TKB OIXDODN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 99, 1909.
Remedy For Fleas.
"The beat remedy for fleas In a
house," Bays Stato Zoologist H. A.
Surface, In reply to a number of let
ters seeking information on the sub
ject, "is fumigation with hydrocyanic
acid gas, the same as for all other
household pests. This will, of
course, destroy flies, roaches, etc.,
as well as the fiens. This, however,
must be done with considerable
care, because th) gas Is deadly, and
besides, rather Expensive. One of
the simple and less expensive but
slower methods of ridding a house
of fleas Is to do It by means of sticky
fly paper. If the fly paper Is placed
hmiAfith chairs, tables and stands
where It will not be in the way of
anyone walking, it will be all right.
I should warn you, however, that If
a cat happened to get on such a pa
per, It would cause a lively time and
quite a mussed-up animal. It has
been said that if pieces of meat that
are lean are placed in the middle of
the floor the fleas will Jump toward
them. However, the Janitor of a
certain seminary cleaned the parlors
of fleas by wrapping sticky fly paper
around hlsrubber boots with the
sticky side outwards, and walking
slowly through the rooms.
"The nature of the flea Is to
Jump toward, instead of away from,
a moving object. Perhaps the draw
ing of paper slowly across the car
Det a number of times would kill
many of them. The chief thing is
to remove tho fundamental cause of
the plague of fleas, which Is gener
ally due to Infested cats or dogs.
Have the animals sleep on a cloth
or carpet in a box outdoors, and at
least every other morning remove
the carpet and beat It on the ground
some distance from the house. Tho
larva of the flea lives in dust and
all cracks should bo thoroughly
cleaned and washed with a four per
cent, creolin in water: or. in other
words, a solution of water and creo
lin, containing one part of creolin in
twenty-five parts of water, and then
the cracks should be lined witli a
mixture of melted bees wax and
resin.
"If carpets are discarded and rugs
used instead, it will help to get rid
of both ileas and carpet beetles. Tho
rugs or carpets should be taken out
freauently and the floor scrubbed
with the creolin solution."
Getting Hid of Weeds.
Among the hundreds of specimens
of pests and infested plants received
bv Professor H. A. Surface, State
Zoologist, at his offlce In Harris
burg, in regard to which Information
is wanted, weeds of various kinds
occasionally loom up. A box of
weeds came the other day from War
ren county. The sender wrote:
"Enclosed find a specimen of
new kind of weed which made its
first appearance In my sheep pasture
last year. It has a desire to spread
ranidly and this year I found it in
three different places on my farm
It looks very much like a potato
vine; blossoms like the potato, bears
seed-balls also, and grows about as
high, but it does not produce tubers,
My sheep will not eat it. How can
I get rid of it."
Professor Surface's reply covered
the eeneral subject of weeds. His
explanation was as follows:
"The weed which you sent to us
for identification is the one common
ly known as the Horse Nettle, the
scientific name being Solanum Caro
linense. It is, as you have noted
closely related to the potato, and
in fact, belongs to the same genus
of plants. Theoretically, where it
thrives tho potato, tomato and other
plants of its family should also grow
well. It is quite a pest because its
sharp spines make it possible for it
to usurp the space near it, and cat
tie will not pasture where they must
brush against it. Also, it produces
many fine seeds which come up In
great numbers. It gets so dense
that it covers the ground to the ex
elusion of all other forms of vegeta
tion. I have been informed that in
some parts of Maryland entire farms
have been abandoned because of this
weed pest.
"While the subject of weeds doeB
not belong to the office of the Econo
mlc Zoologist, yet we can ten you
that there is no magic metaod of
destroying such pests. The best
thing to do is to put the ground Into
some crop that can be cultivated and
hoed for two years, and keep tho
weeds down as soon as the green
parts appear above the ground
Avoid dragging the roots or any
fragments of the weeds by means of
cultivators, plows or harrows. Above
all else, be sure to prevent such pests
as weeds from going to seed. Even
if It be not possible to cultivate the
ground and keep them rooted out
they should be cut off two or three
times per year Just before they
bloom, or not later than the time
when they first come into full bloom
Pulling the weeds by hand when the
ground Is soft, as after a rain, and
burning them is also advisable. Of
course this can be done by having
something like buckskin gloves on
the hands.
"These directions also apply to
the destruction of all such weeds as
it must be said that the popular be
lief that one can spray for all kinds
of weed pests and kill the weeds and
not hurt tho other plants 1b an error.
Spraying for weeds in general is not
to be recommended, although In a
few cases, such as destroying the
wild mustard in oats in the early
spring, It will be found that a strong
solution of sulfate of Iron will prove
effective."
PERFECT RACE TO BE
OF
Dr. Schutz Expects to Produce
Ideal Human Being Through
Their Intermarriage
BABIES FOR A NOVEL TEST
Physician Has American Children and
Little Mexicans, Portugueses, Jap
anese and IndlanB, and Hopes to Ob
tain Healthy Australians.
Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. M. A. Schutz,
philanthropist and founder of tho
Long Beach International Baby Farm,
has purchased five acres of land on
Signal Hill, in Long Beach, for the
enlargement of his scheme. On this
site he will soon begin the construc
tion of the buildings which are to be
a part of the great school which he Is
to attempt to build up.
He now has American babies, little
Mexicans, Portuguese, Japanese and
Indians, and hopes to obtain healthy
specimens of Australian and FIJI Isl
anders. These he will train mentally,
morally and physically and then try
his theory of intermarriage.
For more than three years Dr.
Schutz has been gradually gaining
ground in his work, and now has a
family of six children, five of whom
are of different nationality. A Corean,
an Indian, a Mexican find a Scandina
vian are among the number, and his
own two children, Russian-Americans,
complete the colony.
With this foundation the physician
hopes to build up a new race of peo
ple which he predicts will be the high
est type of human beings. He will
attempt to Intermarry the orphans
which come under his domain, al
though he positively insists that he
will not force them to marry.
Nothing In his colony Is to bo done
by force. The children will be taught
by expert teachers and given a good
education.
Attention is to be paid to the diet
of the children and the "coarso meats"
which tend toward Increasing abnor
mal animalism in the human race will
be done away with. These children
will be raised as vegetarians.
The Golden Rule shall be the law
of this colony of orphans Is the plan.
Money will not be used at the farm
nor will such a thing as competition
be taught. That competition is '.he
source of all selfishness of to-day the
founder believes.
Dr. Schultz Is scholarly and since
his arrival In Long Beach fourteen
years ago has accumulated considera
ble wealth. He is looked upon as a
good business man.
Signal Hill site, which he pur
chased, is ideally located for such an
institution as the founder expects to
establish. It overlooks the city of
Long Beach and the ocean, with the
harbor of Los Angeles in the dis
tance.
ATE HIS OWN CHILD.
Starving Esquimau, Driven Mad
Hunger, Became a Cannibal.
St. John's, N. F. Tragedy In
by
the
Icy waters of the Far North formed
the burden of the news brought to
this port by the Hudson's Bay Com
pany's steamer Adventure, which ar
rived with the crew of the lost Dun
dee whaler Paradox.
The Canadian mounted police re
ported an act of cannibalism. An Esqui-
mau, whose hunting and fishing had
been a failure, driven mad by starva-
tion, killed one of his children and
then ate his victim. When the man's
neighbors learned of the deed they
attacked him, according to the prlml
tlve law of their race. The outcast
fled the shelter of his igloo and beat
off all assaults, shooting down several
of the attacking party and escaping
into the ley wilderness.
SCORE SIX TO NOTHING.
Grace Chapman, Married Half a Do
en Times, Never Divorced.
Kansas City Grace E. Chapman
pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy
in Justice Miller's court at her pre
liminary trial here.
"Yes. I'm Kuilty." she testified. "I've
had six husbands and I'm sick of ma-
trimony. Most of the men I married
were farmers. I would live with them
until I got tired of them and then I'd
leave. They were so tiresome.
"Were you ever divorced?"
"Not that I know of," Mrs. Chap-
man replied.
SLAYS HIS GIRL CAPTIVE.
-Young Piute, 8ought by Posse,
to His List of Crimes.
Adds
Riverside, Cal Wild Boy, a young
Pluto Indian, who has been pursued
for several days across the desert by
a posse, has added to his crimes by
murderine the eighteen-year-old In
dian girl he was carrying with him in
his flight after having slain her father.
The body of the girl was found far
out on the desert.
DIED SOME YEARS AGO.
Human Skeleton Found In Lower Mid
dle Post Tertiary Stratum
Paris. A fossil human Skeleton
has been discovered at Ferrassle, De
partment of Dordogno, In tho stratum
of tho lower middle post tertiary per
iod, which dates back at least 20,000
years.
Thin Is tho second discovery of tho
kinjl.ln. Fiance within a year.
BRED
ORPHANS
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to Women
Tfaa Rettful Borne Arraagaaaata
of Antique and Furnitixra Should
Harmonlzo ia Line F. A. Parson's
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n napon on noma views- hwhiuh'
A Liho" Type An Entertainer.
People go to the museum to be sur
prised, entertained, or instructed, but
in the home they expect to And rest,
recuperation and quiet, and theso
things are the result of harmony.
Nearly every one has at least some
rudimentary notions of the laws gov
erning color harmony, but harmony
in lino is probably less understood,
though it is quite as Important in the
furnishing of the home. The lines to
be used In the ornaments, furniture
and picture frames of a room should
be decided by its structural features.
The straight line structure Is tho sim
plest of all, the straight line being
monotonous and not calling attention
to Itself. Therefore, that arrangement
of a room In which all the lines are
straight, being either horizontal or
vertical, conforming to the structure
of the room Itself, Is the simplest,
plainest and least distracting possible,
though such extreme simplicity is sel
dom desired. Curved lines, on the
contrary, attract attention, some more
forcibly than others, but most Intri
cate of all designs are those in which
both straight and curved lines are
employed or into which various types
of curves enter, and these occasion
great mental alertness and a conse
quent strain on the nerves.
In an interview on "The Restful Ar
rnncement of Rooms." reported in
'Good Housekeeping." Frank Alvan
Parsons, director of the New York
Art School, tells how to obtain lino
harmony in rooms of different forms.
An understanding of tni3 subject, he
says, would help to correct the view
that any antique Is beautiful in any
room, which so often makes the home
like a museum. Not only is it neces
sary to consider the lines In tho arti
cles of furniture that are to be as
sembled together, but there should
be among them a general harmony In
thickness, heaviness, weight and
amount of ornamentation, so that no
one piece shall seem too plain or too
highly decorated. If patterns appear
on the walls or floor coverings their
forms and comparative sizes should
be harmonious throughout the room.
For Instance, a small, conventional,
half obscure pattern on a curtain
must not go with a rugged, clumsy,
cloarlv defined pattern in a rug. The
principle of balance must also be con
sldored, and articles of equal weight
should be placed at opposite extreml
ties of the room. When the materials
a of dissimilar sizes the balance
may do estamisnea Dy moving iuo
heavy articles toward the centre. If
a piano Is placed in one corner of the
room it will feel as If it were tilted
unless something: equally strong in
size and color Is in the opposite cor
ner. If there Is no such article the
onlv remedy is to put the piano in
the middle of the room.
Dreary-day Cheer.
Emma Winston is my "dreary-day
cheer," smiled Mrs. Long to a lady
friend as a bright-faced young girl
passed through the hall, with a cheery
"Good-bye."
"How is that?" asked the friend.
"Why, her eyes are too weak for
her to attend school, nd so I see a
great deal of her. They live next
door, you know. She delights ln do
ing favors I think. Just as sure as
the weather Is bad and it Is an effort
to keep off the depression bad weath
er usually brings, Emma will bob up
like a blessed ray of suushine. She'll
amuse the baby, or get the children
off ln the kitchen, start a Are, and
soon have a pot of candy boiling, and
a happy crowd of youngsters around
her. She's so thoughtful too. She
makes the children think it's fun to
clean up; so the kitchen is always
left in order. If my head aches, she
seems too glad to come ln and watch
dinner or make up the rolls for me.
Her mother says she Is the same lit
tle bit of Joy and comfort at home,
and everybody on the place depends
on her." E. B. Crawford, in Kind
Words.
Jilts Fourteen, Keeps Rings.
Fourteen broken engagements led
to the arrest of a young woman in
Lelpsic the other day. A detective
became suspicious when he saw her
looking in the window of a pawnbrok
er's shop with fourteen diamond rings
on her fingers. He took her despite
tearful protests to a police station,
and there she told sho had a ring
from each of fourteen jilted fiances
The story sounded so improbable
that the police held the girl until they
made an investigation. They rounded
up all the hapless wooers, and when
each one had told the sime story, of
buying an engagement ring only to
be cast aside, the young woman was
released.
Women's Work and Infant Mortality,
In eight industrial towns, where
the proportion of married women of
child-bearing age at work in tho fac
tories was 43 per cent, the Infant
mortality rate for ten years averaged
182 per 1,000. In eight industrial
towns of a different typo, where the
proportion of married women at work
was only 3 per cent., the Infant mor
tality was only 160 per 1.000. The ex
cessive rate ln the first group Is not
due to bad wages nor to bad condi
tions, but to tho absenco of tho
mother.
Time to intervene.
A Newark newspaper prints tho
following nmuslng little story: While
on his way homo one night recontly a
small boy rushed up to Policeman John
Eckerllne, of the First Precinct, and,
in great excitement, said:
"Hoy, officer, my father and an
other man have been a flghtln' around
the corner for the last hour."
"Well, why didn't you call an officer
sooner?" asked Eckerllne, as ho ac
companied his guide to the scene of
the combat.
"Why," said tho precocious young
ster, "paw was gettln' the best of It up
to a few minutes ago, but de other
guy has got his second wind now, an'
he's wlpln' de street, wld the old man."
Prevaricating Figures.
Those to whom the mathematical
mind has not been given will appre
ciate tho fun an Irishwoman. Mrs. Ln
Toucho, of Harrlstown, has with num
bers in "Tho Letters of a Noblo
Woman."
'I do hate Bums," Mrs. La Touche
confesses to a friend. "There is no
greater mistake than to call arithme
tic an exact science. There are per
mutations and aberrations discernible
to minds entirely noble, like mine;
subtle variations which ordinary ac
countants fall to discern; hidden laws
of numbers which it requires a mind
like mine to perceive.
"For instance, if you add a sum
from the bottom up, and then begin
from the top down, the result is al
ways different."
caustic.
"I have adopted a new motto for
my life," sighed the man who resided
with his mother-in-law. "What is
It?" they inquired. "Everything If
relative."
Director of the United States
logical Survey.
Geo-
BLACK CUPID STIRS EMPIRE.
German Government is Trying to Save
Silly Girls.
Berlin, Germany. Under the title
"A Warning to German Parents and
Teachers," the official Norddeutsche
Allegemelne Zeltung published an
article, which has been reproduced by
tho whole German press, upon young
German girls of good family who have
been in the habit of writing to negroes
in the German African colonies. The
official investigations show that edu
cated blacks visited Germany and
while here entered into more or less
tender relationships with morbidly
disposed damsels, the acquaintance
being kept up by letter after their re
turn home. Then one day a dusky
swain would receive word from his
white admirer that she had a friend
who would also gladly conduct similar
correspondence with a black gentle
man, and so after a similar exchange
of sentimentalities the letter writing
would spread from one couple to an
other with great rapidity.
The newspapers report that many
of these girls sent photographs which
the blacks put upon the walls of their
cabins by the side of pictures of na
tive damsels. The press argues that
this correspondence passing between
white girls and black men is likely to
have a bad influence on the labors of
the colonial officials In their instruc
tions to the aborgines. An appeal is
made to teachers and parents to use
all their lnfluense to stop the per
nicious practice.
AIR LINE TO THE POLE.
Zeppelin Exploration Society
Will
Send Out Scouts in 1910.
Berlin, Germany. At a meeting of
the Zeppelin Polar Expedition Socie
ty, over which Prince Henry presided,
It was decided to send a preliminary
expedition to examine the polar region
in all directions.
The expedition will start in the
summer of 1910 for Spltzbergen, from
which point small parties will be sent
out to report on what arrangements
are necessary with a view to explora
tion of that region by a specially con
structed airship, which according to
the present plans will be ready early
In 1911.
Good Fellow, the Constitution.
New Brunswick, N. J. An Italian
applying for naturalization bofore
Judge Adrian in the Common Pleas
Court here was asked:
"Do you know tho Constitution?"
"Yes," ho said.
"What do you think of It?"
"Oh I ho ver' good fella."
His application wan refused,
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GIGANTIC SHIPPING COMBINE.
Shipowners' Federations of Eight Na
tion Represented In It.
London, Oct. 20. A gigantic Interna
tional federation of shipowners has
Just been formed here by delegates
from the shipowners' federations of
Groat Britain, Germany, France, Hol
land, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and
Sweden, representing more than 10,
000,000 tons of shipping. -
This international federation Is in
tended to embrace ultimately all ship
owners' federations of the world.
It is "designed to resist unreasona
ble attacks which may be made by
trades unions and others upon tho
shipowners' freedom of contract ln the
employment of labor."
Operations will be conducted from
a chief office ln London by a general
council composed of representatives of
the affiliated federations.
TEXAS THREATENS JERSEY.
Wants For $10 What Texas Would
Tax Jersey $17,000 For.
Trenton, N. J., Oct. 20. The Texas
company, an oil concern Incorporated
In the state of Texas and having a
capital stock of $12,000,000, has served
notice upon the secretary of state that
application will be made to the su
preme court next week for n peremp
tory writ of mandamus compelling
him to Issue the company a license to
transact business in this state upon
puyment of the usual feo of $10.
Under the retaliatory provision of
the general corporation law the sec
retary of state Insisted that tho fee
should be $17,000, that being the
amount which would bo charged a
New Jersey company with a like cap-
ltal stock for authority to do business
ln Texas.
BAPTIST PASTOR DIVORCED.
Wife of Rev. C. E. Bonham Obtains
Decree on Statutory Grounds.
Newburg, N. Y., Oct. 20. The Rev.
Charles E. Bonham, a Baptist clergy
man, has been divorced by his wife,
Clara M. Bonham, the decree beln
granted ou statutory grounds by Jus
tice Tompkins of the supreme court.
Mr. Bonham came here from the
Black River Baptist association about
live years ago and became pastor of
the People's church. While here lie
was married. About three years ago
ho started a new Baptist church at
Waldon. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Rochester and the Rochester
Theological seminary. He is n man
of lino presence, and his actions have
been a great surprise to his friends
and parishioners.
LAST DAY OF LOW DUTIES.
French Custom Houses Will Be Open
For American Entries Next Sunday.
Paris, Oct. 20. French custom
houses will remain open for the clear
ing of American Imports next Sunday,
Oct. 31.
This is the last day on which goods
may be brought into France under the
old commercial agreement, which be
comes obsolete under the operations of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff la
FOREIGN RAILWAY PLATFORMS.
As
a Rule Only Passengers Are
Al-
lowed on Them.
It is much harder for non-travelers
to get onto the platform of a railway
station In England than It Is in this
country. Even at the small stations
one cannot pass freely from the wait
ing room to the platform. The same
restriction is practiced on the Conti
nent
Some of the British railways aro
now considering the advisability of
issuing platform tickets, says the
Queen. Such a system is followed in
Germany, where the friends of trav
elers can procure these tickets for
about two cents each from an auto
matic machine. So far the idea is not
regarded with favor in England,
Plunge Cures Deaf Mute.
Miss Bernlce Pooler, a visitor at
Los Angeles from Philadelphia and a
deaf mute since childhood, regained
her speech and hearing the other day,
following an involuntary plunge In the
Pacific Ocean at Balboa Beach. How
ever, she lost a pair of gold combs
and a diamond pin and ruined her
gown. She says it was worth It Miss
Pooler lost her speech and hearing by
falling into n lake ln Pennsylvania
when she was an Infant, 19 years igo.
"It was a Jolly good wetting," she
said. "My poor gown is wrecked, but
I am not complaining; I am the hap
piest girl ln the world. I am also the
most talkative, probably; but do you
blame me? Wouldn't you talk till
your tongue was tired if you were
me?"
Prlvlleae of English Husband.
A wife who complained at the
Marylebone police court in London the
other day that her husband used
abusive lanKuase to her, was informed
by Mr. Plowden that this was one of
a husband's privileges.
"You must put up with It," the mag-
tiitrato told her. "Better an abusive
husband than no husband at all."
"But I have had so many years of
this kind of thing." she protested.
"I cannot glvo you any redress,"
Mr. Plowden replied. "You must ex
pect a certain amount of abuse in this
world."
Long-Spitting Range.
A llama looks as innocent as an of
ficer man In tho Salvation Army. He
chows no tobacco, but he can spit Into
a man's eye twelve feet away and
never touch an eyelash, and oh, how
it stinks and stings. Little boy, don't
tease, tho. llama In .the Zoo I
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JLL. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
OfTlrn. Mfiftnnln
building, second floor
Honesdale. Pa.
WM. H. LEE,
ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over cost office.
All leenl hnnlnnun
promptly niienucu to,
Honesdale, Pa.
EC. MUMFORD,
. ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW,
Office Liberty Hall building, opposite the
Post Office, Honesdale, Pa.
HOMER GREENE,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over Keif's Btore, Honesdale Pa.
AT. SEARLE.
. ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW.
Office near Court House Honesdale. Pa.
0L. ROWLAND, WW..
. ATTORNEY A COUNBELOR-AT-LAW.
Office ver Post Office. Honesdale, Pa,
CHARLES A. McCARTY,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Sneclal and nromnt nttontlnn i-lvpn in i hn
collection of claims. Offico over Kelt's new
store, Honesdale, Pa.
F.
KIMBLE,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office over the post office' Honesdale, Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Office in the Court House, Honesdale,
Pa.
HERMAN HARMES,
ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Patents and pensions secured, Offlce In the
Schucrholz bulldlne Honesdale, Pa.
PETER H. ILOFF,
ATTORNEY 4 COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Offico Second floor old Savlncs Brik
bulldlnc, Honesdale. Pa.
M. SALMON,
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Olllre Next door totiost cilice, l-'ormprl
occupied bv V.lI..DImmick. Honesdale, Pa
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
Office First floor, old Savlnes Bank build
ins, llouesdule. Pa.
Dr. C. K. BRADY. Dk.ntist. Honesdale. Pa.
Office Hours 8 a. m. to 5 p. m
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' i)lione(; Residence. No.fiG-X
Physicians.
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HONESDALE, PA.M
Ofllco and residence 1019 Court street
deplumes. Olllco llourb 2:00 to 4:00 and
00 lo b:00. v. in
Livery.
IVEKY. Fred. G. Rickard has re
I moved his livery establishment from
corner Church street to Whitney's Stone
Barn.
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