TUB CITIZEN, FIWDAY, SEPT. 24, 1000.
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SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
By REV. F. E. DAVISON
Rutland, VI.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOCG
PERMITTED
COMPROMISE.
International Bible Lesson for
Sept. 26, '09 (1 Cor. 10: 22-33).
Tho golden
text for this les
Bon Is as fol
lows: "Let every
one of us please
his neighbor for
his good to edi
fication." This la
supposed to be a
temperanco les
son In the
scheme of the
Inter national
committee, and
the golden text
Is well chosen as
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a keynote, though It Is doubtful If Its
bearing will bo recognized at first
Temperanco, to most people means
Itotal abstinence from Intoxicating
drinks as a bevorago and prohibition
1 of tho manufacture, sale, and use of
the samo by tho government. But
there Is another largo class of people
who declare, with tho dictionary, that
temperance means tho moderate uao
of anything, and that nolther tho
Blblo, medical science or human his
tory support tho total abstinence
vlow. Both parties do ngreo that
tho abuso of Intoxicants Is n curse, al
ways has been and always will bo,
and are a unit In the conviction that
tho use and salo should bo restricted
to the lowest possible point Thoro
Is a third class which stands for
swinish gratification of all bodily ap
petite, but they are a small minority
of society and need not be considered
In this connection.
Radicals and Conservatives.
Hero then, are the two parties, the
radicals and tho conservatives. The
one class would banish alcohol from
the face of tho earth, knock In the
head of every barrel, break every
bottle, and destroy every form of in
toxicant, used as a beverage, by every
human being on this planet The
other class, would not make men vir
tuous by removing the temptation,
but would educate, instruct and de
velop a race of men who would move
as undisturbed and unharmed amid
spirituous temptations as Daniel in
the Lion's den. Both parties desire
tho same end. How can It be reached?
Certainly not by maintaining a
pitched battle among themselves.
Much of modern so-called temper
ance work is verbal abuse of the oth
er side. Instead of bombarding the
common enemy, the temperance agi
tators train their guns upon those
who do not wear their uniform. The
conservative calls the radical hot
headed, Impracticable, fanatical. He
Is a disturber of the peace, a crank,
a lunatic, a one-Idea man. And the
radical retorts in kind that the con
servative Is an old fogy, behind the
times, gone to seed, obsolete, out of
date, a drag on the wheels of pro-
gress, a heartless back number. We
hear this from pulpit and platform,
we read It In paper and magazine
two forces ostensibly bent on righte
ousness, deliberately bombarding each
other.
If the practical discontinuance of
the evils of intemperance is the thing
aimed at, why not bring to the cam
paign every available force. Why not
use Love, and Light and Law against
the foe, instead of putting love and
law at loggerheads, each crying out
against the other as a failure, and
neither doing anything to fight the
curse.
Striking Illustration.
A recent incident Is a case in point,
A temperance orator known through'
out the country as a radical prohib
itionist has made a public announce
ment that henceforth instead of cast
ing his influence in one direction, and
in one direction only, he proposes to
join hands with every man no matter
how far along he may be In his con
ceptlon of civic' righteousness, who is
honestly desirous of curtailing the
rum power. He made the point very
clear that ho will not compromise
with the enemy but he will com-
nromlse with the brethren. And he
uses tliis illustration. When the sail
or is out on the high seas with deep
water under him, and no obstructions
anywhere he can sail as he pleases
but when ho is trying to make the
harbor, In company with all sorts of
craft headed for tho same port, and
there aro reefs and shoals in addition,
It is absolutely necessary to yield to
others, to sheer off In this direction,
and even back up possibly at times
in order that he, and all bis fellow
voyagers may safely make the port.
That Is altogether a different spirit
than hoisting the black flag, compell
ing every disagreeing captlvo to walk
tho plank, Insisting that my way la
tho only way, and that all who dare
to think differently are knaves or lnv
beciles. In other words, Instead of
antagonizing he proposes to compronv
Ise with those who now seo things
irom a different angle than his, with
the Idea that possibly he himself may
come to see that wisdom will not dlo
iwlth him, and that some other meth
ed If it does not succeed, may at
least have Buch a fair trial that every
body will be satisfied of its lnemclen
cr. Compromise! Not with the ene
my, but with the brethren, that ' at
least la a plan worth considering,
not such compromise nermltted?
tes audi
Comrameimit
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Of Interest to Women Readers
FAMOUS WOMAN EXPLORER.
Miss Annie Peck Has Climbed
the
World's Highest Mountains.
Miss Annie Peck, of New York, has
won fatno wherever explorers are ap
preciated, as-the most daring mountain-climber
of her sex In the world.
She is a star guest at tho semi-annual
ladles' night function of tho Explor
ers' Club. At them it is tho rule not
only that a woman explorer shall be
the guest of honor, but also that she
shall have the privilege of tho last
word in describing what she has ac
complished. She can't talk too long
on the excluslveuess of mountain
summit societies or the need of
Browning and Ibsen cults in Africa to
please the Explorers.
Miss Peck is amiable and if she can
possibly avoid it never allows a mere
mountain to stand in the way of her
apearances. tthe has helped the Ex
plorers' Club out before, and far from
feeling any Jealousy of her achieve
ments it is said that just as soon as
she climbs a new peak the Explorers
Miss Peck in Climbing Costume.
get out their calendars and estimate
by the hypsometer which is not an
Instrument for putting people Into
sheath gowns, but has something or
other to do with the profession of
mountain climbing whether she can
reach New York in time to speak at
the next ladles' night. The habit Miss
Peck has of ascending mountains In
the summertime i- said to be more or
less due to this desire on her part not
to make the social season too arduous
for her fellow travellers.
Miss Peck's statement that she pre
pares for her explorations by practi
cal methods of dieting and exercise,
that she has no special advice to offer
the world, and that to perform her
work only tho perfect lungs and heart
with which she is credited are neces
sary, together with comon sense and
ambition finds a parallel In the state
ment of the other feminine explorer
who shares the honors of the even
ing:
Some of the members got anxious
when sho ascended Huascaran in
Peru and said she'd never get back
In time, and if she didn't where could
they get another woman explorer?
However, Miss Peck was duly on hand
at the last ladles' night with an array
of films and statistics concerning tho
Peruvian mountain that fairly took
the breath away.
Home School In Courtesy.
A friend of mine, noting that the
little son of p household where she
called, was constrained and embar
rassed at the duty of admitting her
to the house, decided to obviate a si
milar lack of ease In her seven-year-
old boy.
She planned a game in which she
was first the caller and he the host
then the positions were reversed,
Thus he was unconsciously trained to
perfect ease lp receiving a guest, and
at the same time enjoying the pretty
play. As she varied the conditions
under which the callers might find the
members of the household, the lad be
came master of any situation, and
could admit and receive a caller, or
dismiss one in the absence of hla
mother, with equal ease. P. B. B.,
New York.
To Keep 8hoe8 White.
White shoes, which always aro In
favor in summer, will yellow with re
peated cleanings. Thio trying period
will bo postponed indefinitely if the
shoes are occasionally scrubbed off
with a good soap and water before
applying the cleansing paste.
It pays to buy shoe treos to slip
into tho shoes during the cleanlngpro
coss. It a drop or two of bluing Is added
to the cleansing mixture, the shoes
will be much whiter.
IN
1 1 "" - "'
BEES
- BEE KEEPING
CANDY FOR BEES.
It Is
One of the Best Winter Feeds
for Honey Makers.
One of the best winter feeds, except
sealed honey, for bees Is plain sugar
candy. If it Is found that a colony
of bees has not stored enough honey
to keep them over winter it will be
well to give them some candy for feed
until blossoms come next spring.
Candy for bee feeding is made sim
ply of sugar and water. To make It,
dissolve granulated sugar In water
and heat the mixture In a porcelain
or granite vessel until It bolls. Keep
up a good steady fire, but do not
scorch the syrup or It will be of no
use for bee feed. Stir the mixture un
til all the sugar is dissolved, but cease
stirring after it is all dissolved. Great
est care should be taken when tho
syrup is cooked nearly enough, for It
is then that scorching is likely to be
done.
To determine when it has boiled
enough, pour some of the syrup into
cold water. If it hardens so that It
is brittle and will easily break into
pieces by bending, it has become can
dy and is ready to be taken off. It is
then poured Into greased shallow tin
pans and formed into thin cakes. Tho
cakes will have the appearance of
rock candy If the work has been done
right.
When done, these candy cakes may
be hung In the hlvo for the bees to
feed upon.
It may seem extravagant to feed
bees on candy when they ought to
have made enough honey for thorn
selves, but some seasons It Is Impos
sible for a colony of bees to gather
enough honey for a full winter supply,
hence they perish of hunger before
the coming season of blossoms. Many
a colony of bees dies during each win
ter, and tho wise farmer or bee keep
er will see to it that each colony ho
keeps is well fed during the cold
months. When a season of abundant
honey-bearing blossoms comes the
bees will pay him back in riches more
than a hundred fold.
BEES STIMULATED BY FEED.
Nothing of More Vital Importance In
Securing Satisfactory Surplus
Than Healthy Colony.
There is probably nothing of more
vital Importance in securing a satis
factory surplus than having populous,
healthy colonies at the opening of the
flow, says a writer in Farm and
Home. A strong colony will easily
store twice the surplus of a medium
one, and a weak colony during harvest
is merely an ornament to the apiary,
If the flow is late and some honey has
been coming in regularly most col
onies should, perhaps, of themselves
build up and be ready for honey gath
ering. Should, however, the flow
come early and outside conditions be
unfavorable for rapid breeding, a good
A Self-Feeder.
share of the apiary, If left to their own
devices, may be utterly worthless as
far as storing surplus is concerned.
There are times during which
feeding to stimulate breeding may be
desirable. One of these is before
fruit bloom, and the other is in the
interval between it and clover. Previ
ous to fruit bloom there is not so
much to be gained, but highly bene
ficial results can often be obtained by
experienced beekeepers. Beginners
wishing to try the earlier feeding
should limit the test to a small part
of the apiary.
Sweet Clover for Bees.
I should like to know when to plant
sweet clover seed, asks a subscriber
from Misouri. If planted in the
spring will It bloom the same year, or
will I have to wait a year? I want
it for my bees to work on.
Sweet clover seed may be sown at
almost any season. In the south it
may be sown in February or March. It
may be sown separately or with other
crops. Many sow it with oats in the
spring.
Being1 a perennial plant, not much
blossoming can be expected from
sweet clover the first season. How
ever, If it is planted by itself in very
rich and well-prepared soil, it will
blossom some In the fall of the first
year. If early blooming is desired,
we would advise planting It in rows in
rich soil and cultivate the first season.
After it gets a good start It will need
no cultivation.
Preparing Beeswax.
A reader asks how to separate the
clear wax from old comb. Take a
coarse muslin sack, put the comb in,
mash it down and tie the sack secure
ly; boll this in a kettle of sufficient
size to admit of the sack being kept
under the water, until the contents of
the sack Is soft Then lift the sack a
little, still keeping in the water, press
between boards or in any convenient
way; when the water cools, the war
will be on the top of the water in the
kettle In a cake, and the cake will
be very dirty looking on the under
side; the dirt must be scraped off, and
the clean wax reheated In clean water,
when the "settlings" will sink to the
bottom, and the wax will be on top
1 '
In a cake when the water is cold.
crmong
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luntmp ?alf?our
Theme:
IS TRUTH ESSEN
TIAL? By Smith Baker, D. D.
Text: The words of his mouth were
smoother than butter, but war was In
his heart: his words were softer than
oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Psalm lv., 21.
Ono of the most false and danger-
is remarks heard In stores, shops
and among the people is: "No matter
what a man believes if he only lives
right."
Every sober, intelligent person
knows it is unphllosophic, unscientific
and un-Blbllcal. To the superficial
mind It Is plausible, pleasing and in
fluential. Such persons are captivat
ed by it to the neglect of serious
thought and to an external morality
which becomes a substitute for reli
gion.
It is at the bottom of the cry against
creeds, dogmas, and doctrinal preach
ing. Men who nro reasonable and in
telligent upon other matters and de
mand that tho most mechanical work
shall bo done according to scientific
laws, ronudlato tho science of theo
logy and tholaws of the spiritual life,
yea, tho common laws of tho mind nB
less rcnl and less important than
thoso of tho stono mason or tho
house carpenter. Thus tho concep
tion of the Christian, among mnny
persons, is only that of "a clean, good
fellow among men." A trying to bo
as sweet and lovely as you can. Even
some ministers preach no more than
this and more of tho people accept it
as good gospel. The sense of account
ability, responsibility and penalty,
save to the State, is gone. Caesar
and tho ethics of social life have tak
en the place of Christ and the Bible
as the law of life. Sweetness and
light are substituted for spirituality
and holiness.
This Is what every serious pastor
feels to be tho great spiritual peril of
the times a substituting the present
for the eternal and the love for man
in place of a love for God, putting tho
second commandment before the first,
The pastor of an evangelical church
recently said to a man who made no
pretensions to religious interest, "I
don't care what you believe or if you
don't believe anything, come Into the
church and that will make a better
man of you." Even this amiable sin
ner said, "that was a theology too
thin for him."
This becomes a sadder fact when It
reaches up into the relation of minis
terial standing, for here in the most
sacred of all relations the importance
of the truth is ignored, and we are
called to recognize and fellowship men
ar Gospel ministers simply because
they are good, sweet men, no matter
what they believe. Said a college
president, "We should not question a
candidate for the ministry about his
theology, but take him on his charac
ter."
A minister may teach that "the
Bible is a dissolved book and no
longer authority," and we must recog
nize him as a Gospel preacher. He
may teach that Christ was only the
best of men and only divine in the
sense that all men are any more so
but not at all to be worshiped as
deity and we must admit such a min
ister into our pulpits as a Gospel
preacher. He may teach that the
miracles were but myths with no his
toric value, yea, that there is no spe
cial supernatural in the Bible and we
must fellowship Him. He may teach
that regeneration is but the natural
higher nature in man, and in no sense
a supernatural work of the Holy Spir
it and we must recognize Him as a
Gospel minister. He may teach that
Christ never founded a church, or
commanded baptism, or established
the Lord's Supper, that these are only
human Institutions of man's creation,
and we must fellowship Him as a re
ligious leader.
Has a conservative thinker no duty
to his own conscience? Ought one
who believes the Bible is God's super
natural, inspired record of His love
and plan for redemption of the world
from sin through Jesus Christ, to fel
lowship as a religious teacher him
who says the Bible is no longer au
thority? Ought a man who believes
in the absolute defty of Christ, and
worships Him as God to fellowship aB
a teacher one who denies all that?
Ought one who believes In an objec
tive atonement upon the Cross for the
sins of tho world, fellowship as a
spiritual teacher one who denies it
all?
These are becoming more and more
serious questions with a large number
of preachers. To many of us, the
Bible and the deity of Christ and the
objective atonement are facts as real
and precious as God Himself. Are we
to be considered narrow and bigoted
and uncharitable because we say to
men who reject them, "Go your way,
that is your principle, but wo cannot
travel with you, your Bible Is not our
Bible, your Christ is not our Christ,
your atonement is not our atonement
For us and our children you are not
Gospel teachers"? Let such men bo
honest enough to go where they be
long, but so vital are these truths and
facts to us, that we cannot with policy
to our conscience, recognize them as
fJosDfil taar.hnrs.
Of Interest
to Women
Woman and Tho Ballot Female
Cry Of The Hour "Equality With
Men" is a Pica Not for a Few, But
for All Women A Real Genius
Rarest Among the Fair Sex.
Few things can appear more curi
ous to a dispassionate observer than
the foam of discontent seething up
amongst women at the present day.
Any discontent, If it be strong enough,
will produce revolution; but a not un
common result of revolution Is a re
coll Into a more despotic absolutism
than any that existed before the rebel
lion. It Is possible that such a result
will follow on the present revolt of
womankind; meantime, coupled with
another equally prominent feature of
their sex In the present time, It Is
certainly one of the most curious of
our social phenomena. Wo have
studied It as such with some degree
of ..ttention, and we have come to
the conclusion that, despite the prom
inence of its school, It is not altogeth
er so original as it believes, and It
does not very clearly know what It
actually alms at and requires.
"Equality with men," we are an
swered. But this Is exceedingly diffi
cult to define. Of course It is perfect
ly easy to pass jests upon, and con
coct witticisms out of, such a subject;
they suggest themselves by tho mil
lion. The harder effort Is to avoid
tho attractively and facllely ludicrous
sldo of tho subject and wrlto upon It
seriously. All JostB apart, It Is some
thing difficult to doflno this equality
with men that Is tho fomalo cry of
tho hour. If equality In privileges
bo taken, equality in liabilities must
bo enforced also. Aro women to go
to this extromo? to become soldiers
If they becomo statesmen? Wo doubt
if they are prepared to reach this
length; but unless they are, the de
sire for "equality with men" 1b only
another phase of the deslro for every
privilege and tho exemption from
every penalty.
We can thoroughly sympathize with
the Impatience of a clever woman at
seeing herself excluded from an
arena of public life in which some
masculine fools and many masculine
mediocrities succeed. We are fully
prepared to admit that here and there
may arise a woman of such brilliant
abilities that she would be fully capa
ble of governing an empire or ma
noeuvring an army. But such women
come once in five centuries; and this
question is not of exceptional, but of
all, women. The equality demanded
is not for tho few, but for the many.
It is of the admission of the many to
its rights and exercises that we have
to treat; not of the admission of the
two or three great women who may
adorn a century, and who, be It noted,
generally contrive to do well for them
selves and rarely are participants In
the cry of which we have heard so
much in late years. Where real gem
us appears it levels sex; but this is
at all times rare, in women rarest,
and it is of the vast mass of "the gen
eral" that we speak. Maria Theresa,
Catherine, Manon, Roland, Hypatla,
Corinna. Sappho, will always make
their own mark on the world's his
tory; but the plea now raised is for
the admission of all women on the
simple score of womanhood to the
possession of the paths and throne3
of men.
Stencil Design.
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Curtain Done on Icrlm.
The Most Beautiful Women.
"When Rodin, the sculptor, was re
cently asked what country produced
the most beautiful women," says an
English periodical, "his reply was,
'All of them. Each country has Its
own beauty.' He added: 'What Is
beauty? No exact definition can be
given. Those who most rosomblo
the classic type are some of tho Ital
ian models from the South, and from
Sicily, really the Greek part of Italy.
These also have a peculiarity rarely
found nowadays with us, that tho sec
ond toe being longer than tho big
toe. One finds it invariably In Greek
statutes. Another classic feature, tho
nose continuing the line of tho fore
head, is rarer. I once saw it in
young American woman, Mlsa D., who
had produced it artificially by inject
ing paraffine to fill up the hollow at
the bride of the nose. The effect was
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very ucly.'"
ROLL of
HONOR
Attention is called to the STRENGTH
of the
Wayne County
The FINANCIER of New York
City has published a ROLL 01?
HONOR of the 11,470 State Ranks
and Trust Companies of United
States. In this list the WAYNE
COUNTY SAVINGS BANK
Stands 38th in the United States
Stands 10th in Pennsylvania.
Stands FIRST in Wayne County.
Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00
otal ASSETS, $2,r33,000.00
Ilonesdalu. Pa., May 20 1008.,
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except Sunday. Additional trains leave
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
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Trains leave at 6:55 a. m., end
12:25 and 4:30 p. m.
Sundays at 11:05 a. m. and 7:15
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Trains arrive at 9:55 a. m., 3:15
and 7:31 p. m.
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p. m.
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Trains leave at 8:27
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