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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
A Child and the Letters,

An ingenious person named krohn,
whose patience is evidently more
highly developed than his sense of
humor. has been making some expert
meuts that are supposed fos be very
important to scientific teachers. He
has found that it takes yutfag child
3G4 1909 Of second TO recognize the
letter c, 3j8 10000 u second to rccog.
ni.c the letter ., and 3S9-1000 of
second to recognize tho letter t; while
the word c-a-t as a whole is recognized
in 339. 1000 of a second. Therefore,
he saws, primlry teaching should be
done bv word, and not by letters, aud
the letters should he liz OF an inch
high aud printed in line not moro
than four inches long. We don't
know exactly how he has discovered
all these things. Int TINT does not
matter; for he is evidently very pro-
found person. W. have done some
figuring ourselves on tho basis OF his
researches, and we found that follow
ing out his method aud adopting his
kind of reading book, a child oil five
vears, in M average daily lesson.
would each day say 97S9 10. 900 of
minute out OF his valuable time.
Thipk Of that The Bookman.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The United States consumed las,
year more than 4,O0g, ,OJ0 buncaes Of
Jamaica bananas.
1t is estimated that 1908. 900 tons
of pure silver are held in solution Lv
all the waters OF the earth.
AT the point where the Mississippi
river flows out of Like Itasca IT isonlv
ten feet wide and eighteen ipcbe.
deep.
The most extensive cemetery i2 tie
world is that at Rome, iu which oyer
5000, 900 human beings have been in.
tered.
On the summit of Ben Lomond ors
the smallest trees in Great Britain
They are dwarf willows aud when nm.
ture are only about two inches IN
height.
Stockport, England, boasts Que of
the largest Sunday schools in the
world. The total number of scholars
at present on the books is no fewer
than 4,S34, while there are 23s male
aud 19j female tcachers-a grand
army of over 5000.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

Madagascar is beginning to reap
some OF the benefits OF the rule which
the French, much against the wishes of
the natives, have forced upon the
island Slavery has been abolished,
and government work, chiefly iu the
direction Of improvement to the roads
an" highways, is going on in every
direction. General GlIlioni, who is
now the prac,icll ruler Of the island.
Is havins the greatest difficulty with
the labor question. He is trying to
prepare some sort of II labor law that
VIII counteract the evils which hage
resulted from the sudden abolition ot
slavery.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

The remoynl of the budding horns
OF calves by burning, may be charac-
terized as an unnecessarily painful
method of accomplishing tho purpose
intend d; uncertain in its results, and,
generally speaking, is II rough, rude
aud unscicItilic procedure. The ac-
ton Of a caustic cannot be accurately
gagged. 1t does too much or too
little. it is slow aud Incomplete; for
while it kills the parts to be removed,
the ac,utl removal OF portion, at
least, Of the lead tissu3 is left to ma
tnre to get rid Of by the tedious pro-
cess OF liberation, the cavity left
having afterwards to be filled up by
grauulation-an slow operation.
BY the use of cocaine to annul the
pain, n knife to cut through the skin,
and gouge to sepernte tue bony part
OF the horn from the skull all that is
desirable TO remove could be taken
away at once. lcnviug clean-cut sur
fuce which if properly treated, would
heul kindly in a few days. The handy
mau of the neighborhood would, after
the experience of few trials, acquire
tue dexterity that would enable him to
perform the operation in II few miu-
utes, paiulessly, neatly and eff+ctu-
ally. Rural New Yorker.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
HUMOROUS.

Barber This is bad Guarter, sir
Customer That's all right. bud
bad shave.
Mr.. What would you do If should
die and leave you? Mrs. Leave me
low much?
Ethcl--I'm to have five thousand
year pin money. E,te!le-Ihat will
buy a good many pins
"ruo soles with bat single
thought. said the sentimental Young
lady. Yes" replied her prosaic
brother; "and they've lost that "
Teacher, is this ruler straisht?'
mo, Mary; / bent it liule tli,
morning GU Bob Timbcrs. Bit I'i
hammer it straight pretty som Oh
Tommy Grinwc.l.
Yeast-I see the latest thing IS an
electric Laundry. Crmsoube.k i
suppose after mans shirt comes home
from one it looks as if it had bctu
struck by lightning.
"When she scorned me" shrieked
the puriuh, Il vowed that she shuud
never look upon my face ngaiu. mast
keep my vow" Accordingly lac waived
aside the prolrered washbasin aud all
was still.
"Do you pray for your dear teacher
often, Tommy?" asked the visitor 10
the school. ''Yeth, thir," replied
Tummy the truthful, "wbcuevsr thee
whipth me l pray Tor the old scratch
to git her
When Freddy got back from the
mountains last week he was much
pleased at the sight OF clean stiff cur
taius in all the rooms. 30, Mammal
he remarked 'ihe Windows havs ali
got clean shirts ou!'
Brown-Smith is an enthusiastic
wheelman. He tukes SPIN every
day if the weather permits. Jones'
PJuhl Ii he were really enthusiastic
he would taken spin every day whether
the weather permitted or not
Mrs. Bray never saw more per-
feet acting than Miss Spots at that
amateur performance. Mr. Bray
She wasn't in the cast, was she Mrs.
Bray-No; she sat in the trout seat
aud looked as though she enjoyed it.
"Our new neighbors are very po-
lite, " said Mrs. Perkasie to her hus-
band when he came home at night.
caro- thoy?" "Yes; sent to borrow
their stepladler md they told me they
hadn't one. but if ID wait awhile
they'd senI anl buy me one.
Voice Cat the tolephone)-Maior
will yon please bring your family AND
take upper with us next Sunday?
SAv4ut Girl (replying back through
telrphone-Master aud mistress are
not in at present, but they can't come
to supper, us it's my Sunday out.
She-I understand that Mrs Krochet
played on the piano at the reccPtiou
last night. Did they appear 10 enjoy
her performance? He-Oh! i'm
meusey. 1t was the most enjoyable
time Of the whole evening. Every
body Nas talking away as ii they
would split their throats
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
The ssEars', of Insects

The naturalists havJ not ns vet heen
LbIe to answer the burning question.
..Can bees here?" bat their researches
along that line have resulted in many
queer discoveries. Simply because
bee has no ears on the sid.s OF his
head, it is no sign whatever that he is
wholly without some sort of an audi
tory nerve. This last assertion is
proven by the fact that grasshoppers,
crickets, locusts, anl hie. all hav,
ears situated in queer places under
the wings, on the mid lie of the 10 lv,
and even on the sides of their legs.
The common house fl DIES his hear
ing By means OF soma little rows of
corpuscles which are sitaltel on the
knobbed threads which occupy the
places which are taken up by the hind
wings of other species OF insects. The
garden slug, or shell-less snail, has his
organs of hearing situated on each
side of his neck, auI the common
grasshopper has them on his broad.
fiat thighs. In some of the smaller
insects they are at the bases Of the
wings, and in others at the bottom OF
the feet.-St. Louis r pubic.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
ROOM FOR A FLOCK.

Fifty hens have been proiitally kept
in one flock, but it is conceded that
III order to do SO each hen must have
about five square feet OF space or moro
on the floor OF the house; hence the
poultry houses used have been about
twelve by twenty feet for flock OF
about that number. 1t is possible
that forty hens will give Ms good re-
suits as fifty, as too many hens to-
gether will not thrive. They must
compete with one another. and the
domineering hens will keep some Of
the other hens nuder suljection.
With plenty of room and ample spece
for loraging, there is less liability of
competition, aud all members of the
flock will have better opportunities to
assist themselves. Farm unl Fire
side.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
INSTRUCTIVE TO FARMERS.
CUT CRAFTS EARLY.

The weather during late fill and
early winter this season has been un-
usually mild. 1t has probably in
most places pushed buds of fruit trees
so that they are more nearly ready TO
burst into new growth than is common
at this time of the year. This suggests
that such trees onght to be protected
SO far as possible, and especially that
gratis intended for spring setting
should be cut at once. 1t is always
best TO cut grnfts before the buds have
swelled. Then inserting them in trees
whose buds have started there need be
no hindrance to forming union with
the stock, and making an Uninterrupted
growth.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

The groom tainted twice ut fash,
iouablo wedding in l. xington, Ky,
and forgot the ring, but otherwise,
local paper says, the marriage was n
pretty atf,r in pink aul white, there
being six bridesmaids and maid of
honor, and the knot was quite Sc
curely licd, the groom's father being
one of the officiating clergymei.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
LlGuOr in Parliament.

There are SAID to lie ten Scottish
dukes, ive mafq lise-, twenty carls md
five lmruns who have direct tinaucial
interest ia the continuation OF tho
driLk traffic. In England and Wales
the names of no fewer ihlI III mem
bers of the upper house appear as
oNuers uf oneor more i.c.used places.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
NO.6.
Simple GrandeGr.

Men look uaon him with dislua.
And scout his humble trade.
roor soul, be has no teomins 5-a.l,
NJ learning 10 parade
lie only sits, from day TO day,
No tender fancies ever Hay
Round tina: dull, crizzlcd heal.
still. be not hasty to despisc
This man Of humble paris.
For, though he has not drawa prize,
In choosing Of the arts.
His awl obeys a masters hand
Ai,ss
In any honest thing l. grand
Beyond the poets dream
r.. L. kise-. in Clcyoland Lsa5er
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

For many years the weather station
at Ma quette, Mcb., had the distinc.
ton Of reporting the greatest snowfall
in the United States. Snow lines on
old weather maps showed Marquette
as the raliaiia4 poin. Lost miuter
the deepest snow tell at Sault Ste.
Marie, AMI the map YVES chansed.
Now the copper coul:ry is the placa
Of deepest snow, Mqrlnrt;e seeming
10 be ain oSt ou Tie edge OF the belt.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

Mysie looked often at the little
hoop OF pearls-the pledge of her be-
trothal-but never put it Oh, except
in her own room just for few min
utes. Somehow us the days went by it
seemed harlcr to speak of that even
ing to her mother, especially us her
mother had not the fantest suspicion
of anything OF the sort. And SO
month passed away.
Then one evening Mysie returned
from walk and saw a letter living on
tue hall table. One glauce at her own
name and the postmark New York"
and she snatcheJ mp the letter, won
der.ns If any one had noticed it, then
rau up to her own room, and closed
the door to enjly it in peace.
The fire burned brightly and looked
inviting, and she drew up a low easy
chair and seated herself comfortably
as she broke the seal OF the envelope.
What was the faint perfume MS she
did 50? She drew out n sheet of blank
note paper from the folds of which a
little piece of dead heliotrope slipped
and fell to the floor.
"Mysie, You must come down. ;"
said Gertrude. 'Mr. Castleford is
down stairs, and mother says you are
10 come. " as Mysie looked rebellioas.
"But you must change your dress
you cant come in that. Has anything
happened? You look very queer.
"No," said Mysie, with strange
little laugh; 'at least nothing OF i'm
portance. l will come down pres.
entity"
In very short time she was in the
drawing-room. and Herbert Castle
ford, as he looked at her. thought he
had never seen her so beautiful. H.
had loved her for years, but he hnd
received SO little encouragement from
her that he had not spoken; but to-
night lie had determined to put his
fate to the test, while poor Mysie,
with pain at her heart, was saying
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

They were standing together out on
the moonit terrace. Behind them
in tho distance sounded the band.
playing soft, dreamy waltz music.
But what cared they for dancing and
the hot, crowded ball room? In all
the world for him there was only one
woman, aud she stood. her hands
clasped in his, her head resting on his
shoulder.
"Yuu won't forget me, darling, he
whispered, "when am thousands of
miles away, at the other side of tue
world, and letters are long in coming?
You'll remember that l am coming
back in two years at the latest, to
claim my little wife"
"Oh, it can't be really true, Geof-
frey, that you are going to- morrow?
1t is too dreadful to think of Aud it's
not l that will forget. l shall think
of you night an day uutl yoa come
back. But you'll most likely meet
with some lovely American girl-ail
American women are lovely, you
kuow-and then you'll forget ali about
poor little Mysie Traffori, who is
waiting for you in England.
"Wneu l am out on the great lone
ly prairios," he said dreamilv, 81
shall just shut my eyes and think my
self back to this night. l shall hear
the bund in the distance, shall feel
you orc, more in my arms, aud /
shall smell the faint odpr OF the hello
tropc you nrc wearing,
For answer she took piece of the
heliotrope from her dress.
"Here's little bit of it,, she said.
when you meet that lovely Ameri-
can, aud wish that you were free, and
that this evening had never been, then
you eau put that little flower in an
envelope, md you needn't write
word to put in with it, but Just ad-
dress it to me-, and when l get it |
shall know what it means, ana you
will be free."
"What nonsense, Mysie!" he said
angrily. "Why do you talk like that?
Yuu know"
"Ol. here you are !" cried shrill
voice. ~ have been looking for yon
everywhere. Mr.. Cistlefurd is as
cross as he can be, Mysie. He Gays
you promised him the last two dances,
and then you disappeared and no one
could fiud yon; anl MS for you, Mr.
Hamilton, | think you hal better
keep out OF the way alto yether, after
disappointing Lady Nay aud goodness
knows who besides" Aud Gertru le,
Mysie's sister, chattered on, totally
unconscious that she was a most uu-
welcome intruder.
She and Mysie had been taught
that it was their dnty to make good
matches, and G. 'offrey Hamilton, with
no money, aud just of for America,
was SO entirely ineligible that she sus-
pected nothing, and ruthlessly insisted
on their immediate return to the bali
room.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

''You will forgive me, G .otfrey,
won't you,' she said "ior doubling
you? But it seemed so terribly true!
Look Here are the envelope and
the flower"
And here is the flower you gave
ne, sai Gaofftry. "rhere's not
much difference. certainly, between
them, but regarding the envelope
well, i must give you few specimens
OF my handwriting when go away
again, 80 that you may not be taken
in so easily"
"Bnt l shall never let you go away
again" said Mvsie.
And that was how they arranged it.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

gotten--if possible.
Six months had passed and Herbert
Castleford wns pressing for an early
marriage. Mysie and her mother had
gone away from home Immediately
after her becoming engaged. Mysie
complained of the cold and looked so
delicate that her mother took her to
the south of France, where, soon after,
Castleford followed them.
Mysic seemed willing that the we'd.
ding should tnke place whenever they
liked to arrange it, SO matters we're
being pushed to suit the impatient
lover, when Que day Gertrude ran into
tho room where Mysie and Herbert
we're sitting.
Look, Mysie!" she cried. "Here
is a lovely bunch of flowers from that
dear count! Isu't he silly? And
they are such bcnutiesl Only smell
themI Oh. | am so pleased! Look
Here are a bit OF hcIiotrope mud SONS
muidenhair thut will just do for you.
To her surprise Mvsie turned pale
aud shrunk buck, looking almost
appealingiy ut her loyer, who was
watching her.
As their eyes met there was some
thing III his-an expression, con
sciousness, wlat? Mysie did not
know, but great trembling seizsd
her. A hundred thoughts seemed to
pass through her mind in moment,
but of one thing she WAS certain
Herbert Ctstleford knew all about
those playful, loving words spoken
out on the terrace on the uever-to-be-
forgotten night.
Then, leaning forward she asked,
as if they had already been speaking
to each other:
"How did you soud it from New
York;"
"l-that is-what do you mean,
Mysie? never sent itl'
Seeing that her clear eyes seemed
to read him through, he attempted no
more denial, but lst caught heI
hands in his aud implored her to for
give him.
81 came out to look for you that
night" he snid, "and l heard what
you were saying Just as Gertrude
came upon you from the other side,
and 1T was such temptation, for |
loved You dearly-much better than
he did. 1t was all done for love of
you, Mysie.
She tried to wave him away, but in.
stead fell ininting to the ground.
When she recovered Herbert Castle-
Iord mad gone. A few hastv lines from
him bcsought her forgiveness, and toll
her Godfrey was now on his way back
to England to fiud ont why sha had
not written to him; that he hoped they
would have been married b1fore Geof-
frey conld arrive, but that now he
wonld so away aud never trouble her
again.
"You will forgive me, G .offrey,
won't you," she said "ior doubling
you? But it seemed so terribly truel
Look Here are the envelope and
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

The first number of ii new paper en-
titled the Ger nan Industrial Advei-
''ser' IN the Japanese Iaaguag', has
appeared.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
THE ONE GIRL.

to herself that if Geoffrey could forget
so easily, why, SO could she.
And SO it came about that a few
hours later she returned to her room,
having pledged herself to Herbert
Castleford. Instead of the little hoop
of pearls she had never worn she pos
sessed a handsome diamond ring. aud
the dead flower and the pearls were
put far away out of sigbt, to be for
gotten--if possible.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12
Ia PLATA. MARYLAND, MARCH l2, 1897
The Coming Man.

A pair Of very chubby legs
Encased in scarlet hose;
A pair OF little stubby boots
With rather doubtful toes;
A little kilt; little coat
Cut as a mother can
And lol before us stands In state
The futures looming man.'
His eyes. perchance. will read the stars.
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
VIII open to their gaze;
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
Will be nations light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some "0ig fellows" kite.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-03-12

Thosc hands those little busy hands
So sticky, small aud brown
Those hands whose only mission seems
TO pull all order down
Who knows what hidden strength may be
Contained within their clasp.
Though now It's but taTy stick
In sturdy hold they grasp?
All blessings en- thoss little hands,
Whose work is yet undone
And blessings on those little feet,
Whose race is yet unruul
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan!
Whate'er the future holds in store.
God bless the looming man.
-Somerylle Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-11
Had Been Busy.

Last spring a guest here in a Chicago
hotel according to the Times-Herald)
used to receive a telegraph message
every morning from his wife in Cleve'
land, and would answer it every even"
ing by sending dispatch detailing
his doings during the day. After this
telegraphic bombardment had been
kept up for several months, he came
in one day and gave the operator a
twenty-dollar bill and said: 'I'm go
ing up to Waukesha for week. Look
after my business here as usual. Don't
let me do anything dutiful husband
shouldn't, you know, till / get back. !"
For the next week the operator pre-
sided over his affairs. On Sunday she
sent him TO church. Twice during the
week she sent him to the theater. One
afternoon she let him go out driving,
and two or three times permitted him
to dine ut the clubs with business
friends. One day he returned to Chi
cago and, walking brislSly into the
hotel, inquired II everything was all
right" Then he wrote out a message,
ending with 'your loving husband,
Bert" and ordered it sent to the old
Cleveland address, and also to wo-
man in Milwaukee. The surprised OPP
orator called his attention to the word
ing, thinking he had made mistake.
"That's all right, my girl" he said,
make it a double header; I've been
busy since was away"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-11
eRYAN,s PAPER.
The Editor Again Restored 20 Healtl

Iuo huAtOF ABhAn ANebtOkeu 10 meuNAR
Mr.. George w. Hervey, editor of the
Weekly Omaha World Herald, Ia a per-
feet picture Of health and looks more
like the Hervey Of other days. To see
him now, one can hardly believe that
he has been such great sufferer. he
writes OF his falling health and re-re-
covery In his characteristic way as fol-
lows:
For several years was troubled
with indigestion so severe as to make IL
impossible to take more than two meals
a day without intense suffering, grew
worse gradually until, July, 1895, was
suddenly attacked with increased pain
and soreness over the pit OF my stom-
ach and sharp pains In my right side,
which rapidly increased until l could
scarcely get my breath. A physician
was called for immediate relief and hy-
podermic injections of morphine We're
resorted to for relief. ! was able to be
out In about week, but had second
attack the following August more In
tense than before. was reduced from
15e to 1874 lbs. in nine days and left
wholly unable to take any nourishment.
! lived on lime water and q very little
milk for several days after. For one
year carried morphine pellets in my
pockets ready for an emergency. All
this time my stomach was sore and very
sensitive. discovered that what
would agree with my stomach this
week would probably not next week,
and that was getting nearer and near
err to final collapse. consulted three
OF the best physicians In the state and
two agreed fully as to my ailment, but
failed to give me relief. Having utterly
failed to obtain relief, finally made ar
rangements to go to Chicago to be
treated when my little boy CHANGED to
get sample package OF DR.. Kay's Rem
Ovator, which he brought to me. was
induced to try 1t, not having the least
faith In its virtues. thought this sam
pie relieved me, and I purchased a %
cent box. Before 1t was all used had
30 improved that was taking three
meals a day, which had not done for
years. then used one package Of the
large DR.. Kay's Renovation and one
more Of the small size. 1t Is eight
months since / commenced using Dr.
Kay's Renovator and / now have no
symptoms whatever Of my old trouble. I
have recommended It to many Of my
friends for stomach trouble and think
all have reported relief" George w.
Hervey, Omaha, Neb., Feb. II, 1897 DIR.
Kay's Renovator is sold by druggists or
sent by mail for 25 cents and 81. Book
let free, DR.. B. ]. Kay Medical Co.,
Omaha, Neb.