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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Decline of EnoIish Agriculture.

Up to about the year 1886 all went
well with English agriculture and the
value of land and rents constantly in
creased. Then came few wet, ruin
GUS seasons, largely increasing imports
of grain, beef, bacon and cheese from
the United States and heavy fall In
prices of all kinds of farm products.
What was the cause? Simply that the
Western prairie lands were opened up
by railroads and those big ranch own
ers sent their products East. What
was not needed in the Eastern states
was shipped to English free-trade mar
kets, with the inevitable outcome Of
low prices.
In a comparatively short while thou
sands of English farmers were ruined,
land fell 40 per cent in price, rents
had to be lowered fully one-third and
the rural population decreased.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Let IIs Weep,

Father was stern-looking, and n
frown gathered somewhere round his
mouth and advanced all along the
western front until it was barred by
q line Of trenches on his forehead
when his son stood in his presence.
MY lad" said father, grimly. Mrs.
Smith, from next door tells me that
four of her windows are broken. She
isn't sure whether you have done 1t,
of whether the culprit is her son. Now,
then. did you do it or not?'
The shade of George Washington
got into the room, somehow, regard
less of the enemy aliens act, and Will
liam answered.:
Father, l did it. l cannot lie"
mo" said father, as he tucked up
his sleeve, with ghoulish delight, "and
you won't be able to sit either by the
time I've done with you. u.'-London
Ideas
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Use of Lemons in Sickness.

Lemons plentifu!ly and judiciously
used will prevent malaria. and even
typhoid, it is said may be warded off
by the timely use of lemons. Not only
is the juice beneficial. but the rind rs
well.
In England every foreign-going ship
is required by law 10 include in its
supplies a sufficient number of lemons
so that every seaman may have in his
daily diet an allowance OF one ounce Of
lemon juice after having been ten
Gays at sea. this, to prevent the scuryy
- prCT#i~ur amoag sailors.
last year when the pigs were wCaned.
This year pork is higher in that coun-
try, and the farmers have no pigs to
sell nor sows to raise more. It would
have paid them we'll to have kept the
sows TO supply the nation with pork
Kansas Farmer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Knew He Had Gone for Good.

Mrs. Hannah Thompson, whose nus
band until recently had been employed
as a Pullman porter, interrupted the
proceedings in the Harlem court in a
hurried effort to obtain a divorce, says
q New York news letter. She was
uuieted down until case then being
heard was disposed of, and then ques-
toned by the magistrate. When she
had explained that her husband had
left the previous morning it was sug-
gested by the court that there was no
reason to believe that he would not
return, and that Mrs. Thompson had
better wait before considering any
such move as q divorce action. But
I knows that man amt never comm
back" explained the excited negress.
ST was in bed this mOrnin' when l
heard him gettin' out very quiet and
creepy. He put on his, best clothes
new suit, straw hat, patent-leather
shoes and a light coat over his arm
and I lay very still maxim out l amt
awake vet. He walks night to the
door, makes a big low bow towards me
and saws: Goodbye, cold feet, good
bye.' Judge, that niger amt ago1n' to
come back"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
TIMES CHANGED In KOREA
Government Which Twenty Years Ago
Was Afraid of New Methods Now
Welcome American Ideas.

Twenty years ago the old Korean
government was so afraid of new ideas
that Korean student in the Methodist
Episcopal School for Boys in Seoul
was arrested and put into prison. What
was the henious charge? Simple that
he had formed literary society that
discussed matters of general interest!
But times have changed and Korea
now appreciates American ideas, says
the World Outlook. The imprisoned
boy. named Gym, came to America to
study and later became the efficient
principal of his old boys school in
Seoul. And how the boys discuss cur
rent events nowadays! Mr.. Gym has
since then distinguished himself in a
general conference by a speech notable
for its thought and it's English. He is
just one of the many Korean youths
who have tested Uncle Sans tree of
knowledge and found it good.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Bees That Are Bandits.

A New Jersey man is accused by his
neighbors of keeping Il species of bees
that instead of honestly making honey
from flower and clover bloom, thievish-
ly plunder the hives of all the work
ing bees In the neighborhOod. 1t Is
asserted that this man. although he
has not kept an honest bee in seven
years, regularly sells more honey than
any other bee man in the Delaware
valley. No doubt these allegations will
surprise most people. The bee has
been commonly looked upon as incor-
ruptibIy honest and as an unyary!nS
model of industry. Indeed. it was
fir m the bee that man first learned
that industry and honesty go through
this world hand in hand. The man
or the bee that won't work is bound to
have unhealthy views and improper
practices regarding the rights of prop
erty. The degrading effects of idle
ness have long been observable in man.
But it has been thought that the bee
is of q higher order-EXChange
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

Lima'S charm consists in part of the
shuttered and glazed balconies on the
second stories, overhanging the street,
heavily decorated with curious wood
carvings, on shutters and window
frames alike. There are some of au-
thentic antiquity which are most inter
eSting-and nearly every house of any
pretenSionS has these balconies on the
outer walls. while the house itself is
built around the usual patio. The Ho-
tel Maury. where 1 stopped while in
Lima. had both.
The seacoast towns are all of recent
date as far as the better buildings in
them give evidence. CallaO is merely
a big dirty "Sonoratown' of about 30
600 to 10000 population and nothing
more as regards beauty, but it is Perus
first seaport nevertheless, with good
stone breakwater and artificial harbor,
now tending to grow obsolete, because
of shallow depth, for modern ocean
vessels.
Barren MoIIendo.
Mollendo, Peru, resembles Aqua
PrletO, sonora, ana is one ol llle Seti-
ports for Bolivia and inner Peru. 1t
is set high on q rocky cliff. overhanging
boiling breakers, and is surrounded by
uncompromising desert; about as I'M
attractive a place as can be imagined.
Nothing of interest there save the I'M
believable swarms of sea ducks and
small fish.
never saw so many ducks in my
whole life as I saw the afternoon we
sailed from Mollendo for africa, Chile.
A modest estimate would allow 10000
to $4,000 in one flock we sailed
through; they had so gorged them
selves on the fish that it was almost
impossible for them to rise from the
water as the steamer drew near, and
while standing on the bow I actually
saw adult birds bumped and dashed to
one side by the cutwater of the vessel,
before they could get well in flight. 1t
was very strange sight in every way.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
DAY OF BACHELOR
War Brings a New Dignity to Un-
married Man.
He Who May Be Merely Tolerated In
Time of Peace Is Lionized When
Call to Arms Comes.

War has given the unmarried man
some of the dignity which he lacked
in peace. Ordinarily the bachelor is
tolerated for what he may become
rather than for what he is, observes
a writer in the San Francisco Bulletin.
Mothers would not welcome him into
society nor girls take pleasure in his
attentions if it were thought that he
would always remain q bachelor. The
hope of converting him into a married
man furnishes one of the main incen-
tives of all social activities. AS this
hope declines he becomes more and
more q misfit in world which prides
itself on finding an exactly shaped
corner for everyone of it's inhabitants
who is worth troubling about. His
socks are not darned, his buttons are
not sewed on, and the number of
Jumps of sugar which he likes in his
coffee, the degree of boiledness which
he demands in his eggs, are nobodys
business but his own. He is free,
condition which in youth makes him
the envy of his married friends, but in
later years makes him envy them. He
can go anywhere he pleases at any
time he pleases without having even
to argue the matter with q woman,
but the reason that no woman cares
what he does He is free because no
one Is interested enough in him to
care to put shackles on him.
There is no fixed place for him. He
stands free Of the burden of the bene-
diets endeavors, but at a cost. He
sees men and women doing things for
motives which he cannot understand.
Social forces of various sorts perplex
him because he does not see their hid
den origins. What is plain enough to
any mediocre husband is often hope
less puzzle to even the most thoughtful
bachelor. He cannot fully understand
any intangible loyalty because he is
no longer in contact with the source
of loyalty-the relations between
parents and children. For certain ad-
venture he can be depended upon to
furnish dash and enthusiasm, but for
the steady, grinding work of everyday
life he is inferior to his married
QolSnDOr. OlNlC pfOSIeSS ltneS piihNh-
pally upon the man whose interests
carry over into the next generation and
are not confined to his own corporal
welfare.
But this somewhat pathetic figure OF
the bachelor is wonderfully dignif1ed
by the advent of war. The married
man, in most cases, is handicapped
from fighting. His business is to raise
wheat and children, a necessary task,
but lacking the appearance of glory.
Chivalry beyond the dreams of medic
val knighthood may animate the man
who helps his wife take care of the
babies, preparing their bottles and
hanging out their clothes, but in times
of war he is not q heroic figure. The
demand then is not for men who have
found their places in the world, but
for those who have not. The wifeless,
landless, footfree person is the stuff
of which armies can be made with the
least possible social loss. Because he
was so forlorn in peace he is lionized
in war. He marries war and the gov
ernment sews his buttons on and darns
the holes in his socks.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

mountains on the Pacific slope gen
orally are barren, and only valuable
for their mineral resources. These are
great, and are growing in development
and production; the immensely valua-
BILE Cerro de Pasco copper mines be-
ing the premier mining enterprise in
Peru.
Beautiful Town of Lima.
Lima is an attractive town, but with
the mellow attraction of the past,
rather than present and future inter-
est, attaching to the other large capi-
tails of this continent. She claims 15O,-
900 inhabitants. and may have 125,000.
The stores are numerous and of IL
very good average type; the streets
are pretty well paved, and there is a
trolley service about equal to that of
the United railways in San Francisco
in modernity and cleanliness of the
cars.
The buildings of the city are in both
the Spanish colonial and recent Span
ish type, and are pleasing in character
and in architectural variety. The Cathe-
dral is really fine, and the interior (too
dark to photograph welD is imposing
and impressive.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Kino Edwards Little Needs.

Many interesting "reminiscences Of
famous people are given by Mr.. F.
Townsend Martin in Things I Re-
member"
Referring to the late King Edward
the author says:
Lady Burton once told me an anus
ing incident which occurred when the
late King Edward stayed at Glen
quoich.
"T hope, sir, that you have found
everything to your liking?' she said
to the royal visitor.
YES answered the king; but, If
I may make a suggestion, one little
thing would add greatly to the COM
fort of your guests
"'Oh, sir, what can that beT
"Well, Lady Burton said his maj
esty, the one thing needful is hook
on the bathroom door,"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Worlds Suoar Production.

The New York Journal of Commerce
is responsible for the following figures
in regard to sugar production: The
worlds production of sugar in 1913
amounted to 81, 1913, 100000 pounds. The
production in the United States, not in
cluding external possessions, was p
026,OOOOOO pounds; imports from
Hawaii amounted to 1,137 100000
pounds, from the Philippines to 217,-
100000 pounds, from Porto Rico to
S5O,OOO,OOO pounds. From foreign
sources 5,416,OOO,OOO pounds were re-
ceived. The consumption in the Unit
ed States is 1915 was 1850, 100000
pounds, or 1918 pounds per capita.
The United States exported 1,6S6,OOO,-
600 pounds.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Governed by Impulses.

"Any questions?" asked the instruc-
tor of the Second battery of the Ninth
division, after the completion of q
morning period which the men had
spent on horseback at Ft. Harrison,
says indianapolis News.
Captain" asked Ralph Lockwood OF
Indianapolis, wouldn't it be possible
to develop artillery horses that would
start and stop like automobiles, and
would guide with a steering wheel9
This horse I have seems to be gov
erned by impulses over which I have
no CONTROL
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
HAVE SOFT, WHITE HANDS
Clear Skin and Good Hair by Using
Cuticura-TriaI Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Besides
these fragrant, super-creamy emol-
lients prevent little skin troubles be-
coming serious by keeping the pores
free from obstruction. Nothing better
at any price for all toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the we'll
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver. Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. so cents.
Calling the Master.
Caller-Are you the master Of the
house?
He-Why?
Caller-I am the inspector of nuis-
ances, and have called to
He (going to the foot of the stairs)
-Mother-in-law, you're wanted -
London Tit-Bits.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Great American inventors.

Fulton was the first type Of the real
American inventors who exercise their
ingenious minds in various directions.
He invented not only the steamboat, a
steam warship and a submarine, but
he also invented machines for weaving
wire cables and for polishing marble.
And to the names of Franklin and Full
ton may be added those of Samuel NJ.
Morse, Alexander Graham Bell Edison,
the brothers Wright, Lake, Frank
Sprague, Elmer A. Sperry and McCor-
mick without beginning to exhaust the
list of great American inventors.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Most DANGEROUS Poisons.

The most dangerous of all potsons
are the toxins of infectious disease;
the next most dangerous are the toxins
of fatigue. Work, whether of mus
cles or nerves, produces waste prod
ucts, "ashes" which are poisonous, the
so-called fatigue toxins. When these
toxins have piled up in our blood to a
certain pitch we feel tired, so that
fatigue is a form of self-poiSoning.
When we quit work or sleep or take
food these poisons are neutralized or
burnt up in the system or washed and
breathcd out of 1t.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
KEEP BREEDING LIVE STOCK
Farmers Warned Not to XIII Goose
That Laid the Golden EaG"-AIl
Prices Are Advancing.

With live stock selling at higher and
higher prices and with feed going up,
many may be tempted to sell their
breeding stock. This will he killing
"the goose that laid the golden egg"
Keep the breeding stock and raise
more stocl1-it will pay. in one great
country the farmers sold their sows
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Bio News,

With rounding lips and an air OF
great Importance the small boy Of a
Sunday school in Belfast impaired the
happy fact to his teacher.
'The devils dead" he said, solemn
ly.
"What makes you think that?" said
the startled teacher.
dad said So" explained the small
boy. 81 was standing in the street
with him yesterday when a funeral
passed, and when dad saw it he said:
Poor devil, he's dead"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

africa has historic interest, for here
was fought a desperate battle between
the Peruvian defenders of the town
and the attacking Chilean forces in the
war of 1S79-S0.
The town lies in little desert plain,
just beneath a high, precipitous head
land, or MORO (as such heights are al
ways known in Spanish America),
which is crowned by q powerful mod
ern fortifcation.
The air in africa is cool, fresh and
lovely, and we here saw pepper trees,
as we did in Lima, and in all the other
Chilean coast ports. africa is also q
railroad port for the inland high coun-
try, but is not otherwise notable, save
as strategic military post for Chile
Iquique, the next port, is the Sec
ond, and until quite lately was the
first nitrate port of Chile-a big
sprawling town, about the size of CAL
lao but cleaner and more businesslike
1t lies in an open stretch of sandy des-
ert, closely walled in by steep noun
tains, some 1000 to $500 feet In height
which are Surmounted with difficulty
by the nitrate railroads through aid of
SwitChbackS.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
She Was Just Mortified.

Il never was so mortified in my life"
whats the matter nOw?"
"You know that little gown l bought
for $1G.50 that looked as though 1t
must have cost four times that, and
was so becoming to me2 | never
dreamed anyone would guess its price
or where | bought It,"
'Wcli, did anyone?"
Yes. l wore it for the first time last
night at a dinner dance and there were
just sixteen other women there with
gowns exoctly like it,"-~Detrnit Free
Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

vator or lift may be read in Vitruvius
who describes hosting machine
which was invented by Archimedes
This elevator of the second century
B. c., was worked by ropes which were
cotled upon winding drum by cap
stan and levers. The same writer re-
fers to another similar machine which
was made to rotate by a man who
walked inside the capstan. Such a
primitive elevator is still in use to
lift passengers and luggage from the
first to the second story of a convent
on Mount Sinai.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
The Eve of the Niqht.

One afternoon, Deliah, little col
ored girl, had seen an automobile run
over q white woman. That night the
youngsters mother, laundress, could
neither persuade nor compel Deliah
to deliver a bundle Of the days wash
ing.
= "No-no-no" walled the excited
child. eff dem auto mans CANT see
a white lady in de middle of de day,
hows dey a gwine to see me in de
dark?"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

and it has helped me in every way. I
am not nearly 60 nervous, no headache
or pain. I must say that Lydia p.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the
best remedy any sick woman can take:
Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear 259
Worthen ST., Lowell, Mass.
Other warning symptoms are sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
Of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
Irregularities, constipation, variable
appetite, weakness, inquietude, and
dizziness.
If you need special advice, write to
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confdentiaD, Lynn. Mass.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

81 hope I haven't a mean disposi-
ton" remarked the man whose head
resembles q billiard ball.
"Of course, you haven't
"But every time see a fellow with
a few wisps of hair laid out to the best
advantage on top Of his Uranium, l
can't help wishing something would
happen to it,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

America present much the same
physical appearance. The val
ley of the Rio Rimac, in which
Lima lies, some eight or ten miles from
its seaport, Callao, is pretty and we'll
titled small section Of southern CalifOr-
MIA farming country, set in a frame of
dry Peruvian mountain slopes, says a
correspondent of the Los Angeles
Times.
The only strange note visible in the
scene is the heavy adobe wall which
bounds all the fields, even to the very
small ones, a custom which must be
an inheritance from the old Incas, who
filled the Peruvian highlands with such
works.
Speaking of dry Peruvian mountains,
the whole coast of South America,
from the northern boundary of Peru,
5 degrees south latitude. to Coquimbo,
Chile, 80 degrees south latitude Ca dis
tance equal to the combined coast lines
of California, Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia up to Juneau,
Alaska,) is a desert strip, reaching in
land for 25 to IS or 100 miles.
This truly wonderful phenomenon is
explained by the action of the Hum
boldt current, a cold stream beginning
in the Antarctic ocean, and flowing
northward along the coast. The eff
feet produced is that the land is warm
er than the water, and therefore, rain
seldom falls on any part Of this region,
and in part it is said to be practically
unknown.
On the crest of the Andes. enough
rain and snow IS precipitated to fur
nish well-watered valley-f0ors on the
western slope, which are generally fer
tile and well-tilled.
The eastern slope of the Andes, on
the contrary, receives abundant rain
fall, and is clothed with heavy forests.
These Andean canon-valleXs in Peru
produce valuable crops of sugar cane
and varied food products, but the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Well Adree

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved" she tried to
quote.
yes" answered the guy with sor-
rowful countenance, but it's a darD
sight more expensive these days"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

II Ct II.
His Own Prop
erty.
Christians be-
long to the Lord
in at least a three
fold way.
First by gift
from the Father.
In his prayer in
John II our Lord
says chime they
were and thou
gaveSt them to
me- They do not
belong to them
selves but to him
his own pecu-
liar prODerty. for
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
She Didn't Have One.

Mrs. Worrimore-Whyc can't you get
up as early as the cook? You both oc-
cupy the same room with an alarm
clock, but you're always at least an
hour late.
Tilly, the Second Maid-Yes'm, but
the alarm clock belongs to the cook an
| amt got one.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Exposed to Weather.

Harold Hollownut-You're coughing
awfully.
Percy Pinfeather-Yes, dash it! My
man tod me smart dressers weren't
wearing tiepins any more, so 1 left
mine off and caught a dreadful cold
in my chest.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Results Similar

Are You a married MANI" asked
the ambulance doctor, as he gathered
the victim up and placed him on a
~Il't'hcr.
No. doc" said the man hazily, sit
were an ortamobeel as did it,"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10
Cowpeas Valuable,

Experiments have proved that
ton Of cowpao hny Is worth rs much
for stock feed rs ton Of wheat bran,
end even more Il n fair quantity Of
ripe pens Is saved with the hay.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1917-08-10

Change of Life and
the bad feelings
common at TIL a t
time. I was in a
very nervous condi-
ton, with headaches
and pain a good
deal Of the time so |
was unfit to do my
work. A friend
asked me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham' s
v ege t a BILE Com
Il II