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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-08

Of progress. Lieutenant Peary
on the other hand, made his
journey of thirteen hundred miles to
the northeast coast and return at an
average speed OF some twenty.three
miles per day. Thirty miles was his
ordinary daily journey TOR the greater
portion of the way, but, having obtain
ed an elevation of over 5000 feet
amidst the clouds, he became involved
IN soft snow, and was greatly delayed
in this portion of his journey.
The amount of animal lite encount-
cred in the bleak and inhospitable
land in which the Peary party spent
the winter is surprising. Musk, oxen
and deer were abundant, and birds at
places fairly swarmed. Other animals
besides the sea mammals were encoun-
tered, and the party had no lack Of
fresh animal food, so necessary to
sustain lite amidst the Arctic cold.
Intercourse with the Esquimo tribe
inhabiting the "Arctic Highlands"
afforded great relief from the mono
toay OF the cold and darkness OF the
long Arctic night. These simple and
frieadly people were studied with great
interest by Mrs. PearY, who in her
turn was regarded with curiosity and
wonder by the natives, being the
only white women they had ever
seen.
During the winter and upon their
sled journeys the party made valu.
able collection of specimens illustrat.
ing the natural history of North Green
land. This collection will come with
the party in the Kite to Philadelphia
next week.
Mr.. Peary did not reach by eighty
two nautical miles as high a latitude
as Lockwood aud Brainard, of the
Greedy party, who in 1882 carried the
American flag to north latitude 81
degrees "a minutes, the nearest
approach ever made to the no. 81.
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Gas Others

" Ill "U!a is Il iru statement Of ;,.r
action GERS Sar,apariila. whrn
Iaheh Tor lScS originating in ii.II,!.:
blood; bu'ilc this assertion is true
"A Eh'S 'parilla, as thousands {; II
attest, 1t ct be truthfully applied 1"
otiier prelions, which rmprimciplrI
dealers w.commcnd, and try to i'm
pose upoou, as Just as good as
aver :. = Ayers Sarsaparilla and
ayers on. You need Il blood-purifier
anu woul benefited permanently.
Inns mede, for nearly fifty years,
mas ehJoN reputation, and made a
record 1oi es, that has never been
equaled Dyer preparations. AYERS
Sarsaparil .adicates the faint of he
fedltary s,lla and other blood dis
eases from system, and it has, lescr-
Fedly, the idencc of the people.
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ON $50 A YEAR.
How One Girl Managed to Dress
on This Small Amount.

Is 1t possible to dress on $50 year
was one of the questions at the Work
ing Girls Club the other night. One
of the girls SAID:
I've done it-good reason why,
thoueh-I've had to. I've had con
siderable hustling at times to get even
$50 year since | came to Gotham to
take a course in technical designing.
The worst of it is I've never got over
my respect tor good clothes. Lots of
women who came from little towns,
where clothes are badge of respec-
liability prosperity or disreputable pow
ertv, fall into cosmopolitan wavs and
say: 'Ob, pshaw, nobody knows me ;
it don't matter how l look But l
can't. | must have good gloves and
shoes. or l feel that I've lost my last
vestige of respectability, and honestly
l believe il l ever get to the point
where l can't have these things l shall
lose my self respect. l believe in
clothes. | think new set of nice
clothes will transform the character OF
man or woman.
How do l manager Well, just
like everything else, | had to.
studied it up, made an exact science
of it. If you think of trying it the
I first thing 10 NC taane is to get little
account book, write few maxims OF
the fly leaf and live up to them. Buy
nothing but standard goods for YOU
dresses-cashmeres henriettas, fan
nels, serges in solid colors are Away.
in style. Your dresses will have tc
last you three seasons and be made
over once at least, perhaps twice; sc
you see if you buy striking colors -ol
plzids, however pretty, they will BIZ
genuine antiques the third season, anc
give you a hopelessly dowdy look. Be
a girl of three dresses, one for the street
one for the house and one for nice. One
new dress year will keep you in three
Make up your mind to skip bargain
sales. Buy your things between sea-
sons you can get winter cloak in
December or January much cheaper
than you car in October.
A good, heavy, short black cloak
which ought to last for two seasons,
may be had for $40 or SIS, spring
coat ditto only as to cost, which should
not exceed Sc. ltpays to buy pretty
good shoes. That's an item that's
hard to regulate. Some people wear
out more shoe leather than others
Oae pair of heavy shoes and pair q
ties last me year. Gloves make ar
awful hole f.; two pairs kid at s1.a5 &
pair, two pairs silk at Soc, wooden
Isle thread. lace mitts, sI.5o. AS tc
hats, my limit is four. | manage tc
get them all out of a ten, but l make
them myself. A supply of underwear
will last for two years at least. hope
you won't think | put that question in
the basket, but I've got little list o
last years expenditures, which may
be interesting. Here it is:
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A FOX STORY.

We are accustomed to layishing a
great deal Of sympathy on the fox that
Is chased over hill and dale, through
wood and meadow, by packs of hounds
and red coated huntsmen, and men
have been known to state their opinion
that this is very hard word because
the fox gets chased all about, but never
as much sport in the hunting line him
self, which is very mistaken notion. If
any creature gets sport out OF life it is
no less being than Master Reynard
himself, who terrorizes Brer Rabbit, is
an inveterate wild and tame goose
chaser, and who as a hunter of mice
is unsurpassed. One fox that l was
reading about short time since retired
early from the hunt in which it was in :
tended he should be the victim, and to
escape the hounds took refuge in a
magpie's nest, while he whiled away
the hours of the afternoon eating up
the magpies as they returned home in
very finished style.
Another story is said to have been
told by gentleman of the strictest
yeracity," who got the tale in France.
A friend of his was in the habit of
shooting in very wild and rocky sec
ton Of the country. Part of the rocky
ground was on the side Of a very high
hill, not accessible to sportsman, and
from this kill the hares and foxes,
which were the chief game of the
region. would at night betake them
selves to the plains below. leading
from these rocks to the lower ground
were two gullles made by the rains,
near one of which the veracious gentle
man who tells the story stationed him
self and his attendant one night in the
hope of bagglng some hares.
Hardly had they taxed up their
position when they perceived fox
creeping stealthily down though the
gully, followed closely by another.
After they had played together for a
few minutes, one of the foxes went
into hiding under one OF the large
rocks at the end OF the gully, and the
other having apparently hidden him
good night, sneaked back up the hill
again. In moment he was back
but before him, racing down throug'
the gully-being chased, in fact-was
hare fleeing for her life and as the
int ended victim was passing the rock
where the fist fox lay concealed, he
tried to seize her by suddenly spring
ing upon her, but his aim was bad,
and he missed. The pursuing fox
came up at this moment, and finding
that the lack of skill OF his CO. conspira-
tor had resulted in the loss OF his sup
per, he began 10 snap and snarl at the
other IN such fashion that the spirit
of the offending fox was aroused, and
rough and tumble fight resulted
They fought fercely for several min
utes, but as neither seemed to be get
ting the better of the other, the hunts
man himself took the matter in hand,
and sho. them.
1t is true that this little story ended
IN a tragedy for the foxes; rn-, ~
can be no doubt that they were en-
titled to, nor is there any reason t.
believe that had they caught her the.
would have treated her any NOR
gently than the fox-hunter is lccus
toned to treat his prey, so that afte
all the cunning creatures are not en-
tilted to very much of our sympathy
I-HarDer's Young PeODle.
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Now, how much money have you
checked out? | don't know and
don't want to know. There's my
check book, can't you see that there
are five checks left, and didn't you
tell me that this book was good for
money in the banko found 1t
convenient to run down town and
meet a friend.
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OLD BUT ALWAYS GOOD.

A good story is gotten off on the
legal profession which runs about as
follows: In certain community
lawyer died who was a most popular
and worthy man, and among other
virtues inscribed upon his tombstone
was this A lawyer and an honest man.
Some years afterwards a Farmers
Alliance Convention was held in the
town, and one of the delegates being
of a sentimental turn, visited the
silent city, and IN rambling among the
tombs was struck with the inscription,
A lawyer and an honest man. He
was lost In thought, and when run
upon by fellow hayseed who. MOTTO
ing his abstraction, asked if he had
found the grave of a dear friend or
relative, said. No, | but am wondering
how they came to bury these two
fellows in the same grave.
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THE SOULS RIDE.

"HOrseman, springing from the darks
Horseman, flying wild and free;
Tell me what shall be thy road,
Whittier speedest far from me?'
"FrOm the dark into the light,
From the small into the great,
From the valleys dark ride
Ger the hills to conquer late!
Take me with thee, horseman mine!
Let me madly ride with theer'
AS he turned met his eyes
My own soul looked back at me!
Lila Cabot Perry in Atlantic.
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The Scotch papers tell of lady
near Edinburgh who keeps a cat
farm and finds it profitable specu.
lation. She rears cats for sale
tortoise shell, Angora, Persian and
other varieties. The tortoise she'll
the most GoseiY
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The largest band saving machine

The largest band saving machine
in the world has recently been com
pleted in England and sent to Tas
mania. The machine can saw
through a maximum depth of IS
inches, and the carriage will accom-
MEDIATE logs so feet long and weigh
ing about so tons.
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Frank T. Kerr g Co.

lE Hfftl are here in grea
tHt.alEsii Il. II. i variety. o
tsffAttttfff5qE course there i:
not such a grea
variety of colors, as the pre-.
valling ones run to Browns
Blacks and Blues; but what
there IS you will find on our
counters.
An inspection of our stock
is cordially requested and will
be worth the trouble. Prices
have been cut almost in half
and our choicest goods placed
within the reach of the most
moderate purse. In cheviots,
Diagonals and Scotch goods
we can suit your fancy in
goods, workmanship and price.
Let us cite one instance OF
price cutting.
"A fine cheyiot suit made OF
good material, honest work.
manship and, as a necessary
result, good wearing qualities
for the remarkably low
price of $12. This is not a
ready-made suit but one made
to your order.
In a few weeks we will have
a talk with you about over
coats.
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the only unfortunate incident OF the
expedition. Notwithstanding the
great dangers Of Arctic exploration
and its apparent comparative useless:
ness, there seems to be a fascination
about it which makes men brave every
danger to penetrate into the unknown
regions surrounding the north. pole.
Hundreds of valuable lives have been
sacrificed and great sums expended in
this exploration without any adequate
results even in the promotion of useful
scientific knowledge. One season
forms>2o manner of guide to another,
and what NAV plain sailing1 a.
summer may be closed by impene.
trable ice the next.
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Hav;,o, all known Hotel, beg to inform the
travelling nbs this has been thoroughly retted and fur
nished with all Modem Convenences A., c,,,r, p
also secured services of r5 MH pub as
FoARD long and voaby known to e easre as we'll as
Po1e and attentive clerk it will VII attention pt in our power.
s's share "a s s3 de- our psBs solicited
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mediCal,
EPPS'SCOCOA
BREAKFAST.

BREAKFAST.
"By a thorough knowledge OF the natural laws
which govern the operations OF digestion and
nutrition, and by a careful application of the
fine properties OF well selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps
has provided our breakfast tables with delic-
ately favored Leverage which may save us many
heavy Doctors bills. 1t is by the judclOus use OF
such articles OF diet that n constitution may be
gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency Of disease Hundreds oil subtle
maladIes are floating around us ready to attack
wherever there is a weak point. We may escape
many fatal shalt by keeping ourselves we'll
fortified with pure blood and properly nourished
rame."-CirH SerrIce Gazette Made simply
with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half
pound tins. by Giocers, labelled thus:
JAMES EPPS q CO.. Homeopathic Chemists,
London. England
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AVER rs


Il cannorbear to express my joy Mt
the relief I've obtained from the use
of AYERS saparilla. was afflicted
with kidne troubles for about six
months, sufing greatly with pains in
the small ony back. In addition to
this, my botwas covered with pimply
eruptions. lie remedies prescribed
failed to helI.e. 1 then began to take
AYERS Sa parilla, and, in short
time, the pal ceased and the pimples
disappeared. advise every young man
or woman, irSse of sickness result
ing from impe blood. no matter how
long standinGhe case may be, to take
AVER S SarSarilla. I'll. L. Jarmann,
33 William CT Vow, Work ritv
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O'Rellly (being entertained by the
produces a bottle OF olives)
exchuse me, Norah, but it's
apioyin that these plums is
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But he reached an unexplorf orc
try upon the east CO. EMO
OF any other expl. Eeo
side of Greenland, a tefn.
enable geographersS IiO0lk
proximate accurac Try +.
coast line o. that W u
The Peary pa Di' s.
persoas, including Jn
All enjoyed excellent JUe o.
comfortable through "
though the average 70
from 80 to 50 deg -
below zero. All retu
except young Verhoeff, (
the crevasse of glacier CT
over the party and seemi c.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08
Bruln and the Butcher.

An organ-grinder who was travelling
through the west of England, accompanied
by tame brown bear, which he had trained
to dance, stopped at farmers house late
one afternoon, and after greatly amusing
the family by his performance-fOr the or
gan was a fine one and the bear very docile
and intelligent-he had no difficulty in
obtaining permission to stay all night. He
himself was given bed in the boys room,
but his furry companion had to be content
with a snug corner in the barn.
A little after midnight there came such
alarming noises from the barn, which was
only few PAGES away, as to awaken every
body i'm the house. Frantic shrieks of
"Help! Help! Murder! ~ and sounds
as of strong man struggling desperately
for dear life, issued out upon the still night
air.
Hurriedly drawing on some clothes, the
farmer snatched up a lantern, and, follow
ed by the organ-grinder FASTENED to the
barn. On the doors being thrown open,
the rays of the lantern revealed large
man engaged in furious wrestling match
with the bear, from whose mighty embrace
he was vainly endeavoring TO escape. AS
the bear was muzzled and had no claws to
speak of, his victim stood in no danger of
serious injury. But his position was alarm
ing enough, Notwithstanding, and he inn
plored the farmer to come to his rescue.
Divining, however, that this midnight
VISITORS mission was a dishonest one, for
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08
How lie Saved $40, 700.

1t is pretty eXtravagant man who will
spend $50 per month on cigars and drinks,
but the man who will set aside that amount
of money to his wife instead of dispensing
it will find solid pile accumulating very
rapidly. There died recently in Tacoma
lady who had by that means accumulated
$4,000. She willed the money to her five
children.
The lady's husband did not drink, smoke
or chew He was working on good salary,
and in four or five years after their mar
riage was getting ahead very satisfactorily
One day he said to his wife:
81 think | will give you each month the
amount of money would spend in smok-
ing and drinking How much would it be?'
They calculated the sum. One friend
spent about S25 per month, another spent
500 and many spent sums between these
two extremes. 1t was agreed that he would
spend $50, and this sum was regularly set
aside by him for her, to constitute fund
for the education of their children. Once
or twice every year he would contribute
500 to her fund, instead of getting drunk.
When the fund had reached comfortable
proportions it was invested Once the
husband was in a close place and borrowed
the money, paying interest for it. The
children growing up, were sent to school
/ from it. Many charitable acts were per-
| formed with the money. but still it grew.
| When they removed to Tacoma some for
| tunate real estate investments were made
with the money. One of them netted $1,000
When the lady died her estate, accumu-
lated in this way during eighteen years,
was found to be worth $4,000. 1t was
wiled to her five children, with provisions
securing them an education. The gener-
Gus father, whose abstinence had made this
possible, added $1,000 to the fund belonging
to each child. Besides the sums OF money
which were expended for charity and in
the education of the children, good deal
was used for gifts. The gentleman carries
a $500 gold watch as memento of the
fund. "The fund had a little advantage,
| guess" said he yesterday. 81 always
took pains to invest it carefully. But com
pounding money makes it grow very rap
idly. The amount placed in the sum was
about S14, OO0-perhaps little more, and
1 added to my drink money something
more than 5000 per year. This amount
almost any smoking and drinking mar
would spend in eighteen years. A goot
many men in this town smoke $1,000 tC
$500 per year. 1t does not take much
high-priced wine to make this much larger
Tacoma Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08
l,I.

There is nothing to make one realize the
importance of mud, indeed, like journey
up the Nile when the inundatiOn is Just
over. You lounge on the deck of your
dahabch and drink in geography almost
without knowing it. The voyage forms a
perfect introduction to the study of mud
ology, and suggests to the observant mind
(meaning you and mel the real nature of
mud as nothing else on earth that | know
of can suggest it. For in Egypt you get
your phenomenon isolated, as it were, from
all disturbing elements.
You have no rainfall to bother you, no
local streams, no complex denudation; the
Nile does it all, and the Nile does every
thing. On either hand stretches away the
bare desert, rising up in gray, rocky hills.
Down the midst runs the one long line OF
alluvial sol-in other words, Nile mud
which alone allows cultivation and life in
that ranless district. The country bases
itself absolutely on mud. The crops are
raised on it, the houses and villages are
built of it, the land is MANFRED with it, the
very air is full of it. The crude brick
buildings that dissolve in dust are Nile mud,
solidiiied, the red pottery of Assiout is
Nile mud baked hard the village mosques
and mnarctS are Nile mud whitewashed.
l nave even seen snip bulWdIkS neatly
repaired with mud. 1t prevades the whole
land, when wet, as mud undisguised;
when dry, rs dust storm.
Egypt, says Herodotus, is a gift of the
Nile. \ truer or more pregnant word was
never spoken. OF course, it is just equally
true, in a way, that Bengal is gift of the
Gauges. and that Louisiana and Arkansas
are "a gift OF the Mississippi; but with this
difference, that in the case OF the Nile the
dependence is far more obvious, far freer
from disturbing or dstracting details. For
that reason and also because the Nile is so
much more familiar to most EngliSh-speak-
ing folk than the American rivers, / choose
Egypt first as my type of regular mud
land.
But in order to understand it fully you
mustn't stop all your time in Carlo and
the Delta; You mustn't view it only from
the terrace of Shepherds hotel or the
rocky platform of the Great Pyramid at
Gizeh; you must push up country early,
under Mr.. Cooks care, to Luxor and the
First Cataract 1t is up country that Egypt
unrolls itself visibly before your eyes in
the very process OF making; it is there that
the full importance of good, rich, black
mud first forces itself upon you by undenia-
BILE evidence. The CornhW Magazine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08
Failures for the HaIf-Near.
Decrease Indicating Conservatism AM
Economy in Business Circles.

Decrease Indicating Conservation and
Economy in Business Circles.
The number of failures in the United
States during the first half of 1892, as re-
ported to Bradstreet's South Dakota eX-
cepted), is 5351. The total since Jan. l is
smaller than for a corresponding period in
three preceding years.
Aggregate debts of failing traders within
six months make like showing, amount
ing to only S56, 535, 521, which is less than
for any like period since the first half of
1887. A like story may be told of the total
assets, which are less than any previous
like aggregate since 1882.
The detailed exhibit goes far to indicate
that the past half-year has been period of
retrenchment, conservatism and economy
in business circles.
No better indication of improved COM
mercal conditions throughout the country
can be given than to direct attention to the
fact that, whereas failures with liabilities
of $780, 900 or more each in the first half
of 1890 showed an aggregate of indebted
ness amounting to "a per cent of the grand
total of liabilities for that period, and in
the first six months of 1891 the proportion
of liabilities of 100000 failures to total liza
bilities was 80 per cent, in the first half OF
the current year it had declined to 81 pei
cent.
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which he deserved to be well punished, the
organ grinder called ont to his pet, "Hug
him, Jack! hug him. AMI the bear, evil
nently enjoying the sport, continued to
squeeze the man numerically, until the
farmer, thinking the rogue had suffered
sufficiently, got the bears owner to COM
mand his release.
1t turned out that Bruins captive was a
rascally butcher who had come to steal a
fine calf In the darkness he stumbled
over the bear, and was at once made pris-
oner. The farmer was so delighted at the
animals conduct that in the morning he
feasted him upon the best in the larder,
and gave his master a sovereign as he was
leaving. Hrpcr'S YouHg People,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08

Boys have been ruined because they bad
to stay at home and turn the grindstone
when they should have been allowed to go
a-fishing.-Rdm' horn.
Are you going to give your pastor a
vacation this summer Not exactly
replied the member who has trouble in
keeping awake. I'VE will send him away
and take one ourselves. - u GShinJtOn
Star.
She latter an absence of several years
abroad -"IIow do you do? SO delighted,
I'm sure. Not married yet? Why, the
last time | saw you it seems to me you
were engaged" He-Ycs, | was She
Lets see: to whom?" He-"TO you. "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08
Nervousness.
HORSF0RD'S Acid Phosphate.

An agreeable and benefit
cial tonic and food for the
nerves and brain. A remedy
of the highest value in Men,
tai and Nervous Exhaustion.