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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
WARFARE LESSONS
FOR n. q. Z. OFFICERS,
Arms and Bullets Will be Put Into
Actual Use Today at Instruction
Camp.

Camp of Instruction. Mount
Gretna, Pa, June 5.-lnstruction of
the National Guard officers, which
has up to this time been entirely
along the original lines, today ap-
preached the practical elements of
warfare. Thursday it will develop
into actual use of arms and bullets,
when the student officers will go to
the state rifle range and be shown
just how their instruction applies in
actual military operations.
Then the officers of each brigade
will be marshaled as companies, most
of them taking place in the ranks as
privates, and the rest chosen as nom
commissioned officers. Colonels
will be reduced to the rank of cap
tains for the exercise, and each of
the four companies will be made up
of the regulation quota of seventy
five men and three officers.
Each company will be equipped
with rifles and will go to the range
one company at a time. Here and
there silhouette targets will sudden
ly spring into sight, representing an
enemy, and then all branches of the
service will have an opportunity for
demonstration of the lessons they
have received, including that of
craftsmanship.
There is every prospect of an in
teresting skirmish and particularly
surprise fire, new innovation in
the rifle practice of the guard will
be employed.
Tactical talks were again the rule
today, the colonels and other field
officers being quizzed on defensive
positions.
The second lieutenants, adjutants
and officers of like rank had another
drill IN the mountains with their
sketching tables and received an ad-
Yanced course of instruction on mat
ters typographical, while the cap
tains of each command were taken
through an imaginary engagement
between the Reds and the Blues, in
which a company of $50 men was
dispatched to capture post defend
ed by fifty men in the enemy's line;
the inspectors of small arms prac-
tice meanwhile studying problems of
the transportation of ammunition,
loading of shells, handling of explo-
sives, ETC., under Lieutenant Thos.
Whelon, of the Twenty-ninth United
States Infantry, one of the crack
shots OF the United State Army, and
an expert on ordnance.
Surgeons and members of the hos
pital corps went over an interesting
lesson in the operation of field hos
pitfalls, hospital trains and care of the
wounded.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
COLBAT IN PARTIAL RUINS
Especial to The Citizen.

Colbat, Ontario, Can, June G.
A fire starting in Lyric theatre, this
city, destroyed a number of build
ings in the business section to-day,
the loss amounting to s15O,OOO. The
fire was caused by the explosion of
a kerosene stove. The audience got
out without causing a panic. No
one was injured.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
SEWERAGE PLANT At FARVIEW
State Will Install System-Will
Protect WaymaFt.

State Commissioner of Health
Samuel G.. Dixon has approved plans
for sewage disposal plant for the
Somerset county almshouse. The
plant was recommended by the COM
missioner and will be installed with
in a short time. The State Hospital
for the Criminal Insane is also to
have a sewage disposal plant, plans
having been approved for one for
the new institution in Wayne coun-
ty. This will prevent any sewage
from the highperched prison from
polluting the supply of the town of
Waymart.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07

Rev, Thomas NJ. McHugh, who has
been studying at the University in
Washington for the past year, has
been sent to st. Philomena's church,
Hawley, TO take the place of Rev.
Thomas NJ. Jordan, who has been
transferred to st. Vincent's church,
Plymouth.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Electrocuted for Murder Committed
in 1910.
Especial to The Citizen.

Boston, June EN- the same cleo
trio chair that Rev. Richeson was
electrocuted, Harry Marshall, to-day,
paid the penalty in the Charlestown
Jail for numbering Frank Cussum-
mano in 1910. The dead mans wife
was also his accomplice. She has
been sentenced to life imprisonment.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Children's Story Writer, Mrs. Sang
ster. is Dead.

Newark, N. j., June 6.-Mrs. Mar
garet Elizabeth Sangster, poet and
author, died yesterday in Maple
wood, a suburb. She was "A years
old, and pursued an active literary
career for more than half a century
Death was due to an attack of indi-
gestion.
She had witten numerous books of
poems, works of fiction and stories
for children that have met with wide
popularity.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
HOD CARRIERS ON STRIKE.

Especial 70 The Citizen.)
Scranton, June 6.-Three hundred
hod carriers and laborers went on
a strike in this city this morning.
They are receiving 2 8 cents per hour
and demand 80 and 35 cents. A
number of non-union laborers are
filling the strikers positions.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Cotton Crop Condition Slightly Be-
low Normal.

Washington, ID. c., June GA
special cotton crop report was issued
by the Department OF Agriculture to-
day and estimated that on May %,
the cotton crops condition was 1873
per cent. normal, as compared with
SIS per cent. on May 25, of last
year, and S1.5 per cent. on ten
year average.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Leg Crushed by piece of Timber.

John IH. GrOmlich, aged % years,
resident of Maplewood, Wayne
county, had his left leg broken in two
places Tuesday morning when a large
piece of timber fell on him. He was
at work at the Consumer Ice COM
pany house at Maplewood when the
accident happened. He is now at
the State hospital, Scranton.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Planned to Run Titanic Full Speed
Especial to The Citizen.)

Especial 70 The CltiZen.)
London, June 6.-J. Bruce Ismay
told the British court of inquiry to-
day that it had been planned to
drive the Titanic at full speed dur
ing few favorable hours of her
maiden trip and that he considered
Captain Smith fully justified in go
ing at full speed through the ice
region so long as weather oondi-
tions made it possible to see ice
ahead.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
HOuSEFLlES AS
CARRIERS OF DISEASE.

Flies spread tuberculosis, diph-
theria, typhoid fever, scarlet fe-
YER, summer complaint and fe-
vers of babies by carrying disease
from one to another.
Keep everything clean and
thore will be no flea
Don't let flies have a place to
lay their eggs.
Keep covered all places whore
young files may be hatohed.
Put screens at windows and
doors.
Where is dirt there are flies.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Killed large Rattlers.

While hunting snakes on Pine
Ridge, Milton Decker, George Whit
taker, Fred and William Schoonover,
all of Lehman township, killed six
rattlesnakes, three OF which measur-
ed four feet in length and "sported"
nine rattles and a button apiece.
They also dispatched two large milk
snakes and two garter snakes. Quite
a class to these young men as reptile
hunters.-Milford Dispatch.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
GOVERNOR GRANTS RESPITE
Especial to The Citizen.

Scranton, June 6.-William Peter
Bische, the boy murderer of Irvan
Berger, the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad express mes
singer, was granted a respite today
at 1880 p. m. Consequently he will
not hang June 20. The execution
will be suspended until July 25. This
will give Bische's lawyers a chance
to present the case before the Board
of Pardons.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
Swat the Fly!
II Is the Most Danger
Gus Animal on Earth!

When bacteriologists inform us that
the average fly carries on its body
l,25o,o 900 germs, says Farm Dairy
ing, surely we should feel just cause
for grave alarm
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
LEA ASSISTANT FIRE MARSHAL.

Harrisburg, June 6.-Thomas c..
Lea, of Pittsburg, was appointed as
sistant State Fire Chief to-day by
Fire Chief Joseph f. Baldwin. Lea
will receive a salary of $4,000 per
year.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
AN UNPAID GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEE
Theodore Day kept Weather Record
For Uncle Sam Fifty-siN Years
Without Compensation-No
Old and Has No Income
Congressman Ainey No
titled.

There is probably no man better
known in Wayne and adjoining
counties than Theodore Day. of Dy-
berry. Mr.. Day, for many years, has
reported the weather for Uncle Sam
and the smallest and most pathetic
thing about the whole affair is that
the Federal government never gave
Mr.. Day one cent since 1854, when
he commenced keeping the weather
record. Since 1865, or until a few
years ago, Mr.. Day furnished a
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07
TO Open Cottage at Lake.

Miss Helena Clark, of the Scran-
ton Young Woman's Christian asso-
citation, spent Tuesday at Lake
Ariel looking over the summer cot
tage of the association. The cottage
will open next week.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07

Glass play this Thursday
evening at the High school.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-07

Beautiful, Progressive, SUBJ
stantial Honesdale. All work for
% Greater Honesdale.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12

w ASHINGToN.-Steam shovels are
w eating their way into the birth
place OF Nellie Custis, granddaughter
of Mrs. George Washington n ward
and adopted daughter of Washington.
For years the shovels nave been bit
ing trainloads Of yellow clay out OF
the fields OF Abingdon-as this estate
vas named by John Parke Custis, son
Of Mrs. Washington-and this clay
has been nodded n AXE into brick
for the upbuilding of Washington city.
Year by year the shovels have dug
nearer to the old and battered frame
house where the most popular
of the late revolutionary and the early
republican eras came into the world
and where her childhood was spent.
Now the deep clay pits are but a few
yards from the house and probably
not many months will pass when the
house will be no more. The clay ex-
hausted and the level of the fields re-
duced about thirty feet, the place may
be converted into railroad yards by
the Washington Southern railroad
the Washington Richmond line.
Abingdon was a great estate, but
the house was never a noble bit OF
building, according to an exchange.
When John Parke GUSTS married Mel
lie Calvert Of Maryland he seems to
have caused the erection OF this am
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
Chinese to Adopt Western Calendar

r HE adoption Of the western cal
endar was among the many
changes ordered in decree issued by
the cabinet in China, according to ad-
vices transmitted to the state depart
ment through the Chinese charge
d'affaires in this city. The message
also confirms the reported retirement
OF the prince regent and his return to
the order of imperial princes, and the
appointment of Shi-Hsu and Hsu Shin
Chang as guardians Of the emperor.
The message says that Chow Tszchi
has been appointed assistant minister
Of finance. The department was also
informed that by a decree issued Chi
nese subjects are permitted to cut on
their cues.
When the Chinese government or
dered that the western method OF
reckoning months and years be adopt
ed, the date jumped from the 18th day
of the tenth month to the third year
OF Hsuantung to the 9th day OF he
eleventh month of the year 1911 A. d.
1t was a long jump, apparently, and
in reality the change to h use OF the
Gregorian calendar, used by most OF
the great nations OF the world, was a
significant step in Cnina's advance to-
ward modern civilization.
For centuries 1t has been the GUS
tom in China to reckon the days OF
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
THE SAFE LAXATIVE
FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE

Most elderly people are more or
less troubled with a chronic, per-
sistent constipation, due largely to
lack Of sufficient exercise. They ex-
p%erience difficulty in digesting even
light food, with a consequent belching
Of stomach gases, drowsiness after
eating, headache and a feeling of lasst-
tude and general discomfort.
Doctors advise against cathartics and
violent %purgatives Of every kind, rec.
omnending a mild, gentle laxative
tonic, like Dr.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
10 effect relief without disturbing the
entire system.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the
perfect laxative, easy in action, GER
tain in effect and, withal, pleasant to
the taste. 1t possesses tonic proper
ties that strengthen the stomach, liver
and bowels and is a remedy that has
been for years the great standby in
thousands Of families, and should be
in every family medicine chest. 1t is
equally as valuable for children as for
older people.
Druggists everywhere sell DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin in soc and $1.0o
bottles. II you have never tried 1t
send your name and address to DR.. w.
b. Caldwell, 201 Washington St, Mon
ticello, ILL.,, and he will be YER glad v
send a sample bottle for trial.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
PLOTNER KILLS SELF
TRAGIC CLOSE OF SOUTH DA.
kOTA AFFINITY CASE.
Trail Of Suicides Followed Unlawful
Association of Former Dawson
County Sheriff and Mrs.
Kate Quinn,

Mitchell.-A trail of suicides has
followed in the wake of the unlawful
association of Luther Plotner and
Mrs. Kate Quinn, the last one occur
ring when Plotner ended his own life
just as a jury was to determine his
guilt or innocence on the charge of
adultery in connection with Mrs.
Quinn. The evidence in the case had
been concluded at W~oonsocket, to
which point the trial had been taken
on a change Of venue, and the only
rebnttal against the strong case hat
the state produced was the statement
of Mrs. Quinn, who made a genera
denial Of the relations which had been
charged against them. After s o'clock
In the evening Plotner had disap-
peared from the hotel where he was
stopping and all efforts to find him
were ~unavailing. The search was con-
tinued through the day, and the next
afternoon, just after Judge Jones had
dismissed the jury, the information
was brought in that Plotner's body
had been found a mile north of Woon-
socket, to which place he had wan
dered during the night after he had
taken a strong dose of laudanum.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
To Make Than Stick

Ever after the squabble between
Pickett's and Pettigrew's men as to
who got farthest at Gettysburg, the
North Carolinans and Virginians were
VIGOROUSLY Jealous Of each others
valor. Once when a Virginian, a staff
officer of General Wise, was riding
through a rather forlorn part of North
Carolina, he accosted a native home
on furIough:
How are you. North Carolina?"
"Fust rate How are you. Virginia."
Not much sale for tar now"
Yes, indeedy,' was the
I'VE sell all our tar to Jeff Davis
1.-The thunder you do! What on
earth does The president want with
tar2"
ITO put on the heels of you Vir-
g%inians to make you stick on the bat
tlefield."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
Wanted the Documents,

Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton Keefe was hearing the cas- Of a
woman who appealed to enter this
country notwithstanding serious
charges had been brought against her
morality.
Her attorney pleaded hat she might
do better II allowed to start on a new
life here. Look at the case Of Mary
Magdalene," he said. "See what was
done in her case. Why cannot the
same be done in the case of this wom-
an?"
Mr.. Keefe had been preoccupied. He
called to the clerk and said: Get me
the record in that Magdalene CASE
New York World.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
DARING ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE
Diary Of John L. Ransom Records Ef-
fort to Flee From Belle lsle
Prison, Near Richmond, Va.

Sufferings in Confederate prisons,
such as Belle Isle at Richmond and
Andersonville. Ga, are dc or by
many writer's, but probably Nowhere
more vividly than In a diary, now long
out of print, which was written LAY
by day in these two prisons and after
ward printed by the author. John l..
Ransom of the Ninth Michigan cav
airy. An attempt at escape from
Belle isle Mr.. Ransom's diary relates
as follows:
January 2S, 1S64.-The nights are
dark n cloudy. Mustard and Hen
dryx both sleep outside now. and l
must manage to. We are well rugged,
have some foo saved up to take
along; in good health and determined
to get away. Tonight we are to start.
The guard viii let us cross his beat
and go to the waters edge. We all
have rebel clothing. which we are to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
Laws That Favor Women.

The Women Lawyers Journal of
New York gives a list Of the amend
ments to the laws of New York state
that have been proposed SO that VIC
men may be more equal in the sight
Of the law with men thar they are at
present. One gives a mother equal
rights with the father in the property
of the children as he is now sole heir
Of his child. One makes her a Joint
guardian as he is now sole guardian
of the children; equal shares in prop
erty, revoking the will made under .
subsequent marriage. giving the wo-
man the right to any money b may
earn and other interesting ams0d-
ments are mentioned.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
IN MATcHToWN.
Fortunately no Faith Was Required,
For She Had None.

II had no faith whatever, but on b
advice Of a hale, hearty old gentleman
who spoke from experience, / began to
use Grape-Nuts about 2 years ago"
writes an Ohio woman, who says she
is 40, is known to be fair, and admits
that she is growing plump OF the new
diet.
II shall not try to tell you how / suf-
fered for years from a deranged stom-
ach that rejected almost all sorts O.
food, and digested what little was foro-
ed upon it only at the cost of grea;
distress and pain.
II was treated by many different
doctors and they gave me many diner.
emit medicines, and l eve spent sever
al years in exile from my home, think
ing change Of scene might do me good.
You may Judge Of the gravity OF my
condition when I tell you I was some
times compelled to use morphine Tor
weeks at a time.
For two years / have eaten Grape
Nuts food at least twice a day and !
can now say that l have perfect
health. / have taken no medicine IN
that time-Grape-Nuts has done it all.
I can eat absolutely anything ! wish.
without stomach distress.
81 am a business woman and can
walk my 2 or 3 miles a day and feel
better for doing SO. / have to use
brains in my work, and It is remark
able how quick. alert and tireless my
mental powers have become" Name
given by Postum Co. Battle Creek
Mich.
'Thsre's Z reason" and It Is explain
"a in the little book, THE Road -
Wellville," In pkgs.
80 anuearu frOn t1mo t. t1nes 40oy
are genuine, trus, and fUu - eulrn9
interest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
RATES HIGH ENOUGH
SEcOND-CLASS INCREASE PLAN
STIRs PUBLISHERS.
Of the Post Office Department
Attacked by the A. N. p. A.

Washington.-The A.. N. P. A..
through its postal committee Of which
Don. G. SeitE of New York is chair
man, has Joined in the fight against
the proposed increase in second-class
rates and in its last bulletin the COM
mittee attacks the management OF the
post ONCE department. The bulletin
10 as follows:
THE extent to which the post
office department does not carry sec
ond-class matter is we'll revealed In
the following abstract of inquiry OF
publishers conducted by house com,
m1ttee On expenditures in the post
office department civilian A. Ash
brook, chairman) concerning the vol
ume, weight and handling Of the out
put Of publications entered as mail
matter of the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911:
Inquiry was made Of all publish
ers, approximating thirty thousand, OF
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
more than ten thousand returns
were received, embracing sixty-sfx
plus per cent. of all tonnage OF pub
locations.
THE publications reporting repre-
sent an annual output Of more than
six and one-half billion copies, tho
weight of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
"'These publications delivered by
mail in such period weighed 833 ,012.-
900 pounds.
""They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, M news companies
840,466,574 pounds, Of which an unas-
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They do
livered by express, 202, 1873, $40 pounds,
and by other rail shipments 121, 491,-
1s pounds. The rate by express and
pound, but the bulk Of these ship
ments went at a rate OF Y to n cent
per pound.
""The post ONCE for the year end
ing June 80, 1911, handled 951, 001.-
$50, and excluding one-half million
pounds free in county matter, 1t re-
ceived one cent per pound
All this goes to add to the al
surdity Of the proposed Hitchcock leg
islation doubling the second-class rate
from one to two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter az
they do advertising.
"The proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached ST..
100000 two years ago 1t becomes
preposterous in face OF a surplus.
What business has n Transports.
ton corporation, which 10 all the post
Office Is. to prescribe how a business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers canno anord to e1
pand their columns beyond the call
Of the days news, nor al they be
expected to control the requirement.
OF their advertisers who have a right
to reach the public as copiously at
they care to.
ut cannot be assumed that such
legislation will ever get by congress
But publishers are requested to figh,
the theory that the right to send theil
output by mail is a "privilege." Thu
figures show 1t is not.
THE post office is a badly man
aged business. That is all. W.
should fight It's dictation, its censor
ship and it's inefficieney."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
Historic Washington Home Is to Go

pie though plain dwelling with the
idea that later he would erect a house
in keeping with his wealth n stand
ing In the community. Abingdon, be-
ing a GUSTS home, was directly or
remotely associated with nearly all
the colonial and revolutionary fam
lilies in Virginia and Maryland. The
house was built by John Parke Custis
In 1778. 1t stands about 800 yards
back from the Potomac river and
about three miles south OF Washing
ton.
John Parke GUSTS was descended
from John GUSTS, who came to Vir-
ginia from Holland in 1910. The son
Of this immigrant, John Custis H.,
built Arlington house in Northampton
county, Virginia, naming 1t after Hen
ry. the earl of Arlington, who, with
Lord Culpeper, Held Virginia under
patent from Charles II.
Young GUSTS bought from Gerald
Alexander LOO acres Of land, part OF
which is now Arlington National Gem
etery. He built Abingdon House n
there in 1779 Eleanor Parke Custis
Nellie Custis) was born. John Parke
GUSTS, an aid on Washington's stafr.
died at Yorktown In 1881 and Wash
ington adopted Nellie and her young
brother, George Washington Parke
GUSTS. The children thereafter made
their home at Mount Vernon.
Nellie remained there till h be-
came the wife of Lawrence Lewis,
Washington's sisters son, and George
Washington Parke Custts remained
there till the death of Mrs. Washing
ton, in 1902. Abingdon House is now
occupied by the foreman Of the brick
making company and his family.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12

the year by the luna calendar, each
year having $50 days, and the months
having Twenty-Five or thirty days, az
the case might be. Every third year
1t was necessary to slip in an extra
month so as to keep the season In
place and the years running mooth-
ly. Whenever a new emperor as
cended the throne the Chinese began
to reckon their years all over again.
The day Of the year, however, did not
change with the coming OF a new
ruler, but 1t became that day and
month Of the first year OF -, and
the new rulers name was given.
Chinese historians were compelled
to work overtime keeping their dates
straight, for it was no joke to reckon
the date of an event which happened
ten or fifteen hundred years ago when
the historian had to figure out who
was on the throne and what year Of
his reign the event occurred in. But
all this is now to be changed.