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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
The RACE FOR
DREADNOUGRTS
How Exp9r'S AppratSG NaviGs
Of Great Nations,
GREAT BRITAIN IS STILL FIRST.
Two American Warships, Utah and
Florida, Are Largest In Service of
Leading Powers, While the New
York Will Excel Any Being Built.

Since the new American Dread
nought Utah arrived in port at New
York to join her sister ship. the Flor
ida, now nearing completion at the
Brooklyn navy yard, naval men have
been discussing with renewed interest
the relative position Of American sea
fighters as compared with the navies
Of the other nations. While experts
concede that Great Britain has the
largest aggregate Of warships, with
either Germany or the United States
second, it is asserted that the two new
Dreadnoughts of the United States out
rank in size and strength anything
af1oat.
The British battleships Lion and
Orion will excel the two newest Amer
lean ships, but neither Of these is as
yet in service. Germany also has a
number of powerful Dreadnoughts in
course of construction, but the largest
German ship in commission is Of less
tonnage and efficiency than the Utah
and Florida, which have displacements
of $4,000 tons each as compared with
the original Dreadnought of $4,000
tons. They take the lead over the
Delaware and North Dakota, 10000
tons each, which heretofore were the
prize ships in the American navy. Be-
sides leading the ships Of all the great
powers in size, they also bring Ger
many and the United States nearer
together in the race for second place
among naval powers.
Among the experts the original
Dreadnought has become the accepted
unit of sea fighting efficiency. Count
ing it as unit of 100, the American
battleship Delaware and her sister
ship, North Dakota, have an efficiency
ratio of 40 each, while the Florida and
Utah have a ratio Of 125 each. These
ratios for American Dreadnought ships
aggregate GT0 as against an aggregate
Of about 700 for Germany. SO Ger
many and the United States are sep
arated by only a few points for posi-
ton of second when the -Dreadnought
unit of fighting strength is the basis.
On ships below the Dreadnought unit
the scales are turned in fave of the
United States.
The uper-Dreadnought New York,
whose keel was laid recently, will out
rank in tonnage anything thus far
built or under way In England and
Germany Her tonnage will be. $4,000.
The largest British ships under con-
struction are those of the King George
class, 25,000 tons, and the largest of
tho now q arnan chine hlIilf1fnQ are Of
$4,000 tons. The British designers,
however, are planning the Queen Mary,
10000 tons. The New York represents
the largest warshfps being built, while
the Utah and Florida are the largest
in the service of any Of the great ma
tiOns
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
HUGE BUTTERFLY.
Specimen Found In Brazil Is as Big as
a Sparrow Hawk.

Specimen Found In Brazil Is as Big as
Sparrow Hawk.
w. NJ. Mann and Frederick Baker,
members Of the Stanford Brazilian ex-
pedition who remained behind, have
sent news from Madeira, on the Anna
zon river, of the discovery of hith-
erto unknown species of the morpho,
huge butterfly. The new species is
as large as sparrow hawk and
caused considerable fright to the men,
bers by flying toward them in an at
titude of attack. When within few
feet of its enemy 1t strikes and scars
to a height of twenty or thirty feet,
returning to repeat the attack. Sew
eral large specimens of the insect have
been preserved and will be further in
vestigated upon the party's return to
the campus.
The remaining members will travel
up the Amazon for a distance of 800
miles and will gather specimens of the
animals and plants all along the route.
The river, after a hundred miles or so
from the mouth, is so thickly infested
with crocodiles and large gar that
bathing In the river is absolutely i'm
possible with any degree Of safety.
The crocodiles are Of the larger species
Of the floating variety and are dan
gerous. Fresh water fish, such as carp
and catfish, which in this country do
not excel in size, ON 'the Amazon at
tain the weight of from 300 to 500
pounds under the equatorial sun.
The struggle for existence of vegeta-
ton is indescribable, and the bank
along the river is one solid mass Of
tangled vines, palms, mosses and
orchids. 1t is impossible to set foot
on the ground for a distance of a mile
from the banks. Monkeys, snakes and
parrots are the only animals which can
exist in the dense clusters.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
TO KILL FRUIT PESTS.
Electric Shocks Instead of Sprays
Used In Washington.

Electric Shocks Instead Of Sprays
Used In Washington.
Electricity as an agency to destroy
the codling moth and other bug pests
Is the latest innovation introduced in
modern apple orcharding in the Spo-
kane valley, Washington, where was
recently made what is declared to have
been the first demonstration of its
kind in the world The test was made
In a six-year-old orchard, and more
than a score of second brood moths
and many green aphides were killed in
a few minutes.
The apparatus consists of a storage
battery to charge the incandescent
light globes, each of six candle pow
er, which are netted with fine steel
wire, coated with copper and tin, al
ternately. Attracted by the bright
lights in the trees to which the globes
are carried at the ends Of a covered
wire, the moths fly against the net
ting, complete the electric circuit and
are killed.
1t is estimated that one battery to
an acre Of trees will keep the moths
under control, thus eliminating the
usual spraying and saving many dol
lars annually for help and equipment.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
CHILDREN WHO ARE sICKLY

Mothers who value their own COM
fort and the welfare of their chill
dren, should never be without a
box of Mother Gray's Sweet Powders
for Children, for use throughout the
season. They Break up Colds, Re-
lieve Feverishness, Constipation,
Teething Disorders, Headaches and
Stomach Troubles. Used by Mothers
for 22 years. THESE POWDERS
NEVER FAIL. Sold by all Drug
stores, 25c. Don't accept any sub
stitute. Sample mailed FREE to
any mother. Address, Allen S. Ohm
sted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
Family Record on TurtIe's Back.

George l. Stillman, business man
OF Westerly, r. l., was strolling about
his farm, about mile from the village,
when he came across a big turtle
which was summing itself on the banks
Of pond. He secured it and found
engraved on its shen the initials of his
grandfather, Adam Stillman, engraved
in 1865. Further examination disclosed
the name of another Adam Stillman,
his great-grandfather, engraved in
1908, and the name Of Paul Maxon,
carved in 17a3.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
FIND MUMIFIED CAT.

Died Eighty-three Years Ago In an
Episcopal Diocesan House.
Stonemasons altering the front of ain
Episcopal diocesan house, New York,
were tearing out the stonework at the
top of the second story when Patrick
Shine, the boss mason. discovered u
dusty object which he dug out with
a trowel. It was mummified cat, "a
perfectly good cat except for lack of
BREATH" said Shine.
The diocesan house was built in
1923 so Shine figured that the cat
was born eighty-three years ago at
least
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
One Wheeled Iinrikisha

A one wheeled jinrikisha on the
monocycle principle is being intro
duced among the Chinese of the Malay
states. It is said to be safe and to
have many advantages over the old
fashioned vehicle.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
FINDS A BRYANT POEM.
California Woman Discovers Hitherto
Unpublished Verse.

When Mrs. Elizabeth Mumford of
Pasadena, Cal, was looking through
several autograph letters of William
Cullen Bryant she discovered written
on one of the sheets of paper hither-
to unpublished poem. The verse was
written on the back of a letter sent to
Mrs. Mumford about thirty years ago.
The lines follow:
There's dance of the leaves in the pop
lar boughs,
There's a f1utter OF wind in the beechen
tree,
There's smile on the fruit and smile
on the flower
And laugh from the brook as it runs to
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
SOUTH GOT 1880, 100000
FOR SHORT COTTON CROP.
Largest Amount Ever Received For
the Commodity. Saws Hester.

tne CoinmOuluy, says hester.
New Orleans, La.-"No American
cotton crop ever grown has sold for
as much as the one just marketed,
the total value, including the seed,
having been 81, 100000, 0,000," ac-
cording to the report last week of
Colonel Henry G. Hester, secretary
of the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change.
With 100000 bales less than
contained in the bumper crop of
19OS-09, the crop just marketed
netted the South 1884 100000 more.
The 1851, 1,000-bale crop of 1906-07
brought 100000 less than the
season which ended September 1,
1911,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20

ing primaries, Sept. goth, | would
state that after a short start by
way of an education in the public
schools of Wayne county, COM
pleted a course at the A. M. CHS
bro Seminary in Monroe county, N.
Y. My postgraduate course was
about thirty years in the school
of hard knocks as a farmer and
lumberman in Wayne county.
Have met many people in the var
led relations of a business man
and this long experience has en-
abled me to meet many whom l
esteem as friends and gain at
least enough knowledge to appre-
ciate the needs and requirements
of my fellow man.
My aim has steadily been to
deal honestly, frankly and fairly
with all and to dearly cherish all
of our country's institutions, and
to encourage and assist every
true effort to maintain and ad-
vance them. I invite the fullest
investigation of my record and
with pleasure refer you to the ex-
,,occion oiyon at tha nO11c hV NV
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20


indicative
Although always resident and large
county, for office
Hanlan
knowledge said did anything detrimental
earnestly support and promise nominated
the office the
ability observe the spirit OF the Golden
Rule
Faithfully Yours,
WALLACE j. BARNES.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
Candidate for PrOthOnOtary

TO THE REPUBLICANS OF WAYNE COUNTY,
Pursuant the of
the general understanding
myself candidate the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20
JUDGE this Engine Your
NEW STANDARD FOR MOTORS.
ABSENCE OF COMPLICATIONS.

THEN JUDGE 1T BY ITS SIMPLICITY
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20

VANCE.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20

Throughout the world there are
about three thousand weddings every
"a hours.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
THE FARMER: JULY 2s, 1911

Mrs. Brown, a poor widow, dead for several years at the time of which I am speaking. This poor woman had been a special pet and beneficiary of my mothers
 "As l sat idly looking out into the grounds l thought I saw woman come down the lane and pass through the gate. I was especially struck with the fact that when she passed through the pile of dead leaves there as I could hear. She was dressed in black, and came on quickly down the walk and passed me- with face averted. going into the house. She did not make a sound and passed so near me as almost to brush against me. I seemed to recognize some thing vaguely familiar in the figure
 Presently without a sound she, came from the house and passed me again, going as she had come, through the leaves and on up the lane. reused myself, wondering if I could have been dreaming, and went into the house, washed my face and hands and went down to my mothers room.
 < .'As I bent to kiss her and ask so- licitously if she were feeling better, she said:
 "FOh. much better! All day have been suffering 90 with my head, but little while ago I thought that Mrs. Brown came in here and bent over me and laid her hand upon my head and soothed all the pain away, and now am in no pain at all.'
 Then I realized that the figure that had seemed so familiar was that of Hrs. Brown, dead years before, but who, do firmly believe entered my mothers sickroom that night and nnintstered to her."
 I was visiting relatives in North Carolina one of the group said "One of the girls whom I was visiting had given party and we had been very gay all the evening. so I had gone to bed with no sense of uneasiness about any member of my family who were in a distant state, and so far as l. knew, we'll and happy
 II dreamed that I saw my mother lying on her bed, white and i'll, and about her all her children gathered with the exception of myself. I thought I stood afar off. struggling to get to her through a heavy white mist that seemed to hold me impris- oned. The dream came to me three times and at daylight I arose and went to my aunts room, telling her of the vision and the anxiety felt about my mother.
 'The family tried to laugh me out of my fears but I persisted in my beliefs that my mother was i'll. No al days later l received a letter, writ ten on the night of my dream, telling me that my mother had been taken ill suddenly and her life despaired of that night, but was pronounced out of danger at the time of my sisters writing. All the children but my self had been gathered about her bedside, and I believe my mothers spirit called to me through space that night"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
THIS CAT MUST HAVE
 HAD 9,999 LIVES

How long can cat live without food in the subterranean recesses of a rock walled gold mine and what did certain cat find ito eat sduring two months in which the mine was closed and her miner friends were not feed ing her bits of tender meat and other food from their dinner pails, is asques- tion which men at the Homestake mine Lead, s. D., want some expert in catology to answer.
 For number of years a mOttled gray mother cat has made her home in the engine room at Star hoist of the Homestake, and to the men about the location of the Homestake that cat had hcome a personal friend and a source of much amusement.
 In the course. of the development of the mine it became infested with mice, who were more Or less of a nuisance, even in the vast underground cup board where large proportion of the uncoined money of the world is stor- ed and one day one of the miners conceived the idea of taking that pus sy from the Star hoist engine room down into the mine and allowing her to deal with the mice as her sense of fitness of things should dictate. She was there, on one of the low levels, making the mice seek the uttermost parts of the vast labyrinth of shafts and levels for safety and protecting the miners wearing apparel and can dles from destruction by mice when the mine closed down after the lock- out on November "A, 1909
 The miners came out of the tunnels when the lockout order went into ef- feet, thinking of nothing else than the possible result of shutting down of the mine and the cat was left some where below.
 The mine was shut down on Novem. Der 24 1909, and it was not until Jan- uary 10, 1910 that miner who went below found the engine room cat, or rather what remained of her, because kitty was little more than a sack of skin full of bones. Her strength was so nearly exhausted that her meows were but faint echoes of those she ut tered before she went into the mine, and she staggered half blindly about, before her eyes became accustomed to the light of day.
 She had eaten up all the mice she could catch and the supply in the mine had become exhausted There were no more miners visiting her re- treat to feed her and give her caress- es and words of kindness. and she spent a long and lonely vigil in the Homestake, waiting for the work of -"'-~'s out the gold to be resumed again.
 = -uperstitious miner attributed the trouble at the mine to the presence of the cat in it, because a cat is consider ed an omen of ill luck by some dope sters, and it is asserted that as soon as sufficient time had elapsed for all of the alleged nine lives Of that cat to have been snuffed out by starvation conditions at the mine began to inn prove, and shortly work was. resumed.
 That cat is now on duty in the en- zine room at Star hoist, and is as lively as one of her kittens that was born before the mother went into the mine and is now we'll nigh as large, a 1 resident of Star hoist engine room.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
HAY FEVER AND SUMMER COLDS

Must be relieved quickly and Fol ey's Honey and Tar Compound will greatly troubled during the hot sum mer months with Hay Fever and find that by using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound I get great relief" Many others who suffer similarly will be perfence. F. B. Brill, Curtis Phar- macy. *135
Gunnison news-champion., 1911-12-01
0ssus1 0ss1

Tom Brsswell, section foreman for
the Grande, fell dead at the home of
his sister, Mrs. John Clifford, We'd
nesday night, the result of heart
failure. Mr.. Brsswell was GO years
of age. He had been talking with
. friend, and stepped out onto the
rear porch Of the house. The muf-
fed sosnd Of his body striking the
porch floor attracted those inside the
house and they found him lying
prone in death. Undertaker Adsms
wss ssma.oned and prepared the
body for burial tomorrow. Father
Kipp ~ill conduct tine funeral cere-
mony. One daughter almost grown,
sarvives Mr.. Braswell. She is at
present residing at Grand Junction
With Roadmaster Jim Gallagher
She formerly lived at Salida with
the Gallagher
Gunnison news-champion., 1911-12-01
osCooo No.I PAD
eea sAnCk sTEsas

dispatches frssa Chicago brsas the
lafsEmstlan thai ia-s week al the
Chicago market ssprecedeuted hsoh
prices were PAID for tine range sseers
f n hsnrsch a Ledge Grass. Mont i.
wss paid s7gD q hundred isa ~
hesd II cattle thu; never had eaten
anything else bat range grass.
Mach coscern ls being shown over
the gradually Decreasing number. IN
the annual shipments of range cattle
Lsttie hope is Expressed of ola sp-
precsable reduction IN the nigh price
Of beef in the next few wears because
the sapply Of beef cattle Is running
shorter sseh succeeding wear
stzt,sticians have computed figures
which show that shipments 10 eastern
markets of both range and corn fed
cattle have not kept pace with The
growing demand, TO say nothing Of
increasing as the demand for beef
has increased yearly
A ray of hope is given the beef
consumer IN the announcement that
renewed interest in cattle RAISING
has seized upon the ranchers in
western Colorado. This is evidenced
in the present demand for stock
calves. On this point the Record
Stock man says:
That the stockmen of western
Colorado have great faith in the
future Of the cattle business is evi-
denced by the big demand for stock
calves and breeding stuff over there
at the present time For yesrs the
western Colorado stock men have
been selling calves and bFesding
cows until the number of sock herds
IN thai session 10 less thsa for many
yesss. Nos, ho~ever, thew y eoo-
Jag q chsnse. Men Who have bses
trying TO buy calves over that way
say there are none for sale this year,
and local dealers have orders for
large numbers Of them to 90 into
that country. MANY Of the buyers
prefer heifers 10 steers, which indi-
Gates that they are going TO get into
the breeding game again.
western Colorado has worlds of
hay and Iced this winter, and, being
short oD stock and cattle and having
faith in the future Of the industry.
the stockmen over there are gong
after the staff"
Gunnison news-champion., 1911-12-01
ADoolDoo1olEnI
c. aAnAAAD unks

Reports ~ the interstate commerce
eommssssoa for 1910. just received
IN beaver show thai an the uas,ed
sssses there are esghts one sbandon-
ed raslrosds, unset oi them IN the
esss The rsport ,na,cs,es shas in
the we~sern states Pecuhsr eoadi-
t'ea exists with respeci 10 abandoned
lines. Roads which were built
many yesrs s9o ~ serve msnIns
camps dsrsns the boom days were
able fs a humber If vssrs to do 9
lucrative business bat ~ the pros
perty Of the Hain.ng district wsned.
the snoaat II traffic lesseaed Now
q p1mber II these roads are IN the
posstion Of being obliged 10 depend
upon sn unpTosperous community
for support, and, especially in cases
where the mining camps are almost
completely worked out, the branches
are without hope II future business
This condition. the reports say, exists
IN several sections of Colorsdo. and
other states Of the west, where
branches Of railroad systems have
been built, Ut great expense, 10 the
mining campo
la uhe agricultural sections Of
Colorado, the reports say, this condl-
tion 10 seldom found a. agricultural
development is going ON steadily
and providing additional freight
and passenger traffic for the rail
roads. The commission estimates
that thousands of miles Of railroad
lines in the west are nov burden
some charge upon the syssems to
which they belong, by reason Of the
fact that the mining districts which
tAev sssvsd are no longer shipping
large 9ssstities Of ore, eithes be-
cause the oss 10 not mined or because
il 10 treated in local mills. These
lines will have to be either abandoned
or operated in a manner which calls
for less expense. suggests the com
mission.
However, these reports Of the in
terstate commerce commission seem
to accept the mere word of the rail
road that particular line is not pay
ing as fact, and often no further
inquiry is made
The abandonment Of . section Of
line by railroad system leaving a
commonly to it's fate would seem as
criminal an act as child abandon
ment. unless there really 10 good
ground for such action. Some Colo
RADIO railroads are now being accused
of this offense.
Gunnison news-champion., 1911-12-01
- 49,. Sar1Ls

Harvey Ven Voorhes was in from
the Italian mosntain country on
Tuesday and brosght the news thss
Adaa Msrdie had made rich strike
in his mine sbost twenty miles
north Of Crested Butte. The ore
russ we'll in gold and silver. Mr..
Van Worries has been in the Italian
oosntain diserics for twenty years
and alone has driven Q tsnnel 200
fest thro.Sh solid rock. A vet he
has mot ops.ed . vein Of pay ore. but
still 10 working hopefully.
Gunnison news-champion., 1911-12-01

The hoepitable Hartman ranch
continues 10 entertain vislsors froa
out Of the city. Mr. Lillian Hart
man johnson Of Denver. editor of
the ma9aaine Colorado. and Miss
L.ara Hinkle Of Deaver ~ere gsssas
the latter part Of Lest week yes
Hartman Of Mostrose was . recent
visisor s.d when there supsrinseadsd
tie inssAllatioa of the Wsssrwoeks
plont Ct tie rDncA.