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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
Clever Women,

Women breadwinncrs have chosen
strange careers for themselves in various
parts of the earth. Their example may
inspire others, if not to adopt like pro-
fessions, TO act upon the principle which
guided them to choose the one thing they
could do that was near at hand
For example, in Georgia n woman not
only personally delivers mail over a 40
mile route, riding over the scantily set.
tied region of Montgomery county thrice
weekly during the entire year, but man.
ages large farm as well, doing much
Of the manual labor, such as blowing.
narrowing, sowing and harvesting. and
supports by her energy and courage a
family of four.
Not 20 miles from Savannah there re.
Sides a widow who has for the last ten
years made more than Il comfortable in.
come rs government contractor, bidding
for the removal of wrecks, anchoring Of
buoys. building of jettes and dredging
Few persons riding over the New Lon.
don Northern railway are aware that the
company employs the only woman train
dispatcher in the world. Her responsible.
ity is great, her hours from in the
morning to . in the evening. her duties q
continual nervous and mental strain. Re.
Gently the directors of the road compli.
meuted her upon her efficient service, aud
it is a pleasure to add she receives the
same compensation paid the men occupy
ing similar positions.
A Virginia girl has made a widespread
reputation as well rs good bank account
as a trainer of saddle horses.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
ANIMALS THAT FAINT.
cars Among Others. Have Weak
Spells just Like Human Beinns

When the little gray cat had boon
brought to with camphor and lavender
salts the woman who had been instru.
mental in the rcSuScitation said:
ell. that is the first time | ever saw
a cat faint
The rest of the borders laughed.
amt. they said. The idea. That
wasn't faint Animals never faint"
Then what allied herr" asked the wo.
man.
The boarders couldn't tell. and after
dinner the woman went around TO tho
veterinarians office and asked him about
it.
OF course she tainted" he said. 1T is
not the fashion to call the sudden indis
position of eat or dog faint, but that
Is what it really amounts to. In common
parlahce, when an animal drops over in.
sensible the illness is described as n sud.
uen rush OF blood to the brain, but the
symptoms are practically the same as in
tne 1alntlng of human being, and the
remedies used to restore consciousness in
the latter case can be used to advantage
IN reyiyinS fainting cat or dog.
All animals, of course, do not faint
Neither do all human beings. But there
are degrees of sensitiyeness in the lower
orders of creation just as in the human
race, and there is no doubt that there are
many animals of delicate organism that
are Just as apt to keel over as a man or
woman
This is particularly true of cats and
dogs and birds that are kept closely with
IN doors, yet fainting is by no means con.
hned to domestic pets. Animals whose
surroundings have prevented their be.
coming versed in the polite ailments of
civilized life are given to fainting. Mon
Keys, for instance, have their little dizzy
spells and topple over without rhyme or
reason.
Even the larger and more hardy ami,
mails have attacks of weakness which, no
matter what they may be called from n
scientific standpoint. are really nothing
more or less than fainting spells. | have
seen horses fall to the street in faint so
neat that not even the most ACCOMPLISHED
woman of fashion could beat it, These
equine attacks must not be confused with
stagsers and sunstroke They are faint.
ing fits pure and simple"
The woman looked relieved.
Then the next time anybody saws ami
mails can't faint l can tell them that thew
don't know what they are talking about,
cant II she said triumphantly.
You certainly can" said the veterina.
rian.-New York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
THE FLORIDA RAzORBACK.
becomes Most Valuable When Killed
by Railway Train.

Inc FLORIDA razorbacli is the hog in
dlgenous to that climate and soil. lie is
usually large Of limb and fleet of foot.
being the only known porker that can
outrun a darby. He has a tail Of won.
drous length, which while he is in active
motion he twists into the tishtest cork.
screw but with which while quietly feed
ing he raps his leathery sides much in
the same manner that the docile COW uses
her tau lie is self supporting. He
earns his own living and thrives equally
well in the high woods. in the fiat woods.
IN the hummocks and in the marshes. He
subSists upon anything he can find above
the earth or underneath its surface. He
has clear, farseeing eye and is very sen.
sitive of hearing.
Nature has equipped him with snont
almost as long as the beak of the wild
pelican of Borneo, with which he can
penetrate the earth many inches in quest
of worms, snakes and insects. He is the
most Intelligent of all the hogs and is
likewise the most courageous He has
been known to engage in mortal combat
with a coon for the possession of a water.
melon and to rend asunder a barbed
wire fence.
He is so intelligent that when he lives
in the towns he becomes as familiar with
the railroad schedules as are the train
dispatchers themselves and plies his vo-
cation in great numbers about the rail
road stations, and yet no train ever ran
over a razorback. Whenever the rail.
road companies are forced to pay for kill
ing hog it always proves to be a Berk.
shire, guinea or some other fine breed
never a razorback. He is too active
and alert to be caught even by locomo-
tive. He is nervous, restless. energetic,
and hence does not thrive well in pens
Confined, he loses rather than gains
flesh. He is always ripe for market. as
his condition is as good in August as it is
in January. His owner respects his in
telligence, admires his nerve and is fond
of him as food, for he may always be de-
pended upon to afford the proverbial
'streak Of lean" with very small
"streak Of fat. He is the king of hogs
He can be grown more prohtably than
any other known variety, since. as has
been observed. he is energetic and inte!li-
gent enough to feed and clothe himself
Forest and Stream.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
KATE cHASE'S GREAT AMBITION.
She Did Her Best to Make Her Fa-
Their President.

The story of THE Dashing Kate Chase
and Her Great Ambition" is told bv Will
nam 'errine in The Ladies Home Jour.
nal. Born in 1910, she early began to ex.
hibit masterful spirit. to study polite,
and to dream of the possibilities in store
for her when her father, Salmon +.
Chase, was proposed as a candidate for
the presidency in 1886 and again in 1860.
When he was called to a cabinet posi-
ton, he had been married three times.
and it was whispered that he was about
to make a certain lady his fourth wife.
But the resolute Kate had made up her
mind that no one should step in between
her and her father and one day when the
lady called she was made so keenly to
feel that she was an intruder that the
budding romance was blighted, and
Chase remained a widower
Even after Rates brilliant marriage to
Senator William Sprague of Rhode Is.
land she still cherished the ambition to
see her father installed in the White
House and was most gracious to those
who were likely to be influential in help
ing her to advance his interests. When
he was appointed chief justice, she saw
in it only scheme to head off his presi-
dental aspirations forever and said, half
loosely, half reproachfully, to Senator
Sumner, who had voted for the appoint
ment: And you, too, Mr.. Charles Sum
ner, in this business of shelving papa!
But never mind. | will defeat you allv
In 1865 she nearly succeeded in getting
the Democratic national convention to
carry out her wishes. 1t was in session
in Tammany hall, New York city, and
she kept in communication with it by
messengers, waiting anXiously for the
moment when it was believed her father
would carry all by storm On the fourth
day the moment seemed to have arrived.
and her heart leaped with joy. But the
expected stampede did not come, and the
impatient daughter was almost moved to
go herself to Tammany hall Indeed,
there were afterward some politicians
who observed that if she could have gone
among the delegates on the floor she
might have been able at the crucial point
to have swung the convention to the chief
justice. Instead Horatio Seymour was
nominated, and Kate Sprague that night
was the most unhappy woman in the
land
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

"There is a man in an eastern city who
does a large business in babies dresses
and clothing for young children" writes
Edward Box in Ladies' Home Journal
"IIe makes and sells nothing else His
trade is almost entirely with women. Up
to within three years ago he would send
out to his customers bills amounting to
MS much as $4,000. In six months time
he would receive less than $1,000 in re.
turn. Yet his customers all stood well
and We're considered women OF easy
means.
"Then he deliberately changed his
method of rendering bills. lie went over
his books and found that he had some
$4,000 worth of unpaid accounts. He
made out the bills and addressed them to
the husbands or fathers Of his customers,
directing the bills to their offices. Within
GO days he had received $4,000 in checks.
His nvariable rule now is to send all his
bills to the husbands. fathers or the male
members of his customers families.
When no male member exists, he insists
upon a cash transaction"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

One of the most curious phases of the
homesteadug industry is exhibited 10y set
tlers-and there are a good many such
who are pcrpetually unsettled. They will
secure a promising farm, fence it 10. lee.
gin breeding pigs and chickens and then,
without any apparent reason. will pull up
stakes and depart with al their belong
ings to some other locality, which they
imagine to be more eligible Some of
these people, have actually travelled sey.
era times from the Mississippi river to
California and back. and they are so nu-
mcrous that the term wagon children
has been accepted in the language as de-
scriptive Of those who have been brought
up in wheeled vehicles.
Professor Thompson Of the United
States geological survey said that he had
a man 24 years of age in his employ at
one time who stated that he had never
slept in an ordinary bed in his life, hav-
ing been kept continually on the move in
this fashion Saturday Evening Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

awful Entrances had to be cleared of ali
GnalrS or tables to accommodates Mrs
Mean hoop People scrambled or srJ
Sideways about her on the stage. swear
ing mentally all the time, while \ sr11o,
gasp from the front row or 4 rroan from,
ar. Oatheart announced tilt and \ rove.
ialioii OF heelless slippers and dead wbito
stockings. ''''e
Ana IN spite of his dignity Charles
was not above joke on Ellcn's hoop far
one RAINY day as she strove to cnter
carriage door She stuck fast. ana the boon
mercy. 1t was well Mr.. Kean vas
there to hold it down and. rs = trouhIod
voice from within said, I'm caught some.
NO" uoh you see, Charles? with 4
,"lhNIihS eye Charles replied. Yes FL.
!eh' my dear, | do see, and-and I'm +,r.
ing 70 Keep every one else from seein,,
100 2 speech yergins 50 closely unon i'm,
pToprle'y that with antique geometry
MIS- Mean punished him by tweaking his
ear when he squeezed in beside her.
-, Inc hean bonnet was the wonder of
the town. 1t was a large coal semitic ~
"hlte leShorn, and at the back thern wos
sort Oh hounce of ribbon which she call
ca her bonnet cape Draped over If She
Wore bright green barege veil. But
she was not half 50 funny as was her bps.
band on the street. His short LITTLE nor
son was buttoned up tightly in regular
bottle green 'Mantalini' sort of oyercoot
loaded with frogs of heavy cord and
hhed' Quilted AMI collared with fur of sucb
remarkable color, quality and marking
as would have puzzled the most exneri-
enced student Of natural history to name
while vicious little street boys at sight ~
1t always put searching questions as TO
the price Of catskins in London.
AS they came down the street tooo+b-
err Mrs. Nean. majestically towering
above her lord and master, looked like nm
OLD time frigate with every inch of cam
vas spread. while at her side Charles
pulled and fretted like a small tur.
Inc street boys were continual tor.
ment to him, but Mrs. Kean appeared So
renely unconscious of their existence even
when her husband made short PUSHES at
them with his gold headed cane. crvinr.
Go away, You irreverent little brntosi
Go away" and then pulled laboriousjy
back to her again as she sailed caJTnly
on"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
READING NOVELS AS WORK.
Five Hundred Manuscripts "a Year
About an Average For One Man.

About an Average For One Man.
Five hundred novels a year is n record
for one mans reading, but that is about
the number that one of the regular read
ers of n large publishing house in this
city manages to examine annually. This
examination is no superficial review, eli
Their. but one that gives Il thorough
knowledge of the plot, style and general
characteristics of the manuscript. for the
readers opinion of each manuscript is
written out and filed away for reference.
One of the older firms here has nearly 90
bound volumes of readers opinions, with
about 400 opinions in each volume. Per
haps 40 out of the 400 are about books
which have been published. OF the other
$50 some few may have been brought out
by other publishing houses, but most of
them We're returned to their authors, nev-
er to appear again.
a good reader will look over mt least
four manuscripts in a day that begins at
$50 and ends at 3 o'clock and sometimes,
when there is n rush of work, will get
through twice that number. Most of the
publishing houses do not keep manu-
scripts more than two weeks before de-
Gliding on returning them if possible.
They form Il valuable charge and have
to be looked out for carefully, and in
case of loss the publisher is sometimes
liable, particularly if the receipt of the
manuscript has been acknowledged. At
least four or five out of every hundred
manuscripts which are declined by the
publisher are left in the hands of the
house 10y the author. They are carefully
put away, and after a certain number of
years, if no one claims them, are de-
stroyed.
Once in awhile an author incloses a So
bill with the object of propitiating the
reader, for there seems to be a wide
spread supposition among a certain class
of authors that the readers are all broken
down and unsuccessful literary men who
dislike to see any one succeed when they
have failed. If he does not send an in
closure. the author is apt to send a long
letter explaining that the story is found
ed on fact" or the experiences of the
writer's grandfather, or that he has
large number of friends and relatives
who will buy and assure it large sale,
and that his friend. the literary editor of
the local journal, will give it a magniii-
cent review. or that the authors friends
have all pronounced it infinitely better
than most of the novels published.
1t is only infinite experience which can
teach a man to know the public taste,
and it takes great many qualities be-
sides literary perception. A reader has
to be not only n critic, but also something
of a prophet. The forecasts of the wealth
er bureau are not more carefully prepared
or more likely to be wrong than are the
opinions of these men who try to foretell
what book the public will like.-New
York Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

treatment OF the
local physician,
Miss Belle IIedrick
wrote to DR.. Pierce
for advice. She
acted on the advice,
regaiued her appe-
tite, recovered her
strength, and gain
ed several pounds
i'll weight.
"Wnte to Doctor
Pierce " is good adj
vice for every
woman to follow.
1t costs nothing.
Or. Pierce invites
sick women 10 con-
suit him, by letter,
free. Address Or.
K. V. Pierce, In
valids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, \. y.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
CHARLES AND ELLEN KEAN.
'"e Famous Actors Quaint Attire
ana Ills Wife's Ample HOOpskirts.

!, Clara Morris, in an article on Mr.. and
SlfS' Charles Kean in McClure's Maya
1iI gives a delightful description of the
VII couple off the stage. "Ellen and Charles
"pfe like pair of old, old love birds
a "a lIltle dull of eye, nor quite perfect IN
me precning of their somewhat rumpled
n4ulhage but billing and cooling with all
sue persstency and satisfaction of their
uIst cagng. Their appearance upon the
sIeet provoked amusement, sometimes
wen excitement. | often saw drivers of
uIayS and wagons pull up their horses
anu stop in the crowded streets to SCI
~ 'hem as they made their way ie
the theater. Ire's.
MRS. kean lived inside the
Wunulng hnnn TINT wnmnn eve
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

"You speak with great positiveness
about the sincerity of our friends reli-
gion."
There can be no doubt whatever Of
his sincerity" was the answer "Why,
sir, that man would rather go to church
On Sunday than play golf."- Washington
Star
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
Grnnnd rInn COMPLETED.

Naggus aiterary cditon-IIow is your
new society novel getting on, Borus?
Borus struggling Enthusiastically
I've got the French phrases | am going
TO use in the story all selected There's
nothing to do now hut to ill in the Eng
fish and divide it into chapters.-Chicago
Tribune
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

Before the German empire was unified
an author had to obtain % different copy
rights for a book. and a railway bill had
fnass through II different parliaments
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
81 Advise
All women who suffer
from chronic diseases
to write to DR.. PIERCE"

That advice is based upon practical
experience. After suffering for months,
and finding no benefit result from the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

The largest cut stones known to pos.
terity are in the Temple of the Inn at
Baalbec. Many are more than 60 feet
long, 20 feet broad and of unknown depth.
Two per cent of people aged 80 are con.
ktantly confined to bed by illness and 10
per cent of those aged IS.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07

man roads, according TO their
were from 8 to 30 feet in
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
,,r4 80 BALTIMORE & Ono
[IllIIII. ks5IEIlI;
\ ~, RAILROAD.
Arrival and Departure Of Trains.
Schedule in Effect May 10. 1901
Schedule in Effect May 10, 1901.
LEAVE FREDERICK.

LEN ' r. + hEDfkIOk.
i.3O A. NJ, except Sunday for Washington
junction ana way atiOns, WaShingt ton,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
Due w shingtou g IA a. IN.
600 a. m, daily, for Washington and way
stations Philadelphia and New York. Due
Washiustou $50 a. IN.
SO a, m, daily, for Baltimore and way sta
tons, Philadelphia Sew York, Cumber-
land ana except sunday for Hagerstown.
Due Baltimore $50 a. IN.
SIu n. m, except sunday, for Baltimore and
PRINCIPAL way stations, Philadelphia and
New York. Due Ba timorc 10 % a, IN.
20 a; m, except sunday, for Harper's Ferry,
Winchester, Harrisonburg and Lexington
and Staunt II.
$40 :. M, except sunday, for Washington,
Philadelphia and New York, HagerStown
aud way stations. incinuati Indianapo-
lis, PiitShurg and Chicago. Due Washing
ton ll55 a. IN
1876 y. m, except Sunday, for Baltimore and
way stations, Philadelphia and New York.
Due Baltimore 1880 y. m.
40 p. m, daily for Washington and way sta
tionS, Philadelphia and New York, Cum
hcrlond, Cincinnati and 81. Louis except
sunday for Winchester and Strasburg
Junction.. Due WaShington 50 u. m
$50 Z. m, daily, for Baltimore and way sta
uonS, Philadelphia and New York Due
Baltimore 40 y. m.
GO =. m, except sunday, for Washington,
Hagcrstown, WinchcStcrand way stations
PittSburg, Wheeling, Chicago, Philadel-
phia and New York Due Washington $40
=. m
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-07
TACTICS OF BANDITS.
A RAID THAT WAS ALL CAREFULLY
PLANNED IN ADVANCE.

uo,y Men Like the Younger and the
lanes Brothers Could Ride Into a
Town In Broad Daylight, Rob n
Rank and Get Away.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-01-04
PROVED TO BE FoRoERIEs.
Tanagra Figurines ia the Boston Mu-
scum Are Base limitations.

Tanagra Figurines ia the Boston Mu-
scum Are Base mutations.
The discovery that twenty-five Of the
twenty-eight Tanagra flgurines in the
Boston art museum are forgeries has
attracted much attention from artists
and art critics, largely because the Bos-
ton flgurines were the best specimens
of the peculiar Tanagra potteries in this
country and have been widely copied,
cheap limitations of some of them being
found in the shop of almost every
dealer in art goods and brlc-a-brac,
The collection has been valued at $780,
600 and was given to the museum in
1879 by Thomas Appleton, whose au-
thority ON art subjects was so great
that the genuineness of his gift was
never questioned 1t is not believed
that Mr.. Appleton knew that the fig
urlnes were forgeries, as the museum
judges at the Louvre, at Berlin and
New York were also deceived by forged
figurines made by the same persons
who are now known to have faxed the
Appleton pieces.
The first ntimation that the Boston
fgurines were forgeries was the state
ment of John Marshall, an English au-
thority, that he believed them to be
spurious. Later a Greek shopkeeper
from New York told the museum au-
thorities that the fgurines We're part
of lot made in Athens in 1874, and
that he knew the maker. He produced
proof that fifteen of the men engaged
in the manufacture of the fictitious fig
ures were now in prison for the offense.
Curator Robinson of the museum after
hearing the Greeks story. recognized the
man named as the principal maker of
the forgeries as one known to him for
similar work In other lines. The man
Is now dead. TO the credit of the mu-
scum authorities, they at once decided
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-01-04

Now that It Is not only proper but
properest TO have ones wedding at
home and to have Il a simple, unpreten-
tlous affair, the ordeal is no longer so
trying. The preparation and celebra-
tion of her wedding win not leave
the bride In state Of nervous collapse
and her entire family exhausted The
lastof the church weddings were eight
day wonders for splendor and no one
would have dared to outdo them They
had worked themselves out of novel
ties as means of display and It only
remained to repeat the wonders that
had already been accomplished. The
home wedding is kindly respite from
these shows and a respite for which
both society and the newspaper read
ing public is thankful.