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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
THE SLEEPLESS BABY.

A young infant when in perfect
health sleeps tue greater part of both
night and day-only waking to take
its food. Therefore when it is restless
and wakcful there must be some cause
for it, which must at once be sought
TO: by the nurse or mother. Some
times its clothing is too tight or in
very rare cases pin may lie irritating
the tender skin; even a crease or wrin-
kle in one of the tiny undergarments
may disturb its rest. But more fire.
quently is sleep!essncss caused by
overfeeding. The wellmcaning mother,
especially if she be young and inexpe-
rienced. will imagine that every time
her darling cries it must be sign of
hunger. l dare say all OF us-al-
though We woald not admit it for the
world-have sometimes experienced
consciousness that we have eaten too
hearty dinner. With us the remedy
is in our hands in the shape of exer-
else, but u tiny infant has to lie in that
position in which its mother places it,
frequently on its back !; its misery is
unspeakable, and 1t can only cry-it
cannot even get up. 1t is desirable TO
have fixed hours for feeding your ba-
by, and an interval of at least two
hours should elapse between each
meal | believe all must agree with
the theory that there is greater dam
ger in overfeeliny than in underfeed-
ing an infant. 1t is sometimes a good
plan to completely undress sleepless,
crying baby, pass a sponge wrung out
of warm water all over its little body,
dry thoroughly and dress it again.
From my own personal experience
this has been known to succeed where
everything else failed, and although it
may entail little trouble the result
is we'll worth it !; in any case it can do
no harm.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
THE RENEWAL A STRAIN.

Vacation is over. Again the school
bell rings at morning and at noon,
again with the tens of thousands the
hardest kind of work has begun, the
renewal of which is a mental and ply
sicial strain to all except the most rug
ged. The little girl that few days
ago had roses in her cheeks, and the
little boy whose lips were then so red
you would have insisted that they
had been "kissed by Strawberries"
have already lost something of the ap-
pearance of health. Now is time
when many children should be given
a tonic, which may avert much serious
trouble, and we know of no other 80
highly to be recommended as Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which strengthens the
nerves, perfects digestion and assimla-
tion, and aids mental development by
building up the whole system.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26

iron spider web of railroad lines, gath
ering and distributing the mails as
they fly.
An army of contractors and sub
contra ctors, operating daily and weekly
schedules, penetrate the remotest and
most isolated communities, distributing
them to another army of fourth class
postmasters.
One hundred and six thousand, in
round numbers, counting everybody,
from the Postmaster General down to
the postmaster in fourth class office,
with salary of 81 per month, or even
less, is the number of Uncle Sans en-
ployes in the postal service. About
Ill GOO is the number in all the other
branches of his civil service. About
27l 900 is the grand total.
How are all these people paid? The
process is simple enough. The post
master pays himself out Of the pro-
ceeds of stamps sold. His clerks are
paid from the same source. So are
the city carriers. Railway postal
clerks are paid by the postmasters in
certain cities. The fourth class post
master takes all of the first $50 of can
cellations and a certain percentage OF
all cancellations above that. All these
items are to be credited to his quarter
ly account current. 49,.
If the sale Of stamps is not sufficient
10 meet all demands, he may transfer
funds from his money order account.
If there is not suilic, mt oi this fund,
he may secure authority from the
Postmaster General to draw upon the
postmaster in New York. The post
office of that city is the financial cen
ire of the postal system.
The employees Of the departments
are paid monthly or semi-monthly by
a disbursing officer in each Bureau.
They sign the pay roll and take their
money in an envelope.
The President is the only one of
Uncle Sans employees who does not
sign the pay roll. His salary is sent
to him every month from the Treasury
Department in the form of Treasury
warrant. 1t is taken over by special
messenger, and from the White House
it is sent to one of the local banks and
deposited to the credit of the Presi-
dents private account. The warrant,
when presented for collection, is taken
up and cancelled, and goes into the
files of the Department as a voucher
for the treasurer.
The President gets $l2,50O per
quarter, but he does not get exactly a
third of that sum each month. His
monthly pay is computed by the Gov
ernment salary book in the same man
ner as that of an ordinary clerk
Boston Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
MOSS
THE TELLTALE THUMB.

A tremendous amount of nonsense
has been written about the thumb
marks. 1t is claimed that the curious
skin configuration on the ball of the
thumb is never the same in any two
people and that it never changes.
The first statement is correct, and the
same thing can be said of the lines on
the palm and the creases on the bot
tom of the feet. But the assertion
that the thumb marks never change
throughout life is decided exaggera-
ton. The alteration may come from
variety of causes-anything, in fact,
that will destroy the outer layer Of
skin.
Another modifying cause is the
tendency of the thumb to develop lit
tie horizontal creases as one grows
old. This is especially true of me-
chanics and other working people who
use tools, and eventually the creases
will break up the lines to such an ex-
tent that it is equivalent almost to q
Encouragement of the pattern. Specia-
lists in nerve diseases by All examina.
tion of the thumb can tell if the patti
ent is affected or likely to be affected
by paralysis, as the thumb signals this
long before it is visible in any other
part of the body. If the danger symp-
toms are evidenced there, an operation
is performed on what is known as the
"thumb center" of the brain, and the
disorder is often removed.
No matter how carefully the indi-
vidual may attempt to conceal incipi-
ent insanity. the thumb will reveal it
infallibly. It is the one sure test.
II the patient in his daily work per
mits the thumb to stand at right an
gle to the other fingers, or to fall list
less into the palm, taking no part in
his writing, his handling of things,
his multiform duties, but standing iso-
lated and sulky, it is an unanswerahle
confession of mental disease
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
"A RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE.

Editorially New York exchange
has the following: Ralph Bullock,
who celebrated the one hundred and
fourth anniversary of his birth at his
home in Fort Hamilton on Monday,
surrounded by 50 children and erand.
children and l72 great-grandchildren,
thus gave his recipe for long lasting:
alive outdoors. Smoke, eat and drink
when you feel like it, and never let
worry enter your daily life. Take life
as you find it, and always manage
to find it pleasant" fr.a
A hundred persons might adopt this
rule and follow it rigidly, and not one
of them live hundred years. Mr..
Bullock started right by having "stur-
dy stock" for his ancestors. Inheri.
tance is the better part OF the capital
of long-livers. Then be chose vo-
cation admirably adapted to prolong
life, that OF a gardener. The exercise
is gentle, it is all taken in the open
air, and to those who love the work
Gas most gardeners do) it is pleasant
and tends to promote tranquil mind
and good digestion.
This veteran, who is four years be-
yond the century mile-post, upsets
theories of certain dogmatists by the
statement that he has used tobacco
and liquor nearly all his life, when he
"feIt like it," But his rule has been
moderation. If he had "felt like"
taking a drink every hour and had
smoked his clay pipe most Of the time
the chances are that he would have
filled a grave in the Potter's Field fifty
or sixty years ago.
All the centenarians agree on the
Importance of "avoiding worry" but
to persons who are not "built that
way" it is as possible to avoid worry
as it is to live without eating.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
5elrtt MisrrIlunq.
Uncle Sam As A Business
Man.
How He Pays His Employees, from
the President Down..

Uncle Sam has the longest civil list
in the world The exact number Of
his employees at any given time is hard
to fix, because the number is continu-
ally changing, and the grand aggre-
gate is made up from So many sources.
Much has been written about Uncle
Sam being slow paymastrr. and If
your interest in his s.rony box is in
the shape of Il claim, and you are try
ing to collect ii, then you will find that
he fully lives up to his reputation.
He is mighty "cIose" customer when
it comes to paying a claim.
But If he once puts you on his salary
list, all? Then you are ixed-that is
to say, you are fixed for about year.
after which the "promotion" bee will
begin to buzz in your bonnet. But
once on the salary list, your claim
against his exchequer is as good as
wheat in the mill and the Toll paid
He never pleads dull trade or over
production or close competition as an
excuse for scaling down wages or post
poning any pay day. He never
threatens to shut down the mills, and
his hands never 60 on strike.
1t seems an incongruous thing to
say, but hard times are an actual help
to the man with Government salary.
When times are hard and money scarce
and trade dull, then things are cheap,
and the stated salary will buy more.
Uncle Sam needs in his business the
great army Of people which he employs.
He is engaged in making laws; in
executing the laws; in administering
justice; in manufacturing and selling
postage stamps and carrying and de-
livering the mails; in improving rivers
and hsrlors; in ditfusing knowledge
among the people; in civilizing and in
structing the Indians; in coming mon
ey; in building ships; and recently he
has some into the irrigation business
and the colonial business, and he ex.
poets soon to enter upon the construc-
tion Of a great canal.
Uncle Sans law factory, if you will
allow the term, is the greatest and
most luxuriously appointed institution
Of that kind in the world
The appropriation for the fiscal year
just begun provides for ninety Senators
the round sum OF $3.50 900, ana $45,-
600 for their milraye Three hundred
and sixty persons are employed to
help these ninety statesmen, being
four for each law maker, and for their
salaries the sum of $5l5,OOO is pro-
vided, being $4,000 more than the
Solnns themselves cost.
Four hundred and fifty persons all
told make up the working force of this
branch OF Uncle Sans law factory, at
a total cost of 81 100000 for salaries
Call it round million, so long as Della
ware does not fill her two places.
Some people have vague idea that
Senators are paid more than Repre-.
which is a mistake. They
are all paid alike, $4,000 per year each.
The Speaker of the House gets $4,000
and when Senator fills |
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26
]puetry.
A NEW VERSION.

"A ~ w
"Oh, mother, take the plaques away
And put them out of sight,
For am almost tired to death,
cannot paint tonight.
Ill tell you all about it if you II sten mother, dear
So come and sit beside me on my little hassock here
'.You heard the wedding bells tonight,
His wedding bells they were
I'm very glad they we're not mine.
I'm glad he married her.
Oh. how can live through it,
My hearts so full Of cheer!
You tried 80 hard to catch him, bat you couldn't,
mother, dear.
''Miss Frzbang came among MS
With her bushes sweet aud fine.
With ruby lips and pearly teeth,
Far lovelier than mine.
Yes, they mlnufactured; Excuse this joyful
tear,
She thought that she could fool him, and she did it
mother, dear.
"In vain you urged me, mother,
To put curline on my hair,
Aud wash my lips with ocu!ine,
And blush of roses wear.
But to your kind entreaties never would give ear.
They didn't cut igurt no, thew didn't. mother,
Gear.
Peace to you. Mr.. Mone,b :gs,
And hxppiness for life;
I'd bs an Old maid all my days
Before I'd be your wife.
Now, moth her. will sober down. I'm not crazy quite.
But please to take the plaques away, cannot paint
tonight"
- Pharmaceutical Era.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26

81 can tell you one thing, Maria.
If Johnny is like me, he will have
good staying qualities, anyhow" "He
has them now, John. He'd stay in
bed till noon every day if I'd let him"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26

Janet Ainslie comes back from the
mountains unmarried, 1 see."
"Yep. 1t was her last chance, too.
Her father waited on her account Just
six weeks before he went into bank.
ruptcy.'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-09-26

Some New Zealand towns there are
more women voters than men.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28

Teneriffe. May 24.-Sailed. steamer
John Bright. Pensacola.
Jacksonville. Fla. May 26.-Arrived.
steamer Carib, Ingram, Boston; steam
eT Truma, Magenson, New York.
Cleared, schooner John c. Smith,
Weyman, Philadelphia.
New York, May 26.-Arrived. steam
ers Algonquin, Jacksonville and
Charleston.
Sailed, steamers Arapahoe, Charles
ton and jacksonville; Chattahoochee,
Savannah.
Philadelphia, May 81. - Arrived,
steamers Florida, Port Tampa; Berk-
shire. Savannah.
Huelya, May 20.-sailed, Dandy Sa-
vannah.
Baltimore. May 27.-Arrived, steamer
New Orleans. Savannah.
Sailed, steamer Hudson, Savannah.
Hamburg, May z7.-Arrived, Amstel,
Pensacola. via Iavre.
Pensacola, Fla, May 27.-Arrived,
schooner Make, Ward, New Orleans.
Cleared, steamer Scawfell (Br), Mar
tenzen. Genoa.
Sailed. bark Martinin GtaD. Zeno,
Buenos Ayres.
Jacksonville, Fla, May 27-Entered,
steamers Iroquois, Chichester, New
York.
Fernandina. Fla May 27.-Arrived,
schooner Edward Stewart, Winslow.
Neuvitas, Cuba.
Sailed. steamer David Mainland (Br),
Clark. Client, Belgium, via Newport
News schooner Henry Clausen, Jr.,
Tory New York.
Charleston. May 27.-Arrived steam
ers Haslingden (BD, Willis. Huelva;
Breidablik (Nor), Paulsen, Banes,
Cuba; New York, Boston, and pro-
ceeded for Jacksonville: United States
STEAMSHIP Williams Hall. Charleston,
bound for Washington, put back on
account of weather: schooner Anna L.
milford, Henderson. New York; steam
pacht Jessie, Savannah.
Sailed, schooner James d. Dewell,
Fairbrothers. New York; United States
revenue cutter Forward, Mitchell,
Georgetown.
Key West, Fla. May 27.-Arrived.
steamer Ma scotte, Smith, Hanava, and
sailed for Havana
Sailed tug Osceola Tortugas.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28

SALT-Demand IS fair and the mar
ket steady; carload lots. 200 pound
sacks, common fine. Sac: 100 pound cot
ton sacks, common fine. 55c: 1875 pound
burlap sacks, common fine, 42c; 1876
pound cotton sacks. common fine, Abe.
HIDES-Market firm; dry flint, 11Ac;
dry salt. 912c; green sailed, SEC.
WOOL Nominal; prime Georgia,
free of sand burrs and black wool,
lie; black. lac; bury, 10@12c. Wax,
CSC: tallow, sc. Deer skins zoe.
Hardware and Building Supplies.
LINE. CALCIUM. PLASTERS AND
CEMENT-Ala ALBANIA and Georgia lime
In fair demand and sell at 750S0c
barrel; special calcined plaster, $1.40M
1.5O per barrel; hair, 4@5c; Rosedale
cement, S1.2D@1.25; carload lots, spe-
cial; Portland cement. retail, STE;
carload lots s1.9oG120O.
LUMBER.-Market firm. Quotations:
Sawn ties, per M feet, $1,000; hewn ties.
GX9xSh), Acc each; switch ties, $12.50;
minimum, easy size yard stock, $14.5O
G15OO; car stills, $16.OO@19OO; ship
stock. $23.
OIL-Market steady; demand fair;
signal 45@5Oc; West Virginia black,
9612c: lard, T5c; neatsfoot, 60975c;
machinery, 16@25c; linseed oil, raw,
SIC; boiled, Sd; kerosene prime white.
1S1zc; water white, 13c; Pratt's astral.
14c: deodorized stove gasoline drums.
1115c; empty oil barrels, delivered, S5c
SHOT-Drop, $1.45; B. B. and large,
$40; chilled, $40.
IRON-Market firm; refined, $2.25;
Swede, sc.
NAILs-Cut. s24O base; wire. $2.45
base.
BARRED wIRE-s3.4O per 100
pounds.
GUNPOWDER-Per xeg, Austin
Shn. "a ha1
ter kegs, SIPS; champion ducking,
quarter kegs, 1925; Austin smokeless.
halg kegs, s3.45; quarter, $4.30; three
pound $40; one pound, Toe; less 20
per cent. on smokeless
Cotton Basgins and Ties
BAGGING-Market firm; jute. 2
pounds, 615c; sea island bagging, 12c
TIES-Standard, 45-pound arrow.
large lots, s11o; small lots. sl,2o.
Bacon, Hams and Lard.
BACON-Market firm; D. S. c. r.
sides, 10Ac; heavy bellies, lie; light
Eastern bellies. 11Ac; smoked. C. R.
sides, 1115c.
HAMs-sugar cured, 181zc; picnic
hams, 10Ac.
LARD-Pure, in tierces, 1115c; in So
pound tins and S0-pound tubs, 11%c;
compound, in tierces, SIC; 50-pound
tins and S0-pound tubs. &C.
miscellaneous.
FISH-Mackerel, half barrels, No l.
S.75; No. ?, 1915; No. 3, 1915: kits,
No. l, SIPS; No. 2, $1.10; No. 8, 9Oc.
Goldfish. 1-pound bricks. &c; 2-pound
bricks, 5i2c: smoked behring's, per box
15Q17hc. Dutch herring, in kegs, 81;
new mullets, hall barrels. 1915.
SYRUP-Market quiet Georgia and
Florida syrup. buying at 250271zc: SELL
ing at SoQ3212c; sugar house at 15Q1Sc
HIGH wines. basis. $1.S1
HONEY-Fair demand strained, in
barrels. 45c gallon
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28

New York, May 27.-The stock mar
ket was extremely dull to-day. The
record falling to smaller figure for a
full days business than in some time.
London was a negligible factor, being
particularly interested in its fortnight
ly settlement. Commission house BUSH
ness was small, and the market was
entirely in hand of the purely trading
clement. Spectators in this class ap-
peared to be influenced by absence Of
definite announcement with regard to
South African peace negotiations, and
the uncertainties as to how far the
trouble in the anthracite region would
extend to sympathetic or collateral In
dustrial la borers. The street continued
to ignore the favora BILE news constant
~ current. There were several indie
pendent features of strength. Rock
Island sold up per cent. St. Paul and
Union Pacific showed considera BILE de-
gree of steadiness, which encouraged
theory that certain Western interests
had again begun a change of specu-
lative front. In the Industrials list
sharp advances occurred in locomotive
issues. There were realizing sales
which affected sharp reactions IN
Copper showed some weakness on the
reductions made in the price of metal.
The market closed irregular, but not
weak in tone. Government bonds I'M
changed. Railroad bonds quiet, but
steady to firm. Total sales of stocks
300. 900 shares. Bonds, 81 ,S26, 900.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28
RICHMOND FOR ESTILL.

Augusta Tribune: The meeting at
the Court House last night can leave
no doubt of the fact that Richmond
county is for Estill, at least so far as
concerns the intelligent non-ofiice
holding vote 1t is we'll known that the
most difficult thing to do in this coun-
ty is to draw an audience to a political
meeting of the educational kind. Yet
the hurriedly gotten up meeting drew
a crowd such as is rarely brought to-
gether. There were business men rep
resenting leading concerns, men who
never attend such meetings, and rep
resentatiVe men from all professions
and trades. In numbers they filled the
City Court room. When MIR. Guerry
addressed the voters in the same hall
the little audience, many of them la
dies at that, seemed lost in a great
space of emptiness The audience
last night was composed of voters, and
except a sprinkling of Terrell men
come to see the strength of the opposi-
ton, they were voters whose choice is
Estill.
They manifested their sympathy with
the movement by hearty applause. Au
gusta audiences are proVerbially UNI
demonstratiVe; hence when such
hearty and spontaneous applause is
accorded speakers it is a certain indi
cation of the warmest approval. Col.
Estill received a great ovation, which
Is most significant.
There !sn't any possible doubt of the
county being for Estill. The great aud
fence last night was composed of men
who vote on conviction, and who are
the leaders of thought followed by
others. 1t represented the business
professional and industrial elements of
the city, which is our city. There
seems to be absolute unanimity in the
belief that the best interests of the
state demand a business administra-
ton, such as is promised by Col. Es-
till. and such as his record as a sue
cessful business man is a pledge that
he will give if elected.
Richmond county will send an Estill
delegation to the convention.
THE AUGUSTA MEETING.
Special to Columbia State.
Augusta, May 24.-It is seldom that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28

Examination Work Going Forward.
The Programme.

Mercer University. Macon. Ga. May
27.-Final examina tions for this college
year are now in progress. They will
be completed by the last of May Com
mencement begins Monday, June ?, and
continues through June >. The follow
ing is the programme:
Monday. June 2-Three o'clock, meet
ing of the Board of Trustees. Eight
O'Clock in College Chapel, baccalau-
reate sermon by DR.. B. H. Carroll of
Waco. Tex.
Tuesday, June 3-Annual debate be
tween the literary societies.
Wednesday Afternoon, June flour
o'clock, address before the literary So
cietes by Gov. ". 5. Jennings of Flor
ida. Seven O'Clock, annual alumni
meeting and banquet.
Thursday, June 5-Ten O'Clock grad
uating exercises.
The summer school of Mercer Uni
versity, under the charge of Messrs. o.
II. Elkins of Locust Grove, Ca, and
w c. Jones of Macon. graduates of
this years class, opens June IL. A
large number of applications from stu
dents from different parts of the states
have already been received, and a large
attendance is assured.
The educational party for the sum-
rner school of the South at Knoxville,
Tenn, organized by President P D.
Pollock and Prof w. II. fitzpatrick of
Mercer will be one of the most enjoy
able educational parties of the year
They will leave Macon on a special
train over the Southern road on the
morning of June IS. The party will
lunch on Point Lookout ana spend
three hours on the mountain, and will
reach Knoxville about nightfall Near
ly a hundred teachers from all sections
of the state have already signIfied their
purpose to join the party.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28
WHAT DRuMMERs SAY OF EsTILL.
Business Men aud Farmers Lined Up
SolidlY for Him-Augusta Southern
Territory Is Solid for Him


Tennille, Ca. May Chenille is a
central point for travelling men, and
the Hotel Pritchard is filled daily with
the knights of the grip. They all dis
cuss politics. and they invariably know
pretty well how things are going
throughout the state. Three ourths of
the travelling men are wearing Estill
buttons, and the reports that they give
of the sections they visit, are very IA
vorable to Mr.. Estill. The business
people are almost solid for the Savan-
nah man, and the farmers are lining
up almost solidly for him. Capt Barth,
the veteran railway conductor who
runs from Tennille to Augusta, and
who knows every man, woman and
child living for miles on either side of
his road, and who talks to people from
all these sections every day, says Mr..
Estill will carry every county from
Washington to the Savannah river,
including Richmond. The people are
losing interest in the fight between
belligerents Guerry and Terrell and are
lining up for Estill and a business ad-
miniStration.