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
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W. W. WOOD. - - MANAOKH AND SKO'Y
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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.
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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.
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EDWIN V. TOHItKY
CASHIER.
ALRERT O. LINDSAY
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uHkt
At inive.wiiy the
I'l'iiuoner should not be
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