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The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-04

BlacK,JacK oak stove wood 81 20
per load at |. L. Hamlin q Co.
The Choral Union Concert
advertised for last Tuesday
evening at Clarke's hall was
postponed to next Monday
evening, on account of rain.
Ponds Extract is indispensable
to the Toilet table of every lady
and gentleman Every little
Roughness, Redness, Inflamma-
ton or A brasion Of the skin is cured
by Ponds Extract For Headache,
Lameness, for Sore throat
or Hoarseness it is unequaled Di-
luted with water it is delightfully."- |
cooling, refreshing and beneficial
to the skin Beware Of limitations
See landscape trademark on bot
tie wrapper
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
A NEST OF SLEEVES.

having a slit in one side and a groove
around the inside. Light frames are
made, strung with mesh of varying de-
grees Of openness, and, as wanted, one
or another of these frames is slipped
into the groove and sieve of the right
sort is at hand. One excellent use for a
set of sleeves at this season of the year
is in getting out of cracked corn just
the right sized particles for chicks
when first Matched, for those a couple
of weeks old, month, and so on.
Cracked corn is splendid feed for
chickens, but it must be graded to Sc
cure the best results. In the same ex-
cellent way grit of proper size for
chicks of varying ages can be provided.
Once get full set of these sleeves, and
you will be surprised at the great num-
Der of uses to which they can be put
N. Y. Tribune
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
GLAMOUR OF THE STAGE.
An Elderly Pessimist Wants an Ex-
PLANTATION of the Fascination
of Chorus Girls.

81 wish somebody would explain"
said portly old gentleman who, says
the New Orleans Times-Democrat,
wakes his mustaches and believes firm
ly that the country is going to the dogs,
81 wish somebody would kindly explain
the fascination which chorus girls ex-
ercise upon a certain class of young
noodles. Take woman who is as home
ly as a gingham umbrella and as dull
as a Congressional Record and put her
in the back row of chorus where she
hasn't thing to do except draw her
breath and her salary, and first thing
you know a mob of half-baked JOB nnies
are sending her flowers and mash notes
and jewelry and begging her to come
out and sample hot birds and cold bot
ties. | can't understand il.
"If she was playing sonatas on a
typewriter or warbling Cash. in a dry
goods store she wouldn't get a smile in
a century, but the moment she lands
behind the footlights she becomes
transfigured-invested with an irresst-
ible, hypnotic charm-and the gided
youths who would pass her in silent
scorn under any other circumstances
are proud as peacocks Is she mods TO
them on the street She's a member of
the profession, y'know by Jove!' Pom
my word, it's queer thing = this
glamour of stage life!"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
CARE OF UTENSILS.
DAIRY Pans and Pals Should Always
Be Made of Tin and Kept
ScrupulOusly Clean.

All dairy utensils should be made of
tin. 1t is good plan to have the milk
pans and pals made to order. Use the
best tin and have all the joints made
round. After use they should first be
washed In cold water and soap and then
scalded, using plenty Of hot water,
wiped perfectly dry and placed where
the sunshine will get into them. 1t is
great mistake to pour hot water into
milk pans and pals, for it will coagu-
late the milk in the seams and corners
and If by accident the curd is not all
washed out it will sour and affect the
next milk put in. Borax is a great
purifier. If little is added to the hot
water that the utensils are rinsed in.
1t will cleanse and purify them. Use
enough to make the water feel slightly
slippery. Dairy utensils should never
be used for other articles of food.
To clean tinware, dampen a soft cloth
and dip it in common baking soda and
rub the ware briskly, and then wipe
dry. Milk is ready absorber Of gases.
Care should be taken not to have It
stand in place which is damp or mustv
or In cellar where there are decaying
vegetables or near onions, fish or other
odorous substances. Finely powdered
charcoal, which is an absorber of gases,
should be kept continually in a milk
room, especially in hot weather, when
unwholesome gases are most liable to
affect the milk.-American Agricul-
turist.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Leghorns and brahmas do not thrive
well together,
II the fowls have bowel disease change
the food for a day or two and also
change the grit.
Roup is so contagious that on its first
appearance the only safe plan is to
take away all affected fowls.
Feathers on the legs, large combs and
warts and heavy crests do not add any
thing to the egg production.
When the weather is cold the eggs
should be gathered up frequently, or
they cannot be depended upon to hatch.
Put an old cock. not over two years,
with the laying pullets, and fully ma
tured, well developed young one with
the old hen.
Iron is invigorating. stimulating and
assists in guarding the system from
disease. A deficiency of it in the sys-
TEN causes weakness.
Do not throw the scraps from the
table to the poultry after each meal.
Save them up to cook until soft and give
them warm for a morning meal. Cook
them in milk. if possible.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
Eastwood AND BEES.
A Beautiful Tree That Furnishes an
Abundance of Food for the
HOney-Makers.

Beekeepers will find it profitable to
plan for and prepare bee pastures, says
an exchange. Those who have had
either the good fortune to be located
where Eastwood or linden trees are
plentiful, or have the patience to await
the development Of this tree, have
found that they furnish an abundance
OF food for the bee to manufacture into
honey. The tree is beautiful one and
may well be planted as an ornament.
Small trees can be procured from the
forest or from nurseries that handle
forest trees, and planted in the fall in
some desirable location for a grove.
The larger ones are said to thrive bet
ter. The blossoms are small. of q
light yellow color, and rather pretty.
The honey is secreted in ehe inner side
OF the thick, feshy petals. When it is
profuse 1t will sparkle like dewdrops,
II cluster of blossoms 10 held up to
the sunlight. There has been recorded,
where Eastwood trees were abundant,
an instance of single hive storing -
pounds OF honey in three days.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
COLOR BLIND ARTISTS.
Strange Instances of SuccessfuI
Painters Who Could Not Tell
Red from Green

To speak of a color blind artist
sounds like joking. said a London oc
cullst, but, strange as it may seem.
there are several persons so affected
who can nevertheless paint extremely
well. Numbers of color-b blind peonle
there are. of course, who draw perfect
~ in pencil, ink and crayons, but | my
self know scene painter attached 10
provincial theater who, though
color blind" paints all its scenery, and
has quite local name, not only for his
interiors" and oak chambers, but even
for landscapes. can tell you also of
two London ladies who have consulted
me for color blindness, who paint real
ly beautiful pictures. One is the daugh.
ter of late famous artist, and was
taught painting by her father. She is
quite unable to distinguish red from
green, but her colors are labeled with
the names, and she has been taught
which to use for certain effects. Pos
slbly her painting may seem to her
eyes, as it were, drawing with brush
ana snadlnS with the colors. The
other is lady artist of some celebrity
who has for years exhibited annually
in London. The public are not aware
that she is color blind. She painted
The Wedding Group" for certain
noble bridegroom year or two ago
and also several public mems portraits,
and one of an eminent physician
fetched 500 guineas. There is gentle
man residing at Kensington who, hav-
irg years ago left the navy through
finding his advancement hopelessly
barred by his color blindness, is at pres
ent making several hundred a year by
his brush as an artist, designing most
artistic and brightly coored picture
posters" for advertisement boards.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
THE AMERICAN HOME.
How Ii Is Probably Affected by the
Apartment House with Its
Modern Appliance.

l have no mind to harrow up the
minds of my readers with any explica-
ton of the miseries and mysteries that
confront the average housekeeper in the
daily maintenance of simple but COM
Portable existence for her family; as
for herself, an existence at all seems
a struggle which at times she would
gladly give over. One might define a
heroine as the average American wom-
an who does her own housekeeping
But some hint of the unnatural and I'M
happy state Of affairs existing at pres
'ent may be deduced from the consid-
GRAFTON of two economic facts. First,
woman is, by nature, home founder
and home maker. This is not intended
as an assertion of personal belief, but
as statement of scientific fact. 1t
was woman-not man-who opened the
industrial world; it was woman who
made the first rude dwellings,, and
dressed skins, and wove textiles for
clothing. 1t was woman, and not man,
who made the first fire, and the first
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tools for industrial ends. All her ac.
tivities clustered about the hearth and
ministered to the home. If the woman
and the work had not reacted upon
each otherso that, to-day, women should
be by nature home makers and home
lovers, there are still depths for the
scientists to sound in the working of
heredity and of natural selection. And
yet-here is my second fact-the enor-
nous piles of stone and brick rapidly
filling the choice plots of ground in our
large cities and shutting out the light
of heaven with their gabled tops, are
mute if not magnificent witnesses to
the fact that the investment of capital
is all against the perpetuation of the
separate home. The shrewd modern in
vestor is willing to put hundreds of
thousands against hundreds of dollars
that (for his lifetime at leasO women
are going to prefer the ease of the
apartment hotel to the separate house
with its privacy, its own table, and, alas!
its own service. Helen Watterson
Moody, in Scribner's.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
PIGEON HOUSE AND YARD.

most desirable accompaniment to
rural life.
Where pigeons are kept it Is too
often the practice to house them In
some low loft under the caves. where
it is inconvenient to visit them and
where the birds often suffer neglect.
II possible it is better to have quarters
upon the ground floor and preferably
In separate building. The pigeon
house may well be made an ornament
to the place. With this idea in view the
accompanying illustrtion is given.
This represents a small and mex
pensive house built in attractive lines
and thoroughly suited to the purpose
for which it is intended. A small hall
way runs through the center, giving ac-
cess to commodious room on each
side. A flight" on either end of the
house opens out from these two lofts.
Such a little house, stained and COW
cred with vines, will make a very at
tractive addition to any country place,
and will do much toward getting the
children in love with country life and
Interested in the companionship of an
imals. Such a result will prove bene-
fetal in all ways, and the influence will
remain lasting impression through
hfe.-American Agriculturist.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
SEEN IN RETAIL STORES.

Dolls dressed in crepe paper.
Long, netted scarfs for the head.
Tom Thumb fringes in all colors.
Gun metal handles for umbrellas.
Letter openers in pearl and silver.
Long neck chains without number.
Neat pocketbook cases of hairpins.
Kid gloves having plaid silk lining.
Coral-pink card cases mounted In all
yer.
Artificial roses four inches in diam
eter.
Neat black cheviot jacket Euits
Tor $12
Plaid umbrellas with fancy goose
neck handles.
Orange pincushions with q stem and
bunch Of leaves.
Handkerchiefs with Honiton lace
leaves as q border.
Dotted, striped and plaided flannel
shirt waists.
Ladies' wool macldntoshes with vel
vet collar.
Narrow metal belts worn with enc
end hanging.
Tall stemmed roses clustered togeth-
er for the hair.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
PIGEONS ON THE FARM.
How to Build a House and Yard
Suited to Their Requirements
In Every Detail

Among the pets that make life espe-
sially attractive in the country stand
first and foremost the dainty pigeons.
AS we'll try to paint the lily" as to at
tempt to fashion a more bewitching
creation than it is to he seen in this COM
bination of grace and feathers. Why
the pigeons are not more commonly
seen about the country places is hard
to understand, for as source of orna-
ment they are preeminent and as a
source of delightful companionShip
they are unequaled. Their superb airs
and grace, the bewitching posturing
combined with great beauty of form
all unite to make these little friends
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
oUnUUL AND CULLEGE.

Paris has 100000 children in 3s7 ele-
mentary schools.
The School Directors association of
Montgomery county, Pa, has voted
that 1t is wise to use the rod on way
ward boys
The University of Pennsylvania re-
ceives property valued at 100000 from
the estate Of the late Joseph NJ. Ben
nett, of Philadelphia, to be used in
putting the advantages of that univer-
sity more completely at the service of
women.
Middlebury college is already pan
ming for its centen uial, which will be
celebrated in 1900. 1t has had during
that time eight presidents. The dedi-
cation Of the new library will be one
of the features OF the celebration.
There are 80 entering students
A German author, G. Solomon, has
written treatise in which he recon-
mends that children should not be sent
to school till their seventh year, that
in the first year three hours day
should be the maximum of brain work.
and that the bodily health should be
looked after with special care from the
ninth to the twelfth rear.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
MANY THINGS.
We Are Prone 10 Concentrate un
One Idea.
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A NEST OF SIEVEs.
Their Use Is Called For Almost Every
Day in Every Variety of Farm
Work.

The value Of set of sleeves with
meshes of varying degrees of fineness
is too apparent to need argument.
Their use is called for almost every day
upon the farm. They are useful in sep.
arating weed seed from grain that is to
be sown. In fact, all seed grain ought
to be sifted with mesh just fine
enough to hold the sound, plump, per-
feet grains, and to let all foreign seed
and shriveled grain pass through.
This is but one out of the many i'm
portant uses to which sleeves NAV be
put. 1t is important, however, to have
whole line of these articles, else just
the right mesh will always be lacking.
A very handy arrangement is shown in
the cut. boxlike framework is made
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
GYPSUM IN THE SOIL.
Experiments Demonstrate That the
Substance Is Not Inimical to
Plant Growth.

1t has generally been supposed that
gypsum, when used as a fertilizer, is
valuable largely because it attracts
moisture and furnishes some material
which nourishes the plants in extreme
ly dry weather. As soil for producing
vegetation, it has never been consid-
cred, indeed it has not been supposed
that plants would grow in it, but some
experiments at agricultural stations
show that plants will flourish in pure
Agypsum and make an almost phenom-
email growth. Grain and plants were
RAISED in this soil with most surprising
T results. Experiments also have been
made in growing plants and grain in
clean, white sand. The results of these
efforts may, it is said almost revolu-
tionize the growing of certain forms of
vegetation. As case in point: Some
years ago a family moved into a new
house which was built upon an I'M
promising gypsum bed. The mistress
OF the house was extremely fond of
flowers and bewailed the fact that she
could have no flower garden Finally
her house plants became so trouble
some that she turned them into the sand
bed, digging holes and dropping them
Pm regardless of order or system, and
leit them, as she supposed, to die. Her
astonishment may be imagined when
the grew such verbenas, petunias,
geraniums and other plants as she
peyer raised in her life. The neighbors
INSISTED that she must have used some
commercial fertilizer, but the fact was
fhat the roots found abundant nour-
lshment in what would usually be con-
sdered absolutely worthless SOIL
journal of Agriculture.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
TIMELY DAIRY HINTS.

Sweet corn, drilled or sown broadcast
makes capital food for the cows.
The mixer who dips his fingers in the
milk pail is filthy. There never was a
finger clean enough to warrant It being
stuck In pail of milk.
Testing cows is a good, desirable
thing to do. But testing the mixer is
quite as important. A poor mixer will
make an improbable COW.
Never attempt to prevent kicking
COW from kicking if the mixer is loud,
foul-mouthed swearer. Let the mans
mouth and the cows leg have it out.
Is clover hay capable of spontaneous
combustion ? asks correspondent. The
evidence would seem to indicate that it
is. We have no experience to confirm it.
Why cannot a COW be taught to stand
while being MIXED on the left side?
asks correspondent. She can be, for
anything we know, but why isn't the
right side good enough ?-Western
pl0up,ou
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
SNAP SHOTS TAKEN A-WHEEL.

Four Chinese laundrymen in Phila-
eelphia ara frequently seen riding .
quadruplet-
When you meet a man on horseback
leading another horse, pass on the side
Of the ridden horse, otherwise the lead
horse may scare and kick you and the
wheel half across the road.
A cyclist asked an Irish iarvey the
other day what he would do with his
horse and car when cycling became all
the rage. "Keep it, said the wit, ito
drive those you KNOCK down to the hos
Pital."
A girl Of Carthage, Mo-, Bessie Rose,
has bicycle the tires Of which have
not been pumped up FOR over year, al
though in constant use. The tires are
coated on the inside with a mucilagin-
Gus substance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
WINGS AND FEAIhERS.

Geese in migrating often travel ever
5000 miles.
The eyes Of birds that fly by night are
generally about double the Eize Of those
Of day birds.
Among the many mysteries Of bird
migration is the fact that oversee Jour
neys are generally conducted in the
darkness and invariably against . head
wind.
0rnitAologi1ts tel ~ that, whea
feeding, the stride ef tAe ostrich b
fro@ % to 10 inehesy when walking,
but net feeding, % inches, and wAsh
terrified, lily to IL feet, 90 aA he rata
Of about % miles an hour.
Humming birds are numerous snA
pugnacious in Minora, one Of the Phil
ippines. A hunter one day Strayed OF
from his comrades, but soon they were
alarmed by hearing his cries for help.
They found that hundreds of humming
birds had attacked him and wounded
him in various parts Of the neck and
tana. from which the blood was freely
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
COW PENITENTIARY.

boards of the walls; so open was the
stable, that in cold weather everything
froZe solid.
The stable was damp and foul, being
cleaned only when absolutely neces-
sary, and there being no drainage for
the urine. The floors were embedded,
and the fastenings were the immova-
BILE style Of stanchion. Here, in filth,
in cold, and in constant torture from
inability to secure a comfortable posi-
ton the poor animals are confined the
whole winter.
AS one would suppose, the milk from
this prison is horribly filthy. Can It
be fit for human food?-Dr. George G.
Golf, in N. Y. Tribune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
THE ZoUAVE BOW.

ght red and green silk around the
~. In the front there is bow which
1Plsts of three loops without ends;
" each loop there is triangular
W OF lace. Instead of lace embroi-
- grass linen can be used, or any
~ handsome thin summer material.
~ nave largely taken the place of
" end are quite as dressy; moreover,
'ey launder better.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
cow PENITENTIARY.
Are There Many Such Horrible Places
As This One to Be Found on
American Farmse

My friend, DR.. A. Richter, the able
health officer ,Williamsport, Pa, has
described to me the COW prison or peni-
Tertiary which | have here sketched.
There are two or three small windows,
but they were so filled with cobwebs
and dirt that almost no light could en-
ter through them. Plenty of cold, raw
air could enter, however, between the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
FOOLISH ECONOMY.
FnTmers Who Oppose the Briidinm
of Good Country Roads Make
Great Mistake.

The increase In the valuation of the
land Is the least reason why we should
improve the roads, Pleasure and home
comforts depend upon our facilities for
getting around, Churches and schools
depend on them. Show me a district
where the roads are all unimproved,
and ! will show you a district that Is
lacking In moral standard, and children
are at disadvantage to obtain even q
common school education. Churches
must close their doors during the win
ter and when summer comes, all have
lost interest in church-going.
Why try to increase the products Of
the farm, and not increase our facilities
for delivering them 10 market? II
costs the farmer more to deliver his
products to the railroad than it costs
10 ship it from there TO the city. Who
would take the contract to haul 100
hogs four miles over a bad mud road
after big rain, for what il costs to
ship them to the city? have seen, in
this county, four horses attached TO q
wagon loaded with less than 1900
pounds and then it was a sin to have
them out in such mud. Often we are
compelled TO walk and take with us our
butter and eggs, while our horses are in
the barn needing exercise, all because
the road is too bad to take them out.
1t does increase the price Of land, as
land along a good pike will bring $40
to SIS per acre more than land situated
a mile away from il, if there is no pros
pect of there ever being pike near 1t.
Rural New Yorker.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-17
Don'ts for Dynpeptics.

pse who are suffering from indi-
n cannot fail to be benefited If
oont eat: Boiled coffee, boiled
sweets, fried foods, white bread,
ers' cakes, acid fruits, pork in all
veal, turkey, duck, cooked cab
81 oeets, green corn, potatoes,
spiced foods, gelatine desserts,
dark fish, salt foods, all the
yea, CLANS, raw or fried oysters;
IRAN from drinking iced water,
Z INKS, favored soda water.-Mrs.
orer, in Ladies' Home Journal.