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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
"PLAYING THE GAME"
Truly, President Taft Does Not Follow
System Politically.

That is criticism often heard Of
President Taft. 1t Is the professional
politician usually who voices It, but
often It is repeated by those who are
accustomed to take their estimates Of
public men and their political opinions
from others.
Playing the game has been the occu.
patton Of time serving politicians from
time immemoriaL Men who regard
politics as a game like to see 1t played
deity. Other men without fixed ideas
on the subject parrot the criticism
passed by the experts.
Playing the game In politics neces-
sarily has deceit as its fundamental
principle.
The public man who sees develop
ing an issue that might prove embar-
RAISING to him personally, and who
manages. by guile, to divert public at
tention to another, lesser, but a per-
fectly safe, issue, plays the game.
The public man who makes public
protestauons Of his enmity toward
swollen wealth and then holds secret
conferences with the representatives
OF that wealth, plays the game.
The public man who breaches one
code of political morality and prac-
tees another plays the game.
The public man who utters sounding
but empty phrases, no matter how de-
lightful his dict4on or how superb his
eloquence. plays the game.
The public man who makes promises
impossible of fulfllment plays the
game
The public man who puts the ac-
Quirement of public favor above ideals
of public service plays the game.
Truly, President Taft does not know
how 10 play the game.
He has been reared In an atmos-
phere of service rather than politics,
as we have come to know politics. The
thing that has always concerned him
Is the doing Of an act, not the spec
tacular staging of 1t. nor the exploita-
ton Of 1t, nor. on the contrary, the
concealment of it.
To serve has always been his ideal,
not merely TO acquire the appearance
OF serving.
1t has been impossible for him to
look upon public service as game.
The public's business, as he regards 1t,
Is serious business.
There is reason for the belief that
the American people as a whole share
with him this view. The growing In
talliQanca NJ the nation ia raiactipa,
the idea that the selection of their
public servants is merely q sporting
proposition
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
PROFESSORS WORK IN MILLS.
Vacation Spent Laborins In Steel
Plants TO Get Experience.

NaCaLlOn opent GdDOEiU9 III OhSSl
Plants 20 Get Experience.
In the big mills of Pittsburgh twen-
ty-nine college professors from twen-
ty-five different schools in nineteen
states are ending the summer vaca-
tions they forfeited that they might
don overalls and get into the actual
works of great industrial plants here
just for the experience. For this they
have been paid on an average 20 cents
an hour, or about $40 month, and
have worked in the hottest summer
known at the plants.
Most Of them have been living in
the mechanics boarding houses. All
have carried dinner pals or have eat
en- at the factory dining halls in the
thirty minutes allowed for lunch.
The Westinghouse company found
ten college instructors on its payroll
and placed them in a class under the
direction of Professor George B. Thom-
as Of Colorado university. This class
has had lectures nearly every night
after the days work
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18

CLOVER HEAPS AT TENNESSEE EXPERIMENT
STATION.
Larger heap shows clover grown on lined
soil; smaller clover grown on unlimed
soiLl
ton with the lime on a part of the
lined strip. In case there Is stand Of
clover on both lined and unlimed land,
the two areas should be harvested and
weighed separately to determine wheth-
er or not the lime has made sufficient
gain to justify its use.
Acids turn blue litmus paper red, and
this test has been recommended for
soil acidity, but we do not regard 1t as
entirely satisfactory. However, for the
information of those who may wish to
try it, we give the following directions:
Place strip of blue litmus paper be-
tween two wider strips Of filter paper,
break open a moist clod, place one end
of the strips of paper in the fracture
and press the clod firmly together. In
about ten minutes remove the litmus
paper and pin it up to dry by the end
which was left out of the soil. a
change to pink or red which lasts after
the paper Is dry indicates acid. Do not
handle the end Of the paper used for
testing or allow anything to touch 1t.
Repeat the test with different samples,
and If doubtful test the subsoil, which
is generally more acid than the surface
soil. Blue litmus paper and filter pa
per can be bought at any drug store.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
L arm qua
Garden
DOES YOUR SOIL NEED LIME?
Best Way to Find Out ls to Make Test
by Means Of Glover.

Lime, considered as the source of the
element calcium, is ono of the ten alb
solutely essential plant foods AS such
1t is required in only small amounts,
and It is probable that nearly all soils
contain enough to satisfy the direct
needs of the plant. says n circular Of
the Perdue university. Indiana. agri-
cultural experiment station.
The one best way to tell whether or
not the soil needs lime Is to try it and
see, and the place to try 1t Is on the
clover crop. A good plan is to apply
ground limestone at the rate of two
tons per acre and harrow in before
sowing wheat and in the spring sow
clover as usual. The clover may fail
because OF shortage of plant food or
bad physical condition of the soil even
on the lined land, so 1t Is best to use
light application of manure in connec-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
"SPEAK OUT! SPEAK 0UTp
Democratic stomaohs Revolt Against
Wllson-MarshalI Mush.

Speak outi Speak outi" Is the al
moet desperate cry of the New York
World. the newspaper chiefly re-
sponsible for the nomination of Wood
row Wilson In 1912, as It was for the
nomination of Alton b. Parker In
1904 Day after day. it seems, the
World has been waiting with ears to
the windward for some point, some
virile, vital expression from its latest
presidential jack out OF the box on
questions of the hour, some solid
positive utteranoe by the candidate,
which II could grab and lay about
with as campaign shillelah 1t has
waited In vain Rounded periods Of
dreary drivel, pedagogical common
places that might have como out of
a third reader and which had about
as much relation 10 issues of the cam
paign as TT is a sin to steal pin"
has to Metropolitan opera, have been
fed to curious crowds and to editors
waiting with whetted pens for red
hot meteors of inspiration.
disappointment and disgust are not
confined to the World office. I'VE
asked you for bread and you gave us a
stone" is paraphrased in Democratic
sentiment by I'VE asked you for
meat and you gave us nush." Nause-
ated with Wilson they turned to Mar
shall only to find him as aperient Of
vacuous platitudes as his coadjutor.
It's hopeless appeal AS well try
to seize the elusive tail Of a creased
pig at a county fair as expect TO get
anything definite out of Wilson. He
was definite enough when he said In
his History of the American Peo-
pie" that "the Chinese are more to be
desired as workmen, II not as citi-
zens," than "the coarse crew crowding
in at eastern ports"-that is, immi-
grants from Europe. He was definite
enough in saying in the same book
that congress had dealt very harshly7
in passing the law excluding Chinese
from the United States. He was def.
mite enough in denouncing immigrants
from Poland, Hungary and Italy.
Evidently Wilson can speak out If
he wants to, and the inference is that
he Is afraid to. On the issue of
navy powerful enough to defend the
interests and uphold the honor Of the
United States he Is silent for fear of
offending the Democratic majority in
congress opposed to Strengthening the
navy. On the tariff he is, to quote an
old comparison, neither a man, nor
a mouse, nor long tailed rat" but
more like one Of those ancient Egyp-
tian monstrosities carved on the num-
my cases, with heads looking contrari-
wise On one point he is deflnite-he
wants to be president, and he doesn't
care much how he gets there. He is
willing to slosh through sea Of bosh
to the White House, and now that he
has the nomination he counts upon
the world and the rest Of the whang-
doodles to follow, whether they like
his style or not
Perhaps they will, Notwithstanding
grimaces Of disgust and protesting
cries to speak out.
But the people-they want man
for president
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
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Cash From Waste.

AS soon as possible after the small
grain is harvested turn the stock into
the fields to CLEAN the waste grain and
clean up the fence rows. A part of
the money the land has produced still
remains in the field after the grain
has been harvested and removed. An
imals can make available cash out of
the waste crops.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
Get II on the Land.

There is no month in the year when
manure cannot be hauled and scat
tered on the fields TO advantage 1t is
better on the land than in the stables
and lots.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
GOOD ADVICE.

Jock, when ye hae naething
else to do ye may be aye stick
ing in tree; it will be growing,
Jock, when ye're sleeping.-From
"The Heart of Midlothian" by
Sir Walter Scott
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-09-18
The OLDEST Fire Insurance
Agency in Wayne County.

Office: Second floor Masonic Build
ing, over c. c. Jadwin's drug store,
Honesdale.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
-azzNT RN1NUDv kzeo 10 zzzzE1HaY

supplied for the royal robe Of yellow, valued at
q million dollars, the most costly royal robe in
existence. and the handiwork Of savage women
who have long forgotten the art that once was
theirs, when their fingers created feather robes
for their husband chiefs to wear.
Today when a royal parsonage dies in Hawaii
ancient kahils, wands Of feathers. are care.
fully reconstructed by those who still preserve
the art of putting them together, and after the
royal interment they are again taken apart and
put carefully away. In days Of old even queens
worked on these and even the present ex-Queen
Liliuokalani worked with her own hands feather
wand that preceded to the grave poor Queen
Emma. last descendant of the first American to
carried before the funeral cortege Of Prince
David. and will in time precede Liliuokalani her
self to the last resting place Of Hawaiian kings
and queens. the royal mausoleum.
Sometimes one may still observe family of
women in Hawaii wearing one Of the oldtime, all
hut priceless mats, but 1t Is tedious work and the
over-educated collegebred girl of Hawaii does
not take toll kindly. Besides the art must be
learned in childhood when the fingers are supple
and nowadays the public schools have truant Of
ncers and every family sewing machine. Every
Hawaiian girl, however, Is an adept at weaving
wreaths and chains OF flowers. The lei women
are one of the sights Of Honolulu. For the man
she loves the Hawaiian girl will still weave a
hat OF native fibre around which she will make
q band Of feathers to express her aloha" or love
for the wearer.
As the native arts and Industries in the South
Seas are abandoned one by one before the on
ward march of civilization. the aboriginal of the
tropics left idle. quickly forget how to work
and pass away. In the good old days 1t took
muscular cannibal full six months to chop out
with primitive stone implements his log canoe.
In New Zealand the most expert wood carvers were
employed for years at stretch fashioning with
stone hatchets the headpiece for war canoe.
In every South Sea village the sound Of the
women beating out tapa cloth was heard from
morning till night. but nowadays all these things
done in twinkling BY machinery in civilized
lands. sold to the South Sea islanders for the
cocoanuts they pick up under the trees There
is no further incentive for them to work. nature
seems to say to them, Then why live?" Civiliza-
ton has clothed the savage and robbed him Of
his handicrafts but 1t has not yet succeeded In
making him work for the white man. as the white
man wishes him to work.
In the good old days Of the great king Kane
hameha. some ninety odd years ago. every
Hawaiian man was a warrior skilled in the con-
struction Of artistic war clubs and double canoes
almost ~ large as modern shipa The women
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

A literary lady 1t society dinner
VAS given seat next to a noted
cienftst whose Views were very ma
3ferialistic, and at some remark he
made on the origin of mankind, the
1ady found her temper tried beyond
All bearing, SO that she retorted: Il
really don't care what you say. / be.
Ilieve in the Bible. and there we are
told that Adam was the father Of AL
living"
I really think ycu are mistaken 2
he said with smile. and so the sub.
Eject dropped
4 A few days later the lady. writing
10 bosom friend. told her of the &C.
'currence and added: Il am too morti.
fed, for have looked the matter up
and 1t only says that Eve was the
mother of all living, and SO l don't
know whether to write to the profes.
sor or not"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

but all over the South Seas the handicraft Of the
native workmen is becoming more and more .
rarity to be snapped up for preservation in the
worlds great museums.
In New Zealand 1t Is penal o6ense to attempt
to export bit Of Maori carving no living Maori
may be employed upon bit Of native art work
for foreigner no matter what the price offered
the workman may be- he must sell to the gov
eminent. In the New Hebrides. wood carving Is
all but lost art. Today In the native villages
In the homo Of chief where the old hligree
woodwork dividing the hut in two rooms still
stands. only the very oldest workers in the vii
lagos can repair 1t properly. Where there are no
old men, clumsy patchwork is made OF It. and
as for the young men. they know nothing what
ever Of the art Practically 1t has already died
out.
1 had seen the Pandanus tree growing in
Hawaii have even sat down and watched the
Hawaiians who. in spite OF their childhood spent
In the public schools, still preserve the art Of mat
making, and seated upon the flooring of their
modern piazzas, their legs under them. keep their
fingers husy with the long strips Of leaves that
some one else has dried and cured for them. 1t
was not until had spent some time among the
Fijians that met those who collect their own
leaves and follow the process of mat making from
start to finish
The womans work in the South Seas is to help
the man He builds the canoe, she helps to pad
die it: she creates pottery. he takes 1t to mar
ket; he climbs to cut down the ripened cocoanut,
she weaves the baskets that carry the dried
kernel or copra to the trader. II tapa is to be
made the man helps to gather the bark. And 30
It goes the South Sea island woman has nearly
everywhere in the Pacific achieved her enamel
patton, owns her own sewing machine ana bids
cheerful "kofa" (farewelD to the industries at
which her mother was an artist She has attained
equality with man, but the world has lost some
thing that she might gain everything
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

those times, and said that l ought to
have an operation. would not listen to
that, and when friend of nv husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkha..c.'s Veg
etable Compound and what it had dons
for his wife, was willing to take it.
Now look the picture of health and feel
like it, too can do all my own house,
work, work in the garden and entertain
company and enjoy them, and can walk
as far as any ordinary woman, any day
in the week. wish could talk to every
suffering woman and girl, and tell them
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done for me. Mrs.
DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Remember, the remedy which did this
was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
1t has helped thousands Of women who
have been troubled with displacements,
inflammation, liberation, tumors, irreg-
ularities, periodic pains, bsckache, that
bearing down feeling, Indigestion, and
nervous prostration, after all other means
have failed. Why don't you try it?
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.

Lying awake nights makes it hard
to keep awake and do things in. day
time. To take "tonics and stimulants"
under such circumstances Is like SET
ting the house on IRE to see II you
can put 1t out.
The right kind Of food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way OF
eating Grape-Nuts. and says:
For about three years had been
great sufferer from indigestion.
After trying several kinds OF medicine,
the doctor would ask me to drop on
potatoes. then meat, and so on. but in
few days that craving, gnawing feel
ing would start up, and / would vomit
everything l ate and drank.
When started on Grape-Nuts, vom-
iting stopped, and the bloated feeling
which was 30 distressing disappeared
entirely. n,
my mother was very much bothered
with diarrhoea before commencing the
Grape-Nuts. because her stomach was
SO weak she could not digest her food.
Since using Grape-Nuts food she IL
well, and says she don't think sho
could do without 1t.
1T Is great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for can sleep as sound
and undisturbed after a supper Of
Grape-Nuts as In the old days when I
could not realize what they meant by
bad stomach There is no medi-
cine SO beneficial to nerves and brain
as a good nights sleep, such as you
can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, 1.-THE Road to Wellville"
Ever read the shove letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
nre genuiAs, truss and fu1t Of hunAD
interest.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
Peace Made The Quaker Face

their preaching. have heard that one OF our an
cestresses was q scold and there was Cousin
Amelia, who used to shake her finger at an OBJ
stinate driver when he refused to uncheck his
horse. and say: Just wait till thee gets to the
next world Then thee'll see what will happen!"
As have remarked. the Quaker project was not
always successful. But for once popular opinion
is quite rght-the Quaker face. particularly tho
Quaker woman's face. was transfused with peace
Is 1t not natural? Where could be found the
worlds sweet inn from pain and wearisome tur.
moil." II not In the older communities of Friends
communities in which prudence and self-control
kept away poverty: where not only war, but strife
also and civil and domestic discord, were banned
so explicitly that 1t was forbidden to decide by ma
jorities at meeting; where rivalry In dress and IN
station were restrained as far a. fallibe human
nature would permit? How could peace fall to be
resident In a society which believed that God was
not in his heaven. but among US. and that as long
a. one lived without afectation did the daily task
kept the heart tender and the body pure. all was
right with the woxld?-Henry Seidel Candy. In the
Century Magazine
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

vote some Of the most
wonderful feather robes
ever worn by royalty, and
to this day the few old ma
lives who still preserve
alive the art Of beating
tapa cloth, turn out de-
sfgnS the iike III which is
to be found nowhere else
In the Pacific. real works
Of art, while the few Ha-
waiian mats that are still
woven rank above any
made In the South Seas.
Modern aniline dyes have
lightened the labors of
the Hawaiian remnant of
native cloth makers, but
I have Iuany a time come
across the Fijian men and
women In their forests
working all day long with
a will digging roots and
herbs from which to ex-
tract colors. The time has
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
Helped . Little.

At Dinard one summer there was a
beautiful young countess, the wife Of
q millionaire. whose bathing dress
was-well- ,
A couple of men about town were
talking in shocked tones about the
countess bathing dress on the casino
terrace.
IT'S shocking; it's most improper.
said the first.
But said the second, Il can't be-
lieve it's any worse than the dinner
dress she wore at Mrs. Hughes-Hal-
let's ball last night"
"Oh, well" said the other, she had
her diamonds on then" Rochester
Evening Telegram.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
Blessed sympathy.

Sympathy with animals blesses and
humanizes men and women. To get
into real relations with an animal is
liberal education. 1t is something
to be really interested even in plant
and to observe the working of life in
any sphere not our own. How much
more when that life is directing a
personality which consciously looks
up to us and will love US IL we will
let NH-Christian Register.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

To keep artificial teeth and bridge
work antiseptically clean and free
from odors and disease germs, Paxtine
Antiseptic is unequaled. At drug
gists, 25c box or sent postpaid on re-
ceipt of price by The Paxton Toilet
Co., Boston, Mass.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

Bad for Her Child.
II SEQ that your husband is taking one OF your
neighbor's children as caddy when he goes on
the golf links"
YES"
"But why doesn't your own son go with him7
Doesn't he like to carry his fathers clubs?"
YES but put stop to It wheE found out
what terrible language my husband uses when he
foozles. made him get another boy or drop the
game"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

What made the Quaker face? Not broad
brimmed hat or gray bonnet. as the hippant as
sert. Costume will not make it. as you may prove
for yourself at the next masquerade. In part. It
was the mysticism. the reserve and the self-re-
lance Of the Quaker mind These things were
the very essence of the society, and they led to
a subconscious command to be silent. to be calm.
to hide the emotions of the too often rebeluous
heart, which in turn helped to mold the faces one
sees in the portraits and among the Friends stlH
left who belong to the old rule.
It used to be said in our Quaker town that one
could tell by their manners the children who had
been sent to the Friends school, because once .
week In meeting they had to sit for an hour IN
perfect quiet Think of family, OF community.
where the heart was put under discipline for iife
But this is not all. for have left out the causes
which were chiefly responsible for the most charm
ing element Of the features of the old Friends-an
enduring peace. There have been unpeaceful
Quakers and unpeaceful Quarkeresses. More than
one member Of our meeting 30 am told. stamped
out Of First Day service and slammed the door BE-
hind them when the unorthodox Hicksites began
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
stern. Call Of Duty.

4 Reform is not joyous, but griev-
Gus; no single man can reform him
self without stern suffering and stern
working; how much less can a nation
of men!-Carlyle.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
And PrIzed Above LAM.

Other things may be seized by
might or purchased with money, but
knowledge is to be gained only by
effort.-Landor.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

Two Indispensable Supports.
OF all the dispositions and habits
that lead to political prosperity, re-
ligion and morality are indispensable
supports.-George Washington.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12
WARNING on.

Impecunious Nobleman-Sir, understand you
have a peerless daughter.
Old Moneybags-Yes, and you might as well un-
derstand first a. last, that she Is going to stay
peerless as far as you fortune hunters are con-
earned
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-12

The candidate for Office who "also
ran" has to explain to his friends how
it happened