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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24

to know what relationship, If any,
there is between Mr.. Busby and Bal
lard, 1.-THE Red Oak poet" They have
number of symptoms in common.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24

than meat That
produces energy
without great body
haat-a food that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24

matter and very enjoyable in form
and manner Those who missed hear
ing it missed treat.
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Under a ruling from r. S. Coleman
chief examiner of the census bureau
at washington, one hundred Syrian
voters in La Crosse lose their cltizen !,
ship. while hundreds Of others all
over the northwest will be anected.
The ruling in effect is that Syrians
being of Asiatic origin are not white
persons" within the meaning OF the
law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24

The late Governor John A. john
son of Minnesota, was once asked
what was the proudest moment of
his life; whether it was when ne was
first elected governor or when he was
first mentioned as presidential pos
sibility. Neither Of these, he answer,
ed but the time, when boy, he got
his wages raised substantially, and
went home and laid the money in his
mothers lap and told her she need
never take in washing again.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
LibelinR Nature.

The plea Of a woman criminal that
her sidestep from the path of recti-
tude was due to her natural badness"
Is not as convincing as that Of the col
ored man who was bad afore de wah,
bad endurin' OBJ de wah and bad ebber
since de wah." He added that he was
bqrn bad, and the criminologist knows
K\ere to place his type. But this wo-
q IA had been good long enough to
ee' lNtlre decently and win a respectable
mans love. We may set this down as
freak case, but there must be some
reason beyond that of latent heredi-
tary strain to account for the sudden
moral lapse.
Natural badness is consistent. 1t is
marked by attempts at betterment,
and only after repeated backsliding
will the erring one admit that nature
Is too strong to be overcome. AS a
rule criminals manifest a desire to
reform and make the plea of tempta-
tion. This natural goodness is proba-
bly, more real than utter natural bad
ness. The temptation or the incentive
to crime is the evil to be aimed at.
We are told to pray, Lead us not into
temptation" And the proverb has 1t
that Satan finds work for idle hands to
do" The woman Of means and leisure
without strong family and social re-
straints is in danger The tendency of
the times is toward activities which
give zest to life-that is, artificial ex-
element. Then the badness which
crops out is not the taint of nature,
but q morbid growth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Houses Built of Meerschaum.

The town of Vallecas, in Spain, is
almost entirely built of meerschaum.
Vallecas has on its outskirts great
quarries of meerschaum too coarse
for pipe making, and a meerschaum.
built town is the result-an ivory
white town that.shines in the Spanish
sun, In Morocco meerschaum is so
plentiful that they use it, when soft
and fresh, for soap. 1t gives a plenti-
ful and cleansing lather. Ekdischehr,
in Asia Minor, supplies the worlds
meerschaum. There are 1000 mines,
large and small, and 5000 Kurd
and Persian meerschaum miners work
day and night in them. The meers-
chaum comes from the earth yellow,
and turns white after ten days bleach
ing in the sun.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
BRINGS THE DEAD"
BACK TO LIFE
Doctor Has Portable Electrical
Outfit for Restoring Sus-
pended Animation
WAS USED ON A HUMAN BEING
Woman Believes That Eleetreoutlon
as Il 10 Done To-day Does not Rid
tho Criminal Of Llfe-olveo q Sol.
entlfio Exhibition.

New York, N. Y.-Dr. Louise G.
Robinovitch, Of No. 2s West One Hun.
dred and Twenty.sixth street, is try.
Ing to get the Governor and the pris.
on officials Of the State interested in
what she considers most important
reform In the method Of electrocuting
criminals. She believes, after many
experiments with dumb animals, that
the electrocution Of q human be-
ing as 1t Is done to-day does not &C.
tually rid the condemned person, Of
life, and that the placing Of one elec-
trode on the leg and the other on the
head allows of the current distribut-
ing itself. Her contention is that one
electrode should be placed between
the shoulder blades and the other
either in the small Of the back or at
the base of the skull.
DIR. Robinovitch now has in opera
tion in Paris portable electrical out
fit for the restoration Of suspended
animation. 1t is used in the ambul-
ance service. She does not say she
can put life into the dead, but con-
tends that before death, there is a
period Of four or five minutes when
life is suspended.
Her method of bringing a patient
out Of this pre-death coma, If it may
be called such, is to shoot currents Of
electricity through the body intermit-
tently. In her experiments she has
shocked into apparent death dogs and
other animals, and has been able to
bring them back to consciousness.
DR.. Robinovitch's researches into
death and resuscitation by means of
electricity have commanded the at.
tention Of some of the most eminent
of surgeons in this country, as we'll as
in France. Recently she gave a dem.
onstration before the New England
Association Of Physical Therapeutics
in Boston, using rabbits as subjects.
The demonstration was given in the
Edison building in that city and was
attended by many well-known New
England surgeons and physicists.
Some Of the rabbits were chloroform-
ed, others electrocuted, and others
given deadly doses of morphine. They
were apparently dead, there being no
evident heart action She then re-
stored them to normal life, shocked
them again until seemingly dead and
again restored them.
The only case in which the Rabin-
ovltch electrical treatment has been
tried on human being was in Paris,
about a year ago. A woman, ad-
dicted to morphine, was pronounced
dead. Twenty minutes after this pro-
nouncement she was treated in a
Paris hospital with the electrodes and
resuscitation followed. She is said
to be alive to-day.
1t is the dreadful probability that
many condemned men are electrocut-
ed and then put under the knife for
autopsies while life still exists in the
body, although suspended, that has
made DR.. Robinovitch endeavor to
have the present method of electrocu-
ton made more perfect.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

lowest figure given us--and we be-
lieve it can be relied upon, Is 23N
cents per mile, and that does not in
clude the wages of chauffeur.
Moreover, the owner considers that
he had remarkable good luck in the
wear of tires and parts. If the pay
of chauffeur should be added, the
expense would be about 32 cents per
mile. If any one can show a better
record than that, we should be glad
to have him tell us, so that we may
encourage others, stipulating that
the name of the owner and of the
machine be withheld. 1t is import
ant to note that we are considering
cars that travel four or five thousand
miles year. 1t is clear that a man
who travelled but 10 miles would
pay price per mile useless for COM
parison. Unless one does travel
several thousand miles a year, which
does not mean very far each day, it
is more economical for him to hire
a machine when desired.
There is another side of the sub
ject which no one can give figures
about. That is the social side-din-
ners at neighboring towns instea4
of more inexpensive repasts at hom
expenses on tours, extra clothing,
etc. Considering everything, it ap-
pears to us that anyone who buys
an automobile and borrows' money
to pay for it commits a crime
against his creditors. If he has the
cash, automobiling is not outrage
ously expensive as luxuries go. 1t
costs 25 cents mile to ride in a
livery carriage, and Weston says it
costs dollar a mile to walk from
Portland to the Pacific.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Eskimo Dog Justice.

In his voyage of polar explorations
Commander Fiala observed among
his dogs sort of government quite
Independent of that of their keepers
says the Youths Companion.
They were of the Eskimo variety
and were trained to work in teams
In their general conduct, however
they acted as community, and their
rules had reference to the common
good. There was no penalty less than
that of death.
During the period of darkness we
lost eight dogs; three of them,
splendid large animals, were killed
by their companions. The other five
either wandered off on the young ice
and were blown away, or were killed
by the pack at a distance from camp.
Every dog was known by name.
1t is a curious fact that when one
dog has antagonized the others, the
only way to save him from destruc-
tion later on is to chain him; then
the other dogs let him alone. Un-
fortunately for us, the dogs that
seemed to incur the enmity of their
fellows were the large, strong ami
mals-the bullies and fighters.
There seemed to be degree of
justice in their judgments. From
close observation, l found that the
dogs generally forgave bite on the
head or body, but that an attack on
the legs seemed to be considered foul
play, and must be paid for by the
life Of the offending canine. The
whole pack united in his execution.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
SECRET DIES WITH WOMAN
Never Knowing Circumstances Of Her
Birth, She Kept Intact Her
Childhood Fortune.
but q morbid growth.

Philadelphia Robert Swans.
borough, a woman Of mystery, even
to herself, Is dead in Administer, Eng.
land. Her little fortune of $4,000,
the source of which is as deep a mys-
terry as her antecedents, will fall to
Mrs. Hannah Garland of West Phila.
delphia, widow.
The mysterious woman in England
Is the mother of John Garland, whose
forbears undoubtedly were of some
wealthy and perhaps noble family of
England, and who for some reason
chose to shroud his mothers life in
secrecy. Mrs. Garland has seven
children. The family live in COM
Portable circumstances.
When John Garland's mother was
an infant she was taken from Ma
deira to London under the direction
of an eminent firm of barristers,
which made the best of arrangements
for her care and education. This was
nearly one hundred years ago. The
sum Of $4,000 was placed in trust,
and upon its income she lived. When
she reached years of understanding
she was informed that the money
would be forfeited II an atempt was
ever made to learn the identity of the
giver, who watched over her, from a.
hidden position, long after she was
married.
The child without a name became
the wife, in 1S46, of John Garland, a
merchant of Dorchestershire, by
whom she had one child, a son, the
late John Garland. Her husband died
In 1859, and in 1862 his widow was
married to the Rev. Robert Swansbor-
ough. The first husband had made
no effort to learn who his wife's par
ents were, but the second is said to
have attempted to gain possession,
NOT only Of the fund from the un-
known hand, but Of money left Mrs.
Garland by her first husband, desir-
ing 1t for use in his church work. He
died last September without having
revealed that he knew anything about
his wife's birth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

OF the runner with the ball, which
now does lots Of damage, for, first,
a single player now is often struck
by the combined force of two or
three men, and, second, it takes the
combined strength of two or more
men falling under or on top of the
attacking players to stop them.
BY making penalty for crawling
with the ball, which would encourage
standing up in running. By in
creasing the penalty for piling on a
player unnecessarily. By emphasiz-
ing the need of the referee blowing
his whistle when the ball is stop
ped, thus preventing massing.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
The Eskimo Dogs.

While the world waits for positive
proof as to the rightful discoverer of
the North Pole and pending a settle
ment of the controversy between
rival claimants, we believe it is time
to honor those other hardy Arctic ex-
plorers Eskimo dogs.
To these four-footed pole-seekers
belongs the everlasting credit of max
ing travel and scientific exploration
possible in the coolest regions of the
earth. Through their power and
mobility the icy barriers of the North
have been overcome and the efforts
of men, who have risked their lives
to gain the top of the world, are at
last successful.
After many years of hardship.
privation, and suffering, the humble
dog has dragged his master to the
much-coveted goal, and without ex-
pectation of reward or hope of, glory.
The part he took in the long guest
may generally be overlooked and for
gotten, but he will not whine nor go
mad about it. He will jog along in
his ever-faithful way until he joins
those other silent martyrs of civiliza-
tion.
mo hope of future glory nerved him
to do and dare,
No strong ambition lightened the
loads he had to bear.
And while the brave explorer reaps
his plentiful reward
OF fame and gold and honor, yielded
with one accord,
What thanks has he, the gaunt sledge
dog, whose every step was pain,
" hose poor feet, cut and bleeding,
craved rest and help in vain
Who, worn by toll and Scared by
blows, hungry and tired and
lame
Dragged his victorious master up the
slippery heights of fame?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Mother Dogs Devotion.

During the terribly destructive
floods which visited many sections OF
the country, the following pathetic
story was told In a Kansas journal
1t is on the old, old theme of mother
love, only this time in dog instead
of human:
A colored man living next door to
one McDivett was taking care of a
fine setter bird dog. The old dog had
litter Of nine puppies, of which she
was as proud as ever was any human
mother of the first little stranger that
came to her home. The mother and
her family were kept in the barn in
the rear of the lot, and as the water
rose the colored man and his family
left home and went to the South
Side. They also left the dogs. The
barn was lower than the house and
the water soon was running in at the
back. The old dog took survey of
the situation and one by one she
carried the nine helpless puppies to
the house, which was a little higher.
Still the water crept higher, and
once more her precious family was in
uduR6T. AuOLucI luNSOJl6dJlOh lOl-
lowed, and the old dog made another
transfer, this time taking her family,
one at a time, to McDivett's house
next door, which was set high and
dry.
But the flood had not nearly reach
ed the limit yet, and in an hour the
. water was creeping into the one-story
building, and the poor dog-mother
was frantic. McDivett, by making
walk of fence boards from his back
door to the back fence, was able to
make platform there which was
three or four feet above the water.
There he took refuge, and there the
old dog followed, swimming a part
of the way, but bringing every one
of her family of nine through to the
place of safety.
The water rose more slowly then,
and it looked as if the mother-love
of that dog was to be rewarded; but
the currents ran swifter, and the wa
ter Tapped higher and higher, and just
before dark, McDivett had to take to
a tree. There was no dry place in
sight. The poor old bird dog gave a
despairing look around, took one of
the puppies-her favorite, perhaps
in her mouth, and started away,
swimming aimlessly about, looking
for safe place to land it. Soon she
disappeared in the current; but in
about half an hour she returned
swimming fiercely against the cur
rent. She swan to the place where
she had left the other eight of her
babies, and they were gone. While
she was gone the water had washed
away the little raft and the eight
brown babies had been drowned.
The mother managed to take refuge
on an old shed near by, and all that
night McDivett says the hardest thing |
ne had to listen to was the mournful |
howl of that mother.
my own situation was bad |
enough" he said, "but every time
that dog would howl there was |
something so human in her cry that
it made ones heart ache for her."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE.
Kingston Editor Figures 1t to Twen'
ty-Three Cents q Mile.

Kingston Editor Figures 1t to Twen-
ty-Three Cents a Mile.
1t is a strange fact that while the
number of automobiles in use in
creases at an enormous annual per-
centage~ scarcely anybody knows
what it costs to maintain such a
machine, says the Kingston Free
man. Not more than dozen out of
a hundred owners keep any account
of cost, and of that dozen not more
than three seem to possess even a
rudimentary knowledge of book
. keeping. Yet, in spite of this un-
certainty, plenty of people will
neglect to pay their de BITS and will
even mortgage their houses to get
money to buy automobiles. 1t is
very interesting to hear them laugh
with fiendish glee when they see
their creditors gnash their teeth
with rage as they wiz by.
Take the case of a man who ac-
quired an automobile at the begin
ming of this season, and will soon
store it away. He should get the
opinion of an expert as to the pres
ent value of his property and sub
tract the latter from the cost price.
OF course, if the machine is sold, all
guesswork is eliminated. This de-
probation is just as much an ex-
pense as the cost of gasolene, but
few people ever think of it. Also
the interest on the investment at the
legal rate for a full year should be
put in the expense account. If the
owner has a garage of his own, he
should put in fair rental therefor,
just as if he hired space elsewhere.
If the owner is a mechanic and re-
pairs his own machine, he should al
low a reasonable price for his time,
since working in that way hardly
comes under the head of amusement,
although acting as ones own chauf-
feur may be so considered. An in
surance premium should be counted
in, whether policy is bought or the
owner insures himself against IL
ability and fire. The other expenses
will naturally be put down anyway
by anybody who keeps books at all.
By dividing the total of all these
items by the number of miles trav-
ClSuJ IhC SOoI pei lAllS l5 arrived
at, and this is the only satisfactory
basis of comparison. 1t should not
be forgotten, however, that the cost
per mile increases with the size of
the machine, other things being
equal.
In trying to ascertain the facts,
we find an extreme amount of re-
ticence among owners. In fact
there is not one we have inquired
of who would consent to have his
name mentioned. The reasons for
this are various as we'll as obvious,
and there is no need to analyze
them. In one case the owner of a
car thinks 1t has cost him SO cents
mile. but we do not think highly
of his ability as an accountant, and
he may be mistaken. The very
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Setting Fire to a Whale.

A dead whale, seventy-five feet
long. came ashore at Phillips Cove, on
the Maine coast, and large numbers of
tourists went off in motor boats to
have good look at the monster. Then
the town authorities towed the car
cass two miles out, and inserting into
1t sticks of dynamite. set the ex-
plosiVe OF. What was their astonish-
ment when the whole animal burst
into flames, fed by the whale oil for
which whales were once so much
hunted before the discovery of petro-
leum. The flames shot ten feet high,
and the carcass was several hours In
burning. the beach being lined with
Astonished spectators.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
WARNING BY scHURMAN.
Cornell Head Urges Industrial Train
Ing In Schools.

Utica, N. Y.-Dr. Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell Uni
versity, delivered an address on "In-
dustrial Education" at the State Coun-
ell Of School Superintendents. He
said that Germany does not fear
America as competitor because the
Germans know that our industries do
not rest on scientific foundation.
The secret, he said, was due to
their knowledge Of the fact that in
dustry rests on knowledge of the
sciences and arts and their applica-
ton to the various trades. Unless we
do the same, he continued, and stop
exhausting the natural resources, we
will drop to a second or third rate
power, We must put industrial train
ing into our schools.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Easy to Telegraph Pictures Now.

Paris.-A new apparatus for the tele-
graphic transmission of pictures,
called the teleautocopyist, was dis
played at the Academy of Sciences a
few days ago. It does not employ
photography. works with great rapid.
ity and does not require skilled manip.
ulation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Made 1874 cotfins by Hand.

Elwood, Ind.-Peter Wells, under.
taker, who made 1874 collins by hand,
is dead, aged eighty-three. A farmer
once entered his shop with bean pole
six feet nine inches long. said 1t rep
resented the height Of his deceased
wife and orderd Q comm.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
To Consider New Football Rules.

Radical changes in the foot ball
rules, aimed at lessening the possi-
bility of deaths and injuries are
recommended by Director A. A.
Stagg of the University of Chicago,
one of the western representatives
of the national rules committee.
At a meeting of the athletic board
recently Stagg was instructed in a
resolution to work for notifications
in the rules which may be calculated
to make the game safer. Stages
suggestions will be taken up at a
meeting of the conference commit
tee being held at Chicago Beach ho-
tel at the present time.
The suggestions follow: Allowing
two chances to make ten yards, or
increasing the distance to fifteen
yards and give team three chances,
as Walter Camp has suggested. In
this way forward passing will be
encouraged by making use of the
play more often necessary.
BY prohibiting pushing or pulling
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
TRAINS

Delaware & Hudson II. r.
Trains leave at 6:55 a. m, and
1925 and 4:30 p. m.
Sundays at 11:06 a. m. and 7:15
p. m.
Trains arrive at 1855 a. m, 3:1O
and 1881 p. m.
Sundays at 1915 a. m. and $3.50
p. m.
Erie II. II.
Trains leave at 8:25 a. m. and
2:48 p. m.
Sundays at 2i48 p. m.
Trains arrive at 1:40 and sos
p. m.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:46 and
leaves at 7:10.
Sundays at 7:02 p. N.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
WANT A CONGRESSIONAL.
Colorado suffraeettes Plan Big Fight
for One Of Their Sex.

Denver, Col.-The women of Colo
rado are to make stubborn effort to
send one of their sex to Congress two
years hence. The announcement was
made to the visiting delegates from
the International Council of Women
by one who spoke for the women's as
sociations in the State. Mrs. Sarah
Platt Decker is to be the candidate.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26

for this beautiful reed arm Rocker. This
Rocker has the full roll. Easy arms,
Shellaced. Built very durable and made
for comfort. A similar Rocker retails In
stores from $2.75 to $500.
Carefully packed, shipped
to any address for SIT.
Send today for our Factory-Price Cat
alogue of furniture. Mailed free. We
are the largest shippers of furniture In
this territory. Why7 Our Catalogue
Will tell you.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-26
Farmers and Me-
ChaniCS' Bank,
OF HONEsDAIE, WAYNE COUNTY. PA.
at the close Of business. Nov. 9Th. 1909.
RESOURCES.

Reserve fund.-.
Cash, specie and notes, $S,i28
Due from aDDrOvpd rn-