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The citizen., 1911-12-22
CHANGES in FLOWERS
MODERN TASTE AS COMPARED
WITH OTHER YEARS.
Gardens of Today Would Be THINGS
of Wonder to Our Ancestors
All Countries Called on for
Beauty of Color.

1t Is a truly astonishing thing to re
fleet that Shakespeare, for all his love
of flowers, would have been able to
name scarcely a single bloom in
twentieth century garden, says the
Strand. He would hardly have been
able to distinguish the queen of flow
ers itself, so greatly has the rose
changed in the last three centuries.
AS for the begonias, the chrysanthe.
NUNS, the dahlias, the geraniums, the
fuschias and carnations; these were
unknown even to our great-grandfath-
ers. Many Of our most beautiful f1ow-
ers are purely modern productions.
Three centuries ago there were no
flower gardens in England. What
were then thought of as gardens were
herbaria, places where rosemary, mint,
rue, thyme and sage grew, and per-
haps few primitive blooms, such as
violets and primroses, were suffered
to exist, much as poppies and corn
flowers do today.
Many well known plants have been
developed from specimens discovered
in various parts of the world, and there
Is no doubt that number of charm
ing novelties are still lurking undis-
covered in remote spots. The chances
of valuable finds are, however, becom-
ing unfortunately less every year. A
small army of collectors is always at
work in every corner of the world
searching for new treasures to enrich
our floral store.
From South America came many
years ago the recently questionable
fuschia; from the hills of northern
India and Tibet have been brought
many useful varieties; from China we
have had among other things many
new primulas; Japan has yielded
plants, usually of most brilliant and
gorgeous coloring; while numerous
charming members of the narcissus
family have been discovered in the
Pyrenees.
But this cannot continue indefinite
ly, and even in the realm of orchids,
for which perhaps the most systematic
search of all is made, there is not
much left to be explored. For our fu-
ture novelties We shall have to rely
then chiefly on the skill of our hybrid
lists, who are constantly engaged in
mating different species of the same
family of plants, and our cross fertiI-
izers, who are doing similar work with
different varieties of the same species.
The flowers of today are the result OF
cross-breeding, stimulated by electri-
city, drugs and hot water baths.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Worse and Worse.

"Did you ever notice." said Walter
Grimes, "how fellow, when he once
gets 'balled up and says the wrong
thing, has tendency to get in deeper
and deeper?
"a friend was first telling be of his
experience in attending reception in
Indianapolis some time ago. During
the progress of the function an elabo-
rately gowned woman sang for the
guests. Her voice wasn't anything to
brag on, and my friend, who is very
plainly spoken, turned to a meek-look-
ing little man at his right and ask
ed in low voice: "Who was that old
hen who has just squawked for us?'
That replied the man addressed.
is my wife
my friend gasped. oh, b-b-beg your
pardon, he suffered. She's really a
rather nice-looking woman, and know
she'd sing better if she made a bet
ter selection of his music. Who do you
suppose ever wrote rotten song like
that?'
81 am the author of that song,' re-
piled the meek looking little man.
Louisville Times.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Pots of Glass.

A process has recently been invent
ed in France to produce glass flower
pots at very low cost. The pots are
like ordinary flower pots, both in size
and shape. They are said to be more
substantial and have proved to resist
the pressure of ice or frozen earth
better. Being handsome in appear
ance, they are fine for potted sale
coverings that soon get soiled. When
sunk into the earth they remain clean,
as neither dirt nor moss adheres. The
inside walls being smooth, plants can
easily be slipped out, and they are,
therefore, excellent for potting plants
with many roots. The thickness of
the glass, with the consequent lack of
porosity, is also said to be an advan-
tage, for the air remains sweet longer
in glass pot than in an ordinary pot,
and there is less danger of drying out
While the initial cost of glass pots is
somewhat higher, they are really
cheaper in the end, because more
durable.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Humor in a Courts Documents.

Not more frequently than once in
the span of mans life does the court
of claims at Washington contribute
anything to add to the gayety of ma
tions, but there is something of the
light of humor slowed away in one Of
the documents which accompany the
courts findings in the matter of the
claim of Edward Cruselle, heir-at-law
of Thomas Cruselle, deceased, against
Uncle Sam,
Mr. Cruselle made a claim for pay
ment for certain supplies furnished to
the United States by the testator "for
use for the suppression of the re.
bellion.'" as the legal documents
stated it. The goods which Mr.. Cru
selle owned and which were seized by
the government and subsequently used
by the Union troops as a means Of
crushing their Confederate brethren
were "sixty-seven boxes of fine chew.
ing tobacco" The specific brands of
ammunition were early Dew,"
"Choice Gem" and Peach Leaf"
The members of the court rather
lodged the tobacco issue. They sim
ply found that Mr.. Cruselle was loyal
to the United States and that the
EARLY Dew," Peach Leaf" and the
rest were seized under General Sher-
mans famous forage literally on the
country" order.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Weddinu Presents.

Wedding presents have for years
been a trial both to the donors who
cannot think what to send and to the
recipients who are compelled to ac-
cept what they do not like. A bright
notion would be to have a collection
at the church lin bag, not a plate)
for the benefit of the young couple,
to which each friend might contribute
the amount of money he would have
spent on a perhaps unappreciated of
fering. This would save him the ter
rible worry Of choosing something
suitable, and the bride and bridegroom
the hypocrisy of being grateful for
articles they would rather have been
without. Shopkeepers would no long
er be called upon to supply wares
which appear to cost more than they
do. and affection and incomes would
cease to be estimated by the value of
the gifts they produce, since the lat
ter would be anonymous.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Converts RattIeship Into House.

Mr. Smelter Trust Stokes (the
name is coagulated under stress Of
space) is building a house in Connec-
ticut, and it is going to be real old
fashioned. Most of it was built from
our battleship Wellington, which Mr..
Stokes bought for $200,60O. Now he
has bought Suffolk manor house Of
the Tudor period. Half of it is there
already, the other half will be there
in the spring. The combination
should be striking when Mr.. Smelter
Stokes has completed his freak house.
One of these days we may wake up to
find Westminster Abbey missing. And
to rediscover it as the dining room
with the Hippodrome close at hand
as the drawing room-in the splendid
home of another Mr.. Trust Smelter-
If that is his confounded name.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
AS a Precaution.

A good story is told of the old jour.
nalist Frederic Guest Tomlin.
One day he found his office locked
and the Office boy missing.
When the boy appeared Tomlin re-
proved him for oversleeping, a charge
which the boy tearfully refuted.
TITS this way, sir" he said. "My
uncle was hung at the Old Bailey this
morning, and, although we weren't on
speaking terms with him, thought,
as one of the family, l ought to be
there"
"Quite right" said Tomlin; never
neglect your family duties; but when
another of your relations is to be
hanged, please to leave the Office key
under the mat"
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Remarkable Escape.

He was talking very loudly and
boastfully in the railway carriage and
compelling everyone to hear him,
whether they wanted to or not.
I've been all over Europe in my
time. To France score of times:
Italy, Germany, Spain, everywhere.
What | don't know about them isn't
worth knowing. Why I've been to
Egypt, and I've been to Constantinople
ten times at least Funny thing, now,
the way the dogs are scavengers
there, and eat everything in the
streets. Awfully dangerous to touch
'em. They eat up every scrap of rub
bish."
A young lady in the corner said,
thoughtfully, 81 really wonder you got
home alive"
And presently a blessed silence
reigned in that carriage.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
In MIR. Ralfour,s Early pavs.

Apparently Mr.. Balfour's powers as
a politician did not impress those
with whom he came into contact dur
ing his early days. According to that
famous veteran parliamentarian, Sir
John Eldon Gorst, who was promi-
nent member of the famous fourth
party" to which Mr.. Balfour first at
tached himself, no one expected that
Al ,hur Balfour would one day be a
leading statesman and premier. Says
Sir John, HE was good speaker
when others inspired him, but we did
not take him very seriously. His
aesthetic tastes and love of music
were something of joke among US:
So much so, in fact, that Lord RAN
dolph Churchill would say:
"'Go and take my wife to concert,
Balfour, while I stay at home and talk
real business
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Those Old Leuends.

Beautiful view here from the
veranda"
beautiful"
"This is a most picturesque old re-
sort"
"Oh, very!"
"And the autumn foliage is beau
tiful."
Beautiful"
'You have been here before, I pre-
sume?"
I'VE come up every year."
There must be some legends con-
nected with this delightfully."- quaint
old place."
"There are"
won't you tell us the stories of
some of them?"
'Well, that fat woman yonder says
her husband is rich broker; that
tall woman says she comes here be-
cause she's tired of London and
Paris; and that thin girl, the one with
the undecided nose, says she's wor-
ried to death because her parents
want her to marry a dissipated and
impecunious duke"
The citizen., 1911-12-22
CAVALIER OF THE DESERT
With Good Horse and a Good volca
Life Was Sweet to All of the
Sons of Freedom.

Ali was son of the sheik, and was
a handsome young cavalier, although
the desert sun had burned him al
most as black as negro. His
costume was that of a regular Turk
fish soldier-a dirty blue coat with
tarnished brass buttons, dirtier blue
trousers just short enough to show
considerable amount of dirty brown
ankle above the dirty yellow slippers.
But, as free son of the desert ALI
refused to wear the fez of Turkish
supremacy, and bound his flowing kaf-
uyyeh with the horsehair ring of the
Arabs. A long scimitar, inland with
silver and gold, clattered bravely
against the saddle-bags, and a rain
bow-hued sash was stuck full of an
tique pistols and short, sharp knives.
There was nothing servile or shod-
dy however, about Sheik Ais bear
ing; no false regrets for the boule-
wards and buses of an effete civiliza-
tion; but supreme content with life
as Allah had ordered it. Ali had two
chief assets: a good horse and good
voice.
The former he rode at a breakneck
pace, with his accoutrements rafting
like the pans of runaway peddler.
Once in while, however, Ali would
graciously wait for the carriage and,
after inquiring anxiously concerning
our distinguished healths, would cam
ter along with US for a few rods, sing
ing to himself in a pathetic minor
key.
They were no hackneyed music hall
ditties that he sang, for every Arab
is a poet and an improvisation. A mo-
ment of intense, frowning thought, and
then Ali would raise his head and
gurgle out a new distich of Arabic
gutturals. He sang of the speed of
his horse and of the barley in the
khan at Jericho; he sang of the beau
tiful weather-it would have been
about hundred in the shade, IL there
had been any shade-he sang of the
magnificent honorableness of the Eng
lezee gentlemen; and especially he
praised the immense oakrsheesh
which the generous travellers would
surely bestow at the end of his jour-
ney.-Lewis CASTOR Leary in Scrib-
ner's Magazine
The citizen., 1911-12-22
MADE A THING OF THE PAST
Away With the old-time
Shoulder Braces.

Some things of common necessity
have been passing away without no.
tice of their leave taking. Not infre-
quently, few years ago, at the break
fast table, the mother of the family,
addressing the putative head of the
household, would say: John, I'm
really disturbed about Jane. She's
growing right up. I've had to take
two tucks out of her dress" "Humph!
/ suppose girls must grow" Yes,
John, but that's not what l mean to
call attention to. She stoops awfully.
In spite of everything l say she won't
stand up straight. And there's Billy,
too. He bends over like an old
woman. Those children need should
er braces. The sooner they have them
the better. 1t mustn't be put off an
other day."
In that yesterday every drug store
had supply of shoulder braces.
They were advertised in the newspa-
pers in liberal space and there was an
active demand for them. Very little
is heard about shoulder braces today,
and boys and girls seem to be grow
ing up straight enough without such
appliances.
The reason for the passing of the
shoulder brace for children will be
recognized as soon as mentioned.
The lack of demand is almost wholly
due to the fact that more attention is
now paid to physical training in our
public schools than was the case a
few years ago. The girls are greatly
improved thereby. They walk better
and carry themselves better AS for
the boys, they are encouraged to en-
gage in athletic exercises which tend
to better them physically and carry
out the old Roman saying of "a sound
mind in sound body"
For the advance that has been made
praise is due to the gymnastic train
ing advocated by large German ele-
ment here for years before it was
given tardy recognition. When the
girls get little older they will slip
into corsets, probably, but even then,
no matter how tight fitting, they have
been so built up physically that they
will not be transformed into hour
glass patterns quite as readily as if
their bodies had not been given pro-
per care when young. AS for the boys,
they will grow into lusty young man.
hood, with bodies fitted to enjoy to
the utmost the keenest outdoor sports
and athletic xercises.-Indianapo
News.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
A Nice Point.

Every student of history knows
that our Christmas customs are de-
velopment of the Roman Saturnalia."
20, surely not ALL"
'T think So"
mo, no! There's no reason to sup
pose, for instance, that the Romans
were all the time being hunched to
do their Saturnalian shopping early"
Puck.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
As He Saw II.

Senator John Sharp Williams tells
Of an aged preacher in Mississippi who
was asked what he thought Of his two
sons, both preachers, too.
"Well, sur" replied the old man,
George has a better show in his shop
winder dan John; but den John he's
got a larger stock in his warehouse"
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Against the Eat Man.

Somebody again points out that all
prominent criminals are scrawny per-
sons.
Poor fat men! Nobody sends them
any jellies or flowers or tender sym
pathies.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
A Lower Bid.

"By Cory" said Pat, as he read the
morning paper Here's Larry Doolan
failed for half a million"
"The graspin' omadhaun!" cried
Mike. Sure an old do ut fer tin!"-
Harper's Weekly.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
Lust the Other WAY.

Arctic Hunter-I think if your wife
should wash her face it would i'm
prove her appearance.
Esquimau-Ugh! You never seen
her face!-Puck
The citizen., 1911-12-22
The Natural Trend.

81 know of one place which should
be a paradise for real estate men, the
ground rents show such activity
where is that?"
"In the earthquake region"
The citizen., 1911-12-22

"The pass system has been gener-
ally abolished, hasn't it?"
mot so generally. The corporation
I've invested in has not abolished 1t
about their dividends"
The citizen., 1911-12-22
scaIInn the peak-

Knicker-Is that Boston girl frigid?
Bocker--I should say so. When fell
lows call on her they tie themselves
together with ropes.-Harper's Bazaar.
The citizen., 1911-12-22
THE MODEL!
TELEPHONE No. 272.
UMBRELLAS FOR EVERYBODY.


We have Umbrellas that satisfactory and reliable and will make
popular gift for member of the family member of
other family.
Suit Case Umbrellas of the well known Bh make for either
ladies' gents prices ranging from 81 90 S. These
and canb be folded into a medium size suit
For ladies' there Handsome Silver and Gold Handles either
gloria pure silk canopes the very Mushroom handles silk
canopies.
GENTS FURS LADIES FURS CHLLDREN'S FURS AND FUR
COATS.
There doubt but that will be awful cod cold and
remy cold before long, and then will be glad
put bid for warm Set of Fur Fur Coat Chdrens
Fur Sets here help Old Santa make the children happy We have
the right kinds from the little styles the young ladies Styles
found here greater variety of shapes and
pelts than you have in Frederick.
of Pony Ski Marmot Caracu and Cney
making many friends for
Fur Lined and Fur Gauntlet Driving Gloves and
sensible
Gents Fur Gloves and Collars the well known Updgraf make
and all guaranteed to be thoroughly reliable.
JOHN D. HEMDRlCKSOM
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-15
Live Stock
The Great International.

The International Live Stock Show
is again pronounced by our exchangers
the greatest ever. This great live
stock show seems to have become
more educational than it ever has
been in the past. The practical con-
nection between the pure bred breed
ers and the general live stock breeders
is becoming closer, and the connec-
tion more apparent to the general
farmer. Whether he raises fancy
stock or not the farmer is finding that
it is to his advantage to attend yearly
the great expositions of live stock
The CT cam of all other shows is there
gathered; the best of five great draft
breed of horses; the several breeds Of
Shetland ponies and three or four
breeds of coach horses hitched and
single, and in every other way to
lend variety and spice to the lovers
of fine horses.
The cattle are limited only to the
six or seven beef breeds and include
one herd which lays strong claim to
its milking qualities.
The sheep exhibition counts eight
to ten breeds in the show. The swine
four or five breeds on exhibition.
Outside Of these there is the show
ing of carloads of feeders, stockers
and fat cattle. The exhibition of
these car load lots outside OF the fat
cattle is divided into sections repre-
senting the districts from which they
came. The Iowa Agricultural College
was the proud exhibitor of the grand
champion steer. This is the most
coveted prize Of the exhibition, and
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-15
Why They Knock

Is it to protect our interest or theirs
that the agents of the stock company
combine so faithfully warn you against
the Northwestern Mutual Fire As
ISOLATION? 1t needs nothing to Offset
these knocks but it's record. 1t has
made good.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-15

The potato crop is valued at S213,-
900, 900 or Ia per cent above the five
year average while the yield is about
80 per cent of the average production.
The 146, 900. 900 bushels of barley
makes the crop IL per cent below the
fve-year average.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-12-15
1911 Crop Report.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Most of
the crops of 1911, so far as their pro
duction is ascertained, compare un-
favorably with the average production
of the preceding five years, says Sec
rotary James Wilson of the depart
ment of agriculture in his annual re-
port. The most conspicuous excep-
ton is cotton, the size of the crop
being one-quarter larger than the five
year average and also the largest cot
ton crop ever grown.
The sugar beet crop is much above
the average production and the largest
ever grown, while rice and buckwheat
are considerably above.
All other crops are below the five
year average in production, hay being
the most prominent one in the per-
centage of deficiency.
Yet 1911 is not lean year. Enough
has been produced for the national
needs and there will be surplus.
The total value of farm products IS
estimated at So, Alt. 900, 600 or $277,-
600, 600 under the total of 1910. The
loss is chargeable to the general
classes of animal products and animals
sold and slaughtered. Dairy cows
are the only farm animals for which
increase of price is indicated Eggs,
wool, butter and poultry have like
wise suffered in farm price during
the year. Farm animals and their
products are estimated to have pro-
duced value of So, 913, 600, 900 in 1911,
or 1921, 600, 600 below the amount of
1910.
On the other hand the crops are
worth more than those of 1910, the
estimate of farm value being So, 5O4,
600, 600, gain of $44. OOO,OOO Farm
prices of all crops are higher than for
1910 except cotton, cottonseed, flax
seed and perhaps rice.
The corn crop of 2.776, OOO, 600
bushels, with value of 81, 700, 600, 900
breaks the record. The value of the
corn crop this year is but little less
than the combined value of the cot
ton, wheat and oats crop.
With the production of over 7,0O0,
600 tons this year the hay crop is far
below the five-year average yield Of
63, 800, 600 tons. This years crop is
valued at little less than S7OO, OOO,-
600.
Fourth in order of value is the
wheat crop worth about 5000, 600, 600
or trifie below the five-year average.
In production the wheat crop Of this
year is 81 per cent below the five
year average.
The oat crop is worth about $3.50,
900. 900 or per cent more than the
five-year average, while the yield is
estimated to be 874, 600, 600 bushels
exceeded by the crop of every year
since 1910 except three years.