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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
English Girls and Love.


The American professor VINO has
undertaken to give lessons in the
art of courtship at a high school
would find ample scope for his abili-
ties in that direction in London, for
the English girl of the present day
is generally speaking either unable or
unwilling to conjugate the verb to
love. 1t Is her lot to live in a pro-
sale age, nothing Is done to stimu-
late romance, youthful marriages are
thing of the past, and youngsters
OF both sexes are aware that what
was love in cottage" yesterday is
equivalent to life in a suburban villa
to-day-a very different thing-like
to wait until they have had a good
look around and have assured them
selves that they are not being carried
away by sentiment before they range
themselves.
Old-fashioned lovemaking has be-
come too dangerous to be INDUCED
in, and Irritation of a not too pro-
nounced nature has taken it's place.
To such an extent has the act of
making love declined that it is doubt
full whether the British bread and
butter miss knows the A B C of the
science once taught by Aristotle. Pru-
dence has banished it from mater
familias' program, and If the Ameri-
can professor aforesaid should ex-
tend his labors as far as the Old
World he is likely to find a virgin
soil wherein to teach an art as old
as the hills, but one which is in dan
ger Of extinction for want of prac-
tice.-New York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
National Aid to Good Roads.

Along with the proposed commiA
sion looking to the development of
our waterways, and the Appalachian
Forest Reserve looking to the pres
ervation of our forests, we should
also like to see the Government take
UP the policy of national aid to road
building. This means, as we have
said before, that besides money for
river and harbor improvement = for
the improvement of our liquid ave-
nues of transportation, cities reaping
the most direct benefit-we shall also
have money for road building-for
the Improvement of our solid avenues
of transportation, the country reap
ing the most direct benefit? We arc
glad to see that the National Grange
is vigorously pushing this matter in
both Houses of Congress.
But for the limitations Of space
we should also like to mention in
this connection the strong movement
for a parcels post-a measure OF in
calculable benefit to country resi-
dents-and the Davis bill providing
for a strong agricultural high school.
supported by the National Govern
ment, in each Congressional District.
But these subjects will be treated at
greater length in future issues, and
we can now only urge our farmer
readers to let their congressman
know that they are interested in these
things. We need them all-better
care of our waterways and forests,
better roads, the parcels post, and the
agricultural high schools. -Progres-
siYe Farmer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
Z Good Roads. Z
Farmer VS.. sIotorrsr.

That good roads benefit every one
in the regions through which they
run hardly requires affirmation. The
owners of motor cars are benefited
along with the rest. The latter fact
seems to have prejudiced many per-
sons against the good roads crusade.
The State engineer and surveyor of
New York is apparently in the latter
class. In a letter to the Senate COM
mittee he objects in great detail to
the suggestion made by the special
committee appointed for the pur-
pose of revising the State highway
laws and perfecting a plan for the
most effective utilization of the
$5O,000,000 appropriation toward
good roads.
Doubtless some of his criticisms
are sound, but others of them seem
the result of wholly unwarranted
fear that the money will be wasted in
providing automobile trunk lines to
the disadvantage of the farmers in
terests. The special committees
plan consists of a network of trunk
line boulevards connecting the prin-
cipal cities of the State The even
tual purpose, of course, being to
unite all cities and towns by net
work of good roads. Mr.. Skene's
view seems to be that the first roads
built under the appropriation should
connect the farmer with his market
towns.
That the main trunk lines will do
this in many cases at once is obvious
when their feeders have been COM
pleted in practically all cases. The
proposal to build these feeders first
with the aid of the State money fur
nished by the fifty million bond
issue certainly does not seem just
one. Obviously the appropriation
should be expended so as to bring
the greatest good to the greatest
number Fortunately prejudice
against the automobile is diminish
ing every year as its use becomes
more general. The farmers in many
regions have already discovered its
value as a business and pleasure We
hicle. If they had no other cause
for gratitude they owe it not little
as a promoter of better Highways
New York Globe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
A Press Criticism.

Lord Northcliffe, the English edi-
tor, recently settled for S250,000 Ii
bel suit brought against his newspa-
per by the Lever soap firm. Lord
Northcliffe often visits America, and
he admits that many of his best jour
nalistic ideas are the fruit of these
visits.
"At the same time" said a New
York editor the other day. Lord
Northcliffe is a severe critic of the
American press. One of his strict
ures is about our padding.
'At the Press Club, on Nassau
street. he told one night story on
this head.
He said that reporter came wea-
rily into the Office and approached the
city editors desk with disconsolate
air.
Well said the city editor, eager
ly, what did you find out about Sem
ator Blanks divorce?'
Nothing said the reporter.
No facts whatever?'
Not single fact
Denied everywhere
Everywhere
Senator deny it?'
Eyes
Wife, too?'
Eyes
And no rumors?'
." Not blessed rumor
1.-THE city editor sighed.
Well he said, sadly, keep the
story down in that case to three and
half columns. Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
YOU WOULD GEr WE'D.

Of course you have to stay home nights
You would get wedi
OF course you miss your old delights
You would get wedi
OF course you've had to change your life,
OF course you've got a cranky wife,
Of course you find you live in strife
You would get wed!
OF course she is the one to rule
You would get we'd
OF course she thinks that you're fool
You would get we'd
OF course her bills you have to pay,
OF course her mother comes to stay,
OF course your hair is turning gray
You would get wed!
OF course you have to eat her cake
You would get wed!
OF course your teeth you almost break
You would get wedl
OF course she will not let you wink,
OF course she will not let you drink,
OF course she will not let you think
You would get wed!
The Celibate, in Town Topics.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
A New Fad.

A Frenchman has introduced to
us-who else would have the audac-
ity?-the most unusual feature in
the new seasons designs, the unat-
tached collar.
While matching the suit in ma
terial and trimming, this collar
which is put on before the coat it.
self-is an entirely distinct and sepa-
rate affair. Nothing could be more
delightfully."- convenient, for it may be
worn or not, according to the within
of the moment or the condition of
the weather
Yet, though to this Frenchman the
world attributes this distinctly clever
idea, it was an American woman who
originated it-who had it executed
for herself by master artist.
Who could appreciate better than
he the value of so novel and practi-
cal conceit?-Town Topics.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
U. s. Dowries For TITLED Foreirner.

Now why does any one want to dis
courage American dowries to titled
foreigners by taxing them! Those
dowries are not paid with money. No
gold, pure or otherwise-no, nor sill
yer at any ratio-goes out of the
country in any considerable amount
when plutocratic American pays an
aristocratic European handsomely
for marrying his daughter. What
does go out is the general prosucts
of American farms and workshops.
But isn't that good thing for Amer
lean business and labor? Doesn't it
increase our exports? And as moth
ing is imported in payment, doesn't
1t expand our favorable balance of
trade?-The Public.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
A Deadly Weapon.

A better method of meeting duel
ing challenge was no doubt one which
was employed on a certain occasion
by French statesman against M.
Victor Noir, an illiterate bully of the
press in the time of the Second EN-
pire. The statesman received from
Noir, for no real reason whatever, a
challenge to fight duel.
Noir was densely ignorant man,
and nearly every word in the chal-
lenge was mis-spelled. The states
man responded with the following
letter:
Dear Sir-You have called me
out without any good reason. l
have, therefore, the choice of weap-
ons. choose the spelling book, and
you are dead man." The duel was
never fought.-Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
Considerably Disappointed.

An English lord who visited Scot
land was at dinner given in his hon.
or at private residence. A little
daughter of his host, who was too
well bred to stare, but who eyed him
covertly as the occasion presented it
self, finally ventured to remark;
And you are really and truly an
English lord?" YES" he answered
pleasantly, really and truly" II
have often thought / would like to
see an English lord" she went on,
"and-and" "And now you are
satisfied at last" he interrupted.
laughingly. "N-no," replied the truth
full little girl, I'm not satisfied. I'm
good deal disappointed. "--Argo-.
naut. --------- --''
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

house. The essential feature of this
school house is workroom which oc-
cupies one-third of the floor space.
The purpose in building this school
house is to show that such buildings
may be made artistically attractive,
homelike, sanitary, comfortable and
durable for the same amount of mon
ey and labor as the unattractive and
unsatisfactory buildings to which so
many rural districts have been accus-
toned. The Cornell model is de-
signed for twenty-five pupils in the
main room, and the folding doors and
windows in the partition enable one
teacher to manage both rooms.-New
York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
Didn't Want Him.

i've got the very thing you want"
said the stableman to ruralist in
search of a horse; "a thoroughgoing
road horse. Five years old, sound
as a quail, SITS cash down, and he
goes ten miles without stopping"
The purchaser threw his hands
skyward. mot for me-" he said.
mot for me. / wouldn't gif you five
cents for him. / live eight miles out
in the country, and I'd half to walk
back two miles. Farmers Home
journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
An Indianian's Record.

John w. Elder, of Warsaw, has
spent 1898 consecutive nights in his
home in this city; in fact, he has
never been away from home over
night, and he observed his fifty-sec-
ond birthday anniversary yesterday.
The record is remarkable, and it is
doubtful whether there is another
person in the county who can make
a similar claim.-Warsaw Corre-
spondence Indianapolis News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
Apparent.

When it is understood that the
hauling of the 100000 tons of
commodities that annually pass over
the roads of New York State costs on
the average of the ten-mile haul
about twenty-five cents ton per
mile, and that, by the construction of
well-made mcadamized roads, this
cost would be reduced to six or eight
cents per ton mile, the money advan-
tage of good roads becomes at once
apparent.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
The Brayest Woman.

Americas bravest woman, in the
opinion of the Society of the Ameri-
can Cross of Honor, is Ida Lewis
Wilson, keeper of the Lime Rock
lighthouse, off Newport, R. 1. Mis-
tress Wilson," as the sailors call her,
is declared by the society to have
rendered greater service tending to-
ward the saving of life than any
other woman of the country" The
society has therefore awarded her
a cross of honor. Mrs. Wilson is
better known as Ida Lewis, who years
ago gained a worldwide celebrity
through her many heroic rescues OF
drowning persons.-Leslie's Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
Tried in the Fire.

When Mrs. Harmon swept into the
library in new reception gown, Mr..
Harmon drew an inaudible sigh, and
braced himself for the ordeal which
he knew was before him.
Now, Frederick" said his wife,
in her most appealing tone, please
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
A Model School House.

Under the supervision of Miss Mar
tina Van Rensselaer,, who is in charge
of the reading course for farmers
wives of the State Agricultural Col
lege, Cornell University, has erected
on its campus model rural school
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

Hash in Pepper Shels-Chop cold fowl fine;
with cold water slowly Then
to taste with SALT add dash cayenne gener
Gus lump of butter Remove from the fire
bread crumbs to give body to the hash
required number of shells washed with
the hash, stand upright in baking butter half
fill the with boiling water and stand fifteen
minutes This makes delicious or an enee
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

distinguished by flattening test, ac-
cording to statements made at the
meeting of the American Society of
Heating and ventilating Engineers.
Soft steel pipe, cut in very short
lengths or rings, flattens smoothly
and evenly without breaking, while
wrought iron pipe usually fractures
at two or more places when flattened.
According to the American Machin-
list, the greatest single consumption of
brass is for condenser tubes, battle
ship alone having from 10000
pounds to 10000 pounds of condenser
tubing in it; and owing to the cor
rosive effect of sea water this tubing
must be continually replaced. The
material used is usually either Muntz
metal-siXty per cent. copper, forty
per cent. zinc-or else a mixture of
copper, seventy; zinc, twenty-nine,
and tin, one.
The most remarkable feat of travel
In the whole history of creation, with
a single exception, is the invasion of
Europe, Asia and the Americas by
the elephant family, whose birth was
in Africa. New light has been thrown
upon this interesting chapter Of nat
ural history through the discoveries
of the American Museum of Natural
History; and the paleontologist in
charge of the museums recent expedi-
ton to Egypt, Professor Henry Fair
field Osborn, has written fully for the
Century of Hunting the Ancestral
Elephant in the Fayum Desert"
An irrigating canal has just been
completed in Hawaii. 1t will carry
45,000,000 gallons of water daily
through sixteen miles of tunnel and
open ditch. Its purpose is primarily
to carry water for irrigation from the
Waimea River to the Kehaka planta-
ton, but on the way it will be used
at two places for the development of
electricity.
That eminent American astron-
omer, Professor Percival Lowell, has
become fully convinced, from photo
graphs of Mars, taken recently at the
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz.,
and in South America by the scien-
tific expedition sent there, that the
little planet is inhabited. The pic
lures, in the professors opinion, cor
roborate the theory of a remarkable
system of Marian canals, and SO as
sure him beyond a doubt that the
Planet is "the abode of intelligent,
constructive life"
DR.. John B. Watson, professor of
physiology in the University of Chi
cago, is said to have made the dis
covery that sea gulls have Ian
guage of their own and think as well
as talk. DR.. Watson has just re-
turned from a remarkable trip OF
research in the Dry Tortugas Island
off the lower coast of Florida, where
he made the discovery.
The mammoth lived in Europe
and also in America-before the
Glacial Period set in; it fourished in
an inter-glacial time, and was driven
south as its habitat was invaded by
the snow and ice. No wild elephant
has lived in Europe during the his
toric period.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24
COMPENSATION.

The world is not so marvellous as then,
When every wind gave hint of mystery
In unknown worlds beyond the farther
hill.
But you have mad. glory to fulfil
he eagerness of my unseeing eyes,
md made life what God meant it once
again.
John A. V. MacMurray, in the Metro
politan Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

The wireless telegraph station
which has been erected for the Rus
sian Admiralty between Ssvastopol
and Odessa has undergone satisfac-
tory trial.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

Canada's governmentrevenue from
all sources last year will be more
than 500, 900, 900. In the first seven
months the customs receipts increased
s6,5O0,000-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

The mammoth lived in Europe
and also in America-before the
Glacial Period set in; it flourished in
an inter-glacial time, and was driven
south as its habitat was invaded by
the snow and ice. No wild elephant
has lived in Europe during the his
toric period.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-24

The following rules for using the
road drag were given out by the
State Highway Commission of Illi-
noic.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
MEAT INSPECTOR DIES OF ANTHRAX
Employe of Bureau of Animal Industry Sue
cumbs % Unusual Disease

Louis " Flege. 3 Young government meat in
spector. becan4 inocuated with the deadly
thrax while handling meat in the bureau Of
animal industry Of the United States Department
OF Agriculture, died of that disease at
his home, No % Fenimore street. BROOKLYN. His
body buried in Evergreen Cemetery yesterday,
and investigation started to the source
Of the infection yesterday afternoon. Mr. F7ege
was TO have been married to Miss Florence Kretch-
man. Of No . Chauncey street, Brooklyn, next
week
The, bureau of animal industry is troubled. be
cause infected with anthrax has been
found and there is great possibility that 1t has
been sold and consumed.
DR.. !. A. Neiman. of No. 73 Henry street, Brook
lyn cut FIVE ounces Of flesh out OF the inspectors
cheek in effort TO check the disease, but the
operation proved of avail
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
DR.. DAVIES COKE.

News was received in this city yesterday OF the
death Of DR.. Davies Coke well known lhS Sicidh
Of this city at Dresden. Saxony, on November l.
from sc,,te pIerJrsv after long Illness. Dr. Coke
was taken i'll several years ago, and IN hopes OF
recovering his health he had made extensive trips
through Europe.
DR. Coke was born in Paris in 1852, the son OF
r-oIo,el Robert r Coxe He came this country
when young and the family lived at Huhusvll,e
Ala He received his early education at tne hpls-
copaI High School. at Alexandria, va anu was
graduated from the University of Virginia Win the
class of 'S4 and subsequently received his rneocal
degree from the College Of Physicians ana our-
geons. 49,,
He was an inferno and house surgeon AT tne tne
Wonens Hospital. and was in practice TOT hlllIseil
for mora than fifteen wears in this city. Dr. Coke
was specialist on womens diseases IN 1880 LIT.
Coke married Miss Alice McCombe. daughter OF
Jennings McCombe of Mississippi Who' WIN MS
mother Mrs Robert z. Coke; his sister MIS- hoo-
ar+ Renedict of Philadelphia, and his brother
Coke. survives hlrn
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
HUNTER TO METHODISTS.
Tells M'dgear Assembly That So
Cidlism Stopped Three Vars.

The afternoon session Of the midvear assembly
Of the New York East Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church IN the New York Avenue Meth
odist Church. Brooklyn, yesterday was devoted TO
discussion of socialism Professor Willard c
Fisher, of Wesleyan University read q paper on
The Social Problem and the Christian" Robert
Hunter reviNw the history and progress of social
ism, and gave an account of his recent visit TO
Europe. The Rev Alexander Irvine was to have
read paper on Socialism III the Pulpit" but
failed 10 attend the session
In a discussion following Mr. Hunters address
the Rev. F l. Strickland said that the Methodist
ministers were thoroughly IN sympathy with the
deep purposes OF the socialistic movement set
in motion those agencies which were to bring into
being the real spirit of Christ
Mr. Hunter in the of his remarks said
that during eighteen months spent in Europe he
realized that socialism was no longer a mere
utopian society, but living movement that
gradually forcing its into power. and within
short time would take into its hands the ad
ministration of France. Belgium, Finland. Den
mark and perhaps Sweden. In Germany. he said
the Socialists have made such progress that no
slums exist in the great cities, and not a beggar
be seen on the streets Pensions for the aged
the sick and the injured he said. resulted from
the agtations of the Socialist party.
He explained how socialism had stopped three
wars. At the time of the quarrel between Sweden
and Norway, he said. the workingmen of those
countries declared that they would shoot each
other and the result that the pre-
vented Two months ago, when Germany and
England rang with threats of war the workingmeu
sent delegates TO each other and agreed that in the
event Of war they would have part in it
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
CHINESE NOW TREATED BETTER
Minister WI Says He Finds Sentiment to
Have Changed in This Country.

A crowded congregation, including seventy-fve
Chinese. several of them little girls. gathered at
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church last night
to hear Minister WI Ting-fang talk about mis-
sions in China
MY action in coming here tonight may be liable
TO adverse criticism" he said Il do not care.
do what consider to be what is right. l am here
to look after my countrymen. I want as
sistance not only from nv country and from your
country from YOUR people I am not here to
say ANYTHING about religion. I hold religion
based virtue and exhorting people 70 practise
virtue teaching them to be good citizens, is
worthy of support
Speaking Of the treatment Of Chinese IN This
country. Minister WI said;
Because of my position ! cannot say anything
concerning the treatment of my cOuntrymen here.
But since my return to this country ] am glad to
see that the sentiment not only here in the East
ern states but also in the Western states has
changed for the better for my countrymen.'
In the afternoon Minister WI visited the Ossin-
ing School for Young Ladies. where he made q
brief speech.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
ALDERMEN NAME INVESTIGATORS.

To have an investigation of their own and to
satisfy Borough President Coer OF Brooklyn who
is disgusted with the work OF the commissioners
of Accounts the Aldermen appointed Yesterday a
committee of FIVE with Reginald :. Doull chair
man. to investigate the Commissioners Of Accounts
and anv other city department. Others on the
committee Messrs. Downing. Redmond, Ester
brook and Hochdorffer. EsteUbrook is a RepUb-
liCan.
The Tammany members Of this committee will
at the proper time. # the order comes from Tam
MANY Hall. bring in a report repudiating the work
of the Commissioners of Accounts, charging that
the Mayor was actuated by spite in ordering the
investigation of Ahearn and Hafen and the Bureau
Of Licenses.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
ESCAPES DEATH ON 1900 VOLT WIRE.
Boy Goes After Squirrels in Gable Box on
Clarence B. Mackav's Estate

With Of his fingers burned eff and the flesh
of leg scared TO the bone by contact with
electric wire carrying a current OF 2.20o volts.
twelve-ycar-old john Fisher, of engineer
employed Clarence H MaCkay's estate at Har
bor HILL Long Island, who had "treed" some squr-
rels in the cable box at the top OF electric
light pole vas carried by two young companions
70 the nearby home of physician, who declared
that the boys escape from death wonderful
The boys first placed their hands the wires
and. feeling no sensation. thought that the power
shut off. 4 moment later the Fisher boy set
his tooL what proved 70 be the main feed wire.
He screamed. and pulled from the wires by his
companions. fell to the ground unconscious After
being treated by Dr. Joseph H Bogart he
taken home, and will probably recover.