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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
THE B0ERS AND BRITISH
BOTH SIDES STILL ACTIVE AND
Aggressive.

Full Summary Of the TransvaaI
War News-Progress of the Con-
fIict From Day to Oay-Tha British
Encouraged.
Lord Roberts cables the British
War Office details of Saturday and
Sundays fighting with the Beers in
the Free State, in which the burghers
made daring and persistent attacks,
but were finally driven back. A Brit
ish convoy narrowly escaped being
cut off. The indications are for more
stiff fighting near Thaba NChu.
In the British House of Commons
the Financial Secretary to the Treas
ury, Mr.. Hanbury, says the cost of the
war up to March 81 was $116,250,000
The Cape Parliament has been sum-
moned for June %.
The British auxiliary transport Ba-
varian has arrived at jamestown,
st. Helena, from Cape Town with 1899
Boer prisoners in excellent health.
The Beers are showing consider
able activity west of Bloemfontein,
and threaten the communications of
the British force at Warrentown.
A cheerful message has been re-
ceived from Mafeking. A determined
attack has been repulsed, without loss
on the British side. Gen. French
on Sunday defeated a Boer effort to
turn his eastern flank
The Prince of Wales, Lord Sails
bury, Mr. Chamberlain, and other we'll
known men spoke May l in London
at the banquet of the British Empire
League
All but few British subjects have
been expelled from the South African
Republic as the result of the recent
explosion.
The Boer peace delegates will only
be received by the Secretary of State
at Washington as private individuals.
A despatch from Thaba NChu, de-
scribing the recent fight near that
place, In the Free State, says the
British forces, led by Canadian troops,
carried the Boer kopjes in a rush, and
that at one time the fighting line was
ten miles long and the conflict fierce.
The British loss in killed and wound
ed was 20, including Colonel otter.
wounded, and no mention is made of
Boer casualties.
Colonel Dalgety's force at Wepener
numbered 100. His losses during the
siege was 80 killed and 149 wounded,
so missing.
A despatch from Aliwal North says
it is reported there that Boer Com.
mandant Olivier is wounded.
A committee claiming to represent
100 German societies in Cleveland,
Ohio, and 10000 persons of German
extraction, has forwarded to Presi-
dent Mckinley a petition asking him
to use his influence to stop the war in
South Africa.
Although the British troops have
followed as rapidly as possible the
retreating Beers through the Free
/ State, and after some minor fighting
have occupied the town of Thaba
NChau, yet the main body of the
burghers appear to have made their
i escape from the big net spread for
them by Lord Roberts
! Lord Roberts campaign plans, &C.
cording to official reports from Bloem.
fontein, have resulted in the relief OF
the besieged garrison of Colonial
troops at Wepener and the occupation
OF De Wet Dorp, both important STRAIT
egic points in the Free State, where
considerable forces of Beers had been
massed. There was some fighting
but no official record of casualties is
reported, and there is no record OF
prisoners captured.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
MORE LABOR TROUBLES.
FREIGHT TIED UP BY STRIKE
IN BUFFALO,.

A Conference Agreed on-central
Railroad Officials Will Meet Conn.,
mttee of Strikers and Discuss
Terms-company Will be Liberal.
Twelve hundred railroad freight
handlers in Buffalo have gone on
strike, but it will not be extended
until a conference is held with the
officials.
A demand was made recently on
the New York Central, the Erie, the
Vest Shore, the Lehigh Valley and
IL their Western connections for in
creased wages for the freight han
dlers. No reply was made to the men.
Believing that the strike at the Cen
trail car shops and the yard made
their opportunity better the freight
handlers struck.
New York Central strikers said that
this was not done on their motion, as
it was their intention to hold. the
strike in allegiance until the confer
ence with Supt. Watt. But they were
not at all displeased with the idea,
and expect it to help them. However,
Nto show their honorable purpose, they
said they would ask the freight han
dlers to resume work until the con-
ference was over.
The striking car repairers and yard
men were in session all day receiv-
ing messages from Commissioner
Delehanty, who was in conference
with Supt Watt in New FORK.
After exchanging kilograms on the
situation, Commissioner Delehanty
wired that he and Supt Watt would
came to Buffalo to discuss terms with
the men. This was satisfactory to
the strikers and they announced that
the programme for the extension of
the strike would be suspended until
tomorrow.
The action of the freight handlers
was, the strikers say, only an evil
dence that the men have but to lift
restraint to precipitate a general tie
up. Freight shipped east or west
which needs to change cars or be sort
Gu mere Will De ueldyeu lnueunlJely.
Only through cars can be handled.
State Arbitration Commissioner
Francis B. Delehanty presented to A.
M. Watt, superintendent of motive
power and rolling stock, the demands
of the men. CHER among them were
recognition of their unions, employ
ment of only union men and an ad-
vance in wages averaging 10 per cent.
Mr.. Watt said after the confer
enoe:
Our position has always been that
we are ready to talk over their griev-
ances and try to adjust them. We
do not recognize their unions, but
have no objection to them and we do
not object to officers of the unions or
any one else willing to advise them
If they desire it."
Labor men in New York say there
is no idea of any tie-up of the road
because of the Buffalo strike.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
Robbed the Grave.

A startling Incident, of which Mr..
John Oliver, Of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
II was in a most dreadful condition.
My skin was almost yellow. eyes sunk
en-, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite, gradually
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. Forum
ately, a friend advised trying Electric
Bitters.' and to my great joy and sur
prise the first bottle made decided
improvement. / continued their use
for three weeks and am now well
man. | know they saved my life and
robbed the grave of another victim. y
No one should fail to try them. Ouly
5Oc., guaranteed, at A. l.. Pearre's
drug store.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
PlNGREE A DEMOCRAT.
Michigan's Governor Says He Has
Joined That Party.

WsStu9dh . 0ONCI1oT Gays he has
Joined That Party.
Governor Pingree has asserted in
an interview that the hope of the
people in this years general elections
is in the Democratic party The Gov
ernor has always hitherto been an
Independent Republican. Speaking of
the increasing power of trusts, Gov
ernor Pingree said.
There is no use in hoping that the
Republican party will do anything
with them"
Are you preparing to announce
your withdrawal from the Republican
party?' the Governor was asked.
"There is no announcement about
it. I only say what have said all the
while. You haven't heard me say any.
thing against the Democrats for some
time. believe that the hope of the
people is in the Democratic party this
fall"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL
LESSON FOR MAY 6.

Subject: Jesus Warning and InvIt.
ing. (Matt. 11:20-3o) Golden Text:
"come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and will give
you rest" Matt. II. 2S).
Home Readings:
Monday, April 80 Matt. 11:2O-SO).
Tuesday, May l lisa. 1:1.9).
Wednesday, May lisa. 1:10-20).
Thursday, May 3 Matt. rs: 1430).
Friday, May Il Cor. 1S-3D.
Saturday, May John 15:1S-25).
Sunday, May 6 (Eph, 2:11-22).
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04

A break in the ranks of the striking
machinists at Cleveland has oc.
Cured. Seventy men employed by
the Cleveland Machine Screw Com
pany have returned to work.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04

Lilo Is Iull OF evil as well as good
The evil must be rejected else thu
good can not be accepted.
All of us who are worth anythinll
spend our manhood in unlearning thu,
follies, or expiating the mistakes oil
our youth. "-Shelly.
How much better, for us il W.,
would reject the folly at the first and
so have our after days for learning,
the joys of Righteousness unmixetI
with remorse.
We must be employed; and our bes-
contentment comes from the cease
less use for good of all our powers
The patient yoke-ridden OK is more
contented and better fed than his uni
tanned brother of the wilderness.
To pass under the yoke-to be sub
Jugated by an enlightened and right
eous nation-into peace and plenty ID
better than tribal independence ant
unceasing warfore.
King Jesus demands our uncondi
tional surrender; and from war he re
qufres our service in peaceful tolls
Rest Is at The End.
1t is a sweet and pleasant though
that when all these days of pain ane
sorrow and work are ended-thest
days Of contending and unrest-therl
will come the folding Of hands. II &
sweet, when Sorrow and WeorI1
are our only companions, ia AM&N.
Der that the hour is not f4E N*
when the Father will fold tf6
hands Of his child in his, will sS
aching eye with sleep, and ia
under its trembling lid the
dream of heaven. Weary moi
faint; the Father sees YOU.
though you know 1t not, his
leads you. A little pain and /.
labor he metes you for your good
patient, and when the night comes
WI olive vnu rest 7raaerictr NF4r.'
Subscribe for the CITIZEN, ami th1
by get a good, reliable paper.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-05-04
The GOSPEL Invitations.

At first we might wonder why JesuI
so closely joined his warnings and hi
invitations; but a more careful stud
Of the analogy in nature makes Il
plain to us. AS with fire, the frs
lesson to be taught the child is on
of warning; then after learning It'll
danger the child may proceed to learl
the blessings brought by fire.
Life is full of evil as we'll as good
The evil must be rejected else tn,
good can not be accepted.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Simple Rules for Pronouncing Chinese
Nunpa

Chinese names are not difficult to
pronounce if few simple rules are re-
membered. A always about as in
far; always approximately as in
they; / very like in machine or pin;
and u always as the of rule. Every
syllable has an independent value, and
should be given that value in pronun-
citation. These three rules will secure
as correct a pronunciation of Chinese
names as can be secured without oral
Instruction.
For example, under the first rule, one
would say tah-Koo for Taku, not take
you, as one may frequently hear the
word pronounced; lee-hoong- g-chahng for
Ii Hung Chang, not lie-hung- chang;
pehkin for Pekin, not peek-in; shahn-
hah-ee for Shanghai, not shang-high; !;
yahmen and so on. Under
the second rule Tien-Tsin is pro-
nounced teeyen-tsin. Yunnan-fu is
yoonahn-foo, not ynan-fyu. N like
manner all the words are pronounced
with syllable distinctness and with uni
form vowel sound. Under the third
rule. the province name Szechuan is
sounded not zekuan, but nearly as Zeh-
choo-ahn, touching the choo very light
ly; Liau-tong peninsula is li-hoo-tong.-
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
The sultan of Turkey is Nervous.

The Sultan is terribly alarmed over
the assassination of King Humbert and
is increasing his usual precautions
against danger. All Italians belonging
to his private orchestra have been dis
missed, as well as any employed about
the palace. No tourist is allowed now
to watch the Sultan going TO mosque on
Fridays without n card signed by his
ambassador or minister stating that he
is known to him personally. Until re-
Gently card from the legation was
sufficient, and travellers We're received
by the aide-de-camps and placed in a
kiosk facing the mosque, whence they
could have splendid view of the ar
rival or departure of the Sultan, and
while he was engaged with his devo-
tions We're regaled on tea, coffee and
cigarettes. All this is at an end for the
present.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
THE DOUGLAS SHOE,

The best advertised and consequent
ly the best known shoe in the world
today is undoubtedly made by the w.
l.. Douglas Shoe Co., of Brockton.
Mass. The one idea of this company
has always been to sell shoe for
$3.50 which equals in every way the s.
shoes of any other concern. They are
able to do this on account of there be-
ing no middle mans profit. as the
goods are sold direct from the factory
to the wearer. In 90 of the principal
cities of the country they have their
own retail stores. The goods are made
in all sizes and widths. and few shoes
equal them for style and durability.
The factory at Brockton employs
over LOO hands. and all labor trou-
bles are settled by the state board of
arbitration. Nothing but union labor
is employed. and pay about the best
average wages of any shoe workers in
the United States The factory pay
roll amounts to SIT ,435 per week. This
company makes shoes for men only,
and it is their proud boast that over
one million men wear them.-Denver
(Colo.) Post.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
A sparrow's Memory.

Last year a red-headed sparrow built
her nest in a grape vine behind a
house on Riverside street, and after
a time used to come to the window
every day and rap on the pane of glass
for food. This rapping began by the
sparrow trying to pick up a crumb
that had fallen inside the window, and
ever thereafter one crumb was left in
side the pane so that the morning call
of the saucy little creature would be
heralded by rapping on the glass.
When fall, with its cold winds, camv
all the birds went away, and with
them the two sparrows and their flock
of young. The other morning, while
the woman of the house was busy with
her cares, there came tiny tap-tap
at the window, and there was the lit
tie red head of the sparrow. Crumbs
were thrown out, and little later the
woman noticed that the bird had be-
gun to build her nest in the old place.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
A TOUGH OERM.
Remarkable Vitality shown by Plague
BacillI In Tests.


Dr.. M. J. Rosenau. director of the
hygienic laboratory of the United
States marine hospital service, has
been making experiments to find out
how tough an animal the plague bacil-
lus is, says the New York Press. He
finds him to be one of the toughest of
the bacillus family. He says: 1T is
the experience of all observers that
the bacillus cannot live long outside
the body when dried at temperature
of 30 degrees centigrade or over, but at
a temperature lower than this and un-
der 20 degrees centigrade it has been
kept alive so and 75 days. The Ger
man plague commission found that the
organism always lost its power of in
lection when dried. within eight days,
in India, but after returning to Ger
many could be kept alive after drying
2S days, at Is degrees to Is degrees
centigrade. NV own experience indi-
Gates that the organisms, which dried,
Will die quickly If the temperature
reaches 27 degrees centigrade. but that
at % degrees it may live much longer"
Some bacilli, it is thought, are harder
than others, just as some persons are.
The doctor put some bacilli on little
squares of crash and set some of the
pieces of cloth to dry in a dark corner
of the laboratory where the tempera-
ture ranged from 20 to 81 degrees CEN
tigrade. Other inoculated pieces of
crash he placed in cool room with
temperature of about IS degrees cent?
grade. Still other pieces were placed
in a Photographic dark room where
centigrade. The bacilli from the diff
ferent pieces of crash were tried every
once in while to see how lively they
were After 13 days the bacilli on the
pieces of crash in the dry dark corner
of the laboratory. where the tempera-
ture was high, ceased to grow. and
were pronounced dead. But bacillus
from the cool chamber was strong
enough. after being there AS days. to
kill a mouse inoculated with it. The
mouse died in three days. A bacillus
which stayed in the dark room for 4S
days killed mouse in two days. The
same experiments were tried with pine
wood infected with plague bacilli, and
it was found that they did not flourish
as well as when placed on crash. The
days. those in the cool chamber after
eight days and those in the dark room
after II days
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
RUMORS OF GREAT
BATTLE in CHINA

London, Aug. 30, 3:15 n. m.-There
was conflicting rumors of a great bat
tie. in which 1.5O0 Boxers and Prince
ruan were killed. They come from
Shanghai and one says:
THE Japanese gained a great vic
tory over the Boxers and Chinese
troops from Peitsang and Ho 81 Wu,
last Thursday, at Techou, when 1,5OO
Chinese We're killed, including Prince
Tuan. and all the Chinese We're driven
back into Shi Lii
The reform party. under Kang Yu
Wei is said to be actively preparing for
rebellion.
1t is rumored from Hankow that
TWENTY-FIVE reformers have been exc
cuted, their heads being exposed.
The Taku correspondent of the Tele-
graph, wiring August 26th. says the
..puntry around Taku and Pekin is de-
stated, with the result that the Box
4 kare most unpopular and are being
attacked by the peasantry. The Box
ers who were moving north from Shan
Tung are now returning hastily to their
homes.
The Chinese minister in London as
serts he is in constant communication
with Ii Hung Chang, who is still in
Shanghai
A Shanghai telegram says Ii Hung
Chang has sent memorial begging
the Empress Dowager to appoint
Prince Ching, General Eung Lu and
the Yangtse viceroys as joint peace
makers with himself.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Used In Controlling Clocks.

One of the interesting pieces of ap-
paratus recently shown at the Royal
society soiree at London was a clock
which was controlled from distance
by means of wireless telegraphy. The
signals were transmitted by Hertz
waves, and there was q short vertical
wire, a coherer. relay and local bat
terry which worked the mechanism OF
the clock 1t was stated that with the
use of a standard pendulum and this
apparatus all the clocks in town
would be kept alike without the use
Of wires.-Indianapoli Press.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Do pOGS THINk2
Some Thinking Dogs Observed by Herr
Steiner Brunner.


Steiner Brunner.
Do dogs think? Yes, replied Herr
Steiner Drummer. the landlord of the
Hotel du Glacier at Meiden, in the
Turtmannthal. Herr Brunner left his
mountain hotel during the last winter
under the guardianship of a watchman,
whose only companions were couple
of dogs-a French 'griffon" and little
"spitz." A month ago the watchman
was cutting wood in the neighborhood
of the hotel. when he was suddenly
overwhelmed by an avalanche. The
two dogs were with their master, and
must have seen him thus buried by the
fallen mass of snow. Unable to get at
him for his release, his two canine
friends, either with or without holding
counsel together. rushed down the
mountain (Which stands at the height
of l 800 meters above the sea leveD and
made their way to Herr Burners house
in the valley. There, by snorting,
barking and other signs of excitement,
they made the landlord understand
that something extraordinary had oc-
Cured at the summit. The host with
three men and two dogs, ascended to
the Hotel du Glacier, journey which
occupied them nine hours. When they
arrived at the spot where the accident
had happened, "it was as clearly in
dicated by the conduct of the two dogs
as II they had said in words, This is
the place." The watchman was soon
excavated from his snowy grave, and
quickly recovered himself. AS he could
give the exact time at which the ava
lanche had fallen, it was calculated
that the two dogs had made their
downward journey in little more than
an hour, and during heavy snowfall.
London News.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04

The United States is one of the first
of the great powers to demonstrate its
good faith in carrying out the proyi-
sions of the treaty of The Hague,
looking to the universal arbitration of
international differences. Under this
treaty each of the nations to it was
authorized to appoint four members
of an International board of arbitra-
ton. Under this authority President Nc
Kinley has requested former Presidents
Harrison and Cleveland to accept ap-
pointments ON this board. Responses
are expected soon. when the remain
ing members may be selected.
The German government has ordered
four new battleships to be built by Ber
lin firms. All will be of the same type
and will be 1903 feet long and 11,S00
tons displacement. A speed of nine
teen knots is expected. They will be
completed in three years at n total cost
for the four vessels of $5,6O0,OOO.
Rutfians W no have not yet been ap-
pretended have recently attacked sew
eral women on the streets of Denver at
night and robbed them. From one wo-
man $1,000 worth of diamonds were
ken- ,,.,,. -, ..,,,
have occurred at Glasgow.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
New House. for Dublin.

Baron lveagh. according to the Daily
Mail. has decided to supplement his
generosity to the poor of Dublin by de-
molishing the congested tenement dis
trict around st. Patrick's Cathedral
and substituting modern artisan dwell
ing. the rents of which will be devoted
to the maintenance of the premises. 1t
Is estimated that the cost of the under
taking will be between 100000 and
100000.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Best for the Bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache
to a cancer. you will never get well
until your bowels are put right
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without a grippe or pain, produce easy
natural movements. cost you Just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartc, the
genuine, put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has C. c. C. stamped on It Be-
ware OF limitations.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Ar. You Using Allen. root-E..o-

1t is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Burning. Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy. N. Y.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
From War to Peace.

Two cannon from the Civil War are
to be melted and cast into statue
representing peace What a contrast
as great in way as the change Hos
letters Stomach Bitters will bring
about in the health of any who use it.
1t cures constipation, dyspepsia or
weak kidneys. Try it.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
BOSTON INSTITUTION.

is the Peabody Medical lnstitu e, No. Bull
finch st. established nine years before the
death of the great philanthropist, the late
Mr.. George Peabody, f. ON whom it takes
its name. During the past 80 years it has
The medical publications of this institute
have millions of readers, and are as stand
ard as gold Their last pamphlet for men
only, "a pages, entitled "Know Thyself," " is
sent free by mail, sealed, on receipt Of 9
cents for postage.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Ficklencss of Woman.

"Women beat the world"
whats the matter now
when my wife wants anything
pretty to wear she hints around until
/ persuade her to buy it; then after she
has worn it out she pitches into me
for encouraging her to be SO extrava-
CANT"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
His Exhaustinr Pose.

"Henry had to go to bed after that
visiting clergyman went away"
What was the matter?'
HE Frustrated himself trying to
give the clergyman the impression that
he was pillar in our church"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-04
Ten
Years
Pain

"Ia am a school teacher.
have suffered agony
monthly for ten years.
MY nervous sysfens
was a wreck. ! suffered
with pain In my side and
had almost every III
known. Ihad taken treat
s,senf from a number Of
physicIans who gave mo
no relief.
"One specxaIlsf said no
medicine could help me,
! must submit to an
operation.
"I wrote to Mrs. Pink
ham, stating my case, and
received a prompt reply.
= took Lydia e. Pis,kllsans's
Vegetable COMPOUND and
followed fIse advice given
me and now ! suffer no
more. IF any one cares
TO Know moro about my
case, ! will cheerfuIIy
ans wer all Ieffors."-
MISS EDNA ELLIS, Hxg-
ginsp0s-f, Ohio.