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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-01
How the Japanese Pronose

In the house wherein reside one or
more daughters of manageable age.
an empty iiower-pot of an ornamental
character IS eucircled by ring and
suspended from tie window or veran-
da by three light chains. Now, the
Juliets Of Japan are, of course. attrac-
tive, and their Romcos as gallant as
those of other lands. But, instead of
serenades by moonlight, and other
delicate ways of making an impress
sion, it Is etiquette for the japanese
lover to approach the DIVE ling of his
lady, bearing some choice plant in his
hand, which he proceeds to plant in
the empty vase. This takes place at a
time when he is fully assured that both
mother and daughter are at home.
This aci Of placing a pretty plant
into the empty flower-pot is cquiva-
lent to formal proposal to the young
lady who dwells within. The youth
full gardener having settled his plant TO
his mind, retires. and the lady is free
to act as she plcases. If he is the
right man, she takes every care of his
gift, wateAa, it, and tends it carefully
with her own hands, that all the world
may see, in word, that the donor is
accepted as smtor. But if lie is not
a favorite, OF if stern parents object,
the poor plant is torn from the vase,
and the next morning lies limp and
withered on the veranda or on the path
below.
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ITollowl We amt a bad pair of mer-
chants; give us plenty o money and
discretion combined to use."
Mary Chipfeld looked wistfully at
her husband as Joanna went away to
produce the vouchers for her words,
in the shape of leather-bound bank
books.
"Seth," faltered she, "you amt
mad with me, be you? But Joanna,
she planned it all out, and ! was SO
put to it for little money to spend
-"
''Mad with you?' repeated Seth.
''I'm mad with myself. Jest wish |
could undo all the last ten yearsl"
lie lay quite silent for some time.
Then he spoke up.
IF had jest hundred dollars left
outen the rum said he, al know
what I'd do with IT,"
"What?' asked Mary, who was 81
lently rubbing his painswollen joints
with liniment.
ard send for the parson, and give II
TO him for that ere mission When
fellow has turned his back on the
Lord he can't expect the Lord to look
out for him.
There needn't be no 'if' in the
matter, Seth" said his wife. "Mc
and Joanna will draw out the money
you want any time you say !"
"Yes, that we will" acquiesced
Joanna, eagerly.
Seth ChipfeId lifted his eyes re-
morsefully to her face.
"You amt following my example.
said he. 81 wouldn't let you have
nothin' to subscribe "
Joanna laughed checrily
"We'll lei bygones be bygones,
said she, 'if only you'll own up, Seth.
that women can manage money"
And Seth "owned up.'-[Saturday
Night.
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Vegetable Immigrants.

Naturalists familiar with the habits
of the English sparrow seem to doubt
the possibility of preventing its enor-
nous increase at the expense of our
indigenous birds, and similar result
may follow the introduction of tree
which in the course of the last twenty
years has effected at least a thousand
AID extension of its North American
h-oitat. 1t is the ailantus tree, inn
ported originally from the Moluccas,
but now found in almost every shell
tered riyer-yalley from Pittsburg to
Southern Alabama. Its fecundty and
rapidity of growth exceed that of the
Canada thistle.
In less than five years small plan
tation of the vegetable colonists will
cover dozen square miles of river
bottoms with their pale green sprouts,
and in five years more any one of
, tspse spro1te IS capable, upon the
slightest encouragement, to develop
inio a tall and really beautiful tree.
None Of our native arboreal plants
seem capable of competing with the
vegetative energy of the hardy stran-
ger, which prospcrs in the poorest cal
careouS soils. and apnears To flourish
equally well in Southern China and
Northern Ohio. Along the line of the
Miami Canal, north and east of Gin
cinnati, it has superseded sumachs and
willows; near huntsville, Ala, its
thickets are smothering both weeds
and forest trees, and within the last
five years it has extcadcd its conquests
even to the rocky uplands of Western
North Carolina.-[New York Voice.
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The Number of Oar ANCESTORS.

To one who has not thought upon
he subject, it is quite inconceivablo
iosf faptiiiy person slita'' re Il,
multiply every generation he carries
pack the calculation. If one is asked
how many neutrality-suspicious. he
iad, he will, in all likelihood, answer,
two" while in reality he lad eight,
f there have been no intermarriages
# relations among his ancestors. In
TACT, the number of male ancestors
doubles every generation. Thus,
everyone has had two grandfathers,
four great -grandfathcrs, eight great
at-grandfathers, sixteen great
great-great- grandfathers; and, fifteen
generations back, he had no less than
lixteen thousand three hundred and
lighty-four lineal male ancestors
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NO. Is.


On the riyer of life, as float a'ong'
see with the spirits sight
That many nauseous weed Of wrong
Has root in a seed OF right.
For evil is good that has gone astray'
And sorrow is only blindness
And the world is always under the sway
or changeless law of kindness
The commonest error a truth can make
In shouting It's sweet voice hoarse'
And sin is only the souls mistake
In misdircctng its force.
And love, the fairest OF all fair Things
That ever to men descended
Grows rank with nettes and po'Sono"'
things
Unless it is watched and tended.
There could not be anything better tnan '"''
Old world in the way it begun,
And though some matters have gone am'ss
From the great original plan;
ANA however DARK the skies may appeal
And however souls may bhnder,
tell you, 1t all will work out clear,
For good lies over and under
Fl Ella Wheeler WILCOX
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A Novel Fog Horn.

A fog horn operated entirely by
team and compressed air has been
established at the light station at Sea
Bird point, which is the eastern ex-
remity of Discovery Island. The
lorn will sound blasts of eight seconds
duration, with intervals of one minute
ietween blasts. The fog-alarm build
ng is situated about 800 feet south
westerly from the lighthouse and is of
wood, painted white, with brown
'oofng. The horn is elevated about
iorty-tigc feet above high water mark.
-TSan Francisco California.
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What a Prison Association is no;n,.

'7V" foSUohhstOh IN D0InE.
Inc convlcts career is no longer
blightcd forever by his term of inn.
prisonment, AYERS the New York
Press. Provided that he sincerely re-
grets his period of crime and SHOVE
evidence of his intention 10 lead a bo,
ter life, he can now get job and start
afresh. There are several thousand
eX-conVlcts who are now employed in
reputable business houses in this c;t,,
ana VINO can, IN case of change, get
mighty good recommendation both j.
to conduct and ability from tbo;r
employers. This condition of atra;rs
is brought about by the Prison Asso
citation of New York.
The association is a branch Of ~
National Prison Association. WIFI,
has its branches in nearly all the load
ing States of the Union. The NJ
York association, however, has dom
more good and accomplished moro ~
ticeable and far-reaching results than
any of the other branches in the COM
try. 1t secured positions for no ~.
than 1900 men last year, all of wbom
had at some time occupied a cell in ono
OF the prisons of this Empire State
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WHAT THE, WOMEN DID.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

It was one of those June days when
the wild roses dye all the woods with
deepest pink and the faMer begins
meditatively to decide which Of his
fields will first be ripe for the glitter
ing scythe.
Mr.. Chipfeld sat by the window,
with his farm calendar and account
books piled upon the low wooden Sill,
a stumpy pen in his hand and cone-
shaped glass inkstand on the table be-
fore him.
A close prisoner within his house
from acute rheumatism, he yet ruled
his domain with a rod of iron, and
boosted that everything on the farm
went by clockwork, the same as if he
were able personally u supervise il.
lie was small, sallow man with
bead-like black eyes, close-cut hair and
a grim, Napolconic jaw.
BY the opposite door sat Mrs. Chips
field, clean gingham apron tied hnf-
riedly over her charming costume,
while Joanna, her red-cheeSed sister
leaned over the back of her chair. The
minister stood in the middle Of The
room, paper in his hand.
"Tfs very commendablo purposev
Brother Chipfeld," said he. THESE
poor creatures have long needed 4
chapel in their midst, and it's an cd
rage longer to neglect it. low NUT
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A Seyen-Pound Gem,

The largest cafs-eye of which there
is any record was recently found by
digger of Gale, Ceylon. 1t weighed
iearly seven pounds. The finder was
a Moor man who had been very poor.
He has been offered 800, 900 by syn
dictate of local dealers.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-08-01

F,p,. :, adiocrned meeting Of the
MINERS AID PLANTERS 1eEvc r',s
Baltimore CITY, he'll At tbeir omoa
Il N. Wednesday, the goth day Of FeDrnary
!. '"H snFrnERD was elected Pre.i
s'''i J. r nmssor. vice-pre.ident
oAAVHL N, Inks, Cashier c. W
D'n'lS' Treasurer. and L. F. Ir,xrs
secretary.
1850 n Board Of Directors for the wear
'J00 J was elected as follows: Coz
: z :. KINKS, of Frederick Co
: ~, frank Talbot. Calvert Co
W SHEPHERD. Of Anne Arundel Go
= :, BkiScoE, Of Calvert Co.
: NJ y CRAWFORD Of Calvert Co.
!. .n y TUCK, Of Baltimore CITY.
apinAN IoSEY, Of Charles Co
o : y ". KINKS, Of Frederick Co
:. " DORSEY, of Calvert Co
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IIonors Easy.

Philadelphian (proudly)-I presume
tou know, sir, that Philadelphia has
he only American who ever danced
With Queen Victoria?
New Yorker-That may be, but
Scw York contains the only English
nan who ever sold hot roasted potato
0 the Prince Of Wales.-[New York
Weekly.
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The Ostrich In California.

Scattered throughout Southern Cat
fornia are to be found ostrich farms,
but the largest farms are perhaps those
at Falbrook and Pasadena at the
former place there is d ranch which
contains about seventy The birds are
valued at $1,000 to Sl20n each. They
are<c,ermous creatures. six to eight
fsg nigh and weighing 200 to 800
p0dnds The females are smaller than
the males. and lay ten or twelve eggs,
possibly as higa as sixteen, one every
other day, which are placed in tie
= s wefF mat sue was nor angry with nm
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One Thing lie Did Not Want.

"The trouble with Boodlcton is that
&c wants the earth"
"You wrong him." said tie book
gent. "There are some things he does
lot want. labored with him two
lours the other night trying to get him
0 buy copy of yoar poems, and he
wouldn't have 'em. = Bazaar.
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rhn RIrht MIN Right IlseIr.


When overcome with anxious fears
And moved with passion strong'
Because the right seems losing gFounu
Aad everything goes wrong,
How oft does admonition say:
"Put trouble on the shelf;
Truth will outlive the liars day,
And Right will right itseif!'
Bv all the triumphs Of the past,
BY ali the victories won,
The good achieved. the progress maue
Each DAY from sun to sun;
In spite Of artful ways employed
BY perfdy or pelf
or one thing we can rest assured
The Right will right Itself!
mistaken in our faith and zeal
lis ours to do and dare,
To find the place we best can I'LL.
And serve our Maker there;
For he is only brave who thus
rnis tfoa5,e o. The shell,
And trusts in Cod for by His aid
The Right Will right Itself
Josephine Pollard in the Ledger
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luck | had?p
''Because," sighed Mrs. Netley, bit
Ing off the thread to save the trouble
of reaching for her scissors, "you
never do have any luck. Folks don't
seem to want a boy"
"The new doctor does, though" said
John, chuckling, as he reviewed the
result of his architectural dealings
with the fire. "And he's engaged me
to look after his horses and COW.
There"
Mrs. Netley paused, with her die
suspended in mid air. A>
"Well, that is luck, !" said she. ~
new doctor! | suppose he's a ',
grand gentleman, eh?"
"He's very nice and pleasant" said
John; "that's all | know. And he's
going to give me two dollars week.
And he says | mustn't be discouraged,
because he was poor boy once, with
empty pockets and never shoe to his
feet" ~. J. -. - -.
"And now" said Mrs. Netley, "he's
bought that big stone house and
grounds. It's well TO be lucky"
"But," cried John, che says it isn't
luck. He says it's nothing but hard
work and push. And l mean to work
hard too, aud buy nice house, some
day, for you and Aunt Eunice to live
in"
"Whats his name, Johnny?o list
lessly asked Miss White.
"Dexter," the boy answered.
"Doctor David Dexter"
"Mercy on us, Euniccr' cried Mrs.
Netley, "what possessed you to give
such a start?"
IL pricked my fngcr!D MUIR
INJURED Eunice. Cant we have
another lamp, Mary? This sort of
thing is ruinous to the eyesight."
Mrs. Netley rose to bring another.
starved-looking little lamp.
John sat and stared at the fire, with
speculative eyes.
"I'm only to feed the horses, and
carry wood and water to the kitchen,
and look after the fancy Brahmas and
Leghorn fowls" said he. "Doctor
Dexter has a man to drive around
with him. So You see l can study at
home evenings, just the same as if
went to school; and I'm sure Aunt
Eunice is as good as any school-teacher
going, TO keep me up with my
geography aud arithmetic"
1.-TWO dollars a week win be a
great help to us" said Mrs. Netley.
And then she coughed that dry hard,
rafting little cough that John disliked
to hear so much,
at seems strange, don't it," said
she, after John had gone to bed, and
the two sisters were putting away
their wearisome work preparatory to
seeking their own pillows, Nthe idea
of a new doctor settling here, after old
Doctor Plympton had resigned for
forty years? How times do change,
to-be-s ureln
eyes," said Eunice, almost inaudi-
bly,.
Mrs. Netley looked sharply at her.
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With the windy air full 81 IiTiiiaM I'D, & ,

leaves, when Alison, the old cook.
came to the office door in Doctor
Dexter's fine stone house.
''Please, DOCTOR" said she to lrer
master, who had just seated himself
with book before the red light of the
fire, edo you know what's come of
little John? I've called and called,
and he isn't there"
S'Not there?' repeated Doctor Dex-
ter. "And let Collins go home to
spend Sunday. Call again; the boy
must be there"
"He isn't, doctor. It's the first
: 'ght he has failed us since you hired
And now come to think of it,
- - n awful hoarse cold this morn
ing, When he came in for the chicken
feed. Perhaps he's sick"
Doctor Dexter laid down his book.
"Pll go down and take the horse
out of the traces myself" said he.
"Where does Johnny live"
Alison ut. ..s.
the doctor.
But as Dexter opened the stable
door, outside of which the patient
horse stood waiting, his name and tail
dropping before the knifelike wind,
the flash of a lantern greeted his eyes
with unexpected light.
"So you are there, after all, John2"
said he.
But it was not John Nctlcy. 1t was
the tall, slight figure of a woman that
shrank back from its task of throwing
hay into the manager of General, the
big iron-gray horse.
"Why," cried Doctor Dexter, IA
amazement, ''who are your"
81 am Johns aunt" falterea low
voice. "IIe's sick, and he fretted so
much about the horses supper that l
told him | would come and put hay
into their managers AID water them. |
am not timid with CATTLE" she added,
''and | did not suppose am one would
know"
'John's aunt" repeated Doctor
Dexter EtLet me take that lantern
minute, p,easeI Why do you turn
your face away from me? Is it true?
You are Eunice White, them"
"Yes,,n. she cried out, passionately,
al am Eunice White. But | never in
tended you to know it, David Dexter.
Fortune has dealt very differently with
me from what it mas with you. Open
the door; let me go back home. Pm
sorry ever came here"
"You are cold, Eunice, /" said he gent
ly; you shiYer. Come to the house
I'D let me give You cup of tea"
"No," she said, resolutely, 81 will
go homer
s.Then ! win go with you, Eunice.
must see Johnny. Do you know,
even without being aware that he was
any kin to you, have got fond of that
boy? / shall be fonder still now. /
have wondered this many day, Eu-
nice, where you were and what had
become of your"
"Haye your" Eunice's heart had
begun to beat strangely now; her
cheeks glowed deeper than any dam
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HUMOROUS.

.,-- Trovel
"a 'ei''e''! W. 7
uorv
p"'' u oV'" %
"a"''! - d =" ~
An energetic woman WIN
III i''' manu- sweeps 0'o' '"7
"0.
Nv Ga i'"9o' - 81 80. -, a.
u"' ~ SUMMIT" w -
o.1 oooir
""'"s u .,.;nr
O0''" ,'''' - 7''o' -
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sarsaparilla added will make a fine
bitters.
Barber-Does the razor hurt you,
sir? Victim-Are you sure it's a
razor? had an idea it was piece Of
barrel hoop.
One does not like to be made fun of
in words of grandiIoquent praise. 1t
is sad irony which does not smooth
ones feelings.
The man best qualified to enjoy the
honeymoon is the one who had all the
romance kicked out of him before he
reached that period.
Northumberland you give me
few pennies for my poor family at
home, sir? Merchant-No, no, man;
/ don't want to buy any poor family.
81 am sober ana steady. was ten
years i'll my last place and five in the
one before that" "But whore was the
Las. place YOU worked?" sIn the
state prison"
Lawyer (to witncs) slDid you
say that an incompetent man could
keep hotel just as well as anybody?p
Witness: "No, | said an inn-experi-
enced man coull."
If there is anything that exceeds all
else for appallingness it is the situation
of man who gets caught i'll a rain
storm in flannel shirt that is already
TOO tight for him.
Time, One A. MI know ! have
my short comings, Miss Edith,o began
the young man deprcc4tingly. eyes
George" she replied, "but they don't
hold candle to your long goings."
Mr.. Moneybags (sterny)-"so, YOU
love my daughter, young man. What
are your prospects, may | ask ~
Charlie Slimpursc-"It's no use askino
me. You know very well what NV
prospects are"
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PORT TOBACCO NARY AND. AUGUST l. $780,

waste it if you had it. I can't trust
neither of you with no sum bigger
l'han a dimc!Y
'oahna's eyes flashed.
ou're mean, stingy miser, Seth
sp'Pneld" said She. "Mary is tied
.03ou. She can't 20 and leave YOU
II can, and I will! And if YOU
want drudge in your kitchen after
s'ls' you can hire onel"
9oanna Gedney was as good as her
a0ru' She left the house that even
rg' out on the morrow she was
9Ohged TO return to her sisters aid
ee'n ehlpfeld's ailment had suddenly
HAeh an nilammatory turn. He was
s0ahned to his bed, helpless as a log.
aus a Judgment on him. said the
soh. Joanna, den: talk so." said
meek Mrs. Chipheld.
pu' through all his pangs and tribu.
'auoiis' Seth adhered to his financial
p9ney and dealt out tie funds. penny
y penny, as they were needed.
women hain't no business idecs. -
say he. "You need to treat 'cm lest
aAe lhey was children. Mary wouldn't
Raow what to do with big sum of
money It She had it. AS for the farm,
by feter Prickett can't come to look
arer II, | spose you'll have to send for
lsphaniah again.
slephanlah's cerking it, down at
'ae new store" said Joanna, who lust
1'aen came il with bowl of chicken
aJroih.
What new store?'
some that they've opened down at
] lhe cross roads" o.
"a pretty clerk they'll have. .
sanled Seth. aid advise EN- to get
lMpy for bankruptcy, an'-ow!
lhefe's no need to scald q fellows
'Meai with your boiling hot stuff, Jo-
anna Who's been fool enough to
9pell store at Hawley's old stand?
D Whoever it is II make a dead failure,
THAT'S sartaiui'
/ NIhey say it's doing a good bust
- observed Joanna, stirring the
II around to cool it,
Fl poo't you iievcr believe they
FL Il growed Seth.
a W next day bad tidings came to
The Necker Banking Com
in which Cbipfclds little saw
Awcre invested, had clio ed its
The Wllding Iron Syndicate.
IN which lie had mortgaged his
fa -. -
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- craft is II c5I'r-c 81 G


't'~ rat the Benieia shipyards. It
$ no' tss than missionary packet,
which is built 10 the order of the
American Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. Ter Dimensions
are as follows: Length over all, 56
feet; on the water line, 50 feet;
breadth, 16 feet L inches; depth of
hold, s feet; draught, 8 feS inches.
When completed she will take on
BOARD missionary outfit consisting of
Bibles and devotional tracts, and will
axe an evangelical cruise to the south
.rn seas. The Seventh Day Adyentists
ire also having craft built, to be de-
Foted to similar purpose, She will
DC of about 100 tons register and will
oe completed by August of the present
rear San Francisco Chronicle.
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Relic Of Serpent Worship.

A huge serpent mound has been dis
covered in the Carthage road, between
Quincy, ILL.,, and Carthage, by the
Rev. S. ID. Pcet A clearly defined
rattlesnake lies coiled along the ground,
following the line of the bluff. Its en-
tire length is 1850 feet. The ridge
has been plowed down until now it is
only two or three feet above the sur
face, but the outlines are still plainly
discernible. The mounds at the coils
of the serpent are ten or twelve feet
high. The specific dimensions are 600
feet from the head 10 the coils; the
coils occupy space 800 feet in length
and are made up of four uistino
mounds 100 feet apart.
From the coils 10 the rattle of the
snake is 450 feet, and there are three
rattIes occupying space of 100 feet.
The serpent lies north and south, a
straight, line drawn through it showing
The Washington bee., 1890-12-27

contortionists and head balancers
in the world Next, the famous
American Macs, the brightest and
funniest comedians of the age.
Among others are Kaye and Hen
~, the popular sketch artists; Law
lor and Thornton, the renowned
character vocaliste; Annie Will
muth, the fav0rite vocal aud ter
plschorean queen; Tachiband and
Dune, the wonderful Japanese
artist; M Son and RaIston, the
original one and half; Musical
Latona, the greatest of all musical
artists; the Bros, Wems, the orig
inal acrobatlc dancers; Sisters
Copne, the pretty European vocal
lists; the Continental Four, the
liveliest quartette in America.
Ladies matinee Tuesday, Thurs.
day and Saturday, including New
Years matinee. Dec, 29th. City
Club Vaudeville and Burlesaue
Company.
The Washington bee., 1890-12-27
EWS OF INTEREST.

Chesterfield Co., Pa, bank closed
It's L, doors last Tuesday morning.
Ine position are safe by mortgage
CO real estate.
And s Nenth child was roasted
al in White Co., Ark, last week
Inc nurse left it sitting in a chair
and the child fell toward in the
fireplace.
The Empress of Germany has
gwen birth to a son.
The Indians who were with Buff
s'o Bills Wild West Show are now
SOlng good work in trying to paci-
" hostile Indians.
The Salvation Army at Col,
springs Is split into two factions
a and IN their efforts to drown each
o o noise the citizens suffered
0ntOld misery. ~
+. ,n Ia ArapahOe, Col, a jail is being
G0 ' which has already cost 1924,