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JUSTICE OF THE SUP11EME COUKT
Judge Itobert Von MuM'hziskcr,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR CiKNEIlAL,
A. E. SISSON,
of Eric.
STATE TKEASUItEH,
Jcri'ininh A. Stober,
of Lancaster.
JUHV COMMISSIONER,
. II. Bullock.
ECHOES FROM STATE CONVEN
TION. Among the hundreds of congratu
latory letters and telegrams receiv
ed by Judge Robert Von Moschzis
ker, Republican nominee for Su
preme court Justice, were a
telegram from Judge Charles E.
Rice, of Wilkes-Ilarre, his only
competitor In the ballottlng, and a
personal note from Justice Ralston,
who withdrew from the field.
THE SKiEL CASE. !
The further the police delve into
the case of murdered Elsie Sigel
the more they unearth to prove that 1
the game of Americanizing the
Chinese in this country by the pro-
cess of assigning to each one a graded by Chinese men, than there
young American girl as a teacher are Chinese converts."
is about the limit of absurdity. i "There is only one answer to all
To begin with, it would be un- this," said .Miss Clark, "white worn
thought of to work at the education en must leave the lives of Chinese
of our own men in this way. men alone.
Imagine establishing any school "For seventeen years I have urg
where grown men were to be taught ed the folly of white women en
individually by each having a deavorlng to Christianize Chinese
young, oft-times pretty and always men. All about me 1 have seen the
inexperienced girl assigned to him. min and wrecked homes. I have
To state the proposition is to show , believed from the very beginning
its impracticability. that it was impossible for white
Rut, what no one would think of women to properly influence Chi
doing with our men is exactly what 1 nes-e men.
is being done all over this country
with Chinamen. Jt is being done
in New York as well as in other
cities.
In the case of the Chinese there
are additional reasons why this The pictures that 1 have seen are
thing should not be done. The , of young, vain, frivolous white worn
Chinese are not savages. They , en deliberately flirting with and
come down from a civilization which I leading on their Chinese pupil,
is the oldest extant. They have a "But consider what a puzzle such
philosophy and a religion which a woman must be to the Chinese
are very old. They do not desert ! men of a race totally unaccustomed
these lightly neither do they em-1 to any freedom for women. Is it
brace a new philosophy or a new i strange that they misjudge behavior
religion at the behest of prattling I that even an American man would
young girls. ! question?
Still further the Chinese have I "As to what subtle attraction
their own ideas regarding women I causes the downfall of the white
and their place in the social rela-1 woman missionary I do not know,
tion. Naturally they are amazed The Chinaman is a mystic, but not
at the freedom allowed to young i romantic not in the sense that
American women and to the indis-1 would appeal to women.
criminate way in which they asso
ciate with men. If it were not for
the mission schools and such places
the Chinese would never have an
opportunity to meet on terms of so
cial intimacy and close personal
contact young American girls of re
spectable characters. It is small
wonder that they embrace so vigor
ously the opportunities offered them
by these missions and that they
"play the missionary game" with
such earnestness.
There have been enough in
stances of how this thing works out
presented to all Americans and
there is no excuse for any parent
or guardian not being well informed
regarding it. Those who go into
this work or who allow their young
women to do so know what risks
they are taking. It is about time
that some precautions were taken
by law to restrain those who have
not sense enough to restrain them
selves in this connection.
In the sad case now engaging the
attention of the whole country the
saddest feature is the fact that the
mother of the girl murdered, her
self introduced the victim to the
mission work among the Chinese.
It must forever remain as something
to haunt and disturb her that she
did this and that the responsibility
for the way Elsie Sigel went must
be on her head.
' PLUNDERING MIDDLEMEN.
Regarding the marketing of farm
produce, facts are stubborn things,
I shipped ten sacks of green corn to
market via Long Island express.
The corn netted me about, the value
of the bags, viz.: 25 cents a hund
red ears. I shipped eight barrels
of pumpkins, and they brought me
in debt to the commission house 07
cents. Last year I let at least fif
ty barrels of fine apples rot on the
ground, within 200 miles of New
York, because there was no chance
of their being marketed at a profit,
and I now have a stack of rye rot
ting in the field because the straw
will not net enough to pay for
threshing, baling, and transporting
it to a market. Last fall potatoes
were sold by farmers at stations up
the State at from 39 to 49 cents
a bushel, Consumers in the city
know the retail price per quart.
Butter is netting the small farmer
19 cents a pound, milk 1 to 2
cents a quart. Thousands of dol-
lars' worth of produce Is being
thrown away or being used to the
poorest possible advantage by small
farmers because it cannot be mar
keted at a profit. The spirit of
Pharaoh will dream another dream,
which being interpreted will mean
seven years of famine If there is
not a closer connection made be
tween the producer and consumer
in our large cities at once. Farms
everywhere In the East are being
abandoned by the only people who
are competent to manage them as
fast aB they can be sold, and the
owners get away to the city.
A. D.
The above is a true explanation
of the poor deal the farmer gets in
our large cities. The time is com
ing when the farmers of different
localities will unite and sell their
produce in the cities through reg
ular representatives. A depot
in New York City for the sale of
the products of Wayne county would
support a good representative and
give returns to the farmer that
would be highly satisfactory.
THE SIGEL MURDER.
Miss Elsie Sigel, whose murder is
now engaging the attention of the
public, was a missionary worker
among the Chinese in New York
City. Her murderer was one of
her pupils, who choked her to death
and then placed her body in a
trunk. It has developed that she
was in love with the man who did
the deed, and evidence has been
unearthed that proves that there is
a sickly sentlmentallsm pervading
this class of workers which is the
outgrowth of a religious belief that
the heathen who flock to our shores
In search of the filthy lucre, should
he singled out and he made objects
cif Kiipi lnl effort to convert to Chrls-
tlanlty. Miss Helen Clark, who is
well known, and who for years has
been an active worker In mission
work and made It a study, sums up
this matter In one sentence: "There
are more women missionaries de-
"It is the attraction of sex that
predominates In both cases, not
that of religion. Despite all that
is in the papers the public does not
ee the other side tne ( innese sme.
"The only light 1 can see is in
what might be called gallantry of
the Chinese, their kindness and gen
tleness to women.
"Does any one realize that more
than half of the women of the un
der world who come to Chinatown
make their homes there because
Chinamen are more kind to them
than white men? I have seen it.
Seen Chinamen, practically married
to these women, the slaves of opium,
treating them with patience and
consideration.
"But there is one big truth that I
was sure of when I first took up the
work, and of which years have made
me positive beyond argument the
white woman can never Christianize
the Chinese man. If she tries it, it
will be the West that is converted
to the East, not the East converted
to the West."
"Elsie never made love to me ex
cept in letters and I never made
love to her at all," said Chu Gain,
proprietor of the Port Arthur res
taurant, when before Coroner Har
burger on Monday as a witness in
the inquest on the case of Elsie
Sigel, the murdered missionary girl.
Chu was held under ?1,000 bonds
to ensure his further appearance.
The Chinaman said that he was
on close terms of friendship with
Mrs. Sigel and Elsie and calmly
made the statement that she wrote
him love letters. He apparently
thought this was nothing extraordin
ary.
"She always called me Chu Gain
in speaking to me," he said. "But
in letters she addressed me as 'My
Dear Friend.' The girl and her
mother came frequently to my res
aturant and I became well acquaint
ed with them. Since February they
had come to my restaurant not less
than once a week. I have visited
them at their home. I have known
them for two years."
NEXT TEN YEARS IN THE RAIL
ROAD WORLD.
The American railroad system
changes while you wait. You can
see it grow. A decade ago the
railways received only a billion and
a quarter dollars from the patient
people; hardly more than our an
nual national expenditure. Now
they receive with fewer thanks
two and a half billions. Then the
I passenger traffic amounted to only
13,3 billions or miles for one pas'
senger; now it amounts to 29. 0
billions of miles. In other words,
If one passenger were carried each
week day from Des Moines, Iowa,
to the sun, his Journeying would
fairly represent the distance dally
travelled by passengers on Ameri
can railroads.
Our freight traffic, too, is bigger.
In one year we carried a billion tons
of freight an average of two hund
red and forty miles each. If each
man, woman, and child in this
country hauled each day five hund
red pounds of freight a distance of
thirty-two miles, they would not
accomplish In the year the vast
amount of carrying that the rail
roads perform.
The next ten years will show still
greater progress. Many railroads
will be rebuilt; others will be elec
trified. New road beds, new tracks,
new stations, stronger locomotives,
bigger and better cars all of these
are in the estimates of the next
decade. And if the people stay
awake and demand their rights, the
whole vast engine of progress will
be equitably and efficiently admin
istered in the interest, not of stock
Jobbers, but of investors, employ
ees, passengers and shippers-
TREES ON THE FARM.
Many poor soils, now waste spots
on the farm, would become profitable
if planted with the right kind of
forest trees, and cared for in the
right way. Trees will often grow
where grain and grass will not.
Swamps, stony ridges, exhausted
fields and washed hillsides need not
be abandoned. There is money in
most of them if they are set to work
producing woodlots and forests.
Hut knowledge and Judgment are
necessary, and a bad guess may be
costly.
Many trees do well in those soils
cone-bearing trees in particular.
The fanner is fortunate whose land
has no poor spots. Few land-owners
are so well off. Fertile acres are
usually fairly profitable, but the
gravel bars, rocky, knolls, marshy
swales and exhausted and eroded
slopes are not. Scarcely one of them
need remain unproductive. They
will grow timber pine, locust, pop
lar, osage orange, oak, chestnut or
some other kind. But the soil must
be studied, and the species selected
to suit it. Failure might follow the
planting of walnut on soil suited to
white pine or vice versa. The farm's
waste and neglected corners may be
turned into woodlots where the
farmer may grow his own posts,
poles, fences and sawlogs.
lt is decidedly worth while to
keep all the farm at work. The
owner pays taxes on all his land and
is out of pocket for whatever is not
earning him something. Further,
by growing a tree crop on land which
is too poor to plow, the quality of
the land itself is improved. Forests
add humus to the soil, bettering its
character; and lt has lately been dis
covered that the decaying leaf litter
has also the power of gathering
from the air a certain amount of
nitrogen. In this respect the forest
does for the soil what leguminous
crops, like clover and alfalfa do.
Wood growing on worn-out land thus
becomes doubly profitable. The land
is made useful and improved at the
same time. Country Gentleman.
ADMITS POISONING
HER HUSBAND
Widow of Joshua Tracer Said to
Have Implicated Her Admirer.
York, Pa., June 22. Joshua
Tracey, who died here on Monday
last in such terrible convulsions
that he tore the flesh from his
breast, was poisoned, his wife, Min
nie, having, Chief of Police White
asserts, confessed to the deed. The
woman implicates William Brown,
brother-in-law, whose wife died
eighteen months ago and with whom
she is madly Infatuated, declaring
that he planned the murder and
procured for her. the strychnine with
which it was accomplished. Tra
eey's death was so indicative of
poison that his wife and Brown,
whose relations were common gos
sip, were arrested on Saturday.
Chief White learned that Brown
obtained the strychnine through his
brother, John A. Brown, at Lan
caster, writing him that he wanted
the poison for rats. John Brown
confirmed this fact to-day, saying
that he knew nothing further than
that he had bought the poison at
his brother's request, and would so
testify at the trial.
Joshua Tracey surprised Brown
and Mrs. Tracey in the woods sev
eral days ago, and it is understood
she had then met Brown by appoint
ment to receive the strychnine. It
is said that the, poison was first
mixed in coffee and then place'd In a
glass of whiskey that Tracey drank.
The police say that Brown admits
having procured the strychnine that
she told him she wanted it to use
as rat poison.
beverai postal cards found at
Brown's home from Mrs. Tracey
and written in an easily decipher
able code were of an endearing
nature.
, Wash Dresses, in English Rep, Linen
and Linette, at
45wO MENNER & CO.'S Stores
Mexican Cotton Midi Burned.
Mexico City, June 24. The Atemajae
cotton mills, owned by the Companla
Indusrrlnle of Guadalajara, have been
destroyed hy fire. The loss Is placed at
$1,000,000. More than 2,000 workmen
are thrown out of employment.
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
PINE MILL.
June 22. Mrs. .Lydia Adams is
having erected a large barn on her
premises near the South Branch
creamery.
Messrs. William and James Cole
of Dradford, Pa., are visiting rela
tives at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward, of Carbdn
dale, are visiting the latter's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Os
borne. Miss Nettle Depue, of Cochecton,
N. Y., is visiting her mother, Mrs.
John Depue.
Orrln Lester lost a horse recent
ly.
Arrangements are being made to
dedicate the new church building
on June 29th. Lt Is a neat little
structure and will supply a long
felt need In our community. We
hope to see the entire county rep
resented at the dedication.
SHERMAN.
June 22. Several cases of measles
w nZnVin . n' nf hi. t,m Bloomfleld, where the groom Is em
F. Conrad lost one of his team; , , .
horses last week.
Miss Louise Lynch was in Hones- I
dale last week. J
Hildred HIne, of Orson, is visit-
. a
1Mb lict auuJUi CUIO) .uii uuu ..aid. j
John Lynch.
Mrs. George Hitchcock an
daughter, who have been spending
the winter in New York, returned
home last week. Her sister, Miss
Emma Foster, accompanied her
home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith expect
to go to Binghnmton next Friday to
attend the wedding of Miss May
Smith to Charles C. Bradley, of To
wanda. WHITE MILLS.
lune 22. Where are you going on
the Fourth? Why stay at home, of
course, and go to the picnic to be
held by the Ladies' Aid Society at
Hertel's Grove, July Oth. There
will be refreshments of all kinds,
races and fireworks. But the best
of all there will be a parade. All
children from six years up who wish i
to be in this parade can get a badge
for ten cents and this badge will be
good for their dinner. The children
are to meet at the school house at
10 o'clock a. m. The band will head
this parade. Dinner will be served
for twenty-five cents a couple. All
are cordially invited.
White Mills Poultry Club is grow
ing fast and the members are becom
ing enthused over our poultry show
this fall.
What is the matter with White
Mills now? They played the game
last Sunday with Hawley and sent
them home with a nest full of
goose eggs. Look out. White Mills,
maybe those eggs will be hatched out
and when you go to Hawley to play
you will be fanning feathers in the
air and then you will be singing
"There is no place like home." All
the boys are in good shape and can
play a hard game.
Marie Murphy has been engaged
by the White Mills school board as
the fifth teacher. Seventeen years
ago there were two teachers and now
there are five.
John Truman and George Kimble
have got the contract for the re
pair work on the school house.
The White Mills baseball team will
hold a dance on Saturday evening.
June 2Cth, 1U0U. All are invited.
Harry DeReamer has returned
from Buffalo and his operation has
proved successful. J
John Granquist and wife are smil
ing over the arrival of a young son.
MARK TWAIN SUES.
Hecks to Recover Farm He Gave
Secretary as Weddiim Present.
Bridgeport, Conn., June 24. In
an effort to recover ?3,000 which he
says he loaned her, Mark Twain has
attached a cottage and sixteen acres
of land belonging to his former
social secretary, Mrs. Ralph W. Ash-
croft, who was Miss Isabel V. Lyon.
The farm adjoins the Italian villa of
the author at Redding, and was giv
en to Mrs. Ashcroft by Mark Twain
as a wedding gift. The place is rat
ed in the Redding tax list at $1,200.
Mrs. Ashcroft was married to
Mark Twain's financial secretary,
and soon after the wedding Miss
Clara Clemens returned home. There
was a difference of opinion on many
subjects between her and the two
secretaries, with the result that the
services of the latter were dispensed
with. The suit followed. Improve
ments have been made on the place
to the extent of $700. Mr. and
Mrs. Ashcroft are now In Europe.
PKIEST DROWNS IN SURF.
Brother Ecclesiaetio Tries to Save
Him, but Becomes Exhausted.
St. Augustine, Fla., June 24. The
Rev. Father Buckley, assistant rector
of the cathedral In this city, was
drowned at South Beach while in surf
bathing.
Ho ventured too far out and called
for help, and the Rev. Mr. Ray of
Tampa went to bis assistance.
Together they battled with the waves
until both became exhausted. Jack
Bpancer wont to Father Ray's assist
ance, pulling him ashore, but Father
Buckley had sunk from riew.
A Jewel.
"So you are going to let your new
servant go?"
"Yes," answered tho housewife.
"But you paid she wis a Jewel."
"She was. Merely ornamental and
expensive." New Orleans Times-Democrat
HYMENEAL.
A pretty wedding was solemnized
at St. Mnry Magdalen's German
Catholic Church at 6:45 a. m. on
Thursday when Miss Elizabeth
Dalles of Honesdale became the wife
of William Baron of Bloomfleld, N.
J. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. William Dassel. The
bridesmaids were Misses Margaret
Balles, a sister of the bride, and
Mae Baron, a sister of the groom.
The groom was attended by Wil
liam Balles and Theodore Welch.
The bride was attired in a gown of
white suessine silk trimmed with
lace, insertion and ribbon. She
carried' a prayer book and rosary.
The bridesmaids wore gowns of
Persian lawn trimmed with lace
and Insertion and carried carna
tions. After the ceremony a wed
ding reception was held at the
bride's home. Mr. and Mrs. Baron
are well known here and have a
! large circle of friends. After a
short wedding trip to Scranton and
other cities they will reside . in
I ployed as a machinist.
Tongee, Taffeta, and Ottoman Cloak
and Jackets, at
45w6 MENNER & CO.'S.
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Receiver's Notice.
The undersigned having been
duly appointed Receiver to take
possession of all the assets of the
Armony Association and to mako
distribution of the same among
the parties legally entitled thereto
will be at his ofllce in the Borough
of Honesdale at ten o'clock a. m.
on Saturday, July 10th, at which
time and place all claims against
the said Association, together with
the claims of all those claiming to
share in the distribution, must be
presented, or recourse to the fund
for distribution will be lost.
ul-eoi--3. R. M. SALMON,
Receiver.
ROLL of
HONOR
Attention is called to tne STRENGTH
of the
Wayne County
The FINANCIER of New York
Citv has published a ROLL Or
HONOR of the 11,470 State Ra-nks
and Trust Companies of United
States. In this list the WAYNE
COUNTY SAVINGS RANK
Stands 38th in the United States.
Stands 10th in Pennsylvania.
Stands FIRST in Wayne County.
Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00
Total ASSETS, $2,733,000.00
llonesdale. Ta., May 29 1008.,
HENRY Z. RUSSELL.
PRESIDENT.
ANDREW THOMPSON
VICE PRESIDENT.
HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK.
This Bank was Organized In December, 1836, and Nationalized
In December, 1864.
Since its organization it has paid in Dividends
to its Stockholders,
$I905,800.00
The Comptroller of the Currency has placed It 'on the HONOR
ROLL, from the fact'that'lts Snrplus Fund more than
equals Its capital stock.
What Class
are YOU i n
The world has always been divided into two classes those who have
saved, those who have spent the thrifty and the extravagant.
It is the savers who have'built the houses, the mills, the bridges, the
railroads, the ships and all the other great works which stand for man's
advancement and happiness.
' The spenders are slaves to the savers. It is the law of nature. We
want you to be a saver to open an account in our Savings Department
and be independent.
One Dollar will Start an" Account
This Bank will be pleased to receive all
or a portion of YOUR banking business.
Thco. Lisken,
THE WAYNE COUNTY
UPHOLSTERER !
Cabinet and Furniture Work.
Repairing Neatly Done.
Hair Mattresses made over like new.
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THEGOODS
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THE FINISH
THE PRICES
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