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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
TREES ON THE FARM.

Many poor soils, now waste spots
on the farm, would become profitable
if planted with the right kind of
forest trees, and cared for in the
right way. Trees will often grow
where grain and grass will not.
Swamps, stony ridges, exhausted
fields and washed hillsides need not
be abandoned. There is money in
most of them if they are set to work
producing woodlots and forests.
But knowledge and judgment are
necessary, and a bad guess may be
costly.
Many trees do we'll in those soils
-cone-bearing trees in particular.
The farmer is fortunate whose land
has no poor spots. Few landowners
are so well off. Fertile acres are
usually fairly profitable, but the
gravel bars, rocky, knolls, marshy
swales and exhausted and eroded
slopes are not. Scarcely one of them
need remain unproductive. They
will grow timber-pine, locust, pop
lar, Usage orange, oak, chestnut or
some other kind. But the soil must
be studied, and the species selected
to suit it. Failure might follow the
planting of walnut on soil suited to
white pine or vice versa. The farm S
waste and neglected corners may be
turned into woodlots where the
farmer may grow his own posts
poles, fences and sawlogs.
1t is decidedly worth while to
keep all the farm at work. The
owner pays taxes on all his land and
is out of pocket for whatever is not
earning him something. Further
by growing a tree crop on land which
is too poor to plow, the quality OF
the land itself is improved. Forests
add humus to the soil, bettering its
character; and it has lately been dis.
covered that the decaying leaf litter
has also the power of gathering
from the air a certain amount OF
nitrogen. In this respect the forest
does for the soil what leguminous
crops, like clover and alfalfa do
Wood growing on worn-out land thus
becomes doubly profitable. The land
is made useful and improved at the
same time.-Country Gentleman.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
ADMITS POISONING
HER HUSBAND
Widow of Joshua Tracey Said to
Have Implicated Her Admirer.

York, Pa, June 22.-Joshua
Tracey, who died here on Monday
last in such terrible convulsions
that he tore the flesh from his
breast, was poisoned, his wife, Min
ME, having, Chief of Police White
asserts, confessed to the deed. The
woman duplicates William Brown,
a brother-in-law, whose wife died
eighteen months ago and with whom
she is madly infatuated, declaring
that he planned the murder and
procured for her. the strychnine with
which it was accomplished. Ira
cey's death was so indicative of
poison that his wife and Brown,
whose relations were common gos-
sip, were arrested on Saturday.
Chief White learned that Brown
obtained the strychnine through his
brother, John A. Brown, at Ian
caster, writing him that he wanted
the poison for rats. John Brown
confirmed this fact to-day, saying
that he knew nothing further than
that he had bought the poison at
his brothers request, and would Sc
testify at the trial.
Joshua Tracey surprised Brown
and Mrs. Tracey in the woods sew.
eral days ago, and it is understood
she had then met Brown by appoint,
ment to receive the strychnine. II
is said that the poison was first
mixed in coffee and then placed in 6
glass of whiskey that Tracey drank
The police say that Brown admits
having procured the strychnine thai
she told him she wanted it to use
as rat poison.
Several postal cards found a
Browns home from Mrs. Tracey
and written in an easily decipher
able code were of an endearinl
nature.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
HYM MENEAL.

A pretty wedding was solemnized
at st. Mary Magdalen's German
Catholic Church at GAS a. m. on
Thursday when Miss Elizabeth
Bales of Honesdale became the wife
of William Baron of Bloomfield, N.
j. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. William Dassel. The
bridesmaids we're Misses Margaret
Bales, a sister of the bride, and
Mae Baron, sister of the groom.
The groom was attended by Will
liam Bales and Theodore Welch
The bride was attired in gown OF
white suessine silk trimmed with
lace, insertion and ribbon. She
carried a prayer book and rosary
The bridesmaids wore gowns oi
Persian lawn trimmed with lace
and insertion and carried carna'
tions. After the ceremony a wed.
ding reception was held at the
brides home. Mr.. and Mrs. Baron
are we'll known here and have q
large circle of friends. After q
short wedding trip to Scranton and
other cities they will reside in
Bloomfield, where the groom is en-
ployed as a machinist.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
THE SIGEL CASE.

The further the police delve into
the case of murdered Elsie Sigel
the more they unearth to prove that
the game of Americanizing the
Chinese in this country by the pro-
cess of assigning to each one a
young American girl as a teacher
is about the limit of absurdity.
To begin with, it would be un-
thought of to work at the education
of our own men in this way.
Imagine establishing any school
where grown men were to be taught
individually by each having a
young, oft-times pretty and always
inexperienced girl assigned to him.
To state the proposition is to show
it's impracticability.
But, what no one would think of
doing with our men is exactly what
is being done all over this country
with Cinnamon. 1t is being done
in New York as we'll as in other
cities.
In the case of the Chinese there
are additional reasons why this
Chinese are not Savages. They
come down from a civilization which
is the oldest eXtant. They have a
philosophy and a religion which
are very old. They do not desert
these lightly neither do they en-
brace a new philosophy or new
religion at the behest OF prattling
young girls.
Still further the Chinese have
their own ideas regarding women
and their place in the social rela-
ton. Naturally they are amazed
at the freedom allowed to young
American women and to the indis-
criminate way in which they asso-
ciate with men. If it were not for
the Chinese would never have an
opportunity to meet on terms of So
cial intimacy and close personal
contact young American girls of re-
spectacle characters. 1t is small
wonder that they embrace so vigor-
Ously the opportunities offered them
by these missions and that they
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such earnestness.
There have been enough in
stances of how this thing works out
presented to all Americans and
there is no excuse for any parent
or guardian not being we'll informed
regarding it. Those who go into
this work or who allow their young
women to do so know what risks
they are taking. 1t is about time
that some precautions were taken
by law to restrain those who have
not sense enough to restrain them
selves in this connection.
In the sad case now engaging the
attention of the whole country the
saddest feature is the fact that the
mother of the girl murdered, her
self introduced the victim to the
mission work among the Chinese
1t must forever remain as something
to haunt and disturb her that she
did this and that the responsibility
for the way Elsie Sigel went mus
be on her head.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
SHERMAN.


June 22.-Several cases of measles
and mumps in town.
F. Conrad lost one of his team
horses last week.
Miss Louise Lynch was in Homes
dale last week.
Hildred Hine, of Orson, is visit
ing her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Lynch.
Mrs. George Hitchcock and
daughter, who have been spending
the winter in New York, returned
home last week. Her sister, Miss
Emma Foster, accompanied her
home.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. H. Smith expect
to go to Binghamton next Friday to
attend the wedding of Miss May
Smith to Charles c. Bradley, of To-
wanda.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
PRIEST BROWNS IN SURF.

Brother EeeIssiastio Tries to Save
Him, but Becomes Exhausted.
st. Augustine, Fla, June 24.-The
Rev. Father Buckley, assistant rector
of the cathedral in this city, was
drowned at South Beach while in surf
bathing.
He ventured too far out and called
for help, and the Rev. Mr.. Ray Of
Tampa went to his assistance.
Together they battled with the waves
until both became exhausted. Jack
Spencer went to Father Rays assist
ance, pulling him ashore, but Father
Buckley had sunk from view.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENTS
PINE MILL.

PINE MILL,
June 22.-Mrs. Lydia Adams is
having erected a large barn on her
premises near the South Branch
creamery.
Messrs. William and James Cole
of Bradford, Pa, are visiting rela-
tives at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward, of Carbon
dale, are visiting the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Os-
borne.
Miss Nettie Depue, of Cochecton,
N. Y, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
John Depue.
Orrin Lester lost a horse recent
ly.
Arrangements are being made to
dedicate the new church building
on June 29th. 1t is a neat little
structure and will supply a long
felt need in our community. We
hope to see the entire county rep
resented at the dedication.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
NEXT TEN YEARS IN THE RAIL
ROAD WORLD.

The American railroad system
changes while you wait. You can
see it grow. A decade ago the
railways received only a billion and
a quarter dollars from the patient
people; hardly more than our an
nual national expenditure. Now
they receive-with fewer thanks
two and a half billions. Then the
passenger traffic amounted to only
1873 billions of miles for one pas
senger; now it amounts to 29.5
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
ECHOES FROM STATE CONVEN-
TTON.

Among the hundreds of congratu-
latory letters and kilograms receiv-
ed by Judge Robert Won Moschzis-
ker, Republican nominee for Su-
preme court justice, were a
telegram from Judge Charles E.
Rice, of Wilkes-Barre, his only
competitor in the ballotting, and a
who withdrew from the field.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

$50 you are going to let your new
servant~go"
"Yes," answered the housewife.
"But you said she was Jewel"
"She was. Merely ornamental and
expensive."-New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
Wash Dresses in English Rep, Liner
and Linette, at
45w6 MENNER 4 CO.'S Stores,
Mexican Cotton Mills Burned.

Mexico City, June 24.-The Atemajae
cotton mills, owned by the Compania
Industriale Of Guadalajara, have been
destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at
100000, More than 1900 work kmen
are thrown out Of employment.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

Pongee, Taffeta, and Ottoman Cloak
and Jackets, at
45W6 MENNER * CO.'S,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21

ten they will stand on the steps and
watch you pull and wiring and twist
for several minutes before you sue
ceed in unlocking it and then just as
you place their mail in the box, will
tell you just to leave it open I'VE will
lock it," Oh, how provoking, when
they could have saved you all of this
trouble? No wonder that nearly all
the mail carriers are either thin
haired or bald headed
We have another class who thinks
that mail carrier has nothing but
patience, time and money, for they
always forget to write their letters
then they ask him to wait until they
can write an important letter. Oh,
we'll, that is alright, the carrier has
plenty of time and is always expect
ed to have buggy load of patience
never to hunger, thirst or weary, but
simply to exist on the pure air, heat
and rain with no expense and bank
ing privileges always at their COM
mad. You say, "how is this" Why
they are working for Uncle Sam.
Again there are others who will as
sail you, Captain" I wrote a letter
to my grandfather's great aunt three
weeks ago in Quebeck. Florida, or
some such name and you have not
brought me an answer, forgetting
that others must first handle this
mail. but In their estimation either
the carrier or postmaster only is re-
sponsible.
Well Mr.. Editor. the carriers and
country postmasters have about ex-
hausted their vocabulary of EXCUSES
and the future looks dark and dismal
Come to our relief. x
Remberts, S. c., Aug. 18.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21

This speech of Mr.. Swearingen
here published. will be entered ir
full upon the record book of the So
| ciety, together with the brief but
tasty reply of the Secretary.
Then the last speaker CDR. Orten)
of the occasion and the first to ad-
dress the Sumter Agricultural Socie-
ty, was introduced and talked most
learnedly Of wilt of plants-cotton
particularly. but watermelons, cab
bages, peas, etc. The United States
Agricultural Department sent DIR.
Orten to address this meeting and he
was introduced by Prof Ira Williams
as one Of the Departments greatest
men and no one doubted his ability
to sustain his reputation before an
all who heard DR.. Orten knowot
intelligent audience of farmers. Well
all who heard DR.. Orten know here
after, how to select blight resisting
plants for seed.
Thus closed the third celebration
of the 14th of August as the birthday
of Gen. Sumter--a success in all re-
spects-in numbers, in impressive and
informing speeches, in a delicious and
abundant dinner and in the social en-
gagement of all attendants, young
and old, and most clearly was it de-
monstrated that no one need stand
back for weather when the picnic
is on the grounds of the Sumter Me-
mortal Academy
The Misses Dargan. who were APP
pointed to furnish the music for the
occasion did their part charmingly
and after the close of the exercises
numbers of pieces were executed, by
request, by the Misses Dargan and
Nelson. and enjoyed very much by
the crowd collected out of the rain
in the Academy.
Resident.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21

Max, Aug. 19.-Rev. E. A. Driggers
Se,ivered an address on prohibition
Hast Sunday morning at Nazareth
church.
Lieut.. Gov. Mcleod made an ex-
ce1lent address on education after the
exercises Of Chiidren's Day last Sat
urday at Shiloh.
Several from about here went TO
shiloh last Saturday.
The little son of Mr.. Harvey Coker,
OF Motifs. who has had typhoid fever
Tor several weeks. continues very i'll.
Also. Mr.. Coker has typhoid fever.
and has been sent to an infirmary for
treatment.
Mrs. B. NJ. Truluck returned from
St Charles last week, accompanied
oy her niece. Miss Margaret Briefly.
Miss lila Truluck. of Shiloh. and
Miss Brooks. OF Greenwood, visited
ut Messrs. B. C. and w. ID. Truluck's
this week.
Mrs. Jennette Humphrey Is visit
Ing relatives about here.
Miss Marion Hicks ia snendinp
some time with her sister, Mrs. TIA
1ene Mott.
Misses Eva Moore and Lois
Thompson spent few DAYS at their
uncie's. Mr.. f. j. Tomlinson's. OF
Lynchburg.
Mr.. ID. j. Frierson, OF Deland. Fla.
is visiting his home and friends AT
Shiloh.
Mr.. and Mrs j. c. Truluck invited
several young folks to take supper
last night, after which games were
fnterspersed with ice cream, till a
late hour. All enjoyed the time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21
Resident.

Dysentery is dangerous disease
but can be cured. Chamberlain :
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rene
dy has been successfully used in nine
epidemics of dysentery. 1t has never
valuable for children and adults, and
when reduced with water and sweet
ened, it is pleasant to take. Sold by
w. W. Sibert
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21
COUNTY Correspondence.
s1EwsY LETTERS FROM OUR sPE.
CIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Aseus Of Interest From all Parts Of
Sumter and Adjoining Counties.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT
Mail your letters so that they will
reach this Office not later than Mon
DAY shen intended for Wednesdays
~ Or and not later than Thursday
cor Saturdays issue. This. of course.
applies only to regular correspond
~snce. In case OF items of unusual
uews value. send In Immediately by
Uail. telephone or telegraph. Such
news stories are acceptable up to the
hour Of going to press. Wednesdays
Uapsr II printed Tuesday afternoon
ond Saturdays paper Friday after
uoosa.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21
6AlITHvILLE.

Smfthvtlle. Aug. 16.--Cott0n Is
-epening rapidly. Fodder pulling will
soon be over. Rain has begun to
come again to the disappointment of
shs fodder puller and cotton picker.
A Northern writer undertook some
1lme ago to enlighten the Southern
farmers relative to corn gathering.
He says the correct way to cure your
fsdder and corn is I'd cut the whole
s4alk and shock them In the field.
now. what kind Of corn would we
Asve out Of which to make bread I?
Just such old soured. rotten stun az
cur farmers buy from the merchants.
Ths merchants order II from the
north and West. where the wonder
fal method Of cutting and shocking
= followed by the farmers What IL
ehe result? Plenty Of dead stock
eAused from eating such rotten stun
and worst Of all II causes pellagra,
that most awful disease. for which
Asrs 10 no cure at present. It is
said that Southern grown corn never
causes pellagra. That IL where the
solder is pulled and the ear allowed
- dry thoroughly before gathering.
oAid writer goes on to say that our
1sthod IN about as far behind the
sAmes ~ . man would be to plant his
csrn by hand. chopping holes with
<As hoe and dropping corn by hand
and covering with hoe. This IL only
enc moro case where the Northern
nan thinks he knows II all. OF
course Southern folks are not expect
ID 20 know anything. They are re-
garded as Mt subjects for the scorn
and ridicale Of the North. II some
q these wonderful and seemingly
most eloquent Northern writer's
would come down South we might
and they were az ignorant as the
cdtyman who went into the country
q" become farmer. He planted
beans and Of course they came up
the usual way with the beans on top
One morning his neighbor went over
and found him pulling up his beans
and resetting them the roots on top.
The cityman told his neighbor they
had come up with the wrong end on
top. About that time some one step
Ped up and told him the hired man
could not milk the COW. she kicked
30 badly. Cityman said he could
nanage her by kindness: so after
caressing her for while he tied her
seg to one Of his and proceeded with
The milking: In moment the COW
went tearing across the yard drag
Biag Mr.. Cityman after her. in max
ang her escape she overturned a bee
hAve. the occupants Of which gave
aim rather warm reception. Mr..
catyman pulled up his stakes and
returned to the city a sadder but
wiser man. think the Northerner
would nnd he didn't know what he
was talking about. His life down here
vsuid be even worse than the City
saan.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-08-21

stay and to do splendid work as
matter of course
Gen. W.. E. James, President of the
old Darlington Agricultural Society,
made speech to prepare the as
sembled farmers for wise action in
the election of officers, making of the
constitution and future conduct of
the meeting and did his work well,
aiding in the organization very eff
fectively Mr.. Thomas p. Sanders,
OF the HagoOd neighbOrhood, was
elected President and Mr.. Edwin E.
Rembert, of the Providence section,
Secretary. The election of other Of
ficers and the making of the consti-
tuition, etc., was postponed to another
meeting, to be called by the Presi-
dent-elect upon his return home.
Then followed a most charming fea-
ture in the programme, when State
superintendent Of Education Swear
ingen arose to present to the society
beautiful gavel made by the great
grandson of Gen. Sumter (Mr. Wal
lace Sumter) from the wood of a
cedar that grew at the grave Of the
famous old hero. The very happy
speech of Mr.. Swearingen, which we
quote here in full was delivered in a
most agreeable style of oratory and
listened to with perfect attention:
Gentlemen: It Is privilege to
present this gavel to the President Of
your society. The cedar of which it
is made symbolizes, hope, the per-
manence Of your organization. It's
finish and workmanship should stim-
ulate you to utilize the rich possibil-
tiles Of agriculture in Sumter county.
The honor it confers upon your Pres
ident indicates your appreciation of
his influence and his merits. He is
henceforth to preside over your de-
liberations and the authority vested in
him will doubtless be used to improve
and strengthen the agricultural
sinews of your county South Caro-
lima is just entering upon an era of
unprecedented development Her
water power Is being harnessed, her
cotton spun into yarn and woven into
CLOTH. and her fields now yield more
than ever before.
The Sumter Agricultural Society
should be an agency Of Improvement
1t touches the life of this community
at its most vital point, but its useful
ness will be measured by it's work
alone. Carved as the gavel has been
from a tree growing near the grave
Of General Thomas Sumter, it links
the present with the past. From
1776 to 1888 he fought for the politi-
cal independence of his State. His
lineal descendant has carved this
wood and presents it to this society
as a token Of interest in the agricul-
tural development Of Sumter county
In 1909, you are engaged in a fiercer
struggle for the industrial independ-
ence of the South. The issue is wor-
thy of the highest patriotism, the
most unselfish service, the profound
est thought and the unflagging per-
severence Of every intelligent citizen.
May the deliberations of the Sumter
Agricultural Society prove most help
full in securing the best material
growth and the truest social gains
which this community and this coun-
ty can enjoy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-01

Kingsville, 18th DistrIct.-Mrs. Van Brant
Rittenhouse has returned from a visit to her
son, Mr.. j. Albert Rittenhouse, Of Overlea.
Mr. David Bell, of Baltimore. spentthe week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Bell
Master Thomas Bell celebrated his 9th birth
day on Tuesday by entertaining a few of his
little friends.
Mrs W. J. Chapman has been quite sick the
past week.
Miss Annie E. Chapman, of Baltimore is a
guest of her brother, Mr.. A. A. Chapman.
Miss Charlotte M. Chapman, who was called
home from the Anne Arundel Academy by
the illness of her mother, will return to her
school on Monday.
Misses Helen and Lillian Hay ward, of Balti-
more, spent the weekend with Miss Emily
Quinlin.
Mr.. Alexis Raphel, of Baltimore, has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. Jeanette Raphel.
The members of st. Paul's Lutheran Church
at Kingsville will have musical and literary
entertainment at The Casino, Upper Falls, on
Saturday evening. May 9Th. They will be as.
sisted by talent from Baltimore.
Mrs. j. w. Larmour, who has been spend
ing some time with her daughter. Mrs. c. Y.
Peyton, in Baltimore, returned for few days
to her home at Upper Falls, but is again in the
city.
The X. A. G. defeated the Ardmores on
Saturday afternoon at Upper Falls. 8 5. The
game was closely contested until the last inning,
when the winners got three men across the
plate on a wild throw. O'Brien, of the losing
team, struck out Is men.
Mr.. Edward Leight of Baltimore, is a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Crossmore.
Mrs. George A. Ely has been sick at her
home, suffering with blood poisoning in a
finger caused by the fin of fish that she was
cleaning.
Little Miss Bertha Guyton has sufficiently
recovered to return to her home at Upper Falls.
Mr.. Oliver Stinchecum will resume the bak-
ing business at Upper Falls. E.