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JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
. Judge Robert Yon Moschzlsker,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
A. E. SISSON,
of Erie.
STATE TREASURER,
Jeremiah A. Stobcr,
of Lancaster.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. Bullock.
You know what It Is to attempt
to drive a nail with a hammer, miss
your blow and land on your thumb
nail. Well. Just read Peary's at
tempt to uall those lies that he
claims Cook has been telling us.
Peary made the statement years
ago, that the Esqulmos was un
worthy of belief, that they find out
what you want them to say and then
will swear to it. This statement
made before the present controversy
came up is a boomerang for Peary,
as he now depends upon the Esqui
mos testimony to disprove Cook's
claim of discovery.
Hot, hotter, hottest, is the way to
parse the election situation in New
York City. Judge Gaynor, who was
nominated for Mayor by Charley
Murphy, the Boss of Tammany Hall,
thinking he had a harvoyized bomb
proof reputation, had no sooner
called attention of the general public
to his lmmaculateness than William
II. Ivins, who is coaching Willie
Hearst, threw one of his penetrating
verbal missels, that proved that Gay
nor's reputation wns full of blow
holes, and that he had been hand in
glove with Pat. McCarren in an at
tempt to annul the carrying out of
the legislation regarding race track
gambling which had passed the New
York legislature under Governor
Hughes' supervision. Our last re
port was "Gaynor is sparring for
wind."
The Citizen some months ago ad
vocated the formation in this borough
of a Civic Club in which every citi
zen would have the right of member
ship. At the meetings of the Club
all questions bearing upon the pub
lic welfare of the borough could be
discussed with a view of getting the
pulse of public opinion on any sub
ject which has a bearing upon our
civic life. Puplic heart to heart
talks upon public affairs would be
beneficial to all interested and would
be a means of guidance to those
whom we elect to oflice and let
shoulder our burdens while we oft
times act as critics and in most in
stances ungenerously so through ig
norance. If ten or more citizens in
sympathy with this movement will
send a postal to this office a meeting
could be arranged to inaugurate the
same.
The Quay Statue.
The Quay statue, which has been
in the lime light for some time, has
at last reached its last resting place.
It would have brought tears to the
eyes of the staunchest of the Old
Guard to have seen the motley crowd
of workmen who handled this statue
from the railroad depot to the niche
where It now rests in the majesty of
its lonesomeness. The worklngmen
evidently were all stony hearted
Democrats with a few conscienceless
Republicans; armed with crow bars,
rolling pins "and ropes enough to
hang a dozen men, they pounced
down urJon the Btatue of the once
peerless leader and with clenched
teeth and unmuttered curses they
pushed and shoved, dragged and
hauled this resemblance of the de
parted chief until at last they had it
-where it can only look down in si
lence upon those who coveted the
smile of the one it represents. For
tunately some lover of his beauti
ful and good deeds, had soaked the
statue in arnica and bound it about
with bandages so that the Jolting
and rough treatment it received did
not mar it, and when its outer cloth
ing of bandages were removed, that
same old placid look overtopped with
the drooping eyelids was there, to
bring the blush of shame to the
many who objected to its being plac
ed in a position where It can bo seen
by the vast horde of unregenerate
and degenerate sycophants who
might have to viow it. There is
some talk of the Dlsconsolates trying
to get an act passed making tho an
niversary of the day this statue was
unveiled a day of fasting and gnash
ing of teeth.
What a Central U. S. Bank Means.
Washington. Although the plan
has not yet been worked out in all
its details, It is now possible to give
an outline of the general scheme of
the proposed central bank of the
United States, the establishment of
which will be recommended by the
monetary committee to congress
According to information reaching
the United Press from authentic
sources, It is to be essentially a bank
ers bank or agency to do business
with and for the other banks. It is
not to receive deposits from the pub
lic nor do any general banking busi
ness. Its main function will be to
act as the fiscal agent of the govern
ment and through its large note is
suing capacity limited beyond a cer
tain point by taxation to come to
the other banks in times of emer
gency. Organizing with a capital of say
$100,000,000 the stock is to be ap
portioned among the several nation
al banks and perhaps to state banks
also on the basis of their capital
with a provision prohibiting any in
dividual bank from acquiring rights
in excess of its quota.
These stockholders are to elect a
board of directors by territorial dis
tricts. By this way it is claimed by
advocates of the measure, every sec
tion of tho country would have a rep
resentative of its own choosing on
the board. There is also to be an
other board composed of govern
ment directors of which the leading
officials designated by the President,
the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Comptroller of the Currency.
This is designed to afford the point
private and government control
which it is alleged has contributed
so largely to the successful operation
of the banks of Franco and Ger
many. The active officers of the
bank are to be selected for life, or
good behavior by joint action of these
two boards.
The professed purpose of this
provision is to eliminate politics for
private profit.
Much of the opposition to the
Central bank arises from the mem
ory of the disasters which befell the
old "bank of the United States" con
ceived by Alexander Hamilton and
killed by Andrew Jackson. It is
feared by many that the now organi
zation in its developement woula be
but a repetition of the old. The
old bank of the United States was a
corporation organized for private
profit. According to its charter the
government was a minority stock
Holder having only $7,000,000 out
of a total of $35,000,000 of stock.
The government had only live out of
twenty-five directors and they work
cd as one body so that the govern
ment could be outvoted.
Tho old bank did business just as
any bank does to-day, accepting the
peoples deposits and making loans
and discounts to the public. It
worked as a private organization and
for a time was successful despite
frauds in the sale of stock which was
taken by the people and occasional
bad management.
At the beginning of Jackson's ad
ministration its capital was about a
quarter and its loans, circulation and
deposits about one-fifth of
and deposits and about one-fifth of
the whole amount held and issued
by all the banks of the country. Its
parent office was in Philadelphia
and it had twenty-five branches
through the south. Its banks notes
were as good as gold in any part of
the United States and were accepted
abroad within a fraction of their
value at home according to the cur
rent rates of the exchange.
Later tales began to come to Jack
son of the corrupt Influence the bank
was exerting in controlling elections
and he came to believe that it was a
dangerous institution. So he vetoed
the proposed extension of its char
ter, withdrew from it all deposits of
government money, scattered them
among state and private banks of his
own choosing and when the panic
of 1837 came, most of those banks
failed and a good portion of the gov
ernment funds were lost.
In the meantime the withdrawal
of the government charter and funds
caused the bank of the United States
to fail bringing widespread loss to
the people who had funds on deposit
and who had invested in its stock
because of the government backing
it had. Under the proposed central
bank, so its advocates claim, none of
these things could occur.
But the general public Is admitted
ly skeptical. The fear has been
freely expressed that the Central
bank would mean a concentration of
the money power and that Wall street
would soon be in control of the cur
rency of the country despite any
safeguards Congress may throw about
such an institution.
It is claimed by the advocates of
this scheme that such an institution
would give the banking system of the
country cohesion that it has always
lacked; that it would be a bond of
union for all the banks great and
small, much like the clearing house
associations of large cities and in
stead of entering into competition
with them would aid them.
President Taft already has Indi
cated his friendliness to tho central
bank idea. It has tho support of the
chairman of the banking and finan
cial committees of tho House and Sen
ate and has been ondorsed by many
of tho bankers of tho country.
The professed purpose of this pro
vision is to eliminate politics so far
as possible and to prevent any syn
dicate or clique from obtaining un
due control. Tho two boards nro to
co-operato in tho management of tho
bank, deciding questions of policy,
etc.
All government moneys are to go
into this bank, and It Is to make
government disbursements. It is to
have branches in each city where
there is a sub-treasury replacing them
and In such other cities is necessary
to give adequate services to all parts
or tho country.
The central bank is to issue its
own notes which as the present U
S. bond-secured National bank cir
culation is retired are gradually to
supplant them. Central notes are to
be secured by a large gold reserve
and by gilt edged commercial credit
or paper representing actual trans
actions in business between solvent
concerns. It Is argued that this will
ensue elasticity by the notes to be
Issued by tho bank in times of strin
gency and would automatically con
tract and be retired from circulation
when the transaction creating the
credit had been completed and the
credit paid.
Why Prices Are Higher.
The cause of the general advance
in all kinds of food is not hard to
find. The steady influx to the cities
of the country people has increased
the number of the unproductive eat
ers, and at the same time reduced
the number of hands that produce
the food products.
City life in a crowded apartment,
working by the month on a wage
that barely gives them a living, has
a greater attraction for the average
country boy, then the freedom of
the country with an opportunity to
save something for his old age.
Since the Civil War the very life
of the people seems to have changed,
andit is not for the better. Prior
to that strife the country controlled
the affairs of the nations, and each
community supplied nearly all its
needs. It raised its own feed and
manufactured its wearing apparel
and tools. The day of machinery
came after the war atfd has special
ized communities. The wheat and
corn fields of the West can raise
these crops cheaper than the East,
so we have turned our broad acres
into milk production wh'ch is
thought to pay better.
But the specializing of sections
gives the speculators and monopol
ists a better chance to reap where
they sow not, owing to the cost of
getting the products to market. This
section, owing to Its location, is nat
urally milk-producing, and it might
bo very profitable if feed was not so
dear. Herein can be seen how the
railroads and speculators reap big
money by specializing sections. The
Western farmer has to send his gram
East for a market, and to do this he
must pay the railroads a share of
it, and several dealers must have a
slice out of it before the milk-producing
farmer of the East can turn
it into milk. The consequences are J
that the price of milk has been
forced skyward, and the city peo
ple are complaining over the high
price. Milk has been produced for
many years at a small profit consid
ering the work and the amount in
vested in the business. And we are
glad to state that the outlook for
better milk-prices is splendid.
But the poor city people will be the
ones to suffer owing to the advance
in prices of all food stuffs. And they
must either get back to the farm or
find living more expensive as long
as their is a lack of hands to tin
the soil. Life on the farm is getting
attractive because of the improved
methods of farm work, and the
many modern conveniences of life
which rural people are securing.
The influx to the cities is our na
tion's greatest danger. City life
shows the extreme conditions, and
makes the working class dissatisfied
as they daily witness the great dlf
rerence between those who work
with their hands and those who work
with their head.
As the cost of living increases,
as it must so long as the supply of
farm labor Is limited, the time must
come when hunger will serve to
work a power that will cause cities
to tremble.
Our farms are capable of produc
lng twice as much as they do and
the call of the day is for help to
make them produce. It has been
claimed by some that the soil has
lost some of its productive force
Probably this is on farms where
no husband-like regard for the fu
ture was used. But by proper care
and usage the soli will never fall to
yield her increase. But the farmer
who robs his acres of their fertility
win come to want in the end.
The farmer of to-day Is the peer
of them all. The life that he lives is
broader than that of any other oc
cupation; for he has time to think
out the great problems of life while
following the plow. He lives tho
best, he sleeps the sweetest, and his
mind Is not always working on some
scheme to rob his fellows.
We believe the time is coming
soon when the exodus from the cit
ies to the country will commence,
for the cost of living will be so ex
pensive in the cities that it will be
necessary to seek a home in the coun
try, where at least a part of their
living can be produced. In the
meantime the farmers must increase
the yield of the farm. Nicholson
Examiner.
Great Britain and Germany May
Open Hostilities nt Any Time.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew, of
New York, who has Just returned
from Europe, thinks that the rela
tions between Great Britain and
Germany are so strained that war
may break out at any time. He says
this situation Is duo to the inroads
that Germany has made into Eng
land's commercial life.
"Germany," Bays the senator, "has
been poking the noses of her ships
into commercial ports that England
has regarded as her own. England
seems to have been asleep. Awak
.enlng she attempted to get back what
sho had lost. Falling she has begun
preparing for a conflict and the situ
atlon to my mind is serious."
Depew deplores that America has
not a better merchant marine. "We
are broadening out in other direc
tlons but not one cent has been spent
for the merchant," he declared.
NEWSPAPER OFFICE ON STAGE
Fourth Estate Depicted In Play by
" J. M. Patterson.
At last "a newspaper play" that
presents the workings and atmos
phere of a newspaper office with
wonderful fidelity, has been given
to the stage in "Tho Fourth Estate,"
the joint product of Joseph Medill
Patterson, son of the proprietor of
tho Chicago Tribune, and Harriet
Ford.
The stage picture is drawn with
such truthfulness that in the thrill
lng last act, showing the composing
room of a great newspaper in full
blast, a battery of six linotypes is
operated by members of Typographi
cal Union No. 6 or "Big Six." This
and other scenes created furores of
enthusiasm.
Young Patterson is a man of well
known socialistic tendencies and it
is not surprising that the "Fourth
Estate" should center in a muck
raking episode, which seeks to show
the assumed venality of tho present
day newspapers and the imposslbll
lty of editor hewing strictly to the
line of duty.
Naturally the newspaper criticisms
of the play attack tjiis feature,
charging that the authors argue
general corruption from a specific
case. All criticisms, however, agree
that aside from certain crudities of
the amateur playwright, the play is
powerful and appealing.
The Value of a Smile.
No matter what may be President
Taft's faults, his smile causes us to
forget them all.
Few of us realize the true worth
of a good, wholesome laugh.
This old world would fly into the
bottomless pit if the human race
would be unlike Mr. Taft for one
whole month. If every face we met
wore a frown; if every pair of lips
on earth uttered no words of cheer,
the desolation would bo so deadly
before the last quarter of the pres
ent moon that the dead literally
would have to bury its dead.
Medical scientists tell us that
there is something in the smile, or
the laugh, that releases to the over
worked organs the necessary juices
which rest them which build them
anew.
The man who laughs excessively
never has dyspepsia. Traveling
men, as a rule, are largo and healthy
because they spend much time to
gether, telling and laughing about
funny stories.
The man who kicks about the
weather, about the government,
about the town in which he lives,
about the victuals he has to eat, act
ually kicks himself Into an untimely
grave. His self-inflicted anguish
really fills his organs with poisons
that are' detrimental to his physical
well being.
Once there lived a little girl who
became interested in church work.
She got the mistaken idea into her
saintly little head that, since there
was ' so much misery and suffering
in the world, it would be a sin for
her to smile. She went about doing
good. However, at all times she
was sad and downcast. In a few
short months she died. The minis
ter at her grave said she had become
an angel here, she had become so
good that God had taken her. He
dwelt on the much advanced belief
that when one reaches angelic per-
tection that one will .be taken away
irom tnis sinful world.
But this was not the trouble in
this particular case. The little saint
had neglected the God-given right to
smile to see the joy, the beauty,
the gladness in this beautiful old
world. Deprived of this wholesome
food, her vital organs were unable
to throw off the poisons and she
died she starved for the want of a
smile.
The man who smiles has the world
at his feet. People overlook his
faults because he is a jolly good
fellow.
The employer who meets his help
with a smile, who tells them a funny
story which causes them to laugh,
has given them a nerve and brain
tonic on which they can do more
and better work and which will
create in them a respect for him
that nothing else can do.
The secret of President Taft's
popularity lies in his smile. He
laughed his way to the hearts of the
simple minded Filipinos, putting
down a rebellion that shot and shell
never could have quelled.
He took the nomination for the
presidency when his party was torn
with a dissention that would have
defeated a Lincoln, a Blaine or a
McKinley. But he smiled himself
to victory.
Now, when bis party is all but
hopelessly divided on the tariff ques
tion, he is smiling it into a firmlv
cemented and perfectly harmonious
union.
If he lives, ho will smile himself
into another four years in tho White
House.
Ho is not a brilliant man, nor
does he possess many of the ele
ments of greatness. Ho simply
knows how to smile, and there la
such a wholesomeness in his smiles
that the people simply surrender
and enlist under his banner.
The Weber Stock Co. at tho
Lyric theatre this week.
WELLS-FARGO'S BIG IE Alt.
Gross Revenues from Express Busi
ness Totalled $24,470,000.
Gross revenues from tho express
business of Wells-Fargo & Co. for
the fiscal year ended June 30 last
totalled $24,470,000, according to
the company's annual report, issued
last week, an Increase of $1,530.
9G4 over the fiscal year ended July
Ji, l'JOS. fet earnings were equal
to 68. 6 per cent, on the $8,000,000
capital stock, as compared with
50.97 per cent, for tho twelve months
ended July 31, 1908. Disburse
ments on express ai.count were $21,-
2ij,yoJ, leaving net earnings from
express or $3,202,470, and this,
witn other income of $1,401,900.
made the total net income $4,66,-
379.
According to the statement made
by the president, Dudley Evans, the
railroad mileage covered by the com
pany's contracts on June 30 last in
this country and .Mexico totalled
61,869 miles, and the stage, Inland
steamer and ocean steamship mile
age aggregated 8,516 miles, a grand
total of 70,385 miles. There were
6,368 agencies, an increase of 1,060.
GREAT PLAY COMING.
The Lyric Theatre Should Bo Crowd
ed to See the "Isle of Spice."
When Allen Lowe and George E.
Stoddard wrote the book and lyrics
of the "Isle of Spice," which will ap
pear at the Lyric on Monday, Oct.
25, they laid tho scene of their clev
er story on an island in the Jnpan
Sea, where all sorts of funny things
are likely to happen. Very shortly
after the opening of the piece they
do. There is the funniest kind of a
king with a desire to reform things,
which to him means simply to change
the existing laws. He has a beau
tiful ward, Teresa, who has receiv
ed an American education and de
sires to have a young lieutenant
of Uncle Sam's marines thrown in
for good measure.
The king, who accumulates wives,
as the average American boy does
marbles, desires to wed his ward,
but there is a law which makes it
necessary for his betrothed to first
spend years of her life in the "tomb
of silence." While his majesty is
endeavoring to devise ways and
means of keeping his ward from this
ordeal, an Irishman and a Scotch
man, who have deserted from tho
U. S. navy in a balloon are precipi
tated Into the midst of his cogita
tions, and he gives them the choice
of taking her place in the tomb or
being beheaded. They choose the
former, but the scheming court
treasurer, who wants Teresa out of
the way, liberates them and intro
duces the pair to the king as a not
ed magician and astrologer. The
story is set to music of that de
lightfully, refreshing kind by Paul
Schindler and Ben. M. Jerome.
Remember the date.
Legal blanks ot Tho Citizen office.
FALL OPE
The need of heavier garments is as insistent as wo are about hurry
ing you male folks here. We know what a great store this is; know
how well prepared we are to save you. That's why we say with all the
confidence In the world, "Come Here."
HIGH ART AND COLLEGIAN
Suits nnd Overcoats are ready in all tho striking patterns for
present season. Styles for the young man styles for the older.
In all, It's a grand gathering of clothes you should wear
Hats
If your prico is $1.50, wo'll show
tho Prominent; if you'll pay 92.00,
Gold Bond is the hat for you. Then
comes the Knox at 93.00. Variety
a plenty.
Furnishings
There are a great many places to
buy fixings, but there's always one
Breestein Brothers,
Blizzard in tho West.
The mlddlo west, especially tho
northern part thereof, was hit by a
blizzard Tuesday. Chicago experi
enced its first snowstorm of tho sea
son. Tho poor in all parts of the
city suffered, beng unprepared for
the sudden change.
Duluth reports that Monday's bliz
zard was maintained on Tuesday,
causing great delay to lake shipping
and transportation generally. South
eastern Minnesota is also suffering,
as Winona reports a heavy snowfall,
accompanied by a fifty mile gale.
Low temperature is reported through
out Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ne
braska, and northern Texas. In the
western part of Nebraska tho mer
cury went to 12 above. Snow fall
Is also reported from points in Mich
igan, Indiana, and Ohio, but higher
temperature prevails.
$100 REWARD, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleaased to learn that there Is at
least one dreaded disease that
Bcience has been able to cure in all
Its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only posi
tive cure now known to tho medi
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constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation,
of the disease, and giving tho patient
strength by building up the consti
tution and assisting nature in doing
Its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powerB
that they offer One Hundred Dollars,
for any case that it falls to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation. The New Electric Road. If the
proposed electric road from Hawley
to Honcsdale was completed, how
convenient it would be for the many
people who would like to get some
of those fine 24 for 25 cent photo
graphs at Brown's Studio, over
Lelne's drug store. sitf.
VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
make application to the State Hoard of
Law Examiners, to be examined on the
7th and 8th days of Dec, 1009, for ad
mission to the bar of the Siinrpinn Court
of Pennsylvania, and to the bar of the
court of Common Pleas of Wayne Co.
CHAS. S. HOUCK.
llonesdale, Pa., Oct. 51 1909. 82coi5
lEDIEHBHEEffl
A. O. BLAKE,
AUCTIONEER.
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Underwear
We feature the Australian natu
ral wool underwear at 91,00 per
garment; also Setsnug Union Suits
for men at 91.00 to 92.00 per suit.
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law in the oflice of Vicron A. Deckeh,
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