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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-02-18

boatmen on the river could master and
found himself in a bay protected by a
spit of sand. rock-tipped and foam
tossed where it reached the rivers
channel. From this point the river
was a chaos Of Jagged rocks that
fought the mighty tide hurled from
the falls still miles above.
Gerry ran the canoe upon the shore
and stripped. He stepped on to the
spit of sand In that moment just to
live was enough. A sharp cry broke
on his astonished ears.
Almost at the end Of the tongue of
sand stood a girl. Her hair was blow
ing around her slim shoulders. Over
one of them she gaZed. startled, at
Gerry He drew back horribly con-
fused and mumbling apologies that she
could not have understood even if she
could have heard them. Then she
plunged with a clean long dive into the
river But before she plunged she
laughed. Gerry heard the laugh. With
an answering cry he hurled himself
into the water and swan as he had
never Swum before
The girl had farther to go across the
little bay, but she could beat Gerry
swimming and she did. Only she failed
to use her head and, when she found
bottom. started to wade. Wading is
slow work in water waist high. Gerry
stuck to his long powerful stroke. AS
the girl reached the bank the strong
bare ankle
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-02-18
HAS SUFFERED
FROM TRADITION
Modern Writer Gives Us New Ver-
sion of the Character of
Washington.
Great Soldier as He Is Universally
Acknowledged, He Was Also
Seer-Deathess Champion
of the Rights Of HUI
nnanity.

n N ORE than any other American
hH statesman, more than any
other American, Washington
has suffered from tradition
writes John D. Barry in the Washing
ton Times.
In fact, l can't think of any other
great man in the history of the world
who has been damaged in just the
same way, through being made to ap
pear so good.
The reason is that he has been pre-
eminently the children'5 hero.
He is distinguished victim of the
deceit we practice on children in the
name of education.
Only the very good boys and girls
care for the story of Washington and
the cherry tree.
The others, the majority. are bored
or amused, or puzzled.
And then there is the aaying, dinned
into the ears of American childhood
washington never told a lie"
1t alone alienates vast numbers OF
children from Washington. In theil
little hearts it finds no answering
echo no enthusiastic desire for emula
ton.
For truth telling. much as we love
it In children, and much as we labor
to graft it on those highly imaginative
minds, is often virtue that develops
only with years, related to intelli.
gence and to mature character.
1t derives its beauty largely from
association with other qualities more
sympathetic.
Do Real Damage to Truth.
Self-assertive truth-tellers often
seem rigid in character. They do
great damage to truth by making ii
eem, not beautiful, as it should be
but hideous.
Even in minds of maturity, to the
reputation of Washington there still
clings a suggestion of the comic.
Thackeray did not help the situation
when he introduced the youthful
Washington into "The Virginians" as
a highly self-conscious and priggish
colonial.
There is a fine chance for a new
historian of Washington, one who will
bring out the real man.
Owen Wister made a start some
years ago, when he published a little
book, emphasizing Washington's more
human qualities. But the book was
too slight to be comprehensive. Mr.
Wister may yet write the complete
history needed by the world of today
For today of all times, the world
ought to reflect on the service oi
Washington in the making of this ma
tion and on the attitude of Washing
ton toward the future of this nation
Washington a Seer,
Since the Spanish war the Farewell
Address, once a classic and apparent
ly just about as much alive as most
classics, has fallen into disfavor. We
don't hear of its being pointed tc
with pride" as often as we did.
Perhaps If we do go back to it We
shall find that Washington, besides
being a soldier and a statesman, was
a seer.
And seer IS much more interesting
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than a little boy that chops down a
cherry tree or man that has never
told a lie.
A seer has way of projecting him.
self into the future and finding new
life there.
AS prophet Washington is a vital
force today. But he is a force that
has been consciously and deliberately
disregarded.
Washington, the hero of Valley
Forge. was essentially a man of peace.
He saw that the happiness and secu-
rity of this country lay. just as the
happiness of an individual did. in a
policy of noninterference.
And as soon as this country ceased
to follow this policy Washington fore
saw complications.
On the surface it seems strange that
man whose inheritance and ways of
life were aristocratic should be re-
garded as the father of American de-
mocracy.
And to the present-day point of view
it is all the more strange when we re-
call the reproach made against Wash
ington that .the great Virginian held
slaves"
But Washington, to be Judged fair
ly, like everyone else, must be consid-
cred with reference to his time and
surrounding conditions.
Washington deserves little credit for
not yielding to the temptations to as
sert his aristocratic lineage by becom-
ing tory. He was directly affected
by the unfair attitude of the mother
country in imposing taxation without
representation. What he did was a
natural outcome of what he was.
Where he did merit the highest honor
was in his rising so magni6cently to
his responsibilities and opportunities.
A man selfish and arrogant might have
exacted more for himself, might have
striven to establish himself as per-
manent power over the nation he had
helped to create. But there Is no evi-
dence that Washington ever felt such
a temptation. Aristocrat as he was
and STAKEHOLDER, he was all the more
extraordinary in being able to turn
from the prejudices of his training to
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-02-18

Gerry Lansing was sitting alone in
the shade of bush. his knees gath
cred in his arms and his head bowed
down. Great quivering sighs that
were almost sobs were shaking his
strong body. In one terrific swirl
life had wrenched him from the moor
ings of generations. tossed him high
and dropped him, broken. Between
the moment when he had plunged
from the sandspit and the moment
when he and the girl had stood on the
river bank and laughed together to see
the canoe, worked adrift by the eddy,
swirl out into the river and away,
cons had passed. In that laughing
moment he had stood primeval man in
a primeval world With the drops of
water from the river he had fiicked
off the bonds it had taken centuries
to forge Aud now his truant con
science returned to stand dismayed.
The girl. dressed in homespun
cotton robe belted at the waist, came
back down a half-hidden path, shyly
at first and then with awe to see
him weeping. She, tossed him cot
ton jumper and trousers and then drew
back and waited for him in the path
He rose slowly to his feet, dressed and
followed the girl.
She led him along the path through
the brush and out into little valley
made up of abandoned cane and rice
bottoms. In the center was slight
elevation. too low to be called hill,
and on it was an old plantation house,
white stucco once, now sadly weather
streaked, It's tiles green-black with the
moss of years.
CTO BE CONTINUED1
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no pretense to being alive. Here a
/ dead man could live in peace with his
| surroundings From fifteen miles up
| the river came the rumble of the
mighty Paulo Alfonso falls, singing Il
! perpetual requiem. Gerry established
| himself in Il hovel of an inn that even
| in this far retreat did not dare call
| itself hotel
The only industry in Piranhas was
the washing of clothes and the women
did that. Fish were caught in great
quantities but fishing was not an in
he was hungry.
| Gerry chartered ponderous canoe.
| At first he had Il man to paddle him
UP and down and sometimes across
| the wide halfmile of water. But be
| fore long he learned to handle the
| trimmed his splendid muscles into
shape. He supplied the hostelry with
a variety Of fish.
| One morning he awoke earlier than
usual The wave of life was running
! high in his veins. He Sprang up and,
still in his pajamas, hurried out for
! his morning swim. The break of day
! was gloriously chilly. A cool breeze.
/ hurrying UP from the sea. was stead
| lily banking up the mist that hung over
the river. Gerry spraug into his canoe
and pushed Off. He drove its heavy
| length up stream. not in the teeth of
the current, for no man could do that.
| but skirting the shore. seizing on the
help of every eddy and keeping an eye
out for the green swirling mound that
meant pinnacle of rock Just short
of the surface He went farther up
| the river than ever before. His mus
cles were keyed to the struggle. He
passed the last tutting bend that the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-02-18

The Cincinnatus of the West.
Whom envy dared not hate.
Bequeath the name of Washington.
To make men blush there was but onel
Lord Byron.
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In the squalid Hotel d'Europe Gerry
occupied large room that overlooked
the quay. Even if there had been a
better hotel in town he would not have
moved.
He was not lonely. He wandered
interested through all the struggling
city. When he was too lazy to go to
the city he sat in the precarious bal
cony of his room and watched the city
come to him.
Almost month had passed since he
landed on his Lethean shore, and it
had served him well. The world
seemed to have time-servers in small
regard He began to think of his moth
err He strolled over to the cable sta
ton. The Offices were undergoing re-
| pairs. The ground floor was unful.
| nished save for table and one chair
| In the chair sat a chocolate-cOlored
employee with a long bamboo on the
! floor beside him. Gerry's curiosity was
aroused. He went in and wrote his
| message to his mother-just a few
words telling her he was all right. The
chocolate gentleman folded the mes
sage. slipped it into the split end OF
the bamboo and stuck it up through
a hole in the ceiling to the floor above.
Gerry smiled and then laughed at the
gravity with which his smile was re-
ceived. The man looked at him in
astonishment These English We're all
mad and discourteous. What was
there to laugh at in a man at work?
Gerry went out and rambled over
the city Night came on. He was
restless. He wished he had not sent
the message. 1t was forming itself
into link. He dined badly at a res
taurant and then wandered balll to the
quay. Arriving steamers were posted
on a blackboard under a street lamp.
The mail from New York was due to-
morrow. The consul's papers would
scandal-his scandal. He went to his
room and sat on the balcony watching
the varied craft preparing to drift out
on the tide. Suddenly he got up and
went down to the quay.
A long. raking craft was taking on
its meager provisions. Gerry engaged
its captain in a pantomime parley. The
boat was bound for Penedo to take on
cotton. Gerry decided to go to Penedo.
Two of the crew went back with him
to get his baggage. The hotel was
closed. Gerry was the only guest and
he had his key. He had paid his
weekly bill that day. so there was nc
need to wake up anyone. In half az
hour he and his belongings were
slowed on the deck of the Josephine
and she was drifting slowly down to
the bar.
Four days later they were OF the
mouth of the San Francisco. They
doubled in and tackled their way UP
to Penedo. There was no life in Pen
edo. 1t was desolate and lonely COM
pared with the Hotel d'Europe and the
lively quay: so when a funny little
stern-wheeier started up the river on
its weekly trip to Piranhas. Gerry
went with it. -
Piranhas was a town of mud pias-
tered against barren cliff. 1t made
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where on this little 10rld. Only, dear,
and here her voice faltered and her
eyes shone with tears. this ltt.a
world seems mighty big when hearts
are far apart
AiX clung to her belief. So strong
was her faith that Mrs. Lansing be-
came infected. but the judge held oft
against them. MY heart is with you"
he said. ut the end of months. but
my head won't turn. A naked man
even in South America would have
caused, remark. Why shouldn't he
have come back for his clothes. for his
money? After ALL he wasn't fugi
tive from justice. He was man
wandering over the earth in pursuit of
a mere whim and whim doesn't last
forever"
Alix interrupted him. Judge,
have never been angry with you. We
all owe you too much. But if you
ever say was about Gerry again"
She stopped and bit her lip but her
eyes spoke for her.
MY dear girl" said the judge and
only his color showed that he was
hurt. don't be angry with me. 1t
shall be as you say. I've only been
trying to save you from years OF
weary waiting If you have the cour,
age to wait for sorrow, | shall wait
too
Alix kissed him. There she said,
''I'm sorry | was rough
You! rough!' laughed the judge.
Then he jumped up I'm forgetting
my duties. have guest of my very
own at Maple House and must go to
him"
A few weeks before. Hon. Percy
Collingeford had looked up the judge.
1t was as, much pleasure to the
young man as duty he owed to his
father, whose friend the judge had
been for many years.
Collingeford was no stranger to
America but he knew far more about
lodging arroyos in New Mexico on q
COW pony than he did about lodging
the open trenches and debris of Fifth
avenue on the trail of a tea-party He
was an Englishman, a younger son
with enough money to put him above
the remittance class, and he was pos
sessed of far more intelligence than
he had been born with. for, from his
youth up. he had sought out expert
ence in many places. He came back
from the Klondike with more money
than he needed for his passage but
only few kindred spirits knew that
he had made it hammering the piano
in The Fallen Star of Hope. He had
the English gentleman's common
creed: ride straight. shoot straight. tub
often and talk the kings English. That
creed fulfilled, nothing else seemed
to worry him
He was dining with the judge at
the club one night when the name of
Wayne-Alan Wayne-floated over oc
casionally from a neighboring table.
Later as they sat over their coffee and
cigars Collingeford said abruptly, II
know q chap named Wayne"
''So?" said the judge.
Heard those people mention Alan
Wayne" explained Collingeford Il
wonder if it was the same one-Ten
Percent Wayne of Africa"
That's the one," said the judge
and watched Collingeford's face.
Hum" said Collingeford When |
saw Wayne he was in shirt sleeves
and battered sun helmet. There are
some men that won't shake hands
with him. but I'm not one of them"
1t was then that the judge decided
to take Collingeford to Maple House
for over Sunday
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realization of the democratic ideal.
Perhaps we can reach little clear
er understanding of what Washington
was and of what he did by placing
him in our own time. It was as II. at
the present time, man of distin-
guished position and of wealth. were
to become leader in the labor move
ment. For, from the point of view of
England. the colonials were humble
folk, mainly tillers of the field, work
ers in small enterprises. To their
cause Washington gave dignity, as
well as marvellous personal courage
With his tattered, half-fed, poorly
trained troops he defeated the pro-
fessional soldiers of England and the
Hessian mercenaries. He had, OF
course, the superlative advantage Of
being sustained by the power of sub
lime moral idea, all the more effective
because 1t was opposed by the weak
ness that goes with self-conscious and
contemptuous superiority.
Really Deserves More Credit.
Washington has not been accorded
by the world the credit he deserves
for his share in establishing democ-
racy as working force in nation.
We are likely to forget that democ.
racy, while he fought for it, was not
accepted by the world as practicable.
To a few it was beautiful theory, an
ideal. To the many it was impracti-
cable, a denial of what they regarded
as the natural unftness of human be-
ings in large masses to govern them
selves. From France, mainly through
Rousseau. had come the great demo
cratic theory. But France had yet to
seek it's establishment in the blood of
the French revolution.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-02-18
RARE. RELICS OF WASHINGTON,
United States National Museum Has
Interesting Property Of the
Nations Father.

Among the many interesting objects
pertaining to the history OF this coun-
try, there is probably nothing which
touches the hearts of true Americans
more quickly than the relics and
mementos of The Father of His
Country" George Washington. many
of which are displayed in the older
building Of the United States Nation
al Museum in Washington. This col
lection consists of a variety OF mate
rial gathered from numerous sources
While composed largely of articles Of
domestic and artistic interest owned
by Washington at Mount Vernon. the
collection also includes mementos Of
his life in the field during the War OF
the Revolution, and number OF other
miscellaneous relics of greater or less
Importance.
The most noteworthy objects are
four pieces of plaster statuary. and
face mask, several portraits and en-
cravings. many pieces of furniture, in
cluding Washington's easy chair.
tables, chairs, mirrors, bedstead and
footstool, numerous candelabra, lamps
and candlesticks, glass and chinawaFess
and table furnishings as well as many
personal relics. These latter perhaps
represent more to the visitor, since
they were the individual property of
this great statesman and warrior
There are two interesting costumes:
worn by Washington; the first an in
fant's robe CT white brocade silk, lined
with old rose China silk, used on the
occasion of his christening. and the
other a Continental army uniform
worn when he resigned his commits
sion as commander in chief of the
Continental army at Annapolis, Md.
December %, 1888. Representing, as
these costumes do, two such separated
periods of his life, they tend to re-
mind the observer nf the great things
which were accomplished by Wash
ingtcn between the times these di-
versified costumes were worn. Other
articles of wearing apparel comprise
a waistcoat and what were known as
small clothes, or knee breeches.
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SYNOPSIS.

Alan Wayne is sent away from Red Hill.
his home. by his uncle. J. Y. as a moral
failure. Glenn runs after him in a tange
of short skirts to bid him good-by. Cap
tain Wayne tells Alan of the failing Of the
Waynes. Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
birthday. Judge Healey buys a picture for
Ali3 Lansing. The judge defends Alan IN
his business with his employers. Alan and
AliX meet at sea, homeward bound. and
start q Irritation which becomes serious,
At home, Nance Sterling asks Alan to 60
away from AGx. Alix is taken to task by
Gerry. her husband, for her conduct with
Alan and defes him. Gerry. as he thinks,
sees Nix and Alan eloping. drops every
thing. and goes to Pernambuco. AliN
leaves Alan on the train.
The Meeker herald., 1916-05-13
Sleeps Hoad Pie.

A sleeps head. two hard boiled eggs.
about n quarter of n pound of bacon.
three-quarters Of pound of pastry,
salt md pepper The head must be
skinned. scalded and cleaned very thor
Oughly. Put 1t in "A pan with water to
cover 1t and n little salt. bring to a
boil. skin well: then let 1t cook very
slowly until the meat Will easily leave
the bones: then cut II into slices. but
don't forget to skin the tongue before
adding that. Put n layer OF these
slices In n pic dish. then some slices
of hard boiled eggs and bacon, then
more head. and so on until the dish is
full. FIJI the dish three parts full
with some OF the stock in which the
head was cooked. having first sea
soncd 1t with salt and pepper. Roll
out the pastry. wet the edge OF the
dish and put on strip Of pastry; wet
this. then put on the top. Bake the
pie for about half an hour or until the
pastry Is cooked and the inside hot
through. 1t can he served either hot
or cold. II cold. 1t can be turned out
on to a dish. as the gravy will have
set In Jelly
The Meeker herald., 1916-05-13
A Personal Application.

A well known business man I'm Law
renee. Mass. once had customer who
contracted n debt that ran unpaid for
year or more. and even several let
tcrs failed to bring about settlement.
One day. while CHANGING over the re-
ligious notices in local paper. the
business man saw something that gave
him II new idea. He went to his desk
and wrote the following note to the
debtor:
My Dear Sir-I see in the local press
that you are to deliver an address on
Friday evening before the Y. NJ. {. A. on
THE Sinners Balanced Account. i In
close yours. as yet unbalanced. and trust
that l may have the pleasure OF attend
ing your lecture.
A check came by the next mail
Youths Companion.
The Meeker herald., 1916-05-13
UNDER AN AVALANCHE.


Human beings occasionally live
through incredibly long imprisonments
after their dwellings have been over
whelmed by avalanches. On March 10,
1853. avalanches buried the village of
Bergemolctto, In the Italian Alps. md
on April % three women were dug out
alive from stable In which they had
been immured for thirty-seven days In
the dark beneath the mass OF snow
which lay forty-two feet higher than
the roof. With them had been buried
Il little boy. six goats. donkey and
some hens.
The child, the donkey and the fowls
soon died, but the goats helped the
women to survive, their milk supple.
mcnting the thirty or forty cakes and
the pocketful of chestnuts upon which
they depended for food. Hope of find
Ing the women alive had been nban-
doned when fur in April the brother
of one had dream in which she ap-
uealed to him for rescue.
The weather then mt last made ex-
cavation possible. and the women were
restored to the world and presently to
health.-Chicago News.
The Meeker herald., 1916-05-13
Decoration Day

The. annual Memorial services for
the &. A. r. will be held at the Meth
odist church, Sunday, May 28th.
Meeker Post No. 109 will observe
Decoration Day In the usual form,
Tuesday, May aOth. The county and
city authorities, the fraternal orders
and all civic or social organizations
are cordially invited to attend In .
body. II notice Is given Adjutant
John A. Watson, they will each be
assigned q place In the procession.
The public schools and all the people
are earnestly requested to attend,
bringing with them offerings of flow
ers for decorating graves. A detailed
program will appear later.
MCKENDREE Denote,
JOHN A. WATSON, Commander.
Adjutant.
The Meeker herald., 1916-05-13
Cherry Roly Poly.

Make a dough the same as for bak-
ing powder biscuit and roll 1t into
thin sheet. Drain two cupfuls of cher
ries. spread them over the top of the
dough. leaving mn inch wide space
along each side. Sprinkle a cupful OF
sugar over the fruit, sift one table
spoonful OF cornstarch or -four over
this and form into n roll jelly cake.
Wiring out Of hot water muslin bng
a little larger than dumping. -four the
inside, wrap 1t around the roll and
haste well. Set plate in kettle. lay
the dumping Oh II. cover with boiling
water and boil one and half hours.
Serve hot with n sauce made Of one
heaped cupful of sugar and One-third
cupful of butter creamed well. Just
before serving flavor with lemon and
whip in the whites of two eggs beaten
to n stiff froth.