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K. B. HARDENBERGII, - - PRESIDENT
W. W. WOOD. - - MANAGER AND SKC'V
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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
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tors on the line of the Delaware A Hud
son Hail road desiring representation, in
the new edition of the Hotel Directory,
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the General Passenger Agent, Albany,
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Over 700 of our subscribers have se
lected "Human Life" as a premium.
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stating that the Magazine had not been
received. We wish to state that those
who sent us prepaid subscriptions be
fore Nov. 25th, were entitled to "Human
Life" beginning with the November
number ; those who sent after that date,
and previous to Dec. 25th, began with
the January number, and those. after
Dec. 25th and before Jan. 25th, will re
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"Human Life" Is sent direct to sub
scribers from the Boston office.
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. H. - - LESSEE ASH KiSAGES
FRIDAY, FEB. 5
E 11
CTHE CELEBRATED
ARTOON1ST
Will Give an ILLUSTRATED
LECTURE ON ARABIA.
PriGes 50. 75, $1 and $1.50
S- SEAT SALE at box office at 3 o'clock
a. m., on above date.
5 o'oo"o"ao-YoTroTroTroTrB's mnnrtrt:
The woman who walked a thousand
miles to Had har husband most have bad
something in mind that she wasted to
say to him.
The winner in a political contest can
see the world is getting wiser.
DB.C. K. BRADY. Damt UTonntrtaUi. Pa.
Orncrs HoDRi- a. m. to S p. m.
' Any evenln br appointment.
ClUsetM--fconsTar. ttotoeaos. Ho. at X.
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Hear of Allen House
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Good Assortment of Wagons,
Sleigbs, Harness and
Whips ALWAYS ON HAND.
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