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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-05-09
FRAME DWELLING HOUSES. T;;55i!!1

% stories high. Stable, Corn Crib. and other
outbuldinys There is young Apple Orchard
and o her fruit on the property. The land is IN
der lair fencing, is OF excellent quality, well i'm
proved and most desirably located.
The property will be offered in two
parcels, one containing IS Acres, Roods
and 9 Square Perches; the other contain
ing 9 Acres, Roods and IS Square
PcrcheS.
TERMS OF SALE. prescribed by the mort
gage: 500 OF the purchase money t. be paid in
cash on the day OF sale. the balance in equal III
stalmehts OF six and twelve months from the day
OF sale; the credit payments to be secured by the
bonds or notes OF the purchaser, with approved
security and to bear interest from the day sale
RAJ Hell A. ABRAMS, Assignee.
ROBERT &. THACKERY. Attorney.
A. L. SHocKLEY, Aucrionccr. May 9ts
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s T a T z M Z N T
OF THE
Treasurer Of the Town Of Elkt0n, Md.
PAYMENTS, 1889:
PAYMENTS, 1884:
RECEIPTS:

RECEIPTS:
Geo. T. King Baiif, taxes 1854. 81 O22 10
County allowance. Observation-Disclosures. 800 %
Fines from Geo. L King Bailltf......... IS "
Extra work collected from Geo. K. How
ard. $16; J. +. Alexander. Sd % 90
Cncollected taxes, 1883 - S57S u
Less Com. and lnSol :. POI 65....... $40 IS
Reed from former Treasurer. ............ S u
Total s. 767 81
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10 The usual large st0cis 81 Mems
and Youths Clothing at tHc Led
ger Building store we DON also
carry = fac liuc ai Doys' and Chill
dren's Suits al styles, al grades,
lowest prices.
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w. f. X. FRAZER, Treasurer.
May Git
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
Dramatic Outlook Over the Faults ant
Failures of the Stage.

Dramatic Outlook Over the Faults and
Failures of the Stage.
English Illustrated Magazine
Because a thing has happened in real every
day life is no reason for putting it on the stage.
Hum drum is one of the infinites. Nothing is so
untrue and so unreal as ultra realism. You may
station yourself in CheapSide, in Regent street,
or in Seven Dials, and if you are of discerning
mind, you will probably learn more vital truth
about human nature in one single hour than
you will learn from hundred modern plays.
The commonest street incident may give birth TO
thoughts that lie too deep for tears, and sug
gest as obstinate questionings" and as deep
perplexities as troubled the soul of hamlet
or of job But that is no reason why manager
should send his scenic artist to Regent street &C
Seven Dials, and, having provided himself with
canvas and pasteboard representation of an as
aspect OF bricks and mortar that Il not worth
representing, should then engage hundred sup
ers TO represent an aspect OF humanity that IS
not worth representing. No; there is but one
thlng that is worth representing on the stage
the heart and soul, the passions and emotions of
man. All else is secondary, subservient useful
only as it helps to that end When a dramatist
has deafened and terrified us with thousand
explosions Re has done nothing; when he has
surprised us with a situation he has done moth
ing; when a stage manager has mar
shalled his thousand supers and drilled
them into graceful attitudes and impos
ing professions, he has done nothing;
men d SCollC trtlSG mas paluteulOr US miles upon
miles OF Atlantic ocean, we are yet unsatisfed,
or We should be. When dramatiSt has shown
us the inside of any one human heart he has
done all. | said just now that the greatest pas
sions could not and should not be rendered IL
exact imitation of nature, and that so rendered
on the stage they become vaueless and untrue.
Nature has endless space and eternal time at
her dioposal; she can give threescore years and
ten to her weaving of a mans life; she can fill in
every petty detail and elaborate to its utmost
every character But the dramatist has at most
three hours to paint for you dozen or twenty
characters. He has, therefore, to be vivid. sue
cinct, selective. He cannot show you all the
varying aspects and truths of character; he can
only show you the most important aspects, and
the most vital truths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
The Nerve of a Bashful Man.

New York Letter in Wash ngton Post
A few days since a difident friend of mine,
whom for his own sake l shall call Robinson
given to introduce into society young girl
whom but short time ago. it seemed to him. he
had trotted on his knee and told stories to-
Ascending the steps and entering the hail. he
gave his coat In charge of a mental, who called
loud tone, Mr. Robinson" as the so-named
persons foot struck the edge of one of the rugs
The unexpectedness of the announcement caused
him to hesitate an instant-the rug slipped from
Under him, and he made his entree in wide
spread sprawl upon his hands and knees at the
very feet of his hostess and her daughter. The
assembled company who had, for the most
part, crossed this Rubicon with haunt
ing sense of insecurity, were on the qui vive for
such an accident and greeted it with uncon-
trollable peals of laughter. Robinson, with his
face purple red from notification picked him.
self up. turned on his heel, left the room took
his coat from the shaking attendant and went
out
In about two minutes as the people were just
settling down after the temporary excitement
Robinson again entered the house, gave his coat
to the servant, who again managed to calculate
MIR Robinson" stepped firmly upon the rug
said the customary words of greeting to his
hostess spoke few sentences of conventional
congratulation to the fair debutante. and with
out the least alluson to his prior appearance
mingled with the guests, all of which showed
as / we'll knew, that Robinson possessed an
amount of dignity and nerve not always found
in those who possess more OF what is usually
called fcheak y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
Singing the Head Off an Angel.

New York Letter.
The girls of Trinity Chapel were practicing
some chorals for the Christmas service. Brother
Dix is nothing if not intensely literary in his
worshipful duties, and he was just tickled al
most to death because he had been able to bor-
row some ancient music written in the missal
style of the sixteenth century. A huge page Of
the precious melody, with notes big as plaques
and embelished with heads of saints and angels
was displayed on an easel in front of them
They were expected to enthuse nightly
over this treasure of art and religion, and raise
their voices reverentially to the mummified
tune. There was one girl high, squeaky So
prano, who seemed to have vocal explosion at
a certain point, sending one note up like sky
rocket Dix was little startled, and let her
try it over and over again, but ever with the
same phenomenon.
Il beg your pardon, Miss Sophie" he said
blandly, but where do you find that note away
up in high G~
She gazed ixedly at the ornate sheet of music,
with its conglomeration of notes and cherubm
Then che emitted te-he. and said: ''Well, Doc
tor if / haven't been singing the head off that
bald angel every time / cane to it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
THE TELL-TALE HEART.
An Interesting Experiment for Young
Women and Their Beaux.


Women and Their Beaux.
Allan Forman, in January st. Nicholas.
With the aid of pair of compasses, or pen
Gil and bit of string, carefully draw two
centric half circles-thati is from the same center,
and one about half an inch within the other.
The size of the design makes but little difference,
but the result is more easily seen if the diagram
is as large as convenient.
Divide this double half-circe in number of
compartments and in each place letter of the
alphabet, number or name, as the fancy may
dictate; the object being that there shall be no
possible miStaking of one compartment for an
other.
Rule straight lines from each compartment to
the common center.
Now take a small button--a shoe button is as
good as any-aud fasten bit Of fine silk thread
about eight inches long to it, making a knot in
each end of the thread
Now let one of the party take the thread by
the end and hold it so far above the figure that
that the button shall hang about an inch and
half above the paper.
Let him fix his mind firmly upon one Of the
compartments and then close his eyes,
Very soon the button will develop pendulum
like motion, and before long, generally in about
three minutes it will begin to move toward the
compartment Of which the holder is thinking
1t really seems, at the first glance, that the
button itself is influenced by the unconscious
exertion of the will the part of the expert
menter But close investigation will reveal the
fact that the hand moves with slight tremu-
lous motion, which, being transmitted through
the thread, moves the button.
Much amusement can be had by putting the
name Of people in the compartments, and then
seeingof which one the experimenter is thinking
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
We believe you, we believe you,,
We believe you just now;
Just now we believe you,
We believe YOU lust now.
Ferdinand Wards Financiering.

New York Tribune.
In the days when Ferdinand D. Ward was the
young Napoleon of finance, a gentleman, hear
ing of the wonderful profits of his operations,
placed So 600 in his hands to be used in his blind
pool Then the gentleman sailed for Europe and
never thought about his investment until his re-
turn, six months later. Then he called on Mr..
Ward.
81 looked in" he said, to see how my invest
ment turned OUT
20 yes,n exclaimed Ward, IT will ascertain
the state of your account"
He stepped to the books and pretended to look
over them. Then, taking his check book, with
infinite sang froid he wrote check for $50 0OO
which he placed in the hands of the gentleman,
saying
II find that you have this to your credit I
presume you are satisfied and would like to
draw it OUT
The gentleman was amazed He left the Office
and went home in state of excitement. Check
in hand. His head was IN & whirl; his blood was
in fever he slept not minute for the night
He was trying to solve this problem: If So 900
will produce $3.50 000 what will $3.50 900 produce7
AS Ward had foreseen. the gentleman returned
the next morning and deposited the $3.50, 900 for
further investment, and when the crash came
the money was still there. This is the story as
heard it last week, and it is said to be true
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
THE WORST KIND OF A SNUB.
How Colored Preacher Hit Out at a Young
Theological Student.

How COlored Preacher Hit Out at Young
Theological Student.
New York Mail and Express
One time, in company with Rev. 81 P New
man, d. d., Mail and Express writer attended
the largest and most prosperous colored church
in New Orleans. The regular pastor. veneer
able darkey, occupied the pulpit for the first
time after his return from an extended vacation.
During his absence young theological student,
almost white and goodooking, had offciated.
and during his ad interim administrations
had made himself extremely popular with
the female part of the congregation
This fact having reached the ears
Of the white haired, black-faced dominic,
he was greatly scandalzed, and it was burning
with righteous Indignation, not unmingled with
a generous proportion of very human and I'M
theological jealousy, that he resumed his public
duties as head of his parti-colored flock on the
day mentioned. 1t was evident the reverend
gentleman was in "a state of mind from the
moment he entered the pulpit until he had an
nounced his text, and then he proceeded to pour
out the Walls of his wrath on the woolly head of
~the young theological student, closing with an
impassioned outburst that would have annihi-
lated the offending youth, at the very least, had
he been present.
''Some er these hyar .theologians that amt
larned the underpinnin' mircles on which this
hyar gospll is built up, brethrin an sisters;
some er these hyar piccaniny theologicals what
amt Wit outer their gospil swaddlin' clio, breth-
rim an sisters; some these hyar fust crap,
halfripe theologcals that hits as sures water
millions at er camp -meetin', II tell yo hit war
Danl that swalered that thar whale-tail, belly,
head, whale bone n ALL brethrin' an sisters;
some er these hyar theologcals gifts inter the
places er their betters that knows Their gospils,
from Jericho ter Jeruserlum an they swells up,
like tryin to slop Ground, winkin' at
ther sisters when ther brothers amt er lookin',
till, byn by brethrin' an sisters these hyar pic
caniny, fust crap half ripe, swaddln clio; slop
Ground one eye whiskers, sweller ups, wakes up
some FIVE Sunday mawnin' an, lon, behold! their
britches is too big fur EN-! Yes brethrin' an
sisters their britches is to big fur em-an' then,
like ther oldfashuned miricle the ole man his
self comes home an stretches out his han to the
wanderin', light headed sisters an, brethrin an
sisters the ole man. the belongin' shepherd-an'
the Lord, together-saves you all from the high
hyn t m,H tneo h; f whose nrlteheS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
A TRAVELLERS MEDITATIoNs.

A Lecturer on the Wing INDUCES in Some
Reflections on People and Things.
Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle
Tt seems to me this winter is rather more
hitherto and soulfully beyond than wac its pre-
deeessor of one bright year agone. 1t lacks
snow. There is fleshly bitterness about the
snow that we are getting this winter that re-
mind you of the mud an Iowa farm during
the balmy days of April, when the whole prairie
land is vast mortar bed. Rude and loud
sounding boys cannot mold the snow of this
winter into balls and fire them at ones willowy
form, but man can slip up and fall down in It,
and then is the last end of that man worse than
all other ends. Woe is me, Albania, or words
to that effect, for this earthly dross that is
palmed off upon US for snow this year seems to
cling and dry slowly like shoemaker's wax |
have been down once myself this year. and it
took me thirty eight miles to dr., standing be-
fore the stove In the crowded car. and trying to
twist my head over my shoulder to look all the
way from the back of my neck to my heels, IN
one comprehensive glance
AS you wander up and down the land you OBJ
serve at the stations the smaller the town the
bigger the name. The poorest, most distressed,
hungriest looking passengers always get off at
the smallest, forlornest towns with the biggest
names. Now there is a man just got off at
Canton City. He got on at Liverpool City. He
didn't have enough coat to sew buttons to. His
trousers were made of gunnybags with patches
OF tarpaulin and shreds of flannel, and his hat
wasn't made at all. 1t was something that
grows wild somewhere In the dark. And the
city is usually on par with the man.
Now there is London City, that we just
passed. 1t is compilation of cabins and
shanties, with one grocery with dash board
front, where the natives in the evenings, hold
their mouths open and say Hey" when any one
ventures remark relative to the price
of hogs 1t is the wild. ungovernable ambition
of every wretched little hamlet about the
size of piano box, stood down in desolate
swamp or treeless fiat, to choose for itself some
high sounding name and then tack 'city' on to
1t. So it is that we have Boston, New York,
Brooklyn and Chicago. That is all very well,
but when you take trip on the Lost Creek mar
rows gauge. you find Metropolis City, Berlin City,
Edinburg City, Vienna City, not a single plain
monosyllable town on the line, and not city
that can rase 100 people to go to the circus. Still
such is the way of man. do not feel harshly
toward these cities because feel that one
of them, for abandon my home eight months
in the year to lecture Home" and the rest
of the time | lecture on the "Mustache," while
haven't hair enough on my. lip to tickle my
nose. close this epistle to listen to the music
The man behind me is whistling against the edge
of card vague, dreamy, far away tune that
nobody ever heard and he doesn't know.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
In TIE Ranks.

His death blow struck him. there in the ranks
There in the ranks with his face to the foe;
Did his dying lips utter curses or thanksl
No one will know.
Still he marched on, he with the rest
Still he marched on, with his face to the foe,
To the days bitter business sternly addrest:
Dead-did they knowl
When the day was over, the fierce fight done,
His cheeks We're red with the sunsets glow,
And they crowned him there with their aurels won:
Dead-did he knowl
Laurels or roses all one to him now
What to dead man is glory or glow?-
Rose wreaths for love- a crown on his brow
Dead-does he know2
And yet you 1vill see him march on with the rest
No OF them all makes goodlier show
In the thick Of the tumult iostled and prest:
Dead-would you knowl
Louise chandelier Moulton, in February Harper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
THE DAYS HUMOR.

The other day precocious youngster was
asked if he was papas boy. He answered,
yes" replied Willie. well, how can you be
papas boy and mammals boy both at the same
timer ''Oh,v he replied, indifferently, cant
a wagon have two horsesl' That settled the
questioner.
Josh Billings was asked Glow fast does
good deal upon the noise you are talking about.
1.-THE sound Of dinner-horn. for instance,
travels half mile in second; while invita-
ton tew get up in the morning have known to
be three quarters Nv an hour goin' two pair of
stairs, aud then not hev strength enutf left to
be heard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
A DocreR.s STORY.
How Pug Nose May Be Giveic More
Stylish Form by an Expert.

How Pug Nose May Be Givec more
Stylish Form by an Expert.
Philadelphia Times.
The nose is simply piece of cartilage" said
a surgeon. yesterday, 'and its shape can be
changed with ease. A clever Frenchman some
years ago. invented q machine for the purpose,
and | have heard made fortune by it. So
many people are troubled with noses whose
shapes do not please their owners or their own
er's friends. The machine consisted of small
shell in two parts, hinged together. 1t is made
of iron japanned or enameled. 1t is in shape
inside that of perfect nodded nose, accord to
the type of the features of the wearer. Thus you
can obtain a Roman, Grecian, retrousse, aqui-
line or any other shape you desire. To apply the
instrument the nose is frst bathed in warm
water at bedtime and thoroughly heated and
softened Then it is well creased with olive oil,
glycerine, vaseline or other oily substance
Finally the nose improver is fixed and
the sides clasped together, and the wearer keeps
it on all night, taking care III the morning to
wash in cold water only. 1t is rather painful
process at first, but after two or three appiica-
tiods of the improver there is more trouble.
In about month the nose begins to takeits new
shape and at the end of from eight to ten weeks
the alteration is said to be perfect and perma-
nent-that is. until the patient becomes tired of
that particular shape and is DESTROYS of having
another, when the same operation with another
instrument is necessitated. have known peo-
pie to change their noses four five times in as
many years In that way man could change
the style of his nose often as be changed the
cut Of his trousers"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
A Fortune in Beeswax.

st. Louis bIObe- DEMOCRAT.
did We ever hear of the original discoverer of
the Toughnut Mine at Tombstonel Well, he
was a regular tenderfoot from way back, and
was workn with two pards on the claim an
one day he came up from the bottom of the shaft
an says he Boys said he, I'm played out, and
amt got no more heart in this racket. allow
as long as / was striking anything like ore I'd
stand it out here, but may we spit on my grave
If l amt working beeswax an he showed his
pards piece of rock thickly covered with a
brown substance as did look uncommonly like
wax will We take $500 for Your sharer said one
of his pards. Bet your sweet life will, and so
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
1t Might Have Been.

Ella Wheeler Wicox's facile pen has been
silent for many moon now. We hope the
reading public is properly appreciative of the
fact Elias teeming brain has been conferred on
non-literary subject; Speaking on delicate
subject lately-her hopes for giving female
hostage to fortune-she said: Il want her to
be fine looking. healthy, tender, brainy and
capable of attracting men without loving them.
Women should be IN love with the world and be
able TO meet its responsibilities. to find charm
III the society of many, instead of in the COM
partnership of any one man. AT least, she is
happiest when she can do this Isn't there Just
4 tinge of regret here that Mrs Wilcox was not
herself strong enough to realize the ideals she
mas conceived for the as yet shadowy daughterl
We thought at the time of her union with the
Meriden man that she would have been far hap
pier in continuing to love us and the rest of the
masculine world of genius generally and impair.
TALLY. 1t is pitifnl thing when a soaring, red
headed spirit is tied down to lump of Connect
lieut. CLAW.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Considers the Future of the
White Man and Finds 1t Unpromising.


''Almos' cherry day." said Brother Gardner, as
Judge Cadaver fell over the stove hearth and
opened the meeting, 81 find in de newspapers an
article entitled De Fucher oh de Guild Race ,
or What kin we do wild de Guild Mani or, Am
de Black Man ImprovingF De average white
man loves to lean back in his cheer put his
thumbs into his vest holes an pat us on de back
fur good boys, feeln dat he am dead perfeck
an dat we may some day secure de right to Sot
in his shadder. Gemlen, what am de fucher OBJ
de white man? What kin we do wild him! Am
de white man improving! Let us lean back an
study him a bit. Who suffers pelygamy to walk
frew de West wild its hat on it's ear an openly
defyin law an decency2 De white man Who
responsible for. de liquor traffck an
its burdens of woe an misery De white
man. Who takes de money OBJ widers an orfuns
of his fellermen, an HES him across de
frontier to safe quarters, wreckin scores OBJ
homes an bringin' ruin to hundreds of people?
De white man. Who. as de trusted servant ob
de people robs an plumbers, an embezzles9 De
white man. Oar may be ten white men to cherry
one Guild man, but fur cherry one black man
convicted of arson adultery forgery, burglary
or murder, twenty eight white men am hauled
up an sent ober de road. Whar dar am one
Guild man in prison, he has fifty white men to
keep him company. SO much for DER honesty.
What am de white mans fucher? He am CROWN
sordd He am becomin' selfish He am melted
by ambitions which trample laws under foot, an
give no heed to de voice ob honesty. DiSSipashun
an vine tlpplln, an gluttony am shatterln his
nerves an thinnin' his blood. In two ginera-
shuns mo- three out oh every ten white men will
be vicious cranks or silly fools. What kin we
do wild him2 Muffin. In his vanity and egotism
he am plungin' forward to destrucshun, an he
am bound to fetch up on de rocks. Am de white
man improving Look ober de long list ob states
men, poets, artists, advocates, physicians, phi
lanthropists, and naturalists of twenty years
ago, an match it if you kin wild de names OBJ men
OBJ to-day You can't do it. De white men has
passed his zenith an am on de down hill
side. High libin', fast libin', an constant ex-
element have combined to befuddle his intelleck
hence thinker will be sideshow in himself
We doan want any pattin' on de back by white
folkses. We are hoein' our row right long side
of him. an let him look out dat we doan reach
the eand fust."