IinC CITIEKIf, I'KIDAY, FEB. 4, 1010. WILL THU COMKT HIT US? A Young Nephew (Jlvcs His Anxious Auntlo Sonic Pointers. Now York, Jan. 24, 1910. My Dear Auntlo: I have your re cent letter, and I feel very much In flated over the fact that you havo asked for my opinion relatlvo to Halley's comet coming In contact with this little "green footstool" upon which wo reside. j You could hardly havo found a person more competent to answer your Inquiry than your lulmhlo Bcrvant, as I think I know a power ful lot about astronomical matters. I ought to, at any rate, for onco I went through an observatory, and of course, 1 got n heap of Informa tion on astronomy then and there And, on my way out. I foil down a twenty-foot flight of stairs and got a few more points on astronomy. And at another time. In somo most mysterious manner. I bumped my head on a policeman's club, aud It was upon this eventful occasion that "I looked into the future as far as human oyo rould see," and next morning paid the judge for this les son in astronomy. Thus, you see, I should be well versed on tho subject, and In fact ray astronomical bump is very well; developed. My private and professional opin ion Is that Halley's comet will hit this little globe of ours. However, from my recent observations, I can nssure ,you that on this corner of tho globe we are in no danger. Tho comet will not hit tho United States. At present it is headed for, and will probably hit, about two car-lengths' south of Hohokus, N. J. It is now rC7,392,682 zacters (one zacter is equal to 65,387,859 miles) to the leeward, and it Is traveling at the rate of well, I don't like to tell you how fast it Is coming, but, ac cording to my latest calculations It should dock nt about 12:23 a. m. on February 30th. Now, do not become alarmed, If you havo any friends in the vicinity of Hohokus, as there is a possibility that I have made an error In my figures. Other astronomers have done such things. I remember, many, many years ago, when 1 was a boy, I had tho goldarnaest scare of my life on a similar proposition. I heard the older wiseacres talking about a star or planet, (Arcturus I think was the name), that was com ing our way at the rate of several hundred thousand million miles per second and was then only some mil lion billion miles away to the horl zonward, and, my impression was' that It was only a matter of days or weeks when old mother earth and all her cargo would disappear like a snow ball in Hades., That's one of the reasons why I never would study or do anything that wasn't absolutely necessary to r.ustaln life. I said "What's tho use when tho grand finish is just around tho cor ner?" That was years and years ago, and yet that darned old star has not touched us. It must have had bad weather or broken some of Its machinery. Speaking of being touched by stars: A few nights ago I got touched by a "star" for ray watch and pin but she wasn't of the heavenly va riety. Being hit by things from way up yonder does not worry rae half as much as how I am going to hit a job paying about ten thousand with two six-months' vacations a year. Now, ray dear Auntie, dont wan der away into the solar system any more. Stay right hero on earth. Sit down In your easy chair, take a good pinch of snuff, and keep right on with your knitting; keep Uncle's socks well darned, don't play bridge, and, when wo all "cross the river," I will guarantee that you will land right on top of a great, big, fleecy cloud where you can play all day upon your golden harp and sing "I Love to be In Heaven, But Oh! You Nnughty Old Earth." 1 am now going down around the corner and make some "observa tions" through the bottom of a great, big thick glass. Good-bye, VICTOR. Port Jervls Union. WHAT IS A COMKT ? Tho appearance of a small cornet and the near approach of Halley's are Incidents which havo aroused much interest among those who know little nnd usually care less about astronomy. Wo aro asked to ntate tho nature of comets, and ans wer as fully as posslblo In brief space. Very visible comets, possi bly all, are members of tho solar system, havo vory eccentric ellipti cal orbits and reappear, according to the measure of eccentricity, somo having a period of few years, Hal ley's about seventy-eight years and others possibly thousands of years. Tho sun and all tho major planets are substantially in the same plane, but tho comets have unrestricted paths. Somo como almost from tho zenith, go around tho sun and dis appear northward and others do tho same from tho south. Sometimes they are disturbed In their orbits by planets, notably Jupiter, and thereafter have shorter or different periods. Somo break up and form meteors, which wo see In tho sky at night. They are bolleved to have arisen at tho time of tho evolution of tho solar system from the ori ginal nebula. It should be said that tho nebular hypothesis of Laplace Is no longer accopted In Its entirety by astrophysicists and by many Is re jected absolutely. The present theory has for its basis that matter is eternal, that there always have been solar sys tems, just as now in our universe, and that nebulae aro caused by tho craBh of suns, either two dead ones, Ilka our earth or moon, two burning ones or one live and ono dead ono. Tho result of tho crash, either di rect or so close as, to result in break ing up by tidal action and gravity, Is tho production of a spinal nebula, not tho fire mist of Laplace, but containing more or less solid mat ter and Immense quantities of gases. Tho Bolar system la evolved In tho piano of tho collision a cen tral sun, planets and their stellltcs but comets are supposed to bo largely gaseous bodies hurled off at any angle at such force as to get to extraordinary distances before returning In tho elliptical circuit around tho parent body. Comets nru so tenuous that faint stnrs can bo seen through them. Somo aro almost like a vacuum. It Is estimated that a very large one contains such a small quantity of matter that It could easily bo com pressed Into a pill box, although It extends many millions of miles across tho sky. A comet grows brighter ns it approaches tho sun, partly becnuse of reflection, partly because tho heat of its own matter increases and becauso the compon ent matter is driven off from tho head by the radial pressure of the sun. The earth has passed, as Is believed, through the tall of a com et without Injury. Comets cause no damage and have little effect of any sort on our system. Large comets are wonder ful spectacles, and, although not wholly understood, are being stud led with great caro In these days by astronomers. Halley's will be the most brilliant seen since 1S82. It will bo visible in the spring and will probably be extraordinary in Its phenomena. DHACON WAS A SMAKT .MAX. Opposite the railroad depot, where the colonel had to wait for an hour or two, was a grocery kept by a col ored man, and to pass the time away he strolled across. Business seemed to bo very brisk with the grocer, though all his customers were of his own color. The colonel noticed that sugar, tea and coffee were asked for most frequently, and during a tem porary lull he approached tho bat tered old scales, on which everything was weighed, and picked up some of the weights. The hollow In each had been filled with lead, and It was quite sure that a pound weight would balance 20 ounces of coffee. By and by It was remarked to the old man: "I see you have tilled your weights with lead?" "Yes, sab yes, sah," was the re ply. "What, was tho idea?" "To keep do dirt outer do holes. Can't git no dirt In dar' now." "Was it your idea?" "No, Bah. I nebber should, havo dun got dat Idea but for Dokun Williams. De dekun said It was de way dey did down In Atlanta, and ho fixed 'era up fur me widout cost." "The deacon buys all his grocer ies here, doesn't he?" was asked. "He do sah. Yes, sir, no white man kin git de dekun's trade away from me." Ho was asked to take his weights over to tho depot and see how they held out. and ho picked them up and started off with a puzzled look on his face. They wore placed on tho scales one by one, and when the Inst had been tested the old man threw up his hands and ex claimed: "Befo do Lawd, but it am no wondor I'ze gone into bankruptcy fo'teon different times and had to sell my mewl and make do old wo man go barefut! Dat ar' pound weight weighs 22 ounces, and every time Dekun Williams or anybody else has bought a pound of sugar he has got three-quarters of a pound ober! Shoo! I'ze gwino back to close do stoah and put up a sign of 'Busted Agin!' " Exchange. Eleanor Duse's Refusal. Eleanor Duse, tho famous Italian actress, has positively vetied a plan to celebrate her jubilee as was done in England and Franco for Ellon Terry and Bernhardt When tho subject was broached to the slgnora, sho thanked her friends, but declined tho honor. Fine Old EnslMi Oak llurned. Ono of the seven fine old oaks In Salcey forest, Burk'nghamshire, Eng. land, has been burned to the ground. It Is surmised that vlltors to the forest made a picnic flro In the hol low trunk, and the result was the complete destruction of the tree, which Is said to be 800 years old. Salcoy Is tho second great royal for est and has belonged to the crown since tho conquest. at Fraction. The teacher was giving hor class their first losson In fractons. An ob ject lesson seemed to be desirable. "Mary McCauley," she said, "If there was a mince pie on your dinner table, and your mother asked you If you would have a third or a fourth, what would you say?" "A fourth." said Mary. Some of the children Uttered, and tho teacher asked, "Why would you have a fourth?" '"Cause," said Mary, "I don't like mince pie." Wishing and Winning. There is a vast difference, says n a wise philosopher, between wishing and winning. Many a good man ha failed boeauie be had his wishbone whera hia backbone ought to hav been. 'flTBANOH OABR OF HY8T1CUIA.. The Running Away Mania nnd Double- Personality Phenomenon. Professor Pierre Janet, In his book, "The Major Symptoms of Hy steria," describes a number of io markablc cases of what he calls "fugue," or the hysterical mania that Impels people to run away. Ono of those Is the rase of a boy of seven teen, living In Purls, who suddenly lost all memory of his previous life and his home. Hp left Pars. and wandored about the provinces, at last falling In with an old china-mender, whom he accompanied, and for whom ho worked. The restoration of his memory Is described by Pro fessor Janet as follows: "One evening an unlooked for event 100k plnce again. The day's work had been a success; the two companions had earned seven francs. Tho old china-mender stopped and said to R.: 'My boy, wo desorvo a good supper, and we will keep to day's feast; It Is tho fifteenth of Au gust.' On hearing this, the boy heed lessly said: "The fifteenth of Au gust? Why, It Is tho feast of the Vir gin Mary, the anniversary of my mothor's name-day.' He had scarce ly uttered these words when he ap peared to bo quite changed. He looked all around him with astonish ment, and turning to his companion, said: 'But who aro you, and what am I dotng hero with you?' " The poor man was amazed and was quite unable to make the boy un derstand the situation; the latter still believed himself In Paris and had lost all memory of the preced ing months. They had to go to tho village mayor's, where with great dif ficulty the matter was made more or less clear. The mayor telegraphed to Paris, and tho prodigal child was sent back home." One of the most remarkable cases of double personality on record Is de scribed by Professor Pierre Janet In "The Major Symptoms of Hysteria." The patient, whom he calls Marce llne, first camo to him about twenty years ago. For several months sho had not taken any food and was on the verge of starvation. After try ing other methods of treatment sho was hypnotized, and a secondary state was induced, which, although apparently artificial, differed alto gether from tho state In which she had been on her entrance to the hospital. She immediately began to eat, and soon regained her Btrength. When sho seemed on the road to re covery It was thought necessary to awaken her from the hypnotic state, which was considered artificial. Im mediately the patient fell back Into her preceding state. She was again unable to eat and in order to save her lifo It was necessary to reinduce the hypnotic state. The same experience was repeated over and over again, and as Pro fessor Janet explains, "things contin ued In this way for fifteen years. Marcellno would come to mo in order to be put to sleep, enter Into her alert state, and then go away very happy, with complete activity, sensibility and memory. She would remain thus for a few weeks; then either slowly or suddenly. In consequence of some emotion, fall back Into her numbness, return to the state wo had consider ed primitive and natural, with the Eame visceral disturbances. The forgetfulnesa was extended over whole years, and disturbed her exis tence completely. She would has ten to come to me to get herself transformed again. Thlng3 contin ued thus for years together, till tho death of tho poor girl who succumb ed to pulmonary tuberculosis." Alligator's .Tall. A great delicacy In Florida Is the tip of an alligator's tall. It tastes like frogs' legs, though a bit more gamey. Alligator tails aro best Just after the rlco bird season. Tho big alligator floats In tho water with only their eyes showing. When they sco a flock of these fat, Juicy little birds, they dive to tho bottom. Their long wide snouts scoup up Eomo of the loam and they float to tho surface again, with Just tho rich soil showing. Tho birds think It Is an Island. They alight upon It. When the wholo family is there tho big reptile turns suddenly. - Just as the birds scram ble off ho opens his mouth once. They are gono. The birds ara neat little feeders and tho alligator Is an epi cure at this tlmo of tho year. Tho rlro bird diet makes tho tip of his tall, of which ho Is most vain, tender and sweet. A Nomadic Piece of Land. Cape Cod Itself Is sand, and llko everything of a desert naturo Is no madic. Like tho Arab, It Is always silently stealing away, so that tho appearance, of tho peninsula con stantly changes. The 4 prevailing winds In the winter being from the north, the sand Is blown south; In summer It Is blown t'other way, but tho winter winds being stronger the land Is gradually working south. Monoraoy at the lower end used to do an Island, Its extromlty being called Cape Malabar, a name not used now. This Island of Monomoy Is rapidly growing toward Nantucket, It having advanced some flvo miles in the last fifty years. Seemed Unlikely. Little Lorcn had watched the rain pour down all day. Finally when the clouds began to break away, he said, "Mamma, do you suppose these clouds will ever bo fit to use asalnt" THE KINGDOM OF 15 Workera of Future Will Live aa Well aa Does Capitalist of To-Day INVENTOR EDISON'S PREDICTIONS Daily Stint of Eight Hours of Brain Work This, He Thinks, Will De Largely Drought About by Cheap ening of Commodities. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOODQ WHAT IS IN THE MIND U OF EDISON, INVENTOR. P Some Predictions. Q Domination of labor. Q Cheapening of commodities. q Laborers living as well as men who now have $200,000 In- Q come. Q Things He Deprecates. C The monorail. j Narrowness of railroad q tracks. Q Chemical food. Q Make-up of society. y Whiskey. G Problems to Be Overcome. Waste of fuel. O Friction. ft CCCCCCOOCCCCCCOOOCCCOCCCCo New York, N. Y. Thomas A. Edi son, looking Into the future, thinks the prospect of the laboring man Is a particularly bright one. "In 200 years, by the cheapening of commodities, the ordinary laborer will live as well as n man does now with 1200,000 annual income. Auto matic machinery and scientific agri culture will bring about this result," Mr. Edison says. "Not Individualism but social labor will dominate tho fut ure; you can't have individual ma chines and every man working by himself. Industry will constantly be come more social and interdependent There will be no manual labor In the factories of the future. The men In them will be merely superintendents, watching the machinery to see that It works right. "The work day, I believe, will be eight hours. Every man needs that much work to keep him out of mis chief and to keep him happy. But It will bo work with the brain, some thing that men will be interested in, and done In wholesome, pleasant sur roundings. Less and less man will bo used as an engine, or ns a horse, and his brain will be employed to benefit himself and his fellows. "Tho clothes of the future will be bo cheap that every young woman will bo ablo to follow the fashions prompt ly. "The monorail docs not appeal to me. It was a fundamental mistake that our railroads were built on a 4 foot 9 1-2 inch gauge Instead of a 6 foot gauge, which we will probably havo to come to yet. "Tho aeroplane of the future will, I think, have to be on the helicopter principle. A successful air machine must be able to defy the winds. If Wright's aeroplane had one-twentieth of its surface, the wind principle Is tho only way to rise above atmo spheric conditions. By increasing tho velocity of propeller revolutions the size of the machine can be diminished and thereby wo vanquish the hostility of the wind. A helicopter could have foot-slzo planes distributed on a 100 to 150 foot circle and controlled from the centre by wires. "Chemical food has been worked out pretty well by Emll Fischer and his students, but It won't be a com mercial proposition. You can't beat the farm as a laboratory, commercial ly speaking. If wo should dry up like Mars and couldn't raise vegetables on the earth wo might turn to a chemical diet. "Society will have to stop this whiskey business which Is like throw ing sand In the bearings of a steam engine. "Among tho many problems which awuit solution In the future ono ot tho most important Is to get tho full value out of fuel. The wastefulness of our present methods of combustion Is tremendous. "There Is not as much power In a ton of 40 per cent, dynamite aa there Is In a ton of coal. "Everything In nature would burn up If It wero not for the fact that near ly everything except coal Is already burned up. Iron would burn and make a good fuel If In a very lino powder but It has already been consumed In Nature's furnace. "Wo may discover tho germ of get ting nil tho power from fuel to-morrow, and then again It may take a long tlmo to find out. "To get rid of friction In our ma chines is ono of the future problems. Tho only machine without friction that we know Is the world, and It moves In the restless ether." No Socks In Sixty Years. Lancaster, Pa. Edward Petery, ot Denver, Lancaster county, 13 eighty years old and In the enjoyment of ex cellent health, though for sixty years ho has not worn stockings. Guards Light Convicts' Pipes. Leavenworth, Kan. A peculiar duty has been imposed on the guards In the Federal prison hero by which they are to light the pipes ot con victs who desire to smoke. LABOR COMING Helpful Beauty Hints How To Reduce Weight A Proper Sleeping Room Directions: Treat ing Pimples, Blackheads and all Other Skin Eruptions How To Obtain Cucumber Juice. Directions for Treating Pimples. Susan M. To get rid of pimples re quires time and patience. Ono must be exceedingly careful In tho way of diet, abstaining from sweets and fried foods, not forgetting tho dally bath, using n bath brush and scrub bing tho body vigorously. Before retiring each night cleanse the face with the cleansing cream; remove at onco with a soft towel; bathe In hot water and apply the pirn plo cream. In tho morning batho In hot and cold water alternately soveral times; into tho last cold water put a few drops of benzoin. Once a week cleanse tho face with tho following cloanslng cream; then steam tho face over a basin of bail ing water; cover tho head with a towel; partly dry tho faco and with an instrument that comes for tho pur pose press out any blackheads you have. If the pimples have formed a yellow head contents of these may also be expelled with the Instrument. Mpssage for ten minutes with tho pimple cream; remove all the cream from the face and bathe with toilet water. Cleansing Cream. Oil of sweet almonds, 4 ounces; White wax, 1 ounce; White vaseline, 1 ounce; extract of violet. 2 drams. Pimple Cream. Lanollne, 1 1-4 ounces; Oil of sweet almonds, 1 1-4 ounces; Sulphur preci pitate, 1 1-4 ounces; Oxide of zinc, 5 drams; Violet extract, 1 dram, toilet Water. Eldorflower water, 2 ounces; Dis tilled water, 2 ounces. To Reduce a Woman's Weight. Miss Maud B. You should take a long brisk walk every day; eat no pastry, confectionery or sweot3 of any kind. No soups, salt fish, salmon, veal, pork, sausage, no fats, macaroni, potatoes, com, beets, carrots, pars nips, turnips, cereal, rice, spices, cream, milk, malt or spirituous liquors, beer, champagne, or nvct wine. You may eat fresh fish, etss (boiled or poached on toast), lean beef, mutton, lamb, chicken and game, always sparingly. Stale bread or '-y toast. Lettuce, celery, cress, spinach, asparagus, onions, white cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, olives, tomatoc3 and ripe fruit of the acid varieties. One cup of coffee or tea without milk, cream or sugar, or ono glass of pure wnter at the end of a meal if it Is sipped slowly. Place somo camphor In a bottle and pour alcohol over It See that there Is always a little cam phor in the bottle. Bathe the parts you wish to reduce twice dally. Air In Sleeping Room. Janet T. It is not to be wondered at that you are small and havo a con tracted chest If you sleep In a room devoid of a window. Can you not change your room? You can never exnect to bo woll and strong as long as you sleep in a room without ven tilation. To expand the chest you should stand before an open window early In the morning, clad In a loose gown, with feet close together and arms relaxed at your sldo; riso slowly on the toes and take long, deep In halations through the nostrils, with the mouth closed; hold the breath for a moment nnd then come down quick ly on the heels and exhale quickly through the mouth. Drink plenty ot water and try to walk at least eight squares every day. Blackheads. Mrs. H. G. As long as you scrub your face you aro very likely to have blackheads. Always steam the face, or bathe It well with hot water before trying to remove the blackheads. After removing them massage thor oughly and then bathe the face with toilet water. Apply tho following blackhead lotion two or threo times a iay. Before retiring use tho cleans ing cream, in tho morning tho toilet wn'er. Hot water with a teaspoonful of phosphate of soda, taken before breakfast will soon make the skin look clear. Blackhead Lotion. Boracic acid, 1 dram; Alcohol, 1 ounce; Rose water, 2 ounces. To Reduce Hips. Subscriber. Stand with ono foot on an ottamna and swing the otlior toot back and forth titty times, night and morning. Begin a short rather slow motion, but Increase tho distance and height with each movement. Bathe the hips night and morning with alcohol and massage them with a deop, firm motion once or twice a day. Talcum Powder. Powdered talcum, 2 1-2 ounces; Zinc oxide, 4 ounces; Powdorod orris root, 4 ounces; Precipitated chalk, 1 pound; Extract ot violet, 2 ouncos. Mix all the powders togethor and then tho extract; let It Btand for twenty-tour hours, then pass through a fine sieve. To Obtain Cucumber Juice. Slice the cucumber without paring the cover with a little water, cook until soft, strain through a cheese cloth. The essence ot cucumber is obtained by mixing equal parts of the lulco and alcohol. PItOFJESSIONAJL CARDS. Attorncva-at-Law. H WILSON, . ATTORNEY COUNSELOR AT-LAVY. OfTlco. Masonic tiuilrttni". Armnri flrvir Ilotiesda.e. l'aj WM. II. LEE, ATTOKNEY A COUN8EI.OR-AT-LAW. Olllco over post olllce. All leeal business promptly attended to. Ilonesdale, Pa. 171 C. MUMFOKD, 11. ATTOKNEY A. COUNSEtOU-AT-LAW, Oltice Liberty Hall building, opposite the Post Ulllce. Ilonesdale. l'n. 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We recommend those costlns 25 cents or more, as we can guarantee them and will re place, free, any thai show defectio( manu facture within thrt months. O. T. CHAMBERS, PHARMACIST, Opp.O.A M. StatUc MOHESDALE, PA
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