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HONESDALB, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1911.
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INTERESTING UUDGET OF MID
WEEK HAPPENINGS IN OUR
FIXJURISHING SISTER MUNI
CIPAIjITV. Special to TUB CITIZEN.
HAWIiEV, Pn., March I). Mrs. J.
D. Ames entertained lndy friends
Tuesday afternoon.
Hon. Leopold Fuerth. Honesdale,
registered at the Wayne County
House, Tuesday.
Eugene Webster is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. II. W. Murphy on River
street. Mr. Webster was for many
years a prominent school teacher in
this county but Is now a prosperous
farmer al Mabletuwn.
E. T. Skelly, White Mills, was do
ing business at Hawley on Monday.
The Paupack Power company has
purchased tho land lying on the east
side of tho Paupack river opposite
the Bellcmonte silk mill. They now
have possession of nearly all the
territory on that side of the river
from Hawley to Ledgedale, a dis
tance of fourteen miles. They have
had removed a part of the dam at
Wilsonvlllo which was constructed
many years ago for the purpose of
holding back the water in order to
have a sufficient amount to run the
forms of the different plants on that
stream in dry season.
On Monday, while engaged at
threshing oats for Theodore Wall,
on the Gardner farm, William Kill
am in some way caught his linger in
the machine completely severing it
from tho hand.
Matthew Harloe, Ledgedale, was
doing business here Tuesday.
Tho Maennorchor singing society
sang at tho funeral of Miss Matilda
Recker Which was largely attended
at her home Tuesday afternoon.
William Watts had his garage
building moved across the street on
Tuesday In order to clear the lot for
the now postolllce.
On Monday, Dr. G. T. Rodman re
turned from a trip to tho metropolis.
While there he attended the nieot
ing of a medical society.
Helen Richardson was "Hippo
drome's" pianist, Tuesday night. Tho
regular pianist, Albert Oschman, and
brother being called to Now York
on account of the critical illness of
thejr mother, Who paid her sons here
an extended , visit, and on her return
trip about three weeks ago she was
taken sick on the train. Brain fev
er developed and there is slight
hopes of her recovery.
Mrs. Ford camo homo Monday.
8ho has been nursing Mr. Duffy at
the Marcus Kollam homestead, Pau
pack. Monday evening a crowd gather
ed on tho corner of Main avenue and
Church street to witness what
promised to be a lively combat be
tween two "would-be" pugilists. But
the light was declared off as the op
ponents were not fairly matched and
somewhere In the distance loomed
in view tho formidable form of our
peace officer.
Mrs. Helen Seaman, who was call
ed to tho bedside of her sick moth
er at Eciulnunk, will soon return to
tho Kohlman House, since her moth
er is recovering.
Cora Pennell, Arlington, is visit
ing with her sister, Myrtle, at East
Hawley.
LUTHERANS RECEIVE
$50,000 ENDOWMENT.
Former Mnyor of Brooklyn Estab
lishes Professorship ut Mt. Airy
Seminary.
Tho Lutheran Theological Semin
ary at Mount Airy received an en
dowment of ?50,000 recently from
Charles A. Schioren, former Mayor
of Brooklyn. The donor is one of
the foremost Lutheran laymen in this
country, and he has given numerous
other gifts to Lutheran institutions.
The ?50,000 is given for the en
dowment of a professorship and is
not bound with any restrictions. The
income of the fund is to be used in
post-graduate work.
Several years ago the seminary
received $100,000 from a donor
whoso name has never been made
known. The money was used for
the erection of the Krauth Memorial
Library on the Seminary grounds.
It is said that Mr. Schleren was the
donor.
At a recent meeting of the Luth
eran Mlnlstorium of Pennsylvania,
Doctor Reed was elected to tho
chair of Liturgies and church nrt,
one of tho three professorships
created. Tho donor of tho $lv, 000,
it was announced, would pay tho sal
ary of this professorship.
Tho other two professorships were
bestowed upon the Rev. T. E. Sch
mauk, of Lebanon, Pa., to tho chair
of church confession and faith, and
the Rev. Dr. E. T. Horn, of Read
ing, Pa., to the chair of ethics and
missions. In accepting these pro
fessorships It will not be necessary
for the appointees to relinquish their
ministerial labors.
In Tho Recorder's Office.
Jacob F. Smith to John Gump
per, Texas, property at White Mills,
$560.
Joseph H. Bogard, Paupack, to
James Butler, Mooslc, CO acres in
Paupack, $2400.
Elizabeth Schmidt, Evergreen, N.
Y., to Maria Schelbel, Manhattan,
N. Y., 119 acres in Paupack.
J. Monroe Austin, Texas, to
Blanche M. Hurley, wife of Emmett
Hurley, Honesdale, Indian Orchard
fcotel property. $3,250.
HAPPEN NG
HAWLEY
DR. FUNK ANSWERS
THOMAS A. EDISON
Rrain Not Merely "A Piece of Meat
Meclianlsm," Ho Dcclnres Man
Is Immortal.
Dr. I. K. Funk, president of the
Funk & Wagnalls Company, pub
lishers of tho Standard Dictionary,
the Literary Digest and Innumerable
reference works of wide renown, has
taken It upon himself to answer an
interview recently given out by
Thomas A. Edison in which that
celebrated "Wizard" denies that
there is a future existence.
Dr. FunK's reply Is generally re
garded as being as scientific and an
alytical as Mr. Edison's original as
sertion, to say nothing of being more
cheerful. THE CITIZEN herewith
reproduces It in full:
The interview with Thomas A. Edi
son on immortality, published last
October, Is still awakening much in
terest, even In faraway countries.
"No soul," "death ends all," "the
brain a piece of meat mechanism"
that produces thought as the liver
secretes bile, having an Individuality
only as has New York city with Its
five millions of human brains, each
brain a combination of millions of
cells; when New York city disinte
grates, its individuality is gone;
when our brain dies, that ends us.
Is there, or not, another side of
the "Great Divide?" At death does
our boat sink to another sea, or are
we and it wrecked for evermore?
That Interview with Mr. Edison,
backed by his personality and by the
memory of his seven hundred pat
ents, seems destined, like the sun
set gun, to travel around and around
the earth. The storm may be over,
but the sea still runs high. As we
are now In the more quiet after
math, may I not venture to ask for
space for a thought or two which
I find granite under my feet at
threescore years and ten at an age
when Mr. Edison and myself are apt
to think soberly of the "valley and
shadow," and what next?
If any man at whose gate the
black camel is preparing to kneel
has a thought on this subject, es
pecially if it is drawn from experi
ence a thought which he finds
worth while he owes it to his fel
lows to tell it.
Mr. Edison is right in this: None
of our five senses, nor all combined,
can reveal immortality, much less
demonstrate it. Tho ear cannot see,
the eye cannot hear. Magnify light
a million times, yet the ear could
not hear It. Every sense is shut up
absolutely in its own realm; but he
is a bold scientist who would say
that there are no realms other than
those covered by these live senses.
There may bo ten thousand other
groups of five or more senses each.
Why not? Does Mr. EdlFon say I am
guessing In this? I might reply
with equal reason that he is guess
ing when he denies it; and were
these two guesses precisely equal,
Is it not more natural, If not more
scientific, to choose the optimistic
one? But they are not equal.
There are channels of knowledge
other than these live senses. Bee
thoven, stone deaf, heard magnifi
cent music which he wrote down In
great oratorios that have stood the
test of time. There is a whole range
of spiritual senses, each of which
takes In knowledge up to the level of
its development. There is a beauty
which the eye cannot see; a music
which tho ear cannot hear. Would
Mr. Edison deny this? The brutal
son can have no conception of a
mother's love, although his five
senses are perfect. Ho has eyes and
ears but sees aud hoars not what
many other men see and hear clear
ly. Conceptions of right and wrong
aro absolutely real, but real only to
conscience. The pure in heart see
God, and others cannot. When Bis
hop Brooks spoko of God to deaf and
blind Helen Keller, she was not sur
prised. She said that she long knew
there must be somo one. By some
channel other than tho five senses
this thought had got into her mind.
That was a profound utterance of
Jesus, that if a man would do right
he would know. To do Is to exer
cise, and to exercise Is to grow. The
exercise of a faculty develops that
faculty, and then up to its level it
will know truth.
Mr. Edison is sure the brain, is
not an organ of thought as the piano
is an organ of the music It conveys
to our ears from tho soul of a Hof
mann; but Edison says tho brain is a
machlno that creates thought. End
the brain machlno, ho tells us, and
you end the man; some bias, he ad
mits, is given by horedity, for in
somo way In tho catacombs of the
brain cells our ancestors He en
tombed. But what of the countless
millions of thoughts that control tho
universe thoughts that aire other
than man's? Whence come these
thoughts? Where is the "brain box"
of tho universe? Herbert Spencer.
tho chiefest thinker of modern times,
closes his system of philosophy with
the thought that there 13 In the uni
verse a power other than man that
makes for righteousness.
If there can bo no thought with
out a brain machine, where is tho
brain machine of this power other
than man's? Whero is the brain
power that Is in control of the uni
verse? If, on the other hand, there
can bo thought without brain, what
becomes of Mr. Edison's argument
that the destruction of tho brain ends
man? Is not his conclusion the
baseless fabric of an unscientific
theory? He has wandered all too
far from the "watchflres of the
tribe.'"
But tho pity of it is, his words do
not hit upon rock, but upon palpitat
ing heart and brain. There are 1,-
PRESIDENT TAFT
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Call For Special Session.
President Taft's proclama
tion, calling a special session
of Congress, follows;
Whereus, By special mes
sage, dated January 26, 1911,
there was transmitted to the
Senate and House of Repre
sentatives an agreement be
tween tho Department of
State and the Canadian Gov
ernment in regard to recipro
cal tariff legislation, togeth
er with an earnest recom
mendation that tho neces
sary legislation be promptly
adopted.
And, whereas, A bill to
carry into effect said agree
ment has passed tho House
of Representatives, but has
failed to reach a vote in the
Senate;
And, whereas, The agree
ment stipulates not only that
the President of tho United
States will communicate to
Congress the conclusions now
reached and recommend the
adoption of such legislation
as may be necessary on the
part of tho United States to
give effect to the proposed
agreement, but also that the
governments of the two coun
tries will use their utmost ef
forts to bring about such
changes by concurrent legis
lation at Washington and at
Ottawa;
Now, therefore, I, William
Howard Taft, President of the
United States of America, by
vlrtuo of the power vested In
me by the Constitution, do
hereby proclaim and declare
that an extraordinary occa
sion requires the convening
of both houses of tho Con
gress of tho United States at
their respective chambers in
tho city of Washington, on
the fourth of April, 1911, at
12 o'clock noon, to the end
that they may consider and
determine whether the Con
gress shall, by the necessary
legislation, make operative
the agreement.
All persons entitled to act
as members of the C2d Con
gress are required to take
notice of this proclamation.
Given under my hand and
the seal of the United States
at Washington, tho fourth
day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and eleven and of
the United States the one
hundred and thirty-fifth.
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
By the President:
P. C. Knox, Sec. of State.
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Hero nncl There.
The Honesdale basket ball team
played at Liberty Friday night meet
ing defeat by the score of 40 to 31.
Honesdale Citizen.
Tho Honesdale paper has the score
somo mixed but the Emeralds don't
care as they are trying to arrange a
week's trip tlirough Pennsylvania.
If the people over in Pennsylvania
knew that tho score was 48 to 5
the Liberty boys will probably bo
much disappointed in their Penn
sylvania trip, as the Honesdale team
Is considered ono of tho best along
tho line. Liberty Register, Liber
ty, N. V.J
700,000,000 people on earth .to-day,
every ono of whom Is under sent
ence of death, and can be lifted above
the slime and briar and rock of the
valley and shadow only upon tho
wings of faith and hope. Will not
tho pitiful man, if ho is wise, seek in
every way to strengthen those wings,
and in no way break one of the least
of them, unless Impelled by absolute
certainty?
Lighting is logic; yes, but at
times there are other far more ef
fective ways of reaching truth than
by pure logic.
DR. W. F. BECK TALKS
ON HYDROPHOBIA
Intelligent Presentation Of Subject
llcforo IJlnir County Grangers
Necessity Of Prompt Treatment.
As the result of a number of cases
of what was regarded as hydrophobia
In this part of the state during tho
last year, many people, especially
residents of the country districts, feel
more or less concerned In anything
that pertains to the subject. Dr. W.
Frank Beck of Altoona Ib regarded
as an authority on the subject and at
the meeting of the Pomona Grange,
held last Wednesday nt Martinsburg,
ho was engaged to address the grang
ers on the matter.
While admitting that such a dis
ease as hydrophobia exists, the physi
cians declare that the cases are ex
tremely rare and that the majority
uf the so-called mad dog scares are
fakes.
The address follows:
Hydrophobia Is a specific, infecti
ous disease, common to all forms of
animals, which may be communicat
ed to man by direct inoculation. It
Is characterized by high fever, spasm
with paralysis, and always ends in
death.
Pasteur has found poison abun
dantly present in all the nerve centers
and has transferred the disease by
taking hits of brain substance deriv
ed from an infected animal and inoc
ulating them into healthy subjects.
The usual mode of infection In man
is through the bite of a rabid ani
mal, the virus being contained prin
cipally In the saliva, and in an Im
mense majority of cases tho dog is
the offending party. The cat, wolf,
cow and horse also suffer from this
dreadful disease, and in rare instan
ces they communicate it to man.
History Of Disease.
The history of one bitten by a mad
dog is this. The period in which you
are liable to become mad after re
ceiving the wound is from six weeks
to three months. Tho usual premoni
tory symptoms aro fever, headache,
loss of appetite, sleeplessness, great
depression of spirits and sometimes
darting pains, radiating from the
seat of the bite, and tho glands that
are near the wound become swollen.
The Invasion is In two stages: First,
the stage of excitement, the patient
wearing an expression of the most
intense anxiety, and the special sen
ses exhibit the keenest vigilance,
such as a draft of air or noise of any
kind may cause great disturbance of
violent spasm.
'-uite early the mere sight of wa
ter is dreaded by tho patient. This
symptom Is so prominent that it has
given the name to the disease, hydro
phobia. The more sight of water
causes a great syasm to the throat,
the patient having thirst that he can
not control. The muscles ot tho
mouth exhibit convulsive movements,
causing the patient to make sniffling
sounds, and foaming saliva may be
ejected from the mouth. Second
stage is tho paralytic stage, the pati
ent passing into actual unconscious
ness without syasm. This lasts eigh
teen hours ana always ends in death.
How shall he know If one has hy
drophobia? If the patient has fever.
shows great uneasiness after he has
been bitten by a dog and at the sight
of water goes into spasms, there aro
great indications that he has hydro
phobia. Few Cases Recover. -This
is tho most important, for
few cases recover when once left to
develop. Upon reception of a case of
dog bite, through disinfection, fol
lowed by cauterization of tlie wound
with caustic Is a measure that can be
quickly carried out. As soon as pos
sible after the bite, place the mouth
to the wound and suck out the pois
on. This is a method employed In
the dissecting room by medical stu
dents, and Is most effective, as it
eliminates the poison before it enters
tho circulation.
This is a precautionary measure of
the most importance. Pasteur show
ed that the virulence of virus which
he obtained from the nervous system
is mourned by passing it through
animals the same as by vaccination.
He also found that, If fragments of
the spinal cord were suspended In a
dry atmosphere they lost gradually
nidi oucugui una nnaiiy became in-
cii. x'ium u on oi me cora treated
in this manner a medicine is made in
the form of an emulsion. This is
used for inoculation in man and con
stitutes tho Pasteur treatment that
we hear so much about. If you were
bitten by a dog that you thought was
mad and sent to one of the Pasteur
Institutes, your treatment would be
something like this. The first day
you would ba Innrnlntnf1
cine made from a cord fourteen days
um. iuu wouiu ue injected for nine
days, each day with a cord one day
fresher.
The success of tho Pasteur meth
od is almost universally attested, and
the results have been marvelous. Tho
patient should be sent to tho insti
tute at onco,as delay tends to dimin
ish the protective power of tho In
oculation. The Pasteur treatment is
not used after the symptoms develop,
but it must be before. After that it
defies all known methods of treat
ment. Practical Side Of Subject.
I have given you tho scientific side
of hydrophobia in as condensed form
as possible. The practical side has a
different story to tell and will inter
est ypu more. I would not daro say
that there was no such a disease as
hydrophobia. But on the other hand
if you are bitten by a dog you do
not need to bo much alarmed. In
many years of practice I have never
seen a case either in man or dog
though treating many cases of dog
(Continued on Page Eight.)
A CURE FOR THE "BLUES."
S. S. Robinson.
You're feeling blue,
Quite through and through,
A laugh Is what you need,
Just make a try,
Tho blues will fly
Like chaff from ripened seed;
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, he, ho, hum!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
There, now you're smiling some!
You're feeling blue,
I know It's true,
You look so worn and sad,
Just laugh a bit,
The blues will quit.
And you will soon be glad;
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, he, ho, hum!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
There, now you're laughing some!
You're feeling blue,
I know you do,
You gaze with solemn mien,
Just try a laugh,
Don't be a calf!
Just make the blues turn green!
ha, ha, ha, ha!
iia, ha, ha, ha!
ha, ha, ha, he, ho, hum!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
There, now you're roaring some!
You're feel good,
I knew you would,
A good laugh beats the dope
That doctors give
To make you live,
When there Is little hope.
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
ha, ha, ha, he, ho, hum!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
There, now you're cured, by
gum: What?
Honesdale, Pa., March 9, 1911.
Compensation For Firemen.
Mr. Jackson, Wayne's representa
tive, Monday introduced in the Leg
islature a bill providing that bor
oughs and townships mny compen
sate firemen hurt at fires and pro
viding that any person acquitted of
a crime as a lunatic, who is a public
charge, shall bo supported by the
State when committed to a State in
stitution. I desire to extend my sincere
thnnks to the Citizen Publishing
Company and to my friends who
aided mo with their subscriptions
and coupons in winning tlie trip
to Bermuda in THE CITIZEN
Contest.
ELLA C. EIIRIIARDT,
Newfoundland.
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to all others. They know that at this sale
every need of the household will be furnish
ed at the least money.
MONDAY, MARCH 13
GROCERY DEPARTMENT OFFERS:
Wayne County Creamery Butter, 35c value 30c lb
Creso Crackers, 10c value 7c pkg.
Whole Japan Rice, best 7c value 5c lb
White Rose Lard, 18c value 14c lb
Climax Washington Powder, 4 lb. pkg., 20c value. 14c pk
California Navel Oranges, 40c value 2gc doz
Spiced Herrings, Finest $1.25 quality $1.10 kit
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Our Best Apron Ginghams, 8c value 7c yd
1000 Ladies' Gauze Vests, 10c value 7c each
Men's Best Work Shirts, 50c value 42 each
Men's Overalls and Jackets, all sizes, 60c value . . 45c each
All Kinds of Best 5c Toilet Soap 7 Cakes for 25c
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Ladies' Percale and Chambray House Dresses, $1.98
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WILL PENROSE
SUCCEED ALDRICH?
WASHINGTON GOSSIPS SIjATK
HIM AS NEW CHAIRMAN OF
FINANCE COMMITTEE WELL
QUALIFIED TO FILL POSITION.
Washington, 1). C, March 8.
Washington official gossip is to the
effect that Senator Boies Penrose of
Pennsylvania is likely to succeed
Senator Aldrlch as chairman of the
committee on finance, the last head
of which was known as "tho busi
ness manager of the United States."
Mr. Penrose is now chairman of
the committee on postofilces aud
postroads, but it is almost certain
that he will resign that place in favor
of Mr. Dick, Ohio, and take what
has come .to be considered the senior
chairmanship of the Senate.
But while Mr. Penrose will have
to be tested before he gets the com
plete confidence of the regulars en
joyed by Mr. Aldrlch, -like his dis
tinguished predecessor he already has
the complete hostility of the Insur
gents of his party. Mr. Penrose and
Mr. LaFollette are open enemies,
and it is not likely that tho insur
gent from Wisconsin will ever for
give Mr. Penrose the speech ho
made last year in which, in a dis
passionate address of some ten min
utes' length, he compared the tac
tics of Mr. LaFollette to those of a
"patent medicine agent talking f.om
the tail of a cart."
However that may be, Mr. Pen
rose has evidently been training for
Mr. Aldrlch's position since the re
tirement of the Senator from Rhode
Island- became a certainty. It as
noticed in the closing days of this
past session, when every one in both
houses was keyed to the highest ner
vous tension, Mr. Penrose was as
cool as ever.
In handling the contested items in
the postal appropriation bill his
suavity, even to tho insurgents, was
as great as Mr. Aldrlch's own, and
tho progress he made toward a vote
even In hands other than those
of Mr. Aldrlch.
Meanwhile Mr. Penrose will have
a chance to put his experience and
ability to the test. He is only ....
years old just 20 years and five
days younger than Mr. Aldrlch
probably knows more about local
politics than Mr. Aldrlch, and comes
from a State as unfailingly Republi
can as Rhode Island. He has had
large experience In handling tho post
office appropriation bills.
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