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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-05
YESTERDAY,

l want to go back to yesterday
To skies of tender blue,
Back to the fields of happiness
l used to wander through;
o, for fling at the sweet, sweet
hours
Whose memory still is true
l want to go back to yesterday,
l want to go back to you.
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Mayhap to come these hours are fair,
But my fair hours are few,
And clouds o'ercast the olden fields,
My tears fall as their dew;
o, why are joys that cannot last,
Why turns the rose to rue?
| want to go back to you.
tt
But youth goes swift adown the
track,
And have age to view
I've passed beyond the sunny stretch
Where the green hedges grew;
So have l lost the bird or flower,
Or aught you were, in lieu
Lost as part of yesterday,
Yesterday, youth, and you.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-05

Geese need pasture. Give them the
run of a green field and they will
thrive and make money for you.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-05

Don't let the drinking vessels in
the poultry yard become foul Clean
every day.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-05
Dentists.

DIR. G. r. BRADY. DENTIST. HonesdalesPa.
OFFICE HoURs-Sa. a. m. lo 0 y. III
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens phone. 80 Residence. No. 86-X'
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-05
OF Interest
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Changing Of the Corset-"Grace"
corsets for Three Different Types
Royalties of Europe Form Move.
ment With Eminent Artists at Head
Bones Put in by a Psychologist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
The Sober Engineer.

lesson that should have a powerful
effect may be read in the story that is
told of Engineer Bush of the Southern
railway. whose train was wrecked the
other day near Bristol Va. Bush was
pinned under the engine. but was finally
extricated. suffering from mortal injuries
When the passengers tried to revive his
waning strength by stimulant he pro-
tested. He first asked them to satisfy
themselves that he had not been drinking
before taking the liquor offered. His
record. he said, was all he had and if
he had TO die he wanted it known that
the wreck was not due To his in
temperance.
The young men of this country are be-
ing made to realize as never before that
responsibility in business life is one of
the most valuable assets that a worker
in the field of human effort can have
As never before the standard of personal
trustworthiness is being ma intained. En-
ployers are insisting upon good habits
on the part of all whom they engage.
No man is intrusted with difficult or
dangerous duties unless it is assured that
he is temperate for the Incorporate
man may fail at the supreme moment
fail in Judgment or physical capacity
The business aspect of the temperance
movement is the most powerful 1t is
this end of the proposition that is carry
Ing weight chiefly today. In the specialize
ing of industries. the man who succeeds
must have not only capacity for his par
ticuar calling, but moral quality Ia
insure that he can and will use his abil-
tiles 10 the fullest extent. The engineer
on the railroad is simply a type of the
present requirements He must be COM
pletely master of himself from the start
TO the end of his run. Lives are intrusted
10 him on the strength of his reputation
as sober man. as we'll skllful en-
gineer. Had Engineer Bush been drink
ing before the accident AT Bristol he
would have been remembered i'm the rail
road world as a man recreant TO his trust
who had sacrificed the lives and propert,
intrusted TO him through his selfish in
diligence. His insistence upon proving
himself true to the faith placed in him
is eloquent example of what "A mar
should be. and it Is TO he hoped that this in.
cident will become known not only in
every railroad roundhouse. hut every bust.
ness establishment i'm the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Prohibition and Politics.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The wave of prohibition that has spread
over this country, and which is extending
steadily. must at some time or other, like
all other like social phenomena, suffer
reaction. The agitation has so far been
emotional and not political During me
last national campaign neither party
sought to make capital OF it as a broad
popular issue. Ideally 1t cut some figure
but political managers on both sides
fought shy of it. 1t was all one way and
difficult to adapt to practical politics: and
there was always the threat of the liquor
element in the great communities IN
which active politics has its initiative
1t would be folly to suppose that such
political diffidence will much longer be
manifested. Some party. perhaps both,
even possibly an entirely new party,
is sure presently to align itself In &C
cordance with the impulse pro or with
the impulse con. Much. If not every
thing depends upon the reaction, upon
the time when it asserts itself and the
vehemence of it's movement. Indeed. 1t
all hangs upon the point that there will
be. or that there will not be. such re-
action Great emotional disturbances
are inscrutable in their causes and in
their development: they are controlled
by no fixed law, except that their sub
sidence is commonly known only long
after it has taken place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
The Census.

President Taft in his letter to Secretary
Nagel states a plain ease in plain ana
convincing way. The census should be
taken in a business-like manner by com
retent men. While SO employed they
should give their whole time TO their
official duties. They are not to feel them
selves politicians enjoying the reward OF
artisan activity, with census taking as a
side line
There can he no intelligent dissent from
this proposition. The appropriation for
the work is large and the work itself i'm
portant in tho highest degree. It IS per-
formed but once III ten years, and when
performed should bring the country face
to face with the actual facts of its growth
and present size and resources.
We grow at an astonishing rate. No
other country compares with US in that
particular Hundreds Of thousands of
people continue to swell our population
every year: and the great majority speed
lily shake down and become producers as
we'll as consumers Look al the near
west and the far west, and note the diff
ference in conditions there twenty years
ago and today. Even the south. which
desires immigration but finds difficulty in
We should keep the most accurate track
of ourselves, both as an inspiration to
even greater things. and guide in
cutting out new work. There is nothing
comparable with the information of how
numerous We are. what we have in pos
session and what in fair prospect. and
what means are being employed to still
further develop magnificent empire.
The census has come to he most COM
prehenSive. 1t opens the door in every
practical direction, and all sections yield
up their figures and their facts. And in
the mirror thus formed the country gets
z good look at itself
y is but a truism. therefore. 10 say that
this is not work for politicians. To be per-
formed under boss rule for party pur-
poses, but work for competent men of
everyday affairs, having only the general
good in mind, and answerahle and an
suering to strictly business direction.
The President hes moved with delibera-
ton, and in making his selections has
had advice from the best sources at com
mand. II is likely that III the main he
has performed his part we'll The num-
Der of supervisors is large, and the num-
Der of places that they in turn must fill
is very much larger. So that the best
men may not in every case find employ
ment. But the average should be high,
and the President letter should secure
excellent results from every worthy man
put in commission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Speed.

People of middle age have witnessed a
remarkable advancement in the matter of
transportation and personal locomotion
during their lives. When they were
young. say twenty or twenty years
ago. they thought the world had evolved
To a high point of convenience There
were bicycles and cable cars, and even
electric lines. Locomotives were cana bile
of Aoing now and then that traditional
mile minute which was the acme Of
human conception of rapid transit
Steamships made the run across the Al
iantic in six days and were REGARDED &C
''greyhounds." The turbine engine was
not invented The electric motor was
in its infancy. The bicycle was a crude
device. and the automobile was still the
dream of a few inventors.
Now the streets are filled with machines
for the swift carriage of people. Motor
cycles have taken the place of the old
wheels and tear off forty-mile rate
easily on occasion. with fifty or even
sixty proclaimed by their makers as pos
sible Automobiles that easily make
forty miles and are capable of seventy
and eighty are in evidence wherever til.
eve turns Electric street cars that have
dificulty in keeping within the Legal
speed limit. and on the country lines de-
velop thirty mile PAGES readily. carry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
The Nose Test.

II the theory of a New York magis
trata is correct 1t is easy to ascertain
ones state of mind without hiring an
expensive alienist and submitting ones
self TO an embarrassing yolley of ques-
lions Any one who has a lurking sus-
picion that perhaps the. strain of life is
too great and who wants to know the
truth without evasion or polite subter-
fuge, has but to close the eyes and try
TO put the tip of the index finger OF the
right hand on the end of the nose. Ac-
cording to the metropolitan judge this
is an unfailing t-.st of sanity. Whoever
is able TO do this at the first trial is
presumably sane. IL the finger and the
nose do not touch there is screw loose
somewhere.
II would perhaps he we'll for every one
who has conscientious regard for the
welfare of others and who wants to main
tain an even mental balance 10 apply
this test every day. say, the first thing
in the morning on arising. II the finger
and tn: nose come into conjunction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Local Grade Crossings.

IN considering the question of the 10
caI suburban grade crossings Such as
Takoma Park. Benning and Brookiand II
i ~ he borne in mind that the city $
growth northward is progressing at
rate which will bring those places within
the urban area within a very few years
n is the part of common precaution to
apticinate the time when all of these
crossings will be constantly in use just
as were those in the center of the city
few wears ago, before the commencement
Of the grade work recently completed.
Sooner or later it will be necessary to
correct these evils The railroad COM
panies cannot successfully contend that
they should he permitted TO maintain
these crossings III their present condi-
ton Indefinitely. Their officials must
realize that the day of the exposed cross
ing at grade is passing and that public
sentiment is powerful enough to force the
abolition of every one of these deatn
traps. The anomaly of maintaining these
crossings in the outlying sections of the
District appurtenant to the elaborate and
expensive system OF track elevation
and submergence adopted within the
city proper will surely appeal to Con-
gress when the matter is brought be
foe that body for action. Even though
the residents of Maryland, who have suf
fered SO seriously from this evil, do not
take the initiative in forcing a reform
within that state. the people of Wash
ington are disposed to press their own
case before Congress at the earliest op-
portunty and to demand the extension of
the terminal safety arrangements to the
very boundary of the District. to the ex-
tent not only of abolishing every cross
ing a grade, but of inclosing the lines
in such a manner as to prevent access
save by deliberate trespass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

tens of thousands of people daily. De-
livery vans run by electricity and gaso-
line are discharging goods to the outer
most limits of the District.
Quite lately there has come the aero
plane. and the dirigible is also at hand,
devices which promise, If they do not
actually prove. the solution of the prob
lem of human flight. Men have actually
flown at high rates of speed and for
long stretches of time. 1t remains now
To bring these appliances into practicable
use. either as supplements to the ordi-
nary transportation facilities or as war
engines. That this will be done is not
doubted by those who have been oosefN-
ing the remarkable advances scored our
ing the past few months.
The children who are now coming INTO
being, having missed these years OF al
vance from horse cars TO swift electrics,
from horse-drawn vehicles 10 hish-pow-
cred automobiles, from pedestransm 10
motor cycling, from siX-day steamers 10
four-day boats, from mere helpheiss pal-
looms to the dirigible and the aeropiane
will doubtless see other wonders, hut II
is permissible now to question whether
they will see as great a change as those
who glance back in retrospect ana re-
construct the days when progression over
the ground at the rate Of twenty mlles
an hour was extraordinary outside OF
railroad train, and that rate was rarets
exceeded even on the express mes
Whether the conquest of space mas
brought advantages compensatory 10 the
drai1 upon the nervous system winch
physicians solomnly assure us mas peeh
occasioned by the successive acceleIatiolls
of our pace remains for the lndlNidudi
Temperament to answer 1hcre are 'hose
who sigh for the days when II was pos
siblc To be leisurely. and others VINO re-
joice in the facility with which theN can
now cover ground and expand their area
But the signs of the former VIII not re-
tard the progression or deter the invent
ors in their efforts to devise new means
of rapid transport. II is the nature Oh
the human being u want to improve, ana
as long as il is possible to conceive pet
fer or swifter ways of doing the world
work there will be persistent endeaVors
to acquire them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
CITY Noise.
From the Indianapolis News


Whatever advantage comes from the ST.
lent tires of the automobiles is much more
than offset by the noise of their horns
and sometimes of their engines. There
are more street cars to jolt and clang
and send out screeches from their brakes.
There are more people to talk and walk
and if you walk in silent street at
night you will find that footstep makes
a great deal more noise than you ever
suspected In day time. There is the
building, the rebuilding, the alterations,
the repairs-for in these days construction
is not after the manner of Solomons tenn
pie, without the sound of the hammer.
There are the cries of the hawkers and
the barkers. There is the clatter Of manu-
facture. There are thousand and one-con-
seryative estimate other noises. unclaSsl-
fed and sometimes unclassifiable, and
all adding 10 the tumult and the shouting
which never dies even in the small
hours of the night-there is only les
SEEMING of sound which we urbanites have
learned by comparison to regard as quiet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Cloud Pictures.

Oars pictures in de papers.
Oars pictures on de wall.
But de set of illustrations
Dat | likes de bes' of all
Is dem dat comes at evenin'
When de breezes softly sigh
An de twilight colors gather
Maxim pictures in de sky.
De white folks say denis muffin
But de mist dat go an, come,
But dar couldn' be no pictures
Wifout things to take 'em FUN.
And my tolls made light by hopin'
Dat I'll visit by an by
Dem places represented
By de pictures in de sky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
A New York Trio,

Corners and McCarren and Murphy are
three of a kind. All are practical politi-
clans All believe in getting there. :
McCarren. is the brightest of the trio
Unlike the other two, he is a man of
education. He is a good speaker, and
clever in legislative tactics. He might
have been serving these dozen years past
in Congress except that he preferred serv-
ice at Albany If one of these men is to
go. why not all three? Why pick Con-
ners for sacrifice and leave McCarren and
Murphy unmolested? The Saratoga con-
ference will have plenty of food for
thought. Will it be able to digest the
food?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Needs United Party.
he Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
Some of the Presidents friends hold the
view that, if forced to choose between
the republican insurgents of the west
and the old guard of the east Mr.. Taft
would line up with the young lions OF
the west The receptions the insurgent
senator's have received from their home
folks indicate at least that the Presi-
dent could not go through a state like
Iowa or Minnesota and attack Messrs
Cummins, Dolliver. Clapp and Nelson
with the slightest hope of success. Mr.
Taft's policy will be Cancellation. He will
need a united party during the rest of his
term.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

promptly all is well. If there is a failure
to occult il is time to take advice. So
simple a test can be conducted secretly
1t is unnecessary to ask. is my nose
on straight" No mirrors are required
No one need be called in 10 help. Just
touch the nose with the eyes shut and
the day begins sanely. That will be a
great comfort to many a man who now
rises without perfect assurance that he
is on the right side of the faint line that
marks the boundary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Bows and Base Ball.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Who will say that base ball is bad for
the American boy? He is developing all
that goes to make the typical American.
He gets out on the playground and does
his level best When the game is finish
ed and he is tired out through his efforts
he hurries home to mother. for the boy is
ALWAYS hungry and mothers meals are
the hest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Charley and His Hands.

You say Your husband occasionally
consults a palmist?''
Yes. answered young Mrs. Torkins.
You see Charley plays cards great
deal
But he isn't so superstitious as to
think he can foretell his luck
NO. He takes it for granted that his
luck will be bad. But he says it's worth
the money to have somebody tell him he
has hand worth looking at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
THE STAR has . regular and perna-
cent Family Circulation much more
than the combined circulation Of the
other Washington dailies. As News
aud Advertising Medium it has no
competitor.

OIn order to avoid delays on account
Of personal absence letters to TIE
STAR should not be addressed to any
Individual connected with the ONCE. but
simply to THE STAR. or to the Editorial
OF Business Department. according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

It was needless for Sig, Ferrero to tell
the Parisians that Americans are not in
the habit of saving money. Paris has
had enough experience with tourists from
this country to be we'll aware of the fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Generosity Misunderstood.

Does your daughter know anything
about cookng?
Yes answered Mr.. Sirius Barker.
think she is a pretty good Judge. She al
ways insists on our eating the things she
makes and never saves any for herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Owners of swimming holes in Okla
homa have been charging 10 cents dip.
The commercial spirit of the Atlantic
coast is not without it's inland counter
part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
An Appreciate.

so you approve of Wagner?
Yes" answered Mr.. CumroX. Il al
ways did like Wagner He wrote SO
little that the folks around the house
could learn to whistle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Mr.. Roosevelt has been remarkably for
tunate in shooting a number of strange
specimens without provoking protests
from DIR. Long to the effect that there
are no such animals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
An Airship Disadvantage

If things go wrong, you're at a loss
AS through the clouds YOU roam'
You can't hitch up farmer moss +,
And tow the old thing home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Europe naturally has little faith In the
possibility of a Spanish republic after
seeing the manner in which the idea has
worked out in South America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
A Good Showing.

did that expert witness make good
showing on the stand?"
Yes He seemed to know almost as
much about his profession as the law
yer who was cross-examining him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

1t is announced that Pugilist Jack
Johnson is considerably over weight. No
man can take proper exercise with one
hand tied TO the telephone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

1t is still fashionable to make fun of
searchers for the north pole just as it
was fashionable at one time to make fun
Of airship inventors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

1t does not look as if affairs would ever
:hape themselves SO as to make it safe
for Castro to go in person to look after his
Venezuelan investments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

The men who circulated reports of
Count Zeppelin's death have been COM
PEELED 10 admit that the inventor is en-
tirely too busy to attend funeral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

IT must have been trying to Mr. Taft to
encounter a Massachusetts hot wave after
the tine July weather Washington pro-
vided
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Tax Dodger.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t is a sad fact, but there is less per-
sonal property In New York than there
was ten years ago-so far as tax sched-
niles show. Yet we have noted many evil
dences of prosperity in the city. They
must be wholly fallacious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Brenner's Initials.
From the Newark !

From the Newark News.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Bremen has extract
ed a volume of advertising out of 1t that
ought to satisfy the most artistic Of
natures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Washington's base ball club has had
its full share of the discipline which
makes good loser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Danger Not Near.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The next congressional election is not
near at hand. There's consolation for
some OF our most distinguished states
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

If Harry Thaw ever takes TO literature
he Is quite likely to select Jerome as the
villain in a novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

II looks as If the designers ambition to
have them known as the "Brenner cents
instead of the Lincoln cents had been
frustrated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16

Owing 10 conditions which only Sir
Thomas Upton can explain. this wear :
Shamrock crop must be declared a failure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-16
Important Men!

From the Sayannah News.
Washington is now full of mighty i'm
portant persons. They are the acting Sec
retarieS.