THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912.
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STEPS TAKEN TO
KEEP OUTPLAGUE
Government Draws tlie Quaran
tine Lines Tight,
INSPECTION TO BE STRICT.
Ships From Cuba and Porto Rico Un
dor Scrutiny Surgeon General Blue
Warns of the Threatening Peril.
Crusade Against Rats.
llecognlzlng tliu dancer of the trans
mission of the plague from Infected
Cuba to the United States through the
medium of Incoming ships from tho Is
land republic, tho governmental medl
cul authorities are every moment be
coming more stringent In their enforce
ment of qunrnntlue -provisions.
Following the urgent request of Dr.
J. W. Porter, health officer of the state
of Florida, who said that It would be
extremely undesirable to allow passen
gers from Havana to enter Florida
without first being subject to u quar
antine of a week's duration, an order
was issued that all passengers from
Havana to American ports shall be de
tained seven days at the IMsconla
quarantine station, near Havana, be
fore continuing the voyage to tho Unit
ed States.
A Warning Statement,
Surgeon General Blue of tlio public
health sen-lee Issued a statement warn
ing the public of the peril that threat
ens, "We must admit there Is danger to
American ports from bubonic infection
In Porto ineo and Cuba," said Dr. Blue.
"However, the situation Is hopeful, and
the maximum protection allowed under
our quarantine laws Is afforded now.
The plague can lx controlled among
white persons, but it would be hard to
stamp out the disease completely, and
as long as there was a trace all other
nations would hold a quarantine
against us."
Passed Assistant Surgeon Creel, In
charge of thesanitary staff at Porto
Rico, reports that the condition of af
fairs there remains the same and that
no new cases have been reported.
Tho health officers at Galveston, Tex.,
and at other ports along our southern
coast are conducting a thoroughgoing
crusade against rats. Word has also
been received from Surgeon Stoner,
chief of the medical staff at Ellis Is
land, that the rodents are being rapid
ly exterminated along 'the New York
water front
Great Danger of Spread.
Dr. Henry Skinner of the Philadel
phia Academy of Natural Sciences and
an authority on economic entomology
believes that the danger of the spread
of tho disease can hardly be overesti
mated. "The plague is fast epaaadlng be
cause the world Is growing smaller,"
says Dr. Sltlnncr. "Facilities for trans
portation both of cargoes and e per
sons are now so great and such speed
is made by steamships that the trans
mission of disease is vastly facilitated.
"The danger from bubonic plague in
this country has been greatly under
estimated. I look for it to get a foot
hold in San Francisco or other ports
from eastern ships nt any time, and
once it has obtained a foothold Its
spread is rapid and death almost cer
tain. "America will almost certainly be nf
lllcted with tho dread plague unless
the government takes measures to have
every rat on board any vessel from in
fected ports killed; also a Btop should
be put to the transportation of plants
from eastern cities."
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
An Iown woman has laughed her
self Into hysterics over a newspaper
story. It must have been something
about Uncle Jim Wilson's probablo
resignation from tho cabinet
An English editor has Just died,
leaving ? 10,000,000. It is evidently
not the custom In England to send In
cordwood and pumpkins for subscrip
tion. A Youngstown (O.) couplo eloped
on the bumpers of a freight train,
which Is another Instance In which
tho course of true love did not run
smooth.
Hon. Joe Bailey, of Texas, has In
dorsed Taft. It doesn't seem as
though the President has dono any
thing bad enough to deserve that.
"Little Joe" Urowu is ngain gov
ernor of Georgia. He ought to be
able to work this up Into a vaude
ville stunt ater awhile.
A government report says more
bank notes are In circulation now
than ever before and they all keep
right on circulating, too.
Perhaps It would bo well for the
Chinese republic to hurry up and
take that census before there are
any more battles.
JUtssla has thrown a poet Into
prison. Upon very rare occasion
Russia does something worth while.
HAKI) TIMES IF WILSON WINS.
FARM FOR "DOWN AND OUTS."
Plan to Have Place For Open Air, Easy
Work.
Plans for tho purchase of a large
truck farm by the city for the employ
ment und care of "down and outs"
have been submitted to the Chicago
city council by tho city's commission
on tho unemployed. Dr. Charles Hen
derson, president of tho University of
Chicago and chairman of the commis
sion, Indorse the plan.
The farm, to bo established in tho
Desplalnes valley, Just outside the city,
will have cottages and barracks, and
the -working hours nre not to bo long
or tho work arduous. Small remunera
tion, Iwsed on efficiency, is suggested.
It is believed thut tho open air life will
revive ambition in tho younger men
and give tho elders au opportunity to
earn n good living and havo a home.
ADEE STILL CYCLING AT 69.
He Covered 1,800 Miles Awheel on His
Annual European Trip.
Second Assistant Secretary of State
AlvejTfk.. Adeo returned recently after
his auuual blcyclo tour in Europe. For
many years Mr. Adeo has spent several
weeks in tho'jjpring and summer rid
ing through England and tho continent.
This year ho traveled nearly 1,800
miles on his blcyclelns itinerary cov
ering a largeloop which began and
ended'at Havre.. Consul Generaland
Mrs. Thackera, stationed at Berlin, ac
companied Mr. Adeo" through a great
part of his trip.
Mr. Adeo says ho is in the best of
health. Ho will bo soventy yeaw old
in- November,
The Enactment of His Freo Trade
Theories AVould Mean Ituln.
Wilbur F. Wakemnn, secretary of
tho American Protective Tariff
League, declared that the election of
Woodrow Wilson to tho presidency
and enactment Into law of his the
ories on the tariff would cause hun
dreds of thousands to be thrown out
of employment.
"Tho nomination of Gov. Wilson
draws the lines on tho tariff question
more directly, perhaps, than would
that of any other man whoso name
was before the Baltimore conven
tion," he said.
"Governor Wilson Is a consistent
free trader. In all of his writings and
speeches he has declared himself for
free trade or the lowest kind of a
revenue tariff, consequently we have
tho lines directly drawn between a
free trade policy now enforced in
Great Britain and the protective pol
icy embodied In the tariff act of
1909.
" I would rather deal with a skill
ful knave than an educated theorist
whose theory Is wrong. If we should
have a Democratic President I would
rather have Murphy or crocker than
Gov. Wilson. Gov. Wilson is a cen-
tleman. Ho would like to do rlcht.
but he does not know how.
" His election would mean the
throwing out of employment of hun
dreds of thousands of people and
lessened production.
" Our country is much bigger than
it was in 1S92 and consequently the
fall from prosperity to adversity
would be the greater, but I have ab
solute faith in the Judgment of tho
American people, and the old men
like myself will tell the boys who
were not voters in 1S92 what a ter
rible time we had under free trade
sysem of 1894.
" If our people will tell their boys
and girls of the conditions of 1894
and 1895 there will be little danger
of Gov. Wilson's election to the presidency."
FORMER FRIENDLESS YOUTH
ENDOWS POOR BOYS' HOME
Major Andrew Drumm, Millionaire
Cattleman, Gives $650,000.
Once u poor and friendless boy, Ma
Jor Andrew Drumm of Kansas City,
president of a live stock commission
company, one of the big cattlemen of
the southwest and a millionaire, Is go
ing to provide a homo for poor and
friendless boys and endow It with
?5OO,00O. The home itself will repre
sent an investment of nearly $150,000.
Tho llrst step In Mr. Drumm's plan
was the purchase of tho 371! ocre farm
of tho late Alexander Frnser, near
Lee's Summit, Mo., at a cost of i?8.",000.
This Is to bo the site of the home.
There are now a fourteen room house
and all necessary farm buildings on
the plac Tho dwelling will bo en
larged. SlhJor Drumm's home Is not
Intended to be a charitable Institution
In any way, but n placo where ambi
tious boys without an opportunity may
fit themselves by study to make op
portunities for themselves. It is to be
moro In tho nature of n freo Industrial
boarding school.
hen the plans are all completed
Jiajor Drumm will turn tho whole In
stltutlon over to the city with tho en
dowment, which will operate It with
out cost to the city.
Major Drumm Is now eighty-four
years old. Ho was born In Ohio.
When he was eighteen years old he
left that state and went to California
with the forty-niners. Ho made moncv
in uio mining business and in 1870 cm
barked 1m the cattle business.
TOWN BOOSTING.
The town boosting movement has
become so general that one town
gains llttlo more in this way from
its surroundings than It loses to
other competitors.
Of course this makes it doubly
necessary to keep hustling for new
business, if wo would play the game
and keep up with our rivals.
But while we are soliciting new In
dustries to como here, while one
town Is wearing "booster buttons"
and another Is stamping Its mall mat
ter with "booster tags," let us see to
It that wo are not lacking in certain
fundamental substantial of commun
ity development.
The most solid growth comes when
we can encourage our own young and
ambitious men to start In business
and stay hero Instead of going away.
Every town has such ambitious and
promising young men, of good busi
ness capacity.
Tho city that gets ahead Is tho city
where tho men who havo already won
out are willing to help younger men
get a foothold.
If Just as soon as our business men
aro successful they should settle
down idly to enjoy their money, In
different to the advancement of the
town wo should progress but slowly.
But If they will Interest themselves
in our younger men and newer enter
prises, serve on boards of directors,
Invest what they can afford In homo
undertakings, give the benellt of
their experience, no power on earth
can stop the city from growing rap-Idly.
The returns from planting shade
trees and developing narks and
keeping homo grounds in lino order
may seem remote and not of much
asslstanco commercially. But in a
placo where these things are careful
ly looked after, tho town acquires a
wide reputation as a residence town.
Lvery traveling man who comes here.
every visitor, scatters tho report that
this Is a mighty agreeable nlaco to
live In.
The returns from this source mav
bo slow, but they aro very true. Any
business man hesitating between
two places for a location always
chooses tho attractive residence
place. And thero Is a constant ten
dency of pcoplo to movo In from tho
country to oducato children and en
joy town life, and thoy always pick
attuactlve residence places to movo
to.
NOT SIGNERS' DESCENDANTS
Why Some Members of tho Society Are
to Be Dropped.
John Calvert of Philadelphia has ex
plained why several members of tho
Society of tho Descendants of Signers
of the Declaration of Independence
would be dropped from tho society's
rolls. Mr. Calvert said that all per
sons declaring themselves to bo de
scendants of signers wore admitted to
tlw society when It was formed five
years ago, with the understanding that
their names would le dropped if their
claims were found subsequently to bo
without substantiation. Since that
time all members have been subject to
that provision, and as their Individual
lineage has been ascertained and au
thenticated they havo been enrolled ns
bona fide members.
Thero was no criticism whatever of
those to be dropped, declared Mr. Cal
vert, It merely having been found that
their claims to descent from signers
have not been borne out Mr. Calvert
added that these persons applied for
roemlershlp in the society in perfect
good faith, nnd the fact that they are
to bo droppc1 Is to be taken in no man
ner as refiectiug upon their integrity.
Mr. Calvert is a descendant of Ben
jamin Bush and Richard Stockton, both
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Sewage Fertilizes Farms.
Tho sewage of. Berlin fertilizes farms
having au area of some 40,000 acres.
According to Undo Abner.
Somo fellers cot tholr renutatlon
for larnln' by going to college, whllo
others save time by merely buyln
eyo glasses.
I always havo mv susnlclons of a
"good" man. (Most of 'em aro too
good to bo truo.
Lom HIgglns says ho always stops
smokln' durhV political campaigns
and ho knows ho has added at least
twenty years to his life bx so doing.
Tho old philosopher who said thero
was nothing impossible In this world
novor tried to got a real poem pub
lished in a fifteen cent magazine.
BIG ASTOR TAX.
Estate With Straus and Guggenheim's
to Yield Nearly $6,600,000.
State Comptroller Sohmer of New
York will not take any steps looking
to tho appraisal of the estates of John
Jacob Astor, Isldor Straus nnd Benja
min Guggenheim, victims of tho Ti
tanic disaster, until tho attorneys rep
resenting those estates show an inclina
tion to invoke the law, which author
izes a discount of 5 per cent if the
transfer tax is paid within six months
after tho death of the decedent.
It is estimated that the stato tax
on the three estates "will bo between
$5,000,000 nnd $0,000,000. No intima
tion has yet been received that the
tax will bo paid within tho six months,
although this period does not expire
until next October. It Is usual for
those interested in largo estates to get
this discount
Although requests havo been made
by, attorneys to be designated as spe
cial counsel to represent tho stato In
appraising these estates, Comptroller
Bohmer says he will not mako such
designation unless absolutely neces
sary. NAME WOMAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Washington Socialist Candidate Has
' Chance to Win.
Miss Anna A. Maley,' Socialist lec
turer and writer of Everett, has been
nominated for governor of Washington
by tho referendum ballot of tho Social
ist party.
Miss Maley defeated Judge Ulchard
Wlnsor, gray haired nnd a member of
tho Seattle school board, by 800 votes.
SIw la already in tho Held campaigning,
tliough heretofore unknown to even
clubwomen 'throughout tho state. Miss
Maley Is likely to run second nmong
tho candidates for governor, and her
eloctioa Is not impossible 'if the old
parties remain split
Mrs. Minnie Parks of Seattle was
mado Socialist nominee for stato treas
urer. Other 'nominees are men.
CHANGES NAME FOR $50,000.
St. Louis Doctor Didn't Want Wifo to
Lose Inheritance.
Bather than sen his wife disqualified
from lnhcritingSO.OOO Dr. ttobcrt P.
Prowltt of St Louis assumed her maid
ca tutme, Gregg. Tho chango was sane
Uoned by tho courts, and they will
thenceforth lx known as Dr. and Mrs.
Itobert Prowitt Gregg.
Dnnlol Hopkins Gregg, who died at
Richmond; Vn.jro 1885, specified in his
rfn that Ma daugbternftcr her mar
riage, must continue to bear tho namo
of Gregg.
"Ginnulnto" Wouldn't Do.
Proud father of a 4-yoar-old daugh
ter told us with such obvious hopes
of seeing It In print, wo can't bear
to shatter his dreams.
The daughter Is 3 pncoclous mite,
and ho likes to mako mistakes in
grammar and pronunciation some
times, Just to give her an opportun
ity to correct him. Tho other dny ho
said In her hearing: "Yes, I granu
lated from tho U. of M. in 1S9S."
"What's that?" asked Miss Daugh
ter, pricking up her ears.
"I granulated," responded daddy.
"Why, no, you didn't; you grad
uated, persisted small daughter.
"No, sir, not i," reiterated the
dad; "other people may have gradu
uated but I granulated."
Daughter looked her scorn. "Well,
if that's whnt you did," she flashed,
"you'd better go back and learn some
more. Then you'll graduate."
Mrs. Luther Woodlcy has been 1
visiting her brother, Colas Decker,
and calling on her many friends. All ,
wero glad to know sho had so far
recovered from her serious Illness
as to bo nblo to bo around. It will
still tako time for a full recovery.
Mrs. Edith iMdntlro and daughter
are visiting the former's sister at
Whlto Sulphur Springs.
CHICHESTER S PILLS
S. i THE llAM.tl URAM.f j
ni.?or.Tfr-a iiiamonit l(nindA
ImiM. tMled ttlj Mm RIUwo.'VV
TUe no other. Ily r rear
!t"lt. AiWorOlrt.C'lfr.B.TRIMi
HIAJIONO II HANI) I'
'II.IJL. tn aft
reinknomuDnt. Sires t.Aiwtnitiht.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
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BEACH LAKE.
(.special to Tho Citizen.)
Beach Lake, July 23.
This Is a very busy nlacn nt nrps-
ent. No drones tolerated: no room
for sunh. lTnvlnp- a holnt
The boarding houses are filled and
such rooms that un lin fnnml In nrt.
vato houses. Tho talk Is wo must
build on moro rooms to accommo-
uaio our traue. Nearly every one
that comes Is so well pleased with
our nice llttlo village and beautiful
lake that they wish to como back
again.
Miss Ella Best of Irwin, was a
wolcome guest last week of her aunt
and many friends at this placo. Af
ter spending a week here she pro
ceeded on her visit by going from
here to her uncle's, A. T. Sluman,
at Torrey from thence sho will visit
her birthplace, Girdland. Miss Best
Is now a teacher in the Irwin high
school. Sho is elected Tor tho third
year with an advance In her salary
each year.
Wesley Davey, of WIlkes-Barre,
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
parents.
Mrs. Frank Knoll Is still caring
for her father, W. P. Budd. Mr.
Budd Is doing as well, If not better,
than could bo expected after such a
serious operation. His many friends
aro hoping for his speedy recovery.
A very valuable horse owned by
Amos Gregory was killed by light
ning last Wednesday.
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THE DELAWARE & HUDSON CO.
ARATO
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EXCURSION
FRIDAY, JULY 26th
r For the
m Entire Trip
CHILDREN, $3.00
Good going on all trains Friday July 26th, and returning on
any regular train to and including August 4th. Good for stop-off
at Albany or north thereof, including landings on Lake George.
Special train will leave Wilkes-Barre at 7:00 a. m.; Scran
ton, at 7:45 a. m.; Carbondale at 8:30 a. m.; stopping at
intermediate stations.
Apply to Delaware & Hudson Ticket Agent for specific
information.
( Last excursion this season, Saturday, August 10th. )