THE CITIZEN, FIUOAY, JANUARY 28, 1010. THE CITIZEN rOBMSUED KVXBY WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAT IIT TIIR CITI 7. EH rUDMMUHO COMrANT. Watered as second-class mntter. at Hie post o 111 co. llonesdale. 1'n. SUBSCRIPTION , ... 11.50 K. B. IIAICDKNIIKHQII. - PKKSIDKNT W. W. WOOD. - - MANAOKH AND SKO'Y DIRKCTOR8: 0. H. DORFMNOKIt, M. R. ALLEN. ntNBT WILBO.N. K. 11. llAKDKNBF.nQll. W. W. WOOD. 1MIIDAV, JANUAKV !!8, 1IUO. Shoes cost more. It will bo hnrd to keep sole and body together. Ho who Is false to a present duty breaks a tnrcad In the loom, and will find a flaw when ho may have for gotten Its cause. Doh't bo scared because the for tune teller warned you of a dark man about to cross your threshold. Probably only the coal man. What Is the use of Congress select ing a committee to investigate the Plnchot-Balllnger row, when the independent press, which assume that they are tho revised version of righteousness, have the verdict al ready written out. Aro our merchants prepared to meet the competition, constantly growing more attractive to the un thinking, of those alluring spring cntalogs from tho metropolitan de partment stores? Of course the bar gains at home are better when you consider that the home merchant gives you personal attention and the chance to return goods that are not what was represented. But the pub lic forgets this, trade has to be drummed, and tho only efficient drummer for the home merchant is the local newspaper. No man leaps to success or com petence. We need not worry about inherited money. It isn't earned, it is soon spent, and doesn't count. But real going ahead depends on a man's own efforts and his tenacity of purpose. .J-et him follow every golden illu sion that he sees, and he will amount to about as much as tho average loafer who works only enough to earn an occasional meal. But let him fix Ills purpose and stick to it, no matter how bright seem the opportunities for change, and he will live a life that is use ful and honorable, and, dying, leave tho world better because he lived in it. There Is no fixed calling that a man can follow in which there is not a future. It is, of course, easy to get into a rut; and often through no fault of his own a man is pocketed where he can go no further. But ho can get out of his pocket by exerting himself. Supposing when young he sets up as a merchant in a little town, be lieving and trusting that some day the town will be a great city. But circumstances put the town on a side track, and It refuses to grow. The dull man would stay in the same old town and do business in tho same old way. Tho live man would hold to his course toward progress, get his stock together, set it up in tho nearest good town and continue on his way toward success. The man who begins life as a blacksmith can, after he masters blacksmlthing, become a mechanical engineer. It will take hard work, but there are many who havo done it. - THE COST 01 LIVINfi. No party will dare Ignore the ad vance in cost of living, which hits the wage and salary workers so hard. But no party can alter cei tain inevitable causes. No party can again mnke it possible for a man to move Into fertile country and re ceive a farm from Uncle Sam for next to nothing. Round prices must heuceforth be paid, and in tho end they come out of tho consumer. Furthermore, our consumption of farm products, plus exports, has been Increasing much faster than produc tion. It has been fashionable to ridicule tho farmer as n Reuben and a hayseed, which has tended to make his calling unpopular. This attitude has been a largo factor In luring country boys to the great cities, a drift that has so depleted tho forces of productive agriculture that the farms can not both feed tho country and keep up tho export business that is open to them. As a consequence, consumers aro bidding against each other for many classes of farm pro duce, and prices of course go up. The first thing to do is to per suade the boys to stick to tho homo acres until production shall again equal consumption. Secretary Wilson says wo arc suf fering not from tho high cost of liv ing but from tho cost of high living. Americans nro tho best fed, best clothed, best educated and best housed peoplo In tho worl'd. Who would have thought that tho "Boycott," which tho trndo unionist Introduced and which so many peo plo wero bitterly opposed to, should bo taken up by all classes and np plled to tho Ueef Trust. If wo suc ceed In having lower prices, wo will have to thnnk the trade unionist for blazing the way by making us famil iar with the use of tho boycott. 'I IE BOYCOTT ON M HAT. We are coming, Uncle Sam'l, three hundred thousand more From Mississippi's winding stream ; and from Now England's shore; I We've sworn by all that's holy, as other heroes do, We'll chew no toothsome cutlet, and : chops wo will eschew; We daro not look behind us, but I steadily before; ! We are coming, Uncle Sam'l, three I hundred thousand more. i : If you look across the hilltops that You'll seo a cow a-grazing, and for us she shall not dio; The cattle on a thousand fair plains of Texas cheer The principles we're booming this penitential year; The lambs of Oklahoma bleat fear less of tho mint, While butchers most profanely say things not fit to print. You have called us, and we're com ing, our bugles gayly toot; Wo're vegetarians moving, though our doctrine's taking root; The porterhouse we're scorning, the sirloin's vanished, too; We're using olivo oil to make a spectral stow; We've choked rebellious palates, as men havo done before; We are coming, Uncle Sam'l, three hundred thousand more! HOOSEVE1T IN CONGllESS. Washington, Jan. 20. according to a report among members of Con gress, former President Roosevelt has agreed to run for Congress with that understanding that he will be allowed the Speakership of the House of Representatives. Representative Cocks, of the First District, which includes Oyster Bay, where Roosevelt resides, according to tho report, Is willing to step down and out In favor of Roosevelt. RURAL DELIVERY. Carriers Will Not be Required to Collect Loose Coins From Boxes. Commencing February 15, 1910, rural letter carriers will not be re quired to cojlect loose coins from patrons' rural mall boxes, but will still be required to collect unstamp ed letters and attach the required stamp providing the necessary coins are enclosed in an envelope, wrapped securely In a piece of paper or de posited in a coin-holding receptacle. POPULATION OF THE EARTH. Human Raco Shows Enormous Growth Since Buys of Constant Wurfuro uml Pestilence. Tho population of the known earth at the death of the Roman emperor Augustus, about the time of tho com mencement of tho Christian ern, was estimated by Bodia, an Italian statis tician, at 57,000,000. The Romans knew nothing of Asia beyond tho In dus river and nothing of Africa 6ave the Mediterranean states. But tho human raco in early times was en gaged In constant warfare, and It is recorded that the temple of Jairis, which could ony be closed when Rome was at peace, was shut at the time of the birth of Christ. But not only was the population of tho earth decimated by incessant wars, it was devastated by terrible epidemics of disease which swept over every country, so that in 1492, at the timo of tho discovery of America by Co lumbus, tho population of Europe was placed at 40,000,000. To-day Europe has ton times that number, or 400,000,000 people, with about 100 to each square mile. TKIEI) TO THAW EMPTY PIPES. Many residents of Addison wero robbed of tholr usual Sunday morn ing rest by hustling around in tho early hours trying to thaw out wa ter pipes. Most of them left their wator faucets open Saturday night In order to prevent any possible chance of freezing. By doing this all tho water in the small reservoir was drawn off. When It was discovered that thero was no water running from tho fau cets tho people supposed that tho pipes had frozen. They had good reason to think so for tho thermom eter registered 22 degrees bolow zero. Every known means of thaw ing out water pipes was brought In to play. After spending an hour or two In a fruitless endeavor to start tho water running it was discovered that thero was no water. Wllllno to Confer With Trainmen. New York, Jun. 2T. General Super intendent Bradfleld of tho New York Central railroad has notified tho com mittee of Its trainmen and conductors that ho will bo ready to confer with the committee next Tuesday In refer ence to the demands of trainmen and conductors for Increased wages. WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 25 That Speaker Cannon Is doomed to defeat in any attempt to contlnuo In his present position of power and that tho Insurgents nnd Democrats, hs at present constituted, havo a clear working majority In tho Houso of Representatives, was nindo evi dent during tho past week of excite ment at the Capital. it is conceded by many of tho Republican leaders that even though tho Speaker persists In his deter mination to carry tho light to tho finish, ho will bo unable to muster enough votes In the next Houso to again wrest victory from his foes. So large a number of representatives of his own party have expressed their intention to pledgo themselves to tholr constituents at homo to vote ngnlnst his re-election, that his suc cess seems out of tho question. A very large Republican majority In the sixty-second Congress would not alter tho sltuntlon for tho reason thnt tho newly elected members would also be against him. Then, too, there aro Indications that tho old organization which has four times mndo Cnnnon Spenker Is slow ly dissolving into a new alignment of forces. Particular indications of this sit uation have manifested themselves on the surface In announcements of candidacies for tho Speakership. Representative Olmsted, of Pennsyl vania, ono of tlie staunchest support ers of Cannon, has seon tho hand writing on the wall und run up his lightning-rod. Representative Dlok ema, of Michigan, lias Issued a state ment declaring that Cannon and Cannonlsm are done for, thnt the delegation from his state will not support tho Speaker If he seeks re tention, and that, therefore, he Is a candidate. Other announcements of a like tenor aro expected. Perhaps neither Olmsted nor Dlekema will be elected, but they havo squared them selves with their constituents. In Washington it is power that at tracts the allegiance of men, and none are so quick to detect tho be ginning of great change in this gov ernment of public opinion as those who hold office because of that opin ion. These storm-petrels of Ameri can politics, the politicians, have de cided that the country has made up Its mind unfavorable to Cannonlsm and are acting accordingly. They are trimming their sails. Now-a-days the demonstrations of approval of "Uncle Joe" in the House are few and far between and the terms used In referring to him are more formal, if not more severe. It is considered that the political disease from which he Is suffering is mortal. Consider able time will elapse before the next Speaker is chosen, but only a few months before the nomination and election of members of the sixty-second Congress. Hence the effort at this early date is to discover upon whom the mantle of Cannon will fall and to get on the band-wagon. Now that Senator Bur ton and General Grosvenor have left the House, Ohio has no man who looms up as a possibility. When tho last contest was on, Sereno E. Payne and James S. Sherman, now Vice-President, made it impossible for New York to unite ana enabled Illinois to carry off the prize. Payne, who is Republican floor leader and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is lacking in sufficient personal popularity with his col leagues and is thought to bo out of It. Pennsylvania has Olmsted, ablo lawyer, and John Dalzell, member of the Committee on Rules and famous as a high protection stand patter. Tho two men who loom up larg est In the calculation are James R. Maun, of Chicago, chairman of tho Important committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and now re garded as tho strongest man In tho Illinois delegation outside of the Speaker, and "Jim" Tawney, chair man of tho Committee on Appropri ations. No member of tho House stands closer to the powers that bo than Mann. None work harder. Ho has taken tho place, -held by Hol man of Indiana a decado ago, of "watch-dog of the treasury." He scrutinizes every piece of legislation nnd surprises everybody by his knowledge of bills his colleagues try to slide through quietly because containing a "Joker." Ho has ro fuBed unanimous consent to tho con sideration of so many measures and has thereby inspired tho hostility of so many of his colleagues thnt ho would bo out of the running, were it not for tho fact that, they like him personally and boliove that his motives are always of tho best. Tawnoy Is more popular than any other Republican in tho Houso. Having charge of the appropriations of tho government and, therefore, having tho means of gratifying or refusing tho desires of his colleag ues, he has a hold upon them second to nono. Ho is also a man of great strength of character. Ho Is the man President Taft defended for his attitude on the tariff in tho Winona speech. Tawney was at ono time, not many years ago, an insurgent hlmsolf. Ho fought tho then ruling House organization so well that ho was taken into it and given tho best at Its disposal. Ho is considered by both Republicans and Democrats as tho best voto gettor in tho Houso, and looms up In. a very largo way as holr to tho Speakership, All this 1b, of courso, contingent upon tho election of a Republican Houso. The Democrats aro hope ful of wiping out tho presont ma jority of llfty. " For tho time being they aro carrying out a policy of letting the Republicans fight it out among themselves and thereby help their causo indirectly. Tho Repub licans are confident that with suf ficient pledges to tho country that Cannon will not bo ro-clocted Speak er thoy will get together and bo returned to power, oven though It bo with n Bmall majority. Tho pressure on Speaker Cannon to voluntarily announco that ho will not again becomo n candidate, despite his recent aggressive state ment, continues. Tills Ib superin duced by tho fact that It has been discovered that tho Democrats nnd Insurgents havo mndo a cast-iron coalition nnd hnvo a majority of three votes over the regular Re publicans. In tho Houso there nro 219 Republicans and 1G9 Demo crats., Threo Democratic scats aro vacant. Filled, tho combination hns a majority of six, caused by the fact that In tho Insurgent camp arc twenty-eight dyed-ln-the-wool op ponents of Cannon nnd the present House rules. Tho llnc-up on a test voto would be 197 Democrats and Insurgents to 191 Republican regu lars. This fact accounts for the willingness of tho regular Republi cans to make a concession, giving the lusurgonts ono member of the Balllngor Investigation committee. It also accounts for tho strenuous efforts made by tho President to force them Into a position where they will havo to vote for the meas ures nearest his heart or get out of tho party. He can put through none of those measures without them. Tho breach is still wide. During tho week the President talked with Representative Hayes, of California; Murdock, of Kansas, and Gardner, of Massachusetts, all of them Insurgents. He gave them to understand that he, too, had his back to the wall and thnt he meant to "do something" in the way of getting his measures adopt ed. He made It clear to them that his test of their Republicanism would be a vote for the following measures, which he regards as pledged by the party at the last convention and in the campaign: The limitation of tho use of the In junction power by the federal courts; the enactment of amend ments to the railway rate laws and those to tho laws which regulate Interstate commerce; the establish ment of a system of postal savings banks; separate statehood for Ari zona and Now Mexico; conservation of the national resources, and a federal incorporation act. Despite the direct assaults on Cannon and the meetings hero dur ing the week of the governors of the states and tho National Civic Federation, the forthcoming Bal Hnger Investigation has been kept to the fore by additional charges on the part of Representative Hitchcock, of Nebraska, against the Secretary of the Interior, on the ground of alleged mismanagement In his department. The charges incidentally allege that funds of the department have been improperly used in paying the private traveling expenses of Secretary Balllnger's second cousin. Tho investigation of these charges next week by the House Committee on Expenditures In the Interior Department is look ed forward to with Interest because of its bearing on the larger Inquiry of the joint committee on which Senator Root will represent the Ad ministration. This latter fact alone shows the Importance of the Inves tigation in determining the success or failure of tho Administration so far as tho near future Is concerned. The decision by the Republican caucus to stand by the selection of OHIe James, of Kentucky, ono of the most radical of the Democrats of tho House, as a member of the same committee, though It refused to accede to tho election by the Democratic caucus of Ralney, of Illinois, who raised such n rumpus In the Panama canal charges, indi cates that the aggressive opposition to Secretary Balllnger will be mani fested during tho hearings. A significant fact also in this connection was tho ovation given Gifford Pinchot by the assembled delegates to the meeting of the Civic Federation when ho addressed them from the same platform as President Taft and made a plea for conservation, omitting all mention of tho particular controversy which brought his dismissal. Another anglo was the statomont by Willis Moore, chief of tho Weather Bureau, In refutation of tho contentions of Pinchot and the entire Forestry Ser vice that deforestation prevents proper rainfall. . Tho statement of Governor Hughes, of Now York, that ho will not ngaln nccept a nomination for the olllco ho now holds has caused no little speculation here ns to his fu ture and the bearing of his decision on the Republican party generally. Tho career of tho Governor while in public Ufa has been so conspicu ous for progressiva entcrpriso and ho is considered to havo such a hold on tho peoplo of tho 'country that it is not thought likely ho will remain out of politics altogether. His going leaves n serious problem as to who will succeed him. The Governorship of New York Is a pathway to tho Presidency, nnd hence tho great Interest in tho situ ation here. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Ttia Kkid Yon Wm Always Bought Bears tho Ctgnatnro ADVERTISE NOW. Midwinter is a period of inertia for tho buying public. Us needs for tho rest of tho season aro pretty kwoll supplied. There will bo little doing unless you pursundo custom ers to anticipate their wants. But though now stnnd patters, they aro scrutinizing the advertisements for chances for economics. Tho merchant commonly hns bar gains at this time of year. But tho existence of theso bargains Is not mndo known to tho public merely by mental suggestion, nor will crowds flock to your store on faith. Thero must bo somo evidence In blnck and whlto that It Is worth while, However great this incrtln, such obstacles aro quickly swept away before tho impulses of thrift, sug gested by tho timely advertisement of this season. And ns all skillful merchants know, a cut In prices doe3 not need to rob the dealer of his fair profit on nil lines. Judiciously dis tributed bargains fill the salesrooms again, and tho customers, won over by the appeal to the eye, become in terested also In staple lines of goods always salable at fair prices. It is merely n problem of Induc ing tho public to visit your storo In tho off season. No way of doing It has over been" discovered except through liberal advertising. ADVERTISE NOW. CLERGYMEN IN MEETING DE NOUNCED AS CRIMINALS. Ono hundred Presbyterian clergy men, representing most of the Im portant pulpits of that denomination in Philadelphia, were branded as uncnught criminals by tho Rev. Thomas Tibblts, pastor of the Con gregatlonallst church at Montclalr, N. J., at the weekly minister's meet ing in the Wltherspoon building ono day last week, when Dr. Tibblts said: "The only reason why you are not in the penitentiary and other peoplo are is because they got caught and you didn't. 1 "I challenge any minister 'here who has not some tlmo In his life , committed a criminal act to hold t up his hand." Saying. this, the speaker waited. Not a hand went up. "This age," he continued, "calls people criminals and calls actions criminal that the next age will not so regard. Jesus was a criminal in his own time." Dr. Tibblts is interested in prison work, and has made a close study of the criminal question. It was on this subject that he addressed the Presbyterian ministers and took their breath away by his personal statements regarding their moral ity. "The very best life in the com munity at times, is very close to criminality," said Dr. Tibblts. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh, Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and fi nancially ablo to carry out any ob ligations made by his firm. Waldlng, Klnnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken In ternally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all DruggstB. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Closing out sale of Made-up Win ter Goods at Menner & Co. during January to clean up before inventory ing. 2eol4 HENRY Z. RUSSELL. PRESIDENT. ANDREW THOMPSON VICE rllESIDE.NT. HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK. Tills Bank was Organized In December, 1&3G, and Nationalized In December, 1864. Since Its organization it has paid in Dividends to its Stock holders, $1,905,800.00 The Comptroller of the Currency Jias placed It on the HONOR ROLL, from the fact thut Its Surplus Fund more than equals Its capital stock. What Class 9 YOU in i The world has always been divided into two classes those who have saved, those who havo spent tho thrifty and the extravagant. It is the saver who have built the houses, tho mills, tho bridges, the railroads, tho ships and all the other great works which stand for man's advancement aud happiness. The spenders are slaves to the savers. It is the law of nature. Wo want you to be a saver to open on account in our Savings Department and bo independent. One Dollar will Start an Account. This Bank will be pleased to receive all or a portion of YOUR banking business. litMit n - iflto- -VI-' Children and Infant's coats to closo out at less than cost. Mennor & Co. Ladies' long winter coats at Tory, low prices at Manner & Co.'s store. rtLERK'S NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY J In the District Court of the TTnlii.il July 1. loos, Jmvlne applied for a Full ?n charge from nil debts provable affaliist Mn estate under snld Act. notice li hereby Tlven ,.nll il10.w" creditors and othor persons Jin Interest, to appear before the said Court n? ?.'! ".. ii ?ald District on the .viY0.!1, , granted. KDWAItl) It. V. .MttAitr.u 7t3 Clerk. oooooooooooocooooooooooooo o During; Last Week in January oo A new lot of All Linen Torbon Laces. i 10c. values at 5c. a yd. SUITS and COATS The Remnants of our Suits and Coats to go at ?, Prices Way Below Cost Last Call for Dress Goods Sale Don't miss the Oppor tunity of buying best 50 cent Dress Goods at 33 cents a yd. o Children's School Hose 60O pair Double Knee Fast Black Stockings. In all sizes. Best 15c. grade and during this week 10c. a pair. OOOCOCCGCOGOOOCCOOOOOOOOCO EDWIN V. TOHItKY CASHIER. ALRERT O. LINDSAY eISTATCA811IKH uHkt At inive.wiiy the I'l'iiuoner should not be o
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