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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
STEPPED OFF SOCIAL LADDER
Couple Gave Up Struggle for Some
thing That Really Was Not Worth
All 1t Was Costing.

The night that young man and MS
wife decided to quit the struggle for
social position is described in Harper's
Bazaar in The Confessions of a
Climber" as follows:
1T was morning before we had
talked over all our plans. Wisely, we
left the dead past to bury its dead,
for there were corpses of failure in
each of our paths we could serve no
good end by dragging into view. 1t
was the living, livable future that con-
cerned us.
"By ten o'clock that morning | had
resigned from the membership Of my
fourteen clubs and had broken every
social engagement on my list. ! said
simply that | had found myself de-
voting too much time and money to
NV social life and | had decided to
withdraw. Don't think it was easy to
do; after spending years of energy,
effort and struggle at riveting on this
gilded chain, it came hard to wrench
it link from link. The light in Johns
eyes was the pillar of fire that kept
me in the road.
More than one friend hurried
around to expostulate before | should
have ruined myself; each one left
with brand-new thought germ. Some
admitted it was a dogs life, but
One pretty climber cried real tears be-
cause she didn't have my grit.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
RESlNOL RELIEVED
ITCHING INSTANT
And Completely Cured Skin HUM

If you have eczema or any oh!
itching, burning skin trouble, the b
evidence of what Resinol Soap q
Resinol Ointment can do for you
the word of one who was cured
them after weeks of suffering. Ado4
Schoen, TAP Shepherd Ave, BNNl
Ign, writes:
Nov. l, 1912.-"At first little Y
spots were seen on my arms and bog
which l noticed were getting aE!a
every day. They itched me so mug
that l scratched myself until | BIZ
There were times when | stood upa
night and scratched. I was trouad
about three weeks, during which ll|
l used - which seemed to DO 4
no good whatever. Then final!
thought of trying Resinol SOAP, u
Resinol Ointment. AS soon as
piled Resinol Ointment l felt muca
lief. After using it few times,
ticed the sore spots slowly na
away, and in about a month
cured completely"
The soothing, healing balSan;
Resinol Ointment and Reslnol "
penetrate every tiny pore of the !
clearing it Of all impurities dln
away eczema, rashes, ringworm,
asis, and other eruptions, and mar
pimples and blackheads imposss
Prescribed by physicians for elg1 n'+l
years. For free samples write 10 "
SIX, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. I N
druggist sells Resinol Ointmeh!
and Resinol Soap (25c), or sen'
parcel post on receipt OF price.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
BOY LOSES LEGS TWICE
Artificial Limbs Cut Off in Rescue
Effort in Same Manner Real
Ones Were.

Westbury, l.. William Fitting, a
nineteen-year-old lad, lost both of his
legs for a second time. The first time
was four years ago when he fell under
a Long Island railway train near the
station at Glen Head On his artificial
limbs he was standing at the station
here when he saw a woman crossing
the tracks in front of an express train
Recalling the accident which had
befallen him, he shouted a warning to
the woman, but she did not heed and
young Fitting stumped his way to the
tracks and dragged her from danger,
only to fall himself across the rails.
Other persons on the platform saw the
lad run over by the train, and when 1t
came to stop they rushed to him.
expecting to find him fatally hurt. He
was picked up legless, but not in the
least wounded, as the locomotive
wheels had only broken off his wooden
legs.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11

CBy w. j. SPILIMAN, Chief of United
States Bureau of Farm Managemento
Near the larger cities it would prob
ably be better to grow some OF the
more perishable truck crops and to
keep one horse for marketing pur-
poses,l but in most country places the
system as outlined here would be moro
satisfactory and would require only
two horses.
In addition to four cows and two
horses the owner of such farm could
keep one or two brood sows and fifty
hens.
Assuming that the farmer under
stands his business and is on a soil
and in a region adapted to the type
Of farming here outlined, it ought to
be possible on such a farm to secure
an income somewhat as follows: The
1--WE acres of potatoes ought to pro-
duce five hundred bushels at least, and
If the man is a good potato grower
the field can be made to average more
than two hundred bushels.
One ought to average at least fifty
cents a bushel for the potatoes. This
would make $3.50 for this field. The
three acres of cabbage ought to pro-
duce $500, and the two acres of
onions ought to produce $500. The
onions require a good deal more work
than the other crops, hence, the
smaller acreage of them. After the
farm is started the farmer must be
guided by his experience, and it
might prove wise to put the entire
Eve acres in onions, provided labor is
available.
If the four COWS kept are good ones
and the farmer is not justified in
keeping any other kind-one of them
ought to furnish dairy produce for the
family, and the other three, il prop
erly managed, ought to produce sew
enty-five dollars worth of dairy prod
lcts apiece year, making two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars income
from the dairy.
1t ought to be possible to produce
twelve pigs to sell at an average price
Of fifteen dollars each, making one
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11

ed that during some recent storm
large tree had been bent over and
half uprooted by the force Of the
wind. The roots had been partly
broken, but in sinking back to its old
position the top of the tree had
| caught under the heavy branch OF an
other tree a hundred feet distant. This
held the inclined tree as in wise.
but at Juggling tension.
In the hole formed where the roots
had given way the men Pete had de-
! scribed were hiding awaiting the COM
ing Of the stage coach.
Ruth crept cautiously around to the
spot where the top of the tree was
caught. Her experienced eye told
her that this, once released would
shoot back to its original position
with catapult force. She had a long,
sharp knife in her belt She climbed
the smaller tree and endeavored to cut
through the limb that held the larger
tree captive. For nearly an hour she
hacked and clipped Suddenly in the
distance she heard the echong boots
of the stage coach horn saluting some
lonely mountain cabin. She could see
the men in the tree hole getting ready
to rush out when their anticipated vic
times came within sight.
"Oh, ! must hurry hurry" breathed
Ruth ardently, in breathless excite
ment, and renewed her endeavors
with redoubled ardor with blistered
bleeding hands.
p-snap-crash! Like strick7
en- giant rising from the dust, the
great tree at last tore free from its
letters. There were>shouts Of dismay
and frantic yells of pain as the roots
sank back into place, shutting the
I bafIied plotters into sure prison
4 Again the winding horn. Ruth
4 ran out into the road. She stood in
/ it's center statuesque and heroic
| figure in the white moonlight. The
stage coach came to a stop. Her lover
sprang out, and Ruth was enclosed m
his loving arms.
1t did not take long for Ruth to ex-
plain. The driver and passengers
! managed to dig away the sanug lohll
from the disturbed tree roots. Crush
ed and subdued, the outlaws were
dragged out and secured. Ruth had
saved the passengers injury and her
lover the little fortune he carried witE
him.
They searched for Pete, and found
him where the horse had thrown him
His head had struck stone and he
was unconscious.
Long before the wedding, the out
laws were convicted. Then Pete be-
came the handy man about the Morse
place. where his greatest satisfac;
ton seemed to be to enjoy the loving
happiness of Rodney and his frontier
bride.
Copyright. 1918. by w G. Chapman)
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
STRANGE FACTS
ABOUT FLOWERS
Every Single Plant Has Some Pc
cuIiarity-Some. of Them
Can Be Seen.

Violets open at three or four a. m,
closing about eleven or twelve; some
wild roses about four and five a. m;
night shade, about six in the morning;
buttercups and lilies are open by
seven a. m. Early openers close at
noon. Among others, the evening
moth flowers open about six p. m.
Cactus grandifora begins opening at
nine or ten in the evening, closing at
midnight. The majority of flowers.
however, are open from nine in the
morning until six in the evening.
Wheat flowers last only about fiji
teen or twenty minutes-just long
enough for their pollen to be carried
by the passing wind-then their day
is past The hibiscus and calandrinia
remain open for only three or four
hours; but foxgloves last six days and
some orchids from thirty to eighty
days.
Every single flower we look at has
some little popularity of its own. Some
of them we can see, but not under
stand, even by thorough examination.
There are orchids which throw their
insect visitors into a shower bath of
water, so they have to get out, by rea-
son of their wet wings, up certain
path, where they touch the pollen
masses and stigma. There are other
orchids which throw the pollen masses
at the insect.
The yucca is lily-like plant, resem-
bling the aloe, and a particular sort
of moth lives wholly upon it.
When the flower opens, this moth
proceeds to knead up ball of pollen
and inside places an egg, then thrusts
the ball down into the ovary of the
flower.
There a grub develops from the egg
and eats the pollen, and some of the
pollen fertlizes the young seed II
yuccas died out the moth would be eE-
terminated, and if the moths were de-
stroyed no yuccas would ever set their
seed.
Copyright, 1918. by C. NJ. Shultz)
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11

hundred and eighty dollars from this
source. The fifty hens ought to pro-
duce what eggs and poultry the farmer
needs and furnish fifty dollars worth
of material for sale. Adding these
sums together gives us one thousand
three hundred and five dollars as
possible income from such system OF
farming.
From this income all the expenses
of running the farm and of the family
living must be paid; but with half an
acre of garden, an acre and half or
orchard, and with all the potatoes,
cabbage and onions the family can
consume, with hogs for meat, and
with the eggs and poultry the family
living ought not to cost more than
two or three hundred dollars for things
bought
The city man must not get the idea
that he can start in system of this
kind without experience and make
success of it from the start. 1t Will
mean a lot of very hard work, hard
living and hard study for two or three
years, and of these three things study
is the most important. On the other
hand, the man who thoroughly under
stands his business can increase the
income here estimated very materially.
One other very important consider
alton in connection with farm OF
this kind: 1t is assumed that it is
near enough to town or city to per-
nit the farmer when he is carrying
his potatoes, cabbage and onions to
market, to bring back with him on
each trip load of manure for use on
the farm.
Where this can be done such farm
could be made highly fertile. The
places to put manure in such a sys-
tenn would be just after the potatoes,
just before either of the corn crops.
and in the fall of the year manure
could be put on the clover field which
was used for pasture during the sum-
mer. This field should then be plowed
late in the fall in preparation for po-
tatoes the next year.
Copyright, 1913 by C. NJ. Shultz.)
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
THINGS Mlaht Be Worse.

Don't kick because you have to but
ton your wifes waist. Be glad your
wife has waist, and doubly glad you
have a wife to button a waist for.
Some mems wives have no waists to
button. Some mems wives waists
have no buttons on to button. Some
mems wives waists who have but
tons on to button don't care a CONT
mental whether they are buttoned or
not Some men don't have any wives
with buttons on to button any more
than a rabbit.-Camden Advance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
When Dancers Do Their Best.

do these professional dancers do
the best they CAM" | asked dancing
master, and then l specified young
woman who has just appeared at a
Philadelphia theater.
That GIRL" said he, was pupil Of
mine, and she can dance much better
than she does on the stage. But she
makes her dancing snowy to please
the audience. From an artistic view
point her public work is considerably
below what she is capable of doing.
And so it is with great many others.
They want applause, and to get i. they
violate many rules of good dancing in
order to introduce contortions that are
anything but the poetry of motion. -
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
A FRONTIER HEROINE
Her knowledge of Outlaws Meth
DDS and Quick Work Prevent
ed Stage Coach HoId-Up.
BY AUGUSTUS GOODRICH sHER-
WIN

You had better get out of here, If
you don't want trouble"
I've got something TO tell you. If
you don't want trouble yourself, you
had better listen to me"
What, Threatening me. are you?
Vamose, or I'll quicken up that dog
trot habit Of yours considerably. Git"
and Martin Bayne made run for the
doorstep where his rifle lay
With a detected air, but quite
sprightly, ragged, limping Coyote Pete
fastened his steps from off the Bayne
domain. He had disappeared by the
time its proprietor had turned around
ready to carry out his threat Bayne
shrugged his shoulders and resumed
tightening the girths Of his horse. lie
had acted brusquely for good reasons,
he told himself 1t was the frontier
Montana rule To his way of think
Ing Coyote Pete and his ilk belonged
TO the rubbish heap, so he had made
short work of him
Why. father, wasn't that rather
rude?' inquired his daughter. Ruth,
stepping through the doorway. She
was pretty as a picture. Her sleeves
were rolled up, and her shapely arms
showed dimpled and smooth. Her long
neat apron was hecked with flour, for
this busy maid was both mistress and
cook of the lonely Bayne home.
Rude" repeated the ranchman
carelessly. It's the only way to treat
such cattle as that. There isn't a
worse loafer on the range. He's been
wire-cutter, raider, and is a beggal
when he isn't on the verge of the de
lirium tremens. It's all your fault
his coming here. You encourage hin
by giving him a snack whenever he
takes the fancy to wander by, anC
now he's making a regular station
of 1t. I'll be back before midnight
Expect your company about dark
don't you?"
Il think so; hope So" replied
Ruth with a quick blush and brighten
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
POIS0NS FOUND
IN SOME PLANTS
Bundles of 0xaIate Crystals Are
Offensive to Rabbits and
SnailS.
(By MYRLE IRONS.)

The part played by the powerful
chemical substances secreted in the
various parts of many plants is i'm
perfectly understood. Free prussic
acid in some plants was the remark
able discovery made not long ago,
and now Professor Peche has con-
cluded that in the cherry laurel this
poison is stored in various tissues as
q reserve plant food. Other German
biologists have been seeking to prove
that various plant poisons give pro-
lection against enemies. Results
have been obtained by Prof. w. Pey-
er tending to show that the various
acids, oils, alkaloids, glucosides, and
other chemicals of plants are poison
GUS or offensive to rabbits, snalls,
Insects, and other creatures. In the
pastures the plants yielding medicinal
oils are avoided by both grazing and
wild animals. The acid bearing plants
such as are used for human food as
salads. are poisonous to snails and
slugs. and are protected nearly as
effectually against rabbits. Beans.
peas and lentils contain some I'M
known poison that causes rabbits and
mice to refuse the seeds until the
active principle has been removed by
several washings. An acid product of
seeding roots-such as maize, oats
and rye-repels snails, as do hairy
stalks and sticky surfaces, and plants
having bundles of calcium oxalate
crystals are offensive or poisonous not
only to rabbits and snails but even to
man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
THE RIGHT SOAP FOR BABY'S
SKIN

In the care OF baby's skin and hair,
Cuticura Soap is the mothers ia
vorite. Not only is it unrivaled in
purity and refreshing fragrance, but
its gentle emollient properties are
usually sufficient to allay minor irri.
tations, remove redness, roughness
and chatting, soothe sensitive condi-
tons, and promote skin and hair
health generally. Assisted by Cuti-
cura Ointment, it is most valuable in
the treatment of eczemas, rashes and
other itching, burning infantile erup-
tons. Cuticura Soap wears to wafer,
often outlasting several cakes of ordi-
nary soap and making its use most
economical
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Adv.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
HOUSE 700 YEARS OLD SOLD
Famous Oak Panels VIII Be Exhibited
In London and Some May Be
Purchased by Americans.

London.-The famous old Elizabeth
an mansion of Rotherwas, which Is
seven centuries old and located near
Hereford, has been sold to a we'll
known art dealer of London, who has
bought all the historical paneling.
which, it is understood, is destined for
shipment to New York, though he is
very guarded in his reasons for &C
curing the wonderful panels.
IL really don't know yet where it Is
going" he said. Il have bought the
paneling and it is now being removed.
1t will first be exhibited in London.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11

ing eyes, and then her father rode off
on business to station twenty miles
north, while Ruth re-entered the
house, singing like a lark
Well she might, for this was the
very happiest day OF her life. Before
the evening was over she expected to
welcome her lover, Rodney Morse.
How she loved him! How tender and
true he had been, A month previ-
Gus he had gone back east to sell out
his interests there and take up a
ranch, with Ruth as its mistress.
1t must have been half an hour later
when there came a timid tap at the
door. Coyote Pete, his threadbare
cap in his hand stood on the step in
an humble attitude.
Why. won't you come in?" asked
Ruth in her usual cheerful, generous
way. You look tired. and-perhaps
hungry" she insinuated gently.
Not this time, Miss" replied Pete.
You see your father don't welcome
me very heartily. and | don't want to
on the range ever takes tine to give
me a bite when | need it, and | want
ed to do you folks a good turn. Your
father wouldn't listen to me after Id
tramped twenty miles to give you a
warning"
"A warming" repeated Ruth vague
ly.
Il understand your young man and
some friends are coming through on
the stage this evening""
''Why-yes." replied Ruth slowly.
We'll, | overheard two half breeds
down on the Taylor place talking
early this morning. planning to join
two other hard characters, hide be
tween here and the railroad, ana hold
up the stage coach. They know some
strangers are coming, and you see
strangers are taken as free picking IN
this district"
In a moment Ruth became alarmed.
Within a quarter of an hour she and
Pete had arranged to outwit the BAN
dts His plan was to take the one
horse left on the place and start down
the trail to meet and warn the COM
ing stage coach. He had been gone
two hours when the horse he had
gone away with came back riderless
Instantly Ruth was on her mettle
She could only theorize that the ami
NAL had thrown Pete, or that he had
met the bandits. She quickly buckled
a belt about her slender waist. sprang
to the saddle. and was soon on the
trail, feeling that time was very pre-
cious and haste urgent.
Dusk had come on, but there WIS
clear, full moon. Ruth had gone
about twenty miles, when at bend in
the road she drew rein promptly near
some high bushes.
A flicker of light, like that OF
match, suddenly faring in among some
heavy timbers ahead, had attracted
her attention. Ruth tied the horse
and began detour Of the vicinity.
Within five minutes, true daughter
bf the frontier that she was. she I'M
derstood the situation completely. She
had viewed four men smoking and re-
~nr{rr u n paf,roI hide ont II coon-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Buried upside.pown.

On Box Hill, in Surrey, England,
may be seen the tomb of man who
was. by his own special request,
buried upside-down in a coffin placed
in a marble casing. With his head to
the earth and his feet to the sky, he
calmly awaits the Judgment Day, so
the story runs. in the belief that heav-
en- is under the ground and that, be-
lievlng this, 1t was his duty to be
buried with his head towards It
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
A Winner, If

At an Easter breakfast John d.
Rockefeller. Jr., once said:
The road to success is called Per-
severance. Perseverance conquers ev-
erything. But"
Mr.. Rockefeller, with smile, took
UP an Easter egg.
But" he added, let US remember
that hen on an egg of porcelain per-
severes"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
In the HatchinQ.

Lord Leigh in an interview in New
York praised the American business
man.
"The American business man." he
said, dreams dreams, then he carries
them out.
THE men of other nations dream
and that's the end of it."
With smile, the nobleman ended:
ANY fool can lay plans, but it takes
a wise man, you know, to hatch them
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Importance of cowpeas,

Cowpeas are getting to be a more
and more important crop each year
When a farmer has grown them once
he wants more next year. They are
southern crop, yet they are profit
able crop for the north. and should
be sown more. Try some for the
mich COW, and see If It does not pay
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Costly City improvement,

II all the buildings torn d"S
nually in the borough of Manu.. %
in New York City could be n
bled they would make a gooS S'S y,
town. Last year the number Of faEt
ings demolished was $40 and 'Us
tank brought the total demolitio u
$40. The front feet measuram0usS .
the houses pulled down was SIs!a
or approximately four and throo "'''
ter miles. Nine houses out of ~ Sua'
stroyed were four stories higb W
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
His Sarcastic Film,

Il don't like to invite Mrs. pa,v,..
to my bridge party, and vet sh., 'a
sure loser and good pay?"
Il don't think you are going -
her money without her comn NJ :,
said the sarcastic husband. @u r'
do you expect her to do, frame ,' ~
invitation and mail you a check,p wv
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Better Give I'm Eish

Some people are always nro,
for trouble which may not m. gpal
ize, like the man who carried y
egg wherever he went. ID
Why must you always carry ,,.
a raw egg?" asked a friend ono SUo9
Because it is such an eycoH g'
remedy for fishbone in the tbroa, ''''
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Imnortant Industry.

Few people realize how many thou
sands of people are engaged in the
raising of pigeons. both for the market
and the show room. 1t is an impor-
tant branch of the poultry industry,
and is becoming more and more popu-
lar each year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
British Bows Essau

London.-Extrac! from a British
school boys essay, American presi-
dents are great takers whenever you
see their pictures, they always have
their mouths open"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
HarefuI With Team

Don't fail to be careful when around
autos or steam cars with the team
Leave plenty of space between you
and them. Any chance taken merely
to SHOW off, may mean serious dam
age or loss of life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Early MARKETING,

When mutton can be produced at
the same or less cost per pound than
beef, the fleece is clear additional
profit; as with all food animals, the
greatest profit is in carly maturity and
early marketing.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-04-11
Profit in Pork.

While pork can sometimes be made
at a profit when corn is supplement-
ed with nothing but concentrated
feed, still 1t is not wise to use con-
centrated supplements alone.