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JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
Judge Robert Von Moschzisker,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
; A. E. SISSON,
i of Erie.
STATE TREASURE!:,
Jeremiah A. Stober,
of Lancaster.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
. II. Bullock.
The Baltimore American Is of the
opinion that the most uncertain
things In this world are the mule
and the aeroplanes. We presume
he's right. We've never owned an
aeroplane, though.
Blakeslee who recently, in Scran
ton, murdered Garrett S. Berry, has
been declared "perfectly sane" by
competent alienists. No plea of
transitory or homicidal mania, will,
therefore be permitted.
Father Heltgreen, priest of the
Roman Catholic church at Plaque
mine, La., bad lots of trouble of one
kind or another with his congrega
tion and the church authorities, but
he came out winner, until he started
a newspaper. That fixed him, and
now he is a "wandering refugee.
Queer, that some people never can
let well enough alone.
When former Justice Brown of the
Supreme Court, said that divorce,
even from a religious point of view,
was sometimes best, he perhaps had
no idea of what a buzzing it would
create in the ecclesiastical nest. But
he isn't frightened, and still insists
that in our present state of society,
we cannot expect to enforce Christian
ethics by the rigors of law.
"Typhoid Mary" is the euphoni
ous title a woman in New York has
attached to her. She has been a
servant in eight different families,
and although she is in excellent
health, every family of the eight
has had typhoid fever. The medi
cal authorities say she is a "germ
carrier," and have "isolated" her.
That's tough for Mary, as well as
the rest.
All the Washington newspapers,
are making a great noise because
there are forty insane persons at
large upon the streets of that city,
who escaped from the Government
Hospital. It's queer that people
of that city should let such a trifle
worry them, when Congress brings
its horde of government lunatics at
large there, in such numbers, and so
regularly.
Rev. Dr. Merrill, of Minneapolis,
is in a very fair way to get his
hair pulled out, his face scratched
and finally to land in jail. He is
crazy about peek-a-boo waists, and
has fulfilled his threat to photo
graph women on the streets, dress
ed in that fashion. He now pro
poses to "illustrate, publicly," these
ladies In their "shameless attire."
Wouldn't go any further, Dr., if we
had any kindly feelings toward our
personal well-being.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother
of the angelic Harry K., has made
herself lllustrous by writing a book,
the title of which is "The Secret
Unveiled," in which she attacks Dis
trict Attorney Jerome, Justice Dowl
Ing, Dr. Ferris, and others who have
attempted to blacken the character
of her poor, persecuted son. We
have never before had any doubt as
to Harry's sanity, but now we shall
be obliged to reconsider the question
of hereditary shaklness In the top
piece. The National Telephone & Tele
graph Co. was chartered Friday at
the state department with a capital
of 110,000. It appears to be the
long-talked-of country-wide inde
pendent system to compete with the
Bell interests. The charter enumer
ates every county in the state of
Pennsylvania and every other state,
including the District of Columbia
and the territories of Arizona, Alaska
and New Mexico, as the scene of its
operations.
The Itallati track laborer Is be
coming "civilized." The Jefferson
division of the Erie had a strike of
that arm of the service last week.
The men demanded ?1.50 per diem,
Instead of $1.25, which they were
receiving. The road is still running,
and the schedule is the same.
Take heart. J. P. Morgan, the
multi-millionaire and banker, is glee
fully giggling at the near proximity
of great prosperity, which is ap
proaching our shores. He says it is
the biggest boon that has ever boom
ed, and is duo here very shortly.
Brace yourself for the impact, fellow
citizens.
The victims of typhoid fever on
the battleships of the Atlantic fleet,
owe their illness, it is stated, to po
tatoes, which were served them.
Several men have died, and an epi
demic is feared. What will this
country do if the Irish potato cannot
be relied upon as a food stuff?
The base ball news departments
of some of our otherwise well-conducted
daily newspapers are surely
sickening to the average reader. It
seems to be the "style" to employ
assassains of English language to
fill them with "funny" vulgarisms,
which are neither amusing, sensible,
nor polite.
The Philadelphia Press, evidently
having become worried over the sub
ject of France's rapidly diminishing
population, wants Teddy Roosevelt
to stop off there, on his way back
from African jungles, and deliver
his lecture on "Race Suicide
Doubtless Teddy will do so to please
the Press.
Mrs. Lizzie Bukman couldn't stand
having a husband about who hadn't
uttered a word in weeks, so she
brought suit for divorce in Asbury
Park. Had the case been reversed
that Is, if the wife had kept mum
instead of the husband, we will
venture that the litigation wouldn't
ever have occurred. Still, we may
err.
The Jamestown Publishing Co.
advertises for "a printer-pressman
to take complete charge of newspa
per and general jobbing office. None
but professed Christians and total ab
stinance men need apply." Such
an advertisement is an insult to the
craft. Who ever heard of a printer
that wasn't all that they require
and more too.
With the owners of motor boats,
automobiles and airships clamoring
for gasoline, the Standard Oil Com
pany has boosted the price of the
fuel in all parts of the East one cent
a gallon. The price is now 1 3
cents per gallon instead of 12,
which many thought was high
enough. Philanthropist John D
Rockefeller, is doubtless, about
to make another "liberal donation'
to some institution.
Base Rail.
The Honesdale Base ball team
went to White Mills on Sunday, and
was defeated by the team of that
place, by the score of 5 to 4
Maner, a young school boy, started
to pitch for the locals, ana lost one
inning for hits, and three runs were
secured off of his delivery. Hes-
ling then went in the box and pitch
ed "great ball" the remainder of
the game, allowing his opponents
only four hits. Brader did good
work behind the bat. The features
of the game were the stick work of
Wenders and Murray's fielding.
The score was White Mills 5;
Honesdale 4.
Manager Fred Suydam has ar-
ranged a trip for his team August
3-4. The team will play in Milford
and Port Jervis on Aug. 5th.
A picked team from Honesdale
went to Ariel on Saturday and was
defeated by the team of that place
in a twelve-inning game by the
score of 7 to 6.
Saturday afternoon a very inter
esting game of ball was played at
Athletic Park, between the High
school and the Cenral Stars, the
latter team winning by the score of
3 to 2. The game was a pitcher's
battle between Histed and Crago.
The latter had twelve strike-outs to
his credit. Markle of the high
school, played a brilliant game in
the field.
The Atlantic League, of which
Alt. Carmel was a member, has dis
banded. Fred Schuerholz, of this
place, was a pitcher on the Mt.
Carmel team.
Wm. Steele, who pitched ball for
the Honesdale team last year, Is
with the Altoona team, of the trl
state league. Saturday, in two
games with Trenton, of the same
league, he shut them out of both,
by scores 4 and 0 and 1 and 0. He
has signed with the Cincinnati team
and will leave for that city Aug.
15th.
The Law Applying to Births and
Deaths.
Registrars of vital statistics in
Wayne county complain that tnere
Is a great laxty in the reporting of
births and deaths, in direct violation
of the law, and that If there is not
more prompt action on the part of
physicians, mldwlves, and parents,
prosecutions will follow.
For the benefit of the people of the
county, who may not be aware of
the law on this matter, the sections
of the Act of 1908, approved, of
Pennsylvania, are here published.
Section G. That stillborn children
or those dead at birth shall be reg
istered as births and also as deaths,
and a certificate of both the birth
and the death shall be filed with
the local registrar, In the usual
form and manner, the certificate of
birth to contain, in place of the
child, the word "stillborn." The
medical certificate of the cause of
death shall be signed by the attend
ing physician, If any; and shall state
the cause of death as "stillborn,"
with the cause of the stillbirth, if
known, whether a premature birth;
and, If born prematurely, the period
of uterogestatlon, In months If
known; and a burial or removal per
mit in usual form shall be required.
Mldwlves shall not sign certificates
of death for stillborn children; but
such cases, and stillbirths occurring
without attendance of either physi
cian or midwife shall be treated as
deaths without medical attendance,
as provided for in section eight of
this act. .
Section 12. That all births that
occur in the State shall be immedi
ately registered in the districts in
which they occur, as hereinafter
provided.
Section 13. That It shall be the
duty of the attending physician or
midwife to file a certificate of birth,
properly and completely filled out,
giving all of the particulars required
by this act, with the local registrar
of the district in which the birth oc
curred, within ten days after the
date of birth. And if there be no
attending physician or midwife, then
it shall be the duty of the father or
mother of the child; householder or
owner of the premises, manager or
superintendent of public or private
institution, in which the brith oc
curred, to notify the local registrar,
institution, in which the birth oc
the fact of such a birth having oc
curred. It shall then, in such case,
be the duty of the local registrar to
secure the necessary information and
signature to make a proper certificate
of birth.
Section S. That in case of any
death occurring without meuical at
tendance, it shall be the duty of the
undertaker to notify the registrar of
such death, and when so notified the
registrar shall inform the local health
officer, and refer the case to him for
immediate investigation and certifi
cation, prior to issuing the permit:
Provided, That when the local health
officer is not a qualified physician,
or when there is no such official, and
in such cases only, the registrar is
authorized to make the certificate
and return from the statement of
relatives or other persons having
adequate knowledge of the facts.
Provided, further, That if the cir
cumstances of the case render it
probable that the death was caused
by unlawful or suspicious means, the
registrar shall then refer the case
to the corner for his Investigation
and certification.
Section 22. That if any physi
cian, who was in medical attendance
upon any deceased person at the
time of death, shall neglect or re-
fuse to make out and deliver to the
undertaker, sexton or other person
in charge of the interment, removal
or other disposition of the body,
upon request, the medical certificate
of cause of death, hereinbefore pro
vided for, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon con
viction thereof, shall be fined not
less than five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars. And if any physician
shall knowingly make a false certi
fication of the cause of death, in any
case, he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than
fifty dollars nor more than two hund
red dollars.
And any physician or midwife, in
attendance upon a case of confine
ment, or any other person charged
with responsibility for reporting
births in the order named in section
thirteen of this act, who shall neg
lect or refuse to file a proper certi
flcate of birth with the local regis
trar, within the time required by
this act, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than
five dollars, nor more than fifty dol
lars.
And if any undertaker, sexton, or
other person acting as undertaker,
shall enter, remove, or otherwise dis
pose of the body of any deceased
person, witnout naving received a
burial or removal permit as herein
provided, ho shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic
tion thereof, shall be fined not less
than twenty dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars.
And any registrar, deputy regis
trar, or sub-registrar who shall neg
lect or fall to enforce the provisions
of this act in his district, or shall
neglect or refuse to perform any of
the duties Imposed upon him by
this act or by the instructions and
directions of the State Registrar,
shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and upon conviction there
of, shall be fined not less than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars.
AT FARV1EW SATURDlY.
Laying of the State Hospital Corner
stone. Saturday last, notwithstanding
the moody'nppearance of the weath
er, at sunrise, blossomed out early
as a cool and pleasant day justtho
sort of weather for a large public
gathering, and the corner-stone of
the State Asylum for the criminal
insane at Farview was laid with
impressive ceremonies, which were
witnessed by a large gathering,
Lackawanna and Wayne sending the
largest delegations.
Governor Stuart was announced
to be present, but, owing to the
serious Illness of a member of his
family, he was unable to attend.
Other representative men of the
State were there, however, among
whom were former Speaker Henry
F. Walton and wife, of Philadel
phia; Judge and Mrs. James 'B.
Holland, Mrs. Elice Walton Hill,
Henry J. Walton, Jr., all of Phila
delphia; William C. Sproul, of
Chester; W. L. Heald, of Chester,
Dr. E. B. Gleason, of Philadelphia;
H. S. Ashmead, of Chester; C. F.
Wright, of Susquehanna, and J. C.
M. Shirk, of Philadelphia.
The party, which remained
over night at Scranton, was there
joined by Dr. Thos. C. Fitzslmmons,
of Wllkes-Barre, a member of the
State Commission having the erec
tion of the asylum In charge.
The Carbondale reception com
mittee, headed by E. D. Lathrope,
chairman, and including Buch well
known citizens as Mayor A. L.
Sahni, Hon. J. J. O'Neill, Hon. S.
S. Jones, Marcus Frieder, Thbs. R.
Durfee, John J. Simpson, Frank E.
Burr. L. A. Bassett, Frank E. Den
nis, P. F. Coogan, Frank Kelly,
George J. Benton, R. A. Jadwln, A.
P. Trautweln, S. A. McMullcn, J.
P. Doftus, C. A. Stuart, B. A
Kelly, and others met the party at
the Delaware and Hudson station
in Scranton and accompanied the
special rain to Farview.
Here the Honesdale special train
bearing many people and a recep
tion committee met the party from
Scranton and proceeded to the asy
lum grounds where a large shelter
tent was placed for their accommo
dation, but which was not needed
because of the fine weather that
followed the rain. The Honesdale
committee comprised the following:
W. H. Dimmick, chairman; Hon.
C. C. Jadwin, E. C. Muraford, B
F. Haines, II. Z. Russell, L. J
Dorllinger, J. D. Weston, M. J
Hanlon, Hon. Leopold Fuerth, Hon.
George S. Purdy, H. T. Menner,
Hon. E. B. Hardenbergh, H. J.
Conger, Hon. Joel G. Hill, A. T
Searle. Hon. T. .1. flam, M. E.
Simons, Hon. John Kuhbach, W. F.
Suydam, Hon. C. A. McCarty, R.
M. Stocker, Hon. W. M. Nelson,
Hon. E. P. Kimble, H. Scott Sal
mon, E. W. Gammell, Andrew
Thompson, M. B. Allen, Alex Voigt,
E. A. Penniman, N. J. Spencer,
Hon. Henry Wilson, Hon. Perry A.
Clark, O. L. Rowland, Homer
Greene, W. W. Wood, Hon. J. C.
Birdsall, W. H. Lee, Jacob Katz
George P. Ross, W. F. Reifler, M
Lee Braman, P. R. Murray, Ed
Deitzer.
The exercises attending the lay-
ing of the corner-stone, and in
which was placed various State pa
pers and documents relating to the
establshment of the asylum, and
copies of local newspapers, were
carried out promptly, opening with
invocation by Rev. Charles Lee, of
the Carbondale Presbyterian
church. He was followed with an
address by Hon. Henry F. Walton
of Philadelphia, president of the
Hospital commission, after which
the address of the day was made
by Dr. John B. Wagner, of Bing
liamton, N. Y., the head of the New
York State Hospital at that place,
and who is one of the noted alien
ists of the country.
Dr. Wagner began his remarks
with a review of the subject of in
sanity. Went back to Bible times
when insane people were supposed
to be possessed of "evil spirits,'
and the drastic, inhuman treatment
which was visited upon the un
fortunates in those ancient days
Said that insanity had no recognized
status as a disease until the coming
of Hippocrates "the Father of
Medicine." With his advent, 400
B. C, we behold the first physician
who recognized the brain as the
organ of the mind and mental de
rangement as the result of brain
disease, thereby beginning as
President White, of Cornell Unlver
slty, says In his "Warfare of Science
and Religion," a development of
truth and mercy which lasted nearly
a thousand years. Hippocrates was
the creator of mental medicine.
Ho urged the abandonment of ex
orcisms and incantations and the
established in their stead of baths,
hygienic measures, music and travel
uniortunateiy, the bright pros
pects with which the Christian era
dawned were destined soon to fade
away. With the fall of the Roman
empire and the subsequent decline
of civilization, the whole world lapsed
into darkness and superstition
and the study of Insanity was lost
in the chaos of the "Middle Ages"
Demoniacal Possession again be
came the accepted belief and filled
all Imaginations. Superstition pre
vailed everywhere. It was the
reign of sorcery and witchcraft and
the noble acquisitions of science and
religion, the accumulations of cen
turies of loving labor, were destroy
ed. Barbarism reasserted itself
and the most cruel tortures that
human ingenuity could invest were
practiced on the insane with the
idea of expelling demons from their
bodies.
Harsher and harsher became the
treatment until the torture cham
ber was the dally scene of death
agonies, and thousands of unhappy
beings, during the dark period of
the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, were
burned at the stake and thus were
made to atone with their lives for
the loss of their reason.
Toward the middle of the eigh
teenth century the idea of dlaboli
lcal agency In mental disease again
began to give way. The study of
mental pathology was revived and
the treatment of the insane began
to improve, but, even then progress
was slow and little wa3 done for
them beyond providing places of
detention where the dark cell, foul
air, poor food and chains were their
unhappy lot. Few patients were
housed in hospitals or asylums of
any kind and those who were fared
badly enough, as the so-called hos
pitals were In reality little less than
prisons.
All over Europe the conditions
were practically the same. In
Paris as late as 1793 the asylums
were In a shocking condition. Mis
fortune, Infirmity, vice, crime and
diseases of the most loathsome
character were to be found In the
midst of the most disgusting sur
roundings. Men and women were
to be seen covered with filth cower
ing in stone cells, narrow, cold and
damp, and furnished solely with
straw beds that were rarely renew
ed until extremely foul.
Into these frightful dens, Into
which we would now refuse to house
cattle, the unfortunate Insane were
rudely thrust and their only at
tendants were convicts from the
prisons. If it happened that they
were noisy or violent, the camisole,
the straight jacket or manacles
were used to keep them quiet. Is
it to be wondered at that such un
happy wretches, in their despair and
rage, made their dismal quarters
resound with their outcries and the
clanking of their chains?
The belief was well nigh univer
sal that the insane could be con'
trolled only by harsh measures, so
the poor maniac continued to wear
his chains and to drag out a miser
able existence until welcome death
came to his relief. Such was the
fate of the unfortunate lunatic on
the European continent, prior to
the appearance of the now famous
Pinel, whose advent may well be
counted the beginning of the mod
ern period in the history of insan
ity.
It was in 1792 that Dr. Philip
Pinel became physician-in-chief at
the asylum in Paris called the
Bicetre, where 200 male patients
were quartered and where the most
shocking cruelties were habitually
practiced upon the inmates by their
keepers.
From that point Dr. Wagner de
monstrated the advance in means
for the care and humane treatment
of the insane up to the present day,
when civilized governments spare
no pains or expense in giving the
unfortunates proper attention and
comforts. It was an excellent
speech and was most interesting to
HENRY Z. RUSSELL,
President.
ANDREW THOMPSON
Vice President.
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the large audience. His closing
remarks, in which he earnestly
urged that our charitable institu
tions be kept out of politics, were
very apt. He said: "The most
competent physicians and nurses ob
tainable are essential to the proper
administration of these Institutions,
and nothing could be more . fatal
to their usefulness than the fre
quent changes incident to the shift
ing of the political weather vane."
Following the ceremonies at the
hospital, the state visitors, were
shown about the beautiful grounds
of Farview In an automobile trip,
and afterwards escorted to Canaan
Corners Hotel where dinner was
served.
Early In the afternoon they re
turned to Scranton by special train.
CAN'T STOP STRIKE THAT WAY.
Court Says Defense Association's
Bill for Arbitration Not Legal.
The first effort on record in the
United States to stop a strike by en
joining both the principals and the
Commonwealth, failed Tuesday of
last week when Judges Ford and
Brown, of the Common Pleas Court,
sustained the demurrer of the
Pressed Steel Car Company to the
petition for injunction made by the
Public Defense Association of Pitts
burg, against the company, the strik
ing employees and the sheriff of Al
legheny county. The hearing con
sumed the better part of the after
noon. To the strikers, who admitted the
conditions as 6et forth by the pe
titioner, nnd who Joined In the de
mands of the defense association
that the court force arbitration up
on the company officials, it was
argued that it was high time for
the courts to interfere. For the de
fense association it was argued that
the strike is costing taxpayers much
money and great uneasiness. For
the company it was argued that as
the petitioners are not injured per
sonally and the corporation is not
one of public service, but private,
the courts cannot interfere.
The formal ruling of the court in
refusing the petition of the Public
Defense Association In part follows:
"Much as we regret the unfortun
ate relations between the company
and its employees, and as much as
we would like to see these men re
employed and the strike settled, we
find this court has no right to com
pel the company to re-employ these
men or to compel the company to
operate its plant again, to pay their
men more money or to install a new
wage system.
"We only have jurisdiction in re
gard to trouble growing immediately
out of the strike and any request
for a restraining injunction against
violence that may lead to loss of
life or damage to property will he
considered.
"We sustain the demurrer of the
defendant company in all points ex
cept that which concerns the right
of a taxpayer to file such a bill."
White Lawn, and Madras Princes
and One-Piece Dresses, at
45w(J TuENNER & CO.'S.
EDWIN F. TORREY
Cashier.
ALBERT C. LINDSAY
Asst. Cashier.
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