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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
The Cariaou cs n swimmer.

Clad with Il coat of oily wool next his
skin, the carbon is covered eXteriorly
with dense pelage of fine quilts. Ev-
cry carbon Indeed. wears cork jack
CT. and when this is prime, the crea-
tc.2 seems e. the water rather than In
the water. No other quadruped that l
know swimS as high as the caribou.
Their speed ahoat is SO great that II
takes the best of canoemen TO overtakc
Il vigorous. buck. y good plddler is
supposed To cover about six miles an
hour, so tie caribou probably goes five.
There are many kinds of woodland and
rough country over which the caribou
cannot travel so fast as this What
wonder, then. that they are so ready to
take to the water as soon as they find
it in their course! Mr. Mum assured
me that several times he saw caribou
swim broad bay that was in their
line, though trilling DETECTION would
have given them easy walking along
the shore to the same point and with
but little increase of distance Ernest
Thompson Seton in Scribner's
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01

The explanation of the origin of that
remarkable organism, the cockatrice,
leaves nothing to be desired as regards
accuracy OF detail We are told that
when the cock is past seven years old
an egg grows within him. whereat he
greatly wonders" We can well mag
inc the dismay of any well conducted
masculine bird of that age on finding
himself in such a compromising pre-
dicament, but how did he communi-
cate his feelings TO the historian? That
the embryonic cockatrice had some
mysterious rower OF self advertise
ment is evident, for we hear further
that "a toad privily watches him and
examines the nest every day TO see if
the egg be yet laid. When the toad
finds the egg he rejoices much and at
length matches it, bringing forth an an
imal with the head. neck and breast of
a cock and from thence downward the
body of serpent Pail Mall Gazette.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01

In sermon ut st Paucras parish
church the bishop OF London gave an
indication of his views rs TO what the
sensation Of death would he like. He
said: AT an operation. when you re
ceive whatever it is that makes you
for the time being ilseasible, YOU seem
to be carried for the moment out of
the body. You are, in fact, out of the
body. The body is for the time dead.
Your spirit your mind, is perfectly ac-
tive. | dare say ii is the experience of
many others G:lt You seem to be swept
swiftly under the stars toward your
God. When you are out of the body
or seem to he, if only for few iun-
ments you realize what death will be-"
london Telegraph.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
,,o rhcv Cot In a ROW.

At one of the English country inns
Hook and Mathews once got up MOCK
quarrel before a large company Inc
wit and the comedian each Appeared
most earnestly to the sympathy Oh the
company, who, with the true brltisn
predilection for anything in the shape
of a row, eagerly espoused the siue VI
one or other of the champions. Inc
contest proceeded, and Hooks cool III
vectives, we are told, grew more anu
more cutting and the gesticulatlohs Vi
Mathews more wild and eXtraVaga !.
Blows followed, and the partlsans' II
of gin and valor, soon followed lhe ~
ample of their principals. A gene. ~
melee succeeded. Candles were knock eu
out. tables and chairs overthroWn' 'lie
glasses "sparkled on the boards, anu
In +be midst of the confusion, just III
time to avoid the arrival OF the ponce
and the impressive denouement, tne
nromoters of the riot, unobserved' Ell
fected their escape, leaving their excit-
able adherents to compute at leisure
tba amount of damage done to thelr
nersons and property and to explain IL
possible. to a magistrate in the morn
ing the cause and object OF the CONDUIT
London Spectator.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Red Ears of Corn.

"Red ears are one of the vagaries of
the cornfeld and always seem to inter
est because of their strange appear.
ance and still more strange appearing.
Two years ago row of corn was
planted with grains from a solid red
ear between rows made up of long
list of white varieties, and In no in
stance was there any red color marked
upon any grains in the many white
sorts alongside, and contrariwise no
white grains could be detected upon
the red ears then produced. 1t was
also observed that many of the stalks
from the red grains produced white
ears with colorless grains and husks.
If there is a law underlying the pro-
duction of red ears it is not understood
by the writer.-B. d. Haisted.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
GROSS SECTION OLE srRA1NER.

1.-THE inner frame with inclined wire
strainer fits loosely into the outer box
short two inch iron pipe conducts the
liquid into the spray tank. After AL
wood and Phillips. Virginia experiment
station.l
Of which is rather heavy board, pref
erably of hard wood, with hole bored
through it. into which Il piece of gas
pipe one and Il half to two inches in
diameter and eight to twelve inches
long is fitted. The box is, of course,
open at the top. Fitting just inside this
box is Il second aud lighter box, also
open at the top and having an over
hanging strip nailed around the top
which supports it. The bottom of this
inner box should be made so as to
slope at an angle of about thirty de-
grees and should be made with wire
screen. The slanting bottom makes it
harder to clog with the spray, and the
inner box, being movable, can be in
verted and washed in n tub of water.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
SCARCITY OF COWS.
Too Many People Have Quit Raising
Dairy stock.

There is beyond question Il scarcity
of good ~dairy cows throughout the
middle 81 eastern states. a dozen
men have asked us in the last few
weeks whore they could 30 TO buy a
carload of good cows. and we have
been unable to tell them. We don't
know where good COWS are for sale
even in less than carload lots. The
trouble is that too many people have
quit raising COWS.
The milk industry has extended over
a wide area formerly devoted to but
ter, and milk producers are not in
position to raise cows as Il rule. They
have increased their working herds, de-
pending on purchased material, but
they have sacrificed their calves Veal
prices have been attractive most of the
time, and receipts of calves at market
centers have been constantly increas-
ing. Now dairymen find themselves
facing a shortage of cows. Unless this
wholesale slaughter of calves is check
ed the situation is bound to become
worse than it is now.
Profitable dairy cows are not raised
these days except from dairy herds.
Good milking Shorthorn cows used to
be available to dairymen, but they are
scarce now. Shorthorn breeders have
so largely neglected the milking quail
tiles of their cattle that profitable dali
ry cows of this breed are much harder
to find than they used to be. The other
beef breeds as a rule do not furnish
profitable dairy material. If some dali
rymen do not raise surplus of cows
where are they to come from in the
future? We believe this point is wor-
thy of careful consideration right now.
National Stockman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Norway,s seayyeed.

"All along the coast of Norway sea-
weed is gathered AMI burned" writes
the Christiania correspondent of the
London News. "This seaweed grows
in vertable forests and is not of the
common grass variety. There are ac-
tual trees of it, five or six feet high,
with stems like ropes and leaves tough
as leather They begin to sprout ear
ly in the year and cover the ocean bed
with dense, impenetrable brush. Az
a source of income the seaweed indus,
try now surpasses the fisheries, and it
is more valuable than agriculture even
in one of the leading farming districts
of Norway. Owners of land abutting
on the seashore are reaping great
harvest After the weeds have been
burned the ashes are exported to Eng
land, where valuable chemical sub
stances are extracted from them. The
most important Of these products is
iodine"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Undrcssina Made Easy.

A gentleman who near the close Of
the eighteenth century accompanied
Baron Won Swieten on visit to the
old Duke Of Sachsen- Hidburghausep
relates the following in his memoirs:
"The duke regularly goes to bed ev.
cry night at s o'clock. When leaving
the sitting room to proceed to his
rather distant sleeping apartment he
has number of his Wallets posted all
along the line of route. One of them
takes possession of his wig, the sec
ond divests him of his coat, and SO
on, until by the time he has reached
the goal he is ready to slip into he'd
without more ado
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01

would be spur of track to the airns
and they could ship the fruit Moon
whlle all he had to do was to soc that
the trees were irrigated and th,t M
stray cattle got in. 1t WIS oosv
enough, with the help Of the mon IN
set up a shack for himself ana leave
the old house for Narbel and his bride
lie even had time to ride over and
tell the men at the mine of the iol,a
ana when at last word came over tbair
wire that the pair was due to come out
with the train they all gathered at tbo
ranch to welcome the new Mrs. Narhal
Ihey rode out to meet the dust cloud
which marked the track of the long
line of wagons across the aIkoli bnt
the figure in the buggy beside Norhel
was so swathed in duster and wells
that no hint of her appearance could
be gained, and the men. with many
a nudge and smile, fell in behind and
rode along.
Ihey all turned in at the ranch gate
but Narhel swung his wife out of tbe
buggy and took her into the house
Mrs. Narbel will be glad to meet YOU
when she has had chance to tidy
up" he said with Il grave face "but
she wants the dust off first"
Culver took the horse to the stables
and then reioined the waiting group on
the grass plot in front of the house
Culver knew now why Narbel had in
sisted upon grass plot) They had not
long to wait, for presently gasp from
the crowd caused Culver to turn, and
there on the step stood Narbel and
the very girl of the picture. She was
smiling now as she acknowledged the
various introductions. Culver was the
last to come up, for he had not recov-
cred from his amaZement until Narbel
called to him.
81 feel that ought to be very CRATE
full to YOU she said in low voice,
even though you were trying to play
joke"
1.-THE joke seems to be on me-" he
said lamely.
81 don't think there is any joke" she
said decidedly 1T was Just the work
ing of fate"
He turned to receive the farewells
Of the men from the mine and more
than one joled him on his vivid imagi-
nation. 1t was clear that they thought
he had been fooling them, and he was
glad that he was at least saved their
jeers, but it was with no pleasant an
ticipaton that he followed Narbel and
his wife into the house.
"You buildel better than you knew,
Jack, when you sent that letter wrote
in jest"
But this is not Lucy Mears," he
stammered. Il thought you were 60
ing to keep faith at any cost"
Aunt Lucy died year ago" smiled
Mrs. Narbel. Il suppose no one wrote
you. AS | was the only Lucy Mears l
got the letter"
"And | got the sweetest little woman
on EARTH" supplemented Narbel.
And l." wound up Culver, Il don't
know whether l should be praised or
kicked. l think I'll prefer the latter"
But instead lie received the praise.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Tue Liberty noNN.

The name Of Liberty Boys is the name
by which the Sons of Liberty of the
American Revolution were Familiarity
known. They were the men who fought
the first battles of the colonsts, who
opposed the stamp act and participated
in the Boston tea party. \ flag hoisted
upon the flagstaff that stood beside
Liberty tree, in Hanover square. Bos,
ton. was the signal at which they Rs
Sembled.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01

GIRL OF THE PICTURE.
~ clearly was not from the San
pcisco firms with which he had
pess dealings.
yer laughed so heartily when he
Fead him the first few paragraphs
lie mad become silent, and he
~ read no more, devouring the
-FhtS, while Culver chuckled over
glrllSh letter the elderly spinster
hdIted. 1t was more like the let
a schoolgirl than of a woman
& rty.
was girlish letter, if not school
~, full of excuses and explana-
y mat the writer had been tempted
arS"er because of the sincerity Of
communication and Culver's rec
quotations. Culver reflected that
n oeen capital letter and won
~ now long he should let it run on
n lie should disillusionize Narbel
prose portrait of Miss Lucy as
4tmembered her.
iore he decided to stop the fun a
Psraph arrived, picture of a
II slrl with frank. honest eyes and
IL 'llat won even Culver's admira-
uough he shouted in his glee as
ecalied Miss Lucy, with her prim
N and angular features
nad intended to give the hoax
~ nut this was too good to be
luohed, and he listened with
70 Narbel's rhapsodies, until one
bake shocked him with the an
lVelhent that Miss Mears had con
IL TO marry him and that he was
east to get her.
gently as he could Culver ex-
LEU the deception and sought to
Ioue his friend, but Narbel would
nole OF it. ut may be as you
ut agreed coldiy. But my word
SSeu and I'm going east to keep
Eu' sle's forty if she's a day.
''u culver "Surely. Blake, you
want to marry a woman seven
viuer than yourself"
Tnah have any woman saying
proRe faith" he said soberly.
ualh from the mines is going
,o'norrow. | shall go with it."
,, was as good as his word. When
Eoa "'H tolled back across the sandy
soo, ."e foreman declared that he
toG 'n Narbel board the eastbound
VIM. ana Culver gave up his time
aug up the house.
n, NJ was little to do in the orchard.
r,, antS would not bear before the
'He year, by which time there
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
FnIvor Stoke
n, suse Clements Willis

,.u,rishr. 1866, by E. N PARCELS &
..,>n.1nsssssS>SSS>zSSsSSsSS%al
gn,t know any girls; simple rea-
4 .,.~bed blake Narbel. You see,
~. orsv TO be Il woman Halter
.otber's death. We have re-
In before civilization ever since"
"A ,,i,e Won Il couple of mail intro
hack east laughed Culver.
..or A lot You write nice little
\, and I'll send it"
gness you'd have to write the let
.ooo clucliled Narbel. Il never
4 10 \ woman in my life"
never can tell till you try"
Lad culver. Il wish you'd try
# would keep you busy until l
n this letter
wont on with his writing, and
GOOD lumoredly picked up a
rrcre was Il pack train going
from the mines tomorrow, and
I,,d understand why Culver want
4 finish of the letters he was writ
"a, egst The train went down
Heck and back the next, affording
4 bimonthly communication with
s1ltside world.
hon shall / address it to?' he de-
BED.
H. Iucy Mears," laughed Culver.
two peas scratched over the pa
'cnlver's with easy. rapid move
/ NarbeIs painstakingly. He was
sccustomed to writing, and Culver
Finished half a dozen letters before
Stbers pen was still.
4 yer laughed over the effusion, in
A the writer had pictured his dull
spd had pleaded for permission to
q corre.uondence. He explained
his relations with Culver as bust
partner and chum and limited at
Utilities of matrimony.
II he been in earnest instead Of
" seeking a means of killing time
Culver was occupied he could
lave done better.
the morning Culver came across
! laets and. with a wicked chuckle,
Id them into an envelope and adj
sed them to Lucy Mears, anticipat-
hat elderly lady's surprise when
should open the envelope back in
kew England town.
rbel. clearing up the table that
Ing. noted the absence of the
(. but concluded that Culver had
them up along with his own odd
/ and thought no more of the mat
Intil a month later a letter came
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Fertilizer For Corn.

During the last fifteen years | have
conducted many experiments with fer
tiliZerS for corn and have come to the
conclusion that | am generally safe in
recommending one in which potash Is
made very prominent. l believe good
results will be obtained by using Il
combination of chemicals, of which
each 100 pounds contain nitrate of
soda. 10 pounds; dried blood % pounds;
tankage, % pounds; acid phosphate, &c
pounds; high grade sulphate of potash,
90 pounds Mix this material thor
oughly by shoveling over on a hard
floor and breaking the Jumps and apply
broadcast after blowing and harrow
In. The mixing should be done just
before the material is to be applied, as
it may cake if allowed to stand too
long after being mixed. l believe it
will pay to apply 1000 to 500 pounds
an acre of this Observation-Disclosures W.
2. Brooke in New England Homestead.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
A TypicaI Hungarian Village

Imagine a very broad unpaved road.
like dusty, plowed field, and wild gar
dens trailing around and over white
matched cottages. Each cottage is
one st0ried, with old world caves and
a veranda which runs along the whole
front. The matched roof seems to lean
with all its strength upon toy shaped
cOlonnade. while the creepers afford a
contrast to the whitewashed walls. If
you walk down the road at dusk you
will find at each door one of the house
hold vigorously brushing clouds of dust
away from the footpath, while long
files of clean, curly pigs are trotting
swiftly homeWard and lean mongrels
bay the whispering wind" unceasing-
ly. The men wear linen shirts and
kits. On workdays the costume has
the appearance of long, dingy night
dress tied with a leather girdle. On
heydays the kilt is white and stiff, with
accordion plating. while the shirt is OF
dainty embroidery and sets off an
elaborate wOrSted waistcoat. The girls
full dress is still more picturesque, ow
ing to the harmonious blending Of the
brightest prints-all shades and depths
of blue and red and pink; no other col
ors-and to the graceful fall of the
short petticoats. which do not reach the
ankle, and are inflated by Il slight sus-
picion of crlnoline-Saturday Review.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
snmn Ola Reason.

what was 1t caused the downfall Of
the Trojans?" asked the man who has
forgotten his classics.
sit was the same old story" said the
man who was reading the sporting
page. -"Tney wouldn't let the horses
alone" Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
A valuable Ear of Corn.

The grand champion single ear of
corn won more than 5000 in premiums
at the Iowa corn judging contest and
was sold for $11 to Chicago com.
mission man, who will have the corn
planted. This remarkable ear Of corn
was grown by Mr.. Ross Of Fremont
county, la.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Cause of Wnrm and cold Periods.

Experiments of the Swedish physi-
cist Arrhenius. experimenting the in
vestigations of Professor Langley, in
dicate that in order to explain the orr
gin of the warm climate which prevail
ed over the earth in the tertiary age,
when even the polar regions seem to
have abounded with life, and OF the
intense cold that caused the glacial pc
RODS, when half the northern heml-
sphere was buried under ice, it is only
necessary to look to slight changes III
the composition of the atmosphere. The
active agent in these changes is thought
TO have been carbon dioXid. 1t has
been shown that this gas possesses so
great a power to retain solar heat that
its addition to the extent of only one
tenth of / per cent of the present at
mosphere would suffice to produce
tertiary climate and that taking away
only one-fiftieth of per cent from th1
present atmosphere would bring OF
glaciation. 1t has beer cOniectured ina
the fall of meteors was the source G
the extra supply of carbon dioXld
former geological periods.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Nothing to Brag OF,

Bluff-Td have you know, sir, tblt
I'm self made man. Gruff-Well. I'm
sorry for you, but keep it dark and
don't think too much about it, and per
haps you'll get along all right
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
Onions For Home Garden.
Tie Paradox.

Hamand-~ Since Walker Tighs inher-
tied 100000 he is paradox Egg
bert-What's the answer? Hamand-
He is both the richest and poorest
actor on the stage.-Chicago News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
POPULAR GARDENING

Don't you think it would pay you to
plant mere early potatoes in the gar
den this time? You may have to make
the garden a little larger All right.
There is nice money and a lot of it in
early potatoes, remarks an exchange.
The Early Planted Peas.
The early planted peas almost inva-
riably do the best. Get them into the
ground just as soon as you can have
the soil in shape to receive them.
A Garden Staple.
Cabbage is grown by the dozen in
amateur gardens and by ten thousands
in market gardens. Since it responds
so readily to right treatment it is enti-
tied to all the space, care and atten-
ton given it. The soil most suitabl"
for the cabbage is Il heavy sandy loan,
with a rich dressing Of well decayed
stable manure plowed in deeply and
thoroughly narrowed. Mark off the
ground into rows two feet apart one
way and sixteen inches the other. AT
each intersection scatter little CON
centfateu IefIlllIeF anu SET lhS pldulS
deep. nearly to the first leaf, firming
the ground we'll around the roots. Cul-
tivate thoroughly and frequently and
hoe deeply.
Small Early Table DeetS.
Seed can now he sOwn in open ground
and for succession every few weeks
For the small early table beets the
rows may be made one foot apart and
the plants be thinned to stand three or
four inches apart in the rows.
Onions For Home Garden.
Onions for the home garden should
be raised partly from seed and partly
from sets or transplanting. The small
onions picked off from one seasons
crop may be used as sets the next year,
when they will give much earlier
crop than those from seed. The same
ground that grows onions may some
times be used to grow cucumbers or
melons mt the same time. since onions
do not shade the land much or take
much nourishmelt from it except early
In the spring.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
WHEN MAKING BORDEAUX.
Sn Effective Handmade Strainer.
Brass Wire Best.

No matter what quantity of Dor
leauX mixture is to be made up, it is
necessary 10 strain the materials
through wire strainer. The best type
of strainer is made of brass wire with
eighteen or twenty meshes to the inch.
If all the copper solution is strained
and then the milk of lime is strained
into the diluti0n vessels it will not be
necessary TO strain the bordeaux mix
ture. as Oh account of its flocculent
character it is sometimes more difficult
to pass through the strainer than the
lime milk. Some very good strainers
made of copper are on the market and
may he obtained from the makers of
spray pumps One of the best which
can be made at home is in the form of
box about foot square, the bottom