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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

Il down from $50 to 125 pounds. |
was having terrible pain in the kid.
neys, and the secretions passed almost
i~nvoluntarily. My left leg swelled un.
til 1t vas "a inches around, and the
doctor tapped it night and morning
until ] could no longer stand 1t, and
then he advised amputation. | re-
fused, and began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. The swelling subsidized gradn.
ally, the urine became natural, and all
my pains and aches disappeared. |
have been well now for nine years
since using Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster. Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11
A Ventilation Test.

II Is very hard TO make an impress.
sion on those people who defend their
possessions on all occasions, A lady
was explaining 10 a visitor the many
advantages OF concrete hollow block
construction, OF which the walls OF
her new home we're built.
THE air spaces in the walls afford
insulation against heat in summer and
cold in winter" she explained. BE
sides, such walls afford ventilation
and insure a more healthful house"
The visitor reflected a moment, and
replied.
Our frame house must be quite as
well built. Every night We lock the
cat in the cellar, and have to let her
out Of the attic in the morning
Youths Companion.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11
Marrying for Love.

Happy marriages are surely possible
even in these unpoetic, h~ard-hearted
times. They are, II the people will
only follow the instinct Of their better
natures and marry for Iove--the rever-
ent, impassionate love of the man for
the maiden, the pure, unsophisticated
anection of the maiden for the man
Instead Of bartering happiness for
r;:ak OF money.-Thorne.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

says; Il had been
showing symptoms OF
kidney trouble from
the time | was mus
tered out of the army.
but in all my life |
never suffered as in
1897. Headaches, diz-
illness and ~sleePless-
ness first, and then
dropsy, | was weak
and helpless, having
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

Dystefsfa2s Dyaeu Caused BY Caszy,A
Of The .stonaaoA-Ptyana Relleves Ca
tay,h oftAs saenaaeA and Is Therefore a
Remedy FOR Dssfsfsfa.
I Hon. M. g. Butler, II. S. Senator \
from South Carolina for two terms, !
J in u better from Washington, d. c., J
writes TO the Peruna Medicine Co., I
As follows: I
~ can rec0samend Peruna Tor J
dyspepsia and stomach trouble. ~
have been assiRx your medicine for
Z short period and I feel Yesy much ]
I frlievcd. tits indeed q wonderful !
med5cine. besideS . good tonic" !
GATARRH OF the stomach is the cor
- rect name for most cases of dyspep-
sis. Only am internal cataruh remedy,
such rs Peruna, is available.
PernaA IAhIets caa aow be pronsred.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

Defiance Starch-Good, hot or cold
the best for all kinds of laundry
work, 16 OF. for 10c.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11
Drink More wster.

There are 80 many soothing and
hygienfc elements in water. Just clear
water, either hot or cold. that, gen.
orally speaking, the whole human
a would be better for more varied,
II not necessarily copious, use Of Il.
Few persons drink enough water be.
tween meals.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Ampu.
tation Of a Limb.

B, Frank Doremus, veteran, Of
Roosevelt avenue, Indianapolis, Ind,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot.
Ease. A certain cure for swollen sweating,
hot, aching feet. Az al Druggists, &c. Ac.
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. 3. Olrasted. lie Roy, N. Y.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

The time is never lost that is de.
voted to woyk.-Emerson,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-10-11

had Catarrh for about Aftesn
years, and no man could have
been worse. tried everything
I could hear OF, but no good res
suited. Ithsn began q. 8. g., and
could soc . little Improvement
from the first bottle, and after
taking II q. short while was CURED.
This was six years ago, and / am
a. well today as any man. Think
Catarrh IL . blood disease, and
knew there n nothing on earth
better for the blood than B. s.. b.
Nobody thinks more or b. B. 8,
than ] do. ~. XAT6ON.
Lapeer, Mich.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
straiahtened Out the BIunder.

Beef was very scarce in Ladysmith
during the siege, but General Sir Ian
Hamilton, then colonel, insisted that
"horse Is not half bad when properly
cooked and when one Is used to 1t.
In fact" he said, concluding a discus
sion, II have joint cooked tonight,
which hope you will all sample. OF
course, there's beef, too-tonightw Ev-
cry one at the table preferred the beef,
with the exception Of Colonels Ward
and Ian Hamilton, who ostentatiously
carved generous slices from the "horse-
flesh" The dinner was nearly over
when one Of the servants whispered
communication to Ward. Up he sprang.
"1'm distressed, gentlemen" he an
nounced to the startled company. "a
silly mistake has been made. Those
joints were mixed up somehow, and
you have been eating the horse. I'm
really annoyed. But hope you'll be
convinced now that the meat Is splen-
did eating. I'm sure you all seemed
Ito enjoy it." Chances were exchanged; {;
mustaches were twirled. Nobody SEEM
ed ready with a response. Then q
voice from the bottom Of the table
piped up: "Oh, don't distress yourself,
Ward! I thought some mistake had
been made. so I just changed those
dishes as they stood on the sideboard.
It was you and Hamilton who had the
horsef1esh all rightv'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Popular Approval of Theft.

The idea Of private property has
never been fully accepted by the mass
es Of the people and never had their
cordial approval as an institution. The
most popular songs and ballads Of our
nation in all ages, it may be noted,
have been those which described SYM
pathetically attacks on private proper
ty from the Robin Hood cycle to the
broad sheets in which Turpin and
Sheppard were made heroes. Even
nowadays the literature that really
touches the people, the literature that
the educated classes seldom so much
as see exposed for sale, the literature
that is sold in the small general
shop in the back street and costs fewer
pennies than the novel we know costs
shillings, still very largely deals with
the romantic exploits Of the robber.
He Is never a villain; he is noble and
generous to fault but he Is con-
vinced of the improperly Of persons
having too much money. = London
News
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

We are all happier for lot Of things
we don't see.
Aid is never satisfactory. The best
way Is not to need it.
You probably expect more Of friend
than you are willing to give.
The worry Of today Is usually the re-
suit of carelessness Of yesterday.
Bravery isn't much credit to bull
dog. He hasn't sense enough to be
afraid.
People would be less suspicious of
others If they didn't know themselves
so we'll.
No storekeeper becomes SO we'll &C
uuainted with q customer that he likes
to have him 60 behind his counter.
Compliments are like wine-it only
takes a small dose to go to the heads
Of some people, while others can stand
a good deal-Atchison Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
The Circus and tho Arab steed.

Circuses are perhaps more to blame
for the Misrepresentation Of the Arab
horse than any other source. A friend
Of mine owns a circus, and I saw his
posters few years ago claiming to ex-
htbit eighteen or twenty Of the only
Arabian horses brought to America.
He said they were captured with great
difficulty and brought to New York by
a special permit of the sultan; that
they were Of the family known In his
tory as the eagle feather horses, so
much priced in the queen Of Sheba's
days; that they were snow white, with
big markings in their spots of the tip
of eagle feathers. We don't have to
believe everything we read on the cir
Gus posters. In this case I am mighty
certain these spotted Arabians" were
bought at Albany, Ore. The most pc
culiar part of this spotted horse busi-
ness is this, and it is not very strange
reason when you know it, that spotted
anything is created by mixture Of
different races or different breeds, and
that likely accounts for the fact that
the Arabian desert in all its history
has never produced q spotted, or pie
bald, horse, possible from the fact that
there is never any mixture Of blood
Homer Davenport in Woman's Home
Companion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
nGoino to the Docs"

The phrase "going to the dogs" has
puzzled the explainers Of metaphorical
expressions rather needlessly. It has
even been suggested that it is pro-
fame perversion Of 'going to the gods"
and an allusion has been detected to
"canis," the dog throw, the worst
throw with the dice among the ancient
Romans. Shakespeare's Throw physic
to the dogs and the Scriptural "Give
not that which is holy unto the dogs"
have been quoted in connection with
the expression. But it seems a fairly
obvious reference to the fate Of the
wornout horse, condemned to be
slaughtered. The old Greek curse, 'Go
to the crows!" may be compared, re-
ferring as it did to the Greeks horror
Of having his body left unburied as
food for carrion birds.-London Spec
tatOr
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Robbv Remembered.

Binks after inviting his friend Jinks,
who has just returned from abroad, to
dinner is telling him what fine MEM
ory his little son Bobby has.
"And do you suppose he will remem-
ber me?" said Jinks.
Remember you! Why, he remem-
bers every face that he ever saw"
An hour later they enter the house.
and after Jinks has shaken hands with
Mrs. Binks he calls Bobby over to him.
"And do you remember me, my little
mani"
Course do! You're the same feller
that pa brought home last summer
and ma wuz so mad about it that she
didn't speak to pa fur whole week"
Galveston News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
"MUNGO" PARK.
The Worse Than Shoddy Fabric That
Gave Him His Name

The Worse Than shoddy Fabric That
Gave Him His Name.
The old lady listened complacently
to the compliments on her new gown.
"Well at any rate" she said as she
smoothed the lustrous folds, ut isn't
made of mungo."
"Mungo? What is mungo" asked
her niece
"Have you never heard of lIungo
Park?" said the old lady.
Eyes, 1 think I have. I don't know
what I've heard, though"
'Well, I'll tell you. Mungo Park was
an Englishman, and he lived at the
time when shoddy was invented. He
invented a stuff that was far worse
than shoddy-a stuff beside which
shoddy was fine, new woodland I'll
tell you why this stuff was called
mungo.
Park, after making up a batch of
it out Of shoddy dust and grease, gave
it anxiously to his carder to card.
'"The carder tried it. Then he sent
for the boss.
""This new stock Of yours won't 60,
Mr. Park he said.
"'Mun CO. said the other in his York
shire dialect. 1T mum go, man.
"And 60 it did, and thus Park got his
name, and thus that abominable stock
that he invented came to get the name
Of mungo"-New Orleans Times-Dem-
0crat
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
The Oyster and the Cookie,

If the average person were asked
what was the strongest living thing it
Is probable that he would name the
lion or some such huge denizen Of the
forest and would not even think of the
unassertive bivalve. But so great Is
the power possessed by the oyster that
to open it force equal to 1,319.5 times
the weight of its shell-less body is re-
quired. The shell-less limpet pulls
1884 times it's own weight when in the
air and about double when measured
In the water. The Mediterranean coc-
kle Venus vurrucosa) can exert pull
ing power equal to 2,O71 times the
weight Of its own body. If the human
being possessed strength as great In
proportion as that the average man
would be able to lift the enormous
weight Of 2,076,OO0 pounds, pulling in
the same degree as the nmpet. And If
the man pulled in the same proportion
ate degree as the cookie he would sus-
tain a weight Of no less than 3,1O6,5O0
pounds.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Nobody Ever "at" London.

A case of irregularity occurs in
cablegram that announces from New
York the residence Of a certain ac-
cused person "at London" You will
perceive at once the absurdity of those
words-"at London" A New Yorker
may want to get at London, but those
who live there live "in London" And
1t is one Of the triumphs Of London
and language Though most irregular)
that no one is ever sat- London. You
can drop off "at'' Paris on the way to
anywhere, and you may spend the win
ter "at' st. Petersburg or "at' New
York. You may change cars ''at' Chi
cago. But there comes a moment when
the English language gets irregular. Is
It when the fifth million Is passed? No
Englishman was ever "at' London. 1t
would be as irregular as being "at'
Asia or "at" heaven.-London Stand
ard
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
The Father of West Point.

George washington must be given
the credit Of causing the first steps to
be taken toward the founding of ma
tional military academy. In 1904, while
serving his second term as president,
Washington succeeded in having con-
gress create the grade of cadet in the
army. West Point was chosen as the
best army post at which cadets could
be trained, for the reason that 1t was
then the most important station Of the
artillerists and engineers. The cadets
Of those days did not pass entrance
examinations, ana the standard Of pro-
ficiency In studies did not amount to
the tenth part Of what is exacted now
adays. A smattering Of engineering,
mathematics and artillery practice was
all that was deemed necessary. - st.
Nicholas
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
THE FIRST SYNDICATE.
How the French Word Was American
lied Amid Much Jestino,

TOW the freneh word Was American.
lied Amid Much Testing.
Throughout the European negotia-
lions in reference to the Northern Pa
cific railroad an interesting French
word recurred again and again-name-
ly, ''syndicat"-which Jay Cooke and
his partners soon converted into an
English word, syndicate. The nswspa-
per reporters rolled it under their
tongues. It was a find for punsters
and versifers. The New York Tribune
received these lines from one of its
wagglsh contributors:
Pray what Is a syndicate
Intended to indicate?
Is questioned abroad and at home.
Say, Is 1t q corner
Where Jay Cooke Horner
Can pull out very big plum?
In congress the word was under ex-
animation. Some Of Sunset Cox's
constituents had written him, that
member declared, to ask if it were in
any way related to the Kuklux. "a
scholar learned In philology," he con-
tinued amid laughter, ''says it comes
from the original Chinese and is pro-
nounced .Ah Sindecat,' from a we'll
known player Of cards called the
heather Chinee.' A revenue reformer
writes me that it is an animal peculiar
to Pennsylvania, with a head Of iron,
eyes Of nickel, legs Of copper and
heart Of stone. It consumes every
green thing outside its own state"
Cox went to Sir John Mandeville's
'"Travels In Far Cathay" and there
found an account Of strange animal
of the lizard kind. He was known in
anciente books as chameleon. When
the sun did shine, he took various col
ors. Sometimes it wore a golden hue
and sometimes had green back.
caught him by means of steele mir
ror, which so bedazzled his eye that he
was easily caught. l bring him home
as strange beast. It is called by the
natives a scindicat."
The syndicate's task was to take in
the old 6 per cent bonds issued during
the war, many Of which had drifted to
Europe, where they were held by the
thrifty peasantry, who had purchased
them at paper money prices, and to
sell the per cent bonds in their stead.
It was a complicated work, calling for
complete control Of the markets at
home and abroad. Though the opera
ton had to run the gantlet Of savage
attacks by opposition politicians and
editors, it was instantly successful.
Indeed, two syndicates were formed,
one in London through the new house
of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. and the
other by Jay Cookies firms in America.
The banker was warmly congratulated
on the successful management Of the
syndicate by President Grant and his
friends Of every rank, and it was be-
lieved that the achievement would i'm
mensely promote the success Of the
Northern Pacific railroad, especially
when it was announced that the
Cookies had made an alliance with the
Rothschilds for future funding opera
tions.-Dr. Oberholtzer in Century.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
OUR GLOBES CAPACITY.
The Time When the Earth Will Be
Fully Peop4ed.

The Time When the Earth Will Be
Fully Peop4ed.
Professor Ravenstein of the Royal
Geographical society estimates that
the fertile lands Of the globe amount
to 2SOOO,OOO square miles, the steppes
to 100000 and the deserts to 1,OOO,-
600.
Fixing 207 persons to the square mile
for fertile lands, ten for steppes and
one for deserts as the greatest popula-
ton that the earth could properly
nourish, the professor arrives at the
conclusion that when the number of
inha bitants reaches about 5000, ,OOO,O 900
the earth will be peopled to its full
capacity. At present it contains some
what more than one-quarter Of that
number.
If the rate of increase shown by the
latest census statistics should be uni
formly maintained, Professor Raven
stein shows that the globe would be
fully peopled about the year 2O72.-
New York Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
lucknow's Great Hall,


Connected with the Mohammedan
mosque at Lucknow, India. is the lar
gest room In the world without COL
umns, being 1872 feet long, 81 feet wide
and So feet high. It was built during
the great famine in 1884 to supply
work for starving people. It is a
solid mass Of concrete of simple form
and still simpler construction. In its
erection a mold or framework of tim
ber and brick several feet in thickness
was first made, which was then filed
with concrete. The concrete was al
lowed about year to set and dry,
when the mold was removed. Al
though the building has been standing
so long, It is said to show no signs Of
decay or deterioration.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Zealand From a Lava Wall.

The general impression that Iceland
is a cold country Is false one, says
writer in Travel Magazine. In Reyk-
javik, the capital of the island, I one
day perched myself on one Of the lava
walls and looked at scene Of summer
warmth and beauty. Familiar cows
and cats and hens were busy in the
sunshine. Children, thinly clad, were
playing about with shouts Of merri-
ment. Potatoes were in full blossom,
and cabbage and various vegetables
added to the sense of homelike comfort.
But such days are oases in vast deserts
of rain, for If Iceland in summer Is
not cold it Is not comfortable.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
The Willy Partridge.

Every creature has wonderful fac
ulty for determining at what distance
a man or anything else IL able to
strike, its capacities in this direction
being far more marked than many
care to acknowledge. For instance, as
firearms have been improved the keen
er has become the watchfulness Of par
tridges. They have not been slow to
recognize the advantages which the
modern chokebore affords the modern
gunner.-LOndon Mail.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Retty's Gift.

| A Lancashire vicar was asked by the
choir to call upon old Betty, who was
deaf, but who insisted In joining In the
solo of the anthem, and to ask her
only to sing In the hymns. He shouted
into her ear, Betty, I've been request
ed to speak to you about your sing
ing" At last she caught the word
"singing" and replied: "Not to me be
the praise, sir. It's gift. Pail Mall
GaZette
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07

Particular About Her Company.
"What's the matter? You look gAum."
II made my estate over to my wife
to save 1t from the creditors"
"Well, what Of that2'
"She's sold it and gone abroad with
the money. She says she can't live
with a man who cheats his creditors"
-Slowo
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Physical Strength and Deseneraey.

Never in the history Of the human
race-not even in the gladiatorial days
Of Greece and Rome, when physical
strength was worshiped almost like q
feticll-la3 so much study been devot-
ed to bodily development and well be-
ing. In spite Of all this, however, we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that,
vide medical reports, while the stand
ard Of health may be going up with a
section Of the people, It is steadily go
ing down with others-in word, that
physical degeneracy is alarmingly on
the increase.-Co-operativs News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
OnIy SIept There.

Dickens, looking for local color for
his novel Of Hard Times" visited
Manchester. He went through the how
els Of certain Manchester cotton spin
ners, and these foul houses filed him
with pity and horror. Meeting the
Manchester manufacturer who owned
them, he said: ,
"And do your employees really live
In such houses as these?
"Certainly not" the manufacturer
replied. "They only sleep In them.
They live in my MILL" !.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
The Apparent Reason.

"Wyndley doesn't play the cornet
any more, does hep
mo, he thought he'd better give it
up"
bad for his lungs, eh"
1T wasn't that. One of the neigh
bors shot two keys Off the instrument
while he was playing it"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Room Doors on the Stage.

In real life room doors always open
in toward the room itself On the
stage, however, room doors, as rule,
open outward, or away from the room.
Exits are one Of the most difficult parts
Of the actors art, and If he or she had
to tumble with the handle, pull the
door toward them, step round 1t and
pass through they would probably
make a clumsy dodge Of it. That Is
why, as rule, doors are constructed
to open outward at push.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Huq Their DeIusions.

"It is the nature of women to be a
delusion to men," growled tie old
cynic.
"Yes," merrily replied the young en-
thusiast, land it is the nature of men
to hug their delusions. .'-Baltimore
American
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-07
Nails.

America has the honor of having
made the first cut nails, toward the
close Of the eighteenth century. Before
that nails were made by hand, and
their manufacture was q household in
dustry. Cut nails are made by ma
chinery from plates rolled to the prop
er width and thickness. They may be
made Of steel or of malleable iron.
Wire nails, though originally a French
invention. were brought to perfection
in the United States.