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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
WILSON TO WHITE HOUSE.
Mr.. Taft Plans to Entertain President
Elect and Wife.

President and Mrs. Taft will ask
President Elect and Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson to be guests at the White
House. The president wants to ascer-
tain before sending the invitation when
1t will be most convenient for the pres
Ident elect and Mrs. Wilson to come
1t is likely that the invitation will be
given at the time the president elect
goes to Staunton, Va, his birthplace
to attend a jubilee in his honor This
will be Christmas week, and the presi-
dent probably will ask them to stop
over after the jubilee.
The social season at the White House
will begin Dec. -, when the president
and Mrs. Taft will give the annual
dinner TO the cabinet. During the sea-
son they will give five receptions and
four dinners. The last reception, that
Of the army and navy, is scheduled for
Feb. 4.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
|0LDEST PAINTING ON CANVAS.
Egyptian Work of Art Probably win
Come to America.

The United States probably will pos
|sess the oldest painting on canvas in
the world in a short time.
The picture, which was discovered
by Robert de Rustafjaell of Luxor,
Egypt, is about $500 years old. and it
S executed in wonderfully bright col
prs on well preserved cloth. 1t be
4 longs to the period when art in Egypt
bad reached its zenith, and the figures
n it are not nearly so stiff as the
Usual rock paintings ornamenting the
Interior of Egyptian tOmbs.
Rustafjaell is associated with an
English company engaged in agricul-
! lure in upper Egypt and all of his
fpare time is devoted to archaeology.
Besides the painting, he has uncovered
fOme valuable payri and the largest
collection ever made of Egyptian flint
Instruments.
Before he left Luxor with the paint
hg an American traveller offered the
Inder a large sum for the work, but at
hat time he was determined to keep
for his own collection and refused
10 part with 1t. Since his return, how
yer, the offers have been raised to
uch a figure that he has consented to
egOtiate for its sale. Rustafjaell de-
Xlares that the most tempting offers
lave been made by the London agents
Il American collectors, and he feels
|ure that the painting will be sent
cross the Atlantic.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
SHIELDS FOR INFANTRY.
lew German Invention Said to Be
Proof Against Rifle Shots.

A light metal shield, described as
ppable of rendering infantry prac-
|cally invulnerable against rifle bull
hts, is said to have been invented by
German engineer named Schaumann.
VOlleys fired at distance of eighty
We yards by the men of a guard regi-
(ent in the course of experiments on
be Dahlem rifle range only slightly
|ented one of the newly invented
|ates, which was equivalent in weight
! a plate of nickel steel Of six milli-
eters thickness, or just under a quar-
|r of an inch. On the other hand, bul-
4 is fired by the same men from a SINH
r distance at plate of nickel steel
tven millimeters thick, or over a quar-,
r of an inch, smoothly penetrated the
/ Ietal
/ The composition plate, which, ac-
srding to Die Post, has proved far SUI
prior to nickel steel, is much less cost.
| than that metal, while its weight is
! SIS than One-third.
#Ihe Prusian war minister is taking
lively interest in the invention, but ii
4 said that the United States, Russia
Eld Austria were represented at the
{periments and are making active ef.
) 5rts to obtain the invention.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
A HERRING is A HERRING.
sardines Cannot Be Brought In Under
Cheap Disguise.
erring Is a herring. .

"a herring Is herring"
This decision of Assistant Secretary
Curtis settles a question that has been
before the treasury department for
many months.
1t was recently discovered that many
lmpOrtatlons of sardines were coming
into the United States under the guise
of herring, the duty on which is con
siderably lower than on other fish.
The treasury department made a
deep study of the families and rela-
tionship Of fish, deciding that ancho-
vies, bristling, sardines, sprats, pill
chards and alewiyes are not herring and
should be assessed 80 per cent ad va
loren duty when shipped in tins and
small packages and three-fourths OF ]
cent when shipped in casks, etc. The
decision becomes effective in thirty
days.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
Had Visions When a Child.

Nine. B. related with charming
simplicity her experiences with the un-
usual powers she claims. She said at
the outset that she had been called
peculiar by her relatives and friends
from the age of two years. She was a
queer child" She was born at Frank
fort on the Main in 1872.
By the time she was nine years old
her talk about visions and the like so
scandalized her relatives that they
tried to "whip it out of her" From
then on until she was sixteen years old
she had to suffer punishment for her
peculiar mental state. She was put
out of her church. Finally she ran
away to Antwerp, Belgium, at the age
of sixteen and soon thereafter was
married to a petty officer on one of the
German-American liners. She is the
wife of another man now, her first
husband having died a few months
after their marriage.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
BUFFALO COATS FOR TROOPS.
General Aleshire Recommends Them
For Alaska-,ooo Available.


Brigadier General Aleshire, quarter
master general of the army, makes an
appeal in his annual report for the re-
tentiOn Of the old time buffalo Overcoat
for the use of troops on duty in Alaska
or the extreme northern portions of the
United States. Formerly buffalo over
coats were issued regularly to all the
soldiers on the plains. For several
years the government has been selling
at Omaha It's stores of buffalo coats,
which are now reduced to about 1900
garments. Great care has been taken
in preserving these coats, which were
made from the hides taken thirty years
ago, and they are still seryiceable.
Realizing the value of the old coats
and the satisfaction of the enlisted
men in having them for severe wealth
Or, General Aleshire recommends that
no more sales be made from the gov
ernment stock and that they be issued
to soldiers, in Alaska at least. The
recent price for these coats has been
S34 which is much less than their
value, as the buffalo has been exter-
minated as hide producing animal.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
$4,000 Farm for $4,000
II sold within next three
weeks.

One of the best farms in Wayne
county, assessed at $4,000, will be
sold for $4,000. Farm contains 11S
acres of land, so of which are cleared
and balance in pasture land, except
ing 20 acres of good young growth
of hickory. Ideal place for dairy
farm. Milk station two miles from
place. Good farm house, two barns.
On r. ID. Route. Telephone con-
nections. Located in Berlin town
ship on main road 31z miles from
Honesdale.
Remember this farm is assessed at
$4,000. If sold Immediately we will
close the deal at $4,000.
Buy-U-A-Home Realty Co.
Box 81
Jadwin Building Honesdale, Pa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
SHERMAN LEFT ALL TO WIFE.
Will Written In 1887 Believed to Dis
pose of 100000.

The will Of the late Vice President
James S. Sherman filed for probate at
Utica, n. Y, was drawn April %, 1887,
and by one clause bequeaths the entire
estate to his wife, Mrs. Carrie b. sher-
man. The will was written on fools
cap paper in Mr.. Sherman's own hand
writing. The witnesses were Myron
w. Van Auken and II. ID. Pitcher Of
Utica.
There Is nothing to indicate the value
Of the estate other than the executors
petition, which states that there Is
property worth more than $4,000.
However, II is understood the estate
will approximate 100000 in value.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
Predicted Chinese Republic.

That China would become a republic
predictiOn made five years ago..
'The woman is not an ordinary me-
dunn who makes living by alleged
psychological accomplishments" said
DR.. Quackenbos. "She is a sincere
student of the science, poor woman
and is devoting her work and her gifts
toward Fastening the time when telep-
athy and its kindred phenomena may
possibly be under our control"
He told of some Of her feats in dag
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
EATHILE the schooled minds of
EgAy the diplomats of Europe had
w for years seen n possibility

! ~
ETN the diplomats of Europe had
w for years seen possibility
of war n the Balkans, an
unlettcred woman whose provision and
other supernormal gifts are now under
cold. scientific investigation predicted
that one of the bloodiest struggles in
history would come to pass in that
section of Europe within certain
time. The prophecy was made year
and a half ago, and its fulfillment has
been widely written in blood. This re-
| markable woman is known as Nine. b.
DR.. John ID. Quackenbos of New
York. the famous psychic student and
hypnotist, is conducting a series of
amazing experiments along medicO-
! psychological lines with this wonder
woman" whom he pronounces one of
the most unusual vehicles of super
normal demonstrations that he has
ever encountered.
Nine. b. is to all appearances an or
linary German matron of no particu-
lar intellectual attainments and of
genial. home loving, maternal disposi-
ton But behind her commonplace
exterior, the doctor declares, and the
woman herself modestly says, there is
a wonderful, uneXplainable force.
She has, although unskilled in medi-
cine or surgery, properly diagnosed
while in a trance the ailments of pa
| tients whom she had never seen before
and of whose identity or circumstances
she had no means of knowing OF the
above feats DR.. Quackenbos has al
ready given TO medical journals his
official confirmation. The woman her
self, Nine. b, claims to have per-
formed feats of much more popular in
terest. She has made the following
! predictions:
That there would be one of the great
est wars Of history in the Balkans pre-
dlction made more than year ago..
That Theodore Roosevelt would be
defeated in his presidential fight Ore-
diction made upon his return from
| Africa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
TOLL OF SEA IS FALLING.
ecrease of More Than 1000 In Deaths
of 1911 From 1894 Figures.


of 1911 From 1894 Figures.
|rhe toll of the sea is gradually fall
K. In 1894 1874 masters and sea-
|Pn and 1897 passengers, making a
|hnd total Of 3,071, were lost as COM
red with 81 masters and seamen and
passengers, a total Of 121, In 1911,
/ lures which appear in a British mer-
Entile marine return just issued. The
bportion Of mariners lost in 1894 was
1 n 116. Last year 1t had fallen to /
/ 24S. Nearly 100000 seamen are re-
|-ned as serving in British seagoing
trchant ships last year as against
than 100000 fifteen years ago.
! I is noticeable that of last years
| al over 100000 were engaged on
amshlps as against only 1900 on
ling vessels. In 1894 5s,537 seamen
rked under sail against 159,257 un-
steam
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
N BALKANS,
ANAZES SAVANTS

loslng ailments of his patients and
continued:
Another remarkable thing she does
is to impersonnte persons she has
never seen. For instance, n short time
after the Titanic disaster hypnotlzed
her In the presence of witnesses and
told her that she was J. Bruce Ismay,
the head of the White Star line. who
at that time was coming In for n lot Of
adverse criticism.
"She impersonated Ismay exactly.
Persons who had seen that gentleman
and heard him talk recognized Nine
BIS impersonation, his very voice and
gestures.
II asked her, What was the cause
Of this disasterT
VANITY she replied talking as
Mr.. Ismayy.
"'And where was the captain of the
Titanic? What was the matter with
him?' | inquired.
Champagne was her reply.
Nov. don't know whether she was
getting her replies from impressions
created upon her mind by what she
had read in the newspapers or whether
1t came from something unconsciously
reflected from my mentality, but at
the s0.ap time all the auditors were
#l.'...' ,.a, she should so strike upon
W. led to be the exact facts.
".. .,. Nine. B. was in a trance
.r"y c.p, day | directed her to go to
.'iri.. Shn replied in a short time that
he was in Paris. | told her to imper-
senate Mrs y. patient of mine who
was sOiourning in the French capital
Her imperSOnatiOn was so strikingly
realistic in mannerisms, In language
and in spoken facts that | was 80
amazed over ii did not want to be-
lieve myself. SO called from upstairs
one of my nurses who had attended
the patient in question in this country.
81 said nothing to the nurse, but
merely allowed her to look at Nine. b.
and listen to her talk Before a mo-
ment had elapsed the nurse exclaimed
"'Why, doctor, that is Mrs. NJ"
She was found in a modest cottage
on the outskirts of Brooklyn, devOting
herself to the care of two small tow
haired children. She is a woman of
forty, with the pleasing plumpness of
Teutonic maturity, straight gazing, big
brown eyes, brown hair, as yet un-
touched with gray, and frank smile
that contains none of the righteousness
of the professional fortune teller.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04
!. SHE FORETOLD WAR
WOMAN PSYCHIC
AMAZING FEATS OF "MME.
b. PROFESSOR QuAck-
ESBOS' "WONDER
WOMAN"

Predicted n great war in the Bal
kans more than year ago.
Predicted Roosevelt's defeat on
his return from Africa.
Predicted five years ago China
would become a republic.
Impersonated persons she had
never seen both in manner and
speech.
Diagnosed while in trance all
ments of patients entirely unknown
to her.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04

This bank under the strict requirements of the
State banking laws all savings banks and is frequently
visited by the Pennsylvania State bank examiner besides
having board of directors consisting of sixteen of Wayne
countys reliable business and farmers
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04

Make your friends a Christmas
present-take The Citizen.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-04

It's expense of management is limited to amount of
business together with it's trust funds invested in bonds
and first mortgages improved real estate its de
postors absolute security.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
BALL PLAYERS
 FRATERNITY IS
 NOW ORGANIZED

Supreme Court Justice Delaney of New York, yesterday, signed the cer- tificate of incorporation of the Ma tionaI and American, League Baseball Fraternity. This is the associa ton recently perfected and subscribed to by all the players of the major leagues. According to the text of the petition for incorporation the. object of the association. is to foster a fra ternal feeling among the players in the two big leagues.
 Murphy and F'ultz are the lawyers of the new incorporation. Dave F'ultz former baseball and football star was largely instrumental in bringing the new movement to. a successful issue Fultz is at present president of the associa ton.
 While the articles of incorporation have not been made public, it is gen orally believed that the players in tend for mutual protection to force upon the powers of, organized base ball a competent representative of the great brotherhood. The common call for justice resulted from the difficult ties- of Ty Cobb,s which preGipitated g. strike among the Tigers in PhiladeI- phia. early in the season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
GIANTS CERTAIN
 OF WINNING FLAG
MGRAW,s MEN CLINCH PENNANT BY BEATING PHILLIPS
 TWICE.

By; winning two games yesterday af- ternoon at Philadelphia, while the Cubs were, again losing one the half games ahead in the National League race and practically cinched the 1912 pennant. The worlds series for 1912 will undoubtedly be between the Boston Red Sox and the Polo. GrOunders.
 The Giants have apparently return. ed to that form which took them so far-ins front early in the race as to make it seem farcica1. Their pitchers, who slumped so. badly in the general slump as to give the Cubs a chance to creep. up so closely that many fans feared they would surely. pass the Giants, are again pitching good ball. The fight is about over.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
PETE WILSON
 HANDS SHUT0UT
 TO MECHANICS
Hartford Courant.) )

Although he passed Tom Crook four times. and Chief Snyder twice, Pete Wilson. had the breaks of the game with him yesterday. He was. backed up by spectacular support and came base throw by Bridges proving disas- trcus for Bridgeport.
 The Bridgeport bunch was very had a lot to say in practice. They used up so much energy in this way that they acted dumb when they got on the bases in the real contest. Cap tain Crook was caught asleep twice, and his first nap cost his team a run. Crook is about as much of a mark on the bags as Pop Foster. Manager McCann sent Sexton out to oppose Wilson and Sexton is undoubtedly one of the best boxmen in the league. While Bridgeport secured two less gles5 by the homesters were very
 Johnny Wanner scored the only run fl th fnninE n aftee Ra1 saG hff had pr gone n out on a fly to Baker, Warmer was passed. He stole second and as deid in trying to catch wanner. the runner made third base easily. High hit to the inffeld and the ball caromed off the shins of two fielders, rolling out of the diamond, so Warmer had a chance to score Gardella walked. A double. steal was attempted on the pitcher and High was thrown out at third Little walked and Gardel1a was caught between the bases
 Bridgeport's first chance to score came in the fourth, when Crook walk ed and was advanced by Snyder's sac rifice Spratt flew out to Little and Stow was thrown out at first.
 Bridges led off the fifth with a hit and was forced at second when Rus seIl1 tried to sacrifice. Venab1e hit to right for two bases, Russell going to third. Sexton hit to Warmer, who tossed Russell out at the plate. Sex ton was forced by Baker.
 In the next inning, Crook walked and was caught off the base by Cap tain Mcdonald, whose whip was in great shape. Snyder also walked and Spratt singled. Stow flew out to Katfh and Bridges struck out.
 With one gone in the eighth, Crook walked and was caught asleep again. Snyder walked and was nabbed while trying to steal
 The great trouble came in the ninth. Spratt hit to right for two bases. A good runner would have made a triple out of it. Stow singled through short, Spratt did not get a good start as he supposed the ball would be feIded. He reached third. Wilson then geared up his arm and struck Bridges out. Rus sell hitfo Garde11a. who made a fine stop of a- hard ball and nailed Spratt at the plate VenabIe ended the game by hitting to the box. Pete threw to first with great precision, and the fans hurried for the gate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
INDUSTRIAL WINNER PLAYS
 FACTORY CHAMP

For the first time in the history of baseball, in Bridgeport, there will be a. game between the two leagues, Fac tory and Industrial, to decide the championship. a There will be a ser ies of five games played, the first to- morrow at Seaside Park A great deal of rivalry has been aroused ever since the organization of the Factory Lea follows:
 Lousky, ss.; FinIayson, cf; Beeman, 3b.; La Chance h.; Sawyer, 2b; Sust- SiIIinan and MacDaniels, pitchers: Rosenpenny, Siedel and Walters, util- itv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06

had played out the round wearing a heavy tweed coat, after the usual English custom. Shortly after the round ended, with Wood 1 up, Hunter complained of feeling i'll. First one and then two physicians were sent for. It transpired that Hunter had not been well for two days and had eaten practically nothing in that time.
 The physicians told Hunter that while he was not dangerously ill it would be worse than foo1harGy to play in the afternoon. For a few minutes Hunter insisted on playing. but silas H. Strawn, president of the United States Golf Association, told him that the officials of the U. S. G. A. must decline to assume any respoB sibiIity if he played. With this sta tenent con fronting him. the British golfer with drew and Warren Wood was declared the winner by default.
 The passing of the international fla vor from the contest in such an un- satisfactor manner was a, matter of general regret among players and of f1cias. Hunter grew better during the afternoon, and in the evening it was announced that he would be up and around today.
 Chick Evans played some rerf1arka b1e golf during the day in his match
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
ENGLISH GOLFER
 ILL AND RETIRES
NORMAN F. HUNTER DEFAULTS TO WOOD AFTER SUFFERING
 FROM INTENSE HEAT.

wheaton, Ill., Sept 6-Jerome D. Travers, Upper Montcair; Hamilton K. Kerr, Ekwanok; Charles Evans, IT,; Edgewater, and Warren K. Wood are the semi -finalists of the national amateur golf championship of 1912 The first three of them won their places yesterday in thirty-six hole matches over the course of the Chica- go Golf club. while the last named played eighteen holes of his match against Norman F. Hunter of Edin- burgh and was declared the winner by. default when Hunter, overcome by the heat, was unable to continue.
 Wood and Hunter had played a close match in the morning under the broiling sun and the British .solfer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06

Jimmy relinquished his command to Fielder Jones, in 1904, and now. after eight years, he is trying again to see what he can do with Coniskys tribe. Chance was the third of the old Chi cagos to try his luck as a team lead CT. When Frank SeIee retired from baseball, in 1904. Chance took up the reins and soon became known from ocean to ocean as one of the greatest leaders the game ever pro duced. In Chances seven years as manager. of the Cubs he has won two worlds championships, four National league pennants, came in twice as run to the champions of his lea gue and finished third on one occasion
 Dahlen became manager of the Brooklyn Superbas in 1910. Though he has not succeeded in getting the Superbas out of the second division. Dahlen is slowly but surely building up a team which in another season or two should be right up with the lead CTS. WolvertOn is the last of the five men to get a major league berth, though he has been a minor league manager since 1907.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
CUBS HAVE PRODUCED
 MANY CLEVER MANAGERS

Five managers of present major lea que ball teams were once players on the Chicago Cubs before the war of 1901 to 1902. The quintet consists of Clark Griffith, Jimmy Callahan, Frank Chance, t'Bill'' Dahlen and Harry Wolverton. Griffith was the first one of the five to land a. mana geria1 job. He began his career as leader of the Chicago Americans m ln 1901 and 1902. From 1903 to 1908 'Grif'' was the boss on the Hilltop, while the last three years he was in Washington, where he is likely to stay having bought an interest in the club. Callahan was the next one to land a. job as manager. When Griffith led the Sox in 1902 Callahan was ap- pointed leader of the team in 1903.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
MANY TENNIS PLAYERS
 IN BROOKLAWN TOURNAMENT
Annual Event Open to Any Local Enthusiasts Starts Next
 Tuesday.

received for the annual open city ten his tournament which will be heId next week at the Brooklawn club. ft is expected that the tournament will be the largest held here in yeare The entries will close Saturday eVeutun and drawings will oe made GO Ch=e the first round can Ss played s.-- 10.
 The city challenge cup. won last year by Watson Washburn. is now on cE- hibition at the Brooklawn cluh- JF.e cups for the runner up .E singles and the winners in doubles are aleo on view.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
Score By Innings.

Hartford 1000 ooooH1 Bridgeport ......v.0 O 900 % O-a
 Two base hits, Spratt, yenabIe. Sacrifice hit, Snyder. Stolen bases, Warmer, High. Double play, Spratt, Stow and Bridges. Bases on balls, off Wilson 6, off Sexton B.. Struck out, by Wilson g. by Sexton 1. Left on bases, Hartford 5, Bridgeport 8. Um-, pire, McPartlin. Time, 1:34.