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; AND LOWV/LLE TIMES. H. A. PHILUPS PUBUSH1NC COMPANY. LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1909. VOLUME 50. No. 40 KEEP OUT OF POLITICS. President Serve* Notice on Cen- sus Appointees. WHY HE REMAINS REPUBLICAN Any Man Taking Part in National, State or Local Politics Otherwise Than by Voting, Will Lose His Job Instanter if. Connected With Census. IVverly, Mass., Aug. 18.—In a letter a-Mtvssed to Secretary Nagel of the IViKirtment of Commerce and Labor, I'rosiiieiit Taft served notice that any man-enffaged.inL.the taking of the 13th_ consus of the United Statea who en- gages in politics in anyway will/be im- mediately dismissed from the service. Outside of casting their votes the President believes the census, super- visors an<i enumerators should keep dear of anything that savors of politics, national, state 6r local, '['ha President orders that the Secre* tat> of Commerce - f and Labor and the [ Director of the Census embody in the regulations governing the taking of the census the rule forcibly laid down in his letter. Census to be Out of Polities. Mr. Taft says that in appointing census supervisors it has been found necessary to select men recommended by senators and representatives in their districts. He says he realizes that this method of selection might easily be perverted to political purposes and it is to take the census out of politics so far as the actual work is concerned, that he Itas explicitly expressed his desyres as to the regulations. President Taft has told representa- tives and senators who have urged various men for census places that he would insisit that no active partisan should be named and that no attempt should be jnade to bjUild up a political machine in any state ofdistrict through •the distribution, of the census patron-j a^e. One hundred and thirty-four ad- ditional supervision! of the census were announced. Altogether 184 of the 330 supervisors now have been commis- sioned. . '. President at Church Service. The President and Captain Butt, his aide, attended the Unitarian church this- morning and listened to a sermon by Rev. C. W. Eliot, of Cambridge, Mass. Mrl Eliot is a son of President- Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, and is president of the American Uni- tarian Association. A great crowd .gathered outside the church and ap- plauded the President as he left the edifice. The census supervisors announced to- day include : New Jersey, first district, William D. Brown; fourth district, Harry B. Salter. New York, fifth dis- trict, Cornelius Shufelt; sixth district, Anthony P. Finder; eighth district, Dougla W. Miller; tenth district. Wil- liam G. Moore; 12th district, Frank C. Wisner;U4th district, John Gilbert Pembleton; 16th district, Henry ,W. Martens; 18th district, Addison W. Fisher. FOREST RANGERS WANTED. Government Requires 500 Men at An- nual Pay of $900 Each. Washington, Aug. 18.—Five hundred men between the ages of 21 and 40 are \\varfr«-il~by\'the Government as forest rangers. They must be of good charac- ter, temperate and in good physical condition. At the beginning of their service they will be paid $900 a year. An examination to fill vacancies in the ranger force on 149 national forests in 21 states and territories, including Alaska, will be held October 25 and 26. This examination will be held at each forest supervisor's headquarters in the national forests states and territories, including Arkansas, Minnesota, Michi- gan and Florida, which are the most easterly states having national forests. While the examination will be entirely along practical lines, and knowledge of field conditoins rather than book learn- ing will be considered essential, the op- portunities for those applicants with educational advantages will be consid- erably increased. The rapid develop- ment of the national forests is making continually increasing demands upon those engaged in their management, and men with ability to assume respon- sibility and serve in supervisory capaci- ties are in demand. The more respons- ible positions on national forests are filled by promotion from lower grades, so that anyone entering as a ranger is eligible for promotion to any of the more responsible and higher paid places,'including that of forest super- visor. Baptist Breaks a Long Drouth. Bennington, Okla., Aug. 16.—Resi- dents of Bennington are wondering whether the Baptist church has been chosen for a special manifestation of Providence. Several weeks ago a Pres- byterian evangelist erected a taber- nacle here and began a protracted meet- ing. The country was badly in need of rain. The meeting continued ten days, and though there were prayers for rain, only a sprinkle fell. Then the Mehodists held rain services ten days, in which time it rained once. The Holiness sectf next prayed two weeks for rain, but not a drop fell. The people then sent for the Rev. J. F. Young, a Baptist, of Ardmore. He pitched his tent at night and prayed that the drouth be broken. Clouds gathered immediately, and .before morning there was a heavy downpour that continued for hours. A Speech by Tom Fitch That Will Bear Reading Again. \I belong to ( the Republican party because its history is the history of the growth, the greatness and the freedom of the nation ; because it is the friend of labor without being the foe of thrift; because it is wise, because it is just, because its restoration to complete power will rekindle the furnace and start the turbines.and fill the land with' the music of contented and well-paid toil, and Dut bread into men's mouths and hope into their hearts. ._ \*T belong to the Republican party becailse it is the grandest political or- ganization of freeman that the world has ever known; because under its wise guidance star after star has been added to our flag, ship after ship has been added to our fleet, factory after factory has been added to our resources, mil- lions upon millions have been added to our wealth, city after city has been developed from our villages, and the land has been laced with a network of iron rails, and furnace fires have illumi- nated the night, and the grand dia- pason of labor has been made to sound throughout the continent. ''-I belong to the Republican party because, under its inspiration these United States, once a wrangling and discordant Commonwealth,these United States, once shamed with slavery and decrepit with the disease of secession— these United States have become a country where no slave's presence dis- honors labor, where no freeman 's.utter- ances are choked by. the hand of power, where no man doffs his hat to another, except through the courtesy of equals, where education is free, where manho.xl is respected, and where labor is pro- tected. \Under the patriotic rule of the Re- publican party these United States have become a nation whose credit reigns at. the head of the world's finances; whose flags float upon the sea, and whose armies would come at the drumbeat out of the hives of indus- try to swarm in defense of the country on every shore. \Under the rule of the Republican party these United States have become the greatest, freest and most prosper- ous nation under the light of the sun. \I belong to the Republican party be- cause it gave land to the landless, be- cause it gave work to the industrious, because it gave freedom to the slave, because, when the nation was in peril, it gave armies and treasure for her preservation. \Forty years ago, when a lad of 18, I joined the Republican ranks, and, too. young to vote, I flung my blazing ban- ner aloft for Fremont and Jessie. I was present as a newspaper reporter at.the Chicago Convention in 1860, when all Illinois shouted Abraham Lincoln into the presidency. I heard the song of John Brown's soul sung in bated breath and in secret gatherings of his sympa- thizers, and, four years later, on these distant shores, 1 almost caught the echo of its refrain when armies chanted it fojTt^eir battle anthem. I enjoyed the^loqucnce and friendship of Baker and Starr King, and Butler and Bing- ham, and Garfield and Conkling, and the^ioblest-Roman of fchem-all r James Q. Blaine. \Who shall dare tell me It is my duty to leave the path along which my youth and manhood, and where, when the evening bugle shall sound the final reveille, my ^ige shall be~ found still marching? . Rather will I turn to the Republican goddess the same steadfast face that I bore when my locks, now whitening, were as black as the raven's wing, and say to her, as Ruth said to Naomi: \Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest* I will die, and there will I be buried.' \ TROUBLE FOR DR. WILEY. No Adulterated Wine Will Go, He Says, and the Producers Object. Washington, Aug. 18.—Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem- istry, probably has precipitated another controversy which may rival that of \What is whiskey?\ Just before leav- ing for the food convention at Denver, Dr. Wiley announced that he would not stand for the adulteration of wines made from grapes. He served notice that offenders would be prosecuted. The trouble has arisen over the alleged practice of American wine manufac turers of adding water and sugar to wine from grapes, about three parts to one. Dr. Wiley holds that this is an adulteration and that it must be stop- ped. Another, practice which Dr. Wiley ob- jects to is the making of a second grade of wine from the seeds and skins of grapes. These are used, he says, merely for flavoring purposes, the bulk of the wine as it reaches the consumer being made'of water and sugar. The department has already ruled that Rhine wine must be made in Germany to be labeled as such. It is understood that producers will join issue with Dr. Wiley and there is every prospect of a stiff contest. VITAL STATISTICS. Foot Rot Attack* Fowls. Foot rot has attacked hundreds 6f fowls in Dutchess county and the fatal- ity is great. In flocks of from sixty to seventy turkeys before the attack but ten now remain. The department of agriculture has been appealed to and they caution burning of de,ad fowls, as the disease is highly contagious. Cases are known where fowls died in a few hours after showing the first symptoms. It is marked by a lazy action on the parlj of the. fowl, followed by the turn- ing white of the feet and nails drop- ping off. ______________ And She Bolted. \Served him right.\ '\What?\ 'He couldn't keep a cook, so he mar- Tied one.\ \Looks like a good idea.\ \But she refused to cook then, and now the servant girl problem is worse than ever.\ Contemplating- the annual killing of its cm]), the peach tree must .some be tempted to raise chestnuts. Thirteen Cases of Small-Pox Reported From St. Lawrence County. The monthly bulletin of the State Department of Health,, just issued, gives some statistics regarding small- pox in the State in the first six months of the year. In St. Lawrence county there were 13 cases distributed as fol- lows : Colton, 1; Parishville, 5; Russell, 7. In June out of a total of 10,701 deaths in the State, 1,137 were due to tuber- culosis of the lungs. There were 133 suicides, 24 cases of homicide, and 92 deaths caused by the heat. There were no.deaths from small-pox in June. In Watertown there were 2 deaths in June and 26 births. In Carthage there were three deaths and six births. Sta- tistics of other nearby towns follow : Clayton, town, deaths, 6; births, 7; Ellisburg, town, deaths, 5; births 2; rest of Jefferson county, deaths, 44; Lowville, town, deaths, 6; births 5; rest of Lewis county, deaths, 29; Can- ton, town, deaths, 6; births, 7; Gouver- neur, town, deaths, 7; births, 9; Mas- sena, village, deaths,, 5; births, 7; Og- densburg, deaths* 24: births, 22; Pots- dam, village, deaths, 3; births, 5; rest of St. Lawrence county, deaths, 66. - The Rural Free Delivery Letter Carriers' Asociation in state convention at Rochester the past week, selected Watertown as the place for holding the next meeting. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. Heat Bringi Crime—Pennies Preferred —Judging Judges—Woman'* Weap- on*—Shark Stories. New \ork, Aug. 16.—Under the most sweltering sun that has tortured the people of this island in years, criminal activity throughout town has sprung up fully ten per cent, this week, ac- cording to the police records to-day. From t murder down to milk bottle poaching every crime on the calendar has been practiced in steadily increas- ing volume as the terrific heat has held the maddened poor each day longer in its grasp. That hot spells and humidity hatch criminal instints in the baking brains of the masses is believed by practical policemen to be not theory alone but hard proven fact. Special watches for the man-slayer and thief, as well as the suicide, are being posted all about the shady sides of the city as the heat wears deeper into the soul of the crowd; and thus far the harvest of crime from the deadly rays of the sun has proyed only too abundant: The broker's boast that the spirit of Wall Street whirls the town seems to be justified by the speculation in Lincoln pennies that has to-day spread to every corner of the city. With no thought but to bull the market in the rare cop- per discs, hundreds of youngsters are feverishly bidding, selling and swap- ping quotations on them along every street in town. Fully a thousand street urchins have formed a curb market along Nassau street, just above the Stock Exchange, where penny puts and calls are fairly blocking business traffic. Almost every boy of the upper part of town is also busily > engaged in taking one flyer after another in the coins that are now assured as more or less of a rarity. From one to two, three and four for a nickel these pennies pre- ferred have fluctuated among the wildy scrambling youths and the market has just begun to soar again on late advices from Washington. Wall street will not want for future speculators, according to this novel demonstration. To reorganize and reform the common courts, through which the rights and wrongs of hundreds of thousands of the plain people are sifted each year, is the object of a sweeping movement that has been set on foot here to-day. For years the outrageous practices of the police courts have scandaized the better element of the bar in this city and worked sad injustice to the poor who must plead before their autocratic magistrates. Vested necessarily with wide powers and discretion, the men who pass upon hundreds of petty cases each day have come in many instances to assume the attitude and manner of Czars rather than servants of the people. Political pull and personal preference have eaten into the struc- ture of all the lower courts till New York has finally roused itself to. set right their shame. Where the persons and property of milHons of citizens are at stake, it is believed, justice should be found without a long and costly hunt. —Following-upon4he_apectacular shoots ing case in Peacock alley at the Wal- dorf, a dozen tragic attacks by frantic women upon men have to-day been re- corded by the police in every stratum of life in this metropolis. While Mr. Castle has stepped out of court, after firing a bullet that barely escaped tak- ing the life of William B. Craig, the idea of a murderous remedy for real or fancied wrongs seems to have fired the brains of many another woman to the attempt. Every page of the criminal history of this town is filled with in- stances of the ease whith which woman may escape the penalty for such deeds in court; and there is hardly a con- spicous case of feminine assault or murder that haa met a jury ready to convict. Street shooting by women bids fair to soon become a popular past- time, if the law does not become speed- ily aroused. Real sharks have invaded this harbor and now lurk about its beaches, unless hundreds of residents of the Staten Island shore are united in one plausible and circumstantially symmetrical lie. Bathers at Midland Beach are every day reporting the sight of glistening shark fins, cutting their deadly course not fifty feet from the coast line of the upper bay. Fishermen swear to the same sights and stick to their story. Though the experts affect to scout the possibility of sharks so close to shore in this latitude, no one can convince the Staten Island excursionists that the marine man-eaters are not lying in wait beneath every roll of the surf, • Mead. TIGHT CORSETS KILL. DIED IN POVERTY. First Found Gold at Cripple Creek- Might Have Been Worth Million*. Colorado Springs, Aug 16.—Robert Womack, who discovered gold at Crip- ple Creek died lately after a lingering illness. In his last years Womack was dependent on a sister who keeps a boarding house here. This is the end of a man who in. one sense paid $280,000,000 for one spree. That stupendous sum has been taken in gold from the land on Crinple Creek where Bob Womack firat found the yel- low metal. Born in Kentucky 66 years ago, Bob WomaclTs father took his family to Colorado in the early sixties. The Womacks raised cattle on land they homesteaded ou Cripple Creek. After some years the elder Womack sold hia herds and with his son William came here. Bob, believing there was gojd around Cripple Creek, remained there After years of fruitless search Bob found traces of gold in a piece of float rock which he picked up while riding the range with his brother-in-law, Theodore Lowe. Sending Lowe on a six days' ride to Denver to have the rock assayed. Bob went on about his work. Lowe returned with theassayer's certificate; the piece of float rock gave returns of $250 in gold to the ton. Next morning Womack and Lowe went to the place where Bob found the rock, in what is known as Poverty Gulch, just outside the limits of the present town of Cripple Creek. Lowe grew tired of the search; Bob per- sisted. In January, 1901, he dug a prospect hole in what is known as the El Paso lode of the Gold King property. A few days later he struck a bonanza. He could not stand prosperity. Com- ing here, he went on a spree and sold his bonanza for $500. Then, crazed with drink and success, Bob jumped on .his bronco and rode through the streets brandishing his six-shooter and pro- claiming his secret. The next few days witnessed one of the biggest rushes to the scene of his discovery that the West has ever known* When Womack sobered up, two or three days later he returned to the district only to find that the best min- ing property had been located by others. He staked out a claim or two, but they proved worthless, and soon he was compelled to go to work for dai>'s wages. But he never complaind. The men who made the most money out of Cripple Creek mines were James Burns, of Kansas City; V. Z. Reed and J. R. McKinney, of Colorado Springs, and the late Winfield S. Strat- ton. i AMERICANS IN CANADA. GROCERS IN CONFERENCE. They Oppose the Parcel Pott Extension. of Cause Myateriou* Illness and Death Cincinnati Girl. Cincinnati, Aug. 18.—Miss Elsie Gasser, aged 18, daughter of John J. Gasser, a lawyer, living at No. 2,419 West McMicken avenue, is dead at her. home. Dr. Gustave Strohbach,**\wfio attended her through her illness, says that Miss Gasser died'as the result of lacing her corsets and clothed too tightly. Miss Gasser was well until Sunday a week ago, when she was stricken with what Ifhe doctors believe to be appendi- citis/ An operation was performed several days afterward,and it was found that the appendix was not affected. The doctors began probing for the cause of the illness, and Dr. Strohback, the family physician, finally announced that it was her habit of lacing her cor- sets very tightly, coupled with a-pos- sible injudicious eating of delicacies, that was the cause. , Commander-in-Chief G. A. R. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 16.— Samuel R. Van Sant of Minnesota was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Van Sant won over Judge Wijliam A. Ketcham of Indiana by a vote of 587 to 156. Mrs. Jennie L. Berry, of Des Moines was elected national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. In addition of Commander /Van Sant the following Grand Army officers were elected: Senoir vice-commander, W. M. Bostapp, Ogden; junior vice-com- mander, Judge Alfred Beers, Bristol, Conn; surgeon general, W, H,_Lewton, Lawrence, Kan. —The society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is trying hard to stop New Yorkers from turning their cats and dogs loose in the streets when they go on summer vacations. In nine- teen days of July the society took into custody 13.110 dogs and cats. The London Times is correct in say- ing tli&t the influx of Americans into Canada is surprisingly large. It is probably correct, too, in predicting that the movement will continue for several years longer. About 70,000 Americans are expected to cross the line in'the calendar year 1909, moving into the Northwestern provinces chiefly. They are going there because they can buy land for a fifth, or even a tenth, of the amount which they re- ceive for their f arms,-per acre, in—the United States. But the Canadian and British statis- tics omit to tell how many disgusted Americans return to their own country after an experience of a year or two in Canada. That the number is con- siderable is shown from reports of the arrivals^here and there, from time to time. These American emigrants for- get that the land which they buy is no richer than that which they left in this country, while in most cases it is much farther from the market. The returns which Canadain farms yield, per acre, are smaller than in the United States. The climate of Canada is less hospit- able. The Bociety, the laws and the customs are alien. All these things are discovered quickly after crossing the line. If the farmers from Michigan, Wis- consin, Minnesota and the Dakotas, who comprise the bulk of the American emigration northward, would turn their attention in the other direction they would do better. Texas, Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf States have vast areas of cheap lands whch are much nearer the market than are most of those on the north side of the boundary. The lands are as rich as any that are to be had in Canada, the climate is far more favorable, and the environment is American. Canada's railways and immigration societies are more active and persistent than ours in drumming up settlers. They have attained a large measure of succeBB. Their success ought to furnish a stimulus to our roads and immigration boards to do more work in that line than they have per- formed thus far. There is a heavy drift of Canadians to the United States every year, and this movement is likely to continue. But the movement of Americans into Canada is something of a discredit, wihch can be remedied by an intelligent and wide diffusion of the facts regarding the advantages which are to bejfjaund in portions of their own itrVT countr \Bob\ Burdette's Story. Robert J. Burdette, the famous hum* orist, is now a Baptist preacher in Los Angeles. In a recent letter to Dr. Johnson Myers, who is pursuing Pro- fessor Foster, the alleged heretic, in Chicago, Burdette tells this story: \As for the action of our Baptist ministers' conference, I think the body is on vacation until next September, and by that time the Poster incident will be as hard to recall as the items in an 'annual report' Dr. Foster reminds me very mtfeh of. the dog—a very good, high-bred and thoroughly trained dog, you understand—that every morning for three years chased a railway train that ran past the farm. The farmer and his wife were watching the per- sistent but vain pursuit. one warm morning. 'I/wonder,' the .wife said, 'what makes that foolish dog chase the train so persistently?\ Never thought about that,' replied the farmer, 'but I've often wondered what he would do ifhe caught it.'\ —The essential elements of true hos- pitality are: A sound, simple,everyday life, with no shame to hide and no pre- tences to keep up. That which makes hospitality a burden and not a delight is a foolish vanity which wishefc to ap- pear betferlhan it lias, to^divide. ~' —Brockvjlle is experiencing a serious outbreak of typhoid fever, no fewer than thirty cases having developed, re- cently. The medical officer and assist- ants are working over time endeavoring to locate the cause. The water was tested three weeks ago by Dr. Cornell in Kingston and found to be all right. State Retail Grocers' Association Close Successful Convention at Albany to Meet in Brooklyn Next —- Officers Ejected and Important Resolutions Adopted—Movement for Legislation Governing Weights and Measures. Albany, Aug. 16.—The State Retail Grocers' Association voted to hold the next annual convention in Brooklyn. Tnese officers were elected: President, C. S. Tuttle, Homell; vice-presidents, James A, Weis, Rochester; William Kramer, Brooklyn; George S. Doo- little, Jamestown; secretary, Charles Thropi New York ; treasurer, George H. Knighten, Buffalo. The association adopted resolutions in favor of placing the sealing of weights and measures under the luris- diction of the State Department; against coupon schemes and free deals; disapproving the statement of Senator Smoot that retailers were responsible for the high prices of commodities, op- posing parcel post extension and ap- proving the garnishment law. Importance of Weight Legit la ion. The importance of effective State regulation of weights and measures as a protection- to the producer and the distributor as well as the purchaser, was pointed out by Fritz Reichmann, State superintendent of weights and measures. Superintendent Reichmann declared that the huckster is, perhaps, the greatest menace to the retail dealer and offered the suggestion that no ped dler should be licensed until after his weights and measures have been tested and sealed. \The principal difficulties the retail dealer encounters.,\ said Superintend- ent Reichman, \are unfair competition and shrinkage by decay, evaporation or decline rVr- market value. The unfair competition is due to the few unscru- pulous dealers who, under the guise of underselling give either poor quality or short quantity, and generally the latter, because there is a pure food law which is more or less effective and the quality can be more easily judged by the purchaser. Huckster Greatest Menace. \A seriouscause of unfair competi- tion is the peddler or huckster, who is by far the greatest short weight artist, next to package goods manufacturers, in the State. I actually believe the huckster is, perhaps, thegfeatest men- ace to the retail dealer, and no peddler should be allotted a license unless all his weights and measures are tested and sealed and he gives full weight and measure, and if in a single instance he is caught giving short weight and meas- ure, his license should be revoked. I could tell you of many amusing in- stances of peddlers giving short meas- ures by using six quart measures for a peck measure, measures with double bottoms,\ measures cut off at the top, measures relapped, or where the com- modity is filled in only on the bottom with the measure turned upside down, and a hundred Other ingenious schemes. It is a perfectly evident fact that a ped- dler is not in the business for his pleas- ure, or for philanthrophy, and ifhe pur- ports to sell for less than the whole- sale market price he is simply working upon the feelings of the housewife by having her believe that she is getting a bargain, and then getting even with her by giving her less than she pays for.\ Legislation Advocated. Superintendent Reichmann declared that the selling of goods by jobbers and wholesalers directly to desirable consumers was a source of unfair com- petition to the retail grocer. He advo- cated the enactment of legislation which could put the inspection of weights and measures and the inspec- tion of the method of selling commodi- ties upon ah efficient and businesslike basis. Some such method as the Cobb- Filley bill, which was introduced in the last Legislature, he said, should be placed upon the statute books. ''The measure simply provides,\ said Superintendent Reichmann, \that the standards of the State of New / York should be those that have been legal- ized by resolution in Congress, that all fees for the testing of weights and measures should be abolished, that the' number of. sealers of which there are required byjaw at present one in every city, town and courify, should be re- duced so that one or two sealers should perform the work in the county at no expense to the dealer that the legiti- mate and honest dealer would thereby be benefited and the unscrupulous and dishonest competitor would have to either give full weight or measure or j get out of business. Under the present law where in towns and many cities of the third class-the sealer tests for solicited services only and charges fees, the dishonest and unscrupulous competitor is certainly not the one who is going to invite the sealer to inspect his weights or measures. The individ- ual sealer, according to this proposed measure, would be directly responsible to the State Department of Weights and Measures.\ Why the Measure Failed. The failure of the measure to pass the last Legislature was attributed in part by Superintendent Riechmann to opposition from the city of New York. \There is probably not one of you here,\ said the speaker, \who has not suffered from the lack of efficiency in the weights and measures service of the metropolis of this State. There are perhaps reasons why they should wish to have their own standards or not do things so as to produce uniformity throughout the State. \When the State, the housekeepers, the dealers and the laboring classes realize, the great and fundamental im- portance of honest and full weight of measure a great many of the troubles now confronting us will be solved.\ Governor Cfiipbed a Mountain. _ A special to the World says that Gov- ernor Hughes climped the Sulphur Mountain, 4,000 feet high,at Banff, Al- berta, on the Canadian Pacific railroad, accompanied by a guide, in one hour and 53 minutes, breaking all records hitherto made by Alpine climbers. He did not pause once. ~ The Crime Of Idleness. Idleness means trouble for anyone. Its the same with a lazy liver. It causes constipation, headache, jaun- dice, sallow complexion, pimples and blotches, loss of appetite, nausea, but Dr. King's New Life Pills soon banish liver troubles and buildup your health 25c. at F. C. Snyder's. THOUSAND ISLAND PARK. Hotels and Boarding Houses Are Over- flowing With Guest*-—No Sacrifice in Value of Property—Automobiles Hurt Business. * T. 1. Park, Aug. 13, 1909. Mr. Editor:—I notice in the Journal and Republican of this week an article purporting to give the statement of a \Westerner now a resident of Utica; concerning the St. Lawrence river and business among the Thousand Islands the present season. Among other things he says: \At one of the largest hotels TOO MANY EDITORS, 'EH? Two Things Americans Can Do Better Than Man on the Job. Run a NeWspftper and Manage a Hotel —Editors Not Popular With the Average Politicians. Joseph Smith, who conducts the \Scrap Heap\ column in _the Eoston Traveler, recently had the following to say about \The Lditor,\ in answer to a correspondent who thinks the country there were seven persons having dinner j 8 overrun with them : besides myself, and 50 waiters standing - idly about.\ If this is true of the- other hotels along .the river, it is not true, nor has it been true at any (time this season, of the two,large botels at Thousand Island Park! These hotels have b^en well patronized, and for some time have been so full that many of their guests have to be lodged in private cottages. The large boarding houses are also overflowing with guests, and there have been times the present season when persons who had not pre- viously engaged rooms have found it difficult to obtain the accommodations they desired. Of the seven hundred or more cot- tages on the Park,very few are offered for sale, and when sold there is no such sacrifice of values as indicated in the article to which we refer. It I'B doubt- less true that business at many points on the river is not up to some former years, and it is not difficult to deter- mine the reason for it all. We have not yet fully recovered from the recent business depression, and people are not spending as much money for pleasure and recreation as usual heretofore. A more potent reason, however, is the large influx of automobiles into the country, on which account more people stay, at home, substituting for vaca- tions at summer resorts short rides in- to t£e country as their vacation pas- time. Like everything else this fad will doubtless have its day. What the \Westerner\ says of the attractions and beauties of the St. Law- rence river is all true. There is no other river in the world that for gran- deur and variety of scenery can begin to compare with the St. Lawrence. This is the testimony of thousands of tourists whose opportunities for travel qualify them to speak intelligently on this subject. While the fame of the \Thousand Islands\ as a summer re- sort is fast becoming world wide, it is the opinion of those best able to judge that it is, as yet, only in ita infancy, and its marvelous growth for the last thirty years will be as nothing com- pared with its development and growth during the fifty years to come. The Thousand Island Park owing to its ad- vantageous situation at the head of Wellesley island,midway between Clay- ton and Alexandria Bay on the direct line of travel along this great thorough- fare, together\ with its fine outlook, commanding a view of the rjver for many miles and the beautiful scenery on every hand, makes it the most frequented and popular resort on the river. The wholesome rules and regu- lations which govern this particular park, excluding therefrom all intoxicat ing drinks, and insuring a quiet and restful Sabbath by suspending all traffic on the dock and elsewhere on the grounds on Sunday,* is another element of popularity which has enabled this re- sort to outstrip all others on the riv^r in growth and premanent summer popu- lation. - It may do for other places.but Thous- and Island Park does not need \the \White City\ features to bring to it in large numbers the people who de- light in beautiful surroundings, in good society, in an invigorating atmosphere, in wholesome moral restraints and in unusual religous privileges, for these will continue to come. Of healthful sports, such as fishing, tennis playing, base ball,croquet, etc., there is no lack. If \Westerner\ will drop off at Thous- and Isand Park one of these August days he will find at certain hours of the day about the post office and on the dock such a crowd of people as one sel- dom sees on Boadway, and if he would find a seat at the first table in hotel or boarding house he would need to be prompt in responding to earliest call. We do not say this was the case early in the season or will be so after the first of September. Last evening the Gananoque band gave an open air concert in the park fronting the hotels, and it is estimated that full 3,000 people were assembled to listen to the delightful music dis- coursed by them. Verily there is no lack of people at this resort. W. R. Fitch. GRIST FOR DEMOCRATS. Tariff Speeches of Republican Insur- gents to be Used as Campaign Stuff. Washington, Aug. 16.—Democratic leaders make no concealment of the purpose to draw freely from Republi- can speeches for their ammunition in the next campaign. The Congressional Record, which is still appearing carry- ing the surplusage that could not be handled in regular editions, teems with. incendiary speeches on the tariff de- livered by Republican Senators. \The best Democratic speech on the tariff,\ according to minority leaders, was delivered by Senator Clapp, of Minnesota. He denounced the Tariff bill as a sham from cover to cover and declared Just before he left Washington that he would criticise the new law from the stump. Seriator Dolliver, of Iowa, used strong language in charac- terizing the Tariff bill speaking of it as an effort to dupe \with humbug and misrepresentation.\ \There is coming a dav of reckon- ing,\ said Mr. Dolliver. \No English speaking people will commit the manu- facture of their clothing to a syndicate with a license embedded iruits laws to make its own terms with its customers, wholly uninfluenced by the market con- ditions of the outside world.\ Senator La Follete, of Wisconsin, has already hit the Chautcmquq circuit and is saying things about the new tariff law that the Democrats declare glee- fully to be hot stuff. Representative Davis, an insurgent Republican from Minnesota,gave out a statement recently in which he went after the tariff Iaw_ hammer and tongs declaring that it was in violation of the party's platform pledgea and express- ing the belief that public sentiment will force Congress at the December session to revise the tariff downward. —William Arnot has been awarded the contract to put in an entire new heating system in the Harrisville High school building and men are on the job. An irreverent Dorchester correspond- ent attempts to stab our pride and self- respect when he writes us in this fashion: \Don't you think there are too many editors, in this country? When you get down to the bones of things, are editors of any particular use? Hasn't my opinion as much value as yourB? Probably there are too many editors in this world yet they are not as numerous as the men who believe they could do the editor's work better than the editor.- Whether editors are useful creatureB or otherwise is largely a question of opinion; they exist, and ar« uesd and things that are used, whether they be door-knobs,, rubber heels,dough-r nuts, or editors, must be useful. X As to the comparative value of the opinion of the editor and the corres- pondent, the best and most conclusive answer is that the opinions of, the edi- tor are paid for. Work Soon Forgotten. The editor is human, his work is ephemeral and it is dfficult to estimate the results of it, because it is difficult to learn exactly the influence it exerts. His Vork is written,, printed, pub- lished, read and cast aside, in a day. You can follow the work of the farmer from plow to pantry, from seed-time to stomach, and with mathematical cer- tainty but the editor's work is from day to day he throwB his ideas out of the window they may be seeds thrown on good soil, they may be pearls cast* before swine, you can never tell. Editorials are like the grace oi God: they may convert a sinner or concrete a scoundrel ;they may tap the tear ducts of a saint or excite the jeers of a grafter. It all depends. If they cause the reader to become a correspondent with a kick they are not in vain, Public Damns the Editor. k As a general proposition the public buys the paper and damns the editor; it will declare he has no influence until he steps on its corns; then—well, then it is different. • There are two things every American can do better than the man on the job —run a newspaper and manage a hotel. If there is any esteemed friend, Ameri- can and countryman who doesn't be- lieve in this declaration he is either dead or in the asylum. We have a number of unpopular ,citj-- zenB in mind whose enemieB have, wished they were exiled,: running for office. We don't; content to wish they wer« running tvf newspaper and financing it themselves ;& they would then be BO busy that people^ would forget them. Not Popular With Politicians. As a general proposition the editor is not popular with the politician; their aims are antagonistic; the editor wants newB and publicity: the politician avoids publicity and to him no news is the best news; and the nosiness o£ the— newspaper person merely induces pas-. Bion and profanity. The man who is kicked by a mule is v ; seldom an admirer of that interesting; creature; ^£e sagacity, pugnacity speed ^ of his terminal facilities and marks-^ manship do not make a pleasant impres- sion on the man; and tfie statesman with a nice little scheme on his hands, who finds all its plans and specifications;.' in a newspaper when he wakes up spme^ morning,is certain to indulge in a bunch; of rhetoric similar to the man who has V been in collision with a mule, and it js not fit to print., Editors Some Pumpkins. rin fact, by his public utterances the stateman has not any higher opinion of the editor's utterances _ than _ pur es- teemed Dorchester correspondent; you will find the fellows on the other' side of tbe game willing to admit the editor may not know it all, but that he is some pumpkins. One thing is certain—vaniiy does not thrive riotously in editorial rooms; when the public isn't taking a fall out of him, the editor is being reminded by. his contemporaries that his opinions are mere piffle, punk, rot. No! The epM-~ tor's life is not a happy one; .but hp.! has certain and distinct value, and i estimate depends largely on whether: you are behind his chair or impaled on the point of his pen. We should gay at a venture our cor- respondent needs not editorial but medi- cal advice; a blue pill would help himi ''••& :'';'ft •v -rg'- XV •^ « £/ x BURGLARY AT HARRISVILLE. Render & O'Hara's Store Entered Goods Carried Away—Three Men Under Arrest; store of Render & O'Hara was burglarized some time Monday night. -• On opening the store Tuesday morjir- ing, the window at the rear of the store was found to have been broken out by throwing a good-sized stone through it, the stone lying on the floor in the store. Through the hole made by the stone, the window catch was reached and window opened. A dress suit case was found in a box behind the store; at the rear of a barn back of the store was founds sack of flour thrust into an old bran sack. Later goods from the store were picked up on the road leading toward Geers Cor- ners. Suspicion pointed toward some persons who had been seen hanging around town, and a search warrant was secured and Constable William Austin-, and. Deputy Myron Crowner went to the home of Nelson Boyea, about a mile beyond Geers Corners, where they found Frank Elsworth and Boyea Just sitting down to breakfast- On the table was about a quarter of a cheese, canned goods, etc., that had been taken from the store. A large bran sack that had been filled with plunder was hi evidence, containing tobacco, cigars, canned goods, a pair of shoes that were not mates, and many Qther__Mticles4k-_ The two'above mentioned implicated Fred Hess BB the one who entered thm store and handed out the plunder. A, warrant was gotten out for him., and he was later arrested. The Bafe had been tampered with, but nothing in it had been disturbed. The men were more or Ies9 under the influence of liquor. The men were held for examination. :•:•>• • :M &:^:
