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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
HOW NOBEL MADE DISCOVERY
Cut Finger Caused Him to Find Way
of Handling Nitroglycerin
With Safety.

When that very dangerous explosive,
nitroglycerin, was first invented ex-
traordinary precautions had to be TAX
Ell to prevent accidents while the sub
stance was being handled, but, not
withstanding this, so many disasters
occurred that there seemed to be
strong probabilities that its manufac-
ture and use would have to be pro-
hibited, says an English paper.
After several governments had actu-
ally interdicted it's use, however.
means were discovered by which this
powerful explosive could be used with
minimum Of danger to those who
handled it.
One of the methods employed was to
convert the nitroglycerin into dyna-
mite by it's absorption in the infusorial
earth known as kieselguhr. This
process, however, involved reduction
of the explosive power of the nitro
glycerin and explosives chemists per
sisted in their researches to find some
substance which, when added to nitro
glycerin, would render it safe for han
ding without diminishing its explosive
force.
One of these chemists was Nobel.
1t is on record that one day while No
bel was at work in his laboratory he
cut his finger, and in order to stop
the bleeding he painted some collodion
"a liquid preparation akin to guncot-
tom over the cut to form protective
artificial skin.
Having done this, he poured some Of
the collodion, by way of an experiment,
into a vessel containing nitroglycerin,
when he noticed that the two sub
stances mixed and formed a jellylike
mass.
He at once set to work to investi-
gate this substance, and the outcome
of these experiments was blasting gel
attn, mixture containing 80 per cent
of nitroglycerin and 10 per cent of
soluble guncotton. Thus, as a result
of very trivial occurrence. that vio-
lent explosive, blasting gelatin, was
discovered.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

early, spent nearly All hour recon-
structing his decorative scheme. pat.
ting and pulling it into something
more careless, and more agreeable to
her own sense of beauty.
For the occasion Mr.. Smallish had
also decorated himself. In his hired
evening suit he looked, if possible, a
bit moro pathetic than usual.
Flodie had arrayed herself for the
evening with simplicity and artful
grace. She wore white MULE, which
happily escaping the schoolgirl touch
daringly showed her neck to admirable
advantage, Flodie's hair disclosed
perhaps, more of her attentive care
She had caught that charm of care
less luXuriance for which clever WON.
en- strive. Hall Bonistelle's first glance
told her that she had succeeded. She
answered his explanatory compli'
ments with a shrug.
you watt" he announced, shaking
his finger at her, lust as soon as
have it out with those three women
I'm coming after you! Remember
that! I've got to get rid Of them some
way, Lord knows how, but I'll do it.
And then. Flodie Fisher, It'll be your
turn! Mark my words! / intend to
marry you up before midnight"
you WON'T" she exclaimed and
slammed the door in his face. When
she came out, a few minutes later, she
found him in the studio, frowning.
"Confound it," he said, I'm all up
a tree without my watch! I've got to
keep track of the time tonight, though;
it's important. l want to know how
long I've got"
There's the clock" said Flodie,
cant you look at that occasionally?
Il wonder how near right it is?" he
asked. Its been losing time lately.
hasn't it,"
"Shall l ring up Central and ask?"
"Will you, please? Thanks" Hall
walked to the tall grandfather's clock
in the corner and opened the door,
while Flodie went into the office.
After a moment, she called out,
"Ten twenty-five. Mr.. Bonistelle."
Lord, it is awfully slow, isn't it.
All right" Hall put the minute hand
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Just What She Wanted,

The much-traveled young man had
just returned from foreign climes, and
of course he must entertain his rich
old aunt with whom he was in favor)
with stories of the wonderful sights
he had seen. Yes" he said, in the
course of his remarks, there are some
spectacles that can never be forgot
ten" Dear me-" exclaimed the alb
sent-minded old lady; 81 DO wish you
would get me pair of them, John"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

gle. Their enlightenment, such as
there is of it. is only initiative. For
instance, an election is but the old
tribal war cry, attended by scenes of
violence. Negroes fell heir to magnif1-
cent plantations after the expulsion of
their French masters. But they show
a poor accounting for their steward
ship. They have squandered their
subsistence in civil war and the lux
ury of sluggish ease. A family here
and there camps in the wilderness, liv-
ing on coffee that grows wild, picking
the fruits on every side, and perhaps
growing few yams. Should man
aspire to what he could call farm, he
would have to leave 1t for military
service, or perhaps see it ruined by
ravaging hordes of armed politicians.
Consequently, the vast natural re-
sources of the country are not ex-
plotted. The island has been called
the richest of all the West Indies.
Anything that is planted will grow
and yield crop after crop the same
year. The hills are covered with for
ests of fine wood practically un-
touched. Cotton might one day mean
great wealth for Haiti, but its an
nual export now does not exceed
few thousand tons.
White Mans Influence Resented.
But should a foreigner attempt any
thing for the development or uplifting
of Haiti, he is fretted by obstacles at
every turn. The negroes have wanted
nothing of the white man. They are
absurdly jealous, absurdly suspicious.
The cost of the white mans absence
is misery, but Haiti chooses to pay 1t.
A fair-sized transport, circling the
coast, could take away every foreign
er in the country They number scarce
ly 500, mostly Germans. The negroes
number about million and half.
At every turn, the traveller is re-
minded of primeval savagery. Ore
need only see the stevedores, at Port
au Prince. pounce upon the bones that
are thrown down to them by sailors.
They are naked to the waist, and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

MaIayan Rubber Industry.

Since 1897 developments in the rub
Der industry in Malay have been enor-
nous. In 1897 about 3p acres were
planted to rubber. YeAf after year
more jungle was cleared and the acre
age increased rapidly. A tremendous
development was felt if 1906, De-
mand for rubber the world over taxed
the supply and spectators rushed to
put land under cultivation. 1t is stated
that in that year alone 10000 acres
were alienated for rubber cultivation,
In 1912 there were 621 ,621 acres under
rubber, and at the end of 1912 there
acres in extent, the average yield pes
acre being 260 pounds.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

are evidences of suspicion and hatred.
The island is a land of decay.
The boards of the houses are cracked
and rotting. There are negroes in
rags everywhere, lazily shuffiing
about, doing nothing. What is pic
turesque is of dirt. There is no ma
tional dress, no distinctive local color
The impression one gets is of a
coon hollow" such as the slums of
our southern cities might offer. But
the lightheartedness of our own dar-
kies is missing One feels that the
spirit has been taken out of these
Haitians. The sun glares bright and
hot, yet there is heavy cloud that
depresses. When voices are raised,
they are rarely mirthful, but high
strung, quarrelsome, in peevish
strain.
Not Far From Savasery.
Without the white man, the blacks
have been sinking gradually to their
original savagery of the African jun
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

Jointly an 1SldnQ comprising
roughly about $4,000 square
miles, and having a total pop
ulation of nearly 100000.
Haiti has nearly the population of
Santo Domingo, but only little more
than half it's area.
For 100 years Haiti and for half
that period Santo Domingo have been
a cause of continual anxiety to the
United States. Since gaining their
independence both have been in
state of constant upheaval and blood
shed as a result of practically un-
broken succession of revolutions.
The story of Haiti is a story of mis-
cry. The characters are childish ne
groes, who play at dignity, spill blood
and do no work. In natural advan-
tages, Haiti is land of fertile opu-
lence, but what is human there is de-
based and wretched.
A race of simple children pretend
there at being kings and emperors and
pr >sidents. All to themselves, they
possess part of a wonderful island,
where once they were slaves. They
had the entire island at first, but their
quarreling gashed an ugly frontier
across, marking off Santo Domingo,
and now the sets of warning factions
are multiplied
The fairy country of richly wooded
hills, where these children play at gov
ernment, is land of palms, land of
dreams and Incidence. The people of
the island own lazy Africa for moth
er. They are the creatures of dalli-
ance, they are good-natured, and quick
to laugh, showing their white teeth
and the whites of their eyes.
But they also have the thoughtless
cruelty of children. In spite of their
natural slothfulness they rage under
their tropic sun with the energy of
bioodthirsty beasts, wrecking their
fiowery paradise. They suspect the
white man, fearing return to slavery,
and they carry on constant political
feuds with each other. On all sides
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
"Great Man" of England.

The great, fat man of England,
Daniel Lambert, was born in st. Mar
garet, Leicester, on March 13, 1910,
and died in Stamford, on June Il,
1909. He was feet II inches in
height. and at the age of twenty-three
weighed 44S pounds. He constantly
Increased in flesh until the time of his
last illness. when he weighed 739
pounds. Around the thigh he meas
ured 81 inches, and 8 feet 4 inches
around the body. His coffin was 8
feet 4 inches in length, with the ex-
traordinary width of feet 4 inches,
and 9 feet inches in depth. A win
dow and part of the wall of the house
had to be taken out to allow its exit.
A gradual slope was made in the
earth leading to the grave, so that
the coffin could be permitted to de-
scend on rollers to it's final resting
place.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Spider Crochet.

A myriad of spider webs glowing in
all the colors of the rainbow. just as
when the early morning sun strikes
the colors from the dew! And it is
done from one yarn variegated in hue
ike the yarns which the children use
,or the horse lines which they knit on
he little red spOols. The crochet IT
self is done in d very loose, weblike
stitch, which so arranges itself to the
different colors Of the yarn as they
come in turn that the effect is that
OIL ssas3 aif5 sFe4t foi<srsS WsAs STRIVING
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

top edge of the lace down about all
inch and half, to form a standing
ruffle. When this flounce has been set
about the waist, small chiffon roses in
light pink, blue and yellow with pale
green chiffon leaves, are to be set
over it in a row, with one color fol-
lowing another. These roses are i'm
portant and the negligee would lose
character without them.
A width of three or four inches is
cut from the top of a length of lace
to form the ruffle for the neck and
front of the body. The remainder of
this length will make the ruff1es that
are set on to the ends of the sleeves.
The narrow, standing ruffle makes a
heading and a single chiffon rose in
pink, with its little, pale green leaves,
is set at the top of each ruffie against
the net.
The negligee is worn with cap to
match 1t has a small lace plaque at
the center of the crown. A puff of
crepe is gathered to this and edged
with lace 1t is drawn up about the
face on an elastic band few very
small chiffon roses are set with bows
of narrow satin ribbon in the f1ounce
of lace that falls about the face.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Mar Influences Paris Veil StxIes

The war veil is the latest freak o1
fashion in Paris. Though quite gro
tesque in appearance, it is popular in
the sense that it expresses the patriot
ism of the women.
The two designs most frequently
seen are those of black cannon wo-
ven in the mesh Just where it rests on
the cheek, and beauty spot" woven
to the shape of the Red Cross, but
done in white on a black background.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
DRUGS HAVE AN ATTRACTION
Remarkable How Many People win
Take Almost Any Remedy That
Is Offered to Them.

A very interesting phase of human
psycholog in its relation to the taking
of drugs is illustrated by series of
poisoning cases in the middle West.
number of persons received free sam
pies" of a remedy through the mails
and quite a few of the recipients pro-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

small tucks. These arc to be replaced.
as the cold weather comes on, by
gowns of canton flannel, made long.
The small boys pajamas hardly need
description. They are made of light
cotton materials. The pants are
fastened at the waist with tape
which is run through hem in the
top. They are as plain as can be and
so is the coat. This is usually bound
with braid and provided with a pock
ct at one side. The same pattern ls
used for the canton flannel pajamas
used in cold weather.
For the comfort of little ones who
sleep in cold rooms and are liable to
kick their feet from under cover, bed
shoes of canton flannel or Of elder
down are recommended. They &C
easily made and easily laundered an.
they are most comforting.
There are numbers Of patterns for
little nightdresses-the simplest ones
are the best. For the little boy, pa
jamas, like those shown in the pic.
ture. cannot be improved upon.
L.. to tho sin,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Work for CrippIed Soldiers

one form which Germanys provt-
sion for the employment Of crippled
soldiers is taking is the purchase of
two large landed estates in the neigh
borhood OF Magdeburg, where each
man will have a plot of ground for
growing vegetables and fruit. which
can be easily disposed of in the
Magdeburg market. One estate cost
s375 900, and the other about the sauna
price.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
heavy Guard for Moroan's place

]. P. Morgan's estate at Glen Cove
Is still under guard and is likely to be
until the end of the war Three men
are on duty by day and four by night.
One is on post at the bridge connect
ing East island with the mainland, and
not only every traveller, but every
package that passes can do so only
after having been subjected to his
scrutiny. The others patrol the
beaches
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

them with fatal suits
There are a great many persons who
or recommended to them. Free sam
pies of drugs of which the recipients
know next to nothing are swallowed
in large quantities every day in this
country. 1t seems impossible, but it
is true.
When a colored maid of all work
presents herself to a doctor with a
large bottle of medicine to ask him
whether he thinks there is anything
the matter with her for which that
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Fish Statistics.

Some interesting fishery statistics
relating to the seas west of Norway
we're presented in a lecture by DR..
John Hort, the wellknown Norwegian
fishery expert. The work of tagging
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
CHAPTER Xl.

Flodie's mind having been, in the
afternoon, thus somewhat diverted
from preparations for the party. the
decorations of the studio had devolved
on the untutored taste of Alfred Small
lish. Poor Alfred. Flodie. arriving
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

together with invisible threads. A
lovely light dressing sacQue of this
spider crochet is mounted over a lin,
ing of softest gray silk, and the re-
suit is altogether charming. \ white
the same spider Webbing crocheted in
silk covering its entire top.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Raising Money for Schools.

In single year 500 school leagues
in Virginia. with a memberGhip of
nearly $4,000 persons, raised $4,000
for thair sahaals.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

fish, setting them free, and recording
the time and place of subsequent cap
ture has now been in progress for
number of years and has given most
valuable information as to the migra-
tion of fish and as to the ratio of the
number of fish available. This ratio
is about 1 to 10 in the case of tho
common food fishes. Attention has
also been paid to the age and growth
of fishes, as indicated by annual rings
On their scales, and it has been
learned, among other things. that fish
make faster growth in some years
than in others, regardless of their in
dividual ages.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

their black bodies glisten as they tum.
BILE over one another in their barges,
fighting and scratching, trying to get
at a bone Their screeching is hid.
eous, and when one of them clutches
the prize and tears the flesh with his
teeth, until another snatches it away,
one thinks with disgust of unclean
beasts.
Perhaps one Haitian in twenty can
read and write. The educational sys-
TEN is a farce Yet, the inhabitants
are usually devout. If a village is on
fire tone of the pleasing pastimes of
warning factions), the negroes will
leave their huts to burn and toll fran
tically to save the church.
The lack of public works is pitia-
BILE. Naked children, and grown ones,
too, loll like swine in the ditch water
of the public streets The only cleo
trio lighting in the country is ti32t in
the presidents palace. In all Haiti
there is not an Illuminated street.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

Extensive gypsum deposits have
been discovered in British Columbia.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

medicine might be good it seems a
joke. Such things have been known
to happen more than once and there
are a large number of persons sup
posed to be far above the colored
maid in mentality, and still more in
common sense who present the same
attitude of mind toward free samples
OF medicine that may come into their
hands. Could anything be more fool-
ish?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

There is no reason to doubt the sim
cerity Of woman who voluntarily
wears a Salvation army bonnet.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17
Sibulous Monkey.

The latest addition to the New York
Central Park zoo, a monkey named
Sally, was placed in the primate house
this week, having been taken there for
Imprisonment, according to Head
Keeper Snyder, because Of an appetite
for alcoholic drinks which made her
dangerous to the business Of her mis-
tress' husband-operating a beer gar
den in North Bergen. n. J.
Sally fell into evil ways about
year ago. Since then she has on fire.
quent occasions broken into the bar
and refreshed herself. The night be-
fore Memorial day, when all was ready
for the holiday rush, Sally went too
far. The preparations Of her owners
husband were sadly disarrayed and
there was a large bill for broken glass.
Then the husband put his foot down
firmly. Hence the gift to the ZOO
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-09-17

. ~ Att and Santo Domingo share
jointly an island comprising
roughly about $4,000 square
miles, and having a total pop
:. - 1llatinn of naarlU 0l0 ono
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-14
WASHINGTON WIGWAGS
By
GEORGE A.. MARTIN

Mr.. Charge Benson at Caracas, Ven
eZula, reports a new internal tax OF
liquors. My goodness, aren't they ia
king awful chances on collecting
when they wait til liquor. gets tina
far?
What lnolasses the Cubans dom
consume they feed to the cattle; ant
what they don't feed the cattle they
use i'll making roads. Very conven-
lent arrangement. If Bessie or the
boys get hungry between meals they
can eat the turnpike.
At first We thought those Cuban AL
pargatas' the Commerce Department
has been yelping about must be Cub
an cops because they were described
and soul of hemp" However, they
are just shoes.
Jitney competition has lambaisted
the everlasting dividends out of the
British Columbia streetcar systems,
according to Mr.. Consul General
Mansfield at Vancouver.
Senator Guy Galloway Gumble, from
the State of Mind, says he's glad to
note that Jeweler Hohenzollern of
Berlin has quit trying to set The
Gem of the Ocean in an Iron Ring.
American tourists in Switzerland,
reports Mr.. Vice Consul Williams,
have been forking over a hundred mil
lion dollars year to Mr.. and Mrs.
Swiss for the privilege of climbing
hill to stand behind lake and look
at the sun. Furthermore, the lavish
Holsters sent 100000 worth of mes
sages about it, used up 100000 worth
of telephone time discussing it at
long range, mailed $1,0OO,0O0 worth of
letters giving details, rode away
$44, O00,0 900 worth of railroad tickets
getting to and from and travelling
around to brag about it; kept up the
Swiss dividends on 1856 hotels worth |
1927, 100000 and hired $4,000 servants |
to stand around and take $5,6O0,O00 I
worth of tips and whatever else they |
could lay their hands on. Looks as
though Mr. and Mrs. Swiss saw AM
erica first"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-14
MOSCOW MOUNTAIN

Mrs. Ravens and family have NOV
ed to Moscow 1t is understood that
Mr.. Clifton Haven of Avon has rented
her farm.
Mrs. Chas. Towne is visiting in
Troy.
Mrs. Lillibridge of Moscow is Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. Martin
Mickey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ross of Little
Potlatch, visited Sunday with John
Carvers.
Miss Gertrude Traaen of Addy, Wn.,
who formerly lived here, is visiting
with Mrs. T. Estes of Estes Station.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-14
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-14

The young peoples society of the
Christian church wish to announce
the first of their series of parties to
be given Saturday night, September
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-14

25th, at the church. Everyone is in
vited. ROOT
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