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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
THE CAFES IN VIENNA.
1hey Are n Second Home For the
Natives of the City.


Natives of the City.
Every one goes to them-men, women,
priests and children. The cafe is the cen.
ter of social life. 1t is there that the
policy Of the government is discussed.
the latest play criticised and business
transacted. At 4 O'Clock in the after
noon it is with difficulty that a seat can
be had in one of these popular meeting
places. for at that hour every Viennesp
partakes of his afternoon coffee. which
fills the place of the Englishman's )
o'clock tea.
These cafes are regular reading rooms.
Some of them take rs many as 500 differ
ent periodicals, and often 10 copies of the
same paper-some popular Austrian or
foreign sheet-are on file. Let foreign
er enter and the experienced waiter i'm
mediately recognizes his nationality. If
he be an American, a New York daily is
brought to him; if Frenchman, a Paris
boulevard paper is laid before him. and
so on. If Russian enters, cigarettes
are at once produced.
Cafes are for the Viennese a second
home, and they all have two kinds of eli.
ents-the stammgaste, or habtues, and
tues. commonly called wirthaus- bruder
(cafe brothers. have tables reserved for
them, and woe betide the man who ven
lures to take possession of this sacred
property! There are many Viennese who
for the past 80 or 40 years have sat at
the same table, in the same corner, day
after day, drinking the same brew of
beer or brand of wine and smoking the
same sort of tobacco in the same old
pipes. A stammgast generally spends
from three to four hours every day at his
cafe, the natural result being a great loss
of time and money. But the Viennese
are not misery. They live up to the
German proverb which seems to have
been written on purpose for them, lie
ben und leben lassen" olive and let
live").-lnternational Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
CHINESE DRIED OYSTERS.
tprepnred by a Secret Process, They
Arc Said to De Very Good,


"Some time ago." said a New Orleans
Bohemian, II dropped in to see my friend
Lee Zip, who keeps what he calls a
'glocely stol,' which is as near as he can
come to grocery store. He gave me an
excellent cigar, and presently he said,
You likee dly ostelT What in the name
of Confucius is IDLY ostelE'' | asked be
fore l realized that he was talking about
dried oysters. Come! l show he re-
piled, and, opening the lid of big box.
he took out handful of what looked ex-
actly like oysters carved in mahogany.
"They were not shriveled and warped,
like other dried foods, but were as plump
and symmetrical as any well conditioned
bivalve fresh from the deep shell. The
only difference was that they were dark
brown in color and as hard as bricks.
When Lee Zip tossed them back into the
box, they ratified like a handful of
marbles. OF course, | was greatly sur
prised, and before l left / took pains to
find out all about them. The oysters are
caught and prepared at the big native
shrimperies on the other side of the lake.
The process is trade secret, but as near
ly as | could gather from Lee they are
spread on the tops of large sheds and eX-
posed to the sun for several weeks. What
prevents decomposition | do not know,
but they come out of the operation as
sweet and brown as nuts.
Zone night | tried some by special in
vitation in the back room of laundry
run by another Mongolian friend of mine.
They were brough: in in bowl and form
ed sort of stew or sautc, which was
really delicious. The oysters themselves
were firm, but very tender. and had
peculiar peppery flavor, different from
anything else | have ever tasted. The
Chinaman who did the cooking told me
he had simply boiled the dried oysters in
water and added a small strip of pork
and seasoning When l tried to probe
into the seasoning feature, he suddenly
lost command of English. so there, sus-
pect, the secret resides. | am told that
the local colony consumes many barrels
of these oysters every month and that
large quantities of them are sold in San
Francisco and New York. New Orleans
Times-D Democrat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
COMMON HOUSE FLIES.
The Peculinrities About Their Eyes
and Their Wings.

whoever thinks the male the superior
animal finds no rest for the sole of his
foot in the contemplation Of what we, in
the sublimity of our self conceit, call the
lower animals says Harvey Sutherland
in Ainslee's. In our general ignorance
of the house fly we do not know just how
foolish and no account the male is, but
we may reasonably infer that he is as
markedly deficient as usual, seeing that
his eyes are so close together that they
touch each other. That's always bad
sign. If you see anybody with eyes close
together, you are entitled to think little
of his intelligence.
'"The fly has two sorts of eyes, the big
compound one, 1000 in a bunch on each
side Of the head, for knocking about in
daylight, and three simple eyes on the top
of the head, for use in poor light, sew
ing and fine print Before going into
ecstasies of admiration over the creature
that has 1000 eyes on each side of its
head it might be well to remember that
they are not of much account. In case
of old flies kept over winter the compound
eyes cave in and get broken, yet the fly
seems to get along and find food. One
kind gentleman vanished over the simple
eyes and plucked off the wings of some
flies. He found that he might hold a
candle close enough to burn the COM
pound eyes Of the fly before it had sus-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

plclon that anything out OF the common
was going on. In daylight he took knit
ting needle and brought it up in front of
the fly close enough to touch its antenne
before it lodged. If the knitting needle
was brought up on one side Mr.. Fly
picked up his sticking plasters quite
lively.
Most respectable insects have two
pairs of wings, but q fly has only one
pair, with a scallop on the rear edge of
each, showing that in earlier days it had
openers even if they went into the dis
card later. These scallops are called
halteres' or balancers, and it is the
theory of some that they help to steer the
ny. They say that when the starboard
balancer is clipped off the fly goes hard
a-starboard and vice versa. But under
each of these scales is a globular process,
with long tube fringed with ella, be-
lieved to be sensitive to odors. These
globular processes pump air into the nerv-
ures or veins of the wings and keep them
taut and stiff for thin though the wing
may seem, it is really a double texture.
Perhaps clipping off the balancer lets the
air out of the wing and so disables it. A
NY Is able to saunter along through the
air at the rate Of five feet second, but
when it is in particular hurry it can
go about 30 feet second. which is a
2:3O gait. Its wings beat the air at
about the same rate of vibration as the
piano string f, first line of the treble
staff. but that is not its only means Of
audible expression. When ii gets excited
and cannot break away from the fly
paper it makes its thorax vibrate at
higher pitch. You have heard that Cam
panini could sing high G with chest voice
He could not, but fly with its feet stuck
fast can"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
A Warming.

A few weeks ago young lad presented
himself at the shop of local butcher
and when the burly proprietor appeared
gave a small order.
You don't buy so much meat now as
you used to" remarked the butcher.
NO" responded the lad, "and it's be
cause father has become vegetarian"
well, my lad" came the grave re-
tort, you give your dad warning from
me that, as rule, wegitarians come to
violent end. Take bullock-'es a wegi-
tartan. Wot's the result? Why, 'e's cut
off sudden in is very prime. "-London
Standard
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
TESTED BY TRIPLES.
Man Makes an Idiot of Himself When
He Upsets u Bottle of Ink.


Flies are great tests of character, son.
man may be cool as an iceberg under
extraordinary circumstances of danger
or times of intense excitement; he may
be calm when, at another mans order,
he is facing a six gun battery and get
ting ready to try if he can push a bay
onet through cannoneer before the gun
ner shoves eight pounds of assorted IRON
mongery through him; he may assume
command and act nobly and quietly when
the ship is sinking; he may preserve an
even mind when the hotel is on fire; he
may even speak dramatically when the
ghost enters his room at midnight.
But let that man upset n very small
inkstand. with only very little ink in It,
on his desk. He upsets his chair on the
office cat as he leaps to his feet with a
howl like wild Indian or a baseball
coach. he makes desperate grab at the
lnkStand and swoops it half way across
the desk before he sweeps it off into an
open drawer full of unanswered letters,
then he claws after his papers and drags
them through little puddle of ink that
wasn't doing Il bit of harm before he
mopped it zigzag and crooked all over
everything with his white handkerchief,
and finally, after he had smeared the top
of the desk, his hands and his gray pam
falcons with ink he discovers that at the
first dash he had knocked a much larger
bottle of red ink clear off the desk on to
the floor. where it has lain. draining its
crimson life away in the very heart Of
the lightest figure on a blue and white
carpet.
Then he says things at the flies of
life and wonders why a man always
makes an idiot of himself when he up
sets little bottle of ink And he may
keep on wondering, because he will never
know why. Nobody knows. He Just
does it; that is all.-Robert j. Burdette
in Los Angeles Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
NEXT DOOR TO DEATH.
! PeRilOus Journey Over n Rickety
Bamboo Bridge.


Mr.. L. A. Waddell in his book, "Among
the Himalayas," describes the crossing
of the Ieesta river on a rickety bamboo
bridge. The bridge, always dangerous,
was at that time mere ragged skeleton
Of itself and. to make matters worse,
was slippery with green slime. Such
bridges are usually rebuilt once in two
years, but this one had evidently not
been touched for much longer than that.
On this narrow, lettering structure, open
at the sides, Mr. Waddell had to cross
over the turbulent, rapid river, 800 feet
wide and 40 feet below the bridge.
The instant you step on such bridges
they recoil from you and swing and shake
in an alarming way, rolling from side to
side and pitching like a ship in storm.
They swerve with a sudden jerk every
time you lift your foot, not only side
ways and longways, but also downward
and forward, as your weight depresses
the bridge. This goes on until you pass
the middle of the bridge, after which the
oscilating structure kicks up behind you
as you ascend.
l got on fairly well so long as l could
look to see the bamboo rod on which |
had to walk. although the open sides
heightened the sense of insecurity. But
away from the bank, if you look down to
see where to place your foot, the rush of
leaping water in the torrent below gives
you the giddy sensation that both you
and the bridge are running swiftly up
stream.
Yet one must keep his eye upon the
single bamboo overhanging the abyss and
find shaky footing upon it, since to miss
it means certain death.
was a quarter of the way over per
haps when, as | stepped from one BAN
boo to the next, it tilted up, and coult
see that most of those in front were lying
loose and disjointed in their sings
They had been broken away by the pass
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

ing of the person who mad preceded me.
could not swing round to so back. For
ward was my only course.
| went on with long strides to get a
foothold on this shaking, swinging line of
Shiny bamboos. After each step | had
to half close my eyes to counterfeit the
giddy feeling of the upward rush of the
bridge. 1t was creepy, CHASTITY process.
a false step meant death in the raging
gulf below. After what seemed an age
l reached the opposite bank.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
Iomnn Smoke Consumern.

Half the state of Iowa is underlaid
with coal, says Rollin Lynde HART in
The Atlantic. What matter, then, that
the ladies of Des Moines must sew their
ball dresses into bags to keep them
from the scot? What matter that the
beauties of Des Moines have twisted
their pretty chins awry in attempts to
blow cinders off from their pretty fore
heads? What matter that you cough
like the people of Butte in your vain eff
fort to catch breath of something bet
ter than bitumen? "No smoke consum-
ers?" gasped. "Sir," said the Iowans,
"every citizen is a smoke consumerv'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

The critical minute had come. He
knelt on the carpet.
Darling" he whispered, will you be
my wife,"
just then deep voice from a corner
answered. Yes, yes, yes. yes" dozen
times
What does that mean? gasped the
astonished sutton.
ut means" replied the fair girl, that
papa forbade me answering in the az.
hrmative when you proposed However,
inns did not deter me from employing
monograph to take my place. London
Answers
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
.CURRIT0 and GASpARD.
To the Farmers of Freder.
lex County.
Rare Chance to Improve Your Stock.
BREED ONLY TO THE BEST
Strive to Get Size, Style and Speed.
ire Chance to Improve Your Stock.
BREED ONLY TO THE BEST.
Strive to Get Size, Style and Speed,
GOOD HORSES ALWAYS IN DEMAND.
PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES

FOR some years past owing the
hose many farmers gave breeding,
cult TO ma yearg colts Good the dull times have
Always good prices The trouble
10 improve thelr Stock the result of this
country with SCRUBS which as GOOD horse TO feed
ana aer reaching three four
no" many nhe carriage teams be found
now many me stylish horses sixteen
eleven twelve hundred pounds and speed can he found
demand and bring from hundred dollars There ia
great demand Tor carriage the
goou sze style and action To horses to
sNe style and action Do with stocks mroye what
nave o oreed ng 10 better than already
farmers to examine the get of CURRTO beautiful horse splendid
size and royalty bred He has record fourthheat his race
OF "a T. His colts even from small
very syh and have lots of speed This grand young
number OF colts, all of whom speak for themselves.
10 give the farmers chance who
Tor $50 the
euIh privilege given mare proves be
RlTO has proven oal -getter.
GASPARD, by Sea King, and o a producing mare is
grandse having number of the finest the counts hua
size, style and action 49, ' ~
Mr. Chas Hargett President the Frederick Comfy Apcu
Arthur Potts Mr. John Weller besides on nv farm show the
khd OF colts you may expect from this
sixteen hands high and weighs hundred poundu the
horse to get carriage and coach horses.
GASPAkD Will stand the these prices
hopes being able the colts from fine hO
mares only solicit fine want no other kind
Here chance for the farmers breed best TRY
colt from either OF these horses something
De proud OF for days to Get rid of and plugs
costs much raise it does to feed good one
MICHAEL KNILL.
Manager for COL. L. VICTOR BAUGHMAN
Near Frederick City, Md.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
ChIidren's Children

Mamma. have any children?" asked
little o-year-oId Ella upon her return
home from Sunday school
why. no; Of course not. What nut
that idea into your head?" replied the
surprised mother
Because" answered the little lady.
our lesson at Sunday school today was
about peoples children and their chill.
dren's children. "-Exchange.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
Salmon.

Before the Irish inland fisheries COM
mission one witness said he was convinc-
ed that Irish salmon was sold to the Lon
don market as Scotch. Irish salmon was
about the best to be got, and the Scotch
men knew that and consequently sold
Irish as Scotch to get good name for
their own fish.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

In the window of an old curiosity shop
not far from the British museum NAV he
seen an elabomtely carved ivory tooth
pick. with the following intimation at
tached; "Toothpick formerly the proper
~ of Oliver Cromwell: supposed to have
been the one he picked his teeth with be-
fore he signed the death warrant of
Charles l..
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

An English cathedral organist divides
his fellow organists into six classes:
Those who express both themselves and
the composer; those who express the COM
poser alone; those who express them
selves alone; those who caricature both;
those who express other peoples views,
and those who express nothing at all.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
July TERM. 1900

july TERM, 300
In the matter of the Report of Sales filed the
9TH day of August, 1900.
ordered, That on the 18th day ofAugust 1900,
tne court WIN proceed 10 acI upon lne report
by Edward b. Measell assignee of mort
gage, in the above cause, and filed therein
as aforesaid, to finally ratify and confirm the
same, unless cause to the contrary thereof be
shown before said day; provided n copy of
this order be inserted in some newspaper pub
lished in Frederick County, for three sue
cessve weeks prior to said day.
The Report states the amount Of sales to be
$4,000.
Dated this 9TH day of August, 1900.
DOUGLASS ii. HARGETT,
Clerk ofthe Circuit Court for Frederick County
True copy-Test:
DOUGLASS II. HARGETT,
Clerk.
nun 10 AZ
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

CINE FARM FOR SALE.
A farm containing 2I7 ACRES improved by
A FRAME DWELLING

and necessary outbuildings, well wooded and
watered and is in high state of cultivation.
Well adapted for dairy purposes, stock raising
or cropping. Located in Howard County, ON
the old Frederick Road, about three miles
from Woodstock; a milk station within a
mile of the place, mail delivered at the prem
ises and six miles from an electric line rum
ming to Baltimore.
For further particulars address Miss +. r.
Frost, Ridgeville, Frederick County, Md.
aug. l94t. +. r. FROST.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24

Edward b. Measell, assignee of Allen Rohr-
back MORTGAGE of annie NJ. Ramsburg, and
Thomas e. Harrisburg, her husband, on pc
tition.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-24
RIDER NIsI ON SALES.
No 1888 EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
sitting in Equity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-16
Judgment of Lower Court
Must Stand.
TEN YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY
Petition For Supersedeas in Case Of
Harlan VS.. Mt. Pleasant Railway
Refused; Judges Wilkes and Cald-
we'll Dissenting.

NASHVILLE, March IA The Su-
preme Court to day handed down
two decisions of especial interest
and importance to Maury cOuntians.
One was affirming the finding Of the
lower court in the case OF the State
VS.. Warren and Drew Irvine, in
which the jury had returned a YER
dict Of murder in the second degre @,
and fixed their punishment at ten
years IN the penitentiary.
In delivering the opinion in this
case, Judge Beard said: "The
opinion of the trial judge Judge
Holding) has been vigorously as
sailed by able counsel, but it is i'm
pervious TO criticism; it ia not only
full and fair as to the facts, but a
striktngly able exposition of the
law"
The other was refusing the petit
tion for supersedeas in the case of
Harlan Va. Mt. Pleasant Railway
Co. In this holding of the Court
Judges Wilkes and Caldwell dis :.
scented.
In delivering his opinion in this
case Judge Wilkes referred to the
opinion of Judge Holding requiring
the railway company to show that it
was really for public uses. as ian
elaborate and very able opinion
upon the law involved in the ques-
tion."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-16
Mai. Akin for Reelection.
pleasure.

FRANKLIN. March 10.-Another
aspirant for legislative hOnors en-.
tered the field to day in the person
of Mai ]. H. Akin, who announced
his candidacy for the Senate. to rep
resent Williamson and Hickman
counties. Ten years ago an agree.
ment was entered INTO by the
Executive Committee of the two
counties, whereby the next five
senatOrships were to be divided be-
tween Williamson and Hickman, on
the hasis of three to the former and
two for the latter. That compact
expires this year, the privilege OF
naming the Senator falling thus
to Williamson. There are now two
candida'es in the field, Messrs
Akin and McCorkle, the latter hav-
ing announced himself about a
mouth ago. Maj. Akin has served
three terms in the Legislature, and
is a well known farmer, living neal
Thompson Station.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-16
If You See 1t In Our ADJ It's So.
MCKennOn, Anderson & Foster.
enough good men to fill all the Cflices.-

enough good men to fill all the Offices
Pulaski Citizen.
Almost without exception the COM
ments of the State press on the Cover
nor's Pulaski speech, so far as they have
come to hand, show a lively apprecia-
ton of his proposed feat of running for
two offices at once.-Memphis Scimitar.
As to the Senatorship the situation
now becomes more complicated. His
tMcMiliin's) views on national politics
are those which will satisfy the old-line
Democrats. He opposes trusts and i'm
perialism, though HE views on the lat
ter question are not so radical as Mr..
Carmack's. While he denounces the
Porto Rican tariff bill, and the general
Government policy toward our depend
encies, he does not say anything regard
ing giving up the newly annexed ter
ritory As we understand it, Mr.. Car
mack goes so far as TO say that Dewey
should have sailed away after destroy
ing the Spanish feet and that our Gov
eminent ought now to release control.
Mr.. McMillin is silent as to the reten-
ton OF the islands.-Knoxville Sentinel.
Any one with a fair knowledge of the
modern politician expected Gov. McMil-
liz to do Just what he has done-take a
whack at both chances. Tullahoma
Guardian.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-16
A FEDERAL BUILDING.

Postmaster Fariss is circulating a
petition asking Congress to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the purpose of
erecting Federal building at this
place, to be used chiefly If not
wholly rs post-office. The petit
tion sets forth the claims that Co.
lumbia is the only town in the State
with free delivery that has not a
federal building, and that there is no
such building in this Congressional
district; that the town is growing
rapidly and is justly entitled to the
building. The claims made are
strong ones, and Postmaster Fariss
thinks the chances for securing the
building are good.
The petition will be sent to Con-
gresham Cox IN few days, and it
is hoped that he will give it his
prompt and earnest attention.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-03-16
TOLL-GATE
DESTROYED.
RaineYs New Gate One Mile from
Mt. Pleasant
Visited Tuesday Night by Large
Force of Horsemen, Who Tore
it to Pieces.

MT. PLEASANT, March IA "A large
force of horsemen, numbering be-
tween 100 and $50, visited the new
toll-eate of w. G. R4iney one mile
south of town, on the Mt. Pleasant
pike, Tuesday night, and tore the
gate and the toll house all to piece.
This is the result of a disagree
ment existing between Mr. RAiney
and the citizens of the surrounding
community for some time. When
Mt. Pleasant was Incorporated, the
gate on this pike this side OF Mt.
Pleasant was included in the cor
poration, and the people of that town
raised Violent objection to the gate
remaining where twas. To quiet
this opposition the gate was moved
and new gate erected one mile
south Of town; number of men
vowing then that when the gate was
completed they would tear it down.
1t was not until two or three days
ago that Mr.. Rainey's company be-
gan to collect toll at this gate, and
last night a hundred or more men
gathered together and in body pro-
GEE ded to carry out their threats,
actually tearing to pieces the gate
and the house.
The keeper of the toll-gate was
E.qure Lindsay, member of the
County Court, who was not hurt,
but who was utterly powerless to
prevent the destruction of the prop
ertV