THE CITIZEN, FIUDAY, AUGUST 11, 1011.
433 MEMBERS
IN NEXT HOUSE
Effect of Reapportionment Bill
Passed by Congress.
HOW DIFFERENT STATES GAIN
When Arizona and New Mexico Are
Admitted Membership Will Be In
creased to 435 Effect on National
Conventions and Electoral Colleges.
The bill passed by congress authoriz
ing n reapportionment by the state
of congress districts on the basis of
population ns disclosed by the last cen
sus Increases the membership of the
house from 391, as at present, to 433,
with two added when New Mexico and
Arizona become states.
Efforts In the senate to keep the mem
bership down failed. Senator Hoot of
fered an nmendment to keep the mem
bership at 391. It commanded only
twenty-three votes. Then, Senator Mc
Cumbcr offered to make the number
405, but this also failed.
Under the new law the members of
the next house will be apportioned
among the states as follows:
No. Gains.
Alabama 10 1
Arkansas 7 None
California 11 3
Colorado 4 1
Connecticut t None
Delaware l None
Florida 4 1
Georgia 12 1
Idaho 2 1
Illinois 27 2
Indiana 13 None
Iowa 11 None
Kansas 8 None
Kentucky 11 None
Louisiana 8 1
Maine 4 None
Maryland 6 None
Massachusetts 16 2
Michigan -13 1
Minnesota 10 1
Mississippi 8 None
Missouri 1C None
Montana 2 1
Nebraska 6 None
Nevada 1 None
New Hampshire 2 None
Now Jersey 12 2
New York 43 0
North Carolina 10 None
North Dakota 3 1
Ohio 22 1
Oklahoma 8 3
Oregon 3 1
Pennsylvania S3 4
Rhode Island .3 1
South Carolina 7 None
South Dakota 3 1
Tcnnessco 10 None
Texas IS 2
Utah 2 I
Vermont 2 Nont
Virginia 10 None
Washington 5 2
West Virginia 6 1
Wisconsin U None
Wyoming 1 None
Totals 433 42
The law will also take effect next
year In tho makeup of the national
conventions and In the membership of
tho electoral college. It will make the
membership of each national conven
tion, exclusive of tho territories, 1,002
each, provided Arizona and New Mex
ico are states at that time, a majority
of which, D32, will be sufficient to
dominate the Republican qonventlon,
and two-thirds of which, 70S, in the
Democratic convention, will nominate
candidates. These figures will be in
creased slightly by tho allotment of
delegates given to tho territories. The
electoral college, however, if the new
states are admitted, will have 531
members, making 200 necessary for a
choice.
CARNEGIE PENSIONS T0TH.
Innocent Man Who Was Twenty Yean
In Prison Gets $40 a Month.
Andrew Carnegie has placed upon
his private pension list Andy Toth,
who was released from the SVestern
penitentiary nt rittsburg, on March
18 after having served twenty years
of n life sentence, having been wrong
fully convicted of participation in the
killing of a watchman at the Edgar
Thomson Steel works, BrnddocU, Pa.,
on Now Year's eve, 1890.
Mr. Caruoglo became interested in
Toth and asked F. M. Wilmot of the
Carnegie hero fund commission to look
Into tho mntter.
Sir. Wilmot made nu investigation
and found that Toth 'had been ouo of
tho rioters on tho night in question,
but that ho had been convicted on very
slender evidence.
Mr. Carocglo when ho left for Eu
ropo in May instructed Mr. Wilmot, if
neither tho state nor county gavo aid
to Toth and ho would go back to nun
gary and Join his wife, to arrange to
havo him placed on his private pen
sion list at $40 a month.
WOMAN'S HIGH POSITION.
Miss Kelly Will Be Assistant Director
of the Mint.
Miss Margaret V. Kelly of tho mint
bureau of tho treasury department is
the highest salaried woman In tho
government service. Miss Kelly, who
has been chief clerk of the mint bu
reau nt a salary of $2,230 a year, was
recently appointed by Secretary Mac
Veagh as exnmlner of mints in tho
bureau, virtually assistant director of
tho mints.
In this new position, in addition to
drawing $3,000 a year, Miss Kelly will
bo acting director of tho mints of tho
country In tho nbsenco of George E.
Roberts, tho director. She will hnve
charge of all the mints nnd direct their
immense business at any time the dl-
otnr la nhaant.
EDISON'S TRIP ABROAD
HIS FIRST IN 22 YEAP,:
The Inventor Says 'He Goes Fcr a Re.
and to Worry.
For the flrst time In twerr-1 '"
years Thomas A. Edison Is mamii). .
European trip. With him went I..
son. Charles, and in London Mr.-. IV
son nud their daughter. Miss M..d
line, will Join them. The family v,
make nn automobile tour of the co:n.
nont and will pass seven weeks In i. r
jaunt.
"Have you anything new up yo.v
bIoovo?" he was nsked before sailing.
"No," he replied. "I have just th.
lshed something new. My talking pi'
tures nre complete. Two hundred sets
of them have been made, and they
are wonderful."
Mr. Edison had been working for
some time upon a device to make the
moving picture machines nnd the pho
nograph take each other's hands and
furnish a combined entertainment.
"I shall not lecture while abroad,"
ho continued. "I nm going for n rest,
and if I meet any of tho distinguished
persons of the other side it will le
quite by accident. You know, I want
to go away and worry for awhile
You see, over hero I havo been too
busy to worry, and I had to cut my
usual Florida trip in the winter for
work. Now I am going to worry a
little for a change."
"Are you working with the aero
plane any?"
"No, I am not. Thirty years ago 1
took up tho aeroplane, but could not
get nn englno that would do the work.
I did invent nn engine. I made one
with guncotton ns tho explosive in
stead of gasoline. Since then I have
never fooled with tho subject."
PENSIONS FOR AGED.
Berger Would Aid All With Income of
Less Than $6 Per Week.
A bill to pension tho "veterans of
Industry" was Introduced in tho house
by Victor L. Berger, Soclalst member
from Wisconsin. Attached to the
measure Is a radical clause forbidding
the supreme court of tho United
States to pass upon its validity.
Tho bill provides for a pension of
$1 to $4 a week for every person more
than sixty years old who has nn in
come of less than $0 a week.
"The old working men and working
women," declared Mr. Berger. "nre en
titled to n living outside of the poor
houses and without the aid of private
charity. If the old parties and the
supreme court do not realize that fact
they will be wiped out of existence,
together with the old constitution."
It Is tho belief of tho Socialist rep
resontntlvo that his old ago pension
bill is constitutional.
"But some of tho capitalistic su
preme court justices may hold differ
ent opinions," he said. "The bill fur
nishes n good opportunity for testing
the power of the federal courts to an
nul necessary legislation passed by
congress."
Mr. Bergsr asserts that through a
thousand ways tho country spends n
greater nmount to relievo tho destitu
tion of the nged than his bill nsks for.
"It is time now," he says, "that wo
meet the problem in a scientlflc and
economical way."
LIVES ON 26 CENTS A WEEK.
Athlete 0ffer3 to Show Editor How Ke
Keeps Down His Bills.
To prove a man can live comfortably
nnd bo healthy, happy and strong on
20 cents n week for food, George II.
Ward, seventy-three years old, a long
distance walker, has Invited tho
doubting editor of n Connecticut news
paper to be his guest for ono week.
Mr. Ward said that in three years hp
has eaten only cereals, potato chlp3.
crackers and peanut butter. Ills bud
get Inst week:
Oatmeal Kc.
Crackers n
reanut butter 4:.
Flour 2c.
Tea 2c
Total 2Cc.
Mr. Ward is halo and hearty. The
ruddy glow of youth is in his cheeks.
His step is clastic and all his faculties
aro unimpaired. A year ago ho walked
from Mlddlctown, Conn., to New York
city nnd back in fifty-seven hours,
eating only a half pound of peanut
butter nnd half a pound of crackers
on tho Journey.
Mr. Ward says if tho editor accepts
his invitation to board with him a
week ho will mako a new man of him
in the soven days and pay the 20 cents
himself.
A walk of four miles before break
fast every morning is part of Mr.
Ward's program. lie drinks only tea
and water.
SCORNS CLOTHES.
Monosyllabio Marvel Has Gone Nude
For Sixty-one Years.
A strange rutin named John Castellow
has grown to bo sixty-one years of
age, hale, hearty and happy, wlthoul
ever wearing a stitch of clothing nnd
without ever using a single word bu
tho monosyllabic "Gee.
Ho lives four miles east of Windsor
in Bertio county, N. C, and his health
Is perfect, not having missed a meal Id
fifty years. His body la normal and
well shaped, but bis strength Is pro
dlgious. He can break a double plow
lino ns easily as If It were a cotton
cord. lie is gentlo and has never been
known to hurt a living soul Intention
ally, lie cannot speak a word except
the one monosyllable "Gee," which he
uses In various intonations to expresi
til his desires and emotions.
SINCLAIR ON
HIS DAY IN JAIL
He Didn't Eat, Sleep or Drink
For Eighteen Hours.
WORKED ON THE STONE PILE.
Author Was Imprisoned For Playing
Tennis on Sunday, Thereby Break
ing the Delaware Laws Experience
Suggested a Poem His Comments.
Upton Sinclair, the author, who serv
ed a jail sentence of eighteen hours
for violating tho blue laws of Dela
ware by playing a gnhio of tennis on
Sunday, did not cat or drink during
his incarceration. During the day ho
worked on the prison stone pile nlong
with forty other prisoners, white nnd
black, and at night lay on the stono
floor of the steel cell without a blan
ket. Ho deelared tho food was too vile
to touch and that ho was afraid of the
water.
Ho did not close his eyes throughout
tho night. Instead tho surroundings
of the place nnd the moanlngs of many
of tho 337 convicts Inspired him to
compose a poem. This he did mental
ly. Subsequently between loads of
stone that he dumped from n wheel
barrow Into a stone crusher he wrote
it out line at n time. The lines nre ap
propriate to tho night In Jail nnd are
entitled "The Menagerie." Tho pres
ence of unwelcome visitors In tho cell
that Sinclair occupied suggested tho
circus-like name. The poem rends:
THE MENAGERIE.
Oh, come, yo lords and ladles of the
realm;
Como from your couches soft, your per
fumed halls;
Come watch with me throughout tho
weary hours.
Hero are there sounds to All your jaded
nerves,
Such as tho cavo men, your forefathers,
heard
Crouching In forests ot primeval night.
Hero, tier on tier. In steel barred cages
pent,
Tho boasts yo breed and hunt throughout
tho world.
Hark to that snore somo beaBt that slum
bers deep.
Hark to that roar some beast that dreams
of blood.
Hark to that moan somo beast that
wakes and weeps.
And there In Buddcn stillness hark the
sound
Some boast that rasps his vermin haunted
hldo.
Oh, come, yo lords and ladles of the
realm
Come, keep tho watch with me; tho show
Is yours.
Behold the source of all our Joy and
pride,
Those beasts yo harness fast and set to
draw
The chariots of your pageantry and pomp.
Called It a Lark.
"It was nothing more than a lark,"
Sinclair said. "The experience was
one of the most interesting I have
ever had. I will write bout it" Tho
author laughed when ho narrated his
work In tho prison quarry. "I wheel
ed 100 wheelbarrows of stone to tho
crusher, worked seven hours, woro tho
regulation jail garb nnd had two
baths."
Sinclair lost three pounds while in
Jail. "This," he explained, "was due
to tho fasting."
A number of times while talking
with newspaper men he declared:
"And this for playing tennis on Sun
day. It makes mo feel like blowing
up somo ono with a bomb." He did
not say who that "somo one" might
be.
Tho principal comment that tho au
thor had to make was on conditions
at tho workhouse. He continued: "Oh,
thoso bestial faces I I never saw such
a parade in my life. Wo were forced
to march to tho eating room with our
hands folded and to eat in silence. 1
did not eat. Tho workhouse has a
sweatshop that beats any In New
York a mile. Tho convicts never got
out of doors, never see the sky. Their
faces are covered with bolls, and there
aro all kinds of evidences of tubercu
losis. It makes a man rcalizo what
tho world really Is.
"I am tho picture of health, but I do
not think I could live in that Jail two
months. It is absolutely Impossible
to ventilate the cells, apd the convicts
suffer as a result"
Cheapest Postal Rates.
Postal rates In China nre tho cheap
est In the world.
The Summer Don't.
The sage advice
That somo men give
Makes earth a place
Where man must live
In terror of
A warning tone
Which ever shouts,
"Let that alone!"
The cup which cools
When warm the day;
The outdoor game
You love to play;
The tempting dish
For feasting shown
Lot them alone 1
Let them alonel
Tho sparkling spring'
Where germs may He;
The early fruit
Within the plej
In martyrdom
May bid you groan
Lot them alone I
Let them alone!
But most of all
Avoid the man
Who always does
Whate'er he can
To make the day's
Discomfort known
Let them alonel
Let them alonel
SAYINGS OF JESUS IN
EXHUMED WRITING
Uneanonlcal Gospsl Discovered by
Egyptian Explorers.
A new uneanonlcal gospel of Christ
containing many utterances of .testis
which aro today , unknown to the
world Is believed to havo been dis
covered through tho work of the
Egyptian Exploration fund, according
to an otllclni announcement issued
from the Boston headquarters of the
fund. Enough ancient writings hnve
been dug up to furnish material for
twenty lnrge printed volumes.
Professor Bernard 1'. Grcufell and
Professor Arthur S. Hunt are at pres
ent engaged in the work of translat
ing tho mass of uncovered papyrus.
Professor Whittemoro went to Egypt
several months ago on the strength ot
subscriptions made by wealthy Bos
tonlans and others. He succeeded hi
completing the work of opening mid
recovering the long hidden treasures
from ouo of tho mounds through spe
cial permission of the khedlvc.
Tho bulk of the fragment concerns u
conversation between Jesus and a
chief priest in the temple nt Jerusa
lem. Tho translation is in part as fol
lows: "But give heed lest yo also suffer tho
same things ns they, for the evildoers
among men receive their reward not
among the living only, but also await
punishment and much torment.
"And a certain Pharisee, n chief
priest, met them and said to the
Saviour, 'Who gave theo leave to walk
In this place of purification nnd to see
these holy vessels when thou hast not
washed nor yet have thy disciples
bathed their feet? But, defiled, thou
hast walked In this temple, which Is a
pure place, wherein no other man
walks except ho has washed himself
and changed his garments; neither
does ho venture to seo those holy ves
sels.' "And tho Saviour straightway stood
still with his disciples and unswered
him, 'Art thou, then, being here In
this temple, clean?'
"He said unto him, 'I nm clean, for
I washed In tho pool of David, and.
having descended by one staircase, I
uscended by another, and I put on
white nnd clean garments, nnd then 1
camo nnd looked upon these holy ves
sels.' "Tho Saviour answered and said
unto him: 'Woe yo blind who see not
Thou hast washed in these running
waters wherein dogs nnd swine hnve
been cast night and day and hast
cleaned and wiped the outside skin,
which also the harlots and flute girls
anoint and wash and wipe nnd beau
tify for tho lust of men, but within
they are full of scorpions nnd nil wick
edness. But I nnd my disciples who
thou sayest havo not bathed havo been
dipped in tho waters of eternal life
which como from but woe unto the' "-
Hero ends the translation.
PORTRAITS OF SPEAKERS.
Women Painted Them ot $500 Each.
Ready For Hanging.
Oil paintings of all tho speakers of
the house of representatives will soon
be hanging In tho lobby of the house
at Washington. Portraits of many ol
the speakers have Ikjou ncqulred In
vnrlous ways, but last winter a reso
lution was adopted for tho painting In
oils of portraits of tho eighteen speak
ers not so Immortalized. Sixteen of
these pictures are now ready, and the
other two will soon be. This will com
plete the list, with tho exception of
Speaker Cannon, who presided when
the resolution was adopted, and Speak
er Clark, who has served since then
Steps have already been taken to pro
cure their pictures also.
Frank D. Millet, secretary of the
fine arts committee, has passed on tho
portraits. A price of $500 a picture
was decided on as the charge, and
four women were among the candi
dates for the nwards. They are Ellen
Day nale. daughter of tho kite Itev
Edward Everett Hale; Rebecca Polk, a
descendant of Speaker Polk; Lucy M.
Stanton, a descendant of Speaker Stan
ton, nnd Kate P. Edwards, n descend
ant of Speaker Cobb.
PRODUCES "HUMAN" HAIR.
Record Clip on Texas Ranch to Be
Used For "Switches."
F. O. Lnndrum of tho Notices can
yon, near San Antonio, Tex., has
Just produced In one clip mohair
twenty-eight Inches long, which sold
for a little over $0 per pound and
brought a total of $115. This mohair.
It Is said, will bo used by the rankers
of hair goods to produce beautiful
switches of leal "human" hnlr.
This highest grado of mohair Is very
fine and silky and has a beautiful nat
ural wave. While theoretically flu
Idea of the hair of a goat being used
to adorn women Is repulsive, prart
cally when the mohair is trejUod and
dyed an expert could not distinguish
it from tho real article.
Landrum owns ono of tho most fa
mous goat ranches In Texas. Admiral
Togo, the wonderful Angora Imported
from South Africa, Is tho head of the
flock. It is ho who produced the mo
hair which four years ago was mad.
Into cloth and fashioned into a pair
of trousers for President Tnft These
trousers wcro presented to him by the
Publicity league of San Antonio and
worn by him nt tho inauguration.
Wireless In the Arctic
Future north polo seekers will be
Interested In tho announcement that
the-Norweglan government will estab
lish a "farthest north" wireless sta
tion la Spitsbergen for tho benefit of
arctic explorers.
Cards and Card Playing.
In a paper In tho Journal of the Roy
al Society of Arts rrofessor Cheney,
discussing tho part plnyed by gambling
in magic, observes: "Tho use of cards
la sold to bo derived from tho Turot
cards, which wens originally employed
for occult purposes. The legend which
ascribes tho invention of cards to the
purposo of amusing a mad king does
not eeem at all n sufflcient explana
tion, nnd thcro is in addition tho fact
that cards of a kind existed before the
nnld king. In further support of this
idea tho well known practlco of tolling
fortunes by cards may probably bo re
gnrded as n survival of n regular form
of divination by such means. It seems,
in fact, that card playing for Rtnkcs is
n mero development of a ceremony In
which Individuals constating the oru
clo decided to abido by Its pronounce
ments as to tho holding of disputed
property.
Conferring a Title.
While he was governor of Kentucky
Proctor Knott sent to the Hon. Stod
dart Johnston n certificate, officially
signed nnd bearing tho Impress of tho
great seal of the stato, duly commis
sioning him as "Mister," which ho said
was a distinctive nnd honorable title
that no Kentucklan had over previous
ly borne.
Lost and Found a Heart
Nothing seems so hopelessly lost,
when It Is lost as a heart; yet noth
ing, when It Is lost Is by tho expe
rience of the centuries so absolutely
certain of recovery. Puck.
V
The Comeback.
Skinflint I have no money, but I
will give you n little advice. Beggar
Well. If yer ain't got no money yer
advice can't bp very valuable. Chris
tian Advocate.
MISS SHANNON DALE WITH THE
MALTESE PLAYERS.
Insures Correct, Proper Carriage
.Here is a Shoulder Brace that
makes the correction of any inclina
tion to round or stooping shoulders
an easy matter
SHOULDER BRACES
have been pronounced by experts to bo
the solution of the shoulder brace diffi
culty. Being constructed entirely of cloth nnd
with no metal parts to bind or chiifc,
they do not glvo one that trussed-up sen
sation that accompanies the wearing of
tho usual brace, nor is it possible for them
to interfere with the circulation.
The Ilexall Brace may bo worn by
cither sex and we have them in all sizes
suitable for the cnlld of four years or tlio
ndult weighing three hundred pounds.
Your chest measurement is all that is
necessary to properly fit you.
We have the exclusive agency for this
city.
Price, $1.00
Sold Exclusively
AT
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HONESDALE, PA.
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. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office ndlncent to Post Office in Dlmmlck
oHlce, Hontsdale, Pn.
W
M. H. LEE,
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promptly attended to. Honeadnle. Pa.
EC. MUMFORD,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
D0fP?,(SrLlh,p,rtJ'H?1,1 bulldlnc, opposite the
Post Office, Honesdale. Pa,
HOMER GREENE.
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAft
OQIce over Rett's store. Honesdale Pa.
CHARLES A. McCARTY,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR- IT-LAW
Special and prompt attention given to th
collection of claims. Office over Kelt's npw
store Honesdale. Pn.
71 P. KIMBLE,
J . ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office over the cost office Honesdale. Fa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY fc COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Ofllce in the Court House, Honesdale
Pa.
PETER H. ILOPF,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
u9f5fe-S,e,condJ P00.r kt Savlnes Bern
bulldlns. Honesdale. Pa.
SEARLE & SALMON,
ATTORNEYS A COUNSELORS-AT-LAW
Offices lately occupied by Judge Searle
CHESTER A. GARRATT,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office adjacent to Post Office, Honesdale, P
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
Office First floor, old Rnvlnmi rinnlr miM
Ing. Honesdale. Pa.
DR. C. R. BRADY,
DENTIST. HONESDALE. PA.
Office Honns-8 a. ru. to 6 p. m.
Any evening bv appointment.
Citizens' phone. 33. Residence. No. 8G-X'
Physicians.
PB. PETERSON, M. D.
. 1120 MAIN STREET, HONESDALE, PA.
Eye and Ear a specialty. The fitting ot glass
es given careful attention.
Certified Nurse,
M
RS. C. M. BONESTEEL,
GLEN EYRE, PIKE CO., PA,,
Telephone-Ulen Eyre.
uenineu iurse.r. s. r.
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Livery.
LIVERY, h red. G. Rickard has re
moved his livery establishment from
corner Church street to Whitney's Stour
Barn
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you are In the market
for
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WHEN THERE
IS ILLNESS
in your family you of course call
a reliable physician. Don't stop
at that; have his prescriptions
put up at a reliable pharmacy,
even it it is a little farther from
your home than some other store.
You can find no more reliable
store than ours. It would be im
possible for more care to be taken
111 the selection of drugs, etc., or
in the compounding. Proserin
Hons brought here, either night
or day, will be promptly, and
accurately compounded by a
competent registered pharmacist
and the prices will bo most rea
sonable. O. T. CHAMBERS,
PHARMACIST,
Opp. D. it H. Station, Honesdale. Pa.
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