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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
pveino Cloth bv Electricity.

Among the tasks imposed in recent
years upon that busy servant of man,
electricity, is the acting as an assist
ant in the operation of dyeing.
When cloth soaked in aniline, sui
phate is placed between two metal
plates connected with the opposite ends
Of the dynamo and the electric cur
rent is passed through it the sulphate
is converted into aniline black. By al
ternating the strength of the solution
and of the current shades varying
from green to pure black can be OBJ
tanned.
In the case of indigo, the cloth is
impregnated with a paste of indigo
blue and caustic alkali. The electric
current converts the insoluble indigo
blue. by reduction of oxygen, into in
digo white, which is soluble, and on
being exposed to the air becomes oxid-
lied once more and turns blue, thus
thoroughly dyeing the cloth with that
color.-Harper's Weekly.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11

A cheerful disposition is held by
some doctors to be the best protec-
ton against cholera. When this dis
ease first visited Paris in 1882 a no.
tice was issued advising the inhabi-
tants "to avoid as far as possible all
occasions of melancholy and all pain
full emotions and to seek plenty of dis
fractions and amusements. Those
with a bright and happy temperament
are not likely to be stricken down."
This advice was largely followed
and even when cholera was claiming
over thousand weekly victims the
theatres and cafes were thronged.
The epidemic was in some quarters
treated as a huge joke and plays and
songs were written around it. Roche
forte, the father Of the brilliant jour
nalist Of to-day, wrote play, lie
Cholera Morbus," which proved big
success, and another production on
the same lines, "Pa-ismalade," also
had long run.-London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
THE Willy THREE.
Mark Twain Tells How They knowed
the Road and Dressed for 1t.

WsTh Twain teIls TOW lney NnoWeu
the Road and Dressed for It.
Mark Twain was a firm believer
In the national movement for good
roads, and had many a tale to tell
about the incredibly bad roads OF
some sections.
A Hartford man recalled the other
day this experience of the famous
humorist's:
'T once had thirty miles"-so Mark
Twain began-"to go by stage in Mis-
sissippi. The roads were terrible, for
1t was early spring. The passengers
consisted of five men and three wom-
en-three large, we'll developed wom-
en-, swathed in shawls and wells, who
kept to themselves, talking in low
tones on the rear seat.
"Well, we hadn't gone mile be-
fore the stage got stuck two feet deep
in the black mud. Down jumped
every man of us, and for ten minutes
we tugged and jerked and pulled till
we got the stage out of the hole.
1--WE had hardly got our breath
back when the stage got stuck again,
and again we had to strain our very
hearts out to release her
"In covering fifteen miles we got
stuck eight times, and in going the
I whole thirty we lifted that old stage
out of the mud seventeen times by
actual count
1--WE five male passengers were wet,
tired and filthy when we reached our
destination, and so you can imagine
our feelings when we saw the three
women passengers remove, as they
dismounted, their wells, their shawls
and their skirts, and, 10 and behold
they were three big, hearty, robust
men.
GAS we stared at them with bulging
and ferocious eyes, one of them said:
"'Thanks for your labor, gents. We
knowed this road and prepared for it.
Will you licker? Washington Star.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
Champion in Plouehine Contests.

Twenty-six prizes in twenty-seven
years in ploughing at the annual
matches of the Wheatland and Zig
Rock ploughing associations is the re-
ma-kable record of William Fair
weather, who recently was given the
gold medal and championship held out
to ploughers in the postgraduate
class. In four years Fairweather took
three of the same class of prizes.
In period of twenty-seven years
there was only one year in which he
had nothing to show for his effort, and
of all the other prizes won by him
only one was of less value than Sec
ond. In one instance only he was
given third. OF the firsts and seconds
the majority are of the first order.
This ploughman gives most Of the
credit for his unusual success to his
father, who he says taught him the
first lessons in correct soil tilling. He
was required to carry chain and
weed cutter SO that the trash of his
lands was properly covered.-Chicago
Tribune.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
DEGIsTER'S NOTICE.--Noti

DEGISTER'S NOTICE. Notice is
LII hereby given that the accountants
herein named have settled their respective
ACCOUNTS in the office of the Register of Wills
be presented at the Orphans Court of said
county for confirmation at the Court House
in Honesdale, on the third Monday of
JAM neXt-ViZ:
l. First and final account of Isa-
bel e. Calkin, administrative of the
estate of Roy o. Calkin, Damascus.
2. First and final account of Otis
A. Reynolds, administrator of Sidney
E. Reynolds, Honesdale.
8, First and final account of M. o.
Abbey and Manaton R. Abbey, execu-
tors of the estate of Ralph A, Abbey,
Salem.
a. First and final account of 2. A.
Wonnacott and Ira Dryer, executors
of the estate of David Wonnacott,
Prompton.
5. First and final account of Mary
Dassell, Administrative of the estate
of William Dassell, Honesdale.
8. First and final account of Jas.
Buchanan, administrator of w. M.
Buchanan, Preston.
Z. First and final account of MAY
Belle Hudson, eXecutrix of the estate
of William H. Prosser, Damascus.
8. First and final account of AL
len w. Brown, administrator of the
estate of A. w. Brown, Starrucca.
8. Second and final account of H.
c. Hand, deceased, by H. S. Hand,
administrator c. 7. A. D. B. N. trus-
tee of the estate of William Doughty,
deceased, for Anna M. Eldred.
10. First and final account of Alsup
V. Tyler, executor of the estate of
r. Alice Vail, Damascus.
Registers office, Honesdale, Dec.
21, 1910.
e. w. GAMMELL, Register.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
No Soft Bed for Him.

There is an immensely rich NAV =
New York who never slept on 'l'
or eiderdown, goose feathers, tc
hair or excelsior. When a boy "a
slept on a pallet of straw. Who
young man his bed was an old-,f
toned shuck mattress in the maj
OF which he assisted to the est "
Of sorting the shucks. In the ar
GS61'65) he was glad to sleep 81
the ground. Later, as a civil en-
n, n, he reposed on puncheon;
row. rolling in wealth, goes to g.
every night on a trundle bed W.
ro bought from his aged mig -
nanny" This affair is not q
fourteen inches high, and is corf
up with half-inch hemp. There
no mattress, and of course there
70 springs. A rag quilt covers
,.pcs, another covers his body a.
s'eeps His health is superb, >
YORK Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
A New Iron Industry.

A recent report issued by the de-
partment of mines, Canada, draws at.
tention to the possibilities of estab-
fishing a local iron industry on the
coast of British Columbia. At present
the cost of transportation of manufac.
tured iron from Great Britain and
elsewhere is very heavy, and for some
time past the question of local pro-
duction has been often discussed. The
report referred to states that although
the quantity of ore in sight can not
be set down, good material, consisting
largely of magnetites, is certainly
available. The estimated cost of pro-
ducing a ton of iron is given as SIG.
and the approximate cost at present
of Eglinton No. 1 delivered at the
works, Victoria, as $24 to $2S ton.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
PIGEON FLIES WITH TRAIN.
Bird Has Been Making Regular Trips
Along Arkansas Railway.


Along Arkansas Railway.
The pigeon that for a month or
more had been running with the Iron
Mountain crews between Malvern and
Arkadelphia, extended its runs to
make the trip from Walco to Gurdon,
a distance of thirty-four miles.
A brakeman who made the trip
over the division one week reported
at the Union Station that the pigeon
made the down trip with his train,
joining the crew at Walco and leaving
them at Gurdon, which was the furth-
est point south it had been known to
go previously.
For four or five weeks this pigeon
had been flying along with the Iron
Mountain trains. Some of the train
men regarded it as a hoodoo and
feared that its presence portended
some disaster to them, but no acci-
dent happened to a crew while the
bird was along. Others look upon the
pigeon as a pet and are always glad
to have it Join them on a trip.
The trainmen say that the bird al
most always flies just ahead of the
engine about on a level with the
headlight. On the last trip Engineer
Golleher, who was in the cab tried to
overtake it, but it was no use-the
pigeon always stayed just ahead. On
this trip when the train stopped at
Arl;adelphia for water the bird flew
out to one side and rested in tree
until the fireman rang his bell for
the start, when it resumed it's place
just in front of the headlight, flying
at a suitable speed to remain about
the same distance ahead, whether the
train was going slow or fast.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
Kew to Puzzledono.

No. 1169.-Beheadings and Curtail-
lngs: Board, paper, shoes, candy.
No. 117O.-Charade: Air, row, plain
-aeroplane.
No. I'LL. - Transpositions: March,
charm; hated, death; pears, spear;
stale, tales.
No 1172,-Hidden Countries: Siam,
Denmark, Cuba, Germany, Norway,
Madagascar, Canada, Arabia, Japan,
Greenland, China, Philippines, Spain.
No. 1173. - Puzzle Picture: Santa
Claus.
No. 11T4. - Homonym: Ann drew,
Ann Drew, Andrew, and drew.
No. 1175.-Cryptogram: By changing
the spacing of the inscription you find
Genius is akin to madness"
No. 1176.-Charade: Saw, buzz; buzz
saw.
No. 11T7.-Hidden Dairy Products:
Egg, cream, butter, milk.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11

An interesting and unusual incident
took place at the Hurstpierpoint Vol
unteer Fire Brigades annual competi-
ton, held on the recreation ground
the presentation of silver rose vase
by the brigade to Miss D. Laurence
Smith, in recognition of the valuable
assistance she gave the fire brigade
with whom she worked twelve hours
continuously at farm fire at Black
stone.
Capt. Pearsey, in command Of the
brigade, asked Mrs. Borrer, who dis
tributed the prizes after the competi-
tion, to make the presentation on be-
half of himself and his men, Miss
Laurence-Smith acknowledged the
gift in few words, and hearty cheers
were given.-Lady's Pictorial.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
The LAND OF
PUzzLEDOM.
No. 1178.-Charade.

4.
Best of companions my first is found.
Go where you will the earth around;
To my second no such praise can fall,
There's no one can say he likes it at all.
Too much of my first, and my whole you'll
be,
A useless man you will often see.
II.
From one and two a mighty sound
In contact with the last is found;
My first alone is a word of power;
My third is useful every hour.
Who comes to my whole has reached great
glory.
His work shall live in song and story.
My first the poor printer regrets, not the
boy;
My second expresses a mild kind of joy.
My whole as collector wins surely his
way,
For the old adage says those who dance
must him pay.
Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
SQUAW'S LONG VIGIL.
Watched Three Days Without Food
or Water Over Dead Brave.


or Water Over Dead Brave.
To remain for three days and two
nights on the desert keeping weird
vigil beside her dead was the pathetic
lot Of Ulalia Boniface, whose brave
was accidentally killed by the dis
charge of shotgun. The accident oc-
CURED far out on the desert. Miners,
attracted by the squaw's wailing.
found her standing beside the body,
her two small children asleep near
by.
A long ride was made to the near
est telephone point and Coroner G. D.
Van VIE notified. The long, rough
ride over the mountains and desert
occupied three days and nights. At
some stages 1t required three hours
to cover a mile, 30 steep were the
grades or 30 deep the desert sands.
Long before he arrived in sight of
the corpse the squaw's wailing as she
chanted the dirges of the Piute were
heard In the gray of the morning
the Coroner reached the body. The
sight Of the woman standing erect at
the foot of her dead brave, her black
hair flying in the breeze, presented
dolorous picture, heightened by the
chant OF the dirge.
The squaw had broken all the
braves crockery against a tree, had
fia'tened out his spoons and forks
and other utensils on the rocks and
had staked the two horses near the
body, preparing to slay them over his
grave. During the long vigil the wom-
an had taken nourishment of no kind
and would only eat after the body had
been buried in the ground.-San Ber-
nardino correspondence Los Angeles
Times
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
FASHION HAS BECOME AN ART.
Should Be Taught at the Besux Arts,
Spanish Author Thinks.

Spanish Author Thinks.
An observant Spaniard in Paris,
Senor Gomez Garlic. has written q
book on women's clothes, the ma
terials, colors and styles they select
and the shape of their hats. So great
a hold has the subject taken upon
him that he has conceived an idea
which may appeal to many women.
He suggests that as fashion has be-
come an art chair of feminine ele-
gance should be established at the
Ecoles des Beaux Arts. 1t Is not
enough for women to be seen in the
latest modes at the Grand Prix, at
flower fetes, at art exhibitions and
at first nights at the theatres. TLey
are certainly observed at these fuLc-
tions, but they do not exactly reign
supreme.
What this Spanish student of wom-
ems ways would like is fashion fair,
an exhibition devoted entirely to chif-
fons, in large hall where fashion
able women could go and frankly
study one anothers latest gowns and
hats, coiffures and figures.
1t is said that many fashionable
dressmakers in Paris are charmed
with Senor Carrillo's ideas and would
be glad to further them if possible.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
Aged Hunter Saved by His Dog.

Ebenezer Ramsey, so years old,
killed three bears near his home in
Long Valley on the line between Ell
Dorado and Placer counties recently,
but escaped possible death from one
of them by the interference of his dog.
Ramsey's dog treed large bear and
her two cubs, and Ramsey, with an
ancient single shot rifle went to in
vestigate. Seeing the bears, he shot
all there, but the mother bear was
not killed, and on falling to the
ground she took after Ramsey before
he could reload his rifle.
His dog, however, pounced upon the
infuriated animal and kept it busy un-
til Ramsey secured an ak, with which
he killed the brute. He says it was
the most exciting hunt he ever had
San Francisco Chronicle.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11

4 EMENTS.-Notice is CIV
"A en- that appraisement of $500
to the widows of the following nam
ed decedents have been filed in the
Orphans Court of Wayne county,
and will be presented for approval
on Monday, January 16, 1911, viz:
$500 to widow of Chas. j. Weav-
er, Honesdale, personal property.
$500 to widow of H. B. Searles,
Honesdale, personal property.
$500 to widow of Thomas Neville,
Sterling, personal property.
$500 to widow of Nicholas Smith,
real.
$500 to widow of o. L. Rowland,
Honesdale, personal.
$500 to widow of James L. Taylor
Lebanon, personal.
M. j. HANLAN,
Clerk
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS OF WAYNE COUNTY.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Mo TEpNI 1o10


In re petition of Louis W. Healy
Tor satisfaction of mortgage.
A petition of the above number
and term has been presented to
said Court praying that a mortgage
given by James M. Porter and Will
liam Shouse to Charles Pemberton
Fox dated Oct %, 1910, for the
payment of $5500.00, recorded in
Wayne County in Mortgage Book 4,
page 40, and against certain lands in
the Counties of Pike and Wayne as
described in said mortgage, be salts
fled of record because it is legally
presumed to have been paid. All
persons interested are notified to
appear in said Court Monday, Janu-
ary 16, 1911, at o'clock a. m. and
show cause why said mortgage shall
not be satisfied of record and the
lien thereof discharged.
M. LEE BRAMAN, Sheriff.
Laurence H. Watres,
Attorney.
602 Connell Building,
Scranton, Pa. 99eoi4
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
New York,s Chances.

New York city has had more
changes in it's architecture, in the
same length of time. than any other
of the large cities of the world. Nearly
all of the European cities have hun
dreds of buildings that have been
standing for centuries, while New
York has not score more than a
hundred years old.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
How to Develop Manchuria.

Manchuria needs railways, capital
and far-sighted managing ability to
organize these things, and who may
prophesy the development of this
country? Will it fill up with the over
flow of Chinese from the Southern
provinces and gradually develop the
social and economic customs of the
thickly settled districts of South
China, or will it absorb Western ideas
and have portion of its people pro-
duce food for local consumption and
for export, while another portion de-
velop the mines, man the railways
and prepare the surplus products for
exports? 1t is long way from South
China to Manchuria, and the travel
is not easy, nor is the northern lati'
tude agreeable to the man accustom-
ed to the heat of the South. Surely
Manchuria is the ideal experiment
ground of all Asia for the testing Of
Western methods of economic pro-
gress on Eastern people, If the use
of Western agricultural machinery,
mining and numbering methods and
transportation methods fail, here they
will certainly fail in other Eastern
regions.-Edward c. Parker, in the
American Review of Reviews.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
Where Moll Pitcher Mas Born,

The historic "Old Brig" the house
in Marblehead where Moll Pitcher
was born, has been bought as sum-
mer home by veteran railroad con-
ductor. 1t is comforting to learn that
the old house will not be modernized
to the extent of destroying its
picturesque appearance. There are
sixteen rooms, eight on each floor,
very low studded but very large.
The house stands on a steep hill
and commands beautiful view of the
north shore and Massachusetts, Bay
Boston Herald.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
A Fishing Hint.

A stingy angler was fishing on a
Scottish loch on pouring wet day.
He had been consoling himself from
his flask and forgetting his gillie.
Presently he asked the gillie if there
was a dry place in the boat on which
to strike a match. you might try
my throat" said the gillie TITS dry
enough. Fishing Gazette.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
Increase In Coal Briquets.

Only fifty years ago the dust of coal
was considered to be entirely useless,
but since then great change has
taken place and at present in Rhen-
ish Westphalia the Ruhr coal district
alone produces 100000 tons of bri-
quets each year. Up to the present
time coal tar pitch has been used for
making coal briqUets, and its produc-
ton in the past ten years has In
creased about 100 per cent-Consular
Reports
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11

the property of Marian Hugabo0m
and H. c. Noble, M. D., at the suit of
Wayne County Savings Bank. No. 1.
March Term, 1908. Judgment, S400.
Kimble, Attorney.
ALSO
All that certain piece or parcel of
land, situate in the township of
Scott, county of Wayne, and State of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described
as follows
Beginning at a pine stump on the
bank of the west branch of the Della
ware River and running south seven
three degrees east twenty rods to a
to a stake; thence south seventy
three degrees east twentyrods to a
stake on the river road; thence south
one and one-half degrees east fifty
two rods to stake in the creek
road; thence south twenty-five de-
grees west thirty-four rods to
stones corner; thence south seventy
three and one-half degrees west
fourteen rods to a stake; thence
south eighty-three and one-half de-
grees west twelve rods; thence south
seventy-flve degrees west, fourteen
rods to a stake; thence south seven
teen degrees west fifty rods to
hCllltOCh IICSy JuShCG SOuIn GlSuty-
seven degrees east thirty rods to a
stones corner; thence north seventy
degrees east forty rods to stones
corner; thence north fourteen and
three-fourth degrees west forty-six
rods to stones by the creek;
thence north siXty-one degrees east
! fifty-one rods down the creek to a
stake; thence north sixteen degrees
east twenty-nine rods to stake
down the creek; thence north two
degrees east forty-siX rods to a
stake; thence north fifty-siX degrees
east eight rods to a stake; thence
north twenty-five and three-fourth
| degrees east ten rods to a stake;
| thence north forty-three degrees
west, sixteen rods to a stake; thence
south eighty degrees west, thirty-five
rods to a stake and thence north
cighty-ive degrees west twenty rods
to the place of beginning containing
forty-siX acres of land more or less.
Being the same land that Marvin
Wheeler conveyed to Rebecca G.
More by deed recorded in D. B. No.
| Al, page 39S. Also part of Lot No.
10 upon which Rebecca More now
lives, containing 106 acres, excepting
one-half acres fenced for burying
| ground and about one-half acres sold
D. L. Demoney Said lot being situ-
ate in buckingham township. Also
excepting ten acres sold to the Balls
Eddy Chemical Company.
The land intended to be conveyed
being same which is described in
deed from VIM. H. Stone, admir- of
Rebecca G. More to Clair e. More,
D. B. S5, page "a. Upon said land
is frame house, two barns and over
one hundred acres Of the land is i'm
proved
Seized and taken in execution as
the property of Clair e. More, at the
suit of Leander Howard assigned to
G. V. More to the use of Edwin N
tlumenfelt. No. 95, October Term,
1910. Judgment, $945.
Kimble, Attorney.
TAKE NOTICE-All bids and costs
must be paid on day of sale or deeds
will not be acknowledged.
M. LEE BRAMAN, Sheriff.
Honesdale, Pa, Dec. 16, 1910.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
No. 1181.-Enigma.

They stalk about the sandy hills
Or wade through watery bogs.
Presenting long and pressing bills
To startled snakes and frogs.
They lift, like Atlas in his day;
They stand on steamer docks
To hoist and bear upon their way
Great bales and ponderous blocks.
Close to the chimney nook they clung.
Those friends of early days
That reached out sturdy arms and swung
The kettles o'er the blaze.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11
No. 1180.=Anaqram.

A young fellow from one Of the up
state towns had been to New York for
a weeks visit and upon his return
home had many tales to tell of the
wonderful sights of the big city.
When excited he was inclined to
stammer and in referring to his visit
to one of the sections of the metropolis
that had particularly interested him
exclaimed, "W-what gaiety therew