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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
SUCCESSFUL DRY FARMING.

One who has studied the subject of
farming in the regions west, where
the rainfall is less than third OF our
normal allowance, describes the meth
DDS thus:
ITO accomplish. all this special ma
chinery has come into use. Horses
could not pull plows biting deep into
the tough centuries-dried soil. SO
powerful engines that roll majesti-
cally along with two dozen plows en-
train are in their places. Press
drills that plant the seed deep, pull
verizing harrows that break the sur
face into powderlike fineness and
other appliances are used First get
your moisture, then raise a crop on
it, is the formula adopted by one sue
cessful farmer. He told how he had
plowed twelve inches deep. had har-
rowed and cultivated = and then
raised thirty-five bushels of wheat.
fifty bushels of corn and generous
crops of rough feed on each acre.
finally starting profitable fruit or
chard-all this ON a rainfall of less
than fifteen inches annually. Year
after year moisture preservation has
increased his supply and the soil bed
has constantly grown richer and
deeper"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
CORN ON THE FARM.

Keep the farm crops on the farm
and ship the meat and the butter and
the milk and the cheese" is the COM
mon sense advice of Secretary Wilson.
This insures soil fertility. Every ton
os corn shipped to market loses the
farm thirty-three pounds of nitrogen.
twelve pounds of phosphoric acid and
seven pounds of potash. Figure this
out on the basis of the printed an
alyses on the fertilizer bags and see
how much the farm loses with each
corn sale. If fed, eighty to ninety
per cent. of these constituents go
into the manure. BY the way, Uncle
Jim says to be sure and haul out and
spread your manure as fast as made.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

STORY OF A MISSOURI HOUSE.
A few miles south of the Missouri
River at point where it begins the
great curve around Saline County and
not far from the little villages OF
Malta Bend and Grand Pass, stands
a remarkable old house. 1t is wealth.
erbeaten and low, with dormer win
dows pushing out of its gently sloping
roofs. 1t stands on the ''Petitessauts"
plains (named by early French set
tlers), region through which passed
the first explorers and traders bound
for the Far West.
In 1880 William H. Lewis, a Vir-
ginia planter, with his family and a
number of negro slaves, emigrated
to Saline County. A year or two later
ne erected the house, constructing 1t
of hewn logs from the nearby woods.
At first it was merely large log
structure with four rooms, but later,
when machine sawed lumber was to
be obtained, it was "weatherboarded"
and other rooms were added.
In those days it was the quality"
house in it's part of the country, and
many were the neighbors and stran-
gers who enjoyed the hospitality OF
it's kind owner and his family.
During thesCivil War the occupant
of the house for some reason did not
take part in the great struggle. Con-
sequently he was much harassed by
'bushwhackers" and by struggling
bands from either side. In order to
insure his safety he dug passage
from the cellar under the house to
an old hollow tree some thirty feet
away. When sought for by enemies
he betook himself to this clever hid.
ing place. The entrance to the pas
sage was SO constructed that when
closed by a rock it was not easily dis
covered. From the house access to
the cellar was obtained by flight OF
steps leading down from hall closet.
A few years ago some traces of the
passage and the dilapidated remains
of the steps might still be seen. but
later owners of the place, with no
taste for the romantic, have filled up
the cellar and obliterated nearly all
signs of the refuge.
To the student of literature and
lovers of the great the old house pos
sesses another interest. The pioneer
of American literature, Washington
Irving, when on his tour West in 1882
stayed over night within it's walls.
If the house could talk it could no
doubt give us an interesting descrip-
ton of the gentlemanly author and
of the French Count and Governor
Ellsworth of Connecticut and others
of the band which accompanied them.
kansas City Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

The completion of the submarine
cable under construction between
Iceland and the Shetland Islands IS
expected to afford facilities for
great extension of the area covered
bv the existing system OF weather
prediction. Iceland in the winter
time occupies about the centre or the
Atlantic low pressure, or storm, area
and the absence of telegraph1c COM
munication with that island hitherto
has prevented the collection OF IN
formation of great value to meteorol-
ogy. By utilizing the Iceland caole'
and the reports from the Central
Physical Observatory at St. Peters
burg. covering the vast stretch OF
Siberia, the United States Weather
Bureau hopes hereafter to possess
knowledge of the state of the atmos-
phere completely round the earth
in the northern hemisphere, faft
eff great Importance in long-perlod
weather. forecasting.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
FRIENDLY TO FOWLS.

1t saves a great deal of trouble
and annoyance to teach the fowls
that their caretaker is their friend
md not an enemy nor a nuisance.
Tame the birds aud when they are
oeeded they will come at d call, which
Is very convenient when they are on
/ range. Perpetual excitement Is
also the cause of lack of egg-produc-
zion, and when the fowls recognize
their owner and the family it will
ne an easy matter to keep them uTl-
der control and to care for them IL
they become sick.-Farmers' Home
Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

Armored concrete continues to en-
large the field of it's application. The
experimental concrete telegraph poles
erected by one Of the great railroads
running between Chicago and the
eastern coast have proved so success
full that the company has decided to
extend their use gradually over its
western lines.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

cross stick is attached a piece of tin
one foot wide by one and half feet
long, wired about six inches from the
pole in such a way as to rap the up
noise it frightens every members of
the feathered tribe. This is not only
an experiment but an assured fact.
Three such tin rappers' are suffi-
cient in an acre field.-Ford B. Dur
fee, in the Epitomist.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

Every metal is believed by Gruttln,
a German chemist, to have its pecu-
liar odor, which he regards as a
gaseous Transformation product. He
has made some of the odors percept-
tble for a few moments at intervals
by heating the metals to 122 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
No Help For 1t.

The Hostess What, do you have
to leave at this early hour?"
The Guest-"Im sorry, but it's
necessary"
The Hostess-"A must you take
your wife with you?"
The Guest-"Yes, ma'am-Im
sorrM to say, / must! !"-Cleveland
Leader.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Meteors prove that the air is still
dense enough to make those little
bodies incandescent through friction
at a height OF 100 miles; but up to
the present man has succeeded in
exploring the atmosphere to height
of only sixteen miles.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
DEVICE AGAINST CROWS.

1t is very discouraging to have
ones crops destroyed every year by
that ravenous king of destroyers, the
crow, and if every farmer who has
tried everything in the scarecrow
line without effect will give the de-
vice illustrated here a trial, he will
find it a godsend and will be con-
WINGED of it's utility. The upright
pole is eight to ten feet high. To the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

Prince Henry, brother of the Ger
man Emperor, is the inventor OF an
automatic window washer. Lest 1t
be supposed that the device is
household improvement, let it be
stated that it is intended for the pur-
pose of wiping off moisture from the
glass wind-break of an automobile,
so that the riders vision may be clear
at all times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE,

1t would be hopeless to attempt to
put into writing those impressions
which GO to make the entering of a
great Egyptian sepulchre so thrilling
an experience; one cannot describe
the silence, the echoing steps, the
dark shadows, the hot, breathless air,
nor tell of the sense of vast time and
the penetrating of it which stirs one
so deeply.
AS we scrambled out into the bril-
liant sunlight and the bracing north
wind the gloomy wreck was brought
before the Imagination with renewed
force. In some of the tombs which
have been opened the freshness OF
the objects has caused one to exclaim
at the inaction of the years; but here
where vivid and well preserved wall
paintings looked down on a jumbled
collection of smashed fragments of
wood and bones one felt how hardly
the powers dealt with the dead.
In the fourth year of the reign OF
Horemheb a certain harper named
Neferhotep partly composed a song
which was peculiarly appropriate to
the tune which ran in ones head at
the opening of the tomb of this Pha-
raoh whom the harper served:
Behold the dwellings of the dead.
Their walls fall down; their place is
no more; they are as though they
had never existed. That which hath
come into being must pass away
again. The young men and maidens
go to their places; the sun riseth at
dawn and setteth again in the hills
of the great west. Men beget and
women conceive. The children, too,
go to the places which are appointed
for them. Oh, then, be happy! Come,
scents and perfumes are set before
them; mahu flowers and lilies for
the arms and neck of thy beloved.
Come, songs and music are before
thee. Set behind thee all cares;
think only upon gladness, until that
day cometh whereon thou shalt go
down to the land which loveth
silence"
Horemheb must often have heard
this song sung in his palace at Thebes
by it's composer; but did he think,
one wonders, that it would be the
walls of his own tomb which would
fall down and his own bones which
would be almost as though they had
never existed.-Arthur E. P. Wei
gals, in The Century.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
CARE OF YOUNG CHICKS.

Professor Graham (Stoors' station,
Conn., says: "Poultrymen differ con-
siderably as to when the chick shall
have its first food. Good results have
been secured when chicks have been
permitted to pick little sand or fine
grit from a clean board when about
thirty-six hours old, to eat bread
crumbs moistened in milk and
squeezed dry. After that almost any
of the prepared chick foods may be
fed about five times day until the
chicks are two or three weeks old.
when they will do well on wheat
screenings and need not be fed often
er than three times day. 1t is ad-
yisable to let the chicks have access
to green feed at all times. Fine clo-
yer hay, cut with an ordinary cutter.
is excellent, and also makes a good
litter to scatter the feed in. 1t is
best. however, to give the last food
at night on a clean board, letting the
chicks eat all they will and then re-
moving the board. At other times
care should be taken that they be
kept hungry, or at least sufficiently
so to be eager to eat when fresh food
is offered"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
.- FARM a~~
sSss TOPICS. SGR

PLENTY OF LITE,

Have plenty of litter in the scratch
ng shed and throw in little grain
he last thing at night so the chickens
will find it early in the morning.
This is not supposed to take the
place of morning attention, but To
1eep the chickens busy while you are
milking the cows and attending to
other things about the barns.-
Farmers Home Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23

THE sTINGING OF CHRISTOPHER.
Columbus had just discovered
America.
But" urged his wife, "it's no use.
the hired girl objects to the country"
Crushed, he perceived theefailure
If his mission.-New York Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
MORE MODERN.

"What did you do with that bicycle
romance you wrote?"
81 have taken 1t apart, and am re-
assembling it as motor novel. -
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-07-23
DISTINCTION,

HShe's a very Intellectual woman. !"
$50 hear. Is she intelligent? ?"-
Life.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
The SHOCK
DIDN'T KILL HIM

William Warner, better known as
Billy" who is well known by
every old-timer in Salem, he having
been in business in the city for near
ly 25 years. Billy is like the Arkan-
sas man who was never surprised
at the unsuspected, but the "4:3O"
club came near knocking him off
of the Christmas tree last evening
when they presented him with a fine
merschaum pipe as a token of ap
probation of the many Sunday
dinners, for which Billy is famous,
endered them when there was moth
ing doing. Billy is still alive and an
other chicken dinner is in sight.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
CROSS & SON
A RECORD TO
Be PROWD OF
In the Meat Business for Fifty
Years and Covering
Three Generations.

Three generations have been iden-
titled with the Cross Meat Market
| business in this city. The founder
was Thomas Cross who was succeed
| ed by Edwin G. Cross in 1884 and
in 1907 the firm name was changed
to E. c. Cross & Son. Curtis u
Cross having taken a half interest
in the business with his father; he
now having assumed the full control
and management of the same.
The founder Thomas Cross, took
! up the butcher business when Salem
was a mere village and today the
firm is conducting a modern and up
to date metropolitan market in a
city of 10000 people. Their market
is equipped with all the latest ma
chineTy, tools, scales, and other ne
cessities required in that business.
| They also have the best and most
practical refrigerating system in the
state. The first tracking market in
the northwest was established by +.
c. Cross at the present location.
A great renovation has taken
place in the last two months in their
business and they have made an en-
tirely new market by installing the
latest improved and up to date
nickle plated meat racks, marble
and paneled wainscoting as we'll as
new flooring which all together
makes very beautiful appearance
when lighted up by their powerful
tungstun lamps.
All precautions have been taken
to make this the most sanitary mar
ket in the city, everything having
been taken to make this the most
sanitary market in the city, every.
thing having been treated with
heavy coat of white enamel
They carry the very choicest and
assorted lot of meats which are cut
by the most experienced cutters in
the city and in fact satisfaction is
always guaranteed by them.
On an average of one hunderd and
forty cattle, one hundred and twenty
hogs, fifty calves, and seventy sheep
are slaughtered monthly at their alb
attoir which also is kept in the most
sanitary condition.
Fourteen men are kept continual
ly at work the year round which
alone means an annual expenditure
of S9,720 for wages.
Three delivery wagons are kept
busy carrying meat from their es,
tablishment which reach any and
all parts of the city.
The business has become great
wholesale and retail and packing es-
tablishment although it is only in it's
infancy.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
Ontarrh Cnnnot he Cured.

With local applications, as they can
not rea the seat or the disease. Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional dis
ease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not
a quack medicine. 1t was prescribed
by one of the best physicians in this
country for years and is a regular
prescription 1t is composed of the
pest tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly
on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients
is what produces such wonderful re-
suits in curing Catarrh. Send for
testimonials free. F. ]. Cheney &
Co., Props, Toledo, o. Sold by drug
gists, price, 75c. Take Halls Family
Pills for constipation.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25

Coughs that are tight, or tickling,
get quick and certain help from DR..
Shops Cough Remedy. On this ac-
count druggists everywhere are favor.
ing DR.. Shoop's Cough Remedy The
ender leaves OF harmless lung-heal-
ing mountainous shrub give to DR.
Shops Cough Remedy its curative
properties. Those leaves have the
power TO calm the most distressing
Cough, and to soothe, and heal the
most sensitive bronchial membrane
Mothers should, for safety's sake, al
ways demand DR.. Shops. II can
with perfect freedom be given 10
even the youngest babes. Test il
once yourself. and see! Sold by Cap
ital Drug Store
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
.,In Wyoming'' Not a MeIodrama.

"In Wyoming Not a Melodrama.
Love, pathos, treachery and re-
tributiOn, with a final happy out
come, are the main elements of "In
Wyoming" a breezy, idealic comedy
drama of the Northwest, which will
appear at the Grand Opera House,
Friday night December "a. The
story is one of absorbing interest,
interpreted by a large first class
company, and mounted with realis-
tic stage settings and elaborate cos
tunes. The play is in four acts,
and comprises a bright sunny sum-
mer on a ranch near Casper, WyOm-
ing. The play is free from exagger-
ated and impossible nonsense, such
as abounds only too often In west
ern plays. There is so much good in
I'm Wyoming" that on one wonders
at the extraordinary success which
the piece has enjoyed. IL is all
clean and wholesome. It's atmos-
phere is refreshing and there Is
nothing suggestive in the story 1t
unfolds. Seat sales start tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
.PTOMAINE
POISONING
Foods That Look Good Are Often
Rank Poison, and Thousands of
People Are KilIey by Them.


Last year there were reported in
the newspapers of the United States
no less than 3,7OS cases of ptOmaine
poisoning, and these resulted in more
than 5000 deaths which occurred as
direct result of the poison within "a
hours, after the beginning of the at
tack
Ptomaine poisoning results from
putrefaction taking place in canned
good, such as canned Holsters, pre-
served fish, sardsnes aha nearly all
canned goods, but it may also oc-
cur in the ailimentary canals as the
result of eating deviled crabs and ice
cream and other such incongruous
combinations of food at one meal.
When the proteids or albuminous
portions of rooGs undergo decay un-
der the influence of toxic bacteria and
microscopic germs or organisms, one
of the resulting products of putre-
faction and decomposition is a poison
Gus substance called ptomaine, which
becomes very dangerous in the hu
man system, often causing death.
Since the passage of the Pure
Food Law, which prohibits the use of
such preservatives as borax or boric
acid, the death rate from ptomaine
poisoning has increased enormously
in fact, over so per cent, for it
seems that, while borax and boric
acid-which were formerly largely
used as preservatives of canned goods
have a very delterious effect on
the system, they did inhibit the
growth of disease germs in such foods
and thus prevented putrefaction and
ptomaine poisoning, so that one evil
has apparently been substituted for
another.
Every one of the 1900 cases of
ptomaine poisoning could have been
avoided if the persons who unknow-
ingly ate contaminated and tainted
food had used freely STUARTS
CHARCOAL LOZENGES during or
Immediately after their meals.
These lozenges are powerful anti
septics, antidotes, anti-toxics and
anti-putrefactive agents and strongly
antagonize and neutralize the pto-
maines, overcoming the toxic effects,
and destroying the pathogenic germs
which IL A fhn 6tsoA cd Nc
ptomaine poisoning the victim should
rapidly masticate and swallow all the
lozenges in one or even two packages,
while awaiting the physicians arriv-
al.
They are entirely harmless and can
be used liverally with only good eff
fects, and everyone who uses can
ned goods of any sort, especially
those foods rich in protein, should
keep a box of Stuart's Charcoal Loz-
enges on hand all the time, and use
them after each meal, as they may
be the means of saving life.
They should also be used in case of
StIIih5 luu6uIOOI1S OI LOdu
stool fungi" by mistake, though the
better plan would be to adopt preven-
tative measures and use them with
or soon after each meal where such
foods as mushrooms, canned lobster,
hard, soft and canned dev-
lied crabs, bologna sausage, canned
HCI, CuTn I tY,,lN
fort cheese are eaten.
Purchase package of Stuart's |
Charcoal Lozenges from your drug |
gist for 25c and avoid being poisoned.
Send your name and address to F. 4.
stuart Co., 200 Stuart Building, Mar
shall, Mich, for free sample.
To Cure Cold In One Day.
TaEa LAXATIVE PROMO O,,in{na
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
Could Not De Better.

No one has ever made a salve. oint-
ment, lotion or balm to compare with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one
perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns,
Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ulcers,
Eczema. Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes.
Cold Sores, Chapped hands, it's SUI
preme. Infallible for Piles. Only
25c at j. C. Perry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
A Thrilling Rescue.

How Bert r. Lean, OF Cheny,
Wash. was saved from a frightful
death is story to thrill the world.
"A hard cold" he writes, brought
on a desperate lung trouble that baf-
fled an expert doctor here. Then
paid $40 to SIS a visit to a lung
specialist in Spokane, who did not
help me. Then I went to Califor-
MIA. but without benefit. At last |
used Dr. Kings New Discovery,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25

Proposals for Furnishing Supplies
to the Oregon School for Deaf
MuteS.
Proposals for furnishing meats,
groceries and dry goods tn the ore
gon School for Deaf Mutes will be
receiver a he office of he superin-
tendent till Monday noon, Jan. 3.
All bids must be signed by bidder,
state with price and be extended for
quality. and must be upon banks for
nished by superintendent. Quality
being equal, preference will be given
goods Of Oregon manufacture.
For blanks containing list Of ar
ticles desired apply to
e S TILLINGHAST,
Iz-24.eod-5t Superintendent.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
Levied a Ten Mil Tax.

The tax levy for Dallas for the
coming year will be 10 mills. This
levy on valuation of $1,O35, 900
will raise $10,350. The levy is ap-
portioned as follows General fund,
S.3 mills; water fund, IL mills: IL
hrary fund, y mill. These levies
will raise revenue as follows: Gen
eral fund, $3.50; water fund, $1242;
library fund, S518.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-25
Foley's Honey and Tar is the best

Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
and safest cough remedy for children.
At the first symptoms of cold, give
as directed, and ward off danger OF
Group, bronchitis, sore throat, cold in
the head, and stuffy breathing. 1t
brings comfort and ease to the little
ones. Contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs. Keep always on hand,
and refuse substitutes. J. G. Perry.