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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

What's wrong with himr Mr..
HARRISON asked me finally, when he
saw that l noticed. "Is he tll?"
Then Aunt Selina's voica from the
other end of the table:
Bella" she called, in a. high shrill
tone, do you let James eat 'cucum-
bers?"
81 think he must be-" 1 said hurried
ly aside to Mr.. HARRISON. See how
his hands shake!" But Aunt Selma
would not be ignored.
"Cucumbers and strawberries" she
repeated impressively. Il was saying,
Bella, that cucumbers have always
given James the most fearful indiges-
ton. And yet see you serve them at
your table. Do you remember what
l wrote you to give him when he has
his dreadful spells?"
was quite speechless; every one
was looking, and no one could help.
1t was clear Jim was racking his
brain, and we sat staring desperately
at each other across the candles.
Everything 1 had ever known faded
from me; eight pairs of eyes bored
into me, Mr.. Harbison's politely
amused.
Il don't remember l said at last
Really, l don't believe" Aunt Sc
lima smiled in superior way
Now, don't you recall it?" she in
sisted. Il said: Baking soda in water
taken internally for cucumbers. ba
king soda in water externally, rubbed
on, when he gets that dreadful, itch
ing strawberry rash"
| believe the dinner went on. Some
body asked Aunt Selma how much
overcharge she had paid in foreign
hotels, and after that she was as
harmless as dove
Then halfway through the dinner
we heard a crash in Takahiro's pan.
try, and when he did not appear
again, jim got up and went out to in.
vestigate. He was gone quite a little
while, and when he came, back he
looked worried
Sick" he replied to orF inquiring
glances. "One of the maids will come
in, They have sent for a. doctor"
Aunt Selma was for going out at
once and fixing him up,Is as she put
it. but Dallas gently inter fered.
Il wouldn't, Miss Caruthers," he
said, in the deferential manner he
had adopted toward her. +You don't
know what it may be. He's.been look.
ing spotty all evening"
(TO BE CONTINUEDJ
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
SYNOPSIS.

James Wilson or Jimmy as he is called
by his friends. Jimmy was rotund ana ana
looked shorter than he really was HIS
ambition in life was to be taken seriously; ~
but people steadily refused to do SO, MS
art is considered a huge joke. except to
himself, if he asked people to dinner e; enz ".
eryone expected a frolic. Jimmy marrles
Bella Knowles; they live together a year
and are divorced. Jfmmy's friends ar
range to celebrate the first anniversary
of his divorce. Those who attend the
party are Miss Katherine McNair: who
every one calls Kit, Mr. and Mrs. DailaS
Brown. the Misses Mercer. Maxwell Reed
and a Mr.. Thomas HARRISON. South
American civil engineer The party is in
full swing when Jimmy. receives 1 teie-
gram from his Aunt Selma, who will ar
rive in four hours to visit him and his
wife. Jimmy gets his funds from aunt
Selma and after he marries she doubles
his allowance. He negleets to tell her. OF
his divorce. as she is opposed to 1t. Jim
my takes Kit into his confidence, he tries
to devise some way that his aunt VIII
not learn that he has no longer wife
He suggests that Kit play the hostess fo
one night. be Mrs. Wilson pro tenn Kit
refuses. but Is finely prevailed upon to
act the part.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
Misund erstood.

What we want" said the man in
the frock coat, "is a safe and sane
Fourth.
You bet we do," agreed the man
with the wispy whiskers.
1--WE should put stop to the un-
seemly noises that shatter the very
air upon that day. say to You, sir,
that on the occasion of the celebra-
ton Of the anniversary of the birth Of
the greatest, grandest, most glorious
governmental structure that ever
has"
YEP" interrupts the other man.
I'VE ought to choke 'em right oil. I'm
good an tired of listening to those
fapdoodle, spread-eagle speeches. my
self"
And the man in the frock coat
passed on with an air of the haughtt
est kind of hauteur.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

urn, so / said without hesitation that
1t was And because there was a
pause and every one was looking at
us, l added that it was a beautiful
thing
Aunt Selma shifted.
"Hideous," she said 'It looks like
Cousin Jane, shape and coloring."
Then she looked at it more closely,
pounced on it, turned it upside down
and shook it. A card fell out, which
Dallas picked up and gave her with
a bow Jim had come out of the den
and was dancing wildly around and
beckoning to me- By the time l had
made out that that was not the vase
Cousin Jane had sent us as a wedding
present, Aunt Selma had examined
the card Then she glared across at
me and. STOPPING, put the card in the
fire. l did not understand at all, but
l knew l had in some way done the
unforgivable thing. Later, Dal told
me it was her card, and that she had
sent the vase to Jim at Christmas.
with a generous check inside. When
she Strengthened from the fireplace,
It was to a new theme, which she at
tackled with her usual vigor. The vase
incident was over, but she never for
got it. She proved that she never did
when she sent me two urn-shaped
vases with Paul and Virginia on them,
when THAT is, later on.
The cause in England has made
great strides" she announced from
the fire place Soon the hand that
rocks the cradle will be the hand that
actually rules the world" Here she
looked at me.
I'm not up on such things Max
said blandly, having recovered some Of
his good humor. "but-isn't 1t usually
a foot that rocks the cradle?"
Aunt Selma turned on him and Mr..
HARRISON, who were standing togeth-
er, with a snort. a..
What have you. or you, ever done
for the independence of woman?" she
demanded.
Mr.. HARRISON smiled He had been
looking rather grave until then. we
have at least remained unmarried" d"
he retorted. And then dinner was
again announced.
He was to take me out, and he
came across the room to where | sat
collapsed in a chair. and bent over
me
DO you know" he said, looking
down at me with his clear, discon-
certing gaze, do you know that |
have just grasped the situation?
There was such noise that | did not
hear your name, and l am only real
izing now that you are my hostess,
don't know why ! got the impression
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

E There are seasons during which
only one day runs are made, but
the strain is on just now, and the ma
chinery never stops. During the "a
hours $4,000 feet of lumber are cut in
the mill. Month after month the ships
come over, at least 20 cargoes year
coming to anchor beside the gunwale.
There Is no such thing as bringing the
logs in ballast. They compose the
ships entire cargo. A great many
ships are devoted to this enterprise,
and to them there is no other object
In life but to get the logs from the
tropical ports and bring them to New
Orleans and unload them and go back
for more. Ten million feet year of
mahogany comes into New Orleans,
and is partly manufactured here.
In Mexico, Honduras and Central
America the contractor gives five dol
lars for a single tree. This is cheap
enough. But it is the expense of get
ting 1t out that counts, and that makes
mahogany an expensive lumber. 1t
stands deep In the forest in the midst
of an almost impenetrable jungle.
There are no groves of them-the
trees are scattered, perhaps not more
than two to an acre. 1t may be that
there Is no water course at hand on
which the logs may be f1oated to the
port. The tree has to be located by
the hunter" whose business it is to
roam through the forest in search of
mahogany trees and to blaze way to
them, so that they may be found
again. Then the workmen must cut
their laborious way to the tree, using
for the purpose the deadly machete.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
Parliamentary Procedure.

Pardon me-" says the creditor to
the legislator, "but might 1 call your
attention to your bill for Christmas
purchases, which has been sent you q
couple Of times already"
my dear sir" responds the legisla-
tor, sticking his right hand into the
bosom of his frock coat and thrusting
his cowlick back with his left hand.
my dear sir, your bill has been passed
to the second reading. 1t will have to
follow the regular course, although /
will expedite 1t as much as possible II
1t comes out Of committee"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
He Worked Them,

do you have many church workers
here7" asked the travelling missionary
of the landlord of the Bowersville no
tel.
Never but one that remember"
answered the landlord, increasing his
legs and throwing quid Of tobacco at
the cat. "That was feller that got
the Main street congregation to guar
antee him $500 for a production of
some religious drammer, an induced
'em to perdnce the five hundred just
In time for him to drive to the coun-
ty seat an catch the fast train to
Cincinnati"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

Crawford-Isn't it strange your wife
hasn't spoken to you since the night
you came home late?
Crabshaw-I don't think so. She
said enough to me then to last a
mOnth.-Smart Set
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
The Best Answer.

"Yes," said Mr.. Poppah, my wife
got the gold medal offered by the club
for the best answer to the question:
What is the ideal way to raise chill
dren?'"
why" said Mr.. Bacherino, 'T hap
pened to be invited there that after
noon, but did not see Mrs Poppah."s
! mo. She telephoned to the COM
imittee that she couldn't come, as she
had to stay at home with the chill
dren.'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
His Reason.

why" asks the captious editor OF
the new reporter, why do you say in
your story of the banquet that the
table groaned.'"
Because" explains the new report
er, because 1t had to stand for all the
afterdinner stories"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
ImpossibIe.

The car conductor wears a frown
He daily sees
He cannot make the hobbls gown
Step lively. please.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10
Poultry prefer light houses
Be careful Of your feed with all
stock

Drainage is a necessary foundation
for a good road.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

Gapes can be cured by fumigat
the chicken with sulphur.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

The value of manure varies with
the water content Manure from cat
tie contains large amount of water.
Manure from horses and sheep has
much less, because, on account of the
shape of the bowel, 1t comes in pei
let's or balls, and hence has a chance
to dry out. Therefore, it has much
more nitrogen, phosphorus and potas-
sium per ton than that from cattle.
This Is particularly true of sheep, on
account of the exceeding dryness of
the product
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-03-10

Twenty acres of corn put into the
silo Is worth more in feeding a dairy
herd than 30 acres in the crib.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
GOLD COIN.

Free and unlimited coinage of silver passed out. Now free and unlimited coinage of gold' must defend itself. There isn't a doubt in the world that Secretary MacVeaghs plan to stop the use of gold coin will be adopted in no great time. for every consideration of economy sustains it. The annual loss in cost of manufacturing gold bars into gold coins is still more. Most of the gold coined does not go into circu- lation but Is piled away in vaults as a basis for paper gold certificates. There is no good reason why this gold should not be put away in the bar and the cost of coining be saved The demand of certain portion of the public for money it can value hy assay and weight may for a good while prevent the c omplete abandonment of gold coinage. But that will come in a time when only our small change will cIink. The silver dollar has already passed out of the East. the silver certificate or banknote taking its place.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
LOWERING RATES.

Those persons who are opposed to government regulation of great cor porations never weary of asserting that big trusts like the Standard oil company have benefited the public by lowering the price of the commod- ity they produce, says an exchange. Evidently Frank B. Kellog. the noted federal prosecutor of combinations in restraint of trade, had this assertion in mind when. in this argument be- fore the supreme court in the oil trust case, he said:
 During twenty years the Standard oil company has increased the price of oil from thirty to sixty-fve per cent. There is not a scintila of evl- denee to show that this trust ever did anything for the people Everything was done for it's stockholders. Low prices prevailed only when the Stand and was trying 10 crush out competi- ton"
 By bitter experience the public has learned it is not wise to take trusts or friends of trusts at their word.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
Hotel Northern,
 s E ATTL F.

For many years the acknowledg- cd headquarters for Alaskans, wishes to announce the addition ct twenty-five rooms. Hot and cold running water and private baths have been installed. new furniture added and the building modernized. Our new free bus will meet all AL aska boats No raise in rates on account of these improvements.
 RALPH 6oYkER, Proprietor.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
PHONE: MAIN NO. 46.

Copy for regular advertisements must be in by 10 o'clock on the day of publication.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
OFFICIAL PAPER.
NOME, ALASKA, MAY 20, 1911.

Because all clocks in France were stopped for nine minutes and twenty seconds on Saturday in order to com ply with the law regulating the time from Greenwich, French lawyers are said to be puzzling over the question wether a child that was born and died within the elapsed time ever legally lived Trust the lawyers to mak, fools of themselves on technical points al any time.-San Francisco Chronicl
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
THE LOOKER-ON
* Y B

Brownell had a narrow escape and it was lucky for him that there was a pool of water in the bottom of the shaft to act as a cushion to help break his fall of sixty feet.
 Too many safe guards cannot be placed round the miners working in the drifts neither can any chances be taken in hoisting or lowering them into the mines. All cables. ropes. drums and paraphernalia should be well tested and those in charge master the fact that a chain, rope and cable is as strong as it's weakest link or strand.
 N F
 The business center of the town of Nome is moving westward from Stead
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
WHY KILL OFF THE MAGAZINES.

 WHY KILL OFF THE MAGAZINES The Senate Committee on Post off. ces and Post Roads has surprised ana alarmed the readers and publishers oi ! magazines by tacking on to a posta appropriation bill. provision that quadruples the postage rate on all the sheets of q periodical that contains any advertising matter.
 If the bill as 1t now stands should become law. many if not most, of the great literary and technical publications of the country would be put out of business.
 The cost of handling any one of the more popular magazines would be in creased from one to two or three hun dred thousand dollars a year which is. of course, in most cases. enough to wipe the publication out of existence.
 This extraordinary rider" saddled upon a bill that has passed the house, is the devise of a Senate committee that includes such enemies of the 'muck-rake" as Boies Penrose. Julius c. Burrows. Charles Dick and simon .Guggenheim.
 It is said, therefore, that the rider is a covert but deliberate attack upon those white-wings of reform whose useful but disagreeable mission it is to flush the highways of politics and swab the gutters of graft. of course, no such purpose is avow- ed. The pretence is. on the contrary. that the public, which owns the Post Onice is interested only in reading natter and not "a advertisements. and the advertising is a kind of public nuisance that deserves to be taxed to death.
 Newspapers are not affected, but every one who receives a magazine or weekly or periodical through the mails is vitally interested in the defeat of this bill. which is intended to tax many periodicals out of existence
 Indeed, it is almost an afrront to intelligence to point out that the mar ket value of advertising space depends wholly upon the fact that the purchas- ing public has a use and an appetite for advertisements; that the people buy advertising periodicals not to please the advertisers, but to please themselves.
 This senate committee is. therefore, undertaking to deprive the American people of something that they demand very insistently and in large quan- ti,ies-ror their own convenience in buying goods.
 Also, it is to be noted that--as things now stand in the commercial world and whatever may be the conditions lin a future social order-the adver- Using business is the nourishing moth Ter of every other business that is com petitivc.
 Thus this stunning blow, aimed by a standpat senate committee at the ad- vertising business. is a crusher of competition.
 If it reaches its mark it will bestow Ia surprising new strength upon every monopoly. It will operate as the most effective conspiracy fin restraint of trade that has been devised by the agents of privilege in this generation.
 The bill as it stands will probably pass the senate this week.
 But the quadruple postal tax on periodicals should be killed lncon- tinently in joint conference or in the house.-New York American.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20

times.
 His badge is that of the Blue Rib bono Pabst) and he is always ready to he social and entertaining when ex- pounding upon it's many virtues. So taking all in all he is the right man for the office. and ye Radiators should feel proud of your gallant chief.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
WEATHER RECORD
MAY 1e, 1911.

MAY 19, 1911. Temperature-Maxi 43 above; minimum 2S above. Barometer-29.S4 incehs. Weather-Clear Wind-l;., light breeze. Lead in Boring sea ice closed up, outer ice still moving westward at the rate of approximately two miles per hour
 ARTHUR GIBSON,
 Observer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-05-20
Job work at the Nugget.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
J. M. SLOAN. M. Q. c. M.

Manitoba University, l.. R. C. P. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-06

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-06
A BIT OF pEMAGooERY-

"it lns he"n openly cha-csI in t.e
rfrtrs "f t.o state that Scott sr.ut q
.Hlf million dollars BOO Dis race for the
senate 'o Dorrup- t1" voters 800 counties
lN. Mars I. ohio 1u1 others. yet we
tHl 20 .''"frf "fe uf.i" .r t.e r8r- ~
t"i .li .H' Prosecutors ir f.c-. counties
to ill.r- ans o-a for such .plruat pra--
-e, and 10 I- 800 .0e. about fHr -0ssr-
for vIrf'"- orb stop election FRAU. II
D. fltf fH .NH ruN'i. OF I smH' NJ rH..
Gan tfHr frtrEh"cr SHOWS .- PLAYING t.e
hand that Dawson ana Whit. deal lir."
The above gem is taken from the
Fayctte sun. and IS supposed 10 Doe
inspired by one O.. w. Osenton. %
is extracted from a domarosic attack
upon Governor Glasscock. evidently
made FOR tho purpose o. stirring up
party prejudice and of preventing any
favorable action on o. primary election
law.
The lnteiiircrcer calls attention 20
81 simply because OF tho misrcurc-
seuuti0n so far as tho senatorial pri-
mary in Ohio county ls concerned.
People in this end of the state ~
least know that Ohio county has and
has rad % Democratic prosecuting at
tornov. That Democratic prosecuting
attorney found nothing Boo thc sem
atorial primary that justified Icclr
action Either STR OacHton i4 tails.
INK eiily nonsense. when Doc talks
about gross corruption I1 rho sou.
a'orai primary 300 ohio county. or
the Democratic prosecuting afuru.e
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-06

the builder OF the business. more than
fifty years ago was a fisherman. but
he soon saw that there was more
money in handling fish than in catch
ing them. and his Wholesale fish mar
ket grew to be the greatest fish bust
ness in the world. w. Vernon Booth
succeeded him as president OF the
company. He spent much OF his time
abroad. neglecting the business. and
the business went to smash. When
the smash came II was found that the
stock holdings OF the officers OF the
company were very small. They had
drawn large salaries. lived in prince
ly styles, contracted large debts and
left 1888 small stockholders to bear
the burden OF the loss.
Complete publication OF corporation
transactions is the only safeguard
against a fraud like this. Too often
stockholders OF corporations resent
the efforts OF the authorities TO Sc
cure information as TO their business.
Nothing can be private that is OF in
terest to thousands OF men. Nothing
can be private that concerns the
honesty and integrity OF a stock
which is sold in the open market.
transferred from holder to holder.
Publicity is the protection OF the
stakeholder instead OF a menace to
him. The time is not far distant
when every corporation whether en-
gagged in interstate commerce or not
will be compelled to make a public
statement OF its earnings and OF its
condition. That should be the price
paid for the corporation privilege,
and IL will be the most effective guar
antee OF the honesty of corporation
methods.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-06
Saturday, May 6, 1911.
A WORD WITH JACOB.

At last IL is come about that no
Democrat is a good Democrat who
does not subscribe to the Watson
Chilton-MacCorkle formula. A few
days ago Senator Jacob Fisher, OF
BraXton county. a Democrat who has
been elected to the state senate by
his admiring constituents from time
immemorial. a Democrat who was
preaching Democracy and earnestly
and actively working for Democratic
success when W. +. Chiffon was sulk-
ing in his law office. announcing that
he intended to support a primary
election law. Thereupon the Charles
ton Gazette. owned by w. Z. Chiffon
aud W. 4. MacCorkle. and edited by
one OF their employees. emits the fol-
lowing:
Jake Fisher says that he would aii the
Having been IN tie business 81 aidinr
the Republicans for some little time tna
senators announcement VIII occasion
very little surprise.
All, ha, Jacob spurned' Your
name is not on the check bool.
roll. You have not kissed the dollar
and your hour OF grace is passing
Once YOU stood pretty we'll with the
Democrats OF West Virginia. but now
sou are an outcast from the house OF
your fathers. But Jacob. there may
still he hope. Jacob. turn from the
error OF your way. Face the golden
light that floods the valley OF the
MononGahela. All Of the attorney
Jobs for tho Fairmont Coal Company
have not vet been filled There may
be one for even YOU. There is still
INK in the fountain pen. and the check
book has not yet been exhausted
Why be stir neckcde While the
lamp holds out 20 burn tho wandering
sinner may return