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The citizen., 1905-04-28
Blown to atoms.

The old idea that the body
sometimes needs a powerful,
drastic, purgative pill has been
exploded; for Dr.. Kings New
Life Pills, which are perfectly
harmless, gently stimulate liver
and bowels TO expel poisonous
matter, cleanse the system and
absolutely cure Constipation and
Sick Headache. 0nly 25c at A
Il. Pearre's drug store.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
Old Soldiers Experience.

NJ. NJ, Austin, 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 health .
They always do. Try them. Only
% cents at A. l.. Pearre'S drug
store.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
Pure Water for the Baltimore
and Ohio.

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail,
road is making extensive i'm
provements in connection with
the supply of water for use in its
locomotives. President Murray
has recently authorized Improve
ments on the line of the system
between Connellsville and Pitts
burg, which includes the estab-
lishment of water-treating plants
at Emblem and Glenwood to
eliminate the acids, etc., from the
river water used. This work will
cost in the neighborhood of $3.50,
900.
The citizen., 1905-04-28

The first game of the season
was played on Saturday last, on
the new courts of the Frederick
Tennis Club, on the old Novitiate
property. East Third Street.
This club will hold a tournament
this year later on in the summer.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
THE CITIZEN,
RE-EsTAsLisHGo ts2o.l
FREDERICK CITY. MARYLAND.


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The citizen., 1905-04-28

Nature smiled on Easter Sun
day making fitting accompa
ment for the fine gowns lat
ppeared.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
SHIPLEY-FAGAN.

On April IA, the marriage of
Mr.. Geo. w. Shipley. of North
Market street. and Miss Maggie
NJ. Fagan, of West Patrick street,
this city, took place in Washing
ton, ID. G.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
MoRINGsTAR Roy.

Mr.. Archie Mornings tar, of
DOubs, and Miss Anna 10y. of
Barnesville, were quietly married
at St. Johns rectory on Monday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock by Rev. Fr.
W. j. Kane.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
MOLER-ROEDER

The marriage of Mr.. Robert c.
Moler and Miss Anna VI. Roeder,
both of Brunswick. took place on
the 10th instant, at Brunswick,
Rev. George Hazel, performed the
ceremony.
The citizen., 1905-04-28

April -, at the home of the
groom's uncle in Hagerstown, Mr.
John E. Yourtee and Miss Katie
r. Karn both of Brunswick, were
married.
The citizen., 1905-04-28

Mr.. VIM. A. Schell and Miss
Lille May Purdum were married
Monday at the q. B. Parsonage,
South Market street, by Rev. J.
W. Kiracofe.
The citizen., 1905-04-28
DAVIS-ECKENRoDE.

A pretty wedding took place
at the home of Mr.. Fred. NJ.
Eckenrode. on George Street,
Westminster, Nd, at 7.30 O'Clock
Tuesday evening last, when his
daughter, Miss Mary Beatrice
Eckenrode, was married to Geo.
Henry Davis, of Green Spring
Valley. son of Franklin Davis,
of Frederick.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
RAILROAD TRACK ALONG ROUTE OF rr CANAL NPAT PA17a7@.

1t might well be asked If there IS
danger of a strike or a riot among SO
many lahorers. The danger exists only
IN the imagination of those who are un.
acquainted with the conditions on the
1sthmus, The canal strip is almost as
well guarded as the suburbs of Wash
lngton. AT regular intervals along the
canal route are police stations com
manded by American chiefs" with the
native Panamanians acting as "nri-
Yates"
Ihese stations are in constant COM
munlcation with each other, and a sharn
outlook is kept all along the line In
addltlon to this, the overseer in charge
OF each gang of Iaborers is armed and
on constant guard. Under these circ11rn-
stances the opportunities for revolt mr.
riot are fnfinitesimal
Although there is an opinion to tba
contrary, the native Panamans arc
friendly to the Americans. This is
SHOWN especially in the cordial co-opera-
lon between the American police officers
ana the Panaman privates 1t Is a rare
thlnG that there is a clash between tbe
whites and the Panamans.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Washington Irving's Idea

washington Irving. adopting the or
roneous views Of the explorers and Co.
raphers. said In his Astoria. pubiisbad
In 1885. This region. which resemble.
one OF the lmmeasurable steppes of Asia
mas not inaptly been termed the c.ra. ;
American Desert 1t is land where no
man permanently abides. for in cartot,
seasons OF The year there Is no food
either for the hunter or his steed. I.
such is the nature of this immense will
derness Of the far West, which anner-
entity defies cultivation, and the habi-
tation of civilized life It is To
be feared that great part of II will
form a .awless interval between the
abodes OF civilized m.En, like the wastes
OF the ocean or the .eserts of Arabia -;
. he phrase Great American Desert
approved and popularized by Irving. was
adopted abroad, and the Edinburgh Re-
view said: There lie 80 the desert. except
in few spots on the borders of the
rivers. incapable probably forever of
fixed settlements"
Now the Great American Desert is a
thing OF the past. Il never had a real
existence EXCEPT in the irnaginations of
superficial explorers and ignorant geog
faphers. Their misleading statements
did much TO delay Western emigration
and gave foreign critics ground for dis
counting the future growth of the coun-
try.
The Great American Desert is really
an important Fart OF the granary of
the world.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Hands and Machines.

The Panama Canal is being dug by
hand and by machinery. Beside the la
oring man with the swinging pickax
the steam shovel does its work. While
the crowbar, welded by a strong arm.
srnites the mountain side the steam drill
bores blasting holes in the solid rock.
AS soon as the shovel and pick have
dug the canal bottom deep enough to
let the water run into Ii, the steam
dredger continues and completes the
task. picking up the mud and loose
earth and throwing 1t to eittie- side of
the waterway.
Although machinery Is used to a
great extent in the work of excava-
tion. there are 1000 laborers employed
On the Culebra cut, where all the work
or digging is at present being done.
This cut is about two miles in length.
being thirty-four miles from Colon and
eleven miles from Panama 1t is
among the hills and is the most diff
cult part of the canal construction.
In several instances nearly whole
hills are being removed. In these
cases, the laborers are scattered In large
groups along the hill sides They loosen
the earth and small stones by means
or crowbars, levers. and pickaxes, and
the dirt trains remove the debris.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Treatment of Whites.

Many stories have been told in tbis
country recently about the Treatment
accorded to American mechanics and
carpenters who go to the isthnus fo,.
work A young man who has inst ra-
turned to Washington from the canal
territory had this to say of the matter.
l knew of party of Americans who
went TO the canal a few months ago
their attention having been called To tbe
opportunities for employment there
through an employment agency in the
United States. They had no trouble In
getting to Panama, nor did they experi-
ence difficulty in securing work.
There was this drawback, however.
1hey were paid about half as much ner
day as had been promised them by the
employment agency Naturally thew
soon tired of this. and made up tbei,.
minds to return to their homes. When
they applied for berths back to America
they were told that all the berths In the
had been taken. This occurred
several times. and it soon became evi-
dent to them that they were not to no
allowed to get home in a conyepient
way
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Hauling Dirt.

AT the foot of each of these terraces
is temporary railroad, On which are
operated half-siZed cars for hauling the
dirt away. In course of time the ter
races are obliterated and the hill hauled
away. TIE top terrace goes first. then
the next, and so on to the bottom. the
railroad sections being taken up and car
ried to the next hill as soon as their
usefulness in the first location has
ceased
This labor of digging and shoveling is
divided among two classes. One set digs
and the other set shovels the earth into
the "dinky" cars. Each man has a GER
tain amount of work to do. The trains
run so many times in an hour. and thev
have TO be filled and emptied on schedule
time.
The waste earth thus provided Is mt
to a good purpose, no less one than i'm
proving the health conditions along tl5e
canal strip. The trains haul 1t 10 the
nearest swamps. where 1t is dumped ont
and finally the swamps are filled un
their noisome surfaces being replaced bv
solid ground, on which houses NAV he
built 1t is hoped that by this means
the sanitary conditions in the neigbhor-
hood OF the canal viii be made almost
perfect.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
American Machinists.

Inc American citizens handle the
machinery of the steam drillers. dredg-
ers and shovels. There are large ma
chihe shops at Gorgona on the 18TH
mus, and here hundreds of white men
are employed. The Janaicans all live
IN nuts and camps near the town of
Cuiepra, a1ter which the cut is called.
me machines used on the isthmus are
OF the most modern and improved type
Inc steam dredger. as shown in the
Illustration, has oand connecting a
series OF large buckets, which, propelled
oy steam. go round in n circle. At the
lowest part of the circle, which is the
potlom or the canal, they are filled with
ea rth by scraping along the bottom. and
lear the Top of the circle they are emp
t-eo into large vat on the dredger, or.
IN sprne cases, are cwung beyond the
sioes OF the canal, thus letting the
earth fall beyond the water.
Inc steam driller is a more powerful
Hhechlne than the dredser 1t is used
poth for making holes in solid rock, in
which large charges of powder or dy-
ndmlte are placed, and also for loosen
ing great masses of rock. The steam
shoVel is very much of the type used
IN this country, but is much larger
than those seen in the terminal work in
this city.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Have Hard Time.

Supplementing the work of these ma
chines. or rather perfectiEg it. stand
the jamaican laborers Theirs is no
easy lot. TheY do lot rest at their
pleasure beneath screen OF luxi1riant
ralms, nor do they cool their heated
prows with the languid swish of a fan.
as the men of the south have been de-
scribed as doing. Their only comfort
is swallow Of tepid water, and this.
at times. Is not of the purest.
When their labor is done for the dav.
they go TO crowded tents and huts to
sleep off enough weariness to allow
them to again grasp the AK beneath the
sTeiterfng rays of the sun During
their sleep, they are troubled by visions
of the reptiles and ncisome inhabitants
OF the swamps and by the drowsy hum
Of the marauding mosquito.
Their labor Is divided into two classes
excavating the hill sides and digging on
level ground. The manner of digging
on the level is much the same as in this
country. When they are told to reduce
a hillside. they remove the earth in sec
tions. graduating the sections like
staircase from the top of the hill to the
canal level. A more apt illustration of it
would be a series of terraces like those
on the lawns Of country houses.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Jamaican Laborers.

Contrary TO the general opinion re-
garding the matter, all the real labor
ers. those who dig and shovel, fare Ia
nlaicans. The American laborers and
employees on the isthmus look after the
machines. do carpenter work, and all
tasks that call for training and educa-
ton. The Janiaicans are employed for
manual labor because they are used to
the trying climate, and work as wei,
there as the American laborer can in
Washington. The Jamaicans are ne
groes, and they are employed, not so
much for their cheapness. as because of
the fact that they can work better than
any other men in that climate.
AT tais time Assistant Chief Engineer
). w Karner is III Barbados looking
Tor more Jamaicans TO go TO the canaI
s.rip and take up the work. 1t is
'hongnt that he will carry several thou
sand from Barbados TO Panama
AS shown In the illustrations accom-
panyinS this article. the Jamaican is
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Steam Shovel Is Busy
Beside the Swinging
Pickax.
Culebra Cut Is Present
Scene of Digging
Activity.
In Some Instances Big
Hills Have to Be
Renewed.
THE burden of the white man and |

THE burden of the white man and
the black man; toll that blisters
the hands and wearies the body
the rumble of the steam shovel
ana the thud-thud of the steam drill:
cFdSeieSs labor, under torrid sun, un-
heard OF difficulties from an engineering
stanopoint-this sums up the situation
On the Panama Canal, where TODAY
Hiihons OF dollars are being expended
ana thousands of laborers employed in
the gigantic task Of cutting a watery
way between the continents of North
ana south America for the Improvement
and facilitation of the commerce of this
country and the whole world.
Much has been said in the United
States in the public press and in Con-
gress concerning the great benefits that
will accrue to the world and especially
this part OF the world as a result Of the
completion Of this giant waterway; and
the people have learned much of the
general features OF the undertaking. the
affairs Of the Panama Canal Commits,
sion, aid other general facts regarding
the matter
That eide of the undertaking known
as the laborer's share in it, has not.
however, been fully revealed. The sweat
Of his brow has gone unnoticed. the
slow stages OF his toll, which will in the
end result as the finished canal, and
the discomforts he suffers have hardly
encited single sentence from the news
papers and the public speakers.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Most Successful Hunt.

Rooseyelt's most successful hunt for
Dig game was in the early months Of
1901. in the Rockies Of Colorado. with
the weather twenty degrees below zero.
He killed twelve mountain lions then
four of them with his knife. This WIS
just previous 10 the Inauguration cere-
monies at Washington, when he became
Vice President of the United States.
AT this famous hunt, which Mr.
Roosevelt thought worthy of record in n
volume of his literary works, there were
plenty of incidents to illustrate the skin
and the daring Of the hunter.
On the second cay of this hunt the
hounds trailed sac cougar TO her lair
IN the rocks, wherA she fled to the dark
recesses OF the cave. After a fierce
light with the dogs she escaped from
the cave and ran. with the hounds and
hunters In pursuit. She gained the
lower branches of a pinon tree, but
The Washington times., 1905-04-02

" VERY year since Roosevelt be-
| ~ came President he has taken
| i from his busy official life a period
for the pursuit of wild game
amid the solitude of forests, mountains
or river deltas. Into this period of
change and recreation he has thrown
himself with the intense absorption of
one who regards most seriously the
benefits as well as the pleasures of the
sport.
The President will again disappear in
the hunting lands of the Rocky noun
tains after he has attended the Rough
R1ders reunion in San Antonia, Texas.
and will have strenuous sport in the
pursuit of bears and mountain lions for
several weeks.
The hardy out-of-door sports of the
wilderness have never lost their charm
for the man who first tasted them as a
lad in the forests of Maine-back in the
early 'l0's. Since then he has known
many rough experiences in wild lands
IN many parts Of the country, and the
fougner they nave been the mora they
have proved enjoyable TO the man who
Is today perhaps the best known hunter
In the world. In this fame he more
than rivals the Emperor of Germany.
who, like himself, has achieved success
IN the hardy and 1aring sport of the
hunter despite serious physical handt-
cap. The Kaiser is a horseman and
hunter ID great skill, In spite OF the
fact that ne IS limited to the use of
out one arm. Roosevelt is daring rider
ana a sure shot, Though handicapped in
both pursuits by imperfect eyesight.
Roosevelt's first hGnt for big game |
was when he was a college boy at Har- |
yard During a summer vacation he |
Was taken by his relatives. ". Emlen |
Roosevelt and DR.. J. West Roosevelt, to |
aunt with "BilT' Sewell in Aroostook /
Maine. !
After the first year in the Maine wiIds |
t became an established habit with
Roosevelt to spend 4 period each year
With his gun n the woods looking for
tome kind of game. No development of
lis public career has interfered with
his program, ma the only year in |
which he has not gone for some weeks
tut of the world Cf houses and Of men |
nto the forest wilderness to camp and
lUnt was that yyear when he led the
Rough Riders in the war with the
,paniardS in Cuba.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02

shany Mountains. Fisher Ames, one Of
the apiest men of his time, said In 1871
ages must elapse before our Western
wilderness Will be peopled, and God
alone knows how it can be governed. .
mat was common idea at the time
ana not many were farsighted enough to
see beyond it Even Jefferson wrote as
late as 1903: The country which we wish
TO purchase is a barren sand. 500 miles
from east to west a d from thirty to
iorty OF nIty miles from north to SOUTH
Jefferson had no adequate conception of
the country he was buying from France
HIS main object was to get completa
control of the navigation and mouth of
the Mississippi, and that was object
enough even If the country beyond was
largely desert vas
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
First Buffalo Hunt.

1t was RooseveIts love of hunting
and Notwithstanding that led him In 1883
TO buy two ranches and stock them with
cattle near Medora, Oak, on the Little
Missouri. 1t was there that the Pres
idents first buffalo hunt took place
when he was twenty-one years old.
After he became a cowboy of the Bad
Lands Mr.. Roosevelt invaded all the
hunting lands of the West, and he shot
some of nearly all the kinds OF game
that roam those parts. His hunting ex-
periences in these years are recorded In
several volumes from his pen.
Mr.. RooseYelt's first Presidential hunt
of note was in November, 1902 when
he pitched his camp on the Little Sun
flower, in Mississippi, and for four days.
under the tutelage of .'Ho" Collier, look
ed for bear. One member of the party
killed a giant creature weighing 225
pounds, but the President. to his deem
was forced to return
home without a single pear.
In one of Mr.. RooseyeIt's books n,
hunting he says:
Ihere are many sides to the charm
Oh Dig game hunting. nor should 1t be
regarded as being without its solid ed
'S-1No6So AAVAI lIS STANDPOINT OF IA
tional character. Always in our modern
life, the life of highly complex in
oustrlalisM, there is a tendency to soft
enlng of the fiber. This is true Of o,,r
and it is no less trua of
very many or our business occupa tfons
NO training in the barracks or on
me parade ground is as good as the
tralninS given by hard hunting trip
N winch q man really does the work
Lof nimSeH, learns to face emergencies
20 study country. to perform feats of
uaruihood, 10 face exposure and under
20 severe labor. 1t is an excellent
-hlnS FOR any man to be q good horse
nan and a good marksr.an. to be able
-c iiVe IN the open and to feel a self
reliant readiness in any crisis Big
game hunting tends to produce or de-
'elop eXactly these physical and moral
rats. To say that il may be pursued
n 4 manner or to an extent which is
ienoraiizjug Is but TO say what can
likewise be said of all other pastfmes
md OF almost all kinds of serious bust
less. That it can be abused, either in
he way in which it is done or the ex-
ent to which it is carried, does not
liter the fact that it is in itself a sane
md healthy recreation.
1t is among such hunting scenes that
President Roosevelt expects 20 spend
ext month and some time in May His
amp will be established in some re-
note canyon, while his special train
rill be sidetracked at the nearest rail-
cad point and will house his stafr of
ficial assistants and provide the only
communication between the President
the United States and the offices OF
he Government at Washington.
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
A Great Mistake.

remember that map perfectly well -
said another elderly member of tba
party, "and | remember our teacher CIV
ing 1T was great mistake for the
United States to pay France 50 much for
a country that was principally desert T
looked up the definition of the word
desert in the dictionary, and when 7
found what it meant / thought tbe
teacher was right. He had the atlas
on his side, for there was Great Amari-
can Desert in big letters covering
great part of the country betwee,, tba
Mississippi river and the Rocky noun
talns- That was geography as she was
taught when l was a boy
The phrase, Great American desart ,,
was an outgrowth Of ignorance regard
ing the true character of the co,,ntrv
west of the Mississippi river. With
many 1t included a one time Ignorance
of the whole country west of the Aua-
The Washington times., 1905-04-02

[LY CAME across an expression I
never heard before the other
day" remarked a young man at
mixed company a few nights
ago. Questioned as to what it was ne
said: Il was reading an old magazine
article, and the writer, referring to
former conditions in the West, spoke
Of the Great American Desert. 1
couldn't make out from the writer's use
of it just what he meant by it. Did any
Of you ever hear of it?" The younger
members of the party said they had not.
but one of the older ones, and not so
very old. either, said: "Why. when 7
was in school the geography and The
maps we studied showed a large area
Of country west of Missouri marked
Great American Desert 7 remember
what effect the phrase had on nv imag
ination- l thought it must be some
thing like the Sahara I had read about
The geography gave the impression that
the Great American Desert was inhabit-
ed only by wandering savages and wild
beasts and could never be reduced +o
It embraced an area that
now constitutes ten or a dozen pros
porous States"
The Washington times., 1905-04-02
Went in Steeraqe

All this time they had to sleep in
small rooms. two in a room, having no
beds, and In most instances only narrow
cots Finally. becoming desperate. some
OF them went to Jamaica, hoping 70
catch steamer home from that point
later, while the others came to This
country as steerage passengers, because
they had been again denied steamer
berths."
Americans are in demand in Panama
as machinists. There are not enough on
the canal strip as yet to supply the de-
mand.
One feature on the canal route always
catches the eye of the stranger. This is
the immense amount of old machinery
left there by the French twenty wears
The Washington times., 1905-04-02

isthmus Left there by its original own
ers, 1t viii remain there until 1t has
sunk out of sight IN the marshy- ground
or rusted away from the action of the
rains
On the canal route there are eight
months OF the wet season and four
months of the dry. The dry season is
trying on the laborers. because the
weather is then at It's hottest. A spade
or lever !sst lying in the sun becomes
SO hot that The metal cannot be touched
oy the hurnan hand. The wet season.
however is not a time for joy among
the workers
rms Is the time when the MOSQUITOES
swarm In greatest numbers, and the
poisonous reptiles become most nIentio
ful and daring. A white man worxine