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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
CHANCE Is A FACTOR.
In Ones Life Luck Plays g
Mighty Important Part.

Glance is everything. Opportunity
and luck mean much. The great race
it seems to me is but a creature OF
conditions Now and then we hear
individuals spoken of as:
"He is man of programme. He
fixes a course and adheres to it," And
that remark is generally made concern
ing some one who has achieved success
either as money getter or holder, or
as factor on some elevated plane Of
lite but when you come to think of il
the begger In the street may be quite
as determined in his programme, and
possibly it is his very programme that
keeps him where he is.
Burglars highwaymen and rascals
generally are quite as likely to be men
of programme, to which they adhere
with determination that may well be
called obstinate, as any others. My
own theory is that mankind is made
what it is by circumstances. Very
few of u5 with deliberate intent surveyed
the country OF opportunity. Very few
of US with ak IN hand cleared away a
path through what appeared an lmpene
trable forest. which being followed, led
to partial clearing, where perslstant
labor with the AK and the grub furnished
US fallow field in which to plant
the seed to day that we might reap
the harvest of to morrow. | am very
sure | didn't.
And as | look around me | am
quite convinced that the very large
majority of my fellow citizens did no
such thing. What makes this man
preacher, this a writer, this doctor,
this a soapmaker, this salesman, this
banker2 In some instances it is
natural fitness unquestionably. but in a
very great majority of cases it is
simply the outcome of all controlling
circumstances and conditions.
Take the case of Henry Ward
Beecher.
Being a clergyman's son, he, like
all his fathers children, studied for the
the ministry. l forget how many sons
the old gentleman had, but six, at all
events, every one OF whom became a
clergyman. One of them was nc
more fit to be preacher than |. One
would have made most admirable
teacher professor but he IS no preacher
In fact OF them all the two who sue
ceeded in life where Henry Ward and
Thomas K, bnt they were sons OF
Lyman Reecher, and it WAS natural
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
At COST SELLING OFF. At COST

This is just the why, and the only why. OF
Herman Baps forced SALE Ball kn070S all about IT.
He knows that there is nothing desirable IN
trade as briskness. When the dull times come, as
come they every year. and farmers are too busy
with their harvest and gardeners too much engaged
with their hoes and fruterers too anxious about the
canning profits BALL lets it be known that he IS
ready to meet their sacrifice by one OF his own He
offers clothing then without regard to personal proht
and by so doing, makes pay the busiest man to quit
his pow his hoe and his reaper to gather the bargains
| BALL has four special needs to sell his stock:
His first need is that he wishes to keep on hand :
and offer for sale only what is freshest and newest
His second need is to beat the world at his +
BARGAIN COUNTER.
His third need is keep always ahead, but
His fourth and chiet need is to find ROOM tor
the grand exhibit he purposes make in the fall season
He has bigger rooms better lighted rooms and
altogether more ailurng than ever held Ready
made Clothing in Elkton, but he wants to adj to his
opportunities, facility for doing. In the autumn, he !
will have rare supply OF things in line not tar
apart still apart from his present range tie wants
and intends to take in the unclothed and clohe HIM
from head to foot. He his spacious room, but
does keep his season-worn ware lie will
sell without regard to cost and charge nothing tor
| courtesy:
And cost means cash cost; not the cost of loerers
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

the man can prove himself able Il
support wife, | should not sand ir
the way.
Uncle, lisped Phebe, you are a
darling!
Give me kiss, my girl, said Mr..
Upton. / declare. didn't know how
pretty you we're. until
Mrs. Martin, always an early
riser, came down at five O'Clock in
the sweet June morning, when the
blackbirds were whistling and the
cabbage roses weighed down with
dew. But, early as she was, Mr..
Tip,on had come down before her
and stood on the door step, with his
hands in his pockets.
Well, Stella. said he, chuckling,
who would have thought Of our hav-
ing an adventure in the old place?
Mrs. Martin smiled.
What are you doing? said Mr..
Upton, turning rather abruptly
around.
| am scalding meal for the young
turkeys.
Well, leave it off minute, and
talk. | say, Stella.
Yes.
She looked at him with her large,
wine brown eyes full OF serious ques-
tioning.
All this sort of things makes one
of ones own young days, eh2
There was the least quiver of a sad
smile around her lips.
The days, Stella, when l used to
be fond of you. Before we quar-
relied. Before Wilfred Martin cross
cd your path.
Still Mrs. Martin did not stir.
There was something in that repose.
full manner CT hers that fitted in Won
derfully to his ideas of life. He hated
a furry. Mrs. Martin was never in
a furry.
am fond OF you still, went OH
Mr.. Tiptoa. This little love affair
in our midst has awakened me up; |
don't know how, and | don't care.
Is it too late, Stel.s, to begin life
over again, you and II
She went up to him, with her
slow, graceful step and put her hand
in his. Still she did not speak. She
only looked and smiled. But he
understood her.
God bless you, Stella, said he.
Mr.. Cresshill, OF No.-East For
tieth street, was highly scandalized
when the letter from Upton Hall
came.
A prettyIstate of things, said she.
To think that Harry Havens has
followed that girl straight into the
New Hampshire wilds and married
her And with her uncle's consent
in the bargain!
That's not the worst OF it, dryly
remarked her husband. Your
brother Upton has got married,
too! And there's an end of your
expectations from that branch of the
family.
Mrs. Cresshill wrung her hands,
but what mattered idle tears? What
was done could not be undone, and
Cupid, as the world knows, cares
nothing for sequins.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

A curious anEsthetic used ln Cnina
has recently been known. H-aop'
tanned by placing frog in Jaf VI
flour and irritating it by prooaing'
Under these circumstances it exuoes
a liquid which forms paste with the
-four. This paste when Dissolved 10
water, has we'll marked an&stnetlc
properties. After the finger has been
immersed in the liquid for lew min
utes it cen be cut to the bone without
any pain being felt.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
Highest of all in Leavening Ppwer.-Latest u S. Govt Rer
[>&!!!A! q! BskiHg Bs%5s3!
u @19z9z@ OW6VA
ABSOLUTELY PURE

to that depth is very nearly one ION tt
the square inch, Of more than 100
times that sustained at the sea leve
and at the greatest depths the pressure
is 50 increased that it would seen
nothing would withstand it. In fac
heavy metal cylinders let down witt
the sounding apparatus SIS sometime!
being drawn up again to the surface
found bent and collapsed; strongly
made glass vessels which the metal
enclo;ed are shattered into fragments.
In the profoundest abysms OF the
sea are strange forms of life that nevel
save when brought up by the trawl, see
the upper light. The work carried on
by means of the United States fish
commission vessel, the Albatross has
established the fact that forms of sea
life inhabiting upper waters may des
cend TO about 1900 feet from the
surface but that below this, to a depth
of 800 or 800 fathoms, barren zone
lntervenes where marine life seems
absent But still deeper, strange to
say, has been discovered al abundant
and varied fauna, new to science living
under conditions of tremendous press
ure and paucity of the life sustaining
element OF oxygen that induced an
eminent zoologist 10 say quite recently
"What we know of the greatest ocean
depths torbids US to expect to find
them inhabited by living organisms.
Here indeed survive forms OF life the
like of which no inhabitant of the
upper world not even the sun himself
has looked upon before the dredges OF
the Challenger, the Albatross, the
Blake and similarly equipped vessels
dragged up marine creatures from
congenial cold and dark.
1t might reasonably be supposed
that these denizens OF great sea depths
would be built more FIRMLY and
strongly than surface animals to resist
the pressure of the element in which
they live, but it is just the contrary.
The most universal characteristic OF
these creatures is the looseness OF
texture they exhibit. Indeed they
seem to need the excessive pressure
of the water about them to keep their
parts together for when they are
brought to the surface they are ready
to fall to pieces. 1t is problem so
strangely are some of them formed,
how they can move from place to
place. Where they not entirely below
the disturbing element of wave action
they would to all appearances be help
less.
Inhabiting these abyssmal spaces
as completely cut off from commu-
unication with the upper waters as we
are from the inhabitants of other
plants We can only vaguely speculate
on their habits and Judge their manner
of life from their somewhat remote
analogies to the surface species nearest
akin to them. Plant life is entirely
absent from their place of abode, and
although they doubtless prey upon
each other some original sources of
food supply must of course be con
jectured to exist.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

wv hen was boy, had a bronchial
trouble OF such a persistent ard stub
born character, that the doctor pro-
nounced it incurable with ordinary
remedies, but recommended me to try
Ayers Cherry Pectoral l did SO, and
one bottle cured me. For the last fifteen
years, have used this preparation with
good effect whenever l take bad cold,
and L know of numbers of people who
keep it in the house all the time, not
considering it safe to be without t.
j. {. Woodson, P. M, Forest Hill, VIVA.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, N. D.,
iii So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
"The use of 'Castoria' is so universal and
its merits so well kno ,-n that it seems work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castorla
within easy reach.
CARLOS MARTIN, D. D.,
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

There's a movement to reform pc
manship. The script of ths futu y
will be perpendicular instead OF sis
ing.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
WHEN THE FACTORY WHISTLES
SOUNDS

What rejoicing there would he II the days We
could recall
When everything was looming, with work
enough for all,
When the smoke from cbimIeys told tale of
prosperous times,
And PAYDAY never passed without the usual
share Of dimts,
But that is all "a memory, a thought OF days gone
by;
Not satisfied with gCCd Eough. We needed
tempter' cry
And voted iCr reioIm as GloYer laid it down,
And it isn't like 1t was
When
the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
Cough

For more than twenty-five years, T
was a sufferer from lung trouble, at
tended with coughing so severe at times
as to cause hemorrhage, the paroxyslns
frequently lasting three or four hours.
was induced to try Ayers Cherry Pee
toral, and after taking four bottles, was
thoroughly cured. - Franz Hoffman,
CLAY Centre, KanS.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
Best Cure For

All disorders of the Throat and
Lungs is Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
II has no equal as 4 courh=cure-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

Grover, in his message, says tne Silver bill must
gU.
And later on the tarif will be tinkered, don't
yer know
Ee "jollies'' long the workingman, in most
guilsless way,
And tells them they're the backbone OF the
country OF to day.
Now. all ofthis is very nice, but it doesn't furnish
For half dozon hungry mouths who form the
workman's brood,
SO they re locking for the roosters worn last fall
when marching round.
To live upon this winter
whistles
sound.
Bridgeport, Conn. F. A. Bartlett.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
factory

sound.
Before the great Ieiormer the ortly Grover G.,
Backed up by mugwump statements OF InaEcial
helcsee,
Fooled the poor G,luded into voting !or his aand,
There was money in their pockets and plenty in
the land.
Now in city, town ard village hundreds stand
around and wait
For the bully good times promised that arc
gust little late. s
And each day passes on the never ceasing
round
They fnd it vely different than
When
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02
for Infants and Children.

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhea Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes Oh
geStion,
Without njurious medication.
/" For several years have recommended
your Castoria, and shall always continue to
do SO as it has invariably produced Denenciai
results"
EDWIN F. PARDEs, Al. D.,
"The Winthrop, 125th Street and 7th Ave-,
New York City.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-02

r,v o,rsr.,R COMPANY, n MURRAY STREET, New YORK.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-11
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

SODA Nectar: Put Tablespoonful
Of crushed ice in glass with the JUICE
Of one lemon and three Jumps OF sugar;
fill up with ice water and scanv Yea
spoonful of carbonate OF SODA Drinh
while in an effervescing state. arn'
Field and Fireside.
Daisy Fruit Cake: One cup sour
milk, one cup raisins, one cup brown
sugar, two and quarter cups noun.
Ave tablespoonfuls melted butter, one )
tablespoonful each of soda, cinnamon
allspice. ground cloves and nutmeg.
Detroit Free Press.
Orange Float: Add the juice OF
three lemons and one cup OF sugar 70
quart of water; put on to boil, ana sur
in three tablespoonfuls OF corn starch
set off the Gre to COOL. Cut and slice !
five oranges, lay in the bottom OF ?
large glass bowl, pour the mixture
over. spread the top with meringue
and set ON ice for one hour before !
serving.
--Okra Hash: Cut mp pint OF lean
beef or mutton from cold roast. Put
a tablespoonful of butter in trying
pan; stir in. q tablespoonful OF hour;
when brown add a teacup OF siiced
okra and q slice OF onion chopped; stir
| until cooked; add the meat with salt
and pepper; let brown, stir, pour IN 3
mint of boiling water; let come TO .
| boil, and serve hot on toast -Harper .
| Bazaar.
Chill Sauce: Eighteen tomatoes
two large onions, three green peppers
one coffee-cup of sugar, two and ONE
half cups of vinegar. four teaspoonfuls
of salt, and one teaspoonful eacn OF
cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mustard,
ginger and allspice. Peel, slice and
drain the tomatoes, chop the peppers
and onions fine, and boil all together
until tender; then add the spices, vine-
gar and sugar, and boil half an hour
! longer Boston Budget
-Turbot a la Creme: Three pounds
, of halibut or cod boiled with plenty OF
salt Remove the skin and bones, and
fake. Boil one bunch of parsley and
! one large onion in little water. to
/ extract the flavor; take out and
. thicken with three tablcspoonfuls OF
IL -four; then add to it one quart OF cream
u and milk together (more milk i'm
: proves it), and one-half cup OF butter
Put alternate layers of fish and sauc.
y in deep. buttered dish (sauce on top
: cover with bread crumbs and bake til
e brown. Farm, Field and Preside
ri To Clean Kid Gloves: 1t is not nee
e essary to send ones gloves away to b'
: cleaned when they can be SO easil,
v done at home. Draw the glove on tn
r hand, dip a flannel in refined BENIN
IS and rub the soiled parts. Change tn
l. place on the flannel as it become
: soiled. Continue this until the who'll
glove is cleaned. Lett dry on the hand
or nearly SO, before removing It. RI
the glove up in the air after cleanin
10 with benzine, so that the fumes ma
escape. Others are successful in clear
o. ing gloves by using SKINNED milk II
" stead of benzine. Prairie Farmer.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-11
WEIGHING GOLD ~ AFRICA.
How the Natives of tho Dark Contincns
Mako Purchases and Sales.

How the Natives of tho Dark Continent
Make Purchases and Sales.
Money used by natives in Occidental
Soudan consists of small unlvalve
white shells called cauries, derived
from the Maldives and Laquedives
islands, and also from Zanzibar. For
several centuries past ships have
brought to the mouth of the Niger, or
to the Guinea coast, as far as Liberia,
entire cargoes of these shells, the value
of which runs from twelve cents to
forty cents per thousand, according to
the part of Africa. Cauries are only
used in countries where gold is scarce.
In the whole area between Kong,
Bondonkau and the sea cauries are not
used; natives settle their purchases
with gold dust or nuggets.
To weigh the gold they use as cur
rency they employ small copper scales.
| Weights are extremely varied in
shapes and sizes. Most of them
are in brass. The weights ex-
| hibiting human figures, animals, tools.
ludicrous scenes, ETC., as reproduced
here. are modelled with wax and cast in
brass through the cire perdue process.
! Africans may have learned this process
from Europeans who visited their coun-
try, but their art exhibits native
character thoroughly suigeneris. These
black artists have evidently reproduced
what they saw or imagined. and they
have done it in style of their own;
their works are peculiarly humorous
and fancitul.
Each native, who has pair of scales
has also special weights which he alone
understands how to use. He knows
for instance, that giraffe weighs one
or two mitkals of gold; that such a
weight in the shape of bird repre-
sents one-half or one-third mitkal o.
gold, etc.
There are no uniform sets of Sa'ghts
consequently each native is obiigcc t.
have his own series. When the par
chaser has weighed the gold he mus
give for certain merchandise, the ven
dor weighs it in his turn tosee whethe
it is correct. The unity of weight il
the whole Soudan is the barifiri, which
corresponds to eighteen grammes.
Each barifiri is worth fourteen mitkals
Admitting the value of gold in Europ
. to be three francs per gramme, we fin
that a barifri is equal to fifty-fou
, francs worth of gold, and mitka
thirteen francs, fifty confines. Fac
mitkal is divided into twenty-sevc
! banans (the banan is a bomboy seed
: each banan is worth fifty centimes.
! mitkal of gold may also be weighe
!. with fifty-four grains of vegetabl
!. coral; these tiny grains, red like cor'
!. with black spot, are the fruit OF
: kind of convolvulus. There are specii
: weights to weigh one-half mitkal, on
third or two-third mitkal. The small
est weight is called pouassaba; it
formed of one and half grains
= rice, not decorticated. Gold powder
4 carried in quilts stopped up with
wooden cork wrapped in piece
linep,-Jeweler' Circular.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

/. Weather forecasts in Great Bfltain
show more accurate every year, ana
the meteorological council announce
with pride that 81 per cent. OF those
given last year were successful. Three
years ago nearly II per cent. OF the
storm warnings were not fulfilled;
but now the rate has faAen TO per
cent.
Some of the flower badges OF ma
lions are as follows: Athens, violet;
Canada. sugar maple; Egypt, lotus;
England. rose: France, fleu-de-lis
nily); Florence, CYCLIC (lily); Germany,
cornfiower; Ireland, shamrock leaf;
Italy, lily; Prussia, linden; Saxony,
mignonette; Scotland. thistle; Spain,
pomegranate; Wales, leek leaf.
I'm 1890 there were in Canada 1913
most Offices, which handled 94,000,0O0
letters, 10, OO0. 600 cards. 1000, 900 papers
and IS, OOO, 900 books and parcels. News
uapers sent from the Office. OF publica-
tion are carried free. Their number is
estimated at 60. 900, 900. Canada has a
system of postal savings banks, with
liz, 234 depositors and s21,99O,65S de-
posits.
According to NJ. Hamelin, famous
traveller and orchid hunter, the market
price of a perfect specimen of the egg
of the gigantic fossil bird epyornis is
! 81. 900. It is several times as large as
| that of an ostrich, but is not otherwise
beautiful. Naturally it is exceedingly
rare, but Mr.. Hamelin nevertheless
promises to put one or two on the Eu'
ropean market.
| AT Hatfield house, the residence OF
Lard Salisbury, in the James IL. pic
ture gallery there is preserved the gar
den bat worn by Queen Elizabeth anc
pair of her majesty's silken hose
The room is also remarkable for beau
| tiful ala baster sculptures, and it is the
rule for every royal visitor to leave De
hind photograph, to which is addet
an autograph of the donor.
"A modern postal system is soon u
be established in China. The imperia
government has approved plan, draw
up by Sir Robert Hart, under which
the native postal organization will en-
tirely disappear and will be replace.
by an imperial post Office, witt
branches throughout the country, un
der the management of qualified for
eigners. When the reform is complct
ed China will ask for admission int
. the postal union.
!, The Chinese dragon is still pras
/ teal obstruction to railway building
: The Tartar general in command q
RI Monkden, the capital OF Manchurn
) when survey was made for arailroa'
by the town, had the local sages inve'
: tigate the matter. They reported ths
5 the vertebrie of the dragon which Ell
circles the holy city of Monkden woul
r be broken if the long nails of the raj
I way sleepers were driven into tn
J. ground Upon the strength OF thu
/ the general ordered the engineers
: carry the line away from the city an
9 over very marshy route. When tt
) matter was brought to LII Hong Chan
t he commended the general for his i
terest in the dragon, but still expresst
# an opinion that the Monkden rou
v was the best for both dragon and cou
a try. The affair would have to be r
ported to the emperor. Whereupon Il
!" general had line laid down a re
% hundred feet from the former one, al
Il the sages pronounced it all right.