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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
THE CUTTING OF CANrEos.
Stones Are Plentiful, but Large, Per-
feet Pieces are Costly.

Canoes are cut from the stones
onyx and sardonyx, which are said to
be so plentiful on the Uruguay Riv-
er in Brazil that ships often carry
them away as ballast. Nevertheless,
perfect pieces of large size are cost
ly. A piece suitable for large por-
tai costs about SIS.
This stone is preferred for canoes
because of its hardness and durabil-
ity and is suitable for such work ow-
ing to the fact that it comes in lay
ers of contrasting colors as black and
white, black and cream or red and
white. When the cut figure is sunk
into the stone instead of being raised
the cutting is called an intaglio.
The cost of these gems is due to
the time and skill required in the
work. Formerly a small gem might
occupy an artist for a year or more,
but with modern appliances the work
can be done more rapidly. Still the
ancient work bears the palm for ar
tistic excellence.
The cutting is now done by hold
ing the stone against a revolving
drill, whose steel face is covered with
diamond dust. No steel is hard
enough to cut the stone. The ut
most patience and caution and deli
cate handling are required, as the
sllghtest slip may spoil the work.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
MEN WHO LIVE ON sTILTS.
Turpentine Gatherers and Sheep
Herders of Parts of France.

The people live on sixteen foot
stills in the remarkable turpeutine
growing country of France. They
don these stills after breakfast. They
do not remove them again till it is
time for bed.
There are two reasons for the
wearing of stills in the turpentine
country. One is the turpentine
gathering. The other is the herding
of great flocks.
The turpentine comes from the
maritime pine. The tree is tapped,
single is inserted, and from the
single is hung a tiny bucket, into
which the turpentine drips. The tap
ping process is like that used on the
American sugar maple.
Young pine trees are tapped low,
but with each years passage the in
cision is made higher up, so that it is
not long before most of the trees are
tapped twenty or thirty feet from the
ground.
Hence the huge stills of the work
men. On these stills they traverse
the fiat country, covering five or six
yards with each stride, and quickly
and easily collect the turpentine that
overflows the little buckets hanging
! high up in the trees.
1t is for herding also that the stills
are useful. The country is very fiat,
and the herdsman, unless he continu-
ally climbed tree, would be unable
to keep all the members of his huge
flock in sight. But, striding about
on his stills, he commands wide
prospect; he is always, as it were,
upon a hill.
The silt wearers carry a fifteen
foot staff with a round, fiat top like
a dinner plate. When it is lunch
time or when they are tired they
plant upright under them the staff
and sit down on its round, fiat top.
Then in comfort seated so diZZily
high, they eat and rest and chatter
"a strange sight to behold.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

Two thousand unihabited islands
lie between Madagascar and the In
dian coast.
In Japan fish have to be sold alive,
and they are hawked through the
streets in tanks.
Prince Louis Napoleon is a Cen
eral in the Russian army. This is not
a reminder Of Moscow, 1912.
Lightning clouds are always near
the ground. They are seldom at a
greater height than 1000 feet.
A gale blowing eighty miles ar
hour eXerts pressure of nearly
thirty-two pounds to the square foot.
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley eX-
poets shortly to settle in Baltimore,
and will make that city his perma-
nent home.
February holds the record as the
month in which most children are
born; June as that in which there
are fewest births.
The life of the horse is said to
have been reduced By civilization.
At the age of twenty-siX the domes-
tic animal is as old as If it had lived
thirty years in a free state.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

Parsonsfield had been the sleepi-
est little village imaginable, but
with the advent of the charming
Mrs. We're it awoke from it's lethargy
Beatrice We're was a widow, but I'M
like the proverbial widow she was
dark and petite and apparently not
over % years of age.
She was a source of wonder to the
simple country folks from the mo-
ment she came among them. The
gossips talked of her over their tea
cups and at their knitting; the VIII
lage maidens were envious of her
beautiful hair and fine complexion,
while the youths of the village, one
and all, declared her to be the most
beautiful woman that had ever
honored Parsonfield with her pres
ence.
1t was not long before many a
maiden found herself forsaken by
her sweetheart, and it is needless to
say that in all cases Breatrice We're
was the cause of it. But / am only
going to mention one of those young
girls names, and that is Ruth Will
liams.
Prior to the young widows COM
ing Ruth had always been the vii
lage queen; and among her subjects
was Richard Waldron, one of Par
sonsfield's most promising young
men. 1t was rumored that he and
Ruth were betrothed and that they
would wed in the early autumn. But
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Home
Circle
Depart
lllellt.
YOUR REWARD.

II YOU scatter see Dis along
The lea and fertile ground,
The Others harvest where You have
suWn
When golden grain Is found,
And claim the rleauiugs rich and rare
When garnered in Their store,
The Lord will know at harvest time
Who scattered seed, before.
Ifyuu should strike a sweeter chord
Upon some tuned heart strings,
Aud though they vibrate around the
world
Aud mus sWtctcT rings
From sea % sea, from pole TO pole
Aud cross the ocean wide.
Fen tho't wef, kings the honor claimed
Could not the light one hide.
II you can ease some troubled heart,
However panied your own,
Or bring some Joy where sorrow
dwells,
To cast away it, gloom.
No need for praises loud and long,
The Lord. He knows IL all,
Ani on the dav OF your reward
He knows on whom to call
Take courage then, you who must SOW
For other souls 10 reap;
The Lord, He viii the right one know
He will the cords keep,
Aud If with earnest praying hearts
You Will your duty do.
Each will receive hi- own reward
But your, will come To you.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Russian Thrift,

An amusing story is told by a
young school teacher who became in
terested in couple of bright Rus
sian boys, who came to her school
with the evidence of recent arrival
thick upon them, and with the name
of Murphy. She called at the home
of the children, and learned from the
father that his name was not Muir
ply. but that he had simply taken it.
81 bought out the butchers shop" he
said. 'and there was a sign over the
door with the name Murphy on 1t.
| take down the sign have to put up
another one and paint it. That costs
money. So leave it up and call my
nasme Murphy, and save money"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
90 YEARS OF FARM PROGRESS.
Miscellaneous Vegetables Unknown
Half a Century Ago.

The farm gardens, market gar
dens and truck gardens of to-day are
the producers of multitude of mis-
cellaneous vegetables almost I'M
known fifty years ago, says Harpers
Weekly. In the census of 1890 the
large increase in garden products
was recognized, and systematic
count of their bulk and value was
made. 1t is possible, therefore, to
make a ten-year comparison of the
increase of such products, and this
records the remarkable increase of
from 100 per cent. to 400 per cent in
the five several divisions of the
country.
Could our great-granddaddies,
who thought tomatoes poisonous,
and our great-grandmothers, who
grew them as ornamental plants in
window pots, under the attractive
name of love apples" come back
and realize that over thirty million
bushels of the pretty poisonous vege-
tables are eaten as a common and
healthful food they would surely
realize that time works wonderful
changes. Another interesting state
ment is that the lettuce crop of the
! South has so increased that in the
spring of this year North Carolina
sent twenty carloads of that vege-
table north in a single day.
Thirty-five years ago celery was a
rarity. even on hotel tables, and was
used by few families, even of wealth
To-day it is common edible, occupy
ing thousands of acres in Michigan,
! Ohio and New York. One firm has
celery farms in Michigan, Florida
and California, and because of the
variety of seasons it is engaged in
shipping celery by the carload the
whole year round.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

A necklace of Marie Antoinette is
now the cause of litigation before
the Paris courts in singular circum-
stances. In 1903 Don Jaime de
Bourbon asked NJ. Froment- Maurice
to find for him a buyer for a pearl
necklace of great value which had
belonged to Marie Antoinette, and as
the agent intimated that time was
necessary, the gems were placed with
Mont-de-Piete for $4,000.
Last year a person who had OBJ
tanned knowledge of the transaction
obtained release of the Jewels by
forging Don james name and re-
pledged them with NM. Pollack and
Rothschild, the bankers, for s1,S0O.
The forger got ten months imprison-
ment for his offence, and now the
bankers are suing Don Jaime for
their e1,S00, and Don Jaime is su-
ing the bankers for all the expenses
he has incurred in recovering the
necklace.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

and in her great fear sbe Co.,
arise. 'uo started
Just then the boat Gov
lurch, and moment aff av a III
fair young widow was strn ~aras 4
the water. Richard WaIdrrassllns
to her rescue at once. AZ ,Oa spraI
TO the surface the first time I hn ca
her by the hair. Alas, ~ ne sei1I
full hair and the widow nar ny 1eaq|
pany, and Richard, to b ',eu eoI
amazement, held a wiz in b;s sFq
rms was not all. The lovely Da ~
plexion which had been tbo wv coI
the village maidens was now vu, I.
req and white rivulets Gowing
the Widows cheeks As IS, uoI
drew her into the boat bo Hlcha
one look of disgust-and save n,.y,
might. well
The lovely young widow 90 ..
disappeared and a woman NJ 80 80
40 years of age had taken be - - r.
The young man escorted her - pa :,
boarding place, but that wac y, "
time he saw her. '"e !
If any one of my readers a..
happen to visit Parsoug6eld ons sO
on Richard Waldron and HE .
young wife, Ruth. would c.n.
them not to speak of lovely '@ ~.
widows, for it is a subject tbs ~,
Waldron does not care to tau, ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
4 ZakODanp House,

A Zakopane house is a very care
fully finished wooden structure,
built of tight-itting, heavy logs of
spruce, which become reddish brown
with age, and are surmounted by a
very steep, high shingle roof which
gives a good protection against the
heavy falls of snow and rain, and
with its triangular gables OF acute
angles harmonizes we'll with the Ia
ira peaks and the tall spruce trees.
The frame Of the door is built OF very
heavy blocks of wood, surmOunted
by a semicicular arch, Joined to-
gether by two anchor-shapcd pieces,
and held in place by rows of elabO-
rately carved wooden pegs. The big
rafters of the ceiling are embellished
with carved ornaments Of very
unique conception. The circular
kolo zboyeckie, the heart-shaped pa
zenitsa, and the syastica, with sharp
points, are some of the main mo-
tives of this odd ornamcntation with
which the goorals in very judicioUs
way adorn their ash-wood furniture,
wooden vessels, and instruments It
is wonderful how in the center of oil
Europe they have remained unaffeot-
ed by the leyelling force of modern
civilization, and have developed a
style absolutely unlike anything even
the nearer parts of Poland or in
neighboring Hungary. Century
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Curiositics of the Cactus.

Mexico has a cactus which grows
toothpicks; ribbed and thickly set
with teeth-like spines. which furnish
the natives with combs; there is an
other cactus the long, curved spines
OF which resemble fish hooks; there
Is another which is an almost perfect
imitation of the sea-urchin; still an
other resembles a porcupine: there is
another covered with long red hair
which is nicknamed the "red-headed
cactus"
There are several varieties which
serve as timepieces. one of these.
the Cereus nycticalus, opens its bios
SONS at o'clock in the evening and
closes them at o'clock In the morn
Ing; another opens at o'clock and
closes at S the next morning: an.
other opens at o'clock in the morn
ing and closes at noon.-American
Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Child labor Increasing MENACE

Pennsylvania bears the unenyiable
distinction of employing more chill
dren than any other. In a single
class of industries in one State the
increase was more than 5000 in one
year and 10000 in eight years.
In New York State the Depart-
ment of Labor reports an increase of
more than 10 per cent. in three years
and more than SS per cent. in five
years.
The Iowa State Federation of La
Dor reports that child labor in that
State has trebled in four years.
And so on down the list, until the
growing shame stalks right up to
your own threshold wherever YOU
may be.-Woman's Home Compan-
Ion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
HOW INDIANS PREPARE MEl",
Reduced to n Powder One Pownd Of
Which Equals Five of Solids.

Most tribes of plains Indians dry
their meat by cutting it into thin
fakes and spreading it on racks and
poles in the sun. Pemmican Is
manufactured in the following man
ner.
The choicest cuts of meat are Sc
lected and cut into flakes and dried.
Then all the marrow is collected and
the best of the tallow, and both tall
low and marrow are dissolved to-
gether over a slow fire Many tribes
use berries in their pemmican.
Mountaineers always do unless they
have sugar.
The meat is now pulverized 20 the
consistency of mincemeat, the squaws
generally doing this on a flat rock,
using a pestle. a layer of meat is
spread, about two inches thick, the
squaws using a wooden dipper, a
buffalo horn or a claw for this work.
On this meat is spread a certain
amount of the melted marrow and
tallow, the proportion depending on
Jne taste. MS same process is re-
peated until the desired amount is
secured. One pound of pemmican is
equal in nourishment to five pounds
of fresh meat.
Another important article of food,
the equal of which is not to be had
except from the buffalo, is "depuy-
err" depouille. 1t is a fat substance
that lies along the backbone next
to the hide, running from the Shout
der blade to the last rib, and about
as thick as ones hand or finger. 1t
will weigh from five to eleven pounds
according to the size or condition of
the animal. 1t will keep indefinitely,
and is used as a substitute for bread,
but is superior to any bread that was
ever eaten.
When going on the warpath the
Indians would take some dried meat
and some "depuyer" to live on, and
nothing else, not even if they were 10
be gone for months.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Seven Years in Bed.

"Will wonders ever ceasefv in.
quire the friends OF Mrs. l.. Pease.
of Lawrence, Kan. They knew
she had been unable to leave her
bed in seven years on account of
kidney and liver trouble, nervous
prostratiOn and general debility;
but, "Three bottles of Electric
Bitters enabled me to walk" she
writes, "and in three months |
felt like new person." Women
suffering from Headache, Back.
ache, Nervousness, Sleeplessness,
Melancholy, Painting and Dizzy
Spells will find 1t a priceless
blessing. Try it. Satisfaction is
guaranteed by A. L. Pearre.
Only SOC.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
yellow Springs,
August 20. 1906.


The result Of the Democratic
primary on last Saturday even
ing, the 10Th inst, was to send
mass delegation to Braddock
Heights, on he Sth Of September.
Mrs. Vernon Feaga on last
Wednesday had the misfortune
to fall while in the act of putting
hurd of apples on a scaffold
to dry and dislOcated her left
shoulder from which she is suffer,
ing very much.
Mr.. Elmer b. Feaga has re-
Gently made improvements to his
residence.
Mrs. W. A. Zimmerman, of
Frederick, has been visiting
friends in this vicinity during
the past week.
There are a few more claims to
settle with the land owners, aud
then the work of construction
will begin on the Washington,
Frederick and Gettysburg Rail
road.
Mr.. Charles Staley recently lost
a very fine horse. The animal
suffered from both fistula and poll
evil.
Our band and a lot of our citi.
zens attended the Urbana picnic
on last Saturday.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

There is in the possession Of the
Rothschilds a grandfather's clock
which is practically priceless. 1t
cost originally over $150,0OO. The
mechanism records the day of the
week, the month of the year, the
phases of the moon and strikes each.
hour The quarters are chimed with
a different bell, and-a rare thing
with these clocks-has a second
hand. The case was made by Wer-
theimer and stands fourteen feet
high. The ornamentation consists of
an eagle at the top and figures OF
Peace and War on pedestals at the
side, while the panels and body con-
sist of carvings of emblematical de-
signs.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24

In many of the Greek islands div
ing for sponges forms a considerable
part of the occupation of the inhabi-
tants. The natives make it a trade
to gather these, and their income
from this source is far from con-
temptible. In one of the islands a
girl is not permitted to marry until
she has brought up a certain num-
Der of sponges and given proof of her
skill by taking them from a certain
depth. But in some of the islands
this custom is reversed. The father
of manageable daughter bestows
her on the best diver among the suit
ors. He who can stay longest in the
water and bring up the biggest cargo
of sponges marries the maid.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
The MYsteries of Sleen.

1t is related of a Chinese merchant
who was convicted of wife murder
and sentenced to die by being de-
prived of sleep, that he was placed in
prison with guards changed hourly
for the purpose of preventing him
from sleeping. After the commence
ment of the eighth day his suffering
was so intense that he implored the
authorities to strangle, guillotlne,
burn him, drown him, garrote, shoot,
quarter, blow up with gunpowder, or
put him to death in any conceivable
way.
Natural sleep has been defined as
mental rest produced by an appetite
resulting from fatigue. But the idea
that mental rest means mental mac
ton Is hardly tenable, inasmuch as
it quite frequently happens that the
solution of unsolved problems is the
first thing to appear in the conscious
ness on awakening, and thus the
mind must have been operative while
asleep.-Harper Weekly.
Female Bodyguard to King.
The King of Siam has a body
guard composed of 400 female war
riors. At the age of thirteen they
enter the royal service and remain in
1t until they are twenty-five, then
pass into the reserve. Their weapon
Is the lance, and they are splendidly
trained in the use of it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
BALTIMORE g. OHIO r. r.
Popular Excursions 70
NIAGARA FALLS.

only $ll.05 Round Tnp from Fred.
erick,
August and II; September IA and
%, 1906.
Excursion tickets will be sold on
above dates for any train making con.
nection with Special Train leaving
Washington 80 A. NJ, Baltimore
Camden Station. SIS A. NJ, arriving
Niagara Falls at II 90 p. Nj.
From points west of Mt Airy and
Washington Junction tickets will toe
sold for any train on day previous to
above dates.
Tickets valid for return ten .lO) days,
including date of sale on ali regular
trains. except "Black Diamond Ex-
press" of Lehigh Valley Route
Call on ticket agents for pamphlets
giving full information rs to stop
overs, side-trips etc.
aug 3 st.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
MAKE HOME ATTRACTIVE.

Have good papers and maya
azines; let the boys and girls sub
scribe for them. Have music of
some kind, and never consider
that you have performed your
duty to your children unless YOU
give them the advantage of au
education. Let the children that
have talent for music take les.
sons III music; even if you can't
afford to let them take lessons
until they are good musicians,
why let them take a few lessons
and get some knowledge of music,
and by practice and study they
may become experts. If some of
them show "A talent for drawing
or printing or any of thr arts,
why cultivate that talent to the
best of their ability.
Always have your home well
lighted Oil or gas is very much
cheaper than having your chill.
dren wander off, you know not
where, aud they naturally want
to go where it is bright and at.
tractive.
Let them invite their friends
to their home and then let them
be assisted in entertaining, but
do not try to mOnopolize all of
the time, but remember that it is
the children's company.
Don't wake your boys and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
Wit of King Edwards Fomi,,.

Queen Maud has the reputationI
being the wit of King Edwards q
lily. On one occasion She was n
her sisters at a public function ]
noticed a curious pressman gazing
their every movement. Accordin5
Sic wrote something on a piece
paper, and, making a pretenca
handing it to one of her sisters dr.
ped it. The reporter, of course
great glee picked it up, expecting
get a great scoop for his paper
agine his chagrin when he for
written on it the commonplace
mark: MY new boots Hnch NE h
ribly."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-08-24
A Forest of Giants.

1t is almost impossible for one who
has seen only the Eastern or Rocky
Mountain forests to imagine the
woods of the Pacific coast. Pictures
Of the big trees are as common as
postage stamps, but the most won
derful thing about the big trees is
that they are scarcely bigger than
the rest of the forest.
The Pacific coast bears only a
tenth of our woodland, but nearly
half of our timber. An average acre
In the Rocky Mountain forest yields
one to two thousand board feet of
timber, in the Southern forest three
to four thousand, in the Northern
forest four to six thousand.
An average acre on the Pacific
coast yields fifteen to twenty thou
sand. Telescope the Southern and
Rocky Mountain forests, toss the
Northern on top of them, and stuff
the central into the chinks, and, acre
for acre, the Pacific forest will out
weigh them all.-American Maya
zine.