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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

Why, you're locking better already,
Sir Ronaldr
yes, thanks TO your delightful hos
pitality, I've had everything my doctor
ordered me-'fresh air, good food. agree
able society and cheerful conversation
that involves no strain ON theintellect. -
--Harper's Magazine.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

In early times what is now Ireland
was called Scotia, and its inhabitants
We're known as Scott. or Scots. A branch
Of this Scotic stock invading north
Britain ultimately gave its name to all
of what is now Scotland.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

Golf is spoken, it seems, without sound
ing the a." English folk call it govt
and If We import the game it is only
proper that We should import the pro
nunciation.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

Little Boy-I want you to write me
an excuse for being late to school yes
terday.
Jeweler-Ehg Nou are not my son.
Little BoyAN.o. but mamma says /
had plenty Of time to get to school, SO
guess the clock you sold her doesn't go
nght.-Good News
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18
DIPLOMAS foe EVERYBODY.


Edward NJ. Castle, an apothecary in an
obscure village In New York, deserves TO
take rank among the most audacious
mountebanks OF the century. As "a side
line 70 his mandrake pills, porous plasters
and comatose lccches Mr. Castle carries
varied and carefully selected stock of uni
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

Waiter ito party from the country, just
seated Here's the bill of fare, sir.
Countryman-Now, look here, IL you
think I'm gwine to pay any bill Of fare
till I've had somethin to eat you're foolin
yourself Fetch on your vittles first
Texas Siftings.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

Benedict-Wby won't she marry youi
Is there another man in the casei
Singleton-I'm afraid there is.
''That sof Do you know who II isl"
"Yes-her fatherl''-Boston Traveller.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

1t is a very lazy man who will not
take the trouble 10 reverse his cigar
when he finds that he has put the ligAted
end of 1t by mistake into his mouth.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

A square copper coin struck by the
Swedish government in the sixteenth
century is nearly one-half inch thick and
weighs pound and quarter.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-08-18

A cab shaped like bathtub, in which
the passengers either sit or recline as II In
bed, Is in use in Berlin. 1t has three
wheels and Is propelled by a naphtha mo
tor.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
BOOTHS BLOODHOUND.
An Exciting Christmas Adventure at the
Home of the Great Actor.

II remember Christmas | spent in Mr..
Booths company many years ago" said a
young theatrical manager in the foyer. He
had bought summer residence ut Cos Cob,
Conn, the previous summer, and invited
me up to play Santa Claus and do the CHM
ney act. His property was IA fair sized
little promontory OF land, bounded on one
side by the Connecticut River, on the other
side by Long Island Sound, and the New
York and New Haven tracks formed the
base line.
If there is any one road infested by
tramps it is that same New Haven road,
and when arrived, two or three DAYS be
fore Christmas, there was a line of them
waiting their turn at the gate that remin-
ded me of IA highly successful advance sale,
one tramp near the gate even Offering to
sell his advanced position for ten cents.
Booth was much worried about the dan
gerous looking fellows, and it struck me
that dog would be highly appropriate as
a gift.
| wired a friend in New York, and the
day before Christmas the biggest Siberian
hound ever saw was waiting at the little
station for me- Booth was tickled to death,
and we managed to chain the dog Just
inside the main gate near the lodge, and
then we shook hands. 1t was an awful bio
dog, bigger than little donkey that arrived
on the next train with go-cart as pre-.
sent to his little daughter Edwina Well,
we fixed up the present that night. dressed
up in fur rugs and traps as Santa Claus
and had arranged to drive the donkey into
the reception room and distribute the gifts
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
THE ENGINE---THE MAN.

| once had Il curious and instructive con-
versation with an engineer who had charge
OF il large stationary engine. 1t was "A
beautiful engine and worked as true as
steel could work. The man surprised me
by telling me it had been at work ninety
years, and do you know" he added, lit
has had eight masters; am the eighth who
has had the care Of it; and the Others are
all either dead or worn out and Yet 1t goes
ON as if it We're as young as ever Very
strange, sir, ism IT, that IN en- zine should
live 50 much longer than man; and it is
not hard work for us, either, or exposed
work, for the room is always warm and
comfortable, and the place is, Of course,
always clean and light" What did the
men die from ~ | asked
'Well, three or four, | am afraid, died
of drink, another OF bad temper, another OF
worry, and so on. but the engine went on
all the same. The fate of the engine, its
long life and continued industry, puzzled
llt mani llt OltSh III lbIitlN lblIlH
thought Of it, and wondered how many
men would follow before the engine began
to break down. 1t did not puzzle me.
That engine worked Il great many hours "A
day truly; but it was equable in its work
it never ran loose; it was true in its vOca-
ton; it was bright as ii new pin, clean in
every point; it was served with best but
simplest fuel food; it had its furnace tubes
clear; it was saved from friction by having
its parts properly oiled; and it drank
nothing but water. So it lived on nearly
through three generations, with good
prospect OF living through three more, il
was allowed, in fact, to make the most OF
its physical life.
Its masters did not make the most OF
their lives; they might have been some
what industrious, but they were not SC
orderly, so true, so steady, so clean as they
made the engine; they had not learned st
well how to find the best food and drink
for their labor as they had found for the
engine; they did not make the most OF
their lives, but the engine went, still
merrily, on its way.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29

from the well-laden go-cart. The dog was
to remain in the little shed we had extern
ported for him, but he didn't. He was
there on business, and he attended to it
promptly. The chain broke like piece OF
Irvine and broke for the balcony, which |
Just managed to reach from the cart. OF
course there was racket and got into
the window, and by the time we had armed
ourselves with antique swords and a revo-
lutlOnary musket the noise had subsidized
sufficiently for us to venture forth The
dog was just seen in the moonlight disap-
pearing over the stone wall, thousands OF
dollars worth OF presents were scattered
in the deep snow, and donkey meat and
fur were lying an inch deep over the three
acres OF the Booth premises. The Siberian
bloodhound had torn the donkey to atoms.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
" Nx--o
Mks&z1EARFlr1@GARDEN
VS.lSN~
IN THE POULTRY HOUSE.

A few lice in the henhouse now mean
thousands later Poor hens and few if any
eggs will be the result. Do you think it
will pay to feed wheat to lice? That is
lice. The hens are only the 90 betweens
and get all the curses. Clean out every
thing-nests, roosts, partitions-a scrub
them with kerosene. Paint everything
with strong I've made of wood ashes, con
vert the pests into soap and then scrub the
building with them Cut new poles for
to the roof. Dig out the floor with hoe
and wash it. When dry, whitewash every
part. 1t will pay to do good job while
about it. 1t will be too cold by and by
and then those pullets must begin LAYING
before cold weather, or they will hold off
till spring 10 succeed you must give
parasites
The pulletS may, with care and comfort
pay IA profit on their cost before spring.
They will not if they are animated vermin
factories. A supply of leaves packed away
for use on the floors will make ii cheerful
sound as the hens rustic for wheat
among them on cold days. Several loads
Of buck wheat hulls will he profitable in
vcstment. The white dust will choke lice
when the hens roll in it, says Rural New
Yorker, authority for the foregoing. Of
course you have barrels of road dust nut
away. That and plaster when thrown
violently against the rooStS will make a
smudge and destroy many Of the led mites
1t is likely that hens would take care of
the louise question themselves if always
provided with suitable dust material.
When their rooStS become too bad or the
nests too hot, they will abandon them for
a tree and Stave out the midnight ma
rauderS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
FIRE EXTlNGUISHING

a new method of eNtinguishing fires by
means Of an automatic chemical process is
proposed and tests have been made in
which the inventor claims to have proved
the value OF his device. He argues that if
the oxygen can be dispelled from the atmos-
phere combustion will be arrested and the
fire will Immediately die out. An insulat-
ed wire is run IN the ceiling of room and
connected to a thermostat. When the tenn
peraturr of the room rises to a certain point
above normal, say to lO5 degrees Fahren-
heit, an alarm bell is sounded and the wire
is parted This sets free number OF
weights arranged at set intervals which
fall in small walls OF chemically prepared
solution. This disengages "A gas that forces
Oxygen from the room through valves fixed
for that purpose. As soon as the oxygen
is forced out the valves swing back into
place and the room becomes air-tight. The
fire is eNtinguiShed at once, but twenty
minutes is allowed before pure air is adj
mitted, and the room can be entered. The
inventors idea is to connect the wires run
ming to the various apartments in a large
building in the general office, so that when
the alarm is sounded the fire is instantly
located, \ special arrangement is also pro-
vded by which all windows that might be
opened at the outbreak of fire are inn
mcdiatcly closed when the thermostat in
dictator reaches the warning point.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29

DR. PETER "COPPER"
ElE, EAR AND THROAT
nILNINGTON. DEL
Equitable Building, Ninth and Market SITS. j3O
DIR. j. u. COOPER, AIR..
HOMHPi IHINT
MchlO-6m ELhTON, Nj
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
PAINT !

An experience of nearly fifty years in
the manufacture of Paint, paying especial
regard to the climatic requirements of this
particular section, enables us to offer the
very Best Paint for this locality. We
invite attention to our Metallic Roof Paint
which will neither peel nor crack, and
will prevent snow rust.
We manufacture, also, Putty Stains,
Enamels and deal in Oils Glass, Var
nishes, Brushes, Artists Materials, and
everything required in the Paint trade
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29

CLOhGE 4. BLitE.
TTORNEE4l-L1W
ELhjON. MARYLAND
Frazer Building, Main st, opposite Court House
F!LLIAM $. EVANS,
1TTORN EF-IrL4H
Otficc on North ST, ELkION. MARYLAND
J. WESLEY FANS,
iTIuRAEH-4T-LIH
NORIH EAST. ND
Deeds, Bonds, Mortgages, Contracts, &C..
Carefully Drawn.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29

HENRI W. Met ULLOIGH
ATTORNEY Ar Law.
ELk1ON ND
Ohcc on Main street, opposite Court House
REUBEN HiINaS
ar ORNEl Ar LAW
ELKTON. ND
Oihc.-On North ST. in Gilpiu Building.
solicitor for Patents
-% Commissioner OF Deeds for the State of
Delaware.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29

saving half your money IS attraction.
buying where it's crowded is attraction.
seeing thousands of Suits is attraction
seeing thousands of OveCOats attraction.
You'll getty o in a
thousands buyers Every day hundreds of them Everybody of
nnd-Good Clothes The like
the life time O al o
Take advantage OF get of these SIS $675 Suits.
Take advantage of these S. so
It's saving half They're All WOOL
prices by nuch1o
way-Dress beginning $1,000
You'll be sorry you don't get one Of the S. Ulster 0veCoats
You'll be sorry you don't get one of the S. Ulster 0veCoats
yourself greatest
Winter night ast-wam full vamthal for Five
Dollar bill establishment O Ulster
Now's the time to clotf1e your boy same terms:
The Small Boys All Wool Suit So the Largest Boy S.
Beautiful Overcoats for Big Boys, $500 Small $4
wondering Well you've
be settled Meanss selling Million Dollars Clothing
Not Wthsandmg Low Prices we pay Railroad Fare
WANAMAkER & BROWN
SIXTH AND MARKET PHlLADELPA''c
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
Funeral Stree urs,
Surveying

Office with J. Frank Turner Dover street,
adjoining Farmers and Merchants National
Bank. Correspondence solicited
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-12-29
Attorneys d, hau

| DAM IL BRiTTON
ArITORNkY AT LAH
KTON, ND
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
Terrible Death of a Horse.

J. E. Sechrist, of Oklahoma, lost
his fine stallion Fleetwood in a pecu,
liar and terrible manner. The amman
vas a very fine one, an inbred Ham
bletonian, a powerful and speedy
animal. A few days ago it vas taken
with blind staggers and it's sutferings
were terrible. The climax OF the
disease was reached on Tuesday morn
ing, when the animal went crazy.
He was tied in his stable, but IN his
agony he broke the strong rope halIel
as if it were a thread, and driving MS
head against the side of the barr COY.
cred everything with blood. FINAL
it made a desperate effort at 'ne
door, and, tearing it from its hinsgs
went at a run through the field. ls
speed was terrific, and it stopped NOV
for paling, board or wire fences o1t
took everything in its mad run.
ran through a paling fence SIX tlleo
and through a four-wired barbed leli.5
eighteen times, tearing its legs ane
body in a horrible manner. IL wa
just before day, and Mr.. sechll ss
says that every time he struck nv
wire the fire flew and the ring Oh wv
wire could be heard a long distance.
Finally, from exhaustion and ioSs
blood, he fell and died. Mr., scent
valued him at s. ttU a"1 5r9'las
him from KentucN.. - st. l'9A'
Globe-Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD.
Some Drugs Cost Over Their Weight
in the Yellow Metal,

Some months ago, at an exhibition
of the American Public Health Asso-
citation in Brooklyn, one manufacture
ing chemist handed in medicines the
total value of which amounted to
some $50, 900, The most costly drug
in this collection was that labeled
"Hom-atropine hydrobromate, cryst."
In all, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, six
pounds of it were contained in a single
jar, and the price thereof was $l2, 600,
or So, 100 per pound. This expensive
remedy is an alkaloid, artiicially pre-
pared from atropine, a preparation of
belladonna. Another costly medicine
shown was an aconitine alkaloid in the
form of an amorphous powder, pre-
pared from aconitum napelius. Three
pounds of this were valued at S489.5O
A three and one-quarter ounce bottle
of anemonia was priced $19l.45.
OF caffeine there were thirteen differ
ent preparations in small bottles,
ranging in price from SIG to $2S a
bottle. A small vial of a letter wart
preparation called chelidomine aka
loid was marked 1888. Cocaine is
another expensive medicine four
pounds of it being valued at 1920. A
new form of cantharidin crystals was
priced $l43 q small vial. A fifteen
ounce bottle of a preparation of NOR
phine, called codeine phosphate, stood
for $135. Digitalis germaine, the great
heart remedy, costs about $40 per
pound. A five-ounce bottle CT "true
cotoin' sells at SO an ounce. The
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
A MODEL STREET GOWN.

A new model for street wear is Of
lavender ssatinette" cloth. The
under-skirt is bordered by chincHlla,
and is ornamented by a narrow silk
band, embroidered on in loops. The
overskirt is very long all around,
reaching to the fur border, and is
caught up slightly on both sides by
ribbons of dark lavender velvet, which
fall from the waist and finish with
bows, displaying only on the sides
the embroidery of the ~underskirt.
The jacket has large revers of dark
lavender velvet, which are embroid-
cred in the silk loops to resemble the
underskirt and are bordered with fur.
The collar has the same trimmings.
The sleeves of cloth are very full to
the elbow, whence they are finished
to the wrist by embroidered velvet
and edged with fur. The jacket
fastens by two buttons at the waist
and has gathered basques which, LAP
in the front, and are bordered all
around with chinchilla. TheN capote
worn with this effective costume is o
da-'1 lavender velvet and has small
bunch of black feathers at one side
held by an antique ornament ir
sto2es.-[NeW York World.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
South American Indian arrow poison,

sonth American Indian arrow poison,
as prepared in theform OF crystals ana
used rs n medicine in hydrophobla and
lockiaw, costs $50 an ounce \
still more expensive form Of crystals
named hyoscine hydrobroma'e, -
valued at 81. 1885, 60 per ounce 'oro
tain other drugs varied in price ar
the way from $l2 to $50 per "d""os
Papaine Alkaloid, a vegetable pcPsl''
obtained from the juice of the melon
tree in tropical America, sells for
Sl2O a pound. A solvent for dIph-
theric membrane, is valued at Tll,o'
AN ounce, The culabar bean comes
in for very costly preparations, r',''ly
used in diseases of the eye and lock
law. One of these, phySoStig1ninc
;alkaloid, is valued at the sum OF
SlO9, 30 per ounce, Another prrpar-
ton offhc same costs something over
S613 lb ounce, A special form Of
nitrate crystal, prepared from tho
leaves of the jarborandi, plIorarpu1
pennati folius, and used in con-
sumption, is priced at S37, ounce
value.
The list might be indefinitely cX~
tended, for the number Of new and
costly drugs is on the daily increase,
1t would be hard. indeed, to find tn"
druggist who is familiar with all Of
those now on the market, To pro-
curc anything like accurate knoWI-
edge on this point, the immense
pharmacoppia of the United States
must not only be studied, but those
also of Germany and Great Britain,
themselves vast complications OF
scientifically assorted facts. Out of
this great number Of remedies, how
ever. but few are in actual use, and
the task of the practical pharmacist is,
therefore, not so hopelcsSly bcwilder-
inc as it would seem. Tothe cost Of the
drugs he manipulates must moreover
be added a certain pcrrentUm OF the
cost of his own tralning-let alone
that of the prescribing physician.
Putting all this and that together, 1t
would seem a matter Of wonder, not
that it costs so much, but that 1t
costs so little to pay for the luxury
of being i'll.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
A GIRL,

The Greenyille, Is. CO. News pub
fishes a sketch of Miss Mary Yeargin,
whose body was a few days ago re-
covered from Cayuga Lake, New York,
where she was drowned last Novem-
Der: Her father, who is a one-armed
ex-Confederate soldier and a farmer,
of Laurens County, South Carolina,
was unable to give her a college edu-
cation, but she determined to obtain
it, and finally accumulated the neces-
sary funds by acting as engineer in
her fathers cotton gin, for which she
was paid the wages usually given to
a man for such service. With the
money thus made she paid her way
through a college at Columbia, S. c.,
and after graduating and teaching for
some time, meanwhile educating a
younger sister, she went to Cornell
University to take a special course
She was one of the commissioners
selected by the legislature of South
Carolina to investigate the workings
of industrial colleges for women and
to report on the ACCESSIBILITY of es'
tabllshing such a school in that state.
and it was in accordance with the
suggestions made in that report that
the South Carolina Normal College
was established.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
Respect the Feelings of Others.
"Had I a daughter to train" So

clad I a daughter to train" said
q woman of the world, lone accom-
plishment above all should be taught
her-to make herself agreeable with
out descending to make fun of other
people. Much, if not most of the fun
current among young folks, consists
in picking others to pieces. Bright
people are given to using their wit
very freely on others who have the
misfortune to come near them. Wo-
men especially regard the world out
side their immediate circle as created
to afford them amusement not of the
moat amiable kind. They are not dis
originating enough to see what
unGerlies and offsets the popularity
which provokes their fun. The i'll
dressed, hurried woman is commonly
trying to carry affairs whose burdens
her critics would shirk shamelessly.
No wonder if the brave spirit steps
awkwardly and unbecomingly under
the load she can but just bear with
out breaking. Those who bait their
fun on her must laugh and laugh
again unheeding. detroit Free
Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
TO SUIT OLD LADIES.

The STYLE of dress of the present
dov is particularly favorable to the
stylish and up-to-date appearance o1
women who have arrived atthe periou
which used to be known as mldole-
ace but which is now politely ignored
There is nothing between q young
woman and an old one. The glrl
period is stretched to a point when
in the days of long ago would nave
meant hope old-maidism, ana the
term young oman' is kept on TO
the confines of fifty, after which an
underlined period Of some ten or
fifteen years is passed before the stage
of cold woman is entered upon:
Even then "elderly" is considered
more polite. Why this should be so
is difficult to determine, but that m
creased culture in the art Of dress has
something to say to it there a be
no doubt.
In the present phase Of picture
dressing a woman of sixty may wear
a costume quite in the latest 1nooe
without in any way aping her juniors
and thereby rendering herself rldlcu-
lous. The individuality which is SC
much characteristic of modern dress
leaves awide scope, whereby woman
of sixty can be as ~fashionably dressed
as a girl Of sixteen without in any
way appearing to copy her junior.
The richness Of the materials and
some slight differences in style suit
able to the greater dignity in years
and a gown on a younggirl and on ar
elderly woman may be almost similar
There are some misguided individuals
who do not recognize and seize then
chance, but who attire thcmselve:
skittishly at sixty; but the type does
not seem to be nearly so widely rep
resented as it used to be and no one
will regret its complete extinction
[Chicago Herald. xrn