TUB CITIZEN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1000.
WHERE PIE IS ALWAYS PLENTY.
A Necessity of Lifo to the Pennsyl
vania Dutch.
"At my first meal at the little
Pennsylvania Dutch Inn over In
Berks county where I happened to
be one day last summer," said a
Now Yorker, "I asked the rosy
cheeked, black eyed dining room girl
for another baked potato.
"'To bodatlss lss all,' said she
with a smile and a shake of her
head.
"'All?' said I. 'All what?"
" 'All,' said tho girl, Impatiently,
and with a suspicion of contempt In
her tone. Te bodatlss lss all.'
"A native with whiskers of a
patriarch came to my rescue.
" 'She means ter hain't no more
yit alretty,' said he. 'Ter all.'
"Thus I learned that the Pennsyl
vania Dutch never Bay that anything
is 'gone.' If the bar runs out of
beer tho beer Is 'all.' When tho
sauerkraut is empty the kraut Is
all.' Dut there Is one thing, at
least, that Is never 'all. That Is
pie. If some thrifty and hearty
Dutch citizen should ever ask for
pie and word should come back to
him that the pie was 'all' the rela
tions between him and his host
would at once become strainca.
"But I found that the necessity
for asking for pie seldom exists,
either at tavern or farmhouse. At
a Pennsylvania Dutch Inn the waiter
doesn't disturb your tympanum
with:
" 'Mlnsrappleplre puddn?'
"She fetches in tho pie at the
proper time and places It before you.
Not only pie, but a whole pie; and
often not only one whole pie, but
three or four whole pies, all of dif
ferent kinds, and each kind a mas
terpiece of the pie making art. The
black eyed girl with the rosy cheeks
who knocked me out by telling me
that the potatoes were 'all' placed
four uncut pies on the table soon
afterward. There was cheese cus
tard, a gooseberry trat, a sweet po
tato custard, and a snltz pie.
"Snltz is dried apples. Snitz
means the cutting of apples into
small pieces for drying, and snltz
parties, so I learned, were among
the social dissipations of the Penn
sylvania Dutch girls and boys at ap
ple time. A favorite eplcurian de
light in rural Pennsylvania Dutch
dom Is suitz and knep, a combina
tion of dried apples, fat pork and
dumplings, all cooked together.
This for supper might not at ilrst
thought strike a vegetarian as just
the thing to go to bed with if he
had set his mind on gentle dalliance
with the drowsy god, but It isn't
so much of an aider and abetter of
nightmare as it would seem, so I
was told by those who were brought
up to dare it. Yet, so they said,
two good sized dishes of it wasn't
any too little for one goou man to
eat, especially If he Irrigated it, as
is somewhat the wont, with a. tumb
ler or two of last year's cider.
"As to pie again, no matter hov
many pies there may be on the table,
every guest is expected to help him
self to each, as his inclination and
capacity permit him. There is al
ways enough.
"I learned about some more
pleasing Pennsylvania Dutch things
while I was in Berks county. Sch
mierkase has all seasons for its own
with them, but it is only in tho fall
that sauerkraut and lodwaerrick get
their work in. In the fall, too,
metzelsup Is on the circuit, and
many rise up and clutch it. Then,
likewise to rolachizz and pahnhoss
make popular appeal.
"Lodwaerrick is apples and cider
boiled together until there Is no
more cider left and the apples have
become a savory pulp tho color of a
mahogany bureau. In English the
result Is called apple butter. Your
grocer sells you what bears the
brand of apple butter. Maybe that's
what it is, but you will never think
so again after eating lodwaerrick.
"Every well regulated Pennsylva
nia Dutch farmer kills at least two
fat pigs each fall for his own family
use. Tho butchering is a great af
fair and a neighbor here and there
will join in and help. When the hogs
are killed, dressed and cut up cer
tain portions are laid aside for those
who helped in the killing and for
gifts to poor widows In the neigh
borhood. This is distributed with
a liberal hand and is called the
metzelsup. The farmer who for
gets the metzelsup is looked upon
as one for whom perdition yawns.
"If there is a family in Berka
county that doesn't put down a bar
rel of sauerkraut in the fall, then
that family must have just moved in
from some distant part of the coun
try. Every one of the Pennsylvania
Dutch counties makes great quanti
ties of sauerkraut every fall, but
Berks county claims to put down
as much as any three of the others.
"From tho middle of October un
til the same tlmo in November, as
my patriarchal friend at the Inn
table was not backward in inform
ing me, but little elso than sauer
kraut in the domestic supply occu
pies the household mind. The house
wife at the head of an establishment
that requires thousands a year to
support It has the same recipe for
putting down sauerkraut that her
washwoman has and when her kraut
Is ripe it doesn't smell a bit better
for its more aristocratic surround
ings. "Some Pennsylvania Dutch fami
lies hire their cabbage cut, but no
such pride can be felt by tho house
wife who doesn't cut her own as she
who does cut her own can boast.
But though the cabbage for the
family kraut may have been hired
cut the work of making the sauer
kraut must be that of the house
wife alone, be she In high or humble
life. They boast that no family In
Berks county transforms less than
fifteen heads of cabbage Into sauer
kraut every fall, and some families
would call that season lost whose
last descending sun saw less than
one hundred cabbage heads con
verted Into sauerkraut for Its own
use.
"Rolachizz is a liberal combina
tion of tripe and beef built up in
consecutive layers of each until it
has come to a roll big enough to
suit, and then It is mildly pickled
and put away for winter use. It
Is served sliced up thin, cold, and it
is good. No Pennsylvania Dutch
family falls to make generously of
head cheese as one of the popular
by-products of the pig, and In the liq
uor that comes from the boiling of
the pig's head is worked buckwheat
flour and corn meal until it comes
to the desired consistency. This
cools Into a solid mass and is call
ed pahnhoss. Sliced and fried it is
a particular pleasant food to the
native palate.
Peary's Character Impeached by Es
quimaux. Copenhagen, Oct. 7. The Cook
Peary controversy still excites the
greatest Interest In Denmark. Near
ly everybody favors Dr. Cook's
claims. Tho latest contribution on
the subject comes from a Greenland
clergyman, Rev. M. Ludwig, a mem
ber of the Cape York mission, who
in a lecture delivered a violent at
tack on Peary, alleging that the lat
ter always cheated the Esquimaux.
He declared that once Peary left a
number of Esquimaux women and
children on the ice, without food
and with certain death before them,
because they obstructed his expedi
tion's advance. Peary also took care
that the Esquimaux were not pro
vided with useful arms, thus making
them dependent on him. Esquimaux
during recent years have made hun
dreds of complaints in the Danish
Greenland colonies regarding Peary's
ill treatment of them. Dr. Lud
wig, who is well acquainted with
Dr. Cook and Peary, asserts that
prominent explorers are willing to
corroborate his statements.
CATS VOll POSTOFFICKS.
Appropriation Mnde for Feline Em
ployees. Although this is the day of re
duction of Governmental expenses,
Postmaster General Hitchcock does
not overlook the value of the cat In
the postal service. He has authoriz
ed the allowance to be made for the
support of cats in the large offices
of the country. The cost of their
maintenance comes out of the annual
appropriation made by Congress for
"miscellaneous items and incidentals
necessary to offices of the llrst and
second classes."
During tho present fiscal year the
Department will expend approxi
mately ?13u for "cat meat."
Cats are recognized by the De
partment as employees, and so car
ried on the rolls. Throughout the
country they are used In the various
postofllces to minimize the depreda
tions of rats and mice.
Where Have They Gone?
What has become of tho old-fashioned
man who carried a shot-bag
in his pocket to keep change in?
Who wore barn-door trousers?
Who kept a bootjack to pull off
his boots?
Who had his trousers lined with
unbleached muslin?
Who wore a long linen duster
when traveling?
Who carried an old fiat carpet
bag? Who greased his boots on Sun
day? Who wore a shawl?
Who wore a watch-cord with
watch-key fastened to it.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who kept a bodkin in
her work-basket?
Who baked custard for tea when
she had company?
Who made impressions around
the edge of pies with a key, to
make them look fancy?
Who wore calico sunbonnets with
pasteboard slats?
Who wore Shaker bonnets?
Who seasoned apple pie with all
spice? Who used Indigo to blue the wa
ter when washing clothes?
What has become of the old-fashioned
people who poured tea in the
saucer and blew on it to make it
cool?
Who drank sassafras tea in the
spring to purify their blood?
Who had to learn to like toma
toes? Who saved old rags to trade off
to the tinware peddler?
What has become of the old
fashioned novelist who always de
scribed heroines as having dark au
burn ringlets hanging down their
Alabaster necks?
Of the old-fashioned elocutionist
who read "Widow Bedot Papers" at
entertainments?
Of the old-fashioned little girls
who wore long nankin pantalettes?
Of the old-fashioned woman who
gave catnip tea to babies?
Of the old-fashioned young men
who greased their hair with bear's
oil scented with bergamot?
CASTOR I A
Tot Infants and Children.
Hi KM You Hits Always BoBght
Bears the
Signature of
JUSTIFIED BY JURY
FOR KILLING WIFE
Agony from Asthma, Had Beg
ged Husband to Prove Love
by Ending Her Life
A CELEBRATED FRENCH CASE
A Jury In the Paris Assize Court Con
ceded, at Least Tacitly, the Right
to Take Life In Order to End Hope
less Suffering.
Paris, Franco. "A man whose wife
is dying of an agonizing disease is
Justified in killing her to put an end
to her suffering if she implores him
to do so."
So a Jury, perhaps rather emotional,
decided in the Court of ABslzes here,
and acquitted Edmond Baudln, who,
at her prayer, shot and killed his wife
on Jan. 31 last
Mme. Baudln had been afflicted with
asthma for years. It gripped her
throat, it was a weight on her lungs,
It stopped her breath. She begged
her husband to aid her by killing her
quickly to rid her of the affection
that was slowly throttling her.
Baudln, a mechanic, thirty-nine
years old, a rough and plain spoken
man, sought to Justify his act with
words as straightforward as they
were dramatic.
Tears streamed from his eyes while
he testified. The Jurors also wept,
and the women in the courtroom were
semi-hysterical.
The presiding Judge, who disap
proved of the Jury's verdict, remark
ed: "For the moment the bandage on
the eyes of Justice was a handker
chief." "My wife, whom I loved dearly, had
Buffered fearfully from asthma," Bau
dln testified. "She could not sleep. If
she laid her head on the pillow she
would cry, 'I am choking! In the
name of the good God, end my misery!
Let me die!'
"On the night she she died she
was suffering intensely," Baudln went
on between sobs. "The medicine she
was taking was nearly exhausted.
" 'I will go and get you some more
medicine,' I said.
" 'No,' she said, 'buy no more medi
cine. You know we are poor. I am
gone. Medicine will do me no good.
I suffer! Oh, how I suffer!
" 'But pay no more for medicine. I
have cost you too much money al
ready. " 'If you love me put me out of my
misery. Prove your love and lot me
leave you. Kill me! If you were a
determined man you would not see me
suffer as I do.'
"I was maddened by the sight of
her agony," Baudln ended. "I seized
a revolver with which I intended to
defend our home; I shot her in the
head; she died instantly.
"I determined then to kill myself,
but I thought of my sister, the only
other being who depends on me. I
went to see my sister. She wept, but
told me I should surrender myself to
tho police, which I did at once."
When Baudin finished his testi
mony, given with unaffected emotion,
every person in the court was in
tears.
Following him, Dr. Dupre (a dis
tinguished alienist, testified that Bau
din is perfectly sane. But, said Dupre,
he was incited to his fatal act by the
stronger will of his wife. Pity for
her, directed by her will, led him to
shoot her.
As Baudln left the courtroom a free
man the crowd applauded him.
New York, N. Y. The question
whether it Is morally Justifiable to
end the suffering of those who are
bound to die of a mortal disease has
been discussed In this country. Of
course it was decided that such an act,
whether inspired by love or pity, Is
murder.
IMMIGRANTS CRITICISED.
Twenty Per Cent, of Ours not V
slrable Citizens."
Washington, D. C. Commission
of Immigration Williams had a long
conference with Commissioner-General
Keefe. Many immigrants, he
sold, now enter the country that do
not measure up to the standard,
though meeting the requirements of
the law. He estimated that perhaps
20 per cent of the Immigrants do not
become desirable citizens. But ie
expressed the opinion that in t iiear
future these conditions will be reme
died. Judge Has 72-Inch Whiskers.
Curryvllle, Mo. Judge E. K. Gates
baa succeeded In the space of little
more than half a lifetime In growing
a crop of whiskers seventy-two Inches
long.
Judge Gates has two sots of whis
kers. One is for public display and
overflows his shirt front The other
set, tho seventy-two inch growth, gen
erally Is tucked away inside the
Judge's shirt, the ends being tied
around his waist This Is the set
that has made Judge Gates famous
tho world over.
Blind, Is Skilled Berryplcker.
Altoona, Pa. Edward Cannon, of
Belleville, aged and stone blind, board
ed a train, went to Lloydsvillo and
alone on the mountain there piokod
and stemmed nineteen Quarts of elder
berries without the eld of a single
person.
TO LOST WEIGHT, 525,000
Young Woman In Court Declares 8he
Wasted Away So That Her Wed
ding Gowns Do Not Fit Now.
Pittsburg. Valuing hor Desh, or
rather tho flesh she did have, but
hasn't now, at $1,000 per pound, Miss
Luella Lowstetter, a yet buxom
school teacher of the fashionable sub
urb of Sheraden, entered court trying
to collect tho prize of twenty-flve lost
pounds, $25,000, from Professor Earl
W. Heed, principal of the Borough
Schools of Sheraden.
Miss Lowstetter claims that Pro
fessor Reed Jilted her In a shameful
fashion after she had agreed to mar
ry him and had procured her wedding
trosseau. She says she lost twenty
flve pounds owing to worry, and tho
wedding clothes would not fit her now.
She had in court scores of witnesses
who will assert she was round and
plump when Professor Reed was en
gaged to her, but that she fell off at
a great rate when she learned he was
to marry another.
"Does your client still love Profes
sor Reed? You know he Is a married
man now," said one of the attorneys.
"Don't be foolish. We are dealing
with tho material, not the ideal," re
plied her lawyer. "We think $1,000
for each sixteen-ounces my client lost
over being Jilted is about right"
Miss Lowstetter claimed Professor
Reed called on her six nights a week,
giving no other young man a chance.
Her engagement was terminated by
use of the long distance 'phone, which
she considers another grievance.
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8 FLETCHER'S NEWEST RULES
8 OF LIFE AND EATING,
8 Horace Fletcher has Just
printed his rules of 'life and O
eating, summing them up as 5
thus: O
Don't eat when not hungry. O
Don't ever get angry. g
Don't drink In a hurry. O
Don't tolerate worry. q
Don't ever waste good taste. O
Don't pass It by In haste. 8
The Apostle of the Long Chew. O
Don't gobble pure good food, q
Don't fall to eat
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Don't make light of good ad
vice.
rinn't v, half tab hrAnth
Don't thus court an early 8
death. O
Don't squander precious time, q
V Don't miss to do your best, U
Q Let Nature do the rest. 8
TCOCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SUICIDE WITH THE AID OF LIONS.
Young Woman, After Quarrel with
Tamer, Puts Arm In Cage.
Paris. A young woman committed
suicide in a frightful manner here.
Having had a quarrel with her lover,
who is a lion tamer in a theatre in
which three lions are Introduced dur
ing the course of a melodrama, the
-an went behind the scenes and
tu. her arm into the cage.
The animals were wild with rage
and with a few blows of their daws
tore her head and breast to pieces.
The woman's fearful screams and the
roars of the animals caused a panic
among the audience, and the fireproof
curtain had to be lowered.
RING FOUND IN BIRD'8 NEST.
Other Jewelry and Farmer Brlnker's
First Lbve Letter There.
Jacksonville, N. J. In a chestnut
tree felled on James T. Blinker's farm
here, there was found a bird's nest
containing Mrs. Brlnker's engagement
ring that disappeared fifteen years
ago. There were ten other rings In
the' nest stickpins and a gold brooch.
Tho first love letter Brlnker sent to
his wife, when he was courting her,
was also In the nest.
Drunkards to Be Marked.
Manitowoc, Wis. A red button or n
blue ribbon, or some other mark of
Identification will be placed upon nmi
who, because of their drinking habtt't
havo been posted by the City Counc"
If a plan approved by the Council i
carried out.
Tho Council will either adopt tin
Pond du Lac plan of posting the p'"
togrephs of all posted men In tho i
loons or will compel them by an orH
rmace to wear a button or jibbqn.
A Desirable Accessory.
A certain rich man took some city
boys out to his country home. After
showing them some of the interest
ing things of the farm, he gave each
boy a cup of milk from a two thou.
tci.l dollar prize cow. He asked
tlifi how they liked It. They said,
"Gee, It's flno!" After a little one
I oy spoke, "My, I wlsht our milkman
kep' a cow." The oHusokeepor.
Wild Flgo for California.
California Is to try acclimating tho
Korean wild fig. The fig, growing on
a hardy vine, on trees, trellises nnd
hedgerows to a height of 30 feet
bears a delicious fruit Some of tho
poed has been sent to the Department
of Agriculture, California State Uni
versity. The fig grows wild In Korea
and has proved of great value there.
The Value of Words.
Only a few sweet, loving words
thnt is all; but, coming from the heart
nnd going to the heart, they would
brighten many a life and comfort
many a soul, as the speaker of then
little thinks. Let us not be so chary
"thorn Marv H Pprkins.
Eves
O. G. WEAVER,
: GRADUATE OPTICIAN,
U27X Main Street.
ONE OF THE
MANY STYLES
NEW AUTUMN SUIT
For Ladies. Misses and Juniors.
New Long Coats, Separate' Jackets
and Imported Cloaks.
Menner & Co's Store.
ACCOUNT P. H. SKKLLY,
GUARDIAN OF
Lewis Hansman, a person of weak
mind of Texas Township, Wayne
county, Pennsylvania.
Notice Is hereby given that the
second and partial account of the
guardian above named has been filed
in the court of Common Fleas of
Wayne county, and will be presented
for approval on October 26, 1909,
and will be confirmed absolutely on
January 20, 1910, unless exceptions
thereto are previously filed.
M. J. HANLAN, Prothonotary.
Sept 25, 1909.
ill
iiil
re M
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ACCOUNT P. H. SKELLY,
GUARDIAN OP
Doris Hansman, a person of weak
mind of Texas Township, Wayne
county, Pennsylvania.
Notice Is hereby given that the
second and final account of the
guardian above named has been filed
In the court of Common Fleas of
Wayno county, and will bo present
ed for approval on October 25, 1909,
and will be confirmed absolutely on
January 20, 1910, unless exceptions
thereto are previously filed.
M. J. HANLAN, Prothonotary.
Sept, 25, 1909.
PKOFESSIONAIj CARDS.
Attorncya-at-Law.
H WILSON,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOU-AT-LAW.
Olllce. Masonic building, second floor
Honcsdale. Pa.
WM. II. LEE,
ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW.
Offlce over post office. All lecnl business
promptly attended to. Honcsdule, l'a.
EC. MUMFORD,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Office Liberty Hall bulldlne, opposite the
Post Olllce. Honesdalc. I'u.
HOMER GREENE,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over Kelt's store, llonesdale Pa.
AT. SEARLE,.
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Olllco near Court House Honesdalo. Pa.
0L. ROWLAND,
ATTORNEY A COUN8ELOR-AT-LAW.
Offlce ver Post Office. Honcsdale, Pa.
CHARLES A. McCARTY,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Special and prompt attention given to the
collection or claims. Office over Kelt's new
store. Honcsdale. Pa.
FP. KIMBLE,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW i
Office over the post office; Honcsdale. Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office in the Court House, Honcsdale,
Pa.
HERMAN HARMEb,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Patents and pensions secured. Office in tbo
Schuerholz building llonesdale. Pa.
PETER H. ILOFF,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
, Odlce-Second floor old Savings Brik
building, llonesdale. Pa.
EM. SALMON,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office Next door to post ofllce. Kormerl
occupied by V. lI.:Dlninilck. Honcsdale. Pa
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
Offlce First floor, old Savings Bank build
ing, Honesdalc. Pa.
Dr. C. It. BRADY. Dentist. HonesdaleJPa.
Office Hours-8 a. m.to5p. m
Any evening by nppolntmenl.
Citizens' phone. 33. Residence. N0.8G-X
Physicians.
DR. II. B. SEARLES,
HONESDALE, PA.
Office and residence 1019 Court street
telephones. Office Hours 2:00 to 4:00 and
UOOtofm p.iu
Livery.
LIVEKY. Fred. G. Rickard has re
moved I lis livery establishment from
corner Church 6trect to Whitney's Stone
Barn.
ALL CALLS
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FIRST CLASS OUTFITS. 75yl
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Fire
Insurance
The OLDEST Fire Insurance
Agency in Wayne County.
Office: Second floor Masonic! Build
ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drugstore,
llonesdale.
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