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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
DESERVED TO MAKE A SALE
Book Agent at Least Showed Thkt He
Had the Valuable oaaIity Of
Perseverance.

The book agent who walked into
Peter Steffen's office looked like az
ingenious fellow, but Steffens, glanc-
ing up in a hurry, spied his trade
in a minute and muttered to him.
self:
"Confound that boy. Now. how did
that fellow get in?"
Aloud, he said: You're wasting
your time here. l won't buy anything
today"
IF you'll only let me sho~ yol -"
No" shouted Steffens.
ut won't take a minute"
But. really, my dear sir, this is
something out of the common"
mo use. can't read" said Stef-
fens.
But your family. sir, would you de-
prive them"
81 would" said Steffens, IF l had
any. I'm an orphan"
We'll, you might want something to
throw at the cat" suggested the book
agent
DO you think" demanded Steffens.
that | would demean my cat by
throwing your miserable publication at
herr"
The book agent was on'y dashed
second.
What about me-" he asked, insinu.
atingly Don't you want something
to throw at me the next time come?"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28

Don't you know you're hurtin' bizness,"
said the red fox to the hound,
when instead of sleepin' peaceful You
come snoopin'. sniffin' round?
What's the good of all your barkin'f
What's the use Of all this fuss?
What were chickens ever made for If they
weren't made for us?"
Cant you see you're hurtin' bizness"
said the South Sea savage chief
To the fearless missionary who was sit
ting on the reef;
II have seven white men captured that
I want to sell as meat;
What were white folks ever made for II
they weren't made to eat?"
Cant you see you're hurtin' biznessT
said the robber in the jail
While the stubborn sheriff listened to his
almost fearful tale;
Those who make and sell the jimmtes,
don't you see are 1osin' trade
While you foolishly conf1ne me where no
getaways are nader"
Cant you see you're hurtin' bizness"
said the devil to the man
Who was steadily progressing on the
live-and-let-live plan:
''You are keepin' men from fallin' who, II
sorely pressed, might fall;
Why, IL all men done as you do would
have no job at ALL"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
!, M FREDERIC TftORBURG

-Four minutes" painted the despair
ing assistant manager. "Stanton-"
Some one was running toward them,
some one for whom lane was opened
| by the spectators from other camps
who had congregated.
Get aboard" called ahead a fresh
young voice. Get aboard; I'll CO."
Thank Heaven for a mani" snarled
Stanton, as the runner dashed up.
why, it's boy!"
Floyd" Mr.. Green hailed hysterical-
lily. You'll go?'
I'll CO." assured Floyd, and faced
| the driver; slim, youthful figure in
mechanics blue overalls, his sleeves
| rolled to the elbows and leaving bare
his slender arms; his head. covered
like a girls with soft closely cropped
curling brown hair, tilted back as his
steady gray eyes looked up at Stan
ton.
you? You couldn't crank a taxi
cab," flung the racer, brutal with dis
appointment and wrath. You'd go?
A boy?"
I'm as old as the driver of the
Singer car, and scant five years young
er than you-I'm twenty-one," flashed
the retort. "And l know all there is
about gasoline cars. l guess you're
big enough to crank your own motor
aren't you, If l can't? You've got
thirty seconds left; do you want me?"
Met on his own tone, Stanton
gasped, then caught his mask from
the man who held it.
why don't you get on your
clothes?" he demanded savagely.
Are you going to race like that
Jump, you useless towards there
can't you pass him his things? Tele-
phone the stand that I'm coming. some
one"
There was wild scurry of prepara-
ton, the telephone bell jingled madly.
"Jes Floyd is one of our new factory
men," hurried Mr.. Green, in breathless
explanation, as Stanton took his seat
He's gas-engine wonder-he knows
them like clock-he tuned up this
car you've got, this morning"
The klaxon brayed again. A trim, ap-
partition in racing costume darted
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
New Screens.

Many of the new screens are exceed
ingly beautiful. Those of embossed
leather are much in demand. Except
In the distinctly Oriental screens there
Is a reaction against anything like
sumptuous decoration. When cov-
cred with the new brocades that show
gold and silver threads interviewer in
the lovely patterns Of olden time the
screens are much to be desired.
There Is a slight tendency to have
the material employed for the screens
match the curtains of dining rooms,
ibraries aud bedrooms.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28

Ribbons and silk can usually be
made to look fresher if they are
washed in soapy water, dried and
ironed. If they are desired stiff they
should be ironed while wet. If they
are to be soft they must first be dried,
and any wrinkles which refuse to iron
out without water can he moistene1
with a sponge wrung dry,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
Wanted Particulars.

"Would you defend crook, If you
knew positively that he was guilty OF
the crime with which he was charg-
ed?"
We'll it would depend" replied the
lawyer. What charge do you expect
them to lodge against you?"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
Lack of Diplomacy,

'sI hate that woman"
"Why?"
"She came here today to see our
new baby, and after she had kissed
the sweet little thing and made
fuss over it she suddenly turned to
me and asked if l had ever noticed
how much little baby looked like
monkey"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
A Great Many.

"He has had a great many ups and
downs in this world"
What is he, an aviator?"
NO, a blacksmith who makes q
speciality of shoeing mules"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
Trouble.

Some people inherit trouble, some
people borrow trouble and a good
many people have trouble thrust upon
them by their children.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
Futile Practice

The more practice some women
have in getting married and divorced
the less perfect they seem to be as
wives.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28

back strs.un. 10 go in meant to lose
the whole time gained. AS they took
the back turn. Floyd again LEAKED
over. -
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-03-28
Generally Speaking,

Give Il woman good clothes and her
conscience will take care OF itself.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
How Come Gets
Northerner's Goat. I"

A Northerner, who moved recently
to Atlanta, is reveling, as Northerners
usually do, in the picturesque beauties
of Southern vernacular.
you all" fills him with delight. He
smiles at az reckon" He is very tender
toward right smart" But he can't
understand the beauty or logic in the
Dixie use Of the terms how Gomez
for WHY" He laughs derisively at
that.
Yesterday he was looking over GER
tain weekly magazine which he buys
a very well known magazine. One Of
its departments bears the caption,
who's Who--and Why"
His eye lighted at the sight OF that
caption. and he announced ironically:
'T hear they are going to get out Il
Southern edition Of this magazine. ana
call this page who's Who-and How
Gomez"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
MEETING TO
MAKE PLANS FOR
HELPING NEGROES

Educational workers. whites and ne
groes, win attend the mass meeting to
be held in the old Orpheum theater
Sunday afternoon. March 30. The meet
ing is for the purpose of inaugurating
movement toward better race feel
ing. and to raise the educational moral
and economic conditions among the
Southern negroes.
Edward II. Inman will preside, and
some Of the speakers will be Mayor
Woodward DR. II NJ DuBose Of the
First Methodist church. Charles J. Ha %
den. Or, Hugh K Walker, Of the First
Presbyterian church; Bishop Henry NJ.
Turner, Dr. g. NJ. Tanner, Or. II H.
Proctor. Dr. NJ II Armstrong and Or
n. H. Oliver.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
KNIFE ONLY SURE
CURE FOR CANCER
State Board of Health Warns
People Against All "QuaCk"
Remedies for Disease.

The state board Of health to-day is
sued a bulletin based on d somewhat
extensive research Of the cause and cure
Of cancer but primarily to indorse the
action of other boards of health in de-
claring the surgeons knife the only cure
Tor the dread disease and to warn the
people Of the state against "quaclz"
remedies
The only remedy for cancer or any
tumor of the malignant sort is excis-
ion Somewhere there exists possibly
a specific for tumors, but science has
not yet discovered it, and until it does,
the only satisfactory remedy is the
knife, applied I'm the earliest stages"
reads the bulletin.
"Quack remedies. advertised specifics.
are worse than useless" declares the
bulletin, for they allow time for the
continued development of the disease,
whereas eXcision in the earliest stages
might mean cure"
The board also declares cancer is
not caused by bacteria, but a running
riot Of the tissues, and the cells of the
cancer or the small component parts
are exactly the same as the form and
structure of the normal and healthy it's
sue surrounding them. The dangerous
tumors, or cancers. come usually after
middle life, after person is aged 40
years.
"Tumors are divided into two great
classes" says the bulletin. THE cpl
plastic and the mesobastic. The cpl
plastic occur on the outer tissues Of the
body and in the malignant form are the
most dangerous type. A great care
must be exercised by the surgeon that
the glands or cells sympathetic to one
from which the cancer is being remov-
ed. be removed also, to prevent a sec
ond growth.
1.-THE Importance can not be too
strongly stressed Of the prompt removal
by surgeon of unquestioned ability,
of any tumor," concludes the bulletin.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
WAR DECLARED IN
MILITANT RANKS
''We Must Fight Them" Says
Mrs. PankhurSt of Deserving
Members of Violent Band.

LONDON. March 19.-Wsr has been
declared BY tine militant suffra gettes on
% themselves and Mrs Pankhurst Is tho
source OF the declaration OF war.
Some OF the weaklings have broken
away from the Womeu's Social and
Political union ana have formed an or
Rsnization called the constitutionaiists,
she hurled forth today. we must hght
these misguided women who are too
7inid to ssert their rights In the prop
er way.
Militant suffragettes are not ordi-
nary offenders; they are not even polit-
seal offenders-they are prisoners OF
war"
with these ringing declarations on
I her lips Mrs Pankhurst threw defiance
AT the government Although Mrs
Pankhurst, who is under charges OF in
citing other women to commit arson. is
nj liberty on her pledge to abstain from
conspiracy or melting other women to
crime until her trial comes up next
month her speeches and interviews are
/ growing so defiant that the government
may annul its agreement with her and
put her in Jail again
Let them put London under martial
3 law" continued Mrs Pankhurst I'VE
would not be treated any mare brutalIy
than We are now. our leadels I'm prison
hire maltr6ated ana we are not allowed
the riEht' guaranteed 20 us by civil lib
ertv outsiGn the jars.
"Bu, We lave more than the govern
ment to fight now
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
All Roads Run To-Day, But
Only Southern To-Day.

Does your road run to Day?'
The cute little questioner was heck
ling Gus Chalmers, station master at
the Terminal
Sure, all the roads run to-day" re-
piled Gus.
Il mean does the Southern road run
to Day" persisted the little miss.
"Sure-the Southern and all the rest
run to-day" smiled back Chalmers.
"Oh, I know better than that" re-
piled the miss. only the Southern
runs to Day
"Oh, very WELL" said Gus, wishing, to
be gallant. But I'd like to be sure OF
it, Let's ask the ticket seller"
Say, Harry, do all the roads or just
the Southern run to-day
"Only the Southern runs to Day,
said Harry.
We'll, l must be dopy, sure. What's
the matter with the rest Of the roads? p
humbly asked Chalmers.
Nothing" said the ticket man. only
the Southern runs to Day, Ga, The
other roads don't come within miles of
It,"
Then Chalmers got a glimpse of a
smile-and beat 1t.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
CAPITOL'S DOME is
SOME HIGH; 'FIGGER'
THIS OUT AND SEE

Some folks like to "figger" Captain
Tip" Harrison, clerk in the state in
surance office at the capitol, is one of
them. He stood to-day under the great
dome in the state building and GRATED :
"If the old Trinity steeple. once upon
a time the highest spire in the city,
were placed inside of this dome, it
would lack rs feet Of touching the top.
Some high Ell? Yes, this dome is 172
feet from the floor to the topmost pane
Of glass. Almost as high as big mon
umeut"
The dome has recently been decorat-
ed and frescoed. The scaffolding used
by the worknen IN their eerie pursuit
is being removed to day
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
Conscience Doth Make
towards of Us All.

Joe Gewinner. of the johnson Gewin-
ner Company. was walking up Peach
tree the other day curing the rain. He
had on a raincoat, but it afforded him
slight protection He saw what he
thought was a friend hurrylng past I'M
der a big umbrella.
Joe shouted Hey. there! Where
you goin' with that umbrella ,"
Without murmuring a word, the fell
low dropped the umbrella and fled.
Guilty conscience" was Joe's
thought as he picked up the shower
stick and continued on his way.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
49, Year Old Pumpkin
Made Excellent Pie.

What do you think of that pumpkin
pie?" asked the hostess.
Her visitor nodded approval and the
matron smiled.
IN tell you something about that
pie" she said. THE chief essential of
it was prepared by my mother 45 years
ago. She has been dead 25 years. How
she made It is no secret. She just
stewed that pumpkin until it was a very
dark brown and contained scarcely any
water Then she rolled it into a ball
and it became as hard as a rock She
put it in an old -four sack and laid it
away. | came across the ball of pump
kin the other day. She had told me that
pumpkin prepared that way would last
indefinitely, so / brought it out, soaked
1t in warm water. and there you have
the finest pumpkin pie you ever ate"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
Passenger Agents of
Southeast Meeting to
Frame Summer Rates
Reduced Weekend Fares viii
Be Put Into Force Again
This Year.

General passenger agents OF ~.
Southeastern lines are meeting in A..
lanta today 10 solve the problem, .,
weekend summer rates to the man,
tains and seashore.
The rates of last summer, allowing.
Friday to Monday trip for the tired A,
lanta business man, probably viii \.
voted in force again for the comm,
summer season.
There will be no changes made f,
the regular annual summer excurs,o,
rates to the North Atlantic coast "a.
sorts.
About 40 Of the most prominent mas.
senger department men Of the road,
running through this territory are her,
for the meeting.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
Wanted Cigarettes That
Work While You Sleep.

No Atlanta mother need be shocked
bv the little narrative following. How
ever. one mama in town knows who the
story is on.
A little miss walked into the drug
store and asked the clerk for a 10-cent
box Of cigarettes" The clerk replied
that he could not sell her cigarettes
She then said, 'T don't want them
Mama wants them"
The clerk marveled.
Il want the candy kind" lisped the
little one: the kind that work while
you sleep
Then the clerk understood
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
DRINKS SELF TO DEATH

ANNlSTON, ALA. March 19-Robcy
Glass, a years old. was found I'm a
dying condition In u back alley by the
police late yesterday. lie died at the
police station shortly after being taken
Np and was buried this afternoon His
death resulted from excessive drinking
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
CHATTANOOGA TO LOBBY
FOR BROAD STREET BILL

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, March 10.
w. Scott Raulston. secretary of the
Chamber Of Commerce, and John s.
Fletcher, an attorney. left to-day for
Nashville to appear in the house and
the senate in behalf of the bill which is
to come up giving Chattanooga the right
to open streets through the yards Of the
Western and Atlantic railway at the
head Of Broad street.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-14
HIGH TURK is KILLED
ScUTARYS GOVERNOR SLAIN AND
TWO POSITIONS TAKEN.
Refugees Flee From GaIIipoIi to Trans
ports and Drown in Panic as
Buigars Advance.

London, Feb. 10.-Scutari's governor
has been killed and the important
positions of Rushati and Bardenjolt
have been captured by $4,000 Monte
negrins and Servians bombarding
Scutari, say Balkan war dispatches to
London papers. Taking an oath Of
victory or death, Enver Bey has en-
barked for an unknown destination
with all Turkish troops that were on
the Asiatic coast of the Sea of
Marmora.
Fighting between the Balkan allies
and Turkish forces at Gallipoli and
Adrianople continue, but in the abb
sence of independent reports the con-
fiicting accounts from official sources
provide no basis for critical Judgment
of what has happened.
The most daring feat of the war
was performed by Captain Maraitmis,
a Greek army aviator, who flew over
the straits of the Dardanelles in a
hydroplane and dropped three bombs
into The arsenal at Maides, near the
southern point of the Gallipoli PENN
sula.
According to a dispatch from Con-
stantinople the residents of GallipoIi
are fleeing panic-stricken before the
advance OF the Bulgarian troops This
dispatch states that hundreds of refu-
gees were drowned when the over
crowded transports on which they
were fleeing were overturned.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES

London, Feb. Sit was announced
here Thursday that James Bryce, Brit
ish ambassador to Washington, had
been appointed a member of the per-
manent court of arbitration at The
Hague.
Seattle, Wash, Feb. THE wire
less operator at the United States
army post at Eagle, Alaska, heard the
government station at Key West, Fla,
sending a message to Mare Island,
Cal, on December IS. according to
mail advices received. The airline
distance from Key West to Eagle is
more than 1000 miles.
Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. T. A legisla-
tive investigation of the recent strike
Of the American Steel & Wire COM
pany employees in Rankin and Brad
dock was practically assured follow
ing the adoption by the lower house of
the legislature Of a resolution provid-
Ing for a commission to investigate
the labor trouble.
Cleveland, o., Feb. flames M. Nc
Nicholas. mining promoter, recently
arrested in Boston and charged with
separating Cleveland, Elyria, Con-
neaut and other Ohio towns from
100000 by fake mining schemes,
pleaded not guilty when arraigned in
federal court here.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-14
OIL MAN STRICKEN
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER NEAR
DEATH IN COLLAPSE AT
PUJO HEARING.
QUIZ ENDS VERY ABRUPTLY
Questioned on Money Trust, After
Long Search, Finarcier Falls Back
Choking and Observation-Disclosures
Is Opposed to Examination.

Jekyl Island, Ga, Feb. 10.-Between
William Rockefeller and the Pujo
money trust investigators the shadow
of death came Friday. Face to face
with the oil magnate, brother Of John
D. Rockefeller, after a pursuit which
lasted over a year, Chairman Pu1o
and Samuel Untermyer. counsel to
the committee, were compelled to
abandon a victory which was in their
grasp through the danger thai the
long-sought witness might die under
the pressure of cross examlna-
ton.
Submitting to the jurisdiction of the
committee Mr.. Rockefeller received
Chairman Pujo and Mr.. Untermyer
In the library of his apartments here.
He was practically voiceless. With
Doctor Chappell at his side, however.
the examination was begun after ne
had lifted a palsied hand to subscribe
to the oath.
But twelve minutes elapsed. Mr..
Untermyer had been able to ask but q
single question germane to the inves-
tigation when the witness was at
tackled by a violent fit of coughing.
His whole frame trembled: he became
absolutely speechless. The blood
rushed to his face, which turned pur-
pie and crimson. To all who looked
on 1t seemed evident that a crisis was
at hand. Doctor Chappell hastily ad-
ministered an opiate, under which MI.
Rockefeller partially revived, but be-
fore the examination could be re-
sumed the doctor fnterposed:
Il strongly urge you not to pro-
ceed," he said, las in doing so you are
endangering his life at the present
moment"
Chairman Pujo and Mr.. Untermyer
exchanged hasty glances. BY this time
Mr.. Rockefeller had fallen back into
his chair in a state of almost com
plete collapse. Doctor Chappell was
sworn and amid deep silence, while
every eye vas riveted upon the wit
ness patient. he solemnly swore that
a continuation of the examination
which had brought Mr.. Rockefeller to
a verge of a spasm Of the larynx
might choke him to death.
In the examination Mr.. Rockefeller
said. in answer to Mr.. Untermyer's
question, that his residence was $50
Fifth avenue, New York. That he had
v played a game OF golf in his
life. Remembered the organization
of the Amalgamated Copper company
In 1898. 1t was at this point that Mr..
Rockefeller collapsed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-14
BUT SHE DID NOT VISIT HIM
Little Chance That V~oice-CuIture Stu
dent Ate mpted to Crafty Old
GentIeman's Friend.

Patinetly the old gentleman had
been sitting through the ordeal OF
hearing the voice-culture student in
the hall bedroom below practicing with
a zeal which left no room for criticism.
but with a talent by nc means so kind
ly described.
Finally he crept down the stairs
and raped at the doc of the young
woman's room.
81 can't come ill.," he said in re-
Spouse to an invitation, but l simply
came to tell you of a friend of mine
who would, I know, be willing to pay
almost any amour of money to hear
you sing"
Overwhelmed with joy the young
woman begged the kind old gentleman
to write his friends name and address
on a piece Of paper.
When he had gone upstairs she
looked at the slip of paper which he
had handed back to her inscribed and
neatly folded. 1t read: John w.
Jones, Asylum for the Deaf"