TI1K CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AIMUL 0, 1010.
MAD
CHILD FROM DEATH
Caused an Automobile to Upset
as it Neared Baby in the
Roadway
THE OROUGH REDEEMS ITSELF
Fowl, a Terror for Ten Years, Inadver
tently Does One Good Act and Dies
Tale of a Cantankerous Bird with
An Evil Eye.
' Montvllle, N. J. A bad tempered
old gnnder, known to everybody In Uie
village as "The Grouch," redeemed a
bad reputation of ten years standing,
find at the same time lost Its life, in
saving Agnes Stilton, 3 years old, from
death under the wheels of nn automo
bile. When the child was ready to go out
and have her usual romp In the little
frequented road the hired man chaacd
the gander Into the smoke house and
closed the door by means of an old
fashioned wooden button. It was nec
essary to take this precaution Inas
much as there was nothing "The
Grouch" liked so much as to pursue
the little girl with flapping wings and
shilll squaws. In this way every time
it had a chance It would frlchten her
Into the house, leaving It in undis
turbed possession of the road.
Whether the smoke house door was
not buttoned tight or the gander
squeezed through a crack, or flew out
a window, is not known, but at any
rate Agnes hnd not been playing long
when "The Grouch" sailed into tha
road, raising the dust, hissing and
flapping Its wings, and making for
her with all its might
"Mammal" cried the child in tenor,
shielding its face with its outspread
hands.
list then a touring car, driven by
Harold Grant of East Orange, rounded
the sharp turn In the road. The barn
stands at the turn, cutting off tho
view in both directions. The road
rarly is used by automobiles, and
this Is the reason why the Stilton
child was permitted to play there.
Grant was going fast on a level
stretch, and as he swept around tha
turn the old white gander stood up so
laige in his startled vision lie did not
see the fleeing girl beyond. The gan
der's neck was stretched to Its full ox
tent and t'je wings were spread wide
apart.
That was no time to stop, and
when, an Instant after seeing the
goose. Grant spied the little girl ahead,
he let out a yell of alarm that brought
all the folk out of the Stilton farm
house on Ihe rush. The East Orange
man involuntarily closed his eyes to
avoid witnessing the tragedy he feit,
as he said afterward, was sure to hap
pen. Hut it didn't. The automobile
struck the gander full tilt, but the im
pact swerved the front wheels out of
their course, and by tho time "The
Grouch" hud come down, lifeless, from
its skyrocket flight, the auto had dart
ed diagonally across the road and was
lying upside down In the ditch. Grant
had Instinctively let go the steering
w9el at the psychological momentj
and he shot ovBBthe top of a post-andJ
rail fence and stuck, feet up, In a
pile of fertilizing material. He lost
no time In withdrawing his head from
the mess, and then fell on his kneos
and prayed Just why, he says, he
doesn't know.
As for Agnes, all had happened so
quickly she hadn't had time to bo
scared at anything but the mean old
gander. She whimpered a bit when
she saw how thoroughly and com
pletely dead the gander was. Then
she stood and watched her father and
other persons right the automobile
and set It on Its way. "The Grouch"
Is to be stuffed and mounted.
"The bird ain't deserving of It,"
said Stilton, "but. it saved my
girl's life, though It didn't mean
to, and I'll do a good turn."
"Tho Grouch," which in its young
er days was called "Peter," was for
more than a decade a terror, not only
to the other fowl In Farmer Abner
St'lton's barnyard, but nlso to Mrs.
Stilton and all the children In the
neighborhood. It was a cantankerous
bird with an evil eye, and when It got
after either dog or child there was
sure to bo some tall running to got
out of the way.
Stilton's Muscovy duck, "Sarah
Jaue," was the only living thing with
wings that ven put up a fight. When
"The Grouch" and "Sarah Jane" got
polng everybody flocked to 'hear the
nolbc and see the feathers fly. Sev
eral years ago the gander chased a
tomcat up a hemlock tree by the well,
and kept It there until the cat was at
tacked and killed by a large hawk.
" Bayonet for Cavalry.
Berlin. According to a statement
Just published It is probable that
tho German cavalry sabre will shortly
disappear and be replaced by n new
short side arm which can Do used as
a bayonet ith the no pattern caval
ry rarblne. The military, authorities
consider that for cavalry armed with
the lance for fighting at close quar
ters on horseback, and with the car
bine and bayqnet for flgbUng on foot,
the sabre would become superfluous.
The value of the carblna combined
with tha new side-arm for cavalry
work has already been proved In fight
ing in German Southwest Africa.
.' alfl REVERSED IN HAYTI
-reare Brought Up to Date Hat
t c Moor White and Desdcmona
a Pretty Black Girl.
i:rriin.--An amusing performance,
ot ' Othello" In l'ort nu Prince, Haytl,
is ririorted by a correspondent of the
Hamburger Nachrlchtcn.
With the exception of Othello him
self, who "was Impersonated by a Eu
ropean," all the actors and actresses
were natives, Desdcmona being played
by s handsome young negro girl. The
stngo manager had deemed. It useful
to transfer the sccno of the play from
Venice to n prosperous city In tho
United States, while tho Jealous lover
was Introduced not as a noblo Muor
but as a thriving American merchant
With tho exception of these slight
alterations the play Itself remained
the same as in tho original, and this
unfortunately led to some disorder. In
th" last scene, when tho audlcnco be
held the swarthy Desdcmona being
smothered by her white-faced hus
band, they protested Indignantly, and
hurled missiles at the stage.
The situation was saved by a lumi
nous thought on tho part of the man
ager, who after requesting tho specta
tors to refrain from expressing their
opinions until they had seen the end
reserved for Othello, ushered In three
natives, who fell on tho palo rascal,
knocked him down and then trampled
on him, amid boisterous cheering from
the house.
COOODOOODDODOOOODOaOOOOODO
Society Women Form a "Rolling O
Club" to Reduce their Fat.
Muskogee, Okla. Muskogee P.
has a Roller club. Us members
are all young women and they
roll themselves to reduce their
flesh. They belong to the best
society of the town.
It all started from a pretty
but over-plump society woman
astonishing her friends by a
marked change in her form.
Then she explained that she did
It by rolling, which was still
nore mystifying until she ex
plained further. She said that
he began by rolling over and
over on the floor as a morning
exercise, and that she found that
it reduced flesh rapidly.
The result was the immediate
organization of the Rollers'
Club, compoFCd of society ma
trons and maids who are in
clined to obesity. The members,
in kimonos or other garments,
He down and roll over and over.
One hundred rolls Is a morn
ing's work. One young woman
x ases a kimono costume, because
O she finds it does not wrap
8 around and b'.ml the limbs.
CXOCCCCCOCCCCCCCCCCOCCCCCC
SUICIDE FEVER IN RUSSIA."'
Three Girls, One Heiress to $10,000,
000, Die Tonether.
St. Petersburg, Russia. The sensa
tional suicide bore of three young
gir's belonging to the best circles,
wl: j took their lives together, has Tre
ated a great stir. It has again focused
attention on the continuing epidemic
of self-destruction, which is believed
to be duo to neurasthenic melancholia.
In this Instance, two sisters named
Kc'mann,' aged twenty and sixteen
years, and Miss l.auricz, heiress to ten
million dollars, mot and after one had
played Chopin's Funeral March all
thrco drank poison and died.
Thfcy left letters saying they were
tired of life. No other motive Is
known.
There has been an astonishing num
ber of similar suicides recently. In
one day no less than twenty-nlno caies
were reported, among them sixteen
women and three children.
THE BLINDING HATPIN.
Eye Put Out by It in Brussels, Bel
glum Damages in Case.
Brussels. A court here has award
ed 52,000 damages to a man who was
blinded In ono eye by a woman's hat
pin. Ho was standing on the platform
of a street car, which stopped with a
Jerk, causing the hatpin to pierce his
eye.
The damages were assessed equal
ly against tho woman and the car
company, each being condemned to
pay $1,000.
Hit on the Hesd, Now Stutters.
Pittsburg.- Greatly hampered by
stuttering in describing a poolroom
row, after spending several weeks In
the hospital, Joseph Ituprocht told a
magistrate how ho became a confirm
ed stutterer. Ruprecht had been
struck on the hoad with a billiard cue
and knew nothing more until ho found
himself in the hospital. There physi
cians tried In vain to repair his
speech. He has sued Joseph Sisky,
whom he charges with striking him.
Teach Children to Chew Food.
Cleveland, Ohio. Believing that
proper mastication of food has become
a lost art, members of the National
Dental Society started a country-wide
movement to teach tho children of the
public schools how to chew. The plan
Is to have each child's mouth examin
ed, teeth treated If necessary, and In
structions given in the proper manner
of using the Jaws.
Washington's Will, Faded.
Washington, D. C George Wash
ington's will, written by himself on
more than twenty pages, has been
brought here for renovation. For more
than a century It has been on view
In Fairfax, Va. The papor has dark
ened to a rich shade of brown and the
Ink faded to a sickly olive tint
SOCIALISM jSJN THE WAY
Prof. Carver, of Harvard, Doesn't Re
gard It as a Cure-AII, but Thinks
It Will Help Some.
Cambridge, Mass. Prof. Thomas
Mlxon Carver of thq economic depart
ment at Harvard assert! that social
ism Is n factor to bo reckoned with In
the Industrial life of tho futuro, and
although ho does not bollevo it a last
tng remedy for existing conditions, he
thinks It will act as n mild proventa
ti3 for many encroachments on tho
working people.
Prof. Carver says: "Tho 'trusts',
although sometimes so called, aro not
a product of evolution. Thoy wera
produced by tho turbulent and uncer
tain conditions that prevailed prior
to their organization and still prevail
to-day. I challengo any one to prove
that the trusts, or any one of them,
has proved moro efficient In lowering
tho cost of production than Individual
concerns. They have, however, been
able to lower the cost ot distribution
through their control of the markets
and by taking advantage of special
conditions.
"The capitalists aro doing tho very
thing that Is likely to bring about
their own destruction, for thoy are by
their present course continually add
ing to tho dissatisfied. Tho mlnuto
tho dissatisfied among tho proletariat
outnumber tho satisfied ones, then so
cialism will come. I believe, however,
that any such happening would be a
disaster."
SUCKERS DISTURBED FARMERS,
Thousands of Flah Make Strange
Noise In Trying to Ascend Dam.
Montlcello, N. Y. MyrladB of suck
ers which have Infested Smith Mea
dow Brook, near Montlcello, Sullivan
County, havo been the cause of great
disturbance to the farmers living now
the brook. A mysterious thumping
noise, heard all through the night, hod
caused many to believe that ghosts
from the nearby graveyard wero
prowling about the neighborhood.
The origin of tho sounds was not
discovered until Dewltt Olmsted.a llttla
braver than his neighbors, sought to
determine whence tho noises came,
and after dark crept down to tho wa
ter, taking a stand near an old dam
which crosses the stream in the roar
of his house.
Below this dam, where tho water
falls Into a pit, he found thousands of
suckers trying to reach the pond
above by swimming up tho falls. Ha
also leafned to his astonishment that
tho fish in their repeated endeavors
to shoot the chutes seldom succeedod,
while scores of the largest ones would
furiously butt their heads into tha
thumping noises which had so dis
turbed the peace and quiet of tha
neighborhood.
Tho only solution of tho troubla
was to destroy a portion of the dam,
which was promptly done and the fish
allowed to move on up stream unob
structed. UNDER THE SEA TO THE POLE.
Pl . If j,mn nf nrm9nv RnllHInn a Rllh.
marine to Rival uapt. nemo.
Berlin, Germany. The old idea of
reaching the north pole by submarine,
as was so graphically set forth in
Jules Verno's story of "Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Undor the Sea," has
been revived by the announcement
that Dr. Anschutz Kemp, the well
known Inventor, has resolved to mako
the attempt.
It Is said that ho has been working
for a decade upon tho project and that
ho will build a submarine of his own
design. It will be capable, It Is assert
ed, of remaining under water at a
great depth for a long period.
Dr. Kemp has iilso Invented and
patented In all civilized countries the
different apparatus by means of which
he hopes to take his soundings and
bearings when deeply submerged.
WHY THE PIG WHISTLED.
On Being Cut Up a Piece of Spring
Was Found In Its Throat.
Bloomsburg, Pa. Daniel Howell
has found out why bis pig whistled.
Ho says that for weoks prior to butch
ering time tho hog would Invariably
start whistling at feeding time, and
this brought all the other hogs to tha
trough; they got to expecting It and
the food that followed.
Howell was puzzled over that whis
tle until the porker, a flno one, was
cut up, and there In Its throat was a
section of a spring such as is found
In the rollor of a window curtain.
A Posthumous Letter.
El Paso, Tex. "Jerry" Faust, an
employee of the Southern Pacific nail
road, Just recolved a letter which was
addressed to him at Pittsburg. It was
written and mailed at Blanchard,
Penn., on July 2, 1875, by his step
mother, Mrs. Mary Still. Faust loft
Pittsburg many years ago. His step
mother has been dead fifteen years.
Skunk Safe In Massachusetts.
Boston. A bill was considered
which Is to Impose fines up to $500
and Imprisonment up to a year on any
one who kills In the State ot Massa
chusetts that well known little animal
which Is described as "a member of
the Mephitis roephltlca family of
American mustelold carnivore, ordi
narily known as the skunk."
Will on Small Piece of Pasteboard.
Iteadlng, Pa. Ona piece of paste
board two Inches by one and one-half
In dimensions, tha late P. Frank Han
man disposed of an estate of $10,000,
ot which $7,000 represents Ufa Insur
ance. The will contains these words:
"All I possess, real and personal, be
longs to my wife absolutely at uy
death,"
FOR A
Theme:
ON LOSING HEART.
BY REV. J. H. JOWETT, M. A.
I-
Text: "Let us not be weary In well
doing; for In due season we shall reap
If we faint not."
To whom Is this heartening word
spoken? To a llttlo company of men
and women In tha primitive fellow
ship of the Apostolic Church, who are
contending with stupendous obstacles,
rowing against a voluminous stream.
It is novor an easy thing to resist
and antagonize the spirit of the age
and confront the solid majority. But
such was the condition of the men and
women to whom this Epistle was
written. Here is a little company who
aro engaged in tilling a rough, tough,
and unpromising bit of ground, un
clean and heavy, pervaded with roots
of hoary custom and tradition. But
you can contend with uncleansed
ground and drive your plough through
the most obstructive weeds, if only
the atmosphere Is cordial.
If, however, to the resistance of the
Impediments In tho soil there be add
ed a close, sultry, enervating atmo
sphere, which makes the muscles limp
and bring3 a perilous lassitude and
languor, the chances of progress aro
reduced. That was proclsely the con
dition of this church. Tho atmosphere
was heavy, sultry little sections of
the people wero beginning to tako
portions of tho field for their own cul
tivation, were beginning to pay atten
tion exclusively to the salvation of
their own souls, and looking every
man on his patch only and not on that
of others.
All this was terribly hard for tho
earnest, zealous workers, who had set
their sanctified ambition upon tho en
tire field, that thoy might turn tho
whole area of tho desert Into a garden,
and mako It blossom as the rose. Many
times they had stopped, with limbs
weary, and sent up the tired cry to
the bonding Heaven: "Lord, how
long, how long?" It was to men and
women who were getting a littlo
weary at the plough aa they looked
at tho furrow still remaining to bo
cut that the apostle sent this heart
ening evangel: "Let us not bo weary
in well doing, for in due season wo
shall reap If we faint not"
It is a most heartening figure for all
Christian workers. Spiritual culture,
"work among souls, cannot find its anal
ogies in the market or exchange. It
Is not a matter of safe investments
and deft transactions; it is a matter
which concerns the mysterious pro
cesses of the field. When we are deal
ing with souls we aro not mechanics
dealing with that which Is seen; we
are dealing with tho invisible un
known. If my work were to be Judged
by the standards of the business man,
tho builder or mechanic, I should lay
it down in sheer despair. But If I am
taken to the domain of agriculture, I
gain infinite hope. If 1 read my text
rightly, It tells me that Christian
workers are not magicians, but farm
ers, who have to await tho Issuo of
their labors.
Anybody can see a green Held, but
who can tell Just when tho seod Is be
ginning to germinate? Who can seo
tho invisible process by which tho
seed receives its first pulso, and
paste3 through the tirst process of Its.
resurrection? Anybody can count
converts at a large mission; nothing
is easier, it is like measuring the
green fields; but who can get back
to the time when the first Impulse was
felt? It took place In the dark.
What, then, aro we to do while the
harvest tarries? Wo assume wo aro
In league with a great, mysterious
Force, whoso name Is God. Suppose
we further a33iimo that Invisible pro
cesses aro going on about which we
know nothing, nnd which may any
moment nppear above the surface.
While tho harvest tarries what aro we
to do? Our text Is tho answor, "Let
us not be weary In woll doing."
I am going to alter that word
"woll," and bring It moro Into lino
with tho Apostle's meaning, "Lot us
not be weary In beautiful doing." Tho
suggestion Is that we havo to put beau
tiful ministries Into unlovely ground.
Because the bit ot land wo have to
till Is primitive, rough, and rudo, we
aro not to allow our methods of cul
ture to be primitive, rough, and rude
also. Everybody knows how exceed
ingly easy It is to do beautiful things
for benutlful Dooole. but to eo on do
ing beautiful ministries without seeing
any appreciable result, and among
people who In return simply glare at
you with the face of a reluctant de
sert! Yet we must go on doing the
beautiful.
That 'counsel Is altogether sane as
a mere worldly maxim. It Is always
wise to proclaim the highest Ideal to
the most primitive and rude. This la
a princlplo which we need to obaerve
and obey In our Christian work.
Desirable and Safe.
Aa It rests with man, through a
wise and diligent employment ot his
Intellectual faculties, to subdue the
earth for earthly uses, and make It an
altogether sate, comfortable, and do-
nrable dwelling-place, ao it Is laid as
a sacred obligation upoa bis spiritual
and moral nature to change the king
doms ot this world Into a kingdom of
heaven, in which rifhteoasnese, peaco.
and holy Joy prevail. Rufu Kills.
ONE TUHT KOIt I'KAltliS.
Berlin Hotel Porter's Mxpcrltucnt
That Was Not a Success.
The porter of ono of the leading
Berlin hotels has Just had a curious
adventure, tioino time ago a dealer
In pearls who was stopping at tho
hotel told him an Infallible way to
distinguish real pearls from fatso,
which was to put them on tho
ground and stamp on thorn, tf real
they would resist tho test. If false
they would bo crushed.
The porter, howover, never had a
chance or putting this theory to tho
test until a few days ago. The di
rector of n well known company in
Berlin, whllo dining at tho hotel,
lost a valuable pearl rln. This was
found by tho waiter, who gave II to
the porter to return to Its owner.
Tno porter saw his opportunity
ha I como at last to test the quality
of a pearl. He put the pin on the
ground, placed tils neel on It nnd
ground it to a powder. When the
owner arrived to claim It then- rna
a somewhat stormy scene, nut he
was good naturcd euough -o rollout
to say no more about the affali on
the porter refunding half tho value
of the pin, GOO marks In future
the porter will submit any Jewelry
he may find for expert opinion
Women Not ns Htrong us .Men.
"Women are not on the avrroge
but half as strong as men. said Ur.
Sargent, the director of athletics at
Harvard, In a lecture recently.
"Their lung capacity averages but
160 cubic inches, while that of man
Is 240 cubic Inches In nearly every
Instance," hp said, "where women
excel In sports of the rougher or
mori- masculine sort they have either
inherited or acqulifd masculine
characteristics
AUIUTAIi AND DEi'AIlTUKE OF
ERIE TKAINS.
Trains leave at S:2t a. m. and
2:48 y. m.
Suaaays at 2:4$ p. m.
Trains -rrlve at 1:40 and 8:08
p. ra.
Saturdays, arrives at 3:45 aud
leaves at 7:10.
Sundays at 7:92 p. m.
BANK WITH A
SURPLUS EARNED IN
FOUR YEARS
Are You One of the 3,553 Depositors
Doing business at the
HONESDALE DIME BANK?
If not, the opportunity awaits you to open an ac
count now.
Start the idle money you have at your home to earn
ing interest.
If you have a small bank, bring or send it to us at
once. Put your idle money at work.
If you wish to make a loan on your farm or house
or to borrow some money call at the Dime Bank.
Business and Savings Accounts Solicited.
Wayne County money for Wayne Counteans.
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The Era of New Mixed Paints !
This year opond witn a deluge of now mixed paints. A con
dition brought about by our entorprising dealers to got some kind
of a mixed paint that would supplant CHILTON'S MIXED
PAINTS. Thoir compounds, being now and heavily advertised,
may find a sale with the unwary.
THE ONIjV TliACU IN HONKSDAIiE
AUTilOltlZUD TO HANDLE
!s JADWIN'S PHARMACY.
There aro reasons for the pro-eminence of OHILTON PAINTS;
let No ono can mix a bettor mixed paint.
2d Tho painters declare that it works easily and has won
dorful covoring qualities.
3d Chilton stands back of it, aud will agreo to ropaint, at his
owu oxnenso.ovory surface painted with Chilton Paint that
proves defective.
4th Those who have used it are perfectly satisfied with it,
and recommend its use to ethers.
Ho DocKn't Nivl Tlmi Kind
, A man can genurally get along
vor) well without the respect which
he lotos for Instating on having what
ho l entitled to.
tnmtmmmt:
MARTIN CAUFIELD
Designer and Man
ufacturer of
ARTISTIC
MEMORIALS
Office and Works
1036 MAIN ST.
HONESDALE, PA.
For New Late Novelties
IN-
JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
WATCHES
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"Guaranteed articles only sold."
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