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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.
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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