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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-05-27
YAWNING WITNESSES.

A few evenings ago half a dozen
men were sitting out in front OF the
Capitol hotel discussing various topics,
when Judge Yost, of the Supreme
Court, IN telling an anecdo,e of trial
remarked that the witnesses yawned
and he knew he was lying.
How did you know2 was asked.
Well, sir, l have seen witness lie
and not yawn, but l never knew
one to yawn that he was not telling a
lie.
Judge Sims, the member of the legis
lature from Trigg, remarked, "Yes,
always know a witness is lying when he
yawns.
Senator Dave Smith said, 1t is almos
invariably the case.
Judge Wall, the Senator from Masor
came up and corroborated the state
! ments OF the others, and just thel
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the steamboat broke down. | hap
pened then to be running train on
the Wilmington Susquehanna road,
and brought my train into Whining
ton. was told to go on to PhIa-
deiphia and get passengers tor Bal
timore and Washington who could
not get away from Philadelphia
because the steamboat was laid up.
So | went up with my train. 1t was
the first to run into Philadelphia
from Wilmington. After turning
the engine round We made up the
train and started back. This was in
the summer of 1885. and 1t was the
first train out of Philadelphia that
carried passengers to Baltimore.
We had six cars and about sixty in
each car. 1t was big thing, | can
tel you, and crowds OF people were
seen at all points watching the train.
We made about twenty miles an
hour. The rails were laid on long
wooden stringers, which rested on
stone piers.
We had no whistle on the engine.
The front brak eman stood on the
front platform; WI en- wanted to stop
| would motion to him. He would
put on his brake and at the same
time ring a handbell at the side OF
the car 10 notify the other brakemen
to put on their brake. AS to signals
with other trains, we had none.
We had a schedule and we had
plenty OF time to reach passing
points. If a train was not there in a
reasonable time we would start out
and if we found it along the track
one train or the other would back
I'D to siding. When we came to
a curve we would run slow and il
there was any danger OF the other
train meeting us on the curve, we
would send a man ahead 10 warn US.
| never had whistle till | got TO
be an engineer on the Reading Road
at Philadelphia. made the first
REGULAR whistle used Tor a steamboat
and | put one on my engine
! Another engineer had one on his.
We made our own signals. For
instance, when wanted the brakes
put en- | would blow two sharp
blasts. The other engineer would
only blow one long blast. Each
crew understood the signals Of each
engineer. 1t was not until some
wears afterward that a regular sys'
TEN was adopted and controlled by
the company.
Mr.. Huston is believed to be the
oldest engineer in point OF service
living today. He first ran loco
motive in 1892 on the New Castle
road. His health is good, his speech
clear and distinct, and his constltu
ton animated. He is good walker
and will cover a mile or two witt
ease despite his eighty three years
His hearing is poor, and his eye
sight such that he retrains from
reading. He lives on Front street
Baltimore, with his son in-law
| George Dandy, secretary and trea
surer OF the American Sheet lrol
Company.
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OUR MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Ram it in, cram 1t IN,
Children's heads are hollow:
Slam it in, Jam 1t in.
Stin there's more to follow;
Hygiene and history,
AstronOmic mystery,
Algeb;a, histology,
Latin, etymOlOgy,
Botany, geometry,
Greek and trigonemtry;
Ram it in, cram it in,
Children's heads are hollow.
Rap 1t in, tap 1t in:
What are teachers paid ior!
Bang It in, slam it in:
What are children made fol?
Ancient archaeology,
fryan philology,
PrCsody zoology,
Physics, climatOlogy,
Calculus and mathematics,
Rhetoric and hydrostatics;
Hoax it in, coax it in,
ChiIdren's heads are hollow.
Scold 1t in. mould it in,
All that they can swallow;
Fold it in, hold it in,
Still there's more to follow.
Faces pinched, sad and pale,
Tell the same uuvarying tale,
Tell of moments robbed from sleep,
Meals untastcd. studies deep:
Those who've passed the furnace through
With aching brow, will tell to you
How the teacher crammed 1t in,
Rammed it it, lammed it in,
Crunched it in , pinched 1t in,
Rubbed it in, clubbed 1t In,
Pressed it and careSsed it in,
Raped it in and slapped it in,
When their heads were hollow.
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LEARNING A BUSINESS.

A gentleman who had induced a
large publishing house to take his son
as boy, into its employ at moderate
rate of pay, not long since, was especl
ally anxious IN his request that the
young man should be made to work
and learn the business.
The instruction was needless, as al
though modern fashion has done away
with much of the janltor and porterage
work of old times, yet the young man
found the selection OF stock for orders,
packing the same, entering, charging
ditto, and occaslonl errands kept him
actively employed for about ten
hours a day, with an hour out for
dinner.
At the end of three weeks time he
failed to put in an appearance, but the
father walked in one morning with the
information that John would not return
to the position.
Why not2 asked the publisher.
Well, John has to have his breakfast
at half.past seven every morning to get
here, anc then he is not used to carry
ing bundles, and sometimes he's been
sent with books right up to the houses
of people we know socially. NV son
hasn't been brought up that way, and
guess | won't have him learn this bust
ness.
He did not and what's more,
| has never learned any other busl-
ness.
Now let US look at another actua
picture, that of the SON of wealthy
mill owner desiring to become a man
ager of the mills.
But that is impossible, said the father
unless you practically learn the bust
ness.
That IS what l would like to do, salt
the son.
But to become a superintendent o
manager we prefer man who ha
risen from the ranks and understand
the mechanical department and tn
ways of employees.
Let me begin in the ranks, then
replied the young man.
To this the father assented, stipulat
ing that no favor should be shown tn
son, but he should actually begin ant
work at regular labor in the mechanics
department.
Not only was this done, but tn
young man went and boarded in tn
manufacturing town at workman
boarding house, and went In and out
the factory at bell call. In three year
he was foreman in one OF the depart
ments, and a former class mate an
we'll known society man, calling ther
upon him, was surprised at meeting
:, stalwart fellow in blue overalls, wit
I hands so soied with machinery oil
E to prevent the conventional ham
shake.
But this young man persevered, mad
and paid his own way himself, and h
father concluded it would not inlur
his future prospects. Judging from tn
3. fact that he is now manager OF mil
y (not his father's), at salary of tie
thousand year and with ability
command even better compensate
r and partnership, is evidence tn
n learning business, even by man swi
e a good education and rich father pa
d good return, both in money and ms
't ly Independence.
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ONE WOMANS UTOPIAN DREAM.

A most interesting prospectus OF
the Girl of the Future" is that
which Mrs. Ruth G.. d. Havens for
mulated for the society Of Vino
daughsis recently. She said, as
quoted in the Washington Star:
This girl of the new era if she
marries will be set tree by co opera
tive methods from household druid
pery. Halt the families on square
will enjoy one luxurious, well ap-
pointed dining room, where the
expenses will be divided among the
families and where excellent cooking
and wholesome diet will be served.
We are passing dangerously through
the era of animal sacrifice, sweet
ened starch, boiled dough, and GEL
luloid pie. The girl of the future will
abandon these means Of suicide and
adopt a Wholesome natural diet,
largely of the fruits, which come to
US in such orderly succession and
generous abundance.
House cleaning will cease TO be a
bugaboo, for the house of the future
will be cleaned by companies organ
led for the purpose, and will be the
work of day instead of labor OF
weeks Its results will be sense OF
treshl. ess and immunity from disease
inst ad of backache, nervous pros.
tration, collapse, and an influx of
patent medicines.
The girl of the future will select
her own avocation. II she be a
houseworker, as majority prefer
to be, she will be SO valuable by
means of good training as to COM
mand great respect and good wages
If she be an architect or jeweller,
an electrical engineer or a steam
plough driver, she will not rob a
cook by multilating a dinner, or d
dressmaker by amateur cutting, any
sooner than she will buy pine anc
birthstone and make her own matches
Matches are satisfactory already
Cooking will be when cooks choose
their profession for love of it, anc
are trained and paid and honored
and people are fined who cook with
out knowing how. The dressmaker
by preparation, will be an artist, anc
the girl of the future will not come
apart at unreasonable times in public
places.
So it will be seen that, although
: minority of the girls of the futur
: will sometimes choose and prepar
, to be astromers or civil engineers
| instead OF housekeepers, the hom
2 of the future and the husban
7 and in this case he spells it with
} big H-will not be left to the mere
< of Incompetent and exasperating sci
t wants. The househelper of tn
i future will not be incompetent, bt
d cause the development and trainin
e OF woman for her best and true
d work will have extended to her. ST
d will preside in your kitchen wit
1t skill and science, and you will NJ
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-05-27
GETTING A LESSON IN TRUTH
TELLING.

I'll never write anything to my wife
again while am on the road, unless
have the truth to back me up, sald
New York drummer ths -e.hef q s das
doesn't pay, he continued, in tol
melancholy that the writer bed
interested in the story.
Well, he said upon being pres
the last time l went away my wife G
me picture of herself in frame,
l put 1t IN my trunk while packing u
Two or three days later l was up alof
the road, at Syracuse, l believe, and
was in a tremendous hurry to catch TIL
train for Rochester, as l would lose
several hours and have to remain
another day there If | did not SO on
that train. As | am in the habit 81
writing home often while on the road, 1
I thought ~ould send few lines
after | reached the station. Accord
ingly, | went to hotel across the
road from the station and wrote my
letter
Upon my honor l did not want to
deceive my wife, but l knew she would
never forgive me If ] did not say some
thing about the pleasure derived from
having that photograph. So | added
few lines telling her what comfort
it was to have her picture with me, or
words to that effect, and then | mailed
the letter, feeling satisfied with myself.
OF course had not looked al the
picture, because | had been literally on
the Jump ever since l had been away
from the city and had not had chance
to think OF anything except business.
Besides | had not opened the trunk in
which l kept my clothes since leaving
home.
| thought no more no more about
the letter which | had written until two
or three days later, in Buffalo, receiv-
ed letter from my wife, in which she
made somewhat sarcastic remark
about being glad that took so much
comfort from the fact that l had her
picture to look at. On Sunday for the
first time, opened my trunk, and see
ing the frame lying there with the face
downward, took it up.
Possibly, you can, to some extent,
appreciate my feelings when dlscov-
cred that the picture had been taken
out Of the frame, and there was MOTH
Ing in it except piece of white paper.
said 70 more about it in my letters,
but occasionally my wife would express
the hope, in her letters, that l did not
neglect her picture.
went home month later, and then
learned that my sister had taken that
picture from the frame when she was
, visiting US, the day went away from
home. She was going out West, and
my wife told her that she thought |
would not miss it much. Then she said
nothing about it to me thinking, have
no doubt, that she might catch me in
exactly the trap into which l fell.
| Well, l have had hard lme trying
to make her believe that | <as innocent
o and, as l said before, when l write al
thing of that kind to her again, yo,
may gamble on the fact that | shall
6 know what | am talking about.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-05-27
Cures Others

viii cure You, is Il true statement OF the
action of AYERS SarsapariIla, when
taken for diseases originating in impure
blood; but, while this assertion is true Of
AYERS Sarsaparilla, as thousands can
attest, it cannot be truthfully applied to
other preparations, which unprimciplcd
dealers will recommend, and try to im-
pose upon you, as "just as good as
Ayers" Take Ayers Sarsaparilla and
Ayers only, if you need bIood-puritier
and would be benefited permanently.
This medicine, for nearly fifty years,
has enjoyed a reputation, and made a
record for cures, that has never been
equaled by other preparations. AYERS
Sarsaparilla eradicatcS the faint of he
reditary scrofula and other blood dis
eases from the system, and it has, deser~
vcdly, the confidence OF the people.
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Highest of all in Leavening Power-La'es " -
R@y!A!:'!!! e! Bsk'9s. BSxas5
PURE

Iudge Brent, Of the Superior Court,
ioined the group. When witness
yawns he is telling lie, and he krows
it.
Several other lawyers were aPPeaieu
to, and all bore out the statement
made. None, however, could explain
the phenomenon. Judge Yost was the
onlv one who had theory, and that
was that when fellow was swearing 10
a lie he could not face the npusic, and
his embarrassment found expression IN
YaWnS
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AYERS
Sarsaparila

81 cannot forbear to express my JOY ut
the relief | have obtained from the use
of AYERS Sarsaparilla. Twas afflicted
with kidney troubles for about six
months, suffering greatly with pains in
the small of my back. In addition TO
this, my body was covered with pimply
cruptions. The remedies prescribed
failed to help me. then began to take
AYERS Sarsaparilla, and, in short
time, the pains ceased and the pimples
disappeared. advise every young man
or woman. in case of sickness result
ing from impure blood. no matter how
long standing the cas-" may be, to take
AYERS Sarsaparilla. II. L. Jarmann,
So William St, New York City.
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4eTestilg Statement from
Z a Big Clotlilg House.

If YOU let it cost YOU for railroad fare to
/ id from the city to buy your Spring Clothes the
lault is your own Yolr nelghbors let us pay the
fare and they make money by it.
So announces the best and greatest of Clothing
Stores-Oak Hall.
- The best and greatest Clothing store IS the Store
that makes the goods it sells III quantities big enough
TO oct the inside track Of prices tor cloths and every
thing else that goes into the Clothing. We do 1t:
We make more than most wholesale houses that sell
to stores to sell agaill-as much as any OF tle1ll with
out exception. .
Good Clothing is one result-good making is
another There's a fearful lot of hidden bad work
and stuff i'll much Clothing. There's 10 way to be
rid of it but the one-dong ones own manufacturing
Still another important result OF our manufacturing
low prices-the lowest OF prices There's a fearful
expense slice slips away useessy to pay the profit to
the intermediate who Just sells the Clothing. We
put our goods counters at the prices stores pay
for them We sell YOU single suit at the rate stores
paw for twenty fifty. We don't sell without profit
We don't add profits, that's all. But that's
I good deal to you.
Bv that You'll understand how we may pay rail
road fare and still sell the lowest prices and give
> you better qualities
8 good SO suit instead of cheap stuff for $40
good 81 suit instead of $40 suit sold for SI2
A good SI5 suit-good enough to be SIS or $50
elsewhere
The sun never shone finer stock of Clothing
than we have this Spring.
Wanamaker & Brown,
Sixth and Market, Philadelphia
We pay Railroad Excursion Fare
from Elkton if you purchase $50 worth may2sf
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He-What does the poet mean by assss
an aching voidP l can't understand
what it can possibly be.
She-Why, | should think -
ought to know. Have you never, had
a headache9
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Money loaned and investments made.
Special attention given to the collection oi
claims.
Houses rented and ronts collected on reasonable
terms.
Persons in the county who have farms Tor saie
will find it to their advantage to consult WIN US
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mediCal,

DIR. j. w. COOPER. JR.,
NEPA THISI,
ELK1 ON, MD.
Mchle-6m
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Dentistry,
Surveying.

Intending &C devote my whole time to the busl
ness the patronage of the public is respectfully
solicited. Once in Grants furniture store Nortn
East. from 9 20 3 o'clock Home morning an
evening. July5.S4-u
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nH :. !, TING.
III - S1,HHIa0RSE
BLANKETI

Nearly every pattern OF PA i'orS
Blanket is initiated in color an
style. In most cas- IS the imitatio
looks just as good as the genuine
but it hG yP threads, an
SO lacks strength, and while it sell
for only a little less than the gem
inc it isn'tworth half as mucl
The fact that 5A Horse R/anke1
arc copied is strong eviden'
that they are THE sTANDARI
and every buyer should see tn;
the "a trade mark is sewed {
the inside of the Blanket.
~ - Five Mile
6: s: 5A e: !: !: :: F.. ::..
HORSE Blanket.
ARE THE STRONGEST.
100 5A STYLES
at prices to suit everybody. lfNrn can't
them from your dealer, write US -
The 5t Book. You can get ii vii "n' o.. -
wM. AYRES & SONS. Ihjia"e!o.
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1.-THE use Of 'Castoria' is so universal and
fits merits so well known that it seems work
Of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
within easy reach.
CARLOS MARTIN, d. D.,
New York City.
Lete Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-05-27
for Infa nts and Children.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me- II. A. ARCHER, ME-.
iii So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, n. Y.
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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-04-14
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Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria

The local papers are tull Of adve'-
tisements for girls to do general house
work. The fact OF business is, that
there are so few young women c"rnpe-
tent for general Homework, that thej
are in demand as wives, and have no
time to work for other people. Then
there is q prevailing notion among "a
great many girls who have to support
themselves, that Kitchen work is de-
grading, ana that they must learn to
pound a typewriter or to measure cal
leo. What the county demands is a
sensible lot of young women, who have
il higher appreciation of domestic arts,
than the present strain, ard who can
do Il washing, or cook y meal instead Of
putting in all the time riding bicycles
or kicking the lamps ont of a chandelier.
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Unfortunate Names.

well. thank heavens. | am plain
Mary Ann again." declared a young
woman to a sympathizing friend ON one
Of the ross town cars yesterday. Il did
SO hate that name-Luella. Missus said
Mary Ann wouldn't do al all. She
called it 'outre' or something like that.
She declared that l must be given some
romantic name that would sound pretty
for calling. So | have been Luella for
half a year, and I'm heartily glad that
left her and am going to Mrs. North
vests" The other girl gave a Mortified
look at mention Of this name. But, my
dear" she exclaimed, Il worked for Mrs.
Northwest, and | know all about her.
She has IL daughter named Mary. and ii
will never do for You to be Mary too.
She called me M#izie. and she'll probab-
ly call you Cal!ie or Susanna or some
other ridiculous name" Then both
sighed.-Philadelphia Record.
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