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OFFICERS:
K. W. M.Low, President.
James M.?Havr. lee rresinem.
DIRECTORS:
E. YV.M. Low.
F. G. York,
Louis Gross,
M. E.StackSiouse.
Jfune M. Staver,
Fred Ikeler,
!. C. Creasy.
Clinton Herrinjr,
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER K IMS
Democratic State Ticket.
Justice of the Supkeme Court,
C. LaRUE MUNSON,
of Lycoming County.
Auditor General,
J. WOOD CLARK,
of Indiana County.
State Treasurer,
GEORGE W. KIPP,
of Bradford County.
Democratic County Ticket.
Sheriff,
W. P. ZAHNER.
Jury Commissioner,
A. C. IIIDLAY.
Coroner,
ROEERT ERF.NNEN.
Upbuilding ol the Pennsylvania
Democracy.
Twenty, years ago, in November,
18SS, the Democratic vote of Penn
sylvania was 445,653. At the No
vember election of last year 44S,
7S5 Pennsylvania citizens voted the
Democratic ticket a growth of the
Democratic vote in twenty years of
only a trifle more than 2000. In
18SS the Republican vote in Penn
sylvania was 526,09:, and this was
increased to 745.779 in November
of last year, a gain of over 219,000.
Notwithstanding this showing
the Democrats of Pennsylvania are
numerically a rather formidable
minority party, but they have too
long conducted themselves as a
hopeless, unorganized mob. To
day we have in this State the piti
able spectacle of almost a half
million freemen devoted to the
cause of good government, but lack
ing in every essential except indi
vidual honesty to make themselves
a factor in the affairs of the State
aud the nation.
There is no occasion to discuss
the causes of this condition of affairs
and no time for denouncing or con
demning those' who have been re
sponsible for it. Without the ap
proval of a majority of the mem
bers of the party it would have
been impossible for faithless or in
competent leaders to have brought
about the present state of an organ
ization of 448,000 members.
The "Record" believes that every
one of the 448,785 Pennsylvanians
who voted for William J. Bryan at
the last Presidential election is in
favor of the kind ol government for
which the believers in the funda
mental principles of the Democratic
party stand. This paper is also of
the opinion, 60 well expressed by
Herbert P. Birrell, of Buffalo, at
the Democratic conference in Sara
toga last week, that
Not Coughing Today?
Yet you may cough tomorrow! Better be prepared for it
when it comes. Ask your doctor about keeping Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral in the house. Then when the hard cold
or cough first appears you have a doctor's medicine at
hand. Your doctor's approval of its use will certainly
set all doubt at rest. Do as he says. He knows.
NO alcohol in this COUfih medicine. . C.Ayer Co Lowell, Mass.
Robust health is a great safeguard against attacks of throat and lung troubles, but
constipation will destroy the best of health. Ask your doctor about Ayer't Pills.
Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cashier
Mvron T. Low'
H'. V. Hower,
Frank Ikeler.
"We should recognize our party
shortcomings, without bringing on
further discord and weakness by
personal criticisms or useless fault
findings and controversies anions
ourselves. Let us studiously avoid
factional strife and disputes, and
seek to accomplish the high purpose
of party regeneration and party
unity, without further reviews of
our past differences, and mistakes
than are necessary to enable us to
derive from them wise lessons for
our future guidance.
The time is now here to forget
the bitter experiences of the past
16 years, and to strive onward along
the paths of harmonious agreement
and fidelity to uemocratic princi
ples, which cannot fail to lead us
to unit- aud success "
New York Democrats firm in the
faith of the fathers of the party
held a conference at Saratoga last
week and pointed the way for the
Democrats of Pennsylvania aud
other States. Why not follow this
cpen lead ?
Why should not the represent
atives of honest Democracy in Penn
sylvania hold a conference such as
was held in New York last week ?
Are there enough Democrats suffi
ciently interested in making the
votes of themselves and the ether
members of the army of upward of
500,000 Democratic citizens of
Pennsylvania effective to bring
about such a conference, and thro
ugh it join tl'.eir New York neigh
bors in upbuildiug the Democracy
of their States and the nation ?
Piila. Record.
Mars Will be Squinted at.
The 24th of this mouth will be a
great day for astronomers. livery
telescope that they possess, espe
cially the particularly far-seeing
ones perfected during the last fif
teen years, will then be pointed at
that most interesting of planets,
Mars. The reason for this is that
the latter will be nearer the earth
on September 24 than it has been
since 1S94. Every fifteen years
Mars gets an access of sociability
and lessens the dist auce between
itself and the earth by a trifle of
15,000,000 miles, whereas on an
average it holds aloof to the extent
of 50,000,000 miles; it will be dis
tant on the 24th only 35,000,000
miles.
With this closer proximity, in
terest in the planet, which is al
ways keen among those who cannot
claim to be astronomers, will be all
the keener, not only on account of
the probability that new discoveries
concerning matters Martian will be
made, by means of the powerful
telescopes now available to observers
of the heavens, but also owing to
the fact that some one of the meth
ods of signaling to the planet, which
of late have come into special prom
inence, may possibly be successful
that they may be read and an
swered by "Martians." Therein lies
the great interest of Mars to the
layman. As Prof Pickering of
Harvard told a reporter from the
Public Ledger a few months ago,
the vast majority cf people are in
terested in astronomy solely because
they think that life may exist on
other planets besides the earth.
Mars is just now the most brilli
ant object in the heavens, showing
up conspicuously in the southeast
ern sky every evening, and remain
ing in sight all night.
Judge Terry Did Not Pay Fine.
Story That H Caught Fish Illegally It
Mistake.
Says the Tunkhannock Republi
can New Age; "So widely spread
has gone the story that Judge Chas.
K. Terry of this place was arrested
for illegal fishing, and so erroneous
were the statements con :eruing it
that we feel impelled to present the
exact facts in the case.
"In the first place Judge Terry
did not do any illegal fishing, nei
ther did he pay a fine, nor will he
carry the case to the higher courts
for there is no case to carry. The
facts are that he came in from a
fishing trip with fifteen bass, the
result of a two days catch. He
happened to get in on the first day
that the State police were put on
duty here, and they not knowing
who he was, started to take him in
charge on account of supposed vio
lation of the fish law, the law al
lowing but twelve bass to be caught
in one day by one person. The
Judge did not make himself known,
but protested that he had violated
no law, but they told him that he
could go before the sergeant to
make his explanations. He did so,
and there were plenty of people at
hand to vouch for the probity and
trustworthiness of the Judge. As
soon as the sergeant realized who it
was that his men had taken, he
dismissed him at once remarking
that his men had probably gone a
little too far.
"Of course those who are ac
quainted with the Judge know that
he is not a violator of the law, and
he would scorn to do a thing that
would compromise him as a jurist.
The only occasion for this exp'ana
tion is the fact that the story that
he was "caught with the goods on,
and paid his fine without a whimp
er" has been widely copied in our
exchanges and doubtless is believed
by many."
The Canal a Costly Work.
The United States has already
expended on actual construction
work on the Panama Canal $106,-
795,000, which sum does not in
clude the 540,000,000 paid the
French Panama Canal Company
for its property and franchises, nor
the $10,000,000 paid the Republic
of Panama for the Canal Zone.
Thus the total cost of the canal
enterprise up to the end of the last
fiscal year was about $156,000,000.
By the end of the present fiscal year
this aggregate will be swelled to
neariy $200,000,000, as it is the
intention of the Canal Commission
to use this year the whole of the
$38,500,000 which has been placed
at its disposal by Congress for the
prosecution of th2 work.
The actual appropriation made
by Congress at its last regular ses
sion for canal work this fiscal year
was $33,638,000, but there was a
balance of $4,877 000 left at the
end of the last fiscal year from
previous appropriations. Up to
date the total expenditures in the
Canal Zone for improving the sani
tary conditions, in order to facili
tate prosecution of the work and
protect the health of employes,
have aggregated $8,741,000, with
the tidy sum of $6,520,000 to be
added on account of municipal im
provements. The investment in
engineering plant exceeds $40,
000,000; the department of con
struction and engineering has spent
more than $48,000,000 in digging,
etc., and the department of civil
administration has used up $3,
000,000. Mr. Bryan on the Tariff.
Denouncing as an embezzler of
power the man who would violate
a party pledge ratified by the
voters of his party. William J.
Bryan on Tuesday outlined his
views on the tariff before a large
audience in Bush Temple at Dallas,
Texas.
"Cannouism," Mr. Bryan de
scribed as despotism, aud he sug
gested an amendment to the rules
of the House of Representatives to
correct what he considered faults.
While not denying a candidate
the right to repudiate a part of his
platform, such repudiation, he as
serted, should come before the
election.
"If all of the Democrats in the
Senate and House had voted
against every proposed increase
in the tariff and tor every pro
posed decrease, we might have
made our ngtat next year upon the
party's record without making a
specific declaration on items of
schedules," said Mr. Bryan, "but
in view of the fact that Democrats
in both the Senate and the House
differed as to the interpretation of
the Democratic platform and as to
the rates that should be imposed
under the various schedules.
believe that it is necessary for our
platform to be specific and emphat
fc."
Mr. Bryan concluded with an
extended argument in favor of free
raw material.
Ricketts's Battery Reunion.
Survivors of Ricketts's Battery,
a famous artillery corps in the Civil
War, celebrated the battery's 4Sth
anniversary and held the 23d re
union as the guest ot the only
Bethlehem member of the associa
tion, William Warnick, bugler, at
Bethlehem, on Saturday last. There
are about 100 survivors scattered
over this State, at Wilkesbarre,
Reading, Berwick, Williamsport,
Danville, Bloomsburg and Bethle
hem. Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts, of
Wilkesbarre, commanded the bat
tery. A reception was tendered
them at the rooms of J. K. Taylor
Post, G. A. R., and the business
session was followed by visits to
Schwab's steel works and other
places of interest.
At the business session Carbon
dale was selected as the next meet
iug place. Colonel R. Bruce Rick
etts, Wilkesbarre, was elected
President.
Read the "Philadelpliia Press" for
Sporting News.
If you want to keep in close touch
with the world of sports read the
sporting pages of 7 lie Philadelphia
Press every morning. It gives you
all the news baseball, tennis, track,
golf, rowing, polo, swimming,
yachting, motoring. Not just the
mere facts, but the story of the
game, told so accurately and with
such detail that you know just
what happened and why it hap
pened. And you're not confined to
news of the big contests. The Phil
adelphia Press Sporting Page tells
you about smaller events as well.
Written up by men who know their
business. It's real news, wide
awake, alive, clean. The sort of
stuff you like to read. Then there
are Hugh Doyle's cartoons. Clever,
humorous, even prophetic. You
can't beat them. And with it all
you get the greatest photographs
that hustle, work and know-how
can take. Photographs taken right
on the field, showing things doing
and the exciting moments. Read
Mr. Wiseguy's talks in The Phila
delphia Press. Buy The Philadel
phia Press tomorrow, read the sport
ing page, aud it's a safe bet that
you'll order The Philadelphia Press
delivered every morning.
Mr. Creasy Home From the West.
Hon. W. T. Creasy, of Catawis
sa township, and F. P. Creasy, of
Eighth street, returned last Friday
from a several weeks' trip through
the Northern Central United States
aud Canada, where they visited the
former's sou, William Creasy, who
resides upon a section of land near
Dominion City in Manitoba. From
Bloomsburg they went to Buffalo
aud visited Niagara Falls, the great
Toronto fair, and many other places
of interest before going to Manito
ba. Returning they came by way
of Minneapolis, where they visited
the fair being held at that place,
which was said by persons who had
attended both, to be as great in
every respect as that being held at
Seattle, Washington. They also
visited Chicago, Pittsburg and
many other places, making the trip
a most pleasant one..
An Attractive Sign.
A very showy electric sign has
been placed over the entrance to
the waiting room and office of the
Columbia Power, Light and Rail
ways Company. It is about 15
feet in length, with the words
Light, Heat, Power," in white
letters on a blue background. The
sign being illuminated with 112
electric lamps presents an attractive
appearance.
The August Rainfall.
The rain fall for the month of
August was .74 of nn inch, which
is the smallest on record for any
single month for the past twenty
six years, the previous lowest
record being June 1885, when it
was onlv 02 of an inch. Prior to
the present year the smallest pre
cipitation for the month of August
was in 1883, when 1.77 inches of
rain fell.
A New 2-Cent Stamp.
A new two cent stamp will be is
sued by the postoffice department
to commemorate the Hudson-Fulton
Cele oration from Sept. 25th to
October 9th. Postmaster General
Hitchcock has given the order for
the new issue. Fifty millions of
these stamps will be issued and it
is hoped to have them on sale by
Sept. 20. The stamp will be printed
in the same color as the present
two-cent stamp.
Children Cry
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