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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16
q. q. SMITH
Merchant Police
Ind. Tel. 22ss Black. eO1 Topeka ave.
It's a Top Notch Doer.

Great deeds compel regard. The world
crowns its doors. That's why the Ameri-
can people have crowned DR.. Kings New
Discovery the King of Throat and Lung
remedies. Every atom is health force
vanish. 1t heals cough-racked MEM
branes and coughing stops. Sore, inflamed
cease DR.. Geo. Moore.
Black Jack, N. C.. writes, 1T cured me of
lung trouble; pronounced hopeless oy "a al
Guaranteed by CanpbelI Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16

It does not cost a fortune to buy a
piece Of property in San Diego now,
but it will later. The San Diego ex-
hibit is on the balcony floor in the Ma
tional hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16

The Prudential State bank savings
accounts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16

After ten years of experimental work
on healing Cancer by various applications
we have now arrived at a fixed point by
which we cure this otherwise fatal dis
ease by new means which are free from
burning, cutting or pIasters. yet active
and positive IN its work.
Oefice s2S Kansas Avenue. Topeka. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16
Bank Uearings.

Bradstreet's bank clearings report fol
the week ending October IA shows an ag-
gregate of s., 407. 653, 900 as against 1854
$4,000 last week and $2625, $4,000 in the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Sand Clay Roads.

Natural sand clay roads may fire.
quently be found in localities where
the soil contains the right proportion
of sand and clay. In sections of the
country where the prevailing subsoil
is composed entirely of clay or, on
the other hand, is of extremely sandy
character, these materials may be
properly mixed so as to overcome the
Objectionable features of each, pro-
vided the material to be added is con-
veniently available. Sand clay roads
are we'll adapted for light traffic and,
when the cheapness of this kind of
construction is considered, it will be
seen that for certain localities it is
preferable to macadam. The best
sand road is one in which the wearing
surface is composed of grains of sand
In contact in such a way that the
voids or angular spaces between the
grains are entirely filled with clay,
which acts as binder
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Monkey of a Peeress.

A French woman of fashion hap
pening to see an organ grinders
monkey begging for money in the
street, took a fancy to it, bought it
and made pet of it, dressing it in a
gaudy and fashionable costume. One
day she was holding fashionable re-
ception in aid of some charity. In
the course of the proceedings a peer
ess sat down at the piano, and, ac-
companying herself. sung a pretty
song. AS soon as she had finished
the monkey, which was being made
a great pet by the guests, seized a
hat, and, holding it before each v1si-
tor, as 1t was wont to do in it's organ
grinding days, took up a collection.
To the amusement of everybody it
completed it's round and collected a
large sum. Then. the task ended, 1t
jumped on the singers shoulder and,
amid shouts of laughter, deposited the
money in her lap. The charity, there
fore, benefited in an unexpected man
ner.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Great Western Road Drag.

after rains or continued wet weather
to smooth the earth surface and pre-
vent ruts from forming to hold the
water. During visit to the East a
few months ago the speaker saw a
good illustration of the benefit to or
dinary dirt roads from the use of road
drags. 1t was after long rainy spell
and on one section of road the condi-
tons were the same as are usually
found on country roads after heavy
rains. Teams without loads had diff.
Guilty in travelling even at a walk. An.
other section of road in the same vi.
cinity had been worked with road
drag which preserved the rounded
section, filled the ruts and allowed the
water to run off. There was no mud
on this section and teams were driven
at a trot. The roads were ordinary
farm roads of blaSk loan, with some
clay in places.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07

encircled his neck and danced on his
wish-bone. They stung him from
Genesis to Revelations.
The pain tortured him almost to
madness, and the smoke nearly smoth-
cred him. He tore around in the
murkiness of the bee-house, trying to
find the door which he had so thought
fully fastened, and which now seemed
always upon the opposite side of the
bee-palace. All the time. he uttered
soulful yells loud enough to raise the
defunct Rameses ii.
Old Rufus heard the racket, and,
club in hand, came on the run. He
had scoffed at the professors bees
and bee-house, but he was not going
to lie supinely upon his corrugated
spine and let midnight robbers carry
off the treasures of his employer.
AS the veteran darky reached the
door of the bee-house, Prof. Mellick
had succeeded in unfastening it and
was just pulling it open. Old Rufus,
accompanied by his club, rushed in,
knocking Prof. Mellick over.
Finding himself in the very pres
ence of the woud-be stealer of bees,
Rufus attended thoroughly to the mat
ter at hand. The lamp was capsized
and, in the darkness, each took the
other for bloodthirsty assassin. and
there was wild commingling of men,
bees, club, effiuvium, woe and yells.
The bees devoted considerable at
tention to old Rufus, and he, sure that
his adversary was endeavoring to
murder him in new and horrible
fashion, nearly drove that learned
gentleman's head into the floor. Had
the club not slipped from the irate
darky's grasp it is my firm belief that
the erudite Mellick would have been
driven so far into the floor that
nothing short of grease eradicator
would have extracted him.
Then there occurred variation to
the programme. The professors hand
came in contact with the lost club
and he used it in quick succession
upon the sconce of his adversary so
literally that Rufus ceased trying to
tear the mouth of his employer clear
out of his head. The overturned lamp
set fire to the straw on the floor OF
the patent reversible apiary.
A few minutes later a passing
pedestrian was startled to see two
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
An Aparian
Renaissance
By TOM P. MORGAN

TT HE softly-sighing breeze, that,
II straying in at the window of
Prof. Humboldt Melilck's chamber,
brings the fragrant breath of Araby the
Blest and Hunkthunder's soap-factory,
dallies with the whiskers of what
looks good deal like a large and
knobby blood-pudding, with hair and
a few features on it. This is the re-
suit of Prof Mellick's recent tempting
of fate with his latest invention, the
Eureka Efhuvient.
In the other room lies another and
darker-hued victim of the inefficiency
of the Effluvient. This is old Uncle
Rufus White. the scientists colored
man of all work.
The professor became the possessor
of bees BECAUSE of young and aC-
Complished conversational who was
going about, as Scripture says, like
roaring lion. seeking whom he could
sell the plans and right to build a
Complex Reversible Bee-house.
The reversible part was great
boon, from Bonneville. Kentucky. If
the owner did not like the appearance
of the front. he could, with little
more than days labor, turn the back
side Z the bee-house around in front.
The young man kindly proved to
Prof. Mellick that the airline to the
possession of great riches lay through
the Complex Reversible Bee-house.
He showed how the late Mr.. Croesus
laid the foundation of his justlycele
brated fortune by propagating bees
in one of these houses.
The young man also impaired to
Prof. Mellick a reminiscence of Cap
tain Kidd, who, though not particular
ly religious was credited with wonder
full fiuency in taking up collections,
and afterwards slaughtering the col
lectees with neatness and dispatch.
Prof. Mellick was astounded to learn
that Mr.. Kill really accumulated the
money, which he afterward buried all
along the coast from Goth to Askelon,
by the continued use of reversible bee
houses, and not by means of his self
invented process for eXpeditiously
jerking the financial cuticle off over
the heads of all whom he met. after
which he proceeded to plow the Span
ish Main some more, singing in a low,
cooling refrain, his celebrated song,
the chorus of which mentions Incl
dentally that he sailed and did few
other things, among which was that
he murdered William Moore and left
him in his gore and kept right on
sailing.
With the shining examples Of these
gentlemen before him, Prof. Mellick
speedily purchased the right to make
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
the TRIAL OF A NEW INVENTION
Professor Humboldt Mel
lick's Experiments with the
Eureka Effluvient" are the
Source of Dire Consequen-
ces and Result in Unfor-
seen Calamities and Pain

house upon the inside, Prof. Mellick
set fire to the odorous powder.
The result was as unexpected as it
was uncomfortable. Instantly the lit
tie houes was filled with a binding
cloud of smoi.e that totally eclipsed
the odor of triple extract of skunkibus,
and made Prof. Mellick gasp like a
lizard. Instead of quieting the bees,
the effluvia seemed to irritate them
almost to frenzy, and they poured out
of their hives and fell upon the pundit.
who was cropping blindly about in the
choking vapor in search of the door,
which seemed. to his excited senses,
to be travelling around the sides of the
house just fast enought to elude him.
Then Cnsued a sound of revelry by
night. The bees devoted their time
and attention solely to the scientist.
They whetted their stingers anew.
and formed a halo about his head.
Tney crawled up his sleeves and trow-
sers-legs, and down his neck. They
promenaded up ana down his spine,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
A Better Way.

In the construction of a new road
through an open country the usual
custom has been to excavate bitches
with the road grader, and throw all
the material into the centre of the
roadway, thus making what is often
called a turnpike. The objection tC
this method is that the most impor.
tant part of the roadbed, the founda.
ton, is composed largely of soft ma.
terial which does not easily become
consolidated. A better way would be
to remove all sod from the portions
excavated and use it for filling in the
low places where it can be covered
with at least three feet of earth. After
the sod is removed the road grader
can be properly used for carrying up
the earth into the roadway, and the
entire roadbed is formed of solid ma.
terial which in it's future settlement is
compacted uniformly, and will be less
likely to develop soft spots, as would
be the case if sod is thrown into it
indiscriminately. On level or nearly
level prairie the roadbed should be
built up foot or two above the origi-
nal surface to provide suitable drain
age from the center of the roadway
to the bitches and the crown of the
road should be sufficient to allow the
water from rainfalls to be quickly
carried off.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Ex-PreSident Saves Two
Men by Shot at Lion.
BRINGS DOWN KING OF BEASTS
Huge Beast Was About to Spring
on Members of Hunting Party
When Timely Bullet
Laid Him Low.

Nairobi British East Africa, May 4.
To the accuracy with the rifle at
tained by Theodore Roosevelt two
members Of his party owe their lives
today. AS Il result the praises of the
eX-president are being chanted not
only by his own party, but by all the
big hunters here.
According to the story which has
reached here. two of the party. Il
white man. whose name is not given
and Il native. were beating the hunt
ing grounds when they Suddenly
stumbled on Il gigantic lion crouchpd
all ready To spring.
The pair wheeled their horses and
started to flee. but as the giant brutes
muscles uuiverCd in the inception of
the spring Il shot rang out and the lion
fell into Il heap dead. Mr.. Roosevelt
had followed the bcaters closely and.
taking a snap aim. sent his bullet
through the brain Of the lion. the big
gest of the entire kill.
There was great rejoicing in camp
when the story was told by the two
men. Mr.. Roosevelt belittled his
craftsmanship, simply declaring that
the lion had presented Il GLORIOUS tar
get"
With five lions and numerous speci-
mems Of smaller game as the bag of
the first hunting expedition. Mr.. RoOse-
welt and his party after a rest at Wa
mi, near Kapiti, resumed the hunt,
their objective being giraffe. none of
which have yet been seen. The hides
of the lions secured have all been sent
to Mombasa for treatment at the
plant established for that purpose.
Mr.. Roosevelt has three lions and
one lioness skin to show for his PROV
ess with the rife, while Kermit'S prize
is splendid specimen of the lioness.
The experts declare that all of the
lions killed are larger than usual and
praise the eX-president and Kermit for
their prowess.
The trip of Theodore Roosevelt and
his party to Fort Hall to witness the
war dance of 400 warriors and Kikuyu
chiefs was success. The party were
received with full regal honors and
saw the dance from a platform raised
on the parade ground at the fort.
The chiefs presented Mr.. Roosevelt
with a goat. three sheep. bull and a
wild ostrich. while he in turn gave
each piece of silver. When asked
about the hunting Colonel Roosevelt
declared that he had had hnllv snort
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
RoADs1,9:ss::A,gN. ( & =.
ROADMAklNGI'
USE THE ROAD DRAG.
There Is No Excuse for Allowing
Highway to Become Rutty.

There Is No Excuse for Allowing
Highway to Become Rutty.
The process of dragging, smoothing
and planning the road with one of the
numerous styles of road drags now
happily coming into use In many To-
calities, is so simple and inexpensive
that there is no excuse for allowing
any road to become rough and rutty
through neglect. The split log drag
was first brought to the general no
tice of the public by D. Ward King
of Missouri, who had previously used
one for several years on the roads ad
jacent to his home. Although drags
of many different styles have been
used for years. none seem to have
impressed the road users with their
utility and economy as the King split
log drag. 1t is easily and che J."
constructed and consists of the -
halves of q ten or twelve-inCh 40
eight feet long, framed together aftc-
he manner of wood rack and draw
with the split faces to the front along
each side of the road at an angle OF
s. degrees to the line of the road
thus drawing the earth toward the
centre. Drags should be used just
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07

bee-house for himself with the privi-
lege of turning the back end toward
Main street whenever he liked.
The building was nearly completed
before Prof Mellick bethought him
self of the fact that he had no bees to
put in it. AS a bee-house without
tenants could hardly be considered
source of revenue, Prof. Mellick pur-
chased several hives of early dwarf
bees, warranted to be sound in wind
limb and stinger. The hives were
placed in the bee-house, and the scien-
tist sat back and waited for the bees
to roll up their sleeves and make
honey till you couldn't rest.
Old Rufus scoffed at the idea that
they would improve each shining
hour to the extent of increasing the
assets of their owner. This angered
the scientist so that he forbade the
old darky's approaching the bee
house-exactly what the sable schem.
ell was working for.
Soon, Prof. Mellick was attacked by
a haunting fear that the bees would
swarm and thus cause a great amount
of trouble. To prevent this he in
vented the Eureka Effiuvient-a pow
der, which, when burned. would give
out a smoke, the smell of which was
louder than calls for reform, and was
calculated to make the bees settle
down in somnolent content.
Not being familiar with the habits
of bees, Prof. Mellick feared they
might swarm at night. and so, for a
week after their purchase, he visited
the reversible house three times each
night, while Uncle Rufus White, Sc
cure in his scorn, snored serenely.
Last night, about one o'clock, upon
making his visit to the bee-house, he
discovered that something was wrong.
The inmates were buzzing angrily
and Prof. Mellick was sure that they
were about to swarm.
Hurrying to his laboratory, he
speedily returned with a lamp and a
pan of the Effluvient. The bees were
buzzing and crawling about in their
hives. Fastening tha dnor nf the haa,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
ANNULS TRADE TREATIES.
Ambassador White Notifies France Of
Effect of New Tariff.

Paris, May 4. 4.-AmbaSsador White
has officially notified the French gov
ernment that the pending tariff legis-
lation in America involves the annul-
ment of the Franco-American and all
other existing foreign trade arrange
ments.
At the same time he expresses the
hope that the two governments will
resume negotiations upon new basis
as soon as the law is enacted.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
THE FACTS IN
"RACE-SUICIDE."

The birthrate in the United States
in the days of its Anglo-Saxon youth
was one of the highest in the world
The best of authority traces the beain
ming of it's decline to the first appear
ance about 1850 of immigration on a
large scale. Our great philosopher.
Benjamin Franklin, estimated six
children to a normal American fam.
lily in his day. The average at the
present time is slightly above two. For
1900 it is calculated that there are
only about three fourths as many chill
dren to potential mothers in America
as there were forty years ago. Were
the old rate of the middle of the cen
tury sustained there would be fif-
teen thousand more births yearly in
the state of Massachusetts than now
occur. In the course of century the
proportion of our entire population
consisting of children under the age
of ten has fallen from one-third to one
quarter. This. tor the whole United
States, is equivalent to the loss OF
about seven million children. So
alarming has this phenomenon of the
falling birth-rate become in the Aus
tralian colonies that. in New South
Wales. special government commits
sion has voluminously reported upon
the subject. 1t is estimated that there
has been decline of about one-third
in the fruitfulness of the people in
fifteen years. New Zealand even
complains of the ack of children to
fill her schools. The facts concern
ing the stagnation, nay even the re-
progression of the population of
France, are too we'll known to need
description.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Carnegie Medals and Money
For Life Savers.
MANY BRAVE DEEDS REWARDED
Commission Also Appropriates $10,-
600 to Relief Fund For Rela-
tives of Victims of Two
Mine Explosions.


hero fund commssiG2 at its meeting
here made awards to twenty-thrce per-
sons in different part of this country
for deeds of heroiSm. The awards
consist of sixteen bronze and seven
silver medals. S14.00O in cash and an
nuities amounting to S125 month
The commission also appropriated
$4,000 To the relief fund for the rela-
tivcS of the III victims of two mine
explosions ut the Lick branch mine Of
the PorahontaS Consolidated CollicripS
company at SwitChbnck. W. Va. The
principal awards were as as follows:
John ]. Zangcrlc. Buffalo. awarded
bronze medal lie stopped Il runaway
horse and saved child two years old.
John CarruthcrS. West Newton. Pa.
Il railroad engineer. awarded bronze
medal and $1,000 for saving Il boy Of
two years from being killed on the
track i'm front of his rrain.
John c. Scuroman, West Pittston.
Pa. awarded bronze medal and
$2.1j0. He rescued Karl y. Kellar,
eleven years old. who had graSpcd a
live wire and was thrown unconscious
to the ground still grasping the wire.
| Henry Herwig. Sharon. Pa. awarded
bronze medal and $1,000. On April
81. 1908, Hcrwig plunged into the She
mango river wearing rubber boots and
heavy clothes, went to the rescue of
Louis f. Armstrong, who was about to
drown. and swan to shore with him.
Charles F.. Meyer. New York city.
bronze medal and $500 for saving
Misses Roslyn and Bessie Norris from
fire while they were entangled in the
wreckage of an automobile which had
been struck by n surface car.
Eugene +. Heinze. Cleveland. O.,
captain in the Salvation Army. award
ed Il bronze medal for rescuing Miss
Dena NJ. Schmidt. also of the Saliva
ton Army. from drowning at Beulah
Beach. in Lake Erie.
Henry T.. Weckbecker, Sharpsburg
Pa. awarded bronze medal and 81 .00O
He dived into the Allegheny river and
rescued Anthony ]. Hensel. seventeen
years old. who was drowning.
Frederick w. Miller. Rush. y. Y
rescued Timothy Maloney from drown
ing.
Frederick w. Wciher. Brnddock. Pa.
awarded bronze medal for rescuing
Zacariah Il. Dimpsey of Wall, Pa.
from we'll in which Dimpsey had
fallen.
Patrick II. Fitzpatrick. South Bridge
,l.,I
$1,000. He rescued Mrs. Bridget l.
McGrath from drowning.
Frances Il. Hall. fourteen years. q
schoolgirl of Canandaigua. n. Y. Civ
en- bronze medal and $4,000. Miss
Hall saved Miss Nellie Rathbun OF
Canandaigua from drowning.
John w. Ely. Point Marion, Pa.
bronze medal and $1,000. Ely rescued
Edward and George Johnson. broth
ers, of Cheat Haven, Pa, from drown
ing.
Pierce ID. Marsh, an engineman OF
Weston. w. Va. awarded silver
medal and $1,000 for preventing ;
wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road.
John G. s. Walker. Alexandria,. Pa.
awarded bronze medal and $1,000
Walker jumped. fully clad, into IL fore
bay at the plant of the Wilson Elec
trio company at Alexandria and saved
Miss Claire McCauley of Philadelphia
who had fallen into the water.
Mrs. Lulu J. Small. New York city
silver medal. She rescued from drown
ing two women.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07

figures burst out of the blank side Of
blazing bee-houee totally ignoring
the location of the door.
After they had put out their hair,
raked the bees off from themselves
and recognized each other, Prof. Mel.
lick and Rufus sat down side by side,
and with the keenest satisfaction
watched the burning of the complex
reversible bee-house.
Then they .crawled off to bed, and
the groans from Prof. Mellick's cham
ber were answered by means from
the hadronm nf ITncla Rufus White.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
Tap the Springs.

II water is allowed to stand in the
structure, the whole roadway is liza.
BILE to be broken up and destroyed by
frost and the wheels of vehicles. II
there be springs in the soil which
might destroy the stability of the
road, they should be tapped and the
water carried under or along the side
until 1t can be turned away in some
side channel.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
More and More Appreciated.

Good roads are daily becoming
more and more appreciated by every
one. 1t is gratifying to realize that
the people are waking up to the fact
that good roads are, next to morals,
the most potent factor for good citi
EenAhip.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07

Curate (who struggles to exist on
f120 a year with wife and six children)
We are giving up meat as a little ex-
pertinent, Miss Dasher.
Wealthy Parishioner-Oh, yes. One
can so we'll live on fish, poultry, game
and plenty of nourishing wines, can't
one e?-London Punch.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
EYES TESTED
|O.G.WeaVer|
Graduate OPTICIAN
Honesdale, Pa, April l6, 1909.

Honesdale, Pa, April 16, 1909.
NoTICE.-Pursuant to Act of Assem-
bly,, meeting of the Stockholders of
the Wayne County Savings Bank will be
held at the office of the bank on Thurs
day, July %, 1909, from one to two
O'Clock p. m, to vote for or against the
proposition to again renew and extend
the charter, corporate rights and fran
chises of said bank for the term of
twenty years, from February II, 1910.
BY order of the Beard of Directors.
IL. S SALMON Cashier.
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