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THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1913.
THE CITIZEN
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TUESDAY,
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.
'Resolved, That I will not be the
slave of any habit, good or had, that
I will be master of my own soul,
dictator of my own conduct, that I
will not permit environment or as
sociation to influence me against the
dictates of my better self; that I
will keep my heart free, ready to re
spond to the calls of need; that I
will keep my body clean, since it is
the temple of the Divine Spirit; that
I will make a covenant with my eyes,
and close the shutters when they
would look out upon a questionable
sight; that I will cultivate my mind,
and make it a storehouse for wis
dom; that I will respond to the calls
of conscience and duty; in short,
since my Creator made me in his own
image, I will strive to maintain and
perfect th'e likeness, that I may bet
ter serve my country and my fellow
men. Josephus Daniels.
SAVING MONEY FOR THE TOWN.
There is not a taxpayer In the bor
ough that wants to see money spent
foolishly or unwisely. However, the
town has been doing this very same
thing for several years. In what
manner, the reader may ask? It is
just this. The borough has annually
purchased thousands of tons of
cracked stone and placed them prin
cipally upon Main street. Within a
year the bill for crushed stone has
amounted to over ?2,500. With the
borough's proportion for paving fix
ed at $14,000, how long would it
take to pay off the bond issue? The
stones are crushed into dust and
when it rains the dust becomes
sticky, mucky mud, nothing else. It
is then scraped up and carted away.
Year after year this has been the
routine work on Honesdalo's thor
oughfare. How long is it to be con
tinued? The only way to save
money for the town is to pave Main
street. Do it. Election will be held
July 11. .-,.
THE PROGRESSIVE BANQUET.
So far as numbers and enthusiasm
were concerned the Progressive ban
uet at Scranton on Friday evening
last appears to have been very much
of a success. Whether the cause of
good government was advanced by it
is not so clear. The burden of the
speeches was that certain of the
common people are being deprived
of their personal rights, which rights
it requires a political revolution to
restore. No mention appears to have
been made of the great economic
questions of the day, on the proper
settlement of which rests the stabil
ity of this government and the pros
perity of its citizens. It appears to
be outside the purpose of the Pro
gressive leaders to discuss the tariff,
the currency, our foreign relations
and a dozen other great subjects
which confront the people and which
the present administration at Wash
ington Is struggling to solve. The
subjects which these leaders do dis
cuss and over which they become
enthusiastic and vehement aro those
concerning which there is little or no
contention by any party or by the
bulk of the people. No one seeks to
deny to working men or to women or
children their respective rights. The
great body of laws on our statute
books today, enacted for their pro
tection, were placed there by the old
parties. And inasmuch as the work
ing men of this country make up the
bulk of the two old parties it may
reasonably be supposed that the in
terests of their wives and children
will bo as carefully guarded in their
hands as In the hands of such mil
lionaire representatives of the new
party as William Flinn, Gifford Pin
chot and Thomas Robins. It may
also be taken for granted that the
men of the old parties will bo as
ready as tho Progressives to confer
the right of suffrage on their wives
and mothers and daughters when
ever the welfare of the women and
the state requires it. Tho new par
ty becomes distinct from the old only
by tacking on to Us commendable
features such excresences as the re
call of judges and of judicial decis
ions, and certain other extravagant
and harmful theories advocated by
tho radicals among them. It was
thus In tho years preceding tho Civil
war that the anti-slavery crusade
was hindered and handicapped by
such extreme advocates as Garrison,
Wendell Phillips and John Brown.
Such radicals as these, who declared
that the constitution of the United
States was "a covenant with death
DiRECTona:
M. B AIXHK. S. B. HABDEBEZBOn W. W. WoOD
JU.NE 24, 1013.
and a league with hell," gave more
trouble and concern to the wise and
conservative Lincoln than did the
armies of the South.
Enthusiasm and aggressiveness are
commendable qualities if rightly di
rected, but enlisted in the servico
of a mistaken cause they are produc
tive of no good results.
To all that is worth while in the
principles of the Progressive party
the Republican party stands pledged
and to vastly more. It is not con
ceivable therefore that the exuber
ance of youth and enthusiasm dis
played by our Progressive friends
will lead thinking men away from
the consideration of questions that
vitally affect the welfare of the na
tion, into the thoughtless adoption
of a propaganda that is unnecessary
where it is not unwise.
In the meantime the Citizen con
gratulates the (Progressive ban
queters on their enjoyment of an en
thusiastic evening.
COST OF GOING TO COLLEGE.
A statistician at Yale has figured
that the cost of a four-year course at
collego should bo about $4,370, di
vided as follows: Freshman year,
?1,020; sophomore year, ?1,052;
junior year, $1,130; senior year, $1,
1G2. By way of comment on these fig
ures,' the Christian Science Monitor
remarks:
"As a matter of fact, thero are
thousands of young men who support
themselves while at college, and
throughout every section of tho
United States this feat is not only
possible but feasible."
We might add that in addition to
being feasible, it is also desirable. A
college student who supports himself
will overcome the only possible ob
jection to a college education, name
ly, that it teaches a young man how
to spend someone else's money, rath
er than how to make and save mon
ey for himself.
You will observe that tho Yale
statistician counts on the average
student spending a little more each
year. If he were supporting himself
tho figures would probably be the
other way about, and the student
would be the better for it.
The more you spend on a college
student, the less you give him.
THE INCOME TAX.
As reported to tho Democratic
caucus of the Senate the minimum
exemption in the income tax will be
$3,000 instead of $4,000. A step in
the right direction, but by no means
far enough,
A fair and honest income tax
strikes at a uniform rato every in
come on which it is worth collect
ing.
The English limit of exemption is
$800. In most Europeon countries
it is a great deal lower. The mini
mum limit should not be more than
$1,000 at the most.
Tho Democrats are not prepared
for a square Income tax. They treat
it as a fine on wealth rather than as
a source of revenue; and some of
them, like Palmer of Pennsylvania,
havo the honesty to confess that
they don't dare to lower the exemp
tion lest the voters arise and kick
them out.
So they lay a political Income tax
not one according to sound econo
mic principles or their own boasted
love for equality of rights and privi
leges.
They proposo to give to a few
hundred thousand persons the special
privllego of paying the tax. Never
mind. The extravagance of Con
gress, If nothing else, will compel in
no distant time the lowering of the
exemption. And the more people's
pockets the Government pokes its
fingers into tho more people will be
roused by that extravagance and
eager to stop it. N. Y. Sun.
LIBERTY BELL MAY
BE SENT TO COAST,
Pleading that the school children
or the west should be clven an on
portunlty of seeinir thn lihortv boll.
nine young women teachers from the
States of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, called on Mayor Blankenburg
and Philadelphia councils in an ef
fort to secure the transportation of
the rello to the Panama-Pacific Ex
position in 1915. Mayor Blanken-
Durg informed them that he favored
the sending of the bell but said the
question would have to be decided
by mombers of councils to be elect
ed next fall.
'Petitions signed by thousands of
school children and by governors of
the States represented by the, dele
gation were presented to councils,
the members of which heartily ap
plauded the speeches of the fair
pleaders but failed to take action.
ROBERT D. TOWNE TO
PUBLISH NEW DAILY.
It Will bo Called "Tho Scranton
Dally News," nnd Will Appear
July 4.
A new morning newspaper to be
called the Scranton Dally News is to
bo started by Robert D. Towfie,
whose connection with the Tribune
Publishing company ended when
William H. Peck and John T. Porter
took possession of the company as
receivers on June 12 last.
Nine members of the editorial staff
of tho Tribune-Republican and
Truth turned in their resignations
last evening to William J. Peck, gen
eral manager of both papers, and
they will follow Mr. Towne to the
new paper.
A STERLING CHARACTER.
Percival W. Bentley, who was
buried today, was a magnificent type
of American manhood. He was not
a wealthy man as wealth Is now con
sidered, nor was he famous beyond
the circle of those who knew and
valued his sterling qualities. Most
of these were in his home city,
where he resided for the last forty
five years of his life. A native of
Susquehanna county, he belonged to
that sturdy generation of Northern
Pennsylvania men who came to this
city in the sixties and earlier to seek
their fortunes. It was given to Mr.
Bentley to turn to the science and
mystery of compounding the medi
cines of tho community. For many
years he was engaged as a druggist.
His name was a synonym or nonesty
in business and rectitude of personal
conduct. It is something to be said
of a man that none of his fellow men
ever spoke evil of him; yet precisely
this was said of Mr. Bentley wnen
the telegraph' brought to the city
news that ho had dleTI. It is some
thing to say of a man that he never
spoke evil of any one. No man ever
heard Percival W. Bentley give way
to caustic criticism. As to those
whom he could not praise he was
silent and men respected his silence.
There Is grandeur about such a char
acter. No man ever died who was
more sincerely mourned in Williams
port than the good gray figure laid
to rest in Wildwood to-day. He
typified the life of the upright Amer
ican citizen, the thoroughly honest
man, the good neighbor, the loyal
friend, the loving husband and fath
er. Ho was liberal in his glvings to
causes that appealed to him. His
friends regarded him at times as too
liberal. But his reward is a -place
in tho hearts of his fellow townsmen
that only generous and unselfish men
have. Williamsport Sun and News.
TO PREVENT WASTE OF EGGS.
Conservation of eggs in transit
is a problem whose solution the bur
eau of chemistry of the United States
department of agriculture la seek
ing. The waste of eggs through break
age in transit is enormous. Of tho
127,680,000 dozen of eggs which
were shipped into the city of New
York in a recent year, 11,500,000
dozens were cracked, and of these a
large percentage was unfit for use.
The egg supply of large cities, and
particularly that of New York, has
to come from a long distance, be
cause the whole egg product of the
middle Atlantic States is not enough
to supply that city. For the eastern
coast cities, the distant corn districts
are practically tho sole source ''of
supply. Hens do not have to scratch
so hard for a living in the corn fields
as they do where grain is scarce,
Increasing consumption of eggs adds
to the distance from which eggs must
come, and makes the safe shipment
of this valuable food product more
and more essential.
Tho situation is growing acute, be
cause the railroads are claiming that
their damage losses are such as to
make the carrying of eggs an un
profitable commercial proposition.
The shippers and consignees have
large sums of money tied up In
claims and litigation with tho roads.
If the department of agriculture suc
ceeds, as it hopes to do, In devising
a successful method of shipping eggs,
it will contribute importantly to the
poultry industry, which produces
each year food worth half a million
dollars.
COAL IN WILKES-BARRE.
The valuation of all property own
ed by the coal companies in Wilkes
Barre according to tho city treas
urer's tax duplicate, is $11,094,370
on which tho tax for city purposes Is
$77,727.'7D.
MANY NEW ACTS AVITH
BOBBINS' CIRCUS THIS YEAR,
The Frank A. Robbins' All Feat
ure Show, one of the best known cir
cuses on tho road to-day, having
been under the same management for
thirty-two years, will visit Honesdale
this year on Thursday, July 3. Fol
lowing his usual custom Mr. Robbins
lias scoured tho country for tho best
available acts, and will havo a num
ber of stars of the circus world with
him' when ho comes here. Hillary
Long, who walks down stairs on his
head, and does other equally differ
ent stunts whilo upside down, swing.
ing in a trapeze; tho Carreas, two
of most graceful and best bareback
riders of tho country: Oscar Benson
lin and his troupe of aerlllsts; the
Morey family; The Ceveno troupe, a
groupe of wlro walkors, who have
just returned from a triumphant
tour or South America; The Leons,
Herbert Brothers, a trio of acrobats
with few equals, make a list of stars
which briefly tells of the real at
tractions of the show. Thero will bo
a score or more of fun provoking
.clowns, a number of tine animal acts,
a splendid menagerie, greatly en
larged this year, and other attrac
tions to entertain the spectators. The
show gives two performances daily.
ono at tv.'o o'clock, and the other at
eignt. Doors open ono hour earlier,
and a band concert proceeds each
regular show.
OBITUARY.
Death of Lucy Bodlo.
Lucy Bodio died from a par
alytic stroke at her late home on
Blandin Flats early Thursday morn
ing. She was forty-eight years old
and is surtlved by aged parents, two
brothers, Howard and Ruben Bodle,
in town; two sisters, Mrs. Geo. Con.
nor, of New York, and Mrs. Alex
Lilje, of Forest City. Funeral was
held Sunday afternoon from the
house, with interment in Glen Dy
borry cemetery. Rev. Jesse Herrmann
officiated,
Lewis A. Lybolt Dead.
Lewis A. Lybolt, a veteran of the
Civil war, and a life long resident
of Damascus township, died at his
late home at Ferndale on Saturday,
June 21, after a long Illness. The
funeral was held on Tuesday, June
24. from his late home, interment
was made in Calkins cemetery. The
services will bo in charge of Captain
James Ham Post, G. A. R. of Hones
dale. A more extended notice and
history of tho life of deceased will
be given in a later issue.
McGrannghnn Dies From Injuries.
Hugh McGranaghan, a prominent
business man of Hancock, died at
his home from the effects of injuries
received in a runaway at Equinunk
on June 9 when he was hurled
against a maple tree and rendered
unconscious. He Is survived by a
widow and several children. Paul
McGranaghan of Honesdale, is a
brother of the deceased.
Mr.McGranaghan was president of
tho Hancock Board of Trade, presi
dent of the Crown Cut Glass com
pany, and a director of the First Na
tional bank of Hancock.
Dcatli of Mrs. J. V. Blnkc.
Jane James, widow of John V.
Blake, of Bethany, died at the home
of her niece, Mrs. Casterton, in Ra
cine, Wis., on June 19, aged 82
years. Death was caused by paraly
sis. The remains were brought east
for the funeral. Interment was
made on Saturday at Hamlin, her re
quest being that she be laid beside
the remains of her parents. Mrs.
Blake is survived by the following
step-children: A. O. Blake, C. O.
Blake and Benjamin Blake, all of
Bethany. Two brothers and two
sisters also survive, namely, Mrs.
John Fitze, of Westboro, Wis.; Mrs.
C. C. Palmer, of Milton, va.; Henry
James, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Fred
James, of Binghamton, N. Y. The
late John P. James of this place was
a brother of the deceased.
Funeral of Percival W. Bentley.
The funeral of Percival W. Bent
ley of Williamsport, who died at the
home of his niece, Mrs. Loring uaie,
Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, Monday,
Juno 16th, was held last Wednesday
morning. Tho body was taken to
Wildwood for burial in tho family
plot. Services were conducted at
the Central Presbyterian cnurcii ana
were very simple.
Mr. Bentley was prominent in
church work. He was the senior
older of the Central Presbyterian
church, and was ordained an elder of
the Third Presbyterian church, Wil
liamsport, on May 31, 18C9.
Mr. Bentley was a native of Mont
rose, Susquehanna county. He was
born April 8, 1845. His father was
Benjamin Stuart Bentley, wno be,
came a common pleas judge of Ly,
coming county after his removal to
Williamsport, being one of the two
Republican judges in the history of
the county, as a separate judicial dis
trict. After the Bentleys removed to
Williamsport, P. W. Bentley became
a druggist, and was in partnership
with Edward W. Smith from 1886 to
1899, after which time tho business
was conducted by Mr. Smith.
In the latter years of his life Mr.
Bentley was engaged in the insur
ance business.
The only members of Mr. Bent
ley's immediate family aro his wid
ow, and ono daughter, Miss Helen
Bentley.
Paralysis Claims James Cnvnnnugh.
Jas. Cavanaugh, for a number of
years a resident of Honesdale, died
at his home on Erie street, Friday
night, after a prolonged illness.
Death resulted from paralysis. Mr.
Cavanaugh was born In Ireland 85
years ago. For many years he was
In the employ of tho Delaware and
Hudson railroad as track boss. Ho
was tho father of thirteen children,
three of whom havo died, namely,
Edward, who was killed at Swack
hammer curve shortly after tho new
steam road was built over the
Mooslc, Maggie and Kate, Those sur
viving are Elizabeth, wife of Frank
Mulhearn, of Wilkes-Barre; Cecilia,
wife of Andrew Devlno, of Miles
City, Mont.; Nellie, wife of Law
rence McGinniss; Mary, at home;
Charles, Daniel, Burnard, all of
Honesdale; Michael, of Middletown,
N. Y.; James, of Newark, N. J.;
Jennie, wife of Charles Hudson, of
Wilkes-Barre. Tho funeral was held
on Monday morning at 10 o'clock in
St. John's Roman Catholic church.
WIND AND RAIN SWEEP
OVER PENNSYLVANIA,
An unusual thunderstorm preced
ed by wind of great velocity and ac
companied by a tremendous down
pour of rain visited Philadelphia for
a few minutes Friday night after in
flicting death and destruction to
property throughout Eastern Penn
sylvania. Wire servico for several
hours, was practically at a standstill.
Considerable damage was also done
in Southern Now Jersey and Dela
ware. Paul Smith, 14 years old, was
blown off a cherry tree In Pottsvllle
and Instantly killed.
In Philadelphia the greatest dam
age was done in tho northeastern
section where trolley wires were
blown down in many sectipns and a
number of peoplo were injured by
"PEDOS" CORN CURE re
lieves pain at once and event
ually cures. 15 cents.
f SNAPPY LITTLE BUSINESS STORIES. Tl
Watch Tills Spa co Every Tuesday.
"Heart to Heart Talks About Advertising"
By Roy B. Simpson.
Copyrighted 1911 by R. B. Simpson.)
A large men's furnishing store in
Chicago advertised a special sale of
four-in-hand ties regular fifty cent
quality at three for a dollar, as its
big leader for Saturday.
Before noon tho neckwear depart
ment looked like it had been struck
by a storm. The aisles were Jammed
with people and the manager of the
department was gleefully estimating
the volume of the day's business
when the proprietor appeared.
The proprietor was a young man
of the same metal that Marshall
Fields and John Wanamaker are
made of. He noted that the people
were buying ties BUT NOTHING
ELSE. "Why is this?" he demand
ed. "Why aren't these people sent
to other' departments where we have
as many good values?"
The manager replied that this was
a conservative store and he thought
it would be undignified to have his
salespeople go out of their own de
partment or even suggest that his
customers visit other departments.
"There's nothing undignified about
it,' retorted the owner. 'Most of these
people are receiving in exchange
two to ten times the amount of their
purchases. Most of them are bar
gain hunters or they would not be
here today. 'All of them will soon
need other things we sell.
"I fall to see why It would be un
dignified or a violation of good mer
(Continued Tuesday.)
Read Every Talk-It's Worth While.
falling signs and loose bricks blown
from chimneys.
For two minutes before the ar
rival of the rain, the wind blew with'
a velocity of fifty-nine miles an hour,
the greatest velocity recorded by the
weather bureau since 1889.
Tho rain was welcome to farmers
in this section of the state. It sav
ed farm produce and did millions
of dollars' worth of good.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
Tho Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears tho srf SZ$7--&
Signature of L&t&&Zc&te
NEURA POWDERS cure
all Headache, io cents. Sold
everywhere.
Variety, Quality
and Style
a man wants to pay $10,
. $12, S, $18 and $20 for his
Summer Suit, he finds
a maximum of the
things worth while in
our Schloss-Baltimore
Clothes.
You'll find that our suits nt'theso
popular prices aro tailored with the
siiino extreino caro ns high priced
models and tlint tho patterns are
very carefully selected, nnd to a
great extent exclusive.
Shepherd plaids, English
Checks, Pin Checks, Club
Checks, Chalk and other
Novelty Stripes. Plain
and Fancy Blue-Serges.
Every popular model in
English, Semi -English,
Conservative and Norfolk
Oljllsd. On account of a back
ward season wo will give
.You're sure to find what you're t "J
looking for in our immense display purchased between now and.
of Summer goods. July 4.
Breg stein Bros
Main St.
chandising to havo your salespeople
suggest a visit to other departments.
What about our new stock of gloves
for Fall? Aren't our new line of
hats and our large assortment of
Fall overcoats worth talking about?
"Here within twenty feet of you is
the best lot of shirts we havo ever
shown a line at a dollar that can
not be duplicated in this. city and
your salespeople haven't said a word
about thorn.
"All these goods are here to sell,
Mr. Blank. Wo are not advertising
the whole store for the exclusive
benefit of your department. Don't
ignore tho power of suggestion but
train your people to give hints that
will send customers to other depart
ments. "During a rush like this sugges
tions can be made quietly, quickly
and discreetly. When business is
nnrmnl mnrft mpa nnrl Viofti 4i.r1.r-
ment will prevail. Get acquainted
with your customers and you will
make them customers for the whole
store."
This splendid plan to increase tho
efficiency of store advertising was
put into practical use In all the de
partments and the customers liked
it.
And it changed the employes of
that store from mere slot machines
into real salesmen.
SUNSHINE.
If you are undecided as to what
business to go into go into the Sun
shine business. It pays big profits.
You know how physical Sunshine af
fects you how it makes your day
pleasant and cheerful and puts
health, zest and vigor into your
system.
Sunshine in your soul Sunshine
In your heart and Sunshine in your
face is of an infinitely higher order
because you can take it Into the
darkest corners of your day and
ttiere win be lignt.
Sunshine is a thing made up with
in us. It cannot be bought and it
cannot help but bo in you in greater
quantities if you eliminate from
your thinking and from your work
ing the things that shut off Sun
shine anger, regret for things that
can't be helped, wrong viewpoints,
worry, hatred, envy, jealousies. Get
these things out of your system
give the Sunshlno a chance and your
value to yourself and other people
win grow and grow.
Go Into tho Sunshine business.
George Matthew Adams.
Honesdale, Pa.