THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DEO. 22, 1000.
BLACKMAIL PLAGUE
AFFLICISJERIII
Berlin Police Overworked Try toy
to Protect the Public
from Harpies
"KNIGHTS OF ROUND TABLE"
"Man from Oversea" Had One Wom
an Put Where 8he Can Do No
Harm for Awhile How the Oid
Badger Game Is Played Abroad.
Berlin, Germany. Increase ol pros
perity In the empire and growth of
nlght-llfe In the capital have brought
an Increase In the number of those
harpies who prey on the weaknesses
of mortal nature and, having led
men and women Into the "broad and
easy way" demand heavy sums for
, .their sllenco about the slips along the
downward path.
The department of the German
criminal polloe which deals with
blackmail la overworked and fresh
men have to be drafted.
Criminal Commissary Tresckow,
the terror of blackmailers, never had
hla hands so full and with all his ef
forts he probably does not get on the
track of one-third of the offenders.
Almost every week the Berlin press
prints something intended' to encour
age blackmail victims to take their
cases to the police. The recent trial
of Dahsel and the open admissions of
the character of certain Berlin news
papers show what money Is made by
the blackmailer and how hard It is to
protect the public.
In the last fourteen days at least
seven blackmailers have been render
ed harmless by the police.
Up to a few months ago most at
tempts at blackmail were made on
the ground of the victims' nominal or
actual offense against the famous sec
tion 175, of the German criminal code,
the Bectlon which was the basis of
the trials of Prince Eulenburg, Count
Lynar, etc. There were certain
streots In the centre of Berlin whore
it was not safe to speak to a stranger.
One became "suspect" In the eyes of
persons looking for a chance to extort
money. But the police have been so
active lately that the evil has dimin
ished. So the blackmailers have most
ly taken to other lines of "business."
Perhaps the most shocking method
adopted was the one chosen by a bar
ber's assistant, Otto Fitting. There
had been a death in the family of a
well known publisher. The wife had
lost her sister, to whom from child
hood she had been passionately de
voted. She and her husband happen
ed also to be well known for their
great charity and kindness to their
unlucky fellow-creatures. A few days
after her sister's funeral the wife re
ceived a letter signed "Four Frienda,'
in which the writers said they well
knew her charitable nature and felt
sure she would like to assist them to
emigrate. They would be content
with $200 apiece, which was to be sent
to a certain address in one sum. At
the end of the letter came this sen'
tence:
"We regret to have to add that ua
less you send the money and all the
money asked for we shall be obliged
to revenge ourselves for a slight once
put upon us by your sister. If you re
fuse we shall immediately proceed to
defile her grave as a sign of our dis
pleasure."
The lady took the letter to the po
flee, who naturally concluded that the
writer must be some one Intimately
acquainted with the affairs of the fam
ily who would realize that this threat
was the one most likely to produce
the desired result. Ultimately they
arrested Fitting, who had been dls
missed some time before from the pub
lishlng house.
A well-dressed, very pretty young
woman had been a guest at some of
the best hotels in Germany. She made
the acquaintance of gentlemen staying
In the hotel, and selecting the one
who seemed most suited to her pur
pose gave him to understand that his
company was agreeable to her. The
gentleman, being flattered, allowed
himself to accompany her on shop
ping excursions, etc.
Rather late one evening he was sur
prised to meet his fair acquaintance
outside the door of his room weeping
bitterly. In the midst of her tears she
managed to find her way into the room
and proceeded to unburden her grief,
Her husband was a brute and would
not allow her enough money for her
expenses. She was a simple little
thing and not understanding how her
money was going, she had got into
debt and did not know what to do.
Suddenly there was a loud knock
at the door. The gentleman went to
see who knocked and to his surprise
found the key turned. He unlocked
the door and was confronted by the
husband.
But this "lady" and her male ac
qualntance played the game once too
often. She selected as her victim a
gentleman from overseas. When the
"Injured husband" turned up the gen
tleman called the police, who soon.
elicited facts enough to keep the worn
an from playing any more such trlckB
for some years.
"Sarah Ann" I Now "Van Duxer."
New York, N. Y. "Sarah Ann
street, a Staten Island thoroughfare!
has been neatly and expeditiously
rased from the city map. The Board
of Aldermen voted unanimously to
rue lira! Ann and substitute Van
GRANGE.
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Success of Amateur Farmers in the
Northwest.
Although it requires a man of av
erage ability and a certain amount
of horticultural training to make a
successful fruit grower, there is
hardly any calling where the amateur
makes so much of a success. Tho
grower who won one of the flve-hun-
dred-dollar prizes at the National
Apple Show In Spokane did not know
anything of fruit growing when he
came to Yakima from Illinois eleven
years ago. A Portland letter carrier
bought a block of fruit land over ten
years ago and had It planted while he
was still doing his work as letter
carrier. He has made a phenomenal
success of the venture, selling his
total crop for a very large figure
so largo that I hesitate to nane It
just nine years after the planting
of the orchard. A station agent in
one of the interior districts had a
similar experience. He struggled
along for a few years, and then when
the trees began to come Into bearing,
was lifted to a plane of financial
success where ne am not neea to
care If he never again saw the in
side of a station. A school teacher
bought some land near Dayton, go
ing heavily In debt to get it planted.
When the trees were seven years old
he sold the crop for seven hundred
dollars an acre and he refused
000 an acre for his land. He never
teaches school now.
What does It mean? this new
movement of intelligent farming!
What effect will it have upon the life
of our country? It means that
America can support in comfort
more people than our fathers dream
ed. It marks the beginning of an
era of intensive cultivation. It de
monstrates that it Is not the amount
of land but the way in which it Is
worked and the amount it will pro
duce that counts. It is the herald
of a new day the forerunner of a
great back to the land movement.
It thrills the onlooker as he gazes
upon the progress of the years. And
no wonder! It furnishes a glance
at men and women who are doing
things. It is a great movement a
great land a great people. A great
people? Yes! Out there among the
flowers and the vines In the shade
of the beautiful orchards where the
red apples grow they are laying the
foundation of .a New America an
America of force, power, refinement,
culture and wealth on the slope of
the western ea.
Storing Weevil Infested Wheat.
A young and progressive farmer of
Berks county wrote to Professor H.
A. Surface, State Zoologist, Harrls
burg, for information in regard to
storing his wheat. Last year some
damage was done by the weevil, and
he wished to avoid the same this
year. Prof. Surface answered his
letter as follows:
" I beg to say that all depends up
on whether your wheat is infested or
not at tho time of threshing as to
whether the Angoumols Grain Moth
will continue to work In it after it
is stored. If you will break open
several grains, you can tell whether
there Is a very small white "worm"
or larva feeding within, and if you
And this to be the case, it is not best
to store the grain thus infested, as
the larva will continue to feed and
grow until it follows out the grain
to a mere shell.
" If you And that the pest is at
work, it will be best to put the grain
into a tight bin and fumigate It by
pouring over it one pound of carbon
bisulfide for each .hundred bushels
of grain, and covering it with wet
blankets to keep down the fumes;
or, sell it soon and haul it directly
to an elevator or mill. It Is not
let you know what percentage we
and no harm will -come from grind
ing and using it now, before the lit
tle worms Inside the grains destroy
them.
" What you wish to keep for seed
you can fumigate with carbon blsul
Ade, using at least one pound of the
liquid to each one hundred cubic feet
of space, being careful to keep Are
away from It, as Its fumes are ex
plosive the same as those of gaso
lene or benzine. If you wish to send
me some of the grains for examina
tion, I shall be glad to see them and
yet you know what percentage we
And infested. They can, of course,
be sent by mail."
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ROSALIND COGHLAN WHO WILL APPEAR IN " THE TRAVELING
SALESMAN," TO BE PltESENTpD AT THE LYRIC QN MON
Moving Pictures Mndo Him Gcncroii.f.
A mighty funny thing happened
in town recently, and a certain man
has not got through explaining things
to his wife yet. This man was in
Oregon on a business trip a few days
before the fight between Johnson and
Kotchell at Colma. He had expected
to return to the wife of his bosom by
a certain date, but instead of that
sent a telegram stating that ho would
have to remain in Portland, Ore., at
least two days longer than at first
scheduled. . He reached home accord
ing to his revised schedule, and his
wife was all tho happier to greet
him because of his remaining away
a little bit longer. The other night
the Lyric Theatre gave a moving
picture exhibition of that particular
fight In Colma. This just returned
townsman told his wife that he
would like to have her go down town
with him and look at the pictures,
and she went. The films hadn't been
running off but a few minutes when
the wife yanked her husband's arm
and said: "You see that man in the
front seat there. He certainly does
look like you."
The man glanced at the front row
Indicated, and cold shivers ran up
and down his backbone. It never
had entered his head that there would
be anything but just the prize fight
to be seen, and he realized in a sec
ond that the man on the front seat
not only looked like him, but was
him. The man, with a Jerky little
laugh declared, of course, tuat was
just absurd, and tuat he couldn't see
tue slightest resemblance to himself
in the man on the front seat. The
wife kept on watching, however, and
positively declined to leave the scene,
and her mouth got "sotter and sot
ter" as she began to realize how her
husband had lied to her. Before the
end of the third round her husband
simply had to acknowledge that the
man on the front seat was himself
sure enough. He suggested a little
supper down .town to his wife, which
she accepted, and then he suggested
a new long sealskin coat, which she
also accepted, and, furthermore, she
got a number of other handsome
presents which she would not be pos
sessed of to-day had not that hus
band of hers remained over to see
the flght in Colma.
SOME IDEAS VOW DECOHATIONS.
How to Make the Home Look llrlght
and Cheerful lor the Holidays.
In massing holly for use on the
Christmas table It repays one to
wipe off the leaves with a cloth dip
ped in a very little olive oil, says
the Housekeeper. Tall candles
should light the feast and the holly
leaves reAect the twinkling lights in
a beautiful manner. If a chandelier
hangs over the dining table a feat
ure which will delight the children
is to have a nosegay of artificial
flowers suspended from tho chan
delier to within a foot of the table
by means of a red ribbon. This bou
quet should have the paper puff of
the old-time fashion, and the bou
quet itself will bo found to tie" a
shower bouquet, one small nosegay
for each person, in the depths of
which some trifling gift is hidden.
Snowballs of cotton, tightly wound
with white ribbon, also conceal gifts
most attractively, while the cheap
but pretty little Santa Glaus candy
boxes for sale at favor shops, are
effective upon the Christmas table,
and will hold quite a good-sized
package, or, of course, may be used
to hold the bonbons for which they
are Intended. For a luncheon or
high tea during Christmas week,
a beautiful table may be set by em
ploying the use of green linen run
ners embroidered in white. A holly
bell or a bunch of red carnations in
a cut-glass vase will touch the cen
ter of the table to brilliancy and soft
garlands of southern moss may
lightly edge the linen runners, or
dollies If they be used instead.
The colonial glass candlesticks
are still in favor, and nothing is
more attractive in a country house.
With tall ereen or red tapers, a
croup of these candlesticks placed in
a mass of holly as a centerpiece is
both appropriate and beautiful.
A quaint little Christmas tree may
bo used as a centerpiece by procur
ing at the florist's a little "pepper
plant," which has lovely green leaves
and red berries, wound witn gut
terlng tinsel and tied with candled
fruits held In place with wee baby
ribbons, or hung with little favors of
French Jewelry or articles of trifling
worth, the little tree makes a center
piece of charm.
OOFFS JAIL STRIPES
Fl
Warden Lines Up Convicts for
a Good-By to "the Old Man,"
Whom Everybody Liked
JOY WHEN HE IS RELEASED
Killed Man, He 8ays, to Save Young
Girl's Honor Considers Harry
Thaw Beneath Him Released,
Laugh at Anything and Everything.
Leavenworth, Kan. One at a time
the 800 inmates of the Kansas Peni
tentiary bade a veteran comrade fare
well. It was John Rodgers, the oldest
In point of service among them, who
hr.d Just finished putting in twenty
seven years. It was a holiday and
the convicts had the freedom of the
yard to talk and enjoy themselves at
will, and when "Dad," as they called
him, walked down toward the Iron
grated entrance, dressed in a new suit
of citizen's clothes, under escort of
Warden J. K. Codding and Mr. and
Mrs. ArtUp, there was a line-up and all
of them gave him the friendly outward
hand salute In farewell. Rodgers was
released on a Governor's parole, not a
pardon. He had not broken the pris
on rules in a quarter of a century, and
ail tho officials from the Warden down
have the same confidence that the old
man will make good and never have
to come back. He leaves the prison
meek and submissive, for twenty-seven
years under the close discipline of
penitentiary guards had stamped out
nearly all his individuality and spirit
Rodgers was so happy to get out
side that he was nearly starting off
without getting $180.17 due to him
from his earning at 3 3-4 cents a day
as a prisoner. After buying newspa
pers he had saved this much. When
handed the money he was asked what
lie would do with it, when he replied:
"I don't know, but whatever Mr. and
Mrs. Artllp, my friends, say."
When asked if he had any plans, he
replied: "I can work, and my friends
will not regret keeping me. l know
that I will not be a burden on them. I
have no relatives."
When he loft the prison and board
ed an electric car for Leavenworth
Rodgors's face wore a constant smile,
He laughed at any and everything.
When he boarded a passenger train
for St Joseph he said he was sure
enough beginning to feel that he was
free. On reaching St. Joseph ho went
to tho home of Mr. Artlip. a prosper
ous shoe merchant, where he revelled
In a Thanksgiving dinner.
Rogers felt that he was a martyr;
that he killed a man to protect a wom
an, and that he acted an honorable
part instead of committing a crime
He considered himself high above
Harry Thaw, whose pleas of justifica
tion he said were contemptible.
The defenseless woman Rodgers re
fers to as protecting, married nineteen
years ago, and has a family of chll
dren. She lives with her husband and
family in the State of Wisconsin, and
will not likely have any part, one way
or the other, In the remainder of tho
life of the old man.
The crime which Rodgers committed
in the spring of 1880 is as follows: He
was courting a girl when her step
father, Littleton Wallace, objected,
and demanded that his attentions
cease. The mother of the girl favored
Rodgers as a suitor for her child, and
domestic trouble followed. Finally
Rodgers, the mother and the girl left
Wallace, who lived on a farm. Rod
gers later on went back to the farm
and a quarrel followed, and Wallace
was shot by Rodgers, who claimed
that he acted in self-defense, and that
Wallace was trying to strike him with
a cane. Rodgers was tried and sen
tenced to be hung. Under the old
Kansas law, repealed two years ago, a
prisoner sentenced to death was to bo
brought to the penitentiary, and re
main one year and then to be execut
ed at any time after when the Gov
ernor fixed the date. None were hung
since 1873, as no Governor ever set a
date after a prisoner started serving
time in the penitentiary. At one time
there were sixty-five "hang" or death
convicts in the Kansas penitentiary,
Rodgers being free to discuss the
killing of Wallace maintained that
Wallace was conspiring to ruin his
stepdaughter, and that the mother of
tho girl knew it, and that she, as well
i3 the girl, appealed to Rodgers to
save her. He claimed that when he
visited the Wallace farm near Fort
Scott, Wallace was so enraged over
the balking of his plans that Wallace
started at him with a cane, and the
killing followed.
Teachers Buy Piano with Nut Profits
West Orange, N. J. The teachers
of the St. Mark's Public School want
ed a piano, but they had no funds and
they got it straight from the Board of
Education that there was nothing do
ing this year in the piano line. There
fore they purchased some raw pea
nuts, roasted them a l'ltallene and
sold them at a good profit to the
pupils and their friends. They now
have the piano.
Has a Freak Chicken.
Shelbyvlllo, Ind. In the possession
of T. A. Russell, the president of the
waldron Poultry Club, Is a Plymouth
Rock pullet which has no bill, but has
a mouth end perfectly formed pug
nose and nostrils. The eyes are set
in the head Just like any other chick
en's eyes. The bird is almost full
WORN
3R 27 YEARS
Dictator R;ulcd for Sixteen Years.
Jose 8antoB Zelaya has been in
command In theRepubllc of Nicara
gua for sixteen years. He 'ruled
with a strong hand and has been
called the stormy petrel of Central
America. He was always noted for
his cunning and bravery and he was
remarkable, too, for his ability to
surround himself with those who
were ready to do his bidding. As a
consequence Zelaya In later years
was an absolute dictator. He
amassed great wealth by taking to
himself a large percentage of the
profits from concessions and by the
formation of a group of men who
aided him In exacting millions from
the people.
Zelaya belongs to the aristocracy
of his country. He received his edu
cation in Paris, but his success was
due more to the sword than to the
peaceful methods of civilization. He
is 51 years of age, and, as he is the
BREGSTEIN BROS.
THE LEADING CLOTHIERS
KNOX HATS the best
ON ACCOUNT OF
in the market.
the mild weather we are over
Men's, Boys and Children's Suits and Overcoats,
which we are compelled to cut prices on. All
of our stock must go as we do not
Intend to carry any goods
over.
IT WILL PAY YOU TO
Remember we handle
-
clotnes in tne county.
SUITS.
For young men or old wo con
please yon well for we have suits
lere made by Stranse Bros, and David
Addler, tho best makers in the world
in so wide a range of patterns and
sizes that every taste, everybody can
bo fitted perfectly.
Remember we have a full line of
market. Men's Hats and Caps, Shirts,
and Dress Suit Cases, Hand Bags and
Children's Suits
REMEMBER
$1 up to $72
BREGSTEIN BROS.
Breakfast Ready
in Ten Minutes
You can save a surprising amount of bother and trouble tomorrow 1
serving BeardsIey's.Shredded (Jodtisn tor breaklast.
You can have this delicious fish food ready for the table in less time
it takes to make coffee.
Tt ia rearlv to cook the instant vou ooen the oackaee.
No bones to nick out no washing no soaking no boiling. We hafl
done all that for vou.
And mease don't think that there's
there's a tempting, savory smell a
Sweet-Flavored Fish
Beardiley's Shredded Codfish doesn't
taste at all like the old-fashioned dried
codfish.
And it's wrong to judge It by any other
kind that comes In packages.
There's no other fish food in existence
half so delightful in flavor.
For we use only the choicest fish the
fattest and plumpest the finest that come
out of the deep.
We get them from Northern waters.
THE PACKAGE WITH THE RED BAND
LUd wltk wi-ipr. No pnumlln
wkatTr, mt the aaraat ud flaett aaa-Mlt.
AIM yka la tin !.
Ik!
The Era of New Mixed Paints !
This vear onen.5 witn a deluge of new mixed paints. Al
dition brought about by our enterprising dealers to get somej
of a mixed paint tnat would
PAINTS. Their compounds,
may find a sale with tne unwary.
THE ONLY PLACE IN HONESDALE
AUTHORIZED TO HANDLE
Is JADWIN'S
There are reasons for the pre
1st No one can mix a better mixed paint.
2d The painters declare that it works easily and has
derful coyering qualities.
flrl nhilf.nn fltnnrln hnrlc nf
owu expenso.every surface
. proves aeiecuve,
4th Those who have used
most hated man in South or CentrJ
America, Immediate attempts wofl
made on his life. While yet a cor,
paratlvely young man Zelaya begd
an agitation against the governmec
and his actions became so violent thl
he was expelled. He went to Guati
mala, then ruled by Barrios, and
was there that he received his trail
lng that fitted him for his subsequel
career. He finally reappeared in
own country at the head of a bas
of Insurgents and finally won tl
Presidency.
The present revolt in Nlcaragj
began early last month and came
a climax of a series of persecutiol
inaugurated by Zelaya, in which t
execution of the Americans, Cannfl
and Groce, was the most serio
feature.
THE new fur hats at Menner
Co.'s store for winter wear are
latest shapes.
lit
AND GENT'S FURNISHER
The Hamc of tl
B est Clothed
stocked with a large line
BUY AND SAVE MON1
nothing but the best maj
i
OVERCOATS.
As with our suits, so it is with
overcoat garments here for yo
and old made by Stranse Bros.
David Addler to salt tne exact!
requirements of the best dressed :
in the world.
the Best Gent's Furnishing Goods in
Collars, Underwear, Pajamas, Truil
the beet Rain Coats to be found.
THE PLACE
Children's 0
coats $1.50 toS
any "fish-odor" in cooking. Inst
smell that will make you hungry.
Fish caught elsewhere can't compl
with the cod we use.
Then we take onlv the choicest par
each fish the sweetest, most dehcatl
Savored meat bo there's no strong t
whatever.
Tempting Ways To Serve It
Beardslcy's Shredded Codfish mel
pleasing variety in meats. I
There are so many appetizing waya
prepare l( your lauiiiy win ucver uio
it. Most tieonle want it at least ond
week, either for luncheon or breakfasts
Hacli pacicage maites a luii meal,
the cost is onlv 10 cents.
So order a pack are today. And old
see that you get Beardsley's the packl
with the red band. For Beardsley'i
the only Shredded Codfish, our wona
ful Shredding Process is pa tent I
Beardsley's is the kind all people likcJ
Free Book of Recipes J
Your grocer will give you a free boo j
new recioes you'll want to try. Or wl
us we'll send you the book, and witj
a generous sample ot uearusie
snreaaea uoausn.
J. W. Beardsley's Sons I
474-478 Greenwich St.,NewYl
supplant UilimuiM'ti mjj
being new.and heavily advert
CHILTON'S MIXED PAN
PHARMACY.
- eminence of CHILTON PAI1
it. and will aorree to renairft.
painted with Ohilton Paintl
it ore perfectly satisfied wi
Duxer street
DAY EVENING, DECEMBER 37.
grown.
Y'
ana recommend iim use w uuiern.