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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Spare the Horses.

A cavalry sergeant at a Western
post had endured the stupidity of a
recruit for many days. One day the
rookie" was thus greeted when he
had violated the sergeant's orders:
"Say, don't ever come at the horses
from behind without speakin' to
them!" exclaimed the sergeant.
They'll be kicking in that thick head
Of yours! Then the first thing you
know therell be lot O. lame horses
in the squadron"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Sad is Sad.

A mother, who was rather fond Of
the cheaper ten, twenty, thirty cent
melodrama, one afternoon took her
young daughter, who had grown to
consider herself above that sort Of
thing.
The daughter was bored, but the
mother was greatly interested, and
finally, when the heroine had got into
a seemingly inextricable position,
broke down and sobbed heartily.
Mother, l wouldn't cry here" whis.
pered the daughter significantly, &C,
centing the last word.
Let me alone" replied the other
Historically. "If thing is sad, it's
sad; l can't cry according to price,"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
John D. a Dual Personality.

New York City.-"Rockefellerism is
dead and Mr. Rockefeller himself
writes its epitaph." That is the state
ment of Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell, the we'll
known STANDARD Oil biographer" and
associate editor of the American
Magazine, apropos of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's own book just published, Ran
dom "reminiscences Of Men and
Events"
The biographer of Standard Oil says
there Is a DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
WOMAWS BEAUTY IN MATURITY
Defended Against DR.. Sargent, Who
Thinks II Lacks Men,
tally.


Boston. Mass.-Boston' countless
Browning societies, new thought
clubs, equal suffrage organizations
and the scores of women doctors, law
yers and writer's have thrown down
the gauntlet to DR.. Dudley s. Sargent,
head of the Hemenway gymnasium at
Harvard because he said:
ITO be beautiful a woman must
have no mentality. She Is at her
highest development at 18 years. 1t
is only in rare cases that a woman Is
beautiful after 25.'
81 should take the exactly opposite
view from DR.. Sargent" said Miss
Gilman, acting director Of the Posse
gymnasium. Beauty in my opinion,
demands something more than mere
regularity of features. It means intel
ngence and poise and experience such
as cannot develop in young girls.
"As for the statement about per
sonality and brains meaning the loss
of beauty, it's just ridiculous. To my
mind the most beautiful and attractive
women are those who have fully ma
tured, and l think shall be borne out
in this by other people"
Miss Mary E. Allen Of the Allen
gymnasium puts her answer in plain
er terms.
"If l were to try to place the per
cent. Of the greatest beauty Of wom'
an ! would say it comes between 80
and As years of age" she says. "Al'
most without exception, the most
beautiful women l have known have
been over 25 years old.
brains? Why, some Of the most
cultured and brainy women In this
city are famous for their beauty"
Miss Hill, physician instructor at
Wellesley College, does not mince
words.
"This statement of DR.. Sargent's
has lowered him a great deal In my
estimation" she declared. These re-
marks Of his are utterly uncalled for,
and I cannot understand why he
should have made them"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Marriaee--Before and After.

Booth Harrington has written some
exceptionally clever fiction. More re.
Gently he has been in the limelight in
the role CT a politician. Not long ago
he was the guest of some of his
friends at theatrical supper. In
speaking to his neighbor at the table
on the subject Of marriage, Mr.. Tark-
ington said number Of epigrammi-
cal truths about this important SUBJ
ject. One was:
Before a girl marries man, her
opinion of him is much the same as
that held by her mother. After the
honeymoon is over, the young lady
generally comes over to the viewpoint
her father had"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Improving.

"How is your son James getting on
at college, Mr.. Boggs?" asked the Par
son.
Fine" said Boggs. Hes getting
more business-like every day"
II am glad to hear that" said the
Clergyman. How does the lad show
it?"
We'll" said Boggs, when he first
went up and wanted money, he used
to write asking for 1t. Now he draws
on me at sight"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
IN A BAD WAN
Patient saw q sight that Made Him
Doubt the Doctor.

Doubt the Doctor.
A doctor came up to patient in an
insane asylum, slapped him on the
back and said: "Well, old man, you're
all right. You can run along and
write your folks that you'll be back
home In two weeks as good as new"
The patient went OF gayly to write
his letter. He had 1t finished and
sealed. but when he was licking the
stamp 1t slipped through his fingers
to the floor, lighted on the back Of q
cockroach that was passing and stuck.
The patient hadn't seen the cockroach.
What he did see was his escaped post.
age stamp zig-zagging aimlessly
across the floor to the Dashboard, wav.
ering up over the Dashboard and fol.
lowing a crooked track up the wall
and across the ceiling. In depressed
silence he tore up the letter that he
had Just written and dropped the
pieces on the floor.
1.-TWO weeks! Not on your life!" he
said. II won't be out Of here in three
years."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
THRIFTY WAITRESS.
AZ Her Savings Accumulate She
Makes Wise Investments.

Wichita, Kan.-On leave of absence
from the Royal Hotel, Guthrie, Mary
McVey, waitress, is here arranging
for the construction Of two-story
brick business block on North Market
street. Miss McVey expects to invest
about $4,000 in the building, the
money being the savings Of years of
work as a waitress in Guthrie.
"My investment here does not
mean that I am going to quit work, "
said Miss McVey. II shall continue
in the employ Of the Royal Hotel, but
expect within a few years to be In a
position where can retire and enjoy
the results of my labor"
Miss McVey has made some Of her
money through wise speculation in
Oklahoma real estate.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
THE RING is FOUND.
Twenty Years Ago a Girl Thought Her
Sweetheart Stole Il.


Jasonville, Ind.-Twenty years ago
Miss Mollie Lienhart prosecuted Ell.
jah Fielding, her lover, for stealing
her ring. He was sent to prison pro-
testing his innocence. He returned
here and the two, both Of whom have
remained single. have not spoken un.
til to-day.
Early Monday morning the ring was
found near an old spring where Miss
Lienhart had dropped it. She remem.
bers having been at the spring the day
she missed 1t.
AS soon as the ring was found she
went to Fielding and begged his fore.
giveness. At night the neighbors
gathered at her home ito meet Mr..
Fielding"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
The Flyinu IiourS.

Twelve little birds fly by In a row.
J Bright little birds are they,
Shining and free and as blue as canSbPw>
And these are the hours Of the DAG: y
The sun shines warmly across thetrWfUHt
AS they flutter their way along,i
And now and again In. their, Joy fkthtnEz
They carol a daytime song.
Twelve little owls fly by in a. row !
Silent and dark their night
Gray litt1e things with shaduwy wingRt9
But the last OF them siSaas hss lsps1es1 HOG
Il flushed with a radiant pipGw"
Thts ~ <s$helgood little slnytSos01M
like him the best. think.
Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Raby,s cradIe a Blind rIner.

Montgomery, Ala.-Bob Mayfield Of
Admission, charged with wildcatting
liquor sales. invited the ofacers to
search his house. When inside he
cautioned them not to wake the baby.
"A suspicious oficer pulled the cover
OF the baby and found beneath It a
cradle full Of bottles filled with liquor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Young Folks
MEASURING A TREE.
How Height May Be Aseertained by
the Triangle Method.


the Triangle Method.
A clever boy who wanted to know
the approximate height of tree
solved the problem in this manner:
He got stick and planted It in the
ground and then cut 1t of just at the
level Of his eyes. Then he went out
and took look at the tree and made
a rough estimate of the trees height
in his mind, and, judging the same dis
tance along the ground from the tree
trunk, he planted his stick in the
ground. Then he lay down on his
back with his feet against the stand
ing stick and looked at the top Of the
tree over the stick.
If he found the top of stick and
tree did not agree he tried a new posi-
tion and kept at it until he could just
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Nsoro Brothers We'd White Girls.

Detroit, Mich.-A news special from
Ithaca. Mich, saysi Bert and Leon
ard Nicholson. brothers and both col
ored, were married here to white
girls. Miss Rose Saunders, daughter
Of o prominent Emerson farmer, be-
came the wife OF Bert and Miss Carrie
Cole, Of Temple, was welded TO Leon
ard. Justice Myers performed the
csrmonies.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Tho Ideal.

els your daughter learning to play
the plano by noteH"
Certainly not" answered Mr.. Cum
rox severely. I'VE always pay cash.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
Tho Cause.

What caused the separation"
"Oh, he thought as much OF him'
self as she thought Of herself and az
little OF her as she did OF him."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23
IN THE ideal FAMILY"
The Rev. Dr.. Vaughn Says Boy Should
Know What He Costs Parents.

Chicago.-The Rev. D. D. Vaughn,
who has been delivering series OF
talks on "The Ideal Family" believes
an itemized account of the cost OF
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23

A More Important Question,
Nov q big Chicago arm complains
that its gfrfs win not stay single"
well, will they stay marrisds"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
BRYAN'S FRIEND
is AGAIN MAYOR

OMAHA, Neb., May 5.-This city
went Democratic in the municipal
election Tuesday by safe majorities
for the leading candidates on the tick
ct, Mayor James c. Dahlman leading
with not less than 1000. Complete
returns on the head of the ticket from
thirty-nine out of fifty-four precincts
gave Dahlman plurality of 3,7O0
With this big lead 1t is apparent that
the entire Democratic ticket has won
with possibly one or two exceptions.
Mayor Browns (Democrat), Of Lin
coin, will probably be superseded by
Republican by safe plurality. and
1t is also apparent that the second city
of the state has discarded the saloons
by the vote cast Tuesday
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
HAMILTON SAYS
SOLONS ARE o. K.
ANTLsALooN Lacquer PLEASED
WITH WORK OF THE GEN.
ERAL ASSEMBLY.

BRISTOL, Tenn, May CT think
the people of Tennessee should feel
proud of our legislature" said W. r.
Hamilton, state superintendent Of the
Anti-Saloon League of Tennessee, who
has just returned from the capital
city, where he attended the closing
of the memorable assembly.
We deeply regret the failure of the
search and seizure bill to pass. Pat
terson's own platform calls for laws
that would facilitate the more rigid
enforcement of the temperance laws
we then had, but when it is put square
ly up to him he vetoes the bill. The
legislature was an excellent one in
many respects"
Mr.. Hamilton did not approve of the
wanton recklessness of the body in it's
dying days in throwing away the peo-
pies money. He feels that it has
done more for moral reform than any
other legislature in the history Of
the state
Now for the enforcement OF the
prohibition laws. We are determined
that those who boosted that the pro-
hibition laws could not be enforced in
Nashville. Memphis and Chattanooga
shall not make farce of them. The
temperance people Of the state are
that the laws be rigidly en-
forced in the cities ! believe there
is public sentiment enough in any of
them to compel strict enforcement
of the law. No good citizen, regard
less of how he stood on the question
of statewide prohibition, can afford to
favor a lax enforcement of law"
Already a large fund has been
raised to aid the temperance and law
abiding people in the cities in en-
forcing the letter and spirit of the
prohibition laws. Rewards will be
paid for the capture of persons either
or openly evading the laws
and it is believed that the officers will
have the sympathy of the courts all
over the state in the enforcement OF
the laws. Special detectives will be
employed for this purpose.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
THE PAIN MADE
HER FAINT

For almost four years l had sore
on my leg" says Mrs. Olive Hurd OF
Madison, N. H., "and this spring a
doctor healed it up. ! felt fine for
about a month but had to be on my
feet a good deal and above my knee
came swelling as big as my fist. 1t
hung down and was as red as if it had
been blistered and so sore that | could
hardly get around. The cords of my
leg seemed to be stiff and the pain
was SO bad at times that it made me
faint.
One of the neighbors told me about
Sloan's Liniment so | got bottle and
put some right on. Next morning |
could walk ever so much better and
kept right on using the Liniment night
and morning. 1t took down all the
swelling, and the redness and soreness
have gone, too. | shall never be with
out Sloan's Liniment in the house
again and will recommend it to all suf-
fering friends"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
JUDGE IS
FACING THE CHARGE
OF GOING FISHING
MISSOURI REPRESENTATIVE IN
PRODUCES SENSATIONAL RES
oLUTIoN AT WASHINGTON.
RAILROAD ATTORNEYS ALONG
Bench Comes Back With a Refer
ence to His War Record And Inti-
mates That He Has Some Sand
Left.

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Making Sc
rious charges against Federal Judges
John F. Phillips and Smith McPher-
son, of the Western District of Mis-
souri,, Representative Murphy, of that
State, introduced resolution Monday
to investigate their conduct in the
litigation between the State and the
railroad companies over the maximum
freight law and the Missouri 2-cent
passenger rates law.
The preamble of the resolution
claims that the two Judges accompa-
MED certain railroad attorneys on a
fishing trip, on which occasion mem
bers Of the party were arrested for
violating the game laws of the State.
The resolution charges that Judge
Phillips neglects his duty by continued
absence from the bench, and that when
he does preside the court is in session
for only four hours each day. Mr..
Murphy desires the general conduct OF
Judge Phillips investigated, contend
ing that he is insulting to the attor-
neys who are compelled to practice in
his court, and also that he has in
structed at various times that the jury
bring in a certain verdict. If the ju-
rors bring in a different verdict, de-
clares the resolution, Judge Phillips
becomes insulting and practically
charges that they have violated their
oaths as jurors
The resolution recites that the two
Judges rendered certain decisions
which in effect unsurped the powers
of the Legislature.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
.DEPOSED SULTAN
IN HASTY FLIGHT
LEFT HIS MONEY
MILLIONS FOUND IN THE IMPE.
RIAL PALACE BY SEARCHING
COMMISSION.
One VERY VALUABLE ROSARY
Had Over $4,000 Deposited in a
Foreign 5ank-sIisht Changes Are
Made in The cabinet-oeeasioned
Surprise.

CONSTANTINoPLE, May 6.-The
commission which is taking an inven-
tory Of the property at the Imperial
Palace at Yidiz has discovered, ac-
cording to the local newspapers, bank
notes to the value of $2,25O,OOO and a
large quantity of jewelry, including a
rosary valued at $375,O00. Papers
seized at the palace show that Abdul
Hamid had something over 100000
on deposit in a foreign bank.
Hilmi Pasha and Mollah Sahib we're
Wednesday installed, respectively, as
Grand Vizier of the empire and Sheik-
Ul-Islam, OF head of the faith. The
former succeeds Tewfik Pasha, and
the latter Zia Eddin Effendi. The
changes in Office we're made with the
usual ceremony. In the imperial hiatt
ordering the changes, the Sultan ex-
pressed his firm desire for the restora-
ton and maintenance of peace and
tranquility, the welfare of the coun-
try and regularity of administration.
Mollah Sahib is distinguished theo-
Logan, who in the past has suffered
on account of his liberal views.
There has been some other slight
changes in the Cabinet. Nail Bey,
the member of the Chamber OF Depu-
ties from Sinope and an active worker
of the committee of union and prog
ress, replace Ami Bey as Minister OF
Public Instruction, and Vice Admiral
Arifhikmet Pasha replaces Ria Pasha
as Minister of Marine.
This sudden change in the Cabinet
came as a surprise, it having been
definitely that Tewtk
Pasha would retain the post of Grand
Vizier until after the investiture OF
the new Sultan with the sword OF
Ottoman. The change is taken to in
dicate that full understanding has
been reache dbetween the two groups
Of the Union.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
BENTON WILL
ENTER CONTEST
FORMER GOVERNOR M'MlLLlN
HASN'T OVERCOME THE HANK
ERlNG FOR OFFICE.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn, May g.
Ex-Gov. Benton McMillin, who stop
ped over here for a few hours on his
return from Woodbury., where he had
been on business trip, was asked
whether he had made formal an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
United States Senate to succeed Sena.
tor Frazier. He replied that he had
not made formal announcement, but
that 1t is his intention to enter the
race, unless something unforeseen oc-
ours in the near future to change his
plans. Gov. McMillin said that he
would confess that 1t has been his
ambition to go to the United States
Senate for some years, and that he
felt that the coming campaign would
be better opportunity for him to
crafty that ambition than any pre-
vious one He appeared in perfect
health and splendid spirits and said
that, in the event he determined 10
get into the fight he would throw his
whole heart and soul into It and go
in TO win.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION FOR
UNCLE SANS ENLIGHTENMENT
u COAST AND eEoDETlc SURVEY HERE-HAvE TELE.
SCOPE AT ATHsNAEuM SOME sTAR-eAzINe.

Nessrs. VIM. H. Burger. Ford Kurtz
and Jasper S. Billy Of the U. S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey. are in Columbia
making astronomical and terrestrial
observations. They have put up a
rough plank house on the Athenaeum
grounds TO cover the telescope which
rests on a concrete foundation i'm
bedded three feet in the ground; the
cellar OF one of the brick buildings is
used for the pendulum and other in
struments for determining gravity.
Monday night being clear there were
MANY observations obtained of the
Axed stars and even to one who knew
nothing of higher mathematical as
tronomy 1t was interesting to watch
the process and the operation of the
delicate instrument. The view of the
full moon was a treat, the craters and
heat waves" showing beautifully.
The pendulums swing in nearly a per-
feet vacuum and are so delicately ad-
iusted that the heat of the observers
body is a factor, and motion to the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07

milionth part Of an inch is detected
distance too infinitessimal for US
plain folks TO grasp. While the mag
netie determinations we're being made
a gentleman approached; the keys and
a pen knife in his pocket affected the
instruments, but after being Invested
of these metals the instrument worked
satisfactorily.
The government is collecting these
accurate data for gravity, magnetic
variations, density Of the earth's crust
and other scientific purposes. The
last observations were in Oklahoma;
from Columbia they go to South Caro-
lima
Capt. Smith has arranged with them
to give the exact latitude and longi-
tude of the place which they will
record on his register.
The members OF this party are not
only of high technical education, but
charming gentlemen socially; it is to
be regretted that the good weather
for taking observations makes their
stay so short.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-07
PHILLIPS RELIES.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, May Al
though he declined to be interviewed
Judge Phillips intimated that he would
Immediately telegraph Speaker Can
non and request that Congressional
committee be appointed to investigate
thoroughly the matters suggested by
the Murphy resolution. That portion
of the resolution which insinuated
that Judge Phillips had been derelict
in attending to his official duties
seemed to disturb him most, as, he
said, his part in the disposition of the
Missouri rate cases had been largely
perfunctory. His granting of a sup
Elementary restraining order against
the railroads last Friday, he said, was
the most important act of his in con-
nection with the cases, and he did
that as an accommodation to Judge
Mcpherson, who will come here next
Wednesday to preside at the hearing
of that order Judge Phillips said he
had called in Judge Mcpherson to
take charge of the Missouri rate cases
in their very inception and that dur
ing the past three years he had de-
voted himself to the work of the Uni
ted States Court of Appeals, where
the number of decisions he had rem
dered disproved the charges Of the
Murphy resolution.
Judge Phillips has been on the Fed
eral bench for twenty-one years, and
he said he courted the fullest inyesti-
cation OF his judicial career. He init
mated that the primary motive behind
the charges against him was to force
his resignation. In his connection, he
said:
Il have never run away from fight'T
| did not in the Civil War, and shall
not run now"
Judge Phillips served in the Union
Army and has distinguished record.
He is a Democrat