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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
Why Women Are Pretty.

According to an English specialist
who has. made careful study of the
subject, the reason why women are
better looking than men is because
they are more indolent and are not
called upon to use their brains as much
as men are. Hard intellectual work
and assiduous attention to business,
he says, are harmful so far as physical
beauty is concerned. AS proof that his
theory is correct he points to the Ia
roS, whose home is in British India
Among them women hold the place
which in other countries is occupied
by men. The FARO woman manages
the affairs of state, goes into business
on her own account and does not wait
for proposal of marriage, but pro-
poses herself, whereas the FARO man
has nothing to do but cook the meals
and look after his children. The nat
ural result, says the scientist, is that
the men of this singular tribe are very
pretty and the women are unusually
plain.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
WHOSE
UMBRELLA?
By Robert Jermain Cole
Copyright, 1906, by T. C. Mcclure


'Will you please take this seat?" The
man spoke as if he were asking, not
offering a favor. He stepped into the
aisle, and the girl in the brown tam
o shanter slipped into his place. The
car was crowded.
Underneath the tam the young man
discovered a whole new world of
charms, which interested him quite as
much as America did Columbus. But
the girl had an advantage over Amer
lea in being able to look back at her
dlscoverer out of two very wide open
eyes.
THANK you" she said to Columbus.
Then she looked down and her eyes
rested on the mans gloved hand, which
only partly covered the ivory handle
of an umbrella. He remembered the
hole in his glove and snatched it away
to hide it in his pocket. Before he
could catch the umbrella in his other
hand it fell against the girls knee.
She grasped it firmly with both her
small hands.
"Thank you," she said again, raising
her eyes for a brief instant to the mans
face.
Columbus stared pardon me, but
why?' he asked, observing the delicate
color rising in the girls cheek.
She did not answer, but her eyes
were bent lovingly on the umbrella
handle. 1t was one her grandfather
had given her when she was sixteen
and she had worn out four silk covers
on it. She was glad the man did not
insist on an immediate answer. What
must he think of her? After minute
she looked up
why do you thank meT' the man
asked in dazed but very low tone.
For my umbrella" she answered,
still holding it firmly.
IL beg your pardon, Miss
mo, 1 am not mistaken" she said,
her sense of humor coming to her as
sistance. She held out the umbrella
handle for him to examine.
do you see those three wrinkles in
the dogs brow?" she asked, with the
littlest smile in the world. 81 carved
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
He Saved His Life.

A group of congressman who happen
ed to be at the capital during recess
of the national legislature helped to
while away the time by exchanging
stories, and one of the statesmen from
pennsylvania told this one regarding a
constituent. This man, who lived in
one of the small towns in the keystone
State, was appointed naval officer at
the chief port in the state. He immedi-
ately packed up his belongings and es-
tablished himself in the metropolis Of
the commonwealth. At the end of four
years the administration changed, and
he relinquished his Office. When he re-
turned to the village of his birth his
first visit was to his aged mother. She
greeted him affectionately and said:
MY boy, you have had four years in
lucrative federal Office. Tell me, now
that it is over, what have you saved?"
He. was nonplused for the moment.
Not penny of his salary remained. In
an outburst of frankness he turned to
her and, leaning over her, said with
hearty fervor:
Mother, 1 saved my life. "-Harper's
Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

Bottles for babies date back to re-
mote antiquity. Most people are of the
opinion that feeding bottles for babies
must be an invention of modern times.
According to Professor Mosby, how
ever, this is not the case. This gentle
man, who was lecturing before an anti
Quarian society, stated that it was the
custom among the Greeks for the
nurses to carry sponge full of honey
in small pot to stop children from
crying. The professor went on to say
that there are two Greek vases In the
British museum dating. from 700 B. G.
which closely resemble The feeding bot
ties used subsequently by the Romans.
In the old Roman cemetery of st. Sep
ulcher, Canterbury, feeding bottle
Of bright red polished ware was dug
up in 1851, and Professor Mosby came
to the conclusion that this bottle must
have been buried with the little Ro-
man child to whose wants 1t had min
lstered during the chlld's lifetime.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

hovse, and containing 50 acres l rood
and 20 perches.
This tract contains considerable Young
! timber, Chestnut and Pine. which can be
utilized for posts, rails and cord wood
This is the same property which the
said George Markell obtained from
Daniel T. Jones and wife by deed dated
Dec 9th, 1883, and duly recorded in
Liber b. G.. F., No ?, folio 63I, less the
conveyances to Joseph Simms by deed
dated Nov. Sth. 1894, and duly re-
corded in Liber J. L. J., folio 3S5; and
less the part conveyed to School Com
mi ssioners of Frederick County, by deed
dated July 2Sth A. d. 1898, and duly
recorded in Liber d. H. H., No. /,
folio 7I6, leaving the present area of
said wood land to be 80 acres I rood
and 20 perches.
Third. ALI those parts of two lots of
ground situate, lying and being on the
east side OF Ice street, in Frederick City,
Maryland, and fronting on said street
for OF feet more or less, with depth of
81 feet more or less.
These lots are improved by 2-story
brick Westinghouse and ice-house
(stone)
1t being the same property that the
late George Markell obtained by deed
from Milton G. Urner, Trustee, dated
Jan. 18th, A. d. 1897 and duly recorded
in Liber J. L. J.. No. ii, folio 600
Fourth. All that tract or parcel of
land lying at the South end of Broad
way in Frederick City, Maryland, and
adjoining the lands of John F. Stein,
containing 81 acres of land more or
less.
The landlords share of the growing
crop of corn will be sold as it stands to
the purchaser.
Possession of this tract will be given
as soon as growing crop is removed
1t being the same tract or parcel de-
scribed secondly in deed from Louis
Markell and wife to George Markell,
dated June 18TH, 1867 and duly recorded
in Liber d. S. B.. No. I, folio sos.
Terms of Sale:---Cash on day of sale
or ratification thereof by the Court. All
conveyancing at the expence of the pur-
chaser or purchasers.
A deposit of $3.50 will be required
from the purchaser of the farm and
deposit of $1,000 for each of the other
parcels of land.
EDWIN c. MARKELL,
J. ROGER MCSHERRY,
Administrators d. B. N. c. T. A. of
George Markell, deceased.
july 7 st.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
Byron and Napoleon.

The more think of Byron the more
clear it becomes to me that he Is first,
second and third a tragic figure. He
was the child of loveless marriage,
that constant source Of huge armies Of
discordant natures. His upbringlng
was tragic; his marriage was tragic;
his loves were tragic; his death, which
at first thought only tragic farce, is
actual tragedy. Byron and Napoleon,
contemporaries, were the analogues
and compliments of each other. Byron
is the passive tragedy of the magma
tive temperament as poet, using ex-
preston; Napoleon Is the active trag-
edy of the imaginative temperament
as warrior and world compelIer, en-
ploying deeds. Byron inevitably ends
in an abortive attempt at action in
Greece, Napoleon as inevitably in an
abortive attempt at expression (the die
tated memoirs) in st. Helena.-John
Davidson in London Outlook.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

The word yacht" like many other
nautical words in the English Ian
guage, is of Dutch origin. This is nat
ural, since the English learned the art
of seamanship from those old masters
Of the sea, the Dutch. Other Dutch
words are skipper" smack" "sloop,"
reef" "boom," ''taffrail" From the
Netherlands come also the words
smuggling" and "hoy," as in "ship
ahoy." When one reads how Lord
Nelson was taken down to the "orlop"
deck to die at the battle of Trafalgar,
one has yet another term taken from
the Dutch.
Schooner" is a word of American
manufacture. At Gloucester, Mass,
about 1713, Captain Andrew Robinson
built the first vessel called by that
name AS it slid off the stocks into
the water a bystander shouted, "Oh,
how she scoonsw (skims). Robinson in
stantly said, "a sooner let her be-"
The name has been universally
adopted, but, singularly enough, is
spelled in the Dutch manner, though it
is provincial English.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

told her. Let me be the one, Helene"
She waited where he left her, tear
less, helpless, yet with the quaint dig
nifty that seemed to infold her like a
magic cloak of separation from the
world. 1t was half an hour before Col
ford returned. There was a new look
on his face as he bent over her, look
Of protection and determination.
Dear heart, this glorious land of the
free refuses to let.a little foreign maid
en- all forlorn on its shores. You are a
waif, sweetheart, a friendless, penni-
less waif, according to the officials
downstairs, and as such they propose
in friendly, courteous way to ship
you over to Ellis island as an unwel-
come immigrant and deport you to
Austria on the first steamer sailing"
She smiled for the first time, a faint
ghost of smile, though her eyes were
filled with tears.
1T is terrible, l know" she said.
He took her hands in his. ''The land
of the free is willing to allow girl i'm
migrant to enter provided some one
marries her Helene, its Ellis island
or me. Can you choose, sweetheart?"
The steward came up the stairs, saw
the two figures and vanished. Out on
the river tug whistled Shrilly.
when one is alone she began.
Colford raised the hand he held to
his lips.
when two are alone" he corrected,
they cannot possibly be alone. They
have each other. The voyage has only
begun, little shipmate."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

memory dlG not like to be tested.
ri remember" she said as the man
burned to go.
Elizabeth volney carved another
wrinkle in Tho brow Of her umbrella
lanG,e dog
y ou have Wort I'd Il heap lately,
dos%ie minc-ald t,ng' {. the man who
bought You mt IN aucdon is coming.
Ie-he has been here fire. gently since
father took Il liking 10 HIM. Funny.
isn't it? Father doesn't usually like
the sort of men who are $3.50 bold
as to do what he did. He came right
straight to fathers office with the
check for 81 cents to have it duplicated
so he might keep it to-oh, to remem-
Der you by, / fancy, dogg1e! And IA
Their talked TO him and they discovered
that they both had uncles who had
fought together in the civil war and all
sorts of nonsense" The girl surveyed
the newest frown with admiration.
REALLY, l should have been a sculp-
tress, doggie. Your frowns are beauti-
full"
Henry Benton doomed up in the
doorway unannounced. He had met
Judge Volney in the hall, and had been
told that he would find Elizabeth by
the library fire.
I'm jealous of that dog, Miss Eliza
beth" he said, stepping in.
You should-like him very much"
said the girl saucily, tossing her chin
in the air and laying the umbrella on
the floor as she came to greet Benton.
81 do, but 1 also like his mistress
very much
The girl tried to pull her hand from
the mans firm clasp. Her face turned
prettily pink.
81 came here tonight for the express
purpose of telling you how much" he
said, compelling her attention.
The girl traced figures on the carpet
for fully a minute.
elizabeth" began the man softly,
putting one hand beneath her chin. II
love you. Do you believe me?"
For answer the girl laid her head
on his arm.
"And to think that just carved an
other wrinkle in his brow" she said
a long time afterward.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14

Black bottles for wine were intro
duced about hundred and fifty years
ago. Lord DeIaval, an English peer,
brought over a number Of Hanoverian
blowers and started works at Sutton
Sluice,, In northumberland. His main
idea was to utilize seam of inferior
coal on his estate. At first the black
color was due to'the material used in
making the glass, but afterward the
public became SO habituated to the as
ISOLATION Of wine and black bottles
that, even when the constituents used
were changed and improved, coloring
matter was Introduced to keep ~ the
familiar appearance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
Marking the Boots.

A great many people on staying at
an English hotel for the first time won
der how it is that "boots" can return
to the different rooms the footgear
placed outside the bedroom doors to be
cleaned. This is quite simple matter.
All he does is to take a piece of chalk,
mark upon the sole of the boot the
number of the room from which he
takes them and then sends them down.
stairs all together to be cleaned. When
this has been done they are sorted,
taken upstairs again and deposited
outside their respective doors without
the occupants of the different rooms
knowing that they have been removed.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
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appear Like
Magic.

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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
TRUSTEES PUBLIC SALE
OF A
VALUABLE FARM IN NEW MARKET
DISTRICT, FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND.

BY virtue of the terms of the last will
and testament of Philip Reich, late of
Frederick County, Maryland, deceased.
dated February 9th, in the year 1888. and
recorded in Liber II. L., No. l, folios $40
etc, one of the Records of Wills in the
office of the Register of Wills for Frederick
County, Maryland, and by the order of the
Circuit Court for Frederick County, Mary
land, sitting as Court of Lquity, passed
on the date June Both, in the year 1905, In
No. 6137 Equity, in the cause Andrew ]
DeLashmutt trustee, for the benefit of
Annie K. Mercer, for her life, on petition,
|, the undersigned substitute trustee. was
authorized and directed to sell the real
estate of which Philip Reich died, seized
and possessed and which he devised unto
the said Annie r. Mercer wife of Cornelius
Mercer, for her life, and after her death to
be sold, will offer at public sale at the
Court House door, in Frederick County,
Maryland, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1905,
at the hour of II o'clock, a.. m. the real
estate ordered to be sold, and being that
lot of land as described in the deed from
William G. Wilson and wife to Philip
Reich dated September 18th, 1870. and re-
corded in Liber G. NJ, No. 5, folios 564,
etc, one of the Land Records of Frederick
County, Maryland, excepting therefrom the
quantity of land as described in the deed
from Philip Reich to the Board of County
School Commissioners of Frederick County,
dated July 9th, 1875, and recorded in
Liber I. G., No. 8, folios 619, ETC., one Of
the Land Records of Frederick County,
Maryland, said real estate containing about
80 ACRES OF LAND,
more or less, and is now in the possession
of Robert w. MERCER, as tenant.
This farm is located on the public road
leading from Frederick City to Evansville,
about three miles from Frederick, and adj
joins the lands of Edward Crummitt. es-
tate of Francis Markell, George L. Kauff-
man and George w. Keller, and also adj
joins "Oak Grove Public School House.
and is divided into four fields.
The improvements consists of weather.
boarded dwelling house containing seven
rooms, stable, smoke house, and other
outbuildings y
Possession of farm and the now growing
! crops reserved unto Robert w. Mercier I'M
til April LIST, 1906. Purchaser will be al
lowed to plant the 1905 Fall wheat crop.
and harvest the same in Summer of 1906.
Terms of Sale as prescribed by Court
One-third of the purchase-money to be paid
in cash on the day of sale, or on the ratii.
cation thereof by the Court, the residue in
two equal annual payments, the purchaser
or purchasers giving his, her, or their notes,
with approved sureties and bearing interest
from the day of sale, or all cash at the CD.
tion of the purchaser.
A cash deposit of 5000 will be required
of the purchaser at the time of sale.
All conveyancing costs at the expense OF
the purchaser.
JACOB ROHRBACK,
july Z Is Trustee.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
The Rest Tonic.

Ordinary sour buttermilk Is a better
tonic, is better food, than was ever
bottled or boxed up by the chemist or
doctor. Many a farmer drives miles
away to see doctor. to get bottle Of
pepsin or cod liver oil or beef extract
when at the same time he is feeding to
his calves good, rich. nutritious butter
milk, thousand times better for him
than the stuff the doctor will give him.
Medical Talk.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
fE GIRL IN BLACK STOOD LOOKING BACK
TOWARD THE OPEN SEA.

" of circumstances. She was an Aus
z an and an orphan. Her father had
Zen a Viennese surgeon.
And after he died, year ago." she
nd told Colford, leaning over the bull
Dirk, her gray eyes dreamily watching
ne long. swelling waves sweep back
1Epm the steamers sides, I'VE lived at
HIRzza, on the coast-mother and l. It
MAs her old home, and there was moth
ins else to do"
And them said Colford as she
pahsed.
Then, a month ago, she left me also.
1ne told me to come to America.
lave an uncle, my fathers brother,
who will meet me in New York. He is
nae only relative have in the world"
Are you sure he will meet you"
cabled him was coming. He is
physician Also" she said gravely.
Ie loved my father dearly. l know he
H|Q meet me-"
And If he does not?"
he glanced up with troubled eyes.
But.he will. There is no one else in
AZ the world who would help me-"
Dine other"
Nplford spoke quietly, but trihe I'M
tztadily, as he looked down into her
NeIious, childliko eyes.
fou must not say there is no one
q|ze l, too, am alone in the world.
DOS not our mutual loneliness give us
aim on each other? Surely you will
he help your"
faint color rose slowly to her
0H1e ks. She looked back at the sea.
think should, perhaps"
hen the steamer swung from the
son into its slip on West street,
|ord sought her for the last time
rest Of the passengers crowded the
'zI Of the boat, half crazy with Joy,
hey recognized friends and rela-
iI on the pier, but the girl in black
'3p aft, looking back at the sunllt
back toward the open sea and
|Tia.
RE you sorry 1t Is over?"
uropeT She spoke wiStfuily.
g; the voyage" He went ON as
did not answer. "Has it been
ing at all to you? Do you care,
ne?"
Il purser came hurriedly from the
telegram in his hand.
telene Vorga2"
opened it slowly. The message
brief. Coiford caught the paper
nuttered from her hands It was
a city hospital and merely stated
osef Vorga, physician, had died
onths previously.
ere is no one else" she said helm
orc led her to the cabin.
re is one other-you forget" he
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-14
DUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE
l. REAL ESTATE.

BY virtue of a power Of sale con-
tanned in the last will and testament
of George Markell, late of Frederick
County, deceased, and of an order of
the Orphans Court of Frederick County,
Maryland, the undersigned administra-
tors d. b. n. c. t. a., of George Markell,
deceased, will offer at public sale at the
Cont House Door, in Frederick City,
Maryland, on
D SATURDAY, AUGUST 9Th, 1905,
at the hour of II O clock A. NJ, all OF
the following valuable real estate situate
in Frederick County, and also some in
Frederick City, Maryland, and more
particularly described as follows:
First.-All that valuable farm situated
about one mile southwest of Frederick
City, and lying on the Buckeystown
Pike and the New Designed Road, or
the Cemetery Road, and adjoining the
farm of Captain August, and immedi-
ately opposite one of the farms of Mrs.
Margaret E. S. Hood, and containing
2I7 acres, 1 rood and II perches.
This farm is splendidly improved with
a Brick Dwelling House, large Bank
Barn, Grain Sheds, Hog Pens, Silo and
is under good fencing. From its prox-
unity to Frederick and the character OF
its soil, it is admirably adapted for dairy
farming. The fields are conveniently
divided and the land crops as well as
any land in the county. There is also
a good orchard on the place of apple
and peach trees.
The landlords share of the growing
crop of sugar and yellow corn will be
sold with the place as it stands, and the
purchaser or purchasers will receive the
benefit of these crops.
The purchaser or purchasers will also
have the same rights as the present land
lord in respect to the wheat crop to be
sown this fall.
The farm is now tenanted by Mr..
Sourin Dutrow, who will show any one
the premises.
Possession will be given April /, 1906.
This is the same property that the late
George Markell, obtained by the follow
ing deeds.
Kate F. Smith and Mary Eliza Smith,
to George Markell, deed dated Aug. nth,
1890 and duly recorded in Liber w. |.
p, No. II. folio 437. Also from John H.
White, Executor of Emily Johnson, deed
dated Oct. goth, 1883 and duly record
ed, Liber A. F., No. 7, folio 524. Also
from Worthington Johnson by. deed
dated June grid, 1856 and duly recorded
in Libe E. s., No. 8, folio s3S. Also
from ---- Leather ct al, dated July
25th, A. D. 1890 and duly recorded in
Llber w. |. p, No. IL folio Ala, save
and except however all that tract or.par-
eel Of acres I rood and 80 perches,
sold by George Markell to VIM. H.
Hooper, by deed dated Aug. 5th, A. D.
1890 and duly recorded. Liber w. l. p,
No. 81, folio 43T; leaving the present
acreage of the farm at 2I7 acres I rood
and II perches.
Second. ALI that Wood Lot on the
South side of the Monocacy River, in
Urbana District. Frederick County, on
the road leading from Buckeystown to
Urbana, adjoining the colored school,