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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16
A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

Mr.. David Caruthers, formerly Of Mon
tana, now in Washington Territory.
writes from Spokane Falls concerning the
discovery near that place Of Il lake Of
virtues. lie boldly asserts that there is
no disease of the skin that two or three
baths will not cure, while in nervous
troubles rheumatism. paralysis, and Ike
ailments, the water has a beneficial effect
almost Immediately, and in few weeks
makes Il new man of the patient. As
been made, but almost any one can de
tcct salt and boraX in the taste. The
lake is nearly round, being 4 mile and &
half long and over Il mile wide. and is
sheltered on all sides by immense forest
of pine and fir. The water is clear. OF il
dark color. and SO buoyant that it vii!
sustain the weight of Il man without any
cXcrtiOn whatsoever. There is no animal
life in the axe except species of jelly
fish. Ordinary trout or other fish die I'M
metliately upon being placed in the water.
The lake has ~ visible outlet, and al
though fed By several small streams it
never increases i'll size. Almost anything
can be cleanSed in the lake much better
than the most powerful chemicals. Its
wonderful medicinal properties came to
be known some two years ago through
an old paral. tic shccp-rai>er, who had
driven his liocN into the i,iie to give them
the benefit Of Il good bath. \ few DAYS
after he noticed that Il number of his
sheep that we're afflicted with the scab
We're greatly improved. Then he began
regularly to wash his animals. In short
time they were completely cured, md not
only that, but lie found that his almost
useless arm, which he could not pre-
vent from getting wet as he bathed the
sheep, WAS gaining new lie and strength.
Glatiied beyond measure, he gave his
whole attention to his arm, and in very
short time it was completely restored.
| The news OF the wonderful cure spread
rapidly around the country. Sick people
began to arrive and camp on the shores
of the lake. Al who came were greatly
benefited and large majority entirely
cured. Recently a small hotel has been
| built on the lake, and comfortable bath
! houses established. 1T the present time
a great nu;:lbcr of navalids are at the
! lake, and wien the place is suitably ad-
vertised, it is expected that there Will lie
no limit to the number that will come
! Among the many at the lake is l.add. the
| Portland banker. Mr.. Laid has been
a contirmcd paralytic for a number of
| years. and has unSuccesslully sought re-
| lief throughout all Europe. IL the short
| three weeks of lis stay at Medical Lake
he has experienced great benefit and con-
fiden;ly. expects to be cured. There can
be no doubt or question as to the future
at the present tine it is too far out of
| the ordinary channels Of communication
to attract much attention, being a six
DAY 5 stage ride from Wala Wnlia, but
! lis wonderful medicinal virtues will some
da% make the lake the grand sanatarium
Of the United States. ii not the wo. l:l.
! When the Northern Pacific Railroad is
mpIetcd it will run within seven miles
| of Medical Lake. Then the = fountain
! Of NoHth' will at last lie effectively
! opened to mankind"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16
Why He Won't ." Flop"

The Cleveland PajadeaID Democrat
having remarked: = Now, as Col Forney
and other old Democrats of Pennsylya-
MIA are coming back to the Democracy,
perhaps Captain Ketler, Of the Ucrald,
will drop in among us. While the laml
holds out to burn. etc" The gentleman
referred to, thus replies:
You have made this iIsinuation be
fore. and it has ceased to be a Joke. Mr..
Keltcr, of the III rGld (n0t C0pt"ia, if yoti
pleased, departs SO far from the imper-
Sonalism which rules over the cditoria-
columns of the paper as to reply once for
all to the above and other filings Of the
kind. Through nearly ten years of life
the South after the war, he endured in
suits, contumely, persecution, and out
rage at the hands of Southern Democrats
for the crime of being Il Yankee and II
Republican.
When he forgets his friends and asso-
ciates who found untimely graves at the
hands of Iancock's Southern supporters
for being Republicans: when he iorgets
the hundreds of threatening letters which
kept his family i'll alarm for years: when
he can 10 longer remember the stoning
of his house for the oifenSe of draping
his doorway on the Fourth OF July with
the flag of his country; when the gleam
of a Southern Democrats bowie-knife
strHcl at his breast for making Repuh
lean speech fades from his memory, and
when he can no longer recall the Ions
days of his suffering from the bullet OF a
sneaking Democratic a2SSassln' why then
he will still tell Colonel faTney and The
PlaiHdCdlcr. and all whom it in:fr.+-eaIl-
cern that until his tongue cleavcs TO the
roof of his mouth, and his brain and
hands are paralyzed, he will be found,
not dropping in among the Democrats,
but denouncng the Bulldozers, Night
Riders, and Red Shifted Assassins of the
South. and the more contemplate Dough
faces of the North who seek to surrcn-
der to Southern Confederates all that the
blood of half million patriots was Shed
to preserve.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16
WHIES: WISE HND Witty.

The festive chestnut burr has begun
to nestle in the teachers hair.
The fashionable youth now brags
that his girl plays the banjo like an
angel.
Our differences should be like mortar
which separates the bricks that it binds
together.
There are p, 600, 900 cats in Philadcl-
phia, with some of the back fences yet to
hear from.
Some women are evidently born to
blush unseen, at least they are never
seen to blush.
-" God bless our home = reads well OH
the diningroom walls, but one hair in the
hash spoils all its pathos.
Chicago girls never throw their old
shoes after a bride unless they have a
particular spite against her.
lie who has ridden in . country
| stagc-coach knows how cream feels when
it is being churned into butter.
-" lie comes too near who comes to be
denied, does not dampen the ardor of
the political canvasser in the least.
A tree is known by its fruits. a
soldier is known By his shoots and a
Chicago man is known by his boots.
An umbrella and dime novel are
the usual baggage which the girl of the
louod takes with her to camp-mecting.
Some inventor has discovered pro-
cess by which old fruit cans be utilized.
| Long tailed dogs will soon think the mil
lcumium has come.
&c Why should we celebrate Washing
tons birthday more than mine?' asked
a teacher. Because he never told lie.''
shouted little boy.
Turkey is SO poor that she is deter
mincd to get into row with somebody.
Nations never have any trouble borrow
| ing money i'll time of war.
How time changes. In the good Old
Testament days it was considered a mir
acle foran ass to speak. and now nothing
short o: a miracle will keep one quiet.
-" The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is the
name Of social club at Danbury, Conn.
ANY man who can't pronounce the name
without stopping to take breath and re-
treshmcnts is black ballctl.
Il girl returned to Hannibal, Mo-,
from Boston high school said, upon
seeing Il fire engine work: Who would
eva have dwcamcd such a very diminu-
tive looking apawatus would hold 81
much wattah
1t having been noticed that young
ladies' who act as bridesmaids soon get
married, the desire to ofiiciate in that
capacity has led to increasing the num-
stand up with the one couple. This is a
better plan than observing leap year.
Three little boys on Sabbath day
were stopped on the street by an elderly
gentleman who perceiving that they had
bats and ball with them. asked one of the
number this questions: Boy, can you tell
me where all naughty boys go to who
!. play ball on Sunday?' cover back OF
Johnson $ DAM the youngSter replied.
"A railroad man, who was instructed
to inform, a lady that her husband had
been killed by railroad accident, and
was cautioned to break the news gently
is credited with writing the following
letter: " Dear Madam write to say
that yoar husband is unavoidable detain-
ed. IN undertaken will call on you to-
morrow with full particulars. The funer-
al sermon has been arranged for.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

- David Swing. in the ANiaHrc. tells
how I bi ide reformed her prolane hus-
band. She invitcd her bridesmaids. four
in number. to quiet dinner. As they
knew the prolane habits oithc groom, and
also knew of his good qualities-that he
war a man worth saving. they entered
gladly into the proposed comedy. Til"
plan was that all OF these beautiful women
should use proIane words at the table, as
thc hot coffee or hot weather or slow Scrv-
ants might afford opportunity. 1t was a
b,id plan, but it is said t" have cured
the wicked husband: for when his Gle
CANT wife applied a proiane term to the
biscuit, and Il fair guest made Il like re-
mark OF the coffee, and still another APP
piled II proiane expletive to the move
mcnts of Il servant: the husband absC-
lutely cried with remorse that he had
ever himself used such an outrageous
form of speech. Professor Swing thinks
that while such Il cure cannot be iuSti-
fled. because it might kill the ladies,
without curing the masculine offender:
vet the story itself may serve To show
that man rs an animal that sWe;ii's is Il
mUurniul curiosity
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

ONLY \ CENF.-The following anecdote
illustrates how money, by changing
hands, accompishes SO much. \ singu-
lar financial transaction occurred in an
office day or two since. BY some means
or other it happened that the office boy
owed one of the clerks three cents, tie
clerk owed the cashier two cents. One
day last week the Office boy, having a
cent in his pocket, concluded to diminish
his debt and therefore handed it over to
the clerk. who. in turn, paid half Of his
debt by giving it to the cashier. The
latter handed it back to the boy. SAYING
that he only owed him one cent. The
Office boy again passed the cent to the
clerk. who passed it to the cashier, who
passed it back to the boy, AMI the boy
discharged his entire debt by handing ii
to the clerk. thereby squaring all ac-
counts Thus it may be seen how great
is the benefit to be derived from a single
cent if only expended .judiciously.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

fences of docility toward royalty exhibit
cd by the first French Legislative Cham
Der in pre- Napo!conic days probably sug
gcstcd to him as admirably appropriate
to " the most obcdient of dogs" the name
he bestowed upon his favorite. Upon
this collar was engraved the following
distich expressly composed for Senat by
the author of '.Un Crime, :" .Je voudrais
qu'au lo@is quelqu'un me ramenat. Mon
etat ? Chen. Mon maitre: Hugo. Mon
nomo SenatH
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16
He Wanted to Engage Board for Twenty
Years.

Yesterday afternoon, shortly after the
arrival of the train, man entered hotel
in this city and asked the clerk, who stood
busying himself with patent blotter,
the terms upon which he could engage
board
"Owing to the location Of your room,
sir. Big demand for our rooms. Feed
WE'LL
81 don't care SO much about the eatin'
part, - replied the man. I'm forty odd
year old, and have been catin' about al
my life. It's gettin' to be an old thing
to me. Well say, say give me respect
able room-how much'll You charge"
Just yourself, sir?''
"Well, in manner
"Twenty -fivc dollars 4 month, in case
you arc alone"
You sec, its this way: My wife will
be with me, but as times are pretty tight
| concluded to arrange it this way-lI
take breakfast, my wife will take dinner,
and we'll throw up. wet OF dry, fer supper.
BY that means We can both get board for
one price. | reckon I'm a little the best
manager you ever seed
Fifty dollars for the two
Il don't understand that sort Of 'rith
mctic. Both together we'd only eat tn,
meals allowed for one person. 1t don
hurt bed any more for two people to
uln h,, va nnt
out in the country that was presented to
my wife when We got married, and III
be dinged if it amt just about as good
as new. It's one Of those old fashioned
beds, with high. yaller posts, with knobs
on the tops as big as young pumpkins.
| I'll furnish the room with this bed and
one chair. Ny wife can set on the floor.
| I've lived in the country all my life, and,
havm' made a little money last year,
concluded to come to town and splurge
little. Thars n woman down the cour-
try that has all the time been buckin'
agin my wife, and to git away with her
we have concluded to board at Il hotel.
Fifty dollars per month is our lowest
rate"
"How much by the year? am goin'
into this business right
"Six hundred dollars
"This is wholesale business with me-.
How much for ten years?'
six thousand dollars
THAT'S a getting down to it. How
much for twenty years"
Twelve thousand dollars
All right. Mark me down fora square
meal right now and check it Off for TWEEN
t. years"
"See that card - said the clerk, point
ing to the hotel maxim of persons with
out baggage arc required to pay i'll adj
vance.
sob, I've got the baggage" and the
man lifted up a carpet bag.
THAT won't GO
"Won't you take this as security?'
| "No: get out of here
| sBut want to board here for twenty
years.
| 10 on away.
"Tll leave your one-horsc hotel Sit:
but first let me show you" He lifted up
the carpet bag, opened it, and displayed
$50, 900 in government bonds.
"You can stay. SIR
mo: | believe not. Ittakcs too much
money to put up in this hote. Guess
will go around and put up il Il wagon
yard"
Ever since Cain gave Abel Il clip witt
club people have lost money by not OBJ
serving the laws of politeness.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16
~E 1000 o.

- Very few churches in America have
Il seating capacity Of over 1900. The fol
lowing shows the size of some of the larg-
est churches in Europe: st. Peters. ut
Rome, will hold $1,000 persons: Milan
Cathedral, 1000: st. Paul's, at Rome. 3,
00O: st. PaulS, at London, 81, 600; st.
Petronio. at Bologna. $1,000: Florence
Cathedral, 2l,3l0; Antwerp Cathedral,
n. 900 St Sophia's Con>tantn"p!e, -,
O00: st. John I.atcran, 900: Notrc
Dame. at Paris. 10000: Pisa Cathedral,
5000: st. Stephens, at Vienna. 2,-:Oj:
st. Dominic's, at Bologna, 10000; st.
Peter 5. at Bologna. 800; Cathedral OF
Vienna, 1000; st. Marks, Venice, -
00o; Spurgeon's Tabernacle, 1000.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

\ CASE FOR SYMrATHY.-The Sultan
of Turkey is d slave to custom. lie can
not wear any article of dress twice. From
fez to slippers he must be clothed anew
seven times a week. He has our hearty
commiSSeration. as has any man who
knows not the luxury of a favorite suit
of clothes. which he has learned to love
as an old friend, or the easy, yielding
shoes, whose comforting embrace receive
the tender feet after a day Of weary toll,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

GO. The daughter of an English clergy
man five years ago dashed into the sea
and saved the lives of two women of
high position Edmund Yates can hard
ladies-and they left their preservcr OK
hausted and sCnSelcss on the beach with
out inquiring her name. The young lady
has been i'll ever since, is poor and friend
less, and almost dying. She has never
heard of the people whose lives she saved.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-16

There is luxury in old shoes in which
royalty itself has sound delight. Tie
one historical incident that we rccollect
to the credit of King James l., Of Eng
land, was that he was wont to call for his
old shoes.
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John WANAMAkER.

Chestnut, Thirteenth, and Market
streets, and City.hall square,
pHILhDEL.uIA.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-11-24
FRoUDE,s BUNYAN.

From an article in the Southern Presbyterian
ReUieoC by Col. j. T. L Preston, of Lexington,
Va)
1t is difficult to understand upon what
principle Mr. Froude has become the
biographer of Bunyan If he solicited
the work, he has exposed himself to the
suspicion Of an unworthy purpose, which
we would be 10th to attribute to him. II
the Editor is responsible for his selection
as biographer, then Mr. Morley has made
mistake not very ereditable to him as a
literary man, in assigning the task to the
author of Short Studies on Great Sub
jectS. From the very nature of the case,
readers assume, without further inquiry,
that biographer is the friend of the per-
son whose biography he undertakes to
write, and that he will be inclined to ex-
hibit in the strongest light what is excel
lent, and palliate, as far as possible, the
errors which he must admit. Hardly
would Christian undertake to write the
life Of Mahomet, or Calvinist edit the
works Of Swedenborg, unless with the
ayowed purpose Of antagonism and refu.
tation.
Mr. Froude we believe does not call
himself a Christian, and certainly we
have no disposition to stigmatise him as
an unbeliever This much, however, his
book allows US to say about himself: he
not only does not believe, but distinctly
rejects, denies, and with undissembled
sheer, Aouts at the cardinal doctrines Of
Bunyan's faith and the affirmed facts Of
his experience. This shalt be exhibited
presently, in some special particulars
but for brief, general view Of the atti
tude which he assumes towards Bunyan'
Christianity, let the following paragraph
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-11-24

must be maintained, and God raised up
Chalmers, Cunningham, Candlish, and
many others, who were giants In their
day. Now when a. young man desired to
sit at the feet of such men as these, and
chose the Free College, Edinburgh, as
the place where he should learn theology,
no one could be surprised at it, but the
Free College of Edinburgh enjoys their
presence and instructions no more.
If we would look for Church born
amid the throes of an empire, and fur
nished with men equal to the emergency
of indicating the crown rights of our
blessed Lord, we must look at home.
Such men were not wanting. The great
est indeed (ThornwelD has fallen asleep,
but blessed be God, the most of them re-
main until this present. We find them
in the pulpit and in the chairs of our
theological halls. And if our young men
desire to learn wisdom from men who
have had more than ordinary means of
instruction, they would do well to seek
our home schools, both of which we hope
will soon be open to them. Individual
teachers, indeed, are found here and there
rising above the rest in every land, who
by peculiar aptness to teach become fam
Gus, but this also is found to be bless
ing from God which is fairly distributed.
This is our first head, and from this point
of view it will be seen that for Southern
Presbyterians no better instructors in
theology can be found than those we have
at home. In another article we hope to
speak of the course of study, modes of in
struction, etc., of the various schools.
ALFRED JONES.
Petersburg, "a, November $780,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-11-24

1t might have been thought that since
man was born so weak, that it was i'm
possible for him to do what the law re-
CURED, consideration would be had for
his infirmity; that it was even dangerous
to attribute to the Almighty a character
so arbitrary as that he would exact AN
account from his creatures which the
creatures necessary inadequacy rendered
him incapable of meeting
Speaking of Bunyan's struggle to know
what faith was, and his temptation pre-
sumptuously. to test whether he had if
after quoting his words" thus was I
tossed between the devil and my own TO-
norance, and so perplexed, sometimes
that L knew not what to do'-Mr,
Froude says: Common sense will call
this disease, and will think impatientlv
that the young tinker would have done
better to attend to his business"
Conviction of sin, the foundation fact
OF Bunyan's religious life, and the staple
OF Rtgr7m's Progress, which is but the
allegory Of the religious experience of its
author, Mr.. Froude treats as a fanati-
clsm, or at best, a superstitious phase of
thought which prevailed among serious
men In England in the seventeenth cen
fury: He gives his own vague ration
alstic explanation Of the state of mind SO
denominated, and his contemptuous feel
ing for this and like approximations, is
manifest IN the coarse sneer: " Election.
conversion, day of grace, coming to
Christ, have been paved and fingered by
unctuous hands for now two hundred
years. The bloom is gone from the
flower"
1t is not creditable to a writer utterly
to misunderstood the subject he is writ
ing about; to gratuitously insult the re-
hglous sensibilities of his readers, is an
offence which does not originate from ig-
norance.
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November "a, 1880,
For the Central Presbyterian.
Thy Will Be Done"

BY MAYDBw.
A happy child with curls of clustering gold,
Danced lightly through the meadows fair
with May
Her heart with music rippled Ger, and told
OF tender thoughts inwoven with her play.
The Robin pipes his merry lay,
Bright blossoms seek the sun,
But am happier far than they,
I sing Thy will be done"
October wandered softly through the wood,
And touched with gorgeous tints each leaf
and vine,
And none could see that just behind her stood
The wrath of winter, saying, "all is mine"
A maiden with the Joy that love e'er brings,
Gazed Ger the wondrous scene with sparkling
eye,
And ever as sweet thoughts, like zephyr wings
Stirred in her heart, her clear voice pierced
the sky;
AS Joy sits singing, sombre woes
Steal past her. one by one
Yet still smile on all her foes,
And sigh, Thy will be DONE"
A joyous mother on her peaceful breast
Rocked Gods best gift to man, an infant son,
And softly as his bright head sunk to rest,
She murmured smiling: Lord, Thy will be
done"
But sable sorrow stretched her dreaded wings
And dews of death lay on the infant brow
Those words so often sung, sad memory brings
All, can the weeping mother breathe them now?
Like tender beams of starry light
When day his race has run,
These words go trembling through the
night:
Thy will, not mine be done!"
A peaceful saint, from all earth's sorrows free
Clasps waxen hands above pulseess breast
Each JOY of earth had failed her, and the sea
Of Gods great love had been her welcome rest
AS child and maid and mother, she had sung,
In tender word that song of grand refrain,
And cen while Death his letters round her flung
In Christ's own strength she breathed the
words again:
Though all earth's joys have set in death
And vanished, one by one,
Yet still sigh, with fainting breath
Thy will, oh God, be donep".