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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
The Stripe Down the Back.

I'm several instances" says writer,
81 saw slave children whose veins con
tanned so much of their masters blood
that their skins were without tinge of
the African color except the invariable
stripe down the spinal column. Such
things as that were so plainly aud horri-
bly, wrong that needed no teaching in
order to know it. Between selling
human beings who were partly White and
those entirely black some way couldn't
find any line where the wrong ended and
the right began.
"What do mean by the stripe down
the spinal column? Why | supposed
you knew the presence of African blood
in any person, no matter how slight the
proportion, can be Instantly detected b.
a dark line along the spine. Even an
octorOon, with complexion and features
pure Caucasian, invariably has this line
of dark. 1t is never falling proof of
mixed blood. The mark is not always
black. but always considerably dal ker
than the rest of the surface of the body.
''Since you didn't know that, perhaps
you don't know that IA negro child at its
birth is as light colnred as white Que
You wouldn't notice any difference in
the color at all. In three Or tour hours
after birth the skin begins to turn dark,
and in short time becomes as black as
the child is destined to be during its
life. "-LudianapOlis Meas
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

Homo returneth the good pastor from
AN earned vacation in Europe, joyously
greeting his native land. To him the
elder, far better than the pastor, cones
with fervent greeting Tor his welcome
home. Shaking his head sadly, he says
with earnestness that far outstripes his
originality, "Ah, parson, the devil never
takes a vacation" mo, indeed" the
parson replies, with unexpected out
burst of genuine heartiness. he doesn't
need one; he never works hard enough
If he should take my contract to drag
this congregation up hill to heaven, in
stand of merely amusing himself by dane
ing with it on the primrose grade, he'd
want vacation every six weeks, and
then he'd break down before the year
was out. "-RO6ert j. Burdette.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

me and that OF horse has been work.
in for the company for twelve years
now" Passenger-"That SO! The com
pany must think great deal of you
BOTH" "Wall, dunno; last week the
two of US was taken sick, ID an they got
doctor for the horse and locked me.
Gid ap thare now, Betsy"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
BUSHYHEAT'S WIGWAM.
An Indication of the Progress Winch FIX
lists in IAN Indian Tribe.

BY the way, Chief Bush head, of the
Cherokee Nation, was here wlllr ago,
and seeing HIM crossing the lobby at WI
lard's, | asked :, friend who " IS with me,
named Van Wick, it he v oulG like % "
introduced.
"Why," said Van Wyck, astonished.
''you don't mean to say that handsome
ly.dressed and distinguished looking man
over there is all In,ll up
Decidedly, yes" replied. Here
he comes now. Mr.. Bush, head, let me
introduce my friend, Mr. Van Wyck.'
"Happy to meet you. Nh Van Wyck,'
"Charmed to have the privilege of
knowing you, Mr.. Bushyhead. And
really hope you'll excuse the remark
You are quite-or-civilized, aren't
you?"
Il trust so," blandly responded the
chief, ex Governor of Indian Territory
and one of the very rich men of that en-
lightened and prosperous region.
huu arc oil Iuc 1uultuS Ill your brlO6
as civilized as yourseli?" Inquired Van
Wick.
"Oh, yes,"
"Do you all live in tents and wig
wamsp"
Certainly. Here is the picture of my
own wigwam."
And the Chief drew from the inside
pocket of his coat photograph of a
beautiful Queen Anne cottage, which
could not have cost less than $50, 900
This is my summer wigwam," said
Bushyhead with grave affability
81 have another for winter in town."
Van Wyck, who disregarded the
nudges gave him while he was putting
| his questions, "tumbled" at last. l I'M
derstand that he has been kicking him.
self ever since Washington Star.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
The Best
Spring Medicine.

ain the spring Of 1887 was all run down. I
would get up in the morning with so tired a
feeling, and was so weak that could hardly get
around thought bottle OF Paine's Celery Com
pound, and before had taken 1t a week felt
very much better. can cheefully recommend
II TO all who need a building up and strengthen
ing medicine" Mrs. b. A. Dow, Burlington. Vt
I6oT6TEn FooD Nourishes babies perfectly.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
Friends OF Cecil County!

II 1t be pity to suffer with aches pains. debility
and weakness, caused by liver complaint, dyspep-
sia ague and fever, try BROOM HERB BITTERs, a
purely vegetable medicine that speedily cured
Frank Price, OF Cecilton, Catherine Holland, OF
Fair Hill, Miss Peterson, of Newark, Mrs. Tubbs,
Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Maxwell, OF Wilmington,
Del, besides many others who suffered for years.
For sale at F'razer's Drug Store, Elkton, Md.
Trial bottles, rs cents; large SIZE slOO. Ask your
druggist for It, Depot, 5O4 Hoffman Street. Phila-
delphia. Mayl9tf
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
What am I TO do

The symptoms of Biliousness are un
happily but too we'll known. They differ In
different individuals to some extent. A
Bilious man is seldom breakfast eater
Too frequently, alas, he has an excellent
appetite for liquids but none for solids of a
morning. His tongue will hardly bear in
spection at any time; if it is not white and
Hlrred, it is rough, at all events.
The digestive system is wholly out of
order and Diarrhea or Constipation may be
a symptom or the two may alternate. There
are often Hemorrhods or even loss of blood.
There may be giddiness and often head ache
and acidity or tiatulence and tenderness in
the pit OF the stomach. To correct all this
if not effect . cure try Green's August
Flower, it cost but trifle and thousands
attest Its efficacy. 3.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

Whilst often wnat costs the least does tie
most work. Try Broom Herb Bitters the
Medicine that speedily cured. Rob't Livezey,
of Churchville, Hartford county, Md; Mrs.
VIM. Ensor, of Parkton station Baltim Greco;
Mrs. Catherine Holland, of Fair Hill, Cecil
county Md. F. c. Price, of Cecilton, Cecil
county, Md; and Peter Everts no. 9 Colds
Court, Baltimore, Nd, besides IN my others
who fingered along time with Rheum atism,
Dyspepsia, Ague Chils and fevers. For
sale at Hoppers Drug Store, Chesapeake
City, and at Frazer's Drug Store, Elkton.
Md. Trial bottle 25 cents, large size 500
Ask your druggist for it, If.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
Afflicted Friend,

II suffering with Rheumatism, Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint or any disease CAUSED by
impurities in the blood. Try Broom Hertz
Bitters, Medicine that is vegetable and
harmless. If weak, feeble and nervous you
can trust 1t. IL has cured many sufferer
who suffered with pain and who tried every
known remedy in vain. For sale at Frazer's
Drug Store, Elkton, Md. Trial bottle %
cents. large size 500. II.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

Papa" said boy much given to
reading, Il have often seen the phrase,
all right-thinking people, in the papers.
What kind of p eople are right thinking
people?" They are the sort of people,"
said the father, "who think as We do
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

The following is an extract from a
real composition written by small
school boy in New Jersey. The subject
given by the teacher was the extensive
one of MAN" Here is what the small
boy wrote Man is wonderful animal
He has eyes, ears, mouth. His ears are
mostly for catching cold in and having
the earache. The nose is to get snitf1es
with. A mans body is split half way up,
and he walks on the split ends"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14

Mrs. Grubber-" Well, we'll! What
fools these editors be!' Mr.. Grubber-
"Eh?" Mrs. Grubber-"Here | Writ a
letter to the editor of the Punkinville
Trumpet, askin' what would b a proper
an inexpensive thing to git for weddin'
present; an here in the paper he's printed
a list of about a hundred things what
folks gives as weddin' presents, an there
amt one of 'em costs less than dollar"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-12-14
1t Makes You Hungry

Spring medicine meansmore nowadays thanit
did ten years ago. The winter OF 1885 50 has left
the nerves all tagged out. The nerves must be
strengthened, the blood purified, liver and
bowels regulated Paine's Celery Compound
the Spring medicine of to-day-does all this,
as nothing else can. Prescribed by Physicians,
Recommended by Druggists, Endorsed by Ainisters,
Guaranteed by the ny|dcturers to b
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09

ropean level. Consequently any trust exist
ing between American and foreign dealers
or producers must favor free trade. And
thus we see that tariff Is at war with trusts
Between the American principle of protects
ion and the un-American system of trusts
there is irreconclable war;"
There Is no demand for this Anglo American
salt trust. The American manufacturers.
as / have always maintained, can regulate
their own business and pay fair wages for
labor If they are afforded proper protection
by tariff, but ii this trust Is an established
fact and they succeed in cornerng the mar
ket and raising the price (Which result fol-
lowed close upon the formation of the Eng
lish trust) of this necessary commodity, the
result will be inevitable that the people will
demand that this trust be broken by repeal
of the tariff on salt We will then be at the
mercy of the foreign producers with their
cheap labor, and this Is the consumation de-
sired by the English capitalists, who have
succeeded in inducing some of their Ameri-
can cousins to join this bold attempt to force
the American people to protect themselves
against trusts by repeating the tariff.
If we are manufacturing too much we can
control the supply by shutting down during
the winter when necessary, as winter salt
is the most expensive on account of the mills
being closed, and the cost of manufacturing
and storing is increased in this way. We
can regulate our domestic affairs without
the help of the English OF Canadian supply,
and our laboring classes will be better off
than if placed at the mercy of monopoly.
The salt trust, when we are once in its pow
Ell, will simply tell us what we know now
that we are making too much salt and that
we must limit the supply to their demands,
so that when our independence will be in
the possession of the North American Salt
company Qimited) we will not be any better
off than we are now. You can say for me
that l am utterly opposed to all trusts and
will have nothing to do with them.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Ear.xin.

The estate of Varzin, which former
ly belonged to Count Blumenthal, is
the finest in Pomcrania. Prince Bis
marck owns only half of the original
Blumenthal property, the other half
having been purchased by the Prince
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The schloss of Varzin is a large plain
house of two stories, with courtyard
and two projecting wings, in which
arc the kitchen and offices. The prin-
cipal rooms look out on vast lawn,
and on this side of the lawn there is a
wide veranda. The estate extends to
%, 1000 acres, of which 1000 are COW
cred with some of the finest forest in
Germany, principally oak and beech.
The prince has home farm of 400
acres, and the remainder of the prop
erty is let in large farms, averaging
700 acres. All the woods are in hand,
and Prince Bismarck has several large
mills on the River Wiper, which
runs through the estate. He has
greatly improved and developed this
property, and his forests furnish most
of the wooden pavcments in the streets
of Berlin. The country all around
Varzin is very picturesque, and there
are beautiful walks and drives through
the woods for many miles in every di-
rection. The estate was given to
Prince Bismarck by the late Emperor
William in 1S66.-London World.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Extensive buddhist Temples.

The Buddhists in Burmah do not
consider the question of expense in
identifying their temples. Here is the
description of the new vane of pa
CODA at Rangoon: "The vane is about
three feet by one and half feet broad
and thickly crusted with precious
stones and lovely fans of the red Bur-
mese gold. One ruby alone is worth
5000 rupees, and there are several
hundred rubies alone on this beautiful
thing. On the tip of the iron rod on
which works the vane is richly
carved and perforated solid gold orna-
ment called the Semboo. 1t is some
what egg-shaped and about foot in
height, tipped by an enormous dia-
mond encircled by many smaller ones
crusted on like barnacles. ALL over
this exquisite oval object are similar
clumps of diamonds, no other stone
being used for this part. London
Figaro.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Mothers 7

There are upon the skin of every human
being child and adult alike, 9, 800, 900 pores.
Through these pores in the form of invisible
perspiratioh is expelled more than one
quarter of the nOurishment taken into the
system. The importance of keeping open
these perspiration valves upon child's body
is second only to that of properly digesting
the food eaten. 1t was to open the pores of
the skin and to assimilate the food that DR..
Pitcher formulated Castoria. Loose bowels,
constipation, fevers and eruptons which are
so constant among infants and children, and
which kill One-third of all children before
they are five years DID, arise principally
from these two causes. 1t is from the Won
derful results attendant upon the use of
CastOria in regulating the stomach and bow
els and keeping open the poresOfthe skin that
Castoria acquired its worldwide reputation
With plenty of water for the body, pure air
for the lungs and CastOria to assimilate the
food, there need be no unnacOunted for sick
ness among children. Castoria is q yege
table prescription without morphine or other
narcotic property. Thirty years extensive
use has given it history never attained by
another medicine.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Al century of Proeress.

Only a century ago charcoal iron
was produced to the extent of about
80, 900 tons yearly; twenty years later
the product was but $1,000 tons. Even
Great Britain in 1888 produced only
6S, 300 tons-not so much as some fur
naces in the United States now turn
out yearly. The manufacture of steel
was just beginning in the States;
twenty years later only OF tons were
produced in the country. The coarsest
pig iron then cost about as much as
steel rails do now. Last year the
American product of pig iron was
9,4S0, 739 tons, and the highest price OF
best foundry pig was S21 ton. The
output of steel rails was in round
numbers 1850, 600, and the best price
$31. so. A single American railway
now buys more iron than both Great
Britain and the United States made a
century ago. There were neither rail-
ways, iron bridges nor buildings; no
petroleum pipes, for there was no
petroleum; no gas pipes, for there was
no gas lighting even III Europe until
later.
Washington lived in an age of dark
ness; instead OF the electric light the
people had candles costing about two
cents apiece. In all the departments
and applications of chemistry the cen
fury has simply created new world.
American pressed glass, which has
completely revolutionized the supply
of table and house ware, is an inven-
ton of the last sixty years. Farming
in Washington's day knew nothing of
machinery; even the first iron plow,
patented in 1897, was failure, for
New Jerusalem farmers thought it
poisoned the soil. Mowers, reapers
and harvesters began to be invented
about the same time, and even the or
binary implements were such as it
would not now be thought possible to
use. The steamboat was practically
unknown, and the railway entirely
until forty years later the cost of trans
portation by wagon confined the area
of possible production with profit, as
to most crops, to the margin of navi.
gable waters. In fact, new world
has been created in this century, =
London Iron.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Board of Review.

Ddltu----------, 10.
Upon the completion of said roll and its
endorsement in manner aforesaid, the same
shall be conclusively presumed by all courts
and tribunals to be valid. The omission of
such endorsement shall not affect the val
idity of such roll. Each member of said
board of review shall receive the sum of 50
for his services on such board, the same to
be allowed by the Common Council and
paid out of the contingent fund of said city.
Upon the completion of such roll as afore-
said, each of the Supervisors shall file with
the City Clerk of said city a true copy of
the roll for his district, duly certified by
him.
Sec. 95. 1t shall be the duty of the Com
mon Council of said city on or before the
last Saturday preceding the first day of
June i'm each year, to determine by resolu-
ton the amount necessary to be raised by
tax for city purposes within said city for the
year, and the amount necessary for the pay
ment of the interest ON any and all bonds
or other obligations of said city for such
} ear; and IL shall he the duty of the City
Clerk to certify the amount so to be raised
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09

In the kidneys. When inactive they speed
lily fall into dIsrepair. Those obstinate and
fatal maladies, Brght's diseas and diabetes,
ensuing with terrible certainty upon the in
action of the organs affected. Catarrh OF
the bladder, enuresis, gravel and strangury
are also to he apprehended from partial
paralysis of the bladder, of which weakness
ana sluggishness are the causes. Hostel
ters Stomach Bitters Is a fine tonic and pro-
moter or activity for the renal organs, and
one which can be relied upon to afford them
the requisite stimulus without exciting them
an effect to be feared from the unmedi-
Gated alcoholic excitant of commerce. A
further beneficent effect of the Bitters. by
renewing activity of the kidneys, is to en-
able them to drain from the blood in its
passage through them, impurities produc-
tive of rheumatism and dropsy. Nervous
ness, fever and ague, constipation and dys-
pepsla are conquered by the Bitters.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09

When Baby was sick, we geo no. yastoria
When she was Child. she cried for Castoria,
When sne became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave Il en- CastoraA
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Hog and HomiRN.

There are but few subjects to which
we warm more kindly than hog and
hominy. 1t once had its habitat III
this section; in fact it is almost cosmo-
politan, it can exist in every cline,
but the true home of hog and hominy
is in this delightful region. Before
the war, in those good old days when
peace and plenty cheered the laboring
swain in this God favored cline, the
hog received distinguished attention.
The glorious reports of the maturing
large corn crop of this section con-
jures up pictures that are colored by
the recollection of the past. There
was time when southwest Georgia
was noted for being the greatest pro-
vision country of the south. 1t was
the Egypt of the south during the
dark days of the war between the
states.
It's granaries were as full as the
cemented wheat bins of Egypt in Jo-
seph's time, and meat and corn were
hauled from here in long trains that
daily went to supply the needs of the
army of the Potomac and, the west
ern army. Notwithstanding the drain
upon our resources, they were not cX-
hausted, but the cessation of hostilities
found us with corn and porkers in
great abundance. Plantations not
comprising more than 500 acres killed,
after the war, as many as 400 hogs.
Underline altered condition of things
our planters did not believe it possible
to raise their own meat, and wholly
neglected one of the best industries we
had, and the consequence has been
that wo have had our smoke house in
the west ever since and we make q
large annual contribution to the pros
perity Of the west. Fully 200 cars of
western meat are annually received in
Albany and consumed within the
limits of its territory. That amounts
to the enormous tax of $3.50, 000.-Al-
bany (Ga.) News and Advertiser.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula for a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and PERM
anent cure of consumption, bronchitis, ca
tarrh, asthma and all throat and lung affec-
tons, also positive and radical cure for
nervous debility and nervous complaints,
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his
duty To make il known to his suffering fell
lows. Actuated by this motive and desire
to relieve human suffering, will send free
of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe,
in German, French or English, with full
directions for preparing and using. Sent
by mail by addressing with stamp, naming
this paper. w. A. Noyes, 149 Powers
Block, Rocheeter, n. Y.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Piles! Piles! Piles!

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment is the
only sure cure for blind, bleeding or itching
piles ever discovered 1t never fails to
cure old chronic cases of long standing.
Judge Coons, Maryville, KY, says: DIR.
Williams Indian Pile Ointment cured me
after years IF suffering" Judge Coffin
bury, Cleveland, Ohio, says: 81 have found
by experience that DR.. Williams Indian
Pile Ointment gives immediate and perm
anent relief" We have hundreds of such
testimonials. DO not suffer an instant
longer. Sold by druggists at so cents and
81 per box.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Honest.

Hin these days of adulteration and fraud,
in all branches of business and pursuits, it
is pleasing to know that there is one medi-
cine prepared which is strictly pure. Such
a medicine is Sulphur Bitters in cnring scro-
w. b. EvERTs, A. M, Charleston, S. C.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts bruis-
es, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and
all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by Parkill
IL Son.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
It Is Useless

for young ladies who are troubled with
freckles, pimples, moth and tan and bad
skin generally to use lixuid paints or dry
powders, for they only make the skin look
well FIR the time being. To have good
complexion you must have pure blood. Use
Sulphur Bitters and your skin will be fair
and complexion rosy.--Young Lacies Mag
nil
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Interested PEOPLE

Advertising patent medicine in the pc
culiar way in which the proprietor of Kemp's
Balsam for Coughs and Colds does is indeed
wonderful He authorizes all druggists to
give to those who call for it sample bottle
free, that they may try it before purchasing.
The large bottles are SOC and 81. We GER
tainly would reccomend trial. 1t may
save you from consumption.