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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

lea of the Scotch sailors remains The resolution
called for an appropriation of $4,000 to pay the
expenses Then the fun began The Knockers in
the house declared that the commodore buried
deep in cemetery under milliondollar business
structures on the Rue Grande Aux Bellies or on
the Rue des Ecluses Saint Martin several
other rues which they could not pronounce.
Congress in its humor had the aid and jocose
correspondents, who the rare jest in the bones
search and made the most of it, And here recol
lection brings a blush of contrition to the cheeks
OF one who followed in the train Members said
and correspondents that the French doubtless
grady would allow their business palaces to be
dermined and toppled ruin on the payment Of
$4,000 of Yankee cash
If Yankee cheek. the representatives said, aided
by French politeness could accomplish the purpose
OF building demolition. there would be small chance
of separating Jones bones with any certainty of
identity from those of the French sleepers In the
old cemetery One scoffer suggested with fine irony
that there might be a bit OF the original Scotch
skull left and that Sidney Smiths rule might be
applied to make positive the identification.
Mr.. Raney undisturbed He was not even
moved to surrender when suggestion was made that
if the $4,000 were sent over to some French grave
digger he would find the old sea dogs bones and
sailors autograph in the tibia of the left leg to
do it.
1t was two years the way but the last laugh
came. and it was Mr. Rainey who had it. His
colleagues made amend for their scoffng and their
scornng, and another jester of the past writes
belated word of contrtion
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
By ANNIE HINRIcHsEN
lcopyright. IaII. BY Associa.ed Literary press)

/ is buying your work You don't need
me You never needed NE. But
L"
I'm lonesome and miserable. / do
need you. | want a literary partner
and l want the other kind of partner,
dear, and | cant so on without you.
You will have to. shall neither
marry you nor resume our literary
partnership"
The next day she took the revised
stories to the editor of the Arcade.
He glanced over them. Good stuff"
he announced. You've touched up
these stories and put the real sub.
stance into them. I'll publish these
and all others as good"
She gathered them up. They are
not for publication. wanted to
know something about them, and you
have told me what | wished to know"
Three months later, in response TO
a charmingly worded note, Graham
Ford came to Norma's fat for dinner.
The living-room had been refur-
nished and was a harmony of dull
woods and soft colors. Before the
CRATE fire was a small table set for
two. Norma wore over her pretty.
light gown white apron.
1t was a we'll cooked dinner which
the white-aproned hostess served. Ora
ham Ford ate steadily and appreciate.
" a
meal was finished they carried the
table into the tiny kitchen. Graham
looked about for the cook. but saw no
one.
Norma pushed an easy chair before
the fire He dropped into it and light
ed a cigar. Norma. still wearing her
apron, sat on a small chair drawn
close to his.
Graham" she said in a low voice,
how do you like tiny little fiat and
my dinner?"
1T is domestic paradise" he
sighed. Would you like to have it
all the time? You can if you want
to-" she went on as he stared bewil-
dered. Il refused you a literary wife.
VIII you take domestic one? Sit
still while tell you about it. ! was
so spoiled by my literary success that
| thought | had real talent | ended
our partnership. After that | could
not sell story. The only merit my
stories possessed was the revision
you gave them. With it they sold;
without it they were worthless.
After we separated | realized that
that / loved you. When you asked
me to marry you wanted to- want
ed to with all my heart. But l could
not do it, | had nothing to give you
in return for all you were ready to
give me. l refused you and-and-I
went to school to learn to be good
/ home-maker. learned to cook, to ar
range rooms, to shop economically.
! I've practiced here in my little fiat.
trying to become proficient enough
TOTO make your home comfortable
and happy I'm a literary failure. but
! am good cook and now can be a
real partner-a useful one-if you
But the rest of the sentence was
left unfinished as the girl and the big
white apron were drawn into the easy
| chair.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

times, and said that l ought to have an
operation. would not listen to that,
and when friend of my husband told
him about Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, / was willing to take it.
Now l look the picture of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house
work, hoe my garden, and milk COW.
| can entertain company and enjoy
them. l can visit when / choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. | wish could
Talk toevery sufferingwoman andgirl."
Mrs. DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms OF
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hEm'ss Vegetable Compound.
1t is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
EXAMINATION, liberation, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling. indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. Why don't you try i'll
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

What is said to be the coolest place on the globe
is the region Of Verkholensk, Siberia. Here is a
convict station, but during most of the year no
guards are needed to keep the prisoners from run
ming away, for in the more severe portions of the
winter no living creature can remain in the open
and during the three most severe months, when
the temperature sometimes falls to IS degrees be.
low zero. no one dares to venture out for more
than few moments at a time
Ordinary steel tools will snap like glass and
unseasoned wood becomes almost hard as
steel When one breathes powder like the very
finest snow falls at ones feet 1t is said that there
are less forms of insect life here than elsewhere
in the world, and of those found are not
found elsewhere, seemingly having been created
especially to inhabit such frigid region.
Some of the signal-service officials declare that
most of the severe cold waves that sweep across
the North American continent have their origin in
Verkhoensk The wind blows perfect gale almost
all the time and that discomfort, added to the low
temperature, would certainly make this very I'm.
pleasant place in which to spend the winter.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
BRAVERY OF ST0KE-HOLE MEN
Many Deeds Of Heroism Reported
Among Firemen on Board War
Vessels and Merchant Ships.

The president has presented medals
to the six members of the engineers
crew of the battleship North Dakota.
who, when an explosion of oil fuel
occurred, rescued injured comrades
amid steam and deadly fumes and
saved the ship from destruction.
1t is one Of the curious anomalies
known to the merchant service Of the
salt water that stoke-hole men, re.
cruited from human riffraff and scarce
recognizing the mere existence of dis
cipline, have risen to the noblest hero
ism They have stayed by vessels
deserted by deck officers and men.
They have made repairs when every
breath drew in scalding steam and
worked at furnace doors when the
water was SO high upon the plates 1t
splashed into the ash pit doors 1t is
their lot to be held partly in contempt
and partly in fear. Their labor saps
the life Of strong men. That of fire.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

Our partnership must end" The
girl spoke decisively.
Il don't see the reason" objected
the man.
I'VE have been writing together
very successfully for several weeks, .
she explained But we have reached
a point in our work where each one
can do better alone. If we stay to-
gether our influence on each other
will be a real detriment to success.
My work will take on the quality Of
yours; yours will become like mine
Our talents will develop if we work
separately"
In spite of the hurt in his eyes Ora
ham Ford's lips twitched.
Perhaps | seem ungrateful." Nor
ma Atwood went on. Il am really
your protege rather than your part
ner. ! came to the city with the in
tention of devoting my life to newspa-
per and magazine work. All my ar
ticles and stories were refused. When
met you | was utterly discouraged
told you my difficulties. You read
my stuff, showed me how TO alter It
into salable matter and introduced
me to editors. Success came immedi-
ately. am selling everything |
write. We have been working to-
gether. You write your things and
l write mine Every morning you
come here to my fat and we go over
the stories and give each otNer advice
and suggestions. We have called our
selves literary partners.
Yesterday the Arcade asked me to
furnish them daily story. These
stories and my work will take all my
time and these morning hours to-
gether must be given up"
Ford's brows drew together 81 I'M
derstand." he said briefly. You offer
two good reasons; you are so success
full that you haven't time for me. and
we can do better work without the as
sistance OF each other"
Two weeks later Norma Atwood
went to the office of the Arcade.
"Mr. Mills" she said to the man
aging editor you promised to pub
fish a story of mine every day for an
Indefinite period. This morning you
sent back to me a bundle of my
stories accompanied by letter tell
ing me to write better ones if |
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

wished the Arcade to use them. I've
come to ask you what is the matter
with them"
The editor was a direct man and a
frank one. They lack snap and
point. Your earlier stories were
clever; these are fiat. Write as well
as you did a few weeks ago and no
story will be returned to you"
few days later another bundle of
stories was returned to her.
One evening Graham Ford came to
the little fiat. 1t was his first visit
since the dissolution of the partner
ship.
How are you getting along?" he
asked abruptly.
Il am very busy" she began brave
ly.
Are you selling much?"
Every writer has periods of fail
ure."
What is the Arcade doing with
your stuff"
Sending it back to me" After a
moment she added, so is every other
editor"
"Brutes." he mathematical. "Let
me see your stories"
He went through them, cutting,
Transporting and adding whole para
graphs. These are good stories" he
commended. Try them on those
editors again. They will buy. You
write we'll"
She shook her head.
Norma, let's go back to our part
nership. win you? I'm lonesome
and unhappy. can't write alone"
Every big maya zine in the country
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

any human personality at all When
he thought of his own functions. he
said, he was appalled, by them. In
his official capacity he is responsible
for more property than anybody else
in the United Kingdom, employs far
more people than any individual or
corporation (212.364 at the last re-
port), prosecutes more malefactors
every day than the public prosecutor,
and sends out every week more apollo
gies for himself and explanations OF
his actions than all the rest of he
British population combined.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Answering the Dean.

The man who Thackeray calls "the
greatest wit of all time"-Dean Swift
of ST. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin
was as ready to take as. to make re-
tort.
why don't you doff your hat to
me-" he asked small boy who was
coaxing along an obstreperous goat
81 will" said the lad. IF your honor
will hold the goats horns!" an answer
which delighted the dean.-Youth's
Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

men has been placed as low as six
years. They are always in danger
from shifting coal, breaking pipes and
tumbling slice bars. The beat of the
waves may throw them against white.
hot furnaces or the waves themselves.
coming over the rails. may tumble
through gratings and drown them like
rats in barrel
1t is surely great thing that
beings of i'll reputation and hard cruel
lives, should yet appear on the records
and in the tales never recorded as
the bravest men in the hour of trial.
The six men of the North Dakota.
because they are of the navy. gain
something of reward. They are, how.
ever, but brothers of a worldwide
family.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Barn Struck by Lightning.

During the storm of last Friday. ow, which,
July TN. lightning struck the barn on the them hard
| farm OF Mr.. Calvin L. Putnam. near East side
Ia stsaHsRXrn tbs county recently pursk in what
year it was that Jefferson had commissioned
man 10 buy the coat of arms. On learning that
It was in the year I'LL Mr. Suzer said. with an
lntonation that showed he had found a grain of
comfort in the thought That was five years
before the revolution"
The New York representative consolation
morsel apparently was not big enough to go
round among his neghbors with appreciate
share of each. 1t was a bit hard to learn after
many years that the man who wrote the immortal
document beginning with ringing words about
equality had been trying to buy something which
would go TO show that he was trihe more equal"
than his neighbors; and the blow like unto
that of a bludgeon, because il was shown that the
supposedly impeccable had more than init
mated that a counterfeit coat good as
genuine one If only 1t noby emblazoned
The Republicans had a rare time of it over the
Democratic discontinue When Il comes to fun
the galleries are goriously nonpartisan. The
humor of the thing was to the people aoft we'll
worth the knocking of prop from the third pres
dents pinnacle Things might not have been so
altogether bad for the cause of Mr.. Jefferson and
his house disciples If Mr.. Boutell had been content
to stop, for everybody recognizes the weakness
that all human nature-even that sternly simple
type-has for crests and other family gewgaws
Yes said the Chicago man, lit was five years
before the revolution. Now, just before the revolu
tion on August %, 1775, the great founder of the
Democratic party, the introducer of truculent
sycophancy into our national administration,
wrote to John Randolph from Monticello urging
reconciliation with Great Britain, and in that
letter he uses this expression:
4 am sincerely one of those who would rather
be in dependence on Great Britain, properly lin
tied. than any other nation on earth or than on
no nation"
The last five words of this Jefersonian pro
nouncement 1t would seem, If language means
anything point to desire on the part of the
Virginian Democrat that the colonies should have
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

pany business for every sort of par
eel, from a hafpenny packet up to
shipments of eggs, dressed poultry
and fresh fish
He collects all the worn copper
coins for the British treasury. He
has factories for making his supplies
and an electric central station OF mis-
own in London for lighting his offices,
bringing the current through his ca
BILE ducts.
At a dinner the other night the
postmaster general confessed that ne
sometimes doubted whether he had
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Just Baby's Size.

In a car filled with ladies, 90
pound dude sat wedged in tightly. At
street corner a fat woman. hand
somely dressed and with a baby in
her arms. got in. The little dude strug-
gled to his feet and touched his hat
politely. remarking facetiously:
Madam, will you take this seat?"
The fat lady looked at the crevice
he had left and thanked him pleas
antly.
You are very kind, sir" she said.
81 think it will just fit the baby"
And it did.-New York Evening
Mail
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
CHURCH LIGHTED BY WIND
Novel Method Employed to Illuminate
Sacred Edifice Near Birming-
ham, England.

Probably one of the most novel
methods &c providing lighting for
church is that employed at the old
-osely church, situated a few miles
,ut from Birmingham, England.
About GOO feet from the church Is
he mouth of a disused coal mine
around which are huge piles of tail.
ngs. Upon one of these a steel tower
80 feet high is erected and a windmill
Is feet in diameter installed. At the
oase of the tower in small house is
an electric generator which is run by
he mill The current thus generated
'eeds 81 lamps in the church, two in
he chapel. two in the yestry; operates
motor for pumping the pipe organ,
and also lights 80 lamps in the rec.
:ory. A storage battery in the rectory
S a part of this unique lighting plant
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
SURELY MAN OF MANY JOBS

in, take care of your savings, sell you
an annuity, a postal order or a for
eign draft. invest your spare capital
in nice little government bond and
pay weekly pension to your aged
mother or aunt
He carries letters and other mail
matter, transmits kilograms. cable
grams and wireless messages, main
tains an enormous staff of messenger
boys and conducts an express COM
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
The Leader.

A Kansas City hotel boasts Of hav.
ing five brides as guests in one day.
In Houston. where about $50 passen.
ger trains arrive every day, the
brides enter the corridors IN such a
stream that it is not uncommon for
the sweerers to gather up a bushel
and aalf Of rice at single sweep.
Houston bost
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Sensitive.

You don't like educated Indians"
"Oh. yes, | like them well enough, but
[ always feel a sense of shame when
meet one He knows that my an
cestors cheated his ancestors out Of
their land, and he knows that know
he knows it,"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
British Postmaster General Can Not
se Said to Be an Idle
individual.

The British postmaster general is
what Londoners call universal pro-
WIDER, a regular department store Of
public functions.
He will insure your life, give you
, little bank to hoard your pennies
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

The Chicago Republican looked at the Democ-
racys Mississippi chieftain now United States
senator), then turned his eyes to the then sub.
chieftain. Champ Clark of Missouri. and said:
Il wish to read few words OF Thomas Jefferson
III" Wis going 10 rredercK well heeedit startled.
one nad $50 bill across her ankle plain of Jeffer-
as could be and easily seen through thelow1v IT
sauze sock 1t is trusted she did not run was inst
| t07pN Mail. emerson 10
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

for four or five days
at a time Q every
month, and so weak
l could hardly walk.
l cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and was so
nervous and weak
that l dreaded to
see anyone or hays
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease mo at those
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Rural Carriers to Get Increase

The 10000 odd rural free delivery ~ Sea
carriers in the United States are to receive FANNY!
salary increases. as result of a decis the FAMILY
ion reached bv Postmaster Cen..ro, not 1t is
Hitchcock. He will thus provide for the will with
disbursement during the current fiscahr, having
year OF - 100000 which will mean an arms may
increase of 500 over the present salarvat,
OF 5000 for all carriers on Standard
routes with proportionate incressaS IN Democratic
shorter routes. eophancy-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
No Help.

No Help
st. Louis travelling man. making his first trim
through North Dakota, woke up May morning
to find the ground white with snow
For Heavens sake" he asked the hotel clerk
disgusedly, when do you have summer out in
this country"
Il don't know replied the clerk, Il have only
been here II months Success
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Marvel Explained.

Mrs A.-Your boy is different from
the others | know He always keeps
his face clean.
Mrs B-Yes; he hates so to have 1t
washed
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
EnrCNLnS and GRIP

Hicks CAPUDISE is the best remedy-re
!ieves the aching and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
Cold and restores normal conditions. It's
liquid-effects Immediately loo, 25c., and SOC.
At drug stores
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy. regulate and invig-
orate stomach. liver and bowels and cure
constipation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
Modern Ethics.

Do not kick man when he is down.
Turn him over and feel in the other
pocket.-Galvesto News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

have Mrs. LongwOrth for its
central subject, but he in
troduced matters by saying
that she would return to
America. not Princess
Alice, but the same modest,
unassuming daughter of the
president that it was her
wont to be-"
Mrs. Longworth came in
to Mr.. Boutells speech only
as an incident of discourse,
the Republican representa-
tive's main intention being
apparently to attempt TO re-
flute the statement made by
Representative Wheeler of
Kentucky that the Republi-
can party under present ad-
ministration was introduc-
ing "truculent sycophancy
and flunkeyism" into our
intercourse with representa-
ti1-az Af fOro;rD n1uo--
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

A man can't always depend upon
grass widow to see that his grave 10
kept green
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Sikeston, Mo. -"For seven years ]
suffered everything. I was in bed
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

Porter's work possible.
Mr.. Rainey never has been
given credit in full for his
share of the labor, for
modesty has held him
silent.
Congress at the outset
did enough to discourage
ten men of ordinary en-
ergy from carrying on the
quest for anybody's bones
Mr.. Rainey refused to be
gibed out of his purpose,
and although he could not
induce his colleagues to
take him altogether seri'
ously. he followed the bent
of his belief in other direc'
tions and now John Paul
Jones rests at Annapolis.
The Illinois member in
troduced a resolution pro
vidirg for the finding and
for the removal TO Amer
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-07-14

undermine the simple life" pedestal upon which
Thomas Jefferson stands
There were some people apparently who thought
that Mrs. Longworth, who is ex-Presdent Roose-
velt's daughter, might return from her honeymoon
trip abroad where she was treated in a measure
like royal parsonage in frame of mind in which
pride was dominant and that she might have lost
some of her American simplicity. Representative
Boutell made a speech which of course did not