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enough to try to find out. So he would
continue to scowl over his arithmetic,
ana wish the teacher wouldn't give
such hard lessons. And when the long
all about figures and sums until after
ne discovered Bob White and his fam
Ivy helping to rid the garden Of bugs
and worms and seeds Of weeds. After
ne discovered them he went down to
the garden every day to watch them.
They soon found out that he wouldn't
hurt them. and. after that, they lust
paid no attention to him at all, but
went right on with their business all
about him. and that business was the
nlling- OF their stomachs with seeds
and worms and bugs. One day Bob
White ate twelve caterpillars while
Farmer Browns Boy was watching
MIN. HE got out stubby pencil and
scrap Of paper.
IT every ono of those Bob whites
eats. twelve of those horrid worms at
one meal that would be-let me
see He wrinkled his brows. There
are Bob and Mrs Bob and fifteen young
Bobs. and that makes seventeen. Now.
II each eats twelve worms that will
IdAke twelve times seventeen" He put
dorm the figures on his bit of paper
a43worked' over them for q few min
ufNs. That makes 20I caterpillars for
month of thirty days they would eat
$40 II they only ate one meal a day.
But they eat ever SO many meals a day.
and that means" He stopped to
stare at, the figures on a bit OF paper
With seyestr round with wonder. Then he
whistled a little low whistle of sheer
aseDnfAhment. mo wonder I've got a
good garden when those fellows are at
work in IT. he exclaimed.
Then he sat down to watch Mrs. Bob
catching, cabbage butterflies. which he
knew were laying the eggs which
would hatch out into the worms that
spoiled the cabbages. He counted tho
number she caught while she was in
sight. He did the same thing with an
other of the Bob Whites. who was
catching cucumber beetles. and with
another who was hunting grasshop-
pers. Then he did some more fgur-
ing on that bit of paper. When he had
finished he got up and went straight
! down to the cornfield, where Farmer
Brown was at work.
Il know now what you meant when
you used to tell me that figures talk
said he. why. they've told me more
than l ever dreamed. They've told me
that the Bob Whites are the best
friends we've got. and that the reason
that we've got the best garden any
where around is just because they
have made it SO. Why, those little
brown birds are actually making
money for us, and we never guessed
it,"
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To Ask Bids on Submarines.

Bids for two big sea-going subma-
rines authorized by Congress will be
called for next month. The specifca-
lions will provide for steam turbines to
develop a surface speed of twenty-five
knots an hour. The vessels will be sew
eral hundred tons larger than the Schley,
now building, which will register 1000
tons displacement submerged, or twice
the tonnage of any submarine now in
commission. The Schley will have oil
engines to drive her at the rate of
twenty knots an hour. The sea- going
submarines will have a fuel capacity
of 10000 miles or more.
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Little 0prle
20 Bedtime
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1918. By J. @. Lloyd,
A Little Lesson in Arithmetic.
Don't say You hate arithmetic"
And find 1t dull and dry.
You'll fnd 1t most astonishing
II YOU sincerely fry

Farmer Browns boy used to feel that
way, but he doesn't any more. He
never could see any use in puxzling
over sums in school. He said that there
wasn't anything interesting in It; moth
ing but hard work. He used to COM
plain about 1t at home. Farmer Brown
would listen while. then he would
say: II you live long enough, my son.
You will find that figures talk. and that
they tell the most wonderful things"
There was always a twinkle in his
eyes when he said this.
Now, of course. Farmer Browns Boy
knew that his father didn't mean tina j.
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The Panama Canal at Work.
VIII.-PopuIar Hospitals.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

ANCON, October 2.-The hospital service
Is one department Of the Panama canal
government which is doing a great work
in the promotion of pan-American spirit.
This is not to say that other depart
ments Of the canal government are not
doing their share in building up the
friendship between Uncle Sam and Latin
America but 1t cannot be overlooked or
kdSsIsA-4hat there has been much friction
and some bad feeling. This was in
evitable. The Panamans. people Of
traditions centuries old, who had lived
their lives in the same way ever since
the Spaniards crossed the ocean. sud
denly found the greatest industrial
project in the world pitched down among
them. 1t could not be expected that they
would instantly appreciate the blessings
and opportunities it brought-that will
fall to future generations. For the pres
ent, change and confusion and competi-
ton are what the canal has meant to
many of the isthmian people.
Many of them have not even appreci-
ated the determination of the tropical
diseases. They assert that they were i'm
mune to these, and that sanitation to
them has meant nothing but immigration,
which they do not desire.
Toward the hospitals their attitude Is
different, as, indeed. it must be. For
merly. the aristocrats of all Latin Amer
lea journeyed to Europe when in need of
surgical skill. Both the trip and the
treatment were fearfully expensive, while
the delay often meant death. AS for
the poorer classes, when the swift dis
eases of the tropics fell upon them they
simply lay down in their huts and waited.
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NO WONDER I'VE GOT A GOOD
GARDEN WHEN THOSE FELLOWS
ARE AT WORK IN IT" HE EX-
CLAIMED.
figures could speak right out when he
said they could talk. OF course not.
But he never could understand Just what
he did mean. and he wasn't interested
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Now in the beautifully situated hos
pital at Ancon, which has every equipment
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Even the experiment of letting leper:
marry has been tried. 1t is a well es'
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Lepers for a Time
Allowed to Marry.

-
it's parents Immediately after birth it
will not develop the disease. At the
Panama colony, however, matrimony
had to be abolished, not for sanitary
reasons, but because of the intense
jealousy which sprang up between the
married and unmarried lepers. Those
who were married necessarily had to
have larger quarters and enjoyed other
advanta ges which could not be given
to single ones. This produced so much
ill-feelints in the little settlement of
outcasts that the officials reluctantly
abolished matrimony and instituted Il
rigid separation of the sexes.
There are now about fifty-fve lepers
| in the Panama lepor colony and they
are cared for by the health department
for the Panama government a 4 charge
of % cents day for each patient. The
need for maintaining this esta blish-
ment may be judged from the fact that
an old woman afflicted with leprosy was
found selling fruits and vegetable on a
corner in Panama City.
The maintaining Of this leper colony
has given the health officers most ex-
ceptional opportunity to study this
strange disease, which kills so slowly
but surely. Leprosy is a disease nearly
allied to consumption. 1t first attacks
the nerves and finally reaches the or
gans, when it becomes fatal SO far
lno successful remedy for the disease
has been found, but the health officers
at Panama believe they are on the road
to perfecting such cure. A treatment
for leprosy was developed in the Phil
IppineS which consisted chiefly in the
administration of chaulmoogra oil.
Physicians became hopeful that this
oil would prove specific for the disease
but it was found almost impossible be-
| cause of it's effect upon the digestion
of the patients. At the Panama Ieper
colony a method of administering the
oil has been worked out which causes
far less disturbance in the digestive
organs. One patient actually got well,
tific tests, and was removed from the
colony.
The insane asylum at Panama is con-
Quoted by the health department on
exactly the same terms as the leper
colony-that is, the republic is charged
rs cents day for each patient cared
for This institution has undoubtedly
relieved an immense amount of suffer-
ing. Dementia precox, a form of in
sanity affecting young people, is rather
common in Panama. 1t is attributed by
the doctors to the excessive drinking
of low grade of native rum. When
of these insane were found miserably
confined in insanitary jails. They are
| now well taken care of, and occasional
cures are effected.
In these ways Uncle Sam has brought
hope and new life to the sick in Pana-
ma, and it is probably by his works for
the afflicted, more than in any other
way, that he will cement his friendship
| with his southern neighbors
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There are two sorts of patriots. my
boy
yes. pa"
zone believes in getting his country
out of trouble, and the other believes
first in keeping 1t out Of trouble"
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WASHINGTON HOTELS.
HOTEL GRAFTON,
Conn. Ave. and De Sales St.
American Plan.
HARRINGTON MILLS,
Proprietor.
aulImRll' a'aaaA'' G1Iis7 avs
The Searchli8ht ; /; ss!Ssassi
BAHBMnIHluuuru. huxffIsfloN
An Electric Wringer.

An electric washer and Wringer,
which can be attached to stationary
wash tubs, Is a newly invented home
An operating handle gov
ems the action of the machine. and re-
versing is made easy by a four-point
attachment. All the mechanism Is in
closed. SO that the fingers cannot be
injured. and a safety pressure release
upon the wringer adapts it to different
thicknesses OF clothing.
The motor can be removed by loosen
ing a thumb screw and may be applied
to other household work. All the
mechanism Is of the worm and gear
type. operating upon ball bearings and
not easily put out of order.
Even II a man fights but one duel he
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Hospitals Are Open
to Rich and Poor.

Hospitals Are Open surgery n d
to Rich and Poor. the highest skill
that money can buy. any one may obtain
treatment at the most reasonable rates.
For patients in the wards to 81 day is
charged, and for those in rooms Sc a day.
There is an extra charge for operations,
but not for nursing or the attendance Of
a physician.
You may do many things to help a
man and still make him your enemy.
but when you find him sick and make
him well he must become your friend.
And that is just what Uncle Sans hos
pitfalls on the isthmus are doing. "a
tents are coming to them from all the
countries of South America and from
as far north as Mexico. The promising
son of an aristocratic Colombian fam
lily, for example, is stricken by some
mysterious disease which no one IN
that land understands. He is sinking
and may die in week. But a few days
now bring him to medical skill and ia
cilities as >fne as the world contains.
At Ancon Hospital his disease is quick
ly diagnosed and treated, he Is sent
home a well man and friend OF Uncle
Sam for life. His family will forever
be promoters of the feeling that is
steadily bringing all the Americas
closer together in trade and friendship:
Not less inspiring Is the thought OF
what high-class medical skill on the
isthmus means to the poorer classes.
for whom disease was formerly without
hope. For time the West Indian
blacks who came to dig the canal dis
trusted the hospitals and threw away
the Quinine given them by the sani-
tary Inspectors. but they have learned
that the white men effect wonderful
cures and have come to trust them.
This work of the hospitals among the
native peoples Is of Importance to the
interior of Panama sanitary conditions
are extremely bad. a sanitary inspec-
tor for the government of Panama re-
Gently made a trip through the interior
and found everywhere a lack of sew
age, combined with the use of shallow
wells, which was certain to breed dis
ease. Many of the people seemed to be
suffering from sort of chronic ma
laria. In town Of a thousand inhabi-
every day. and often three. The bell of
the old church was kept busy tolling
deaths.
Thus the Canal Zone is a sort of sani-
tary island in a sea of disease, and it
is extremely i'm
Is Sanitary Island portant that there
in Sea Of Disease. t sssua for re taxing
care of the diseased people who are
costantly coming into the zone.
The hospitals at Ancon and Colon are
now being converted into permanent
dollars. AS the population of the 18TH
nua In much smaller than in the con-
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AUTUMN RESORTS.
ATLANTIC CITY. n. J.
'TRAYMORE ,' n.s,s'' c IN

The Wiltshire sssIni y,e~ ave eap,a ses ESQ.,
private baths. elevator, sun parlor. etc. Special
fall rates. $3.50 up weekly; Amer. plan: no
extra for with running water: ~. 80 up
dly. Open all year. Booklet. SAMlFL ELLIS.
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struction days, the number of beds will
be reduced by half. The old frame
buildings, inclosed with screen, will be
replaced by the beautiful structures of
concrete, finished in a soft buff color.
with red tile roofs. The facilities Will
be as perfect as modern science can
make them.
In addition to the hospitals, the health
department at Panama has charge of
two other institutions-the leper colony
and the insane asylum.
When the health work was begun at
Panama it was found the government
was making feeble efforts to maintain
leper colony a few miles from the
city. Here a dozen lepers dwelt miser-
ably in huts, dependent for their exist
ence almost wholly upon the bounty OF
one wealthy man in the City of Pan
ANA. The sanitary officers realized that
they would have lepers to contend with
all the time, and that proper facilities
must be provided. Accordingly, lepeF
colony was established on a peninsula
almost as isolated as an island, eight
miles from Panama. 1t is one of the
most beautiful spots along the adja-
cent coast.
The lepers are provided with COM
Portable cottages, and each has his own
garden of flowers and vegetables. They
are allowed to work and are paid for
whatever they do. The white nurses.
man and woman, are their constant
attendants. Such comfort and happi-
ness as these beings may enjoy are
here given them.
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Even IL a man fights but one duel he
has second.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-04-09
DIDN'T INTEREST THEM MUCH
Coming Bridegroom Felt Himself i9'
nored by the Clerks In Mar
riaae License Office.

"say," said the man who takes MN
self seriously, 81 had great surprise
thrust upon me when I went down to,
get my marriage license last month.
When think 1t over I am ready to
assert that 1t was a disagreeable sur.
PRISE
"I sneaked into the big Office under
the impression that everybody was
watching me. But when told the
clerk at the window what / wanted
he took the information with q cool.
ness that was almost disgusting.
When I gave him my name-which
seemed to me to reverberate like
thunder-not a solitary clerk raised
his head. And nobody laughed when
the inquisitor asked me how
spelled it.
when / gave the lady's name and
fancied everybody would litter. the
only sound I could hear was the turn.
ing of record leaves and the muddled
clicking Of distant typewriter.
"Why. they couldn't have treated
me with more indifference IL had
been buying marriage licenses twice
a day for ten years!
"I went into that Office feeling
shamed and sensitive and sneaking.
"I came out hurt, humiliated, hum.
bled.
"I had expected to be ridiculed-ly
was ignored - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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bearing TO all present. Nor can you
make it worth my while, gents. I'll
not take money. I'm an honest. hard.
workin' man who can earn his own
livin', and you can't pay me to keep
still, or to go away from Shelby a day
sooner than / want to. / was goin'
away, but / gave 1t up when they told
me that things were bCginnin' to look
black against OIL Ostrander-that a
woman had come into town who was
a-stirrin' up things generally about
that old murder for which feller had
already been 'lectrocuted. and KNOWN
somethin' myself about that murder
and Ol Ostrander. well. I stayed"
The quiet threat. the suggested pos
sibility. the attack which wraps itself
in vague uncertainty, are ever the
most effective. AS his raucous voice,
dry with sinister purpose which no
man could shake, died out in an often
sive drawi, Mr.. Black edged step
nearer the judge. before he sprang and
caught the .oung fellow by the coat
collar and gave him a very vigorous
shake.
See here!" he threatened. Be
have yourself and treat the Judge like
gentleman or"
But the judge was not ready for
this. The judge had gained a new
lease of life in the last half-hour and
he felt no fear of this sullen bill-poster
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-04-09
SYNOPSIS.

curious crowd of neighbors Invade
the mysterious home Of Judge OstrandeT'
county Judge and eccentric recluse, loi-
lowing a yeiled woman who proves TO De
the widow of man tried before the judge
and electrocuted for murder years before
Her daughter is engaged to the Judge
son, from whom he is estranged, but the
murder is between the lovers She plans
to clear her husbands memory and asks
the judges aid. Deborah Scoville reads
the newspaper clippings telling the story
of the murder Of Algernon Etheridge by
John Scoville in Dark Hollow, twelve
years before. The Judge and Mrs. SEQ
vile meet at Spencer's Folly and sne
der, she saw the shadow of a man, whit,
Ting stick and wearing a long peaked
cap. The judge engages her and ner
daughter Reuther to live with him IN MS
mysterious home. Deborah and her law,
yer. Black, go to, the. police station ana
see the stick used to murder Etheridge,
She discovers a broken knife-blade point
embedded in it. Deborah and Reuther go
to live with the judge. Deborah sees
portrait Of Oliver. the judges son, son. WITH tn,
night she finds, in divers room, cap
with q peak like the shadowed one, and
a knife with broken blade-point. Anon
ymous letters and talk with Miss
She finds that Oliver was in the ravine
on the murder night. Black warns her
and shows her other anonymous letters
limiting at divers guilt: In the court
room the judge is handed an anonymous
note, The note ig picked up and read
home. Deborah tells him why suspicion
has been aroused against Oliver. The
Judge shows Deborah a statement written
by Oliver years ago telling how he saw
GERS Folly on the night the house was
burned.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-04-09
BEST MAKE HASTE SLOWLY"
Little Really Good and Lasting Work
Has Been Accomplished Under
Strain Of Hurry.

The more haste. the less speed"
is an old proverb that would make
good motto for many people in these
days when most of us are always in
driving hurry. remarks the MIL
waukee Journal. Work that Is hurried
isn't often we'll done. The letter writ.
ten il. haste sometimes proves to be
illegible, or, what Is perhaps worse.
SO nearly illegible that it results In
Misunderstanding that loses far more
time than it would have taken to write
correctly. One may be In such great
haste to complete an article he Is
making that he sights some part Of
it. And just that flaw may cause a
break in the machinery and result in
loss of time and great waste.
Then there are the hundreds of
times when undue haste doesn't in
volve great consequences. but simply
m cans inferior work that must be
done again some time. and perhaps
cause Inconvenience and loss until it
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-04-09
In a fash Deborah was out of the

In a fash Deborah was out of the
room
When the judge at last came forth,
it was at Reuther's bidding. A gentle
man wished to see him in the parlor.
With a dark glance. not directed
against her. however. the Judge bade
her run away to the kitchen and as far
from all these troubles as she could.
then. locking his door behind him. as
he always did. he strobe towards the
front
He found Deborah standing guard
over an ill-conditioned fellow. whose
slouching figure slouched still more
under his eye. but gave no other ac-
acknowledgement of his presence. Pass
Ostrander found Mr.. Black awaiting
him.
There was no bad blood between
these two, whatever their past rela-
tons or present suspicious. and they
were soon shaking hands with every
appearance of mutual cordiality.
The judge was especially courteous
Il am glad" said he. "of any occa-
sion which brings you again under my
roof, though from the appearance of
your companion ! judge the present
one to be of no very agreeable charac-
ter"
Judge, I'm your friend;" thus Mr..
Black began. Thinking you must wish
to know who started the rfotous pro
cedure which disgraced our town to-
day. | have brought the ringleader
here to answer for himself-that Is, If
you wish to question him"
Judge Ostrander wheeled about.
gave the man searching look. and
failing to recognize him as any one
he had ever seen before. beckoned him
in.
Il suppose" said he, when the loung-
ing and insolent figure was fairly be-
fore their eyes, that this is not the
first time you have been asked to ex.
plain your enmity to my long-absent
son."
Nav; I've had my talk wherever
and whenever took the notion. Oliver
Ostrander hit me once. was jest a
little chap then and meanin' no harm
to any one. / kept a-pesterin' Of I'm
and he hit me. He'd better have hit
a feller who hadn't my memory. I've
never forgiven that hit, and ! never
will. That's why I'm hittin' him now
It's just my turn; that's ALL"
your turn! Your turn! And what
do you think has given you an oppor'
tunity to turn on him?"
I'm not N the talkin' mood just
now" the fellow drawled, frankly inso
lent, not only in his tone but in hi1
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-04-09
BRIDGE ACROSS THE ELBE

cans, who feel themselves more thor
oughly proper part Of Hamburg
than of any other German city. not ex
cepting Berlin There are few statues,
few museums, few marvels of archi
lecture, few things of any genre
whose being is derived less from prac
tical advantage than from sentiment.
Residential and business Hamburg
lies upon the north bank OF the Elbe,
while along the south bank and In.
denting it for thousands of yards are
hundreds Of channels, harbors, canals,
and slips, worked out in a great, weird
tangle of wharves, warehouses. pas
senger piers, elevators, bridges, rail-
ways and all manner and description
of ships and products for shipping
Many millions Of dollars have been
spent in the development of this mar
velous harbor. Nearly 10000 vessels.
both river and oversee, clear from
this harbor during years course In
normal times.
"The inner, or business city, IL COM
posed of an old and new town.
The new town, modern In every way.
arose out Of the ashes Of that part OF
Hamburg. destroyed by the great fire
of 1s42. The old town Is for the
most part a warehouse district. and
it is pierced by numerous canals. The
pride of Hamburg is the beautiful
promenades around the Binnen Aister.
a lake made by the spreading Of the
Alster river within the heart Of the
city. Facing this lake, upon the Neuer
and Alter Jungfernstag promenades.
are the luxurious hotels and cafes OF
the city. The lake is mile IN cir
cumference, and is dotted with steam
ers and rowboats carrying Hamburg's
pleasure-bent populace."