THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1000. POEM; NOTES BY C.M.BARNITZ MVEUSIDE CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Copyright, 1D03, by American Press Asso ciation. These articles and Illustrations must not be reprinted without special permission. 'f TOLD U SOI" There's an awful mean town I know Where tongues nro so long And wag very strong To say, "I told U so!" Long fingers there point In long row Oh, my, how sharp they nro! And, oh. they stick way out so far! To say, "I told U so!" Whatever comes to high or low, Those Angers point that way. Thoso wagging tongues are then in play To say, "I told U sol" And even noses turn up In a row, Those awful noses so keen, Thoso nasty noses turn up so mean, To say, "I told U sol" Cruel eyes peer round, above, below. Mean feet go sneaking round To see if somothlng can't be found To say, "I told U so!" It's not your lovely town, oh, no! No gossips there to jaw. No croakers there with voice so raw To say, "I told U so!" C. M. B. THE THIEVING OPOSSUM. If you And a furry animal, apparent ly dead, in your hencoop, and it has a pig head and ratty tall, don't shed tears, but "holler" for the gun or jump on it with both feet. It's an opossum "playln' possum" like you did when you trumped up a "dummy" ache to stay home from school. Kill it quick, pry open its big mouth and count the teeth. It has fifty more than a lion and when they snap on a chicken the jig's up. Allow this dull white creature to escape and you'll see some remarkable tree climbing stunts and witness acro batic feats as ho swings on his re tractile tail that would give 'Tolly of the Circus" vertigo. Cut off a bulldog's tail and he's more beautiful and valuable. Cut off a pos sum's tall and lie's N. O. That loop-the-loop tail Is a great con venience. When he snoozes, It's his auchor to the bough. He lets out a few kinks In his caudal appendage and snaps up the farmer's ancient rooster that snores in the sour IJ1M CKIUJV 'WJ - V - j asft TOE OPOSSUM AT WORK. apple tree or lets himself down to swing among the golden persimmons, which ho eats like a glutton. He arches that tail over his back and the little possums hook their tails to it and ride with more pleasure than a strap hunger on a street ear. Twelve young generally constitute a litter, one pair often raising three families a year. The mother, kangaroo-like, carries her offspring in a pouch, and she is sometimes found with newly born young in her cradle, while twelve live' ly youngsters of the first litter sport on her back. With so many a season and all nun gry for poultry and eggs you can easily see how detrimental one pair may be to a community. It is hunted for its flesh, fur and the penalty often im posed. They are easily trapped, and tceir capture always means a furry foe less and a good roast for dinner. DON'TS. Don't neglect to provide shade or your chickens will get sunstroke. Don't let your white show birds run In tho sun's hot glare. They will get brassy. Don't feed your pigeons much hemp They will get fat and lay Interfiles. Don't feed much corn in summer. It is a cholera breeder and fat pro ducer. Don't let your young turkeys have corn until they "shoot the red." It brings deadly liver trouble. Don't let young ducks sleep in the damp. They will get rheumatism. jjouc iet tne corncriD uoor open The geeso will gorge on corn and get too fat. Don't set the rat trap In an exposed place. Your hens will be crippled. Don't feed moldy corn. Your fowls will get mold disease. Don't let your chickens roost high, as they will bruise their feet and get corns. Don't let the chickens get tho plums that fall. A net under the trees and sou catch them all. For a Theme: HEARING AND DOING 4 fr By Rev. Horace Pell fr 4 4- Text: "Every one that hearth theso naylngs of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand." St. Matthew, vli. 26. , & 4? The Christian religion is not mere ly a philosophy. It is a divinely re vealed rule of life. Tho Church is not a university. It is a technical school. The function of the preacher is to teach men how to take the raw ma terial of life and build it into charac ter. In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ lays down tho great fundamental prin ciples which should guide His follow ers. Ho closes by telling His hear ers that those who not only bear His words but do them are like a wise man who built his house upon a rock. When "the rain descended, and tho floods came, and the winds blow, and beat upon that house" it stood. But those who hear without attempting to practice are like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. When the time of testing came his house fell. There are many such to-day, men and women whoso religion Is that of hearing only. There is a story told of a certain new farm band who was Instructed by his employer to feed his favorite horse some corn "on tho ear." Ho was discovered some hours later en deavoring to pour the grain into the ears of the unfortunate animal. Wo cannot get any vital religion through the ears only. The truths of Chris tianity must be digested and made a part of our very life before they can nourish ub. Tho only way to accom plish this is to practice them. Many Christians fall when temptation comes because they are only hearing Chris tians. They go to church regularly. They are familiar with the tenets of tho particular religious body to which they belong, but they have never prac ticed what they hear. They are like students at a technical school who have listened to many lectures about the general principles and tools of their trade, but have never actually taken those tools in .hand and experl mcnted with them. The man who thinks that merely hearing tho gospel preached makes him a Chilstlan and will bring him salvation has a bitter disappointment In store. St. James says, "Be ye doers of tho Word, and not bearers only, de ceiving your own selves." Hearing is Important as a first step. 'Faith com eth by hearing." Faith is important as a foundation. But "faith without works is dead." One cannot erect a substantial building without a good foundation, but how sad it is to see a strong foundation wtih no superstruc ture built thereon. Such a sight speaks of failure, of disappointed hopes. Many a man has been disap pointed in his religion because his Christianity has consisted of faith without works, foundation without a building, hearing without doing. Let us be practical. Do not be like the man who built his house upon tho sand. Join the ranks of the real dis ciples. Be learners. Handle the tools of your religion. Practise the cou structlon of character. Begin by put ting at least one principle of Christ!' anlty to use. Do at least one kind act each day. Try to conquer some one fault. Go to some Christian leader and ask him to allow you to help in his work. He will give you an oppor tunity. And as you become more fa miliar with the tools of your Christian profession God will set you harder tasks and will give you at the same tin e greater Joy in your religion. Your spiritual house will be founded upon a rock. Tender Sense of Suffering. Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid Stoic who had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense of pain beyond the common measure of humanity, but an example of a man like ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffer ing, and yet patiently endured the greatest Tillotson. By the Same Master. Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit: A principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master, tho root, the branch, tho fruits, the principles, tho conse quences. Pascal. Acting for Us. To reason against the necessity ot continual personal approach to God on the grounds that God needs no urg ing and is forever acting for us, Is simply to obliterate our souls, that one part of us which only a knowledge of God can fill. John Hamilton Thorn. Empty Hours Become Full. Seek God in those hours which hare appeared to you so empty, and they will become full to you; for He will Himself sustain you In them. Fene- Ion. Insincere Singers. A good many are singing about ly ing at His feet in order to get out oi walking In His footatecs. NEW SOAR NC FEAT Orville Wright's Promise to Break Record Kept. OES ABOUT SEVENTY MILES. Wilbur Says Brother Could Have Crossed English Channel From France and Sailed All the Way Back. Washington, July 21. Confidence In tho Wright brothers, which hud waned considerably through the tedium of their many delays and tho surpassing flights of Cnrtlss tind other aviators, Is again high today. In the future when the Wrights hint vaguely of feats to come the capital will keep Its ear to the ground and Its eyes on tho air. True to his promise of the dny be fore and establishing n new record for aviation In America, Orvllle Wright, in tho Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer. made a spectacular flight of one hour, twenty minutes and forty-live seconds' duration. The longest previous aero plane flight was of seventy-four min utes, made by Mr. Wright at Fort Myer last fall. The machine traveled a distance of about seventy miles, it was estimated by Wilbur Wright, and nt one time during the flight the height attained, between 2G0 nnd 280 feet, exceeded the highest point ever reached by a heavier than air machine on this conti nent. A thrill passed through the specta tors as the white flier, apparently be ginning to dive to the earth, would re gain its equilibrium and speed onward around the oval above the parade grounds. Then, after circling tho field forty- five times, the machine started cutting the "figure 8." When he had com pleted these clever maneuvers the avia tor started to make a showing in re gard to height. Slowly tho aeroplane rose to a higher altitude on each lap until it had soared to a distance of between G0 and 2S0 feet from the ground. At this altitude the machine flew half a dozen rounds nnd then gradually descended toward the earth. On the last lap before landing Mr Wright approached within twenty feet of tho earth nnd made n successful and easy landing after completing eighty-three rounds of tho field. Mr. Wright met every requirement set forth by the government except that of carrying one passenger and making the five mile straightaway run. Both of these requirements probably could have been met, but it is the in tention of the Wright brothers to get their machine In perfect condition be' fore attempting the official flights. Wilbur Wright, replying to a com mcnt that the flight would have cov ered the width of the English chan nel which Herbert Latham unsuccess fully attempted to cross, said it would have been possible for his brother to have crossed from Franco to England and to have returned to France again without landing. lie also remarked that it would have been easy to have continued the flight ns far as Baltl more. Sixteen Killed In Mine Disaster. Langendreer, Prussia, July 21. Six teen miners were killed by an explo sion of firedamp at Mansfield. Many others were taken out unconscious. Weather Probabilities. Fair: mild temperature; variable winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call, 2 per cent; time money and mercantile paper unchanged In rates. Closing prices ot stocks were: Atrial. Copper... S2 Norf. & West... 83 Atchison 116 B. & 0 120 Brooklyn R. T.. 78U Ches. & Ohio.... 79T4 C. ,C..C.&St.L.. 75 D. & H 193 Northwestern 184V. Penn. R. R, 13SVi Reading 156 Rock Island 36 St. Paul 156 Southern Pac... 134 Southern Ry.... 31 Erie 37 Gen. Electric. ...163 III. Central 155 Int.-Met 15 South. Ry. pf... 70 Sugar 127 Texas Pacific... 34 Louis. & Nash.. 142V. Union Paclflc..,19S Manhattan 146 Missouri Pac... 72 U. S. Steel 72 U. S. Steel pf...l27 N. Y, Central... .134 west, union.... ny, Market Reports. WHEAT Contract grade, fl.19al.20; Au gust, Jl.17al.lS. CORN July, 76a77c; August, 75a76c. OATS No. 2. white, natural, 66a57c, BUTTER Firm; receipts, 26,865 pack ages', creamery, specials, 27a27c; (offl clal 27c); extras, 26a77c; thirds to firsts 23a6c; state dairy, common to finest, 20a 26c; process, common to special, 19a24c. western, lactory, uazzc. CHEESE Higher; receipts, 11,667 boxes state, new, full cream, special, I4al5c. small, colored, fancy, 14c; large, colored. fancy, lie; small, wnite. fancy. 14c: com mon to good, 10al3c; skims, full to specials, zanuc. EGGS High grades firm; receipts, 22,113 cases: state, Pennsylvania ana nearby. hennery, white, 28a32c; gathered, white, 25a28c; hennery, brown and mixed, fancy, Z7a28c; gatnerea, brown, rair to prime, 23a26c; western, extra firsts, 23a24c; firsts, 21aSc; seconds, I9azic. POTATOES Easy ; No. 1, per bbl., J1.75 a2.23; common, jlal.EO; yams, Tilte, 4a6. LIVE POULTRY Weake, chickens broilers, per lb., 20a21c; fowls Cal6c, old roosters, 10c; turkeys, 1, : ducks. Ilal2c; geese, 8a9c. DRESSED POULTRY-Bteady Vollors, nearby, fancy, squab, per pair, lOaSOc. lbs. to pair, per lb., 25a30c; western, dry picKea, iBaznc; scaiaea, iBazKc: fowls, barrels, 16al7c; old roosters, 11c; spring ducks, nearby, 16al7c; squabs, white, per doz., f2a3.B0; frozen broilers, milk fed, fancy, per lb., 22a23c; corn fed, fancy, 18a 20c; roasting cmcxens, mine tea, Z3a2So. corn fed, lease; geese, no. i. loaiic. Farm and Garden TONIC 1NWILD CHERRY. Medicinal Qualities of the Bark of a Common Tree. Doctors and drug stores are not al ways accessible in the country. Even so, tho medicine chest in every home should contain a tonic. Most tonics are made from American medicinal books. Wild cherry bark is obtain able In nearly every part of the coun try. The tree range extends from Nova Scotia to Florida, westward to Texas and north through Oklahoma and in the southern portions of WILD CHERRY TRUNK (rBUNUS SCRCTINA). Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. The clusters of ilowers borne at tho ends of leafy branches are generally somewhat drooping and consist of many small, white, five petaled flow ers with nuuicrour yellow stamens, the clusters of white against the green background making it u rather at tractive tree. The cherries ripen about August or September and are globular, black or very dark purple. about the size of a pea, and have a sweet, somewhat astringent and bit tor taste. Tho wild cherry, which is a native of this country, belongs to the plum family. In commerce wild cherry bark Is usually found in curved or irregular pieces, the outer surface smooth and somewhat shining, of a light green or brownish green color, and showing numerous transverse, light colored Hues or grooves, or "lenticels," as they nro technically Known, 'rue inner surface is rust colored, marked with netlike grooves, or fissures. It breaks Willi a short, granular fracture. The taste is aromatic, astringent and pleas WIIiD AND antly bitter, reminding one somewhat of bitter almonds, as does the odor when the bark Is soaked In water. The bark, which Is oillcial In the United States pharmacopoeia, should be collected In autumn, as at that time It contains the greatest amount of hydrocyanic acid. The outside lay. er Is removed, so that the green layer underneath shows, and tho bark Is then carefully dried and preserved. Wild cherry bark should not be kept longer than a year, as It deteriorates wtih age. Tho bark from very small or very old branches should not bo used. Young, thin bark Is considered superior. Wild cherry bark Is used for Its tonic properties, and It also exerts a sedative action. To Prevent Potato Sprouting. Consul General Richard Guonthcr of Frankfort Veports that a German pub lication states that a new method for keeping potatoes and preventing sprouting consists In placing them on a layer of coke. Dr. Schiller of Bruns wick, who has published tho method, is of tho opinion that the Improved ventilation by means of coke Is not alono responsible for tho result, but believes that it Is duo to the oxidation of tho coke, which, however, is a very slow one, Coko always contains sul phur, nnd It Is very posslblo that the mlnuto quantities of oxides of carbon and sulphur, which result tym the oxidation, mixing with the im and penetrating among tho potatoes are sufficient to greatly retard sprouting. Potatoes so treated aro said to keep In good condition until tho following July. Cultivate the Apple. Apples do not grow without some thing to grow from. Tbey need moro in tho way of fertility than they can draw from tho sky or from tho tired and wornout soil. If theso ele ments aro not supplied tho trees re sent It by withholding their harvest CnERRY LEAVES, FLOWEES FRUITS. YOUR HARVEST of the savings in our bank is I nterest 'Good Interestfor the use of your money. Twice a year you reap the harvest on Ihc dollars you have plant ed here during that time. There is no safer soil than a bank, with ample resources and wise management; no surerer yield than the three per cent, interest we pay. Saving leads to success. Farmers' and Me- 1 r 1 cnamcy mm, Honesdale, Pa. If you don't insure with us, we both lose. I insurance White Wills Pa. TNTIIE DISTRICT COURT OK THE 1 UNITED STATES FOR THE MID DLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. No. llisTln llaiikrimti'v In the mutter of HI) WIN 1. l'KKNTICK, iiaiiKrupt, The undersigned. Trustee of K. I). Prentice. bankrupt, by order of the Bankrupt Court, will -elI at public sale at the Court House In Honesdale horoush. Pa., on Friday the Mthdayof.luly, 190U, at two o'clock, P. M, tne tollowinir ncscrl hea real estate: All that certain lot, parrel or piece of land situated m the boroush of Starriuva, County of Wayne and State ol Pennsylvania, hound ed and described as follows-COM M KXC1XG at a point in the center of the public highway in trout of tho store known as The Karrell store buililln, tifty reel distant from tho cen ter of the Coxtown creek : thence alonir the center ot the hinliway south sixty-live de crees west iiity reet to the center oi tne uox town creek: thence north forty-two decrees west down the center of said creek lifty-two leet to a corner in thecenterot saiu creeic: thence north seventy doLTeei east ois-iity feet to a corner forty one feet distant from tho place of bcKlnlii!;: thence south twenty de- dsrees eat forty-one feet to thecenterot said hluhwnv the nlace of hc'Innim?. CONTAIN ING more or less, on which there Is one story frame store bulldim; known as 'The Karrell store." lleini; same land which K. C. Mum- foru et al. granted and conveyed to li, u. Prentice by deed dated February 15. VMi, re corded in Waynu county In Deed Hook No. U7, pageOt etc. ALSO, all that certain pieco or parcel of land situated in the borough of Starrucca. County of Wayne, state of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: jlEUIN- N1NG In tho center of the highway leading from Starrucca to Lanesboroand In the line of W'.W. Mumford; thence mirth thirty-three and one-forth degrees west along tho center of said highway tlfty feet to a corner; thence north sixtv-three and one-half degrees cast along lands of J. C. Ilateson fifteen rods to corner and lino of j. r, Hyatt; thence soutn '25 and one-half degrees east along said J.1?11.",.11".0 Hft.y r?eM a cor"V,r n!Ml "I1.0 of v. W. Mumford: thence south sixty-three and one-half degrees west along said Mum- HiTTIHGER ford's lino fourteen rods and urteen links to uay, duiy r.ivv, iroiu one io mu the place of beginning. CONTAINING forty o'clock p. m., to vote for or against the perches of land more or less, on which there ,1rnnnR::nn 0 wiin ronpw nid pxtend Is a two store frame house and other Im- proposition to again renew anu exienu provements. It being the same piece ot land the charter, corporate rights and Iran deeded by J. C. Ilateson et ux. to the trustees chises of said bank for the term of of the First Haptlst church of Starrucca und recorueu in ino oince lor recoruing aeeus m the county of Wayne. Deed Hook No.HU. page 3U1. And belug the same land which the ruca conveyed to E. D. Prentice by deed dat ed February:?.). 1908. and recorded In Wayne rnnnrv in upon Hnni? iso. hn. natre Z4 i ere. i Sale of this real estate will be made free and clear of all lncumberances and leins. TEK.MS Or SALE, CASH, W. W. MUMFORD. Mumford, Atty. Trustee. Starrucca Pa.. July 3. im TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS JL OF WAYNE COUNTY Katie Dean v. Samuel Dean. No. 107 March Term 109. Libel In Divorce. To SAMUEL DEAN: You are hereby re quired to appear In the said Court on the second juouua; ;y of August next, to answer the complaint to the Judge of said court by Katie Dean, your wife, in tho cause above stated, or In default thereof a decree of ui- vorcoas prayed for In said complaint may DO maao against, you in i your uyseiice. M. LEE BHAMAN. . Simons, Att'y. Sheriff. Honesdnle. Pa. June 29, 1909. Mw4 AJtniVAIi AND DEPARTURE OP TRAINS Delaware & Hudson R. R. Trains leave at 6:65 a. m., and 12:25 and 4:30 p. m. Sundays at 11:05 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Trains arrive at 9:65 a. m., 3 16 and 7:31 p. m. Sundays at 10:15 a. m. and p. m. C:60 Erie R. R. Trains leave at 8:27 a. m. and 2:60 p. m. Sundays at 2:50 p. m. Trains arrive at 2:13 and 8:02 p. m. Sundays at 7:02 p. m. ROLL of HONOR Attention ia called to tne STRENGTH. of the Wayne County Tin. KINANCIKU of New York Cilv lias published a UOLL O HONOR of the 11,470 State Ranks and Trust Companies of United States. In this list the WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS HANK stands 38th in the United States Stands 10th in Pennsylvania. Stands FIRST in Wavne County. Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00 Ttai assets, $2,733,000.00- Honesdale. Pa., Slay 29 1908., NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. Now tice is hereby given that an appli cation will bo made to tho Governor ot tta Statu ot Pennsylvania, unon Friday. AueiuC. li. liWJ. by Geo. II. Lancaster, Mary 11. Urn caster. Oscar K. Lancaster and C. Evcrettr.- Lancaster, under the Act ot Assembly ot toe. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania entitled, "An Act to nrovldc for the IncorDoratlon and. regulation of ccrtalncorporattons,"approve&- VurlliM. lK74"and the Hiiniilnmenta thereto- ne for the charter of an intended corporation to. hnrilllpil "Thnfiwi II f 'inrMiatdi ??nnmnmr the character and object of which Is "Vast manufacturing and selling of building ma terial and anything In connection therewlttu and to conduct a general wood manufacturlnc and turning business." and for these purpos- es to have, possess and enjoy all tho rights',. ncneuts ana privileges or said AiriiiAwmik ly and Its supplements. A. T. SEAULK. Solicitor-.. Honesdale Pa. July U. 1909. otieoU Having purchased the interest of T. Ii. Medlniul, of Cnrbondulo, 1b the harness business of llctz & Mcdland of that city, tho business will bo conducted in tho future by C. M. Iletz alone, who will also con tinue 1 1 is store in Honesdale ns here tofore. In order to reduce stock;. reductions in prices will be mado on all goods. ISai'gains may bo found In both stores. Mr. Edward Fnsslmuer, who has been in tho Honesdale store about ten years as clerk, will have full charge of the Carbondnlo store. C. M. BETZ Manufacturer of Custom Harness Honesdale, Pa., April 10, 1909. Notice. Pursuant to Act of Assem bly, a meeting of the Stockholders of the Wayne County Savings Bank will be m it i.- u-i mi "l ",u",u,u "i "iu uiulK """"- twenty years, from February 17, 1910. liv order of the Ward ot Directors. II. S Salmon Cashier. 32eoIH Ponies and Carts Beautiful Shetland Ponies, handsome Carts, solid Gold Watches, Diamond Kings and other valuable presents given away. To Boys and Girls who win our PONEY AND CART CONTEST Open to all Boys and Girls, Costs nothtns to enter. Get enrolled at once. Hundreds at dollars worth of prizes and cash besides. EVERY CONTESTANT IS PAID CASH whether ho wins a grand prize or not. 1 Write us today for full particulars before It Is too lato. 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