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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

\ farmer friend of the writer, who
is of middle age, is doing just about
two mems work every day on his big
farm He is not doing it to rid himself
of biz mortgage. for he does not owe
any man cent and could sugar off any
day with 100000 to his credit; he does
not do it because he really likes work
better than anything else for he adj
mitS that his life is little better than
civilized slavery. but he is doing it
solely that he may buy more land and
pile up more money. While he is our
friend, he is none the less an old fool
He is too busy to take any comfort in
living, TO enjoy such social pleasures as
are within his reach, too busy to read
anything save the market reports and
the local paper too. busy to take an out
ing and miugle with his fellows. He
will have to find time to be sick some
day soon. ana if he lives until he is
GO he will hc Il broken down old man
one who has made his pile and in the
making of it has fixed himself so that
he has placed it utterly out of his pow
cr to enjoy anything which money can
secure for him. Our friend is no freak
in this matter. for his counterpart may
be found in almost every ncighborhood,
and they are modern types of the Old
man with the muck rake so forcibly
portrayed by Bunyan, who ever dclvcd
in the mirc. Indifferent to all the beau
tiful enjoyable and elcvating things
overhead and all around him. Life is
very short Nature is most relentless
in her penalties. Heirs are ever greedy;
lawyers legal yuturcs. watching the
last days of this slave of money. Have
sense enough to know when you have
got money enough. and get something
out Of life aside from the reputation
of being a man who made his pile.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
NATURES KINDLY WAYS.

Nature always deals kindly with the
waste places. Here is a gravel pit
scooped out to the depth of 20 feet by
a steam shovel to the extent of two
or three acres. Unpromisng spot this
for nature to work on, but the snow
drifts piled in in the winter, carrying
the rich soil of adjacent farms, and
the winds whirled in harvest OF
leaves, and the spot becoming n rcser-
voir for the surplus rainfall was en-
riched by the silt deposits, and so the
cottonwood seeds blown by the June
winds fell here and there in the pit,
and in ten years from the time the
shovel left a thick grove of thrifty
trees filed up the barren pit, and na-
lures beneyolcncc Shroudcd mans des-
ecration and spoliation as though il
had not been.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
A BARBARoUs PRACTICE.

Shot at day by day from the time
they We're Matched in some Manitoba
or Dakota swamp, in peril Of their lives
every day as they slowly migrate TO
the south in the fall, hcSct with pot
hunters all winter long in the bayous
of the south where they make their
winter home. the poor wild fowls ut last
start on their pilgrimage north only to
encounters continuous fusiiladr rs they
seek their northern nesting place. This
slaughter of the birds in III" spring
migration is the most pitiful ana repre-
hcnsiblc sport INDUCED in by American
sportsmcn, the birds being when killed
poor in flesh and Of LITTLE value as food
A national law should absolutely pro
hibit spring shooting of wild fowls to
the end that they may not be utterly
wiped out of existence.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
SHALL HE BJY FIFTY DOLLAR
LAND:

We are asked whet ar young man
with a capital Of @7.) VII he safe in
buying an SD a,r. farm mt so Per
acre on LONG time #, 30 los rate of in
tera-t-5 pes ocat ai whether he
may be reasonably yHrr Of being able
to pay for sucu farm In the course Of
10 or II years, Eyerytlu.g depend,
upon tile yoUa- man himself, the kind
OF girl he las married and the kind
Of farm which lee buys. If he him
self IS worker and saver. with some
idea of up to date agriculture; If his
wife is Il suon- and healthy woman,
willing to share tic burdens and on
forced self dcuiaiS If the term of debt
BONDAGE; if the farm chosen is OF
good quality. responding generously to
good treatment, the young man may
90 ahead and buy the farm with rea-
sonable certainty that at tie end Of -
years or less he will own it free from
debt. Methods Of carrying it on will
have something to tp with his success
or failure Successful methods would
be as follows: TO keep a dairy of not
less than l. good COWS as Il sort of
foundation for his farm operations;
associated with the dairy calves, pigs
and all the poultry which can be
prolitably handled; or assuming that
sheep and their products viii maintain
present prices. he might safely if he
takes to sheep, put leo good ewes on
such Il farm in place Of the dairy, but
with the sheep he will not he able to
succeed so well with his pigs for lack
of milk to raise them on. We would
not advise such Il purchase of land
with a view to grain raising ana sell
Ing, and think, attempted on this line
failure would result. Land bought on
such terms must be worked for better
than average returns from farm Lands
Assuming that the gross average re-
turn per acre for land lying in the corn
belt is not over SO per acre or $500
for an so acre farm. it Will be seen at
once that when the interest CHARGE
taxes and living expenses are deduct
ed thcrefrom it will leave but little to
be applied upon the principal Of the
debt. SO in some way our young
friend has got TO get from SO to $50
per acre annual income from his land
if he hopes to ever get out of debt
This he may do with stock, but not 10y
selling grain. The above is Il fair and
conservative statement of the situa-
ton
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
WANTS MS NEIcuBoRs STIRRED

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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

The beef horse-the heavy draft breed
is a profitable animal to grow upon
all farms located within the corn belt.
Pound for pound, he can be raised up
to 3 years of age as cheaply as steer.
and if well bred and sound will bring
Z cents pound. while the steer will
do well TO bring cents and have to be
fatted up TO do that. The risk with
the horse is little greater than with
the steer, but as n winter cornlield for
ager he beats the steer all to pieces.
This type of beef horses will be found
TO be the best for the average farmer
to raise, as there Is likely to be a CON
tinued demand at good prices for this
kind of horse. A few men, natural
horsemen. can perhaps do better in
raising driving horses, but special
liking and knowledge Of horses are nee
essary in this case, which are not re-
quired in the other.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Kind hearted and humane people
sometimes get Il setback An old fam
lily horse which had outlivcd its useful
ness and seemed to be dying by inches
was ordered chloroformed by his own
err No sooner had the dope begun to
get in its work than up jumped the old
nag. and away he went on keen gal
lop out Of the yard and up the high
way showing more gimp and get up
that he had for two years. The vcter-
mary surgeon and the owner were par
alyzcd, the surgeon finally rcmarking
that if a bottle of chloroform were
kept in the barn and properly used the
old horse was good for a whole lot
more service.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
SIX THOUSAND ynARs OH.

1t is pity any man can be found
who could deliberately cut down trees
which are between 300 and 5000
years Old for such pitful purpose as
to sell the lumber which can lie made
from them yet this is being done with
many Of the giant Sequoias of Califor-
MIA. just think Of destroying tree
which was in its youth when Moses
and the prophets lived. which shaded
the Sierra hillside when Christ was on
earth; which, having survived earth
quake, the soaring touch of the thun.
dercloud, fire, tempest ana wind. con
temporancnus with the sphinx. the pyr-
nmids. Babylon. the record Of sinai.
the wandering tribes in the wilderness.
still lives and rears its fr0ndcd head
from its majestic trunk. kissed hy the
breezcs from the Pacific. the only liy-
ing thing left of all that dead past, at
last 10 fall a victim to the greed Of the
merccnary civilization Of the twentieth
century. The heather Inca4 Worshipp,l
the sun. the aboriginal Indian Tx.
Great Spirit, and it is left for ciyili2
ed barbarian to wanton'F drsccratc
these ancient temples Of the Creator
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Additional trains leave baltimore for Union
Bridge and Intermediate Stations mt L. II a. IN
and 2.25 and Top. M. and leave Union Bridge
for Baltimore and Intermediate Stations at
% and 6.25 a. m, and 1880 p. m. daily, except
sunday.
Sundays only-leave Baltimore for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations at 935 a IN,
and 235 p m. Leave Union Bridge 645 m
and 10 p. IN. for Baltimore and Intermediate
Stations.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Men will always seek to obtain their
sustenance in the easiest possible way,
and thus it comes that where climatic
conditions require effort for man to
make Il living he thereby becomes a
better type of man. Work thus be-
comes the worlds greatest blessing,
and in all climates where man is thus
stimulated 70 effort to live there will
be found the men mighty with the
sword, great in story, art and song in
ventive genius and moral as well as
physical and intellectual development.
So don't whine and fret, young man,
that your lot is cast where you have to
work in order to live. 1t may not pay the
world to raise you even where you are,
but had you been born where you
could live without work it would not
have paid the world to have raised you
to weaving time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

We notice no emil Of small boys ont
with air guns looking Tor sometime
to shoot at, birds particularly. These
boys might crafty their love Of sport,
so called, and at the same time
render the general puHlic a service
by using the sparroHS ais tat-ots.
These pests need thinning ont. other
birds should be let alone AMI the laws
of the states which protect the in
sectiyorous and song birds should be
strictly enforced.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

LOT ~ per cent l'>S 81. ''"7. 81 s'i" .o'
inc p''N gu '"' 'o''i''7 S'''7"''' "'
business is "NefH'H'.
lean people ii'" -'i'.t~ ''' t'..''
there bong produced I"NI year -o''''''- .
O19 barrels, worth H',t'LU'N.
The october options on lax are H'.'''
discouutiug the vcrl large acreage
which Will be- >awn this year
Ponitruriarv and tramp forced maar
should IN every state lie diverted ~ lied
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There are good many sections OF
the west Where IL VIII nor pay 70 Io-
the land. 1t may he tlNe years before
another crop may be obtained.
Liquid air has lately been given a
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Every man should experiment with
little patch of alfalfa. Maybe it will
grow with him and maybe it won't. a
porous subsoil and permanent moisture
within ten feet are essentials to its
success. If it can be made to grow, it
Is the most valuable forage plant on
the whole list.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Some road supervisors do not seem
to know that water viii not run W hill.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Pacific coast hop growers are refus-
ing offers Of II cent, for the 1901 crop
of hops.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

The man with the rolling farm has
always one enemy to watch that
the man on the fiat lands never need
worry over, and this is the erosion Of
his hill fields by the foods and rains
and the consequent and certain loss
of their fertility. illustrating how
great this loss is. we mention the case
of Il farmer through whose farm 4
small creek ran. which drained water
shed including little more than that
comprised in the mars rolling hillside
acres. The hillsides were covered
with corn in July, the soil loose from
recent cultivation. and a heavy sum
mer storm came up and the floods
came down The little creek became
torrent and swept through the barn
yard, eddying into the basement OF
the COW barn. When the water sub
sided, Il silt deposit a solid foot in
depth had to he removed from the
barn floor, and this represented but Il
fraction of the fertility removed by
this one storm from his c0rnticldS on
the hills This loss constantly going on
through the agencies OF melting SHOWS
and summer rains and presents to the
owner of such lands one Of the most
serious problems with which he has
to contend in the conduct of his farm.
No land having slope in excess of 20
degrees should ever be kept in cult
waited crops if the soil be Of Il loose
and friable texture. Where the in
clination exceeds this, such lands
should be used for grasses. pasture,
orchards and forests. The pitch might
be increased if the soil is Il stiff clay,
but not otherwise. In all hilly coun-
tries erosion has done more to dcpletc
the fertility of the soils than all the
crops which were ever raised on the
land The elements of soil fertility
which the Mississippi river dumps into
the gulf of Mexico each year far OK
coed in value all the soil products
which are transported upon its sur
face.
My cattle yard is ankle deep in
slushy manure. and it is most wretch
ed business trying to feed and care for
my Stock. said Il St0Ckuuan TO IFS late
ly just as the spring thaw came on.
The two stacks Of straw which b"
had rotting down in the middle of his
grainfcld, an all round nuisance in the
field, had they been hauled up to the
yard when the ground was frozen
would have solved the problem Of the
muddy yard and have been converted
into valuable lot of fertilizer When
a man thus wastes his straw. he de-
serves to have muddy, nasty yard.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

4 large mountain ash tree which we
have occasion to pass every day car
ried over until this spring a number
of lunches of its berries, and we Won
derc1 why this was. We have found
out. A biz blizzard came up. bringing
with it six inches of snow after the
robins had migrated from the south
Just after the storm, when food was
hard to find. we saw flock of 20
busily engaged in disposing of these
dried mountain ash berries, finding
them perhaps not so toothsomc NOR
sci as a big fat earthworm, but still
better than no food ut all.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
BALTIMORE & CUMBERLAND VALLEY
RAILROAD.


Leave HagerStown for ShippenSburg and
intermediate stations at ll05 a m and 100
p m. For hambersburg $50 a m Leave
Shlppensburg for Hagerstown and Interme-
diate Stations at 500 n m and Bob p. IN.
Leave Chambersburg Las p m
TRAINS VIA ALTENWALD CUTOFF.
Leave Hagerstown for Chambersburg and
intermediate Stations at 6l2 a. IN. and 800
p. m.
Leave Chambersburg for Hagerstown and
intermediate Stations at 7.lS a. IN and 7.49
p. IN.
Leave Rocky Ridge for EmmitSburg at s 26
and l0.39 Il. m. and 3.3l and 634 p. m Leave
Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at 80 and 100
a. m. and % and As p IN.
cave Bruceville for Frederick at S.33, 935
and 1910 a m. and 532, and $50 p. m.
Leave Brucevlle for Columbia, Littlcstown
and Taneytown at 9.47 a. nj and 3.45 p. IN
Leave Frederick for Baltimore at 80 Il. IN,
and 300 and 80 p M
CONNECTIONS AT CHERRY RUN w. VA
b and O. passengers trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate points
daily at 81 Il. m. Cir cinnati, st. Louis and
Chicago Express daily, at 80 p m. Chicago
Express, daily, at 1879 p. m.
*Daily All others daily except Sunday
j NJ. HOOD, b. HGRISWOLD,
Pres. and Gen'l Manager. Gen. Pass Agt
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

There should be more mulching done
in the garden and orchard than there
is. Mulch serves a twofold purpose--it
effectually keeps down the weeds and
conserves the moisture in the soil dur
ing the summer droughts. Marsh hay,
straw or even cornstalks make good
mulch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12
A gallon of milk weighs SO pounds.

4 lot of old hens scratching on the
cover of the strawberry bed in March
can do more harm than they are worth.
During 1900 25,G43,073 tons of freight
passed through the 500 canal, and this
amount will be doubled inside of 10
years.
1t will pay to cut out a lot of the old
wood from the currant bushes. The
best fruit is borne on the growth of
the previous year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

! Wages for farmhands are about So a
month higher this year than they have
been for many years. The farmland
can now wear a red necktie and creas-
ed pants and smoke ''twofers."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Nearly all OF the carniNora Show their
anger by growing, but chipmunkS,
squirrels, blue jays and parrots take
pleasure in scolding. The dog hcWlS
at night or, as it is termed bays at
the moon For WHAT Nothing, it be
to his ancestor. the wolf which bowls
at nfght to either call his mate or as
sembc his fellows for fora@ing expo
dtion. For the sam<>rrason the dog
will turn round an - round several
times before he lies down. lust as his
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There were 5090 carloads of CRANES
marketed from fine CRANE orowin,, tor
ritorv on The shores of Lake Erin last
season. These yroncs wore mostly
Copcords IsabnIIas ana Dor,v.ro.
The colornd man i'm tbn south viii NOT
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The silo is making nrodiriors bnod.
way on nil M ia date eastern farms
under the conditions which exist fnore
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

We have friend who owns rooster
which has learned new uick. The
sparrows swarm around the barnyard
where this rooster stays, anu he has
got on to the trick, the Spdrrows not
being afraid OF him, of shifting them
on the head with his beak and killing
them, thereby securing many meal
of toothSome fresh meat We have
thought for some time thar some agcn-
cy would appear which would act as 4
natural enemy of the sparrow, and
perhaps the rooster is to be it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

An advertisement which has been go
ing the rounds Of the agricultural press
Offering a recipe TO cure cholera hogs
at the price of Is cents per head is as
near shell game as could well be
found.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

The pansy bed should be located
where it will be shaded from the after
noon sun, while the Gamma bed and the
geraniums should be given all the sun
shine possible.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Liquid air has lately been given a
test as to its value as Il Refrigerator for
the overland fruit car lines. Tie test
is reported to be a success, both as to
cost as compared with ice and effective
ness.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

The large condensinG milk factories
at Elgin, Ills, pay this year 500 for
April milk per hundredweight, 81 cents
for May, 50 cents for June, % cents
for July, Sl.03 for August and 81. 10 for
September
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

We note the recent sale of 800 acre
farm in Virginia, having good and com
modious farm buildings ana farm home.
for the paltry sum of $1,000, 1t would
seem as though it ought to have brought
more than this just for a chicken ranch,
even If the soil was absolutely worth
less.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

Nothing will start an old Z per cent
mortgage off the farm any quicker than
hogs at S.. Under these conditions the
lPoland-China can make any mortgage
look sick.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

When Hun or a Finn or son of
Italy can drop down in this country
and command the sum of $l15 for ten
hours unsEilled labor as he can, it is
no wonder that he thinks America is a
great country.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-12

The United States department of
agriculture is to have a new building,
one COMFORTING with the Importance
of this branch of our country's indus
tries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-30

a great deal Of nonsense written about
the restoration of our merchant ma
rine." Our merchant marine will be
restored as soon as it pays to restore
it. For some time past ocean rates
have been so low that ships have gone
out of commission rather than carry it.
It is largely a matter of sentiment, this
talk of the restoration Of our flag to
the high seas. What matters 1t who
does our ocean drayage so long as it
ID done at price lower than our own
people can afford?
As a matter of fact our merchant ma
rine is doing very well without subsi-
dies. Our ship yards are busy day and
night We are also building ships for
other countries as well as shipping large
quantities of shipbuilding material
abroad h matters much who does
the draying Sc long as we sell the drays
and material for them?
We shall have more ships in the ocean
carrying trade just as soon as it is eco
nomically DESTROYS to have them. Let
the matter be evolved naturally, out of
actual conditions, as our lake
was evolved. Business that is built up
fictitiously is poor business And above
all, It is consummate injustice to take
money out of the pockets of the many
to put it into the pockets of the few.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-30
KILL THE ENGINEER.
Uncouple the Engine and Run
Away With 1t.

st. Louis, Dec. 30.-A Post-Dispatch
special from Memphis, Tenn, says:
Four men headed by Ashley Cooke, OF
Mississippi, deliberately killed ]. M.
Rhea, a railroad engineer of Vicksburg,
who was a passenger on the north
bound Yazoo & Mississippi Valley train,
just out of Leland, Miss, this morning
and then. took possession of the train,
compelled the engineer to uncouple the
engine and carry them on up the road,
where they tried to escape. All were
captured.
Cooke is a wealthy planter and mer-
chant Of Cleveland, Miss He was ac-
companied by A. M. Phipps, postmaster
at Shelby, Miss, Tom Lauderdale, a rel
alive of Phipps, and another man
named Blackman.
Cooke a a As calibre revolver.
Blackman and Lauderdale Zach carried
Throughout all parts Of Mississippi the
excitement is inten6e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison GIobe.l

IFrOm the AtchlSon GLOBE
At times. all of US insist on being
misera BILE
We never admire the hero who
slaughters his villains with a sword
We do everything else ridiculous at
Christmas. but refuse to go to church
at midnight.
An Atchison colored girl wears a tur-
key feather in her hat and calls it her
nom de plume"
After many years of respectability,a an
Atchison man was seen smoking a Gig
arctic this morning.
At this time of the year we are sup
posed to be looking back with regret,
and orwar with a resolution to Be
Better.
the disorder that saloons show where
night.
When a man receives a present, he
sometimes says something original, but
a woman never says anything original
in receiving presents or in saying good
bye at a party.
"A good deal of shop lifting goes on
during a jam like this, / suppose" a
man said to a merchant today. Yes"
the merchant replied, land / wouldn't
care, if they would let me pick it out"
Some one down south has overlooked
our rule. and sent US a box of miStle-
toe, as a Christmas present. What do
we want with mistletoe? We are too
old to hang it UP, and lure the girls to
stand unde it.