THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1000.
ROSA BENKO, NOTED
BEAUTYJN DESPAIR
Sweetheart of Kings, Divorced
Princess, Now Old and Poor,
Attempts Suicide
SEEKS DEATH BECAUSE FORGOTTEN
As a Girt 8he 8ang In Chorus of Muslo
Halls King Milan of Servla and
His 8on Alexander Were Among
Her Many Admirers.
Vienna, Austria. Hosa Benko, who
In her halcyon days was known aa
"The Star of the East" and "the most
beautiful woman In Europe" Rosa
Benko, who was tho very dear friend
of two kings and who almost won a
crown prince for her husband; Rosa
Benko, now old, poor and forgotten
tried to commit suicide In her sordid
room hore tho other day. She has
lenrned how perishable Is beauty
when It Is not preserved by modesty
and Illumined by brains. At her best
she was only lovely; she never was
clever.
In her youth Rosa Benko was a
strikingly beautiful brunette, tall for
n woman and with a superb figure.
Though she lacked education, she had
learned to assume an aristocratic
bearing and had great charm of man
ner. She was a chorus girl In the music
halls of the European capitals when
she attracted tho admiration of Milan,
thon King of Servla, tho worst spend
thrift and one of the greatest roues In
all Europe. Tho King was devoted to
her for perhaps a week longer than he
ever was to another woman.
She transferred her affections to
Milan's son, young King Alexander of
Servla. He gave hor an apartment In
tho royal palace at Belgrade, gave her
exquisite gowns and costly gems. The
choruB girl of the music halls was In
troduced In court circles as the niece
of the King's physician and a gentle
woman of birth. She adapted herself
quickly to her new surroundings; a
court that had endured King Milan
was not to be shocked by an Incident
Uko this. Milan often Invited whole
burlesque and comic opera companies
to the palace and entertained them
for days.
Natallo, King Alexander's mother,
knew Rosa Benko's antecedents, but
the former Queen merely remarked:
"Doubtless my son will marry be
fore long, so he should learn how to
make love."
King Alexander did marry, and ho
and Queen Draga met the same
dreadful fate at the hands of assas
sins. Immediately after his marriage
Rosa Benko was compelled to leave
Belgrade and came to Vienna, where
she soon became famous, not only for
her beauty, but for a Borles of lawsuits
with Jewellers and dressmakers. Here,
too, she met the Prince of Bulgaria,
who fell madly In love with her. But
her efforts to wear a crown were frus
trated for the second time, for tho
Prince divorced her.
In her prime she had herself pic
tured in the garb of a nun, probably
to heighten the effect of her beauty.
As she grew old and went out of
fashion, she treasured that portrait
as a reminder of her brilliant past.
Finally she was forgotten, and In
her extremity sought death.
BREAKS HEN FASTING RECORD.
Jersey Fowl Starves for 25 Days and
Escapes Death Sentence.
Belleville, N. J. Oscar De Rose of
Belleville is the owner of a chicken
that has survived a fast of twenty
five days. The hen, a Plymouth
Rock, was placed in the cellar of tho
De Rose homo, and was Intended for
dinner the next day. Its legs were
tied. When Mrs. De Rose went to
the cellar the next day to get the
chicken, It was not to bo found. She
thought that it had been stolen.
Some days afterward while In tho
cellar Mr. De Rose heard a noise and
decided that rats had begun to fre
quent the cellar. Tho house cat was
kept In tho cellar nights thereafter.
The noises, however, continued from
day to day. Mr. De Rose had occa
sion to go Into the cellar, and hearing
tho same noises ho searched around
with a light until ho came to a hole
which had at one time been used as a
cistern. At tho bottom of the hole
wns the missing chicken. It was
still alive and De Rose carried It up
stnlrs. It was so weak, that when its
legs wore untied, It could not stand on
thorn, and food and water had to be
poured down its throat. Next day it
was much Improved and could walk.
When placed In the collar the chick
en weighed six pounds, and when It
wns taken out it weighed Just a pound
and a half.
So it won't be eaten Just now.
People Grow Rich Fast In Prussia.
Ilorlln. Vorwaerts, the Socialist
newspaper, publishes sojno remarka
ble statistics which show that the
wealth of comparatively few persons
In Prussia has Incroaaed greatly in re
cent years.
In 1003, says Vorwaerts, there were
80,000 persona in Prussia with in
comes of more than 17,000 a year. la
1908 there were 104,000 such.
In 1894 there were 8,800 minion
aires in Germany, whoso arerscnto
wealth was three and a quarter bil
lions. In fourteen rears thstr wealth
almost doubled; tnorsassd to fiv sad
Urse-ejMriw HUtou,
WHY THE BIG TREES ARE 2IC.
Heavy Rainfall Gives Qulok Germina
tion and Steady Growth.
The magnificent forests of Douglas
fir In Washington It Is called Wash,
ington fir there and Oregon Or (Its
commercial name) in Orogon do not
have an equal anywhere else In the
world. This is not surprising If we
take into account tho rainfall, which
in the Puget Sound country Is about
fifty-throe inches, while up In the
higher Cascades near Seattle It Is 100
inches and even reaches 150 Inches.
Under such climatic conditions tho
seeds of trees germinate readily and
all trees continue to make a vigorous
growth. These groat forests, says
Horticulture, are due to the cllmatio
conditions of the region.
On the east slope of tho Cascades
the rainfall is much less, and here the
bull pine is found, interspersed with
beautiful white pines, which some
times reaches a height of 200 feet and
a diameter of 6 feet, although there
lare many trees over 100 feet high and
3 or 4 feet in diameter. The tree re
sembles our Eastern white pine, but
Is more slender and with slender
spreading or somewhat drooping
branches.
Valuable Chinese Medicine.
Curious experiences occasionally
come to administrators of oven so
prosaic a department as the customs.
'A Sydney correspondent tells of one
which recently befell Mr. N. Colston
Lockyer, the Federal Assistant Comptroller-General.
Above the mantol
piece In his office Is nailed a sun dried
.lliard. It had been imported by an
enterprising Chinese merchant, who
desired Mr. Lockyer to take particu
lar note of it and instruct his offi
cers as to its nature and tho amount
of duty chargeable on similar con
'stgnmonts in bulk. The Chinaman ex
plained that dried lizard was a very
important Item In the pharmacopaela
of the Celestial Empire, and when
ground to powder possessed medicin
al properties of untold value. The
officers of tho department were at a
loss to know how to classify the arti
cle, their choice apparently lying bo
tween drug, preserved food and pro
hibited vermin. Mr. Lockyer cut the
Gordlan knot by classifying the "med
icine lizard" as "unenumerated" and
admitting It duty free.
I New 12-Cent Stamp.
A new twelve-cent postage stamp is
to be provided by the Post Office De
partment to meet the changed con
ditions resulting from the Increase of
the fee for registering letters and
parcels from 8 to 10 oents.
Acting Postmaster Genoral Stewart
has requested the Secretary of tho
Treasury to authorize the preparation
of such.
.The new stamp will ultimately re
sult in the discontinuance of the thir
teen cent stamp. The latter was cal
culated to cover the cost of the eight
elpnt registry fee and the 5 cents in
ternational postage rate. The fifteen
cent stamp will serve this purpose
for the registry fee has been in
creased from 8 to 10 cents. The
proposed twelve-cent registry fee and
the two-cent postage rate in this
country and for England and Ger
many. The twelve-cent stamp was
discontinued some years ago. It bore
the head of Washington.
Valuable Common Land.
No fewer than 1,500 towns and vil
lages in Germany still own and have
owned down from the middle ages so
much common land that their inhabi
tants pay neither rates nor taxes.
Five hundred of these townships and
villages derive so great a rental from
their lands that they are able, in ad
dition, to pay every citizen, on New
Year's day, a bonus of from $25 to
$100 as his share of the surplus rev
enues. One of Fashion's Follies.
A lady came on an odd-looking bag
the other day in one of the fashiona
ble London shops. It was In expen
sive leather, and seemed too large for
an ordinary hand-bag; also it had a
curious opening cut at one side to
wards the top. "Ladles use it for
carrying their little dogs," the sales
man' explained.
Early Showed Greatness.
Andrew Jackson was a marvel of
precocity. He carried a flintlock
musket, as a soldier of the revolu
tionary army, at the age of 14. At 23
he was appointed by Washington dis
trict attornoy of Tennessee. He was
a United States Senator at 30. He
did not reach the presidency until he
was 62. Sunday Magazine.
Intellect and the Body.
Men of stupendous Intellect too
often have little bodily powers, for,
according to the law of the balancing
and conservation of energies, all pow
er here goes to the brain, and little
is left for physical use and Conven
tional display; and, indeed, genius
has too often lacked even self-ontrol.
To Take Place of Saltpeter.
By the aid of electrio-ehemlcal pro
duction of manures containing at
mospheric nitrogen, Germany expects
soon to largely decrease its importa
tion of saltpeter from Chili.
A Suggestion.
I cannot think but that the world
would be better and brighter It our
teachers would dwell on the Duty of
Happiness as well aa the Happlnsss
of Duty. Sir John Lubbock.
The Servant Question.
"That woman seams to bare a lot
of trouble wits Ut lutp." "Yes, she
passes bar lite e U 4ersttp, site
MP ! - an UMMAl Afr dUHMUIfilV A
WOMAN FA1LSJH HIGHER AIMS
Judge Grosicup Telle Her Why 8ho
Cannot Be Theologian, Law
yer or Scientist.
Chicago. "You can't be theologians
because you haven't tho power of
analysis; you can't be lawyers, be
cause you are devoid of the reasoning
faculty; you are not successful scien
tists, because you consider only one
detail at a time; you are only occa
sionally successful, in business and you
succeed only in those branches of
medicine which call for the exercise
of the nursing Instinct."
Federal Judge Peter S. Grosscup
told tho women of the Ossoli Club, tho
women's auxiliary of the Highland
Park Club, all these things in an ad
dress at the first meeting of the club
this season in the club-house of tho
men's organization.
But he escaped tho vengeance that
might otherwise have been wrought
upon him by telling the women a lot
of things they can do, and which they
must do if this old world is to roll
along unchanged In tho course map
ped out for It
"But," ho said, "I wish to present
an analysis of woman's wtork from
my point of view. The only woman
lawyer I know who Is a success in her
profession began her enreer by being
put in Jail for contempt-of court for
throwing a pitcher of water at a Judge
who overruled her motion.
"In law, theology and medicine she
rarely succeeds, she cannot be a sci
entist because that Involves a multi
tude of details, and whllo woman Is
essentially a creature of detail she
can consider but one detail at a time,
and not many in their relation to one
another.
"I'll tell you what woman can do.
Tho femlnlno mind is the complement
of the masculine mind. With but one
of them in existence the world would
soon become a dreary place of exist
ence, and In a few generations its
population would disappear."
FIGHTS OFF BULL WITH AXE.
Harkey Probably Saved the Life of
Helpless Man on the Ground.
Montclalr, N. J. When a big bull
deserted the farm of Henry Becker In
Uoseland to trespass on the land of
Mrs. Horace Osborne adjoining, Au
gust Becker, a brother of Henry, fol
lowed to drive the bull back. The
bull charged, and Becker turned and
ran.
The animal overtook the man and
tossed him ten feet in tho air. Beck
er fell in a helpless heap on the
ground. Then the bull rolled him
over and over, playing with him as a
cat does with a mouse. Bernard Har
key saw Becker's plight and, seizing
an axe, ran to his help. Harkoy
swung the axe and brought It down
on the bull's head with all his force.
The blow knocked the bull to the
ground, but It staggered to its feet
and, neglecting Becker, charged Har
key. The man stood his ground and
again dealt the bull a stunning blow
on the head. The animal fell, but
managed to regain Its feet after a mo
ment. The fight was taken out of it,
however, and It staggered away.
Harkey and Henry Becker, who had
run up, carried August to his home,
where Dr. Edward H. Peck of Caldwell
treated him. Becker had a broken
arm, severe cuts and bruises, and in
ternal Injuries.
The bull, which was almost dead
from Harkey's blows, was killed later.
GET FAT ON $1.50 A WEEK.
l
Kansas Students Beat Prices at Board
ing Houses.
Lawrence, Kan. The cost of living
In Lawrence boarding houses Is 4 a
week, but eight students have formed
a co-operative boarding club, and have
been living for an average of $1.60 a
week. As evidence that they have
had sufficient food the average weight
of the members of the club has in
creased two pounds since the opening
of school. Here Is a sample of the
average meals:
Breakfast Oatmeal, eggs on toast,
milk toast and hot cakes, with butter
and syrup.
Dinner Meat, potatoes, apple
sauce, bread and butter and rice pud
ding. Coffee and tea are not served, as
tho members think they are not con
ductive to scholastic pursuits. One
week the cost of board ran to $2. They
then lived for $1.25 for two weeks to
make up the deficit.
"TRAMP KING" BACK.
Seventh Trip Around World Without
Paying.
Boston. Claiming the distinction of
being the king of tramps, Frank
Clark, of Now York, forty-seven years
old, arrived hero on the Cestrlan,
from Liverpool, completing his sev
enth trip around tho world without
paying a cent for transportation or
food. He had with him a bundle of
newspapers from all parts of the
world giving accounts of his tramping
experiences, with his picture.
Clark has been a tramp for thirty
years. He was once a newsboy in
New York, enllBted In the navy, de
sorted and then took to tramping. On
his last trip be traveled thirty thou
sand miles. He has relatives in New
York, and intended to Jump a freight
train to visit them.
Columbus, Ind. Judge Hacker has
decided that a mule is legally a horse.
William Patterson bad a mule killed
by lightning and sued an insurance
company for $160 on a policy protect
ing horses. He contended a mule was
legally a bona and the Court aw
talned him.
MOUBE irtVHNTOrtlEB.
Convenient Booklets Issued by ttie It
sureneo Companies.
Of the simpler schemes of the in
surance agents who are always fever
ishly trying to bold old business and
to attract new one of the most sue
eesrttt is tho Issuing of a blank book
for see as a resldenee inventory.
This is usually a neatly prepared
booklet of 12 pages, says System.
On the inside of the front cover is a
notice of what to do In oase of fire,
instructions for making an inventory
and appraisal and on the opposite
page are lines for the dates of the
original inventory and three revisions.
On the inside of the back cover are
printed general instructions for plac
ing insurance, how to givo a notice
for additional Insurance and what to
do in ease of removal of property.
The .twelve pages of tho book are each
devoted to a room and are ruled to
show tho number of articles inven
toried, and a memorandum of each
article itself, date of purchase cost
and description.
These Inventories cost from six to
seven cents apiece it they are got up
in attractive style, and therefore they
should not be carelessly mailed.
Convicted by a Thermometer.
In connection with the death of Dr.
Whltelaw of Kirkintilloch, Scotland,
an interesting story Is told of tils
early career. Being called up one
night he was walking along with the
mossenger when he was set upon and
knocked down in a lonely part of the
road.
His pockets were rifled and he was
left lying on the road severely In
jured. One of the articles stolen was
a cllnloal thermometer with which he
had that evening taken tho tempera
ture of a patient. He remembered
the temperaturo registered, also that
he had not shakon down the mercury
before putting the thermometer back
In his pocket and he communicated
these facts to the police.
Some time afterward a thermometer
registering the Identical temperature
was discovered In a pawnshop in
Glasgow and by this means the police
were onabled to track the doctor's as
sailants and to arrest them.
Orientation.
Orientation means that strange,
baffling power by which many birds
and animals And their way home in
the dark. Fishes traverse worlds of
water back to their spawning grounds,
cats tied In a sack and taken over
distances of many leagues find their
way home again; horses after a water
voyage of a hundred mileB away from
home have found their old places. In
no end of similar cases the return
path wns found by other powers than
sight and hearing. In some whales
the eyes are set so for back in the
head that they can see only rearward,
seeming to sense their swift way by
some oragns of sense In the head or
snout
Chivalry In Lower Animals.
In rough and tumble competition
like Peary's and Cook's, even the
fiercest lower animals sometimes
show a chlvalrie compassion. Tip
with his own eyes saw a wet, dreary
rat put into a cage and kept for days
with a male and female mongoose, an
imals which cut a rat's throat like a
pair of sctssors. The wretched rat
made a crouching, pitiful obeisance
and the pair thereafter had no dis
position to injure or kill this misera
ble prey. During the several days,
however, perhaps a dozen husky rats
were put in with the mongooses for
the amusement of the ship's company
and were Instantly killed. New York
Press.
Europe's Onerous Burden.
In foreign lands the question of
armament is discussed In conjunction
with treasury deficits. In Germany
increased taxation is grumbled at;
Japan has already curtailed her mili
tary expenditures for lack of revenues,
while In England an almost certain
falling off of $25,000,000 in revenue Is
foreseen, and a demand for at least
$60,000,000 new expenditure has been
created by the enactment of service
legislation coupled with the Institu
tion of old-age pension.
Scientists Aiding Rivals.
Science In Its motives, philanthro
pies and results Is almost Identical
with religion, and, as a rule, has
not only been amiable toward rivalry
but has often encouraged it for the
common good. Many rival eminent
scientists are constantly assisting one
another outside the commercial sci
ence. Life and Licensed Anarchy.
In all things below the range of
genius it Is foolish to talk In univer
sal terms. Whim Is Just enough good
for the small matters of every day;
and life has large areas of licensed
anarchy where truth cannot reach as
far as your next door neighbor.
Frank Moore Colby.
Glass Bonnets.
A Venetian glass manufacturer Is
said to be making and selling bon
nets by the thousand. The glass
sloth of whloh they are made has the
same shimmer and brilliancy of oolor
as silk, and is Impervious to water.
Forgetting.
If some people were to think twloe
before speaking they would probably
forget what they wanted to say. Chi
cago News.
A Profanation.
Ouesv-Mercyl What's that awful
profanity downstairs T
Hostess.--Hx husband has eeme la
late and fallen ever the saw FereUa
ONE OF THE
MANY STYLES
NEW AUTUMN SUIT
For Ladles. Misses and Juniors.
New Long Coats, Separate Jackets
and Imported Cloaks,
Nlenner & Co's Store.
This Parlor Table Is made ot Quarter I
sawed Oak; Retails In stores lor 14.60
tot5.00.
Only $3.35
For this handsome Parlor Table in
Quartered Oak. Finished and polished
solden Quartered Oak, Fancy 24 x 24 top,
richly carved rim, shaped undershelf,
French style lees. Also In the rich
Mahoeanlzed Birch for $3.35. Carefully
Docked and shipped tor $3.35.
Do not spend another cent for
Furniture until you have seen our
latest catalogue. Sent free.
BIHGHAMTON, N. Y.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, a registered student at
law in the office of Victor A. Decker,
Esq., of the Wayne county bar, will
make application to the State Board of
Law Examiners, to be examined on the
7th and 8th days of Dec, 1009, for ad
mission to the bar of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania, and to the bar of the
Court of Common Pleas of Wayne Co.
CHAS. S. HOUCK.
Honpsdale, Pa.. Oct. 0 1009. 2eo'
For New Late Novelties
IN
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
WATCHES
Tryt
SPENCER, The Jeweler
"Guaranteed articles only sold."
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OP
TRAINS
Delaware & Hudson R. It.
Trains leave at 6:55 a. m., and
12:25 and 4:30 p. m.
Sundays at 11:05 a. m. and 7:15
p. m.
Trains arrive at 9:55 a. m., 3: Id
and 7:31 p. m.
Sundays at 10:15 a. m. and 6:60
p. m.
Erie R. R. '
Trains leave at 8:25 a. m. and
2:48 p. m.
Sundays at 2:48 p. m.
Trains arrive at 1:40 and 8:08
p. m.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:46 ' and
leaves at 7:10.
Sundays at 7ps p. aa.
PROFESSIONAL. CARDS.
Attorneva-ot-Lnw.
H WILSON,
. ATTORNKX A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.
Office, Masonic building;, second Door
Honesdale. Pa.
w
M. H. LEE,
attorney t counselor-at-law.
Offlrn nvpr nnfit nfflrft. All lefffil hiiMlnrtnfl
promptly attended to. Honesdale, Pa.
EC. MUMEORD,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Office Liberty Hall building, opposite the
Post Office, Honesdale, Pa.
HOMER GREENE.
attorney a counselor-at-law.
Office over Rett's store, Honesdale,' Pa,
AT. SEARLE.
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Office near Court House Honesdale. Fa.
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. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Office vcr Post Office. Honesdale. Pa.
CHARLES A. McOARTY,
ATTORNEY A COUN8ELORAT-LAW.
Special and prompt attention given to the
collection of claims. Office over Belt's new
store, Honesdale, Pa.
FP. KIMBLE,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,
Office over the post office. Honesdale. Pa.
ME. SIMONS,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT-LAW,
Ofllca.in the Court House, Honesdale,
Pa.
HERMAN HARMEb,
ATTORNEY A C0UNHEL0R-4T-LAW.,
Pntents and pensions secured. Office In the
Scbuerliolz bulldlne llonesdule. Pa.
PETER H. ILOFF.i
ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW".
Office-Second floor old Savings Unit
bulldlne. Honesdale. Pa.
RM. SALMON,
. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
Oillc-lNC-.t door to j'U't oil (c. Jormerl
occupied bv V. II. Din mil k. llcnesdale. Pa
Dentists.
DR. E. T. BROWN,
DENTIST.
Office First floor, old Savings Bank build
ing, Honesdale, Pa.
Dr. C. It. BKADY. Dentist. Honesdale, Pa.
Office Hourts-8 a. m. to 6 p. m
Any evening by appointment.
Citizens' phone. 33 Residence. No. 8&-X
Physicians.
R. H. B. SEARLES,
HONESDALE. PA.
Office and residence 1019 Court 'street
telephones. Office Hours 2:00 to,' 4:00 and
fi no to MX), cm
Livery.
LIVERY. Fred. G. Rickard has re
moved his livery establishment from
corner Church street to Whitney's Stone
Barn.
ALL CALLS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
FIRST CLASS OUTFITS. 75yl
JOSEPH N. WELCH
Fire
Insurance
The OLDEST Fire Insurance
Agency in Wayne County.
Office: Second floor Masonic Build
ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drug store,
Honesdale.
If you don't insure with
us, we both lose.
General
Insurance
White Mills Pa.
O. G. WEAVER,
Graduate Optician,
11273s Main St., HONESDALE.
Tooth
Savers
We bave the sort of tooth brushes that are
made to thoroughly cleanse and save the
teeth.
They are the kind that clean teeth without
eavine your moutn run oi orisuos.
We recommend those costing 36 cnti or
mom. va ran om-irantAO them ana Trill r-
re-
place, free, any that show defects of manu
facture vritnin tnree monies.
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