LOTS OF TROUBLE
RAISING CHICKENS
In continuation of April 30th:
"Well, now, see here," continued the
wife, "wo have spent our money and
hero are our thtrty-flve chickens
and there is nothing left to cover
them, hut a little kindling wood. I
don't think that you ever studied the
personal characteristics of a poultry
man. Don't you remember when we
wore living on the farm, how you
kicked the poor hens around and
smeared the walls with the eggs
when they would not sit?" "Oh
yes, dear, hut you see these chickens
are getting cold; sit down and cover
them with your apron. It always
makes a man tired to hear women
talk on the poultry (liiestlon. They
want to raise poultry and they want
to vote and the poor man ho gets
the blame tor It all." "Yes, but sec
here, do you want me to sit here and
keep these chickens warm all day?"
"Well, wife, wo don't want to loose
the chickens and you are tlie only
brooder that I have just now. What
are wo going to do? We have spent
all of our money." "Well, seo here,
you go Into the kitchen and take
down my now wrapper and put on
that apron that I wear on Sunday
afternoons. Come right up here,
sit down on these chickens, and keep
them warm until 1 get a now brood
er," and away she went. "Gee wiz,
I have heard about a hen gathering
her chickens under her wing, but
the brooder factories never tell what
you would have to do In case your
brooder broke down. Theory is all
right, but you must hnve practice be
fore you undertake to go in the
poultry business. I have read jour
nal after journal but they never
gave any experience compared to
this. Oh, dear, its commencing to
rain and I am getting hungry. Hut
the calling down that my wife gave
me on how I acted on the farm this
time I will have to prove myself to
be a dutiful husband If I have to
sit here all night.
Oh, here she comes now. "I
thought you were going to bring a
brooder for these chicks. I have
been sitting here all day. "Yes,
dear I have a brooder coming from
the White Mills Incubator and Brood
er factory made to order. It is storm
proof, rain proof, and rat proof.
All right -Mr. Factoryman just leave
that brooder right hero and we will
report to you the result in a few
days. "You see Mister I was more
wide awake than my husband. I
took it on thirty days' trial. I will
take care of the brooder myself this
time. Men are foolish anyway; they
always smash everything to pieces if
things don't go to suit them. Now
you can talk about saving heat and
fuel all you want to, but, I am just
going to put this lamp in the brood
er with the little chicks and then
they will be able to see each other
and if they get hungry during the
night they will be able to eat and
drink." "Well, wife, I think you
have struck a great idea and before
long we will be classed with the
Vanderbilts and Rockafellows."
"Yes, I can see it coming but now
we are getting tired and I think that
we ought to go and take a little re
freshment and retire for the night."
"Well, wife, I don't think that I
will need any rocking to put me to
sleep to-night." "No, I don't think
that 1 will either if some of those
people that cannot sleep nights
would start in the chicken business
they would not have to take so many
sleeping powders." "Hark wife,
what is all that noise I hear, why
surely that sounds like the fire de
partment coming. Oh, dear, dear,
there goes my new invented brooder
all in a blaze. Save the young
chickens! If you can, help me to
put on my clothes. Get my stock
ings. Where did I put my shoes last
night? Dear, dear, I shall never be
able to get dressed." Fireman:
"Mister, get out here, your brooder
and chickens are all gone up in
smoke. Why don't you hatch your
chickens under hens. The blamed
brooders are given us more trouble
than all tho ordinary fires put to
gether." Looking out the window,
she said: "Well, here we are just
where we started, without a chick
or a child. Hurry up, do down and
tell Ham & Hittinger about the big
fire and say thirty-five lives perished
in tho ruins." Wife, "say Joe, don't
go hatching any lies to-night at the
White Mills Poultry club." "Oh, no,
dear, they are already out of tho
shell." The prepared sizes of eggs,
is to be six dollars and ten cents a
ton for May. Why don't they quote
the wholesale price per dozen and
let a poor man have a chance? The
ordinary housewife becomes alarm
ed when she finds blood spots within
the egg. Sometimes it is found on
the yolk and then again in the
white and the blame usually goes
to tho man that sold the eggs. They
are often times taken for stale, or
eggs that have started to Incubate.
If the blood spot is on tho yolk, then
it would bo an hemorrhage in the
ovary, and if In tho white then the
hemorrhage would have taken place
as the egg was passing through tho
oviduct, unless in very bad cases.
The spot can be removed and the
egg Is fit for use. I have know the
ordinary house wife to break five or
six eggs In a bowl and throw them
all away on account of ane little
blood spot. This is all unnecessary.
Tho next time that you have an egg
of this kind, study it, don't throw it
away as though it was a rattlesnake.
Merchants should not fall to ad
vertise in Tho Citizen.
9 THE HIGHER LIFE B
SArted Cm J TimAt (ran FlM u4 flW
of An fee
To bo a true Christian.
One who would bo a Christian
must not simply believe In God
much less any truth or dogma about
him; ho must love him, and, if ho
would attain a high degree of Chris
tian perfeotlon, ho must have tho
samo passion which characterized
Mary in this act of annotating.
Ilev. M. Edwards, Baptist.
Love ns a Weapon.
'Perfect love casteth out fear, be
cause fear hath torment.' It wor
ries us, causing fretting and anxiety,
because it keeps our thoughts cir
cling aroung self and self-interest.
There is no fear in love, because it
takes us out of ourselves and makes
us spend ourselves In tho service of
others. Itcv. M. Edwards, Baptist.
What Clirist Asks.
A surrendered heart makes music
in heaven. For God's gift to U3 ho
asks tho gift of ourself to Him.
Nothing loss will satisfy Him. By
His mercies Ho Is moving us to Him.
His every gift is a repetition of His
invitation. "My child, give Me thy
heart."
Just to be glad is praise. Rev. J.
B. Clark, Methodist.
Duty of Self-Concentration.
A life often falls to make a lasting
impression because of its diffusion.
What we call genius is frequently
only tho child of application. To at
tempt everything and to accomplish
nothing is a fatal folly. While wo
are striving to know something
about everything we must zealously
try to know everything about some
thing. Rev. EdW. Clark, Baptist.
Our Vain Seeking.
How unlike God we are. Wo have
not timo to enjoy to-day, because wo
are forever seeking to live to-morrow
in to-day. When our to-morrow
comes, we shall then fix our atten
tion on the succeeding day or days.
We try to express its joys, its sor
rows, and again and again wo tind
in this anticipated attitude the causo
of tho wrinkled brow, the apprehen
sive eye and the hesitating tone.
Rev. R. Boyd, Unitarian.
What Christ Suffered.
Wo know that Christ's was a sen
sitive nature, but this is not saying
that He was not brave. And there
is no reason to bellove that He, in
anticipation of His death, would
yield to the thought any more than
an ordinary man. So, therefore, be
cause He suffered "even unto
death," as He did, in the Garden of
Gcthsemane, is, in itself, an argu
ment that He was hearing more than
the anticipation. Rev. D. Anderson,
Baptist.
Equality for All. '
Oh, it does not matter much at
what degrees between tho Equator
and the Pole of earthly experiences
we have to pass our lives; when the
account comes to bo made up at last
we shall be all pretty much on an
equality. All earthly conditions
have nearly the samo quantity of the
raw material of pain and pleasure,
and the amount of either actually
experienced by us depends not on
where we are, but on what wo are.
Christian Herald.
Mystifying the Public.
Mesmerist, astrologer, sorcerer,
mind-reader, medium whatever tho
title of the panacea or the platitude,
there is always a considerable per
centage of the community that loves
to be mystified or fuddled with long
words, and there are always quacks
ready to gypsy a shilling by strok
ing tho large bump of guillibiJIty
creeping into houses to lead cap
tive silly women (as Paul saya)
and, we may add, sillier men. Rev.
D. Anderson, Baptist.
The Ritualistic Tendency.
Tho Puritan simplicity in public
worship, a simplicity so rigid and
severe as to be a trial to sinners and
an net of penance on the part of
saints, was but a recoil from Roman
ist mummeries, and like all recoils
went to the other extreme. For
some years the pendulum has bsen
swinging in the contrary direction,
until ritualizing tendencies are ap
pearing in churches whose denomi
national lineage would seem to point
them otherwise. Rev. H. P. Dewoy,
Presbyterian.
How we Should I.ove.
"Fatherly lovo carrie-s with it the
brotherly love. John affirms that
love is not lovo when It is set only
upon God the Father and restrained
from our brothers. 'He that loveth
not his brother knoweth not God.'
when our lovo to God and to our
brother has grown into full strength
it proves a splendid power in our
lives, elevating us to meet all occa
sions, freeing us from all fear, giv
ing us grand inspirations and even
making us bold to meet the test of
Judgment day. James Block, Con
gregatlonallst. Trusting Ourselves.
To trust to one's self alone, how
ever resolute, la to lean on a broken
reed. Tho faith which, above all
insure tho victory is faith in God.
Do not leave him out of the reckon
ing. To have such a patron is to
make Dure of buoooss, for he has in
finite resourcee. To havo such
"backine" is to laugh at difficulty,
for Omnipotence in behind us. If
God be for us, who can bo against
us? "By my God have I leaped over
a wall!" said David, reviewing his
part in the Biege of Jebns, when he
climbed tho ramparts with a prayer
on his Hp Rev. F. Willis, Reformed.
STEEL MILLS POINT
TO PROSPERITY
Great Activity Shown in Factories at
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, May 9. Greater in
dustrial prosperity than at any time
since the depression of 1907 Is fore
cast by tho Increased activity In the
Western Pennsylvania steel mills.
Especially is this true of tho plants
of the United States Steel Corpora
tion. The Homestead plant of the
Carnegie Steel Company Is working
75 per cent, of Its full capacity,
double turn, only three out of thirty-three
mills being idle and about
400 men being given regular em
ployment. To supply this plant
with metal, the Edgar Thompson
furnaces, at Braddock, are each em
ploying 105 men on double turn.
Eight of the eleven furnaces are in
blast.
Great activity also is being dis
played at the works of the National
Tube Company, In McKeesport; the
W. Dowees Wood Department of tho
American Sheet Steel Company, of
the same place; the Duquesne Works
of the Steel Corporation; the Port
Vuo plant, of the McKeesport Tin
Plant Company, the Glassport plant
of the Pittsburg Steel Foundry Corn
puny and many other firms.
According to well-informed sources
the Jones & Laughlhi Steel company
will again invade the field of the
United States Steel Corporation by
erecting a large tin plate mill at
Aliquippa.
When the big independent con
cern recently issued $15,000,000
worth of bonds and announced that
all the proceeds would not bo used
in the iron furnaces at Aliquippa, It
caused speculation. When Bert Ross,
superintendent of the corporation's
Green Tin .Mill, at New Castlp, re
signed to take a position witli Jones
& Laughlln, it became almost a cer
ainty that the new tin mill will be
started soon.
COMING; SKAT CONGRESS
IN MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Five Thousand Players to Participate
$10,000 in Cash Prizes to be
Distributed.
Since the last annual tourney of
the North America Skat League, the
Honesdale Skat Club, as one of the
subordinate branches of the organi
zation, have had their constitution
by-laws, and the rules governing con
tests neatly printed in pamphlet
form, and the members are keeping
up their regular practice, with a
view, doubtless, to making a good
showing at the next national Con
gress to be held in Milwaukee, Wis.,
from June 19th to the 21st. In re
cent tournaments our players have
made very creditable records, and
they have the best wishes of The
Citizen for their success in carrying
off the main prize in the coming
contest.
Ten years ago skat was practically
unknown except among the Germans
and those of German parentage. To
day skat is one of the most popular
card games played in this country
and counts among its devotees those
who have been more or less promi
nent in whist during the past decade.
Tho North American Skat League
was organized about twelve years
ago, but It was not until 1905 when
a national tournament in Milwaukee
brought out about 2,000 players, that
the real boom in skat began. Since
then the national congresses have
attracted large crowds, and it is con
fidently expected that over 5,000 will
attend the congress to be held this
year in Milwaukee.
To show the interest taken in this
game the first prize at the coming
tournament will be 51.000 in cash,
and it is expectea that 154 prizes,
aggregating nearly $10,000 in cash,
will be awarded. In addition to this
several thousand dollars will be ex
pended in the entertainment of
guests, which will embrace recep
tions, card parties, theater parties, a
visit to ono of the breweries and a
visit to Whitofish Bay, where music,
feasting and dancing will be on the
programme.
Persons who desire to participate
In the coming congress do not neces
sarily have to belong to any skat club
or organization, but are entitled to
play on payment of an entrance fee
of $5. A round trip fare of one and
one-half has been granted by the
Eastern and Western passenger as
sociations, tickets to be good for ten
days.
HE WAS A HERO.
After Suvlng Two Hoys from Death
Young: Man Loses His Ijife.
Memphis, Tenn., May 10. After
saving two boys from death by
drowning Augustus C. Anderson,
aged twenty-two, a theological stud
ent at the Mlllsaps college at Jack
son, Miss., sank in a heroic hut fu
tile effort to rescue a third who went
down with the young man. Mr. An
derson had taken a party of four
teen boys from the Methodist or
phanage on a picnic to the country
club lake and a boat containing eight
of the lads In which they were row
ing capsized. With the help of
those on shore five saved themselves,
while Anderson went to the rescue
of the three remaining. He got two
to the bank and went after Willie
Boyd, tho third, but was so wearied
by his exertions that he could not
shake oft tho boy's frantic grasp.
They were found clinging to each
other, and Anderson's shirt badly
torn by tho struggle.
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Paul's First Missionary Journey.
Iconlum and Lystra. Acts xlv:l-28.
Golden Text All the gods of the
nations are idols; but the Lord made
the heavens. Psalm 96:5.
Verses 1-2 Point out on the map
in your Bible where Iconlum is situ
ated. Can two missionaries working to
gether do more good than they could
working separately?
Has the story of Jesus lost or gain
ed, In its charm upon the multitude,
since that day?
Was the unbelief of these Jews a
matter of tho intellect, through lack
of evidence, or was it a matter of
the heart; that is, a result of their
rebellion against God?
Verses 3-7 How do you account for
the fact, that the same evidence, and
splrtual demonstration, which made
one part of the multitude turn to
God with gladness of heart, made the
other part angry In heart, and mur
derous In their actions? (This ques
tion Is to be answered in writing by
members of the club.)
Would you judge from this story,
that all the good peoplo were on the
side of the apostles, and all the bad
and dishonest people on the other
side?
Will a wise and brave man some
times run away from such danger
as threatened the apostles, or will he
always stay and face it?
The apostles flee1 to Lystra and
Derby; where are these places situ
ated? Verse 8 Is there ever any blame
to be attached to these who are born
with either physical or moral defects?
Are parents ever to bo blamed for
either physical or msral defects in
their children?
Are pre-natal influences as power
ful in shaping a child's destiny as
post-natal?
In our present national condition,
should the state provide for and main
tain all those who are born in an
impotent condition?
Verses 9-10 Is faith, like this man
had, possible for all, or Is it a gift
of God, the same as the resultant
grace and healing?
Was this a miracle, and whether or
not, does God intend to run this
world by law or by miracle?
Verses 11-13 What was the idea
that these people had of tho Deity?
How would It be likely that Barna
bas resembled Jupiter, and Paul Mer
cury to these people?
Is it a trait in human nature to be
lieve in somo popular superstition,
rather than in the plain truth of God?
Verses 14-15 If a man of God is
regarded in some superstitious way,
Is it his duty to administer a rebuke?
Havo the best of men got the samo
natural passions as the worst of men?
What comfort Is there to us in the
fact, that God made "tho heavens and
the earth?"
Verses 1G-18 Does God pay the
same attention to tho crops of the
sinner, as ho does to tho crops of a
saint?
Verses 19-20 Was It tho same peo
ple that stoned Paul, who before this
wanted to do sacrifice to him?
Can there be any reliance placed
upon tho applause of the multitude?
Verses 21-28 What kind of a man
Is he who, laid out for dead through
stoning, starts on his way the next
day preaching his story of mercy and
love?
Lesson for Sunday, May 23rd, 1909.
The Council at Jerusalem. Acts xv:
1.RK
The Butterfly's Eye Spots.
What do tho eye spots on butterflies'
wings mean? The naturalist, says Mr.
Percy Collins, must answer frankly, "I
do not know." It is thought that they
havo somo utilitarian application, and
they form ono of tho most intricate of
all natural designs. The fact that but.
terlllcs havo been captured with their
eye spots pierced, as if from attack of
birds, has been used as an argument in
favor of the view that they may bo
"protective markings," imitating eyes,
because birds strike at the eyes of
their victims. But this suggestion is
hardly regarded as satisfactory. Among
butterflies the most striking examples
of oyo spots are found on tho under
surface of tho wings. Youth's Companion.
FRANCE TO MAKE
FIGHT ON UNIONS
Clcmcnccnu is Spurred to Act by
King Edward's Criticism.
Paris, May 11. Premier Clemen
ceau has apparently taken the bit
in his teeth and has decided to
test the power of tho government
to put down the present "syndica
list" movement, so far as it affects
state employes, even If this Involves
the precipitation of the threatened
general strike. Dangerous signs are
manifest throughout tho country
and foreign as well as French ob
servers are of the opinion that the
belated determination of the gov
ernment to vindicate Its authority
comes none too soon.
The recent gigantic strides of
"syndicalism" and its arrogant at
titude, under the leadership of tho
General Federation of Labor, with
which the various classes of state
employes now insist upon nflillat
ing, menacing a general strike "for
the emancipation of the proletar
iat," lias created something ap
proaching a public panic. Judging
by the tone of the press and reso
lutions recently voted by provincial
councils, tho property interests of
tho country will unitedly support
any measures the government may
take, no matter how rigorous, whirli
would end the Intolerable agitation.
Since the visit of King Edward,
who, it is understood, let the Prem
ier see the anxiety existing nbroad
that Franco was drifting into a con
dition npproaehlng anarchy, M.
Clemenceau resolved to act. He
has proclaimed the government's
intention not to tolerate the right
of the servants to strike and has
begun preparations to meet a gen
eral strike. Regiments of trained
men are distributed at all tho dan
ger points.
As an answer to the premier 70,
000 employees have adopted resolu
tions threatening a strike. The
postal employees this evening de
cided to go out if a strike was call
ed. CITIZEN'S 5 MILE RACE.
In -hopes that every athlete will
read the following suggestions, they
are herein printed for their guid
ance. First, before competing, or even
entering upon the course of train
ing necessary to compete in this
event safely, each athlete is ad
vised to have his heart examined.
Second, not only should the athlete
have his arms and body covered in
his practice, but he should likewise
wear a loose fitting pair of long
woolen trousers, and he should have
his feet well protected, by strong
soles, from the pebbles and hard
road, and thus avoid bruises.
Willie the man running feels
warm, his arms and shoulders being
exposed to the cold air it is very
easy for him to contract rheuma
tism and colds, which will result
later in life in much pain and dis
comfort. The training should be started
with long walks at a rapid gait with
frequent jogs, and the distance of
tho jog should be gradually in
creased until by the 15 of May every
contestant can safely jog at about
two-thirds his best speed the full
course of five miles without great
Inconvenience. He should bo es
pecially suro to cover up warmly af
ter his work, and after his heart
and lungs have resumed their nor
mal rhythm, and his temperature
has become- normal, to bo rubbed
down in a warm room, free from
draughts, after which he should rest
in bed warmly covered up for at
least an hour.
Since the race is to be in the af
ternoon, the best time to train for
this race is at that hour.
Tobacco and liquor should be
avoided, as no man can get in his
best condition and partake of these
things; especially is this, true of the
young athlete who has not formed
the habit of depending upon these
stimulants.
A LUNCHEON
REVOLU i ION.
Russell Sage should havo a monu
ment erected to nimself by his widow.
The old miser educated all New York,
south of Fulton street, how to be ab
stemious. Ills midday luncheon
(when ho had to pay for It) was a
section of apple pie and a glass of
milk. On this repast he thrived, re
tained his health and waxed rich. No
corned beef and cabbage in "hisn."
No wines, no beer, no fat pastries,
nothing of the lleshpots. A million
young men aro now Imitating the old
man who spent $8 a year for clothes
and left $70,OUO,000 for his wife to
squander on people who used to damn
him as skinflint. Mrs. Sage is taxed
higher than any other woman In New
York, and she L- working overtime to
reduce her fortune.
Buttermilk for Babies.
A child, to be healthy through Ufa
should not receive a drop of medicine
during tho first year it spends on this
earth. Medicine, home-made or other
wise, should be kept away from baby
like so much poison.
All the ills to which a baby is sub
ject during the first year of its exist
ence can be cured by dieting, even
cases of intestinal catarrh.
If a bottle child suffers acutely from
stomach trouble, give it buttermilk.
In Holland they make a condensed
buttermilk that does excellent service
in saving babies from tho conse
auences of intestinal catarrh.
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1IAUVKY N. FAltliKY, lute of ISucklngham
township.
All persons Indebted to said estate aro noti
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duly attested, for settlement.
, JOSEPH V. FAIJM2Y, Adm.
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ESTATE OF
SAUAH A. GltOMLICH,
late of the township of Lake, Pa.
All persons indebted to said estate are not!
lied to make Immediate payment to theun
dersigncd ; and those having claims against
the said estate are notilled to present them
duly attested for settlement.
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Ariel, Pa.. April 12, 1U0U. 30
CM FIR SALE !
One of tho best equipped farms In Wayne
county-situated about threo miles Ir&m
Honesdale,
Everything llp-To-Dafe.S
Over $3,000.00
neen ex
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thO lllRt. fivi,
years In buildings, tools and Improvements.
165 iatfn
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