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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-06
WANTED EXPERIENCED RIBBON
WEAVERS:

Piece work; can make $500 per
week, but are guaranteeing $500
per week of 55 hours. Married peo-
pie preferred. Schaum & Uhlinger
high-speed double deck looms. Ap-
ply by letter only to VIRGINIA SILK
COMPANY, mo, South Richmond,
Va. soft
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-06

said day, to take action on the ap-
proval or disapproval of the propos-
ed increase.
Note: In the event of the stock
holders approving the increase ar
recommended, the Board of Direc.
tors will fix the price for which the
said stock shall be cold at 5000 per
share.
BENZ. F. HAINES,
Secretary.
Honesdale, Pa, Aug. s, 1912.
63w9.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-06

Remember the dates OF the COM
ing fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCH1soE GLOBE.

Try to be as polite to your friends
as you are to your enemies.
Cold weather may hurt the peach
buds, but it's no excuse for whiskers.
Tt often happens that a run for
your money is about all you get for
it,
When man looks himself over,
he isn't often seeking a spot to place
the blame
Mother hates to have her boy fight.
but Father is rather proud of it, il
the boy wins.
Considering the amount OF spring poetry
sown, the average harvest yield doesn't
amount to much.
Generally speaking, a good loser is one
who doesn't talk about his choice collec-
ton of sore spots.
Generally speaking. election con-
tests afford about the smallest yield
for the effort involved.
Only a few gamblers get enough
ahead to buy enough diamonds to
prove their prosperity.
Outside Of the weather bureau,
there aren't many prophets good
enough to get paid for It.
Som etimeS children have to 20 TO
bed early to get them out Of the way,
instead of for their health.
About the only thing we can think
of in favor of beer is that no one
drinks it through a straw.
We have observed that, while many
men are glad they were born in log
cabins, only few want to stay there
If a man leaves home a good deal
at nights, there may be something
the matter with the home as we'll as
the man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
says UNCLE CAV

The world has gone crazy on sue
cess, artistic success and even moral
success It's encouraging you to sue
coed and you're a mighty poor speci-
men of the human animal If you don
buck in and give it some justification.
It's doing more than to offer you
mere encouragement. You snarl ana
whine and lie down and quit, and act
the maligner generally, showing your
teeth at your neighbors and groWl-
ing that you never had chance. AS
a matter of fact, you are being offered
a thousand chances, and the quarrel
that the world has with you is that
you won't take any of them.
Perhaps the hand of the world is
against you. Doubtless you're right
that far. But the thing that 1t is in
sisting upon is not that you shan
make good, but that you shall. Why,
my boy, the world has a contempt for
the failure. 1t is so determined that
you shall succeed that it makes life
burden for you if you do not. 1t
makes you an outcast, it spurns you
from its doors. it puts you in Jail If 1t
can, and it's all because you insist
upon passing up your opportunities
IF you don't believe that the world
doesn't want you to be an under dog,
try being an upper dog for while.
Take the world at it's word and go to
it. Once you convince others that
you are willing to pay the price, you'll
find a thousand hands, friendly and
unfriendly, outstretched to you-and
if you are wise enough and brave
enough every one of them will be a
helping hand.
Take a look about you. Old man
Millions commands the adulation of
the crowd, because he is a success.
The artist, the writer, the musician,
the soldier, the engineer, are heroes
because they have succeeded. The
world is thirsty for success. 1t has
a mania for exalting the successful.
1t is angry with failure and is quite
ca pa Bile of kicking the man who is
down if he shows no disposition to
get up. 1t is for you to say whether
you get the kicks or the crown. And
the world at large is doing its littls
best to hammer into your head the
fact that you had better get busy and
earn the Copyright, 1912, by
w. e, Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
AD VERTTSLNG Talks
BY WILLIAM C. FREEMAN

Do advertising representatives of pub
locations gain anything by being narrow
minded and narrow chested when called
upon by advertisers to tell them some
thing about their competitors?
The man who is narrow minded is also
narrow chested. as a rule. He doesn't
breathe right. He can't talk straight out
from the shoulder. He can't be big in
thought act. He can't be just He
does not know how to tell the truth
A certain advertiser recently talked to
the representatives of six different pub
locations. He had made up his mind to
do some advertising. He sent for the
representatives of the publica lions that
he thought he would use. He put the
matter up sQuarely to each one of them.
He asked each one about the other five
publications. and in every instance, ex-
cept one, the other five were misrepre-
scented.
The one exception gave all of the facts
at his command-analyzed the value of
each medium-told the advertiser the
rates of all of them-and suggested q
plan of campaign which pleased the ad-
Vertiser immensely.
The advertiser said afterward that If
that one man had not gone into the mat
ter of advertising as clearly and as
frankly as he did, he would have given
up all idea of advertising
1t is mighty discouraging to an adver-
tiser to be told that this or that medium
is no good-that his judgment is all
wrong-and. besides, it makes him doubt
the value of advertising when the knock
ers' brigade gets in it's work.
The wise thing in developing advertfs-
ing is to tell facts. That is what an ad-
vertiser wants.
Another thing that the representative of
a publication wants to remember is that
if he is Just in his judgment of his COM
netitors' strength he himself gets put up
a higher notch in the opinion of the adj
80 (ross he continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

To go out into the world, and do some
tnlng Wen enough to get paid for it, is
often difficult, But it is likely to be very
interesting and is seldom monotonous, To
stay at home and keep a pleasant home
for the farers-forth may be harder or
easier-there is a difference of opinion
about that-but it is almost always more
monOtonous.
Hence, it seems to me that it is the duty
of those who go out of the home into the
world each day, to try to bring back as
much as they can to enliven the eX-
istences of those who stay at home.
Molly, the little stenographer lady, be-
lieveS this with all her heart. And more
than that she lives it.
Long ago Molly made little rule for
herself about this matter. 1t was to try
never to go home without taking some
thing to the little mother The result is
that the little mother. The result is
Homecoming, not only with the eagerness
of a mother, but also with the anticipa-
ton of a child.
Understand me, do not mean that the
something is anything very large or
always something that costs money.
home demands upon it to permit of that.
Sometimes it is just an amusing story OF
happenings at the office that Molly brings
home. Again it's some interesting piece
of news about some mutual acquaintance,
which will serve topic of converse
ton all through supper. When finances
are low, and there is nothing else in sight,
Molly makes business of visiting some
source from which she can get such news,
during her lunch hours. Again her offer
ing is her mothers pet newspaper. once
a week she tries to bring home some good
magazine. Five or ten cents worth of
her mothers favorite candy might seem
like a very paltry offering to some. but
to one whose pleasures are few, it is a
welcome little diversion.
Saturday-pay day-is Molly's great day.
Sometimes she brings home a whole
pound of candy. But Mo1ly's mother al
though she appreciates this gift, thinks
it means putting a good deal of money
into something that will be gone in day
or two, so more often Molly brings home
a less perishable offering. During her
lunch hours, she often visits the shops
Just to look around" and on these tours
she watches for some nice little thing
that can be bought to advantage, and
picks 1t up on Saturday. In lean weeks
it may be only twelve and a half cent
handkerchief marked from twenty-five;
in fatter times it may be a pretty jabot,
or even the making of a shirtwaist.
Twenty-Five to fifty cents week is
Molly's financial investment. Infinite
love and thoughtfulness and n tender
sympathy for the monotony of her little
mothers life are her larger capital. What
wonder that her profits are beyond cal
culation.
If this little story makes you think, as
It does me, I certainly do not need to add |
any moral or application.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

What would you do, Jim?" asked
the conductor.
The motorman jumped down a
walked back to Mr.. Rochester and
grabbed him by the collar and ex-
claimed:
F., Now, then. you wooden-headed
chump, what dye think you are try
ing to do ?"
"BeLbe careful of your language. sirl'
was the reply.
Careful UP with you! You don't
seem 10 nave the sense of a cabbage! Are
you blind, that you don't see the lady
present and in want of assistance?"
But we haven't been introduced
introduced! Dye think you at a
s,oyernor reception Come over TO the
sidewalk and hang to the fence. Bill,
prlng along the lady. Now, then, Miss
or Mrs. -p
Miss Frayne."
And now then, Mr.-NIr. -"
Rochester
Miss Frayne. Mr. Rochester. Mr..
Rochester, Miss Frayne. I'm poor man,
IN the dime museum business. and here
by offer each OF you $50 week to come
along and be my first freaks!'
''Sir!'
.'Of all the freaks and chumps and
IDIOTS l ever heard of it's you two sitting
on Ice and waiting to be introduced Jim,
why didn't we bring kodak along"
Mr. Rochester took Miss Fraynes arm
and assisted her home. He called on her
next evening by appointment. Three
months later they were engaged One
day the conductor saw them smuggling
town, laughing and joking and minding
not who observed, and he drew long
breath ana said to himself:
Say now, that ice cure is a great
thing and the Teller that patents it will
Iuaie mint of money! (Copyrighted
1912 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
JAXHAWKER JOT.S

Snow has ceased to be an incident,
declares the Ottawa Herald. 1t is
now a habit.
The roads are so bad that the man
who buys an airship has some ex-
cuse, thinks the Emporia Gazette.
Optimism on the part of the Cha
mute Tribune: Only a few more weeks
now until we will be paying four
prices for green strawberries, fully as
tasteless as cornhusks and as pala-
table as green persimmons.
A man was "cussing" the Metho-
dists the other day He told the edi-
tor that if she didn't cut out being a
Methodist she would go plumb
straight to Sheol-only that isn't what
he called it. 1t was not until several
hours later that we happened to re-
member that when the recent cold
spell set in it was the members of the
Methodist brotherhood who went to
that mans house and sawed his wood
and filled his coal bin. Last spring
the brotherhood plowed his garden
and planted his potatoes as he wasn't
able to do it himself. Now, why was
he cussing the Methodists ?-LindsbOrg
News.
MY father was a strange man.
declared Bill Sincaller to the Vim
land Vine the other day, land little
given to joking. I recall only one
joke ever heard at his expense. For
fifty years he chewed tobacco and
ed a good deal about his will power
and said that we boys could control
ourselves much better than we did,
just look at him who had quit chewing
tobacco after using it for so years.
He argued that We could easily quit
such habits we had. Suddenly the
taste for tobacco came back and we
heard no more about the will power"
-Vinland Vine.
Il see," said an Atchison woman
who reads the L. H. J. for her sport
ing news, that skirts are to be wider
this season. Her husband quit fig
uring how many rounds Flynn was
likely to last long enough to say that
1T was q. good thing, and continued:
1t will be big help; it will enable
a woman to keep up with a man when
she walks with him, even if she won't
keep step with him. There are women,
no doubt, with shapes worth showing, |
but if a woman feels that way about
it, she should use two tight pants legs
instead of one; time is precious" And
he turned over a page to see what
they were going to do to the steel
trESt.-Atchison Globa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The man who is slow to make
friends generally gets the right kind.
X x
Much that is supposed to be love is
more than likely to be imagination.
y X \
Many a politician fools himself
these days when he thinks he is fool
ing the people.
And speaking of advantages: The
people with naturally cheerful dispo-
sitions have one of the biggest.
x
All of the pretty girls wear pretty
hats. Or is it that any old kind of a
hat looks pretty on a pretty girl?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
HUNOR or THE DAY

Councilman-I've come to see, SIR, II
you will subscribe anything TO the town
cemetery. Old Resident-Good fractions!
I've already subscribed three wives.-TlA
First Bohemian-May L borrow YOU
gray tie? Second Ditto-Certainly. By
why all this formality of asking perrufb
sion? Ffrst-I can't find it.-AnswerA
Gwennie-Why did you refuse him IL ~
is such a prudent man? Gertie-He said
he thought If he got married he could
save more money.-London Opinion.
BIll-Did you say he was working Tor
the government nOw2 Jill-No. L didn't
say he was working said he had a
government job.-Yon Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Scott and Amundsen didn't play the
game according to the rules of prece-
dent in polar discoveries. Scott
should have hurried to the nearest
telephone, called up the World and
Shr1eked: Pay no attention to MN.
He's a faker. I am the ONLY South
pole discoverer."
The Mexicans, it is said, are real
Mad at the Americans, but there is no
report that they have refused to take
American money in preference to
their own.
The London jailer who couldn't
make the suffragettes take their baths
or do any work, didn't pursue the right
tactics. He threatened the women
is trying to be a martyr likes the
sound of that word dungeon" What
he should have done was to remove
all the chairs and stepladders, and
of mice if the suffragettes didn't get
busy.
Some strikes are intelligently con-
Quoted with beneficial end in view
but some others remind us OF the man
who did his share toward busting the
flour trust by refusing to eat bread
and living entirely upon hot biscuits
About the only person who can get
even a crumb of comfort out of this
DANCED weather is the girl who breads
summer because her nose sunburns
easily.
An astronomer is blaming the, sun
for the generally cussed condition OF
the weather. The sun may be respon-
sibIe for it in some parts, but right
here he could almost prove an allpl.
He hasn't been hanging around here
much of late.
The news that Champ Clark has
majority of the Kansas delegates is
of more political Importance than
report used to be. 1t real
ly looks like Hon. Champ would not
only get the delegates, but consld-
cradle number of votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
DAFFYDHS
BY u. NOALL.

If gun cried would it shed mus
keteers?
(stand back boys and make room
for the players.)
If a flying fish can go a half a mile
without a stop how far can a trout
fly?
(This is a free country and we do
as we have to-
When they cut Russian sable do
they use an icicle =?
(Spripg? Spring Where have
heard that word beforeD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
THE QUIET HARVEST.

Along the street are sounds of fife and
drum,
And lol the people shout that strength is
come.
But mightier far; tho trumpeted the less,
Is strength that walks in ways of quiet
ness.
The music fades, the Iuster disappears
Into the mist of 1ong-forgotten years;
And scarce the echo lives a moments
span
In the impulsive consciousness of man.
But. while in dust the pomp and pageant
roll,
The quiet harvest of an earnest soul
snail stand for ever, needless of decay,
And grow more perfect to the perfect
day.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

Nothing that res mbIes quibbling is
to be found in any of President Tafts
speeches that he is making in reply to
the rather revolutionary doctrines that
have been promulgated by Colonel
Roosevelt and his friends. He hits back
straight from the shoulder and in Ian
guage that every can understand.
A man of such fine courage, when his
political future is at stake. is worthy of
the admiration of all men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

Outside of the men who have acres of
winter wheat in the ground, the prob
abilities are that t1le-oniy other Kan
san who are smiling With satisfaction
at the weather that has prevailed are
the coal men. And it is the first winter
that most of them have smiled since
that marvellous thing, called natural
gas, has been available for the primary
purpose of making the registers in the
gas meters whirl around and around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

While the bulk of the people are
blaming the untoward weather condi
lions on the grounding, the astrono-
mers place the blame on the sun, or on
some spots which have appeared on the
sun lately. And the astronomers and
the bulk of the people. are playing
perfectly safe game. Neither the sun,
nor its spots. nor the grounding can
say a word in their own defense
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

Colonel Roosevelt has insisted that
when he said he would not be a. candi-
date for the Republican presidential
nomination in 1912. he did not neces-
sarily mean that he would not ACCEPT
such nomination if it We're rendered
him. Should he take the stump to cam
paign for this nomination, as he evil
IDENTIFY intends to do. would it be pos
sible to say that Colonel Roosevelt IS
an active and not receptive candidate
without mourning :. liability of being
elevated to the Ananias club?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

If the decision of the Republican
committee for the First congressional
district to hold meeting on March Is
to make arrangements for a district
presidential delegate convention was
announced for the purpose of smoking
out Chairman Dolley in the matter of
calling the much delayed meeting of
the Republican state Committee it was
eminently successful Scarcely had
this news been circulated around when
Mr.. Dolley issued a call for the state
committee to meet on March IA. one
day in advance of the proposed meet
ing of the congressional district com
xnAkta@
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
FROM OTHER PENS
BDUCATIoN AND MARRIAGES.

EDUCATION AND MARRIAGES.
In beginning a series OF articles in crit
alumnae of these institutions, the Ladies'
Home Journal publishes the Indictment
that the attitude of the college is that
marriage for girl is a falling or from
intellectual grace" Undoubtedly this is
the mental attitude of a good many grad
yates from the higher schools for women.
the spirit or the methods Of the faculties
in charge are responsible for II.
This has always been one OF the draw
backs of higher education in both sexes
a sort Of shallow priggishness resulting
from the natural belief of students that
they are apart from and just little
above the general level of the world.
Happily it wears off in contact with the
world, and very quickly when the boy
or girl is healthy, wholesome and normal
On the other hand the very serious in
dictment is brought against the coeduca-
ton colleges that they quite apt to
lead to early marriages Of students. When
this charge was mentioned to David Starr
Jordan, president OF Leland Stanford uni
versity, he chuckled deeply and pleaded
ford. but for all the schools of its kind.
"Our young people," he said, ARE OF
about the same age and station in life
and-why not?"-Indianapolis Star.
VOLUNTEERS IN IDLE ARMY.
1t is not at all surprising to learn that
many thousands of Chicagos army of
unemployed are volunteers. The complete
muster is estimated at 125.O00 and the
commission appointed by the mayor to
investigate conditions has already report
ed that it has found many demands for
workmen unmet by the soldiers within
these lines. For instance. call for 25,-
900 men to clear railroad tracks and other
of snow fell upon deaf ears In
another case 1,500 men were advertised
for in the morning newspaper want ad
columns and $50 responded.
No impatient zeal for work evidently
animates thousands Of these soldiers Of
idleness. Others, no doubt, would like
chance to earn an honest living, but there
is the unanswered call for the 25 900.
is not saved that way. We
ventured to suggest before that a large
of this vast army of unem-
oloyed consisted of the professional tramp
and these early findings of the commits
sion seem to justify our belief. They put
a very different aspect upon the situation
and will go to discredit any attempt TO
make political capital out of a condition
apparently grave.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

othing about the annexation cf
Canada is to be found in Champ Clark's
war cry for the Democratic presidential
nomination which he uttered the other
day before the legislature of kentucky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

There ought to be some consolation
in this possibility. 1t isn't likely that
Kansas will ever again experience a
winter with so much snow as the one
of 1912 has produced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

What has become of that fnsistent
demand, with which Governor Stubs
was in touch. for the calling of a
special session of the legislature?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
{ From the New York Press.I

TFrom the New York Press
The way to make mistake is to be
sure you aren't going to.
The more the baby can cry the
more 1t didn't inherit it from either
family.
Maybe votes for women wouldn't
be any more misvoted than votes for
men are.
A man has an idea he would look
ten years younger if he hadn't done
so much thinking in his life.
The reason a girl is so astonished
that her new hat startles you is she
would be more astonisied If it didn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

Mr.. Bryan says he does not wish to
be considered as a candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination
Is this the forerunner of an an
nouncement from Mr.. Bryan that he
will accept this nomination if it is Of
fered him? Nor should it be difficult
for Mr.. Bryan's friends to unearth at
least seven Democratic governor who
are of the opinion that Mr.. BRYAN is
the only man who can carry the
Democratic party and the nation
through the present "crisis.',
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tossing a hat into the political ring
these days appears to be a signal for
every good marksman to take a shot at
it.. Nor is it difficult to hit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-12

Congressional Mckinley, director of
President Taft's campaign. favors pre-
ferenttal presidential primaries where
ever they can be held legally. That is
relatively the same position that was
assumed by the Republican 'insur-
gents of Kansas when they opposed
the holding of a primary to make the
nominations for the special election in
the Second Congressional district of
recent date. They opposed "a mob
primary because it would be without
the necessary safeguards of law.