SUPT. KOEHLER TO HOLD EXAMINATIONS Teachers' Examinations for Provls- j lonnl Certificates, 1000. Examinations for Teachers' Pro visional Certificates for Wayne county wjll be held as follows: At Aldenvllle, May 28. At Winwood, June 1. At Sterling, June 8. At Waymart, June 11. At Pleasant Mount, June 14. At Ariel, June 24. At Damascus, July 2. At Honesdale, July 17. All applicants are required to furnish themselves with legal-cap paper, lead-pencil, pen and Ink, and a stamped envelope containing ad dress. No person under 17 years of age Is allowed to take the exami nation and it is very doubtful wheth er a license to teach will be granted to any one under 18 years of age. A standard of at least 72 per cent, must be attained. The branches required are Spelling, Written and Mental Arithmetic, Grammar, U. S. History; Geography Physiology and Hygiene, Civil Gov ernment, including Nation and State, Penmanship, Algebra as treated in High School text-books to Proper ties of Qudratics, Reading consisting of an oral test, and a written test in phonics and Tennyson's Idylls of the King, namely: The Coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lance lot and Elaine, Guinevere, and The Passing of Arthur; Theory of Teach ing based on Sabln's Common Sense Didactics, the first nine chapters, and Schmucker's Study of Nature, the first ten chapters. The examinations will begin promptly at 8 a. m. No substitutions will be allowed in Reading and Theory of Teaching. Every applicant must avail herself of one of these examinations, and one only. Letters asking for spec ial examinations during the summer will bo ignored. Directors are Invited to attend. J. J. KOEHLER, Supt. of Wayno County Schools. "POLIiV OF TH.E CIRCUS." Outside of the glimpse caught of them in the passing parade through town and city; and the applauding of their feats under the big white tent, wnat do we know of "the women of the circus?" Not as much as wo know from reading and lectures of the women of far off Asia. Yet among them spring into existence sweet flowers of fe mininity sometimes rivalling in mental and physical fragrance their sisters offsprings of Luxury's con servatory. Always a devotee, from boyhooa up, of "the tan bark ring," Frederic Thompson, "the wizard of Luna Park" for years, had in his mind, the skeleton of a play which dealt with this subject. Meeting Margaret Mayo, the dramatist, he told her of his ideas, and she wrote for him "Polly of the Circus," which comes to this city on Friday, May 28th. Dainty, winsome Fay Wallace plays the role of Polly. This play conies . to the Lyric with the endorsement of New York's critical theatre going public, and deals with the life of a sweet little flower of the ring, whose mother was killed while performing on horseback. It shows the efforts of the clown and his friend to bring the child up, and who despite their hard lives know that out beyond their ken is a life of better things, and for which they strive to give Polly. Finally after she has been hurt while performing in a small town and she has been taken to the parson's rectory, the two make up their minds that this is the first step in the right direction for Polly's future, and they leave her there. Polly's joys and sorrows In her new life, form the theme of the beautiful play which the theatre goers, young and old, of Honesdale, should not fail to see. Diagram opens Tuesday morning, May 25th. THOU SHALL NOT STEAL. John H. Sanderson, the contractor who furnished the state capitol, is dead. It has been a sorry story slnco the marvelous figures of the cost of that furnishing were made public, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The prices charged in many instances amounted to sheer robbery. An in vestigation having paved the way, prosecution followed. Conspiracy was charged. Sanderson, State Treasurer William L. Mathues, Au ditor General Snyder and the super intendent of public grounds and buildings, James M. Shumaker, were tried together and convicted. The court refused a new trial and pass ed sentence upon the defendants An appeal was taken to the Superior Court and the decision is pending In advance of the decision Mr. San derson has succumbed. He was preceded by Mr. Mathues. Geo. F. Payne, builder, accused of charging double for certain work, did not live to be tried. Mr. Shumaker has been very much of a physical wreck for a long tme. Yes, it is a sorry story, filled with tragedy. When the decision of the Superior Court regarding a now trial Is ren dered it will affect only Mr. Snyder and Mr. Shumaker. Not long ago Mr. Huston, the architect, was brought before the Dauphin county court, but on the plea that Mr. San derson, -who was the Important wit ness in the case, could not be pres ent because of illness, the trial was postponed. Whether the case against Huston will now fall is a matter for the court to decide. Im mense sums of money were taken from the state treasury upon a sys tem of measurements thut was ap parently designed to cover theft. It has never been shown that any portion of this money went to Sny der, Mathues, or Shumaker, but that Sanderson originally got it could not be concealed. The great beneficiary of tho plunder was San derson. But he will never be pun ished in this world. He has gone to a higher bar of justice. There may be a lingering impres sion somewhere that the work done upon the capltol itself was Inferior. If so, that idea should be abandon ed. No complaint has ever been made that the building was not erected strictly according to speci fications. The state capitol stands to-day as tho most imposing build ing that any state possesses. It Is a magnificent architectural pile, and Its furnishings are rich and lavish. It is in reality an art gallery, ono that every Pennsylvanian may be proud of. There is no doubt about that. Where the thievery came in was in loading the building down with expensive furniture at out rageous prices. It was this species of graft that caused all the trouble. Three of the defendants are dead and it is possible that no ono will go to jail, although that is a question which tho courts must settle; but the prosecutions have been worth while. They cleared the atmosphere wonderfully. It will be a long time again before contractors upon pub lie work pursue a devious path. The lesson of Sanderson will be taken to heart. WONDERFUL FORCE OF GASOLINE Little is Known of the Croat Force of tills Fluid. The tremendous energy latent in gaso line is not appreciated by the average motorist, whose familiarity with the fluid likely lias bred contempt, or at least in difference to its capabilities. How many chauffeurs who stop at Jadwin's for a fresh tank of gasoline have any idea that they are storing away sullicicnt energy, if developed to the limit, togive theircars, fully loaded, an aerial flight of scores of miles ! These possibilities are pointed out in Motor for May, by Thomas L. White, who, after showing that the power of a fuel is measured by the amount of heat liberated in the coinbus- ion of a pound of it, says : It is a commonplace nowadays to say hat heat is a form of energy, i. e., that it can be converted or transformed into useful work. The engineering unit of work is the foot-pound or the amount of work done in lifting a pound weight hrough a vertical distance of one foot against the attraction of the earth's gravitation, it was discovered by Joule n the early part of the last century, and the discovery made his name immortal, that one British Thermal Unit is equiva lent to 770 foot-pounds of work. 15 y equivalent is meant the heat energy ab sorbed in raising the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit, which, as we hi've said, is one 15. T. U., is capable, if transformed, without loss, in a perfect heat engine, of lifting one pound 770 feet, or 77 pounds 10-feet, or 770 pounds one foot m a vertical direc tion. In the particular case of gasoline, it will now be seen that one gallon of this fuel contains 120,000 (the number of B. T. U.'s) 770 foot-pounds (the energy of one B. T. U.) of energy. If we take the capacity of the fuel tank of the average touring car as thirty gallons, and the weight of the ear with passengers as three thousand pounds, it is clear that the power latent in the gasoline carried is sufficient to lift the whole vehicle with its occupants into the air through a ver tical distance of 120,000x770x30 feet, or 175 miles. 3,000 Indeed, the usual expression, "into the air," hardly covers the facts. The journey would be not "into the air," but "through the air and beyond." It is possible, though the writer would pre for some ono else to make the icalcula tion, that the aid of a little more gaso line would send our motor car to such a height that it would never deseend again, but become a permanent satellite of the earth. Of course, the simultaneous liberation beneath a car of the whole power of thirty gallons of gasolene is a mere lie tion. The energy, however, is there, and if we could design some means of instantly rendering it in the form of a vertical impulse, the car and its aston ished occupants would start on their 175 mile journey skyward with a velocity of 7,090 feet per second, or five times the velocity of a 400-pound projectile as it leaves the muzzle of a ten-inch rifle The initial energy of the car and coiv tents would equal tho total energy of the combined broadside fire of a squad' ron of four modern battleships. More over, 7,690 feet per second is equivalent to 5,243 miles per hour, a speed suflicient to make the round trip from Now York to London twenty times in ono day. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You to Always Bought Bears the Signature of WOMAN KILLS 300 at wives; BEHEST Charged Small Fee for Adminis tering Poison to Undesirable Russian Husbands SHE JUSTIFIES HER KILLINGS Declares She Never Killed a Woman Mob Seeks to Burn Her at the Stake, but Is Prevented Woman, Who Has Confessed, In Jail. St. Petersburg, Russia. Arrested after a full confession had been made by ono of her conscience stricken em ployers, a woman who is believed to have killed more than three hundred men within the last thirty years Is In prison at Samara. Tho only name given by the police of the wholesale murderess Is P6pova. All the murdered men were hus bands whose wives wanted to get rid of them. The woman charged a nomi nal sum prior to the murder and the remainder after the victim was killed. She would make the acquaintance of the man she was to kill and then man age to put poison in his food or drink. After one woman whose husband had been murdered became stricken by her guilty conscience she sent for the police, made a full confession, and a squad of policemen were at once sent to tho home of the Popova wom an. In some way tho charge against the prisoner became known, and be fore the police ntarted from her homo for the prison they were surrounded by a mob of several hundred persons. Infuriated at the atroclousness of the woman's deeds, the mob demand ed that the prisoner be turned over to them and that they might burn her at the stake. With drawn revolvers the police held the mob at hay until soldiers, who had been sent for, arrived and drove the crowd back. Then the wom an was taken to the jail. After she had been taken to tho prison the woman made no effort to conceal the fact that she had been a wholesale murderess. She declared that she was justified in her work, for the only persons she killed were men who had abused their wives and that her murdering them had saved the women further misery. During the last quarter of a century thero have been several cases of wholesale murders committed to gain money, from the Bender murders in the seventies to the Gunness murders In Indiana, discovered a year ago. Tho Bender murders were commit ted by a family of that name, which consisted of an old man, his wife, his daughter Kate, and a son, who lived in Morgan County, Kan. They are supposed to have lured ten men to their cabin and killed them for the purpose of robbery. The last victim was a doctor named York, whose mur der raised such a hue and cry through out the State that the Bender family disappeared, and no trace of them has ever been found. It Is believed that they were captured by a vigilance committee and burned to death, but there Is no proof of this. In the early nineties a man called Henry H. Holmes, whose real name was Herman Mudgett, was hanged in Philadelphia after having murdered nine men, womn, and children, gen erally to get the insurance money. Last year, in May, a woman named Mrs. Belle Gunness set fire to her house near Laporte, Ind., and was burned to death with her three chil dren. When the ruins of the farm house were searched many human bones were discovered, and suspicions were aroused. Six bodies were found on land belonging to the woman, and were Identified as those of men who had answered her advertisements for a husband. In all, Mrs. Gunnes was believed to have committed eleven murders, two of the victims being women. An Australian named Deeming was hanged In London, England, about ten years ago for murdering his wife and burying her under the floor of the kitchen, which he had cemented. In vestigations made by the police In England and Australia by digging up the floors of the kitchens of the houses In which Deeming had lived under various aliases showed that he had murdered twenty-five women whom he had married for their money. TO DANGLE CHICKEN, CRUEL. Man Arrested for Carrying One Up side Down from Market. New York City. For carrying a llvo chicken head down in a paper bag, John Delllzzl was held in $300 bail for trial by Magistrate Stelnert, In Yorkville Police Court on tho charge of cruelty to animals. Delllzzl was lnavlnc a market when Agent Burrett. of tho Socioty for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, saw the chicken's feet protruding from the bag and ar rested tho man. Hawk 8wapped Quail for Hens. Wlnsted. Conn. Because It did not play fair, Ronald L. Bronson, a Gull ford farmer, shot and killed a hawk, which had been in the habit of brings ing a dead partridge or quail to his premises and taking away in e change one of his best hens. With eggs selling at 65 cents a dozen, the swap, Bronson thought, was all In the hawk's favor. FIiEAS OP CALCUTTA. Little Green Insects a Plague of tho Indian City. Ono of the evils of Calcutta is the plague of green flies, from which tho whole city suffers at certain times in the year, says Answers. The happy hunting time of these minute Insects in during the late autumn and early winter. They are a serious nuisance both in and out of doors. They wing their way through all the open doors Into the houses and into every room, making life unbearable. Like most insects, tho little green flies have a great affection for the flame. On occasions the inhabitants have found it necessary to put out all the gas lights even at a public din ner and to take their meals practi cally in deep gloom, illuminated only by flickering candles. Naturally, it is not at all pleasant to go on eating with dense clouds of insects swarming overhead or, roast ed to death, falling cbout one in pat tering showers. They seem to spring Into existence Trom nowhere; perhaps it Is almost dusk when the lights of the street lamps are becoming visible. Then suddenly tho air, which a moment before was quite clear, Is full of myriads of green files, drifting in misty patches, and obscuring the street lamps. Often the number of Insects which have been scorched to death Is so great that little heaps fo them col lect inside the lamps while bucket loads have to be Bwopt up from the roads next mornlne. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank OF IION'KSDALK, WAYNK COUNTY. PA at the close of business, April 28. UW. iti:soimcn8. Reserve fund $ cash, specie anil notes. OSA-V r Due from annroved re serve audits $lo.M)l ly-SM.SIl K7 Cheeks and other cash Items !I77 OS Itllls discounted, not due 53.51!) KS Hills discounted, time loans with collateral L'l.OCO (111 .onus on call with collateral H.ffio 00 .oansupon call upon one or more names lG.OIil 50 .oans secured by bonds and mort- irasres i: .sou 00 Investment securities owned exclu sive of reserve honds, via Stocks, bonds, etc f Is.L'iNI 11 Mnrtanses and judg ments of record :il.:il.j tll-TlUHi .? teal estate IS.MUi 03 'imiitiiivand fixtures I.SOI 41 Overdrafts :i 00 ? illUiiO 41 I.IAMI.ITIi:S. imltal Stock naid in t 6N.II30 00 Surplus Fund 3,7o0 00 Undivided l'rollts. less expenses and taxes paid 2.293 51 icnoslts. suf ileet to check.. WtXA 31 Jcposlls, special 120.302 o,!-l(ili,(i5li 87 uu:.a) 4i Statu of Pennsylvania. County of Wayne, ss : 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 inn ueuer, c. a. k.mkky, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Is day of May. 100. i;i;na s. j;i)(ii:tt, n, r. Correct attest : M. K. Simons, 1 John K. Kua.ntz, Directors. Ci. W.m, Ski.!. J REPORT OF THE CONDITION of tiii: HONESDALE NATIONAL BANK HONESDALE. WAYNK COUNTY, PA. At the close of business, Apr. 28. 1909. RKSOIT.CKS. Loans and Discounts 190,028 70 iverdralts.secured and unsecured 8 27 U. S. Honds to secure circulation. 55.000 00 Premiums on u. s. isonus 2,soo 011 Honds. securities, etc 1.332.229 39 lianklng-house, furniture anil fix tures 40.000 00 Due from National Hanks (not Reserve Agents) J.UiJ 20 Due from State Hanks and Hank ers uou 00 Due from approved reserve airents llj.lXM if Checks and other cash items.... 1,079 76 Notes or other National Hanks.. SJj 00 Fractional paper currency, nick els and cents 280 59 Lawful Money Reserve in Hank, viz: specie ifou.n-ou Legal tender notes 7.511 00- 88.283 50 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer, (o per ceiu. 01 circu lation) 2,750 00 Total.... ...$1,849,722 77 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 150,000 00 Surplus fund 150,000 00 undivided pronts, less expenses and taxes paid "6,266 21 National Hank notes outstanding 53,700 00 State Hank notes outstanding.... 000 Ofl Due to other National Hanks 910 54 Individual deposits subject to check $1,391,165 54 Demand certificates of deposit 26,241 00 Certified checks 55 00 Cashier's cheeks out standing 484 48-1,417,946 02 Honds borrowed None Notes and bills redlscounted..... Hills payable. Including certifi None cates 01 deposit ior money bor rowed None None Liabilities other than those above stated Total $1,819,722 77 State of Pennsylvania, County of Wayne, ss. I, H. 'I. Husskll. President of the above named Hank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my Kiiowieugu uuu uenei, 11. Yi. linsse 1 I'res (lent. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 2Stn day or April, 1909, kf MWCJMB W. II. STONE, N. P, correct attest :e Andrew Thompson. 1 H.T.Menner.Hi -DIrcctors p 11 MURRAY. ) 35t4 IK YOU WISH to sell your Farm I will furnish a purchaser. If you want to buy a farm, town lot or business place, drop nie o postal, or call at my olllce I may buve on my listing books lust what you want. If you wish to dispose of your business, preparatory to change, consult me let me explain my superior facilities for profitably marketing your property, stock, fixtures, etc. I nm the speclul representative In this section for the largest Co-operative Heal Kstate iVssoclatlon In America, with over 8,000 representative offices In United States, Canada. Mexico and Cuba. Property listed with me will be placed on sale at each of these offices. Re member this service costs you nothing until a deal Is consumated-'and then only a small commission. Namo your wishes J do the rest. No publicity. Correspondence confi dential. Llsitlng blanks and all Information mailed you on application. M. F. DOKIN, The Ileal Estate Man, 1302 Spring street, Honesdale, Pa. LAttOltmiS WORTHY OF THEIK HIRE. The Bowery Mission Free Labor Bureau is prepared to supply any number of men, for any kind of la bor, at a moment's notice. Within the past twelve months their cashier has paid out $1,453.86 for railroad expenses on thousands of worthy, willing and able-bodied men, to all parts of the country. Address John C. Earl, Financial Secretary, 92 Bible House, New York City. TUC PITI7CW Has made ar I lit. bl I ILELll rangements for A FIVE MILE FOOT A FT K II THE MARATHON PLAN WHICH WILL TAKK FLACK ON Decoration Day MAY 31 5 Handsome Gold and Silver Medals will be Awarded the Winners I 2 ENTRANCE FREE:" To nil competitors living in the county, exclusive of professionals : entries to be made at anv lime prior to May iMtli. ALL CONTESTANTS will be re quired to submit to a physical culmin ation by competent physicians, to Insure proper endurance condition for race. FURTHER DETAILS Including In structions lor proper training, will ap pear In succeeding Issues of Tim Citizii.v. CITIZEM JOB PRINT means STYLE, QUALIT , and PROMPTNESS. Trv it. OUR STOCK OF HEN'S CLOTH ING IS LARGE ENOUGH TO SUPPLY EVERY NEED! If you want something con servative and dignified In cut WE HAVE IT. nw Jfc t m i laff fe mm TAKE THIS COLLEGIAN cnt, lor instance; it is one of the distinguishine, models which will be worn by fashion lendeis this tjiriiiK. Two button, slanted button holes, vent, side seams creased. There's a dash of style and su periority of finish that at once stamps it the product of master tailors I Adler's Collegian Clothing retains its shape because of a careful and scientific construction, and perfection in work manship. S Wo are sole agents for the celebrated Knox hat ; tho Corlls-Coon Collars, in M sIzcr. We are also sole limits for the Ederlielmer-Steln clothlni; for children. Thelbest cblldreus' clothlnglmade In thecountry. BREG5TEIN BROS., Honesdale. H. G. HAND, PBESinENT. w. ii. HOLMES, Vice Pkes. We want you to understand the reasons for the ABSOLUTE SECURITY of this Rank. WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK HONESDALE, PA., . HAS A CAPITAL OP - - - 6100,000.00 AND SUEPLUS AND PROFITS OF - 355,000.00 MAKING ALTOGETHER - - 455,000.00 EVERY DOLLAR of which must be lost before any depositor can lose nPtflNiN Y It has conducted a growing and successful business for over 35 years, serving an increasing number of customers with fidelity and satisfaction. Its cash funds are protected by MODERN STEEL VAULTS. All of these things, coupled with conservative management. Insured by the OAKEFUL PKKSONAL ATTENTION constantly given the Hank's affairs by a notatily aDle Hoard or uirectors assures ine patrons of that SUPKEMK SAFETY which is the prime essential of u good Bank, Total Assets, DEPOSITS MAY BE MADE BY MAIL DIRECTORS H. C.'HANn, A. T. 8KAKLE, T. B. CLARK REPORT OK THE CONDITION OF THE WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK HONESDALE, WAYHK CO,, FA., nttbo close of business, Arn. 28. 1909. nsouncE8 Reserve fund $ Cash, specie and notes, $51,40H S-l Legal securities 45,000 00 Due from approved re serve agents.... ua,m 01-210. m 85 ,002 73 Cheeks mid cash Items.. Due from Hanks and Trust Co's.not reserve agents Rills discounted not duo. $272,KI,1 &1 3,127 92 inns discounted, time loans with collateral... a,(JS5 00 -xi Loans on call with col lateral 5S.000 O0 3 Loans on call upon one 1 or more names 57,710 00 Loans secured by bonds jwt.t or mortgage 23,300 442,538 53 Investment securities owned ex clusive of reserve bonds, viz : Stocks. Honds, etc., 1,S63,(1 50 Mortgages and Judg ments of record.... 197.461 0:1-2,003.155 00 Ileal estate si.ooo 00 Furniture mid Fixtures 2,000 09 Overdrafts 12 90 Miscellaneous Assets 400 00 $2,767,757 52 I.IAMMTIES. Capital Stock, paid in JMOO.OOO 00 Surplus Fund .300,000 00 Undivided l'rollts, less expenses hi and taxes paid C7.488 74 Deposits subject to check J1B4,M 34 Deposits special 2,100,458 49 ' Time certificates of de- " posit 1,708 78 JSU.P.m Certllied checks 20 00 u Cashier's check olitst'g 1.121 92-2,273,590 53 Due to Commonwealth 25,000 00 Due to banks and bankers, not re serve agents 1,678 23 12,767.757 52 Mine 01 rennsv van a. count v or Wavne. ss. : wa 1. 11. Scott Salmon, Cashier of the above named Company, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Signed) It, S. SALMON. Cashier Subscribed and sworn to before mn this 1st. day of May. 1909. (Signed) i:OHF.I!T A. Correct Attest: SMITH. N. P. INotarlal Seall II. C. Hand. W. F. Hi" v 11 AM, C. I. Smith. Directors A1 rniTou's NoTici'.. Estate of MARIA IIUFTELN Latent Preston, deceased. The undersigned, an Auditor appointed to report distribution of said estate, will attend the duties of Ids appointment, on TUKSDA Y.MAY 18. 1!W9. at 10 o'clock a. in., at hisolllce In the borough of Honesdale, at which time and place all ( lalms against said estate must be presented, or recourse to the fund for distribution will be lost t). L. liOWLAXD. Auditor,.: Honesdale, Pa., April 20, 1909. 3.1 If you want sometliingultra and smart ' WE HAVE THAT TOO. II, w S. SALMON, Cashier J. WARD, Ass't Cashier $2,733,000.00 CHAS.J. SMITH, II. J.CONOEH, W. F. SUYIMM. W. n. HOLMES F.P. KIMI1LE II. S. SALMON