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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
MADE A SLIGHT MISTAKE
Little Woman Must Have Been EN-
barrassed by Error Which In
voIved Stranger.

Officer O'Connor's attention was
first attracted to trim little woman
near his corner a day or two ago,
when she ran boldly across the safety
zone markers and ducked in front OF
an approaching street car. O'Connor,
who is a traffic policeman, makes 1t
a. point to see that the safety zone
markers are dead lines, and he start
nd toward the woman. 1t was his con-
clusion she needed special instruc-
ton in -afety zones.
He reached her in time to see her
take a firm hold on the coattails OF
a. figure turned away from her.
What's the matter, lady?" the po-
liceman inquired, when he noted the
coattail death grip.
Hes my husband, Mr.. Policeman,
and he won't come home the wom-
an walled, facing the policeman, but
never releasing her grip.
The man looked around in a sur
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

with fall skirt, which ripples at the
bottom, and is provided with a shaped
belt and sash ends of the corduroy,
also lined with silk. Machine stitch.
ing makes the finish, and the ele-
gance of the coat is still further en-
hanced by the lack of any other trim
ming.
The model is double-breasted, fas-
tening at the throat with a single
large and ornamental button. A sim
liar button in smaller size appears
on each cuff. The collar is made SO
that it may be rolled up about the
neck and fastened with hook and eye
in high turnover.
Although pictured as worn over an
evening gown, this coat is appropri-
ate for all sorts of wear. The mate
rial is very serviceable, but its rich
luster places it in the class of dressy
coats as well as among those de-
signed for much wear.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
Marked Resemblance

The allies seem to be taking Con-
stantinople in about the same fashion
that we used to spell it, when we
were boys and girls, away back in the
years of never-mind-what We had a
quaint old crank of a teacher who
taught orthography in most pecu-
liar wise. He would make us spell
and pronounce a syllable, move to the
next, duplicate the previous perform
ance, hop back and bring up the prior
syllable, go ahead, back and ahead,
and so on to the bitter end, thus:
Con, con; there's your con-s-t-a-n,
stan; there's your stan; there's your
CONSTANT, ii; there's your ii;
there's your con-stan-ti-n-o, no;
there's your no; there's your ti-no;
there's your stan-ti-no; there's your
con-stan-ti-no-p-le, pie; there's your
pie; there's your no-ple; there's your
ti-no-ple; there's your stan-ti-no-ple;
there's your con-stan-ti-no-ple; there's
your Constantinople!" kansas City
Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
The New Belts.

Four-inch belts OF soft kid in light
and medium colors are bound with
black or white silk braid. Black RIB
bon lacings through black eyelets arg
seen on smart models. Ornaments
and buckles to match are used on
belts, the former being placed at the
back. Buckles are also made of jet,
gilt, pearl, galalith, silver, beads, etc.
A very military-looking belt of kid
or leather has for a fastening a buckle
initiating four cartridges made of gilt,
nicke4, gun metal or combination of
two metals. Embroidered belts are
used of satin, ribbon, soft kid or panne
velvet. With princess fronts the belt
disappeared under the side of the one
piece effect. Sometimes it is worn
at the real waist line, or it may go
an inch above.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

Two favorites of fashion for this
season enter into the composition of
this handsome coat; they are the
corduroy velvet of which it is made,
and the opossum fur on the collar.
Corduroy in good quality is about
the best choice one can make among
materials designed for coats for gen
eral wear, and the high favor of
opossum fur threatens to thin the
ranks of the little animal, whose fine
markings have lately sprung into un-
precedented favor.
The coat is long, ample and grace
full. 1t is cut with the long arms
eye and easy adjustment which makes
it practical for wear over evening
gowns.
Innings selected for coats of this
kind are of thin, supple silk or crepe,
in order that the coat may fall in
good lines about the figure. 1t is cut
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
HIS PROTEGEE NOW HIS WIFE
She Went to School as the Object Of
His Compassion, but Became
His Beloved.

Mrs. Borman was widow who kept
a boarding house in a small western
town. Her daughter, Alice, was
scrawny little girl of fourteen. Mrs.
Borman had been forced to take her
out of school to help with the work;
washing dishes and waiting on table
Jack Forbes, twenty-five, was his
widowed mothers only child
wealthy, by the way. Jack had never
been strong, so he went West. He
came to live at Mrs. Borman's.
He felt sorry for the poor little
scrub of girl and offered to send her
through school. He sent her away to
a private school and paid her bills
regularly, in fatherly way, though
he never wrote her or went to see
her. With him it was simply an act
of compassion.
At twenty-five he ordered her home
to his mothers home, feeling that
there she could get some finishing
touches socially. Then he intended to
make schoolteacher out of her. In
the meantime he had gone into bust
ness, made a success of himself, and
regained his health at the same time.
Work was all he needed, anyway. and
to get away from his mothers apron
strings.
He was not at home when Alice ar
rived, but came a few days later,
probably out of curiosity. l cannot
finish this ideal story by saying that
Alice had blossomed out into a won
drous beauty, for she had not. But
people say she was dainty and re-
lined, with wonderful hair and eyes
and the manner of one high born.
Of course, Jack fell in love with
her. She had always been in love
with him, | think. Had she been
courted by score of lovers l think he
would have been her choice. Well,
they are married now and, as the
story book says, they have two beau
tiful children"
Isn't this a regular story book ro-
nance? And the beauty of it is it's
true. l know, for am Alice and Jack
Jr., is up on my chair back now, pok-
ing clover blossoms into my hair, and
baby Alice is asleep. And they are
two such beautiful, wonderful chill
dren!-Chicago Tribune
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
The Costly Elevator,

Elevator or vertical travel for the
average multistory factory, floor to
floor, is seldom over Is feet, yet in
traversing that distance, together with
starting. stopping, and with the same
loading and unloading time, We can
travel in the same time an equivalent
distance of 100 feet horizontally. One
factory manager, OF an inquiring turn
Of mind estimated in his particular
plant that the cost of elevator service,
wages of operator, power. repairs and
time consumed by men using the ele-
vators, amounted to about per cent
of his payroll Engineering Magazine
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He did not hesitate even to scold
the prince of Wales for being late at
a concert and keeping all these poor
people (the performers) so long from
their scholars and other concerns"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
TonsiIs and Rheumatism,

rheumatism in it's many forms is,
according to DR.. Seymour Taylor. ia
nous British specialist, the most dan
gerous disease with which physicians
have to deal, more dangerous than
even tuberculosis. cancer or blood dis
ease. He notes that Is per cent of
young patients who are the victims of
acute rheumatism also suffer from
diseased tonsils, and asserts that
rheumatism affecting young children
or adolescents leaves mitral stenosis
contraction of the mitral valve of the
heart) as it's most frequent and Grip
pling valvular affection"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

day they might be lost or destroyed.
so he conceived the idea of preserving
the records on stone.
Palace of Theebaw.
A step only from religion to royal
ty, for short drive brings the traveller
to the old fort, with it's dry moat and
curiously carved gates. Within its
walls is the Palace of Theebaw, the
last Burman king. The various rooms,
rank, are placarded now, and the most
democratic tourist may thus realize
that he is in ''The Lion Throne Room"
"The Kings Audience Chamber" or
'The Queens Private Apartments. ;"
Nothing remains of past splendor save
the vacant rooms with their great teak
beams, covered with fast-disappearing
gold-leaf, the gaudy colored glass dis
plays and cloudy mirrors in tarnished
| frames One visitor relates that as he
was wandering about in one room he
heard from another the strains of
Home, Sweet Home" executed by a
young Burman upon an obviously new
English mouth-organ. He could not
help wondering how much that palace
had been home to its royal inmates.
Close at hand is the Kings Watch
Tower. tall cylinder surrounded by a
winding stair, which leads to sum-
mer house on top. This was built in
month under pain of death. The
king had so taxed and oppressed the
people that he feared them and dared
not go out of his palace grounds, so in
order to see what was going on in the
| is still accessible to those travellers
who will make the climb "at their own
risk" The visit to the palace is not
! complete without glimpse into the
museum in the same grounds. Here
are exhibited life-sized eff1gies of Thee
baw and his famous warrior queen, as
we'll as courtiers in their robes of
state Here, too, are the royal palan.
quins and countless smaller relics of
the court. The feeling of the pathos
| of past grandeur haunts one as ne
leaves this place.
Q9 OF tSdT iOT netIIs
These are the main sights of Man
| dalay, but the city itself in it's every
day garb has picturesque interest
not to be overlooked. For instance, if
| the rains be late, tug of war, in
| which men, women and children par
ticipate, is not an unusual sight. The
people hope in this way to appease
the unfriendly spirits that are keeping
back the rains.
For those who are interested in the
spread of Christianity among these
people, there are numerous mission
schools that invite the attention. A
drive out to Aungbinle is an afternoon
| well spent. AS one nears this hamlet.
| the attention is arrested by long
| white bridge, both unique and useful.
1t was built by an old Buddhist wom-
an, who thought to gain merit" by
| the act. The goal of the journey, how
ever, is small mission chapel, which
stands on the site of the prison where
| the pioneer missionary Adoniram
Judson, suffered so terribly hundred
years ago. His prosecutors are long
dead and forgotten, but he lives in the
| memory and affection Of many hun
dreds and thousands, while the scene
of his trials shares prominence with
| the kings palace and Buddha's tomb
as a place worth seeing when one is
'off to Mandalay."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
Mercury Aids Plants.

A scientific investigator of Europe
has discovered new method of de-
stroying fungous disease and house
hold pests by the use of mercury. In
inclosed spaces the mercury is en-
ployed in the form of vapor. In other
cases it is injected in metallic form
directly into the circulating fluids of
the plant The growth of the plant is
not only not disturbed, but is in most
cases actually assisted.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
Ionn Sentence Has so2 Words

No widely known English writer
comes anywhere near the record of
Nine. Peguy and Dumas in the mat
ter of long sentences. Gibbon has
some rather long and involved ones
from which one emerges with a gasp,
and Doctor Johnson built up some
sounding enormities Of the kind.
There is a sentence in Jeremy Tay
lor's Day of Judgment that runs to
3O2 words. This must approach, if it
does not reach, the record in Our
tongue
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

When she helps her young daughter
with suggestions for dress designs, the
mother who recognizes how we'll youth
and simplicity blend gives a favorable
verdict to these models based upon
ries. An artists design for a frocll
that would serve the double purpose
of late afternoon and evening gown
shows the classical influence strongly.
Made of that softest of soft pink nous
seline de sole, the color of which is
known aptly as foxgloVe, it has upon
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
What She Said.

PA, are you going to have any girl.
vanized iron on our new house?"
ANY w-h-a-t?'
ANY galvanized iron?"
Galvanized, you mean, don't you?"
Yes, pa; but teacher says we
mustn't say gal-it's girl
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
WITH ONE GREAT COMPOSER
Handel Belonged to No School, Yet
Had Style His Own-Scolded
Prince of Wales When Late.

German by birth, an Italian by sym
pathy and training, an Englishman by
residence and conformity, Handel be-
longed to no school, yet had a style
as unmistakably his own as had Dante
in verse, Angelo in sculpture or
Raphael in painting.
Strong. egotistic, self-willed, the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

some feathers, like those of the bird
of paradise, are too beautiful in their
natural state to be improved upon,
while others are vastly changed and
beautified by the makers of fancy
feathers.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

prised manner and in fustered way
denied the accusation of the woman.
When she heard the voice she slowly
released his coattails. A dismal look
came into her. eyes. 81 beg your par
don, she said to the accused man,
but her face was turned to the po-
liceman.
The man gathered his coattails to
himself and walked hurriedly away.
O'Connor just grinned to himself
indianapolis News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
Unkind Thrust.

First AUTHORITATIVE you heard that
Scribbleton has taken wife," Sec.
ond Author-''Yes, | suppose he
wanted to double the circle of hia
readers. Boston Transcript.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

the waist as well as upon the triangu-
lar pieces in the front and at the back
of the corsage, embroideries done in
bronze and aluminium threads, which
contrast exceedingly we'll with the
TpCt
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
White Net Gown.

A charming gown is of white net
with blossoms hung from the tabs OF
silver braid. Another pretty decora
tion consists Of bowknots of silver rib
bon.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
SYNOPSIS.

Cazalet, on the steamer Kaiser Fritz,
homeward bound from Australia. cries
out in his sleep that Henry Craven, who
ten years before had ruined his father
and himself. is dead and finds that Hill
him, knows Craven and also Blanche
Macnair, a former neighbor and play
mate.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
CHAPTER III.
In the Train.

IN the ifain.
Discussion was inevitable on the
way up to town next morning. The
two strange friends, planted opposite
each other in the first-class smoker,
travelled inland simultaneously en-
crossed in a copious report of the
previous days proceedings at the coro-
ner's court.
The medical evidence was valuable
only as tracing the fatal blow to some
such weapon as the missing trun-
cheon; the buffers evidence explained
that the dinner-hour was seven thirty;
that, not five minutes before, he had
seen his master come downstairs and
enter the library, where, at seven fifty
five, on going to ask If he had heard
the gong, he, had obtained no answer
but found the door locked on the in
side; that he had then hastened round
by the garden, and in through the
French window, to discover the de-
ceased gentleman lying in his blood.
The head gardener, who lived in the
lodge, had sworn to having seen a
bare-headed man rush past his win
dows and out of the gates about the
same hour, as he knew by the sound
ing of the gong up at the house; they
often heard it at the lodge, in warm
weather when the windows were open,
and the gardener swore that he him
self had heard it on this occasion.
The footman appeared to have been
less positive as TO the time of tele-
phone call he had answered, thought
it was between four and five, but re-
membered the conversation very we'll
The gentleman had asked whether Mr.
Craven was at home, had been told
that he was out motoring, asked when
he would be back, told he couldn't say,
but before dinner some time, and What
name should be given, whereupon the
gentleman had rung off without an
swering The footman thought he was
a gentleman, from the way he spoke.
But apparently the police had not yet
succeeded in tracing the call.
rs it a difficult thing to do?" asked
Cazalet, touching on this last point
early in the discussion, which even he
showed no wish to avoid this morning
He had dropped his paper, to find that
Toye had already dropped his, and
was gazing at the flying Engli=:' finlds
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

great composer was generally cheer
full and good-tempered but violent
when irritated, and indomitably proud
and independent.
One who knew him well relates that
when he was pleased with the way the
music was going at one of his con,
certs, his enormous wig had always
certain nod or vibration, and that at
the Carlton house concerts he would
swear angrily if the ladies in waiting
talked during the music-upon which
the princess would check them. say,
ing, Hush! Hush! Handel is angry.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

made Toye's eyes glisten in his sa-
gacious head.
But Cazaiet, though he had skinned
the many-headed column before sit
ting down to supper, fatty declined to
discuss the tragedy his first night
ashore.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05
HappjneSs In Moderation.

Look about you for the mar who
is happiest in his success. You will
| find him of moderate habit"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

Optimistic Thought.
To the brave nan every land is q
native country.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-05

A CERTAIN lady in big Ameri-
"a can city was once heard to re-
mark that she had lived for
IN three years in Mandalay. An
other in the same room said,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
yandaIs Dynamiting Fish

The destruction of thousands of fish ty dynamiting up and down Turk y creek, in the northern part of the coun- ty, is an outrage" said J. J. B. Me- E1reath, postmaster at Morris.
 The vandals have not spared any fish large or small. They have blown great holes in the shallow beds where the females are spawning. For days after their night work dead fish have floated down stream and over the dams at DeSoto and at Rogers mill, near Morris. What our people want to know is, what is the fish and game warden for? Why don't the state aa- thorities spend some of the accumu- lated thousands from licenses in catch ing and punishlng the destroyers of fish?
 This vandalism has been going on in different parts of the county for the past few years and we do not hear of any arrests or punishment. Commis- sloner Wallace should employ detect ives to thoroughly work out the gull ty and pursue them until they are in the coal mines, or the penitentiary would be better, all things consid- cred"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
WAR ECHOES

Pittsburg Sun: Unprejudiced returned travellers from Russia are telling strange but by no means surprising tales of con- ditions as they exist In the land of the mediately after the clash of arms, Rus sia was loud in its protestations of friend- ship to all the varied races that go to make up it's enormous population. Poles, Films and Jews were to be received into full communion with the Russian and en- joy all the freedom that was in the fu- ture to be the privilege of the reawakened nation Poland was to be free under the suzeranity of Russia. It was even hint ed that it was to be given absolute inde- pendence of existence. The moujik was to lead into the bright sunlight through the broad avenue of compulsory educa- tion. and Russia, with a warm water port, was to assume the place that jeal- ous and fearful nations had withheld from her.
 Fine! The whole world. with the ex- ceptlOn or 1eW WnO ndQ relatlVes III Joplin, and for that reason were skeptical, received the word of the Czar with re- joicing. Then nothing of importance happened. The war was taking up too much time. and besides all the dissatis-' fled factions had come under the royal standard. Now there are faint sounds of rumbling, of discontent, discord and de- spair. There is growing suspicion that no matter how the war terminates Rus sia will not keep her word.
 The returning traveller from Petrograd says that the rumor is rife that Count Witte did not die natural death, but committed suicide. The reason for this lies in the fact that the reactionary forces have gained the ascendency and purpose making the bureaucracy again the all powerful factor. Count Witte. it is said, discovered the condition and started or ganizing in secret to combat the baneful influence. His activities were discovered and he preferred death to imprisonment and exile. Many advanced leaders have been arrested and harshly treated, for they are looked upon by the party in con- trol as menaces to the autocratic power and their own individual sway. In direct opposition to Russias claims of enlight- enment and progress, it Is said that the reactionary bureaucracy is not only in the ascendency, but actually dominates Rus sian affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The soufh,. Pra.neritx

Last fall I was feeling very sorry for the south on account of the bottom be- ing out of the cotton market, but now the rest of the country seems to have nothing on the cotton states" said W. W. Netherwood of Chicago.
 T was in New Orleans and in several ether southern cities last November, when conditions were most depressing. Early in January there began to be an improvement. The price of cotton was upward, and today the south looks as prosperous as most other parts of the United States.
 T have made periodical visits to tEe south during the past 10 years, and I have been well impressed with the prog ress that has been made. I am glad to see that the farmers are taking lively interest in the crop diversihcation cam paign. If they follow up this movement the south will in a few years be the wealthiest section of the country. I would say at a glance that 1915 would be a ban ner year in Alabama.