PAGE FOUR THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY,, DECEMBER 16, 1913. THE CITIZEN Scml-Woekly Founded 10 08; Weekly Founded 1844. Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Citizen Publishing Company. K. B. HAItDENBERQH t PIIESIDENT 14. B. CALLAWAY MANAGING EDITOB. FRANK P. WOODWARD ADVERTISING MANAGER AND FEATURE WRITER. . 1 : DIRKCTOBS t L. J. nOBFUNOER, M. B. ALLEN. K. B. HABDKHBEROH W. W. WOOD TERMS: ONE TEAR $1.50 THREE MONTHS 3o SIX MONTHS 76-ONE MONTH i 13c Rtmlt by Express Money Order. Draft. Postoffice Order or Registered letter. Address all communications to The Citizen, No. 803 Main street, lionesdale. Pa. All notices of shows, or other entertainments held for ths purpose of making money or any Items that contain advertising matter, will only be admitted to this pVper on payment of regular advertising rates. Notices of entertainments for the benefit of churches or for charitable purposes where a fed Is charged, will be pub lished at half rates. Cards of thanks, 60 cents, memorial poetry and resolutions of respect will be charged for at the rate of a cent a word. Advertising rates on application. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1013. THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. Foresight Is very -wise, but foresorrow Is very foolish; and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons in the air. Sir John Lubbock, Have you the Christmas spirit? Look about you and see If there Is some one who is less fortunate than yourself and who would appreciate food or clothing? A kind word spoken would cheer many a depress ed or broken heart. In your giving, don't forget the poor. There are several families in Honesdalo and vicinity who would appreciate your chlldte cast-off tys and clothing. Add something new with them and make someone happy. "OUR COUNTY." The Citizen Is publishing a new, up-to-dato monthly magazine en titled "Our County," the first num ber of which appeared as a supple ment to our Christmas edition last Friday. It Is finely illustrated, printed on excellent half-tono paper and is replete with stories for the home. It will appear monthly hore aftor as a part of The Citizen and will bo furnished absolutely free to all subscribers. The magazine is in Jiar,mony with The Citizen's princi ples in that it advocates buying at homo and not from mall order houses. It contains the following lo cal dealers' advertisements: John Brown's Estate, furniture; George Rlckert & Son, clothiers; A. M. Leine, druggist; Katz Bros., depart ment store; W. J. Reif, shoe dealer; Erk Bros., hardware; II. G. Row land, jeweler, and Honesdalo Nation al Bank. If you aro not a regular subscriber to The Citizen now is the time to en roll in its vast army of readers and Tecelve "Our County" every month free. As a special Inducement The Citizen offers "My Attainment of the Polo" by Dr. Frederick Cook to every now subscriber sending this paper $1.50. Old subscribers can secure it by paying all arreages and $1.50 in advance. INCREASING BUSINESS. It is tho desire of every alert busi ness man to Increaso his output. Tho merchant may have had a prosperous year, but there exists in the heart of a successful business man a, longing desire 'to make the current year the best from a business standpoint. The sales may have been as many, but the profit was decreased. In that case there must have been something rad ically wrong and an investigation may bo necessary. The merchants of Honesdalo un doubtedly have experienced a good year, but notwithstanding this there Is a loophole somewhere. What Is it? Business is going out of Honesdale that ought to remain here. That is tho secret Not many years ago Honesdale was the trading center from all points of the compass. Farmers -brought their produce to town and did their shopping hero. How many in proportion to the pop ulation are doing this to-day? To get tho farmer to Honesdalo 'there must be some Inducement offered that will divert his Interest Into other chan nels that those now followed. The establishment of a produce market in the county seat, In our opinion, would be a good Incentive to increase business for tho merchant. The farmer, as well as the merchant, likes to place his product where ho will receive cash. It is hotter for the farmer, better for the dealer, better for the merchant and better for the town at large. It places money in circulation. Let s make Honesdale a magnet for business. Instead of allowing the farmers of Wayne county to bo drawn In other directions to sell their produce and do 'their shopping let us exercise tho power of the magnet. There aro a number of live wires In Honesdale who can Infuse ginger Into the magnet that will result in a powerful drawing energy for new business in the Maplo City. Tho Greater Honesdale Board of Trado and Wayno County Horticultural So ciety could work in harmony along this line and make business hum. Wayne county Is an agricultural dis trict. Its hills abound with the nec essary soil that go toward raising 'the best apples that can bo raised in the United States, according to bulletins issued by the government. Land Is cheap and the soil contains the In gredients that make the flavor of ap ples unexcelled. Farm land Is equiv alent to "acres of diamonds" when planted with apple orchards. Apples are not the only product that can be raised with enormous profit to the farmer. There are many others that will bring good revenue to the pro ducer if there is an avenue through which they can be successfully dispos ed of. The produce exchange is 'that avenue. The establishment of' an exchange in Honesdale would be beneficial to all classes. It would take care of the business which we have allowed to slip through our fingers and which is now being enjoyed by towns and cities outside of Wayne county. More about 'the proposition may come from a different source in the near future. In the .meantime let us all work for a bigger, busier and better Hones dale. YOU BET THERE'S A SANTA CLAUS. "Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there Is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON. 115 West 95th Street." Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all chimneys on Christ mas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that Is no sign that there is no banta Claus. The most real thigns in the world are those that neither children nor man can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that is no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or Imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. "You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there Is a veil covering tho unseen world which not the strongest man nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, love, romance, can push j aside that curtain and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. It is all real?' Ah! Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. "No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and ho lives forever. A thous and years from now, Virginia, . nay ten times ten thousand years from I now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of childhood. "Virginia, your Jittle friends are wrong. They have been affected by tho skepticism of a skeptical age. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, aro, little. In this great universe of our's man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as compared with tho boundle'ss world about him, as meas ured by the Intelligence capable of grasping tho whole truth and knowl edge. "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotlbn exist, and you know that they abound and givo to our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world If there was no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance, to make toler able this existence. Wo should have no judgment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Santa Claus, the spirit of tho Christ-Child the greatest ex emplar that ever dwelt on the earth is exemplified in millions of peo ple over the civilized world, in pre paring for the celebration of the birth of Him whoso love and help fulness went out to all humanity. Wo see Santa Claus the spirit of Christmas in evidence in every home in some form, but tho most unsel fish, the most Christ-like is that which goes out to tho poor, needy and suffering. Wo see Santa Claus in the spirit which prompts the send ing ot Christmas dinners for the Sal vation Army to dispense, money, eat ables and wearables to the Home for the Friendless, orphan and found ling asylums, Day Nursery district nurses, Associated Charities, House of the Good Shepherd, missions, hos pitals, tho guilds, ohurches, Sunday schools, fraternal organizations, to tho many avenues of distribution, to bring hope, Joy, peace, to renew faith In humanity, Santa Claus is real. The brotherhood of man, the help ing band, the true Christmas must come when all men aro at peace with one another, when there shall bo no more war may we add crime. The human race is advancing to a higher civilization, when men will learn to abolish the system which now brings Into the world tho great bulk of Idiots, criminals and weak lings, which cause our penal and ele emosynary institutions to overflow. We would that tho spirit of Santa Claus would bo with us all the year, not the mere gift giving but tho kindlier and .more humane spirit of cheer and helpfulness. New York Sun. WHO BUYS RED GROSS SEALS? " In selling Red Cross Seals, looks are deceiving," says a well-known Washington society leader, who each year has charge of a large depart ment store. "Aristocratic-looking men, or elegantly dressed women with diamonds on their fingers, buy five cents' worth of seals, while little children empty their pocketbooks of all their pennies. Only the other day a little boy came up to tho table with his mother. "Mother, how many stamps shall I buy?" he said. "A3 many as you have pennies for," shj told him, and he turned his pocket book upside down and gave forty five. At one of the other stores, where the booth is near the door on the first floor, the little boy who leaves the evening paper stopped to examine the pictures hung above the Red Cross table. There was one of tuberculous children taken at the Red Cross Seals help to support. Seeing some little colored children In the group, the paper boy asked: "What are them smokers doin'?" He was told that they were sick. Then, spying the seals, he asked what they were for. She told him they were to sell to help the sick children in tho pic ture. Digging a penny from his pocket, he put It on tho table and started to take a package of twenty. five. He was told that the stamps were a cent each and he could only have one for his penny. Crest-fallen for only a minute, he took the seal and stuck it on one of Ins papers, Starting out tho door, he. turned and said as a parting shot: "The next paper I sell is going to bring two cents." THE GLORY OF WINNING Pretty Margaret Owen, New AVoiid's Champion Typist, Tells How Shu Won Her Laurels. "How does it feel to be the great est typist in the world?" Miss Mar garet Benedict Owen, who holds the world's championship for speed and accuracy, was aslced the other day. "I never hoped to shatter records," she answered. "When I enrolled with a business college it was with the intention of qualifying for earning a livelihood as a business girl. I felt, as many young women feel, that I ought to bo able to go out into the world, in case of emergency, and fight the hard battle of existence. I wanted to be self-supporting, independent. Therefore I took up a full commer cial course bookkeeping, stenogra phy, typewriting, and other things. "In 1910. 1 was entered in a 'big school contest, being one of twenty contestants. I was a trifle nervous, but when the gong sounded I settled down to a fifteen-minute grind which seemed an eternity. My nervousness fled. The school record at that timo stood at 73 words a minute. I often had beaten that record in practice. So I went after it. I won tho con test establishing a record of 93 ab solutely correct words a minute. "That was, of course, but tho be ginning; but tho winning of that con test gave me the confidence in .my self that I needed for future events. Never again was I a victim of nerves. In 1911 I entered the International Amateur Championship. I tied with another operator on that occasion, both of us writing 98 words a minute for half an hour. "The following year I contested in tho same championship. For a year I had diligently copied from morn ing till 'night. My fingers became more supple, my nerves more sot tied, my method more daring. It was at this time that I discovered I wrote mechanically. Page after page I copied, my fingers virtually reading the copy mechanically. The mlnuto I took my placo before my Under wood I forgot tho great crowd, the cheering. My machine responded to my touch a very light one, Inciden tally with almost human intelli gence. If ever an inanimate object came to lifo it was my typewriter on this night. It defied me to operate it at. me speeu wnicu it was capable of attaining. "And the result? One hundred and sixteen words a. minute for thirty consecutive minutes? The profes sional record at that time stood at 112 words for an hour. A cash prize of $1,000 for tho person who could shatter it was hung up. I captured it. And yot I felt I had not yet reached my own limit. "This year, at the Sixty-ninth Reg iment. Armory, l went into tho world's professional championship competition with nothing but confi dence. What I did on that night now is known to the world. My own rec ords oi preceding battles went glim mering, and a new one of 125 words a minute was established. Once I had determined upon becoming tho greatest typewriter operator in tho woriu I was ever unflaeelnir in ,mv practice, for it is only through ag gressiveness anu,'appiicat!on that ono may acnieve this distinction. It Is not, as many otter, claim, 59 per cent, operator and 5 pqr cent, machine. To my way of thinking, it is Fst the re verse and, were I possessed of ex act percentages I would say that it's tin per cent, macnino and 1 per cent, operator. You can't write 7,500 words an hour on a maohlno whoso speed is llmltec! to half that." TUe coming year promises to be ono of the brightest In tho history of nonesaaie. uan mo Hoard count on you to make it brighter? WE HAVE MANY Useful Xmas Gifts A Vacuum Cleaner is Always Welcome Let us have your Xmas Order The SPECIALTY STORE 1127J Main Street. Bell 'phone, 59L. SWEATMAN TO STAR IN "OLD RELIABLE." Willis P. Sweatman, who owns a summer home at Forest Lake, and is well known in Honesdale, will star in a new play, entitled "Old Reli able," says Sunday's New York Times. The dispatch reads: "Willis P. Sweatman is to be star red in a new play, "Old Reliable," by Harris Dickson, In which the chief character is the shifty and ingeni ous, but Shiftless old colored man, who has been the hero of Mr. Dick son's magazine stories. The cast to sunnort Sweatman will bo engaged at once and rehearsals are to start the latter part of next week. The play will open "on the road." THIS AVIND BLEW SOME. Hiinunclstowii Man Picks up $32.50 Missive- From woodbine, lu. Had Been Cashed. "It's an ill wind which blows no body good" is an old adage which proved itself almost last week one day. A farmer living near Hummels town, picked up a check for $32.50 lying along the road near his home. It was drawn on tho National bank at Woodbine, Md. Just to see wheth er it was good or not and also to get it to its rightful owner, he sent the piece of paper to the Maryland bank. Then he learned about tho wind. He received a letter from tho cashier of the bank saying the check was "no good." It was blown to Hummelstown from Woodbine, a dis tance of about 50 miles, air line, by a strong wind, the letter read, and the farmer thought it was a joke, but as he read more of the letter he saw it was no joke. "On the afternoon of September 21," the letter stated, "a tornado passed over Woodbine, in which con siderable amount of damage was done. Houses were blown down, trees were uprooted and tho wind was so strong that a calf, two years old, was lifted from a field to an altitude of about 100 feet and then dashed to its death." The calf, the letter stated was owned by S. F. Hess, of that place, whose name appeared on the check found at Hummelstown. This man's house and barn were also destroyed by this tornado, and during the house's destruction the check was evidently blown away. Another slm.ilar check, bearing Mr. Hess' name was found near Pen brook, tho letter stated, just a few days previous. But as both of tho checks had been paid by the bank four years before and delivered to Mr. Hess in the usual manner, the cashier said that he just wished to show tho finder one of tho peculiar feats which tho storm performed. When weather forecaster Demain was asked about the matter last night he said that there was a heaw storm in the southeast that day, but not ieii in tins locality much. CONCERNING PARCEL POST. Interstate Coinmei'co Approves Post master uencrars Plans for Expan slon. Washington. Postmaster General Burleson's proposals to increase the weight limits of parcel post packages in tho first and second zones from 20 to 50 pounds, to admit books to the parcel post, 'and to reduce rates in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth zones, was approved recently by the interstate commerce commission. The maximum weight of parcels to all zones beyond tho second was ln- We can put you in touch with . all the latest novelties ' for 1013. I We offer the best at tempting prices. t$ See our Dolls, Games, Books and Toys of all kinds. Q Fancy imported China Baskets, Handkerchiefs, Postcards, Etc. At SniTH'S Opposite Lyric. creased from 11 to 20 pounds. Chan ges in rates and weights to bo in ef fect January 1, 1914, as follows: To reduce tho rates for the third zone from 7 cents for the first pound and 6 cents for each additional pound to Gi cents for the first pound and 2 cents for each additional pound. To reduce the rates for the fourth zone from eight cents for the first pound and six cents for each addi tional pound to seven cents for the first pound and four cents for each additional pound. To reduce the rates 'for tho fifth zone from nine cents for the first pound and seven cents for each addi tional pound, to eight cents for the first pound and six cents for each ad ditional pound. To reduce the rates for the sixth zone 'from ten cents for tho first pound and nine cents for each addi tional pound to nine cents for the first pound and eight cents for each additional pound. CimiSTMAS SHOPPING HINTS. With apologies to the Lancaster Daily Examiner, wo beg to givo "a few simple hints that will enable one to get over Christmas shopping with comparative ease and have a merry holiday at the end." 1. Pay all back debts, but don't be discouraged it will be a year before it is again necessary. 2. Consider your finances and skip all persons who you think are plan ning to skip you. 3. Make out a list of those from whom you don't expect anything. 4. Be reconciled to the fact that Woodrow Wilson might forget you. 5. For help in deciding your choice, be a Spug. 6. Shop early in the forenoon to make a bluff. 7. Have all your excuses ready a day after Christmas. This is im portant. 8. Consult a time-table, and be ready to .move Into a new locality about January 1, 1914. That is all. Strictly obey the above rules, and you will have a merry Christmas! GATHER1NG CATERPILLAR EGGS rne Sullivan Democrat tells a story which will count for something In fighting tho caterpillar plague and which should be practiced 1n Wayne county. It follows: The teachers and scholars of this school are endeavoring to have act ual experience along with the nature study course that is required. You all know what a pest tho tent cater pillar, (apple tree worm) was last summer. The children are collecting tho nests or egg clusters of these worms and destroying them. An egg cluster contains from 12o to 250 eggs, or say an average of 175 eggs, of which one-half will develop into apple tree worms. That is 8S worms to an egg cluster. If each school in the town of Fremont will collect 500 I egg clusters and destroy them in ac- cordance with tho rules of the con test they shall have destroyed over one-half million worms. The Long Eddy school has appropriated prizes to be divided among tho schools a'nd pupils in the town of Fremont, for the collection of egg clusters of the apple tree worm. It is hoped the parents will help the children in this matter as it Is for your good and the good of the trees where you live, whether you own your property or rent it. REMOVING BORERS FROM PEACH TREES. "In removing borers from peach trees what is best to use for healing wounds? Also there are knots grow ing on the roots. What is the cause and what is tho remedy? Would to bacco stems do any good if placed around the roots? Part of the or chard is in clover and the field mice are very bad. What do you think about scattering poisoned grain?" thus wrote a citizen from the western part of tho State to Prof. H. A. Sur face, State Zoologist, Harrisburg, Pa. He received the following reply: "For healing wounds in peach trees where you have to cut to remove bor ers, I can say that It is not necessary to apply anything whatever. Peach trees heal most readily of any kind of trees, I grow. Make the cuts up and down rather than across the tree, and they heal quite quickly when the tree is vigorous. You can not apply material on peach trees as easily as you can on apple, pear and quince, for the reason that there is so much gum comes from the peach tree that tho material will not stick to it. "The large borers in your peach trees are from eggs that were laid by the peach treo borer moth early in the summer. This insect requires one year for its life cycle. In other words, those that laid their eggs this sum mer will pass the winter as larvae to become pupae in the spring, and winged flying moths In tho summer. The eggs will be laid from tho mid dle of Juno to October, and thus the white grubs that come from them may be largo or small at this time of year. Tho best thing to do is to re move tho gum from trees, and by so doing you will remove hundreds of the little white borers. The larger ones should be cut out with knives. After you are sure you have them all out wash with lime-sulfur solution to a height of three or four inches. At any timo it will bo all right to go over them again next spring, but if you aro sure to get them out this fall it will not be necessary to do It in the spring. "Knots on the roots of tho trees may come from one of two or three causes. They may be due to crown gall, in which case they will have a number of hairy roots around them, or to wooly aphis, in which case you wjll generally see the blue or dark aphis. What to do depends upon the cause. If it is crown gall and you can cut it off, cut it off and Uurn ,t. If it Is weoly aphis put pow dered tobacco dust on the roots. If the knots are duo to mechanical in jury stimulato their growth until they get, over this trouble. Tobacco stems might do a little good, especi ally as a fertilizer after thoy decay, but they will not do the cood for in- sectlcldal purposes that tobacco dust wiu do. In hilling trees with earth this should not be upon loose leaf mouia or vegetation. There should bo no layer of grass, leaves or other organic matter between your earth mound and the substance of the ground. "It will be all right to put out poisoned grain for the mice if you will put it where! birds and poultry will not get it." FROZEN ALFALFA KILLS IH3IF- mis. Frank Brill, a Canastota, N. Y., farmer, lost three fine heifers as the result of eating frozen, alfalfa one day recently. Tho other cattle In tho herd wero suffering from bloated stomachs when he discovered them. Ho promptly took out his pocket knifo and punctured tho stomachs of the bloated cattle and saved them from death. Deposit Courier-Journal. Shop early while the various lines are nil complete. Have your selection laid aside if yon wish. Don't foil to coino and look around, wo will wclcoino you. PARISIAN IVORY Mirrors, nair Brushes, Cloth Brushes, Manicure Goodsi Combs, Tie Holders, Military Brushes, Complete Toilet Sots, Etc. At LEINE'S BOOKS Largo lino of Standard Au thors nt 35 to 50c and $1.00 in fancy bindings. Book's for boys and Books for girls. Gift books of all kinds. Tho newest nov els. An innneiiso lino of popu lar reprints at 50 cents. Spec ial orders will have prompt at tention. Wo can get any thing in the book lino you want. At LEINE'S CALENDARS We Iiuvo tho largest lino of beautiful ' calendars ever dis played here. Prices ranging from 5 cents. Tho popular 25 cent calendars of Friendship, Cheer, Business and Sunshine, are prettier than ever tills year. At LEINE'S FINE WRITING PAPERS AND CARDS The nicest boxes of writing paper and correspondence cards you could wish for. A box of nice paper is always welcome and appreciated. Prices to suit all from 15c to $2.00. Specinl initial embossed if desir ed. At LEINE'S SEALS, STICKERS, TAGS, &c, Our lino of Seals, Stickers, Cards and Tags is simply great this year. All gifts look so 'much better when nicely down, up with tho right seals, etc. Tuck's, Dcnnison's and other lines. Also a largo lino of Christinas Letters at 5 and 10 cents. At LEINE'S DECORATIONS Don't forgot to decorate your homo, It really makes tho Cliristmns season so much nicer. Wo have garlands of ninny kinds. Bells, Crcpo Paper, Red. and Green, botii plain and deco rated. Tinsel, Fancy Twines,, Etc. At LEINE'S LEATHER GOODS Pocket Books Billfolds, Wal lets, Book Covers, Paper Weights, Note Books, Shopping List, Art Panels, Diaries, Table Map, Playing Card Cases, Etc. AT LEINE'S TOILET ARTICLES Perfumes, Toilet Wnters, Fancy Soaps, Talcum Powders, Face Powders, Faco Lotions, Rico Powders, Cold Creams, lite. At LEINE'S Christmas at LEINE'S SHOP EARLY At LEINE'S
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