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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
MAKING CANDIED CITRoN.
IL Goes Through . Complicated Process
Before Ready for Use.

II Goes Through . Complicated Process
Before Ready for Use.
The making Of what we call citron
10 a complicated process.
The fruit from which the finished
product is made is very like a large
lemon eight or 10 pounds in weight. 1t
grows in groves in Corsica and Gala
bria upon trees about 6 feet in height.
The first process is to cut the fruit
in halves and take out the cores, which
are discarded. The peel is then sealed
In barrels Of salt water for two or three
weeks 1t is then withdrawn and
soaked for q days in a succession Of
syrups, beginning with eight parts
of sugar to 20 of water until the final
one contains 20 parts OF sugar to one
part water.
The fruit thus treated is then cooked
In number of large cauldrons, where
1t SINNERS for "a hours. When cool it
Is skinned, cooked again with fresh
syrup, cooled and cooked a third time.
While still hot it is packed in wooden
boxes, in which it is sold by wholesale.
The peel thus treated will keep for 10
years, although the fresher it is the
better. The slightly bitter flavor of pre-
served citron is caused by the soaking
in salt water. Two huaired people are
employed in the facto.J The women
receive Is cents a day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

1t is impossible to estimate the
amount of suffering to which young
children are condemned by the fads of
their parents. The poor little things
cannot care for themselves, nor can
they protest against the well meant
cruelty of those whose charge they are.
Societies exist for the prevention OF
cruelty to children, but their right to
interfere stops short of the control of
the hygienic heresies of parents.
Fortunately for the succeeding gem
erations Of mankind, says the Youths
Companion, these hygienic faddists are
not in the majority and most parents
let their children grow up under a COM
mon sense method of health training,
or perhaps under no method whatever
which is the next best thing.
Mistaken parents may be roughly de-
signated under two grand divisions
the coddlers and the tougheners and
it is hard to say which do the more
harm
The theory OF the coddlers is that
breath of cold air is death dealing to
the tender child, and that the chief end
of man is the avoidance of draushts;
and so they bundle up their children
with layer upon layer of heavy wooden
garments, from the soles Of their feet
to the crown of their head
Their children are apt to grow up
weaklings, If they grow mp at all. but
their sufferings are light and their
perils few in comparison with those
that beset the victims of the toughening
or hardening process.
The child of this system is brought
up in accordance with the belief that
all that is necessary to health and long
life is to defy the elements and common
sense. Deluded parents think they
are creating a strong constitution and
point triumphantly to some robust lad
who has survived the process, forget
ting that it is only children of natur-
ally the strongest constitution who
come through it at all.
Formerly fashion aided the tOughen-
ing faddists. and tiny tots went around
in the house, and often out of doors
with half bare legs and arms and low
cut dresses hardly reaching to the
knees. Nowadays the dress of young
children perhaps leans in the direction
of coddling, with its unhealthy neck
wraps and ear mutllers.
1t is hard in this changeable climate
to keep the mean between the two ex-
tremes, but parents do not go far
wrong who clothe little children in
light flannels, in all but the hottest
weather, and who vary the outer cloth
ing in accordance with the temperature.
The child should wear clothes enough
not to feel cold, but not enough 10 keep
1t perspiring, for then cold-catching is
inpVita HE
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
An tuOlOgy.

Two we'll known temperance men of
Kirkaldy, Scotland, were upset one
night, when returning from temper
ance meeting. In its account Of the
mishap the local paper remarked:
Fortunately both gentlemen were
sober at the time" This remark made
them indignant, and they wrote letter
to the editor, saying so. Whereupon the
editor kept up his end by printing this
apology in the next issue of the paper:
"Messrs.- and - demand an apol-
ogy for our having stated that at the
time of their accident they were both
sober. We have pleasure in withdraw
ing our observation"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
He Knew I.e,ter.

From Philadelphia comes a story Of
a hospital orderly possessed of more
Drawn than brain. The man was an
freshman. only recently employed and
one night the resident physician told
him to be on hand by IL o'clock to take
to the deadhouse the body of con-
sumptive patient who could not live
past that hour.
Upon the stroke of the clock Dennis
was on hand The night nurse was
in another part of the ward, and the
patient was, to all appearances, dead.
Denis and his assistant tossed the
body upon stretcher and carried II
out. In the hall the cold air revived
the sufferer from the effects of ''the
hypodermic" which had been admins
tered.
"Where are you takin' meT"he asked.
ITO tn deadhouse, of coorse," replied
Dennis; "where the devil else dye
think I'd be after takin' your
"But Pm not dead" protested the pa
tient, starting up.
"Lie down this minit!" protested the
orderly. ITS great cheek We have!
Dye think We know more about it than
the doctor?"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
DEADLY BACTERIA.
HOW FLIES AND MOSQUITOES Dis.
TRIBUTE GERMS.

SciOntists Daily Making New DIsoovsriss-
Majority Of Our Soldiers Lost in Spanish
American War Died From Typhoid Fever
Carried by Flies.
The relations of insects and bacteria
to man are Of the highest importance
and are only just beginning to be ap-
preclated in q vague manner by the
public.
The extent to which diseases are
conveyed by insects is appalling.
Scientists are daily making new dis
coveries Of this character. AS very
pertinent illustration of what takes
place it may be pointed out that the
majority of our soldiers lost in the late
war died from typhoid fever carried
by flies.
Texas fever is conveyed by the
Southern cattle tick Professor Koch
found that the Tsetse fly. which causes
an enormous loss of cattle in Africa,
kills not simply by its bite but also
by introducing harmful micro-or-
ganisms into the blood of it's victim.
The germs of malaria are inserted
into the blood of nan by mosquitoes.
The insect finds the germs on the de.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

An excess of nitrogen usually tends
toward wood production and an in
creased growth. ut the expense. 1t is
thought, Of the crop Of fruit. Potash
and phoSphOric acid. on the other
hand, are supposed to promote the gen
eral vi@or of the tree, and increase the
quality of the fruit 1t is thought
that potash imparts high color to
peaches and Strawberries, and covers
grapes and plums with a deep bloom;
but its effect on the fruit has not yet
been thoroughly studied.
The experience of many large fruit
growers favorS the use of potash in
fertiliZing orchards. It is commonly
applied in the form of muriate. from
200 to 800 lbs p being considered
an economical dressing If the orchard
receives an application each year.
often wonder if the practice is not
sometimes carried too far. and II a
complete fertilizer would not, in many
cases. give better results.
The result of experiments in the fer
tiliZing of peach orchards at the y. ].
exp sta. shows the greatest yield Of
fruit per acre where muriate OF potash
and nitrate Of soda We're applied. but
potash gave much better results than
either nitrate of soda or phosphoric
acid alone. Potash seemed to promote
certain vigor aud thrift which were
lacking in trees deprived Of them
Potash has proved the most valuable
OF the single elements: the net gain
being greater than where BARNARD
manure was used. The largest net
cain bowpvnr cama from I1sin0 a
common fertilizer. s. d. Willard the
well-kuown western New York horti-
culturist, says: "In order to have good
hard wood. healthy leaves and well.
developed buds we must rely upon
potash and phosphoric acid.-Prof w.
r. Rrltton.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

Someone had told her that you al.
ways have to register, but she wasn't
used to hotels; that was apparent from
the way she fingered behind the old.
time travelling man who stood by the
clerks desk. She wanted to see how it
was done. The old fellow had had the
same room in the house for nine years
1t was always kept for him; No. 6S on
the second floor. He had wired three
days before that he was coming, so 1t
was all ready for him. He dipped the
pen in the inkwell and with an extra
flourish or two, scratched down the
names, James Edward Clifford
The same old thing?" he asked Of
the clerk.
"1eup," was the answer.
Whereupon Mr.. Clifford wrote down
opposite his name "63."
Then the bellboy grabbed his travel
ing case and conducted him to the ele-
vator.
The clerk dipped the pen in the Ink
and handed it to the demure maiden
who had stood behind the old traveller.
She glanced at the last name on the
page, then turned for a parting look
at the form just passing into the ele-
vator car. She laid her handkerchief
and pocket-book on the desk and wrote,
Faith Merreweather."
Then she shot the clerk a modest lit
tie glance and finished out the line by
placing "a" after the signature. She
looked up blushing.
The clerk smiled, and when he had
whispered room number to the porter
and the girl had passed behind the
screen he said to himself, by Jove,
sha doacn't 1ool, ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

The Germans make delicious pine
apple pancake that is worthy of gen.
eral adoption. A plain, thin pancake
batter of eggs, flour and milk is made
and poured into big buttered frying
pan, hot enough to begin the baking
at once AS soon as the batter spreads
out, cover with layer of stewed pine
apple. not too Juicy, and dredge with
powdered sugar. Put the pan in a hot
oven. and bake for eight or ten min
utes. until brown and we'll done. Cut
the cake into triangular pieces and
serve hot
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
ING plsEI eE GERMS.

ING DI8EJ f GERMS.
caying animal and vegetable matter
on which it feeds The mosquito also
conveys the horrible tilaria diseases Of
the East, which include elephantiasis.
Leprosy is communicated by mosqui-
toes and other bit,3g insects.
The pink eye" of the Southern
United States is attributed to the horse
tick. In the Fiji Islands Europeans
have to wear veil to protect them
selves against a serious native eye
disease, which is spread by the gnats.
Flees played an important part in
causing the recent terrible outbreak
of bubonic plague in Asia. The horse
fly and a common "ariety of biting fly
(stomoXys calcitrans, infect cattle and
even men with til. germs of anthrax.
Even without tie Intervention of
flies and other insects man is always
loaded with a sworn of microbeS.A
well known bacterinlogist recently set
about classifying the various orders of
bacteria which are found on the hui
man skin. He gave up the task after
he had counted two hundred kinds.
Every one of these different kinds
was found to the number of rarely
that every man carries about with
him microbes considerably exceeding
the entire population of the world.
Fortunately we are not utterly Mt
the mercy of these microbes. Very
often it is only the sick whom they
can hurt. Nature, who never creates
a pest without supplying some means
of combating it, has furnished the hui
fence against the microbial hordes.
The first line of defence is the skin,
which most of the micO-organismS are
incapable of penetrating. 1t is just
here that we perceive the dangers to
which we are exposed from the sting
ing insects. They introduce into the
blood germs which would otherwise
not be able to pass the skin. The com
mon house fly does not bite, but it
may spread infection by depositing
the germs in the mouth, nose or eyes.
Besides the skin there is another
line of defence against the microbes
in the mucous membrane lining the
mouth, throat and digestive tract.
The pneumonia bacillus and the diph-
iberia bacillus are frequently found
in the threats of healthy persons and
cause them no Inconvenience what
ever. They are unable to gain an en-
trance to the tissues unless there is an
Inflammation, caused probably by a
cold or some other violent disturbance
of the normal health.
The body has another very import
ant defence against the army of mic
robes in the gastric juice of the
stomach. This contains free hydro
chloric acid, which is extremely de-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
Diamond Saws

The use of the diamond saw for cut
ting stone is facilitating the erection of
buildings. The diamonds which form
the cutting teeth of the saw are COM
mon crystals, fixed in a steel disc over
six feet in diameter, which is mounted
on spindle, and revolved by steam
power, like an ordinary circular saw.
For saving hard stones there are 200
diamonds>in the cutting edge, and the
speed is 300 turns a minute. 1t ad-
vances into the stone about a foot in
that time. For soft stones the teeth
are of steel, with diamonds at intervals
of every five teeth, and at a speed of ~
turns a minute the saw advances about
a yard in that time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
Real Property for Sale.

Having more business TO look after than
can properly attend to, have decided TO sell
sale
500 ACRES OF FINE, wELI-IMPRovKD
LAND.
Twin sell It all in one body, as 1t lie, or win
divide IL in tracts to suit purchases ThN
land is all in a high state Of cultivation, and
crops equal TO any in the county or StRtaL
EVERY ACRE HAD FROM so TO 100 BUsH-
ELS OF LIME,
aud the.most OF IT been heavily manurod In
the last 10 or II years
ALL UNDER GOOD FENCING-TBE MOST
OF IT POST AND RAIL,
divided into convenient fields. with pure RUG
ming water in every field Improved vita
several good dwellings, "A couple Ofgood barns,
with all other outbuidings necessary, aRd
about 900 choice apple and peach frees on tho
farm, all IN null bearing.
also desire TO sell my
MILL PROPERTY, KNOWN AS GREEN
VALLEY MILLS,
consisting OF one eour and grist mill one saw
mill, one good clearinghouse one barn and
other outhuildiHgS, with all the privileges per
tanning thereto. This is one of the best hunt
mills in Frederick County built in lNs0 36xA
feet, stories high, one of stone and three
frame, wCatherbuardcd with cypress and
wainscoa"d from top to bottom with yellow
pine; two ~ III ,-foot water Wheels run Of
burrS, with water-power and mill capacity
Of producing from
D TO 10 lHTS OF FLOUR PER DAY,
and in ono OF the best wheat growing sections
in the county or state. ana with a country
custom of radius oi from ~ To ~ miles,
makes this desirable property for industrious
and eutrrprisiug people ! Nill sell all OF the
above naucd property as low prices ana ON
easy terms. ! will also sell my blacksmith
s&Op properly, adjoining the mill property
and farm, consisting of dwelling. black NTH
shop, whcclvright shop aud other Quit uild-
suit the purchaser.
mch3-0-6mos. LEVI PRICE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
An Old House.

re oldest house in America Is in
+, Rgustine, Fla. In 1864, is was
l. " the monks of the Order of
pfancis and the whole of the solid
le!Qre is composed of coquina, a
ln'nhtion of sea shells and mortar,
w Is almost indestructable. When
.lk' Drake sacked and burned the
y DIS was the only house left in
.Eall of destruction. 1t has been
ea2sed by the we'll known antiqu-
\ y w. Henderson, who will make
Us Ninter residence.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
A Giant Moose Head.

2 largest moose head on record is
r possession of Mr.. w. +. Sheard
coma, Wash. 1t is the head of an
IN moose and the antlers meas
Tom tip to tip 6 feet 6 inches.
Widest moose antlers in England
IN the possession of his royal
aess the duke Of Edinburgh. They
NED 1914 inches across or A-inch
Z feet. The Alaskan specimen, 8
81 higher than a 6-foot man, is
Immensely wide and massive In
Dim" of the horns.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

MICROBE-LADEN FOOT OF HOUSE FLY
structive to germs. The cholera germ
in particular is unable to flourish in
this acid. and therefore a stomach in
a thoroughly sound condition is sure
protection against cholera.
The blood also possesses certain pro
perties of defence against microbes
the nature of which scientists are only
Just beginning to find out. Microbes
will flourish in the blood of certain
animals. Diphteria, for instance, does
not infect rats OF mice. There are in
the blood of these animals certain
floating substances which have de-
structive properties so far as the bac-
terra of diphtheria are concerned.
When the bacteria attack any point of
the organism these substances receive
an automatic signal and float to that
point. There they help to destroy the
invaders.
Acting in cooperation with these
substances are those corpuscles of the
blood which are called ''phagocytes."
They not only attack the microbes,
but eat them.
The human blood possesses phago-
cytes and it is by their action that we
acquire immunity against smallpox
and other diseases after one attack.
When the smallpox germ first attacks
the body the phagocytes hasten to de-
fend 1t. If the body lives the phago-
cytes in the blood have become so
vigorous that they will be able to re-
pel any future attack of the smallpox
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
- - 80 . - - - -
Don't Worry Club Didn't

The Don't Worry Club organized in
Atchison some Hme ago has been
broken up by the mothers of the girls
belonging, says TIE Atchison Globe
They claim that the members of the
club refused to worry enough about
their work to get up before 10 in the
morning, and 1t didn't worry them II
nothing was cooked for dinner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
4 Wonderful Carnst.

ueen of England is possessed
q the most remarkable articles
Nne In prison. The superintend-
era Jail two years ago received
\ to weave a carpet Of special
.pr her majesty. On it % of the
eonvicts Of the establishment
n engaged. The carpet meas
Eeet by 40 feet, and is estimat-
stain no fewer than 10000, 900
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
The Difference.

A metropolitan paper is authority
for the statements that when a man i'll
uses his mule in New Orleans he is
fined SIS, and that cultured Boston
fines a man $40 for beating his wife.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
About Turnip Seed.

A turnip seed increases its own
weight fifteen times minute. On peat
ground turnips have been found to in
crease by growth 1899 times the
weight OF their seed each day they
stood upon 1t.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

Guest (at breakfast, putting down
his cup with wry eXpression)-Wait-
er, you have brought me tea.
Waiter-No. sare; coffee sare.
Guest Well | ordered cocoa.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
A Sea Coccoanut.

cocoanut" was picked up on
',,' zen at Biddeford pool, Me. re-
I Is a solid mass of sea
KS Rnd grasses, punched by the
! rs the sea and rolled into spher-
4 4: 1t is a queer-looking OBJ
...' is regarded as a curiosity,
s',S Feiiers by the beach say that
j. specimens are occasionally
n.. some as large as a golden
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

OF the eleven emperors and empress
en- of Russia between Peter l and Alex
ander II, four have been assassinated.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
The Chinese Invitation.

when Chinaman gives a grand par
ty he sends three invitations to each
guest-one two days before the event.
another on the day itself, and the third
just before the hour has struck, to sig
Nifty how impatient he is for his visit
ors arrival.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

The Arab mode of attack was quaint
to a degree; formed in line, each
tribe advanced gainst part of the
village. When about five hundred
yards frem the mud houses they halt
ed and commenced to dance, brandish-
ing spears and swords in the air and
firing off rifles. After a few moments
they resumed the advance, dancing
and firing all the while lin the air),
when suddenly, with yell, they rush
ed at tue houses, end, having effected
an entrance, they slaughtered every
one within.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
LEVI PRICE.

DONT FORGET we are headquarters for
~ extra fine pure Butchering Pepper
Special price for salt by sack. Sweet Marion
am, Coriander and Sage.
nov.4.'&u +. v. STAUB.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

A Laplander will often skate $50
miles in a day.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07
Ahnnf TnnfhnicI.s

picks made in the United States are
formed from white birch timber in
Franklin county, Me-, and yet scarcely
more than 100 per cent. are employed
in the industry in that state.
Wells That Breathe
Blowing or breathing wells are
strange phenomena which exist at
Saull City, Prairie du Sac and Merri-
mack, Wisconsin.
At those places wells have been put
down to depths varying from 60 to
100 feet, and, strange to relate, they
exhale the air for a period 0f "a hours
and then inhale for a like period. In
cold weather water is frozen at a
depth of over 100 feet, causing the
pump pipes to burst in many cases.
Recently, Charles Stoddard put some
light boards over his we'll and during
the night the exhalation blew part of
the boards off.
One man covered his well, except q
round hole through one of the boards,
and when a hat, folded newspaper or
other similar object was placed over
fine hole, 1t would be blows off. The
mir seems to come from a stratum of
very coarse gravel in which there is
no sand or other substance, except
little soaplike matter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-07-07

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-27
POSTOFFlCE ABOLISHED.
The Peck, Florida, Onice Discontinued
Because Of tho Whitecaps

WASHINGTON. Aug. 26-The Postmas-
tel-ltLeral to-day ordered The d.scOn-
tuu4uce of the Dlstonice at Peck, Fla,
because OF Che recently Wlte-capping OF
The postmaster there.
lls follows closely a report received
from Postmaster Crum. ana verified Dy IL
preventative from POstOuice Inspectors
TATE and Bass. who We're ordered 20 In
Nf leaio the affair
Tho United States district attorney IS
now on The ground preparing pr0secu-
u0n Of the guilty parry A reward Of
500 WNi &c Is stated be offered for the
arrest and conviction of each OF the as
sailauts Postmaster Crum. In reporting
the occurrence. says he was proceeding
from She rCst9n cc 90 uis home, q short
distance away when he was confronted
bg party 0f sixteen men, who took him
from his horse. bound him hand and foot
removed DIS clothing. ari whipped him
with switches. After This he says, the
men poured c1rh0lic acid on IFS wounds
and saturated his back with it, causing
intense agony
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-27
NEW YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. Aug. cG-There have been
feDorts of sales OF print cloths outside
of Fall River az the quoted Fan River
rates, bat these sales have not been vori-
fed. There have been no sales OF regular
cloths AZ Fan RIVER during the wceh
The market for odd goods has been fairly
active during the week and prices are on
q very firm basis Locally the cotton
goods market shows no change OF mo.
ment. There is fair demand for brown
cottOns have been sold during the week
In considerable amounts, and sellers are
beginning 10 doubt whether the stocks
will be sufficient 20 meet the demands
OF the later legitimate trade There Is q
good market for prints and a remarkably
weli-sustained demand for ginghams and
woven colored goods. The market for de-
MINIS and similar lines OF coarse colorsd
goods has been advanced slightly, and
sales have been quite heavy.