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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

United States four per cent. gold
bond? Tell me-is this a Grimm's
fair tale, or should l consult an ocu-
list?"
At his words, Madame Tibault and
Dumars approached
"H'what you sayY" said madame,
cheerily. "H'what you say. Msieur
Robbin?' Bon? Ahi those nize lii
peezes papieri One tam | think those
wat you call calendar. wiz III day
of mont below. But, no. Those wall
is broke in those place, M'sieur Rob-
bin,' and l PLACE those III peezes pa
pier to conceal re crack. l did think
the couleur harm 'nize SO we'll with the
wall papier. Where get them from +?
All yes, remem YER well. One day
Msieur NORM, he come at my houze-
thass bout one mont before he shall
die-thass long bout tam he promise
TO invest those money TO- me. M-sieur
NORM, he leave thoze III peezes papier
In those table, and say ver' much bout
money thass hard for me to ond-staN.
Mais never see those money again.
Thass YER wicked man. Msieur Mo-
rim. H'what you call those peezes pa
pier, M'sieur Robbin'-bon?"
Robbins explained.
There's your twenty thousand dol
lars, with coupons attached" he said,
running his thumb around the edge
of the four bonds. Better get an ex-
pert to peel them off for you. Mister
NORM was all right. I'm going out to
get my ears trimmed.
He dragged Dumars by the arm into
the outer room. Madame was scream
ing for Nicolette and Meme to come
observe the fortune returned to her by
M'sieur NORM, that best of men, that
saint In glory.
"Marsy," said Robbins, "I'm going
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

small power house where current will
be generated and from which II will
be carried into their homes. Fifteen
families will share In this modern SYST
tenn of lighting.
Several farmers living ten miles
west of Atchison have small dypamod
on their farms providing electric light
for their homes, barns and dairy
buildings.
Recently the town of Troy, forty
miles north of Atchison, contracted for
light from the Atchison plant. Al
trunk line wire was stretched between
the two places, and now twenty-five
farmers along the route are connect1
ing their homes with this trunk line.
Near Garden City, which q few
years ago was IN the center of the
great American desert, there are
farms where all the buildings are
made of cement concrete and each is
lighted with electricity generated by
a gasoline engine on the place.
The early pioneer way of living and
the modern system are blended on one
farm. A farmer is still living in a sod
house built quarter of a century ago
He is constructing new and up-to1
date home in which he has installed
a gasoline engine with which to gem
crate electricity for lighting.
He will not move out of the old sod
house until March next because of its
warmth and comfort in winter, but he
is enjoying electric lights in that prim,
tive dwelling. 1t is believed this ID
the only instance in which sod house
has been lighted by electricity.
In the natural gas regions of south
eastern Kansas the electric light is
cheaper than gas.-New York Sun
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
cam stand half. what .rou como bid.

can stand half. What you come bid
ding against me for?"
Il thought was the only fool In
the crowd" explained Robbins.
No one else bidding, the statue was
knocked down to the syndicate at
their last offer. Dumars remained
with the prize, while Robbins hurried
forth to wiring from the resources and
credit of both the price. He soon
returned with the money and the two
musketeers loaded their precious
package into a carriage and drove
with 1t to Dumars' room, In old Char
tres street.. nearby. They lugged 1t,
covered with a cloth, up the stairs,
and deposited 1t on table. A hun
dred pounds 1t weighed, IL an ounce,
and at that estimate, according to
their calculation, If their daring
theory was correct, It stood there.
worth twenty thousand golden dol
lars.
Robbins removed the covering, and
opened his pocketknife.
"Sacre!" muttered Dumars, shudder-
ing. 'Tt is the Mother of Christ. What
would you do?"
"Shut up, Judasl" said Robbins,
coldly. IT'S too late for you to be
saved now.
With firm hand. he Clipped slice
from the shoulder of the image. The
cut showed dull, grayish metal, with
thing coating Of gold leaf.
Lead" announced Robbins, hurling
his knife to the floor-"gilded!"
ITO the devil with it," said Dumars,
forgetting his scruples. 81 must have
o drink"
Together they walked moodily to the
cafe of Madame Tibault, two squares
away.
1t seemed that madame's mind had
been stirred that day to fresh recollec-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS
Writer Rebels Against Universal Dic1
tum That They Must Never Be
Related.

In the house in which was broughtN
up, there was a rule that dreams
should not be told at the breakfastX
table-a rule which, to my mind +
robbed the meal of It's only possible
interest. ! still remember an impres-H
sion of the lawn massed with yellow
lions which 1 desired particularly to
share. The table was a large one
seating three generations, and /
gained the idea 1t was on account of
the prophetic character of the dreams
of certain great-aunt that the prohi-
bition was so vigorously enforced. Bud
! know better now. We were forbid
den to tell our dreams because dreams
even more than the love of William
Blake-"never may be told" They
are among the incommunicable ex.
taught not to portray luminary on
canvas, so child must be taught not
to describe its dreams. Better relate2
the dullest true story than the most
thrilling dream. Is it that our audi
ences are so in love with reality? Ia1
1t that the isolation of dream, which
may neither be shared nor reacted |
leaves the listeners egotism cold?
do not know, but at the mere words T.
Il dreamt," you may see your auditors
attention dissolve-neither at his will
nor your own-iike mist before the
sun.
Now, is not this strange, when you
consider how deeply dreams color the
days of even the sanest of US; how iIt
dreams we commune with the dead
love strangers, marry our enemies
fight and die; have, in short, all the
adventures of life in its most poignant
moods? Yet not even our nearest |
and dearest will lend us their ears.
Do we merely need more art? Must
we seek only some method to hold
that dissolving attention until the full
radiance of the vision can bd
sketched out? Or must we all im}
prove in sort of psychological imagI
ination? Or is it, as am inclined I'd
think, that something inherent in the|
experience itself makes it remote, and
that as we must die alone, so we mus4
dream alone too?-From Point Of
View" in Scribner's.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

ordered brain to propitiate the saints,
and pave the way to his own selfish
glory?
That afternoon, at five minutes to
three, Robbins entered the chapel
door OF the Little Sisters of Samaria.
He saw, in the dim light, crowd of
perhaps a hundred people gathered
to attend the sale. Most OF them
were members of various religious or
ders, priests and churchmen, come to
purchase the paraphernalia of the
chapel, lest they fall into desecrating
hands. Others were business men
and agents come to bid upon the real
ty. A clerical-looking brother had
volunteered to WELD the hammer,
bringing to the Office of auctioneer
the anomaly of choice diction and dig
nifty of manner.
A few of the minor articles were
sold, and then two assistants brought
forward the image of the Virgin.
Robbins started the bidding at ten
dollars. A stout man, in an ecclesias-
tical garb. went to fifteen. A voice
from another part Of the crowd raised
to twenty. The three bid alternately,
raising by bids of FIVE. until the offer
was fifty dollars. Then the stout man
dropped out. and Robbins, as a sort
of coup de main, went to a hundred.
zone hundred and fifty" said the
other voice.
1.-TWO hundred" bid Robbins. boldly.
"Two-fifty," called his competitor,
promptly.
The reporter hesitated for the
space of lightning flash, estimating
how much he could borrow from the
boys in the office, and screw from the
business manager from his next
months salary.
"Three hundred" he offered.
"Three-ffty" spoke up the other,
in louder voice-a voice that sent
Robbins diving suddenly through the
crowd in its direction, to catch Du-
mars. its owner. ferociously by the
collar.
"You unconverted idiot!" hissed
Robbins, close to his ear-"pooll"
Agreed" said Dumars. coolly. 81
couldn't raise three hundred and fifty
dollars with a search warrant. but
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

tions of the past services of the two
young men in her behalf.
You musn' sit by those table," she
interposed, as they were about to drop
into their accustomed seats. "Thass
so, boys. But, no. I mex you come at
this room, like my tres bons amis. Yes
goin' mex for you myself one ami
sette and one cafe royale YER fine Ali
l LAX treat my fen nize. Yes. Pills
come in this way"
Madame led them into the little back
room, into which she sometimes In
vited the especially favored>of her GUS
toners. In two comfortable arm
chairs, by big window that opened
upon the courtyard, she placed them.
with low table between. Busting
Hospitality about, she began to pre-
pare the promised refreshments.
1t was the first time the reporters
had been honored with admission to
the sacred precincts. The room was
in dusky twilight, fiecked with CLEANS
Of the polished, fine woods and bur
nished glass and metal that the Gre
oles love. From the little courtyard
tiny fountain sent in an insinuat-
ing sound Of trickling waters, to which
a banana plant by the window kept
time with its tremulous leaves.
Robbins. an investigator by nature,
sent curious glance rowing about the
room. From some barbaric ancestor,
madame had inherited penchant for
the crude in decoration.
The walls were adorned with cheap
lithographs-forid libels upon nature,
addressed to the taste of the bour-
geoise-birthday cards, garnish news
paper supplements and specimens of
art-advertising calculated to reduce
the optic nerve to stunned submis-
sion. A patch of something unintelli-
gible In the midst of the more candid
display puzzled Robbins and he rose
and took step nearer to interrogate
it at closer range. Then he leaned
weakly against the wall, and called
out:
Madame Tibault! o. madame!
Since when-oh! since when-haye
you been In the habit of papering
your walls with FIVE thousand dollar
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
Rather Good to Have Around.

Any kind of a woman in the offlce|
would be a nuisance, but a young
woman who kept a powder box. a cold
cream Jar and bottle of violet water
on her desk among the typewriter sup-|
plies and copying ink was an utter imI
possibility that ought to be encour|
aged to look for more congenial jobl
said the bakers dozen of men whoI
have had their own way In that office
for five years; but when, with the|
first freezing of the steam pipes corks
stuck like glue to ink and mucilage
bottles every time they happened to
be corked up and the young woman
came to the rescue by simply smear
ing some of her cold cream over every
cork so 1t would stand in the bottle
for a month without sticking, the men
said maybe woman who knew prac.
teal little hints like that wasn't such
a bad person TO have around after
ell.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
Killed Limit of Deer on One Shot.

In the recent deer hunting season.
In Michigan at least three Upper Pei
ninsula men were successful in fill
ing their licenses as the result of Al
single shot. Sheriff Turnbull of Lucel
county was one of these. Two deeII
were standing together. The sheriff
fired at one, the ball passing through
its body and killing the other animal /
also.
Paul Laabs, Sagola, Dickinson
county, found two bucks engaged in|
a battle. A shot from Laab's rihd
killed the spikehorn and the other wsS
SO weak from the loss of blood thai
1t expired as soon as released.
Professor Hill. superintendent Of
schools at Crystal Falls. is the third
man who bagged two deer with one
shot. One of his trophies was dead
deer. however. The animals had been
engaged in a battle, during which
their antlers had become interlockedl
and one of the combatants was dead
Professor Hill shot the living ANIMAL
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

on a jamboree. For three days the es.
teemed Pic will have to get along
without my valuable services. 1 ad-
wise you to join me. Now, that green
stuff you drink is no good. 1t stimu-
lates thought. What we want to do is
to forget to remember. I'll introduce
you to the only lady in this case that
is guaranteed to produce the desired
results. Her name is Belle of Ken
lucky, twelve-year-old Bourbon. In
quarts. How does the idea strike
your"
"Allons!" said Dumars. "Cherchez
la femme"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25

With the history of the missing
money thus partially related, some
conjecture may be formed of the
sudden idea that Madame Tibault's
words seemed to have suggested to
Robbins brain.
Was 1t 80 wild surmise-that the
religious fanatic had offered up his
weather. rather, Madame Tibault's
i'm the shape of material symbol
of his consuming devotion? Stranger
things have been done in the name
Of worship. Was 1t not possible that
the lost thousands were nodded into
that lustrous image? That the gold
smith had formed it of the pure and
precious metal, and set it there,
through some hope of perhaps dis
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
Behold the womanl" said Sister

Behold the womanl" said Sister
Felicite, suddenly, In deep tones.
She reached a long arm and swept
aside the curtain of the alcove. In
there was shrine, lit to a glow of
soft color by the light pouring
through a stained glass window.
Within a deep niche in the bare stone
wall stood an image Of the Virgin
Mary, the color of pure gold.
Dumars, a conventional Catholic,
succumbed to the dramatic in the
act He knelt for an instant upon the
stone flags. and made the sign of the
cross. The somewhat abashed Rob
bins, murmuring an indistinct apollo
gy, backed awkwardly away. Sister
Felicite drew back the curtain, and
the reporters departed.
On the narrow stone sidewalk Of
Bonhomme street, Robbins turned to
Dumars, with unworthy sarcasm.
We'll, what next? Churchy law
fem7"
"Absinthe," said Dumars.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
C|lerC|1ez La Femme
(oOpyrisht By Ainslee Magazine Coz
By o. HENRY

OBBINS, reporter COR the
Picayune. and Dumars, of
L'Abeille-the old French
newspaper that has
buzzed for nearly a CEN
tury-were good friends.
we'll proven by years OF
ups and downs together.
They were seated where
they had a habit Of meet
ing-in the little, Creole
haunted cafe of Madame
Tibault, in Dumaine
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
TO GIVE CAVIAR
COLORED SHEEP

New York, March 1S.-Joseph's coat
of many colors. as related in the Bible,
had nothing on the Mexican mountain
sheep that lido Topperwela, of San
Antonio, Tex, wants to sell to Mayor
Gaynor, perhaps more correctly, to
the city. The mayor received let
ter from the owner of the sheep who
guarantees that his mountain climber
has seven colors in his coat. Joseph
had only six in his coat, so it is relat-
ed.
Topperwein says his sheep had sew
en- colors when he got possession of it
and that he has sheared it twice. It's
indelibly is proved. he says, by the
fact that the coat has remained seven
colors ever since the shearing. He Of
fers to deliver it hmimself at the city
hall and to give the mayor the privi-
lege of shearing the present coat from
the priamatic sheep to prove that the
, colors are fast. Give us an offer, "
says Topperwein, who suggests that
the rainbow animal would be a vaIua-
BILE addition to the collection either in
Central park or the Bronx zoo. May
or Gaynor turned the offer over to
park commissioner Slower for consid-
Grafton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
AIR TRANSPORTATION HARDER THAN STEEL
Radioro Is Name Of Recon,
Discovery.

New York, March 1S.--At the office
of the steel trust and the Bethlehem
Steel company, all knowledge as to
the value of an alleged discovery OF a
new process for the manufacture of a
metal superior to steel as armor plate
was denied. While keen interest was
displayed in the announcement of the
discovery reported from Chicago to
have been made by Italian steel max
ers now there, the best Information
obtainable at the offices mentioned
was that nothing had been heard of
it before dispatch from Chicago
shown to the expert steel men to
whom it was submitted.
The new compound is called radioro.
1t is claimed by its discoveries that
its color is not affected by the at
nosphere. or even by the ordinary &C.
cidents or by fire. 1t is also claimed
that it's resemblance to gold is re.
markable. and that by a series of tests
the hardness of the new combination
as compared with Krupp steel has
been established
The further claim is made that ii is
compounded from a number Of metals
waste product in many processes Of
steel manufacture, it is as cheap and
abundant as iron ore.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
Company Has Been Organ
lied in Cincinnati.

Columbus. O., March 1S.-Cincinnati
is heralded to the country as the first
city west Of the Atlantic Coast to or
ganize a company to carry on trans
atlantic air traffic. Moreover, some
of Cincinnati's most prominent citi-
zens are enrolled in the personnel of
the company, the ineorporators being
James j. Heekin. president of the Hee-
kin Can and Spice companies and for
mer president of the Chamber OF Com
merce: Z. r. Blaine, OF the Blaine
Thompson company; p. Lincoln Nit
chell former secretary OF the Ohio val
ley Exposition, recently appointed
Surveyor of Customs: August Herr
man. chairman of the National Base
ball Commission and president of the
company which owns the Cincinnati
Reds, and George F. Dieterle. of the
Union Distilling company.
The purpose Of the new company.
which was incorporated today for $1o,-
900 is to construct and operate dirigi-
USSlSUeu u JOtti
throughout the world. The company
has been formed to back the venture
of Chief Engineer Vaniman, Of the
airship America: Mr. Vaniman is
one of the five men who started across
the Atlantic with Walter Wellman,
and he declares that he learned enough
from that trip to be able to construct
an airship which will cross the Allan.
tic without any difficulty. The ma
chine is to be constructed in Cincin-
natl and will make trips to Cleveland,
Indianapolis. Toledo and other large
cities before it starts for Atlantic City
and thence for the shores of Europe.
Trent. the cat that became famous
by acting as mascot on the attempted
trip Of the airship America 10 cross
the Atlantic last October, is in Cincin-
natl. His Lordship," as he is some
times caddel, arrived yesterday morn
ing in the company of Mrs. Melville
Vaniman. Mrs. Vaniman will remain
in Cincinnati about a week and then
take Trent down to Louisville and 9TH
er cities, where he is to- be exhibited.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
AGED ODD FELLOW
MADE QUAINT BOX

Greensburg, Ind, March lS.-John
Seyfert, age seventy years, Il guest at
the l. o. o. F. home, has on display
at a local store novel piece Of work
manship. 1t is jewel box Sx7x6
inches, made of six hundred alternate
pieces of hickory bark and maple
wood. On the front in raised wooden
letters are Il. O.. o. +. Home" and
six lodge emblems. and on the back
are the letters IF. l.. t. On the
side of the lid is small mirror and
the interior has shelves and compart-
ments.
Mr.. Seyferts only tools in construct
ing the box We're a knife and a file.
He spent several years in completing
it, and presented it to Mrs. Mary
Smith Lewis, superintendent of the
home.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
At Local TheQters
At the MURRAY,

A good variety. guaranteed to please
everybody. is announced for the Muir
ray this week. There is the comedian
the monologue man, the company with
the playlet and the singer-all report
ed to be top notchers in their lines
Probably the most interest will be at
tached to the appearance of Mrs
George Growne. the local singer. who
will appear on the local stage for the
hrst time. She has a beautiful voice
a pleasing personality and a striking
appearance, all of which will combine
to make her selections popular. All
those who have laughed during an at
tendance on the Ringing circus will
be pleased to see again the old time
favorites, The Peers. Their comedy
feature il highly advertised as a cure
for the most grouchy dyspeptic.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19
SUNKEN FORESTS
CAROLINA WONDER

Raleigh, N. c., March 1S-The long
projected canal from Pamlico sound
to Beaufort inlet. North Carolina, to
connect the waters of Norfolk harbor
with the Cape Fear river, at Whining.
ton. has been completed, at a cost of
$45O.OO0. The money was provided
by the rivers and harbors bill approx
ed by congress March 2. 1907.
The north end of the canal is fresh
water from the Neuse river; the low.
err end is salt water, and is in about
four miles of Beaufort inlet. The ca.
nal will be of the greatest use to all
small craft and coasters. and yachts
going south will use it this season to
special advantage. 1t cuts Of all the
capes except Cape Fear. and shortens
the distance more than eighty miles,
as compared with the old and uncer-
tain route.
In sxcavatins four miles of the ca
nal through solid earth two sunken
forests were found, one below the 9TH
er. The work of clearing the right of
way, through dense forest of i'm
mense trees, some expresses being ten
feet in diameter, began October I,
1908.
The total length of cutting is 95.527
feet, of which 23.177 feet in Adams
creek is $50 feet wide, with side slopes
of three on one; 5,2S5 feet is 125 feet
wide, with side slopes of three on one,
34,01S feet is ninety feet. The next
1854 feet is 125 feet wide, with side
slopes of three on one. and the remain
ing 2s,56O feet. is $50 feet wide, with
side slopes three on one.
The total length of cutting is 96,527
feet, solid earth at an average eleva-
ton of eight feet above mean low wat.
er. The remainder was in the old
channels of Adams creek and Core
creek and Newport river, which were
widened and deepened to conform to
the adopted prism.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-19

the famous iumorist who signs him
self a Mutt" Seven Days" made
such a hit with this Mutt that he
went down 10 his office and wrote
about IL. Here is what he wrote:
Can you beat it? Seven Days
has been at the Astor theater for thir
ty weeks and l never saw it till las,
night. No sir; didn't get wise till
last night.
You've heard about show being q
scream, knockout and riot. Well
this one goes them all one better
got more laughs out of Seven Days
than l usually get out of seven months
and let me say right here that little
Buddie is a tough audience. I'm one
of those boys who grab a front sea,
and lie back with one of those. 4 dare
YOU TO make me laugh expressions
Well | dared them last night, and they
called me. They copied the decision
with the first punch.
Can you imagine getting a laugh
a minute for seven rays in one night
Grab the price in one hand and your
wife in the other and go and take a
peep for yourself
Opportunity to follow MIR. Nuts
advice to take a peep will be offered
at the Gennett on Friday. March 81
when the Wagenhals & Kemper com
pany will present Seven Days" with
a New York cast and production up &c
the STANDARD of the greatest comedy
hit in twenty years.