The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-06-07
GleaningS and Gossip.


own size and it vindicated its dignity
as the time-honored monarch of the
air. Apparently, too, the aeroplane
had to come down. If the eagle was
shot by the aviator, then it wasn't
fair fight.
Coronation prices are tumbling
and there is an opportunity to see
the parade and live in London a week
without being multimillionaire
The native Londoners who asked $5,-
600 for front window while the
king was passing the house found
that they are reckoning on too great
rush of fool Americans.
Hatpins projecting from head
dresses" are among "the dangers of
coronation time" against which the
commissioner of police in London
takes pains to warn the public. The
hatpin peril in America has percep-
tibly abated during the past year,
thanks to the press agitation against
it and the municipal antihatpin Or
dinances enacted in various cities.
Evidently the English are still pest
cred and imperiled by the terrifying
things.
One of the last official acts of Sec
retary of War Dickinson was to
send a communication to Congress
declaring that, unless it directs
otherwise, the wreck of the battle
ship Maine, when raised from the
mud of Havana harbor, will be float
ed out to the deep sea and sunk. 1t
is to be expected that before that is
done there will be full examination
of the historic hull, and when its
story has been told it pay well be
buried out of our sight
1t is an immense qualification to
see that our Detroit Baconian-
Shakespearean cipherist and cryptic
gramist, DR.. Owen, is not in the
least discouraged because he has
found no Baconian manuscripts, re-
vealing the great secret, in the mud
bottom of the river Wye Having
found the remains of an ancient
Roman bridge instead of a box of
documents, DR.. Owen will simply
renew his digging elsewhere. He is
a true Baconian.
Western Kansas, once a treeless
and arid plain, is being rapidly COW
cred with forests and orchards, so
the reports from that quarter say.
1t is stated that the farmers in that
region are planting 100000 catalpa
trees this year alone. The tree
seems to thrive there, particularly
by the rivers, and it is of such quick
growth that six years make it avail
able for fence posts and after 10
years it yields commercial lumber.
Corn and potatoes are raised among
the catalpa paintings during the first
two or three years.
Rev. Thomas Grieves, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at
Greenwich, n. Y, announced last
week that he would sell all his pos
sessions to make restitution for the
death of little Mary Maginn of Sara
toga Springs, whom he recently ran
down with his automobile. The car
had already been sold and the rec
tors cottage at Riverside is on the
market. The proceeds, he said, will
be turned over to the parents of his
victim. A coroner's jury recently
held Mr.. Grieves blameless for the
accident, but he has grieved over it
greatly.
There were fat pickings for two
professional gamblers who came over
on the Lusitania to New York Fri
day One passenger reported that in
four days they picked up $4,000
and that one of their victims lost
$1,000 in an hour. 1--WE lived al
most all my life in parts of the
West" said this passenger, where
gambling is wide open, but / never
saw such quick action at poker. Play
usually began in the smoking-room
at l l O'Clock at night and lasted un-
til 3 or 4 in the morning. The
pigeons could evidently afford their
pluckings, and as it was none of my
business, l did not interfere
With a small fortune she acquired
in tips received in the ~ years she
served as maid in the women's par
lor at the Hotel st. Regis, New
York, Miss Helen Wollan, 22 years
old, said good-by to New York 10
days ago. She left for Europe on
board the President Lincoln of the
HamburgAmerican line, and will
make her future home with her
mother in Vienna. She saved $6,-
600 in the time she was employed at
the st. Regis, and, according to en-
ployes of the hotel, the little for
tune came from tips. Miss Wollan
came to New York in 1907, and
through Mrs. R. M. Haan, wife of
the proprietor of the St. Regis, whom
ShS hou lhSI III AuSIIldJ Su0 ODIdlu6Q
employment as maid. She was
linguist, speaking English, French
and German.
A book which is calculated to
prove rasping to British nerves has
been published in Paris under the
title of "The England of Edward
VII" 1t is a severe and unsparing
analysis of English social life and
present-day politics by Augustin FL
Ion, a French author of some note,
who appears to have spent many
years in England. AS reviewed and
sampled in the French press the
principal conclusion of the book is
that the England of Edward VII.
with its lowering of domestic ideals
and its pursuit of pleasure, destroyed
all that which made for the moral
strength and true glory of the Eng
land of Victoria. The author refers
to the English educational system
with particular severity, and makes
the mordant comment that "they
learn everything in the English
schools, except English and moral
ity" But in his references to Eng