THK CITIZEN, FUfDAY, JULY 30, 1000. THE CITIZEN rOBLIfillF.il EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY BY THE CITIZEN rUtlLIHllINO COMPANY. Entered as second-clnss nintter, nt the post olllce. llonesdnlf. l'n. E. B. IIAKI)KNliHl!OH, PHKSIDKNT W. W. WOOD. MAXAGKH AND SKC'Y DIRECTOIIS: C. H. DURFLINCIER. M. II. ALLEN. BENBY WILSON. E. II. 1IAUDKNIIERQII. W. W. WOOD. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 a year, in advance Fill DAY, .lULY iJO, 1001). IlEI'UHLICAN NOMINATIONS. JUSTICE OF THE SUIMIEMK COUItT Judge Ilobert Von Mosehzlsker, of Philadelphia. AUDITOIt GENERAL, A. E. SISSON, , of Erie. STATE THEASUIlKIl, Jeremiah A. Stobcr, of Lancaster. JUItY COMMISSIONER, . II. Itullock. And now poor, decrepit old Spain is facing another revolution. Some able-bodied nation should adopt her, at once. Harry Thaw says that it was wicked for him to kill Stanford White. More evidence that he is now fit to be turned loose. The town council of Clendenln, West Virginia, has Issued an ordin ance forbidding women to ride horseback astride. Now we shall see who is who in Clendenln and vi cinity. Harry Thaw says he will never go back to Mattawan Insane Asy lum, "Jerome or no Jerome!" He is confident that he will prove that he isn't insane. Few people ever supposed he was. Just devilish, that's all. The Scranton Times, of Tuesday, ( contained a very able editorial on That was a measley trick that rob "The Evil of Flaunting Wealth." . bers nut unon the unsusneetliiK We were pleased to see it. Such "flaunting" is a bad habit. We quit it long ago. The Prohibition candidates for State olllces will be named at the State convention, which will be held in Pittsburg August 20 and 27. The campaign plans will bo adopted i 1 . . before that time, and evervthinir I will be in readiness to open the fight about September 1. People who spend the Sabbath at Atlantic City, may as well pre pare to carry licjuld refreshments I with them after August 1st. The Lord's Day Alliance has proclaimed that after the above date, booze and all other "amusements" will be 1 thrust out entirely. Rockaway. Go to "Free" How beautiful and how natural I is the parental solicitude for the well-being of th eoffspving, of tender years. It is most always so, and j how very commendable. In War-1 wick, N. Y., Monday last, Anna Mondel, aged fourteen years, ran away with an Italian shoemaker, to get married. The girl's parents frantically followed the elopers and captured them, after the latter had vainly attempted to persuade any one to marry them. The prospective groom was thrown into jail is tne i base abductor of a baby female, and the child was taken home. Just about that time news was received that the prisoner had becomo heir to 550,000 left by a relative in Italy. Immediately the jail doors flew open, the repentant parents greeted him with open arms, and joy, wassail and marriage was the out come of the base abductor's changed financial condition. 1 WHY IIAIINS 1IURN. Dr. M. A. Veeder, of Eureka Grange, Lyons, N. Y., recently de clared, in an open meeting, that the reason so many barns were burned by lightning was, in a great meas ure, their manner of construction. That the old-fashioned barn, with wide cracks, and joined with wood en pins, was in far more danger and down, and battened. That metal points (spikes and nails) close together, are a protection against Are from electricity. He said In support of his statement that barns are usually burned by light ning and that dwellings are not. That "heat from hay" had nothing to do with it. The Idea Is that the great number of nails and spikes "split up" the electric current, ren dering it harmless. Farmers and others who build, and who accept Dr. Veeder's theory, will, therefore aot Bparo nails in constructing buildings of any kind. We think it hardly polite of the ; Stroudsburg Times to twit on facts. 1 It says that President Taft is a very j polite gentleman. That he recently I arose in a street-car and gave his t seat to three ladies. Noah Marker, cashier of the First National Bank of Tipton, Ind., has wandered away from home. Inci dentally JCO.OOO which wasn't his, went with him, and the bank offi cials are carefully searching for him. Herbert Latham's second attempt j to lly in his monoplane, across the i i English channel, resulted in a j I ducking, the machine dropping into the waves two miles from the Dover ' i breakwater. Latham was rescued 1 by a torpedo boat. Try again. 1 William Jennings Bryan will be the chief speaker at the mass-meeting of the Society of Modern Wood men of America, to be held at Wil low Grove next month. This meet ing will bring together the order from New York, New Jersey, Dela ware and this State. Enormous caves have, it is stated, been recently discovered In Arl-. zona. In fact they are so large, I judging from the accounts given, that there is more room inside of them than outside. Prof. Edgar T. Hewitt, of the Mexican School of Archaelogy, Is authority for the la test discovery of this sort. Fully one-fourth of the $13,000,-1 000,000 worth of gold produced in; the world since the discovery of i America has come from the mines of the United States. The produc tion of gold In the United States j since 1702, the earliest records avail-; able, is a little over 53,000,000,000 in value, or nearly one-fourth of the j total 513,000,000,000 given as the! world's product since 1402. I emigrants on an Erie train between Jersey City and Patorson. Two ! men entered the Inst two cars, as . i the train, pulled out of Jersey City, and Informed the emigrants that they would go no farther unless they i surrendered their money and valu-. allies. And the noor innocents . ., . . , .. shelled out nearly all they pos- . sessed. The thieves escaped at Paterson. 1 Saturday last was the 63d anni versary of the first serious rail road wreck in this couutry. This , occurred at Seaman's Bridge, near , Monroe, Orange c ounty, N. Y on the N. Y. and Erie, now tho Erie 1 road, July 24, 1S4C, when four-1 wheel cars, and locomotives, without, cabs or cowcatchers were used. A broken wheel caused the accident, j while the train was on the bridge, 1 which collapsed. Three persons were killed, three died of their in- juries, and twenty others were seri-; ously hurt, some of them crippled for life. Do Marzo, the child murderer, I was hung at the Lackawanna coun- j ty prison, Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock. The gallows, according to j the Scranton Times, was of an up-! to-date sort. It didn't strangle the j i victim 1 in t liv n cprtpsj nf "Ini'lfs" I " " broke his spinal column. How , pretty! Hanging a human being to J death, or burning life out by elec tricity, is evidence that our clviliza-l tion hasn't altogether lost its bar-1 barlsm. That murderers should be "wiped off the slate" no one dis putes, but, as you can't more than kill them, why not do the job de cently? The "example" of hanging, deters no creature from taking the life of another. "Prohibition the Obstacle to 'Real Reform," Is the title given to an article of several thousand words by the Rev. William A. Wasson, rector of Grace Church, Riverhead, L. I., in the August issue of Pear son's Magazine. Mr. Wasson does not mince his words In the article in describing his view of the Prohibi tionists, whom he characterizes as "a lot of hysterical women and meddlesome men, who conceive it to be their right and duty to regu-r late the personal habits of their neighbors." Then, taking a few leaves from his own book of experi ence with the town of Riverhead, $vhlch has gone through several "wet" and "dry" spells, he cites a number of instances which occurred in the town during a "dry" spell to show the effects of prohibition which did not work. It is queer what a difference of opinion exists among the learned, on this trouble some subject. The coddling moth is said to be raising the dickens with the peach crop, this season. It is said that not more than a quarter crop will be realized. Ex-Congressman Klpp, of Brad ford county, is prominently men tioned as the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, according to the Towanda Reporter-Journal. It probably won't hurt him any to be a candidate, even though it doesn't benefit him. The two hundred girls employed In Rosenblatt's shirtwaist factory In New York, struck on Wednesday and left the works In a body. They had been denied the privilege of talking, even during luncheon hour. Now If there was ever a labor strike with "cause" this Is the one. When you tell a girl that she musn't talk well, what's life worth, anyway? The New York Life Insurance Company makes the statement that Its assets are over five hundred millions of dollars, a sum greater than that of the added capital of the Bank of England, Bank of France, Bank of Germany, Bank of Russia, together with that of 251 of the largest National Banks in the United States which amounts to only ?499."7,000. When Mrs. Annie McKeever, who lived for some years in a New Jer sey village and later at Good Ground, is found by her family or a lawyer who Is searching for her, she will be handed a large sura of money, probably sufficient to keep her from want the rest of her days. Mrs. McKeever is a widow, aged about 40 years, and has three children, the eldest a son about 21 years old. It is believed she is in Philadelphia, but all efforts to locate her there or in New Jersey have so far failed. PENROSE ON TARIFF. "The new tariff law will prove the most satisfactory tariff law ever en acted in this country," said Senator Penrose. The conference commit tee, of which the Pennsylvania sen ator is a member, practically has completed its work. The bill it will report back to the House and Senate will provide ample protec tion for tho groat Industries of tho Keystone State. The advanced rates of tho iron and steel, chemical and other schedules demanded by Pennsylvania manufacturers and substituted by tho Senate for dras tic reductions made by tho House, generally have been mainta'ned by tho conference committee. Senator Penrose urged the increases in the Senate and as a conferee ho has successfully defended them. Tho bill in every sense will servo tho purposes for which it is intended. It provides sensible tariff revision with such reductions as were deem ed consistent with the policy of protection, and it will meet the re quirements of the government as a revenue measure. It violates neither the spirit nor the letter of the tar iff pledge of the Republican nation al platform. It is a measure which leaders of the Republican party con fidently predict will comply with tho economic conditions that have de veloped since the enactment of the DIngley law twelve years ago and assure a prolonged period of re newed industrial expansion. Throughout the deliberations of Congress the protection of Ameri can labor from competition with the miserably paid labor of Europe has been the overshadowing issue from the Republican viewpoint. Tho United States can place in the mark ets of the world any manufactured article as cheaply as any other country. But to do it must reduce its labor to the wage scale of the foreigner. A poltical party that would enact legislation that would do this, would be, as it ought to be, doomed. The self-styled "progressives" of the Senate, the LaFollettes, the Cummlnses, the Dolllvers and the Beverldges, demanded tariff revision that would destroy tho industrial system of this country and make beggars of American worklngmen. The country is fortunate in the fact that tho genuine protectionists in Congress prevented such a disas trous result, statesmen who were alive to the situation and who bat tled early and late for. the preserva tion of the industries of the United States, to which the wonderful prosperity of this nation is due. If This Be Treason Yet we stoutly insist And w don't enre c. splinter Who known It this weather 1b better than winter. jhlrago Trlbun. DEMONICAL H Ami Y THAW. Lnslict! Young Ulrls Upon Their Bare Hacks. In the Supreme Court at White Plains, N. Y., Tuesday last Harry Thaw sat and heard a woman's tes timony that made his pallid face Hush. He saw a pearl-handled dog whip exhibited, and he heard the witness swear that she had seen him wield it on the bare flesh of young girls. The prisoner's wife, Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, heard most of the testimony, which wns of such a nature that Justice Mills preceded Its presentation with the warning thnt "no woman should stay in the court room unless she Is willing to hear everything." Two girls left the room. The witness was Mrs. Susan Mer rill, a buxom, pink-cheeked woman of about thirty-five years, and she opened a new chapter lu the life of Stanford White's slayer. She told of alleged acts of his between 11)02 and 1005, when he was a young bachelor about New York before the tragedy on the Madison Square roof garden that resulted in his being placed in the state asylum for the criminal Insane, from which he Is now trying to escape by proving himself sane. Her testimony was In marked con trast to that of two alienists who went on the stand and gave Thaw a clean bill of health, declaring that in their opinion he was sane. Sum marized, her testimony was that dur ing the three years named, she kept in succession two New Y'ork lodging houses where Thaw rented rooms under assumed names and to which he brought at various times more than two hundred girls. After Thaw's Imprisonment, she said she paid these women at least $25,000 ,as the price of their silence and to "keep them from bothering Thaw's wife or his mother." One of them, who, she said, passed as Thaw's wife, received $7,000. The money came from Thaw. After telling of Thaw's engaging the rooms, the hearing of the evi dence upon the question of the pris oner's mental condition became ap parent. For at this point the mys terious package which was brought to court by Clifford W. Hartridge, Thaw's former counsel, was un- wrapped and a pearl-handled whip, about three feet long, was brought into view. With this before the eyes of court and spectators, the woman related a series of stories about finding Thaw on several occasions lashing the girls upon their bare arms and bodies. Thaw, she said, had posed as a theatrical agent and had lured the girls to Ids rooms with promises of engagements. When she remon strated with him, she testiliod, his excuse was that the girls "weren't smart enough and couldn't fill their positions and deserved a beating." Sho testified further that Thaw had frequently behaved in a violent man ner in her presence and that she considered his acts Irrational. District Attorney Jerome had full charge of the case and it was he who brought out the damaging tes timony. Mrs. Merrill's testimony was stopped when .Mr. Jerome inti mated that it might injure innocent persons. Under cross-examination by Charles Morsehauser, counsel for Thaw, the witness was attacked fiercely. He succeeded In bringing out the fact that she had been re cently arrested on a charge of per jury, after an unsuccessful suit to recover $100,000 damages from a man. The woman emphatically denied that she kept any of the money that passed from Thaw through her hands. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw slipped quiet ly into court during tho proceedings but did not testify. She smiled at Thaw several times during the af ternoon, but he paid no attention to her. Had Tried All Kinds. A noted heavyweight pugilist, who for a time in tho heyday of his fame occupied the chair of sporting editor of a certain journal, gloomily remarked to a friend one day: "Say, Jim, I don't mind standln' up In tho ring an glvln' an' tnkln' a few hot punches in the ribs or wherever they happen to land, but this here plckln' up a pen an' slingln off a col umn or so of Hteratoor every day or two Is -what makes rao tired. I believe I'll hafter resign." "No use resigning, John, old boy," advised the friend. "A job like yours isn't picked up every day. To make it easier for you I would suggest your getting an amanuensis." "Oh, thunder! What's tho use?" ex claimed the great editor wearily. "I've tried a common steel pen, a styler graff, a newfangled fountain pen, n patent ink pencil an' half a dozen other wrltlu' contraptions, an' it ain't at all likely that an amanuensis '11 work any better'n tho rest of 'em. No; I reckon I'll hafter quit." He Knew He Was Alive. A certain young man's friends thought he was dead, but ho was only in a state of coma. When in amplo time to nvold being burled ho showed signs of life ho was asked how it seemed to be dead. "Dead," ho exclaimed. T wasn't dead. I knew all that was going on. And I knew I wasn't dead, too, be cause my feet were cold and I was hungry." "But how did that fact make you think you wero still alive?" asked one of tho curious. "Well, this way: I knew that if 1 were in heaven I wouldn't be hungry and If I was In the other place my feet wouldn't be cold." THE TREND OF WHEAT. Its Movement Westward Has Been Steadily Increasing, With favorable weather conditions the new wheat area of eastern Mon tana, western North Dakota, western central South Dakota, western central Nebraska, western Kansas and eastern Colorado, nil in the semlarid region, can produce from 5,000,000 to 10,000,- 000 bushels more wheat than ever before. That Is, the country may absolutely gain that much, for this Increased area Is not In wheat at tho expense of some other locality. Last season the crop was light In the semlarid region because of drought. But In the winter wheat part of It there is, so far as Is known, a promising amount of moisture, while in the northwest, in tho "dry coun try," the ground Is in perfect condi tion, which will Insure a largo acre ago in spring wheat. But n few years ago the western and northwestern counties of Kansas were beyond the wheat country. Tho west ward trend of wheat has been so steady, however, that now, with sufficient mois ture, several of tho group of northwest ern counties will raise a million to a million and a half bushels each. Chey enne county, in the extreme northwest ern corner of Kansas, lias a sufficient area in wheat to produce over half a million bushels. In western central Nebraska and South Dakota the west ward trend of wheat has brought alniut the same remarkable change. Given fa vorable conditions this season, thesetwo states will take a more Important posi tion among the whent producers than ever before and by reason of now acre age In tho semlarid region. Last season North Dakota had a remarkable IncreaHC In wheat acre age in the west and northwest, and but for the drought, which west of the Soo line cut down the yield over a large nrea one-half but for this North Dakota would have raised the heaviest crop any state has ever pro duced. West of tho Missouri river tho traveler over the Northern TacHlc or the Great Northern can form no conception of the area under cultiva tion. At some small stations Now Salem or Glen Tllln, on the Northern Pacific, for Instance tho traveler will see two or three fields and a waste of drear, brown hills suggesting lone liness rather than energetic agricul ture. Yet there may be marketed at each of these stations and others like them a quarter of a million bushels of wheat. Where does it come from? From ten, fifteen, twenty-live and thirty-five miles north and south of the railroad, hauled In by team. Thus the whole groat country west of tho Missouri and north of (ho Northern Paellic has been and Is being brought under cultivation. In eastern Montana it is the ,--a me, but with the difference that Irrigation and dry farming meth ods are making the crops more sure. And this is the country hnrdly yet known to the grain trade and not at all to the outside world. r-iainu diussuim nyuiiti A once barren empire practically as largo as the state of Missouri lias been reclaimed by two plants, the sugar beet and alfalfa. Within half a dozen years the western third of Kansas, a porfion of southwestern Nebraska and nearly half of eastern Colorado have Increased half a million In population, raised the value of their products from almost nothing to a respectable figure and demonstrated the one time theory that the production of sugar Is not lim ited in America to the south. The Industries of this section are, to be sure, in the infant stages of their possibilities. There are no cities, few railroads and practically none of the things men choose to term civilization, but there are acres and miles verdant nlno months in tho year with succu lent grasses and sweet roots which in time will make the whole section into another great farming commonwealth. Little towns have grown up In a few years, and thousands of families have arrived and. what Is more to the point, STOP HERE'S THE PROPOSITION. with every box of 6 pairs of Retails for $1.50 4 Come in Black and Tan. Sold with a Six Months' Guarantee on Every Pair. See Window Display al L. A. Helferich's. They Were Changed. Whllo serving as commandant of a district in India General Creagh had on one occasion presented tho prizes at tho garrison sports and was rather surprised when one of tho prlzo win nersa prlvnto In an infantry regi ment approached him n few days later and begged to know if ho would bo allowed to chango his prlzo for something nioro useful. "What was your prize?" asked tho general. In reply the man produced a long case from under his arm and showed a handsome carving sot. 'Very nice, I nm sure," said General Creagh. "What do you want to chango them for?" "Well, you see, sir." replied tho man, "I find them rather difficult to uso at mealtime, and If It Is all the same to the committee, sir, I would rather have a knife and fork of tho size to cat moat with." Nature. Ho who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues nro in the ground, the waters, the plants, tho heavens and how to come at theso en chantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of tho world have called In nature to their aid can they reach tho height of mag nificence. Emerson. How to Make a Noise. Hnrry, the highlandcr, was bent on being a successful Scot. Ho was bent on making a splash. Och, aycl But he was going to mako thoso daft gowks (Scottish for "silly idiots") in England sit up. But how wns Ilarry to achieve bis aim? He sought advice of a great friend a Scotsman who bad already made his mark In shipbuilding circles. "Tell me," pressed Highland Harry, "hoo can I mak a noise In the warld?" The famous Scotsman gazed nt him steadily for a few moments and then, laying a hand on tho inquirer's shoul der, bellowed: "Hoot, raon!" Retort Courteous. Tenant (angrllyj-I'm going to move the lirst of tho month. That house of yours isn't lit for n hog to llvo in. Landlord (calmly) Ah, I sec! That Is why you are going to move. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. De Laud 'II See Yo' Froo. Sometimes do sky's got lots of grey, An' mighty little blue, But jos yo' keep a pegidn' way, De I.awd '11 see yo' froo, Jos do yo' duty, day by day, Dats all yo' kin, do, Jes yo' keep a-peggin' way, Be sure yo' don't forget to pray, De Lawd'll soo yo' froo. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of cM Special Lighting Notice On and after Aug. ist, there will be a minimum charge of $i.oo a month on allJElectric Bills and fifty cents on all Gas Bills plus the present meter charge of a $1.50 a year. The minimum charge ap plies to both meter and flat rate customers alike. Honcsdale Consolidated Llijht H. & P Co. MR. HOSIERY BUYER READ THIS: A Limited Accident Insurance Policv for $11100 (iood for OXK YKAK. our Insured Hose for $1.50. The Insurance Policy Is in THE NORTH AMERICAN ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. of Chicago. A company who have been in business for 23 years, and have a surplus and assets of over $025,000.00. THE POLICY PAYS AS FOLLOWS: For Loss of Life $1,000.00 For Loss of both Eyes 1,000.00 For Loss of both Hands 1,000.00 For Loss of both Feet 1,000.00 For Loss of One Hand and One Foot 1,000.00 For Loss of One Hand 250.00 For Loss of One Foot 250.00 For Loss of One Eye 100.00 Seven and 50-100 Dollars per week for 0 weeks as per policy in case of accident. THE HOSE is a Two Thread Combed Egyptian Reinforced Heel and Toe All Value. a box of 6 pairs.
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