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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1009.
HEPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
Judge Robert Von Moschzlskcr,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR GENEKAL,
5 A. E. SISSON,
) . of Erie.
5. STATE TREASURER,
Jeremiah A. Stober,
of Lancaster.
JUKY COMMISSIONER,
. II. Bullock.
The dispatches tell us that nine
teen savages, from New Zealand
are visiting New York City. They
probably are not a bit lonesome.
The Democratic platform, we
notice, declares for "liberal pen
sions for survivors of the late civil
war." Then the soldiers are not
"government paupers," any more?
It has been discovered by . the
State Department that Pennsylvania
has 33,705 teachers and a half.
Where a township adjoins a district
in New York State, and each pays
one-half the expense, is located the
half-teacher.
The fact that a fountain pen,
carried in a man's vest pocket,
saved his life by deflecting a bul
let, iired by a displeased "lady
friend," will doubtless boom the
fountain pen market. Some men
will probably be safer if they wear
chain mail.
On August 1st the United States
had a net public debt of a little
more than $1,000,000,000, and a
combined public and private wealth
estimated at not less than $120,
000,000,000,000. Wo shouldn't
mind a little liability like that if
we had all tlio assets
It is stated that a tramp discov
ered a broken rail on the Reading
road the other day, flagged a train
and saved the lives of many pas
sengers. That was proper, yet we
don't suppose that Reading will
advertise for more tramp track
walkers, on Hint account.
' The Payne-AIdrich tariff bill was
signed by President Taft in the
president's room of the senate at
five minutes after live o'clock Thurs
day afternoon, and at six o'clock
the extraordinary session of the Cist
congress stood adjourned without
day. Au revoir!
It may be interesting to know
that the Blue Laws of Connecticut
have been repealed. You may now,
in that State, without violating the
statutes, kiss your wife, cook din
ner, ride out, and do several other
bad things, heretofore interdicted
on the Sabbath. The world moves.
The new tariff bill has, it is
claimed, already quickened business
impulses. The President declares
that while the bill is not perfect by
any means, nor "a complete com
pliance with promises made, strictly
interpreted," it is nevertheless a
sincere effort on the part of the
party to make a downward revision
and to comply with the promises of
the platform.
The elite of Paris had a beauti
ful, soul-satlsfylng entertainment
on Thursday, when a 'vast crowd
gathered to see how prettily a
"headsman" could lop off the top
piece of Duchemeln, who had
strangled his mother. But, why
rail at the French? America does
worse things than that only the
audience is limited. We burn 'em
to death with electricity, or yank
their spinal columns apart, either
of which Is far more barbarous.
The scare which the authorities
at White Plains had concerning a
big, yellow automobile with two
men, in yellow ulsters and big gog
gles, which appeared twice on
Thaw's line of march from court to
Jail, was extremely ludicrous in Its
precautionary effect. Four heavily
armed guards were added to his
escort so that the yellow auto
couldn't steal him. For what any
one could want to steal such a
worthless piece of rubbish as Thaw,
is a funny conundrum.
Not long since, people of the New
England states were having spasms
over the Investigation of the
Brownsville, Texas, negro soldiers,
by the "heartless Southern people."
A colored regiment has recently
been statoned at Ft. Ethan Allen,
Vermont, and the Vermonters are
already yelling for "Jim Crow"
cars.' The point of view Is a trifle
different, now.
According to a Chicago dispatch,
Cardinal Gibbons doesn't think pro
hibition practicable in large cities.
Ho is quoted as saying: "However
much I am In favor of total ab
stinence, I feel that in the
lnwrrn t I ...... 1. 1 I
would prove Impracticable, and if
laws providing for the revocation of
licenses were enforced in these cities
I fear the result would be the sur
reptitious sale of liquor."
This Is sad, if true, and we sup
pose it is true, or the Scranton
Republican wouldn't have declared
that "there have been such gross
primary frauds in Lackawanna
Luzerne, Schuylkill, yes, and Phila
delphia counties that the legislature
next to be elected will have to take
notice of them. So will election
officers." The Republican however,
thinks there will be fewer instances
of fraud, in the future, under the
present law, and the next legislature
will make such amendments to the
primary laws as will render fraud
more difficult."
According to Dun's Review, fail
ures in the United States for the
month of July were 1,105, compared
with 1,232 in July, 1908, and 777
in July,' 1907. Liabilities totaled
$9,527,893, against $14,222,126 in
July, 1908, and $12,334,710 in
July, 1907. The exhibit is the best
since the flnancial crisis of 1907
and the total liabilities of commer
cial failures were the smallest of
any month since March, 1907. I
Canadian failures for the same
month were 121, with liabil'ties of
$9S5,997, against 134 last July,
with $1,218,132 liabilities.
Mrs, .Joxepliino 1'swick, of New
port News, wanted to go to sleep,
and her husband wanted to listen
to the shrieks of his rattle-trap
phonograph. She begged him to
desist, lie wouldn't. Becoming
frantic, she seized a 22-calibre re
volver and shot him in the right
arm. He had the wound dressed
and immediately started the nerve
destroying machine. This time the
wife planked a bullet into his left
leg, and ho then concluded that he,
himself didn't care any more about
that kind of music. 'Rah for the
woman. I
Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor, is
just at present in disfavor with his
disciples. The United Mine Work
ers' Journal says: "Gompers was
sent to Europe by the Federation
with his expenses paid and that the
result of his investigations abroad
was to be given to the laboring men
in this country for their betterment.
The Journal and other labor papers
were recently offered the weekly
letters of Samuel Gompers giving
the result of his Investigations and
his conclusions at $1 per letter, per
week, said letters having been sold
by previous arrangements by Gomp
ers to a newspaper, which in turn
was to get its money from the labor
press of America." Whew!
In an article on the new Flexner
serum for meningitis, in McClure's
Magazine, Burton J. Hendrick makes
the interesting statement that Fourth
of July fatalities are being reduced
by the use of tetanus anti-toxin.
"An anti-toxin against lockjaw,"
ho says, "has also been evolved.
As a curative this has not had the
same success as the similar treat
ment for diphtheria. This is ex
plained by the fact that the tetanic
poison attacks the most delicate
parts of the body. The diphtheria
toxin has an affinity for general body
cells the liver, the kidney, and
other easily recuperative forms of
tissue. The tetanic poison ignores
these and goes directly for the
nerve cells upon which any serious
lesions are almost inevitably fatal.
As a preventive, however, the tetanus
anti-toxin is wonderfully successful.
Any one who receives a serious sur
face wound, especially If accom
panied by dirt, should immediately
receive an Injection, as infection from
tetanus can thus almost always be
forestalled. Lockjaw as a regular
accompaniment of our Fourth of
July celebration Is decreasing annu
ally because of the general use of
this simple prophylactic.'
The failures In business by deal
ers In groceries, meats and fish
during the month Just passed were
207 by far the largest of any
business. The smallest Is checked
to paints and oils the number be
Ing one.
Franco again leads In the aviator
business. On Saturday Roger Som
mer kept his machine in the air
two hours and 27 minutes. It's up
to the American Wrights to spoil
that record.
Rev. E. L. Sterns, in the Green
Ridge Presbyterian church, In a
sermon, last Sunday, dwelt upon the
idea that "the innocent need have
no fear on judgment day." Is the
Dr. intimately acquainted with any
of those who will be fearless, when
the "last trump" sounds?
We are Informed by the news
dispatches that Harry Meyers, aged
14 years, was, at Harrisburg, on
Thursday last married to Margaret
Kellinger, aged 18, the consent of
parents on both sides having been
obtained. Of course Harry isn't old
enough to know any better, but the
balance of the outfit should be pub
licly whipped.
Harry Thaw is in rather a mingled
condition, as regards evidence. At
the first he succeeded in escaping
electrocution by having "medical
experts" swear that he was non
compos mentis. Now the alienists
on his side are endeavoring to
prove that he is perfectly sane.
Reckon they are all "buggy."
The platform of the Democratic
party is mostly a condemnation of
the party in power, but it does say
something about prosecuting capi
tol grafters, protection of consum
ers in tariff revision, the right of
working men to organize, and winds
up with a pat on the back of the old
soldiers. Everyone will understand
the cooing, and particularly the old
soldier, whom, the Democrats prob
ably surmise, lias forgotten which
party has always been his Arm
friend.
It has remained for the Bellefonte
Watchman to discover that President
Taft is a "miserable weakling, con
temptably servile, and stupendously
ignorant. These appellations are
given to him in connection with his
action concerning the Tariff bill.
We don't know who furnishes the
muddy "grey matter" for the
Watchman's editorials, but would
suggest that his party prejudice has
levanted with what little sense of
decency and justice that he may
ever have possessed, and that the
terms applied to the President of
the United States would be gross
flattery if used in regard to his own
particular case.
BHENXAX AND THE PRIMARY
LAW.
Democratic City Chairman W. J.
Brennan, of Pittsburg, entertained
a visiting committee of the New
York Legislature the other day. Be
ing a personal friend of National
Committeeman J. M. Guffey, he no
doubt also reflects his political
views.
In discussing the uniform primary
election law in this State .Mr. Bren
nen said that it is a piece of- freak
legislation passed by a hysterical
legislature and that it is manipul
ated by the majority party. He
said, "the law provides that a voter
shall ask for the ballot of the party
he supported at the last election.
If this is adhered to the minority
can never get anything. It is hard
to get good candidates to run when
they know they will be defeated at
the election. Money can be spent
for what they call "dissemination of
information," and under that head
comes -every political sin from rob
bing a postofilce to blackjacking a
man."
Whereupon one of the New York
committeemen slyly remarked, "you
have been chairman here long
enough to know." Wasn't that a
hard one for Pittsburg Democrats?
But this so-called reform law
needs prompt and complete revision
by the next Legislature. It is
Justly subject to severe criticism,
and few men are found in either
party to defend it. It falls far
short of reform and opens the way
for an amount of corruption un
dreamed of in some localities before
Its enactment. It is true that the
New York committee found some
prominent men in Philadelphia,
Harrisburg and Pittsburg who wero
forced to admit that our great pri
mary law, poor as it is, is an im
provement on the delegate system.
But tho general opinion of it 1b that
it is confusing, expensive, cumber
some and inefficient.
NEARBY NEWS.
Scranton lias a missing boy,
Joseph Jordon, aged 15 years.
Aftei 51 years' continuous ser
vice as station agent of the Erlo
Railroad, Orange county, Nelson B.
Mapes has retired to make way for
a younger man.
Wllkes-Barre has another case
of "mysterious disappearance." An
eight-year old girl; Lladislaw Sow
osky is missing. Donald Smith, of
the same city, is still missing.
Mrs. James Vandemark of Pine
Bush was, with her husband, burn
ing brush on their farm, Wednes
day last, when a dynamite cartridge,
which some one had hidden in the
brush, exploded, and Mrs. Vande
mark was badly injured by flying
stones.
A new order went into effect
the first of the month in the Hillside
company mines prohibiting foremen
from employing relatives. It haB
required some raadjustments and in
several cases has worked hardship
on old time and faithful employes
of the company.
Joseph E. Wadas, of 1006 South
Washington avenue, Scranton, was
arrested Friday charged with em
bezzling money belonging to Sokot
Lodge, a Polish organization, which
he held as treasurer. It is claimed
by Walter Karenski. the nreslilent
of the lodge, that $54 was taKen.
The mystery surroundinc the In
jury of Joe Sargolus, who is hover
ing between life and death at the
Scranton hospital, has finally been
cleared up. Stanley Fromiskv.
twenty-two years old, of Old Forge,
has admitted throwlnc a stone that.
struck Sargolus, but says that he
did It in self defense.
A girl giving her name as Julia
Burden, IS years old. was taken tn
police station in Scranton Thursday
morning by Mrs. Ducean. charred
with being a lunatic. She had been
sent to the State hospital from the
South Side. The girl has been in
this country about nine months.
Wllkes-Barr'o nlumbers. who are
receiving $3 per day, propose a
strike if they are not at once given
$3.75. Why, surely, make it $4!
That should hold them for a week
Or tWO. When the nlinnlwrc
plumber, plumbs the nublic dons
not usually get plums.
Sister Mary Thackla, of the Sis-
tors of the Immaculate Heart, died j
Thursday morning in Mt. St. Mary's
Seminary. Scranton. Slio was con-,
nci-ted for some years with tho paro- j
chial school, of St. Cecelia's parish, j
Wyoming, of which the Rev. P. F.
Quinnan is nastor. Her name in 1
'the world was Boyle, and her homo i
was in west PIttston before she en
tered the convent. i
Parents of Donald Smith, tho
former Scranton boy, but whose
home is now in Wilkes-Barre, are
disheartened at the failure of tho
search to find the boy, who left
home last Saturday and has not
been seen or heard from since
.Many clues that looked good for his
recovery were run down, but the
mystery of the boy's whereabouts is
as puzzling as ever.
While spending a day at Fish's
Eddy a clerk from Middlotown,
found a fine gold watch. The
watch is a valuable one and is in
perfect condition. A copperhead
snake crossed the young man's path
and he commenced throwing stones
at it. As lie was stooping to pick
up a large stone he saw the watch
in the bushes and the snake was
forgotten.
Jacob Bogdan, of Dickson City,
through Attorney M. M. Moskow
vitz, started an action against Bur
gess Morris Weiss, of Dickson City,
Thursday morning to recover $1,
000 damages, for imprisoninc: Boc-
dan. On July 1 Bogdan was ar-1
rested on the charge of disorderly I
conauct ana was taken before Bur
gess Weiss for a hearing. When a
flne of $10 and costs was placed on
Bogdan, Attorney Moskowvitz of
fered to pay provided a transcript
of the proceedings was furnished at
once. The burgess refused, hence
the suit.
Michael Coholone, a resident of
Jermyn, is at the Emergency hospi
tal, Carbondale, unconscious with a
fractured skull. He received the
injuries which may result in his
death at the Jermyn station of the
Delaware and Hudson company on
Thursday night. He leaped from
the train before it came to a full
stop and was pitched headlong, his
feet striking a rail and overturning
him so that he landed on his head
on another rail. It was found his
skull was fractured, while several
bone splinters were pressing the
brain,
Mary Owens, of Wilkes-Barre,
aged seventeen years, on Thursday
accidentally shot and fatally wound
ed her mother, while she was shoot
ing at a large rat. From the house
she saw the rat emerge from a hole
in the yard and seize a small chicken.
Seizing her father's rifle she shot at
the rat. It continued to pull the
chicken along, while the girl's moth
er, who had been hanging clothes
in tho yard, fell to the ground. The
bullet had struck her in the right
side, penetrating the lungs. She
cannot recover.
Joseph Rosaloskl, a Pole residing
at 1129 Acker avenue, Scranton,
fell from the platform of an out
bound Duryea street car early Fri
day evening on South Mnln avenue.
near Smith street, and landing on
his head was severely injurea.
At the Oxford mine of the Peo
pie's Coal company Friday after
noon between 2 and 3 o'clock, Pat
rick Cannon, nineteen years old,
or 420 Christ court, Scranton, em
ployed as a driver, was Instantly
Killed uy a fall of roof.
After lying unconscious for five
hours Sunday night at the State
hospital, Scranton, Frank Wier
bach, thirty-five years old. of 94fi
Taylor avenue, recovered conscious
ness at an early hour Monday morn
ing, long enough to tell his attenrt
nnts that a man named Bens kicked
him in the stomach while the pair
were engaged in a street flirht in
Petersburg at S o'clock the previous
nignt.
Mrs. Judson Tompkins, 73 years
oia, was Durneci to death at her
home one-half mile from Grahams
ville, on Thursday. Aug. 5, at about
11:30 o'clock while fumigating the
nouse to exterminate some bugs,
Which had made their nnnonrnnno
When the neighbors reached the
place, their attention being called by
the smoke and flames, the house was
a mass of fire and not a thlncr mnid
be touched. It was entirely con
sumed witn its contents and the
body of Mrs. Tompkins.
Garrett B. Linderman, Bethle
hem's former millionaire, who spent
nearly a year in the Allentown Jail
for his failure to file an account in
the estate of his nephew, Robert P.
Rathbun, whose guardian he was,
was released last Saturday. It was
alleged that Linderman lost $53,
000 of his ward's money in bad
copper speculations two years ago,
and when he was faced with the
charge, he admitted it. Unable to
make good the shortage, he was
committed to prison. However, rich
relatives came to his rescue and
made a satisfactory settlement.
It is said that Linderman sank
nearly $2,000,000 in stock specula
tions. THE TARIFF HILL A LAW.
Signed by the President and Now
in I'oivt.
President Taft affixed his signa
ture to the tariff bill as finally
passed by both houses of congress,
at 5:05 o'clock on Thursday after
noon and Friday it became the law
of the land.
President Taft gave out a state
ment embodying his views of the
now tariff act, which he aesiguates
officially as the "Payne bill" in ac
cordance with past customs of giv
ing first recognition to tne framor
of the measure in the house of
representatives.
The president declares that while
the bill is not perfect by any means,
nor "a complete compliance with
promises made, strictly interpreted,"
it is nevertheless a sincere effort on
the part of the party to make a
downward revision and to comply
witli the promises of the platform.
The statement follows:
"I have signed the Payne tariff
bill because I believe it to be the
result of a sincere effort on the
part of the Republican party to
make a downward revision, and to
comply witli the promises of the
platform as they have been gener
ally understood and as I inte-preted
them in the campaign before elec
tion. "The bill is not a perfect tariff
bill, nor a complete compliance with
the promises made, strictly inter
preted, but a fulfillment free from
criticism, in respect to a subject
matter involving many schedules
and thousands of articles, could not
be expected. It suffices to say that
except with regard to whiskey,
liquors and wines, and in regard to
silks and as to some high classes
of cottons all of which may be
treated as luxuries and proper sub
jects of a revenue tariff there have
been very few increases in rates.
"There have been a great num
ber of real decreases in rates and
they constitute a sufficient amount
to justify the statement that this
bill is a substantial downward re
vision, and a reduction of excessive
rates.
"The corporation tax is a Just
and equitable excise measure, which
it is hoped will produce a sufficient
amount to prevent a deficit and
which incidentally will secure valu
able statistics and information con
cerning the many corporations of
the country, and will constitute an
important step in that degree of
publicity and regulation which the
tendency in corporate enterprises
in the last twenty years has shown
to be necessary."
The tariff has been revised and
the extraordinary session of con
gress has been brought to a close.
Both houses adjourned sine die offl
cially at 6 o'clock.
The conference report of the bill
was agreed to by the senate by a
vote of 47 to 31, when the vote was
taken at 2 p. m and soon after
wards the concurrent resolution
making certain changes In the leath
er schedule was adopted by both
houses.
HISTORY OF TARIFF BILL
March 4, 1909 President Taft
called an extraordinary session of
congress to revise the tariff.
March 15 Congress convened.
March 18 Chairman Payne, of
the bouse ways and means commit
tee introduced a provisional bill.
April 10 House passed bill and
transmitted It to the senate.
April 12 Senate began consid
eration of the measure.
July 8 Senate passed bill with
847 amendents.
July 9 Tariff question shifted
from both houses of congress and
sent to a conference committee.
July 29 Conferees reached agree
ment, and it was signed and report
ed to the house.
July 31 House adopted confer
ence report and passed the bill.
August 5 Senate adopted con
ference report and passed bill.
August 5 President Taft signed
tariff bill.
August 6, 1909 New tariff law
becomes effective.
Turn Him Down.
When a smooth-tongued chap
calls upon you, Mr. Farmer, with a
new and valuable preparation for
preserving milk and cleaning bottles,
heed him not. A milk dealer in thin
locality bought "Frezerlne" with
wnicn to sterilize his output, and
State Commissioner W. A. Hutch
inson had him arrested for selling
poisonous milk. It had he.cn dis
covered that "Frezerlne" contained
formaldehyde enouKh to seriouslv
affect the milk, and, although the
farmer was, to all Intents, Innocent
of wrong-doing, but on the other
hand, extremely careful as to milk
and cans, he was oblieed to nnv
a flne of $50.
DeatJi of II. F. Baldwin.
H. F. Baldwin, who was rnnd-
master of the Delaware Division,
with headquarters at Port Jervia.
about 10 years ago. died suddenly
of apoplexy at Seattle, Washington,
June 17. At the time of his death
he was Chief Encineer of the Ore.
gon nnd Washington railroad.
LYRIC THEATRE
BENI. H. DITTRICH.
LESSEE AND MANAGER
ONE NIGHT ONLY
TUESDAY A Bin 17
EVENING HUb, If
Howard Hall Co., Inc.
PRESENTS
The Big Musical Success
Don't Tell My Wife
--UY-
Howard Hall
8 American Widows 8
and the
PONY BALLET
Prices: 35, 50, 75, and $1.
Seat Sale opens at the Box Oflice at
0 A. M. Monday Aug. 10.
Public Sale of Personal Property
Take notice that on Friday, Sept.
3rd, 1909, at 11:30 o'clock a. m..
the New York, Ontario and West
ern Railway Company will sell at
public sale for freight and storage
charges, on hand goods, wares,
and merchandise, consisting of six
bundles of one dozen chairs, con
signed to M. J. Connolly, at its
freight station or depot in Clinton
township, Wayne County, Pennsyl
vania, known as the Forest City
station of said company.
New York, Ontario and Western
Hallway Company, By
JAMES E. BURR,
Its Attorney.
C3w3
OF-
Goods
-AT-
MENNER & CO.,
General Stores, KeJiSe
Honesdale, Pa.
Sale of
WA5HUP
GOODS
-AT-
Very Low Prices