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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
FIRES!DE FRAGMENTS

"A dish Of water placed in .
oven where pies, cakes or puddings a ~"
being baked will prevent them :. a'e
scorching. ''n
An excellent and simple reno,
for sprain is made by mixina ~
well-beaten whites of six eggs onT
half cupful of table salt topetb q
Apply between thin muslin cloths
Rice Pudding.-To be eaten 49,.
One large spoonful of rice. one o 9oQ
of milk, a pinch of salt, four t aId'
spoonfuls of sugar. Bake very sIar'
four hours, and flavor with vanis.
Home and Farm.
"A French method of cleaning Il,
gloves is to put on the gloves and Wy V
them well in spirits of turpentine 1'A
actly as if washing the hands = ~ N"
fingers and soiled parts must be ,r'r
rubbed, and when tht gloves are tal s4
off they must be stretched and alIo,,.-.
to dry hanging in a strong current =,
air.
Beaten Biscuit.-Sift a ouar.
flour, add a teaspoonful of salt and
tablespoonful of lard; mix well 80
add sweet milk to make a stiff don-1
Knead well, and beat for half an b[.'
until light and elastic. Roll thin ~
out with a. biscuit-cutter, put in a Nos
and set in a moderate oven 10 hal,
until brown.-Ladies' Companion
-Croquettes.-Two cupfuIs of vs,,
mashed potatoes, one-quarfor crnf-
of hot milk, beaten together rnt,,
light. Add one tablespoonful of r,.r,
ed butter, one-half teaspoonful of sal.
a pinch of mace or nutmeg and elong
beaten egg to handle easily. shas
dip into beaten egg and lut} in sif,a
cracker crumbs. Fry in hot lard until
nicely Drowned. Garnish sri parslr
Good Housekeeping.
Sunshine Cake.-Whitrs Of f.,
eggs and the yoll5s of seven, IL. cm,
Of graduated sugar, measured aft,
sitting, one cupful Of Gour after Sin.
ing four times, one tea-uoufrI N
cream Of tartar and one OFT orange ey.
tract. Beat the whites to q frotb a-l
add the sugar. Beat the yoILs thor.
oughly, and add to them the whites
the sugar and the fayoriHr. Last III
all, stir in the -four. Mix aucklya and
well. Bake in a slow o}eu-N. VI
LEDGER.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
Transfers of Real Estate.

The following are the transfers of real
estate as recorded in the Clerks office
since our last issue:
Herman l.. RoutZahn and wife, to
Emory l.. CoblentZ, IA square perches
of land, more or less, SIG. Daniel Light
and wife, to Mary Shorb, house and
lot in Frederick County, $500. Real
Estate & Improvement Company of
Baltimore City, to Richard o. Conway,
parcel of ground in Brunswick, 5000.
Robert Biggs and John g. Motter,
committee, to Clarence G. Bowers, real
estate in Lewistown, $3.50. William
III. Schloegei, trustee, to Otto Rambler
ger, real estate in Brunswick, $7,975.
David Kailer, to Mary j. Koogle, lot,
etc, III Frederick, love, etc. jeremiah
Flohr, to Henry G. Smith, 80 acres of
mountain land, $40. James G. Smith
and wife, to Henry G. Smith, acre,
more or less, $500. Henry M. Gittin-
ger and wife, to VIM. III. Hahn, lot of
ground in Frederick city, $500. Rich
ard DAVIS and wife to William Gather.
144 acres, 2 roods and IS square perches
of land, $4,000. William Saxton and
wife, to Samuel w. Barrick, 943 square
perches of land, $50. John A. SaXton
and wife, to Samuel w. Barrick, 81
acres and % square perches of land,
ST, 904 O6.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29

facturer, with his native love of color,
never fails to fasten to the wicker cas-
ing of his wine bottle, were left, and
afforded the only brilliant tones in the
dainty novelty.
Another lamp to be desired, seen in a
studio noted for it's fascinating col
lection of old brasses and glass, was
fashioned of one of the brass milk cans
which are among the finds of Holland.
The can had been slightly beaten and
highly polished, and into it's four-inch
neck was fitted lamp fount. a yell
low silk shade added the finishing
touch.
In the den of a bachelor a foundation
for lamp has been laid with three
Turkish daggers. Their handles, rest
ing on the table, the curved blades hold
the fount. The original thought which
designed this unique ornament has car
ried out the oriental scheme in the
shade, which is made of a brightly
striped silk scarf of Turkey.
The fortunate possessor of two tall,
single candelabra of the Empire period
has, with the aid OF pale yellow and
a. leh1b OAIO eldlNl SlAetNiN ~
match, added two of the most charming
Illuminating vehicles imaginable to her
artistic menage. The same little house
wife has supplied much-desired blue
and white lamp for q white dining
room by purchasing for mere song a
tall candlestick of imitation Delft and
supplying it with white porcelain
bulb and a shade made of blue and
white japanese crepe.
An inexpensive and in every way sat
isfactory toilet lamp is easily evolved
from any one of the pretty porcelain
candlesticl1s picked up occasionally, at
a very small investment, in the leading
crockery houses. The simple old brass
and silver calldlesticlls that are a
heritage from our grandmothers will
also be found very available for the
same purpose.-N. Y. Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
A Whitsuntide Celebration.

All Saints Episcopal Sunday School
celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on
last Tuesday evening. The event was
exclusively a children's festival and
was not to celebrate the organization
of the school, but the date of the COM
lleg Of the present pastor. The church
was beautifully decorated with cut
flowers aud potted plants, and beau
tlful and interesting program was car
ried out. Miss Theresa Lynch, a
teacher, and Miss Mabel Lillian
Thomas, pupil, who were taken
away during the year by death, were
remembered by appropriate emblems
in memoriam-a crown of white. The
annual report of Mr.. Dorsey Owings,
secretary, was read showing an aver
age of 2.25 scholars; Y being added dur
ing the year. The offerings of the even
ing amounted to SAT. The yearly schol-
arships will be paid and the balance
sent to Martinsville, ILL.,, for the bene-
fit of church there recently revived
through the efforts of Mrs. Virginia
DeLashmutt, formerly of Frederick.
Special offerings were made for the
organ fund of All Saints, Rev. Addi-
son Ingle's work in China and Bishop
Penick's in Africa. In the closing adj
dress of MIR. Ingle he said that one
teacher and four scholars had died
during the year. The music of the
evening was under the direction of
Miss Annie Campbell assisted by a
choir of young ladies.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
First News of the Horror

Chicago, May 27-The local weather office
reported at s O'Clock tonight that it had re-
ceived word from the Western Union that 1t
would be able to furnish no report of any kind
from St Louis, ION account of cyclone at that
point
The officials of the weather office would not
say that there had been cyclone at that place.
as they had no positive information on the
point, but they said the conditions had been
very favorable for severe local storms all
through that section to-day.
The operator of the Associated Press said at
a few minutes after O'Clock: sit is getting
very dark here, and asked for minutes de-
lay in the handling of the report. A second
later the wires were gone, and nothing has
been heard from him since.
AT the race track at Lakeside, Ind, which
receives reports on the st. Louis races as they
are ruG during the day, the operator sent the
message: "There goes the grand stand,' and
then nothing more was heard from him. AS
far as known that is the last word by wire from
st. Louis to-day.
At $50 O'Clock tonight it was reported that
the cyclone had passed through East st. Louis,
wrecking the freight-houseS of the Vandalia
road, killing 35 men and destroying the round
house of the Wabash road. 1t is not known
whether any lives were lost IN the latter pulld-
ing or not.
From oclock until 80 the operators of the
Wabash road were unable to get any word from
any part of the country lying south of Decatur
At a few minutes after the operator at De-
catur reported to the main dispatch Office at
Forest, H., that a cyclone had passed throug n
the country south of Decatur, doing great
damage.
In half an hour he had sent word that Sec
ond windstorm had passed across the country
nearly in the track of the first, and that all the
wires were down south of Decatur. $50 the
operator al a small office not far from East ST.
Louis had Just sent word thata terrible cyclone
had passed through the latter place, scattering
cars all over the tracks, killing 80 men in the
wreck of the Vandalia freight house, and WHIP
ing the roundhouse of the Wabash road out of
exiSterc e.
The operator at Decatur has not been able to
get any further information.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
First Authentic Reports.

Louisville, KY, May ia telegraph opera
tor at Carondelet, four miles south ofSt. Louis,
says "a railroad man just walked out from
st. Louis reports town almost completely
wrecked, and reports hundred of lives lost,
street cars stopped, lights all out and every
thing in great confusion. He says several
buildings, Including hospital wrecked; streets
almost impossible from debris and great vol
umes of water
st. Louis, No. May GA tornado blowing
at the rate of so miles an hour struck st. Louis
at 5.l5 this evening and ragged for half an hour
with great fury
AS a result 100 lives were lost on both sides of
the river. Many buildings were blown down
and several river steamers sunk with all on
board
AT present it is impossible to estimate the
number of lives lost. The hospitals are tull of
injured and the morgue contains many dead,
while numbers of the slain lay everywhere
among the ruins of demolished buildings.
A portion of the east end of the Eads bridge
was destroyed.
The grandstand at the Fair Grounds and the
wolnans portion of the Jail were blown down.
TN Waters q Pierce Oil Works are burning,
and buildings in various sections of the town
are on fire.
The Plant Flour Nillsand ST. Louis Iron and
Steel Works were demolished, and the i'm
mense Cuprles block was partially destroyed.
The dead and injured are being rapidly
taken from the ruins. AT East st. Louis the
destruction seemed greatest. III. G. Rice, the
western onion Manager at the Relay depot,
on the East side, climbed across the demOliSh-
ed bridge and reported that the National
Hotel, fremont House. Martell House, De-
Wolf Cafe, Hazel Milling Company's Mills,
Horns cooper shops, and great many dwell
1ngs east of there, as far as Fifth street, were
gone, and that many people were killed.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Nandalia
roundhouses, Standard Oil Works, East st.
Louis and Crescent Elevators and IL freight
houses on the levee were demolished.
The Republic and several more excursion
steamers, with all on board are reported sunk
in the river, and all the steamers on the levee
have gone down.
The City Hospital is full of wounded and the
morgue contains great number of dead. A
rough estimate would place the number OF
killed and wounded at 600. Both the West
ern Union and Postal Companies lost every
wire out of the city, whichis in total darkness.
1t is impossible 10 get off any more details
here at present.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
NOT AT HOME.
New Way of Getting Rid of Bill Col
lector.

n
Iector.
The death of Tom Hannum, one time
n well-known habitue of the press gal
leres on both sides of the capitol, was
sincerely deplored among the old
timers the other day, and some anus
ing anecdotes were told of the popular
newspaper man by his friends III the
course of the day. One of the best is
worth repeating.
Hannum was in the habit of taking
a late breakfast at the Press club every
morning. On one occasion, while he
was vigorously discussing hearty re-
past of ham and eggs, a bill collector
suddenly walked up to Hannum's side,
and laid his account before him. Han
mum looked at the bill and then at the
collector, and in deliberate tone be-
gan:
''You blamed fool, can't you observe
;he amenities of ordinary civilized So
ciety. Don't you know that mans
club is like his home, and that you are
in danger of being summary elected
for coming in her without a card OF
membership and without being intro
'iuCcQ nc tQiCS vi tlIiso N<iND 49,
that if you have business with mem
Der you wait in the lobby outside until
waiter takes in your card and ascer'
tains whether the gentleman with
whom you have business is present
Now, you go out into the lobby-take
this bill with you-and comply with
the rules of this club"
The collector apologized for the III
fraction of the rules of the Press club
which, to tell the truth, were never en~
forced on anything, and waited until
the steward came to ascertain his
wishes.
'Piease announce me to Mr.. Han
num- said the collector.
The steward told him to wait, and he
carried the mans card to Hannun
who looked at it carefully, then handed
it back to the steward, and said: Not
at home. = Washington Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29

Western cyclones have rounded out their
record of destruction.
At SIS o'clock yesterday one swept through
st. Louis and left l, 900 dead and injured in It's
wake.
Wires both telegraph and telephone, are
down and the full particulars of the gigantic
disaster that has swept over the metropolis OF
the Southwest are hard to obtain, but enough
is known to rank it with the greatest disasters
of the end of the 10Th century.
Flame, flood and wind combined in the de'
structiOn of the eastern section of the city.
After the cyclone had wrecked whole blocks
of buildings and buried hundreds of victims
under the ruins, dozen fires started. The
streets were choked with debris. and the fire
men were poweress
Then followed the flood. Two metres of rain
fell in few minutes, but this immense mass
of water was pOweress to quench the flames
that had broken out in oil works, abattolr
plants and general manufacturing buildings.
Here is the way the story was told by brave
telegraph operators just before the wires went
down.
On the river score of steamers were sunk,
and hardly member of the crews and not q
passenger escaped. Hundreds are dead and at
the bottom OF the Mississippi River.
To add to the horror of the scene, all the cleo
trio lights and gas lamps went out, and the city
was only lit up by dozens of CONGREGATIONS that
had broken out in the vast manufacturing
plants on both sides of the river.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
HOW TO REGAIN YOUTH.
Busy Women Should Rest at Least One
Hour Every Day.

Busy Women Should Rest at Least One
Hour Every Day.
Busy women continually resolve to
"take things easier, . ito rest on their
oars for season" and drift on the river
of Incidence, if only one hour day. We
embark on the daily voyage fully in
tending to do this, but before nightfali
realize that we have been shipwrecked
on the Scylla of duties, real or magma
ry, or engulfed in the Charybdis of social
hurry.
Why not really make up our minds
that one hour daily should be devoted
to recreation or resting in some man
ner? Either we will walk an hour, lie
down an hour, read aE hour, sew, knit,
do fancy work, visit or chat with a con-
genial friend for an hour In short, we
will overturn our common methods for
one brief space daily. The result of a
months fair trial of this plan will en-
courage to further effort in the same di-
rection, and in faithful observance of
some such system we shall renew our
youth like the eagles" while many OF
the worn and toilsome places will take
on new beauties land blossom as the
ose."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
New Lines for the w. u.

An inspection of the Western Union
Telegraph Company's lines between
Cumberland and Washington, has been
made by Mr.. w. b. Gill, General Su-
perintendent, and Mr.. Yates, Superin-
tendent of Construction. They found
the lines very much out of repair, and
will replace them to a large extent
with new ones.
1t is the intention of the company to
remove all their poles off Market,
Third and other streets, and then
bring the wires from the Pennsy Ivania
Railroad, on East street, across to the
Baltimore and Ohio, thence to Dut-
rows corner on South Market street,
to Lanbright's alley and thence out
Bentz street. This change will free
our treets from many unsightly poles
and wires and will add greatly to the
improvement of the appearance of our
city.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
At the Race Track.

One of the worst features of the disaster is
thought to have taken place at the race track
of st. Louis, where races were in full swing
and the grand-stand crowded with people
Returns from the st. Louis races are received
at Lakesipe, Ind, and at a few minutes after
5 O'Clock the operator sending the report of
mark, ''There goes the grand-stand )" and then
his wire collapsed, and nothing more was
heard from him. In few minutes the same
message was reported from Lexington, KY,
with the additional information that fully $50
people were killed.
This Information was subsequently corrob-
Grated by the operator of the Wabash road at
Decatur, who said that in his second message
received from East st Louis, it was declared
that the grand-stand at the races was down
and that fully l51 people were buried in the
ruins.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29

Women never cared more carefully
for their nails than now, but the woman
of taste avoids extremes in this as in
all things. Pink nails are admired be-
cause q perfect nail should be thin
enough to show the rosy blood be-
meath, but q nail glowing with the red
salye of the toilet table is no better
liked than lips and cheeks which owe
their brilliancy to the rouge pot. Nor
IS an artificial polish to be recommend
ed; the natural gloss should be main
tained and heightened. The best au-
thorities forbid the use of the nail
brush. Any dust or soil may be re-
moved with bit of cotton wound
around wooden toothpick or bit of
orange wood; the small emery boards
which are sold everywhere for the pur-
rose keep the under surface of the
nail so smooth that little or nothing can
adhere.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
wreck of the Centre of the City.

The centre of the city is wreck. Many build
ings have been demolished, and others par
TALLY wrecked. The streets are utterly lmpass-
able to street cars, and in many places progre
on foot is matter of great difficulty. 10 adu
10 the horrors of the night, the electric hgnI
plants were rendered incapable of service, ana
the gas lamps are also shut off, leaving the CITY
in total darkness.
Fire also broke out in several portions OF the
city, and the fire department was unable 10
make an effective fight because of the choked-
up condition of the streets, and the large
number of firemen who were engaged in the
imper tive work of rescuing the dead and
wounded.
The only authentic information from the
stricken city tonight was sent out by the agent
of the Associated Press, who managed to reach
an outlying telegra phi office, and sent brief
dispatch as follows: Tornado blowing at the
rate of over so miles an hour struck st. Louis
tonight and ragged for halt an hour with great
fury, and, as result, hundreds of lives are lost
on both sides of the river. Many buildings are
blown down and many river steamers sunk
with all on board.
cit is impossible at the present time to esti-
mate the number of lives lost, as the hospitals
are filled with injured and the morgue is filed
with the slain, while great numbers OF the dead
ana manned are lying among the ruins IN all
directions. portion of the east end OF the
Eads Bridge is destroyed. the grand-stand at
the Fair Grounds is down, the woman's por-
ton of the jail is gone aud the immense Cup
pies Block is partially destroyed. The Waters
and Pierce works are burning, and other build
ings in various sections OF the city are on hre.'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
Brittle Einrer Nails.

Many women who have pretty hands
Gre constantly mortified in cold weather
by the rough appearance of their fin
ger nails, caused by the fact that they
break and split. The intense cold causes
the nails to become so brittle that il
seems impossible to trim them SO as 10
make them smooth. The possessor of
such nails should cut them with nothing
except weJl-sharpeGed manicure scls-
sors, and the nails must never be cut
or filed unless the fingers have first been
soaked in warm water The brttleneSs
may sometimes be lessencd by rubbing
almond oil thoroughly into the nails
and finger en;is on retiring at night,
An old pair of kid gloves must then be
pulled on. The housekeeper whose nails
break easily should never stir anything
on the hot range without first slipping
or a loose glove, as the dry heat from
the fire will make her nails more brittle
than ever. Neither must she allow her
self to stay out of doors for moment
without having her hands protected
from the cold, which is even more i'll
curious than the heat. All these pre-
cautions may seem to be bother, but
in the end are worth while -HA4 saH~~~
On the Rolling Wave.
She-Take care, Alfred That isn't
the remedy for sea-sickness. Don'tyou
see the bottle is marked "poison?"
He-That's the one want--Truth.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
GENERAL COUNTRY pRoDUcR

A woman's headaches may come
from several causes. She may have a
headache arising from nervousness, or
from digestive disturbances. Nine cases
in ten, her headaches come from disor-
ders peculiar to her sex. 1t may show
itself In the symptoms which are char
acteristic of dozen disorders. Thou
sands of times, women have been
treated for the wrong disorders. DR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription was COM
pounded for the sole purpose of reliev-
ing womankind of these ills and pains.
Thousands of women have testified
that after taking treatment from sew
eral physicians without benefit, the
"Favorite Prescriptions cured them
completely and quickly. 1t has been
used for over thirty years, and has an
unbroken record of success.
The woman who hesitates is invited
to send p one-cent stamps to cover only
the cost of mailing copy of Doctor
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adj
wiser, which contains plain, clear in
formation about all of the organs of
the human body and their functions.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
Men and Horses Killed.

Chicago, ILL.,. May Pit was reported at the
dispat chef's Office OF the Illinois Central, this
city, this evening, that the grandstand at the t.
Louis race track had been blown down in a
storm and $50 people killed. All the wires of
the road are down south of Centralia, and
nothing further can be learned at present.
The Information regarding the destruction OF
the grandstand is corroboTated by information
received in poolrooms at Lexington and in
this city. The report which reached Chicago
said that many horses had been killed at the
track, but gave no information as to the loss of
human life
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
Round and ohonr ra,,le tIotns.

Round and oblong cloths with circet-
lar borders come in various sizes for din,
ing tables SO shaped. Floral dcs gns
predominant largely in these. the clover
leaf, pansy and chrysanthemum taIlina.
the lead as favorites. The handsonest
ones, however, Of this kind are of plain
linen, known as butchers linen. these
decorated by three-i1ch insertion of
renaissance lace ard q hemstitched
strip and edging corresponding in de-
sign with the lace.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-05-29
In East st. Louis,

AT East st. Louis the destruction seems great
est. III. g. Rice, the Western Union manager
at the Relay Depot on the East side, climbed
across the demolished bridge and made his
way into st. Louis. He reports that the Ma
tional Hotel, the fremont House. Martell
House, DeWolf Cafe, the plant of the Hexel
Milling Company, Horns cooper shop and a
great number of otter buildings are blown
OF their occupants are known to be dead. The
Vandalia roundhouse, the Vandala freight
house, in which 30 men are said to have been
killed. the Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse, the
Standard Oil Works, East st. Louis Elevator,
Crescent Elevator and II other freight houses
on the levee are destroyed.