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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
The Blind Weaver.

A blind boy stood beside the loom
And wove a fabric. To and fro
Beneath his firm and steady touch
He made the busy shuttle go.
And oft the teacher passed that way
And gave the colors, thread by thread;
But by the boy the pattern fair
Was all unseen Its hues were dead.
S"How can you weaver" we, plying, cried
The blind boy smiled Il do my best:
IL make the fabric firm and strong.
And one who sees does all the rest
Oh. happy thought! beside life's loom.
We blindly strive our best TO do,
And He who marked the pattern out,
And holds the threads, will make it true
Beth Day, in Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
Applied Mathematics.

Ny daughter" and his voice was stern,
you must set this matter right;
What time did the sophomore leave,
Who sent in his card last night?"
His work was pressing. father. dear,
And his love for 1t was great;
He took his leave and went away
Before quarter of eight"
Then a twinkle came to her bright blue
eye
And her dimple deeper grew:
Its surely no sin to tell him that,
For quarter of eight is two"
Vont-aro CtataCpoop
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02

NOTICE.
OFFICE OF
The Board Of Control and Review,

FREDERICK, MD, MARCH 5th, 1897.
The Board of G ntrol and Review will be in
session on he ionowing days furthe purpose OF
adjusting the work of the la assessment,
where necessary, and all per sons interested
are hereby notified that during this session,
Transfers on Real, q Revision Of Personal and
Mortgages, and the Market Value Of Bonds
Will be considered for the several Districts on
the days named below:
First WEEK
On March l6-Fnr liberty and townsville Dis
triclS Nos S and IL.
On March l7-Fcr Creagerstown and Hauvt rs
Districts, Nos ana 10.
On March S-For Catoctin anc Mt Pleasant
Districts, Nos q and b.
On March l9-For Woodsboro' District, No. IL.
20 =" Emmitsburg -" d" 5.
SECOND WEEK.
On March 22-For Mechaulcstown Dist, No. Is.
" % Urbana District, No. Z.
"a =" Iinganore and Tuscarora
Districts, Nos - aud II
On March 2j-For Middletown District, No. 8.
90 " Buckeystown /.
81 &" jefferson IA.
THIRD WEEK.
on March 29-For Jackson District, No. IS.
30 Petersville and Burkittsville
Districts. Nos. II and y.
On March 3l-For New Market District, No. 9.
4" April l. Woodvile and Lewistown
Districts, Nos. Is and 20.
On April End and 3rd-For Frederick District,
NO..
By order of the
BOARD OF CONTROL AND REVIEW.
{. NJ THOMAS, Prest.
A. l.. EAnER, elk. [mar.5 st.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
rrench Thiera CIeyer t;ame

A short time back well-dreSsed
stranger called at fashionable jew
eier'> shop in Paris and selected gold
watch and chain, value ELS. Placing
on the counter his apparently we'll
lined purse. the customer tried on
the watch and chain in order TO judge
Of the effect. when. suddenly glancing
out OF the door. he shouted: punch.
Punchl come here-come here. you
brute! AS the dog did not obey he
ran out after it. Punch was a clever
accomplish. and ran all the faster the
louder his master called When the
ieweler at last awoke to the fact that
he had been victimized. both dog and
master had disappeared.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
A COLUMN OF VERSE.
A summer Lyric.

a summer Lyric.
I'm not so much on summer when tn,
lilies wilt away,
And the rose in MINDLESS gardens is a pal
lid ghost of May;
When the very woods are GREATNESS. and
the valleys and the plain,
IL they glisten seem to listen to the fall
ing of the rain.
And over twinkling meadows
Where the dusty daisies throng
And dream of dewy shadows
Comes the weary plowmans' song
Gee! Haw. thar! Git along!''
Tn not so much on summer, though the
rivers as they run
With winsome, windy ripples seem to
catch and cool the sun;
And toss their shining dewdrops where the
green banks droop and dream,
And tempt the thirsting thrushes where
the scarlet berries gleam
While far across the meadows
Where the dusty daisies throng-
Low-listenipg to the shadows.
Comes that weary plowman's" song:
'Geel Haw. tharl Git alongl"
But, o, the glad September, when the wind
is in the pines
And the gusty groves are sweetened by
the swaylng muscadres!
Where the red fox leaves his clover, and
the winding of the horn.
Like love song to lover makes the mel
ody OF mornl
Then. DER the ringing meadows.
Moves the merry. CHEEKY throng.
In the gray OF chilly shadows,
And we never miss that song:
"Geei Haw, thar! Git alongi"
F. S. Stanton. in Chicago Times-Herald
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
An Old Mans Thoughts.

The mists of age are round my path.
I tread this lonely height,
Below, behind me lies the gloom,
Above, the heavens are bright.
The perry gaAis open wide,
My Master leads the way,
"Fresh courage take! One struggle more!'
seem to hear him say.
What boots this passing weariness7
What boots this rugged road?
Why mind this silent loneliness,
So near the last abode?
For one by one, they enter In,
Who scale this sacred height,
Therell be moments darkness soon,
And then, eternal light!
N Y Observer
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
When Have Tine.

When 1 have time, so many things I'll do
TO make life happier and more fair
For those whose lives are crowded now
with care;
I'll help to lift them from their low despair
When have time.
When have time. the friend love so well
Shall know no more these weary. toiling
days;
I'll lead her feet in pleasant paths always,
And cheer her heart with words of sweetest
praise,
When 1 have time
When you have time! The friend you hold
so dear
May be beyond the reach of all your sweet
intent,
May never know that you so kindly meant
To fill her life with sweet content,
When you had time.
Now is the timeI All, friend. no longer
wait
To scatter loving smiles and words OF
cheer
To those around whose lives are now so
dear,
They may not need you in the coming
Now is the time.
Medical Missionary Record.
Much In Little.
It's curious whut sight O. good little
thing will do,
How we kin stop the fiercest storm when
1t begins ter brew,
An take the sting from whit commenced
ter rankle when 'twus spoke,
BY keepin' still an treatin' it ez If 1t wus
joke.
Yell find tibet we kin fill place with smiles
instead O. tears,
An keep the sunshine gleamin' through
the shadows of the years,
By jes laughin'.
Folks sometimes fails ter note the posi-
bilitieS that lie
In the way yer mouth is curvin' an the
twinkle in yer eye;
It amt so much whut's said tibet hurts ez
whit we think lies hid;
It amt so much the doin' ez the way q
thing is did.
An many a homes KEEP happy an con-
tented, day by day,
An like ez not kingdom has been res
cued from decay,
BY jes laughin'.
Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
The Sunset City.


/ saw a city in the sunset hours,
OF sapphire domes and iris-crested towers
And golden courts, paved Ger with daz-
ling white,
Where azure fountains arched to kiss the
light,
And terraced lawns where cooling shadows
fell
Down dreamy slopes abloom with asphodel
And temples through whose pillared clois'
tero stole
The glorious light of days departing soul
Where hosts of angels. motionless with
prayer,
Knelt shining with the peace that made
them fair.
A moment-and the silent sea of night
With tidal wave of darkness swept the
height.
Down sank the city in abyss of gloom.
And somber were the clouds that draped 1t:
tomb.
The angels scattered in their flight afar.
And gazed in sorrow back, each face star
Ernest w. Shurtleff. in Youths Com
panion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02

At the convention of the Irish race
last month in Dublin two speakers, who
had come from the United States, con-
tributed the following sentences in The
course of their speeches. One of them
in giving some details of personal his
tory. Informed his hearers tina. ''he
had left ireland SO years before, a
naked little boy. without dollar in his
pocket" Said the other: Until last
week bad never set foot in the land OF
my BIRTH
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
King Winter.

The pleasant autumn months are gone;
You need your double windows on,
For winters here.
The frost king has begun to reign,
And through the silvered window pane
The world looks drear.
Your costly stock of winter coal
Begins to show growing hole
Inside the bin.
You haven't got it paid for yet,
But pretty soon you'll have to get
A new stock in.
Yes, winters here, and soon the snow
Will whirl, and sift, and drift. and blow,
Till flake on flake
It hides the earth. With moistened brow
You'll have to shovel it; and how
Your back will ache!
-Somerville Journal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
Pride Must Have a Fall.

She was tall and fair and twenty,
Her papa had rocks in plenty,
And she dreamed this little universe
Was hers by right of birth.
She was saucy to her mother,
Domineered her elder brother,
And her bearing indicated
That she thought she owned the earth
But she found herself mistaken
And her faith was rudely shaken
When she tried to ride her wheel across
little streak of mud.
And the way that wheel impacted her,
And the ground rose up and smacked her,
Was a caution to this Boston maid
Who boosted Pilgrim blood.
-Someryille Journal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02

Undoubtedly the best way to sell
honey is in pound sections or sections
weighing less than pound. but for fam
lily use extracted honey shculd be pre-
ferred. for il is just as coed and tie
comb can be replaced. to Ec filed again
TINS saving the bees from the useless
labor of making new comb. The rea-
son sections weighing less han pound
are advised is that a section that can
be sold for an even dime viii often find
a purchaser when one that must be sold
for 10 or IS cents will be passed BY. A
section with e'ght ounces of honey in it
will sell for ten cents quicker than one
containing afull pound will for IS cents.
favmers' Voice.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02

Goldfish are long-lived fish, and in
the government aquarium at Washing
ton there is one that is known to be so
years old. 1t is said there is a goldfish
that Is over 100 years old in the royal
aquarium at Rome, Italy. It has grown
slightly during the last IS years, but
its color is as II was century ago.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
Hints for the Million.

There was a man in our town,
Abolt a giants size,
Who nearly starved to death. because
He wouldn't advertise
And, when he weighed but 20 pounds,
He grasped his rusty pen.
And wrote an "ad." ard published IT,
And now he's fat again!
Cleveland Leader
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
Uncle Sim.

Uncle Sim is gettin' old
Goes all humped-up with the cold;
Hasn't any voice to speak,
Totters like his legs was weak.
Gurus how he's failed of late.
Like a bird that's lost its mate.
Used to be so clipper, too
Hale and hearty through and through
Wonder what has come TO him
Makes his eyes SO blurred and dim.
Makes him def. SO he can't hear.
Less you boiler in his ear?
Poor old murrblin' Uncle Simi
Heaven don't seem far 50 MIN.
When he gropes from chair to chair.
Sc ems as If he's almost there.
James Buclshani. in Golfers Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02

when the engines come clatterin'
Long the crowded street,
IA A-causin' awful scatterin'
'Mong the things they meet;
Igit Just like boy agin.
AM have wild desire,
No ven out with the mob. like sin:
ssFieri Fier! Fieri''
I DOM know what the reason Is.
But when them fire bells ring,
~ blood higgins to tingle. gee whiz!
Can't do asingle thirg.
Ceptiil' hoot. an yell an boiler out.
rs ef 70 slipped my wire.
an keen up with the crowd an shout
.Ficrt Fer, Fier.
APhiladelrhia North American
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
ANNE Muzzy. in N. Y. Sun


the Poems That Nobody Writes.
o. many and fair in the work a-day grind
Are the Rongs that the generous hearts
shall find:
And oft shall they garner the dear de-
lights
OF the beautiful poems that nobody writes
The grip of the hand to the man who is
down.
That encourages hope meath adversity's
frowh:
The patient endeavor to balance a wrong
That brother endures-each one is a song
The flower bestowed on a giftless child;
The word of defense for wretch reviled
The charity given where want invites
All these are the poems that nobody writes
Frank Putnam, in Chicago Times-Her-
aid
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
In the Hay Loft.

o, sweet, dim noontide of the summer day
Within the harbor of the fragrant bay
Where roll the pillows of the new-mown
hay
Engulfed among its scented waves lie
Catching far-on n-glimpses of the
sky,
With soft. white cloud-sails drifting idly by
Far-off the blea. of lambs upon the hill
Blends with the whirling of the distant
mill
Half glai. half sad. like human good and
i'll.
Soft on the bent and perfumed reeds of hay
The fairies of the grass field family play
The airs they sang to buttercups in May:
And all the year these elfin notes will tell
OF secret haunts where flower and grass
roots swell
With life no frost nor scythe of death can
quell
30 through all time. whatever wind may
blow.
This one eternal truth l still must know !;
The grass may wither, but the soul shall
grow.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-04-02
NOTICE.
nlar.l93t
MONTGOMERY FAnms ruk SALE

| will sell, al sacrifice, two small Farms,
each about 100 ACRES, good dwellings and
outbuildings; one near Derwood Station and
other near Rockville. Also, 81 ACRES nea
Gaithersburg, 5000; 200 ACRES along Rail
road from Warnings Station, 81, 900; l32 ACRES
near Cabin John and Aqueduct, 81 900 and 10
ACRES between Rockville and 7th Street Pike
5000. Easy terms.
*. COOKE d. LUCKETT.M D
auK r2-tG ROCKVILLE,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

Florida Central 4 PeninsuIar Railroad Co
NORTH.

Miles Shortest Line
TINE TABLE SEPT 90 1897
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

,alking with two friends in the reading
room of an uptown hotel. He speaks ex-
cellent English, and, as he said this, he
held up to view the battered silver ball
which he carries always strung by a
gold wire to his watch guard.
ut weighs just an ounce, the Senior Don
continued. 1T was given me by my grand
father, who told me the story of it when
he put it into my hands on his dying bed.
He was clear of mind, and I could not
doubt a word of his story, strange as 1t
may sound to you. 1T was more than fif-
ty years ago. my grandfather said, that
a monster wolf appeared at my ranch on
the San Ysidro and destroyed many sheep
and calves and colts. My herders chased
the creature with lassoes and fired at it
to no purpose; it was so fierce that 1t
would not retreat before one man. My
major domo sent word of these things to
me and l went to the ranch. Three diff
ferent times 1 fired at the wolf, feeling
sure every time that I must have hit
the creature, but it trotted away with no
sign of hurt. When, after my third trial
1 found the fiattened bullet at the place
where the wolf had been when / fired. l
gave up trying to kill the beast with pow
der and lead, and l rode 100 miles to con-
suit with man who was learned in such
matters. He heard my story.
Make a bullet from the first silver
you find, he said. Scratch upon it a
Christian cross, and try the wolf with
that. If your aim be true, the bullet will
not fall fiat like the other
1.-THE rest of the story will tell in my
own words. My grandfather made the
wise man present and started back for
the ranch Crossing the channel of the
San Ysidro, at that season of the year
nearly dry, his horse stumbled, and where
its hoof had disturbed the sand and peb-
bles there lay exposed a nugget of pure
oliver, such as often is found in the bed
of this stream, washed down from the
mountains. Dismounting, my grandfather
picked up the nugget, and after his ar
rival at the ranch hammered it into the
bullet you see. The next night he watch
cd for the Welt, which came with the ris-
ing moon, and he killed the creature with
this silver bullet. His focks and herds
were troubled no more by any wolf, and
he kept the bullet until the last day Oh
his life.
Z" Keep IL, my dear grandson were his
last words to me concerning the bullet. II
has been lucky for me- and il may sue
cor you in some bad time
For six years I carried the silver bullet
IN my pocket before the chance came %
demonstrate that Il was a lucky piece for
! me. The house at my hacienda, like
Mexican houses in general. Is Of one story.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

on the Pacific ocean, about 300 miles off
the coast of Chill; but the exact latitude
and longitude was never determined, other
than by approximation, as the SKY had
been overcast for several days prior to
his birth. On May g. 1888, the arrival of
the young sailor was becomingly celebrat-
ed by the officers and crew of the ship.
Teresa was born in the storm center of
the most dreaded coast in the world, al
most off the peak of Cape Horn, on March
"a, 1891, when the ManX King was in lat
itude 81 degrees AZ minutes 16 seconds
south; longitude 73 degrees 80 minutes IA
seconds west. When the ship was labor
ing heavily in a living gale, the little
stranger made her appearance. When she
was about ten days old the ship, then in
the South Atlantic, encountered a hurri-
cane, and was thrown on its beam ends,
and set so low that the seas came in
through the cabin skylights, completely
flooding the cabins. The ship was soon
got on an even keel and reached it's
destination, without any further mishap,
and with both mother and child in excel
lent health.
Jack was born Dec "a, 1892 in the North
Atlantic ocean, in latitude 4 degrees 16
minutes north; longitude "a degrees 81
minutes west. The weather when Jack
first came into the world was all that
could be desired, and the noble ship, with
its precious living freight, was bowling
along under all sail at about fourteen
knots an hour.
All of the children enjoy remarkably
good health, and at sea, no matter how
hard the gales may blow, these children
of King Neptune never allow them to in
terfere with their play No matter at
what angle the ship may ride, nor how
much it may pitch and toss, the children
Of the Manx King play in the ships
splendid cabins Even when it is almost
! impossible for the old tars to pass from
port to starboard with the aid of a life
line, the children have become so accus-
| toned to the motion of the ship that not
! one of them has suffered any bad mis-
/ hap; for. where they are thrown down by
! the violent pitching or rolling of the
] ship, they seem in some way to settle
/ on the deck, much after the fashion of
the storm birds on the ocean waves, and
| though in their short lives they encoun-
| tered more storms than falls to the lot of
most mortals who live on land, not one of
/ them has suffered even a sprained limb
Toms knowledge of nautical matters is
naturally extensive, and II is safe to say
| that IL he follows the sea with his father
| till he is IA or Is years old he will be
| able to navigate as well as most men who
have been at sea twenty or thirty years,
| for with him 1t is natural AS young as
he is. he knows the name and location Of
every line and spar on ship, and, IL 1t
came to a pinch, he could give all the nee
essary orders for shortening sail or put
ting the ship on its courses.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31
spAIN'S BIG FLOATING DOCK.
A LONDON FIRM HAS JUST COM
PLETED A MARVEL.

To-, Use ina Cuban Waters-A Float
.ng Repair shOp-VesseIs of 10000
Tons Can Be Lifted Upon 1t and
Mode as Good rs New-sOOn to BE
lowed to Cuba.
New York, Oct. 29.-The smartest feat
os marine construction ever attempted has
trs+ been successfully performed upon the
Piver tyne by a firm of London ship
makers.
A wear ago the Spanish government ad-
vertised for a floating dock, finding the
need Of dockage in Cuban waters. 1t in
Wired bids from tug and ship builders
and it signified its willingness to pay a
large sum should successful floating
dock be secured.
The cuban trouble at that time had be-
come very pronounced, and Spain was
Obliged to keep a large fleet in Cuban
waters. In the warm climate of Cuba
sbips become frequently disabled, owing
to. il is thought. the glare of the sun
upon the wood and the peculiar humid
dampness upon the metal. To repair a
ship it is absolutely necessary to dock
if. especially where the under parts are
concerned. 1t is impossible to work upon
a ship underneath the water. 1t must
be lifted and placed in a convenient posi-
ton for repairing, otherwise it is a dis
abled ship and must be lowed home.
Spain had no dockage in Cuba that
could be relied upon, and it was necessary
when a ship became disabled to tug her
back across the Atlantic for repairs. This
moi only took time, but was very expen-
sive. besides resulting in the disablement
of the service, and the Spanish naval au-
thorties saw that it should be remedied.
Accordingly, year ago Spain adver-
tsed for contracts, and the advertisement
was answered by a London firm. The
proposition was considered in Spain, with
the result that on Dec. last contract
was signed at Madrid for a floating dock,
to be built from the plans of the in
VentorS.
The dock was of such immense proper
lions that even yard had to be built
for its construction, and so great was the
delay attending the work upon it that the
first actual building began March last,
the day of McKinley's Inauguration.
For six months the work has gone on
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, is making
tour through the New England states in
the interests of organized labor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

very rapidly and the dock is now COM
pleted and is ready to be carried through
the seas TO Madrid. It is 450 feet long,
and has an entrance 81 feet wide. There
are q feet of water over the blocks, ana
the material is so strong that it is war
ranted absolutely weather and water
proof. A vessel of 10000 tons can be pulled
in the entrance and raised upon the dock
and there held until repaired. 1t is so
completely built that not a place seem
capable of injury, and it is so compact
and well-balaced that when anchored, it
is absolutely firm,
The cost of this dock is not given out
for publication, but it is likely that it Dor
ders on the hundred thousands. 1t is fit
ted out with the most intricate and ex-
pensive machinery for hoisting, and it is
put together with the most elaborate and
magnificent steel Jennings. In ordering
such piece of work the Spanish govern
ment, it is presumed, would be compelled
TO give longtime payments for its i'm
poycrished Golfers would hardly feel equal
10 swing cash for so great piece of
work This is, however confidential
matter between the builders and Spain,
ana will not be divulged by them
The Cubans have a system of dockaSe
Which is unique and original IF they can
not lift their vessels upon the shore, they
render them unequal in balance and man.
nse TO tip them on one side until the in
JHred part is exposed. This they repair.
4ne balance of the vessel Is then read
Justed and gradually it sinks into the wa
teT.
This primitive method does very well for
Nupa's little ships OF war, but it would be
entirely impracticable for more ambitious
ones. Cuba does not boast a warship, her
"hF seafarers being fruit vessels and vol
uuieer merchant ships
The United States has such a large sea
haf G.,.l- .t,Tt, -,
ing dotkage. Nevertheless a floating dock
oil TINS kind, capable of lifting 10000 tons,
would be decidedly convenient, and when
we navy is re-adjusted according to pres
eng rumor, Secretary Roosevelt will look
Ihes- docks have long been in use for
.ne use of merchant vessels, but nothing
~ large has ever been thought practical
ne iot the repair OF warships. This new
loauns dock is, therefore, a notable
"gule'ement, and Spain has secured one
VI 'he most up-to-date of war Inventions.
c. s. Russell.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31

"eFidian Time-One hour slower than CITY TIme.