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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
MARYLANDERS SUCCEED.
A special dispatch to the Baltimore
Sun" from Washin gton SAYS:

A special dispatch to the Baltimore
Sun" from Washington says:
Every boy appointed from Maryland
has met the requirements and will enter
West Point Academy next June. Sena-
tor Wellington's appointee, John Neal
Hodges, of Baltimore; John de B. w.
Gardiner, from Mr. Mudd's district, and
Allen Rutherford, from Pearre's district,
are the young men who have the chance
now of becoming skilled soldiers. No
vacancies exist for Maryland.
''The next class will be the largest since
the establishment of the academy, and
the percentage of those admitted of the
great list appearing for examination is
perhaps as high as ever before.
while the standard has been advanced
and more care is devoted to the physical
condition of the boys selected than in the
old days of the institution, the youth of
the country seem better prepared for the
ordeal they must undergo, or else greater
discretion and care exercised by SEN
ators and Representatives in making
their nominations. The new class will
exceed 140 members, although at the ex-
aminations held 10 days ago only 1O7
passed. Considering the number appear
ing before boards this is regarded as
high average, and from the examinations
to be held in June it is fully expected the
class will be increased to the number
above mentioned In accordance with
the policy of the War Department the
recent examinations were conducted at
the leading military post of the country
instead of ordering all candidates to
West Point. At San Francisco, Boston
Fort McHcnry, Baltimore, Governors
Island, Fort Mcpherson and many other
posts boards assembled and candidates
were examined. Reports from these
boards have been received, and a state
ment will soon be prepared giving the
names and districts represented by the
successful candidates. The large number
will come from Massachusetts, New
York and Illinois. The young men
designated by the President have also
been unusually successful.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
SOME GOOD FEATURES OF
THE NEW LAW,

There are certainly some good fea-
lures in the new election law. Ex-
perience has shown that the system of
ballot clerks d, stroyed the secrecy of
voting which is one OF the principal adj
vantages of the modern method of con-
Quoting elections Furthermore, the
ignorant and unsuspecting voter was
completely at the mercy Of those who
marked his ticket. In some places re-
lance upon the ballot clerks had be-
come so general, that popular elections
had almost become farce.
Senator Crothers, of Cecil county,
in an interview with Sun correspond
ent gives expression to the following
sensible views:
"The chief effect of this new law will
be, in my judgment, to promote dis
eliminating, independent voting and
so force good nominations by both
parties. The effect of the emblem and
making one mark for a whole ticket
has been to enable parties to nominate
men who never should have been nom
mated and on election day to carry
them along with the rest of the ticket
by the votes Of people who will not
split tickets or who will not take the
trouble to make a number of marks.
The object of the emblem on the ticket
has tailed utterly. 1t was designed to
enable illiterates and employees to vote
secretly and free from bribery or
coercion. This design has been de-
feated by the work of the ballot clerks
in looking on to see how they vote.
In many instances employees who could
vote without aid have doubtless been
forced to call in the ballot clerk to see
that they vote as they were ordered
to.
THE new law brings the candidate
face to face with the voter and he must
submit to personal scrutiny. He can
no logger be pulled through by the
straight vote or some other candi-
dates popularity. cannot under
stand how any one with independent
views can oppose this measure, and l
look for the very best results from it.
OF course, it should involve some
measure for making good nominations
by party primaries, an opportunity to
vote with independence is of no value
if the choice is limited to Indifferent
candidates. / strongly favor the
Massachusetts plan OF arranging
candidates in alphabetical order,
according to their names, as we have
put in the House bill. l believe this
plan is absolutely fair between the
parties"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
DELIBERATE FRAUDS.

Quite sensation has been created
by the arrest Of Stephen A. Abel,
policeman of the Washington force,
charged with having enumerated as
"alive and active residents" seven diff.
ferent persons in certain district of
st. Mary's county, "who were dead at
the time of the enumeration"
The prisoner made the following
remarkable statement to a reporter for
the Baltimore Sun:
"Last June I was appointed an
enumerator in the eastern part of the
Third enumerating district on recon-
mendation of Mr.. Mudd. When l
went to work it was understood l was
to set down all men who has died with
in year--although l was to use my
own discl elton and put down the men
who died since the census before if |
thought best. Those were my instruc-
tions from Mr.. Mudd, Mr.. Ching and
Mr.. Abel. They are all Republicans,
and l am Republican, and worked
with the Republican crowd.
"Well, found lot of men who
were doubtful. Alfred Dillow, of
Leonardtown, was one He died % or
80 days before took the census, but
had to use my own judgement, and
l put him down. Then French Thomp-
son, of St. Mary's county, had just
moved to Washington to work in the
Riggs House, and l set him down.
There were lot of people who were
all mixed up, who had died or moved
away or lived somewhere else and had
property in St. Mary's county, and l
had to use my own judgement, | put
them down, because l understood the
law directed me to use my own Judge
ment.
"My recollection is that the other
enumerators were using their judgment
in the same way. They were Ed Tenny-
son, Charles Guyther, Dan Bowls,
Wilson Graves and r. Johnson Cotton.
Mr.. Cotton finished his work in IL
days. He knew his district 80 we'll he
just sat down and filled out his blanks.
You had to do something like that, or
catch the people a-runnin'. When they
saw you coming they would skip to
the woods. My people lived pretty
nearly all of them in Brooks Swamp,
and were the worst kind Of ignorant.
They were SO mixed about, working
first in one place and then somewhere
else, that | couldn't tell what to do.
| was at the work about mouth, and
turned in about 225 farm schedules.
My pay was 500 and something over"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
BALLOT REFORM.

Delegate Martin Lehmayer, who was
chairman of the Judiciary Committee of
the House at the regular session,
says:
Il find considerable misunderstanding
in reference to the Ballot bill An i'm
preston seems to be prevalent in some
quarters that no one can be registered I'M
less he can read and write. This is erron-
eous. Anyone who could register as a
voter under the act of 1898 can register
under the proposed new law. Everyone
who is entitled to register in entitled to
vote. But the party emblems are done
away with; one cross mark does not carry
the whole ticket each candidate for each
office must be voted for separately, and
the ballot clerks cannot assist, except in
case of blindness of the voter or such
physical disability as prevents the voter
from using his hands to mark his ticket.
The name of the political party to which
each candidate belongs is printed along
side of his name. Partisan critics have
cast such unjust and unfounded aspersions
upon the bill that many persons are con-
fused as to what the actual alterations
are.
I'm my judgment the Ballot law will
prove beneficial for four reasons:
First. The candidates will be sub
jected to the scrutiny and judgment Of
the intelligent voters of the State.
Second. The practical effect will be
to compel both sides to nominate the best
men.
Third. Greater secrecy will be secur-
ed.
Fourth. The greater the secrecy that
surrounds the casting of the ballot the
less are the opportunities for bribery.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT"

When two such powerful, persistent
and constituencies landgrabbcrs as Great
Britain and Russia quarrel over the
possession of property which belongs t."
neither the worlds sympathy is not like
ly to be wasted on either of the diSpu
tants, says the Baltimore sam. There is
an old and homely adage to the effect tLat
when 'thieves fall out honest men get
their dues Unfortunately a war be-
tween the Lion and the Bear over Chinese
territory would furnish the other powers
with pretext for landgrabbing on large
scale. and the Chinese Empire would
probably fall to pieces. 1t must be morti-
flying to Englshmen, however, that they
ale impotent to meet Russias aggressive
policy in China. If they had not been so
eager to make war upon the little Boer
republics in South Africa they might be
able to assert their right to a fair share of
the stealing that is going on in China.
AS bitter as the dose may be, they are
compelled to stand aside at the Bears
dictation, thus suffering a loss of prestige
which will be I'M urious to the Empire If
Great Britain continues to pose as a world
power The sorry plight in which English
men find themselves is admirably describ-
ed by the London News, a fearless Liberal
newspaper, which stingingly remarks
There is no fear of Lord Salisbury going
to war with Russia for good cause or
bad one. Russia is great empire, and is
therefore a fit object for graceful con-
cessions. She is not small republic, to
be provoked and bullied' In the inter-
est of humanity, however, it is to be
hoped that Russia and Great Britain will
be able to settle their differences by the
processes Of diplomacy. The world has
surely imposed as much blood outlines
on its conscience in the past few years as
it can atone for with decades of peace.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
TO The Deaf.

A rich lady, cured of her deafness and
noises in the head by DR.. Nicholson's
Artificial Ear Drums, gave $4,000 to his
Institute, so that deaf people unable to
procure the Ear Drums, may have them
free Address No. 1890 The Nicholson
Institute, $50 Eighth Avenue, New York.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
ORDER OF LITIGATION.
WILLIAM A. GORDON, Trustee.
HORACE S. COUSINS and wife.
In THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE
GEORGES COUNTY IN EQUITY.
No. 1876 Equity.


ORDERED, this 2Sth day of February,
" 1901, that the sale of the real estate
mentioned in these proceedings, made and
reported by William A. Gordon, trustee
named in IA certain deed of trust from
Horace 5. Cousins and wife, datel May
4th, 1898. and recorded in Liber j. B. No
l, folio 4S9, be ratified and confirmed I'm,
less cause to the contrary be shown on or
before the 23rd day of March, 1901; Ir,-
vided copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper published in Prince
Georges county once in each of three sue
cessive weeks before the said 23rd day OF
March, 1901.
The Report states the amount of the
sac to be 81 200.
JAMES B. BELT.
Clerk of Circuit Court for p. G. Co Md
True copy-test: JAMES B. BELT, Clerk
March LIST, 1901-lw.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
A CARD.
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CITIZENS
OF PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY.

A S announced in last fridays papers
IA we publish the following card hoping
that it will be read by every one in this
county, and especially by the residents of
Marlboro and vicinity
We have bought at a sacrifice the 81 900
stock of goods at the W hiIc Elephant
Store in this town and will I've able to sell
at surprisingly low prices We want to get
rid of these goods. Not because they are
not of the best quality for every article
is seasonable and good, but because We
want to, and MUST make room for
our new stock of goods which will arrive
at Marlboro Station on Monday, April
10Th, the same day we open up for bust
ness.
When we decided to take this store, we
decided to do the BUSINESS. We know
how to do the business. At least we
know how to buy the G ,ods and sell them
at Is per cent. less than any merchant in
Marlboro. In the first place we can buy
goods as cheap as any dealer in the c,un-
:y; in the second place we can sell them
at less profit, because we don't have to
hire any clerks We are going to work
for the people of Prince Georges county
or one year for nothing. Our competi-
tors are at big expense; and it is but
natural that they have to add to each ar
ticle SO much for each clerk in order to
pay him his or her salary. Live and let
Live ill b. OUR IN tito, and we will I've
up to il.
1t is certainly source of great Pride
and sr LITIGATION to us when W, are tod
bv every one that there is rh;nr hut
succ SIS ahead Of Us and that W have the
r.glt ideas about business. and last, but
MT least, that my patronage is yours
and all that | can do to help you, will be
cheerfuily done"
Don't forget that on the 10Th of April
we open. We won't mind showing our
goods to any one, even if they havn't the
least idea of buying because we are conf
dent that the goods and prices will do
more towards selling them than any game
of tx YOU can put up
We are going to carry a full line o
General Me chandise,a well stocked Coal
Wood and Lumber yard, a Feed Store
Department. Our bar will be stocked
with the fine St v in and Liquors. We
know that YOU can sell goods unless YOU
have them. and we also know that WE
CAN Sci L THEM at he p.:ces we ask
for them.
Remember that cali will lie convinc-
ing. Respectfully Yours,
COALE BROS.
March 90 1901-2t
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
ANN MARY WOOD,

late of Prince Georges county, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof legally
authenticated, on or before the 9TH day of
September, 1901; they may otherwise by
law be excluded from all benefit of said
estate. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate
payment. Given under my hand this 9TH
day of March, 1901.
PRISCILLA SKINNER CHICHESTER
Executrix of Ann Mary Wood deceased
March Sth, 19C1-1m.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22

Mr. Nandivcr, chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee, thinks it
will not be practicable to get through
with all the business mapped out for the
Legislature before next week, but he
thinks Wednesday of next week will
surely see the end of the performance.
That will make it "a three-act play runnin g
by weeks. The Legislature began on
Wednesday, March 6, and by this token
will end Wednesday, March p, which
will make three full weeks-2l days, in
stead of 1S, as desired
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
n Office.

7 HAVE FOR SALE 120 BARRELS
l. OF CORN AND 81 TONS OF MINED
HAY at reasonable prices on my farm
near Cheltenham
ADAM DIEHL, JR.
March 18th, 1901 1T.
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! Office TO CnEprrons.

THIS is to give notice that the under
i signed has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Prince Georges county Letters
Testamentary on the estate of
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LIST OF JuRoRs.

NHE list of Panel Of seventy three per-
l. sons drawn as Jurors for the Circuit
Court for Prince Georges County for the
April Term 1901. The following forty
eight names first occurring in the order
in which they were drawn of the seventy
three names as above constitute the list
from which to select foreman ford the
Grand Jury, and from which to draw
twenty-five Others and the first twenty
two names drawn therefrom, with the
foreman previously selected shall consti-
tute the Grand Jury, and the remaining
-wenty five shall constitute the Petit Ju-
Y for the first week of said term And
the remaining twenty-five of the seventy
three shall constitute the second weeks
Petit Jury of said Term
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
"Seemgis Believing. u

When you see people cured BY
remedy, you must bei.eVe in its power.
LOOK around you. friends, relataOes,
'.-tg'lbors all say that I-ood's SarsararaIlLa,
i nc-i-a S Greatest Lccci:c, c,earscd the
BOD Of tier dear ores AID they rise en-
''::-.sSs TO s::1g its praises. There no.h;r:g
[ e It IN tie 9uorld to t..-:cv tie EocL.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22

The List of forty eight persons are re-
quired to be in attendance at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. on the FIRST MONDAY IN
APRIL, the first day of the term The
second weeks Petit Jurors are required
to be in attendance on the second Mon
day of the Term.
True copy-Test:
JAMES B. BELT, Clerk
of the Circuit Court for P. G. Co., Md
March 10, 1901--3w.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
SATURDAY, MARCH 3Oth, 1901,

oAlUkDAY, NAkCn 5Uth, l9Ol,
AT2 O'CLOCK Pm,
the property particularly described in said
mortgage as follows: "All that piece or
parcel of ground situate, lying and being
i'll Prince Georges county, State of Mary
land, being part of the same land which
the said party of the first part obtained
from William G. Butler and wife, by deed
dated the twenty sixth day of March, 1890,
recorded in the Land Records of Prince
Georges county in Liber J. w. B. No IA,
at folio 2S2, etc, and being described as
follows, to wit: Beginning for the same at
an old stone. formerly the southeast cor
ner of NJ. keim's tract of land, and run
ming thence south $50 30> west 1865 feet
to a stake planted in the centre of the
Collington road; thence with the centre
OF said road north 26o 3S\ west 1854 feet
to a stake; thence north 40 15\ west
223, Sc feet to a stake in the centre of said
road; therce leaving said road and paral-
lei with the first line reversed north $50
3O> east 2C9S36 feet to a stake: thence
south 4o 30> east 444 &c feet to the place
of beginning, Containing
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
20 ACRES

MORE OR LESS,
adjoining the land of Henry Marden,
Henry +. Payne, Charles A. Braser and
others, and being the same real estate
fully described in a deed from George w.
Linkins to said Washington T. Brown,
dated January 18th, 1899. and recorded
among the Land Records of said county.
This property is well located ON prominent
roadways and is improved x,)
by good FRAMEDWELL- !
ING and necessary out &llS
buildings, and is about or s@3l
miles from Washington
TERMS OF SALE:
Onethird cash on day Of sale or ratifi-
cation thereof by the court; one-third in
one year, and one third in two wears
Deferred payments to bear interest from
the day of sale and to be secured to the
satisfaction of the undersigned, or all cash
at the option Of the purchaser. Convey
ancng, recording and stamps at pur-
chaser cost
CHARLES LINKINS,
Assignee of Mortgage.
FILLMORE BEALL, Solicitor, 319 4! st !,
n. w, Washington, d. G.
March 22nd, 190l-ts.
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TH1
grinfe George's GnQuirer,
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the 10th day of APRIL, 1891,
AT II O'CLOCK NJ,

at the Court House door in Upper MARI
boro', in said county, the real estate par
ticularly described by metes and bounds
in said mort gage, containing
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-03-22
MORTGAGES SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

NEAR SP RI n G F ED, PRIN
GEORGES COUNTY, MD.
by VIRTUE of the power contained in
- mortgage from Mary J. Brown and
Aaron Brown, her husband dated the 18th
day of March, 1895, and duly recorded
among the Land Records of said county
IN Llber j. w. B. No. 81, folio 1S6, the
undersigned, the Attorney named in said
Mortgage, will offer at public sale in front
of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, al Sprin gtield, in said county, on
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n Office.

NNHE School Commissioners of Prince
l. Georges county, Md, will meet on
THURSDAY, MARCH 18th, 1901,
for transaction of general business,
THOMAS 5. STONE,
March 18th, 1901-2t. Secretary.
Subscribe to THE ENQUIRER. 81 a
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GEORGE L. HARRIS, AUCTIoNEER.
MoRreAeEE's SALE
A1uABLr Real ESTATE.

N ONON HILL DIS M I.
pY VIRTUE of the power of sale con
ID tanned in Il mortgage from Washing
ton T. Brown and Ophelia Brown. his
wife, dated January 18th, 1899, and re,
corded in Liber j. B. No. folio a4s, one
of the Land Records of Prince Georges
county, Md, the undersigned assignee of
said mortgage will sell at public auc. ion o n
The age-herald., 1901-04-05
(. D. SMITH & co.
 GET THE CONTRACT
Will Build Twenty-six Miles of Track for the Illinois
 Central

c. D. Smith & Co. of this city have been awarded the contract to build twenty six miles of track for the Illinois Central Railroad from Jackson to Crystal Springs, Miss. In speaking of this contract, Walter L. Smith of the c. D. Smith company says
 We are rushing men and teams to the ground as rapidly as possible and 1t is our intention to have our part of the work completed by the first of next August The job will aggregate an ex- pense to the railroad company of about S200 600 and the work was commenced last Monday. One hundred teams are now en route and more are to follow You would be surprised at the extent of the work which is being done by the Illinois Central in Mississippi at the present time, Our own firm has employed 1000 men and 800 teams and from that you can form some estimate of what Is going on.
 From what I have learned should say that 1t is the ultimate intention of the road to have a double track from Jackson to New Orleans. I know that we have put in a number of long sidngs and I think it is the programme to connect these up until finally the double track will be complete. Traffic officials of the road tell me that the business has grown so rapidly that the double track is a necessity and as the management has not only been putting in these long sidings, but has also been reducing grades here, raising them wonder, so as to equalize conditions, I think it will be no great while before great changes in operations of the road will be made"