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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
THE INVENTORS IA BUSY
YEARS.
BY Hugh Allen

1909-The World: The end of
the world? Oh horrors! Oh grief.
oh terrible. Heavens, Help! Po-
lice! Roosevelt. what shall we do?
What shall we do? Ito continue
through year-shouting, praying,
shrieking).
1910-Enter Wilbur Wright and
Orville Wright, arm in arm. They
speak 1--WE have it,"
The World: What, boys, tell up
quick. Don't keep us waiting.
Wrights, together (pufiing calmly
on cigarets): Airships. Well
make EN-. Well fly to Mars on
'em--lverybody.
1911: Wright Bros, joint kings
Of the World, with Captain Baldwin,
Count Zeppelin. Captain Langley,
Farman and 100000 others, they
work and work on plans for the
ships. Every navy yard in the
world is turned over to them.
1912-Edison drumming. breath
less): What Wait!
World Cmpatiently): What's
wrong now, Tom? Don't be a
knocker.
Edison: Everything's wrong
There are 1,500.0OO.O0O people in
the world. have computed the
amount of iron. steel and alumni
mum necessary to make airships
and you cant provide space for
more than few thousand with all
the material in the world.
World (distrait): Oh pshaw, Oh
horrible. We never thought of
that. Too true! We are lost. Oh
Eddy. tell us what to do.
Edison: Tom LOngbeat, the
Marathoner. and ! have worked out
the solution. Everyone must start
running in the, same direction
all Americans starting from New
York. Europeans and Asiatics from
Port Arthur Africans from the
banks of the Red sea. President
Taft will lead the race in this
country. The earth revolves and
rotates, as you know. II we all
run together in the same direction
we will throw 1t out of it's course
and 1t will find another sun to give
II light, The the planet will miss
us and We will be saved.
The World: Hurrah, Murray!
Bravo, bravo, banzai! Jolly well
done! Viva whoopee,
Edison becomes king, with Long
boat, Schrubb, Hayes and Dorando
as continental vice kings. Wright
brothers are exiied to 26 Broadway
"a lonely place.
1913-(two years later)-Prof.
Lickes at Yerkes observatory {:
Stop running, everybody!
World Ia little peevedD: Why,
whatever Is the matter, Prof?
Prof. (sarcastically): Nothing,
except that you people aren't doing
any good. I've been taking obser-
vations and the earth hasn't moved
an inch.
World: on gosh. Prof, are you
sure?
Prof. Lickes: Yep, I've taken
my observations with hairbreadth
accuracy. I've figgered and fig
gered-addition long division,
logarithms, proportion square root
and everything, and 1t don't come
out any different. But don't despair,
Prof. Lickes will save you yet.
Courage!
World: Oh, will you really,
Prof? Wen make you king If you
do, and send Edison and Longboat
and those fellows to Wall street
and chain 'em to tickers with the
Wright brothers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
LIVES TWO YEARS WITH
BROKEN BACK

DIES MONIES. May with his
back broken by fall of slate, Lon
Peterson, miner. has lain helpless
for two years in Mercy hospital,
Physicians have reached the con-
.clusion that cure Is out of the
question.
He is dependent upon the charity
of the sisters at the hospital.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
KING OF GHOULS rs
RELEASED FROM PEN

INDIANAPOLIS. May 5,-Rufus
Cantrell. negro grave robber. known
as King of the Ghouls," whose
depredations startled the entire
country several years ago, has been
paroled, lie was sentenced to II
term of from two to IA years.
A member of the board said that
Cantrell had been a model prisoner.
and the authorities feared Ii he
were kept longer In the prison his
mind would be permanently affect
a.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
OPEN SEASON
LATER

There is no sense or reason for
opening the season in early April
and closing 1t in early October.
April weather is. proverbially
tickle and unpleasant; indeed, in
recent years April may well be
classed as one of the winter
months. The records would prob.
ably show more unpleasant days
in the month just closed than
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
COLTS GIVE CHAMPS
GREAT BATTLE

Vancouver put it on the Portland
Colts over at Vancouver yesterday
by score of to 6 after fierce
battle Of II innings. Mahon, Van
couver's right fielder slammed one
over the left field fence to get the
needed score.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
Makes
Your
Bread?

Have you ever looked into
the bakery or room in which
the bread you eat is baked!
You're careful about your
cooking and your food, Of
course, but what do you
know about your bread9
Our plant-where Jersey
Milk Bread is baked-is al
ways open for inspection;
we invite you to come and
see the clean bakery.
Your grocer has it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
TT THE WORLD CANE ANENDlNE YEARS

= Professor Percival Lowell, q
= Americas most noted astron- q
. oner, stated in a lecture be- q
= fore the students of Massa- .
= chusetts Institute of Technol- =
. Ogy that a collision of an I'M .
. known dark planet with the .
= sun would terminate life on .
= the earth. But the event .
= would be prophesied Ia years .
= before the catastrophe. .
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
INDIANS WERE
AlSOELECIEO

ASTY WRIGHT
Il m pire d, the
wind blew a
young hurricane
across the moist
diamond and the
dyed in wool
fans whom even
an Ell e C t l o n
couldn't k e e p
away saw the
Indians take in
the Tigers 3
to 3.
Fate some like
that of the day
b fore, when
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
FINE RECORD AS PITCHER OF OPENERS

bouncing around the minors for 10
these many days, bending south
side slants and spitters over the
chatting dish for epicurean batters.
Well. this year Bill registers at
Evansville, Ind, In the Central
league, and Is the veteran hurler of
the catapultmg corps. Cristall was
picked to fling the opening game.
and the reason advanced by Man
ager Knoll for his selection was
that the vet was in better shape
than the others for SO important a
game.
Cristall has been performing for
nine years In more or less speedy
company and In this time has
pitched in Ave openers. winning
four of them. His lone failure was
in 1907, when with New Orleans
he was defeated by Atlanta in II
innings. Maybe It was because
that other old timer, Knoll. is a
wee bit superstitious that he chose
Cristall to celebrate the opening
day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

st. Louis 4. Detroit 2; Boston 0,
Washington /; Philadelphia 3. New
York II; Cleveland 10, Chicago 2.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
COAST LEAGUE.

San Francisco 10. Portland O;
Vernon 1, Oakland 0; Los Angeles
II, Sacramento 3.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Chicago 0. Pittsburg /; Boston
TO. Brooklyn 6-5; Philadelphia 8.
New York 2.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-05

Until the last decade the swing of the human
pendulum was ctyward but in recent years the
pendulum has begun to swing to the country.
The farmer boy ambition is job in the city;
next to be millionaire banker, brewer or min
ing nsagnate; next he'd like an automobile,
private and private yacht, with few col
ored "gemmen' to wait on him. finally, few
acres in the country, a few chickens, cow
dog, fruit trees, a garden and a nice,
smooth, velvety lawn on which to play 'bare
foot croquet."
Many people, realizing that the banker
brewer magnate chain is a rather tortuOus,
hopeless route for most people to attain the
chicken COW garden combination (the simple
, life), have taken a lesson from the trust and
shortcut the old formula heading direct for
the few acres.
The change is healthy one; we are fast be-
coming a nation of tenants-flat dwelIers
Why balk at part of the trust lesson in short
cutting. Why not be logical and learn all the
trust has to teach us. If the millionaire brewer
nragnate route is a useless, senseess, unprofit-
able route to the few acres the vine covered cot
tage and your own home, your own job and
independence, equally senseless and unprofit-
able is the old fashioned real estate boomers
methods, with his brass bands, Gree ears,
''free" luncheons and other Free accessories.
There is no safer, more profitable investment
on earth than few acres of irrigated land ina
good climate, near transportation, with good
soil and water supply; nor is there any more
Independent life, happier or healthier or any
more ideal environment for rearing family.
But why, in this enlightened age, when the
trust has shown us the immense advantages of
shortcutting, of cooperation, should 100 men
each with few hundred toll earned dollars and
each wanting FIVE or 10 acres of irrigated land,
wait for some real estate boomer to buy tract,
put water on it and them by means of brass
bands and lot of "free" things, which the
buyers pay very dearly for, sell it to them for
three or four times what it cost
There is better way-the trust way-the
new way-the way Morgan, Hartman and
Rockefeller do when they want something very
desrable-co-opera
We will sell you the very choicest land in the
Columbia valley-the best fruit country in the
world, with plenty of water two railroads right
at our door, in we'll settled community-for
less than one-half what you pay for inferior
fruit lands by the old methods.
Is it worth consideringl If so, come in and
let us talk it over.
The.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
Americanizing Canada.

More than half of the 5000 immi-
grants who entered Canada in Deem
Der were from the United States. In
the year 1908 nearly 10000 came
in. and $1,000 of them were from
1.-The States" as our neighbors over
the border put it. This sort of thing
is giving the Canadian Northwest, a
vast region of much vitality and prom
Use and swift growth, a decided
American tinge. American books
and magazines, American fashions,
American slang and American ideas,
too, are much in evidence. American
money is one of the greatest sources
Of prosperity. American enterprise
is leading the most active and grow
ing section of the Dominion along the
road to very American wealth and
industrial power.
Old-fashioned Canadians, intensely
loyal to their own country and to
Great Britain, do not like this Amer
icanizing Of the Dominion's wide, ex-
panse of wheat lands in the North-
west, but they are unable to stem the
tide. If Canada is inviting enough
to enterprising men and important
enough as a place for their work ana
their investments, the Americanizing
will go on. And what Canadian
wants his country to fall or slacken
its pace in any phase of growth
which attracts the homeseekers from
the United st a t e p Cleveland
Leader.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19

to find the climate suited to her. She
is sai>. 10 be quite as amiable as the
domestic wife, the wife with a mis-
sion or the wife with family, If she
would only consent to stay in one
place long enough for a person to
make her acquaintance.
Some Of the finest 1aces in the
world come from Belgium. There are
no fewer than 1000 lace schools in
that country. Each of the towns has
its own particular points" the pat
terms Of which have been handed
down from mother to daughter for
generations. Lacemaking is the chief
industry of the women of Flanders,
and has been for five centuries. The
finest specimens of Brussels lace come
from the town of that name.
Almost one-half of all the women
wage-earners in the United States
are under twenty-five years of age.
and more than sixty-eight per cent.
are under thirty-five. There are 204
different occupations in which women
are engaged shoulder to shoulder
with the man toiler. The occupations
in which the women engaged out.
number the men are: Musicians,
teachers, boarding house keepers,
launderers, nurses, servants, walters,
stenographers, bookbinders, glove
makers, hosiery and silk mill opera
tives, dressmakers. milliners, seam
stresses and textile workers.-New
Haven Register.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
The Longest Night.

It is the shortest day-the longest
night of the year. Tonight the sun
reaches it's southern meridian, pauses
in the mighty sweep, and tomorrow
he will turn his face to the north
again.
That it is that relieves the sombre
contemplation of the longest night"
that it Is the limit. That now from
day to day henceforth we may watch
the great orb grow in his daily circle
of the sky rather than to shiver. as
we feel him diminish and withdraw.
To be sure the shiver is also matter
largely of theory and imagination,
for the compensation of the stars and
the white silence is here to minimize
the sense of loss in the retreating
day.
Now as we contemplate the beauty
of the northern winter night we have
the added satisfaction of knowing
that the sun tomorrow will rise a
little higher than yesterday it did.
We know that it will continue so un-
til presently its light will lie upoL the
hills the whole span through and BAN
ish utterly the darkness through
which now we grope, and under its
influence the birds will return and
even the highest peaks of the noun
tains will spangle with spring flow
ers.
1t is because of the meaning that
this longest night has to the people
of the North it has been suggested
that it is a. fitting day-or night-to
make of it an annual feast night
throughout the North.-Daily Alas
kan.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
. . eo0s0oe eeoe
. A STORY OF AN AMERICAN
MERCHANT ABROAD.
Observation-Disclosures

How can an American manufac-
turer go about getting a foreign
trade? The Worlds Work has a
number Of personal experiences. Mr..
E. j. Bliss, shoe manufacturer, tells
how his foreign business began, de-
veloped and prospered. He answered
all foreign inquiries with more cour-
tesy than the American business man
usually feels it necessary to put into
his letters. When these inquiries,
arising partly from magazine adver-
Using and partly from word-of-m mouth
advertising done by Americans wear
ing his shoes abroad, grew compare
lively numerous, he went in with all
his might for the foreign trade. He
perfected his system of self-measure-
ment first of all, being careful to
adapt it to the fashions and habits of
the country in which he was cam
paigning. Then it occurred to him
that if man sent all the way across
the ocean for pair of shoes he would
probably talk to his friends about
those shoes when he finally got them;
SO he decided to take advantage of
this talk. Next, when local dealers
abroad found their customers wearing
American shoes, they began to ask
the American house for agencies. :"
This led to the establishment of rep
resentatives in many countries.
Mr.. Bliss conclusions are very in
teresting. Such a line of procedure,
he thinks, aided by the fact that
American goods are really best, will
lead to foreign business-if we Amer
leans will only pay more attention to
detail and get rid of our internal care
lessness."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
GOOD CHANGE
Coffee to Postum.

The large army of persons who
have found relief from many chronic
ailments by changing from coffee to
Postum as a daily beverage, Is grow
ing each day.
1t is only a simple question of try
ing it for oneself in order to know the
Joy of returning health as realized by
an Ills. young lady. She writes:
81 had been a coffee drinker nearly
all my life and it affected my stomach
caused insomnia, and | was seldom
without a headache. had heard
about Postum and how beneficial 1t
was, so concluded to quit coffee and
try it.
Il was delighted with the change.
can now sleep we'll and seldom ever
have headache. My stomach has got
ten strong, and l can eat without suf-
fering afterwards. | think my whole
system greatly benefited by Postum.
my brother also suffered from
stomach trouble while he drank cof-
fee, but now, since using Postum he
feels so much better he would not go
back to coffee for anything"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's Rea-
son."
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, 1909-02-19
The Ingenuity of Inventors.

The ingenuity of inventors and
manufacturers is ever at work in the
endeavor to reduce the expense of
production, and at the same time to
improve the quality of articles having
a large sale. This is not only benefi-
cial to the purchasing public, but it
inures to the benefit of the producer
in increasing sales and preventing
competition. This has been SO in the
case of farm machinery, clothing,
shoes, bicycles, ETC., and now 1t Is ap-
parent in the safety razor field. Thou
sands of this style o. razor have been
sold at from $3.50 to IS each and CIV
en- satisfaction. Recently manufac-
turers have applied more scientific
principles and improved methods in
their manufacture, and the result is
seen in the "Shrp Shavr" razor, which
is sent postpaid for twenty-five cents
In stamps by the Book Publishing
House, 134 Leonard street, New
York. 1t is superior to any razor
sold, being bought largely by those
already owning the highest priced
razors. Not every one knows that
the best results are obtained by hay
ing two or three razors and alternat-
Ing them in use. This practice of al
ternating possibly accounts for the
very large sale of this low priced i'm
plement.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19

with spreading slender wings Is
among the favored novelties for col
lar pins.
The extremely close sleeves on the
tailored gown show darts at the top
in the effort to obtain shape without
fulness.
The perfectly plain sleeve which
has no overlapping part hanging from
the shoulder is too severe for most
women.
There are few colors with which
the touch of gold that is so fashion
able does not harmonic, and bit of
it is usually an improvement.
One must stand particularly well if
she would carry off the gowns with
style whose skirt trimming is high at
the front and low at the back.
The little Forentine and Venetian
bonnets of felt which the little folks
are wearing are among the prettiest
styles which have ever been brought
out for them.
A novelty in flowers is the Gala
lily, made of velvet in black, white
and yellow, and accompanied by
large velvet leaves, speekled in green
and yellowish white.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA.
Whole Body Mass of Raw, Bleeding,
Torturfng HumOr - Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering
In Desnair: Cured hy Cuticura

"
Torturing Humor - Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering
In Despair: Cured by Cuticura.
words cannot describe the terrible &C.
zcma l suffered with. 1t broke out on my
head and kept spreading until it covered
my whole body. was almost solid mass
Of sores from head to foot. / looked more
like piece of raw beef than human being.
The pain and agony endured seemed more
than l could bear. Blood and pus oozed
from the great sore on my scalp, from I'M
der my finger nails, and nearly all over my
body. My ears were so crusted and swollen
| was afraid they would break off. Every
hair in my head fell out. l could not sit
down, for my clothes would stick to the
raw and bleeding flesh. making me cry out
from the pain. My family doctor did all
he could, but l got worse and worse. My
condition was awful. l did not think |
could live, and wanted death to come and
end my frightful sufferings.
"In this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Remedies.
l said would, but had no hope of recov-
cry But oh, what blessed relief | exEeri-
enced after applying Cuticura Ointment. Ii
cooled the bleeding and itching flesh and
brought me the first real sleep had had in
weeks. 1t was as grateful as ice to a burn
ing tongue. / would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap, then apply the
Ointment freely. l also took Cuticura Re
solvent for the blood. In short time the
sores stopped running, the flesh began to
heal, and l knew | was to get well again.
Then the hair on my head began to grow.
and in short time l was completely cured
l wish ] could tell everybody who has &C.
zema to use Cuticura Mrs. VIM. Hunt 1875
Thomas St., Newark, n j., Sept. %, 1908. "
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
GIRLS OF BRAINS.

A Filipino girl has taken rank as
the most brilliant student in the Phil
adelphia Women's Medical College.
She is Olive Salamanca, who, as
child in her home in Cavite was
awakened by the first roar of Dewey's
guns in greeting to the Spanish forts
at that place. The young woman has
won the Agnes r. Robinson Mesner
scholarship for anatomy, and is
looked upon as one of the most prom
Using students ever enrolled in the
college. Another bright pupil there
is Edith Das, a native of Ferozepore,
a town near Lahore, in the foothills
of the Himalayas. These two young
women have excelled their American
sisters in grasping knowledge, and it
is believed their success will cause
other girls from their respective coun-
tries to enter the college. Following
graduation, Miss Salamanca and Miss
Eas will return to their homes to
practice medicine among their coun-
trywomen. Miss Salamanca will be
one of the first Filipino women to
hold physicians degree.-New York
Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
Beware Egg Bloom,

Fl know these eggs at least are
fresh," said the young housewife.
Gas 1 took them from the basket a
white bloom, like the down of a
peach, came off in my hands,
Her husband, a food expert, gave a
sneering laugh.
GIN that case" he said, "Pll fore
go my usual morning omelette. That
bloom, my dear, proves your eggs to
be a year or so old-may be four or
five years old.
THE bloom, as you so POLITICALLY
call it, is lime dust. 1t shows that
the eggs are picked. Lime dust,
which rubs off like flour, is the sur
est test we have for picked eggs-a
not /unwholesome article, but not to
be compared with the new-laid
sort. - New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-19
A. Rs. And MatrimOnY.

Of course, he likes her to be intel
ligent If a college education hap
pens not to have given her an en-
larged sense of the Importance of
herself and her sex, and depreca-
tory view of the creature masculine,
then it is well. But unfortunately
this very thing is largely true of col
lege-bred women; it makes them con-
descending and a man despises the
woman who patronizes him.
After all, a man chooses his life
companion for personal qualities far
more than for mental attainments.
The brainiest men have given all
their love to women with little men
tally. What a man wants in his
wife is a woman, not trained mind.
-Today's Washington Post.