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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
A strenuous cnmnaign

In, ont of the Southern States,
where there is a law which requires
all candidates for State, county and
city ofiieSs to file bill of their ex-
penditur.s during the campaign, inn
mediately after election, one of the
defeated candidates, says a writer in
the New York Times, filed the follow
ing account. Whether it is true Oh
not, it will strike responsive chorC
in the heart Of many a defeated can
didate.
Lost four months and thirty-three
days canyassing; one thousand three
hundred and forty-nine hours think
ing about the election; five acres of
cotton; twenty-three acres Of corn;
whole sweet potato crop; four sheer;
five shoats, and one beef given to a
barbecue.
Gave away seven Sunday school
books, two pairs of suspenders, four
calico dresses. seven dolls and thir-
teen baby rattles.
Shook hands twenty-three thou
sand four hundred and seventy-hye
times; talked enough to have made
in print one thousand large volumes
size of Patent Office Reports"
kissed one hundred and twenty-six
babies; kindled fourteen kitchen
fires: cut three cords Of wood picked
seven hundred and seventy-four
pounds of cotton; helped pull seven
loads of corn; dug fourteen bushels
of potatoes; toted twenty-seven
buckets of water; put up seven
stoves; was dog-bit four times. watch
broken by baby cost three dollars
to have repaired.
Loaned out three barrels Of flour,
fifty bushels Of meal, one hundred
and fifty pounds Of bacon, thirty
seven pounds of butter, twelve dozen
eggs, three umbrellas, thirteen lead
pencils, one Bible dictionary, one
NOW blade, two hoes, one overcoat.
five boxes paper collars. none Of which
have been returned
Spent one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-eight dollars in cash be-
sides.
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What's the Score ?
By c. NJ. BALDWIN.

Unleash the doggerels of baseball
The season is open with the usual
eclat. The baseball reporter has
rubbed his facile pen on the seat OF
his pants, and ground out something
like this:
Smiling Harry came to the bat for
the local gladiators. He was good
waiter and got three counterfeits
Lanky Jim, who was handling the
damp spheroid for the opposing nine
finally unwound his superstrueture
and put the joy pebble to the liking
of His Merriness. Smiler pressed
against the little comforter for a one.
sacker out into right truck farm.
Smiling Harry tarried not long on the
initial sack, but when Lanky Jim was
not sitting up and taking notice i'm.
mediately drug his anchor toward the
second depot, which he larcenied in
safety. The Long One showed symp-
toms of taking on a sky-pilot at this
time and Lonesome Jim, the next bat
ter, reached the first oasis via the
charity route. However. his narrow
lankshlps took caucus with himself
and Handsome Ike whitfield the ozone,
the understudy for the Singer build
ing occupying the box for the visitors
putting Ike to sleep with three of his
fadeaway knockout drops. In the
meantime Smiling Harry and Lone
some lin performed twin pilfer and
were safely occupying second and
third refuge when the smoke cleared
away. Hank the Bite put fly in
Lanky Jim's ointment by aeroplaning
to the Midway Plaisance. Smiling
Harry ambling on to the lowly
matched cottage on the put-out. -
From Puck.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
LA PLATA MARYLAND, FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1909

the clothesline with firm crop about
the boy, the door was opened and out
he daftsd
The instant he emerged he seemed
to be wrapped in a suftocating blan-
ket and pierced by innumerable bits
OF glass. The time spent In reaching
the woodpile occupied only few sec
onds. but he almost fell before reach
ing It,
He seized a cord stick and half ran
and was half hauled into the house.
He was speechless from even that
short exposure, and for few seconds
fairly numb. His uncle looked at
him.
You can't so out again, John, " he
said. ITS as much as Mart or !
want to do to tackle that blizzard"
And with the rising Of the wind
and the piunging of the drifts 1t
seemed to the boys imagination that
the storm was besieging the house.
The thin and fragile window glasses
were re-enforced with wood, there
being no shutters, and snow fine as
the finest sand cTawled in at every
crevice and was sifted down like pow.
der on the beds above. The grand
mothers bed was brought down from
up stairs and placed close to the
stove. John distinguished himself by
finding an old cross-cut saw in that
corner of up stairs called the garret,
and the men sharpened it up and al
lowed him to help saw the sticks
they brought in.
Outside the wind rayed and tore at
the cottonwoods and walnut trees,
breaking off branches and moaning
away In the distance. The winds
piled up the snow against the house
until the men were sheeted with it
when they rushed back from the
woodpile
Three days and nights the carnival
Of an icy ghost dance kept up, and
three nights they had but fitful
snatehes OF sleep in the intervals be-
tween the hurried races to the wood
pile.
At last the strength of the storm
was spent, and Wednesday it cleared.
bitter cold. The men and the boy
hurried to the stable. The stock
were all alive, but weak. They had
eaten the feed left in their boxes and
managers, and then broken their hall
ters and got at some of the "slue
grass" which formed the roof of the
stable The snow had so completely
covered the low structure in many
places that they had not suffered un-
usually from the Geld.
Every chicken and turkey on the
place had frozen. but the hogs had
burrowed into a strawstack in their
pen, and were squealing vociferously
for feed.
Away to the river bottom the trees
rose dark as scaffolds, and great
white sea stretched in all directions
as far as the eye could reach. The
air was still, but nipped sharply at
the boys bare cheeks. 1t was his /
first blizzard.
To the northwest he saw the Sat
terlee windbreak, and wondered how
il weathered the storm. And as a
solitary hawk. strong of wing and
gray as the drifts beneath him, swung
high over the prairies. he turned to
the house.-Youth' Companion.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
TECHNIQUE.

] take little bunch Of words and set EN-
IN a row,
! take little bit Of ink and mark 'eui
down Just so;
| take little time and pains and then
have verse
That starts about as this one does or may
be slightly worse.
And then | go back to the start and eriss
and cross and scratch,
! vaccinate my words until find me some
that match
The pretty thoughts that dart about like
silver fish and shine,
But need patient, watchful hook to get
EN- on the line.
Ny thoughts melt into words sometimes
not always-now and then,
And can feel EN- coming down my arm
and through my pen,
| only have to push it DER the paper and
it spells
For you and all my other chums the things
my fancy tells;
Just like boy with building blocks, /
move my words about
When | have something in my mind and
try to work it out,
Until in orderly array | get 'em in a row
Just as | think the ought to be and write
3em down Just so.
And so just with some words | paint the
pictures that | think
The boys and girls who live in me and set
'em down in ink,
And sometimes there's a tear in it, and
sometimes there's smile,
ana there Is many grassy bank and
many a vine grown stile;
And many lane that you would know il
you could be with me,
10 look right where my pen is now and
could help you see;
| merely take lot Of words and place EN-
IN a row,
And build such pretty things il i can get
EN- down just sol
-. w. Foley. in the New York Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
Tears Of Blood.

The belief that certain individuals
are able to weep tears of blood is OF
such antiquity that the German equiv.
alent for "bitter tears" is 'blutige
Thranen,' 'bloody tears There
seems, however, no outhentic instance
of blood being actually secreted by
the lachrymal gland.
Micas has published a very inter
esting article on real and false tears
of blood. 1t is a clinical study on
conJunctiye hemorrhage, Some years
ago the author was consulted about
boy aged twelve years, who from
the slightest cause, such as laughtt@,
or sometimes apparently for no cause
whatever. wept tears of blood-an
occurrence often repeated severa!
times a day. The lad was pale and
eneryated from constant hemorrhage
The source of the bleeding was the
tarsai conjunctiva. which was GOV.
cred with fine paplilae, and lighi
cauterization with the galyano-caut.
| cry resulted in cure
This case led the author to study
the literature of the subject. Hs
found that in none OF the cases cited
is it certain that the blood did not
come from the conjunctiva or from
the lachrymal passages. He feels
that it is unwise to deny the possi.
bility of sanguineous secretion from
the gland. but that examples in which
other sources cannot be shown to be
present must be exceedingly rare
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
The Last Chance.

Dorando Pietri. defending at an
italian banquet his canny course in
wearing a cigarette advertisement in
the race with Hayes, told an appo-
site story of an Italian grave dig
ger.
u must accumulate all can while
ana here said he, for over there
in Italy money is scarce. 1t is with
me, in fact, IS it was with the grave
digger.
This grave digger. after digging
a certain grave. put in bill that was
exorbitant When complaint of the
oyereharge was made to him, he
said:
Well, the corpse and had row
five years ago over cart l sold him.
and could never make him pay me
what he owed. So, seeing this was
my last chance, / thought I'd better
take it.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
STOCK Raising in Nevada.

Stock raising is the Oldest agrlcul-
tural industry in Nevada 1t main
tains important proportions, but its
methods are undergoing a radical
change. Alfalfa is becoming the
chief agency in stock raising and fat
tened cattle go to the MARKET from
the field rather than from the range.
Even the large range owners supply
their animals with cut food during
the season in which the grazing is
scant. One ranch alone uses 10000
tons or more of hay in this manner
every winter.
The small farmer is beginning to
see the philosophy of feeding his crop
to few head of cattle, thus making
the farm a factory for the conversion
Of raw material into a finished food
product and securing to himself the
ultimate and intermediate profits
The Craftsman.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07

1e had to help her up each step; he had
10 always lend an arm.
30 that her dainty frailness might not
bring upon her any harm;
He had to hold her little hand when from
her cab she trembling came,
For had she fallen he, Of course, would
cruelty have been TO blame.
She had 70 weakly lean on him when he
walked strongly az her side;
How well her dainty weakness matched the
strength that gave him manly pride.
Al, she was sweetiy feminine in every dim.
pie and each curve,
While he had bicens that were big and 90
immense supply OF nerve.
Twas good 10 see him help her when she
seemed to need his willing aid,
But when she was alone again she ceased
to be a fragile maid
With skirts held high she kicked doors
shut and lightly vaulted over chairs,
And dragged a heavy trunk, without as.
sistance, up the attic stairs
S. F. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our Tea Rooms as
Moral Uplifters.

Speaking Of civilization, do you
know what a genial change the tea.
room Is working in our morals and
manners? There are many interest.
ing phases Of its progress among us,
and not the least interesting Of these
is its being so largely the enterprise
OF ladies who must not only save
money. but must earn money, in or
der to live, not cheaply, but at all.
Their fearlessness in going to work
has often the charm of a patrician
past, for many Of them are Southern
women who have come to New York
to repair their broken fortunes. The
tea-room has offered itself as a grace.
full means to this end, and they have
accepted its conditions. which are
mainly the more delicate kinds Of
cookery, with those personal and ra-
cial touches in which Southern wom-
en- are so expert. But there are tea.
rooms managed by Western women,
If l may judge from the accents in
voluntarily overheard in their talk
at the telephone. The tea Of the tea.
room means lunch. too, and In some
places breakfast and dinner, or rath-
er supper, on much the plan Of the
several Women's Exchanges, but
these are mostly of New England in.
spiration and operation, and their
cooking has a Northern quality,
They. as well as the tea-rooms, leave
something to be desired in cheapness,
though they might be dearer; in some
you get tea for fifteen cents, in others
a no better brew for twenty-five. But
they are all eharmingly peaceful, and
when at the noon hour they overflow
with conversation, still there IS a pre-
vailing sense o. quiet, finely qualified
by the feminine invention and infiu-
ence. Mere men are allowed to fire.
quent these places, not only under
the protection of women, but also
quite unchaperoned, and when one
sees them gently slipping their SOU
chong or oolong, and respectfully
munehing their toasted mullins or
their chicken pie. one remembers
with tender gratitude how recently
they would nave stood crooking their
elbows at deleterious bars, and visit
ing the bowls of cheese and shredded
fish and crackers to which their drink
frees them, while it enslaves them TO
the witehery of those lurid ladies'
contributed by art to the evil attrac-
tlons of sucn places You see nowhere
else ladies depicted with SO little on,
except in the Paris salon. The New
York tea-rooms are not yet nearly so
frequent as in London. but I think
they are on the average cozier, and
on the whole cannot say that they
are dearer.-W. D. Howells. in Har-
per s Masazine.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07

There are at least two ways OF
looking al most natures. Some ne
groes, says a writer in Puck. were
discussing the death Of a small darky.
The cause Of the catastrophe was
clear enough to one of the men. DE
po' chile died FUN eatin' too much
watahmilIion, he explained.
One of the others looked his
doubts.
'Huhi" he grunted, scornfully.
"Dar ain't no such thing as too much
watahmillion.
We'll. den," remarked the FIRST
"dar wasn't enough boy"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A fellow can go down hill without
having any pull.
The office that seeks the man must
be blindfolded.
No man need be failure who
doesn't yearn for the unattainable.
To swallow the truth, most Of us
want it sugar coated.
Philanthrophy not only hires a
press agent, but clacque as we'll.
The people who build castles in the
air are never sure of their ground.
Some men would even like to take
their pick of the various brands of
success.
At least where a mirror is con-
cerned, woman always looks on the
bright side.
When girl is color blind she has
little excuse for making fellow
I green with envy.
The gates of heaven are jealousl!
guarded, but the devil always has {
lstehstring out.
The chap who Is regarded as one
man in thousand is cordially hated
by the other 999.
Many fellow refuses to lay some
thing by for rainy day SO long as
he can borrow an umbrella
The trouble with some fellows is
that they never have any sober sec
ond thoughts.
II every man who has been disap-
pointed in love should take 1t to
heart, the world would be full of
pessimists.
Some people are SO formal that
even when Fortune smiles on them
they are apt to wait for an introduc-
tion.
Naturally enough the widow does
nj feel her loss so keenly if it is
fully covered by insurance.
The pot of gold at the end of ths
rainbow is Just about as accessible as
the silver lining Of our clouds.-From
Musings of Gentle Cynic,e in the
New York Times.
Argument Against Railroads.
The stage fare from Huntsville to
Glasgow = twenty-five miles - was
S1.50. This stage carried the mail
and it had to go. When the roads
were so muddy horses could not pull
the stage double yoke of oxen took
their places. 1t was slow travelling,
but they got through. The steamboat
fare from Glasgow to st. LoufS In the
carly SOS was ST. That included
statsroom and meals, and If the boat
was held up week or two on a sand
har the accommodations went on
without extra charge. The steamboat
owners never believed the railroads
tJuld successfully compete with them.
The way they looked at it, people
wouldn't be willing to travel 100 to
200 miles tied down to one seat in
small car, when they might be en-.
joying the freedom of big and hand.
somely furnished boat Then how
are they going to find room for an Or
ehestra and a dancer" an old river
captain wanted to know. eNo place
to eat or drink, no room to move
about; just sit still all day long on a
little wooden bench-why, it's down
right foolishness. Macon Repub-
lIcan.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07

One of the biggest car companies
in this country has decided to aban.
don the use OF steam in Its plant and
is now putting in mammoth electric
Si.rt.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07

Sheep shearing machines are now
used extensively in Australia. In
Tasmania they are Just beginning to
be used.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-05-07

New York City is a liberal paymas-
ter. For each minute Of the day II
pays s1s2 to its more than $4,000
servants.
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%E,6fe7epT''ik51lno

Blobhs-"I love the old songs
best" slobbs-"W Why2H Blobbs-
Because no one sings them now"
Philadelphia Record
Money may make the mare CO."
said Uncle Eben, but l don't see as
It's much Of guarantee agIn kick
in Washington Star.
"You are liari" exclaimed the
first man. hotly. May be so. replied
the other, but thank goodness, I'm
not sensitive Philadelphia Ledger.
There was a young man from Savannah,
Who slipped on vacant banana.
The words that he said
When he fell on his head
Wouldn't do for Sunday school banner,
Boston Traveller.
when they summon you to court.
Hiram, will you corroborate my as
sertions?" Il dasn't say Ill go as fur
as thet. sir, but I'll stand by what ye
says. Baltimore American.
The amateur forecaster had been
hitting off the weather remarkably
well. ITS very simple" he ex-
planned, q get the official predic-
tions, and reverse EN-. ."--Phuadel-
phia Ledger
Mrs Pecken-"I guess my brother
will live and die bachelor He says
he's afraid to marry" Peoken--
That's funny. l never knew what
fear was when I was single. Chs
cago Daily News.
Are you in favor Of changing the
date of the day of inauguration" Il
am" answered the Senator ad-
dressed. Quote me to that effect.
Put me on record. It's a harmless
issue Louisville Courier-Journai.
Fools rush in where angels fear
to tread" remarked Lightwit, meet
ing Sharp at a reception the other
evening. That's right. my boy" re-
Joined Sharp. extending his hand,
but I'm delighted to see you here,
lust the same. Chicago Daily
News.
To the man who's always gruntin'
Aud a-grumblin' and a-kiekin',
i the world don't Lv'<-.s
.sss,.ssss - sss''fir ''Tfirranscript.
YES, sister'n Nc down In inst
minute, maybe Don't you tbfnE sbs,1
au.fuIv funny -. 'IIl,ys no. ss,,...s -
Won? WeH eanywav. yea j., :
a.bfg story-teiier, don Z yoas; X .s., s..' Z. :
8WeI she is, Just the same. she
said she had string to you--but
don't see any. ."-Cleyeiand Plain
Dealer,
It was at the musical DO you
play?" asked the long-haired indi-
yidual. oh, yes" replied the man
in the red tie. DO you play Beetho-
ven?" asked he Of the long hair. mo,
but I'll play you a game Of pinochle ii
we can get away from this racket
replied the man in the red tie
Philadelphia Record
And what are your opinions con
cerning the tariff" Il must decline
to be interviewed. . answered Senator
Sorghum. But you will make
speeches on the subiect?" "of
course. But | can handle a speech
so that people will wonder what
am getting at. you would insist on
letting them know precisely what
mean. Washington Star.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-12
AGRICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES
Continued From Page Eighteen.)

public buildings etc, much than counties
Of the
oty-eight districts n county and
ochoos 1909 school evncng
people children shall fair
of school houses while
the children
from a distance by
has said that the products of the earth this will
exceed value all the products raised the surface This
"e prediction from the fact that almost this entire region
underd the found the United States either
nexhauste of pottery brick
awaiting capital develop
The industry principally
in the hands of the Washbun Coal whose the northern
the largest the has of 1000
whose works makes pressed brick exceed by All
small coal and the of Bis
utilized for bcmakng Coal
$75 retail in Bismarck and less the
be bought of farmers low dollar
In the the of sod breaking Bur-
Inc steam leigh has been phenomenal While the small far
rio" has added annually his tb land the nonresident
value his them
cultivate their holdings Over thirty and gasoline
breaking in Burlegh county this writing.
Unimproved Buregh lands held at from ST
$50 according location and Typographical
Hnos " 'e Improved lands of bring
ratio the character of the These prices probably the
the quality and location considered
But be remembered that much of the land bought for
nondens long that these bring profits
the hodersand there always people ready sell anything they
reached whereby the profit of their dreams
realized There Of land Bueigh county that
good buy stated when these be exploited
will be something doing realty
for
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-12

little farming here But
farms and all around We have raised splendid
strong belief that will another this
supposed be dry from 24o
marketed would have sold for $4,000 And there
that had in comparison to mine
realize the staying high priced land
here wild land
be bought $40 $780, improved land from $l8 $685. We
miles McClusky, of Sheridan
which and when
Bismarck always day
Bismarck has lot of clean business whom
pleasure time.
1--WE from Wilton nominal of $3.50
ton, has $40 for fuel So
Bueigh county pretty good place to live in.
Very respectfully,
"NE1sM M.
"Peican, D., April 10,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-12
ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FARMERS
What Some of the Old Residents Have Say About Their
EXperienceS.

What Some of the Old Residents Have Say About Their
Experiences.
. James D. Mcdonald, who large farm three miles
Bismarck usually addition
Success
the he has this cereal he has
yield fifteen bushels
unusually FROST but that his yield between forty and
annually sells his seedsmen
the eight he had
Bureh he had had failure and that
had his best although he raised much small grain
all who have egen planted but of
who "reap they SOW and
wonder that they do fat by their methods
Bueigh
the of those who
herepo comparative "easy street."
=, Ole Sather, who lives miles north Of Bismarck,
From Nothlng years this spring. the
Afluence writer tooether with his father and mother imni
grated territory of Dakota being
Union lengthy
detailed of hardhps and experiences the had
during settlement would be
and will be as brief possible
of the settlers
right Bulegh here with little with
compelled
borrow dray filing their home
which have made these the farmers who