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The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08

Daniel Jephson, one OF the old-time,
eminent men Of New Manchester"
would arrive at 10 a. m. on the fast
mail train from Cappville and the
West. 1t took the train nearly twenty
four hours to get into a fix to whistle
for New Manchester, and by that time
the old fellow was getting nervous
about the speech ne meant to make
when he skipped off the train into the
arms os the enthusiastic populace.
"Do you think I'll have to make a
speech, too" asked young Daniel,
when the train began to slow down.
speech. You" laughed the father,
why Dan, they won't even notice
you. Just remember, son, that while
you may be big man out West, you
got to stand aside for me in New Man
chester"
And the good old soul, cbeered and
inflated with the prospect of meeting
a hundred Of his old friends and admir-
ers, laughed again at the crestfallen
discontinue of his boy.
NJ last the train slowed down for
New Manchester, the old fellow put on
the gayest manner he had worn for
years and growled at the porter as he
had not done within the memory of the
son.
II don't see the band" he murmured,
craning his neck as the porter strug-
gled with the vestlbule door. Guess
it's up to Hows opery House waiting
! for us"
And SO they swung off the car. stood
alone-all alone on the platform-and
looked about, There was no band. no
crowd, no cheers, no welcome. The
station agent was coming back from
the express car, and New Manchester
was seeming very small and soualid
to the younger Jephson, when the old
man stopped the agent, waited for the
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Resisting Inevitable cbanrss.

How little we realize the changes
that are going on and how stubbornly
we resist them We hate the motor
car as our grandfathers hated the rail
way. Think Of the police in rural dis
trlcts being drawn off all their ordl-
nary duties in order to time motor cars,
as If safety depended on speed, and
not on the capacity Of the driver to
guide, stop, and control his vehicle.
We work on the false analogy Of the
horse, and probably shall continue to
do 80 for a generation; but the con-
sequence, Of course, Is that the auto
mobile trade goes to France and
America. Westminster Gazette.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
-suRRA" ATTACKS ARMY MULES.
Dreaded Fatal Indian Parasitic Disease
nLintMkrn For CIanders.


Dreaded Fatal Indian Parasitic Dlsease
Mistaken For GI@nders.
The fatal and much dreaded "surra"
Of Indian Burmah has invaded the
Philippines and Is destroying horses
and mules with amazing Tapidity. The
disease was at first mistaken for glan-
ders but failed to yield to treatment
and puzzled for months the best vet
erinarians. A pathological investigation
has now identified 1t as a parasitic dis
case identical with "surra" Of India,
where It caused the death OF thousands
of English cavalry horses. 1t affects
horses, mules, camels, dogs, and mon
keys, and. Is almost always fatal.
In Manila alone the Quartermaster's
Department lost 300 horses within four
months. General Chaffee has issued
an order to the officers in the island
urging the Isolation of all affected ami
mails, and giving the results Of bacter-
biological Investigations of the disease
made by the Manila Board Of Health.
1t is declared that the mortality of the
epidemic has been about seventy-fve
per cent. for American horses and
mules and 100 per cent. for native
ponies. The official report says:
"This disease is caused by the pres
ence in the blood of n flagellated ami
NAL parasite, in length three or four
times the diameter of n red blood cell,
and in width one-fourth the diameter
s,f oil frolf1
worm, one end, probably the head, be-
Ing represented by slender fagellum.
This parasite exists in the blood in i'm
mense numbers, and produces so great
a blood destruction that the animals
almost invariably die.
"The mode Of infection is not yet
known, but there is a strong proba-
bility that the parasite is introduced
through the bite Of some suctorial in
sect, probably either fly or a mos
quito.
"The pathological change caused by
this parasite is u rapid destruction
Of the red blood cells, causing an acute
anaemla. The change occurs in the
blood coincident with the invasion of
the parasite. In one horse, which had
been i'll seven days, the red blood cells
numbered 3,500,000 the white 14,500.
In another, i'll six weeks, the red blood
cells were 100000 and the white were
13,900 The blood Of a healthy horse,
taken as comparison, gave red blood
cells 100000, white, $500. There is
also a slight diminution in the amount
Of haemoglobln-about eighty-fve per
cent"
The Army surgeons who have stud
led "surra" admit that a remedy is yet
to be found and until this is done iso
lation is the only method to be pursued
in stamping out the disease.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08

when Cal Jinkins. the Boston lawyer
come down to New Manchester and
had long pieces about himself put in
the Gazette. | challenged him to debate
the forty-ninth amendment, and every
body said that he never made no show
at all again me. Lord. how l did hate
that man Jinkins. l guess he's dead
now, but oh, Lord, what a show made
o. him before l got done. Why, Dan
iel, l licked him in debate and l licked
him in a fight, and before I'd got done
with him they wasn't 4 self-respectine
citizen in New Manchester would
speak to him"
1t was in December that they go;
started. The village band and the
Cappville Marching Club escorted
Mayor Jephson and his father to the
depot. There were cheers for the
young man as the train pulled out, and
the old man. leaning on his sons arm,
could not forbear a gentle pressure as
he whispered:
Just wait, Daniel, till we get to
New Manchester. l bet four bits the
Hawklnses, the Doleses, the Fittses
and all the best, old families O. New
Manchester'll be down to the deepo if
they know I'm coming. 1 wouldn't be
surprised-by ging, I'll bet old jim
kins'I be thar, He don't like me none
too well-Lord. how put 1t over him
in that last spelling bee-but by ging,
III bet il old Jinkins knows I'm coming
he'll let bygones be bygones and come
down 10 the deepo, and he'll give me
the right royal hand O. welcome. That's
what he'll DO. That's what they'll all
do when they know Daniel Jephson is
coming back for a visit"
So young Daniel sent ahead a tele'
gram to the Gazette announcing that
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Europe Was Fortunate. 4.

The countries Of Europe were for
tunate in having a system of roads es-
tablished long before the invention Of
the steam railway, In the United
States the rapid extension of railways
has caused the roads to be neglected.
Good roads are essential to the pros
perlty of rural districts, as they pro-
mote local commerce and tend to make
the people better acquainted with one
another.-Thomas w. Knox, New York
City.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08

Old Jephson was one of those proud,
sensitive, bright old men who didn't
quite understand why he wasn't
abreast Of the procession. Young
Jephson, his only boy, was a "bg
man" IN the town, a power in county
politics, and what the knowing ones
called "a conner" The old man cOlldn't
tering love for Daniel, he was quite
convinced that in his young days he
had bean a much smarter person than
was Daniel junior. But he overlooked
the fact that he had been born and
bred ia New England while his boy
was native Illinoisan and OF the
West western.
When Dan was elected Mayor Of
Cappville the old man laughed. and to
himself said, Pooh, pooh" Then, for
the purpose of impressing the boy"
who was thirty-seven years old, he be-
gan to tell about how popular he had
been in the old days back in New Man
chester
"Of course, I never held Office" Old
Jephson would explain, "but that was
my way. was recognized, loved and
respected by all classes Of people" (the
population OF New Manchester never
got above 200O), land when the new
Improvement bill come up for two
bridges and four blocks O. sidewalk,
why, eve-y taxpayer in town asked me
what thot about it. l was a sort O.
power behind the throne, l tell you,
and l bet could go back to New Man
chester right now and set any Office
within the gift o the people. They all
know old Daniel Jephson. Everybody
knows me in New Manchester, and I'll
tell you, Dan, you may think it's some
thing big to be Mayor O. Cappvlile but
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Mean Now opportuni,Iss.

Good roads mean new opportunities
which will broaden and sweeten life.
They mean education, and just as ig-
norance is the root of falsity and disor.
der, so education means knowledge and
love of law and order, the nations
only hope for the abollshment Of ci''- 40
CLARA Louise Burnham.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
A Gnod Suggestion.

The Legislature Of each State should
pass a law for the establishment and
Of good roads. Let the
bicyclist Of town or city unite with the
farmer in agltating the matter, and a
millennium Of good roads will speedily
result.-Mrs. r. +. Woodward. b.
N. Y.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
THE BETTER WAY.

Ha serves his country best
Who lives pure life and doeth righteous
deeds,
And walks straight paths, however Others
stray,
And leaves his sons, es uttermost bequest,
A stainless record, which all men may read
1his Is the better way.
Susan Coolidge.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Nnahed For Evarrhndx.

BY all means let us have good roads
for the farmer, for the merchant, for
the wheelmen, for the pedestrians, for
everybody. - Ellen L. Pratt, Editor
Health and Dress, Iowa City, Iowa.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08

Booksellers who supply English
schools report that there has been in
recent years a very great increase in
tha demand for German school books.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
. srrrra his country henk

He serves his county best
Who Joins the tide that lifts her nohly on !;
For spesch has myriad tongues for every
dav ~
And song but one; and law withhn The
breast
L. stronger than the craven law on stone:
- There u better way.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Tho ERoIat.

Every man is an egolst, but only one
in hundred knows how to back 1t up.
New York Press.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08

A man is never so bad that he
could not be woi se, nor so good that
he couldn't be better.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
Citizens Northwest Suburban
Association.
Meetings are held the First Fri
day Evening in Each Month in
the Town Hall, Tenleytown, DC.
OFFICERS:

President, Chas. G. Lancaster; 1st
Vice President, Jas. L. Tate; 2nd Vice
President, Col. Robert l. Fleming; 3rd
Vice-P President, A. E. Shoemaker; 4th
Vice. President, DIR. A. NJ. Ray; 9th Vice
President, Prof. Louis L. Hooper; Sccre-
tary, DR.. j. w. Chapel; Treasurer,
Chas r. Morgan; Sergeant-at-Arms,
Andrew j. BergN; Chairman Executive
Committee, Louis p. Shoemaker.
The suburban citizen., 1902-03-08
BrightWOOd Park Citizens
Association.
MeetirgS are held the Third
Tuesday Evening in each month
in Thomas BRll.
OFFICERS:

President, w. Nick. Clayton; Vice.
President, Chas. w. Parker; Secretary,
Frank j. Metcalf; Treasurer, w. s.
Detwilor.
gI~ Total membership about IS.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-29
FOR BEAUTY AND HEALTH.

Watercress is good, all-round-
brace-up for the system.
Dandelions purify the blood and
generally are declared to tone up the
system.
Women as a rule do not consider
strength necessary thing in their list
of destinations.
Muscular development u absolutely
necessary to woman, for health and
physique are hereditary, and you can
not have nation of strong and able
men with a race Of weak mothers.
II you suffer from rheumatism buy
pennyworth of flowers of sulphur
and sprinkle it well into the feet of a
pair OF stockings, which you must wear
at night. The sulphur is quickly alb
sorbed into the system through the
feet, and, as every one knows, sulphur
is the remedy for rheumatism.
Some people who have very delicate
skins cannot use soap with comfort.
They should use bran. Napoleon never
used soap, but kept his hands beauti-
fully white with bran. One of the old
kings of Holland forbade his sons the
use OF soap. They used instead bran
and a slice OF lemon; the latter was
Tor removing ink stains.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-29
BITS OF SCIENCE.

There is a demand for guttapercha
600 times greater than the supply.
One of the finest bronzes known is
made of aluminium alleged with cop
per.
DIR. A. Berger. of Sorbonne, suggest
ed in a lecture delivered before a num-
Der of scientists at Paris the other day
that an international monument
should be raised TO the memory of the
late Lieut.. Matthew f. Maury, of the
United States, the pioneer of modern
meteorology and photography.
Prof. Sydney r. Convey, principal of
one of the public schools of Utica, n.
y, who has drunk nothing but steril-
led water for several years, is dead
rom typhoid fever, and an investiga-
ton shows that the well used by the
concern which furnished the sterilized
water is filed with typhoid germs
A French scientist claims he can fix
thu age of porcelain vases by testing
them with magnets. The iron in CLAW
is magnetized in the direction of the
compass needle, and this direction is
fixed when the clay is baked. Knowing
the dip" and "declination" of the
needle at various times in past CEN
turtles, the age OF vases may be COM
puted
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it, the door slammed and locked, and
he was held prisoner there until the
woman who SO innocently had excited
Mime. Ravelote's jealousy had left
Paris
Even then Ravelote says that he
would not have been released had his
brother not CHANGED TO call and insist
upon seeing him. In the long days and
nights in which he was locked up the
complainant says that he was left to
sleep without covering, on the bare
floors of the cage, while food was
passed to him through the steel bars.
In his bill of complaint Ravelote adj
mits the sincerity of his wife's affec-
ton. He insists only that its accom-
panying unreasonable jealousies are
intolerable to him. The storm which
led TO the building of the steel cage
he says, burst three months ago. One
morning he remarked at breakfast in
the most casual way that young wom-
an whom he had known as boy was
coming TO Paris. In an instant, he says,
crockery began to fly all about the
room, doing great damage and serious
ly endangering his life. Peace was
made only after he had promised not
TO see the young woman while she was
in the capital. The building of the
cage and his imprisonment fol-
lowed
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-29
ROUTED BY SPARRowS.
Hundreds OF Hungry Birds Have a
Peck a an Aged New York
Farmers BaId Head.

According to Middletown N. W
correspondent, Theodore Davis, an
aged farmer of Pitts Hollow, is suf-
fering from an onslaught of English
sparrows, which inflicted numerous
wounds about mis- head and face
Davis was crossing n field some dis
lance from his house when he EN-
countered a large flock of the birds.
They arose from the ground as the
farmer made his appearance and cic-
cled about his head, obstructing his
vision, Then the birds began peck
ing at Davis, and in his efforts to
escape the flock his hat fell off, ex-
posing his bald head, which also
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american problems and American re-
Nations with European countries.
Twenty-Five sculptors have signi-
fed their intention to submit de-
signs for the statue of Gen. McClel-
Ian which is 30 I've erected in Wash
ington. it is believed to be the
largest number ever entered in such
q competition.
Mr.. Kruger spends a great deal of
his time in playing cards and has In
vented several games. He is also
quite an adept at making puzzle
boxes, and keeps in his pocket one OF
a particularly battling description
which he not infrequently offers to
visitor to open.
So great was the demand upon
members of congress for tickets of
admission to the Mckinley memorial
services that the members themselves
were paying $25 each for the coveted
pasteboards. Congressman Sibley
promised five of his constituents that
be would get them tickets and it cost
him just 1928 TO keep his word.
The English court has gone out Of
mourning for Queen Victoria. The
royal household has likewise, for the
first time in 40 years gone out of
mourning for the late prince consort.
From the time of the latter's death
until the anniversary of Queen Vic
toria's demise last month, the do
mestics and gentlemen of the royal
household have never been seen with
out a black mourning band around
their left arm, and black, too, was
the invariable dress of the ladies in
attendance on the late sovereign.
These emblems of woe have now dis
appeared.
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Seattle AS a Sample of
Progress in the We st va
something OF the History of It's Rapid cIoprrert
and What 1t Is To-Day.

- EATTLE, the young and
growing giant of the north
NSSN west, stands as a monu-
SIfN ment to American, and espe-
49, cially western American,
enterprise. But Seattle is
great not in itself alone, but as an ex-
ample of what the west is doing; of
how it is growing; of its new inn
portance to the nation. What we
thought of but few years ago as the
home of the savage Indians who
roamed over the great stretches of
mountain and plain almost without
let or hindrance, has come TO be a
highly-developed portion of our ma
ton. 1t is of this progressive type of
Development found all through the
western states that Seattle stands as
an example. All along the Pacific coast
the progress of development has been
given new impetus by the increase of
our trade with the orient. and of this,
too, Seattle is n marked example of in
crease. II has not taken centuries, or
even half centuries to make history
IN this great western section of our
country. II is made in a decade. wear.
month, yea, even in a day. Nor is it
necessary to wait for years to pass
before sitting in judgment on that
which is past, or that which is already
done. 1t has been done so thoroughly
that even the builders may Judge of its
merit-and they do with pardonable
pride.
Some of the first white people who
set foot where Seattle now stands
still live. hale and hearty. in the city
they helped TO establish only a half
century since. In 1860 there we're only
$50 white people there. Ten wears
later, LOO, and in 1850 but ?, 500. The
next decade saw the advent Of two
tTanseontinental railways, and 10000
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-29
IN THE KINGS DOMAINS.

There are now alive 10 ex-lord may
ors of London.
There are at present in london ST.
600 persons aged more than rs years,
Sixty-focr out of every 100 pounds
of foreign wool imported into England
comes from Australasia.
One hundred and eighty paper max
ing firms control 221 paper mills in
England. Scotland has 81 mills, owned
by 81 different firms.
London bridge is at present SO feet
wide. This will lie increased to 65 feet
when the proposed alterations are fin
ished.
: There are 11,0o4 mines and quarries
in active operation m the United King
dom. These produce 100000, 900 tons
of minerals in year.
Last year s26,0O0 new houses were
built in London. Probably they are
now filed by 10000 people, the popu-
lation of large borough. This is the
way London grows every year.
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nor natural obstruct ,on may intimi-
date.
True, the development of Klondike
discoveries of gold hi given the Queen
City its first of rec, mt onward inn
pulses, and brought 5000, 900 of vir-
gin gold to Ter local assay office, and
much of it to her i'm nense upbuilding
-prospectors establ shing their fam
lilies and homes there for convenience
to Alaska, as Seattle is the last Amer
lean port en- route TO the golden north
That vast golden ter ritory will con-
tinue indefinitely to pour its yellow
treasure into Seattle's willing lap,
while Seattle is at Il same time the
open gateway to the orient, and her
foreign commerce is growing in keep
ing with other stats tics here given.
One writer has said of Seattle: NO
other city of the world embraces the
advantage of being ar once a CONNER
cial emporiu n, gre maritime port.
manufactr ring city, a shipbuildinr
point, naval headqr arters, military
rendezvous and the focal center of the
greatest mining interests in the
world"
with the government navy yard
close by her doors, and on which large
sums are being exp" nded annually;
with millions disbursed each wear
from the local government pay sta
ton; with other millions being ex-
pended by the tran continental rail
ways in terminal facilities, a large
union station, warehouses, docks. etc:
the establishment ant growth of trans
pacific steamship companies. includ-
ing the largest carriers in the world,
now under construct 'rn for the Great
Northern Railway company; the
building of a modern battleship at the
Seattle yards, to cost $4,000. 600: the
construction of the e,c,vernment canal.
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proved target for the ferocious
little creatures.
With blood issuing from the
wounds on his head and face the
aged farmer finally succeeded in MAX
ing his escape, and, nearly exhaust
ed from his experience, slowly made
his way home, where his wounds
were dressed.
Davis says it appeared TO him as
though there were many hundreds of
the birds about him, and they were
proof against all his attacks. He be-
lieves hunger caused them to make
the attack.
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people were added TO the population.
In the early summer of 1889 the bust
ness portion of Seattle was swept clean
by fire, entailing loss on the young
city in excess of S12,O0o,00O. Within
the two succeeding years the city was
rebuilt, splendid brick and stone
structures replacing the wooden build
ings swept away in a night
Following the calamity of fire came
the "boom" days of the earlier nineties
and then, the reaction! Yet, so firm
ly was the city established, and so
solid her financial institutions. that in
the panic of 1893 not n Seattle bank
even trembled for safety. Ninety-four,
five and six were duh years throughout
the entire northwest, and Seattle had
a protracted breathing spell. In 1897,
IN mid-July, the gold discoveries of
Klondike caught the common country
awakening from period of financial
rest" and Seattle was of the first to
catch the wave of prosperity which has
since continued TO flow on, and no.
where, apparently, with more potent
strength and impetuosity than in the
Queen City of the far west.
From 1890 TO 1900 the population in
creased 37,s34, while its nearby neigh
Dor, Tacoma, has added 1.7os to her
quota, and Spokane, third in popula-
zion, has added 16,926-the census Civ
ing Tacoma a total of 37,714, and Spo-
kane 36,s4s. Seattle's Increase for ten
years was bit more than the eouiva-
lent of Tacoma's entire population,
and Seattle's sO,671, census figures of
1900, more than equal the combined
population of the second and third
largest cities of the state-likewise
equivalent to one-sixth of the entire
population of the state.
Since the compiling OF the census it
is claimed that Seattle's population has
increased to more than 1oO,0 600. as in
dictated by other vital statistics. In
these two years the real estate trans
fers have increased from So 900, 900 to
S15,000,000 annually; the bank clear
ances from 100000, 900 to $144, 000, 900;
1he bank deposits from S12 ,O00, 900 to
S20,000,000; building operations from
sS1,500,00o TO $4,5O0,oo0. The post office
receipts for the past year increased
$4,000 over the preceding year. The
street car receipts for 1901 amounted
TO total of $500, 073-increasing from
S47,199 in January, to SIS, 013 in Decem-
Der.
Seattle's rapid advancement has
been by no means a matter of chance.
Nature gave her n most commanding
position on one of the grandest inland
harbors OF the world-that vast inland
sea, Puget sound, which includes an
Irregular expanse covering over 1000
square miles, has a shore line of 1000
miles las far as from Maine to Flor
ida), with an outlet to the broad Pa
cific, through the Straits of Juan de
Fuca, eight to twelve miles in width
and presenting to foreign or coastwise
commerce an ope door that no storm