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HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1909.
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NO. 77
Womanly Wisdom.
Nothing tastes better to the chil
dren after they get home from school
than nice bean soup. Other kinds
may do now and then, but bean soup
is always good.
Many folks put salt In the water
In which they boll green corn and
then they wonder what makes the
kernels so hard. Try leaving the
salt out and see If that doesn't fix
the matter all right.
Soaking the hands above the wrists
In hot water will sometimes relieve
n head'.che. I found this out while
washing dishes and clothes when
my head was aching. Keeping the
feet warm at the same time also
helps.
Green tomatoes will make excel
lent pies next winter It you pare
them, cut In thick slices, and to
Beven pounds of them add three
pounds of sugar and cook very slow
ly till clear and tender. Do not add
any water. When the pleB are
made, thin slices of lemon added
will Improve the flavor.
Sheets and long table-cloths are
bad things to take from the boiler
to the tub on wash-days. Did you
over think of looping them up In
a big loose knot before placing them
Into the boiler? Try that and see
If yoa don't find H great Improve
ment. When a baby Is fed with a bot
tle, the milk ofte.i gets too cool be
fore ho has finished It. A rubber
bag filled with hot water and placed
under the bottle will keep It warm,
and also serves as a support to tip
the bottle of milk at the right angle
for him to get It easily.
Some women after they have used
a pattern just roll It up and tuck It
away almost anywhere it happens,
and when they want to use it next
time it curls up and acts so that
there Is no doing anything with it.
If they would Just lay the patterns
out flat and put them where they
might stay that way, all this trouble
would be avoided.
A good many times we blame sore,
-tpea-.an. the, shoes -we wear.when it
isnnh'eimoW"at"' all,' but a big
hummock In the stocking where It
has been mended. It is a great
knack to darn socks so that they
will be smooth and nice. Take les
sons of grandmother about that.
Young folks may know some things
grandmother doesn't, but when it
comes to fixing things she can beat
us.
To mend china: Dissolve half an
ounce of gum arable in three table
spoonfuls of boiling water and add
enough plaster of Paris to make a
thick paste. Then moisten the sur
face of the broken pieces with a
camel's-hair brush and apply a thin
coating of the cement. Press the
edges tightly together and bind with
a cord. When dry remove the cord
and clean the crack with a cloth
dipped In warm water.
Green tomato pickle: Take one
peck green tomatoes, slice and
sprinkle with salt; put In Jar, press
tight and keep over night; in the
morning drain through colander;
add one dozen sliced onions, half
ounce black pepper, one ounce ground
mustard, a quarter pound mustard,
seed, one teaspoonful red pepper,
one ounce cloves, one ounce all
spice and one pound brown sugar.
Put In kettle, cover with good vine
gar and boll until tender.
Do not spend all the fine October
days In pickling, preserving, house
cleaning or sewing, but occasionally
gather up the children and go for
a walk or a drive through the woods,
and thus lay up a supply of health
and pleasant memories for the win
ter months to come. Take some of
the neighbor's children along to
help have a good time. Remember
that so glorious a pageant will not
be spread before your eyes for an
other year, so enjoy it while you
may. From October Farm Journal.
HOW'S Tins?
Wo offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any cobo of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
We, tho undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years,
and bollovo him perfectly honorable
In all business transactions and fi
nancially able to carry out any ob
ligations made by his firm.
Waldlng, Klnnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken in
ternally, acting directly upon tho
blood and mucous surfaces of tho
system. Testimonials Bent free.
Price 75 cents per bottlo. Sold by
all Druggsts.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
AUTUMN ARBOR DAY.
State Superintendent SchncfTer Desig
nates Friday, Oct. 22.
Nathan C. Schaeffer, Superintend
ent of public instruction of Pennsyl
vania, has Issued the autumn Arbor
Day proclamaton, designating Fri
day, October 22. The proclamation
says:
"During May of last year meetings
were held at the Whrte House, in
Washington, for the purpose, of pro
moting the conservation of our nat
ural resources. These meetings were
attended by many of our leading
statesmen, scientists and captains of
Industry. In the opening address
the President said:
"We began with an unapproached
heritage of forests; more than half
the timber is gone. We began with
coal fields more extensive than those
of any other nation, and with iron
ore regarded as inexhaustible, and
ninny experts now declare that the
end of both coal and iron is In
sight."
"The ultimate failure of the sup
plies of iron and coal Is not more of
a menace to the future of our nation
than the gradual destruction of the
soil by floods and freshets, and its
exhaustion by Improper methods of
farming. We derive most of our
food from the fields and the streams,
from the garden, the orchard and
the forest.
"The want of fuel may be supplied
by the use of water power to gener
ate electricity that can be changed
into light, heat and motive power.
"On the other hand, it takes de
cades of growth to reproduce an or
chard or a forest, and 10,000 years
to form soil a foot in depth.
"It Is asserted that forests help
to condense the vapors of the sky in
to clouds and rainfall. They surely
aid in regulating the flow of the
water In our streams and rivers and
in lessening the size and frequency
of the floods and freshets which carry
off silt and soil, and thereby dimin
ish the fertility of the land.
"The value of trees for shade, for
beauty, for fuel, for timber and for
other economic purposes should be
emphasized by every teacher. The
planting and care of trees, their pro
tection from Are, insects and other
enemies, the wonderful process of
budding and grafting should be
taught In every school. The sin of
raBMnB;'oritnarring a tree, a shrub
or a flower, unless it has something
to give which one needs, should be
pointed out again and again. Verily,
there is abundant reason for observ
ing Arbor Day In the fall as well as
In the spring of the year.
"To perpetuate the custom of ob
serving Arbor Day, at that season of
the year when all the schools are in
session, Friday, October 22, 1909,
is hereby designated as autumn Ar
bor Day; and all who are connected
with the schools are urged to ob
serve the day by the planting of
trees and by other suitable exer
cises." Local Option Is Coining.
The Local Optionists of Pennsyl
vania are organized as never be
fore. Nearly every town and vill
age In the state has Its committee
at work and the banners they will
carry through the coming campaign
read "Local Option."
Of course the liquor men are or
ganized and will fight for what they
can "their rights." The spectacle
of the battle will make lasting im
pressions for Old King Alcohol has
ruled for many years, and every
year he lis gathered thousands of
young men and young women to
the places of those who toppled in
to drunkard's graves.
The home, the church, the press
each have their sad stories to re
late of King Alcohol's triumph over
their dear ones, and for the sequel
to these stories we must visit, Mm
jails, penitentiaries, poor houses
ana asylums and wo find hero a
father's only son, or a mother's once
lovely daughter paying the penalty
of those who "sow to the wind and
reap the whirlwind."
Wo do not contend that all rrlmo
and insanity Is due to alcohol but
statistics prove that where alcoholic
dare not enter crime and Insanity
decreases.
Public sentiment has at lnnt linon
aroused against the dangers of
drink and there are enough men in
many of the counties of fair Penn
sylvania who would vote It out at
once If they were given the chance
to do it.
The fight Is now on to send Sena
tors and Representatives to Harris
burg who favor a Local Option bill,
and when that bill becomes a law
King Alcohol Is doomed1 to be
chained for a season. Nicholson
Examiner.
PleaBe remember the great fair
In October. Not many aays now
and then we will all be there.
AJ1 the rage 24 for 25 cents.
WKcop In mind tho county fair
which comes off on Oct. 4, 5, 0, and
7, 1000. Do not forget lt."Vf
SUN PRANKS.
Irregularities For Which Science
Cannot Altogether Account.,
The sun is generally looked upon
as a model of regularity which never
fails In its duty, but the ancient his
torians mention several instances
when It failed to give forth its usual
amount of heat and light for periods
varying from three hours to several
months. Data on the subject have
been complied by the St. Louis Re
public. According to Plutarch, the year
44 B. C. was one In which the sun
was "weak and pale" for a period
approximating eleven months.
The Portuguese historians record
several months of diminished sun
light In the year 934 A. D and, ac
cording to Humboldt, this uncanny
period ended with "strange and
startling sky phenomena, such as
loud atmospheric explosions, rifts in
the vaulted canopy of blue above
and In divers other rare and unac
countable freaks."
In the year 1091, on Sept. 29 (see
Humboldt's "Cosmos"), the sun
turned suddenly black and remained
so for three hours and did not re
gain Its normal condition for several
days.
According to the noted Helmuth's
"Solar Energy," the days of seeming
Inactivity on the part of the sun (the
days following the sudden blacken
ing of the great orb) were noted for
a peculiar greenish tinge and are
marked in old Spanish, French and
Italian records as "the days of the
green sun."
February, 1106 A. D., is noted in
the annals of marvelous phenomena
as a month in which there were sev
eral days' that "the sun appeared
dead and black, like a great circular
cinder floating in the sky."
"On the last day of February,
120C," says an old Spanish writer
on astronomy, astrology and kind
red subjects, "the sun appeared
suddenly tc go out, causing a dark
ness over the country for about six
hours." In 1241 the European coun
tries experienced another siege of
supernatural darkness, which the
superstitious writers of that time
attributed to God's displeasure over
the result of the great battle of
Liegnitz.
Even to-day there are certain
Irregularities of the sun that 'science
cannot altogether account for. These
are the so called sun spots enorm
ous dark splotches which appear from
time to time on the solar disk and
which are supposed to have great
influence on the atmospheric condi
tions of the earth. Scientists have
long studied these phenomena, but
neither their extent nor periodicity
has ever been determined.
SOUTH STERLING.
Mrs. C. W. Coleman has returned
from Dr. Burns' hosptal. Operation
was successful.
Mr. J. G. Frey, J. J. Whlttaker,
and F. E. Robacker attended the Al
lentown Fair.
Rev. Mr. Webster and wife have
been making calls the last week.
Mrs. George Bortree is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. A. E. Barnes.
A number of people attended the
chicken supper held over to the
Union church Friday night.
Mrs. E. E. Carlton is on the sick
list, with a severe cold, which set
tled in her neck.
Miss Hazel Smith and Cora Vick
er have been spending the past week
In Stroudsburg.
Mrs. Alvln Haag and Mrs. Thomas
Barnes were elected as delegates for
the Sunday school convention held
at Bethany on Oct. 1.
Mr. I. M. Barnes has returned from
his visit In Iowa and Chicago.
Death of Frederick Kennedy.
Frederick Kennedy, president of
the Northeastern Telephone com
pany, died on Saturday at Great
Bend. Mr. Kennedy was seized with
a paralytic stroke at 12:30 o'clock
and he died at 3:30 o'clock the same
afternoon.
The deceased was fifty years of
age, and was one of tho best known
and most popular men In Wayne
and Susquehanna counties. Being
a farmer on a considerable scale him
self, he did much to develop rural
telephonic communication through
out northeastern Pennsylvania, and
particularly that section of it over
which the lines of the company of
which he was president passed. Ho
was also a director of the Niagara
Creamery company. He is survived
by two sons, Bert and Martin, and
one daughter, Mrs. Rholfs of Pleas
ant Mount; also by one brother and
one sister, Dr. Kennedy and Mrs.
William Williams, both of Dickson
City. Mr. Kennedy was born at
Pleasant Mount. The funeral took
place at 2:30 o'clock yesterday from
the home of the deceased.
Traffic Shown Qnnrf IVirr.i..
Traffic between the eastern and
western coasts of tho United States
by way of Isthmus, railways and
steamship lines amounted to $40,000,.
000 In value in 190S, a marked in
reaso over any earlier year.
ONE SPREE COST
HIM $,000,000
Bob Womack Who Sold Cripple
Creek for $500 Dies in
Abject Poverty
GOT TIPSY AND TOLD SECRET
There was a Rush to the District,
and Others Located Best Mining
Property Claims Where He Found
Gold, Produced Enormous Amount
3000OO0C
TABLOID HISTORY OF MAN
WHO FOUND A BONANZA.
Bob Womack discovers gold
on Cripple Creek, Col., In Janu
ary, 1901.
After years of prospeotlng,
picks up a piece of float rock
which assays $250 to the ton.
Soon after uncovers a bonanza
vein.
"Goes on a -toot" at Colorado
Springs; tells the locality of
his find. Gold hunters rush to
ic ano locate the best claims.
Womack's claims do not pan
out. He has to work for day's
wages.
Since then gold worth $280,
000,000 has been taken from
mines In the Immediate vicinity.
Now Womack dies a paraly
tic, dependent on his sister.
XCCCCCCC
Colorado Springs. Robert Womack,
who discovered gold at Cripple Creek,
died of paralysis here after a linger
ing illness. In his last years Womack
Ws dependent on a sister who keeps
a boarding house here.
This is the end of a man who in
one sense paid $280,000,000 for one
spree.
That stupendous sum has been tak
en in gold from the land on Cripple.
Creek where Bob Womack first found
the yellow jnetal.
'"'Born in Kentucky sixty-six years'
ago, Bob Womack's father took his
family to Colorado In the early sixties.
The Womacks raised cattle on land
they homesteaded on Cripple Creek.
After some years the elder Wom.ick
sold his herds and with his son Wil
liam came here. Bob, believing there
was gold around Cripple Creek, re
mained there.
After years of fruitless search Bob
found traces of gold In a piece of
float rock which he picked up while
riding the range with his brother-in-law,
Theo. Lowe. Sending Lowe on a
six days' ride to Denver to have the
rock assayed, Bob went on about his
work. Lowe returned with tho as
sayer's certificate; the piece of float
rock gave returns of $250 in gold to
the ton.
Next morning Womack and Lowe
went to the place where Bob found
the rock, In what Is known now as
Poverty Gulch, just outside the limits
of the present town of Cripple Creek.
Lowe grew tired of the search; Bob
persisted. In January, 1901, he dug a
prospect hold in what Is now known
as the El Paso lode of the Gold King
property. .A few days later he struck
a bonanza lode.
He could not stand prosperity. Com
ing here, he went on a spree and sold
his bonanza for $500. Then, crazed
with drink and success, Bob jumped
on his bronco and rode through the
streets brandishing his six-shooter and
proclaiming his secret. The next
few days witnessed one of the big
gest rushes to the scene of his discov
ery that the West has over known.
When Womack sobered up, two or
three days later, ho returned to the
district only to find that the best min
ing property had been located by
others. He staked out a claim or two,
but they proved worthless, and soon
he was compelled to go to work for
day's wages. But he never com
plained. The men who made the most money
out of Cripple Creok mines wore Jas.
Burns of Kansas City, V. Z. Reed and
J. B. McKlnney of Colorado Springs
and the late Wlnfleld S. Straiten.
Of High Degree.
A little girl of old New York de
scent, In whose presence the family
glories were often talked about, was
overheard lately rebuking her pet kit
ten. Holding pussy by her fore paws,
and looking her full in the face, she
remarked: "I'm ashamed of you,
Kitty, for being so naughty, and just
think, your grandmother was a Mal
tese I "
Pheasant Farm on Island.
On one of the Thousand Islands an
enterprising American has started a
pheasant farm. He expects In time to
have 4,000 to 6,000 English golden
pheasants on his Island. As the near
est land is half a mile away, he thinks
he'll be ablo to keep them at home.
A PARSIMONIOUS PEER.
Marquis of Westminster Looked
After the Pennies.
Tho late Marquis of Westminster
had queer economics, according to W.
G. Thorpe, In "The Still Life of the
Middle Templo." On one occasion he
went to Grosvenor House and inform
ed the butler he had brought his lunch
with him, producing a penny saveloy.
It was duly served up on silver plates;
he ate half and directed the remain
der to be kept till he came again.
He was equally parsimonious with
envelopes, readdressing to his own
correspondents those he himself had
received. There is a story of his call
ing upon a local clergyman and hand
ing him a small packol which he
would find useful. The vicar was puz
zled. Was It for tho schools or
church restoration, or the new rere
dos, or the poor? It was too light,
however, for money, unless a check or
bank notes. At last he opened It; it
contained all his own visiting cards,
left at Motcomb with great frequency
for a long period.
Birds Killed by Golf Balls.
A lady playing at tho Hendon
(England) Golf Club recently made a
mashile shot which lofted the ball.
This in Its flight struck a swift on
the wing and both ball and bird fell
straight to the ground.
Tho incident though remarkable, is
not quite unprecedented, for In tho
Field of September 12, 1891, there ap
peared a notice of a swallow killed
by a golf ball and another struck by
a cricket ball was reported In the
Field of August 25, 1894. A lark was
Wiled on the ground by a golf ball
(June 20, 1908) was not so remarka
ble a shot, as the bird In that case was
stationary. It was, however, not the
result of skill but of accident.
The Turk Is a Fatalist.
War is one thing that can rouse
the Turk from his apathy. When
the fight is over, the Mussulman re
turns at once to his "Kief." Why
get excited about politics, science,
philosophy and literature? Is not
everything foreordained? Leave it to
Allah. With a whole nation In this
frame of mind, it is not strange that
the Turk has neither thirst for knowl
edge nor any great passion. It is not
Btrange that ho has but little curlos-
Jty and no desire to travel, and that
officials display such Ignorance m re
gard to the elementary things.
Entitled to All Praise.
"He endeared himself to guardians,
visitors, Inmates and staff, and his
beautiful Christian demeanor, con
stant cheerfulness and good temper
made him beloved by all," Is the epi
taph of the Huddersfleld, England,
guardians upon a pauper who, after
spending 20 years In the parish work
house, recently died there at the age
of 94. "Even in a palace life may be
lived well," says Matthew Arnold;
but most people would find it quite
as hard, if not harder, to maintain a
blameless character In a workhouse,
Coal Gas Product.
According to the reports of the geo
logical survey. 58,000,000,000 cubic
feet of coal gas was made in the Uni
ted States during 1907 by 513 com'
panies. Of this product 54,600,000,'
000 cubic feet was sold for $36,327,897
and the remaining 3.400,000,000 cubic
feet was "lost, strayed or stolen."
The average value of the 1907 product
was 66 cents a thousand feet. The
product of 190G averaged 81.4 cents a
thousand feet, which shows that gas
is becoming oheiiper.
The Post Hole Mystery.
On the farm they make post holes
with dvnamite. It saves digging.
They collect nil the earth that's
thrown up anil put it back in the hole
around tho nost. And then they car
ry more earth to tho spot. The earth
removed to make tho hole isn't suffi
cient In quantity to 1111 It again, even
with the addition of the post, which
takes up much space. The farmnana
doesn't know why this is so, but it is.
No Chinatown Drunkard.
A drunken Chinaman is a rare sight
In tho streets of Now York. The un
official governments of Chinatown
which administers tho high, the low
and the middle justice inexorably
takes care of this. After the first of
fense John is warned. A repetition
Insures his deportation to China. The
decrees of Chinatown are always car
ried out.
The Scrubwoman's Lunch.
"I used to let my scrubwoman set
herself a little lunch," said tho city
flat dweller. "It's the nice thing to
do, I know, and I like to do it, but I
bad to quit in self-defense. She took
an hour to got her lunch and eat it
and charged me extra for the time
she put In."
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The Busy Biographer.
"Don't you want to live in the
minds of posterity?"
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum;
although it is a little discouraging
to see how much more interest pos
terity seems to take in a great rasa's
weaknesses and peculiarities than In
his national achievements.'
WOMAN
I ERIL IS 1
1 51 OF ALL
In War for Equality She Musi
Fail, and Carry Man to De
struction with Her
THE HUMAN RACE IS MENACED
Her Revolt Against Her Woman
hood," 8ays H. E. Armstrong, Brit
Ish Scientist, "Is Most DisquletlngT
Through System of Education.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. "The most
disquieting feature of the times is th
revolt of women against their mother
hood and their claim to be on as
equality with man and to compel
with man In every way."
That was the deliberate, solema
declaration at the session of perhaps
the most Important body of scientists
in existence, the British Assoclatloa
tor the Advancement of Science
Which held Its seventy-ninth annual
convention here, meeting in Canada
for the first time In twelve years. Ttu
eminent scholar who sounded the)
warning was Prof. Heny Edwardt
Armstrong of the London Central la
Btltute, head of the chemical section
of the convention. He went on to say
In his carefully prepared paper:
"There should bo no question at
equality raised. When comparison 1st
made between complementary factor
the question of equality does not and.
cannot come into consideration. It la
clear that should the struggle arise-
The Newest Peril.
I
and it is to be feared that it is com
lng upon us there can bo but one la
sue: woman must fall and In falling
must carry man with her to destruc
tion." Dr. Armstrong declared his faith In
the ability of chemistry to solve the
problem of life and sex, but found
fault with present conditions of socie
ty which place no hindrance In the
way of tho unfit.
"Those who presumably are the fit
test," he asserted, "are failing to con
tribute in proper proportion to the
perpetuation of their race. The con
dition of affairs to-day affords a most
striking exemplification of tho slow
ness with which civilized nations are
learning to appreciate the Ipssons of
science. No problem can compare In
importance with tha.t of the future of
our race.
"Not only do we encourage deterio
ration at the lower end of the scale of
Intelligence. Wo are now, through
our system of education, courting fail
ure also at the upper end. Herbert
Spencer forcibly drew attention many
years ago to tho tendency which the
development of individuality must
have to depress fertility and to the
evil effects of severe mental labor on
women especially.
"It has been stated that in the Unit
ed States of America the higher edu
cation of girls has been proved to
sterilize them."
Drawing the Line.
A new authority has decided that
"under certain circumstances" a man
may play poker with only four cards.
But If he wants to play with six the
player must get his gun out ahead of
the other fellow. Boston Herald.
For Better or Worse.
"I'm tired of this eternal philosophi
cal scrap about the respective Influ
ences of heredity and environment,
says the Philosopher of Folly. "If
heredity brings a man enough money
he can make his own environment,"
Fought Grizzly for Little Daughter.
Nyack, Mont James Doollttle, a
homesteader near here, was fatally In
jured in rescuing his four-year-old
daughter from a grizzly bear which,
bad picked her up and taken her some
two hundred yards away. Doollttle,
gave chase on horseback. The horse
threw Doollttle, breaking his leg.
Then the grizzly turned and probably
fatally clawed and bit him. Aside
from a few scratches, the baby waa
uninjured.
Cigarette Smokers' Paradise.
Washington, D. 0. There Is an in
creasing demand for cigarettes In In
dia, where 1,000 are sold for 10 cents.
GREA