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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16
MuRpKRER cAsgYs DOVE.
A Snow white Bird That Had an Affection
for Bad Men.


A snow white Bird That Had an Affection
for Bad Men.
II can recall a strange incident
that has never found its way into
print" said a member of the New
York congressional delegation. at
happened in Long Island, in the
Queens County Jail, and, to say the
least, is tinged with strangeness.
Patrick Casey. a Long Island City
policeman, was an inmate Of the jail,
under the sentenceof death for the de-
liberate murder Of Sergt. Cumisky.
The present representative in Con
gress from the First Congressional
District, New York James W.
Covert. was Casey's counsel, and sue
cceded in having the sentence COM
muted to imprisonment for life. On
the day Casey was sentenced to death
a pure. white dove flew in the court
room window and alighted on his
shoulder.
"The dove refused to be moved, ac-
companied Casey back TO his cell, and
became his constant companion At
the same time Charles Rugg, the no.
torious negro murderer, was also an
inmate of the jail, awaiting trial for
the murder of Mrs. Lydia Maybee
and her daughter. Just previous to
the day set for his trial Rugg escaped
from the jail, but two days. later was
captured and returned to the Jail.
The day of his capture was the day
set for Casey's removal to Sing Sing
to serve out his life, sentence. As he
was being taken from the jail and
while in the shelifl's Office being pre-
/ pared for his journey Rugg was led in
by his captors. All this time the
dove had been perched on Casey s
shoulder, but as soon as Rngg was led
in the dove flew from Casey's shoulder
over to Riggs, alightingon his shout
der, cooing as if it had found a long
lost friend
"All efforts on the part of Casey tt
call it back again we're in vain, anc
as Rugg was led back to the cell from
which he escaped the dove went will
him. 1t remained with him up tt
the morning of the execution. Oh
that morning as Rugg marched VI
to the scaffold, the dove was percheC
on his shoulder and remained Their
until the black cap was drawn owe
his face. AS soon as that was dom
the dove flew out of one of the jai
windows, and was never seen arount
the jail again.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16

At one of the table d'hote dinners
of the Fellowc aft Club one man
said II know that your.device might
be the verse of Eviradnus. Without
ever being absent or say ng | am
tired You write five or six columns
every day. Tell me this, Is literary
work tiresome or is it not?" The
other replied. Not to the mind.
1t is nothing to unrol the
arabesques of ia tasy, but the
bending over ones paper and
the guiding ones pen gives
pains in the ack. 1t re-
mined third person Of an interview
with Sarah Bernhardt when he
asked: in Llaying so many emo
lions, in affecting so much suffering,
cont you feel terrible pains in your
hearth" "Oh, no." she said sadly,
it's in the legs. New York Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16
rho Contentious Lin

The compressed lip beloved by the
novelist is a sign Of weakness rather
than strength. The strong man has
every feature, every physical attri-
butte under control. Assured OF his
mems obedience the commanding
officer does not habitually keep his
lip muscles in a state OF tension.
Look at the sea Captain, the most alb.
so ute monarch'on earth He carries
authority and power in his face, but
it resides in his eye and the confident
assurance Of his easily set mouth.
Every spar shaft, and muscle in his
floating realm must obey him, and
he knows it. This is probably
reason why the sea captains and the
engine drivers show a certain SINH
larity of type. The engine driver
can make hiscaptiye giant strong as
ten thousand men, obey the pressure
Of his finger His. lips are Usually
calm, like those of the statues'of the
wielder Of thunderbolts on Olympus
Who ever saw a man commanding a
man-ofwar or driving locomotive
with the contentious lip of a school
usher?.f '
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SextupIc Lightning.

An interesting photograph was ex-
hibited at recent sitting of the.
French Academy. 1t shows six dis
tinct simultaneous flashes of lightning,
and was taken with detective camera
nlaced in window during terrific
thunder storm which broke over
Prague on May % last. The light
hing struck four houses at once, wreck
ing the roofs and doing considerable
damage. Two other flashes are dis
tinctly shown in the photograph as
larting from the same cloud. One of
tbem struck the cupola of the acade'
INV of sciences without injuring it,
while the other was attracted to a
group of telephone wires, which it
fused. The melting of the wires and
the brilliant lighting up of the cloud
are we'll shown. Another most inter-
esting feature of the photograph is
that it shows the shadow of the cupola
sharply projecting against the dark
and cloudy sky. --.New Orleans Picay-
lune
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16

Whatever the cost OF irrigation
may be. the cost Of not irrigating
may be very much greater 1t is es-
timated by those who know some
thing about the subject that the val
ne Of the grain crops alone the past
season, even at the very low prices,
which have been lost through Excess
sive drought will reach over three
hundred and dfty million dollars.
Aud what makes the case still more
emphatic is the fact that over a large
part OF the country where crops OF
all kinds have been so seriously dam
aged the rainfall is sufficient, II prop
erly stored and distributed. to insure
a crop every year. The fact is, the
cost OF growing crops without suf-
fclent water greatly overbalances
any possible cost Of establishing irri-
eating systems, when we take into
account the frightful losses that
occur somewhere in the country,
through a series of years, from insult
ficlcnt moisture in the soil.
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The Secret of the Universe.

Ne late DIR. Holmes once told a
party how he undertook to
te enigma of creation. Having
I that Inconsistencies is con-
"A approached, as during the in
a On of an anestheticLwhen the
VI is on the confines of two worlds
there arise sublime and voluminous
fugacious thoughts, and having
tisfed himself that in these thoughts,
they could only becaught and trans
bed, there lay enshrined the secret
he universe, ha determined thai
III supreme effort of the will he
build catch and transcribe them. So
|acing himself in his armchair, with
|Bn, ink and paper at hand, he in
|lled the vapor of chloroform. A
Lowsiness stole over him, and Just as
hconsciousness was impending, those
|iblime and marvellous thoughts
rose, and by a vigorous effort he
Eized his pen and wrote he knew not
That, for before he had finished he
I'll back unconscious. When he
woke, with trembling anxiety he
armed to the sheet of paper, on which
e could read, in scrawling characters
ut quite legible, the secret of the
inverse, written in the words: "A
trong smell of turpentine prevades the
|hole.
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cRusoE's ISLAND.
It Is Now Inhabited and Possesses Little
Town.

-
Town.
1t is not generally known that Juan
FernandezSthe island on which Alex
ander Selkirk, the Robinson Crusoe of
romance, lived so many years-is at
the present time inhabited. Two val
leys, winding down. from different di-
rections, Join short distance back
from the shore, and there now stands
little village of small huts scattered
round a long oue-storied building with
veranda running its whole length.
In this house lives the man who rents
the island from the Gillian Govern
ment. and the village is made up of
few German and CHILEAN families
The tiny town is called San Juan Bau-
tista, and the crater-like arm OF the
sea on which it is situated, and where
Alexander Selkirk first landed, is now
called Cumberland Bay. The island
is rented for about ego a year. The
rent is Paid partly in dried fish.
| Catching and drying the many varie-
| ties of fish AMI raising cattle and veg
tables wholly occupy the contented
settlers. ami much of their little in
/ come is obtained from the cattle and
! vegetables sold to passing vessels.
At the back of the little town, in the
| first high Gill, is a row OF caves OF re-
markabe appearance hewn into the
sandstone. An unused path leads to
them. and short climb brings one to
their dark mouths. About forty years
ago the Gillian Government thought
that a good way to get rid OF its worst
criminals would be to transport them
to the island Of Juan Fernandez.
Hero, under the direction of Chiliau
soldiers, these poor wretches were
made to dig caves to live in. In 1o5-
they were taken back again, however
and the caves have since been slowly
crumbi ing away.
The narrow ridge where Selkirl
watched is now called The Saddle,
because at either end of it rocky
hummock rises like pommel. On on
of these is now a large tablet with in
scriptions concentrating AleSandei
Selkirks long and lonely stay en- thu
island 1t was plac9d there in 1868 b.
the officers of the British ship Topaz
A small excursion steamer now run
from VALPARAISO to Juan Fernando
island The round trip is made in 81,
days, and three of these may be spen
on the island in fishing and visitin
those lonely, but beautiful snots -hi.,
near y go years ago were the haun'
of Robinson Crusoe.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16
rnrland,s Most important Seaport.

What is the most important seaport
in the British Empire? Liverpool?
Wrong. London? Wrong again.
Strange to say, it is Hong Kong,
China. When coded to England in
1871 Hong Kong was desolate island.
Now it is a prosperous colony, with
ope Of the finest and most beautiful
barbors in the world, where any day
the flags of dozen nations may be
seen flying from half hundred mast,
hends. -Pathiinder.
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II, snored While the storm Ragged.


During voyage across The Atlantic
yeveral years ago. says traveller, a
t rriflc storm arose and il seemed as il
our boat would be surely lost. Tho
passengers crouched in their cabins in
mortal terror, expecting every moment
to 90 down to the bottom. The CAP
tain assured them that there was no
danger, but all expected that their
time had come-all save enc. This
fellow, who was an inveterate snorer,
lay peacefully in hiscabin SCUM I asleep
in the midst of the uproar. His wife
rushed in the cabin crying: sLucien,
D Lucien. the vessel is sinking
Lucien turned over, partially awoke,
and murmured; sinking, are we:
lSnore.l Well, let her snore) sink
What are you lsnore) going to do Csnorel
about it,"
Ills remarkable GOODNESS partially
served to allay our fears and the storm
shortly after went down.
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A "A IfEo PONY.
tricky IndiI ~ b. Use Of Rabbit

Tricky Indisn,,, Ike Use of Rabbit
These stoF. Af Indian troubles in
the Southwtiriu 9 ind me of an ex-
perience tha eed Flown in New Mex
ico," said Il du davidson, of Albu-
quersue. ,od New to the region
then, and a -. had heard all
sorts of straiha ss about the tricki-
ness of the hi IVS1 did not know that
he was a shr 81 ot5 l afterward found
him to be. DO
II wanted a-pohy for some rea on,
and communicated my desire to a
friend of a CROWD of the greasy citi-
zens OF the outskirts. The next day |
was besieged With offers. | looked al
over the lot and picked three or four
to make my selection from After ev-
eral hours [ ssttaed on an animal that
! thought to be in the pink of condi-
ton and form 1 took him fer a good
round sum and q lrade thrown int the
bargain.
Il rode home on the animal. As |
got into my quarters | noticed that
the horse appeared to be uneasy. as il
suffering from injury. As | live,
found that a patch of skin several
inches square had come off his hack.
looked into il and discovered that the
horse was raw there, and that he had
been patched up with rabbit or some
other skin for the time being. Those
Indians stood by each other, to, for
could never locate the scoundrel who
had swindled me-. l have since CON
cluded that thtS were all wrong, and
that had l bought the outfit l would
have found the oldest assortment OF
pat he'd horses that it wa; ever the
fortune Of white man to look upoa
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The Wrong One.

strawber. You look as if you had
been laid up, old man.
singerly---I have been. Iannounced
nv engagement last week.
strawber--- Why should that lay you
" sineerlv---I announced it to her
ther---Iife
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

London had the first literary news
paper.
English bachelors and widows were
faxed in 1895.
Coarse wrapping paper is made ont /
ii sunhower stalks. |
The cabbage was introduced in Eng |
land by the Romans.
There was not public library ln
tbe United States, 100 years ago.
Every gentleman wore queue and
powdered his hair $50 years ago.
One hundred years ago peltry was
,be leading export of of New York.
An egg that is half boiled and then
cooled cannot again be boiled hard.
II is the custom in japan to buy fish
alive and in China to buy them dead.
Henry Gloe of Two Rivers, Wis,
has married the same woman three
tines.
The library of Goettingen, Ger
many, has a Bible written on palm
leaves.
one of the famous "big trees" of
California is coniectured to be 1900
years old.
LOf all conquering nations Spain has
created those subjected to her rule
lnost harshly.
The largest egg it that of the os-
hrich, which usually weighs about
three pounds
With half of the world to choose
from, fur seals stick to two little
islands in Behring Sea.
Only one book on aluminium has
been published in the United states,
and that is now out of print
Bavarian radishes are new fad.
They grow like large cucumbers and
are served cold, cut IN large, thin
slices.
". Il. Young of Augusta, ILL.,, owns
dBible that was prin ted in the year
| lls15. 1t is believed to be the Oldest
| bible in America.
THE monastery of st. Honorat, near
cannes, France, has never been en-
red by woman, though it has ex-
ted l, 400 years.
II is said that Littre, compiler OF
le monumental dictionary of French
language, was the greatest literary
/ t6iler of modern times.
| Ex-Lieutenant Gov. Brockmyer o
st. Louis, Mo-, wants to send 1000
! knocking birds to Europe to learn thu
| nightingale song and teach it to thei
ates here.
Rsaving his vermiform appendix re
yed has been rather good thini
Oscar Tully of Yardville, n. j..
1.-THE obstruction was found to be
&c pearl, which he must have swul
WED in an oyster, and for which h
Is refused 5000.
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eases, or drains upon the system,
excuses, or abuses, bad habits, or
early vices, are treated through cor
respondence at their homes, with
uniform success, by the Specialists
OF the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, of buffalo, N. Y. A book
OF 1876 large pages, devoted TO the
consideration of the maladies above
limited at, may be had, mailed Sc
cufely sealed from observation, in a
PLAIN en0elQ4, by sending 10 cents
IN one-cent Stamps (for postage on
Book, to thu Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, at the above
mentioned H btel. For more than
a quarter of a century, physicians
connected with this widely cele-
brated Institution, have made the
treatment of the delicate diseases
above referred to, their sole study
and practice. Thousands, have con-
suited them. This vast experience
mas naturally resulted in improved
methods and means of cure.
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A Chinesc laesnort.

Inc lines on no two human hands
are exactly alike. This fact is uJil.
ICED in China in an interesting way.
When a traveller desires passport
the palm of his hand is covered with
fine oil paint, and an impression is
taken on thin, damp paper. This
paper, Officially signed, is his pass
nQrt
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These very conf lent people arc strangely
sef-satisded until danger 10 life looms up,
as wlen the chronic pains Of many years
endurance attack the hear, like rheumatism
very often does, then they turn to better
faith. This better faith--leld to by many
thousands-is simple AMI certain. 1t is
faith founded on experience that st. Jacobs
Oil will cure, because it mas cured all these
painful ailments permanently, 1t is faith
founded on reason. We know what can DO
done by what has besn done thousand
times. Every physician knows that those
VINO nave bsner in treatment are tho mora
easily cured those who have not SGT up a
resistance to the progress OF cure.
A belt in one OF the big Touring mills a
Minneapolis, Mimi, contains 200 cowhides
It is 900 feet long and weighs over a ton,
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fr Eternity. Catarrh being con-
stituuonal disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
teraaily, acting directly upon the blood and
stroyine the foundation of the disease, and
giving the pat'en strength by building up the
constitution ana assisting nature in doing its
work The proprietors have so much faith In
its curative powers that they offer one Hun
bred Dollars for any case that it fails TO cure.
Send for /. { of testimonials. Address
J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
a>E- Sold by Druggists, 15c.
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People overlooked the importance of per
mNnently beneficial effects and were Statistic
with transient action, but now that it is ger
orally know that Syrup of Figs will per ma
nently cure habitual constipation, well in
formed people will not buy other laxauves,
which act for time. but finally injure tn,
system.
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1t is said that the secretary bird in attack
ing a snake uses one wings as shield and the
other nc n eIub
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II. s. DUDLEY. W. J. CARPESTRB
Z. M. SWITZERLAND,
AU Q IT 10 NE Err
Port Tobacco CHARLES County, Md.
Fl. s. DUDLEY.

win attend to all business entrusted 10
him, in any portion Of the County. Com
munications addressed to lin at Port
Tobacco will receive prompt att ution
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, sOftens the gums, reduce iniamma-
ton. allays pain cures wind collie 25c. a bottle
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T J. VHkNTf q OU.i IUIctIUi U
oD- Sold by Druggists, 75c.

The abbreviation gent was formerly used
in England as title Of respect, not as
slang.
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to say that there is something Just as Good
as Ripans Tabules for disorders of the stomach
and liver" 1t is not So This standard rem
edy will relieve and cure you. One tHSule
gives relief.
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When' man loses his head he always re-
tains the portion that aches.
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Diamonds, so small that 1900 50 to the
carat. have been cut in Holland.
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Karl s Clover Root. the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness TO the complex.
Ion and cures constipation, % cts, 80 cts. 81
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..yes. sir we have a number of grand. good
man working for us, and they are making
money, leo doing better for themselves than
they could in any other line" That Is about
L,hi,ssif n 90. Richmond, Va, stated the case
in referring to their advertisement for repre-
sentatives to devote all or part of their time An
lhc interest OF their business
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It's a COED plan when you get the worst Of
1t to make the best OF it.
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There was not public library in the United
States 100 years ago.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-11-16

California SEA lions are champion climbers
and jumpers
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He IS e ghrak lsmarck.
Great nothin He ain init. That's

Great nothin Ne ain init That's
what he amt.
The proprie or looked at the icepick,
and then he changed his mind.
"Haf peer, said he.
"I'll go you. said the big man. He
accepted third and fourth. On the
eighth he fell asleep over the table.
The quiet German went to the door
and called in heavy policeman.
Here's a goot cigar" said he. Take
him in. He 5 peen disorderly. | APP
pear myse attic station. y
Five minutes later two policemen
hauled out thu big man, whose drag
ging toes left .ong, snaky lines along
the sawdust. The quiet German dust
ing the pictur{ said; "Pismarck is
atfenged, [ pet lou. Chicago Record.
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II. Kilmer's SWAMP Roor cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Pamphlet and Consultation free
Laboratory Binghamton. n. \.
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This Company acts as Executor, Admins
traitor, Trustee and in all Judiciary capaci les.
Pays interest on deposits Of money subject
to check. 1t has a Special Saving Depart
ment, and receives deposits from dine ny.
ward, The finest Safe Deposit pGqlti mon
and skill can produce.
Non-residents will find tia most lneresting
place visit when they come to the National
Capt. |.
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lea IS cut every forty days the year around
in Japan.
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a Great Man Avenged.

"Do you love life" asked the big
man as he kicked up the sawdust ard
fell heavily into chair at one of the
pinoch e tables,
81 suppo I do y said the quiet Ger.
man who kept tie place.
We'll, then, bring me a schooner OF
beer, and if thdros collar on it you
don't get cent Eee?"
The big man drank the beer at one
dripping gulp al dthen glared INSTEAD
lily around the pom at the Book beer
sign, the annouEment of the Schwa-
ben picnic, the engraving of Ger
mania and the re Of Bismarck.
.syMhn ,s tn at w
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Candy should not be eaten just before
meals
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fafTlicted with soreeyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sell III 25c per bottle
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In Effect January Josh. 1894.