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tlplicity of ethereal messages that would be sure to result In any big city would defeat such an end, 1t would seem, The problem of tuning the re- celvng and sending instruments pre- sented would be too complex for so- lution, Dr, DeF'orest makes no prophecies as yet as to the short dist ance adaptibllity of the Idea, bpt he Is certain there will be no connictlons of messages at long distance, since his mechanism will make that impos- sible As for short distances, 1t may confidently be hoped and even expect ed that thls one objection to the sys- tenn will be surmounted, More unex- pected things than that have happen ed in the realm of science.
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THE WIRELESS PHONE.

lt is an age of wonders in which we are living Every days news brings fresh evidence of the fact. The last few days have each had their story of new fields of human endeavor, such as had never been dreamed of before Wednesday came the story of a man apparently brough back to the land of the living many minutes after hospital nurse and surgeon had each made the usual observations for evidences of death and had satisfied themselves that 1t had come. An other surgeon. with some radical ideas end new theories of his own, injected tnough strychnine Into his veins to sdll a number of living men and brought him back to life after a good deal of artificial respiration. His u- simate recovery was Impossible be- cause he was in the last stages of consumption and infammatory rheu- matism, but the incident Is highly suggestive of possibilities. Thursday whole temperament was completely changed by the transfer into her veins of pint of healthy blood Yesterday came the rosy promise from pr. Lee DeForest of wireless telephonic com munication within short time, not only at short distances, but between New York and Paris.
 Dr DeForest's experiments must al- ways be of special interest to New lHaveners because of his past connec- tons and associations with New Ha- ven and Yale. In fact 1t was at the Yale club in New York that he told the newspaper men of hs present wireless plans He promises wireless communication by telephone between IpNew York and Paris within two years. Il1lS New ofk statlOn Will be on the tower of the 7oO-foot new Metropol- titan building and in Paris the electric waves will be picked up or sent out, as the case may be, from the 930-foot tall Eiffel tower. Every American can rejoice with him, if success is now merely a matter of months. Every New Havener and Yalensian may well ,be proud of this distinguished grad uate in the realm of science.
 There are many who declare that the wireless telephone will never be- come d possibility for short distance communication or at least, that 1t can never supersede the present
 phone system with wires. The null
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THE PROHIBITION VOTE.

The prohibition party is making big bid for votes this year, If expec- tatons were only realizations, the party presenting the name of MT Chain for president would be destin- ed to sweep all on the political horizon before 1t on November 3d. Undoubt- edly 1t has been the very Haunting of these expectations that has drawn more than the usual attention to the party,
 Mir Chains followers boast the shortest platform. As he and his fol- lowers believe the prohibition issue is the most important the country has to face, 1t is made their one plank All the great political and financial questions of the country are allowed to sink into insigniticance. If elected, Mir, Chains procedure as to the tariff the banks, the industrial situatiQn the corporations, the railroads and every great question but prohibition would be enigmatical, All he promises is that if his congress will pass a pro- hibition law Ca big if'D, he will see that it is enforced, even if he has to call out the militia the standing army and the navy to accomplish it.
 There are important governmental questions at issue this year as between the two great parties If that is true past records would not justify the pro- hibitionists' expectations of d large en- dorsement at the polls. It is a notice-
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able fact that when great issues have been at stake in presidential contests, the vote of the prohibition party has suffered It's most considerable de- creases, It was in 1884, when party lines were considerably broken, that the prohlbltlonlsts made their first great gain, IL was In ls96 that thls vote showed a falling off of almost eX- aetly one-ha!f, That year the repub- lcans and democrats were at it ham mer and tongs." The party has never reached It's total of 1892 in the sixteen years since. This shows that the vot- CTS do not agree with Mir, Chain that the prohibition question SO far outriyals all other questions that, up- on 1t alone as basis, presidents are to be elected,
 There are thousands of voters who are in entire accord with the cause of temperance, and who believe that rum Is the arch-nend in our civilization, but yet who think there are many other Issues that will sooner make or break the country. They believe such moral questions as prohibition should no more be made compulsory in this land of the free than Christianity.
 Mr. Chain rejects moral suasion" as q means to bring about temperance and substitutes compulsion under the law In series of letters 10 the New York Times he says The law is an educator The morality of no people can be raised above their laws" He forgets the. great moral force that the church is to-day in America-the church, in which membership Is pure ly voluntary. IL is not the taclt ex- lstence of the laws on the books that in his estimation will bring about this temperance morality The latter. he admits, must be compulsory The law In itself does not prohibit" he says. Tt is the execution of the law which does the business"
 The actual worth of this sort of compulsory morality on the liquor question, this execution of laws, Is shown by the state of Maine, where constitutional prohibition has been in evidence for twenty-four years-long enough to create a tangible morality In Bangor each dealer is fined sl10 twice a year; in Lewiston the city liquor agency. which operates under a state law, sells s1000 a week for medical and mechanical purposes 2 and in Portland there are 55 arrests per 1000 of population for drunken ness a year. Or is its worth shown ir Worcester, which has now tried no. license for three full months? There a special investigator for the Spring. field Union finds that on every sub. urban car in the late evening to and from licensed community it is neces. sary to place guards 10 protect tho respectable passengers and the crew. from the home coming "drunks There six Kitchen bars were dlscov' cred in a single block in the boarding house section. There every car Sun day morning brings In a load O drunks who have grown the habit O having an overnight celebration at tn, end of each week of drought.
 The drinking problem Is well worti i solving but other great national is sues must not be ignored to bring 1 about especially when attempts to pu stop to 1t under the law have beer ! so unsuccessful in the past
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A nooK WITH AN APPEAL.

Upton snclair's "The Jungle" Is a book that has accomplished results. It may be said unhesitatingly that the many governmental food-law reforms of the last year had the initial impe- tus with that book. The soul of its persuasion lies in the evident and deep seated dlscontent of the author with conditions as he has seen them. An other book of similar kind and style has just been issued. IL Is "A Little Brother of the Rich" It's story Is not the story of the Chicago stock yards where conditions beggpr description, but nearer and closer to many of us, in the life of the idle rich The book Is tho work of Joseph N Patterson. a Yale graduate, legislator of Illinois, a man close to the political life of Chi cago, and wthal newspaper man of long experience. He Is not the sort of man one would expect to turn cynic without good reason, yet. If ever a book was written that breathed cynic- ism, here Is one Its cyncism ia born of discontent. Its discontent is we'll founded. It has made a socialist of Mr. Patterson and 1t is making socialists of many of our ablest young minds every day. The book has real appeal. What the result of that appeal will be may be awaited with interest.
 Mfr Patterson has tasted of social life and found 1t wanting-very wanting, His conclusions and observations he has simply weaved into a very read able, but often shocking, narrative. He finds the life of the rich and the life of the stage inseparably intertwined for many reasons. In that life of per verted ambitions he finds the wife 10 be "a woman who is willing and ready to buy position with money and who refuses to be a mother for fear of miss ing a season or spelling her figure" He finds friends in society to be "toades and sycophants who pretend to like a man for himself, but who would have no use for him If he were plain John Smith He finds social position to be "the chance to go to the garish. vul- gar houses of sure-thlng gamblers to puzzle yourself stupid and talk pseudo sentiment to their empty -pated. doll women" He justly finds cause for com plaint when girls are paid three times as much for showing men their legs ir tights in a stage chorus than for sell. ing those same mems wives hardware In department store
 His story Is one of depraved tastes debased amusements, sneers, corrup 1 ton, and evil example. In that life there Is no such thing as holy re. 1 gard for the marriage VOWS. Every. i thing is done in excess and all Is done with or for money. He tells of jus such things as forebode social disinte
 grafton and moral turpitude. His cal
 is wide and vigorous one, not lesl urgent than that of "The Jungle" ant what results he accomplishes may b, awaited with expectation and hope. i Is such book as will either spread feeling of discomfort, or do things
 to counteract 1t.
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lNnw York Trihnnn

MT. sherman made very effective retort to Bryan's attempt to bury his past by silencing himself upon every thing left out of the democratic plat form, which Is thus sort of index expurgatorius of his political convie- tions. Said MT Sherman
 Republican declarations once in our
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Baltimore Sun.)

It stirs the blood and quickens the imagination to glance down the list of republican policies enumerated by the candidate for the vice presidency and to note in his concise and pointed statement Of their nature and benefits how broad and general, how inclusive, they are and how they affect benefi . cially all persons upon whom they bpar
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lHartfnrd Courant.l

It was an American speech for the American people--all of them---and 1t undermined the smooth and plausible and fairly oily sophistries of Mr. Bry- an in a fashion that will delight every intelligent friend of that industrious comfort which distinguishes this land from every other land under the sun.
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TWO ROOMS.
fTl,e Boy's)

tThe Boy's) A catcher's glove, a ball. a bat; A To. of marbles and top; A flag, a drum, soldier hat; A sword and gun--he's no milksop. A cabinet full of shells and rocks; A stamp book and some copper cents. To mother here each night he talks. And tells her all the days events.
 tThe Girrs.) A dollhouse full of furnishings. With stoves, and chairs, and beds,
 and rugs; And daily here she sits and sings, Soothing doll she holds and hugs; Two lady dolls sit prim In chairs, Two big boy dolls beside them stand; And Dlnah Black and Joe Snowball Are serving cakes of yellow sand. The boy prepares for stress and strife, In the stern world which he dimly
 sees; The girls day dreams are dreams of
 life
 At home with babies about her knees.
 Boston Globe.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

Commander Robert Peary now writes from the north that he has great expectations of being able to un- dertake a hunt for the South Pole soon after his return from his present trip to the North Pole, which he con- siders as good as reached already One pole at time, Robert, and that done well.
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Mr. sherman's Speech of Acceptnnce.
 (poston Record

Both Senator Burrows and Secretary belief that should anything happen to remove Taft as next president-an event all devoutly wish may not hap pen--the presidency would pass into safe and worthy hands in those of James S Sherman
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

One of the leading magazines makes a feature this month of Washington hospital patients account of his many imaginary experiences during days of deirium. The author Is a sort of in- ferior modern De Quincey A new field for money making has opened up when accounts Of dream and delirlum experi- ences can be readily sold the maga- zines at so much per LOGO words,
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tNew York Evening Post )

I'm q practical man. says Vice
 Presidential Candidate sherman in ref erence to protection policies. That qualities him for the Hartman cabinet. Now he should make application for membership In the Let Us Alone" club.
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platform and no longer there are omit ted because they have become accom- plished facts on the other hand, dem oeratle declarations have been nban- doned because the voters have pro- nouneed them to be unwise and unsafe, and unsulted 10 our times and our country
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(New York Sum-

Why were twelve hot-oIr balloons re- leased as a delicate compliment to the Hon. James Schoocraft sherman when he had uttered the last sentence of his speech of acceptance7
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

Not the theaters, the costly restau rants, the glitter of the White Way, make a state and a great city" says the World wisely Tt Ia business It is trade. It Is traffic. 1t is the work shop. It is commerce" Too often is that fact overlooked by the frivil- ous Here Is good, sound logic, worth serious consideration by any city.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

The Massachusetts railroad comms- sion has issued a regulation calling for tuelve-trip tickets on all the rail road lines within that state and the New Haven road has already issued in part Its schedule of tariffs for these tickets. A similar series of tickets in this state would be a special conven- fence, especially in the summer sea- son The results of their use In Mas sachusetts will he awaited with in- terest.
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't understand, sir, that you had the audacity to propose to my daughter. What have you to say to that?'
 Nothing, sir except that your daughter had the impudence to accept me"
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MONDAYS LAUGHS.

Maud--I suppose you made a hit with that big red hat in the country.
 Belle---fIit' I should say SO. It struck the bulls eye the very first time l wore It.
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Twelve couples have just celebrated their golden weddings at Abrest small town near Vlchy, France. Three hun dred descendants were present at church
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So your candidate went through with flying colors,"
 Hm' We'll, yes; his waving tho with II, I admit"
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It is said that the Canadian rall- roads are now making specially low rates for the transportation of our western wheat to Canadian terminals when there is but little traffic, in the hopes that later on, when traffic Is heavy. our shippers will have acqulr- cd the habit of shipping that way and will continue It is a bad tendency and one that should be discouraged by our own roads by making like cohces- sions.
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OUR CONTEMPOR ARIES.
(springneld Republlcan.)

Was the failure 10 invite Governor Hughes to the Sherman notification ceremony at Utica, x. r., deliberate?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

Necessarily every explanation of the season why the New York World has gone over to the cause of Bryanism must be purely conjecture, But the suggestion that the World has hopes of gaining some such newspaper mo- toriety as It's natural rival of Park Row, tho Journal, gained in 1896, when 1t was the only paper of conse- quence in New York supporting MT. Bryan, is q good one, It would ex- plain why the World was so long Ion the fence in the present campaign. According to this explanation, It was waiting to see whether Mir Hearst would finally take up with Mir Bryan or not with his independence league, not wishing to be associated with the latter or his paper, whatever the com mon ground.
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Slxty-hve minutes cheering for Gov ernor Johnson for renomination, a true democrat, His time is coming.
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tThe Girl's.)
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

The present educational policy of the Chinese empire includes the election of Buddhist monks from their monasteries to secure school buildings.
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Tom--After Mss Willing had named tho day, Fred tried to break the en- gngement'
 jack--DId she take it to heart7
 Tom--No she took it to oourt.-chi- eago News,
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ite)--Mother, mother look. That an escaped eonviet-Puneh.

Little willie--say pa, what Is tech nieality?
 Pa--A technioality, my son, is what lawyers hubble over when the evidence isn't sptisfactory.--Chic News,
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At the geological station in Naples, Dr. Mangold found fishes only six cen- timeters in length, each of which had IA lantern points for producing light.
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It has been figured that by 1890, forty-three harvests hence, the United States will have a population which, at tho average rate of six and half bushels O. wheat a person. will require a full billion of bushels of wheat for bread and seed.
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Small Boy (in an awestruck whisper, drawing his mothers attention to the gorgeous socks of the young blood op-
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Open air gymnasiums have been es- tabished on the roofs of big sky scrapers in many of the larger cities of the country to enable the clerks and other employees to spend an hour at noon or after closing hours enjoying the benefit of physical training exer- cises in the fresh air. Short dashes, hurdling, boxing and dumb b-bell exer- cises are provided, and In many in- stances physical instructors are em- ployed
The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24

The state archlvist at Frauenfeld In the canton of Thurgovie, has discovered q valuable manuscript. which has been used as u cover for other documents. It Is a portion of the Book of Hours, written in the twelfth century 1t is supposed, either in a Swiss or German convent. This, vat all events, Is the opinion Of NM. Buchl and Wagner, pro- fessors fin the University of Fribourg, and other noteworthy personnges In the world of letters.
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Miss Uppson--Have you met the Neu- rox girls?
 Miss Deswell--No. What is their po- sitlOn in society,"
 Miss uppson--It's sort of betwixt and between. They aren't exactly nobody, and yet they aren't really anybody Chicago News,
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Four little Angora goats, drawing small conveyance and their master, are making a trip across the American con tinent from San Diego, Cal, to New York. says Popular Mechanics. The goats travel on an average fifteen miles p day,
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GeologIsts say that New, York city

Geologlsts say that New York city Is as unlikely to be disturbed by an earthquake as any place on the globe. It is possible that the east end of Long Island or the sandy shore of New ter lantlc ocean, but the rock foundations of the city are likely to stand until the final wreck of matter and the crash of worlds
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The Literary Digest quotes an su- thorlty in Cosmos to the effect that at last method has been found to make a much stronger and more durable gas mantle by using an artificial silk as the fabric on which the oxides are de- posted. This silk is made by the dis solution of cellulose in ammoniate of copper.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-04-09
Commencement Program at Mifflin.

Following is the program of the
Commencement Exercises of the
class of 1908, of the Mifflin public
schools, Friday. April 10, 1908;
Invocation, Rev. J. A. Woehrle;
"a Story With Moral" Catha,
rine Mae Vastine; Judge Brown S
Watermelon Story" Arthur Char
les Hemmerly; The Newsboy's S
Debt" Georgia Mae Welsh;
"Mumford's Pavement Fred
Boyle.
"A Brakeman" Ruth Edna
Robinholt; class prophecy, Alfred
Clayton Miller; Scott and the
Veteran" Paul Hofnagle; Sand
scripts Slide Down Hill"' Ruth
Weidemann Hoaglan; "The Psalm
of Life" Edward Joseph Bringen-
berg; Papa Was Stumped," Ada
Clara Mowrey: "Woman's Curl
osity," Maud Garnet Greasy.
Jimmy Brown Sisters Wed.
ding" Fred Smoyer Fedder; "The
Lightning Rod Dispenser" Carrie
Ida Hofnagle; Glass presentations,
Martha Hoaglan; address. Superin-
tendent w. w. Evans; presentation
of diplomas; benediction, Rev. c.
F. Dry.
Class of I9oS-Alfred Clayton
Miller, Fred Smoyer Fedder, Cath
arine Mae Vastine, Georgia Mae
Welsh. Ruth Wiedemann Hoaglan,
Fred Boylt, Ruth Edna Robinholt,
Arthur Charles Hemmerly. Ada
Clara Mourey, Martha Hoaglan,
Paul Hofnagle, Carrie Ida Hofna-
gle, Edward Joseph Bringenberg,
Maud Garnet Greasy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-04-09
THE COMING PRIMARY.

Next Saturday will be held the
first primary election that has ever
been held in this state under the
new law of 1905. at this time of
year. 1t happens only in Presi-
dental years that the primaries are
held in April; other years they are
held in June. 1t is, as it were,
still in the experimental stage, and
no one knows yet just how it is
going to work. Those who are
nominated under its workings will
no doubt consider it a very good
law, while the defeated candidates
will probably attribute their failure
to the new system.
A warm fight is being waged by
both the Democratic and Republi-
can aspirauts for the several offices,
but notably for commissioner.
There are five candidates of the
former party, and three of the lat
ter. Only three can be nominated.
There is also n vigorous fight
being waged by the two factions of
the Republican party for control of
the organization. In many districts
there are two candidates for COM
mitteeran, one representing the
Yetter-Kurtz party, while the other
is running in the interest of those
who until last year had controlled
the organization fer many years.
There are three Democratic can
didates for county treasurer, and
all of them are working hard for it.
Who the lucky man will be, no one
can tell.