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EDUCATIONAL
AIRS. FLORA G. pENNrsoN.

Academy and Rexdence-92a 81. ne.
hours OF Tuition: Misses aud Masters. W edne-iay.
$50 pm. saturdays. .S0p.m-
,s Adults; ISsesdsy and FpdAy. Pm. Monday ard
Hall, 0eorgetown.
For full Particular. cali OF send for circular d5-e
nRAMlNG AND PAINTINa-rNsTRUCTIo IN
IHE NAIloNI ACADEMY on fINE Arts sOs K
81 Sal and see TIE wonderful prosress OF stu,ient.L
L INDERGAETEN NORMAL TRATNTNa f,iAsS
NlNDEkGAkTkNA AND PRIMARY SCHOOL,
1918 Sunderland Place. south o. Drrorf cir-ls
Si-sm hhs LOUISA MANN
nNE-HouR LESSONS IN voI.APr-K latin
~ French, or German from 10 , m daily Al al
Tor one single lesson for four lessous I'M cs- ~ va
Address 4 NJ. ROSARY. lol0Fst dleiS.e
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JOEL BARLOw,s GRAVE.
The Project of Removing His Dust from
Poland to this City.

HIS MANSION AT KALoRAMA ONCE THE CENTER OF
fAsHIoN-soME ACCOUNT OF HIS PUBLIC SER
yIcEs-HIs DEATH DUE TO HIS DEVOTION TO HIS
COUNTRY.
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TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
i REAL ESTATE ON THE WEST SIDE OF
THIRD STREET: BETWEEN g AND Il


STREETS NORTHWEST.
By virtue Of decree of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia made the 2Sth day of Noven
Der, 1883 in suit of Queen ct al Hotzngn, Equity
No. 10000. we, the undersigned trustees will ON
TUESDAY, the EIGHTEENTH DAY OF DECEM-
Der, 1888, at FOUR O'CLOCK NJ, in front of the
premises sell public auction the following described
real estate together with the improvements thereon.
to wit:
Parts Of original lots numbered one ~ and two (2,.
in square numbered five hundred and twenty nine
(529), in the city of Washington. d. c. bounded and
Sd street west at point one hundred 90 feet north
Of the southeast Of said square being the
east corner OF said lot No. running thence north
25, feet thence west sixty s62) feet
and nine 90 inches; thence south twenty 1--WE t25l
feet; thence east sixty-two t62) feet aud nine 40
inches to the place Of BEGINNING.
Terms of SALE of the purchase price in cash
and the residue in two equal on credit Of
the purchaser to give his two notes bearing interest at
6per cent from that date payable semi annually, to
b secured BY deed Of trust on said property or all
Of the purchaser Conveysnsing and recSpdns to be
required at the time Of sale the purchaser fails to
the date thereof the property will be resold st his
and cost after ten days public notice Of such RESALE
EDWARD A. NEWMAN,
WI. COLE. Trustees.
DUNCANsON BROS. Auctioneers. debts
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CHURcHrLLs ATTACK NOT INSPIRED BY WoLsE-
LEY.-Owing to a report that Gen. Wolseley
had inspired Lord Randolph Churchills attack
upon the Suakim expedition, Mr.. Stanhope,
the British war secretary, wrote Gen. Wolseley
on the subject, asking him upon what military
authority he supported Lord Randolph's views.
Gen. wolseley, in reply, says that there has
been no interchange of confidence between
himself and Lord Randolph, and that he is not
responsible for the latter's statements. The
conservative charge. that Churchill took the
government by surprise while warning the
liberals is explained by Churchill's friends.
who assert that he informed the government
early Tuesday that he intended to move an ad-
journment, but that he did not place the mo-
ton upon the notice paper, fearing it might be
blocked.
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PROFESSIONAL.

A CELEBRATED MEDIUM CAN BE CONSULTED
"A on business, &C., st 307 New York ave. n " "A
developing circle Will be held every Tuesday and
Thursday nights. lis
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nESIRABLE BUILDING LOT On NEW HAMP;
IL SHIRE AVENUE, BETW ZEN AND n
STREETS NORTHWEST.
! will sell. at public auction. on THURSDAY, the
UcnoCK PM sub lot OF ~ in sdSnre o ffom,irg 20
feet the west side of New Hampshire avenue, l20
feet deep. Alley in the rear.
Terms: Cash, subject to a deed of trust to secure
81 500 A deposit Of 800 will be required of the
pure haser at the time of sale.
did THOMAS E. wAGGAMAN Auct.
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VNHOMAS BOWLING, Auctioneer.
FINE BLACK HORSE, WITH CARRIAGE AND
HARNESS, AT AUCTION
On SATURDAY, DECEMBER EIGHTH, 1883, at
TWELVE NJ in front of my salesrooms, will sell for
cash the above team. This offers q splendid opportu
nifty to purchase fine turnout.
d5-3t THOMAS BOWLING, Auctioneer.
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''The House Has Been Building"

ssThe House Has Been Building.'
From the Philadelphia Record
Who He Was-Caller-To decide bet Mr..
Dana, will you please tell me whether the ex-
preston The house has been building for
several months is correct or not? -
Charles A. Dana-It is good English. Are
you a school teacher?
mo, sir, am the man who has been build
ing the house that has been building, but the
building has ceased temporarily to allow the
inside work to proceed. The house is paint
ing, plumbing, plastering, kalsomining and
papering to-day. Much obliged"
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Soon after his death Miss Clara Baldwin
wrote very affecting letter from Paris to Mrs.
President Madison, giving details of Mr.. Bar
lows last hours. an extract from which follows:
The death of Mr.. Barlow is attended with al
most every circumstance of aggravation which
can be combined. He undertook the journey
70 wilma with a reluctance he could not con-
9uer; before he yielded he was assailed by all
the great men here with every argument likely
10 shake his frmness; but convinced at last that
ms duty to his country required it. and that
his government would blame him il he did not
go, he could say no more. His suffer-
ings after he left wilma from the intense cold
vast quantity OF snow and for want even of a
howell 70 shelter under at night obliged 10
travel constantly, and eat during that time
frozen bread and drink frozen wine. the limits
Of q letter will not allow me to describe. and
few constitutions. however robust could live
with impunity. Illness compelled him to stop
at Zarnowitch, near Craeow, in Poland. and
here for the first time since leaving Warsaw he
found good house, good bed, a kind attentive
family and every comfort which his situation
demanded. for want of which he had been
obliged to travel when he was unable; but il
was too late. the disorder proved an infamms-
tion on his lungs, which had been long time
seated. and after q few days suffering termi-
mated his useful life. IL was the wish and in
tention Of Thomas Barlow, who was with him,
~ have had the body embalmed and trans
ported to America by Dantzic, or to bring
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-04
4 STORY ABOUT STEAM.

The story of some hot water is
one of the most wonderful of stories.
About two hundred years ago,
man, bearing the title of the Mar
quis Of Worcester, was sitting, on
cold winter night, in a small mean
room, before a blazing fire. This
was in Ireland and the man was
prisoner. A kettle of boiling water
was on the fire, and he sat watching
the steam, as it lifted the lid of the
kettle and rushed out of the nose.
He thought of the power of the
steam, and wondered what would be
the effect if he were to fasten down
the lid and stop up the nose. He
concluded that the effect would be
to burst the kettle. GLOW much
power, them thought he, "there
must be in steam?" As soon as he
was let out of prison he tried an ex-
pertinent. Il have taken," he write.
"a cannon, and filled it three-quar-
tiers full of water, stopping firmly up
both the touch-hole and the mouth :;
and, having made good fire under
it, within twenty-four hours it burst,
and made great crack" After this,
the Marquis contrived a rude ma
chine, which, by the power of steam,
drove up water to the height of forty
feet. About one hundred years after
this, little boy, whose name Was
James Watt, and who lived in Scot
land, sat one day looking at kettle
of boiling water, and holding spoon
before the steam that rushed out of
the nose. His aunt thought he was
idle, and said, "Is it not shame for
you to waste your time so?"
But James was not idle; he was
thinking of the power of the steam
in moving the spoon. James grew
to be great and good man, and con-
trived those wonderful improvements
in the steam engine which have made
it so useful in our day. What will
not the steam engine do? If it could
speak, it might say:
blow the bellows, forge the steel,
manage the mill and the mint;
hammer the ore, and turn the wheel,
And the news that you read print.
In the year 1907 Robert Fulton
put the first steamboat on the Hud-
son river and in 1914 a locomotive
steam engine went over railroad
between Wallsend and Killingworth,
in England. And this is the story
of some hot water? From so small
a beginning as the steam of a tea
kettle resulted the steam engine, the
steamboat, and the locomotive en-
gine by which the trains Of carriages
are moved with such speed on our
railroads today.
Learn what the power Of thought
will do. How many men had looked
at kettles of boiling water, but how
few thought of the force of the steam,
and the good uses to which it might
| be turned.
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A Crown,

A French officer, prisoner on his
parole, met with Bible, and was so
struck with its contents that he was
convinced of the folly of scepticism,
and of the truth of Christianity. When
his gay associates rallied hira for taking
SO serious turn, he said:
81 have done no more than my old
school-tellow, Bernadotte, who is be-
come Lutheran
"Yes, but ne became so,' they an
swered, ''to obtain crown"
'My motive" said the officer, sis
the same we differ only as to place.
The object OF Bernadotte was to obtain
crown in Sweden mine, to obtain a
crown in heaven"
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It Was All There.

The joker who makes bad joke de-
serves to have it turned on him, as it
very often is.
A man who had dined at restaurant
was asked by the waiter what he would
have for dessert.
"You may bring me baked apples and
cream"
ayes, SIR"
"Only let us have them without the
cream"
eyes, SIR"
"And without the apples, please"
"All right, sir"
The waiter disappeared, and soon
returned with a plate on his salver, on
which lay spoon and little powdered
sugar. The customer looked surprised.
dts your baked apples and cream,
sir, without the baked apples and with
out the cream" said the waiter.
The item figured on the bill just the
same, and the customer felt bound to
pay it.
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SAYINGS OF LEADING MEN.

Marriage is the best state for man
in general, and every man is worse
man in proportion as he is unfit for
the married state.-/0AnSou.
You may deceive all the people
some of the time, and some of the
people all the time, but not all the
people all the time.--4Wuham Lin
coin.
Some things after all come to the
poor that can't get in at the doors of
the rich, whose money somehow
blocks up the entrance way.-Gsoyge
Macdonald.
Time is the greatest of tyrants and
extortioners. AS we go toward age
he taxes our health, our limbs, our
faculties, our strength and our fea-
tures.-/ohn Foster.
Where there is abuse, there ought
to be clamor; because it is better to
have our slumbers broken by the
fre-bell than to perish amid flames
in our bed.-Lora BroMgham.
Do today's duty, fight today's
temptation, and do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking forward
to things which you cannot see, and
could not understand if you saw
them.-CharIes Kingsley.
As the ivy twines around the oak,
so do misery and misfortune encom-
pass the happiness of man. Felicity,
pure and alloyed, is not a plant of
earthly growth. Her gardens are the
kies.-Bwton.
The old, old fashion! The fashion
that came in with our first parents,
and will last unchanged until our
race has run its course, and the wide
armament is rolled up like a scroll.
The old, old fashion, Death. Charles
DickenS.
All! when shall all mems good be
each mans rule and universal peace
lie like shaft of light across the
land?-zeunySou.
When | caution you against be-
coming a miser l do not therefore
advise you to become prodigal or
spendthrift.-H0yuce
How cunningly nature hides every
wrinkle of her inconceivable antiqu-
ity under roses and vlolets and morn
ing dew!-Emerson.
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taitzentlerg's.
Big Cut in Prices at
Mrs I,itZpnberor1 9

Mrs. Ltzenbergs.
Not old stock; my holiday
trade was so good. Many
staple goods were closed out.
| filled every available space
this week with new goods.
Wraps, Goats and Furs for
Ladies and Children below
cost.
All Millinery Goods at or
below cost.
Fine Felt Hats, new shapes,
sec.
French Wings and Birds
for less than cost of importa-
ton.
Great reduction in all Dress
Fabrics.
Astrichan, Plush and Cloth
down IN price.
Real Seal Coat Fastenings
25c per pair.
Black hair Fur Trimming,
2 inches wide, 25c.
Four-button, stitched-back
Perfect Kid Gloves. imDOrted.
75c per pair this month only.
Special sale Of Handker-
chiefs this month.
Merino-wear for Ladies and
Children. The lowest prices
ever offered.
Beautiful Ruchings.
Braid Decorations.
Silk Lace.
Flouncing.
Edglng.
| Nets.
A novelty in the way of a
Bargain Table. Prices no
object. Goods to be sold.
Buttericks Patterns.
Mrs. L. II. LITZENBERG
Elkton, Maryland.
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Temperance Item,

Bill Snort of the Crosby county
Clarion and Farmers TIndicat0r
was in Austin the other day, and was
asked about the state of morality in
Crosby county since the local option
law forbidding the sale Of intoxicat-
ing liquors had gone into effect.
Why, there amt prisoner in the
county jail 1t is as empty as the
head of the fellow who is trying to
run an opposition paper to mine in
Crosby county" as the vacant
condition Of the Jail owing to the To-
cal option law!' That's Just it.
The Sheriff had to go over into the
adjoining country to get drunk, and
while he was gone all the prisoners,
about twenty-seven in all, made their
escape. Oh, | tell you local option
is doing wonders in Crosby county,"
-IeraS .SItiingS-
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THE WEAVER.

weaver sat by the side ei his loom
A.finging the shuttle FAST
And thread that would wear till the hour Of doom
Was added at every cast.
His warp had been by the angels spun
And his welt was bright and rev,
Like threads which the morning unbratds from
the sun,
All jcweIled over with dew.
And fresh-lipped brlghteyed beautiful flowers.
IN the rich soft web were bedded:
And bithe TO the weaver sped onward the hours,
Not yet we're Times feet leaded.
But something there came slow stealing by,
And 4 shade on tho fabric Ieu:
And l that the shuttle less bIithely did fly
For thought had weariSome spell.
And thread that next o er the warp was lain
Was melancholy gray;
And anon l marked there a tear-drop stain,
Where the flowers had fallen away.
But still the weaver kept weaving on,
Though the fabric all was gray.
And the flowers. and the buds, and the leaves
were gone,
And the gold threads cankerGd lay.
And dar.s-and stin darker-:tld darker grew.
Eaen newly woven thread
And some there were OF Il Geata-morkiu. hue,
And some of bloody red.
And things ali strange were woven IN,
Sighs Jown-crushed hopes and feara;
and the web was broken, and p"sr and thin,
and it dripped with living tears.
And the weaver fain would have flung it aside,
But he knew it would ne a sin
So in light and in gloom tic shuttle he piled,
A-Nedving these liie-cords IN.
And as he wovc, ard weeping, still wovc
a tempter stole him nigh:
And, with glazing words, he to win him stroye,
But tire weaver turned his eye.
He upward turned his eye to heaven.
And still wOve sp-Ou--0n,
TIL the last cord from his heart was riven,
And the tissue strange was done.
Then he threw it about hi, shoulders bowed,
And about his grizzed head:
And gathering close the fields of his shroud,
Lay him down among the dead.
And after l saw, In robe Of light,
The weaver in the sky:
The angels wings wero not more bright,
And the stars grew paIo il nigh.
And l saw mid the folds AL the iriS-nucd ilowers
That beneath ais touch had sprung;
More beautiful Tar than these stray ones OF ours
Which the angels have to US ilupg.
And wherever = tear had fallen down,
Cleaned out diamond rare;
And jewels bchtttng lnonarch's crown
Were the footprints LETT by care.
And wherever had swept the breath of sigh.
Was LETT Il rich perfume;
And with light from the fountain Of bliss in the
sky,
Shono the labor of sorrow and gloom.
And then prayed, when my last work is done,
and the silver iiie-cnord rvcn,
Be tho stain OF sUrrOw tie deepest one,
That bear with me to heaven.
fanny Forester { Hrg. Ju!sOH).
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EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN.

Says St. Louis professor "The |
education of young ladies is being
revolutionized. Many families of high |
social standing are beginning to teach
their daughters practical book keeping
and business methods, instead of such
accomplishments as painting and music.
The proportion of young ladies who
are able to earn their own livelihood
has greatly increased in the last ten
years. Now days it is a common
thing to see young women occupying
important clerical positions in large
business houses, and they do their work
as well as men. Why, 1t scarcely pays
young man now to learn stenography
or bookkeeping, for young women are
invading that territory and driving men
to other pursuits. Look about in St.
Louis and you will be surprised to learn
how many young ladies are acting as
private secretaries, clerks, accountants
and stenographers. The young men
are surely but slowly being driven into
sterner fields of labor, and in a few
years more, if women advance in the
same ratio as in the past decade, there
will be no male clerks behind the coun-
tiers. Young men will have to adopt
trades and professions that by nature
are untitled for the employment of wo-
men. But it is all for the best; clerical
work is feminine in its character, and
vigorous, strong minded men will not
consent to sell neckties or keep set of
books for livelihood. Such work be-
longs to the rising generation of women.
The slender, pale-faced young man,
whose white, soft hands are never soiled
with manly labor, will have to seek
fresh pastures in the near future, for, as
the practical education of women ad-
vances II means that they will become
strong competitors of men in all indoor
work where mental cleverness and ply
slcal dexterity are required. The prac-
tical education of women will give
them strength and independence it
will enable many women to relieve
family distresses by contributing to
family support, and make wives the in
valuable counselors and assistants of
their husbands.
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ENGAGED.

They were tired of the music and dancing,
OF the crowd and the noise and the glare,
And had wandered away to the garden,
Just, you know. tor Il breath of fresh air.
Her hand on his arm lightly rested,
She looked so divine and so fair.
That ne whispered his love, and-kissed her,
He didn't believe she would care.
But, alas, for his thoughts and his fancies,
For she suddenly grew quite enraged,
How dare you, sir; will you release NE?
Don't you know that am engaged"
Bat his face looked so pale and detected
That she said with a sly upward glance,
Never mind, Jack, IN stay if you wish it,
am only engaged for a dance"
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His Prayer.

From me Boston IFdHscrlpf
A story about the confusion of
words has brought to the Listener,
from "a. M. R." this unpublished
narrative, which comes down from
slavery times:
George was negro boy owned
by my friend, Judge W, in New
Orleans He was a deyout fellow,
and enjoyed his evening prayer be-
side his gentle mistress, where, be-
lieving in sound rather than sense,
he innocently and emphatically said:
Forgive us our precipices, and
lead us not onter a plantationr"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-04

81 am glad to meet your majesty, -
said the new missionary. rather tinidly,
as he bowed before the King OF Cow
chumbechew. "Come into the hut,
young man." cried the monarch, cor
daily. Come in, come in. | am glad
to see you. | know | will like you.
You ought to know me. | ate your
grandfather. ."-Bmaette.
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She "Displains" It.

Had, too,''
Hadn't, neither
So contended Bess and May
Neighbor children who were boasting
OF their grandmammas one day.
Had, toor''
Hadn't, neither.''
All the difference begun
By Mays saying she'd two grandma.,
While poor Bess had only one.
Had, too,''
Hadn't, noither!''
Tossing curIs and kinks of friz,
How could you have two grandmothers
When Jus, one is all they is?''
Had, too -
Hadn't, neither
Cause ef you had two, said Bess,
You'd displain it!'' Then May answered
My grandmas were twins, l guess.''
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Bromley, I've been going through
my last year vests"
'Find any bills in the pockets, Oar
ringer?'
eyes, one."
Good. A $50 bill l hope"
"No, bill for $685."
"But there isn't a bill Of that de-
nomination"
"Oh, there isn't ehl Bromley, it was
wash bill. "-PAiladeLbhla Call.
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What Rosie Found Out.

Little Rosie, walking slowly past the verdan t
meadow, SECS
Many cows, and some are standing, others lying
meath the trees.
In the road stands little Rosie caring not for dust
mud,
While her eyes are bent upon them US they calmly
chew their cud.
Great surprise her face expresses, for awhile her
lips are dumb;
Then she cries out: Mamma, mamma, all these
COWS are chewing gum!''
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-04

When little Sallie c., of Salem,
was about three years old she went
with party OF grown folks on the
steamer to Nantasket. As we sat on
the deck, she persisted upon climb
ing up the railing, much to her
grandma's discontinue. Her mamma
said to her: Don't do so, Sally, or
grandma'll have a fit" presently
grandma disappeared, and when her
mamma said, "Where's gramma
gomez" Sally promptly replied: 81
guess she's gone inside to have a fit"
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Lord. IT'S ThEself."

way-wern Pilgrim stood before the door,
And knocking, pleaded: "Open, Lord It's L.
But still there came no answer to his cry
Only his own word which the breezes bore,
Chanting pean in echo. and once more
Trembling to silence in threnody.
And the sad Pilgrim passed, nor questioned why,
Knowing but that his heart YVES very sore
Then, wrestling in the world with shame and sin.
He learned abasement as the noblest pride,
And yielding ALL the better all to win.
Again stood at the door he erst had tried
"Who knocketh?" came the question from within :.
"Lerd, tits 1hyself." The door was opened wide.
Francis HOICdrd Williams
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-04

The land devoted to VINE grapes in
France would, if given over to the cul-
tivation OF wheat and corn, supply that
country with gram for which she now
gives to other countries about SI7o,-
ooo, 900 each year.
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Friend to Congressman's Wife
Is your husband a man OF sedentary
habits?
Wife-Of course not. He hasn't
touched a drop in fifteen years.
Washington Critic.
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'It's very cold" remarked Mr..
McCorkle, as he came in to dinner.
My hands are perfectly numb"
Then they match your skull per-
fectly," was the unfeeling comment
OF his wife.-PhiladeLbAia Times.