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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
PHONES AND PARCEL POST.

Postmaster General Hitchcock has
the following to say regarding rural
telephones in connection with the
parcel post:
Rural telephones have spread
over practically the entire country
and they will be used in conjunction
with the parcel post to the adyant-
age of both the farmer and the
country merchant The housewife,
for example, finds that she is out of
sugar; she steps to her telephone
and orders it sent by parcel post.
If the farmer breaks a harrow or a
part of some farm equipment, it will
not be necessary for him to hitch up
and drive to town; he will merely
step to his telephone and order the
new part sent by parcel post The
time saved will more than compen-
safe him for his outlay of stamps.
l expect to see the country mer-
chants advertising free delivery in
their local papers, just as his city
brothers do. They will use the par
eel post as their delivery wagon"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28

ing ruled the empire of half the
New World.
The World long since establish
ed a record for impartiality, and
anybody can afford its Thrice-a-
Week edition, which comes every
other day in the week, except Sun
day. 1t will be of particular value
to you know. The Thrice-a-Week
World, also abounds in other strong
features, serial stories, humor, mar
kets, cartoons, in fact, everything
that is to be found in a first class
daily.
THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only
$1.00 per year, and this pays for 156
papers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and The Citizen together
for one year for $2.00. The regular
subscription price of the two papers
is $3.50. 6t4.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
The ThriCe-A-Week Edition
THE new YORK WORLD
Practically a Daily at the Price of a
Weekly.
No Other Newspaper in the World
Gives so Much at so Low a Price.

This is a time of great events and
you will want the news accurately
and promptly. The Democrats, for
the first time in sixteen years, will
have the Presidency and they will
also control both branches of Con-
gress. The political news is sure to
be Of the most absorbing interest.
There is a great war in the Old
World, and you may read of the ex-
tinction of the vast Turkish Empire
in Europe, just as a few years ago
you read how Spain lost her last
foot of soil in America, after hav-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
CANNON AIR SAFETY DEVICE.
Invention to Protect Aviators Is Tested
by Originator In Paris.

An interesting device to protect the
lives of aviators has been invented and
was recently tested by its originator,
Baron Odkolok OF Paris. The contriv-
ance weighs only twelve pounds and
consists of a parachute attached to a
small cannon. A string from the can
non is attached to the aviator, who in
the moment of danger arises in his seat
and the cannon is discharged, throwing
the parachute and the aviator free
from the machine. The aviator before
ascending buckles two heavy straps at
tached to the lower end of the para
thute about his waist.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
CAT PUTS TOWN IN DARKNESS
Feline, Chased by Dog, Climbs Pole
and Short Circuits Wires.


A Maltese cat put Winsted, Conn,
in darkness for three hours one night
recently, but the feline paid the death
penalty doing so. All street lights in
the town were exinguished stimuli
taneOusly, and as a result pedestrians
who were out in the rain stumbled and
fell in dark streets, and many burst
New Years resolutions.
Superintendent Henry Skinner of the
Winsted Gas company, which also
owns the electric light plant, and line
men were called out to find the cause
of the trouble. Three hours elapsed
before they found it. Near Wood
ruff's feed mill the cat, chased up a
pole by a dog had jumped on to the
wires. causing a short circuit. Most
of the cats body was burned to a
crisp.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28
PITTSBURGH HAS
BIG FLOOD LOSS
Exciting Scenes Occur In Streets
Of City.
MANY FAMILIES MAROONED.

Thousands of Men Are Thrown Out of
Employment - Boats Used on Inn
portant Thoroughfares - Boys Use
Rafts-Rescues Occur-Wheeling and
Cincinnati Also Affected.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28

During the year 1913 The Citi-
zen will be better then ever. You
should subscribe for it and thereby
get all the latest county news. Only
S1.50 will bring it to your door.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-28

The new year has begun and
you should subscribe at once for The
Citizen. Only $3.50 per year.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
DEMONSTRATION
In the Use of Hog Cholera
Serum at the State Fair on
Thursday, September 18.

Arrangements have been made
with the State Commissioner OF
Agriculture whereby the Ken.
lucky Agricultural Experiment
Station will give a practical dem.
onstration in the method of ad-
ministering hog cholera serum,
at the State Fair. This demon
stration will be given on Thurs
day, September Is, at 10 a. m,
ON the State Fair grounds, and
should prove of interest to al
farmers and hog raisers in the
| State. In addition to the demon
fstration, practical talks will be
given on hog cholera, its dag
Inosis and post rnortem LESSONS,
the care of sick and we'll hogs
the work of hog cholera serum
laboratory and State and Federal
laws governing the quarantine
and control of hog cholera, by
DR.. Robert Graham, DR.. ]. H
Kastle, Director of the Kentucky
Agriculture Experiment Station
Commissioner John w. Newman,
and others. Altogether this meet
ing promises to be one of grea'
interest to all farmers and hos
raisers and should prove one Of
the most instructive and valuable
features of the State Fair.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
1t Is to Laugh

Even if our faNorite Ella
Wheeler Wilcox had not said,
Laugh, and the world laughs
with you" even then the writer
would have recommended merri-
ment instead of tears. Tears are
waste of emotion. Bemoaning
ones lot, d trial on Times pa
tience.
LET us be gay while we may"
Them though the motto is as an
Gent as "The hen that crossed
the road" Apropos: The Sig.
Sautelle 9 Big Shows, which fa-
vors Richmond Tuesday, Septem-
Der %, at the ball park, has in its
curriculum of smiles, forty clowns.
Fort count EN- genuine hui
morists, who themselves have
laughed and grown fat" The
leader of this happy band of jes-
tiers, Knockers and wits is a half
brother of Slivers, himself a cou-
sin of the original Dan Rice,
whose pedigree runs back to
Grimaldi.
These forty mirth artists will
surprise, amuse and tickle the
audience with funniest sketches
anent the foibles and follies of
the day, General and local fea-
lures will be the inspiration of
this merry band of Momus mum
mers. Trite incidents in politics
will be burlesqued, d la Weber
& Field. The wits will excel in
laughable skits to set the listeners
in a roar.
But this will only be the attic
salt of the feast of good things
presented. Wild and tame ami
mails, expert trainers and per-
formers of every degree of skill
will contribute to the glory OF
this most incompatible show.
Don't miss the great parade
if you value LIES most pleasant
features. adv
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Call to Organize City Chorus

Prof. John G. Koch, director of
music of the Normal School has
issued a call to all singers of Rich
mond to assist him in organizing
a city chorus, which he offers to
train, with the able assistance of
Mrs. ]. H. Hoskinson as accom-
PIANIST. Prof. Koch is well known
as an experienced conductor of
great choruses. especially in other
cities, where his choral societies
presented such works as The
Messiah" Elijah, Creation, !"
and several operas. This is a
splendid opportunity for the adj
vancement of music in our city,
and it is hoped that we shall have
a chorus of grand proportions.
To save any expense to the
members ofthe chorus Prof. Koch
and Mrs. Hoskinson have offered
their services gratis, and the Nor
NAL School authorities have been
prevailed upon to grant the use
of Normal Auditorium and all
music free of charge.
The first business meeting will
be held in Normal Auditorium
Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock,
September 18th. All singers are
urged to attend.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16

a number of our leading bust.
ness firms have taken advantage
OF the special rates offered by the
Electric Light Co. to illuminate
their display windows at night.
The special lights will be on till
l0p. m. The brilIiancy of the
lights adds much to the attrac-
tiveness of display windows, be.
sides making sgreatwhite way
along our streets. 1t is hoped
more merchants will join the
white way throng.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16

The Mad son Garage sold a
Ford to O.. L. Arnold of Kinks
V Nl,
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Playtine

The Harrodsburg Leader says
in its notes of the Graded School:
plans are being put into execu.
ton to make playtime real help
to working hours. Apparatus is
being constructed to provide for
basketball for boys and girls,
acting bars rings for doing
stunts" volley ball, a whirligig
and swings for the small girls"
A word to the wise is suffl-
Gent.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Futile Attempt by Negro to
Assault NicholasvilIe
Woman

AT Nicholasville last Thursday
afternoon, John Lewis, a middle
aged negro, madesran unsuccess-
full attempt to assault a Miss
Dorman. Her cries brought help
and foiled the negro in his pur-
pose. He was arrested and hur-
RED by automobileto Lexington
for safe keeping. When the news
of the attempted assault was
noised about towna mob bent on
vengeance quickly formed, and,
but for the foresight of the off
GERS, the negro would have been
hanged. 1t is feared that when
the negro is brought back for trial
he will meet, what many believe
to be, a>deserving fate.
The Dorman woman lives with
her sister and brother, the latter
being superintendent of the Cur
ley DistiIleries at Camp Nelson.
The negro had been a trusted
servant in the family for several
years.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Called Home.

Ed. w. |. Peel, of Nicholas
vile, who was to assist in the re-
ligious services in the meeting
which began at the Christian
Church at Union City last Mon
day evening, received a long dis
lance telephone message yestef-
day morning calling him home on
account of the serious illness of
his son. The young man is about
twenty years old and has been
afflicted for a number of years.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Cockleburr Signs

Old citizens who have watched
it for years, say there's never any
killing frost until every cocklebun
natures. At the present time,
judging by the cockleburr, it will
be long time before the first
killing frost. The drouth has
somewhat retarded their growth,
but each plant will present d burr
before any frost visits this sec
ton. Watch and see if We are
not correct.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
TAX NOTICE

Your county tax is now due.
Call and pay same before the
penalty is added.
D. A. McCORD,
37-tf Sheriff.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Z. & N. Time Table
souti, Bound

j. = .
No. 81 Cincinnati to Atlanta, arrives and
departs (midnight). i2:l0 a. m.
No. IL Richmond to Stanford, departs
6:45 a. m.
No. louisville to Beattyville, arrives
1910 p. NJ, departs f2:l5 p. m.
No. Cincinnati to Knoxville, arrives
1l:42 a. M, departs 12:12 p. IN.
No. 80 Cincinnati to Jacksonville, arrives
and departs 11.31 a. m.
No. u Richmond to Louisville via. Row
land, departs Loo p. m.
No. 3-LouisyilIe to Beattyville, arrives
6:45 p. m, departs 7:35 pm.
No. Cincinnati and Maysville to Stan
ford, arrives 7:31, departs 7:35 p. m.
North Bound
No. 34-AtIanta to Cincinnati, arrives and
departs All a. m.
No. 10-Stanford to Cincinnati and Mays
vile, arrives $40 a. m, departs
6:25 a. m.
No. 2-BeattyvilIe to Louisville, arrives
us a m, departs 7:20 a. m.
No. 28-Louisville to Richmond via. Row
land, arrives l2:05 p. m.
No. 80 Knoxville to Cincinnati, arrives
LBS p. M, departs 200 p. m.
No. 70 Stanford to Richmond arrives
2::30 p. m.
No. 4-Beattyville to Louisville, arrives
lisp. m, departs Lao p. m.
No. 81 Jacksonville to Cincinnati, arrives
and departs 5:07.
Nos. 81, 81, SO, 81, "a, %, 80, 30 are
daily trains.
Nos. u, l, 9, 10, 2, 70, A, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
General News

Local option carried in Scott
county by 376 majority.
A hotel for negroes exclusively
is to be built in Lexington.
Showers finally break drought
in Kansas. Oklahoma and Mis-
souri,.
The Bath County World, j.
Clyde Nelson, editor, has entered
upon its % year of the art pre-
sentative.
NichoIasville's new $50, 0O0.0 90
Graded School Building will be
ready in time for the school to
open Oct. l.
Fletcher Deaton, Kentucky
feudist, given life sentence for
completely in Callahan murder,
Winchester, KY.
Miss Leila Laird. the woman
of mystery9 who slicided in New
York, was Miss Lou Alien Bush,
formerly of Winchester. She left
a handsome estate.
J.R. Adamson, 81 years old, of
Brdcken County, XIV. has lifelong
wish gratified when he shakes
hand with President Wilson in
Washington. Adamson has voted
for Democratic Presidents for 70
years.
National aid and national high
ways will engage the attention of
the delegates to the American
Road Congress during one ses-
sion@of the six which will be held
at Detroit during the week of
September 20.
Because there is SO much com
plant that Kentucky is full OF
rural school teachers who cannot
read properly, Prof. T. ]. Coates,
Rural School Inspector, has de
cided to issue a bulletin teaching
the teachers how to read.
/ billiard Prichard who was hurt
in a premature explosion of dyna.
mite, at Beattyville, through his
father, brought suit in the Lee
County Circuit Court for $4,000
against the John B. Carter Co.
railroad construction managers.
! A leading crop expert of Chica-
go announces that the potato crop
this year in the United States
would be 100000 900 bushels short
of lastyear. Prices for Minnesota
and Ohio potatoes in the Chicago
market advanced 8 to 10 cents Z
bushel.
In a bulletin on fumigation and
spraying, issued by the Kentucky
Experiment Station, at Kentucky
State University, H. Garmad, the
entomologist and botanist of the
/ station, calls attention TO the i'm
portance of both remedies ano
urges their use in order to save
the orchards of the state fremthe
pests. The bulletin gives instfuc
tons as to the methods and dose:
to be used.
Called Home
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Another Killing at Nichola.
vile

Daniel Cobb and George Car
ter of Nicholasville, became en-
gagged in an alteration last FRI
day night, when Carter drew his
pistol and Shot Cobb, from the
effect of which he died the follow
ingday.
From reports, it seems both
men had been gambling. Cobb
had served a term in the peniten-
tisIry and had been out about one
year.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16

We are looking for new business and
want you to Try US when in need of good
goods. Covineton, Thorpe & CO. LIT
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Oldest Business Firm

G. w. Pickles, the saddle and
harness manufacturer, is the old,
est established business house
in town. He has been in that
line Of business continuously forty
years. In that period many
changes among Richmonds bust
ness firms have taken place, but
Pickles bids fair to round out d
century of honest dealings with
the sons of men of Madison coun
ty.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
Richmond Talent

The Dixie Serenader Minstrels,
a troupe composed of Richmond
talent, are making a decided hii
with the show.going people Of
nearby towns, Irvine, Lancaster
and other places on their timer
airy.
Flooring, Ceiling, Siding. Lath. Blan
ton LnmI,er Co. Phone AIS. lot
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-09-16
MIR. Robinson Dead

News comes of HE death of
Mr. Clarence Robinson at Jack
sonville, Florida. His wife was
befoi'e her marriage, Miss Mora
Perkins, of this place.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-09
SYNOPSIS.

Comtesse Elise, daughter Of the govern
with peasant boy. The Mount" a small
rock-bound island. stood in vast bay on
the northwestern coast Of France, and
during the time OF Louis XVI. was a gov
eminent stronghold. Develops that the
peasant boy was the son OF Seigneur De-
saurac, nobieman. Young Des8urac deter
mines 70 secure an education and become
a gentleman. sees the governors daugh-
tea depart for Paris. Lady Elise returns
after seven years schooling and enter
tains many mobiles. Her Ladyship dances
arms Is made IN an effort TO capture
mysterious lie Seigneur NOir He escapes,
LADY Elise 10 caught In the Grand" tide.
The Black Seigneur rescues and takes
her 10 his retreat. Elise discovers that
her savior was the boy with the fish.
sanchez. the Seigueur'B servant. Is ar
rested and brought before the governor.
Lady Elise has Sanchez set free. seig-
retir and a priest at the Cookies. San
chez tells Desaurac that Lady Elise be-
trayed him. but II not believed. The
Mount. Lady Elise pleads With her faith
er 20 spare the lives OF condemned pris-
oners. JisElised as n peasant Lady
Elise mingles with the people and hears
some startling facts. mysterious
Mountebank starts a riot. lie ~ arrested
and locked up after making close obser-
vations Of the citadel. and IL afterwards
summoned before the governors daugh-
ter. Tho governor enters the room during
miserable buffoon. the Mountebank is re-
leased by order Of the governor. De-
saurac overpowers guard and dons sol
dierss uniform
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-09
Don't Be a powdv.

The best.dressed woman is not nee
essarily the one who spends the most
money. Time. thought, and taste tell
to the advantage Of dress. Those who
persist in speaking of carelessness in
dress as IL il were merit are greetly
mistaken. To be pleasingly. though
not deliberately dressed, and as attrac-
tive as she may be, is every womap's
duty, and the dress that suits the Or
easion eonfers dignity upon the wear
er. why do you wear pretty bow
in your hair and take so much pains
to have becoming ties" Some one
asked the teacher Of large class In
the public school, Il wear my rih.
hons and put on my bows and mako
myself attractive because I have 10
influence for good fifty bows every
day" was the reply. The teacher was
right Her boys believed in her much
more than they would had she been a
dowdy.-Chrlsiian Herald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-09

fash Of quick surprise We'll. Tn not
hungry, but you can leave them"
Not hungry And the solder.
who seemed a little the worse for
tInor. but more friendly in eonse-
quence. walked IN. 4 don't wonder.
though" he went on. closing the door.
hanging his lantern above and plac-
ing the jug on the ground; in such a
foul hcle2 What you need. comrade.
is company, and. . touching significant
ly his breast, something warmer than
flows from the spring Of st. Aubert-Y
Il tell you.y began the mountebank.
when the soldier. staring. got a fair
lock at the other for the hrst time and
started back.
"Eh? What's this?"
"oh. took them of! You don't sup
pose I'd sleep in my white clothes in
such a dirty"
fright you are. contradict" re-
turned the other, seating himself be-
fore the door on a thFee-legged stool
he found In a corner. But for the
moment you gave me a start.
'What-person?"
mo one in particular. You might, {"
unbuttoning his coat to draw forth a
bottle. have been any one! But dare
say yoG have had them of in worse
places than this-which, after all. is
not bad. compared TO some Of the
rooms for guests at the Mount"
you mean ?" The mountebank
looked first at the closed blinds; then
at the door. and sudden determine
ton came to his eyes.
Those especially prepared for the
followers Of the Black Seigneur, taken
prisoners near Casque. for example,"
They are dungeons?"
with Jacques for keeperl The lit
tie sexton, we call him, because the
prisoners go generally from the cells
TO the pit, and the quicklime is the
hunchbsck's graveyard"
This Jacques" A growing irnpa-
thence shone ominously from the pris-
oner's glance; his attention, that of g
man straining to catch some expected
sound without, focused itself on the
speaker This Jacques-what sort Of
quarters has her"
"oh, he lives anywhere; every
where! Sometimes at the thieves
inn; again in one of the storehouses
near the wheel. They say, though, he
is not a great hand to sleep, but pass
es most Of his time like a cat, prowl-
ing In and out the black passages and
tunnels of the Mount. But" abruptly
breaking of, "the play-that's what I
want to know about! The end! How
did II end?"
I'm in no mood for talking"
Take the bottle. an it'll loosen
your tonguei"
NO"
What! you refuse?"
YES"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-09

The clown looked at the girl; her
breath came fast through her parted
lips.
Speak. fool To her ladyship you
also owe much"
"Much" repeated the clown, a
spark in the dull gaze still fastened
upon her.
rs that all you can say?"
Take him away!" My lady spoke
almost wildly.
Yes; take him away" With a
queruluus gesture his Excellency put
an end % the matter Am | TO be fl
terrupted in important affairs by
every miserable farceur, or buffoon,
you pick up on the beach? To the
devil with the fellow!"
When the door had closed on the
mountebank and the commandant, he
turned to his daughter. "A madcap
triek!" Frowningly his Excellency
regarded her. ITO have gone into the
town and mingled with the rabblei
But" shaking his head and then suf-
fering that expression OF disapproyal
to relax into severity, Say no more
about It! Here" indicating the letter,
is something Of greater moment, to
be attended to and answered."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-07-09

OF old masonry, the rod moved slight
ly; then more and more, and the pris-
oner, breathing a moment hard, girded
himself anew. A wrench, a tug, and
the bar, partly dlsintegrated, snapped
In the middle. and holding the pieces,
the prisoner fell somewhat violently
back. Armed now with an implement
that well might serve as a lever. he.
nevertheless, paused before sendeavor-
ing to force the formidable fasteniugs
OF the blinds; paused to tear off the
ught-htting clowns cap; to don the
costume OF the mountebank covering
the rough, dark garments beneath. and
vigorously TO rub his face with some
mixture he took from his pocket. He
had made but few passes to remove
the distinguishing marks Of paint and
pigment. when sound without, in the
distance, caused him to desist.
Footsteps, that grew louder, were
coming his way and, gripping his bar
tighter the prisoner grimly waited;
but soon his grasp relaxed. The sound
was that OF a single person, who now
paused before the entrance; fumbled
at the lock. and. with an impatient
exclamation. set something down. At
the same time the prisoner dropped
his weapon and stopped for the dis.
earded garments; in the dark, they es-
capped him and he was stu searching.
when the bolt, springing sharply back,
caused him to straighten.
Are you there, Monsieur Mounte-
bank?" The door swung open; an IN
certain light cast sickly rays once
more within. and beneath the lantern.
raised above his head. innocent of the
danger he had Just escaped. the round
visage Of the good-natured soldier who
had escorted the mountebank to the
auberge des voleurs looked amicably
and inquiringly into the darksome
hovel.