TUB CITIZEN, Nil DAY, AIMUIj 8, 1010. wns nno New York Legislature After Fire Insurance Companies. NO BRIBERY INVESTIGATION. Resolution For Wider Probe Sup ported by Only 16 Votes Supt. Hotchkiss on the Trail of $5,000 Check. Albany, X. Y., April 5. After n three hours' wrangling, during which prop ositions for a general investigation of alleged legislative corruption were de feated, the assembly adopted the Mc Inemey resolution calling for the ap pointment of n legislative committee to Inquire into the affairs of all insur ance companies doing business in the state, with the exception of life Insur ance companies. The committee is to sit during the summer and report its lludiug, with recommendations for remedial legisla tion, to the legislature of 1011. The assembly also adopted n resolu tion requesting the attorney general to enforce the law for the punishment of fire insurance olliclals who may be found guilty of violations of the stat utes of the elate. lloth these resolutions were sent to the senate today for coucurrencc. The program of the senate leaders Is to act favorably on the resolutions without delay. Only 10 of the i:!2 assemblymen present voted in favor of a general legislative inquiry. These sixteen were lutes, IJennett, Clark, Dana, I.upton, Perkins, Lee. Gray, Green, Illggins, Weinert, Cross and Thompson, Hepuli licans, and Garfein and Shortt, Demo crats. Xew York, April 0. An effort to And out just where a payment of ?r,000 made by the New York board of lire underwriters after the legislative ses sion of l'JOtt went occupied the time of Superintendent Hotchkiss at the insur ance hearing. Although William II. Buckley in his testimony declared that he had not re ceived any money from George B. Sheldon since 1!NV nor had done any active work at Albany for the insur ance interests, correspondence that has been read shows that Mr. Buckley after a quiescent period of several years suddenly did become somewhat active in that session. There were two bills Introduced that year which interested the fire under writers hero very much. One was the so called Grattan-IIamm liquidation bill, a measure promoted by the Insur ance department under Superintendent Hotchkiss giving the superintendent power to wind up the affairs of insur ance companies which did not show a standing conforming with legal re quirements. The other was the regu lar yearly antlcompact bill, which was put In by Senator Grady. Vice President K. II. A. Correa of the Home Insurance company and vice chairman of the New York litnml of tire underwriters' legislative commit tee Identllled a check for $5,(K0 which the committee paid to Sheldon on Sept. 1. Sheldon deposited the ?5.000 check Sept. 2 In the Liberty National bank. H. S. Bnrto, the assistant cashier, tes tified that on the same day he came In after hours and asked If it was too late to get a clieck cashed. lie wrote out a check for $1,500 and asked for tiie money in bills of large denomina tion. Mr. Darin gave Sheldon, he said, three $500 bills. Superintendent Hotchkiss drew the Inference from this that three senators got $500 each. Frederick ('. Case, Sheldon's secre tary, ideiitllled a letter written to Mr. Sheldon on April 20, 1000, in which ho said After telephoning to you this morning I went out at once to llnil Mr. Buckley. He said It was no wte to see ussemhly mcn about the hill, as there would be no quorum in the committee. I shall see Senator (; rattan tonight and Senator Ora lly In the morning. I shall he at the Ten i:ycK tomorrow until 10:SO. 1 have an ap pointment to meet Mr. Duckley In the senate chamber at 10:41. Case said that he was acting then under instructions from Sheldon, that lie had seen Senator Grady after writ ing this letter, but only for n niomeut, and then bad seen Senator Grattan. The latter told him that it was not too late In the session to grant any adjournment on Ids bill, but that ho would be glad to hear if the insurance interests had any amendments that would make the bill acceptable. The Grady bill was afterward killed. Mountains of Iron Ore. The world contains at least four mountains composed of almost solid iron ore. One is in Mexico, one in the United States, another in India ami a fourth in Africa Just below tho Soudan, and there havo been re ports of such a mountain existing in Siberia Mystery of Seedless Fruit. Science so far has failed to fur nigh any explanation of tho mystery of seedless fruits. Thoy are not the outcome of tho work of man, Man perpetuates them; ho docs no more. Tho seedless orange was found In a statu of soedlessness. JEFF AND HIS RETINUE. Leaves Frisco With n Horde of Han dlers and More to Come. San Francisco, April 5. Brown ns a berry from his hunting trips In the mountains of southern California and looking lit, .Tim .leHrles left here today with Sam Berger, Former Burns, the wrestler, and Bob Armstrong, for KO' wardeiinaii. Jeffries will begin train ing nt once, starting with n brisk walk or n couple uf games of handball. Box ing will begin immediately. For the present Armstrong nnd Burns will do tho boxing and tugging with .leffrles, nit hough Berger plans to box with the lighter a couple of times n week. Jack Burns, Sitllna's heavy weight, probably will be added to the staff of sparring partners, nnd Joe Choyinskl will come to the coast with in a week to bo one of the advisers. Boger Cornell, trainer for the Port land Pacific Coast league team, will arrive nt Uowardcnnni) on May 1, nnd Frank Gotclt will arrive as soon nftet his match with Zybysco ns possible. Jim Corbett will come to the coast the latter part of May. Kugene Vancourt, formerly boxing Instructor at the Olympic club and one of tho best judges of condition in the west, declares unreservedly that Jef fries looks every bit as good as when lie was in the fighting game before. SAVAGE SHOWS GAMENESS. Earns a Draw With Flynn of Boston After a Close Call. New Yorl. April 5. .Tim Savage, a New Jersey heavyweight, gave a re markable exhibition of gnincncss in a ten round bout with Porky Flynn of Boston at the National Sporting club here. Up to the eighth round Savage ap peared to he winning when suddenly Flynn caught him on the point of the jaw with a terrific right swing, which knocked him down for the count. But Savage got up full of light, and in the last, two rounds he recovered his for mer strength, so that a draw was a fair verdict. It was a hard battle all the way, and Flynn, who came here with something of a reputation, found that he had no snap. In fact, Savage would have been entitled to a decision had it not been for a knockdown in the eighth round. FAL MOORE BEATS JONES. Young Quaker Featherweight Wins Ten Round Battle on Points. New York, April 5. Pal Moore, the young Philadelphia featherweight, de feated Willie Jones of Brooklyn in a ten round bout at the Olympic Ath letic club of Harlem. After an even break hi the first round Moore began to tight In Ills usual aggressive style and had the bet ter of the next seven rounds. Then Jones took a big brace and held his own in tiie last two rounds, though Moore subjected him to a hard thump ing. Moote had not been In the ring for nearly six weehs, but he showed the same skill that has made him one of the pugilistic sensations of the winter. Jones recently knocked out Frankie Neil and had a big following at the ringside. SULLIVAN WINS EASILY. He Batters Sailor Burke In a Ten Round Bout In Brooklyn. New York, April 5. At the Marathon Athletic club hi Brooklyn Jack ;"Twlu") Sullivan of Boston outclassed Bailor Burke In a ten round bout. From start to finish the sailor did not have a look in. In the third round Sullivan landed right nnd left on the sailor's nose and eyes and brought out the blood. Sullivan at the finish did not have a scratch, while Burke was cut all over. Jack McAullffe, the old lightweight champion, roforecd the bout. KATE CLAXT0N DIVORCED. Actress Surprised to Find Husband Got Decree and Married Again. Jersey City, N. J., April 5. Kate Claxton, the actress, identified for a generation or more with tho 'Two Or phans," came here to look into the marriage records, Including the di vorce papers iiled at the satno time, ot Charles Stevenson, who was married here last Christmas day. Miss Clax ton Is Mrs. Stevenson in private life. The actress said that although she and Stevenson had not lived togethei for some years she knew nothing ot his having obtained a divorce. According to tho records, Charles Stevenson, llfty-livo years old, of Chi cago was married Dec. 23 last by Po lice Judge Queen to Miss Frances Itellly, aged twenty years, of Now York. The divorce papers tiled nt the same time showed that Stevenson had obtained u divorce from Katherino Cone (Miss Claxtou's maiden name) at East St. Louis, 111., in 1002 on n deser tion charge. Stevenson is an actor and is now playing tho Judge in "Tito Fourth Ks tato" at tho Studebaker theater, Chi cago. , Visiting Cards. While it would bo dllilcult to say Just when vlBitlng cards were first used, we are qulto certain of tho fact that thoy aro not of very ancient date. Apparently thoy wore adopted in Eng lish society boforo they were general ly usod on the Continent, rt was prob ably about 1700 that they came into fashion in Great Britain, and it was ns late as 1770 when they wore intro duced in Paris. It nppears that tho first visiting cards wero regular play ing cards, tho backs ot which wero usod for the address. OLDEST RECORD OF NOAH'S FLOOD Nippur Clay Tablet of 2000 B. C Tells Story Very Like the Later Biblo Narrative Dfi, HILPREGHT IS DISCOVERER Tablet Is Among Fruits of 1899 Baby lonian Expedition Preserved at Uni versity of Pennsylvania New Proof of the Deluge. Phllndolphla. Prof. Herman V. Hil procht ot tho Department of Archeo logy of the University of Pennsylvania has found among tho tablets .from tho "Temple Library" of Nippur, a re markable fragment containing a por tion of tho "Babylonian Deluge Story," "this boing, he says, tho oldest extant reference to thnt event in writing, an tedating the Biblo narrative of tho de lugo by at least 1,000. Tho first an nouncement of this discovery was made by Prof. Hllprecht at the Acorn Club, when he gave a full account of tho tablet and its translation and dis cussed its bearing on tho other known cuneiform and other inscriptions re ferring to tho deluge. The following is Dr. Hilprocht's translation of this deluge tablet which was among the fragments unearthed by the 1899 expedition to Nippur. Thee (The confines of Heaven and Earth) I will loosen, (A deluge I will make and) It shall sweep away all men together; (But thou seek) life before the deluge cometh forth; (For over all living beings,) as many as there are, I will bring overthrow destruction, annihilation ..Build a great ship ..Total weight shall be Its structuro. It shall be a houseboat carrying what has been saved of live, with a strong deck cover (it.) (The ship) which thou shalt make (Into it bring) the beasts of the field, the birds of Heaven, (And tho creeping things, two of everything) instead of a number. . .Number, .and the family. .And. . .. The words inclosed In brackets In the translation aro not found in the Cuneiform ext, but have beeu sup plemented by Prof. Hllprecht accord ing to the context. Tho fragment bearing the inscrip tion Is of unbaked clay, and measures 2 3-1 inches at its greatest width, 2 5-8 Inches at its greatest length, and is seven-eighths of an inch thick. It is dark brown In color, and was original ly inscribed on two sides, but one side is now broken entirely away, there be ing, however, a few characters pre served on the right edge, forming the ends of three overlapping lines from the missing side. Prof. Hllprecht concludes that in its complete form the tablet must have been about 7 by 10 inches, and contained from 130 and 136 lines al together. It bears no date, but from internal evidences, from facts furnish ed by other yet unpublished frag ments, and from the position in which it was found. Prof. Hllprecht believes that it was written some time between 2137 and 2005 B. C. Prof. Hilprecht explained the toxt as a portion of tho divine, command to the Babylonian Noah, Ut-Napish-tim, to construct a ship and to save life from the all-destroying flood. In order to understand its unique vnlue, howovor, it is important, ho said, to know something of the corresponding passages from the known fragments of tho Cuneiform deluge story, and from the Biblical narrative. There are three of the Cuneiform fragments, two versions from Ninovah, dating from about 60 B. C, and an early Babylonian fragment in J. Pior pont Morgan's collection. A compari son of theso and of the Biblical pas sages with the newly discovered Nip pur vorslon has brought out the slgni cant fact that tho Nippur version dif fers fundamentally from the two Ninovah versions, and agrees most re markably with tho Biblical story In very essential details, both as to con tents and language. The "Layard" deltigo tablet in the British Musoum, one of those dating from 050 B. C, agreed with the de tails of the Biblical narrative in only a few particulars. It was a pagan story of a dolugo brought about at a council of tho gods, who decided to destroy mankind. Ono of the gods was moved to Bavo his protege tho Noah of tho story, and sent a dream of warning on which this Noah acted. This god excused his betrayal of the secret to the other deities by the ex planation that ho had not told he had only "whispered through tho mat" that is, through tho wall ot the house on tho other sldo of which his protege slept, and to whom this dream was thus conveyed. Moreover, Prof. Hllprecht observed In particular that this agreement af fects that part of the Pentateuch (Genesis 6:13-20, 7-11), which Old Testament critics stylo the "priestly code," and generally regard as hav ing been compiled In Babylonia about BOO B. C. He thinks that the dolugo story of the Old Testament must form part ot the oldest traditions ot Urael, and that it must havo enterod Canaan at the time when Abraham left his homo on the Euphrates and motod westward. HUMOR i X OF THE. HOUR $ ?'H--f-f-H--l--f-l--f-'f-V-f-I---4--I--?-l--i-l4' THE SUPREME TEST. Marriage Out of the Question Until Polar Views Were Known. "Stllllngln," snld the young man, his voice tremulous with suppressed emotion, "aro you going to put mo on the pazzlz? Is this whoro I get off?" Unshed tears wore in tho lovely mnlden's eyos. If sho had shed them they would not have been In her eyes. But let thnt pass. "I have not said so, Geoffrey," re luctantly she answered, "in so many words. But " "Listen, Stilllngla!" he burst forth impetulously. "Is there any other guy that's got tho inside track? Am I playing second fiddle to some snoozef with plnstered hair, an Ingrowing chin, and a pull nt the bank? If so" "No, Geoffrey, but" "Then why the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are you stalling me off! I may not he a pampered child of fash Ion, but I'm on the dead lev. I've never, been caught with the goods. Girlie, ever since I was n kid you'vo been my ono best bet, and you know it. I'm Old Faithful from Kleengon vllle. I've trailed along in your wako llko a night police reporter on track ot a lovely holdup, or a bug collector after a gorgeous butterfly. All my life I've been building bungalows In the air for you to move Into some day. I'd rather look at your tintype than to eat four square meals. You are the niftiest, poachiest dream that ever " "Geoffrey," interrupted the beauti ful girl, standing erect before him, pale, but calm and resolute. "I know you love me, and 1 am touched as nev er before by your devotion, but some thing seems to tell me that we aro not truly mated " Here her voice faltered. "Geoffrey," she said, recovering her self, "we must not make a mistake that will wreck our whole lives! I must ask you one question!" "Well?" "Which side do you take in this North Pole controversy?" HUMAN VANITY. "Why do yon object so seriously to snapshot portraits of yourself?" "Because," answered Senator Sorg hum; "they violate all recognized rules of procedure. What right has any photographer to take a man's pic ture without giving him the custom ary ten minutes' grace to flx his neck tie, brush ills hair and arrange a pleasant smilo?" Washington Star. The Pink of Propriety. When the stringed band, hidden be hind the rose and carnation screen in Mrs. Poole's dining-room, begin to play an air from one of Meyerbeer's operas, tho daughter of the house turned hopefully to the young nnd apparently dumb stranger who had been told to take her in. Hero was a promising opening for conversation. "Do you like Meyerbeer?" she ask ed. "I never drank a glass of one of those lagors- in my life," the young man replied coldly. WISE GIRL. "What! You're going to marry Tom Speed? Why, he's awful!" "What makes you think so??" "I hoar he's been blackballed by every club in town." "Yes, I heard so, too. That sort of husband won't havo much excuse for staying out nights, will he?" Cleve land Leader. His Gentle Hint. A gentleman traveling abroad sat opposite a beautiful lady. On reach lag tho frontier a custom-houso oil! cer entered the carriage and said: "Sir, havo you anything to declare?" "My good friend," replied tho gen tleman, "if I had any declaration to make it would bo to this young lady, wi not to you!" HEASONS OF THE imUOGIST. For Not Having In Stock tho Thing Called For by the Customer. Druggists aro unaccountable folk surely. The other day a man was looking for a certain patented artlclo and tried live drug stores In turn in the same neighborhood before he was successful. Naturally In the Btorcs where he failed, the offer of something Just as good was made, but that wasn't tho thing that hit him hardest. In the second stqro the druggist snld. "I did have that stuff in stock, but I never had any call for it. The only people who over asked for it wero the agents of tho company, and they wero around hero all the time to seo If we had it In stock. So I gave It up." In tho next store, a block away, tho druggist said: "Yes, I did keep that once, but when I ran out of tho Unit supply I never could get the company to send any more. I was looking out for tho wagon all the time, hut for three weeks at a title they never stnt it up here, so I got tired of waiting. Now I don't keep It." You can tie them, but you can't beat them. There aro three kinds of tins white lies, black lies and Boclety fibs. When miseryMs at hand there isn't much pleasure In recalling for mer Joys. In Pnrtnrrnl married women rptnin their maiden names and are always known by them. a mole eats as many as 20,000 PflrfV---.-r.r-.-. t. the course of a ypn- AHHITA1, AND DEPAR.TUKE OF ERIE TRAINS. Trains leave at 3:25 a. m. and 2 MS p. m. SuatUys it MS p. m. Trails arrive at 1:40 nnd 8:08 p. m. Saturdays, arrives at 3:45 and leaves at 7:19. Sundays at 7:62 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 moneyfor Wayne Counteans. D. & tl. CO. TlflE TABLE A.M.iA.M, SUN SUN h : A.M.,P.M.I STATIONS 10 OO 10 00 4 30i Albany. le oo; G 051 BliCliamUm . A.M 10 oo. 2 15 12 30 8 30 2 15 Tio 7 65 . Philadelphia . 1 20 2 08 7 25 K 15 4 40 5 30' 1 20; 2 08 Wllkes-Harre. ....Scrnnton.... P.M. A.M. I'.M. I'.M. A.M.! I.v 0 JO 6 f.01 a ,m !) 03 II 15 !) HI (i 20 2 05 2 15 2 lil! 2 37 2 43 2 40 2 62; H 45 M 65 8 59 9 IS Curbotulale ... ..Lincoln Avenue. Whites Karvlew Canaan ... Uike Lodoro ... ... . Waymart Keene Steene ... .. Promiton.... Kortenla Seelyvllle llonesdule ... 6 34 ( it ti 17 tl IV ti 52 ti 58 !l 42 U 48 1) 21 u 23 ti Mi ti 32 ti 35 ti :w t 43 ri it; a bo 7 01 7 07 U 1 9 fit 11 32 37 U 57 10 00 7 13 7 IK 7 20 2 57 2 50 3 il l 3 07 3 10 !J 31! II 4.1, 10 01 10 OS 7 24 !l 4 10 11 7 27 y no; 9 55 10 15 7 31 3 15 P.M. A.M. I'.M. P.M. A.M. Ar The Era of New Mixed Paints ! This year open3 with a dolugo of now mixed paints. A con dition brought about by our enterprising dealors 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 salo with tho unwary. THE ONIjY I'liACK IN IIONESDAIiE AUTJIOIUZED TO IIANDIjE Is JADWIN'S PHARMACY. There aro reasons for the pro-eminonco of CHILTON PAINTS. 1st No ono can mix a hotter mixed paint. 2d Tho painters declare that it works easily and has won dorful covering qualities. 3d Chilton stands back of it, and will agreo to repaint, at his own dxpeiiso.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 others. Sorrow Is Flcettiic. Tho compensation that life offers for growing old Is finding out that scrrow Is as Hooting as joy, and that there are Just as many picnics to Piri... n- wn linvn missed. mtummnmm:attaai:ttt MARTIN CAUFIELD Designer and Man ufacturer of ARTISTIC MEMORIALS Office and Works 1036 MAIN ST. HONESDALE, PA. For New Late N ovelties IN- JEWELRY SILVERWARE WATCHES Try SPENCER, The Jeweler "Guarantee! articles only sold." I GROWING RECORD $37,500 HONESDALE BRANCH P.M. .A.M.; P..IA..M. .ISUN SUN .1 10 50 ... 8 451 2 00 12 10 10 SO 8 431 3 5.1 7 31 7 32 P.M. 7 15 G 20 7 31i ? 32 A . M 10 20 9 37 4 03 3 15 2 25' P M. l to oo Ar A.M l'.-M P.M. 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