THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER n, 1912.
PAGE THREE
MINUTE "MOVIES" I
OF THE NEWS
RIGHT OFF THE REEL
Grccnpolnt (N. Y.) tnnn gets $12,000
Vico President Elect Marshall says
uvcrnors.
The telephone switchboard nt the
nliotiiii liiictiltnt W Vrirlr lj nnmt-
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Widows are barred by the Spinsters
Dcrvntntlnh i Mm irlil1t2iittu lllllll
nc mice wouiu lieu uie i;m.
King Alfonso Is qualifying to be n
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Los Angeles Is considering nn ordl-
ni-i ill iiui-i' iiuiiTii i w viw iui;ii
insulins snnnnintr uoiore ii. in.
Mrs, N Hrnmber, a wenitny widow,
tv with six toon trunks find sixty-
irt nuns
Fowler MoOormick, the grandson of
be the greatest baseball pitcher In
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n i even luru.
Even the price of water Is olnff up.
reateued with a raise In rati by
local companies.
n fiK lnhnina mv snot n tin roil nni-
from a rubber band and hit his
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stored,
An nmfn rnn L- tn ? i ti crrliW line
TennsyhaT ii embodying the report
a "SItoltitfo " ou the high cost of llv-
1.S00 yo r.s ago, excessive trans-
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ist innnaios iniii nnimcui iiosspk ni
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it u.iv tie i'.im"Mii uie hmh'i
ikh if.lL. Itltlji iin.i . fntiiK.1 m.MMH.
in ii'-tii in - tiui i iirnn i i iki
1 Sitnlmrr'
ILVVAY EMJOI S DECORUM
n Shoes, Flashy Neckties and Gum
Banned by B. and M.
an snuos, nusiiy neeKues, i-uewiug
m, conversation with the women
ssengers and the wearing of button
le bouquets have lieen tabooed by
Boston and Maine railroad anion;;
itiiui fiiiiiuivn. ill Hi'e riirir ikki
w regulations and others nro carried
t "observers" have lieen engaged In
fcu uiiuiiii;i nut' uii uiu uuuia
to note carefully any violations.
is must bo worn straight or the "ob-
thing but the regulation buttons go,
her No picture buttous or political
ttons may be displayed,
'artaking of refreshments In a bag-
ed Is forbidden, and It Is said that
s now Is such a breach of train ctl
ette that for disregarding it an ein
yee may be severely reprimanded,
e chewing of gum Is regarded as dis
iceful and must be discontinued, the
-nlntlnriQ nv.
RTH POLE BY AEROPLANE.
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lett of Peary Party.
The safest and easiest way to reach
north pole and an entirely feasible
y Is by aeroplane," said Captain
bert A. Bartlett of the Peary north
e party to the members of the Aero
ib of New England,
'aptaln Bartlett said an aeroplane
dd be taken by land to Capo Morris
Jesup. which Is but Sal miles from
pole
'lth the latest machines this would
an but a few hours' flight to the
e, he said. The Ico would furnish
table landing places all along the
le, out an necessary supplies wouiu
'ci in I... ,n..i,wl 41,,. l.ln .....1
l ill it iiiiiii:u x.n uii; .in, ii, iiiiii
in the pole.
rue weal trip, saiu mo speaker,
ould be to L'o from Cane Jesuii dl-
tly over the pole and land at Cap'
dluskln in Siberia, the latter point.
vecr. (icing 720 miles beyond tl
e. In tin- summer months of July
I August the conditions are perfect
flying and I can see no serious dlf
dtles which might not bo guarded
ilnst "
ELECTRICITY IS FOOD!
entist Says a Thousand Volts Are
Equal to Porterhouse Steak,
hat an electric current of 1,(KJ0
Is is equal In food value to u porter
lse steak with potato chips Is the
nlon of Profssor Ilergonle, a Hor
ux sWontlbt. Professor tlergonle
louueed his theory early In the fall,
co then he has been carrying out es
Inients which fully bear out the the-
that food can bo replaced by eluc-
Ity
l a communication to the Academy
thermy. the method of applying n
rent of low tension and high fro
ncy, may partly supplant food by
iilshlng the body with a great quan-
or neat and saving the digestive
ans from overwork,
his current traverses the body with
provoking tho least pain aud. given
h nu Intensity of from two to threo
eres anu at u voitago or from J,000
Kf r,i..,lul.nn ntmi i rr .. I .
hour more than one-third of Uie
t supplied by one's daily food.
DISTINGUISHES
Miss Edith Durham's Feats
Class With Those of
$ "Star" Men.
M
AKTIN DONOIIOK, "star" cor
respondent of the London
Chronicle with the Balkan al
lies, has rovlved the best tra
ditions of hU calling, bringing to mind
tho exploits of Archibald Forbes, Mc
Gahan and others who made tho war
correspondence famous In the Franco
Prussian aud the Turko-Husslan wars.
And, while not In the least disparaging
the brilliant work of Donohoe in thu
Held and his hardships In getting his
matter "through," let It bo told that
another "special," Miss Kdlth Durham,
who has been with the Montenegrin
army since tho beginning of hostilities,
has succeeded In doing what Donohoe
did ou more than one occasion.
In fact, Miss Durham's dispatches
may fairly be said to be one of the
journalistic features of the war. She
lias ventured iuto places where few
women have ever been before. She
has described what she saw in clear,
concise English, without the verbose
exaggeration of the amateur corre
spondent, and who has achieved n num
ber of minor "scoops."
She Is distinctly to be congratulated
on her work. Of course, In her case,
as In every other case of successful
war reporting, she has been assisted
by iutiiuato acquaintance with the peo
ple and country In which she has oper
ated and by considerable experience
in the kind of work she has set herself
to do. She Is not an amateur; there
fore she has succeeded.
The war In Mauchurla sounded the
first delinlte note in Uieir recessional
of the war correspondents. The present
campaign in Macedonia and Thrace
clinched the belief In the minds of
newspaper men the world over. But
it is just possible that people have
taken too delinlte n stand in tho mat
ter. Rode Two Days and Nights.
In order to get his story past the cen
sor Donohoe was compelled to ride
two days and nights to Constantinople
over muddy roads in an untrustworthy
motorcar and then use up another day
In traveling across the Black sea.
along the Thracim and Bulgarian
coasts to Costnnza, in Uoumaula. His
feat was crammed with the hardships
that tradition has allotted to tho suc
cessful war correspondent. In fact. It
was a true dime novel, calculated to
enthrall the attention of any one who
enjoys the hazardous.
Nor and tills Is the significant part
of the incident was Donohoe alone In
his achievement. Another English
correspondent, who, out of charity,
shall be nameless, had been with him
on the battlelield, had witnessed the
terrific bombardment of the Bulgarian
artillery, the demoralization of tho
Turks and their final precipitate flight,
even traveled in the same car with
Donohoe to Constantinople and in the
same boat with Mm to Costanza. But
this man was overcome principally by
the story of his own exploit He had
been through all these perils on behalf
of his paper; he had suffered, tolled,
starved, traveled night and day. In
his exuberant sense of self Importance
ho completely lost sight of tho great
battle he had witnessed.
Difference In the Men.
The two correspondents sat down
side by side In the telegraph ofliee,
wrote their stories at tho same time
and filed them together, page by page.
Donohoe wrote In short, snappy,
graphic phrases a story of the historic
scenes lie had witnessed, mentioning
casually his own experience from
time to time, so that they freshened up
the running account; gave it local col
or anil that mysterious faculty culled
"grip." so that they served only to llx
the reader's mind upou tho fact that
tho man who was writing the descrip
tion had actually seen everything
himself. He wrote seven columns of
this In time for his paper's morning
edition.
Tho other correspondent, working be
side Donohoe, wrote what would other
wise have been a very interesting ac
count of his personal adventures, bris
tling with tho first person singular and
Hticli phrases as "your correspondent
suffered more privations than had ever
been his lot before," und In the course
of five or six columns contrived very
cleverly to elude almost any mention
of what had occurred. In tho last par
ngrnph or two ho meutloned that tho
greatest battlo since the contllct at
Mukden had been fought and that tho
Turks had been smashed by Savoff.
lite story was tho laughingstock of
the Iondon newspaper ofllces for tho
next few duys, nlthough in London tho
(ersonal note in war correspondunco is
iiniost ulwoys overdone.
Raw Material Not Impressive.
This man represented n great majori
ty of the war corresondents who were
sent out to cover the Balkan war. Ex
port newspaper men und old war cor
respondents who had seen service lo
Mauchurla, lu tho Philippines and
Cubu, ou tho Indian frontier, lu South
Vfrlcn, the Budan and othor places
wuere men have been fighting these
'nst few years Joined In decrying much
ii
SPECIAL"
HERSELF IN FIELD
nuw uui i uofjui iutn i to vviiu
Allies Have Collected j
News.
of the new timber that "went to tho
front."
An nttnrhe of tho Amcricnn embassy
In London tells that he was aghast at
the array of self confident youths who
had poured through London during tho
early weeks of the war, airily discuss
ing the assignments they expected to
got from the general staffs of the sev
eral combatants.
"In fact," remarked the attache, "I
um Incorrect In mentioning the general
staff. I doubt If ninny of them had
ever heard of such a thing ns a gener
ol staff or had the faintest Idea of how
n modern war was waged or how a cor
respondent covered It. They seemed to
believe that all a correspondent had to
do was to proceed to the seat of hos
tilities, introduce himself to the com
manding general in that vicinity and
expect immediately to bo Installed In
n front row seat with a pair of binocu
lars hi his hands, prepared to watch
the shells burst.
"A great many had no newspaper ex
perience. Such as had seemed to have
only the crudest Idea of what covering
a war means. They evidently intended
to go about it as they would go about
covering n riot at home."
The Case of lieutenant Wagner.
Yet another case of successful report
lug of tlie Balkan war and perhaps the
best known one is that of Lieutenant
IlennaYiegllt Wagner, the corresiMHid
ent of the Vienna Uolchspost, whose
dispatches from the Bulgarian head
quarters were for weeks the ouly
source of news concerning tho Bul
garian operations. Wagner lias been
attacked by jealous fellow Journalists
because some of his dispatches have
turned out to be incorrect. But there
can be no doubt that be has scored an
effective hit and that his reporting bus
been not only workmanlike, but as re
liable as such work can be done under
high stress and on the basis of Infor
mation thut is often misinformation
served cut for specific purposes.
As a matter of fact, AVugner was
given his opportunity by the Bulgarian
general staff for a specific purpose the
dissemination of misleading intelli
gence for the confusion of the Turks.
The Turkish military Intelligence bu
reau Is one of tho most inefficient
branches of their organization, and
they have relied for information con
cerning their enemies' plans almost en
tirely upon the statements of the Eu
ropean newspaiors telegraphed to
them from their embassies.
Realizing this, the Bulgarians hit
upon the clever expedient of having
within call the representative of a
conservative the Reichspost is the or
gan of the Austrian Clericnls foreign
Journal who, in return for favors of
exclusive Information furnished to
him, might be relied upon to serve
as the mouthpiece for stories which
would be calculated to deceive the
Turks regardlug their enemies' plans.
How successfully this scheme worked
Is revealed to any one who spends a
little time In studying Wagner's dis
patches and the strategy of the war.
Wagner's Qualifications.
Wogner Is a former officer in the
Austrian army, a mini who has spe
cialized in the Balkans and Balknu
problems all his life, who has an In
timate knowledge of the several lan
guages, especially Bulgarian.
He got ills billet very largely be
cause of this because, as has been
said, the Bulgarian general staff
wanted some man upon whose disin
terestedness they could rely, who
would even bo secretly In sympathy
with their foes; a man who would be
above suspicion beyond the boundaries
of their country und who could be
used to ndvantnge to disseminate In
formation, false and true, which
might be of assistance to Bulgaria.
Wagner tilled the requirements, 'lie
wus properly recommended, and he
got thu billet. He was not an ama
teur. Chance For Others.
If other correspondents had ap
proached the several Balkan headquar
ters in more or less the same spirit
they would probably have received
somewhat the same advantages. Of
course they would have been com
pelled to give their words of honor or
nt least come to n tentative under
standing that only such news as wus
officially given to them was to be sent
out and that all such news wus to be
sent out, no matter how unlikely it
might seem.
So perhaps one Is justified in deny
ing the assertions that war corre
spondence is at an end. Certainly war
corresiwudenco is not to bo conducted
as It was half n century ago. Condi
tions are altogether different If the
war office makes tho correspondent's
disk more difficult it must bo recalled
that the task of tho war office and Its
representative, tho censor, has like
wise been Increased. Telegraph lines
nre more numerous and accessible,
even In tho comparatively wild and
uncivilized Balkans. Then, too, tho
"obstructions In tho way of the corro
i fipomlcnt in tho present campaign hare
been unusually diDlcult, even for mod
ern warfare, becuuso of tho extremo
rapidity of movements and tho se
quence of events.
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IT WRITES 592
WORDS A MINUTE
Shorthand Machine Leaves Ste
nographers Far Behind,
A MINIATURE TYPEWRITER,
Th Basil of tha Operation and Re
cording la Phonetic Spelling, Vnd a
Person May Master tha New Art In
About Six Months A Most Interest
ing Demonstration.
A competition was held recently in a
New York business school that should
be of Interest to thousands of stenog
raphers und students of shorthand, ot
whom there have been graduated from
business schools throughout tho coun
try an uverage of 300,000 u year.
When the competition was concluded It
was confidently predicted that thu day
of the shorthaud writer was doomed tn
give way to that of shorthand type
writers, with stenographers supplant
ed, as they were most decisively in the
test by n simple little stenographic
typewriting machine that weighs only
eight pounds, can be carried as easily
as a luuch box and record speech in
plain and unmistakable typewritten let
ters of the alphabet at the rate of O'.UJ
words a minute nnd upward.
Two eager young girl stenographers
from the Outlook ofllces, whore Colonel
Theodore Itoosevelt Is generally cred
ited with ability to use language at
some speed, were confidently on hand
to show the assembled students how
rapidly under such training they could
take dictation stenogrnphlcally. Op
posed to them were two operators
who manipulated the new machine- a
young man nnd a girl from Owens
boro. Ky.. where people speak delib
erately and don't write much faster
and whore Incidentally the new ma
chine was invented and manufactured.
The two operators on the machines,
who had kept their eyes fastened on
tho speakers' lips and merely played
as in u slow piano prelude upon the
keys of their machines, announced that
they had too. A second letter of MI!
words in fifty seconds followed, with
never a puuse for breath. Both stenog
raphers, looking flrst pur.zled nnd then
flushed and no little vexed, dropped
out long before It was over.
Too Swift For the Stenos.
Then followed a letter of 180 words
in fifty-nine seconds taken by the ma
chines. Both stenographers by this
time packing up their notebooks nnd
pencils and shaking bauds frankly with
their successful rivals, hud made their
exit. Another dictation of ISO words
in sixty-seven seconds followed, and
thereafter each operator, taking the
typewritten record of the other, read it
off as ensily as were It his own and
typewritten after the ordinary fashion.
Next they took down, still noiseless
ly and with apparent ease, difficult
dictation from technical specifications
In an architect's letter at a rattling rate
of speed. And, finally, as a climax, but
with more exertion this time, they took
down from dictation so rapid that even
those nearest the speaker could not
distinguish n word a letter familiar to
them, repeated over aud over for one
minute. In that minute, by actual
count. It was found they had typewrit
ten shorthand records of 592 words.
Tho previous regular shorthand record
has been '2(7 words a minute.
The new device Is a simple little ma
chine with a keyboard like that of a
typewriter, but containing only twenty,
two keys. The basis of its operation
nnd recording Is phonetic spoiling. Un
like the typewriter, however, .which re
quires a separato stroke for each let
ter, the maclilno prints a chord of
several letters at each stroke, on the
average a word at each stroke instead
of the six strokes required on the av
erage by a typewriter.
How the Keys Aro Divided.
This Is accomplished by the peculiar
system of dividing the keys. Seven of
them, nt the left of tho keyboard, are
used ns Initial consonants, and as there
are only fourteen possible Initial con
sonants the other seven are supplied
by arbitrary combinations of these sev
en keys, it being easily feasible to
strike two letters with one linger.
The right side of the keyboard con
tains ten final consonants, aud the re
maining eight flunl consonants possible
iu English speech aro supplied by ar
bitrary combinations of some of these
ten. In the center of the keyboard are
four vowel keys A, E, O, U the letter
I being supplied by a combination of
13 and V.
These twenty-two keys and their
combinations cover any possible combi
nation of sounds aud with the addition
of some 1M) standard abbreviations
constitute the solo system or code nec
essary for the operator of the machine
to master. Numbers i.ro recorded sim
ply by using an asterisk In combination
with various letters.
Tho advantages of tho new system
over ordinary stenography were de
clured to be: That it Is easier to mas
ter (tho operators In tho test were Bald
to have studied It only seven and eight
mouths, respectively); that it was abso
lutely freo from tho puzzling uncertain
ties and inaccuracies of a shorthaud
system of straight und curved Hues,
recording as It does In plain, typewrit
ten letters of the alphabet; that tho
record so written by any operator can
be read by any other operator with
equal eace.
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matter and poisons which should
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into tho blood nnd sicken tho wholo
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nro constipated; take Dloodlno Liver
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that Is, tho longer you tako them,
tho less frequently you need thorn.
They help Nature help herself and
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and stomach well. They never
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Mall orders filled by tho Bloodlno
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box.
For salo at C. C. Jadwln's.
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that In pursuance of a resolution
duly adopted by tho Company, and
in accordance with tho provisions of
tho mortgago dated January 2,
1005, given by tho Milanvllle
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Trustee, one thousand dollars of the
bonds secured by said mortgago have
been drawn for redemption. On
presentation of said bonds to Homer
Greene, Trustee, at his offico in
Ilonesdale, Pa., on or after January
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