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news in an interesting manner, to sumarizc the ncivs of the
world at large, to fight for the right as this paper sees the
right, without fear or favor to the endthat it may serve thebest
interests of its readers and the welfare of the country.
Buffalo Bill is in a lawsuit. In our opinion it Is
lucky for the man he's suing that the noted scout has
agreed on arbitration.
To live a hundred years Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
says you must work well, eat well, sleep well, think
well and play well. Well! Well!!
Senator Bailey, of Texas, has described himself as
-a Democrat without prolix or affix. The American
press generally, however, has often described him as
being in a nice fix.
A young factory girl of St. Paul became totally
bald as a result of a fright she received at a fire in
the factory. Her father brought suit and recovered
52,000 damages. That ought to go a long ways to
ward buying a 25-cent bottle of hair tonic.
A woman in New York is said to have bought two
one-cent stamps with a $5,000 bill. Of course $4,999.
58 would seem more like real money to a woman.
Another woman in New York has told how she
felt when her fingers closed over fifty brand new bills
of $1000 each. Must have been a nice feeling. We
would have been speechless, wouldn't you. But that's
just like a woman, always able to talk under any circumstances.
A PRAYER THAT WAS ANSWKIJICI) AT LAST.
Andrew Toth, wrongfully convicted of a crime
about which ho knew nothing, left prison in Pittsburg
Saturday, finally freed by a Governor's pardon, be
cause a "death bed" repentance had uncovered the
truth at last.
Twenty years ago, Michael Quinn was killed in the
Thomson Steel works. Toth was not even in the mill
-when then murder was committed. Twenty years ago,
Toth was railroaded; an easy thing for "Justice" to
do with a man without friends, money or the ability
to speak English and defend himself. Twenty years
ago, in the commitment of Toth to prison, Allegheny
county committed a terrible mistake, the terror and
horror of which no one but a man who has served a
term for a wrong he has not done can fully compre
hend. Twenty years is a long time; there are many
hours during a period of twenty years for a man to
brood over the wrong done him by Society and to
change from a human being to a sullen, revengeful
embittered animal.
His prison mates knew him as "Praying Andy"
Toth. When he entered the prison a prayer was on
his lips. That same prayer, answered after twenty
years, was still on his lips when he came out a vindi
cated man.
Nothing can ever repair the wrong done to this
man. It is awful to contemplate. Let it act as a
lesson in future cases that until a man is proved guil
ty ho must be held INNOCENT!
A man died. Before he died, he made a confes
sion, over there in Hungary. His name was also
Toth.
After twenty years, a coward told the truth!
In the sublime faith with which "Praying Andy"
Toth awaited that confession, there is something awe
inspiring. Not less awe inspiring is the thought of the
soul of that dead man going to meet its God.
"Til 13 GKT-HICH-QUICK SCHEME WILL GET YOO
IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT."
' An editorial of this nature is pertinent every day
of the year and to be effective as a warning against
the horde of swindlers whose insidious literature
creeps into every mail despite the watchfulness of the
postal authorities, it should be mailed to every possi
ble Investor with the same regularity and persistence
as tho gorgeous and fortune promising prospectuses of
the get-rich-qulck scheme promoters themselves.
It is a lamentable fact of human nature, however,
that whereas the prospectuses will be read with in
tense and consuming Interest, inflaming a naturally
sane mind with the lust for gain In an incredibly
rfhort time, the warnings against these very things will
gonerally be read very cursorily or not at all.
Newspapers, magazines, periodicals of every kind
save warned the public against the get-rlch-qulck
grafters time and again. Almost every day there is a
story In the papers of an arrest or a raid by the postal
authorities in connection with the hundreds of various
schemes by which the public is annually fleeced out of
hundreds of millions of dollars.
Probably there Is not a man or woman in the
whole country who has a little or a lot of money in
the savings banks but has been flooded with the re
markably clever literature of the get-rlch-qulck ras
cals or received a call in person from a suave, smooth,
polished Individual who has promised confidentially
such amazing results in the most plausible manner con
ceivable by the cunning brain which directs the opera
tions from a handsome suite of offices in any of the
larger cities of the United States.
Perhaps the above statement is slightly exagger
ated. There may be, and undoubtedly are, some per
sons in this country who have not yet been approach
ed by fhe get-rich-quick robbers but their time will
come sooner or later and It is for just such persons
that this editorial is written, that they may be warned
sot to snap at the bait, however alluring it may be,
held out to them by these unscrupulous "promoters."
.TnVin Smith lu n aunnnfllttnllH linrsnn nf nnv tnwn
In nny county of any state in the Union. Mr. Smith
has some nine 'hundred dollars in the savings bank
where it Is drawing Interest up to four per cent, in
some cases, although more often it is only two nnd a
half or three. One day Mr. Smith has the misfortune
to have his name placed on what Is known to both lay
man and professional as the " sucker list." The word
is not an eegant one but it is the only term by which
Mr. Smith and others like Mr. Smith are known.
Prom the day that Mr. Smith's name goes on that
list It becomes only a question of time until his nine
hundred dollars goes out of the savings bank and Into
the hnnds of the get-rlch-quick schemer. Unless, of
course, and this does not usually happen, Mr. Smith Is a
gentleman of more than the average caution who takes
time and money to Investigate the whole affair thor
oughly before Investing his carefully saved earnings.
In nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a
thousand Mr. Smith has not the time, and, as we have
supposed, he lias not the money, because the nine
hundred dollars in the bank represents the savings of
a life time.
But he has time to read the prospectuses and if
not, ho takes time to read them, for being a purely
human person their lurid colors and the prominence
given to the dollar mark catches his eye and holds his
attention until he has read them through and through.
Probably, afterwards he laughs at himself for having
read the thing, and, if the truth were told, feels a
trifle ashamed, because he vaguely remembers having
read somewhere that the promises of the prospectuses
are impossible of fulfillment and that the men who
write them are being sent to prison every day.
Undoubtedly he would not want Neighbor Jones
to lind him poring over the little booklet. Mr. Smith
Is, as we have said, only human and he would be
afraid that his neighbor might laugh at him. So he
goes to his work in the field or in the store, and sev
eral times during the day he catches himself won
dering if there might not be something in the scheme
after all. That night he goes home from work. The
books In the house have been read over and over again.
The booklet, however, Is more attractive.
Mr. Smith gets to thinking. He thinks that the
savings bank rate- of Interest is pretty low and that his
money really ought to be doing a little bit better than
three per cent to say the least. He thinks of the
enormous wealth of the money kings of to-day. How
does his paltry nine hundred dollars compare with
those colossal fortunes? There Is no comparison.
And then Mr. Smith remembers that most all the mil
lionaires he has read about In the papers began with
a few hundred dollars or even less. Why cannot he
do the same? Isn't lie as clever a man as other man?
Certainly he is. Isn't his money just as good as oth
er people's money? Of course. Cannot his money
double and treble itself if he'll only five it a chance?
Unquestionably.
Meanwhile the chance is right betore him; op
portunity Haunts itself in his very face; he'd be a fool
not to grasp it. What Is the chance? Where Is the
opportunity? Why is he a fool? The prospectus is
only too glad to show him. Out It comes from the
inside coat pocket with the dollar marks dancing up
and down the page, and the clever, Insidious, psycho
logical questions taunting him with his present pov
erty when such great, exclusive and unfailing profits
are to be realized if he'll only have the common sense
and decision to INVEST NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO
LATE. ' i
Mr. Smith becomes dissatisfied. He wants to pet
more money and get it quickly. The scheme before
him, whether mining stock, real estate, bananas,
manufacturing companies promises him anywhere from
8 to 800 on the money invested. 800 on nine
hundred dollars is $7200. He thinks of the money he
has worked so hard to earn. What if he should lose it?
But pshaw, there is no such word as fail, says the
prospectus. Mr. Smith cannot lose. There are the
figures right on the first page which prove it to him.
Just look at the letter from Neighbor Black telling
how he doubled his money through investing with the
company behind this prospectus. Neighbor Black has
been paid well for that letter, but Mr. Smith does not
know that. He wants to get money and get It now!
So he takes his nine hundred dollars from its
safe resting place in the saving bank and the letter In
which he malls, the check or money order almost loses
itself in the great mass of just such letters which have
the main office of the promoting company for their
destination. Perhaps Mr. Smith only sent $450 the
first time, not wishing to risk his whole accumulation.
Undoubtedly then he will receive at the end of the
month the promised amount of interest with another
glowing prospectus and more literature of the same
golden promising kind. Then Mr. Smith knows he
cannot lose. Hasn't he got the money right there in
his hands? What better proof does he need? Seeing
is believing, but alas for Mr. Smith, he does not know
that the Interest which he has received Is some of HIS
OWN MONEY RETURNED TO HIM, to lure" him fur
ther into the net, and is not the dividend paid out of
the legitimate earnings of the wonderful company.
No longer does any doubt exist in Mr. Smith's
mind, however. He Is on his way to fortune and soon
he will be able to astonish his nelghbors.V
Out comes the rest of that nine hundred dollars.
He borrows more money; he mortgages his house and
sends the proceeds to the company.
Mr. Smith has said good-bye to his money forever
and ever. It NEVER COMES BACK.
The get-rlch-qulck scheme Is tho meanest, most
despicable form of robbery which is practiced to-day.
Read this letter received from a young man which the
Metropolitan magazine prints in its last issue: "We are
are absolutely without resources. Our home will be
sold over our heads and my mother is old and ailing."
His mother was a widow who had "invested" every
cent she had in a fake get-rlch-quick scheme. Her
death later as a result of the privations she suffered
because of her folly must be tallied as one of tho
thousands of death marked up to the get-rlch-qulck
wolves.
There' are too many names of the get-rich-qulck
rascals for us to print them all. A few, Shelton C.
Burr, A. L. Wisner, L. E. Pike, George Graham Rice,
Alfred B. Osgoodby, W. T. Wlntemute, C. F. King,
and William C. Greene stand out above the rest be
cause of the audacity and success of their operations.
There is slight satisfaction for those who have lost
their all In the schemes promoted by these cold-blooded
scoundrels to know that some of thorn are now un
der arrest and others are serving terms in prison.
All the laws in the world, all tho watchfulness, of
the authorities, all the warnings the newspapers, can
not save you, Mr, Smith. Your only protection is your
self. Be ever on your guard because the "get-rlch-quick
scheme will get you If you don't watch out."
IB-
PRESS NOTES
A Philadelphia woman wants a
divorce because her husband allowed
her only 25 cents n day. Evidently
she Isn't satisfied with her quarters.
New Mllford Advertiser. Or elso
he ought to get a better half.
& 0 vM
Charles Spring, son of Council
man Spring, Is now working for
William H. Boardman, the Philadel
phia engineer. Bristol Daily Cour
ier. Wo hate to spring this' one but
of course he works on a spring
board. Glddap, Dobbin, It's time to
go home!
it it
Crossed in Love Affair, Stayed In
Bed 40 Years. Joseph Plummer, of
Milton, N. H Now Seventy-One,
never got up after his father refused
to allow him to marry. Headlines
the N. Y. Herald. Nevertheless we
imagine that he wasn't nearly as
cross as his father.
J tt
The city of Everett, in the state of
Washington, has had to cut Its run
ning expenses 50,000 odd dollars be
cause of the loss of revenue when
the town went dry. N. Y. Evening
Journal. We will wager a goodly
sum that when they vote again on
the license the name will be chang
ed to Everwet. Ha, ha, Archi
bald, you may make mine the same.
Some of the good things served by
Mrs. Gumaer were: Pretzels, Llver
wurst, Kartoffel Salade, Pumper
nickel, Frankfurters, Schweinknochel
Sauerkraut, Limberger Cheese, Sch
weitzer Cheese, Speck. Livingston
Manor (N. Y.) Times. We opine
that if we racked our brains and
took a correspondence course in a
Sherlock Holmes College, we could
guess the nationality of the diners.
PEOPLE'S FORUM EDITOR'S CORNER,
Funeral Of Michael Cilnimlns.
Funeral services for the late Mich
ael Crlmmins, who died last Tuesday
evening, aged 75 years, were held In
his residence, the old Sidney Bush-
nell place at Dyberry, Saturday
morning at 8 o clock and at 10
o'clock In St. John's Evangelist R. C.
church, Rev. Father Thomas M.
Hanley, officiated. It was largely
attended. The bearers were: Mich
ael J. Moran, Honesdale; John J.
Hensey, White Mills; Peter Haggerty,
Bethany; James Burke, Daniel O.
Manfield, Thomas Dorrity, Tanners
Falls. Interment was made in St.
John's cemetery.
Out-of-town relatives in attend
ance were: Miss Anna Collins, John
Quill, James Mulvehill, Olyphant
-Miss Mary Collins, Newark, N. J.
Death Of Mrs. Chillies H. Gray.
Mrs. Charles H. Gray, nee Carrie
Lake, daughter of Dr. George A.
Lake, died Thursday midnight, 'at
her home, 443 Main street, from
pneumonia. A two weeks' illness
preceded her death. She was born
October 1, 18G9, at Ellenville, N.
Y., and was 41 years old. She was
married March 15, 1889, at Nar-
rowsburg, N. v., to Charles H. Gray
A sister, Mrs. Abram Decker, CHIT
street, survives, also her husband
and seven children, six sons and
one daughter, viz: Charles Edward
Ethel G., Elisha G., Clinton L., Ed.
ward J., Robert L., Elmer W., all at
home, their ages varying from 9 to
22 years. Funeral services were held
in her late residence Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. A. L
Whittaker, rector of the P. E
church, of which she was a devout
member, officiating. Interment at
Glen Dyberry cemetery. Mrs. Gray
was a mmber of the Daughters of
America.
Funeral services were held in her
late residence, Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock, Rev. A. L. Whittaker
officiating, and were largely attend
ed. The bearers were W. J. Ferber,
George Bergman, Ernest F. Dudley,
L. C. Wenlger, Philip W. Slater, Pat
rick F. Lennon. Interment was made
in Glen Dyberry cemetery. Out-of-town
relatives in attendance were:
Elisha Gray, Atlantic City.
Funeral of John U. ltodcnier.
Funeral services for the late John
U. Bodemer, who died Thursday at
the home of Michael Loercher, 147
Cliff street, were held Sunday after
noon In his late residence, and were
largely attended. Rev. C. C. Miller
officiated. The pall-bearers were
Michael Loercher, John Driscoll,
Fred Pohle, Stephen Bergmann,
William C. Polt, George Poppen
heimer. Interment was In River
dale .cemetery. Out-of-town rela
tives In attendance were: Mrs. Bar
bara Witmer and daughters, Julia
and Helena, Scranton.
John Male, of Cherry Ridge, Pa.,
announces his candidacy for County
Commissioner on the Republican
ticket. 21tf
ROBBER CATARRH
Steals Eiierjjy und Will Power From
Its Victims.
Catarrh robs Its victim ot energy
some physicians say of will power.
That may be the reason thousands
of catarrh sufferers ha,ven't ambition
enough to accept this fair and square
offer by G. W. Pell which makes
without any whys and wherefores
or red tape of any kind.
G. W. Pell says: "I guarantee
HYOMEI to cure catarrh, acute or
chronic, or money back," and that
offer is open to every reader of the
Citizen. 1
HYOMEI (pronounce it High-o-me)
is the purest Australian Eu
calyptus combined with Thymol and
other germ killing antiseptics.
Pour a few drops into the small
vest pocket'HYOMEI Inhaler and
breathe It into the lungs over the
inflamed membrane infested with
catarrh germs.
It is pleasant to use it kills the
germs, soothes tho sore membrane,
and cures catarrh; If it doesn't your
money back.
A bottle of HYOMEI costs 50
cents at druggists everywhere, and
at G. W. Pell's. A complete outfit,
which includes a bottle of HYOMEI,
a hard rubber Inhaler and simple in
structions for use costs $1.00,
Editor of The Citizen:
Can you tell me where the saying
"The hand that rocks tho cradle is
the hand that rules tho world" ori
ginated? I have had a dispute over
the origination of this saying with
my brother who claims it is from
something of Shakespeare's. I do
not agree with him. Will you set
tle this question for us?
Very truly yours,
K. E. M.
To the best of our knowledge the
Baying you mention comes from a
poem by William Ross Wallace en
titled "What Rules the World." It
runs as follows: i
They say that man Is mighty;
ne governs land and sea;
Ho wields a mighty sceptre
O'er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
And the hand that rocks the
cradle
Is the hand that rule- the
world.
II e get a lot of fun out of IMt column. Wt
want you to enjoy it aim. l'rimarllu it is run
for pour amusement. It anything: appears hers
which offends you In any way whatsoever, drop
i us a postal or 'phone us to that effect. An apol
ogy will appear in the next issue ot the paper.
That's fair, isn't it t
j H'e have no wish to hurt anybody's feelings.
All we want to do is to brighten one moment of
1 your day; and if but one single Hem brings m
! smile, we shall feel it was not written tn vain.
I If Charles Bassett out to auction.
, off his belongings would Lloyd Bid
well on the razors? Ready aim!
i Fire!!!
1 If Henry Russell should plar
shortstop on the Honesdale team
i would Martin Caufleld? Give hla
. another chance constable, he has a
' widowed mother.
Our half-baked and wholly incon
trovertible Idea of nothing for a
man to brag about is the number
and kind of drinks he had before hs
began to forget. What is your
idea?
Editor The Citizen:
Little of practical Importance has
been said about the graded lesson
system in our local Sunday School
Conventions. Neither Is it our pur
pose at this time to set forth the
construction plan of the separate
courses of Bible study, nor yet to
note the difficulties to be met in
their adoption. But it may be time
ly to say at least a word respecting
tho transition period through which
the Sunday school world Is just now
passing.
Some References For tho Old.
Doubtless the uniform lessons will
survive for another generation for
they have been a mighty agency for
good in the past and are too strongly
entrenched In the minds and hearts
of the church constituency to be put
aside easily. Then, too, they meet
tho requirements of that immense
Sunday school constituency which
prefers predigested material; as also
those who are sentimentally fearful
and afraid tb cut loose from tradi
tion. While those who are financial
ly involved in the uniform lesson
plan have buttressed It on every side
by commercial and vested interests,
and still others solemnly affirm the
grave defects of this new departure
In lesson study.
Success Of The New.
On the other hand, man schools
are Inquiring about the graded sys
tem and asking for its merits in pre
ference to the old. In fact, the
Sunday school is already recasting
its methods, and revising its ap
peals, and so adapting itself to all
classes and ages with the result that
over one-half million of young men
alone became associated with the
Sunday school and church last year
through direct effort along modern
lines.
Our denominational houses have
been quick to recognize that the best
good of the child demands first con
sideration, and have entered upon
the new lesson series with both care
and reluctance, knowing that the fi
nancial outlay must far exceed all
profits derived therefrom for some
time. However, the new graded
courses met with instant success in
a fivefold greater demand the past
year than the most sanguine dared
to hope.
This prompt and hearty response
in general demonstrates beyond
question the recognized widespread
and earnest desire for a new type of
organized study and instruction in
the Sunday school. And the unani
mous testimony of those who have
adopted and tested the principles of
the new methods, aside from the
psychological and pedagogical basis,
is highly favorable, and entirely sat
isfactory. Some Unique Features.
Tho graded lesson studies faith-
fjlly pursued will help the student
to locate the lesson in his own Bi
ble; to obtain a clear idea of the
Bible story; to know its relation to
other scripture; to feel the need of
a practical realization of its precepts
in tho individual life.
The method pursued In graded
Sunday school work Is somewhat
similar to the grade work In the pub
lic or secular schools a continuous
series of progressive Bible studies
from infancy throughout life, design
ed to meet the needs of the pupil In
each stage of his spiritual develop
ment, and making for thoroughness
and familiarity with and love for
God's Word, so that he will become
a persistent life-student of the old
Book, and the exemplar of Its teach
ings. Those Sunday schools which to
day confess to a need of a diviner
aspiration, may find It in this toning
effect of an ungloved grasp of God's
Word in the "rich feel" of a di
rect handclasp with the Divine.
This is tho careful design of the
graded Sunday school work: To lift
the school out of tho whirl of ex
cessive "lesson helps" (or hind
rances), and to rescue it from the
crutch-like method of Bible study, In
its every endeavor to entwine the
tendrils of childhood and youth
about the Book of Books. To be
doing this faithfully Is to be tilling
and seeding for a hundredfold har
vest in direct Bible knowledge and
practical Christian training.
R. D. MINCH.
Damascus, Pa.
Absentmindedlike, we asked Nel
lie, the b. w. o. a. h., for an oranga
last Friday. When the battle wai
over we crawled out from under ths
table and finished our breakfast in
the hall.
If It's ton difficult for us to pro
nounce the namo of a prominent
Russian general perhaps Margaret
Kansky. What ho! Without thoro!
Let the portcullis fall, there's a
traitor in our midst.
'Moses Green has the contract t
build a large pigpen for Mr. Ar-nold.-Ellenville
(N. Y.) Press. Wo
could, if we so desired, by taxing
our brains to the last cell of our
cerebellum, create a bit of a laugk
out of this item.
We note that at the recent fira
In Randolph Hall, Harvard Univer
sity, the students were awakanei
barely in time to escape the flames.
Probably the student who should
have yelled "fire!" went about it
this way: "Fellow aspirants of tho
altitudinous erudition, I am inform
ed through my possession of two of
the five senses that a conflagration
is consuming our dormitory. Ergo,
juxtaposition to tho oxygenated car
bonized olajlnous chemical trans
formation now being consummate
being highly undesirable, I have fin
ally arrived at the conclusion that
we must propel ourselves througk
yonder casement, or otherwise un
dergo the tortures of Incineration.
Editor The Citizen:
A copy of The Citizen of the 15th
Instant was forwarded to me, and tho
contents of the article concerning the
care and preservation of trees in
your town, was carefully noted. I
take the liberty to reply to same,
not in criticism of It, but rather that
you and your readers bo not misled
on the duty you owe the trees.
Your desire to havo some philan
thropic minded citizen follow the
steps of Clarke Bros, of Scranton, is
a matter tnat deserves severe criti
cism. While tho motive of Clarke
Bros. Is a commendable one. their
act however should bo condemned.
The children who will recolve
these trees have no knowledge of
planting them and much less their
parents. Such a condition will re
sult In trees planted too closely,
some in poor soil, others out of har
mony with the landscape, etc. You
have the exact condition in your town
to-day as a result of indiscriminate
planting by your fore-fathers. Trees
have decayed and died because they
had no opportunity to breathe, nor to
spread their roots at will.. Tree
that attracted disease, shut out sun
light where it was needed, and to
day you have the dreaded Maple Cot
ton Moth, and the European Elm
Scale. (The Maple Cotton Moth is
one of the insects that lives on the
underside of the maple leaves, suck
ing the life out of them and finally
causing them to drop early in tho
season. It presents a white mass,
and is no doubt very familiar to your
citizens. The European Elm Scale
is a very small whitish Insect that
lives on the young shoots of the tree,
sucking out the sap and finally caus
ing death. This can only be detect
ed by the trained eye, and by a per
son who has frequently seen it.)
Had Clarke Bros, distributed vines,
flower seeds, or vegetable seeds, they
would have done a more commend
able act, and one that would not re
sult in the condition of things so
far as your trees are concerned
that your town is suffering from to
day. To place a tree In the hands ol
a child, is like giving the care and
bringing up of an infant to the same
child.
The matter of fertilization upon
which you lay so much stress, is a
remedy of last resort. Shade trees
properly planted, pruned of their
dead and superfluous wood every
year or so, and the soil spaded up
around them, very seldom need fer
tilizing. By relieving the tree of dead and
superfluous limbs, it is stimulated to
better growth. Sunlight reaches
every portion, air passes through it
very much in the same fashion that
a house is ventilated. It is an aid
towards extirmination of many ol
the pests that attack the trees, be
cause they will not live in places that
are exposed to severe sunlight and
winds. Spading around the tree to
a distance equal to its spread, will
permit water to find its way to ths
feeding roots. By having a heavy
sod over them sends the water off or
simply keeps it near the surface until
evaporated.
A tree with such care in a city,
is living under a near ideal condi
tion, and should be in good health.
Such a tree is less susceptible to at
tack by pests than its neighbor who
has had no attention, and is the har
bor for almost every pest.
It Is to be confessed that leaven
are an excellent food for trees, but
not the same leaves that fall from
the city trees. These Invariably ars
filled with the pest that caused them
to drop, and by collecting and burn
ing them as soon in the fall as possi
ble, much Is done towards the ex
tirmination of these pests. By per
mitting them to He on the ground
during the winter, a most excellent
opportunity is afforded tho pest for
its development during that time,
and prepares them to come out In
vigorous health in the spring to
again commit havoc to tho trees.
The application of fertilizer as
applied to fruit trees, differs in rea
son for Its necessity as applied to
shade trees. At Its best It Is no
more than a stimulant which Is not
permanent.
Trusting that I havo been able to
enlighten you and your readers on
tho subject, I am,
Very respectfully yours,
BERNARD M. RIFKIN.
Second National Bank Building.
Editor's Note: The Citizen does
not hold itself responsible for any ot
the personal' opinions which appear
in this column.)
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