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Gilpin observer., 1912-06-06

Richard Aghtnut. an American with an
affected English accent, receives preo-
snt from q friend In China The present
proves TO be q pair of pajamas. a lettsr
hints of surprise to the wearer. Aghtnut
up for smoke. His servant Jenkins.
comes in and. failing 70 recognize Light
put. attempts to put him out. Thinking
the servant Grassy. Lghtnut ehanges his
plothss intending to summon help. When
be rsappsars Jenkins falls on his neck
With JOY, confirming Lghtnut's bSnsx
Gilpin observer., 1912-06-06
WESTERN
MINING NEWS
IN aRIE
Newspaper Union News Service.
THE TREND OF METAL PRICES.
IN 3 r ! & F

Silver, bar sO61
Copper ,s16370i65 50
Lead sIi5dI425
Spelter s6S5
Gilpin observer., 1912-06-06
Need ORIGINAL Thinkers.

cro BE coNTNuEDJ
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
NEW CHILD LABOR LAW.
Raise Age Limit of Employed
From IL to 4 Years.

Monday all over Maryland the new law
regulating the employment of children
went into effect. This law was passed
by the last lest legislature and raises the
age at which children may be employed
from II to IA years. At certain employ
ments, which are excepted, children may
work, but under the age of IA years all
children must be attending either pub
lie or private school, All children under
16 years of age must have permits to
work.
The law was explained at some length
some time ago SO that il is unnecessary to
repeat it here 1t is sufficient to say that
for a child under rs years of age to be
employed in canning plant, merchantile
establishment, store, office, boarding
house, place of amusement, club, or in
the distribution Of merchandise, must
have permit to do this work. There
are list OF employmens given at which
a child under IA years may not work,
and also at which a boy under 10 may
not work.
Whenever d child under 10 years is
employed. it will be necessary for the
employer to have in his possession a GER
tihcate that the child may be employed.
These permits are to be issued either by
the ch'efu the MARYLAND Bureau of Sta
tistics and Information Or may be issued
IN the counties by the superin'endcnts of
public schools or other authorized per-
sons.
Before any certificates are granted,
however, the child must present physi
clans certificate, stating that the child
has been examined and is phyaiCally fiji
for work, the qualifications for a child's
fitness for employment are set forth in
the law. No physician is allowed to
charge child or its parents for this eX-
animation, but a physician designated by
the School Superintendent or other prop
er authorities. shall receive so cents for
each certificate issued.
In Frederick county it is thought that
very few children will be affected by the
law. There are very few children under
the are of 10 regularly employed in the
laCtugie, or in other lines of work here,
and practically none under IA years. In
Baltimore more than HOO children. be-
tween II and IA years old, who have
been al work in offices, stores and fac
tories there will be obliged to go to
school.
About 500 additional children who
have reached the age of IS years and )
months, will be given special permits to
work for represent, provided they go to
night school. This plan was decided
upon 10 relieve the congestion already
existing in some of the city schools,
which the new pupils will accentuate.
For some years there has been child
labor law in force in this state, the mini
mum ace heinz 70 wears where the law
which wentinto,eifect Mondavwas passed
it provided that there should be eight in
spectors named at salary of 5000 per
year each, and that these inspectors
should see that the provisions Of the law
SHOULD be carried out. The legislature
appropriated sra, 900 for the carrying out
Of the provisions of the law.
Superintendent White stated that he
had not been asked to issue any permits
under the new law.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Politics and Politicians.

William Su'zer will succeed John A.
Dix as Governor of New York on New
Years Day.
John Burke, who is finishing his third
term as Governor of North Dakota, is
mentioned for place in the Wilson cabi-
net.
A national conference of leaders of the
Prohibition party has been called to meet
in Indianapolis the third week in Janu-
arv
The revised figures show that in the
next Congress the southern Democrats
will have membership in the House and
Senate together about equal 10 that from
all other sections of the country.
Woodrow Wilson will be the sixth Pres
byterian to occupy the White House.
His predecessors of the same religious
faith were Presidents Buchanan. Lincoln.
Johnson Cleveland and BENJAMIN Harri-
son.
David R. Francis, former Governor of
Missouri and Secretary of the Interior
under President Cleveland. is mentioned
as a possible successor to Whitelaw Reid
as American ambassador to Great Brit
ain
Friends Of John T. McGraw, who is
Democrat. Rational committeeman for
West Virginia and close political asso.
ciate Of William l. Bvan would not be
SURPRISED ii he received til, appointment
OF Postmaster General
Carmi Thompson. The new Treasurer
Of the United States, is Al years old and
d native of West Virginia. Since his
early youth, however he has resided in
Ohio. where he began life as a coal miner.
HIS public career began with his election
10 The Ohio Legislature in 1892
Kew Pitman selected by the Demo-
Gratis OF Nevada for United States Sena-
tor. is descendant Of Francis Scott Key.
the Narvl1uder who wrote The Star
Spansled Banner. On his mothers side
he is related TO Chief Justice John Mar
shall, of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The new Senator was born forty
Years ago in Eick>burg, Miss. where his
father was a celebrated lawyer. Kew
Pt'man Is LAWYER and mining man and
recently struck it rich when the Tonopah
Merger shaft penetrated riCi7 ore.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Patriotism in Lawrence.

The citizens of Lawrence, Mass, in
large numbers, have attended meetings
held to protest against the spirit shown
when hundreds of persons marched
through the streets waving red flags and
displaying the motto, No God, No
Master" The country was shocked by
the news of this blatant parade of those
who had evidently imbibed little or none
of the true American spirit, and it has
been pleased to hear the stirring note of
protest which has been issued by the
people of Lawrence.
According to the press reports of these
meetings in Lawrence, they have been of
a distinctly patriotic nature, dwellIi g
upon the value of good citizenship and
the wisdom of obedience OF law. Every
p rson attending the meetings, it is said,
carried an American flag, and, while the
programs in the various meetings varied
according to the plans of those who ar
ranged them, there was a note of Ameri-
canism IN all Of them.
The people of Lawrence have taken
the right position. Ii will do them good.
as well as the innumerable workers in
the mills of their locality, to think upon
the lessons of patriotism. The anarChis-
tic asitator is always busy. He generally
hates men who show any signs of pros
perty, and he has little regard for insti-
tutions, no matter how venerable or holy.
He appeals 10 the prejudices and pas
sions OF the thoughtleSs and uniformed.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Missionary Conference of College
Christian Associations.

The annual Missionary Conference of
the College Christian Associations of
Maryland. will be held at the Woman's
College in Frederick, February 9TH, Sth
anc 9th. All Of the colleges in the State
are expected to send representatives to
the conference, and President Joseph H.
Apple, of the Woman's College, stated
recently that from 100 to $50 delegates
are expected to attend. The delegates
will be entertained during their stay by
the various missionary organizations of
the Woman's College, the Young Mems
Christian Association and the various
churches of the city.
While no program has yet been ar
ranged. the custom heretofore has been
to have reception on Friday evening,
with the sessions Of the conference on
Saturday, and participation in the church
services on Sunday, and a closing ses-
sion on Sunday night. This will prob
ably be the plan to be followed again this
year
The association has usually held its
conferences in Baltimore. although the
meeting last year was at Westminster.
This will be the first time that the body
ever met in Frederick.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Jackson Named as Rayner' S
Successor.

William Purnel Jackson, of Wi
conlIco county. son of William II. Jack
son. known throughout Maryland as
"UnCle Bill - will succeed the late ISdor
Ravner as United States Senator from
Maryland.
The commission of the new Senator
was made out and forwarded to him at
once. so that he could take mis- seat in
the Senate when Congress assemblies
for the short session The appointment
is for II months. as Mr. Iackson'S sue
cesSOr will not be chosen until the Leg
iSlature of 1914.
The selection of Mr. Jackson by the
Governor is not a surprise. When it
first became known that Senator Rayner
could not live, those closest to Governor
GoldSborough were absolutely confident
that Mr. Jackson would be named as
soon as possible after Senator Rayner' S
funeral. Mr.. Jackson, it is now known.
was confident that he would be named
as the next Senator. land has had no
doubt OF it whatever since the Senator
death.
Mr.. Jackson was horn in Salisbury,
Md. January nth. 1868. He was edu-
Gated in the county public schools, and
later on he attended school in Dover
Delaware He was first employed in
his fathers lumber mill at IS cents a day
and was admitted to the firm of f. f.
Jackson and Company in 1887. He then
formed partnership with his father in
1850 and was then elected secretary
aud treasurer of Jackson Bros, in 1908.
Mr.. Jackson's father. William Fl.
Jackson. served three terms in Congress.
His uncle was the late Elihu E. Jackson,
Governor of Maryland from 1888 to
1892. He made his political debut in
1908 as National Committeeman. He is
one of the wealthest and most successful
business men on the Eastern Shore and
is a liberal contributor TO the Republican
campaigns.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Presidential Pensions.

Various proposals for the pensi3niug OF
our ex presidents, their wives, their wild
ows and even, we believe. their children,
are now being discussed at Washington
and finding their way into Congress. The
basis of all these measures is the suppo
siton that upon his retirement from a
four or eight year occupancy of the White
House the incumbent is incapable of sup
porting himself in a manner BETTING the
dignity of his late position, and that by
accepting the highest honor in the gift of
the people he has somehow laid them
under Obligations to care for him suitably
during the rest Of his life.
There are sound reasons for pensioning
soldiers who have rsked their lives in
defense of their country, and for retiring
on half pay army and navy men and fed
eral iudc who have devoted the greater
part OF their lives to public service. The
acceptance Of the presidency, however.
seldom calls for such sacrifice as has been
made by these pensioners, and seldom
impairs the capacity Of the incumbent for
further useful and remunerative activities
in private life. There is something unre-
publican and un-AmeriCan in the proposal
that ex. presidents and their families shall
sub-is upon public bounty, and we trust
that none Of the bills having that end in
view will meet with the approval OF a
majority in Congress.-Phila. Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Socialists and War.

The Socialists OF Europe in their con-
gress at Berne have declared strongly
against any further disturbance of peace
on account of war in the Balkans, and
their protest means much both because
Of their power and the reasonableness of
their position.
The burning question of this war so far
as it concerns the powers not lmmedi-
ately engaged is whether Servia shall win
her coveted port on the Adriatic Sea or
Austria shall gain new way to tide wa
ter over the same route. If kings and
counselors are willing to plunge all Eu-
rope into war over a matter which in
vol1es no human right and nothing valu-
bic but commercial advantage, at least
the people of Europe should 10 all they
can to prevent it,
The Socialists of Europe for the most
part are not of the type made familiar IN
America by the soap box orator, and
many of the measures they have secured
for the betterment of conditions over seas
are merely such things as advanced
thinkers in all the parties in America
favor. They are powerfully organized
and will resist, with all their strength,
anv attempt to make them enlist for a
war in the interest of national aggran-
dizement.-S Louis Republic.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Companions in Credulity.

Two sets Of stories in the news of the
dav reveal once more the essential soil
daritv of the rich and the poor the cul-
tured and the ignorant. On the one
side we have reports of men and women
of high attainments and of great wealth
paving enormous sums of money for So
called editions de luxe. On the other
hand we have stories of an ignorant man
paving SIS for black cats ear, under
belief that it would make him invisible if
he carried it in his pocket, and of other
men paying $40 each for magic dollars
guaranteed to return to their owner as
soon as they are spent.
Each of these groups regard the other
with supreme contempt Persons who
pay $40, 600 for a set OF books that would
be dear at 500, are amazed that there
should be people SO ignorant as to be
leve in magic. On the other hand, the
patrons of magic, philters and dollars
would be astounded to learn that there
are people willing to give thousands of
dollars for books merely on the word of
a glib agent. While the natures Of these
contrasted credulities differ in kind they
are equal in degree. Each yields the
swindler the limit Of its purse.-New
York World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
National Affairs.

e Oregon women in half a dozen cities
voted for the first time since being given
their suffrage:
lack Johnson, the negro pugilist, was
married to Lucille Cameron, the white
girl, in Chicago.
Governor General w. Cameron Forbes,
OF the Philippines, left Boston on his way
back to Manila.
Louis Levy, Jewish rabbi, lost his life
in fire which destroyed an apartment
house in New York.
Frank T.. Gilbert, a wealthy Buffalo
n. Y. manufacturer, dropped dead in
ticket Office in Chicago.
!. Bal Snead was found not guilty of
the murder OF Captain Al. T. Boyce, ST.,
at Fort Worth, Texas
Indications are that the bribery case
against State Senator George n. Cetone,
OF Dayton, Ohio, will so to the jury soon.
Harvey Shanower confessed to the
pnlce at Akron, Ohio, that he had Stran-
led his wife to death in their home at
Barbeton, Ohio.
Only 10000, 900 feet of standing timber,
less than one-Seventieth of one per cent.
OF the SOC. 900, 900, 600 feet patroled, was
destroyed by forest fires in 1912.
Or. Alice Bunker Stockham, widely
known as a physician, author, suf'ragst
and one of the pioneers of The eugeniC
movement, died at Alhambra. Cal.
George Lamont, convicted of picking
pockets during President Tait's visit to
Raleigh. n. c, in 1909 and sentenced to
five wears, was pardoned by Governor
Kitchen.
Illness of eight insane patients in the
Toledo State Hospital heretofore dag
nosed as chicken poX has been definitely
pronounced smallpox by the city health
DEPARTMENT.
Major w. W. Crosby, MARYLAND State
Engineer, in an address before the Amer
lean Road Builders Association Conven-
ton in Cincinnati, advocated state high
way departments.
Senator lanes F. Fielder was selected
in caucus as the president of the New
! Jersey Senate, which means that he will
be the successor to Governor Wilson
when the latter resigns.
The governments case against George
W. Fitzgerald, former teller in the United
States Sub-treasury at Chicago, who is
beng tired on a charge of embezzlng
$4,000 in 1907, practically was complet-
ed at Chicago.
Letters written by Frank NJ. Ryan,
president Of the International Association
OF Bridge and Structural lronworkers,
were read in connection with dates of ex-
ploSions in the cross examination of Ryan
by the government at the dynamite con-
spiracy trial in | dianapolls
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Workers md Walters.

1t seems as though the men OF Drawn
and muscle of the country are rapidly
being divided into the classes Of workers
and walters. those that are steadily going
about the legitimate duties and making
steady and satisfactory wages and those
who are content with nothing less than
setting up a continued wall about griev-
anceS, in highly Colored and exaggerated
forms and by the use of descriptive
phraseology that is as foreign to actual
facts as language can be.
1t is unfortunate that the politicians
who seek to play to the popular ear in
order TO secure political favOrs have done
much TO augment the Walling OF the pro-
fesSional CrierS out against the estab-
lished order of things. The trades I'M
ions and the CONSOLIDATION of workers in
given lines has elements of advantage
both to them and to society. but these
things are foreign to the efforts made by
certain organizations that have for their
end the utter ignoring of the equities of
labor disputes in order to make capital
out OF agitation and to bring about the
paralvzing of enterprise.
These walters are the ones who are
doing the damage by creating a hyS-
terical setting for labor. Their efforts
are attended with criminal outbreaks.
The workers should be against these de-
signers against their peace ana should
uphold their independence OF action
along with legitimate association in en-
terprise Baltimore American.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
May Land One Craftsmanship.

Marylsnd's Congressional delegation
promises to figure ConsplCuously in the
appoHioument committee berths by the
next Congress.
And il is not too much to expect that
al least one Craftsmanship will 60 to this
State after many long years of waiting.
Whether or not this comes to pass, three
members OF the new delegation will have
A big hand in the legislation of the next
Congress as it IS shaped in the committee
room.
Representatives J. Harry Covington.
David J. Lewis and !. Charles Linthicum
are now in strong strategic positions in so
far IS the House organization is concern
ed. OF course. ]. Fred Talbot is there,
too, but since he let it be known that he
would RIM for th- Senate he IS somewhat
out Of the race for House honors.
Ia talk with Floor Leader Under
wood he made it plain that Maryland
could, if The delegation made the proper
kind Of fight. land one Of its Congress-
men on the powerful Ways and Means
Committee in the place made vacant BY
the election Of Ollie James to the Senate.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Prepare Girls to Marry.

THE Neglected Art of Preparing Girls
For Marriage" was the topic OF DIR. O..
c. S. Wallace's comment on present
Perils and Problems, " at the First Bap-
fist Church, in Baltimore City, on Sun
day evening, December Ist. He said in
part
"When life was less complex than it is
now, the cost OF living not so excessive,
the demand for wage-earning women
small, and when female lawyer or not
airy public, physician or dentist, book
keeper or real estate broker, politician or
police officer, college professor or public
lecturer was almost unknown, the art of
preparing girls for marriage was not neg
lected.
Marriage was then regarded as a
woman's destiny and the careful mothers
prepared their daughters for wifehood
and motherhood, as now the schools pre-
pare the girls for competency in any one
of the many professions.
"When a mother expects her daughter
to marry, there is strong incentive to
prepare her for the duties of married
life, but when she thinks that it is not
improbable that her daughter will be a
wage earning spinster the incentive IS
greatly weakened.
And this is to be regretted. Wise
mothers. whatever the probabilities as to
the future Of their daughters, will train
them to be sound in their judgment and
expert with their hands in the kitchen
and in the sewing room, TO know how To
buy prudently and 10 manage a house
frugally and to be skiltul in the great art
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Fight With an Eagle.

After seeing an eagle flying about his
farm on last Saturday evening, c. f. Gil.
san, of Linganore District, started out on
Sunday morning in pursuit of it.
The eagle was in "Piney HILL" dense
wood on his farm, and being attracted by
the dog, which was with Mr.. Gilsan,
came within shooting distance of him.
Mr. Gisan shot. and breaking its wing,
it came to the ground. He tried to cap
ture it alive. The eagle showed fight
and in the struggle it caught Mr.. Gilsan
in the hand, its talons gong to the bone.
He then tried to get the birds claws
loose from his hand, but he had to kill
it by crushing its head with his foot be-
fore he succeeded.
The bird measured six feet. four
inches from tip to tip, and weighed eight
pounds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Lewis Quits Law Practice

Congressman David J. Lewis left Cum
berand shortly after noon Sunday for
Washington. He said he had been wait
ed upon since the election by a number
of persons desiring appointment to office,
but had resolved not to take up appllCa-
tons until within one month of the time
the appointments would be made. AT
the most there will not be over score of
appointments to fill in the district and
only a half dozen will fall due IN the next
two years.
Mr.. Lewis has abandoned his law prac-
tice. He says he cannot serve two
masters " H. will not be Joined by Mrs.
Lewis in Washington until after the holt
DAYS She is now at the home of her
mother Mrs Bohn, in Cumberland. Mr..
Lewis recently sold his home on Water
street, that city.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
To Expedite Christmas Mail

Postmaster General Htchcock's big
organization is getting ready for the
great Christmas rush. One of the first
important holidays orders has Just been
promulgated. Postmasters are notified
that from December Goth. to January
3rd, the regulation requiring back
stamping" of mail matter will be sus-
pended Ito expedite the delivery of mail
during the holiday season." During the
period special delivery and registered
mail only will be stamped with the time of
receipt, the ordinary mail going through
the offices by the most approved short
cuts known TO the postal service.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
Attacks Mrs. Shuff1er.

Charged with assaulting Mrs. William
Shuffler, of Baltimore and Ohio avenue,
James Bratton and George Bratton were
arrested on Wednesday morning, De-
cember 4th, and committed TO jail for A
hearing before Justice Aaron Anders on
Wednesday evening.
lanes and George Bratton are UNI
brtlla members and they raped on tn
door of Mrs Shutters residence and
requested something to eat Upon being
refused the two men grabbed Mrs. Shut
fer and in the scufile they tore her cloth
ing badly. They released their hold on
Mrs Shuffler and then went on towards
Market street.
fhe men claim that they were drunk
and did not know what they were doing.