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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
ADULTERATED BEER.
British Make Is Termed Spirit and Water
Favored with Chemicals.

British Make Is Termed Spirit and Water
Favored with Chemicals.
The British workman Is under the
Impression that when he orders glass
Of beer he gets what he asks for.
But surely he imagineth a vain thing.
What is really handed to him is, in
words Of noted brewer, "a fermented
saccharine infusion favored with a
wholesome bitter" cor, as l should pre-
fer to call it" remarked Mr.. Clare Sew
ell Read to reporter, "a glass of spirit
and water favored with few chemi-
GALS"
MIR. Read was member Of the COM
mission appointed to inquire into the
purity of our beer, and is so dissatisfied
with the do nothing character of the
commissions report that he has drawn
up a report of his own.
Undoubtedly" he told the represen-
.atlve, there is frightful amount Of
peer adulteration. This is due to the
brewers. Publicans dare not mix two
peers or add teaspoonful of water,
out brewers may do just what they
please.
The glucoses made from potatoes,
ndlze, etc., are the principal element
OF adulteration. This stuff was tried
on cats. The experiments went on for
some months, and where the cats did
NOT turn sick they were positively
poisoned. Once the brewers used to
Employ tobacco as beer constituent;
now they seem to have given it up"
Are the substitutes for malt detri-
mental to health?"
Well, sulphuric acid is used to pro-
puce the sugar from the raw grain, and
alicylic acid is in great demand by
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
DIAMOND PAVEMENT.
THE KIMBERLEY ROAD CONTAINS FOR
TUNES IN PRECIOUS STONES.

Tho Public There Travel on n High Road
Literally Growing With Diamonds-on,
Small Piece of Road the Size Of Bed.
room Yielded 100000 Worth.
1t Is not often that it is given to
man, outside of the favored gentle.
men who figured in the stirring story
Of Aladdin and his wonderful lamn
and kindred productions Of rich Orient.
al imagination, to travel daily on q
highroad literally groaning with dia.
monds. When such an unusual priv.
ilege Is vouchsafed, 1t would appear to
be the proper thing to admit that one
might love the very ground he walked
on. Until a few years ago there was
such a road, and it was neither a
vision OF the pipe nor the press agent
1t was located in the Kimberley dis.
trict in South Africa, and when a
man walked over it he walked over
millions of dollars worth of the prec.
ious stones.
Five thousand dollars a yard was
the record of some parts of the road
The diamonds are not there now. SO
it will do the gentle reader no good tc
to find a fortune in the street. II
seems that when the diamond mining
industry was some years younger than
1t is to-day, there was vexing scarcity
OF water in the Kimberley country.
so, when a miner couldn't get a sup.
ply of water to help him in his search,
he had to do the best he could and
hustle around with his tools in the dry
earth. He would spade here and there,
until he struck lump of earth which
held the eagerly-sought prize. Then
he would abandon the little mound
Of earth his spade had overturned and
seek for diamonds in another place.
After a while, several years in fact,
these mounds amounted to a consider
bic obstruction to travel and further
digging. The loose earth was in the
way, but no one would volunteer to
cart it away. Finally the Kimberley
municipal council offered to use the
dirt in matchmaking the roads around
the city, which was branching out and
reaching quite respectable proportions.
The offer was gladly accepted by the
mine owners, and the mounds were
cleared away.
Nearly a score of years after there
was a drop in the diamond market.
The price of the stones fell, and. in
order to bring about a return of high
figures, the mine owners decided to
restrict their output. This necessitat-
ed big cut in the pay roll and, as a
result, the Kimberley district was soon
over-run with unemployed miners.
Then some of the wise men in the land
came to the conclusion that they might
pick up a few overlooked gems from
the highroad if they could get NUM-
cipal permission and plentiful sup
ply of water. They got both, for each
year q portion of the road which had
been strengthened by the mound dirt
was turned over to the men, and they
worked in it with astonishing results.
Diamonds to the value of 100000 were
recovered yearly for several years.
From one little piece of road no bigger
than a bed room there was taken
100000 worth of diamonds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

adulterating brewers. but on the whole
the British public is cheated rather
tnan poisoned, and cheated in this way.
tnat, whereas the barley in pure beer is
ulstihctiy nutritious, the saccharine
substitute is decidedly not.
Inc excise people don't care fig.
IL was all very well in the old days
When the revenue was raised on the
malt and sugar used. thus forcing a
very careful examination of the beer
ingredients by the authorities. but now
adays all that Somerset House cares
about is the strength of the beer, which
is the sole basis of taxation.
In Germany the government is down
on beer adulteration. Though it allows
beer with salicylic acid in it to go
abroad it does not think it good enough
for Germans, and so forbids its sale in
Germany.
A brewer in Bavaria who uses any
thing but malt and hops is guilty of
penal offence. The result is that Ba-
varian beer is beautiful, invigorat-
ing beverage, something like beer, and
drunk even by little children. Even
the brewers themselves in the rest of
Germany petition the government to
Introduce the Bavarian law, because
they know that the beer would be purer
and as consequence would sell in
greater quantities.
THE time has come in Britain, too,
for little legislation. We must force
brewers to state on their bottles and
barrels exactly what the beer contains.
Good brewers do that now. See here"
and Mr.. Read handed the representa-
tive a bottle of beer with the inscrip-
ton, Pure malt and hops" written
boldly across it.
This is only what is done in the
case of other articles; you may not mix
mustard with flour without explicitly
saying so. 1t is the same with cocoa,
chicory, etc.
But the trade opposes the suggestion
on the ground that 1t is an interference
with the liberty of the brewer"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

The monastery of Solovetsk in Arch
angel. Russia, is incloSed on every
side by a wall Of granite boulders,
measuring nearly a mile in circumfer-
ence, and is the best protected in the
world. The monastery itself is very
strongly fortified, being supported by
round and square towers thirty feet
in height, with walls twenty feet in
thickness. The monastery consists in
reality of six churches, which are COM
pletely filled with statues of all kinds
precious stones. Upon the wallsand
the towers surrounding these churches
are mounted huge guns, which in the
time of the Crmean war were directed
against the British White Sea squad
ron. The monks who inhabited the
monastery at that time marched In
procession on the granite walls while
the shells We're flying over their heads.
to prove how little they feared the at
tack of the British fleet Ten thou
sand pilgrims come annually to Solo
vetsk from all parts of Russia to view
the churches and the relics. They are
conveyed in steamers commanded and
manned solely by monks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
FREE TO ALL.
Advice about the Treatment of
Coughs and Colds.
Constitutional Treatment to Prevent the
Recurrence of These Dangerous
Ailments.

Recurrence of These Dangerous
Ailments.
A person may be very wealthy and
yet not be inclined to give away any of
his property. Lawyers who have great
knowledge of the law are not noted
for giving service for nothing. Physi-
clans are known to be generous to the
poor, yet they will not serve every
body free. Even the wealthy railroad
companies, who could SO easily and
quickly carry us to our distant friends,
will not do so without first receiving
our dollars and cents. But there in
one thing everybody has and every
body is anxious to give some of it to
every body else. We mean, advice. 1t
is so cheap, and we never miss what we
give away. Therefore, we follow the
custom and give you some advice,
Do not neglect your cold, You ma
need no medicine for it, but do nc
neglect it, When first taken, try ana
breRk it up. Take a hot foot-bath;
drink bowl full Of hot lemonade or
ginger tea, get into bed, cover up
well, and let the body perspire. Be
very careful the next day. If the cold
hangs on, or if one cold quickly fol
lows another, then something more is
needed. Constitutional treatment is
necessary. This is especially true If
Your health is frail, or if there is a
tendency to weak lungs in the family
! Sore threats and colds inflame the
delicate membrane which lines the
throat, and which continues directly
down into the bronchial tubes and
lungs One attack prediSposes to an
other, and slight attack invites an.
other more serious. The best proven
tive to serious lung affections is to
keep all the air passages in a healthy
condition. Therefore, do not neglect
an acute cough Nr cold. This is our
advice, which is given freely.
But it will cost you fifty cents to
procure a small bottle, and one dollar
for large bottle, of the remedy we
recommend, which is SCOTS Emulsion
of Cod-liver Oil and lIypophosphites.
1t cures acute attacks, and thus pr
vents chronic ones. 1t builds up the
tissues, invgorates the nervous sys
TEN, and prepares the body TO resist
disease. The system only needs some
such aid at the right time in order to
completely master the gerus of con-
sumption, preventing them gaining n
firm foothold in the lungs. One bot
tie taken in season will often accom-
plish as much as five bottles taken
later.
SCOTS Emulsion has been Endorsed
by the medical profession for twenty
years. Ask your doctor. Because it
is always palatable-always uniform
always contains the purest Norwegian
Cod-liver Oil and Hypophosphites. In
sist on SCOTS Emulsion with trade.
mark of man and fish. Put up in soc.
and $1.0o sizes. The small size may
be enough 70 cure your cough or help
your baby.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
sparrows Fiaht Like Game Cocks.

Sparrows are the most determined
fighters among the birds, the bulldogs
among the four-foOted animals being
the nearest to these little pests in point
of grit and endurance. Two of them
We're recently observed in terrific com
bat on the roof of house. In the fury
of battle they neared the edge of the
roof and one toppled over. Instantly
the other flew on the top of him and
forced him to the pavement, where
the contest was resumed as fiercely as
ever. They took no notice of by
stander who approached the angry
birds and picked up both of them.
After carrying them little distance
he set them free, but their spirit was
unbroken, and they went at it again,
bill and claw. BY and by one of them
gave in and fled, but his rival was not
generous enough to let him be, for he
gave chase, but whether he caught him
or not the onlooker was unable to
learn. Wherever they may roam
these birds may always be relied upon
for impudence and quarrelsomeness.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

The Rev. William Conan, depicts
grim old Martin Luther as a man not
only fond of the good things of life
but of an almost Rabelaisian humor.
Says Mr.. Conan: I'm 1916, during his
last visit to Eisleben, the conversation
having turned upon sickness and
death, Lurner playfully said, IF get
back to Wittenberg l will take to good
eating and drinking, so that the worms
may have a fine fat doctor to devour.'
A grim joke, but it was the way of the
great man. The devil figures largely
In the jokes of the Reformer. Luther's
devils We're a set of athletic. cross
grained conditioned wretches, with
vile shapes and fiendish faces. who,
like the 'Killkrooph' of Germany. or
the Far Darrig' of Ireland gave buff
fet for buffet, hate for hate, and joke
for joke. At one time in the cloisters
of Wittenberg he heard that peculiar
noise which attests the devils pres
ence. 1t came from behind stove,
resembling the sound of throwing
faggot on the fire"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

Imitation ivory is now being extern
Bively manufactured from the fruit of
palm-like shrub called phytelephas
macrocarpa, which is about the size of
an apple and possesses a hard interior
kernel. So close is the resemblance
that it is sold for ivory, and can be
colored and turned in similar man.
her. A method of test consists In APP
plying sulphuric acid, which does not
affect in any way the genuine sub
stance, but which, in few minutes,
causes a pink discolorat ton to appear
on the vegetable imitation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
Composition OF tine numan Boar.

German science announces that
everything needed to make man
weigh $50 pornds can be found in the
whites and yolks of 1,200 hens eggs
Reduced to fluid the average man
would yield ninety-eight cubic meters
Of illuminating gas and hydrogen
enough to fill balloon capable of lift
ing 155 pounds. The normal human
body has in it the iron needed to make
seven large nails, the fat for fourteen
pounds Of candles, the carbon for six.
ty-fve gross of crayons and phospher-
us enough for $4,000 matches. Out
of it can he obtained besides twenty
coffee spoons Of salt, fifty Jumps Of
sugar and forty-two liters of water.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

This is one of many leaning towers
in Italy. There are two very notable
ones at Bologna. The tower at Pisa
is the campanile or bell tower of the
cathedral. but, as is common in the
older Italian churches, is detached
from it. 1t is 30 feet in diameter and
rs high. The walls at the base are
s feet thick 1t leans Is feet from the
perpendicular. 1t has usually been
supposed that these leaning towers in
clined because of the foundations
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
crock OF AGES. "

An Illustration of the rock is her,
given. This it the hymn as TopladI
wrote it:
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hid myself in thee.
Let the water and the blood
from thy side, healing food,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath ard keep me pure.
Should my tears forever flow,
Should my zeal no longer know,
When rise to worlds unknown
And behold thee on thy throne,
Rock of ages. cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
QUEEN ANNE'S RAILROAD COMPANY.
GENERAL NOTICE.
MARCH LIST, 1893

MARCH LIST, 1899
Commencing April Sth, 1898. the Queen
Anne's Railroad Company will transfer It's
business from Pier ~ to Pier % Light street,
Baltimore, Md, and will put IN service the
Steamer "Favorte" between Baltimore and
Queenstown.
On the same date the ONCE of General Freight
and Passenger Agent will be moved from
Queenstown, Md, to Pier Va Light street Bal.
timore, Md.
Beginning Wednesday, March 1, '99, steameys
OF the Queen Annes Railroad Company will
leave Baltimore Mt 3;25 Z. NJ, instead OF $50
rs heretofore.
/. w. TROXEt,
apl22. 9S-ti General Manager
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

settling, but it is certain that some of
them We're Intentionally so construct
ed. and when one considers the i'm
probability of building as massive
as this, and only 49, times its diameter
in height, settling i'll a way neither
to cause its destruction nor even crack
it, he is strongly inclined to the be-
lief that it was the fashion of the age
SO to build towers. This was erected
in 1174.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
The Original Rock of Ages.

Sir William II. Willis, member Of
Parliament for Bristol, writes of the
origin of Augustus Montague Top
lady's grand hymn, 1.-THE Rock of
ages" as follows:
"Toplady was one day overtaken
by heavy thunderstorm in Burning
ton Coombe, on the edge of my prop
erty, a rocky glen running up into the
heart of the Mendip range, and there
taking shelter between two massive
piers of our native limestone rock, he
penned the hymn"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
How G.e.e Are sI,od

Bohemian geese, which are driven
long distances to market, are shod he
fore starting on the journey by being
sent repeatedly over patches of tar
mixed with sand. This forms hard
crust on the feet, enabling the geese
to travel over great distances.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
CuriOsities of Lakes.

If lakes have no overflow to the sea
the water always becomes salty, par
ticularly if there is small rainfall and
much evaporation. The Caspian sea
Is properly salt lake. So is the Dead
sea- There are several lakes of con-
siderable size in Canada which have
no visible inlets, being fed entirely
from subterranean sources.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

Sunday excursions to Rehoboth Beach
Six hours at the seaside. Excellent bathing
Round trip, $3.50 Steamer leaves Pier o.
Light street: Sundays, : A. NJ, connecting
with special train at Queenstown for Reho-
both Beach Returning, steamer arrives ut
Baltimore at 1890 Z. NJ. Season ticket, $500
Saturday until Monday, 500
For further information, apply at Pier.
|. W. TRONEL, w. ID. UHLER,
Gen. Manager. Gen. Frt. and Pass Agt
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

The profit from a single whale that
is captured is very large. One about
fifty-nine feet long weighs 100000
pounds and will give 10000 pounds
of blubber, from which $4,000 pounds
Of train-oil can be made, and 5000
mounds Of Whalebcne.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

A Vienna paper declares that few
persons in that city read poems, and
fewer st,ll buy them; that the pub
fishers refuse to print them unless the
authors pay all expenses, and that to
ask for a volume of poetry in a book
store is to he stared at as a freak.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
The snItan,s pintA

Among the Sultan's gold plate there
are dishes of solid gold of extraordi-
nary size, and tner are plates, cups
and saucers, tureens and pitchers, mas
sive and heavy, made of he same pre-
cinus metal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
A WhitoWash Train.

Some of the new labor saving de.
vices are of the unexpected order.
Here, for instance, says London Tit
bits. is the Grand Trunk Railway
among other devices for reducing its
working expenses, doing its white
washing by steam. 1t has a regular
whitewash train-Or rather two trains,
one for each division. The apparatus
consists essentially of an old engine
in which the boiler does duty as a re-
ceiver Into this the whitewash is
sucked from barrels as required. and
there it is kept in agitation by West
inghouse pump. From this 1t is eject
ed by another brake pump as fine
spray, so that a man can lay the color
on as if he We're watering a garden
with hose In this way he can white
wash two or three stations n daV
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
GENERAL ORDER.

Mr.. c. c Waller, General Freight and Pas
senRer Agent, having resigned, all commune
cations relative TO that department. until
further notice, will be referred to this office.
/. W. TROXELL.
General Manager.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

Afternoon and sunday trips to Queenstown
Boat remains at Queenstown about two
hours. Round trip, so cents Steamer leaves
Pier ga Light street Daily, $40 T.. NJ. sun
days, : A. NJ. and $40 Z. 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, 1899-06-30
Turks Eat With Finpars

Knives d forks are not popular
gastronomic tools with the Turks.
The thumb and two forefingers do all
the work, save in the case or soups
and rice, when the spoon is used as
time. and labor saver
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

"What makes your baby so head.
strong|
1T was raised On goats milk
Truth.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30

els your prize fighter quick?"
"Ouickw echoed the manager. "Well
I guess. He can tire out three sten.
ographers a day."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
To Utilize the Cocoanut.

Mexican capitalists have just pur-
.hased n large tract of land on the
lSla de Carmen. off the coast of Cam
2eachy, which they will devote to the
cultivation of the cocoa palm, and the
ERECTION of a manufacturing establish
ment, in which all parts of the cocoa
nuts are to be converted into valuable
merchandise. The fibre will be work
I'd into mating, and also made into
packing to be used in warships be-
tween the armor and the body of the
vessel. The oil of the nut is to be
pressed out and worked into palm oil
md soap. Finally. the milk of the
nut is to be distilled, after a fashion
n use in India. where it produces q
much-sought-after liquor.
England the Great Money Lendc
A statistician estimates that Eng
land has $550,000,000 invested in land
and mortgage in countries abroad.
She lends to foreign Governments and
municipalities an average of $200,000,-
600 annually. she finances railways in
India, Canada, the United States,
Australia, south Africa and South Am
erica, her investments of this class
aggregate $2100,00O0OO. English cap
ital is invested in this country in water
and gas companies, cattle and horse
raising. breweries. flour mills, street
railways, iron manufacturing and min
ing. In investments other than Gov.
erment loans and railroads it is es-
timated that the enormous sum of
$9,250, 100000 of England's money has
been lent outside of the tight little
island "
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
N"II'1'


MAYOR : OFFICE,
CITY HALL,
FREDERICK, MD June Il, 1888
Ordinance No %, Section H. declares il to
be unlawful for any person Ia fire or discharge
any gun, pistol or other firearms, sauib
cracker or match within the taxable limits Of
thrcorPomtiou The penalty for violating
dollar nor more than twenty dullais
My attention has been called iu the fact OF
the violation ofthtS ordinance los children and
Others Ia the cndau-"ring of lIi and limb OF
persons driving teams over tho streets All
persons are hereby warned Ia desist from
violating this ordinance.
WILLlAMF. Chiffon,
Jun lb@-t. Mayor.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
"They say that married people get to

IOOK HIM.
"Of, course; mans wife is bound
to look like him when she wears MI
his collars and cravats." -Chicago
Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-06-30
NOTICE To CREDITORS
No. 7023 EQUrrY
In the Circuit Court for Frederick County.

Noah =. Cramcr, assignee Of mortgage from
John II Schubert ana wife ct al To Frederick
krantI
The creditors of Margaret or Ann
Martha schubert, are hereby notified to nle
their claims duly authenticated in the office
of the clerk of the Circuit Court before the Isl
day ofJuly, a. ID. 1881, or they may hc debarred
from participation in the trust fund in this
cause.
j. ROGER McSHERRY,
june l6-3t. Auditor
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-09

OHicinl Treatise Prepared Showing
Peculiar Eitness of the Soil.

ABERDEEN, S. D., Feb. S.-(Special)-
Prof. ]. II. Shepard, director of the United
States experimental station at Brookings,
has contributed a valuable article on sugar
beets to the December weather bureau re-
port for South Dakota. Prof Shepard's OBJ
servation extends over period OF ten years.
He states that the Sioux valley the James
river valley, the eastern Missouri valley
and the northern section OF the Black Hills
possess the requisite climatic and soil con-
dtions to marked degree. The soil Is
peculiarly adapted to the growth OF beets
rich in sacharine strength, while in the
James river valley artesian irrigation will
play an important part in furnishing moist
ure at times when most needed.
zone marked advantage this state pos
sesses to an eminent degree Is almost
ideal ripening period in the fall months.
When the sugar beet has attained its growth
the last or sugar producing stage is entered
upon. What is required are long sunshiny
days and cool nights and a scant rainfall.
All these requisites are to be had from the
middle of September on through a period
often extending into the early days of No
yember."