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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH.
Sad Effects of Too Much Candor In ar
Ari Mansion.

Sad Effects OF Too ETuch Candor In an
Aristocratic Mansion.
Two fair young girls sat in dainty
boudoir gazing into each others eyes,
says the New York Herald.
eve are such good friends, Marcia,
said one, land we cam afford to say
to each other just what we think. Now,
l have such Il splendid scheme. Sup
pose we start out to-day by telling each
other the exact truth, without regard
to amy question of politeness."
"How perfectly lovely, Lobelia,
cooed the younger girl of the two.
Lets begin right away. What do
you think of me?'
81 think" said Marcia, that you are
almost as pretty as you think you are,
and when you don't try to be you are
the most charming girl in the world"
"How awfully good of you" rejoined
the other, land do you know that when
YOU came in | was thinking that you
looked just like one of those big feather
busters which had taken a notion to
walk? Only your feet are so very large
that the illusion was not quite perfect"
Two disheveled young women, with
their faces cross lined by scratches,
were taken out of that aristocratic
mansion five minutes later and hurried
in an ambulance TO the nearest hos
Dital
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
STOOD BY HER RIGHTS.
How q Woman Lawyer Had the Las
Word.


How Woman Lawyer Had the Last
Word.
The woman lawyer slammed pile of
briefs down before the judge, accord
ing to the New York Herald, and said:
81 move to discharge the prisoner ON
the ground that the prosecution have
not proved their case and that the evil
dence is irrelevant and immaterial.
motion granted" said the Judge
''No more dastardly outrage was ever
perpetrated," began the lawyer, than
the incarceration of this, my innocent
client lie was engaged in the pursuit
of his daily vocation, when the strong
arm of the law descended upon him.
He"
Madam" said the judge, "have / not
already told you that your motion was
granted? The prisoner is discharged"
"He was a man without guile" con-
tinued the fair counselor. ''He sup
ported his family AS best he could. He
was in the midst of his family circle
when a minion of the law entered and
demanded his immediate incarcera-
ton"
81 have already decided in your
favor, madam, as I have told you
twice" drawed the Judge. what
more DO vou want?"
What more do want, indeed?' cried
the woman lawyer, her face flushing to
a crimson hue why, want to argue
this case. stand on my constitutional
right as a woman to have the last
word. and ! rlCan to have it."
And she did.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
CHANCES OF LONGEVITY.
Primary Conditions Necessary to a Long
and Healthy Life.

Primary conditions necessary TO q Long
and Healthy Life.
''The primary conditions of longev-
ity," the Medical Record quotes Mr..
+. w. Warmer as saying, ARE that the
heart, lungs and digestive organs, as
well as the brain, should be large. Ii
these organs are large the trunk will
be long and the limbs comparatively
short. The person will appear tall
in sitting and short in standing. The
hand will have long and somewhat
heavy palm and short fingers. The
brain will be deeply seated, as shown by
the orifice of the ear being low. The
blue hazel or brown hazel eye, as show
ing an intermission OF temperament,
is a favorable Indication. The nostrils
being large, open and free indicates
large lungs. A pinched and half-closed
nostril indicates small or weak lungs.
"In the case of persons who have
short-Hved panentage on one side and
long-lived on the other side the ques-
ton becomes more involved 1t is
shown in grating by hybridizng that
nature makes supreme effort to pass
the period of the shorter longevity and
extend the life to the greater longevity.
Anyone who understands these weak
and dangerous periods of life is fore
warned and forarmed. 1t has been OBJ
served that the children of long-ived
parents mature much later and arc
usually backward in their studies"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
she CARRIES TIE MAIL.
Plucky Ida Minton and Her Life in the
Mountains.

Plucky Ida Minton and Her Life in the
Mountains.
The road from Castlow to Anderson
vile is through one of the toughest re-
gions of Kentucky, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Robberies are frequent, and
many a brave man has hesitated and
looked well to his gun before entering
on The trip. To Mrs. Minton, however,
the highway has no terrors. She enjoys
the unique distinction of being proba
bly, the only female mail-carrier in
Uncle Sans service who rides horse
back fearlessly through the forests
with her pouch, which contains the
missives which are the only means of
communication with the world at large
to the residents of Andersonville.
She is typical Kentucky mountain
girl, active. strong, fearless and very
intelligent. She is an excellent horse
woman. No animal is too high spirited
for her, nor does she need help in
mounting and dismounting. With the
ruail pouch thrown across the pommel
of her saddle, she rides fearlessly along
the lonely highway, and it is safe to
say that anyone interfering with Uncle
Sans mail would have to be better
and quicker shot than the ordinary
man, or very well mounted, to stop the
mail.
Mrs. Minton has been married two
years. It was from her own inclination
to help earn money that she took the
contract to carry the mails for three
years. She has now completed eight
months of her contract.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
ATE a BARREL OF EGGS a DAY.
Shipwrecked Men subsisted on Them for
Twelve Days.

shipwrecked Men subsisted on Them for
Twelve Days.
do you like eggs?" was the question
that stirred up '49er" to make
some talk in a Bangor store the other
day. He was an old man, says the
Lewiston (Afe.) journal, and he
Strengthened up TO something like the
height of his prime as he answered:
81 had surfeit of them once. Twas
many years ago when was on the way
home from California. We left the
isthmus on good brig bound for New
York but ran into coral reef in the
Caribbean sea and we're wrecked. Ii
was a patch of sand just out of the
water, but you ought to see the fiocks
of sea fowl that nestled on it. They
had to move out of the way to give us
room to stay there and that was about
all they would do. Their nests were
everywhere and there were eggs in
abundance. We ate about barrel OF
them every day during the IL days
we were there. Some of us got OFF in
a boat anti went to San Juan, in
Nicaragua, where we got a vessel to
go after those we left on the reef. That
vessel was commanded by William
Lawrence, of Bath, who was killed by
a man named Wilkinson while he was
a policeman there. We tried to get
to the reef but bad weather stove US
up so we had to set in for New Or
leans, where we found the rest of the
men rescued by another vessel. But
eggs''-the old mans face took on pc
culiar expression.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25

10 throw COW, secure her by the
halter to post, then take rope Zone
half or three-quarter-inch). fasten to
head or make collar loose around
neck; now pass rope between forelegs.
take half hitch about the body just be-
hind the forelegs, then pass along the
side to secure part of body just before
the hind legs and take another half
hitch about the body; two men take
hold OF rope, step behind COW and pull
steady. and soon down comes cow: Sc
cure legs and you have her and can OBJ
crate on her as you wish.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
MANY STILL SPEAK GAELIC.
BY No Means an Extinct Language In
Spite of Its Position Here.

BY NO Means an Extinct Language In
Spite of Its Position Here.
A new appointment has been made
from Waterford to the chair of profess
sor of Gaelic in Maynooth college, Ire
land. The new appointee is member
of the Gaelic league of Dublin, and
was the first editor of the Archaeolog-
ical Journal, of Waterford. The opin-
ion is very general that Gaelic is an
extinct language, or one nearly eX-
tinct, and the labors of the Gaelic so
ciety in New York to revive its use
have lent some color to that opin on.
Neveftheless, as figures show, the
Gaelic tongue is most tenacious, and,
according to the last reports, is spoken,
though not exclusively, by 100000
persons in the British Isles 100000 in
Ireland, $4,000 in Wales and 100000 III
Scotland.
Though English is the official Ian
guage of all these countries, the pop
ularity of English increases slowly de
spite the disadvantage under which
those who use Gaelic labor, that of hav-
ing no established grammar and no
recognition in an official way. Gaelic
fulflls the colloquial requirements of
the farmers and fishermen in the coun-
ties remote from the large cities, some
what as the Basque language continues
to be popular in the northern provinces
OF Spain.
In this country Gaelic has made little
Roadway, though many patriotic irish
men have by various methods endcav-
ored to acquaint others less patriotic
with it's advantages. While the use of
most European languages has about
doubled in rs years, five times as many
persons speak English as did in 1920.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
klcholas oil scotch ORIGIN.

A claim is put forth that the czar is
to some extent Scotsman. Gar Paul,
when in London, is said to have fallen
in love with Miss MacGregor, young
woman noted for her beauty, who hap
pened to be riding her Shetland pony in
Hyde Park. He married her privately.
so the story goes, and she was the moth
err of Nicholas /. The present car
would, therefore, be her great-grnnd
son.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
r-S---
a YOU'D" OF TOBACCO.
How n Small Thing stopped Operations
On n Great War Ship.

How q Small Thing SCOPPo"
ON a Great War Ship
Lieut.. Emile Duboc tells an amusing
story of an event, which, he says &c.
tainiy led to the downfall OF nydrauiio
machinery in the French service
fevv vears AGO the authorities OF great
sbipbuilding firm were very much per
+nrbed when the trials for turning the
turrets of new battle ship, IN Ine p
ence of the committee appointed 10 IaNe
over the ship, were failures. day OF
two before everything had gone satls-
factorily. But now the turreV'
some slight movements, stuck ldsO'
The gauges indicated the normal pres
sure: there was nothing wrong WIN
the turret or with the racks for rotat-
ing it: there was no perceptlble leak
in any of the pipes, and IL was So III
possible to assign any reason lor Tue
behavior of the turret that the com
mittee had to go home without seeing
,t reyolve. That evening and the fol-
lowing day complete overhaul was
made of the system OF piping, ana II
was then discovered that one small put
important pipe was completely chokeo
by 'quid" of chewed tobacco, winch
workman had doubtless let fall into IL
inadvertently. When this was re-
moved the turret worked as well as
ever, but the disquietude caused by the
want of success of the day before was
only increased when it was discovered
how insignificant the cause had been
From that day the naval authorities de-
cided that in future wherever practlc-
able the power for battle ship opera
tions should be carried by a wire in
IL, cfo nj ne
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25


. 1,aa1tt,v babv IS the real Jewel for which
the wedding ring is only the settlng.
sTsi,are is no place in Natures economy fo1
= chiIdless marriage. Welded couples that
are childless are never truly married.
babv is re tie that binds. The Dapy is tiie
pledge that makes husband ana WIG one ~
t1at,1Te and in fact, and that teaches mutual
ee1f-sacrifice and sympathy. Ihousands OF
couples are clildless because OF the wife 8
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women fully appreciate the Importance OF
keeping healthy and vigorous the organs
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a consequence, they are weak where they
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
A Smart Brother.

A negro was discovered carrying a
very large armful of books, which
brought forth the inquiry:
"Going to school?"
eyes, sab, boss"
"Do you study all those books?"
"No, sab; dey's my brudder's. Use
ignorant kind er niger side him,
boss. You jest orter see dat niger
fggerin'. He done gone an ciphered
clean through addition, partition, sub
traction, distraction, abomination, JUS
tification, creation, amputation and
adoption"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
cAusTIc I'M MOTHS.
Discovery of the Substance Used In Es-
Gaping from Cocoons.

Discovery of the Substance Used In Es-
Gaping from Cocoons.
A most remarkable chronological dis
covcry has been announced by Oswald
Latter, the great naturalist. 1t is to the
effect that the image of the moth Dicra-
nura vinula secretes a pure caustic
potash which it uses to penetrate the
tough sillIen bag or cocoon in which
1t is Enclosed, says the ST. Louis Repub-
lie.
Caustic potash is, as most everyone
knows, powerful caustic which de-
stroys skin and flesh when brought in
contact with if. That it should be Sc
GREETED or formed in the mouth or inter-
nal anatoI y of any living creature is
SO singular and unlikely that the ento-
mologists were at first inclined to dis
believe the story as related by Mr.. Lat
ter, in telling Of his discovery.
1t has long been known that this par
ticular species of moth used some kind
of liquid with which to soften the CO
coon when he arrived at the age when
nature limited that it was time to get
rid of the silken envelope, but Mr.. Lat
ter's experiments have for the first time
disclosed the nature of that liquid.
Prof. Latter made this singular discov-
cry by clipping the ends from cocoons
and catching the liquid when it was
elected. This he subjected to chemical
analysis.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
China, Glassware
AND
Housefurnjshing Goods.

1 can now offer houseful Of The latest in
portations of China, consisting of Dlnu er, Tea
and Toilet sets, in all the various grades o.
English and French China.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
;. GLASSWARE :.

was never SO pretty as the factories are nov
low. | have Just unpacked a car load Of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25
A Mixed verdict.

A London jury the other day brought
In the following decidedly mixed YER
dict: "We find the prisoner not guilty,
and that he admitted his guilt through
Ignorance. and we strongly recommend
him to mercy
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-12-25

IT'S ADVANTAl5

Being a selfTegulator, is .Ha2, ies 'siess
BUSINESS Stacks up al SD ua|#". .'. 5as
new grip in the shade. ttHHN An
runaway team to reconsida- 3, q, lol "a
unruly bull is as safe a- "a eHit.l w +. nan
IL says 10 the festive hog. "l0a- s+s h
go, &c. The fierce winds sna -i'" .,,na.
not. The trespasSeT is net ti .'o '1I,ue
ton" and the rail Stealer'- utt. ,5 seI
Write for circulars and lt-e'
largely of il.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-05

With this solemn obligation, shortly after
noon at Trenton, Jonn W. Griggs. of;Passatc
County, became the thirty-hfth Governor OF
New Jersey. As his lips touched the sacred
book held out to him by Chief Justice Mercer
Beasley bugler OF the Naval Reserves, sta
toned in front Of Taylor's Opera House,
in which the inauguration took place, gave
a flourish. Another reserve on the roof OF
the theatre waved signal flag. which was
answered by another OF New Jerseys Young
man-of-war's men on the roof of the State
House, and the gun detachment OF the sew
enth Regiment, stationed on the bank OF the
Delaware. in the rear Of the Capitol, In
Governors salute announced the fact to the
thousands OF people who thronged the streets
of Trenton. It was one OF the most notaple
events in the history of the States capital.
Not since the time the Washington monu-
ment was unveiled and the Governors OF III
most all the original thirteen States, with
large d stachments of their militia, were there
has Trenton held anything like the throngs
which surged through her streets. All the
roads entering thu city ran extra trains,
which, together with those OF their regular
schedules, began to bring in the crowds early
In the morning until it was estimated at
eleven o'clock that there were at least ten
thousand strangers in the capital.
, AT II o'clock the Governor-elect was
driven to the State House. escorted BY two
detectives, who hurried him through the
throng to the private office OF Governor
Werts. They were soon Joined by the JOINT
Legislative committees having charge OF the
inaugural exercises. and shortly before noon
they started for the Taylor Opera House,
where the oath was administered to the new
Governor by Chief Justice Bsasley.
~ At the close of the inaugural exercises
Governor Grieps. the members Of the Legis-
lature and the distinguished statesmen were
taken In carriages to the stand in front OF
the State House from which they reviewed
the procession. =.
TIE procession was remarkable one. II
was entirely OF civil organizations, and was
composed Of Republican clubs from almost
every one OF the twenty-one counties OF the
State. At least 5000 men were in line, and,
although they marched In platoons exteno,
ing from curb to curb In State street, broad
thoroughfare, 1t took the procession nifty
minutes to pass the stand.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-05
THREE LIVES FOR AN EXPERIMENT,


Explosion of Acetylene Gas Wrecks
Building at New Haven, Conn.
AT New Haven, Conn.,, three lives were
lost as the result ofan explosion OF aeetylene
gas, which wrecked the four story brick
block at the head of Orange street, occupied
by English & Mersick and Frank Pdeghar
Son, machinists.
The killed were: Joseph C. Hauser, ma
chtnIst; Harbona Stephens, bookkeeper;
Thomas Toof.' Three other men were IN
jured.
The explosion occurred in the tool room
OF Pfieghar's shop, which is on the third
floor of the main building. Experiments
we're being made in the workings OF machin-
cry designed to control acetylene gas, ana
the gas was contained in two pipes four feet
long and about six inches in diameter. Tne
gas was 80 compressed in these cylinders
that 1t was in liquid form.
In the tool room were Joseph z. Hauser,
Frank Richter, Alexis Krah, the foreman;
James Mcneil, Louis Richter and Mr.. Paeg-
har and his two SONS. They were all work
ing about the engine. Hauser and Richter
being right over 1t when the explosion oc-
Cured.
Both were hurled to the ceiling and Hau-
ser's right arm and leg were blown OF, kill
ing him instantly. Richter was knocked un-
conscious and burned somewhat about the
face and head, but otherwise was unhurt.
After the flames had been fought back the
dead bodies Of Harbona Stephens, book
keeper, and Thomas Toof, a son OF Edwin j.
Toof, who also had shop In the building.
were found in the ruins. The last seen OF
Stephens he was putting his books in the safe
when the flames enveloped him.
Alexis Krah, foreman Of the factory. was
severely burned about the head and face, and
John Higgins. fremap. was injured by fall
ing debris. The total loss Is estimated at
S100, 900. and it is fully covered by insur-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-05
cERMANY's GREAT CELEBRATION.

Twenty-Five Years Ago the Empire Was
Declared In Paris. '-.F.
The twenty-ffth anniversary OF the proc
Iamation of the German Empire was OBJ
served as an absolute holiday In Berlin and
other German cities. Services ware held In
all the churches and synagogues in the city.
and the public buildings and private houses
were decorated with flags. Besides the i'm
perial ceremonies in the White Hall OF the
Schloss, there were many feasts and cere-
monies, pubic and private, throughout
Berlin. ...
Professor weinhold delivered an oration In
the university and the Acaiemy Glee Union
gave a concert In the eyenining $500 stu
dents met at banquet at the Friedrich
stein Brewery, and there was also veterans
banquet at the Concordia Festsalle, followed
by rableaux vivant representing events OF
the war of 1870.
Directly after this the Emperor proceeded
to the courtyard of the castle, where he
mounted his horse and rode at the head OF
the color company to the Lustearten. There
he took up position under balcony upon
which were the Empress, Empress Frederick,
and the young Princes. The parade OF the
troops which followed was very fine and In
cluded large number Of veterans.
A new order has been created in honor Oh
the occasion, the decoration consisting OF
gold portrait of the Emperors grandfather,
William l., with the inscription, I'm memory
of William the Great" The decoration Is to
be worn on neck chain.