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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
Hopes to Grow Vegetables.

In addition to the wireless. Mr.. Mac
MILAN has several other innovations in
arctic work he will put into operation
Oil his Crocker Land search.
He hopes to grow fresh vegetables
in hothouses by the aid of burning
glasses which will be brought to focus
on the sheltered plants during the sum-
mer season, when the sun is visible.
Scurvy is one of the chief enemies
he expects to encounter, and he hopes
that If he is successful in raising fresh
vegetables during the period while the
sun is up he will be able to hold at
bay this grim visaged specter of the
deep arctic silenceS.
Then, too, he may take with him a
Great South bay scooter, the first Of
! her genus to invade the arctic circle.
The scooter is an amphibious craft,
native of the Great South bay Of Long
| Island. She is built like boat, but
equipped with runners on the bottom,
and goes as well on the water as on
ice. On smooth ice the scooter sails at
the speed Of sixty miles an hour and
in the water at the speed Of regula-
ton sailboat
The trip Macmillan and six comrades
will make Is believed to be one of the
most perilous that could have been Sc
lected. The safety Of the expedition
depends wholly upon the consistency
and duration Of the winter ice in the
polar sea, and those who have spent
much of their lives in the far north
have learned that polar sea ice is an
uncertain quantity on which to pin life.
Briefly. the plan of the expedition is
to push north, with several stops for
the last supplies, until Cape York,
Greenland, is reached about Aug. l..
From there the party will proceed to
Flagler bay, Ellesmere Land, where the
headquarters camp will be built.
The ship will return to New York,
and the seven members of the eXplor-
ing party will set about preparing for
the long, dark winter.
Some of the party will then push
north through the mountains of Elles-
mere Land into Eureka sound and
through Nansen strait to Cape Thomas
Hubbard, the point from which Peary
saw the dim outline of Crocker Land
northwestward across the polar sea.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
AERIAL P0STMAN'S BAD LUCK.
Harry Jones Takes Fifty three Days to
Go From Boston to New York.

Harry Jones Takes Fifty three Days to
Go From Boston to New York.
1t required fifty-three days for Avia-
tor Henry M. Jones, first aerial post
man, to carry mail from Boston to
New York, and even then he had to
complete the journey by train.
Jones arrived at the general post
Office in New York recently with a
mail bag containing sixty letters and
a dozen parcels. He had gone by
train from Rye, N. Y, where his aero
plane finally collapsed after having
met with many accidents since the
start was made from Boston Jan. 10.
Postmaster Mansfield Of Boston gave
Jones a crock of genuine Boston baked
beans for Postmaster Morgan Of New
York. Jones handed the empty crock
10 Mr.. Morgan, explaining that the
beans had soured and been thrown
away on the protracted trip.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
CIRCLING GLOBE IN BARREL.
Venice BIacksmiths Making Freak
Journey on Wager.


There seems to be no limit to the
foolish things some people will do for
the sake of wager. Early in 1910 two
Venetian brothers named Vianello,
blacksmiths by trade, made bet that
they would travel around the world in
a barrel
During the month Of June they duly
set out from Venice and later arrived
Mt Berlin, where they received an en-
ihusiastic reception. The barrel was Of
special construction, open at the end
and having a ''perch" inside so con-
Structed as to remain always upright.
On this one brother sits while the other
trundles the barrel along. Food is
stored along the sides, and at night, If
no other shelter is available, both
brothers sleep in their queer rolling
home.
They estimate that the trip around
the world will occupy at least twelve
years
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
Moon Will Help.

"We hope to reach the cape before
the winter night shuts us in," Mr.. Mac
MILAN said recently. "All along the
300 mile trail between our headquarters
and the cape we will have made caches
of food for our return journey. Then
when the night sets in we will wait for
the moon, and with its help we will re-
turn to headquarters on Flagler bay,
where we will wait for spring and the
time for us to start on our dash for
Crocker Land.
"All winter in camp, while we are
waiting for this time to arrive, we eX-
pect to be comfortable, for we will have
electric lights from power plant spe-
cially constructed, and we will be busy
collecting food for the next two or
three years work. Then there will be
the wireless to occupy us and the gar
dening with the rejecting glasses
which hope to experiment with.
"It is my belief that we can grow
radishes and some few other vegeta-
bles, such perhaps as Swiss chard, I'M
der glass that is heated with rejecting
glasses, though I am by no means GER
tain. The first year we will be in no
danger of scurvy, but after that it is
always well to prepare for inroads by
the disease. l do not think we shall
be troubled however, for fresh meat is
a preventive. The Eskimos, who have
plenty of fresh meat, never have
scurry, and we expect to kill plenty
of polar bear and musk OK"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
PLANS TRIP FROM
EARTH TO MOON
Partisan Engineer Tells How
1t Gould Be Made.
WOULD USE OSED VESSEL

NJ. PeIterie Asserts by Scientific Fig
ures That Object Gould Be Projected
Through Ether Like Skyrocket and
Journey to Other Planet Made In
Forty eight Hours.
A stir was caused by q paper read
recently before the members Of the
French Physical society. in Paris, by
Robert Esnault Pelterie, the brilliant
young engineer. on how to get from
the earth to the moon in forty y-eight
hours.
NJ Pelterie insists that his idea is
practicable, based on scientific calcu
lationS. and not reminiscent of Jules
Verne's romance.
The vehicle for the first travellers to
the moon will, he says, be a closed
vessel of extreme lightness. provided
with motor of great power, a com
bination which the astonishing ad-
vances of locomotion during the past
100 years brings well into sight.
Since there is no atmosphere in the
space between our planet and the
moon no system of propellers would be
Of any use. and the only possible
means Of driving the vehicle forward
would be an adaptation of the rocket
principle, which, he says. works as
well in vacuum as in air.
To Use Rocket Device.
The motor then would work a kind
of continuous rocket, and NJ. Pelterie
has made calculations Of just how
much power the engine must have to
carry the vehicle along the 100000 odd
miles between the earth and its satel.
lite.
For a vehicle weighing one ton the
motor would have to be Of 414,000
horsepower For added weight the
horsepower must be proportionately in
creased. When this combination was
realized the journey would be divided
into three parts. The first would be
to drive the vehicle with increasing
speed until the sphere Of the earth's
attraction was passed. During the sec
ond the vehicle would continue its
journey by inertia until it reached the
point where the moons attraction be-
gan. while the third would be the sim
pie matter of dropping on to the lat
ter's surface, no motive force being
necessary.
Trip In Three Periods.
The first of these phases, according
to the lecturer, would last twenty-four
minutes and nine seconds. the second
phase forty-eight hours and five min
utes and the third three minutes and
forty-six seconds, giving a total of
forty-nine hours, seventeen minutes
and fifty-fve seconds.
During the first 1000 miles, he says,
the passengers would have the sensa-
tion Of weighing one-tenth more than
usual, but afterward they would cease
to weigh at all and have the sensation
Of falling indefinitely into space.
To remedy the bad physical effects
which might result from these phe-
nomena special appliances, says NJ.
Pelterie, might be installed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
PENNSYLVANIA ID. A. r.. REGENT
FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

At the Convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Daughters of the American
Revolution held in Philadelphia on
May 1st, Mrs. Louise X. Keay, the
Regent of the Pennsylvania Society
in referring to woman suffrage said,
" This reform has become essential
to good government in this country.
1t is time for American women to
cease frivolities and take a more
active part in the worlds work"
The Pennsylvania Senator who
thought he had scored a hit against
Votes for Women by asking "how
would you like your wife to go to
the polls and be approached by some
woman who had led prostitute
life?" found something of a boomer
ang in the reply of Senator Powell,
"I resent the imputation that the
women of this State are afraid to
talk to a prostitute at the polls. I
want to say that they would very
much prefer to talk to them at the
polls than have their husbands talk
to them in houses licensed by men
for the purpose"
The Pittsburg Leader in comment
ing editorially on the great Suffrage
parade in New York on May 3rd,
says: Men are looking more at
women now as fellow human beings
with the same social and industrial
and economic problems to solve as
themselves, rather than as women,
as representatives of their sex.
Men are coming to see more every
day that their interests as men, as
representatives of a sex, are less i'm
portant, reach to a less distance,
than their interests as human be-
ings.
1t is this view, broadening stead
lily, that has driven so many men in
to the active propaganda for woman
suffrage.
The Pennsylvania Woman Suf-
frage Association has been invited
to send a speaker to the Annual
Convention Of the Pennsylvania Fed
Grafton Of Labor to be held in Read
ing on May 18th.
A suffrage speaker has been a
feature Of Federation's Convention
for a number Of years and the con-
vention has enthusiastically endors-
ed Votes for Women.
Pennsylvania makes the 18th.
state this year where both houses
of the Legislature have given major
ity votes in favor of submitting a
constitutional amendment enfran-
chising women. And yet the Ants
say 'it is adying cause" Whose
cause!
Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest
daughter of the President is very
much in favor of woman suffrage -
She said so at the reception given
her at the Greenwich village social
centre in public school Al, New York
Miss Jessie Wilson has been an
avowed suffragist for some time. The
gospel seems to be making headway
in the Wilson family.
Cardinal Gibbons has announced
that the Catholic church takes no
stand either for or against votes for
women, and that his own opposition
to woman suffrage represents mere
ly his personal opinion.
The late Cardinal Moran who had
watched Equal Suffrage in operation
for ten years believed it a tremend-
Gus power for good.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
ELECTRICITY WILL DANISH THE
TERRORS OF THE ARCTIC NIGHT
Giant Wireless Station Will
Keep Explorers In Touch
With Civilization.

parties and the sledges that make the
dash across the frozen sea for Crocker
Land will always be within talking"
distance with the base of supplies.
Had Captain Scott. the i'll fated Eng
lish antarctic explorer, been equipped
with such portable wireless and a big
receiving station at his base of sup
plies he could have sent for aid when
he and his heroic companions were
trapped in blizzard on the great
ice Darrier.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
Farmers and Me-
ChaniCS Bank,
OF HONESDALE. WAYNE COUNTY, PA
at the close of business. MAY l. 1913.
RESOURCES.

Reserve fund.
Cash, specie and notes, Sl3,76 90
Dine from annrpUaH ra-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16

NJ. PeIterie Asserts by Scientific Fig
ures That Object Could Be Projected
Through Ether Like Skyrocket ano
Journey to Other Planet Made lr
Forty eight Hours.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-16
S45l,OO4 40
State OF Pennsylvania, County of wayr

I,C.A Emery, Cashier OF the above named
company do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best OF my knowledge
and belief,
C, A. EMERY, Cashier.
=, Subscribed and sworn to before me this
sth day OF May, 1913.
Ny commission expires Jan. 10, 1915
Correct attest:
M E. SIMoNs,
j. s. BROWN, kDireetore
M. j. HANLAE, 6W4
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
POETRY.
A Thanksgiving Party.

By. Helen M. Richardson. Thanksgiving day I had some friends To dinner, five in all. l spread my table in the yard; My guests were very small.
 Miss Chickadee quite early came. Dressed all in black and gray. A Woodpeclxer flew to her side, Red-dhDped, with neck band gay. Pert Mfr Nuthatch next arrived, A gyEnast of renown He could do stunts on any tree With head or up, or down. Miss Sparrow then came. smartly
 dressed
 In pretty mottled brown; And last of all a squirrel gray From home in squirrel town. When all my friends had found a place At my Thanksgiving board, They made a very charming sight, And I could well afford To give them all that they could eat, For knew in the spring They'd be my unpaid foresters, And gaily work and sing.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27

with some boards. I looked up and saw boards overhead. too
 l looked to see what the feathers were, and to my surprise they be- longed to my mother. I asked her where I was.
 She said: "You are in a barrel. will take you out for walk when you are a little older" Every morning we were fed by the lady of the house. One morning she forgot to shut us up. Mother said: Come, we'll take our walk now. We will go into the fields for a feast. Eat all you can so you will grow to be large like me"
 We were in the fields all day At night we came home to our house. In the night someone came and stole my mother. l was cold all the rest of the night
 In the morning the lady was awful angry to find my mother gone She wanted my mother for her Thanksgiv- ing dinner.
 As days went on I grew larger. The lady sold me to a farmer. The farm CT shut me up in a small coop, gave me all I wanted to eat, to fatten me for Thanksgiving. l grew to be a large turkey, and when Thanksgiving came I had my head chopped off That was my end.
 FRANK PARDY, Age 12 Norwich fiji
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
1.-The Autumn Woods

though they help a little like the frost wind strong enough to blow the leaves off would take the twies foo. and very likely uproot the tree.
 The leaves fall simply because the tree cuts them off. It has no use for leaves in winter Leaves are IittIa factories where the food of the trees IS prepared for them. Frost spells the machinery of these factories. and so the trees have learned to sleep all winter and do without food
 Besides being useless the leaves would also be dangerous If left on dur ing winter, as they would catch the snow and wind, and thus break the tWigs and branches. Some times an early snow finds the trees unprepared. and then they have very hard time, indeed. The snow, collects on the leaves and the weight breaks off great branches as thick as 8 mans arm. Ihls would happen every year if the tree had not learned to take off it's summer clothes in good time.
 The cutting off process begins when summer is at it's height Away back in the dog days the trees began to grow some cork cells between the leaf stem and the twie. This was to pre- vent an open wound when the leaf should fall. for tree can be wounded. just like an animal Then, above the cork seal it grew a layer of another kind of cells. This is called the layer or separation, or cutting off layer. and can easily be seen on the blackberry. Tor instance, where it forms a yellow 1sh green ring on the purple leaf stalk
 There are three rows of cells in this cuttingo off layer and after @ while the middle one dissoIves into mucilage. so that there is nothing left to hold the leaf to the twig except some woody threads which pass through the cut ting-off layer and through the layer of cork Then the cells that are left be- gin to swell and push the leaf stem away from the twig, until at last a. puff of wind or a frosty night snaps the threads and the leaf falls to the ground,
 The reason frosty nights help in this work is because they freeze the water that collects in the eutting-eff- layer. Of course, the little folks all know that when wa&eF freezes it expands, SC when layer the leaf stem is pushed harder late fall, therefore, there is apt to be a great fall of leaves. That is why people say that the frost makes fheEn fall, but if the trees had not almost cut them off already the frost would not do it., and great H7aRy fall with out any help from either frost or wind
 After the leaves fall some frees cover up the ends of the broken threads with gum, as can be easily seen on the horse chestnut Here the cork seals that grow at the base of the leaf stalks are shaped something like horseshoes, and the gum covered ends of the broken threads look like the nails in the horse shoa
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.


 Richard c. Moran, of Norwich The Rocks Nest.
 2-Madalyn Sullivan, of Norwich Rhymes. Jingles and Fairy Tales. 3-Frank Pardy, of Norwich-Joe Wayring at Home.
 4--Annie Henzler, of Taftville-The Whirhgig.
 5-Lillian Brehaut, of East Norwich, N. My Lady Barefoot.
 6-ReginaId Archer of Leonard Bridge-Black Beauty
 7-GIadys B. Newbury. of Norwich Swiss Family Robinson.
 S-PauIine Sn7olowitz, of Norwich Dorothy in California
 Walter L. Archer, Leonard Bridge: thank you for my prize book. 1 read it through. and then read it to my fa ther. We both thought 1t very inter esting.
 Helen Malone of Providence. R. l.: thank you very much for the prize book You sent me entitled A Little Girl of Old Chicago. It is very interesting. Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business o1- fee for them at any time after Thurs day.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKES.

We are going to have some nice na- ture stories, and some doll pictures for the little girls to cut out and put together for their amusement.
 The Bulletin has made arrangements for series of very interesting and in- structive nature stories and also for a series of pattern pictures with a va riety of designs which will afford pleas ure for the children when the weather is too cold, bleak or snowy to play out of doors.
 Of course the boys who have little sisters, may find pleasure in cutting out and making up the pictures for them
 Uncle Jed is very much pleased with the excellence and variety of the let ters he is receiving from the, Wide AWakes, and they make him feel some times as if he wished he had more books to distribute. the little writers are so deserving but all will win g book if they persevere. Do not expect to get a book because you want one, for they. must be earned. and to earn books requires good work and clean copy
 Uncle Jed has no reason to com plain of the work done by Wide Awakes forthe general excellence of Awakes for the general excellence of is the rule. not the exception
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
The Quaker,s Gift.

Once there was a Quaker who lived in London. He had a little clothing store and had four men employed in it.
 Every New Years day he gave his four employed men a present Now this New Years day he called them in his office As soon as they entered they all wished him a Happy New Year"
 He then said Dear friends, here are. your presents. Each of thee can have either a five dollar gold piece or 8 Bible"
 T can't read.' said the first one. T will take the money"
 T can read, all right" the second said, but l am short of money, so I will take the five dollar gold piece"
 And the third also took the money,
 But the fourth said: Dear sir, since you ask us if we want a book, it must be worth reading, so I'll take a, book"
 He took the Bible and as he opened it a ten dollar gold piece fell out
 Now the other three hung their heads and looked suiky.
 The Quaker said: T am sorry thou did not each take Bible. Thou should not blame me for it. I had 8 Bible ready fer each of thee, with a ten dollar gold piece In it, and 1 also had five dollar gold piece ready for each. And now" he went on. you have not only lost the ten dollar gold piece but also the word of God, which is worth more than all the gold in the werld''
 The one who had taken the Bible thanked the Quaker and said:
 T am glad I took the Bible. I can now read it to my dear mother who is sick in bed''
 He thanked him again and again, and then left
 ANNIE HENM4RR. Age II.
 Taftvi1Ie
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
A chanaed Proaramme.
Norwich.

Q, Hoo, o. Hoo." screamed Char lie Wade at the top of his voice as he sighted a number of his companions a few yards ahead of him on their way to school. Wait a minute. fellers," he shouted, I've got something to tell you"
 The boys turned and when they saw it was Charlie Wade they were only too glad to wait for him, for Charlie was their leader in all their sports as well as in his school work, and he was such good hearted boy none seemed envious of him.
 Say, boys" said Charlie. T just went up to see MT Smith. and he says we may keep our barrels in the basement of his blacksmith shop. if we are not too noisy. or do not make any disturbance. Mighty good of him, hey. boys? Let's give three cheers for MT Smith, said one of the gang, and three hearty cheers were given.
 The Boys worked hard for a couple of weeks and had gathered quite number of barrels, One evening while on their way to the blacksmith shop basement with load of barrels they heard the sound of drum, and as
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
The Noise They Heard.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you story about something that real- Iy happened to two little girls who lived in big farmhouse far from neighbors.
 One day their parents went to town and left them all alone. They were playing together when they heard 8 great noise upstairs in the house.
 At first they were going to run away. but then they thought that was not right So they went cautiously up the stairs, and when they reached the top they slowly opened the door and looked in. What do you suppose they saw?
 There was an old cradle full of wal nuts and the cat was running back and forth on them, The Walnuts were fall ing out, and that was what was mak- ing the noise. That taught the girls to be brave.
 ALMIRA KRAMER, Age Il.
 Colchester
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-27
A Pleasant Week at New London.

Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell you about 9 week that my sister and I spent. at New London last summer. We were visiting my aunt, who lives not very far from the beach.
 The week we were there they were Wright and every once in awhile they shot off big guns. sometimes in the middle of the night.
 Every time a gun went off it shook the house where I was staying, making all the dishes rattle
 One day several of our cousins went with us to the beach. and we had a fine time. We went in bathing and played in the sand, and ate the lunch which we took with US. While we were down there they fired off the guns at the forts several times, and we could see the flash of the guns. and in a few seconds the splash of the water; then few seconds after the splash you would hear the report of the gun.
 While we were at the beach there was a man with hydroplane When he started it a going it would skim on top of the water like a boat for quite a distance and then it would slowly rise. increasing in speed until it got almost out of sight. Ii circled over the wa ter several times, back and forth, once going very near the Groton side. Then, slowly descending onto the water, 1t skinned back to the beach. It did that twice the afternoon We were there.
 After we bought some cream cones and some peanuts we boarded the car back to my aunts tired but well pleas ed with the days pleasure
 Two days after that I came home on the o'clock boat arriving in Norwich about half-past ten
 My brother and my cousin were "
 GLADYS B. NEWBURY, Age II.
 Norwich