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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
RUN OVER BY EXPRESS.

Nine coaches of an express train on
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
road, running at forty miles an hour,
passed over Julia Weigle, two years
old, at Mayfair, ILL.,, without harming
a hair of the baby's head. She fell
under the train in an effort to rescue
her Teddy bear.
The little girl toddled across the
tracks while playing near her home.
Between the rails she dropped her
Teddy bear She allowed it to lie
where it had fallen, while she sat
down along the embankment to gath
eli dandelions. Suddenly she heard
the Omaha express laundering to-
ward her down the track. She
scrambled to her feet and started to-
ward the track to rescue her play
thing. AS she was within foot of
the rail the train whizzed toward her.
The suction of the flying cars drew
the child under the train. James
Lewis, the engine driver, leaning
from his locomotive cab, saw the
baby jerked under. He stopped his
engine four blocks further on, leaped
to the ground and ran back. At the
spot where he expected to find the
body he saw the little one sitting in
depression between the ties, the Ted
dy bear Rugged tightly to her breast.
New York Telegram.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
Employers Liability in England.

The case of Emma Dewhurst, char.
woman, contains a solemn warning
to householdeTs who may have ne
elected to insure. She was working
two days and one afternoon per fort
night, and her weekly pay, exclusive
of meals, came to Is. TN d. per week.
A prick from a pin in the fioor-cloth
was followed by blood-poisoning, and
the woman has permanently lost the
use of her left hand. At Preston
County Court yesterday the judge
held that as she worked at fixed
times she was a regular and not
casual employe, and therefore he
awarded her Is. per week under the
Workmen's Compensation act. For
this sum the employer. who paid only
IS. 7hd. per week for her work.
will be responsible during all the
years of her enforced idleness.-
Pail Mall Gazette
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
CHAPTER XVII.


And Miss Matty kept her word. The
week for which she had been originally
invited passed on without any allusion
having been made to her wishes of OBJ
tanning employment as nursery gov.
erness; and Mr. Mohun came daily, and
for hours at time, to the cottage, and
(as far as 1T was possible to judge of
him by any outward indications of
manner) had not the remotest intention
that Miss Ferguson should go away.
With a pain above all common jeal'
ousy, a pain keener than any of the
natural pangs that a woman must feel
in seeing her lover turn to one younger
and fairer than herself, Jane looked on
at the progress of the intimacy that
was being carried on beneath her roof
and in her very presence. 1t was not
Clifford Mohun alone that Matty was
robbing her of. Her life, for years, had
been sustained by the thought that she
had been sacrificed for his good. TO
have married her fathers daughter
would have been to sink him in i
own eyes and in the sight of the Wor.G,
and her barren, single life had. at
least, that one happy thought 10 set off
its desperate isolation-she was giving
up all the fairer portion of human ez-
istence for his sake! For her to be
lonely and unloved was better than
for Clifford, and for Gifford's children.
through her, to have inherited dishonor.
But what if he married Matty Fer
gusson? For what empty dream had
all her happiness been set aside If he
married this girl. bred up to the knoWl-
edge of every evil of continental life,
and with such parentage, both on her
fathers and mothers side? Warren
Ferguson had certainly not died with
the taint of a felon's name upon him!
but what was the moral guilt of man
who for his own miserable passion
could rob his own children of bread to
the full as great as her own unhappy
fathers had been. Would not Made
moiselle Ursule Grandet. the nameless
French singer, have been as worthy an
ancestress for future Mohuns and Yat-
ton, as the crafty, unprincipled, living
adventures which she intuitively knew
Matty Fergusson's mother to be? For
herself Jane felt perfect thrill Of
shame when she thought what she was
and what all her life had been, and
with what love she had loved Nohun;
and now saw the kind of woman who
in very truth suited him best-the talk
that amused him, the ideas so con-
sonant to his own, the level where. so
entirely and beyond all question. he
found the most normal and genial at
mosphere for his soul to breathe.
say, Matty was not robblng her of Gift
ford alone, but of her last lingering be-
lief in Gifford's worth, her reverence
for her own fond articles of faith which
until now she had held as much above
the sacrilege Of doubt as the prayers
she put up to heaven every night and
morning of her simple life.
She felt it to be so; and she said to
herself:
"It is well. If Clifford can love this
Matty Ferguson, and if my life and
my love for him have been one mis-
ta.en sentimental dream, it is well for
me to be awakened"
(To be Continued)
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
PAIN CAUSED BY IMAGINATION.


A German surgeon in the Franco
Prussian War had occasion to lance
an abscess for a poor fellow, and, as
the sore was obstinate, it became nee
essary to use the knife twice. The
operation was not very painful one,
but the patient declared that it had
nearly killed him, and when third
resort to the lancet was proposed he
protested that he could never go
through the operation alive.
The surgeon promised to make it
easy for him, and, calling up few
Of the loungers, ordered one of them
to hold his hands close over the pa
TENTS eyes and two others to grasp
his hands firmly.
This arrangement, explained the
doctor, "is said to prevent pain in
such an operation. Now lie perfectly
quiet, and when 1 say 'Now!' prepare
yourself"
The surgeon at once began quietly
with his work, and in short time
had completed the operation without
the least trouble, the patient lying
as though in sleep.
When all was done the surgeon laid
aside the knife and said, "Now!"
Such a roar came from the lips of the
sick man as seldom is heard from any
human being. He struggled to free
himself, yelling, "Oh, doctor, you're
killing mel"
Shouts of laughter soon drowned his
cries and he was told that the opera
ton had been all over before the sig
nal was given. 1t was good joke,
but it is doubtful if the poor fellow
could ever be made to believe that he
did not feel actual pain Immediately
after that fatal "Now!"-Tit-Bits
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
DOGS TRY TO EAT MAN.

Battling for forty hours against a
pack of hunger-maddened dogs on an
ice pack off the coast of Labrador,
with the temperature ten degrees be-
low zero and only knife to defend
himself from being torn to pieces by
the brutes, is the thrilling experience
that DR.. Wilfred Grenfell, the cele-
brated Observation-Disclosures, recently
passed through. The story of DR..
Grenfell's escape from death is told
by Captain w. Bartlett, Of the steam
er Strathcona, which has just arrived
at St. Johns, N. F., from the north.
CAPTAIN Bartlett was with Commander
Peary on several of his expeditions
to the Arctic.
DR.. Grenfell had left Battle Har-
Dor. Labrador, to attend several pa
tients at another settlement, ten miles
distant, and was travelling over the
ice with a pack of dogs, when he
found himself driven off the coast by
a moving ice field. Before he realized
it he was in an area covered with
broken drift ice, and before he could
stop the dogs the animals had carried
him into the water. The dogs at
tempted to climb on Dr. Grenfell's
back, and he was obliged to fight the
before he was able to climb on to a
solid piece of drift ice. The dogs
also succeeded in saving themselves.
The wind was blowing q gale from
the northwest, the temperature was
ten below zero, and night was at
hand. Taking off his skin boots, Dr..
Grenfell cut them in halves and
placed the pieces over his back and
chest to shield those parts of his
body from the blast. AS the wind
and cold increased, when night came
on, he ;.1termined to kill three OF the
dogs to afford him more warmth and
to supply the other beasts with food,
fearing that, becoming hungry, they
would tear him tC pieces.
AS it was, they attacked him saw
agely, and he was bitten terribly
about the hands and legs. The doctor
spent a trying night. He wrapped
himself up in the skins of the dead
dogs, but still found it so cold that he
repeatedly had to run about the ice
to keep up the circulation. Hoping
that next day he would be in sight of
land, though the ice was fast receding
from the shore, the doctor took the
legs of the dead dogs and, binding
them together, made pole, to the top
of which he attached a part of his
shirt to serve as q signal. This even
tually proved to be his salvation, rs
the flag was seen by George Reid
and others of Lockes Cove, Mare Bay,
and they effected a rescue.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
DON'T BE A HOARDER.

Don't dust and clean the same old
things you never intend to use and
put them back in the same place
tc be house-cleaned another year.
Here is what a woman found in her
attic: An old tricycle. that no one ever
intended to ride, a big bundle of old
wall paper, two piles of dusty old
magazines that no one ever wanted
to read, old-fashioned curtain fix
lures that were broken, hangers full
of old clothes, paper boxes heaped
high full of %trash" and an old
broken rocker.
When asked what she was keeping
them for, she admitted that she didn't
know. She was persuaded to get rid
of the stuff, and that attic is now a
cheerful little room, cozy as can be,
the gathering place of her friends
instead of a dingy old trash room.
So don't save your things to give
them away when they are no good to
any one. Give them away as soon as
you find they are of no use to you.
They will help some one in some way.
philadelphia Ledger.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
PETER WENT HOME.

81 left my dog accidentally at a
friends house yesterday" said a
young girl. My friend tried to get
him to run after me, but he would
not leave. He plainly held that 1
would soon return; that since l had
gone without him, l would come back
inevitably for him, and he stuck TO
the room where 1 had parted from
him, feeling that it was his duty to
do so. Finally my friend called me
up on the telephone.
Your dog won't CO. she said.
He thinks you will be back, and we
can't drive him out
80 Hold him up to the phone, said
l.
She held him up.
Peter said I, como home; l am
waiting at home for you. Come
straight home, Peter, good little dog
Peter wagged his tail, wriggled
down out of my friends arms and
set off homeward like flash of light
ming. Home Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
THE CUCKOO'S HABITS.

1t is we'll known that the cuckoo
lays her eggs in the nests of other
birds. Now comes the German natur
alist, Konrad Fuss, who breaks
lance in defense of the cuckoo's char
acter, or rather, gives the reasons fol
the birds strange habit. Owing tc
the unusually large stomach Of this
bird, he says, she has not room II
the rest of her body to develop more
than one egg at time, with weeks
interval between each. If she laio
her eggs with such long pauses be
tween in one family's nest, there
would result confusion of hatched,
Matching and embyro progeny which
would mean disaster to all.
She could not herself attend to
more than one nest at time. Con
sequently, she is forced to exact ma
ternal care for her eggs from other
birds.
She is careful to choose the nest
of a worm-and-insect eating bird
preferably one in whose menu cater.
pillars often appear, the hairier and
bigger the better, for the hungry big
stomachs of the young cuckoos.
Nature seems to do everything IN
her power to encourage the cuckoo IN
her apparently shiftless, lazy ways
She has no natural gift for nest-bulld.
ing, but lays her eggs on the ground.
seizes them in her bill, and drops
them by stealth into some unsuspect
ing neighbor's nest.
Oddly enough, although the cuckoo
is four times as large as the skylarh.
her eggs are as small as those OF the
lark, and pass unnoticed among the
eggs of many varieties of small BIRDS
The young cuckoo, till about ten
days oId-the age at which 1t begins
to crowd legitimate progeny out OF
the nest-has a natural depression ID
it's back which acts as convenient
kind of ladle for turning the luckless
Aedglings out into the cold world
The cuckoo, being so much larger
than the other birds, fills the nes'
with it's own bulk, and is forced 10
adopt these drastic measures. Ihls
act of self-preservation accomplished.
the cuckoo's back assumes the come
ly symmetry of later life.
The adopted parent does not seem
To notice or resent this behavior In
the least, but coddles and tends the
interloper till it has reached the age
of discretion, and pays no further at
tention to her discarded young. Inc
cuckoo's migration is also arranged
for at a much earlier date than others
of the feathered world-an engage
ment which she could not keep II 40
nestle cares detained her.
Poetry, sentiment, scandal, super
stition-since history began the
cuckoo has been a fayorite subject
of all these. She is the herald OF
spring, of storms; she will foreteh
YOUR length of days; she becomes a
hawk in the winter in order to add TO
her wisdom.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, dear, how many
years till 1 marry?" is eagerly asked
by peasant maidens in the. springs,
and the answering "Coo, coo! Coo
cool" as eagerly counted and i'm
plicitly believed.
The earliest English song eXtant,
written in the thirteenth century, Is
a Joyous welcome of the first CUCKOO
call in the spring. 1t begins "Sdmer
is icumen in" or, as we spell IT,
Summer is a-coming in. Amer
can Home Monthly.
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8, E,i7..Ea75IWa E
Hij Hijz;EEaA1REAPES|sE
ff@NN NlE@AR

Cheese Omelet-Break six eggs
into a dish and stir them gently. Add
one-half cupful of grated or Clipped
cheese, salt and pepper to taste, and
one-fourth teaspoonful of extract OF
beef dissolved in one tablespoonful
of boiling milk. Melt two tablespoon
fuls of butter in the pan, turn in the
mixture and cook slowly. Cut In
quarters and turn when brown.
Apple Bread-Stew about ten ap-
pies and when done whip them till
they are quite light; have one part
apples, two parts -four, the usual
quantity of yeast, salt, and a little
sugar; knead well and set to rise for
twelve hours; bake then in long
loaves. If the apples are juicy no
water will be needed except that used
to dissolve the yeast; bake in same
manner that is used for baking other
bread.
Marguerite Salad-Arrange on in
dividual salad plates six small, crisp
lettuce leaves In the centre OF
these put tablespoonful of mayon-
naise. This makes the centre of the
daisy. Around the centre arrange
narrow-cut strips of the whites of
hard boiled eggs, to represent the
daisy points. Mash the yolks
through a sieve, and scatter over the
mayonnaise to make the rough sur
face of the yellow centre. With care,
this may be made an attractive dish.
Chocolate Bread Pudding-Two
cups stale entire wheat breadcrumbs,
four cups scalded milk, two squares
chocolate, three-fourths cup sugar,
two eggs, one-fourth level teaspoon
full salt, one teaspoonful vanilla. Add
the milk to the bread and let stand
twenty minutes. Melt the chocolate
over hot water. Add enough OF the
milk to make thin enough to pour,
then add it to the bread. Add the
sugar, eggs beaten slightly, salt and
vanilla. Pour into buttered baking
dish and bake one hour in moderate
oven. Serve with hard sauce.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
AN EVENTFUL CRUISE.


Captain John Willard Russell,
mariner, of Bristol, Rhode Island,
achieved no great distinction in the
annals of his time, but he was one
Of great company of undaunted
Americans who braved such perils as
have long since vanished from the
seas to play a part in building a
mighty commerce for a young ma
tion. In editing Captain Russells
letters, under the title 'The Romance
Of an Old Shipmaster," Mr.. Ralph
D. Paine says that as a youth, in
1895, John Russell undertook a
Western journey, and Joined the pio-
neers who were pushing on into the
wilderness of Western New York and
Michigan. But he had not the bent
for land, and two years later he is
in Virginia, and embarking upon his
drst voyage.
What were the risks our sailors
and merchants faced in the years
when the French, in our unofficial
war with the Terrible Republic"
were cruelty harassing our feeble
marine, are pictured in the following
letters from John Russell to his faith
er:
"Charleston, S. c.
"Dear and Respected Sir-I think
1t uncertain whether you have heard
anything from me since I left Vir-
ginia in the month of August. I
then informed you of the particulars
Of my Southern journey, and how, to
secure my own Debt, I was induced
to take a share in a Brig and Cargo
bound to the West Indies. l sailed
soon after from the river Potomac,
bound to Cape Nicholas Mole-the
Brig and Cargo worth eleven thou
sand dollars-one-half Of which was
my own, and the remainder con-
signed to me as super-cargo. After
being out fourteen days we were
:aken by French privateer-myself
and a boy were put on board the pri-
.ateer without being allowed to take
My clothes with me.
After being ten days on the Pri-
vateer-she having weakened herself
by manning prizes and having only
ten men on board, with two other
prisoners and two boys, concerted
plan to take possession of the priva-
teer, in which we happily succeeded
and stood for Jamaica. But twelve
hours after we unfortunately fell in
with another French Prfvateer, of
large force, who, on sending their
boat on board, discovered our situa-
ton, and soon turned the tables up
on us. will not attempt to detail
the long series of cruel treatment
which succeeded.
I'm three days I was landed and
closely confined at Petit Ance. When
was liberated / had no clothes and
not shilling.
'I took passage in sloop bound
to Norfolk in Virginia, and came in
A packet to this place. l have an Of
fer to go to St. Thomas, and expect
to sail to-day. You may rest as
sured, my Dear Father, that poor and
unfortunate as l am, your son has not
1isgraced himself. No-though en-
tirely a stranger here, l have re-
ceived the countenance and friend
ship of some of the best men in the
place"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
EFFECTIVE CURTAINS.

Unbleached Russia crash can be
used for making very effective cur
tains. Turn a three-inch hem on
the right side and baste on a two and
one-half inch band of goldenrod yell
low linen so that one edge covers the
raw edges of the hem. Leave the
edges of the linen raw and button
hole on both edges with coarse brown
silk. Near the inner edge of the
curtain outline two stems in brown,
going up from the band of yellow,
and top them with a four-petalled
yellow flower, butterholed around
with the brown and with a center of
dark red. Make valance across the
top of the window on which button
hole simply narrow band of linen
New Haven Register.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
PtOlemaic Astronomy.

According to the Ptolemaic the
ory, the earth was the centre of the
universe, ard was motionless. The
surrounding etheral region was COM
posed of eleven skies, or firaments,
which revolved around the earth as a
common centre. All the celestial
bodies moved around the earth. This
system lasted for more than eleven
hundred yea7s, from about 200 B. c..
to the time of Copernicus.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
USES OF PAPER.

The careful housewife has a use
for everything, and the daily papers
are by no means an inconsiderate
factor toward insuring clean kitch-
en-. For instance, a supply of paper
folded in eight and hung up over the
kitchen sink will be found most con-
venient to slip under a hot kettle
that has just been lifted from the
stove.
A store of full-sized printed sheets
should likewise be kept in the kitchen
table drawer, so that there is always
one handy to spread over the table If
necessary during work, which can
afterward be burned.-New Haven
Register.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17

pass through the outskirts, and lurk-
ing around back dooryards-a verf-
table scavenger. When alarmed, he
is alert, and easily outdistances the
f1eetest common dog.
Occasionally he is seen by the light
of the moon dashing away, with E
yelping laugh or cry, followed by
half score of dogs; and it is said that
the coyote will at times allure the
dogs on until one is in the fore, Their
turn and lead the victim to an am
bush, where several coyotes are lying
in wait. Seemingly at signal they
will pitch upon him and send him
home, torn and bleeding, if not seri'
ously injured.
Almost every canyon in the range
is the vantage ground of one or more
coyotes AS the sun rises they leave
the plains and make their ways tC
the hills, where they sleep on the
soft grass, or lie on the lodges of rock
that overlook the ravines.
The coyote is about the size of o
setter dog, often smaller, with a
DuSuy, WOll-llhe Cdll, UlS, pI pIoAulhohs
ears and an exceedingly odd express
sion. A glance at the animal would
not convince one that 1t was adapted
by nature to remarkable bursts OF
speed, yet such is one of the attri-
butes of this singular creature.
The swiftest of California dogs are
required to capture it, and then Mas
ter Coyote succumbs only after
one or two mile run at race horse
speed-not the run of fox before
the hounds, but chase where the
game is ever in sight, and the horses
are put to the utmost speed, as upon
the track No wonder, then, that the
coyote has attracted the attention Of
the cross country rider, and is con-
sidered game we'll worthy the best
mettle of horse and rider.-Good
Literature.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
CLEANING CANE CHAIRS.

To clean and restore the elasticity
of cane-bottom chairs, turn the chair
and with hot water and sponge sat
urate the cane-work thoroughly. If
the chair is dirty, use soap. After
ward set the chair to dry out of doors
and the seat will be taut as when
new.-Indianapol News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
REOUIESCAT IN PACE,


Here lies poor woman who always was
busy;
She lived under pressure that rendered her
dizzy,
She belonged to ten clubs and read Brown
ing by sight,
Showed at luncheons and teas and would
vote if she might;
She served on school board with courage
and zeal;
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on
wheel;
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew microbes
by name,
Approved of Delsarte, was Daughter
and "Dame;"
Her children went in for the top educa-
ton,
Her husband. went seaward for nervous
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free
The shock was too great and she died in
stantlee!
Saturday Evening Herald
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-17
AFRAID 1T MIGHT.

"Work never hurts anybody" said
the industrious man.
NO." answered Flooding Pete,
"but it's most as bad to be scared as
hurt. rt."-Washington Star.