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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-02-22
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leads to error The overcrowding of city
life indicates this.
While a real farmer is better for a scirn
tiiic knowledge OF ways and means. the
ordinary school, with its tilted curriculum.
ignoring too largely the use of the hands
and thinking only of brain stuffed with
stereotyped facts, will not make good
farmer. Farming is a very practical sort
OF business, and the science or general in
formation which aids the tiller OF the soil
must he o: proper hard-isted applica-
ton. Successful farming is best attested
by good healthy balance on the credit
side OF the farmers ledger for long series
OF years; the industrious, observing, read
ing, practical thinking man is most ant to
make the good farmer and be satisfied with
his vocation His tastes have not been
diversified by IL half culture, but he finds a
falr degres OF satisfaction in his environ
mrht an he is not tortured with CRAVINGS
which are incompatible with his situation
in life. lie finds his intellectual peers on
the neighboihood farms and is not afraid Of
long hours and hard work. Not being
lncumb red with desire for fashionable
things, which can find no adequate salts
faction on the farm, he turns his whole
soul into the business, and wins. This is
why the Mennonite and Amish farmers of
this county are so successful.
proper education would make good
workman at any calling and induce him to
follow some handicralt. But the general
trend OF education outside of a few manual
training schools does not inspire this
lherc are three elements in all education
worthy the name-ii It and foremost how
to bring up a family, and third, to acuui,e
any OF the refining accomplishments As
we too often begin with the latter the plor
hoy is spoiled; good carpenters and all
kinds OF mechanics are forced into some
side track to struggle ir good clothes soft
hands and tashy neckties on week DAYS
A proper education or the the old-fashiunrd
school, as the writer we lave quoted init
mates. woul" not spoil so many lads and
ruin so many girls. The point is worth
considering Lancaster I Pa. Examiner.
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pearance. 1t was presented to him by his
wife on their wedding day. In his wife's
family it has been talisman for three
generations, having been first worn by her
great grandfather and then in successor
by her grandfather and father. The stone
with which it was set was taken from the
foot of a camel while party of travellers
were crossing the Desert of Sahara. The
stone, though quite small, is exqusitely
cut with multiplicity of devices. Among
those is a chariot drawn by six horses,
full moon and chanticleer apparently in
the act Of growing. A few years since this
ring was loaned to a person, supposed to
be imbued with second sight, for intepreta
ton. This WAS given to the effect that it
had originally been the property Of one Of
the favorite wives of the early Pharoahs. 1t
had been buried with her in one of the cat
combs, from which it had been eXhumed
by latter Pharoah who had subsequently
lost it in crossing the desert; then in some
unexplained way, after the la sc of cen
turtles, had become imbeddcd in lie foot of
a camel treading those same shifting sands.
This ring the owner never allows TO leave
his finger day or night.
The visitor among the fashionable homes
of Washington will find few peacock
feathers as adornments. Formerly this
could not have been stated, but the old
superstition in regard to the unluckiness of
having peacocks' feathers anywhere about
house has in some mysterious way been
steadily gaining credence among Washing
tons fashionables until now the eXtermi-
nation of them has grown into an actual
hobby with society.
Another pet superstition in Washington
society. that is on the dead quiet shared
very largely 10y the younger set, is that in
regard to dream books. Incredible az it
must sound, this is nevertheless absolutely
true. Net only do the society girls possess
themselves of dream books. but there are
certain among them who stand forth among
their friends as vcrtable ,Josephs in regard
to the Interpretation Of dreams. To these
favorite ones the girls 90 and hold delight
tul little talks, relating their dreams of the
night before. and as the interpreter is ac-
quainted with all their little secrets, she
ordinarily accomplishts the work of tie
pretty young applicants.
Another phase OF this dream interpreta-
ton and soothsaying is for the girls to
maxi up parties whenever any largely adj
Nertised astrologer comes to town and make
a visit to the same with strict injunctons
that no one of their relatives is ever to be
come acquainted with the fact When a
gypsy camp locates within gunshot of
Washington the dollars and cents that are
reaped Ivy those pomads come for the most
part, not from the ignorant people, but
from the utrafashionable matt ons and
r"aids. Washington is great city for
supusttions in particular.
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EDUCATION And THE FARM.

Mary Sidney. in an article in the Farm
Journal, entitled ''Leaving the Farm"
among other things says: "a prominent
educator once caid: 1T takes more to keep
an educated person than one without much
learning. High culture demands refine
ment and elegance. Many farmers have
to their sorrow educated their boys and
girls away from the farm to do worse else.
where. In those days when the public
schools were not such liberal dispensers of
learning, and men worked themselves up
to high attainments by the sweat of their
own brows instead of their parents, there
WAS not much cause to complain about boys
leaving the farms. We parents are fools,
no doubt. We train our children in ease
and elegance and expect them not to care
for it, but come home and be content with
the isolation, the early rising and laborous
services that farm life demands In earlier
days boarding school were not the expen-
sve affairs they are now. Things were not
made so easy and comfortable for the pupils
and so expensive for the parents. They
were plain boarding schools, more like the
home life OF the sons Of the soil, and the
consequences were not so disastrous. The
experiment has been tried time and again
to give college educations to farmers sons,
but as the college goes i'll the farm backs
out, and only few o. the many stick to
the business, and they probably cannot
make both ends meet. This is not pleas
ant thought, but | believe those who have
been close observers of cause and effect in
this will testify to its truth
Without doubt much of our education
a tendency to give the young false ideas of
life, which leads them to care more for the
artificial, or what wealthy and fashionable
society consider respectable than the real
or what is in accordance with their abili-
ties. 1t will not do to say all boys should
stay on the farm. They could not if they
would. Many have the talent to make
names and fortunes in other callings. These
require wider field for exertion and
ability than meadow or pasture lot
What we wish to point out is that ordinary
education in great and fashionable schools
even if no graduation takes place, has
tendency to cause the majority Of lads think
they can do better in cities and professions
than on the land or in handicrafts. 1t is
this which makes so many failures and bring
so much distress. While it is right to be
ambitious and aspiring, the first thing boy
should ascertain isthe strength Of his mental
wings, and how high they will carry him.
Conceit is not a bad thing, better often
than excessive modesty, but it very often
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1906.
1900.

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Are You Ever ANNOYED

10y a buzziDg or roaring sound in your
head? Have you difficulty in hearing
distinctly? Are you troubled with con-
tinual dropping of mucus, irritating the
throat and causing you to cough? Is
your breath unpleasantly affected and
accompanied with bad taste? Is your
hearing less acute? If so, you have
cntarrh and should at once procure bottle
of Ely's Cream Balm, the best known
remedy. The Balm will give instant
relief.
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Finds us fairly busy.
Every day orders are
taken for IS trousers.
They will hold their
own side by side with
any 81 pair you Gel
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
AUCTION SALES.
By O'Neal, Lunt & Strauss. Auctioneers.
TRUSTEE'S SALR.

By virtue of a deed of trust dated Septem.
Der 12.h, 1898. from B. E L. Tremaine and
wife TO the undersigned and rccorde' in Ii
Der No. 30, folio 444. one of the Land Rec
ords of the city alexandria. Virginia, at the
request Of the creditor thereby secured, will
offer for sale at public auction on
SATURDAY,
September 26th, 1896, about noon,
in front of the Market Building on Royal
street, Alexandria, Virginia, A LOT OF
GROUND on the west side Of Washington
street, between Pendleton and Wythe Streets
Alexandria, Virginia, beginning so feet north
of Pendlcton street on Washington street,
and running thence west aud parallel to Pen
dle,on street % feet ) inches; thence north
parallel to Washington street 20 feet; thence
east parallel to Pcndleton street % feet 5
inches; thence south on Washington street 20
feet to the point of beginning, with all ap
purtenanccs thcreunto belonging. 1t being
the property conveyed by the said decd
Terms of Sale One-third of the purchase
money in cash and the residue in two eqnal
payments at twelve and eighteen months
from day of sale. with interest thereon, ev
denced by the notes OF the purchaser, and Sc
cured by decd Of trust on said property.
JOHN NJ. JOHNSON,
aug1S S IS Trustee
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1DRIA, VA, WEDNESDAY EVENING" AUGUST 20 1896
SAVED FROM A CEsspooL.-Acting

SAVED FROM A CEssPooL.-Acting G
Sergeant James Slime, of Philadelphia,
shortly after ten o'clock yesterday
morning rescued a mother and child
who had fallen into an old cesspool in
the yard of their dwelling. A minute
or two before the accident small girl
who lives next door had noticed the
pair, and, frightened at their sudden
disappearance, ran out into the street,
where she found Policeman Slime, to
whom she communicated her fears.
Slime hurried into the Moore yard, and
as he did so, could plainly hear the wo.
mans mnflled cries for help. When he
reached the we'll he looked down and
the first thing that greeted him was the
upturned and appealing face of Mrs.
Moore. The well was full OF poisonous
gas, and Stine could see that it was with
difficulty that Mrs. Moore could breathe.
But the heroic woman thought more of
her child than she did of herself, for she
held the little one aloft in her arms.
This put the baby within reach of the
bluecoat, and bending down he seized
the baby's arms and safely drew it to the
surface. But the rescue of the mother
was much more difficult matter, and
was only accomplished when Police
man Slime had secured rope, made it
into moose, got Mrs. Moore to put i.
under her arms and by this means he
raised her up. The rescue was none
too soon, for Slime had no sooner
brought her to place of safety than
she tainted. The baby, too, had sue
cumbed to the effects of the deadly
fumes, and lay by its mothers side as
though dead, A nearby physician was
summoned, and, by the hardest kind of
work, succeeded in restoring both to
consciousness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
FOUR RATTLERs IN HER ROOM.
One night last week during the ab.

FOUR RA1 1ILERS in HEN ROOhl.
One night last week during the ab-
sence OF her husband, Mrs. n. B. Hart
man, who lives near Cascade Spring,
iust north of Salem, Roanoke county,
mad an experience with rattlesnakes
that merits for her the title of brave
woman. The night was warm, and she
had retired, leaving the door ajar. Be
side her bed slept young child in its
crib. The child was restless, and about
midnight turned over and started the
crib in motion, which awoke Mrs. Hart
man, and as she awoke she heard a
rattling noise that she could not mis-
take. 1t was the warning sound of the
dreaded rattlesnake. She leaped from
her bed and quickly turned up her
lamp, when she was horritied to see all
coied up together on the floor, and near
the chid's crib, four immense rattle
snakes. Frightened, but determined,
she ran to the door, just outside of
which was hoe, with which she had
only the evening before killed
large moccasin. Grabbing the hoe,
she quickly dispatched all four
of the snakes by chopping their heads
of. 1t was a bloody battle, but the
work was soon done, and we'll done.
When it was over it was found that the
four snakes bad fifty rattles, indicating
combined age of fifty years. The
next morning Mrs. Hartman skinned
the reptiles herself, and the skins and
rattles are now at the Times Register
office, where they can be seen by any
one who cares to view them. They
will be tanned and made into belts,
neckties, ETC., and sent to New York to
Mrs. Hartmans sister, through whom
they are readily sold for as much as s.
piece Mr.. Hartman is well known
locally as a snake charmer, and handles
the reptiles fearlessly. He says had he
been at home he would have captured
the rattlers alive, tied them to the chair
posts until next morning and tanned
them for exhibition. He also says that
one Of the snakes was female and the
others males. and that the males mad
evidently followed the ''fair rattler"
into the room-Salem Times Register.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whisky nor other intoxi'
cant, but acts as a tonic and Alternative.
1t acts mildly on the stomach and bow
els, adding strength and giving tone to
the organs, thereby aiding nature in the
performance Of the functions. Electric
Bitters is an excellent appetizer and
aids digestion. Old People find it just
exactly what they need. Price fifty
cents and 81 90 per bottle at f. L. AL
lens Drug Store.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26

Last summer one of our grandchild-
en- was sick with severe bowel trouble.
Our doctors remedies had failed, then
we tried Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
aud diarrhoea Remedy, which gave
very speedy relief We regard it as
the best medicine ever put on the
market for bowel complaints.-Miss T..
G.. Gregory, Frederickstown, Mo. This
certainly is the best medicine ever put
on the market for dysentery, summer
complaint, collie and cholera infantum
in children. 1t never fails to give
prompt relief when used in reasonable
time and the plain printed directions
are followed. Many mothers have ex-
pressed their sincere gratitude for the
cure it has effected. For sale by H..
Stabler & Co., Druggists.
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EnrOyerEiftY Years

An OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY.-Mrs
Wipslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for
over fifty years y millions of mothers for
their children while teething, with perfect
snccess II soothes the child. softens the gums,
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taste. Sold by Druggists in every part of the
world, Twenty-Five cents bottle. It's value
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For sale by druggists at % cents per box.
Try Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, they
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Twixt de Ass and de Whale.

Dedicated to Brudder Grover.
Dar's trub'bl wild de stable boss,
De ass is on dixie,
A'ridin all de com'on folk,
Along de silver pike;
While Whitney, Flower au' Comp'ny,
Ar trailin' on bike.
Dar's trub'bl wid dc stable boss,
Is wond'rin "be he hurf,"
For when dc ass "Chicago" brays,
He swells his belly CERT;
An fo' you kno it, dar be some
A noundrin in dc dirt.
Dars trub'bl wild dc stable boss,
But may be jus tale;
As jus nudder iona boy,
Gittin up wall;
AS got to go to Ninever,
But waitn for de whale.
J. STANLEY NEALE
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26

Not one complaint has ever been made by
those using Ayers Sarsaparlla according to
directions. Furthermore, we have yet to
learn of case in which it has failed to af-
ford benefit. So say hundreds of druggists
all over the country. Has cured others, will
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
TOR SALE

EOR SALE.
In view of final settlement of the estate
OF the late John Laphen the following named
PROPERTY is offered at extremely low
figures for cash:
Lot No. lone of the best BUSINESS
STANDS in the city, situated at 124 north
Royal street, exactly opposite the market, "a
x1O0 feet to public alley.
If not sold within 30 days this store will
be for rent.
Lot No. 2-Southwest corner Columbus and
Madison streets, improved by TWO FIR AME
HOUSES, 24x1OO feet; very eligible locality.
Lot No. 3-East side of Alfred. between
Wythc and Madison streets, 66x113 feet to
a 20 feet court Apply to
NJ. B. HARLOW & CO.,
Or owners, PA s. Royal street.
jy25 1ms
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-26
sATURD Y. September 26th, 1896,

at about noon, in front of the Market Build
ing on Royal street, a LOI' OF GROUNL
OH the west side Of Washington street, be
tween Pendleton and Wythe strec,s, i'll lex
aniria, Virginia. beginning on the wes
side of Washington street 100 feet
north of Peudetou street rJnniug thence
west parallel to Pendleton street 40 feet % an
alley 13 feet . inches wide; thence south on
said alley p feet thence east parallel to
Pendleton street 1lO feet to Washington
street; thence on Washington street north 20
feet to the beginning, with all appurtenances
thereto belonging.
Terms OF Sale :--One-thrd in cash, and the
residue in two equal payments at twelve and
eighteen months from day Of sale. and bear
ing interest evidence by the notes of the
purchaser, aud secured by deed of trust on
the property.
JOHN NJ. LEICHT,
aug1-ts Trustee.
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BY j. I. CALLAHAN, d. q.
A W. Armstrong, q. aug19 w4w

NIRGINIA: In the Clerks Office Of the
' Corporation Court of the city Of Alexan-
dria on the 31st day of July, 1896.
William W. McNair vs. Mary Baker Samuel
Baker, her husband, David Wills and Eloise
Wills, his wife, William McNair B.kcr, 5.
Preston Baker Mary McN. Baker, Virginia
Gardiner and Charles Gardiner her hus.
band, Henry McNair, Minnie Bateman, An.
drew McNair, Amelia s. Gregory, Frank
Gregory, her husband, Edward n. McNalr,
Annie McNair, Augustus Van Derveer,
trustee, Esther R. Morrison, Fannie A.
Clark, Lewis Resche and Mary E. Rcsche,
his wife. Charles Il. lark, Kate Clark. his
wife, George L. Klipstcin, Harry g. Harry
man, Mary T. Harryman, his wife, Rebecca
+. Klipstein and William d. Marbury, ex
ecutor. In chanccry.
Memo. The object of this suit is to obtain a
partition if it can be conveniently made OF
the property iii and near the city Of Alexan-
dria lying on the north side of King street,
commonly called and known as Peyton's
Grove, between the dcvisees uf James L. Nc
Nair. deceased, and the dcvisccs of Charles VI.
Taylor, de- cascd, or a sale of the said proper.
ty and distribution of the proceeds if it be
found that partition can not be conveniently
made.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendants, Samuel Baker,
David Wills, Eoisc Wills his wife, William
McNair Baker, S. Preston Baker, Mary Men.
B ker, Oh rles Gardiner. Virginia Gardiner,
Mirnie Bateman, Henry McNair, A drew
McNair, Frank Gregory, Amelia : Gregory,
Edward n. McNair Annie McNair, Augustus
Van Derveer, Esth T. Morrison, Charles f.
Clark, Kate Clark. Harry G.. Harryman
and Mary T. Harryman, are non resi-
dents of this State, 1t is ordered that
the said defendants appear here within
fifteen days after the due publication OF
this order, and do what is necessary
to protect their Interests in this suit, and
that copy Of this order be forthwith in
serted in the Alexandria Gazette a newspaper
published in the city of Alexandria, Va. once a
week for four successive weeks and posted a,
the 'front.' door of the Court House of this
city. A copy-Teste:
JOHN BEACH, Clerk,
George A. Mushbach,
John NJ. johnson, NJ
aug1 w4w