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Tho Erie Railroad company is giv
ing certain employes special credit
marks on their honor roll, for merit
orious -work, especially in the prompt
reporting of defects on trains In
operation, which might lead to accidents
Pension System Adopted.
Tho plan submitted to Erlo rail
road officials a number of weeks ago
by a eommltteo representing tho em
ployes of tho road outlining a pen
sion system for the benefit of tho sys
tom employes lias been accepted at
a representative meeting of tho Erlo
employes, and now It only remains to
ascertain how tho employes in gen
oral, feel toward tho plan to havo it
placed in operation. It 1s possible
that the plan may bo put Into effect
early In the new year.
The following directors wero elect
ed nt tho mooting: Charles W. Everts
of Cleveland, O., chairman, and W.
It. Martin of Hornoll, threo years; T.
Welch of Port Jervis. and J. J. Mc
Neil of Cleveland. O., two years; W.
11. Hardy of. Huntington, Ind., nnd
Michael Gorman of Salamanca, one
year. Frank N. Hall of Salamanca,
was elected secretary of the associa
tion. The organization is to be
known as the Erie Employers' Relief
Association. Tho office of tho secre
tary will bo located at Salamanca for
the present. Hornell Tribune.
It is announced at the Albany of
fices of the D. & H. that an order has
been placed for threo of tho Mallott
typo locomotives, weighing 444,000
pounds and supplied with superheat
ers. These engines are the largest
and most powerful used on any road
And will be used to pull freight trains
botween Albany and Blnghamton.
Donilnick Docker, of Utica, a loco
motive engineer of tlio New York
Central Railroad company, has been
retired on a pension after a service
of nearly fifty years. Ho began as a
fireman In 1S612 and after five years
became an engineer. During the en
tiro service he never met with an ac
cident or received serious Injury.
flood Order for All Roads.
The D.. L. & W. Railroad company
has Issued a new order to passenger
train conductors and brakemen to
eee to it that all passengers keep
their suit cases and other baggage
out of tho car aisles and that the
trainmen should closely watch the
placing of hags, suit cases and other
luggage in 'the rack so that it will
not fall down on tlie passengers'
beads. All this precaution Is taken
to prevent passengers from being Injured.
Ijiu-knuniiiiu's His Cut-Oft" Features.
Double track Hue.
New road 28. 45 miles long.
Distance shortened between Scran
ton and New York by llttlo over
eleven miles.
No grado crossings.
Fifteen curves as against fifty-seven
on old line.
Maximum grade, .55 per cent.,
as against 1.14 per cent, on old
route. T
Some 0,000,000 pounds of dyna
mite, besides many thousand pounds
of .ludson arid black powder, used.
For tho three-mile-long Pequcst
fill, an extraordinary task. C,C25,
650 cubic yards of material were re
quired. From surrounding farms
4,.r00,000 cubic yards of the total
were borrowed.
Construction work on Section 2
necessitated the blowing off of the
entire top of a mountain.
Pauling's Kill viaduct at Haines
burg, which is 1,100 feet long and
115 feet high, Is largest railroad
"fill" in tho world.
Only steel span along new line,
that over Morris canal at Port Morris.
There nro 2, GDI, 978 mon In this
big country of ours who can never
havo wives, becauso tho United
States contains, by tho latest census
figures, 47,332,122 males and 44,
040, i4i females, or 10C males for
every 100 fcmnles. Tho shortago
would not bo so great If parts of tho
United States overcrowded with
females, liko Now England, would
only distribute thorn for tho gonoral
benefit.
Mrs. Eva Lake died recently at tho
Littauor hospital in Glovorsvlllo, as
a result of severe, burns sustained
from a gasollno explosion nt her
homo in that city. Mrs. Lako at tho
tlmo of the explosion was engaged in
cleaning a glove. On tho table at
which she was working wns a dish
containing gasoline. By accident
she tipped it over and communicated
tho fumes to nn oil lamp. In tho ex
plosion which followed tho woman
was covered with burning gasoline
and kerosene.
A York prophet predicts the end
of the world four years hence. It is
always well to " keep your house in
order " as none of us can tell when
the end of the world may ocmo for
us but It is a sure bet that a lot of
people will live to see the York man
dlbscomllted by tho fact that moth
er earth will continue to swing in Its
orbit for many long nges to come.
James Booze, of near Bristol,
Bucks county, has a calf with five
legs and six feet. The fifth leg is
between tlie other two hind legs and
is a complete leg having a gambrel
joint tho same as the other legs.
The two feet are on the fifth leg and
contrary to naturo they are pointed
backward instead of forward liko
other feet. Another great oddity of
tho animal is that It has three sets
of generative organs. It is now over
two months old and seems to be
thriving.
William E. Tinker, of Pittsburg,
says tho Forest City News, spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Tinker, In Clifford town
ship. Mr. Tinker has been a travel
ing salesman for several years and
has "made good." He began as
salesman for tho Honesdale Foot
wear company in tho district sur
rounding Pittsburg, but his ability
attracted the attention of tho Col
gate company, one of tho largest
manufacturers of soaps and toilet
preparations in the world, and he
now has a snug berth with them.
Ix'IiIkIi Opens Cut-off.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has
opened tho new cut-oft that is to
bring such a marked change in the
west-bound movement of coal from
tho anthracite region of Pennsylva
nia. Tho cut-off, extending from
East Ashmoro on the Mahanoy &
Hazloton Division, to a Junction with
the main line at Hays Creek, saves
twelve miles In distance and sub
stitutes a downgrade west-bound for
tho prosent descending and ascending
course. One of the principal feat
ures of the line Is the five-span
bridge, G24 feot long and 79 feet
3iigh, over tho Lehigh River and
Central Railroad of New Jersey main
lino. In it are 1,000 tons of steel
and 8,700 cubic yards of concrete.
Across tho valley on one sldo of tho
'River tho line runs upon a "nil"
containing 105,000 cubic yards of
material. From end to end of tho
cut-off the excavation amounted to
775, oOO cubic yards of which more
than 30 per cent was rock.
Tho following persons have deeded
lands to tho county of Delaware, in
Deposit and Hancock, for rights of
way for the proposed State road No.
4 between New York City and Buf
falo: In Deposit, Kate E. Travis,
$450; Marcia F. Cole, $1125; Sylves
ter L. Clapper and wife. $125; Han
nah Kelly, $75; Boliver II. Travis
and wife, $150; Milton Travis and
wife, $G0. In Hancock: Ernest La
kin ano others, $275; Irvln W. Sey
mour and wife, $100; Mary Curry,
$100; George L. Sands, $1,000;
Peter Block, $75. Hancock Herald.
Dr. W. A. Evans, who runs the
(health department of tho Chicago
Tribune, tells a correspondent past
middle life, who wants, for the sake
of his wife, to find a way to cure
snoring, that there Is no such way.
The doctor says: " Having you sleep
on your side will do more good than
scolding you. Preventing adenoids;
preventing enlargement of tho ton
sils; keeping nose space by prevent
ing colds and keeping the noso
clean; these items as a policy inau
gurated in childhood and kept up
through life will prevent the habit of
snoring. But past 00 Is too late to
begin."
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AV. H. Knrslakc has a nlno-months-old
Plymouth Rock cockerel
that weighs eleven and a' quarter
pounds. The bird captured first
premium nt tho last Wnyno county
fair.
Elect Office and Talk Poultry.
Members of tho Wayno County
Poultry and Pigeon Association mot
In tho Allen Houso Wednesday oven
Ing. It wns the annual business
meeting at which tlmo tho following
officers were elected for tho ensuing
yonr:
President E. E. Kinsman, Cherry
Ridge.
First vice-president Henry Rob
inson, Seelyvllle.
Second vice-president, Frank Lord,
Honesdale.
Secretary, Edward A. Lindsay,
Honesdale.
Treasurer, George Erk, Jr., Seely
vllle. Executivo eommltteo: W. H. Kars
lake, Dyberry; II. Murrman, Charles
llorrman, Honesdale: R. Martin,
Hawley, and G. W. Swarts, Ariel.
On motion It was carried that tho
association meet the last Wednesday
of every month,
Tho advisability of holding a
poultry exhibit In Honesdale was dis
cussed. The matter was left with
tho executive committee.
Whnt a Girl Did With :t) Pullets.
Miss Eva Storer, of Norridgewock,
Me., from 30 pullets in a year's time
made $14 0, relates John Taylor, In
tho New York Tribune-Farmer. Her
plan was her own, and It proved
practical. She had a Plymouth Rock
hen and a White Indian game rooster.
Sho crossed these, and the eggs from
the hen were set and she got 30 pul
lets, which sho raised. These pullets
In September began to lay. The
games alono as pullets prior to this
had not commenced to lay until Jan
unry, and about tho same time the
Plymouth Rock pullets would begin
to lay. By the cross sho was able to
pet extra eggs three months earlier
than formerly. She kept these pul
lets laying through the winter, with
not much let up, and In all t'hey pro
duced about 2,500 eggs. Quito a
number of these eggs were sold for
hatching purposes at 50 cents per
doztu, and tho rest were put into tho
incubators to hatch. She was able to
get on tiho average a hatch of 85 per
cent. When the chicks came out of
the shells slie sold some of them to
various ones of her neighbors at 10
cents each. She raised some of the
pullets and the cockerels sho sold in
tho fall. At Christmas tlmo sho sold
tho year-old pullets and commenced
with the new pullets. The feed for
the poultry consisted for the most
part of corn, mashes and green stuff
In tho winler sho followed out tho
same system where It was possible.
Recently Mio local postofilco receiv
ed an inquiry from a man in New
York state, asking If thero was a
hardware dealer In Forest City nam
ed Aldrlch, who ran a shop In Star
rucca some twenty years before. He
was Informed that Mr. Aldrlch is do
ing business here, and a fow days
later tho latter received a letter from
the man inclosing ten dollars. He
said that Mr. Aldrlch had lent lira
fivo dollars twenty-three or four
years ago and the extra fivo was for
Interest. Tho loan, and the man It
was made to, had entirely passed
from Mr. Aldricli's mind until ho re
ceived tho letter. Tho borrowor, our
townsman tells me, was quite a
bright man, and tho inventor of sev
eral devises which havo proven of
value, but liko many anothor Inven
tive genius, he failed to reap tho To
ward of his efforts. At tho timo ho
called in on Mr. Aldrlch and got tho
five ho was seeing some of tho seemy
sides of life. Forest City News.
KHANCISCO PLEADS GUILTY.
C. L. Francisco, owner and pub
lisher of the Times-Record, Sayre's
dally newspaper, accompanied by his
attorneys, Lilley & Wilson, went be
fore Judge Cameron Friday Just be
fore G o'clock and entered a plea of
guilty, whereupon sentence was sus
pended, Mr. Francisco to pay tho
costs.
After hearing tho plea of guilty,
Judge Cameron, who has well defined
ideas in regard to what newspapers
should and should not print, took oc
casion to address the men before
him, and his remarks were in the
nature of a lecture which will not
soon bo forgotten by those who
heard him.
Mr. Francisco was charged with
criminal libel by John C. Ingham,
Esq., and Judge Fanning. The com
plninants wero candidates for the
Republican nomination for Judge
nnd during the campaign before the
September primaries the Times-Record
printed an article which men
tioned Mr. Ingham and Mr. Fanning
In a way that led to tho criminal
prosecutions.
Tho Grand Jury returned a true
bill In each complaint and the cases
wero listed for trial last week, being
continued for a week.
Rodney A. Mercur, Esq., was at
torney for tho prosecutors, Messrs.
Ingham and Fanning. Towanda
Daily Review.
MOVING PICTURE RIGHTS.
Washington, Dec. 28. Revolution
of tho moving plcturo business In tho
United States may follow a decision
of Justice Stafford, of tho district su
iwomo court, to-day, giving a sweep
ing rlctory to tho Motion Plcturo
Patents company in test litigation
against tho Chicago Films company
ror infringement of patent rights
granted to tho Thomas A. Edison in
terests. Millions of dollars are involved In
tho litigation and an appeal will bo
taken to tho court of appeals for the
district, Justlco Stafford granting a
stay of a weok In tho perpetual In
junction issued. In tho decree Jus
tlco Stafford set forth that Thomas
A. Edison was tho "oroglnal, first and
true inventor" of tho kinetoscoplc
film. Tho injunction restrains tho
flofondant company from directly or
indirectly using or soiling kinetosco
plc or motion plcturo films embody
ing tho Edison invention.
Tho plaintiff is authorized to re-
cofor from tho defendant tho "prof
it, gains and advantages that havo
accrued to it by reason ot tho in
fringomont."
Hay is selling for $25 a ton In
Bloomshurg, whioh is an exceptional
price, but ono that 1s being paid nev
ertheless. It is not surprising, how
over, In view of tho failure of the
hay crop last season.
Nntionnl Relief Fund.
Chicago. Establishment of nn $8,
000,000 national fund to bo used in
case ot disaster by fire, flood, earth
quako or mine explosion, 1n any sec
tion of tho country, is under way,
according to Edgar T. Davles, Chief
Factory inspector of Illinois, who
made such announcement recently.
Mr. Davles, who had Just returned to
Chicago from Washington, said that
congressman w. W. Wilson, of tho
Former Clerk Sues County.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Dec. 27. With
tho hope of receiving tho Increase in
salary which tho last Legislature al
lowed, Georgo J. Evans, formerly a
clork In tho office of Register of
Wills Smith, has brought suit against
Luzerne county. Ho was appointed
a clerk by tho register January 1,
1909, and ho served until tho first
of September, 1911, when illnoss
compelled him to retire. While ho
was serving as a clerk, the Legisla
ture passed a bill fixing tho salary of
tho third assistant, which position
ho filled nt $1800 per year. Ho nev
er received tho advance and brings
tho action to dotermlno whether or
not he can recover $500, which ho
claims Is duo him.
Now Annestlietlc Method
Now York, Dec. 28. Physicians
and surgeons nro awaiting with
keon Interest tho work, now on tho
press, of Dr. James T. Gwathchmoy,
anaesthetist of tho Skin and Cancer
hospital and of St. Bartholomew's
hospital, and Dr. Charles Baskor-
vlllo, professor of chemistry at the
College of tho City of New York, who
havo discovered a new method for
administering chloroform nnd othor.
Tho method has been employed In
G.000 cases without a death. It is
used by Dr. Davis, of John Hopkins,
mt.l..i Till i TM-i-i.i i . a
Jinru jumuia uiHinci, wouju luiro- n,lti '... n. Holme nf tho New
crgraesbsmth?s0m1odn fUDd' K'S
congress this month. p Donton. of Now York.
Tho now method is called "vapor
Tho government of Peru is tho first anaesthesia." What tho surgoon does
nation to take cocnizanco of tho Im-Ms to nnnly tho vapor of ether or
nortanco of aviation bv malt in l' it chloroform, or a mixturo of both
part of a course In tho public-school , through warmed water boforo letting
system, an order having recently been the patient breatho It. Thus, ln
nromulcated creatine an aviation do- stead of irritating tho muecoua lining
partraent in tho school of arts and i of tho lungs by coldness, tho gasea
crafts at Lima. i roacn tnem at uiooa uoau
r no
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