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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
THE DRAGON FLY.
How 1t Sheds It's Larval Skin and As
sumes a Gaudy Dress.


sumes a Gaudy Dress.
Rev. A. East recently told how a
dragon-fy sheds its larval skin. He
said that when fulfilled the dull brown
eyes of the larva become brilliant green
like the perfect eyes within. 1t then
crawls laboriously up some stick or
water plant where it establishes itself
firmly. After some ten minutes to
half hour of drying the part behind the
eyes and above the wing cases swels
and opens, disclosing the bright green
body of the insect. This slowly
energies. The enormous head with its
compound eyes protrudes, the crum-
pied wings are drawn from their cases,
then one by one the legs appear The
image now hangs with the head bent
back and the wings pointing upward
with six segments of the abdomen eX-
posed. wet and limp, from the dry SKIN
which still clings to its support by us
stiff and empty legs. After about ten
minutes its legs are strong enough tor
the insect, by a quick contraction OIL
the body, to suddenly lift its head, ana
Selling with it's six legs the dry SKIN
it withdraws the remaining four seq
ments of its abdomen and hangs by us
legs alone. The wings now begin 10
expand. They become longer, hatter
and clearer. In half hour they show
all the beauty of their gauzy texture
After about five hours from first emery
ing from the water the perfect dragon
fly is ready for it's new life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
No Federal Appointments For
Baltimore Yet.

The Baltimore Ne,0S says that ad-
vices from Washington warrant the
belief that the Office Of Surveyor of the
Port of Baltimore, made vacant by the
removal of Col. Buchanan Schley, will
be filled within the next few days by
Mr.. A. Warfield Monroe, the bust
ness manager of Postmaster-Genera
James A. Gary's large interests and a
well known Republican. The News
also says that it will be an appointment
direct from the President. A dispatch
TO the Sun yesterday from Washing
t)n says that no intimation has come
from the White House that the Presi-
dent is ready to consider this appoint
Inent. 1t is possible that a District
Attorney will be appointed about
The time Congress meets.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

VIM. Henry Durant, the Condemned
murderer of Blanche Lamont and pre-
sumably of Miss Minnie Williams, of
San Francisco, in Emanuel Bap' ist
Church, in that city, on April 18Th,
1895, and who has made every effort
to save his neck from the gallows will
hang to-day. The Judge refused to
delay any longer and brushed aside
technicalties and ordered the death
sentence carried out Friday. Thus
will perish most remarkable man and
criminal by conviction, whose fight
for life was most remarkable.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

If the Republican organ of Balti-
more is so deeply interested about the
Democratic campaign fund, why is it
they are SO Indifferent about that Re-
publican campaign fund. When was
it collected, who were its contributors.
why if we are to have the news of one
is the other held back. If this is being
done to purify politics, why give one
without the other. Is it not time to
have all funds done away with in State
and county.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

THE loss of Hon. a. p. German to
the Senate of the United Stats will be
felt by both Democrats and Republic
crns all over the country. We know of
no man in the Senate able to take Mr..
Goman's place in the councils of his
party. No one was ever more consci.
entious in the discharge of public
duty than our senior Senator. 1t will
not be long before those who have de-
stroyed him will realize what a wrong
they have done their party, their State
and their country.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
SURPRISING PERsPICUITY.

WIIteI > huOWleuRe, ny Iue sun y IT,
publication of the following on the Sth
inst:
SURPRISING PERSPICUITY.
Frederick City Daily Ne,OS, Novem-
Der 9th:
"Tbe felicity of Mr.. John Henry
mau with the late Mr.. Bonaparte, of
Waterloo, while not apparent at the
time, is now qul,e clear and compre-
hensible. In the light of current
events Mr.. Keene's perspiculty seems
quite astonishing"
The continued commentator of I'M
tangible scribblers, provided they ply
their nefarious vacations against Sena-
tor German, is a journalistic INSIDE
meanor, to which the Sun is an ever
ready accessory.
AT no time throughout the cam
paign has the writer instituted any
comparison between Senator German
and Napoleon at Waterloo, whom the
Ne,Cs, as it suppnses, faceliously terms
"the late Mr.. Bonoparte at Waterloo
The closest approach which the NeoOS
makes to the truth, is the great dis
tance in time and place between Aus
terlitz and Waterloo.
The pamphlet, Colonel Chas. Mar
shall's Benedict Arnold" at page H.,
contains the following "by this strate-
gical manoeuvre, like Napoleon at
Austt Ritz, General Arthur forces The
COSSdck Sun-Irib to run up his real
colors.'
1t is not my part to handy words
with the Ne1US, but the Sun deserves to
be sentenced to the treadmill for con-
tinuously swallowing morsels fit only
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The feast of the little vultures, who
enjoy nothing more than to stuff them
selves full of the offall of a campaign
is perfectly natural, and it is not pr
haps, after all, extraordinary, that the
Sun should rartake of their malodor-
Gus feast, and commingling with tue
tbrong of $4,000 black voters, and the
white partsans, who by bribery, boo
die, beer, aud the accessory aid of the
Sun, have now become rulers of my
people, the once proud and imperious
blue blooded, southern bred, anglo
saxon race of Marylanders.
JOHN HENRY KEENE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER u, 1897.

TRUE Democrats will never forgive
the Baltimore San for its treachery to
the party in the last three campaigns.
no matter what betide in the future.
Time can never heal the open breach
it has contributed so much to make in
the party in this State.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

finds that Fontenelle lived to 100, Car
oline Herschel to 9S. Cassini to 81, Sir
Edward Sabine to "a, MORAN to SO,
Santini and Sharpe TO 81. Yates, Airy,
Humboldt, Robinson aud Long reached
go The long list of those who lived
to so includes HALEY, Newton, Hers
chel, Kant and Roger Bacon.
X
The latest idea in International con-
crosses is one to discuss fire prevention,
soou to be held in Paris.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

HOWEVER hard il may be to true
Democrats the past should be forgot
ten and the old lines formed anew for
the battles to come. a wise General
will gather in his scattered forces and
remember the cause for which he
fought. a few deserters should not
make us forget our grand old party.
We have felt the sting of defeat before
but probably never 50 much as at the
present time. and this makes the ne
cessity of getting together all the
greater. So, Democrats, fall in.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
800 PER YEAR.

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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

Com munications ON interesting subjects are
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

You will do us a great nvor by sending us
the names OF parties who are not taking the
"CIrIzEN," and whom you think would APP
pteciate a sample copy.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Crab Powder : An English Fish
Story-Air Pressure and Wells
A Fire Locator-A Horizontal
Line for Manners-Asthma from
Bees Poison-Origin of Dia-
neutrality-suspicious. of Ger
tain Sulphides.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12
Mr.. John Henry Keene on the
Frederick City DAILY News"
and the Result of the Elec-
ton.

MeSsrS. Editors of the Citizen:
The existence of the Frederick City
Daily News" was first brought to the
writer's knowledge, by the SUMS re-
publication of the following on the Sth
inst:
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

Seems as if all the things we like dis
agree with us, and all the things we
don't like, agree with us. Dyspepsia
turks in most of the good things we
eat, and indigestion follows the gratifi-
cation of appetite. OF couree, it isn't
Natures fault. Nature does the best
she can, and if a mau will only help
her little bit at the right time, he
may eat what he likes and as much as
he likes. DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are for people who are troubled with
indigestion. Particularly for those in
whom it manifests itself in the form of
constipation. The "Pelletsn are quick
aud easy in their action. They are in
perfect harmony with Nature. They
effect permanent cure. You need
take them regularly only little while.
After that, use them occasionally when
you ne Il them when you have eaten
anything that disagrees with you.
They may be taken just as freely as
you would take water or any other
necessity of life. Once used they are
always in favor.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-12

A strongly phosphorescent str0ntium
sulphiue has been investigated by Prof.
Mourelo, of NJ ,drid. The pure COM
pound shows no phosphorescence, the
presence of a small quantity of alkali
seeming to lie necessary, and a.trace of
subnltrite of bismuth an advantage.
After cooling from high temperature
very slowly, the substance is made
strongly phosphorescent by even a very
little light. Pulverization destroys this
property, which may be restored by
long heating with starch.
The longevity of astronomers has of
ten been noted. A French compiler
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
WILL REPUBLICANS LEARN
WISDOM?

The Populist caucus in selecting ex-
Congressman w. A. Harris as its nomi-
nee Tor United States senator, has Sc
cured the election of one of the very
best representatives of the majority
party in the legislature and state.
Now what will the Republican eau
Gus do? If it means to do the very
worst, 1T will name Mr.. Burton.
1t is an empty honor, to be sure, and
yet there is a strong lobby here. headed
by Frank Grimes and assisted by Cy
Leland, working as if the nomination of
Burton actually meant his election.
These workers are not referring to
Mr.. Burton's eulogy of jeff Davis deliv-
cred at Wichita several years ago, nor
saying much about the tremendous OPP
position TO him developed when his
nomination would have meant election
two years since. The supreme effort
is to now force him on the Republicans
as the party nominee
The sensible thing for the caucus to
do would, of course, be to name some
one who would be representative and
generally acceptable. Ingalls, would
probably come the nearest to meeting
all the requirements
VIII the Republicans do the sensible
thing, or will they show that they pre-
fer to blunder and learn no wisdom
from experience?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
EVEN KANSAS.

Even Kansas may do something to
call forth the commentator of Chicago
newspapers. The Herald:
1t would be lasting rebuke to those
who have vigorously and persistently
lampOOned the fair commonwealth OF
Kansas if that state should furnish the
first practical solution of the convict
labor problem. While New York and
Illinois are confessedly unable to deal
with this question in a manner that will
satisfy the humanitarians and the labor
unions the craftsmanship of the much
maligned sunfiower state rises to the
emergency.
In New York the convicts have been
suddenly deprived of their employments
by statute which was passed a t the
instance of the labor organizations. but
which does not provide any relief for
the evil consequences that are certain
to follow solitary confinement where the
mind and body are not occupied di-
verified by some sort of activity. In IL
linOis the legislature will be asked to
abolish the manufacturing plants now
maintained in the penitentiaries and
which were equipped with expensive
machinery under The Altgeld admins
ration. Up to this time, however, no
one has come forward with practical
measure which provides for the employ
ment of convicts in a line of industry
that will not compete with free labor.
The Kansas legisla ture proposes to di-
vide the convicts in classes, a number
to be employed in digging irrigation
bitches. another class to be used in
road building, another to be utilized in
raising farm products for the state in
Stitutions and the more vicious ones to
break rock in the penitentiary to be
| used in building state macadamized
roads.
In has been argued in opposition to
the plan of employing cOnvicts at road
building that ii would not be practical
BILE on account of the increased liability
of escape and the great expense requir-
ed for supervision. If Kansas demon
StrateS that this objection is not based
on tenable grounds it will blaze the
way for sweeping reforms in the treat
ment and utilization of convicts in
nearly every state in the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
GOV. LEEDY's sUBoRD1NATEs.

So far as the selection of public Off
GERS of the state is concerned, Governor
Leedy's administration is starting out
auspiciously.
Nearly every state appointment so
far has been suitable. No men with
discreditable records have as yet Sc
cured positions of trust.
This is a matter that the governor is
to be congratulated upon, and the care
fulness exercised in the selection of his
subordinates in the government will tell
strongly in his favor as time goes on.
The worst mistakes made by the head
of the state government are frequently
the choice of those who are to fill the
less important offices. The entire ad
ministration may frequently be brought
into disrepute by the acts of subordi-
mates.
Governor Leedy in this particular be-
gins well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
SENATOR HARRIS.

The election of Colonel w A. Harris
as United States senator from Kansas
cannot but be hailed with pleasure by
the people of Kansas, regardless of
party. Colonel Harris is a conserva-
tive yet progressive man, capable and
able, and in his department and man
ner gentlemanly and amiable.
He has had the confidence of the peo-
pie ever since he came into prominence
politically.
1t is a strong commentary on the
total disappearance of the bloody shirt
in Kansas, the home of the old soldier.
that Colonel Harris is an ex-Confeder-
ate soldier
Truly the war is over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
PUGET SOUND COAST.
Seattle and the Great New State
of Washington.
Mineral and Agricultural Re-
sources Cascade Country.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 15.-'I have
been the world over" said we'll Know:
English tourist recently, land nothing
in my judgment in this country, and
only Switzerland abroad, contains such
world of panoramic splendor as the
region of Puget sound.'' This is poetry.
when this state of Washington is
developed, said that eminent engineer
and geoloRist, Professor Herbert Bart
lett, 1.-THE most wonderful mineral coun-
try ever found on earth will become
known to the world This is fact.
Seattle is the queen of this coast,
commanding both scenic grandeur and
boundless natural wealth. And yet,
strange to say, where a thousand Amer
lean tourists rave over the grandeur of
Europe you will scarcely find one who
has Toasted his eyes on the greatest
American pictorial-Puget sound and
its range of snow capped sentinels,
fringed with illimitable forests of giant
pines. This queen of the sound sits on
a throne of wondrous beauty. The site
was a triumph of nature in her noblest
mood. Rising from the waters of Elliot
bay, an arm of the sound, the city
mounts over a line of terraces till
height is reached which commands all
amphitheater of glories.
To the east and north lies the long,
jagged and snow crowned range of Cas-
cades, over which reigns that monarch
of mountains, Rainier, towering to the
royal height of IA, 440 feet. On the
west, in robes of scanned granite and
snow, stand the noble Olympics, stretch
ing from one end of the great sound to
the other and bearing the brunt of ocean
storms from the Pacific. At their feet
rolls the broad crescent of deep green
wave. Overhead are skies of sapphire,
fathomless as the sound that mirrors
back their smile. At its back lies Lake
Washington, bowl of almost Veneti:n
blue, bordered with tangled mass of
pine and vine. And while you gaze on all
this splendor you breathe an air SO crys-
talline that Mount Rainier, though 40
miles away, seems at your feet, and the
white head of Mount Baker, in the Brit
ish line, peeps over the distant pines.
A Balmy Climate.
In addition to its barricade of the
Olympics the whole Cascade region en-
joys the .balmy influence of the Japan
current. the gulf stream of the Pacific,
which shoots across from the orient and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
WEBB M,NALL's APPOINTMENT

The appointment of Webb McNall as
superintendent of insurance by Gov
ernor Leedy is another good one. Mr..
McNan, although recent bolter from
Republican ranks, still remains popu-
lar with thousands of Republicans, while
the allied silver forces give him credit
for his strong work in the recent cam
paign and regard him as deserving of
reward Aside from his ability as
political worker, Mr.. McNall is regard
ed as a man of honor and integrity, a
hard worker and good citizen, against
whom no one can lay a charge of dis
honesty.
The position he will occupy is of great
responsibility and one where tempta-
tions may sometimes be made severe,
but in Mr. McNalTs hands the citizens
of the state may feel safe that their
interests will be first.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
TIE LATE PRINcEss ANGELINE.

1aves our western shores as far north as
Alaska. Its benign effect governs the
climate of Seattle. Ice is unheard of
here, and the schools are dismissed to
see one of those freaks of nature, a few
flakes of snow. You'll never find sum-
mer heat that rises above IS degrees or
a winter cold that comes within 10 de-
grees of touching zero. But this even
climate seems unable to cross the Cas-
cades to any extent, for in middle and
eastern Washington. in that trackless
waste of sand and sagebrush gradually
being tanned, you'll find winters cold
enough for any taste.
Seattle has just celebrated its six
teenth birthday. Though graced by
few pioneer traders shacks as far back
as 1852, it did not come out into town
society till 1880. Since then it has had
a checkered life. 1t was first smitten
with that pestilential fever called a
boom-the day of mad. crazy specula-
ton, wild imitation of values, followed
by the usual collapse and broken for
tunes. Talk boom to any one in this
region now, and you will hang from the
nearest tree. Seattle has not yet recov
cred from the ruinous effects of that
fatal boom. Capital, once gulled, is
wary. Eastern Investments, once so
lavish, are just beginning again to creep
forth. But Seattle, with it's present pop
ulation of about 60, 900, is not now, as
it was in the boom days, at the mercy
of unprincipled land sharks. No one
would now dare to sell improved prop
erty'' that lay beneath the waters of
the sound or go east with seductive
sketches of new towns, adorned with
streets, buildings ETC., that were still
part of unbroken forest land.
A Boom Killed.
The chief boom killer was the great
fire of 1889. 1t swept the town of cheap
frame shanties, and at the same time of
that rowing. gambling class of adven-
turers who always figure prominently
at the birth of boom towns. Today the
better, the substantial elements are in
control. While the bonded debt is over
SIS, 600, 900, we keep the city expenses
down to aboat the size of the revenue,
and with a trade revival the city would
forge ahead on solid basis
That benefcent blaze of 1889 left the
entire business district of the city open
to solid development, and the space is
now occupied by substantial stone and
granite structures. Visitors from the
east are amazed at the size and solidlty
and finish of these buildings. They may
DO heavily mortgaged, but they are here
TO stay. They outrank any business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
BEAM IN THEIR OWN EYE

We sincerely hope that members of
the present Kansas legislature will in
troduce as few fool bills as possible,
because the eastern papers pick them
up, and comment on the state to its
detriment And these eastern papers,
it should be remembered have tremen-
dous Calculations. The Chicago Chron-
icle, which is as bitter as gall and as
smart as steel, lately jumped the state
because a bill is merely talked of to
prevent a Kansas man from owning
more than one section of land OF
course no such law will ever be adopt
ed.-Atchison Globe.
There isn't legislature that meets
that ridiculous and freakish bills are
not introduced, some of the most
cranky having first seen the light in
Vermont and New Hampshire legis-
Iatures. While Chicago and New York
newspapers are disposed to point the
finger of scorn at Kansas, it behooves
the Kansas newspapers to point out the
sociological atrocities and insanities of
New York and Chicago which are num-
erous enough to keep all the editors
in Kansas busy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-21
LOOK At TIE RECORD.

1T always pays in the long run for
an executive officer to enforce the law
While there may be a considerable
element who secretly rejoice when GER
tain laws are not enforced, they never
respect the official who does not en-
force them. They do not give him
credit for friendship for them, but re-
gard it as an evidence of fear.
Governor Leedy has not studied hui
man nature successfully if he has not
found this out. The governor has not
proceeded far enough in his official
course as yet to entitle the press or
the public to pass final judgment on
his acts. But the indications, judging
from the comments of certain persons
in Atchison and Leavenworth concern
ing the appointments of police boards,
are not reassuring.
While the State Journal may see
some faults in our prohibitory law
which legislation ought to remedy. it
cannot acquiesce in official neglect of
duty in enforcing the law, or any law.
It is not for an executive officer to
say that because a law is faulty he
will not enforce it; and it is not for the
people to say that they will not obey it
. The law is the law, and when declared
constitutional by the supreme court.
must be enforced and obeyed until il is
changed.
Any other position by the governor of
the state is out of the question. Any
other position is cowardly and unlawful
and will bring the office of governor in
to contempt. There is nothing to fear,
politically, in enforcing the law. A
stern enforcement of it will put the law
breakers and their friends to flight like
the mists of the morning. They only
grow bold through official encourage
ment.s The respect and admiration
given an executive officer who enforces
all laws without fear or favor will make
him strong enough to overcome all OPP
position. The people love no one so
much as a brave. impartial and deter
mined public officer.
The enforcement of the law by Gov
error Leedy will rally his entire party
around him and will bring to him a
large section of the Republicans who
cannot fail to admire strength and in
tegrity in office.
But if he pursues the weak and wab-
bling policy of Governor Morrill, he will
meet Governor Morrills fate. No gov
ernor has ever tried to ride two horses
in Kansas in the past ten years that he
didn't fall between the horses before
the end of his term.
Look at the melancholy record of
Humphrey, Lewelling and Morrill,.