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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28
MAKING ALL POSSIBLE AMENDS.

The man had stub of whiskers on his
chin which waggcd when he talked, and
kicked up their heels when he brought his
avs together.
LAS l was sayin', he remarked, when
was out west | seen 'cm hang a man to a
TELEGRAPH pole for stealin a hoss.'
Whose hoss?' asked a person sitting
on IA molasses barrel.
'.Nobuddy knowed."
How d they know he stole it -
They ketch d him ridin' it
''Mcbbe it was his n
Pr'aps.'
Did the owner ever claim the ho So"
Not that | ever heerd."
Then it must a been his H.
''P'raps."
What become of it,"
They heI it three months fer the owner
to to claim it, and then they sold it fer
$s7."
What become of the money!"
well, they spent it fer a monument fer
the man they hung. They might made
a mistake, and they wanted to do the fair
thing by the eceased"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28
NO.. Al.

the valley of Barada, and finally came with
his gastly burden here. Looking about,
he saw raven, near which dead raven
lay, make a hole in the earth with it's Eeak
wherein it buried its dead companion. The
sight made Cain think that such deep
sleep as that of his brother needed
different resting place from the usual one,
50 he made burial place on the mountain
as couch for the dead
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28

Dress Goods, 10'.-l2kc to S1.a5 per yard.
Dress Gnghams, 1Sc.-5 Sc.-6 1-sc. to 23c pr yd.
Apron Ginghams, 1-sc-5 1-Sc. to l2kc. per yard.
Satines, 6 1-Sc.-11 Sc. to 25c. per yard.
Unbleach Cotton, ) 1Sc-l So 1-Sc to Toe pr .yd.
Sheeting. 10 15c., 10 lSc, 104 20c.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28

gpetry.
WHO WOULD LOVE A WORLD LIKE THIS?

Strike the sad and mournful measure,
Danish every thought Of mirth;
For lasting JOY and constant pleasure
Never can be found on earth.
Every hcpe is false and fiecting,
Transient every earthly bliss;
Joy and grief are ever meeting
Who would love world like this:
Ties are formed but to file broker,
Love enkindled, to decay;
|. Ike the flower i'll friendships token
Even affection fades away.
Friends beloved. ala !. deceive us.
Oft bcrray us wife a kiss
In the hour If sorrow leave us
Who would .ove Il world like ths.'
A.. the sky so clear at morning
Is ere noon. with clouds o'ercast,
Fl 'retS bright the field adjoining
Are the first to hear the bias.
s, the loveleSt. gentlest, purest,
Death, relentless, claims as his;
F,aiI our hopes when seem the surest-
Who would love a world like thS.'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28
Shoes for IdieS, Children and Men.

Men Shoes, 75c., SOC. to s4.OO.
Ladies' shoes, 79c, SOC. to $i.OO.
Children's Shoes, 25c., 35c. to $3.50.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28
BLUM Bros,
,ls 7l5 n EIGHTH STREET SE WASHINGTON, D. c
The Days Of Extravagant Profits are Over

WE HAVE sale Of the most complete stock Of
w goods in this CITY, Our Of House Fnishings CoAery
equal in every respect to the best stock in WASH
ngton any other city Each line will be complete every
detail as money and experience make it, and will every
grade up to the very Our prc will always be the low
quoted no under what conditions circumstances goods
may Every day shows that customers reHze that
in everv deDartmcnt we can and do them money
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-09-28

Remember we carry the most
complete line Of goods cast Of
tie Capitol, and prices always
the lowest. Polite and attentive
salespeople to supply your wants.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
WHAT THEY EAT.
Meat for the English Workmen, Flour al
Eggs for the Frenchman.

Meat for the English Workmen, Flour and
Eggs for the Frenchman.
All workers in Britain are heavy con-
sumers of meat as compared with those
of the continent. Even in the iron ir.-
dustry the German with 96L pounds
per 100 units, is little more extrava-
the Frenchman consumes only 57,x
pounds, and the Belgian 551z pounds,
On the other hand, the latter consumes
more -four and eggs, more than twice
as much of each. Their consumption
of coffee, too, is large-14 and 10 pouncs
respectively to the Englishman's So
pounds; but on the other hand, tea
does not appear in their accounts. 1t is
almost needless to say that these quaint.
ties are all exceeded in America. The
Illinois ironworker manages to con.
sumo 393 pounds of meat per 100 units,
and though this is excessive, we find
2O69 pounds put down as the average
of Pennsylvania, 1914 for Ohio. 1874
for West Virginia, and 155 pounds for
Tennessee. The consumption of flour
stands about $50 pounds for the states
in general, though greedy Illinois has
800 pounds; and sugar, butter and eggs
are everywhere more lavishly used than
in Europe. There, as here, however,
we find workers in the iron and steel
industries more self-indulgent than
those of other trades, and butchers
bills of the weaver can not compare
with those of the steel workers, though
they are still far above the expenditure
of even the most extravagant worker
of Europe. -London Hospital
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
ANCIENT ELECTRICIANS.
Some Interesting Theories Advanced BY .
Biblical Student.

Some Interesting Theories Advanced BY .
Biblical Student.
Since the startling discovery that Jo-
seph, in Egypt, was the original single
taxer, excessive establishment need not
greet the revelation that the ancient
prophet Moses was probably the father
of electricians. AS King Solomon de-
clared, there is nothing new under the
sun. The theory that electricity, which
this age prides itself upon as its own
peculiar glory, is as old as the Ten Com
mandments, and was well known to the
Israelites, if not to the Phoenicians, has
been advanced by shrewd biblical
student, C. B. Warrand. As Piazzi
Smyth has sought to establish
the wonderful astronomical genius
of the old Egyptians by thor
ough investigation of the great pyra-
mid, SO Mr.. Warrand has brought
modern science to bear upon the ark of
the covenant and the temple of the
ancient Israelites. When Moses built
his box for the commandment tablets,
he rejected the common cedar and
other native woods and chose fir wood,
which had to be imported by the
Phenician merchants from the south
ern part of Europe.
Now, fir happens to be the best
known non-conductor among all the
great number of various timbers. Fur
thermore, Moses had this fir box lined
inside and outside with beaten gold,
thus converting the art of the covenant
into very expensive, but very perfect,
Leyden jar, or storage battery for cleo
tricity. edison or Tesla" declares
Mr.. Warrond, could not have improved
upon Moses fir and gold box" The
carbon in the fir of the ark of the COW
enant charged the strange battery.
Aaron improved upon this by the
building of poles fifty ellis tone hundred
and fifty feet high. These poles were
covered with beaten gold, and gold
chains were hung from the poles to the
ark-a method by which the prophet
secured a complete and powerful cleo
trical connection, His sons were killed.
without wounds or bruises, by fire
breaking out of the ark. Investigator
Warrand has asserted that in order to
deal death from this apparatus Aaron
had only to remove the costly camel's
hair carpets, which were almost per
feet non-conductors of electricity, and
make the culprit stand on terra firma.
That several members of revolving
tribes of Israelites were thus electro
cuted is also a matter of record in the
Bible. In building the temple Solo
mon found that copper would do as
well as gold. He had the temple COW
cred with copper, and copper water
pipes led into the cisterns inside the
temple. On the temple, or rather on
its roof, a number of gilt spears were
placed in vertical positions, from six
teen to twenty-four feet high. All these
curious facts may not be convincing.
but they certainly compel us to won
der if, after all, some of the laurels Of
Franklin may not yet be awarded to
Moses Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27

of the small fagstones IL t,:e flooring.
Kent looked closely at The work, a2,v
that no one could perceive the did,
ence in the seams unless he brought {.
light to it and merely sail: Cool"
Then the two men sat down on the
edge of the iron bed.
Kent had brought with him a circular
steel cutting saw which fitted into the
case of his gold watch. The brace and
other appliances he took from differ
ent parts of his person, and Laport,
with the instant divination of me-
chanician, fitted them together. They
were slender and apparently fragile,
but had been made by surgical
instrument manufacturer, and were of
the finest material. Laport examined
them with unconcealed admiration.
Kent, however, did not allow him to
waste the fraction of minute. Put
it away at once" he said. Laport
touched the fiat stone with his foot on
one corner; it tipped at the pressure;
he inserted his finger and, lifting it up.
placed the implements in the space be-
meath. He also received from Kent
little coil of steel wire. 1T is to let
YOU down from the window to the
laundry roof he said. Every inch of
it has been tested up to five hundred
pounds. But all this mechanical assist
ance is of no sort of avail if you fail to
follow out my schedule of time and
scrupulously fit every move to my
arranged programme. You will cut
the bar tomorrow while the engine in
the laundry is running. How long do
you calculate it will take you?"
''If 1t is an iron bar, l can do it in
two hours with that saw
Very good. You are to leave seq
ment of iron to hold it in its place and
rub the rust into the fresh cut. You are
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
AN ANCIENT MYTH.
It Says That Humanity Descended From
Tree.

It Says That Humanity Descended From a
Tree.
The descent of the human race from
some particular species of tree is one of
the oldest myths that can be found
running through the folk stories Of
every nation. In Virgil we find ref
erence to the race of men who took
their birth from trunks of trees" and
among some of the early commentators
on that statement we even find specu-
iations as to the particular species of
tree from which the race sprung. The
very earliest Egyptians, as well as
those who lived under later dynasties.
had legend of the Tree of
Life and many of the leading
investigators, both ancient and
modern, have expressed the opinion
that from Egypt came the biblical story
of the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil which graced the original
garden made by the All-Wise for our
first parents
Prof. Thiselton (see his Folk Lore
of Plants) believes that the scriptural
narrative cited is survival of the be-
lief in the Tree Descent of Man." and
that the abiding faith of mankind in
the traQ1LlOn a gain crops out III never
ations, where the ''Tree of Life" plays
rs important a part as that of the ia
nous tree mentioned in the first book OF
the Bible The natives of Madagascar
have a tradition which is believed and
perpetuated among them to the effect
that the first man was born alive from
a tree. and that he Immediately set
about making himself 'helpmeet."
fashioning her from knotted limb by
the aid of a mussel shell carving-knife.
Marsden's History of Sumatra tells
us that the people of the Philippine is
lands also have the tree-descent legend
among them, and King. in his Life
Among the Bushmen of Australia,
saws that the people there habitually
live among the trees. because they
are taught from infancy that their
early ancestors were trees endowed
with the faculty of speaking and NOV
ing about from place to place."-St
I,ouis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
SOCIETY SPOiLS THEM.
fIirh-Bred Dogs by No Means the Mos
Intelligent.

Hlgh-Bred DORS ny NJ E"e"AS '"S -AAo's
Intelligent.
So long as our dogs were employed IN
the labor of the organized recreatons
4. of man. the tendency of the association
with the superior being was in high
measure educative. They were con-
sstantly submitted to more or less
critical but always effective selection
which tended ever to develop higher
Grade of intelligence. With the advance
in the organization of society the dog
;s ever losing something of his utility,
even in the way of sport. He is fast
Becoming a mere idle favorite. priced
for unimportant peculiarities of form
-Tbe effort in the main is not now to
,,.l.e creatures which can help In the
a,,,,lovments of man, but TO breed for
shoxv alone, demanding no more intel
I;gence than necessary to make the
oreature a well-behaved denizen OF
tonse The result is the institution OF
:. wonderful variety in the size. shape
and special peculiarities OF different
,,-eeds. with what appears to me to De
ooncomitan Mt loss in their Intelligence.
=. annears to me, in a word, that our
...atmens of this noble animal, where
- h-..d for ornament, is, in effect.
as ar.d;np-Prof. n. S. Shaler, in Scrib'
ucr'S
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
A BRILLIANT WANDERER.
The Historic Comet Which Appeared tn
First Year of the War.

The Historic Comet Which Appeared the
First Year of the War.
The wonderful ''War Comet" of 1861
sprang SO suddenly into view and
blazed as to astonish the astronomers
and frighten those unlearned in come
tary lore half out of their wits. The
unlearned declared that the civil war,
which was just getting well under
Roadway, must have something to do
with it. However this may be, it burst
forth, unheraled and unlimited, shin
ing with greater brilliancy and magni-
tude than any phenomena OF a similar
nature which that generation had ever
seen. On the night of July of that
year it exhibited a most wonderful
spectacle. In the evening the nucleus
did not appear to be larger than star
of the first or second magnitude. AS
the small hours of the morning ap-
preached, however. the nucleus visibly
increased in both magnitude and
brilliancy. The tail waved back and
forth over our little world in a
most threatening manner, at times
sending rays almost to the zenith. On
the morning of July 5 the astronomers
announced through the daily papers
that the head of the great comet was
only separated from the earth by dis
tance of IL, 100000 miles. According to
4 report sent out from the Cambridge
observatory the comet appears to have
passed it's ascending node between the
a7th and the Goth of June, in longitude
279 degrees. the longitude of the earth
being 277 degrees at the same time.
On October 10 it's tail extended over a
space of SO, 900, 900 miles, and at several
points was not less than 10, ZOO, 900 miles
in width.
At first it was generally conceded
that it was the famous comet of 1856,
the one which caused Emperor Charles
V. of France to resign his imperial
throne, he taking it to be warning
from God. All surmises were subse-
quently set at rest by the discovery
that it was the famous Thatcher comet,
discovered by Prof. A. F. Thatcher at
the Rutherford observatory in New
York city.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
AN oLD-TIME HANGING.
It Was Made . Gala Occasion and Helped

It Was Made . Gala Occasion and Helped
Trade.
Executions we're not then restricted,
| as they now are, to the prison yard, in
the presence of limited number Of
witnesses, but were celebrated con-
spicuously on an open field, before "a
large and often rollicking and tumul-
tuous crowd of spectators.
Such body remember to have seen
gathered on such an amphitheater
more than sixty years ago to witness
the hanging of a murderer. The man
was a farm hand, and well known.
When under the influence of strong
drink he was sullen, truculent, and
dangerous; but when sober, he was so
preverbially quiet and inoffensive
that he was the easygoing
butt of his associates. While at work
one day in harvest-time, moving a
meadow near town, he drank freely,
and became tipsy; whereupon one of
his comrades INDUCED in long-continued
and rough horse-play at his expense,
till in an access of passion inf1amed by
rum he turned upon his tormentor and
slew him on the spot. Of course he was
Immediately arrested. and never shall
l forget the wave of horror that swept
over the little town when the news OF
the murder was bruited, and the victim
was carried to the home of his parents
on a barn door. During the trial
of the homicide the courthouse
was crowded to overlooking with
people, who focl1ed in from the
country for miles around to listen to
the grewsome details of the Staying,
and to gaze upon the murderer as he
was escorted to and fro by the consta-
bles between the Jail and the court
house. For several days Immediately
preceding the hanging that was before
the day of railroads, it should be re-
called (mu1titudes from the country for
twenty and more miles around focked
to the town to see the execution, and
some of them ''to turn an honest pen
n.y." On the fatal Friday the big
Field surrounding the gallows was
fringed with booths and tents for the
sale of cakes, pies, small beer and other
refreshments, interspersed at frequent
intervals with farmers wagons laden
with watermelons, muskmelons, ap-
pies, peaches and other fruit, the enter
prising vendors of which drove brisk
u auo uAueI Vic very SuduOW u Cue
fatal tree. It was estimated that on
that tragic summer day over twenty.
five thousand people, a large proper
ton of whom were women and chill
dren, were clustered around the gallows
to witness the dying throes of the
wretched man. And, thoughtless boy
though 1 was, was shocked by the
horrible Indifference to the dread event
for that poor soul which was mani
tested, and by the still more horrible
testing, profanity and drunken COM
bats that were INDUCED in. It was
saturnalia of brutishness and indiffer-
ence never to be forgotten.-Charles d
Deshler, in Harper's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
THE WOMAN WHO EATS.
oes NOT Always Know What Con.
tutes ProDer Food

A'0 docs Not Always Know What Consti.
eutes Proper Food.
oo"e BODY, who displays enough good
sense 10 start a millennium, saws that
.ne coming woman will be a success
yus' IN proportion as she learns to eat.
or generations past women have lived
y" oread and butter-bakers' bread at
hdo-and tea and warln-up potatoes.
'onetlmes they were warmed up in
.uiih' sometimes in fat or butter: but
they were warmed-over potatoes all the
same. '''0
NOW this is a dish that is well enough
IN It's way, but it is not alarmiuply
promo In the production of brain ma
terlal The coming woman is going to
eat all the good things of life. She
VIII eat the best she can get on all
occasions, and as much of it as COM
mon sense and an intelligent under
standing of the needs of her system will
dictate. Exit teapot and bread and
butter. and in their place we will have
good soup, well-cooked meats if one
cares for them, plenty of milk. eoos.
butter and fair amount of the sweet
things of life. For the coming woman
Is TO be an out-of-door creature. and
-
IN reasonable quantities to excellent
advantage. Perhaps she will make
her own confectionery If she does.
so much the better: for she will be
more certain that it is made of proper
material.
Women have been starving them
selves to death in systematic, sympa-
thetIc and aristocratic fashion for
good many years. and it is quite time
mat they put a stop to it. The apostle
OF healthful development is telling
them that it is out of the question to
keep good fire in the physical furnace
without proper material. There are
many people who are under the doe
tors care, and who swallow no end of
nauSeous drugs and drink all sorts of
vlle-tasting and smelling waters, when
the most that they need is plenty of
good food to eat and all of the out-of-
door exercise that they can bear. Such
a couse of treatment would bring them
up to the standard in short time, but
1t would diminish the doctors fees,
and that is precisely what he does not
want
1t would be a good thing if some
medical man could develop as a speci-
atty the faculty of teaching people
how to eat and what to eat, instead of
filling them with drugs that nine
times out of ten aggravate the dis
ease they seem striving to remove.
Then we might hope for strong.
healthy. well-developed girls and wom-
en-, who are fit for all the duties of life.
1t is no secret to many thoughtful per-
sons that the diet of women, especially
those of limited means, is nowhere near
sufficient to keep them in good condi-
ton. 1t might be a benefit if, instead
of fresh-air funds and excursions
and a few weeks in the coutry. there
could be restaurants provided where
women could for moderate sum get
meals that are sufficiently nourishing
to keep up their vitality and give them
some sort of show for rising above the
level to which their burdens of over
work and undertaking have dragged
them.-N. Y. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27
HUNTING A TROOP OF WOLVES
They Charged Until the Bullets Flew anG
Then Made OFF.

They Charged Until the Bullets Flew an6
Then Made OFF.
On, on they came, each eager to get
ahead of the other, and lessening the
distance between us and them at a
rapid rate. But we stood firm, with
rifles raised and sighted on the two in
advance, till Ned thought they We're
near enough. Then after careful aim,
his rifle rang out, and the foremost
wolf, with a convulSive bound, dashed
to one side, and fell over on the ice.
had good aim on the other. and as
Ned's shot made the pack slacken their
speed, luckily sent ball through its
head, and dropped it its tracks.
This reception quite cooled the cour-
age of the nearest wolves, and they cut
their race short and began spreading
out around us. Those farther back
slackened speed, which showed their
doubt and hesitation. We would have
thought the battle won had not the
little one, who seemed to be the leader,
come bounding on as fast as ever, pass
ing those ahead, one after the other,
and inspiring them with fresh courage.
We knew not what this might lead to,
and reserved our buckshot for the oc-
casion. 1t looked serious for awhile,
and we were afraid this second attack
would prove harder one to repel than
the first We had not much time to
consult on the matter, but we decided
that Ned, at the proper moment, was
to make sure of the little one, and, inn
mediately after, 1 was to send my
charge into the foremost ones follow
ing.
On the leader madly rushed to a point
within thirty yards of US, then-with
VOLTS cunning-turned suddenly to one
side. This brought the others to halt,
and relieved us of any fear we had, for
we saw their attack was mere buster.
But if they were ready for parley we
were not. We sent our buckshot into
The thickest of the crowd and knocked
he little one over, which sent the rest
A1ying away, either to the woods OF
,ack to the deer, and left US masters Of
he field.-St. Nicholas.