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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
HIS Main Duty.

Employer Ito new Office boy)-Has
the cashier told you what you are to
do this afternoon? Office Boy-Yes,
sir. I'm to wake him when see you
coniing.-Scraps.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
A HOG HANGER.

Designed to Accommodate Any Num-
ber of Animals From One TO Four.
have seen several illustrations of
hog hangers in the Farmer, but only
for a single animal l send a sketch
of a plan for hanging any number
from one to four, says an Ohio Farmer
correspondent. Set up post 6 by 6
inches. Nos. and in the cut repre-
sent a swinging device at the top of
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24

A watch taken to the top Of Mont
Blanc will gain thirty-six seconds in
twenty-four hours.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
GARDENING NOTIONS.
MIR. Greiner Talks About Handling
Onion ChafT and Winter Onions.


Some time ago one of the large onion
seed growers in California asked me
how best to utilize lot of onion chaff
that seemed too rich to use for ordinary
crops where irrigation is not practiced
in 4 shortage of rainfall on account of
danger from burning. I'VE now have
a pile he says. which we are reduc-
ing with lime and water containing
over 1.200 cubic yards" AS the in
quirer also had big lot of stable and
poultry manure the problem seemed to
me of easy solution. Whenever a gar
dener has 4 lot of miscellaneous bulky
materials. whether it be onion chaff
or any other chaff and weeds and all
sorts of rubbish, everything of this
description can 80 on the compost heap.
The bottom may be formed of the
coarSeSt of the stable manure. then the
rest may be added in alternate layers.
If too dry, water or liquid dipped up
from the barnyard may be added until
the whole heap is uniformly damp. but
not wet. for we desire to have the pile
get warm by fermentation. 1t may be
forked over several times so that all
these various materials will become
thoroughly mixed and finally become
well rotted and of even texture and
quality. Then this compost is good
for any crop to which one may wish
to apply it. 1t is safe and usually very
effective.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
RHODE ISLAND ROTATIONS.

4 Five Year and Il six Year Rotation
With Special Reference TO Grass.
The three year rotation at the Rhode
Island experiment station embraces
Flower. potatoes and winter rye and is
carried on solely with the aid of chem
zeal manureS. 1t has been found that
this rotation is very satisfactory if the
seasons are favorable but if severe
drought occurs during the year when
the rye is grown the young clover
plants are in danger of being entirely
destroyed. If a severe drought occurs
during the latter part of May or in
June of the next succeeding year in
the rotation. then the clover, which is
the crop of that year, is likely to be
seriously affected, and the yield may
be so greatly reduced even though the
conditions of the previous year We're
favorable. that it may not prove profit
able. Grass is not likely to be destroy
ed by drought, particularly if top dress
ed early in the spring with suitable
chemicals. while there is still abundant
moisture in the soil; hence a good
crop can usually be obtained even in
dry seasons In view of these facts it
has seemed wise TO SOW grass seed
with the winter rye. so that the land in
the year succeeding the rye crop will
be occupied by clover and grass instead
of being devoted solely to clover. If
the clover fails, crop of grass may
then be secured.
Six Year RotatNpn.
The six year rotation is as follows:
Indian corn. potatoes, winter rye, clo-
Yer and grass. grass. grass. The
chances of growing corn and potatoes
at profit at the end of the first course
of the rotation are infinitely greater
than at the beginning Of the course.
During the first three years of the ro-
tation the crops of grass ranged in
many instances from one ton to two
and half tons per acre, and only in
exceptional cases were larger yields
obtained. From other results in connec-
ton with grass culture it was ascer-
tanned that in all probability too small
amounts of manure were used in top
dressing the grass. and the amounts
were therefore increased in the year
1901. Since then the average yields of
field cured hay from the plats in these
rotations have been approximately four
and one-fourth tons per annum. In
some instances the individual yields
have been about five tons.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
Nerve Fag.
IF You Waste Your
Nerve Energy, After
Awhile You Will
Suffer For 1t,

You can waste nerve force by excess,
over-work, worry, anxiety, etc.
You can weaken yourself by not eating
proper food or securing sufficient rest to
renew the nerve energy you use up.
The proper treatment, in addition to
good phosphate food, such as whole
meal bread, prepared cereals, etc., Is
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine.
This is as truly a brain and nerve
food as any food you could eat, and be-
sides. furnishes strength and tone of its
own, which goes to the weakened nerve
system, and sets it to rights.
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine is a re-
freshing, revitalizing tonic food-medicine
for the brain and nerves. 1t reconstructs
WORKOUT nerve tissue, and fills your
languid brain with new life and vigor.
DR.. Miles Nervine has made so many
marvellous cures, Of people so sick the
doctors thought they were incurable,
that it is today the standard medicine
in many thousands of American homes.
The first bottle is guaranteed to help
you, or druggist returns your money.
1.-THE extreme heat, close confinement
and intense mental strain incident to
the banking business, has caused me
MIA. 1t gives me pleasure to say that
I have used DR.. Miles Nervine with
very satisfactory results in the treat
ment Of these affections 1 am now on
my fifth bottle, and eat and sleep well,
in fact have almost forgotten that /
possess nerves."-R. L. DALEY, Asst
Cashier State Bank, Texarcana, Ark.
EpEE. Write to us for Free Trial
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Pain Pills, the New Scientific Remedy
Specialist will diagnose your case. tell
you what is wrong, and how to right it,
Free. DIR. MILES MEDICAL CO.,
LABORATORIES. ELKHART, IND.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
CHINA, GLAssW ARE
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS
always on hand. A splendid assortment
of China of all grades
Dinner Sets, Tea
Sets, Toilet Sets.

If you are about to commence house
keeping or desire to refurnish your kit
chen, diningroom or bedrooms, call to
SEE ne and 1 will show you ahousetul Of
goods from the best factories in the world.
Beautiful Decorated Salad Dishes,
Cake Plates, Chocolate Pots, SC
&c, suitable for wedding presents.
All grades Table Cutlery, Knives,
Forks and Spoons, &c.
F.. Il. SAPPINGTON,
Jan. Sit OF. u North Market Stree
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
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M0GW~

We can save YOU as much
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Get your friends to help you.
Any Magazine or News.
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Read over The following
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
Winter Bunch Onions.

From the appearance of my patches
of White Portugal and other onions.
seed of which was sown in open ground
last summer and early fall, conclude
that many of the plants from seed
sown Aug. will go to seed early next
season. Those from seed sown in the
latter part of August are not quite so
large as l would wish. Perhaps they
will winter all right and in that case
will make bunch onions a trifie later,
but give me a smaller proportion Of
boiling plants. Still do use even the
latter, pulling up the plants for bunch
ing just as soon as the seed stalk
shows. The question of seed is still
puzzling one to me. Either the seed,
then going into its second year. had
already lost much of its vitality or the
season is less favorable for germina-
ton. In short, it seems a hard task
to secure as full stand as desire to
have, even when sowing seed very
thickly, over twenty pounds to the
Rcre.-T. Greiner in Farm and Fireside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

We are willing to enter into a con-
tract with a party DESTROYS of perform
ing the culinary duties of our little
household. We will pay more than any
body else in town, will give every af-
ternoon off and no cooking on Sundays.
The good wife will wait if there is a
rush at the table; now We don't mean
rush of grub, but a rush for a location.
We are trying to mortgage this plant
II we succeed we will purchase an auto,
If we can raise enough to pay the first
payment and freight, of course. This
vehicle is at the pleasure of the H. G., .
and her friends. All we ask is notice
each morning, when we are preparing
our coffee and sinkers, which we would,
of course, expect to do, if we got any,
thing that day. Now if this is not
enough inducement, then stay where
you are and starve to death, and see if
we care. For further particulars, write
this office and a stamp will be returned.
Echo. Ore, News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
RAILROAD NOTES.

General Manager j. E. Hurley of
the Santa Fe returned from Chicago
yesterday.
Santa Fe at Topeka, was out on the
Alma branch on an inspection trip
yesterday.
George L. Bennett, foreman of the
Santa Fe machine shop, has. returned
He left Immediately for Denver where
he will stay for another week.
Carpenters have been at work at the
Santa Fe offices fixing the window cas-
ings SO that the cold air can't come in
around the windows. The work is be-
ing done, not to prevent the cold air
from coming in now which the clerks
would highly appreciate but to keep it
out next winter.
Tom King, passenger agent at the
Santa Fe depot, reports that the num-
Der of people going west to Colorado
and California points is very satisfac-
tory.
General superintendent F. C. Fox is
expected to return to Topeka today
from an inspection trip
The Missouri Pacific railway and
the Iron Mountain route have just is
sued handbook of picturesque scenes
and industrial views along their line.
The book is one of unusual beauty and
the cuts are large and clearly defined.
Work is in progress on the extern
sion of the Rock Island from Coalga te
to Lehigh, I. T., $50 miles, and on the
cutoff from Brighton to Perlee, Ia,
1884 miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Freight Rates in America Are
Much Lower.
Passenger Rates Are Also
Better Than Abroad.
PAY BETTER WAGES.
In Other Ways the American
Roads Excel the European.
Gossip and Matters OF Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Chicago, July 29.-The best statistics
on English roads show freight rate on
minerals Of 1.93 cents per ton mile, on
merchandise and live stock of 2.94 cents,
on all commodities of 2.32 cents On
American roads the average on the
same classes of freight is 0.5S per ton
mile. On German roads it is LAP cents.
on French roads 1.55 cents, on Austrian
roads Liz cents, on Hungarian roads
1.S0 cents.
In 1908 the average passenger rate on
American roads was 2.01 cents per mile;
this was an increase, due, it is claimed,
to the transfer of the cheaper passenger
rates to the interurban electric roads,
and not to an actual advance in pas
senger rates on the steam roads. The
foreign passenger rates on the same
classes We're. in England 4 cents. in
Germany 8 As cents. Taking the miles
that laborer can travel on an aver
age days wage, the American laborer
for days pay can travel IS miles, the
British 35 miles, the German So miles,
the French, 40 miles, the Belgian SO
miles, the Italian 38 miles, the Russian
80 miles, the East Indian q miles.
On American roads the pay of loco
motive engineers averages "a per day
English $1.62. Belgian $101. American
fremen get $2.28 per day, British 81
cents, Belgian q cents. During the last
four years American roads have paid
for new locomotives, cars and equip
ments, $s74000, 900. The capitalization
of 1885, miles of American railroad
track and equipment, depot buildings.
ETC., is $12,794, sos, 023. The capitalization
in 1903 was $751; 1863 per mile. The same
year it was on English roads $277, 474
per mile, on German roads S104,725, on
French roads $143,653, on Russian $751;
O95, on Austrian $110,475, on Belgian
1851 1898. At the same time labor en-
ployed in the construction of American
roads is paid from two to four times as
much as on foreign roads, Comparing
the division of gross earnings on Amer
lean roads between labor and capital
40 per cent goes to labor and % per
cent to capital In England labor gets
q per cent and capital So per cent. In
Germany the division is equal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

MULE He stopped me short in my
mad career and has kept me off the
thin ice many a time since. 1 have
even had the sense to decline the hon
or when asked to make speech be-
fore a ward caucus.
My son, it looks as easy as falling OF
a log to start in at twenty and be the
biggest toad in the puddle at thirty;
but that's where you get deceived You
will get to know all about how to set a
bear trap, tune up fiddle and sharpen
the family butcher knife on the stove
pipe. You will be able to tell the folks
around you something about Peter the
Great and how Washington crossed
the Delaware. and you will take the
first prize at a country spelling school.
You may possibly be able to tell the
difference between a cat and rabbit
track in the snow, and you can see and
discourse on the mistakes of Caesar,
and, taken all in all, you are a para
gon. Then along comes the tin peddler
or the lightning rod man with his three
card monte, and you lose seventeen
dollars where you thought you was
sure of a hundred, and go to the foot
of the class.
The great mistake most young men
make is in thinking that conceit is self
confidence, and that cheek is ambition.
They generally have to fall off the roof
of the barn into a patch of nettles, or
be lifted over the fence on the horns
of a bull before he can detect the diff
ference.
Be ambitious, my son; but don't get
things mixed up. 1t is better to start
in at the foot of the class and work
up. You can't be a. Roosevelt all at
once nor can you bring about great
public change in this or that within a
month. You can. however, show the
world what you are made of by getting
up some morning and taking the track
of a rabbit in the fresh snow and rum
ming him down. 1t may take you all
winter, but it's a good thing to prac-
tice on.
The self reliant man is sure of sue
cess but there is a heap of difference
between self reliance and cheek. The
young man who mixes them up gets
credit for neither. He is simply rated
as an ass.
There was a time in the history of
the world when a man could become
great by writing poetry or painting
pictures or bringing forth new facts
in science. If that state of affairs still
existed 1 should advise you to try one
of these lines, but the past fifty years
have changed things about. Our poets,
painters and scientists have mortgaged
their household furniture to keep out
of the poorhouse, and the man with a
new brand of chewing gum has bought
out their manor houses and is riding
in their carriages.
The thing today, my son, is to get
rich as fast as possible. The popular
lQed Is lIldl "1iSA yOu nay So a mn
lion dollars together old Plato or
Cicero aren't in it with you. There are
several ways of getting rich. If you
and two or three other fellows can
corner all the pieplant in the country
the rest of us will have to come to
your terms. All you have to do is to
form a trust and begin squeezing the
people No matter what you invest in
YOU can rob the people with impunity.
You can laugh at the newspapers, sniff
at the people and turn your back to
the law in contempt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
WORK ON SANTA FE CUTOFF.
Conditions in the Panhandle Never
Better Than at Present.

Fort Worth, Tex, July pa. l..
Conrad, traffic manager of the Pecos
Valley lines of the Santa Fe railroad
headquarters at Amarillo, is in the
city.
Work is progressing on the cut
off between Texico and Belen, a dis
lance of ESQ miles, and when COM
pleted will give the Santa Fe a short
line from this state to the Pacific
coast said Mr.. Conrad. ut will con-
meet up the different lines of the COM
pany and make low grade line which
does not exceed six-tenths of one per
cent. Some 81 miles of track have
been laid on the Belen end of the cut
off, which is under contract to be COM
pleted by July 1 of next year.
Conditions in the Panhandle" con-
tinued Mr.. Conrad, never were finer
than now. Cattle are doing well, and
it is the opinion of shippers that there
will be more cattle sent out of the
Panhandle this fall than in years be-
fore, provided prices go up before the
shipping period arrives"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
BLACKBERRIEs PLENTIFUL.
Carload After Carload Being shipped
From Near AtchisOn.

Will Stephenson, who has worked
for Mangelsdorf Bros company for
some years, is at present engaged in
buying and shipping blackberries. The
crop this season is unusually fine.
Stephenson at present has fifty people
picking berries for him near Rushville.
In one patch near Rushyille he has Sc
cured IT'S crates, and only half the
crop has been picked. He is shipping
the berries by the carload. Steph en-
son is at present buying blackberries
Rushville. Hainline has seven acres
of blackberries, from which he will
realize a thousand dollars clear profit.
Not enough attention is paid to
blackberry growing in this vicinity.
The crop is sure thing. Blackberries
begin to bear the second year, and
they can be grown on steep inclineS.
high hill can be covered with them
and the ground be made to pay better
than level land Sowed to wheat or
corn. Of course it takes experience
and work to make the crop a success,
but some claim the crop represents
less labor than growing corn or wheat.
Near Wathena there are 500 acres
of land in blackberrieS, and they are
being shipped out OF the town by the
carload. Twenty-four thousand crates
of blackberries were shipped out of
Wathena Sunday. Black and red rasp-
berries are said to be not quite so
profitable as blackberries. The buyers
are paying $1.25 a crate for blackber-
ries. Will Stephenson says five or six
hundred acres of blackberries could
be grown along the hills near Atchison,
and the entire crop shipped out of
here-AtchiSOn Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22
CAREERAT AN END
Ona Crane Is Landed in Jail at
Independence.
Obtained Money by Fraud in
Various Towns.
OFFICERS LONG CHASE
Was Hiding in the Cemetery
When Captured.
Merchant Had the Warrant Is
sued for Her Arrest.
OFFICERS LONG CHASE

independence. Kan, July 22.-Ona
Crane, the shoplifter, is in Jail here.
The young woman has been up to her
old tricks, it is charged, and she stands
a pretty fair chance of spending the
heated term in a Kansas Jail cell
In the person of Under Sheriff Pax
son she met an officer who failed to re-
spond to her Establishments. and Ona
is locked up in the Montgomery county
bastile.
On last Sunday Ona came to indie
pendence under the name of Mrs. Bren-
non. She Immediately called on the
family of Patrolman kirkpatrick, whom
she had known in Cowley county in the
days before she started on her career
of robbery. These people had no sus-
picion of her recent escapades or knew
that she had been banished from Kan
sas City. They received her with open
arms. She had been at the house but
a day when pocketbook containing SO
disappeared. She visited the downtown
stores in company with Miss Kirkpat-
rick, and on the strength of the intro
duction thus obtained she succeeded in
obtaining goods on approval from sew
eral merchants. The goods met with
her approval all right and she has them
yet, while the merchants have the ex-
perience.
T. 3. Coven. a leading dry goods
man, swore out a warrant for her ar
rest on the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. After an excit-
ing chase lasting all day the officers
captured her in the cemetery. She was
taken before Justice Glass, who re-
manded her to jail. She tried to bluff
1t out at first and then used her arts
of persuasion, but to no avail.
1t developed at the Jail last night that
the sheriff's office has been looking for
her for some time, for the Chanute Of
ficers and they were notified that she
was in custody. She will undoubtedly be
taken back there to stand trial. 1t was
also learned that on the way to indie
pendence she made the acquaintance of
Miss Anna Truttman, a StenOgrapher
from Clay Center, on her way to take
a position in one of the local banks.
The two women went to the same hotel
and were assigned to the same room.
Shortly afterward, Miss Truttman miss
ed IS from her pocketbook and when
she mentioned the matter to her friend,
Mrs. Brennon," the latter became high
ly indignant and soon after left.
The woman does not deny her identi-
ty She gave the jailer strict orders to
permit no newspaper men to see her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-22

What 1 was going to advise was a
little different course. That IS, do your
robbing and plundering in a more hon
est manner. There are hundreds of
banks in this country waiting to be
robbed. Three or four smart fellows
can always find a way to their vaults.
Find it and clean the place out. Be
open and above-board about it Even
if you have to kill the Waterman to
get your hands on the dough the pub
lie will respect you more than if you
made it through trust. II caught
you may have to go to states prison,
but while serving your sentence you
will have the consolation of a clear
conscience in comparison.
Another way to get rich is to go into
politics. Don't go into politics to be
satisfied with an a1dermanship. The
stealingS are very fair, and you are al
ways served at the bar of a saloon
first but there is no wisdom in being
small bad man when you can become
big bad man. Gas companies, rail-
roads and other corporations are wait
ing for you to reach the legislature and
congress. They have money to buy
you. You can earn it by selling the
right title and interest of your conStitu-
ents and helping to defeat law and JUS
tice all over the land.
Don't be a small bad man in politics,
my son. Either get to the top, where
the people can fasten a tag on you as
a big bad man, or cut the thing alto
gether and bring out a new kidney cure
or new brand of vinegar. As big
bad man you are known to have taken
your price, and any speeches you may
make or any interviews you may give
out will be taken for what they are
worth So will you. You will have
power and influence, and a certain set
will fawn and flatter, but down in your
heart you will realize how the honest
yeomanry feel toward you. The major
ity of the people today do not believe
that there is such a thing among us
as an honest politician. They won't be-
lieve in your honesty if you become
one, but if you let it be broadly known
that you are not in the business for
your health you will be spoken of and
respected as dishonest official We
do certainly like an honest man, but it
is Just as certain that we also admire
a rascal who is honest enough to tell
us to look out for our purses when he
is around
One thing more, my son. When you
have acquired great wealth in the prac-
tice being followed today, buy you a
plot of ground in some cemetery and
spend a hundred thousand plunks in
marble shafts and sorrowing angels and
goldern epitaphs. Rest assured that
your heirs won't do it after your death,
nor will the squeezed public ever dis
cover what a philanthropist you were
in life unless reading the statement cut
with chisel.-(Copyright, 1905, by R. B.
McClure.)