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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08
EYE TO MAIN CHANCE.

At 10 o'clock the o.her forenoon a
citizen passed house on Brush street,
in Chicago, to see a young colored
man and woman seated on the door
step with their arms around each
other. The pedestrian smiled and
passed on, but before he had gone a
block be was overtaken by the young
man who, shamefacedly, said:
II seed yo' grinnin,' boss, an I
thought I'd explain dat it was a case
of love at first sight. was jest took
wild dat gal de first mint I sot eys on
her, an l reckon she'll dun promise to
marry me befo' noon."
Three hours later the citizen return
ed that way, and he found the young
man billing and cooking a much older
woman, while the other sat sulking
ten feet away. He passed on as be-
fore, and again the young man over
took him to say;
"Reckon yo' am sorter surprised
ober de change, eb?"
eyes, rather. You we're courting
the daughter two hours ago."
"Dat's fact, sah."
"And you said it was case of love
at first sight"
"Yes, I said dat"
"Well, why did you drop her for the
other.
"Dey am mudder an daughter,
sah."
$50 l should say, but what of that?
You amt going to make love to both
at once, are you?"
"No, sab; no, sab. Ize gwine to let
de gal slide"
"But for why?"
"Bekase, sab," replied the lover as
be dropped his voice to the confiden-
tial pitch. II has diskibered dat it's
de mudder who owns de house an
has de $500 in de bank"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08
Eelect @isrellany.
Reuben.

1t was legacy from the father who
had died before Reuben was ten years
old and left him to the care of Uncle
Josiah, the brother of Reuben's long
dead mother. The strongest memory
Reuben retained Of his father was a
mind-picture OF a white, haired man
sitting up in bed, with the beloved
violin in his hands, filling the poor
attic-room with sweet sounds. lie was
partially paralyzed even then, and
later, when his fingers became helpless,
his heart broke and he died.
Then Uncle Josiah came from the
country to the great city, and took the
lad home. At the bottom of the lair
trunk, containing all Reuben's posses
sions, we've safely stored the violin and
case, with a score of music the dead
musician had left the boy.
On the farm in Jersey Reuben found
a rough, kindly welcome. Aunt Polly
cried a little over the orphan; Sue and
Jennie, kindly maidens, kissed and
caressed him, and Daisy, whose blue
eyes were like twin violets, stole shyly
up to the dark-baired lad and slipped
a slice of cake into his hand. 1t was
a busy hive, the old farmhouse, where
no drones found a place.
Uncle Josiah disapproved altogether
of the violin. Never had he heard of
fiddler blowing a field or raising
stock. Never had he seen any practi-
cal good come from scraping catgut,
and in more than one instance destruc-
ton was threatened to Reuben's one
pleasure. He grew afraid to raise the
sweet sounds he loved, inside the farm
house, and would steal away to prac-
tice the lesson his father had taught
him, by the brookside, in the whisper
ing woods or the shady lanes.
Nobody loved his violin but Daisy.
Daisy would softly touch the strings,
and listen with parted lips and shifting
color when Reuben woke the spirits OF
music with his bow. Sue and Jennie
did not ol jet to a good, lively dance
tune; but only Daisy would follow
Reuben into the woods where dreams
floated into sweet melodies, and the
bow and strings talked in music's own
language. Daisy alone knew of the
lonely walks with the dear companion;
and Daisy's lips would quiver and her
blue eyes fill when the boy whispered
in her ear of his heart hunger.
Years passed 10y and the boy became
man.
"Scarcely worth his SALT Uncle
j osiah pronounced him, and yet loved
him well, for his gentle obedience, his
willingness to perform any task, how
ever distasteful.
"A dreamy gawk, in every body s
way" Sue and Jennie said, but saved
tue choicest bit of dainty country fare
for Reuben.
"a poor, weakly body" Aunt Polly
said, and her touch was soft on R.u
ben's hair, while she sighed gently,
convinced that the pale thin checks
would never grow round or rosy, but
"lkely rest under the daisies,' she
thought pityingly.
Only Daisy really understood the
sensitive nature, the tender heart, the
starving, longing intellect. Only
Daisy grieved when the long delicate
hands blistered and bied over rough
work, and would never harden. Only
Daisy, as maidenhood came, shrined
Reuben in her heart of hearts and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08
1Boetry*
THE SCHOOL
OF EXPERIENCE

HE SCHOOL
OF EXPERIENCE
.I'm sick and tired of school, said he,
As he heard the BELLS ding dong;
He sulkily p licked his satchel up,
And growled as he crept along:
''Its nothing but school, from sun to sun,
And III be glad when 1 am done!'
Ho, no, my boy! thought to my self,
What are you talking about?
You've scarcely begun to 60 to school,
AS you Will soon find out
You'll have to enter, few years hence,
The school of Master Experience.
The School Of Experience never steps.
1t never shuts its door;
Vacation time is there unknown,
And recess is no more.
Each day the pupil there will find
Some problem deep to vex his mind.
TIE master there is strict, but just,
And though the tasks are hard,
The faithful, dilgenr and good,
Will reap rich reward;
Demerit marks will be the price
OF shiftless Incidence and vic
Oh! grumb ing school boy. recollect,
Though now you scowl and frown.
That you are eating white bread here.
While there you'll eat the brown
At the School of Experience,
Where you will be few years henc,!
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

A little girl, suffering with toothacbe,
was in his chair TO have the tooth re-
moved. She refused to let him pro-
ceed at first, being afraid of the pain.
"It won't hurt you, little one,' said
the dentist "There, now, open your
mouth. 1t won't hurt" Half a min
ute's work removed the tooth, and as
the little girl cried softly the dentist
said: "Didn't 1 tell you it wouldn't
hurt? What do you think of me now!"
Looking up at him with her big brown
eyes, she replied: 81 think you're the
biz gest liar in town." The dentist has
quit telling people tooth pulling don't
hurt.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08
THE SPIRIT OF WINTER.

The Spirit of Winter is with US,
making Its presence known in many
different ways-sometimes by CHEEKY
sunshine and glistening SHOWS, and
sometimes by driving winds and blind
ing storms. To many people it seems
to take delight in making bad things
worse, for rheum atism twists harder,
twinges sharper, catarrh becomes
more annoying, and the many symp-
toms of scrofula are developed and
aggravated There is not much poe
try in this, but there is truth and it
is wonder that more people don't get
rid of these ailments. The medicine
that cures them-H ood's Sarsaparilla
lis easily obtained and there is abun-
dant proof that its cures are radical
and permanent.
"Here!" EXCLAIMED the irate Gus
toner to the trunk dealer. 81 thought
you said that chest l bought of you
was moth proof"
"Well," said the trunk dealer
"wasn't it,"
"No! When I opened it my things
were full of holes"
"Great Scott, man! What better
proof of 'em do you wan,?'
He-"What is that new piece you
are playing? Is it by Wagner?'
She-"No, it's 'Hiawatha,' but the
piano is out of tune"
"Do thoughts that came to you
long ago ever return?"
Poet-"Sure, if enclose stamped
envelope"
The rising generation owes much to
the invento of the alarm clock.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

Yes, I'll give you meal of victuals
if You'll shovel off these s;dewalks.'
Would you not prefer, madam, to
have me shovel off the snow?"
"Poor fellow! Have you tramped
all the way from Boston?"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

wharfage is like besieged CITY,"
I'm what way?'
$50 many of the people are trying
to get in, and 80 many to get out"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

Even in the darkest hour Of earthly
II woman:s fond affection glows.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

"Do thoughts that came to. you
long ago ever return?"
Poet" -"Sure, if enclose stamped
envelope"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-08

The rising generation owes much to
the inven tor of the alarm clock.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Science Aidinq Agriculture.

The achievements of college profess
sors in showing an industry of modest
standing but fundamental importance
how to enhance its production have
reached monumental results. An Iowa
professor, by inducing the farmers to
make scientific selection of seed
and teaching them a more careful
preparation of the ground, enlarged
the corn crop of that state by about
100,000,000 bushels. A Maine profess
or is showing how, by selection in
breeding, hens can be induced to lay
twice as many eggs as the ordinary
fowls. Cornell professors are enlarg-
ing the old lesson on the increase of
milk from COWS. A Minnesota teacher
has developed handy and improved
breed of wheat. A Nebraskan in the
same line has outlined a plan of cul-
tivation that will secure crops on semi
arid land without rigation.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Celluloid a Menace,

The unrestricted sale of articles
made of celluloid, which is practically
guncotton, for any purpose whereby
such article is liable to come into
contact with fire, should on no &C.
count be allowed, says the Lancet. We
believe there are other dangerous sub
stances related to guncotton which 90
under other names and which are also
used for similar purposes and should
be likewise banned. 1t may be that
the inhammability of celluloid is some
times somewhat counteracted by adj
mixture with substances with an on
posite tendency, but the difficulty is
to distinguish the combustible from
the incombustible At all events some
warning should be inscribed on the
articles made Herewith, and thew
should be marked highly in1am.
mable." or with some other equally
premonitory and protecting device.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
TO PRESERVE OUR FORESTS.
Men Of Authority to Meet in Washing
ton to Discuss Subject.

Early in the coming year an Amerl-
can forest congress will meet in Wash
ington under the auspices Of the Amer
lean Forestry association. The con-
gress is called to consider the forests
in their relation to the great industries
closely dependent on them, such as
numbering. transportation, irrigation,
mining and grazing. It's intention in
general is to guard intelligently our
forest resources, and bring to an end
the ignorant end destructive raVage of
the lumberman and the wood pulp
man, who, left to themselves, would
in century denude the continent and
provide the way for it to become a
desert.
The congress is of national impor-
lance, the President will address it,
and its aims have the sympathy Of
everybody with sufficient intelligence
to comprehend their bearing on the
public welfare. The congress may
bear in mind and flourish forth anew
HumbOldts dictum that wherever man
has appeared on the earth he has pre-
pared the way for his extinction by his
destruction of forests.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Paw of Various Armies.

It may still be said of the soldiers
Of the army of the United States that
they are the best fed, the best clothed
the best sheltered and the best paid
troops in the world. The Slav soldier
who is fighting to maintain the pres,
tige Of the Car in Manchuria, receives
only II cents month. The little Jap
who is opposing him, receives only 60
cents month. France pays her SOL
diers $1.74 a month, Germany pays her
soldiers $3.50 a month and England
pays hers STA. But the American
soldier gets $13 month in time of
peace, with a 20 per cent increase in
time of war.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Prosperity in Wall Street.

Prosperity among Wall street bro
kers has caused a general movement
Cor larger Offices. 1t is estimated that
the leases signed within the past
month by bankers and brokers intend.
ing to move into new Offices will ag-
gregate an annual rental of over
100000. Not for long time, if ever
before, has there been such a general
moving into larger quarters, for, in
the present market boom, financial
firms can barely get men enough to
handle their business, and in almost
every active house the clerks are kept
until 10 and II at night in order to
keep up with the work.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
PapaI Edict Against DueIinq.

The Pope is about to publish an
enunciation against dueling. In de,
nouncing a practice which he charac,
terizes as a stupid anachronism" and
a relic Of the "barbarism of the middle
ages" his holiness is as much actuated
by civil as religious motives. The
laws of the present day he considers
do not sufficiently protect the individ,
uals honor, and he is in hopes of set,
ting on foot an energetic legislative
movement which may have practical
results to that effect. Piux X holds
that the law should step in and oblige
those who insult others to prove the
truth of their assertion or pay a severe
penalty.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16

The armored cruiser Tennessee was
launched Dec. 3, at the yards Of Will
liam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. The
christening party included Gov Fra
Zier of Tennessee, and his staff Mrs.
Frazier and their daughter, Annie
Keith Frazier, who was sponsor for
the ship.
Up to almost the moment when the
big warship started down the ways, a
drizzle of sleet and rain fell continu'
ously, but during the actual launching
the sun shone through the clouds, the
sky again becoming overcast shortly
after the ship took the water.
Miss Frazier carried huge bouquet
Of American Beauty roses to which
was attached a bottle of champagne,
and as the vessel was about to take
its initial dip she struck the PROV
two resounding blows, at the same
time pronOuncing the baptismal words
in a clear voice.
Immediately after the launch lunch
con was served in the mould loft. The
Tennessee was completed five months
ahead of the contract time.
Gov. Frazier's party included Mrs.
Frazier, Senator and Mrs. E. w. Car
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
DEATH CLAIMS J. N. TYNER.
Former Postmaster-GeneraI, Under
Cloud, Expires at Washington.
Former Postmaster General ]

Former Postmaster General James
N. Tyner died at Washington Dec. 5,
aged IS years. He was born in Brook
vile, Ind, Jan. II, 1926. Mr.. Tyner
had never recovered his health since
he was stricken with paralysis in July,
1902. Besides being postmaster gen
eral, Mr.. Tyner has held many Offices
of public trust.
The stroke of paralysis which shat
tered Mr.. Tyner's health occurred in
July, 1902, while he was assistant at
torney general, and he never discharg-
ed the duties Of his Office after it.
Mr. Tyner has been identified with
the postal service most Of the time
since March, 1861, when he was ap
pointed a special agent in the depart
ment. The sensational climax to his
official career occurred in April, 1908,
when he was removed by Postmaster
General Payne following the taking by
Mrs. Tyner and Mrs. Barrett Of papers
from the 4 in the Office of the as
sistant attorney general, of which Mr..
Tyner was then the head. Mr.. Tyner
was i'll at home and the Office was
under investigation by postoffice in
spectOrs.
The postOfice department gave out
statement at the time Tyner and
Barrett were indicted, which set forth
that there were three indictments
charging Tyner and Barrett with con-
spiracy and two additional indictments
charging Barrett with agreeing, while
IN office, to receive fees for services
rendered or to be rendered in cases
before him as an officer. 1t was charg-
ed that Tyner and Barrett investigat.
ed the business of bond investment
companies and learned that they were
all carrying on business that involv-
ed fraud or lottery, or BOTH but that
instead of recommending to the post
master general the issue of an order
that would prevent the delivery OF
mail or the payment of money orders
to those concerns, and would thus
break up their business. they cOnspir'
ed to give them unobstruCted use Of
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Trusted Nesuvius loo Much

When the first writer's began to
mention Vesuvius they spoke of the
lava character of the soil around the
volcano and of the many signs that
it had been burned in ancient times. u
But there is no recorded disturbance
of the crater earlier than Christian
times. In A. D. 70 came the historic
bursting of the mountain and the over
whelming of Herculaneum and Pom
peii. At that time it was not suspect.
ed that Vesuvius would do such an
unheard-of thing. Gardens and vine
yards ran up to the very top of the
volcano and villages and private villas
were scattered about the slopes and
base.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Had Poor Opinion of Author.

F. Marion Crawford, famous as au.
thor and traveller, was at a dinner in
New York a few evenings ago, and
was presented by the host as ."Mr
Crawford" to a smartly dressed young
woman who did not suspect his iden.
tity. They chatted for half an hour
and later the host asked the lady what
she thought of his friend Crawford.
ooh, so, So" she replied. Hes hand.
some and lazy and conceited, you
know, and all that, but he strikes me
as being quite shallow and sadly lack
ing in knowledge of the world"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
DOES AWAY WITH SPECTACLES
English Physician Has New Treat
ment for Failing Sight.

Optimists believe that DR.. Stephen
Smith, surgeon of the eye department
Of. Battersea Park hospital, Noting
ham, England has discovered new
treatment of the eye which will prac-
tically abolish spectacles. 1t is styled
manipulation Of the eye" and is gen
tie and gradual, occupying few min
utes daily, cau1ng no pain and having
no injurious effect of any sort. Some
cases are cured in a week, and in all
cases Improvement is rapid.
Thirty patients who had been oblig-
ed to wear spectacles for a long time
have so far been treated by DR.. Smith
and, with a single exception, all have
discarded glasses and can now read,
at either long or short distances, as
we'll as people who have never needed
assistance.
The cures Of myopia, hypermetropia
and astigmatism are said to be perma-
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
To Learn American Methods.

Following the custom of the house
of Rothschild of sending its young
men abroad to familiarize themselves
with business methods of foreign
countries, two scions of the Vienna
branch Of the family of financiers
have arrived in this country. They
are Baron Alphonse and Baron Louis
De Rothschild, son of Baron Albert
De Rothschild of Vienna. Baron Al
phOnse has come to study American
banking methods, and during his stay
he will complete his education in
finance under the direction of August
Belmont in the New York banking
house of August Belmont & Co. This
is said to be the first time that a
member Of the Rothschild family has
been sent to this country to perfect
himself in financiering.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Democratic Railroad President

President George F. Baer of the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad is
one of the most democratic railroad
presidents in the country. Show has
no place with him. His tastes are far
too simple to require the adjunct OF
attendants to dance at his beck and
call. Nor is he given to dispatching
messengers with mandatory requests
to report at his Office. Those whose
business calls them to the Reading
terminal in Philadelphia have time
and again seen Mr.. Baer passing from
his own to the offices of other officials
minus a coat. His recreation is con.
fined very largely to an occasional day
spent on his farm, near Reading.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Millionaire Lover of Horses

C. X. G. Billings, for years a resi-
dent of Chicago, but now one of New
York's millionaires, has no peer in
this country as a gentleman horse
owner. He now has about $350O0O
invested in high-class horsefesh, and
the cost of maintaining his stables is
over $4,000 year. Mr.. Billings
never bets a dollar on his trotters, he
shuns the limelight and the animals
he owns are never made conspicuous
save by their speed and quality. It
takes three score coachmen, harness
cleaners, carriage washers and stable
men to keep up the Billings equine
establishment.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Morgan Protects His Photos.

Following the lead of John D. Rock
efeller, ]. P. Morgan has had a photo
or MS most recent portrait in oil COPY
rlghted so that the newspapers
throughout the country will not be able
TO print it. So far as is known Mr..
Rockefeller and Mr.. Morgan are the
Only two Americans of the sterner sex
who object to having their pictures
reproduced in the papers. There are
any number of society women who for.
bid the photographers to give pictures
for publication and some of them have
had their photos copyrighted.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Governors Head Not SweIIed.

E. B. Brooks, just elected governor
of Wyoming, is big ranch owner and
great lover of outdoor sports. In re-
ply to a letter CT congratulations from
a friend he says: IF l could hire
some decent fellow to take this gov
ernorship job off my hands for a
couple of years I would do it. Conf
dentially, I don't think ever wanted
the job, but some people thought
couldn't get it and l thought l could.
When the frills and didos get too thick
| will telegraph you and we will sneak
off to the ranch and go back into the
mountains, put up tent and l will
smoke a corncob pipe again, fry the
grouse and make the biscuit and we
will lazy around and laugh at the
world as we used to do"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Value of New Ideas.

The recognition of the value Of a
new idea, in regard to a business
point, is leading employers to encour-
age criticisms and suggestions from
employees in respect to the details Of
the business, thus utilizing their micro
sCOpic view rather than depending
solely on the bird's-eye view which is
taken by the manager, says Success.
A friendly feeling results from this
attitude, and the employee takes a
deeper interest in his work, develop
ing his own capacity and helping the
business. To see his idea carried out
by his superiors puts. new life into him
and adds new enthusiasm to his eff
forts. He will work harder to develop
another point, and so win this apprO-
baton, than he would for any other
compensation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-16
Master OF MHot Air.

Frank Russell, secretary of the St..
Joseph and Grand Island railroad, with
headquarters at st. Joseph, Mo-, re-
ceiVed letter recently from young
man who wanted pass. Before re-
questing the pass, however, the young
man wrote about a page of hot air"
about Mr.. Russell, "his good work"
and This bright future" In answering
the note the railroad man said: Dear
Sir: | wish you would give me the ad-
dress of the man who built your fur
mace. We have been thinking of heat
ing our right of way between ST..
Joseph and Kansas City this winter
and l believe the man who furnished
your hot air machine could do the
work nicely. Enclosed find the pass.
You earned it,"