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neerS. and the end is not yet. No modern
engineer can master all engineering
knowledge. and the man who is designat-
ed civil engineer today perhaps deals
with only a tenth of the matter which
would have been embraced in civil engi-
neering a hundred years ago.
Although the past hundred years has
witnessed more engineering progress than
all of the centuries preceding, in many
things the engineer OF today marvels at
the work of his prototype when the world
was young. He regards the pyramids of
Egypt as the first great engineerins
undertaking of which modern civilization
knows, and he cannot tell how some prob
lens were solved by the Egyptians. Per-
haps the best engineers of former CEN
lures were those of Rome. II is said
that in the entire history of the world
no public highways have surpassed those
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built under the supervision of the high
way engineers of Rome in directness.
solidity and adaptation to the purposes
for which they were designed Many of
the best ideas of modern highway con-
struction are simply adartarons of the
engineering art upon which the Applan
Way and other highways in Rome were
constructed. Rome also had very ex-
celient sewerage system
The amount of money invested in en-
cheering projects in the United States Is
beyond estimate. II is probable that one
half of all the wealth of the nation has
been created indirectly by the civil engi-
neer. Without him the United States
would still be where Central America is
today, for with no railroads it could have
few modern cities. There could be few
factories and he nations mineral wealth
could not be realized upon except in a
most meager way. The urban dweller
can scarcely turn around without thank
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Arrested for Non-Support.

Arthur w. Harrison, a patent attorney
i'm this city. was arrested in Boston.
Mass, this morning. He Is under In
dictment here for alleged failure 10 sup
port his wife. Mrs. Mary +. Harrison.
his wife resides at S2s 18th street north
west. The patent attorney gave bond in
the sum OF 81 100 for his appearance at a
hearing before a United States commits
sioner next Thursday.
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Sheriff Charged With the Duty.

So the common Law privilege-once pop
ularly believed 10 he guaranteed by the
British constitutional using stick no
larger than Il mans thumb on the part
ner of his joys TO quell the turbulence
Of her spirit and "a show of who's bos
is abrogated in Montgomery county, Md.
Bare backs are to be manipulated with
the horsehide by tile sheriff of the coun-
ty. whU is charged with executing the
sentences of the law in this regard. Sher-
If Welt is the present incumbent upon
whom will devove the duty. He will not
shirk the job. he has announced, no mat
ter how unpleasant it may be 10 himself
or 10 the culprit who falls under judicial
wrath and bends his back to the lash.
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Justice Readings Announcement.

This wife-beating business is becom-
ing altogether too common in this COM
munity. said Justice Reading. From
now on | am going to do what l can to
break up the practice.
Fines and Imprisonment do not seem
10 act as much of deterrent. l have de-
cided to try another remedy. Hereafter
all men convicted before me of beating
their wives will be- given some of their
own medicine and will have the lash APP
piled to their bare backs. In addition
they will be sent 10. the house of cor
rection.
II shall try ten fashes as a starter
Thomas Sedgwick. young Rockville
negro arrested on complaint of his wife,
is the last man who will escape. His
wife represented that he had beaten her.
When the case was called for trial yes
terday the woman refused to testify
against her husband. Justice Reading had
no alternative but TO dismiss the case.
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ing the civil engineer for something The
streets and the street ears are made what
they are by him. Cheap TRANSPORTATION
comes through him. The big office build
ing. the large apartment house, the great
hotel, the water supplementary every
comfort, convenience and necessity of his
life is affected in a considerable meas
ure by the work OF such men as those
who constitute the American Society of
Civil Engineering.
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W|FE-BEATERS MUST CO
TO THE WHIPPING POST
The Penalty That Awaits vio-
lent Husbands in Mont
gomery County.

The whipping post is to be set up in
Rockville, Md.
Zen lashes await the first man who
beats his wife. Forty lashes is the
limit provided by law, and the worst Of
tenders are TO suffer the limit.
The exercise of the ancient marital
right Of chastising ones wife Is TO be
made a costly privilege by Justice Read
ing. who finds the practice is entirely too
popular with husbands who dwell within
his jurisdiction. Authority over the
home shall be maintained no more in
this fashion if dread of the lash can in
still gentler methods into domestic disci-
pline.
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Offer Reward for Missing Convict.

reward of SD has been offered for
the arrest of George l.. Brown. alias
J. Whitney. who failed to appear in the
Criminal Court for sentence after the
Court of Appeals had affirmed his con-
viction and sentence for grand larceny.
Brown was arrested and tried for rob-
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bing trunks of pass myers on ih South
ern railroad while he was employ ed on
the road as baggagemast er lie was
sentenced TO four years Imprisonment,
Maj. Samuel III. Walker qualified as his
bondsman in the sum of 5000
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The American Society of Civil En-
cheering is now holding it's forty-third
annual convention in Chattanooga. The
president of the society is Mordecai I.
Endicott of the United States Navy. Civil
engineers from all parts of the United
States are present, and many questions
of moment in the engineering world are
being discussed. Perhaps the foremost
among the matters being considered is
the question of principles and methods
for the valuation of railroad properties
and other public utilities. 1t long has
been the conviction of many leading stu
dents of railway rates that the only just
basis of rate-makinG is that of the actual
physical value of the property involved
at the time of making the rate. They
hold it to be manifestly unfair for
railroad to reckon among its assets the
value of its franchise since 1t has been
given II by the people. They also contend
that rates predicated upon the face value
of stocks and bonds are equally unjust.
since often they contain a great deal OF
water. Therefore the only way to settle
the question is to have physical valua-
tion of the property by impartial experts,
and upon their findings to determine the
amount of net income road is entitled
to earn.
IL seems to be one of the probabilities
of the future tina: Congress will pass
law requiring such valuation of rail
road property. and il is probable that it
will adopt the ideas formulated by the
American Society of Civil Engineering
for doing the work. Already that society
has decided to appoint a special commit
tee to investigate i'm detail all questions
pertaining TO physical valuation. This
investigation probably will be one of the
most notable undertakings on the part
of an engineering society in the entire his
tory of engineering work.
Other special committees are working
under the direction of the society. One
of these is engaged in the study of
bituminous materials for the construction
of roads. The treating of unpayed high
ways with tar and oil preparations to-
gether with many other comparatively
new questions relating to road construc-
ton, has arisen in the past few years
and il is the hope OF the society that
this process of making good roads shall
become so cheap and practicable as to
enable road builders everywhere to elm
mate dust and other bad conditions
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Would Raise Rank
of Their Profession

inforced concrete. Another committee
has to do with engine ering education 1t
is held that the civil engineer never has
received the rank and standing to which
his learning and his service to humanity
entitle him, and 1t is the aim of the
Society of Civil Engineering 50 to regu-
late engineering education that the pro-
fessin may rank along with medic ne, law
and theology. Another special commit
tee has been engaged in the study OF
steel columns and structs, and it Is upon
the investigation made by the engineers
that the construction of all skyscrapers,
bridges and other structures using
structural steel is based.
The Civil Engineering Society was or
ganized in 1857 number of years
ago it built large building In New
York where it maintains permanent head
quarters. Nearly all OF the leading
engineers of the country are members OF
the society. and II publishes two differ
emit sets of books each year. One of
these is known as the transactions of the
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Gov. Kitchin of North Carolina Wednes-
day delivered the address at Virginia
Institute before the largest
class in years
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Now Many Kinds
of Engineering.

called for specialization that there are
now mechanical engineers. metalllr eical
and mining engineers, electrical engi-
neers, sanitary engineers chemical engi-
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In former times there were only two
kinds of engineering-civi and military.
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The society also has special commit
tee for the preparation of uniform tests
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Today his grandson. eating breakfast
of ham and eggs cooked on gas range,
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But the rise OF ne "
industries has so
subdivided the work
IF tho on o;nnor and
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Beware OF The Deadly Whooping
Cough,

Whooping cough is eXacting such
toll of death throughout Pennsyl-
vania that State Commissioner of
Health Samuel G. Dixon, of Harris
burg, has isued a solemn warning
to parents of the grave danger of re-
garding whooping cough as a min
or" disease which "all children have
to have" and which will Just have
to run it's course.
During last October, for instance,
ninety-two fatalaties, most of the
victims children, were reported from
this disease, according to figures just
compiled by the bureau of vital sta
tiStics. This number is lower than
in some months, but much higher
than in others. During last Septem-
Der 1926 deaths occurred from whoop-
ing cough and during last August
1888.
This matter is regarded at the cap
itol as SO serious that special cir
cular for the treatment of patients
who contract whooping cough has
been issued, which constitutes a
warning for all who may have any
thing to do with this disease. In
cluded in this circular are the follow
ing points:
"Whooping cough, with it's asso-
ciated complications, is very fatal
disease, especially in infants and
young children; therefore, it is al
ways advisable to summon a physci-
ian and to make every possible effort
to prevent the spread of the disease.
'The patient should be kept en-
tirely away from other children or
adults who have not had the disease
and it is sometimes advisable to con-
fine the patient to well-lighted,
well-ventilated room, with windows
screened, and if possible, with south
erly exposure and remote from other
occupied rooms in the house.
This room should be stripped of
fancy curtains, carpets and uphols-
terry and all other furniture not nee
essary for the comfort of the occu-
pants.
'Soiled bed and body clothing
should be thoroughly disinfected.
This may be done by placing them in
water and boiling for thirty minutes,
or by use of some prepared disinfect-
ants.
The air of the sickroom cannot be
disinfected during it's occupancy by
the patient. The practice of hang
ing up clothes saturated with car
bolic acid or of placing saucers of
chlorinated lime or proprietary dis
infectants in the sick room is not on
ly annoying to the patient, but utter
ly useless and often injurious.
An abundance of fresh air should
be admitted to the room, but the pa
tient should be protected from direct
draughts.
Exclude domestic animals and de-
stroy all insects in the room, especial
ly flies.
Individual milk bottles should not
be taken into or removed from the
premises during the existence of the
disease.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Death OF George Peck.

George Peck, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Pleasant Mount, died Mon
day, January 30, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Rupert Tiffany of all
ments incident to old age. He was
eighty-three years of age, and almost
and his long life was sent in the Will
age of Niagara, in this township,
where he was a blacksmith, and also
the mailcarrier between that place
and Garteen for many years. He re-
tired from active business about
twelve years ago, living in his home
at Niagara until the death of his
wife, about two years ago, since
which time he had been living with
his daughter, Mrs. Rupert Tiffany,
near this village. Mr.. Peck was the
grandson of Rev. Elijah Peck, Bap-
tist minister and one of the pioneers
to this part of Wayne county. For
many years he was a member and
class leader in the Methodist Episco-
pal church. He is survived by the
following children: Mrs. Rupert Tiff
fany, of Pleasant Mount; Mrs. j. j.
Perham, Niagara, Pa; Mrs. Dever
Bennett, Honesdale; Mrs. d. G. Ken
nedy, Deposit, N. Y; and Mrs. Frank
Lester, Denver, Col. He had one
son, Ellison, who died at Niagara,
about year ago. The funeral was
held Wednesday from the Methodist
church, Pleasant Mount.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
The Letter Carrier.

If the emissary of Uncle Sam whe
brings the mail to our doors every
morning were like Opportunity and
knocked but once, the Postmaster
General and the Post Office Commit
tee would have no complaint to
make. But the postman is so fire.
quently compelled to waste valuable
time waiting for some one to heed
his summons that it is now suggest
ed that no mail shall be delivered
except to those families and busi-
ness firms that provide at the door
receptacle for mail matter
1t is estimated that the Govern
ment is losing $1,000,000 a year by
the delay due to the present system
or lack of SyStem-which keeps
the carrier waiting till some reluc-
tant child or procrastinating servant
sees fit to go to the door.
There are two sides to the matter,
however. 1t can never be quite so
satisfactory to have ones letters i'm
personally committed to the uncer-
tain custody of a box. Then there
are often registered letters, requiring
a signed acknowledgment, or letters
with postage due, necessitating a
personal interview. The postman's
lot will not be much happier if he is
to be put off from pleasant greet
ings in his house-to-house visitation
and his social acquaintance restrict
ed to the dog that rushes out to
snap at his shins.
At present the letter carrier is an
eagerly welcomed guest. Every one
is anxious to greet him, for his mail
bag is only second to the pack of
Santa Claus in it's attractive posi-
bilities. If he is simply to leave his
precious missives and go away with
out a word to any one, he may save
time, but what Stevenson would call
his Shining morning face" will be
sorely missed.
In this instance this economic con-
sideration appears to outweigh the
sentimental one, and doubtless the
recommendation of the Postmaster
General is for the advantage alike of
the public and of the Government
Philadelphia Ledger.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
why Burns Did Not Emiorst..

An unusually graceful tribute was
paid to DR.. s. Weir Mitchell at a re-
cent celebration. DR.. Mitchell had de-
livered speech about Robert Burns
and had told a seldom repeated story
of how Burns had planned to emigrate
to the United States, even having his
trunk packed and his passage engaged
He did not say, however, how it came
about that Burns did not come Short
ly afterward DIR. Talcott Williams in
responding to a toast interpolated the
following:
Before l begin my regular toast l
wish to refer to DIR. Mitchell's remarks
about Burns. He told us how Burns
had decided to emigrate, but he stop
ped when it came time to tell why he
did not do so. 1 wish you all to know
that it was through the loving thought
fulness of Dr. Mitchell's grandfather,
who provided means for Burns to live
in Scotland, that he did not come AS
you know so well, DR.. Mitchell is too
modest to refer to deeds of his own
family y.'-Philadelphia Times.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
CANDLEMAS,

Thursday was Candlemas or
Ground Hog Day, as it is more gem
orally known. 1t is the day which
supposedly indicates the turning
point between Winter and Spring.
Whether Spring comes or Winter
longer Iaplingers is said to depend
on Sunshine and Shadow and the
little American marmot. At least
so all the old time weather prophets
opine. Albeit the Weather Bureau
experts turn up their noses at such
prophecies as being groundless SUI
perstitions, the little animal did not
lack thousands of believers yester-
day.
Furthermore the aforesaid crea-
ture did NOT see his shadow in
Honesdale yesterday, or in Wayne
County for that matter either. Bar
ring the ''six-week's good sleighing
in March," promised us by one of
our Northern Wayne prognosticatOrs,
we are rather inclined to look for
an early Spring.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
Death OF r. f. Taggart.


r. F. Taggart died January 23, at
Hillsdale, Wyoming, where he had
located on government land two
years ago. r. F. Taggart, en-
listed in Honesdale in Co. G, 141st
P. V. in 1862, in which he served as
sergeant about one year, when his
health failed. He was transferred
to the Veteran Reserves, (Invalid
corps), where he served as first SER
geant until the close of the war in
1865, when he returned to Beach
Pond, his home. But, after about
one year, he removed to Long
Branch, n. j., thence to New York
city, where he was engaged in build
ing for several years; then to Has
brook Heights, n. j., where he serv-
ed as Postmaster several years In
September, 1909, he went west to
grow up with the country, and died
at the age of S5. His wife has been
dead ten years. He leaves one son,
Henry R. Taggart, Hasbrouck
Heights, n. j., two daughters, Mrs.
Anna NJ. Spry, Iowa, and Miss Abbie
H. Taggart, who has faithfully cared
for him in his declining years.
His Pilgrim robes all travel-stained
are gladly laid aside,
For garments white with glowing
light forever to abide,
With more than useful vigor in man.
sions of the blest,
To Toll no more his journey DER,
He finds the Promised Rest
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

The Toronto Globe draws a gloomy
picture of moral conditions in the On
tario metropolis. There's far too much
drinking among the women there, the
Globe finds. 1t wants a thorough in
vestigation of the sales of the bottle
shops" of the city. "The truth is," says
the Globe, that many of the women of
Toronto, barred from the saloons, have
turned to the liquor store and by that
means supply themselves with spirits
for home consumption on such scale
as to alarm the officials charged with
the enforcement of the license laws.
OF what use is it, they ask, to keep ho-
tells out of the residential quarters with
the object Of preventing the workmen
from spending their earnings in them
when the women find a store around
the corner at which they can get all the
liquor they want?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

Anthony says that the farmers of his
state now are of the opinion that
progressive Republican" is "a de-
lusion and snare" 1t is highly
probable that the farmers of every
other state who deserted the Repub-
lican party last fall soon will be
deeply impressed with the folly of
their course. Champ Clark's DEM
ocratic Ways and Means Committee
already is at work preparing a DEM
ocratic tariff bill, which the Demo-
cratic House in the next Congress
eagerly will pass. Then the farmer
who voted against the Republican
party last November will realize just
what the Democratic victory meant
to him. Champ Clark's Democratic
tariff bill will be the sort of tariff
bill passed during the second admin
istration of President Cleveland,
which proved the most destructive
tariff measure ever enacted by Con-
gress.
Ruinous Tariff Revision.
Through Republican tariff legisla-
tion the prosperity of the farmer has
been astounding. In the Payne law
the farming interests received every
tective duties on agricultural pro-
ducts. Now the agricultural sched-
ule will be revised along sure enough
Democratic lines. 1t will propose re-
vision that the farmers of the coun-
try have insisted would be ruinous.
Republican Downfall Spells Financial
Disaster.
The Clark bill may or may not be-
come law. If it does not that will
be due entirely to those senators who
remain loyal to Republican princi-
pies. They may succeed in prevent
ing the enactment of the legislation
the farmers fear. With the downfall
of the Republican party, if that
should ever happen, there would be
more gloom and adversely in the
homes of the farmers of this country
4 han the farmers can imagine.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
A Bible From the ka,ser.

From the German emperor. Will
Ham H., there came the other day to
st. Lucas German Lutheran church
magnificent altar Bible as an i'm
perial gift from his majesty in honor
of the silver jubilee of the congrega-
ton. AS a further token of the en-
peror's interest in the former sons and
daughters of the fatherland he has in
scribed in the Bible in his own hand
writing a message taken from Mark
xiv, 3S.
The Bible is handsomely bound in
morocco and silver. On the corners Of
the upper cover are the symbols of
the four evangelists, the work of the
silversmiths of Leipzig, where also the
book was printed. The text is Luther's
translation.-Toledo Blade.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03
In Five rlinuteS
Upset Stomach Feels Splendid.

MI-O-NA stomach tablets will re-
lieve a distressed, sour or gassy
stomach in five minutes.
In three days they will make the
most miserable or cranky dyspeptic
feel that there is plenty of sunshine
in life.
In week he will have an appetite
for and will eat without any bad af-
ter effects food which now causes his
stomach to strenuously rebel.
If continued for from two weeks to
a month MI-O-NA will thoroughly
renovate and cleanse the stomach
and will compel it, (no matter how
obstinate it may be) to throw off it's
weakness and fiabbiness and become,
as nature intended it should be,
strong and elastic.
If you have coated tongue, heart
burn, sour food upheavals, uneasi-
ness in stomach, dizziness, bilious
ness, sick headache, bad dreams or
any kind of stomach trouble put
your faith in MI-O-NA tablets.
They will make the stomach
strong, and when the stomach is
strong, good health, energy, vim and
vigor comes.
Fifty cents is all a large box of
MI-O-NA costs at G. w. Peils, or
leading druggists everywhere, on
money back guarantee. Write
Booths Mi-o-na, Buffalo, N. Y, for
free trial sample.