THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER iG, 1912. PAGE SEVEN THE WIDOW'S GOAT By M. QUAD Copyright, 1611, by Associated Lit ernry Press. Deacon Carter of tlic village of Romeo was a good man nnd n good neighbor. lie never refused to lend hla lioo or his wheelbarrow, nnd his wife just doted on lending her flntlroas or washboard. The deacon would have no more hurt n person's frellngs than he would havo jumped off the bridge Into Thornapple creek, ami that he was ever to be threatened with a lawsuit was the last tiling to be thought of. One day tho deacon got a lucssago to the effect that his widowed daughter over at Glen Dale was dying, and ho borrowed a horse nnd buggy and drove over The daughter had no children to mourn hor. Tho father got there in time to receive her last instructions and to closo her eyes. The widow had neither dog nor cat. but In place of cither or both had a goat It had been sent to her when young from a distance, nnd they had learned to love each other. The goat had made no trouble nt nil, and tho daughter charged her father to take Billy home with him and watch and guard him and treat him with loving kindness. The goat was brought homo nnd made to understand that it's future lines were to be cast in pleasant plnccs. It was clven the nm nf tho vnrrt. nnrt for three days its attitude elicited sym pathy nnd commendation. It really shed tears over the mistress nnd tho home it had lost, nnd then It braced up and became playful. The deacon had a tomato patch, nnd he went out one morning to pick two or three tomatoes to go with bin break- M , , I 1 i 1 L . a concussion, nnd It was ten minutes him just coming to himself again. "Wwhat Is it, Jeptha?" sho gasped. "The tho goat!" "What about him?" "Came on the run and struck me Mini kilo iJl.iu. "But 1 don't see how he" But she did see. Tho goat came Dounuing on like n cyclone nnd bowled or nvor nnn nrnr n n t 1 1 D in ct-nni t. Two days passed quietly, but on tho HI l 1 1 I fill I III.IT- 1 1 1 III T1T.1 I IIP Tr HUT - Tl (' Iln t iu 1 1- Ihnm In ii - n t. in? mrnii nnn Knmn npnmor tha ranM I hor tlinnirhf n tron hnA tnMnn nn uem. Even a good man can't escape conse- luuuirira ii up ib mo ownpr nr n nnmnf I-11 11 IT II t H l-t in An 1. T II.. i,i(,tu difiu iuui iiu vua, ijv ouereu hem $3 apiece nnd made settlements. "If it wasn't that I had promised Tanner on her dying bed," he said to llS WlfO nn tll Inst vleHm way "I know, I know, deacon," wns the eply "We'll have to keep Urn." "We will." "Durn his hide!" "S-s-s-h! Thero ho stands in the oor!" That night the goat was shut up In he barn, but thero was a window ash and glass with him. Mr. Griggs is way homo when some whlto ob- . l . w . uia ust uuu 1113 new no more for half an hour. Tho .mjujoi. vuuiLiJ L1UU spent wo hours sweeping nnd dusting and ad started for his fireside with his ands clasped under his coattalls. lie nnf i'niii.1 1 f l . i . uu j-jjiu uaney uororo the n I n T T li 1 .. l i . . luijiiiuuu was inai meteorite had fallen from tho night :y and plunked him between the loulders. There were half a dozen others that ere treated to various surprises and .nsaUons, and this time It cost Dea m Carter $50 to settle. no II have to sell him," ho said to wire, with a sigh. "And Iluuner's ghost will haunt us!" The goat was chained up, nnd for w ICUa'UVl' Hill- 1 w mwi. ui LUU 11 II (J Willi I I nmCml 111' AO nr. t t l.f . . . liored at tbo church. Tho coat orkea some sort of hocus poens on mt chain and vras onco more at lib- V If Lik IPAnf innB J I. t ood wldo open, as If inviting all tho mts to enter with tho sheep, and lis L'onr nfnrn.i ita . . ... vj vuu-iw UU UIO in. nnd within three minutes ho had IVen OUt tho COnOTPtrntlnn Could such a thing as that bo ovcr oked nnd tho offender forgiven? STou low it could not With pickets illed from tho fence, with clubs and ick, they wore too many for him. "it " . ftU UU illU ldge, closing In to tako his life, when went over tho rail Into tho croek id was drowned. "I s'poso Hanner is an nngol," ob rved tho deacon's wlfo as they sat gether that evening. 'xes, I s pose so." 'And she now It allf ies.' 'What do you think sho thunk?" 'Probably that sha had a fool for a thr." 1H1 TARIFF AND THE PAY ENVELOPE Surest Way to Determine Proiperlty Is By the Wane-Earner's ReturnB. "I want to sco tho benefits of tho tariff put Into tho pay envelops," Mr. IlooEOvelt is quoted as saying on Juno 18. Tho pay envelope moro than any thing else determines the prosperity of tho country. The buying power of tho nation Is proportioned by the dol lars nnd the pennies that go out iu tho pay envolopo. Diminish thu power of tho wngo carner to buy by docrcaxlng tho amount of money In tho pay onvolopo and you Btrlke a blow at every mor cantllo enterprise and ovory Industry In the nation. Prosperity Is measured by tho pay envelope. The Democratic platform declares that tho American WnRo-earner stall be denied that protection which bos kept his pay onvolopo from bolng re duced to the slzo of that paid tho wage-earner of BnGlnnd, Gormony nnd the coolio of Japan nnd China. Mr. Wilson has ropentodly doclarcd that he wniits tho products of American manufacturers put on the competitive bants with foreign, choap-mado goods thus, that he, too, favors tho Euro pean pay envolopo with Its $5 and J6 a week. This Is the question which tho American wage-earner must consider in the approaching campaign. Does he intend to support tho party and tho men who havo made it a law that the difference between tho American pay envelope nnd tho European pay en velop must bo considered boforo all things In drawing up tariff measures, or does ho favor tho party and tho can didates who want to reduce tho pay envelope to tho Europenn standard? Democratic froo trade means less employment, a smaller envelope nnd economic disaster. Does any self-respecting American wage-earner desire to voto for theo conditions? i Tho lino between the Republican and Democratic parties, and ono that directly concerns every man, woman and child is the tariff. Tho Republican party stands for protection of Amerl enn worklngmen nnd American pro ducers against the products of cheap foreign labor. Tho Democratic party stands for free trade Tho Baltimore platform reitorntes the party's posi tion on that question, and the conven tion nominated an avowed free trader for president There Is no middle ground. The ono stands for prosperity, tho other for poverty. The ono stands for high wagos and plenty of work, tho other for low wages and little work. Tho one stands for the home market for homo producers, th other for the home market for foreign pro ducers. The one stands for tho full dinner pail, tho other for tho free soup house. to $3.30 a box. "Who paid that duty? In 1S71 steel rails sold for $102 a ton, and a duty of $28 a ton was laid. In 1804 tin price dropped to $29.92. Who paid that duty? In 1883 the duty was rcducod to $17 a ton, nnd In 1898 tho prlco fell to $17.62. Who, also, paid that duty? An Importer whom I know paid $1 for n German linen nrticlc when tho duty under the Wilson tariff wns 35 per cent Dingley put up the duty to 50 per cent and tho German exporter, rnthor thnn lose his trade, lowered his prlco to 90 cents. Who, I ask, paid the increased duty? I assert it to be the rule, with ex ceptions, of course, that the prices of European articles are lowerod so that the American markot may ho reached. The result Is that, In many cases, tho Amerlcnn not only pays little or no moro hero than he would havo to pay In Europe, but the European actually relieves him from a part of his taxa tion. The tariff, then, actually saves money to the masses of tho Amerlcnn people. I may extend this matter a llttlo further. The duties upon steel rails have Indeod been high. But, under those duties, we have built one-half the railway mileage of tho world; and whereas the average freight rnte per ton In Great Britain Js about threo cents a mile. In tho United States it Is conducted over those very rails four-flfthB of a cent a mile, or the low est rate In existence. In what manner, then, has a high duty upon rails hurt tho American citizen? CHARLES HEBER CLARK. Our Double Role of Producer and Consumer. Let me protest against tho oft-repeated attempt to divide tho people into separated classes of producers and consumers. There can bo no such division. Every man not a mere tramp Is both a producer and a consumer. The brakeman on a train, the man who drives a cart, the cleric in tho hank, are producers. Even tho Idle rich man Is a producer, for his money works, and must work, for him. Should some tremendous cataclysm suddenly destroy overy manufacturing Industry In the great state of Pennsylvania It would hurt In his pocket every hon est man in tho United BtaUs. Ab the apostle said, long ago, "Wo are mem bers ono of another." All of h am more or less dopendent upon each of us. The vital need of our government la assured revenue. Tho government Is not a producer. It is a protector and chorlsher of tho interests of tho peo ple. The revonuo must come from tho earnings of the people. It is an ex cise something cut off from the earn ings of those who do produce wealth. This taxation may bo done In sev eral ways. Great Britain, with less than half our number of people, col lects as much revenue as wo do. Her method is to tax tho people directly, reaching far down into every pocket and, meantime, letting in free, through her custom houses, tho pro ducts of the Industry of other nations Our method, which takes from tho people CO cents where Enclnnd tnks a dollar, Is to make tho levy largely by requiring tho foreign producer to pay for a license to enter our market for the purpose of comDctinir with thn domestic producer. The result is twofold. First, tho tar is taken in nart lndlrectlv from thn citizen and often witliout his con sciousness; second, tho forolgner ia compelled to pay a port of the tax for tho privilege of admission here. It is a not uncommon delusion that tho customs duty is always added to the American Drico. Tho truth 1 that In many eases tho American prico, with duty added, is no higher than tho foreign price. Hero aro a few nronfa of thin fnot. Congress removed the duty from hides. At once the exporters in Ar gentina advanced the price of hides to tho extent of tho withdrawn duty. A few years ago, In response to a pop ular cry for "a freo breakfast table," tho duty was taken off of coffee. ThP government of Brazil Instantly added It as an export duty. In both cases our government surrendered reveauo which was pocketed promptly by for eigners, and tho American consumer una no benefit of any kind. The McKlnley tariff first lmnoscit a duty of 314 onts a pound on tlnplate, wnicn wns man seninr for E.Ii a box. The- foreign prk at onco dropped Folly of Tariff Doctrines. The folly of the tariff doctrines for many years enunciated by Woodrow Wilson must be apparent to overy wage-earner In this country. Tho de claration of his party is as follows: "We declare it to bo a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that tho federal government under the con stitution has no right or power to im pose or collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue." Under that declaration If there should conio a time when other na tions universally adopt a protective tariff, and it became certain that no industry in this country could survive without protection, our Industries would have to perish, because we would havo no right or power to pro tect them from competition with tho products of other countries. Many Democratic leaders aro im ploring Wilson to recant his utter ances. The Hearst newspapers are vociferously declaring that tho Demo cratic platform does not mean what It says. But Wilson, adhering with dog ged determination to his llfo-long freo trado theories, Is for a revenue tariff only, and declines to be persuaded to abandon that Idea. What tho Democratic party, there fore, has got to do bofore it can win is to explain how it is going to throw protection to the winds and at the same time keep American wages up to the present standard. The tariff and the emigration ex clusion acts aro the bulwarks of pro tection for the world's workers. Amer ican consuls tell us that portions of Europe aro bolng enriched, and civil ized, by aliens who come to this coun try, earn a competence and return to Europe. And Just as tho freedom of tho American workman the Influence f it Is liberating tho men and wo men of tho world from political bond ago, the prosperity of the American workman under tariff protection is lib erating tho workmen of the world from the debasing wage slavery do structlvoly dominant everywhere ex cept In this country. Aside from these generalizations, Delawareans should recall local con ditions or only a generation ago of loss than that ago. What but the tariff fostered Industries of tho coun try, has made the state ono of the most prosperous states of tho Union? What influence Is it that has turned farms into gardens? What but the tariff abolishes the free trado blight of 1892-9S, by the lighting of furnaoe fires nnd starting the then paralyzed lndustrlos of tho country into lifo? 50 YEARS A MESSENGER BOY. George Pulaski of Interior Department Celebrates Half Century Anniversary. George Pulaski recently celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as n messen ger "boy" In tho Interior department nt Washington. Ho is n veteran of tho civil war, nnd says he feels ns fit ns ho did when he first began to carry messages for Uncle Sam linlf a century ngo. While no offlclnl notlco has been taken of the nnnlvcnmry, tho clerks In the land ofllco, whore he has been as signed In recent yenrs. gnvo him a tea tlnionial of their regard. OSAGE LANDS WILL BE LEASED 100,000 Acres to Be Thrown Open by Federal Government' Bids for leases upon 100,000 acres of oil lands belonging to tho Osage In dians will be opened Nov. 2 at tho Osage Indian agency in Oklahoma. Any bid will be ncccpted for 25,000 acres or less from nny ono company, provided It Is not a transporter of oil under tho Interstnto commorco com mission's ruling ns to common carriers. I nOUUT PHOULAMATIOiN'.-Whcreas, J the Judge of tho several Courts of the County of Wnyne lias Issued his precept for holding n Court of (junrtir PcsMons, Oyer nnd Terminer, nm! General .Tnll Delivery In nnd for said County, nt Mia Court House, to Ih'L'Im on MONDAY. OCT. IS. 1912. nnd to continue one weeks: And directing that n 'Irnnd Jury for the ( ourls of Quarter Sessions mid Oyer nnd Terminer ho summoned to meet on Monday, Oct. '21, lyiz. nt -J ii. m. Notlco Is therefore hereby clvcn to the Coroner am! Justices of the. Pence, nnd Con stables of the Comity of Wayne, Mint tlicy he then and thero In their proper persons, at sulci Court House, nt 2 o'clock In the nfter noon of snld 21st day of Oct.. VM. with their records, liiqulsltlons.uxamlnntlons nmlothcr remembrances, to do those things which to their otllccs niipertiilu to be done, nnd those who are bound by rccocnlzuice or otherwise to prosecute tins prisoners who are or shnll be In the Jail of Wayne County, be then nnd there to prosecute ncnlnst them us shull be Just. niven under my hnnd. nt Ilonesdnlc, this 3rd tiny of Oct.. Itll', nnd In the 13nth year of thrj Independence of the United Stntes oi 1'ltANK C. KIMKLK. Sheriff. Sheriff's Olllce 1 ilonesdnlc, Oct.;), 1912. j SOwl Tho Citizen wante a good, llvo ly correspondent in overy vlllago In Wayno county. Will you bo one? Write this offico for particulars. OO0 O00 O-f OO-frO-f OO-iVO-f o.f 4. I Advertisements i Hk. Under Provision of Post Of- 1 9. flco Appropriation Bill of Auc. o & ill. 11)1" " o -fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo-fo FOR CONGRESSMAN NOTICE 01? ADMINISTRATION, F.HTATK OK WILLIAM KATZ. Iite of the borough of Ilonesdnlc, County of Wayne, l'n. All persons Indebted to said estntenre noti fied to make Immediate payment to the un dersigned : and those havlnc claims nenlnsl the snld estate are notified to present them duly attested, for settlement. MAUDK M, KATZ, Ad'x. M.J. Mnrtln, m Fourteenth St.. hcranton. l'n. Ilonesdnlc, l'n. Att'y for Estate. 78eol6 What the Worklngman Gets. Tho deposits In the savings banks represent n part, and only a part, of tho surplus, over and abovo tho living expenses of tho earnings of the man who works for wages. Under the much maligned and much misrepresented proteotlve tariff ays torn wo have procured in forty years, from 18C0 to 1900, the following re sults for tho American worklngman: In that time tho number of wage earners In Amorlcan mills Increased four times; Tho wages paid in American mills Increased seven tlmos; The number of doposite in savings banks Increased ton times; The amount of deposits in savings banks increased sixteen times. Those remarkable facts conclusively provo that wages aro increasing and tho worklngman's surplus Is steadily enlarging, Thoro Is further and very remark ablo proof of this statement: From 1800 to 1007 the population of tho United States increased from thlrty-ono million to eighty-six mil lions or two and three-fourths tlmos. Prom 1800 to 1007 tho savlnr bankB deposits increased from ?150( 000,000 to $3,500,000,000 or twenty-four times. In the presence of theeo notable positively accurato figures, what be comes of the contention that "tho rich are growing richer whilo the poor are crowing poorer?" CIIABXES ILEBHIl CLABK, In Saturday Evening Post. w HON. JOEL O. HHjIi. , Democratic Candidate Tor Congress man of this Congressional District. Mr. Kill's friends aro advocating his election on the grounds that ho is no experiment, but has been tried and always proved true to tho inter est of the people. In every position occupied hy Mr. Hill ho has shown himself to bo a man of sound Judg ment, always devoting his best en ergies in an effort to accomplish the greatest benefit to all tho people and has never In any way identified him self with tho special interests which aro seeking for advantages at the expense of the masses. Mr. Hill nas always been a favor ite with tho voters of Wayno county and conditions existing this year as sure him the largest voto ever given to him In this county regardless of party lines. Adv. 7Geol2 Q HERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE D REAL ESTATE. By vlrtuo of process issued out of the Court ot Common Pleas of Wayne county, and State' of Pennsylvania, and to mo di rected and delivered, I havo levied on and will expose to public sale, at the Court House In Honcsdalc, on FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 11)12, 2 I M. All tho defendant's right, title and Interest In tbo following de- scruiea property viz: All those three certain parcels or tracts of land situated in tho town ship of Berlin, county of Wayno and State of Pennsylvania. The First, be ginning at a stones corner in south ern lino of Pigeon Roost tract; thonco hy land In tho warrantee name of John Androws, south twen ty two and one-half degrees east eighty-one and three-fourths rods to a white pine corner; thence by land formerly owned by Buckley Beards lee south sixty-seven and one-half degrees west ninety-four and three fourths rods to stake corner; thence south four degrees west eight and one-tenths rods to middle of Hones dalo and Mast Hope Plank road; thenco along the same westward thirty four rods; thence by other lands formerly owned by Peter Mauer, north twenty-two and one half degrees west ninety-one and threo .'fourths rods to stones corner; thenco by tho Pigeon Roost tract north sixty-seven and one-half de grees east one hundred thirty-seven and three-tenths rods to place of be ginning. Containing seventy-six acres and seventy-six perches, 'more or less. The Second Beginning at a stones corner In tho eastern line of lot of Joseph Looven, purchased of Buck ley Boardsleo at a point whero Peter Loevern's division Intersects tho samo, thence south twenty-two and one-half degrees east seventy-two and one-half rods to stones corner in tho north line of George Hugh's lot; thence south sixty-seven and one-half degrees west one hundred eighty and two-tenths rods to stoues corner in eastern lino of Jonathan Seely lot; thenco north twenty-two and one-half degrees west seventy-two and one-half rods to stones corner; thonco north sixty-seven and one-half degrees east one hundred eighty and two-tenths rods to place of begin ning. Containing forty-nine acres, more or less. The Third Beginning in the mid dlo of the Mast Hope road on eastern lino of land formerly of Jos. Loe-l von; thonco south along lino of An drew Houth twonty-two and ono-half degrees cast flfty-sovon and three fourths rods to stones cornor; thenco south sixty-seven nnd ono-half de grees west fourteen feet to corner; thenco north twenty-two and ono half degrees west fUty-oven and three-fourths rods to middle of said road and thenco easterly along tho niiddlo of road to tho place of bo ginning. The last of the abovo described lots being a tract fourteen feet wido and ilfty-seven and three-fourths rods long, Intended for a lane or road way. Upon tho first of the above de scribed lots Is a two-story framo dwelling house, barn and other out buildings. A considerable portion of the land Is Improved. Seized and taken In execution as the property of Charles S. Ahrens at tho suit of Elslo A. Boock. No. 237 Juno Term, 1912. Judgment, ?U40. Simons, Attorney. TAKK NOTICK All bids and costs must bo paid on day of sale or deeds will not be acknowledged. FRANK C. KIMBLE, Sheriff. Honcsdalc, Pa., Sept. 27, 1912. SHERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE O REAL ESTATE.-Bv virtue of process Issued out of tho Court of Common Pleas of Wayno county, and State of Pennsylvania, and to mo directed and delivered, I have levied on asd will expose to public sale, at tho Court House In Honesdale, on FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1012, 2. P. M. All the defendant's right, title and Interest In tho following described property viz: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in tho township of South Canaan, county of Wayno and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a corner In tho center of tho Belmont and Eastern Turn pike Road on a line of land leased by Fred Swingle to tho public for school purposes; thenco along tho lino of said land south sixty-four and one-half degrees west five and three-quarter rods to a post corner; thenco south twenty-one degrees east along said leased land three rods and a halt a quarter of a rod to post corner on a lino of land belonging to P. W. Lerch; thence along said Lerch's land south forty-eight de grees west twenty-six rods to a stones corner; thence along land formerly belonging to Frederick Swingle north thirty-three degrees west twenty-one and one-half rods to a stones corner; thence along said land north fifty-five and a quarter degrees east thirty-four rods to tho center of the aforesaid turnpike road to a corner; thence along the cen ter of the aforesaid turnpike road south twenty-four degrees east four teen and a quarter rods to the place of beginning. Containing threo acres and one hundred perches, more or less. Excepting one acre and 155 perches which A. B. Stevens by deed dated Sept. 10, 1906, and re corded in D. B. No. 9C, page G28, granted and conveyed to William McMInn. On tho ahove premises, which is all Improved land, are modern creamery buildings, containing all necessary machinery and appliances. Seized and taken in execution as tho proporty of The Farmers' Co operative Dairy Company, Limited, at the suit of Charles H. Baker, Clark Enslln, Harry Emery and F. H. Reed. No. 233 June Term, 1912. Judgment, ?1500. Greene, Attor ney. TAKE NOTICE All bids and costs must bo paid on day of salo or deeds will not bo acknowledged. FRANK C. KIMBLE, Sheriff. Honesdale, Sept. 23, 1912. If you want fine Job printing Just give The Citizen a trial order. Wo can do GOOD work. 34 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK HONESDALE, PA. The Leading Financial Institution IN WAYNE COUNTY. Capital and Surplus $300,000.00 United States Depository. PC Wo solicit accounts on our merits and aro in a position to grant accommodations, largo or email, consistent with prudent banking. Wo want you to call us "YOUIt HANK," to havo you feel Intorestod In Its growth and worth In tho COMMUNITY. Although wo aro by far tho LARGEST COM.MERCIAL BANK In Wayno county, wo deslro to grow still larger, and wo would appreclato it If our customers would recommend us to their friends. THREE PER CENT. INTEREST ON ALL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS OFFICERS: Henry Z. Russell, President. Andrew Thompson, Vice-President, Lewis A. Howell, Cashier. Albert C. Lindsay, Asst. Cashlor. DIRECTORS: Henry Z. Russell, Horace T. Meaner, Louis J. Dorfllngor, Andrew Thompson, Open Saturday ovenlngu from 7:30 to 8:30. Homer Oroeno, James C. BIrdsall, E. B. Hardenbergh, Philip R. Murray. PC K X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X