.t THE CITIZEN. rcnusnco ktcbt Wednesday aid Friday by tub cmzEjt ruBLHiirHo compart. Entered as second-class matter, at the post offlce, Ilonesdalo. Pa. B. B. HARDENBKKUH, - PRESIDENT W. W. WOOD. - - MANAGER AND SECY DIRECTORS ! c. n. DORrunoEs. m. n. aluch. REXBY WILSOW. e. d. iiabdehbebqii, W. W. WOOD. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 a tear, in advance FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909. February the Boss Month. February is the shortest month in the year's calendar, and winds up with a Sunday holiday at that, but into its twenty-four working days the church, society and politics are unusually well in. evidence. This month is the last of the present administration's lease of power and executive strenuosity, as Mr. Roosevelt gives way to President Taft on the 4th of March, and when the former again fills the public eye, it will be as it were through the small end of the tele scope, stalking lions and shooting ele phants and capturing rhinoceroses in the interior of Africa. Then on Tuesday last, the second, we had Candlemas day, and the prophetic weather vision of the groundhog, who according to the poet is accustomed at that time to Feel the vibrant stir of spring Run up and down his spine. Roll overtllke a hired man. Sit up and yawn and whine; Rub all his knuckles In his eyes. Wind up his winter's snooze. Put on his go-to-meetln' clothes And patent leather shoes. Ascend the stairway of his lair. od serve tne sKy awnue And loin the Ananias Club Id fine and dandy style. According to the scriptures, forty days after the birth of Christ the Virgin Mary took the infant Jesus to the temple and Simeon took the child in his arms and prophesied that he "should be a light unto the Gentiles and the glory of Isra el." Taking Christmas as the birthday of Christ, the day he was brought to the temple would have been Feb. 2d. Tho church cliOBe to celebrate this temple visit rather than keep a heathen god dess's festival. The new feast day was variously called St. Simeon's day, Wives' feast day, Presentation day, Purification day and Christ's Presentation. Gradual Iy these were superseded by the name which yet prevails in Catholic and Epis copalian communities, which is Candle mas day. -Next Wednesday the vote of the elect oral college will be formally opened at a joint session of both Houses of Con gress, and it will be found that 321 votes were cast' for Taft and 8herman, and 162 for Bryan and Kern. Then on Friday, the 12th, conies the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great Emancipator, Abraham Lin .coin, a day that will be observed -with appropriate demonstrations and cere monies throughout the length and breadth of the land. St. Valentine's Day will come on the 14th, and by the young people at least it will be regarded as the biggest day of the month. Safe to say it won't be the most popular with .the postofiice of' flcials unless methods of delivery and sale of penny stamps and cancellation of 'same have changed greatly since the writer was a deputy of Uncle Sam's But it is a day which affords Jack an opportunity to assure Joan that he de sires her to he ms valentine in some such declaration as this "This Is the day birds cbooso their mates a cnoose you, n not too late ; It too late; and all In vain. Pray send me back my love again." Truth to tell, it is also a day too often improved by the jealous and evil-dispos ed and vulgar to inflict upon their bet ters insulting so-called "comic" mon strosities, which by rights ought to sub ject them to arrest for violation of tho postal laws. And then, on the 22d, the day of days will come when everyone will try to honor most the name of him who never' told a lie. The day on which if we may place full confidence in the Ganderbone Soothsayer of the Harrisburg Telegraph T. R. will take a cherry tree and drag it through tho aisles of Congress till the country whoops and even Congress smiles ; and having surfeited himself with this amusing skit, he'll canter Till man out and run him up and down a bit. At night the Ananias Club will burgeon with a ball, and all the liars will disport and frolic in the hall. The cheer ful liar will consort and mingle with tho plain, the unpremeditated type will trip to the refrain, the willful liar will essay the Merry Widow waltz, tho suave in fernal liar will be welcomed for his faults the artful liar will consign the truth to utter Hades, and the droll dam liar will delight the none too squeamish ladies, Finally Ash Wednesday, on the 24th will round out the notable days of the eventful little month. LINCOLN SAID t Do not worry, eat three square meals a day, say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good steer clear of biliousness, exercise, low and go easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case re quirts to make you happy, but, my mend, these I reckon will give you good lift. DR.C, It. BRADY, Dentist Itonesdalo, Pa Any evening by appointment. Cltlteni'phons. 33, Residence. No. 80 urrica uoubi s a. m. to o p. m. X. Advertise in THE CITIZEN. Our National Family. When the constitution was adopted Uncle Sam's family numbered only four millions. To-day New York city alone has that number of inhabitants, whllo Uncle Sam has now eighty-eight million' children.; eight million step-children in the Philippines and about one million in Porto Rico. This time to-morrow you can safely say you have four thousand more national relations than you have now; a month from to-day you willbavo one hundred' and twenty thousand more and a year hence one and a quarter mil lions additional. We have eight liundred and forty one million acres to take care of this constantly increasing family. 700,000,000 of dollars is destroyed an nually by hostile insects nnd plants. Instead of fighting Japan or any other nation, we must fight these hostile in sects and plants and also learn how to get greater results out of mother earth. We must pay more attention to the science of farming and the time is com ing when the intelligent farmer is going to be one of the most important person ages in our country and is going to have the most profitable occupation in exis tence. The day is coming and coming quickly when the tide will turn and 'back to the farm," will be the slogan. A change in the Pennsylvania State corporation tax year so that it will con form to the calendar year will be urged upon tho Legislature by State officials and attorneys for many corporations which are greatly inconvenienced by the antiquated system which is followed in Pennsylvania. Under a law passed in 1811 the capital stock tax year closes on the first Monday of November. The plan is to have it close on January 1, so that State tax can be levied for the calendar year instead of on the business of a twelvemonth which necessitates special work on books to ascertain. This plan was adopted in the last century so that when thu Legislature met on the first Tuesday in January, it could ascertain without much trouble the amount of revenue in sight. Now fhe corporation tax reaches millions, and it is of no par ticular advantage to have the year end a few weeks ahead of the calendar year. Efforts will also be made this session to create sentiment in favor of uniformity in fiscal years. The State appropriation year begins June 1, the fiscal year De cember 1, the loan tax year January 1, and so on down the lifct. New School Law. The proposed reform in the school laws of the State meets with the approval of the interested parties in some respects. The new law demands greater prepara tion on the part of the teacher and pro vides that the' teacher can teach but five years on a provisional certificate, after which they must secure a professional certificate or cease teaching. The pro fessional certificate is good for two years andat the end of that time they must appear before a State Board and take an examination for a permanent certifi cate. This examination will include all tho branches taught in the High School of the average grade. With this addi tional preparation and expense there is no assurance to the teachers that they will not be removed to suit the whim of the School Boards, even though they aro giving goou service ana their con duct is. that becoming a teacher. It be hooves the teachers to make some effort to secure recognition on this point before the Legislature acts ontherecommenda tions of tho committee. It is possible that the teachers of Wayne county will have a representative present to look after their interest on the above point. The proposition to elect five directors for five years is beingcensured in many localities the objection to this point is that should a number of unscrupulous men get charge of the Board it would be impossible to get rid of them, as but one director a year is to be elected and he would be placed in such a position that he would be compelled to line up with the gang Report of the Needlework Guild. The annual report of the Honesdale Branch of tho Needlework Guild of America for the year 1008, is as follows . Number of garments contributed, for men, 13; boys, 87; infants, 0; women, 130 ; girls, 108 ; miscellaneous, 01 ; extra, 12; total, 420. Distributed to local char ities, 369 ; reserve, 57. This report closes the 16th year of the Honesdale Branch of the Needlework Guild. " In the last ten years, while we have not increased in numbers, we feel that we have progressed in methods and interest. During tills fall, there has been an unusual amount of sickness among the poor, and it has been the good fort' une of the Guild to have on hand gar ments, towels, blankets and other bed ding that havo helped to make them more comfortablo. This, however, has greatly les'scned our resources so that we are unable to contribute, as usual, to tho consumptive hospital. As these hospitals depend upon charity for their supply of clothing, wo can only hopo that other Guilds havo been able to send in a larger number. The number of families on our list this year is 38, to whom wo have sent 373 garments, and havo in reserve 67. The Guild reports with sonow the passing away of one faithful director, Mrs, E. B. Tears. Election resulted as follows : Mrs. W. B, Holmes, President; Mrs. H. T. Men n!r, Secretary ; Mrs. D. B, Long, Treat urer. Respectfully submitted, M. T. Mbnnbr, Sacrstary, FAMOUS GLOVES. Treasures Preserved In Museums and Once Worn by Royalty. BOTH RARE AfliT INTERESTING Descriptions of Valuable Specimens. Queen Elizabeth' Pride of Her Hands Gloves Left as Tokens by Mary, Queen of Scots. . Gloves with Jewels set In the center of the back, according to Planche, were a mark of royalty. Among the New Year's presents to tho Princess Mary, afterward Queen Mary, "a payr of gloves cmbrawret with gold" (privy purse expenses of the Princess Mary) Is entered. A year nfterward it is "X payr of Spaynisbc gloves from a duches In Spayne," and but n month before Mrs. Whellcrs had sent to her highness "a pair of swete gloves" perfumed gloves, which ap pear constantly In Queen Elizabeth's inventories and accounts. Tho cuff of one of Lord Darnley's gloves, which Is snld to have been worked for him by Mnry Stunrt about tho time of their marriage, was ex hibited nt Glasgow in 1888 nnd nt Lon don In 18&). The cuff, of which the fellow is lost, its well ns the gloves they ornamented, Is of white satin em broidered with gold nnd silver thread and worked with roses, tulips nnd oth er devices in colored silks. The col ors, especially of tho tulips, which fig ure prominently In the deslpn nre very brilliant nnd remarkably well pre served. Mary, queen of Scots, like Lady Jnne Grey, is said to have left a pair of gloves as a token. Hers were given to a ccrtnln Mr. Dayrell, and one of these gloves is at present kept in the small local museum at Saffron Wnlden, England. This curiously embroidered glovo was presented by the unfortu nate queen on the morning of her exe cution to a gentleman of the Dayrell family, who was in attendance upon her nt Fotherlngay castlo on that oc- QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GLOVES. caslon, Feb. 8, 1587. The glove, which Is of n piece with the rest of her care fully stndled dress upon that memora ble scene, Is of light, cool, buff colored leather, the elaborate embroidery on the. gauntlet being worked with silver wire and Bilk of various -colors. The roses are of pale and dark blue and two shades of a very pale crimson. Elizabeth was,, we know, very proud of her hands. Indeed, her long bands with their pointed fingers are arranged with studied elegance nnd somewhat artificially in almost every one of her portraits, as in that of her with the "Rainbow," by Zucchero. Du Maurler In his "Meraolres pour Servir a l'His toire do Hollando" writes how he had heard from his father "that, having been sent to her, at every audience he had with her majesty she pulled off her gloves more than n hundred times to display her bands, which indeed were very beautiful nnd very white." In the Bodleian "glove the thumb is five Inches long, the palm three and a half fuches iu width, and the entire glove Is close on half a yard long, which does not accord with the evi dence of her majesty's portraits. The gloves of that period, however, have In most cases a large and splayed out line. Queen Elizabeth's glove Is of ex cellent material, a very fine white leather worked with gold thread and purl embroidery, edged at the bottom with yellow and lined In tho cuff with drab silk. Fads Shown In Phone Calls. Women with tho telephone habit would keep more careful guard over the little lists of names and numbers that usually He closo beside their In struments If they realized how clear a story these lists can tell to a curious and analytical observer. "It was a German writer who said, 'You can Judgo a man by what he laughs at,' " remarked one of the Inqulsltlvo'brlgade of drawing room philosophers recent ly, "nnd today nothing Is easier than to judge a woman by the persons she talks to over the telephone. Just take a glance nt the lists of your friends. You will find tbo timorous old maid hns the police nnd fire departments nt tho head, followed by one or two doc tors nnd druggists. No such names figure on the card of the bachelor girl. Many of her calls are for men friends and girls in other studio apartments, and if you look far enough you nre suro to find ono number that connects with n delicatessen or a grocery store In the neighborhood. Tbo girl with frivolous tastes and plcntyof tlmo in which to indulge them has most to say to tho modistes and tbo dry goods stores, whllo the business woman's calls will all center round tho neigh borhood or tho persons among whom her work lies. If a man looked over his flanceo's telephone list before bis marriago he often would have a much clearer idea of what to expect after that event." Novel Us For Pincushions. In some parts of Holland a silk plu cushion on the doorknob proclaims a birth. If the pincushion Is red, the Imby is a boy; if white, a girl. RAINFALL AT DYBERRY. JANUARY. Inches. 3.35 2.00 5.05 1909, 11 days, and trace 11. days, 1908, C days and trace 10 days, 4 rtrn 11 .11.. . johz, Ai aays, most recorded, 1872, least recorded: 0.50 3.00 Averaeo 39 venra. iuuu, snow o days, and trace 0 days, 12. 1908, " 3 f' " 11 12. 1882, snow, most, 9 stormB, 35. 1872, snow, least, 3.5 Average snow, 49 years, 15. JANUARY TEMPERATURE, Degrees. 23th, 1909, highest, 21st, 1908, highest, 21st, 1900, highhest 44 years, 19th, 1909, lowest, below zero, 31st,. 1008. lowest, below zero, 30th, '73, Ioweat49 years, below z., 20th, 1009, greatest range, 48. 45. 04. -14. -15. --32. 30. 37. 4. 2. 17.3 40. , 35. iitn, iwu, greatest range, 26th, 1909, least range, iztn, iwa, least range, 1909. average ranee. 24th, 1909. warmest day, mean, 12th, 22d, '08, warmest days, mean 19th, 1909, coldest dav. mean. 3. 1. 30th, 1908,coldestday, mean below z 1909, mean for month, 23.5 1908, mean for month, 20. 1890, mean for month, highest, 31.0 1893, mean for month, lowest. 14.1 Average 44 years, 21.1 Two days were clear. 13 fair and 10 cloudy ; average 20 per cent, of sunshine last year, 4. l'revauing wind north west, tour days were zero to 14 degrees below. Last year, in January, six days zero to 15 below. We havo had six weeks of good sleigh ing on most of our roads, with a total of 37.5 inches of snow measured at this station ; last year 45.5 inches. THEODOJtE DAY. Dyberry, Feb. 1, 1008. BOILERS INSPECTED. I have been authorized by tlie Pennsyl vania State Factory Inspection Depart ment to inspect boilers. In compliance with the law, all users of high pressure boilers used for power or heating purposes arc compelled to have boilers inspected once each year. Rates : $5.00 per boiler, and transpor tation. C. E. GIBBS 1129 Main Street - - Honesdale, Pa. P. S. Attention given to engine and general machine work. lOeoitf . Honesdale bixth Statement. RESOURCES Loans Stocks, Bonds and Mortgages.. . Real Estate, Furniture and Fix tures Legal Reserve Fund, Cash , etc . . Overdrafts? OFFICERS; E. C. MUMFORD, President. W. F. RIEFLEIt, Vice President. JOS. A. FISCH, Cashier. Total Assets Over Half a Million. 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You will find the great and the almost great, the famous and sometimes infamous, described In HUMAN LIF15. witli a knowl edge of their little humanities that Is engrossing, HUMAN LIFE has n peculiar style and method of Its own, which gets the reader Into Intimate relation with the subject written about. It may bo said here, on these pages, you almost meet the people. You get them at close range, off tho stage," as it were; you see all their little mannerisms and pecu liarities, and you hear them tell good anec dotes) you laugh with them, you find out about their homes and bobbies and children and better halves." LET US TAKE CARB OF YOUR EYES? It will pay you to call at the finely equipped GOLDEN'S OPTICAL PARLORS 11 South Main St.. CABBONDALE. PA OLL of HONOR Attention is called to the STRENGTH of the . Wayne County The FINANCIER of New York City has published a ROLL OK HONOR of the 11,470 State Hanks nnd Trust Companies of United Stales. In this list the WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS RANK Stands 38th in the United States. Stands lOtli in Pennsylvania. Stands FIRST in Wayne County. Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00 Total ASSETS, $2,733,000.00 Honesdale, Pa., May 20, 1008. E BANK Organized 1906 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $ 75,000.00 Surpluss, Earned 28,103.08 Deposits 408,903.51 Cashier's Checks Outstanding... 10.00 $ 512,016.59 DIRECTORS: w. n. KHANTZ 1SENJ. K. HAINKK V. K. HKII'I.Hlt W. K. PICIIIIA.U .TOKI.G.HlLr, KKANK STKINMAK 11.11. ELY. M.I). in Six Months $68,247.57 Delaico Patterson Ruuall Among the well known writers of the day who contrlbuto to HUMAN LIFB ore Charles Udward llussell, Vance Thompson. Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, Iilbert Hubbard, Ilrand Whltloclc. David Hclasco, Clara Morrln. Ada Patterson, Lnurn Jean Libby, Nanon Tobey and many others. 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