TOE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1000. THE CITIZEN 1 1 PUBLISHED EVEliY SVEDKESDAY AND FRIDAY ST THE CITIZEN 1'UBLISlllNa COMPANY. j I Entered us sccond-cliiss tunttcr, ut the post-1 olllcc. Honesdnle. l'u. K. n. HAKDKNltKKOH. - lMlKSIUKXTl W. W. WOOD. MANAGKU AND SKU'Y ! DIKECTORS: C. n. DOItFLINClKr.. M. II. AL1.F..V. HENRY WILSON. E. II. 11ARDENI1EROII. W. W, WOOD. SUBSCRIPTION ?1.50 per year WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 10I. UEPUIJUCAN NOMINATIONS. JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT ,. Judge Robert Von Moschzisker, of Philadelphia. AUDITOR GENERAL, A. E. SISSON, I of Erie. , STATE TREASURER, I Jcrcinlnh A. Stober, of Lancaster. JURY COMMISSIONER, W. 11. Hullock. The Wright Urothers deserve the credit for blazing the way in navi gating the air with heavier-than-atr machines. The Democratic candidates have been informed that they were nomi nated. This will be some satisfac tion to them. President Taft favors Postal Sav ings Rnnlts and will send a special message to Congress urging the adoption of them. We are still eagerly looking for the announcement of the merchant who is reducing the price of shoes on account of the removal of the Tariff on hides. The biggest mine cave in Scran- ton's history occurred last Sunday, j Public school No. It! and a number of residences were damaged to the extent of ?i!no,0uo. i,ouis I llaft'en, borough presi-' dent of tho lironx, Now York City, j lias been removed from ollice by I i Governor Hughes on the charge of heinir guilty of abusing the power of his oll'ieo. One charge was loading Hie pay rolls of his depart ment with employees not required. I The world docs change and the Mohammedan world in not exempt. T!n re Willi a time when sons of the l'rophet overran Africa and Spain, fought in Franco, comiuored Con s' aiititioplo. and encamped under tli' vails of Vienna. To-day lliinz.-i ari' different. The Sultan of Tur ' i ' a lias bfen, the Sultan of Morocco is ilt?lHing for Ins throne, and the Fuithf'tl of 'ndia aro lio i o nlng rebellious. The Shall of 1'h-.m:i, alter s rapping witli his sub-ji'ii-. has been put "horn do coni 1.. i" by the Constitutioimli.-.ts, and his son plana at tho head of tiio gm eminent. LU.'ti STATU!': IX HALL OK t'A.MK. Virginia's contribution to the nation's "Hall of Fame," bronze statues of (ieorgo Washington and Unbolt !:. Leo have lieen placed in statuary hall at the capitol. Leo is in the uniform of tho south. Near the I.eo statue are .hose of fleneral .hums Shields e Illinois and Gen er;,l Philip Id cney of New Jersey in tliu uiiil'o! i of tho union army. MRS. SUTTON GETS PERMIT. War Department Allows Body of Lieu tenant to Be Exhumed. Washington, Aug. 31. A permit has been granted to .Mrs. James N. Sutton to have the body of her son, Lieuten ant James N. Sutton, which is buried iu Arlington National cemetery, disin terred and an autopsy performed. Tho permit was granted by tho secretary of war and is tho same as the one Is sued on Aug. til except that it has no long list of restrictions and conditions Appended to it. Oeorge Tully Vaughn will look after the interests of Mrs. Sutton at the dis interment and at the autopsy. Tho disinterment will be private. Mrs. Sutton, Attorney Davis, Dr. Vaughn and a representative of the army and navy, probably Surgeon Spear, who will nlso look after tho Interests of the mnrlne corps, will be present. After tho nutopsy the body will lie placed in n hermetically sealed casket and reinterred in consecrated ground at Arlington. State Lines. New York state leads In expenditures for education lu this country. Last year they amounted to-more than $51, 000,000. Massachusetts has In Its public nnd Bemlpubllc libraries nn average of 2G9 books for each person in the state, this being the highest arerago In the United States. New Hampshire conies second with 233 books to each person, Connecticut is third with nn average rf i!2." ai d Rhcde Island Is fi urt'i with an avenge of liOM volume WAYNE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The annual sessions of tho Wayne Baptist Association were held with the Maple Grove church August 24-2G, 1909. The Bible School convention was held Tues day afternoon and evening nnd many helpful question were dis cussed. The officers elected are A. II. Curtis, president; W. E. Rude, vice president; George P. Ross, secretary; J. H. Pcnwnrden, treas ruer. Among the good things were a paper on "Preparation of the Lesson," by Rev. James Rainey; a solo by Harriet Curtis and a duet by Belva Fulkerson and Helen Allen. On Wednesday morning the as sociation convened in due form witli Rev. James Rainey, of Alden ville, moderator, in the chair. Delegates and visiting were heartily welcomed by Rev. Wm. Barrows, D. D., tho local pastor, and the letter of welcome was read by G. H. Uaylord, clerk of the church. The election of officers resulted as fol lows: Rev. Wm. Barrows, D. D., moderator; George P. Ross, Hones dale, clerk; J. H. Penwarden, Honesdnle, treasurer; James Lloyd, J. H. Penwarden and W. J. Lloyd, trustees. "Lest We Forget" was tho tlienic of a most excellent ser mon from Deut.4:0, by Rev. R. D. Mlnch. The letters from the churches show a net gain of 70 members. During the year S9 were baptised, the second largest number in tho forty years' history of the association. Churches re porting baptisms were Aldenville G, Blooming Grove 3, Clinton 3G, Da mascus 2, Hawley lit, Honesdalo 4, Maple Grove '2, South Clinton 17. The first hour of the afternoon session was devoted to the work of the Women's Missionary societies. Miss Harriet Cooper of Philadel phia, secretary of the Woman's Home Mission Society, wns tho prin cipal speaker. Rev. Calvin A. Hare, D. 1)., spoke in behalf of Iiucknell University; .Messrs. Sam uel Clark and E. II. Hoel sang "He'll Not Forget," and a sympos ium on "Our Obligations" was pre sented as follows: "To tho Church" by Warren P. Norton; "To the As sociation" by 13. K. Curtis; "To Each Other" by Rev. Harry Baker. Miss Louisa Cory, of Uniondale, sang "Oh, What a Change." Reports of the young people's societies were heard at the even ing session. Oils or Cawrse and Raymond Curtis sang the duet part in the anthem. "So Will He C'oni lurt You." .ludson ('. Barrows, of Foiv.-t City, spoke in behalf of the i:di: atiou smieiy, and Itev. C. A. Soars, I). D., of Philadelphia, gave an interest ini; and inspiring ad dress on missionary work both home and abroad. Row James Rainey acted as mod erator of the session Thursday morning. The lirst ninety inlnuto.4 were de tiled to committee reports and biibiuess. Kov. George K. Wendell, of Honesdnle, delivered in Intensely practical sermon from John 11!::' I "Except a corn oi wheat fall into the around ami die, it ahldeth alone; but if it die. H hrlhsjtth lorth much fruit." Miss Harriet Cooper case a brief account of the Baptist meetings in Port land. Oivnon. It was decided unani mously to hold the sessions in MM ii rtilh tho Damascus church. Tho pastors and supplies in this n.-soi iation tit the present time are as follows: Rev. James Rainey, Aldenville and Clinton; Rev. X. c. Fetter. Jr., Blooming drove; Deacon W. II. Hull, Berlin and Dyborry; Res, R. I). Mlnch, Damascus; Rev. Charles White, Damascus i'nd; Rev. II. C, M. Catterall, J hiss-ley; Rev. Wm. Barrows, D. !).. Derrick Center. Maple Grose and Preston; Rev. George S. Wendell, Honesdalo; Res-. A. J. Kellernrui, Jones Lake; Itev. Harry Baker, South Clinton. Ashland, Lackawaxen, Starrucca and Ten Mile River are pastorloss. Rev. R. D. Mlnch. district mission ary, intends doing special work in tho latter churches as soon as a pastor is settled on the Damascus Held. The sessions svere very interest ing and inspiring, and the Maple Grove people cannot bo commended too highly for their excellent enter tainment. The ladles furnished dinner nnd supper to all delegates and visitors in a tent at tho church and opened their homes for lodging and breakfast. "AT CRIPPLE CREEK." The mine scene in "At Cripple Creek" is one of the cleverest pieces of stage mechanism ever produced and cost many sleepless nights for tho artist. One can almost imngine himself in a mine and it Is almost Imposslblo to tell it from a real shaft, so carefully has every de tail been worked out. It svill be seen here at the Lyric to-night (Wednesday) when the piece will be shown. Vigorous Seeds. Neither boiling water nor cold 200 degrees belosv zero kills the sprout In some seeds. Professor Becquerel found three seeds eighty-seven years old that sprouted. Gibraltar. Tho rock on which Gibraltar stands rises 1,439 feet from the sea. Austrian Postal Banks. Tho Austrian Postnl SavlngB bnnk Is for thoso having small sums to de posit only. The minimum is n crosvn (20 cpntsl, the maximum -.(mfl i-rnwn The money may be deposited "r v, drasvii at any postolllce iu Ain-irl.i. 'A TRAMP ABROAD." Interesting Letter irom Mr. August J. Ilclibcin. (Continued.) Leaving Ogden we pass through Echo canyon, with Its walls from five hundred to eight hundred feet high, with its wolrd and striking rock formations, and follosv the Webber river. There to our right, across the stream, out from the red soil rises two dazzling walls of white rock, forty feet high, twenty- feet apart, from the brink of the cliff to the waters of the Webber river, at an angle of 45 degrees, j They are called the Devel's slide, i and so all along for some distance, sve sasv turrets and domes of gray and red stones. Then wo came to Battlement Rock, a huge rock that j made us think of our oss-n Irving j Cliff. I guessed Its height to be I about 400 feet; Prof. Clark thought j 500 or more; a gentleman at the station told us It was 1,200 feet j high, shosvlng how easily we can be j deceived in distances and heights in this clear, dry, high altitude. We pass on to Granger, Wyoming, where the Oregon Short Line from Port-1 land, Seattle and Spokane connects j with the main line of the Union Pa cific Railroad. Soon Green River is reached, a place made noted by their finding In the shale, fossil fish, insects and skeletons of huge an cient monsters. We pass Rock Springs, the greatest coal mining tosvn in the west, and go through the divide, down into Rawlins, nam ed after President Grant's Secretary of War. Here sve cross the North Platte river and at nine o'clock we are at Hanna, another coal mining tosvn. All this day we have been traveling over a high plateau, at an elevation of over four thousand feet above sea level. We pass Laramie and during the night our car Is ssvltched from the main line of the U. P. R. R. at Cheyenne to the Den ver branch. At S:40 the next morning, twenty minutes late, we are at Denver, Colorado. We en gage our room at the Albany Hotel and leave at once via. D. and R. G. R. R. for Colorado Springs. This run of seventy-four miles is in sight of a gorgeous array of tho lofty nionarchs of the Rockies. Long's, Gay's, Torrey's, Pike's and the ' Spanish Peaks all aro in plain view. ) To our lott we pass Castle Rocks, j the Elephant rock and Palmer Lake, j At 1 I o'clock sve are at our destina-' tiou. Colorado Springs is an attractive i city and is probably the best known of the all-the-year-iound pleasure nnd health resorts of Colorado. , They have one of the finest hotels I in the country, "The Antler." At'-! tor lunch, a street car took us to j Stratton Park, where a carriage took us for a trip through South i Cheyenne Canyon, passing the Til-! lars of Hercules, it feet apart and1 O H) and 7!HJ feet high, to the foot i of tho seven falls. We climbed the ; steps leading to the top of the: falls 2.'1S feet high. i We next go by trolley through I Colorado city, first capital of the Stale, on to Manltou, sshkli nestles' at the base of Pike's Perk at an al titude of (!,U2t feet. Manltou is! famous for Its mineral springs, of which there are ten. We look a drink from its celebrated -oda I sprln;rs. Here svo hired a carriage and drove through the Garden of I the Gods where the asvful forces of I nature base played strange pranks j svitli the rot Us. High on the rigid; as sve upm-ouch the entiance is tho Frog, on the same side, fifty yards above lies the Sea Lion, and a short I distance beyond that are the heaps of piled and tumbled rectangular j rocks known as tho Baggage Room, j Thirty yards beyond this and on the. left, stand the Toad anil Toadstools, j sometimes i ailed the Mushrooms.. As sve proceed up the road, sve see the Chinese Temple, tho Porcupine I and Anteater, tho old Man's Wine : cellar ami the Balanced Rock, i Tsventy feet asvay stands Steamboat iioi u. ss e pusscu inrougii me curio store and ascended to tho up per dock and by the use of the tele scopes could see many ponts of in terest, among which svns tho Sum mit House on Pike's Peak. Wo continue our drive, passing tho three graces anil the huge red rocks that constitute tho eastern entrance of tho Garden. Our drive brings us back to Manltou. We return to Colorado Springs and to Denver, where sve spend the evening looking about the city. Denver, tho capital of Colorado, and the metropolis of the middle svest, is situated fourteen miles east of tho base of the snosvy or frost range of tho Rocky Mountains, at an altitude of 5,170 feet above sen level. The city Is built almost ex clusively of brick, stone, concrete and steel, has well built solid busi ness blocks, fine public buildings and parks, sixty-one graded schools, four High Schools, one manual training school and the University of Denver. It Is a city of beautiful homes, wth well-kept lnsvns, splen didly paved wide streets and has a population of about tsvo hundred and tsventy thousand. Besides the city administration building, there Is tho State Capital, a beautiful building, built of Colorado granite at a cost of three million dollars, the Federal Building and the United States Mint. We were up early next morning, called on Mr. Marcus D. Barnett, cousin of Mr. William J. Sllverstone, of Honesdale, Pa., the mother of these two gentlemen having been sisters. Mrs. Barnett was married at Honesdnle In the fifties. Her tsvo other sons, Israel and William, and one daughter, Mrs. Morris Weiss, all reside In I Colorado. The Barnetts have lived 1 In Denver over thirty years. They have a large clothing and furnishing store on Sixteenth street, and have been very successful In business. Wo took a trip on the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway, named by the public "The Moffat Rond," for n day's outing up into the Rocky Mountains. This road is being constructed from Denver to Salt Lake City in an air line, and when completed svlll reduce the distance betsveen the two terminals approximately 200 miles. Our train left at S:30 o'clock. For the first tsventy-four miles we pass through farm lands, valleys, by irrigating ditches, to the foot hills, svhere the road swings back and forth, climbing higher and higher until we reach Plainvlesv, where we have a beautiful view of the valley belosv with Denver in the distance; then for tsveuty-three miles sve pass through and along tho brosv of the mountains, gaining little by little In elevation until Tolland, situated in the midst of Boulder Park, is readied at an elevation of 8,889 feet. Leaving Tolland we creep up the great gulch above the little tosvn and swing back upon the wall of the opposite mountain. We come back again after describing a curve passing along the moun tain, face still higher above Boulder Park. Again the track swings back and returns higher up the mountain. Looking down we can see three railroad tracks below us over which we have traveled and Tolland away down In the valley looks like toy houses. High above Boulder Park are tsvo small lakes, Yankee Doodle and Jenny Lake. After going around Yankee Doodle lake, a loop of nearly five miles is made to gain the summit of the Continental Di vide. Here, amid banks of per petual snow, three and one-half hours, or G5 miles from Denver, is the railroad station of Corona (formerly Rollin's Pass) ll.GGO feet above the sea. On either slue of our train are snosv banks seven feet deep. The station is under snosv sheds. We made a stop of ten minutes, most of our party went out for snosv. Think of it! Snosv falling tho 7th of July. Some svere gathering wild llosvers near tho snow banks, that svere very fragrant. From here by a gradual descent for 1 1 miles sve reached Arrow, where sse had lunch. On our way up sve passed through 3o tunnels, and the continual change of scenery was one of the greatest delights of t'.iis svon derfnl trip. Some on our train svere sery siik, could not stand the high altitude. One lady fainted. We , returned to Denver by C o'tloek. Mr. David H. .Moffat, once President ot the D. & R. G. It. It., and who is building tho railroad sse have ji st descended, was born in Wash-1 in . tonville, Orange county, N. Y., I the son of Hon. David II. Moffat j who, in IS ID, ssas a member of the Ncsv York State Ai.-cmbly. .Mr. i Moffat, Jr., started for California in Is.Vj, but only got as far as Denver, I svliere he bought some real estate! and tliis insestmenl proved to lie the foundation of his present great wealth. In km;.". Air. Moffat, with a few other:-, organized the First ' .National linn it ot Denver, nosv con sidered the strongest institution of its kind in aii ttie west. .Mr. Molfat lias a ssarm spot in his heart for his birthplace. Some time ago, ho pre sented Wm-hiiiKtons llh svith a beautiful 550.000 Public Library, built on the same location svhere he wns born. He maintains and keeps he library v. til supplied svith ncsv hooks. We are sictiuainted svitli a number of his personal friends and schoolmates, among svhotn are: Mr. George A. Osven, Admiral H. M. Denniston, Mr. Augustus Den- niston, .Mr. Henry Clay Brooks, Mr.! Thomas W. Brooks, Mr. Hector Mof fat, all of Wasliinptonsille. N. Y., and Mr. Harrison Brooks, of White Plains, N. Y. While sve svere at Denver, it svns j announced in the morning papers! that the great Gunnison tunnel near here bail been completed; that soon! tho roaring svaters of the Gunnison River svould bo turned from the most inaccessible canyon to the Gunnison in the Rocky Mountain, through this six-mile concrete tun nel, to emerge into a tsvelvo mile canal, than gradually to bo diverted and spread out, becoming tiney streams and trickling brooks, irri gating thousands of acres of the Uncompahgro valley, and convert ing tills arid soil into rich agricul tural lands. This is n government project. Many of the irrigating plants along the Pacific coast are built by private corporations. We left Denver at 10:30 Wednesday evening, July 7th, on the Union Pacific R. R., going via. Julesburg. At 8:20 the next morning sve svere at North Platte, Neb., the home of Mr. YvT. D. Cody (Buffalo Bill.") Here wo change our time one hour ahead, from mountain to central time. Wo follow the North Platte river on to Omaha, through a beau tiful farming country. Here at one place sve saw them cutting grain, threshing, binding tho straw and bnglng tho grain in the field with one machine drasvn by twenty-four horses. We passed through Kearney, Grand Island, Fremont nnd reached Omaha at 5 o'clock. Our train for Chicago left at 6:02 so wo had n wait of one hour. Wo were met at tho station by two old schoolmates, Mrs. Georgo W. Cooper, who was formerly Miss Maggie Cuniinings, of Honesdale, Pn and Miss Annie E. Reury, who Is visiting her. Mrs. Cooper is looking very svell and hopes some day to visit Honesdnle again. She wished to be remembered to all her many friends In Wnyne county. sVe left at 6:02 p. m. via. C. and N. W. R. R., crossed the Mississippi River, passed through Iosvi and Illinois, to Chicago and from there on to Honesdale. On our way through Pennsylvania sve called at Mr. George Keofer's office In Pitts burg, but he was out. At Brooks ton, Pa., sve sasv Mr. I. H. Gllder slecve who at one time svas a mer chant at Cochecton, N. Y.; at Wil cox, Pa., sve called on Mr. Charles Spettlguo, brother of Mr. Olif M. Spettlgue of Honesdale, and on Mrs. George S. Keen. Mrs. Keen is almost entirely blind and looks forward to my coming with a great deal of Interest. She Is making her home svith Mr. and Mrs. A. Clear water. While we enjoyed our trip, had n good time and saw n whole lot of scenery, sve were pleased to get back to good old Pennsylvania, homo and our dear friends. AUGUST J. REHBEIN. STALKER FAMILY REUNION. On Wednesday, Aug. 2 nth, the members of the Stalker family celebrated their eighth annual re union at the home of Irving Conk lln near Rutledgedale. The ladles served dinner and everyone report ed a fine time. The following of ficers were elected: David Stalker, Sr., president; Clarence Stalker, vice president; Orvllle Welsh, sec retary; James Monnington, treas urer. Those present svere: Mr. and Mrs. David Stalker, of Kellams; Mr. and Mrs. James Monnington, Isa, Nlta, and Lynn, of Retliany; John F. Stalker, David Clinton, and Pearl, of Hurd, N. Y.; Mrs. Alexander Monnington, Edgar, Bertha, Arthur and Vance, of Nosv York city; Mrs. Robert Gregg and son Perry, of Abrahamsvlllo; Mr .and Mrs. Irv Conklin and family, Ina, Anna, Mildred and Arnold, of Rutledge dale; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Monning ton and children, Leary, Kenneth, Beyrl, and Gleara of Damascus; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stalker and son Arthur, of Long Eddy; John Rutledge of Rutledgedale; Mrs. Marrilla Monnington. of Rutledge dale; Miss Lillie Tarbox, of Ness York City; Emma Stalker, of Kel lams; Mrs. Libbie Rutledge, of Rutledgedale; Claud Keesler, of Rutledgedale; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stalker and children, Floyd, Nathan and May. of Lookout, .Mr. and Mrs. J. Ihirl'o-tl. of Lookout, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Welsh anil children. Bessie. Hulie. ami Orvllle, ami their nice, Dorothy. It ssas decided that the next reunion should be held at J. F. Stalker'.--. Hurd, N .Y. "TJ!R!:H TWINS." .Mr. .lohi-ph M. dalles svill offer at tho Lyric Wednesday evenlna:. Pout. .Nth, the hcnr.iitioiiiil musical comedy, "Tli'-ec Tssins," svhicli had .t run of live months at tho Whit-n-'.v opiin house, C'hlcufio, and ten months at the Herald Square Theatre, New York. "Three Twins" contains more nosel features than any mush til comedy that lias ever been produced. Tho fneoograph is ono of tho most wonderful elettri cul effects over shown on the stn:;t. There are a number of inolodious ..ous numbers Including "The Yama Yania Man," "l'tu I loo Toe Hoe," "(iooil Night," "Cuddle Up u Little Closer," and i.i.i-..- . hers. --Tho llone ilai" bowling team svent to Peach l.i-.lce Friday evenin;; and deflate,! i he bosvlers of that place. HKXiiY v.. i:tv-sia.., Hi! Mill NT. A N I I ! V. W T1KM'-M vi r ri;. iw t. HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK. This Bnnk svas Organized In December, 1836, and Nationalized In December, I8G-1. Since its organization it has paid in Dividends to its Stock holders, $1,905,800.00 The Comptroller of the Currency has placed It on the HONOR ROLL, from the fact that Its Snrplus Fund more than equals Its capital stock. What Class 1 YOU are The world has alsvays been divided into tsvo classes those who have saved, those svho have spentthe thrifty and the extravagant. It is the savers ssho have built tho houses, the mills, the bridges, tho railroads, the shins and all the other great svorks which stand for man's advancement and happiness. Tho spenders nre slases to the easers. It is the lasv of nature. We want yon to be n saver to open an account in our Savings Department and be independent. One Dollar will Start an Account. This Bank will be pleased to receive all or a portion of YOUR banking business. Transfers of itoni vtat Jonathan Brink to Rosala Brink, inna in Hnwley borough; considera tion, $500. Rosala Brink to Ida H. Teachtunn, lot in Hawley; consideration, ?500. 8CRANTON BUSINESS COLLliGE. Court Houso Square, SCRANTON, PA. Tho Scranton Business College,-' II. D. Buck, proprietor, will begin Its sixteenth year on Tuesday, Sept. 7th. Monday will bo enrollment dny. New teachers, new equip ment. Graduates meeting with splendid success almost overywhoro. Wrlto for literature. H. D. Buckj Principal. C3t8 Legal blanks at The Citizen office. LYRIC THEATRE BENl.ll.DlTTRICH. - LESSEE AND MANAGER On Night Only WEDNESDAY SEPT. I Bid hold's arent Success IN A story of tho far West, contidnliiR every element ot tho successful tlruma. Sensation, Heroics, Pathos, Comedy, Music Special Scenery and Effects. Pre sented by a good cast. PRICES 15, 25, 35 and 50c C6' SKAT SAI.K opciiM ut the box titllco at U a. in., Wednesday. September 1st. SPECIAL SALE OF ISunnER w- MEANER' & CO., i Genera! Stores, K7u I Honesdale, Pa. ! Sale of J WASH-UP AT- tVery Low Prices i;ivin l T i -- . AH'.!"" i'. I.INPSAY .-i-! svrc.sMiii.i; B in i