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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

For the woman of average means, a
separate coat, to be worn with frocks
of varied character, is a necessity OF
the wardrobe. Such coat needs to
be carefully selected, since it is to do
duty as a street coat, for travelling, for
driving in the auto, and for such occa-
sions as may demand a sport coat
But great numbers of separate coats
were designed this spring that are
suitable for all-round service, and have
much style to recommend them as
well.
Among them, coats of covert cloth
in tan and kindred shades and those
in black and white checks seem really
tc fit in everywhere. They are full
of style and snap; just the sort of
garment that the American woman
needs and delights in.
fine example of the general utility
coat is pictured here. 1t is a black
and-white check, with collar and cuffs
n leather color. These accessories
are often shown in emerald green and
in black with white pipings, SO that
there is a choice in color. The coat,
as pictured, is worn over a frock OF
black taffeta A combination of black
and white appears in the Breton sailor
hat and is repeated in the low walk.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
HIS UNLUcKY "DAys OFF"
Fireman Breaks Ankle, Leg, Foot,
Arm, and Head in Five Of His
Rest Periods.

His left ankle broken when caught
with several Other firemen under
falling wall at the big fire in Ceilings.
wood. Capt. George Wade recalled at
the Homeopathic hospital. Camden.
that all five serious nishaps he has
sustained while i'll the Camden fire de-
partment were met in responding to
calls On his day off, says the Philadel-
phia Record. Such was the case the
last tins He just dropped In at fire
headquarters to see how things were
going when the call for aid came from
Collingswood. Of course, he could not
resist the temptation to lead his com.
pany.
On another OF his days of in 1907
he was thrown from the engine AMI
suffered a compound fracture of the
left leg. At another time, in a like
accident also on his day off, his right
foot was crushed At still another
time. Captain Wade suffered a frac-
tnre of his left arm by a fall at a
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

The gesture accompanying this oath
was a grand one, convincing in its
fervor. its majesty and power.
But facts are stubborn things, and
while most of those present we're still
thrilling under the effect of this oath,
the dry voice Of District Attorney An
drews was heard for the first time, in
these words:
why, then. did you, on the, night OF
Bela's death, stop on your way across
the bridge to look back upon Dark
Hollow and cry in the bitterest tones
which escape human lips. Oliver! Oil
ver!' You were heard to speak
this name, Judge Ostrander." he
hastily put it, as the miserable father
raised his hand in ineffctual protest
"a man vas lurking in the darkness
behind you. who both saw and heard
you. He may not be the most pre-
possessing Of witness, but we cannot
discredit his story"
"Mr. Andrews. you have no children.
To the man who has. make my last
appeal. Mr.. Renfrew, you know the
human heart both IS father and a
pastor. Do you find anything unnatural
in a guilty soul bemoaning its loss
rather than its sin, in the spot which
recalled both to his overburdened
spirit?"
"No."
The word came sharply, and 1t
sounded decisive; but the ones which
followed from Mr. Andrews we're no
less so.
That is not enough. We want evi.
dence, actual evidence, that you are
not playing the part your son ascribes
to you"
The judges eyes glared, then sud.
denly and incomprehensively softened
till the quick fear that his mind as well
as his memory had gone astray, van.
ished In a feeling none of them could
have characterized, but which gave to
them all an expression of awe.
81 have such evidence" announced
the Judge. Come"
Turning, he stepped into the hall
Oliver, with bended head and a dis
couraged mien, quickly followed.
Alanson Black and the others. cast.
ing startled and inquiring looks at
each other. brought up the rear. Deb
orah Scoville was nowhere to be seen.
At the door of his own room, the
judge paused, and with his hand on
the curtain. remarked with unexpected
composure: You have all wondered,
and others with you. why for the last
ten years have kept the gates Of my
house shut against every conner.
am going to show you"
And with no further word or look.
scarcely even giving attention to Oil
ver's anguished presence, he led them
into the study and from there on to
that inner door known and talked of
through the town as the door of mys-
terry. This he slowly opened with the
key he took from his pocket; then.
pausing with the knob in his hand, he
said:
I'm the years which are past, but
two persons beside myself have
crossed this threshold, and these only
under my eye. It's secret was for my
own breast. Judge what my remorse
has been; Judge the power Of my own
secret self-condemnation, by what you
see here"
And, entering, he reached up, and
pulled aside the carpet he had strung
up over one end Of the room, disclosing
amid a number of loosened boards, the
barred cell Of condemned convict.
This was my bed, gentlemen, till
a stranger coming into my home, made
such an acknowledgment of my sin i'm
possible."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

burned over, and where in between
the charred stumps few handfuls of
wheat have been planted and now
wave a golden brown against the
black
Wonderful Cloud Forest.
And next the Cloud forest! 1t is
seldom that the travellers anticipation
of any much-hera1ded natural wonder
is realized when he is brought face
to face with 1t. Usually he feels a
tinge Of disappointment and follows
it by a close scrutiny of the object
before him in search of the grandeur
depicted, but not SO with the Cloud
forest. According to Mr.. Allen 1t sur
passes ones dreams of tropical lux
uriance. It Is here rather than in the
lowland jungle that nature outdoes her
self and crowds every available inch
with moss and fern and orchid. Here
every twig is a garden and the moss
laden branches so gigantic that they
throw more shade than the leaves of
the trees themselves. Giant branches
hang to the ground from the hori-
zontal branches of the larger trees
and in turn are so heavily laden with
moss and epiphytes that they form an
almost solid wall and present the ap-
pearance of a hollow tree trunk Is or
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

NJ S'fNSb< lSpDCI
ton, and as far as could be seen with
binoculars the brown sedges and the
gray frailejons covered the rocks even
up to the very edge of the snow. All
about them the strange mulleinlike
frailejons, as the native call them.
stood up on their pedestals. ten or
even fifteen feet in height in sheltered
spots; down among the sedges were
many lesser plants similar to our
North American species - gentians,
composites, hoary lupine. butter.
cup, a yellow sorrel, almost Identical
with those Of the United States.
Birds also, several of which proved
to be new to science, were numerous.
but all were of dull colors and re-
minded them in their habits of the
open-country birds of northern Unit
ed States. A goldf1nch hovered above
the frailejons; gray f1ycatcher ran
the air, much like the northern horned
larks; an ovenbird flew up ahead Of
them resembling meadow lark: a
marsh wren scolded from the rank
sedges; and almost from under their
horses hoofs one of the large An
dean snipes sprang into the air with
characteristic hleat and went zig
zaging away.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

20 feet in diameter. One should pass
through this forest during the rainy
season to form true conception Of
its richness, though even during the
dryest months the variety and abun.
dance of plant life covering every
trunk and branch are beyond belief
The great forest, occasionally inter
rupted by clearings, continues for
many hours Of travel up the mountain
from 5000 to about 10000 feet, where
a sudden change occurs. The trees
become dwarfed, their leaves small
and thick, heavily chitinized or COW
cred with thick down, and remind one
of the vegetation about our northern
bogs with their Andromeda and Lab
rador tea. Here, too, the ground in
places is covered with dense mat Of
sphagnum, dotted with dwarf blueber-
ries and cranberries and similar plants
which remind one Of home
Out Upon the Paramo.
A cool breeze greets the traveller.
sky appears in place Of the great
dome Of green, and suddenly he steps
out upon the open paramo. He has
been travelling through the densest of
forests, seeing but few PAGES along
the trail and only few rods into the
vegetation on either side: he has
grown nearsighted, and even the
smallest contours of the landscape
have been concealed, by the dense for
est cover. Suddenly there is thrown
before his vision a whole world Of
mountains AS far as he can see In
all directions, save behind him, ridge
piles upon ridge in never-ending series
until they fuse in one mighty crest
which pierces the clouds with its
snow-capped crown. This Is the para
mo of Santa Isabel.
At this point the party dismounted
and led their horses along the narrow
ridge. They looked in vain for the
jagged peaks that are so characteris-
tic of our northern frost-made noun
tains. Here even the vertical cliffs
did not seem entirely without vegeta-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
ACCOUNTING FOR OLD MAIDS
Various Reasons Why Girls Of Home
burg Are Living Lives at
Single siessedness.

They say there are one hundred
thousand old maids in Massachusetts,.
II bet that's Just about The number
of Massachusetts, young men who have
gone West or somewhere, and haven't
remembered the things they said ut
parting as we'll as the girls did
We've got plenty Of girls in Home
burg who are getting intimately az;
quainted with the thirties-tine girfs,
still pretty, bright and keeping up
with the world. Young men come into
town and do their best to get on q
thou-beside-me" footing, but somehow
the girls don't seem to marry At the.
root of almost every case there's an
old Homeburg boy. Maybe he's m. <
ing good somewhere, and they're both
waiting until he does. Maybe he isn't
making good and is too proud to ask
her to wait Maybe she's waiting
aIoue-because some other girl vas
handler In the new place. And maybe
il p-arn't rasa nf wait At a H. only the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

ing shoes. No one needs to be as
sured Of the smart appearance of such
a toilette for the promenade.
But an equally pleasing picture pre-
sents itself if one imagines the coat
worn for travelling. The hat might
be a Panama or small outing shape,
the shoes have tops of tan-colored
cloth, and the dress be a plain suspen
der model worn with pongee shirt
waist. The coat would fit in and com.
plete a perfect outfit for the journey.
These coats are all cut on f1aring
lines, but they vary somewhat in
length. Pockets and buttons are fea
tured in their finishing. There is
great variety of styles in collars, and
in the covert models buttons, collars
and cuffs are usually all of the cloth.
IN selecting coat for general wear
it is necessary to make sure that the
material has been shrunk or is water
proofed,
JULIA BOTToMLEY,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

self-hatred and secret mmoiation can
never undo the deed of an infuriated
moment Eternity may console. but it
can never make me innocent of the
blood of my hearts brother.
We had had our usual Wordy disa-
greement over some petty subject in
which he was no nearer wrong nor |
any nearer right than we had been
many times before; but for some rea-
son l found it harder to pardon him.
For the first time in our long ac-
quaintance, l let Algernon Etheridge
leave me. without any attempt at con-
ciliation.
If only l had halted there! If, at
sight of my empty study. | had not
conceived the mad notion of waylaying
him at the bridge for the hand-shake
l missed, might have been a happy
man now. and Oliver-But why dwell
upon these might-have-beens! What
happened was this:
Disturbed in mind. and finding N.Y.
self alone in the house. Oliver having
evidently gone out while we two we're
disputing, I decided to follow out the
impulse l have mentioned. Leaving
by the rear, went down the lane to
the path which serves as a short cut
to the bridge.
That I did this unseen by anybody
is not so strange when you consider
the hour, and how the only person
then living in the lane was. in all
probability. in her kitchen. It would
have been better for me, little as
might have recognized it at the time.
had she been where she could have
witnessed both my going and coming
and faced me with the fact.
John Scoville, in his statement. says
that after giving up his search for his
little girl he wandered up the ravine
before taking the path back which led
him through Dark Hollow. This was
false, as we'll as the story he told Of
leaving his stick by the chestnut tree
in the gully at foot Of Ostrander lane.
For l was on the spot. and / know
the route by which he reached Dark
Hollow and also through whose agency
the stick came to be there.
Read and learn with what tricks the
devil beguiles us men.
was descending this path, heavily
shadowed, as you know, by a skirting
of closely growing trees and bushes.
when just where it dips into the Hol-
low, heard the sound of hasty foot
come crashing up through the under
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
BaIzac's Hatred of Tobacco.

Perhaps no celebrated author was
more hostile toward tobacco than
Balzac. 1t is true that Lamartine
speaks of the novelist's teeth as black
ened by cigar smoke, but Lamartile
was not intimate with Balzac. Gau-
tier on the other hand knew him we'll
and wrote eloquently about his hatred
of tobacco. Balzac's ruling passion
was coffee, which injured him and
perhaps killed him. In some of his
novels he mathematics tobacco
When he allows some of his characters
to smoke there is yelled contempt CAS-
for De Marsay. he was busted In
smoking his cigars"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

more forcibly and more favorably than
any other recently launched. Some
persons have gone so far as to have
their hair bobbed at each side, in Or
der to adopt the new style, but hair
dressers manage to achieve the right
effect without resorting to so extreme
a measure. If the hair is not too long
it can be rolled and turned under at
the sides. It is coiled at the back,
rather fat to the head.
Do not imagine that the Cleopatra
band is confined to the use of youth
ful maids. 1t looks unusually we'll
with those styles of hairdressing in
which the middle part in the hair is
used and lends it's brilliance to many
a stately coiffure that matrons af'
feet.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
Wanted "NIee, Dirty Mother"

When Edward was five years old he
played with boy named Adolph. One
muddy day they tried to, run across
my clean kitchen floor TO get ball.
chased them out snaag afterwards
heard them talking out on the porch.
Adolph said. MY mother doesn't care
i. run across the kitchen floor" AT
ter d long silence heard Edward say.
Il wish | had a nice, dirty mother like
yours - Exchange.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

boy who went away looked better to
some Homeburg girl than any of those
who stayed at home.
There's Carrie Moore. She's our
prize maid and dresses like a mail
sack full of government seeds, but
they say she was the prettiest girl in
HDmeburg when young Cyrus McCord
Tett1to Chicago to carve out his fu-
ture so that he could come home and
marry her. But Cyrus didn't carve
Gut his future. He married 1t instead.
and Carrie Is almost sixty now. living
alone and getting peculiar. like so
many of our lonely old folks do
George Fitch in the American Maga-
zine
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
Butterfly Family,

The butterfly is one of the higher of
the myriad species of what are called
moths, naturalists giving to the whole
family the name OF lepidoptera. The
naturalist who simply studies the won
ders and mysteries of nature cares
nothing for learned names for varied
genii. He glories in the fact that
while gentle snow fakes fell a butter
fly orange yellow, fitted noiselessly
within hearing of the complainings Of
liens, tigers, bears and hyenas, and
the chattering of monkeys, all stolen
from their native trees and jungles to
afford entertainment for the children
of men, futtered up and down and
around as if seeking the flower which
US yet bloomed not.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
Scarfs Match Hangings.

The scarfs for the furniture of your
room may be made to match the
hangings by cutting out single mo-
tifs of cretonne and applying them
to the scarf ends. Place them on
the material in an attractive way and
baste. They can eith~r be sewed with
an over-and-over stitch around the
edge or buttonhole in place. If. how.
ever, you wish a quicker method, ma.
chine stitch close to the edge around
the entire motif.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
He Was 2 Suffarer

Madam said the tattered and torn
supplicant to the benevolent lady who
answered his timid rap at the door,
have you any old clothes you can
spare for an unfortunate victim Of
the European WARP" 81 think | have,
my poor man; but how does this hap
pen? You cannot have been in this
war. surely" mo, madam" humbly
replied the sufferer; but my wife has
sent all nv clothes to the Bslgians-"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
The CoiHure.

Before we choose our hat or toque
We must make sure of our hair. The
attest mode seems to be to hide the
ears; the forehead is seen. The out
line is simple, but it is trying to any
but the young and good looking. A
thin face, and one on which the trials
If life have set their mark. is helped
a good deal by the soft curls on the
forehead.
Now so many abjure any waving or
surls. and trust to the hair as nature
naie IT but assisted by art where
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
Select Your Master.

You cannot serve two masters; you
must serve one or the other. If your
work is tie first with you and your
fee second, work is your master and
tie Lord OF: work, who is God But
if your feesah Grst with you and
your work sseohd. fee is your mas
ter. audi tEsSsFd of fee, who is the
aetil.- FusaaFS
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

fire at Eleventh and Cooper streets.
Fighting a fire at the Graves varnisi1
plant on another day when he just
happened around. he sustained con-
cussion of the brain when struck by
a falling cornice.
Still it's all il the game" said ths
captain, forcing smile.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
1y EW persons who live in the
. temperate zone are aware of
y the fact that there is quite

II temperate zone are aware OF
the fact that there is quite a
III large section of country in trop-
ical America, even at the Equa-
tor which Is land of sleet and storm
during the greater part of the year,
where many Of the trails are fire.
quently closed to men and beasts at
tempting to cross are frozen to death.
Such region is the Andean paramo,
in the Republic of Colombia.
Three years ago DR.. Arthur A. Allen
explored that elevated land in search
Of bird specimens, and he has de.
scribed 1t In the American Museum
Journal. The following paragra phs.
says the Bulletin of the Pan Ameri.
can Union, embody substantially the
more important features of Doctor
Aliens interesting account:
The paramo of Santa Isabel lies
about two days. journey from Solento,
the largest town on the Quindio trail,
which crosses the central Andes, and
on clear days, especially at dusk, can
be seen at several points rising above
the forest-capped ridges to an alti.
tude between 10000 and 1900 feet.
Beyond it and little to the east lies
the paramo of Ruis, and, most mag
nificent of all, Nevada del Tolima,
with It's crown Of crystal snow gleam.
ing in the rays Of the setting sun.
One morning in early September
the naturalists slung their packs and
started for the paramo of Santa Isa-
bel. From Solento the trail to the
paramo leads first down into the b.
quia valley and then follows the
rivers meandering course through
groves of splendid palms nearly to its
source, when it turns abruptly and
begins steep ascent Of the mountain
side. The palm trees, in scattered
groves, continue to nearly 5000 feet,
where the trail begins to zigzag
through some half-cleared country,
where the trees have been felled and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
O"i%e a Shock,

He-"What made you seem SO up
set the day We became engaged? You
knew | was going to propose, didn't
you?" She-"Oh. yes. But l had no
idea ! was going 10 accept YOU.
Boston Transcript
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07

the tresses we're not abundant enough.
Many fasten the hair on the top of the
head with a handsome comb. Some
times one solitary lock falls in the cen.
ter of the forehead; this suits young
and small features.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-05-07
0ufip1 Collars

Whether the blouse is of silk, tulle
or crepe, the collars are shaped like
the collar on a mans outing shirt and
are held together in front with bow,
linked buttons or long bar pin.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-08
SHOULD SHOW PATRIOTISM
Veteran Thinks the Boys and Girls
Not Well Taught.
Editor OF The Banner:

Editor OF The Banner:
While visiting the playground Mon
day, July 5, to see the exercises of
the civic league, one thing that took
my eye and made me feel badly was
think that when The Star Spangled
Banner" was being played and sung
so nicely by Mrs. Lena Downs that
there wasn't more loyalty and en-
thusiasm shown our Flag.
took particular notice that there
was only one true American in the
crowd and he removed his hat while
same was being played. have also
noticed that the school children. who
happened to be sitting while same is
being played do not stand up:
1t seems that school children, at
least, should be taught the love of
our Red, White and Blue
being discharged soldier prob
ably would notice this more than
any one else and hope in the near fu.
ture to see more love shown the
flag we all love.
Hoping you will publish this in
the Banner. | beg to remain
Frank S. Russell.