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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08

THE RHYME OF THE LAZY CHICK
Did you ever hear about the chick
He was yellow and fat, but very small
Who wanted only to run and play;
And wanted never to work at all!
When he first walked up at the peep OF
day,
He wanted to play with the dewdrops
bright;
There was always something to frolic with
From morning till darkness brought the
night.
His brothers, ten little downy chicks,
Would scratch and peck as hard as they
And hep Mother speehle with all their
might, =,
As all good little chickens should.
But the lazy one am telling about
Flapped his wee wings and was OFT to
play:
He never would mind word she'd say.
Then she sighed, ooh, dear, must punish
him;
I'll not scratch for him the whole day
through,
Or he will never learn to work at all,
And when he is grown, what will he
do?"
Twas a long, long day for our little
friend;
It really seemed a week or so.
It isn't much fur to frolic about
When you are sad and hungry, you
know.
And that night, all warm meath Speckle's
wing,
He made up his mind that every day
He would do his very level best
To learn to work as well as play.
B Brown, in Home Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
TALES OF
WHISTLE CORD SAVES HIM.


Headed by deputy sheriffs, several
posses of farmers and employees of
the Chicago-New York Electric Air
Line are searching the Western and
Southern part of Laporte County and
the Eastern part of Porter County
for two white men and one. negro
who beat into insensibility Gus Wise
man, a watchman on the steam shov-
ell at Camp Four, and then chucked
him into the fire-box of the boiler,
believing he was dead, and hoping
thereby to destroy all evidence of
their crime.
Wiseman is in a critical condition,
but the attending physicians believe
that he will recover.
Wiseman is twenty-five years old,
and was in charge of the steam SHOW
ell during the night, when two well
dressed white men and a negro ap-
peared and demanded a drink of
whisky. He had none, and so told
them. They then wanted money. He
refused this, whereupon, the men at
tackled him and beat him until he was
insensible. Then they opened the
door of the firebox and showed him in
The fires had been banked, but they
set fire to his clothing.
Wiseman must have come to in a
few minutes, for he was able to push
the door open by showing up the bolt
which came through. He was un-
able to climb out, but he was able
to reach out and pull the whistle
cord, which blew the whistle and
brought to the scene the members
of the camp, quarter of mile away.
Wiseman was almost enveloped in
flames when the rescuers appeared
and brought him out. He then be-
came unconscious again, and it was
an hour later before it was possible
to learn the story. Then the search
for the assailants was commenced.
Rewards have been offered for their
arrest-St. Louis Republic.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
FATTENING THE PIG.

In these days the American pig
makes a speedy journey from farrow-
ing bed to scalding tub, and the aim
Of the judicious feeder is to add con-
stantly to the flesh acquired while
sucking, bringing the hog up to ESQ
to $50 pounds as early and on as in
expensive feed as possible. The young
animal will naturally put on weight
more cheaply than an older one, and
gains after ten months cost consider.
ably more than those made earlier.
A pig which is being fattened should
gain from one to two pounds day,
and weigh, alive, $50 to $50 pounds
when nine to twelve months old
From Coburn's Swine in America"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
sCFInDREN'S DEPARTMENT.

started. And, as the hare has but
one way of going, and that is with a
jump, and as Tom, to help matters,
had headed them down q pretty steep
hill, the sled was jerked from under
Annie, who, being something like
very chubby barrel in shape, went
after the flying hares as fast as she
could roll, over and over.
The sled, too, being free at the Sec
ond jump of the frightened animals.
was also on its way down the incline,
while Tom, who had started to run
after Annie, lost his balance, sat
down, and was skimming along in
the rear of the procession.
When Tom picked Annie out of
the snowdrift, she was breathless
with indignation and fright, but, re-
covering herself in few moments,
her foot, Don't want to vide yabbits
any more" Nor did she have the op-
portunity, for Tom never saw his
hares again, they having concluded,
no doubt, that they were not fitted
for that kind of work. Tom would
have tried the experiment again with
Annies pet hare, but this that posi-
tive young lady refused to allow, tell
ing her pet afterward in confidence
that he was "a very nice yabbit, but
not good horsey." Frank H. Sweet,
in Northwestern Christian Advocate.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
my turn at this fountain of joy. You
felt each swallow trickle down until
you were full to the throat

"THREE-LEGGED WILLIE" GAME.
an long-gone days when Texas was
a republic, there were bloody conten-
tions between advocates of law and
order and bands of rough and desper-
ate men, who cared naught for courts
or Codes" said Judge H. B. Lessener,
of Abilene, Texas, at the City Hotel
"In the eastern part of the State
war was carried on between a party
known as the Regulators and crowd
dubbed 'Moderators.' These engaged
in many sanguinary fray similar to
the feuds in the mountains of Ken.
lucky. In one county there was a
lawyer who was of such desperate
character that he terrorized the
judges and prosecuting attorneys to a
degree that no trials had been held
for months, though there had been
frequent foul assassinations. In this
crisis the president of the republic.
the immortal Sam Houston, delegated
noted and fearless lawyer by the
name of Williamson, popularity styled
'Three-Legged Wiliie,' to go to the
scene of the trouble and act as special
judge.
"The first case called by His Honor
was from long list of murders. Upon
this the bully who ruled the bar and
all previous courts rose and made
number of statements the judge knew
to be false. Being called down and
asked to show the statute he pretend.
ed to refer to, the miscreant drew a
wicked bowie knife, and, driving II
f1ercely into the table in front of him,
pointed to the quivering blade and In
menacing tone remarked: There is
the statute, Your Honor
"In second old 'Three-Legged Will.
lie reached backward into the tails OF
his frock coat, and drawing forth
long navy six leveled it at the head OF
the lawyer. You have shown me
your statute, sir, but hold something
better. This is the constitution, and
it always overrides the statute
"The old hero's pluck that had been
proved in many a fierce encounter
won the day. The pistol held in old.
but firm, hands was never lowered
till the ruffian pulled out the knife,
walked up to the bench and, meekly
handing it to the judge, apologized
for his behavior. The incident marked
the cessation of the murder business
in Eastern Texas. Baltimore Amer.
lean.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
GLORIOUS PIG STICKING.

Of all sports the most exciting, the
most wildly exhilarating, says a
writer in Bailey's Magazine, is surely
pig sticking. While waiting for the
beaters to come up when driving for
deer or bison or tiger the pulses gal
lop, time flies and excitement quivers
in every nerve and muscle, but it is
nothing to the tension attendant on
the wait at the edge of the jungle
for the break of the old gray boar as
he comes out, usually in a reluctant,
surly manner, and proceeds to cross
the open toward the next bit of clover.
Then the gathering up of your
reins and the fresh grasp of your
spear as you look with straining eyes
now in the direction of the captain
of the hunt for the signal to go, now
to the animal itself, inwardly praying
that he may not turn back into cover.
And then when the word "Ride!" is
given-the mad rush, the utter in
ability to see anything to stop you,
the overpowering anxiety to beat
every one, be it your greatest friend
or greatest enemy, and get first spear.
Your heart is in your head. There
IS nothing in the world to you but
yon lanky gray monster striding
away in front and your frantic desire
to run him through. Hours are lived
in moments. Your horse and you are
one animal, with but one unfulfilled
wish in the world, wish you are
both doing your very utmost to graf
ify.
In no other sport perhaps is there
so much real danger, yet, strange to
say, accidents are really very few. I
have ridden in cold blood-very care
fully-over ground that l and my
comrades have ridden over helter
SHELTER after pig previously, and to
say that have been astonished is but
to describe my feelings in the very
feeblest way. How the horses kept
their footing it is impossible to say.
All know is that they did.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
A CAT AND SNAKE STORY.

A correspondent of the Indianapo
lis News gives the following graphic
account of a life and death struggle
between a maltese cat and big rat,
tier. S. D. Shipman, living eight
miles south of Martinsville, Ind, just
across the Monroe County line, re.
iates an unusual incident that oc.
Cured at his home last week. While
he and his family were at dinner
they heard a strange sound just out.
side the door. Looking up they saw
a big rattlesnake coiled and ready to
strike, while maltese cat, not quite
two years old, was going around the
snake in a circle.
Mr.. Shipman said he never heard
such a noise from a cat as that cat
made in its fight with the snake. As
the snake would strike the cat would
jump back, and as the reptile drew
back it's head for another stroke, the
cat would strike the snake on top OF
the head, sinking it's claws the full
length When the snake would not
show disposition to strike, the cat
would seize it by the rattles with its
claws, and torment it into striking.
The cat was too quick for the snake,
and would dodge it every time.
The performance was kept up until
nearly all the flesh was clawed from
the top of the snakes head. The rat
tier began to show signs of WEAKNESS
and attempted to crawl away. Mr..
Shipman said he was afraid that it
would crawl under the house, so he
took hand in the affair and killed
it. The cat was not injured the least
bit during the strange combat. The
rattler was five feet two inches long
and had fourteen rattles and button.
Some months ago Mr.. Shipman lost
horse as a result of a snake bite
and a blue racer at that, too. Blue
racers have been said to be harmless,
but that is not true, said Mr.. Ship
man. One day, while one of his
horses was lying in the shade of
tree he saw blue racer crawl. out to-
ward it. He went in the house, got
his rife and thought to kill the
snake. But it saw him and started to
escape, getting between him and the
horse so that he could not shoot In
its haste it crawled over the PROSTATE
horse, and as it did so struck the ami
NAL on the hip three times. The
horse, of course, was frightened, and
jumped up suddenly, throwing the
snake to the ground. Within few
minutes the wound began to swell
and the swelling continued until the
horse died within few hours.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
PRUNING.

have an orchard that has been oui
ten years this fall, and it has never
borne any yet. desire to prune 1t as
It needs it again. Would 1t do to
prune 1t the present month? Please
answer through your valuable paper
and oblige.-E. e. H.
It is better to prun now than later;
a month or two ago would have been
better than now. We suggest that
you experiment with root pruning
some of your trees. That will hurry
them into bearing. Cut off the roots
with sharp spade in circle about
five feet from the body of the trees
Indiana Farmer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
Higher Education in Japan.

Miss Tsuda's English school for
girls in Toxic is said to be doing q
pioneer work of much importance in
Japan. She is really laying the founj
uation for higher education among
japanese. women. The enrolment
for several years has been about one
hundred and fifty pupils, all Of whom
remain in the school for from three
to five years.-Detroit Free Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
A WaterIeSS Bath.

What do you think, said the man
curious, II cleaned my face to-day
with a vacuum cleaner. 1t just takes
the skin and pulls it so you can hard,
ly get away. The man who operates
one told me that he went over his
face and clothing every night when
he got through his work and felt al
fresh as daisy. OF course, he takei
off the thing he uses for floors and
walls. believe I'll start fad-tak,
ing waterless baths. New Yorl
Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
TO FEED WITHOUT CHOKING.

There is much danger of choking
cattle If small potatoes and apples are
fed whole, and it Is big job to cut
or mash them if large quantity is to
be fed.
It is perfectly safe to feed either to
hogs or sheep in any kind of feed
trough, but not so with cattle. With
the following method, however, they
can be fed safely:
If two pieces of timber are put up
just far enough apart so the animals
neck can be held between them, and
a hole bored through at such height
that the cow will be prevented from
raising its head up to level with the
body, there will be no danger of chok-
ing.-J. S. Woodward, in the Indiana
Farmer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
Different Sort of Family,

"Look here" said the lawyer, II en-
Joy ball game as much as anybody.
But the next time you get off you
mustn't tell me you are going to
funeral. Nobody can
have so many grandmothers and
aunts and other near relations"
"Our family isn't like the general
rum" answered the office boy. Faith
er was a Mormon" - Washington
Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
American Apples in Norway.

Consul-General Henry Bordewich,
of Christiana, states that American
dried and evaporated apple products
are freely used in Norway. The total
annual import of dried apples exceeds
100000 pounds, of which 10000
pounds come from the United States
direct, but much larger part of the
import is also American product sold
to Norway by German jobbers, but is
credited as imports from Germany.
The import duty on dried and eyap.
Grated apples is 5.S cents per pound.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
IocuSt Plaques.

History mentions many pestilences
caused by the decaying bodies of dead
locusts. On one occasion so many
perished off the coast Of Africa that
a bank four or five feet high and
fifty miles long was formed on the
shore by their dead bodies, and the
stencil of them reached inland for
$50 miles. In another part of Africa.
early in the Christian era, a plague
of locusts is said to have caused this
death of 100000 persons; and in 591
nearly as bad plague occurred in
Italy.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
RAGS.

Rags is the famous dog of New
York engine company. She was
found in quarters on the return of the
company from a fire on January 4,
1905. It was terrible night, and a
heavy snowstorm ragged. One of the
firemen heard the pup crying, and
found her in the drawer of the house
watch-desk, covered with a ragged
coat. So she was promptly christened
rags"
No one ever knew who put the dog
in the drawer of the desk. Certainly
she could not have got there herself.
for she was only three weeks old and
not able to walk. She was too young
to drink milk out of a saucer, SO the
fireman who found her went to drug
store and bought babys milk bottle.
After a good deal of coaxing, Rags
was induced to take to the nipple and
to get her nourishment in that way.
Just then new alarm rang in. Rags
was placed back in the desk, and
when the men returned next morning
at 8 o'clock Rags was fast asleep,
with the empty milk bottle beside her.
For the next three weeks the desk
drawer was the only place in which
she would go to sleep, Alfred M.
Downes tells us in an article which he
has written about "Fire-Fighters and
Their Pets"
Now she sleeps in the stall of Jim,
the engine horse, and they are fast
friends. If Rags doesn't go out of
the stall when the alarm rings, Jim
will take her up by the back of the
neck and run to the pole with her.
When visitors come to the house and
give the horses sugar, Rags will seize
hold of them by their clothing, and
so present Jim's claims to the first
and biggest lump. Should the horse
drop the sugar, Rags will retrieve the
lump, bring it to Jim in his stall, and
place it so that he can reach it.
Rags has a long line of houses on
her list, on Twelfth street, where she
can go at any time for her meals.
She does not attend fires, but stays in
the house, on the desk, until the COM
rany returns, and she will allow no
one to enter unless he is in uniform
of some kind. The telegraph boys in
the neighborhood found this out, and
when the company rolls out they go
in to see Rags, who thinks they must
be all right, because they wear uni
form.-Home Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
TO be Continued.
Par and Pa.

A stock broker whose mind was al
ways full of business was asked a
few days ago how old his father was.
Well" said he, abstractedly, "he's
quoted at eighty, but there is every
prospect that he will reach par and
possibly be at premium. New Or
leans Times-Democrat
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
CEMENT FLOORS IN HOG HOUSE.

CEMENT FLUORS IN HOG HOUSE.
I see in your last issue, farmer
from Shelby County wants to know
something about cement floors for
sows at farrowing time
Four years ago I built house
for my hogs and put in cement floors.
I have ten farrowing stalls eight by
eight and like them very much; they
are easily cleaned, and 1 never had
better luck with early spring pigs.
also have cement feeding floor
twelve by forty which find very use.
full. Hogs will lay on cement in hot
weather and seem to enjoy it.-A. B.
G., in the Indiana Farmer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
POOR INVESTMENT.

One of the poorest investments
man can make is to buy poor tools
Get the best, and then give them the
best of care. A man would hardly
leave sum of money along the fence
row, yet when he leaves his tools un.
protected in the field 1t amounts to
the same thing.-Farmers' Home
Journal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08

The efght-track swing bridges
across the main channel of the Chi
cago drainage canal near Thirty-f1rst
stret will be operated by electricity.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08

The widow is generally willing to
exchange her weeds for wedding
bouquet.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-10-08
Farm Topics
EXAMINE THE COLLARS.

New collars should be examined
every day until they are found to fl
the horses neck perfectly. A fat
horse often shrinks in the first few
days work sufficiently to make the
collar fit him badly and produce ser.
nal.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-09
THREE BURN To DEATH
FIRE SWEEPS CROWDED
TENEMENT HOUSE.
Half a Hundred Szcarm Dozen Fire
Escapes and Stairs IN Peril
of LiTeS.

In a fire which started in the five story tene-
ment house at Nos 666 and 66S Ninth avenue
at II o'clock last night two men and boy were
burned to death and man was burned so badly
that he probably will die
The ten families in the house and the large
number Of children were taken out of the burn
ing building by the heroic work Of the police OF
the West 4Tth street station, which is near by
also Nicholas Gentner of No 5O7 West 41th
street who visiting Miss Kitty Ford, VINO
lived with the family. of Joseph Monahan on the
top floor. when the fire started.
The bodies were badly charred and unrecog-
nizable but the police identified one as that of
John Kerr ianitor of the building and another
as his son. John, thirteen years old. The other
man could not be identified, but the police ac-
counted for every one in the building. and they
think it probable that the man was stranger
who went into the building to rescue the tenants
James Fay was taken to the Roosevelt Hos
pital seriously burned.
Cientner smeped smoke, and when he opened
the door he found the Railways densely filled.
He rushed to the fire escape in the rear with
Monahans five children. their parents and Miss
Ford and they got safely to he ground
Cientner crawled through the smoke filled halls
and down the blazing staircases to arouse the
other tenants and while cropping along the hall
Thomas Fay, who had been overcome by the
smoke and badly burned. Gentner carried him
to a window and he was taken to the ground by
the fremen, who had arrived by that time
Kerr's wife was taken into store near the
burned building and kept in ignorance Of
the death of her husband and son.
The McManus threw open the rooms of his
club at No 72S Ninth avenue, for the use Of the
half-clothed families.
The fire caused much excitement in the neigh
boring tenement houses, and caused hundreds Of
persons to rush into the street. The elevated
railroad was blocked for a time
The cry of Fire" brought the police of the
West Attn street station TO the burning building.
and they swarmed up the fire escapes and
through the burning halls to rout out the ten
ants.
Many OF the women In the house were over
come with fright and had to be carried TO the
street Others were assisted down the fire es-
capes 20 safety.
For a time the firemen were poweTless. but
with the engines which responded on the second
alarm the fire was soon under control Chief
Croker. who was I'm command, placed the dam
age 70 the building at $4,000