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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-02-06
MARQUIS OF Butte.

We have already given some account of
the great estates in England to which the
young Marquis of Butte falls heir with an
income of 81, 500, 900 year. The London
Neos has some later intelligence concerning
the Marquis - ..s- ...g.4- ... =.
"After a long allegiance the name and
honors of the Marquis of Butte are again
filling their place in public affairs, under
circumstances of nature to command at
tention. 1t is only three months since the
world was reminded of the extraordinary
position which the wearer of that title,
then just attaining his majority, was about
to take up. The son of man remarkable
for ability and enterprise, he found himself
master of an income of $500, 900 year,
from perfectly safe and rapidly increasing
sources. His social importance was such
that large portion of the British public
were not untruly said at the time to have
gone mad with joyous sympathy with the
owner of such prodigious wealth. Several
Scotch and Welsh counties made holiday
on his birthday, and Thousand of our fellow
countrymen employed in his coal pits, iron
mines, ports, and docks, for four-and-twenty
hours made his felicity their own. A fleet
of forty gally decorated steamers conveyed
the Marquis across the British Channel to
Cardiff, as became the owner of the fourth
born great man his ancestors had been
hereditary sheriffs of Butte for five CEN
turtles, and one of them. had been First
Minister of the Crown. But it was his
wealth from which the thought of his i'm
portance set out, and to which it returned.
When people had got tired of the monoto-
ny of the phrase. Three hundred thous-
and year. they set to analyzing the ex-
preston and recombining its elements.
The master OF three hundred Thousand
pounds year has done thing which his
Mentors in the press and his jubilant
friends and dependents in Scotland and
Wales would have been the very last per-
sons to applaud. This exalted nobleman,
this great landowner, this favored heir of
every gift of fortune, has taken up his hon.
in the lap of the Church of Rome. The
statement we reproduced on Saturday from
a Roman Catholic contemporary, that the
Marquis of Butte had been received into
the Church of Rome, has had doubt cast
upon it but it is strictly and unquestiona-
bly, true. Various details are currently re-
ported, for which we can discover no all-
thority but that the Marquis of Butte has
been received into the communion of Rome
by Monseignor Capel, an English priest, is
certain. This is in some respects the most
valuable prize which the Church of Rome
has made among us for very many years.
The good ship Marquis of Butte was among
vessels like Dutch galleon heavily freight
ed with pieces of eight, and to see it board
ed, taken in tow, and finally carried into
port, by the cruiser the Cross Keys, is al
most too much for English patience
There is no help for it however. The Mar
quis has only exercised a right of which we
are all very proud, the right of individual
judgment and although in this instance
he seems to exercise and rennunce the
ftsk53. ~, one aud the same act, still nopooy
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ABOUT SUNSHINE.

wish God had never permitted
man to invent green blinds,'" said a
gay and brilliant woman.
Why did she say it?
Because she saw, wherever she
went over our fair and sunshinv land
that green blinds were closely shut
upon our comfortable houses, secluding
the suns light, which we may be sure
God sends down for a blessed purpose.
That blessed purpose is to promote
growth, to give strength, to impart
color, to gild with beauty, to inspire
good thoughts, and to insure light
hearts and cheerful faces.
1t is thoroughly well known that no
valuable plant can grow well without
being ripened by the direct rays of the
sun; no plant can bear seed, no fruit
can ripen without it. 1t is thoroughly
we'll known that no valuable animal can
grow and perfect itself except it enjoys
the direct rays ofthe life-giving sun
The pigs of a friend of mine, which
were shut under his barn, and who
had everything favorable EXCEPT THE
SUNSHINE, failed to grow well; they
did not at all equal those which had
the ordinary run in the open air. So
it is, as we all know, with city-grown
children; they are pale weaklings the
world over ..-
The fish of the Mammoth Cave are
white; their eyes are not opened, be-
cause they have never felt the glorious
light they are weak and imperfect
kind of idiots, if fish are liable to that
wretchedness -.... r..
Now, then, can man, can WOMAN
thrive if debarred this life-giving light
Can our lovely Americans afford to Shut
out this light from their houses, and
grow idiotic in the dark? Are not
green blinds" a curse rather than a
comfort? We appeal to our fine women
who wish to be strong, who love to be
beautiful, who abhor Glow spirits" to
consider this matter.
Recent discoveries have shown that
there is conveyed to plants and animals,
by the direct action of the suns rays, a
subtle current of IRON, 1t does not
exist in light, or but very slightly if at
all, but is PART OF THE SUNS RAYS.
Therefore we must enjoy these rays, if
we would feel their full effect. This
iron it is which is supposed to give
color to plants and animals, and to i'm
part strength and beauty. With
strength and beauty come health and
good spirits, and dependency and fear
are banished.
Sleepless people,-and there are many
in Amcrica-should court the sun
The very worst soporifc is laudanum,
and the very best sunshine. Therefore,
it is plain that poor sleepers should
pass as many hours in the day in
the sunshine, and as few as pos
sible in the shade. Many women are
martyrs, and vet do not know it. They
shut the sunshine out of their houses
and their hearts, they wear wells, they
carry parasols, they do all possible to
keep off the subtlest and vet most po-
tent influence which is intended to give
them strength and beauty and cheerful
ness. Is it not time to change all this,
cneeKS, strenEJn- III our wessN ~.-~...,
courage in our timid souls The
women of America are pale and deli
cate-they may be blooming and strong,
and the sunlight will be potent inau-
ence in this transformation. Will they
not try it for a year or two, and much
oblige thousands of admirers.
Hearth and Home.
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For The Cecil Wing.
On Seeing the Picture of a Polar Bear.

| Thy Bear, 0 artist, from the canvas looks
In all the ripe ferocy and force
| The iron strength and savage symmetry
Of Polar life. 1 shulder as gaze.
| ! hear the angry and tremendous crow
Surge from that mighty throat: what grinding power
| Throbs in those giant muscles, those huge limbs
Those ono blow from which would crush the bon'
| OF OK Or lordly bison. l can feel
The hot breath from those fierce, black nostrs blow
| Across my cheek. listen to the beat
| OF that mysterious thing we call the heart:
| In him how like some engine vast and ribbed
With bars Of steel and bands of shining brass,
And through whose pusing chambers without pause
The warm and ruddy current sweeps along
Like red Amazon! Those savage fangs
SO keen. polished. and so pitiless.
How they have crauncled the frozen flesh of seal
of warus or of tawny Esquimaux,
Or Franklins long-wept, nc'er-returning crew
Stretched out and stiened on the blue bright ice
That barrcades the awful solitudes
Of Parry Islands and Of GrinnelI's Land.
That broad and eager tongue looks warm and red
As if it dripped with the hot. smoking gore
From some yet palpitating heart. Those eyes
What Wild brute-fre untarned ferocity,
lie blazing in their black, volcanic depths,
That huge and mailed paw has left its track
On realms the foot of man has never trud
And never Will. Those nosttils have giufed up
The solemn winds that shrek and wall across
The Open Polar Sea. toss the white
And gliterng mantle of eternal snow
That folds Mt Washington that push down towers
And pyramids and worlds of sky-blue ice
With foalnng plunge and metallic ciang,
Hence to be driftod South till Cuban airs
And the Gulf Stream and Tropic suns dissolve
Their dazzling shapes The hr;y. lori
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WA Citizen of Washington, whom we
will call Mr.. p, once rang at the door Of
the British Minister, and telling the servant
that he had important business with the
Minister, was shown into the ante-room,
where he was soon joined by tibet official,
when the following dialogue took place -
"May ask, sir, what business it is that
you have with me?'' Certainly, sir: it is
this In passing your house learned that
you have whist party here tonight, and
thought would just step in and see what
are trumps.'' The sublime impudence of
the thing so amused the Minister that he
invited the intruder into the room where
the guests were assembled, and introduced
him as " the most impudent man in Amer
ica' i''t44' PIT. JAYS. ~ fii1p~ s'lp !-.- 2
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'6yE-BY0yE.
Gone by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.

"One by one the sands are moving,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
"One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength 60 to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee .
Learn thou first what these can teach.
some by one bright gifts from Heaven.)
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
"One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band: 'f'--
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.
"Do not look at life's long SORROW;
See how small each moments pain;
God will help thee for tomorrow,
So each day begin again.
every hour that fleets so slowly
Has its task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown and holy,
If thou set each gem with care.
"Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond;
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
"Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching Heaven but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken,
Ere the pilgrimage be DONE"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-02-06

"A gentleman in London recently fell
in love with portrait of a beautiful girl
which he saw i'll photographers saloon,
and declared he would make the original
his wife. "You cannot do So" replied the
photographer, "for she is only servant"
He vowed that this should make no differ
ence. At last it was agreed that the gem
tleman should dine at the photographers
that the girl should wait upon him, and
that he should thus have an opportunity of
seeing whether his admiration was deep
enough to stand the sight of his goddess in
cap and apron. 1t stood that test, and
very soon the servant goddess became the
wife. The relation of this story in Lon
don paper is said to have already caused
several pretty servant girls to offer their
faces to photographers. RI
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ROSA.

Rosa, our kitchen maid, is eighteen,
graceful and trim, and hardly less black
than Jacob. She wears dangling earrings
set with blue glass stones, and bright
pink frock which fits her as nicely as a
French grisett's. She had only been with
us week or two when Sylvia came into
the parlor where we were all sitting.
"What do you think Rosa wants to do?"
she said, laughingly. Actually she desires
to come into the parlor and play for u.s.
She says she can sing, and that she plays
the organ in the colored Methodist Church."
We all cried out let her come in, and in
few minutes, quite radiant and self-con-
scious, Rosa tripped in to the piano. She
struck few fine rolling chords, and then
began to sing. We all started in amaze
ment Pure and clear and full of melody,
her voice scared like lark's, and over
flowed the room with its volume. We had
expected to be amused, but we were dumb
with astonishment. .'A'
Kate, whose delicate soul finds express
sion at the piano, put whose voice is hardly
strong enough for vocal expression, flushed
and trembled with delight as Rosa sang,
and, when she ended, murmured with
sigh, almost of envy, so, if had voice
like that ~
Next day questioned our black swan
ABOUT ner advantages IOT cultlVatlOu. her
father and mother, with their three daugh-
tiers, had been slaves till 1868. They had
had kind master, and were never sold
apart. After becoming free, the parents
had put the three girls in school, and now
they could read and write, and her father
had hired piano. and all had learned to
play little Rosa and her second sister
"lived out, but the youngest, only eleven,
was still in school. ..... ~.
"We shall make teacher of my little
sister," said Rosa, complacently, as she
told me all this. .-.. r.. .
"But how did you learn to play and sing
SO well?" asked. #..s .EfsFz
so, took few lessons, but get it
mostly by ear. But you ought to hear my
next sister play and sing. She can sing
splendid; Tn nothing alongside of her."
"But where do you get your style, Rosa?
who taught you to sing in the way you do9'
"Well, I've listened to white folks sing
ing, and two or three times I've been to an
opera, and heard ladies' sing there. / bet
you I listened close. And after that l
could just initiate them, every notion
1t must have been true, for no uncultured
voice could have executed song as Rosa
does.-Atlantic Monthly for February. ..
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sN There is story told in the Peoples
Journal which gives good idea Of the
drinking style of the last century, and
which ought not to be overlooked. This is
what our grandfathers took for humor.-
The Lord Panmure here spoken of was,
believe, the father of the present Lord
Dalhousie. 1.-TWO young English noble
men were paying visit to Lord Panmure
at Berchin Castle. One day he wrote let
ter to Panlathie, tenant of his, to come
and dine with him, and at the same time
he ordered him to bring sum of money.
Panlathie was aware when he got that
order that something was to be DONE
After dinner, Lord Panmure gave the first
toast, which was GAN hats in the fire, or
ego on the table" Four hats were i'm
mediately in the fire. One OF the English
noblemen gave the next toast, All coats
i'll the fire, or $50 on the table" Four
coats were committed to the flames. The
other English gentlemen gave the next
toast, CAN boots in the fire. OF e100 on
the table," The whole of the boots were
committed to the flames. Panlathie's toast
came next, which was Teo fore-teeth in
the fire, or goo on the table," when Pan
lathe pulled his teeth out and threw them
in the fire The English noblemen looked
amazed. He had ivory teeth unknown to
them, and Panlathie went home without
hat, coat, or boots, but he had e6OO in his
pocket. Lord Panmure thought much of
his tenant after that.
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Only six years since there died at Lar
gle, South Argyllshire, an old man who
remembered the introduction of the first
cart into that district. Such an excitement
was aroused by it that people flocked from
far and near to get sight of the wondrous
machine; and, in selfdefence, and to pre-
serve his property, its owner took it to
pieces each night and slowed away its
wheels, box, and axle, in a place of salty
till morning. And yet, before that mans
death, the steam pillow had been used in
Largie. --zr1-z-. rss---
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On THE TRACK.

The other day heard mother ask her
little son to do something. "In minute, ~
he said. She spoke again. But it was one,
two, three, four, five minutes before he
minded her. 1t makes me think of the
switch-tender's boy. Wharf.-The hadwaited
a minute before minding his father? A
switch-tender i'll Prussia was just going to
move a rail, in order to put coming train
of cars on side track, when he caught
sight of his little son playing on the track.
The engine was in sight, and he had not
a moment to spare. He might jump and
save his child but he could not do that
and turn the switch in time and if it were
not done, the on-coming train would meet
another train, and a terrible crash and
smash take place. - 30 -
The safety of hundreds of lives depended
upon his fidelity. What could he do?--
What did he do? ellie down lie down "
he called, with loud, quick voice to the
child and seizing the switch, the train
passed safely on its proper track. He fell
flat between the rails and the cars went
high over his head and when the anxious
father sprang to the spot, there he was
alive and well-not hair was touched
1t was his quick obedience that saved his
life. He did not stop a minute. Even a
moments hesitation would have been too
late.
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t Hew a couple of infant statues
out Of log, if you would have rep
resentation of" the babes in the woods"
49, Why are naval aud military
officers the most unlucky Of men? Be
cause they are always in some MESS or
other. -st. 81 .f-aT a. Is
DEpRAvED TAsTE.-The small gen.
tleman who INDUCED so freely in biting
sarcasm, has taken to swallowing af-
fronts. .....-. g. ....--
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tNS When man presents himself
before a public audience, it often hap
pens that his body is inclined to sink
while his heed swims. 81 -5 az
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est position to ride on the high places
of the earth, and to be an honor to his
native country"
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PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at Public Auction. Mt his
farm, two miles north of Elkton
Monday, the Sh day Of February, meet,
kaso His Stock and Farming Utensils lEsShN4A
@NA viz: 6 good Work AMI Driving NtEAA
.ssAa.4. Horses, good Brood Mares. .--g=zM.
twoy old Colts. yoke of Oxen pr re-bl0oded AL
derny Bull Cows, young Ieifers AM Steers Ye,rliny
rniye' % head Of superior Sheep 2ox Carts light
Farm Wagon. Hay Bed, Dea. lor, | Endless Chain
tw"-s"rse Power and Thresb r | Cnmbn,I Reancr and
M%M'ri n2 sd Hhea' Drill Tooth Horse
ing S,ythes, Flows arrows C'I,ivntnrs iar,o IL
Fork with Block and Tackle Forks shoveis Hoes. Wagon
Harness tiow iers with many other article, usual and
necessary fer carrying on a farm
iEhM9 VI saLE-Ali sums Of so and under Casi,
on th ncVery oil the property: sums over $50
credit OF SIX Months viii ho given purchaser giving
Note with approved cndnrser payable bank and inter
est added. IA Sale to cnr-mencc a 10 o'clock M
Jan %. lSoa-ts III. MCCULLOUGH
j. b. ASH, Auctioneer
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
THE IRON FOUNDRY, AND BLACKSMITH
IND WHEEL WRIGHT SHOPS now occupied by
Ttom,s j. Jones situated at the of Main and
Bridge Ssrect, in the Of Elkton, NIL good bust
mes. ha. been done tl-sc Shops for number of years
and il one of the location. in the county T" good
mechanics with small capital, opportunity is offered
la do nice business The trade is already there, and
NAV be kept Possession given the first day of May
n.It Rent moderate For Terms &C.. apply To
JOS. p. CANTW ELL,
Jan %. ls69-3w Ekt"n, Md
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Orchilla GuanO.

A TRUE BIRD GrANO
Rich Phosphaes and Salt :nd equal to the best A
JOHN PARTRIDGE,
oct TO- 1868 Ektoh.
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Evening star., 1869-06-18

Number thirteen OF Appleton's Jouraa has Q
first page full length wood-cut (drawn by q as
ton Fay) of young wife Knitting q tiny stock
ing by the side of a cradle In which lies sleep.
ing infant-the picture being entitled "Not q
Girl OF the Period" Guess she must be. or
she wouldn't Be finishing on the stocking q ae
top. Our granomothers didn't knit them that
way.
Nor Is Darley's drawing Of Spring" in the
same issoe, much more creditable. Certainly
DO person ever saw a birds nest built in such
an exposed and impossible a position as he
puts IL. And where is the young man 3 left leg
Cut of at the hip joint, We presume, for NO
person but professional con tortionist could
possibly sit in the position ne is represented
without showing it, or at least giving an iudi-
cation that he had one. But possibly he is
practising the earth cure for rheumati sm or
boils, and has the missing leg in a hole in the
ground. In the next picture, "Summer," the
young man is all right and smiling, but the
young womsn has ''slumped in up to the hips
at the same hole, apparently, as neither of her
'lower limbs" are visible or give any indica-
ton Of existence. But sbe is picking roses
from some tree shaped bushes. as if she didn't
mind il.
Evening star., 1869-06-18

Az evening contemporary Is laboring under
misapprenensIOn of facts VIXEN il says that
eyery one who undertakes to practice the pro-
fession of Physician In this District without a
license from the medical society Is liable to a
fne of S5l II IL had inserted the words
'except such as have regular medical dIplo.
mas, the statement would have been correct
Drs. Puryis and Augusta, rejected by the
medical society on Wednesday evening last,
had sUcn diplomas at the time they applied to
the society for license 10 practice. They made
application, however, under a misapprehen-
lon OF the provisions of the charter, which
does not require those having a regular medi.
cal diplomas TO obtain license from the society
ChToniclc.
If our contemporary Will examine the ad-
nITable anniversary Grafton of Dr. J. N. Toner
before the Medical Society in 1885, it will find
data there 70 show that 1t has itself "mis-
apprehended the facts" The law directs that
individuals engaged in practice here must
obtain license from the examiners of the
Eedical Society, and 10 obtain this, must
satisfy the Board of Examiners Of their pro-
hcleney, either by The presentation OF diploma
fIom some respectable college, or by under
going an examination; and "if approved q
license Is granted Some have claimed that =
d. DIS diploma from a regularly chartered
college Is IN itself a license to practice This
society holds that colleges can confer honors
but rot privileges or authority. Licensing is
purely legislative act-a sort of police regu-
lStion-hable TO be changed or modified at any
tine by the authorities with whom il origi
mated.
Drs. Purvis and Augusta having received
such licenses from the Board Of Examiner 5
have all the legal rights requisite for practice
1T the District of Columbia