REPUBLICAN HESS-ITEM
Published by a 8. DAUBEHMAN, Lease*
LAPORTE PA.
County fairs are an Infallible Indi
cation of cooler weather.
Missouri's peanut crop Is short, but
the country's crop of peanut politic*
la a wonder.
A paragraphist asks: "Is poker a
gambling game?" Not with some
dealers we know.
Dr. Anna Shaw, who avers that
women will fill men's shoes, presum
ably refers to Chicago women.
Man went to attend the funeral of
his mother-in-law and found her alive.
And yet some people are not satisfied
with their lot.
A motorcyclist, to be sure, might
Rive the girl behind him some sort of
handlebar to cling to, but he usually
seems to prefer the hug.
Still, there is nothing to show that
a "synthetic" rubber tire will be
cheaper or last any longer than the
kind you have always bought.
If stimulating the thyroid gland will
make men taller, scientists ought to
be able to tap something or other to
make men wiser, handsomer and bet
ter.
"Pie," says an exchange, "Is an ex
pression of the soul." Yet most of us
have been under the Impression that
the expressions were due to night
mare.
Philadelphia Judge is at a loss to
decide whether a lobster suffers when
it is boiled, but it is a well known fact
that a lobster Buffers when he pays
for one.
When Eve dolled up in the new
spring style fig leaf Adam, no doubt,
wrote a letter to the newspaper com
plaining about the shocking styles of
the day.
Since a New York man has estab
lished a farm to raise butterflies, it Is
reasonable to suppose that some other
man will soon start to raising butter-
Ine files.
Add to the list of pessimists the
man who last spring bought an ex
pensive lawn hose with money that
he might have used in pursuit of
pleasure.
If you do not believe this is a talka
tive nation you should note that 66
per cent, of the world's telephone
calls in 1911 were registered in the
United States.
Man Is a queer animiin. He arises
In righteous indignation at the
thought of a woman wearing socks,
and yet risks an eye when one climbs
on a street car.
Woman In New Jersey, whose hus
band refused to take her to a moving
picture show, deftly hit him on the
head with an ax. Ax and you shall re
ceive, as it were.
According to one estimate. It costs
110,000 a year to keep a hydroplane
In commission. One could keep a
white elephant for that sum, and not
have half the trouble.
After a Brooklyn woman had run
the house thirty-five weeks on $55 her
husband left her, saying that she was
no wife for a poor man. Evidently
she overfed the brute!
It has been established that th« an
flent Egyptians had the hookworm.
And despite all their wisdom they ap
parently lacked thymol and epsom
salts.
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The South Jersey peach crop Is said
to be the greatest ever known. A
peach of a crop, as it were.
A lobster may suffer when it is be
ing cooked, but think of the agony of
the lobster who foots the bill.
A bad —very I)ad —sign of the times
is that convicts are gaining the sym
pathic ear of Justice by writing bad
pathetic ear of Justice by writing bad
Ing public is alarming.
An English physician says that In
800 years the majority of the people
on earth will be insane. Judging by
the political arguments, a lot of them
won't have to wait that long.
An Inventor has completed a ma
chine for making cheap cigarettes at
the rate of 15 a minute, and now all
that Is required Is a cheap, noncorroa-
Ive machine to consume them.
Another actress has obtained a di
vorce from her husband, but will not,
we fear, cause the press agents to
cease complaining about the popularl
tv of the moving picture shows.
In the midst of new sensations and
startling developments the unloaded
pistol is still killing Its victims In the
good old-fashioned way.
Ohio women have formed an antl
fcosslp league. Such charity ought to
cover even the fashionable sins of th«
bobble skirt and the cigarette.
Some women are born beautlfnl, bul
statistics show that a great many raor«
have beauty thrust upon them by so
clety report*# who write up th*li
wedding*
RESULTS OF NEW
JERSEYPRIMARIES
Hughes of Paterson. Democratic
Choice for U. S. Senator
SENATOR BRIGGS A W.NNEH
Candidate Selected by Governor Wil
son to Make Race Against Former
Senator Wins Uy Overwhelm
ing Vote.
Trenton, N. J. —At primaries that
were turbulent and disorderly in Es
sex and Hudson counties, but tame in
other parts of the state, the Demo
crats of New Jersey indorsed William
Hughes of Paterson for United States
Senator over former United States
Senator James Smith, Jr., of Newark.
Hughes carried most of the twenty
one counties, Smith capturing Essex,
his home county, by about 3,000.
Senator Briggs received the entire
Republican preferential indorsement
fer another term, Jte was the only
Republican to file a petition.
The Progressives, who nominated
candidates by petition in Hudson
county and then fought for their in
dorsement by the Republicans, car
ried Hudson county, nominating the
twelve men for the Assembly and
three for Congress. The men named
for Congress over the Taft men are
George L. Record, Harland Besson
and Harold Bouton.
Not only was Smith beaten, but
practically all the Wilson candidates
for nomination throughout the state,
outside of Essex, Smith's home coun
ty, were successful.
All told, each party selected sixty
candidates for the Assembly, six can
didates for state senator, twelve can
didates for Congress and many muni
cipal offices.
The vote was light all over the state ;
as a rule, indicating that there was
more noise than genuine interest in
the primary campaign of both parties.
FOSS WINS IN BAY STATE.
Ex-Speaker Walker Gets the Republi
can Nomination for Governor.
Boston. —Gov. Eugene N. Foss was
renominated by the Democrats in the
primary election, defeating District
Attorney J. C. Pelletier of SuffolK
county by L' 5,000 votes. Joseph Walk
er, former speaker of the Massachu
setts House of Representatives, won
the Republican nomination, defeating
Everett C. Benton, a former member
of the Governor's Council.
The "Republican vote was light com
pared to that of the primary a year
ago.
IMBECILES IMPERIL OHIO.
Sterilization or Bankruptcy, Says
State Official.
Oolumbvs, Ohio.—Alarmed by the
increase in the last year of the num
ber of imbeciles in Ohio, President
Allen W. Thurmann of the state board
of administration declared thajt, if a
law of sterilization is not passed soon,
within a decade, it will nearly bank
rupt the fctate to care for its weak
minded.
"We must start at once to stop the
propagation of the human race by im
beciles," declared Thurmann. "The
state's one institution to care for
them is taxed to capacity, and right
now we have over one hundred who
should be cared for there.
"At the Delaware Girls' Home there
are thirty weak-minded girls who
should be confined in the imbecile in
stitution. They cannot hold them
there forever, and when they are re
leased the state faces the danger of
an increase in charges. The same
condition prevails at the Lancaster
Boys' Home and at Mansfield Reform
atory.
CALLS NEWSPAPER LAW VOID.
James M. Beck in Opinion Declares
Measure Unconstitutional.
New York. —In an opinion written
by Jatnes M. Beck for the American
Newspaper Publishers' Association
the n«w federal law affecting news
papers and other periodicals, a rider
of the post office appropriation bill,
approved on August i4, 1912, is down
as "unconstitutional and void."
The law requires newspapers to
make sworn reports twice a year to
the government of ownership, man
agement, evidence of debt and net
paid circulation.
FIRST FOOTBALL FATALITY
Ceylon Starrln Diet of Injuries Re
ceived In Game at Gouverneur.
Watertown, N". Y. —The first football
fatality of the season occurred here
when Ceylon Starrin, aged 15 years,
of Gouverneur, while playing in a
game there, was kicked in the stom
ach. He died the following morning.
LABOR MAN DUCKED.
C. A. Mllea Stoned Out of Thompson
ville by Mill Workera.
Thompsonville, Conn. —A serious
riot was narrowly, averted when a
crowd took Charles A. Miles of New
York prisoner and handled him quite
roughly.
Mi!es, a l epresentative of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, was endeav
oring to effect an organization of the
employes of the Hartford Carpet Cor
poration. He was ducked and stonsd
aut of town.
THEY WILL CAMPAIGN TOGETHER
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This photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Straus was taken at their
beautiful country residence at Tarrytown-cn-the-Hudson, after the nomi
nation of the millionaire philanthropist and diplomat by the Progressives
for governor of New York. Mrs. Straus will accompany her husband on
his campaigning trips.
THREE AVIATORS
FALjJO DEATH
Astley Killed at Belfast When
His Machine Turns Over j
TWO GERMAN OFFICERS FALL
Narrow Escape Four Days Before —
His Woman Passenger Wrote as I
They Dropped—Two German
Army Officers Also Killed.
London. —-That H. J. D. Astley, the i
Aviator, was certain sooner or later !
to come to a tragic end because of his
daredevil temperament has long been ;
whispered in aviation circles, and his
fatal fall iu full view of the spectators
at the Belfast cattle show grounds
while causing a painful sensation here,
evoked little surprise.
Only four days before, while flying
at Lille with Miss Trehawke Davis as
a passenger, he had a miraculous es
cape from death, falling 200 feet and
having his machine badly smashed.
Miss Davis made notes of her sensa
tions during the tumble.
The fatal accident occurred while j
Astley was 150 feet in the air. He i
had been flying brilliantly, and after !
several graceful evolutions began a
spiral volplane. Apparently he bank
ed the machine too sharply, and the
aeroplane, catching at the same time
a gust of wind, was dashed straight
downward, the aviator being flung
from his seat against the wing post.
He was removed to a hospital,
where death followed during an opera
tion on his skull, which was badly
fractured.
Mrs. Astley, wife of the aviator, was
at Hendon watching the flying there
at the time of the accident.
Aviation since its beginning in 1908
Aas caused an astounding loss of life.
Within the last month deaths have ,
been surprisingly frequent, England
alone having lost four army aviators
in two accidents. Up until October,
1911, the death roll numbered 100.
The deaths which have occurred since
that time reach a total of eighty-one.
about evenly divided between those
due to monoplanes and to biplanes.
NEWPORT ESTATE CHEAP. j
Cost $194,000 and Goes at Auction for
$15,100.
Boston. —Real estate dealers are i
commenting on the recent sale of one
of the finest places in Newport, that
cost its owner $194,000 and brought
only $15,100, or less than the stable
cost, at auction.
The purchaser was Col. William It.
Hunter, President of the Newport
Clambake Club, which contains on its
membership rolls the cames of men
mown the country over.
GREATEST REVIEW
OF U. S. WARSHIPS
Fleet of 127 Vessels Will Soon
Assemble at New York
IMPRESSIVE NAVAL DISPLAY
Main Event in Unprecedented Assem
! blage Will Be Review by Presi
dent Taft October 15—Over
27,000 Enlisted Men.
! Washington.—Final plans for the
| mobilization and review of the Atlan
i tic fleet in New York Harbor, October
i 12-15, are now in the hands of Rear
Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, commander
in-chief of the fleet.
The main event will be the review
by President Taft and Secretary
Meyer, October 15. The President
will view the column from the yacht
. Mayflower.
The 127 ships in the line, with a to
tal tonnage of 741,590, will constitute
' the greatest exhibition of naval
strength ever made in American wa
| ters. Last year there were 99 ships,
. including 24 first-class battleships,
j This year there will be 32 battleships.
More formidable than last year also
will be the array of armored cruisers
and other powerful craft at anchor
during the review in New York
City.
When the fleet is ready for review,
October 12, there will be on board
j about 1,000 commissioned officers, 300
warrant officers and 27,000 enlisted
men.
! With Secretary Meyer on the yacht
Dolphin, will be members of the Sen
ate and House committees on naval
affairs, diplomats and other distin
guished guests.
Mr. Taft probably will be joined on
the Mayflower by Secretary Meyer
and his staff. The Mayflower will
move up to the head of the column
of battleships and drop anchor. The
admirals will pay their respects to
the Commander-in-chief of the army
and navy, who will receive each with
the honor due his rank. Mr. Taft wili
I then return the visits, going first to
the Wyoming, Admiral Osterhaus's
flagship.
| PROGRESSIVES NAME WOMEN.
Choose Three to Serve on the Maaaa
chusetts State Committee.
. Boston. —Three women were ap
pointed to serve on the state commit
tee of the Progressive party of Massa
chusetts. They were Mrs. Elizabeth
Towne, of Holyoke; Mrs. Anna Til
l'nghast, of Beverly, und Mrs. Mary
Morten Kehew, of Boston.
At a meeting of women Progres
sives here a woman's state comruitte
v as organized, with Mrs. Elizabeth S
_ Clil d as campaign mauager.
OUR CROPS WORTH
$7,00(^000,000
Degree of Prosperity Affected
by Harvests Abroad
FARMERS LUCKY THIS YEAR
Europe Will Call Upon This Nation
for Pood Supplies—Question Is
if Farmer or Consumer Will
Profit the More.
Washington.—One of the best things
about agricultural prosperity in this
country, finnancial writers tell you, is
that it has a way of coming when
other agrarian nations are in the grip
of famine. The result is that tho
great crop in the United States help.3
to feed the other countries of the
world whose fields have lain sodden
at. harvest or have burned in unre
lieved sunshine. The restriction of
the supply raises the prices and the
American farmer gets the benefit,
which is parcelled out to the Ameri
can manufacturer, tradesman and
workman.
With a wheat crop that will meas
ure nearly 710,000,000 bushels and has
an approximate value to the farmer
of $603,000,500, a corn crop of al
most 3,000,000,000 bushels, with a farm
value of at least $1,350,000,000, an oats
crop which is reaching the record
breaking total of 1,290,000,000 bushels
and has a value on the farms of about
$387,000,000, and crops of barley, rye
and other farm products running near
the top notch the present value of
breidstuffs to the farmers of the
United States can be put roughly at
more than $7,000,000,000.
By December 1, the date from which
the government figures the farm value
of grain, the gross value of this year's
crop to the farmers will be many mil
lions more.
In addition to that enormous sum
can be figured the money accruing to
the railroads for transportation, the
Incidental profits of the commission
buyers In the fields and the brokers
on the exchanges, the steamship
companies for carrying part of the
crop abroad, the elevator owners, the
millers and the others who deal d>
rectly with the grain in the process of
putting it in the hands of the con
sumers.
The deduction from the reports is
fhat the United States will be called
upon for an unusually large exporta
tion of grain. It is noteworthy that
the present visible stock of wheat in
the United States is nearly 20,000,000
less than it was a year ago. This, in
the face of a probabls heavy demand
from abroad, accounts for the readi
ness with which offerings of wheat
are being picked up in the western
markets.
The gain crops act more directly
upon the prosperity of the country for
better or worse than any other branch
of production.
PAWLING WILD MAN CAUGHT.
Lived Among Rocks Ten Years —Sent
to Hudson Hospital.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —Arthur Brit
ton, 40 years old, who has been miss
ing fiom his home for more than ten
years, was found Mving in a cave i.i
the Pawling Mountains. Justice Silas
L. Davis at cnce committed him
to the Hudson River State Hospital
and the physicians there say that he
is almost a veritable wild man.
He lived in a hole in the rocks in
the side of the mountain and it re
quired four hours' work to induce him
to come out. Britton's mii.d became
affected while serving in the Philip
pines in the Spanish-American war.
Soon after the war he began to wan
der into the woods. Finally, ten years
ago, his family lost all trace of him.
Five years ago the mountaineers be
gan to tell stories of seeing a wild
man in the woods. The man, they
said, raced through the underbrush
and barked like a fox.
NEW YORK PROHIBITION TICKET
Party Adopts Progressive Platform
and Raises $12,000.
Olean, N. Y. —The Prohibition party
instate conventior nere nominated a
full state ticket, adopted what is
termed a progressive platform, and
raised $12,000 by voluntary subscrip
tion to carry out the campaign for
ticket. It w-as predicted by several of
the speakers in their nominating
speeches that the party would poll
doub e th r vote cast two years ago.
The ticket follows: For governor.
Dr. T. Alexander MacNichol, of New
York; lieutenant-governor, Clark Al
lis, Medina; secret'-y of state, Ben D.
Wright, Lockport; comptroller, Ber
nard Clauson, Binghamton; treasurer,
Arthur A. Amldon, Jamestown; attor
ney gen«--al, Ernest A. Woodruff,
state engineer, V. C. Mott, Buffalo.
PLAN PARCELS POST WORK.
Big City Postmasters Confer with
Hitchcock and Special Committee.
Washington.—Postmasters of tho
five largest cities of the United States,
litiwaid M. Morgan of New York. Dan
iel A. Campbell of Chicago, Edward
C. Mansfield of Boston, Thomas B
Smith of Philadelphia, and Thomas J.
Akin.-: of St. Louis, conferred with tha
special committee appointed by I'ost
naster General Hitchcock to work ou
>'ans for the establishment of ths
artels posts.
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
items oHnterest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Partners Busy In Every Locality—"
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—items of Busi-
Rtis and Pleasure that Interest.
Of the thirty-nine suits entered for
the October term of the Lancaster
county thirty-three are for divorce.
Jacob P'riedman, of South Bethle
hem, fell while playing on the Lehigh
University athetic field and fractured
an arm.
Considering it a case of "Do Some
thing or quit," Doylestown Council de
cided to have a surveyor measure off
a "speed trap" for automobilists and
drivers of fast horses.
After paying a fine of SSOO and S3OO
costs, 74-year-old William Zazzo, of
Tullytown, who was convicted-of sell
ing liquor without a license, was re
leased by court at Doylestown.
An audit made of the accounts of
the Montgomery County Fair Associ
ation shows that at its recent fair in
Pottstown the receipts were $6,400
and the expenses almost that amount.
The Lancaster Automobile Club is
urging its members to vote only for
such candidates for the state legisla-
I ture as favor a state bond issue of
$50,000,000 l'or good roads.
A new bell, the gift of S. M. Vau
clain, of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, will be hung in the belfry of
the Apostolic Holiness Church, Milton,
as soon as the building is remodeled.
The male members of the cnngrega
tion of Bethany Presbyterian church,
CheEter, volunteered to dig the exca
vation for the basement of the pro
posed new church.
Judge Garman, of the Luzerne
county courts, has handed down a de
cision allowing a jury trial In the
divorce proceedings of Martha E. Mil
ler, of Hazleton, against John W. Mil
ler, of Weatherly.
Mike Kapellus was arrested in John
Kutzko's saloon, East Mauch Chunk,
on a charge of stabbing almost to
death one of his fellow-countrymen
one year ago. Kapellus had been hid
ing ever since.
Having failed to procure a proper
huckster's license, Isaac Stokes, of
Kenneit square, has been committed
to the jail at West Chester, on a war
rant charging him with "selling
dressed chickens from door to door."
While examining the contents of a
basket of tomatoes, Mike Balluc, of
Lattlmer, found two small black
snakes wriggling among the tomatoes.
Mike showed little mercy to the in
truders, dispatching them quickly
with an ax.
Engine No. 1700, the newest type of
locomotive to be built by the Reading,
has been turned out of the shop in
Reading. It weighs more than 150
tons. The locomotive is to be used
on the Frackville grade in shoving
empty cars from the foot to the sum
mit.
George J. Korb, of Brady township,
Clearfied county, a former successful
teacher in the eighties, is the posses
sor of the oldest Bible in the county.
It was printed in Frankfort, Germany,
In 1545, and is fully illustrated and
has catch words and prefaces to all
the books.
Parke B. Fraim, of Reading, has
been appointed an instructor In phys
ics at Lehigh University, South Beth-
I lehem. Mr. Fralm is a son of W. R.
i Fraim, Pennsylvania freight agent for
| Reading, is a mining engineer by pro
j fession and graduated from Lehigh
| with the class of 1909.
•'Less than a year ago James J.
| Gramley, former treasurer of Centre
| county, sold all his possessions, bade
good-bye to his legion of friends and
left for Illinois, where he stated he
would spend the rest of his life. The
serious illness of his daughter, Mrs.
Fred Slocum, who several weeks ago
underwent an operation In the Lock
Haven Hospital, called him east, and
he is now in Bellefonte, exceedingly
glad to be back among the hills of old
Centre county. He was free to con
iess that, while everything was *er»
nice in Illinois, there was always a
heart yearning for the old home.
The Athenian oath of loyalty to the
city was taken by the 200 students of
the Pottsrille High School.
A Jury in the Lehigh civil court
awarded a Terdict of $l,lOO to Mrs.
Eliza Frick, of Otasauqua, who was
njured in alighting from a trolley car,
and gave ht>r husband $443 besides.
The will of the late Rev. Dr. E. J.
'•"ogel. of Fogelsville. probated at Al
entown, gives his fine estate to his
yife for life, and then in equal share?
o his three children.
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