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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
. Judge Robert Von Moschzlsker,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR GENEllAU,
A. E. SISSON,
of Eric.
STATE THEASURER,
Jeremiah A. Stober,
of Lancaster.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. Bullock.
Plying machines will not need
state roads, consequently the road
builders and the appropriation
lobbyists are strongly opposed to
the Idea that they ever will be a
success.
The Bankers Convention at Chi
cago were very earnest In opposing
the establishing of Postal Savings
Banks but they offered no convinc
ing argument to support their op
position. Pennsylvania is not so badly man
aged after all. It is absolutely free
of debt, according to State Treasur
er Sheatz, and its splendid financial
condition should forever silence
those who delight in hurling invec
tives and sneering at the old Key
stone State.
The only state which requires
teaching of agriculture in public
schools is Oklahoma. The school
course includes agriculture, horticul
ture, stock raising, llower culture,
fertilizers, dairying, drainage, irri
gation and grazing. Neighboring
states have smllar laws under con
sideration. Brother Lyman, of the Tunkhan
nock Republican and Now Age,
thinks that it is much more difllcult
to discover the discoverer of the
North Pole then it is to discover
the man who got there first. Broth
er Lyman, you are correct; take
your books and go to the head of
your class.
If you lived at the North Pole it
would be unnecessary to wind your
watch. You are always at 12
o'clock and can't move in any di
rection without going South. All
times of day meet at the polo, as
the meeting place of all meridans.
A man sitting with the invisible
mathematical point right under him
would be in all twenty-four hours
at once, or a twenty-four-hour watch
placed on the Polo could be made
to point to the correct time in
every part of the world. The word
"Pole," as applied to the North or
South Pole, is from the Greek word
meaning pivot, hinges or axis and
has no connection whatever with
the pole that is derived from a
teutonic root.
HORATIO ALLEN MEMORIAL.
The new park which has been so
generously given to our borough by
Mrs. Andrew Thompson, we hope
will be christened Thompson Park,
in honor of the donor, and we sug
gest that a movement be inaugurat
ed at once to place in this park a
memorial to the memory of Horatio
Allen and one that will suitably
"commemorate the fact that within
a short distance of this spot was
where Horatio Allen started tho first
railroad locomotive, which was the
beginning of the great railroad sys
tem of our country. The railroad
men of America from President to
the humblest workingman will con
tribute their quota to this worthy
object. Let Honesdale appoint a
committee and begin this move
ment. Thousands of dollars await
the appeal of a proper committee
for this purpose.
Immensely Rich Girl if Will is Not
Found.
Relatives of the late Francis H.
Leggett, wholesale grocer of New
York City, began a search on Thurs
day last for the will of the dead
millionaire, whose estate is valued
at $15,000,000, and unless such a
document can be found his 12 -year-old
daughter, Frances, will be the
richest girl in the world. She is
the heir-at-law, her mother, who
was formerly Mrs. William Sturges,
widow of a Chicago banker, only
coming in for a dower share if the
will is not found. Leggett was
buried last Tuesday.
It Took Effect Sept. 1st.
Among the new laws passed last
winter which took effect September
1st Is the following: ''No person
shall admit a child actually or ap
parently under tho age of sixteen
to a moving picture performance un
less such child Is accompanied by
its parents or guardian." This will
furnish an additional excuse for tho
parents or guardian to go.
Census Supervisor of this District.
J. Andrew Wilt, of Bradford
county, was appointed Census Sup
ervisor of this district, which com
prises Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyo
ming and Wayne counties. The ap
pointment was made by the Presi
dent on the recommendation of
Congressman Pratt.
Captain Wilt, It will be remem
bered, was a candidate for the nom
ination of congressman from this
district on the Republican ticket,
but was beaten In the race by Con
gressman Pratt of Susquehanna
county, and no doubt his loyal and
effective support of his successful
competitor was not forgotten by
him when he came to the considera
tion of the claims of the candidates
from the counties composing the
district.
Mr. Wilt is in every way qualified
for the ofllce and will perform his
duties with credit to himself and
satisfaction to all concerned.
NEW SUPERVISOR LAW.
The act of 1909 relating to the
election and duties of road super-,
visors makes several important
changes. They will be elected at
the February election, shall meet to
organize the first Monday in March.
Must be sworn and 111c their oath
with the township Auditors, shall
organize by electing one of their
number chairman, shall ap'polnt a
treasurer and secretary, who may or
may not be the same person, and
may or may not be a member of the
board. Tho secretary shall perform
all the duties heretofore performed
by the town clerk which office is
abolished. The supervisors shall flx
his compensation but the combined
salary shall not exceed two per
cent, of tho money paid out by the
treasurer. The board shall levy
a road tax not to exceed ten mills
on the valuation. Provided the
court on petition may order a furth
er levy of ten mills. All road tax
shall be paid In cash, but any town
ship by a majority vote at the Feb
ruary election may adopt tho work
system. Townships collecting the
tax In cash shall receive from the
state 50 per cent, of the cash tax,
but not more than $20 a mile for
each mile of road in tho township.
The supervisors must make sworn
statements to the State Highway
Department. The board must di
vide their township into road dis
tricts of not less than 5 miles each
and they may employ a road master
for each district who shall sec that
the work Is properly done under
plans and specifications furnished
by the supervisors, oversee the men
working and keep their time, and
work himself if required and re
port once a month. They may be
required to give bonds, and are at
all times subject to removal. The
supervisors shall fix the wages per
hour. Supervisors may let contracts
for keeping In repair road and they
may oversee and work tho road
themselves.
The' township collector shall col-
flect the taxes and on all paid be
fore June 1st there shall bo an
abatement of 5 per cent, between
June 1 and Oct. 1 even and after
Nov. 1 five per cent, added. Sworn
reports must be made to the State
before April 1st each year on
blanks provided.
LOCAL OPTION FIGHT.
Anti-Saloon League Reorganized its
forces I'rior to Campaign.
Superintendent Nicholson, of the
Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon league,
has completed nlans for the strength
ening ,of the league, and declares
mat with the beginning of October,
the Pennsylvania league will be one
of the strongest organized leagues
in the whole country. Dr. C. W.
Carroll, now of the Pittsburg dis
trict, will come to Harrisbure to ha
at the head of the agitational de
partment as assistant superlntend
net, while the Keystone Citizen wilL
be issued as a weekly after that
date with Rev. H. to. Chalfant, of
Swlssvale, as editor. By thus de
partmentizlng the work Mr. Nichol
son will devote his time to superin
tending the movement, making a
speciality or organizing the counties
for the local option flsrht.
Rev. F. A. Gaupp, of the Dubois
aistnct, having resigned, that dis
trict has been broken un. and two
new districts have been created. One
nas headquarters at Williamsport,
with Rev. W. H. Chase, formerly
the assistant at the stato nfflnp. no
district superintendent. The other
has headquarters at Altoona. The
district superintendent has been se
lected, but announcement of his
name is not to be made until Oc
tober.
Mr. Nicholson has secured the Rfr-
vlces of Ex-Governor Hanly of In
diana, ror a tour of the state in the
interest of the leaeue and thn 1
option campaign, which is already
unaer way.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
Tfis Kind You Haw Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Yncant Position Much Sought For.
The position of Assistant District
Attorney of tho U. S. Court made
vacant by the promotion of Judge
Searlo to the Bench, is a bone of
contention by a number of aspiring
lawyers. Scranton has In the field
Ralph W. Rymer, C. H. Van Wormer
and Milton W. Lowry. Bradford
county has Mlal E. Lilley of To-
wanda, who vacated this position to
take his seat In Congress. Luzerne
county has Abe Salsburg. A Wayne
county man, should be tho appointee
and we have a number of able men
such as Hon. Homer Greene, Wm.
H. Lee, E. C. Mumford, Henry Wil
son, M. E. Simons, and others, who
would fill the position ably and
honorably.
HARHIMAN'S WILL.
Leaves Everything to Ills Wife,
Mary W. Harriman.
New York, Sept. 1G. Harriman
left all his property to his wife. The
will gives no directions as to the
property, simply saying It Is be
queathed to Mrs .Harriman, for
ever. She was appointed executrix.
The will was filed at Goshen this
afternoon, but was made public
here. The document, which is ex
tremely brief, was dated June 8,
1903, and reads:
"I give, devise, and bequeath all
my property, real and personal of
every kind and nature, to my wife,
Mary W. Harriman, to be hers ab
solutely and forever. And I do
hereby nominate and appoint the
said Mary W. Harriman to be exe
cutrix of this will."
Charles Peabody, President Mut
ual Life Insurance Company, and
C. C. Tegethoff, Harriman's secre
tary, signed as witnesses.
Dividends Show Prosperity's Re
instatement. If the proof of the pudding Is in
the eating, tho proof of industrial
prosperity is in the dividends earned
and paid stockholders. Last Thurs
day the directors of the Westing
house Air Brake company gave Its
stockholders indubitable proof of
Increasing prosperity by declaring
the regular quarterly dividend of
2 Ms per cent, and an extra dividend
of 1 H per cent., making 4 per cent.
in all, or ?2 a share. This is the
first extra dividend declared on the
stock for more than a year, and it
means an additional $210,000 cash
for distribution among stockholders.
The total dividend amounts to ?G0,-
000, which will be disbursed on
October Dth. Tho stock jumped
$5 a share to 512." bid on the an
nouncement. During tho past four weeks the
rallrods have found employment
for more than 100,000 cars which
have oeen standing idle for nearly
two years. Nearly all these cars
require more or less repairs, with
an overhauling of brake apparatus,
which has brought business to the
company. In addition to this, ord
ers for cars and locomotives during
July and August exceeded 50,000
pieces of new rolling stock, every
piece of which total requires brake
apparatus, of which the Pittsburg
company will receive the lion's
share.
In spite of the unusually largo
number of new railroad cars recent
ly ordered by railroads, new busi
ness that has been coming out con
tinues to astonish railroad men.
During the past week S.000 new
cars were ordered from our building
companies for western roads that
have been holding back orders dur
ing the past summer. Of this num
ber a large portion has gone to tho
American Car & Foundry company
and the remainder allotted has been
given to tho Standard Steel Car
company of Pittsburg. There are
2,000 cars decided upon which have
not been awarded definitely to any
building company as yet.
How tho Salvation Army Got Its
Name.
The adoption of the name "Sal
vation Army" came about in a curi
ously unpremedlated way, writes
Commander Eva Booth in the Sep
tember Van Norden Magazine. Miss
Booth describes the life work of her
Isdtinguished father, who visits
America this fall. As the head of
the new movement Mr. Booth had
gathered around him men who were
as one with him and acted as his
secretaries. One day he was walk
ing up and down his study, dlctat
ing, when he used these words:
"The Christian mission is a vol
unteer army."
He paused in his dictation and
looked thoughtfully over the should
er of his secretary (now Corneals
Stephen M. Weber presents "The
Monday evening next, Sept. 27, 19
draw a full house, Plan to take it
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sloner Rallton, the pioneer of our
work In America) at the written
line, took up the pen, scored out
the word "volunteer" and wrote
above It "salvation," and went on
dictating. This was tho first time
the word was used, and it made
such an impresson that It began In
sensibly to be thought of as an ap
propriate name for .the mission; It
grew upon the imagination of men;
they liked it; liked It so well that
they finally adopted it.
History of Uncle Sam's Great Seal.
Gaillard Hunt, chief of the divis
ion of manuscript, has just complet
ed a historical sketch of the great
seal of the United States, the sketch
telling of the various stages of de
velopment through which the seal
went before the one now in use was
finally adopted.
When the Continental Congress
made the obverse of the great seal
the national arms it Intended that
the device should pass into com
mon use among the people, as the
flag had done, and, like the flag, the
arms at first met with general ap
proval which soon gave place to an
acceptance of it as an emblem of
the power and- sovereignty of the
United States which placed It above
criticism.
Not all the fathers of the repub
lic, however, were pleased with the
selection of the eagle as the national
emblem. When the badge of the
order of the Society of the Cincin
nati was made in France in 1724 it
was objected to by some because the
displayed eagle resembled a tur
key.
"For my part," Wrote Benjamin
Franklin, January 26, 1784, to his
daughter, "I wish the bald eagle had
not been chosen as the representa
tive of our country. He Is a bird
of bad moral character; he does not
get his living honestly. You may
have seen him perched on some
dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for
himself, he watches the labor of
the fishing hawk, and when that
diligent bird has at length taken a
fish and is bearing it to his nest for
the Support of his mate and young
ones, the bald eagle pursues him
and takes it from him. With all
this injustice he Is never in good
cast; but, like those among men
who live by sharping and robbing,
ho is generally poor, and very often
lousy. Besides ho Is a rank cow
ard. Tho little kingbird, not big
ger than a sparrow, attacks him
boldly and drives him out of the
district." Exchange.
FOOD SUPPLY
And Not Turin" the Coming Ques
tion. J. J. Hill, the prominent railroad
manager and ono of the best in
formed men in America, in address
ing the American Bankers' associa
tion at Chicago last week, said:
"Wo have almost reached a point
where, owing to increased popula
tion without increased production
per acre, our home feed supply will
be insufllclent for our own needs;
within ton years, possibly less, we
are likely to become a wheat-importing
nation; the percentage of
the population engaged in agricul
ture and tho wheat product per
acre are both falling" at the same
time the cost of living is raised
everywhere by this relative scarcity
of bread, by artificial increase in the
price of all manufactured articles,
and by a habit of extravagance which
has enlarged tho view of both rich
and poor of what has to be con
sidered the necessaries of life.
"These plain facts should disturb
and arouse not only the economic
student but the men who are most
intimately related to the wealth of
the nation and most concerned that
it shall not suffer loss or decreases."
He declared that never yet has
enhanced cost of living, when due
to agricultural decline and inability
to supply national needs, failed to
end in national disaster.
Mr. Hill said the farm is our main
reliance and that every other activ
ity depends on that. He asserted,
however, that the majority of peo
ple fail to realize practically the de
clining status of agriculture in the
country. "They are misled by the
statistics of farm values and pro
ducts, mounting annually by great
leaps, into thinking that this abso
lute Increase implies a relative ad
vance of this industry as compared
with others," said he.
"Exactly the opposite is the case.
I refer not merely to the quality and
results of our tillage, but to the
setting of the human tide away from
the cultivated field and toward the
factory gate or the city slum. This
Climax" at tho Lyric Theatre on
09. This Is a great play and should
in.
Is something whose consequences for
evil are as certain as If the aggre
gate dep6slts in all the banks of
this country were decreasing by a
fixed percentage every ten years,
while their loans wero Increasing by
another percentage just as stable.
You would know what catastrophe
that assured by and by.
"It means the same thing, In
kind and consequences, when tho
agricultural population, tho pro
ducers and depositors In the great
national treasury of wealth, is de
clining year by year.
Bankers Don't Llko President Taft's
Plan.
Tho annual convention of the
American Bankers' association was
marked by a spirited campaign
against President Taft's plan for
postal savings banks, and a move
ment has been started to get Con
gress to let national banks establish
savings departments on a 10 per
cent, reserve basis for such de
posits. -
The proposal Is gaining support
on the theory that It will meet the
arguments advanced by those who
contend that rural communities
large enough to support only one
deposit bank ought also to be pro
vided with saving shank facilities.
Enough has developed to show
that the American Bankers' associa
tion, 10,000 strong, will do all in
its power to fight the postal savings
bank Idea and that the big banks
will arrange for an Important de
monstration at Washington If the
proposal is insisted upon. Some of
the delegates have expressed them
selves freely to Speaker Cannon on
this subject.
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS.
Forty-Fifth Annual Convention to
bo Held in Harrisburg.
Unless all signs fall the coming
State Convention of the Pennsylva
nia State Sabbath School Association
to be held In Harrisburg, October
13, 14 and 15, will far exceed in
numbers, interest and enthusiasm,
all former meetings of the Associa
tion. The past year has been one of
intense activity along Sunday school
lines in every county throughout the
State. Statistics recently gathered
show marvelous growths in Teacher
Training, Home Department Work
and Organized Adult Bible Classes.
Tho magazine writer who said that
Sunday school work is on the de
cline certainly did not get his In
formation from Pennsylvania.
The program prepared for the
PROF. DARLING,
who will huve on exhibition his famous Dog and Pony Circus at tho
AVnyno County Fair to be held here on October 4, 5, O, and 7.
HENRY Z. RUSSELL.
TRESIDEXT.
ANDREW THOMPSON
VICE PRESIDENT.
HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK.
This Bank was Organized In December, 1836, and Nationalized
in December, 1864.
Since its organization it has paid in Dividends
to its Stock holders,
$I,905,800.00
The Comptroller of the Currency has placed It on the HONOR
ROLL, from the fact that Its Snrplus Fund, more than
equals Its capital stock.
What Class 0
are YOU in!
The world has always been divided into two classes thoee who have
saved, those who have spent the thrifty and the extravagant.
It is the savers who have built the houses, the mills, the bridges, the
railroads, the ships and all the other great works which etand for man's
advancement and happiness.
The spenders are slaves to the savers. It is the law of nature. We
want you to be a saver to open an account in our Savings Department
and be independent.
One Dollar will Start an Account.
This Bank will be pleased to receive all
-or a portion of YOUR banking business.
State convention is a strong ono,
and contains the names of Governor
Edwin S. Stuart, Bishop James
Henry Darlington, Hon. John
Wanamaker, Mr. H. J. Heinz, W. C.
Pearce, Chicago; Rev. David James
Burrell, D. D., New York; Mrs.
Mary Foster Bryner, Chicago; Dr.
Joseph Clark (Timothy Standby),
Columbus; Mrs. Zlllah Foster Stev
ens, Alton, 111.; Mrs. E. C. Foster,
Detroit, and Rev. Floyd Tomklns,
of Philadelphia.
Tho special features of the con
vention will be a half day sessions
for Elementary Grade workers; a
Teacher Training Conference, a
Home Department Conference and
a parade of O. A. B. C. men. Class
delegations will come from many
sections of the State to participate
5,000 men will bo In line, with
bands and banners.
NEW GOODS FOR
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Our Long Corsets for
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In the Glove depart
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New House Furnish
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of Rugs, Portieres Cur
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CA8HIER.
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