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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-08-01
THE RECORD SPEAKS.

The New York Times warns
the Republicans that in John
W. Davis they have an opponent
against whom, before the fight
is over, they will have to call up
all their resources. 1t has new
er. been a Republican weakness
10 belittle the strength of politi.
cal opponents. Republican bat
ties have been won because of
the forceful and convincing way
in which facts of government
have been marshalled and pre-.
sented to the people. That
course will be followed this year
and there will be no relaxation
of effort until the ballots are cast
on November 4th.
But while they know that a
strenuous campaign is ahead OF
them, Republicans feel confident
that they have an advantage
over their opponents that is
bound to win. No party ever
before went before the people
with such an impressive record
of achievement. The mere re-
citsl of what has been done in
the three years since Republi-
cans took control of the govern.
ment is sufficient to assure the
support of intelligent citizens.
The record cannot be disputed
because it is fortified by figures
and official documents. Demo.
Gratis will make little progress
by telling the people that they
would be better off with char &c
of government. Those who keep
abreast of the times know how
the public welfare is improving
and will see to it that the pro.
cess is not interrupted.
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CARD.

Having opened Law Office in the
cooksey Building at La Plata, in
addition to our Office in the Bank
Suilding at Hughesville, we hereby
announce TO the public that one mem
,er OF our firm can be seen at or La
Plata office any day during the week
and at our Hughesville office on Mon
lay, Wednesday and Saturday OF each
week.
MUDD & EDELEN.
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Modern Weapons Win Fight.

How little group of police nipped
the reyoltof a savage African tribe
told in the Washington Star Magazine
Section Tor Sunday, August 3. Other
features OF that issues are by John
Galsworthy, Sterling Hellig, Frank g..
Carpenter, g. b. Stern, Stephen Lea
cock, Wallace Irwin and various other
well known writers.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-08-01

Send me your name and address,
that may post you on market condi'
lions.
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Tuesday, Aug. z. 1924,

between the hours OF M. and O'Clock
Z. M, the said property so seized and
taken in execution, by public auction,
10 the highest bidder for cash.
JOSEPH II. HOW ARD,
Sheriff OF Charles County, Md.
6-1S-4t.
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Trespass Notice.

| have taken'up as an estray, tres
passing upon my premises near Bel
Alton, Nd, one lamb, weighing about
" pounds. The owner or owners OF
said lamb will come forward, prove
ownership, pay charges and take same
away; otherwise, it will disposed of
according to law.
ALLIE MILLS,
7-ll-2t Bel Alton, Md.
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E. MAURY POSEY,
935 La. Ave, N. W.,
WASHINGTON D. c.
U. S.. GOVERNMENT LICENSE No
G-0l535.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Orphans Court for Charles
Co., SIS
La Plata, Md, July l, 1924.
Ordered by the Court. that erdinand
Q. Cooksey and Caroline Norris give
notice required by law to the creditors
OF Frank Norris, deceased, to exhibit
their claims, legally authenticated, by
advertisement published in some news
paper, printed in Charles County, Md. /,
once in each of three successive weeks.
True Copy-Test:
MOTLEY 7. BUTTON,
Register OF Wills for Charles County.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
In the Circuit Court for Charles
County, Maryland.
No. ITO Equity.
F. Matilda Adams, ct al, Plaintiffs

virgie Freeman, e. al, Defendants.
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II you want to sell your farm, list Ii
with S. K. Bprch, Hughesville, Md
bay
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29
Flag as Reminder
] at Little Mounds
Wind Whipped Standard
Tells Story of Strife for
Peace of Today.

t"HE richest memory OF May Is
our great Memorial Day, writes
| Samuel S. Drury, in Youths
lCompanion. Though holiday not yet
threescore years cid, it has won its
way into every state in the Union and
carries its message OF hope and reso-
luton to the heart Of every true Amer
lean. Hark! Can you not hear the
bands clashing through our leufy
streets all the way across the conti-
nent? Can you not see the veterans
in their faded uniforms marching or
being reverently drawn to the solemn
observances1 Can you not picture
grent bouquets Of lilacs and daisies
generously provided from natures
greenhouse for every soldiers gravel
Now what Is this all about? II only
We could have quiet time to consider,
II only we might take a day off to
think things out Such day we
have. On the holiday the community
takes q day of. One purpose of a
holiday Is by rest and refreshment to
put first things first. What then shall
good Americans think and do and re-
solve on Memorial Day7
The reflective patriot first Of all on
this day will grow in gratitude. A mo-
ment's quiet thought convinces US that
we are lnheritors Of valorous sacrifice.
That single wind-whipped flag by a
single soldiers grave Is ample remind
er to sensitive patriot that our peace
full today springs from stressful and
sacrifcial yesterdays In 1861 young
men loved life as intensely as we do
now. Homes meant quite as much
then as they do today. To enlist, to
fight to die-those steps in the pa
triot's pilgrimage involved the dedica-
ton of self to greater than personal
causes. War ever means love of
cause. Every boy and girl who knows
a soldier Of the Civil war chow swift
ly these venerable men are passing
from usD may develop this sense Of
gratitude on Memorial Day by talking
with such, g veteran. Qn 3 national
day like this we realize that the good
event never just happens, that all our
developments, be they personal. do
nestle or national. cost in human
energy and sacrifice. The first emotion
on Memorial Day Is this pulsatlng
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29

Davidson. Miss Davidson carried the
big flag and, in addition. each girl
wore small flag on her shoulder.
Halt" ordered the officer in charge.
The futtering line stood still. The
officer demanded the surrender of the
big flag. Miss Davidson refused. He
warned her that she might be arrested
and imprisoned. She merely remarked:
Come. young ladies'" and the white
gowned procession marched calmly
past the dumfounded soldiers and
climbed into two waiting omnlbuses.
A young man. friend of Miss Da-
Wilson'S brothers, climbed up beside
the driver OF the first omnibus and,
taking the flag, shouldered 1t himself.
The old negro driver touched his whip
to the horses and the buses started.
The commanding officer, recovering
from his establishment, leaped upon his
horse and galloped in front Of the con-
veyance and, covering the young man
with his revolver, demanded the sur
render of the nag. The boy refused
and the officer shot him dead. The
flag wrapped itself about his body as
he fell to the ground.
The street was instantly filled with
excited citizens and the Federal SOL
diers carried the body away and bur-
led 1t within the hour without cere-
mony, but Miss Davidson and her girls
followed 1t to the cemetery and when
the soldiers had left they scattered
some of the flowers they carried on
the mound and marked the place with
flags and stood in circle while Miss
Davidson led In prayers. 1t was then
late evening, but the remaining how-
ers were carried through the city again
to the old Blandford cemetery, where
sleep "The Blue and the Gray" A
short service. was held and the graves
decorated with flowers and small flags
Custom Continued.
The custom was thereafter contin-
ued. Two years later, in March, 1893.
Col. Charles L. Wilson, editor Of the
Chicago Journal, invited party con
sisting of his niece Miss Anna Wilson
Qater Mrs. Horatio May), Miss Far
rar, his fancee. General Logan and
Mrs. Logan, all Of whom are now dead,
to accompany him on visit to the
battlefelds around Richmond.
1t was bleak March day and snow
was falling when the party visited
Blandford cemetery, In Petersburg, AS
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29
One of the First
Decoration Days
Grave of Young Southerner
Scene of Service That
Drew Attention.
XXIHEN flags are fiuttering bands
w playing, feet tramplng, cannon

"HEN flags are tiutterins' bands
" playing, feet tramping, cannon
booming, hearts swelling and
tears rising, as millions pay tribute to
Americas war dead, on May 80. an
aged Southern woman, sitting at the
window of her little home In Peters
burg, Va, will remember memorial
day that antedated the famous "Order
No. IL" by which Gen John A Logan,
as commander-in-chief OF the G. A. r.,
established the national custom, writes
Ernest G. Pollard in the New York
World.
Miss Nora Fontaine Maury David
son, Petersburg residents claim. dec
Grating the grave Of Southern patriot
and the sight Of the wreaths anr hags
on the Confederate graves at Peters
burg, as described by Mrs. Logan to
her husband, suggested to him the Idea
he carried out in Order No. II and
later by bill in congress-.
Mrs. Logan. In her "reminiscences
Of Soldiers Wife," tells the story of
her visit to Petersburg. and OF the re-
sulting action of General Logan, but
she does not mention having seen or
heard of Miss Davidson. Mrs Logan
died but recently.
This Is the story, however. as Miss
Davidson's friends tell 1t, and 1t Is
firmly rooted tradition of the town.
In Spring Of 1855.
In the spring of 1866, Petersburg,
the historic old Virginia city, % miles
from Richmond, the scene of some of
the hloodest fighting in the Civil war,
was under martial law, and occupied
by Federal troops. One day in March
a squad Of soldiers on duty were as
tonished by the appearance Of the
Confederate flag at the head Of pro-
cession OF pretty girls, in stiffly
starched white dresses and black
sashes, marching out of the "Confed-
crate school," select seminary for
young. ladies. conducted by. Miss Nora
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29

they entered they paused to let large
group Of school girls and their teacher
pass out. They had seen the girls and
the young woman arise from their
knees on the damp earth where they
had been praying, and now they saw
the graves strewn with flowers and
futtsring little Confederate flags.
As is well known, when Mrs. Logan
returned to Washington she told her
husband OF the old cemetery and the
fower-strewn graves, and he declared
he would establish the custom as
permanent one. As commandments
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public he issued Order No. II, which
he nfterward called ''the proudest act
of my life As member of congress
from Illinois, he introduced the bin
Ju'N 90 1868, and ii was unanimously
ADOPTED -.:-4..aiaa..sssssls : S.,ss,ss,s
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29
Tributes Are Due
to Fallen Heroes
Observance of Memorial
Day Is Duty and Privi-
lege of Americans.

L v
the Civil war, has co.ue in
these later years to mean much more
than that, says n writer in the Detroit
Free Press. The dwindling lines of
the Old Guard, representing the Grand
Army of the Republic, will soon pass
in last review before the Inspector
general, and the heroes of other, later
wars will take their places.
1t is well that we Americans keep
in memory all our men who struggled
in battle to keep Old Glory flying in
the heavens. These men, heroes Of
the Spanish-American war and those
Of the World war conflict, now loom
large on the national horizon, and to
them, as well as to the remnant Of the
Old Guard that kept watch and ward
along the Potomac and in the Missis-
siDpi valley during the dark days Of
the Civil war, our solemn graciousness
is due.
We can never do enough to show
our appreciation Of what they did in
time Of trial, and 1t is meet that we
assemble each Memorial Day and give
thanks to Almighty God for the VIC
tories won by these sons Of the repub-
lie on SO many ensanguined fields Of
war.
The blue-clad armies that met sad
conquered the hosts of Lee IN the
sixties have their counterparts In the
lads in khaki who stemmed tho Cor.
man flood of frightfulness in the Ar
gonne, Belleau and on other fields Of
gore. teaching the hitherto conquerlng
hordes Of tho kaiser that the despised
Yankee from across the brine was not
visiting the Rhineland for picnic sport,
but to terminate once for all the
claims Of an absolute monarchy that
1t ruled the world.
Memorial Day Is the one day In all
the year when the men and women Of
America can show more reverent1y,
more sympatheticslly, more heartfelt
appreciation and gratitude for our
boys who in the World war as In all
other conflicts in which the republic
has been engaged, led the van, causing
victory to perch upon the banners Of
righteousness. ------ --,~--s,y.ss.,
Bring flowers to garland the graves
Of Americas soldier dead. What more
appropriated Tears for the dead, help
for the living We must not forget tho
MANNED and suffering, that legacy left
by the frightfulness Of the most fsro-
cious and heartless war in the history
Of the world. Kaiser Wilhelm sits in
the shadow Of Dutch hospitality and
broods over the fall Of the Hohenzol-
lern dynasty. His punishment Is small
compared to the suffering his guilty
reign inflicted on his fellow beings.
Doubtless he Is now counting the cest
when 1t is too late to save him from
the just condemnation Of mankind.
Many thousands Of graves will this
year be decorated in France. graves Of
American soldiers who paid with their
lives for their patriotic stand for God
and country when the bugle sounded
for the march across the ocean.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
COURAGE
- = - %is-- 81. i ssse /.
Il am the n,Gstsy Of my fee,
I am tie captain Of my soul"
'7F - " --HENLEY.

BrewniaS Called sIAe Putfsrsr.s
John " NJ i Browning was called
'.putterer.".s ana it often wasa said
that he liked to "just fuss around"
his shop. -
, His father was q gunsmfth. and
when very young the boy liked to
play around the shop in the then
frontier town of Ogden, Utah. He
was fourteen when he decided he
wanted gun and got psrmission of
his father to '..putter" about the
sraphsap. He made q muzzle-loadsr
that even his father admitted was
good, and copies OF, 1t were in de-
mand by hunters and trappers nearby.
He loved to roam the woods and
hunt, and he supplied the family
with game on trips outside Of school
about the shop and in his early
twenties invented his first single
shot rine. His father and brother
made many and sold them The Win
chester Arms Company offered him
s,,S pig sum for tho patent and he
He learned to play the banjo, con-
tinued to tinker In the shop and in
vented many types Of firearmS-the
Winchester rifles. Remington shot
guns and automatic rifles and many
others Foreign concerns took up his
inventions and his ideas revolution
ized tho firearms Of many nations.
As the result OF further inventing
he turned out the automatic revolver,
then the automatic gun that was
known as the Colts machine gun, the
only machine gun used in the Span
ish- American war.
When the world war broke out
Browning wac working on an auto
matte rtfie that could be carried by
soldiers Germany seized his arms
factory In Belgium, cutting OF an
immense revenue. Four years later
the United States government adopt
ed the Browning light and heavy
machine gun, proclaimed to be the
best ever invented.
Brownings income jumped to ST.
100000 a year, he was knighted by
England and decorated by many other
countries. He was declared to be the
greatest firearms expert OF the time.
And many said he continued to
putter." to hunt, and during spare
time to play his banjo near his little
shop at Ogden, just as he had been
doing Tor many years.
Copyright, 1sA.)
Evening star., 1924-03-21


that it will have influence upon the
coming primaries in South Dakota
and, indeed. throughout the country.
It must be discouraEing to Senator
johnson. Throughout tho progress Of
the campaign thus far, while Presi-
dent Coolidge has been picking up
delegates in New England, in the
south and the middle west. the John
son men have said. "wait until the
preferential primaries begin to make
returns and you will see the real drift
OF the voters"
Well, we begin to see 1t now. and
the drift continues to be toward Cool
;,ee. II Senator johnson cannot carry
such community as North Dakota,
where. indeed, he ran behind Senator
La Toilette, his chances elsewhere
would appear to be diminishing.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
Spring.

Tho first full day Of spring, 1924,
does not suggest daisies and cherry
blossoms quite 50 much as gum shoes
and chilblains, but March would not
be March il he, or she, did not deal us
foul days as we'll as fair. There Is al
ways vivacity and variety in March.
She has temperament, and many kinds
men guessing. and sometimes gives
the weather man q jolt. Almanac
spring arrived in Washington at 4:3o
pm. March 20. and about when clocks
were striking midnight the snow was
with us. There is very little. use in
scoading March. Time out Of mind
she has gone her wi1lful way, unfeeltng
and unthinHng Of the compliments or
tAunts Of men. March was Wild or
Eiddy and bright or fro1ning when
our grzndmas were little girls, and
an that men can say viii not change
tho moods or ides of March. One
might venture to say that March has
really bean kinder and more gracious
this year than II her went. She has
given courage to the maple buds and
smiled On croeus and hyacinth. and so
far there has been. in March more
balm than wrath. How she win behave
from now till dainty April comes is
anybody.s, including the weather bll-
reau's, guess. But 1t is remembered
that March came In as a lamb, and,
according TO tadition, she will go out
as an animal OF q less confiding dis
position.
Evening star., 1924-03-21

the government has expanded, but the
people have come to need more gov
erning than formerly. Al time passes
more things seem to require public
regulation and the things that We
used to think were well enough regu-
lated seem to need more minute and
more elaborate regulation, The cost
of government per capita rises.
The ONCE Of the building inspector
tells it's troubles. It has only eight
men available for field work." which
no doubt means men available for in
spectins buildings in course Of con-
struction. and. SO far from being able
to give these men up.to-date trans
portation in gasoline machines, it is
even shy on car tokens to help them
In their tasks. The whole District is
divided into eight sections for build
ing inspection purposes, and every one
knows what an orgy of building we
have had since the end OF the war
and how busy we still are In covering
old pastures with. rows of houses and
in tearing down old buildings and set
ting new ones In their place.
It is said that these eight building
inspectors are being worked and
walked to exhaustion, and the building
inspector says there are only two So
lutions. one being to have more in.
spectors and the other to give quicker
transportation to the eight inspectors.
No automobiles are available for use
OF these men and the limit on car
tokens Is two q day for an inspector.
The building inspection Office makes a
confession Of being extremely hard up
when 1t cannot furnish car fare to in
spectors.
It Is said that two of eight in.
spectors are plutocratie or extrava.
CANT enough to own an automobile,
and these men are assigned territory
farthest from the District building
and they draw $40 a month for the
gas and upkeep Of the machine. The
other six men get two car tokens a
day while the car tokens last, and
often they do not last. Then these
building inspectors plod their weary
way from job to job.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
ANSWERS To- QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j.. HASKIN

tute OF Banking organfxed?-v. T."
A. - The American Institute ,sfof
Banking w&s organized in 1900. AT
the present time It has q membership
OF more than $4,000 members.
Q. Should the nag be lowered at
night IL the fort or ship over which 1t
Is dying Is engaged In battle?-J. T.
A. The nag is not lowered at sun
set during battle. It fies until the
end Of the engagement
Q. Isi a sponge classified a. a fish
or a vegetAble?-G. D.
A. A sponge is one Of a group OF
animals representing distinct branch
OF phylum poftfera. A sponge Is q
mahy-ceiled animal with three-cell
ity, supported usually BY calcareous
or silicious spicules, the body mass
permeated by ciliated passages con-
tanning minute chambers lined by
Sponges are hermaphroditic, multi
plying by fertilizing eggs. the gum
passing through a cleavage and q
gastrula stage.
DersysGW. S ~ o: oa 4 inc HfS' English
y 4. 1.!a + was won, by Diomed on June
O., Is there any, real ivory other
than elephants tnsks?--R H.
A. Ivory IS the name formerly given
to The; main substance Of the teeth
OF all animals, but II Ii now restrict
ed to that modification of dentine,
or tooth suAstaTce, which In trans
verse secttonss shows lines of differ
ent coIors running In circular arcs
and forming by thetr decussation
this character, which is represented
by every portion of any transverse
section Of an elephants tusk, true
ivory may be distinguished from
every other kind Of tooth substance,
from every counterfeit, whether de-
rived from tooth or bone. Although
no other teeth except those of the
elephant present this characteristic,
many other animals, such as the wal
rus, narwhal and hippopotamus, pos
sess teeth, horns or tnsks which,
from their largo size and from their
density, can be used for. the same
purposes in the arts as those for
which true ivory Is employed.
O. What was the family name of
Lord Delaware, colonial Governor OF
virginia?-C. G. d.
A. The family name Of Lord Della
ware was Thomas West The name
Delaware" was originally spelled
de Ia War;"
@. What is hat money?-G. e. D.
A Fiat money is paper currency
of government issue which Is made
legal tender by fiat or law, but does
not represent, or is not based, upon,
specie. and contains no promise OF
redemption :,
@. When were cars. first used to
propel boats!-E. c. P.
a Padding was probably known
before rowing, Boats with oars are
found in the earliest pictorial monu-
ments of Egypt about $500 &c. In
these some orews are facing the bow
and others the stern. Later the hero
glyphs show the oarsmen facing the
stern.
O. When a man Of India loses caste
does he descend into the caste be-
meath Hmm. F.
A. In losing caste, a man does not