TUB CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1000.
Interesting,
if !Erno Funny, Any
how. .
Do you believe It Is bad luck to
kill a cat? Do .you think .your hair
will grow better IX you have It cut
when the moon Js full? Do you
dread sitting down at table with
twelve others? If you put your
night robo on wrong side out, do
you think that a good occasion to
wish?
If you do, or If .you have any one
of the thousand other superstitions
that have ever been heard of, you
are not alone in your belief. Pro
fessor F. B. Dresslar, who has Just
left the University of California for
the University of Alabama, finished
before he went away a series of ex
periments In which he put such ques
tions as these to 875 students in
Callfornlal normal schools. These
875 made 3,225 confessions of be
lief In different superstitions.
Of the students questioned about
80 per cent, were girls, but Profes
sor Dresslar says tne men oeneveu
In superstitions just about as much
as the women did.
All kinds of superstitions were
found by Professor Dresslar In his
nvPsHtriitions. To find a four-leaf
clover would bring good luck, wrote
28 out of 51 students. Forty-four
out of 87 thought It would bring
good luck to see the new moon over
the right shoulder. There were 113
who had heard that It was bad luck
to break a looking glass and 65 be
lieved the idea to be true. A knife
or any edged instrument given a
friend would cut the friendship, said
05 out of 89, and 35 out of 77 were
just as sure that picking up a pin
would be followed by good luck. To
open an umbrella in the house would
bring bad luck, thought 27, but there
were 61 others who were quite posi
tive there was nothing in this at
all.
Dropping the dlshrag meant the
coming of company said a great
many. Half the students who had
heard that a horseshoe would in
sure good luck believed it to be
true. That Friday was a baa day
on which to start a journey and that
thirteen was a very unlucky num
ber, were more common supersti
tions that received support from the
students. For two friends to walk
on opposite sides of a post was just
as fatal to the friendship as ex
changing knives, declared 42 out
of 67.
All sorts of funny superstitions
were unearthed by the professor.
One young maiden wrote: "If I
put my nightgown on wrong by mis
take and leave it so, the wish I
make will come true." Another
wrote that it was bad luck for two
people to use the same towel without
twisting it. "If you fall up stairs
you will be sure to get a letter,"
was a third opinion. One thought
it very bad luck to see a cross-eyed
negro, while another thought It
very bad indeed to be wedded in
May.
A number of ways of getting rid
of warts were given, from telling
one's aunt the number possessed,
down to burying a dead cat in a
black stocking. One way of get
ting rid of the marks quite popu
lar this one was to steal a piece
of dlshrag and rub it on them. But
the dlshrag positively had to be
stolen. Gotten any other way, it
would be no good.
Professor Dresslar is soon to pub
lish a book on the subject of superstition.
A Word for the Railroads.
The railways of this country aro
earning, roundly, about J7.000.000
a day at this time, every day in the
year. But not every penny of this
is profit, as somo lawmakers have
at times appeared to assume. It
costs something to run and main
tain a railway.
Out of each dollar of railway
receipts, 71 cents goes almost di
rectly back Into circulation for la
bor and the direct products of
labor. Forty cents Is paid to the
fuel, waste, oil and water; rails, ties,
employes; 8 cents is required for
cars, engines and like equipment
take 18 cents more. Five cents of
each dollar taken in Is re-expended
In yards and tracks, shops, round
houses and the like. When the rail
way has ceased paying out fof its
dollar It has little left. Some rail
ways have none left. It Is a ques
tion of location and management.
But the maintenance of a safe
margin between income and outgo
would be not the greatest of the
present problems for railway man
agers, if they could be assured of a
stable basis of purchasing power
for a dollar. In the decade pre
ceding and Including 1907, the
price of fuel advanced 38 per cent.
the cost of rails rose 47 per cent.,
the price of ties Increased 76 per
cent., locomotives advanced one
half, cars three-quarters, labor
nearly one-third, over the average
prices In 1907.
In the meantime freight rates on
897 articles were Increased and o"n
876 were decreased, the net result
being about 11 per cent, less of
profit to the railroads.
How then do the railways live,
the skeptic sneers? Why don't they
go into bankruptcy?
They would, under these condi
tions, but that a vastly growing
bulk of traffic continues to support
them. Increases In passenger and
freight business continue to swell
the already enormous figures on es
tabllshed trunk lines. To have 300
passengers In one train from St
Louis to Chicago costs not greatly
more than it does to carry 150 In
the same number of coaches, but
the revenue is twice as much. A
car of way freight loaded to ca-
naclty will earn three times as
much as one half full.
Our recent cereal crops have been
so enormous as to tax the Western
railways' capacity. The same lines
when the country was less thickly
settled, were perforce content with
"Law Notes."
In the monthly Issue of the above
named magazine for August, we
find the following:
In a divorce case recently In
stituted in the Circuit Court of
Bnltlmore the defendant's sworn
answer contains tne ioiipwing:
No. 4. Concerning paragraph No. 4
of plaintiff's bill, this defendant
says that he denies that he has
treated the plaintiff with great
cruelty, harshly and brutally, or
that he attempted to take her lire,
but, on the contrary, says the plain
tiff on numerous occasions, has
threatened to take his life, and on
several occasions carried her threats
Into execution."
The administration of Justice In
Germany is characterized by a
pompous accuracy that sometimes
produces curious results. In a cer
tain village there is an ordinance re
quiring all ladders to have a special
kind of top-piece. Not long since
a burglar, who attempted to effect
an entrance into a house by the
use of a ladder which he found in
the yard, fell from the ladder and
broke a leg. On being haled into
court he was meted out due and
proper punishment, but, as the lad
der was found not to be equipped
wth the required top-piece, the own
er was required to pay the burglar's
hospital expenses and damages for
the Jury.
Mask.
Masks aro still In use among savage
nations to scare away demons.
The Palolo.
That remarkable worm of the Poly
nesian islands, known as the palolo,
seems to regulate Its periodical ap
pearances for the purposes of repro
duction by tho moon. The natives
predict the annual nppcaranco of the
palolo by observing tho lunar phases.
Rotten Row.
The name of "Uottcn row" In Hyde
park, London, Is derived from "route
du roi," or "king's drive."
YOUR HARVEST
Magnesium.
When exposed to an open flame,
magnesium In Its powdered metallic
state will instantly combine with tho
nrrirnn ft tin. nlr nllfl fnrm ntl Pt
plosive Hash of intense white flame j Interest--Good Interest -for
and change into a dense white smoke
of oxide of magnesium.
of the savings in our bank is
the use of your money. Twice
PROFESSIONAL, CARDS.
Attorncya-at-Lnw.
H WILSON,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Ofilce, Masonic buildlnc, second floor
Honesdtile. Pa.
TtrM. II. LEE,
T T ATT
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office aver nost office. All leenl business
promptly attended to. Honesdale, Pa.
EC. MUMFORD,
. ATTORNEY A. COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office Liberty Hall buildlnir. opposite the
Post Office, llonesdulu. I'll.
OMER GHEENE,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over Kelt's store. Honesdnlo Pa.
H
Montrose Mail Robber Caught.
Montrose, the capltol of our
nelghboring county, Susquehanna,
has finally captured a postofflce
robber. Deputy U. S. Marshall
Hugh Evans and Postofflce Inspector
W. A. Rose have been on his trail
for some time.
Despite their presence in the town
the thefts continued. Decoy letters
proved useless, and the method em
ployed was soon discovered to be
different from any the department
had known. On Thursday last
Samuel Lewis, porter at a Montrose
hotel, was arrested, and the author!
Mes declare the mystery is solved.
It Is charged that when he went
for the hotel mall he thrust his lean
arm, slender wrist and long fingers
through the postofflce box rented by
the hotel and abstracted letters from
adjacent boxes, taking a chance of
finding money in them. he was
sent to jail in default of bail.
! a year you reap the harvest
There
British isles.
The British Isles.
are 77.cs3.084 acres in the I on the dollars youhave plant-
ied here during that time.
The itanunoiis'wer; a series j There is no safer soil than a
of documents recording the progress banb wIttl ample resources
of Edward 1. through Scotland lu ' '
1290, with the names of tho nobles and : an(j wise management; no
others who did homage to him. ... ....
jsurerer yield tnan tne mree
The Polka. I noi.f wn nnv
The polka was originally a Servian Hc -- i7-
war dance. Ssivlnrf loniU rn ciirress.
AT. SEAKLE,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office near Court House Ilonesdale. Pa.
0L. ROWLAND,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over Post Office. Honesdnle. Pa.
The Sweetest Town.
The sweetest town In the world is
Grasse. In the foothills back of Cannes,
on the French IMvIcra. All through
the year Grasse Is really one big bub
bling cauldron, where aro distilled gal
lons, barrels and hogsheads of perfumes.
THE TOWN THAT
V. The Wily Furniture Man
Farmers' and Me
chanics' Bank,
Honesdale, Pa.
The Wise Jinn's Almanac.
They ain't no sense, es I kin see,
In mortals, scch cs you an me.
half of this vastly profitable busl-1 A-faultlug Nature's wise Intents,
Matrimony.
What is marriage?
Marriage is an institution for the
blind.
Why do some people never marry?
Because they do not believe in
divorce.
When a man thinks seriously of
marriage, what happens?
He remains single.
Should a man marry a girl for
her money?
No. But he should not let her
be an old maid simply because she
is rich.
When a girl refers to a "sad
courtship" what does she mean?
She means the man got away.
Is an engagement as good as
marriage?
It is better.
In selecting a husband, why does
a girl prefer a fat man?
Because a fat man finds It hard
to stoop to anything low.
When asking papa, how should a
young man act?
He should face papa manfully
and never give him a chance at his
back.
When the minister says, "Do you
take this woman for better or
worse," what does he mean?
The bridegroom's people con
strue It one way, and the bride's
family interpret it In another way,
It Is very sad.
When a man says he can manage
his wife, what does he mean?
He means ho can make her do
any thing she wants to.
When a child is smart and good,
to whose family Is It due?
To its mother's.
When a child is bad and stupid, to
whose family is it due?
We refuse to answer.
Is it possible for a married man
to be a fool without knowing It?
Not if his wife is alive,
r
CASTOR I A
Tor Infanta and Children.
Tin Kind You liava Always Bought
ness. They also are carrying west
ward thousands of tons of supplies
which have grown from hundreds
of tons within easy memory.
And yet none of them aro able un
der generally advancing scales of
values and wages to make plutocrats
of its stockholders.
Unbaked framers of statutes, hot
from tho hustings where they have
scorched monopoly and hurled de
fiance to its snarling lips, either
are Ignorant of, or shut their eyes
to, or calmly ignore facts such as
these.
The education of the people to
recognition of the mutual and Inter
commingled rights of a community
and the railroads which serve it is
one of the necessities of the hour.
And The Times proposes to bear
the part which becomes It In im
parting the essential truths of the
situation. There has been too
much charlatanism and too little
business sense in the dealings be
tween the railroads and their con
stituents. St. Louis Times.
8CRANTON BUSINESS COLIjKGE
Court House Square,
SOKANTON, PA.
The Scranton Business College,
H. D. Buck, proprietor, will begin
its sixteenth year on Tuesday, Sept.
7th. Monday will be enrollment
day. New teachers, new equip
ment. Graduates meeting with
splendid success almost everywhere.
Write for literature. H. D. Buck,
Principal. G3t8
An' lockin' horns with Providence.
It ain't no use to grumble an' complain,
It's jest as cheap an' easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather
an' sends rain
Why rain's my choice!
James Whitcomb Riley.
Bees.
Bees wore unknown to the Indians,
and thoy were brought over from Eng
land only u few years after tho laud
ing of the pilgrim fathers. It was
more than two centuries after the first
white invasion of New England, how
ever, before modern beekeeping began.
The industry of the present day dates
from the Invention of the movable
frame hive by Langstreth In 1852.
EI SUMMER SUITS
at HER & GO'S Stores
Charles a. Mccarty,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Special and prompt attention given to the
collection of claims. Office over Keif's new
store, llonesduie. Pa.
FP. KIMBLE,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over the post office llonesduie. Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office in the Court House, Honesdale,
Pa.
ERMAN HARMEb,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
l'ntcnts mid iietislons secured. Office In the
Schuerliolz ImlldlnK Honesdale. Pa.
H
PETER II. ILOFF,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office-Second floor old SavhiES Dank
building. Honesdale. Pu.
EM. SALMON,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office Next door to post office. Kornierl
occupied by V. II. Dlinmlck. Honesdale. Pa
Dentists.
HERE is the furniture dealer who
read
A clothier's ad. and by it was led
To snend for clothing the tclfsame
I bill
1 That he got from the dry goods mer
Womcn n Spain. i chanJt,3
The women of the lower classes In i whero it had teen placed when tho
Spain do not make calls nor road butcher bought
books and have no "parties" In the ' And paid with tho bill that he had got
American em:e of the wind. They do When tho grocer with him had settle
thelr household work ami go to church, j ment made
nn.l that N all there Is of life to them. , With the money the honest workman
Their lnishnwls are very jealous of
them, and they grow old and weary
kfore their time.
paid.
P. S.The local dealer who's up to snuff
Will always advertise his stuff.
I). & II. Output Not Reduced.
While the anthracite shipments
by the leading coal roads for the
first quarter of the current calen
dar year showed an increase to the
extent of 1,203,719 tons, as com
pared with 1908, the gain was
more than offset by the falling off
to the amount of 2,320,698 tons, in
the second quarter; so that the half-
year showed a decrease of 1,177,679
tons as compared with tho corres
ponding half year In 1908.
With the exception of the Dela
ware and Hudson all of the coal
companies have materially reduced
their output. Strangely enough, the
Delaware and Hudson road was one
of the only two companies In the
first quarter to show a decrease In
shipments and the only one to show
an increase in the second quarter.
Sears the
Couldn't Live on Wind.
A pastor of a Methodist church
in Westchester, O., who had re
ceived only ?14 salary in twolvo
weeks, during which time his wife
was sick, and they both lived on
butterless bread, with water tor a
beverage, finally became desperate
and told his congregation, from the
pulpit, what he thought 'of them.
In the course of his remarks he
said:
"Because of your treatment my
wife's mind temporarily gave way,
and she would now be an inmate of
an asylum had I not made a study
of medicine. In twelve weeks I
received but ?14 from you on my
salary, long overdue. You neg
Iected me. You were all aware of
my condition. You seemed to think
'that because I am a preacher I
ill
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Menner & Co's Store.
MISS NOKTTK AIMES, AS "MRS. WILLIAM GREEN, THE WIFE,"
IN THE BIG MUSICAL COMEDY SUCCESS, "DON'T TELL
MY WIFE."
STATEMENT OF THE FINANCES
of
Honesdale School District
For year ending July 2, 1909,
RECEIPTS.
Balance on nana from last
year ? S36.ll
State appropriation .... 3,508.59
From Loans since last re
port 60.149.04
Collector of taxes 14.034.66
Insurance 7,838.44
Balance of 1907 dupli
cate 600.92
Mcintosh house 205.00
All other sources 433.48
$95,433.04
DISIlCnSEMENTS.
Purchasing grounds, mov
ing bldgs 1,085.03
Building 47,913.30
Renting and repairing . 75.14
Teachers' salaries 9,230.91
Attending Institute 150.00
Text books 390.15
School supplies 273.72
Fuel and contlncencies . 713.67
Collector's, Secy's and
Tre"as. Salaries .... 442.95
Janitor 742.20
Debt and Interest paid 14,065.43
Insurance, carting, print
ing, cleaning, telephone,
gas and Incidentals . . 1,158.07
Balance in Treas.'s hands 19,192.47
E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
Ofllrp l'lrst floor, old Savlncs Hank build
ing, Honesdale. Pa.
I)r. C. 1!. 1JHADY, Dentist. Honesdale. Pa.
Office Hours-8 n. in. to S p. in.
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' phone. Itl I'.esldence. No. SC-X
Physicians.
DR. H. B. sEARLHs,
HONESDALE, FA.
Office and residence lull! Court street
t eletiliones. Office Hours 2:00 to i:W and
liOUto f:W). p. in
OSEPH N. WELCH
p
The OLDEST Fire Insurance
Agency in Wayne County.
Office: Second lloor Masonic Build
ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drug store,
Honesdale.
For New Late Novelties
IN-
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
WATCHES
Try
SPENCER, The Jeweler
"Guaranteed articles only sold."
If you don't insure with
us, we both lose.
HITTIHGER
HAM
General
insurance
White Mills Pa.
$95,433.04
We, the undersigned auditors,
hereby certify that we have this
16th day of July, 1909, examined
the above account and statements,
compared the same with the books
of the treasurer and find them cor
rect. T. M. FULLER,
T. FRANK HAM,
F. W. SCHUERHOLZ,
F
HUB FOB IE 1
One of the best equipped farms In Wayne
county-situated about three miles from
Honesdale,
Everything Dp-To-Date.g
years in hulk
165 Acres
Over $5,000.00
has been ex
lended witn
ii thelnstllvct
years In bulldlnss, tools and Improvements.
of which 75 acres are cood hard
wood timber.
Will be sold reasonably.
..For further particulars en-
A Bargain.
quire of
W. W. WOOD,"Cltlin
offlof
fHgnatnre
could live on wind,"