THE CITIZEN, tt'KDXKSDAY, SKPT. 1, 1000. HOICE JjjKCELLANY The Price of an Egg. lilnnchc Iintos, who U a practical fanner off the stage, tolls a funny story apropos of two elderly neftrooH whom she recently employed to take charge of the extensive poultry uird she hub established on her li!;,' (arm near Osslnltig, N. Y. These men, Noah Jackson ml Alox ander Johnston, are lmportaTiona from Dinwiddle county, Vn a region fa mous for the cheapness and plentiful ncss of Its eggs and poultry. Down there eggs sell In summer at anywhere from 8 cents to 12 cents per dozen and rarely ever rise higher than 13 cents In the winter. When they were told that Miss Hates' egg product com mands n net price of (10 cents per dozen the year around at New York hotels and restaurants their sensations were first those of astonishment, then of Incredulity. The other day she overheard a con versation between the two men as they washed and packed a case of eggs for one of her prize customers. It ran something like this: "Miss Hates wouldn't tell us a lie. on think. Noah?" 'I dunno. Mlstah Johnston, whether .Miss Hates Is a truthful lady or not. lull one thing I does know, and that Is that any hen in the Tutted States '!in afford to lay eggs for a cent iplt ." New York World. Constantinople Women and Veils. hat does liberty mean to the Turks? Many things -ehlelly the lifting off of a groat weight of numbing fear. .Men breathed freely, I'm' Hie lirst time In thirty years they could talk. read, meet their friends, associate with foreign ers and tra el freely from place to place "I have never lived till now," said a young Turk lo me. Anions the Turkish women the general emancipa tion produced its niosl extraordinary effect, but it was short lived. They threw off their veils; they came mil from behind their close latticed win dows into streets and public places; I hey went to theaters and cafes and drove side by side with men in open carriages. The more ardent spirits held an open meeting in Constantino ple, at which the women who spoke demanded that the century old shackles be broken asunder. The thing was too novel to last. After a week or two remonstrances began. Carriages were stopped and some of the women rough ly handled by the crowd. They felt instinctively that they had gone too far. They drew back. The veils re appearedperhaps not drawn quite so closely as before. They were not al ways very closely drawn before. From "Turkey In devolution," by C. It. Ruxton. Norwegians Are Cautious. A good story of motoring In Norway Is going the rounds. In many parts of this Land of the Midnight Sun mo torcars are unknown nnd, thanks to the mountains, are likely to remain so. In the district in question a rumor went forth that a car was coming, and the authorities actually went to the trouble of issuing notices, which were posted about far and wide, warning all nnd sundry that such was the case. Not only were the people cautioned to give the car a wide berth, but they were told to remove their animals Into safe quarters. It so happened that the car was driv en through a desolate land, much to the amusement or wonder, one fan cies, of its owner. All the people were inside their houses, nnd all the cattle had been driven into safe quarters for the occasion. Indianapolis Star. Painfully Polite. Lieutenant ShacUloton In n speech In reply to the toast of his health told an interesting story of politeness in the untrodden regions of the antarctic. Ills party, he said, were always ex tremely good humored and polite, and one professor in particular attained a degree of politeness unusual under such trying circumstances. "Are you busy. Mawson?" lie called out one night to another member of the party who was In the tent. "I am." said Mawson. "Very busy?" said the pro fessor. "Yes, very busy," "If you are not too busy, Mawson, I am down u crevasse." The professor was found hanging down a erovnso by his four lingers, a position which he could not have occupied for any length of time. Accounting For It. Outgoing heads of the government departments sometimes make a few "personal" promotions upon the eve of their departure, and a clerk In the de partment of agriculture, believing that Secretary Wilson would go the way of the rest of the Itoosevelt cabinet, ven tured to approach him with a little plea for special recognition. "I have been lu the department since the time you wen- llrsi made secre tary" the clerk began. "I know it I know it." the secretary said, waving lilm away. "Kvery one knows I am a very patient and consid erate innii!" Harper's Weekly. The Witty Duke. A Chicago heiress was relating some of her experiences during the Lou don season that has Jihi ended. "And at a dinner in Belgrade square," she said. "I sal next to the Duke of Devonshire, lie 1, of course, ii very great swell, lie lias I be milli ner of the swells of Du Manlier, a very bored manner, ami In a sleepy .li"ivl he says willy things. 1 can scarcely believe,' I said to i . duke, 'ih.it in your maiden speech I hnii-e of commons you paused ii.. i'. aft and v ,i win d heavily.' (Hi I .,1 ; elf'! l M o ii ' ' ilil lie." JJ i i li'-nl'il I li IHUMOR OTTHE HOOH Too Good For Tl:is Sphere. "When it comes to ideal iU.ue-tl" women," said the pinti I young author. "I lie heroine of my new novel li the paragon." "That's just the kind of heroine we're looking for," replied the busy publisher. "Yes, sir, she Is a woman you don't meet every day. In the tlrst place, she never leans out of the back win dows and criticises her neighbor.)' Monday wash." "She must be perfect." "Nor does she hang over the back fence gossiping by the hour while the dinner scorches." "I'd like to meet one like her." "When now neighbors move In she does not criticise their old furniture and wonder If they have paid for their new." The busy publisher held up his hand. "Slop! That would not be a woman." "Not a woman V" "No; that would be an angel." No Cause For Alarm. Mrs. Newpop-.Iolm, dear, do yon think so much bread and molasses Is good for the baby' NVwpi.p-.Suro It Is. ltread is the "staff of life," you know. Mrs. N'ewpop Oh, I suppose the i. read won't hull him. but so n I. li l.o -vs- Newpiip -i'.ul In-doesn't eat the iim l.i' v--. my dear, lie leaves that on the chairs and doorknobs. Chlca;.o News Happy Combination. It lii.i l ei ; happened down oil the hi each. buy s-.it on a fence, swin UIIIU Reside him sal a girl pi ilayni! lie. "I'll tell yon my name If you'll yours," he said. ti me "Well, what is If; "I.einmy Klshew. said the g What Is y :irl. oursV "(Mile Wright." Then she dug her fairy t'-es Into tin sand and walled. Lyre Looking For a Buffiain. No," said the frigid lu-nrtod maid. "I cannot be .otir wife. My heart tuu". hand are priceless." "Thai being the case," rejoined lb wise young man, "I'll leave my ad dress." "What for?" she asked lu surprise. "So you can send me word when they are marked down," he explained. Houston Post. Easy to Answer. "Say." queried the city chap, "can you tell me how to make a slow horse fast?" "Sure I kin," replied the old farmer. "Don't feed him." And it was nearly six hours later be fore the innocent c. c. saw the joke. Atlanta Constitution. Their Absent Friend. Bessie You should hear Mame San ders go on about Fred Mills. She says she wouldn't have him for a husband If there wasn't another man in the world. Bertha Yes; lie has proposed to Maine's friend, Edith Moore. Boston Transcript. Her Quandary. Her Mother (to bride elect) What, frowning on your wedding day? Bride Elect I'm in n quandary. If I go to the altar smiling people will say I'm simply crazy to get Charlie, and If I look solemn they will say I already regret the step. What shall I do? Tit Bits. Two of His Strong Points. The Young Man I don't take any credit to myself for being able to spell better than other people can. Spell lug is n gift. Miss Snappeigh You acquired your modesty, I presume, by diligent appli cation. Chicago Tribune. The Surgeon's Charges. "I hear you're dissatisfied with your doctor's bill." "Yes; 1 don't think he's entitled to .."0 for that operation." "Why not?" "Because if he was he'd claim more." -l'hiladelplila Ledger. Grudging Praise. "Did Ihe critics say anything favor able about your performance of Ham let?" "Yes," answered Mr. Storinlugton Barnes. "They admitted that I had selected a pretty good play." Wash ington Star. Sterile Ground. Cholly Cawn't Imagine what's the matlah with Ciussle. There seems to be something preying on his mind. Miss Sharpe Oh, whatever it is, let It alone. It will probably die of starva tion --Philadelphia Public Ledger. Like Tendencies. Friend -How Is your star spending ills free time now? Manager lie's fallen In love, and he's just iiinoiilng around. Baltimore American. The Physical Culture Girl. I ill cail tlu physical culture Klrl Vnr i catmint fur iporo than one. Slio known too iinicli of science, I fear. Anil thlniu that filmuliln't bo ilono. "Kuily to lioil unit curly to vise" Is oiui uf lier uitchworils true. She won't sit up l'lle nor keep n d.ito, As kiiiiki oilier Kills will do. She won't lot mo kiss her, worst of all Klssi :uo inlcioliiiH, FUJ'B she, Slio vr.'1'f holil Inutile. "II wt Initios them S"n. 1 1-illy suiil that to mi HI"- I n't llin ri.liy nf oltlim Union. Mtlio.c'li i!m cinv lie n poarl. if I ! - ..iii. fun I i - 1 1 v- must slum it I III ei I m t'i 1 1. IEW M STORIES Prudence of a French Diplomat. An nni'tslug llltle advonlure hap pened the other day to the new French prime minister, M. Hrlaial. lie paid nn official visit to a little- town in the southeast of Trance whltli Is famous for Its clocks and watches. The min ister opened the bical exhibition, and nftcr the specches""the local mayor pre sented him with a magnificent chro nometer made In the town. "If your excellency will allow," he said, "we will keep the watch for a few days and regulate It." M. Brin nd, who, though a Socialist, has a sense of humor, comes from the south of France himself and knows that promises there are not always kept. He knew, too. that a colleague had the same watch given to him last year, that it had been kept to bp regulated and that It had not yet reached Paris. So M. Briand, prime minister of France, shook M. le Malrc nillAND SHOOK HIM WARMLY 1IY THE HAND. warmly by the hand, told him that he was a bit of a ciockinaker himself and would enjoy putting the watcli in or der and would think while he did so of the kindness of the town which had presented it to him. M. Briand has discovered that the watch is an ex cellent timekeeper. Paris Letter to Washington Star. A Type Often Met. George Gould was talking in the salon of the Kaiser Wilhclin II. of the queer characters met on shipboard. "There was never a ship yet," said Mr. Gould, "that did not have one per son aboard who boasted eternally of the number of times he had crossed the Atlantic. Now it is thirty-nine times, now It is ninety-six times. Ev ery ship carries Invariably this one passenger who seems to have devoted his whole life to making a record for Atlantic crossings. "I onco heard a Detroit girl poke a little fun at a passenger of this type. He said to her: "'Do you know, this Is my flfty soventli crossing?' " 'Is it?' she said Indifferently. 'It's my ninety-eighth.' "'Iteally?' the man explained. " 'Oh, yes, Indeed,' she answered, yawning. 'It's an old story with me crossing the Atlantic now. Why, ac tually, I always recogulze more than half the waves we meet.' " Presence of Mind. Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City 'was praising the remarkable efficiency of his corps of life guards. "These men have presence of mind," he said, "the right kind of presence of mind, not the wrong kind everybody has that. "I used to know," Mayor Stoy con tinued, "an aged duck hunter that we called Old Presence of Mind. "We called him Old Presence of Mind because he onco went ducking lu a sneak box with a friend. The bay roughened up, and the friend fell over board. But as lie was sinking in the icy water he managed to clutch with his chilled hand the edge of the frail little sneak box. "Tile old duck hunter used lo coir elude lids thrilling tale with the words; " 'And. gents, if 1 hadn't had the presence of mind to unship an oar and Viiiack him over the lingers I'd have been drowned, as lie was." " The Country Cousin. Glenn H. Curtiss, discussing aviation with a New York reporter, said, wltl smiling impatience: "Iteally, though, your questions show a remarkable Ignorance of the princi ples of flight. If you are going to re port aeronautical things, why dnir: you read up. aeronautics? Your ques tions, as it is. denote an ignoraii" (qual to the westerner's. "Tills westerner on a visit to hi rich Pittsburg cousin eamo down to breakfast every morning with the same genial question: " 'How Is things?' "One morning the lich cousin U nerves being a llltle on edge, scowled a black scowl at thN quesiioi. nun said: "'Why I he lib kens iln you nlwa.cn nay "How Is IhlngsV" .IcthroV ".Ii'thro looked surprised and hurt. " 'Bee-owe ' Ii . a eWered. 'I want le 1 in v li 'W '! i ; Ih n'-i why. feBEES BEE CULTURE. Hints to a Beginner How to Prevent Swannlr.rj Making Queens. In answer to "subscriber" In refer ence to bees, I would say that if he wishes to keep only a fow colonics for home supply of honey, the prob lem is not hard to poIvo, writes T. M. Barton, but if he wishes to enter the bee Industry oxtenslvoly for the money In it, then ho must take good bee Journals. He should get some good standard books alio. The gen tleman should consult beemen near him and attend bee meetings when ho can. As to preventing his bees from swarming, he may not do this entire ly, but much may be done to discour age tho swarming fever. I have a neighbor a successful beoman who says ho prevents swarming almost en tirely by Having large brood-chambers. Instead of 8 and 10 frames, lie ha3 1 ! frames in the brood-chamber. Last spring my neighbors' been swarmed frequently and they did so over a wide extent of our State, but mine did not swarm at all, so far as I know, but I kept two supers on nil brood-chambers thus giving plenty of room. Want of iiinrn Is one strong cause of swarming. There are other causes which our friepil will find in bee books. There are two wavs lo make yo'ir own queens. Take three or tour frames of brood, selecting them 1'iom different hives, with the bees o.i them, and place In an empty hive anil dose them up nicely, leaving but a i'mnll outlet. These will usually iiiti'.i.' themselves a queen, if the trainee con tain eggs or uncapped urood. Care must be taken not to lake an old queen away from :.ny hivo with the bees on the frames. Care must also be taken that this new swarm or col ony is not robbed by the hoes from other colonies. The other way to get a queen is to put three or four frames In an empty hive, as before, and take an old queen from some strong hivo on one of tho frames with the worker bees and place In this new colony. Observing tho same care as to rob bers, etc., as in tho other case. The hive from which the queen Is taken will, at onco, construct queen colls, nnd rear, perhaps a dozen queens, It they are watched closely to keep the first one out from killing all tho others. Now all this pre-supposo a good deal of knowledge of bees before It can be successfully done. Bee-Keeping Notes. If your colonies are very weak make the entrance so small that nothing larger than a bee can enter, to keep robbers out. Bees store pollen at the side of tho brood nest, in the coolest part of the hive. The honey always stored above the brood, in the warmest part of the hive. The boo is almost helpless when she issues from her cell, but In two weeks is full grown, and able to do a full day's work. Her first days are put in about the hive learning house keeping. When bee3 leave their own home, each one fills her honey sack, bo as to be provided for the journey. There are few localities where fruit and crops are not benefited by col onies of bees. A bright woman on a capital of $100 after the first year, earned from $500 to $000 annually by keeping bees. The drone is a large stlngless bee, with a tongue too short to gather honey. As each queen mates but once, consequently only one drone is essential to ever swarm. Tho supply of beeswax Is never equal to the demand. Bees will travel a long distance for stores, but the wise man will sow clover, alfalfa and buckwheat at hand. Farmers' Home Journal. Robber Bees. It is where two colonies sitting side by side are at full flight at the same time that mixing of bees comes about. After setting out it sometimes hap pens, especially if the weather is very warm, that the first sot out will commenco to rob or carry off the stores of those set out last, which are so busy with their cleansing flights they they do not seem to notice the robbers. Robbing is not always confined to such colonies, but all weak colonies, whether wintered In tho cellar or otherwise, are subejet to bo attacked Industry of the Bee. Tho bee Is famed for Industry, but to show how much work the beo really does a naturalist says that to collect a pound of clover honoy the bees must deprive (12,000 clovor blos soms of their sweetness. To do this the 02,000 flowers must be visited by 3,750,000 bees, or, In other words, to collect his pound of honey one bee must make 3,750,000 trips to and from tho hive. As bees are known to lly for miles lu their quest of suitable fields of operation, It is clear that a single ounco of honey leprosents mil lions of miles of ua 1 1. Thr Uusy Ilea. Three hundred bllllo-i hens made enough honoy his,, ye.-r to (HI a train of cars long cnomth le.ich 'rom New York in ll'iii ' -II,' low ii -,ile i.i ' ' i I i i... i i ml, , i. M I h . En n nn nn -mi -nil . tig I I I One Hundred to One - mi iiii mi -nn im -ufi Ono hundred dollars. John looked at tbo total w.th a tumult of satisfac tion that rose to wonderful heights after trfe long months of privation t.o which he had subjected himself to ac cumulate that magic sum. Since the first day he went to work the Idea of actually owning $100 had been uppermost in his mind. He had allowed no avenue of possible saving to escape; long tramps to nnd from business, scanty lunches, thin clothes all had been borne cheerfully while the meagre hank account had crept dollar by dollar to the 100 mark. John was the eldest son of poor par ents. Desperately poor were they, U... ...l.n. I . M.. Ulll lltlL iut;iu 11. III UUl'll IU glYU, .111. arm Mrs. Atwood had given freely to their children. But now John felt independent of homo charity. He meant to make a stand for himself in tho world with his little all. Among the boys In the village ho was the most popular, and the older folk had learned to listen for the gay whistle of tho small, white faced lad wlio trudged over tho weary miles between his home nnd ills office every morning scaicely before light. It was an early spring day when j the village doctor chanced to meet ! John on his way homo from work. The I practised eyes of the physician noted I the blue pallor ot the lad's face and ' the wan look about tho mouth. Hut John waved asido his solcltatlons and ' declared binise'f well and happy, so perfect was hi" inwird couli Hut the doctor knew bett.-r, and so a day or two after, when he was hastily ' summoned lo tin- boy's bedside, he wns not surprised 1 That week lolm came down with typhoid fever. A nurse was engaged, and a long siege of sickness wrapped the small home in gloom. It was well into the summer before : John was able to bo pronounced out of danger. Tbo late July sun came ' in at the window over tho thin body i of the little hoy as ho sat up In a ragged chair, eoorod with a still more ragged shawl The nurse had left tho day before, and the doctor only looked in now and then to see how things were getting on. But into John's life these two beings had Introduced a terrible trag edy. For their care of him his small fortune had got to pay. Wo ono know of Its existence but himself, but he felt the Inevitable sacrifice that was to be ills to make for his mother and father and their little home. That night John heard his parents talking over the prospect of that debt and planning to let go tho small equi ty they had in their little homo glad to do this now that their son's life had been saved. And all that night the battle of self-sacrilico waged hot in John's boyish breast. The $100 laid up safely in the bank had been a golden Inspiration to the lad, but he knew long before morning dawned that his duty lay straight before him and he meant to accept it. He got up feeling weak and ill. His mother, humming about her toll, cross ed over to his chair and bent down to kiss the white face with a tender solicitude that had never been found wanting all during the years of her son's life. And at the caressing touch of those dear lips John suddenly threw his arms about his mother's neck and told her the story of his treasure and what ho meant to do. The light broke like sunshine over that wan face and she wrapped John in a glad embrace, telling him how much it meant to both his parents for him to meet this debt; It meant the saving of their home. In which to foster the little ones growing up, and it meant, too, a burden of care lifted from the poor, invalid father, whose daily toll amounted to so little in tho financial need, All that day John heard his moth er's happy song from tho kitchen. In her great unselfish heart she never thought but that her boy took pleasure In meeting this debt with his savings, and as John listened, the tears swelled up In his eyes and rolled slowly down his cheeks. But a sound outside suddenly caught his attention the shouts of his playmates, who had assembled un der his window, and were cheering at sight of him. There were .o less than 60 boys In the group, who tossed up their caps and called to him. I John leaned over and waved his j hand in token of greeting. A silence lollowed. a silence that surprised John not a little, for bis friends were at all times noisily good natured. And then he heard a step on the stair. It was not his mother's step, nor the tread of any of his small sisters and brothers, for his cms bad become iicrustomed to their footfall. He watched the door with anticipa tion as it slowly opened. Ono of tho boys who had called to him from tho street shuffled clumsily Into tho room John smiled feebly ho was too near to tears to trust himself to speak, and the visitor was ill at ease, and only grunted ,i word of response lo John's smile, until again outside that cheer arose fiom the boyish assem bly. Then It was that John's guest marched boldly forward, and tossing nn envelope Into John's lap told him it was a little present from the Iiojk With that lie rushed from tho loom before John could speak, and' Willi trembling lingers the sick boy in-e open the envelope. Inside woe l"u crisp new Uoii.it bills. Newsrsera of tile World. Tiik'u i' l r ii fur Ihe v in M. tin re ' ha'j'.t u l-i r tor s: OLLof HONOR Attention h called to the STUKNGTII of Ihe Wayne County The FINANCIKK of New York City lias published a BOLL t)I 1IONOK of the 11,470 Stale Hanks and Tnif-t Companies of Tinted States. In this list the WAYNK COl'NTY SAVINGS HANK Stands 38th in the United States. Stands 10th in Pennsylvania. Stands FIRST in Wayne County. Capital. Surplus, $455,000.00 Total ASSETS, $2,733,000.00 UnnoMlnie, Ph.. Mnv 'jo Puis., TImp Table In Effect June 20th, 1909. SCRANT0N DIVISION I O "l 1 5 . I ?. H Stations u. M 3 3 8 U 31 to I a -a I A Slip M --.IT S0 ulr. irN.YAV.4-MHt..l.T I UK, I Oil .r.... 'iiiiciitH i,v, " ...lluncnck.... " ..Starlight.... " " 1'reHon Park " ' ..Wlnwood. .. " " ..Poyntello.. " " orsou " Pleasant Mt " " .. Unlondalo.. " " .Forest city. " " C rb'nilale Yd " " Carbondalo. " " White nrlclse " " .Maynelo" Yd. " " ....Jermyii " " ..Archibald.. " " .... Wlnton.... " " ... Peokvllle... " " ...OlypliaHt... " " .. .Dickson.... " " ....Throop..... " " . Providence.. " " ..Park PlocB.. 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Sundays at 10:15 a. m. and 6:50 p. in. Erie R. R. Trains leave at S:27 a. m. and 2:50 p. m. Sundays at ":50 p. ni. Trains arrive at 2:13 and S:02 p. m. Sundays at 7:02 p. m. Public Sale of Personal Property Take notice that on Friday. Sept. 3rd, 1909, nt 11:30 o'clock a. m., the New York, Ontario and West ern Railway Company will sell at public sale for freight and storage charges, 011 hand goods, wares, and merchandise, consisting of six bundles of one dozen chairs, con signed to M. J. Connolly, at Its freight station or depot in Clinton township, Wayne County, Pennsyl vania, known as tha Forest City station of said company. New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, By JAMES E. IJURR, Its Attorney. (illwi! Letters on Poorly Printed Stationery Go Into the A chi -. ImiUli'L- li-Hi-i In-ni v. n. iitli'ti llon ami putH the 1 '1 )' ' 1 lien 1 i'V.in:int frame ui iul;i, 1,1 1 I, m u .! 1 111 1 1 It. We I i ' n T l.'Uor.-.'ry. 1 V' nr. ! ill