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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Art thou a beggar at Gods door,
be sure thon gettest a great bowl. for
as thy bowl is so will be thy mess.
According to thy faith. saith He. be
it unto thee.-John Bunyan.
Kind looks. kind words. kind acts
and warm handshakes - these are
secondary means of grace when men
are in trouble and are fighting their
unseen battles,--John Hall.
I have looked up every Scripture
where anything like meditation is
mentioned. and find that we are
never once told to mediate upon sin
w. H. Griffith Thomas.
Who is meant by our neighbors
we cannot doubt; it is every one with
whom we are thrown into contact, he
or she, whosoever it be. whom we
have the means of helping. Dean
Stanley.
You can help your fellow men;
you must help them, but the only
way you can help them is by being
the noblest and the best man that 1t
is possible fer you to be.-Phillips
Brooks.
Who could believe that from that
unpromising bulb would spring the
gorgeous flower enveloped in its shell
tering leayes2 Yet such shall be our
body then compared with our body
now.-E. II. Bickersteth.
The cure for heartache is to be
found in occupations which take us
away from our petty self regardings
or self pityings, our morbid brood
ings, and which connect our life with
other lives and with other affairs: or
merge our Individual interest in the
larger whole.--Charles G. Ames.
II there be a pleasure on earth
which angels cannot enjoy, and
which they might almost envy man
the possession of, il is the power OF
relieving distress. II there be a pain
which devils might pity man for en-
during. it is the death bed reflection
that we have possessed the power of
doing good, but that we have abused
and perverted it to purposes of evil.
--Laeon.
BY giving to the repetition of an
act of duty. fixed regularity, l can
multiply my moral power in that d.
rection as much as a man multiplies
his material power when he gets hold
of a lever BY faithful habit I can
make that which was at first labor
ious come to be after a while less
difficult. then easy. and perhaps at
last spontaneous and delightful.-G.
S. Merriam.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

The extreme poverty and the low
standard OF living of peasants from
whom the agricultural labOrers are
recruited assure a low level of wages
for agricultural labor. The average
wages will appear almost incredibly
low from an American point Of view,
notwithstanding the general com
plants of the estate holders concern
ing the unreasonable demands OF the
laborers.
According to an official investfga-
tion embracing the decade Of 1882
1891, the average annual wages for a
male agricultural ker in Russia
were lesss than s32 and for a female
worker less than SIS. To this must
be added the cost OF subsistence,
which is equally low, being on an ay-
erage s24 for male and S22 for
female worker for a whole year; SO
that the average cost of employing
laborer for the entire year is equal to
only s55 for the male and $40 for
the female.
The wages for the summer season
Of ave months are almost equal 70
the annual wages. being S22 for the
male and Sf3 for the female laborer,
Bureau of Statistics Bulletin
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

Marjorie was on a visit to her
grandparents on the farm. and her
enjoyment OF country life was some
what marred by the apprehension Of
being horned by the cows. One day
her mother asked her to run to the
barn and call grandpa to dinner She
started out, but espying a cow In the
lot, one of the mooley kind. ran back
crying; %oh, mamma. there's COW
out therei"
After a glance out of the window
at the meek looking bovine her moth.
er said;
"Why, Marjorie. that's a mooley
COW. She can't harm you, for she
hasn't any horns
But. mamma" exclaimed the
child, she might butt me with her
pompadour!' !''-Harper' Weekly.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

While no doubt in many Of the fac
tories the conditions of cleanliness
and health Of the employees are all
that could be desired. it is certain
that there Is an urgent need for re-
form in this field A majority of the
male population are tobacco users,
and should be safcguarded not only
by regulations forbidding the sale of
scrap tobacco under the present con
ditions, but also providing for the SUI
pervision of the health of the tobac-
CO workers and controlling the san
itatlon of the workrooms. In the
eye of the law the tobacco user
should be regarded as deserving Of
as much protection as the consumer
of food stuffs; and since it is certain
that vast quantities Of tobacco will
always be consumed, it is the part
of the authorities to see to 1t that
whatever detriment to health attends
its use is not added to by improper
conditions OF manufacture Medical
Record.
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IA PLATA, MARYLAND. FRIDAY NOVEMBER ao i6os
lady full il the face. "she was Lucy
Lightfoot then"

lady full il the face. "she was Lucy
Lightfoot then"
1 am quite sure you did, she re-
Poor Percy WAS pazzieu~.~ sT''''r
Let me sect was at the Daisy
Music Hall twenty-five years ago,
wasn't it?''
You've an excellent memory,
Archie" replied Miss Fairlie. Per
haps you remember other things,
too?"
Rather, Fanny. replied Mr. Quib-
Bile, chuckling You're almost as
fresh as ever. and as cunning. too, /
see.
How much will you pay TO get
out Of this mess2" asked Fanny.
Five hundred cash down. Take
It, Lucy, and don't bother any more.
Fork over, old man
Poor Percy's little brain was in
whirl. He had no power to inter-
fere. The crisp greenbacks we're
passed over. and Fanny said:
'Ta-ta; but do you know that my
real lover is little Jerry Traddies-
old Toms son? He was only a child
when you and were chums, Archie
He's in Cleveland now. We shall
have a roaring old time when he gets
back"
Then she skipped off.
You're a nice fellow, you arei-
exclaimed Mr. Quibble, as he but.
toned his overcoat. Come along
Ill leave you to your mother now,
and what laugh she will have at
you for your insane infatuation for
that seasoned beauty. Why, she was
heart crusher twenty-five years
ago"
But don't you think it would be
well If you made little of the affair,
sir, in her presence, and helped me
to get on lightly2" said Percy.
He had realized the situation by
this time.
why should I, you scoundrei7"
Don't you remember that you
were one of her admirers. my dear
father?"
The old gentleman was silent for
time.
by Georgei" he exclaimed, after
minutes thought. you're not such
fool. after all!''-New York Weekly
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

The death of Mrs Sam Lewis-Hil
releases for charitable purposes two
or three million pounds in which her
late husband, the noted money lend
er. bequeathed her a life interest.
Mrs. Hil's first husband, the money
lender. left her the whole of his large
fortune. which was estimated at tho
time to amount to $4,000. 900. for
her life. with the stipulation that on
her death 100000 of it should go
to King Edwards hospital fund
Mrs. Lewis about two years ago
married young lieutenant of the
scots Guards named Hin, who had TO
resign from his regiment in eonse-
quence oil the alliance, although the
bride sent a check for s25,000 to the
Guards charities. in vain attempt
TO moIlify Hills brother officers.
They accepted the money. but re
mained obdurat, London Special
to New York Sun.
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Departn,ental style.

In one of the lesser Indian cities
the clerk in charge Of the official doc
sments is a Hindu with peculiar
knowledge Of English,
As rats did much damage TO his
papers he obtained permission to
keep two cats, the larger OF them
receiving rather better rations. A
few weeks later the head Office al
Calcutta received this Dispatch
Il have the honor TO inform you
that the senior cat is absent without
leave. What shall dor
To this telegram there was youeh-
safed no answer. After waiting a
few days the Hindu sent off a propo-
SAL ,.. %
an re absentee cat. | propose 70
promote the junior cat, and IN the
meantime 10 take into Government
service a probationer cat on full ra-
tions. It'd Bits.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30
DANCE OF AFRICAN NATIVES.
Gathering of the Dancers weirt
Music and Strange Figures.


The high cliffs Of the valley showed
| clearly in the bright moonlight. when
the strains of a native band were
heard coming from a native village
Through the long guinea eornstalks
men and women came out like SO
many shadows from the various clus.
ters Of huts. writes Hans Vischer, de.
seribing a dance he saw in northern
Nigeria, in the Geographic Journal
The sonRd of the fiddles and the rat
tling of a calabash filled with pebbles
came ever nearer. till the band with
many followers emerged from the
dark fields to the open space, where
a broad, sandy river bed formed .
natural playground.
A merry crowd had now gathered
chattering and laughing and thor
oughly enjoying itself after the way
Of the African. The musicians, three
stout men and woman, played in that
typical way common to all primitive
people. one fiddle leading with a
slightly varying wailng tune, wher
the second fiddle took up the air, re-
peating it in lower notes, and the
woman accompanied with rhythmic
swinging OF her eaiaDash' II Is a
"eiru' meiahchoiS nolse' haturaily in
d hIhor Key iuii ol ever growing Ok
ei'eiueii,.
az 'ne souns peopie hau no"
lo,nleu ineo .Mo rihss' Tue men IN
sue anu around mem an equal num-
per oi sirls lhey started walking
arouiu s'oMH Ia opposlte olreetiohs
men as tue music became raster
'hes quicAeheu INTO klho OF Two.
sep .ne men uanc'hs IN ana arouhu
ehe sHls'~ho kept moving the othei
way hacn time the BOY laced IN, tne
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

The stors is told of an ardent poll.
tician who In making speeches for
Colonel Harris out In the short-grass
rarion. struck howery period the
other night, and said
In the words Of Daniel Webster,
who wrote the dictionary, Give me
liberty or give ne deathl'
one of his colleagues pulled at his
coat and whispereS'
"Daniel Webster did not write the
dictionary it was Noah. "
Noah. nothing, replied the
speaker; Noah built the ark. -
william Allen White. in EmDoria Ca.
zette,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

But we overlook the air. AS a
means of communication between
men We have seen some beginnings
made. But as an avenue by which
they may pass from one part OF the
world to another and come into ac-
tual. tangible contact with their fel-
low men have hardly begun TO ex-
plore it. And II from one part OF
this world to another why not from
this world itself to other Forldsi-
New York American
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-11-30

A new idea in plows was duly pro-
teeted by a Georgia woman. while
one In OHIO brought to the attention
of the wo,ld her claims in an im-
proved car coupler.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-12
Daughters OF The RCh and Their Right TO WOrt9z1

out price they may do good. Those
who have never Investigated the sub
ject imagine that settlement work is
mainly sentimental. Never was there
a greater mistake. It affords scope for
the energy Of the most practical and
most sensible young woman whoever
she may be. To q sympathetic and
womanly girl It offers IN inviting feld
OF usefulness.
No rule Is without fits exception
Where a woman has commanding abil-
ity and positive genius she has . right
to use 1t for the benefit OF the world
whether She be rich or poor. A great
artist. great poet. great novelist Is
not to be shut out from the express
sion Of her God-given talents because
she has wealth But II being rich and
being only mediocre she finds pleasure
in painting menu cards or illustrating
children's stories or writing short ar
ticles for the papers or doing any other
thing for which she is paid and by
doing which she shuts the door on
some one who needs the money more
than she does. she Is In the wrong
Even though she give the money away,
she Is acting a selfish part Only
superlative endowment may justify a
rich woman IN doing for money sone-
thing . poorer sister could do ss-wslL
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thing that can make her physically
perfect and educate her in accordance
with the most advanced ideas than is
the girl whose father is a successful
merchant, railway magnate or flnan-
cier. She has every advantage, and
when she has been graduated from
college she is a radiant creature. the
finest product Of modern civilization.
W hat does this daughter Of the gods
aim to do with herself? She is fitted
for any station. She shall presently be
presented to society and she may at
ONCE, II she choose, become a reigning
belle. Marriage in the Old World is
the ultimatum goal of a mothers am
bition for such daughter. The Amer
ican mother is not very anxious to get
rid of her daughter, and tells her not
to be IN haste. Why should she not
enjoy a long, bright and triumphant
career as a daughter at home, before
she takes on herself the responsibilities
of the wife, and withdraws from her
position as reigning princess to be the
sole queen Of her own homer
The girl herself in a majority of
cases thwarts her mothers inclinations
and amazes her father by downright
TO work precisely as IL
she had no prospects and were COM
pelled to labor for her own support.
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is. plenty to do In this world for every
body who has will and wish to
work. The girl who has large wealth
should aim to become an employer, to
put herself where she may engage and
pay others and carry on large business
interests without detriment to the good
of society. If she has capital she is
at liberty to use 1t as man does, pro-
vided she has a mans firmness. con-
centration and power of djscernment.
In the lower rounds of her ladder she
should hold steadfastly to this end.
The probability Is, however, that after
three or four years of business or pro-
fessional life she will tire Of the
monotony, drop the whole thing, go
abroad. travel or settle down and
marry. The difference between the
rich mans son and the rich mans
daughter in the matter Of business Is
that with the former II Is regarded as
a serious occupation and with the lat
ter 1t is usually a fad or caprice.
Settlement work affords endless op-
portunities to rich girls who honestly
wish to work. They may teach what
they have learned; they may gather
about them classes in sewing, music
or art; they may go in friendly way
to the sick and the poor, and in every
department. without money and with
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tUTE talk about the idle Tich' the
AN phrase is a misnomer; there
w -o,rrv ara M fdla rich raonle in

WYE talk about the idle rich; the
W phrase is a misnomer; there
really are no idle RICH people in
America today. Wasteful, naughty, ar
rogsnt and purse-proud rich there may
he forming the minority and pointing
q contrast when compared with the
vast multitude OF well-to-do-women
and men who have gained wealth with
oct losing the virtues that distinguish
geod people everywhere. Even those
no form the lower stratum OF the
ehsrt set, who are vulgar and pushing
and. have no claim to consideration be-
yond their bank account, are not idle.
Far from II. They are as restless. as
eager and as busy in the pursuit OF
pleasure as any laborer in the world
can possibly be In the pursuit Of hon.
est bread.
The daughters OF the rich by rea-
Eoz OF the excellent care that sur
rounds them from the cradle belong TO
what may be called with reason our
highest eristocracy. No princess OF
royal blood is more carefully educated,
more zealously surrounded by every
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She argues that her brother when he
leaves college goes into business or a
profession, and that he Is the object Of
criticism If he postpones doing so
longer than the limit OF six or twelve
months vacation. A young man who
should content himself as a diIettante,
who should pride himself on being an
idol Of society, and live a butterfly ex-
fstence would be regarded with a mix
ture of amusement and scorn. The girl
claims that she is q human being just
as her brother is. that she has received
practically the same education that has
been given to him and that she wants
to make use of 1t as he does. Her
mother does not need her, servants can
do whatever is necessary for the COM
fort of the most elaborate home, and
the young woman whose brain has been
developed by serious study is not con-
tent to sit down and let her tools rust.
II is impossible not to sympathize
with this view. Energy and ambition
are In the air we breathe. A girl who
has pronounced talent for business
Is not happy II obliged to spend her
time over embroidery or making.
She not only feels that she has gifts
that may be used successfully out in
the world, but she thinks that the
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she could afford to take If she did not
possess private means cheapens the
market and adds terribly to the bur-
dens of the poor. In not few cases
women of wealth plume themselves on
the austerity Of their economy. They
give lavishly in charity, but they
grudge the money they pay to those
who help them. They will engage as
secretary or companion the daughter
of a relative or of wealthy neighbor
who has a desire to earn pin money
and will fancy that they are doing a
double good; they are gratifying
Cousin Helen or Niece Mary by letting
her work for them. and they are saw
ing something for their missionary
fund or their charities because they
pay her what would not be a living
wage to an equally well-equipped girl
who was poor.
If rich girl decides that she must
and will work, let her enter the lists
as any one else would and ask for and
earn the same wages, no more and no
less. She does we'll to exhibit the
same qualities of steadiness, resolution
and pluck that are expected in her
brother and exacted from other wage
earning women.
IT should not be forgotten that there
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friction, the competition and the activ-
ity OF the outdoor world are interest
ing and profitable. They seem to be
worth while.
The problem that should bid her
pause Is an ethical one. In a suburb
not far from New York there resided
three years ago on the same street two
girls. one of whom had a fortune. the
other OF whom was dependent on her
daily work for daily bread. Both had
business ability. Each had studied
bookkeeping, each applied in the same
week for the same vacant situation.
It was given to the rich girl, probably
because she was rich and bore name
well known In business circles. Had
the rich girl not applied the position
would have been given to the girl who
needed It, who would have performed
It's duties with equal fidelity and who
was forced by her poverty to take
something less renunerative. In this
instance the first girl really acted,
without Intending 1t. the part of
robber and made life moro difficult and
frugality more pressing than It need
have been In the home of another-a
sister woman of her own age and with
an education similar to her own.
The rich girl who not infreQuently
accepts work at q lower salary than
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-12
BY Annette Moore

kWr is sad picture Of motherhood
that one finds behind the barred
windows OF Ainnesota's peniten-
tiary at Saltwater. Stella Brennan,
convicted Of the awful crime of mur-
der. has but recently entered upon
sentence Of life Imprisonment holding
IN her arms an infant-a prison-born
girl bsby-which only few days ago
opened its blue eyes to the light Of
those gloomy surroundings.
What more narrowing picture could
a woman's mind conceive than this one
"a picture that saw two weeks ago
during a short stay in saltwater?
Where is the woman who would fail in
her. outpouring sympathy for Stella
Brennan, even though the latter is
guilty Of a frightful and unnatural
crime and is paying a penalty for it?
And where is there a woman who
would not have shared my feelings
when I entered AIinnesota's penal in
stitution and saw that baby innocentIy
bssking IN the sunshine that fell In
shafts upon its tiny body through the
grating in the narrow window of Stella
Brennan's cell? It was enough to stir
the deepest wells of pity in the human
heart.
-rThen I had returned to San Fran
elk and viewed for the first time the
silent ruins Of the city as they were
slhouetted before the shadows OF
night I suddenly thought OF that un-
fortunate woman and child in Still
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home Of James Brennan in the northern
part OF that prosperous city.
They were the stepchildren of Mrs.
Of the night the neighbors of the Bren-
mans were startled out of their peace
ful sleep by the reports of three shots.
Three innocent children were hurried
into eternity by those shots, and a
fourth-a boy, who has since recovered
was injured. It was this boy-one Of
Mrs. Brennan's stepchildren-that fur
nished a damaging story to the court
which found the woman guilty of mur-
der and sentenced her to life imprison-
ment at saltwater.
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throbbed with pity for the child which
was to be born in the depressing gloom
OF a prison, and If the truth were told,
for the expectant mother too, even
though she may have less than a year
ago deliberately planned and success
fully carried out plot to rid herself
Of three stepchildren whose only Of
fense was that they won love and at
tention from their father and thereby
created hatred in their stepmothers
heart.
Motherhood-reveren by all man
kind from the worlds beginning and
favorite subject with painters who have
devoted their best efforts in faithfully
depicting on canvas a representation
of its sacred significance and exquisite
charm-here makes an appeal alone
through its unutterable pathos.
The mind shrinks from grasping the
full wretchedness of such an event;
all the finer feelings are shocked at the
thought of a child being born within
prison walls.
Any one who has within him a spark
Of the divine spirit which kindles sym
pathy and pity for fellow-being un-
fortunately situated cannot contem-
plate a young mother serving life
sentence in penitentiary for the crime
OF murder. Picture, as I have already
done, the mothers Joy in the birth of a
child, turned to misery at the thought
of its prison -darkened future, without
compassion for both-for the one whose
life certainly is ruined past redemp-
ton, and the other who is innocent and
unconscious as yet of the forfeit of
happiness 1t will be compelled to pay
II 1t lives because a prison stain rests
upon Its birth.
In the face of all the treatises that
physicians have written upon the fate
full influence of prenatal environment
one realizes with a shock that the
mother of this little penitentiary child
has been associating during the six
months before her childs coming with
sullen-faced prisoners, with the trage-
dies of their lives engraved in heavy
lines about their mouths and eyes.
going about their work with never
smile to tighten their tasks or illumine
the gloom Of the prison factories.
The mind dwells now less upon Mrs.
Brennan In her prison environment and
more particularly upon her little
daughter. An infant deprived OF a
childs first and most sacred right
that of being well born, robbed before
its birth of its just inheritance Of spir-
itual and mental qualities.
It is beginning Its struggle with the
world under the most pathetic and
tragic circumstances that Imagination
can portray, but happily oblivious to
the fact that its life Is already blight
ed by its mothers crime. and that az
years unfold they will bring TN over
whelming burden of shame and sus-
picion for which the child can in no