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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
A CRIME.
GHTLESSNESS.

"Thoughtlessness and mistaken
kindness in the sick room slay their
thousands, and the family and nurses
are oft times the unknown accessories
to the deed" is the emphatic opinion
of Bland Brunner Huddlestan writing
of "Visitors to the Sick Room" in the
Woman's Home Companion. "They
fear criticism too much. Their moth
ers and grand-mothers never dreamed
of refusing admittance TO the sick
room: 1t wouid cause talk to begin
it. So the nurse casts responsibility
off on custom, and puts blind trust
in Providence, and the deed is done !
No matter how visibly it harrows the
soul of a nervous woman to have out
siders' about her, there are those who
will persist in invading every sick
room they can reach, regardless of the
condition of the patient or the proba-
bility Cor lack Of probability that
they may be of any service. 1t often
happens that it is the least useful and
most tactless women of community
who are most active in their attentions
to the afflicted Such visitors seriously
handicap the efforts of the physician
and nurses and undoubtedly cause
many death. 1t is astonishing to
witness the rccklessness of most fami-
lies in regard to this phase Of the care
of their sick. Unless patient is ac-
tually in articulo mortis the doctor
does not like to endanger his populari-
ty by ordering the arbitrary exclusion
Of visitors. Without his commands to
back them up the family that attempts
the innovation invites and gets the os-
tracism of the neighborhood for no
short time. l would not be thought
to decry the good, sensible, selfdeny-
ing neighbor nurse who in almost all
communities and in homes of slender
means everywhere must supply the
place of the trained nurse when the
home force is not sufficient to properly
care for patient. God alone knows
the extent of her usefulness or can adj
equately reward her. Only cheerfully
sympathetic society is a benefit to con-
valescents, and that kind, like medi-
cine, only at proper intervals and in
right amount. In fact, 80 much de-
pends upon the mood and manner of
visitors that one might almost advise
the patent to observe the caution that
if affixed to some prescriptions, Shake
we'll before taking"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
NO. 16
WHICH FOOT WALKS FASTER

You may think this very silly
question to ask, but is it? There is
no catch about it. 1t is a simple, de-
monstrable fact, which you can prove
to your own satisfaction in a very few
minutes.
If you will take pavement that is
clear of other pedestrians, so that
there shall be no interference, and
walk briskly in the centre, you will
find that before you have gone hum
dred yards you will have veered very
much to one side You must not make
any conscious effort, of course, to keep
in the centre, or you may do it. but if
you will think of something and en-
deavor to walk naturally it is hun
dred to one you cannot keep in line.
The explanation of this lies in the
puculiarity of one foot to walk faster
than the other. Or, to be more cor
rect, perhaps it would be said that one
leg takes longer stride than the 9th
er, and this, combined with the quicker
movement, causes one to walk more to
one side than the other
1t is we'll known, for instance, that
if one be lost in the woods the tendency
is to walk in circle and eventually to
return about to the starting point.
This demonstrates the fact also that
one foot walks faster than the other.
You can try an interesting expert
ment in this way If you will place
two stakes in the lawn, about eight
feet apart, and then stand off about
sixty feet from them. allow yourself to
be blindfolded, and endeavor to walk
between them. You will find it an al
most impossible task, because one foot
will 90 abit faster than the other,
either to the right or left. Now, which
one of your feet walks faster than the
other!
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
APRIL SHOWERS

Wash away the filth and waste that
have accumulated during the winter.
In like manner Hoods Sarsaparilla
expels from the blood impurities that
have been deposited during the season
when there has been but little perspi-
ration and perhaps constant confne-
ment in impure and vitiated air. 1t is
a boon to tired mothers, housekeepers,
teachers and others who spend their
time indoors.
1t gives the blood richness and vi
tality, fitting it to nourish and
strengthen the nerves, muscles and all
the great organs of the body. 1t cures
all spring humors and banishes that
tired feeling.
1t is the best medicine money can
buy for all diseases caused by impure
or impoverished blood. You should
begin taking it to-day.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
THE SELECTION OF DAIRY
COWS.

Those who invest. in dairying are
careful of all details of management,
as rule, but suffer there heaviest re-
verses in the outlay for stock. There
are hundreds of farmers who do not
raise calves, but buy their cows. 1t is
safe to assert that no farmer can buy
cow without risk of loss, as he may be
of spiteful disposition, may bring dis
ease on the farm, may yield but little
or give inferior milk, AID may prove
Improbable from a number of causes.
To sell her is but to get another that
is no better. The presence of two or
three inferior COWS in herd affects the
average profit Of the whole. No dairy
man can buy COW and know what
she is worth until he has tested her.
1t is impossible for him to know how
long she will keep up her flow of milk,
even if she is apparently good animal.
Some cows will fall off before they are
eight months in milking, in spite of
all the good care you take of her, and
when she has become dry another cow
must be procured in her place. When
a hei(er is raised and her sire and dam
are known, the dairyman can depend
upon it, if she is from good stock, that
she will prove better than the best
unknown COW that can be purchased,
as it is seldom that the best COWS are
offered for sale. Success in dairying
can only be guaranteed when the
dairyman pays some attention to breeds
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
5eleft Misrellanu.
Historic Rivers of America.

When Henry Hudson and his men
rolled tenpins in the Catsklll noun
tains and awakened RIP Van Winkle
from his twenty years nap, he was not
aware of the existence of any other
rivers in the New World besides the
one named after him. But Hudson
and the notorious Grip" had been in
their last sleep many years ere the
panorama of civilization unfolded to
view the other beautiful streams known
only to the Indians, loved and named
by them, and which were to remain as
monuments to their almost extinct race.
The traveller from New York to St.
Louis-from the Hudson to the Mis-
ippi-rarely thinks Of the associa-
tion of his own name with those who
have trodden the same paths in centu-
ries before him.
This occurred to me on a recent trip
between the cities named, just after |
had been reading a bit Of Indian lore
1t was on December 14th, the Tooth
anniversy of the death Of Washington,
that took the ferry at the foot Of
Whitehall street, and in so doing re-
membered it was here that Washing.
ton badc farewell to his army. Then
as the boat swung out to Jersey City
and crossed the North river, my mind
became busy with history, and nat
urally thought of Hudson" Landing
at Jersey City, l remembered that
Communipaw, our landing place, was
the first Dutch settlement in New York
With my mind dwelling on such mat
ters as entered the Baltimore & Ohio
train, resolved to jog my memory to
see how far my education in history
had gone, and at the same time to see
how far my studies Of geography had
been impressed upon my mind. When
my journey was ended at S.. Louis l
found had crossed all of the most
historical rivers of our great and grand
country.
First came the "Delaware" river, at
Trenton, that famous river, which more
than century ago was such a serious
obstacle to the movement of our hun
CRY patriots.
Approaching Philadelphia, through
Farmount Park, a splendid view was
afforded of the beautiful Wissahicion"
creek and its famous drveways.
In Philadelphia the train skirted the
"Schuylkill" river, which, though not
beautiful at that particular point, is
useful to most important degree to
the commercial interest of that city.
And at Wilmington. the "Brandy-
wine," inoffensive and quiet, moves
noiselessly 10y, forgetting completely
the strifes of the latter part of the
eighteenth century and the blood stains
its waters obliterated.
A few miles further on came the
magnificent "Susquehanna" grand,
snperb-stretchlng up and down as far
as the eye can reach, rejecting the blue
sky rs in a great mirror. AS water
study, the Susquehanna at Havre de
Grace presents a most picturesque
view, not excelled by anything in
Switzerland
Then the ''Gdnpowder" river, famous
marshes, known to all sportsmen, ap-
peared in great splotches, with no dis
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
WHEN n MANS a MAN.

Why do all newspaper writers,
when writing of a marriage, say that
the ''couple were pronounced man and
wife," | admit that the bride was
not a wife until married; but was not
the bridegroom man before he entered
the the marriage state?
Sincerely, QUERIsT.
No, no, no, Ask any woman. No
male is more than half q man until
married. 1t requires matrimony to
round out his being. In some parts
of the country when one man is intro
duced to another, the first query is,
"Glad to know you; married man or
dog p And the answer is "Dog," if
the one interrogated is bachelor, and
MAN" if he happen to have wife.
Il may be good for us to remember,
as an English novelist tells us, that
the shade of each departed day falls on
our graves
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20

"What's that noise in the other
room % he demanded. "It's Magic
she replied. "The poor dear girl has to
have some accomplishments, you know,
and as the piano distressed you SO
much | decided to let her take elocu-
tion lessons"
For perhaps five minutes he was ST.
lent. Then he sighed and spoke.
81 withdraw my objection to the pi-
ano." he said.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
WHEN FATHER
SIGNS A CHECK.

HEN FATHER
SIGNS A CHECE
They've lately served poor father up
In quite sarcastic truck,
"When father sings a lullaby"
when father csrves the duck"
And when he monkeys this or that
To any rhymster's beck,
But no one yet has sung about
When father signs a check.
The old man isn't up to date
In table manners p'Ihap|,
And doesn't talk, or walk. or dress
Like modern college chaps;
But on his business habits, sirs,
There's neither flaw nor fleck,
You've got paper good as gold
When father signs check.
He uses the colonial quill,
The letters of his name
Are rugged as the hand that writes
Unevenly the same;
But you can bet the jewels all
That kindly crowns bedeck.
The banks hand out the requisite
When father signs check.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20

The royal arsenal at Woolwich en-
ploys about 900 workmen and has
40 miles of internal railways.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20

Young Lody Author-"Oh, come,
now. Buy it without reading it, and
I'll let you have it for $10'
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10
Not Heart Trouble.

Coming down on a Euclid car the
other day man with high col
lar of an old fashioned shape, gray
chin whisker and a derby hat size too
small for him occupied the extreme
front seat. He was "A nervous man
and attracted the attention of the pas
sengers on the seat opposite by his
queer starts and grimaces
At Case avenue the car stopped to
let a Wade park car swing by and
then started up again with very un-
pleasant jerk.
When the jerk came, the man on the
front seat suddenly slipped his hand
inside his coat, an expression of sharp
pain crossed his face, he breathed
heavily and seemed to grow pale.
An alarmed and sympathizing man
on the opposite seat leaned forward.
Heart troubleY" he anxiously asked.
The other man glared at him.
Heart trouble nothin," he growled.
Il busted tn point off my lead pen
cil!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

AS result of the recent agitation
in certain mining regions, one of the
measures favorably acted upon by
the house committee in behalf of fed
eral aid to mining is bill establish
ing federal mining experimental sta
tions in each of the mining states,
and providing for the appointment
of a government geologist at $4,000
a year and an assayer at $4,000 in
the respective mining states. The
officers are to furnish assays, issue
public bulletins and conduct explor-
ations of mining regions. In such a
service there are the possibilities of
great educational benefits and ma
terial aid to the general industry,
but the advantage of such dispen-
sation remain to be tested by time
and experience.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

1t appears that another bugaboo
is vanished and the dreadful Foster
bill is dead. This bill proposed 10
lease the public domain to the stock
man or to the stock company at a
small rental per acre, and while the
law would doubtless bring to the
government great revenue, it was
complained that it would shut up
the public domain to the advance of
homeseekers.
Sen. Carter has introduced a me-
mortal from the governors of west
ern states protesting against the
passage of this bill but the Senator
states in an interview that the Fost-
er bill has no show to become a law
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

THE COOK UNDERSTOOD.
Said She Did Anyway, but Sequel
Proved Her Mistaken.

Luigi Won Kunits, concert master OF
the Pittsburg orchestra, aEd his bride
had humorous experience during
their recent European tour They visit
ed France, England and Germany and
wound up in Vienna, where they found
a charming little hotel to stop at.
Wandering around that city one aft
ernoon, they came across Il stall in the
market where several small but ex-
exposed for sale.
"Those are the first watermelons |
have seen since we left home" said
Mrs. Won Kunits. Lets buy one and
take it to the hotel"
They bought Que and had it delivered
at the hotel, where the landlord and
the landlords wife and the cook re-
garded it somewhat as "A curiosity.
They had seen watermelons before,
they said, but had never tasted one.
How do you cook them in Ameri-
cap inquired the landlord. rs it cook
ed, boiled or roasted?"
The Pittsburg tourist explained that
all the cook would have to do would
be to have the melon good and cold
for them in the morning, ready for
breakfast, and they would eat it then.
They suggested ice as the best way to
cool it. The cook said she understood
perfectly what to do.
Next morning when Mr.. and Mrs
Won Kunits came down stairs to break
fast the watermelon was awaiting
them on the table. 1t was actually
sweating, it was so cold.
81 can't resist the temptation to eat
a slice of it right now" said Mrs Won
Kunits. at looks so appetizing"
Then she picked up a knife to cut
the melon and discovered that 1t had
already been halved through the mid
die. Opening it, she found that the
cook had scraped out all the inside of
the melon and filled the shell with
cracked ice.
The Pittsburgers laughed until the
landlord and his wife and cook came
in to see what was the matter.
We'll" explained the cook, Il tried
to take out all the seeds, but couldn't
do it without removing all that nasty
red stuff with them. | threw that part
away because | never imagined that
anybody would eat that."-Pittsburg
Press
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10
Notice to Co-Owner.

To Harry j. Stafford; You are hereby mott
fed that George Gaskell and Harry w. Millard
your co-owners, have in accordance with sec
tion 1924 of the revised statutes of the United
States, expended in labor and Improvements
upon the White Horse quartz lode mining claim
situated In the Illinois (nnorganiZed) mining
district in the county of Cascade, s tate of Mon
tana, on the northwestern side of Thunder
mountain. the notice of location of said claim
being duly filed for record in the office of the
county clerk and recorder in and for Cascade
county, state of Montana, on September 2Sth
A D., 1898. and recorded in book of quartz
lode locations page 24S, the sum of one hun
dred dollars, annual representation in the year
A. d. 1899.
And you are hereby notified that unless you,
Harry J. Stafford. contribute your proportion,
thirty three 3314 dollars 1888 $3.50 of such ex-
100
penditure together with the interest and costs
of this publication. within ninety days after the
complete service of this notice by publication,
all vour right. title and interest and claim in
and 10 the above described White Horse quartz
lode mining claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owners. who have per-
formed the work and made the required expen-
d1tures thereon. H. MILLARD.
GEORGE GAsKELL.
First publication Jan. "a. 1900.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

Los Angeles Times: Kentucky
may be the greatest state in the I'm
ion for fighters, but since the com
mencement of the Clark investiga-
ton at Washington there will be no
difference of opinion as to the fact
that Montana has more liars to the
square foot than can be claimed by
any other of the divers and sundry
states, not excepting Kentucky.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

The approaching city election is
beginning to make its impress upon
the public mind and people are COM
mencing to wonder what sort of a
political cyclone we are going TO
have this year. The better thinking
people of Neihart, however, are in
favor of a quiet election of level
headed men, to be nominated by
mass convention without even an
opposition ticket. AT any rate the
opinion seems to be general that it
is time for Neihart to quit skulking
at midnight of the last day of grace
to put up ticket, each faction try
ing to achieve some sneaking adj
vantage by cowardly methods. As
the HERALD has often pointed out,
there is no issue in our city elect
ions, and the ever recurrent fight
over local affairs is a dark age folly.
As for the HERALD, it will advocate
any measure for the institution of an
era of peace. 1t will enter fight
under no circumstance that
some ihcapacious and arbitrary
numbskull comes around to tell its
proprietors what they will have to
do. In that case the proprietors are
apt to do something else.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10
Advertised Letters.

The following is a list of the letters
remaining uncalled for in the post office
at Neihart, Mont. for the month ending
Feb. 80, 1900.
Cussans A Sweeney Miss Mamie
Donovan P Fl Sprague Luther
Henderson Alvin Thompson NJ
Jacobson Jacob Tolvitie J
Noonan John Wilson. Miss Irene
Phillips d G
Parties calling for the above will
please say advertised"
E. K. ABBOTT. P. M.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

This is the way well-known edi-
tor inscribes an epitaph to a delin
quent patron;
John Jones has quit this honse of clay
TO ;oam in fields of glory.
We trust his journey on the way
Was made all hunky dorey.
A soul from earthly woes has gone
To joys beyond description.
He leaves a sorrow laden home
And one unpaid subscription.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

"Have you not read the handwriting
on the wall?" cried the warning voice
in terrifying accents.
The man of sin paled.
"Do you have reference to my wife's
cooking school diplomat" he asked
family, with ashen lips
The fears of the vulgar mind it will
be observed, are moved by the literally
concrete rather than the figuratively
abstract.-Detroit Journal
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10
NEWS of the WEEK.

The English have declared mar
tial law in Cape Colony.
Sharkey and Fitz have signed tc
fight the first week in August.
The Sam Yups and highbinders
are making war in Tongs, China.
Four men killed by cave in the
Iron Mountain mine at Redding
Calf.
Passenger train wrecked at Plain
vile, Conn, killing four and Grip
ling seven.
Feb. %, the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to ST..
118,886,O59
Ionic Curry, the n. P. train rob-
ber, shot and killed at Kansas City,
while resisting arrest.
Sen. Hansbrough proposes gov
ernment park for the preservation
of few of California's big trees.
Owing to the strike among ma
chinists and builders in Chicago
there are 10000 men out of employ.
ment.
Bills have been introduced in
both houses of congress to build the
Pacific cable to Hawaii, Manila and
Japan.
H. M. Stanley says Dom Paul de-
sires to be a second Washington
but that he lacks the qualities tc
support the role.
Frank Childs, colored heavy
weight of Chicago wins a decision
over Jack Bonner of Pennsylvania
in the 9th round. Chicago.
The editor of the Philadelphia In
quirer was held up and robbed this
week. The highwayman got {
makeup rule and three beer checks
a big sympathy fund raised ii
this country for Kruger is held fol-
want of a carrier. The, United
States authorities have refused tC
send it.
The republican state central com
mittee will meet in Helena Mar. II
to lay plans of the coming cam
paign, and to fix time and place o.
state convention.
The war department of London
has raised it's estimated cost of the
Boer war from f1O,000,000 to eco,
100000. II looks as if they vii
have to raise the figure few notch
es yet
Robt. J. Thompson, representing
Pres. Mckinley, presented Pres
Loubet of France with the first La
fayette dollar stamped by this gov
ernment, after which the two digni
taries went out and took drink.
G.. G.. Hutchinson who won tho
prize in 1895 for the best aricle oil
"Wherein would California be Ben
eftted by Free Coinage of Silver?'
has turned gold bug. He says the
logic of events has changed his be
lief.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

The Libby News suggests the
following platform for the democra-
cy of Montana: "Incompetency
and corruption; not one, but both. "
In view of the evidence which has
been presented lately more appro-
pirate platform could not be sug-
gested.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10
Notice of Meeting.

The Big Seven Mining company
will hold its annual meeting on
March 9th, 1900, at the residence of
ID. l.. S. Barker in the town of Nei-
hart, Mont, at s p. m. of said day,
to elect officers for the ensuing year
and to transact any and all business
that may come before said meeting.
d. l.. S. Barker,
Violet Barker, Pres.
Secretary.
Dated February 9th, 1900.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

1t is a good thing the Clark in
vestigation was called in the winter;
for such stir as that in fly time
would drive everybody out of the
District of Columbia.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

The Husbandman is again prophe-
sying railroad for White Sulphur
Springs. Let us all hope that the
vision may be realized.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

Sen. Carter favors the seating of
Quay, and his position regarding
Carter is that winter is nearly over,
if we are going to have an unusually
early spring.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-03-10

After the relief of Ladysmith
steps were Immediately taken for
the relief of Bobsmith in Washing
ton in order that he might return
and relieve Spriggs, much to the re-
lief of the people.