i'AGE 2
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, TEC. 22, 1011.
THE GIRLS "BENEATH THE MISTLETOE
COPYRIGHT. 1011. DY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Hy WBEnT VOffffELL
I.
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F I were kissing I'd not be missing
The Miss who s Number One.
She's so Inviting that wlilie I'm
writing
I really want to run
And give her one resounding smack
And maybe I would not come back.
.
MISS Number Two Is a maiden who Is
1 A Delightful as the first.
And where she's standing she seems
demanding
A real diamond burst
Of osculation rich and rare
Upon her lips, her eyes, her hair.
T"E filrl
A riddle.
in
III.
the middle
Is quite a
I cannot solve her thought.
To me she seemeth a maid who dreameth
Of kisses, as she ought.
I'd love on that chair arm to sit
And find If she away would flit.
IV.
THERE'S -no debating that this one's
waiting
For some one's lips to meet
Her own, though surely she stands demurely.
Now, don't you think her sweet?
You notice she has closed her eyes.
So any one might steal the prlzo.
V.
A SAUCY maiden, not overladen
With shyness. Number Five.
She looks so willing I'd bet a shil
ling She wouldn't duck nor dive.
They're all beyond my reach, and yet 1
I'd like to kiss the whole quintet.
PERSON;
PARAG1
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
The Honesdale Citizen last week
Issued a large and very handsome
Christmas number, containing In ad
dition to other features, a splendid
description of Wayno county, to
gether with many pretty views of
Honesdale and some of the 110
lakeB, for which Wayno county Is
noted. Ono of the big features of
the number Is a splendid Christmas
story by Homer Greene, Esq., Hones
dale's 'famous author, poet, and law
yer. The number as a whole Is a
credit to the Citizen Publishing com
pany, and especially to those who
performed the actual work In connec
tion with the, Issue. Reporter-Journal,
Towanda, Pa.
Allentown convention, a year ago in
Juno, he was for Berry, and, in fact,
can be looked for all the time stand
ing on the right side. Charles Mc
carty Is a distinguished lawyer, an
honorable citizen, and Judge 'Searle
reflected credit upon himself in nam
ing him burgess. I look for Burgess
McCarty making a 'most creditable
record in office, and predict even
greater things ior him in, the future
if it would not be out of place for
an outsider to mention it I would
suggest Burgess McCarty as one of
the Democratic national delegates
from tho Wayne-Susquehanna-Brad-ford-Wyomirig
district next year.
Scranton Times.
OF OUR
Honesdale is Assisting to Stamp Out
tho White Plague.
The interest in Honesdale this year
in the sale of Tied Cross Christmas
Seals Is greater than ever before.
There are twenty-one business men
who have tho stamps on sale. The
total number of seals on sale In
these places is 14,000.
Arrangements for the sale were
made 'by Samuel Spry, representa
tive of the Pennsylvania Society for
the Prevention of Tu'berculosls. The
CHRISTMAS EDITIONS
EXCHANGES.
Durlne the nast week Tho Citizen 1 proceeds of the sale will go for the
has received a number of excellent I prevention of consumption. Every
Christmas editions of our different seal sold means a step forward in the
enterprising exchanges. Several had light against tho disease. In the last
line 1 thocranhic covers, while others ' twenty years ine ueatn-rate irom
were printed on calendered stock,
Tho 'Scranton Trlbune-JRepubllcan
out-dld Itself on Friday last 'by
printing 54 pages of advertising, In
terspersed with fine Christmas read
ing matter. It did credit to a 'metro
politan Journal. The Honesdale de
partment was well patronized.
The East Stroudsburg Press came
out in gay colors, the first page rep
resenting 'Santa Claus In a biplane
distributing toys to the children. It
is replete with news matter, Christ
mas' stories and advertisements and
ppeaks well for the aggressiveness of
the management of that paper. The
edition is a winner.
The Monroe Record, also of
Stroudsburg, found Ub way to our
-desk. It, too, teemed with appropri
ate reading for this season of the
year. A large, line, half-tone en
graving of the Madonna graced the
cover of the front page, while typo
graphically It was very neat. We
always look for the Becord.
'Among the holiday issues was the
Archbald Citizen. The cover is very
attractive and represents the arrival
of parents and children to spend
Christmas with grandpa and grand
ma. The Citizen secured a good ad
vertising patronage. It featured
pictures of Archbald's school direc
tors. Other 'matter helped make an
attractive issue. Success to Its editors.
The Peckvillo Journal also sent
out an excellent sheet. Pictures of
the different churches, stores, Peck
vllle bank and prominent men were
reproduced. The paper Is neatly
printed and much credit is due its
proprietor, H. F. Woodward.
The Nicholson Examiner was well
filled with advertising and Christ
mas stories, which undoubtedly pleas'
ed Its weary readers.
The Susquehanna Transcript-Led
ger iBsued a pretentious paper Dec
14. It contained 24 page's of enter
taining news matter and represents
a volume of work in Its execution,
The advertising is heavy and well
dspltfyed. We are always anxous for,
the Transcript-Ledger.
The Dally Courier of Bristol, this
state, issued an attractive Yulotlde
edition on Friday last. A liberal
amount of advertising was carried
and the paper was teeming with
news.
tu'berculosls has been reduced by
one-half. However) 10,000 people
are still dying every year In Pennsyl
vania from the disease. The various
Institutions interested In the war
against the White Plague hope that
within another twenty years the dis
ease will have been altogether done
away with.
The following Tiuslness places in
'Honesdale have placed the seals on
sale:
C. Roeschlau, Erk Bros., Inde
pendent, O. T. Chambers, C. C. Jad
wln, A. M. Leine, Ph. G., Percy L.
Cole. J. T. Brady. Ferber Bros.,
Murray Co., C. Petersen, C. W. Smith
& Co., Grand Union Tea Co., C. M.
Betz. G. W. Peil, W. J. Reif, F. G.
Terwilllger, Menner & Co., Irving &
Brown, J. B. Nielsen.
come.
Included in the club membership
are 10U members of a downtown
church, who will give all their sav
ings to help clear the church debt.
Old folks and youngsters, rich folks
and poor ones matte up the mem
bership which started last April to
permit persons to make savings in
small amount.
There are three classes of mem
bership, the 'weekly deposits of
which range the first week from 1
to 5 cents and increase subsequent
ly. How It Works.
A new club 'Will be organized De
cember 2C. The classes follow:
Class 1. By paying 1 cent tho
first week, 2 cents the second week,
a cents the third week, 4 cents the
fourth week, and so on for fifty
weeks, two weeks .before Christmas
a check .iwill be mailed the depositor
for $12.75, with or without interest
class 2. By paying 2 cents thef.
first week, 4 cents the second week,
G cents the third week, 8 cents the
fourth week, and so on for fifty
weeks, two weeks before Christmas
a check will be mailed the depositor
for $25.50, with or without interest
as you elect.
Class 5. By paying 5 cents the
first week, 10 cents the second week,
16 cents the third week, 20 cents
the fourth week, and so on for fifty
weeks, two weeks before Christmas
a check Will be mailed the deposi
tor for $63.75, with or without in
terest as you elect.
The order of payments may 'bo re
versed, if desired. For Instance, in
Class 5, going up, payments start
with 5 cents and end with $2.50.
If It is desired they may start with
$2.50 tue first week and pay 5 cents
less every week until last week's
payment wlll bo 5 cents, and the
same may be done In the qther classes.
they are, como in for a great share
of severe criticism. It seems that
some business foresight in the selec
tion of impartial judges might have
helped materially. That would
readily have done away with "one
town's judges knocking out the other
town's judges." That Is the one
blot on this year's contest and tends
to lower the standard and spirit of
the contest to a level that was not
Intended for it. This spirit ono could
scarcely believe existed in any school
or township In the county.
But, finally, lr one loses on any
county (whether In mismanagement
of arrangements, which ought to ibe
corrected beforehand), why com
plain? 'Why not be sure "that such a
thing should not happen again and
take what comes and what Is past
like men? Don't we try to Instill a
good losing spirit Into our pupils at
school? If we don't, we should,
shouldn't we?
HARRY H. PETHICK.
lit WILL
ALTERSTAMPS
Ben Franklin's Face Will
Disappear After Jan. I
frame, the Inner lines of which forml
a rectangle with corners that curvel
Inward. Above tho portrait and fol
lowing the curve of the eclipse are!
the words "U. S. Postal Card," andl
below the portrait the name
"Grant." Tho denomination of the!
card Is expressed 'both In words andl
numerals, In the lower corners. Thel
stamp aiso 'Dears ine woras univer
sal Postal Union, United States ofl
America," In English and French.
PEOPLE'S FORUM.
Prnlso For Mayor McCarty.
Democrats and good citizens gen
erally will rejoice In the appoint
ment of Attorney Charles McCarty
as burgess of Honesdale to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Bur
gess Kuhbach. Mr. McCarty Is
known to hundreds of Scranton peo
ple. He has been active In Wayne
county and Democratic state politics
for years. At state conventions he
Is a familiar figure, representing his
home county at such gatherings. In
the -mix-up last year between tho
progresslveness and old guards he
etood with the progressives. In the
Hotly of Mnn Distributed From Hor-
rhnaa to Narrowsburg on Erie.
A ghastly discovery was made by
Erie Track Foreman G. Metchel near
Tusten early Thursday morning.
While walking along the. tracks he
found the arm and leg of a man 'and
later the remainder of tho body man
glod, was discovered near NarroWs
burg, three miles west of the place
where the arm and leg were picked
up.
It Is believed by the Erie officials,
says the Port Jervis Gazette, that
sometime during the night the man
had attempted to board a freight
train and that he slipped and his leg
and arm went across the rail and
were cut off and tho body was drag
ged to Narrowsburg toy the train.
From papers found In the man's
clothes it is believed his name Is C.
E. DeKamp, of Tuscarora, near Ro
chester, N. Y. The body was taken
In charge .by the olllclals at Nar
rowsburg. At ten o'clock the Erie station
agent at iHarrlman found one leg
of a man lying on the eastbound
track, directly In front of the sta
tion. It had been torn from tho
body at the hip. The switching crew
searched the track both ways a dis
tance of several miles and failed to
find the body. The supposition at
Harriroan Is that a train from the
west had struck the man and torn
the leg off and carried It to that
point.
The leg found at Harrlman no
doubt belonged to the man found
mangled at Narrowsburg.
The Citizen Publishing Com
pany assumes no measure of re
sponsibility for any articles
which1 may appear In this column.
WnY NOT THY IT HERE?
Hnrrlsburg Saving Club Sends Out
i,duu Checks.
(Special to, The Citizen),
Harrlsburg, Pa., Dec. 17. Deco.
rated with holly and mistletoe in
colors and bold prominent figures
representing money, more than 3500
checks will go out to-day from the
Union Trust Company to members
of the Christmas Savings Club,
whoso time to "cut a melon" has
"Wo Are Tired."
This Is In no way meant to keep bo
fore the public-eye the question of a
petty quarrel over the small matter
of a school contest. But it might
be well for the parties that have
dono the kicking and are doing the
kicking to know what one outsider
thinks, and perhaps what some oth
ers think. This Is written as a criti
cism against no one person and is not
meant to stir up lllfeellng, but is a
frank and outspoken statement al)out
the unfairness of the .preliminary
contest in the southern district of our
county. Aside from that this did not
originate in the mind of the writer
alone but was prompted by the ex
pression of the opinion of soveral
people.
In the first place alter continually
hearing of this matter at Institute
and later in the paper, it sounds
more like children quarrelling over
a stick of candy than grown-up men.
The matter Is a trifling ono. Just as
the writer in last week's Citizen ex
pressed himself: " This feeling of
dissatisfaction ought not to get out
among the schools of tho county be
cause it would be a severe criticism
upon the schools of Wayne county."
I think the people can have no Teal
cause for criticising the schools of
Wayne county on this score, but It
might disgust anyone to see such an
Illustration of poor spirit. 1
To quote again from the last Citi
zen: "It Is proper that the other
Hlch schools of the county should
know that the representatives from
the southern district were not fair
ly chosen." The other High schools,
at least one of them, don't care to
know that. They are perfectly sat
isfied with the part of the contest in
which they were Interested and are
content. to know that there was evi
dently poor business management in
tho preliminary contest mentioned
The chairman and members of tho
committee of arrangemont, whoever
MARY IN WONDERLAND.
Willie did you ever wonder
How that Santa always knowB,
Where, to look for all our stockings.
Hung so careless in a row.
And 'besides, a greater wonder
How he always seems to find
Every stocking, in the darkness,
Bringing presents of all kind.
Why, Mary, Santa Is the slyest
Fellow that has ever been,
With his cheeks so plump and rosy,
Sparkling eyes and diadem.
With his bells, and dashing rein
deers, In the night, over frost and snow!
Peeping down into the chimneys,
Fills our stockings, up he goes.
Where 'does Santa stay in summer,
For he does not come this way.
Till the cold and frosty winter
Bring nlra back on Christmas day,
And so old the dear old fellow
With ihls whiskers, flowing white,
He the dearest, dearest fellow
Christmas eve, but not In sight.
From the wonderland, dear Mary,
Santa Claus so long has come,
Where he sends his time in Summer,
But his home Is yet unknown.
But to many little children
In the heathen land away
Does not come, our dear old Santa,
To their 'home on Chrlstmns Day.
Willie, do you know the story
Mamma told me of that night,
How tho Savior came from Heaven,
Bringing joy, and peace, and light,
Precious gift, from God his Son,
None so precious, no not one.
Let us give with hearts so light .
On inls happy Christmas night.
'Mrs. E. Teeple, Lookout, Pa.
Destroy Remnants of Garden Plants
Now.
Prof. H. A. Surface, .State Zoolo
gist, Harriburg, calls attention to
the importance of promptly destroy
ing tho remnants of garden plants
and truck crops at this time of year,
rather tnan leaving them In the
gardens or fields until spring. If
destroyed now, many of their pests
are destroyed with them: If allowed
to remain until spring, many of
these pests have opportunity to es'
cape.
The vines ot potatoes, cucumbers,
squash, melons, etc., should be raked
together and thrown on dry straw or
brush and burned. This gets rid of
both tho insects and fungous dls
eases lurking therein. The old as
paragus plants should be cut off and
burned, and straw spread over the
asparagus bed and burned thereon
at once to get rid of the asparagus
beetles, ana then the soli contain'
Ing the asparagus roots can be well
mulched with a cover or litter of any
kind to protect tnem during the win
tor.
It Is especially important that the
stalks of cabbage plants and the lm-
perfect heads should be removed and
fed to swine or cattle, or kept In
storage In a cold place to feed to
poultry during tho winter. Even
the old stalks from which heads nave
been cut should be removed from
the soil and treated as directed
above, or 'burned. Several kinds of
nests are liable to Tjo found uDon
these old stubs or the leaves clinging
thereto. The nest way to destroy
them is to feed them to livestock or
burn them.
NEW COLORS ADOPTED NEW
REGISTRY STAMP WILL HE IS
SUED NEW POSTAL CARD
ALSO OUT.
,Early in ID 12 the postofllco de
partment will issue some new
stamps, according to an order which
has been Issued from Washington.
Among the changes announced is
that the head of Benjamin Franklin
will be removed from the one cent
stamp to be replaced 'with the like
ness of George Washington. The
portrait of President Washington
will appear on the one cent, two
cent, three cent, four cent, five cent
and six cent stamps. Hereafter the
eight cent, 10 cent, 15 cent, 50 cent
and $1 stamps, which now bear the
portrait of Washington, will display
that of Franklin.
The government issues a $2
stamp, dark blue In color, with the
portrait of James Madison, and a $5
stamp, dark green, with the portrait
of John Marshall. These two stamps
are to be discontinued and the new
issue will contain no denomination
'higher than a dollar.
A few changes in stamp colors win
be made, although not In the Issues
which aro widely used. The two
cent will .remain crimson. The one
cent win remain green, dui mere
will be a change in design, because
of the removal of the Franklin head.
The Washington portrait will be dis
mayed In the same manner on tne
one cent as it is at present on the
two cent stamps. On both the one
and two cent issues, however, there
will bo this important change: The
denomination of the present stamps
Is expressed In woras. On the new
ones numerals will be used In each
of the lower corners, except In the
hichest Issues.
The three cent stamp will remain
light purple, tho four cent, 'Drown;
the five cent, dark blue: the six cent.
orange, and the eight cent light
green. In the 10 cent, however.
which Is now a bright yellow, a aarn
shade of tho same color will 'be em
ployed. The 15-cent stamp which Is
now a light 'oiuo, win 'Do cnangea
to a soft gray. At present there are
three blue stamps, the live, tho 15
cent and the $2. Two of them will
thus be eliminated. The 50 cent
stamp will remain a dark purple and
the $1 stamp a dark brown. The
four cent Is also a brown stamp, "but
the difference in shade makes them
distinctive.
In the new Franklin stamps the
words "U. S. Postage" will be placed
in a curved line above tho portrait.
In the Washington stamps these
words will remgln a straight line.
The new Issues are now ' on the
presses at the bureau of engraving
and printing.
The postofllce department Is pre
paring to Issue a new registry stamp,
an Idea of Postmaster General Hitch
cock. It Is the first time in the his
tory of the postal service that such
a Btamp has been issued. The de
sign is striking and will serve In
stantly to Identify the character of a
letter or parcel to which It is at
tached. It 'will be of ordinary post
age stanip size, the frame being rec
tangular, with an inner circle which
will Inclose an eagle with outspread
wings perched upon a rock. Above
the circle will be the words "U. S.
Registry," and below the circle will
be the words "10 cents 10."
The government has Issued a new
postal card, which Is now on sale.
It Is known as the foreign postal
card and will sell for two cents. A
portrait of General Grant adorns the
stamo on this card. It represents
Grant at the age of 47. one year af
ter he was elected president.
The portrait appears enclosed in a
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Time is getting shorter if you In
tend to win Dy Christmas the $5 gold
piece that the Honesdale Board of
Trade has offered for a slogan. Send
your slogans to the Secretary Great
er Honesdale Board of Trade, Hones
dale, Pa.
The 'board reserves the right to ac
cept or reject the slogans. Tho time
for the closing of the contest does not
necessarily close with Christmas. It
Is open for an Indefinite period.
Send your slogans now.
Here are a .few that have been
received:
Enterprising and Attractive,
Honesdale Seeks Greater Develop
ment. Honesdale Tho Busy Hive of
Wayno County.
Honesdale The (Banner Town of
Wayne County.
Honesdale Attractive and Pro
gressive, Yet Conservative and Safe.
Honesdale The Most Fraternal
and Progressive County Seat of
Pennsylvania.
'Honesdale The Banner City of
Love and Progress.
With Forward as a slogan, suc
cess will be the end.
If we wish to expand, we must
blow our horn.
It's Push or Pull that makes Hie
wheels go nround.
Honesdale Is enterprising 'along
lines progressive; ambitious along
lines propitious.
Honesdale possessing great natur
al advantages seeks greater Indus
trial development.
Work, Talk, Act for the expan
sion of our borough's Industries.
If you can hustle, come help us
bustle.
If possessive and progressive, then
welcome to our city.
Honesdale Is ambitious and pro
gressive without being too excessive.
'Honesdale. attractive, enterpris
ing, progressive and hospitable, seeks.
greater Industrial development.
Winter Spraying.
Pennsylvania's State Zoologist, JI. .
A. Surface, Ib responsible for the
statement that the spraying for tho
San Jose scale, Peach-twig borers,
Wooly aphis, Apple aphis, Tent cat
erpilar, Leaf blister-mite and cer
tain other insects and diseases,
which is generally done In the early
spring, can be done just as well and
effectively at any time while the
trees are dormant, without any In
jury to the trees, If the proper ma
terial is used. Ho says that the
best material for the destruction of
these pests, and also one which Is
absolutely free from danger of In
jury t,o the trees Is the concentrated
Umo-sulfur solution, either home
boiled or commercial. If the latter
Is used it should be tested with a
hydrometer, such as can be had, with
full directions, from the Carbondale
Instrument company, to tbe specific
gravity test of 1.03.
Tho home-boiled lime sulfur solu
tion is cheaper, and chemically the
same as the commercial. It Is
made by 'boiling two pounds ot
ground sulfur of any kind In pow
dered form, wltl. two pounds of fresh
stone lime, and one gallon ot water,
for one hour, Uso this proportion of
material to boil a larger quantity.
Any vessel but copper can bo used
for the boiling, and requires no ex
pert knowledge nor skill to make it.
Screens, $1.50, at Brown's Furni
ture store. 100t3
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