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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Cause and Effect.

It was a clustering hot morning. The
white sand reflected the suns rays like
a glass. What little breeze there was
stirring only served to whip up the
sand and fill ones lungs with the
parching dust. The surf broke on the
ocean side OF Sandy Hook with a
mOnotOn0us roll. Even the sea looked
hot. entered the ship news tower
and slowly climbed the five flights of
stairs TO the observers room at the top.
There are no windows in the tower be-
low the upper floor, and care was nee
essaIy. not only owing to the darkness,
but because Of the danger of fractur-
ing ones skull against the iron braces
which run diagonally from floor 10
ceiling at each landing. crossing each
other at about the height Of the aver
age man.
In the signAlman's room IL was sew
eral degrees cooler than at the level Of
the sea. The solitary watcher was look
ing seward at tie steamer City of
Rome, which WAS passing up the chan.
Nell hound in. From her mainmast
Few her signal naes. Only few per.
sous appeared OH her decks. Then, as
we looked at the ship as she slipped 10y
us, her port rails became lined with
passengers. A long line Of moving
white appeared from end to end. 1t
had the appearance Of the foam on
the crest of breaker.
whats the matter with herr asked
the signafman, pOking his telescope
through one of the slides In the side OF
the tower. They are shaking hand
kercbiefs at something ashore here"
he added after a moments inspection
Of the ship.
We looked down On the shore, 100
feet below us. On q ridge of sand
standing on a barrel was a boy. lie
was waving his coat at the liner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Hair for Manufnct ring Purposes.

The hair of the wilt animals Of South
America is in great demand in Ameri,
ca and Britain for mlnufacturing pur-
poses. The reason 50 obvious. 1t is
longer than the hair OF animals in al
most any other sect on OF the world
First quality horse hair Is chiefly sup
piled by South American wild horses
for haircloth and upi 3lstery. The tails
and names are gen 4rally used, and
owners OF horses bihd the hair up in
coils. Hair which is over sixteen In.
ches long Is utilized for the manufac-
ture OF haircloth; ee >ond quality is a
mixture OF the shoR hairs of horses
and cattle, and thirt rate is Siberian
goat hair. All those varieties OF the
hair OF horses. cattle and goats fetch
a good price in upholslery circles in the
United Kingdom and he United States.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Hot Baths.

Here 10 q point that English folks
might learn from the Japanese The
season we are inclined. in this country,
to catch cold after taking hot bath
In the daytime. is that we do not take
1t hot enough. II only you have the
water az nSar boiling point as possible
there is no fear of your getting cold
afterward. The japanese revel In
these hot tubs, says Chambers Jour.
nal. They take them three and four
times a day. In some districts OF ia
pan. believe. the people are amphib.
ious; for months at time they live
practically in the water. A Japanese
once called upon nae, ana be apologized
at the outset of our conversati ton for
being so unmannerly and dirty, for he
had only had time to take two hot
baths that day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
THE OLD WELL
After Years Its Water Becomes Inn
pure and Cnwholesome.

So much has been said about the
country well that il only needs word
in this purview. The country people
love their "Old wells" They always
tell you: "Why, nobody ever got SICK
from our well"' l came across just
such we'll within the last rev
months. Three generations back thiS
old well furnished water for the same
family, and no one, in fact. ever De
came sick from 1t. At last the old
folks died and the second generation
started on their way with large ram
fly of SONS and daughters. Still no one
became sick. The third generation
became men and women and still re-
sided at the old homestead; then at
last after So many years, the old wen
began its deadly work. One after an
other of the family was stricken with
typhoid fever. until four were Ill al
one time, and that homestead will
never he the same It once was, for
there are two vacant places. and this
old we'll which before had never
made any one sick" yielded on chemi'
cal examination 10 parts OF chlorine
per 100.O00--not far removed from d.
lutte sewage.
The allurements Of the old home
stead seem very enticing on the stage
or on canvas. but under the exactin8
eye Of the sanitarian, with his in
creased angle of vision. things are
not always what they SEEM"
The vine-clad porch, with its vista
ria and fragrant honeysuckle, where
"mother used To sit resolves itself
into Il damp, musty. sunless nursery OF
the chronic rheumatism which made
mothers life burden" The old well,
with its pure. sweet water" has he
come a vast test-tube Of colon bacil-
luS AT least. if none other. and the de-
liChtfully pure air. redolent with the
perfume OF flowers. has become sur
charged with moisture reeking with
the gases Of decomposition, from a
befouled soil and cellar soil and air
saturated with the moldy debris Of de-
cayed vegetables. Such is not rarely
the true story OF the old homestead.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
The Fighting Maoris

Some 300 Maoris were shut up in in
trenchments at a place called Orakaw.
Without food, except a few raw pota.
toes, without water, pounded at by ar
tillery, and under a hail Of rife bull
let's and hand grenades; unsuccessful
ly assaulted no less than five times
they held out for three days. com.
pletely surrounded. Gen. Cameron hui
namely sent a flag of truce, inviting
them to surrender honorably. TO this
they made the ever-famous reply:
"Enoughl We fight on. forever"
Then the general offered to let the
women come out. and the answer was:
THE women will fight as WEI! At
length, on the afternoon Of the third
day, the garrison il body charged at
quick march right drought the Eng
fish lines, fairly Jumping over the
heads of the 10th regiment as they lay
behind a bank. Half Of them fell; the
remainder got clear away. The earth
works and the victory remained with
LIS, but the glory was theirs.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

1t is generally supposed that the
typawriting machine Is quite modern
invention, but there is a record In the
archives Of the English Patent Office
for 1714 of an application for patent
for such a machine. Exactly 100 years
later the firm of Balm & Wright ap-
piled for a similar grant, and the con-
struction of their machine afforded q
basis that enabled Mr.. ThurDer, at
Worchester, to improve the system.
In the year 1915, a Frenchman Of the
name of Foucall obtained an English
patent for a very ingeniously conceived
writing machine which was shown
In London the same year, aud created
no small sensation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
An Exnert SMordfish.

Hank Carruthers. OF Block Island,
R. l., an old-time fisherman, last year
caught young sword fish. not more
than two feet long, which had refused
to leave the dead body of its mother,
which he had harpConed after an ex-
citing fight. The young fish survived
the transportation to a tidal pond be-
hind the Carruthers homestead and the
entrance TO the pond was closed with
a net to prevent his escape Since then
Mr.. Carruthers has tanned the fish 90
that it will feed from his hand. and the
neighbors had become so accustomed
to the sight that they did not notice It
any more. Last month a French gen
tleman. who is we'll known fencing
teacher. NJ. Tierce. had been train
ing the Ash furtively. He had made a
soft pad of leather, which he adjusted
on the tip Of his sword. like the button
on foil. and the two gave an exhibi-
ton bout of fencing which could not
be equalled for nisety Of action and
correctness OF dash in the Fencers'
Club. The fish apparently knows all
the rules OF the game and carefully re-
Trains from commit ing fouls. He cuts
and slashes swiftly and several times
he caught NJ fierce unawares, says the
New York Press, and nearly transfxsd
him. The Frenchman has offered Mr..
Carruthers q large sum of money for
the fab which he wishes TO exhibit.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
QUEEN ANNE'S RAILROAD COMPANY
GENERAL NOTICE.
MARCH lst, 1859

MARCH LIST, 1859
=Commencins April Sth, 1898, the Quee
Anne's Railroad Company will ranste- il
business from Pier ~ 10 Pier 81 Light stree
Baltimore, Md, and will put in service IN,
Steamer "Favorite" between Baltimore an
Queenstown.
-sOn the same date the ONCE ofGeneral Freigh
and Passenger Agent will be moved from
Queenstown, Md, to Pier va Light street, Ba
timore, Md.
Beginning Wednesday, March 4. 81. sreanis
Of the Queen Anne's Railroad Company vii
leave Baltimore at 3:25 p. NJ, instead of 20
as heretofore.
/. w. TROXEL,
apl.2,SS-u General NJ mage
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Progressive Chicago.

Il tell you" said the man with chin
whiskers and a silk hat. 1T doesn't DO
to sheer at Chicago as a centre of In.
telleet and refinement"
All excuse for that has passed. haa
Il should say 20. Chleagos quick 10
catch on. Boston. nor New York. nor
any other town can klek any harder
against the nude In aFt than We ean
II we get a ehaAce. "-washlnstop
Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Needed In the Business

Il say" said the business man to the
detective, some fellow has been rep
resenting himself as a collector of ours.
He has been taking in more money
than any two of the men we have and
/ want him collared as quickly as you
can"
"All right; I'll have him in Jail in
less than a week."
"Great Scot, man! l don't want to
put him in Jail; | want to engage
him."-San Francisco Examiner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

Sunday excursions to Rehohoth Reach.
Six hours at the seaside. Excellent bathing
Round trip, Sl5O. Steamer leaves Pier Oh
Light street: Sundays, A. NJ, connecting
with special train at Queenstown for Reh0-
both Beach. Returning, steamer arrives at
Baltimore at 10;O T. NJ. Season ticket g Uu
Saturday until Monday, 500.
For further information, apply at Pier.
Inv. TROXEL, w. W.D. UHLER.
Gen. Manager. Gen Frt. and Pass. Agt
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

1.-THE wise man who says that -
bird that can sing and won't. should
be made to sing" ought to have gone
further and told as what should be
done with a bird that can't sing and
will sing."-The Leesburg Mirror.
/, That there are such birds we all
know: but the trouble is, how to let
them know that we know.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Hls Explanation Went

you were letting your horseless car.
rage run at an Illegal rate OF apsed :
We'll. you see, Judge. Il was the ars,
time she had been out OF the stable for
month, and that idioiic new hostler
OF mine gave her q double allowances
OF Kerosene. and, besides this. I was
trying to drive her without bllnders
and"
Discharged. Next eaaAs-cl...
land Plain Dealer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

Afternoon and sunday trips to Queenstown.
Boat remains at Queenstown about two
hours. Round trip, 80 cents. Steamer leaves
Pier % Light street daily. $40 =. NJ. sun
days, A. N. and $40 T.. NJ. Returning steamer
arrives at Baltimore at 1890 =. NJ daily.
Meals at Hotel Bolingly, or on steamer, 80
cents.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

Il never knowed I'M fist row. Will.
DC utter lonesomeness O. me situawssh.
un. While I'm smokin' dis sIr.,
ev'rything ! got IN dis world IA ~eln.
IN In smoke"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
GENERAL ORDER.
apl.H,'9S-tf

Mr.. C. C. Waller. General Freight and Pas
senHer Agen', having rcsig 0ed, al commune
cations re alive 10 that department upal
further notice, Will be referred 10 this office
lew. TROXELL.
General Manager
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

It's sad to think that grief ofttlu..
Treads on the heels OF pleasure:
For example. when In haste you YEA
You'll repent pefchanee AZ leisure
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04
Women Smoke In France.

Statistics have been taken m France
Of the spread Of the habit Of smoking.
and 1t has been discovered that within
the last year the cigarette. and even,
astonishing az II may appear, the pipe
have found an enormous increase In
their female votaries.
The fashion of smoking among wom-
en- IL no longer confined to the secrecy
of a private room. The Duchess Dues
and the Marchioness de Ia Rochefou.
caIld now publicly take . cigarette af-
ter dinner.
The statistics alluded to show th&
B07 .0O0. 900 cigarettes are yearly con-
Uumed In France.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

A Columbia University professor il
curing the cigarette fiend by hypno-
ism. Hitherto an ~ has been the only
potent remGdy.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

Dewey IL authority for the assertfom
that q e q god analiEz -
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-08-04

her pIe.-Chicago Daily Nsw..
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

The Pea-Eye still continues in
its well-worn course of perversion
and distortion of the utterances
and arguments of those papers
which disagree with it's views. Its
devilish ingenuity even descends to
the miss-spelling of a word here and
there when pretending to quote the
utterances of opposition papers,
when other means of distortion fails
it. And then, when it has built up
an alleged vantage point upon its
own foundation of falsehood, the
whole yowling pack of "me-too''
papers which, without ability Of
self-thought, blindly accept as COS
pei the Ayes satanic drivel, all
cry eli yip 1t would be better
for humanity if the whole misfit
gang would apply their ability of
perversion to proving that the fol-
lowing words Of scripture apply
individually and solely to them
selves: "And Judas went out and
hanged himself" $50 thou and do
likewise!"
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

and dark -'>''
Ere the bellows-draft quickened the smoulderiue
spark
So life is spark; and life is a fire;
And life is flame rising higher and higher
One free breath of nature ere hope dies in men
And the fast-fading einbers will waken again.
Thousands of people die of wasting weak
enlng diseases every year who by all rules;
of nature and reason ought to be restored
TO health and strength. The medicines
they receive from the average doctor No.
cofding to regulation, stereotyped practice
are mere temporary palliatives; they do not
reach down deep into the vital organism
where the spark of life lies dormant wait
ing to be awakened
In numberless cases where everv other
remedy absolutely fails DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery breathes its strong vi
tallzlng power upon the slumbering forces
OF life and wakens them into active energy.
IT qu1ckens the digestive and matchmaking
glands and empowers them to supply fresh
rich nourishment to all the organs and It's
sues; 1mbues the heart and lungs with vi
tality; destroying and excreting naturally
from the system the bile poisoned dreps
which Turk in the circulation, thus building
up new constitutional vigor and activity.
~ took severe cold which settled on INV
lungs and chest, and suffered intensely" writes
Mr. Harrison Smith. of Gapcreek, XIV. ~
tined several of our best physicians and thew
gave up all hope of my recovery: they said had
consumption and could not live more than few
weeks took five bottles of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and am sound and we'll to-
day feel better than have in ten years"
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27
Why he Quit Going to Church

"No," said the intelligent farmer
looking man with the patched and
faded jeans pants, "you haven't
seen me in church for long while,
and / reckon you won't for a right
smart while to come.
"No | haven't got anything
against the preacher-he is good
man-nor against the religion of
Jesus Christ; nor it amt on account
of my shabby clothes q see you
are looking at them), but l reckon
the ones Pve got on right now are
as good and clean as those worn by
Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter, or
His fisherman disciples. No, I'll
tell you how it came about.
"Iou remember last year [ had
a little patch OF land called my
own, though it seems it never was
so really. All the savings of years
that | put into it was not enough to
pay for it, when | bought it; and SO
| borrowed of old Twenty Percent
and gave mortgage on the land.
Well, it ran on, like the Scotch
mans tree, a growing while yer
sleeping. Some years | could pay
the interest and some years | could
not. Three years ago | tried diver
sihcation of crops at old Percent's
suggestion. | had to add to my
indebtdness by borrowing more
money of him to buy seed wheat.
How did it turn out? A fiat fail
ure, as | might have known it
would. 1t is estimated that in the
Northwest, where they raise all the
number one hard wheat; it costs so
cents to raise thrash and market a
bushel of wheat. Yet they are
often obliged to sell it from 40 to
70 cents per bushel. They have a
long cold winter favorable to the
cultivation of wheat, while we have
a long hot summer to mature our
cotton in. Now when our masters,
the money grabbers, fear they may
kill the goose that lays the golden
egg, and that the fool farmers may
conclude they might as well starve
one time as another, and quit rails.
ing four-cent cotton and forty-cent
wheat. Idon't know what they say
to fool the Northern farmer, but to
the Southern planter they cry,
University, diversity your crops"
But you never hear them say the
price of land products should be
regulated by the farmer himself, or
by the government, so that he will
not have to take chances of having
starvation prices for what he raises
as we'll as failure of crops.
"But l started out to tell you
why l quit the church. Last win
ter, about Christmas time, | met
Percent on the street, and before l
could ask for an extension of time
as l intended doing, he informed
me that he must have his money or
the land by the first of the month.
There was no use begging off. The
hard, cruel, greedy look depended
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

In printing the Governors mes
sage a number of Republican papers
left out the item of saving of $780,
600 in the management of state in
situations. We don't blame them,
for it shows how much more
economical the fusion administra-
ton has been than it's predecessors.
Tacoma Sun.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

If YOU can't legislate man rich
or poor, why do the corporations
so strongly desire legislation in
their interests that they will de-
scend to the depths OF corruption
and crime to secure it? Legisla-
ton has much to do with the pros
perity-or lack of it-of the people.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

The people pay more unjust and
unnecessary taxes to the railroads
than the aggregate of their taxes tc
the support of municipal, county
state and national government
How necessary it is, then, that the
government should own and oper-
ate the railroads.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

WHY should the people be sunk
in poverty when there is plenty
And why should they be kept idle
when there is so much that might
and should be done? These are
questions that involve the prob
lens of the present situation.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

clearer to remove the mote from thy
brothers eye
eff the members of this church
are in earnest about having a re-
vival of real religion of Christ let
them do as the apostles did, have
all things common among YOU
sAnd they that had much land and
houses sold them and laid the money
at the disciples feet Then
would there he such an out-pouring
of the Holy Spirit that this house
could not contain it; but it would
flow out into the highways and by
ways and it would save the souls
and bodies of men unto everlasting
life.
"Our minister is good man,
and would share if need be, his
last crust with the needy. But has
he or any other preacher the cour-
age to say to you or any other rich
manin their congregation, Sell all
| thou hast and have everything in
common among the whole? And If
they have this divine courage,
would you not, like Annanias and
Sarphira, withhold part of it and
then lie about it?
"You say you are glad Jesus died
for you. Not sorry that he was
compelled to die the shameful
death on the cross for such greedy,
grasping specimens of humanity
who raised the cry, Cruelty him!
cruelty himp and release unto us
Barabbas, the murderer! --
"Here Mary, who had been pull
ling at my coat for some time in
order to stop me, succeeded in her
efforts, and some one started the
hymn, Jesus paid it all, all the
debt owe,' to cover the confusion,
and while they were singing it
went outside and sat in the Wagon
to wait till the meeting was over
and Mary and the childr-n came
out.
"In front of me were the fine
horses and carriages Of Percent
Mortgaganloan, and many Others
most of whom | didn't know
Strange, isn't it, that so-ca]led
Christians, who claim to expect tc
spend all eternity together, DOM
try to get better acquainted with
each other here on earth. All al
once, and for the first time, it oc
Cured to me to ask myself why
Mary and had to ride to church
jim a lumber wagon over miles O.
rough road, harness and drive the
horses myself, and miss the resi-
and sleep all the next day while
about my work, while Twenty Per-
cent ct al. could loll at their east
on their carriage cushions, have al
their work done for them, and ther
feel sure of still greater ease
and comfort in the world to come
'Why should l make oil within
their walls, and tread their wine
presses, and suffer thirst?'
81 am not going to church any
more until l solve these problems.
ISABEL M. JULIAN.
San Marcos, Texas.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

ENFORCED idleness. results in
crime and dishonesty. In this land
of great natural resources no man
should be denied the right to live
by honest toll, yet our system robs
men of that right.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

The Republicans are now trying
to have the seat of Col J. H. Lewis
in congress declared vacant. They
are afraid of him when it comes to
an investigation of the army dur
ing the Spanish war, and well they
may be.-Tacoma Sun.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

ing this sacrifice it ga cd
have care that financial a7o>
are not needlessly riveted
tightly upon it's own people 80. .,,,<,v,,
ding to the interest on publeD- -
While substance and seryh w.
freely given to carry out ths 0nee' "'1
ious purpose of lettering thesD pro
tio"s of foreign people, mar see the II
at home not be thereby prsiGivett's.
by being forced to meet ihsssW. H. Pa
bonds, when full legal tendsis week.
ury money will accomplish tletcp and
pose without interest. Let ~ new CD
out greenbacks, and not bondiGo to J.
CHAs. M. DuPpture fra'1
SO West Forty-ninth St. NsxlThe best
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27

INTEREsT-on mOney-has cost
more dollars and more human suf-
fering than war, pestilence and
famine.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27
The Comptroller doesn't seem to
be controlling the banks much.
FREE homes and fair wages con-
stitute the strength of a nation.

DENY men justice and they be-
come listless slaves or dangerous
fends.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-01-27
Last Chance.

Ladies and gentlemen who de-
sire to become charter members of
the Home Forum can, by acting at
once, save money by coming in as
charter members.