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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
Why Baseball Players Have Nc
Pockets in Shirts.

In the May American Magazine,
Hugh S Fullerton writes an article
full of interesting stories of freak
plays that have won great base ball
games. Following is one of the most
remarkable stories:
Among the abnormal incidents
that figured in the earlier history OF
the national game, perhaps none is as
we'll known to old-timers as the one
a member of the famous Browns.
which happened to Cliff Carroll, on
the St Louis team, when he was
Perhaps you have wondered why base
ball players have plain shirt fronts,
and why so few players have breast
pockets. He was running forward to
take a base hit on the first bound.
The ball bounced crooked and hit him
on the chest. He grabbed at the ball
hastily and, as he clutched it, he
showed it down into the handker-
chief pocket on his shirt front. The
runner saw Carroll tugging and
straining to tear the ball out of the
pocket and instead of stopping at
first, he sprinted onto second while
Carroll, still trying to dislodge the
ball, ran to second. The batter pass
ed the fielder and turned for third
with Carroll in pursuit. At third
Carroll stopped and tried in vain to
release the ball, and the runner kept
on across the plate and scored the
winning run. Chris Won der Abe
who at that time was at the head OF
the euphonic trio, Won der Abe
Muckenfuss and Diddlebock, which
operated the club was furious, and
ordered all pockets removed from
| baseball shirts. Other teams follow
ed and the pockets never have been
restored, except by a few players
who are willing to risk the repeti-
| tion of the accident"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
WAYMART.
Especial - The Citizen)
Waymart, May Is

w dyudIl, May o.
+. Franklin and family, who have
been in the habit of spending their
summers in Waymart, and have also
been here through the past winter,
are packing up their household
goods preparatory to going to Wash
ington, d. c., where they intend to
reside.
j. Du Val, general superintend-
ent of contractors at the State Hos
pital at Farview, will shortly re-
move his family from Baltimore,
Nd, to this place where they will
occupy the Franklin cottage.
Miss Ruth Nichols, who has been
teaching school at Sherman, has ac-
cepted a position as bookkeeper at
the Waymart glass cutting shop.
DR.. Asa Dimmick and Miss Adele
Richardson, of Brooklyn, n. Y, who
have been stopping at the Ensign
House, will return to their home
on Saturday.
The w. c. T. U. of this place held
book social in the lecture room of
the NJ. Z. church on Wednesday
evening. A goodly number of books
were donated for a new library. Re-
freshments were served and a gen.
eral good time enjoyed by all who
attended.
Mrs. George Spahgenburg and
two children, of Carbondale, spent
the past week with the formers par
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
copyrighted 1912 by Frank A. Hub
BILE, Yakima. Wash.)
CHAPTER XII

In our uncertainty as to their pur-
pose we took the safe side to get
away from them as fast as possible.
To go in the open on top the range
would invite danger; therefore, we
retraced our steps, crossed the trail
and commenced our descent down
the Tennessee side of the mountain.
A long slide on a sloping rock, some
80 feet, brought us on a bench OF
another, then around sharp turn
on high-a possible path between
two rocks-roCk and we would be
out of their sight from the trail. n
moments whispered consultation,
after which we followed on towards
the foot, but as yet we were not out
of their reach. 4 rolling stone,
loosened perhaps by them in their
search, gave a timely warning. We
would now have to guard against be-
ing seen from above, for If their
guns were of good calibre they
could pick us out from their higher
position. We were not now in a
state of mind to be Indifferent to
death. The Tennessee plains were
too much in evidence before us,
could we only reach them. We
we're warned by Hamlet not to
travel on near the foot of the
mountain, but keep to the path on
the crest until we could see the
mouth of the French Broad River,
where it emptied into the Chucky
Chucky River opposite our position
on the mountain. There we would
find outposts of a part of the west
ern army.
Therefore we must necessarily
meet with a difficult path and way,
being half up the side of the noun
tain, there being no worn or de-
fined path, the esting place of many
boulders, stones and rocks that had
in the ages fallen from the top. In
this difficult way we would at times
become exposed to most any promi-
nent point, where, perhaps from
their knowledge of the location,
they could easily dispose of our
party with their guns. Therefore
not only the roughness of the way
was an impediment to our progress,
but We also had to avoid their OBJ
servations with great care. We now
rounded and climbed the rocks and
at times slid into rocky ravines and
fissures quite hazardous but success
full.
II W dS IOh StLlluS uul n anu VIC
made a slide down on a rock that
brought us to a shelf about four feet
wide running around to the east
from where there seemed no outlet.
Yet it would be a shield from any
point up the side of the mountain
where they were probably watching
for our appearance from behind or
over rocks. Here we must remain
for the night and discover some way
off from this shelf at our earliest
twilight. We lay close to and un-
der the abutting rock while each
in his turn would stand guard, or
sit rather, and watch while the rest
slept-the only living witness to
our discontinue, the ever omnipres-
ent owl. That none should awake
and forget and roll too far towards
the edge, a close vigilance was kept
on each comrade the long, long
night.
Capt. Wilson awoke our party
with the conviction that we were
followed, as the reflection of a camp
fire on one spot on the opposite rock
showed from their camp fire which
probably they had built behind a
rock that would hide it from our
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
DAMASCUS.
Especial TO The Citizen)
DAmaScmS- MAY

lIdhld5NuoB way
The funeral of David Fortnam,
late of Tyler Hill, was held in the
Baptist church at II a. m. May II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Smith and
daughter Georgia of Binghamton, at
tended the funeral. Mr.. Smith was
a step-grandson of the deceased.
Uncle David" as Mr.. Fortnam was
familiarly called in the little village
where he spent most of his life, was
always interested in the affairs and
doings of others and his neighbors
were all his friends as evidenced by
the shower of postcards that deluged
him on his S5th birthday last Janu-
airy.
Lymon Bush has purchased a place
along the Delaware river. Theron
Oliver will move into his vacated
home.
"There's a big time coming, a
big time coming, there's a big time
coming by and by" It's Decoration
Day, May 80. Don't fail to be here
on that date.
The sophomOres of the High
school are planning to have a class
picnic at Lake Huntington on May
29th.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22

up by the White Star liner Oceanic
which arrived here.
Two of the bodies were secured
to thwarts by pieces of chains. The
body of cabin passenger was iden-
tilted by the clothing as that of
Thompson Beattie, of Chicago. The
other two we're members of the crew.
A fur coat with the name Williams
inside the pocket and a woman's s
ring inscribed, Edward to Cereda," +"
indicated that there had been others
in the lifeboat. The bodies were
buried at sea.
White Star line officials say that
the lifeboat is that mentioned by
Third Officer Lowe, of the Titanic,
who said he left three bodies in the
lifeboat of which he had charge
when his 21 passengers were trans
ferred to the Carpathia. This does
not conform with the evidence of
starvation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22

1t always pays to send your money
as far away from home as possible,
or buy of a peddler or transient
man. Over in Tioga county two
women bought $40 worth of real
Irish lace of a peddler, for so cents
a yard. The peddler told them il
was really worth two dollars a yard
and they believed him. The next
week one of these women found
bolt after bolt of lace in a Wells
boro store, the exact counterpart
of her Irish lace, selling for five
cents a yard. She described the
peddler to the merchant and he re-
collected that a man answering that
description had bought 500 yards OF
lace from him. All the peddle1
made was a thousand per cent, and
the poor man must live somehow.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
Wireless Whispers.

The signal corps at Fort Myer, Va,
can unpack its wireless machine, erect
the antennae, forty feet high, and be
gin work in Xty-eight seconds.
On an automobile wireless outfit
built for the Austrian army the motor
used to propel the car may also be
utilized to drive the electric generator
The Marconi company and the Ital'
ian government have made an agree
ment to erect large wireless telegraph
station in the suburbs of Rome, with
two towers 24O feet high and four 15C
feet
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
PAUPACK.
Especial to The Citizen)


Paupack, May 21.
The library of White school will
be open every two weeks on Satur-
day during the summer.
Mrs. Bennett is visiting her
daughter and son in New York city
Mrs. E. A. Gumble is i'll.
Miss Blanche NJ. Fowler visited
friends and relatives in Greentown
during the past week.
Mildred Brink spent Tuesday
night with her parents at Crosses.
Miss Lizzie Crump, of Strouds-
burg, visited friends at this place
last week.
Mrs. Kimble, who has been very
i'll for the past winter, is spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs. j..
K. Slocum.
Fri Trivelpiece has decided not
TO move this summer. He re-
Gently purchased a farm near Haw-
ley.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
Bunched Hits.

Nevertheless it won't be safe to try
kicking the umpire aroun'.-Cleveland
Leader.
One reason a woman never really
enjoys watching a baseball game is
because she never can tell when the
umpire ought to be killed.-Galveston
News.
The season Is young, but Muggsy
McGraw already has been chased. If
that man ever saw the dove Of peace
he would shoot it for a Quail.-De-
troit News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22
TITANIC SURVIVORS
STARVATION VICTIMS.

New York. Bits of cork in their
mouths and tooth marks on the cord
and wood portions OF the boat indi-
Gated that starvation killed three
Titanic victims whose bodies were in
Titanic collapsible lifeboat picked
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Seeley.
Mrs. c. w. Tuthill, Mrs. u. A.
Wonnacott and Miss Eva Palmer at
tended the Sunday school conven-
tion at Seelyville on Wednesday
last.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-22

You have no idea what great re-
suits our cent-a-word column will
bring you. Just try 1t and be con-
vinced.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
"POLLY OF THE CIRCUS"

Little Elsie St Leon Of the famous
st. Leon family Of equestrienness and
acrobats will soon be mere in the Ii
tie role of Polly in Margaret Mayo's
delightful story o fthe sawdust ring,
polly Of the Circus" a rare devel-
eped artistic temperament and "a
marvellous capacity FOR hard work
have combined to make this little
lady the youngest and most interest
ing leading woman on the American
stage today She and her associate
players will be seen at the Central
Opera House on Thursday, Sept 5.
Some people might jump at the con
clusioa that horse-shoes or rabbits
fet had something to do with it, but
when you learn the history of this
remarkable girl you will realize that
it was only the ordinary element of
luck which probably comes to every
one al some time. Miss st. Leon was
able to make good Luck only fur
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
mARTlNsBURe, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.

given exceptional privileges on the
supposition that they can and viii
render exceptional service to the peo-
pie. Rewards should be'proportioned
to service rendered. Who're an alb
normal reward is gained, from the fact
of monopoly existing, the public at
least ought to know it.
Yet these great corporations are yet
able to keep their more important Sc
crets locked in their impregnable
safes. Wherefore it sometimes seems
that laws are a net which holds the
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
PROBLEM OF PUBLIC HEALTH

When the historian of the future
reco.,1a the accomplishments of the
decade in which we are now living he
will no doubt call it the sanitary re
naissance," the period marked by a
widespread desire to improve the con
.ditions under which men and women
work and live. an era in which ply
sieians as truly altruistic profession
have instituted and led a movement
for the physical salvation of mankind,
says Dr. Rupert Blue, Surgeon-Gen-
eral of the United States Public
Health Service in recent number of
The Journal of the American Medical
Association. The public health insti-
tutions of our country have been
built up from the simple colonial quar-
antine to the chain OF working SAM
tary bodies of the nation, the state,
the county and the municipality. One
of the first bills introduced into the
First Congress of the United States
provided for the assumption of the
quarantine power by the federal gov
eminent But the time was not ripe,
and we passed through long period
of state and local quarantine, and not
few devastating epidemics, before
citizenship had evolved to the point
where it would impose these duties on
the general government The heart
of the problem is the state and local
boards of health. In a republic where
the right to govern rests on the con
sent of the governed, where public
sentiment very largely Influences the
enforcement of sanitary law, where
people think before they obey, the
cornerstone of the whole public health
fabric is the state board of health,
and its efficiency determines in large
measure the efficiency of the whole.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
WHY so WEAK?
Kidney Troubles May Be sapping
Your Life Away-Martinsburq
People Have Learned This
Fact.

When healthy man or woman
begins to run down without apparent
cause, becomes weak and languid. de-
pressed, suffers backache headache
dizzy spells and urinary disorders,
weak kidneys may be the cause. The
slightest symptom of kidney trouble
is too serious to neglect. Doans Kid
ney Pills have earned their fame bv
their effectiveness i'm strongthening
the kidneys and keeping them well.
Here is Martnsburg testimony to
prove their worth.
George W, Rutherford. 112 North
Maple avenue, Martinsburg, w. Va,
says: Il am willing to recommend
Doans Kidney Pills. as they proved
to be a remedy of great merit in my
case. | suffered from dsordered kid
neys for some time and ON account of
too frequent passages Of the kidney
secretons | was obliged to arise four
to five times every night, My rest
was therefore broken and | felt dull
and langHid nearly all the time The
kidney secretions also contained sedi-
ment and knew that something must
be done TO check the trouble be-
gan using Doan's Kidney Pills, pro
cured at Shepherds Drug Store, and
they corrected the disorder in short
time
For sale by all dealers Price 81
cents. FosterMilhurn Co, Buffalo
New York sole agents for the United
states.
Remember the name DOan's-an(
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
TRUSTEES GALE
of Valuable
REAL ESTATE.

The undersigned Trustee by virtue
OF the authority vested in him BY a
certain deed of trust made bv G. b.
Geyer to the UNDERSIGNED Trustee bear
me date the 3lst day of October, 1911.
and recorded in the Offices Of the Clerk
OF the County Court of berkeley Coun-
. ", West Virginia, in Deed of Trust
Book No. 2, page 434. to secure a Ger
tain debt evidenced BY a promissorv
motto dated the 31st DAY of October.
1911, payable ninety days after date
to the order of the SWastika Realty
Company, corporations at the Citi-
zens National Bank of Martinsbmg,
West Virginia, and made by the said
G. Z. Geyer for the sum of $1,49s 90
With interest from date. the under
SIGNED Trustee Will sell at public auc-
ton at the front door of the County
Court House in Nartinsburg, Berkeley
County. West Virginia. on
SATURDAY,, SEPTEMBER ID, 1912,
commencing at $50 o'clock D. m,
those three lots or parcels of real es-
tate being ,, and of "Windewald
addition No. ,, an addition TO the
town of Martinsburs, West Virginia.
being the same real estate which WAS
conveyed to the said G. b. Geyer by
deed from Thes SWastika Realty Com
pauY, a corporation, bearing date the
31st day of October 1911. and recorded
in the Office of the Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court of said County in Deed Book
No 1926. page 10; the plat of said
Addition being recorded in said
Clerks Office in Deed Book No 1876
page 421, to which said deeds and plat
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
TRANscoNTlNENTAL TOUR.


Stock Cars Belonging to Private Own
ers to Be Run on Road
The Owners Transcontnental Auto.
mobile Tour, New York to Los An
eeles, has been scheduled as leaving
New York city yesterday It will fol
low the Midland trail, which passes
through EIaeerstoWn, as layed ont By
the official pilot and pathfinder, A. l..
Wcst.ard.
The party will stop in IIagerstown
over night. 1t is in The nature Of a
Good Roads Tour"
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
CAPTAIN LAMON VERY III.

Capt G. Milton Lamon, we'll
known and venerable resident of Bun
ker Hill, is critically ill at his home
there, and there are fears for his re
coEery
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
AUToED TO sHEPHERDsToWN.

Postmaster e. c. Henshaw and son,
L. L. Henshaw, Attorney Wilbur II.
Thomas DR. J. II. shipper, County As
SCISSOR Ohio Williams and Roy Grove
went to Morgan's Grove fair this morn
ing in Mr.. Heushaw's automobile.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Personality Excursions to
Niagara Falls

July 10, August I, IS, 20, septem-
Der -, &c October 10, 1912,
S11o5 ROUND-TR'P FROM
MARTlNSBuRG.
SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullman
Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day
Coaches, running via the
Picturesque Susquehanna Valley
houte.
Tickets good going on Special
Train and connecting trains, and
good returning on regular trains
within FIFTEEN DAYS. Stop-olf
within limit allowed at Buffalo
returning.
illustrated Book ct and full in
formation may be obtained from
Ticket Agents.
Tours to Thousand Islands, July
IS, August Is and %; Maritime
Provinces, July "a; Montreal. July
81; Adirondacks July 81; Musko-
ka Lakes, August L; Quebec, Au-
gust Z; Yellowstone Park, August
10; Great Lakes, September II.
,ept 4 II IS % Oct 2.
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04

H-' Fl. a. Riddle, Gen. Pass Agt.
NJ. c. Kennedy, j. II. Tonge,
Vlce-Pres. q Gen. Supt. Supt.
W \ Gard Agent. Martjushnrg, w. Va
Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1912-09-04

aubscribs for Tue Byan1ng Journal
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Far Sale" CARES nr sale here
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WANTED H.I. Az clerl II aeHrrai
store. Refere4ca required Edward
l.. Hess. 44ti
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-05-24
THE AMERICAN ISSUE
May "a, 1912
Liquor Dealers Rights

In the consideration of the excise law
proposed for this district it is we'll to
get back to first principles. The sale of
liquor is licensed. Primarily it is un-
lawful and every license law begins
with the preamble that the sale of liquor
is prohibited except as hereinafter pro-
vided" The exceptions are the only
legal status the liquor traffic has
Saloons operate not as other business
concerns, by virtue of any inherent or
vested right, but only by virtue of the
suherance of the people, by being given
a permit to do business for stipulated
time under certain conditions. This per-
NIT is not even a contract. 1t cannot
be sued upon. AT the end of the year
it is no longer in existence, and the man
holding it has no right to complain if it
is not renewed. That is the chance he
accepted when he entered the business
for one year by permission Of the au-
thorities.
In view of this fundamental fact, in
discussing the excise law it is merely a
question of how much liberty the people
want to give the saloonkeeper. The sale
Of liquor is prohibited Except as here
matter provided" How many excep-
tons does the public want to make?
1t is not a question of how many
rights is the public taking from the
liquor dealer; it is a question of how
many concessions will it make him.
Washington Times.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-05-24
In Brief, Don't Be Foolish

10 all our young men let us say once
more: Now is the acceptable time to
cut off those occasions of intemperance
which are to be found in the use of
alcohol. Do not believe in the theory of
moderate drinking. Don't be such a
fool as to drink because others do. Don't
indulge in bibulous associations. Don't
say drinking is a good mans fault.
Don't believe in that sociability which
comes of drink Don't oppose temper
ance work. Don't encourage others to
drink. Don't forget the great work of
Father Mathew, and don't fail to apply
his lessons to your life and conduct
New Freeman, ST. John, N. B.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-05-24
Key to the Graveyard

There is said to be an old church near
Berlin, Germany, which is very attract
i've to tourists. The graveyard back of
the church is kept locked, but on the
gate is the following notice: "The key
to the graveyard is to be found in the
tavern"
This is an undersigned statement of a
great truth. A great army of men an
nually find the key that opens the way
for them into the graveyard by going
into the tavern. They not only unlock
the graveyard to themselves, but often
times to innocent children and helpless
women who are dependent upon them
Southern Patriot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-27
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