FARM'S FUTURE.
With the aid of the President of
the United States it has been de
termined through a learned com
mission that the lot of the farmer,
and especially the lot of the farm
er's wife, Is an unhappy one.
The commission finds that the
average farmer Is unhappy; that
his wife is lonesome; that his sons
do not want to stay on the farm
because the district school teaches
, him that he should go to the city;
that "hired help" cannot be de
pended upon to work from "up to
down" as regulated by the sun, and
that the man who rents a farm Is
constantly moving in search of a
better lease.
Unfortunately, we are afraid that
all of this is true. But we fall to
see how the Government Is going
to regulate It, even with the ap
propriation of 125,000, as suggest
ed by the President in his message.
There are many excellent recom
mendations in the report of the
commission things which the Gov
ernment would do well to look af
ter at some time when it has finish
ed with appropriation bills. But the
scope of the present Inquiry was
too great. You cannot legislate the
farmer into happiness any more than
you can legislate the city "dude"
Into a "hired man" on a farm.
What is needed is a means to
make the farmer recognize his own
dignity his own position as a land
holder and a producer of wealth,
and his own dignity as one of the
most important factors not only
In his own community, but in the
world.
The curse of the farm in the
past has been Its poverty. Ignor
ance has been the principal cause of
that Ignorance and shiftlessness.
We can scarcely blame the boy,
raised on a farm, with no pleasures
allowed; with nothing save hard
work from sunrise to sunset; with
no money for his youthful pleasures
no "store clothes," no shoe pol
ish if he prefers to go to the city
of which he reads and earn money
which is his own and which he can
spend In any way that he chooses.
Some farmers make hard fathers.
Their life is hard and they forget
that if they want the boy to stay
on the farm they should interest
him in the business of running it
and give him a share In its profits
no matter how small.
Every boy has his period of
gypsy longing his desire for the
gaudy things of life his desire to
scatter the "wild oats" while the
soil is ripe for the crop. Fathers
in contact with the world recognize
that fact, but the fathers on the
farms are too far away from the
world and they blame the boy who
is forced to leave them forever in
order to have the little temporary
fling which his heart craves.
Our race has cause to rejoice be
cause of the fact that it Is usually
the boys who would not make good
farmers who are most certain to
break the leash and run to the
city. The good, steady boy will
usually remain under the parental
restraint no matter how harsh
or at least he will come back home
after a little while and take up his
work again.
This, however, is mainly a mat
ter of temperament, and many a
man who would have made a fine
farmer is wasting his life as a bar
keeper, or clerk in a dry goods
store.
As the President says, one of the
greatest needs of the farm Is social
billty. We might add to that
"less work."
There is no life more Ideal than
the life of a prosperous and liberal
minded farmer. There is no life
more narrow and more prison-like
than that of the farmer who is both
narrow-minded and short of money.
We are glad to see provision made
in the recommendations of the
committee for a change In the usu
al style of education in the country
schools. What is needed there is a
course of instruction along lines
which will lead the boy to the am
bition to become a successful farm
er rather than a successful business
man in a great city.
What Is needed there is a train
ing which will make the farmer's
daughter willing and glad to be a
farmer's wife rather than to ad
venture Into the city with the idea
of wearing fine clothes at a price
which she cannot reckon and end
ing In rags bedraggled by worse
than mud. What is needed there
also is a course of education which
will fit the farmer's boy and girl for
work In their own community.
The city boy In his city school
might profit by the same line of
education, but It is scarcely avail
able. The country boy not only de
serves, but should have this educa
catlon, and the farmer who sup
ports his own schools Is In a posi
tion to demand that he should
have It.
When the boys and girls of the
farmers are brought up along the
proper lines are willing to remain
farmers thero will not be anything
to deplore in the line of social con
ditions because they will create a
country society for themselves.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
SPARE IE BIRDS!
What the Audubon Socie
ties are Doing.
MISSDICKINSON.SSTIRRINGPLEA.
A General Movement for the Preven
tion of Bird Slaughter Women
Pledge Themselves Never
Again to Wear Bird
Plumage.
At the time of year when the birds
are coming back to their northern
nesting home and the time also
when so large a number of Scranton
dwellers are preparing to depart for
their Summer homes In all tho re
gion round about us through which
the Lackawanna railroad and the
Northern Electric gives easy access
for the suburban dweller and the
vacation seeker it is eminently
timely to call attention to the pres
ent day efforts of the Audubon so
cieties for the protection of the birds
and the education of the American
public to that end.
What they are doing, and what
they are telling land owners of all
kinds in rural and semi-urban dis
tricts, concerns city dwellers also;
particularly In every community
that has any aspirations whatever
towards becoming "a city beauti
ful." Before quoting from the 1909 cir
cular of the New York Audubon so
ciety, which is apparently the most
wideawake one of them all, let me
first call attention to the New York
Independent's record of the fact that
In France the protection of birds
has, happily, passed over into the
hands of women; that they are
forming organizations all through
the rural districts; that every club
woman pledges herself never to
wear bird plumage; but, on the con
trary, to provide food and shelter
and drink for the birds; and in every
way to count winged friends as
members of her family.
The New York Independent com
ments: "Woman heretofore has been
the chief enemy of the birds, and it
stands to reason that she should now
make compensation, as their efficient
friend. The women of America
will do well to imitate the women of
France and take bird protection Into
their special care."
The New York Audubon society
makes it known that it has initiated
measures to establish an interna
tional agreement that will suppress
the trade in bird feathers throughout
civilized countries preventing the
passage through custom houses of
the plumage of beneficent wild birds.
It is a satisfactory first step that
has withdrawn the protection of law
from the slaughterers of the egret
or heron of the South who used to
kill them off In the breeding season
to procure their snowy breast plum
age (worn by them only then), while
the young birds were left in the
nests to perish.
The New York society proposes
also to begin this season a general
movement for the better care of the
migrating song birds coming north
to raise their families. Their cir
culars suggest the planting of vibur
nums, dogwood, mulberry bushes,
woodbine, mountain ash, and such
other bushes and vines and trees
as supply the most food for the bird
we desire to encourage. They urge
that this work shall be taken up
systematically by owners of homes
and of land throughout all the birds'
summer country. "Nesting boxes,"
they say, "should be put up for
wrens and warblers; cotton waste
and similar material supplied for
orioles' nests. Swallows, because
they destroy moths and mosquitoes,
should particularly be encourged by
leaving for their use heaps of mois
tened clay. Martins and thrushes
like the nesting boxes also as well
as they do the hollows of trees"
which last are by no means abundant
In this ear of forest, farm woodland,
and homestead grove destruction.
Returning to the New York Inde
pendent's comments on the Audubon
society's circular it points to the fact
that while everybody is busily prais
ing Luther Burbank for his evolu
tion of a few variations of plants and
flowers, the birds have been doing
such work on an immeasurably
greater scale throughout genera
tions. As it says, " it is certain
that a very large part of the evolu
tion of useful berries and fruits and
edible vegetation as well as beauti
ful trees has been brought about by
birds carrying the pollenized seeds
and planting them about the hillsides
and valleys," and "along the fence
corners In fields and by the road
side." Furthermore, the authorities on
bird life call to mind that it is not
simply the same species of birds,
but the same families and individu
als which return each Spring to the
homesteads and trees where' they
have aforetime found welcome and
protection.
Again: It Is strictly correct, as
urged, that the birds returning each
spring-time form the chief protection
of the farmer's crops, and of all the
trees, against every ktnd of insect
devourer and destroyer. "They con
stitute an invaluable asset in the
private affairs of every land owner,
as well as-ln the wealth of the whole
people. They oat the same fruit,
but they protect it also; and, while
they take some grain from the fields,
they do not waste by trampling
down; neither do they sting fruit
and grain for their eggs (as the in
sect tribes dq by wholesale); in
fact, they take no more than fair
wages, provided the wages are forth
coming." The Independent brings its article
to a close by suggesting that over
all the nesting states there shall be,
in this year of grace, 1909, a Bird
liay to be annually observed here
after when we feast them and re
new with them our treaties of alli
ance. Make the day early enough,
It urges, to Include the robins and
bluebirds, but late enough for cat
birds, grossbeaks and other late
Springs comers also.
The suggestion is a wise and splen
did one. Also, there Is no reason
why the dwellers In our Northeast
ern Pennsylvania farming region and
suburban home sections should wait
for people anywhere else to be in
the lead of them in Inaugurating
such a day.
Personally, I recall the circum
stance (which must be known to
many Scranton visitors to Southern
California) that, years ago, a few
wise and public-spirited families im
ported birds from far and near in
America, in Europe, in Asia, and
the islands of the sea where they
have multiplied and been protected
ever since, to tho immeasurable ad
vantage of Southern California
fruits and crops of every kind, and
the pleasure of residents and visitors.
Pennsylvania agricultural dis
tricts, Pennsylvania suburban resi
dents, Pennsylvania cities, towns and
villages that want trees in their resi
dence sections, have as great, or
greater need than Southern Cali
fornia to carry out the same course
of action.
THE FISH INDUSTRY.
Between three and four million
fish fry have been distributed dur
ing the past fortnight throughout
northeastern Pennsylvania from the
Pleasant Mount fish hatchery in
Wayne county. Each year the
hatchery produces about 3,000,000
brook trout fry, 4,000,000 yellow
perch, 2,000,000 pickerel, 1,000,000
catfish, 500,000 bull frogs, 250,000
black bass, 200,000 lake trout and
100,000 silver sided salmon. The
hatchery is In charge of N. R. Buller,
who has been employed by the gov
ernment in this capacity for a num
ber of years, and is thoroughly ex
perienced in fish breeding. In ship
ping the fry, ordinary milk cans are
used, 1,000 tiny fry being used in
each can in which the purest of wa
ter and large chunks of ice are plac
ed. The superintendent or an as
sistant accompanies each shipment,
and,, every twelve hours the water
and ice are replenished. Fishermen
have taken more interest than usual
this year In stocking the streams,
the drought last season having been
disastrous to the denizens of the
brooks.
Fish News.
An Important discovery has been
made by Commissioner of Fisheries
William E. Meehan of Pennsylvania,
that may result in the restocking of
the Delaware river with sturgeon, a
fish that was practically exterminated
20 years ago by the extensive fishing
done to satisfy the demand for "real"
Russian caviare, says the Philadel
phia Record. He has found, after
five years of investigation, that eggs
may be procured from small sturg
eon, of evidently immature growth,
and there are now 100 such eggs in
the State hatcheries at Torresdale.
Within a week, Mr. Meetyan expects
to have a million sturgeon eggs.
Years ago the Delaware was full of
sturgeon. A great industry grew up
around them, not because of their
flesh, although that is palatable, but
because of their roes, which were
used as caviare. Before 1890 much
of the so-called "Russian" caviare
was procured from the Delaware
sturgeon, shipped from here to Rus
sia, put up in Russian boxes with
Russian labels and sent back here as
Imported stuff. The fishermen were
so greedy that they practically ex
terminated the sturgeon. For a
while the fish Itself was a drug on
the market. So much of it came in
that it had no value. The flesh was
entirely subordinated to the roes.
Suddenly a scarcity came, because
no roes were left for breeding, and
since then sturgeon have been rare.
The price of a big sturgeon, 8 to 10
feet long, was ?10 in 1890; now It
Is from $100 to ?150.
Should Mr. Meehan's experiments
prove successful the Delaware will
once again teem with sturgeon. Tho
former waste, however, will not be
repeated, since the fish laws will pro
vide against this and the State fish
eries of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
will annually restock the river. Onco
the river is successfully stocked, there
can bo no extermination ub that pre
vious to 1890.
Another Job for the lU'Kiilutorn.
"I see where a scientific fellur says
there's a dark planet goln' to hit tho
sun an' end tho world," says tho man
on the cracker barrol.
"Huh!" observes tho man with his
heels on tho stovo. "I reckon wo
needn't bother much about that, I
spoko to our congressman about It
this mornln', an' ho'll Intorduco a
bill makln' such acta a vl'latlon of
lnterplannytary commorco."
CHEAPER AUTO
MOBILES. The doom of high automobile prices
has sounded. One can buy a better
car to-day for 31,600 than he could a
few years ago for $3,000. It is only a
matter of time nov until any man who
, can afforc to keop a horse can afford
to own an automobile.
HIS BIBLE.
-As Miss Vinton was carelessly
looking over the miscellaneous as
sortment of books and magazines In
tho little, low celllnged, second-hand
book shop Into which the sudden
autumn shower had driven her, her
sleeve happened to brush open the
cover of an old-fashioned Bible ly
ing on a pile of duBty almanacs. The
delicate, faded traceries of an In
scription on the yellow fly-leaf
caught her eye, and looking closer
she read:
"To my darling son, from his
loving mother."
"Oh!" she exclaimed with a
pained start, "how could anyone
part with It!" Then, as the bent,
gray figure "of the proprietor ap
proched, she closed the cover
quickly, reverently and said:
"Will you please do this up for
me?"
It seemed to her a wicked, shock
ing, needlessly cruel thing for any
one to do; to part with such a gift,
such a reminder of a dear mother.
The fine, faded handwriting called
up numberless memories, memories
of a happy home and a mother's
fondling care, and, as her thoughts
ran on, she wondered who was the
mother in this Instance and who
and where was the son who had
forgotten and so coldheartedly part
wlth this sacred token of mother
love.
The shower had passed and a
stray ray of sunshine came strag
gling through the transom above
tho door.. As she picked up her
bundle and turned to go, she ob
served a man watching her through
the window, with a peculiar eager,
covert look. Somewhat startled,
she nervously opened the door and
stepped out, casting a quick, com
prehensive glance at the figure now
lounging indifferently against the
building.
She noticed that he was a tall,
thin, broken-down man of, per
haps, 40, and that there was a hec
tic flush in his hollow cheeks. Thero
was something so pathetic, so ap
pealing in his weak Intellectual
face, that her feeling of uneasiness
gave away to a sense of sympathy
and pity and she wished that she
could assist him in some way, for
she could not help believing him to
be a gentleman.
On her return home she removed
the Bible from its wrappings with a
sort of indignant pity, and dream
ily turned the pages.
"Ah, he didn't forget," she mur
mured in a kind of sad pleasure as,
here and there through the book
she came upon verses containing the
word "mother" inclosed in broad
circles of Ink. She was sorry that
she had judged him so hastily and
so unkindly. Perhaps he was dead,
and his book had fallen Into care
less strangers' hands, and thus
found Its way to the old bookshop.
There were tears In her eyes as
she gently closed the Bible, and she
was glad that It had come into her
possession for she would preserve
and cherish it as something precious
and sacred.
One morning, about three months
later, she received a letter address
ed in a large, shaky masculine hand,
and, opening it quickly, she said:
"Doubtless you remember buying
an old Bible in a second-hand book
shop about three months ago. The
book was mine, a gift from my
mother, and I know that you will
understand how I value it.
"Hunger was the cause of my
parting with it, and each day I hop
ed to be able to get it back, but
luck was against me and then you
came and took It. I was at the
window and knew by your face why
you did It, and I bless you for it.
"With the Intention of buying it
from you, I got your address from
Mr. Dunn, the proprietor of the
store, but now I can never repay
you, for they tell me that I am dy
ing. "Would you mind sending It to
me? It cannot mean much to you,
but to me It Is everything."
"He wrote that letter three weeks
ago," said the white, capped nurse,
as she led Miss Vinton through the
long, bare hospital wards, "and ask
ed me to send It when we were sure
that the end was near."
When they reached his cot, the
nurse touched him lightly on the
shoulder, saying, gently:
"Here is someone to see you."
Ho opened his eyes, and smiling
his recognition, feebly held out his
poor, bony hands for the bundle
Miss Vinton carried, pressed against
her coat.
Bending down she pressed his
hand and laid the book upon his
arm.
With a look of the most grateful
happiness, and a force for which she
was entirely unprepared, he took the
Blblo and pressed It to his Hps and
breast, murmuring.
"Mother, dear, dear mother!"
For some time he lay silent with
his eyes shut, then a little contented
sigh escaped him, and he softly
Bald:
"You have been so kind to me,
that I want you to know that I was
a good man once; but after she
died I got into bad company, I lost
my money and finally took to drink
oh, it's the same old sorry and
there are hundreds like me; but I
was good while she lived."
Miss Vinton felt tho tears com
ing as she said:
"I might have done so much, If I
had only known."
He closed his eyes again, and she
could see his lips moving, the book
still tightly held against. his
breast.
She leaned toward him, and
caught the words, "I pray the
Lord my soul to keep."
It was a prayer learned, at his
mother's knee, and as he breathed
it, his face wore a look as peaceful
and Innocent as a little child's.
Tho nurse returned presently and
stopped beside the bed.
"Your mission is fulfilled," she
whispered gently. Boston Post.
The Old Reliable Headache Cure.
The patent medicine craze had a
firm hold on Its victims way back In
Queen Anne's time. In the current
Atlantic tho following advertisement
Is reprinted from Addison's Specta
tor: "A Treatise of the Hypochondrl
ack and Hysterlck Passions vulgarly
called the Hypo In Men and Vapours
In Women" was adverlsed, as well
as many nostrums of which the fol
lowing Is a typical notice:
The Vapours in Women infallibly
Cured in an Instant, so as never to
return again, by an admirable Chy
mlcnl Secret, a few drops of which
takes off a Fit in a Moment, dispels
Sadness, clears the Head, takes away
all Swimming, Giddiness, Dimness of
Sight, Flushings In the Face, &c, to
a Miracle, and most certainly pre
vents the Vapours returning again;
for by Rooting out the very Cause It
perfectly Cures as Hundreds have
experlenc'd: It . . . causes Liveli
ness and settled Health. Is sold
only at Mrs. Osborn's Toy-shop, at
the Rose and Crown under St. Dun
stan's Church In Fleet-street, at
2s. 6d. the Bottle, with directions.
Ancient Beauty Doctor.
It seems that the "Beauty Doctor"
Is by no means a modern Invention.
The current Atlantic cites an amus
ing advertisement to this effect
printed in Addison's Spectator.
The famous Bavarian Red Liquor:
Which gives such a delightful
blushing Colour to the Cheeks of
those that are White or Pale, that
It Is not to be distinguished from a
natural fine Complexion, nor perceiv
ed to be artificial by the nearest
Friend. Is nothing of Paint, or in
the least hurtful, but good in many
Cases to be taken Inwardly. It rend
ers the Face delightfully handsome
and beautiful; Is not subject to be
rubb'd off like Paint, therefore can
not be discovered by the nearest
Friend. It Is certainly the best Beau
tifler In the World. Is sold only at
Mr. Payn's Toy-shop at the Angel
and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard
near Cheapslde, at 3s. Gd. a Bottle,
with Directions.
New Answers to Old Questions.
"Is this a good ten-cent cigar?"
"No, sir. That cigar Is Connecti
cut filled and Wisconsin wrapped.
It's worse than a second. We
don't sell a decent cigar for ten
cents, because our trade Is mostly
transient and isn't worth holding.
We have a fair ten-cent cigar at
thirty-five cents or three for a dol
lar." Exchange.
Dr. C. It. BRADY, Dentist, Honcsdale. Pa,
Office Hours 8 n. m. to 5 p. ni.
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' phone, 33. Residence. No. 8C-X. '
H. C. HAND, President.
W. B. HOLMES, Vice Pres.
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of this Bank.
-THE-
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MAKING ALTOGETHER - - 455,000.00
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Its casli funds are protected by MODERN STEEL VAULTS.
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Hank's affairs by a notably able Hoard of Directors assures the patrons
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Total Assets,
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CHAS..T. SMITH,
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The modern burglar proof safe and Vault of this bank afford the greatest
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OFFICERS:
E. O. MUMFORD,
President.
W. F.
E. C. MUMFORD
THOMAS M. HANLEY
JACOH F. KATZ
E. V, PEN WAHDEN
BEACH HARGIS GUIIi'Y.
Goes to Prison For Life For Murder
of Ills Father.
IRVINE, Ky., April 20 On his
second trial for tho murder of his
father, Beach Hargls, was found
guilty, and the jury fixed his punish
ment at Imprisonment for life.
Young Hargls showed no emotion
when the verdict was rendered. Nei
ther did his mothor and sister, by
whom he sat.
Tho murder of Judge Hargls by his
son occurred In the judge's store at
Jackson, Breathitt county, Feb. 6,
1908. Beach went to the Hargls
store, where his father asked him
what he had been doing. It Is not
known what Beach answered, but
the two clinched.
In the struggle Beach shot his
father four times. The bullets' werb
fired through Beach's coat, he not
having had time, It is said, to draw
tne weapon. The pistol belonged to
the murdered father, having been,
taken from the store by young Har-'
gls. The boy's mother made every
effort to get his freedom.
The postage stamp made its first
appearance in 1839. Its invention
is due to James Chalmers, a printer
of Dundee, who died in 1863. Eng
land adopted the adhesive stamp, ac
cording to a decree of Dec. 21, 1839,
and Issued the first stamps for pub
lic use on May 6, 1840. A year later
they were Introduced In the United
States and Switzerland.
TUC PITI7CM Has made ar
InC. 01 1 I&UI1 rangements for
A FIVE MILE
FOOT
RACE
AFTER THE
MARATHON PLAN
WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON
Decor....,,. My 31
5 Handsome Gold and
Silver Medals will be
Awarded the Winners !
ENTRANCE FREEHS
To nil competitors living In the county,
exclusive of professionals ; entries to be
made ut anv time prior to May 20th.
ALL CONTESTANTS will be re
quired to submit to a physical examin
ation by competent physicians, to insuro
proper endurance condition for race.
FURTHER DETAILS Incluillne in
structions for proper training, will ap
pear In succeeding Issues of The Citizen.
CITIZEN JOB PRINT means STYLE,
QUALIT, and PROMPTNESS. Try it.
II. S. SALMON, Cashier
W. J. WARD, Ass't Cashier
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JOS. A.FISCH,
Cashier.
Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
W. H. KRANTZ
I5ENJ. F. HAINES
W. F. REIFLER
W. E. PE1U1AM
JOEL O.HILL
FltANK STEINMAN
H. H, ELY, M. D.