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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-06-06
Through the opening already mad,

Through the opening already made
tie bones were clearly to be distin.
guished ; and | directed that the trunk
should at once be felled. When thi,
was done there was exposed hollow
stump, in which lay . mass of human
bones, with the remains of = woman {
dress and beneath these and the de.
cayed wood and dust which had gath
cred over them cleaned the lu.tre OF
jewels and gold and silver coin.
looked at Mr.. Warren, who white
as death, had staggered to Il garden
bench.
My God :" he exclaimed. 1T is
Emily"
Yes, it was Emily. OF this there
could be no doubt. The tree had long
held it's: fearful secret, and was still
unable to reveal it. 1t had given up
Emily's skeleton, but how came the
poor girl to be immured within this
living tomb? -.
Further examination, however, re-
vealed the whole horrible TRUTH. =.
Il see how it all was,' my old ne CD
Dor said, in a broken and falterlng
voice. She had thrown her shawl
over the wall that it might not be in
her way, and then mopated the tree
to where the thrss/preat branches
meet and there/1hidden BY the mass
of ivy, Law tbefatal trap. Through
that great hole she slipped, and the
ivy closed over her in her living tomb.
He sbuddered, and the tears gushed
into his eyes.
We neither of us expressed the
thoughts which chilled and moved
our hearts to pityihg horror. Had
hcrsdeath been sudden, or had she
here slowly starved and pined to
death? Her cries could not have
been heard, for the house stood apart,
and her parents had left home and
gone in pursuit of her, | thought Of
Cecie's straug, fancy concerning the
old three, and lost myself in vague
conjectnres as to the nature of those
mysterious influences which some
times affect our human perceptions,
how or whence We may not know.
This was the secret which the old
tree had so long held. And | may
add that to this day Cecie knows moth
ing about it; tor, besides the clergy
man who gave Christian bnrial to the
remains of the poor girl, no one but
ourselves who made the discovery ever
knew the secret. We thought it best
that it should be so.
But | observed that Cecie never af-
terwards complained of ths uneasy in
fluance which had before 8, annoyed
her. With the removal OF the tree and
-sI-a Lss.i'si &c Tia hanass nAt-.r rsxnmad
her bright and joyous sway in the old
garden.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-06-06
Ventriloquism a Humbug.

Ventrlloqulsm is declared by an ex-
pert to be very largely u humbug.
There is no such possibility as throw
ing the voice to distance. The old
stories of Wyman the Wizard, in
which he figured as exhibiting much
ability in the midst of a crowd, were
necessarily fiction. What passes for,
ventriloquism consists simply of mimi
cry and facial immobility The per-
former must be some distance away
from his audience or he is powrrless.
Whenever he wishes to make them be-
lieve that bis voice sounds at dis
tance, he merely lowers it, and indi-
Gates the direction of their Imagination
to take. BE can deceive them side
ways, upward, downward or backward,
but he never undertakes to produce
the effect of speaker at the rear TO
a listener close by no veutriloquist can
be in the least deceptive. Nor is there
any truth in the theory that he talks
with the top of his gullet, or with
aught else than with the organs in
tended by nature to be vocal. BY
holding his lips as fixed as possible,
and avoiding such words as cannot be
pronounced without palpably moving
them, he assists the delusion. But
no man is so skillful that he can get
on without screening mustache.
If you want to kill weeds in pas
ture turn in the sheep. We once had
pasture of four or five acres overrun
with goldcn-rod, otherwise called iron
weed. 1t had been used for pasturing
calves principally, and was call the
calf-pasture. Sheep were pastured
there one season, and We never saw
stalk of the weed afterward. Another
thing worth remembering; they masti-
cate their food so finely that there is
no danger of getting foul seed in your
soil from sheep manure.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-06-06
Couldn't Back It Up.

A lawyer had been 'bully-ragging
a witness for some time, at last got
him down to personal questions.
Did l understand you to say, sir,
he asked, that the defendant made
certain remarks about me?'
i said so, SIR
'Ah, thought so. Well, now, l
should like to ask if he could sub.
stantiate those remarks?' p
No, sir, | don't think he could
All; something libellous, presume.
Will you be kind enough to state to the
court what he said?'
Yes, sir; he said you were an hon.
est and thruthful man, and
That's enough. Call the next wit.
ness And the lawyer went into the
jury y-room for minutes relax ,tion
without excitement.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-06-06

INTERESTING FACTS IN REGARD TO
SEVERAL CANDIDATES.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-24
An Estimate of John Bright.

He is not known, and he never will
be known, as great administrator, as
a great legislator, or great master of
parliamentary detail. He cannot even
be considered a debater of the first
order. He is a man, however, just as
indispensable to the legislation which
has been accomplished during his ca
reer as the minister who conducts q
bill through parliament. As an orator
he has acquired an equal renown in
the House of Commons and on popular
platforms. Such are the power and
fervor of his eloquence that it has al
ways constituted a force with which
responsible statesmen have been COM
PEELED to reckon. Disraeii once said
OF Golden that she was the greatest
politician that the upper middle class
of England had produced. and that he
was not only an ornament to the House
OF Commons, but an honor to his coun-
try 1t may be asserted of Mr.. Bright
that he has surpassed all his contem-
poraries in the art of giving simple and
weighty expression to the views and
aspirations of the English multitude.
He has been called a demagogue. AS
q Va 1dCS AO IIdu p" CNCl ICSS
of demagogue. Had he been capable
OF pandering to the popular sentiment
of the hour, he would not have resisted
the Ten Hours Bill, nor would he have
lost his seat for Manchester twenty
seven years ago by denouncing the for
eign policy of Lord Palmerston in
China and in Russia. 1t would be un-
just to say of him that he was ever the
mere mouth-piece of public feeling.
He has acted as the champion of the
popular cause just so far as he could
identify that cause with, and vindicate
it by reference to, what have seemed
to him to be the eternal laws of justice
and right. There were radicals before
Mr.. John Bright. There are, and will
continue to be, radicals after him. But
as he had little in common witt many
of those who were spoken of as his
allies at the beginning of his public
life, SO he has slight sympathy with the
most powerful and representative radi-
Gals whom he sees round him as the
shadows of his life begin to lengthen.
From an article WiM frontiSpiece
portrait. by Z. II. S. ESc0tt, in the Jatly
Ce7lturg.
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Columbus Neglected.

Rev. William Taylor, in writing
about Colon in 1877, in his Our South
American Cousins" remarks that 1.-The
last French empress sent to this town
as present a grand bronze statue of
Columbus, which extends protecting
arm around the beautiful but timidly
crouching statue of an Indian princess.
1t should be put upon a much larger
and more substantial pedestal than the
one on which it now stands" Since
MIR. Taylor's visit this grand" statue
has lost its pedestal-even that poor
little one of which the reverend gem
tleman wrote so depreciatingly. 1t is
rumored that the natives stole it And
now poor old Christopher sits squat
ting on bit of low land filled in re-
Gently by the canal company. and dig
nitied by the name of .'terre-plain.n
The Genoese navigator's effigy-very
much the worse for wear, and looking
as though a good scrubbing with sand
and emery stone would do him good
squats there sans pedestal, sans plat
form, sans everything, gazing mourn
fully out upon the sea, and none so
poor as to do him reverence. How are
1do lily MY laiIeH! IL tue StdLe OF L an
anna, or the government of the city of
Colon $50 named from the Spanish
word "Columbus" s"-s.Cristobal Colon"
signifying "Christopher Columbus') }
had q particle of self respect left they
would not thus neglect this interesting
memento of the gentleman who not
only founded their town, but also
erected the only church in this city,
Panama Cor. Boston Herald.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-24
JUST THE THING
FILLS THE BILL TO DOT, AND AS THINGS
GET HOT POLITICALLY EVERYBODY
WILL WANT IT.

The special edition of the B. & O. Red
Book, devoted to the history of the
Republican party and its autecedents, is
an almost indispensable publication to
those at all interested in the development
OF the campaign Of the year. Great care
IS manifested in the compilation of data,
and while everything is stated in the
most concisa manner, the information is
80 clear and explicit as to be readily com
pretended. The chapter devoted to the
origin of the party and its national out
come from the dismemberment of prior
parties is OF exceeding interest as is also
the points showing party policy as ex
pressed through Congressional; action
The condensed proceedings of the National
Conventions of the various parties, from
the earliest period of the country's lis
tory to the present, is of no ordinary
value, and il is of no ordinary value, and
1t is thing never 5efore attempted in
such form of publication. Indeed, it
would be difficult to tell of all the import
ant information gathered together and
shown so intelligently in the little book.
Those who desire so invaluable text
book for handy reference as matters grow
interesting, will not delay long in enclos-
ing two cent stamp with their address
to q. X. Lord, Baltimore, this being the
only requisite to secure copy. In addi
ton to the data having direct bearing
upon the one party, there IS vast amount
OF information given rs regards both
parties, and with the Red Book at hand
no one need be at loss for an authority to
settle almost any question ss to political
history which may comeup. IN cop,;non
with all the B. & 0. publications it is a
model OF perfect typogra,,.Iy, the make
up ana type nsed generally being very
books.
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A Huge Electric Battery.

In erecting the great Statue of Lib
erty, two things had to be considered
that seem very tritling, and yet, if neg
lected, might destroy the statue in
one day, or cause it to crumble slowly
the sea breeze. Either of these could
destroy the great copper figure, and
something must be done to prevent
such disaster. The heat of the sun
would expand the metal and pull it out
of shape. precisely as it does pull the
Brooklyn Bridge out of shape every
day. The bridge is made in four parts,
and when they expand with the heat of
the sun they slide one past the other,
and no harm is done. The river span
rises and falls day and night, as heat
and cold alternate. The great copper
statue is likewise in two parts, the
framework of iron and the copper
covering; and while they are securely
fastened together they can move one
over the other. Each bolt will slip
trifie as the copper expands in the hot
August sunshine, and slide back again
when the freezing winds blow and the
vast figure shrinks together in the
bCeIuOo IulS, tiO SOpPCi oulAaIO
is so thin aud elastic that it will bend
slightly when heated, yet keep its gen.
eral shape.
Tho salt air blowing in from the sea
Eas thin fingers and a bitter, biting
tongue. If it finds a crack where it
can creep in between the copper surface
and iron skeleton, there will be trouble
at once. These metals do not agree
together, and where there is salt moist
ure in the air they seem to quarrel
more bitterly than ever. 1t seems that
every joining of points of copper and
iron makes a tiny battery, and SO faint
shivers of electricity would run through
all the statue, slowly corroding and
eating it into dust. This curious,
silent. and yet sure destruction must
be prevented, and SO every joint
throughout the statue, wherever copper
touches iron. must be protected with
little rags stuffed between the metals
to keep them from quarreling. 1t is
the same wherever two different met
ais touch each other. Imagine what
tremendous battery the Liberty would
make, with It's tons of copper surface
and monstrous skeleton of iron.
However, a little care prevents all
danger, as provision will be made. of
course, for keeping the metals from
touching each other. = From "The
Bartholdi Statue" by Charles Barnard,
in ST. Nicholas for Juty.
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For Chicago Consumption.

He was an old man, and as he entered
the room he remarked timidly to the
editor:
'Do you want something to print ia
your paper?''
Yes" replied tho editor, ..If it's
worth publishing, Whs. is itpn
'Get your pencil. out. never rode
on on railroad .rain. ana l am going on
90 year. OF age"
All right" said the editor, jotting
it down, that's a good item"
81 never saw a telephone"
''Is it possible? Go on"
"Nor pretty girl."
go ahead"
''And haven't washed my face and
hands for twenty years"
''All right Keep little further off
and keep on"
Il was in my teens when drank my
last glass of water
$50 was the man who writes the funny
paragraphs for this paper" remarked
the editor. Proceed"
II never heard 'Pinafore;' | never
saw an open-back shirt, nor a game OF
base ball, nor white elephant, nor a
cigarette, nor any fine-cut chewing
| tobacco, nor dude, nor a wide-awake
newspaper, nor pug dog, nor pair
Of low-cut shoes, nor az
Great Caesar, man?" interrupted the
astonished editor, where IN the world
have you lived all these seventy odd
yearsP"
And the old man responded sadly:
''In St. Louis"
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Drifting Womanward.

A writer in the Home Joauaaal be-
lieves that the old-fashioned courtship is
passing away, and after asking what
are to be the regulations of courtship
during the transitional epoch, answers
as follows: ''Nominally and theoretic-
ally the man still does all the courtinp.
but really and practically women are
taking the matter into their own hands.
Enough of the restraint of chivalry has
remained to prevent them from openly
proposing marriage to the objects of
their choice; but there are a thousand
ways in which a lady of tact may WOO
and yet not transcend the bound of
etiquette. The present method is a hy-
brid between the one-sided courtipp of
hnightly days and the custom which
will prevail when women have their
proper position in the perfected society
in the future. In word, courtship is
now evidently drifting womanward, bv
which we mean that the ladies will
constantly take more and more active
part in it, until in the day when woman
shall have her rights, the most import
ant of which is marriage, it will be as
common for women to offer their
hands to men as it is for men to pro-
pose to women. o lucky day for bash
ful bachelors!
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The Happy Old Bachelor.
BY EUGENE j. HALL

I'm a bachelor still. have Jared very i'll
At the hands of the ladies I've met,
But my heart is so kind, that I've made up
my mind
Their treatment to try and forget
For it's jolly to be an old fellow IKE me,
With none but myself to delight;
With no one to scold if catch a bad cold
By staying out late in the night
/ was first very fond of a beautiful blonde,
Who was seven years older than i.
1 tried 10 propose, but she turned up her
and / felt that wanted to die
She said was wild, was only child,
My sighs with her laughter she drowned,
And at the age of sixteen was crushed like
When it goes through the mill to be ground.
The next girl met was a charming brunette,
Who loved me, she said, more than life"
' - MOI"
When she asked me to make her my wife.
So she married shoe-dealer, as rich as
Jew;
All the comforts of life she enjoys.
She is one of the lights who declaim "wo-
And the mother OF seven bad boys.
My next love affair with girl with red hair
Was serious matter to me.
When l asked her to wed she solemnly said
Il have promised another's to be-"
Each word like a dart pierced my passionate
heart,
All my future looked cloudy and dim.
She married her choice, and live to rel oice-
Her temper was tested On him.
My friendship one day in a platonic way
With a pretty young widow began.
She daZzled my eyes and / thought her Q
prize
Till she married medical man.
But it's jolly TO be an old fellow like me,
With none but myself to delight;
With no one to scold if ] catch bad cold
By staying out late in the night.
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Chimes, and How they are Rung.

Bells may be rung IN two ways: first,
by swinging them with rope and wheel;
and secondly, by striking them either
upon the outside or inside with ham,
mers, the bell itself being stationary.
In England the former method of rope
and wheel was almost universally
adopted, requiring man for each bell.
From this method we get that interest
ing and peculiarly English kind Of
chime music known as the changes,
which gave England the name of the
Ringing Island. In Belgium, however,
the stationary method was used.
Chimes played in this manner were
rung by one person and were called
carillons. because the Italian qatadr1glio
or quadrille, ''a dreary kind of dance
music" was the first ever played upon
them. To play upon carillons the per-
formers used an instrument known as
the "clavecin," q kind of rough key
board arranged in semitones. Each
key was connected by wire or rope
with a hammer, which struck the bell
when sharp blow was given the key
with gloved fist. This machine was
necessarily extremely crude at first;
and since chimes have never been
played half so well as in the days of
this invention, it is all the greater
wonder that the art ever progressed at
all Recently some great masterpieces
in chime music have been found. which
were composed and played at Louvain
in the latter half of the last century,
by the most skillful and wonderful
chimer who ever lived, Matthias van
den Gheyn. No one in Europe or
America can now be found who is able
to play this music, which rivals in the
depth and subtlety of its composition
some of the finest works of Bach, Mo-
zart, or Beethoven. Hence the infer
ence is that the art of playing carillons
has sadly declined, with small pros
pect of ever recovering the lost ground.
-,Julu Atlantic
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-07-24
Fourth of July at the Lime Kiln.

''Dis club has concluded not to cele-
brate de Fo'th of july" remarked
Brother Gardner as the meeting OPEN
ed. zone reason am because we am
all patriots ebery day in de week, an
anoder reason is dat de lemonade of
dis kentry has SO degenerated in tone
dat true patriot has no bizness wild
de stuff. We could whoop an hurrah
an eat cokernuts an wave flags an
send up sky-rockets, but on dc mex
day we'd have to pay cash for mutton
list de same, an our old clothes would
look jist as old, an de landlord would
come aroun' fur de back rent jist as
hard as if de Declarashun of Inde-
pendence had neber bin writ.
'Doan' be too patriotic. In case of
war you will be suspected of tishin' fur
guv'ment contracts; in case of peace
you will be called q blow-hard an a
demagogue.
''Lub your kentry, but doan' let de
kentry git ahead of you.
Let your voice be raised fur peace,
but doan' pay any revenue tax you
kin git out Of
'Be proud OF your republic, but re-
member that republic kin beat any
monarch at corrupshun.
Respect our laws, but remember dat
$500 and good lawyer will clar a
murderer nine times out of ten.
reverence de Constitution. but re-
member dat any statesman kin
interpret it to read any way or mean
anything.
'Let your heart swell wild pride as
you remember dat you are an Ameri-
can, but doan' forgit to apply to de En-
glish Consul if you want purteckshun
when away from home.
'Let US now purceed to transact
sich bizness of nashunal Importance as
may come befo' de meetin'. ."-Detron
Free Press
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Mamma" said small boy. "do

Mamma" said small boy, "do
you believe everything that papa saysp"
"Of course, my child" replied the
mother, with wifely pride. Every
thing mammal" Yes, dear. every-
thing" "Well, l don't Hush. Won
wicked boy; you mustn't talk SO.
What did your papa ever say that you
couldn't believe?' You know that
widow on the next square, who always
looks so sour at US bad boys?" You
mean that pretty Mrs. Bontonan She,
the one. | heard papa tell her ~as.ou
day that she was the SWEEP So
in town, and then he r~o Lnr "on"h hah
ol ioWers, ana II made me so ashamed
W no"i n'' uell such story that ran
""N J and wouldn't let him know that
1 had caught him in it, That will
do, my child" said the mother, with a
peculiar look in her face, run out and
play, and | will tell your father when
he comes in that he must be particular
not TO destroy his sons confidence in
his veracity. Cincinnati Merchant
IraUeler.
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A Miser's Folly.

Even IN these days now and then is
found the man who distrusts National
banks and hides his money in old
clocks and shoes and under the carpet.
Last week Roger Meredith, an old
farmer out in Flint township, came
into his Eouse after brief visit to the
woOdshed. His face was ashy pale
and his whole manner indicated in
tense excitement. He called feebly
for his wife, and when she appeared on
the scene he demanded:
Where is that old wood stove that
was out in the shed all winter?"
why, [ sold it, said his wife, sit
want of no earthly account and it was
knockin' around in the way, and a
peddler came along last week an
made me an offer for it and l sold it.
man, ''sold it!''
Then with violent effort to control
himself he added:
"How much did you git fur it?''
"a dollar and a quarter" replied
his wife, in tremulous tones, twisting
the corner of her apron.
II m," said the old man, in ON
tented, satisfied way, HIM; d,nIar'na a
quarter good enough. Gimme the
money. l,got to pay my road tax this
Anu Inc oSsme shelled out the du-
cats' an:- as she watched her husband
u1-Ae straight shoot for the cross
ROADS grocery, she smiled the extrava-
gantly-'nnocent smile of a guileful wo-
man and said.
III pap only knew that l got 81. rs
Tor that stove and 81 for the old sled
irons and the wagon-tires he wouldn't t
work lick for a week"
But just suppose now that old Mr..
Meredith had had $4,000 in United
States bonds hid away in that old
stove! Would he ever have had the
heart to work again? But he didn't;
he never had $40 at a time in all his
life,
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its salt breath in her face, frightened
her beautiful eyes, quickened her
strength. The hurried pulsations be-
gan TO beat more slowly and evenly.
But there was a secret want
'Oh, for someone to love me!-some-
one whom l could love!" she cried one
day, dropping her face in her arms
upon the ragged rocks.
II love you, Laurel, but it is too late
for you to love me-" syllabled a voice
at her side.
She lifted her head. She and Baron
Alverton looked into each others eyes.
His sad gaze read all her struggle.
"Oh, tell me the truth" he prayed.
Perhaps the sea, sounding its grand
thunder in her ears, helped her to rise
above all pettiness.
81 love you. Baron" she said SIM
ply; and both were happy.