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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
RESCUED JUST IN TIME
FROM THE QUlCKSAND
MAN STRUGGLES FOR TWO HOURS
IN TREACHEROUS SLIME
WHICH ENGULFED HIM.

White Plains, N. Y.-Gilbert Ste
phens is under the care of physicians
at his home in Silver Lake Park, and
may be weeks in recovering from the
shock of a long battle with death in
quicksand recently. Stephens had
taken a short cut homeward and
stumbled into a depression which was
formerly the bed of a small lake. The
place is widely known as spotted with
dangerous quicksands and Stephens
found himself in the grip of one of
them. The more he struggled to get
out the deeper he went in. For two
hours he shouted for help, until finally
his voice was silenced by the mud,
which rose about his shoulders and
pressed on his lungs so that he could
barely breathe. The quicksand
reached his chin and was pulling him
slowly but surely to death by suffoca-
ton. William Piscule, a town con-
stable, who was out duck shooting,
saw him and went running to his res
cue. Piscule hurriedly picked up an
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27

chance The bear scrambled to his
feet by and by and gazed in wild sur
prise at the ram. Farmer Merely him.
self had stopped in amazement, and
he saw that the bear at the edge Of
the brush lot had risen on his hind
feet as if to get a better view of the
battle, and the farmer says that as
constituent stuck out all over him.
The bear in the pasture didn't have
time to figure out what had happened
to him, for the black ram landed on
him again, and down he went.
1.-The bear in the bush now danced
about all excited, Farmer Merely said,
and the farmer hurried on again to
get in sure gunshot Of the one the
ram was pounding, but he needn't have
been anxious. The bear hadn't got all
the way to his feet the second time
when the ram hit him again. This
time the blow fell square on the bears
neck The ram stood ready to give
it to him again when he got up, but
he didn't get up. And he never did
get up. When Farmer Merely ar
rived he saw that the bear was dead.
The black rams last smash had bro
ken his neck, killing the big intruder,
doubtless instantly.
That great exploit Of course,
brought wide fame to the black ram,
and from that day as long as he lived
he was never again put to the tread
mill work of running a churning ma
chine And from the day of that ex-
plot too, as they will tell you all
about the Clarion headwaters, no bear
had ever intruded on the Merely prem
Uses after sheep or any other plumber.
Recently the black ram, full of years
and honors, died"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
Men Doomed to Freeze.

Washington.-Men will freeze to
death on the equator millions Of years
hence, according to DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, who forsook the subject Of
germs in food, in addressing the Secu;
lar league in Washington, and dis
cussed the question, us man ultimate
ly to starve or freezer
Doctor Wiley said he believed the
earth was slowly cooling, and that the
people of the distant future must
freeze, though he declared that for "a
million years, at least humanity
would not suffer from lack of food or
fuel. In the frigid days to come, &C
cording to Doctor Wiley. the winds
will serve as fuel.
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the world that are called menu"

the world that are called menu"
Madam" said Lawyer Gooch, in the
| tone that he used in curbing his fe-
male clients, this is an office for con-
Quoting the practise of law. | am
lawyer, and not a philosopher, nor the
editor of an Answers to the Lovelorn
column of newspaper. l have other
clients waiting. l will ask you to
kindly come to the point"
We'll, you needn't get so stiff
around the gills about it," said the
lady, with a snap of her luminous eyes
and a startling gyration of her UNI
brella. business is what I've come
for. l want your opinion in the matter
of a suit for divorce, as the vulgar
would call it, but which is really only
The readjustment of the false and ig-
noble conditions that the short-sighted
laws of man have interposed between
a loving"
81 beg your pardon, madam" inter-
rupted Lawyer Gooch, with some i'm
patience, for reminding you again
that this is law office. Perhaps Mrs.
Wilcox"
Mrs. Wilcox is all right" cut in
the lady, with a hint of asperity. And
so Is Tolstoi, and Mrs. Gertrude Ather-
ton, and Omar Khayyam, and Mr.. Ed
ward Box I've read em all. I would
like to discuss with you the divine
right of the soul as opposed to the
MISUNDERSTANDING restrictions of
bigoted and narrow-minded society.
But l will proceed to business | would
prefer to lay the matter before you in
an impersonal way until you pass
upon its merits. That is, to describe
it as a supposable instance. without"
you wish to state a hypothetical
case?" said Lawyer Gooch.
81 was going to say that said the
lady, sharply. Nov, suppose there is
a woman who is all soul and heart and
aspirations for a complete existence.
This woman has husband who is far
below her in intellect, in taste-in
everything Bah! he is a brute. He
despses literature. He sneers at the
lofty thoughts of the worlds great
thinkers He thinks only of real es-
tate and such sordid things. He is no
mate for woman with soul. We will
say that this unfortunate wife one day
meets with her ideal-a man with
brain and heart and force. She loves
him. Although this man feels the thrill
of a new-found affinity he is too noble,
too honorable to declare himself, He
flies from the presence of5hfs beloved.
She flies after him. traimpling, with
superb Indifference upon the letters
with which an unenlightened social
system would bind her Now, what
will a divorce cost? Eliza Ann Tim
Minis, the poetess Of Sycamore Gap,
got one for three hundred and forty
dollars. Can II mean can this lady
speak of get one that cheap"
Madam" said Lawyer Gooch, your
last two or three sentences delight me
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with their intelligence and clearness.
Can we not now abandon the hypo-
theticaI, and come down to names and
business?"
Il should say So" exclaimed the
lady, adopting the practical with ad-
mirable readiness. Thomas R. Bill
ings is the name of the low brute who
stands between the happiness of his
legal-his legal, but not his spiritual
wife and Henry K. Jessup, the noble
man whom nature intended for her
mate. l." concluded the client with an
air of dramatic revelation, "am Mrs.
Billings!"
Gentlemen to see you. SIR" shout
ed Archibald, invading the room al
most at handspring. Lawyer Gooch
arose from his chair
Mrs Billings" he said, courteous
ly, "allow me to conduct you into the
adjoining Office apartment for a few
minutes. am expecting very
wealthy old gentleman on business
connected with a will. In a very short
while l will join you, and continue
our consultation
With his accustomed chivalrOus
manner Lawyer GOoch ushered his
soulful client into the remaining unoc-
cupied room, and came out, closing the
door with circumspection.
The next visitor introduced by Ar
chibald was a thin. nervous, irritable
looking man of middle age, with a wor-
ried and apprehensive expression of
cOuntenance. He carried in one hand
a small satchel, which he set down
upon the floor beside the chair which
the lawyer placed for him. His cloth
ing was OF good quality, but it was
worn without regard to neatness or
style, and appeared to be covered with
the dust of travel.
You make a speciality of divorce
cases" he said. in an agitated but
busin esslike tone.
Il may say" began Lawyer Gooch,
that my practise has not altogether
AVOIDED
Il know you do" interrupted client
number three. You needn't tell me.
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| I've heard all about you. I have case
! to lay before you without necessarily
disclosing any connection that might
| have with it-that is"
You wish" said Lawyer Gooch, ito
state hypothetical case"
You may call it that. I am plain
| man of business. I will be as brief as
possible We will first take up the
hypothetical woman. We will say she
| is married uncongenially. In many
ways she is superior woman. Phys
icalIy she is considered to be hand
some, She is devoted to what she calls
| literature-poetry and prose, and such
stuff Her husband is a plain man in
| the business walks of life. Their home
| has not been happy, although the hus-
| band has tried to make it so. Some
| time ago mana Stranger-came to
| the peaceful town in which they lived
and engaged in some real estate opera
| tions. This woman met him, and be-
! came unaccountably infatuated with
him. Her attentions became so open
| that the man felt the community to
be no safe place for him, so he left
| it. She abandoned husband and home,
| and followed him. She forsook her
| home, where she was provided with
every comfort, to follow this man who
had inspired her with such a strange
affection. Is there anything more to
be deplored," concluded the client, in
| a trembling voice, than the wrecking
Of home by a woman's uncalculating
folly?"
Lawyer Gooch delivered the cautious
| opinion that there was not.
This man she has gone to join," re-
sumed the visitor, lis not the man to
make her happy. 1t is wild and fool
| ish self-deception that makes her
think he will Her husband in spite
| of their many disagreements, is the
only enc capable of dealing with her
sensitive and peculiar nature. But
this she does not realize now"
Would you consider a divorce the
logical cure in the case you PRESENT."
asked Lawyer Gooch, who felt that the
conversation was wandering too far
from the field of business.
"a divorced" exclaimed the client,
feeiingly-almost tearfully. NO, no
not that. 1 have read, Mr.. Gooch, of
many instances where your sympathy
and kindly interest led you to act as
mediator between estranged husband
and wife, and brought them together
again. Let us drop the hypothetical
case-I need conceal no longer that 1t
is who am the sufferer in this sad af
fair-the names you shall have
Thomas R. Billings and wife-and
Henry K Jessup, the man with whom
she is infatuated"
Client number three laid his hand
upon Mr.. Gooch's arm. Deep emotion
was written upon his careworn face.
For heavens sake" he said, fervent-
ly, help me in this hour Of trouble.
Seek out Mrs. Billings, and persuade
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A CHAOTIC CAREER
ENDS IN TRAGEDY.
ECCENTRIC YOUNG RUSSIAN
WOMAN NOW THOUGHT TO
BE INSANE.
STRANGLES HER LITTLE BOY
Calmly Tells of the Deed and De.
clares That 1t Is Better That She
Killed Him.

New York.-The st. Petersburg
newspaper, Birzeviya, contained re-
Gently the following news item:
A terrible drama was enacted on
the steamship Kurgan, which has ar
rived from London. Just before tie
KuTgan sailed from London, young
woman boarded the steamer with a
small boy, accompanied by a nun. The
young woman gave her name as Ma
ria Goryachkovsky.
In the morning Maria Goryachkov-
sky came out of her stateroom and
announced very calmly to the officers
Of the steamship that she hadestrang-
led the child during the night.
In answer to the questions of the
captain, she declared just as calmly:
1t is better that l did it myself;
otherwise others would have killed
him, and he would have suffered much
more
Then she said she knew six Ian
guages. that she was a newspaper
writer, that she had travelled extern
sively, that she suffered a great deal,
and that she was glad to give herself
up to the authorities.
1.-THE body of the child was removed
and the murderer was locked up in
her stateroom, which was carefully
guarded. Three days later Maria
Goryachkovsky made an attempt to
swallow her teeth and to choke her
self with the hair which she torn from
her head" She is thought to be in
sane.
This same Maria Gprychkovsky ap-
peared in New York three years ago.
She announced herself as the fore
most woman writer in the Russian
empire, and as the representative OF
the Novoe Vremya, the well-known
Russian newspaper, she gave out in
terviews about conditions in Russia.
In these statements, she ridiculed
American institutions and found that
Russia was in every way more humane
and even more progressive than Amer
ica
When Prof. Paul Milyukov, the not
ed historian and leader of the Con-
stitutional Democrats in the Duma.
came to this country for the purpose
of delivering his lecture on the true
state of affairs in Russia, Maria Cory
achkovsky reported it for the Novoe
Vremya.
Although Prof Millyukov's lecture
was printed in advance, and copies of
the lecture were distributed to the
press and Prof. Milyukov read the
lecture from the printed copy, she at
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
HUGE BEAR KILLED
BYBIG BLACK Ram
GUARDIAN OF FLOCK LANDS ON
BRuIN LIKE A ROCK FROM
A CATAPULT.
INTRUDER's NECK IS BROKEN
Knocked Out Completely in Three
Rounds While the Owner of the
Ram, With Loaded Gun, Looks On
In Utter Amusement.

Harrisburg, Pa.-"Whether or not
the bear that was, an eyewitness OF
the killing of another bear by Farmer
Peter Moreley's big black ram went
off and some way carried the news
to bears in general, as Farmer More
ly firmly believes it did," said Colonel
Parker of Cameron county, so that
from that time until the death of the
ram not long ago no bear had ven
tured to trespass on the Merely farm.
"a monstrous big bear had been for
sometime devoting himself to thinning
out the Merely sheep flock, and after
he had killed three of the sheep the
hired man was detailed to stand
guard over the pasture, armed with
double-barreled shotgun loaded heav-
lily with buckshot and with orders to
give Bruin both barrels the instant he
stuck his nose In among the sheep.
On the forenoon of the fourth day, the
confident guardian of the flock was
startled to see the bear scramble over
the stone wall only a few feet from
where he was standing sentinel. Bruin
put forward such ferocious front
that the hired man dropped the gun,
took the wall at one leap and ran with
news of the bears new invasion to
Farmer Merely.
Farmer Merely fastened to the pas
ture lot. When the bear came over
the wall and frightened the guard
away the sheep were feeding in a
group in the middle of the lot. By
the time Farmer Merely arrived at the
wall, where the gun had been dropped
and still lay, only one of the flock re-
NAMED where the feeding group had
been. That one was the big black
ram. The other sheep had fed to a
far corner Of the field.
without delay Farmer Merely
picked up the gun, and as he did so
he saw in the edge of the brush on
the outside of the field another bear
standing there as if taking note of
what might happen in the pasture be-
fore he ventured to come over into it
himself and take paw in collecting
some mutton. Neither bear was within
good gunshot and Farmer Merely, dis
concerted a moment by the fact that
there were two bears to deal with,
started to draw closer.
There being mutton more choice
than the black ram to be had in the
flock, the bear in the field paid no at
tention to him, but was passing on
by him. Shutting contemptuously
along, he got in range of the ram, and
just then the ram seems to have
made up his mind to resent that con-
tempt as we'll as the intrusion. Ia
king jump forward, he leaped in the
air and hurled himself like cata-
pult against the bear.
"The jolt was so great and unex-
pected that the bear went down before
it like lump of lead. The wind had
been so thoroughly knocked out Of him
that he lay there almost long enough
to have taken the count, with the ram,
now mad all the way through, stand
ing ready to land again If he got the
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her to abandon this distressing pur-
suit of her lamentabIe folly. Tell her,
Mr.. Gooch, that her husband is willing
to receive her back to his heart and
home-promise her anything that will
induce her to return. l have heard of
your success in these matters. Mrs.
Billings cannot be very far away. |
am worn out with travel and weari-
ness. Twice during the pursuit l saw
her, but various circumstances pre-
vented our having an interview. Will
you undertake this mission for me,
Mr.. Gooch, and earn my everlasting
gratitude?"
1T is true said Lawyer Gooch,
frowning slightly at the others last
words, but Immediately calling up an
expression of virtuous benevolence,
that on a number of occasions | have
been successful in persuading couples
who sought the severing of their mat
rimonial bonds to think better of their
rash intentions and return to their
homes reconciled. But | assure you
that the work Is often exceedingly diff
ficult. The amount of argument, per-
severance, and, if l may be allowed to
say it, eloquence that it requires would
astCnish you. But this is a case in
which my sympathies would be wholly
enlisted. | feel deeply for you, sir,
and | would be most happy to see hus-
band and wife reunited. But my time"
concluded the lawyer, looking at his
watch as if suddenly reminded of the
fact. lis valuable
Il am aware of that" said the client,
and If you will take the case and per-
suade Mrs. Billings to return home
and leave the man alone that she is
following-On that day | will pay you
the sum of one thousand dollars.
have made a little money in real es-
tate during the recent boom in Susan
vile, and | will not begrudge that
amount
Retain your seat for a few mo-
ments, please" said Lawyer Gooch,
arising, and again consulting his
watch. 81 have another client wait
ing III an adjoining room whom l had
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
JAP BLINDED BY CUCUMBER
Glass Jar In Which the Vegetable Is
Growing Bursts When
Handled.

Seattle, Wash.-As an experiment
K. Nakayama, a Japanese gardener,
placed a small cucumber in halfgal-
Ion glass fruit jar in such position
that as the cucumber grew larger 1t
would soon fill the jar. He escorted a
number of friends to his truck garden
to see the cucumber, which had en-
larged so much that it was impossible
to remove it from the jar.
He was about to stoop to lift 1t up
when there was an explosion and a
piece of glass struck the Japanese in
the left eye, destroying the sight. The
cucumber's growing power had burst
the Jar into pieces.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
A Puzzled Pupil,

The saying Set a thief to catch a
thief is not always a safe one to fol
low. 1t seems strange that man af-
f1icted with color blindness himself
should attempt to detect that fault in
another, but Frank T. Bullen met with
ouch a case in his own personal ex-
perience which he relates in Men Of
the Merchant Service" and which
cams near putting serious Chez. to
his aabiIioR, MI, Bullion was being
tutoged to pGas en- examination for a
ssoend mates certificate,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27
Threw Skunk Amid Dancers

Lowell, Mass.-A dead skunk was
thrown into BilIerica Centre town hall
at q dance the other night, breaking
up the Howe school party and making
it necessary to destroy the clothing of
several of the girl students. Raymond
Champagne, sixteen, was charged in
court with malicious mischief in con
nection with the disturbance. Ray
mond denied the malicious intent and
said he only wanted to seo the dancers
jump around m0ro lively, Ee paid q
$50 aAe
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27

One Of the last things my crammer
did was to test me for color-blindness.
1t was the first time I had ever heard
of such a thing. When he first held
up the little squares of colored glass
| answered promptly, having very
acute sense of color. To my amaze
ment he soon slammed the glass in
the box and exclaimed, You are abso-
Iutely ol0rhlind. What do you mean
by inyfntine names for the glasses?
lteef are NHly tive eulofa here. red
and green; ell the rest ara whlts and
hiastk:"
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l selected a bright gamboge and ask
ed him what color that was
Green" he answered.
Then | held up a brilliant purple
Green also"
| felt there was a blunder some
where, but had learned not to argue,
so | said, resignedly, We'll, suppose
I'll have to take my chances" But
| felt very uncomfortable.
The next morning | went to the
Beard Of Trade o!tlca. I,here sat q
gentleman With some strips Of colproa
glass; by blood ran e9aj It ny eyes
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27

LogansPort, Ind.-When small toy
sraniel rushed into the street and at
tackled Jack" brindle bulldog
owned by Allen Nelson, it looked as
if the toy deg had lost his head A
moment later he had literally lost his
head, for Jack resented nip On the
flank by turning on his little assail-
ant.
The little dogs head was grabbed
by the bulldog and when the spaniel
had been deeapitated the bulldog ran
after bis MASTERS buggy earring the
head az trophy,
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WaIrus Mustaches for Tcothplcks.

Seattle, Wash.-James ]. Suffer
came down from Nome, Alaska, with
20 bushels of mustaches from walrus
killed in Behring sea. He sells them
to the Chinese for toothpicks. These
stout bristles are plucked from the
noses of the walrus. Suffer has been
trading with Eskimos for three years
and has specialized on this commodity.
The sitter and longer bristles are pur-
chased by the wealthy Chinese and
the ordinary ones by the middle
classes,
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were wrong my career would be stop
ped.
Bearing in mind what the crammer
had said, began describing the vari-
Gus shades the examiner held up be
fore me as. red or green, as they were
nearest one or the other. | thought
the gentleman looked at me queerly,
but he said nothing until | called a
vivid magenta red" Then he said:
Il never met a more complete case
Of cDloF blindness
Desperate. im;i0fea |!im 10 LISTEN
while told him Of my lesson, His
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An Anti-Divorce Society.

Evansville, md.-Plans for the or
eanization of an anti-divorce society
are being formulated by Henry Osborn,
a businessman of Evansville. He
hopes the society will become national
in its scope. Every member will be
pledged never to be divorced and state
legislatures will be urged to pass strin-
cent laws against divorce.
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armful of brush and several boards
from a fence, which he threw out on
top of the quicksand. This gave him
a foothold and he reached down to
Stephens, tying the straps Of his gun
bag beneath the helpless mans shout
ders. Then, after a long struggle, he
dragged the prisoner out and laid him
down, exhausted.
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face darkened. Turning to the tos.
he said:
Suppose you tell me just what you
think, without reference to Mr. So
and-so'
| did, and my sight was pronounced
perfect-YOuths' Companion.
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profeeeor peeped Into Windows

Reloit, Wis.-Caught peeping into
the bedroom window of Mrs. Eva Nc
Intosh of Beloit, Prof F. A. Chase of
the department of English literature
has severed his connection with the
college, 1t is said he is broken down
mentally.