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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
splnsters Strange VIII.

An extraordinary will has been loft
by an elderly unmarried lady who re.
Gently died in Vienna. Her property,
amounting to about $250,000 is to be
divided between her three nephews,
now aged twenty-four. twenty-cevon
and twenty-nine, and her three nieces,
aged nineteen, twenty.one and twenty
two. in equal parts on the following
conditions:
The six nephews and nieces must
all live In the house formerly inhabit.
ed by their aunt, with the executor a
lawyer. None of the nephews Is to
marry before reaching his fort.e'h
year, nor the nieces before their tar.
tieth; the share Of the one SO marry
ing will be divided. Further. the six
legatees are admonished never to
quarrel. If one should do so persistent.
ly the executor is empowered to turn
him or her out of the house and di-
vide the share. The executor is him
self forbidden to marry or to reside
elsewhere than in the house with the
legatees.
The old maid is said to have made
this peculiar will because her nephews
and nieces continually worried her by
asking her to give them money to en-
able them to marry requests she al
ways refused.-Vienna Correspond
ence London Express.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Value of AntitoSins,

During the course Of diseases caus-
ed by bacterial infection, certain
poisons (toxins) are developed in the
blood by the bacteria, or exist in the
bodies of the bacteria. Nature, in COM
batting the disease, produces certain
principles in the serum of the blood
of the patient, called antitoxins, which
antagonize the action of the toxins.
These principles have not been isolat-
ed, but they are used to combat dis
ease artificially by injecting blood Sc
rum which contains them into the
tissues of person suffering with the
bacterial disease to aid him in neu-
tralizing the toxins resulting during
that disease. Antitoxins combating
the poisons of snake-bite, pneu-
monia, tuberculosis, yellow fever,
bubonic plague, cholera and 9TH
er ailments have been prepared and
used. The one most often employed
is the diphtheria antitoxin, which is
called simply antitoxin."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Great Tunnels Proiacted.

Two projects for the construction
of railway tunnels of unprecedented
magnitude are now under discussion.
One of them, which appeals strongly
to the imagination If 1t does not enlist
much sympathy among practical men,
is Monsieur de Lobel's plan for tun-
neling Bering Strait to connect ST.
IBERIA with Alaska. The author of this
plan explained 1t before a large meet
ing of the Navy and Military Club at
st. Petersburg recently. Bering Strait
is about 9S 12 miles broad and 167
feet deep. but it has two islands so
situated that the tunnel could be di-
vided into three sections of about
II IL miles each. The other project
is older, and relates to tunneling the
English Channel between Dover and
Calais. French engineers have re-
Gently been studying the enterprise
anew. The distance Is about % 1-2
miles. The work would be relatively
easy because the tunnel would run
through chalk.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
DoqWood.

The industrial value of dogwood is
probably but little appreciated except
by manufacturers and users Of bob
bins, shuttles and spindles employed
In cotton and woolen-mills. These
are made of dogwood or persmmon
wood, and hitherto the supply has
come from the Southern States. The
Forest Service now calls attention to
the fact that the supply in that part
of the country is nearly exhausted.
Fortunately dogwood abounds in Ore
gon, Washington and California, and
large plants for the manufacture of
spindles have recently been erected in
the Cascades in Oregon. In the East
an attempt has been made to substi-
tute the wood of the mesquit and the
tupelo for dogwood. The mesquit is
very hard. heavy and close-graned;
the tupelo is heavy, but less hard 1t
has the valuable property of wearing
smooth by friction.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Dene-HoIes.

These curious well-like excavations,
found in Kent and Sussex, are popu-
larly supposed to belong to the time
of the Danish rule in England They
are invariably about feet in dame
ter and seldom less than 60 feet deep.
Ingress and egress we're provided for
by means of rude ladders or ropes.
Various explanations have been offer
ed to account for their existence
some supposing them to have been
places OF refuge. others that they
were connected with secret forms of
worship, still others that they we're
dug for the extraction OF chalk and
places of refuge, others that they
flint Mr. A. j. Philip, in a recent
study of the subject. advocates the
view that the holes were made to
serve as silos, or granaries. They are
found close together in groups. corre-
spending with the habit of various
tribes of clustering in restricted areas.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
School chiIdren,s Attention.

Prof. W. Phillips read recently, be-
fore the Royal Sanitary Institute in
England, a paper detailing his obser-
vations on the limit of school chill
dren's capacity for attention. He con-
cludes that two intervals of rest of
10 minutes each during an ordinary
school session are more useful than
one of 90 minutes. The attention
wanes more rapidly in the afternoon,
and consequently the studies which
most severely tax the attention, like
mathematics, should be confined to
the morning hours. Professor Phillips
concludes that gymnastics is not of
necessity mentally recuperative
agent. If the teacher is strict disci-
plinarian in gymnastics, the fatigue
exhibited by the children may be of a
pronounced character.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
EARTH CURRENTS.
Experiments to Show Effects Of Eleo-
trio Traction Systems,

Interesting experiments have been
made at the Kew Observatory. near
London. on the effects of the electric
cvrrents produced in the earth by the
electric traction systems of the Brit
ish metropolis. The delicate magnetic
Instruments of the observatory are
affected by the currents.
Metallic plates buried in the ground
were connected with Photographic
recording apparatus, and the tracings
recorded by the instrument formed a
picture of the timetable of the Lon
don Central Railway. although the
nearest point of approach of that line
is six miles from Kew.
Even accidental breakdowns occur
ring on the traction line we're indlcat
ed in the Photographic record.
By connecting the earthquakes with
a sensitive galvanometer, the effect
of the movements of the tramway con.
trollers was rendered evident, and, a
being attached, sounds
were heard at each controller move
ment.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
The Royal Box.

Queen Mary, consort of King George
V. of England, is an admirable lin
guist. She speaks French, German
and Italian excellently.
Crown Prince Ferdinand Won Hohen-
zollern of Roumania is a keen soldier
and very popular with the Rouma-
mans. His wife, who was the eldest
daughter of the late Duke of Saxe-Co-
burg, is one of the most beautiful wo-
men in Europe.
Yusuf Izzeddin Effendi, heir ap-
parent to the Ottoman empire, was
made minister of war when he was
eighteen years of age. He was born
in 1857. He was deprived of most of
the large fortune left him by his IA
ther through the displeasure of Abdul
Hamid, but he has gradually recovered
it and is now said to be one of the
wealthiest men in Turkey.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Human Antiquity.

The credit of inaugurating the line
of research which has resulted in de-
monstrating the existence of the hui
man race on this earth for tens If not
hundreds of thousands belong to the
French scientist, NJ. Boucher de Per.
thes. Possessed by the energy and
enthusiasm of a truly scientific spirit,
he devoted himself from 1886 to 1S41 to
a thorough exploration of certain an
cient caves, peat-mosses and deposits
in the vicinity of Abbeville and in the
shape of arrowheads, flint axes,
knives, hammers, ETC., which started
the investigation that was to knock
the accepted chronology to pieces and
establish for man a record for anti
guilty of which the world of this day
had never dreamed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
FORM NEW PARTY
Progressive Democrats Or.
gdnize In Albany.
IS ANTI-HEARST MOVEMENT.
Mayor Gaynor or Justice Seabury
Suggested as Right Sort of Men
For Governor-A. J. Elias Made
Permanent Chairman.

Albany. July 5.-Outlining a plan to
cut the ground from under Hearst po
litically and insisting that Wall street
Democrats had control of the Demo
cratic league, +. c. Leubuscher of New
York city, a former Hearstite, adUess-
ed twoscOre of Democrats from differ
ent parts of the state, who met here
to take part in next falls campaign.
This movement is really declared to
be another Gaynor attempt to out
wit Hearst and the Saratoga league, at
the same endeavoring to force the
nomination of Gaynor or a Gaynor
man for governor by the state con.
vention.
Mr. Leubuscher as temporary chair
man called the conference to order
He asserted that the progressive Dem
Ocrats wanted "A candidate for governor
of the type of Gaynor or Justice Sea-
bury, a former Hearst man.
permanent organization was eff
fected by the election of A. j. Elias of
Buffalo as chairman and William Lust
garten of New York city as secretary.
The address to the people of the
state adopted by the conference as
serts that the real Democratic senti-
ment of the state is voiced when the
following demands are made:
Candidates for congress who believe
the tariff is a fraud and a sham and
who will work for the largest possible
extension of the free list.
Direct nominations unlimited in OPP
Grafton.
Initiative, referendum and recall
Home rule for municipalities and
counties with power to own and oper-
ate public utilities If desired by the
people.
Abolition of personal property tax.
The adoption of the constitutional
amendment giving the federal govern
ment the right to impose an income
tax.
The nomination by the approaching
Democratic state convention of a can
didate for United States senator.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Playing Managers Now Scarce.

There's nothing to it but that these
are baseballs big. important days and
that inside of a very few years there
won't be single player-manager left.
Clarke and Chance admit that they've
had enOugh-that the double work is
too strenuous for them. Both hope to
go to the bench next spring. 1t wasn't
so many years ago that there were
very few bench managers. Now the
majority of them operate from the
coop-to wit: McGraw, Lake, Dahlen,
Griffith. Mack. McAleer, Donovan,
Stallings, Duffy, Mcguire, Jennings
and O'Connor. BY the bye, notice
there isn't a single player-manager in
the American league.
Manager Fred Clarke says that the
slump his boys have taken is some
thing that comes to all ball teams, and
the team that cannot stand a little
backwash now and then should never
be classed as the real thing in base
ball
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. W. q. Beggs of Seattle. Wash,
has succeeded in growing a beautiful
rose whose stem is smooth like that OF
a lily.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her
daughters and son returned recently
from Europe, where she has spent the
past year, most of the time in Lau-
same. Switzerland. where the chill
dren were In school.
Mrs. Catherine Van voorhis of
Rochester is said to have made the
largest flag that ever hoated over the
capitol at Washington. She attended
the suffrage convention recently held
in Washington and in spite of her
eighty years took part in all the pro-
ceedings.
Mrs. Virginia Hamersley Field has
obtained permission to visit and give
spiritual advice TO condemned prison
ers in the death house Of Sing Sing
prison. Mrs. Field has been conduct
ing a Bible class at Sing Sing prison
for twenty years.
The smallest grandmother in the
world is Mrs. Minnie Myers of Fort
Myers. Fla. who is seventy-flve years
old. She is twenty-seven and a half
inches tall and weighs thirty-two
pounds. She has been the mother of
three children, the daughter with
whom she now lives being a woman
of average height. Mrs. Myers spends
most of her time with her two grand
children.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Current Comment.

So long as the man bird needs gaso-
line the other birds have the laugh
Chicago Post.
An official dentist has been appoint
ed for the Missouri penitentiary APP
parently the old forms Of torture for
convicts are considered inadequate
st. Paul Dispatch.
"The gentleman from Arizona" and
''the gentleman from New Mexico"
will soon figure in that well known hu-
morous publication, the Congressional
Record.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The treasury department says there
are not enough small banknotes in cir
culation. Republicans, Democrats, in
surgents and Socialists will agree with
the administration in this particular
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
vlenna,s Crown of Green.

The city of Vienna has recently un-
dertaken, at an estimated expense Of
S10000,000, to surround itself with a
belt of forests. The existing forests
near the city are to be preserved, and
others, together with broad green
meads, are to be established in such
way as completely to encircle the
city. Land is being reserved for the
new plantations, which are to be con-
nected with the celebrated Prater,
which already forms a green border
for the Austrian capital on the east.
This idea is enthusiastically urged
for the beautifying of the suburbs Of
other cities, which are now, in many
cases, not only unattractive, but often
hideous.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08

COST OF HunnIn9 Baseball CIup.
Few people stop to consider the cost
of keeping up a ball club. The ex-
pense goes on not only in the regular
season, when the gates are working
for the club. but it is a big proposition
in the spring training camp. Man
ager Hughie Jennings of the Detroits
recently estimated that the Tigers ex-
pense week while in training is just
about $1,000. He remarked that that
was only beginning.
1--WE have the hotel bill, the car to
grounds, the baths and other like in
cidentals to consider, and this makes
the figures mentioned by me rather
conservative when you consider that
we have twenty-four men in the camp.
THE Detroit club is liberal. 1t calcu-
lates ON an outlay of from $4,000 to
$4,000 during the training season.
While the pay of the players does not
start until April 10, the travelling ex-
penses, hotel fare and other incidentals
give a magnificent total and one that
would appall were it not for the fact
that a winning club is worth its
weight in gold.
This outlay is very nearly evened
up in the first series of the league race,
but at that time the expenses keep
running also. However, it is not long
before the spring debt is rubbed out.
"Our salary list? Well, we pay out
about 100000 a month for our play
ers. Add that to the other large ex-
penses and you have some idea of the
cost of a pennant winning ball club.
A club has TO take in some pretty
sizabe crowds to get back the money
spent. And yet baseball is paying in
most towns"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Three Women Among Victims of Lake
Shore Wreck.

Cincinnati, July 5.-The Cincinnati
bound section Of the Lake Shore lin
tied train, which left New York over
the New York Central, crashed head-on
into Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton freight at Middletown, Butler coun-
ty, o., thirty-four miles north of here.
Nineteen persons were killed, of
whom three were women. One of the
passenger cars telescOped was the la.
dies car, reserved for women travelling
alone and children. OF the dead one
woman and four men have not been
identified. All those recognized are
Ohioans. 1t is supposed that two Of
the unidentified men are from Day
tnn
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Pert Personals.

With 100000 reward in sight, Rich
ard Parr is very certain that honesty
is the best policy.-Baltimore Sun.
One thing the Wright brothers can
not do, and that is collect royalty on
Charles X. Hamiltons nerve.-Phil-
adelphia Telegraph.
One of the men who tried to Black
Hand Caruso was convicted. But who
is going to prosecute Caruso for hold
ing up the American people?-St. Louis
Star.
Frank Jay Gould intends to make
France his permanent home, but he
will as cheerfully as possible use
American dividends in keeping up his
French establishments.-C News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08

Since his disgraceful tiasco with old
Joe Thomas. Billy Papke. ''the Illinois
Thunderbolt," has made frequent and
emphatic denials of any crookedness
about the bout that went over the fif-
teen rounds by mistake" Billy has
declared up and down that he will
show the California public that he
can fight, and fight on the square. He
picked Jim (Firemanl Flynn as his
next opponent, but the bout was called
off. Then he made date with Jimmy
Howard, and Jimmy has just made it
known that he will not enter the ring
with the "Thunderbolt." 1t looks as
though middleweights were a little
leary of tackling the husky representa-
tive of the Papke family in his wrath
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Growth Of civ PopuIatlon.

In 1880 only one-thirtieth of the
people of the United States lived in
cities of 5000 inhabitants and over;
in 1900 one twenty-fifth; in 1880, one
sixteenth; in 1870. one-twelfth; in
1850. one-tenth; in 1860. one-sixth; in
1870, one-fifth; in 1880, one-fourth.
1t is safe to say that to-day more than
one-third of the people OF the nation
live in cities and towns. with the
tendency steadily growing. II the
present pace continues. by the middle
of the present century the rural popu-
lation will become extinct.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Three Trees.

A ten-year-old Glove tree will produce
about twenty pounds annually.
The mahogany is the most exclusive
Of known trees, single specimens grow
ing here and there throughout tropical
forests on an average of two to an
acre.
In Germany the linden tree is fairly
held sacred, and the Russians regard it
as the habitation of her highness the
goddess of love. This very charming
tree lives to ii great age. Wurttemberg
claims to have a wonder of linden
1000 years old.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
About Eoypt.

The total area of Egypt proper is
about 100000 square miles, of which,
however, only some $4,000 square
miles are arabic. The population ex-
ceeds 100000, the density of the
settled part thus surprising that OF
any other land on earth, Belgium not
excepted. The superiority of Egypt
as an agricultural country is owing to
the equable climate; the possibility
of carrying on farming all the year
round, constant supply of water and.
as a consequence Of the Nile overflow.
a natural and perpetual richness Of
the soil, which does away with the
great cost of fertilization.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
English Etchings.

The British sovereign pays no rates
or taxes.
The king of England has officially
no surname.
The center of Ascot race course is
laid out as golf links.
The gun carriage that has been used
for carrying the collins Of both Victo-
ria and Edward VII. will now be an
object Of popular interest in the court
yard of the Tower OF London.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Findinq Him Out.

Indignant Constituent-Th is the
fourth time ! have called to see the
senator by appointment and found him
out every time. Private Secretary (of
eminent statesmanl-Oh. well, | would
not make fuss about that. Accord
ing TO what the papers say, everybody
Is finding him out.-Chicago Tribune.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Recent Inventions.

Concrete beehives form the subject
Of recent patent.
An ingenious French optician has In
vented a cane fitted with lenses and
mirrors In such a manner that a user
can see over the heads OF a crowd In
front Of him.
A stomach telescope, invented by a
London surgeon and in constant use In
hospital in that city, enables a doc
tor to see the exact condition Of the
entire interior Of the stomach OF q pa
tient.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
AS Nav Seem Good.

am all thine, do with me as may
seem good in thine eyes. Show ne
what thou wilt have me to do. AS
the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are thy ways higher than our ways.
We are impatient, for our life is but
for a moment. Thou art from ever
lasting, therefore is thy patience full
of long-suffering.-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Pitehsr Nllekers Want, to Catch.

Baltimore may develop another Rog-
er Bresnahan. Pitcher Rube Vickers'
dreams may materialize If the catch
ing stan should get crippled. He has
signihed his Intentions along that line
and is patiently waiting for the oppor.
tunity TO don the wind pad and the
wire screen. Like Roger. he may get
his chance, and this chance may be
the development Of another pitcher.
catcher.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
She Didn't Went.

An East Tennessee girl is credited
with the following reply to question
as to whether she had been to the
fair: 81 didn't went, / didn't wan to
went: and, if l had wanted to went.
couldn't have gotten to gwine.
Housekeeping.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Psssimistio Brown Fan Musings.

What's the matter with the St. Louis
Browns? One St. Louis man replies
'rhey can't hit They have no pitch
ing staff worth the name at present.
They have a first class baseman who
is overanxious TO make good. They
have a star outfielder who reported six
weeks late. They are demoralized
through failure to get together at the
start and through the fact that not
pitcher on the stan can hold down the
opposition. And II there's anything
else you can think of you might In
clude that too"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
CZAR'S PALACE AFIRE.
Rumors That Blaze Was Work of In
cendiary

st. Petersburg. July 5.-One entire
wing of the cars summer palace at
Peterhof was destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of several hundred thousand
dollars. The wing included the palace
theater and other buildings. The royal
family is on a cruise and did not learn
of the fire until late yesterday.
There are rumors that the fire was
the work of an incendiary.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
Matrimonial pyspspsia.

"Well, how do you like married
lfe?" inquired the friend.
mot at ALL" replied the man who
had married money and was suffering
for it. I'm a case OF matrimonial dys-
pepsia."
Matrimonial dyspepsia?"
"Yes. She never agrees with me;
she's too rich"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
ACROSS OCEAN AIR LINE.
German inventor Completing Craft For
Aerial Voyage From Europe.

Berlin, July 5.-William Rettig, Il
German airman, is completing an air
ship with which he hopes to voyage
from Europe TO America in forty eight
hours. His ship will be 1867 feet long
and will be able TO carry thirty pas
sengers. II will travel at an altitude
Of 5000 feet.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-08
NOTED ASTRONOMER DEAD.
SchiapareIi, Discoverer of Mars Ca
nails, Passes Away.

Milan, July 5.-Professor Giovanni
Virginia Schiaparelli, the former chief
astronomer and director of the Milan
observatory, who discovered the canal
like markings on the planet Mars in
1871 is dead.
He was born in Piedmont in 1885.
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INCREASED ASSESSMENTS.

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