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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-03-24
ON THE FARM.


The use of fertilizers with the view of
procuring them at the lowest, cost is the
object of all farmers, yet it is safe to
assert that a majority of them buy more
substances that they do not require than
of those that are needful, because they
have never attempted to test their soils
The garden is suitable place to test ferti
liZers on different crops, as greater vari
ETY. of crops are grown""in the garden, and
also because only a short row may be
devoted to each kind. 1t is we'll, how
ever, to make tests on plots in the fields
for staple crops, on gIound.at that has not
been SO highly manfred as the garden
soil. Experimental plots teach the
farmer which fertilizers toj buy, and
which will serve his purpose best, thus
enabling him TO select the most desira BILE
substances and.to avold loss by rejecting
those not needed.
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Dress Notes

A girl never looks better than in a
cotton gown, and the patterns OF the
forthcoming season have more than the
usual attractions to commend them.
The sateens might easily be mistaken
for silk, with their plain grounds and
natural bouquets, though spots of vary
ing size are to be worn still. Zephyrs
are introduced under many new respects;
some have crinkled crepe stripes, the
coloring delightful. They have powerful
rivals in the cotton crepes and crepons
The multicolored effects intermixed in
the stripes are new, the Oriental lines on
plain grounds, and the outstanding
checks and stripes. Cambria with lines
and checks and plain drill will be worn
as the weather brightens.
Wool continues the staple commodity
in all dress materials, with and without
silk effects. Delaine is an old fashioned
fabric, which happily comes back scat
tered over with natural bouquets
Tweeds and homspuns have assumed
many phases, and the wolfe de laire
crepons show lined stripes. the material
crinkled between them. The newest
feature is the commingling of colors in
such way that they merge into each
other. Diagonals cloths, plain and fancy,
show great variety, and the plain ones
are pure in tone. Inspired by the sun
shine of last year, brighter tones are worn.
This is step in the right direction. The
hopsacks are bewitching, shot in two
colors, pink and green, terra Gotta and
blue, heliotrope and green.
1t is difficult to discover a real novelty
in fans, but a pretty and inexpensive
kind when closed resembles series of
colored rounded frills, edged with tinsel
these accord with the gown and give
much effect at little cost
A glace made of silk, shot and bro
caded with soft, pretty figures, is new,
and so are the interviewer primroses on a
ground of combined colors, such as gold
and blue; and, as a broad rule, we must
accept the fact that small effects will be
adopted. In some of the black spotted
silk sort of bayadere insertion, multi
colored, is introduced in the weaving,
and runs round the skirts. We have not
at all done with moires, and these are
shot and spotted, and show the trayers
lines. One curious pattern among the
new silks is boldly waterad MORE. on
which are garlands of tiny blooms run
ming across the material, while another
has chintz-like stripes of pompadour
flowers in horizontal lines in such mix.
lures as pink and green, yellow and gray
and SO on. Black moires show colored
pin points all over, sometimes inter
spersed with a brocade of flowers, and
pink and light sky blue are among the
favorite colors. Large wide stripes,
three or four inches across, of satin and
MORE show bold contrast of color, such
as dark paon and light shrimp, dark
heliotrope aud light, dark green and
light blue.
Although very fashionable, the short
pointed overskirt is making but little
Roadway in popular favor. Modistes
say that many of their best patrons call
it dowdy looking style, aud refuse to
adopt it on either day or evening toilets.
The long overdress. la Grecque, has
better success.
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Farm News and Views.

There is no necessity for keeping ami
mails in very fat condition unless they
are to be sold Immediately. The thrift
lest animals are those that are compelled
to take some exercise, and which are in
moderate condition. Very fat animals
are subject to disease, and also suffer
has long been known that COWS, sows
and mares have failed to brood when too
fat, and the value of males is lessened
when they are over fed and made very
fat.
Brushing the hide of the COW should
be the rule, but the filth that gets on
her side is due 20 not keeping the stalls
clean with fresh bedding and plenty of it
When the bedding is put out in the sun
to dry, in order that it may be used tne
next night, it is economy that does not
add 20 the health of the animals or the
comfort of the stalls.
Grass will grow anywhere that a good
crop of weeds will thrive, and if land is
liable to overrun with weeds, a crop of
Hungarian grass, will crowd out the
weeds and destroy them.
Iowa has passed a law compelling her
farmers to eradicate the Russian thistle
Laws for the destruction of all kinds of
weeds would aid the farmer. The farmer
who allows weeds to grow and mature
seeds is a menace to the community, and
entails expense on all who adjoin him.
Many an innocent farmer has seeded
down good crop of weeds when sowing
clover seed. Buying cheap seed is not
the clover field clear of weeds and SO
clean the seed. No one can put clean
clover seed on the market and sell it
cheap, as the cost of the labor must be
secured. Farmers should examine seed
carefully before using.
Pools OF water in the pasture do not
supply the cows with cool, fresh, clean
water. If no stream runs through the
pasture, put up a wind mill and have
water supplied to troughs with pipes.
The weights of the corn and cobs and
that of the fodder grown at the same
time differ but little. A crop of fifty
bushels of shelled corn with the cobs}
will weigh about $500 pounds, and the
weight of the fodder will be about the
same.
The kerosene emulsion will be found
to be the best friend of the farmer when
insects appear. Do not be afraid to use
it literally. 1t is cheap, and is also
quickly and easily applied.
Worn out land requires at least two or
three years for restoration, and it will
cost something to bring it back to fertil-
ity. When land has been cropped for
years, until it is no longer capable of
producing crop, the plant food cannot
be replaced in a single season.
Strawberry plants will soon begin to
grow, aud sany fertilizers that are to be
applied should not be overlooked, as the
best time to apply the fertilizers is at
the present, specially if potash is one of
the principal ingredients.
Plant the onion sets now, as they will
grow before other crops cin be planted.
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Spring Tours to Florida via Penn
syJvania Railroad.

On March 18th and 9th the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will run tue last two
personally condu cted tours 20 Florida
Special trains in charge of experienced
tourist agent and chaperon will leave New
York 80, Trenton II .0S ii. M. Philadelphia
I2.1O, Wilmington - 80, and Baltimore
sc T. M. These trains will be composed
of Pullman sleeping and dining cars fitted
with modern appointments and convent
ences of the most sumptuOus tyle.
$50 from New York, S4S from Ph:ladel-
phia and Baltimore, and propOrtiouately
low rates from other points on the system
will cover all expenses en- rOute-transport-
alton, Pullman accomoda ion, and meals
On the last tour the ticket covers Pullman
facilities south bound only, the limit, how
ever, being May 31st, thus allowing a
much longer visit.
A stay OF two weeks in the glorious health
inspiring peninsula may be enjoyed on the
first, and that time NAV well be spent in
following out the numberless side trips
available from jacksonville. These tours
are especially delightful during the present
season when the beauties of this magnificent
State are at their bsst, and a vacation spent
there should necessarily result IA grea: ben
eft to those participating
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-03-24

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The breath of a chronic catarrh patient
is often SO offensive that he becomes an
object of disgust. After a time ulcera
ton sets in, the spongy bones are
attacked, aud frequently destroyed. A
constant source of discomfort is the drip
ping OF the purulent secretlons into the
throat. sometimes producing inveterate
bronchitis, which is usually the exciting
cause of pulmonary disease The brilliant
results by its use for years past properly
designate Ely's Cream Balm as by far
the best and only cure. Call upon your
druggist for it,
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GOOD ADVICE.

Every patriotic citizen should give his
personal effort and influence to increase
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teaches the American policy of Protec-
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AS their quality and effectiveness in doing all we claim
for Them refer all of using them in Cecil
county, Hartford county, and the city of Baltimore.
Competing with other leading Fireplace Heaters, we
make point in favor Of in the following list of
prices, backed every by the guarantee of first class
workmanship in putting them in. The price list
of delivery and placing in Cecil county:
Grand Rapid, stories, $40. Equator, s,ie, $780, 90
45 $500
Rapid Tr0nsit,2 $ 80 Etn0, $500
80 5000
THE ARMSTRONG STOVE & MFG. CO.,
jsnl3h PERRYVIILE, MD
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WOULDN'T A SALARY COME HANDY? -
See advertisement of a "Chance to earn
money" on his page if you want IA position.
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QUIET SHOWING BONES.

beforehand. for certain nights through all
the season, his numbered seat, TO see
each new production which the theater
brings out. For this you pay lump sum
down at the beginning of the season. You
chance it whether the pieces shall be good
or bad, or YOU yourself be SICK or othef-
wise engaged upon the special nights so far
ahead In this way. and at "a great re-
duction, you secure a certainty of seeing
well and being treated with consideration.
This system of Advancement is very much
in vogue indeed; perhaps 1t Is in part re-
sponsible for the abuses which attend the
sale of single tickets.
Being once inside the corridors of any
Paris theater, you perceive imme diately
be found to save the lives OF hurrying peo-
pie. The corridors are curved and narrow,
cramped and numbered up with what they
call the 'vestiaire" The curious old wo-
men dressed in black and white, like
nurses, who accept your coats and canes,
and give you tickets for them, roll them
up. tie them with Irvine and pile them down
upon the bare floors of the already too mar
row corridors. The auditorium. il must be
known, is not Immediately open TO the view
on entering the theater, as In America.
You see naught but these corridors on any
floor The jail-like look is heightened by
the little doors which open on these corri-
doris, all numbered. These are the doors
to boxes, which, in every Paris theater ex-
tend continuously all around what, with US,
forms the back rows of the parquet circle.
The old ladies dressed in black and white
have their name of "ouvreuses, or open
ers," from these box doors. Ii three go to
the theater together, it is as cheap TO take
a box any other good seats. Giving an
ouvreuse your cloaks and coats there is
but little room for them inside the box,
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so readily to cafes spectacles and music
halls and the dance gardens. There seems
to be no remedy. The actors and the act
resses are in the habit of receiving calls
and chatting to their hearts content. And
the management desires the public to go
upstairs to the buffet and increase its trade.
A fourth of the full audience scramble,
corridor. climb up the narrow steps TO reach
the buffet and refresh themselves. These
buffets are not bars, but spacious enough
promenades. with cafe chairs and tables in
the center and around the sides. They are
usually situated on the SecO1d fioor-the
floor of the first balcony, where the seats
are as high-priced as in the parquet. In
drink between the acts. Beer, coffee, ice
cream, champagne by the glass, and cakes
and oranges, with line of Sirups served
with water, are most popular. a little room
alongside is marked off for smoking; hut it
is so small that people stand around the
door and puff their cigarette smoke in the
buffet, where the ladies take their ''con-
sommations." No one objects. 1t is not
that the Partisan ladies good-natured:
cigarettes. Tread on the trail of a fine
lady's dress and she will turn and give YOU
a tongue lashing which will make you think
she is actress and declaiming On the
stage.
Thump, Thump, Thump!
You hear the pounding which denotes the
second act is ready to begin. The curtain
waterfall or other specially, for which the
| management has spent a hundred dollars
The cIaque begins its vigorous applause
In Paris theaters you never have n doubt
when you should clap. Paid men-two doz-
en-. iii two solid companies up IN The second
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The Teaching Of Manners.
, tho Ladies' Home Journal.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
Manners are minor morals" and a girl
should be taught. both by precept and ex-
ample that she does not fulfill every duty
unless she exercises the art OF pleasing.
Ruskin says BE sure that people like a
room better with you in it than out of it. :"
Home polteness is a great preserver OF
family peace. Sharp criticism and disa-
greeable home truths" are well nigh I'M
possible where courtesy is habitual.
Courtesy and consideration for servants
are distinguishing marks of a gentlewoman,
and should be inculcated in early girlhood.
Like all transitional phases girlhood is
irregular in its development, and little faults
must be overlooked with the loving charity
that 'hopeth all things"
Scolding is worse than useless. 1t arouses
antagontsm, If only because angry looks
and feelings are so contagious One should
wait until the irritation subsidies before cor.
recting any one. A reprimand given in the
presence of others is apt TO arouse a feel
any impression that might otherwise bs
made. and it is an exceptional person thai
can be trusted to be The bearer of scold
ing. 1t Is apt to gather force en- route
Argument between parents and children !:
unseemly, and il is always best to avoid
letting the point of contest become too i'm
portant.
1t is so much easier to live up 10 a good
reputation than to live down bad on,
fasten fault upon any one. This principle
in ethics is strikingly illustrated in the stor,
of Little Lord Fauntleroy.' where tn,
stern grandfather is positively shamed int
becoming almost the noble gentleman tina
his little grandson believes him.
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must look for on the stages of the theaters.
There only will YOU find ability in acting
or in singing or in dancing.
Despite their dust and gloom. their in
civility and their extortions. the Paris thea
tiers are unapproaehable; and despite their
gayety and liberality and decoration, the
music halls and cafes spectacles continue
putting forth but mediocre stage attrIc-
tons, so dreary and SO commonplace that
only the excuse of cheapness. comfort. the
ability to drink and smoke and chat with
the frail beauties of the promenade ex-
plain their patronage.
The prices of the theaters are a first
stumbling block; and their workings are
complicated by two special features: ~. The
system of reserving seats. and CD. ticket
speculation. For instance, at the Nau1e-
Vile (Which has the most successful piece
today. Madame Sans-Gene of Sardou), the
orchestra chairs and front rows of the bal
cony at ordinary times, cost. unreserved.
Sl-J0 each. You cannot buy a reserved seat
after O'Clock at night. All those who
come, no matter what they are willing TO
give. must buy simple admission tickets to
the special sections of the house they wish
to sit in. and thus chance the finding of a
good seat. To have ticket zen location. -
that is to say. reserved. you must have
bought it in the day time at fifty cents ad-
vance from the box office Gf they are not
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gaiiery-give the signal. They applaud with
SO much effort that ii is annoying to sit
near them. AS the piece runs on its course
the audience often warns up to enthusiasm,
tears and deafening clappng, stamping and
loud cries OF bravo But In order to in
sure the proper stimulus to actors the paid
Tor claque is always in it's place forever
clapplng at the regulation points marked
out for them beforehand
Inc ciaQue is fixed Paris CUSTOM good
or bad. The waits, the dirty floors and the
extortions of the 'ouvreusas"-an these
are Paris customs, too. Perhaps they are
part OF a great system with which il il
dangerous to tamper. In real life' out in
the world, we lind that pain succeeds TO
pleasure and that ugliness is inayt-icably
wound up along with beauty. Thus if the
waits were not so long. the actors could not
pose as grand artistes between the acts and
receive the homage of their distinguished
admirers. and they might not play so well.
Perhaps, when Paris theaters become more
modernized. more comfortable ard more
luxurious: with better scenery. the precious
acting which is now their single Jewel will
disappear. STERLING HELLO.
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Some Wedding Etiquette.
From the Ladies' Home Journal.

From the Ladies' Home Journal
The maid of honor relieves the bride of
her bouquet at the altar. hands ii to the
first bridesmaid when IL is time for her to
assist the bride with her glove, or TO throw
back the veil; later on she takes it again
and presents 1t to the bride just before she
takes her husbands arm and turns from
the altar. The bride who is wise wears a
somewhat loose glove on her left hand, so
that the removal of ii is a very easy mat
ter. A bride always gives her bridesmaids
their gloves, and usually presents them with
some little souvenir OF the wedding. The
bridegroom usually gives each a piece of
jewelry in which his and the brides initials
are combined. He presents the best man
and ushers with their gloves, ties, and, very
often, their scarfpins. Custom has made
it proper for the bridegroom to wear a gar
denia in his buttonhole, the best man an
orchid, and the ushers bouquets either of
white violets, or some other small white
flower.
In entering the church the ushers come
first, then the bridesmaids, walking two by
two, then the maid OF honor alone, and
then the bride on the arm of her nearest
male relative. In coming out, the bride
| and groom are first, the maid of honor
| next with the best man, and usually the
[ bridesmaids, each walking With an usher
| l say usually because sometimes the brides
maids walk out together as they came In,
with the ushers just behind them.
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That Scene 4. In BAD Taste.

and giving her your ticket. she will open"
for you, or conduct you to your seat,
wherever il may be. For this you hand her
a few cents. Then she returns and sells
she returns and puts a wooden stool be-
meath the feet of madame" asks if all is
well-and you give her a few cents more,
in order to insure that she will not return
in a dozen other ways.
Being once inside the auditorium and in
your seat, you see that all the seats are
packed so close together that IL is an in
convenience TO walk past or be walked
past. You see the floor is so extremely
dirty that to put your hat down on il
means ruined hat. You see that all the
men around you have silk hats which they
hold in their laps the moment that the cur
tain rises, and put upon their heads again
Immediately the curtain falls after each
act. With that they rise, turn round, and
sweep the audience with prolonged and in
solent and comprehensive Housings of
their big opera glasses. Two men together
will discuss the good points of lady, all
in grande toilet. in the first row Of the bal
cony. and fairly bore her through with their
prolonged and ostentatious staring. This is
the privilege of the orchestra chairs. which
are usually reserved for men.
The Paris theaters have three smells
which predominant: The fragrance of or
ange peel. both fresh and dried; the smell
of gas; and. with the second act, hundred
shades of mixed and modified and wander
ing SUellS ana from out the
dresses, handkerchiefs and hair of ladies
overheated. Some think this agreeably SEN
suous and vaguely troubling. The smell OF
orange peel pervades all Paris theaters, be-
cause the management must make little
profit by farming out the right to sell these
oranges between the acts. So peddlers in
uniform march through the audience. cry.
ing out their wares. their oranges and can
dy boxes. Paris women want to have theil
orange and their candy at the play. They
throw the skins beneath the seats. Th,
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sold ou1 or from the spectators. who have
large fine offices AID sell at any price they
please.
Thanks to this system, ticket spectators
flourish here in Paris as they flourish no.
where else. Neither the spectators nor the
theaters run any risk. Suppose that 1u0 CT
the best seats are turned over TO these
bureauX de location. numbered seats in the
orchestra. Suppose by pm. they have
sold but a half. The tickets are not lost,
no one Is turned away. The crowd is let
into those very reserved seats, even before
the management knows If they are sold or
not. Whenever you or / turn Up. with our
reserved seats bought from the specula -ors.
tered chair is hustled out and found
another place. Thanks to this system,
every piece which has a moderate success
VIII cost you almost double for a numbered
seat IT, Ike the great majority of float
ing plGySoeTs- YOU are content to pay td-
mission simply and run your chances. you
must be- prepared to stand out on the street
In a long line for fun hour beforehand.
or. You must be wen prepared 10 make a
row and protest vigorously, or ask yoUr
money back in case a seat cannot be found
for you.
There is one special reason why the pub
lie continues TO subUlit. The serious play
g0ers take advantage Of the Paris syst IN
Of subscription tickets. by whose conpLcat-
Cd operation each subscriber has. set Gown