THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, OCTOBEIt 22, 1000.
WIF
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SHIM SHOT
Cincinnati Women Stirred by
2700 Cases in Three Months
Appeal to President
SHOULD BE EXECUTED ON SPOT
If the Traitor to Hla Marriage Vowa
Surrenders Quietly He Should Bo
Jailed for a Long Term In a Fed
oral Prison.
Cincinnati. Six hundred earnest
women of the Cincinnati Woman's
Christian Temperance Union decided
that a husband who deserts his wlfo
should be punished precisely as Uncle
Sam punishes a man who deserts tho
army or navy.
In a word, theso ladles vow that a
wife deserter, who, being apprehend
ed, tries to continue his flight, should
be shot on the spot. If ho surrenders
quietly he should be jailed, perhaps
In Fort Leavenworth, for a long term.
Tho 600 Cincinnati women, most of
whom are married happily which la
to say that the others are unmarried
met In special session and voted unan
imously to write to the President and
ask him to put wife deserters under
the same unttlve laws as army and
navy deserters. And the Cincinnati
women voted to ask their sisters of
the women's clubs In New York and
Chicago to sign tho letter to Presi
dent Taft, too.
Soma appalling figures wore pre
sented to the meeting. It was report
ed authoritatively that no fewer than
2,700 cases of wife desertion have
been discovered In Cincinnati alone
during three months.
Any mathematician, indeed any
spinster, will tell you that, counting
a month as thirty days, and presum
ing that tho 2,700 husbands disappear
ed during the last ninety days, this is
an average of thirty desertions a day.
To go into fractions, one and one-sixth
husbands havo taken to the timber
during each hour of every day for
ninety days.
This plcturo of all Cincinnati man
kind fleeing, presented as It was on
the 23d, suggested writing on the sub
ject to President Taft, a dovoted hus
band and father. And the women
here already are framing a letter to
those of New York and Chicago ask
ing them to join in a conference which
will appoint a lobby to go to Congress
and urge a law making the punish
me.it of wife-deserters fit the crime.
Newest Type of Coast Defense Guns
Adopted by the U. S. Government.
FINDS A NEW POLAR LAND.
Whaler Bower Penetrates Region New
to White Men.
San Francisco. W. J. Bower, a
well, known Arctic whaleman, has ar
rived here from Point Barrow. Bow
er had tho distinction of penetrating
Prince Albert Land, where whlto men
had never been seen before.
With several others on the gaso
lene schooner Olga he reached a
point about 1,800 mllos east of Point
Barrow. Thero they found a colony
of natives different in type from Eski
mos. They resemblo Indians In face
and figure.
Bower was bitten by one of the
enormous spiders that abound in
Prince Albert Land and lost the sight
of an eye. Some of these spiders
were six Inches long. They appeared
when it began to thaw in the spring.
FIND8 BURIED TOLTEC CITY.
Prof. Mens Makes Archaelog!c(.
Discovery In Mexico.
Mexico City. An Important arch
aeological discovery was announced
here by Prof. Ramon Mena, who head
ed a Government expedition to Otum
ba, State of Mexico, which has uncov
ered a hurled city of' great antiquity.
A pyramid similar to that uncovered
at San Juan de Teotihacan was ex
posed. The pyramid 1b sixty feet high
and 200 feet square at the base. The
remains Indicate that the city was
built and occupied in the time of the
Toltecs.
CHUCKS TOOK LANTERN8.
Farmer Had Plaoed Lights In Garden
to Frighten Animals.
Wlnsted, Conn. Woodchucks, as ho
believed, Btroyed his garden In tho
night, so Henry Blum of Huckleberry
Hill, in Avon, placed lanterns at each
end of It In an effort to frighten the
animals away.
Daylight showed that tho supposed
woodchucks, after using tho lanterns
to select their plunder, had carried
them awy with the vecvUbloc Blum
Is now oa the lookout lor a wood
chuck with a lasUtrs.
DESERTERS
DOG AIDS THIEF IN AUTO
Picks Fowl from Roost and Carries
Them to Machine Trained
to Rob Henhouses.
Clinton, N. J. Jersey Justice, whip
In hand, is looking for an up-to-date
chicken thief' wlio is riding about the
country in an automobile and using
a trained collie dog to rob the hen
roosts. The plan of the thief is to
visit the farmer first in the guise of a
poultry purchaser for the holiday mar
ket. He takes the colllo with him.
In tho course of the negotiations for
the poultry for delivery between No
vember 15 and December 1, tho thief
makes an excuse for visiting the hen
house to see that the poultry Is kept
properly. While the visitor Is making
an Inspection the dog Is nosing around
and becoming familiar wkh the sur
roundings. Fancy prices are offered
for tho poultry, and after a promise
to pay promptly on delivery the deal
Is closed.
After giving a lecture on proper
poultry raising the stranger drives
away in his machine, and the happy
farmer goes in to tell his wife of the
splendid prices obtained. Afterward
the automobllo poultry thief drives
around to tho same place in tho night
time. He sits in his automobile in
the road. The trained dog goes to
tho hen house, gains an entrance and
one by ono carries tho chickens from
the roosts to tho auto and delivers
them to Its master. The dog knows
Its business so well that It grips them
by tho neck firmly enough to prevent
their squawking and yet not hard
enough to kill them. Turkeys, geese
and ducks also receive Its attention.
Jacob Herman and John Van Woert,
two of the farmers who havo lost their
poultry this way, wont to Monclalr to
look for tho man. They say he gavo
the name Sandy Farkerson, and said
ho lived in Montclalr. No such man
is known there. The farmers would
llko to have a flve-mlnute Interview
with him.
To Miss Helen Van Woert belongs
the credit of uncovering the game.
She was aroused by the barking of a
black-and-tan dog. Getting up she
went to the window and saw a small
automobile standing In the road in
front of the house. Miss Van Woert
also saw an animal of some sort run
ning to and fro between the auto and
the yard. The farmer was aroused.
He used his night glasses and saw
that it wns colllo. Seizing his gun ho
started to open tho door to do a llt
tlo shooting. The click of tho lock
alarmed tho chicken thief. Ho whis
tled for his dog and rushed away at
top speed. With them went seven
teen of tho farmer's chickens.
MELONS RAISED ON A BOTTLE.
Branch Vine Inserted In Sweetened
Water Helps Growth.
Bloomington, 111. Watermelons
raised on a bottle have added now
fame to tho Carroll county products.
The process Is simple, consisting of
cutting a runner or branch vine Imme
diately back of the developing melon
and inserting the cut end of the vino
into a bottle of water sweetened with
sugar.
The water is quickly absorbed, re
sulting In Increased slzo, rapid growth
and greater sweetness. One melon
raised this season after this treatment
weighed eighty pounds. Carroll coun
ty Is the watermelon contre of Illinois.
Where the soil is adapted to melons
the crop 1b the most profitable that
can be grown.
The season opens the middle of Au
gust and is now about at an end.
About 300 carloads havo been shipped
out this season, ten solid trains of
thirty cars each. About $30,000 has
been paid to the growers for their
fruit. One grower realized $3,000
from a forty-acre field.
DESTROY INFIDEL'S MONUMENT8
They Contain 15,000 Words Denounc
ing the Christian Religion.
Kenosha, Wis. After standing for
nearly fifty years, the monuments of
Lewis Knapp, an infidel who died ten
years ago, are to be removed from
the Kenosha Cemetery. The denunci
ation of the Christian religion con
tained on the monuments is to be en
tirely lost, as the agreement for the
removal of the monuments with the
relatives of Knapp is that they are
to be broken up, and completely de
stroyed. The inscriptions on the mooomonts
are made up of more than fifteen thou
sand words, and in them is a bitter
attack on tho Christian religion and
the priesthood.
AEROPLANE A3 MOTOR CAR.
8antos-Oumont Expects to Use His on
Ground or In Air.
Paris. Bantos-Dumont at Saint
Cyr reduced the record previously
held by Curtlss for the shortness of
the run of an aeroplane prior to tak
ing wing from eighty to seventy yards.
Three thousand persons witnessed
the experiment
Santos-Dumnnt says he expects in
a few days to be able to use his aero
plane as a motor car along the road,
rising at will and descending again
to resume running upon tho ground.
He believes that he will further re
duce the distance necessary to tra
verse before rising to forty or fifty
yards.
Put Limit on Newsboys' Voices.
St Louis. Police In the business
district ordered to put tho "soft
pedal" on newsboys' voices have
adopted this rule: A "bewsie" must
act shout "Uxtry!" load enough to be
heard more than half a block It there
la another newsboy at the next corner.
E
OF THE PLAINS
Two Braids, a Famous Apache
Chief, Finds He Is Not of
Indian Blood
NOW ASKS GOVERNMENT AID
After Forty Years with the Red Men
Thomas Strlngfield Applies to the
Authorities to Be Restored to Citi
zenship. Washington. Two Braids, chief of
a tribe of Apache Indians, has made
application to the government to be
restored to citizenship, and this
brings to light a strange story, for
this Indian chief Is not an Indian at
all.
For nearly forty years Two Braids
has been known as an Indian and has
supposed himself to be an Indian, but
he has Just learned of the fact that
he Is really Thomas Strlngfield, whlto
man, who was captured 44 years ago
by a band of Apaches In a raid in Mc
Mullen County, Tex. His father,
mother and elder brother were killed
in the raid, and his little sister was
left for dead, with several ugly
wounds from the Apaches' tomahawks.
But tho little girl survived, was adopt
ed and reared by an uncle and Is now
living not many miles from the scene
of the massacre. Her name Is Mrs.
Ida Hatfield, and she and her brother
have been reunited.
wo Braids tells an interesting
story of that part of his life which
he remembers. Reared in an Indian
camp, it was natural that he Bhould
fall in love with a woman of his race,
and about thirteen years ago he mar
ried Bright Moon, daughter of an
other Apache chief and niece of the
notorious Geronimo. Two children
were born of this union, a daughter,
Nuckl Two Braids, who is now ten
years old and has won fame for her
horsemanship and rifle shooting, and
Starlight, a bright little son now
three.
Two Braids first learned the true
story of his life from an old warrior
Chief Two Braids.
named Death Face, one of the most
treacherous of Apaches. About a
year ago on his death-bed this Indian
told Two Braids that he had not a
drop of Indian blood in his vlens, and
that he was a paleface and had been
kidnapped by the Apaches 40 years
ago in Texas. Death Face could not re
member the name of the place, but he
described the incident and the local
ity. Two Braids took up tho trail,
which he followed with dogged tenac
ity for 12 months. When he had
found tho spot and met old residents
who remembered his parents he re
ceived permission to leave Fort Sill
reservation In Oklahoma, and, taking
his daughter with him, he traveled
back to the scene of his childhood
days. He met his sister, and the battle-scarred
uncouth warrior and the
gentle paleface woman wept for Joy
for their recognition was mutual and
positive.
Though living with the Apaches for
40 years, Two Braids swears he never
took a human life and that he worried
about the crimes his brothers com
mitted on the raids to which he was
a party. Twenty-three years ago,
when a band of Apaches was rounded
up and captured in western Texas
after a long series of depredations In
cluding murders, burning of farm
property and pillage, Two Braids was
in the band. They were taken to Ban
Antonio and shipped from there to
Florida and later to Fort Sill, OMa.
Two Braids' hair is long, but not as
black and not as coarse as an Indian's.
His cheekbones are not high.
With bis Bister he visited the graves
of their parents, who were laid to rest
at the mouth of San Jose creek and
on tho banks of the River Nueces. Two
Braids is raising a fund with which to
erect a marble Bhaft to the memory
of his parents and the subscription
list has grown to several hundred dol
lars. HAD TO WASH FEET OF BOSS.
Domestic Also "Manicured" His Toes,
but Got No Pay.
Kansas City, Ma Because, she al
leges, it was necessary in the perform
ance of her. duties as housekeeper to
dally wash her employer's feet and
manicure his toe nails, for which she
received no compensation, Hattle Rap
pas instituted civil proceedings to re
cover from N. Lope, her former em
ployer, 3, which she declared wa
due her in wages.
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TRANGE
ROMANO
NEW HEAD OFJOTHIIfl COPS
William F. Baker Appointed Commis
sioner by Mayor McClellan to Suc
ceed Gen. T. A. Bingham.
New York. William F. Baker, who
has been appointed police commis
sioner to succeed Gen. Theodore A.
Bingham, has had more experience In
William F. Baker,
office-holding than in police matters,
though he has been connected with
the force for a long while, and at tho
time of his appointment was first dep
uty commissioner. Ho was secretary
to Bird Coler when the latter was civil
service commissioner, and from that
position was transferred to tho post
of deputy police commissioner and
put In charge of the borough of Brook
lyn, then ho was transferred by Gen.
Bingham and established at head
quarters. The feeling in general Is
that the appointment is political and
that it means a renewal of friendship
between Mayor McClellan and Mur
phy, the Tammany chief, and har
mony between McCarren and Mur
phy. USING FEW DRUGS NOW.
Hospital Ban on Ambulance Gongs
Tubs, vs. Shower Bath.
Washington. Fifteen years ago tho
nverage expenditure for drugs per
capita on cases in American hospitals
was ?2.90; to-day it is 01 cents. This
was the gist of a paper read to ih
American Hospital Association by Dr.
It. R. Rose, Superintendent of the
Buffalo General Hospital. He told the
physicians that the directors of hos
pitals have learned the curative pow
er of fresh air, light, water, mental
and other drugless treatments.
Dr. Ross also touched on the ambu
lance evil. He pointed out that many
cities have abolished the clanging of
ambulance gongs and the sensational
gallops after patients. He said that
these practices of former years
brought more patients to the hospi
tals than the accidents to which the
ambulances were summoned.
The doctors have finally taken into
account woman's vanity, and a long
discussion of the relative merits of
the tub and the shower bath In hospi
tals was a victory for the tub bath
champions, on the plea that women
preferred the tub because it did not
get their hair wet.
NO CLOCKS IN CHURCHES.
Methodist Preachers Decide That
They Are Too Distracting.
Cincinnati. The Methodist churches
of Ohio will hereafter be conducted
without clocks.
This was one of the weighty mat
ters decided by the conference at Jack
son, Ohio. It was adopted upon tho
recommendations of Bishop Thomas
B. Neely, who said that he found
clocks an attraction which continu
ously disturbed his congregations and
himself.
"You will never know what 'quiet
blessedness' is until you get rid of
them," said the Bishop. "People con
tinually turn around to see what time
it is and you as ministers naturally
follow their gaze and cut short your
sermons."
Then the resolution was read and
adopted.
"LICK" WIFE IF SHE FLIRTS.
So Decides Judge Fake of Chicago In
a Sample Case.
Chicago. Frank O'Connor was
walking down Michigan Boulevard
with his wife. O'Connor was watch
ing the automobiles go by and he
avers his wife was watching tho men.
He asserted that when a peculiarly
dashing pedestrian passed she smiled
on him and then said: "Isn't that a
handsome man 7" He struck her and
both were arrested.
When arraigned before Judge Fake
OVDonnor explained the cose.
"A woman's eyes and words should
be for her husband alone," quoth the
Justice. "Discharged!"
Smoking in Church.
Dayton, Ohio. In order to stimu
late interest in the afternoon meeting
for men, the Rev. Thomas W. Cook,
rector of St. Andrews Episcopal
Church here, announces that he will
permit smoking during service. In
vltations have been sent broadcast
oekiBg the men to attend the meet
ings, bringing their smoking material
along.
Preachers Must Eschew the Weed.
Kansas City, Mo. The North won.
Missouri Methodist Conference nclopi
ed a committee report suggesting tlia
a law be passed prohibiting tho use
of tobacco by any prospective mem
ber of the conference unless he gav
a pledge to disoontinus the .habit.
.Neatly Put.
Two Quakers were having an ar
gument and one considered the other
was speaking falsely. This is how he
reproved hira:
"Friend Thomas. I will not call thee
by any bad name, but if the mayor
were to ask me who was the greatest
liar In tho town I would hasten to
thee and say: 'Thomas, I think the
mayor greatly deslreth to speak with
thee.' "
Giant at Head of Buffalo Police.
At the last convention of the In
ternational Association of Chiefs of
Pollco. in Buffalo, the blggeBt man
present was Michael Regan, the head
of Buffalo's police department. Chief
Regan could easily qualify for Now
York's crossing guard's squad, as he
stands six feet four inches in his
stockings. He was elected vice-president
of the association.
As Observed.
1 "Golf is a good deal like the piano,"
observes the grouchy old sportsman.
"It's generally played by people that
don't know much about It."
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and Imported Cloaks,
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ACCOUNT P. H. S KELLY,
GUAItDIAN OP
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 Pleas 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. 26, 1909.
W J Eves I
Tested 1
I Glasses
I fc. Fitted
ACCOUNT P. H. SKELLY,
QUARDIAN OF
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 Pleas of
Wayne county, and will be present
ed 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 26, 1909.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Attorncva-ot-Lnvv.
H WILSON,
. ATTORNEY A COUKSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office, Masonic building, second floor
Honesdale. I'a.
WM, H. LEE,
ATTORNEY A COUNSEI.OR-AT-LAW.
Office over post olllce. All legal business
promptly attended to. Honesdale, Pa. - 4
EC. MUMFORD,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
T0,.nRwrLlbc,rty building, opposite the
Post Olllce, Honesdale, Pa.
HOMER GREENER-,- - - lf - f
ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-T.AW.
Office over Keif's store. Honesdale Pa.
A T. SEARLE, . ..j
XJl. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-Tj AW.
Office near Court House Honesdale. Pa. St
0L. ROWLAND,
. ATTORNEY A COUN8ELOR-AT-LAW.
Office ver Post Office. Honesdale, Pa.
CHARLES A. McCARTY,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
SnnHnl ntid nrnrrmf. ntfnT,Hr, nhmt. ,n ,u
collection of claims. Office over Hell's new
store, Honesdale, Fa.
FP. KIMBLE,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-T. A
Office over tho Dost office Honesdale, Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
ATTnnwrv jr pnnwHPT nu. it.t. ito.
Office iin the Court House, Honesdale,
Pa.
HERMAN HAKMESs,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Patents and pensions secured. Office in the
Schuerholz buildlne Honesdale. l'a.l
PETER H. ILOFF,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Offlre-Second , floor old Savings lir'ak
building. Honesdale. Pa.
EM. SALMON,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Office Next ilnor to post office. Formerl
occupied bv W.H.IDImmlck. Hunesdale. Pa
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
, Offlce-Flrst floor, old Savings Bank build
ing, Honesdale, Pa.
Dr. C. It, MtADY. Dentist. Honesdale.lPa.
Office Hours-8 a. in. to 5 p. m
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' phone. : Residence, No. 86-X
Physicians.
DR. II. 15. SEARLES,
HONESDALE, P.K .'AJWt
Ofllre and residence 1019 Court Tstreet
telephones. Office Hours 2:00 i to 4:00 and
(! 00 to K:00. l. in.
Livery.
LI VERY.--Fred. G. Uickard has re
moved his livery establishment from
corner Church street to Whitney's Stone
Barn.
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Office: Second floor Masonic&Build
ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drugstore,
Honesdale.
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