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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17

Of art collections 10 The practical pur-
poses Of @ rc2tion and TO the elevation
of the popular taste 1t is anticipated
that under his administration the use.
fumes Of the Metropolitan museum
VII lie widely extended and greater
encouragement given to the talents of
American artists. The late General di
Cesnola, whom Sir Purdon succeeds as
director Of the Metropolitan, was a
great arclaeologiSt, but it was always
considered that he was somewhat pref
udiced against the work Of native
American artists and that in conse-
quence it did not receive sufficient rep
resentation in the collections of the
museum.
Though he has been honored with
knighthood and is on terms of friend
ship with the British monarch Sir Pur-
don is not the kind of man TO stand
on his dignity Not long before his
election to the directorate of the Met
ropolitan friends found him working in
his shirt sleeves along with some la
borers in the South Kensington muse
um, of which he was then art director
There's no sense in putting on airs
with workmen," he said to one who eX-
pressed surprise that he should thus
sacrifice his dignity.
Sir Purdon is fifty-eight years of age
and was educated for the profession
of architect at the South Kensington
museum In 1865 he gained there the
national medallion for set of designs
for an old English house, and from
that time his connection with the mu-
scum in one capacity or another was
almost continuous up to the present
year. He became art director in 1896
and retained the post until he was cho.
sen director of the Metropolitan mu-
scum a short time ago.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17

Colonel L. ii. H. Massey tells of THE
battle which he witnessed in the course
of his explorations in Asiatic Turkey.
The cause Of the fight was an attempt
ed theft of sheep. He says: Some
fiocks We're being driven off across the
Sipkanli Kurds border when the usual
alarm signals, shots fred and smoke
fires kindled at all the villages around,
brought clouds of horsemen galloping
wildly across in that direction. This
did not look very reassuring in the mid
die of so wild a country, where hui
man life is never worth that of a good
sheep, but we soon perceived, by the
yelling Kurds with grinning faces who
dashed past us, that to us no harm was
intended.
I'VE reached the village not far from
which the battle was raging to find the
fiat roofs occupied by all the women.
Quite regardless of stray bullets they
followed the fluctuating fortunes of
their side amid the din of their own
shrill tongues, which almost drowned
the laundering reports of the Kurdish
powder, anything but noiseless or
smokeless.
1T was soon over. The flocls were
triumphantly brought back, together
with the bodies of a few dead Kurds
and some Others wounded. We passed
on amid the waillng of the women juss
widowed in aTAt for few sheep"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
ANIMAL ANIMUS.
Ways In Which wild Brutes Show
Their Contempt For Mankind.

Ways In Which wild Brutes Show
Their Contempt For Mankind.
wild animals have a great many
ways of showing their contempt for
humankind" said an artist who has
made a speciality of modelling animals.
Every one has an idea that eie-
plants become tame and even fond Of
people, but this is altogether wrong
They are easily trained, but are never
tanned. They are docile just so long as
the keeper has his goad in his hand or
the memory of burning endures. |
had proof of this one day while model
ing one of the elephants in big ami
NAL show. | was sitting in his stall,
with my modelling stand, not knowing
that ON certain days he was given an
extra allowance OF chain. Suddenly he
flung his trunk around with such force
that it smashed the stand to bits and
sent me dozen feet outside the stall.
''He never forgot his failure to finish
me, and soon afterward he expressed
his dislike in a more vulgar if less dan
gerous manner As | worked | heard
him make a loud sucking noise, but
suspected nothing At last when he
had his mouth quite full of saliva he
blew it toward me.
"This is not only trick of elephants,
but of other animals as well, as have
learned to my sorrow. Camels have
the same habit, and while working
near camel one day | was treated to
a shower of finely chewed cud."
This sculptor and other artists agree
that the cat animals have a different
mode of attack. There seems less Of
spite and more of real hate in their
method. Sculptors usually place their
modelling stands as close to the bars as
possible. This same one was once
working close to tigers cage, with
the beast inside lying very quiet, APP
parently asleep. Without even raising
his eyeballs the big cat struck be-
tween the bars with his heavy forepaw,
splintering the stand and sending the
CLAW in wads on the floor. The artist,
warned by sixth sense developed by
those who are much about animals,
had jumped back just in time to es-
cape.-New York Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17

%A"f~N-N
went toward his expenses in making
experiments In Withholding for time
the secret of his antitoxin for diph-
iberia he was able to make money to
apply in the same way. 1t is also urged
in explanation of his course that he de-
sires to keep the use of the cure under
his own observation for time in order
that confidence in its value may not be
impaired by premature general use.
Representatives of the professor in
America say that the new cure, will be
ready for the general public by next
August; that it will then be cheap, so
that any physician can obtain it, and
that special rates will be made to
philanthropic institutions and to the
poor wealthy citizen of New York
has offered Professor yOn Behring $780,
600 if he will announce the secret of his
cure at once. He suggests that this be
made a part of fund to be contribut-
ed to the Paris physician, and the only
qualification to the offer Is that the
treatment must first be pronounced
successful by committee of competent
medical men There is talk is Paris of
making up popular subscription to re
imburse the professor if he will make
his cure public, and it is said If the
remedy is a success he will come into
possession Of an income of 10000
francs from the PriX Lacave reserved
by the French academy for the con-
queror OF tuberculosis and will also get
10000 francs set apart for the same
purpose by wealthy Brazilian.
Professor Won Behring was born in
1854 Mt Hansdorf, Prussia; studied
medicine in Berlin and in 1880 became
an army surgeon In 1884 he was APP
pointed a professor at the University
of Halle He was called in 1885 to be-
come director of the HYGIENE institute
Mt Marburg He is now a professor of
the University of Berlin and a personal
friend of the kaiser and lives on
large medical farm near Marburg
The farm comprises some 400 acres
and on it are about 400 cows and sew
eral hundred horses and other animals
1t is said the enterprise requires for
It's support about $4,000 a year. His
experiments have already accomplished
a great deal in the direction Of eradi-
eating bovine tuberculosis, which, ac-
cording to the opinion of those at the
recent tuberculosis congress, Is trans
Missile to the human species.
In Germany systematic methods for
incubation of cattle to prevent the
spread of the disease among such ami
mails have been for several years In
process of introduction.
Uninjured Lions Seldom Charge.
Like every other animal, the lion
, tries to avoid man until wounded, and
it is only in exceptional cases of there
being young ones to guard or from as
constituent at seeing the hunters so
close to them that they charge when
! being tracked.
They charge with the same coughing
roar that a tiger does and come at
great speed close to the ground, not
bounding in the air, as they are repre-
scented in pictures Their ears are
pressed close to the head. giving them
the comical appearance of being with
out ears.-London Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
ATHLETE AND FINANCIER.
Assistant Secretary Robert Rocor
and His Interesting Career.

1t is rather unusual for man to sten
into such an office as that of FIRST rs.
sistant secretary of state without hov.
ing previously held any public Office
but it is under these circumstances
that Robert Bacon becomes right hand
man of Secretary Elihu Root. He has
never been a politician in the ordinary
acceptation of the term and knows
nothing about corralling delegates or
mending political fences. Mr.. Bacon
is pre-eminently a business man. If is
said that the state department needs
an overhauling so as to make its meth.
DDS of doing business more IN to date
and it is expected that Mr.. Bacon will
be able to assist in this work. 1t is
also said that in appointing him to the
post the president had in mind i'm.
provements in the consular service and
believed that Mr.. Bacon's knowledge
of foreign trade would be useful
One afternoon in the old Harvard
university gymnasium some students
were watching boxing match. The
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
Breaking 1t Gently.

A peculiar instance of breaking q
misfortune gently" belongs to the life
of the young man who was Earl of
Barrymore in the eighteenth century.
Soon after he had become a pupil ut
Elton his grandmother, the Countess Of
Harrington, died, and the head master
Of the school was asked to break the
news gently to his sensitive pupil
The master called the boy into the
class room and asked him, with an
austere air, series of questions In re-
gard to his studies and then command
ed him to construe some lines from
Virgil Before the task had been ac-
complished he informed the pupil some
what harshly:
"Your grandmother is i'll, my lord"
but in the same breath babe him go on
with his Latin. After few more lines
had been construed he stopped him
again with the assertion:
"She is very Ill, my lordp
The earl expressed his grief, but was
again ordered to proceed with his task.
He obeyed, but was interrupted the
next moment by his masters exclama-
tom
"She's dying, my lordr'
"Whatl Dying?" cried the bewil-
dered youth.
Come, come, my lordr' said the
learned pedagogue. "She is deadi Now
you know the worst Go to your seat
and make the best Of an irretrlswable
misfortuner'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
In New England orchard..

One method of renovating an old or.
chard which f. w. Rane of New
Hampshire reports as successfully
nsed at the state experiment station
consists in breaking up the soil in
spring and after thoroughly preparing
II planting to dwarf peas or bush
beans. BY this method the ground Is
frequently cultivated, the pods pay for
the labor, and the crop is turned under
early enough so that cover crop can
be planted.
1t Is believed that the Hitchings
method OF mulching the orchard by
moving and letting the crop remain
on the ground may possess some ad.
vantages for New England. One In
stance is cited In which an orchard If
about 10000 trees is thus cultivated
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17

and torpedo was attached 50 that it
came directly under the hull about
amidships. The men returned TO their
boats after making connection by
means of a slender copper wire and
rOwed about $50 yards away When
the charge was exploded great mass
Of timber was hurled skyward, but
the hulk was not sunk, and five ex-
plosions were necessary before the
Reck was no longer a menace to pass
Mg ships.
The tactics used in the case of this
derelict were those usually employed.
Sometimes if the derelict destroyer is
furnished with ram, this method of
destruction serves the purpose. In 1893
the cruiser San Francisco sighted the
abandoned three masted schooner
Drisko and attempted to blow her up.
Three gun cotton torpedoes were at
tached TO the keel and exploded; but,
while much damage was done, the hulk
remained afioat. Five more torpedoes
were then exploded under her keel,
breaking her back and frames, but
even this was not sufficient to sink her
Then the San Francisco rammed the
Drisko violently amidships. This broke
her in two parts, the cargo was releas-
ed, and the hulk began sinking. Think
ing to finish the job, the warship fired
a few shells into the stern to scatter
the fragments of the ship remaining
afloat. Even after all this treatment
some parts of the vessel kept above the
waves and gave sailors who sighted
them scare. The United States col
lier Lebanon was recently ordered to
set out from Portsmouth navy yard
and patrol the north Atlantic in search
Of dangerous derelicts. Besides crew
Of merchant sailors she carries n gun
ner and gunner's mate and three sea-
men from the navy to handle eXplO.
sives and attend to destruction of dere-
Lebanon will generally use dynamite
in Kidding the ocean of abandoned
hulks. She will probably be kept busy
for the next few months, as the au.
tumn is the great time of the year for
wrecks, and sometimes there are hun
dreds Of them in the gulf stream fol-
lowing the storms of the autumn and
early winter. The astonishing number
Of 1,62S were reported by the hydro
graphic office off the Atlantic coast in
period of seven years. The govern
ment is doing great good in making
the paths Of ships less full of dangers.
Demenn.
Says writer In the London Chroni-
Gle: "a yulgarlsm-one which, like 'ag.
gravate' for 'lrritate,' has come into
use by way of the kitchen stairs-is
'demean, with sense of derogation
or abasement 1t is to be seen In many
paper and even many book and
heard In many a speech. 1t is the Sec
ond syllable that has misled the popu-
lar understanding. but the noun de
meanor' should have saved the edu.
Gated from their blunder with the verb.
When the cook refuses to 'demean her
self she is excusable. because de
meanor' Is not IN her vocabulary"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17

chief claim to distinction rests, and his
mission to this country is to clear
away many of the MISUNDERSTANDING
which exist here in regard to the re
ligious IDEAS of India.
He believes that there should be har
mony rather than antagonism between
teachers of the Christian and Hindoo
faiths. He has written commentaries
upon the Christian Scriptures which
have induced orthodox pundits of India
to treat the Christian Bible with a
greater degree of consideration, and
his study of the gospels and the books
of the Old Testament has convinced
him that between them and the sacred
writings III Sanskrit and Tamil, whence
Hindoos draw inspiration, there is har'
mony in all essential matters.
urIDDIrE the corn.
AS soon as the corn is cut | have II
husked. Each days huslSing is hauled
and put In the crib. 1t is never allow
ed TO remain on the ground for the
crows to feast on or snowstorm TO
bury. There is no better time to crib
corn than when it is first husked. After
husking the stalks are tied in con-
yenient bundles and carted to the barn
or put up in ricks or stacks, butts out
TO the weather. These ricks are con-
structed to turn rain and snow, and If
properly put up the fodder will keep
lust as well as If under shelter, re-
marks correspondent in an exchange.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
AN ENTHUSIAST IN ART.
sir C"spar Purdon Clarke, Director
of Metropolitan Museum.

Sir CaSpar Purdon Clarke, who re.
Gently took up his duties as director of
NeW 1ork's great Metropolitan Muse.
om OF Art, is man of interesting per
sohaIily as well as remarkable attain.
mehIS in the field of art. As head of
lhe most important art institution in
America he is expected to give the PEG.
pie of this country the benefit of the
wide experience he has had both in the
practice of his profession as an arch-
tect and in the direction of one of the
foremost art museums of Great Brit
ain. Sir Purdon, as he is usually call.
ed, is an enthusiast in the application
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
DUnBANK's CRIMSON EnuDARp.

months earlier than any other variety
while it is rapid and continuous crop
per, continually throwing up new
crowns as fast as the stalks are pulled.
The color. as indicated by the name, is
of the brightest crimson, and the flavor
when cooked is excellent, much supe-
riOr, in fact, to the common variety of
rhubarb ut present grown, there being
an absence of tibrous strings in the
stalks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
m. Dutcb Linen chest.

A visit to the linen chest of Dutch
housewife is always delight. 1t may
be noticeable that some piles OF the
snowy table and bed linen are tied with
blue ribbon and others with pink rib
bon. If so, it will be explained thar
each represents complete sets, one OF
which is in use this year and the other
waiting its turn next year. The edges
of the piles will be as regular as II
thev had been cut with knife.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
How Derelicts
Are Destroyed
.S a.

TNHE United States cruiser Column
I'll bia did valuable service recent
ly in destroying a derelict. the
wrecked schooner Edward L.
Warren. which was drifting about in
the Atlantic ocean about 100 miles off
Sandy Hook. Derelicts constitute
great menace to ocean navigation, and
the federal governments has devised
ways and means of securing informa-
ton about them so as to clear the path
of ocean traffic as far as possible of
such distractions. Whenever mas
ter of ship sights a derelict it is his
duty on arriving in port to forward all
the information in his possession to the
United States photographic office, Civ
ing details as to latitude and longitude
condition when last observed. etc. From
this information the federal officials
make up charts which indicate approx
imately the course of the derelict, and
such charts are furnished to vessels
leaving port to enable them to avoid
the track of the vagabonds Of the sea.
The smaller vessels of the navy are
Their destroy them or bring them into
port. To the officers and crews of the
vessels such Il detail is usually well
come, for it breaks the monoteny. af-
fords little excitement ana n chance
for craftsmanship and sometimes is ac-
cOmpanied with danger. In blowing
up the Edward L. Warren the men of
the Columbia who did the job ran
chance OF being hit by flying t.mbers.
for heavy pieces of the wreck fell near
the small boats and might have sunk
them had they fallen closer While on
search for the Edward L. Warren the
Columbia WAS kept Informed by wire
less telegraphy OF all reports from in
coming captains about the location Of
the dcrelict, and the chase was main
tanned for two Gays When the aban-
doned hulk was sighted about two
miles distant preparations were at once
made for its destruction. \ chain was
passed under the hull by the men from
the Columbia who boarded the wreck
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
November Term, 1905.

In the matter of the Auditors Report, filed
this 9th day of Move Der 1905.
ORDERED, That on the 2nd day of December
1900, the Court will proceed to act upon the
r. port of the Auditor, filed rs aforesaid. in
the above cause. 10 finally raufy and confirm
the same. unless cause 10 the contrary thereof
be shown before said day; provided Il copy OF
this order be ms rted in some newsp per pub
lished in Frederick County, for two successive
weeks prior To said day
Dated 9th day of November 1905.
SAMUEL 7. HAFFNER.
Clerk ofthe Circuit Court for Frederick County
True Copy-Test:
SAMUEL II. HAFFNER,
Smith and Smith Clerk.
Solicitors. nov loft
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
A Contradiction.

The Krlesblatt, published in the dis
trict Of Hochst, Prussia, printed the
other day this advertisement: Lost,
perambulator containing slx-month.
old baby, the same having been left Oil
Sunday outside public house in Sos
senhelm, or possibly in Hochst, or I'm
terliederbach. On the perambulator
cover the following is embroidered.
Sleep well: mother watches oven
YOU"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
A LEARNED HlNDOO.
Hon. p. Mammalian and His Mission
TO This Country.

The Hon. 7. Mammalian, X. c., c.
NJ. G., solicitor general of Ceylon, who
arrived not long ago in the United
States, did not come here simply to
see the country and enjoy pleasant
vacation. Mr. Ramanathan belongs to
what has long been the chief Hindoo
family of Ceylon, he has large wealth,
has represented his race in the leg
islative council of Ceylon, and was
delegate from that island to Queen
Victoria's jubilee. But it is on his
learning and spiritual insight that his
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
THE NEW RHUBARB.
The Crimson Winter Variety Orig
mated by Burbank.

The new crimson winter II, q I'd pro-
duced by Luther Burbank Jf santa
Rosa, Cal, is described by an ex-
change as a perpetual bearer or pro
Queer Of leaf stalks. with perhaps the
exception of a short rest during
drought in summer, starting into
growth again with the advent of au-
tumn rains and continuing growth dur
ing winter and spring in the open
ground, with only slight protection
during severe weather. 1t produces
good marketable leaf stalks fully six
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
PUBLIC sALEoF BANK STOCK.

The subscriber, as executor of the last will
and testament of Salie Longwell late of
Carroll County, deceased, will sell at Public
Sale, at the city Hotel. In Frederick City,
Maryland, ON
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 18TH, 1906,
at 1l3) o'clock a. m, Fifty Shares of stock OF
the Frederick County National Bank.
Terms of Sale.-Cash.
JOSHUA w. Herring,
Executor of Sallie Longwell, deceased.
Harvey L. Lease,
Auctioneer.
nov 81.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1905.
n the matter of the Auditors Report filed
tho nSiI, hn,- ~ A..t..l,.... ION,

In the matter of the Auditors Report filed
the 2Sth day of October, 1905
ORDERED That on the 2Sth day of Novem-
Der, 1905, the Court will proceed to act upon the
Report of the Auditor, fl ed as aforesaid.
in the above cause. to finally ratify and
confirm the same. unless cause 10 the con-
airy thereof be shown before said day;
provided u copy If this order be in
serted in some newspaper published in Fred
erick County, for two successive weeks prior
TO said day.
Dated this 2Sth day of October, 1895.
SAMUEL T. HAFFNER.
Clerk fthe Circuit Court for Frederick County
True Copy Test:
SAMUEL T. HAFFNER,
A. s. Brown. Clerk.
Solicitor. nov. 8 st.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-11-17
Cleveland and
Woman Suffrage

mis- natural that the pubic should
II .,.,,-asfod in the views which
%,onlv living eX-president of the
i Tnited states, Grover Cleveland,
-, On questions of current discus
I'm Mr. Cleveland does not OFTEN
sl0n no from his retirement to make
elii' ,,7tor,nce upon a public platform,
~. be now and then contributes to
pu' roriodjcal an expression of his
'O o,nions on a subject that has engaged
w. tbought and study. A discussion
n,' .ta woman suffrage question, which
No has given to the world through the
linn Of a popular magazine, has re-
II. o.casioped comment, and in 1t
tLo former executive of the nation
tates strong ground against extending
tbo h,llot to woman. Mr.. Cleveland
aints that such action would hurt wo-
n,on herself more than it could posi-
Nv benedt society in general. In sup
nort Of this opinion he cites facts re-
qoriipg the operation of woman suf-
trace in states where it has been tried.
Although Mr.. Cleveland has retired
from uolitics and in the classic shades
III Princeton. y. j., which he makes his
home during The most of the year, pur
s,,es in quiet his study of the subjects
that appaal TO his interest, he does not
ask 10 be relieved of responsibility as
! citizen and member of the communi-
|tv When the revelations rs to the
|mouaecmcnt of the Equitable Life AS
surauce society led to demand for the
denomination of the institution under
tbp suuerwision of committee com
|nosel Of men OF high standing and dis
Interested motives he consented to
sar,c as a member of such body.
Xviii George Westinghouse and Justice
More1u J. O'Brien, he gave his time
AMI energy for the good of the bust
hes community.
As a lawyer Mr.. Cleveland might
have returned 10 the practice of his
|proie ion, as the late Benjamin Har-
|risou did when he left the White
House. This he has not seen fit to do.