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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
ONE TEST FOR PEARLS.
Berlin Hotel Porter's Experiment
That Was Not Success.

Innt was NOT SUCCESS.
The porter OF one OF the leading
Berlin hotels has Just had a curious
adventure Some time ago a dealer
in pearls who was stopping at the
hotel told him an infsllible way to
distinguish real pearls from false,
which was to put them on the
ground and stamp on them. n real
they would resist the test. n false
they would be crushed.
The porter. however, never had a
chance OF putting this theory to the
test until a few days ago. The di-
rector OF a well known company IN
Berlin. while dining at the hotel
lost a valuable pearl rim. This was
found by the waiter. who gave It to
the porter to return to it's owner.
the porter saw his opportunity
hal come at last to test the quality
OF pearl He put the pin on the
ground, placed his neel on It and
ground II to a powder. When the
owner arrived to claim it there vas
G somewhat stormy scene. but ne
was good natured enough o consent
to say no more about the affair on
the porter refunding half the value
OF the pin 500 marks lu future
the porter will submit any jeweiry
he may nnd for expert opinion
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
SUICIDE FEVER IN RUSSIA.
Three Girls, One Heiress to $1o,ooo,-
600. Die Tocether.

wv, Dle lOgStNcTs
st. Petersburg, Russia.-The sensa-
tional suicide here Of three young
girls belonging to the best circles,
wi took their lives together. has Gre
ated a great stir. 1t has again focus ssed
attertion on the continuing epidemic
OF self-destruction, which is believed
to be due to neurasthenic melancholia.
In this instance. two sisters named
KC'mann, aged twenty and sixteen
years, and Miss Lauricz, heiress to ten
million dollars, met and after one had
played Chopin's Funeral March all
three drank poison and died.
They left letters saying they were
tired of life. No other motive is
known.
There has been an astonishing num-
Der Of similar suicides recently. In
one day no less than twenty-nine cases
were reported, among them sixteen
women and three children.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
SUCKERS DISTURBED FARMERS,
Thousands Of Fish Make Strange
Noise in Trying to Ascend Dam.

Thousands Of Fish Make Strange
Noise in Trying to Ascend Dam.
Monticello, N. Y.-Nyriads of suck
ers which have infested Smith Mea-
dow Brook, near Monticello, Sullivan
County, have been the cause of great
disturbance to the farmers living near
the brook. A mysterious humping
noise, heard all through the night, had
caused many to believe that ghosts
from the nearby graveyard were
prowling about the neighborhood.
The origin of the sounds was not
discovered until Dewitt Olmsted.a littl9
braver than his neighbors sought to
determine whence the noises came.
and after dark crept down to the wa
ter, taking stand near an old dam
which crosses the stream in the rear
OF his house.
Below this dam where the water
falls into a pit, he found thousands Of
suckers trying to reach the pond
above by swimming up the falls. He
also learned to his astonishment that
the fish in their repeated endeayors
to shoot the chutes seldom succeeded,
while scores of the largest ones would
furiously butt their heads into the
humping noises which had so dis
turbed the peace and quiet of the
neighborhood.
The only solution of the trouble
was to destroy portion of the dam.
which was promptly done and the fish
allowed to move on up stream unob
structed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
SOCIALISM is ON THE WAY
Prof. Carver, Of Harvard, Doesn't Re-
gard II as a cure-All, but Thinks
Il VIII Help Some.


Cambridge, Msss.-Prof. Thomas
Nixon Carver of the economic depart
ment at Harvard asserts that social
ism is factor to be reokoned with In
the industrial life of the future. and
although he does not believe II a last
ing remedy for existing conditions, he
thinks II will act as a mild preventa-
tive for many encroachments on the
working people.
Prof. Carver says: THE trusts.
although sometimes so called, are not
product of evolution. They were
produced by the turbulent and uncer-
tain conditions that prevailed prior
to their organization and still prevail
to-day. l challenge any one to prove
that the trusts, or any one of them.
has proved more efficient in lowering
the cost of production than individual
concerns. They have, however. been
able to lower the cost of distribution
through their control of the markets
and by taking advantage of special
conditions.
The capitalists are doing the very
thing that Is likely to bring about
their own destruction. for they are by
their present course continually add
ing to the dissatisfied. The minute
the dissatisfied among the proletariat
outnumber the satisfied ones, then So
cialism will come. believe, however.
that any such happening would be q
disaster"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Hit on the He'd. Now Shutters.

Pittsburg Greatly hampered by
suffering in describing a poolroom
row. after spending several weeks in
the hospital, Joseph Ruprecht told a
magistrate how he became a confirm.
ed sufferer Ruprecht had been
struck on the head with a billiard cue
and knew nothing more until he found
himself in the hospital. There physi-
clans tried in vain to repair his
speech. He has sued Joseph Sisky
whom he charges with striking him.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
RaYonet for Cavalry.

Notwithstanding to a statement
Just published 1t is probable that
the German cavalry sabre will shortly
disappear and be replaced by a new
short side arm which can De used as
a bayonet with the new pattern caval-
ry carbine. The military authorities
consider that for cavalry armed with
the lance for lighting at close quar-
ters on horseback, and with the car
bine and bayonet for nEhing on foot,
the sabre would become superfiuous.
The value OF the carbins combined
with the new sidearm for cavalry
work has already been proved in night
ing In German Southwest Africa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
psslrahIs and aaf..

As 1t rests with man. through a
wise and diligent employment OF his
intellectual faculties. to subdue the
earth for earthly uses. and make II an
altogether safe, comfortable. and de-
sirable dwellins-place. so II is laid as
. sacred obligation upon HIS spiritual
and moral nature to change the king
doms OF this world into kingdom Of
heaven. in which r1ghtsousness. peace,
and holy Joy prevAil-Rufus Ellis.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Teach Children to Chew Food.

Cleveland, Ohio.-Believing that
proper mastication OF food has become
a lost art, members of the National
Dental Society started countrywide
movement to teach the children OF the
public schools how to chew. The plan
is to have each child's mouth exaIrin-
ed, teeth treated IL necessary. and In
structions given in the proper manner
Of using the jaws.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
skunk Safe In Massachusetts

Boston.-A bill was considered
which is to impose fines up to $500
and Imprisonment up TO a year on any
one who kills in the State OF Massa-
chusstts that well known little animal
which is described as "a member OF
the Mephius mephiuca family OF
American musteloid carnlvores, ordi-
narily known as the skunk"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06

El Paso, Tex.-"Jerry" Faust, an
employee of the Southern Pacific Rail.
road. Just received letter which was
addressed to him at Pittsburg. 1t was
written and mailed at Blanchard
Penn. on July 2, 1875. by his step
mother, Mrs. Mary Still. Faust left
Pittsburg many years ago. His step.
mother has been dead fifteen years.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Society Women Form "Rolline
Club" to Reduce their Fat.


Muskogee, Okla.-Muskogee
has a Roller club. Its members
are all young women and they
roll themselves to reduce their
flesh. They belong to the best
society of the town.
1t all started from a pretty
but over-plump society woman
astonishing her friends by
marked change in her form.
Then she explained that she did
it by rolling, which was still
more mystifying until she eX-
planned further. She said that
she began by rolling over and
over on the floor as a morning
exercise. and that she found that
it reduced flesh rapidly.
The result was the immediate
organization of the Rollers
Club, composed of society ma
irons and maids who are in
clined to obesity. The members,
in kimonos or other garments,
lie down and roll over and over.
One hundred rolls is a morn
ing's work. One young woman
Uses a kimono costume, because
she finds it does not wrap
around and bind the limbs.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Women Not as Strong as Men.

Women are not on the average
but half as strong as men, said DR..
Sargent. the director OF athletics at
Harvard, in lecture recently.
Their lung capacity averages but
100 cubic inches. while that OF man
Is 24O cubic inches. In nearly every
instance, he said where women
excel in sports OF the rougher or
more masculine sort they have either
inherited or acquired masculine
characteristics
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
THE 5LlNDlNG HATPIN.

Eye Put Out by II in Brussels, Bel
gium-Damages in Case.
Brussels.-A court here has award
ed $4,000 damages to a man who vas
blinded in one eye by a woman's hat
pin. He was standing on the platform
OF a street car, which stopped with
jerk, causing the hatpin to pierce his
eye.
The damages were assessed equal
ly against the woman and the car
company. each being condemned to
pay $1,000.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
VIII on small piece Of PastsbOsrd

Reading. Pa.-OnIa piece OF paste
board two inches by one and one-half
in dimensions. the late p. Frank Han
man disposed OF an estate OF $4,000.
OF which $1,000 represents life insur.
anee. The will contains these words
"All | possess. real and personal, be-
longs to my wife absolutely At my
death"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
UNDER THE SEA TO THE POLE.
Dr.. Kemp of Germany Building Sub
marine to Rival Capt. Memo.


marine to Rival Capt. Memo.
Berlin, Germany.-The old idea Of
reaching the north pole by submarine.
as was so graphically set forth in
Jules Verne's story of Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea-" has
been revived by the announcement
that DR.. Anschutz Kemp, the well
known inventor, has resolved to make
the attempt.
It is said that he has been working
for decade upon the project and that
he will build a submarine Of his own
design. 1t will be capable, 1t is assert
ed, OF remaining under water at a
great depth for long period.
DR.. Kemp has also invented and
patented in all civilized countries the
different apparatus by means of which
he hopes to take his soundings and
bearings when deeply submerged.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Ma.hInuton,. WIII. Faded. .

Washington, d. George Wash
ington's will, written by himself on
more than twenty pages, has been
brought here for renovation. For more
than a century It has been on view
in Fairfax. Va. The paper has dark
ened to a rich shade OF brown and the
ink faded to sickiy olive tint
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
WHY THE PIG WHIsTLED.

On Being Cut Up a Piece Of Spring
Was Found In Its Throat.
Bloomsbury, Pa.-Daniel Howell
has found out why his pig whistled
He says that for weeks prior to butch
ering time the hog would invariably
start whistling at feeding time, and
this brought ali the other hogs to the
trough; they got to expecting 1t and
the food that followed.
Howell was puzzled over that whis-
tie until the porker. a fine one. was
cut up, and there in its throat was a
section of a spring such as is found
in the roller of window curtain.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06

He Doesn't Need That Kind
A man can generally get along
very we'll without the respect which
he loses for insisting on having what
he 10 entitled to.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-06
Observation-Disclosures
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ON LOSING HEART.

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Text: LET US not be weary In we'll
doing; for in due season we shall reap
n we faint not"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
PERSONAL

Henry Wallace of Mt. Sterling, Wis
tied with friends over Sunday.
s. P. Ayres of Warsaw is in the
city today on business.
Miss Viola Ness OF Galesburg. ILL.,,
Is visiting In the city with trends.
Attorney D. f. Miller went to Fort
Madison this morning on business.
Attorney John e. Craig Is in Fort
Madison today on legal business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee A. Hamill and
children left this morning at 1855 for
Binghampton, N. Y. where they will
spend Christmas with Mrs. Hamilps
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Nc
Creary.
Mrs. Allen Majors is visiting in
Grinnell, Ia, with her sister and mo-
Their, Mrs. Gust C. Johnson. Mr.. Ma.
jors and Mr.. Johnson will visit in
Grinnell over Christmas and family
reunion will be held.
Norman Kiedaisch was called home
from Iowa City where he has been at.
tending college, ON account of the
death of his grandmother, Mrs. j. r.
kiedaisch, ST. He will remain in the
city for the holidays.
III. u. Watts, assistant genera
freight agent for the Wabash, was il
Keokulk today on railroad business.
Fl. c. Auwerda arrived from Omaha
this afternoon to spend the holidays
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
SHE TRIMMED HER OWN HAT
Pretty Girl Designed Neat Piece Of
Headsear but Lett the Price
Tag on tho Feather.

Hall dozen pretty girls were, dis
cussing millinery. Said one of them,
IN reference to an absent friend: Her
mats certainly are stunning and she
trims all OF them herself Said an
other: Il hope she may never have
such an experience as l had recently.
My sense CT humor enabled me to live
through it, but I'd not like to see
any one else have 1t. !, also, trim my
own hats.
This fall designed one that 1
thought was about the most effective
| ever had, though it was extremely
simple. 1t consisted only OF feath.
er and twist of velvet around the
crown Of a big, stylish shape. The
first time wore it was to church. 1
felt gratified to think that the eyes
OF the whole congregation were rest.
ing, at one time or another on that
hat, because the style was one to
challenge attention and nobody could
avoid seeing it, That is, nobody
within a radius of a mile or So When
l returned home and removed the hat
there was large white ticket dang
ling from almost the tip OF the feath-
er. and on it was marked in large fig
ures Soc" The ticket had been Gun.
ningly concealed underneath the
feather, SO that all the time ! was
trimming the hat never had seen it.
but wearing the hat had Jared the
ticket into sight. | had picked up the
20 - H.
SNOWY one and really looked as IL
it might have cost two or three dol
lars. OF course, had the pleasure OF
knowing that the whole congregation
had read the price
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
HOW PHAR0AH WAS DROWNED
coIored Minister Insisted Egyptians
Broke Through Ice After Children
Of Israel Had Crossed.

There is story of an old colored
minister, which I am fond of telling,
that illustrates what mean. The old
fellow was trying to explain to a Sun
day school class how it was and why
1t was that Pharoah and his party
were drowned when they were trying
to cross the Red sea, and how 1t was
and why it was that the Children of
Israel crossed over dry shod The
old minister explained it in this wise:
When the first party came along it
was early in the morning and the ice
was hard and thick, and the first party
had no trouble crossing over on the
ice, but when Pharoah and his party
came along it was ~ o'clock In the
day and the sun was shining hot on
the ice, and when they got on the ice
it broke, and they went in and were
drowned
Now, there happened to be in this
class young colored man who had
had considerable schooling, and this
young fellow turned to the old minis.
tetr and said:
Now, Mr.. Minister, do not under
stand that kind of explanation. / have
been going to school and have been
studying all these conditions, and my
geography teaches me that ice does
not freeze within certain distance
OF the equator
The old minister replied; Now,
Use been expecting something lust like
this. There's always some fellow
ready to spite all the theology The
time Use talkin' about was before they
had jogerphies or 'quators either"
Now, this old man, in his plain and
simple way was trying to brush aside
all artificiality and to get down to bed
rock. So it was with me.-Booker T..
Washington, IN Worlds Work Maya
zine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
IOWA TO LEGALLY
ADOPT A FLAG
Is the Only State In tho Union With
out One, Causing Embarrassment
to our Military Men.

The minutes for the meeting of the
advisory board OF the National Guard
have been received in this city and IA
this was onue Of the most important
military meetings ever gathered in
this was one of the most important
questions were voted upon.
At present the state OF Iowa il the
only state in the union without le-
gally adopted flag, and this circum-
stance has plunged the Iowa military
men into a number Of embarrassing
positions. Governor Boies saw this
need OF a state flag and requested
General Lincoln to design flag. Lin.
coin did as he was requested, and
though he labored hard on the flag it
was never legally adopted by the leg.
islature. The flag he designed at that
time was after this description. 1t
was to be white around the outside.
with thirteen stars in each corner to
represent the original colonies. There
was wide blue border around thia,
in which there were to be informing
led forty-six gilt stars for the present
states and niney-nine white stars 10
represent the counties. On the inside
of the first white border. there was to
! be coat OF arms ON one side Of the
center and hawks head on the 9TH
er. This flag was never legally adopt
ed. Lincoln stated that his new flag
would be designed after this idea, but
he had long desired to make a few
slight changes in the dsign. The new
flag will be submitted to the legisla.
ture upon its first meeting.
I The board also decided to hold in
door rifle contests and trophy will
be awarded to the team winning the
event. All companies will be divided
into classes, A, B, G, and D, based on
indoor figure of merit for the previous
season. Each company will be allow
Led to shoot upon its home range and
| the comparative scores shall be used
to determine the winners in each
class.
The problem of attendance has
been a troublesome problem and it
was decided to let the coIporals be re-
,sponsible for their squat. In the fu-
sture the corporal whose squad has
the highest percentage of attendance
rat drill for the entire year will receive
medal. 1t is thought that BY this
method a larger interest in attend.
ance will be taken by the men and
that corporal will take more pride
in the attendance of his squad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
Skillet Exploded.

DES MONIES, Dec 19.--Mrs. r. NJ
Bennett, III West Third street, was
seriously burned about 9 o'clock yes
terday morning and may lose the
sight of both eyes as the result of an
explosion of grease in frying pan
which she was using in the prepare
ton OF breakfast The accident occur
red as Mra. Bennett leaned over the
stove and removed the cover from the
pan. The grease. which had become
intensely hot, exploded as the ar
reached it, and & portion of the con-
tents struck the woman squarely IN
the face. She was frightfully burned
about the eyes. Medical assistance
was Immediately summoned to relieve
her suffereings, but it was feared last
night that the loss OF both eyes may
result.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
TALE OF REIGN OF TERROR
Pathos Of Little Nicole's Execution
overcame and Nearly Killed
8 Spectator Of Iron Nerve.

M. Lenotre's book on the expert.
ences of the Gascon royalist, the
Baron de Batz-an English version Of
which has just appeared-was first
published in Paris some years ago,
and it is surprising that It was not
translated before 1910. De Batz was
one OF the strangest figures of the
French revolution. He is said to have
used his enormous wealth in bringing
about distrust among the revolution.
airy leaders and in Gripping finance,
and thus had much to DO with the end
OF the butchery. There was one ter
rible incident OF the executions pre-
ceding tho fall of Robespierre thus
narrated by M. Lenotre in this vol
ulpe:
"a certain man of great strength
and hardness -one Of those athletic
people who are all muscle and have
no nerves-wagered that he would
watch the execution at close quarters
without flinching. Whether he stood
with the executioner or not do not
know For long time he bore it un-
moved; but when little Nicole came
upon the scaffold, and arranged her.
self upon the plank, and said gently
to the executioner: Monsieur, shall
be all right like that?' his head swan
and his sight failed him, his immense
strength gave way, and he fell to the
ground. For moment he was
thought TO be dead and was carried
home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
Manners Of the Boy.

For some reason many mothers do
not give the same attention to the
manners OF their sons as to those of
their daughters. Yet the boys train
ing is even more important than
those of the girl. The majority of
young men leave their homes shortly
after they come Of age, and many
leave before that period, and they
come into contact, into intimate asso.
citation frequently, with men who have
had but little training in the nice
ties of life. and all too frequently
these evil communications corrupt the
good manners Of the more fortunate
class. But the boy who is trained to
courtesy from his childhood can be
trusted in any environment.