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bear that she had raised from small
cub. She called the bear Niger, and
he would answer to his name and
come running the moment his mis-
tress commanded him.
Niger was very intelligent and for
a long time he was as playful as kit
ten and regarded as perfectly harm
less. As he grew older he began to
show considerable temper and he
often got so angry that he looked dam
gerous and his mistress would con-
slider 1t prudent to chain him to tree
for awhile-at least until he got in
good humor. He never tried to harm
Miss Caime and nothing pleased him
better than to follow her from place
to place. She alone fed him and he
appeared devotedly attached to her.
Finally he began to show that he
disliked all the other members of the
family. In the absence of Miss Mag
gle he would sulk and refuse to eat.
Nigger's ugly traits grew so pro-
nounced that Maggie's brothers talked
about killing him. One day he
scratched one of the boys and tried to
break his chain. The hoy was angry
and ran and got gum Maggie bare
ly prevented him from ending Mig
gers career.
Bruin saw 1t all, and with his head
turned to one side he listened to the
threats made against him. Il believe
he knows what you are saying. broth
err" said Maggie. Look how he Is lis
tening."
We'll, I'll kill him yet" said the
boy.
Niger evidently understood the sit
uation, for he sulked all the evening,
and that night he broke his chain and
disappeared. No trace of him could
be found.
Months passed and Niger was still
a lost bear.
A few evenings ago Miss Caime was
returning from visit to a neighbor.
It was nearly sunset and the girl was
hurrying along a lonely path through
forest only short distance from
her home when she suddenly encoun-
tered Niger. He was standing in the
path directly In front of her. He had
evidently waylaid his mistress and he
did not show himself until she was
close to him. Maggie's heart fiuttered
a little, more from surprise than fear.
She recognized the bear when she
called his name and he grinned with
satisfaction.
Maggie went toward him holding
out her hands. He sat on his launches
in the path and would not move.
When the girl attempted to pass he
instantly got in front of her. Finally
be showed signs of anger, and when
she tried to pass he growled and
raised his paw. In vain she tried to |
pet him. He continued to bar the |
path. Finally Maggie concluded to re-
turn to the house she had visited.
Niger trotted along behind her un- |
til she came to where the path |
forked. Again the bear threw himself |
in front of her. The girl now began |
to be alarmed. Finding that Niger
would not let her follow the path
that led to the house of the neighbor
Maggie fed along the other path, hop
ing soon to turn toward home.
The bear did not intend that she
should have her own way. He fol
lowed close, and whenever she tried
to leave the path he would throw him
self in front of her and growl Maggie
was now badly frightened and began
to shout for help. This angered the
bear and he began to growl and gnash
his teeth. She became, convinced
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GIRL 'TREED''A ALL
NIGHT BY A BEAR
FORMER PET TAKES TO WOODS
AND TRIES TO HAVE PLAY
MATE STAY WITH HIM.
BRUIN FOND OF OLD KEEPER
Seemed Satisfied So Long as compan-
ion Did Not Endeavor to Leave
Him-Rescue Effected BY
Shooting of Animal.

Marble Falls, Textile strange
story that Miss Maggie Caime and her
friends have to tell concerning the
conduct Of black bear will only tax
the credulity of those who are famil.
lar with the human-like intelligence
often displayed by Bruin
Miss Maggie Caime of Zavilla coun-
ty Texas, has always been very fond
of pets. and for long time she was
passionately attached to a fine black
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Catarrh and Headache,

Mrs. 2. E. Goforth, 2119 Holly Street,
Kansas City, writes: After using a
sample bottle and two Csc bottles of
Hunts Lightning Oil, am almost well
OF Catarrh. 1t stops my headaches. It
is the best medicine / ever saw and
just can't keep house without it," She
is right.
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Die when may / want it said of me
by those who knew me best that al
ways plucked a thistle and planted a
flower when I thought flower would
,grow.-Lincoln.
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Don't Il Jar You /?

To bave cough that you can't leave
on-eyen when you go to bed? Put
1t away for good by using Simmons
Cough Syrup. 1t heals inflammation
of the throat and lungs-gives you rest
and peaceful sleep.
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Make Ideals Practical.

We may not realize our ideals, but
we may always idealize our realities,
and our ideals must be practical If
we are to make religion of them, and
live by them.-Helen Kellar.
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Many a man has been saved from
foolishness by having a reputation to
live up to.
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TREATMENT FOR CATARRH

mixture of Of DR. Porter's Anteptc Healing
of Alboene Sweet OIL applied passages
and head by of GROVES COMMON-SENSE NASAL
DOUCHE guaranteed any case of Chronic Caah
matter of how long standing.
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WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE.

From October to May, Colds are the most fire
quent cause of Headache. LAXATIVE BROMS
QUININEremovesc cause. E.W.Grove on box 25
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Try to get rich quick to-day, then
hunt job tomorrow.
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Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teething, softens the gums reduces IN
ANIMATION, sllays pain. cures wind collie Csc bottle
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1t is not easy to sting bear with
. st-aw.-Danish.
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The strength and happiness of a
man consists in finding the way of
duty and walking Beecher.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
ABOUT TOADS.

Toads are so plentiful in all parts
of the country that everybody knows
them very we'll by sight. During the
daytime you may find them hiding
under logs of wood or big stones, or
in some damp, dark corner of the
garden. And you can hardly take an
evening stroll without seeing several
of them crawling about in the roads.
But it is not everybody who knows
what curious creatures they are.
For one thing. they have such very
odd tongues Our tongues have the
root down the throat and the tip just
behind the lips. But Il tCad's tongue
is turned the other way round, and
has the root just inside the lips and
the tip down the throat. Besides this,
it is very long and very elastic, so
that it can be darted out OF the
mouth to really wonderful distance,
while it is quite as sticky as II it mad
been dipped in gum. TIE toad uses
this tongue in a very odd way, for
by means of it he catches flies. II
YOU keep a toad as a pet and put
a fly into his cage he will not seem
to take any notice of the insect at all.
You would think that he did not see
it; but after Il little while, perhaps.
the fly will settle two or three inches
away from the toad. Still the toad
will not appear to notice it; but a
few seconds later it will vanish, so
suddenly and so quickly that yGu will
not he able TO see what has become
Of it. Tie fact is that the toad has
really been watching tbs fly all the
tfue. and when it settled he took
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07

Strange mystics are discovered IN
Paris every now and again. The lat
est is described as an Arabian Druid
who inhabited the Rue de la Micho-
diere, a street in the centre of the city.
His neighbors We're startled at mid
night to hear weird and discordant
sounds issuing from the dwelling of
All Bonem, followed by ritualistic in
carnations and liturgical chantings, al
Tentatively plaintive and fierce. The
reflection of flames was also observed.
When the door was burst open by the
police a man of huge statute was seen,
clothed in long white sheet. his eyes
rolling wildly. and In his hand blood
stained knife. Around him number
Of wax candles shed a mystic light,
and on piano, which had served as
an altar, lay a disembowled lamb. AS
q measure of precaution Ali Bonem,
the high priest, has been taken into
custody.-Globe of London.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
CHAPTER Xxx.

Mr.. Hartley Ferguson pushed for
ward the settlements with vigor, and
Mrs. Ferguson gained her point. Lady
Churchill was present at the marriage,
and gave the bride a very elegant, al
though not costly, vinaigrette on that
auspicious occasion.
And the bride needed neither vinia-
grettes not any other conventional
bridal supports wherewith to sustain
her nerves, but comported herself to
the last with the same spirit Of admira-
BILE GOODNESS in which she had carried
on the business from that first moment
when she entered Jane Grand's sitting
room in the twilight. And after the
ceremony she took Clifford off at once
to the Continent, andlet him know-yes,
on that first day Of their happiness
that her word was to be law, and that
the less he obtruded of his very unin-
.teresting opinions upon subjects in gen.
eral, the greater would be his probable
share of domestic peace.
Mohun did not submit without
struggle to his new lot; and to this
moment has dim idea that his Wife
does not rule him-an Idea In when
Matty herself, and Matty's friends, and
Mohun'S friends, too, do not all partlcl-
pate. He takes refuge more and more
in his dinner and his wine, and such
material consultations Of life; and when,
at rare intervals. they come to Iatton,
and Matty is engaged with her guests,
her billiards, her croquet, her Dances
Mr.. Mohun is wont to steal away Of
an evening to Chesterford Vicarnge,
and think, in his hazy fashion, how
hardly used he has been by fate, while
/ he marks the quiet happiness-the
honor, the love, the self-respect-which
the master of that little country house
! possesses.
And Jane feels no more emotion in
meeting Clifford Mohun than she would
/ feel in looking at her old wedding ring
(Which she never remembers to do). or
at any other token of her wasted youth
t Her life is not wasted now. She is
emphatically the wears helpmeet; his
faithful assistant in the duties that
: pressed so hard upon him formerly;
his best and tenderest Interpreter to all
the poor of his flock. They respect
him, as they always did; but the finer
sympathics that We're wanted to KNIT
him to them closely are no longer ab-
sent now. They love his wife: and Mt
Bradley does not minister exclusively
to them in their hour Of greatest need.
And the happiness of Mrs. Folletts
own inner life is complete. Her pc
culiar organization would not admit OF
perfect contentment unless she pos
sessed some immediate objects for self
immolation and worship; and these are
fortuna tely given her in the r'rs9n5
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(THE END.)
Two Capable Women.

About forty years ago William I'll.
Day, q pioueer from Tennessee, pur-
chased from the State of Texas $1,000
acres of land in Coleman County at
fifty cents an acre. He exhausted all
/ his capital in making the first payment,
putting up his ranch headquarters and
fencing his land, and when he died in
1881 he left his widow and daughter
q legacy of debts and complications
which have caused them almost insur-
mountable embarrassments and years
of distress. But the widow, with extra
ordinary courage, determination and
business ability, has been able to pro-
tect their interests, and on the list Of
July she was able and ready to unload
the burden she has been carrying and
breathe freely for the first time in
thirty years. In 1890 she married JOS
eph G. Lea, Colorado ranchman. He
lived but two years, and was of but
very little assistance in the manage
ment of her business affairs. She has
conducted them Ill herself, with the
assistance of her daughter, Mrs.
Padgitt, recently married and living in
Dallas, who inherlts her mothers cour-
age and business capacity. Mrs.
Padgitt was educated at the University
of Chicago Both she and her mother
are we'll known in Taxos.-W. E. Cur
It's, in Chicago Record Herald.
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bringing a Stick to Life.

To the people Of the temperate zone
the rapid growth Of tropical vegeta-
ton seems almost incredible. In many
parts of the tropics the climate is so
favorable and the soil so fertile and
conducive to rapid growth that almost
any stick placed upright in the earth
will spring to life.
In some portions of Central America,
says the Chicago Chronicle, one may
see mile after mile Of fences apparent
ly composed of growing trees which,
upon examination, prove to have once
teen barbed wire fences, the posts
having branched out and grown into
good-sized trees. Many Central
American telegraph pole will be seen
with q crown of leaves at the top,
which have sprouted since the last
visit of the linemen.
In the tropical countries they have
as much trouble to keep the trees from
growing as in northern latitude to
make them grow, and one of the great
est difficulties encountered in that
country in railroad work has been to
keep the ties from sprouting.-The Cit
rOgraDh
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
SiIyering Mirrors.

Up to 1910 mirrors were sllVered
exclusively by means Of an amalSam,
a process most destructive to the
workmen employed. An important
step was effected by an English chem
sit, Drayton, who conceived the idea
of coating mirrors with a thin layer
of silver, obtained by reducing an am
moniac solution of nitrate OF silver
by means Of highly oxidizable essen
tial oils. This process was subse-
uuently modified by several chemists,
but only became really practical when
M. Pettiiean substituted tartaric acid
for the reducing agents formerly
employed. The glass to be silvered is
placed upon a horizontal cast iron
table heated to 104 degrees Fahren-
heit. The surface is we'll cleaned,
and solutions of silver and tartaric
acid, suitably diluted, are poured
upon it. The liquid, in consequence
of a we'll known effect of capillarity.
does not flow over the edges, forming
a layer a fraction of an inch in thick
ness. In twenty minutes the silver
begins to be deposited on the glass,
and in an hour and quarter the pro-
cess is complete. The liquid is
poured Off the glass, which is washed
with distilled water, dried and cov-
cred with a varnish to preserve the
silver from friction.-New York Tri-
bune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
Found His Man.

A story is old of New York car
conductor who had once been in the
ministry, and who retained some of
his former ways of speech in his new
calling He had been at the front of
the car collecting fares and when he
returned to his platform a well-dis-
posed person told him that man had
boarded the car at Houston street
and had found place inside. The
conductor stepped inside the door
way and ran his mild gaze up and
down the car, but could not be sure
which of the passengers was the late
arrival. "Will the gentleman who
got on at Houston street please riser"
he asked. The man arose involun-
tarily and with bow and Thank
you." the collector collected his fare
Uncle Remus's-The Home Maya
zine,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
HOMEMADE TOYS.

A Lively Snake.-This snake is
easily made if you follow the pattern
carefully. Paste this pattern on to
thin cardboard, and then cut the
whole out.
Prick a tiny hole in the snake S
head, thread piece of sewing-cotton
through, and make knot at one end
of the cotton, so that it doesn't slip
through the hole.
Hang the snake under a gas-jet
by tying him on with the piece of cot
ton, and he will drop his coils down,
and twirl away merrily for hours.
And you ought to see how he gilt
ters in a lifelike way when you put
a little frosting on him!
If you don't want to cut up your
''Playbox," you might get piece of
tracing paper, lay it over the draw
ing of the snake, and hold it down
firmly with your left hand.
Then carefully go over the lines
of the drawing with your pen or pen
Gil, and when you've colored it all
take the piece of tracing paper and
paste it down on to the piece of card
board, without letting the paper get
the least little bit creased, and then
cut it out when the paste has had
time to dry.-Philadelphia Record.
A Jumping Frog.-This is made
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NANSEN'S CARRIER PIGEON,

One day carrier pigeon tapped at
the window of Mrs. Nansen's home in
Christiania. Instantly the window
was opened, and the wife of the
famous Arctic explorer in another
moment covered little messenger
with kisses and ,caresses. The carrier
pigeon had been away from the cot
tage thirty long months. but had not
forgotten the way home. 1t brought
note from Nansen, stating that all
was going we'll with his expedition in
the polar regions. a:.'
Nansen had fastened a message to
the bird, and turned it loose. Il
The frail carrier darted out into
the blizzardy air, flew like an arrow
over perhaps a thousand miles of
frozen waste, and then over another
thousand miles of ocean, plains and
forests, to enter the window of its
waiting mistress and deliver the mes
sage which she had been awaiting so
anXiously.
We boast of human pluck, sagacity
and endurance; but this loving car
rier pigeon, after an absence of thirty
months, accomplished feat so won
derful that we can only give ourselves
up to amazement and admiration
Nansen's Arctic Explorations.
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with a wishbone, bit of string, a
little stick and a tiny bit of cobbler' S
wax.
Tie the string round double across
the wide part of the wishbone; put
the cobblers wax on the end where
you see the black mark in the pic
ture; put the bit of stick between
the two pieces of string, and twist
the string round and round, away
from the narrow end of the bone.
Then, when it is tightly twisted,
put the other end of the stick tightly
down into the cobbler's wax, and turn
the whole thing over. Now watch.
The cord pulls the stick up off the
wax, and away up in the air goes this
queer jumping frog!
A Little Wheelbarrow.-This is
made~w with a matchbox, three thin
wooden skewers, a bit of cardboard
and pin.
Make two holes far apart at the
back of the box, and two holes near
together on the front.
Now thrust two of the skeWers
through the holes till they stick out
in front enough to fasten the wheel
between them nicely.
Cut the wheel out of cardboard
and put the pin through the wood
and the cardboard.
Cut the third skewer in two, and
fasten it on the back of the barrow
for the stands.-From the Philadel-
phia Record.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07
CHlDREN'S DEPARTMENT.

THE AWFUL JUNGLE.
The meadow is an awful place
For one so young as |;
The dandelion you must face,
The fiery dragon fly,
The snakeroot and the adder's tongue;
Terribilous to one so young.
Though gentle cowslips kindly yield
Milkweed and buttercup,
Beside you, hidden in the field,
The bears paw reaches up
To grab at you, behind. before;
While tiger lilies rounce and roar.
And my! what brigand armies pass
On horse flies or on foot,
Their Turks boards waving in the grass;
They're armed with arrowroot.
And all the flowers have pistils, too;
While sword grass waits to cut you through
Now maybe Ir.lian pipes don't mean
A horrid Soowix camp!
And think! there's toadstools to be seen,
Horrificently damp.
] tell you, / amt going to go
Where crawly-wawly creatures grow!
Sinclair Lewis, in Woman's Home Com
panion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07

careful aim, flicked out his long elas-
tic tongue, and just touched the in
sect with the tip. AS 1t is so gummy,
of course the fly stuck to the tip, and
when the tongue flew back into the
mouth it carried the victim with 1t
and pushed it right down the throatl
AS rule the toad feeds only upon
small insects. But he is very fond
of the odd little pill millepedes, which
roll themselves up into balls when
they are frightened; and just now
and then he will swallow a worm,
which he always seizes by the middle
of the body. The worm, Of course,
does not like being swallowed at all,
and wiggles and twists about so &C.
lively that you might think that 1t
would easily succeed in making Its
escape. But the toad takes hold of
it with both his forepaws, Grams it
into his mouth and gives two or three
great gulps. And at last 1t disaps
pears just as the fly did.
Another very curious thing about
the toad is that every now and then
he throws off his skin and gets
new one instead. When he is about
to do this the old skin splits down
the middle of the back, so that you
can see the new one lying under
meath it. Then the toad begins to
wiggle and twist about, and to rub
his legs against his body and his
body against his legs, till at last be
manages to strip Off his old skin alto
gether. Then what do you think he
does with his castoff coat? am
sure that you will never guess, so
1 must tell you. He rolls 1t up into
a kind of ball, by means of his front
paws, and then swallows it, just as If
it were big pill.
Some people think that the toad
is poisonous; and it is quite true
that if a dog picks one of these ami
mails up he very soon drops it again,
and begins to foam at the mouth.
But the fact is that the Jumps which
you may see on different parts of
toad's body are really glands or bags,
which contain a small quantity of
kind of acid liquid. When these are
squeezed the liquid is squirted out;
and if little of it gets into dogs
mouth it makes it smart so much
that he is very glad indeed to drop
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07

In accounting for the rumbling or
rolling of thunder, which has here.
tofore been explained by the echo
theory, it is now stated that a fash
of lightning is made of innumerabia
smaller flashes. which so to make uu
the whole. The rolling thunder is
due to the primary sounds of success
sive discharges or flashes. When We
see a relatively prolonged lightning
fash we witness, in reality, number
OF discontinuous discharges follow.
ing down the same path, and the
sounds of these successive explosions
come to us like the rattle of rapid
fire gun, only less rhythmically. This
disccntinuity is quite different from
oscillation.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07

An Atchison only child says she
was so carefully raised that when she
was a baby, and her mothers callers
kissed her, the minute the callers
left her mother rushed upstairs with
her and sterilized her. Atchiaon
Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-07

his victim. But even this liquid Is
not really poisonous. And certainly
you need not be at all afraid to
handle a toad, for it cannot hurt you
in any way whatever.-The Rev.
Theodore Wood, in the London Tri-
bune.