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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
WASHING MADE EASY.
A Woman May Do the Work In Thirty
Minutes.

Minutes.
Eighty-five dollars will pay for a
washing machine of family size that
will wash better than any woman can
wash by hand A good machine may,
perhaps. be bought for even little
less. The machine is equipped with a
wringer that is also run by power and
a one-eighth horsepower motor. A
plumber in a day will make the hot
anL cold water and drainpipe connec-
ricns. Then the machine Is ready for
business. says the Delineator.
How simple washing becomes! Soap
the clothes. Put the clothes in the
machine. Turn a valve and let in the
hot water. Turn a switch and let in
the electricity. Close the top to keep
in the steam and smell and go about
your other business, not for a day or a
half day, but for twenty minutes.
Then come back and turn off the pow
er. Open the valve at the bottom and
let out the dirty water. Let in clean
water and run the machine two min.
utes to rinse the clothes. With twist
Of the wrist, switch the power to the
wringer and wiring the clothes into q
waiting tub Of blued water on the 9th
er side. If there is any starching to
be done, do it. If not, hang out the
clothes to dry.
That's the whole operation. A quick
woman can perform it in thirty min.
utes. Most Of the time she need not
work. Nor need she lift the clothes
from the time she puts them into the
machine until she hangs them out
All she must do is to feed them through
wringer.
Furthermore, washing done this way
can be done two or three times a week
instead of once. 1t is better with q
machine to wash frequently. Simply
use the machine as a clothes hamper
and when it is full turn on the water
and the power. Instead of a bugbear
washing becomes not much more OF
an ordeal than winding the clock.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
A Competent Critic.

A famous actor at an elaborate en-
tertainment at a Fifth avenue million
aires palace in New York rose to re-
cite Mrs. Browning's Dead Pan" As
he announced his subject und prepared
to begin he heard lady near him say
distinctly:
"what is the next piece? Some
thing funny. hope. oh, yes-The
Dead Pan! Dear me, how odd! OF
course It must be funny something
about bad cooking. I suppose"
The Supreme Test.
"Do that couple near you really love
each other"
"Do they? 1 have absolute proof of
It,"
what is itr'
HE smokes the cigars she buys
him"
"Well?"
"And she wears the hats he selects"
Baltimore American.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
DISCOVERS NEW MINERAL.
Princeton Professor Names It Gageite.
After Trenton Man.

DIR. A. II. Phillips. professor of min
eralogy at Princeton university, has
announced the discovery of new min
eral in the vicinity of Franklin Fur
mace, N. J. Professor Phillips names
his discovery gazette, in honor of r.
B. Gage of Trenton, through whose ef-
forts sufficient material was gathered
to make the necessary analysis. The
new mineral is said to belong to the
family of leucophoenicite, and its prob
able existence has been predicted by
mineralogists since 1909.
Gazette is found in a transparent
crystalline formation and possesses a
high vitreous luster. Thus far none Of
the mineral has been found anywhere
but in the Parker shaft near Franklin
where it was discovered lodged in the
walls of small cavities and in fan
shaped groups.
1t is not believed that the new min
eral will be of any value commercially.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

NEW GROWTH ON OLD STUMP.
the scale and is often completely
encrusted by that pest before it $
discovered. In that case 1t is some
times thought that the best way to
get rid of the scale is to behead the
tree and let 1t form new head.
Again, it the habit of the peach to
bear fruit only on the wood of the
year before and for that reason the
fruit is constantly getting further
and further out on the limbs. While
this can be checked by regular and
severe pruning, the tree is often per-
mitted to grow until it becomes top
heavy and in good crop year the
limbs break down under the burden
of the fruit carried out on their
enis.
When a tree has been neglected,
the pest way to get it into good
shape again = to beheid it, by which
l mean cutting all the limbs off
close to the stump leaving stubs
about a foot long.
1t is the custom with some to
postpone the pruning until it is
seen whether the trees are going to
bear a crop. If they are not then
the pruning can be done properly
and severely. If there is a promise
of small yield, then the pruning
is either made very light or omitted
altogether. If there is a very heavy
yield Of fruit then the pruning
should be made with some eye to
thinning the fruit to save hand
thinning and to distribute it even
ly over the tree and to prevent any
limb from being overloaded, for in
a good peach year the trees will
overbear if not thinned and will not
recover vigor for everal years. This
pruning can be done after the dan
ger of frosts is over without injury
to the tree.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

Cut into small pieces enough salt
Goldfish to make a heaping cupful. Re-
move the skin and bones, put the fish
in an earthern dish, cover with boiling
water, keep hot for two hours, then
drain, cool and shred fine. In one ta-
blespoonful of butter fry one chopped
onion. When delicately Drowned add
the prepared fish. sufficient water to
cover, one cup of stewed and strained
tomatoes and one tablespoonful of
chopped green pepper and let simmer
one hour. Season with salt and serve
on squares of toasted bread.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
$56, 200 NEEDED TO STOCK
HUGE LINER FOR ONE TRIP
Experts Figure on Necessaries For
Olympic and Titanic.

Some 100000 worth of American food
and drink will be loaded aboard the
new ocean steamers Olympic and III
tanic each time one of these big boats
docks in New York, according to the
commissary officers who are victualing
such ships.
Should the government make their
landing here possible by lengthening
two piers these two ocean liners can
bring and take away 2,7OO passengers
on each voyage in addition to a crew
of 800. If both boats are able to begin
their regular trips here next spring
to piers adapted to their bulk $780,
600 will be spent in New York in a
year simply to stock up their capacious
larders.
For meats alone $4,000 is to be paid
each time either of the big sister ships
comes into port Large quantities Of
beef, lamb, pork, veal and mutton will
be brought from all over the country
and stacked away in refrigerators that
must hold enough to feed $500 people
on a transatlantic voyage. Wagon
loads of poultry costing $5,400 are to
be added to this array, with piles of
fish worth $4,000 For shellfish the
orders of the ships cooks will amount
to 81 200 in addition.
Farmers from all about the neighbor-
ing country will be called upon to
! send $4,000 worth of butter. cream and
milk to be used on each trip of these
big boats, while $1,000 is also to be
spent solely for eggs and $4,000 for
vegetables. Fruits worth $1,000 are
to be added to the ships stores, while
its bakery will lay in -four to the ex-
tent of $4,000 on each voyage. The
biggest bill next to that for meats will
be $500 for all sorts of groceries.
Far away in the frigid depths of the
new liners cold storage compartments
| $1,000 worth of Ice cream is to be
stored, and for cigars $1,000 will be
spent. Wines and spirits costing $4,000
! are set down as necessary for each
shipload of passengers, together with
some $1,000 worth of beer and mineral
waters. Altogether the lowest cost of
victualing such boats as the Olympic
and Titanic is set down as $56,200
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
New Variety of Spinach.

A new variety of spinach which
has never been listed in any of the
American catalogues is being grown
at Valverde, near Denver, which is
creating very favorable comment on
the Denver market. The seed was
imported from Prussia, and for the
lack of a better name it is called
German spinach. It's chief advan-
tage lies in the thickness and juici-
ness Of the stems, which prevent
the rapid willing of the plants when
placed on the market and also add
to its bulk when prepared for the
table.-Denver Field and Farm
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
COLORADO LOSES LANDMARK
Last of Taverns on Denver Leadville
Trail Is DESTROYED.

Last OF Taverns on Denver Leadviile
Trail Is Destroyed.
To enable Sterling Jones, owner of
the property, to erect brick dwelling
on the site workmen are now tearing
down the old stage road house outside
Salida, Colo, that has been standing
since 1865 and occupied as a ranch
dwelling and storehouse for several
years.
The stage house was large, long af-
fair built in the old fashioned style
with a long porch and was visible
from the Rio Grande railroad track
east of Salida. 1t had become very
much dilapidated.
One end Of the building was fitted
up for living purposes until Mr.. Jones
should decide to build a residence, and
the rest of the building was left va
cant. 1t was the last stage house on
the route between Denver and Lead
vile to be torn down, and 1t was
looked upon as a relic of the time
when Indians roamed through the Ar
kansas valley.
While the workmen were eXcavating
they uncovered some human bones. In
the dump also were the remains OF
some tomahawks, fintlocks and other
curios, supposed to have been left by
Indians.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Picking PIums to Stop Rot.

Plums that grow in clusters are
most apt to be affected by mildew
or rot in the growing season, and
the only thing that can be done TO
prevent that or control it, is Bor-
deaux mixture, spraying every ten
days with the mixture during the sea-
son, says H. H. Dunlop. Cham
paign Co., Ill.
The plums, if any of them do
rot, and sometimes that is the case,
should be removed by either a hook
on the end of a light pole, or else
the tree may be shaken and most
of them will come down that way.
The rotten plums ought not to be
left on the tree any longer than can
possibly be avoided, because the
spores will produce rot on the 9TH
er plums. The thoroughness with
which the spraying is done will re-
suit in its control more than any
thing else. If the spraying is half
done l. is hardly worth while to do
it
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
The Rat,

The rats sins are manifold. The
damage which he does in a year to
crops, cargoes, stores, granaries,
poultry and game, dairies and OUT
houses, foundations. walls, and drain
age cannot be calculated exactly, but
1t must be enormous. He is ubiquit-
Gus: he swarms in fields, hedges.
coverts, farm yards, cellar, sewers.
docks and ships; ne is clever in get
ting out Of difficulties, extremely
courageous, able to exist on almost
any kind of food, and horribly pro-
iific.--Spectator.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Renovatina White Fur Cloth

To clean white fur cloth, first brush
the garment to get all the dust out,
then dip a perfectly clean sponge in
alcohol and wash the nap thoroughly
While 1t is still wet sift into it all the
powdered starch 1t will hold. Mix fine
borax with the starch in the proper
ton of one part borax to three of
starch. Put the garment away in a
box, free from dust, and leave three
days, then take 1t out and beat and
brush out all the starch.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
LIBERTY TREE MADE OF ZINC.
Haiti Bound to Have Durable National
Emblem.


In front of the presidential residence
IN Haiti Is a giant cOcoanut tree, but
IT'S leaves are always in the same con-
dition. In storm or sunshine their Sc
renity is never disturbed.
The tree Is the republics tree of
liberty. When the republic was es-
tablished it was thought that a tree
should be planted to signalize so great
an event, but Haiti, it seems. has but
one tree, and that the cocoanut tree.
But the cocoanut tree is hardly the
species to be chosen for tree of lib
erty, for it grows to good height and
becomes bare as its age increases.
How was the difficulty to be over
Iome? 1t was very simple matter.
One of the council suggested that an
imitation cocoanut tree made of zinc
should be ordered from London, with
the leaves, etc, painted to represent
nature. The idea was adopted.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
SPIDER KILLS MlNN0W.
Remarkable Fish Story Comes Forth
From Missouri.

From Missouri.
While at the ice pond fishing recent
ly w. r. Sweeney Of Keytesville, Mo-,
noticed large spider on leaf at the
edge of the water that seemed to be
fishing also. The spider would put
one leg in the water, shake it little
bit and then wait. By and by min
now came to the top and grabbed the
spiders foot.
This seemed to be what 1t was wait
ing for, and without minutes hesi-
tation it sprung on to the minnow, be-
ing carried under the water several
times, but never releasing its hold on
the fish until it ceased to struggle and
was dead, when the spider hauled its
prey ashore to be devoured at leisure.
In trying to land the struggling min
now the spider would lay hold of q
leaf with a deathlike grip and at last
landed his catch in that way.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
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BEEEADING" THE PEACH TREE
Peach Tree Only Tree That VIII
Stand Such Treatment.

The peach is the only kind of a
fruit tree that will stand "behea l.
ing" OF "dehorning" as it is some
times called. This is a very fortu-
nate circumstance for several rea-
sons. One is that the peach IS
sometimes killed back to the stem
by sey re winters, but alter having
the lead wood cut away, will sprout
out and form a new head.
Another is that tn peach is u.s.
ually the first tree to be attacked by
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Cleaning a Veil.

70 clean veil, take one pint Of
wood alcohol and put into glass jar.
Drop veil into jar, cover and shake
thoroughly for several minutes. Re
move veil, squeezing gently and allow
ing the dripping to drop back into
vessel. Shake in the open air and
draw into shape on a round, perfectly
clean stick.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
ANTS BUILD SUBSCRIBERS.
Some Remarkable Structures Rear
ed by the Termites.

The white ants or termite are
great builders. A naturalist ex-
ploring in Somaliland recently came
aLross a cone-shaped mud and clay
hill which they had coLstructed
which was eighteen feet in height
while many other were from ten to
fifteen feet high.
When one compares the size cs
these ants with that o. men 1t be-
comes apparent that these hills are
real skyscrapers from the termite
viewpoint, IL there is any.
While the average man is five and
one-half feet high, the ants are only
half an inch high. Therefore 1, 10-foot
ant hill Is 240 times the size of one
of its builders, while such a struo-
ture as the Eiffel tower, though ris-
ing 98A feet, is only 179 times the
height of average man.-Philadet-
phia Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
USE WHEELS IN ASTRONOMY
Scientists Take Bicycle Kind to Figure
Meteors' Velocity.

"StSoTS NSloOitJs
An interesting use has been found
in astronomy for the bicycle wheel.
By fitting such wheel with a series
of Opaque screens placed at regular
intervals and then rotating 1t with the
aid of a small motor at the rate of
from thirty to fifty turns in minute
before the cameras used to photograph
meteors one investigator has succeed
ed in measuring the velocity of the
meteor's flight.
The principle depends upon the In
terruptions produced by the screens in
the trails of light made upon the pho
tographic plates by the flying meteor.
The velocity of the wheel is known at
every instant by means of a chrome
graphic record, and the length of the
Interruptions indicates the speed of
the meteor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Sugar Beets on AIkaIi Soil.

Beet fields subject to alkali are de-
scribed as being characterized by a
very uneven stand, considerable ir-
regularity in the size of the plants
and the prevalence of chlorosis of the
older leaves.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Cement For Tinware,

An excellent cement for mending
tinware is made by mixing litharge
and glycerin to the consistency of
thick cream or putty. The mended
article must not be used until the ce-
nent has had time to dry, which may
be a week or more. The litharge can
be secured at drug stores.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Paper Collins.

Some undertakers, whose custom
ers are poor people, are using cof-
fms made of paper. The collins are
made in all styles of pressed paper
PULP, the same as the common paper
buckets. When they are vanished
and stained they resemble polished
wood, and in point of durability it
is said they are much better than
wooden ones !
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

Ct We wish to secure a good
correspondent in every town
in Wayne county. Don't be
afraid to write this Office for
paper and stamped envelops.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
To Iron Emhroidery.

To iron embroidery the iron should
be applied to the wrong side and a
thick ironing blanket should be used
In this way the embroidery will stand
out well instead of being dattened and
looks its very best
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
NO Prevent scabbed Potatoes.

When cutting potatoes for seed
throw in a handful of sulphur to
each 100 pieces and shake until
each piece Is we'll coated with sui
phur before planting.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
s4o,ooo,ooo For Japanese Navy.

The sum to be spent in japanese
naval expansion has been definitely
Fixed at $40,O00,OO0, gold, to be dis
Ributed over five years.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03


States, as Menier's Property Is Not
AmenabIe to New Dominion Law.
Half a Million to Be Expended on
Improvements.
Anticosti, the Canadian island prin-
oipality of Henri Menier, the French
chocolate man, Is shut off from the
outside world for another season, the
last boat having arrived in Quebec
from there, and nothing more will be
beard from it till navigation in the
lower st. Lawrence and gulf is opened
N the spring. Great changes are go
ing on in the island, which is rapidly
becoming important industrially.
Henri Menier has tried many things
to make the island self supporting. In
eiuded in these enterprises have been
lobster and other fisheries and even
the breeding of silver foxes. only to
result in failure.
New Markets Opened.
There is great amount Of spruce
and fir timber on the island, but it is
for the most part not of size suitable
for deals, and until now the haul from
Anticost has been considered too long
for successfully marketing the pulp
wood.
But with the adoption by the prov
nee of Quebec last spring Of its policy
Of prohibiting the expectation of pulp
wood from crown lands there came
boom on the island, and now great
plans are on foot for the expectation
Of pulp wood to the United States in
vast quantities, beginning next spring
Mr.. Menier is building one of the
largest rossing plants in the world
with a capacity of 400 cords a day
Rossing plants are mills in which the
bark is removed from pulp wood by
machinery, the logs being cut into two
foot lengths and these two foot blocks
held against rapidly revolving disk
In which are set knives which cut the
bark away.
Not Affected by Law.
AS Mr.. Menier owns the island in
fee simple the prohibition of the ex-
port of pulp wood from the province
of Quebec does not affect him, such
prohibition applying only to wood cut
from the crown lands. Not less than
10000 cords of this rossed wood will
be shipped from Anticosti next season,
all of it going to points In New York
state on the upper st. Lawrence and
Lake Ontario.
The population now numbers 1,200.
Mr.. Menier will spend next summer on
the island, and he is planning to eX-
pend $500,000 in Improvements, includ-
Ing the construction of twenty miles
of railway. Miles of new railway will
be added each year till the road runs
the whole length of the island.
Six hundred laborers are employed
this winter in cutting pulp wood. A
wharf mile long has been construct
ed at Ellis bay, where it will be loaded
on to steamships.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

A poor fitting and bum
made suit of clothes is worse
than a ton of bad luck to the
man who wants to make a
success of life.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
RICHES seen ON
USELESS ISLAND
Canadian Principally Of French
man Worth Fortune.
ANTICOSTI BEING DEVELOPED.

Wood Pulp to Be Exported TO United
States, as Menier's Property Is Not
AmenabIe to New Dominion Law.
Half Million to Be Expended on
improvements.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-30
OLD BRIDGE
MAN HELD
FOR ARSON
Ellis AppIehy IS
Placed Under
$4,000 Bail.
Is WELL KNOWN
Npsesal q tAs EvgNINo NNrs..

HRseff1l 10 ths EVENING NEWS. ss4
New Brunswick, Oct. SO
Appieby, of Old Bridge. was tlass
morning arrested By County Befee-.
tive Richard Peltier charged WITH
being accountable for the numelsnss
fires occurring in Old Bridse Hid
August Prosecutor Buvfaer.s s.,s, IN
evidence of William f. Clems, q de-
tectfve of New York. summoned
Appleby to his office this morning
and after taking testimony had him
arrested.
Peitier with his prisoner appeared
before Judge DAILY, who released shss
prisoner In $4,000 bail A nephsW
OF the accused man Is his bondsnian.s 3
Clems, who has made a particular
business of following up fire bugs
presented the evidence to the prose
cutor which caused the arrest.
Residents of Old Bridge and
vicinity have secured the surround
ing places running down suspects for
the past two months. but with ia.
avail. Prosecutor Booraen, after
taking charge of the situation ass
aligned his men in charge of Csens ~
the case. Although no Information
Is forthcoming from the prosecutor 4
offiee 1t Is understood that CleHae has
sufficient proof that Applebv Ii the.
guilty person.
The nfSs for which Appieby Was
arrested occurred on the morning of
August 81 when the store OF Slower
& Stonaker was totally DESTROYED
and the residence Of CT G. EhIttihis
gutted. Damage to the extent of
1000 was caused by the two iiress
Mystery surrounded both of tho
above cases as oil and 9th er naateff-
ais used by fire bugs were found rear
both places. Only several days be-
fore the fire of Slower & stonaker
an attempt was made to fire tE3fs
building, but was frustrated By resi-
dents In the vicinity.
Although everyone concer4e3 f*x
the losses were of the opinion that
the places We're fred. yet the liagAr
Of Suspicion was pointed i i 5. {, / y
For some time several Of the IRE III
sHrance companies haze refused ID
Issue any new policies for ulszsas III
Old Bridge and one eo4nua Il lfffs
cancelled all former policies.
The accused man Is we'll know, !,
Throughout Jersey, having been fr,
business In several Of the most iaas.
portant cities. Before residing HI,
Ola Fridge Ae WAS stationed at A e.
bury Park After disposing Of his
place OF business there he came Ia
Old Bridge, where he has since ~
sided.