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The citizen., 1911-06-30
Sleeping Outdoors.

Statistics aren't available as to the ex-
act difference in temperature between the
stufy chamber and the sleeping porch
or the front porch, or the tent on the lawn
for that matter. But the difference in
comfort may be put at moderate esti-
mate at rs per cent. 1t is possible to
stand pretty torid temperatures during
the day if only one can get good nights
sleep. But just there is the trouble if the
sleeping is TO be done in the house, es-
pecially if the chamber doesn't happen to
be in the way of breeze.
The ordinary bedroom in this weather
is like an oven. The victim wonders
sweatily as he stretches out on the scorch-
ing sheet whether he won't be done to
delicate brown like Thanksgiving turkey
by morning There is no getting to sleep
in the early hours of the night One
tumbles and thrashes in vain effort to
find a cool spot. Often it is long after
midnight before oblivion-an uneasy OBJ
Hvion-comes. To abandon such a
chamber of horrors for the blessed cool
ness and comfort Of the open air is one of
the greatest luxuries this mortal life
affords. On the porch the stuffiness is
gone. The breeze lazily fans the whole
body. One is submerged in delicious re-
taxation. Drowsness descends and then
restful sleep.-kanSaS City Star.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Saving and Earning.

A Chicago millionaire came to this
country in 1871, with II cents in his
pocket. The other day, referring to it,
he said that he laid down this rule:
Never TO be out of work and never to
spend as much as you earn" It was
that rule that made him millionaire,
and that is the kind of millionaire that
is entitled to honor
His idea is that it is good thing for a
man to save, for economy is healthy
habit. As a rule men can live on half
that they spend, have better health. and.
can do more work. Let a man sit
down and make out a list of what he
actually needs, not scantilv but bounti-
fully, and he will be surprised how
many things he can cut out and yet keep
his body and mind in fine condition.
There are many things that one buys
that are the objects OF his fancy. He
Sees them and wants them; if he did not
See them he would not want them. We
once heard of man who would not 60
to market, because he said, that he
wanted to buy everything, and generally
succeeded in buying much that he did
not need. 1t is possible to live well on
meals that average only 10 cents per
capita. In a school on the West Side
they do it. and that little club of teachers
are hearty and happy as the robins in a
cherry tree. We must get out of the
idea that great chunks of heavy food are
needed for energy. As rule they re-
duce it.-OhiO State Journal
The citizen., 1911-06-30
CURRENT COMMENT.

Senator John Walter Smith has taken
the first step looking to the creation of a
national park near Washington by the in
PRODUCTION Of bill providing for the ap-
preparation of $500, 900 annually for four
years for the requirement of lands north
OF the Potomac for a forest reserve This
was first suggested by Mr. William M.
ElliCott, Of Baltimore, who found that
about $4,000 acres of timbered lands were
available within a few miles of the Ma
tional Capital and could be converted into
a splendid park and experimental field
for the Forestry Service. His ideas are
embodied in the bill of Senator Smith,
who is member of the commission to
establish the forest reserve in the White
Mountains and the Appalachians Sena-
tor Smith proposes that 5 per cent. of the
proceeds from the sale of timber be used
for the benefit of public schools and roads
in the State in which the forest is located.
AS the entire area is in this State, Mary
land would receive the benefit While
there is no possibility of the immediate
passage of this bill, it will direct attention
to the advantages of creating so vast
playground and forest experimental sta
ton at the doors of the capital and will
aid in winning support for the project
Senator Smith doubtless will press the
measure with vigor. Such a park would
be a lasting monument TO him-BaiH-
more SIN.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
ReclamationS Future.

What of the Reclamation Service when
all the arid lands are reclaimed? you may
ask. Many years will pass before the last
of the desert spaces capable of irrigation
have water. As the value of farm pro-
ducts rises, new projects will become
practicable.
An end of reclamation! Not while you
read ever summer of the failure of all
kinds of crops, in all parts of the country,
from wheat and cotton to market gardens,
for want of rain Not while the regulated
moisture applied to semi humid land will
increase its productivity.
An end of reclamation as a national or
state service! Not while we have
abandoned farms Not while agricultural
science lasts Not while the population
of the world keeps on growing and enjoys
the constitutional habit of getting hungry
two or three times day The projects
of the United States Reclamation Service
do not close a chapter They open a
volume at the preface. -HambtoAS.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
In Evelyn Thaw's Wake.

Her name, once the open sesame TO
every gilded hostelry in town, has lost its
magic. 1t is not even upon her door
plate. Perhaps she has some friends, but
the gay throng of Broadway are no longer
her friends. They have no time to re-
member as they hurry along in the cur
rent. But she, in her quiet backwater of
a refuge, has plenty of time for memories.
She and Nemesis can look back over
ghastly trail of broken lives. Perhaps
sometimes she counts: Stanford White
in his grave. Harry Thaw wearing out
his days within the calling limits of an
asylum for criminal insane. His aged
mother and his sister Alice selfexiled to
the little village on the Hudson, where
they may watch the fading lights in
the second-foor windows of his prison.
A young millionaire aimlesslv wandering
about foreign land, watched by his credi-
tors and Stunned by his family. An old
man, once factor in the financial life of
Wall Street, now broken and impoverlsh-
ed. Three of the lawyers dead who once
fought to save Harry Thaw's life; two
others whose careers have been ended by
their own discreditable practices Another
man Of law whose glory faded from the
day of his association with the Thaw case.
And herself
The toll is thirteen.-NeW York Press.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Contract for Bridge Given.

Bids were opened on Wednesday,
June 27th, by the County Commissioners
of Frederick and Carroll counties for
the erection of a joint bridge over the
Monocacy River, near Rocky Ridge.
The bridge is on the dividing line be-
tween the two counties and the matter
of erecting a joint bridge has been
pending for some time. Commissioners
G. w. Brown, ]. S. Fink and B. F.
Stansbury, of Carroll county, and Clerk
Dutrow, met with the Frederick County
Commissioners and opened the bids at
noon. There were five bidders on the
steel work and six on the masonry.
The bids which were received for the
steel work were Roanoke Bridge COM
pany, So, 3o5; York Bridge Company,
s., $50; Tarris Bridge Company, S3,835;
Nelson-Mirydith Company, $3,S25; Nc
llvaine Company, So, 22o. The contract
was given to the York Bridge Company.
The bids for the masonry were as fol-
lows: Harlem S. Wachtel, $3.50 for con-
crete; r. B. Pofinberger, $500 for con-
crete: Samuel A. Smith, S6.eS for con-
crete; Roanoke Bridge Company, $S.95
for concrete; w. J. Stover, $o.37, av-
erage for concrete; Joseph D. Weinhart
$4o7 for stone. The contract was given
to Harlem S Wachtel.
The bridge is 225 feet long. 1t will
have two abutments and one pier. The
masonry will amount to about 500 yards.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
STATE NEWS.

The farmers of Baltimore county are in
the midst OF harvest
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Collan, OF Cum
berland, celebrated their golden wedding
Municipal primaries were held at An
napolis by the Republicans and Demo
Gratis.
A Calvert county couple kept secret
until recently their marriage which took
place December rs, 1905.
Sherieff Welt, in an automobile, chased
an eloping couple across Montgomery
county and captured them.
A young man and two women were
badly injured by being thrown from
phaeton near Cumberland.
The National Annual Conference Of
the Church of the Brethren will be held
in York. Pa, in May, 1912.
The William Silver Company, Incor
porated, of Aberdeen, with a capital of
SIoo, 900, has been incorporated at Belair.
Congressman George KONG entertained
about 700 Of his political admirers at
crab feast at Avon Cove, near Sparrows
Point.
Prince Georges county Democrats will
hold conference at Hyattstown on July
a. Governor Crothers is expected to
attend.
Because Of recent Court of Appeals
decision Hyattsvile must wait awhile for
a new municipal and fire department
building.
Nr. r obert Grain announced that the
500, 900 for the Democratic National
Convention in Baltimore In 1912 was all
in hand.
Capt Edward Abbott Holmes, of Com
pany H., Maryland National Guard, died
suddenly of acute indigestion at his home
in Roland Park.
Baltimore in 1912, is the slogan of the
Maryland Mystic Shriners, who will at
tend the annual session of the Imperial
Council in Rochester in July.
The members of the Maryland State
Bar Association will hear some of the
nations greatest orators at the annual
meeting at Cape May this week.
Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad
announced that work on the new Union
Station, Baltimore, will probably be COM
pleted before the end of the month.
Suits against Washington county stock
holders of the defunct Farmers Banking,
Trust and Deposit Company have been
decided in favor of the receivers of the
company
Several head of fine cattle owned by !.
Frank Field, Hancock, were killed by
lightning during the storm Saturday
evening. The cattle had taken refuge
under tree.
Mrs. Ida A. Parks, a confectioner, of
Havre de Grace, has made a deed of
trust for the benefit of creditors. The
trustees, after giving bond for $S 900, will
continue the business.
Rev. Thomas !. Lehman, of Midland,
who was ordained priest at the Cathed-
ral Baltimore, last Thursday, celebrated
his first mass at st. Joseph's church, Mid
land, Saturday morning.
Brigadier General Charles F. Macklin,
of the First Brigade, M. N. G., and
several members of his staff received in
jections OF typhoid fever serum, prepara-
tory to the brigade encampment here
next month.
AS result OF cold-blooded shooting,
which occurred at Lansdowne, John Hol-
ley is at the University Hospital with a
bullet wound in his abdomen and the
police are searching for Jim Holmes, also
colored.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

The big new Atlantic liner Olympic
of passengers, numbering 2,2o5.
Archbishop Messmer denounced So
cialism as heresy and an evil before
the Catholic Educational Congress.
Two hundred and fifty members and
friends of the Old Town Merchants, and
Manufacturers Association are at At
lantic City.
William r. Hearst has purchased a
block of land, facing the entrance to
Central Park. He will erect a sky
scraper for his newspapers.
Mrs. Madeleine Janney, widow of
Lieutenant Clarence NJ. Janney, who
shot himself at a banquet given by Col.
Robert T. F. Ames at Manila, has mar
ried Colonel Ames.
Miss Florence B. Bushing, OF Boston,
who had just returned from trip to Hon
olulu and brooding over the death of her
mother leaped out of seventh-story
window in San Francisco, California.
Chief Boatswain John A. Riley, COM
mander of the navy tug, lwana, fell
dead in the pilot house as the tug was
lOMilS tiiS OHltCd OtdlCS oNOut NluIoCi1
Birmingham, into the dry dock at Bos-
ton. Mass.
Joseph B. Reichman, former president
of the Carnegie Trust Company, reeled
and nearly fell in court when he was
canvicted Of making false statements to
the banking department OF the State of
New York.
Aviator Thomas and Sopwith and
Richard E. Sinclair, under contract with
two department stores dropped a piece
of merchandise from an aeroplane to the
deck of the White Star liner Olympic,
while the ship was passing through The
Narrows on the way TO Europe.
The attorney for Edward Victor Gam
bier. cashier of the Merchants Exchange
Bank. New York, surprised Mrs. Gam
bier and her lawyers during the contin-
uance of her suit for separation, when
Seth B. Robinson arose from among
the array of the husbands COUNSEL and
walked to the witness stand, where he
told of tracking the "kissless bride" to
and from the home of Harvey c.
Sickles, the millionaire.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
ROOT AMENDMENT DEFEATED

The Root amendment to the Canadian
Reciprocity Bill was defeated in the Sen
ate. This dispoSes of one of the most
serious menaces to the bill, and the indi-
cations are now that the Reciprocity Bill
has free sailing and will pass without
amendment at an earlier date than had
been expected.
The Root amendment went down to
defeat without any record vote, no roll
call having been demanded. The vice
president simply stated the question, there
w IS a mild chorus of "ayes" and louder
chorus of noes" and Mr.. Sherman de-
cared the amendment lost. The few
W 10 were in favor of the amendment ap-
parently had no desire to put individual
Senators upon record.
The Root amendment proposed to de-
lay free admission of wood pulp and print
paper into this country until all restric-
tions against the eXportatiop of these pro-
ducts had been removed bv the Canadian
provinces Under the terms of the bill in
its present form pulp and print paper will
b. admitted free from all provinces except
those that maintain export restrictions
Steps were taken looking toward the
fixing Of a date for voting upon the reci-
procity and other tariff measures. An
agreement was drawn up by Chairman
Penrose, of the Finance Committee and
submitted TO number of Senators on
both sid, S of the chamber.
This agreement proposed that vote
should be taken by immediate consent on
the Canadian Reciprocity Bill on July "a,
the farmers free list on the following day
and on the Underwood Wool Bill on July
26
There was considerable interest mani
tested on the floor when Senator Penrose
produced this document. He took it to
the vice president, and the two retired to
the rear of the Senate chamber and began
summoning Senators to take look at it.
Senator Martin, of Virginia, the min
ority leader, was called in, but was not
very much disposed to acquiesce in it
Other Democratic leaders, including Sena-
tor Williams, of Mississippi, were consult
ed. Senator Smoot, of Utah; Senator
Root and Senator Sutherland lad a look
al the document Senator PenroSe felt
rather cheerful when the Senate adjourn
ed and said he would probably submit
the agreement to the Senate and ask for
unanimous consent that it be made the
standing order of business
The progressive Republicans when
they learned of the agreement were some.
what startled. They held hurried confer
ences. and the indications are that even il
the Democrats aCquiesce in the agree
ment number OF the progressive Sena-
tors will stand out against it. In such d
contingency the agreement will fail.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
The Benefit of Wood Ashes.

had one-eighth of an acre on grav-
ely knoll, which bore only June grass,
very small and thin at that got three
barrels of wood ashes and strewed them
over the ground, and the clover soon
started and did very well. The next
year put on more ashes and had fine
crop of clover. | put the ashes directly
over the turf A man bought farm of
some so acres adjoining mine, and as the
old saying is could not raise beans"
He could only keep one cow and a
horse the first year, but he made what
manure he could and put on about four
barrels of ashes to the acre He follow
ed this for three or four years and dur
ing his six years stay he bought about
SIS worth of manure. The last two
years he cut heavy hay crop, kept four
cows and two horses, raised 90 bushels
of oats, considerable corn and potatoes
for his own use and some to sell. He
paid $500 and sold it for 81, 200
The citizen., 1911-06-30
New Use for Sugar Beets.

An entirely new use, and one that NAV
in time become very important, has been
discovered for sugar beets This is the
making of them into flour. This flour is
now being manufactured in considerable
quantities at Suresnes, in France, where
an immense dryer has been built for the
purpose.
The first part of the process consists in
chopping up the beets and drying the
water out of them. They contain to start
with II per cent. of water, nearly all of
which is removed by evaporation. By
this means 100 pounds OF dry material is
obtained from 357 pounds of beets.
This dry material contains more than
10 per cent. of sugar and therefore on be-
ing ground to fine meal is exceedingly
sweet and adapted to the making of cakes
and puddings. The sugar beet -four is
estimated to contain something like So
per cent. of pure nutriment.-Baher'S S
UeekLy.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Ready Made Farms.

The Canadian Pacific Railway. which
is said to be the largest advertiser
among the transportation companies on
this side OF the world, has adopted an
interesting method of attracting settlers
from England. It appears that COM
paratively small number of English
farmers of the higher class were being
secured for the new lands in the Can
adian Northwest, so that last year the rail-
way authorities advertised 100 ready
made farms. 7" To acquire these, applicants
were compelled to measure up to a GER
tain standard; they must be married and
possessed of a modest capital. The
result was that more than 1000 applica-
tions were filed for the 100 farms, and
this year the road is putting in readiness
from $50 to 300 more farms-tracts suf-
ffciently transformed from the wilderness
to bring the class of immigrants that
is particularly desired. 1t seems as if
like policy might be advantageously
adopted by railroads elsewhere-even
in the older portions of the United
States. -Pyo0idence Journal.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Will Compete With g. & P.

The June issue of the Telephone the
recognized organ Of the telephone world,
contains the official announcement that
the Postal Telegraph Co. will engage in
the telephone business throughout the
United States in competition against the
Bell Telephone Western Union amalga-
nation.
The policy of the Pos al will be to unite
and rehablitate all the important indie
pendent phone companies now competing
against the Bell Company. providing the
independent lines with long distance cir
cults to all important points throughout
the country. All over the west the Pos
tai has been Transforming its copper wires
preparing for the event
Recently the Postal Co. completed the
stringing Of new copper wires between
Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington, Phila-
delphia and New York, intended for use
as long distance telephone circuits. The
Postal Telegraph Company was forced
into the telephone business, it is said, in
self protection, because of the Bell Tele-
phone-Western Union amalgamatIon.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
In the Canal Zone.

In the month of March only 43 deaths
were reported among the nearly 50, 900
laborers of the Canal Zone Sixteen of
these were from violence and ~ from dis
ease. Not one of the 43 was a white
American.
There are more than 10, 900 white en-
ployes and their families living in the zone.
Out of this population, as large as that of
an ordinary American city, there were
only 10 deaths in March, and three of
these were from accident Ofthe remain
ing seven only two were from preventable
disease. A woman and child died from
pneumonia.
Of course the bulk of this population is
made up OF young and vigorous persons
But it must be recalled that they are living
in the tropics, in region that once was
considered fatal to life. The virtual con-
quest of disease in the zone is brilliant
example of the possibilities of modern
medicine. Kansas City Star.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Market Lambs.

With high grade. smooth Merino ewes
of good size and Shropshire ram most
desirable feeding lamb is obtained. From
the eve the lamb inherits vitality, a strong
constitution and other desirable Merino
traits, and from the sire he inherits early
maturity and the trait of readily respond
ing to generous feed. SAYS The Farmer.
Wool is now nearly if not quite as low
as any unfavorable tariff legislation-even
to no tariff at all-can make it. Indica-
tons are that meats of all kinds will be
produced at profit because production
is not keeping pace with consumption and
lamb and mutton can be more cheaply
produced than other meat, especially
when sold at weaving time or soon after.
| fed my cross-bred lambs so cent wheat
and sold in early winter at a.good profit.
| estimated, after giving due credit to the
other feed, that the wheat brought me
well toward 81 per bushel.
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Retaining the Philippines.

1t is pointed out as sign of the les
sening of the popular interest in the
Philippines, that the insular bonds have
been constantly decreasing in value.
These bonds have th- United States
Practically behind them, and the inter
est is fair, and yet they keep on going
down every year.
This fact is regarded as indicating
that the people are not in favor of re-
tanning the Philippines. 1t is not for
any lack of faith in the security of the
bonds, but because the people are get
ting tired of those far a-away posses
sions and are expecting soon to give
them up. This attitude of mind can
account for the continuous depreciation
of the bonds, and we know of no other
reason, for these bonds are quite as de-
sirable as similar bonds that are going
up all the time.
Some day the question will come
squarely before the people-do we want
the Philippines? There will be many
strong arguments that will support the
policy of retention, but it will be alto
gether likely that public sentiment will
be the other way.-Ohi0 State Journal
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Work the Brood Mares.

The man who keeps geldings or mules
for his farm work secures only their labor
in return, while the man who keeps draft
mares receives not only their labor, but
their colts in addition. 1t is true that
somewhat more team force must be kept
where the work is done by mares than
where it is done entirely by geldings.
When we consider, however. that three
mares can be counted upon to do as much
as any team of geldings of an equal
weight and strength; that the difference
in feed cost will not exceed 500 per year.
and that the three mares can be counted
upon to produce, in addition to their
labor, at least two colts worth $Ioo each
as yearings, it is apparent that the mares
are the most profitable. The comparison
just made is on the basis of grade. mares,
but where pure bred mares are kept the
returns will be much greater
The citizen., 1911-06-30
Immense Cheesecloth.

A I7-mile order of green, fireproof
cheese cloth, was recently placed with
Baltimore firm by the Maryland Indus
trial and Pure Food Exposition Com
pany, which will conduct the Maryland
Industrial and Pure Food Show at the
Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore, from
September 18th, to October 9TH, in
elusive. When the officials of the Ex-
position Company placed the order they
did not, however, do SO by ordering
IT miles," of the CLOTH Their order
calls for 10000 Yards of cheese cloth,
which if divided into miles, approxi-
mately II, or if divided into feet, are eo,-
900 feet. If this vast order of cloth
were taken in inches, it would be $40, 900.
The order for cheesecloth by the
Maryland Industrial and Pure Food
Exposition Company's officials is the
largest ever placed in Baltimore by any
single concern, and is, in fact, one OF
the largest orders for the cloth that has
ever been placed in the East by single
company, outside of some firm which
purchases as the distributing agent OF a
factory.
A great portion of the cloth will be
used in forming a giant canopy, which
will extend over the entire armory. The
cloth will be worked up in an attractive
manner directly over the grand stand,
which will be erected in the center OF
the Armory. This grand stand will
cost s., 500. 1t will seat 700 or 500 peo-
pie, and it will also be used as review
ing stand and speakers platform on the
opening evening, when many prominent
persons, including President Taft, Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson, Governor Croth.
ers, Mayor Preston and DIR. Harvey M
Wiley, the Food Expert from the De
partment of Agriculture, are expected tc
be present.