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Connecticut western news., 1909-01-28
CORNWALL BRIDGE

Rollin Willard has been visiting friends in Winsted.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
Farmer May Make CHARS.

At intervals after the cigar leaf TO-
bacco crop has been harvested inquiries
are received concerning the right of the
farmer to manufacture cigars for home
use or to sell the.tobacco to a person 9th
er than an authorized dealer or manu-
facturer. For the information of all
such persons an explanation of the
laws and regulations of the treasury
department has been obtained from
the office Of the commissioner Of in
ternal revenue
Under existing laws" writes the
commissioner, "a farmer or grower of
tobacco has right to sell leaf tobacco
OF his own growth and raising to any
person in any quantity which may be
desired, provided the condition of such
leaf tobacco has not been changed IN
any manner from that in which 1t was
cured on the farm. The manufacture
of cigars In a small way by any per.
son for his own use and consumption
is permissible when the cigars are
manufactured solely for the use of the
person making them and are not re,
moved from the place of manufacture
for consumption or sale. No taxes are
required, nor is the person 50 manu-
featuring required TO qualify as a
manufacturer or make any reports.
"Unless the person intending to man
ufacture cigars as above desired
should be farmer or shall secure his
stock Of tobacco directly from the
farmer all other sources of supply
would be closed to him by the require
ment Of the law, which provides that
dealers in leaf tobacco shall sell only
to other dealers and to manufacturers
OF tobacco or cigars or to such persons
as are known to be purchasers of leaf
tobacco for export"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
Apple Superstition.

The ruddy winter apple is much
used as lovers test. Roman lovers
used to take an apple pip between
their fingers and thumb and shoot it
up to the ceiling. If the pip reached
its. destination it was regarded as a
sign that their love was returned. An
other method once much used was to
throw the pip into the fire, uttering
the beloved ones name. If the pip
burst with a loud report it was a
good sign, but the love would not last
long If the pip burst silently.
Many rustic lovers used to place the
pips upon their closed eyelids If the
pips dropped when their eyes were
opened it denoted unfaithfulness.
Swiss maidens often follow the follow
ing custom: They buy an apple from
an aged widow-the uglier she is the
better-and eat half of it with salt
ed herring just before the mystic hour
of midnight. The other half of the
apple they place beneath their pillow,
and prophetic dreams are sure to fol-
low.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
BILL OF FARE FOR YOUNG TUR.
KEYS

Mrs Turkey says, Feed little, but
often" Good advice.
Drop a fresh egg into cold water
boil thirty minutes, grind up shell and
all, add equal amount of dry bread
crumbs, sprinkle of grit and feed
this quantity to six poults twenty-four
hours after hatch. Feed thus for two
days.
Third day chop tender onion tops,
egg, curd and grit for breakfast; bread
dipped in milk and squeezed dry for
dinner; egg, curd and grit chopped up
with dandelion or lettuce for supper.
In Il week gradually introduce rolled
and cracked wheat, but don't feed
chick feed and do not give turkeys
corn until they "shoot the red at three
months.
An overdose of onion physics; a rea-
sonable quantity is liver tonic,
worm and cold cure.
Don't boil curd, as it gets too tough
to digest.
When poults ruffle their feathers,
drag their feet and don't eat they are
overfed. Administer an old style liver
pill and give one grain of quinine for
five nights In succession.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
BACK TO NATURE, THOU EAkERl

No; you shouldn't let lousy old clucks
play stepmother to your pretty turkey
poults. No sense or cents In it.
Biddy's too kind to them. She Just
sings all day, "Come and fill up your
little turkey gizzardr and she Just
turns things upside down to keep them
stuffing from morn till night. She
leads them to the corncrib. the chick
en- confectionery, and they stuff with
yellow pellets that paint yellow spots
on their little livers, and they resign
sine die.
She steals across the barn floor into
the granary. They gorge in the grain
bins and become has beens.
What scavenger she is!
What a dirty tablecloth! What
filthy food she spreads before those
sweet voiced, delicate little poults!
She scratches down in the lousy. red
mite, dirty microbe hencoop and raises
cloud of germ dust over her tender
charges.
In the filthy old rat hole hogpen
where the hogs and rats get 'em If
the microbes don't, she digs up filth
and maggots.
In the oozy. germ breeding barn.
yard she roots like hog to turn up
decayed vegetable matter, rotten ex.
crement and wriggling death dealers
for the poor little birds and then in.
vites them TO drink from the horrible
barnyard pools, where the dunghillel
hens drink in part of their pure fresh
farm eggs" that change so quickly to
''rots and spots"
Now, do you wonder that scientists
have found the breeding place of the
deadly blackhead parasite that de-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
AwAYl AWAY TO THE COUNTRY!

When seeking for the balm of life,
Turn not TO patent quacks,
Nor stay within those dusty streets
Where noise the brain racks.
Come, come away! Oh, come with me
Where air is pure and health is free,
The paradise of vale and tree
Out on the farm in the country!
Come where you needn't live in flats.
Where neighbors fight like dogs and
cats.
Come from the car man yelling "Fare."
Rush from bad smells and Salome's
snareS
Out into Gods sweet country airs.
Yes, join the song birds in their glee
out on the farm in the country.
Oh. come away from tin can fare,
With deadly acids lurking there!
Run from those awful rots and spots
That fill up cemetery lots.
Here get your eggs laid while you wait.
Spring chickens fresh from pen to plate.
Knock that dYspeptic misery
Out on the farm in the country.
Away! Away! Leave care behind
And that ffacessant Office grind
Here is the place to rusticate,
Where fresh milks making while you
wait
Here ladies may kimonos wear
And lay aside their golden hair.
They even climb cherry tree
Out on the farm in the country.
c. M. B.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
FEATHERS AND EeesHELLs.

Get good prepared chick feed to
start the peeps on and then branch off
on cracked corn and wheat.
A small mill for grinding grain, shell
and dry bone costs $5 and pays for
itself in a season.
Two sad deaths occurred in Pennsyl-
vania the past winter from the gun
trap set TO shoot chicken thieves. The
men killed were the owners, who forgot
the traps were there. Too sad for
comment.
4 young girl in the middle west
cleared 1910 last year raising peafowl,
receiving G15 per pair, while a boy in
the suburbs of Philadelphia cleared
$50 on his White Rocks. Buy your
boy some good stock and let him COM
bine pleasure, pets and profit.
The claim Is made that you can
make S. on ducks to 81 on chickens.
We believe there is money in ducks,
but back Of such claims we often find
fellow with an ak to grind.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
SETTING TURKEY EGGS.

Smart Aleck will nature fake by set
ting turkey eggs under clucks, but IL
he just knew that chickens tempera-
ture isn't equal to the Matching heat
of vigorous turkey he would then
have the know-how why he doesn't
get livable profitable poults.
Then there's that shell game!
If a looter loots a bank, he takes out
the nest eggs and puts in his note.
When Smart Aleck robs the turkey
nest he puts in nest egg and takes
out the turkey egg, and mother turkey
keeps on laying.
So by this og-in-the-turkey-nes
policy he makes the turkey hen an
egg machine and the lousy old cluck a
turkey incubator.
Now. the man whose brain isn't u
doughnut knows that turkey lays
several sets of eggs in Il season and
the. first two are the finest.
Well, he mates strong young tom
to twelve finely matured two or three
year old hens, makes provision so he
always has enough to brood and turns
all these superfine early eggs over to
thrifty turkey hens to hatch. His
poults thus under mother turkeys care
get the early worms and insects and
are prepared for the heated period
and the insect famine that comes with
it.
Chicken hatched poults, especially
the late ones, can't stand strain,
seldom bring gain, and but few remain.
Turkey hatched poults are best to
grow. They win at the show and
bring in the money to make the mare
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
Kitchen Stools,

Only the woman who owns a stable
kitchen stool knows the comfort of it.
If she has two or three, so much the
better.
They are not expensive articles, and
therefore 1t does not strain the house
keepers purse to provide her kitchen
with enough of them to make work
comfortable.
There should always be one to slip
under the kitchen table. 1t should be
high enough to put the worker in a
comfortable position for using her
hands. She will find herself using 1t
hours during the day that otherwise
she would have spent on her feet.
The laundress who knows how to
take care of herself has n high stool
with rungs for her feet, on which she
may sit when she is ironing the light
pieces. 1t will give her renewed
strength for the next days work.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07

stroys the turkey in the digestive tract
Of the dunghill hen?
go to the ant, thou sluggard; go
back to the turkey hen, thou reverser
Of nature
No nature taking in the turkey coop!
Mother turkey lays her eggs on the
pure earth, out among the tall grasses,
fragrant ferns and flowers. Her pretty
babies open their wondering eyes, not
in a lousy nest under scabby legged
old cluck, but on Gods pure, bright
beautiful world.
Mother turkey never stuffs her turk.
lets. She raises them for you to stuff.
When you wish them to eat more
she trills them away to the green hills
and wales afar, where delicious turkey
food abounds.
There, drinking from crystal rills,
wandering through cool woods, flow
cry meadows and fruitful orchards,
they gather those dainty titbits that
help to make them the beautiful, Wig
orous fowls the Creator intended them
to be.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
DoN'TS.

Don't imagine because you've won
cup your away up. Many a slip be-
tween the cup and the tiptop.
Don't stuff your hens all day and ex-
pect them all to lay. Make them
scratch for living, as you do.
Don't neglect to tame your fowls
Cruelty is foreign to a true fancier
and friendliness counts everywhere.
Don't get mad if others differ with
you. It's a sign Of kink in your
think.
Don't run that incubator in your
barn nor have your brooder in among
the mites and lice.
Don't raise Leghorns for market fin
ishing. Big breeds for fattening feeds
Don't expect an order from every in
quiry nor waste your gray matter on
long business letters.
Don't strain yourself to sell birds to
cranks. L matters not, you get no
thanks.
Don't thiNh because severe winter is
hard on fC' IS that warm weather is
not disea breeder.
Don't leT hose young turkeys run
in the filthy barnyard nor expect
squads to develop in dirt.
Don't feed much corn in the sum-
mer. Oae and wheat for grains, add
bran and ID mash for gains.
Don't keep crippled chickens nor
one eyed roup victims in your pens.
1t spoils the picture.
Don't have a beautiful farm and a
flock of spotted culls. They don't
match.
Don't advertise thoroughbreds and
hide part of your stock That looks
ishy.
Don't have q beautiful cut and q
large display ad. and expect it to pay
If you sell what is bad.
Don't worry about the trouble of to-
morrow nor leap ahead TO seek some
future sorrow. Soon will come the set.
ting sun and your work will not be
done; then you'll be bad and sad where
you might have been good and glad.
Don't forget that neatness and dis
patch in shipping gain customers
approval. Fine goods we'll sent, make
the best advertisement.
Don't fail to change drinking water
in the brooders often. The heat makes
1t stale.
Don't buy large quantities of crack.
ed corn except for immediate use. II
heats and molds.
-. s.No.1sDN~uk.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
SAFE AND EASY FOR THE ANIMAL.


clear across each side of the width Of
the square. To make the hinge wrap
the end of the tire around bolt staple
secured to the table by taps beneath.
Through the end of the tire opposite
the hinge and about an inch from the
top face of the square bore hole
large enough for an inch and half
rope. You will then have two ropes
attached to the top face of this square,
and these are intendeds to pass over
the neck of the animal and be secured
by lever at one end of the table. An
other identical square is prepared, and
this is set on the table facing the
hinged square, but distant enough
from it for the neck Of an animal to be
set between. The second square is
braced firmly in a vertical position
with blocks and steel braces. Two
holes are bored through the table near
the front side through which a rope is
passed to be placed over the nose of
the animal. The head Of the animal to
be dehorned is held in position by the
stationary square, against which the
neck of the animal is bound by the
hinged square. In this position there
is no danger of an animal hurting it.
self, and the work can be done much
quicker than If the head is less firmly
held in position.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07

CUSHION FOR STEAMER CHAIR.

loops to slip over the frame at the
top. These cushions may be folded up
when not in use and occupy but a
small space in the trunk.
The folding scrap basket has been
the boon Of the traveller, and now
comes a folding work box or basket
covered with cretonne in Il pretty de-
sign. The customary pockets and
straps are attached to the basket, and
the illustration shows the basket fold
ed and open.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
shapeIy Poaehsd Enns.

If you want poached eggs that have
not spread out of shape In cooking,
stir the boiling water until it is whirl-
Ing rapidly, then drop the egg in quick
ly and cook until set.
This keeps the eggs round and
smooth, and If lifted carefully on a
nat cake turner the egg will be as
shapely as IL 1t were cooked in q
poacher.
In serving poached eggs use freshly
toasted bread, thickly buttered, or,
what is still better rounds OF bread
.ried in butter like a crouton.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
GOING AWAY GIFTS.

Set Of Cushions For Steamer Chair
Folding Workbox.
OF the making Of bags there would
seem to be no end in these days of re-
vived interest in practical needlework,
and some recent productions in this
line are worthy of special reference.
A few of them are here pictured, fash
ioned from denim or cretonne in strik-
ing looking floral patterns.
The laundry bag made of heavy den-
i'm in serviceable shade of blue diff.
fers from the usual collection of such
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07

two feet wide, three feet long and two
and one-half feet from the ground.
Then prepare square with an eight
inch side out Of plank and hinge 1t to
the table few inches from the chute
at right angles to the face of the same,
so that it can move freely from one
side to the other. For the hinge use
two good pieces Of strap iron, prefer
ably wagon tire, and let each extend
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07

receptacles by reason Of the extension
piece at the back, which permits of
the bag being hung against the wall
for it's full width. This is practical
arrangement and effectually discounts
tue old time laundry holder with a
drawstring at the top.
There are two new workbags in
lowered cretonne-one in the shape of
a fetching little chatting dish apron,
with hoop handle, and the other the
conventional shirred type except for
the outside pocket, which is an added
convenience.
The regulation steamer cushion, with
its familiar "Bon Voyage" inscription,
has not lost prestige, but it is supple
mented by set of cushions connected
by straps of self material and designed
for the back and seat of the chair, with
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
7 arm ana
Garden
SAFE DEHORNlNG CHUTE.

Simple Device That Will Not Hurt
the Animal.
An authority on the dehorning of
cattle furnishes the following informal
ton on the construction of the chute
for the operation:
Make the chute strong. Next make a
plank table in front of the same about
The Marshall republican., 1909-01-08

to Timothy he wrote: Christ
Jesus hath abolished death and
brought life and immortality to
light" Do you believe Paul knew
what he was writing? Do you
believe the statements to be
true? We, as Christian Scientists
accept them without modifica-
ton, because they are 80 abso-
.,tely in accord with what our
Master did and said. No! Chris
tian Scientists have not yet
I reached the point where they
heal every case brought to them,
but like the prodigal son OF Bible
! story, we have started on our
Journey back 10 our Fathers
home we are tired OF living In a
ountry far away from Hun ; WI
ire tired OF feeding on the husk
| Of words that, no matter how
| 1eaut.ful they may be, fail to
bring US any proof OF their truth /;
and we shall reach that haven OF
rest, and find peace, comfort and
oy in His s%heltering love.
We do know, however, when
the inrallible Principle of Chris
tiaan Science is followed abso-
iutely, man shall solve all life's
problems correctly, and realize,
in full the meaning OF the saying
Glory to God in the highejt
peace OH earth, good VIII toward
men" Some one will say at this
point. il what you say Is true,
what are you going to ID with
the Biblical promise, Whom the
Lord loveth, he chasteneth?" !
In not gong t. change a word
OF the Bib.e in order to explain
this to you, but l am going to
call your attention to something
you all know, namely that the
be which we read l.; q transla-
ton into English from the origi-
nal tongues, made by seventy
men, at the. command OF King
James, OF England. l am going
TO tell you however, that they
found nothing in the origina.
manuscript which gave them any
right or authority to translate
CnlS passage in any such way
me word "chasteneth" is taken
rom tho Greek root "paiduein,'
which IL the foundation Of the
english word "pedagogue,' or lin
. rructor )" and the word 'paidue-
III" means ito instruct" or "di-
rest" and it does not mean any
thing else and when that passage
- rendered into English as it is
written in the original Bible, it
doesn't read Whom the Lord
.oveth he chasteneth," but
Whom the Lord loveth he in
)" and 1t becomes ano
Their proof Of the Christian Sci
teaching as to the abnormA
nature OF sin, which Christ de
stroyed in conformity with the
Jaw which God manifested
..ough Him.
IN order that there may be sin,
there must be temptation; AMI ii
order that there may be temptu
ulon there must be sin, and they
10Th must proceed from the
same source Is this sourc Goa
IL MANKIND? II it be God we are
.ost! II 1t is man kind We are
saved. Let this question be an
wered Tor US by James ana John.
James writes Let no man say
ynel he is tempted, l am Tempt
II Oh God: for God cannot be
.empted OF evil, neither temptetn
10 any man: But every man 10
.empted, when he is drawn away
II his own Ftst, and eatlced. Thsl
When lust hath conceived, IL
'ringeth forth sin and sin, when
t is finished, bringeth forth
eatn."
John writes: whatsoever il
.orn OF God doth not commit SIN
The Marshall republican., 1909-01-08

sometime.
Now, IL God Is changeless, how
could he give life and then give
death? When life was existent
what would become OF death, and
when death was existent what
would become OF lief II God
created them they must both be
ms eternal a. thsir creator. How
can they both exist eternaEy
when one MAMIE t. the ab5ence
Of the other, as certainly as light
annihilates darknessf
Our Bible teaches US that death
the wages Of sin. Do you believe
il? The Bible does not say that
In n case death is the wages oil
sin and that in another case
death is the wages of goodness
1t makes the unqualified state
ment that the wages Of sin Is
death. Then if God created death
He must have created sin. You
cannot escape this conclusion by
saving that He only permits sin +;
for to permit it He must Know H.
and how can He know 1t when
the Scriptures tell us that God
is OF purer eyes than to behold
evil and sannot look upon in
iquity.
II God is OF purer eyes than to
behold evil and cannot look upon
iniquity, il he created death and
death is the wages oi sin, then II
logically follows that God Great
ed sin; and as everything he
created is good, it further fol-
lows, logically, that sin Is not
evil, but is good, an argument
that cannot for an instant be
sustained, and our hearts are I'LL
ed with Joy when we know, as
Christian Science teaches US
that God neither ices nor knows
sin.
Life Ia creative and death des-
tructive, 80 that God, the only
and primal Creator. mast be NE,
and not death, and therefore
death, measured by the standard
Of perfection which God Is, Is not
real but Is the suppositional alb
Sence OF or belief in the negatlon
OF Life. Then where shall we
look for the origin OF the belief In
sin and death except in the NOR
tai consciousness. The mortal
consciousness is to be Put off with
the old man and his deeds; as 1T
il put off and is superseded by
immortal consciousness, man
shall cease to know sin and death
and manifest eternal Life, being
perfect even as his Father which
is In heaven is perfect"
The question naturally presents
itself at this point, Where did
mortal consciousness come from?
My answer Is that l don't know
where it came from, but / know
it didn't COME from God, because
1t manifests discord. Is there
anyone in the audience who
knows where the belief that the
world is a flat surface originated
Is anyone still sticking to the he
lief that it Is a flat surface, Just
because they don't know the
name and address OF tina man
who started that foolish be .iefI
or course not! 1t has been Lrov-
en- to be a sphere, and Jesus, the
Christ, proved to the word, BY
his words and works, that s.n
disease and death are no part o.
Gods crearion, and that His chill
dren do no not live, nor move, nor
have their being therein.
The universal belief about
death is that it is either the gate
way to Heaven or the entrance
down below. This beief shou.o
lead u logically TO destroy the :
innocent infant in order to insure
its gaining the kingdom, and the
action OF the natives OF Inaia in
FASTING their babes into the