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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
A HEROIC BATTLE.
The Enemy Was Ike Sea, and the
CoIorcd Troops won.


CoIorcd TroopS won.
No engagement of The civil war was
carried on with more hcrOisn and en-
durance th..n thai fought by the For
ty-ninth United States colored troops
after hostilit.es Were over. The Maya
zine Of American History contains an
account Of The tussle in which the
black soliiers bore themselves 50
bravely. The steamer Merrimac. load
ed with cotton, left New Orleans for
New York carrying, Decides her reg
ular passengers, thirty officers and 900
colored privates
For several days all went we'll Then
The vessel sprung aleak, fires were
dampened and the alarm spread. 1t
was found that the iron supply pipe
through which the water for the con
denser was taken from the sea was
broken, and the place of leakage could
not he reached. The passengers We're
panic stricken. One small, fat German
went about wringing his hands and
crying:
Zach, we are at the bottom of the
sea- If we gets pack to New Orleans
will dey gif me pack my monish?
The water gained fast. The only
hope lay in keeping afloat until yes
sci could be sighted. The colored
troops We're pressed into service and
proved themselves the heroes of the
occasion. a line of men was establish
oil from tho hold to tho 1ooly and buol,
cts were passed as rapidly as hands
could move. On deck another line
stepped back and forth with well
trained military tread The work be-
low was most eXhausting. The men at
the bottom could not hold their posi-
ton more than three minutes at a
time. They were blinded and half
strangled by the smashing sea water
and bruised by the Jumps of coal
which dashed about.
But no one faltered, and high above
the noise rose the clear, sweet voices
of the workers, now singing an army
song, now CHEEKY negro melody. The
music brought new hope to the hearts
of the passengers. Hour after hour
the men worked and sang, and the sea
did not gain on them.
Two days passed, and the drinking
water gave out. Then they could no
longer sing, and their parched throats
were cased only by scanty supply
of oranges and lemons, but still they
worked. On the third day the lights of
a steamer were seen only half a mile
away. Rockets were sent up, and
with great difficulty, on account of
her wet ammunition, gun was fired.
To the dismay of all, the steamer pass
ed on. Quickly the soldiers formed a
line once more, and the wearisome la
Dor began again.
After siXty-fve hours of bucket pass
ing Il steamer was sighted which re-
sponded to the call for help, and the
waterlogged Merrimac was lowed into
barber
The men who had sung so cheerily in
the midst of hard labor and in the face
of death were thoroughly exhausted,
but they had not lost their light heart
ed gayety.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
Tot Causes Night Alarm.

''One night my brothers. baby
was taken with Group" writes
Mrs. j. G. Snider, of Crittenden,
KY, lit seemed it would strangle
before we could get a doctor, so
we gave it DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, which gave quick relief
and permanently cured it. We
always keep it in the house to pro
tect our children from Group and
WhoOping Cough. 1t cured me
of a chronic bronchial trouble
that no other remedy would re-
lieve.n Infallible for Coughs.
Col $, Throat and Lung troubles.
SOC and Sl.00. Trial bottles free
at A. l.. Pearre'S.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
New Terminal, Twenty.
Third Street, New York
City.

Near the centre of the hotel.
theatre and shopping district.
Electric car service to all parts
of the city at very reasonable
rates.
Crosstown cars of the 18th.
23rd, 2Sth and Goth Street lines
extend to 23rd Street terminal,
Through street car service be
tween 23rd Street terminal and
Grand Central Station from 7.3C
p. M, on four minute Roadway.
Fare five cents.
All through trains of the Bal,
timore and Ohio Railroad have
direct connections to and from
23rd and Liberty Street termi
nails.
dec. 10 3 t.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
Republican Leaders Not Pres
ent at Bonaparte's Confer
ence.

A dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record from Baltimore has the
following significant news:
Secretary of the Navy Bona
parte aud number of the Repub-
lican State leaders conferred We'd
nesday on party action in the CON-
ing session of the Legislature.
The fact that congressman Mudd
and Pearre and w. Ii. jackson,
the Eastern Shore leader, to-
gether with former Postmaster
General Gary, George r. Gather
and Thomas Parran were not pres
ent, though invited, is significant.
Opposition to Bonaparte as
boss of the organization in in
creasing. No united policy as to
political legislation can be formu
latedwithout Congressman Mudd's
help, as he has considerable in
fiuence with many of the Republi-
can members. 1t is believed the
conference agreed to make a fight
for a change in election laws.
Some advocated return to en-
blem voting. Mr.. Bonaparte him.
self Is believed to favor a return
to this METHOD
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

matters and it was better to con
troll the drinking of the soldiers
than to force them to drink out
of the garrison. But the Military
Committees Of the House and
Senate have not the moral cOur-
age to replace the canteen. So
vice of the worst sort will he
allowed to flourish around all of
the army posts because a few
good but mistaken women cannot
understand that ''single men in
barracks don't grow into plaster
saints"
The funniest thing that has
happened in the War Department
for some time is the general order
that all cadets of West Point
shall attend cooking school.
Now as matter of fact the most
of the cadets learn to handle a
chafing dish while they are at
the academy, aud in the DAYS
when there was any frontier ser
vice worth mentioning, they
learned from force of necessity
to handle frying pan soon after
they got out of it. But the War
Department thinks that they
would be in better shape 20 look
after the enlisted men if they
were practical cooks, so cooking
as well as dancing is to be made
IA part of the West Point curri
cnlnm.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gotten
his finger in the New York political
pie, and it looks as if it would be the
best part of wisdom to take it out
He wants to elect his man Wadsworth
as Speaker of the Assembly and make
himself the dictator. He has fought
Odell and the other Republican
leaders, and they in turn are hot
after him. His "good luckn may
stand him in good stead again, ''no
tellin'."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
#Tons. Hounds.

1OuS. IL OuuuS'
The average weight buShel is
shown by reports received by the
bureau to be So. 3 pounds for spring
wheat, 5S.3 pounds for winter
wheat and 327 pounds for oats.
AMOUNT OF COTTON GINNED.
The Census Bureau Thursday
Issued a bulletin showing the
quantity Of cotton ginned from
the growth of 1905 to December
-, to lie 9,2S2, 1911 bales, counting
round bales as half bales, as com
pared with ll.971, All bales on
the same date in 1904 and S,526,
Oh bales on the same date IN
1903.
The amount of cotton ginned by
States for 1905 up TO the date
named is as follows:
Alabama, 1,13l, S2l bales; Ar
kansas, Ala, $50; Florida, 60, 663;
Georgia, 1,62O, sos; Indian Terri
tory, 274,Sl3; Kansas,
Kentucky, 1858; Louisiana, Ala,
10; Mississippi, 949, 2O3; Missouri,
33.53S; North Carolina, 59S. 5O4;
Oklahoma, PSI, 403; South Caro-
lima, 1,042, 500; Tennessee, 226,
47G; Texas, 2,172,6l3; Virginia,
1874.
COUNTED BY RUNNING BALES.
The statistics are accompanied
by the following explanatory state
ment:
"In this report the statistics are
in running bales, i. e., bales as
pressed at the ginneries, except
that two round bales have been
counted as the equivalent of one
square bale. Linters obtained by
the co:tOnSeed oil mills from re-
ginning cOttonSeed are not includ-
ed in this report. The number Of
round bales included as ginned
to December - is 25G, 407 for 1905,
276, G92 for 1904, G45, 006 for 1903
The number of sea island bales
Included are 80. LAG for December
10, 1905, 50, 72S for 1904, 50, 24S
for 1908. The sea island cotton
ginned to December IL, 1905. dis
trihuted by States is: Florida,
"a, 1876; Georgia, 49,0l9; South
Carolina, 1881. The above per
centages differ slightly from those
i'll Bulletin 10, being computed for
this report on bales counting
round az half bales and because
the crop statistics for 1901 were
increased by 80, 497 bales through
the August canvass. The numhe
of ginneries operated prior to De-
cemb Der 13, 1905, was 80. 1853, com.
pared with 30,037 for 1904 and
20,97l for 1903. The last report
showed S,GS4, S42 bales, counting
round as half bales, ginned to De.
cember L."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

NEARLY all of the big railroad sys-
TENS are taking up the "anli-pass"
piaa of President Cassatt of the Penn
sylvauia Railroad. The New York
Central, the Baltimore aud Ohio, the
Erie and the Delaware, Lackqwa9ua
aud Western have made similar ar
nouncements This is in accord with
the action taken by the Trunk Line
Association. No one but railway EN-.
ployees are to have passes after Janu-
ary l, 1905. This is quite an iunova-
ton and it will be some time before
those who have teen enjoying the
privilege will get used to the new
order of things.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
Home
Circle
Depart
nlent.
MOTHERS WAY.

Oft within our little cottage,
AS the shadOU gently fall,
While the sunlight touches softly
One sweet face upon the wall,
Do we gather close together,
And in hushed AMI tender tone,
Ask each others full forgiveness
For the wrong that each has done;
Should YOU wonder at this custom
At tie ending of the day,
Eye and voice won d quickly answer.
at was once our mothers way"
If our home be bright and CHEEKY,
If hold welcome true,
Opening wide its do n Of greeting
To the many-not the few;
If we share our Fathers bounty
With the needy. day by day,
IT'S because our hearts remember
This was ever mothers way.
Sometimes when our hearts grow
weary
Or our task seems very long;
When our burdens look to heavy,
And we deem the right all wrong,
Then we gain new fresh courage,
AS we rise to proudly say;
''Let us d. our duty bravelv,
This was our dear mothers way"
Thus we keep her memory precious,
While we never cease to pray,
That at last when lengthening shadows
Mark the evening of life's day,
They may find us waiting calmly
tn % orr mothers WaV
The men Of earth build houses-halls
and
Chambers, roofs and domes,-
But the women of the earth-God
knows
the
Women butt the homes.
Eve could not stay from Paradise, for
oh,
No matter where
Her graf us presence lit the way, 10
Paradise was there.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
Old Soldiers EXPERIENCE.

M. M. Austin, a civil war vet.
eran, of Winchester, Ind, writes;
"My wife was sick a long time in
spite of good doctors treatment,
but was wholly cured by DR..
Kings New Life Pills, which
worked wonders for her healthy
They always do. Try them. Only
% cents at A. L. Pearre's drug
store.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

When Mr.. Gladstone was quite an
old man it CHANGED that he and Mr.
Chaplin were staying at the same coun-
try house together on visit One
night after dinner the Grand Old Man
asked Mr.. Chaplin whether his grand
mother had not lived in a certain
street in Mayfair Mr.. Chaplin replied
that she had done so. We'll" said Mr..
Gladstone, Il remember it distinctly. l
lived next door to her for awhile when
l was a child. She used to give even
ing parties. When the carriages were
assembled TO take up, my brother and
l used to creep cut OF bed-it was in
the summer time-softly open the Win
dow, get out our squirts and discreetly
fire away at The coachmen on the
boxes. l remember the intense delight
with which we used to see them look
up to the sky and call out to ask each
other whether it wasn't beginning to
rain"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

MAY the coming New Year have in
store for you the greatest treasures of
mind and soul, health and prosperity,
wisdom to know the truth of life and
confidence and determination to prsc-
tice what they preach. Walk stead
fast in the light and apply the ethics
of the golden rule to your actions to-
wards your neighbor. Let all your
work be well done and he reward will
come TO you as you have deserved it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
FRIDAY. DECEMBER % 1905.
~ WILL TELL JUDGE DOUG
LASS FRANKLY 1 AM NOT IN
FAVOR OF NEGRO CITIZEN
SHIP"
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

CALL money IN New York on We'd
nesday last, reached the record rate OF
95 per cent. There is a money s'rin
gency in the market, but no dis tstrous
results are apprehended This condi-
ton is largel, due to TIE enormous
fnancial operations to iuep up the
stocks on exchange and the Eoyi' z
of crops in the west
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
THE COUNTRY'S CROPS.
Acreage and Production of the
Principle Farm Products
in 1905.

Final returns to the Bureau OF
Statistics of the Department OF
Agriculture. according to a bul
letin issued at 4 O'Clock Thursday,
show the acreage aud production
of the principal farm crops in 1903
to have been as follows:
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
California Thirty Days Tour
via the Pennsylvania Rail
road.

The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has arranged for a spec
ial personally conducted tour
through California, to leave New
York, Philadelphia, BaltlmOIe
and Washington on January 20
by the Golden Gate Special"
composed exclusively of Pullman
understanding, dining, drawing,
room sleeping, compartment, anu
observation cars, returning W
February %. This special ira
will be run over the entire rouq
The best hotels will be uSf
where extended stops are mao
but the train will be at the cY e
slant command of the party n
Round trip tickets covering iii,
necessary expenes, 1910 from in
points on the Pennsylvania h'OOV
road except Pittsburgh, i laoA
which point the rate will De eo'
For itineraries and further ~
formation apply to ticket agents o
G. A. Studs, Eastern PasseHse
Agent, 1913 Fifth Avenue, I'm
York; Hugh Hasson, Jr., Passea
ger Agent. Baltimore Dls Sold f.
Baltimore, Md; B. NJ Newo Ota,I T.
Passenger Agent Southe"S'1nE
District, Washington, =. FL
Thomas b. Watt, PaSS1 o;ttEX
Agent. Western District c lo,
burgh, Pa; or address ' uoU ii
w. Boyd, General "a pa /
burgh, Pa; or address &c. Ge . 4 u
w. Boyd, General r"''0sa
Agent, Philadelphia.
dec % 2 t.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

boys. Your intentions are oooa
hut it is said that the love- U ~
gions are paved with good ;'
tentions, and YOU only get cradle
for what you do. A girl is nevau -
safer than when with her moth
bnt when your boy reaches a noI
tain age what he amounts 'V -
is largely up to You. And tbo W
boys who are making the s,ro .ue
of our town a synonym for So
pravity, are the result of pareD to
neglect and evasion Of ,%:
duty on the part of the father
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
THE CITIZEN
tAE-Es1AsusHED ,s7o.J
FREDERICK CITY. MARYLAND.

A Democratic weekly newspaper edited by
BAUGHMAN BROTHERS. successors TO J. VIM.
BAUGHMAN.
The price OF THE CITIZEN is slO0 the year,
strictly in advance. This price has prevailed
since August 3rd. 1891.
Whilst THE CITIZEN is first OF all a poltl-
cal newspaper. and the recognized organ Of
the Democratic party in Frederick County, it
also aims to give all the important local news
and selected miscellaneous reading matter OF
interest to all members OF the family.
Communications on interesting subjects are
always desirable and es gecially local news
from the county.
Sign name in full for confidence and write
only on one side of paper. sample copies
gladly sent to any address.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

We fear that in these days of
cheap novels the good old family
bible is being sadly neglected,
especially by the young. Why
not begin the New Year with a
determination to study this most
interesting and instructive of
books. The bible is adapted to
every possible variety of taste.
temperament, culture and condi-
ton. 1t has strong reasoning
for the intellectual; it takes the
calm and cOntemplative to the
well balanced James, and the
affectlonate to the loving and be.
loved John. The pensive NAV
read tender lamentations and the
funeral strains of jeremiah. Let
the sangulne commune with the
graphic and communicative Joel:
the plain and practical may go to
the wise Ecclesiastes of the out
spoken Peter. They who like
brilliant apothegms should study
the book of Proverbs, and the
lover of pastoral and quiet delin-
cations may dwell with the sweet
singer of Israel. If you would
take the wings of imagination
and leap from earth to heaven.
or wander through eternity, then
open the Revelation; pore over
and fill yourself with the glory of
the New Jerusalem; and listen to
the seven thunders; and gaze on
the pearly gates and the golden
streets Of the heavenly city. Let
our first resolution for the New
Year be to study this wonderful
book of books.
Fathers, live more with your
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

Hell shall be just miserable when
l have to go away and leave you.
"Oh. Jack, If 1 were sure of that I'd
feel SO happyT-Life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

The desire 10 turn over a new
leaf of the commencement of a
new year is not something to be
ridiculed Few people are salts
fed with the life they have led,
and very few ought to be.
Ifyou have lived for your own
enjoyment, and have sought it
in idleness, you surely have met
with di' appointment, and when
the New Year comes upon you like
the striking of a great clock is it
not a good time for the resolve
that you will seek higher happi-
ness in life more industrious
purposeful, and worthy of your
self.
If you have been so taken up
with the pursuits of business or
ambition that you have neglected
self improvement, and let your
home affections grow dull and
forgotten the needs of the com
munity about you, it is we'll to
call halt. and give the better
part of yourself a chance.
If you sorrowfully feel that you
have lost the simple trust of
earlier days, if faith, hope and
love have grown dim amid the
dust and smoke of life's turmoil
it surely will be well for you to
get out of the turmoil for little
while, to seek some quiet sanct-
uary. it may be with those who
assemble themselves together for
Gods worship, it may be with
the loved ones of your home, or
it may be i'll the stiffness of your
own spirit, to brighten up those
best possessions Of your soul and
to bind yourself by new ties to
the immortal life.
Let us all this year help one
another, and we will find by our
side the great Helper.
A pastor may have labored in
his church for twenty years as
a minister, comforter to the sick
and sorrowing, and helping along
every good word and work in his
community aud yet have little
said Of it. But let there be a
single mistake, or the run or of a
scandal, and tongues begin to
wag, and sensational papers be-
gin to deal it out in columns of
choice morsels. 1t is way the
devil has of getting even.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of Maryland
will convene at Annapolis at n0ou on
Wednesday, January 3rd, 1905. 1t
promises to be one of extraordinary
interest if not usefulness, to the people.
The Deuloc ratio majority is very small
in the House and naturally the organi-
cation of that body is causing much
speculation. Who will he speaker, they
are asking? These mentioned are T.. ID.
Benson of Baltimore county. DR.. Rich
ard 5. Hill of Prince Georges county,
John l.. Y. Murphy of Baltimore City,
Col. John p. More of Worcester county.
For the Presidency Of the Senate the
most prominently mentioned is Gen.
Joseph B. Seth, of Talbot county. As
to proposed legisla ion. the Assembly
will have its hands full and will deserve
well of the people if it does half that is
scheduled. There will be much quib-
bling over the oyster laws that have
been prepared aud discussed and some
believe that nothing will be done along
that line. A new election law is a
necessity and also simplified form of
ballot. The people demand this and
our representatives at Annapolis must
harken to the voice that re-echoes
throughout the State. 1t is mandate
that cannot be put aside, and the party
will be badly handicapped until the
change is made. Then there are the
n2ropriations for charitable and other
ct these things be done
Md discrimination and it
Nsible that something
I'd off the State tax
Nelp the people.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

Let all our subscribers who o.
JOY reading the Home Cirrl. ~ gu
partment aud desire us to cnr
tinue it through the wear lone
hold up their hands. "Oo
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

Advertise in the Citizen
the BEST RESULTS are GER
tain.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

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English, is
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head rise,
inches Ion
over with
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file.
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-12-29

The average weight bushel is
shown by reports received by the
bureau to be IS. 3 pounds for spring
wheat, 5S.3 pounds for winter
wheat and 81. Z pounds for oats.
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