ❖ -<> • your goods and our store your store. If it is j?^,T4 |t| Clothing, Hats, §| It Suit Cases, 1% g Shoes, Etc. §| Wc arc offering fine Shoes at $1.98 jjg&jjjj Boys' Suits from $1.98 to $4.98 sjj|^ Boys' Knee Pants 23c and 49c ggfrjj Why silend your money for postage and send to mail order houses when Iran furnish you with the same goods for leas money ? m am ° le n, laporte. || NOTICE The undersigned having been appointed Administrator of the estate of Patrick Walls, late of Cherry township, deceased, notice is hereby given to all parties owing said estate to make payment to the undersigned without delay, and all parties having claims against said estate are requested to present the same to the undersigned adminis trator without delay. MICHAEL WALLS, Laporte, Pa. Administrator. August 2. 1012. S. 6 DEMONSTRATER WANTED A good man to demonstrate the National Vacuum Cleaner in Sul livan County, A line proposition to the right party. 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