THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10,- 1000. THE OLD COUNTY PAPER FROM HOME. How dear to my heart is the town of my childhood, That drowsy old village, so kind ly uncouth, Where f played all the pranks that a boy who was wild would, And knew all the joys that are common to youth, Its fond recollections so quaintly amusing I'll always remember though far I may roam; Refreshed they return every time I'm perusing Tho old county paper they send me from home. The quiet old paper, the slow-going paper, The old weekly paper they send me from home. It is ever the same; there Is naught that can change it, And woe to the budding young journalist who Its pangs would dare to despoil and arrange It To make it appear more refresh ingly new. Tho town never alters, the years that roll o'er it Are all quite alike as the teeth of a comb, So I happily find as each week I ex plore it In the old county paper they send me from home. The mossy old paper, the plain plodding paper, In the same old-time columns are "Births," "Deaths," and "Weddings," The old weekly paper they send me from home. And the "General News," gleaned from far and from near. I know where to look for the never changed headings And the medical ads. that are run by the year. There's the verse by the bard who will go on ascending. The temple of fame till he reaches its dome, And the "patent side" story that runs without ending, In the old county paper they send me from home. The lazy old paper, the calm, tran quil paper, The old weekly paper they send me from home. Its "Short Local Tales" are the first I devour: "Bill Jones is the 'Pa' of a bounc ing big boy"; "Farmer Johnson called Monday and chatted an hour And brought us some fruit that a king might enjoy"; "Our good townsman, Olson, is painting his stable"; "Doc Smith has gone West; O, Doc, why will you roam?" "Some nice, new potatoes repose on our table, The gift of Tom -Black," says the paper from home. The easy old paper, the self-possessed paper. The old county paper they send me from home. "Again let us state," says the head of the journal, "Our course can't be changed by a threat or a bribe. We shall stick to the truth that alone is eternal"; "We are wanting some wood. Now's the time to subscribe"; "Dan Coon, of Brush Creek, who is running for Sheriff, Has our thanks for some honey just fresh from the comb. We hope Dan will win, though his views on the tariff Are hardly the thing," says the paper from home. The drowsy old paper, the good natured paper, The old county paper they send me from home. And yet that old paper to me Is far dearer Than big city dailies; I prize it above All else of its kind, for it brings me much nearer Life's happier haunts and the ones that I love. The glad scenes of youth with blue skies bending over, The fields where the bees and the butterflies roam, The songs of the birds and the scent of the clover, Steal back with the paper they send me from home. The gracious old paper, tho dearly prized paper, The old county paper they send me from home. By Nixon Waterman. Tho Swarming of Bees. Bees and their habits come up among the questions referred to the Division of Zoology of the Pennsyl vania Department of Agriculture. Disputes occasionally arise among bee keepers in regard to swarming. A Shlppensburg man recently asked Professor H. A. Surface, State Zoo logist, to settle an argument on that subject. He asked: "Do bees clean out a tree before they swarm, or do they take the queen and go at random, locating in any tree that comes in their way?" The answer of State Zoologist Surface was as follows: "In reply to your recent letter asking whether bees clean out a tree before they swarm, or whether they and the queen go at random when they leave the hive, I beg to say that It Is now established that they are liable to do either. Some times the colony finds a place and even gata to work at cleaning the tree cavity before they swarm, but I think "that they generally swarm and at once send out scouts and wait for these to return to the clus ter with the Information that they have found a place to which to go. If dissatisfied with this they may remain there and send out scouts again to find a new place to which they may go. I have known them to move two or three times. On the other hand, they sometimes will swarm and cluster, and for some reason remain, and dwindle away, or perhaps fly short distances and cluster again and again. "I am pleased to see that you are Interested in the study of the habits of bees, as this is the chief feature upon which practical, successful bee-keeping should be based. If you have made observations in this line, I shall be glad to learn of them, but I think we should boar in mind that there is a variation in the action of swarming." SUBTERRANEAN TELEPHONES. Somo of Them Under the Rockies, Whence You Con Talk to Chicago. With the extension of the long distance telephone system last sum mer as far west as Denver it is now possible to talk from Chicago to the bottom of some of the deepest mines in the Rockies. Up at Idaho Springs, the centre of the famous Clear Creek district, where the Newhouso tunnol has been run under the mountains for over three miles to connect a network of underground workings, there Is a mine now down 2,500 feet. This mine, like many others, has its own telephone system which Is connect ed with the surface telephone lines. At the bottom of the deepest shaft, 2,500 feet under the mountain, there is now a telephone instru ment, and standing there in the bowels of the earth one can call up Chicago. Of course telephoning in a mine isn't quite as easy as it is in a sound proof telephone booth, especially if the great drills are working. Nev ertheless the miners get used to the racket and seem to have no trouble talking over the telephone, though to others it is almost impossnble at first few attempts. They tried talking to Chicago last summer, when the arrival of the long distance telephone caused al most as big a sensation in Colorado as did the first railroads. It is a common occurrence- to talk with Denver, forty miles away, from some of the subterranean workings in the Rocky Mountains. The telephone instruments in the mines are specially constructed with a view of protecting their delicate parts from the dampness. At Idaho Springs there is a regular telephone system under one of the mountains where there are over a hundred mines, all of them tapped by an un derground railway through which the telephone wires run. 8AYS SOUNDS HAVE COLORS. Ascribe! Individual Hues to Different Lettora of Alphabet. Berkeley, Cel. Colors in the tones of tho voice are recognised by Prof. George M. Stratton, occupying the chair of psychology at the University of California. Or, rather, ho knows how the colors are seen, and to the In dividual letters of the alphabet he ascribes individual hues. The psychologist, applying motive power to a lawn mower, was clicking out all the colors of the rainbow on his aerial lawn on tho higher Berkeley hills when interviewed on the subject "I do not claim any originality for what I have said In this regard," ho remarked in what might be described as a thoughtful lavender voice. "Francis Oalton, the English scien tist, went over the subject very thoroughly In his 'Human Faculty many years ago. "There are persona," he continued, speaking In more of a violet tone, "to whom single words and even separate parts of a word have Individual hues. "The S sound to any one is a yellow ish tone. "Tho I is orange. "Tho Z is reddish. "Higher pitched letters, such as the short sound of I, the I In It, are apt to be brighter and warmer say, yel low or pink. "The long O sound and the OO are darker. We might call them blue, brown or deep red. PRAY8 BY CARD INDEX PLAN. Preacher Urges 8yatem In Supplicat ing for the Wicked. Chicago. A card Index system for praying was advocated by the Rev. John Timothy Stone of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in an address be fore the Chioago Presbyterian Minis ters' Association. - Mr. Stone advised the preachers to place the names of those for whom they wished to pray on card indexes and to use the cards frequently. "I get down on my knees with my card Index before me Instead of the Bible," he said. RUNAWAY SETS MAN AFIRE. Dragging on Q round Lights Matohes In His Pockets. Towanda, Pa. Ablase from bead to foot while he was dragged along by his runaway horses, Harrison Wolfe, a farmer of Trinket, near here, was fatally injured. His horsaa ran away while be was driving home and he beeame tangled In the hanseas and was dragged along the ground after them. This set Are to a boot at; Searches In his pocket and his clothes were quickly in a blaie. He was dMaffetty burned Before ha. co14 tree hisassM and beat but tht DEATH DOESffT END LIFE Medico Legal Society Hears 8tartllng Discussion of the Persistence or Consciousness After Change. New York, N. Y. That death does not end life, and that It does not end even consciousness, wore two conclu sions which tho chairman of the psy chology section of tho Medico Legal Society placed before tho members of that society at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was the only sclentl&c speech of tho evening. The rest were foregone. Discussion of this speech was cut short, but not before a member rose to relate that aa a physician he had learned that man waa a spirit, that his body was a mere dwelling place to be moved about at will, and that at death, he had observed, the spirit left the body seventy-six hours afterward. The main speaker was Floyd B. Wilson, LL.D. Ho remarked that new things might bo lntultlonally recog nized as truths before being practi cally demonstrated. Then he declared: "Scientifically It has been proven that death does not end life and In dividual consciousness. I claim, that it has been proven to the complete satisfaction of the most exacting of scientific men that those who have passed through what wo call death have spoken and Identified them selves to mortals here. "I claim that If the published re cords of investigators are carefully examined there Is only one of two con clusions to be arrived at: that either these Investigators, working some times in groups and sometimes alone, In almost every civilized nation in the world, are to be put down as liars, or that life has been proven to bo con tinuous, and that those who have passed through the change called Jeath, live and preserve their indivi dual entity." He held that life la not only con tinuous, but that tho Individual may pnss through several of many Incarnations. RABBI 8AVES 8YNAQ0QUE. Finds a Sound-Absorbing Preparation That Corrects Its Acoustics. Pittsburg. For the first time since it was built, there was heard in the $400,000 Rodolph Shalom Synagogue a full sermon. When It was first com pleted the acoustic properties of the building were so bad that little could be heard but echoes, but this defect haa been corrected, and the congrega tion now hear perfectly. The change was brought about by placing on the walls of the synagogue a preparation which Is explained by Rabbi J. Leon ard Levy as something which "ab sorbs the surplus sound." The men who had assisted in build ing the synagogue spent thousands trying to correct tho acoustic defects, but could not do so. They had decid ed to tear down the structure and erect another when Rabbi Levy pre vailed on them to desist until after he could return from a trip to Europe. While abroad he sent word to have a certain preparation tried on the walls. It did not have the desired effect On his return the rabbi took the matter up personally, and after an interval sent out word to members of his con gregation to meet in the auditorium. They did, and had a joyful surprise. A CLEVELAND HOPEFUL. Lad Falsely Confesses to Murder to Qet Gang Leadership. Cleveland. Alva Coan, seventeen years old, confessed to Judge George Addams that he murdered three-year-old Alex. Hoenlg, whose body was found in an ash barrel here on May 4, 1007. That night he admitted his confession to bo a hoax. "I told de gang I killed do kid so's I could be de leader," he admitted to County Detective James Doran and newspaper men. "Day said a guy had to do something big like a moider to lead dem. Dey waa going to make me jump often a tree to show me nolvo, but de moider yarn fixed It up." Coan had convinced Judge Addams that he held tho secret of the Hoenlg mystery when he and two members of his gang were arrested. Inspector Rowe and the police sweatbox also failed to break his story. MONKEYS ARE SUPERIORS. That's What Professor Shepherd, of George Washington University Finds. Washington, D. C. Eleven mon keys, imported from India for experi ments and housed in the medical school of the George Washington Uni versity, have for several months fur nished valuable contributions to sci ence. They have been subjected to psychological examinations, and Prof. W. T.. Shepherd has decided they are superior to human beings, so far as the lower mental faculties are con cerned. Prof. Shepherd says the monkey's faculties of perception, sensation and memory are, perhaps, superior to those of man, while Its faculties for reason, judgment and Imagination are inferior. Bathing Unpopular In St. Louis. St. Louis. St Louis landlords are fighting the city ordinances requiring bathrooms in tenements on the ground that in a model tenement housing 190 persons with a bath for each apart ment only nine baths were taken In a month, and one woman took four of the nine. Montlcello, N. Y. Mrs. Nicholas Venness on her way home took pity on what she supposed, were three little block, kittens. They turned out. to be three young ricutks. Next iay her brand new dress waa barm ta back yard. ermora. For a Theme: ONE-TALENT MAN. -i- -4- -4- By Rev. Junius B. Remensnyder. 4- "4 -fi? Text: "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability." Matthew, xxv., 15. This parable treats of the self-evident diversity in the natural gifts of men. Some are two, five, or even ten talented. They are quick, clever, re sourceful. This power Is a gift The child Is born with or without it No power can create it In the man lack ing It. What a power for good is such a richly gifted personality! Yet to how many have these brilliant parts prov en not an opportunity, but a tempta tion, a foil and a snare. The saddest chapter of literature Is the career of the sons of genius. Over against these exceptionally gifted souls our parable presents the one-talent man. He Is dull, slow, grudgingly endowed. What he gets must be by toll of brain and sweat of brow. These Inequalities seem to be part of God's plan, and are no doubt meant for a wise purpose, just as mountains and plains enhance the beauty and promote the life and frultfulness of nature. As a level earth would mean a sand desert, so socialism a dead lovel of conditions would mean social stagnation. Nevertheless the one-talent man often feels sorely his disadvantage, and Is tempted, as in the parable, to complain and churlishly sit down and attempt nothing. This tendency the Great Teacher here means to reprove. He shows that God rewards men )iot in proportion to their gifts, but to the use they make of them. To the one who doubles his one talent the very same power Is given as to the one who multiplies his ten talents. "Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things." The duty of the person not. brilliant ly gifted is to work his one talent to the highest point of efficiency. And the pains he requires to advance be come a discipline often more valua ble by far than quick natural parts. How often thus the gifted scholar, snared by his very facility, sees him Belt left behind by the plodding but trained and applying pupil. And the same fact is illustrated In business and In every sphere of life. This parable concerns the great majority of us. The one-talented many are really of far more importance than the few of genius. For It is by means of the great company of medi ocre minds that the chief work and happiness of the world must be main tained. "It seems very certain," wrote Phillips Brooks, "that the world is to grow better and richer in the future, not by the magnificent achieve ments of the highly gifted few, but by the patient faithfulness of the one talented many." It Is by common men and women realizing the importance of common and lowly tasks that the welfare of every home and the gen eral well being of mankind are to be promoted. And none the less Is it by these that God's wise and blessed pur poses to the race are to be completed. Let us, then, bear in mind that use fulness, success, happiness and the divine blessing depend not upon our talents, many or few, brilliant or dull, but upon our wlBe, patient, earnest use of such capacities as we have. "The race Is not to the swift or the battle to the strong," but to the faith ful and deserving. It is those who have had inferiority of natural powers and who, In spite of disadvantages, have made them selves a help and a blessing who de serve best of the race and shall shine the brightest In the kingdom of heav en. Look Under Your Feet. "The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces, Is 'Look under your foot' You are always nearer the Divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult Is de ceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place an hour. Every place Is under the stars; every place Is the centre of the world." John Bur roughs. Education. Education is not the enemy of faith. You have a right a duty to use your mind within your religion. Only do not make the fatal error of thinking that you must never tniBt the soul be yond tho confines of cold Intellectual calculation. Rev. Richard W. Hogue, Episcopalian, Raleigh, N. C. Brotherhood.' Nothing without brotherhood la worth while. Every man must die who will have no neighbor or brother. Everything that stands In the way of human peace and brotherhood must go. Rev. Stephen S. Wise, Hebrew New York City. . .Man's Stature, ! No one can come to the fall staturs of man UV1 he' knows and' reals- t& Sathac. Rst, Dr. DuvaL REPORT OF THE CONDITION or THE HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK AT HONKSDALE. WAYNE COUNTY. PA. At the close of business, Nov. 16,1909. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts t 209,958 01 O verdraf ts.sccured and unsecured 60 82 U. S. Bonds to secure circulation.' K,000 00 Premiums on U. B. Bonds 2,800 00 Bonds, securities, etc 1,383,333 15 Banking-bouse, furniture and fix tures 10,000 00 Due from National Banks (not lteserve Aeents... ... ........ 4.593 05 Due from State and Private Banks ' and Bankers. Trust Companies, and Savings Banks 61 88 Due from approved reserve aeents 139696 44 Checks and other cash items.... 2,669 34 Notes of other National Banks.. 325 00 Fractional paper currency, nick els and cents 250 84 Lawful Money Reserve In Bank. viz: Specie J86.337 00 Leeal tender notes 5,607 00- 01,944 S3 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer, (5 per cent, of circu lation) 2,750 00 Due from U. S. Treasurer, other than 5 per cent, redemption fund Total. .$1,932,887 93 LIAIIIMTIKS. Capital Stock paid in f 150.000 OS Surplus fund 160.000 00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 83,250 69 National Bank notes outstnndjn? 64.400 OS State Bank notes outstanding.... 900 0 Due to other National Banks 668 29 Due to State and Private Banks and Bankers 967 6 Individual deposits subject to subject to check.... $1,466,468 11 Demand certltlcates of deposit 26,017 00 Certified checks 69 53 Cashier's checks out standing 148 72-1,492,703 39 Bonds borrowed None Notes and bills rediscountcd None Bills payable. Including certifi cates of deposit for money bor rowed None Liabilities other than those above stated None Total $1,932,887 93 State of Pennsylvania, County of Wayne, ss. I, E. F. ToRitEY, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. F. Torrey, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of Nov. 1909. W. H. STONE. N. P. Correct attest: H. Z. Russell, ) E. B. Hardenberqii, (-Directors. J. C. 1SIRD8ALL. J 93wl REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK OF HONESDALE, WAYBE CO., PA.. at the close of business, Nov. 0,1909. RESOURCES Reserve fund $ Cash, specie and notes, $48,840 60 Legal securities 45,000 00 Due from approved re- serve agents 118,341 64-212,182 14 Nickels, cents and fractional cur rency 143 61 Checks and cash items 2,by9 65 Due from Banksand Trust Co's.not reserve agents 15.093 03 Bills discounted not due, $334,115 62 Bills discounted, time loans with collateral... 41,035 00 Loans on call with col- lateral 101,625 75 Loans on call upon one name 1,550 00 Loans on call upon two or more names 68,726 75 Loans secured by bond and mortgage 21,300 677,353 02 Investment securities owned ex clusive of reserve bonds, viz: Stocks, Bonds, etc., 1,815372 21 Mortgages and Judg ments of record.... 227,379 77 2,043,251 98 Office Building and Lot 27,000 00 Other Heal Estate 6.000 00 Furniture and Fixtures 2.000 00 Overdrafts 217 60 Miscellaneous Assets 400 00 $2,886,340 93 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, paid in $ 100,000 00 Surplus Fund 310,000 00 Undivided Profits, less expenses and taxes paid 81,113 35 Deposits subject to check $160,912 81 Time certificates of de posit..... 3,238 78. Saving Fund Deposit, 2,190,823 16 Cashier's check outst'g 271 29-2.355,246 91 Due to Commonwealth 25,000 00 Due to banks and Trust Cos. not re serve agents 11,891 61 Dividends unpaid 60 00 $2,886,340 93 State of Pennsylvania, County of Wayne, ss: I, II. Scott Salmon, Cashier of the above named Company, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Signed) H. S. SALMON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to.before me this 13th day of Nov. 1909. (Signed) ROBERT A. SMITH. N. P. Notarial Seal Correct Attest: W B. Holmes, ) F. P. Kimble, y Directors. II. J. Conger. J For New Late Novelties -IN- JEWELRY SILVERWARE WATCHES Tryj , SPENCER, The Jeweler "Guaranteed articles only sold." ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS Delaware & Hudson II. It. Trains leave at 6:65 a. m., and 12:26 and 4:30 p. m. Sundays at 11:06 a. m. and 7:16 p. m. Trains arrive at 9:65 a. m., 8:lt and 7:31 p. tn. Sundays at 10:15 a. m. and 6:60 p. nr. Erie It. It. Trains leave at 8:25 a. m. and 2:48 p. m. . Sundays at 2:48 p. in. ' Trains arrive at 1:40 ,and 8:08 , p. m. Saturdays, arrives at 3j45 and 1 leaves at 7:10. jtSttsdaya at 7:91 9. as. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Attornevs-at-Law. H WILSON, . ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office, Masonic building, second floor Honesdale, Pa. w M. H. LEE, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-I.AW. Office over nost office. All Ipjml hnalnenn promptly attended to. Honesdale, Pa. 171 C. MUJVLFORD, 11. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, Office Liberty Hall building, opposite the Post Office. Honesdale. Fa. HOMER GREENE. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office over Relf's store. Honesdale Pa. A T. SEARLE. ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW. Office near Court House Honesdale. Pa. 0L. ROWLAND, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAWj Office ver Post Office. Honesdale. Pa Charles a. Mccarty, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Special and prompt attention given to the collection of claims. Office over Kelt's new store, Honesdale, Pa. EP. KIMBLE, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAWj Office over the Dost office Honesdale. Pa. ME. SIMONS, . ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAWj Office in the Court House, Honesdale, Pa. HERMAN HARMEb, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, Patents and pensions secured, Office In the Schuerholz building Honesdale. Pa. PETER H. ILOFF, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office Second floor old Savings Bnk building. Honesdale. Fa. EM. SALMON, ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW Office Next door to potl office. Formerl occupied bvW H. Din mlck. Honesdale. Pa Dentists. DR. E. T. BROWN,, DENTIST. Office First floor, old Savings Banklbulld Ing. Honesdale. Pa. Dr. C. R. BRADY. Dentist. Honesdale.'.Pa. J Office Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m Any evening by appointment. Citizens' phone. 33 Residence. No. 86-X Physicians. TvR. H. B. SEARLES, U HONESDALE, PA. Office and residence 1019 Court Tstreet telenhones. Office Hours 2:00 to 4:00 and 6 00 to 8:00. D.ra. Livery. LIVERY. Fred. G. Rickard has re moved his livery establishment from corner Church street to Whitney's Stone Barn. ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. FIRST CLASS OUTFITS. 76yl JOSEPH N. WELCH IP" B Fi Insurance The OLDEST Fire Insurance Agency in Wayne County. Office: Second floor Masonic Build ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drug store, Honesdale. If you don't insure with us, we both lose. General Insurance White Mills Pa. O. G. WEAVER, Graduate Optician, 1127 Main St., HONESDALE. Tooth Savers We have the sort of tooth brashes that are made to thoroughly cleanse and save the teeth. They are the kind that clean teeth Wlthoat eavlng vour mouth full ol brliUei. Wo recommend those costing 28 cents or more, as we can guarantee. them and will re place, iree, any inai snow aeiecH 01 mans; 1 three months.- O. T. CHAHBERS, PHARMACIST, Opp.B, A H. Ststioa, HONESDALE, PA. HITTIHGER BAM