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Panteattester, Udlegsforretninge GER og AUX
tionskonditloner henligge til Eftersyp her
paa Kontoret.
Denne i Henhold til Anordning ste Marts
1909 udstedte Bekendtgorelse har efter
sammes s den i Plakat 22de April 1917
hjemlede Retsvirkning.
Chri8tiane'ods Auklionskontor, st. Croix
den IA November, 1913.
f. X. LEVY,
est
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Forced Auctions.

VI is hereby made known that the follow
- ing properties in Christiansted's Juris-
dlction, on which levy has been made for
taxes 1911 due to the Colonial Treasury of
st. CroiX, will be offered for sale by the
Sherltfs request, each at q single auction
to be held at the undersigned Auction Office
as follows:
MONDAY THE 8th DECEMBER A. G.
AT 2 O'Clock p. M.
No. 80 Company Street
according to Taxlist belonging to J. Bourke
and L.. Nj. Daniel.
At B o'clock p. m.
No. 81 Princes Street
according to Taxlist belonging to Alexander
Cornelius.
At 4 o'clock p. ~.
No. 6. ABB. Hill Street
according to Taxlist belonging to Maria
Nicholson.
TUESDAY THE 9th DECEMBER A. C.
AT 2 O'Clock p. III.
No. 3S Hill Street
according to Taxlist belonging to Cornelius
Motta.
Mortage certificates, levy proceedings and
conditions of the auctions are open for in
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This advertisement, issued in accordance
with Ordinance of 18th March 1909, has in
accordance with s 4 of said Ordinance the
same judicial effect as that of the rules in
Placard 20 April 1917.
Christiansted's Auction Office, St. Croix,
the 14th November, 1913.
T. r. LEVY,
dctg.
, 1913-11-19

22-Arbeider, Andreas Roberts, Richmond
Syg so Aar.
"-Arbeiderske, Rehecca Gumbs, af Peters
Farm Hospital, 70 Aar.
25-Arbejder, William Wolcott, AT Peters
Farm Hospital, 40 Aar.
26-Arbeider. Alfred Thomas, at Peters
Farm Hospital, 80 Aar.
Barn, Eliza C~odrington. af Christiansted,
Mdr.
29-Enke, Julia Augusta Jackson, af Chris
tiansted, 68 Aar.
30-Barn, Viola Wilson, af Peters Farm
Hospital, / Mdr.
Sept, 1913. FREDERIKSTED.
3-Fattigpens, John Seheade, nj Byen, d6d
paa Hospitalet, c. 70 Aar 81.
4-Baru, David Leandel Boynes, af Byen,
5 Uger 81.
6-Arbejlerske, Rebecca David, af Golden
Grove, d0d paN Hospitalet, c. p Aar 81.
'-Fattigpens. Cecilia Christian, of Byen,
u Aar 81.
l 8-Barn, Vincent Nathaniel Richard, af
Byen, Is Dage 81.
22-Arbelder, Elias Savenier, at Manning's
Bay, dod paa Hospitalet, {. 81 Aar gl
Z" Arbejderske, Florence James, at Nit. Plea
SAINT, d0d paa Hospitalet, c. a Aar 81.
ZO-AiD61u6f, JalneS 1SddC, Ill HohCOlula, "
paa HospitaIet, c. 50 Aar 81.
28-Fattigpens Elizabeth Williams, af Byen,
dod pan HospitaIet, s. Aar 81.
30-Barn, May Rosita Rodgers, of Byen, 4
Mdr. 81,
October, 1913.
Barn, Henry Brown, af Mountain, doa
paa Hospitalet, l Mdr.
3-Fange, John Payne, al Frederiksfort,
dOd poa HOSDltaIet. c. IS Aar 81.
9-Arbejder, Christian Simmons, af Byen,
81 Aar 81.
l3-Barn, Mansanto Richard, AT Manning's
Bay, dod paa Bornehjemmet, 8 NJ II. 81.
i"-Fattiepen. Felix Steven, at Byen, dod
paa Hospitalet, c. Sc Aar 81.
14-Arbeider, JON Wells, af Whim, ldod paa
Hospitalet, c, 30 Aar g..
17-Et dodfodt Drengebarn paa Hospitalet.
I8-Arbeider, Augustus Dean, af Byen, dod
paa Hospitalet, c. 43 Aar 81.
"-ryende, Christina Henrickson, af Byen,
% Aar 81.
% Barn, Sylvan Blyden, at Byen, dod paa
Hospitalet, Al Md. 81.
Barn, Geraldine O'Bryan, af Byen, 7
Dage 81.
28-Mrs. Mary Ann Benjamin n, at Byen, 81
Aar 81.
29-Fnttigpons. Albertine Daniel, af Campo
rico, dod paa Hospltalet, c. 46 Aar 81.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

er similar print was produced fourteen years
after bmy the Nurnberg engraver, Johann SID
macher who etched nine other sporting plates.
Then follow, In rapid succession, half dozen
portraits" by Tempesta the pupil Of Stradanus,
one of which prints reproduce. 1t shows in
what awe the gigantic wild bull was held, for 1t
depicts formidable-lookng machine wherew1th
the bull could be attacked and brought down.
Tempesta's pictures need not be taken seriously,
for his Roman studio was nothing but work
shop where apprentice hands turned out vast
mass of prints of little or no value in enquiry
of this sort. His English contemporary of the
pen, Edward Topsell, in his illustrated natural
history hodge-podge called the Historic of Foure
Footed Beastes' $500 only added to the exist
ing confusion. "A Bison he says, lis a beast
very strange as may appear by his figure pre-
fixed which by many authors is taken for Urus,
some for a Bugle or wild oxe, others, for
Rangfer, and many for the beast Tarantus or
Buffe" And, to show that he really meant what
he said he affxes picture of what is unmistak-
ably reindeer, Fortunately, however, he adds,
as pictures of the bison and of the aurochs re-
pleas of the two prints by Hirschvogel out OF
Herberstein's "Rerum Moscoviticarum Common
tarii," which, we have already mentioned, are
among the most correct representations pub
lished at period when the aurochs still existed
In England the belif that tn aurochs was a
bison.like creature continued throughout the
eighteenth century. The picture taken from Sam
uel Clarkes Julius Caesar" published in 1112
shows what extraordinary ignorance still pre-
vailed, the ANIMAL with antlers like an inverted
umbrella being a bison, Bos germanus, and
the beast in the center an aurochs The graver
of Holzab of Zurich continues the misconcep
ton; indeed goes one better, for the bison is
here turned into American aurochs" OF
numerous other illustrations of our two beasts
have not the space to speak at length. One
of the most characteristic of the latter type is
the so-called Hamilton Smith picture of the au-
rochs. This Is painting, dating, 1t is believed
discovered in Augsburg not quite a hundred
years ago. This painting has mysteriousy dis
appeared, but an accurate copy made. For
the first modern" picture of the bison that ap-
peared in England have also to go to Ger
man sources and strangely enough to the same
city, for it was Augsburg's most famous animal
painter, Ridinger Q6971767) who drew the first
lfe-like picture. countryman Of his, one J. S.
Muller, who lived many years in London, engrav-
ed, in 175s. fine set of plates representing wild
animals after Rdnger's drawings from nature.
Among them is one of the bison called by him
the buffalo, and underneath is a lengthy and
fairly correct description in English, which he
also copied from Ridinger But this and other
isolated efforts have not entirely prevented the
dissemination of the old mistake, for living au-
thorities still tell u.s. quite seriously, that they
have grassed aurochs
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
ENe1y1yA1zM czAaMy Mz10 cH3aARzzza

aurochs or the bison by much word AS
the authors Of these classics great sports
men and close observers this would support the
theory that both these animals had already then
become quite extinct in western Europe.
In the sixteenth century when Europe so far
as art was concerned, had at last been aroused
from its medieval stupor by the invention OF
printing, and an extraordinary demand had
sprung up for pictorial matter illustrating re-
cent exploration of worlds and the various
forms of the chase there were produced quite
number OF pictures Of the aurochs by artists,
very few of whom had ever set eyes upon a live
wild specimen, though they may have cap
tive ones. The one artist Of whom we positively
know that he had before him at least stuffed
specimen the Viennese engraver Augustin
Hirschvogel (born in Nurnberg about 1909, who
Illustrated the famous travel book Of Baron Her
bersten the authority most frequently quoted in
connection with the aurochs, for he was absolute
ly the last intelligent observer who saw the beast
in its wild state and left pictorial records of his
impressions. Herbersten was gifted with pres
cient eyes for he foresaw that the aurochs was
doomed TO speedy extinction. Hence his
eral expeditions to the unknown interior of Rus
STA as the ambassador, first of Emperor Maxi
milan in 1516-1S, then many different occa-
sions as Charles VS. and Ferdinand's emissary,
he made notes about It. and, what was much more
important actually brought back with him some
skins and skulls which he had mounted in his
house in Vienna, and from which Hirschvogel
probably drew his celebrated picture of the
aurochs. To differentate he drew next to it
picture OF a bison. AS these two portraits
which have been published scores of times will
be familiar to all interested in this matter,
will merely quote the inscriptions placed by Her
bernstein over the two pictures, for it is per
fectly correct differentiation. The picture Of the
bison has the following: Il am a Bison. am
called by the Poles Suber by the Germans
Bisont or Damthier, and by the ignorant an
aurochs" Over the woodcut of the aurochs: 81
am an Urus which is called by the Poles a Tur,
by the Germans an Aurochs and until now by
the ignorant Bison" The inscriptions in the
various edtions-Herberstein volume appeared
in several languages-vary trifingly, but the
above. which taken from the edition of 1856
give the sense in the best form.
Shortly after Herberstein the Flemish painter
Stradanus, who lived and worked for fifty
years in Florence from 1853 to 1605), produced
a drawing of an aurochs engaged in terrific
struggle in an arena where he matched
against lion, two wolves and a bear. This
original drawing is not the least interesting of
the twenty odd ancient pictures of the aurochs
in the writer's collection. In 1878 the Antwerp
publisher Philip Gale published this and one
hundred and three other sporting drawings by
the Florentine master, and underneath each of
the engravings there is Latin inscription. The
under the plate reproducing the drawing
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

game for it? Let's each write letter
to our frances, saying, 4 have found
out everything and shall expect you
to explain-if you can What joke
that would be. Picture the poor
mems faces, Will you, Mildred?"
1T seems a shame" murmured Mil
dred. But couldn't bear to think he
had deceived me. Are you sure he
has. Fanny"
MY dearest girl, of course he has.
How old is he? Twenty-eight! And
never kissed anyone but you? Mildred,
you certainly are simple. And now's
the time to show him you aren't as
simple as he thinks, and he'll think
all the more of you for it. IS it bar
gain"
1t was. 1t was not without many
misgivings that Mildred Thomas
mailed her letter to George Howard,
but Fanny's hints were eating into
her soul like vitriol. She must know,
now, whether her lover ever had been
in love before. That would be dread
full. Still she might forgive it, but
she could never forgive deceit. When
the letter was mailed she wanted it
back, and all that day and the next
she listened in terror for the post
mans whistle. On the third day,
/ Friday, the answer came-a hasty, in
coherent letter, full of selfaccusa-
/ tons and reproaches. Il shall tell
/
! call tomorrow evening" he wrote,
"and l shall come half an hour before
the party, in the hope of gaining your
forgiveness before the guests arrive"
Mildred was looking her prettiest
when George Howard arrived. He
looked so haggard and mournful that
she could hardly find words with
which to greet him. Bitterly now she
repented having been persuaded by
Fanny to play that foolish joke. But
she must play her part through. They
sat down very soberly side by side in
the empty reception room.
I'm going to tell you everything,
Mildred" said George humbly. 81 did
not wilfully deceive you, for it was
only because | had put the memory
of that mad summer two years ago,
out of my mind and heart, and dared
not recall it, even to myself She
was the only woman before you"
Go on" murmured Mildred, and to
her CONSERVATION she discovered that
she was not shocked at all-only
deeply interested.
1T was at. Atlantic City. | won't
tell you her name. We were almost
the only guests at the hotel at the end
of the season. We fell in love with
each other; we loved each other mad
ly. We were engaged. Then she
went back to town, and |, like fool,
lived in FOOLS paradise, anticipating
the time when l should meet her
again, to ask her to fulfill her promise.
( We'll. the upshot was that she had
imagined me to be a cousin of mine,
Garfield Howard, the wealthy manu-
facturer. When l called at her home
abe was quite frank about 1t. She
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
Reprinted by Request,

An editor in the Blue Grass state
has been trying for long time to in
ject himself into politics and get elect
ed to something. At last he was
made a delegate to the state conven-
tion of his party. The day on which
the convention opened was also the
date of issue of his militant weekly
newspaper; and in the excitement of
the moment, he had forgotten to write
his usual burning editorial. He was
reminded of his dereliction just as he
was leaving town for the convention.
oh" he said to the genial facto-
tum of the mechanical department,
Just reproduce last weeks editorial,
and state that it is reprinted by re-
quest"
The intelligent foreman followed in
structions, and the editorial was
seSved up to the amazed readers I'M
der the startling caption:
Reprinted by Request of the Ed
itor."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
NOT HARD TO TELL FORTUNES
Little Need for Soothsayer to Be Fit
ted With Much More Than Ordl-
nary intelligence.

The way to tell peoples fortunes Is
to have one list of characteristics,
and use it for every one without the
slightest variation. 1t is bound to
succeed For instance, suppose Fal-
staff and Hamlet had their fortunes
told by the same sothsayer. | mag
inc he would have told Hamlets char
acter as follows:
You are not as fortunate as you
seem. You have a great deal of sense,
but more sense than knowledge You
can give admirable advice to other
people. Your judgment is excellent
as regards others, but bad as regards
yourself. You never value your own
good advice. You are fond Of your
friends. You prefer to talk TO action.
You suffer from indecision. You are
fond of the stage. You are suscepti-
Bile to female beauty. You are witty,
amiable and we'll educated, but you
like coarse jokes. You are supersti-
make people laugh. You often pre-
tend to be more foolish than you are.
At other times you will surprise peo-
pie by your power of apt repartee.
Your bane will be your inclination to
fat, which will hamper you in fight
ing. You are unsuccessful as a sol
der, but unriyaled as a companion
and philosopher You will mix in high
society, have friends at court. You
will come off badly in personal en-
counter and your final enemy will be
a king"
Now imagine him saying exactly the
same thing to Falstaff. Doesn't 1t fit
him just as well? Can't you imagine
Falstaff saying: "He has hit me off to
a T." and Hamlet murmuring: My
prophetic soul" In fact, l believe for
tune telling after that of medicine, to
be the finest profession in the world,
and the easiest.-Metropolitan.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

said she had loved me and would have
fulfilled her promise, but she mad re-
solved never to marry poor man. "
THE horrid cat!" exclaimed NIL
dred Indignantly, slipping her hand
into his.
That broke the spell, Mildred. I
realized then that | had never loved
her. learned to laugh at my infatua-
ton, for saw her as she was and my
love was dead So don't you be
afraid, in case we ever meet, for
have seen her two or three times since
then, and there is nothing left in my
heart but aversion"
Darling" said Mildred, putting up
her face for kiss.
And am forgiven, dearest?" whis-
pered George.
Absolutely. Now listen, for the
guests will be here in a few moments.
I'm going to announce it and tell
them your name. It's all profound
secret, just as promised you. l want
you to meet my friend"
But she did not finish the sentence,
for the maid opened the door and an
nouced Miss Upton and Mr.. Edward
Brooks. Mildred darted forward and
embraced Fanny and shook hands
with her flance.
Il want to present my fance,' she
annouced triumphantly. Mr. George
Howard, Miss Upton-Mr. Howard,
Mr.. Brooks. Now you have got 20
like each other as hard as you can,
Fanny"
The last remark was almost an in
PERFECTION, for Fanny Upton had put
forth her hand as gingerly as though
it were of porcelain, and George was
stretching out his finger tips as though
he was afraid of never getting them
back again.
Mr. Howard and l have met be-
fore" said Fanny Jelly.
You have? You never told me.
Where?"
Il think it was at Atlantic City, or
Whereabouts" said Miss Upton casual
ly.
Copyright, 1913, by w. G. Chapman)
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
LIGHT ON HIS PAST
Girls Fiance Makes a Confession
That Surprises More Than
One Friend.
BY FRANK FlLsoN.

Fanny. you've been lording it over
me for for the past month, ever since
your engagement to Edward Brooks.
But you can't do it any more said
her friend Mildred Thomas, holding
out her left hand with blush. Fanny
Upton seized it and dragged her
friend into the light. On Mildred's
third finger sparkled a diamond in a
platinum ring.
Mildred" exclaimed Fanny, kissing
her Who is it?"
II mustn't tell you" answered Mil
dred. Now don't be angry dear. be-
cause you shall be the very first per
son to know. It's a sacred promise
for certain reasons"
oh, I'm sure don't want to know,
Mildred" said Fanny coldly, releasing
the hand she held.
''Oh yes YOU do, Fanny. Now don't
be cross. Listen! We're going to
have an engagement party on Satur-
day night. and it will be announced
then. And you are TO come and be
told first. See?"
Fanny was notified little. We'll,
if you think it's worth making a secret
of to please your fiance. all right she
said. But you know very we'll he
has secrets he hasn't shared with
you"
Fanny" cried Mildred Thomas in
dignantly.
"Of course he has, goose. Don't
you suppose he has been in love
dozens of times-rapturously in love,
and never told you word of it,"
Fanny" said her friend indignant
ly, he told me that he has never been
in love in his life before. He has
never kissed any girl but me-
"Booh." said Fanny mock!ngly.
Now Edward knew | was too sensible
to fall for that sort of yarn and he
confessed But he didn't tell me all.
No, sir, and I'm going to find out a
whole lot more before marry him"
Mildred remained coldly silent.
"Oh, Mildred. here's a joke said
her versatile friend. Now are you
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
Golf Ball Poachers.

Many complaints have been re-
ceived by the police lately of the
loss of golf balls from the Epping For
est links. while actually in play. 1t
is alleged that gangs of youths gather
at places on the links where the play
ers cannot see the balls fall, and that
the balls disappear sometimes even
when they fall on the fairway. AS
the result of watch kept by the DO
lice in trees and behind hedges, sew
eral prosecutions have taken place
recently-London Mail
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

nation. / was sick every three
and had to stay in bed from two +
days.
-It is with great pleasure I te
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Veu
Compound has done for me. | hs,
lowed your directions as near as
BILE, and feel much better than 7
felt for years. When l wrote v,
fore l was almost a wreck. "
publish this letter if you like. \
help to strengthen the faith of
poor suffering woman. Mrs. 10
RICHARDS, Westwood, Maryland,
Women who suffer from thos
tressing ills peculiar to their sex
not doubt the ability of Lydia E.
hams Vegetable Compound to r
their health.
If you have the slightest Il
that Lydia E. Pinkham's We,
BILE COmpOundwill help you.1
to Lydia E.PinkhamMedicin
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass. ia
vice. Your letter will be one
read and answered by a Wol
and held in strict con1iden(
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

cable Puritanism, an excellent birth
mark, perhaps, but an excellence that
is exasperating.
Puritanism is unlovely and unsound,
but it is a pretty good process and
makes a fairly good foundation for
strong civilization. All the Puritanism
we Americans have we got from Eng
land. England had it hard and got
much good out of it. Our west is full
of it nova fairly intolerant brand,
positive of much that is not so and
insistent on much that experience will
not retain. But along with all that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

were caught in pitfalls ana
transported great distances.
The likeness is not a bad
one. and in the above col
lection of prints there are
three other pictures of
aurochs, and a fifth depict
ing the lassoing of the bu-
balus on the island of Sar-
DINA. A contemporary and
countryman of Stradanus,
one Hans Boil, produced
also an interesting engrav-
ing of an aurochs hunt
which forms the second
print of his attractive little
set entitled, "Venationis,
Piscationis, ct Aucupii
typi," published in 1882 by
the same enterprising Ant
werp publishers that gave
the world the last-named
collection. Beneath the au-
rochs picture we read, in
Latin elegiac couplets:
"Thus with darts, swords,
and light arrows men every
where drive the horned
aurochs into pits" A rath-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
Win Odd Walking Wager.

Gerald Hirsch and Eric Maturia,
two members of well-known club
in Piccadilly, for a wager walked from
London to Brighton, a distance of so
miles, the other day in 22A hours, the
former wearing evening dress, with
out a hat, and the latter cricket
shirt and short walking Knockers, the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24

footwear Of both being thin socks and
dancing pumps. Mr.. Hirch and Mr..
Maturin accepted bets of 1000 to 1
and so to /, respectively, in sover-
eigns that they would not walk the
distance under such conditions in "a
hours.-London Wireless to New
York Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
Raising "Cavies."

There's man near Providence
who makes good living by raising
"calves"-that is to say, guinea pigs
for medical schools and biological
laboratories. The demand for the
cavie is such that prices run about on
the level of those for chickens.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
American Puritans.

Young Oxford's" complaint, in the
London Academy. that Americans at
Oxford have not the art of varying
the monotony of virtue in an agree
able manner may be well founded.
The Rhodes scholars are gathered
from all parts of the country, includ-
ing those where the comparative sim
plicity of life and manners is not con-
ducive to achievement in all the polite
arts. THE very best type America
gives u.s." says the Academy's COM
plainant, bears the stamp of ineradi-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-01-24
Why He Quit WORKING.

Woman Occurring tramp)-You
should work if only to set good ex-
ample to others.
Tramp did that once, mum, an
the poor Teller wot took the example
worked so hard he died er nervous
prostration.