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The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Today-High tide. II .Ol a. m. and ut
p. m, low tide. 5.15 a. ~ and 5:l2 p. m.
Tomorrow High tide, ll:40 a. m. and
II .5s p. M; low tide. 5:56 q. m. and 5:4S
p. N.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19
REAL sURFEIT OF PEACHES.

BLOOMsBURG. Pa. Sept. 19.-Not-
withstanding all reports TO the con-
trary. this section Is experiencing a
real surfeit of peaches, for the first
time IN many years.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Partition for WainscOting, S2.5o per 100
feet. Frank Libbey & Co., 9th d Ny. Ave.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Partition Beaded in. Wide, s.. so per 100
feet. Frank Libbey & Co., 9Th & MY. Ave.
-Advt. .,.--,,,,-,,
The Washington times., 1909-09-19
CONDITTON on RIVERS

HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, Sept 10.
The Potomac Is clear and the Shen-
anooah Us cloudy this morning.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Partition Lumber For Any Purpose, s2.5o.
per iey It. Libbey & Co., sth & n. Y, Age.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT.
Fair tonight and tomorrow: not much
change in temperature Moderate north
east winds.
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Partition for Philadelphia Fencing, Sz.so
per 100 It. Libbey & Co., 9Th & NY. Ave.
-AdvL
The Washington times., 1909-09-19

Partition for Ceiling, S2.5o per 100 feet.
Frank Libbey & Co,s 9Th & n, z .AYe,s
.-AdYt
The Washington times., 1909-09-19
WEATHER REPORT.

CONTINUED on Eleventh Page)
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
For Our MERCHANTS

Is it not fact the world over
that the extent and skill of a firms
advertisement is taken as an indi-
cation of its Importance? None but
the best, largest and most success
full firms advertise intelligently and
continuously. Others may make a
show, spasmodically, but their inter-
mittent efforts lose them the benefit
to be gained by unceasing emort in
any pursuit. AS we'll might a man
expect to accomplish success in busi-
ness by striking out with all his
force in unsympathetic efforts for
day or two, and then loafing for an
equal time, as to achieve the best
results from advertising shiftlessly
or intermittently. If you think it
pays to advertise at all, set aside
some fixed sum or per cent. for this
especial purpose, select carefully the
mediums to be used, then write
your advertisement skillfully and
truthfully, and have them printed
continuously, with frequent change,
and If you have anything that any
body wants you cannot fail to secure
results. ~
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Remember This.

Our county has one thing which she
is justly proud of and to which she
largely owes her good name, the in
huence of our schools. They have
sent out a class of young ladies and
gentlemen that are welding a power
for good and most successfully filling
the best places and positions in life.
There is no more efficient aid to
morality, honesty, sobriety and good
citizenship than well-conducted pub
lie schools, and it is the part of wis
dom to keep these schools up to the
very highest point of excellency, and
to do this there must be harmony of
four elements, viz: the school board,
the patrons, the scholars and the
teachers, and without which perfect
success cannot be attained, therefore,
let 1t be the duty of these four ele-
ments to see that no deficiency or
hindrances arises on their parts to
thwart the good purposes of our
schools. If factions exist, pray dis
band, and give your hearty sanction
and cooperation to the efforts being
made to maintain the excellencies of
our schools to-day, and so enhance
their interest that they shall stand
second to none in the land.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

Betsy, who spells by intuition, will
ask how do you spell such a word %
We go on and spell It according to
Hoyle. why didn't you write it so
then?" These words will creep In
and then the compositor will doubt
less say, "old fool, l wish he would
stop writing or learn to SPELL" Our
greatest fault in this direction is.
we are too lavish with letters. We
have been caught with two DIS in
widow and two t's in city, all from
a desire to be liberal and accord the
intrinsic value" in all cases. 1t is
too late now. We have made a mis-
take in our calling, having had a
touch of most everything. We some
times think we ought to have been
a clergyman, then we could have
walloped our congregation with no
back talk.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

We have always had the American
schoolmarm, but according to a re-
port of the United States Commits
sioner of Education, we now have
her more than ever-and better.
There are fewer men teachers to-day
In the country than in 1875, while
there are almost two and one-half
times as many women teachers.
Three hundred and sixty-nine thous-
and American schoolmarms are teach
ing the young American idea how
to shoot, and every year there are
more lady and fewer men teachers.
And the schoolmarms are better
than ever before, and better paid,
though not yet paid nearly enough.
Some German professors and a
few antiseptic near-Americans have
rushed into print to complain about
the swarming of the schoolmarms,
and protesting that the schools are
being over-feminized. We have
not noticed 1t. The average Ameri-
can boy does not yet seem to show
any unhealthy sign of shrinking,
over-studiousness, and weakness.
or any other of the vices that we as
sociate with the gentler sex. He
still retains a lingering taste for
baseball, and he occasionally goes
fishing or swimming instead of being
allured by the over-feminized school.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
A Tragic Event,

1t was a teacher-and she was
attending the Institute-and the
same sad story that, alas, has often
been told, and checkered many a
young life which had its beginning
in sunshine, surrounded by luxury
and the wealth of the world. Her
eyes were now wild and staring, her
face was flushed, her hands were
nervously working. She was q
deeply troubled and injured woman.
and we hear her saying: 20, cruel
one, l have injured the very founda-
tions of my being! Day by day you
have tortured me, and yet / could
not bear to give you up. When first
we met, how your ease and polish
attracted me! When you became
my own, how my friends envied me.
But your understanding is too small
for my large soul. You are opposed
to my advancing myself. You have
injured my standing in society. If
we had never met l might have walk
ed in peace. So now begone! We
part forever!" There was a mo-
ment's convulsive breathing,
of teeth and a sharp sigh.
1t was all over. By a supreme eff
fort she had pulled off her new
shoe"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Knock Not Thy Competitor.

Advertising that knocks a COM
petitor is like going after business
with a club. The real scientific ad-
vertising doesn't knock. Says one
writer: "In order to get more lemon
business you don't have to steal any
trade from Brother Brown. Forget
about Brown entirely. Your lemon
business will wax fat, if you conduct
the right kind of an educational
campaign. Make two lemon GUS
toners spring up where only one
existed before, and then make your
old lemon customers use four lem
ons where they formerly used only
two. The right kind of advertising
will do this for you. Advertising
to increase the per capita consump-
tion of your product is scientific"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

II you want to be worth a million
dollars 1t would cost you Just a mil
lion dollars to get it. Broken friend
ships, intellectual starvation, loss of
social enjoyment, deprivation of gen.
erous impulses, the smothering of
manly aspirations, a limited ward
robe and a scanty table, a lonely
home-because you fear a lovely
wife and q handsome home would be
expensive-a hatred of the heather,
dread OF the contribution box, a
haunting fear of charitable societies,
fretful dislike of poor people be-
cause they won't keep their misery
out of your sight, a little sham be-
nevolence that is worse than none;
oh, you can be rich, young man, IL
you are willing to pay the price.
Any man can get rich who doesn't
think it too expensive.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
A Business Decalogue.

l. Thou shalt not wait for some
thing to turn up, but thou shalt pull
on thy coat and go to work, that
thou mayest prosper in thy affairs.
II. Thou shalt not be content to
go about thy business looking like a
loafer, but thou shouldst know that
thy personal appearance is better
than letter of recommendation.
III. Thou shalt not try to make
excuses, nor shalt thou say to those
who chide thee, 81 didn't think"
Nv. Thou shalt not wait to be
told what thou shalt do, nor in what
manner thou shalt do it, for thus
may thy days be long in the job
which fortune hath given thee.
V. Thou shalt not fail to main
tain thine own integrity, nor shalt
thou be guilty of anything that will
lessen the good respect for thyself.
VI Thou shalt not covet the
other fellows job, nor his salary, nor
the position that he hath gained by
his own hard labor.
VII. Thou shalt not fail to live
within thy income, nor shalt thou
contract any debts when thou canst
not see the way clear to pay them.
VIII. Thou shalt not be afraid
to blow thine own horn, for he who
SO faileth to blow his own horn at
the proper occasion findeth nobody
standing ready to blow it for him.
TX. Thou shalt not hesitate to
say mo" when thou meanest mo"
nor shalt thou fail to remember
that there are times when 1t is un-
safe to bind thyself to hasty judg-
ment.
x. Thou shalt give every man a
square deal. This is the last great
commandment, and there is no other
like unto 1t. Upon this command
ment hangs all the law and the prof.
its of the business world.-Graham
Hood.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
To All Whom it MAY Concern.


Gentle reader, you who owe US for
this paper you are reading, as we'll
as for several of its ancestors: Did
you ever see an editors pocketbook? l.?
Well, it is just as fallible and prone
to emptiness as those of other COM
mon mortals. The newspaper busi-
ness hasn't yet been brought to that
degree of perfection that it can be
run without expense, and until that
Is successfully done we shall be un-
der the painful necessity of asking
you for a little cash, now and then,
especially now. We have been patti
ent-in some cases long-suffering
knowing that your pocketbooks
were about as lean and lank as our
own. But now, the harvest is past
and some of you have sold your hogs.
When the big, round dollars begin
to jingle in your breeches pockets,
please remember that vacuum in the
editorial purse.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Fireproof Village for New Jersey.

On big tract of land in Orange
N. j., which has laid undeveloped
for many years, there has been start.
ed a unique building venture. The
residents of Orange call it a fire.
proof village" 1t is a colony OF
houses built entirely of terra Gotta
designed to be fireproof inside and
out.
There has not been attempted
before any such large development
of the "fireproof home" idea isolated
houses of the kind have been built,
but here there are twenty-four of
them going up at once, as a begin
ming. Though they differ in archi-
tectual style, they are all alike in
their structural qualities. 1t is
used for walls, floors and partitions.
The novel system of construction
is largely due to the rise in the price
of lumber in recent years. The cost
of frame dwellings has approached
SO closely the cost of masonry dwell
ings, that the savings in mainten-
ance and insurance on the fireproof
structures more than makes up for
the difference in original price. This
economic consideration Is the ele-
ment that has caused so many homes
OF sturdy, permanent construction
to spring up in the last two or three
years.
Until recently terra Gotta blocks
were used almost exclusively for
frQnFnnfinO hnc h,i
Plans for the first terra Gotta dwell
ing in New York City were filed with
the Building Department only last
year.
The new colony in Orange calls
for by far the largest order of hol-
low terra Gotta blocks ever used in
residence construction. Six thous-
and tons of the burnt clay material
are being shipped from the Perth
Amboy factories of the National Fire
proofing company. In terms of
measurement, this means 100000
square feet.
In the walls and partitions the
blocks are laid end on end, SO that
the hollow spaces form continuous
chambers from top to bottom. These
dead air" spaces, as they are called,
make the walls non-conductors of
heat, the result being a cooler house
in summer and a warmer one in
winter. In the floors the blocks
are laid in rows between masonry
beams, and any kind of surface
flooring that individual taste calls
for may be placed on top of them.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

An exchange puts it this way:
1--WE live in a land of high mountains
and high taxes, low valleys and low
wages, big crooked rivers and big
crooked statesmen. big lakes, big
pumpkins, big men with pumpkin
heads, silver streams that gambol
in the mountains, and pious politi-
clans that gamble in the night, roar
fast trains. fast horses, fast young
men, sharp lawyers, sharp financiers,
and sharp toed shoes, noisy children,
fertile plains that lie like a sheet of
water, and a thousand newspaper
that lie like thunder.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
God BIeNa Them.

The schoolma'am is the guiding
star of the republic. She takes the
little bantling fresh from the home
nest. full Of his pouts. his pets and
his passions, ungovernable in many
cases. a rampant, riotous little wretch
whose own mother often admits she
sends him to school purposely to
get rid of him. The schoolma'am
takes a whole carload of these little
anarchists, half of whom singly and
alone cannot be handled by their
own mothers, and she puts them in
the way of becoming useful citizens.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Couldn't Miss 1t.

A young married couple, who
resides not far from this place, were
returning from their honeymoon
trip on a sleeping car. During the
night when the train was running
slowly over some still, mountainous
country, the bride, in a very soft
voice. told John that she wanted a
drink of water.
"All right, dear" replied John.
The cooler is only step down the
aisle"
But how shall I know which berth
is ours when / come back2" he ask
ed timidly.
II will stick my foot out In the
AISLE" said she, then you can't miss
It,"
When he came back there was a
large sized foot sticking out of every
berth In the aisle. NJ,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

If you wish to send a letter in a
hurry, be sure to write "in haste"
on the envelope. The postmaster
and clerks will then fall over each
other in their haste to get it in the
first mail, then the postal clerk will
yell to the engineer: Pull her wide
open, here's a letter in rush"
And the train will just fly. 1t is
expensive for the railroads, as ac-
cidents are liable to happen, and the
officials will not thank us for giving
the snap away, but this is the way
to get letters through real quick.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Why does a man when he becomes

Why does a man when he becomes
possessed of a $3.50 raw-boned plug
and a $40 cart have to rein the poor
crowbait up like a turtle treading
water until it can't see the ground
before it, and goes along as if try
ing to read the answer to the stars.
Why does a girl whom nature has
given clear and healthy complexion
have to paint it till she can't wink
for fear of cracking the enamel. And
why does she bang her hair like a
Spitz poodle and make her head look
like a window mop? Why, bless
you, all these things are the style,
and that is all that can or ought
to be said about them!
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Every Man Makes His Own Fortune.

Every MAn n1AkeS his OWn tOfCune.
We like to attribute our poor en-
deavors to some malign, obstructing
and thwarting influence beyond our
selves. However this may be, it
must be admitted that persons are
frequently the victims of what are
called accidents, perhaps accidents
of birth and environment, which
seriously handicap them in the effort
to rise in the world. Some are so
deficient in faculties that they seem
doomed to i'll fortune; but the vast
majority who persuade themselves
that they are the victims of ill luck
bring misfortune upon themselves
by acts of commission or of omis-
sion. Between those born apparent
ly under an evil star and those des-
tined from birth for every kind of
prosperity to be gained with no eff
fort come the great mass of persons
who have the making of their fort
unes entirely in their own hands.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

There are HonesdaIe people who do
not talk about hard times, but go
right along doing business and max
ing themselves and others, happy,
Just as though they were right in the
swim and leading the way. What is
the use of always and everlastingly
talking hard times, why not go right
ahead without grumbling and do
the best you can.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
A happy home is the brightest spc

A happy home is the brightest spot
on earth that the eye of God looks
down upon. Love and peace in his
home sends sunshine around the
man wherever he goes; disorder and
trouble there Is misery everywhere.
There are few worries of life which
a man cannot now and then shake
on, but who can shake himself free
from the skeleton In the closet, from
the worry of the household, a blister
on the heart. Aday will tell how many
a man carried that with him without
wincing down to the grave. When
husband and wife are helpmate to
each other In the best sense; when
order and love and goodness prevail
in the house then the man who has
6 hard battle In life to fight can leave
his struggles behind him when he
enters there. With all our faults we
are the most home loving OF people
and that Is the reason why we are
the greatest OF people. Whatever
helps home life is a national bless
ing; what ever hurts home life is a
national curse, and the greatest
curse that can touch these blessings
is what would tamDsr with the peace
and blessedness of our homes.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Consideration.

A man under the influence of liq-
uor got on a suburban trolley-car.
He got seat and made himself quite
offensive to an old lady who sat near
him. When the conductor came
around for his fare this old lady
jumped up and said:
Conductor, do you allow drunk
en- people on this carr"
mo, madam" replied the conduc-
tor, "but sit down and nobody will
notice you'll"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

We are inclined to think that
heaven will be given to those who
are trying to make a heaven on this
earth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
Deutscher Gottasdienst.

Den Deutschen Won Honesdale q.
umgegend EUR Kenntniss das In der
Lutherischen Kirche. Church st.
Jeden Sonntag morgen ION. Uhr
deutscher Gottesdienst stattfindet
wosu allie deutschen Christen herz-
Itch eingelden sind.
H. CoENEN, Pastor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

When man is a success he claims
the credit; when he is a failure he
finds some woman to blame for it.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

Treat your wife as though she
were a queen and that will help
make her one.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

For your works sake, for your
friends sake, for your health's sake,
quit worrying.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

Leave your homes with loving
words, they may be your last.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

How the children enjoy ex-
changing those good photographs
with their school mates. What
nice keepsakei "a for 25 cents.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

"In our hearts lies the Eldorado
which we scour the world to find"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

Face the world with your heart
forward and your backbone straight.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12


+ Could anything be a better illus
tration of the way women do their
work as compared with the way
men do theirs, than to look over a
village of say, a thousand families,
on Monday? In a thousand little
kitchens a thousand women would
be seen thrusting wood into a thous-
and little cook stoves, beating a
thousand little wash boilers, bend
ing their backs over a thousand lit
tie washboards, and hanging their
clothes on thousand little clothes
lines. If, by some singular social
revolution, the men of such a viii
1age were to undertake to do the
work, their first step would be to
get up a stock company, invest capi-
tai in building and machinery, SO
organize the work that about a half
dozen men would do the work for
the whole town, receive good sala-
ries therefor, and the rest of the
men would go about their own busi-
ness on Monday Just as on any other
days.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12
REYERTES

Sensitive people seem to enjoy
sensitiveness. They are always on
the lookout for something to give
them pain. They are much like a
cat would be with a tail forty feet
long, dragging around on the floor
ready to be tramped upon. We are
crowded pretty thick upon life's
great thoroughfare, and can't we'll
help elbowing each other as we pass
along. Ninety-nine times out of
every hundred no harm is intended,
but those sensitive people, who have
the longest and sharpest elbows of
anybody. are always attributing a
motive to every accidental Jog they
get. The fact is, personal import
ance Is at the bottom of this whole
thing. The world Is not thinking
about you-has no desire to hurt
you-but you imagine that the whole
world should be run in your inter-
est
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12

Baby, when he's hungry cries,
Schoolboys beg for cakes and pies,
Lovers plead with lips and eyes,
You want business-Advertis
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-12


ance Is at the bottom of this whole
thing. The world Is not thinking
about you-has no desire to hurt
you-but you imagine that the whole
world should be run in your inter-
est.
~"R
A "Cheery Good morning" often
sends a ray of sunshine streaming
through the innermost recesses of a
household, resting there all the live
long day, and again follows hasten
ing footsteps into the mart of busi-
ness, lighting up and Frightening
the way of the world as it goes.
A hearty Good night" often soothes
many a troubled mind to rest, and
heals the wounds which have either
came anew to a struggling soul, or
been re-opened by the harsh words
or deeds that are spoken or done
in season or out of season, as the
daily battle of our life progresses.
Good morning." with a heartful
wish for blessings in the tone of its
utterance, cheers the heart of faint
and fearful ones, and softens many
hard spot that has place by inheri-
tance or cultivation, in the breasts
of humanity. The lovelight, that
beams from the eye when one is
greeted by such words as Good
night" lights many a weary spirit
to a chamber of rest and peace and
to land of pleasant dreams.
The home where Good morning"
and Good night" are carefully said
by one to another, are the homes
of the world where good thoughts
are generated, where good deeds
have place, and from whence 20 out
good lives.
Then don't forget to say Good
morning;" say it to parents, to chill
dren, brothers, sisters, schoolmates,
teachers, friends and to all you
meet, and say it cheerfully and with
smile. 1t will do you good and
do your friends good. It will cheer
the discouraged, rest the tired ones,
and somehow makes the wheel of
life move more smoothly. A Good
morning" heartily spoken makes
hope fresher and brighter and seems
really to make the morning good,
and to be prophesy of a good day
to come after it.