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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
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n AGSuSL l>lS Goethe went to Csr'sSad for the cu-c and placed him self under rNe cane os D-. Rehho5a. One morning when De rose se request ct ChzreS hiS domestic. to pace g oottle q 0el wine and a E'aSS h each e the cvo windows E- the nom
 Thea the 7oet walked round and ooz7d the apartment stopping at esch window e d-.1k a z2ass ot wine. Uhso he hsd nearly eC0-ied the bot- tcs the Goc,o- arrived An said Gce,s se. you are come. Do you know it is. ny bi-,ndayE~ No sid the docto-. -9t IS 0o; yrgr birthday. T. faIls tcDo-7ov.
 Only the 7-o5UctIoa o: the aluanac Could ccaErCe Goethe that he was 8 day out in his 0ecSoai-E When bo discovered hlS mistake he gave vent Co 6 strong expression and after a long pause. turning 70 the doctor. Ssid. "Thea I have ct drunk to- nothing"
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
-L- Es-b cF Fe-ocitN.

1T you have any reason 10 suspect inst YOU gre too mid hammered, too gentle for tbjS strenuous age. eat cat mint. Mss r. A RarisweI iu her book The Herb Garden" says cat mint one of the ten varieties Of mint Is known sS the herb Of ferocity be cause og the feCccious disposition it fu7a-rS The herb when chewed, says Miss RariSweH, '1s said to make the most gentle person 6eTce and quar- ra.Some \ legend Is eXtant Of a Ger tain exe-u1toDe- who could never mus ter uD his courage to tRe point of hang Enc til be had paUtaEen Of it.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
s,Wz-, sF cousf-s

Ccuss1s are ro, =< simple as they see1 The very F--t os heinz a cousin or bavtac a 0o-S5u H~ rumn1e4un6 The IafSSez ra5rc oE voa>.u>ht- IS bo-H e.ud IGC and Ee.05.a- t...--..~ rt- ,.r .r0-S i1s even ss yoa F1t -.r .naoSe tHem- TSey can no--nu rr0.. rom you. vlslt you va-Erut l7r.aE a~,.e5. tel peN- De thoy He.e-- Co yeE- auf.y- contest you- vfTr c~cu saB 5u love vrth you, and a coG>t0 once removed Is twice as apt to Never completely trust a cousin 1cver depend 07 his not doing any ot the<e things. never take hiD for granted The -cou>iU,y kiSS7 may CT may Cot ueau va1t it means and cousins always 5o ks>> its paTt ot ee2nE ccuSiG>
 Not that cousins -ee,3 EeceSSSTi,y prove pe-slouS O--o #n b'1e moon they invite voH so E~-n0c o- heave you money. but that a.uro>r takes an aunt oz uacle Atlantis
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06

reca-d to footwear than ours but II Is also more healthfuL The streets and sidewalks and even the yards are dusty. This dust full of germs as it Es. should not be tracked all over the house. We would do well in the h. ee-eSrs of preventive medicine to pro vide slippers fo- our children and to insist u0on the wearing of them in she house. It Is less trouble to change rom shoes to slippers even three or four times a day, than IL Is to cure an UlncSs the germ of which may have becn brought Into the nursery on the soles Of the children's shoes-Home H-0--pSS
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
Crushed Aoain

"It have a fault" said NIT. Hen UccS. 'it is that
 ~If yon Havc a fsUt?" NrS Hen 0ock broke i0. "Ha, hs, Excuse ne for }auSrrnC If have fault it is taat ! sometimes permit my sense ot humo- Co -aJ the better Of ne "-Cbi. caco Record Herald
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
M s..,,,-. I- t-s llers.

h Eucisnd a Is the Ctg>1oIR 1"J on,y for grown persous, lUt a'So for CIV. drsa. to wCar sls00e-S Ia iae E0ftNe- RnS.Sh chHjran aS vveH as Erownr7S wear saoeS as we 5a Aoe-scS Wea- ru6bsrS cuIy out cT GaoaS Th5s IS not only & uao7e Comfc-taU'e cus5on with
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06

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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
Plates sna Plates

Cook .Thcy >ay th0t thc nls'r> o', s hs,,rc>'.n a0r ro7-N a fNo, th' N kf-.rr. Md NrDt. Pam, ra'~. 1n v.a>s fH0rr FN-er tt7r> day. Ho> t.r I-.u~.r-0t
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
GREAT c, ARRANGE SALE

Sold al & Loss, Malt Rainier, % cents per bottle. Especially prepared for sick people and iuvalids, and ex. ceIlent for nursing mothers. Only two barrels left After that price vii be 8 cents per bottle
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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
A Stieker

HCweU-R -R wei k a man of tCnacity UowC.. .-Ny> lf he were dos and Cut & rrs0 on vour trousers you wou.d he 0a-fNrt,v >aFr m ordering new UaiI New York Press
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-06
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Now. ,v.rt >rura-n-7- tr y0"r han --e>s vcs0 ~.fu rn- editor
 "Eairn- r.' u.n n a&'a0oC. then. HasIs~ct Jrr rroj Washington Fer sd
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
POSSIBLE TO DOUBLE
C0UNTRY'S WHEAT CROP.
Experiments With the Original Wilc
Plant For Dry soils.

Doubling Of the wheat crop of the
United States has been made possible
by the scientific discoveries of Pro-
fessor Aaron Aaronsohn of Jerusalem,
according to an announcement made
at the University Of Chicago. Pro
fessor Aaronsohn is director of the
agricultural experiment station in Pal
estine, an institution financed by Ju-
lius Rosenwald and Judge Julius Mack
OF Chicago. lie found the original
wheat plant growing In Palestine after
years of search and Is engaged in
crossing the plant with better grades
of wheat In order to produce n supe-
rlor one.
The experiments, Professor Aaron
sohn asserted, show that n race OF
wheat can be produced adapted to the
semiarid regions Of Algeria, Tunis,
Syria, Egypt, Turkestan and other
eastern countries and to similar land
in the United States. Plants grown
by the experiments thrive in rocky,
shallow and dry soil without cultiva-
ton. On n previous visit to Chicago
Professor Aaronaohn told of his work
and funds were advanced for the sta
tion i'm Palestine.
This is really the biggest proposi-
tion regarding the food supply of the
world now before u.s." said Professor
John Merle Coulter, head of the de-
partment Of botany at the university,
who talked with Professor Aaronsohn.
"The crossing Of the wild wheat with
other grades will insure crops In
drought and in arid lands. 1t will be
the salvation Of the eastern coun-
tries"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
Advocated Open Work.

Wilson made the point that the ma
TONS business ought to be done in the
open, ought to be thrashed out in pub
lie discussion. Even at that early day
he lifted up his voice against secrecy,
He declared that was the atmosphere
in which evil and corruption fourished
and that the only remedy was pub
liclty.
After leaving Princeton Woodrow
Wilson went to the University of Vir-
glnia, that great institution of liberal
learning founded by Thomas Jefferson.
He spent year there studying in the
law department.
At the University Of Virginia Wilson
was also leader. He took more
active interest in sports; Joined the
glee club; he organized a debating So
ciety and easily won both the writer's
and the orators prizes. Here also he
acquired the reputation of being great
joker. He composed nonsense rimes
and limericks with wonderful facility.
In this love for wholesome nonsense
and his keen, dry humor Mr. Wilson is
very much like Lincoln. He further
resembles the great liberator in his
perfect simplicity and his democracy
Young Wilson had taken up the study
of the law, recognizing 1t as the most
direct avenue leading to a public life.
AS soon as he had completed his stud
les at Charlottesville he went to At
lanta to launch his legal career. He
Joined partnership with young man
who also had just completed his col
lege work. Renick was his name, and
the shingle OF Renick & Wilson was
swung out.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15

feet, inches; depth OF hull at stem,
80 feet, inches; depth of hull at
stern, 81 feet, 1 inch; depth of hull,
moulded, 23 feet, 6 inches; depth OF
hull at guards, 90 feet, 10 inches.
Further idea OF her immenslty
may be gained from the statement
that her shaft and piston rods are
the largest forgings ever built in
this country. In comparison. those
of the battleship Texas, are like
pipestems. The new steamer is to
have 81 staterooms, fitted with pri-
vate toilet connections, 424 regula-
tion staterooms and "a parlors en-
suite with private bath and toilet,
a total of $40 rooms. Her lighting
system is to include $500 electric
lamps.
She will be equipped with wireless,
and will carry an automatic storage
battery, capable of operating inde-
pendently for six hours, should any
arrangement occur to the regular
equipment, thus assuring commune
cation with land all the time There
will be more than 500 telephones on
this leviathan of the lakes, includ-
ing one in every stateroom, and they
will be connected with a switchboard
just as the phones in a city or viii
lagee are. Every room will be sup
piled with purified air and pure run
ming water.
The new boat will be fully equip
ped with electric fans and with every
other known appliance, tending to the
health and comfort of her patrons.
She will carry a 32-inch seachlight,
the largest on the lakes. Her deco
rations will represent unstinted ex-
penditure along lines of artistic ex-
cellence. Her hull will be entirely
of steel and in her construction and
equipment the safety of her passeng-
ers is to be the dominant note.
She will go into commission July
1, 1918.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
COAST AWAKE TO CANAL.
General Wood Finds Pacific Cities
Counting on Big Business.

General Wood Finds Pacific Cities
Counting on Big Business.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of stan of the army, returned to
Washington recently after a seven
weeks tour Of the army posts Of the
United States. He was accompanied
on the trip, which included almost
every state in the Union, by Captain
Frank f. Mccoy, his aid.
General Wood said that the most
surprising thing he encountered on his
trip was the tremendous expansion
and commercial activity on the Pacific
coast. Every city on the west coast,
he said, was fairly jumping ahead in
its preparations for the new conditions
to be brought about with the opening
Of the Panama canal.
In talks that he made before busi-
ness organizations in almost every
city he visited General Wood explain
ed the administration policy of concen-
tration Of the army. He reminded the
people OF the Pacific coast that II they
wished the war departments plans for
the fertilization of their cities carried
out they must see that their repre-
sentatives in congress co-operated In
securing sufficient appropriations.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
LARGEST SIDE-WHEEL
BOAT LAUNCHED
MOdernly Equipped With Electrical
AppIianCes-Boat is Over 800 Feet
in Length.
Especial to The Citizen. }

Detroit, Nov. 12.-The largest
side wheel passenger steamer in the
world, the "See-and-Bee, in course
of construction for the Cleveland
and Buffalo Transit Company, was
launched today at the Wyandotte
yard of the Detroit Shipbuilding com
pany, being christened by Miss Mil
dred Moodey of Painesville, o.,
daughter of Robert C. Moodey, one
of the directors of the Cleveland and
Buffalo Transit Company.
The new steamer is to ply between
Cleveland and Buffalo. She is be-
ing built on designs, ceived by Frank
K. Kirby, whose eminence as a
marine architect is undisputed. She
will carry 5000 passengers and 1900
tons of freight.
The new steamer is of the follow
ing dimensions: Length over all, 500
feet; length between perpendiculars,
4S5 feet; beam OF hull, moulded, 5S
feet; extreme beam over guards, 81
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
TRUNK CltW TO SLAIN GIRL.
Body Shipped From New York-Con-
sipnee In Connecticut Gone.

New York, Nov. 12.-The police dis.
covered evidence that they believe
proves their theory that the woman
killed in the Georgetown, Conn, trunk
mystery was murdered In New York
city. They believe the murder took
place in the slain woman's bedroom,
which they deduce was somewhere in
the vicinity Of Fiftieth street and Lex
ington avenue
The police learned that the trunk
which contained the body which was
found bound In sheets in q mill pond at
Georgetown Saturday was shipped from
the Adams Express company's office at
F1ftieth street between IL a. m. and
noon last Thursday. Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty has taken
personal charge of the case in this city
and has a dozen men working on it.
Two Italians brought the trunk to the
express company's Office and shipped it
to 20. Napoli, Georgetown. Conn"
They could speak little English. They
prepaid the charges and told the clerk
they would meet the trunk on arrival.
The location of the office from which
the trunk was shipped was readily
learned through tracing receipts after
It was discovered in Georgetown that
the body had been in a trunk received
by the express Office there on Friday.
20. Napoli." to whom the trunk was
consigned. lived In Branchville, mile
from Georgetown, and disappeared last
week He worked in the wire mill of
the Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing
company and quit work last week.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
FIND NAMES LOST TURRET.
Located With Guns In Place In Ha.
vana Harbor.


During the work of removing the cof-
ferdam built around the hulk of the
battleship Maine Captain Pope, in
charge Of the work, found the forward
turret Of the ship right side up with
the guns in place. 1t was located forty
feet from the place where Major Fer
guson found the barbette overturned.
The strangest thing about the dis
covery of the missing turret is that
Major Ferguson, in driving the first
piles for the cofferdam, found the top
Of the turret shorn of all rlvets 12J
feet from the place 1t occupied on the
ship. When the water and mud were
removed and the ships bottom was re-
vealed the barbette was found near the
ships side, twenty-five feet aft of its
position on the vessel, and overturned.
This led to the natural belief that the
turret with the guns was under the
barbette in the mud.
The turret must have been blown
forward with the guns. Why 1t should
be thrown forward and sink without
Overturning, while the barbette was
thrown aft and overturned, is a prob.
lem for naval board to explain.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
Many Young Lawyers.

But the young men were strangers
in Atlanta. Moreover, there were
many lawyers there, and, moreover
again, nearly every one had a relative
practicing law. And so he found time
to elaborate the article he had written
while at Princeton into a book. But
he was unable to find in Atlanta the
facilities he needed to complete the
volume, so in the autumn Of 1883 he
entered Johns Hopkins university and
took up course in history and po-
litical economy.
In making his investigations Wilson
desired nothing but the facts. His re
searches were prodigious, and Ambas-
sador James Bryce found him of great
assistance while he was compiling his
american Commonwealth" The re-
suit Of Wilson's two years work at
Baltimore was his book, "Congression-
al Governmental Study OF the Gov
,rnment by Committee"
II was the first account ever given
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
TYPHOID SITUATION AT
TROY IS ENCOURAGING

Towanda, Nov. 11.-For the first
time the typhoid epidemic at Troy
seems really encouraging. There
have been no new cases recently and
the revised list of certified cases
show only 200 names. No deaths
have occurred since Sunday.
OF the 200 patients, SO are school
children; "a of the entire number
are not more than twenty years Of
age. Between the ages of forty and
forty-six there are 45 i'll. Fifty of
the victims are members of the
Methodist Sunday school Supplies
of the relief headquarters are get
ting low and another appeal for
help will be maze.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
MORE SUBMARINES FOR NAVY
Department Will Also Ask For Requi.
site Number of Tenders.

Naval authorities will urge upon
congress in December the growing ne
cessity for more submarines. Owing
to the lack Of proper defense at the
naval bases OF Americas insular pos
sessions, the naval officials believe the
need for submarines is greater than
ever.
They also will strongly recommend a
substantial appropriation for tenders,
as the submarines are almost helpless
without their conveys to serve as mo
bile bases.
A tender is required for each group
of fve submarines.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
ODD ELECTION BET.

Herman Ruthstein, of Wilkes
Barre, will be called upon by the de-
feat of Colonel Roosevelt to pay a
unique election wager. He agreed
with Charles r. Gibble, a Wilson
man, that if the New Jersey eXecu-
tive won, he would haul a small ex-
press wagon from Wilkes-Barre, via.
New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more, to Washington. He started
Sunday afternoon. He will carry his
food and extra clothing in the
wagon.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
POTATOES A DRUG AT OTEGO.

For the first time in a great many
years, it is impossible for farmers to
sell potatoes in any quantities in
Otego, n. Y. The United Produce
company, which started in to load
at the station, has quit because eigh-
teen cars, loaded at Worcester and
Schenevus, were ordered out of New
York city by the health authorities,
because of the black rot. The price
has dropped to 80 cents a bushel.-
OtegO Times.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
ASKS FASTER FREIGHT TRAINS
Interstate Board Also Urges Co. opera
tion to End Car Shortage.

So serious has the car shortage in
this country become that the interstate
commerce commission has published an
appeal to railroads and shippers to co
operate in order to avoid serious injury
TO numerous industries
The railways in particular are asked
10 return borrowed cars as soon as pos,
sible The commission also suggests to
the carriers that they increase the
speed Of their freight trains.
Officers OF the commission say this
unprecedented car shortage is due to
the unusually large crops and general
activity In all the chief industries
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
A TRUE FISH STORY.

Here is fish story told by a British
nobleman: An lrishman had caught
a big pike Noting a lump in its
stomach, he cut it open. "As l cut
it open there was a mighty rush and
a Tapping of wings, and away flew
a wild duck, and when l looked in
side therewas a nest, with four eggs,
and she had been afther sitting on
that nest"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15

LEGAL BLANKS FOR sale at The
Citizen once: Land Contracts,
Leases, Judgment Notes, Warrantee
Deeds, Bonds, Transcripts, Sum-
mons, Attachments, Subpoenas. La
Dor Claim Deeds. Commitments, Ex-
ecutions, Collectors and Constables'
blanks.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
Took Sides by Lot.

On the evening Of the preliminary
contest the subject was Protection
Versus Free Trade" The debaters
took sides by lot. Wilson drew pro.
lection" side from the hat, tore up the
slip and returned to his seat. He said
nothing under heaven could induce
him to advance arguments for thing
in which he didn't believe. The Lynde
prize, therefore, went to some one else
Wilson did not shine with any great
effulgence in his regular college course
He stood forty-first in class OF 100
This was the famous class OF 10, one
of its members being Mahlon c. Pitney
of the supreme court bench.
About this time his natural aptitude
for leadership began to crop out, and
before his first year was over he was
universally recognized at Princeton as
the leading freshman and one of the
muster spirits Of the entire student
body. He later became managing edi.
tor Of the Princetonian.
While at Princeton he wrote a search
ing article on congress which at once
stamped him as youth of extraordi.
nary caliber. This article was pub
lished in the International Review. and
in it the young Princetonian pointed
out that most Of the legislative bust.
ness of the nation was carried on by
small committees behind closed doors
This was the first time the matter had
ever been brought home to the people
Of the country, and it started them to
thinking
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
Next President 'si,1 Was StudiousIy
The Office He Assumes on

ment and be leader in the affairs of
his country.
No man ever subjected himself to
sterner discipline or worked more
steadfastly coward fixed goal. He
first tnught himself to write short
hand In order that he might make rap
id dlgcsts of what he read and heard.
He also practiced composition assid-
uously and eXtemporaneous speaking
that he might be skilled and ready In
offhand debate.
In those days he was not remarka-
bly, ready in extempore speaking. To-
day he is without peer in the nation
in the art.
During the first year at Princeton
Wilson joined Whig Hall, the literary
debating society founded by James NJ.
AdiSon. who also wrote its constitution.
Its rival society at Princeton was
CAT HdN. Gld the annual Lynde de-
bate, an e:-cHporcncous discussion,
the sub lc't to hc given TO the debaters
Il few m.uU Is letoyc the debate was
to begin, " Is the birscst thing in a
literary way ar the college. Young
Wilson very soon established himself
as the leading spirit OF the Whig Hall
society aud was easily It's best debat-
er. To win this annual debate, in
which three representatives from each
Of the two halls participated, was the
thing that Wilson most coveted. Each
hall selected its debaters by u prelimi-
nary contest within it's own society,
also an extemporaneous affair.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15

of the way Americans actually do gov
ern themselves.
The book net with instant success
1t was at once recognized as final
standard work, and is so recognized to
day.
After receiving his degree at Johns
Hopkins DR. Wilson was called to O
profcssorship in the new college fol
women at Bryn Mawr.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15
wv JOoDROW WILSON has been
NM schooling himself, perhaps
w unconsciously. but neverthe-


NI schooling himself, perhaps
w unconsciously, but neverthe-
less carefully and studiously
for forty years for the exalted office he
will assume on March next
There has never been a closer stu
dent of American political affairs since
Hamilton and Madison. There is moth
ing about congress or the White House
that will take him greatly by surprise
At the age Of twenty he had writ
ten a college thesis that showed him to
be even at that time one OF the keen
est analysts of our national legisla-
ture we ever had. And in later years
he turned his sharp scrutiny upon the
White House and wrote the most in
forming and Illuminating treatises on
the powers and limitations of the pres
ident that have ever been published.
Aside from these special investiCa
tions his whole life has been long
and exhaustive study Of the American
people in their social and political re-
. lations. as indeed were those Of his
| forebears before him.
Grandfather Born In Ireland.
His grandfather, James Wilson. was
born in Ireland. He eluigrated to
America about century ago and set
tied in Philadelphia, which city was
the capital OF the United States ut that
time. One Of the leading Philadelphia
papers of that period was the Aurora,
Thomas Jefferson's personal organ.
James Wilson, being a printer. obtain
ed employment on the Aurora; also,
Ibeing a hard working. thrifty man, he
Required ownership Of the paper and
became intimately acquainted with
Jefferson.
But the rapidly growing west began
o cast its spell over James Wilson,
bnd accordingly in 1920 or thereabouts
he moved to Steubenville, O., where he
Founded the Western Herald. He soon
became a power in the Democratic
party in Ohio and was known through
but the state as Judge" Wilson.
1t was here amid these surroundings
|f hardy and vigorous pioneer life that
oseph II. Wilson, the father of the
president elect, was born and grew to
manhood.
Joseph Il. Wilson began his career as
teacher, first in an academy. then III
effersOn college, then in Hampden-
Sydney college. His natural taste,
However was for the ministry, and aft
r careful preparation he stepped into
he Presbyterian pulpit. About this
ime he married Janet Woodrow. daugh-
er of a Presbyterian minister at Chill
cothe. o. She was born in Carlisle,
England, but her father came to Amer
a when she was but few years old.