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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Mule Had A Good Memory.

81 was at Tampa when a negro
teamster was instantly killed by an
army mule, and it furnished good
illustration of the wonderful memory
that a mule has.
THE negro teamster used to
pound that mule numerically. In
stead OF using strategy and coaxlng
his mule into submission. he used
to beat it hard enough to kill a
horse. Well, for two months the
teamster didn't drive that mule. But
the mule never forgot him. He
never made any attempt to injure
his new driver, who knew enough
to treat him decently. But one day
the old teamster came back. The
mule remembered him. He waited
with as mucn docility and patience
as an OK until he was harnessed, and
then, when the old teamster was on
kis guard, he let fly with both heels,
caught that negro in the pit of the
stomach. and stretched him out as
dead as a hammer. The other team
ster was standing right there by him.
but that mule didn't make any at
tempt to kick him. He had just
been laying for the fellow who wal
Hoped him two months before, and
when he had finished him he was
satisfied. Buffalo Horse World.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
MARIA MITCHELL

Among monuments to women in
the country of their greatest intellec-
tual progress that dedicated to Maria
Mitchell on Nantucket yesterday,
combined astronomical and library
building, must ever possess a unique
interest. 1t is memorial to one who
at a. time when "woman's cause" was
only in its cradle had made her sex
respected in every European univer-
sity town and in popular esteem for
her brilliant attainments as an as.
tronomer.
1t is now sixty years since the
King of Denmark conferred a gold
medal on Miss Mitchell for her dis
coveries of comets and full half
century since her tour of foreign OBJ
servatories gave Europe a new con-
ception Of women's capacity in
science. AS professor of astronomy
at vassar she gave her college wide
distinction.
She blazed the way for a new pro-
fession for women, one which they
have followed with aptitude and in
which they have shown an acknowl-
edged proficiency.-NewY York World,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
LOVE LETTERS.

There are very Few girls that have
not received and written what they
fondly believe to be love letters.
More than three-quarters OF these
illusions are not love letters at all,
but just silly, sentimental mush.
A love letter is not necessarily IA
string of endearments.
Bismarck wrote some of the most
beautiful love letters ever written,
but there was nothing mushy about
them.
Napoleon letters to Josephine
were marvels of tenderness, but the
terms of endearment were few.
Remember this-that in writing to
a man it is great mistake to tell
him too plainly how much you care
for him and how you long to see him.
Do not let him feel too sure of him
self, or he will lose interest-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
STORY TELLING PARTIES.

Now comes the revival of the lost
art of telling stores, not jokes or an
ecdotes, but thrilling satires which
mean a monologue for twenty to
thirty minutes. From the great c0un-
try homes of England the revival
comes. Girls who want to make a
success of the summer are taking
lessons from clocutionists in order to
tell a story with proper spirit, and
not too much tone and gesture. Mrs.
Payne Whitney is among the young
matrons who has been training for
story telling. Her supply has been
drawn from the folk lore of the
South Seas, a region whlc:i she stud
Jed closely when preparing her most
ambitious work, 'Tho Rose of
Dawn" Nearly all these legends are
bit blood curdling. Mfs. Jack
Gardner. who never does things by
halves, has been learning a great as
sortment of Egyptian tales which are
warranted to make the hair stand on
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Married Paupers And Divorce.

"An odd thing about married
paupers is that they like to live sep
arate." said a single pauper.
You know how almshouses are
arranged: There's a mems ward. a
women's ward. and a mixed, or mar
ried ward. Well. the mixed ward is
always nearly empty. Not that we
lacked married paupers. Oh. no. But
the husbands prefer to bachelor it
among the men, and the wives to
old-maid it among the women.
THE older our married paupers
get, the more vehement is their in
sistence on separate living.
She's allus a-naggin,'' the octo-
genarian will growl.
Nobody can't sleep O. nights
with sech snorin' as hisn,' shifts the
septuagenarian female.
And so they separate-to all in
tents divorced. philadelphia Bull
letin.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

At Atlantic City the other day a
fisherman caught an octopus, a rare
fish in those waters
The octopus which resembled a
frayed and ruined football of brown
leather. was carried home by the
fisherman in bucket of water.
What am l going to do with it,"
he said. why, I'm going to eat it.
Id almost as soon eat octopus as
scallops.
Il am a traveller, and l learned in
Italy and France the octopus excel
lence. You can't give an Italian of
the Riviera or a: Frenchman of the
northwest coast. where the fish
abounds. a more welcome dish.
What does it taste like? 1t tastes
like scallops or like tripe and oys-
tiers. "-Philadelph Bulletin.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

who says: I must and, God helping
me, I can, is the man who has con-
fdence in himself to do something
that no one else can do. and that
otherwise will remain undone.
How wonderfully God holds ter
rifle energies in leash and under con-
troll subject to the gradual outwork-
ing of His perfect idea for the chill
dren of men In the realm of nature
all things work together for good.
The sun, which has in it heat suffi-
cient to consume our little world in
a fragment of time. nurses to full
Ter life by its gentle caress the ten
der lily and the modest violet. 1t
touches them and evokes their deli
cate aroma: it puts the roses into
the cheek of the child and the song
into the throat Of the nightingale as
it scars and sings to the clouds. 1t
is true that so we'll do we understand
the constructive forces of nature,
that it furnishes but a trite subject
for our consideration. RHt under
meath all physical manifestations
and phenomena, let us believe there
is moral purpose. Nature is Coo
great temple in which His voice is
heard. 1t was through natures sub
Unity that David realized mans dig
nifty. Above all nature, next to God,
stands man. And for him all ply
steal forces are in harmony and
work together for bis good. And
as with nature, so in history. AS
in the roaring of the seas and the
clash of the elements the atmos-
phere we breathe is cleansed and we
enter into more vigorous life. Sn
the wars, which seemingly spell
ruin; the crumbling of nations,
which spells corruption: through all
storm and revolution. through shock
and tempest. God is leading the sons
of men out into larger life. and
bringing on the brighter and better
day
And, finally. human experience
testifies to the same truth. We are
told that on one occasion Napoleon
was shut up in an island of the
Danube, hemmed in by the Arch
duke Charles. He was able to main
tain himself there, but he sent WORD
to Italy and Spain and France, ana
he ordered his marshal with such
minuteness that every days march
was perfect All over the north OF
France. and from the extreme south
of Spain and Portugal. the corps
were. all of them, advancing, and
Cay by day coming nearer and near
er. Not one of them, on the march,
had any idea what was the final pur-
pose. and why they were being Or
dered to the central point. But on
the day the master appointed the
head of the columns appeared in
every direction. Then it was that
he was able to break forth from his
bondage and roll back the tide of
war. How like our life. as it moves
on. to the command of the Master.
It's forces seem confused to us, with
and cohesion, ofttimes antagonistic.
Joy and sorrow, health and sickness,
prosperity and adversity-all march
in their appointed paths and to their
appointed ends. But at last we shall
see behind them all the one will and
the one power, and we shall be able
to say on the day of final emancipa-
ton and victory. as said Joseph OF
old, God meant it unto good, to
bring it to pass.
So, let us go forth, renewing our
courage as we renew our confidence
that to them that love God all things
work together for good.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Advanced Thought.

He cannot justly be charged with
llliberality who "adheres to that
which is good" until better is pro-
vided. A starving man who casts
away a loaf of bread because he i'm
AGNES a ten-course dinner ahead
even an agnostic would account a
fool. Why give up our Christian
faith, which has proved so good, SO
long as only the vague and ghostly
chimera of advanced thought is
proposed to take its place? Some
of us know that faith in Christ is a
very real and precious and joyous
possession, a comfort in sorrow, a
helm in trouble, spur to higher
living, a source of assured hope for
the life beyond; what has science. or
human philosophy, or any of the
thousand and one vagaries of free
thought" to offer in its stead? A
ioyless life, rayless future. a
auenched souI-Nirvana!-The Elk
aminer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
The COME and SEE SIGN

This sign is permanently attached
to the front of the main building of
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Company, Lynn, Mass.
What Does This Sign Mean?
1t means that public inspection OF
the Laboratory and methods of doing
business is honestly desired. Itmeans
that there is nothing about the bus
mess which is not "open and above
board"
1t means that o permanent invita-
ton is extended to anyone to come
and verify any and all statements
made in the advertisements OF Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Is it purely vegetable compound
made from roots and herbs - with
out drugs?
Come and See.
Do the women of America continu-
ally use as much of it as we are told ?
Come and See.
Was there ever such q person as
Lydia E. Pinkham, and is there any
Mrs. Pinkham now to whom sick
woman are asked to write?
Come and See.
Is the vast private correspondence
with sick women conducted by
women only, and arc the letters kept
strictly confidential
Come and See.
Have they really got letters from
over one million, one hundred
thousand women correspondents!
Come and See.
Have they proof that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
cured thousands of these women?
Come and See.
This advertisement is only for
doubters. The great army of women
who know from their own personal
experience that no medicine in the
world equals Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound for female ills
will still go on using and being BEN
Gifted by it; but the poor doubling,
suffering woman must. for her own
sake, be taught confidence, forshe also
might just as well regain her health.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
mode two years ago, but NJ
turned for another visitation.

mode two years ago, but now re-
turned for another visitation.
Adjustable sailor collars of EN-.
broidered linens are pretty for chill
dren's frocks of serge or cashmere
as they give a fresh appearance tc
the whole dress.
The clear golden hue that is SC
popular this season is remarkably
pretty in laces for trimming coats
and costumes, and brightens and
beauties almost any color.
One of the smartest frocks noticed
at party was fashioned of foulard
in the popular tan shade. broched
with large coin pots of lighter yellow
tan and trimmed with bias folds OF
cream and yellow silk piping.
A style of tie which is certain tc
be immensely popular with women
who have physical scruples against
the ear-rasping stock, recalls the por'
traits of those eighteenth century
bcaux, who swathed their patriciau
threats with yards of sheerest linen
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Old Time Music Teacher.

Henry Wadsworth, who recently
died in Walcott, N. Y, was known
throughout Wayne County as a musi.
cian He not only taught singing to
large classes in schoolhouses from
year to year, but owned and carried
about with him small four-octave
melodion, the first ever owned in that
part of New York State. The legs
folded up so that it could be easily
carried by hand, and it was the only
musical instrument used Tor many
years in the churches of Wolcott and
at school exhibitions far and near
Springfield Republican.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
FIGHT AGAINST FUMES.

With perfumed wells and scented
millinery the London woman tries to
fight against the all pervading fumes
of the petrol motor bus, cab and
car. She has now called in the help
of her parasol.
A tiny ball of silk filled with deli
cately perfumed cotton wool is fas-
tened to each spoke end, the effect
when the sunshade is opened being
to charge the air with a suggestion
of fragrance rather than strong scent.
The large choux which provide a fin
ish to the handles of the fashionable
sunshades are also perfumed with
sachets, or a band of silk padded with
scented powder is wound round the
stick a few inches from the top
New York Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
How Character is Made.

One of the chief dangers of life is
trusting occasions. We think that
conspicuous events, striking expert
ences, exalted moments have most
to do with our character and capacity.
We are wrong. Common days. mo-
notonous hours, wearisome paths,
plain old tools and everyday clothes
tell the real story. Good habits are
not made on birthdays, nor Christian
character at the new year. The Wis
ion may dawn, the dream may waken,
the heart may leap with a new in
spiration on some mountain top. but
the test, the triumph, is at the foot
of the mountain, on the level plain.
Maltbie D. Babcock.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

A business corporation has been
successfully established in Vienna by
men who are totally blind. The
company manufactures brushes and
baskets and all its employees are
blind. In the eight months of it's
existence it has filled orders aggre-
eating $4,000 kronen $4,000, MAX
ing fair profit and has enough or
ders On hand to justify the enlarge
ment of its workshops. Sixteen of
the employees are skilled workmen,
and the company wishes it known
that it's wares are sold on their "ac-
tual merit. that they are put upon
the market "in fair competition with
the product of other concerns" and
that the blind people want business,
not charitY"-Chicago News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

Caddie Ito golfer, who has beer
digging gashes in the turf all the
way round the course) be q
stranger to these parts, | suppose?
Golfer--Wcll, not exactly stran
ger. | was born here. and all my
folks are buried hercabouts.
Caddie (as the golfer skies another
piece of turf with his driver)- i
doubt you'll no get deep enough
with your driver; you'd better tax
your iron.-Glasgow Bailie.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
ALMOST A SHADOW
Gained 20 lbs. on Grape.Nuts.

There's a wonderful difference be.
tween food which merely tastes
good and one which builds up
strength and good healthy flesh.
It makes no difference how much
we eat unless we can digest It. II Is
not really food to the system until 1t
Is absorbed. A Yorkstate woman
says:
~ had been sufferer for ten years
with stomach and liver trouble, and
had got SO bad that the least bit Of
food such as l then knew, would give
me untold misery for hours after
eating.
Il lost flesh until 1 was almost a
shadow of my original self and my
friends were quite alarmed about me.
First 1 dropped coffee and used
Postum, then began to use Grape
Nuts, although l had little faith it
would do me any good.
But l continued to use the food
and have gained twenty pounds in
weight and feel like another person
in every way. l feel as If life had
truly begun anew Tor me.
Il can eat anything | like now in
moderation, suffer no i'll effects, be on
my feet from morning until night.
Whereas year ago they had to send
me away from home for rest while
others cleaned house for me, this
spring l have been able to do it my
self all alone.
My breakfast is simply Grape-Nuts
with cream and a cup of Postum, with
sometimes an egg and a piece of
toast, but generally only Grape-Nuts
and Postum. And | can work until
noon and not feel as tired as one
hours work would have made me a
year ago" There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Blind Men Seldom Smoke.

Blind men seldom smoke. Those
who were inveterate smokers in their
sighted days find that after losing
their sight pipe or cigar has no
attraction for them. The man who
has no eyes to watch the smoke curl
and drift about his head apparently
has no use for a cigar.
Smoking to the absolutely blind
is something different from smoking
in the dark. Besides, few persons
smoke in total darkness. Usually
there is starlight or freight enough
to enable a man to keep track of the
smoke When deprived of that fasci-
mating pastime the cigar loses its
charm, and the man who is blind re-
signs himself to a smokeless old age.
N Y Press
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Fine Courtesy In Alaska.

Life in Alaska is uncouth in parts,
but it has it's refnements. In Val
dez there lived a man named Jake
who kept boarding house for dogs.
When the prospectors returned from
their sled trips they would place their
teams in his charge until ready to
start out again. AS he fed his guests
on garbage gathered by house-to-
house canvass he was known by eV-
cry one as "Slop Jake"
Once upon a time he fell Ill and
the newspaper wished to chronicle
the fact No one. however. knew
"Jake's" other name. and 1t didn't
seem worth while to waste the time
of the editorial staff on so insignifi-
cant a detail So the news went
printed thus:
Our well-known fellow-citizen, S.
Jake, is confined to his house with
a severe cold. 1t is hoped he will
be out soon.''-N. Y. Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Accommodating.

The Bishop of London, at dinner
in Washington. told a story as the
cigars came on about che Of his pred
ecessors. when DR.. Creighton was
Bishop of London" he said. "he rode
in a train one day with small, meek
curate. DR.. Creighton, an ardent
lover Of tobacco. soon took out his
cigar case, and with smile said:
You don't mind my smoking. ! sup
pose?' The meek, pale little curate
bowed and answered humb!y: Not
If your lordship doesn't mimi my be-
ing sick '-Argonaut.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Tie Woods of Idaho.

An example of the progress of the
science of forestry in this country
is furnished by the cooperation just
arranged between the University of
Service for testing the timber grow
ny in the State of Idaho. The tests
will be specially directed to deter
mining the fitness of these timbers
for use as bridge stringers. railroad
ties and paving blocks.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Ge@- PazEy,.e5s=e1
S1T %sVEAR: 80
EZNIAAsz

Pierrot ruffs are immensely smart.
The waistcoat of linen crash gives
a smart look to the coat.
Shirred silk-brim facings are a
trimming feature of the smartest
hats.
The merchants are already buying
their silks for next season, and every.
thing seems to have sheen.
Stamped and carved leather is not
only being used for fancy work but
as a trimming for motor coats.
The new rosette of soft ribbon suS'
gests huge ragged robin" with the
pink out ends that stand out between
the loops.
The kilt craze is becoming an OBJ
session. Every skirt must be Killed.
It is a graceful style, especially for
the slender figure.
Plumes have particularly taken to
a dull hard shade of gray so la
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

Home.Nade Saratoga Chps.-Peel six large twelve
small potatoes them in thin slices, using fof
sharp knife potato sheer Drop
the pieces at once into just before frying
process drain them dry coander Have ready in deep
frying kettle smoking fat and drop in sunclent num-
her of the sliced potatoes than the
face of the fat used lest too many pieces
be put thus be cooled so much that
the potaces will become soggy instead of crisp Stir the
chips about in the they have become delicate
brown and then Immediately them with long
handled skinner paper and salt generously while
hot When required the potatoes in hot oven
for few moments will become crisp as when
first taken forth from until required in an
alright receptacle covered crock When fry
ing pace the floor around the stove lest
the fat spluer refractory stainsMrs w. w. in
Home
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
Deathbed Statistics.

When a great man dies, no one Il
interested in learning who surround
ed his deathbed, but the news Il
always sent out. People care nc
more to know, than to hear IL III
were laid out in the parlor or ped
room, or if he were attlred IN
shroud or his regular clothes. Blu,
an Atchison inquirer has measured
his bed, and finds that without un
seemly crowding it will accommodate
sixteen. How, then, can thirty ane
forty surround the deathbeds OF the
great men, as told in the telegraph
-AtchjSOn Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14
THIS AND THAT.

woman never loses faith in a
man unless he is to be trusted.
Some people can hardly believe a
word they say.
1t doesn't take very large man
to make a big boast.
Feminine finery has ruined more
men than strong drink.
People are seldom on time; they
are either early or late.
Occasionally an actress considers
a divorce her best part.
The kind of girl a mother picks
out for her son to marry makes him
want to stay a bachelor
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-08-14

A small toque should also be
avoided.
The long. oval face should never
carry perfectly round hat, nor a
fiat hat on the top, nor lone with
stiff, regular brim. The trimming
should not be much higher on one
side of the hat than the other, but
should be about the same.
The hair should be arranged in
soft curls and waves and never low
on the neck-New Haven Register.