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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
CEMENT FROM VOLCANOES.
Japanese Discover q Use For the
Ashes Which Ruin Farming Land.

The saving Japanese, who are
forced to play close game for life
because Of the narrowness of their
Islands and the tremendous yearly in.
crease in the population, have learned
TO take cunning advantage of every
byproduct of nature.
They rake the sea beaches for sea.
weed to use as fertilizer, and grub
the mountains for twigs to burn into
charcoal. Now they are turning the
many and troublesome volcanoes to
good purpose by manufacturing the
volcanic ash into cement. To them
belongs the credit of discovering that
the scorla that sweeps down from
volcano vents and sears the neighbor.
Ing countryside may at least be toll.
Grated. If it has to come, as an eco.
nomic asset.
q. II. Skidmore, American Consul
at Nagasaki, has reported to the De.
partment of Commerce and Labor at
Washington that Japanese company
organized to work volcanic ash into
cement had already paid a dividend
OF nine per cent. for the first half
year on capital of 100000 yen and
that it had more orders in sight than
1t could fill. The Mitsu Bishi and
kawasaki dockyards, the two great
privately owned dockyards of the EN-.
pire; the Government naval yards at
Sasebo and the Wakamatsu Iron
Foundry Company were all being sup
piled with the new ash cement.
The Government had recently
granted a contract for 10000 bags
OF the stuff to be used in the new
harbor works as Keeling. Quantities
have already been exported to North
China, Formosa and Korea.
The ash, which is obtained from
two of the great craters in the So
called Japanese Alps, running through
the main island of Hondo, near the
west coast, is ground and screened
at the new company's factory, and
because OF the nature of the COMPOST
ton it needs nothing but water to
become very good cement. One asset
the new company can count upon
the supply of the crude material is in
exhaustible, and the more that is
carried away the more land will be un-
covered for the struggling farmer.
The discovery of the new cement
strikes one more American product
from the list of our exports which
had been necessaries for Japan. The
Portland cement manufactured in
Oregon and Washington was the only
cement In use in Japan before the
keen Japs turned the scoria into a
paying proposition.-New York Sun.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

speak to you again. You're not a
gentleman.
Perhaps not, Hal, but I'm good
minutes ago."
Never speak to me again." she
commanded, as she flung away.
Never is long time, Hail. said
the young man. Better make it a
day before. Else We'll have no time
for honeymoon
She shot choking postscript at
him over her shoulder. Il never was
so insulted in my life."
I'm glad to know l was the first, "
he said, very honestly.
Don't talk to me. sir. l hate
YOU"
That's surplusage, my dear. You
told me that before" he called after
her. Besides, it doesn't happen to
be true except for the moment.
You're going to love me just as soon
as you quit hating me-"
Il wouldn't marry you if you were
the last man on earth" she cried.
The tilt to Miss Hallie's saucy little
chin became trifie more accented if
possible. Apparently she had wiped
Jack Robinson off her map.
That young man smiled in a large
content. He had been impudent, of
course, and overbearing, perhaps, but
he had 4 divination that what Miss
Halle needed was little of the Pc
truchio business. At the most it
could not eventuate in worse failure
than the scrupulous overwejghted
courtesy of the past year. Tle had
heard that women liked cavalier WOO
ing. Well, there was nothing like
judicious experimenting.
At the expiration of an hour and a
half Jack went on search for Miss
Darrell. He had seen her down at
the beach struggling unavailingly to
launch the boat. Proving unequal to
it, she had disappeared in the woods.
He found her under tree in the
heart of little grove. She was star
| Ah5 tAoA5hI OCLOiC ACi anu elPPCoAC GU
to be having a heart to heart COM
mune with herself.
When Jack spoke she die not hear.
He spoke again and she continued in
dustriously not to hear.
Il merely want to say that we shall
have to leave the island pretty soon or
| be late for dinner he said suavely.
Miss Darrell regarded the scenery
with a fond interest.
ut will not be necessary for you
to speak unless you so desire. If you
care to make me so happy as to join
me on the return trip you may meet
me at the boat in five minutes. Other.
wise, / shall assume you prefer tt
walk home"
| If silence is golden the atmosphere
must have been surcharged witt
wealth.
Il "Good-by, Halle" he called gaily
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

! is my conceit, but We both know it
isnt." :
Miss Halle flung pebble at an in.
qulsitlve squirrel and watched ii
scamper up tree to safety. She
timed her carelessness to the proper
second of speech.
so I'm head over heels in love
with you, am T." she challenged.
His smile was complacent, and COZ
sequently irritating. We'll, | wouldo 4
put 1t that way. You're very fond of
me, but as you don't want to be en-
gagged you have persuaded Yourself
or at least you are trying to-that
you don't care for me. think that's
about it..
Miss Darrell looked at him in Of
Tended amazement. We'll. upon-mv-
word! Jack Robinson, you astonish
me-"
He was astonishing himself a good
deal, for that matter.
I'm the new man emancipated
you know. You're very independent
young woman, aid of course I've
fetched and carried for a year with
out daring to call my soul my own,
so you're a trifle puzzled now" Jack
went on coolly. But you'll get over
that, my dear, and then we'll be ma
RED as comfy as can be-"
You take a good deal for grant
ed, p" ScOffed Miss HalIie
We'll, you're certainly a good deal
to me, admitted Jack, and as he
looked at the girl her unconscious
challenge of sex fired his blood and
mastered him. Pm going to take
more for granted" he said suddenly
between his teeth.
He put his arm around her, caught
both her resisting hands in one of his.
tilted her pretty flushed face toward
him and deliberately covered her lips,
her eyes. the curve of her neck with
warm. passionate kisses. Those kisses
would have reyenged him for a year
OF snubs if he had cared for revenge
which he didn't.
She struggled to her feet in a flame
of resentment How dare you! How
dare you." she cried.
Il don't know how 1 dared, but
did," he cried triumphantly. You're
mine now, my raging little beauty.
You can't wipe away those kisses, no
matter what you do. You belong to
me-"
Il hate you,' she cried passionate
ly, a storm incarnate. III never
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Wives For German settlors

In the colonies of Germany there
are regions aggregating an area
larger than the mother country her.
self where German settlers may make
new homes for themselves. They
may live in these new homes in great
er comfort than in the old country.
AT present there are about 10000
white men in these colonies, but only
1000 women. This disparity between
the sexes is being much talked about
in Germany. Many of the leading
German women are studying the
problem.
They are asking if it would not be
blessing to the colonies if their
white population consisted of some
thousands of German families instead
of few thousand German men.
Would it not transform the colonies
into new Germanys? The women say
the German family should be the So
cial unit in the colonies.
In June last the Women's German
Colonial Union was organized under
the patronage of Grand Duke Johann
Albrecht of Mecklenburg. Nearly
every member of the managing COM
mittee is the wife of a Government
official or army officer.
In September the union sent it's
first party of young women to one of
the colonies. Thousands of German
women are joining the society and
large scheme of work has been cut
out for it.
In October the union began the
publication of a sixteen page paper
called Kolonie und Heimat. 1t ap-
pears fortnightly, and is filled with
fine photographs of colonial scenes
and news and comment of the col
onies. This is the organ of the union,
but it is only one among a number
of means through which the infiu-
ence of the union is beginning to be
widely felt.
1t is working to interest German
women of all ranks in life in the
colonies, giving advice and material
support to women who intend to en-
igrate, looking after women and chill
dren in the colonies who are in need
and preparing to participate in the
planting Of schools among the COL
onists and to pay the travelling ex-
penses of young women to help them
to employment by which they may
pay their way and to establish agen-
cies to look after their interests in
their new homes.
1t is national work in which the
union is engaged, work that aims to
make the colonies the home of many
thousands of German immigrants who
shall plant German civilization there
and build up new markets for the
products of German industries.
Earlier societies had been formed in
Germany to promote the emigration
of women to the colonies, but no
other has been organized on a ma
tional scale or with prospects SO
bright of becoming a powerful infiu-
ence in the development of the Ger
man oversee possessions York
Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

II send Bob back for you when he
gets home from school this afternoon.
Try not to be lonesome, dear"
Jack swung away whistling to the
beach. Halle could hear the SPLASH
ing OF oars for few minutes. Then
the sound died away. Fo- a long
time there was more golden silence.
Halle stole to the edge of the wood
and looked out. Neither the boat nor
Robinson was in sight. He must have
taken her at her word and left her.
A rush of warm anger flooded the
girls veins. How dared he leave her
alone. Did he think she could be
marooned like any pirate? She would
make him eat dirt for treating her so.
What had come over him, anyhow?
He had never been like this before.
She stamped her little foot in rage.
She hated INUNDATED him-hated
him.
Her anger was genuine enough,
but trickling through it, scarcely rec
ogniZed as yet, was a new pride in
him, an admiration born of defeat.
The world-old instinct of her sex was
at work in her. She had found her
mate and her master, and in much the
same way that her savage ancestors
had found theirs. He had trampled
her pride under his feet, had beaten
down her will with kisses, just as his
fathers two thousand years before
had beaten into submission with clubs
their 1.-THE and lissom loves. 1t was
the old primordial battle over again,
with the same result. She still fought
against surrender, hardly realizing as
yet the imminency of it, but her fight
was useless one. Already she was
thinking with kind of fascinated
fear of this boy whom she had been
used to order about at her will. He
would never again be her unreasoning
slave, and deep in her heart she was
him had asserted itself to defeat her.
She felt, too, new strange craving
for his presence. The memory of his
strong embrace still shivered through
her, the hateful delight of his kisses
still burned her face. She had but to
shut her eyes and let go to feel her
self snatched to him again. Shame
and anger might surge in her, but
deeper than either was the awakened
instinct of her strong young woman
hood. She had come into her natal
Inheritance.
And even though she feared to
match herself against his new-found
strength she wished he had not left
her by herself She felt oddly de-
pendent and alone Always agrees
sive and unafraid, fear at last had
found her, and in this little island
where she had been at home since
childhood. For now she was shut
off from retreat, and defeat, making
clear her weakness, had Slapped her
strength. Vague alarms filtered
through her, fancies of the woodland
folk and fettered power lurking in
the shadows to seize her. Perhaps
some Caliban of the forest
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Can't Blame Her For This.

Women have been accused of bad
effect on industries by making many
of them depend on the seasons and
others on whims. Yet men have done
their share in that direction. For
example, there is the manufacture of
gold lace. Women certainly had little
to do with it, save such as they wore
on hunting costumes centuries ago.
Practically all the gold lace made was
worn by men, most of it, of course,
by military men. The soldier of a
few decades ago was beautiful to
behold. He was decked with gold
lace from head to foot. In his epau-
lets alone there was enough of it to
decorate woman's gown. And that
was only part of what he wore, for
gold lace and gold braid and gold
fringe plastered him from top to toe.
Only twenty years ago half the mill
tary boarding schools in the United
States used great quantities of gold
on their uniforms. Then military
men awoke to the fact that so much
glitter made then marks for the en-
envy, and they adopted uniforms as
inconspicuous as possible. AS a re-
suit the manufacture of gold lace
has fallen off to the point where, in
spite of the Increase in population, it
cannot support half as many persons
as it could half century or even a
century ago. It's wonder no man
yet has had courage to blame woman
kind for it.-New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Women Workers in Other Lands.

In America, where woman in the
labor field is just becoming the SUBJ
ject of scientific investigation by the
Government, as she has been by in
dependent sociologists for a long
time, few people realize the extent
to which woman has gone into COM
petition with man in Russia. We are
not used to thinking of the Russian
women as being progressive, but
study of recent Government statistics
from the land of the Car show that
$4,000 are at present employed on
the twenty-five lines of State rail-
ways. They act as gatekeepers,
clerks and telegraphers, and their
wages average from $50 to $40 a
year. Women clerks receive about
$3.50 year, while the average is low
cred by the extremely small wage
paid to the gatekeepers, who receive
only about $19 year in addition to
their lodging. An English writer, in
discussing the status of women as
laborers on the Continent, as COM
pared to the United States, says
American women have not the same
recognized place as workers that they
have in France. New York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
.NZSE aazas7
N.sN FASHIONS
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Black silk stockings and black vel
vet slippers look well.
The waistcoat of white pique Is
closed with tiny gold buttons.
Elton jackets are more fashionable
to-day than they were a year ago.
Null ties are more favored than
ever. They are practical and pretty.
Chiffon broadcloth is probably the
very best material to select for
coat.
Coats of cretonne and ties of Eng
lish chintz are two entirely new
fashions.
Even the simplest of lingerie frocks
is likely to have two or three kinds of
lace on it,
A material of soft pastel-blue has
a border of dark pastel-blue and
white stripes.
Even the collars of the lingerie
waists must be cut very high at the
back and boned.
Linen and lace collars and cuffs are
to be worn on the coats, but they are
going to be choicer than ever in
quality.
Checks, in spite of the present
prevalence of stripes, will probably
be much thought of during the next
six months.
The new jackets Of braid have all
the effect Of heavy lace, the braid
used being narrow and laid in most
elaborate designs.
There is really nothing smarter in
suitings this season than the serges
in herringbone stripes, and nothing
safer for the girl with limited income
to buy, for they seem never to wear
ont.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Tributes to Their Wives.

This day, my love-" wrote Lord
Collingwood to his wife in 1906, lis
the anniversary of our marriage, and
l wish for many returns of it. If
ever we have peace, | hope to spend
my latter days amid my family, which
is the only sort of happiness l enjoy. -
The great Duke OF Marlborough was
even more ardent a lover as husband
than in the days of his wooing. Il
do love and adore you with all my
heart and SOUL" runs one of many
similar letters, so much that by all
that is good, l do and will ever be
better pleased with your happiness
than with my own; but, oh, my heart,
If we might both be happy, what in
expressible JOY that would be. /
think the happiness would be so great
that it would make me immortal?"
Few tributes of husband have been
more beautiful than Steele's dedica-
ton of one of his books: How often
has your tenderness removed pain
from my sick head, how often an
guish from my afflicted heart! If
there are such things as guardian an
gels, they are thus employed. l can
not believe one of them to be more
good in inclination or more charming
IN form than my WIFE" Ely its side,
however, we may place Disraelis ded-
ication of "Sybil:" Il would inscribe
this work to one whose noble spirit
and gentle nature ever prompt her
to sympathize with the suffering; to
one whose sweet voice has often en-
couraged, and whose taste and judg-
ment have ever guided its pages-the
most severe of critics, but perfect
wife. London Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Dean of University.

Miss Mary L. Stewart, of Denver,
has been elected dean of women at
the University of Montana. She takes
the place of Miss Alice Young, who it
is said resigned to get married. The
new dean of women is 4 graduate of
the University of Colorado, and was
for four years the principal of the
preparatory school of the same uni
versity. -Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Good Habits to ACQUIRE.

There are several good habits that
woman may acquire that save bills
for specialists, manicurists, mas
seuses and others, and which insure
her looking well, no matter what
hurry she may have been in while
dressing. To feel that details are
not attended to will put a woman at
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Their Age is i'm Sight.

Women of the Ivory Coast in Africa
lengthen their necks by wearing iron
rings. Every year they put new
ring around the neck, which they can
stretch so far that it is nothing unu-
sual to find it as long as the face
New York World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
Mans Problem,

What is one to do with ones face?
On the one hand we are told that any
hirsute adornment OF 1t provides a
squatting ground for all houseless
microbes. and on the other hand we
are warned that "a newly shaved
skin is door open to the germs of
every infectious disease" A royal
commission to inquire into this guam
dairy seems to be called for.--London
Taller.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03
HOW A SOUL EXPANDS.

There is rift in heart, window that opens to the
outer light when have assumed weight of anohers
burden We get new strength, of strength
and a sort of joy = e'-'
The pressure that bears down seems to open a new
valve OF power We weak every physical and
worldly sense yet strong with vigor There is
rift in skies. We beyond another world
Our interests have annexed the others interests and
the two together form life substance like in the
chemical equation And this the solitary individual interests
cannot do. They must have the addition
The chemistry be mysterious but the reaction al
ways certain to this power All may wonder
how where but have a power to bear the bmrdens
no matter how grave.-Washington Star. '
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-04-03

An effort is being made to organize
the workmen of Mexico on the same
lines as they are in other countries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-13
Expectations Have Not Yet Been
 Raised Too High
ORE BUYERS REMAIN QUIET
Pig iron Operators Agreed at cIeve- land to Maintain Certain Basis of Prices, But Lower Prices
 Have Been Lately Quoted.

Cleveland, February 2.-(Special. .)-The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say:
 1T any one supposed that the Gary movement for coneiliation and co-opera- tion would immediately have magic ef- feet, he is doomed to disappointment but no one in the iron trade entertains such an expectation, and there is general con- tent, because conditions are no worse and Tn some respects are better than they were a few weeks ago. It is too early to predict what effect the recent affirmation of prices of finished material will have. The action of the Lake Superior iron ore interests in declining at the Cleveland meeting to reaffirm the old prices has been received with little comment by the blast furnace interests, but the few heard from express satisfaction.
 There has been no buying of ore, and 1t is not expected that there will be at any time in the near future. Although at the Cleveland meeting of pig iron oper- ators the unanimous expression was in favor of maintaining the basis of ST val ley for No. foundry. quoting at from $16 to $1650 at Southern Ohio and valley furnaces continues. The southern sit- uation is weak, with iron being sold free " at S1250 Birmingham. and with SIP possible for prompt shipment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-13
PAVING PROJECT
 MEETS MORE FAVOR
Much Favorable Sentiment
 Developing In BeSsemer
NEW GAS PLANT IS READY
First Tests Are Satisfactory and Housewives Are Looking Forward With Much Pleasure to Using
 Gas as Fuel.

Bessemer, February 12-(Special.)-It is understood that the street and light com mittee. which is composed of Alderman Edmundston, Batson and Thomas, will report favorably on the ordinance that was introduced at the last meeting of the council to pave Nineteenth street from First avenue to Sixth avenue at the next meeting, which will take place on next Tuesday evening. This matter has oc- casioned a great deal of interest among the citizens, and it is now believed that there will be practically no opposition.
 When the matter was first brought up for discussion, there were a good many people who stated that they did not be- heve the city could afford to do the work at the present time, and Furthermore they did not believe that the citizens in gen ral would be in favor of it. However, it seems that they have all been made to see that it was the proper thing, and, of course, when that was done, the opposi- ton commenced to dwindle. It is be- lieved now that the ordinance will go through in good style.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-13
Now for Gas.

Gas has struck the city of Bessemer at last and from this time on any one that wishes to have the system installed can get it. Gas was turned into the mains of the Bessemer Gas company. and a demonstration was given at the office on Second avenue last evening. The test was more than satisfactory and W. H. Harrison. Jr., who is in charge of the plant in this city and who has had a large amount of practical experience along this line, stated that he was thoroughly satisfied with the test and the work was accepted by him on account of the gas company.
 The Installation of the gas system in this city will mean a great deal to the many housekeepers who are compelled to do most of their own work. It will mean in the end. less hard work for them and another thing, it will mean that the work can be done in half the time that it takes to get an ordinary stove fired up and in good working order. It will be as cheap or cheaper than wood or coal and will not require any more attention.
 There are good many people in the city who prefer gas to electricity for lighting purposes, and in that case, they will no have an opportunity of putting it in.