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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
STUCK TO HIS FRIEND
BORROWER INSPIRED BY SPIRIT
OF LOYALTY.
Had Altogether Too Much self-Re-
spect to Apply to Anyone Else
While Old Nrighbor Had
Things 60 Lend.

No one could truthfuIly deny that
most of the small farmers Of Dilmouth
were addicted to MISUNDERSTANDING
tools chiefy-although as occasion
arose they would borrow anything
else with the utmost cheerfulness.
The burden fell heaviest upon Caleb
Peaslee, thrifty farmer who kept
every necessary tool, and who tried to
keep them In condition for use. The
advent of a new farmer, well-to-do
man who brought with him almost
every known appliance for tilling the
ground. seemed to open an avenue of
escape from some Of his troubles.
.Mebbe some of these hawks1l take
toll firm that man Barney that's taken
the OF Staples place for spell, he
conf1ded to his son. II hope SOL do
SO. My seedtime and harvest has
come in between the times when 9TH
er folks was a-usin' my farmin' tools
ever since / can remember, and I've
got about tired out. I'm goin' to see
If I can't turn some of 'em his way,
and get little rest
Caleb made his first attempt at
turning them" when Jake Meader, his
nearest neighbor and an inveterate
borrower, came for the wheel hoe,
which lay in the tool shed with one
wheel broken. Jake went to the shed
and examined the hoe, and then re-
turned to the grind-stone, where Caleb
and his son were grinding scythes.
Jake's face wore a dissatisfied express
sion.
Amt you goin' into Bangor some
time this afternoon, Caleb?" he in
quired, anxiously.
Mr.. Peaslee drew his thumb care
fully along the scythe, testing the
edge.
ct d'know but mebbe SHALL he re-
turned, noncommittally. 'Why?"
"Why!" returned Jake, in aggrieved
surprise. "On account of that wheel
hoe-that's why. Here it's been laying
right there in that shed for four-hye
days with the wheel broke, and the
weeds gettin' higher in my beets every
minute. I cal'lated to borrow it this
afternoon and see if couldn't get EN-
thinned out a 1ittle-and here l lind
that you amt got it fixed yeti"
Caleb regarded the borrower with
fine irony, tempered by an exasper-
ated amusement.
'See here, jake" he said at length,
"if my tools amt in shape to suit you,
why don't you go up the road a piece
and try Barney. He's got everything
you need in the way of tools-mebbe
you can get jest what you want there,
and get it when you want it. I'd
REILLY ruther you'd try him SPELL
Jake turned to Caleb a face full OF
wounded dignity.
beats all how a manu live right
alongside of another man for years,
and not know him, after all" he burst
out, earnestly. IT want you to know,
Caleb Peaslee, that amt none of your
to whif11e-minded folks! Them that
wants to can borrow of Barney, but
I amt goin' to. started in borrowin'
of you when fust come here, and I'm
goin' to keep on borrowin' Of you as
long as you've got anything to lend!
Youths Companion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
ToqoIand Cotton.

Germans are not, as rule, success
full colonists, but Togoland has always
been kind of toy to the German
merchant since its annexation just 90
years ago. The great achievement in
the colony has been the initiation Of
a cotton trade, and nothing has been
spared to foster the industry. Most
elaborate experiments were made be-
fore it was decided that the native
seed would produce staple equal to
average American; model centers Of
instruction, model farms were set up.
and great effort was made to induce
negro farmers from the southern states
of America to settle there. Chemical
manure was supplied free from Ger
many, and exhibits of fabrics made
from the Togoland cotton have been
held at Dusseldorf and elsewhere.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
REWARDS FOR GOOD WORK
AntitubercuIosis Association Has Plan
to Promote Sale of Red Cross
Christmas Seals.

remnants or banners will be given
by the American Red Cross and the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis to the
seven counties, cities, towns and VII
lagos in the United States selling the
largest number of Red Cross Christ
mas seals per capita before January
1, according to an announcement from
headquarters in New York.
In order to make the competition
even in all parts of the country. the
counties, cities and towns have been
grouped according to their population
In 1910 into seven classes, as follows:
From 500 to 1000; from 1000 to 5000;
from 5000 to $4,000; from $4,000 to
$4,000; from $4,000 to 10000; 100000
to 500, 900, and over 100000. A special
ly prepared pennant will be given to
the county, city, town or village in
each class anywhere in the United
States selling the largest number of
seals per inhabitants.
Last year Cody, Wyo., was among
the largest buyers per capita, selling
over $4,000 with population of 1900.
Some cities in New York, Wisconsin,
and Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
other states sold from three to six per
resident The National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuber.
culosis, which is carrying on the pro-
motion of the sale, considers that any
city of 10000 to 100000 population
ought to sell at least three cents
worth of seals per inhabitant.
ALI of the proceeds from the sale
of Red Cross seals, except the ex-
penses of the sale, go to fight tubercu,
losis in the community, state, city or
town where the seals are sold.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Travel a Century Ago.

Under date of November 10, 1903, it
was announced in some of the news
papers, West and East, that line OF
mail stages would soon be established
to run between Pittsburgh and Phila-
delphia, probably to be started the
following June. The fact was, how
ever, that the line was dedicated for
regular trips on the natal day of the
republic, July 4, 1904, and it is of
record as the beginning of a new
chapter in the history of Pittsburgh
that the first stage, with its four fine
horses and goodly load of mail and
passengers, left Ferree's tavern in
Market street with a great flourish of
whips, thus initiating the grand fea-
ture of a bi-weekly stage, the dis
lance between cities being about
300 miles, 100 of them through a con-
tinuous chain of mountains, all to be
traversed in six days. The legisla
ture of that year adopted resolu-
ton for the appointment of commit
tee to ascertain the most available
route for turnpike between the two
cities.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11

principles. In the heart of the city
there is a large open space called Les
Quinconces, where twice year big
fair is held, real fair with a real
giantess, a dwarf no less real and a
real glass-spinner, gingerbread shops,
booths of all sorts and mournfully
real merry-go-rounds. Everyone 1n'
Bordeaux and the Bordelais district
goes to the fair-the somebodies to
show their Paris frocks, made in Bor-
deaux land very well made, too!D. the
nobodies to eat gingerbread and have
their teeth pulled out, not by the gin
gerbread, but by a gorgeous being in
a red-and-gold dress with a big drum,
a mighty wrist, and a monstrous pair
of pincers!
Bordeaux has no motor omnibuses
and very few taxicabs, even in time
Of peace, as nobody in Bordeaux is
really ever in a hurry; they know
there that one should always post
pone until tomorrow what one could
have done today, thanks to which
principle one achieves fewer follies.
1t is not so clean as Lyon, but how
much more smiling a town!-and 1t
gives an impression of greater cleanli1
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Radium Market Closed.

The European war has, for the pres.
ent at least, totally closed the Euro
pean market to American radium ores
AS is well known, the uranium ores OF
Colorado and Utah are sold exclu
sively for their radium content, SO lit
tie use being known for the uranium
that the ores cannot be sold for their
content of that element. The condi
ton of the European market leaves
the miners without a buyer; so that
while the war lasts, and probably fol
some time afterward, the market will
be restricted and without the benefit
of competition. AS has been pointed
out by Secretary of the Interior Lane
had the bills introduced in congress
been passed the United States govern
ment would probably have been in the
market as a buyer, and the miner
might now have chance to sell his
ore
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
How Sun RepeIs Comets Tails.

A new theory to explain the tails of
comets is advanced by the French
physicist, M. Houllevigue in the Revue
Scientiique. 1t is natural to suppose,
he says, that the incandescent nucleus
of comet is throwing out electrons
into the extremely rarefed atmosphere
that surrounds it. The observations
of George Ellery Hale, the American
astronomer, prove that the sun be-
HAYES like a negatively electrified
body. Therefore he repels electrons,
which are negatively electrified bodies.
These particles SO repealed would be
driven to that side of the comet which
is farthest from the sun, and by con-
tact with the molecules of the gaseous
and rarefed atmosphere would pro-
duce just the luminous appearance
that we call comets tail.
Every comets tail always extends
away from the sun. Arrhenius, the
Swedish astronomer, believed that the
particles of the tail we're repealed by
the light of the sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Matches the Wheels.

Senator Camden of Kentucky. him
self a scientific farmer, gets joy from
the foibles of the practical Kentuckian
who does not believe in ''dingdoodles,"
but stick to the rudimentary method
of tilling the soil
Several times each year Senator
Camden invites his neighbors, among
whom are a number of the practical
boys, to visit his farm.
"One elderly gentleman said SEN
ator Camden, in telling of one of
these parties, went over the place
carefully. He examined the different
types of machinery which I had in
troduced. The harvesting machinery,
the reapers and the traction engines
caught his eye. He turned to me.
This new-fangled junk may be
all right he said. but I'm burned If
/ can figure out what you do
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
MEN WHO WIN LIES BATTLES
They Almost Invariably Have Been
Endowed With Great Physical
Strength.

II has been said that great men
those capable of mental work beyond
the average-are almost invariably
men of great physical strength also,
remarks London Answers. Whether
this be true or not. we find innumer-
able instances in which the theory is
borne out In actual fact, and here are
a few actual and indisputable exam
pies:
Napoleon was capable of sitting a
horse sixteen hours at stretch and
was able to work for days without rest.
Gladstone was always muscular. At
eighty years he chopped down an oak
four feet thick.
Bismarck was a giant. He fought
twenty-eight duels, receiving only once
a scar, caused by the breaking of his
adversary's blade. He stood six feet
two inches.
Cromwell was football player, fond
Of boisterous sports. He stood nearly
six feet in height and had strong.
compact body and well-knit frame.
Robert Burns was strong man,
with a firm grip. gained at the plow
and fail.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Hopeless.

Representative Kent of California
has many quaint tales of the North
country. One Of them deals with the
early days in the Nome region, when
gold was plentiful and everything else
was decidedly scarce. One Of the
residents, the story runs, wandered
into rough, ready-made saloon and
beheld four bewhiskered, rough look
ing individuals.
They were deeply detected. They
sat far back in their chairs, hands in
pockets. Occasionally one of them
sighed or swore. In front of them
were stacks of chips representing sew
eral thousand dollars in gold.
What's the matter?" asked the Wis
itor.
This here poker game is busted
up!" was the reply.
Busted up?" repeated the visitor
In establishment. why, you've got
enough money there to play for a
week"
Yep, stranger" agreed the bewhis-
kered man, moodily, I'VE got that, but
somebody's lost all the aces and two
jacks in the deck!"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
The READING of Books.

Of one thing l feel quite certain,
that the reading of good literature is
necessary to the growth of the mind
and the strengthening of character,
especially in young people, and that
there Is no resource for all periods OF
life so helpful, SO satisfying, and SO
enduring as a love of good books.
Charming we'll says: God be thanked
for books. They are the voices Of the
distant and the dead, and make us
heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Books are the true Jewelers.. They
give to all who will faithfully use them
the society, the spiritual presence, of
the best and greatest of our race. -
George p. Brett. in the Atlantic.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Date Cream Bars.

Boil three cupfuls of granulated
sugar and one cupful of cold water
until it will harden when dropped into
cold water. Do not stir while cook
ing. Beat well the whites of three
eggs and pour the sugar over them
slowly, stirring constantly until thick
enough to mold. Then add one and
one-half pounds of chopped dates.
Make into bars and roll in powdered
sugar
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
FOR sKlN-TORTURED BABIES.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap fol-
lowed by light application of Cuti-
cura Ointment, gently rubbed on the
surface, afford immediate relief and
point to speedy healment of sleep-de-
stroying eczemas, rashes, itchings,
burnings, scalings and crustings of
the skin and scalp of infants and chill
dren, bringing rest to WORKOUT, anx-
ious mothers and peace to distracted
households. For free sample each with
80 p. Skin Book, address postcard Gu
ticura, Dept. X, Boston. Sold every
where.-Adv.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11

"a URDIGALA, better known by
it's everyday name of Bordeaux,
the new capital of my country,
a patch Of France upon which
the sun and Dionysus have
smiIed-the land of palatable red wine
and pleasant, dark women. To most
newspaper-reading people Bordeaux is
interesting just now because Of the
change that has happened to 1t; for
me Bordeaux is interesting because it
does not change. So writes Marthe
Troly- Curtin, in the London Sketch.
Bordeaux does not want to change
it is a lazy, happy, bourgeois, we'll
fed town; it is snug and contented,
warmed for nine months of the year
by a very clement climate, and all the
year round by the rutilant glow Of its
claret. Bordeaux has few large and
fine streets, and many old-fashioned
and insanitary ones, the improvement
of which nobody really cares about,
least Of all the jewellers of those par
ticular streets, the bad air of which
seems to agree with them to an ex-
traordinary degree. The Bond street
of Bordeaux is the Rue Sainte Cath
crime, a narrow, dark, cobbled street,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
"The Red Cross Gir,eens."

That the Red Cross nurses are all
and more than has been claimed for
them when it comes to genuine pluck
is borne out by an Irish soldier, Sergt.
T. Cahill, who in the course of re-
cent letter to the home folks, wrote:
THE Red Cross girleens, with their
pretty faces and their sweet ways. are
as good men as most of US. They are
not supposed to venture into the firing
line at all. but they get there all the
same, and devil the one Of us burst
turn them away"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Turks Take to the Auto,

When it is remembered that motor.
cars were generally forbidden in the
Ottoman empire up to 1905. the rapid
Development Of the trade may be
realized from an inspection of the
streets of Constantinople today, on
which are limousines, touring cars,
motor-trucks, gasoline-driven delivery
wagons and hospital ambulances all
imported within the last three years.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Great journal.

Ragged Robert-This ole barn is a
comfortable enough place to spend
Sunday, If we only had something ter
read.
Moldy Mike had er chance ter
steal a Sunday paper half an hour ago.
why didn't yer?'
"Carryin' it was too much like
work."-New York Weekly.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11

utilized, and it never dawned upon
those who saw the exhibition that the
tallow candle would, in the course of
time, be driven from the field by this
peculiar commodity. 1t was half
century after this Philadelphia exhibit
ton before gas had taken the place
of candles and oil lamps in the homes
of the best people Of our American
cities.-"N7w York Leads the World
in Gas Development" w. C. Jenkins,
in National Magazine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
S,,nn,artino the TaIioW Candle.

Probably the first exhibition of in
flammable gas ever given in this coun-
try was the display made by fireworks
In Philadelphia in 1896. The exhibition
was merely for entertainment pur-
poses. The gas was released through
holes in iron tubes. for the burner as
we know it today, had not been in
vented. No one, however, thought the
i!luminant would ever be generally
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Halihut Baked In Milk.

From four pounds Of thick fish, re-
move skin and put in pan to bake.
Season with salt, pepper and butter
Put in enough milk to come up one
inch in the pan. Bake one hour, add
a little more milk with little thick.
ening and chopped parsley.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
That Famous Barrel.

Now, is there anything else I CAL
show you around the capitol?" asked
the congressman.
ssThere is admitted his constituent
I'D like to have a look at that pork
barrel read so much about in the
papers"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
French Mutton Stew.

Take 1 II pounds of neck or shoulder
of mutton cut in pieces, five cents
worth of carrots and turnips, two
onions and spring Of parsley. Brown
a tablespoonful of -four with about the
same quantity of butter. When brown
add meat, then the vegetables cut in
rounds-put one Glove in one of the
onions-add pepper, salt and two cup
fu1s of cold water
Cover tight and simmer two hours
One hour before serving add a few pc.
tatoes to the stew.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
When Crankina the Auto.

Tt is frequently useful in starting a
stiff compression to rock the start
ing crank back and forth. This serves
the purpose Of loosening somewhat
the film of oil between pistons and
cylinders, and also enables the man to
get up some little momentum to help
carry him past the center. Care should
be taken in doing this rocking, how
ever, to not make it excessive. When
the spark is retarded, asit is for start
ing, there is danger that an excessive
swing may carry the fywheel through
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
the sun, and the space of its center.
Society WhoIesomely Mixed.

ness because of its clarity, because OF
the sun, and the space of its center.
Society WhoIesomeIy Mixed.
It's society is admirably and
wholesomely mixed, for it is a uni
versity, military and business town,
and, Bordeaux not being very large,
| those diverse elements have to form a
certain alliance through the constant
jostling, meeting, and living close to-
gether.
In a certain part of the province
there is a strange streak among the
people, many of them having blue
eyes, blond or ginger hair, and fresh
compilations, quite the English type.
The Black Prince and his army occu-
pied the Aquitaine, of which he was
governor; his son, Richard II, was
even born there in castle, the ruins
of which can still be seen. 1t is a
long while ago, l grant you, but until
of late years French people, especial
ly of the provinces, travelled very lit
tie and intermarried much, which
might justify the surmise that those
two facts are related, and that many
among the Medocains are of English
descent.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Drowned Flour for GRAVY.

Keep a quantity of Drowned flour
on hand for making gravy; you will
find it saves a great deal Of time. Put
several spoonfuls evenly on the bot
tom of a baking pan and stir it over
a moderate fire until it becomes an
amber brown. Turn it into a bottle
and keep for use
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11
Bran Gems.

One egg, one cupful flour. two cup
fuls bran, one teaspoonful salt, three
tablespoonfuls molasses, one table
spoonful shortening, one teaspoonful
soda, buttermill, to make a stiff bat
ter, raisins may be added If desired.
Bake Is minutes.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-11

template the birth
of our Savior into
t h e world, l
would apply the
event to his birth
into the individ-
ual life. Oppor-
tunity is not af-
torded for en-.
largement on the
meaning of the
text, but,
I. 1t suggests
that the birth OF
Christ into the ex
perience of men is
a process of three
stages. G h r | S I
must be form ed in