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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Deductions From the Study Of the
Records Of Three Generations
Published.

Berlin.-Do children inherit their
mental gifts or shortcomings from
parents or grandparents? The Ques-
ton is discussed in an article pub
lished in the German Umschau by DR..
w. Peters.
With characteristic German thor
oughness the author has visited most
of the state primary schools in Ger
many and Austria with the object OF
gaining information on this point by
comparing the school reports Of par
ents and grandparents, where avail
BILE, with those OF the present day
school child He has complete sets OF
records OF three generations. with the
following results:
When botn parents had good to av-
erage school records TO their credit
rs per cent. of their offspring pro-
duced the same, while the rest, "a per
cent, fell in various degrees below
the average.
When one parent had good and
the other a poor record, SO per cent.
of their children furnished good re-
ports and Al per cent. inferior ones.
When both parents were distinctly
below the average, only IS per cent
of their progeny turned out well and
62 per cent. badly.
The dependence of children on their
parents in this respect seems, there
fore. to be fairly well proved. Dr..
Peters, however, also found that when
rarents were equal those children
whose grandparents were above the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
BUMPER CROPS INDICATED.
Record Corn and Oats Yields-Wheat
To Exceed Average.

o Exceed average
Washington. - This years grain
crops in the United States will be far
in excess of last years yield, it was
estimated by the Department of Agri-
culture. 1t will be better than the
average crop for the past 10 years,
and in the case of a number of prod
ucts, will make a new record, if pres
ent estimates are not overthrow by
conditions at present unforeseen.
The country's corn crop estimated
at 2,S11,000,000 bushels, will be the
largest in the nations history, with
the exception of the years 1906 and
1910, the former being the banner
year with 2,9270O0,000 bushels. As
for the wheat crop, estimated at ESQ.,
100000 bushels, that will rank fifth in
size during the past 20 years.
The oats crop will be the largest
the country has gathered, surprising
by 21,000,000 bushels that of 1910, the
previous record. In barley, too, this
year will establish a new record, the
estimated yield of 2O2,000,OO bushels
being 240OO,OOO bushels greater than
that of 1906, the previous best year
The yield of rye, 100000 bushels,
will equal that of 1910, the former rec
ord year.
OF potatoes, which will amount this
year to 81 100000 bushels, only 1903,
with its 3S9,OOO,OOO bushels, produced
larger yield
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Dangers Of Photography.

Kiel, Germany-The five English
yachtsmen who were arrested on Au-
gust at Eckernfoerde, in Schleswig-
Holstein, on the charge of espionage,
were released. They were accused of
taking photographs of important
points along the Schleswig-H olstein
coast, including the harbors and bays,
but the police admit now that the sus-
pected men seem only to have been
guilty of foolhardy photography, Of
which they DOW know the risk.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
THE WOOL BILL
VETOED BY TAFT
Asserts itWOuId Destroy InduSt-
ries and Cause IdleneSS.
WANTSNEW MEASURE PASSED
Hopes Congress viii Adopt Rates
Based On Tariff Boards Re-
port, Which He Can
Approve.

WASHINGTON. - AS was expected,
President Taft crushed hopes OF re
vision OF the ad valorem duties on
wood, or Schedule X, during the pres
ent session of Congress by yetoing the
second bill passed within year.
The President sent to Congress with
the returned bill an exhaustive mes
sage of disapproyal of the action OF
Congress for ignoring the findings OF
the Tariff Board in its revision, which,
he maintained, would bring disaster to
home industries.
The bill provided for an ad valorem
duty of % per cent on raw wool and
a duty of 40 per cent. on clothes. In
his veto message Mr. Taft commended
that he could not act in conformity
with the dictates of his conscience
and the platform upon which he was
elected if he allowed the wooden
schedule TO become law,
He expressed the hope that another
bill would be sent up which he could
sign. as he sincerely desired to aid in
cheapening the cost of necessities so
far as it could be done without VIC
lence to the principle of protection for
the workingman TO which he was com
mitted
The Presidents disapproval of the
wool bill is to be followed with yetoes
of the Steel and the Cotton bills. The
Sugar bill is likely TO be vetoed, as is
the Excise Tax bill, the latter prob
ably on the ground that the President
regards il as unconstitutional.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Heredity Shown At School

average were the best scholars, and
vice versa.
Generally speaking, the childrenS
records followed those of the mother
more closely than those of the ia
Their. Wherever the father, however
possessed distinctly better abilities
than the mother the children without
exception tended to favor the male
parent. From this Dr. Peters con-
cludes that the greater intellectual
faculties exercise a stronger hereuf
tary influence on the offspring thau
the lesser ones.
A curious point in the statistic"i
tables prepared by DR.. Peters from
his material is that for reading anu
writing the marks gained by children
correspondent closely to those OF ,no
parents; for arithmetic, less So loI
grammar, again less. and least OF al
for Scripture"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Snake Had No Chance.

Sandusky, GA battle between a
blacksnake about two feet long and a
clucking hen, with dozen little chicks
at her side, fought in dusty road
near Milan, was won by the hen. The
fight lasted almost an hour, but the
snake, according to witnesses who
stood away, ready to go to the fowls
assistance if she needed it, never had
a chance When the hen finally with
drew from the scene the snake was
dead.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
KNOX WILL PAY
VISIT TO JAPAN
Secretary of State to Go to
Mikado's Funeral.
OTHER IMPORTANT DUTIES.
President Taft Appoints Him AS a
Special Representative OF the
United States At the Funeral
Of Mutsuhito.

Washington.-For the first time IN
the history OF the United states the
Secretary Of State was designated as
a special ambassador TO foreign
power.
President Taft has assigned Secie-
tary of State Knox as special amhas'
Eador to Japan TO attend The funeral
Of the late Emperor Mutsuhito on sep
tcmber II, with the statement mat
the mission was given TO the premier
OF the Cabinet as an evidence OF 'he
American friendship Tor Japan. Nhtn
Viscount Chinda, japanese Amhassa-
dor to Washington, heard OF the ms.
sion, he asserted that IL Wo"Id ne
taken by the japanese people ana
government as an act OF the greatest
courtesy and one calculated TO make
even warmer and more cordial the
existing relations between the TWO
governments
At present the United States and
Japan are vitality interested IN several
important diplomatic matters lhciud'
ing the great international loan, soon
to be made to the new Chinese re
public; the naturalization Of the future
railway systems of Manchurla; the
development Of Manchuria and Mon
golia by the aid OF outside capital
the treatment OF American mission
aries in Korea and the use OF the
Panama Canal by japanese ships.
All Of these matters more or less
are pending between the two nations,
and the present foreign minister OF
Japan. Niscount Uchida, who was
formerly ambassador TO Washington,
a personal friend OF Secretary Knox
and the Secretary, are interested IN
all Of them.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16

chosen according to the social statw
Of the criminal.
There are two executioners. One ia
hidden in some brushwood, while the
other, dressed in vivid red, conducts
the criminal to the place of sacrifice
hiGding him be seated on banana
leaves, Gin order to be entirely seDs,
rated from earth" The condemned
man is then put into position, await.
ing the axe. Earth is put in bs
ears. For two hours or more nothing
happens. Siamese law demands that
the criminal shall bow hsi bead volun.
tarily TO the axe. This he does final
ly from sheer exhaustion, and mnedI.
ately headsman No. rushes from bs
hiding place and does the rest. The
eXecutioners are then sprayed with
holy water and otherwise purified
from contact with the victims soul.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Claim With Wheelbarrow.

Milan, Italy.-A live man was oounu
10 a wheelbarrow with a sailors scarf
and belt and both were then hurled
from the pier head into the sea at sa-
vona. This new and barbarous form
of murder was discovered by a party
of bathers who CHANGED to see the
body and the barrow at the bottom
of the sea in twenty feet of water.
The police were promptly informed
but so far they have found no cleW
TO the identity either of the victim
or of his murderers.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
BURNS TO DEATH
IN HIS PALACE
Haiti's President Victim of His
Own Caution.
400 KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
Powder Magazine Which He Had
Stored There To BE Ready For An
Uprising ExpIodes and Sets
Fire To the Palace.

Port au Prince, Haiti-The national
palace was blown up by a powder eX-
plosion and burned TO the ground and
the President Of the Republic OF
Haiti, General Cinciunatus Leconte,
persisted. Members Of his family. who
We're awakened by the terrific shock,
found themselves almost surrounded
by flames but managed to make their
way to safety.
The first explosion was followed b.
others when the fire reached the Gel
lars OF the palace, where great guam
tity OF ammunition was stored SO
great was the force of the explosion
that a number of small cannon, frag-
ments OF iron and shells were thrown
Tor great distances in all directions.
Many palace attendants were killed
and it is estimated that the casualty
list will reach 400 persons killed or in
jured.
For a time a great panic prevailed
and the military authorities imme-
diately took charge OF the situation.
The explosion occurred shortly after
5 o'clock in the morning, and within
all hour, when the fire, which was con
fined to the palace, was eXtinguished,
the structure was a mass of ruins,
from which it will be impossible to
recover the body of the president.
At a joint meeting of the Chamber
and Senate Gen. Tancrede Auguste,
senator and ex-minister OF pubic
works, was named as president.
Cincinnatus Leconte was elected
unanimously by Congress president of
Hayti on August "A last year.
He first gained prominence in
Haytian affairs in 1908, when, as
minister of the interior in the cabinet
of President Nord Alexis, he was
credited with ordering the summary
shooting of 10 prominent revolution
aries at Port au Prince
When the regime of Nord Alexis
was brought to an end shortly after
ward, Leconte went into exile in
Jamaica. While there he intrigued
against the new president, Simon, and
in January, 1911, started a revolution
against him, which was, however,
short-lived. The insurgents were de-
feated and Leconte took refuge in the
German Consulate at Cape Haytian,
later being sent from the island under
German protection.
Leconte returned to Hayti in May
last year and succeeded in overthrow
ing President Simon.
He was a mulatto, between 40 and
so years of age, and belonged to the
legal profession
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Money Laundry Permanent.

Washington.-Secretary MacVeagh,
of the Treasury. has decided to make
a permanent institution of the money
laundry apparatus recently tested by
the Bureau Of Printing and Engrav.
ing. Already about 100000 in bills,
most of them of small denominations.
have been washed by the machine and
the results have been most satIsrac.
tory. All the soiled currency which
comes into the Treasury from this
time on win be sent to the 1a,.ndry
for securing.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
An Erpert Chicken Thief.

Rome, Ga.-One thousand stolen
chickens in three months is the record
OF Henry Richardson. a negro of this
city. Richardson told the police that
his income from the fowls during that
time had averaged 800 a month. The
negro, who has made a full confess
sion to the police, said that he would
often steal as many as so chickens in a
night. He dressed them in the day
time, then sold them at just enough
reduction under the market price to
have no difficulty in disposing of
them.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
CRAFlN is NOTIFIED.
Prohibition Nominee For President
Strongly Endorses Slx-Year Term.


Strongly Endorses slx-Year Term.
Waukesha, Wis-In the vicinity Of
his birth place and surrounded by the
friends of his youth Eugene W. Chatin
now a resident Of Arizona, and the
Prohibition candidate for President Of
the United States, was officially mott
fed Saturday of the nomination by
the national convention, which met in
Atlantic City, n. j., July 10.
The ceremony took place in the
Methodist Church, a heavy rain com
pelling a change from the outdoor
program. The notification address
was delivered by Rev. DR.. Charles II.
Mead, of New York, the permanent
chairman of the national convention
In accepting the nomination Mr.
Chain said it Vas with gratitude that
he received the engrOssed copy of the
party's platform, which, he said, "can
be hung over the Office desk of the
President in the White House and be
a daily reminder of the pledges to the
people"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
BEHEADING IS LONG AFFAIR
Victim Is First Fed-Not Until He
Voluntarily Bows His Head Does
the Axe Fall.

Partisan execution in Siam is sn
extraordinary business, according to
correspondent of the Chronique Medi-
Gale. The doomed man, awakened at
dawn, is led in chains to the temple,
where candles are lit around him. He
is exhorted to think of nothing, to
disassociate his mind from mundane
affairs and is given the best meal of
his life, the menu being carefully
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16

ers are elderly women who find them
selves alone in the world" Father
Dalton said. But the farmers WHY
ask for wives are younger men anu
they do not marry such women. ole
man who wrote to me owns three pls
farms; another has $50 acres of hns
farm land and third farmer shoWeu
me that he had $4,000 in the bahA'
Can you tell me why it is that a WON
an will not give proposition like tn .,
minutes consideration, but VIZ
choose instead some struggling pam
clerk in the city who lives from hanO
TO MOUTH"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Ak RESTORES HIS MEMORY.
Blow On the Head Cures a Young
Man OF Aphasia,

Atlantic City.-Edward Clarke, 10
years old, who became a victim of
aphasia four months ago, as the re
suit of a fall, has had his memory re-
stored by receiving blow from an
ak. He was at work chopping wood
in the yard of his home, when his ak
struck a clothes line and hit him on
the head along side the scar made by
his former accident When he re.
covered consciousness this time his
memory had been restored.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Zeal MAY XII Giant Tree.

Yosemite, Cal-The zeal of the
Government to protect the Grizzly
Giant" monarch redwood of the
Mariposa grove, is said to be threat
ening its destruction. Laborers are
now engaged in erecting a fence
around the S,000-year-old veteran and
in sinking post holes they cut through
some Of the main roots.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
SOME OF CUPID'S BREAKS

of the Annunciation Catholic church
here after reading the letters OF 6,542
persons who desire to marry and have
written to him for help. Father Dal-
ton attracted attention a few months
ago through school of matrimony"
he established in connection with ms
church to encourage marriage among
the young people of his parish.
THE only women who express Q
willingness to become wives of farm
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Pastor Dalton of Kansas City, Mo"
Discusses Developments of His
School of Matrmony.

Kansas City, Mo.-Money, comfort
fresh air, good things to eat-sucn
wings are not sufficient to tempt mar
siageable American women away lroNn
the cities.
THAT conclusion has been reached
~ the Rev. William ]. Dalton, pastor
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
AGRICULTURAL BILL SIGNED.
Means Release For Field Work Of
Small Army Of Employees.

Washington.-The Agricultural APP.
preparation BILL more than a month
overdue in taking effect, was signed
Saturday by President Taft and re
leased for field work a small army Of
employees held up during the delay on
the measure in Congress. Secretary
Wilson ordered immediate resumption
OF farm demonstration work in many
States.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
DYING MAN IS MARRIED
German, Suddenly Stricken, Sends for
GirI-Ceremony Is Performed
in Hospital.

Berlin.-A pathetic marriage cere'
mony took place in a Budapest nos
pital. A German singer named Erdes
who was appearing in the Hungarian
capital, was suddenly taken Ill a lew
days ago. He telegraphed to DIS
sweetheart in Frankfort to come 70
him. The girl started at once anu
arrived in Budapest. They were mar
ried Immediately in the hospital Waru'
and Erdos died an hour after the cere
mony.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
MEAT CRUSADE HITS GOTHAM.
"Remedy Is Beans Runs Sign Over
One Restaurant.

New York. - Boston's crusade
against the use Of meat has reached
this city. A restaurant in lower
Broadway hung out a large canvas
sign bearing the following inscription;
Taboo meat. United States Chief
Chemist R. L. Doolittle says the rem.
edy is beans"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
SON FATALLY SHOT.
Father Rushing To His Side Is Serl-
Gully Injured.

Scranton, Pa.-When an automobile
was ditched near Elk Place, Susque-
hanna county, Capt J. c. Harrington,
of Montrose racing to a camp where
his 14-year-old son had been acct
dentally shot, was seriously injured
The boy was wounded while playing
with gun, and died soon after his
father left Montrose in response to a
telephone call.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
BOYS TRY TO BLOW UP CHURCH.
Explode Dynamite and Break Up a
Meeting.

Huntington, W. Va.-Dynamite was
touched off against the Madison Ave
nue. Church of Christ here by a band
os boys who had been chased away
from the church grounds. The eX-
plosion rocked the structure and broke
up a meeting within No one was
seriously injured. The explosive was
obtained of a nearby contractors out
st
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
Doq Keeps Watch for Master

Observation-Disclosures tnat Oswald
Saeber, the young master, was still IN
tbs Northwest General hospital, GYPSY
a French poodle, kept constant
vigil outside the institution for four
weeks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
STARTS eEDBUG FARM.

New Jerseylte Is Raising Them For
Virginia.
Newton, N. Leslie Morris has
started a bedbug farm and has of
fered a good price to anyone who can
furnish him with healthy specimens.
He is breeding the bugs for shipment
to Virginia. where they have beeG
found the best agents for the eradica,
ton of another insect which preys on
fruit trees.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-08-16
TO ASK FOR DOMINICAN LOAN.

Republic Wants Money To Make War
Upon Haiti.
Washington.-The Dominican Min
lister here. DR.. Don Francisco J. Pey-
nado has been instructed by his Gov
eminent to arrange for loan of $780,
600 to enable the Dominican Republic
to war upon Haiti The State Depart
ment will try to dissuade the two re-
publics from their present war-like in
tentions.
The Washington times., 1912-09-30
Reasons enough for this extraordinary sale of
1000 new fall tailored suits
Stunning models manv Of them CL: c1-En
Choice, $3.50
Stunning models, many Of them
made to sell as high as $500

REASON
REASON
maker
REASON Special of made for large mader Cancelled be-
REASON needed
ik-binng
made all
Extra salpple
Stores
The Washington times., 1912-09-30
JOB WAS ASSURED
FOR NAN WHO SHOT
HIMSELF TO DEATH
Lentie L. Jet Could Have
Had Back Position This
Morning.

II Lentis L. lett had not killed him
self. while in . nt Of dependency
over the loss of his Job he would
have been reinstated this morning as
fireman at q local brewery. At the
time Jett ended his life last evening
by firing o bullet In his brain at his
home. s2s Florence street northeast,
Policeman Jett, Of the First precinct.
q brother Of the dead man, was max
ing arrangements with the brewery
people for his brother to 20 back to
work this morning.
Jett was discharged Saturday. At
the supper table last evening he told
his wife. Mrs. Minnie Jett. that he
was 30 discouraged he intended to
take his life. Mrs. Jett did not be-
lieve her husband would carry out his
threat. She tried to cheer him up
By saying he would probably have
but little difficulty in getting an
other situation.
About 9 o'clock Mrs. Jett went
across the street to visit . neighbor.
Returning q short time later. she
found the front door locked. and
fearing that something was wrong
sent hoy to the Ninth precinct sta
tion for a, policeman. Policeman
Barteman went to the house and
forcing an entrance, found Jet lytns
In bed with Q bullet wound In his
right temple.
The Washington times., 1912-09-30

Swift q Company's sales Of Fresh Beef
in Washington, d. c., for the week end.
Ing Saturday. Sept. -, averaged 81
cents per pound.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1912-09-30
WOMAN MAKES PLEA
!. FOR GARDEN CITIES
Says Trees, Flowers, and vege.
tables Are the Greatest SAM
" tary Factors.

At an informal meeting Of delegates
to the International Congress OF Hy-
giene and Demography. Nine. Bertha
Allix, commissioner OF the French
Garden City and Town Planning Asso-
citation, recently told of the advances
made In Europe In the way OF creating
and remodeling sanitary cities. She
predicted that the United States will
soon take the lead In the remodeiing
Of its cities to conform to the new
garden standard.
She said trees. flowers. and vegetable
life are the greatest sanitary factors.
and, therefore. there should be plenty
OF them In the garden city homes.
The Washington times., 1912-09-30
RURAL CARRIERS GET
RAISE in PAY TODAY
Increase From $1,000 to si,i0C
Granted BY Last Congress
Affects $4,000 Men.

Thirty thousand rural mail carriers
Of the United States are working today
day. for this 10 the date when the In
crease in salaries from 1900 to S1.100
becomes effective. II Ii the second ad-
vance for rural carriers in the last four
years, and means an increased disburse-
ment OF n. 600. 900 o year.
The carriers themselves say they
need the money. and that Congress, re-
alixing the justice Of the request, voted
tho increase for this reason. On the
other hand, II 10 declared that the rural
The Washington times., 1912-09-30

organisatio in the Government service.
and that nearly all OF them have infiu-
cnoe at homo BY reason of their know
ing practically every man, woman. and
child along their routes.
However, with the parcels post COM
ing. the work Of the rural carriers 10 10
be greatly increased, according to the
men. which believes the carriers will
earn their increase In pay. AZ
When the first rural free delivery car
riers were appointed sixteen years ago.
the eiEhty-three men then put on were
given $500 q year.
The Washington times., 1912-09-30
Palladium Demand
Exceeds Production

One hundred ard ten thousand dollars
worth of palladium was produced in
the United States last year according
to q bulletin out today Of the Geologi-
cal Survey. Tho demand for this metal.
which Il considerably , more valuable
Palladium Is used In chronological
work. II forms the circles of astrono-
mical Instruments and 10 employed In
Matchmaking.