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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18

One of the neighbors who was Wis.
iting the home of little Dunnick, aged
three, said. "Dunnick, want you to
go along home with me, and how long
will you stay?" Dunnick put up four
fat little fingers. saying, Il will stay
these many days and come home on
my thumb. The Dellneator for Au-
gust.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
II Under Five Feet You Can't
Be a "HelIo" Girl.

Washington -Sle g is not a
telephone girl if she is under
five feet. The companies EN-.
ploy only girls who can reach
to the top of their switchboards
and a reasonable distance SIDE
wise.
Conditions existing in tele-
phone exchanges throughout the
country are set forth in the re-
port recently sent to the Senate
dealing dealing with the inves-
tigation made by the Bureau of
Labor.
The height IS often deter
mined without the applicants
knowledge by young woman
who engages the former in con.
versation while she compares
the level OF the others eyes with
her own.
J Wages for telephone girls
vary from a highest monthly
average of $3696 in New York
City to $22,40 in Nashville,
Tenn.
Efficient service is possible
up TO 225 calls an hour for each
girl.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
English and American Gallon.

The English gallon is ten pounds of
water at temperature of so degrees
Fahrenheit The American gallon
weighs only S.3S pounds. The differ
ence therefore is l.67 pounds. The
American gallon is equivalent to 1856
liters.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
Touch. lndeedI

IT'S mighty tough" says the Phi
losopher of Folly, "to have bunch of
fellows throw rocks at you, and then
to have the owner of the quarry come
hnd get you pinched for receiving stol-
en goods"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
only Road to Success.

Remember that you cannot be car.
ried to success in a carriage with the
hinges oiled, the backs padded and
the seats cushioned; you must trulge
on foot along the dusty highway.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
A Mans Birthday.

We do not know whence a man
comes nor whittier he goes; yet we
choose his birth or death day to cele-
brate his recurring century. We
should choose his day of achievement.
London Saturday Review.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18

The honeymoon is mostly over when
the couple quit buying their meals in
hotels and the bride tries to provide
them at home New York Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18

Because OF the degree ol excellence
and efficiency attained in the con.
struction of gasoline engines the use
of Isolated electric plants is extend.
ing.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
ERIE TRAINS

Trains leave at 1925 a. m. ana
2;48 p. IN.
Sundays at 2:4S p. m.
Trains arrive at 1;4O aud sos
y. m.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:45 and
leaves at 7:10.
Sundays at 1909 .. m.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-18
- gNaLIeA nArHruns.
One In the Kitchen Floor, the other
Kept in a Closet.

There is a certain bathtub known
more or less to the history of humor
Nhieh was so nicely adjusted to the
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
A GRAND OPERA STAR.
The Way . Great Singer Felt the
Night Of Her Debut.

: had been kept in such con-
slant state of happiness that the
night Of my grand opera debut
seemed like a beautiful dream,
writes Marie Rappold in the Delin-
Gator. was eagcr-npt fearful
to come face to face with the au-
dience.
Heinrich Conried came to my
dressing room. He had promised
me a surprise for that night, and
there he stood in the doorway in
the costume of chorister. so that
he could be near me on the stage.
If there was a trace of anxiety left
that ,iissipated it.
The muflled sound of the orches-
ira was rising. Somewhere a call
boy cried my name. and Mr.. Con-
ried led me into the wings. | heard
my entrance cue. "Watch the con-
ductor," he whispered. Next mo-
ment ] was on the, stage. Faces
everywhere and rcaclriifg to high
taavon- that xrac tb. o., u.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
The Death Of a Friend.

e The comfort of having a friend
nay be taken away, but not that of
l,aying had one. Ia some respects I
have lost what | have had. In 9TH
ers | still retain what have lost.
1t is an i'll construction OF Provi-
dence to reflect only upon my
friends being taken away, without
any regard to the benefit Of his be-
ing once given me Let us there
fore make the bes, of our friends
while we have them. He that has
lost friend has more cause Of JOY
that he once had him than Of grief
that he is taken away. That which
is past we are sure Of. It is iinpos-
sibIe to make it not to have BEEN
Seneca.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
Tho Talking MacauIay.

MacaulNy l. an tulmOSt never
ceasing ta.krr and pours out the
prodigiou~ stores Of learning. wit
and eloquence with such an abSorp-
ton in his subject that | doubted
when | heard him if he would not
60 on just the same if everybody
left the room. Somebody asked the
Duchess of Sutherland (aftcr din
ner at Stafford lIouse) if he liked
the society of women and whom he
seemed to prefer. She answered.
"Oh. he only looks upon us all in
the light of Interruptions. ."-'1.ady
Granvillc's Records"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
press,on OF my nrst Aetropontan

preston o. my nrsr Merroponrn,
audience.
A wave Of welcoming applause
that swept the house was kindly
meant, but disconcerting. 1t caused
me to lose track of the orchestra.
But the conductors eye was on me.
In a moment ! caught his nod and
was singing. The faces grew blurred
and distant. A consciousness Of the
audience as many in one came over
me. | found myself singing to that
one. | had so wanted to sing to it,
dreamed Of it.
My dream had come true, and
sang with JOY in my heart-a joy
that overAowed when Istood dazed
and spellbound by the volley of ap-
plausc and cheers. "Famose r.
doomed the voice of Mr.. Conried
behind me, andil drank life's sweet.
est draft from the cup Of success.
The end of the night was like the
beginning. Il remember it !, only
dimly. 50 But tt't 'tiirecf weeks Of
preparation, l snail never forget
them.
ssQsoaf aee$}snss ssurr aawsys slid. i I
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
MADE A MISTAKE.
He Was Not an Applicant For That
Kind Of q job.


He was altogether a tired looking
sort of person from the top OF his
head to the soles of his feet. His
bat was tired; his collar, if indeed
he had ever worn one, was so tired
that it had retired beyond the vision
Of man, and even the patches upon
his knees looked as if they would
welcome a rest. Moreover, he was
much in need of a shave and Of sew
eral other ablutionary processes
through which the full and perfect
man should occasionally 60 before
presenting himself in polite society.
Indeed, the only thing about him
that was not tired was his manner,
and this was alarmingly fresh as he
stopped at the farmhouse door and
requested food and a job in tones
bordering perilously on those OF
command.
"You will excuse me, madam, for
addressin' lady without bein' in
troduced," he began; "but, observln'
that there was no men about the
place, y
"Now, just you move on" retort-
ed the lady of the mansion. eve
amt got no use for no tramps about
this place, and III just have you
to understand right now that
whether there's any men about this
place now or at any other time
young, middle aged, light, dark or
yaller-we amt wantin' in protec-
ton when the time comes that we
need it, which fellers of your kind,
wanderin' about the country all day
tryin' to avoid work and livin' on
the fat o the land earned by the
sweat o some one else's brow, and
lookin' for chance to lay your
hands on anything you can carry off
without strainin' your muscles,
seems to think we amt got within
reach, as | could prove the con-
trarv of in a jerk of Il rams tail if
I had a mind to ring that there
bell We see fastened on to the roof,
BY pullin' this here cord alongside
the wash basin, which, Lord knows,
I amt scein' as how | amt none
of these weak saSsiety women what
can't handle the best man that ever
lived without no help from nobody
or thanks to the neighbors. which
on the whole amt no bettcr'n they
should be when it comes down TO a
straightforward case o. fight or take
your medic
"EScuse me. madam" interrupt
ed the weary wavfarer. making ran
idly for the gate. II find I've made
o mistake. ! wanted job on
farm, not in gas house"
And he skipped blithelv up the
road with little evidence Of that
wearincSs which had lent distinction
to his carriage in the moments i'm
preceding the interview
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14

When Carrie was three or four
years old she went with her grand
mother to visit an aunt. The little
one ate very heartily of berries,
when her grandmother said. Don't
eat any more berries or you will
have a pain under your apron. "
Carrie regarded the dainty apron
seriously for a moment and then
said, "please takeHihy apron OF.
grandma. ."-Delineator.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
The Old Familiar Faces.

Hello, therer' exclaimed tht
cheerful man. '"Glad to see you
Howdy do?'
"Why-er-howdy do? How'd
do!" returned the .ahsentI.lindea
man, somewhat obviously.
GLOW are you?'
"Pretty we'll, pretty we'll. Err
"You don't seem to remembcl
ne"
"Why--er-your face is familiar
but-er"-
: "Don't remember my name, ell"
"Well-er-I hope you'll pardol
me, but must confess | don't,
said the absentminded man. -
''"Yeu'll find it On the handle 'oI
that umbrella you are carrying.
remarked thc cheerful man. "Yor
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
Cleaning the Clock.

A farmer has an ambitious son
twelve yeas old. who. being left
alone for few hours the other day,
tried to clean the clock. He easily
got the clock to pieces. but his diff
ficulty lay in putting them together
again after clcanins,'
At this task ne was only partly
successful, and upon his fathers re-
turn home he eagerly exclaimed:
"Father. I've cleaned the clock
and got enough works left over to
make another onel".'''
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
The Spanish Language.

The Spanish alphabet is perfect
save for single silent letter. h.
Each letter has only one sound and
pronounced as spelled. The writ
ten language therefore is, with a
single exception free from redun-
dant letters. The chief difficulty
in the language to English speaking
people is the infection of its verba.
These move from one mood and
tense to another by terminal
changes, while English verbs move
by auxiliaries. In infection Span
ish follows Latin, of which it is q
Z. s....;,l'. =. - ands richly endowsS
Caught "a I. - much 50 that it adopts
ae voss'SSshrsse 'ff6m other Ian
-
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
Basuto SAYINGS.

The Basutos are addicted to
metaphor. and their mctaphorical
sayings are numerous and interest
ing. The following are a few in
common use and are given aS spcci-
mems:
"Men NAV meet, but mountains
never" "Do not prick HI enemy
with IA two pointed needle, a that
hurts yourself quite a. NJ Il a. It
does him." ~ mother Ike the
COW which suStan> the family in
time of drought" "Onr hand
washes another:' "A sitting ben
never gets fat" an answer to oar
trolling stone" aphnriSm When
all is quiet in the land they say.
eve are sitting down building
houses" Another saving is. "A
man who is patient eats fatted
beasts, but an impatient man has
TO content himself with the flesh of
Q lean goat. ."-ChamberS' Journal.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
MA COT DONE BROWN.
And Ps Got Mad and Also Got soms'
thna 10 Look At.

and pa made lot Of money. As
soon as ma found it out she said
| she was going to be done in oil.
"All right" said pa, show much
of Won are you going to have done "
a full length, said ma.
"Gracious! lou'll ruin me-" said
pa. "Think of the frame"
You see, ma is what ! call fat,
but she SAYS she is in the prime Of
life and that it is fitting for wom-
an of her age 20 be portly.
If you're going to be done" pa
told her. "be done brown. So don't
90 to a department store and be
done by the yard with halo
around you"
Ma grinned like she always does
when she gets her own way and
went to q real artist-one of those
fellows that lives in an attic with a
big skylight and armor and pieces
of people hanging around. This
was last September, and since then
ma has been going about once a
Heek to sit to the artist.
The first time ma came home
from her sit pa asked her how much
of Venus had risen from the sea.
Ma got mad and told him to wait
until he saw his wife hanging from
the line at the academy.
Well, ma is done now, and the
other night we three went around
to the academy to see ma hanging.
Pa said he would like to sec her as
others saw her. The picture looked
just like ma, only her cheeks were
red, and she didn't have any funny
little lines around her eyes. Pa
said she looked like duchess and
pattcd her on the arm. and she got
all red and her eyes shiny, and she
looked real pretty. Then ma want
ed to 60 home, but pa wanted to
stay and hear what people said
about the picture.
While they were settling their
differences, az pa calls it, two ladies
came along and began to talk about
mas picture. One of them said:
%sn't it hideous? don't mean the
picture. but the subject. Why is it
artists always choose such ugly sub
jects:?"
Pa said ''Blast the women!" real
loud. and they looked around and
saw ma dressed like she was in the
picture. "Merciful heavens" one
squealed. '@There's the subject
now" And ma said, james, if
you had gone home when wanted
to YOU would have spared your wife
this humiiation." n.t
Pa never said word. and we
went home without stopping to get
ANYTHING to eat. like We do when
we 90 to the show, and ma went
right to bed.
The next morning pa asked ma
whore she was going to hang her
picture. "Whrre am going to
hang it" screamed ma. "ln a place
where neither von or Thomas
that's mel or any "nc else will see
it," And ma mgG the artist take
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14

ed just as firmly that the right op-
portunity would not come until |
was perfectly ready. 1t took me
seven years to learn that lesson, and
! advise every young singer to take
It to heart.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
An irnpudent OoQ.

/. One day Beau Nash joined some
fine ladies in grove and asked
one Of them who was crooked
whence she came. She replied.
Straight from London"
"Confound me-, madam" said ne.
then you must have been warped
by the way!"
She soon l-evaser. had ample re-
vengs. The following evening he
Joined her, company and. with a
eassr and 1. bow, asked hcr II She
knew ~ cataen!smsannn .s'.ld tell
h,n the nanc ~ Tobits ons
res nassea sls, was 3csh..'' gro
tlisd the LADY Ssnd az iap1;ftnt
6rA ~ = - - -
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-01-14
The Place He Meant.

On the golf links at Westward
TO two players were driving oil
from the fifteenth hole. One of
them was possessed Of a quiet paw
!,v kind of humor. while the other
was of the hit-'em-high-a
order.
Not knowing the course, the
ala-her asked his partner for the
line on to the hole and was. told to
play on to DR.. SIS house, which was
perched on the skyline. The slash
cr let out. and his ball was skied to
in enormous height.
"You mistook me-" said the quiet
one. 81 meant his earthly, not his
heavenly habitation." - London
Strand.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
Ohio RIVER RAPIDLY
REACHING HIGH MARK
Flood Stage Is Being APP
preached and Grave Danger
Is Threatened.

Louisville, KY, Oct. 11.-Almost un-
precedented rains have fallen In the
lower Ohio river valley in the last three
days, and as a result the Ohio river
threatens to reach a food stage soon.
In the last SO hours the river at Pa
ducah, KY. has risen 6.3 feet and con-
tinues to rise. At Evansville, Ind, the
river was rising at the rate Of 8 Of a
foot an hour. The rainfall at the lat
ter point totaled IL inches In 4s hours
breaking the record.
At Louisville, greensboro and other
points in Kentucky. Evansville, Boon
Vile and other places in southern In
diana, the rain has caused much dam
age. Bridges have been carried away,
crops totally destroyed and railroad
tracks washed away.
A dispatch from Boonville, Ind, says
500 persons are homeless and tina the
deluge has destroyed much property
In southern Indiana. Damage to
bidges and roads in six counties in
Kentucky has been placed at half q
million dollars.
According to officials OF the weather
bureau here the rain period was one Of
the longest and most damaging In
| years.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
HUSBAND AND Wife
FIGHT FATAL DUEL
Woman Stays Her Spouse il
Bloody Arbitrament of Their
Marital Differences.

Lake Charles. La. Oct. 11.-A duel
between husband n wife, he armed
with a shotgun and she with a re-
volver, has had a fatal ending. DR..
B. Templin Smith died here from
wounds inflicted by Mrs. Smith in the
duel on the morning Of September 25.
The sensational story was brought
out before the coroner's jury and Mr..
Smith was held responsible for her hus-
bands death. 1t was through her tes-
timony that the story came to light.
There had been a quarrel over a
match and the building Of a kitchen
fire. The physician slapped his wife
and when she protested against such
treatment, he commanded her to get a
weapon.
Get your gun, TIL get mine and
we'll shoot this out right here" he
cried.
They met, both armed, in a hallway
of the residence. Whether the doctor
tried to use his shotgun has not been
brought out in the testimony. Mrs.
Smith fired twice and her husband
staggered to his room, where she fol-
lowed. The woman knelt by his side
on the floor and cried, MY God, I had
to do it." Then she says no asked
her to "go ahead and finish him"
The district, attorney formally
charged Mrs. Smith with manslaughter.
She was arraigned for bail. Just be-
fore his death DIR. Smith made q
statement to the district attorney. This
will not be given out until the trial.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
TRIES TO
KILL A PROMINENT
new YORK BANKER
Much Mystery Is Preserved
About Attempt on Life, but
Case Is Given to
Police.

New York, Oct. lit has developed
through h appearance Of an attor-
ney in a police court asking for a
warrant that a woman had made an
attempt upon the life Of Jacob Schiff,
the famous Jewish philanthropist,
ruling spirit of the great banking firm
of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., a rich man.
The lawyer who got the warrant was
Isadore kresel, former assistant dis
trict attorney and member of the Arm
OF Jerome, Rand & Kresel, OF which
William Travers Jerome is the head.
Mr.. Kresel hurried into the Center
street criminal court shortly before 3
o'clock in the afternoon. with him
Were a clerk from Mr.. Schiff's office
and a criminal lawyer with offices in
the Pulitzer building.
A short and rather excited confer
ence with Mr.. Appleton, magistrate,
followed, and then the magistrate is
sued a warrant and turned 1t owe to
Lieutenant Detective Norman Fitz-
simmons. He ran out of the building,
accompanied by, the clerk from the
Schiff Offices, jumped in a taxicab and
was taken down Center street In the
general direction Of the financial dis
trict.
Efforts were made to keep the case a
authoritative source that for two
weeks a woman had been making
threats against Mr.. Schiff's life. She
told an attorney whom she consulted
that 1t was her intention to attack the
financter. She made similar state
ments to a number Of other persons,
some of whom communicated with Mr..
Schiff.
1t is said that probably about noon
she attempted to harm Mr.. Schiff or
made demonstrations which showed
such a purpose. Whether this occur
red at Mr.. Schiff's Offices, at his home
or somewhere else could not be
learned. 1t appears that she inflicted
no actual injury upon the banker and
hat she got AWAY afterwards.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN

Il am a man seventy years old. My
hands were very sore and cracked.
open on the insides for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
SO that I could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were SO bad
that 1 could not dress myself in the.
morning. They would bleed and the:
blood dropped on the floor. I called
or two doctors, but they did me no
good. l could get nothing to do any
good till 1 got the Cuticura Soap and
CCutcura Ointment. About 8 year
ago my daughter got a cake of Cuti-
cura Soap and inc box Of Cuticura
Ointment and in one week from the.
time I began to use them my hands
were all healed up and they have not
been a mite sore since. I would not
be without the Cuticura Remedies.
They also cured a bad sore on the
hand Of one of my neighbours children,
and they think very highly Of the Cuti-
cura Remedies. John w. Hasty, So. Ell
bingham, N. H, Mar. 5, and Apr. II, '09."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
some men IN Mine
CERTAIN OF RESCUE
Fans Put in Operation Give Re-
lief to Imprisoned Victims
Of Explosion.

%starkvine, Colo, Oct. 1s.-High hope
spread over this stricken mining camp
this morning when new was brought
put of the Starkvtlle mine, where two
score of miners are entombed from an
explosion last Saturday, that fans pro-
viding pure air to the mine had been
put in operation systematically and
that the imprisoned men would un-
doubtedly be located within the day
unless efforts Of resouers were fur
Their blocked by the wreckage.
This information was given but off,
cially by State Mine Inspector John
b. Jones. Jones based his opinion upen
the fact that a double force for driving
put the bad air In the mine had been
successfully effected through the sta
tion1ng OF the portable fan well with
in the short cut Of the Starkvtlle mine,
while the fan in the main entrance to
the E~ngleyille mine had been reversed
Rnd both were working together upon
she same objective.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
TRIPLETS NAMED FOR
CHILDREN OF TEDDY
Negro Parents Bestow Cogno-
mems Of Alice, Kermit and
Theodore on Piccaninnies.

washington, Oct 12-Theodore Roose-
Welt, Alice Roosevelt and Kermit Roose-
welt are the names that have been be-
slowed upon three little McDaniels,
who arrived at the home Of Cleon Nc
Daniels, a negro Of this city. After the
stork, with q sigh of relief, had de-
posted the triplets safely, the McDan-
preceded the trio, held a conference and
named the newcomers
It is said Colonel Roosevelt has been
advised of the tripartite proof that
the McDaniels have produced to show
their anti-race suicide views and the
family is keyed up to a high pitch OF
excitement in the expectation that an
|ear1y mail may bring some acknowl-
edgemont of the appreciation Of con
aormance with his teaching.