THE OmZKK, FRIDAY, DEO. 24, 1000.
MESSENGER.FROM
SANTA CLAUS
"I never did see Santa Claus, but
I've seen his mesa'nger," said BUly,
gravely.
"His messenger!" gasped bis as
tonished mother. "Why, Bill, who
put that Idea Into your head?"
"Didn't you ever see him, mam
ma?" "See who?"
"Santa Claus' mess'nger."
"Of course not, child."
"Well, I did," stoutly declared
Billy. "I saw him down by the big
gate yesterday. And he's gdln'Ho
bring me a new sled."
A ripple of laughter went round
the family circle. Billy's mother
rose and took him by the hand.
"It Is time little boys were In
bed," she said, and led him from the
room.
When the child was snugly tucked
away between the sheets his moth
er bent down and kissed him.
"Good-night, darling," she whis
pered. "To-morrow Is Christmas,
and maybe if you are a real good boy
Santa Claus will bring you some
thing. But good little boys don't
tell fibs, Billy remember that."
Doris Lathrop sighed, even as she
crooned a soft lullaby that sent Billy
drifting away into the land of
dreams. She was not happy, poor
thing, and the universal merry
making of tho Christmas season
only intensified the deep desolation
' of her heart. How she had lived
through the dragging years that had
elapsed since her young husband
had left to become a wanderer on
the face of the earth, she scarcely
knew. It was Just five years five
years this Christmas eve since he
had gone away. Billy, she remem
bered was but three years old at
that time now he was eight.
It was a dark chapter in her young
life, and the memory of it still made
her blood run cold. A man had been
slain a man named Duke, who had
been her father's bitter enemy and
persecutor for years. Circumstan
tial evidence pointed to young Jack
Lathrop as the perpetrator of the
deed, and Jack had been foolish
enough to run away like an ordi
nary fugitive from justice, thus con
victing himself in the eyes "of the
world. He had never been caught,
and had never communicated with
his wife, who at last had gone home
to her father's house, not knowing
whether her husband was alive or
dead.
But there had been a sequel to
the terrible tragedy. Less than a
year ago her father had died. On
his deathbed he had confessed that
he was tho real slayer of his arch
enemy, Duke; that in the madness
of exasperation he had struck the
blow that made him a homicide;
that his son-in-law, Jack Lathrop,
had been the only witness to his
rash act, and that Jack noble,
quixotic Jack to save his wife's
father, had deliberately diverted
suspicion to himself by disappearing
from the community!
Christmas dawned on snow-covered
earth, but it brought no peace
to Doris Lathrop's heart. She sat
at the breakfast table with the other
members of the family, silent and
distrait. She did not even notice
when Billy slipped down from the
table and softly stole out of the
room.
"Where Is Billy?" some one sud
denly asked.
His mother started up and threw
a startled glance around the room.
The boy had disappeared.
"I heard some one open the front
door a minute ago," said her broth
er. "The little rascal couldn't have
gone outdoors this cold morning?"
Doris stepped Into the hall. The
front door was wide open. She
hastened forward to look out, and
who should she see but Billy coming
up the walk, leading by the hand a
tall, trampish-looking stranger
with a bushy gray beard, and drag
ging behind him a magnificent new
sled!
"Here he Is, mamma!" cried Bil
ly, in great glee. "This Is the
mess'nger from Santa Claus. See
tho sled ho brought me. Now,
mamma, I didn't fib, did I?"
Doris fell back. In dismay, Billy
and his new-found friend came up
the steps and into the house.
"I couldn't help It, ma'am," said
the stranger, apologetically, as he
took off his disreputable hat. "The
child insisted on my coming to the
house, and I I I just couldn't re
sist" Doris gave a piercing scream.
"Jack! Jack!" she cried out
wildly. "I know that voice I know
that voice!"
She snatched tho long gray beard
from tho man's face and dashed it
to the floor.
"Jack!" she faintly articulated,
and fell swooning Into the strong
arms of her husband.
And at that moment the bells In
the neighboring town broke forth
in a clamor of joyous Christmas
greetings.
"THE PRINCE OP PEACE."
Ills Wonderful Influence Continues
And Widens Through the World.
All tho old troublous questions of
the origin and destination of the
Galileo Carpenter have passed, notes
a writer la Collier':). All the med
iaeval worrlment In discriminating
betweon human and divine has gone,
all the puzzled inquiry into the mir
aculous. No longer la mankind
stirred over the non-essential.
Theories of him fade away, dogmas
of his nature lose their charm. His
fluence continues and widens. Blow
ly brightening the gleam that
touched aim spreads (nrough the
world. His spirit moves on tho
face of civilization, and makes it
kindlier -.every generation. The
touch of his hand is on tho grtef
strlcken. Nurse, physician, and
nun are the messengers of his teach
gentleness has conquered. His in
ing. Tho vestal fires burned out,
but never the fires of his spirit,
which answer each other . from
mountain-top to mountain-top across
the continents. And deep in the
heart of the people they make fam
ily life sweeter and ease the bitter
ness of failure and Ignorance and
all life's Incompleteness. That wonder-working
personality was never
so potent as today so insistent and
tenderly sure. Under a thousand
forms, creeds and names, men servo
him. And however far we go in the
conquest of nature, identifying the
north pole, climbing the Bky, prying
open electrical forces, mapping out
the subliminal, diminishing sin, dis
ease, war, poverty, ignorance al
ways in the advance will be that
gracious figure of the Sinless One,
who showed Love as the rule of life.
One Perfect Man ardent and gen
tle the race will never tire of him.
A Soft Snap.
"Hay all in?" asked Amzl Clover
bud of Israel Pepperpod, as they
drew rein In the road leading to the
village.
"All In," said Israel.
"I reckon I'll finish up mine by
sat'day. What are doln' now?"
wot mucn o' nuthin'. Havln' a
kind of a Boft snap of it. Ain't milk'
In but nine cows now, an' I take It
easy In bed' until 'most 5 o'clock
mornln's. Fact is, I ain't got much
to do this fall but dig ten or twelve
acres o' pertaters and grub out six or
oight acres o' my timber lana an git
it ready to seed down in the spring
an' git seventy-five cord o' wood
agreed to deliver in town by Christ
mas. Got to put up 'bout half a
mile o' wire fence an' shingle my
barn an' putter round at work o' that
sort, but I got so much less than
usual to do that I feel as If I was
havin a kind of a soft snap of it."
Puck. CHRISTMAS CAROL.
The earth has grown old with its bur
den of care,
But at Christmas It always Is
young,
The heart of the Jewel burns lustrous
and fair,
And its soul full of music bursts forth
on the air.
When the song of the angels is
sung.
It is coming, Old Earth, It is coming
to-night!
On the snow-flakes which cover thy
sod
The feet of the Christ-child fall gentle
and white,
And the voice of the Christ-child tells
out with delight
That mankind are the children of
God.
On the sad and the lonely, the
wretched and poor,
The voice of the Christ-child shall
fall;
And to every blind wanderer open the
door
Of hope that he dared not to dream
of before,
With a sunshine of welcome for all.
The feet of the humblest may walk In
the field
Where the feet of the holiest trod,
This, then, is $he marvel to mortals
revealed
When the silvery trumpets of Christ
mas have pealed,
That mankind are the children of
God.
By Phillips Brooks.
HOUSE FLY'S EVIL WAYS.
Magnified Photographs of Pest In
Action Startles Scientists and
Health Students.
Edward Hatch, of Lord & Taylor,
and Chairman of the Committee on
Water Pollution of tho Merchants'
Association, of New York, started
last Saturday his campaign for the
coming season against the house fly
by displaying to a group of physi
cians, educators, health officers and
settlement workers at No. 19 East
Twenty-first street, that city, twelve
minutes of moving picture films of
flies as they normally are occupied.
The Alms were made by means of
mlcrophotography by a London firm.
This was their first exhibition in this
country.
Flies were shown depositing eggs
in the meat waiting for dinner. Al
though only half a dozen or so layers
engaged In this job, each deposited
more than 100 eggs, as appeared
when the film pictured the progress
of hatching and the successive de
velopments of birth, growth and ar
rival at'mature age.
How files carry Infection was il
lustrated by views of them feasting
on refuse and worse, cleaning their
snouts and wiping their feet on the
sugar to which they adjourned for
dessert, and Inspecting at close
range the nipple of a baby's feeding
bottle.
Can't Plaoe U. 8. Steal on Paris Bourse.
Paris, Doc. 21. The syndicate form
ed to secure the listing of United
States Btoel securities on the bourso
has been dissolved and the project
abandoned.
CASTOR I A
7ar lafcaU ami OMlirea.
1U m Yh Kin Alvqi iMtH
NO STAR TO GUIDE.
The Possibility that Escaped tho
Women of Bethlehem.
The child born In the stable of
Bethlehem, "because there was no
room for them In the Inn," was her
aided by angels to the shepherds and
by a star to the wise men; but no
voice told the mothers of Bethlehem
of the wonder which was happening
in their town that night.
Suppose some gentle woman had
met Joseph and Mary on that Won
derful Day, as they entered the town,
and had said to them: "Our streets
are full of homeless strangers. Come
you and bide with me!" By that slm
pie act of hospitality, her name
would have been written high, high
among the names of earth's happiest
folk. "Blessed is she," we should
have cried,- "to whose home the
Christmas Joy first came!" But the
women of the Judean town did not
know to throw wide their doors and
bring in the world's gratitude and
love, says the Youth's Companion. So
the Child was laid in a manager, and
oblivion holds the names of all the
women in Bethlehem who slept that
night beneath the wings of wonder
lngs angels. Had they but known!
Year by year, for 19 centuries the
story of the night at Bethlehem has
been told and retold. To-day no
household In Christendom, in town or
village or In distant prairie can plead
the Ignorance in which Bethlehem
then lay. If the door Is shut on
the Christ-child to-day, it Is not from
lack of knowledge, but from chur
lishness or indifference.
The Christmas spirit speaks in
many voices. The sprig of holly or
the plum pudding, the tree laden with
gifts or the cheer for the lonely
these are all the world's way of say
lng to the Mother and the Holy Child,
"Abide with us!"
Barred out alike from cottage and
palace and inn in Palestine, the Hope
of the World renews his appeal each
Christmas-tide to our modern Chris
tian world. By the very pathos of the
first Christmas, the heart is softened
and prepared to give him welcome.
To-day there is no heralding angel or
guiding star
No ear may hear His coming,
But In this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him
still,
The dear Christ enters in.
Christmas Cheer.
"Old man," wrote the Billvllle citi
zen, "it was my intendln' to give you
a fine present fer Christmas, but I
come short this year by the sheriff
levyfh' on my cotton an' the govern
ment on my corn; so I kin only send
you a gallon jug of the last named,
which ain't much as my ambitions Is
fer you; but I'll say this, old boy:
There's enough in that jug to make
you have the jolliest time o' yer life
fer a day or two; ef you can't buy a
circus ticket, there's a whole circus
in six drams, an' a eternal movin'
plctur' show in 20; so make the most
of it!" Atlanta Constitution.
For New Late Novelties
-IN
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
WATCHES
SPENCER, The Jeweler
"Guaranteed articles only sold."
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
TRAINS
Delaware & Hudson R. R.
Trains leave at 6:55 a. m., and
12:25 and 4:30 p. m.
Sundays at 11:05 a. m. and 7:15
p. m.
Trains arrive at 9:55 a. m., 3:1b
and 7:31 p. m.
Sundays at 10:15 a. m. and 6:50
p. m.
Erie R. R.
Trains leave at 8:25 a. m. and
2:48 p. m.
Sundays at 2:48 p. m.
TralnB arrive at 1:40 and 8:08
p. m.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:45 and
leaves at 7:10.
Sundays at 7:02 p. m.
ELECTION .OF DIRECTORS In
compliance with an Act of As
sembly and In accordance with Ar
ticle 5 of the Constitution of the
Wayne County Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., notice Is hereby
given that the annual -meeting of
the said company will be hold In the
office of the company, in the Post
office building,- Honesdale, Pa., on
MONDAY, JAN. 3, 1010, at 10 a. m.,
for the transaction of general busi
ness; and that an election will b
held at the same place of meeting,
between the hours of 1 and 4 p.
m. of said day, for tho purposo of
electing ten members of said com
pany to serve as directors for the
ensuing year. Every person Insur
ed in the company Is a member
thereof and entitled to one vote.
H. 0. JACKSON, Prea't.
FURRY A. CLARK, gee'jv
Honeadale, Pa Dae, io, 1809.
WAGES OU ftUSSIAN FARMS.
Agricultural Laborer Receives Only
32 a Year and Subsistence.
The extreme poverty and tho low
standard of living of peasants from
whom the agricultural laborers art
recruited assure a low level 'of wages
for agricultural labor. Tho average
wages will appear almost Incredibly
low from an American point of viow,
notwithstanding the general com
plaints of tho estate holders concern
ing the unreasonable demands of the
laborers.
According to an official lnvestlga
tlon, embracing the decade of 1S82
1891, the average annual wages for a
malo agricultural worker In Russia
were less than J32 and for a female
worker less than $18. To this must
be added the cost of subsistence,
which is equally low, being on an
average cost of employing a laborer
for the entire year is equal to only
$5 for the male and S40 for the ie
malo. Tho wages for the summer sea--on
of five months are almost equal to th
annual wages, being $22 for the mile
and $13 for the female laborer.
"Rag Sale" In Rome.
On Wednesdays In Rome I HVc
as do many others, to go to the "rar
sale." It is held by the Jews in thui
particular quarter of the city. The.i
people are not allowed to have shop
but on this one day in the week tb
are privileged to sell as much anil tu;
many kinds of things as they can o.i
the street. It Is a curious sight lu
see lines stretched across the streets
for the hanging up of trousers, blink
ets, women's and children's cloth Inl
and stuff of all sorts. Then there ai t
tables and stands on which almov
everything is sold. Sometimes ran
old brocades and church embroider i
are to be found among coarse im-impossible-looking
fabrics. Indeed. i
is not difficult to reduce one's If U"
of credit considerably at the r
sale." Detroit News-Tribune.
CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Can you find a more fitting or more use
ful gift for wife or child than one of our Sav
ings Pass Books?
Along with this beautiful Household
Bank from the
HONESDALE DIME BANK
HONESDALE, PA.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has homo tho signature- of
jrytf ' - and has been ma do under his per-
jCrTjr Sonal supervision since its infancy.
vzT7r. '6CCUfrl Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience- 'against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
subBtance. Its ago is Its guarantee It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears tho
The Kind You to Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Yfears.
.TEN HOUR DAY ON LEHIGH.
Railroad and Its Engineers Agree as to
Wages and Hours.
New York, Dec. 2L The Lehigh Val
ley Railroad company has made an
agreement covering the wages and
Conditions of work of its employees
for ono year, beginning Jan. 1.
The contract Just signed gives the
men a v irking day of ten hours.
Heretofore the working day on the
Lehigh Valley has been twelvo hours,
whereas the ten hour rule has pre
vailed upon the other railroads In tin
same torrltory,
The reduction In hours Is the princi
pal adjustment made In tho present
agreemont. Questions In relation to
the classification of the heavier en
gines and other minor points also were
adjusted.
Fifteen Round Fight a Draw.
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 21. Jeff Do
herty and Bunny Ford fought a fifteen
round draw before the Olympla Ath
letic club here. Tho fight was a fierce
one from the Btart.
As to Public Nuisances.
There would be no public nuisances
It public nuisances never Increased
the profits of Influential people. Chi
cago Record-Herald.
So It Does.
"I wish you'd thread this needle,
mother," said Martha in despair;
"every time I get near its eyo with
my thread, it blinks!"
Overcapitalized.
A thousand-dollar boy with a ten-thousand-dollar
education Is overcapi
talized. George Horace Lorlmor.
It was Explicit.
Teddy brought a brush and comb
fo his mother, saying, "Mother, please
Diit a pathway In my hair."
Legal blanks at The Citizen office.
Advertise in the Citizen.
Signature of
PrWtJsVf WfsWJOTfc IHtf V0sI 6flHh
PBOFESSIONAXi CARDS.
Attoraeya-at-Law
H WILSON,
. ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office, , Masonic building, second floer
Honesdale. Pa.
TXTM. H. LEE,
T V ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over post office. All legal business
promptly attended to. Honesdale, Pa.
In O. MUMFORD,
U. ATTORNEY Jk COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office Liberty Hall building, opposite the
Post Office, Honesdale, Pa.
HOMER GREENE,
ATTORNEY '& COUNSELOR-AT-LAW t
Office over Keif's store. Honesdale Pa.
AT. SEARLE.
. ATTORNEY 4 COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office near Court House Honesdale. Pa.
0
L. ROWLAND,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-l, AW
Office ver Post Office. Honesdale. Pa
CHARLES A. McOARTY,
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 COUNSELOR-AT-LAW i
Office over the cost office Honesdale, Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Ofllco 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 Brik
building. Honesdale. Pa.
RM, SALMON,
. ATTORNEY A COI NFELOR-AT-LAW
Office Ni'Jt door lo ri 1 1 t Dire. Pormerl
occupied bv W II. Din mult. Honesdale, Pa
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,,
DENTIST.
Office First floor, old Savings Banklbuild
Itig. Honesdale. Pa.
Dr. C. R. BRADY, Dkntist. Honesdale. Pa.
Office Hocrs-8 a. m. to 6 p. in
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' phone. 33 Residence. No. H5-X
Physicians.
TiR. H. B. SEARLES,
1) HONESDALE, PA.
Office and restdence 1019 (Court Tstreet
telenhones. Offlre Honrs 2'00 In 4:00 nnrl
6 00foB: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. 75yl
JOSEPH N. WELCH
Fire
insurance
The OLDEST Fire Insurance
AgencyMn 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.,' HONESDALp
Tooth
Savers
We have the sort of tooth brushes that are
made to thoroughly cleanse and save the
leem.
They are the kind that clean teeth wit
h wlthoat
IS cents or
nd will re-
eaviQK vour mourn iuu oi onaiiei.
We recommend those costing 28 a
more, as we can (ruarnntee them and l
place, free, any that show'deffcti of mam
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