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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

"The emerald is my birth stone
What is yoursT
Judging from the blows fate is al
ways giving me. l guess my birth
stone is brick"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Found. an honest man at last.
Diogenes7"
II have hopes. after listening to
some campaign oratory."-LouIsyllle
Courier-Journal.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

The use of portable elevator re.
duces the time required to unload
grain into the bin by about rs per
cent
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

"Why do you insist on calling on
Mrs. Hefton for speech? You know
you don't really admire her"
81 want q chance to heckle her"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

''Betwixt an auto and a yacht
One difference is said Wall;
"A yacht can stand upon a tack
And not be hurt at ALL"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

81 offered to marry him on condi-
ton"
"I'hat your father consents7"
mo, That Harold finds fiat"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

An Engllshman has invented a pen
wiper consisting Of glass cup filed
with a sponge saturated with glycerin,
which has preservatve effect on
pens.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

The Sire; Home again and broke.
ana when you left you said you were
going to make name for yourself.
The Son: Oh. I've done that, all
RIGHT. All my friends call me PIGGY,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Acid Stomach. Heartburn and Nau-rn
quickly disappear with the use Of W4lEhf's
indian Vegetable Pulls. Send for trial bon
to s11 Pearl st.. New rork.-Ads.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssaase


When fowls do not have access to
natural green feed, sprouted oats, cab
bage, mangels. cut clover. etc. should
be fed.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Some men don't want to talk about
Justice after they get 1t.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

For speedy and effective action Dr. Peery's
will clean out Worms or Tapeworm.-Adv.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20
DEPENDED UPON
1T 20 YEARS
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Has Been
This Woman's Safeguard
All That Time.

Omaha, Neb.-'T have used Lydia z.
Pinkham 8 Vegetable Compound forever
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Hewitt-The frog would wooIng
go.
Jewett-why notl 1t is always leap
year for the frog.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

PA, what is alcoholic contentT
ALAS, my son. it is something no
more to be felt"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Recent demand in the stocker and
feeder trade has favored light weight
cattle.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

The opal is more difficult to initiate
than the diamond.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

No man is really truly In love If he
doesn't act foolish.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

The Babcoek test for butter fat
should be run for two days each
month.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Chocolate was introduced into
Europe by the Spaniards.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-08-20

Sometimes a man imagines he is
making love to widow.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
JOHN F. Mccoy DIES
AT GERMANTOWN, PA.
Was Representative Here of Penn
sylvania Railroad for Many
Years.


Word has been received here of the
death. Saturday of John Findley Nc
Coy, seventy-seven years DID, for
merly of Washington. at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Howard N. Cupitt,
in Germantown, Pa.
Mr.. Mccoy was born in Pennsyi-
vania in 1s43. He started his career
in the Army. but later went into the
railroad business, being connected
with the Northern Central in Balti-
more. In 1882 he came to Washing
ton to take the position of ticket
agent for the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad (now the Pennsylvania) at
the old 9Th street station: After
an absence of three years from the
city, when he was passenger trainc
manager of the Kansas CITY, watkins
and Gulf railroad, he returned to
Washington to be city ticket agent
and later tourist agent for the PENN
sylvania, in which post he served un-
til 1913, when he was pensioned and
retired for age.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Annie Parks Mccoy. and four married
children. Mrs. Isaac kingsbury of
Hartford, Conn; Mrs. Walter Spot
ford of Harrisburg, Pa; Mrs. How
ard N Cupitt of Germantown. Pa.
and John F. Mccoy. eX-heutenant OF
aviation, Germantown.
Funeral services were held Monday
at 8 pm, in Germantown. and inter-
ment was made in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
John 7. B. SUIT DIES
AT MARYLAND HOME
Native of Washington One of Lead.
ing Citizens of Prince
Georges County.

John Thomas Benjamin Suit one of
the oldest citizens of Prince Georges
county, Nd. died at his home near For
estville Monday afternoon. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow afternoon
estville. Rev. William c. Shears officiat-
ing Interment will be in the church
cemetery. Pallbearers will be Lewis
Moore. Charles Hayes. Victor Baldwin,
Henry Walters, Arthur Frye and Rich
ard Hurdle.
Tor about six weeks. Until about a year
ago he was deputy register of wills for
Prince Georges county, at Upper Marl-
poro. He was appointed deputy register
OF wills December ], 1907. under the late
William A. Miller then register of wills.
He continued in this office under former
Register of Wills George P. Hickey and
retired at the expira ton of the latter's
term For twenty-five years he was
register and a vestryman of Epiphany
Church. FOrestyille.
He was born in Washington October
4. 1892. The home of his parents, Kelita
and Louisa James Suit. at that time was
Charles county
In 1888 his parents moved to Lees
burgh, Ohio. where they remained
seven years. and then returned to
Charles county. Mr.. Suit attended
the public schools in Ohio and in
Charles county and was at Charlotte
Hall Academy for two years. AS a
young man he engaged in farming
and later taught school at Forest
Vile. During the administration of
President Lincoln he served as as
sistant assessor of internal revenue
for four years. For twelve years he
was 2 justice of the peace and later
served as sealer of weights and
measures for the county. He served
as clerk for number of years to the
county road board. composed of
George W. Hardy, James Sweeney and
William A. Maloy. June IA, 1859. he
married Miss Rachel Ellen Ryon. who
died in Marc}s, 1917.
dren: Mrs. Julia A. Owens ForestyiIIe.
Mrs. L. d. Allen. Forestviie; Mrs. Rosa
y. Monroe. Washington; Mrs Nettie a.
Dennis. Washington; Mrs Carrie A. Cof
fren, Washington Mrs. William Suit
Washington: Mrs Owen Brown, Forest
vile; Benjamin w. Suit. TOPPER MARI
boro. and Everett NJ. Suit, Forestyille
He also leaves the following sisters:
Mrs. NJ. T.. Ridenour. Forestville: Miss
Sarah A. Suit, Forestville; Mrs. NJ S.
Brewer. Mrs. j. E. Tolson and Mrs.
Laura Tolson of Forestville. and a
brother. William L. r. Suit of Forest
vile. In addition he leaves twenty
five grandchildren and eight great
Grandchildren.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
RUSSIAN ROYALTY TOLLS
TO KEEP WOLF FROM DOOR
Dukes and Princes, Who Fled Boil
shevism Engage in Business En-
terprises in France.

PARIS. September 15.-Many of the
RUSSIAN nobility who fled from boil
shevism to France now meet it's chief
requirement-thata all must work with
their hands that they may eat.
\ The roster of deposed royalty is
long. but every few days there comes
to public knowledge the situation OF
another Russian person of promi-
nence- whom adversely has not con-
quered.
A large dairy farm has been es-
tablished near Paris by Count Paul
lgnatieff, where members of that
family and some of their noble
friends are recoRstructing another
fortune.
The Duke of Leuchtenberg- Beau
harnais is farming near Tours. The
Prince LyszeZynski is bank clerk.
Princess Mestchercky and a number
of others are commercialiZing their
knowledge of art. doing interior deco
rating. Prince Goudacheff once Rus
sian ambassador to Spain. is a farmer.
Gen. Nicolajeff drives a truck. and
many Russian officers are mechanics
and some are taxicab chauffeurs.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
w. ]. BENEFITS DIES.
Mechanical Craftsman of Navy
Department Succumbs.

After an illness of nine months. Will
liam j. Bennetts. for eighteen years an
employe of the bureau of construction
and repair of the Navy Department
died yesterday at the Takoma Park San
itarium at the age of fifty-fIve years.
Born in Cornwall, England. Mr.. Ben
netts came to Toronto, Canada. with his
parents when he was about four years
of age. He received his early education
in the public schools and later attended
the University of Toronto. In 1880 he
came to the United States and settled
in Milwaukee. Wis.
Mr.. Bennetts was appointed as 4 me-
chanical craftsman in the bureau OF
construction and repair of the Navy
Department in 1902. and served in that
capacity until his recent illness. Prior
to his illness he was in charge of the
mechanical section of the bureau of con-
struction and repair.
Mr.. Bennetts is survived by his widow
and a son. William. who served with the
A +. F. in France. and a daughter.
Mildred who was graduated from George
Washington University last May.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow
at pm AT the residence. 1871 1st
street Interment will be in Rock Creek
cemetery.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
DIED.

eAKER. After brief illness. September 13.
1920, at G:15 am. at his residence. 416 A
-. s.e.. MOSES d. BAKER, In his 18TH
year. Remains at the funeral parlors OF
William H. Scott. 409 Sth st. Sc. Funeral
Wednesday. September Is, at $3.50 pm.
from Metropolitan Presbyterian Church. 4th
and sts s.e. Interment at Campton.
n. III. 15s
BENEFITS. Tuesday. September II. 1890,
WILLIAM JAMES BENNETTS, beloved hus
band of Lydia V. Bennetts. Funeral serv-
ices at his late residence, 1871 LIST ST. NV.
Thursday. September 16. at pm. Inter
ment private.
BERRY. Departed this life Monday. September
IL. 1920. at IL AS an. at Garfield Hospital.
LUCY NJ. BERRY. She leaves to mourn
their loss husband. four children. three
sisters and two brothers. Funeral from her
late residence, 1909 22nd ST. NV, Thursday
september l6 at pm. Relatives and
Trends invited. pittsburgh, Philadelphis
and baltimore papers please copy.b l5s
Evening star., 1920-09-15
|BELGIAN-FRENCH PACT
FOR DEFENSE APPROVED
Protection Treaty Against Ger.
many Intended to Strengthen
League Guarantee of Peace

PARIS, September 14.-Premier Mil.
lerand has received the Belgian gov
ernment's letter approving the
F'ranco-Belgian defensive military
agreement to apply in the case of un-
provoked aggression by Germany. ii
was officially announced today.
The letter declares the agreement
was concluded with the object OF
Strengthening the guarantees OF
peace and safety resulting from the
league of nations pact. The communi-
cation points out that Belgium re-
serves the right of sovereign decision
as to whether case provided against
in the agreement has arisen.
Both the contracting states, the doc
ument stipulateS, are to preserve
complete liberty as regards the mill
tary arrangements judged necessary
to insure the defense of their respec-
tive territories.
Evening star., 1920-09-15
SINGS AT MASTERS GRAVE.

RICHMOND. Va. September ia
beautiful incident of the obsequies OF
the late Judge Rogery Gregory, whose
funeral took place at the ancestral home
Elsing Green. King William county. this
state, yesterday, was the singing of q
hymn at the grave by sUncle" Jerry
Samuel a family servant, who had been
with Judge Gregory since he was a
"befo -the-war" slave. Uncle" Jerry
is ninety three and his master was
eighty-eight -
Evening star., 1920-09-15
BRITISH GENERAL DEAD.

LONDON. September 15.-The death
is announced of Lieut.. Gen. Sir William
Babtie, V c.. of the British medical
service, while spending a holiday in Bel
gium.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
FEW FOLKS HAVE
GRAY HAIR NOW
weII-known local druggist says every
body is using old-tine recipe OF
Sage Tea and Sulphur.

Hair that loses its color and lustre,
or when it fades, turns gray, dull and
IifeIess, is caused by a lack of sui
Dhur in the hair. Our grandmother
made up a mixture OF Sage Tea and
Sulphur. to keep her locks dark and
beautiful, and thousands OF women
and men who value that even color.
that beautiful dark shade of hair
which is so attractive, use only this
old-time recipe
Nowadays we get this famous mix
ture improved by the addition of
ether ingredients By asking at any
drug store for bottle OF "Wyeth's
Sage and SULPHUR Compound which
darkens the hair so naturally, so
evenly that nobody can possibly tell
4 has been applied. You Just damp
en- a sponge or soft brush with it
and draw this through your hair,
taking one small strand at time
by morning the gray hair disap-
pears; but what delights the ladies
With Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is that, besides beautifully
Gardening the hair after few appli-
cations, IT also brings back the gloss
and lustre and gives it an appear
aucs of abundance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE TO TRUST?

Put not your trust in princes is advice
that people the world over have learned to heed
and the lessons many times have been bitter
So bitter that there is tendency to go farther
and make slogan, ''Put not your trust IN lead
ers;'' evidently the justice of this depends on
the quality of leadership, just as the quality OF
princedom, had it been better, might have de-
MED the worth of the old command.
What are the people to trust If they deny
trust to leadership! Shall they trust a system,
a mechanics made by someone for them7 That
IL what lot of people have been led to trust OF
late. The people of Russia are given over to
system. It is no better than the men who run
it. How can any system be better than those
in control allow it to be' Take government
ownership in which labor is apparently seeking
panacea- How shall it be better than the gov
ernment9 And how shall government be I'M
proved by this ownership? As demonstrated
government ownership does not make better
men in control, does not improve, but rather de-
preciates what it handles in personnel and prop
ery.
Socialism begins by despairing of justice for
everybody if anybody owns property or con-
trolls wide powers. It proposes to end troubles
bv making everybody the owner and everybody
a sharer in responsibility for management. But
how will this work. In the same old way. Of
the thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine will
simply vote somebody into power; that some
body viii act, manage, control; and what comes
of this viii depend on the quality of the action,
management and control Only there win be
more complete control, more absolute power,
less individual freedom and energy.
Putting trust in systems is futile business
There is no safety in machine Independent of
those who run it. The men who made the con-
stitution were wise; they provided trusts for
men and set I'D checks to keep these men with
in bounds There is no new thing under the
sun that viii enable mankind to get on in peace,
iugtice and contentnent if it be foun@cd on the
principle that men and women cannot trust one
another.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
"THE PRIME OF LIFE. -

's1,he prime Of ife' is phrase that is less
commonly used than it used to be and probably
because without really thinking about it the
public has come to know that the period to
which it refers is uncertain. How uncertain a
look at the actuary tables of the insurance com
ranos will tell. Here in this country the death
rate is highest at the ages between forty and
forty-five years. and this is the very period
which we used to denote by ''the prime of life. -
The death rate is lowest at the age Of twelve
wears, is comparatively low between the ares
OF eighteen and thirty years and then rises
rapidly; the death rate at the ages between
fifty and sixty has been decidedly lessened of
late years.
All this shows that we are living out our vi
tality much faster than we did; that the prime
of life, so far as it can be fixed at all physically
lis coming at an age when the mental powers are
comparatively immature and undeveloped
And this in turn means that We are losing PEG
pie more rapidly at the time when they may b.
supposed to be Of most value to themselves ant
society. Internationally here is an argumen
to support the efforts to be made to PHYSICAL
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
BACK TO THE SOIL.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The young
fellows from the farms are still flock
ing to the towns. This may be fool
ish in many cases. But they are
human. They have that desire to
see for themselves which is as old as
the human race and without which
there would be no improvement.
People do not learn by the exper-
fence of others. They find out Tor
themselves. And so in the course OF
time, many OF these youngsters do dis
cover that their elders were right and
they return 20 the farm. And they
make better farmers, they are better
satisfied for having convinced them
selves that there is nothing in the
city game.
There is a young fellow working IA
Burlington whose father IS weilto-do
and wants to give him farm. The
youngster does not want the farm.
The bright lights dazzle him just now.
He is one of many. and some day VIII
wake up and he will be glad to accept
the farm.
A little Lady Helpful says: "Ten
wears ago ran across a family IN the
utmost need. There was little
stranger and the people had nothing
to eat in the house and no fuel.
provided for them what little was
within nv means. The other day.
those people drove up in a gorgeous
touring car, evidently prosperous.
They went back to the farm soon
after the stranger had arrived and
there have been quite number OF
additions to the family since, and they
orc clothed in the fine raiment and
well fed and evidently all is well Win
them And could tell you OF similar
cases. There is money on The farm
and these people seem more contenteo
than the people in town
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
A PATHOLOGICAL CASE.

II may he that persistent contempiiitioh "a
,oorb;d conditions produces morbidlty. Az any
rate a professor of pathology in one OF our ma,
die west universities appears to have deVeloPeo
reerettable abnormality; for he secured a IL
ccnse not long ago to marry a young Woman
without the previous formality OF asking her W
no his wife. His case would seem to be as PAIN
illogical as any he usually studies, for ne ne
elected to inform himself concerning the real
sentiments of the girl, who intended all along
To marry. another man and would have told the
professor so had he taken the trouble TO INQUIRE.
II is more expedient now than it used TO De
IN win women to the idea of wedding before con-
s;der;ng tbe matter arranged They feel that
they should be consulted; and a spirited female
~; obt easily flare ND and refuse an otherwise
elioible party who thought himself so lrreslst-
ible that he had only to speak. And ne would
he a irving person to have about the house. he
would almost certainly assume to decide now
she should vote. determine her diet, choose her
church for her and pick out her hat and what
modern woman would submit to that? HAD
anyone less than Paul, that master intellect OF
antiquity. laid the Injunction on wives: = Submit
yourselves unto your OWE husbands 1t would
have been derided dead letter long ago; and
even the authority of that great name Is chai-
lenged by the today.
It NAV be wondered in passing what thought
Paul had in mind in ordaining so specifically
the submission of muliers to their $ own : hus-
bands. as though a woman ever dreamed OF tax
ing orders from any husband but her own. But
whatever the ancient practice was the times
have changed and we have changed with them,
and no one except a pathological professor OF
would any longer dream OF regulat-
ing his menage by Paulistic ideals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09
After your death you were better have a
bad epitaph, than Ill report while you lived
Shakespeare.
AN ENCOURAGING REFUSAL.

The mayor and city council of Providence,
Rhode Island, refuse to attempt to select the
most deserving one of that city girls OF twenty
years of age, the conditions Of choice being that
the candidate shall be child Of the common
people, and shall win by reason OF conduct and
display of ''fanlily virtues 1t IS highly I'M
probable that there is any most deserving
girl Of the sort since there are no standards by
which she could be picked out Ii the Italian
counts ten thousand-do fund had been ac-
copied the best the judges administering the
trust could have done would have been to insti-
tute odious comparisons and to arrive at a
choice sure to be criticized. On the whole the
refusal under compulsion Of such benefit trust
is good augu1y. II is well that we have in
our communities many girls Of twenty who
by conduct and family virtues make themselves
eligible for recognition that superiority cannot
be determined.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09

freeing of Mrs. O'Hare, President Will
son turned loose another violator Of
the espionage act. Morris Fucker. who
had been scntepced by a jury Of
Americans to fifteen years in the At.
lanta penitentiary.
fucker was convicted of crime
against the government in time OF
war. He had a fair trial and was
convicted and sentenced. The action
of the president in freeing him is in
applicable and wholly distasteful to
lovers of their country everywhere.
1t is rather a difficult thing TO
imagine the type of mind which
would consider such persons limo.
cent and allow them freedom of asso
citation with the people who rallied
to their country's needs and worked
with all their might for the speedy
prosecution of the war to a trium
plant finish.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-09

priest and the ruler may be different
persons, they are different only In a
functional way, like judge and an
executive in our government. the
spiritual ruler is also temporal ruler,
as was Mahommet in his day. The
killing of christians is virtue that
merits everlasting bliss in paradise.
The martyrs Of the early christian
ichurch burned with no more consum-
ing ardor than the humble, ignorant
NAH ommedan peasants who swear be.
fore the priest that they will go forth
land devote their lives 10 killing chris
Etians. Mahommedans who have
sworn to kill christians are called in
the Philippines juramentados, from