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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
A CURE AT CITY MISSION.
Awful Case of Scabies-Body a Mass
of Sores from Scratching-lier
fortunes Yield to Cuticura.

"A young woman came to our city mis-.
sion in most awful condition physically.
Our doctor examined her and told lis that
she had scNhes tthe itch). incipient pare
sis. rheumatism. etc, brought ON from ex-
posture. Her poor body was a mass of sores
from scratching and she was not able to
retain solid food. We worked hard over
her for seven weeks but we could see little
Improvement. One day bought cake Of
Cuticura Soap and bottle Of Cuticura
Resolvent, and we bothed our patient well
and gave her a full dose of the Resolvent.
She slept better that night and the next
day got box of Cuticura Ointment. In
five weeks this young woman was able to
look for position, and she is now strong
and we'll Laura Jane Bates, s. Fifth
Ave, New York, N. Y, Mar. II, 1907"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Comradicity OF Hotel Men.

A rare feeling % comradicity ex-
lists among the ,iolel men of the
United States. The recent startling
suicide of Frank " Bennett, one of
the best known hotel men in the
country. and former proprietor OF
the Gotham, in New York City,
brought out such a volume of mes
sages of coincidence and sympathy as
might have followed the death of a
leading statesman. An incident
growing out of Mr.. Benefits untime-
ly death was the suicide of Mr.. George
Crouch, at one time a power in Wall
Street. Mr.. Crouch had lived at
the Hoffman House. In New York.
for many years. Happening to hear
its veteran manag ng clerk. Maj. A.
II. Peacock, comment on the urfor-
tunate death of Mr.. Bennett, Mr..
Crouch. without moments hesita-
tion. FASTENED into brokerage Office
at the hotel locked himself into an
inner room, and fired bullet into
his brain. On the table by the side
Of the dead body was found a pack
of cards, on top of which lay the
seven of spades. known by fortune
tellers as "the sign of death. Prom
Leslie's Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
laIeGC5DN RAA@ga
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Roads Doomed by Autos.

Logan Waller Page, director of the
Office of Public Roads of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, commissioned
by President Roosevelt, is ON his way
TO France to tell the highway engi-
beers of the world what, in his opin-
ION, the automobile is doing to mac
adam thoroughfores and what should
be done to counteract its destructive
effects.
President Roosevelt summoned Dr.
rector Page to the White House and
conferred with him about this high
WY problem. He learned that an al
mSt incalculable amount of damage
was being done daily, and then he
informed the director that it was his
wish that the United States be strong
ly represented at the coming interna-
tioral road congress in Paris, and
asked for the names of two other ex-
pert'. Mr.. Page named Colonel
Charles S. Bromwell, superintendent
of Buildings and grounds of the Dis
trict, and Clifford Richardson, an
authority on bituminous road ma
terial. They were appointed, and Mr..
Page Was made chairman of the dele
cation.
Although this congress will not as
semble at Paris until October II. Di-
rector Page decided to sail somewhat
early to Inspect some of the roads of
England, Germany and France before
the congress is called to order. He
wished to zee if the speeding automo-
biles worked the same damage there
as they do here and study the rem
edial work That is being done. Here
he has Learn ed that by the tractive
force of the rubber tires of the speed
ing motor cars the surface binding
dust of rock roads is drawn from its
resting place and is sent swirling 10
the adjacent fields.
Inasmuch as the integrity of the
macadam road rests absolutely in
this rock dust, hich acts as a bind
ing and surfacinG crust, dissipating
of the surface leaves the road nothing
but mass of loose, round stones.
The tests on the Conduit road, near
Washington, D. c., prove this conten-
ton absolutely, and he carries with
him collection of photographs taken
during the progress of those tests.
These pictures will We submitted to
the congress-
The greater question that will arise
will be how to overcome the effect of
automobile traffic on hard roads with
out restricting the automobile or pre-
venting its development
Two solutions there are to that
question: One, to find a material of
which roads may be made which Gre
ates no dus.., OF, secondly. 10 so treat
the roads already constructed that
the dust will be retained upon them.
That, of course, is now being done
in many parts of the country by
spraying with calcium chloride and
by the use of various b.tuminous
preparations.
Director Page and his associates
will have much interesting informa-
ton to contribute along those lines,
for within the past few moths many
miles of americas roads lave been
treated with these various prepara-
lions, many of the tests under the d.
rection of some expert from the Fed
eral Office OF Public Roads.-Wash-
ington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Peril or The Collar Rutton.

A few days ago the news columns
carried the story of a man who was
stricken with a serious case of ver-
tigo while cropping under the bed
for his elusive collar button. Still
later appeared the story OF an East
ern man who was overcome by heart
failure after a violent struggle with
a refractory button that refused to
connect tight collar. In each of
these instances the victim was stout
man of full habit and presumably
of apoplectic tendency.
The collar button has been the
plaything of the fiippant writer's for
a long time. It's amusing pranks,
its almost human perverseness, its
power of effacing itself when most
wanted. have united in a striking IL
lustration of the moral obliquity of
inanimate things. But when the but
ton forgets its harmless mission and
becomes an adjunct to tragedy, it
can no longer hope to be regarded
in an amusing light.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
SUGAR As A Disinfectant.

Prof. Trilbert, of the Pasteur In
stitute, at Paris. has demonstrated
recently that burning sugar develops
formic Observation-Disclosures, one of
the most powerful antiseptic gases
known.
Five grams of sugar GIG grains)
were burned under a glass bell hold
ing 10 quarts. After the vapor had
cooled bacilli of typhus, tuberculosis.
cholera, smallpox, etc, were placed
in the bell in open glass tubes. and
within half an hour all the microbes
were dead.
If sugar is burned in closed vessel
containing purified meat or the con-
tents of rotten eggs the offensive
odor disappears at once. The pop
ular faith in the disinfecting quail
ties of burned sugar appears, there
fore, to be well founded.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
General Demand

# the Well Informed of the World has
always been for simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its COM
moment parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex-
cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
That is one of many reasons Why
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is given
the preference by the Well-Informed.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
MuZZling The Cannon.

Two recruits stationed at a fort
overlooking the sea were examining
one of the fort guns. One suggested
that they should let it off, adding
that nobody would be any wiser.
They loaded the gun, and one of
them said he would hold a bucket
over the muzzle to drown the sounds
so that they would not be heard.
The gun was fired, and the shell and
bucket, with the soldier clinging to
it. went flying gayly out to sea. An
officer Immediately rushed up to the
remaining soldier to inquire the
cause of the commotion.
Where is Murphy" he yelled.
Gone for bucket of water, SIR"
cooly remarked the soldier
And how long will he be?" roar
ed the officer.
WELL" said the soldier, "if he
comes back as quick as he went he's
due any minute"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded dis
case that science has been able to cure in all
its stages and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh helng con-
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. thereby destroy.
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature IN dong its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer One
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address
+. }. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, ..
Sold by Druggists. 75e.
Take Halls Family Pills tor constipation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
TIGHT Corsets Ruin Girls, Voices.

"The voices Of some women speak
ers often make those possessed Of a
musical ear wish for DEATH" said
Nine. Won Klenner, discussing THE
Vox Humane before the Rainy
Daises Yesterday afternoon at the
Hotel Astor.
Voices" said she. "have become
worse and worse with civilization till
at the present time, as a nation, Amer
leans are known for their bad voices
The responsibility for this chiefly
rests on the strain and effort used in
speaking in subway and on elevated
trains and on the crowded streets.
1t is also due to lack of control of
the vocal organs due to too tight
clothing and undue pressure on any
part of the body or the lack of knowl-
edge of the formation and molding
of tones.-New York World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Right Way For Roads TO Run.

1t has now been discovered that il
we want to be happy and healthy
we must live on roads that run from
north to south. Furthermore, it is
affirmed that those who live on roads
which run from east to west are in
variably found to be depressed and
dropping, like flowers which are not
doing well.
This is a fact which we can each
put to the test by noticing whether
those of our friends who live between
these two points of the compass are
less CHEEKY than those who live be-
tween north and south. Without
doubt there is something in the the
DRY, which amounts to this, that the
roads running north to south get all
the morning sunshine and best light,
and in the morning human beings.
like plants, require these or their
tempers, health and spirits are de-
pressed Ladies' Pictorial.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
TORTURE CHILDREN WITH HOT IRONS.
Charity Agent Reports Narrowing Cruelty State Wards in
ulinos-Stabbed With Forks-Hair Torn Out and Limbs
Broken Also Among Crimes Against Little Ones
Many Sold For Money-The Rev. Mr.. Virden
Relates Instances Of Persecution by Foster
Parents and Public Institutions
Parents and Public Institutions.

Chicago, Ill.-How the wards of
the State have been abused and tor
tured was the subject of a sensational
recital by the Rev. Charles Virden.
agent of the State Board of Chari-
ties, to the State Conference of Char
tiles, held at Rock Island. His paper
was entitled THE State Visitation of
Children" and said, in part:
During the last two years | have
personally handled approximately $50
special cases. Most of the children
are we'll cared for when placed in
family homes. The bad cases are
exceptions. For example, l have
found them tortured with hot irons,
stabbed with toasting forks and scis-
sors, limbs broken, hair torn out by
the roots, dashed until black and blue
from head to foot, faces cut and
Scared and eyes blinded.
Numerous other cases of crime
against children in the form of as
sault have been prosecuted. and in
the three years of my incumbency ten
of these offenders have been sent to
the penitentiary and numerous Jail
commitments and fines have been i'm
posed.
Many Children Sold.
There has been a wholesale traffic
in children in Illinois. / have a re-
ceipt in my possession for child
who had been sold for a stipulated
price
Zone of the most distressing cases
occurred in Quincy, H., where q child
was taken from its mother, young
girl, when less than an hour old,
placed in a market basket, absolutely
nude except for covering of an old
piece of quilt, carried about the
streets and offered to any one who
would accept it. The infant finally
was given to a woman who had been
a pensioner on The county for a num-
Der of years.
3 'The evidence showed that this
was at least the second child that
had been sold from this institution.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
SIGNS OF A COLD WINTER.
Close Observer OF Nature Tells What Coming in the Way Weather

New York City.-"There no use
talking, it's going to be hard win
ter, no matter which Bill is elected"
said the wise young man who had
just returned from his vacation in
Pike County, Pennsylvania, with a
luxuriant crop of tan and freckles.
Il forgot l ever knew so much about
the country until / got out there
again. 1 was born and raised in the
country, and I'm proud of it.
How do know it's going to be
hard winter? Well, here are some of
the sure signs, and l surprised the
farmers when sprung my knowledge
on them:
"A heavy crop of nuts. You never
saw the like of the butternuts. hick-
DRY nuts and chestnuts that there are
going to be in less than month now.
"A big fruit crop and an abundance
of wild grapes; the woods are full of
this little wild fruit of the vine,, and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
A Warming.

A new railway was being made,
and, the design including a small
farm, the officers of the line paid a
visit to he owner, an old lady.
Madam" said the surveyor, I'VE
understand that you own this farm,
and it is my duty to inform you that
our new railway will run through
your barn"
ooh! will it?" said the old lady.
well, let me tell you that the last
train will have to be not later than
9 O'Clock, because you'll not catch
me sitting up after that TO omen the
doors for it or anything else. So
mind !"-Tit-Bits
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
NOT A MIRACLE
Just Plain Cause and Effect.

There are some quite remarkable
things happening every day, which
seem almost miraculous.
Some persons would not believe
tnat man could suffer from coffee
drinking so severely as to cause smells
VI unconsciousness. And to find com.
piete reiief in changing from coffee
70 Postum is well worth recording.
used to be great coffee drink.
en- SO much so that it was killing ma
by inches. My heart became 40 weak
l would fall and lie unconscious fo,
an hour at time. The spells caught
me sometimes two or three times
day.
MY friends, and even the doctor
told me 1t was drinking coffee that
caused the trouble. l would not he.
ueve 1t, and still drank coffee until I
could not leave my room.
Then my doctor, who drinks Pos.
tum himself, persuaded me to ston
soree end try Postum. After much
hesitation / concluded to try it. That
was eight months ago. Since then
nave mad but few Of those spells
none for more than four months.
feel better, sleep better and an,
better every way. l now drink moth.
ing but Postum and touch no coffee
and as l am seventy years of age ali
my friends think the improvement
quite remarkable"
There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
ore appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
li.erest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
The World of Sport.

Yale defeated Wesleyan by sixteen
points to nothing in her opening
football game at New Haven. Conn.
Steffen, the Chicago quarter back
and captain, is said by many experts
to be as good as the famous Ecker
sail was two years ago.
American lawn tennis experts de-
feated their British rivals, and will
go to Australia to play for the Davis
Cup
Beals G. Wright defeated F. B.
Alexander in the final round of the
tournament for the national lawn
tennis championship.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23

The saddest part of it all is that there
is no law in the State of Illinois pro-
hibiting the sale of a child"
In speaking of other specific cases
the Rev. Mr.. Virden said:
"A girl of thirteen years, commit
ted by the Juvenile Court, was made
household drudge. Our State agent
found that she was being beaten with
a horsewhip. The girl was removed
and placed in good home, where she
was given chance for education and
religious training.
Burned With Hot Knife.
"a girl, having only one paren>
living, seven years old, was in the
home of a family at Alton, III. The
evidence showed that this child was
covered with bruises. Her face was
burned, her hands were hacked with
red hot knife and the sight of one
eye was destroyed. The foster moth.
er, charged with having inflicted these
wounds, was fined for assault and
battery, and will be tried under the
cruelty act.
"a girl was the victim of her STEP
fathers attacks for ten years, after
she was seven years old. Her step
father was sent to the penitentiary
and the girl sent to good home.
Two girls, aged five and ten, were
forced TO beg on the streets for their
mother. who kept a disreputable re.
sort. They are now in good homes.
"A girl thirteen years old did the
washing and ironing for family of
seven. She had no school advan-
tages. An investigation showed that
she wore her foster mothers old
clothes and shoes; was overworked
and received no salary; that her life
was insured in the benefit of the
mother-in-law in the home. The
child was returned to the home on
trial upon the cancellation of the life
insurance policy, and promised that
she was to receive new clothes and
50 a week. l protest against the in.
surance of thelives of these children"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Women in the DAYS News.

Mrs. Norman e. Mack, of Buffalo,
N. Y, confessed that she would like
to vote.
Viscountess Wordsworth started a
jam factory on her estate near Minis.
ter-on-Sea, England.
In the Luxembourg Gallery, in
Paris, the works of only two women
sculptors are represented.
Miss Ruth H. Northrop, of Nor
wich, Conn, has won the scholarship
offered by the Norwich Art Students
Association. The work she submitted
consisted of three groups of animals
and figures modelled in clay from life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
WORLDS RUTHLESS WASTE.
Big Coal Substitute

on.-Henry E. Armstrong,
professor of chemistry at the City and
Guilds of London Central Institute,
addressing the annual meeting of the
Iron and Steel Institute at Mindless
borough, said it was difficult to keep
calm when he reflected upon the ruth
less way the worlds stores of timber,
iron, coal and oil were being used up.
1t made the scientist shudder to see
the Indifference displayed in all civil
lied lands to the inevitable conse-
quences of such waste in the nowise
distant future.
No comment was provoked by the
fact that the steamers Lusitania and
Mauretania devour daily a thousand
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Disappointed.

At small dinner of a legal as
ISOLATION held in Washington not
long ago one of the speakers told
of a farmers son in Illinois who
conceived desire to shine as legal
light. Accordingly he went up to
Springfield, where he accepted EN-
ployment at a small sum from a
fairly well-known attorney.
AT the end of three days study
he returned to the farm.
well. Bill. how'd We like the
law?" asked his father.
ut amt what it's cracked up to
be-" responded Billy gloomily. I'm
sorry l learned it. "-Lippincott's
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
A Fair Exchange.

Never before had Willie been in
the country He fell into raptures
of delight over many things, but
above all did he admire Jersey calf.
I'D like to buy it," he said to
the owner.
"But what would you give IN ex-
change for it," was the response
my baby sister, gravely answer
ed the boy. I'VE often have a new
baby, and we've never had a calf"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
NLASSiFiED ADVERTISEMENTS
DEAFNEsS AND CATAaRm CTHE.
TNHALENT CATARRHAL JELLY Cures
L Deafness and Catarrh. Trial treatmel I BY
mail free. REA CO. Minneapolis MINI.
The Two Alternatives,

1--WE get some sad cases." said the
attendant at the lunatic asylum to
the visitor, and opened the door to
the first cell.
Inside was man sitting on a
stool and gazing vacantly at the
wall.
Sad story" said the attendant;
"he was in love with a girl, but she
married another man and he lost his
reason from grief
They stole out softly, closing the
door behind them, and proceeded to
the next inmate. This cell was thick
~ padded, and the man within was
stark, staring mad.
What is this?" inquired the visi-
tor. This" repeated the attendant
this is the other man" -IllustJ
ed Bits
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23

or more tons of coal while crossing
the ocean. This extravaganza was
gloried in as an engineering achieve.
ment when it ought to be anathema-
tized.
The public comforted itself with
the belief that science would dis
cover q substitute for coal, and there
fore felt no conjunction in recklessly
destroying the capital won from the
sun in past ages, but science could
not at present support the illusion.
Professor Armstrong earnestly
urged serious scientific study of eco
nomical methods of fuel consumption,
outlining the direction such study
ought to take.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Sending 100000 Return Postals
South to Get Work For Aliens.

Washington, D. C.-The distribu-
ton of aliens is to be promoted by the
Bureau of Information of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Sec
rotary Straus has issued orders to
start the work at each immigration
station, and the bureau has begun
the enormous task of getting in touch
with farmers, manufacturers and 9TH
er employers in the South to learn
what help they may need. This work
will require the sending out of S06,-
600 return postal cards.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
Wills Husband Dollar
i'm Four Installments.

Chicago.-One dollar, payable in
monthly installments of twenty-five
cents, is the bequest given Andrew
Heckler by his wife, Catherine E.
Heckler, of Portland, Ore, whose will
was filed in the Probate Court here.
In the will Heckler is referred to as
the individual who married me in
1905 in San Diego, Cal, and who got
from me thousands of dollars and
when he could get no more deserted
me- The estate consists of personal
property.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-23
loves Young Dream.

Together they were occupying a
rustic seat on the lawn, he and she,
and she, at least, seemed to be un-
conscious of the fight of time.
How bright and shimmering the
evening star appears tonight,
George?" she said.
Pardon me, my DEAR" replied
George, "but that is the morning
star Chicago News.