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A New Year d . . . By. . . Frank H. Sweet. EVERY one who Is familiar with tho customs of the crcolos and i Acndlans of Louisiana knows that New Year's is the most eagerly anticipated and the most Im portant of their festivals. A religious significance Is attached also to the New Year's anniversary. They believe that from day dawn tn dark an angel. 'Tango do pals," broods over each household, striving to de Btroy hatred, malice and all uncharlta blencss in tiic heart and to substitute love and forgiveness. If his prompt ings are obeyed, enemies forgiven anil tho hand opened wide In charity, that man's sins are wiped off the record, and he starts on a new year with a clean conscience. For a week before New Year's day the preparations of the "habitans" be jrln. Tho house undergoes n thorough scrubbing and cleaning from garret to basement and Is whitewashed Inside and out. I have an idea the Acadian housekeeper fancies that "1'angc de palx" Is going to make a close scrutiny Into all her dust corners and hidden receptacles and would be disgusted with a rusty pot or dirty pan. The hunters go out on a grand "bat tue" to provide game. If a new dress la possible during tho year, it is cer tain to be made up and worn then. But lu two houses in Cote Blanche these cheerful notes of preparation were unheard. To look at them you would not bo likely to perceive a con nection between tho largest and most comfortablo farmhouse in Cote Blanche, the property of rich old Jacques Lefebvre, and the miserable and daubed cabin which stood at the edge of Lavcrne woods a cabin with dirt floor and unglazed windows, a borne of poverty and illness, where the father and breadwinner, n helpless in valid, watched his pale wife and three children with despairing eyes. " 'L'ANGE DE PAIX' Ho know that bread was lacking thai New Year's eve, and there seemed no means short of hogging It. Six years before that Harry Wood, a handsome young fellow and a skilled mechanic, had come to Cote Blanche. He easily found work on the large plantations In the neighborhood and seemed to hao a career of prosperity before hlni when ho formed an at tachinent for pretty Laure Lel'obvro, tho only daughter of the old fanner. But when ho asked the father's con Bent a terrific storm was raised In thai household. "Aha!" cried the old man furious! "You t'lnk I give my Laure to yof you, a stranger, u 'vaurieu American.' no farm, no cattle, no money, no not' In'? You want to mal;' a Protestant of her, hclnV You want her 'dot,' her land, her cattle, and, you get dent, don you run avay and leave her. Maybe you got two wlfes where you come from. Non, monsieur; you touch not eo money of ole Jacques Lefebvre Lauro shall splk to you no more." But Laure, being n willful, spoiled young damsel, did see him and speak lo him again and refused positively to give him up. Had her father been klud in his re fusal it Is probable tho child, for the was only Blxteeu, would Imvo been obedient. But ho was harsh and abusive nnd from having been foolish ly Indulgent became so stem that her home was not a pleasant ouo. The poor mother, weary of standing be tween the two, one day after an. out burst said to her daughter: "Laure, bo Is getting- worao and worse. I think be Is going crazy,, and you must either give, up Harry or marry htm and gq off." Taking that tot a word of consent, Laure left her father's house on New Year's eve and became Harry Wood' vlfo the next day, wmm. Cote Blanche Copyright, 1908, by Ameri can Press Association. For the first four ycara all went well with the young couple. Wood had plenty of work, and their home was full of comfort, besides a snug little sum laid up, the nucleus of tho fortune ho fully expected to accumulate. Then he fell from a scaffold, injured his spine and became what this New Year's eve found him a helpless Invalid. Their money had all been spent, and at last the day arrived when they had to give up tbelr comfortable home and move to a cabin at the edge of the woods. Laure eked out a precarious subsist ence by spinning and weaving cotton ade and raising poultry for tho Now Orleans market, but this had been a bad year. She had been too sick to work much, and the poultry had the cholera among them. She had not seen her father or mother since her marriage. She knew her mother too well not to understand that It was the imperious will of the old man which kept her away. He had never mentioned bis daughter's name since the night she left his roof, and woo be to tho one who inadvertently did so. The only sign he gave of his remem brance of her was to keep the anniver sary of her flight as a solemn fast. There were no fino dinners at the Lc febvre farm New Year's day, no vis its to and from old friends, but from morning till night the old man sat moodily within, his only companion tho faithful wife. The two sons, Henri and Claude, took themselves off to pleasanter in teriors, and decidedly "l'ange de palx" must have had a weary time wrestling with tho evil spirit of that household. "What a Now Year's eve!" sighed poor Laure us she sat by tho Are with her youngest child in her arms. She had put the other two early to bed, for her husband had fallen asleep at HAS CONQUERED ! 1 I last after a day of pain, and she was afraid the noise of the children would 1 disturb him. As. she gazed In the fire you saw that, though only twenty-two years ! old, Laure looked thirty, so deep were 1 tho lines that enro and grief had traced I on her pale, thin face. She heard a slight nolso nt tho door and turned to sec a flguro muflled lu cloak and shawls entering It. She thought it was one of her neighbors and raised her hand warnlngly. "Hush!" she whispered. "Ho has just fallen asleep. Ah!" as the wrappings of the visitor fell off and she saw her mother. "Mninma, mamma!" And In a moment sho was in her mother's urins, weeping, sobbing and holding her In a convulsive embrace. "Ah, my own mamma, Is It really you?" sho sobbed, holding her off at arms' length with such a pitiful smllo on her wan face that the mother wept to see It. "Yes, eherlo; I could stand It no longer, lie may curse mo if ho will, but 1 cannot help it. To sit there all Now Year's day with closed doors and a face as If you were In your grave tib. It made mo mad! I felt as if you were really dead, and I had to come and seo if you were living." "Mamma, my own dear mamma!" was all the daughter could say in tho fullness of her content, kissing the face and hands of tho mother. "Yes; I slipped away and made black George bring mo in his buggy. But I can stay only a minute. I heard he was, ill," with a glanco toward tho sleeping man, "and there's some wine and other things out there In the bug gy for you. But, stay! I have come to say eomcthlng else. Yesterday foe the first time in all theso years ho men tioned your name. He said: 'If Laura will leave that vaurien of a husband, who can no longer work for her, I wlU take her back, she and her chl'.livu though they are his. Let him go to n hospital and stay there till lu die ' " "Leave my husband!" Laure said, with an Incredulous look. "Oh, no! llo cannot think I could do that! 1 will kneel at his feet and ask his pardon. Now that I am n mother I know how I have sinned against him. But desert ray husband mamma, ho cannot nieau that!" "Yes; he means It, my poor child! And you, my Laure, you who were bo pretty and bright, you arc an old wom an, and you aro weak and sick, and soon you cannot help him, and then you will both die. Come back to us, my dnughter! Oh, I ntn so wretched without youl" Laure rose to her feet, her black eyes sparkling and a bright red spot on her thin cheeks. "Mamma, look there," she said. "There ho lies, helpless, who worked for me and loves me and to whom 1 am necessary. I will stay with hlni to starve and die perhaps who knows? but happier so than to desert him and live in comfort in my father's house. But you have not seen my chil dren. Come and look at them. That Is Jacques, that is Hclene, and this little one at the foot of tho bed is Alinec." "You named tho two eldest after your father nnd me?" tho grandmother said, with a stifled sob. "Yes. Aro they not handsome? And so bright! Jacques is beginning to read, and Tere Joseph teaches him when his father Is too ill, and they say he is going to be a great scholar." The grandmother pressed a kiss on :ach round cheek and stood looking at them, lost in thought. "If ho could only see them!" she murmured. "Ho loves children so much, even now!" "I must go now, Laure," she said at last, "but I will come back again be fore long. I have a thought. I will talk It over with Pero Joseph tonight as I go home. Whatever he tells you to do tomorrow, you must obey him." The next morning Pcre Joseph en tered tho room where old Lefebvre was sitting, leading two children. No one. not even that moody man, thought of barring out tho good cure who had lived from youth to old age among his people at Cote Blanche. , "Happy New Year!" ho called out cheerily. "Aha, In tho sulks still, mon ami! Six years In tho sulks! Too long, too long, for a man over sixty, who hasn't many more New Years to be sorry or glad in. I'm afraid 'l'ange de pals' Is tired of standing on your threshold. Happy New Year!" "I hoar you, and nobody knows New Year bettor than 1 do. Who aro these children, Pore Joseph?"- "Two I picked up out of a wretched hovel, where there was nothing to eat, and brought them to sec how gay and happy a r'ch man can be on New Year's day. You know, poor people al ways think where there Is money there Is happiness. Go to monsieur, my chil dren, and kiss hlni and wish him n happy Now Year." The two pretty children did It, a little frightened at the stern old face which bent to receive their caresses, but It softened wonderfully as ho lifted them to ills knee and stroked their soft brown curls. "And what is your name, my pretty tittle girl?" ho said. "Hclene," she lisped. "And yours?" to the boy. "Jacques Lefebvre Wood," ho an swered In his high, clear voice. "I am named after my grandpa, and Pere Joseph said I was going to see him to day. I want to go to my grandpa," slipping to tho floor. "I want to kiss him and love him and wish him a hap py New Year." The old man had turned ghastly pale and trembled in every limb, but there was not the outburst of rage his wife and Pere Joseph had expected, ne still held tho little girl on his knee, unconsciously, perhaps, and she put up her little soft hand and stroked his face, which was working convulsively. "Don't ky!" she lisped. "Helcne is solly for oo." lie looked from her pretty face to tho brave, clear eyes of the little boy, which were fixed wonderlngly upon i him, and then his white head sank on j his breast, arid tears rolled down his j cheeks. I " 'L'ange do palx' has conquered!" reverently murmured tho good old j priout. "Yes, Jacques, that is right; i kiss them, for they aro your own flesh , i and blood. Open the shutters and , let In tho sun to warm your old heart, , and thank God, you old sinner, that j you have had time to repent." He , marched out, his own heart full of Joy, and, baring his head, stood gazing up J ns If tho visible presence of tho angel I ho had invoked was before him. I The Royal Box. , i King Edward VII. of England can I trace his ancestry back about 800 I years. 1 Princess Henry of Battcnbcrg has j just llnlshcd a history of tho Islo of Wight, of which sho is tho captain aud governor. Tho book is to bo I sold for tho benefit of tho Island. King Charles or Roumanla is one of tho kings in tho happy family of Balkan states and has been ruler for over forty years. Ho was placed In his present placo In 1800, although he wnt' then given tho title of prince. No ono expected that ho would last so long. She Knew Them. Miss Dubley Sue was braggin' about how successful her dinner party was. Bho said It wounuV,up "with great eclaw." "What's "eclaw" any way? Miss Mugley Why, I guess that was the dessert. Didn't you never eat a chocolato eclaw 7 Catholic Standard and Times. HUMOR OF THE HOU: The Qontle 8ex Attain. Tho patient conductor hud loeu waiting for their fares for fully a minute. Each Insisted upon paying. "It is my turn," said tho one In blue, "and I am going to pay just as soon as I can find that dime." "No j I insist," spoke up the one lu brown. "Hero it Is, conductor." "I shall never forgive you. I was Just about to" "Oh, I made a mistake! That was n penny. Give it back, and" "Gracious! I am so glad. Here arc the two fares, conductor." The one in blue paid. When she reached home she said to her hus band: "The stingy thing! She Just picked up that penny ns a bluff! I'll never go shopping with her again!" And the one in brown said to hei better half: "Close! I never saw such a close woman In my life. Why, she actually forced me to pay both fares! Isn't it queer how stingy some people can be?" Chicago News. Another Sweet Dream Shattered. "I fear there must be n separation, mother. I'm sure George doesn't love mo any more, for he has treated me cruelly." "What has he done, my dear?" "The other day I remarked that Mrs. Ryvall was prettier than I, and he didn't deny it." Kansas City Times. 8eared. "Don't worry about John, mother." "Well, Eph, I don't suppose I should, but when one letter says his condition Is so good and the next says that he'll have to get rid of his condition before the faculty will let him play football I'm awful afraid that he'll make himself sick and weak." Puck. HU Falling Sight. "Walter, I asked you for green tea." "That is green tea, sir." "Oh, is it? I must be getting color hllml. T Ihnnirht it vim hlnnil "f!hl. ag0 Record-Herald ' The Sheath Gown. Like other fads that don't endure, 'Twill have its little day. The ladles, though, should first make sure That they aro built that way. Judge. Groundwork. Madge What Is the object of hazing In college? Marjorle I guess It's to teach the boys brutality for use in the football games. Puck. Today's Suggestion by Ellen Stan, A SERVICEABLE COAT MODEL. OTHERS who make their daughters frocks often hesitate to attempt outer garments, such as the one Illustrated, for tho reason that M they they are complicated and hero Is so simple that tho most Inexperienced home sewer may sat isfactorily make it if the directions cm tho pattern are observed. It will rc cjulre little If any fitting. Rlack and white shepherd's plaid is one of tho copy it for a girl sixteen years of age requires 15 yards of material 30 inches wide or tyj yards 44 Inches wide. Any reader of this paper who desires to secure this pattern may do so by sending 10 cents to this office. Give the number, 4381, state size desired and write the foil address plainly. Tho pattern will be forwarded promptly by utU. CHOICE MISCELLANY Where Children Are Qsarce. The 3,040 persons entered on St. Louis' social register have but 277 children, the term "children" includ ing boys under twenty and girls un der seventeen years of age. This is the showing of the 1000 register, Just out. It Is about one child to every thirteen adults. The record further shows that tho average society family which has children at all and on page after page of tho book not i thlld's name appears has two chil dren. Those with three nro compara tlvely few, nnd only half a dozen families have more than three. Di viding two-fifths, tho ratio nt large, by one-fourteenth, tho society ratio, It appears that children are more than five times as scarce In the social reg ister set ns In the city at large. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Italian Royal Superstition. It is believed In Italy that dire mis fortune will befall tho prcsout mon arch if the chamber of the dead king bo interfered with till at least two generations have passed. Therefore the room of the late King Humbert at tho Qulrlnal Is shut, no one except members of the royal fomily being permitted to enter It. Thus It will re main, silent and unused, like the apart ment of King Victor Emmanuel, King Humbert's father, which is Just as it was at the time of his death, some thirty years ago. Benefits of tho Gyroscope. Further details regarding the elec trical driven gyroscope used on the Lochlel in trips along tho Scottish coast show that when the apparatus was out of action the vessel rolled to angles of sixteen degrees on each side that is, the total angle or roll was1 not less than thirty-two degrees. When the apparatus was put into action tho rolling was prevented and decreased to a total angle roll of from two to four degrees, an amount which Is barely perceptible to a passenger. Boston Herald. Why They Want Old Bibles. An extraordinary demand has arisen in the eastern counties of England for (secondhand Bibles the older and dir tier tho better. Copies which former ly realized fourpenco are now rendlly bought for half a crown. They are being used to manufacture evidence of ago in the ease of old age pensions. A woman who produced n Bible to prove her ago as seventy-six from nn entry on tho fly leaf had unfortunately omit ted to tear out tho title page which showed tho Bible was printed In IS!).". dllllcult to handle Tho model shown most popular mate- rials for tho walk ing suit, and sou tache braid is used as n trimming. 'riiia tnlim- nvwln tills taiioi mauo coat is semiflttcd in three-quarter length, and the col lar can bo cither of the material or faced with cloth or velvet of a con trasting color. The buttons used for the- trimming and closing cf.n be ei ther of smoked pearl or molds ma terial covered. An effective gar ment can bo made of cheviot serge lu any of tho new col ors or in dark blue or red. Granite cloth or a camel hair will make up prettily, and either p mnfnrfnlo of these materials in tho now shades, fashioned with tho socalled tunic skirt, slashed or plaited to give tho popular effect, will be styl ish If trimmed with pipings and cover ed buttons. Tho pocket laps nre largo and aro dec orated with but tons, with similar ones on tho back nf Mm rnnt- wlileli OI tne COUt, WUien Kivo iuo uesireu slinrt-wnloi-nrl oflwt- SUOrtWaiStCU euect. Tho selection of garments for school Is usually a difficult task for mothers, but this season they do not find it so, for tho necessa ry garments aro not only smart and practical, but arOi quite Inexpensive. This double breasted coat is cut in threo sizes for girls fourteen, six teen and eighteen years of age. To REPOKT OP TUB CONDITION or TUB HOHESDALE NATIONAL BANK AT HONKSDALE. WAYNE COUNTY PA. At the close of business, Nov. 27, 1908. KESOUnCKS. Loans and Discounts $ 213,928 29 Overdrafts.secured and unsecured 24 to U. S. Ilondsto secure circulation. 65.000 00 Premiums on U. S. Honda 2,800 00 llonds, securities, etc 1,301,000 aj llankhig-housc, furniture and fix tures 40,000 00 nun frnm Knflntinl Hnnlro nf Reserve Agents) 3,959 96 Due from State Banks and Hank ers... 353 CO Duo from approved reserve agents 144.414 61 Checks and other cash Items.... 2,419 98 Notes of other National Hanks.. 100 00 Fractional paper currency, nick els and cents 215 78 Lawful Money Reserve In ltank, viz: Specie $86,2M)60 Legal tender notes 11,493 00 97.7J1 DO Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer, (5 per cent, of circu lation) . 2,730 00 Due from U. S. Treasury, other than 6 redemption fund 800 00 Total $1,901,118 02 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $ 150.000 00 Surplus fund 150,000 00 uiiuiviueu proms, icss expenses nnd liixps nntrl 82,452 72 61,100 00 900 00 1.549 11 78 07 National Hank notes outstandlii; State Hank notes outstanding. . . Tin., in nthn, VnMminl ln..l. Due to State Hanks and Hankers Individual deposits subject to euuuK $1,-MU,X) 4a Demand certificates of deposit...... 25,109 00 Certified checks 118394 Cashier's checks out standlng 815 60 Bonds borrowed Notes and bills rcdlscounted Bills payable, including certifi cates of deposit for money bor rowed Liabilities other than those above stated None None None None Total. st.noi.4in ta V&rtLV' lslvo,lln'.Vuu,.,ty ' Wayne, ss. ,,nIAMWiK..,i..rrt'yl ttwlder of the abovo named Hank, do solemnly swear that tho above statement ? true tG the best of my knowledge and belief. ow ,, . K. V. TORHKY, Cashier. 1st day" Dec"l90H.SWr" ' bCfOr0 me thls .... R. A. SMITH, N. P. Correct attest: II. Z. Ruhhkll. IxiUISj. DOBFMNOER. Directors II. 1. .MENNKR. THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD. The Greatest Nmvwpuper of itH Type. 1T ALWAYS TELLS THE NEWS AS IT IS, I'KOMITLY AND FULLY. Read in Every English Speaking Country It has Invariably boon the great effort of . ino inrioc-a-wooK edition ni the .New orK World to publish the news Impartially in order that It may be an accurate reporter of 1 what lias happened. It tolls the truth. Irro- , spootlvo of party, and for that reason It has achieved a position with the public, unique ! among papers of Its class.'ioaM - ! If you want the news as It really Is, sub , MTlbetotlieTliiice-a-wcokedltlonof the New York World, which comes to you every other day except Sunday, and is thus practically a dally at the price of a weekly. ! Tlll'.TIIItR'll-A-WKKK WORLD'S regu lar subscription price Is only ifl.OO per year, and this pays for 231 papers. Weolfer this llllciiuiilcd newsimncr and T1IK (MTIZKN together for one year for $2-00. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS In com pliance with an Act of Assembly and i In accordance with Article Sot the Constitu tion ot tne wayne i canity f armers .Mutual l'ilo Insurance Co., notice Is hereby given that the annual meeting of thcsald company will beheld lu the otllce of the company, hi the 1'ost I llllcc hulldlng. Iloucsdale, i'a.,011 MONDAY. .IA.'l'AI!Y4, 1909, at 10 a.m.. for the transaction of general business, and that an election will lielielclat the same place of meeting, between the boursof 1 and 2 p. in. of said clay, for the purpose of elec ting ten memiicrs oi sam company io servo as oireei- i H f,r ensuing 5 ear. Kvory person In I Mm., i the company Is a member thereof eof. anil entitled to ono vote. S. 1!. 1'IIANK. President, l'nititv A.Ci. xi!K. Socictary. llonesdale. l'a.. Dee. 2. 1IIUS. Illltl UHEHIIT'S SALE OK VALUAI U ItKAL KSTATK.-lly virtue of proc es HLE ss is sued out of the Court of Common l'leas of Wayne county, unci Mute oi j-enusyivama, and to mo directed and delivered, I have lev led on and will expose to public sale, at tho Court House In llonesdale, on MONDAY, DKCKMlirci! 28, 1908, at 11 A.M. All of defendant's right, title and Interest In the following described property, to wit : All those certain pieces, parcels or trac ts of land situated in the township of Damascus, ! county of Wnyno, State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: TllK I'ntbT, llKOINXINdat a heapof stones i the west corner of a lot In tho possession of j Haynioncl Tyler: thence along said Tyler's lino south forty-live degrees oast forty-eight perches to stake and stones; thence along the , line of laud belonging to .lephtha Kellnm I south fortv-flve degrees west eighty-three and one-half perc hes; thence north forty-live degrees west forty-eight porches to post and stones; thence north forty-live degrees east eighty-three and one-half porches to place of beginning. CONTAINING twenty-llveacrcs, more or less. ... Tiik SH'ONn, HKiii.N.MiMi at stane anu I SIOUCS 111 llllO OI 1 'U V Ml D 'S1I1I1CI S l.lllll i I lie lid M,uth forty-live degrees east eighty perches i Inllneof.lophtlm Kellain:tlience,northforty- nvo degrees casi imi iieiiiies in uei-iii iii-u. thence north forty-live degrees west eighty perches to hemlock stump In line of David degrees west tilty porches to place of begin Mtiuucr; ineuee oy sum line souin 101 1 j -live ning, lUftl'AI.M.Mi twentv-flvu acres, be the same more or loss. I Tiik Tiiiiid. lIKOINNINfi at stones corner of lot conveyed to llornheck A- Keator on lino of .lephtha Kellam's laud ; thence along tho northeast llnoof said llornheck A; Koator's land north forty-six degrees and forty-ono I perches; thence north forty-seven degrees ! west nine perches to end of stone fence; tlieneo 1 along the same north lifty-slx degrees west four and two-tenths perches; thence south 1 sixty degrees west slxaud two-tenths perches to u post; thence north forty-nine degrees west eighteen and two-tenths perches to u nost -thence north thlrtv-seven doirees west 1 iifty-slx and two-tenths perches ton beech ,,',,,. nwmo Iu.rth twenty-eight degrees west twenty-six ana tnreo-ientns porcnes to pcist on warrantee line ; thence along tho ,,;,,,. t-,.iilv...li.lit ,l,..,.,.H,.,iat tu-entv- nine and two-tenths perches to stones and roots of fallen beech; thence north seventeen degrees west fifty perchestthencenorthforty ono degrees west sixty-four perches: thence north forty-three degrees east twenty-two porches: thence along the line of Oliver "ly lcr's land and the land late of William Tyler south forty-seven decrees east ono hundred and sixty-two and two-tenths Porches to ,tA,a i... i,nr,,i,,ij- ,m ituvmnndTvlcr'H linn ! uimwia i.v iinn.idpir nti Itnvniond Tyler's lino : thence along the same unci llnoof Jephtha Kellam's south forty-three degrees west eighty-live perches to the placo of beginning. CONTAININO one hundred and eight acres and ono hundred and eleven perches, Btrlct measure, more or less, llelng same land which Jackson Clmdwlck conveyed to lA-qii Williams by deed dated , recorded In Deed Hook No. .page . Kxcepting and reserving ninety acres nioro or less, Bold to Lucus Uaker by Jackson Chadwick. On said property is one two-story framo houe, one framo oarn, ono shed, two nno apple orchards, and nearly oil improved Seized and taken In execution as the prop erty ot Leon Williams at the suit of Jackson Chadwick. No. 92 October Term. 1908. , Jude mcnt, ja,800.00 j real debt, 1,400; amount to be collected, $3C0, with S per cent, collection fee. Mumford, Attorney. TERMS OP SALE-CASH. WM. B. HOADKNIGHT, Sheriff. Sheriff's OUlce. llonesdale