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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
THROUGH WITH EXPLORATION
DR.. Cook, Recent Fugitive From
Science.

New York Especially DIR. Freder-
ick A. Cook is done with exploration.
So he told friends who visited him in
his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria.
whittier he went after arriving upon
the liner George Washin gton.
Later in the day DR.. Cook went
out laden with gum drops, but they
were for the children of his brother.
William Cook, of Brooklyn. These
children eat no pemmican. One pur-
pose of the expedition into Brook
Ign, across the only half frozen"
East River, was to discover whether
the doctor has redeemed himself in
the eyes of his fellows of the Bush
wick Club by declaring he may have
been unbalanced when he thought he
stood on the top OF the world.
Il expect now TO remain under
the protection of the American flag"
he said, when asked if he would re-
side in America.
No" he said. Il am not going to
lecture under its protection. l am
doing to devote myself to scientific
matters that have engrossed my
time for 20 years. I will convince
the people that I really believed
did get to the pole. and 1 will answer
the charge that l did not climb Mt.
Mckinley"
Then DR.. Cook hung up the re-
ceiver.
The following shows Dr. Cooks
estimated earnings: Telegram from
Lerwyck to New York Herald,
$4,000; additional cables to New
York Herald, $4,000; first lecture
at St. Louis. $4,000; thirty other
lectures at $4,000 each, $4,000;
story of confession in a magazine,
$4,000. Total, s121,000.
Of this Cook is said to have $751;
600 left on deposit in the Carnegie
Trust Company, in New York; from
which he drew $4,000 the day he dis
appeared.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Keeps His 7in1epiece Fast

Again, man acquires sort of sub
conscious feeling that he could never
hope to be punctual unless his watch
were fast. He feels that he can keep
up to time when he is calculating by
fast watch, but never If he has to
calculate by a correct watch"
Said one man: 81 always keep my
watch fast-anything from FIVE to
twenty minutes-as l am terrified that
1t may get slow should put it back to
the right time"
Another: my watch always gains
a few seconds day, and let it go on
gaining for about month or so. Then
| put it back to the right time. Why
don't always try to keep it right? Be-
cause 1t is too much bother, and be-
cause I have grown accustomed to
having 1t fast and feel strange when
it is right"
A we'll known business man said
that he always kept his watch exactly
two minutes fast. first, because it had
tendency to lose, and, second, be.
cause it made for greater punctuality
and avoided the risk Of missing trains
by half minute or so. Most business
men of his acquaintance did similarly,
he added
The secretary of the Magneta Time
company, limited, which has control OF
10000 clocks in the United Kingdom,
said that in his experience almost
every one preferred to keep their
clocks fast and requested that they
should be set for this purpose.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Mariner Who Is 1902 0espiSeS
Steam-Going Vessel.
Captain Jackson Tells of Sailing Ship
Days and of Fierce Storms That
Swept Decks of Craft He
Commanded.

London.-Nearing the close of his
one-hundred-and-second year, Capt.
Daniel Jackson gazed mournfully
across the rain-swept gardens of the
Footing home for the aged as he
'ompared the gale then raging, with
the hundreds he experienced in the
days when men went to sea in ships
OF wood. Strangely enough it was the
present storm that had brought him
his sorrow.
It's only a little capful of wind"
he said, Just enough to make a good
craft swing along like war horse.
But it's brought me more trouble than
any gale that has blown since l made
my first voyage TO Archangel. more
than ninety-three years ago. It's only
a little capful, yet it stayed me from
performing the last service my dear
sister Maria will ask of me.
She had sent me a message from
the Wandsworth infirmary, saying that
she wanted to see me very. very
soon, because she had something to
tell me. So l buttoned up my coat on
Wednesday afternoon and started to
walk over there, but the little capful
was too much for me and the rain
swept into my eyes. Never mind 1
said, I shall see her tomorrow. Next
morning they told me Maria was
dead"
Tears rolled from the tired old eyes
as Captain Jackson's thin, twisted
fingers beat upon the window pane,
and 1t was many minutes before an
other word escaped him. He told of
gales in many seas, fierce storms that
had swept the decks of the ship which
he had skippered when a boy of nine
teen.
We'll l remember my first day of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
BRAVE MEN MEET DEATH
Thirty Firemen Caught Under
Falling Walls.

Philadelphia Especially Failing
walls at she leather factory of the
Freelander's Leather Remnants Com
pany buried more than 80 fremen at
a fire Wednesday night.
Fire Chief James c. Baxter had a
narrow escape and at least 10 of his
men were instantly killed as the walls
crashed down upon them.
The fve-story walls collapsed with
a terrible crash and the next instant
the voices OF the men could be heard
calling for assistance as the flames,
which were temporarily extinguished,
again burst forth among the ruins.
Chief Baxter had entered the burn
ing building TO call his men out as he
feared that the walls would fall. Just
as he stepped within the fire-gutted
structure with the order of "All men
come out" the whole building
crumpled and fell The men who are
thought to have met instant death
were mounted on an extension ladder
anu ~ Oh them were seen - ~ AL
dreds OF Mortified spectators as they
were hurled into the crater.
While the flames had not moment
before lit up the sky. the scene was
left in darkness and the electric
light wires were cut by the flying
debris. For several minutes hun
dreds stood motionless, overcome by
the spectacle, and then, as the flames
again leaped up, the cries Of the i'm
pri7oned men being slowly cremated
could be heard.
Hospital ambulances and patrol
wagons from all sections of the city
were called into play. and the work
Of rescue begun and scores who were
on the outskirts of the building were
taken to hospitals.
Il was at first thought that Chief
Baxter had met instant death, but
soon afterward the Chief. bleeding
from q dozen wounds, was seen
heroieally fighting his way out OF the
burning debris.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
MODESTY COST GIRL LIFE.
Refused To Allow Tourniquet To Be
Placed On Limb.

New York Especially. - Because
she was too modest to allow the fast
ening of a tourniquet about her leg,
Helen Gorschen, aged is, died at St.
Vincent's Hospital here. Miss Cor
schen accidentally stabbed herself in
her left leg with a pair of scissors
while at work in a clothing factory.
Her fellow employees rushed to her
assistance, but she refused to permit
any one to bind the wound. She soon
tainted from loss of blood and was
hurried to the hospital. 1t was too
late, however, to save her life, al
though the house surgeon said she
would have recovered had a tourni-
Quet been applied Immediately.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.
Takes the Oath As Head OF. Supreme
Court.

Washington, D. C. especially In
the presence of disting aished gath
ering in the little courtroom, Ed
ward Douglass White was elevated
from associate justice in the Supren e
Court of the United States to the
chief justiceship.
The climax of the cer4 nonies oc-
Cured when Assoc iate Jfstice Har-
Ian, as senior member of the court,
administered to the new chief Justice
the judicial oath 1t was subscribed
to on the bench itself instead of at
the clerks desk, as is ordinarily the
case. Chief Justice White, while
taking the oath, held in his hand a
Bible which has been used by nearly
every chief justice and associate JUS
tice on similar occasions during the
last century, but unlike most of
them, he kissed the book at the con
clusion of the oath.
For the first time in history an
associate justice had been elevated to
the chief justiceship and for the first
time a president and Senate of one
political party had honored a mem
Der of rival party by placing him
at the head of the highest court in
the land.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Resident of New Jersey Town Has
an Astonishing Experience
With Tlmepiece.

Montclair, N. frederick G. John.
son, who lives at 9 Oxford street,
thinks the ghost of a pet cat which
he owned haunts his alarm clock. Up
to few weeks ago the clock behaved
as well as any good domestic alarm
clock should. On Nov. Is the alarm
clock, which had been set inadvert-
emily for the noon hour, went of. The
Johnson cat was doing near where
the clock stood and the noise awak-
ened her. She dashed about in a
frenzy. The kitchen door was open
and through it the cat ran. That
evening Johnson found the cat dead
in the yard back of his home.
The next night the alarm clock be-
gan its strange antics. The timepiece
switched suddenly into the Ananias
circuit. The hands would suddenly
jump forward for several swings
about the face and the alarm would
go on at all hours without any appar.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
FARMER FOUND SHOT DEAD.
Bloody Hatchet In Another Building
and Robbery Suspected.

West Chester, Pa. Especially -
Richard Mercer. q bachelor farmer,
65 years old and a veteran of the
Civil War, was found dead on a
lounge in his home, four miles from
this borough. by several neighbors,
who, suspecting something wrong,
entered the house.
There was a pistol shot wound in
the head, and the police are in doubt
whether he died by his own hand or
was murdered. a bloody Ratchet
was found in an adjoining building.
It is supposed that the farmer had
some funds in the house, which shows
evidence of having been ransacked,
and that the fact Of the money being
kept there was known to some one in
the neighborhood.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Will Hide In Convent.

West Arichat, n. S. Especially =
Hattie LIE Blanc, the 17-year-old
French-Canadian girl who was re-
Gently acquitted of the murder of
Clarence F. Glover. of Waltham,
Mass, after a sensational trial at
East Cambridge, Mass, is going to
enter a convent. She declared
Thursday that she would spurn the
scores of offers of marriage and
vaudeville contracts which had been
made to her. 81 want to retire from
the world and l want most of all a
good education" said she.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Much Unrest In Brazil.

New York (SpeciaD Passengers
arriving here on board the steamship
Clement, from Manaos, Para and
other Brazilian ports, say that prior
to their departure from Manaos, De-
cember I, considerable political dis
turbances occurred, at which the gov
eminent was much worried. They
declared that there was rioting and
footing generally and in the fracas
125 persons were killed. The gov
ernor was attacked, but succeeded in
escaping the mob.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
FATHERS MARRIED THEM.
Bride and Groom Children OF the
Officiating Ministers.

York, Pa. Especially A wedding
ceremony took place here Wednesday
in which the officiating clergymen
were fathers of the bride and bride,
groom.
Miss Kathleen futile, daughter of
Rev. John E. futile, of this city,
was married to Paul Willard Nor
ton, of Phoenixville, Chester county
who is a son of Rev. Stephen Allison
Norton, of Woodburne, Mass.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
A SAVING IN
RAILROAD MAIL
Equalization in the Pay of
Transportation.
]. C. STEWARDS ANNUAL REPORT.
Annual Report OF the Second Assist
ant Postmaster General - lnquir-
ing Into Cost To Railroads OF
Transporting Mail - Many Casual
ties Among the Railway Mail
Clerks.

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD -
Conditions OF railway and ocean mail
service are discussed fully in the an
nual report Of Joseph Stewart, sec
ond assistant postmaster general,
submitted Friday to Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock.
A considerable saving was effected
during the year by the bureau OF the
second assistant, which is charged
with the authorization and direction
OF the transportation of both domes-
tic and foreign mails. The aggre-
gate cost of the transportation Of
domestic mails during the year was
SSl.I09.43S6S; while the cost OF
foreign mails was $3,112,302.46.
Notwithstanding the increased
amount OF mail handled the percent
age of increase in the cost was only
lis per cent.
During the year 1875 mail routes
we're in operation. covering dis
lance OF 220.730 miles. The distance
travelled by the mail OF the United
States was 426.923.l09.55 miles. The
amount OF money necessary for rail-
road transportation for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1912. is $+S.9S3.-
600. being SO per cent. more than
the appropriation for the current
fiscal year.
In every instance possible the
policy Of eQualizing the rate Of pay
for the transportation OF mail by
railroad routes on the basis of low
est cost has been followed The de-
partment has saved S12.274.+SS by
the operation Of the new method OF
adjusting pay. TO and including the
present fiscal year. Sixteen railroad
companies have fled suit against the
United States attacking the validity
OF the order of the postmaster gen
eral in readjusting the rate OF pay.
Particular diligence has been mani
tested by the department in its in
quiry into the cost TO railroad COM
panies of carrying the mail.
During the year there were 446
railroad accidents. in which postal
clerks we're either killed or injured
or in which mail matter was lost or
damaged. Twenty clerks. four sub
stitutes and three mail-weighers were
killed. 9S seriously and 617 slightly
injured. The year was more disas-
trous in the number Of clerks killed
on the railroads than any in the his
tory OF the service.
Among the recommendations made
By Mr.. Stewart are the following:
That the department be enabled TO
readjust the compensation for the
transportation OF mail on railroad
routes during the four-year term.
That the Postmaster General be
authorized 20 pay for the services OF
vessels Of the second class in carry
ing the mails 20 various ports in
South America and the Far East.
That salaries OF supervisory Off
GERS Of the Railway Nail Service be
increased.
That so days annual leave of
absence be granted 10 railway postal
clerks.
That provision be made for the
retirement Of ineapacitated or super
animated railway postal clerks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30

IN years; so l settled down IN h.
landlubber as best could. cana
Chaplain in 1853 and set to vort =,
biindmaker. All went we'll for sor
twenty years, but by the time I III
come to be seventy-five, commsn.J
doing odd Jobs. So | worked on n
my ninety-ninth birthday, when csn|
to live in this home, where every m|
is kind to me.
By now the captains pipe ul
filed, and, putting vigorously at n
beloved shag, he offered his opinion
on the sailors OF today.
Nice sailors they are to call tbe,I
little squalls gales" he said. Its M
steamboats, that have done it all. h
my days a sailor was happiest whe
the seas swept the deck and his sbi
tore before the wind. never coul
abide a steamer l only once went
sea in one, and that was when cam
home from Australia as a passenger
A few weeks ago the delightful o.
captain met with an accident whic
would have proved fatal to most me
many years his junior Slipping,
fell backward against piece of fun
ture and fractured two of his ribs.
1T hurt bit at the time" he !
marked, in the most casual fasbl
but I'm quite as strong as aga
My chief failing is my sight. Till
few months ago the hours with a phi
and a paper were my happiest No
adays l must have the pipe only 4
let some one else have the paper"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
TWO FALL SIX STORIES.
Cornice Maker Killed and Helper
Strikes His Body.

New York (SpeciaD. = Herman
Cary, cornicemaker, was instantly
killed and another man whom Cary
dragged with him was seriously in
jured by falling from the sixth floor
OF az East Sixty-eighth street.
Cary's body crashed through a
wooden covering over the sidewalk,
put there TO protect pedestrians from
falling bricks, and every bone in his
body was broken. Frank Rowing,
Cary's helper, landed on top of the
eornicemaker's body He suffered a
fractured nose and internal injuries
and was removed to the Presbyterian
Hospital.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Census Quiz Jars Germans

last ten years is double the rate
which Germany is growing.
The census of Germany is not tai
en- by official question askers, as b
the United States, but by means Of !,
series of intricate blanks which evey
householder in the country is obliged
to fill out. Millions of otherwise Ii I
telligent Germans spent last weei
wrestling with the mysteries Of thu
census forms.
These are some of the searching
questions which the kaiser's perplsz
ed subjects had to answer:
IF you don't know the exact date o.
your birth, how many full years
are your"
Whats your main occupation
life?" W
Were your babies nursed on
mothers breast or by wet nurse.
from q bottle?" II.
Are you subject to epileptic
How many of your house wine
look out on the street,"
What was your mother tongue
German, Dutch, Friesan, Danish, Wal
lonian, Polish or Lithuanian-anC
what are the names of the various
rooms in your dwelling?"
what is the religion OF your ser
vants?"
How many bathrooms have YOU
do you cook with gas or otna
fuel?"
German economists cherish amuf
tious hopes for the future Of GER
many's population. One authority Su'
there will be 10000, 900 by 1880. All
other expert, Prof. Won SCHNEIDER N
the University Of Berlin, peers i..|
the distant future as far as 1iss
when he sees a vision OF 2OS,OVU'Vw
Such increase" he writes, snOus
will and must come if we wish 10
main a great and powerful nation, Y
we must have fruitful colonies sUi01
to take care of the surplus. -,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Chill Accepts Honor.

Washington, D. C. especially =
President Tafts offer of warship to
convey the body of Senior Don Anibal
Cruz, Chilean minister to the United
States, to Valparaiso has been form
ally accepted by Senior Coucham,
charge affairs of the legation. The
body will be taken from Washing
ton about February 1, and will be
placed aboard the warship at Hamp-
ton Roads. From Hampton Roads
the ship will proceed around the
Horn, and will arrive at Valparaiso
about March Is.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE.
Its Ravages In Mongolia Continue
Unchecked.

st. Petersburg Especially. = The
correspondent of the Rech at Vladivo-
stok telegraphs that the ravages of
bubonic plague in Mongolia are I'M
checked Corpses frequently mark
the sites of abandoned camps of
nomads.
The situation in Manchuria is
grave. The German consul at Har-
bin has addressed a pressing note to
the Chinese Taotai demanding that
radical measures be taken to stay the
epidemic and stating that otherwise
Germany will interfere. The munic-
ipality of Hardin has invited Japan
csc physicians to attend the diseased
in the barracks, as the Russians re-
fuse to expose themselves.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Mother Kills Her Baby.

New Orleans Especially. - After
swallowing a large dose of carbolic
acid at her home here, Mrs. Mary
Kadelich lay down on the bed with
her lips pressed to those of her five
days'-old infant, which she firmly
clasped in her arms. When found,
the baby was dead as the result of
absorbing the fresh acid from her
mothers lips, and Mrs. Kadelich was
in a dying condition.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Fire Visits Cincinnati.

Cincinnati Especially Two men
dead, II injured and loss estimated
at $1,OOO,OOO to $500, 900 are the
results of fire that swept through a
number of business structures here.
raging for more than five hours. The
fire started in the great shoe manu-.
featuring plant of the Krippendorf-
O'Neill Company and before it could
be checked had spread into the ad-
joining buildings. A biting cold
wind which benumbed the hands Of
the firemen helped the fire spread.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Man Baked In Oven.

Philadelphia Especially Baked al
most beyond recognition, the body of
William Folks, aged % years, was
discovered Wednesday in an oven in
the Tansey Brickyard, Frankford,
where he was employed He had
been missing since Monday. 1t is
supposed that he crawled into the
oven to sleep and when the fire was
ignited was roasted to death.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Cat Ghost in Alarm CLocR

ent cause. Johnson says ne ~ wv iii
remember having wouna 'N
before these untimely capers' ,ssI
The climax came Tuesday ~ ~ Il
Johnson was sound asleep
left the clock on a chiffonier - In
room. About two O'Clock he was was , nth
ened by something striking mn ,na, h
chest. When he got his uea, ,, III
found it was the alarm ciooA' nh
thing was ripping out alarms, : ~, 'Is
son says that when he wen. 80. y. re
the clock was at least four III III re-
the bed. The clock was ln The Az
gated to Johnson's cellars, .ons "a
er ascribes the strange acuoA' ~
transmIgration of the spiri'
vangeful cat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Children Burned To Death.

Dover, n. ]. Especially While
Mrs. William Somboy was shopping
Friday, two of her children, whom
she had locked in a room on the low
er floor, were burned to death. The
children were aged two and one-half
and six years. A neighbor discover
ed the fire and breaking into the
house tried to pull the little ones out
of bed, where they had sought refuge
when the flames surrounded them.
One of the children was so badly
burned that he died in few minutes,
and the other was dead in the bed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
The RebeIlious Filipinos.

Manila (SpeciaD The Army is
theoretically pursuing the rebellious
Manobos tribesmen in Mindanao Is
land. Troops of the Second Cavalry
are Furnishing the perpetrators of the
outrages on the planters in the Davao
district. Brigadier General PERISH
ing, commanding the department of
Mindanao. has arrived here and as
sumes command of the Army of the
Philippines, pending the arrival of
the recently appointed commander,
Major General Bell
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Subjects of Kaiser PerpIexed by
Some Searching Questlons-Total
May Be 100000.

Berlin.-Germany is in the throes
of a census which will not end for
many weeks. When it is over the
fatherland expects to wake up and
find itself the possessor of 65,000,000
souls, or a gain of 100000 since 1905.
The German population experts are
deeply impressed by this weeks an
nouncement that the United States
has over 90.000,000 inhabitants. The
American rate of increase during the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
YOUTH KILLED IN QUARRY.
Herbert Slough Died As Rescuers
Got Out His Body.

York, Pa. (SpeciaD = Herbert
Slough, is years old, was crushed to
death while at work at the plant of
the York Stone and Supply Company.
He was engaged in undermining rock
in quarry and was standing on a
shelf Is feet wide when stone and
dirt fell upon him.
He died few minutes after fellow
workmen had dug out his body from
the mass of stone.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Toledo Has Se25.OO0 Fire.

Toledo, o. Especially Fire which
followed an explosion of unknown
origin, totally destroyed the building
occupied by the Toledo Biscuit Com.
pany. Loss is placed at $225,000
The company, which is an indepen.
dent concern, will rebuild at once.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-30
Lnmn Drons In Powder.

Greensburg, Pa. Especially Six
persons were burned, one probably
fatally in Export, mining town, by
an explosion in the home of Charles
Smith, a coal miner. A group was
sitting in a room in Smiths home,
when a large lamp, suspended from
the ceiling by a chain, fell into keg
Of blasting powder