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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
CHAPTER III.

That Mohun of Yatton should so
far lose himself as to fall in love with
a young woman in the position Of Jane
Grand, was one Of those alterations
concerning which the high moral sense
of county society, generally, could en-
tertain but one opinion.
When it became known (as every
thing becomes known within twenty
four hours in villagel that Clifford
Mohun had been seen in Yatton woods
with Miss Grand on the evening of his
birthday-instead of presiding, as he
should have done, at the public parish
reioicings-and that he had called at
James house early the next morning
and had accompanied Jane and Miss
Lynch in their walk upon the same
afternoon-when these things became
known, many and bitter were the
things said about Miss Grand by all
the matron- tongues within five miles of
Chesterford, many and plying the re-
marks as to that poor silly lads fool
ishness, and the danger in which he
stood of becoming seriously entangled
with so designing and forward a young
person as his immediate neighbor.
Could any one interfere? Could any
one open his eyes for him? Would it
not, at least, be ones duty to let him
know that Miss Grand had been con-
sidered as living under cloud ever
since she first took up her abode in the
parish of Chesterford?
QhnI1f
What was she ever sent into that part
of the country for, at all? What real
relation was Miss Lynch to her? Was
there. in reality, any relationship be-
tween them? What did they do when
they went to London once in three
years? They had no visitors; they had
scarcely ever any letters; there was
evidently something exceedingly odd
about them; and they had small in
cOm6
Perhaps it was that last sin of omis-
sion which threw out all their other
transgressions and shortcomings into
such fcarfully strong relief. One fact
was certain; good society in general
had not a dissentient remark to OIer
whenever the names of Miss Grand
and her governess were mentioned.
They were rot visited; they We're living
under a cloud.
But you are taking Il desperately
bold step in asking me to your ball,
Mr.. Mohun. 1 suppose you think no
enc will be angry with you, whatever
you do, but [ can assure you L hardly
think Mrs Tenant and her daughters
will be able to breathe through the
evening with me in the room. Jane
Grand at Yatton. the very idea is too
shocking"
do you think so?' said Clifford, in
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
HUNT FOR MISSING LINK.

The latest scientific sensation in
Berlin is the sending out of Frau Sc
lenka to Java and Sumatra to find the
missing link in the Darwinian theory.
She is not scientifically trained, but
has remarkable knowledge of the
controversy regarding the missing
link.
A German exploration party is on
the spot now under Dr.. Ebert, but it's
researches have not been encourag-
ing. 1t has been investigating fossil
deposits on the Trinil River in Java,
expecting to find traces of the ape
man. which DR.. Dubois, of the Dutch
army, says are to be found there. Ell
bert has found traces of human man
ufactures and the bones of extinct an
imals at least 10000 years old, but
they prove that the ape-man was in
existence at still remoter period.
1t is Elbert's view that man and
the ape-man have two different sets
of ancestors. Frau Selenka will not
believe it. She is convinced that the
Java ape-man is the prOgenitor of the
human species, and will listen to
nothing which will rob her of her
ithecanthropus, rs she calls him
Special Correspondence of the New
York World.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
For the
Younger
Children.

delicate, graceful vine, became
aware that it was pervaded by a
curious, tremulous motion. Then
saw that the individual leaves were
not stationary. Picking up twtg
from the ground, touched one of the
leaves and found to my amazement
that there was a brown ant under it
about as long as my little finger nail.
Each leaf was held in the mandibles
of an ant in such a way as to con-
ceal the body of the insect, and the
ants were coming down the tree. The
discovery came upon me with shock.
| had stumbled on nest of umbrella
ants. Books had told me that such
ants ware found in the tropics, where
they carried bits of leaves over their
heads as if to protect themselves
from the sun; but here, on the banks
of Texas river, l had found colony
of them, shading themselves where
there was no sun, and completely
hidden by their covering of green.
Charmed at the sight, l turned
back to call my companions, who
were fishing in the river. Within
few yards l met my husband coming
to look for me. He was even more
excited over the phenomenon than l
was, and shouted for the others to
come quickly. On investigation we
found that the spot where the vine
seemed to have its root was really
the opening of the ant nest. The
tiny creatures had by some instinct
learned that the topmost branches OF
the cottonwood had put out their first
small leaves. They had climbed the
immense distance and had cut off and
brought down their leayes-to feed
their young ones, we supposed. The
ants which issued empty-jawed from
the nest made long circuit to the
farther side of the tree and climbed
up where they would not Interfere
with the leaf-bearing thousands COM
ing down.-From Mature and Sci
ence," in st. Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
CRIMSON CLOVER.

Can you give me any information
relative to the growing of crimson
clover in central eastern Ohio? Will
it survive our winters if fertilized
with potash and phosphoric acid, and
sown about August 1? intend treat
ing my land as Mr. Clark treats his
for hay, starting about June il. P.
[Certainly, in normal seasons GRIM
son clover will survive the winter in
Ohio. 1t is used as a cover crop
for orchards as far north as Traverse
City in northern Michigan. If sown
in August, it is a fairly certain crop.
1t is a good nitrogen gatherer also,
if the roots have the requisite no.
dulles. For the succeeding crop, where
reliance is placed on the crimson
clover for the nitrogen, there should
be an application of potash and phos
phoric acid These fertilizers ap-
piled to the clover will remain in the
soil, but may become largely, if not
entirely, insoluble. 1.-Country Cen
tleman.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
arms of Timber Famine.

Announcing that there was no issue
before the American people so impor-
tant, in his Judgment, as the conser-
vation of natural resources, urged
upon Congress by President Roose-
welt, Clifford Pinchot, forester of the
Department of Agriculture, told 1900
persons at a meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers that
a timber famine in this country was
imminent, and that unless there was
a great change in public sentiment,
the country would have to face in
few years the problem of how to do
without wood.
At the present rate of consump-
ton, he said, the trees now stand
ing could supply timber for twenty
years. There have already been set
aside in the West 165, 100000 acres
Of forest lands, protected by the Gov
ernment. But this represents only
one-fifth of the timber the people of
this nation own," added the speaker.
land steps to protect all such proper
ty from the rapid destruction now in
progress cannot be taken too soon." ;"
New York Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
His Shoe Was His Bank,

w. S. Webb, cashier of the Mis-
souri, Savings Association Bank, had
an unusual experience with a deposit
tor this morning The depositor had
three $40 bills. The bills were worn
through at one end, evidently from
contact with nails in the heel of a
shoe. The depositor said he had been
carrying the bills in his shoe since the
financial stress began. The blilS
were sent to Washington for redcmp-
tion.-kansas City Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03

high-pressure Zjsssho-ooo.' Was It
sound? Then 1 would pause, and
catch only the horrid, over-burdened
silence.
"The thing seemed more friendly.
The sulphur no longer choked. You
could have passed a burning bunch
Of miners matches under my nose,
and l would have gulped the fumes
like fresh air. But the invisible
venom still belched out everywhere,
secret and furtive; now from jaws
and gashes four feet and more across,
no longer red-yellow, but with fangs
crusted white OF brilliant green, and
bristling with rapier-like stalagmites.
Heat tremors pulsed, as the whole
were a vast roof too close under the
eye of the sun. And below on the
blasted acre under the beak, the pant
ing steam flashed out the supreme
desolation-crumbli clinkery and
over-parched; trailed away it's smear
of the dull rainbow hues of sulphur
from grotesque mosaics. 1t was a
pudding of Stag fresh from that great
furnace of the unknown fusing point,
and how alien to the cold -'aves and
winds of the subarctic!"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03

positively declining to fall in love will

positively declining to fall in love with
either of the Miss Tennants?"
Jane smiled, but her smile was a
forced one. She by no means wished
Clifford to fall in love with either Of the
Miss Tenants. She had heard, not
without satisfaction, that he did not
think them as handsome as it was the
fashion for other persons in that neigh
borhood to call them. But a strange,
an indefnable pain smote her heart
when he spoke of Mr. Tenants past
life. What interest had she in such a
subject at all? What was Mr.. Ten
nant's good or evil repute to her? Moth
ing-she knew that; but the pain she
could not account for was at her heart
still, to be remembered through long
! after years as the first dark whisper
of her own fate-the skeleton whose
grim hand had been upon her, though
with faint, unsteady hold, even in those
earliest moments of the one festival of
her life.
81 am thinking, Mr.. Mohun; l am
pondering on what you have just said"
"And you arriveat the conclusion"
81 arrive at the conclusion"-she
looked very steadily in his eyes as she
said this-'that you have never known
anything at all about really deep feel
ing. A person who, who knew what
love was, could not speak of pressing
his suit no further just as though he
We're deciding about some mere matter
1f hY1c in1nnrt1
business, either. If you We're engaged
to Aggie Tennant-no, we will leave
poor Aggie alone, and speak generally
if you were engaged to any one you
really cared for, you would not change
merely because you found out some
thing in her fathers history to be dis
approved Of"
"You speak as one having authority,
Miss Grand. I defer to you. 1 have
never been in love yet, as you justly
surmise I know nothing about the
laws and canons of the passion. Evi-
dently you understand the whole thing
thoroughly. I submit"
"Mr. Mohun, 1 understand nothing
about it, either; but 1 know-1 mean
feel-that no one really in love could
change, on principle, as you talk of
doing"
And then Clifford answered-some-
thing which 1 dare say would not ap-
pear strikingly clever if it were to be
recorded here-something, however,
which had the effect of making Miss
Grand's heart fiutter, and her eyes
sink down from his face. And then she
remembered that it was already past
the time at which she had promised
Miss Lynch to return; and, as 1t was
getting so late, she thought she must
really go back the shortest way to
Chesterford, although that walk
through the lower plantation was
rather a lonely one as evening fell.
Clifford would go with her. Oh, dear,
no! she could not let Mr.. Mohun take.
so much trouble for worlds-just as far
as the outskirts Of the last plantation,
then-she could get on quite well alone
when she once found herself in the
open fields by the village.
And the moon was shining high and
clear above their heads when Mohun
left Jane Grand at the garden gate Of
her own cottage that night.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
SCALES CLIFF TO SAVE DOG.

Robert Walker, a silk worker Of
Paterson, n. j., risked his life to save
that of a bulldog. In some way the
dog had become marooned upon an
ice foe fifty feet FROM 5,iore in the
Passaic Falls Basin, and had been
there for eighteen hours.
Walker descended the west wall of
the ice-covered, eightyfoot cliff, 60
ing down at times over what appeared
to the three hundred odd spectators
as absolutely smooth ice. He made
the trip in safety, and when a rope
was lowered to him fastened it about
the dog, which was cared for at a
boathouse near by. Instead of max
ing his own way down the gorge
Walker returned as he went down,
scaling the fence of the cliff.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
RATIONS FOR LAMBS.

One of the best practical farmers
in New York says that the best ration
for young lambs has not yet been
found out, but one of which lambs
are very fond is composed of equal
parts of corn and oatmeal, linseed
meal and wheat bran. This will
probably be considered by many a
rich feed; if so, they can reduce the
corn and linseed meal, and so make
less fattening food. He prefers the
corn and oats ground for young
lambs, to whole grain. After they
become large, and for grown sheep,
whole grain is preferred for his feed
ing, as the sheep grind their grain
very effectually themselves, thus saw
ing the trouble of getting it ground.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
DO NOT BURN STALKS.

AS soon as the season opens up.
do not go out and commence to burn
off the vegetable matter on your
fields. Our soil needs humus, and it
is a great mistake to burn grass,
corn stalks or cotton stalks. If you
are able, says the American Guilt
vator, buy stalk cutter and cut
them up, so they will not be in the
way of the plow or the growing crop.
If you do not feel able to purchase
stalk cutter, take hoes or sticks and
break the stalks to pieces. Many
farmers think, when they can go out
some windy day in the spring and
set fire to all the stubble and stalks
on their farm, that they are doing
something-and in fact they are,
burning up money-for any ton of
stubble is worth S. to the soil as
manure, while the ash from the stub
BILE would not weigh over eighty
pounds and would not be worth ex-
ceeding fifty cents.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
BEAR HUNTING AL,

BEAR HUNTING ALL THE RAGE.
Young men and old have gone in
for bear hunting with unusual en-
| thusiasm this season, writes the Mos
COW correspondent of the New York
World. The sport is regularly organ
lied and the hunter who wants to go
after bear has but to sit around his
club in st. Petersburg and wait until
some peasant comes in from the inte-
rior and reports that bear is hiding
near his home. The hunter buys the
bear from the peasant, or rather buys
the privilege of shooting him, paying
often $100 or more. Then he starts
after the bear. But he is supersti-
tious, and if the unknowing foreigner
wishes him good luck he will be like
/ ly to turn pale and abandon the trip.
He considers it bad luck to have his
friends wish him good luck before 60
ing hunting.
He leaves st. Petersburg with a
servant laden not only with guns, but
with a goodly supply of white gar
ments and sheets. Arrived at the
village, he hires all the men and boys
in the place, hundred or two, and
they proceed to rope in wide area
of ground to inclose the bear The
rope is decorated with multitude of
tiny pennants in various bright col
ors to catch the brute's eye. The
hunter, meantime, has arrayed him.
self in white garments and taken up
his post by a snow covered tree, where
he could be passed by dozen fright
ened bears and never be noticed.
Having made the inclosing rope Sc
cure, the peasants take up their sta
tion near the bears hiding place and
raise such hue and cry that usually
he rushes toward the bright colored
pennants, showing up clear and dis
tinct against the snow covered land
scape. The white clad hunter is wait
ing for him, bang goes the gun and
the poor brute is slain.
Russian society women have taken
! up this winter the fad of going on the
bear hunts. They put on white cloth
skirts and coats, envelop themselves
in white sheets and stand beside a
tree safely out of the bears path, but
| where they can see all the sport.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
A REMARKABLE EXPLOIT.

Present-lay paths to literary glory
make the way of the medieval war
rior to fame seem tame and I'M
exciting. Robert Dunn, OF the
red-blooded younger generation OF
writer's, climbed over d volcanic
island recently in the BerinS Sea.
D9nte's Inferno can be no worse than
this spot he thus describes in the
Outing Magazine:
Cliff sank away into chaos. Up
right fans of tuff2 crevices like salt
crusted wounds; chasms with lepTous
edges-breathed all like mad; less
steam, but more crinlly and venom
Gus gases. Parched white, and rcd
and uchre in their depths, trey
-ecmed almost to whistle yet they
lid not whistle-a furtiVe, ambient
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
WONDERFUL MOVING VINE.

Near the bank Of the Guadalupe
River, | saw something green upon
the ground, and, hurrying forward,
found a lovely vine with leaves small
er than those of the smilaX, of a pale,
tender green. The vine had its root
about five feet from the trunk of
towering cottonwood tree, and spread
out on the ground four or five inches
wide, becoming a little narrower as
it approached the tree. | could see
no stems nor tendrils, so thick was
the growth; and as | drew close to
the tree l saw that tne vine branched
just above the ground and went
climbing up the great trunk and the
branches. 1t grew more and more
slender, until, far up, [ could distin-
guish only a thread-like line Of green.
AS 1 stood intently watching the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03

1t would be worth while, if we wish
the poorer classes to adopt some sensl-
BILE nourishing food, for philanthropic
ladies and gentlemen to make it the
fashion at their own tables, writes
Lady Greville in the London Graphic.
Let them breakfast on porrldge and
milk, dine on tripe, and end up the
evening with stewed onions. cabbaSes,
mashed potatoes and sausages, and a
fresh haddock. ''Tripe la Duchess"
"Sheep's trotters la Marquise." or
'Haddock a la General" ''Porridge a
la John Burns" Beans Ia Bernard
Shaw" might become the Fashionable
dishes of the future.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
NUMBER LAND.

We write the numbers on our states,
And add them in a row;
Then rub them out and sevens and eight
And all the others go
Far away to Number Land,
To the east and west of us;
For they have their Slumber Land
Just like all the rest of us.
Number Land is a pleasant place,
Where beds are soft and deep;
And all the figures we erase
Go wand ring off to sleep
Far away to Number Land,
To the east and west of us;
For they all have their Slumber Land,
Just like all the rest of us.
Arthur Macy, in Youths Companion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03

There is a prevailing opinion that
cancer is always painful from the be-
ginning, whereas it is really painless
in the majority of cases. 1t is desir-
able to ascertain how far the public
ought to be instructed in the early
signs of cancer, with view to the
adoDtion of earlier diagnosis and con-
seuuently earlier operation.-London
Hospital.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
CAUGHT IN PRAIRIE BLIZZARD

CAUGHT IN PRAIRIE BLIZZARD.
Last Sunday was the twentieth
anniversary of the great blizzard of
1888 in Nebraska and Northwestern
Iowa." said G. D. Riggs the other day
Il was living in O'Neill, Neb., at the
time and had just left the office to go
home to dinner when the blizzard
struck.
Il started to cross the street to a
drug store, but when l reached the
other side | found myself half way
down the block from my destination
The fine wind driven snow flakes
filled the air SO that l couldn't see my
hand before me. l finally worked my
way back to the drug store, where
a number OF other men had taken
refuge from the storm.
School had just been dismissed for
the noon recess, and we knew that
nearly 500 children were out in the
storm. Securing long ropes the
crowd started out to rescue them
We found them huddled in doorways
and by the sides of buildings. The
children caught hold of the ropes and
were led to shelter by their rescuers,
whose sense of direction gradually re-
turned to them. Every one OF the
800 school children in the town was
got home in safety.
But seven school teachers were
frozen to death in the country during
the blizzard, and thousands of cattle
died. The thermometer fell from
about the freezing point at noon to
twenty degrees below zero that night
1t was the worst blizzard l ever saw,
and | never want to experience an
other like it. ."-Des Moines Register
and Leader.
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The gold mine owners in South
Africa have in three years spent over
S1,00O,0O0 recruiting laborers from
Central Africa. They only got 1900
negroes, and few of them could stand
the winter Then $1,000 Chinese
were brought, starting the labor
troubles.
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w w farm Topics. YYH YER
THE GYPSY MOTH.

The annual report of the Connecti-
cut Experiment Station says this pest
has not spread during the past year
in the State. The infested area has
been pretty well isolated, and within
this area all larvae, pupae and egg
masses have been destroyed as far as
possible. Trees to the number of
$4,000 have been banded, and 5000
caterpillars were destroyed. For the
work there was the annual appropria-
ton of $1,000, and the State Board
of Control could expend $4,000 if
ecessary-Country Gentleman.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
TOO MANY INFERIOR COWS.

According to a recent cow census
taken by one of the dairy papers.
there are some poor COWS left even in
an old dairy section like central New
England A Massachusetts, report
shows herds in which half the cows
are kept at loss when the feed .s
reckoned at fair value. Only one
man in the whole list of ten farmers
kept his cows at a fair profit. One
reason why the others were doing nc
better is found in the statement that
none of them were reading the dairy
and agricultural papers. All over the
country the results are of much the
same general character, showing that
most of the improbable herds are
kept by those who are not making
careful study of the business-Ameri-
can Cultivator.
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MONEY IN HENS.

Prof. c. K. Graham, of the Con.
necticut Agricultural College, has been
conducting experiments to see wheth-
er poultry pays" One was tried
with White Leghorns. From ninety
one pullets, 742 dozen eggs were
gathered in one year. The sales from
these eggs amounted to s164.46. The
cost of feed was $500, or sixty-two
cents for each hen. This leaves net
profit of s108.16, or $1.1S So for
each hen. Another breed, Rhode
Island Reds, while not quite so high
in their returns, show good profit.
The feed for the Reds cost S21.33.
The sales amounted to $54.14. This
leaves a net profit of s92.S1, or nine
ty-eight cents for each hen. The
hens in this lot averaged seventy
nine eggs each.