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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
PUTTING A TAX ON CATS.

Austria is one of the few European
countries that manage to pull through with
out deficit, says the London Telegram.
The yearly estimates invariably show an
excess of income over expenditure and the
estimates are always confirmed by the
recorded results The balance, it is true,
is very little, but it is at least on the right
side, and that, in these hard times, is every
thing. The means by which this financial
equilibrium is attained are prosaic enough
the strictest economy in expenditure and
the utmost ingenuity in taxation. Every
thing is taxed except the air. and even that
has to be paid for in places famous for their
salubrity.
Dogs cycles, newspapers, advertisements
and innumerable other articles, pleasures
aud necessties-are included in the money
producing list; nothing, indeed, seemed
excluded until very short time ago, when
provincial iinancier forwarded an exhaus-
tive report to the finance ministry on a
neglected source of revenue-cats.
The horse, the ass, the goat, the hog, the
chicken, the dog, the goose-all contribute
their mites to the support of the state, said
this financial reformer, The cat alone is a
parasite, paying nothing to anyone and
preying upon everyone. Now, why should
Christian state perpetnate this record of
idolatry. There is no Ineligible reason
for it. The cat is one of those miserable
animals that caused some of the early
Christians to Swerve from the true faith
and to believe in principle of evil, as well
as a creator of good, and is thus answerable
in part for the formation of the Manichaen
sect Has cat ever been known to per-
form good action? Certainly not. Its
living and working are easily summed puff
in list of egotistic deeds, many of which
border on crime 1t springs at you trcach-
erously, and scratches your face in the
most wanton way. 1t is born thief and
loves cream and milk, and daintieS of most
kinds. 1t is IA professional destroyer of
nests, hlaSScreS uSelul DlluS, tnuS lnlulinS
the farmer causes fires in houses, and rend-
ers night hideous with its miaws. And
this is the holy, inviolable, tax-free idol of
the modern state! The unfortunate dog,
mans real friend in need, is treated in a
very different fashion. Put into a sort of
straight-waisted coat termed a muzzle it is
chained up in a yard, harnessed to milk
carts, compelled to hunt, to do duty in
war, to rescue the drowning, to dig up the
traveller buried in snow; and in spite Of all,
the dog is heavily taxed! This is not
merely immoral exclaims the Austrian
tinancier it is improvident, The very
least we should do is to compel the owners
of the spiteful cat to pay yearly tax to
the state"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
R!!9H,6YeNS
observation-disclosures:
WOMAN'S DAILY TASK.

1t is not easy to deny that women have
business capacity when we consider how
much of it is needed in order to get up a
decent family dinner When a man says
grace at his own table he feels let us hope,
becoming gratitude to Divine Providence
but he does not always bear in mind that
the immediate channel Of that Providence
has been, in most cases, a woman. The
woman in question might, indeed, be
tempted sometimes to interrupt his prisons
as did stout old Ethan Allen those of the
clergyman who was Offering thanksgiving
for the capture of Tconderoga-If you
please, Mr.. -, don't neglect to mention
that | was there too. To the average man
who is what is called in the county good
provider, it perhaps seems as if all house
keeping consisted in taking sufficient
them into an oven. and presently taking
out-a dinner. The fact that soup requires
a certain amount of cooking, and beef a
particular time, and peas a given interval,
and pudding proper period, and that all
these vands have to he so planned that
they shall all be precisely ready, piping hot
and done to turn at the precise moment;
nay, that during this process each separate
item must be duly mixed or stirred or
favored, or transferred from dish to dish,
no two being treated just alike-all this
do AZ "a, ~ =. al
when some sudden change puts the whole
matter into the hands Of some unframed
Bridget or Mary Ann, perhaps reared in
factory, and not knowing fricassee. that
a wOman's work in the house begins to
look like business training, as it is 1t
then may occur to him for the first time
that his wife, who could never yet make
her weekly accounts balaucc, can at least
do the equally difficult task of putting
together the items of IL dinner, and making
them come out even Such demands create
a host of practically business habits within
their recognized domain Take, for in
stance a mother seeing her five children off
to school in different directions ON winter
morning, each properly halted and mutlled
and shOd and luncheoned, with due aud
separate regard to Mary's cold and Ellcn's
weak eyes, and Johnnys tendency to an
excess of pie, and all the various pelils that
impend in different, directions. See her in
the midst of that battery of questions:
"NIother, where is my right mitten?'
"Mother | can't find my India-rubbers. y
"Mother you were to write to Miss Jones
about that geography lesson Mother
have pulled this button Off Mother
how far did you say it was from the earth
to the moon?" And all this while. at the
same time, papa is in hurry for his final
cup of coffee; and papa forgot to speak to
the plumber yesterday, and therefore the
bell does not ring in the kitchen to-day
Papa may be very good business man,
but will he seriously declare that any com
plication is likely to occur in his Office that
will exceed the complication Of this little
drama which his patient spouse has to
re'ealse every morning Of her life IT. W.
H., in llarper's Bazaar.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12

lamp, made into kind of pomatum and
preserved in small glass or porcelain
jar, 1t should be applied to the nail by a
tiny wad of medicated cotton and allowed
to remain for half an hour. The thin
membrane at the root of the nail should
then be carefully pushed back with the
rounded end of an ivory nail file, and the
little "idle skins that often grow at the
root of the nail cut away with pair Of
very sharp scissors. When this is done the
nail should be polished with the so-called
diamond POWDER" small quantity of
which is put on chamois skin nail pol
isher The hands are then washed in hot
oatmeal water, well dried on very fine
towel, and finally the nails are polished
once more with soft chamois.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
THE ONE WEAK EYE.
A Very Simple Experiment by Which 1t
NAV Be Discovered.

eyes" said the Doctor in moment of
unprofessional confidence ''the makers of
optical instruments are turning out some
wonderful appliances nowadays for discov-
ering imperfections of vision, but I'll tell
you plan for testing the respective
strength of your eyes that is as simple rs it
is trustworthy. All you need is a stereo-
scope and photograph. That arrangement
in which the picture holder slides up and
down flat frame, trombone fashion, is the
best sort of stereoscope for the purpose,
although any will do, and the photograph
that will give the best results is a cabinet
size view of some locality with people in it.
The modus operandi is simplicity itself.
'Put the photograph in the holder and
focus it just enough so that you can see the
faces clearly. Then close the left eye and
look at the picture intently with your right
eye while YOU count thirty seconds. Now
close the right eye and look at the picture
for the same space of time. Then open both
eyes and look at the picture without chang
ing the focus. Something queer will
happen. The figures on the one side of the
picture will seem to move across the view
and group themselves with those on the
other and-this is the point of the expert
ment-the figures will always move away
from the weak eye. Moreover, they move
with very precise relation of speed to the
weakness of vision. If the left eye, for
example, is quite weak, the figures will
move very quickly across the plane of sight
to the right side, while if there is but Il
slight defect the movement will be gradual,
and so on.
"a queer thing about this experiment is
that, simple as it seems, it will bring out
defects of vision that have never been sus-
pected, and another queer thing is that it
will demonstrate the cases in which both
eyes are of equal power to be surprisingly
exceptional. l have tried it in score of
mixed gatherings, and never yet without
having the experimenter observe some
movement of the figures. There was one
old lady, remember, up at Port Jefferson
last summer, who persisted in saying she
saw precisely with both eyes as she did
with one eye, and well she might, for
when | examined her eyes more closely
found she was stone blind on the left side
and didn't know it,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
THE LIMEKILN CLUB.

When the routine business of the regular
Saturday night meeting of the Limekilr
club had been concluded, Brother Gardner
arose and said
'De anyual campaign of his club may
now be considered as opened an on Monday
mawnin Waydown Behee, assisted by dat
beloved patriot, Trustee Pullback, will
remove de crop of spring an summer mot
toes from dis hall an substitute de regular
winter assortment.
From paper in his hand he then read
the following list of notices, maxims,
watchwords and legends, which were ready
for lacking on the walls:
eff we had mo- of de watermillyon, we
should think less of him."
ode man who takes excelsior for his
watchword should pay cash fur cod fish,"
Providence helps a pusson along accash-
unally, but she mostly expects eberybody
to paddle his own canoe"
IA man may be either a crank or a
very wise man. OATS cordin to whether
he thinks as we do or not"
Honesty used to be the policy, but a
lawyer will not git you out of it fur half de
stealin's"
"Hope, on, hope cher; also git down off
de fence an go to work"
"Ambishun am all right-when yo don't
hev to walk frew de alley to dodge de
butcher"
ode time to be deaf, dumb an blind is
when de husband and wife next doah am
hevin row."
"Now an den we may cum across a BON
idiot who gifts drunk, but it was an intelli-
gent man who showed him how to 90 about
it."
Integrity will sometimes pass fur cash,
but don't spin it out too long"
'When man bores yo' don't wish him
dead. Lend him -, and yoll nebber see
him no mo-"
1t was further announced that no menu
Der would be allowed to bring his dog into
the hall at any regular meeting up to May
l, 1895. While the eating of peanuts, pop
corn, apples and other stuff during the
progress of IA meeting was not positively
forbidden. Brother Gardner observed that
no member who had the real interests of
the country at heart would do such thing.
He then said:
81 see by de papers dat de chief cause of
de present hard times am lack of confidence
on de part OF the public. SO fur as hev
bin able to ascertain, Brudder Watkins am
de only member of dis club who has bin
guilty of dat oifense. He had six bits in a
savings bank, an he jest galloped around
an tore off buttons till he got it out an
busted de bank He am hereby fined
50, 600 an suspended from de club fur one
var. and | want to say to de rest of yo'
dat if | h'ar Of any mo- lack of confidence
in the stability of dis great and glorious
kentry | will foller on de william ontil he
am abcrtook an expelled from dis club as
unworthy to be called an American"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
Important Facts.

If you have dull and heavy pain across
forehead and about the eyes; if the nostrils
are frequently stopped up and followed by
disagreeablc discharge; if soreness in the
nose and bleeding from the nostrils is
often experienced; if you are very sensitive
to cold in the head accompanied with head
ache; then you may be sure you have cat
arrh; and should Immediately resort to
Eyl's Cream Balm for cure The rem
will give instant relief
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
Ss,s!sa"~' >N@A
T*&S$ Gcsss

Eczema shows itself in other
ways, but when little blisters, or
scaly, watery patches appear, this
ointment should be used at once.
1t cures quickly and permanently.
1t cures other skin diseases, too
letter, ring worm, itch, salt rheum,
dandruff, pimples, blotches and
scald head. Numerous cases of
itching piles, which are caused by
an Inflammation of the mucous lin
ing of the rectum, have been per-
manently cured by this potent and
soothing emollient.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-12
Eczema ISM.
A Nice Disease.

1t is painful, irritating,
Observation-Disclosures alike to the
sufferer and his friends. The little
watery, blistery eruptions itch and
Jingle. Scratching doesn't help.
You may scratch to the bone and
only make it worse, but it can be
cured by using
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

On last Sunday, June 10Th, at $50, A.
M, Prot s. V. Sanford was united in
marriage to Miss Grace McClatchey, Rev.
A. Z. Thomas officiating. The ceremony
was quiet one, only few friends being
present. Miss McClatchey is daughter
OF MIR. ID. F. McClatchey, one of the most
successful of our merchants. She vas
graduated from our schools and for the
past three years has been one of the most
popular teachers in the city schools. She
is active i'll church work also, and yet
with all her duties she found time for
social pleasures. In all truth we can say
that Miss McGlatchey is lady OF superior
mind, Of high culture and deep sympathy
"a rare jewel.
Pfof. Sanford is principal Of the city
schools, and for five years as teacher in
our community he has sustained himself
with credit, showing himself a teacher OF
high attachments and efficiency. He is a
graduate of Mercer College and is well
equipped for his profession. He is Cap
tain OF the Marietta Rifles and deservedIy
popular Smong his company. No young
man in Marietta has more friends than
Captain Sanford, socially or otherwise
He is most excellent and genial gentle,
man.
He is the son OF Mr.. S. V. Sanford, o.
Macon, and grandson OF Prof Shelton r
Sanford, author of Sanford's Arithmetic
and for many years professor of mathe'
mates in Mercer University
We join our hearty congratulations with
others, and trust their blended lives ma,
be one of uninterrupted happiness an,
prosperity.
The happy couple left this week 10
Macon to visit the parents of the groom
From there they will visit CHAMBERLAIN
Island and attend the Teachers Associa
ton, returning 20 the city in few week,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20
LAWN FETE.

On Thursday night Of next week, the
9th inst, the Marietta Rifles will give an
ice cream festival and lawn fete. The
Company is DESTROYS OF spending few
days at St. Simons. with the other CONS
panies of the Fifth Regiment, in July and
ask our people to assist them in raising
money to defray expenses of the trip.
The young men are arranging to give
one of the most enjoyable entertainments
of the saason, and cordially invite every
one to come and spend an evening Of
real pleasure The committee kindly asks
the following ladies to assist IN making
the occasion success Supper-Mrs
Malcolm, Mrs. Newell, Mrs. Crosby, Mrs
Cottingham. Mrs. T. W. Glover, Misses
Mcintosh, Bostons Freyer, Bond. Ices
and cakes-Misses Cottingham. Whitlock,
Armstrong, A. Bond. Fruit-iMsses Ida
Hunt, Jennie Glover, G.. Leake, Elma
Reynolds, Julia McCulloch. Lemonade
Misses Jessie Reynolds, Emma Warren,
Hattie Dunwody, Maybelle Glover,
Amusements-Mrs. King Copper, Misses
Buttolph, Camp, A. Seize, Winters, H.
Camp, Seize. The first named of the
above committees are requested to act as
chairman, and to call meeting and re-
port to the company committee not later
than Monday. The amusement features
will be especially fine-the 'circus" will
be outdone The Rifles will give an exhi>
bition drill and will probably go through
the ceremony of Guard Mount. The
Rifles offer beautiful souvenir spoon to
the person sending in the best cake. Cakes
must be in by 4 o'clock Thursday AFTER
noon. Refreshments will be served from
to II p. M. Remember the day, Thurs,
day June 9th, and come out and help the
company. EDWARD HUNT,
WILDER GLOVER,
JACK MASSEY
Committee
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20

lost cause" until at last you reach amid
the thickly tangled shrubbery an iron
fence enclosing small yard and in it's
centre at the foot of a neat white shaft is
that mound, almost hidden from view by
the tall groves and leafy bowers As you
approach this quiet spot reverently you
remove your hat and a sweet, peaceful
calm seems to. reign, mingled with the
odors from the wild flowers that grow III
great profusion all around, the soft sunlight
casts golden halo around this sacred
spot, and you again give thought free
scope for wondering back through past
life. An hour spent in sweet communion
and time is up. You retrsce your foot.
steps back into the busy world to speak
and think Of other things. K.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20
A COOK BOOK FREE.

Table and Kitchen" is the title Of a
new cook book published by the Price
Baking Powder Company, Chicago. Just
at this time it will be sept free if you write
a postal, mentioning the Marietta Ga. }
Journal. This book has been tried by our.
selves and is one Of the very best OF its
kind. Besides containing over 400 res
ceipts for all kinds OF pastry and home
and home cookery, there are many hints
for the table and kitchen, showing how to
set table, how to enter the dining room,
etc. hundred and one hints in every
branch OF the culinary art Cookery OF the
very finest and richest as we'll as for the
most economical and homeike is provided
for. Remember Table and Kitchen will
De sent, postage prepaid, to any lady send.
ing her address name, town and State)
plainly given. A copy in German or Scan.
dinavian will be sent if desired Postal
card is as good as letter. Address Price
Baking Powder Co, Chicago Ill.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20
HOM,S This.

We offer one hundred dolers reward fol-
any case Of catarrb that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. Cheney & Co, Props, Toledo, 0
We the undersigned have known +. j
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all bushes,
transactions and financially able to carr,
out any obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo, 0. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu'
co.'s surfaces OF the system. Price 75C
per bottle. Sold by all druggists Testi'
moniGls free.
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Forty NsaEs thS StanaaSc.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-06-20

Butcher.-Will you have round
steak, miss g.?
Young Housekeeper.-Oh, | don't
care what shape it is, 80 its tender.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-02-07
NUGGETS OF NEWS

The National Farmers Alliance is in
session at Raleigh, N. G.
b. p. Willis was yesterday named by the
president us postmaster at Mount Holly,
n. j.
For the first time In seventy five years
Lake Champlain is frozen over its entire
length
Rev. J. f. Reid, Baptist minister, was
arrested while robbing q bSnk at East
Portland, Ore.
A bill in the New Jersey legislature, II
1t passes, will compel bakers to bake bread
in not less than one pound loavcs
Three masked men who robbed the drug
store of ]. E Irwin, at Logausport, Ind,
were captured after running fight with
citizens.
Captain Reid. of the ship Il. f. Cakes,
charged at San Francisco with cruelty to
his crew. was acquitted, tho charges being
disproyed
DR. J. E. Raeder, the notorious Kentucky
mountain desperate, recently pardoned
from prison, was killed in the home of
Widow Catherine MeQuinn, near Jackson,
by. The woman admits the shooting.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-02-07
NINE SAILORS RESCUED.
Taken from Sinking Dutch Brig by II,
roic Life Savers.

Taken from n Sinking Dutch Brig by He
role Life Savers.
EAsTPoRT, l.. l., Feb. THE Dutch
brig Gem, Captain Dinzey, came ashore
on Great South shoal, opposite this place.
During Tuesday night one of her anchors
was lost. At daylight she was seen strain
ing and tugglng at the remaining anchor.
The life savers made several desperate at
tempts to reach her but did not succeed
until about 10 o'clock.
The briggs ropes and blocks were coated
with ice, and there was thickness of sew.
eral inches on the deck. To hoist or lower
o sail was impossible. All the crew had
frozen hands, feet and faces. The life
savers could not take off the sailors then
without mourning great danger, but by 8
o'clock the nine suffering men were
safely housed in the station. In the after
noon the chain of the remaining anchor
parted, and carried by the gallo the brig
worked In shore and finally grounded
About dark the rising lido floated the
brig. She was carried to the southeast
and when lost to sight was drifting In that
direction rapidly. She was slowly sinking,
and will undoubtedly founder.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-02-07

SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. An day here the
mercury lowered about zero, and at Q
o'clock last night it was dogs. below. Tho
mines have been shut down. Charles
Staples left hotel Mt this place at 8 p m
to go to his home, a mile distant Three
hours later he was found lying helpless in
the road, half mile from the hotel. His
legs were SO badly frozen that amputation
may be necessary. Had not help reached
him when 1t did he would have undoubt-
edlY nerishcd
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-02-07
: IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Senators Discussing the Proposed Cable
Ccnneotien with Hawaii.

Senators Discussing the Proposed Gable
Ccnneotien with Hawaii.
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE Hawaiian
question iu general, and the Hawaiian
cable in particular, were the main themes
before the senate yesterday. The diplo-
matlo consular approp ration bill was
taken up and would have been quickly
disposed Of except for the item Of $500, 900
for Immediately beginning cable construc-
tion between the United States and Ha-
wall. Mr.. Mills, of Texas, made point
OF order against the cable proposition
which is likely to rule 1t out, but the de-
cision was withheld until senators could
further debate Hawaii.
Mr.. Hale (Me) presented estimates
showing the prospective ooJt Of the cable
to BIO about sa,5oO,o0o. Mr.. Platt Comm
upheld the cable project, and read early
presidential messages Of Mr.. Cleveland
urging congress to provide for the cable.
Mr.. Plat also maintained that Great
Britain would build this cable II the
United States did not, thus linking Eng
land and Hawaii by commercial ties. Mr..
Teller (Colo.) renewed his criticisms of
Secretary Herbert's course toward Hawaii.
Mr.. Gray del defended the course of Sec
rotary Herbert and of the administration,
and caustically characterized tho over
throw of Queen Lii as mean, paltry
conspiracy" He declared IL was about rs
commendable as husband beating wife.
The Hawaiian debate was resumed today.
The bill for a new postoffice at Chicago
was passed without opposition.
The debate in the house on the admins
tration bill authorizing the issue Of $780,.
100000 Of gold bonds for the retirement of
the legal tenders and treasury notes was
not productive of marked incident of any
kind. A good deal of confusion existed
after o'clock, when the committee began
voting on amendments to this bill. Most
of the amendments were defeated as rap.
Idly as offered The committee on bank
ing and currency sustained two defeats,
two of the amendments proposed by that
committee being voted down. They wero
the amendment proposing to strike out
the section providing for the payment of
custom duties in gold, which was allowed
to stand amended so as TO make them pay
able in gold and silver, and that compell-
ing national banks to carry their reserve
in gold and silver coin. Mr.. BANDS sub
stitute was ruled out on point OF order