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THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913.
AIR BOAT FOR THE NAVY.
AMERICAN ARMY DEFECTIVE
W. Starling Burgess Designs Ono of
Unusual Biplana Type.
The most remarkable nlr craft thus
far designed by any constructor o
aeroplanes Is being built by W. Star
ling Burgess at Marblehcad, to the or
der of the navy department.
The machine will bo an "air boat"
that is to say, a craft whoso float is a
single hull, lu the bow of which are
boused pilot and paBscnger. The de
tails of this machine have been left
wholly to Sir. Burgess, merely with
the proviso that It fulfill tho require
ments of the department In tho way
of reliability, speed and lifting power.
Mr. Burgess' design Is thus described:
The lower plane, which in span and
In depth will not bo as large as the
upper plane, will be superimposed upon
the hull and will be built absolutely
rigid. The advantage of this design
for the hydroaeroplane will be at once
seen when It Is remembered that with
the single main float, additional pon
toons become necessary at tho ends of
the wings In order to give tho machine
stability when on tho water.
In a type which uses ailerons this
question Is not of so much Importance,
as the ailerons aro operated from rigid
surfaces, but whore tho warping wing
, method is employed the placing of
floats at the plane extremities Inter
feres greatly with tho nno of tho con
trols. The BurgcHs scheme for the
lower surface does away with this dif
ficulty. The great novelty in design is found
in the upper plane, which Is designed
to afford lateral equilibrium to the
"boat."
Ordinarily a wind which Is warped
to effect control utlllr.es for this pur
pose only half of Its surface, the rest
being held rigid. Mr. Burgess has so
designed the new machine as to se
cure a warping surface throughout the
entire upper plane. He Is able to do
this through his very Ingenious meth
od of supporting this top wing.
NEW SHOE FOR ARMY.
It Appears to Be an Exceptionally Sen
sible Product.
Tho secretary of war has approved
the recommendations, with a few
minor exceptions, of the board of ex
perts lu session at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., to determine upon a typo of
shoe for use In tho military service.
The Investigation included tho prac
tical trial of three kinds of shoes,
which were worn In dally marches by
the enlisted men of the Seventh In
fantry. The new shoe Is of tho tan
variety, constructed on ono last, and 1
will take the place of the present gar-
rlson, dress and , marching shoes. By
this means It will bo possible to avoid
carrying In stock threo different types,
with two different lasts, resulting In a
simplification of purchase, storage and
Issue.
In tho new shoo there Is a groater
amount of space above tho toes than
in tho soft box of tho tan shoo now
used In the army or tho garrison tan.
It Is so constructed that when snugly
laced it will hold the foot in a posi
tion that It will have no appreciable
forward, lateral or vertical slipping.
SEPARATES BLOOD OF RACES.
Denver Doctor Says He Can Distin
guish tho Different Corpuscles.
Discoveries that may be of impor
tance In criminology concerning the
Wood corpuscles of different races aro
about to bo announced by Dr. A. L.
Bennett, Japanese consul of Denver,
who has mado exhaustive experiments
In this direction and who says he can
tell whether a drop of dried blood
comes from the body of an oriental, a
negro or a white man.
Dr. Bennett Is recognized In tho west
qb an authority on the differences be
tween the blood cells of human beings
and those of animals, and his findings
have frequently been used in murder
trials.
It was the case of Gynko MItsunaga,
a Japanese accused of tho murder of
Mrs. Katherlno Wilson In Denver two
years ago. that determined Dr. Bennett
to pursue his Investigations of the
blood corpuscles of different races.
Dr. Bennett took pieces of flesh from
Ills own face to experiment with until
his features became so marked that his
Wends supposed that ho was suffering
from some malady.
OUR SURPLUS EXPENDITURES.
How Americans Manage to Spend Mil
lions Outside of Food Item.
Light from a new angle has been
thrown upon tho methods employed by
Americans In getting rid of their sur
plus capital in a series of striking sta
tistics made public through tho Amer
ican Federation of Sex Hygiene, which
met recently In Washington. Uere aro
the flgures of tho American's annual
surplus expenditures:
Intoxicating liquors (2,000,000,000
Tobacco 1,300.000,000
Jewelry 800,000.000
Automobiles 500,000,000
Confectionery 200,000,000
Sott drinks 1X1,000.000
Tea and coffee 100,000,000
Millinery 90,000,000
Patent medicines 80,000,000
Chewing (rum , 13,000,000
In comparison with the abovo ex
penditures it was estimated that con
tributions to church work at home
were ?25O,00O,O0O and to foreign mis
slons $12,000,000.
Teach Young Man to Launder.
The Y. M. C. A. of Philadelphia has
started a practical school of launder
ing for its members, and tho course
has been mado a part of the curricu
lum of Its educational classes. This
is said to be tho flirt attempt of its
kind.
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Dr. Anderson Collected 1,000
Rare Specimens of Ani
mal Life.
THE return to Now York several
days ago of Dr. Rudolph An
derson, biologist and second In
command of the Stofansson-An-derson
expedition sent to the arctic in
tho Interests of tho American Museum
of Natural History and tho Canadian
geological survey, marked the end of
nearly four years and a half of obser
vation and exploration undertaken by
him and Vllhjalmur Ptcfauraon.
It was Dr. Anderson's Job to Inves
tigate the conditions of animal life in
tho region of Coronation gulf, a part
of the body of water separating Vic
toria Island from the Mackenzie ter
ritory of the mainland.
In his collection of 1.000 specimens
aro the skins and skeletons of many
rare animals and birds, of which the
nineteen Barren island bears are per
haps the most valuable. The bird col
lection Includes specimens of the whis
tling swan, black brant, Hutchlns'
goose, northern and red phalarope,
snowflako, Lapland longspur, parasitic
joeger, red throated loon and willow
ptarmigan, all from tho vicinity of
Colvillo delta.
Dr. Anderson said that tho expedi
tion had collected enough scientific
data of value to make It worth tho
four years and a half spent out of
reach of civilization.
"Wo covered nearly tho entire coast
from Coleville river to Coronation
gulf," said Dr. Anderson, "making sev
eral trips inland along tho Mackenzie.
Horton and Dcasc rivers and finding
In some regions, hitherto marked un
inhabited, tribes of Eskimos that had
never before seen a white man.
"Among tho so called blond Eskimos
we found copper needles in uso In
stead of bone ones, nnd most of their
other utensils were made of copper
also. Tho supply of this metal Is
abundant In this region, a great deal
of It called copper float, being on tho
surface nnd easily recognizable. Of
course the difficulty in making any use
of this storehouse of riches lies in the
fact that there is no way of trans
lating it.
Blond Eskimos Poor Marksmen.
"These Eskimos still use spears and
bows nnd arrows to kill gamo for
food, and they are amazingly poor
marksmen. A group of them shot more
than twenty nrrows at a single ptarmi
gan one day'before they killed it. Their
implements are all of the most primi
tive variety.
"There Is an immense territory south
of the Endicott mountains nnd north
of the Yukon which the white pros
pectors have not yet reached except in
a few places. Tho Rampart house and
Fort Yukon Indians do not range so
far north except In summer, nnd the
Eskimos seldom cross tho mountains.
To the knowledge of tho natives, no
white man had ever crossed the moun
tains In this region.
"Starting Inland in December, 1008,
wo decided that it would take too long
to return to Flaxman island for flour
and other supplies before crossing tho
mountains, and, having as much mut
ton as we could carry on our sleds, aft
er leaving a few carcasses cached to
fall back upon near the end of the Hu
lahula river, we crossed tho divide on
Dec. 4. The week before wo had haul
ed a load of meat to within a quarter
of a mile of the summit and camped
one night above the willow lino.
"We now took tho sleds over singly
by putting ten dogs in harness with
six men boosting and pulling. Descend
ing a rocky creek gorge, we reached
largo willows beforo night. Tho sec
ond day devoted to hunting brought In
one sheep out of eleven.
"The third day's travel brought us to
green spruce trees. Ptarmigan were
scarce and hard to find, as tho river
valley was wild. Wo wero on pretty
short rations beforo wo struck the cari
bou herds on tho high foothills on Dec.
18. The snow was very deep and soft
on tho south sido of tho divide. Our
sleds were soon stalled, nnd we wero
delayed three days cutting trees, hew
ing out boards nnd making toboggans,
Had Porcupine Dinner,
"A trail bad to be snowshoed ahead,
and travel was slow, all hands 'slug
ging' In harness with the dogs. Two
porcupines and a great gray owl prov
ed welcomo additions to our larder.
Canada jays were observed a few miles
north of tho limit of spruco trees, and
ravens were often in sight.
"During tho latter part of Deeomber
we saw many caribou, at ono time
more than 1,000 within rifle range a
magnificent spectacle. Wo lived in
lents until Dec. 27, whon wo built a
hut of poles covered with blocks of
moss, living in It until late in January,
occasionally Boeing caribou, which
were always moving eastward.
"Wo had a rather thrilling export
enco In the fall of the next year, 1000,
when, after n hard trip over deep soft
snow with heavily loadod sleds, wo
crossed a deep estuary soven or cbjbt
miles wide at tho mouth of a large
river known as tho Kualluk (the wost
orn mouth of the Anderson rlvor),
"We crossed In a Winding snowstorm
and wero stopped near the eastern side
by a strip of very thin ice, from 100
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Fair Natives Make Imple-
ments From Abundant
Supply of Copper.
to 200 yards wide. We followed tie
edge of this lead south for about half
a mile and barely succeeded In cross
ing a lead about seventy-fir yards
wide, rushing the sleds across singly,
although the lco sagged deeply.
"On the morning of Nov. 23, 1000,
three of us left Horton river to get a
large number of needed articles caclicd
In nn old house near the wreck of the
steam whaler Alexander at Cap Par
ry. Tho thermometer stood at 81 de
gree below zero, and a gale wa blow
ing from west-northwest, with enow
drifting everywhere, but as the wind
was a little abaft we made good time.
"We expected to reach Lancton bay
In ono 'sleep,' so took only six small
fish with us one each for supper nnd
the same for breakfast. But the next
day the wind Increased, blowing all
tho lee away from the beach, necessi
tating much hard pulling over bare
ground nnd sand covered snow. Nov.
25 we were unable to travel at all, and
we reached Langton bay on the even
ing of the 26th after a fast of sixty
hours.
Bears Raided Stores.
"Wo reached the cache near the
wreck of the Alexander on Dec. 8.
Polar boars had broken Into the house
and devoured four boxes (about BOO
pounds) of whale blubber (all our dog
food), two slabs of bacon, overturned
and spilled a ten gallon can of alcohol
(all we had let) and knocked things
about generally. Bears had also clean
ed out a cache of ugynk (boarded seal)
meat and blubber which Stefansson
had made some distance down the ford.
"Wo started back to Mackenzie delta
on June 10, 1910, finding traveling
much better, as the snow had disap
peared and water had run down
through cracks, leaving a smooth sur
face of solid Ice Ave or six feet thick,
but rapidly disintegrating Into sharp
prismatic necdJos.
"Travel was rapid, but exceedingly
hard on the dogs' feet, which had to be
protected by boots or often rewrappod
in calico. Sailing from Klttigaryult
on June 10, three days brought us from
tho Ice fields to the almost tropical
heat of the Mackenzie delta proper
Mosquitoes were abundant and on t!f
22d I found a robins' nost with four
young birds. The season seemed i&
be fully a month farther advanced
than it was twenty-five or thirty miles
north. Fresh moose tracks were seen,
nnd rabbits appeared to bo numerous.
"Wo crossed tho divide on Kept. 21
and camped on the southern slope, al
though with no fuel but green willows.
Next day wo moved south abont six
miles before we sighted a band of ten
caribou. We made camp at once and
succeeded In killing eight. It was dark
before I finished skinning two for speci
mens, and, fnillng to find oamp, I was
obliged to walk the rest of the night to
keep from freezing.
"During our entire four years and a
half the timos when we depended upon
tho supplies we brought from civiliza
tion wo often went hungry, but the
year during which we lived on the
country we never missed a single
meal."
"Whenever wo got In touch with
ships, howevor, a certain amount of
provisions must be obtained to satisfy
native employees, who seemed to con
sider tho "luxuries" of civilisation
(flour, molasses, etc.) more necessary
than did either Stefansson or myself.
A native lives only In the present and
considers that he Is Justified in de
manding whatever creature comforts
are obtainable, while we were willing
to make sacrifices in order to accom
plish on end some distance in the fu
ture. Hard Sledding With Specimens.
"After Dr. Stefansson had left the
party I went back to Coronation gulf,
where my 1,000 specimens had been
cached. We loaded them on sledges,
of which wo had only two, and drag
ged them in threo trips to Ballle is
land, ninety miles away, tho total
weight of the whole collection being
about Ave tons. By a mere lucky
chance wo wero able to hall the whaler
Belvedere, which cleared from Bed
ford, R. I,, thirty years ago and has
never returned to tho Atlantic coast.
"We loaded the specimens and then
spent several months cruising for
whales, of which we got a number of
fine specimens. Wo killed them with
hard lances, at the end of which were
concussion bombs, which exploded In
side the whale's body.
"I repacked everything at Ban Fran
Cisco, including a fluo collection of
nineteen rare Barren Land boars."
PERFUMES BY HYPODERMIC.
Actress Starts New Paris Fad In Use
of Soents.
Fashionable Parisians arc now using
ecent by hypodermic injection. Attar
of rosoa, violet and cherry blossom
perfumes aro the favorites for this
purpose. Tho craze waa started by a
popular actress, who declared that
within forty-eight hours after an In
jection her skin was saturated with
roma.
In No Position to Combat a Groat
Power, Sayo General Wood,
That tho Onltcd States army Is in no
position to meet that of a groat power
recently was asserted by Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood, chief of tho gen
oral stall. Ho criticised tho present
long term system and said this coun
try must como to an nrrangemcnt
where it would have a reserve force of
efficient young men.
"We reallzo that we must bo pro
pared for war at any time," said he,
"and we realize that undeveloped war
resources In the event of war are as
useless as an undeveloped gold mine
In Alaska In a Wall Btrcet financial
crisis.
"We havo never had war with a
first class powor of the world alone.
A.sk any student of military history
what the condition was when the
French came to our assistance in the
Revolutionary war and made York
town possible. In the war of 1812
England was engaged In the crisis of
the war with Napoleon.
"We have plenty of good men In this
country, but they are untrained and
undisciplined. This has been the sit
uation In past wars. The war with
Mexico was successful, but Moxlco
was not a first class power ready for
war.
"Now, since the Spanish war the
United States has been recognized as a
world power. Wo now occupy various
possessions. We occupy the Philip
pines, but no one knows how long we
may occupy them. Our occupaucies
have brought their troubles with them.
"Wo must realize at all times that
tho armies of our possible enemies are
always ready. How will we get men
if we aro plunged unexpectedly Into
war? The system of short service and
holding mon under our power for a
certain number of years Is probably
our only salvation."
YANKEE COCKTAIL IN TURKEY
Dozen Names Are Invented For Drink
That Becomes Popular.
Everybody in Constantinople appears
to be drinking stimulants of some kind.
These aro served in glasses of various
sizes and colors and represent prac
tically all kinds and degrees of nlco
nolle beverages. Strangely enough, the
most popular drink is the American
cocktail, but It is called by a dozen dlf-fe-ent
names, such as "Bulgarian
sniper," "Greek evzonerla, strong;"
"Servian plum whisky, temperate,"
and "Montenegrin hot" These and oth
er fanciful names appear on tho lists of
drinks, but tho wholo collection is noth
ing but the American cocktail In vari
ous colors and disguises.
Tho Turks, inspired by tho promise of
peace, have turned beverage inventors,
bringing to their work a sense of
humor. Among the "temperate" drinks
mado with lemons, oranges and man
darins are some called "Tchatalja
grog," "Stranja first," "Slllvri mix
ture," "Adrlanople relief" and "On to
Sofia." Experts assert that they are
able to plorco the disguises of these
fluid fillips and find In them still tho
American cocktail.
Sold by sftaaJam airsrmtefs
The Manila Reffafeg Sompany
$6,000 Farm for $4,500
If sold within a week
One of the best farms in Wayno
county, assessed at ?6,000, will be
sold for $4,600. Farm contains 118
acres of land, 50 of which are cleared
and balance in pasture land, except
ing 20 acres of good young growth
of hickory. Ideal place for dairy
farm. Milk station two miles from
place. Good farm nouse, two barns.
On R. D. Route. Telephone con
nections. Loeatea in Berlin town
ship on main road 3 miles from
Honeedale.
Remember this farm is assessed at
?C,000. If sold immediately wo will
close the deal at $4,500.
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George C. Abraham, W. B. Gulnnip,
J. Sam Brown, M. J. Hanlan,
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parties, I now dcslro to announce to
tho public that I havo again assumed
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renovated and placed in first-class
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