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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

The late Sir John Stainer. one of
England's most celebrated musicians
and composers, was once staying in a
small Swiss village. and the English
clergyman was on the outlook for a
musician to assist at the service.
Stainer was in the Office of the hotel
when the clergyman found him and
started the conversation with do you
play the harmoniumT'
"a little" was the reply of the former
organst of st. Paurs cathedral.
'Will you, then, be good enough to
help us out of our difficulty on Sunday?
We will read the Psalms, and the
hymns shall be the simplest can Sc.
lect." added the delighted parson.
81 will do my best" said Stainer,
with smile.
The service proceeded satisfactorily.
but the congregation at the close lis
tened to a brilliant recital. When the
parson heard the name of his assistant,
he asked him to dinner. DO you
smoker? he asked at the close.
81 will do my best" responded Stain.
er, and the ensuing laughter was the
prologue of an entertaining exchange
of Oxford "reminiscences.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
|''JES' JIM %
By Anna Steese
Copyright, 1907, by A. S. Richardson.
By Anna Steese

That was what every one called him.
There was nothing striking about Jim.
He seemed to reach an embarrassing
medium in all things. from his family
circle, where he was fifth of nine chill
dren, to the village sports, where he
never distinguished himself
He was Dot tall for his age like Tim,
his oldest brother, who was already a
skilled apprentice to the blacksmith at
Bergen Mills, nor had he ever been
such jolly, moon faced brownie as
Billy, whom the city folks always
stopped to smile upon with such ex-
preSsions as Now isn't he the cutest
little chap" or Palmer Cox ought
really to see that boyr'
At school Jim never reached the head
of his class nor did he ever drop with
a sickening thud to its foot. AS his
teacher expressed it. he did his work
Just about three-quarters. When sud
den catastrophe forced his pIaymates
to accept him as substitute in the
baseball nine, he was the object of con-
slant attention at the hands of the cap
tain, and play as hard as he might that
''chesty" individual was necessarily
calling, play ball, Jimmy, play ballw
Even when the big bobsled went to
pieces on Beemer's hill, and half the
boys were taken to the hospital, jim
trudged home afoot, and his mother
exclaimed:
We'll, thank goodness, it was jes'
jim! If it'd been Tim or Fred. now,
he'd "a broken leg. knocked out his
teeth or had his back broke for life,
but jim
She paused eloquently. AS usual
Jim had struck the medium. Three
cuts on his face, a sprained finger and
an ugly bruis on one knee completed
his injuries, so physician was not
called, and the usual maternal rem
edieS We're administered with earnest
objurgations to refrain from "bobbing''
in the future.
But all these things happened when
Jim was young, very young, and be-
fore party of capitalists discovered
that the lake beyond Bergen Mills
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
southey ON Wordsworth.

OF Wordsworth, Southey writes in
1908, says Harold S. Scott in The At
lantic: HE has written a mastery
poem called The White Doe of Rilston
Hall; or, The Fate of the Nortons. The
poem is incomparably fine. 1t would
amuse you to hear how he talks of his
own production. His entire and intense
selfshness exceeds anything you could
have conceived. l am more amused at
1t than offended; not being sufficiently
attached to him to feel pain at perceiv-
ing his faults, and yet respecting him
far too much on the average Of his
qualities to be Disguised. 1t is SO pure
and unmixed passion in him that Ben
Jonson would have had him in a play
had he been his contemporary"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

would make charming summer re-
gorgeous carrousel, with superb lions
naughty ostriches and glitterng char
lots. Jim lost all interest in other
things, and every spare moment was
spent in watching the giddy whirls of
the merry go round and its patrons.
Then came the day of days, when the
youth who collected fares on the car
rousel announced that he was tired of
country life and was going back to the
city. Dismay was pictured on the face
of the proprietor of the carrousel, but
JOY filed the heart of Jim, who stood
by, watching the daily polishing of the
golden chariots. And. best OF all, 1t
was vacation season!
Drawing on supply of latent energy
which he did not dream he possessed.
Jim approached the proprietor.
Say. If you want boy. I'd like that
job. ! can rub up the animals and the
chariots. and collect the tickets, and
hold on the little ones that's afraid,
and
His list of accomplishments came to
an abrupt end. The man studied him
with shrewd but not unkindly eyes.
'Yes, I've noticed you hanging round
here pretty steady, and | guess you'll
do If your folks are willing and won't
pull you off to do jobs around home.
The uniform will fit you pretty well
too"
And so did Jim spring suddenly into
the very llmelight of Bergen Mills
publicity. Before the first week had
elapsed. he fitted into his nook as nat
urally as if he had been in the show
business all his life. He could lean
with easy nonchalance against the
rods of the carrousel as it whirled
round at mad pace. He had name
for every animal in the circle. And his
mother had cleaned the red and gold
uniform and polished the buttons till
they looked like new.
The dizzy existence he led might
have caused it. but, somehow, Jim com
menced to dream dreams and to see
visions. The chariots were ridden by
fairy princesses, dainty creatures in
white frocks. flower trimmed hats and
gay ribbons. who came with the sum-
mer visitors. And Jim was always the
knight who would some day rescue
them, when the ostrich should stretch
his long legs and spring from the plat
FORM, or the lion, stifrening his tufted
tail, should leap straight over the
heads Of the gaping spectators. Jim
would ly after them on his Arabian
charger
But when August came painting
down 1t was not a matter Of fairy
princesses, but just one princess who
rode a lion every afternoon, with
watchful maid seated in the chariot
behind her. Jim felt that their posi-
tons should be reversed. The colored
maid with gay turban and carrying
a spear should mount the lion, while
the princess, all in spangled white with
glittering wings should sit enthroned
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
Courtesy and Good Manners.

Good manners are the key to ad-
vancement in life. The tactful person
makes a study of the character of 9TH
ers and wards off unpleasant words,
avoids argument which is sure to lead
beyond the fields of pleasantness and
is polite and considerably courteous.
manners aim to facilitate life" writes
Emerson. "They aid our dealing and
our conversation. These forms very
soon become fixed, and fine sense of
proprety is cultivated with the more
heed that it becomes a badge of social
and civil distinction" He also writes
that beautiful behavior is ''the finest
of the fine arts" Society demands an
element which it significantly terms
good nature, expressing all degrees of
generosity, from the lowest willingness
and faculty to oblige up to the heights
of magnanimity aud love"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
.o.osososososzososoEOEos
KODAK MAGIC
,o1oxoAoAoAoA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
By David H. Talmadge.
Copyright, 1901, by !
Observation-Disclosures

In tbe first place, Mrs. Boxley strug-
g,ed with herself prayerfully for up
ward of a week. and finally, as frail
mortoIs usually do, crushed her better
Judgment and arose triumphant. In
+be second place-and this Is Sc
ouence-she took the money which she
had been boarding for the purpose OF
buving Christmas presents for her nus
hand and family and purchased with
r. a camera. Afterward she soothed
her conscience by the utterance or
vows internal.
She told herself seriously that she
would give none but Photographic gifts
to her friends. She would make
booklet for the girls-her intimate as
sociates before Mr.. BoXley had APP
peared with his little proposal. Some
of them were married now, as she
was; but others, poor things, were not,
and she conceived the idea of sending
to these unfortunates a collection of
pictures taken in her own modest
home, exhibiting Mr.. BoXley, in Slip
pers and smoking jacket; with the
baby, sans vehement, juggling a cake
of soap; the dining room, with her
cut glass and silver upon the board,
and the baby in his high chair shak-
ing q spoon at his smiling father; the
kitchen, with its glistening range, and
the baby sitting up beside it warming
his tiny feet, and her own bedchamber
"a dream in whte-with the baby
kicking and growing upon the bed. If
these offerings caused the recipients to
turn green with envy, so much the bet
ter Most of them had expressed senti-
ments derogatory to marriage, as I'M
married women without prospects
often do.
AS for the married ones, she would
photograph their several dwellings
secretly and label the collection "Auld
Lang Syne" in gold ink. And to the
relatives she would send dainty like
nesses of the baby, writing upon each
likeness the words, "With love from
Robert Greenng BoXley, age fourteen
months, weight twenty-five and half
pounds"
These things, say, she purposed do
ing; but none of them did she do pre-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

".
cisely as she purposed. The truth Is
4 that Mrs. Boxley was possessed of the
artistic SenSe-a remarkable quality
born with people and discovered sooner
or later by chance.
Possessing the artistic sense, she
could not have been expected to map
out plan and follow it rigidly. Mrs.
Boxley made pictures with her camera
which attracted glimpses
here and there into picturesque cor
ners of the town, artistic little dabs at
inartistic dwellings, happy groupings
of unsuspecting people, beautiful pre-
sentiments of single objects-like the
\ old elm on the Colby lawn that had
been snubbed for fifty years before. 1t
was not altogether intentional on her
part to produce artistic effects; she
simply saw things from the artistic
point OF view; there was no special
strain upon her eyes,
Thus it came to pass that her friends
bent, most of them, on the object of
getting something at price far below
the market-lavished praise upon her
and limited with mealy mouths at the
qualification they would experience
were she to run over some day and
4 just take a snap at their houses or
their babies or this, that and the other;
B which hints she understood perfectly
and proceeded to turn to practical ac-
v count. She gathered from the CAB
& bling OF these friends that what each
Y of them most desired was photograph
to send to some one at Christmas time;
& a photograph, or a collection of pho
4 tographs if the price were not too high.
n which would give Maud or Minnie or
Marion an idea of the lovely village In
n which they lived.
Then it was that Mrs. Boxley, per-
& ceiving the demand, set herself to work
s upon the task Of supplying it. Her
idea was to cater to all the hints at
one fell swoop. And the result was
4 the famous blue Book" a collection
or twenty photographs in blue print,
n mounted upon excellent paper, bound
In Fancy blue covers and tied with blue
satin ribbon. These books she sold.
.~SsS4AJ oOih' at P1.&O lOT each CODY.
h The call for them was such that she
was unable to prepare gifts for her
own absent friends. She worked like
toy steam engine (Mr. Boxley's some
what satirical simile) to the very day
before Christmas. and then she cast up
accounts.
She had hoped, even In her most
eanguine moments, to make no more
Than $25 from the venture-the price
she had paid SO guiltily for her camera.
But the figures showed-and she gasp
Cd bit when the columns were added
that precisely sixty-nine books had
been disposed of and that she had sud-
denly become possessed of the stu
pendous sum of $S2.25, Of which $40
was profit. Her conscience passed at
fthat moment into the calmest and most
ueiightful slumber. She kissed the
Daby rapturously, and, Mr.. Boxley ar
irving home at that instant, she kissed
MIN also and scattered tears of joy
adown his shirt front.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
The Horse md the stnge

Once upon a time in Il melodramatic
theatrical performance the leading man
took fiery. untamed steed on the
stage. After the horse heard some Of
the lines delivered by several of the
actors he began kicking the flats and
wings to pieces, sending them up
among the flies.
"Help, helpw cried the leading man.
NAY, nay" answered the manager.
"The horse shows great discernment.
He is trying to elevate the stage"
Moral-We should not scorn the
most humble effort in a good cause
New York Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
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BAD POETRY
IN A..
GOOD CAUSE
By G. Nj. Stevans


Big Foot Drury was admitted to be
the most ungainly as well as the most
accomplished man hunter that ever
brought criminals into Fort Smith. He
was continuous vaudeville long be-
fore that variety mine had ever been
thought of by the theatrical managers.
EnVious deputy marshals claimed
that the renegades We're simply over
come by the power of his elocution. In
any event his prisoners accounted for
their capture in so many instances as
a result of his elocutionary overpersua-
sion that it became a generally accept
ed fact that Drury's mouth was of
more advantage to the court than his
guns.
In the spring of 1877 he was sent
down into the territory on a search for
Jim Powell, wanted in Cincinnati. I'm
able to find any trace of his man, he
decided to report at Topeka. A hot
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
The Grumpy Bachelor.

A wealthy gentleman who owns a
country seat on one occasion nearly
lost his wife. who fell into a river
which flows through his estate. He an
nounced the narrow escape to his
friends. expecting their congratula-
tons.
One of them-an old bachelor-wrote
as follows: 81 always told you that riv-
er was too shallowv'-Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

The little girl who was visiting at a
neighbours house had gone out to look
at the horses.
Here's one of them" she said, that
has watery eyes and coughs and hangs
his head just the way papa's horse did
last summer"
what did your papa do for his
horse?" asked the owner of the ami
mails.
"He sold him." was the innocent an
swer.-Pearson' Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
The Bridal Veil.

The wearing of the bridal veil was
an old Anglo-Saxon custom, the veil be-
ing held over both bride and groom.
The wearing of white is likewise an
old custom and one that prevails in
many countries, even including far
Japan. Neither is there anything Of
modern origin in use of wedding
favors and wedding cake or having
bridesmaids. all these customs having
the sanction of long usage.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

1t is said that ut certain seasons in
Scotland when the fishing is not very
brisk the fishermen act as caddies and
are easily recognized by their costume.
wooden Jersey and trousers braced up
TO the armpits, One of these was asked
his name by the gentleman for whom
he was carrying. and the reply was,
"Wccl. sir, hereabouts they maistly ca
me Breeks, but ma maiden name is
Broom"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

Eyes, l proposed to her by letter."
"And what was her reply?"
"She simply referred me to certain
chapter and page in The Life of Lord
Nelson"
"And what did you find?"
ut says, After fruitlessly applying
for command of the ship by letter, he
went in person to see about it, and
then he secured it.'"-London Tele-
graph.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

Kowter-Well, there's no doubt Of 1t,
Experience is great teacher"
Windom-Perhaps but by the time
experience comes to us we're too old to
learn the things we thought we knew
in our youth. Exchange.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
Flat Economy.

Customer-You advertise carpet rem
nants, l see. | want two, one to cover
the parlor and the other for the sitting
room.
Salesman-But, madam, carpet as
large as that would not be remnant
Customer-Oh, yes, it would. live in
a fiat.-New York Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
observation-disclosures Llfe.


Most of the Russian peasants pass
great deal of their lives in workshops,
where they work. eat and sleep. the
same room sheltering a number and
probably pig in the bargain. There
are few beds. Instead, all around the
four walls of the room is fixed what
may be literally described rs a bench.
1t is made of wood, and at this WORKS
the peasant by day. and on 1t he sleeps
by night. each man mt his own spot.
The conditions of the Russian work.
shop or factory and the Russian prison
and military barracks. so far as in
terror arrangements are concerned. are
akin. Chairs there will also be and
table, rudely fashioned, as a rule. by
the men MISUNDERSTANDING Re
view
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

Quiet and warmth are the medicines
Of the four footed philosopher. If a
dog is ailing, he rolls himself into a
ball in warm corner and eats little or
nothing till he is well. Many times rest
is the only medicine needed by the sick.
but we seldom follow this example.
The biped loses the instinct of the ami
NAL. He fumes. frets, takes stimulants
and indictments and gives no chance
to the recuperative forces of nature
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
Not Inforncd.

Dennis-Did yez cit my letther?
Patrick Faith. Oi did not, Phuy did
yez not write me that yez had writ it,
Ohio State journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
Luck.

No. 1--How did Dick get run Overt
No. Pile was picking up a horse
shoe for luck.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
His ThoughtIer.ness.

He-Ah, those days OF our young
love! You remember that afternoon
you promised to meet me and didn't
come? How l ravedl
She-Just like mani And there was
I. suffering agonies, trying on that
dress you liked so much.-Life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

May wonder why Reggie never
married.
Jackie had love affair when
quite young and has never got over it.
May Who was the object of his at
fectons?
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31

Additional trains leave Baltimore for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations ut IL. u a. m
and 2.25 and 9 10 p. m, and leave Union Bridge
for Baltimore and Intermediate Stations at
% ana 6.25 a. m, and 1850 p. m. daily, except
Sunday.
Sundays only-leave Baltimore for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations at 935 n. m.
and LBS p m. Leave Union Bridge at g. Is "a. IN
and 4 05 p. IN. for Baltimore and Intermediate
Stations.
BALTIMORE & CUMBERLAND VAIMfsY
RAILROAD.
Leave Hagerstown for Shippensburg and
intermediate Stations at II % n. m and 90
Shippensburg for Hagerstown and intermed-
late Stations Mt GOO a. m. and 800 p. IN. Leave
Ihambersburg As p. m.
TRAINS VIA ALTENWALD CUTOFF.
Leave Hagerstown for Chambersburg and
intermediate Stations Mt $40 p. m.
Leave Chambersburg for Hagerstown and
intermediate Stations at 7,49 p. m.
Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg at 20
and 1929 a. IN. and 3.3l and 63 p m. Leave
Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at $50 and 100U
a. IN. and $50 and 400 p. M
Leave Brucevile for Frederick at S.3S, 935
and 1910 n. M and 8 32, and $50 p. IN.
cave Bruceville for Columbia, Littlestown
ana 1aneyuown aJ y41 Il. nj. ana 3.I5 p. m
Leave Frederick for Baltimore at 1850 II. IN.
and 300 and $50 m.
/ CONNECTIONS AT CHERRY RUN, w. VA.
and o. passengers trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate points
daily Mt 855 a. m. Chicago Express, daily,
at 100 p. m. Chicago Express daily, at lC 80
| p. IN.
*Daily. All Others daily except Sunday
j. NJ. HOOD, b. H.GRISWoLD,
Pres. and Gen'l Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt
Bisbee daily review., 1902-10-24
PERSONAL MENTION

Editor Nash s expected home today.
 Con Sullivan took in the city yester- day
 Mickey weich is up from the Cana meas.
 Joe Muhaim is of for a little trip to Tucson
 Lem Shattuck went to Tucson yes ter6ay on business
 Dick Brown, the popular candidate. is taking quiet lay of.
 Architect Olmstead went to Douglas wth the big gang yesterday.
 Musician Smith. accompanied the big push to Douglas yesterday.
 William Liggett, the veteran stage man, was in Bisbee yesterday. The only O'Brien chaperoned part of the procession to Douglas yesterday
 Mr Jones, the real estate man. came in on the Benson train yesterday.
 MT. Wynkoop. head electrician al Cananea. is in Bisbee for a few days
 Fireman Nelson. of the Noxales pupmkin line. was in from Tucson on a visit.
 T. E. Dalton, representing the Equit able ufe Insurance company, Is ir Bisbee for . few days. Mir. Dalton has recently been appointed as mana ger of Arizona business for this com psny-
Bisbee daily review., 1902-10-24

Al St-icklin came in from Douglas yesterday with three unregenerate citi zers.
 Jeff Felnell is in from Missouri Jeff is well known to all of the Bisbee boys.
 Mir. Sullivan, old time Phoenician. but lately from Nome, Alaska. is visit Bisbee.
 MT. Peacott. of the De,monico res taurart, tock a flying trip to Naco yes terday.
 Judge Neil made a "trip in the di- recion of Tucson yesterday morning on important business.
 General Superintendent Of the Fl Paso and Southwestern. is guest at the Copper Queen hotel
 Borther Stillman and Mr O'BEen, of Douglas. passed through Bisbee yester- day on their way home
 c. F. Nichols is reportd to have re- signed his position with the E. P & $. W. railroad company
 Hilary Hall from Kentucky. was talk ing the camp in few days this week He went from here to Canarsa-
 Garner Curran. of the Southwest Printers Supply, of Los Angeles, was in town yesterday going from here to Douglas. MT. Anderson, the wall paper man from the little town Of Chicago. is in Bisbee. just spreading it on-Spreading wall paper, you see