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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21

Sutro Heights is the most attractive
spot i'll San Francisco and the one to
which all visitors are taken. Fourteen
years ago it was barren waste of land
and rocks, with here and there few
weeds and lupins. Now it is the most
beautiful marine park in the world, con-
tanning the most magnificent system of
baths, enclosed in the largest palace of
steel, iron and glass, ever built. 1t would
require large volume to fully describe all
the interesting features of this wonderful
enterprise. The immense basin was hol-
lowed out of-or into-the solid rock by
blasting, and formed in such way that
the ocean fills it every instant-supplying
100000 gallons per day-while strong
screens intervene to prevent objects of
any size passing into the reservoir, while
an extensive arrangement of concrete con
duits form the draining outlets. In the
course of construction the weight of the
rock used was SO great as to sink three
times completely out of sight before the
present solid arrangement could be effect
ed, which will endure for generations. 1t
has cost over half a million, and looks like
piece of Government work instead of
the achievement of one man, who planned
every minute detail of the immense enter
prise, and paid every man out of his own
pocket good wages by the day-no part of
the work having been done by contract.
1t is ten years since the work for the Nata-
torium was begun and when finished it will
be opened to the public at a trifling fee for
| its use.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
HAPPINESS on THE FARM.

St Paul Pioneer Press: A prosperous
and intelligent farmer sat in this office a
short time ago discussing the events of the
Iast year; the financial panic, the unexam-
pied business dispersion, the industrial
unrest, and the progress of a rebellion "a
gainst the government which if not arrest
cd, would have ended in a cival war,
''Well, ''he said, as he rose to go. 81 am
going back to my farm and let the old
world go its own gait. am happy there.
Nothing disturbs me. In the worst year
that can come will have plenty to sup
port my family l will have my books and
papers and | know what is going on out
side, but am safe. Panics and trade re-
vulsions do not affect me at all and even a
revolution would hardly disturb me in my
quiet nook" Now bright people have
been cudgoling their brains to make out a
picture of the future Utopia. But is there
anything, even in the dreams of visionaries
that is much nearer to a condition OF
material happiness than this? Hardship
and struggle are there and everywhere.
Life without struggle would be worthless.
But there is also independence; and with
industry and frugality, absolute assurance
against future distress. 1t would be an un.
told blessing if armies of the unemploy
ed and of the unfortunate could be trans
planted to the farm. In Minnesota alone
there are opportunities enough for millions
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
NO. 40.
. THE SOULS RELATION WITH GOD,

The happiness of this mysterious nature
of ours is never to be found merely in the
possession of Gods gifts, the work of His
hand, or the bounties of His providence
The soul can find its true satisfaction only
in rising beyond the gifts, claiming the
Giver as it S own. When you covet the
friendship or love of fellow man, it does
not satisfy you that he bestows upon you
only outward gifts-his money, his prop
erty, his boOks-what cares flowing, long
ing heart for these? Unless the man give
you something more than these, give you
himself, and become yours by the bond of
deepest sympathy and enaction, the rest
are but worthless boons. So is it in the
souls relation with God That after which
by a mysterious and Unborn affinity, every
devout spirit yearns, it is not Gods gifts
and bounties, but Himself The wealth of
worlds would be the heart longing after
Deity miserable substitute for one look
of love from the Great Fathers eye. "My
soul thirsteth for God" it the language in
which Scripture gives expression to this
deep want of nature, and points to the
ineffable satisfaction provided for it. "My
soul thirstcth for God, for the living God"
''As the heart pantcth after the water books
so panteth my soul after thee, O. Godr'
If any man love Me, My Father will love
him, and We will come unto him and make
our abode with him" II in them, and
thou in Me that they may be made perfect
in one
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
THE ZUYDER ZEE.

Holland, or the Netherlands, enjoys the
peculiar distinction of being a land of ever
changing extent, as it is always subject to
great losses from erosin, while the work
of reclaiming laid is constantly in progress.
Thus, in 1888 it's area was S,76S square
miles, which modern engineering activity
had increased to 12,731 square miles in
1877 Portions of the country so largely
artificial are 16 feet below see level, while
about half of it is protected from sea, lakes
and rivers by dykes, some of them 10 feet
high In two of the eleven provinces,
North Holland and South Holland, about
80 lakes have been converted into dry land
:. -. --.--,,i6,ss i,i6s arthe Lake of Harlem-the
greatest acniegc been ac-
complished between 1889 and 1852 by
means of steam pumps, which displaced the
windmills so characteristic of mechanical
operations in Holland. 1t has been now
decided to undertake still greater work,
which has been long contemplated. This
is the drainage of the Zuyder Zee, gulf
which was formed by an irruption OF the
German Ocean early in the thirteenth cen
turv, and which now covers about 900
square miles to an average depth of 12
feet 1t is proposed to close the entrance to
this gulf by a dam Is miles long, to connect
the little island of Wierengen with the
coast en- either side then to pump out the
water. 1t is estimated that the undertake
ING will cost about $4,000, 600, exclusive
of compensation to fisherman and the ex-
pense of new measures of defence that will
be made necessary, and that 469, 400 acres
of valuable land will be gained.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
4 FATHERS LOVE.

Parental love is one of the strongest
holest sentiments that has ever stirred
the human heart. The voices of children
can call II father from the corner of the
earth, and the great, Overpowcring desire
to see his childrens faces will bring "a
father from the very brink of the grave
back to life The right sort of a man with
a houscful of children, is not only safe
from the temptations of the world, but
comparatively Indifferent to the cares and
burdens of life so long as his dear ones
are in health and he can provide for them.
One of the most pcrnicious tendencies of
modern civilization is that which finds
manifestation in regarding Il large family
as something to be avoided and looked
down upon, something pertaining to and
characteristic of the common people. 1t is
IA tendency to be deplored as unworthy
the consideration of Christian men and
women and to meet with the earnest oppo-
sition from every lover of a little child.
And it must be remembered that He who
made Christianity loved children and re-
vealed that love by words and actions.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
A GIRLS RE-READING OF PROVERBS

Here are some old proverbs translated
according to one girls fancy.
Handsome is as handsome does" That
very handsome young men that you ad-
mire so much may not have sense enough
to trot out of the rain.
AH-ss~not gold that glitters." Don't
fret because you cant possess that $4.25
hatpin. The point will curl up, the jewel
will drop out and the whole cxtravagant
thing will lose itself inside of week.
1T never rains but it pours." All credi-
tors bills come in the same mail.
Honesty is the best policy" Don't
deceive any one on your age, for it's just like
your mother to bring out dated photo
graphs of the family bible
Still waters run deep" 1t may be the
sweetest, gcntlcst girl you know who will
fascinate your best young man and never
let you behold him again.-Chicago Re
cord
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
I'D Az, SEPTEMBER II, 1894.

caterpillars lasted so long that when the
case was closed and the court ready to
pronounce its judgment it was found that,
the accused, having got through with work
of devastation had disappeared from the
jurisdiction of all courts.
I'm 1910 prosecution was entered against
a horde of rats that were eating up the bar
lev in the south of France The rats were
defended by the great lawyer of that day,
Chasseneux He urged in behalf of his
clients that there was no legal mode of
preventing them from returning to the
place whence they had come, and that
there was no way open to them where cats
might not lie in wait. Besides his legal
points he brought many Scriptural argu
ments to bear in favor of the rats, and he
won the case. The prosecution fell, and
the rats were ordered to return to their
native place at once. The record does not
say how the judgment was received by the
devastating rodents.
in 1860 a pest of small flies which was
prosecuted at Mayence escaped the dirge
of their case by counsel, who defended
them on the plea of their extreme youth
and small size. This struck the learned
and pious Court as irrefutable argument,
and he ordered that, if the flies were driven
away, those driving them must provide
them spot to which they could retire and
live comfortably.
1T was not until 1887 that a sense of the
utter righteousness and folly of all this
kind of procedure broke upon the author
tiles, and the awakening came during the
trial of a case against certain insects that
had attacked the vines in Savoy. The
counsel defending the insects was So acute
and full of resource that the prosecutor
became exhausted in trying to meet and
refute his arguments, and make the official
tender of the right to the accused insects
of retiring to a certain locality. Counsel
| for the defence asked and received DELAY
in the proceeding to consider this offer.
Two days later they came into court and
declined the offer in the name of their
clients, because the land was sterile in the
! locality proposed, and produced absolute
| ly nothing upon which their clients could
subsist' On this the prosecutor joined
issue, and a jury ofeXperts was summoned
to decide it. 1t was during the session of
this jury that Il citizen of common sense,
far in advance of his time, showed by argu-
gument and ridicule how silly all such pro-
ceedings were, and the jury so reported.
| This is the last case of the kind on record,
of experts in the vine pest case resulted in
the repeal of all animal prosecuting laws
and the substitution of the present plan of
! procedure against the owners of offending
animals New York Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
Highest Of all in Leavenng Fower-Laest S. Govt Report
Re-! g! BSxdsz Bski4g
ABSOLUTELY PURE
HANDS MOVE MILES A DAY.

Few people imagine the amount of labor
involved in a days typewriting, or realize
the distance the hand travels in that length
of time. The highest rate of speed ever
attainep is 200 words a minute This is
supposed to be the result of the most
rapid movements the human hands are
capable Of The person making this rec
ord maintained this speed for only four
consecutive minutes, says the ''Bookkeep-
er," and has never been able to exceed that
limit
Assuming the words averaged six letters
apiece, 1900 letters a minute were written.
1t is estimated that to make each letter the
fingers are raised to a height of two inches
from the keyboard. Two inches added
(for the descending movement) makes the
fingers travel four inches before each let
ter is struck SO this experts hands in
writing these 200 words travelled 1900
inches, 400 feet, during the minute in which
she wrote the 200 words. But this is un-
usual, of course. Very rapid writing is a
speed OF ID WORDS Il minute, anu tnlS rate
is too fast for comfort. Practical work is
10 pages of legal work an hour. Each
page contains 800 words. Six hours steady
writing can be regarded as an entire days
work This is speed of 80 words IA min
ute, and the practical worker writes dur
ing the day 90 pages-1S, 900 words, or 1OS,
600 letters If her finger travels four
inches to make each letter during the day
it travels 4;}2, 600 inches.
This provides for the perpendicular
movement only, and it is fair to increase
this distance by one-third to estimate the
distance the hands travel over the key
board in horizontal direction. The total
sum in inches is $4,000. This is equiva-
lent to $4,000 feet or Il little over nine
miles day In a week the hands can
cover "a miles and in years steady ap-
plication to business over 2S00 miles.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.

1t isn't mans character that makes a
woman love him.
Take care of the dollars and the world
will take care of you,
The bag in the knees of "a mans pan
falcons isn't always filled with piety.
An idle brain is the anarchists work
shop.
Cupid is not an intellectual being.
A newspaper is the diary of history.
Some foolish young people don't know
the difference between broken heart and
a disordered liver-DetrOit Free Press.
The largest flower that blooms is called
the Rafflesia 1t is native of Sumatra
and measures nine feet in circumference.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
gottry.
PRESERVING TINE.

Said Mr. Baldwin Apple
To Mrs. Bartlett Pear,
YOU'RE growing very plump, madame,
And also very fair.
And there is Mrs Clingstone Peach.
SO mellowed by the heat,
Upon my word she really looks
Quite good enongh to eat
And all the Misses Crabapple
Have blushed so rosy red
That very soon the farmers wife
To pluck them Will be led
Just see the Isabellas:
They are growing SO apace
That they really are beginning
Togel purple in the face.
'Our happy time is over.
For Mrs. Green Gage Plum
Says she knows unto her sorrow
Preserving time has come"
.'Yes," said Mrs. Bartlett Pear,
''Our day is almost DER,
And soon we shall be smothering
syrup by the score
And before the month was ended
The fruits had looked so fair
Had vanished from among the leaves,
And the trees were stripped and bare
They were all of them in pickle,
Or in some dreadful scrape:
I'm cider" sighed the apple;
I'm jelly" cried the grape.
They were all in jars and bottles,
Upon the shelf arrayed,
And in their midst poor Mrs. Ounce,
Was turned to marmalade.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21

w f are ready, we mean busi-
w ness! Low prices and honest
merit on what we sell will have
a telling effect. When you visit
the city don't fail to call on the
Old Reliable House as you pass
the door.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
BLUM BROS,
,1s745 AZ EIGHTH STREET E. WASHINGTON, D.
The Days Of Extravagant Profits are Over!

WE HAVE sale Of the most complete stock of
w goods in this city stock House furnishings, Crocley
and equal every respect to the best stock in Wash
ngton any other city Each line will be complete every
detail as money experience make and will contain every
grade up very finest Our prizes will always be the low
quoted matter under what cond ons circumstances goods
may be offered Every day shows that customers reTze that
in everv denartment we can and do save them money.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21
Dry Goods. Dry Goods.

Dress Goods, Sc.-10'.-124c. to 81 % per yard.
Dress Ginghams, 1Sc.-5 Set 1-Sc. to 25c. pr. .yd
Apron Ginghams 1-Sc-5 ,-Sc. to 12%c. per yard.
Satines, & 1-Sc.-. SC. to 25c. per yard.
Unheach Cotton, 1Sc-i 1-S.-5 ,Sc. to 10c. pr. .yd
Sheetng. 10 1 15c., 10 1Sc 1914 20.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-21

Remember we carry the most
complete line Of goods east Of
tie Capitol, and prices always
the lowest. Polite and attentive
salespeoplc to supply your wants.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
SURPRISE FOR MR. WILLETT
With One Fell SWoop Patronage Within
His Gift is Decimated.
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER ISSUED
Only Nineteen Places Left for Him to Dispose
of-Money Value of His Dispensing Power
Reduced from Fifty Thousand to Scarcely
More Than Twelve Thousand Dollars

An official order of great Importance to the
city postmaster and the employees of the city
post-offlce was sent out yesterday afternoon
from the President TO the Civil Service Com
mission.
Some days ago TIE TIMES, in view of the
probable changes in the force OF the city post
office, published list of the positions in the
gift OF the postmaster and the salaries at
tached to such positions. A nearly approx
mate aggregation of the money value OF this
patronage was 10000. Since that time, how
ever, the government has thrown its protecting
arm around the big majority of these post-office
office holders, so that the result OF the order
which has been issued by the Secretary of
State has left the new postmaster scarcely
more than $4,000 or 81, 1000 to be given
with the offices within his personal gift
According to the new regulation all that is
left TO the new postmaster is the following
list: Assistant postmaster, cashier. assistant
cashier, private secretary, superintendent Of
Z. Capitol station, superintendent of George
town station, superintendent OF Southwest
station, six watchmen and six laborers.
All the rest, amounting TO about thirty-fve
or forty thousand dollars, has been swept
away by stroke OF the pen. 1t is probable
that the official communication 10 this effect
will be received at the city post-oflce this
morning
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
IMPORTANT NAVAL CHANGES.

One of the Youngest Captains Made
superintendent of the Naval Academy.
Secretary Herbert to-day issued the formal
order retiring Admiral Gherardi, the senior
admiral of the Navy and commandant at the
New York navy yard, on the 10th instant.
The following details were also made:
To be superintendent Of the Naval Acad-
emy, Capt Philip Cooper, now. in command
u. s. S. San Francisco.
The President was very desirous OF having
a young man appointed as superintendent of
the Naval Academy, believing that young
man would iDfuse more life and energy into
the Academy. Desiring to carry out the
policy indicated by the President, whe had no
preference for any particular officer. but
wanted young man. the Secretary selected
Capt. Cooper, who is one OF the youngest
captains, being nearly at the bottom Of the
captains list, believing that no more efficient
officer could be found
The Secretary expects to detail Admiral
Walker TO the light house board 70 succeed
Admiral Greer, who viii shortly retire. In
the meantime Admiral Walker will be given
some other duty
Commodore VI. Sicard has been detailed as
commandant of the New York yard to succeed
Admiral Gherardi.
Commodore r. L. Phythan has been de-
tailed superintendent of the Naval Observa-
tory 10 relieve Capt. McNair.
Capt. E. V. McNair has been ordered TO the
examining and retiring board.
Capt Allen Y. Reed TO command the Porls-
mouth navy yard.
Capt I. n. Sheppard TO command the San
Franciscoi Capt. Il. f. Picking 10 command
the Minnesota. and Commander G. S. Norton
to command the South Atlantic station.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
WILL SING ANTHEMS.
Moody and Sankey Choir Preparing for
Their First Concert

Moody and Sankey Choir Preparing for
Their First Concert
Anthem music is now an established
feature OF the singing of the Moody and
Sankey choir. Director Percy Foster has
decided that it is a good thing to
intersperse the Gospel hymns with the rendi-
ton orsacred productions of prominent COM
posers which will add to the attractiveness of
concerts which the choir will give during the
winter. The director desires the members of
the choir to become more proficient in prompt
and correct reading OF music and considers
the practice OF anthems 10 be one OF the best
means for the accomplishment OF this result.
That this idea is correct was shown by the
manner in which, for the first time, the choir
sung two difficult anthems at the rehearsal in
the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church
last evening. There were nearly 1000 singers
present, almost equally divided among the
four parts.
After speaking of his intention, as stated
above, Prof. Foster requested the ladies and
gentlemen to sing Knoxs "Oh Pray for the
Peace of Jerusalem" The production begins
with baritone solo and concludes with q
grand chorus in moderately fast time. The
parts were well sung and after an hours re-
hearsal. BLESSED Be the Lord" was sung sew
eral times.
Then Prof. Foster announced that the
tickets were ready for sale for the first con-
cert, to be given in Convention Hall, Deeem-
Der 8. The admission price is % cents, with
10 cents additional for reserved seats. Sew
eral hundred tickets were disposed of last
night. The proceeds of this concert will be
donated to some local charitable institution.
The next rehearsal will be held on Tuesday
evening in the Foundry NJ. E. Church. corner
OF Fourteenth and G streets northwest.
The Washington times., 1894-11-07
GROWING IN MEMBERSHIP.

Meeting of Presbyterian Chapter OF An
drew and Philip Brotherhood
At the Western Presbyterian Church last
evening, Presbyterian Chapter, No. 1s,
Brotherhood OF Andrew and Philip, held a
well-attended meeting, with President Glenn
ents in the chair.
The lecture by DR.. Kelley, which was to
have been given, was postponed until Noyem-
Der 20. Rev. DR.. Ennis spoke on the Com
panionship OF the Holy Spirit" The report
net balance of S13.74. The resources OF the
society are S22.S9.
The officers elected tor the ensuing year
are: President. Hugh Dougherty; vice presi-
dent, Robert Milburn; recording secretary,
Frank c. Briscoe. and corresponding secre-
tary and treasurer, James B. Lackey.
This chapter was organized in October
1892, with a membership of nine. Meetings
OF a semi-religious character were held once
a month. The expressed purpose Of the
organization at the start was ito help In the
extension Of Christ's kingdom on earth" and
this purpose has always been kept in the fore
ground. The present membership is forty
five.
Chapter No. 13 will be the guest of the York
Fellow League, of the Eastern Presbyterian
Church, on November 9, when pumpkin pie
social will be given.
The next regular meeting will be on Tues
day, November IS. New members will then
be initiated, and Prof. Henry A. Hazen, o I
the United States Weather Bureau, will de-
liver a lecture on ballooning.