jfAGE 2 TIIE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DEO. 1.1, iDll. HIS SIGHT RESTORED AFTER FIFTEEN fEARS. Haley Had Givon Up Hope of Ever Seeing the Sunshine Again. After fjftcen yours of totnl blindness Louis Haley of Baltimore litis hntl hi sight restored through nn operntlo'i performed by specialists nt n hospital in that city. Haley told how It felt to bo blind so long and suddenly to realize that lie had regained the use of his eyes. "The first thing 1 remember," lie said, "was being In St. Andrew's Or phan nsylum. After I got to bo a good sized kid they sent me over to St. Mary's Industrial asylum, where they taught mo to be a tailor. When I was about twenty-one I was a graduate tailor, and they sent mo out to get a job. "Well, my eyes had always been pret ty bad, but I felt that I could make a living all right, and so I went to work. My eyes were bothering me all the time, nnd Anally they got so bad that nobody would have me around the shop because they said I did bad work. "Finally when my savings were all gone a lady got mo a job at the door of the hospital. I did not have to get up from my seat more than a couple of times n day, for awhile, so I got nlong all right, but finally it got so bad I could not tell light from dark and was about to quit when a doctor came along one day after all the other fellows told mo that I might as well give up, and bo told mo he'd try the only chnnca there was to cure me. He told me that I might never be able to see any inure, but If his work did any good I would be able to see for the rest of my life. "When I went on that operating ta ble I believed that I would never be able to see again, so you can Imagine what my feelings were when I got up and after nwhlle found that my sight was as good as it bad ever been before. "All dav long I have been looking out tho wlnubw at the sunshine, thanking God and the doctor that I can see again. Well, I am going back to tailor ing again." ( Dr. McConachie said of the case: "Haley had a cataract on each eye which would appear to destroy them completely, but as ho was Compara tively young I decided to operate upon him. with tho result that his sight is restored to him completely." i GARDNER A FAN. New Senator From Mains Likes the Game of Baseball. Obadlah Gardner, the new United States senator from Maine, is the latest addition to the senate baseball coterie. Senator Gardner knows all about base hits, errors, clean steals, spitballs, fadeaways, crossfires, Inshoots and four cushion swats. He was president once of tho Knox County league In Maine and was some player himself soon after tho war, when tho present popular and best known national pas time was In its swaddling clothes. Senntor Gardner was for ten years master of the Maine state grange, which has more than C0.000 members. At tho referendum election in his state in September last tho most prominent of the questions submitted was wheth er or not the state should retain pro hibition of the liquor traffic as n funda mental in the constitution. Senator Gardner Is intolerant of intemperance, but stood for the repeal of tho prohibi tion provision. He talks fearlessly on the topics of state and national interest, favors all the reforms the national grange has called for in recent years and is a gen uine progressive. He has urged fed eral highway Improvement, parcels post, postal savings banks, direct elec tion of senators, defeat of ship sub sidy and strict food laws, and ho Is op posed to a partisan tariff commission. NO UNION JACK IN 1660. Error In House of Commons Picture Discovered After Forty Years. Lord Wolmer, M. P., will shortly put a question in tho house of com mons which is almost certain to arouse much controversy. Forty years ago E. M. Ward, It. A., painted n fresco on tho walls of the. corridor leading to tho lob by of the house which represents tho landing of Charles II. In 1GC0 when in vited by parliament to mount the throne after the death of Cromwell. The cliffs of Dover show in tho back ground of the painting, and in tho fore ground Charles and ids suit nro step- nlner up the beach. On the extreme right of the fresco Is portrayed a stand ard bearer, and here is tho ludicrous incongruity. The flag he bears, falling in heavy folds uustirred by tho breeze, is a boldly painted union jack, which was not In exlstenco in 1CG0. ILLICIT STILLS IN DRY STATES Prohibitory Laws Seem to Encourage Them 2,488 Seized Last Year. Illicit distilling is steadily increasing in tho United States, "especially in thoso states in which prohibitory lnws hnvo been enacted," according to Com missioner Cabell of tho internal rev enue bureau. In tho last fiscal year 2,483 illicit distilleries were seized and destroyed by tho internal revenuo agents as compared with 1,011 for tho previous year. "Tho prevalence of this practice will be better understood," declared Mr. Ca bell, "when it is recalled that there were operated last year only 023 regis tered distilleries in the entire United States." Illicit distilling, Mr. Cabell adds, Is most extensively prevalent in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennesseo and Vlr- IIEN! IIS Iti OF 1 1 AMIK1I1 He Presents His Case In an Authorized Interview In the Outlook. THE Outlook prints nn article en titled "President Taft's Own View, an Authorized Interview," in which tho president discusso" current topics nnd particularly UU own administration. "Speaking of tho tariff issue, Mr. President, If you could begin your ad ministration again would you repeat your Winona speech tomorrow?" the Interviewer asked. "In phraseology, no; in effect, yes. Had I known as much as I do now J should have realized that there are some things one cannot leave to be taken for granted. I dictated that speech to a stenographer on the cars between two stations nnd glanced through it only enough to straighten its grammar. It was sent out by the press with correspondingly little cere mony, so that papers received It In all sorts of "shapes. If I had prepared it two or three weeks before and revised it deliberately, as I, ought to have done. I should have clarified several pas sages. And particularly I should have changed the sentence where I proclaim tho Payne tariff net the best ever pass ed. The comparative would have been n better description than the super lative, for whatever its shortcomings the' act still contains less to be criti cised tbnn its predecessors, and it did, as n whole, re.vise tho existing sched ules downward. High Duties Nourish Monoply. "Is your tariff reduction program based on the theory that it will bring about a corresponding reduction in the cost of living?" "I think that that effect is greatly overestimated. My chief objection to a needlessly higli tariff is that it nour ishes monopoly. It holds forth a con stant temptation to tho formation of little trusts, which often are more di rectly oppressive to the consumer than big ones." "Was your adoption of a low tariff policy due to any recent change of mind?" ' I have long been convinced that we were overdoing the tariff business. Tho Republican platform of 1008 gave expression to this view, for it com mitted tho party of protection to a re vision. I have been trying honestly to keep, faith with tho people, who elected me on that understanding. Of course we feared that there might be opposition from tho extreme high pro tectionist Republicans in cougrcss, and not a few of my friends have blamed mo for not breaking with them, throw ing down the gage of battle and vow ing that I would stnnd or fall by tho low tariff Issue. They fall to reflect, however, that I was not only presi dent of the United States, but head of the party to which these men belong ed. I could not hope to have assist ance from the Democrats, nnd my bat tle was lost before it was begun un less, by patient effort, I could get r enforcements from the ranks of pro tection Republicans. Some of these men were amenable to argument, and they had long been leaders in con gress. One must not lose sight of the fact that, while I was pledged to in sist upon lower tariff duties,- there were many representatives whose mo tive to protect the industries of their districts was Just as strong as mlno to comply with my construction of the platform. Former presidents had work ed with these party leaders In con gress, with whom tljey were not in en tire sympathy, in order to make prog ress. Looking back now on the rec ord of those first few months, I do not see that I could have done otherwise, What He Accomplished. "In spite of, such handicaps I did se cure tariff reductions on n number of Items, Including several raw mnterlnls. I Induced Aldrlch to cut down his amended cotton schedule nbout 10 per cent. I made a like attempt with wool, but It wouldn't work In either house. 1 got hides on tho free list nnd a lower duty on coal, iron ore and scrap iron. If tho Payno bill had passed tho sen ato in tho shape in which It passed the house there would have been little se rious censuro of it in tho country nt large. I realize now, though, that I made ono mistake I ought to have made ns strong n point on paper as I did on hides. Chairman Payne in the houso did not like to go down to a two dollar duty on paper, but be voted for It rather' than cause a split. Mr. La Folletto I consulted as to the amount of duty needed on paper, and he thought $2 was too low for immediate application and wanted a sliding scale of duties from a higher rate. As it was wo compromised on $3.75. "But I could not get free lumber either. The only way I procured any substantial reduction from $1.50 was by sending the conference committee an intimation that I should veto the bill if it carried a lumber duty higher than $1.25. I took a similar and equal ly successful stand regarding gloves, on some classes of which an increase had been proposed for tho benefit of an 'Infant industry. Some of my crit ics will ask, 'If you could do so much In these instances by swinging your veto club, why did you not use tho same weapon all nlong tho line?' It is an easy thing to take a stand on a nnmi insiin hetween tho right and the Revises Winona Speech to Say Payne Tariff Is Better Rather Than Best. a wrong or on ono of plain common sense, like tho question of tho recall of the judiciary; but. with fifteen crowded tariff schedules to overhaul nt short notice, a president can hardly be expected to make a radical fight over each detail that strikes him as un wise, nnd it would be the height of J folly for him to veto an entire bill be cause a few items in It do not appeal to his individual Judgment. Besides, the tariff question is one on which in telligent men may differ." Explains His Tariff Board. : "Mr. President, you have been sharp- ' ly criticised for making up your tariff ! board of men who are not tariff ex perts." "And that is true; they are not. If I had been appointing a board of tariff experts I could not have got along with less than twenty-five in order to do jus. tlce to all branches of tho subject. What I undertook to do was to make up a board of trained Investigators, capable of managing a thorough In quiry Into costs of production and of analyzing its elements." "Now that you have launched your project for a constitutional amend ment you probably have in mind some particular form of general income tax to recommend to congress when It Is free to net?" 'In a way, yes. I believe, on prin ciple, In n general income tax. The only good arguments against it are that It Is inquisitorial and that it of fers a temptation to perjury. But I would not resort to the ordinary in come tax except in an emergency like war, when I would have it graduated so that thoso citizens who had most at stdke should bear a corresponding ly large share of the burden of the common defense. In tlmo of peace I would avoid temptation to perjury and would confine the government to taxes that do not involve such inquisitorial methods In their collection." The Work He Expects to Do. "Now, Mr. President, something of the future. What do you propose treating as your 'calendar of unfinish ed business' for the rest of your term?" "In the domestic field I suppose re ductions In the woolen nnd cotton schedules nnd possibly In the metal schedule of tho tariff will go to the top of tho calendar. These will be founded, as far as my recommenda tions are concerned, on the report of tho tariff board. I have heard it In sinuated thnt congress will not heed the suggestions of an executive board. As to thnt I have no means of judg ing in advance. What I shall do Is to put tho whole thing up to congress and leave the members to settle with their constituents if they prefer not to act. In the house the Democratic ma jority have always professed them selves ready to accept any reductions they can get, and I am going to take them at their word in good faith. Whore the Insurgents will stand I am not prophet enough even to surmise. "For another thing, we ought to ob tain some legislation which will en able Alaska to develop without ln frlnclnc on our broad policy of con servation. Then there is the question of ratifying tho peace treaties with England and Franco and the fiscal treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua, which in their way are peace treaties. also, as their purpose Is to remove one of tho most prolific causes of war.' Hasn't Campaigned Tor Ee-election. "I assume that you know that it haa been widely hinted that your tour was the opening of your campaign for re election?" "Certainly. As is tho enso with all administrations, much of what I have done since I hnvo been In office has had some political color put upon It by thoso who were inclined to be critical. The truth is, however, that political considerations hnve not weighed heavi ly with me. I have tried to do in each case what seemed to me the wisest thing regardless of the effect upon my own future. Indeed. In more than one instance I have been perfectly con sclous whoso bad blood would be stirred by some act of mine or some refusal to act. The circumstances that the same persons who hall me after one application of equal Justice as a farseeing conservative patriot denounce me nfter tho next as nn unreasoning radlcnl does not greatly disturb my eauanimlty. I set that down as 'all In n day's work.' "I am very grateful for the honors the people have given me. I do not af fect to deny tho satisfaction I Bhould feel If after casting up the totals pro and con and striking a balance they should decide that my first term had been fruitful enough of good to war rant their enlisting mo for another, Any man would bo proud of such a verdict, but I novo not been willing, nor shall I be, to purchase It at the sacrifice of my freedom to do my duty as I see it. My happiness is not de pendent on holding any office, and 1 shall go back to privato life with no heartburnings if tho people, after an unprejudiced reilew of my ndmlnlstra tlon, conclude that some one else can iom tn tlieir creator advantage. Ti Do you know what this girl is think- lng? She is thinking that CHRIST MAS IS NEARLY HERE and won dering what Santa Claus will bring her. Fact You can tell it from her attitude. It is time you were thinking tho same thing, for Christmas IS nearly here, and you would better do your shop ping soon to avoid the rush. It would bo a crime for this child and others like her to be disappointed. Sho will be a child only once at least this time and is entitled to all tho happiness youth has to give her. Do your part today lest you forget. To shop early means that you SPARE THE SHOPGIRLS, that you buy from a fresh and complete stock, that you are not crushed nnd manhan dled In the crowd, that you will have the thing off your mind and that you ran thus remember all your friends. TO SHOP EARLY MEANS MAKING CHRISTMAS A PLEASURE AND NOT A NIGHTMARE. To forget now means to regret later. trCrCrCrCrCrCrCrtrtrCrCrCrCrCrCrCr A Fine Custom. It hao long been the custom In the. Amoy section of China for returning Chinese who have become wealthy dur ing their absence abroad to construct at their own expense some useful pub lic Improvement In their native city .and present tho completed work to tho people. SOPHIE BLAIR IN "THE COUNTRY BOY," AT THE LYIUO TO-NIGHT NO CAUSE TO DOUBT. A Statement of Facts Baoked by a Strong Guarantee. We guarantee lmmcdiato nnd posi tive relief -to all sufferers from consti pation. In every case whero our rem edy falls to do this we will return tho money paid us for It. 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Remem ber, you can obtain Itexall Remedies only at our store Tho Rexall Store. A. M. IiEINE Roll of HONOR AtterMon is called to the STRENGTH of the Wayne County The FINANCIER of New York City has published a ROLL Ol HONOR of the 11,470 Stato Banks and Trust Companies of United States. In this list tho WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK Stands 38th in the United States Stands ID t h in Pennsylvania. Stands FIRST in Wavne County. Capital, Surplus, $527,342.88 Total ASSETS, $2,951,048.26 Honesdale. Pa.. December 1. ltflu A. O. BLAKE AUCTIONEER & CATTLE DEALER YOU WILL MAKE MONEY BY HAVING ME (Bell Phone 9-U BETHANY, PA. Savings rilOJFESSIONAT, CARDS. Attornevs-nt-Lnw. rr wilson, JLL. ATTORNEY A nntlNHET.nn-lT.T.iTir oiucc, uonosiinie, rn. WAI. H. LEE, tl ATTOnNKY A CnTTWHET.nn.lT.T lro Olllcn over uost nfllcfi. k t i . promptly anenaeu to, uunesuaie, ra. T7 O. MUMFORD, Alt. ATTOIINEV A nOTTNSET.nTI-AT.T. im .Office Liberty Hall building, opposite thi l'oat Ulllce, iloiiesdale. Pa. TTOMER GREENE. 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Rickard has re moved his livery establishment from corner Chuch street to Whitney's Stone ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. nttMtimiiniMtllMltt r I SPENCER I The Jeweler tfwould like to see you If x I you are In the marketf t for t i; JEWELRY. SILVER-;: WARE, WATCHES,! CLOCKS, DIAMONDS, . AND NOVELTIES I I "Guaranteed articles onljr sold." ; '. 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 if it is a little farther from your home than some other store. You can find no more reliable etorq than ours. It would be im possible for more care to be taken in the selection of drugs, etc., or in the compounding. Prescrip tions 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. & H. Station, ITonxsdalx. Pa. 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