TllK CITIZEN, VftiKEsi)Av, AUG. 21, 1010. TO
THE CITIZEN
T0FL1BIIED EVERT WEDNE8DAT AHD FR1DAT DT i
TUB CITIZEN rCBUSltlMl COM T ANT.
Entered as secomt-clnss matter, at the post I
otuce. Honesdale. l'a.
UDSCR1PTION $1.60
H. B.HARDKN'nKUGH. - - PRESIDENT
W. V. WOOD. MANAGER AND SKC'Y
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HKKRT WILSON. E. B. It ARDENDERGH.
V. V. HOOD.
vi:ixi:siay, aug. U4, iojo.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN K. TENER.
For Lieutenant Governor
JOHN M. REYNOLDS.
Secretary of Internal Affairs
HENRY HOUCK.
State Treasurer
CHAS. F. WRIGHT.
For Congress,
C. C. PRATT.
For State Senator,
WINFRED D. LEWIS.
COUNTY.
Representative,
H. C. JACKSON.
Pious prayers for rain have thus
far gone unanswered.
The Greater Honesdale Board of
Trade Is neither dead nor sleeping.
The nest meeting will be held Sep
tember 9, and the secretary says
there are plenty of applications for
Information from concerns seeking
sites.
When aeroplanes are common
enough not to attract attention they
ought to be regarded with favor by
the smugglers on the Canadian line.
Scranton Tribune-Republican.
Or, perchance, by some of the ab
sconding bankers that sklddoo over
the boundary Into that blessed re
treat which a great contemporary
novelist has styled "Rogues' Rest."
HOY SCOUTS GOOD IDEA.
The following from a Scranton
daily paper Is going to have signifi
cance in Honesdale just so soon as
the right person can be found to
inaugurate a. iBl!l?r movement
here; ..Vj-, jSvSSM
'""A quartette of Scranton boys and.
their leader, A. J. Be van, of this
city, comprising a patrol of the Boy
Scouts of America, left yesterday for
Silver Bay, Lake George, N. Y.,
where they will camp with 1,000
other boys for two weeks, learning
those things which the name of the
organization Implies. The boy scout
movement was originated at the
siege of Mafeking by the then Col.
Baden-Powell, who was hard pressed
by the Boers. He employed boys
for carrying messages and scouting.
A number of years ago thousands
of English boys were organized and
today England's boy scouts are
known the world over. It Is not a
.military organization, but the rudi
ments of military discipline and
practices are to some extent taught
the boys. In this country the move
ment is only three years old. In
Scranton the organization was start
ed under the auspices of the Young
Men's Christian association. Baden
Powell, raised to knighthood since
the Boer war, will visit the Sliver
Lake camp.
The Boy Scout movement looks
to us like a good idea. It has a
tendency to get the lads out of dis
reputable if not positively iniquitous
company by giving them an organi
zation which, from Its military
character if for no other reason,
must appeal fo the average boy of
plastic years, who is never bene
fitted by being left entirely free to
pick up any sort of Tom, Dick and
Harry eompany on the public
streets.
Sound bodies and sound morals
In the young fellows now passing
through their teens to the legal age
of manhood and responsibility Is
the longest step toward a higher
grade of citizenship five, 10 and a
dozen years from now. It would
be a right good plan to put the
Scouts at work In Honesdale with
out delay. There are boys In this
borough, and there are boys In
Texas, that could be reached for
desirable results through such an
organization. The rowdy and the
-tough of tender years are some
times converted into useful and
law-abiding citizens by movements
which combine tho military with the
social element. Judge BEN B.
L1NDSEY, tjiat very earnest and
able citizen who has done so much
to purify tho boys of Denver through
his Children's court and its asso
ciated clubs and reading rooms and
gymnasiums for boys, Is an avowed
advocate of the Scout movement.
If we had tho Scouts In Honesdale
we might possibly have fewer dis
graceful occurrences like that . of
Wednesday night, when hoodlums,
all of them young In years, held
up a church party on Its way from
Irving cliff and Indulged In out
rageous conduct ttiat richly merit
ed a jail term for every member of
the gang.
OH, YOU AMUSING CRITIC 1 ;
The editor of The Citizen wishes 1
to confess himself both amused and I
honored by the remark, Imputed to
an unmarried Wayne county woinnn
of uncertain years, that "the Citizen 1
Is a very good paper, but the real (
nice society people of Honesdale j
cannot like the crude way In which ,
It discusses the affairs of this com
munity." Faults we have, and big, I
confounding ones they are, but in
gratitude never has been laid at the 1
door of the man who now is per- j
Eonally answerable for the local ns i
well as for the editorial columns of j
this paper. If the fair critic of The
Citizen's present practice of print- f
ing nctttal news, without color, bias
or prejudice, did not happen to bei
a regular reader of this journal, '
and if sundry relatives, both blood j
and marriage, did not, to our posi
tive knowledge, make a twice-a-week
practice of perusing every syllable
local Items, bojler plate, advertising
and all we should feel constrained
by the most ordinary and natural
promptings of a decent gratitude for 1
favors rendered to send a copy by
special delivery every Tuesday and
Thursday night to our sweet critic's !
fireside address. i
The day of citified things has!
come to Wayne county and citi-!
lied things compulsorlly include the!
citified newspaper. Wayne county I
is no longer to be rated a back-1
woods bailiwick, where the fact that
Mrs. Jones and her three boys saw
fit to take dinner In an adjoining
township on a solitary Sunday is
deemed more consequential from a
news standpoint than the fact that
her neighbor Smith was badly butted
by his three-year-old bull, or that
Mr. Johnson broke two ribs in a
railroad smashup on the home di
vision of the railroad, or that Mr.
Tomkins has aspirations to hold
down a seat in Congress. The neigh
borhood comings and goings, the
little harmless, pleasant, congenial,
gossip of every nook and corner of
the county, a county paper is sup
posed to record and The Citizen
will cheerfully print every such item
of news that may be brought to its
attention; but we do not propose td
reflect on the intelligence of Wayne
county people by assuming for the
smallest timeable fraction of a sec
ond that they do not welcome a full
and readable record of the really
big and vital happenings of this
paper's territory. The repeated as
surrance of Wayne county people
and we speak now of people who
do not pay for this paper as well as
for people who regularly subscribe
that they appreciate The Citizen's
effort to give adequate presentation
to the affairs which are actual news
and to which city dailies would ac
cord three times the space and 10
times the elaboration, is one of the
most sunny features In the daily
routine of the editor of The Citizen.
We are glad we might add
that, like the man from Washing
ton and Africa and Oyster Bay and
the Outlook office, we are dee-lighted
to know that "the nice 'sassiety'
people will not like such items of
news" as the business and profes
sional and railroad and political
happenings, at the county seat and
elsewhere within the confines of
this journal's legitimate field of
operations. We are by no means
sure as yet that Wayne county con
tains any considerable quantity of
those weak, Insipid jackasses who
see fit to hallucinate their heads
with the old, wornout, discredited
notion that Tom is socially superior
to Jim because Ills family tree was
planted 15 minutes earlier, or on
account of the much more probable
fact that ho wears a made-to-measure
suit of clothes which cost ?35
while Jim poor democratic freak!
Is contented with one ho tried on
in a clothing store and settled for
with a 10 bill before ho left tho
clothier's premises. There are such
men and women In profusion In
some of tho Eastern states, we
grant, but the soil of Pennsylvania
has never seemed particularly
adaptlble to tho cultivation of snobs.
There Is a saving senso of humor,
an agreeable lack of personal
pomposity, a cordial and brotherly
temperament In tho average Penn
sylvania man and woman that
niUBt tend to keep him and her from
sfiowlng much patlenco with tho
whims and whines of tho folks that
aspire to be considered "sassiety."
Tho only aristocracy to bo found In
tho state of Pennsylvania Is the aris
tocracy of honorablo bohavlor an
aristocracy that Is recognized by
good citizens everywhere. Our con
fidence In our practice of printing
tho news, without prejudice or par
tiality; Is therefore twofold: We
know the people of Wayne county
have sense enough to know news
when they see it and to give their
approbation to n paper that supplies
It; and we have equal sangulnlty
that tho "sassiety" argument will
find ns little scope In this friendly
locality as the claims of Dr. Cook
that ho discovered the North Pole
and climbed Mt. McKlnley, or the
waning verbosity with which certain
gentlemen who do not love the Re
publican or the Democratic party an
nounce that Mr. BERRY is to have
n majority of 1.000 votes in Wayne
county.
The Connecticut man who hos
just been arrested for grinding up
old cigar boxes nnd selling the pro
duct for pepper could evidently
point out on his family tree the In
ventor of the wooden nutmegs of
olden days. Tho Ingenious Yankee
mnnlfests his peculiar talents
through succeeding generations.
Lancaster New Era.
Yes. Connecticut, with all her
sins and shortcomings of n political
and moral nature to answer for, in
cluding the production of BENE
DICT ARNOLD and three emphatic
majorities for one GROVER
CLEVELAND, was smart enough to
get started in life on 'a very trifling
investment of soft pine, paint nnd
impudence. The little state stowed
away between Boston frogpond and
the red ferryboats of Harlem river
contains a large number of content
ed folks today who are rich because
they sold those wooden nutmegs
to a lot of raw suckers in the west
and south, and then put the coin
right Into 8 per cent, mortgage
bonds directly under the noses of
the people they had "nutmegged."
Good manners, In order every
where, are more noticeable In the
postofflce than In most places.
Rowdies and boors are easily spot
ted there. We do not like to say
It, but a young woman who prob
ably would consider herself terribly
affronted If she were told that she
Is not a lady jammed up to the gen
eral delivery window the other night
and Insisted on being waited on be
fore six men and women ahead of
her In the line had been served.
There is too much of this sort of
impudence. In Honesdale and else
where. How would It be for the
clerk at the window to have his In
structions to send back to the foot
of the line any man or woman who
insists on "butting in" out of turn?
It looks to us like an eminently
wise nnd reasonable solution of the
problem precipitated by the pres
ence of selfish and egotistical people
In the line at the general delivery
window. ,,1. -
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GINGERSNAPS.
Furnace days will soon be here.
There's something to look forward
to.
The family reunion business, now
in full blast, makes no complaint
about hard times.
After all, Hawley's Main street
got her ccmimon oil before the Seely
vllle state road got her asphalt
oil.
The country relatives throughout
this broad and glorious land don't
care how soon the summer season
ends.
These are surely the days when It
looks extremely suspicious for any
one to straighten his hat In an ap
ple orchard.
In Bradford, where they know the
gentleman very well Indeed, not
much money Is offered on the Con
gressional chances of George W.
Klpp.
"I listen," say the French tele
phone girls when they answer a call.
In tho United States the party lino
folks might also get In on this re
mark. Is there any man or woman so un
fortunate ns the individual who can
not think of a single country relatlvo
ho or she might visit during this
elegant month of August?
At last, at last, It Is going to hap
pen! Col. Teddy has just tho samo
as promised Clifford B. Harmon (no
relation to Judson Harmon of Ohio)
that ho will sail up with tho aviator
one of those fine days.
Carbondale has wou two games.
So have wo. Tho "rubber" at tho
Lake will bo fought for all there is
in It, but Honesdale Is not going to
worry about her chances before'
hand. Tho tenm that worries Is
lost. We are not going to lose.
An account of a North Carolina
man who died at tho ago of 115
was dreadfully Incomplete. Noth
ing was said about his using tobac
co all his life. Just on account of
that we are Inclined to doubt the
truth and veracity of tho story.
White Mills Is right in demanding1
that $50 for the White Mlilfi-Arch-bald
game at Lake Lodore. At leant
one run, and probably two, carao In
when, with a man on third and ft
mon on first, Catcher Shaffer, the
hard hitter who can send the ball,
away over Into the children's play
ground, knocked out a beautiful
three-bagger and won the game for
the Millers. The ball was fair by at
least 10 feet, but, fair ball or foul
ball, the run or runs knocked in by
Shaffer's three-bogger should hnve
counted. The umpire cannot change
his decision.
KEYSTONE PRESS.
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If Lord Kitchener does take hold !
of that Chinese army there will
soon be nnother world power to con
sider. Pittsburg Sun.
Pittsburg's census ambitions were
too high. Half a million popula
tion Is quite a come down from ex
pectations pitched 125,000 higher.
Cheer up, Pittsburg, there is plenty
of time to grow. Harrisburg Pa
triot. Although men who estimated the
population of Pittsburg have all ,
been shown up through the an-!
nonncement of the city's real popu-1
lation, we have no hesitancy In say-1
ing again that there are 7G.000 peo-I
pie in Johnstown and its suburbs.
Johnstown Democrat.
In New York state there Is a law
fixing twenty-five years' Imprison
ment as the penalty for an attempt
ed murder, such a crime ns Galla
gher co'mmitted in shooting Mayor
Gaynor. The shooting, however,
was done on board a steamer at her
dock in New Jersey and will have
to be disposed of under the laws of
that state, which do not call for
such severe punishment. Wells
boro Agitator.
The death from starvation of Vir
ginia Wardlaw In the house of de
tention at Newark, where she had
been removed from the county jail,
will be taken as evidence by some
that the proverbial Jersey justice
goes awry. So far as the public has
been informed, there has never been
much more than suspicion against
Miss Wardlaw and her wretched sis
ters, long in confinement without a
trial, accused of murdering their
niece, who was found dead in her
home showing evidences of starva
tion. Harrisburg Patriot.
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Here's a recipe ior lassoing a wo
man hater: "August Mittlesteadt of
Austin, III., has been known as a
woman hater for twenty-five years.
On Saturday ho will marry Mrs.
Adeline Gutsehaw. The widow ex
plained how she won his heart. This
Is how: 'Add four eggs to a quart of
milk, a half cup of sugar and a lit
tle vanilla. Bake half nn hour until
It sets. Serve custnrd hot with
cream and sugar. Take one and a
half cups of sugar, one cup of sour
milk or cream, two eggs, one tea-
spoonful of soda, one cup of butter
and flour to mix soft. Add vanilla
flavoring and bake until cookies are
a delicious brown." Carbondale
Leader. , - , .
Lots of automobiles are run on
somebody else's gas. Amer
icans are the greatest peanut eaters
In the world, which probably ac
counts for the fact that we have so
many peanut politicians. The
Esperanto conference In Washington
might find a lot of new words to
puzzle over were It to delegate a
representative to attend one of those
Mountain league baseball games.
That Scranton man .who swal
lowed a dentist's tool was lucky that
it wasn't the forceps that slipped
down his throat. In the event of
such a catastrophe he might have
found himself In a greater pinch
than ho was. Bellefonte Democratic
Watchman.
In reporting the Keystone conven
tion at Towanda the Philadelphia
North American said: "Ex-Congressman
Klpp was on the platform, and
the audience tried to applaud a
speech out of him. But It didn't
succeed." Does anyone know of nn
audience ever having succeeded In
applauding a speech out of the Dem
ocratic candidate for congress from
this district? Not that wo are
aware of. Mr. Lllley, his opponent
In tho congressional contest of four
years ago, tried hard to get him to
talk, but it was of no use. The
Democratic candidate for congress
does not make speeches. Why?
Towanda Reporter-Joumnl.
Tho announcement that for the
first time since the Industrial slump
In 1007 tho Baldwin Locomotive j
works have practically a full forco i
of 10,000 men employed Is an un
usually encouraging Industrial In- i
dlcatlon. Tho Baldwin plant natur
ally derives Its sole patronage from I
railroads, tho managers of which
for several years past, In the face
of nntl-rallroad agitation, have been
decidedly backward In their pur
chases. With a demand for locomo
tives will naturally come a demand
for tho great volumes of supplies
which onter Into the running of our
grent transportation systems, thus
oxertlng a beneficial influence upon
all lines of Industry. Lancaster New
Era.
WANTED Experienced girl for
general house work. Mrs. Shirley,
Main street. eoltf.
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RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
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The fifth game of the series with
Honesdale will bo played at Lake
Lodore, and 1 expect to have a team
that will make tho Maple City lads
work for the honors. Nicholas
Murtaugh, Carbondale.
A copy of the Citizen that told
about the bullhead I caught in
Adams pond the other day has been
sent to a paper published in a town
In Jersey where I have some ac
quaintances and it will be repro
duced In that paper, I expect. Leo
Freeman.
It is not hard to sell tickets for
tho firemen's outing. Everybody,
almost, Is willing and glad to help.
At the same time, the Job ought not
to have been put on me for the third
time. I shall be a busy man that
day, with the refreshment com
mittee and other committees besides.
William B. Roadknlght.
Huntington lake has a permanent
population of not more than 200,
yet today there are 1.000 or more
summer boarders, principally city
people, stopping there and when you
walk up street or down street all
you can thluk of Is Honesdale dur
ing Old Home week. Henry Ting
ley. I notice In an editorial of the
Scranton Truth under date of Aug.
lfl that someone has Invented an
automatic, rapid fire gun which will
discharge 100 bullets per second.
This ought to furnish food for
thought for Frank Farnhain, and in
cidentally I was thinking myself
that if I had one of them at my
house, so I could train It out the
window In the small hours of the
morning, I could probably break up
some of those canine musicales,
which only proves that there are
"Cats and Katz and then some."
Jonas Katz.
I am always glad to see Honesdale
and other Wayne county people In
Port Jervls. I can show them an
Elks' home that does not need to
play second fiddle to any city the size
of Port Jervls. The boys In our
lodge like it pretty well, and so do
some visitors, Honesdale Included,
that I have shown through the build
ing. I have not been in Honesdale
of late and most of the Honesdale
Elks belong to the lodge in Scran
ton, but I've had my share of good
times In the counties on the other
side of the Delaware and the people
that live over that way look good
to me. Ed, McQuade, Port Jervls,
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HONESDALE NATIONAL
BANK
CAPITAL, $ 150,000.00
SURPLUS 241,711.00
TOTAL ASSETS 1,902,000.00
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You have more or less banking business. Possibly it
is with us, such being the case you know somethingvof our
service, but if not a patron would it not be well for you to
become one ?
OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
will help you start. It is calculated to serve all classes, tho
old and the young, the rich and the poor,
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
IT RECEIVES DEPOSITS OF $1.00AND UP
and allows three per cent. Interest annually. Interest will be'paid from
the first of any month on all deposits made on or before the 10th of the
month provided such deposits remain three calendar months or longer.
HENRY Z. RUSSELL,
l'RE8IDEST.
ANDREW THOMPSON
VICE PRESIDENT .
Sunday Excursions
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EVERY SUNDAY DURING AUGUST
Attractions at the Lake will be in full
operation.
REFRESHMENTS on GROUNDS
It does not seem so very long ago
that I was a boy a pretty bad boy
I expect over there In dear old
Honesdale. I remember being the:
kid at the roller skating rink. I
got $2 a week and all the tips I could
make. Somo days the tips vera
worth a dollar or more, and there was
one woman who always gave "llttlo
Johnny Wolfe," as they called me,
half a dollar to put on "her skates.
That was when I was the devil In the
Citizen office. Speaking about tho
Citizen, I recall one night when tho
boys I used to travel with got extra
gay nnd before they'd made all the
stops they smashed the glass In tho
front door of Mr. Pennlraan's hand
eomo home on Main street. When
tho trick was discovered I was back
In tho office, working hard and look
ing Innocent, but as -soon as I knew
my chums were suspected I went to
the boss, told him I was In the
crowd though ho wouldn't take ray
word for It at first and offered to
pay for the glass on condition that I
shouldn't lose my Job. He didn't let
me pay for the glass, and he didn't
fire me out of the office, either.
There were a couple of fine old men
Henry Wilson and Edward A. Pen
nlman. I am glad the Judge con
tinues to enjoy a paying practice and
that Mr. Pennlman Is wealthy
enough to live without labor. John
L. Wolfe, Scranton.
Many thing nrc essential to a
successful fair exhibits, nniu.se
nicnts, attendance and pood weath
er. We expect them nil nt our
fnlr.
A line racing program hns been
arranged for ench day. See tho
attractive purses offered.
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