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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-07-20
GUST COMMON CHICKENS" "

When John took unto himself IN
energetic country girl for wife his
grandmother took occasion to give the
young man a bit of her experience as
poultry raiser. 1t was, of course,
before the days of incubators, brood
ers and poultry standards the bust
ness was conducted on purely com
nonsense principles and no conscious
attempt was made to breed fancy
birds. Chickens weren't called birds
then: tho one term "chicken' covered
the field.
Johns grandmother called him to
her easy chair and bidding him sit
down on nearby three-legged stool,
said: 'John, want to tell you a few
things about poultry raisin' that will
be helpful to you and Sallie after ye
vet kindr settled down at farmin'.
When your grandpa and I married We
concluded to raise chickens long with
our other stuff; he was so busy all the
time with farm work to do round the
house and l always had to tend to the
chickens. Course | took big inter
est in them, and soon | wus scllin
several dollars worth of eggs every
week, trading 'cm for groceries and
the like. The chickens didn't have
any name 'cept chickens; all these
fine-haired, highferlutten chickens peo-
ple talk bout now didnt exist then.
We couldn't afford to fool with EN-
ours wuz just common chickens. We
never had to pay cash for groceries;
my eggs always bought em and my
dress stuff, too. Now | kept a lot of
good hens ard killed every one that
didn't lay good; always kept my best
hens for my own use. We got two
good roosters from neighbor one
year, and after that we swapped with
neighbors, always gettin' roosters not
kin to the hens. Course we had
good, warm pace for them in winter;
it was made of straw and fodder
didn't cost nothing but few hours
time. | never set hens too early and
wouldn't put butz@e eggs under each
setter; big hens, but they could not
cover more just as | wanted 'em to.
| fed my chickens regular every morn
ing and night in winter and gathered
up the eggs twice day. Why, John,
it wus no trouble tall to raise chick
ems and eggs, only we had to treat the
fowls like they wus worth something.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-07-20
NO.. 20

This inscription set me wondering
what these journalistic subjects of the
Autocrat of all the Russians know
about liberty and independence, to
their fellow subjects at home. | Won
der if those Russian journalists think
they are free, or want freedom, or are
they phrase befud'llcd, mouthing "li
berty and independence" as parrot
might. There is no doubt that Rus
sia is ruled by the most humane and
gentlest despot that ever sat on Eu-
ropean throne, and Russians are pro-
baby better off than if they were arm
ed with double:edged suffrage. But it
certainly sounds grotesque to hear
Russian subjects proclaiming ardent
wishes for the liberty and indepcn-
dence of other peoples.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-07-20
1Iuetrg.
TIRED MOTHERS.

A little elbow leans upon your knee,
Your tired knee that has so much to bear;
A child's eyes are looking longingly
From underneath thetch of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
ofwa moist fingers holding yours so tight
You do no, pIize this blessing overmuch;
You almost are too tired to pray tonight.
But it i. bessedness! year ag'
did not see it as do to-day
We are 20 dull and thankless and too slow
TO catch the sunshine till it 81 pt away.
AMI now it seems surprising strange to me
That, while wore the badge of motherhood,
/ did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought me only good.
And if some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss the elbow fiom your tired knee.
This restless, curling head from Off your breast,
This lispinp tongue that chatters CONSTANT
If from YOUR own the dmpled hands had slipped
And ne'er would nestle in your palm agair;
If the white feet into their grave have tripped,
could not blame you for your heartache then!
! wonder so that mothers ever fret
At little children c.inging to their gown.
Or that the footprints, when the days are wet
Are ever black enough to make them frown
If could kiss rosy, restless foo,
And hear it patter in my home once NOR
If could mend broken cart to-day;
Tomorrow make a kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say
She was more blissfully content than [.
But ah. the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by shining head
My singing birdling from its nest has flown,
The little boy l used to kiss is dead!
Mrs. Nay Riley Smith in Baltimore News
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
In Doubt.

After hearin' them summer board
ers talk" said Farmer Corntossel, 81
don't quite know what it is that's all
in me-"
81 reckon it's the same old shakes,
amt it?" answered his wife. II don't
sees the name makes much difference y
MANDY, they's distinctions tibet
you don't understand. If it's plain
fever n-aiger, all Iwant to do is to git
some quinine. But if it's malaria< fever
I've got to send clear to town an git
some kee-neen. Washington Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
wooING IN SPAIN.
dOur Style About 1t
| StiII.

Horace Lee Washington, the United
States consul at Valencia, Spain, has
evidently been observing some things
around him that do not strictly. con-
Germ his official duties. On recent Wis
it to this country he describes Span
J ish wooing in an interesting manner.
Zone of the first things that strikes an
American in SPAIN" he says, sis the
manner in which they treat their wom-
ankind, which is Numerically opposed
to the American method. In no coun.
try have been in, with the exception
of Turkey, are the women so closely
guarded and secluded as they are in
Spain. Perhaps no better illustration
of this characteristic could be given
than the manner in which co"Ttship
is carried on there, which is the same
to-day that it was in the time of Don
] QuiXote and Sancho Panza. The young
man gives outward and visible manifes-
tation of his passion by standing
under his loved ones window. As most
families there live in apartment houses,
the window in question may be five
or six stories in the air. But under
the window some five or more times
day the swain must take his stand.
If the lady does not wish to discaur-
age him She will occasionally appear at
the window. On the other hand, if she
is obdurate she does not appear, and
finally he gives up his suit and ceases
TO haunt the street. Presenting, how
ever, case in which the course of true
love does run smooth, after the sutton
has stood about, so to speak, for two
or three months, he is invited TO the
parental mansion in most formal fash
ion At this visit the business of the
marriage is disposed of The pros
pective brides dot is stated and the
prospective bridegroom's resources are
ascertained, and if on neither side an
obstacle is presented the wedding
shortly follows.
ga young women never goes out by
herself in Spain, but is always accom-
panied by her chaperon. If she dives
out her chaperon invariably dimes out
with her. At the average dinner there
are seldom more than four or five wom-
en present to dozen men. The rank
ms men bask in female society, but
the poor fellows whose rank is of lesser
degree have II comfort each other at
the far ends of the table"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25

least have been expected, the force of
officers in citizens clothing was
doubled; then the excitement subsidized
and lynx-eyed wrongdoers reckoned
that theltime was ripe again.
In the meanwhile Battista had been
stricken with the fever and lay in the
hospital sick near unto death, and the
powers that were in the criminal world
mourned the, loss of his master hand.
Christmas eve it would be needed.
Nino made daily visits to the hospital.
though the walk was a long one and he
shivered in his seanty clothing. He had
just returned from one of these trips
one morning. and was sitting in his
basement window trying to warm in q
fieeting ray of sunshine when the stri-
dent tones from ST. Peters began:
THE Jail doors are open to thee, Nino.
walk thou in. walk thou in and he
clapped his hands to his ears to shut
out the sound, but it wouldn't out, and.
in despair, he cried aloud: THE doors.
the doors, close the DOORS" and then.
as = in answer to his own. came the
thought, why not close the doors ?
He could do so. He had but to tell the
police of the Christmas eve plot. Bat
tista was out of the way now; no harm
could come to him, and Nino felt very
kindly towards the mayor. anyhow.
Had he not, once upon a time, half
soled his honor's shoes? and had he not
felt almost part of the municipal gov
eminent ever since?
And so it happened that the police
made the coup of their lives tina: nighr.
Four men, all old-timers, were taken
red-handed. and when Nino arose ON
that Christmas morning he was told
that his name was on the city pay roll
He breakfasted high at Tony Carbonat-
to's, and the many merrymakers. al
ready assembled, arose to man when
Nino entered, and raising their glasses
they cried: "a la salute, la salute!"
St. Peters chimes rang again and
again, and they rang as they had never
rung before. Plainly they said: 1.-The
jail doors are closed at last, Nino; fear
thou no more. fear thou no more" He
bowed his head reverently and softly
murmured his thankful praises: Ben
edetto, benedetto. Amen"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25

haven't money? Oh. they know you
and your game, Sly Fox. A detective
from the Central was in here last
night, only last night, and he said that
there is to be a round up; you'll be with
them. promise YOU that Battista
himself is against you and he'll turn
states evidence the moment he's
COPIED. 1 have that from some one
who knows. So you've graduated from
the school of petty thieving and
launched right out regular bad one
and are looking for big game? Well,
you'll get it soon enough, but fancy
that YOU won't find it to your liking,
because such things in this country
generally end with a short turn. You
cant make your toes touch the ground
and they say that the rope chokes,
something fearful. Battista was seen
Tuesday, a week ago, with the gang.
Il was the following night that the
bank at La Clede was touched. The
gang think that they can't do thing
lyithout Battista these days. He has a
fashion of getting into things. Well,
there's everything in breeding. 1t has
been said that your fingers are wonder
fully nimble. Nino, and that there
never was your like for devising and
..But ! didn't, I haven't" almost
.brieked Nino, "and if the officers take
me- as have often enough heard they
intend doing. they will take an inno-
cent man. and as for Battista, of course
Lnow he" The musician looked
down at his ragged trousers and his
Gaming shoes, and he thought of Bat
5;sta the boy who had been placed in
his charge before they left Gods own
blne-skyed Torino, and he thought OF
The starving, shivering life of the way
,,.ard lad on this side of the sea.
"well. what about Battista?" asked
Aon;ese Hes not guilty, either" an
.,Tered Nino. as he walked out into the
frosty morning air. The bells had
ceased their ear-splitting noise and
Nino returned home.
Rattista was sleeping on the kitchen
aoor and Nino knew, by his heavy
,reatbiug. that he had drank heavily
the night before. Dropping to his knees
and shaking the sleeper, che musician
.~;ad aloud: "Battista, Battista, boy;
then. with lips close to the drunken
mans ears, he half whispered, half
orsamed in his frenzy of terror: The
,ol;ce they come for us. They come
for Won. they come for me-" But Bat
tista raised his heavy hand and struck
Vino full in the face and. gathering
himself on his unsteady legs. cursed
he nolice. cursed Nino for his fears
cursed everybody. You'd stay righs
heresnd starve, would you, when every
one else has 10 eat and to sPareg Let
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
ONE woMAN's WAY.
how She Got Her BnshfuI AdmiEee
TO Pop the Cues
ton.

At a married womel's luncheon re-
Gently sprightly young matron chal-
lenged each OIL the company to relate
the way she became engaged. ''As
for myself" she continued, airily, ''I
will confess, to give you all courage,
that J. proposed to Jack-and 1 will be
willing to wager that two-thirds of
the women here, if they did not ac-
tuallY pop the question: at least gave
very timely and necessary help"
At this, relates the Chicago Chroni-
Gle, there was a storm of protest and
much laughter, but when the propo-
sitiOn was made to "swear i'm each
narrator to tell the "whole truth and
nothing but the truth there was
much conscious and blushing dissent.
"Methinks you all protest too
much!" said the first speaker. ST am
sure that nearly every one of you are
thinking this very minute of how you
helped on your respective husbands
at the crucial moment. Well, Mrs.
Blank, am 1 not right?" she added,
turning suddenly to her vis-a-vis
across the table, whose expressive face
showed inward appreciation of the
charge. ''How was it with you?
feel sure that you assisted your Will
liam-how did you do it?" And after
little urging and the promise from
her neighbors to be equally frank Mrs.
Blank began her confession.
81 knew that William really liked
me-" she began.
ooh, of course, that goes without
saying" laughed the seH-constituted
grand inquisitor. - s+F
"Otherwise 1 would never have
dreamed of helping him." continued
Mrs. Blank, with dignity, 'but he was
very slow! For months I waited, but
he went on, sending me flowers and
taking me to drive and devoting him
self to me at dances without any re-
suit. You see, the poor fellow hadn't
the courage to risk refusal!" she
explained, half defiantly = evidently
rather 'repenting her conference.-the
her listeners nodded Understandings,
and she went on. $50 I concluded l
would first show him that there would
be no FISK, you understand. thought
and thought how to manage it, and
finally an idea struck me. wrote a
supposed epistle to girl knew out
west who had been my most intimate
friend at school and of whom I had
often spoken, and left sheet from
the letter in book that I lent Will
liam to read. AS thought he might
hesitate to read private letter, be-
gan the page with his name. I knew
no man would resist that if he were
in. love and wanted to know what a
girl thought of him.. 1 wrote as if my
friend had been teasing me about Mr..
/ Blank, and, although 1 did not actu-
ally say liked. him, said enough to
make him feel pretty sure he could
have me. Anyway, it answered. Will
liam wrote his proposal that very
night, and after we were married ]
told him all about it,"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25

me tell you this: ! won't stand for it.
We lost last night, but we won't lose
every time. It's a house on the Soutl
side tonight and the mayor, the
mayor whose frown makes the rich
tremble and whose order to the police
is: Shoot all robbers down, shoot
them down; put stop to this carnival
of crime!' ha, ha-he who with his fol-
lowers rob the rich and rob the poor
for vain glory-raises his haads in holy
horror when we take from the lap OF
plenty that which is necessary to life;
the mayor has his turn Christmas eve.
Well. he may be at the wrong end of the
gun that shoots the ROBBERS down, who
knows? After this touch is over |, too.
can afford to be respectable and to
cry: Shoot them down, shoot them
down!' Say there. Old PiccolO, you
may lie there and blubber as long as
you please. but excuse me if ! don't
stay to listen to your music"
The house of a fabulously wealthy
brewer on the South side was looted
from basement to garnet that night.
and the city editors put scare heads
above the next mornings story of the
daring robbery and the editorials
chided the police and made political
capital of the matter as best they could
in the same old way. The safety de-
post vaults did a land office business
and timorous men examined their win
dows at night with renewed care, while
nervous females looked through their
closets and 1nder their beds before
retiring. The chief of police adjured
his force to extra watchfulness and re-
ceived volumes of gratuitous advice as
to how the matter ought to be seen
to, and for a few days that followed
while repetition of the crime might
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
WEDDING AT AN ARMY POST.
How a Young Lieutenant and His
Bride Were Welded ON New
Years Day at an Arizona Fort.

In an article in Woman's Home Com
panion, entitled Holiday Week at an
Army Post" Harriet A. Lusk describes
asfollows military wedding performed
at an isolated post in Arizona:
''Such unexpected things happen in
military life! We nearly lost our
breath when in the midst of our gayety
an order came for Mr.. Knox to go to
the Philippines. He and Miss Porter
were to be married next June, and ne
insisted upon leaving her a bride in
stead of fiancee, hoping she might
join him if not soon recalled.
"Only a few in the garrison had
known that the order to our senior
lieutenant was not wholly unexpected.
The colonel's family had guarded well
the secret. The ceremony,
with all it's features, was so picturesque
and so unlike those we have seen in
civilian life. On the afternoon of New
Years day blue-coated soldiery walked
with formal tread up and down the
walk which led from the colonePs quar-
tiers to the chapel. At the former place
a national flag almost hid the little
Veranda, which was transformed into
a bower of flowers and Foliage, for the
day was warm and dry, as if nature,
too, smiled upon the occasion. Soft
rugs carpeted the walk to the gate, and
there the bridal party formed after
the guests had been received. A tiny
girl and boy tastefully gowned formed
fair advance guard for the party, and
scattered flowers on the way from the
Southwick home to the chapel. The
stage was a mass of ferns, and in the
center was a small silk American flag
Here and there on the walls of the
chapel were military ensigns and
guidons in beautiful colors, and por-
there of flags hid the balcony, behind
which stringed quartette struck sweet
strains.
''The ceremony was performed in
front of the stage, and the solemn
words of the ritual were spoken to
the strains of the hidden music.
Through the ribboned aisle the bridal
procession retreated and marched to
the colonel's home. The regimental
band played in welcome, and squads OF
soldiers stood in attention about the
lawn, while Mr.. and Mrs. Knox, be
meath the national ensign, received
congratulations before refreshments
were served"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25

CT. PETERS chimes rang out cheer
lily; that is, cheerily to them who
had reason for cheer. The mayors
son awoke. stretched his arms and gave
himself up to happy reverie. The
housekeeper's helper rubbed harder on
the polished brass and, smiling, repeat
ed to herself the buffers terms of en-
dearment of the night before; but to
Nino Pizzino, lame and decrepit, lying
on rag-tag mattress in the half base
ment of a rickety tenement house
which at eventide stood within the
shadows of the huge dome and so near
that, had a western blast wrenched
the sky-scraping spire from it's fouuda-
ton the ancient ramshackle would
have gone to splinters; to Nino they
were alarm bells, harsh, discordant.
The sound smote upon his ear drums
till his head ached and they seemed to
say: "The Jail doors are open to thee,
Nino, walk thou in, walk thou in" and
his knees shook till his baggy trousers
seemed possessed as he thought of the
grim court and the pitiless jury and
seemed to hear the words: Ten years
at hard labor"
He dropped his piccolo and, stagger-
ing up the stairs of his half basement,
stumbled into the neighboring saloon
for drink, but Agniese knew him of old
and she said: Eyes, you get another
drink, Nino, when have seen the color
of your coin and when this account is
wiped out, not before. It's great doings
that you, you who by petty stealing
with other fingers have accumulated
more money than any other Italian in
the city. should be around screaming
ike mad for a drink and begging from
honest people. Do you think your treas
ure any the safer because you say you
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25

There's no use O. talkn'" said
Bronco Bob, this eastern education il
splendid"
Have you visited any of our pub
lie schools?"
''Yes, and they are fine. That
scheme of havin' all the children hold
up their hands every time the teacher
speaks to 'em is great. 1t gives 'em
practical trainin' fur the real battle
of life, in which KNOWN when to
throw up both hands an dOin' it in a
hurry may mean so much. Washing
ton Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
Was All Fixed.

One of the churches in little west
ern town is so fortunate as to have
a young woman as it's pastor. She
was called to the door of the parson-
abe one day, and saw there a much
embarrassed young farmer of the Ger
man type.
''Dey said der minister Hfed in dis
house." he said.
"Yes," said the fair pastor.
''Vell-m-I-I-van to kit mer-
ritl"
''To get married? Very well, 1 can
marry you," said. the ministries, en-
cOuragingly.
''Oh, but L got girl Rlreaty," was
the disconcerting reply-Brooklyn
Life.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
FROM A BASKET OF EARTH.
How Tradition Says the CarOIine
Group of Islands Were
Formed.

Germany's purchase of the Caro-
line islands from Spain had already
drawn public attention to this little
known Pacific group, says Harper's
Weekly, when a suggestion was MADE
to America which is certainly enter.
tanning, though hardly to be enter
tanned. The, king and head man of
Kusaie, one of the easternmost of the
Carolines, sent petition to congress
representing that, as they had been
in intercourse with the American peo-
pie for AZ years-that is, with Ameri-
can missionaries, traders and whalers
and had. both in this manner and
otherwise, acquired knowledge of
our institutions, they wished to be
annexed to the United States. 1t is
assumed that the people who ex-
pressed this amiable preference did
not know that they were about to be
acquired by Germany.
The Caroline group includes, be-
sides coral islands, five mountainous
islands of basaltic formation, beauti-
full and fertile, with rivers and
springs. To the north are the La
drone isl1nds, and to the west are the
Philippines.
Among the many queer legends of
these children of the Pacific there is
none more highly improbable than
their theory as to the origin of these
islands and their inhabitants. They
think they themselves were very
strong in the water-in fact, they
lived in it. The story goes that a
woman and her children were float
ing around on the reef, when a man
appeared from the west with a bas-
ket of soil on his shoulders. He had
started out to make an island with a
mountain on it. One of the children
cried out to him: "Give us a little
soil to make place for our mother
to rest, for she is very weak and can
not swim" He took out a handful Of
the earth and threw it down, making
an island. AS the man was going on
his way over the water the son slyly
made hole in the basket, so, as he
proceeded on his way, he left a trail
of land behind. Suddenly he became
conscious that the basket seemed
light, and, looking around, he saw the
land. In his anger he turned about
and trod upon it, and thus the islao DIS
were formed.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-12-25
Americans by the year 2OOO.

There will probably be from $50,
100000 to 5OO,OOO,0OO people in Amer
lea and its possessions by the lapse
Of another century. Nicaragua viii
ask for admission to our union after
the completion of the great canal.
Mexico will be next. Europe, seeking
more territory to the south of US,
will cause many South and Central
American republics to be voted into
the union by their own people.-La-
dlas Home Journal