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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
CHICKEN AND CANARY.
A Firm Friendship That Was Begun In
Singular Way.


Singular Way.
One day last spring, in purchasing a
lot of fowls from her marketman, a
lady in Nashville. Tenn, got one little
bit of a chicken that was almost too
small to eat, and which made it's escape
through the wires of the coop and began
to chirp and cry about the yard. The
lady made no effort to recapture the
little thing. thinking it would be better
off running free about the place. But it
soon became evident that the chick had
been too soon taken from parental care
and was totally unable to provide for
itself. Two whole days passed, during
which it neither ate nor drank, though
the lady tried every means in her power
to provide for it's welfare. The chicken
simply peeped and dropped till the lady
gave up all efforts and left the little
thing to die, which no doubt it would
have done right speedily had it not been
rescued in the following singular man
ner:
1t CHANGED that the lady has pet
canary of which she is very fond and
to which she devotes much care and at
tention. For instance, it is her invari-
able custom in mild weather to turn
the bird out of his cage for certain
portion of each day, letting him have
his bath in a sunny spot on the back
porch. So that morning when the little
chicken was so nearly giving up his
life for lack of food and comfort, it hap
pened that the canary was turned out of
his cage for his hour of freedom in the
sunshine. The lady was watching to
see that no cats came around, and pres
emily she saw the canary trip down the
steps to the lawn, where the little
chicken was crying. For moment the
two little feathered things stood and
looked at each other inquiringly. Then
the bird chirped and made a dab with
it's beak The chicken chirped and
made a dab, too, and pretty soon the
two were chirping and dabbing away
nightly. What the chirps and dabs
meant of course we may not know, but
presently the bird came hopping up the
steps, the chicken following behind.
Making his way to the cage, which sat
open on the floor the bird went in,
chirping and dabbing all the while.
with the chicken following after, and
presently the two little friends were
eating and drinking together.
That was the beginning of the singu-
lar friendship. which continues still I'M
abated. The chicken stayed in the birds
cage with him till it was too large to
get in the door, and then a roost was
placed for it close to the cage hook, so
that they might be near each other at
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the canary throwing seeds down from
his cage to the chicken, and if the
chicken finds a worm he brings it in the
house and chirps under the cage till the
lady lets the bird out when the friends
enjoy the feast together.-Philadelph
Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
THE USEFUL WASP.

A Swarm of Them Kill Four Hundred to
Five Hundred Flies in Twenty Minutes.
By common agreement the wasp is
accepted as emblematical of irritability
and petty malignity; but even this
much-abused hymenopterous insect
plays d beneficial part in the work of
nature.
a number of wasps were seen by Mr..
r. NJ. Darlington. an Irish naturalist,
buzzing about his cows. Closer inspec-
ton revealed that they were all busy
catching flies, and bouncing with the
rapidity of hawks after birds on the
flies as they tried to settle or rest on
some favorite part of the COW. One
white cow drew more wasps than any
of the others, because the moment a
fly alighted it was seen at once against
the skin. When wasp catches fly
it Immediately bites off both wings,
sometimes a leg or two, and occasional
ly the head.
Mr.. Darlington saw some of the wasps
when laden with one fly catch another.
without letting go the first. and then
fly away with both. There was a con-
slant stream of wasps carrying away
flies, probably to feed the larvae in their
nests, and returning again to the cows
to catch more. In about 20 minutes
Mr.. Darlington estimated that between
300 and 400 flies were caught on two
COWS lying close to where he stood.
Perhaps this narrative of good deeds
accomplished will lead people to think
more leniently of the vices of the wasp
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
POWER FROM MELTED SNOW
Hwiss Towns Utilize the Mountain Streams
for Manufacturing Purposes.

Swiss Towns Utilize the Mountain streams
for Manufacturing Purposes.
Besides a considerable number OF
large water-power installations, swift
erland is full of small power plants,
nearly every town in that land OF noun
tains and waterfalls being well sup
piled with power from the white coal.
as the melting snow on the mountain
sides has well been called. When there
are no large streams, says Casters
Magazine, many small ones are i'm
pounded and collected in reservoirs on
the hillsides, and it is rare to find
place of any size which is not well light
ed by the power of some mountain
stream
AT Montreux the electric tramway
gets it's power in this way, and from
the old Roman town of Vevey to the
medieval castle of Chillon one may ride
in trolley car propelled by the power
of an insignificant little stream which
may or may not be noticed when climb
ing up the hillsides just above.
The capabilities of this general utili-
cation of natural power are beginning
to be understood everywhere, and with
the appreciation of the possibilities of
the best methods of long-distance trans
mission, the development of many
mountain streams must surely come.
There are innumerable streams which,
while very small, are yet very high, and
these can with comparatively little diff
ficulty be impounded and carried down
many hundreds of feet, thus making up
for their lack of volume by the great
pressure readily obtainable, and, either
by the use of electricity or compressed
air, the power may be transmitted to
many points of application with but
little loss.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
How to Prevent Group.

Some reading that aOiU prove inter
emitting to young mothers. HOoO to guard
against the disease.
Group is terror to young mothers
and to post them concerning the cause,
first symptoms and treatment is the
object of this item The origin of Group
is common cold. Children who are
subject to it take cold very easily and
Group is almost sure to follow. The
first symptom is hoarseness; this is
soon followed by peculiar rough
cough. which is easily recognized and
will never be forgotten by one who has
heard it. The time to act is when the
child first becomes hoarse. If Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is freely Civ
en- all tendency to Group will soon dis
appear. Even after the croupy cough
has developed 1t will prevent the at
tack. There is no danger in giving
this remedy, for it contains nothing
injurious. For sale by A. L. Pearre,
Frederick, Md.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
REMARKABLE ENTERTAINING
The Host Furnished Everything TOE ni'
Guests.


The Host Furnished Everything TOE niS
Guests.
A Young woman has conf1ded 10
writer in the New York Times some
what extraordinary account of the man
Nor in which wealthy and well-known
New Yorker treats those who are IN
vited to the house parties at his suburb
an home. She was informed by note
from her hostess that carriage Wouli
call for her and her luggage at "a certain
hour to take her to the ferry, where
MIR. x would meet and take charge
of her. At the ferry she found the en-
tire house party. including matrons
with their husbands, young men ana
1naidens, assembled to be looked after
bv Mr.. x The valet checked their
luggage, and in each instance round
trip ticket was returned with the
checks. At the house, in each room
the writing-desk was supplied no. only
with an ample stock of letter-paper,
engraved with the estate name, but also
with box filled with postage stamps
of various denominations, including
special-delivery ones. long-dstance
telephone, connecting with. among
other places, the station telegraph OF
flee, made it possible to talk or wire all
over the country and quite impossible to
pay for the service. On the little guest
card in each room. which gave the
hours of meals and the schedule of
mails and trains. was a little notice:
"visitors are kindly requested not TO
fee the servants" Finally, to cap the
climax, on Sunday morning a maid
brought to the young woman's door,
on tray which was loaded with sim,
liar mssives. small envelope which she
proffered with the simple message:
"For the church box" 1t contained
money for the offertory plate and one of
these envelopes was left with each
quest
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
A SOUDANESE SURPRISE.
Dervishes Found Fighting In Armor Lot

Dervishes Found Fighting In Armor Loft
by the Crusaders 700 Years Ago.
The British expedition against the
mahdi, which has now reached Dom
COLA on the Nile, has made some very
surprising discoveries
On the bodies of many of the dead
Dervishes was found ancient armor.
which has been pronounced by experts
TO date back to the Crusades. 1t is,
therefore, between 600 and 700 years
old. Some of the Dervishes were also
using arms of the same antiquity.
These Oervishes are partly descended
from Arabs, who wandered from Asia
Minor into Egypt, and thence into the
,Soudan, where, in combination with the
aborigines, they have proved the
fiercest and most fanatical race in eX-
istence. Their ancestors were no doubt
among those who fought against the
Crusaders.
The mahdi and his followers have
fallen far below the chivalrous Saladin,
who nursed his adversary, Richard
Coeur-deLion, back to life, and the
Saracens. On the other hand, the mo-
tiyes of the British expedition are less
unselfish than those of the Crusaders
1t has also been reported by explorers
that they have found in the hands of ma
tives in the heart of Africa weapons
closely resembling revolvers, although
they must have been centuries older
than the modern form of those firearms
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
ABSURD THEORIES.
The Ancients' Explanation of the Rising
and Setting of the Sun.

The Ancient5' Explanation of the Rising
and Setting of the Sun.
The recent death of man who had
was fiat recalls the curious theories
entertained by the ancients to explain
the rising and setting of the sun, says
the New York Journal. They thought
the earth was fiat and were greatly puz-
Zled to know how the same sun which
plunged into the ocean at a fabulous
distance in the west could reappear the
next morning at an equally great dis
lance in the east.
A number of remarkable theories
were advanced and every one of them
wrong. The old mythology asserted
that after the sun had dipped in the
western ocean at sunset 1.-THE Iberians
and other ancient nations actually inn
agined that they could hear the kissing
of the waters when the glowing globe
was plunged therein) he was seized by
Vulcan and placed in a golden goblet.
This strange craft, with it's astonish-
ing cargo navigated the ocean by a
northerly course, so as to reach the east
again in time for sunrise the following
morning.
Among the more sober physicists of
old, as related by Aristotle, it was be-
lieved that in some manner the sun was
conveyed by night across the northern
regions and that darkness was due to
lofty mountains. which screened off
the sunbeams during the voyage.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
A Pnnntnal Gar.

The czar does not like to be thought
wanting in punctuality-the politeness
of kings. A Paris correspondent learns
that he wishes it to be known that 1t
was not his fault if he was SO late at the
opera that people began to think of
going away as he entered. The fault
was the want of punctuality of those
who entertained him the same evening
at a grand dinner. He was punctuai,
but did not sit down to table until an
hour later. He and the empress were
kept busy holding a kind of levee. or
drawing-room, not in the programme.
AT dinner the service dragged. The
czar enjoyed most the evening at YER
sailles. The rich stateliness of the
grand apartments. the elegance of the
small rooms, the western view from the
mirrors gallery. the dignity of the
chapel enchanted him. The elegance
of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CEN
fury dresses in the pavane and minuet
was so much admired as to be mentioned
in a telegram to Empress Dowager. a
authority on such matters.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
THE OLD LAWYER.
Depew Says What He Ought to BE to I
Community.

Depew Says What He Ought to BE to the
Community.
know of no more charming member
of the community than the old lawyer,
says Chauncey Depew. l studied with
a Judge who, as l left his Office. had
completed the seth year of his life and
the 65th year of his practice. The old
lawyer is the custodian of the secrets
of the community. If he has been
true to his profession, and to his best in
stincts and teachings, he has been the
benefactor of the village or the town
or the county in which he has spent
his life. He has settled family dis
putes. he has reconciled heirs to the
provisions of wills, he has adjusted sat
isfactorily to all and to the prevention
of family feuds the distribution of es-
tates. he has prevented neighborhood
vendettas on boundary lines. he has
brought old-time enmities into cordial
friendships. he has made clients and
money by being honest. faithful and
true. The secrets of his register, of
his safe and of his memory are the skel-
etons of the family closets of the whole
neighborhood. But the process of mod
ern cremation does not more perfectly
destroy the human frame than does
this lawyers fidelity to his oath keep
out Of sight these family skeletons.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
NO USE FOR LEATHER APRONS.
Samantha Mann Declines to Trade Jelly
Cake for Cold Buckwheats.

Samantha Mann Declines to Trade j ely
Cake for Cold Buckwheats.
When the children used to go to Pos
sum Walk schoolhouse the dinner hour
was time when they gathered together
and compared the contents of their din
ner baskets and traded with each other.
Two doughnuts for piece of pie. one
cookie for a red apple, etc. Some of
the scholars were children of the poorer
class of tenant farmers and their bas-
kets were not filled with anything like
so appetizing an outfit as the baskets
of the others. Mary Jane Squirting, for
instance, used to come to school with
buckwhea cakes for dinner. They were
Of the large kind, about 16.inches round
and a quarter of an inch thick. They
had been buttered thinly while hot, but
the butter would melt quickly and the
cakes Would be as cold as tombstones
by the noon hour.
Still, they were the best that Mary
Jane had. and as the spirit of barter
beat in her humble breast she essayed
to exchange a couple of these pieces dc
resistance to Samantha Mann for a
slice of jelly cake. Samantha turned
up her snub nose trifle higher and said
in scornful tone:
ooh, yes; now, Mary Jane Spurlin'.
you don't git me to trade any O. my nice
jelly cake fur one o. your ole luther
aprons"
And Mary Jane Squirting never smiled
again
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
HER CURIOSITY WAS SATISFIED.
Met the Man Who Had Been SOlicitOus
for Her.

for Her.
A Vienna paper relates an amusing
incident which occurred to great lady
who had just recovered from long and
severe illness. Seated in her boudoir
she was looking over the cards of con-
dolence that had been left for her while
ill. Among the names of counts, bar
ons and other aristocratic sympathizers
emblazoned with coronets and coats of
arms, she came across simple card
with the plain inscription: Hermann
Berger"
In vain the lady asked who Hermann
Berger was. None of her servants could
give her any other information than
that the individual was a remarkably
handsome young man. The lady's GU
riosity became excited and she gave or
ders to admit the stranger if he should
call again.
The order was punctually obeyed.
and on the following day she received
a really charming young man. dressed
in the most exquisite style, who evident
ly appeared greatly embarrassed at
the honor of tete-a-tete with the still
brilliant though somewhat faded
beauty.
81 can hardly find words" said the
lady, with a blush, "to thank you for
the sympathy which you have mani
tested for stranger"
81 beg your pardon, gracious lady"
stammered the dandy. "but am the
agent for Messrs. A. B., the under
takers!"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
Smallest Coal Mine.

The smallest coal mine in the world
is in the southern province of New
Zealand, where, according to the re-
ports of the inspectors of mines for the
colony, the Murray creek colliery is
worked by one man, T. Bolitho, China
man, who owns, manages and works this
small, but to him valuable, coal mine
There is another small coliiery in the
same province worked by one man with
the assistance of donkey. The next
smallest colliery is in England, in the
village of Nelson, in Lancashire. 1t is
situated near the Golfers Arms, and
affords employment for two miners,
father and con, who combine in them
selves the positions Of proprietors, man
ayers, miners and haulers of the under
taking They have the assistance of a
donkey, and all the output of the mine
is sold to the householders who live in
the village or it's immediate vicinity.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
TWO QUEER CHUMS.
Black-and-Tan Scratches Up Worms +
Baby Chicks.

Black-and-Tan Scratches Up Worms for
Baby Chicks.
Black-andtan dogs are not expected
to earn their own living, any more than
dolls and other such pets; but the In
dianapolis Sentinel reports an interest
ing exception to the rule. AS the story
goes, the mistress of the dog is also a
keeper of hens. One of these was sit
ting upon "clutch" of 10 eggs, and
Don, the black -and-tan, soon became
very curious to know why she stayed
in the barn so closely.
The dog, as it appears, had formerly
been given to teasing the hen, snatch
ing her food away from her, and other
wise making himself a torment; but
this intercourse had gradually turned
into friendship, and the two would
sometimes be seen lying and squatting
side by side in the sun, on bit of car
ret in the back porch.
During the three weeks that the hen
sat on her eggs Don used to pay daily
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
Victoria,a L.arder

When dinner is given at Windsor or
buckingham palace fish to a huge out
lay of money is ordered, but for ordi-
nary family dinner three kinds of fish
are put on the table, whiting being al
most invariably one of them A sirloin
OF beef is cooked every day and put on
the sideboard cold for luncheon. Her
majesty's wine, which is well known to
be incompatible, is kept in the cellar
OF st. James palace and is sent in
nasketfuls of three dozen to wherever
her majesty may be, this being done
more for the household and guests than
TOT herself, as when alone she drinks
only very weak whisky and water with
ner meals, by her physicians orders
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
SHE LEARNED THE NAME.
Although the Stage Driver Was Reticen'
He Finally Relaxed.

He Finally Relaxed.
Eastern tourists who cannot differ
enLiate between a Califorl ia SAGE
driver and an eastern coachman meet
with rude shock in the wild and woolly
west, and they soon learn that the Cali
fornian is knight of the reins several
grades higher in the social scale than
the mental of the east. says the San
Francisco Post.
There is an old driver at Monterey
who is determined that his patrons
shall make no mistake concerning his
exact status. and in a quiet way he
checks all attempts to make servant
of him. A short time ago he was drlv-
ing "a party of tourists about when one
queruous old lady who had annoyed
him not a little by her air of superb
Gritty, asked:
''Nly man, do you know the name of
that wild fower?'
Yep" he replied, and ficked one of
his leaders with the whip.
She paused for moment for him to
give the name, but he merely chuckled
to the wheelers.
"Driver, do you know the name OF
that flower?' she repeated. in an i'm
perious tone.
"Yep; get up there, Bally!"
Again she waited and again demand
ed:
"Man, don't you know the name OF
that f1ower?"
yep; g'long there, Pete"
"Then why don't you tell me?'
"Oh, you want to know. too. do your
That's q wild rose"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
Sat on Eggs.

Offenders of high rank at the Rus
sian court were punished in singular
way by Peter the Great. 1t was the
duty of Qserybody else at court to con-
slider and treat the delinquent as a
fool. When Anne, the daughter of
Peters elder brother, Ivan, came to the
throne she originated an even queerer
form of punishment. She decreed that
a certain prince should become hen.
and for this purpose she had made q
large basket, stuffed with straw, and
followed into a nest, with quantity of
eggs in it. This was placed in a con-
spicuous place in the queens palace,
and there, under pain of death. the un-
fortunate prince was obliged to set day
after day, initiating the cackling of the
fowl he was supposed to represent
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
when che Heard Rests.

Nature takes the time when one is
lying down to give the heart rest, and
that organ consequently makes ten
strokes less q minute than when one is
in an upright posture. Multiply that
by 60 minutes, and it is 600 strokes.
Therefore. in eight hours spent in lying
down the heart is saved nearly 5000
strokes. and, as the heart pumps six
ounces of blood with each stroke, it lifts
10000 ounces less Of blood in night Of
eight hours spent in bed than when one
is in an upright position. AS the blood
flows so much more slowly through the
veins when one is lying down. one must
supply with extra covering the warmth
usually furnished by circulation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
Christianizlne a Chinaman.

A lady recently took into Aer seF'.v.
a Chinaman and began to CHRISTIAN.
him. Shortly afterward some S",s,
spoons were missing. Then she tausn'
him the apostles creed and = was ~
covered that valuable piece Of P''''
bad been stolen. His benetaetTeSs'
loath TO suspect her new conTer'.S'''5
ed in to teach him the ten coInin"l'-
ments. BY the time he was a'ie 'ols
peat the first commandment ine svd"V
stole her watch. Then the ph.Ianin.!.VP
ic lady's son rebeIled. "Motnef,
exclaimed. "for heavens sake ooD
teach that pig-tailed scaIaVag an, ~,
more or by the time you've eot a',n ~
the tenth commandment he "iii nav ,i
stolen the house and taken the 'e'i''
along with It'll"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-27
HAS CANCER ITS MIcRoBE7
An Interesting Discovery Which May
Mean Much.

An Interesting Discovery which May
Mean Much.
A misunderstanding discovery, which
will, perhaps, afford clew to the cause
of cancer, has been made in Prof. Won
Leyden's university hospital here, says
a Berlin letter to the London Standard
a young woman of % and a man of o.
both suffering from dropsy and cancer
of the stomach. were brought to the
hospital last spring. In order to remove
the accumulated fluid tapping was re
sorted to in both cases. The fluid was
examined under the microscope and
hitherto unknown living organisms, be-
longing probably to the protocol, were
discovered.
Prof Waldeyer, to whom the prepar-
htions were submitted. advised that they
should be sent to DR.. Schaudinn. assist
ant at the Geological institute of the
Berlin university. who has been investi-
eating the protocol for years past. He
began his examination on July 10 and
ascertained that in both cases the fluid
contained a rhizpod, which he named
Leydenia gemmipara schaudinn. He
inferred that it is pathogenic organ
ism. but both he and Prof. Won Leyden
still abstain from deciding as to the
connection between it and cancer,
though they admit the possibility of
such ii connection. They have made
a preliminary communication on the
subject to the Berlin Academy of Sci