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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
Hard job 70 Unhorse Paul Revere

Hard job 60 Unhorse Paul Revere
One Of those Anical men who In.
slst that facts are facts only when
riveted down by spot witness afildavits
and vouchers of identity from genera
ton to generation says that Paul Re-
we're must "move on" out Of history
into tradition and take Longfellow's
epic with him. II 1t must be tradi-
tion gains a star and Boston's ragged
rebel won't be lonely touching elbows
with the men Of Sempach, Ivry and
Thermopylae and other heroes In that
twilight land. However, the ride has
been ridden in Imagination by millions
Of boys and girls who became fathers
and mothers and even grandfathers
and grandmothers to more riders. One
and all, they took It for true or 1t
wouldn't have been printed" so 1t
boots little whether that midnight trip
to Lexington happened or Longfellow
invented It. Paul Revere is in saddle
to stay.
That charge into hot place at Bala-
klava never occurred as the poet de-
scribes It, but the rendering Of Tenny-
sons classic on recitation days was the
battle rehearsal for thousands of
schoolboys who in the sixties really
charged with Lees "Jeb' Stuart and
Grants Little Phil" War is always
what Sherman found 1t, but the spirit
to "Hght on horseback, footback and
every other back" when nagged too
far makes for peace as much as big
fleet and in the same way. Also. II
Paul Revere could be unhorsed by col.
lision with little thing like "histor.
ical truth" "Horatius at the Bridge
ARNOLD winkelried" and 1.-THE White
Plume Of Navarro" must 60 too. The
new thought has 1t that to believe an
idea is fact hard enough makes it fact
regardless For certain purposes, not
ably sidestepping dry rot in a ma
tion's backbone, this gospel bubbles
with common sense.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
Bread Lands For Bread Liners.

England is overrun with an army of
unemployed, and the British govern
ment has conceived a scheme which
ought TO forestall any large recruit
ment to its ranks by refugees from
ireland. The idea is to increase the
sum formerly appropriated for Irish
land purchase to relieve idleness and
poverty in the bogs from $500,000,000
to $9OOOOO,00O. The additional sum
will be put into grazing lands, to be
allotted to peasants for tlllage. The
region to be benefited has long been
overcrowded because the bulk Of the
land was devoted to grazing cattle In
stead of feeding Irlshmen.
In this country various plans have
been suggested for getting the unem-
ployed out Of the cities upon the land.
It might be cheaper in the end to fol-
low Great Britain's example than to
relieve the poor In cities by charity
contributions. Many OF the unemploy-
ed here are country bred and have
been gradually lurcd into towns and
cities in search Of living because the
rise in the price of land and the In
crease In the cost of working 1t made
farming precarious for the man with
out capital. Great Brltain's plan is to
help the Idle who are asking leave to
till the soil for their bread. If any
number OF our native unemployed are
In like spirit the solution for one social
problem that confronts the nation IS
obvious. Free bread lands will reduce
an army of "out of works" quicker
than free bread lines.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

one from him, as II frequently attempted.
The World has no evidence that he was
associated with Mr.. Cromwell and would
accept his word to that eject. for Mr..
Robinson is an estimable gentleman of
high character, whose reputation for We
racity is infinitely better than that of his
distinguished brother-in-law.
If the World has libeled anybody we
hope It will be punished, but we do not
intend to be intimidated by Mr.. Roose-
Velt's threats, or by Mr.. Roosevelts de-
nunciation, or by Mr.. Roosevelt's power.
No other living man ever so grossly
libeled the United States as does this
president, who besmirches congress. bull
doEes judges. assails the integrity OF
courts, ISLANDERS private citizens and who
has shown himself the most reckless, un-
scrupulous demagogue whom the Ameri.
m people ever trusted with great power
ind authority.
The World has immeasurably more re-
ipect for the Office of president Of the
United States than Theodore Roosevelt
ias ever shewn during the years in which
le has maintained a reign Of terror and
filihed the honor and honesty of both
public officials and private citizens who
opposed his policies or thwarted him in
ais purposes.
So far as the World is concerned its
proprietor may go to jail II Mr.. Roosevelt
succeeds, as he threatens. but even in
all the World will not cease to be a fear
ess champion of free speech, a free press
and free people. 1t cannot be muzzled.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
Now For q "Good Trust"

There have been many attempts to
initiate Barnum In exploiting the
greatest and biggest show on earth"
1t remains to be seen what John w.
Gates will do with the idea, but this
gentleman has never been known to
leave anything loose that can be tied.
He may not have Rockefellers knack
of assimilating rivals. If not, SO much
the worse for the rivals. Gates will
not be satisfied to head the procession.
Unless he can own 1t all there won't
be any procession.
When John W. begins to put to-
gether Gates Greatest" ETC., there
will be one field of private ownership
Of public enterprise where attempt to
enforce antitrust laws would insure
n riot. you can't indict a whole
people," especially when the whole
people are chiefly boys. Gates
might not be able to rally vote of
confidence at the polls, but he could
count on mastering all the stale eggs
and cabbages, brickbats and cobble-
stones necessary to deter a sheriff's
posse from breaking up circus be-
cause it was too great and big. Per
haps "the plunger" is going to give us
an object lesson and get some fun out
of 1t for himself. If big, big show
is not entitled to be "passed unani-
mously without debate" for an immu-
nifty bath then from whom or from
where shall come the answer, "Pres-
ent!' when the roll of good trusts is
| called
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
The Lineup on Suffrage.

Active woman suffragists will be
likely to congratulate themselves that
organized opposition is taking the field.
There will be something doing on the
national forum henceforth besides alb
stract appeals which only now and
then arouse serious criticism, but
usually draw cheap ridicule from the
crowd. All great causes have thrived
in spite Of persecution, and sometimes
persecution acts as blessing Then
for the first the cry goes out, "Who is
not for us is against u.s." and the
lines are formed for battle.
1t is not probable that there will be
any persecution growing out of the
suffrage agitation except in petty So
cial matters. There Is room for honest
difference of opinion among the ladies
and the gentlemen whose fealty they
command. The singular thing about
1t is that both sides insist that they
aim for the highest good of the un
franchised sex and Of society. Boil
cannot be wholly right. 1t even may
be that neither is wholly wrong ant
that there is a middle ground. A
present 1t seems to be case for thor
ough debate conducted in good nature
and with mutual regard for opposing
convictions.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
AGAINST LIQUOR IN JERSEY.
state Excise Commission Makes 9
Strong Report to Governor.

Trenton, N. j., Dec. 16.-Fewer So
looms, fewer drug stores, higher license
fees, rigid enforcement of Sunday liq-
uor laws and making mayors RESPONSE
BILE for their observance are leading
recommendation of the report Of the
state excise commission made to Gov
ernor Fort.
The majority report recommends the
divorce Of the saloon from politics and
suggests that provision in the law
should be made whereby brewers or
any one else directly or indirectly in
terested in any saloon sheuld be joint
ly held responsible with the proprietor
of that saloon If it is run contrary to
the laws.
The commission declares that indict-
ments could be found in Atlantic coun-
ty for Sunday selling if juries were
properly drawN and not made up Of
men so interested as to not find indict-
mentS.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
"wAssERMUCKER," NEW WORD
It Means One Who ZeaIously Fights
Liquor Traffic.

Chicago, Dec. -"Wassermucker."
This word is added to the English Ian
guage by President Schneider Of the
Chicago board of education in uphold
ing a public schoolteacher who public
ly announced her opposition to the liq-
uor movement.
"a 'wassermucker' is one who dis
plays marked zeal in fighting the
liquor traffic. 'Wasser' is German for
water while 'mucker' is recognized
by the dictionaries as meaning sta
BILE cleaner, low, dirty fellow, and
also as a fall in the mud"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

The great hit make by the late Ad-
miral Coghlan with the poem, "Hoch
der Kaiser" In an after dinner speech
was by no means an isolated achieve
ment for the gallant sailor. He was
exceptionally happy as an entertainer
of good company, and wherever he ap-
peared at the dinner table he received
an ovation at the hands of his admir-
ing companions.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
TICKET sPECULAToRs TO 60.
New York's Mayor Signs Ordinance
Prohibiting Sidewalk Sale.

New York. Dec. 16.-Sidewalk specu-
lation in theater tickets will in thirty
days become violation of the law as
result of the action of Mayor Nc
Clellan in signing an ordinance framed
by the board Of aldermen prohibiting
such speculation.
The signing of the ordinance prohib-
iting sidewalk speculation In theater
tickets is the climax of long fight
which the theater managers have
waged against spectators.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
-ONCBOAT WINNER
DOrandO StaggerS and Drops
In Marathon Race.
INDIAN RUNNER FINISHES ALONE
italian Had Led Nearly All Of the
Distance Of 26 Miles 366
Yards When He
Collapsed.
INDIAN RUNNER FINISHES ALONE

New York, Dec. 18.-The Marathon
race between Dorando Pietri Of Italy
and Tom Longboat Of Canada was
won by Longboat. His time was 2
hours 45 minutes 2-6 seconds.
AS on that memorable occasion Of
his first Olympiad in England, Doran-
do collapsed within sight Of the goal,
md the Indian runner, who had been
led by yard or more nearly all the
way, won the race.
The Marathon fever drew q gather.
ing Of over II, 600 persons to Madison
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

With American army officers forced
to do the fifty mile walk stunts and
naval officers to "say nothing but saw
wood" Field Marshal and Grand High
Admiral william of HohenzOllern
ought to find the fatherland good
enough for him, even under the reichs-
tags lid
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
TX MARVEL DIES SUDDENLY
Veteran American Author Succumbs
to Acute Indigestion.

New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. 16.-Donald
Grant Mitchell, the well known au-
thor, who wrote under the nom de
plume Tx Marvel, died suddenly at his
home, near here, aged eighty-six.
Acute Indigestion was the cause Of
death.
At the bedside at the time Of Mr..
Mitchelrs death were his sons Harold
of New London and Walter of New
ark and his daughters-Nlrs. Walter
Hart of Rye, N. Y; Mrs. Mason Hop
pin and the Misses Elizabeth, Hessie
and Harriet Mitchell, all of New Ha-
van
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
PURs AND BARKs MINGLE.

Fine Cats and Dogs Assembled In Chi
caao Exhibition Today.
Chicago, Dec. 16.-FOr three days, be-
ginning today, the Coliseum Annex is
to be filed with fine specimens of cats
and dogs, the exhibits in the annual
cat and dog show.
The show is given Jointly by the
Beresford Cat club the Western Bos-
ton Terrier club and the American Toy
Dog club. The number Of exhibits is
greater than ever before, and the show
is the finest ever given in Chicago.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
sCHWAB PUT UNDER OATH.
feIls Tariff Workers What He Knows
About Steel and Prices.

Washington, Dec. 1G.-Charles M.
Schwab, president Of the Bethlehem
Steel company, appeared before the
committee on ways and means and
gave testimony under oath on the iron
and steel schedule.
Later in the week Andrew Carnegie
will discuss the same schedule. Will
liam Ellis Corey and e. H. Gary will
also be called.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

]. P. Morgan's wonderful collection
of books is variously estimated as
worth from 100000 to $4,000, 900.
There are people who would suppose
that the latter sum ought to buy all
the books ever printed and corner the
future product, including the "best
sellers" for hundred years to come.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

President Roosevelt's step lively
springs must have been out of temper
when they allowed that Washington
chauffeur to rush" him in broad day
light.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

1t was not laziness nor decline that
kept Mark Twain from launching a
new joke on his seventy-third birth
day. He knew that seventy-three for
him was a joke on DR.. osler that the
whole world would appreciate.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Holland wisely allowed Castro to get
away and thus avoided having an ele-
phant on her hands. To give him his
deserts would be to make martyr Of
him, and the whole world will be glad
to see him sink into the oblivion of
exile.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

All a mistake for artists to depict
Santa Claus coming in an auto or any
thing like that He usually walks be-
cause his pack and bulging pockets
bar him from the cars.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

OF course Carrie Nation prays that
her effort to teach London suffragettes
new tricks won't cause American un.
regenerates to "smile" the more.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

In the craze to do the holiday shop
ping early New Years resolutions
sometimes get sidetracked until "the
day after" comes round.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Many current filings at the size of
women's hats are base insinuatiOns,
but twelve inches Of rim and feather
sticking out of carriage windows
would go as proof in any court
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Now 1t needs only a Berlin-TokyO
memorandum underwrltten by Chan
cellor Won Bulow to make the Pacific
ocean secure in its name.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

For a man crowGing a century Pres
ident Nord Alexis made good sprint
ing record in dodging that dusky lady's
rolling pin.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

After all, 1t may turn out that the
flercest ''rooters" for tariff revision are
people who want protection put on in
stead OF taken on.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

We can believe that those Parisians
really stand for reform now that they
tried to repulse Castro before separat-
ing him from his money.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

That man who cut out the pipe after
smoking ninety-five years probably felt
that he must either quit or live to be
very old.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Sometimes eggs are tough cases, but
you could almost see their price grow
Of late.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Jack Frost's promise Of all kinds Of
ice next summer can never reconcile
us to his kind Of pernicious activity
this winter.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

If eggs stay high for awhile and
then come down as rapidly as they
went up nobody will relish shoulder
ing the falling cargo.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Mars brought right down to earth
by that newly invented telescope
leaves one mystery the less for air.
ship pioneers to explore.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

Three months Is ample time for US
to get ready to beat all records at wei.
coming the feet, with several laps
Oaad
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

For a city of endless fog London
makes a big fuss over every tri6e in
the shape of a war cloud.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

South American republics simply say
to their ex-presidents, "Goodby and
good riddance."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

To the question, "Shall the people
ruler" some women are answering,
"Aye, aye, when we are included"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

The suffraglsts got the start of the
jungle folks in trailing Roosevelt up
tree.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18

One would never guess from the
message chat the Roosevelt spear has
found brother.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-18
TAFT PLURALITY 1,244,494.
he Got 7,e37,67e Votes to Bryan's
6,393,182.

New York, Dec. 16-The total popu-
lar vote of the various presidential
candidates at the last national election
was made known in an official form.
The totals show the following votes
cast:
Taft (Republican) .................. 7637,676
Bryan (DemocraO .................. 6S93,1S2
DeDs (SoclallsU ....,..'....'..'.'''' 44hoOl
Chafin (Prohibition) ................ 2l, ,252
Hisgen Undependence) ,,,,,,,,,,,, S3188
Watson (PopulisO .................. 1851
Gilhaus SOCIALIST Labor ...... 15.4H
Total for all candidates. ........... 1882, 23S
This grand total exceeds by 1,341 ,531
the total number of votes cast I'm the
presidential election Of 1904, when the
grand total was 13,510,70S.
Compared with that election the can
dldates of the Republican, Democratic
and Socialist parties increased their
vote this year. The reverse Is true
OF the candidates Of the Prohibition,
Popullst and Socialist Eabor parties.
The biggest difference in q party
vote IL shown In an increase for Bry.
an OF 1,315,211 over the total vote cast
In 1904 for Alton b. Parker, the Dem.
ocratic candidate. Taft received A..
100 votes more than were polled for
President Roosevelt in 1904, and Debs
ran 45,36S ahead of his predecessor
on the Socialist ticket.
Debs received his largest vote In
Pennsylvania, 39,913; Illinois, 3o,711.
and New York. 3S,451:
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-04
SINK $65O,OOO; MINE NO GOOD
Montaaa Property Proves to Be Worth
less-Promoter Only Man Who
Planned Out Gold.

Chicago, May 29.-Another mining
bubble burst late yesterday when 1t
became known that the Amador Min
ing and Development company OF
Montana, a SIC 1000, 900 corporation,
with headquarters in Chicago, and
come to an end. Letters thai will be
mailed will inform 1,400 stockholders.
the majority Chicagoans. that the
Copper Gold Mine in which they have
sunk $650,000 is worthless.
With the crash Of the concern,
which had done a thriving business
in selling stock for six years, interest
increases in the whereabouts Of the
secretary and general manager, o. e,
MacKinnon, who appears to be the
only interested person who ever prof
tied from the enterprise. Mr.. Mac
Kinnon organized the company and
doomed the stock sales for five years.
A year ago he departed to Boston,
where he opened a branch office. and
since that time he has spent only one
day in Chicago.
In the six years life OF the compa-
ny a total of only five cars of ore was
taken from the mine. The stockhold-
ers' money was sunk In the extrava-
CANT equipment on the surface. in
glowing literature. expensive offices
and junkets of prospective investors.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-04
SIOUX work; uTEs LOAF.
Red Men From Utah Find gear
Dances" Strenuous Enough for Them.

Red Men From Utah Find gear
Dances" Strenuous Enough for Them.
The Sioux Indians on the Cheyenne
Indian reservation are busy with their
spring farming operations, or working
on government work, all the men do
ing something toward self-support.
The few Utes remaining at Thunder
Butte on that reserve are doing moth
ing of the kind, and have secured the
permission of the agent to hold their
bear dances" in case they do not at
tempt in any way to take any of the
Sioux away from their spring work.
The Sioux are paying no attention to
them, and their dances go on. The
difference in their actions Of the two
tribes show the difference in the mar
ner in which they have been handled,
the one taught the ways OF home
building and self-support; the others
the ways OF dleness, and looking to
the government for support.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-04
KNOWLES SENT TO JAIL.
Former Congressman Convicted Of
Sending Obscene Matter Through
Mails.

Former Congressman Convicted Of
Sending Obscene Matter Through
Mails.
Judge Garland Of Deadwood sem
fenced Freeman Knowles. the Social
list editor, convicted OF sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails, to
pay a fine of $500 and stay in the
Pennington county Jail until the
amount was paid.
Although the Socialists raised suf-
icient money, Knowles refused to pay
his fine and gave notice of an appeal
to the United States supreme court.
United States Marshal Bullock took
Knowles 10 the Pennington county
Jail on his refusal to pay the fine.
Knowles asked Judge Garland for a
stay of execution, which was denied.
Friday, In the issue of his paper,
Knowles published the same article
for which he was convicted.
kilograms are arriving from union
and socialistic bodies about the coun-
try offering Knowles aid and the in
cident threatens to become national in
it's scope Knowles was once elected
to congress by the Democrats and
Populists of South Dakota.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-04
LOSS TO REACH 5000, 900.
Tornado in Vicinity Of Armour Causes
Heavy Damage.

TeaNy Odr1d9e.
Reports continue to come in slowly
from the tornado stricken parts Of
Douglas and Charles Mix counties, ly-
ing Immediately south of Armour.
Among those who have suffered par
tial or total loss of their homes ire:
A. l.. Mills, house and barn destroyed;
John Sundahl, barn destroyed, house
moved fifty yards and partly wrecked;
Bert Seece, barn and house gone; F.
Hochhalter. barn and house destroy
ed; j. Hochhalter. barn and house
gone; G. Hulsebus, total loss of all
buildings on farm; the Mansbridge
mercantile store, owned by Noble
INLAY. utterly destroyed; Harvey
Giles, barn gone, house moved of the
farm into the highway; G. Bender,
barn destroyed, three horses killed;
Jacob Fuch, new barn and five head Of
cattle; l.. Gilkerson, barn and several
head OF horses. The above is a list
of the heaviest losers, There are sew
eral hundred persons in the stricken
district that have suffered a Loss of
from $25 to 5000. 1t is estimated that
the loss to buildings, ETC., will run be-
tween 5000, 900 and 100000. No lives
were lost, but several persons suf-
fered minor injuries.