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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

At small party the other evening
those present were asked to name the
most common and at the same time the
most complicated action in the human
phenomena, says the New York Times
Various answers were given, showing
all degrees of observation and thought.
Not one, however, hit upon the an
swer that the queGtioner had in mind,
which was walking. What action is
more common, and yet how difficult of
analysis! How many persons outside
of some special course in physics at the
universities can explain the phenom-
enon? Let somebody try. Walking"
once said DR.. Holmes, "is perpetual
falling, with a perpetual self-recovery.
1t is the most complex, violent and pc
rilous operation, which we divest of its
extreme danger only by continual prac-
tice from very early period of life.
We find how complex i, Is when we at
tempt to analyZe it. We learn how
violent it is when we walk against q
post or a door in the dark We dis
cover how dangerous it is when we
slip or trip and come down. perhaps
breaking or dislooatiug our limbs. or
overlook the last step OF a fight of
stairs. and discover WI d what headlong
violence we have been hurting our
selves forward" All his is very true,
as we ali know, to our sorrow, still. the
genial autOcrat has NOT explained the
phenomenon.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

The gentle siamang Is gibbon and
no monkey. In aSaemblages on the
treetops live the siamaug. whooping
through the octayes, calling to their
friends from miles away, and sweeping
off to meet them, r. Nc steeplechdses
with the winds J hsve seen. and hope
to live 10 see 7eaiu says a writer in
BlackWoods Magazine, pack OF the
siamang going through the jungle-a
long black arm and small crumpled
body swinging wildly from it like a
pendulum run mad then a suicidal
fling, crash in the covering green,
and SO they are some.
Tame they are me gentlest creatures.
The Malays catch he young ones and
bring them to our doors, knowing that
buy we must. Ii Is not among the pos
sibilities for a Mem to resist the for
lorn small speeches. thing. when it
winds its long arms and fingers around
her neck. and hides it's black wrinkled
face of an old woman, with round I'M
happy eyes, in he softness of her
morning gown. Or it Iurches across
the veranda on d pair of very handy
little legs. balancing itself with out
stretched arms. But they always die
They who have weathered torrential
rains under the open heaven die in
captivity of consumption, and cough
out their ll-comprehended souls like
Christians, huddled in blanket.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
Public Eating Houses.

Public eating houses are established
In a number of German cities to provide
meals for workingmen at cheap prices
so as to do away with the evil effects OF
the dinner pail. Those in Chemnitz
during 1893 sold 435,000 dinners; re-
ceipts were $17,5O0, and expenditures.
$15,500. The City Of Grenoble, France,
also maintains a municipal restaurant
at which about 1900 meals day are
served. At the outset the enterprise
needed municipal aid, but it Is now
self-supporting. The municipality owns
a property used, for which it receives
a nominal rent, and the accounts are
reported in the books of the municipal
ity. Any surplus is deposited in the
city treasury, as reserve to draw
from when prices Of provisions are
high. There are also other instances
throughout France of similar institu-
lions without municipal aid, several es-
Establishments being in operation at Par
is, Lyons, and Bordeaux.
Somewhat akin to such institutions
are municipal bakeries. which are to be
found at Rome and at Kovno, in Russia.
Stockholm owns municipal liquor
stores for the working classes, who
cannot obtain drink without ordering
food.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
FANATICS IN NEW YORK
One Proclaimed Himself God and Found
Many believers.

One Proclaimed Himself God and Found
Many Believers.
In New York City, about 1889, q
period Of great awakening" that be-
gat Mormonism and many other sects
among them one in Kentucky, whose
members, in order to win heaven by
making themselves as little children,
used to crawl on their hands and knees
in church. play marbles, trundle hoops,
and otherwise manifest their infantils
madness-one Matthews, a carpenter.
having assumed the name Matthias,
proclaimed himself to be God the
Father. He found believers. most OF
them ignorant but some intelligent,
procured much money, and ruined
many persons. He and his disciples
claimed to heal the sick quite as sue
cessfully as the Scientists now do. One
of them. Mr. Pierson, a victim of re-
ligious delusion, even before the COM
ing of Matthias, hid endeavored under
most distressing and pathetic circum
stances publicly to raise his wife from
the dead, accepting literally the verse
of the General Epstle of st. James di-
recting the elders to anoint and pray
over the sick, and promising that the
Lord shall raise him up
Matthias, being eventually indicted
for procuring $3.50 from a Mr.. Folger
under the false psetense that he was
God, able to remit sins. and would
communicate the Holy Ghost to said
Folger. the District Attorney entered a
nolle prosequi for these reasons: To
maintain the Indictment, he said, l
must prove that defendants pretenses
were false, and would deceive a man of
ordinary intelligence and prudence, but
no sane person would believe that
Matthias was God. Matthias was, how
ever, convicted on lesser charges.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

In Ulster, Eng, you can find the
bull" hourishing here is pretty ex-
ample Of the acted hull" A certain
squire had just set up with great pains
and elaborate mathematical calcula.
tons, a sun-dial in his garden, and
was naturally little proud of it. One
day, as it so happened, being close to
the garden, he was in doubt as to the
right time, and told a boy who was
with him to run down and get him the
time from the dial. After a few min
utes the boy appeared dragging with
him something heavy. "Here she is, yer
Honor, an hard set All was to get her
up" He had torn up the dial from its
setting and dragged it UP the hill.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

ass A: NJ, except Sunday, for Washington
Philadelphia and New York. Due at Wash
ington 6.35 n. m.
600 A; NJ, daily, for Washington. Cumh.r
berland, and way stations, Philadclpha
and New York and except Sunday for Tia
gerstown. Due at Washington $50 n. M
$50 a. m, daily, for Baltimore, Phi&dclpS'7
and New York. Due at Baltimore 9.05 q ~
elo a. M, except Sunday, for Baltimore aud
principal way stations, Philadelphia an
New York. Due at Baltimore i0.a5 q. m
40 a. m, except Sunday for Harpers Ferry
and Lexington.
$40 a. m, except Sunday, for Washington.
Philadelphia, New York Grafton. ieXlr2-
ton, 1agerStown and way stations. r,t's,
burg, Cincinnati, indianapolis and Chicago
Due Washington II. 50 n. IN.
lao p. M, except Sunday, for Baltimore ami
way stations. Philadelphia and New YORK
Due at Baltimore 40 p. m.
s:I5 p. m, daily, for Washington and WY
stations, Cumberland, Cincinnati aud ~
Louis. Due Washington $40 y, m.
t:30 p. m, daily, for Baltimore and way sta
tons, Philadelphia and New York. Due
Baltimore 40 p. IN.
$40 p. m. except Sunday, for Washington
Hagerstown, Winchester and way sta
tons, PittSburg, Wheeling, Chicago. Phri,.
delphia and New York. Dne Washing ,ui
$40 n. IN.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
Every Other Thursday,
After the new servant had been IN
l. 4 L. - L.

Stutltu HI thC VI a ANN" OCADNS
housewife the day finally came when
he privilege of going out" had to be
decided on. This fell Oh a Thursday,
% which the mistress assented.
You may go to-day, Bridget" she
said, land every other Thursday"
"All right, ma'am." replied Bridget.
The next week on Thursday surprise
was great at Bridgets coming from
1er room all logged out for another
afternoon out. The mistress rebelled
md asked her if she remembered that
she was TO go out only every other
thursday.
Certainly | do, ma'am, certainly!
didn't you say | could 90 out that
Thursday and every other Thursday
That Thursday and every Thursday
lfterwardT'
mo! Nor replied the mistress, that
Thursday and every second Thursday
hereafter"
"Sure you didn't say so. You posi-
lvely told me that Thursday and every
lther Thursday. OF course that means
very Thursday"
Bridget won.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
THE ARIZONA KICKER,
Thero Is Much Excitement in Editorial
Life in the West,


Tuesday afternoon last, as we were
busy at our editorial table, stranger
entered and began firing at us with
two guns. We were too surprised to
do any lodging, ana our nearest pistol
was ten feet away. 1t was all over in
fifteen seconds. however, and the
shooter had fired twelve bullets with
out even grazing our hide. There We're
two holes in the back of our chair,
three through the stovepipe behind
us, and a wall received the other
bullets. We rose up after awhile and
took the man by the neck and slammed
him around until he begged for mercy.
He gave his name as ElkinS. and said
he was on his way from Salt Lake to
Prescott. When he arrived here it
struck him to try an experiment. He
had n curiosity to know whether an
editor would fight. and what an editor
would say in his dying moments. AS
a matter of fact, he had nothing
against us, and when the affair was
over he subscribed for THE Kicker
and paid two years in advance. That
was the first time we had sat down
without a gun within reach for five
years and nobody need plan on the
idea that we viii do it again. Had we
been "heeled' Mr. Elllins would now
be sleeping with his forefathers.
Nevertheless, he got enough at our
hands to satisfy him that the editorial
fraternity of Arizona is not to be
walked on, and that any experiments
with the craft may result in springing
the bear-trap
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
WOMAN'S WEAPON

"Uhat is a woman's weapOn%
I asked a charming girl.
she dropped her lashes shyly
And stroked vagrant curl,
Then consciously she murmured-
This rosebud newly out
81 have a strong suspicion
Her weapon is a pout."
~Vhat is a woman's weapon"
asked lover true.
He turned him to maiden
With eyes of heavenly blue.
Her velvet lips were parted,
All innocent of guile,
And eagerly he answered:
Her weapon is a SMILE"
what is a woman's weapon?"
I asked a poet then.
With sudden ms iration
He seized upon ais pen.
ooh. | could name thousand"
He cried in ceants clear:
"But woman's su~est weapon,
| grant you, is tear"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

The drink bill of Great Britain just
published shows that the Englishman
drinks 2.41 gallons of alcohol year.
Next to him comes the Scotchman,
with an appetite slaked with 1.66 gall
Ions. The Tishman contents himself
with 1.54 gallons. The first spends
S20.50 year for his drinks, the second
S15.25 and the third $13.25.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

In Paris and other large towns in
France female bootblacks are increas-
Ing in number. They wear a peculiar
garb, not unlike that of Sisters of
Mercy, which renders their appearance
rather neat and attractive. Not few
among them attend to their work with
gloved hands.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

The Chinese detective force is Sc
cret body and the best organized in
the world. They have an eye upon
every man, woman or child, foreign or
native, in China. and, in addition,
watch over each other.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

Arab music has been described as the
singing of prima donna who has rap
tnred her voice in trying to sing a duet
with herself. Each note starts from
somewhere between a sharp and fiat,
but does not stop even there, and splits
up into four or more portions, of which
no person can be expected to catch
more than one at a time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

Canada needs only $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole con-
tinent of Europe; it is nearly 30 times
as large as Great Britain and Ireland,
and is 5000 square miles larger than
the United States, excluding Alaska.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

There is belief among the South Sea
islanders that no man can enter Para
Use who has lost limb and for this
'eason man will often die rather
han submit to amputation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

It is calculated thai 100000 photo
graphs of the Queen and the Prince
Ind Princess of Wales are produced an
aually, and find ready sale all over
he world.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

40 Stops only on notice to conductor or
agent, or Oh signal.
For PHILADELPHIA AND THE EAST
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
WEEK DAYS,


Additional trains leave Frederick 5or Bruce
Wills $50, $50 q. M, and SO p. m. week days,
returninM leave Bruoevle for Frederick Ss}S,
1910 m. and $50 p. m.
Trains leave Hanover for Gettysburg at $40
Q. m, 1899 and 542 p. m. week days; rctur-
ing arrive at Hanover from Gettysburg Ni9 "A.
m, and 4.8 p. m. Week days.
SRAxm LEAVE YoRx FOR rHE N0IIn
RAcine and Northern Exprees, daily i.i9a NJ
News Express, daily ........... ....-. G.il 81. '1
Niagara Exp. and Mail, week days ~. e.,
Chicago Exp. and Fast Line daily, ~ q 49,
Chicago and St. Louis Express daily, a. .I'..
For time tables and further information g.
ply TO ticket agent at the station.
J. p. HUTCHINSON.
0eDeral Manager.
]. Il. WOOD,
General Passenger Agent
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

The subscriber respectfully informs his
friends and The public generally that 10
has purchased the Livery Stables 9TH
late Robert G. Lamar, and has removed
Do his new and CoMMOpiOUs SrABLEs5
on the First Alley, between East Second
and East Third SITS, FfedcTick city, Md
where all orders by day or night, Wit
receive prompt and pOlitoaltention,an u
on the most reasonable terms. His
stock OF HORSES and CARRIAGES is
the largest in the city. The horses are
all safe, SOUND and good travellers, while
the vehicles are OF every variety, and -
the finest and latest styles ana the most
substantial character. Bridal parties
served with the most stylish and FASH
ionabie turnOutS, and special attention.
will he given TO funeral cOrteges. CAR
RIAGES FOR PARTIES and 'Busee
for picnics at very reasonable rates. Tho
drivers are all competent, reliable and
obligng, and no pains nor efforts will
he spared to please all who may favor
me with their patronage,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD -FREDER-
ICK DIVISION.

sC.IzsULE IN EFFECT NovrMBEx 2lst, 1893
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19

A flock Of mutton sheep ought to be
found on every farm because they are
bound to be profitable as scavengers
alone.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
Arrival and Departure Of Trains.
BALTIMORE 4 OHIO RAILROAD.
Schedule in Effect Nov, nth, 1879.
LEAVE FREDERICK.

AS A. NJ, except Sunday, for Washington
Philadelphia and New York. Due at Wash
ington 6.35 n. m.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15

Admiral Dewey, which indicate that there
are those who stand ready to exploit the
man and his great achievements for
purposes the patriotic nature of which
is manifest only to themselves. Later On
these enterprising personages may have
the opportunity they seek otherwise than
at the expense of Dewey's health Even
that mooted project of making him star
of second magnitude in the proposed pros
idential tour of triumph will keep until
later on. A man of the SURPRISING sagac-
ity of the admiral can probably be ex-
pected to see. his way as clearly at a
later date to engaging In such perform
ances as he can Immediately on his Ie-
turn.
For the present there is but one thing to
do. and that is to set the desire of the
object of all this attention above the
wishes and plans of individuals and the
public alike, however praiseworthy they
may be.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15
DEMOCRACY AND THE uR,-s,rs


iacl STANDS out clear in all this
sprouting of trusts and their denuncia-
tion, and that is, if Republicanism "a in
capable of coping with them. if thew orc
10 oe regulated, it must be done by Dem
ocrals ana upon fundamental Democratic
p'iiicipies with this important dutv
sure to be put upon them, Democrats
cannot too soon be putting on their +bink-
ing caps and De studying carefully all
the conditions attending this astonishing
development First to determine ia how
Tar they are natural progression on
prior combinations of individuals. wbatb-
ct corporation of corporations is not an
evolution from corporations as they were
from joint stock companies and thew
from partnerships, or whether thew are
an abnormal cancerous growth II no
wholly cut out. And this point must be
determined without prejudice or passion
Ii the former is the conclusion arrived
at, then the next step to consider 70
wherein they are helpful to the COM
munlty as a whole and wherein hurtful.
and how they can be deprived of their
power to injure.
Meantime some conditions exist ,ybosa
consideration will help towards a right
conclusion. The parallelism between the
development of the trusts and that Of
the railway corporations forty years ago;
the similarity of methods of public ex-
ploitation, of public protest; the coll
lapse Of the railway bubbles, their reor-.
ganizatton and the present general con-
sentative management and the subsf-
dence of public opposition, are matters
to be thought of. Another striking con-
dition is the exemption of one of The
trusts, the oldest of them, from mention
in all this clamor against it's imitators
One hears an occasional sheer at Mr.
Rockefeller, nine-tenths of 1t metived by
envy, but this trust Is never set up among
the horrible examples. Why is this the
case? Is it not because the public &C.
ceDt the price at which the Standard
fixes its product as being reasona BILE .
Does this not indicate that it is against
the extortion, actual or possible, that the
public gorge rises? The business prin-
ciple upon which the Standard works is
small profit on the unit of product
with the largest possible production of
units. This gives the consumer his oil
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15
Fall.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURES.
DO THESE FIGURES LIE.

Judging from the figures published in
these columns, of the correctness of
which there will be no question raised,
the expenditure of the citys funds in
the maintenance of the chief departments
of our municipal system is not character
lied by that love of economy and re-
trenchment which should distinguish
OfficehOlders who maintain their places
on the principle that they are animated
by the single purpose of giving to the
people city government at the lowest
available cost.
For the first four months of 1899, for in
stance, it is seen that the police and fire
departments and the building department
have run away ahead of their eXpendi-
lures for the corresponding period of the
preceding year. The fire department
has realized an advance on last years
figures of over $16,eOO The police depart
ment has run something less than $1,000
ahead of last years figures, while the
building inspectors department, largely
ornamental in character, has succeeded
in almost doubling the figures of last
year To be accurate, the building in
spector from January to May, 1898. spent
$l97S.74 For the same period this year
the figures will show an expenditure of
$365S.42. That sanitarium for the retainers
of active Republican politicians, the court
house and city hall commission, has aG-
vanced from $7,954.SS to 81, 1892
This showing Is one which should cause
some inquiry. These are the figures
shown by the city comptroller's report
and by the mayors report to the heads
of departments. They demand an ex-
PLANTATION from the gentlemen who are
charged with the expenditures of the fire
department, from the building inspector
and from the custodian of the court
house. Street, sewer and bridge mainte-
nance shows an advance for the same
period of some $4,000 and the printing
and stationery account an advance of
about $500, while the judgments entered
against the city during the same period
show an increase of S.. GOO.
The rate of progress maintained for
the year represents an advance for the
entire year of something like s125,00o over
last years figures for these departments
of city expenditure. 1t might be worth
Mr.. McCardy's while-he being the only
official of the crowd who gives indication
of possessing any sense of public respon-
sibility-to call halt in this display OF
added generosity In local expenditures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15

her plumage over to the feather
trust. If only dared to drop her line
I'd suggest that she turn herself over to
the Audubon Society for the Protection
of Birds These measly English spar
rows have driven away the most gor-
geously plumed song birds and cherry
pickers, and unless there should happen
to be big boom in ostrich farming that
Kansas woman is In danger. She's TAX
ing big risks. More than that, she's like
ly to excite envy and jealousy in the
breasts of other women who can't grow
feathers as easily as they can moles,
pimples, moth patches and wrinkles.
But Lord bless you, gentlemen. I
would no more dare to write to her and
give her bunch than would attempt,
single-handed, to surround the whole
Philippine army. My wife would soon be
camping on my trail and 1 wouldn't have
hair or feathers, either left on my head
Fact Is, gentlemen, the Kansas lady Is
to be both envied and pitied There are
dime museums yawning for her, and
there are also feather hunters with small
bore rifles Its a toss-up which gets her."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-15

at price he accepts as reasonable. We
portance In any consideration of meas
ures regulative Of this latest commercial
development
Another striking condition is the open
overcapitalization of these combined cor
poraticns. and the entire absence in law
of any restriction upon the amount at
which their property may be stocked.
When combinations of corporations as
sumo tie monopolizaticn of production
In the entire country very different sit
uation is presented from that when a few
men. more or less, unite their capitals in
and form corporation. The absence OF
opportunity for competition makes all the
difference. The pressure upon the man
ayers OF these masses of watered stock
is to earn dividends upon that stock, and
that can be done only by reducing cost
of production or increasing price of prod
uct or both. Such forced increase of
price raises 1t above the fair and normal
and is robbery as clearly as If taken at
the point of gun.
Another condition that favors trusts
and retards their control is our dual sys-
tenn of government. In the Sugar case
the federal act failed because the trust
was wholly within the limits of state
and beyond federal jurisdiction. Is not
that which the fathers so jealousy erect
ed now become the shelter of rapacity,
and must there not be an enlargement
of the power of congress over interstate
commerce to include interstate manufac-
turing and selling9 These are some OF
the matters about which Democrats must
do some level-headed thinking instead OF
frothy denunciation, and the sooner they
get to thinking the better it will be for
them when the day comes in which
the people will commission them to do
that with which Republicanism has found
Itself incompetent to deal.