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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.