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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
Judge Robert Von Moschzlskcr,
of Philadelphia.
AUDITOR GENERAIj,
A. E. 8ISSON,
of Eric.
STATE TREASURER,
,,, Jeremiah A. Stober,
of Lancaster.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. Bullock.
Whenever the people of Pennsyl
vania go to the pollB In anything
like their full numbers, they roll up
a Republican majority that is the
wonder and admiration of the Re
publicans of the rest of the coun
try. These majorities have put the
State at the head of the Republican
column and made it the leader of
Republican policy and sentiment.
There never has been a time when
a large, an overwhelming Republi
can majority from Pennsylvania
was more needed than It is this year.
It is not merely a question of elect
ing the Republican candidates for
State omces; it is the more import
ant one of giving support to the real
principles and purposes of the party.
Those principles and purposes
found their truest advocate and rep
resentatives in the Senators ana Re
publican members of Congress from
Pennsylvania during the recent ex
tra session struggle over tariff re
vision. They won their light against
both Democrats and Middle West
Republicans, who had broken away
from the safe anchorage of the par
ty on the protection question, and
they should be overwhelmingly in
dorsed. Can there be any doubt about
where Pennsylvania stands?
Certainly not. What is needed,
however, is such a demonstration of
its position as can be best given by
an overwhelming Republican ma
jority at the coming election. Every
Republican should contribute to
this, for the result will have unusual
significance.
Pennsylvania's Beginning.
The state has made an admirable
start in the right direction. It now
owns over 925,000 acres in forest re
serves, in which" an axe cannot be
swung without the sanction of the
state aud without strict. supervision.
It has established three forest tree
nurseries in which are being grown
millions of seedlings each year. It
has planted over 2,000,000 seedlings
and aims to plant 20.ooo.ouu eacn
year. It has 30 trained foresters in
the field and above all it has an ac
tive Forestry Commissioner and
nnmmlsslnn. But this is only a
start.
PENNYPACKER FAVORS BALLOT
FOR WOMEN.
Gallantly coming to the fore as a
defender of the suffragette and a
champion of the ballot for women,
ex-Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker
addressed the Colonial Dames of
New Jersey at their annual meeting
at "Fairview," the country home of
Mrs. George de Bennvllle Keim, at
Edgewater Park.
"The work of women is all leading
to one ultimate end woman's suf
frage," said the former governor.
"There is no doubt that the suffra
gettes will win, and I am with them
in their purpose and efforts. Wo
men have taken their stand for good
government and have mastered the
intricacies of politics. They are
more energetic and successful than
men In the work they undertake."
The speaker commended the so
ciety for its preservation of historic
relics and records and declared that
it has done valiant service In keep
ing alive the spirit of early America.
The meeting was attended by 200
Dames, blue-blooded descendants of
colonial settlers, all of whom wore
the badges and lnsignias of their
society. Many of the distinguished
visitors were from other states, and
scores of them were officers and lead
ers of the exclusive organization.
Protection From Real, Not Imagin
ary Snakea.
"There Is one thing which we ex
Tort from this country that few peo
ple, in fact, no one outside those in
the trade, ever know anything
about," said S. C. Brown to a Mil
waukee Sentinel reporter. " That
is hair ropes. They are shipped
mainly to India, though they go to
any places where poisonous snakes
are plentiful. Every cowboy and
plainsman learned years ago that If
he did not wish to wake up in the
morning and And a rattler for a
bed-mate when he had to sleep out
on, the prairie, he had to be careful
before he laid down to see that his
horse-hair lariat was coiled careful
ly about him so that there was no
opening through which a snake
might crawl.
"No snake will tackle a hair hope.
It is the only sure protection against
them. Somehow this idea has per
meated the minds of the East In
dians and now they buy these ropes
for protection against the poisonous
Bnakes with which that country
abounds. Large numbers of these
ropes are shipped to India and ad
joining countries each year.
"Over there they are colled on the
floor around the bed at night and the
occupant can He down in comfort,
certain that no snake will ever at
tempt to pass over that hair rope.
It is about the only way one can be
sure of a night's sleep undisturbed
by visits from snakes in that coun
try." The Impulse of Courage,
In many cases courage is merely
Instinctive. Many a man has distin
guished himself in the performance
of some act of heroism the thought
of which caused him completely to
collapse when the danger was over.
The same instinct which leads a man
to dodge when about to be struck
will lead him, without waiting to
take counsel of his judgment, to
risk his life in the performance of
some heroic act. The Impulse of
courage is just as natural as the im
pulse of fear, and, however much
cultivation may lead individuals to
dislike physical danger, so long as
there are Carnegie medals to dis
tribute there will probably be no
lack of persons worthy to receive
them.
A Fake Subscription Agent.
Sometime ago a stranger, having
his headquarters in Wyalusing, Pa.,
canvassed the territory in that sec
tion taking subscriptions for the
Success Magazine, a monthly that
retails at ?1.00. It is a most ex
cellent periodical, and besides the
value of the magazine itself the
agent offered patterns and other In
ducements that appeal to the fe
minine heart, and in consequence his
success as a canvasser was most ex
cellent. In one day he secured more
than a score of dollars, and those
who put In their cash have been on
the lookout ever since for their mag'
aztne and the permiums that were to
come with it, but up to the present
nothing has been heard of either the
man or the goods.
One of those who were caught by
the gllu-tongued stranger, wrote to
the Success Company, and the reply
brought forth the fact that the dol
lars he had secured iu this vicinity
had gone to fatten the "roll" of
man who lives by his wits instead
of earning the money by the "sweat
of. his brow."
FAIR EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.
Rumania Gets Our Sweet Corn nnd
Gives to Us Her Little Melons.
America's sweet corn has been
traded for Rumania's little water
melons. Horace G. Knowles, ex
American minister to Rumania, who
is soon tostart for his new post as
minister to Nicaragua, consummated
the transaction in the interest of good
living.
When Mr. Knowles found the mel
on, about the size of a grapefruit,
growing in the Carpathian foothills,
be realized that it would be just the
thing to serve individually in Amer
ica.
He obtained a quantity of the seed
and transmitted it to the department
of aericulture. The little melons
have been cultivated with success at
the government experiment stations
in those regions where huge Ameri'
can melons are grown.
Having gained this desirable dell
cacy from Rumania, Mr. Knowles
was anxious to repay the gift. He
noticed that the people were utter
strangers to sweet corn. According
ly he obtained seed for this product
from the department of agriculture,
hired several plots of ground him
self, and Instructed the Rumanians
in its culture. Philadelphia Inquir
er.
How the Ancients Wrote Letters.
A recent mission of the Chicago
University resulted in the discovery
of more than two thousand tablets
covered with wedge-shaped charac
ters (writing) dating five thousand
years B. C.
They are of every possible variety
of size and shape. The most ancient
look like a little orange on which
the scribe responsible for the writ
ing painted scrawling characters and
left them for the sun to dry. That
particular form of tablet was replac
ed by flatter disks, and, last of all,
about four thousand years before
Christ, came the perfectly flat, square
and rectangular tablets which were
to hold their place indefinitely.
Among the rectangular tablets of
the ancients there were a few de
signed for special use. Some of
them were for the use of school
children. They were very much like
the slates used by the children of
the Infant schools nearly round.
One of the most remarkable of those
special forms was that of the tablet
used for correspondence dating from
2,500 years B. C. The clay slate
was prepared and the Inscription
made as for all the ordinary docu
ments; then, when that part of the
work was done the slate, or tablet,
was covered with a thin envelope,
also of slate-clay, just as we use en
velopes to-day, to protect the letter
from curious eyes.
Advertise In The Cltlsen.
ELECTRIFYING AMERICA.
Fifteen Million Miles of Wiro Used
for Telegraph und Telephone.
More than 15,000,000 miles of
single wire is used by the people of
the United States In communicating
with each other. Of this amount
about 13,000,000 miles is operated
by telephone systems, the rest by the
telegraph companies. The length is
enough to encircle the globe at the
equator 600 times.
In fact it must bo even greater
by this time, as the above figures,
though recently published by the
Census Office, refer to 1907. At the
1880 census the telephone compan
ies reported 34,305 miles of wire,
about one-ninth of the mileage of the
telegraph companies. In 1907 the
telephone mileage was eight times
as great as the telegraph.
In the amount of business done,
the sum paid in salaries and wages
and the capital invested in 1907 the
telephone business was a little over
three and one-half times as exten
sive as the telegraph industry, and
during that year It furnished em
ployment for more than five times
as many persons.
Between 1902 and 1907 there was
an addition of 8,098,918 miles of
wire for the use of the telephone
systems, as compared with an in
crease of but 259,611 in the mileage
of owned and leased wire for com
mercial telegraph purposes. The
Increase in the wire mileage of the
telephone systems during the five
years referred to was more than six
times as great as the total amount
of wire added to the telegraph busi
ness since 1860.
The use of telephones by railroads
exclusively in connection with the
operation of the roads has increas
ed rapidly since 1902. Although
the electric interurban roads early
recognized the advantages of the
telephone for despatching purposes
the larger steam railroads have been
disinclined to substitute the tele
phone for the telegraph.
The bulletin points out that it
gives the first statistics for the com
mercial wireless systems already es
tablished, and states that they were
operated at a loss of $47,628 in
1907.
There were six commercial wire
less telegraph systems in 1907, op
erating 122 tower stations, located'
at most of the largo ports of the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, the Gulf of
Mexico, the great lakes and in Haw
aii. They transmitted 1G3.G17 wire
less messages. Over the telegraph
wires in 1907 there were Hashed
3GS, 470,509 messages, of which fi,
869,317 were cablegrams.
It is shown that 90.5 per cent, of
the cities with a population of at
least 10,000 in 1900 were equipped
with elastic fire alarms. It appears
that for 1907 there wore 120,719
fire alarms received. Concerning
police patrol signalling the bulletin
says that there were 41,961,650
calls.
Hurrah! Alcohol Six Cents Per
Gallon.
When the people of the United
States heard the announcement that
Uncle Sam was about to permit the
manufacture and use of denatured
alcohol without the Internal revenue
tax, there sounded from the general
throat paeans of joy and praise.
The fact that, in a measure, disap
pointment followed has nothing to
do with the satisfaction with which
the announcement was received. In
the whole history of the arts and ol
the industries there has been no de
mand so insatiable and imperious
as that for cheap fuel and cheap
light and hope among the workers
is always ready to take fire instantly
at the suggestion of promise of
either.
But if disappointment was all that
first came of Uncle Samuel's gener
osity, nearly everybody, at least
was educated to understand what
cheap alcohol would mean. It will
require, therefore, no long-winded
explanation to make perfectly clear
the meaning of the news which is
now to be published for the first
time in the pages of the Technical
World Magazine.
Cheap alcohol is here; and the
dreams and hopes of manufacturers,
of farmers and the housewife have
come true. Indeed, the wildest lm
aglnings of the most sanguine of
those who saw commercial revolu
tion in the freeing of denatured al
cohol from the tax, will fall short of
realities. Alcohol the highest
grade of wine spirits can be made
Is being made has already been
made in huge quantities at a cost
of six cents a gallon including raw
materials and all manufacturing
processes.
Out of one of the commonest,
heretofore most useless and despis
ed of all the wastes in the commer
cial world this most valuable pro
duct is being extracted. Sawdust,
which has been not only a worthless
nuisance on the lands of the lumber
man of this great lumber producing
country, source of danger and of
great expense as well, is now fur
nishing fuel for lighting and heating
purposes which can outshine kero
sene, out-heat anthracite and sell
below both.
Everybody Sold.
The stock of the Rldgeway com
pany, publishers of Everybody s
Magazine, will be taken over by the
Butterick Publishing Company.
They will Increase their capital stock
to allow for the consolidation. The
stockholders of the Butterick com
pany voted to approve this consoli
dation and Increase of stock.
"Paid In Pull" Boon to start lu
The Citizen.
SPAIN'S PERIL ON
VERGE OF REVOLUTION
Spain is u Scctliing Sea of Intrigue
and Revolution is Close at Hand.
King Alfonso's throne Is totter
ing. Spain is a seething sea of in
trigue and revolution on which the
royal ship of state, a battered and
weakened hull, is being tossed about
lu a last struggle. Revolution Is
inevitable. The flash may not come
within a week or a month. It may
be staved off for a year, but there Is
every reason to believe to-day, fol
lowing the white heat engendered
by the State's murder of Francisco
Ferrer, that the outbreak Is very
near at hand.
Moreover developments of the
last two days have indicated clearly
that once the fires of revolution
breaks out in Spain, there will be
the gravest danger of the conflagra
tion spreading to every Latin coun
try of Southern Europe.
I have just returned to London
from a personal investigation of the
conditions In the Spanish peninsula.
The situation Is a hundred per cent,
graver than I found It at Barcelona
during the uprising last July.
At that time the disorders were
largely Socialistic and Anti-military.
Since then the Anti-Clerical factor
has become vastly larger and Anar
chistic propaganda has been spread
throughout every district of the
peninsula. So universal has be
come the disaffection and spirit of
revolution that In my opinion no
scheme of evolution can be made to
solve the problem.
The Spanish Cortes has been called
to meet to-day, at the Instance of
Premier Maura. The call was issued
at a time when the Government had
by dent of special effort created a
semblance of order and when It was
possible to issue the call without
appearing to do so under stress of
public demand. It that time no
member of the Spanish royal party
was far-sighted enough to imagine
the furors that was to be created
by the execution of Ferrer. The
alarm in the Spanish capital is so
great that every Government In
Europe Is on the anxious seat, lest
the opening of Parliament shall be
characterized by a bomb outrage.
There ia going to be trouble with
the Cortes. The Liberals have long
been in the majority over the Con
servatives, but the former have
hitherto been spilt into so many fac
tions that the Conservaties have had
a greater strength than any one
branch of the Liberals and Alfonso
has been able to have his own way.
Since the suspension of the con
stitution, however, the Liberal fac
tions have united and agreed that
their first action will be to demand
an anti-clerical legislation along
lines similar to those enacted re
cently by the French Assembly. This
demand is apt to be the one incident
which will set the country allame.
The church, which has for gener
ations been a frightful burden upon
Spain, has recently become well nigh
unbearable, not because it is the Ro
man Catholic Church, but because it
is the State Church. It controls an
Immense unearned share of the
country's wealth and pays no taxes.
The people are inhumanely taxed to
support it. Industrially, it com
petes at an unfair advantage with
Spanish workmen and is the "vested
interest" of the nation.
Alfonso realizes that his hold on
his peonle has been broken. He
looks to the church for support and
will never consent to its separation
from the State. If he clings to his
present ourse, his overthrow is in
evitable. The fall of the present
dynasty will assuredly be followed
by the establishment of a republic.
The Pretender is little known and
less liked. His party is small and
the country is sick of anarchy.
Owing to the exercise of censor
ship, the rigidity of which has never
been equaled, even in Russia, it has
been impossible to give an accurate
detailed daily account of the dis
orders in Spain. A brief size-up of
the situation may not be amiss.
At the time of the Barcelona
riots, Spain was placed under mar
tial law. This act, instead of check
ing sedition outside the Catalonian
provinces, caused it to spread
through all Spain. Premier Maura
saw the necessity of restoring the
constitution and convening the
Cortes. Ho must have some excuse
other than a popular demand. He
ordered General Marina, command
er of the Spanish forces In Morocco,
to furnish the Government at once
with a victory or something that
looked like one.
A real victory was Impossible.
The Riffs Insisted on a guerilla cam
paign. An imitation victory was
easier. General Marina began his
widely advertised "forward move
ment" on Mt. Gurugu. The Riffs
saw no advantage In holding a worth
less sand dune and retired. Only
three rifle shots were fired by the
Riffs during the engagement. Two
days later a Spanish column under
General Vlcarto ventured a few
miles from the main body, was am
bushed and lost 200 men including
the commander. The following day
15,000 fresh soldiers from Spain
were ordered to Morocco. That was
the real story of the "Mt. Gurugu
victory."
Premier Maura made the most of
It, however. Householders were or
dered to decorate their homes under
threat of punishment If they failed,
to do so and a fete day was declared.
Toasts were ordered drunk to the
King. Hundreds of men were hired
to stir up "enthusiasm" and lead in
the cheering for the Government.
Tho theatrical climax came when
the Premier ordered the restoration
of the constitution In all provinces
except Catalonia and ordered the
summoning of the Cortes. The act
means nothing. Tho censorship con
tinues and suppressed newspapers
remain suppressed. The Govern
ment prisons are crowded and exe
cutions are occurring dally.
On the other side bomb outrages
and assassinations are a dally oc
currence. The Spanish people are
densely Ignorant and uncompre
hending, but even they see the in
justice of dragging the bread-winners
of thousands of families away
to die in Morocco for the benefit of
a small group of French capitalists,
while the wives, mothers and chil
dren are starving at home. Phila
delphia Star.
CAT SUFFOCATES BABY.
Mother After a Long Fight Drove
Cat Through Broken Pane.
Over the fences and through the
yards of the houses in Scholes street,
Williamsburg, a big black cat roam
ed last Wednesday night. It was
cold and the cat wandered from yard
to yard seeking some place where
there was warmth and shelter. At
length it came to the rear house at
173 Scholes street. In a window on
the second floor about six feet from
tho ground was a hole. Johnny
Sanders had driven a baseball'
through the pane In tho afternoon.
The cat leaped from the ground,
gained a foothold on the wlndowslll,
and crept through the hole Into a
bedroom Inside. Sleeping In tho
bed were Mrs. John Sanders and her
nine-weeks' old infant. The cat
leaped lightly to tho counterpane of
the bed, stepped gently across tho
form of Mrs. Sanders, and nestled
comfortably on the chest of tho
sleeping Infant.
It was several hours later when
Mrs. Sanders awoke at 5 o'clock
with a premonition that all was not
right. She threw her arm across
the bed feeling for the baby that
lay beside her. Her hand encounter
ed a warm, velvety substance, and
In a sudden fright tho woman sprang
out of bed. Tho cat which her touch
had disturbed, leaped up also, and
sprang at the woman. Mrs. Sanders
beat It off with her hands, and then
managed to seize a broom that stood
in the corner of the room.
The cat leaped at the woman,
clawing at her night gown, and try
ing apparently to reach her throat.
Mrs. Sanders struck right and left
with the broomstick, missing the
cat as often as she hit it, while the
cat continued to leap at her and claw
her. Still Mrs. Sanders did not cry
out. She feared to awaken the baby
and continued the fight with the cat
until at last she drove it out through
the hole in the window through
which It had climbed hours before.
Then Mrs. Sanders turned to the
bed. Through her mind was run
ning the old superstition that cats
will Inhale an Infant's breath and
thus suffocate it whenever they gain
the chance.
BREGSTE
FALL O
The need of heavier garments Is as
ing you male folks here. We know what a great store this Is; know
how well prepared we are to save y ou. That's why we say with all the
confidence In the world, "Come Here."
HIGH ART AND
Suits and Overcoats are ready In
present season. Styles for the you
In all, It's a grand gathering of clot
Hats
If your price is 31.50, we'll show
tho Prominent; if you'll pay $2.00,
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,
She grabbed tho baby up and
pressed It to her. Tho child's eyes
were closed, and they did not open
as the mother caressed her infant.
Then Mrs. Sanders felt the child'B
cheek, against which she pressed
her own, cold. She held the baby
off from her, looked at It hard, and
then rushed screaming toward her
husband's room.
Mr. Sanders was awakened In
stantly. Mrs. Sanders told hysteri
cally of the visit of the big black
cat, of her discovery of It asleep on
the baby's chest, and of her fight
with it before she could drive It from
the child. Mr. Sanders, as frighten
ed as his wife, called Dr. Drlscoll
from St. Catherine Hospital.
The surgeon examined the baby
and said it was quite dead, and had
been dead for more than three hours,
probably. Ho said It had been suf
focated, and Joined with Mr. and
Mrs. Sanders In the belief that tho
cat had suffocated the child while
lying heavily across Its chest for tho
sake of the warmth.
SINGING EVANGELISTS.
The Rlnes Brothers, the singing
evangelists, will conduct services In
tho Waymart M. E. church from
October 18th to 31st. ALL ARB
WELCOME. These sweet singers
and Inspiring talkers will interest
and help you. 83tf.
LYRIC THEATRE
BEHJ.n. DITTR1CH. - - LESSEE AMD MANAGER
One Night Only ftfT f)P
MONDAY Uh I. Z3
B. C. WHITNEY offers the suc
cessful Musical Melange
S CHARLES A. PUSEYB
50--PEQPLE-50
Cur loud of Scenery and Kffects I
The Goo-Goo Girls.
The Broom-stick Witches.
Peggy Brady.
And all the othor soiirs that arc whistled
anil hummed. LOOK IT OVKlt.
DDIPCC Orchestra, $l.fl0. Dress Olrcl
rniULO $1. Kalcony.7&-fl0c. Uallery.i
SKAT SAI.K opens at the Box Office at 0
o'clock a. iu. Saturday, Oct. '.
A. O. BLAKE,
AUCTIONEER.
You will make money
by having me.
-u Bethany, Pa.
BKI.L l'HOXl
EN
We want you here
' today !
Rather ;i pointed request
but we're saying it. by right
of superior knowledge on
the subject of FALL AND
WINTER CLOTHING.
Insistent as we are about hurry
COLLEGIAN
all the striking patterns for the
ng man styles for the older. All
hes you should wear 910 to 920.
best place. It's here. The Eclipse
shirt, 91.00 to 92.00. Ever wear
the Just Right Glove, 91.00 to 92.00
and the Corliss Coon collars? In
quarter sizes, 2 for 25c.
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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