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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

All keyhole safes are, in nine
cases out of ton. only q single
door, so the best way to get
them is to use soup. First put
little absorbent cotton in the
keyhole. then squirt about IA to
1-2 OF. of soup in, or you can
use ?Dan, instead. About an
inch cut off the end of a stick
would be enough, or you can
drill them all from the top or
side and use ?puff You can
also find space on most all Of
them directly between keyhole
and handle. Here are the prin-
ciple ones in use. but they are
nearly all old timers:
+Nitroglycerine made from
dynamite. Dynamite. ?Black
powder.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
AMAZING FEAT BY 4
DOCTOR SAVES BABY
Speeding in Auto Ambulance to
Hospital He Whirls Child
Over Head
SPECTATORS THINK HIM CRAZY
But Startling Treatment Dislodges
Six-Proneed Iron Caught In Young
ster's Windpipe and Prevents lts
Killing Evan NiIIeen.

New York City.-By treatment SO
heroic that many persons who saw II
thought the surgeon was demented,
DR.. Burke of Bellevue Ho' oital, saved
the life of Evan Killeen, 8 months old,
of No. 255 Avenue \. The baby was
choking to death slowly from a jack
which he had attempted to swallow,
and which had lodged in his windpipe.
Seated in an ambulance which was
goining through the East Side streets
at a fifty-mle clip, DR.. Burke seized
the baby by the heels. swung him
head downward several times, and
then began whiring him about his
head. When the ambulance reached
Twenty-third street and First avenue
the surgeon heard something strike
the bottom Of the ambulance with a
metallic ring. He also heard the
baby give a gasp Of relief.
Pausing in the heroic treatment
which he was practicing, the surgeon
looked toward the bottom of the am.
bulance, and was delighted to see the
six-pronged piece of iron lying there.
Then he took the baby tenderly in his
arms and endeavored to make up by
soothing treatment for all the neces-
sary rough usage to which he had SUBJ
jected the youngster since the race
against death started. Little Evan
was almost exhausted. The surgeon
knew, however, his patients life was
saved, and that in a few hours he
would be all right again.
The run to the hospital was con-
tinued, and DIR. Burke soon had the
child snugly quartered in soft bed.
News Of the lucky outcome of the un-
usual treatment was sent to Mrs. Kill
leen, and she almost tainted from Joy.
She had been expecting to receive
news of her baby's DEATH so desperate
was the situation when the race for
the hospital started. Putting on her
hat and coat she hurried to the hospi-
tai to see her child and to thank the
surgeon. BY the t:ns she arrived
there the baby was fast asleep.
Little Evan and hie sister were
playing jacks in tAeir home shortly
before bedtime in the evening. The
baby put one of the jacks in his mouth
and it slipped down the windpipe.
Mrs. Killeen heard the baby gasping,
and the little girl told her the cause
of it. Hoping to dislodge the jack,
Mrs. Killeen laid Evan across her lap,
face downward, and pounded his back
in a fruitless effort to dislodge the
piece of iron. It refused to be budged,
and she ran with the baby to a neigh
boring drug store.
The druggist tried his hand at 1t,
and he, too, failed to dislodge the
jack. Then he telephoned to DR..
Burke of Bellevue, who soon arrived
in an auto-ambulance capable of a
speed of sixty miles an hour. Being
without instruments to perform ira
cheotomy, the surgeon ctarted on his
race for the operating room in the
hospital. 1t was just when the am
bulance started that the surgeon
thought he would try the unusual
treatment which resulted in saving
the life of the baby.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

New York City.-One of the most
tered by the staff of the Central Office
Detective Bureau was found in the
rooms of George Hunt, man on the
police records as of many aliases and
with long career as burglar.
The document is an exhaustive and
comprehensive disquisition on the art
of safe-blowing. Prompted by unmis-
forth with the sobriety Of language
and regularity of arrangement Of a
school manual. 1t is, in a word, evil
dently intended as a wade mecum for
the ambitious young cracksman;
kind of Baedeher for burglars.
Parts of it are in the cryptic "yegg"
code, a lingo of the thieves fraternity,
lish. For example, the caption Of
the first page is
...,.... ............ .............
: CFSXYK-LUZYL. {:
Directly beneath this, but whether
1
are the words:-"An old safe-a great
many of them in the South" Then
follows another "yegg" sentence or
series of words:-
.......... ........... .'.......... ::
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES {:
KHUP ::
:............ ..................
and under these the two words
ANY quarter
On this page and those Immediately
succeeding are diagrams of safes and
doors and combination desks, and
after that the manuscript launches
forth upon its set purpose.
The literature which so interested
the police consisted of a number of
foolscap pages closely written in long
hand There were enough words writ
ten in plain English to establish that
fact, but large part of the thing was
written in cipher.
It is not a difficult cipher. 1t con
sists in substituting for each letter o.
the alphabet another letter, the ar
rangement being simple and recipro
cal. A, for example, stands for U, ant
in it's turn U stands for A, and here
Is the whole alphabet, any letter II
the cipher meaning the other letter II
the eama column.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

Wilmington, Dei.-Levi J. Satter.
field, Of Milford, wondered why cigar
that he was smoking did not draw. On
investigating he found a handsome
diamond of two karats. worth $500,
firmly imbedded in the "tller."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25

money is spent every year in drinking
places as is given to all church and
benevolent purposes in this country.
Think of it. The annual drink bill OF
the United States is over four times
as much as the value of all the church
property of all denominations. That
is to say. in one year the people of
this country pour down their throats
money enough to build four times as
many churches OF the same grade as
now exists. Statistics prove that 1t Is
the direct cause of n yearly output Of
100000 criminals sentenced to prison,
100000 to the poor house. 300 mur.
ders, 400 suicides, with 500 funerals
q day.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
PRESIDENT LOSES AGAIN.
Beaten at Golf by Vice President sher-
man and Senator Bourne.

Washington, June 22.-President Taft
and his partner. General Edwards
again went down to defeat on the
Chevy Chase golf links in a foursome
with Vice President Sherman and
Senator Bourne Of Oregon, the latter
winning by 2 up.
The President played good game,
his driving being the best feature Of
his play, and the vice president was in
unusually good form.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
Beer VS.. Bread.

Statistics do not mean much, we are
not able to comprehend them. But
comparison may help us to get some
idei. of where the money goes. Sup
pose the liquor bill for one year was
devoted to the purchase of flour. 1t
would buy over 200,000,000 barrels, or
more than two barrels for every man,
woman and child in the country. Now
suppose that -four loaded on teams Of
10 barrels each, it would take 20,000,-
900 teams to deliver it. Allowing
each team "a feet of room, it would
form a procession over 10000 miles
long, extending nearly four times
around the globe, or more than one
third the distance from the earth to
the moon. Save that money which is
worse than thrown away and this
nation would never hear the moan Of
hard times from now on to the mil
lenium.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
BY REV. F. E. DAWSON
Rutland, vi.
WHAT MAKES
HARD TIMES;
International Bible Lesson for
June II, 'oo-(Rom. I3: 3-I4).

The most wide
spread, destruc-
tive antagonism
Christianity has
to meet in all our
land is the liquor
habit. According
to the recent
census there are
four groggeries
in this country to
every church and
six bartenders to
e V e r y minis
ter. And thirty
times as much
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
The Pocket Nerve.

HS TCCHSI lNCINCs
You would have more morey in
the bank, better clothes on your
back, better food on your table,
more leisure, more luXuries, for
yourself and your family, if il
were not for the demands made
upon you to provide houses of correc
ton, prisons, almshouses, insane asy
lums, reformatories, hospitals, institu-
tions of all grades into which marches
or is carried long procession of men,
women and children, the finished pro.
duet of the liquor habit. There is
where the money goes. Nine-tenths
of all the poverty and suffering of
this land without question is owing to
sinking the money in this bottomless
pit of intemperance. Save the money
sunk in this black abyss annually and
not another woman would shiver in
the cold, not another half-starved
child cry for bread. Every man who
is inspired by philanthrophy, patriot
ism or religion ought to be interested
to smash the nations greatest curse.
On the principle Of self-defense, pro-
lection of our own interests, as citl-
zens and taxpayers, we ought to
arouse ourselves to this evil, if from
no higher motive.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
Precept and Example.


And Judgment must begin at the
house of God. There is one perfect
ly sure remedy for intenperance, and
that is total abstinence. Let US bring
our children up by our example as
we'll as by our precept. Let us set in
our household such a blazing light be-
fore our children that when they
come into the temptations of great
cities they shall be strong in ad-
vance of their period of trial; let US
put the church on the right side, a
pillar of cloud by day and of fire by
night, guide to the militant host,
confusion and destruction to her foes.
When we purge the church we shall
purge the parlor we shall purge the
press, we shall purge the statute
books, we shall purge the ballot box,
we shall purge the executive, admin
istrative powers of the government,
and we shall thus deliver civilization
from a curse which has gnawed our
vitals more deeply than war, or pesti-
lence, or famine.
This is the next step In social re.
form. And the fight thickens every
day. The field Of conflict extends year
by year. AS Lincoln said, "This ma
tion cannot endure half slave, and
half free" so we say, This nation
cannot endure half drunk and half
sober" One or the other condition
will have to be changed. Constantly
the fact looms up in darker hues and
more fearful proportions that rum is
mans deadliest foe, and we are pressed
to the conclusion that the demons
reign must end. And stronger grow
the hands, and more hopeful the
hearts, and more earnest the prayers
Of the great army arrayed against
this foe of God and man, marching on
to its destruction. Since rum in one
form OF another is the main evil and
obstacle in the pathway Of humanity
and religion, 1t is inevitable that 1t
! must 20.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-25
Tom Lonaboat Wins Ten Mile Race.

Buffalo, June 22.--Tom Longboat Of
Toronto defeated Frank Nebrich of
Buffalo in ten mile race here, finish
ing 100 yards ahead; time, SO minutes
11H seconds.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-17
WHFN THF B0DY
POISONS ITSELF
Every Sufferer from Stomach
Trouble Should Know
hesc t dels.

like tie afher organs tHf s.at5teh
raMs uum tle ILaat tar ste.l-' {. aaI
uoarishmeur a. sustain 1t tn lt~ sase
work Ii the blood is impure tHe stan
arh rrceIyesa supply loaded with lal-
sons. 81 "tavins as they are cailcd.
Thus tile boiy pois1ns t-elf- tFeNte-
known hy physicians AS autu-htoAl.d-
uou. pr selt-p0i@oung
Oxygen Is the elem M ia nature that
wl. ua these pps9as harmless and
a.. 4sH them 4amicaly 50 tlnt they
may be cast out by the ordinary pre-
cesses Of the body DIR Williams Flnh
pills enable tile blood to absorb m large
quantities the oxygen Chat Il tn tHa alr
we breathe aud la th.s way they combat
the uoisous IN the blood and enable u r.
restore the digestive organs g. health
and strength The best proof IS 2 cure
like that If Mrs. John hnuth, II 4 T.
n. No. Z. st Joseph, Mo. She says
Il was an invalid with stomach
trouble for seven years and spent hum
tlrpds Of dollars with physicians wltho-t
receiving any benefit. For two years
| lived on milk alone Ny stomach
would not retain any solid food. | mad
ras on tile stomach aud vomlted greet
dcal. was troubled With dizzy spells
and Thought / would never live through
them Nv hands and feet were ice cold
and seemed TO have no circulation az all
Nv heart nuttered aud | weuld have
,mothering sensations. Ny weight was
greatly reduced was frequently con
{ a 4H e.. .fa.4a aud at ono ftnn
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-17
WOULD BUILO BLOCK
HOUSES AND "TROCHAS"
Oklahoma MAJ RGS0It to DGS.
peIaIe Measure 10 Eradicate
Cattle Blight


aThe auestior Of entire prohibition
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state OF ohlahoili "u' 'i7
year is the mos Important auhlNe1
which thn state board OF agrIcultn /
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Evening journal., 1909-12-10

shown. that we arc compelled to say
that not only can the right hand do
everything that theeft can, but that the
left hand can do nothing that it has
not learned from and by means OF the
right.
And where everything IS subject to the
left side Of the brain dhe governor Of
the right hand) all our thinking, feeling,
acting, writing and moving. the right
side Of the brain alone possesses none
OF these abilities. Examinations of pa
tients who are paralyzed on left side and
who thus arc entirely dependent on the
right side of the brain have shown that
a person who in consequence of a stroke
has been robbed of speech and his right
handed movement, and who now is equal
iy unable to do anything with his leader
less left hand, has become a complete
ruin.
The observations made by Professor
Lipman of persons who had suffered
stroke of paralysis on the right side
and whose unparalleled left hand had
become clumsy and useless in carry
ing out any purposeful motions have
clearly proved this complete depend
ence. In the course of further ex-
aminations and Investigations the pos
Evening journal., 1909-12-10
NOVEL VIEWS
ON DICTIONARIES

Don't say 'et' mats just as easy
to say eaten.
MY stars What next?' glared ma
born. 1t is likely I'll change at this
late day."
IL Opars going to be a school
teacher mebbe she wants summat to
practice on grinned her father
"Oh, Pa, you mustn't say 'summat-
II isn't word demonstrated his
daughter
Amt a wordl" shouted her father
with increasing excitement "Wen,
hear that! How do you know it amt
a word?"
1T isn't in the dictionary" said
Opal.
"Shucks," disparaged Pa. what's
the dictionary got To- do with it? The
words that git into the dictionary amt
common talkin' words nohow; they're
written words-nobody puts talk into
dictionary"
why not?" questioned opal. aston
ished at her fathers apparent knowl-
edge of the making of dictionaries
"Cause why? Cause spoken words
Is too lively for 'em-who can go round
and keep track Of every word that's
spoke? 1 can make a hull mouthful
myself, and no dictionary'n ever know
anything about it-see?'
But, Pa protested opal.
"They put written words-not spoke
words into a dictionary" again differ
entiated Pa. rather surprised and
pleased at his own remarks.
But educated people talk better
than you do. anyway" maintained
opal. "whatever words they use.n
IF you want 20 git told summat,"
remarked Pa. deliberately using the
word under discussion, that amt got
no sense TO it, GIT a graduated daugh-
ter to talk TO YOU"
Evening journal., 1909-12-10
EDWIN ARDEN'S
NIGHTMARE
A7tOr Dreaded Having a Wig
DlNarranGed In Performances

The great role Of Justin GutIleb in
Israel" the Bernstein play that Charles
Frohman is presenting in New York at
The Criterion Theatre, is played by Ed
win Arden. In this role. and it is ono of
tho best that Mr.. Arden ever played, the
actor wears his own hair instead of
grey wig, although II takes nearly an
hour every night TO wash out tho powder
Asked why he took this trouble as we'll
as the risk OF catching cold from his
nightly shampoos, Mr.. Arden explained
that his favorito nightmare is having a
wig become disarranged during perform
ance. Il can't imagine anything quite as
horrible for an actor" he said, "and IN the
scene where Thibault insults mo in the
club by pushing my hat off, know that
some night If 1 wear n wig this awful
dream will come true. 1t is true that the
French actor who played the part all win
ter in Paris wore wig without accidents,
but he probably has never had the fran
tic dream Of being left on the stage with
his wig over one ear or on the ground"
Evening journal., 1909-12-10
SENTIMENT CAUSES
HIM TO CHANGE CARS

'mulio." said one Clevelandcr to an
other the other morning, what are You
doing on this ear line? Aren't VIC crowded
enough already without having a lot OF
intcrlopers mussing up our PLATFORM
The other man hesitated moment.
"In tell you why I'm here, JIM" he
said. "Irs rather foolish, / know. but /
felt this morning that I'd much rather
walk half mile further than go down on
my own car line Whyf That's tho foolish
part OF it,"
Tho other man looked at him curiously.
go on" lie said
"wer, it's just this" the interloper re-
sumed, "A neighbor Of mine has been in
The habit OF going down on tho car with
mo for q half dozen years. There WASH {
any understanding between US, but he
would wait on the porch for mo every
morning, and we'd keep together on tho
car, and talk over tho morning news, and
swap little stories, and forget all about
the crowded aisles and the bad ventila-
tlon. / guess you know the man / mean.
lie died last week.
well" the interlopor explained, "when
came out Of my house this morning
and looked over to my neighbors porch
and he wasn't there-well, you see, some-
how didn't feel any desire 10 go down on
the old line-and that's why I crossed over
to Cedar Foolish, isn't it?'
mo" said the other man, ut Isn't
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10
HANDS AN INDEX
OF BRAIN POWER

Through my studies Of left-handedness
in criminals my attention was turned to
lefthandedness in general and tho follow
ing facts. CLEANED from tho most reliabia
sources will, 1 think, prove Of interest to
many and are certainly of far reaching
import, says Adalbert Albrecht in the Bos.
ton Transcript As a basis Of departure
let me repeat one or two physiological
truths.
The impressions Of the outside world, as
they are received by our eyes, our ears.
our perceptions. form themselves into So
called memories" in our brains and re-
main there. According to the frequency
with which we experience them they
reach our perception until Gas for in
stance. in tho use of certain objects in
reading and writing) they become habitu-
al so that on hearing a word that desig-
mates certain object We instinctively
know its use, form and shape without
stopping to think, for moment how many
messages must be sent along our nerves
IN order that we may grasp this concep-
tion and give it expression. Let us go
step further.
Generally we perform every motion with
the right hand, for, as is well known, 95 IL
per cent of all people are right handed 1t
follows that the place where all our memo
ries are stored is the left side Of tho
brain. which in consequence of the cross
ing Of the nerve centres in the spino gov
orns the right hand
The left hand IS a step-child. together
with its corresponding right side Of the
brain. This leads TO complete depend
enoe OF the left hand on the right. and
to such an overwhelming difference be-
tween the right and left sides of the
brain, thorough examinations have
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

sibility has presented itself OF helping
those persons who are practically
doubly paralyzed and who have fire.
quently lost the power of speech, to
new life through exercising and train
ing the left hand. And the conclusion
has finally been reached that with
normal people it is also possible to
succeed in;
]. Developing the left hand equally
with the right, by exercise.
.. Making the hitherto unused right
side OF the brain the full equal Of the
left side by developing its activity
through the exercise Of the left hand.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

Searchlights have become a factor in
labor troubles. They are psed to il
illuminate the grounds about factory
property
The General Electric Company has
greatly enlarged its plant at Lynn,
Mass.
a steam turbine electric locomotive
is being tried out in England
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

Bacteriorologists are now using an
electrically heated incubator to hatch
germs because the temperature can be
controlled for an indefinite period with
out variation.
London has a now club which is all
most entirely run by electricity, even
tho walters boing electrical.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

Monorail systems have proven sue
ccssful Ia India.
rho development OF the water powers
in California has helped boom tho
state by bringing IN new industries
and helping old Industries with plenty
OF cheap electric power available.
The old horse car lines of ST. Peters,
burg. Russia, are TO be electrified.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10
He WAS PARTICULAR.

Mrs. Myles-who is that man throwing
that kiss to?
Mrs. styles-1t must be you. dear He
wouldn't be throwing me a kiss"
"Why noty'
Because its my Observation-Disclosures
Statesman.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

An electric pen has been invented
which will prevent forgeries. This
pen makes tiny perforations through
the paper.
Evening journal., 1909-12-10

And i don't see" broke in Ma heat
edly. why our pa, or anybody else,
can't use the words that is naturally
s'n."-lsverybody's Magazine.
The Adair County news., 1909-06-30
Death of Mrs. Martha c. Biggs.

The subject of this notice died last
Wednesday morning at o'clock at the
home of her son-in-law, w. ]. Conover,
few miles from Cane Valley. The end
came in the dwelling where the de-
ceased lived for many years and where,
her children were reared. She was
seventy-eight years old when the dis
solution came. She was the mother of
twelve children ten of whom are living
all having homes in the neighborhood
where she died excepting her son, j. j.
Biggs, who resides in Columbia. She
was one the best known women in the
Cane Valley country, and was consist
ant member of the Presbyterian church
for many years. The funeral services
were held at Mt Carmel Church, con-
Quoted by Rev. VIM Dudgeon, who was
familiar with her Christian character
There were many relatives and friends
present. The interment was in the
Church cemetery. The surviving child
rem have the sympathy of every body
who knew the life of the deceased.