The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, January 28, 1913, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
PAGE SIX THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1913. Hannah Payne's Mulberry Tree A Feud Between Two Friends By CLARISSA MACKIE It was a small tree, but it had a wide spread of branches, and when the large leaves were out they formed a dense shndo that quite hid the view from Hannah Payne's windows as well ns it deprived her left hand neighbor, Abigail Hodson, of any glimpse of the village street Once Bevcral years before this story opens Ablpill had crawled through tho gap in tho fence that divided the two houses and knocked at her friend's back door. "Hannah," she said, with a noto of complaint in her voice, "what do you think?" "Well?" queried Hannah sharply, for she resented Abigail's complaining tone. "When I got up this morning I no ticed tho mulberry tree had leaved out so I couldn't see a mite of the road. It makes it dreadful lonesome not to bco anything at all." "Well?" repeated Hannah. "What are you going to do about it?" demanded Abigail, with asperity. "Nothing," Hannah had said. "I thought maybe you'd break off a long branch of it so's I could have a view." "It cuts off my view, too," returned Hannah. "I should think you'd want to see the street. You always set store by seeing the street," persisted tho tact less Abigail. "I'vo got enough work to do with out peeking nt the street," said Ilan- nah loftily. That was the beginning of the bit terness between Hannah Payne and her friend Abigail Hodson. From a cold nod tho breach widened until they did not speak at all, and then early one morning Abigail arose and replaced the three pickets that had been re moved from tho dividing fence. Han nah heard the sound of the hammer and came to the window, but she said nothing, only tho stubborn look remain ed on her face. Three years had passed, and the mul berry tree throve mightily. It sent out broad green leaves that cast a denser shade over Hannah's house and kept tho suushlne from tho rooms. She had to keep a keener watch over her books and clothing, for the little house seemed damp, and mold gathered quick ly on different articles. Tho fruit ripened on the tree, and the birds came and carried it off. Dur ing the season when tho mulberries were ripe the birds came in flocks to feed upon them, but Abigail nodson would have scorned to touch one of the ripe berries, although in tho past she had been very fond of them. On this particular summer morning it was very dull In Green lane, where the two women lived. Abigail had finished her housework at 0 o'clock and taken her sewing out to tho front porch. She could see Hannah Payne rocking to and fro on the next porch, but neither woman could see beyond the low hanging branches of the mul berry tree. All at once there was tho sound of drum nnd fife and n distant murmur of voices from the street. Abigail rec ollected that a small circus was to pa rade that morning, and in the evening there was to bo a performance in a tent on the village green. Abigail was a Baptist and did not dream of going to the circus, but nannnh Payne would go. Hannah was a Baptist, as were her forefathers, but they nil went to the circus. It was rather lonely there on Abi gail's porch. Tho honeysuckle vinos screcued it well, and there was no sign of life except tho frenzied dart ing of a ruby throated humming bird among the flower trumpets, the bu;'. zing of bees and now the sound of approaching music. If Abigail Hodson had not been so proud she would have tossed aside her sewing and hastened to the front gate, from which point she might have look ed down the lane and watched the cir cus parade go along tho main street. But she did not stir. If she had Han nah Payne would know that Abigail was suffering inconvenlenco from the obscuring mulberry tree, and that would give Hannah Payno a chance to laugh at her one timo friend, and that privllego nnd advantage Abigail Hod- sou would not permit. Abigail Hodson snapped a needle and tossed the broken pieces Into tho grass. "I wish I could cut that old tree down," sho muttered, not know ing that tho same uuspoken wish was in Hannah's heart, not realizing that her anger against tho tree was stim ulated by tho feud it hnd caused much more than by tho lost view of the vil lage street. "I wish I could cut tho old tree flown," repeated Abigail again and again, and with each repetition of the tleslro there grow upon her the convic tion that tho tree must bo cut down or things would never bo right for her in tho world. Sho sat out on tho porch until sunset and then went in and prepared supper, but sho did not cat any. After supper she went out and sat in the gathering gloom of the porch. Sho saw Hannah Payne go awny dressed in a white cown. and she know that Hannah was going to tho circus. Abigail's bitter ness increased. Sho yearned to go to tho circus herself. At last, when darkness settled over Green lane and tho cricket orchestra wns in full swing, Abigail nrose with a detormlti4 air nnd walked around her houso to tho woodshed. Thero were no other houses lu Green lane, nnd she had tho quiet llttlo place to herself. Deliberately sho choso a hatchet from tho several that were ranged along tho wall and In tho dark ness tried Its edge with her thumb. Satisfied, sho went out Into tho lane and gained Hannah Payno's front yard. Under the mulberry trco It wns very dark, and Abigail knelt down nnd rnn her fingers around tho trunk until she found a placo where she knew tho bark was rough and scarred. A horse had nibbled tho trunk when the tree had been a mere sapling. Then, to tho music of the circus band playing down on the green, Abigail Hodson smoto tho mulberry tree blow after blow on tho rough scarred place. The hatchet was sharp, and her thin, wiry arms were strong, and tho blade bit deep into the tree. A brisk north west wind wns blowing, and Abigail had barely reached tho heart of tho tree when a hard gust came. There was a splitting, crackling sound, nnd sho had scarcely reached a place of safety before tho mulberry tree crash ed down, Breaking tho fence in its fall. As if suddenly Impressed by tho grav ity of the deed she had committed, Abi gail Hodson 'stood for several moments as if stunned. Then with n frightened glance around her she picked up her skirts and scudded homo again. No guilty murderer could have cleaned tho telltale Instrument more carefully than did Abigail her hatchet after the fall of the tree. Then sho hastily changed her dress, locked her houso and ran down Green lane. Five minutes afterward sho en tered tho circus tent. Yes, for tho first time in her life Abigail Hodson wont to a circus. nannah Payne saw her and nearly tumbled off her narrow seat. Sho crushed tho bag of peanuts she had been consuming Into her pocket and crnncd her nock to see where her erst while friend would sit. Abigail took a scat directly opposite nannah Payne. All the people stared very hard when Abigail came Into the tent, because they know that her father and her grandfather hnd disapproved of cir cuses, and when tho Hodsons disap proved of anything their stubbornness was quite as remarkable ns that of the Paynes. Abigail Hodson broke all precedents by entering tho tent, and there was lit tle doubt that her fellow church mem bers would require an explanation. In tho meantime she must enjoy it if sue could, for never again would she have the inspiration, provocation, despera tion call it what you will sufficient to sustain her during such n trying ordeal. Such was her excitement concerning tho mulberry trco that sho did not cn 1ov the circus at all. The clowns ap peared silly, tho horses old nnd decrepit compared to the graceful animals de pleted on the billboards; tho lonely ele phant looked muddy and ancient be yond all belief; the performing dogs were foolishly self conceited. This was Abigail's estimate of her first circus. When It was over sho crowded for ward to make her escape from friends and acquaintances who might have seen her there and asked embarrassing questions. Sho was almost the first one to leave the tent, and sho sped away down tho street with feet that barely touched the ground. Sho made up her mind that Hannah would guess who had committed tho deed, and she, Abigail, would not deny It. Sho would. stoutly maintain that the tree wns a nuisance a public nuisance nnd if Hannah Payno wnntcd to begin a suit against her sho could have the papers served at any instant. By this time Abigail had reached Green lane and was tolling up its steep incline. Ahead of her in the darkness she could see tho darker bulk of tho fallen trco, and ns she reached It she hesitated. Behind her thero came hurried footsteps those of Hannah but Abigail was rooted to tho spot. She could not move an Inch, no matter what happened. Hannah Payne's voice came in ml vanco of her sparo figure. "That you, Abigail Hodson?" she queried sharply. "Yes," sho said dully. "What's the matter? I know some thing awful has happened; if there hadn't you wouldn't have been nt the circus! What's tho matter?" panted Hannah, approaching. "You can get tho sheriff!" moaned Abigail. "What's the matter? What's that? almost screamed Hauunh Payne, point ing to tho fallen tree. "I cut down your mulberry tree. You better go get tho sheriff," persisted Abigail faintly. "Good Lord, Ahby, I never wns so thankful for anything in nil my born days!" ejaculated Hannah Payne. "I would have done it myself only tho Payne streak In mo wouldn't give in Good riddance, I say, even if the fence is broke. I was thinking I'd take it down, anyway, and tho one between our houses. It would make 0110 nice big yard and seem more friendly." nannah wns talking fast to hide her ttnbnrrassment and delight. "I shall like that," half sobbed Abl gall, and then sho gently fainted nwny on Hannah Payne's strong shoulder, As nannah Payne half led, half car ried tho unconscious form of her friend Into tho houso sho felt a return of tho ld masterful feeling that had mark ed all their association in the past. "I don't know what would become of you, Abigail Hodson, it I wasn't hero to look out for you," sho muttered happily, nnd then her Hps brushed the cheek of her restored friend. HARRISBURG LETTER To Aslc Aid for Tuberculosis Work. What la bolloved to bo ono of tho most Important pieces of tubercu losis legislation that has ncen brought forward in recent years, is a bill which is about to bo Intro duced to the present session of the Pennsylvania Legislature on behalf of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. This bill provides for the estab lishment by counties or groups of counties, of tuberculosis hospitals. The act Is not compulsory. It reads that on petition of flvo per cent, of tho voters in any county or group of counties, the question of tho estab lishment of a tuberculosis hospital bo submitted to a voto at the next general election in tho county or counties affected. The vote for the hospital carries with It a voto for a bond Issue to bo used for securing a site and dwelling. The management of tho hospital Is placed In the hands of a board of five directors, one of whom shall Tjo a woman and two of whom shall be reputable physicians. The Board is appointed by the Governor, who may receive nominations from per sons In the county affected. The bill has been Introduced in order to prevent tho spread of tuberculosis by dying and bedridden consump tives. " The great problem in tho pre vention of tuberculosis," said Karl do Schwelnltz, Executive Secretary of tho Pennsylvania Society for tho Prevention of Tuberculosis yester day, "is the dying and bedridden consumptive. Ho is weaker than a typhoid fever patient. He is scatter ing literally millions of germs and ho is too sick to prevent them from Infecting his family. Ho needs con stant nursing tho kind of nursing that the wife who 'must work for money to take tho placo of her hus band's earnings cannot give. Such a consumptive may be bed ridden for a period of from three months to a year, and all this time he Is 'filling 'his home with the germs of his disease. Remove this source of contagion from our midst and tuberculosis will .be reduced to minimum. " But patients in these advanced stages of consumption will not leave their homes to go to sanatoria at a distance. As a matter of fact they are too weak to travel far. The only feasible way of treating them is In hospitals where they can be near their families. " Tho legislatures of New York, New Jersey, 'Massachusetts, Wiscon sin and Missouri have enacted laws enabling their counties to establish such 'hospitals. " In Pennsylvania the only local care afforded to the bedridden con sumptive who has neither money nor strength to travel one or two hundred miles is In tho almshouse and no self-respecting man or wom an wants to be classed as a pauper and lodged In a poorhouso simply because he or sho is sick. That lo cal hospitals are needed Is shown by the fact that wherever thero are such Institutions, they have always been filled. " Such hospitals 'make tho last days of the dying consumptive com fortable, relieve the wives and the families of the proper patients from tho Impossible burden of caring for their sick, and protect relatives, friends, neighbors and others from a prolific source of contagion. " It Is In recognition of these facts that the tuberculosis hospital act has been drawn. This hill gives the counties of Pennsylvania tho right to establish tuberculosis hos pitals If they so desire. It is not compulsory. It simply grants the people a privilege of which they are In great need. Harrlsburg, Jan. 27. Members of tho present Legislature who are interested in the proposition to put the road building campaign in Pennsylvania on a substantial basis, say that the suggestion offered at a conference of Grangers here last week, that an additional mill of taxation bo levied on corporations does not offer tho best solution of the problem, for several reasons. Admitting that such a tax would produce $S, 000, 000 a year revenue, which Is as much as tho State High way Department could intelligently expend in its building campaign, ex perienced legislators say it would be Impossible to hold that money for road making, because tho assur ance of such an Increase of revonuo would flood the Senate and House with demands for more money for local charities and other purposes. Legislatures In the past liavo In variably appropriated more money than was available out of the reve nues, leaving tho Governor to pare down tho expenditures to meot tho income. Another argument against tho tax method is that the corporations would undoubtedly mako a hard fight against such a levy, on the ground that they are already con tributing tho bulk of tho Stato rev enue, as admitted by Secretary Jer ome T. Ailman of tho State Grange this week. Tho thing could bo put through only after a long and hard fight, and the possibility of defeat at tho end of tho session would put the whole good roads program in jeopardy. It Is pointed out that anyway a tax on a corporation Is only an indirect way of taxing the people, as tho corporations meet such things by making tho consumer pay more for their products. Tho Pennsylvania Motor Feder ation and other advocates of good roads take the position that tho best feature of the proposition to finance tho building of main stato roads by a $50,000,000 bond Issue is that It removes tho whole road building enterprise beyond tho range of tho Stato revenues which are so readily snatched away for other purposes, and provides an adequate supply of money that cannot be expended for anything except the construction of highways between the cities and towns of tho State. Furthermore, the element of time enters into tho question. Tho reso lution for an amendment to the Constitution to permit of a $50,- 000,000 loan for road building has already passed one legislature unani mously, and If put through the pres ent session at an early date can bo submitted to the people In time to have tho necessary enabling act passed before the adjournment of the session nqw under way. Thus tho money would become available this year. No scheme of Increased taxes would produce any appreciable returns to tho State Treasury for a year or more, so that highway con struction could not be started before the summer of '1914. Tho Impression hero is that the Legislature will not listen to any substitute proposition, nut will put through without delay the Constitu tional amendment .for a bond Issue. I FEED THE BUtDS THIS WINTER. Harrlsburg, Jan. 25. Dear Editor: I write you to-day relatlvo to the feeding of our wild birds and hope you may see your way to a publica tion of this appeal. Winter, with all that It means, has come. Bod White has run the gauntlet .between long lines of ene mies, and Is now called upon to face the worst of all starvation. He may bo in good ehapo today, but soon the snows will have shortened his good supply, reducing his vl tallty, so that when the cold rains begin ho will not be disposed to ven ture out for tho first twenty-four hours, even though his stomach be nearly empty, but will sit huddled with his friends in some point of shelter until tho first day Is past, and then on tho second day, driven by hunger, ho faces the storm, se curing no more food perhaps than before tho rain began; and then with every feather dripping, chilled to tho bone, with an empty stomach, and still more greatly reduced vi tality, ho huddles with his little family, for the last time, to die, to freeze, or to be smothered by the drifting snows. His entire pathway along Life's journey is marked only by good deeds to men. Wont you, who may read this, try to help him In this his hour of distress and need? You are perhaps wasting every hour more than enough to keep Bob and his entire family in food the year around. I beg of you to hunt him up and scatter feed where 'ho can get it. Ono bushel of grain placed where he can Hnd it means more to him now than does all the kind words that may be uttered In a cen tury. Put yourself In Bob's place and think of what winter means to him. What applies to the quail, may also .be said of the wild turkey, and all out winter birds. I beg of you, no matter what your position in life may bo, to help feed the birds. If you can not do the work yourself, get some one to do it for you. Respectfully yours, JOSEPH KALBFUS, Secretary, Gamo Commission. DRESSING 1JY THE THERMOME TER. Unchangeable clothes, not tho changeablo weather, are responsible for much of the grippe and many of tho colds that are prevalent just now. If people would use judgment In tho way they dress, they would not bo obliged to worry about every rise or fall of the temperature. Suit your clothing to the weather. If you perspire in an overcoat on a warm day it is likely that you will be chilly tho next day in the same overcoat If the thermometer drops towards zero. If it Is moderate, do not put on your overcoat. Then when it gets colder you will be able to enjoy the effect of extra clothing. When you go Into a heated train, take your overcoat off. If you are obliged to stay in a warm office even for a short time, do not keep your overcoat on. The temperature in doors remains about tho same all the year round. Therefore, the extra warmth is not needed. Don't wear heavy underclothes. It is more im portant to pay attention to the kind of overcoat you put on than to use the heaviest underwear in tho mar ket. Do not wear zero clothing in a 70-degree temperature, for tho heav ier clothes will do you llttlo good when the temperature falls. Com mon sense in dress will save many doctors' hills. Karl de Schwelnltz, Executive Secretary, Pennsylvania Society for tho Prevention of Tuber culosis. EASTERN MIDLAND It. It. CO. That Port Jervls may become an Important railroad center, the con necting point In a line to run from Philadelphia up tho Delawaro Val ley from tho Water Gap to that city and thenco to follow tho Ontario & Western and affiliated lines Into Mon treal, Canada, Is the latest railroad dream or scheme. Tho thing has considerable backing dn fact also. A Hurrisburg, Pa., item says a state charter was issued on Jan. 10 for tho Eastern Midland Railroad Company to operato between Mata moras and tho Delaware Water Gap, with a capital of $100,000. This is tho first published Intimation of tho project which residents of Pike coun ty have been puzzling thomselves over for somo time. The puzzling has been started by surveyors who havo been working In the county. What they wero working for or who they wero working for has been a mystery which this item seems to solve. Union. 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Wo hnve passed through various stages; wo have worn white with a veiling, then net In colors matching tho shirt, nnd last win ter we arrived at colored slips with net transparencies In which tho color was again repeated, though the foundation produced the kind of effect which we called fuchsia color and wore with blue or mauve, the blouse being of cerise with an overvelling. This Indicated a change, for fashion moves along certain lines which expe rience teaches ono to calculate, and It was easy to believe that tho frankly contrasting blouse, making no attempt to harmonize isclf, would bo next In succession. And so it has turned out A little while ago wo thought this style of dressing hopelessly de mode and vulgar, but there was a time when we were attached to it and de lighted In tho changes it allowed us to ring on a modest wardrobe. With ono good black satin skirt and half a dozen blouses any woman could bo well nnd economically dressed, and tho idea was good enough until we ran It to death nnd got thoroughly sick of it. Whether smart women will take kind ly to It again remains to bo seen. The gown of prune satin illustrated is ono of the draped spring models which are both simple nnd elegant. THE NEW BAGS. Moire Affair the Latest In These Use ful Accessories, The very newest Idea In bags is tho moire bag. There are all sorts and shapes of moire bags, ranging from tho small oblong purses to tho largo bags elaborately fitted out with mirror and all the vanity fixings. A handsome hag in black moire opens very wide, re vealing at a glance the contents of tho entire bag. On ono side thero Is u mir ror resting against the soft white silk lining and In tho side pockets tho caidcaso, change purso and other ne cessities. Such a bag can be purchnsed for $1S. A large round bag In black moire is edged with an Inch plaiting of the moire. Another very much smaller bag has a deep pleating of the molro. The monogram should bo stamped in one corner and outlined in rhlnestones. To slip into the muffs thero arc long oblong purses in molro with tho flexi ble gold or platinum frames. These are really n development of the cigar and clgnrette cases which pleased the men so hugely two or three years ago. The molro purses havo the advantage over tho fur purses of tho samo shapo in that they can bo carried with the spring suit. Tho old fashioned reti cule with tho openings at either end Is now fashioned in molro and llued with white silk. These moire ones aro newer than those in brocades nnd other eastern stuffs which mndo their ap pearance lu the fall. Vogue For Net. Ono of the latest novelties among tho lovely laces and tho dainty robes of broderie Anglalse for tho slender poek etbook Is the coarse net. Tho ward robo can have nothing prettier than one of tho pretty slips of string colored fisherman's uct nnd lace. Tho coarse net may bo mounted over n color, but It Is really smartest when Its foundation Is of the samo tone, nnd this serves as a relief for last summer's washed out gown. Tho trlmmlug must bo n heavy Venetian or guipure of fillet lace, and thero may bo n girdle of black or col ored ribbon. The Newest Fad. My lady's now boots aro half black and half white, tho white portion being on the outer side of the foot and tho black aides coming together over tho ankles. Thero Is no division between vamp and buttoned upper part, tho boot being, so to spenkr a "two gore" model, with seams down tho center front nud back, and ono goro Is of black calf and tho other of whlto buck skin. Tho heels aro whlto and also the buttons, which run up tho outer side of tho boot In a otretcht linn. c . PKOFESSIONATi CARDS. Attorneys-ut-Lnw. H WILSON, . ATTORNEY A. COUNSELOH-AT-LAW. 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