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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-22
ORDER OF RATIFICATION.
No. 429 Equity,
ZlER AND A. II. DELOZIER

MMe CircHfC0urt for Charles County,
sitting IN Eqnjty. rs.
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General Sherman.

George Alfred Townsend writes to
the Graphic an entertaining account OF
Gen. Sherman's home-life In st. Louis.
The General is perfectly at home in ST.
Louis, and Is very popular He is AT
pains to be very cordial with people.
and goes to entertainments with a free,
dom which never fails te be charming.
Mrs. Sherman, quiet lady, who has
graf influence over the General, is with
him almost all the time, and they give
pleasant receptions at their dwelling at
least on one night of the week. Their
two fine young daughters are at school
in Ohio Miss Lizzie Sherman is visit
ing III the East, and Mrs. Fitch
is quietly ensconced III her transmits
sissippi home. The celebrated Jewels
which the Khedive gave ostensiblv TO
Mrs. Fitch were designed for the Gen
eral as a family present. but the deli
cate occasion of his daughters Nddins
wa.5 selected to offer them nominallv to
Mrs. Fitch. Il is understood in St.
Louis society that these treasures will
be divided up among the daughters,
and presumably the gift is worth some
thing under 100000. The family
lIdlloIOh ID DllCh building,
square and high, with high ceilings,
large halls and chambers, and is well
fitted to be the headquarters of the
army. The flagstaff is raised over the
roof, and an orderly in civilian dress is
found at the door. There are now but
six staff officers. Sherman wears street
dress; sometimes his trousers are black,
and again his coat blue and his trousers
black, and sometimes both coat and
trousers a1e blick and the vest blue.
He appears to get into his clothing with
out much ado, and he transacts SO much
business and talks SO rapidly that peo-
pie scarcely have the chance to look at
his clothing. He has an immense mum
Der of callers. Foreign actors and ar
lists, travellers, military companions, la
dies, and dependents go INTO his quar-
ters with freedom.
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generosity of Napoleon |.

The slightest act OF generosity on a
Kings part IS remembered. And there
are many recorded of Napoleon. He
liked to play the part of Joseph, and
prepare pleasant surprises for those he
wished to befriend. For example,
shortly after the fall of Dantsic MAY
a. 1900, wishing to rec0mpense the
services of Marshal Lefebvre, who had
taken the principal part in the capture
of the town, Napoleon summoned the
Marshal to his presence at SIX o'clock
Iii the morning. When the veteran was
announced, the Emperor was already at
work with the chief of the staff. "Ah :"
he said to the latter, =" the Duke does
not keep us waiting" then, turning to
an aide camp, ordered him to go and
invite "the Duke of Dants,c " to break
fast. The aide thought he must have
heard the Emperor imperfectly, and
ventUred to remark that it was Marshal
Lefebvre, and not the Duke oil. Dantsic,
who awaited His Majesty'5 commands
The Emperor replied with a villainous
pun Che was a terrible sinner in this re-
spect), which is not susceptible OF
translation-'' Ii parait, monsieur, que
vous me croyez plus capable de faire, I'M
connie gu lu uuC, Az DTSdhIuSb ne
took every opportunity of addressing
the Marshal as an. lie Due till the
Marshal guessed the honor which had
been conferred on him. But another
pleasant surprise was in store for him.
" Are you fond of chocolate, NJ. lie
Duc!" asked Napoleon. "Well-yes,
sire" Good; we are not going to
breakfast on it, but [ will give you a
SQUAD of some which comes from Dant
tic" Presently the Emperor took from
cabinet a small case which he present
ed to the new made Duke, with a few
words of compliment. When the Duke
opened it in the privacy of his study, he
found what, to say the truth, he may
have half expected, viz: 500, 600 IN
notes; for Napoleon was in the habit Of
making these princely presents to his
generals. As to the question of where
the money came from, the less said the
better. The miserable Germans knew
too wei, and in later years have made
the French understand their sensations
at that time.-The Galaty for July.
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How sheep Got Into Australia

In 1897 three McriEo rams and five
ewes We're carried to Australia; but SO
slow did wool-Rrowing increase, that II
was not until 1907, ten years later, that
the first bale of wool was shipped
thence TO England. But the focks of
Australia did not originate from that
source. Mr.. Hayes tells us that the de-
velopment Of fine-wool husbardry in
the colonies was the result of al acct
dent. Some English whaIers captured
IN the South Seas, about the beginning
OF the present century, vessel pro
ceeding from Peru to Spain, in which
there were some 300 MerinO rams and
owes. These sheep were carried to Au-
stralia, and originated the fine Merino
wool husbandry which to-day plays so
important part IN the tine-wool supply
Of the world.-A'ationat Lire Stock
Journal
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


NJ. Plouard, lawyer of Andelys,
France, has invented a new cider, said
to be very cheap and OF excellent flavor
the peculiarly Of which is that large
proportion of sugar beets is mixed with
the apples before pressing; eighty
pounds of beets are mixed with zoo
quarts of apples, or about eleven pounds
to 100 quarts. The beets and apples
are pressed together, then saturated
with water, left quiet IN cellar for
twenty four hours, and pressed anew.
This is repeated seven times. The in
ventor says he makes 100 quarts Of cider
for eighty cents, which seems rather
questionable
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4 Wicked Waste of Energy.

The Iron Age makes the report that a
moving machine manufacturer intends
to spend Sl0,00 on a single machine,
to be exhibited at the Centennial, the
text for some good advice to the intend
ing exhibitors in the iron trade. The
advice is that the manufacturers shall
exhibit the best goods they can make
every day in the week in their own
shop. " Nickel plated stoves with gold
trimming, carpenters tools with pearl
handles, saws with etched blades, and
similar fancy articles might be well
enough IN their proper places, but they
should not be shown among the legiti-
mate products OF our foundries or tool
shops. y If they, the visitors, look
at moving machines, they want to see
machines with which it would be posi-
bic to cut grass; if they look at stoves,
they want to see stoves IN which it is
possible to make satisfactory fire; if
at tools, they want to see practical tools
with which a mechanic can work" The
Iron Age does not depreciate all at
tempts at decorative art in the manu-
facture of articles intended solely for
use, but properly recommends that
after the article has been perfected the
artist shall be called in to give grace to
curves and beauty to the whole form.
/" He may then stop content if the
object be one of utility only. Excess
i've commentator is always ugly, and
and ornamentation out of place is bar
barrie. >
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sweet AnpIes.


] crav little space in your columns
for plea in behalf of sweet apples. In
view of the manifold uses of this class
of apples it may be doubted whether
they are receiving due attention. The
economy Of their consumption does not
appear to be realized.
In the hands of the skiilful house
wife they may be put to Il variety of
agreeable, healthful and profitable uses.
and by these uses managed with skill
important items in the family expenses
may be saved. \ dish of luscious baked
sweet apples satisfies the children for
dessert, and saves the labor and other
expense of pies. Baked sweet apples
and milk make the faces of the little
boys and girls round and ruddy. Fine
sweet apples for a baked pudding OF
any kind, hot or cold, are better than
raisins.
Cider applesauce made of sweet and
sour apples. mingled in proportion to
spit the taste, and thoroughly stewed
lie cider boiled down one-half. is a con
diment of which the appetite never
tires. lit should not be mashed or
stirred at all while cooking, but packed
for winter with the least practicable
manipulation, and kept where it will
freeze little. As wanted for use IT is
taken from the Jar or tub with 9 strong
spoon or instrument, and warmed upon
the top OF the boiling tea kettle.
ne sweet apple, coddled and eaten
with cream, Is dish of exquisite lux
ury. And where sweet apples are sup
pled IN abundance, the heads of fam
Ines have no need TO offer premiums or
other Inducements to procure the con
sumption Of large quantities They
are nutnclous, and used IN all these and
other ways they largely diminish the
consumption OF meats and other gross
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War on Christian Principles

One of the conditions of treaty with
Mexico, it is said, was that any future
war which might break out between
he two countries should be conducted
on Christian principles. Now, we all
know that this IS an age OF progress, and
hat all sorts Of improvements are con-
stantly taking place In all sorts of mat
tiers ; but war on Christian principles
is entirely the latest, and, if carried
out, will, we think, prove the greatest
of them all.
just imagine it. We think we can
see two armies drawn out in battle
array. A fair field is before them. The
ranks are formed, the positions taken,
the great guns numbered. The Gen
eral is just about to give the order to
fire, when an aid comes up and respect
fully reminds him that the war is to be
conducted on Christian principles, and
it Will not do to fire. every true, very
true says the Commandment Chief );
"but what are they? [ have read Vau-
ban, and Schelter. and Turenne. I have
read the lives of old conquerers, and
have studied the campaigns of the great
est soldiers; but [ never happened to
come across those principles in any
work upon the military art. Do you
know anything about it, Colonel ?"
"No"
Nor you, Major?'
ono"
" Nor 1, either. l really don't know
how to begin. l suppose it would not
do to shoot. Suppose we send for the
Chaplain"
The Chaplain arrives.
"Do you know anything about this
lighting on Christian principles p
con, yes; it is the easiest thing in
the world"
"Where are your books ?"
" Here" and the Chaplain takes out
the Bible.
Really" says the General, eve
we ought to have thought of that before.
1t is bad time to commence the study
of tactics when the enemy right be
fore us; but ] suppose we a:e bound by
the treaty. What Is the first thing, Mr..
Chaplain?'
"'Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. +"
g But these are not neighbors. They
are Mexicans."
1.-The same book tells us little
further on, that the opportunity to do
good to a man makes him our neigh
Dor"
"Will you 60 on, Mr.. Chaplain"
Glove your enemies. Do good to
them that hate you. Pray for them
who despitefully use you. If q man
smite you on one check, turn to him the
other"
"But while we are praying for the
Mexicans, they Will be firing into US.
" No; they are bound by the treaty
also. 1t works both ways"
''Then, what is the use OF our arms ?"
"This is also provided for in the
same book. Bend your swords into
ploughshares, and your spears into
pruning hooks.
"Then / do not see as there is any
thing for us to do here"
Nothing, unless you send and ask
the Mexican General if &c needs any
thing in the way of medicines, or provi-
sions, or clothing. / rather think the
treaty requires this Of us. And / don't
know but we ought to send them a few
for / understand they
are shockingly ignorant people"
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Broken Rhythm.

Nv oars keep time to half a rhyme,
That slips and slides away from me;
Across my mind, like idle wind,
A lost thought beateth lazily.
Adream. afioat. NY little boat
And / alone steal-ou to sea;
One vanished year, o Lost and Dear
You rowed this little boat for me.
All who can sing of anything
With none to listen lovingly?
Or who can time the oars to rhyme
When left to row alone to sea
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

THE New PANACEA- Modern science
having demonstrated that alcohol is
"neither food nor physic," but, on the
contrary, species of poison, the intro
ductlon of potent tonic which is en-
tirely free from it is certainly a subject
for cOngratulation. DIR. WALKER s
VINEGAR BITTERs is a medicine which
may be fairly characterized as an I'M
objectionable specific for many distress
ing and dangerous diseases.
Temperance organizations, heretofore
in favor of permitting the sale of alcohol
for medical purposes, are of the opinion
that VINEGAR BITTERs possesses all the
efficacy as an invigorant that has ever
been even claimed for spirituous slim
ulantG, and on this account, as well as
because of the singular success which
has attended its use in dyspepsia, liver
complaint, disorders of the bowels,
nervous diseases, general debility, and
all maladies growing out of intemper-
ance, they warmly recommend it as q
restorative and Alternative of SURPRISING
eXcellence.-COm.
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ELASTIC TRUSS CO.
623 Broadway, New York.

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books sold through agents this work. 6 thoroughly
advertised throughout North America. This fact
together with the large size, elegant appearance
and many features of the book, it to II
more rapidly than work pu bli shed in this
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Gus canyassing they never met 18th such success
or made so large wages, as since commencing the
sale of my work. For terms and territory, address
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Rules in Uiying Bees.

J. S. Parker, NJ. D., gives the Ger
mantown Telegraph series of les to
be observed in hiying bees, which we
have somewhat condensed as follows
1st. Allow no one to stir or make the
LEASE noise while the bees are lighting.
What Not blow horn, or ring a bell,
or drum on tin pan, or throw dust or
water Yes, reader; just exactly do
nothing but keep still. Now [ have
followed this rule IN over eight hundred
swarms | have hived for myself and
others, and | tell You the broad fact
have never lost a single swarm in all
that number. Bees will not 90 two
hundred feet from the hive they come
out Of if you let all be perfectly
quiet and there is anything to
light on. lily bees not one out of a
hundred swarms go even one hundred
feet before they ait0ays tight. SO it
viii be with your bees, reader. So
make 1t Il rue to have no stirring, no
noise, but all quiet until they are well
lighted. Then bring out the hive from
the cool cellar-whare it has been but
a day on two, lest it get damp and
mouldy-neat and clean, and us You of
course have the strips of boards or
sticks, boards, hivmg- cloth, etc, ready,
proceed to place your ladder and plat
form in the tree or on the ground, and
other appliances SO that before the last
bee has lit you are ready to hive them.
md. Never put swarm of bees di-
rcctly into Il hive. You ask why not?
Because il you do the bees may not
know it is a hive they are in, but only
think they have had a slight accident or
jar While yet on their lighting limb or
place. SO they viii leave the hive and
80 off to the woods, because they don't
know they are hives. Hence, you viii
place the hlvo 50 that when shaken off
OF the limb they lit on, they all have to
creep bUZzing into the hive, and all go
voluntarily up on the inside of it.
Then they will not make the mistake of
thinking they are not hived, but viii
know they have accepted hive.
81. lon need not be very quiet or
slow about making bees GO into the
hive. You minded the bees till they lit,
now Is the time to change and make
them mind you. So a gentle ruderess
in shaking off the limb is as good as
saying to them, = Bees, you have left
your lighting place" Ii they don't 90
in the hive readily, take dipper or fiat
piece of single or board, dip up a few.
a pint or so, and shake them roughly
close to the hive, as if to say, "There is
the hive, why don't you see it 2" Then
brush rapidly, but gently, the rest to-
wards the hive
18th. As soon as the most of them are
in, be ready to remove them to their
permanent stand. Thus YOU avoid the
coming out OF second swarm, and the
lighting and commingling of two
swarms. Thus YOU get rid, too. of the
few bees always uneasy and flying
about the swarm, and who doubtless are
the ones that find and lead the swarms
of to some hollow tree or log in the
woods These bees are rarely over
twenty to fifty in number, often not ten
of them.
9th. Remember to shade the new
hive from the sun until the Matched
brood is in the new combs.
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Mountain Railways

It is now in contemplation to estab-
lish a railway across the Simplon on the
rack-and wheel system (Riggenbach's)
now In operation for the ascent of the
Right. With ordinary engines the
gradient cannot exceed 8 pei cent; be-
yond that limit the locomotive could
barely work itself up alone Whenever
higher slopes have to be overcome with
out fetching long circuit, as has been
done, for instance, on the Trieste and
Vienna line, it is found necessary to
have recourse to peculiar contrivances,
which may be distinguished into two
classes, viz: l. a system of funicular
traction, by which both passengers and
goods are towed mp an Inclined
plane by fixed engines working a
horizontal drum, round which the
cable or chain attached to the train is
wound for the ascent, unwinding itself
for the descent This system is in use
at the Croix-Rousse, at Lyons, for the
service of the Dombes Railway, one OF
the most delightful little lines in
France. The gradient there is Is per
cent; the drum is IA feet in diameter,
and provided with powerful breaks; the
cable is made OF 252 iron wires, and
has diameter Of q inches. The num-
Der of passengers on this inclined plane
average 10000 daily, besides luggage
and provisions. 2. The Riggenback
system, mentioned above. The vertical
altitude of the Right Kuhn above the
Lake of Lucerne is 1850 metres; the
total length to be performed is $500
metres; the gradient varies between 10
and % per cent, and is only interrupted
by the landing places at the stations of
Whitman, Kaltban, and Staffel The
line is constructed of common
rails, between and parallel to which
there runs a central rack, which
looks like a very narrow ladder, and
along which toothed wheel, made of
Krupp steel, works. Another similar
one, borne by the front axle-tree, acts
AS guide or as brake. at will; another
and very simple brake regulates the
velocity of the descent. The speed of
the train does not exceed four miles an
hour. The whole line, rolling stock in
Guided, did not cost more than 1900
900 francs in 1878, when it began to
work with three engines. It now has
thirteen, and will have thirty as soon
as the Arth- Staffel section is finished
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

Ii is observed at sea that men are
never SO much disposed to grumble and
mutiny as when least employed. Hence
an old captain, when there was nothing
else to do, would issue an order to
'scour the anchor. "-,San1ueL Smiles.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

SAN FRANCIsCo bootblack-'' Shine
er-boots, sir a." Mr. James Lick, testi-
ly-" Didn't [ tell you five minutes ago
that didn't want my boots BACKED ;"
I" Yer did, mister, but [ didn't know
but what yer'd made a revocation -
Exit imp.
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er articles of diet, improve the health of
the people, and lessen the expense OF
livingston. Maine Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

WE copy the following from an ex-
change. which is important, if true:-Chronic
diarrh9a of long standing, also dysentery, and
all similar complaints comm on at this season
of the year, can be cured by the use (mternal,
ly) of JohnSon's An0dy1se Imminent. We know
whereof Weaffirm Com
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-15

The cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations Of this State are now compounded
and sold under the name of Parsons P,ngd-
tire I,iLs-Com
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4 Woman Initiated into Masonry.

Harper's Bazaar says that it is a mis-
take to suppose that the lady who con-
cealed herself = room where a
''lodge was about to be held, and who
when discovered was obliged or allowed
to be initiated is a myth. The " clock
case may be myth but the lady is
not. She was the Hon. Mrs. Aldworth,
and continued through life to take an
active interest in the order into which
in her youth she had so strangely
gained admission. She founded the
Dublin Benevolent Institution for Or
phan Daughters of Masons. Her por-
trait still hangs in the principle lodge
room IN Cork, and under it In a glass
case, the apron and jewel she used to
wear when she attended lodge-meetings
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FREE trade is the international law o
God.-CObden.
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"HAvE you any eggs?" inquired
a peaceful looking old man as he leaned
over the counter of hardware store
recently. mo, sir,-this is hardware
store; we keep nails, stoves, etc" ans
wered The clerk. "Wel, [ did want
some eggs, slowly drawled the old
man, " but amt particular, and YOU
may give me a pound of nails.
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4 FELLOW with red nose and blind
II one eye is selling the negroes down
south a pill warranted TO make them
white, and about fifteen minutes after
they swallow it they lean across saw
buck and turn themselves inside out,
but the white is all in their eyes.