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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
JUST PLAY,
and deep:

Alice had a Teddy bear and a go
cart and a doll-oh, many dolls!-
and a long list of other playthings.
Poor, pale faced little Kitty looked
down longingly upon her from the
upper veranda.
81 wish she would come up and
play with me-" sighed Kitty.
"Perhaps she would if you asked
her," said Kitty's mother, encourag-
ingly.
So Kitty leaned over the railing
and called down in very coaxing
voice:
"Please come up here and play
with me-" Alice looked up.
wont you?" said Kitty. "I'm
lonesome. And I'm sick"
A frown puckered Alice's forehead
and a cloud came over her face. She
shook her head.
"There'd be so much to move. And
I like this place. I'd rather play by
myself"
She's mean!" said Kitty to her
mother.
And Bobby Hatfield, who had
stood on the steps of the lower porch
and heard, said to himself:
She's mean! She ought to be
ashamed to behave like that to such
a poor weak little girl"
Bobby was going to the beach. He
had his pail and his spade. And be-
sides them he had a hope. He hoped
that the same nice man that had
helped him build a tower yesterday
would help him build him bigger
tower to-day.
Bobby put his foot down on the
next step and there he stopped.
POOH What could l do?" he
asked himself. what good would
a spade and pail be for playthings
on an upper veranda?"
Then, anyway, Bobby knew that it
would spoil the hope entirely. Of
course boy would rather play with
a big brown man than pale, thin
girl who was two whole months
younger than he was.
"Alice ought to CO." scowled Bob
by. She could just as we'll as not. ~
Suddenly he started down the steps
on a run. He went to the beach and
gathered shells. When his pail was
full, voice behind him said:
How is it, partner? Are we
building more towers to-day?"
Very slowly Bobby turned around.
His face was very sober.
mo, sir. Thank you. 1 guess I
can't" he said. "I've got to play
with a little girl that's sicl-."
Bobby ran back faster than ever.
He was afraid to stop. lie wished
that he had told the brown man that
he was sorry; it was not very polite
rot to tell him that he was sorry.
But he was afraid to so bacn.
Il can't help Alice's meanness, but
I can help mine" he painted. Put
maybe l couldn't if l went back"
Here I ami" he announced, when
he had reached the upper porch.
Kitty frightened rather uncertain
ly.
i've come to play with YOU said
Bobby.
Then she frightened very certain
ly, indeed.
They had an astonisningly nice
time. Kitty was fine, for a girl ct
playing games. Really, Bobby
thought that if she had been a boy
SIZE would have been iin2 at it.
When it was lunch time two men
stood in the hall and saw them. One
of the two was Kitty's fati.er. The
other was the big brown man.
1T takes very small things to
make children happy" said Kitty g
father.
Sometimes" said the big brown
man; but he said il, without speak
inS, to himself. Sometimes it takes
unselfshness, and that is about the
largest thing there is"
The big brown man was going
boating that afternoon. and he want
cd company. Sally Campbell, in
Sunday School Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
EInppcn'S (inar Habit.

Here is possible explanation Of
the strong prediction J. Pierpont
Morgan has for cigars. According
to the United States Tobacco Jour-
nal, the Chester School, OF Water
bury, which the fnancier once at
tended, las sued a man in Hamden,
Conn. for years board and tuition
fo- his son. The defendant makes
tie school officials and teachers used
tobacco in the presence of he pupils,
thereby encouraging them to contract
the habit
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
A NATURAL BEAR TRAP.

Solomon lie Roy was in the Nc.
Kean County woods, along the head
of Potato Creek, in Pennsylvania.
Hearing a noise in little hollow off
to one side of the path, he stole up
and peered through the laurels.
Three bears were paving in the
leaves after beechnuts, one large bear
and two s'--ller ones, cubs of last
spring. - Roy had no gun, so he
conteui. / 9lf with watching the
bears.
Some c." been chopping cord.
wood VII bears were beech.
nutting, : tree had fallen
against a = aHd lodged, held in
a leaning ; ion by a small limb.
While LIE Roy was watching the bears
one of the cubs clambered on the
leaning tree. Its weight broke the
tree fell to the ground.
The big bear was paving directly
under it, and the heavy trunk fell
across its back, crushing it to the
ground. The cub that had tumbled
with the tree gathered itself up and
dashed away through the laurels.
rapidly followed by the other cub.
The old bear gave howl and whine
of pain, and when LIE Roy hurried
down to the spot he found a dead
bear. The weight of the tree had
broken the bears back.
Obtaining help, LIE Roy chopped
the bear out of the natural trap that
had killed it and got it home. 1t was
nearly a 800 FOUNDER, being in prime
condition, both in flesh and fur. The
two cubs have not been seen since.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
G6s i'll India.

One hundred and fifty different
languages are spoken in India, most
Of them unwritten, and this fact fire.
quently leads to trouble in the courts
CT that Oriental country. Strangely
enough, Indians frequently drift into
that capital who can find no one able
to understand their vernacular.
Neither the court nor the court in
terpreters understand some of the
litigants and witnesses involved in
some of the lawsuits.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
CHAPTER XXI.

SOuIluu0u.
Then he mounted. The last per-
son with whom he shook hands was
bis brother Charlie, who had been
standing at the horses head. 1t was
strange how the young sailor invari-
ably found something to do. and was
never to be discovered idle.
"Come, Adonis!" VINEYARD called
out, and then he vanished in the
darkness.
Then Mrs. Mistley, Mrs. Wright,
and the colonel turned and entered
the house. Lena and Charlie were
left alone. They stood side by side,
and listened for a sound that was
dead. So still were they that Char
lie could hear the hurried tick of
his own watch. Lena stood notion
less, and showed no sign of moving.
Her companion waited for some min
utes with the peaceful patience of
a sailor, and then he said in little
more than whisper:
"Come, Lena!" ...-.
+ She turned and looked at him
vaguely, as if she had not been aware
of his presence. He was standing in
front of the open door; beam Of
light flooding out into the darkness
rested on his upright form, and
cleaned on the dead white Of his
linen. He was motionless and quiet
as usual-the personifcation of equa-
bility and strength. From his un-
:. usual height he looked down at her
gravely.
"Come," he repeated. ''We have
: had hard day-let us go in. Be-
ware of that little step"
And, under pretext of guiding her,
he took her hand within his arm, and
entered the house.
They found the old people in the
drawing room.
. 'fWell?" she said, smiling, as she
crossed the room.
-, "Well!" replied Charlie at once,
without turning round.
t'I think said Lena, without ad-
dressing any one in particular, that
it was a great success, don't you?
Everybody said they enjoyed them
selves immensely, and I really b.
lieve they meant it. -
81 am sure they did," affirmed her
mother, readily, with a little contrac-
ton of the eyes. 1.-The floor was love-
Iy, know, because I tried it. Char
lie led me astray as usual, and made
me dance against my principles and
despite my gray hairs
81 heard" said Lena, mischievous-
~, toll yiyoo oh
elderly lady from London being the
best dancer in the room. But
there is papa pulling his mustache
to keep himself awake. You old peo-
pie keep such shocking late hours.
Puff-there goes a candle-puff-
there is another. Goodnight, Mrs.
Mistley; goodnight, mother; good
night, poor. sleepy old gentleman;
ood-night-Charlie.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
QUEEN CROssPATCH TALKS.

Frances Hodgs0n Burnett's Queen
Silver-Ball' story, The Spring
Cleaning," in the St Nicholas begins
in this charming way:
1t is Just the hundreds and thou
sands of things I have to do for peo-
pie like the Racketty-Packetty House
dolls and Winnie and the Rocks and
the Cozy Lion that makes it impossi-
BILE for me to attend to my literary
work Of course nothing ever would
get told if I didn't tell it, and how
is a person 20 find time for stories
when she works seyenty-fiye hours &
Gay. ToI ma- say thar there are not
seventy-fve ours in a day, bat !
know bett work seYenty-fTe
hours in q q. ether they are there
Or no.
OF course you don't understand
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.

what I mean by my spring cleaning.
That is because you know next to
nothing about fairy ways. suppose
you think that spring comes just be-
cause April comes and you imagine
I have nothing to do with it. There
is where you are mistaken. April
might come and stay for year and
nothing would happen if did not set
things going. In the autumn I put
everything to bed and in the spring
and my green workers waken every
thing up-and a nice time we have
of it. After it. is all over my green
workers are so tired l let them go to
sleep for a month.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
HOOSt Fer Alcohol.

Denaturci alcohol will receive q
needed Government boost" Despite
It's freedom from taxes the official re-
rorts says that not one new industrial
s5i;l was set % in the United States,
while American production was only
7,009, 900 gallons, against Germany's
12Q,0OO,000. To remedy this neglect
Of what is abroad a cheap fuel and
source OF light and power the De-
rartment OF Agriculture has equipped
a plant at Washington to test mater
ial and processes.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
PUFFER DIsCoMFITs ENEMY.

All the little sea folk have their
own clever way of protecting them
selves from their enemies, but the
spiny boxfsh has about the cleverest
way of all.
He belongs to the great family
called puffer, and you will see in
moment how we'll the name fits him.
Just imagine the little puffer SWIM
ming around in the water, looking
like small round box with a head
on. A big fish comes along, sees the
little puffer and thinks, There's just
a good mouthful for mel" But just
as he darts toward him the little puff
fer blows himself up like a ball, turns
over on his back and floats around
with all his sharp prickers sticking
out toward his enemy.
The big fish is daZed, he stares at
the puffer and thinks, "Can that great
prickly thing be the same little fish
tried to swallow" He can't under
stand it, but he sees there is no use
trying, so he goes sadly on his way
and when the little puffer is sure he is
gone he just empties the water out OF
his skin and goes back to his usual
size.
Now isn't that a pretty clever trick
for little fish, to play? But you see
Mother Nature gave the little puffer
just that kind of body that he might
escape from his enemies. Nature
and Science" in st. Nicholas.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
CHAPTER XIII.
Disguised.


The rays of the setting sun, pierre
ing the frosty air, cleaned luridly
on every dome and minaret of grand
! old Mother" Moscow. The bell sus-
pended in the white tower of Ivan
Veliki was thrilling the entire city,
far beyond the Kremlin gates, with
it's deep, continuous voice. There
was 20 sound of metallic concussion.
but one great unbroken hum vibratel
winged insect. 1t was feast da.. :,
and the Metropolitan was about }
bless the people from the jewel d
altar steps of the cathedral.
The shopkeepers in the Slavor Xxi
Bazaar were busy closing their Little
narrow booths, knowing that their
commerce was finished for the day.
From one of the arcaded passages
there emerged an old man, bent and
limping. He was clad in a long gar
ment confined at the waist by an
old leather strap. His high boots,
reaching almost to the knees, were
innocent alike of grease or backing.
On his head was a black astrakhan
cap, all glossy with newr ess, and in
his hand he carried five or six more.
This type is common enough in Mos
cow-the man was an itinerant ven-
der of astrakhan caps, and, like the
rest of his kind, was quite ready to
take that from his head to offer to
any would-be purchaser.
AS he came out of the Slavonski
Bazaar, he turned his head as if
dog should have been at his heels;
then beneath his shaggy curls of
grizzling brown he smiled little
grimly.
Painfully he made his way across
the broad market place. not in the
direction of the Holy Gate, but to-
ward the marvellous BASIL
Opposite this, the most lovely
building ever erected to the glory of
Tod by a man who knew not His
love, the old hat-seller stood and
gazed. For greater convenience he
laid his cone of fur hats upon one
arm and raised his two hands to the
crook of his staff.
The eyes that rested on the glori-.
Gus curve of varying cupola and min.
aret were strangely youthful and pen-'
etrating, Admiration for this tri-f
umph of Eastern architecture was
expressed therein, but wonder there
was not. 1t was as if the old man
knew every line and turn, and was
now gazing on them as one who bids
farewell.
The sharp, concise tread of an Off
cious police agent sounded on the
stones behind the old fellow, but he
never turned or needed it.
He seemed lost in reVerie where
in perhaps figured the grim personal
ity of Ivan the Terrible, who had
caused this same Basil to be built;
and then, when it was finished. see
Ing. despite his coarse and harbar-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
FROM HIS SIDE.

so you cling to that childish SUI.
perstition about 13 being unlucky?"
said the traveller
Yes" answered the other. Cant
get away from it,"
"But see how completely it is dis
proved. This glorious country start,
cd with thirteen colonies"
Very true. But l am an English
a.. Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
Motors For Fishing,

Introduction Of motor boats into
the fishing industry is held to be re-
sp0nsible for the steady increase in
that industry in Norway, These
boats make it possible for the fisher
men to take much larger catch and
also furnish better protection in
rough weather and are safer than the
cid boats driven by sails.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
Ills IDEA,

what would you do if you had
son like mi1e?"
I'D work hard to get to be mil
lionaire."
"What-so that you could indulge
his tastes?"
''No-so that he'd feel it when
disinherited him. ."-Cleveland Leader.
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Go be continued.)

The Mexican Government charges
on transfers of land deeds amount to
from $40 to $45 Mexican on $1,000
value. According to the laws of tha.
country it is necessary for foreigners
to have their nationality mentioned
lin the title, otherwise they become
iMeXicans,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
Quaker Reflection.

Money is the root of all evil
that is, other peoples money.
Money talks, but just now you have
to strain your ears to hear il.
The fellow who goes to the theatre
on a pass is easily taken in.
1t isn't always the biggest man who
looks down On his neighbors,
1t isn't so bad to have one-sidea
views if We look on the bright side.
Some people always want to have a
finger il the pie so on one else will
.at it.--Phiiadslphia Recoru.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
Abandon Paper Umbrellas.

Chinese are discarding the old
oiled paper umbrellas, il use for CEN
turies, in favor of the kind OF UNI
brellas used in Europe and America.
Germany and Japan are lighting for
the trade Last year China imported
HOP "22 mb2ellas and the year be
fore .,.ov, IL.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
CLOSE FIT.

What a funny looking camel"
said Bessie at the Zoo. "He hasn't
any hair on him."
No." laughed Brother Bobby. 81
guess he lost that going through the
eye of the needle. Chicago News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
REJECTED.

Foolish Youth (acting as Judge in
drawing room competition "for
making the ugliest grimace")-
Madam, think l must award the
prize to you!"
Elderly Excuse me,
young man, but I'm not playing!"
The Bystander.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
DESTINY.

What are you going to do when
you grow up?" asked one little girl
of another.
Marry some silly man, suppose,
like most women do" was the reply.
Chicago News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
A MODERN BO-PEEP.

Little Bo-Peep did lose her sheep -
(The sheep were old, they say),
And little Bo-Peep ne'er found her sheep,
Though she searched for them every
which way.
She sought them through meadows. wide
and deep;
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-02-05
HIS WISH.

4 wish I were an ostrich" said
Hicks, angrily, as he tried to eat one
of his wife's biscuits, but couldn't.
Il wish you were" returned Mrs.
Hicks. ""I'd get few feathers for
my hat. Boston Transcript.
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NOIuck and
b Adventure
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WHALE TOOK HIS DECOYS.

WHALE TOOK HIS DECOYS.
Probably there is no man who has
more respect for a whale, even if it
than William F. Rallett, who has a
camp on Sandy Neck. He relates the
following story that put gray hairs on
his head and made fifteen minutes
seem like four hours one morning
white coot shooting on the back of
Cape Cod.
Mr.. Hallett said he went out just
before daylight in the morning and
put out about thirty decoys, all wood.
He thought he was about a mile or a
mile and half from the beach, in
about twenty feet of water. The
wind was light, with no sea. Just as
the sun came up he saw a black
whale following the shore down from
Plymouth Point, about the same dis
tance from shore as he was. He
thought nothing about it, as the birds
had commenced to fly and the gun
ming was good.
The next thing he knew the whale
came up and was blowing about 100
yards off. The great creature lay a
few minutes on the water, looking
around, first at him and then at the
bunch of woods. Mr.. Hallett said
il was no doubt thinking which would
make the best starter for breakfast.
Mr.. Hallett said to his best judg-
ment the whale was about eighty feet
long and fifteen feet across the back.
During the time the whale was sizing
up Mr. Hallett and his outfit he was
circling around the boat slowly. Hal
lett said he did not dare 10 make a
move to try to haul in the anchor
and row away, as he thought if the
whale saw him move it would be
more likely to take after him, so he
sat low in the bottom of the skiff,
with his hair standing on end, ex-
pecting that every minute would be
more notice of him than it did of the
decoys.
After the whale had made three
turns around the outfit it backed off
and made a dash for the bunch Of
woods with it's mouth open. The
whale sucked down ten of the pine
woods, lines and all. After it ap-
parently tried to swallow one that
had got stuck in it's throat the whale
seemed to get angry and lay on the
water and thrashed its tail until the
water was like a boiling vat.
N,s To hoiIiy1or
as the spray from the tail and f1ukes
flew all over him. About the time
that Hallett thought he would have
to give up, as his boat was low in the
water and one or two more sweeps
of the mighty tail would send him to
the bottom, the whale turned around
until headed Off toward Province
town. Then it went as straight as
a string and as fast steamboat out
of sight.
MI. Hallett said that he did not
stop to pick up any of the woods that
Choir and roWed for the beach. He
said he had read stories about ship
wrecked sailors being happy to reach
land, but none could be compared
with the way he felt when he jumped
out on the beach and looked off to
the north and saw that great body
rushing through the water toward the
open sea, and knowing there were ten
wooden decoys as freight taking up
the space that few minutes before,
the chances were, he would be Sc
lected to f1ll.-Barnstable Core
spondence, Boston Herald.
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ONE THEORY.

"Pandora's box caused a deal OF
disturbance
"I wonder what was in it?"
81 presume a lot of people who
wanted to talk during the opera. =
Kansas City Journal.
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HIS SCRUPLES.

The talesman was trying to evade
jury duty.
Conscientious scruples, I sup.
pose?" said the Court, wearily.
Yes, Your Honor"
"Wouldn' you, if the law demand
CT, send a man to the gai,ows?"
I'd hate to at the rate of pay
juror gets" replied the taiesman.-
Philadelphia Ledger.
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NOTHING LEFT,

what are you going to give up for
the New Year,"
"Not much 1 gave up about all |
had for Christmas. Washington
Herald
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ATTIC SALT.

why have we stopped, captain?"
"On account of the fog, madam"
"Oh, but, my dear captain-surely
not! Look! It's perfectly clear up
above"
AYE, ma 'am-but we're not going
that way, unless the boiler busts! -
Bystander.
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NOT A ROMANCE.

Dear heart" she murmured.
"Only twenty cents a pound" eS.
planned the butcher
Il think I'll take some liver. =
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
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the unconscious woman and child and
bore them out; the other groped his
way into the living room, where he
was quickly Joined by his companion.
The room was empty, and they
made their way to the floor above,
whence, they reasoned, the woman
and child had come, and there, in the
low cottage chamber, stood man
supporting upon his shoulders burn
ing beam that glowed and famed as
he struggled to keep it from falling
upon, the bodies of two little children
lying in cot beneath.
''The bairns!" gasped the man,
when he perceived their presence.
The men snatched the Titles ones
from their perilous position, and to-
gether they led the poor, great hero
to the open air.