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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
TAKE PLENTY OF REST.

Rest plenty dear, is the southern
woman's advice in cases of troubles or
illness, and there is more reason and
sense in the prescription than in the
united wisdom of all the doctors in
America. Half the ills of feminine
flesh and spirit may be laid at the door
OF strain and over fatigue, and an after
noon of perfect repose will often ward
off weeks illness. BY repose don't
mean sitting in an easy chair with a
book or some work, to be made to
jump up half dozen times with hands
and brain just as active as if you were
about your business. No; lie prone
on a comfortable bed or sofa, with
corset and boots removed ard a light
wrap thrown over you have the room
a bit darkened, and think about the
pleasantest things you can conjure up.
Follow the example of the lower ami
mails. They realize that rest and
warmth are the very best medi-
cineS.
If a dog is aillng he rolls himself up
in a ball in some warm corner and
stays there till he feels better. The
biped loses the instinct of the lower
animal, fumes, frets, takes stimulants
and medicaments and does not give
the recuperative forces of nature a
chance. Rest every now and then,
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WORK..

Say, young man, there is one thing
you cannot do. You can't make a
success in life unless you work. Better
men than you have tried it and failed
You can't loaf around street corners
and saloons, smoke cigars, tell fool
stories, drink whiskey and sponge on
some one else without making failure
in life. You must learn a trade or get
into some honest business. 1t you
don't you will be a chrome loafer,
desplsed by all, producing nothing,
simply making yourself burden on
your parents or of the State. There is
no place in the world to day for loafers.
The ripe fruit is all at the top of the
tree. You must climb it. If you
wait for it to fall at your feet you will
never get it. Smarter men will jump
up and pluck 1t all. Move. Do
something, no matter how small. 1t
will be starter. Help yourself and
others will help you. There Is nc
royal path to success. Toll, grit
endurance-these are the requisites
Wake up and see what you can do.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
VISITING CARDS.

A husbands title or profession should
never appear upon his wife's card.
Mrs. DR.. John Smyth, Mrs. General
James Simmons, ETC., are not proper
form. Simply Mrs. John Smyth or
Mrs. James Simmons should be used.
1t is said that Mrs. Grant never at
tached the perfx Of general to the
illustrious name of her husband, their
cards being Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant,
and their invitations were given in the
same unostentatious manner.
The husbands full name is custo-
mary now, rather than initials, upon the
cards of married ladies'.
The fashion Of leaving a separate
card for each lady in the house has
happily been hanged. Such shower
of pasteboard was absurd. The only
wonder is that it DID not meet Danish
ment earlier at the hands OF sensible
women. Present form requires only
one card for the different ladies of
the same household. A daughter, in
the first year of her social life, has no
card, her name being engraved upon
her mothers.
The cards of widows have been much
discussed, and different authorities
have disagreed IN reference to the
use of the husbands baptismal name
after his death. 1t has been decided
that the dear name, so hard to relin-
quish and SO long right, can be
retained with perfect properiety for
social purposes. If a married son
bears the same name as his father, tn e
mother adds Sr. to hers.
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STATISTICS ABOUT MARRIAGE.

If girl wishes to know how long
she may venture to remain single with
out destroying altogether her matri.
monial prospect she should investigate
a table prepared by mathematician,
who had apparently run out of any
thing else to figure. Taking 100 as a
basis, the fgurer finds that the most
women are married between the ages
of 20 ana IS, fully 80 per cent. ofthem.
Only I412 per cent. wed between IS
and 90, which seems to show that
sweet I6, aud even sweet IS, are no
longer so fashionable or desirable in
brides as they used to be. Between
80 and IS the chances are 15A per
cent, little greater still than it was
between IS and 20. There is mat
eral for hope in this fact, certainly.
After s., however, there is a tre-
mendous drop. No more than from
three to four girls out of a hundred
marry between IS and 40. The young
woman who does not intend to finish
her days single should therefore make
haste to take a husband before she
reaches the fatal age of IS. After a
woman IS 60 years old the chance is
only one out of thousand that she
will ever marry.
To complete this analysis, one only
needs the matrimonial temper tables
prepared by Sir Francis Galton. One
learns from them that among wives So
per cent. of all the husbands are thus
good natured. Among wives, how
ever, only 6 per cent. are found to
be masterful. So that it is still safe fol
a man to marry.
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THE DAGUERREOTYPE.

You hev to hold it sidcwise
Fer to make the lightneSs show,
'Cuz rt's sort uh dim an sliity,
Till you git it Tight-'buut so!
An then the eyes winkS at yeh,
An the mouth is cherry ripe.
Law. it beats your new-style pic.ers,
This old diggerytypc!
Thar's blush acrost the dimples
Thet burrows in the checks:
F'om out them ciumps o ringlets
Two little small ears peekS,
Ihet brooch tina lines her neck gear
Is what they used to wear:
A big gold frame thet sprawled around
A lock o'-Some ones hair.
Twas took fore we was married,
That there-your NAV an me.
An times l study on it,
Why, t faxes me to see
Thet fifty year 'aint teeheed her
A lick! She's Jest the same
She was when Sudie Scriggens
Took Boone c. Curds's name.
The hair is mebby whittier
An it was in Al;
But her cheeks is Jest as pinky,
An her smiles 'aint Stacked up none.
! reckon--love-er somcthin'
Yerluminates her face.
Like the crimson velvet Iinin'
Warns up the pictercase.
; l say, these cyard hoa'd portraits,
They makes me sort uh tired,
Agrinnin torI upon yeh
Like their very lips was wired.
Give me the old diggerytype,
Whar the face steals on your sight
Like dream that comes by night time
When your suoper;s actin right!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25

even if there Is nothing absolutely
wrong with you. 1t will make yon
lovely, and to real womanly woman
beauty, or at least attractlveness, is as
well worth working for as anything on
earth, and she can't help being attrac-
tive if she is healthy, and her person
wei! cared for, even if her hair is red,
her nose pug and her fac, covered
with freckles. Her eyes will be bright,
her hair glossy, her skin expressive
with the quick flow and flush of gener-
GUS blood. She will be amiable, quick
and spontaneous with her laugh, al
ways ready to take hand in any work
or play that is gong on, and slow, yes
very slow, to take offense.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
LITTLE THINGS.

1t is curious to note that many things
which have turned out most useful dis
coyeries for man, having a great in
fuence upon the lives and destinies of
mankind, owe their beginning TO some
slight accident.
1t is said that the art of printing
took Its origin from some rude impres.
sions taken (for the amusement of
children) from letters carved on the
bark of beech tree.
Gunpowder was discovered from the
falling of spark on some materials
mixed in a mortar.
The stupendour results of the steam
engine may all be traced to the boy
who sat watching the steam which
came from the nose of the tea
kettle.
Electricity was discovered by per-
son observing that a piece of rubbed
glass attracted small bits of paper.
Pendulum clocks were invented after
Calico stood observing the lamp in
church swinging to and fro.
The telescope we owe TO some chill
dren of spectacle maker placing two
or more pair OF spectacles before each
other, and looking through them
at the distant sky. Their idea was fol.
lowed up by older heads.
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his
garden one day when he saw an apple
fall from a tree. This common occur
renee set him to thinking why things
should fall down and not up, and this
train of thought led him to the discov-
cry of the law of gravitation.
Every one can now appreciate the
importance of the slight matters spoken
Of, because of the wonderful results are
now before the world But the be-
ginllngs of these were treated with
ridicule or contempt. No matter how
unimportant circumstance appears,
it is possible that great results may
come from it. In a small building
which was once Peter the Greats work
shop in Holland is the inscription
"Nothing is too little for the attention
of a great man."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
Some very whimsical instances

OOnC FSIy WHIMSICAL lnSlduCcS Fr
neglecting the antecedents occur con
tinually, especially in the answers o,
witnesses, when gwen literally as they
speak. In late assault case, the
prosecutors swore that The prisoner
struck him with broom on his head
till he broke the top of it. In narrat-
ing an incident some time since, it was
stated that poor old woman was rur
over by cart aged sixty. So in
case of supposed poisoning: He hae
something in a blue paper in his hand
and saw him put his hand over tn
pot and put it in Another swallow
ing a base coin: He snatcheG tt
half crown from the boy which
swallowed, which seems to mean Il
boy, the money, but the sentence
correct.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25

in any way will try and get through
the lines tonight.
You will be much safer here, Mabel
said. We owe it to you to do what
ever we can for you.
Owe it to me, l said, for what?
For your brothers's sake. He
saved my sisters lie and protected
our property from destruction and
us from insult. He is the best and
truest man that ever lived, and we
can not do too much for his brother.
was compelled to keep dark
retreat only a part of the time, and
several hours each day were spent
with Judge Murfree or his daughters
Mabel Murfree had saved my life,
and the gratitude | felt was perhaps
enhanced by the fact that she was a
rarely beautiful woman.
After weary weeks of siege the
city was captured and the soldiers of
Grant and Sherman entered in
triumphant and l was free.
When the time came for me to go
having said good bye to Judge Muir
free, l went to the parlor to see
Mabel and Agnes, feeling how hard,
how very hard it was to say farewell !;
and when l saw Mabel dressed in
pure white, with white flowers in her
beautiful hair, her deep blue eyes
unwontedly bright, the duty was not
made any easier.
Agnes is writing letter to Tom
for you to deliver. She will be
down in few moments.
am quite willing to wait, 1
replied, and indeed l am sorry that
l must go at all. l do not expect
to ever again find such friends as
have found here.
You must thank your brother tor
them, Mabel answered.
Miss Murfree, Mabel, you wish to
rob your act of saving my life of any
personal significance; you do not
want me to be misled by the gift of
my poor lie to ask for that which
can make it valuable. refuse to be
warned. 1 love you, Mabel love
you madly, hopelessly-I love as |
never thought to love any one, and
while dare not hope that you will
return my love l could not leave you
without speaking. Forgive me if l
have panied you, but it was impos-
sible for me to go away without tell
ing my love, and you will at leact be
fortunate in the fact that an oppor-
tunity will not soon occur for you to
be troubled again by one whose love
was stronger than his fear of Offend
ing.
Tears trickled through the long
dark lashes, then half smiling
through her tears she lifted her
brave, clear eyes to mine and said:
And what if | insist on your
remaining to repeat your offence7-
+. H. Marsh.
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HOW 1T FEELS TO BE SHOT.
First Actions of Wounded Sol =
diers on the Field of
Battle.

An infantry soldier at Gaines Mill,
who was hit IN the knee by bullet and
ultimately died of the wound, said that
he thought he had run against stan d.
ing thistle.
When felt at all, bullets through the
flesh usually produce burning sensa-
ton more or less acute. When bones
are broken, singing accompanies the
burning. When bones are hit but not
broken, there is numbing sensation
in the whole region involved in the
shock, followed very soon by severe
and sometimes intense pain. When
muscles and tendons are involved,
there is tugging sensation, sometimes
very slight, and shell wounds produce
feelings similar to those by bullets,
more or less exaggerated, according
to the size OF the missile and the de-
gree of velocity. Bayonet wounds l
never saw except upon corpses-for 1
was not hospital attendant-and
as for cannon balls, they do not, as
rule, leave anything behind to exhibit
feelings.
A musket ball at Antietam passed
directly through General Joseph
Hooker's foot between the arch and
the muscles of the sole, the seat, as
every one knows, OF very sensitive
nerves. Had the general been in a
state of moderate repose, the blow
would haye unnamed him, for the
moment at least. Intensely preoccu-
pied as he was, he did not notice the
blow or ,ire-sensations that accompanied
and followed it.
In the charge of the Ninth corps on
the Confederate works 'east Of Peters.
burg, sergeant OF the Fifty -seN.
Massachusetts, leaped upon the parapet,
and, with his cap in his left hand, his
musket in his right, stood cheering
and gesturing with his arms to incise :
his comrades to come on. Suddenly
a shell took his head off as completely
as knife could have done, but the
tall form continued erect for some
seconds, the arms still waving franu-
cally, but with ever lessening sweep
and power, until the forces of the body
collapsed, when the headless trunk
toppled over to the ground.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
TWO HISTORIC EVENTS.
Discovery of the Mississippi and
the Battle OF Bunker Hill
On the 18th of June.

1t is a curious coincidence of histor-
ical events that Bunker Hill Day and
Mississippi Day-the day of the battle
and the day OF discovery-should fall
on the same date, June II. The
events were seIa -ated by nearly a
century.
The anniversary rof the battle Of
Bunker Hill long waited for recognl-
ton as local holiday and 200 years
passed before the states and cities on
the Mississippi river began to observe
the historic day of the Father OF
Waters.
The discovery of the Mississippi by
DE Soto, and the burial of the cavalier
in Its depths at night, are very poetic
and picturesque events of our history.
But the northern discovery OF the great
river by Marquette and Joliet, which
claims Mississippi Day, if less dramatic,
is wonderfully attractive in historical
incidents and coloring.
THE BEAUTIFUL WISCONSIN.
1t was early summer when Mar
quette launched his canoe on the
Wisconsin. The days were long and
clear and bright. The prairies were
in bloom and the song of birds filled
the air.
On the 18th June, 1878, beyond the
blooming bluffs great tide met the
Wisconsin at place where is now the
city of Prairie du Chen. The canoe
of Marquette drifted down in the great
stream, and the pilot missionary found
himself on the Mississippi.
1t was then asserted that La Sale
saw the Mississippi before Marquette,
but La Sale himself, in whose enter
prise both Marquette and Joliet were
engaged, never asserted title to the
discovery. There can be no doubt that
the 18TH OF June is the proper date,
and therefore worthy to be named
"Misslssippl Day."
THE DRAGONS OF THE RTI,EFS
As Marquette passed down the great
river that opened to him, his eye was
suddenly arrested by the effigies of
two dragons on the high bluffs, or
rocks, at point near where the city
OF Alton now stands. Each ehigy, he
says, +s"as as Zig as cali. They
were colored green and red, had scales,
and the tails were wound around their
bodies and ended like fishes.
Marquette made sketch of the two
dragons of the Mississippi. 1t was
preserved by the French intendants of
Canada, and copies of it are yet to be
seen.
The Dragon Rocks have crumbled.
In 1860 the pictures had disappeared
and about that date efforts were made
to restore them. But the hammers of
science have wholly changed the place,
which for some 200 years was known
and appeared on old maps as Castle
Rocks.
FATE OF MARQUETTE.
Marquette passed the mounds where
St. Louis now stands, and the mouths
of the three rivers-the Missouri, the
Illinois and the Ohio. The summer
deepened; the world grew more bright
and enhancing. He returned, but
worn out with the hardships of bis voy-
age, soon after died.
II is such poetic and historic scenes
and associations that invite the celebra.
ton OF the anniversary of Mississippi
Day.
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, 1892-08-01
CRUELTY COTTON.
The Inhuman Minister who was
Sent to Jail.

How He BrutaIIy Treated Little
children Committed 10 His Care.
He has Been a Preacher for
FOrty-five Years.
LONDON, August Rev Samuel Cot
ton, who was found guilty in March last
of manslaughter Of a boy named Brown
and Of other charges Of cruelty, was SEN
fenced, at Belfast, TO imprisonment for six
months, and to pay a fine OF 61OO. Cotton,
who is almost 70 years of age, has been a
Protestant minister for about forty-fiYe
years. He was a rector at Carogh, County
Kildare, where he conducted an Orphanage,
supposed to be a home for helpless chill
dren. He received large sums of money for
its maintenance. The Society for the Pre-
yention Of Cruelty to Children made an in
vestigation last year regarding the manner
in which the orphanage was conducted, and
horrible state of affairs was revealed.
The agents found the children in an
emaciated condition, ragged and filthy.
A girl had been chained by her leg to a log.
In the kitchen of the Orphanage was found
an infant about six months old, covered
with rags and dying of cold and inatten-
ton. Other children were found in the
same apartment, crouched round a small
fire and almost frozen to death and half
starved All Of them were weak and sickly
and their growth had been stunted. Mrs
Cotton was as inh6man as her husband.
The death of the Brown boy was clearly
traced to cruelty. The clergymen and his
wife were arrested, but the wife was dis
charged on the ground that whatever she
had done was under the direction of the
husband. Cotton was convicted and took
an appeal, pending which he twas allowed
to 60 on bail in the sum of $4,000. The ap-
peal was OYerruled
, 1892-08-01
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION.

A general convention of the republican
party of Washington is hereby called to
meet at the city Of Olympia on Wednesday,
the tenth (10th) day Of August, 1892, at
1880 O'Clock am, for the purpose Of nomi-
mating four presidential electors, two con-
gressmen, full state ticket, appointing a
new state committee and for the transac-
ton of such other business as may come
before the convention.
The basis of representation to the con
vention hereby called shall be as follows,
to wit:
One delegate at large from each county;
one delegate from each county for every
one hundred (lOO) votes and one delegate
from each county for each fraction Of fifty
(50) votes or more over one hundred (100); +;
the same to be calculated from the number
Of votes cast in each county for the republi-
can candidate for governor in 1889.
Upon the foregoing basis the several
counties in this state are entitled to repre-
sentatiOn as follows:
, 1892-08-01
Val Paper DoWn.

Until August 1st will sell all wall paper
at one-third less than former prices. NJ.
O'Connor.
, 1892-08-01

~ attended the big convention at Chi
cago, and met a great many of the South
ern delegates" said T, j. Wharton. "Af-
ter the nomination of Cleveland, a South
Carolina delegate said The Southern
people will not support him with any
marked enthusiasm. I suppose he is all
right as far as public policy is concerned,
but when he was in the white house Mrs
Cleveland snubbed Miss Winnie Davis.
Now, we are good patriots, but we feel that
Miss Davis, besides being the daughter of
our dead chief, is a representative South
ern woman, and that when she was treated
with marked discourtesy by the presi-
dents wife our entire section was greatly
affronted. You observe that none of the
Southern delegates are wearing frankie or
Baby Ruth badges."-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
, 1892-08-01

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, 1892-08-01
Whole number

1t is recommended that the republican
county central committees call the prima-
ries in their respective counties for Satur-
day the twenty-third (23d) day of July,
and the county conventions for Saturday
the thirtieth (30th) day of July, 1892, un-
less in their judgment they deem it best to
name earlier dates.
1t is also recommended that each county
convention elect alternates as well as dele
gates, so that their representation in the
state convention shall be by duly elected
delegates or their alternates only. In case
a delegate and his alternate are both absent,
the delegation to be authorized to cast the
vote.
For the formation of county and precinct
committees we respectfully refer to the
"rules" and ask that they be followed.
By order of the republican state COM
mittee. e. T. WILSON, Chairman.
RALPH K. NICHOLS, Secretary.
, 1892-08-01
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Adams street.
, 1892-08-01
The WASHINGTON FUEL co.

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Also first class dry wood, bark and
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manager.