THE CITIZEN.
TOBUSnKD EVkBV WKDNE3DAT AND FBIDAT BY
THK CtnSEH rDBLISniMO COMFAKY.
Kntcrcd as second-class matter, at the post
office, Honesdale, Pa.
H. B. HARDKNBEUGH. - PRESIDENT
YT. W. WOOD. - - MANAGER AND SKCJY
dibectobs:
m. n. DOBFMKQER. M. B. AI.LEX.
HCIST WILSOH. E. B. I1ABDBICBEBQII.
W. W. WOOD.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1009.
A Greater Honesdale.
Shall We Have It? If So a Hustle
Is Necessary What Will the
Next Census Show?
The coming census is commencing to
Attract general attention from people in
all parts of the country, and in this State
much importance ie being given to it by
ambitious and would-be up-to-date
towns. The fact that the nest decennial
census comes next year' is stirring up
ther towns to get together, consolidate,
and cet n richt ratine in the 1010 census
report; and Honesdale must get a movel
n this year if it desires to make a good
ihowing in the next census.
It is all well enough to tell of our nu
merous nnd'flourishing industries ; our
flno public buildings, our superior mer
cantile establishments from department
stores down ; our splendid theatre, with
several subordinate places of continuous
amusement ; our four well managed and
prosperous banks; ourthrco semi-weekly
newspapers ; our commodious and well
kept hotels; our elegant churches, and
parsonages; our numerous handsome
bridges ; our clear-water rivers, with
Park Lake at their junction ; our historic
Irving Cliff ; our fine bands and orches
tras ; our maple and elm fringed streets;
our beautiful parks in fact of all of the
essentials and characteristics of a flour
ishing and beautiful town ; but so long
as that official black-eye fitares at us
from the census tables most of our stories
are regarded by investigators as 'hot air.
We may say with Haman, "All this
availeth me not, so long as Mordecai
itteth at the King's gate! ' ' Nothing will
avail to give us our proper standing
among the boroughs of the State so long
as we are content to be credited with
less than half our actual population in
the official records.
Who that knows anything about it at
all can doubt that Honesdale bas been
Crowing in population as well as in busi
ess for years and years past? But the
"numbering of the people" -don't show
it, and can't show it so long as we con
ne ourselves to "the pent-up Utica" of
our present boundaries lines established
when half of the territory ,was thought
to bo ample for all possible growth.
A "Greater Honesdale" has been talk
ed about for many years a Honesdale
vhiclr shall include the territory and
population really belonging to the town
the people who work in its factories,
trado in its stores, attend its churches,
njoy its amusements, are accommodat
d by its post office, and are in every
other essential respect our townspeople,
oarring the fact that a river, or an
imaginary line separates them from us
Shall we allow another ten years to
roll around with our 7,000 population
cut down to 3,000 or less, in the census
tables, and Smull's Handbook, and other
statistical documents, and dropped out
of diary lists of "Towns of 5,000 and
over," altogether? Or shall the official
government records, and all subordinate
gazetteers, for the next decade, and
thereafter, give us the relative position
among the thriving towns of the State to
which we are justly entitled?
If we say "yes" to the latter propo
ition, the movement for a consolidation
of the present borough and its Texas
suburbs, must be inaugurated very soon,
or the census-taker of 1910 will find us
still in our figurative swaddling clothes,
WAYS AND MEANS.
Pennsylvania is a constantly expand
ing State, but finds itself unable to meet
tho reasonable demands of its people,
growing as they are in patriotic and
eleemosynary directions, to say nothing
of that prido which requires millions for
public buildings in which the grave
questions of ways and means are to be
considered, and the public displays
which must give eclat to the inaugura
tion of the public functionaries who are
eventually to pass upon the very appro
priations made to do them honor.
The general government is largely in
the same llx. Tho cry in Washington is
the samoasin Harrisburg : "Appropria
tions must bo cut down, or the reve
nues by some means increased, or noth
ing remains for tho executive but to in
terpose his veto between reckless legisla
tion and National or State bankruptcy."
Tho general government, through its
committee considering a revision of the
tariff, is giving tho public to understand
that an additional tax on coffee of five
cents per pound is among the possibil
ities. That such a suggestion should be
made at all is astounding, That such a
design should receive any sort of favor
able consideration from influential jour
nals is beyond comprehension. It used
to be said that an additional tax of half
a cent on a liter of beer in Germany
would cause a revolution. Why ? Sim
ply because beer is a national beverage,
and must be furnished to the consumers
peasantry and nobility alike, at the
lowest reasonable cost. And let it not
be forgotten that this presumable in-
crease of excise on bepr, would, in most
instances, fall rather on thetrianufa'cturer
than-tiro' consumer. A quarjer of n cent
on a liter would be, say a half dollar on
a barrel, and on such a raise it would be
hard for the restaurateur to demand
more tlfan the. usual silbcr groschen for
a stein; but if five cents flat (as suggest
ed) should be added to the import duty
on every pound of coffee, tho importer
would assuredly ndd that amount to the
price demanded 'of tho wholesale mer
chant, and he would pass it on to the
retail dealer, and eventually tho con
sumer poor or rich would find his
household bill swelled by at least that
amount. .Now the family of the hard
working laborer drinks many moro
pounds of coffecjn the courso of a year
than does n household of a millionaire
of corresponding number. When bread
and coffee constitute the whole breakfast
to say nothing of other meals of tho
household group of a doy laborer on
meagre wages, and tho coffee the fifteen
cent brand at that, to add five cents a
pound is to increase his cost of living, at
least so far as that beverage is involved,
from 25 to 33 per cent., while five cents
added to the fifty or sixty cents a pound
paid by the rich man, would not make, a
shade of difference in his circumstances.
But some will say, "If we must have
more money to meet the deficit in our
postal management ; to construct now
war vessels ; to build the Isthmian
Canal; to pay -the president a salary of
$100,000 a year, and other public func
tionaries in proportion ; where are we
going to get it? This is a sensible and
pertinent question. If we must and
admitted that wo must increase ex
penses, we must have additional revenue
to meet them. Where and how shall -we
get it ? Ourbuggestion is : Tax incomes.
And by incomes we mean not tho hard
earned pittances of the poor, which, un
der the strictest economy, and some
times at the cost of actual privation and
distress, enable a family to make both
ends meet ; but the incomes which more
than suffice to furnish the receiver an
ample, or we might say a luxurious
living ; the incomes which fall into the
laps of the rich and favored, the lucky,
if you wish ; the incomes of those who
have profited marvelously by our liberal
laws, and are now wealthy enough to
prevent radical changes in them, or to
defy such statutes as are invoked to re
strain them. The income tax should be
a graduated one, so that, if a burden at
all, it would be a burden that would full
with equal comparative weight on all
shoulders well able to bear it. Those in
poor or even in moderate circumstances,
in receipt of only sufficient salaries to
afford a decent living and admit of lay
ing up a small fund to meet possible
contingencies in the proverbial "rainy
day," should bo entirely exempt; those
already well-to-do, and having incomes
more than ample for all current require
ments, should pay a certain percentage
on the excess ; those adding thousands
to their possessions yearly, should pay
a larger percentage on the surplus ; and
so on up to tho money barons who are
piling millions upon their already as
tounding niultiraillions every twelve
months.
But neither this nor any new scheme
of magnitude for replenishing the na
tional or State exchequer can be made
immediately available, and quick money
is what is wanted.
This article was suggested by the sig
nificant hint thrown out evidently by
authority from the State Capital, that
unless additional revenues are provided
the Governor will be under the necessity
of paring down appropriations made
during the present session with an un
sparing hand, and wiping many meri
torious ones out entirely. To obviate
this dire result, a tax on coal is being
discussed, and the members of the Leg'
ialaturo are being questioned as to their
position in regard to such an enactment.
We understand that the member from
Wayne is not averse to such a tax, but
feels that it should not be large enough
to furnish an excuse for the slighest in
crease in the price of that necessity to
the comsumcr in other words that
from theprofits the producers are already
realizing from the users of coal, they
can well afford to pay a small tax on
tonnage into the State treasury beyond
the inadequate amounts imposed upon
their stocks and loans, without charging
it back to their customers. It is certain
ly to bo hoped that the Ways and Means
Committee will find some wav to so re
plenish tho State Treasury as to enable
tho Governor to regard with favor an
appropriation of at least $250,000 to the
Farview Hospital for tho Criminal In
sane of Pennsylvania. The proposition
of Senator Blewctt, of Lackawanna
county to force delinquent corporations
to pay their debts amounting to mil
lions of dollars to the commonwealth,
may perhaps bo tho best practical solu
tion of the problem which now con
fronts us.
School teachers in this city have a
method of rewarding the good boys
which would shock American school
officials, says a German, writing from
Mexico City. When a boy recites his
lesson perfectly, he is not decorated with
a medal, but is allowed to smoke a cigar
in the classroom, and if tho whole class
has shown excellence, and earned the
"good" mark, all, even the little tots,
are supplied with cigars or cigarettes
The teachers smoke continuously, and
many of them take frequent nips from a
bottle, and when this latter has been ex
haueted, a "good" boy is honored by
being sent to have it replenished.
The Dress Question.
The Science of Underclothing
Why Wool Is Preferable to
Cotton, as a Rule.
Natural laws, and. phys'iolbgicnl facts,
and disseminating among the peoplo that
wliich fs quite the contrary ?
Octogenarian, M. D.
1 find that my communication in The
Citizen oi the 5th inst., on tho subject
of the science of underclothing, has
elicited from the proprietor of the Inde
pendent of the 12th Inst, an effusion on
"The History of the Practice of Medi
cine, and .The Advance of Science in
Modern Times;" but this is a subject
entirely irrelevant, and has no conneC'
tion with that communication, but one
which I would gladly discuss with him
on a future occasion.
Now, scienco is synonymous with
truth, and when it haB proven a natural
law, no power on earth can disprove it ;
as instanced by astronomical science in
tho truth of the Heliocentric system of
nature, which was once opposed by tho
highest authority in all Christendom
Besides the truth of science, there are
self-evident facts, and I have pleasure in
writing' that among the latter I think the
proprietor of the Independent a polite
and accomplished gentleman, and as an
editor and thinker, one who classes with
the heavy-weights, and well qualified to
preach the gospel of cotton and woolen
fabrics, however erroneous he may be
concerning tho matter in question. In
his final text on the subject he states :
"If these statements arc not believed by
the reader we would suggest that he test
them to his own satisfaction. He will
satisfy himself that they are correct.
Sound criticism will not suffer such
advice to go without protest, and it may
be replied that the only method by which
"Reader" can make the test is, to doff
his winter flannels and appropriate his
linen. ; but it will be much safer to wait
until June 1st, 1U09, to try the expert'
ment, and restore the flannel the follow
ing October.
The revolutionary idea of our cotton
and linen instructor, that "it is capable
of demonstration by experiment," has
been already decided at the expense of
disease and death to thousands of ha
man beings, and needs no new expert
ments for a further test ; and the reason
why this is advisable is, as has been
stated, because wool is a bad conductor
of heat, and cotton and linen good con
ductors, and these are inexorable and
immutable natural laws, just aa that
other one that heat causes bodies to ex
pand, or that heat is a mode of motion
The science of chemistry has proven
them to be such, and can do it at any
time by laboratory experiment, and when
our hero of the Independent succeeds by
this irregular method of advertising and
exploiting a commercial product, arid
can establish the position he has taken
regarding cotton and linen underwear,
iu opposition to philosophy and science,
a geological epoch has transpired, a new
man is made. Cotton and linen have
given him an earthly omnipotence, his
printing press an earthly immortality.
In regard to tho statement in my for'
mcr communication that the cotton and
linen scheme is dangerous to adopt ; it
is not supposed that a civilian, layman,
or newspaperman outside the profession
of medicine and the collateral sciences
connected therewith , is calculated to pose
as an exemplar of physics, philosophy,
or natural laws, especially when the
theory respecting the matter ho exploits
has been solved, and found to be erron
eous. His own dogmatical ipse dixit is
not sufficiently reliable, on so serious
and important a subject.
Not all the disorders of humanity are
caused by "germs" alone, and requir
ing only germicides for their treatment.
In cases of the eruptive fevers, however,
mildly they have run their course, we
often see the worst sequelie from them,
and sometimes death caused by improp
er exposure to tho atmospheric vicissi
tudes during and after convalescence,
by reason of unprotected skin surface ;
and this may also be the case of any
one of the winter diseases ; and may all
be in consequence of the improper in
struction in the families where these
maladies have occurred without a doc
tor, and only tho newspaper as a guide.
The humane physician is often some
thing more than the mere prescriber of
medicine in the families where he has
been accepU-d as tho guardian of their
welfare. He is often their confidential
friend and adviser, and will instruct
them how to avbid disease, as well as to
cure it after invasion ; while the non
professional gentleman gives business to
the doctors and druggists by his em
piricalublications. The doctrine that linen underclothing
is preferable in winter for the women
and children and all those of indoor
life is equally as erroneous as that which
applies to persons of constant out-door
exposure. Those who live iu warm
rooms are exposed to drafts of air in tho
halls and door-ways and the windows,
when they need their worsteds from
head to foot, when not in bed, and in
the latter case they need woolen sheets,
if they are ablo to have them ; other
wise, woolen night garments.
Why do persons employed about fur
naces and places where there is extreme
heat, always wear woolen shirts ? It is
because of the philosophical fact carried
into practice, that wool is a bad con
ductor of heat. They would burn up
ii tney aia not, just as surely as your
house will burn up, If the electrical
wire, that enters through the wood work
to give light, is not properly insulated.
Finally, what excuse has a charlatan
or any other person, for disregarding
1 THE PEOPLE'S FOOT?
In matter strlctlv nnlltlrnl no Ininnri tn
make The Citizen, and desire to have the pa
rar regarded, an uncnmnrnmtnlnclv nnd ex
clusively Republican; but on questions so-
ciui mm tx-uiiuiuiu. un wuicu auucremsuiany
and all partisan organizations may bo hon
estly divided without Impairing their party
allegiance, we are disposed to allow a free
micrcnange oi opinions, ncnce 10 Bucn ex
tent as our finafo will ncrmlt. this column Is
opened as a people's forum In which court all
personsoDservingineamcniucsoi journalism
will be accorded a hearing.
Mr. Editor:
Can you verify the report that tho pre
disposing, as well as the exciting cause
of the sudden death of a horse, owned by
John Schwcighofer, which occurred last
Friday near the coal sales office, was the
awful shock its nervous system received
due to tho extreme fright tho horse got
when it came suddenly in view of tho
rare object, viz : A load of good coal
free from slate, bone, culm and water ?
Could not Mr. Schweighofer recover for
the loss of his property, due to criminal
negligence on the part of the person or
persons who allowed such an unheard
of thing to be exposed on the public
highway? Anxious Consumer.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
Dear old Mrs. Wiggs and her interest
ing family, with her friends of the Cab
bage Patch entertain at the Lyric, on
Tuesday, Jan. 26th. The familiar char
acters will all be there under the pro
tection und care of the kindly Mrs.
Wiggs, from her geographic offspring,
Asia, Australia and Europena, to Lovey
Mary, Mis' Hazy, Mr. Stubbins, Mrs.
Eichorn, Mrs. Schnitz, Chris Hazy,
Billy Wiggs and all the rest. The char
acter of Mrs. Wiggs has been made as
interesting in the dramatization as Mrs.
Rice made it in the book. The stage
drawing is apparently true to life, to use
a well worn expression, nnd even if it
does not completely correspond with
one's idea of the character formed by a
reading of the book, it is suggestive
enough to create the proper dramatic
illusion. It is not necessary to dwell
upon the happenings in Mrs. Wiggs's
Patch beyond saying that the marriage
of the timid Mis' Hazy to the veteran,
Mr. Stubbins, furnishes the gist of the
comedy, and that' the story of Lovey
Mary and Little Tommy, involving Mr.
Stubbiris's fall from grace, and Mr.
Wiggs's final restoration, give the touch
of the pathetic that serves to show the
true worth of Mrs. Wiggs's character.
A Summer Paradise." .
All hotel and boarding-house proprie
tors on the line of the Delaware & Hud
son Railroad desiring representation in
the new edition of the Hotel Directory,
should send full information at once to
the General Passenger Agent, Albany,
N. Y. 5eoi3
Dlt.C. It. lilt ADY, Dentist Honesdale. Pa.
Office Houns-8 a. m. to 5 p. hi.
Any evening by appointment.
Cltlzensrphonc. aJ. Residence. No. m X.
There b an old Granny, we know,
Who used to dam hose, heel and toe,
She had troubles galore
Till the wore Darpomore
And
Supply the last line and hand In
your effort at the HOSIERY DE
PARTMENT.
This Is DARNOMORE WEEK
Come and see.
Six pairs in a box, $1.50,
Six months' wear guaranteed.
Four pairs in a box, $1.00,
Three months' wear guaranteed.
L. E. HELFERICH. '
Main St. HONESDALE, PA.
N'
OTICE OF APPEALS. The Com
missioners of Wavne County have
Hired the following davs nnd dates rePDCOt
Ivcly for hearing general appeals from the
assessment or liWJ, at the uo
oiucc, iionemiaie
Uommlsslonera
Monday. Feb. 1. 1009. beclnnlna' at 2 n. in.
jionesaaio una Texas.
Tuesday, l'eb. 2. llerlln. Hethanv. Ruck'
Ingham, Canaan, Cherry Itldge, Clinton
and DamascuB,
Wednesday. Feb. 3. Dreher. Dyberry,
Hawley. take, Lebanon. Lehigh. Manchester,
Thursday. Fob. 4. Mt, Pleasant, Oregon,
Palmyra, Paupack, Preston l'rompton,
Halem.
Friday. Feb. 8. Scott. South Canaan, Star
rucca. Sterling, Waymart. Closing at 2:30.
P. m.
Ileal estate valuations can be changed only
on appeal from the triennial assessment, un
less there Is shown to be an error, and no
other changes can be mado this year. Per
sons who have complaints can mall them to
the Commissioners' office and they will re
ceive consideration by the Assessors and
Commissioners. . .
J, K. MANUKVII.LK.l
J. K. HORNHKUK, J-Cora'rs.
T. C. MADDEN, J
HENRY fc. ItUSSELt.
rnESIDEKT.
ANDREW THOMPSON
VICE FBE8IDKKT.
KDWIN K TORREY,
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ALBERT- C. LINDSAY.
ASSISTANT CASHIKR.
HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK.
This Bank wast Organized In December, 1830, and Nationalized
In December, 1864.
Since its organization It has paid In Dividends
to its Stockholders,
$I,905,800.00
Bank Depositors
are Entitled at
all Times to
Know What Se
curity is Behind
Their Deposits
The Comptroller of the Currency has.
placed It on the HONOR ROLL,
from the fact that Its Surplus Fund MORE than equals
its Capital Stock.
Whatever of success and stability has been attained
during this unbroken seventy-two years years of finan
cial depression und convulsion, as well as of prosperity
and prollt Is largely due to the liberal conservatism
which always characterized Its management and In
regard to which Its directors have always acted as a
unit.
To those who appreciate no logic but that of figures,
the following statement Is taken from our books, this
26th day of December, 1008 :
Tho paid up Capital of this
Bank is
$150,000
TXTir.da.nd.8.uf: $254,404
K.fS21irIt1X-W0,?,ie.r,.our depositors Is. therefore,
with stockholder's liability, equivalent to
AflA T.hl '? addition to the lnteg-
TrvT, rLv OI Jne men woo nave
$554
This Bank will be pleased to receivef-all,
or a portion of YOUR banking business.
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Or write for CATALOGUE
O. M. SPETTIGUE.
We Match
Our
$10, $15, and $20 OVERCOAT
Against "all comers" of their class,
without exception.
(Iko. P. Ross. Clerk".
Commissioners' Office, Jan. S, 1990.
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he SERVICE Beyond Question.
BREGSTEIN BROS.,