THE CITIZEN. FSaUSHTD STIXT TOD1TESDAT AJTD FRIDAY BT the cmzEH roBLisnnio coxrArr. fotered as second-class matter, at tnepost office, Honesdale. Pa. K. B. HARDENBERGII, - - PRESIDENT W. W. WOOD. - - MANAGER AND SKC'V DIBDCT0B8 i C 8. DOBfXQtaES. HXS&T WILBOS. M. P. ALLEK. E. B. 11ABDEKBGBQ11. . W. WOOD. ASY man is in favor .ot rcform.if allowed to select the starting point. Sympathy in the abstract makes no impression on a man with an empty stomach. PEOrLE do not think much of your opinion unless you happen to think as they do. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 a teak, is advance WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1909. REPUBLICANS, Way down in North Carolina, sir miles from any railroad depot, there is printed a Republican newspaper. It started a few years ago with thirty sub scribers and was printed on a press -worked by foot power. Only one em ployee, and he was the, employer, be :Sag editor, devil and everything else. To-day the paper has over a half a mil lion subscribers and is still growing. It bow has a Webb perfecting press, that prints, folds and turns out40,000 papers jcr hour. The paper is thoroughly Re publican, of the original red hot brand; H is unique, original in style and is guaranteed to make the chronic ortho dox Democrat sit up and feel ashamed of himself and the straight-out Republican full of ebullition without the aid of "Peruna" or any of its undressed as sociates. The name of this paper is The Yellow Jacket. It is a stinger, and its sting is the universal remedy for all known forms of political cussedness, and is good to take whether you need it or not. We will send you one year's treatment, which is 26 doses, (two a month) together with The Citizen for se year for $1.60. Subscribe for The CmiES and The Yellow Jacket for $1.00 aad enjoy the year 1909. Of Coarse It Decs. A farmer finds a one dollar bill and appropriates it, by right of discovery, to himself. He goes to town and pays it to a newspaper man on what he owes him the newspaper man hands it over to a merchant to settle his account : the mer chant pays his meat bill with it: and the butcher pa it back to the original finder to finish paying for a calf he had pur chased. After which the farmer takes it to the bank and discovers it to be a counterfeit. Query: Are all these debts cancelled with the spurious one dollar Dm i Exchange. Yes. How does this transaction differ from one in which a man gives an order lor a dolllar on someone owing him that amount, to a person to whom he owes a dollar? If the order is accepted the first man's debt is discharged. The second man endorses the order and pays it to the third to whom lie owes a dollar, and i! .again accepted the second man's ob ligation is discharged. The third man endorses it, and it goes to the fourth and so on, indefinitely, if you choose, the xder being good for its purpose every time, even up to the final transaction in which it returns to the original drawer at payment of a dollar debt due to him 3a other words, if A owes B a dollar. and B owes C a dollar, and C owes A a dollar, a counterfeit note or a blank piece of paper, or a worthless order passed around the triangle, would settle the whole business. Washington Letter.- Tariff RcYlal&a Coal, Iran, Steel and Lumber Duties Will Prob ' ably Be Reduced Benroatc of Soda Harmless. The ballots for the spring election will be printed by the Hawley Times, their bid of $185 to print the 18,500 ballots having been accepted by the County Commissioners. The Citizen's bid was $21G. HARSISBTJBQ .LETTER. The recent acquittal of the murderers of Annis in New ork state, and of Captain Erb in this state, have aroused considerable newspaper discussion. The plea of Belf-defence in the latter case seemed larcical, but the jury evidently believed it. Erb was no better than the law allows, but did nothing, so far as the evidence showed, to deserve to be shot ts death. Justice travels with leaden heels and bandaged eyes, and as a re sult human life is held too lightly. One of the interesting questions of the day is what shall be done with the statue of Senator Quay which, ordered by previous Legislature, has been paid for, but the particular niche where it shall repose has not yet been selected. Those who assert that the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings are afraid to act in this respect must be strangers in this state. From out of the numerous suggestions about good roads, amending the present act, etc., will probably come an act which will plan for a Commission to work out a system, instead of the piece meal method under which we work at present. Some opposition to George T. Oliver has been aroused despite the fact that he seems to have the endorsement of U, S. Senator Penrose for the succession to Senator Knox. It is likely to result in Oliver's election for the short term only, with which he will have to be content Bankers' Row" is what it is called in the Western Penitentiary, where 18 for mer bankers are paying the penalty of misusing other people's money. This will have a most wholesome effect. Among them is Montgomery, formerly cashier of the Alleghany National, leader in politics out that way, in his time. It pays to be honest. N. E. Hause t GOOD ADVICE A For Those Who Need It. 7 BT. Hi HELLO SIOTHHLE DTBOL 2 The century-old statute providing that sdl magistrates, such as justices of the peace and aldermen, shall lile with the prothonotaries of the courts of their counties acceptances of election within thirty days after the ballots selectin them have been cast will probably be re pealed this session of the Legislature. A bill to wipe the old law off the books has been prepared and introduced. This law has given much trouble in the last twenty years. Often men elected to such offices neglected to file the formal ac ceptance andwhenthetime camearound to assume "Hire found that they could not obtain a commission from the Gover nor. The result was that they had to make application for appointment to the vacancy caused by their own failure to comply with a formality and could only hold for a year an office for which they had been elected for the term of six. It is held that the man must want the of fice or he would not run for it, and that the acceptance is an empty proceeding. lv the measure before the Pennsyl vania legislature to oblige merchants and dealers to plainly mark cold stor age eggs becomes a law, there will be few ovals sold six months of the year that are not branded. The penalty lor selling decomposed or partly decom posed eggs is placed at from $200 to $, 000, or from three to nine months in jail, or both. If such a law is enacted, there will be few merchants who will care or dare to handle eggs, unless there is a great change in the quality of the hen product on the market. Heredity Plainly In Evidence. William L. Ferguson, of Seelyville, whose long connection with Wayne coun ty affairs, more especially of late years as President of the Wayne County Agri cultural Society, has given him as wide an acquaintance throughout the county as is enjoyed by any man now living, was born in Barnet township, Caledonia county Vermont, on the9thof July, 1818, and was consequently four-score and ten years of age "ninety years young," as he jovially puts it on the 9th of last July. Those who may have marvelled at his astonishing vigor of mind and body at such an advanced age, will per haps abate their wonder when they learn that his father, James Ferguson, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, August 16, 1771, came to this country in 1783, with his grandmother, who died at Ly man, New Hampshire, at very near the century point, while his father reached the remarkable" age of one hundred years and Bix months. An anecdote, illustrative of James Ferguson's reten tion of manly strength in an unusual de gree in his advanced years, is still told in Caledonia county, although his death occurred thirty-seven years ago. The story is taken from a Peacham paper printed in 18S5. Junelst was "training day" in Vermont, in those days, and may be now for all we know. The story runH as lollows : 'The first Tuesdav in June was a gala day with the men and boys in this town sixty years ago when they met for their annual June training. It was on one ot these occasions tliat that they met at Peacham Hollow. ".lames ierguson wasupirom uarnet. He lived to be one-hundred years and six months old. At the time of the June training in question, Mr. Ferguson was about sixty-live years old. in nis young days he was considered the fastest run- Thk Newiiurgh News puts this per tinent question to the enlarged Erie ca nal advocates in New York city : The annual consumption of coal in New York city is said to reach 14,000,000 tons Would the opening of a direct all-water route from the anthracite field mean anything to that city T If so, why has it been indifferent to the fate of the Dela -ware and Hudson canal and eo greatly concerned in the Erie, the carriage on which of grain for export is to the gain principally of elevator men 7 Most people never look in the mirror to see if their face is clean after washing it ; they look at the dirt on the towel. ner in all our section, i nomas j. Clarke made his brags about being the fastest runner at that time. "On this training dav. he stepped up to Uncle James and asked him at what time in life he lost his faculty for run ning. 'Lostl' said old Jim. 'I haven't lost it yet 1' "At tins tne men ana dovs saw mn brewing and called for a race. Capt. Clarke said lie would not De seen running a race wmi an old man like Ferguson. At this the old man made a mark in the dirt with the toe of his shoe, and placing his toe on the mark, shouted defiantly: 'Tom, I'll take ye down to the pile of rails yonder and back.' "The men and boys yelled and Capt. Tom' was obliged to place his toe on the line and make ready for the race. "'Oneltwol run!' and away they went. Uncle Jim got to the pile and touched the rails first. On his way back be met Capt. Tom and said: 'Mr. Clack, at what time in life do you expect to run with Auld Jim Peggy?' " Washington, Feb. 2d. The Rcpub lican members of the Ways tuid Means Committee have made sufficient pro gress with the tariff bill to justify the prediction that they will have it ready for introduction in the House a few days after the opening of the extra session of Congress, about March 15th. The delib erations of those in charge of the meas ure are carefully guarded. The policy of secrecy was adopted for two reasons, to obviate further hearings from persons who will be dissatisfied with the revised schedules of the Dingley Bill, and to pre vent the use of information regarding the agreements reached by the commit tee for stock market purposes. Leaders of the House believe the bill will pass that body practically in the form in which it is reported by the Ways and Means Committee. If this is done the real battle over the proposed revision of the tariff will develop when the bill reaches the Senate. Before it is reported to that body it must be considered by the Finance Committee, and that Com mittee is expected to make many changes in its provisions. The understanding is that Senator Penrose will be a member of the sub-committee of the Finance Committee that will pass upon the sched ules with which Pennsylvania is directly concerned, those relating to iron and. steel products, lumber and coal. The Ways and Means Committee, practically, has agreed upon heavy reductions in the duties on iron and steel products, and it is believed that it will also reduce the tariff on lumber. The iron and 'steel manufacturers are not opposing what they consider fair reductions in the rates on those products, but they will en deavor to prevent the sweeping reduc tions proposed by some of the members of the House Committee. The Committee has not agreed upon the lumber schedule. Under the Dingley bill: the tariff on lumber is two dollars a thousand feet. The committee is con sidering a proposition to remove this duty entirely. With free lumber, the lumber interests contend, Canadian dealers would supplant the lumber deal ers of this country in the market for the cheaper grades. They admit that the market for high grade lumber would not be materially affected. The Committee also has under consideration a proposi tion to adopt a reciprocal agreement i with Canada relating to coal. The pres ent duty on soft coal is about sixty-seven cents a ton. The bulk of Canadian coal is mined in Nova Scotia and British Co lumbia, and the coal operators of Penn sylvania seem disposed to accept a re ciprocal agreement. The PennFylvan'a industrial interests realize that the Sen ate will be the battle ground. They have submitted their contentions regarding the tariff to Senator Penrose, and are depending upon him to protect them against dangerous tariff revision. No other member of the Senate will exert a more far-reaching influence in the con struction of the bill than Mr. PenroEe. The report of the Remsen board re garding the use of benzoate of soda as a food preservative will lead to new regu lations for the enforcement of many of the sections of the pure food law. The board, which consisted of four of the most eminent scientists in this country, decided that benzoate of soda is as harm less as a breakfast food, and that if any body wants to eat it he may go as far as he likes. The board completely ex plodes the theory of Chief Wiley, of the Bureau of Chemistry, who has charge of the enforcement of the pure food law, that benzoate of soda was poisonous when used as a preservative. The board in effect states that Mr. Wiley's "poison squad," experiment of two years ago, while sensational, was worthless. As the board was appointed by the Presi dent to settle the controversy over ben zoate of soda, its findings are final. The. controversy had been before the Agri cultural Department, ever since the enact ment of the pure food law. The general belief here is that .Mr. Roosevelt will now appoint a new man head of the Bureau of Chemistry, as the report of the Rem sen board discredits Wiley as a chemist. His many theories with reference to food products have attracted widespread at tention. . Nearly all of these theories have been combatted by other chemists. HENRY Z. RUSSELL. ,. TBEBIDEKT. A NDREW THOMPSON VICE PRESIDENT. EDWIN F..TOBRKY. CABHIX&. ALBERT C. LINDSAY. ABSISTAJfT CAKHIEK. Maggie A. If be told you be loved another and expected to have his ring back, we confess it is up to you to re turn it. Butif, as you say, you had sold the ring and didn't have the money to ' return, we would advise you to be hon est with him and tell him you bad lost the ring. Jennie B. Once in a while a young man will call on a lady under the influ ence of whiskey. The symptoms you describe seem like liquor, but it might have have been emotion. You say he tried to stand on his head ; that he want ed to bet you five dollars you looked like an old witch ; that he said he was mar ried and the father of twins, but told you this confidentially ; that he loved you better than any woman he had seen for a week all of that sounds a little irregular. His attempt to blow out the gas and ignite his breath seems to be the fatal link in the chain of circumstantial evidence. You tell us his breath caught on fire. That really looks like as if he had been drinking. But we would ad' vise you not to act ton hastily, be may have been overcome with emotion in his desp love for you. Married Man. You say she put pep per in the cake ; cooled your eoup with ice cream ; told you your mother didn't know how to cook, and said you were a bald-headed imbecile. Of course that doesn't look exactly right. It looks like as if her love was cooling a little. As to throwing the plate at you, yeu say she knocked out your glass eye, and called you a glass eyed pole-eat. bach en dearing words do not come from a wo man who really loves her husband. As to putting the soft soap in your shoes, we admit that looks like malice, but it may be she thought your feet needed some thing like that. We would advise you to bear up under this, increase your ac cident policy and try to live on until the tariff is revised. Write us fully and free ly how you get along. First Voter. You request us to advise you whom to vote for to fill the position of Chief Burgess. We would much pre fer to meet you and talk tins matter over confidentially. We have a good position with good pay, and do not care about being black-listed. We are liberty to say, that you would be justi fled in taking out nomination papers and running yourself, as neither of the candidates measure up to the require ments needed by the Chief Magistrate of a community where the main thor oughfares are mud roads, it is rumor ed that the candidates have agreed pool tneir issues and divide the per quisites, which consist of two tickets to each show, which, if proven, will invali date their election, and you may win Married Woman. If he continues to come home and insists on sleeping with his boots on, we hardly know what to say. Generally when a man wants sleep with his boots on and can't talk plainly, he shows symptoms of booze. ,It maybe, however, he is worried over something, and forgets to take them off. Test it a year or two longer and then act discreetly. Carrie N. So you are engaged, and think yOur lover gay is not sincere. You say he is also engaged to three other girls in your community and that he has a wife in Wisconsin. This seems a little irregular, but if he has sworn that he loves you and that you can trust him, of course that looks as if he meant busi ness. If he has told the other girls the same thing, and his wife is going to have him arrested for desertion, it seems to us, if we were you, we would wait until he has been arrested for desertion, before we married him. However, if you have the wedding cake baked, it looks like it would be a pity to let it npoil. Be sure thelicense hasyour mid dle name spelled in full. Ex. HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK. This Bank was Organized la December, 1836. and Nationalized la December, ISG4. Since Its. organization it has paid In Dividends to Its Stockholders, $1,905,800.00 Bank Depositors The Comptroller of the Currency has placed It on the HONOR ROLL, from the fact that Its SurplusFnnd MORE than equals Its Capital Stock. Whatever of success and stability has been attained during thlsunbrokcn seventy-two years years of flnan- r j 1 ciaiaepressionanaconvuioiuii,B.sciou..vic...i an rllTlflPn flt and profl t-ls largely due to. the liberal conservatism Ol C 1lltlLllU Ul which always characterized its management and In regard to whicb.Ita directors nave always aaai as a unit. To those who appreciate no logic but that of figures, the following statement is taken from our books, this 2Gth day ot December. 1308 : The paid up Capital of this Bank Is all Times to Know What Se curity is Behind Their Deposits $150,000 The accrued Profits and Sur ffOCA AAA plus is W.tftytV'ft. The security we offer our depositors is, therefore, with stockholder's liability, equivalent to This in addition to the lntee- tbe men woo . nave : the bank a anairs. $554404. jgSjj This Bank will be pleased to receive all, or a portion of YOUR banking business. H. C. HAND, Pbkbipknt. W. B. HOLMES, Vice Piies. II. S. SALMON, Cashieb W. J. WARD, Asb't Cashiks We want von to understand the reasons for -the ABSOLUTE SECURITY of this Hank. WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK HONESDALE, PA., HAS A CAPITAL OF AND SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF MAKING ALTOGETHER $100,000.00 355.000.00 455.O0O.00 EVERY DOLLAR of which must be lost before any depositor can losealtSHWY It has conducted a growing and successful business for over 36 years, serving an increasing number of customers with fidelity and satisfaction. Its cash funds are protected by MODERN STEEL VAULTS. All of thene thing!, coupled with conservative management, injured by the C.VHEKUL PERSONAL ATTENTION constantly given the Hank's affairs by a notably able Hoard of Directors assures the patrons of that SUl'KEMK SAFETY whirh is the prime essential of a sood llank Total Assets, $2,733,000.00 II. C. HANI). A. T. SEAULE. T. I!. CLAKK. 0aT DEPOSITS MAY BE MADE BY MAIL. "a DIRECTORS CHAS..T. SMITH. H. J.CONUKK. W. F. SUYDAM. W. U. HOLMES I'. P. KIM ISLE II. S. SALMON "HUMAN LIFE. 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The February Atlantic. In the Atlantic Monthly for February the first installment of the Diary of Gid eon Wells, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, is the leading article. A paper by J. O. Fagan, the Kailroad Signalman whose "Confessions" have given the public real knowledge of railroad prob lems, follows. W. Caineion Forbes, Vice-Governor of the Philippines, re views a decade of American rule in the Islands, and "An Experiment in Popu lation," by Walter Weyl, shows the French argument for investing in bonds rather than in babies. An article on the ' impracticality of a "practical" educa tion by Dean Birge of the University of Wisconsin, and delightful memories of Agassiz's teaching by the late Professor Shaler, follow. Bedfern Mason contrib utes an article on "Musical Suggestion," while Mrs. Meynell's paper on the coun try of Edmund Spenserand William Gar rott Brown's "The Beaten Track" will prove among the most alluring articles of the month. There is the usual gen erous amount of lighter reading, and an exceptionally full Contributors' Club gives extra good measure of humor to the issue. We have no Insurance against panics, BUT We want to seU- Every business man in Wayne county a good sized life or en dowment policy tbat he may use as collateral security for borrowed money tldeyouover tight places when sales are poor and collections slow pos sibly head jolf insolvency. We want to sell 1. ' ..,.11... 41, n will absolutely protect his family and home. We want to sell Every laborer and mechanic a . . . 1 . . . , 1 ! I w t ti- i 1 1 ho Im. BHWlln (fUUL l4fc . ... ... possible for him to lapse or ion: If not Life Insurance Letuswrlte soracof your FIKE INSUltANCE. Standard, re liable companies only. IT IS I1ETTEUTO DO IT NOW. THAN TO WAIT AND SAY "IP' HITTINGER & HAM, General Agents. WHITE MILLS, PA. LYRIC THEATRE ! BEKJ. H. DiTIEI. 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