PAGE FOUR THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1913. THE CITIZBN Scml-Weckly Founded 10 08; AVeekly Founded 1844. Published Tuesdays and Fridays by B. B. HARdKNBEnQri it , PRESIDENT H. C. VAN ALSTTNE and E. D. CALLAWAY MANAGING EDITORS FRANK P. WOODWARD....'. ADVERTISING MANAGER AND FEATURE WRITER. DIRECTORS : 0. n. iiORri.iNann. m, b. allkn, e. b. uakdenberoii w. w. wood TERMS: ONE TEAR . J1.60 THREE MONTHS 3Sc SIX MONTHS 75-ONE MONTH 13o Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Postofflce Order or Registered letter. Address all communications to Tho Citizen, No. S03 Main street, Honesdale, Pa. AH notices of shows, or other entertainments held for the purpose of making money or any Items that contain advertising matter, will only be admitted to this paper on payment of regular advertising rates. Notices of entertainments for the benefit of churches or for charitable purposes where a fee is charged, will bo pub lished at half rates. Cards of thanks, 60 cents, memorial poetry and resolutions of respect will be charged for at the rate of a cent a word. Advertising rates on application. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1013. Tho investigation of the lobby in Washington will probably not reveal a single case where a Senate or a Congressman has directly sold his vote. It will serve tho purpose, how ever, of eliminating pressure that is brought to bear to influence them through friends, through business connections, through tips on specula tive propositions and all those other devious "persuaders" that are work ed by men too clever to openly at tempt bribery. Gov. John K. Tener on Monday evening approved tho bill creating the new department of labor and in dustry and appointed dean John Price Jackson, of State College, as the commissioner. The new depart ment will take over tho duties and powers of the department of factory inspection. Three bureaus are creat ed by the bill, inspection, statistics and arbitrations. The commissioner will receive a salary of $8,000 per year and there will be a chief in spector of $5,000, a chief clerk at $2,000 and other ofllce attaches, to gether with an attorney at $3,000. HOUSE TO GET DOWN TO WORK. Speaker Alter Thursday evening Informed the members of the House that they would be expected to bo on hand for work this week. The reason for this is the number of con ference committees named, the size of the calendars, tho special orders and the numerous appropriation bills. It requires 138 members to pass appropriation bills. This ad monition from the chair caused much comment and members have settled down to hard work for tho rest of the session. AUXILIARY STATE FORESTS. Pennsylvania has once more sot the pace for the' conservation move ment by tho passago of tho three forestry bills which Governor Tener signed Thursday. One bill Axes tho value of timber land for taxation purposes at $1 an acre, making the taxes about two cents an acre. Another bill brings such privately owned timber land under tho control of the State Forestry Commission. A third requires the State to reim burse tho township wherein such exempted lands are located fo the amount of four cents an acre. Pennsylvania is the first state in the Union to pass a law of this kind and it is declared by the Pennsylva nia Conservation Association, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and other organizations and Individu als who represent tho best thought in the conservation movement that the plan will stimulate private cul tivation of trees as nothing else has ever done. Governor Tener has been a staunch friend of tho three bills from tho first and repeatedly during the session, tho conservationists who have been standing sponsor for the measure, have acknowledged their indebtedness to him. HARR1SBURG LETTER The Senate passed bills appropriat ing $300,000 for road improvement in Philadelphia if tho city gives an equal amount, and $1,000,000 for harbor improvements. The State-wido primary bill and tho party enrollment bill wero passed finally by the Senato and go to the Houso for concurrence .in amend ments. Tho FHnn forces predicted, opposition in the House. The bill authorizing Philadelphia to build and lease subways was sent to tho Governor, and the House per-i sonal property tax bill, making a subway loan possible, passed the Sen ate finally. Tho Houso resolution to investi gate tho workings of the civil service law in Philadelphia passed tho Sen ate. A committee of seven is to in quire into tho character of questions propounded to applicants. The National Wholesale Grocers' Association in convention at Atlan tic City, Indorsed the demand for a higher degree of efficiency in manu facture and a more scientific distribu tion of food products. THE RAILROADS' SCRAP HEAP. It is astonishing how much junk is accumulated by the railroads annually. Every year Jho heap of Junk grows larger, owing to the ex pansion of business and the adoption of new devices for the old. The pile of stool and Iron that was heaped up In San Francisco after the earth quake and Are, was spoken of as tho biggest scrap heap in the -world, and the Citizen Publishing Company. perhaps it was largest ever seen at one place, but its hundreds of thous ands of tons were very small In com parison to the gigantic pile that would be made If a year's accumula tions from all the railroads in the United States were brought together. It was only in recent years that tho railroad men learned how to get tho most out of this scrap heap when It is sold. Formerly all sorts of scrap from used-up locomotives to tho frames of tin lanterns were thrown together indiscriminately and sold at low prices to the Junk dealers, who sorted It and sold the different kinds at a big advance, making fortunes thereby. Now the sorting is carefully done by the rail roads themselves, making more than a hundred different grades and varie ties, and the market value of each is well known. There is no longer chance to speculate upon the ignor ance of the railroad companies, and the scrap they have to sell brings In millions of dollars every year. ORGANIZATION OF D. A. R. PERFECTED SATURDAY. Miss Hnwiet Rockwell, Regent, En tertains Wayno Chnptcr Work of Organization Planned. Tho organization of the Wayne Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was perfected on Saturday afternoon, June 7th, at tho home of Its regent, Miss Harriet Rockwell. Tho purpose of the or ganization and the plan of its work, notably that of studying and of pre serving the history of Wayne county during the Revolutionary period, was discussed. The Chapter now has a membership of 24. But this number will be increased to 34 as soon as the eligibility of ten new applicants is verified by the National Society at Washington. Tho officers of the lo cal Chapter are: Miss Harriet E. Rockwell, regent; Mrs. Fred B. Whitney, vice-regent; Miss Ethel Lee, recording secretary; Miss Char lotte Lane, corresponding secretary; Miss Bertha Lane, treasurer; Mrs. Homer Greene, historian; Miss S. Louise Hardenbergh, registrar; Mrs. Eben Clark, Chaplain. Tho board of managements consists of this official board together with threo additional members as follows: Mrs. Eben Clark, Miss Marian Wilder and Miss Alice Birdsall. The standing com mittees, such as social, program and historical, were also appointed at this meeting. Valuable papers of research and data, for tho use of the program and social committees, and for the historical records, were con tributed by Miss Jennie Ball of the society and by Mrs. Lewis P. Cook of Hawley. A forceful and deoply In teresting talk was given by the re gent on the aims of the local chap ter; theme: "The Democratic, Pa triotic and Educational Features should bo strengthened rather than sentimental and central worship; asking for the use of the ritual in its strongest sense and for efficiency and activity of the members, so that the Chapter may have weight and dig nity. For the time is not far dis tant when the D. A. R, will become one of tho most Important institu tions of our country." A resolution was passed making October 12th of this year the time limit for charter membership. Tho society meetings are to be held tho first Saturday af ternoon of each month except during July and August, but members may bo taken into the society at any time by complying with the rules of the National organization, and appli cants for membership may bo made to tho registrar of the local chapter. Mrs. Jacob S. Ames, a Hawloy mem ber, attended the meeting. EX-RANKER KNAPP ACQUITTED. At Ithaca on Friday last Charles June Knapp of Binghamton, was ac quitted by tho jury in Supremo Court on tho charge that, while acting as president of the defunct Bingham ton Trust Company, he violated tho State banking law in making a loan of $2,500 to Knapp Brothers' Bank of Deposit. The verdict was returned about 11 o'clock, and Justice Michael H. Kiley discharged Mr. Knapp from custody. Tho jury has spent the night de liberating, and when Supremo Court reconvened at 10 o'clock, they re ported to Justice Kiley -they were still unahlo to agree. By questioning of tho Judge it de veloped they stood C and C, that for threo ballots at midnight there had been a change to 7 and 5 for acquital and that then the bolting juror had gono back to the side of conviction, leaving the vote again a tie. It developed tho jurors wanted more definite information about what consltituted a loan. Tho Judge gavo It as his 'opinion- that tho jury was magnifying the importance of the case. "Why, gentlemen," he said In substanco, "if a tramp were to en ter tho henhouse of one of you gen tlemen, rob it of a chicken, and be caught and tried for the theft that would bo of Just about the import ance of tho case." Tho members of tho Jury retired to the small room again, and quickly reached the agree ment. ANNOUNCEMENT. For bargains attend the special sale t the Grambs building on Main street, this week. Menner & Co.'a sale ot damaged stock. Some Citizens We Greet "There's a chiel amang ye iak'in notes An' faith he'll prent it." Burns. There is something remarkably nice and refreshing about the per sonality of a young old man, one with a bright eye and a beaming countenance, one with the ruddy bloom of health upon his cheoks and a goodly measure of elasticity in his carriage. Such an one, for Instance, as Richard Brock, of Beach Lake, who dropped into tho busy business office of The Citizen one day last week to pay his respects to all hands. Eight years moro than tho al lotted 70 have passed over "his head, but you would never suspect It. Ho has lived In Beach Lake for three years more than a half century, and as he takes a retrospective glance backward occasionally he Is led to talk very entertainingly of the scenes he has witnessed and of the peoplo he has known. No Beach Lake, he says, Is not the same to-day that It was half a hundred years ago. There was moro business then, and of quite a dif ferent character, than is to be found there to-day. Drake & Stone con ducted an extensive tannery. They tanned sole leather, using the hem lock bark from the Immense Hem lock .forests that abounded on every hand. There wero three saw mills there then, one was proprietored by Wm. G. Stanton, another by Richard Ol ver and the third by Stone & Drake. Mr. Brock was the village black smith, and "The smith, a mighty man was he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Were strong as Iron bands. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You could hear his bellows blow; You could hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured heat and slow." The old-line shops and tho old-line blacksmiths, like the old-line print ers, have about vanished from the face of the earth. Instead of the old bellows that appealed to the boys as a good place to develop muscle, nowadays you will find a dinky lit tle arrangement that you grind like a hand-organ; and as to the old-time sights about the shop, they have about passed away. Longfellow drew a perfect picture of his day and gen eration when he wrote how " children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor." In these days there are mighty few children coming home from school and If they do stop at the apology for a blacksmith shop that some-, times you may be able to locate, you will find tho blacksmith, quite like ly, a pale-faced youngster, fresh from college, perhaps, and with the afore mentioned dinky little grind-organ travesty on Vulcan's forge, you also will find him tinkering up some body's automobile. Oh, Longfellow! These days would make you sick! You died just in the right timo! Pardon me, please. Richard Brock is the real disciple of Vulcan we want to talk about. So hero goes. In those days to turn out the work necessary to keep three sawmills and a tannery running, the blacksmith shop was indeed a very busy place. Mr. Brock couldn't do tho work alone, of course, and he had. two assistants. Not only did they shoe horses then, but oxen were as plentiful as horses, and oxen had to be shod. Say, if you owned a yoke of oxen to day, where would you go to get thom shod? Further than that, where could you find a blacksmith that could do tho work? Where would you find a shop equipped with the facilities for shoeing oxen? Mr. Brock says he went Into a shop recently and tho proprietor ask ed him to make an ox-shoe. The man had never seen one. Perhaps you never have, dear reader. He showed tho inquirer how tho trick is dono. When ox-shoeing was in vogue in Old Wayno county you could not buy shoes for horses and oxen as you may buy them to-day. Neither could you buy shoo nails then. Both shoes and nails wero made at the blacksmith's forge. Whon shoeing was Black the time was utilized In making various sizes of shoes. As to the making of nails, that was quite a different proposition. To make a horse-shoo nail was seem ingly a slight matter. To see it done gavo one the Impression that "any body could do that." As a matter of fact It was one of the most diffi cult feats of the trade. To make one thousand nails was counted a day's work. Mr. Brock could mako 9C in 20 minutes, and that surely was go ing some. I saw Joe Murphy, a famous Irish actor, make a horse-shoo at a forgo on tho stage. It took with the boys, and they wero willing to pay prem iums to get those shoes. Now, after talking with Mr. Brock, tho thought comes to tho fore, could Joseph have made a horse-shoe nail? The nail is a small affair, but much import ance has at times been attached to tho little bit of tough metal, for In stance: "For the want of a nail A shoe was lost; For tho want of a shoe A horse was lost; For the want of a horse A rider was lost; For the want of a rider A battle was lost And all for the want . Of a' horse-shoo nail." It takes 96 nails to shoe a yoke of oxen. Thore are eight shoes for each ox, and it required six nails for each shoe. To shoe a span of horses it takes 64 nails eight nails to each shoe. From 7 in the morning until 4 In the afternoon Mr. Brock has shod five yoke of oxen and two span of horses, besides doing some repair work. This shoeing was done with the nails and shoes furnished, of course. For years he worked 18 hours each day in tho winter season. He worked twelve hours with his' hired help, and after they had gone home he made 500 nails to be ready for tho next day's labor. This extra work was a necessity In order that there might bo no lost time in the shop, for lost time in the shop meant lost time in the woods, and time was very precious. One of the discomforts of working at the forgo was that looking con stantly into the glowing fire was bad for the eyes, causing a chronic state of Inflammation; but since quitting tho forgo and the anvil Mr. Brock has fully recovered strength along that line, and his eyes are ,as clear and strong to-day, almost, as they were in his youth, for he reads quite fine print without the aid of specta cles. He has retired from active life, making his home with his son-in-law, Amzl Koyes. BRAMAN TALKS ABOUT SPRINK LING. He Explains AVhnt Ho is Doing nnd What Ho Expects nnd Has a Right to Expect the Honcsdalo Public to Do A Pny-in-Advnnco System Would be Best. "Yes, sir," said Mr. Braman yes terday when a Citizen representative called on him to find out about the big bunch of Iowa horses he Is ex pecting to arrive on Tuesday, "the man who sprinkles Honesdale streets has troubles of his own." And then the ex-Sheriif went on to tell how it requires two men and two heavy teams to manipulate the splendid new sprinklers that are surely a credit to the town. He mentioned the fact that there are even business men on Main street who have refused to pay for sprinkling. They are willing to take what comfort they can from the sprinkling their neighbors pay for, and then they want their neighbors to cat their dust. Ho says the rate is fair, and that there is an ordinance that makes collectable any property that he sprinkles unless the property owner forbids him to sprinkle. All sprinkling bills are .duo from the 1st to the 10th of each month, and ho is very anxious that peoplo will bo ready with their cash when tho collector calls, for ho cannot af ford to make extra calls after the money. He called attention to the fact that ho is giving the very best service possible, and has oven broken the Sunday observance law by sprinkling the streets on that day. Mr. Braman believes, and The Citizen believes tho same, that the street sprinkling business should be conducted on the pay-in-advance system. It would be just as easy, and much more satisfactory all around, for people most naturally hate to "pay for dead horses" and for the "peck of dust" that they might have eaten had Braman not wet It down a "month before ho pre sented his bill. Anyway, pay PROMPTLY. Adv. Tho new excess baggage rule went into effect on tho railroads on Sunday. Trunks moro than 45 in ches in length, have to pay excess, and those moro than 72 Inches In length are rejected and must be sent by express. " You'll Get the Habit, Too. HP HERE are thousands of well dressed Men and Young Men who buy all their Clothes here Men who demand quality and correctness above everything. And they all come back our friendship has been doubly strengthened because they can not only get complete clothes-satisfaction, but also more for their clothes-money than they can get anywhere else. You'll get the habit, too, after you get your first suit here. Every sale we make is meant to give you one hundred per cent, satisfaction and no sale is complete or final until you're sure it's right. Snappy English models "slim and trim" Nor folks, Two and Three Button Single, in all styles for Men and Young Men. We have plenty of popular shepherd plaids, pin stripes, neat serges and fancy mixtures made into beautifully-tailored suits by SCHLOSS BROS. & CO. OF BALTI MORE, and other quality makers. $ib to $25. There's extra value a real saving of $2.50 to $5 on our three popular-priced specials at SELECT YOUR BOY'S SPRING CLOTHES and Haberdashery from the largest and most complete Boy's Depart ment in town. All-wool- Two-pant Nor folk Suits in Blue Serge and Fancy Mix tures, $5 and $5.50. Juvenile, Russian and Blouse Two-Pant Suits extra value at $2 and $7. Straw Hats in "all the lat est styles and prices at "Tho Quality Store For Men." MAIN STREET, Foster's Weather Bulletin Copyrighted 1913 By W. T. FOSTER WASHINGTON, JUNE 7. Last bulletin gave forecasts of disturb ance to cross continent Juno 4 to 8, warm wave 3 to 7, cool Wave G to 10. From near meridian 90 east ward this dlsturbanco will cause severe weather with a probability of heavy rains at some points on the gulf coasts. Unusually hot weather will prevail southeast of tho low, or storm center, as It crosses continent. Dangerous storms are expected in great central valleys during tho five days centering on Juno 7. Some showers in western sections during tho five days centering on June 27 and in eastern sections centering on Juno 7. While some sections will get good showers flrst half of June others of large extent will have a deficiency of rain. This may not damage wheat and corn to any great extent but where the drouth strikes oats first part of June it will be a serious mat ter for that crop. Wo are of opinion that farmers should not sell grain at this time. They should, at least, keep enough oats and wheat to sup ply any deficiency that may occur. We are of opinion that grain will not go permanently lower In the mark ets this year and that nothing will be lost by keeping some old grain for emergencies. Next disturbance will reach Pacific coast about June 9, cross Pacific slope by close of 10th, great central valleys 11th to 13th, eastern sec tions 14th. Warm wave will cross Pacific slope about June 9, great cen tral valleys 11th, eastern sections 13th. Cool wave will cross Pacific slope about June 12, great central valleys 14th, eastern sections 16th. This disturbance will continue the severe storms, hot weather and drouth. These of course will cover only small portions of the country. The storm forces will be most severe west of meridian 90 and particularly on the Pacific coast but the forces of the preceding storm will be greatest east of meridian 90. It is worthy of note that our pre diction of dangerous storms for the five days centering on May 10 proved to be correct and for those of 23 to 31 the U. S. Weather Bureau report ed a great Increase in the forces on May 27. Our No. 3 pamphlet, further ex plaining the forces of nature, causes of great storms and weather changes, is now ready for distribution and will be mailed free to all subscribers to the papers in which these bulle tins are published. Enclose stamp and address Foster's Weather Bur eau, Washington, D. C. Our greatest West India hurri canes occur in August and Septem ber, as a general rule, but sometimes they come in July or October. For 1913 wo are expecting tho principal hurricanes in July and October. We are studying these great storms care fully and a little later will give all tho details we can. But we are not yet prepared to definitely locate them as to timo and place. Of course it is well known that they organize east of the Caribbean sea and near 30 of north latitude, move westward through the Carrlbean sea, turn north and then northeastward while in the Gulf of Mexico and pass up the Atlantic off our eastern coast. Their movements are comparatively slow and they usually require 10 to 15 days to pass over tho route men THE BEST SELECTED AND MOST COMPLETE LINE of FURNISHINGS is ready here for your Summer Outfitting. Columbia Shirts, Knox Hats. Specials in Underwear this week, thin. Union and Two Piece Suits at 50c to $1.50. Breastein Bros, tioned. Sometimes they pass inland and have been known .to do great damage in tho Mississippi valley. While, .they are In the Gulf of Mex ico a cool wavo usually develops in the Canadian middle northwest that has been known to cause damaging frosts in midsummer. HAWLEY. Hawloy, June 7. Miss Lena Poeppel left Saturday for Jamaica, N. Y., to spend a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Wm. Lobb. Miss Fannie Miller is spending a few days at tho home of Mr. and Mm TT T? Miller nf Woturminillnnil ' . . J I A. M....W. iu IT Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Rol lison last Wednesday night, a daugh ter. The Ladies' Aid of the German Lutheran church, met at tho home of Mrs. Barbara Duffy, Thursday after noon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Boeppler, of Wilson vllle, wero tendered a farewell party by the Paupack River club, last Sun day. About seventy-five guests were present and all reported a pleasant time. Miss Nora Murphy, of Honesdale, spent Wednesday with her aunt, Mrs. Mary McHale, of tho East side. Tho senior class of tho Hawley High school took a trip to Kimbles where they will gather material for school decoration. All preparations are being made for commencement, whlch takes place In the High school auditorium, June 11, 1913. A few suggestions of articles that will make ap propriate gifts for gradu ates: Fountain Pens from $1.00 up. Purses, Wallets and Card Cases from 25c up. Dainty Perfumes and Toilet Wa ters from 25c up. Largest lino of Writing Papers and Correspondence Cards ever shown," 25, 35, 50c and higher. Beautiful Gift Books; hundreds of titles. Largo lino of Parisian Ivory, both Domestic and Imported. Hair Brushes, Cloth Brushes, etc. Call on us and let us show you. At LEINE'S THE REXALL STORE, Honesdale, Pa. On account of a back ward season wo will give our customers a ten per cent, discount on all goods purchased between now and July 4. HONESDALE, PA. Gifts for
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