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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
CHAPTER XIV.
Continued.

COQIlnuo0.
7 II don't know. That is the thing
which will save me. I don't know
where she is. Pretty ragged and
down on her luck she looked when 1
saw her. 1t was then that I found
out the truth"
"Jem," said Harriet, in the direct
manner peculiar to her sex, you are.
q scoundrel."
Her husband made no reply.
! 'YOu have stolen all this trust
money. And as for the rest, we were
only part inheritors'
Don't be a fool, Harriet. It was
for your sake. How else would you,
have got that crimson velvet dress q
Don't call names, but see if you can't
help me out of this mess e..
'How are we to live, I want to
nowT'
lord knows! The first question is,
how will Tom take it? And how can
I put it to him?'
when we .go from here, where
are we to go? What a-g we to do?
You have deceived me again. You
ought to have told me everything.
You ought to have behaved honest to,
that poor girl, whatever else hap
pened. I never thought that should
be able to call my husband
"Oh! well-if you choose to be a.
vixen, you may. Don't think, Harriet,
that I'm going to slave and worry on
account of a she-devil If you've got
nothing better to do than to show tenn:
per-as if 1 wanted Tom to come,
back-I shall-go and have my pipe
by myself" .
It was a tame and impotent conclu-
sion, but she turned upon him and
looked so fierce that hescollapsed.
In the small hours of the morning
James woke up suddenly. The blinds
were up, and the moon was streaming
In at the windows. Harriet was stand
ing at the window In her nightdress.
Harriet" he cried, "what are you
doingY'
"I've had a dream, Jem," she re-
piled. "a dreadful dream. 1 thought
that you were tried by the judge and
sent to convict prison for robbery,
and was left destitute. And I'd got
a knife in my hand"-she held up her
hand and showed a dagger which
CLEANED in the moonlight; it was only
q little ornamental paper knife, but
1t flashed like steel-"and I was going
to kill myself and have done with it.
You were a convict working at Port
land, Jem."
"Come back to bed this instantp' he
said, sternly. "You and your dreams
come back and go to Sleep"
She obeyed, and went to sleep again
calmly and sweetly. But her hus-
bands teeth chattered, he trembled
and shook, because his action would,
he was conscious, bear such a con-
sruction. And Tom was on his way
home, doubtless having much wrath.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
THE KITTENS LESSON.

Here is a pretty little story about
a cat and her kitten. The kitten,
full of mischief, was fond of climbing
fence posts, walls and trees. One day
it climbed away up to the top of a
cherry tree, and then, seeing how far
from the ground it was, it got fright
ened and was afraid to come down.
Sitting off a little distance from the
tree was the mother cat, looking at
the kitten as if she were wondering
what she could do to get the young
ster down. Suddenly she seemed to
have made up her mind, for she
scrambled up the tree to the kitten,
and, pausing there moment as ii
to fix the kittens attention on what
she was going to do, she began to
descend the tree slowly. She was ev-
identity showing the kitten how to get
down. When she reached the ground
she sat down and looked up at the
kitten, calling to it with soft cries,
and the little fellow, as If under.
standing what was expected of him.
came down just as the mother had
done.-Busy Bee.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
A TARPON LEAP.

In the big pass tarpon can best be
caught from near the bottom Of the
channel and should be fished for with
fifty feet of line and a heavy sinker.
In shallow water the tarpon leaps
high in the air the instant he feels
the hook, but in the pass he often
fights for a minute or two before COM
ing to the surface. More than once
when 1 had come to fear that my
tarpon was shark he has suddenly
shot above the surface, like bullet
from a gun, and In the first wild
shake of his head thrown hook and
bait fifty feet in the air, and one even
sent a four-ounce leaden sinker flying
over my head from nearly twice that
distance. Other tarpon when struck
came straight up from the bottom,
one grazing our gunwale as he rose,
and another leaping over the stern
of the canoe. AS soon as a tarpon
was tired enough to let us pull the
canoe beside him we removed the
hook from his mouth and let him
swim home to his family. 1t hap
pened once that a tarpon was less
tired than we had assumed. On that
occasion we swan home and he had
a good man-story to tell his friends.
1t had been counted a poor year
for tarpon; yet in fifteen consecutive
days of fishing we were fast to forty
four tarpon, each of which had
jumped for us from one to twelve
times This high-water mark of
twelve jumps was made by a tarpon
which was stimulated to his later
efforts by the presence of pursuing
shark, and the twelfth jump was
double number. There was commo-
tion in the crimsoned water, new
vigor at the other end of my line,
and it was an hour later when l final
ly landed on sand bar a shark with
an aldermanic stomach. knife
drawn across this distended organ
disclosed the tarpon in sections with
the hook still fast in his jaw, and
enabled the camera man to photo
graph together the subjects he had
recently photographed separately. AL
though this shark was only One-fifth
the size of our big hammerhead, yet
he made but two bites of his victim.
Our work at Boca Grande ended
with the red-letter day of the season,
of all seasons. | was fishing in the
pass with fifty feet of line, and the
bait was directly under the canoe,
when tarpon struck fiercely, quickly
carried away a hundred more feet
of line, and then swan so swiftly to-
ward us that l feared, from the loos-
ened line, that he had escaped. Then,
fifty feet from the canoe. there shot
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
GIVES HIS LIFE TO SAVE.

In their sorrow there will come to
his children the consolation that
Frank c.. McBreen died a hero, at a
time in life when most men are think
ing only of self-preservation. Sixty
four years old, with life of ease be-
fore him, McBreen, q wealthy con-
tractor, gave his life to save woman
he had never seen before.
Mr.. McBreen lived at the Triangle
Hotel, at the junction of Jamaica and
Myrtle avenues, Richmond Hill. He
had just crossed the tracks of the
Long Island Railroad, near there,
when he heard man shout: THAT
woman will be killed."
He turned and looked. On the
tracks stood middle aged woman
who had run around the gates after
they had been closed for the Sag
Harbor express bound for Long Island
City. It's headlight was only hun
dred yards away. The tracks at this
point run between fences and there is
just room enough for person to hug
the fence and let train go by.
Without an instant's hesitation the
old man vaulted the fence like boy.
Edward Duffy, young man of No.
2063 Fulton street, did the same.
The pair caught the woman, who in
her confusion had fallen. They
pulled her from the tracks few Sec
onds before the train whizzed by. The
younger man held the woman with
one hand and clung to the fence with
the other.
McBreen did not hold to the fence
and the suction pulled him beneath
the wheels of the first car. The five
coaches passed over his body.
The train went on, the engineer
ignorant of the accident. A slouch
hat, coat that was torn to ribbons
and other garments were picked up.
In the lapel of the coat was Grand
Army button. Mr.. McBreen was
soldier in the Army of the Potomac
and we'll known in Grand Army cir
cles He was widower. Two sons
and two daughters survive him.
The woman who was saved from
death was Mrs. Mary Sheele, fifty
years old, of No. 1T Norman avenue,
Evergreen, Long Island. She was
uninjured-NewY York American.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
CHAPTER XVI.
TOMS RETURN.

t Tom did not cover the ground be-
tween Suakim nd London in the short
est time on record. The story of his
captivity and escape Of course reached
home before he did in scrappy frag-
ments, which made everybody talk of
the two prisoners. So that they were
the men of the moment. It is a great
thing in ones life to have been, if
only for once, The Man of the Mo-
ment; the honor is one which is be-
slowed upon people. variously distin-
guished, and may be shared with Mr..
Gladstone or with Charles Peace. But
Tom neglected his opportunity, and re-
fused even so much as to read a paper
at the Royal Geographical.
1t was one morning at the beginning
of November, about fortnight after
that awful fog, that Tom arrived at
Victoria. He had sent kilograms from
Suakim, from Cairo, from Brindisi, and
from Paris, all addressed to Harley
House. He would not burst upon the
poor girl without warning. She would
hear of his safety from the papers; she
should hear of his return from his tele-
grams. Poor girl! Poor Katharine!
His eyes filled when he thought of her
trouble and sorrow on his account.
But now all the trouble was over. She
knew that he was safe. She was
happy again-poor, friendless Kath-
arine! Six o'clock in the morning, and
not yet quite light. You can not call
at a house, even to see your sweet
heart, who has supposed that you are
dead, at six o'clock in the morning.
The lazy maids are not up at six in
a London house; they are only turn
ing round in the sheets, uneasy be-
cause they are possessed by that pleas
ant. teasing; winning masterful, per-
suasive, coaxing devil q know not his
namc) who haunts the bedrooms of
young people at times when they ought
to be getting up, and when the clocks
are striking with I'll their might, and
holds them as if by strong arms i'll
bed, and weighs down their eyelidS,
and makes them helpless with sleep
as by enchantIneht, in:so much that
for the sake: of another hour in bed
they are ready to brave everything,
even a months notice. 1t is recorded
Of certain medieval housemaid-I
thing the story is the autobiography
of Guibert de Nogent-that one day,
under the malign influence of this
devil, she actually sold her soul for
one more hours roll in the sheets.
This was duly granted to her. She
is now punished-la -bas-by having DO
sheets at all to roll in.
Six o'clock in the morning. Tom put
his kit into cab, and. drove to hotel,
the only place where a welcome awaits
the returning traveller at six in the
morning. Then he made up his mind
not to hurry things. Katharine must
have time to get up. He would re-
strain himself and call at nine. He
would have a tub after his long jour
ney, get into a change of clothes, and
take breakfast first. Ii was only
eight o'clock when he had quite 1in-
lshed both. But he could wait no Ion
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
His Own Witness,

H K. Adair, the Western detective,
was describing in Duluth the cap.
ture of a faker of "Old Masters.
when 1 examined this fellow"
said Mr.. Adair, "the third degree
was not needed. Out of his own
mouth he convicted himself uncon-
sciously He reminded me, there, of
boy who once applied at my office
for work.
''This boy was bright looking and
l rather took to him.
Now, my son. l said, If you
come to work for me you will occa-
sionally have to write kilograms and
take down phone messages. Hence
a pretty high degree of schooling is
essential. Are you fairly we'll edu-
cated?''
The boy smiled confidently.
I be-, he said. Washington
Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
TALES OF
CORNER IN WILD PEPPER.

Evidently Americans were hustlers
and strategists of commerce from the
beginning. For witness good story
of fact as told by Ralph D. Paine, in
The Outing Magazine, under the title
of Pioneers in Distant Seas"
"In 1893, Captain Jonathan Carnes
of Salem, was looking for trade along
the Sumatra coast. Touching at the
port of Bencoolen, he happened to
learn that wild peper might be found
along the northwest coast of Sumatra.
The Dutch East India Company was
not as alert as this solitary Yankee
shipmaster, roaming along strange
and hostile coasts.
Captain Carnes kept his knowl-
edge to himself, completed his voyage
to Salem, and there whispered it to
q merchant, Jonathan Peele, that as
soon as possible secret expedition
should be fitted out. Mr.. Peele Or
dered a fast schooner built She was
called the Rajah, and carried four
guns and ten men. There was much
gossiping speculation about her des-
tination, but Captain Carnes had
nothing at all to say. In November,
1875, he cleared for Sumatra and
not g. soul in Salem except his owner
and himself knew whittier he was
bound. Her cargo consisted of
brandy, gin, iron, tobacco and dried
fish to be bartered for wild pepper.
"For eighteen months no word re-
turned from the Rajah, and her mys-
terious quest. Captain Carnes might
have been wrecked on coasts whereof
he had no charts, or he might have
been slain by hostile natives. But
Jonathan Peele, having risked his
stake as Salem merchants were wont
to do, busted himself with other af-
fairs and pinned his faith to the
proven sagacity and pluck of Jona-
than Carnes.
"At last, string of signal flags
futtered from station at the harbor
mouth. Jonathan Peele reached for
his spy-glass, and saw schooner's
topsails lifting from seaward. The
Rajah had come home, and when she
let go her anchor in Salem harbor,
Captain Jonathan Carnes brought
word ashore that he had secured a
cargo of wild pepper in bulk which
would return profit of at least 700
per cent. on the total cost of the
vessel and voyage.
"In other words, this one 'adven-
ture' of the Rajah realized what
amounted to a comfortable fortune in
that generation.
There was great excitement
They forsook their desks to discuss
this peper bonanza, but Captain Jona-
than Carnes had nothing to say and
Mr.. Jonathan Peele was as dumb as a
Salem harbor clam. The Rajah was
at once refitted for a second Sumatra
voyage, and in their eagerness to
fathom her dazzling secret, several
rival merchants hastily made vessels
ready for sea with orders to go to
that coast as fast as canvas could
carry them and endeavor to find out
where Captain Carnes found his wild
pepper. They hurried to Bencoolen,
but were unsuccessful and had to
proceed to India to fill their holds
with whatever cargoes came to hand.
Meanwhile the Raiah slipped away
for second pepper voyage, and re-
turned with hundred and fifty thou
sand pounds of the precious condi-
ment."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
PREFERENCE.

(Which do you like BEST" asked
the man who is fond of animals,
"dogs or horses?"
Dogs" answered youg Mrs. Tor
kins promptly. ''They don't lend
themselves to the schemes of the
bookmakers to get Charley's money"
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
HARDLY.

* Miss D.-"Angelina, why don't you
marry Lieutenant W"
Miss Artist, because he has no
brains, and he can't ride, dance or
play tennis. What could we do with
him?"
"But he swims beautifully"
"Oh, yes. But one can't keep ones
husband in an aquarium, you know"
London Tit-BitS.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
aDpcarances Are Deceptive.

Do not judge from mere appear
ances, for the light laughter that bub-
bles on the lip often mantles over
the depths of sadness, and the seri-
Gus look may be the sober veil that
covers divine peace and joy. The
bosom can ache beneath diamond
brooches, and many a blithe heart
dances under coarse Wool.-E IL.
Shapin.
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For The:
Younger
Children...

THE LITTLE HOUSE.
Through all the happy summer time
The Little House was ours,
Hidden away among the trees,
With neighbor birds and flowers.
All day we played our summer plays,
Bareheaded in the sun,
But sought the funny Little House
When playing-time was done
And patiently as any friend
1t waited all the while;
The windows hailed us eagerly,
The doorway seemed to smile.
But now, with summer birds and flowers
We, too, have gone away,
The wistful, waiting Little House
Is empty all the day.
Think-how the shivering trees are bare
And how the shrill winds blow
About the lonely Little House
All smothered in the snowi
Think-how the door is buried deep.
The windows scarcely see,
And no one drives away the crows.
Who gossip jeeringly!
Dear Little House among the trees,
'Tis lonely-time for you;
But far away we wait and long,
For we are lonely, too
-Abbie Farwell Brown, in The Church
mtn.
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GALLANTRY.

'Thank you very much" said thA
lady, smilingly accepting the prof
fered seat
Madam" said the man, tipping
his hat, "you surprise and pain me-"
"I do not understand you"
well, you've lost me a bet."-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
THE COW AND THE GATE

clerk in Washington, the COW Of an
old Irish woman near by, used to
peep through the cracks in my garden
fence at my growing corn and cab
bage till her mouth watered. Then
she saw that a place in the fence
yielded to me and let me in, so she
tried it; she nudged the gate with
her nose until she hit the latch and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
aTHREE WEEKS ELAPsE. +"

"Just little touch of realism" re-
marked the dramatist with pardona-
BILE pride. "It's wonder nobody
ever thought of it before"
What is it?"
"Why, my heroine is brunette in
Act I. and a blonde in Act H.
Courier-Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

"What your husband needs most,
said the family physician, ais COM
plete rest"
where would you advise US 20
go?" queried Mrs. Gabbleton.
"Id advise him to stay right here
at home," replied the M. D. THAT
is, l. you can arrange to go away for
a few weeks. Chicago News.
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DID 1T FOR THE FAMILY,

Hicks-''You look worried, old
man"
Wicks-"Why shouldn't I look
worried? My wife and three daugh-
ters have all gone into Christian
Science, and now I have to do the
worrying for the whole family -
Somerville Journal.
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HER WEATHER MAN.

"Oh, Alois, If only we have decent
weather on Sunday for our garden
party! What does your rheumatism
indicator"
"For the present warm and fair;
then the wind will turn east, fog and
rain. ."-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-02-21
WHY HE WAS POLITICAL.

'Your father is in politics" said
the stranger, ''is he not?"
"Yeh," replied the boy, "but nom
thinks he's getting cured of it.
"How do you mean?"
"Why, his stummick has gone be;s
on him an he can't drink like he
uster."- Catholic Standard and
Times.
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THE DISADVANTAGES.

Tom-"Don't you dread a pro-
posal?"
Dick-"Some parts of it,
Tom-"What parts, for instance?"
Dick-"Well, it is easy enough
popping the question, but the trouble
Is when it comes to questioning the
pop. Baltimore American.
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DR.. Andrew S. Draper, Commis-
sioner of Education in New York,
says that illiteracy in much more
general in that State than in Ger
many, France, Great Britain, Switz-
erland, Scandinavia or Japan.
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AN EPITAPH.

This epitaph has been suggested for 8
dentists monument:
view this gravestone with all gravity;
Below I'm filling my last cavity"
Judge.
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THE COST.

"Do you find your automobile ex-
pensive?"
Rather. I can get oil and repairs
the interest on the mortgage on my
house. They call for cash. ."-Phila.
delphia Ledger.
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THE NEW DISEASE.

First Boy-"My papa's sick"
Second Boy-"What's the matter?"
First Boy-"He's got insolvency"
Weekly.
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Proof Positive.

An Irishman was in trouble about
gun found in his possession. The
law, unfortunately for him, adopted
the unkind suggestion that he had
stolen it. While awaiting his trial
he was visited by a friend, who urged
him to steadfastly adhere to the
statement that he had owned the gun
for years. The friend, Furthermore,
cited how he himself when in similar
difficulty about hen, had preserved
both the hen and his character by
swearing he had possessed the bird
since it was a chicken. The wisdom
of this advice was not lost on Pat,
and he henceforth regarded his
trial with the settled serenity of,
if not conscious innocence, sanguine
anticipation. On the day appointed.
when conclusive evidence against him
had been rendered, he was asked, for
mally, whether he had anything to
say for himself. Pat, throwing
glance of shrivelling contempt at the
prosecutor, turned to the judge, and
said: The mans a perjured villain,
yer honor. That guns bin in moy
POSSESSION, yer honoh, ivir since it was
a pistol. l."-Philadelp Inquirer