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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
THE DOCTORS GIFT
Food Worth its Weight in Gold.

We usually expect the doctor to
put us on some kind of penance and
give us bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought patient
something entirely different and the
results are truly interesting.
Two years ago." writes this pa.
tient, Il was a frequent victim Oh
acute indigestion and biliousness, be-
ing allowed to eat very few things.
One day our family doctor brought
me small package, saying he had
found something for me to eat, at
last.
He said it was a food called
Grape-Nuts, and even as its golden
color might suggest, it was worth It's
weight in gold. was sick and tired,
trying one thing after another to no
avail, but at last consented to try this
new food.
Well! 1t surpassed my doctors
fondest anticipation, and every day
since then l have blessed the good
doctor and the inventor of Grape
Nuts.
Il noticed Improvement at once
and In a months time my former
spells OF Indigestion had disappeared
In two months I felt like new man
MY brain was much clearer and keen.
er, my body took on the vitality Of
youth. and this condition has contin'
ued."
There's Reason" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek. MICH
Read The Road to MELVILLE" "
pkgs.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Buddhism.

The substance of Buddhism, as
given by its founder is as follows:
ITO serve wise men, and not to serve
fools; to give honor to whom honor
is due; much insight and much edu.
cation; complete training and pleas.
ant speech; to succor father and
mother; to cherish wife and child; to
follow peaceful calling; to give
aims and liverlghteously; to help men
and do blameless deeds; reverence
and lowliness; contentment and graf.
itude; temperance and chastity; a
mind mistaken by the things of the
world; without anguish or passion.
They that live like this are invincible
on every side; on every side they walk
in safety, and theirs is the create
blessing. New York American.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Only Results Count.

A COW may possess many of the
points of excellence which among the
judges are considered as indicating
good qualities; she may possess the
triple wedge, the soft, mellow skin,
the slender neck, the clean head, the
dished face, the large, fine nostril.
the prominent, bright eye, and yet
with all these good features she may
possess a meaty udder of small ca
pacity, thus rendering her incapable
of large and continuous milk pro-
duction. Results, actual results,
form the final test of excellence after
ALL. ]. Vernon, New Mexico Ex-
pertinent Station.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
The Flavor of Nuts

The flavor of nuts is very largely
dependent upon the oils which they
contain, though in some there are al
so specific fiavoring bodies. The nut
oils readily become rancid, the very
disagreable flavor of spoiled nuts be-
ing due to this property. Some nuts,
for instance, the chestnut, have a
starchy flavor as we'll as a ''nutty"
taste. The small native nut is much
more highly favored than the large
Italian or Japanese chestnut. The
almond possesses the cyanic acid flaw
or, which is characteristic of peach
pits, plum pits, etc., and this might
be expected when it is remembered
that the almond is the dried pit of an
inedible fruit somewhat resembling
the peach in appearance and closely
related to 1t botanically. Most al
monds are mild favored, though in
the so-called bitter almonds the cy-
anic acid yielding glucoside is more
abundant. In raw peanuts there is a
decided flavor resembling that of the
closely related beans and peas, and
to some persons this is not unpala-
table. In the roasted peanut, which
most of us prefer to the raw, the
flavor is largely dependent upon the
Drowned oils and starches or other
carbo-hydrates.-Ye Book, U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

great care for fear that hand or arm
Or those of his companions should
not come In contact with it's sharp
edge. The device is of such proper
tons that when not in use it can be
readily carried in the pocket. 1t con-
sists of two fiat pocket-like sections
or clips, having open tops so that
they are adapted to fit over the edge
OF the axe blade with a spring con-
Meeting the sections and causing
them to automatically engage with
the blade
This device will be equally appre-
ciated blythe lumbermen of the North
west camps. whose constant compan-
ion Is the axe with which the mon
archs Of the forest are felled. The
tool made use of by these men have
razor edge at all times, and men are
often seriously cut by accidentally
coming in contact with the keen edge.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Ducks and Geese.

Waterfowl have attracted more
than passing attention of late fol
market The cultivation of egg-pro
possible the keeping of ducks at g
greater possible profit; where ducks
will lay sufficient eggs during a veal
to hatch brood or two and to pay
for their own feed, they are very
profitable product. They are easily
kept within an enclosure, grow fast.
cause but little trouble or anxiety
after they are a week or ten days
old The consumption of ducks as
dressed poultry is largely on the in.
crease, and for some reason or other
they always sell at the higher price
at the same season of the year thar
that obtained for poultry.
Geese, while growing in favor, are
more difficult to manage; they do not
pay so well unless you have rough
waste lands, with swimming pools.
from the fact that geese are heavy
graZers. Some assert that six geese
will eat as much grass as COW. This
is not an actual fact, but geese do
consume wonderful amount of herb
age of many kinds. For this reason,
low, marshy lands that cannot be
made. use of for other kinds of graz
ing can be most profitably utilized
for the growing of geese. On lands
of this kind they can be kept through
the entire year, providing there is
high place on dry land that they can
come to at night during the stormy
weather. Lands that are unfit for
other kinds of stock may be most
profitably made use of for the grow
ing of geese.
In selecting geese, it may we'll be
remembered that feathers are one of
the profitable considerations, and
that white feathers will sell for one
or two cents more pound than will
colored ones. There are many kinds
of geese that may be made use OF,
each grower selecting the kind best
suited to his locality. More pounds
of goose meat can be grown in the
same number of days with less cost
per pound than in almost any other
fowl, from the fact that more than
one-half their entire sustenance can
be graZed from the marshy lands,
being fed only for the first two or
three weeks of their existence and
after cold weather sets in, when they
are to be fed and fattened for mar
ket.
To have the best results from tur-
keys, ducks and geese, one should
select and have in hand on his farm
| the stock to be made use of as pro-
ducers the next year prior to the
first of the year. Ducks and geese
brough. on to a place after the first
of March are not likely to prove very
profitable during that season. A
well-set flock of geese do bess in their
second year, and continue 20 do re-
markedly well as producers Tor many,
many years. 1t is always best to
change the ganders at leas. once in
two or three years. Kee.J the old
geese SO long as they will lay eggs
and produce flock of goslings.
Ducks do not continue as profitable
breeders much beyond the third
year Very old geese cannot be
made palatable for dressed poultry.
Ducks can be quickly fattened into
palatable food at almost any age;
if taken when quite thin in flesh and
fed on rich, fattening foods they will
fill up with juicy, palatable meat in a
few weeks and make fairly GOOD mar
ket fowls.-Country Gentleman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Kill the Boosters.

For various reasons assigned an
authority advises poultry keepers to
kill their ROSTERS. First, you are not
apt to have little chicks running
about late in the season; second, the
old ROSTERS are no longer needed, as
next season you should get young
ROSTERS from another flock, and the
old ones are just eating food for no
use at all, besides being in the way
OF other fowls; last, but not least by
any means, your eggs packed for the
winter market will keep much better
if no ROSTERS are allowed to run with
the hens. Clean out your old roos-
tiers, then, and try the experiment.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Strong Language by Proxy.

Vicar John, do you-er-ever
use strong language?"
John (guardedly) -"Well, sir, L
1 may oe a little bit keerless like in
my speech at times"
Vicar-~Ah, I'm sorry, John. But
we will converse about that at some
other time Just now l want you to
go to the plumbers and settle this
bill of ga los. for thawing out a
water pipe And you might just talk
70 the man in a careless sort of way.
as il ii were your own bill. Punch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Fowls in Cold Weather.

According to good practical au-
thority when the cold weather begins
the capacity of the hens for finding i
portion of their food will be lessened.
hence they must be supplied by the
poultryman. Not only will ground
oyster shells and gravel be necessary,
but green food and water. Green
food is easily obtained by using finely
chopped clover, which should be
stepped in boiling water and fed early
in the morning.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Nile Cotton.
by CHARLES M. PEPPER

The showing of the cotton Weld :,
the Nile regions in values presents
remarkable series of ascending g.,
ures. In 1906 the increase in 4,
value of the crop over the nrevior.
year was s3O,O00,OO0. Over cr0s
ping, boil weevil and unfayor.N.
conditions of the season, from whi,,
Egypt is no more exempt than otbs,
cotton-growing regions, have bas,
balanced BY bringing increased area,
under cultivation, so that an aetna
increase of 20,000,00O pounds IN n.
crop of 1907, as compared with 1Ssr
was obtained, the production fl,
those years, decade apart. belp,
654,31S,000 pounds and 675 900 ONi
pounds, respectively.
The area under cotton in 1SO,
was slightly in excess of 1,5OOOi
acres and the average yield per ar.
was AS pounds. In Lower EgyH
forty per cent. of the cultiyatpi
area or 100000 acres is under chi
tivation and all of this sectlo-
through having perennial irrigatiol
is cotton-bearing. So, by means .
the Assouan dam, the engineers hay
assured the permanency of thl
source of Egpyt's wealth, since col
ton can be grown on the same land
two years out of five.
We may conclude that in cotto
Egypt has a permanent world ma
ket, and for that reason this slap
will be cultivated in preference
other crops. The change from Ii
time of Joseph and his captive bret
rem to the epoch of Lord Cromer ar
the British pro-consuls is one fro
corn to cotton.-Scribner's Magazin
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Good Roads Work.

The good roads microbe has multi
piled rapidly in New York. The
State appropriated $5,000,OOO last
year out of money realized from the
sale of an issue of $50,OO0,0O0 worth
of bonds authorized by an amendment
to the State constitution. This is
going some. For this good road con.
struction the State pays one-half the
cost, the counties thirty-five per cent.
and the township or property owners
fifteen per cent. The bonds run for
fifty years and pay three and a half
per cent. interest. An annual tax
of .0555 mill upon each dollars worth
of property for every million dollars
worth of bonds outstanding is pro-
vided to pay the interest and create
sinking fund with which to redeem
one-half the bonds The rest of the
bonds are to be paid in fifty equal
annual instalments by the county and
townships wherein the proceeds have
been applied to the improvement of
highways. The result is that New
York promises to become the good
roads State of the Union, ever vieine
with Massachusetts, where miles and
miles of splendid State boulevards
have been constructed within the past
few years. The old days of the
farmers blowing up the sides of the
roads and throwing the sod into the
middle, when there is no work upon
the farm that can be done, and thus
working out the road tax, promises
to become a thing of the past in the
Empire State, or at least relegated
to the remote corners.-Souther
Planter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
When to Trim Trees.

An authority upon the subject of
fruit growing says that he prefers
winter to spring for pruning his or
chard. The tree, perhaps, does not
peel off so easily when rubbed by the
ladder or the boot heels. Then an
other thing, which is of quite little
Importance, is that it is much easier
to get about the tree tops when the
trees are free from leaves or bios
SONS.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Shield On the a-e.Ed-c.

After his gun, the thing which the
hunter in the woods has the most
use for is an axe. 1t is the means of
cutting his waT where he could not
otherwise pass; it is the means of
providing him with his fire and often
In close conflict is the weapon by
which his life is saved.
For the hunters use a SPECIAL axe
B made, which hangs to his belt, but
In this position he has to exercise
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Tasting Dinners,

An out-of-the-way profession for a
woman is that of dinner faster. She
is product OF Partisan refinement,
and spends a portion Of each day
visiting houses and tasting dishes in
tended for dinner. She suggests i'm
provements, and shows the COO. new
ways of preparing roods-Reader.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Old Age Pension.

The Canadian Government has de.
cided to enact legislation of Parlia.
,ment providing pensions for old age
The chief purpose is to encourage
thrift and saving among the working
Glasses.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
A Waste to Doctor.

In ninety-nine cases out of every
hundred it is waste of time to doc
tor sick chickens. 1t may pay some
time when the fowl is an especially
line one, but as rule you can save
worry by using the Ratchet. Good
care. good food and cleanliness make
the best physic, and if these are sys-
tematically applied, there will be but
few sick fowls.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Specimen Solendon.

New York at last has solendon,
about the size of muskrat, the only
specimen of the strange animal ever
brought into the United States. 1t is
a native of Haiti. 1t is gift of the
late Morris K. Jesup.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
IN ITS NATURE.

II teach my parrot only short
words"
do you? Now, should think tnal
parrots were better adapted to learn
ing polysyllables. Baltimore Amer
lean.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
But They,re Not Particular.

If foreigners only went where they
were wanted and admired, there
would be precious little immigration.
Mexican Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
What Causes Headache.

From October to May. Colds are the mos
frequent cause of Headache, Laxative
Bromo Quinine removes cause. E. WI
Grove on box. 25c
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13
Don't Neglect the Stock.

The neglect of sheep and lambs
brings the farmer out of pocket, as
well as in other stock upon the farm.
Let good care and good feed be the
infallible rule with all farm stock.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

In the Line of Progress.
New York now requires a license
to commit neutrality-suspicious.
Journal
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

held in the groove is prevented from
bending, while the head is protected
which is of great advantage with nails
having fancy or decorative heads.
The wall or like surface into which
the nail is driven is also protected
against injuries by improper blows
Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

Chinese Dinner Gong.

The Chinese dinner gongs are very
unique and bid to be populaC The
pipes are three clear tones and sound
agreeably when struck with the ham,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

There are no newsboys in Spain;
women sell newspapers In the streets
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-03-13

Too many doctors may spoil the
war prospects
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-30
NEW YORK.

Improved weather conditions and ex-
cellent crop reports throughout the great
er part of the country, coupled with the
favorable construction put upon recent
financial developments. have made for
the growth of a better feeling as regards
the outlook. but the actual effect upon
distributive trade and industry is as yet
of the slightest. Some gain is reported in
a few sections. notably the South and
central West. in retail trade. but at the
South retail business since Easter is
rather queter, and Easter trade as a
whole was not up to expectations. Some
engagements in filling-in orders by job
report slightly more buying for fall de-
livery. but hestancy and conservatism
rule operations TO an extent not approach
ed in recent years. Textiles are very
much depressed. though weather and crop
reports are harbingers of hope for the
future and short time is well-nigh univer
sal, North and South. The shoe trade
reports more orders, especially at leading
western markets. but business is hardly
up to expectations.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending April 23 number
254, against 261 last week. 157 in the
like week of 1907 III in 1906, 1913 in
1905 and 1917 in 1904. Canadian fail
ures for the week number SO, as against
30 last week and % in this week a year
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-30
@a NE Side
~
Tie .NewSG
~0~ON~O%OO@

The latest spring hats are almost as
high as their price.
The furnace-shaking days have gone,
the saddest of the year.
Even Canada is banging the door in the
face of japanese immigrants.
After the marriages of the Dues and
Dukes come the tailors' bills.
Time for "spring opening" of the MILL
merry stores and papa's pocketbook.
Anarchy is one imported plant that
ought to be pulled up by the roots
Only immensely rich people can afford
more than one nobleman in the family.
A western bishop advises old maids to
"pray for husbands" Whose husbands
Other people can be just as unhappy
as Mrs. Hetty Green on much less money.
Science has made the discovery that
Pharaoh had toothache and govt. 1t will
be possible to think more kindly of him
now.
A Michigan man ate three electric
lights in an attempt to commit suicide.
Some people attempt to make light of
death.
New York families of wealth appear
to be able to buy everything but domestic
happiness.
If Uncle Sam has a billion dollars in
gold in his pocket he ought TO get over
his nervousness.
The United States will have the first
armored fleet that ever "looped the LOOM
around the world
China wants to see the American fleet,
so if anything happens she will know
what struck her.
Nine. Anna Gould must be q believer i'm
the old adage. IF you don't at first sue
coed, try, try again.
New York likes the pay-as-you-enter
cars because the system gives you that
go-as-you-please feeling.
The new Senator from Vermont is SO.
which shows that there is no keeping
the young fellows down.
These ducal marriages cause consdera-
BILE worry to people who enjoy meddling
in somebody else's affairs.
Fifty of the largest yachts in the coun-
try are for sale. Likely the owners want
to get some bigger still.
1t cost Count de Castelane 5000 to
pummel the Prince de Sagan. which is
pretty tough when you haven't got the 20
cents.
Hetty Green's daughter is to wed a
man without a title. Hetty always was
lucky in financial matters.
The buildings are getting so high in
New York that they will have to carry
the fire engines up on elevators.
Woman suffrage would progress rapidly
if they could in some way combine it
with the new patterns or bridge whist.
When the Thaws are separated there
will be two of them, and then we shall
probably get twice az much of it as now
This year the circus is to have no side
show of freaks" Probably the proprie-
TORS feel it useless TO attempt to compete
with the politicians.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-30
WEATHER FOR MAY.
ST. Louis Forecaster Predicts Fierce
Storms, Shows and Frosts.

May is to be a continuous perform
ance of tornadoes. thunderstOrms, hail
and frost Rev. Iri X. Hicks has hung
out the danger signals in his long-dis-
lance forecasts for the month, and
trouble is feared by those who have
faith in his representations.
Violent thunderstorms, approaching
tornado violence in the West, heavy
rains and hail, followed by snow
squalls and sleet. are among the things
predicted.
Careful watching is advised by the
st. Louis prognOsticator early in the
month as frost is due. High tempera-
ture, daily rains and thunderstorms,
with probable tornadces, is on the
menu for the 18th TO the 10th, and
floods over wide sections follow imme-
diately. Much cooler weather is due
from the 10th to the 10Th. From the
10Th to the 22d is not seriously threat
ening, but look out for tornadoes, says
Mr.. Hicks.
Quiet and calm and much warmer
until the oath will usher in the most
dangerous period of the month, and
Monday, Tuesday and Wedns sday, the
18th, Goth and 9th, storms may be ex-
pected to become very threatening, If
not tornado. The 9th is the twelfth
anniversary OF the st. Louis cyclone.
The danger area extends over the Gen.
trail and western parts of the country.
The month is to end in comparative
peace. although seismic disturbance is
possible, from the 9th to the 31st.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-30
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

Samuel insult president of the Chi
cago Edison Company, was appointed re-
ceiver of the Consumers Electric Com
pany, New Orleans. on application of the
National Conduit and Cable Company of
New York, a creditor.
United States secret service officers ar
rested W. j. Pelliekas in the woods near
Quebec on a charge of making 25-cent
pieces.
Mrs. Kate Palter was found strangled
to Death in her home at 127 West Dist
street, New York, and in the kitchen was
Vito Debello, with his throat cut He
died later. The man who reported the
case is suffering from two knife cuts.
Coroner Weisendanger said in New
York that he believed Julius II. Rosen-
heimer. murdered recently while walking
with his wife in his garden at Pelham
Manor, was killed by one of two Siciians
who mistook him for his rival in love.
Herbert S. Hadley, Attorney General
Of Missouri, has gone to Boulder, Colo.
where he expects to pass two months in
an attempt to regain his health,
III. Il. Alexander, now engaged in lit
erary work at Springfield, Mass, has
been chosen professor OF philosophy at
the University of Nebraska.
Charles Henry Parker. % years of age
and the Oldest Harvard alumnus. died Mt
his home on Chestnut street, Boston He
was a member of the class of 1888.
Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of
the Hon. Maria Liddell'' brought $1,000
at the closing sale of the Blakeslee pic
lures at Nendelssohn Hall, New York.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-30
To Use Furnace Waste Heat.

ITO pick 100000 horsepower off the
tops of eight roaring blast furnaces and
use it in performing a hundred giant
tasks is the purpose of the colossal APP
paratus now being installed in the Won
derf,;l steel plant building at Gary, Ind"
writes III. g. Hunting in the March Tech
nical World Magazine. BY heretofore
unthought of device this power will en-
tirely displace steam in the great mills.
Thirty-three huge gas engines are being
installed, each of 1900 horsepower to
use the gas produced by the iron smelt-
ers and convert it into electric power.
At the top of each of the blast furnaces
an outlet for the heated gas is provided
leading into a cleansing tube where the
dust is removed by means of a series of
tanks or washers" About 80 per cent
of the product is diverted to the blast
stoves to heat up in preparation for the
air blast