THE CKZ9ZEN, FRIDAY, XOV. 3$, IMS.
tin t m iiimmini'iitin
Getting Even jj
"'Mrs. James Moroland and daugh
ter by Jove, can It bo possible!
Oortlo Moreland here In this very
house!" And the eyes of the young
man bending over the register of the
Wessex Hotel beamed. "Havent seen
her for three years. Pretty little
Gertie! How she used to care for
me." And lighting a cigar he strolled
to the smoking room and dropped
Into a chair, a reminiscent smile on
his face as he recalled the time when
be and Gertie Moreland were sweet
heartswell, no, hardly sweethearts,
for there had been no understanding
between them. There was no doubt
but that she had cared for him, for
her brown eyes would sparkle and
ber soft, fair cheeks redden at his ap
proach. After he left his home and
went to the city they corresponded
for a few months, then gradually his
little country sweetheart was forgot
ten. As ho descended to the parlor that
night he glanced quickly about for his
old-time friends, but they had not
made their appearance. "I hope they'll
not look too countrified," he thought
"I hope I shall not bo ashamed to say
I know them. But not a woman in
this room has eyes like Gertie's, or "
He stopped, wonder, admiration and
Incredibility on his face, as a tall,
queenly girl, gowned In a wonderful
combination of white fluffy material
and pearls, entered, talking softly to
an elderly lady In black. With
charming grace and control she made
her way toward a group of gay young
people, but ere she reached them her
eyes fell on Grayton, and with a start
of surprise she stopped, saying:
"Surely, I am not mistaken. This
Is Mr. Grayton!"
He flushed, bit hts lip, and finally
managed to stammer something, but
was again stricken speechless as he
clasped the warm little hand In his.
He heard the sweet voice, but could
distinguish nothing she said; his mind
was in a whirl with brown eyes and
red lips dancing before him. When
he bade her good-night he fairly flew
to his room to think of her. He could
hardly believe it was the same girl
he had left so unceremoniously, and
his heart beat faster as he remem
bered she had promised to go boating
with him on the morrow.
Would he ever forget that blissful
morrow! As the boat glided noise
lessly along he leaned forward and
asked: "Gertie, you have forgiven
me for not answering your letter,
haven't you?"
"Forgiven you?" she replied, "to
be sure; long ago."
"And and you remembered me?
There's no one in my place? :You
are not not engaged, .are you?"
She smiled and blushed and cast
her pretty eyes down (If he could only
have seen and read the little gleam
In those eyes) as she replied:
"No; no one has your place. I will
confess I felt rather hurt when I re
ceived no letter from you, and at the
time vowed, as girls will, to get even
with you at the first opportunity, but
you see well, doesn't the fact that I
am not engaged prove I have not for
gotten you?"
The words, the bewitching glance
raised him to the highest bliss, and
he reached forward to take one of the
little hands in his.
"No, no," she cried, drawing back.
"You must promise to be good or IH
never go out with you again!"
Five days of the too brief week
flew by. On the sixth morning, as they
stood on the veranda, he turned quick
ly to her, saying: "Gertie, 1 must
speak; I must tell you I love you! I "
"Hush!" she answered, "I shall go
Tight In!'
"But why?" he demanded. "Why
won't you let me tell you that I
love--"
A little scream of Joy Interrupted
him, and he gazed In amazement at
the sight of the girl to whom he was
so' earnestly declaring his love rush
ing with the speed of a deer down tha
lawn to the gate, through which al
tall, handsome fellow was entering.
His amazement deepened, and a
strange falntness stole over him as
she raised her lips for the newcom
er's kiss and then started up the path
arm in arm with him. As they reached
the steps she glanced at Grayton and
started. "O, Will," he heard her say,
want to Introduce you to an old
friend and playfellow, one who has
, made our stay very pleasant" As In
a dream he heard the sweet voice
continue, "Mr. Grayton, let me Intro
duce my husband, Mr. William Ran
dall." For a second Grayton gazed help
lessly, miserably at her, then as he
met the frank blue eyes of "her hus
band" he shook hands with him In ff
bewildered manner.
After a few words of cordial greet
ing Randall started to the hotel en
trance with a merry "Coming, Ger
tie?" "In a minute," she replied, "Mam
ma is there and I will join you as soon
as I finish telling Mr. Grayton my
views on a little matter which we
were discussing."
As Randall disappeared Grayton
turned savagoly to her.
"Why have you deceived me?" he
demanded.
"There was no deceit Mr. Grayton,"
she answered, her eyes flashl&ff.
"Merely a bit of concealment Yo
may remember my little remark abevt
rowing to get even I rather think I
have done it, dont you?"
Grayton answered serer a wert,
but m he recalled tha glad light ta
ber eyes ai she cant up the
with "her husband" be atlaad a
and agreed la hli ha art that mm
WHAT POOR ROADS COST.
Put An Added Annual Expense on
Farmers of $600,000,000.
It cost a little over a billion dollars
to haul the farm crops of America, to
market last year. With good roads,
roads such as are to be found In some
parts of America and In all parts of
France, the marketing of the cropB
would have cost $400,000,000. Six
hundred million dollars per year,
then, is the price we pay In this land
of the free for having Impassable
roads. Did ever a nation spend so
much for so doubtful a luxury be
before? With American roads lying
open and fathomless before the eyes
of our foreign critics, what monstrous
Injustice it Is to talk of American
dollar worship!
Most men of middle age can recall
the annual picnic known as mending
the roads. Just why it got that name
no one has ever explained, for In
practically every case the picnic left
the roads In worse condition than be
fore. The law In many States pre
scribed that each resident of a rural
district must pay a certain road tax
in labor each year. The payment of
this tax was done under the super
vision of a local officer known as the
pathmaster. The customary time of
payment was In the early summer,
Just before haying time, when there
wasn't much else for the men and
teams to do. The neighborhood turn
ed out with horses and plows and
harrows, ripped up divers sections of
highway which the year's travel had
packed to a more or less navigable
condition, rounded them up nicely In
the middle, scratched them smooth
with the harrows. You were never
expected to work very hard at these
festive occasions, and the pathmaster
who Insisted on real work soon found
himself unpopular. It was just as
well, for since nobody had any real
notion of roadmaklng, the more work
the worse results.
What some of those results were
and are we have vivid testimony.
Across Iowa last winter the "racing"
autos had to take to the railroad
tracks, because the common roads
were simply impassable.
Reduced Cost of Macadam.
Macadam roads have long been ac
cepted as the standard of highway
construction. But macadam roads of
the old pattern, with crushed stone
eight inches thick, cost from ?6,000 to
$10,000 per mile. Now it has been
found that three or four Inches will
do quite as well, and the cost is cut
squarely in two. In some parts of the
central States, where crushed stone
Is rare, it has been found that the
very clay which makes the roads al
most impassable Is the best of track
making material when burned. In
yet other regions the farmers have
discovered how to make good roads
by the simple expedient of rolling or
dragging them after each rain, and
in yet other places a mixture of sand
and clay, costing $300 or 9400. per
mile, is found almost as good as the
best macadam.
Interested In Good Roads Issue.
The farmer, the business man and
the working man are Interested in
good roads. Highways that are pass
able at all seasons mean not only
more remunerative and expeditious
Imarketlng of crops, but insure an end
, to the Isolation which often Is the
bane of rural living, more especially
to the farmer's wife and daughters.
Good roads will increase the pros
Iperity of the farmer, and thus contrl
Ibute to the general business prosper
ity. The fact that railroads are ar
dent advocates of good roads, as well
as of improved Interior waterways, Is
sufficient evidence that business men
generally will profit through them as
well as the farmer.
A Popular Project.
Cities are finding it good business
to improve the roads leading out into
the farming region; the farmers are
beginning to tax themselves in a ra
tional fashion for highway improve
ment, and many philanthropists have
passed by the conventional college
and library donation to spend their
surplus funds on good roads. Historic
mudholes are being slowly filled up,
stone and concrete are replacing the
crazy wooden bridges, and a hundred
Inventions have been made to help
get the best results for the lowest ex
pense. Every Section Interested.
New York State Is preparing to
spend $50,000,000 on roads. In Cali
fornia, Los Angeles county Is con
sidering the raising of $3,000,000 for a
similar purpose. In Colorado, 250
imlles of mountain roads around Colo
rado Springs are to bo Improved.
Michigan and. Massachusetts have
imade plans for extensive highway
work. From coast to coast the peo
ple are interested In the subject
Vastly Improved.
The roads of America are vastly
bettor than they once were, and the
Improvement Is going on apace. The
United States government Is lending
a hand by setting its spare scientists
to work teaching the people of differ
ent regions how to make the best
roads at the least cost The States
are doing vastly more.
Clean feeding palls, clean quarters,
pleaty of sunlight fresh air and pas
ture ge as soon as the calves are old
aaecb will insure crawl
VACANT PEW PROBLEM.
An Indiana Man Ha Given a Practi
cal Hint of Solution.
Indiana, land of novelties, poets,
and philosophers, and much else In
life that Is good and great, is again
In the limelight A wealthy fanner
out there has presented his pastor
sixty acres of land, valued at $125 per
acre, because he made his sermons
short and to the point Here Is food
for thought for those before the pulpit
as well as those behind. The presen
tation of this land is equal to a raise
of salary. There Is no doubt that
short sermons would help to fill va
cant pews, and possibly Indiana has
started a movement that may become
universal.
The Hoosler State has done many
admirable things besides producing
James Whltcomb Riley. She may be
the means of solving the vacant pew
problem, besides bringing church sal
aries up to a more satisfactory and
just elevation. Not exactly, "the
shorter the sermon the greater the
salary;" but, rather, "the longer the
sermon the shorter the salary." ' Indi
ana, her pastor, and her farmer are
to be congratulated.
A "Mite."
The difficulties experienced by our
forefathers In trying to reckon money
In very small proportions appear in
the various valuf i given to a "mite"
In the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
tury books of commercial arithmetic.
The original "mite" seems to have
oeen a third of a Flemish penny, but
the use of the word for the widow's
coin of the New Testament made Its
regular English meaning half a farth
ing, and some old people may remem
ber applying the name to the short
lived nineteenth century coins of that
value. In those old arithmetic books
"mite" stands for various values not
represented by actual coins, but ob
viously used in reckoning. A work of,
1706 makes it one-twelfth of a penny,
two sixteenth century books one
sixth of a farthing, and in 1674 Jeake's
arithmetic made It as little as one
sixty-fourth of a penny.
A Bear Just Misses Revenge.
Herman Russell, a farmer of Hud
son township, had a thrilling escape
from a den of bears the other day,
says a Boyne City (Mich.) dispatch
to the Chicago Inter Ocean. While
driving along the road his watchdog
scouted a cub and Herman, seeing the
little fellow decided that it would
make a good pet
He accordingly went over to the
cub, but when he attempted to pick
him up he was confronted by a big
mother bear, who put up a fight Her
man took to the first tree, which was
a small sapling. Mrs. Bruin sized up
the situation, then deliberately gnaw
ed the sapling until it broke.
Russell was saved by falling into
the branches of a larger tree.
Very 8teep Railway.
What claims to be the steepest rail
way line in the world is that recently
opened near Bozen, in the Tyrol. The
Mendel railway, with a gradient of 64
In 100, and the Vesuvlan, with 63,
have hitherto held the record. But
the new line in its steepest part rises
70 in 100 and In other parts 66.
It leads up the mountainside to
Virgil Terrace, on the River Elsach.
The system employed is that of the
electrical wire rope and the ascent is
made at the rate of five feet a second,
or five minutes for the whole distance.
The car of four compartments carries
32 passengers.
Many Were In the Same Boat.
According to the Saturday Evening
Post, this is a story heard with much
glee by congress during the last days
of the Roosevelt administration:
During the recent cold spell In
Washington, a man, shivering and
ragged, knocked at the door of a K
street house and said to the lady:
"Please, madam, give me something
to eat I am suffering severely from
exposure."
"You must be more specific," the
lady replied. "Are you a member of
the senate or of the house?"
Many Women Are Illiterate.
There are said to be between 70 and
80 per cent of illiterate women in the
provinces in Italy south of Rome,
Above this line many Intelligent wom
en are engaged in professional work
and are highly educated. The feinto
1st movement In Italy Is going very
slowly owing to this fact, but a royal
commission haB recently been engaged
in studying it, and there is hope for
the future in the minds of those in
terested.
In Chicago, of Course.
A mother hid her $1,500 worth of
Jewels in her little daughter's slipper,
forgot all about it and tho next day
threw the slipper into the garbage
can. Of course, It happened in Chi
cago, says the New York Herald,
Where else would a child's slipper
hold all those gems?
Peter Thorn's Thistle.
Peter Thorn of Barre has a Scotch
thistle In his garden which has
reached over eight feet in height
The seed from which the thistle was
grown was obtained from thistles
growing on the grave of Robert
Burns. Deerfleld Valley Times.
Opera First Produced.
The first performance of Italian
opera In the United States was given
in New York City in 1825, Rossini's
"Barber of Seville."
For Selection of Friends.
The Chinese proverb It "If you don't
belong to the family, dont co Into
the house." gaak fries di who ajoy
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
By REV. F. E. DAVISON
Rotlaad, VL
BACKBONE.
International Bible Lesson for
Not. 28, '09 ( Rom. 14: xo-21).
There a r o
three classes of
peoplo in every
commun 1 1 y
those with a
straight back
bone, those with
a crooked back
bone, and those
with no backbone
at all. The first
clasB can bend
backward or for
ward, to the right
or the left or
stand erect and
straight as an arrow. When the
right needs a champion thoy can he as
rigid as Bunker Hill monument When
they discover that they have swung a
little out of plumb they can easily
brace up" Into a perpendicular atti
tude. They are moral heroes. They
can face storms of opposition without
swerving a hair. They can stand
alone, If necessary, without leaning
on any one else.
Rigid Backbone.
Enoch was that sort He stood
alone, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation, and he walked
with God, when all the rest of man
kind were going the other way. Ho
received a perpendicular redemption,
he went up to glory, as Christ did
from the Mount of Olives, drawn out
of the world by the power of heaven's
gravitation.
Daniel, In Babylon was a striking
example of a youth with backbone.
He purposed In his heart that he
would not defile himself. He acted
like a gentleman about it however.
He had a level head on the top of his
backbone. To have a spinal column Is
a great thing, but if a man has a skull
full of brains to go with It, he Is more
likely to be a blessing than an Im
position. Paul belonged to the vertebrates
also. He could be as immovable as
Gibraltar, and he could surrender his
rights for the good of others. He
said that there were many things law
ful for him to do that were not expedi
ent
A Crooked Spine.
The second class of people are tho
unfortunates whose backbones are
crooked. Sometimes they are born
so, but more often they have met with
some moral Injury early in life, so
that their backbone is twisted out of
shape. They have moral curvature of
the spine. They cannot well change
their position. Haveyou never known
people who were so built that they
would suffer all sorts of Inconven
iences rather than retract a statement
or give up a position when once they
have put their foot down. The world
calls them "peculiar," "queer," "set,"
"cranky." If they happen to get a
wrong notion Into their heads, the
more you try to beat it out the more
they stick to it
"Convince a man against his will,
He's of the same opinion still."
The Scribes and Pharisees in
Christ's day were affected with this
disease universally. They simply
would not be convinced. The fact
that Christ's teaching was new, was
enough to condemn it If He had
taught them as their father's and
their grandfathers, and their great
grandfathers had taught them they
would have accepted Him, but He
taught differently from any other
teacher therefore He must be wrong.
They were so twisted about that they
were actually looking backward, and
a religious teaching that was later
than Moses and the prophets did not
appeal to them. They had the tele
scope to their eyes, to be sure, but
they were stubbornly searching the
books of Leviticus and Deuteronony
for directions concerning life in the
year of our Lord 30. The police
laws of Moses for the tribes of Israel
on their way through the wilderness
were all right for that time and oc
casion, but they are not in the same
class with the sermon on the Mount
Yet the Mount of Beatitudes to those
people was as nothing to Sinai, and
the tender messages of the Divine
Saviour had no attractions to those
who thought of God as a hurler of
thunderbolts upon cowering sinners.
Twisted, all out of blumb, sticking to
their Ideas not because they were
right, but because they had been
brought up that way, by teachers who
were crooked before them.
Invertebrates.
There is one other class of people
we sometimes meet They are Jelly
fish characters without any moral
backbone at all. Their spinal column
Is only so much gristle. They have
not so much vertebra as an eel. They
are as well suited in one place as an
other. They float like a cork on the
tide. They never stem any storms.
They never row up stream. They go
with the orowd. If the crowd is right,
they are right If the crowd is wrong,
they are wrong. They are morally soft
easily Impressed and Influenced. When
they are with good people, they are
good. When they are with bad peo
ple, they are bad. Their motto Is.
when you are with the Romans do ai
the Romans do. And they think that
is a text ta the Bible.
To wUeh elm do you belong?
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
or THI
HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK
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HONKSDALE. WAYNE COUNTY, PA.
At the close of buslness.Nov. 16, 1909.
&E80UBCE8.
Loans and Discounts t 209,958 01
Overt! rafts. secured and unsecured ,50 82
U. S. Bonds to secure circulation. 55,000 00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds 2,800 00
Bonds, securities, etc 1,38X398 15
Bankine-house, furniture and fix
tures 10,000 00
Due from National Banks (not
iteserve Acentsi - ijxu 10
Due from Ftate and Private Banks
and llanvers. Trust companies,
and Savlncs Banks 51 E8
Due from approved reserve
agent 139 096 44
Checks and other cash items.... 2.6G9 34
Motes or other .National nanss.. sa oo
Fractional paper currency, nick
els and cents 250 84
Lawful Money Reserve In Bank.
vie: specie fouuf uu
Leeal tender notes 5.W7 00- 01.914 00
BedemptTon lund with U. S.
Treasurer, to per ceni. oi circu
lation) 2.750 00
Due from U. S. Treasurer, other
than 5 per cent, redemption iuna
Total IU32.8S7 S3
- liaei: jnr.s.
Capital Stock paid In f 150.000 00
surplus iuna lau.uuu uu
Undivided nroflts. less expenses
and taxes nald R3.250 69
National Hank notes outstanding 51.400 00
state jsanicnoiesoutstanoinc.... wuw
Due to other National Banks COG 29
Due to State and Private Banks
and Bankers 9G7 56
Individual deposits subject to
suDject to cnccK.... $i,itj,jts 11
Demand certificates ot
deposit 26.017 00
Certified checks 69 53
Cashier's checks out
standlnc 148 72-M92.703 39
Bonds borrowed None
Notes and bills redlscounted None
Bills parable. Including certifi
cates oi deposit for money bor
rowed None
Liabilities other than those above
stated ... None
Total $1,932,887 93
Henry Snyder & Son.
602 & 604 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton.1 Pa.
PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES FOR
Poultry, Eggs, Butter, Lambs, Calves and Livestock.
Apples in Season
A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARMER.
Old Phone 588 B New Phono 1123
.IlMI,rnIMIIn1.IIIMI,IM,IMI..I..H"I!lI"I"I"II"II"I"H-M
Telephone Announcement
This company is preparing to do extensive construction
work in the
Honesdale Exchange District
which will greatly improve the service and enlarge the
system
Patronize the Independent Telephone Company
which reduced telephone rates, anddo not contract for any
other service without conferring with our
Contract Department Tel. No. 300.
CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE CO. of PENNSYLVANIA.
Foster Building.
We Pay the Freight
Ne charge for packtag tkla chair
It is sold for CASH
at BROWN'S FURNITURE STORE
at $4.50 each
Roll of
HONOR
Attention is called totne STRENGTH
of the
Wayne County
The FINANCIER of New York
City has published a ROLL OB
HONOR of the 11,470 State Banks
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
Total ASSETS, $2,733,000.00
Honesdale. Pa., May 29 1908.,
KRAFT & GONG
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HONESDALE, PA.
Represent Relic
Comoanies ONLY
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