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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-16

Mr.. D. B. McNeill thinks that
The Robesonian has not given
Mr.. Goodwin credit for what he
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-12-29
JUST AMONG OURSELVES
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90 to Shreve for expert watch, clock
repairing.
1911 diaries and desk calendars at P
0. Store.
DR.. w. 8. Wallace and wife spent
Christmas with relatives at Spokane,
Cordwood taken at the highest market
price in exchange tor merchandise. G..
A. Sherman & Co.
Lucille Williams is home from col
lege at McMinnyille, Oregon, to spend
Christmas holidays.
Don't fail to get one of those beautiful
pictures at Harding & Harding's. Until
Jan. 8 only 10c each.
For all kinds Of sleighs call at
Lund's. He can save you money.
A large congregation enjoyed the il
Illustrated sermon at the Baptist church
last Sunday evening.
There will be services at the Blanchard
school house, Blanchard, Idaho, on Sun
day, Jan. l, at 5 p. m.
One Fairbanks Morse special electric,
3-horse power gasoline engine for sale.
Al condition. Newport Telephone Co.
Remember your absent friends with a
New Years greeting. We have fine
line of cards for that purpose. Harris
Drug Store.
What about that kitchen cupboard
that you promised your wife for Xmas.
Call me up and tell me and l will build
it for New Years. F. E. Lehmkuhl.
Prices cut in half at the Paris
Store, beginning Monday, JAM 2.
Get in line for bargains
Cool weather suggests that it is time
to be putting up your heating stove
Willard has big line ranging from the
sheet iron heater to the best made. Cal
and look them over.
F. U. Mayhem, of this city, resident
0ukluCCI lOI tuC L. " w 4Nss AUS PuA
chased from the Panhandle Lumber Co
the northwest quarter of Sec. l3-3i-43
located near Jared.
Catholic services at st. Anthony's
church every first and third Sunday a.
l0a. M. Sunday school every Sunday a
l0:40 a. m. Seats are free and a cordia
b. Ill - 80
the services.
9. A. Sherman has purchased th'
Conrad Pfuger timothy ranch in Dee
Valley. and as soon as he can close GU
the business of G. A. Sherman & 20. b.
will 90 "back to the farm" Mr.. Sher
mans health has not been of the hes
since engaging in the mercantile bust
ness.
Don't forget the fire laddies' dance a
Kelly's Hall Monday evening. Jan.
The boys have hanging oyer them 81
note given in payment for equipment
which they would like to clear up a
this time. Newport never before ha
so competent and willing crew of fir
fighters, and the people should sho'
their appreciation of their efforts.
The large enrolment at Aliens Bus
ness College shows how the people ar
preciate the greatest offer ever made
the Northwest to persons desiring
frat-class business education. Tn
school asks only half the tuition fee III
til you have graduated and secured
position. Write for catalogue and fu
: information. New classes organize
Jan. 2. Address Aliens Business Co
lep". 0l905 Washington street, Spokan
Wash.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-12-29

PRICE $1.50 EACH YEAR
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30

Professor Hilprecht was unpacking
and examining some of the boxes
containing tablets from Nippur. His
attention was attracted by the pc
culiarities of certain fragments of
tablets in the lot. He examined
them closely and was startled to find
that one of them was part of tab
let which had been the story of a
deluge. BY the dialect in which they
were written, the earliest of the
Semetic languages found in Nippur
tablets, he knew that the tablet
had laid in the ground more than
1000 years.
The ancient Sumerians had been
conquered by Semitic people closely
akin in racial characteristics to the
Jews. These were the progenitors
of the Babylonians of the time when
Babylon was the capital of the known
world. The language of these early
Semites is easily identified by Assy-
biologists. With other characters
tics and known facts of history it
fixes the date of the tablet as about
2l00 before the time of Christ.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30

that all the old pictures of herself
in the days of her fleeting glory be
brought to her, and they stood on the
mantle and chairs in the room where
Louise Montague lay in her coffin.
Pinned on the wall was a glaring
many-colored circus poster Fore
pough's Prize Beauty'-and over
the mantle was a faded photograph,
life-size, of Louise Montague, as
"Sinbad the Sailor" The pictures
showed the face of a marvelously
beautiful woman. but the face in the
coffin in spite of the traces of the
proud fight made against poverty
and disappointment and ambition un-
realized, was calm and beautiful,
more beautiful than had ever been
the face of even "Forepaugh's Ten
Thousand Dollar Prize Beauty
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
WEB FEET WON HIM AN ESTATE.
John Bowers, Who Once Proved Kin
ship by Them, Now Dead.

Washington, n. john Bowers,
who years ago was identified as the
heir of his brother by means of his
web feet, a family popularity, is dead
in his home here from Bright's dis
ease. He was almost 80 years old.
Bowers's brother died in Yonkers.
N Y, leaving much wealth. 1t was
difficulty to establish relationship be-
tween the dead man and the one who
said he was his heir until he displayed
his anatomical peculiarity, correspond
ing exactly with that of the dead man.
He then received the estate.
Bowers formerly manufactured
snuff, owning a mill in Changewater,
which he afterward sold to the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. He invested
the money in farm, but he still drew
royalties from the company and two
of his sons hold good positions there.
There are three other children living.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
HOW WOMAN WAS MADE.

According to a Hindoo legend,
this is the proper origin of women:
Twashtri the god Vulcan of the Hin
doc mythology, created the world,
but on his commencing to create
woman he discovered that for man
he had exhausted all his creative ma
terials, and that not one solid ele-
ment had been left. This, of course,
greatly perpleXed Twashtri, and
caused him to fall into profound
meditation. When he arose from it
he proceeded as follows. He took
The roundness of the moon.
The undulating curves of the SER
pent.
The graceful twist of the creeping
plant
The light shivering of the grass
blade and the slenderness of the will
low
The velvety softness of the flowers.
The lightness of the feather.
The gentle gaze of the doe.
The frolicsomeness of the dancing
sunbeam.
The tears of the cloud.
The Inconsistency of the wind.
The timidity of the hare.
The vanity of the peacock.
The hardness of the diamond.
The cruelty of the tiger.
The heat of the fire.
The chill of the snow.
The cackling of the parrot.
The cooling of the turtle dove.
All these he mixed together and
formed a woman.
And he presented her to man.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
GIVE CHILD TRAITS DESIRED
Prof. Castle Of Harvard Says He Has
Succeeded In Experiments
with Animals.

Boston.-Asserting it will be possi-
BILE after a final brief experiment to
instill in a child the dominant traits
desired before the birth OF the Off
spring and by chemical process. Pro-
fessor w Il. Castle OF Harvard, as
founded those who attended the meet
ing of the Boston Scientific Society.
He added he already has obtained the
desired results after experimenting on
rabbits, mice and guinea pigs. and said
he hopes soon to put his theory into
actual practice. That the reproduc-
ton of the species is q chemical pro-
cess in the laboratory to-day, has
long been one of Professor Castles
pronouncements.
The breeding of an extra toe on
animals, and then breeding it away
again, is one of the scientific facts as
serted by the professor and proved by
photographs taken in the course Of
the development Of reproduction from
generation to generation. In his ad-
dress Professor Castle explained the
laws governing reproduction must be
mastered before the task of planning
what a human being shall be before
birth can be undertaken. But he went
a step further and said it was but a
short step to the mastery of the laws,
ana then he will demonstrate the truth
of his assertion.
The Harvard professor does not
hesitate to pronounce the theories Of
Darwin faulty and in part to uphold
the theory of Mendel The speaker
said 1t is necessary to figure the domi-
nant traits not only of the parents but
of the grandparents to determine what
the offspring will be. And the next
step is the chemical fusing of minor
traits to make them major principles.
The result of such an experiment is
simply a matter Of mathematics, Pro-
fessor Castle asserted. He said it will
not be long before the breeding Of
human beings along scientific lines
will be an accomplished fact.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30

ful care sucn as is required when the
articles are being cooked in the regu-
lation manner on a stove. The latest
form OF tireless cooker is that of a
keg as shown herewith. The jacket
of the cooker is made in the same
manner as the best liquor kegs of
quartered white oak with the grain
running crosswise so that they will
not seep, soak or absorb 1t has
steel lid or top, which is fastened Sc
curely by a single turn of the eccen.
trio knuckle. The cooking receptacle
Is arranged to rest on a steel rim, so
that the can does not come in contact
with the jacket, thus leaving a vacu-
um chamber between the outer and
inner wall. This affords an insulator,
and is non-conductor of heat or cold.
The cooking in an apparatus of this
kind is done by schedule. The cook
knows which viands require the long
est treatment, ard these are subjected
to the heat of the gas burner or stove
for slightly longer period than 9th.
ers, and the schedule tells how soon
the articles will be ready to be TAX.
en- from the cooker, although no harm
is done by leaving them in longer
period
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
TRAIL OF THE PET FERN.
Mr.. Man Will Walk Through Six
Rooms to Flick Ashes on L.

After supper Mr.. Man lights a cigar
smoke. His wife, with a regard Tor
husband and the neatness of her home
evenly divided, places an ash tray
on the table near him, and a cuspidor
on the floor. The man is comfortable
and happy, and would get mad if any
household disturbance caused him tc
leave his chair, but he notices ashes
on the end of his cigar, and gets up,
passes the ash holder and cuspidor,
and crosses the room to drop the
ashes on his wife's pet fern. The
wife has piled as many as ten ash
trays near the man, and surrounded
him with cuspidors, but he ignores all
of them to find his way to the pet
fern. The wife objects, and has
been known to put the pet fern
in another room to save it, but
the man passes the ash trays and
cuspidors and walks into the next
room to flick off the ash on his cigar.
The same man will walk through six
rooms, if need be, and pass 375 burnt
match holders, to drop his match be-
side the pet fern. 1t does no good for
the woman to object, or to invest all
her pin money in more ash trays,
burnt match holders and cuspidors.
for the man will never see them on
his way to the pet fern. And, so far
as domestic history relates, this is
the only recognition the man ever
LA
er does give recognition to the ash
trays. cuspidors or burnt match hold
ers.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
COOKING IN A KEG.
u Is the Very Latest Word Of the De.
velopment Of Flreless Stove.

Wireless telegraphy is not accom-.
plished entirely without wires. and
fireless cookery is not arrived at
without fire. The advantage of the
latter system of cookery is that lit.
tie fire goes a great way in that the
operation of cooking having been
started in the regulation manner eth.
er on coal or gas stove, it is con.
tinued through the entire process to
the end in the improved cooker with
out the further use of fire. Viands
in the course CT treatment are thor
oughly cooked without the least dan.
ger of burning. and demand no watch.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
"BUNll" or "BUNC."
The Former the Northern. the Latter
the Southern Smelling.

at never occurred to me that
there could be any two ways of SPELL
ing the word bunk said the
scholarly appearing person who was
studying the sporting section of the
newspaper. But happened to pick
up a Memphis newspaper the other
day and as a head to a speech made
by Commissioner LoOmis in Toxic
recently | read: LOOMS Hands
Out the BUnc'
Now, without ende2ving to go
into the merits of the case so put
want to say only that the headline
re"nt that Mr.. LoOmis was accused
Of sOftsoaping the Japanese he adj
dressed. The only other authority
for the spelling of the word comes
from the sporting cartoonists, whose
work | study carefully. They are
unanimous IN spelling it bunk"
1T appears to me that the South
ern version is based on a belief that
the word is a diminutive of bun
combe The Northern spelling may
be due to the belief that a person
WHO may be buuked is a person of
sleepy or 6opy nature, who might as
well be lying ia a bunk, wrapped
In slumber Therefore when a rer-
son is bunked he IS rem 1ered sleepy.
That is merely con 'c-tuTe."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
BIBLE DISCOVERY.
Stories of Abraham and the Flood
Confirmed.

Confirmed.
On a taoiei of hardened clay ex-
cavated at Nippur, near Babaylon,
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht of
the University of Pennsylvania has
found proof of the Bible story that
Abraham went forth from Ur of the
Chaldees 1000 years ago to go into
the land of Canaan.
Professor Hilprecht offers to the
world proof of Abraham as a real
historic parsonage traced in the
mystic signs of a language that no
tongue has uttered in common speech
/ for more than 5000 years. He says
the evidence is bound to startle the
scientific and religious world and to
change the whole character of the
higher criticism of the Bible.
But Abraham is really only sec
ondary figure in this new develop
ment of ancient history. The chief
fact brought out is that the people
of Ur, from which Abraham came,
the people of the plains of Shinar,
the seat of that twilight civilization,
had a story of the deluge almost
identical with that of the Old Tes-
lament
Among the tablets brought out of
Nippur by the last expedition from
the University of Pennsylvania was
one fragment which is part OF de-
luge story more ancient by 1000
years than any that has been found
and antedating by at least 200 years
the time that Abraham left Ur to
go to the land of Canaan. And this
fragment has been deciphered by
Professor Hilprecht after months of
infinite labor and pains and the eX-
ercise of his profound knowledge of
Assyriology.
1t is simply amazing in its coincl-
dence to the Bible story of the de-
luge to which it tallies in minute
details. In this as in the Bible story
God says:
Il will loosen the confines of
heaven A deluge ! will make, and
it shall sweep away all men to-
gether."
Even the errors in the translation
of the Bible text from Hebrew to
English and German mark the strik-
ing similarity between the Nippur
story of the deluge and that of the
ancient Hebrews, for Professor Hill
precht points out that the word
which the translators of few hun
dred years rendered window" and
which appears in all later versions
of the Bible as window" really
meant roof" in the old Hebrew.
Where our Bibles say "a window
shall thou make to the ark it should
have read by correct translation "a
roof shalt thou make to the ark.
The tablet story of the deluge
written 2l00 b. C. which Professor
Hilprecht has translated contains
this very comment. The Lord of the
Gods says, with a strong deck COR
roof over it,"
This tablet, or, rather, this frag-
ment of a tablet with the story of
the deluge seems destined to be the
most famous discovery in all Assy-
rian research. The history of it is
given to the public in the records of
the Babylonian expedition of the
University of Pennsylvania.
The tablets are made of unbaked
clay, hardened by being dried in the
sun. The writing is traced on the
surface of these tablets in curious
characters which greatly resemble
the Chinese methods of writing OF
the present day.
Toward the end of October, 1909,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
SAYS MEN LIVE LONGER.

Gompers Declares Eight Hour Day Has
Added Il Years to Ciesrmakers' Lives.
Chicago the introduction
of the eight hour day among cigarmak-
ers of the United States within the
last few years, the average life of men
engaged in the craft has increased
fifteen years" said Samul GOmpers.
when testifying before the hearing of
railroad trainmen in wage arbitration
proceedings.
Mr.. Gompers supported the conten-
tion of the trainmen that long hours
of employment were provocative OF
injury and should be amply recon-
pensed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
ARRANGEMENT OF PLOTS.

divide the ground around the house
into four equal plots, alike in shape,
and each containing one of the four
apple trees which / have planted, you
shall have the land without any in
crease I'm your rent.
The tenants worried over the prob
lem for some time, and then solved it
as In the second sketch.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
ATE THE FAMILY HORSE.

Wife Killed and Cooked Dobbin, Says
Man Who Wants Divorce.
Chicago. o.-Alleging that his wife
fed him on horse and goat meat and
beat him on the head with a poker,
Henry Wittig, 60 years old, filed suit
for divorce.
In a bill filed before Judge Chetlain,
Wittig, who lives on a farm in West
Chicago, says that his wife killed Dob
bin the horse, 20 years old, and
served the meat for him to eat. When
the horse meat was all gone, he says,
she killed the family goat and put the
meat on the table.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
A TREE PUZZLE.

The Puzzle a Landlord Put Up to His
Tenants.
A certain landlord had a square plot
OF land, In one quarter of which stood
a house, let to four tenants. In the
balance OF the ground the landlord
planted four apple trees. placed as
shown n the sketch.
Now" said the landlord to the ten,
ants. rubbing his hands, If you can
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30

Shenandoah, Pa.-Eight brothers
were pallbearers at the funeral OF
Mrs. Catherine McGonigle, their only
sister daughter of the late County
Commissioner John Leahy, Four Of
her brothers travelled 1900 miles to
attend the obsequies.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30

Washington, j., C.-The uniform
worn by Admiral Farragut when he
lashed himself to the rigging of his
flagship, the Hartford, at the battle
of Mobile Bay will occupy a conspicu-
Gus place in the National Museum
here. 1t was presented by Mrs. Pau
line p. Lapidge.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
The suburban Trend.

Real estate agents of New York
city estimate that 240 900 persons
from the metropolis will find homes
In the suburbs this year,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-30
an Says Her Sex Drives
Men to Poverty.

Boston. Mrs. Ellen II. Rich
ards of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology faculty lays
the present high cost of living
directly at the door of her own
sex. She asserts that man is
driven daily nearer and nearer
poverty by woman's eXtrava-
gances.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-07
Suicide Mt Trenton

TRENTON, Dec. (speciaT-James Sea-
vey committed suicide at his home at Oak
Point this morning, shooting himself
through the heart with q revolver.
MIR. Seavey had recently returned from
Boston, having been employed throug b
the season as oiler on the steamer City OF
Bangor. He appeared in his usual health
and spirits, and no cause for suicide is
known by his family.
This morning he sat in the kitchen
smoking and talking with his mot her,
Mrs. Susan Alley. There was nothing un-
usual in his manner or appearance. lay
ing down his pipe, he went up stairs and a
few moments later the report OF a revolver
was heard.
He had gone into his room. loaded the
Ave chambers Of his revolver, then gone
into another room, placed the revolver
at his breast and fred, the bullet penetrat-
ing his heart. Death was immediate.
Deceased was twenty nine years Of age.
He leaves besides his mother, two sisters
and brother.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-07
DIR. sIMONTON GOING.

Will Move to Connecticut Probably
In january.
DIR. Frank F. Simonton. one OF Ellis
worth's leading physicians and prominent
men, will move from Ellsworth to Con-
necticut probably in January. He will
probably locate in Thompsonville. He
successfully passed the examination be-
fore the Connecticut board OF medical
examiners last month, and now has q
license to practice in that State.
DR.. Simonton has been practicing in
Ellsworth since June, 1903. He is son oi
Rev. J. P. Simonton, former pastor OF
the Methodist church here, and a native
Of Waldoboro. He was graduated from
East Maine Conference seminary in
Bucksport in 1895, Wesleyan university,
Middletown, Conn.,, in 1899, and the
medical school OF Maine in 1903.
DR.. Simonton has taken prominent
part in public affairs, serving the city two
years, 1869, as mayor. He has also served
ss q member of the board OF health, and at
present holds q commission as coroner,
and as United States examining surgeon.
He is Mason and Odd Fellow.
DIR. Simonton hopes to dispose OF his
property and practice here before leaving.
White the people OF Ellsworth will regret
his departure, he will have their best
wishes for continued prosperity in his
new location.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-07
wEsr kIasw ORTH.

Julia Ii. Barron has returned to Castinc
for the winter term OF normal school.
Mrs. Harriet &. Barron has gone to Ban
gor to spend the holidays with her
daughter.
Mrs. ocsavia Stsckpole spent few days
last week visiting her niece, Mrs. Meader,
at Trenton.
Miss Julia Earron entertained party
Monday evening in honor OF her coGsin,
Wallace Bodge, OF Bangor.
Mrs. Eidusta Bro@n, OF Happvtosn, is
keeping house FOX Mrs. Tourtelotte while
she ID caring for hsr MolAsr.
Mr.. Mcintyre has moved his family to
the Floyd farm, where he has employ
ment for q year. A. r. Barron has moved
back to town.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-07

II You would enjoy life, make up your
mind TO lei the other fellow do all the
worrying.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-07

recording secretary; Daniel e. Doyle,
warden; Robert Mullan, advocate;
Edward r. Small, inside guard; James
Dunleavy, outside guard; Charles g. Mon
aghan, =. e. Brady, John w. Coughlin,
trustees.
In order to accommodate its customers
with brand new crisp currency and shin
ing gold for the Christmas season, the
Union Trust Co. has on hand new one,
tive, i've and ten dollar bills, and gold
pieces Of the denominations of 42.6O, 6,
40 and 20. The Burrill national bank
will, In . few days, also be supplied
with new currency for the same purpose.
Mrs. Grace Clark Robinson, daughter Of
the lato John e. Clark, Of Bar Harbor,
died suddenly Of cerebral hemorrhage ct
her home In Bangor Sunday. She was
thirty nine years Of age, and native
OF Ellsworth, where she had many
friends. Besides her mother, Mrs.
Theresa Clark, Of Bar Harbor, she
leaves four children Albert, aged
seventeen; Clark, aged sixteen; Paul, aged
fourteen. and Catherine, aged twelve; =
sister : Mrs. Mildred Mason, and q
brother Hon. E. 8. Clark, Of Bar Harbor.
The body was brought here to-day and
placed in the receiving tomb.
The Canadian jubilee singers, . concert
organization Of colored people, are booked
for Hancock hall next Friday evening.
There are nine in the company, and they
give varied program, bringing in the old
slave songs among the earlier numbers,
and using the more popular songs in solos,
duets, quartets and choruses. Judging from
the splendid recomme ndations, the pro-
gram is not only highclass but alec sparkles
with fun. The company gives . concert
at Cherryfleld tomorrow night, and word
has come that all the seats have been sold.
In order that the children may have .
good chance to enjoy the concert, the first
two rows have been reserved for them.