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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
New Style of Cutting.

he new style diamond is cut so:
One-third the length is above the
Sirdle and is called the crown. Two
thirds of the length is below the
girdle and is the collet. The girdle is
the edge where the little gold or
platinum claws hold the diamond to
the ring. There are fifty-six facets
or polished surfaces. In other words.
the diamond polisher has to hold
such a stone while polishing at fifty
six different angles. One surface is
the table or largest facet, right on
top. Another surface is the culet,
smallest of all the facets, the end of
the little point, right next to the skin
OF the finger. All the other facets
are triangles and every other kind of
old angles that folk spend so many
years studying in college, and call 1t
trigonomet-y.-From Tip, in the New
York Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
NEWSPAPER FILES DECAYING.
But Century Old Journals, Printed ON
Rag Paper, Are Preserved.

Where are the files of yester-year?
is beginning to be the plant of IL
brarians of institutions where news
papers are kept. Those dating from
about 1880 onward are literally dis
migrating on librarians hands, in
spite of all they can do to preserve
them, and within few years these
valuable sources of history will have
to be swept away.
The root of the trouble is the wood
pulp paper on which most journals,
and practically all newspapers, have
been printed since about 1880. At
the present moment, in the city IL
braries newspapers of a hundred
years ago are in much better condi-
ton, and have far better chance of
continued usefulness, than the sheets
printed since wood pulp came into
USE
When you consider that a great
many of the books to-day are now
printed on this same paper, and some
on not much better quality" said a
librarian at the Montague Street Cen
trail Branch in Brooklyn, "you can
see that this is really a serious mat
ter. Practically all books in cheap,
and in some cases reasonably priced,
editions are printed on wood-pulp
paper, and not rags, so it is only
question of time when they, too, rot"
The disintegration of wood-pulp
paper is so we'll known in scientific
circles that special pains are taken to
select certain kinds of paper for
works which are intended to last. 1t
was said by one of the city library
officials that mathematical tables pre-
pared by the Carnegie Institution,
particularly those for astronomical
purposes, are printed on a paper of
special make, guaranteed to withstand
the ravages of time for several years.
The experts who make this say there
is no great secret in the composition;
it is only fine grade of rag paper.
"a great deal can be done to pre-
serve books and files. according to
the way they are kept" declared an
expert. Heat and dampness will do
great deal to hasten decomposition,
but there is nothing you can do to
save the cheap papers beyond a GER
tain stage"
This loss of files will be more great
ly felt few years hence than at pres
ent. But as it is, paper on which Is
printed extremely valuable material
TO- all kinds of research an indisputa-
BILE evidence of many events which
have been preserved at considerable
expense for reference use. is dropping
to pieces just as it is becoming valu-
able.-New York Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Why France is Rich.

Paris is the mecca of foreigners.
They come from all parts of the world
to enjoy life in the great metropolis;
and the yearly income from this
source alone approximates $500, 000,-
600. Along with this item the earn
ings of French capitalists on their in
vestments in the securities and prop
critics of other countries amount to
fully $250,000,000 yearly. On the
other side of the account is an adj
verse balance of trade, which in 1907
amounted to $120,000,000. Deduct
this outgo from her income of $780,
100000, and it leaves France with
$3.50, 100000 to the good. Instead
of getting an income of $600,O00.O00
from foreign tourists, the United
States pays out at least $3.50, 1000, 1000
for the expenses of American tourists
abroad. Again, instead of drawing
S250,00O,O00 yearly from foreign in
vestments, this country pays out
$500, 100000 to foreign investors in
our securities and properties. A
third factor is the army of aliens who
flock here from all parts of the world
to hoard up money which they take
back to their own countries; this
drain costs us 100000 more.
Add $10O, 100000 more which we pay
for ocean freights in foreign vessels
and the yearly outgo is $S50,O00,000.
Deduct our yearly income of $780,
100000 for favorable trade balance,
and it leaves yearly deficit of $780,
00,OO0.-Moody's Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Buy BATTLE AXE" SHOES.
Emancipation In China.

Notwithstanding that part of the
imperial rescript abolishing slavery
in China is nominal rather than an
actual manumission, consisting in
prohibiting the retainers of the Man
chu princes from being called slaves
hereafter and the designating the
household slaves of the Manchus as
hired servants without changing
their condition of bondage for life,
it's general terms will eventually leae
to the freedom of millions of human
beings and put stop to slavery in
the empire. A notable provision is
that forbidding the sale of children
in times of famine. an immoral GUS
tom, although still permitting as =
compromise terms of bonde4 service
until the age of 25.
The issue of the rescript makes
at least a significant beginning to-
ward the ultimate freedom of the
Chinese by official recognition of the
Improperly OF the barter and sale
of human beings. Changes come
slowly la that land, and while the
extinction of slavery there may be
deferred for years, the fact that it
has at least been undertaken is that
much gain for civilization.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
RoCKEFELLER's NiMEwnILIvE
Harriman's viii Fade From Human
Mind, But Oil Magnate's Never.

Palo Alto, Calm President David
starr Jordan's address to the gradu-
ating class at Stanford University, the
subject of which was THE Wealth of
Nations" reference was made to the
lives of T.. II. Hartman and other
great finaneiers in drawing the lesson
that man success in life is not meas
ured by what he does for himself. but
rather by what he does for humanity.
In those matters in which the
permanent wealth of nations is con-
cerned, in the long future of mental
and spiritual development, the name
OF Hartman said DR.. Jordan. Finds
no place. The name OF Newcomb in
the same connection will stand in
larger letters among those who by
life and influence have made this
world broader and a better one."
Continuing, he said: "The name of
Rockefeller will not suggest Standard
Oil or the association OF monopolies.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research represents one of the wisest
and most far-reaching uses to which
any mans money can ever be put"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10

to feel better when I had taken only
one bottle Of Compound, but kept on
as l was afraid to stop too oon."-Mrs.
SADIE MULLEN, 1928 N. B. St., FL
wood, Ind.
Why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the joy of living, when they
can find health In Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compounds
For thirty years 1t has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements, Inflammation,
liberation, fbroid tumors, irregulari-
ties, periodic pains, backache, indiges-
ton, and nervous prostration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound will help you,
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Your letter
will be absolutely confidential,
and the advice free.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Household HELMS.

II Is surprising the many different appe-
tizing ways that Corned Beef can be pre-
pared for the family's meals. Every one
likes Corned Beef and there is no more
healthful or delicious dish than Libby's,
carefully selected from prime beef and
properly Cured"
There is some waste, to be sure, when
bought at the butchers. but in the plan
here suggested you may buy the finest
corned beef in the world in which there
is absolutely no waste and every particle
OF which can be eaten.
Suppose you ask your grocer for Lib.
by's Corncd Beef. It represents all full
value-no bone. no gristle-j just clean. pure
eorned beef selected first hand from the
finest beef stock-no scraps or second
pleces-and eorned and cooked to per.
lection in Libby's wonderful white en-
amel kitchens. A can of Libby's Corned
Beef sliced and served cold with dill
pickles and potato salad is. delightful
meal and will be enough for four people.
Corned Beef Hash.--Take the contents
Of q can, chop fine, add one-fourth as much
boiled OF baked potatoes, little fried
onion and a small quantity of water Cook
slowly until thoroughly heated. then serve
on toast, with. or without poached eggs.
Corned Beef Ornelette.-Beat the yolks
and whites of -four eggs senarately and add
one-half of the whites to all of the yolks.
Put III hot frying pan and. when nicely
Drowned on the bottom, sprinkle cup os
minced eorned beef over it. Spread over
this the remainder of the whites put in
the oven and brown on top. Then fold
and serve.
Dreamed Corned Beef.-Mince the con
tents of can of Libby Corned Beef
Put over this a dressing of cream gravy
with the yolk of an egg beaten into it,
Serve on t"ast
New England Boiled Dinner.-You may
have. this in one-fourth of the time i
usually takes. Put can of Libby's Cornell
Beef in boiling water-it is already cooked
and serve in the usual manner with
vegetables.
Besides the economy in the use of Lib
by's Corned Beef, another great advantage
to the housewife in using it is that it is all
cooked when bought and there is no neces-
sity for the long, tedious and expensive
boiling which is necessary with raw coined
beef The house is not fillei vita stem
and odors and valuable time is xav.,'.
Libby's Corned Beef is ready at once fer
serving in any one of the many wrys men.
toned above, and you will find it great
convenience to try it next time Be sure
you get Libby, Mcneil & Libbys Ccr.cd
Beef.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Modern Sardinia.

King Victor's decision to pay Sar-
DINA his first visit since his accession
is a reminder that this large italian
island still belongs to the Middle
Ages. 1t is hard to believe that Sar-
DINA, known to the ancient Romans
as the granary of the empire and its
mineral treasure house, should so re-
Gently as 1928 have been entirely
without roads. The beautiful high
ways over which, il Augustin days,
golden harvests had been wheeled to
the coast had been lost since the fall
of the empire. Even feudalism re-
taihed its hold on The life of the
Sardes till 1856. Pestilence due 20
neglected soil and undraiLed swamps
has no doubt helped to retard the re-
turn to civilization of the island
which gave the crown to King Vic
tors house.-London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
The Jeweled Set.

An actress at tea at the Plaza said
of Miss Eleanor Robson:
She is a dear. She has married
August Belmont. Now she is in the
set that once heard her so wittily
|ridicule.
She said that in conversation with
a Leading matron Of this gilded, this
leweled set, she once asked:
And where do you think you'll
spend the summer, Mrs. Van Gelt?'
Er-the North Cape, I believe
Mrs Van Gelt answered. One can
get skiing there all through August,
you know
And where will you spend the
winter, then?'
"'oh, Florida, by all means.
There's such ripping January bathing
at Palm Beaca Washington Star.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
MANUAL TRAINING NURSES.
Will Be Able to Give the Work Cure
to Patients Who Need 1t.

"Have you never had charge of a
patient who you just ached to put to
work at something worth while
and you didn't dare even to breathe
the idea to the friends or the doc
tor?" says writer in the nurses de-
partment of the Dietetic and Hygenic
Gazette. IF you are mechanical
yourself and like some form of handi-
craft better than smoothing the wrin-
killed. brow as a steady employment
just look into this matter a little.
There will be position for you some
time as manual training nurse
Nurses and other women who
wish to learn certain of the arts and
crafts with special reference to their
use in the treatment of functional
nervous diseases and other ailments
ere now to have an opportunity
through the enterprise of DR.. Hall,
of Marblehead, Mass. The doctor be-
gan the use of his work cure about
five years ago, and after the first
year of experimental work and study
was fortunate in receiving grant of
money from the Proctor fund of Har-
ward University, to assist in the
study of the treatment of neuras-
thenia ty progressive and graded
manual occupation
With this encouragement, aug
mented by few gifts of money from
those most interested in the expert
ment, the doctor has treated in his
shop 100 patients, with noticeable
Improvement in eighty-six per cent.
of the cases. Hand weaving, wood
carving, metal work and pottery are
the crafts at which the patients have
been employed and which have raised
the institution from charity to
plane on which it is all but self-sup-
porting. DR.. Hall does not claim to
have originated the idea of using
manual work as curative agent. He
acknowledges his obligations to
number of authorities in America
and abroad, but he believes that his
IS the first institution in this country
devoted to the systematic use of
;" a7ual work for therapeutic pur-
.-,''
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
FEED CHILDREN
On Properly Selected Food. 1t Pays
Big Dividends.

If parents will give just little in
telligent thought to the feeding of
their children the difference in tho
health of the little folks will nav.
many times over, for the small
trouble.
A mother writes saying: sour
children are all so much better and
stronger than they ever were before
We made change in the character OF
the food. We have quit using pota-
toes three times day with coffee and
SO much meat.
Now we give the little folks some
fruit, either fresh, stewed, or canned.
some Grape-Nuts with cream. occa-
sionally some soft boiled eggs, and
some Postum for breakfast and sun
per. Then for dinner they have some
meat and vegetables.
1t would be hard to realize tn,
change In the children, they hay,
grown so sturdy and strong, and ",
attribute this change to thu food ele
ments that. understand, exist IL
Grape-Nuts and Postum.
"A short time ago my baby WIS
teething and had great deal OF
stomach and bowel trouble. Moth.
ing seemed to agree with him until
tried Grape-Nuts softened and mixed
with rich milk and he improved rap
idly and got sturdy and we'll"
Read THE Road to WellviIlr,~
found in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Sixteen Years of Skin Disease.

For sixteen long years have been
suffering with a bad case of skin dis.
ease. While child there broke out
a red sore on the legs Just in back OF
my knees. 1t waved from bad to
worse, and ct last | saw | had a bad
skin disease. tried many widely
known doctors In different cities, but
to no satisfactory result. The plague
bothered me more in warm weather
than In winter, and being on my leg
Joints 1t made 1t impossible for me to
walk, and I was forced to stay indoors
in the warmest weather. My hopes
OF recovery were by this time spent
Sleepless nights and re.tless days
made life an unbearable burden. Al
last was advised to try the Cuticura
Remedies GCuticura Soap, Ointment
and Pills]. and | did not need more
than a trial to.convince me that was
on the road of success this time. /
bought two sets of the Cuticura Rem
edies and after these were gone /
was a different man entirely. am
now the happiest man that there is at
least one true cure for skin diseases
Leonard A. Hawtof, IL Nostrand Ave-,
Brooklyn. N. Y, July 80. and August
3. 1909"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10

The train crews of the Southwest,
from sheer necessity are made up OF
men able to teke and appreciate a
joke" says former Councilman l..
c. Carran. Otherwise the dreari-
ness and monotony of their lives
might kill them.
Il was on train in Arkansas re-
Gently when the brakeman came
through the car and bawled out some
sort of gibberish as we came to q
stop.
What place is this, please?' I
asked the conductor.
Place? -, this amt no place.
he said, and good naturally, too. at
that. This is just one of the habits
of the engineer Whenever he goes
SO many yards he stops just from
force of habit. Cleveland Leader
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
7 Sfs - g. .sEzvSl
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N AT IRE q, IS GENCE

The Hydro-Electric Commission G,
Ontario, who have charge of the con-
struction and operation of the electric
power transmission system from Nj
agara Falls, have decided to use al
uminum instead of copper conduct
ors, and have placed an order tor l.!
100000 pounds of aluminium wire.
There is noticeable development
in the jaws of the boys taken out of
the streets of London and sent into
the British navy. A scientist says of
the phenomenon: The important
notable improvement in them, next to
their superior stature and healthy APP
pearance, was the total change in the
shape and expression of their faces.
On Analysing this one finds that it
was to be mainly accounted for by the
increased growth and improved angle
OF the lower jaw"
Tears, as every one knows. contain
ordinary salt. But according to a
French chemist they contain much
more. In the sixteen parts of solid
matter found in every hundred parts
of the tear liquid, there are also al
bumens, some other organic COM
pounds and few salts, such as n.y.
drochlorate of soda, sulphates and
phosphates. No matter how the tears
originated, whether they be tears of
grief, of pain or produced by the
onion, they are all made up of the
same substances Farmer.
"Black bread '-that is, rye bread
is not famine ration, SAYS the
London Lancet, but just as good food
as white bread, and the staple form
of the staff of life in several civil
lied countries. There is almost no
difference chemically between the
two breads, although the wheat con-
tains slightly more gluten. Black
bread keeps fresh"-that is, moist
much longer than white bread. 1t
has a slightly greater irritant effect
upon the intestinal canal, which is
also an advantage under ordinary cir
cumstances. The whole rye bread, or
pumpernickel, is the preferable form.
Calculations as to the size required
for human beings on the other plan
cts vary widely according to the basis
of reckoning. According to those
based upon the attraction of gravity,
Jupiter should be peopled by pygmies
of twenty-eight inches. Wolfius, on
the other hand, argued that Goliath
himself would be accounted decidedly
understood upon that planet He
worked from the feebleness of the
suns light there, which would de-
mand that The pupil of the eye should
be much more dilatable. Since the
pupil stands in constant proportion
to the ball of the eye, and that to the
entire body, said Wolfius, little cal
culation shows that an average Jovi.
an must be nearly thirteen feet seven
inches tall-not quite four inches
shorter than Og, king of Basham, &C.
cording to the measure of his bed
stead given in Deuteronomy.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Reproving Him Gently.

rhe reverence for the Sabbath in
Scotland sometimes takes form one
would hardly have anticipated.
An old Highland man once ex-
nlained to an English tourist:
They're God-fearing set o. folks
here. sir, deed they are, and I'll give
We an instance OF. Last Sabbath, just
as The kirk was skalin', there was a
Dire yer chap frae Dumfries along the
road. whistlin' and lookin' as happy
as if it was ia middle of ia week.
Weel. cir, our lads is a God-fearing
set o. laads, and they just set upon
him and almost killed him. LON
don Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10
Eeating A Book Seller.

A well-dressed man was standing
outside a booksellers shop in Char
ing Cross road. closely examining
one of Balzacs works, illustrated by
Gustave Dore. How much is this
Balzac?' he asked an assistant out
side.
twenty-five shillings." was the
reply.
"Oh, that's far too much. must
see the manager about a reduction, !"
continued the prospective customer,
and, suiting the action to the word.
he took up the book and went into
the shop.
Approaching the bookseller he took
the book from under his arm and
ask what he would give for it. Sew
en- shillings, highc-t offer" he was
told.
The offer was accepted; the man
took his money and left.
WELL" queried the assistant later,
after the man had gone, were you
able TO hit it off with the gentleman,
sir?'
"Oh, yes; I managed to get an
other copy of that edition of Balzac
for seven shillings."
Then the bookseller went out to
lodge complaint with the police
London Telegraph.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-06-10

poor health l could scarcel- attend to
my homework. My back ached as IL
1t were being pulled apart, and my
feet and ankles were badly. swollen.
The kidney secretions were in terri
Bile condition. | was extremely ner-
vous and my heart palpitated violent
ly. Short use of Doan's Kidney Pills
relieved me and soon my whole sys-
tenn was renovated.
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N Y.