The Citizen from Honesdale, Pennsylvania • Page 2

XinS CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1000. WASHINGTON LETTER Special Correspondence Tho Evnus National gallery collection of American paintings has been removed from the Corcoran Gallery of Art to the National museum, where It Is now on exhibition. This will be a real, boon to many, us the Corcoran gallery Is closed from the 1st of July to the 1st of October, and the National puseum Is open all the year. An Interesting Art Exhibit. I Itarely Indeed Is so Interesting and meritorious an cxhlblltlon of art to bo seen at this seuson as will now be found in the improvised picture gallery at the National museum.

The paintings comprised In the Evans collection never appeared at better advantage, and their charm Is enhanced by being shown in conjunction with the collections of textiles, laces, Ivories and onouicls set forth In the same hall. The pictures have b'jen bung on the Foutb and west walls and on the three large screens which literally divide the hall Into four small galleries. William II. Holmes, the curator of the National gallery, has superintended the arrange-niont, which is especially pleasing. Grouping on the Screens.

The grouping on the screens is particularly notable. On the lirst, facing the doorway. Hugo Ilallln's great decorative canvas, "The European Sybil," Is given the place of honor, on either side of which landscapes by Henry Hunger have been hung. On the opposite side of this same screen Ulakelock's masterly painting, "Sunset, Navarro Mdge," which has the warmth and richness of Galnsbor- ough's landscapes, Is given chief prominence, but hung on the second Hue above two small canvases by the same painter. To the right are hung Wlnslow Homer's painting of the Maiue coast, which ho considers his masterpiece, and landscapes, fresh In color and at the same time toucful, by Henry Golden Dearth and William Lathrop, while to the left are seen Alexander Wyunt's lovely "Hnusatonlc Valley," Blakeloek's "Canoe Builders" and Paul Dougherty's coast scene.

Turning from this group Is found anotherno less engaging a group in which Inness picture, "Sundown," centers the Interest. James Henry Mo-ser's painting, "Mount Mclutyre," Is included in this group. Arrangement Temporary. It Is not Intended that the present arrangement shall be permanent. Possibly when the new museum building is completed other provision for the National gallery collections can be made and some day perchance congress may see lit to appropriate a sufficient sum to erect a gallery worthy of the nation.

In the meantime, however, the collections are being utilized and so placed that to the public they must yield the maximum profit. Fight For Cleanliness. One of the most Important steps, In the opinion of Health Ollicer Woodward, for Improving the sanitary conditions of the national capital was taken a few days ago when two inspectors begun a house to house inspection to include every house In the District. The cleanliness crusade will be imwt thorough, and every feature of every house relating to the health of the occupants will be considered. In case conditions are not found sanitary in every way steps will at once be inaugurated to have them remedied.

Crusade Against Rats and Flies. This house to house Inspection, Health Ollicer Woodward believes, will play an Important part in the crusade against rats and Hies which he has determined to wage, for one of the thing- the Inspectors will watch carefully will be the disposition of garbage and the storage of perishable produce, such us fruits and vegetables. It Is recognized that garbage palls are breeding place for flies and a succor to rats unless properly covered, and In working through the street cleaning department to have the garbage uf every home in the national capital disposed of In a sanitary maimer the health department officials believe they are making a great light against llles and ruts. These two perils uro recognized by health of ficials, and this point of attack is believed to bo one of the most vital. May Increase House Membership.

In the wuke of representative Me-Call's measure for removing the benches from the bull of the house conies a plan for Increasing the membership from 301 the present figure-to 425. The McCall plan, resembling somewhat the arrangement in the British house of commons, having been authorized, it is expected that the 'change will have been put into effect within couple of years. Then the old argument against Increasing the membership of the house, for want of iseuting room, will be of no force, und several states that would lose a member under the new census nro alert to tho possibilities for them with a bouse of 425 members. Would Enlarge Electoral Collene. I Maine is one of the states certain to be affected under the reapportionment "of congressional districts.

Her dole gat Ion had a hard fight after the lust to obtain a sufficient Increase of tho membership so that Maine could still have four. Tho new scheme al- 'ready being discussed by representn tlves of states where it is expected the 'nnnnlntlnn tin a irrmvn ol tt Vina ntsv gresscd so that groundwork of an organization to advance legislation for 425 members is being laid. Should it bo enacted Into law it would mean an increase of tho electoral college, which In each state Is composed of a number of votes equal to the two senators and tho representatives. CAUIi SCriOFIELD USEFUL INVENTIONS. Bomo of the Clever Devices Which Have Been Patented by Women.

In the first year of the United States Patent ofilco's existonco, 1790, a woman took out a patent. Up to the present time about patents bavo been granted to women. Among the early women Inventors may bo mentioned Miss Mary ICles, who, in 1809, patented a device for weaving Btraw and thread. Three years later Miss Mary Brush designed a now corset which she thought would preserve the shape of tho womanly figure. Like Miss Brush, many modern women Inventors confined their inventiveness to the contriving of beautifying devices.

Mrs. Batchel-der, for example, has devised means for the improvement of certain facial features that have been distorted. Among her Inventions may bo mentioned an enr stralghtener which remedies Imperfectly formed and lopping ears. Another Invention for the restoration of facial symmetry Is a spring attachment for the teoh, which relieves Mielr severity and improves tho mouth lines. Some women Inventors, however, havo devoted themselves to other things besides the perfection of womanly beauty.

Airs. Mnrtha J. Coston, although not the first Inventor of tho signal lights of that name, has. nevertheless, made some important improvements in her husband's Invention. Mrs.

Cynthia W. Alden is the inventor of an improved dump cart. Some years ago Mrs. Lena Sltttg devised a waterproof garment which has come to be known as tho duckback. Tho ruled slate was devised by Mrs.

Louise Dyer of Yazoo City. An important attachment to the sewing machine was invented by Miss Helen Blanchard. Miss Phillips of Dorchester, Is the Inventor of the nand refrigerator and lunch box. Miss Emma D. Mills made an improvement on a typewriter for which it was necessary to construct special tools.

She did the special construction herself. Mrs. Kate Eubank of Oakland, has devised a combined trunk and bureau, whlch'whon closed appears as v. Saratoga trunk and when open as a handsome dressing case. There seems to te one professional woman inventor in America, and he name is Montgomery.

As far back as 18C4, sho took out a patent on an improved locomotive wheel. Later she secured a patent on an improved war vessel. A number of other patents, havo been issued to her, which havo proved remunerative. Philadelphia Inquirer. A Stunning for Dome Wear.

WonieL who have a preelection for gowns of elaborate effect have a strikingly handsome model in this frock oi cotton crepe. It is not necessarily expensive to work out, for both the lace and dress material can be (ought at moderate prices. The lace is Imitation Clnny dyed in a pale champagne tint. Arranged in bands It tollows the lines of the tunic, one GOWN FOR HOME WEAR, of the most graceful draperies of the season. The tunic is trimmed with long, hand-run tucks and falls in Grecian effect about the figure.

The decorative Bcheme is much softened by a mixture of Valenciennes with the Cluny lace. The bodice Is fitted and has an elaborate fishu in Cluny and Valenciennes. There is a yoke ci grass linen with a delicate stitchery In pale pink and blue threads, with sleeves of the same. Heavy linens as well as silk and woolen fabrics are deslgnou after the elaborate model of tho gown sketched today. The softer fabrics are too, adaptable to a liko treatmment, only Valenciennes and dalnt, Iooe threads are used instead.

This does not mean that they are not combicoi with Mo-chinln and tne be bo crochet effects, whlcli are Included as a matter of course, where more than one kind of fine trimming is used in a decoratlvo scheme. Spontaneous thoughts are often like tho gun we didn't know was loaded. In northern Australia thero Is one white man per 700 square miles. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. i Mrs.

Frank II. Snow, widow of the late chancellor of Kansas State university, has boon granted a pension of $875 nnuually during her life from the Carnegie foundation. Mrs. Hndford of New Orleans, "eighty-seven years young." bus been superintendent of the Chinese mission in that city for twenty-three years. The mission carries on a Sunday school and Monday evening classes.

Miss Kothorlne U. A. Flood of Newton, has been elected president of tho Corporation of Army Nurses of the Massachusetts Daughters of Veterans. The corporation wns formed to erect a monument to commemorate the work of the army nurses during the civil war. Mrs.

Cecil Edwnrdcs, whose appear-' anees in grand opera in Covcnt Garden this season have brought her much i praise, Is sister-in-law to Lord Ken sington. She Is a British Columbian, studied under Joan de Reszke nnd mado her first public appearance as a singer In oratorio. Professor Mary Whlton Calkins re- reived the degree of doctor of letters i nt the recent commencement of Co lumbia university. Miss Calkins is professor of philosophy nnd psychology at Wellesley college. She Is the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Columbia since 1SS7.

The wife of Senator Boverldge. when she was Miss Catherine Eddy of Chicago and while on a visit to her brother, Spencer Eddy, in Europe, where he wns member of more than one diplomatic corps, suddenly resolved to study law and went to Germany and began with serious purpose. Her marriage has not dulled her interest in national affairs. Sporting Notes. I Frank Gotch, the champion wrestler of tho world, bus taken up buseball and says he intends to become a star in the outfield.

nnrry D. Yodder, an eighteen-year-old boy of Reading, pocketed 2,250 pool balls in nine hours fifty minutes, and tho next day in tho same time pocketed 2,055 balls. Although the brood mare Flair recently sold nt the record price of thirty American bred yearlings sold at Newmarket, London, for low prices, six of Clarence Mackay's nver-I aging and sixteen of F. B. Hag-i gin's at 5375.

German Gleanings. There were 0.327 firms of booksellers In Germany lust year. The laws of Germany do not compel municipal authorities to care for cripples us they do for the blind and for deaf mules. The south Germans eat more meat than Is generally supposed. The Inhabitants of Nuremberg, for Instance, consumed over 38.O00.OUO pounds last year, or practically one-third of a pound each per day.

When a young girl entered a pawnbroker's shop In Leipzig with fourteen rings she was suspected and detained. Inquiries proved that she was the rightful owner and that tho rings were souvenirs of fourteen fiances. The Royal Box. I Queen Alexandra was at one time a clever amateur actress, and her tal-! ent has been Inherited by her young- est daughter, the queen of Norway. The Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna was recently elected president of the Academy of Art In St.

Petersburg to I succeed her husband, the late Grand i Duke Vladimir Alexandrovltch. Tlie queen of Holland once stated that had she to choose a profession she would go on the stage. In her girl-i lined she was fond of acting, nnd a lit tle private theater which she had erected at the palace was often the scene of her own dramatic successes. Facts From France. At a rose competition in Paris re-j ecntly sixty-nine entirely new varie-i ties of roses were exhibited.

Tho two languages In which big notices over the Northern station waiting room lu Purls uro printed nro Russian nnd English. A Parisian antiquarian has paid "50,000 francs for tho famous Mcrfcls i collection of wntches made In tho six-! teenth and seventeenth centuries, Of 110 tons of sausage offered for sale at a recent fair in Paris nine I tons were made of horse meat nnd I seventeen from mule or donkey flesh. 1 English Etchings. There nre organizations in England 1 to fight rats and sparrows. Fifteen thousand children are born annually in British workhouses.

About 300 years ago the population of England wus less than 5,000,000. There is still pending In the English law courts a case which waa Initiated lu 1707. Things Theatrical. Hilda Spong may appear In London lu tho fall In a now play. Miriam Nesbit is to return to the stage in "The Traveling Salesman." May Buckley will be in tho company supporting Dustin Fnrnum in "Cameo Klrby." Josephine Sabel is winning laurels In Vienna, whore she is to star in a uow operetta.

Ezra Kendall Is to be starred the coming season by the Liebler company In "Tho Vinegar Buyer." FROM TOWN TO COUNTRY. How a Lawyer and His Family Built Up a Profitable Business. This is the story of a professional man whose longing for the freedom of country life led him at the age of thirty-six to abandon the city for the furm. Unfortunately the record of his early struggles is very incomplete. Thnt these were severe Is attested by the fuct that the owner nnd bis family, with a little hired labor, have cleared seventy-six acres of heavily timbered land, built comfortable home, with substantial barn, dairy house, silo and poultry houses, nnd have developed under trying conditions one of the best paying farms In the country.

In 1000 the gross Income of this farm wns about $5,000. It is considerably lurger now. The furm in question Is on the west side of Tuget sound, at the base of the Olympic mountains, in Oregon. Tho products of the farm tire butter, eggs, poultry and a small quantity of fresh pork. These are carried to market twelve miles over fairly good macadam road by team once a week.

So careful Is the owner of this farm of tho market he has made that he has not once failed to deliver his products on his regular market day during the past twelve yenrs. Since this farm has been brought to Its present profitable state by the joint efforts of every member of the household It Is proper to say that when the family moved to the farm In 1SS7 it consisted of man nnd wife, three boys and three girls, tho oldest child being a boy of thirteen. The only labor ever hired on this fnnn before tho first son entered an agricultural college was a woodchopper for less thnn three months In ISStt to help to do the first clearing, two enrpentors for two weeks in building the house in 1S8T nnd other assistants for miscellaneous pieces of work costing not over $100 during the entire eighteen years up to the fall of 1005. Tho father and the three sons have done the farm work, milked the cows nnd mado the butter. The household duties have been systematically discharged by tho mother and daughters, and for several years the mother nnd one of the daughters have run most of the poultry bustness, nnother daughter bus reared the calves, while the third daughter has kept the books of the establishment.

Renders mny learn the details of this farmer's work by getting from the United States department of agriculture farmer's bulletin No. 355. Be Good to Old Apple Trees. Old apple trees can be brought back to fniltl'ulness by spreading a thick coat of rich rotted manure around the tree and plowing It under. If ground cannot be plowed fork It under.

The next thing to do is to cut out nil dead branches, all cross limbs nnd suckers growing around the base of tree. These take up the sap which should go Into the fruit. The next thing to be done Is to scrape off the old dead bark, then "ash with strong lye soapy water. a stiff brush to cleanse the bark. Ashes from hard wood may be used in place of soap.

Various tree washes Imve been recommended, but there Is probably nothing better than good homemade soft soap thinned with just enough warm water to make a good suds. If the manure Is of poor quality about one peck of a complete nnimnl bono fertilizer should bo spread around a medium tree and two pecks around a largo tree. Spread It on top of the plowed snd and boo It In. In November nnother dressing of rotted manure should bo spread around each tree and worked Into tho soil. Many an old npple, pear, peach and cherry tree that Is supposed to be worthless needs only good culture and sufficient plant food the right quality to be brought back into full bear ing.

Cattle should not be pastured In the orchard. They pack tho sod so solid ns to prevent a full supply of moisture reaching the tree roots, and they graze the grass so close ns to afford no protection to the roots from the hot sun and drying winds. Try this method with tho old fruit tree. This work may be done any time this month, tho earlier the better. Bumblebees and Butterflies In Clover.

The bumblebee Is friend of the farmer, and so Is the butterfly. In sections where clover peed crops nre depended upon tho value of the bumble- HUNCH 07 BED CLOVER. bee as un agent In fertilizing tho clover blooms Is fully appreciated. A knowledge should bo had of the useful ns well as the destructive Insects, which would prove thnt the fanner has qulto as many good insect friends as ho has destructive ones. Tho clover In tho illustration is tho red species.

It Is 1 favorlto with tho butterfly. Farmer' Families In This Country. It Is estimated that thero nro about 7,000,000 formers' families in tho United States today, taking tho word farmer In its broadest sonso and including til families living In the open country. CLEARING SALE The Giant Event of the Season's End Every Passing Season finds our Stock Broken in everyldepartment. Small lots are bound to accumulate here and therein a busy store like ours.

We never have and never will carry over goods from one season to nnother, no indeed, Sir, the policy of this house demauds that the wearableslhere mentioned leaves us when the season does, so to this end we go through nil departments and clip down the prices unmindful of the cost to us. July is not time for profits. Here following we mean to speak in deeds of many saving opportunities not in words galore so if that means anything to yon rend on STHAUSE BROS. CLOTHES ALL LANDAN BRAND CLOTHES ALL SIZES. SIZES.

S15 Suits low SIO SIO Suits now $7 S18 Suits now SliJ SO Suits now $0 Suits now $ir S8 Suits uow $5 S-" SIS S7 Suits now $4 CHILDREN'S' CLOTHES ALL SIZES. now $3.50 now S2.7.1 now 2.525 now 82.00 S5 Suits S4 Suits S3.50 Suits ty.i.00 Suits BOYS' WASH SUITS ALL SIZES. 50c, 75c, to S1.00 Worth Double the Price. BREGSTEIN BROS. Underwear at Remember the Placc-a H.

C. HAND, President. W. Si. HOLMES, Vice 1'kes.

Wevant you to understand the reasons for the ABSOLUTE SECURITY of this Bank. WAYNE COUNTY HONBSDALE, HAS A CAPITAL OP AND SUEPLUS AND PROFITS OF MAKING ALTOGETHER EVERY DOLLAR of which must be lost before any depositor can lose a l'luiXN It has conducted a growing and successful business" for over 35 years, serving an increasing number of customers with lidelitv and satisfaction. Its cash funds are protected by MODERN "STEEL VAULTS. All of these things, coupled with conservative management, insured by the CAKKI-'UL PKIiSOXAL ATTKNTION constantly given the Hank's atfalrsby nntiihly able Hoard ot Directors assures the patrons of that SAl'KTY which Is the prime essential of a food Hank. Total Assets, ear deposits may p.e made p.y mail.

DIRECTORS II. ('. HAND. A. T.KKAlil.K.

T.U. CLARK SMITH, ll.J.CONliKI!. K. SUVDAM. Ten Cents Daily lagBBB TEN CENTS SAVED every day will, in fifty years, grow to $9,504.

TWENTY CENTS SAVED daily would in fifty years amount to $19,006. The way to accumulate money is to save small sums with regularity. At 3 per cent, compound interest money doubles itself in 25 years and 104 days. At 0 per cent, money doubles itself in 11 years and 327 days. if vou would save 50 cents a day, in 50 years you would have $47,520.

If vou would save $1.00 a day, at the end of 50 years you would have $95,042. Begin NOW a Savings Account at the THREE PER CENT. INTEREST PAID. Money loaned to all Wayne countcansj furnishing good security. Notes discounted.

iirst mortgage 011 real estate taken. Safest and cheapest way to send money to foreign countries Is by drafts, to be had at this bank. HOUSEHOLD BANKS Fit EE. Telephone Announcement This company is preparing to do extensive construction work in the Honesdale Exchange District which will greatly improve the service and enlarge the system Patronize the Independent Telephone Company which reduced telephone rates, anddo not contract for any other service without conferring with our Contract Department Tel. No.

300. CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE CO. of PENNSYLVANIA. Foster Building. CITIZEN PRINT COUNTS First, Last and All the time for the Best MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS ALL SIZES.

Eclipse shirts, high grade in every respects. Coat cut, cuffs attached: $1.50 value ut 81.00 81.00 value nt 70c. TRUNKS AND DRESS SUIT CASES AT HALF PRICE. Reduced Prices. Full Line of Everything.

II. S. SALMON, Cashier WARD, Ass't Cashier SAVINGS BANK $100,000.00 355,000.00 455,000.00 $2,733,000.00 V. 15. HOLMES P.P.

KIMBLE 11. S. SALMON Honesdale Dime Bank.