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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21
Consumption
Can BE Cured
2. A. SIoceM, NJ. {, THE GREAT CHEMIST AND
SCIENTIST, WILL SEND FREE, To THE Az
FLICrEp, THREE BorrLEs OF HIS NEW
LY DISCOVERED REMEDIES TO CURE
CONSUMPTION AND ALL LUNG
TRorrRIpg

Nothing could be fairer more philan-
thfopic or carry more joy to the afflicted,
than the offer Of T. A Slocum, NJ. c., Of
New York City.
Confident that he has discovered a reliable
cure for consumption and all bronchial
throat and lung diseases, general decline and
weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions of
wasting, and to make its great merits known,
he will send, free, three bottles TO any reader
Of the INDEPENDENT who may be suffering.
Already this new scientific course Of
medicine has permanently cured thousands
Of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religious duty
"a duty which he owes to humanitT--to
donate his infaiible cure.
He has proved the dreaded consumption to
be durable desease beyond any doubt, and
has on file in his American and European
Laboratories testimonials Of experience from
those benefited and cured, in all parts of the
world
Don't delay until it is too late. Consump
ton, uninterrupted, means speedy and Ger
tain death. Adress 7 A Sloeum, n. c., %
Pine street, New York, and when writing the
doctor, give express and p)stoffice address,
aud please mention reading this article in
the INDEPENDENT.
ian Sly
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1t Takes Money To Run a News
paper


What an evaporation; what a whop-
per 1t has been disproved thousand
times; it is.a clear case of airy fancy.
Il doesu't take money to run a news
paper. 1t can run without money. 1t
is not business venture. 1t is a charit-
able institution, begging concern, a
highway robbery.
A newspaper is the ,hild Of the air
a creature Of dream 1t can 20 on
and on and on, when any other concern
would be in the hands of a receiver and
wsund up, with cobwebs in the win
dows. 1t takes wind to run a news
paper; it takes gall to run a newspaper.
1t takes scintillating, acrooatie imagi-
nation and half dozen white shirts.
and railroad pass to run a newspaper.
But inoney-heavens to Betsy and six
hands round, who ever needed money to
get out a newspaper
Kind words are the medium Of ex-
change that do the business for the edi
tor-kind words and church social
tickets. When you see an editor with
money, watch him He'll be paying
his bills and disgracing his profession.
Never give money to an editor. Make
him trade it out He likes to swap.
Then when you die, after having
stood around for years aud sneered at
the editor and his little jim-crow paper,
be sure and have your wife send in for
three extra copies by one of your weep
ing children, and when she reads the
generous and touching notice about you
forewarn her to neglect to send Is
cents 10 the editor. 1t would over
whelm him Money is co=rupting
thing The editorknows it, and what
he wants is your heartfelt thanks Then
be can thank his printers and they can
thank their grocers.
Take your job work to an out-of-towu
office, and then come and ask the free
insertion of the lodge ald church mott.
ces. Get your lodge letterheads and
stationery printed out of town, and then
food the editor with beautiful thoughts
in resolutions of respect and cards Of
thanks. They make such spicy read
ing and when you pick it up filled with
these glowing and vivid mortuary arti
cles you are so proud ofyour lOca
paper.
But money-scorn the filthy thing
Don't let the pure, innocent editor
know anything about it. Keep that
for sordid tradespeople who charge for
their wares. The editor gives his
bounty away. The Lord loves cheer
full giver. He'll take care of the editor.
Don't worry about the editor. He has
character from the State to act as
doormat for che company He will get
the paper out somehow, and stand up
for the town and whoop it up for you
whe you run for office, and lie about
your pigeOntoed daughters tacky we'd
ding and bow about your big-footed
sons when it is released from Its grasp
ing body and smile at your giddy wife's
second marriage. Don't worry about
the editor-he'll get on. The Lord
knows how-but some how.-Ex.
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Road Notice.
OF OPENING ROAD FROM cox
STATION TO LA PLATA.

WHEREAS, The undersigned have been
appointed and commissioned by the County
Commissioners Of Charles County as Examin-
ers, TO view the grounds and premises of
proposed road, from Coxs Station to La
Plata, and to open and locate said road. if in
their Judgment they should see fit; Now.
this is to give notice that on the second day
Of June, 1897, we shall proceed, in pursuance
Of the authority given US, to view The
grounds and premises necessary fer such road
and If in our Judgment the public convenience
requires to locate the same and to value
and ascertain the damages that will be sus-
tanned BY persons through whose land the
road may run, in all cases where such pro.
ceeding may be necessary. The route of said
road is along the line OF the the Baltimore &
Potomac Railroad parallel with the same
about one hundred yards distant therefrom
or such route contiguous thereto as may to US
seen most practicable and conductive to the
public interests.
P. Reed Wills
2. A. L. Contee.
Peter w. Roby
Examiners
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

People who criticise the proposition
to place a duty on hides brought into
the country will perhaps be interested
in the fact that the value of hides i'm
ported since 1890 is in excess of the
imporiations of wool upon which the
vast majority of the people of this coun-
try agree that there should be a duty.
The importation of hides from 1890 to
1896, inclusive, amounted in value, ac-
cording 10 the American Economist, to
SIG. 1913, 107, while the value of the
wool imported in that time is given by
the same authority as Sl3S, 1868, S44
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FIRST Responsibility.


TIVE Board Of County Commissioners
will meet at their Office in La Plata,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, June. the
18th, sth, 9th, 10th and nth,
1897.
for the transaction Of miscellaneous business.
and to pass accounts for the levy Of 1897.
~ Collectors are directed to pay OYER
to Treasurer on or before Monday, June it'll
1897, the sum Of $500 90 each on account of
Read aud Bridge Fund for 2s97, levy Of 1896
Road Supervisors are ordered to bring their
reports for Mary Monday, June 7th. to be
passed and filed.
Justices OF the Peace are requested to file
A statement with their accounts against the
County, showing all finds collected since last
levy
By order of the Board.
G. T. c. GRAY, President.
S. G. PADGETT, Clerk and Treasurer
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what Increased Imports Mean


The great increase in the Treasury
receipts from importations Of foreign
goods during the month of April, COM
pared with the corresponding month Of
year ago, affords practical illu ,tra-
tion Of the necessity of some such legis-
iation as was contemplated by the re-
troaetive amendment carried in the
Diugley rarifF bill as it passed the
House Of Representatives. The i'm.
porters are taking advantage of the ex-
listing low rates of duty on imports tc
rush in foreign goods in quantities far
in excess of the legitimate wants Of
trade. Tue result of this will not only
be an over-stocking of the markets Of
this country, but the aims and purposes
of the Dingley bill, in giving an in
crease Of revenues, will be defeated or
postponed for many months to come.
The increase in the receipts from i'm
port duties is shown by the figures re-
ported by the Treasury bureau of sta
tistics. During the month Just closed
the receipts Of customs dues aggregated
S24, 454. 352, whereas the receipts for
the corresponding month of year ago
from the same sources were only SILL
900, 900.
That there has been some indication
of a returning prosperity will not be de-
MED, even by the dissatisfied Demo.
Gratis Of the country, but it will be diff
feult to convince even the most optimis-
tic and hopeful person in the land that
the restoration to prosperity has been
so general and unmistakable as to call fol
a double supply of imported goods dur.
sng April, 1897, compared with April
1896 The manufacturing industries Of
tie country are still running on short
time, wages are still depressed and the
power of consumption among the peo-
pie consequently remains impaired,
while the demand for commodities has
not yet reached its normal state
throughout the country. For this rea.
son there is no demand among thu
people for the tremendous increase il
importatons and it well known tina
the goods are now being rushed in ar
piled in warehouses for future deliver,
to the detriment of American labor an,
industry
The longer the Dingley Tariff bill is de
layed in its passage through Congress, th
greater the stock of foreign goods ;ha
will be accumulated il the warehouse
of this country to complete with domes
tic commodities at time when th
industries of the United Stated ar
struggling to recover from the condi
dttiOn of stagnation and Generalization il
to which they were plunged by the Demo
cratic Free-Trade policy. The othe
result of these importations will be tn
0Ter-stOeking of the country with com
modities. which means a decrease il
importations under the new Tariff Law
for many months after it is enacted
and the expected increase in revenues
viii, on that account, be long deferred
The increase in customs receipts from
$11. 100000 to $24,554, 900 during
single month of a year indicates an in.
flew of foreign goods that will be Z
grert hindrance to the return prosperity
among the industries of the country and
among our people.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

On Monday the Baltimore Sun cele-
brated its Goth birthday. May it live
60 years more. The older it grows the
more useful it becomes and the nearer
and dearer it becomes to the people of
the State whose material welfare it has
sought with so much vigor and ability
10 advance for these many years. We,
zoo, are growing mature in years having
survived quite a quarter Of a century
and during all this time the Sun has
been among the most welcome Of our
exchanges
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

"Get it" is good advice but Take
Simmons Liver Regulator" is better fol
your health aud happiness. Everybody
should take liver remedy occasionally
and especially in the Spring to wake uT
the torpid liver and keep up healthy
circulation of good rich blood, free from
poison and full of neurishment to the
body. 1--WE would not keep house
without It'll. G. G. Fink, Spring
dale, Pa.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

Discussing editOrially the question Of
what steps should be taken by wheel
man whose wheel is stolen Connecti-
cut exchange makes the poinc that
foresight is worth more than hindsight
and that an ounce Of paddock IN the
proper place is worth several pounds of
poastal cards sent out after a lost
wheel"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

1t won't do for congress to adjourn
without either the Elkips bill, or in
cooperating it in the Dingey Protective
Tariff bill A years delay may mean
the abandonment or defeat of discrimi-
mating duties and that means the aban-
donment of American Protection to
American ships Can the Republican
party affaord to ignore "a solemn pledge?
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

Sheep dealers of Montana have lost
hundreds of sheep through the poisonous
plant known as larkspur. 1t is expected
thatmany more will die, although the
veterinary surgeons have succeeded in
saving some
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

The four-hundredth anniversary Of the
discovery of the continent of North
America by John and Sebastian Cabot
is to be celebrated this year both in Eu-
rope and America. The elder Cabot,
on his return to England, received a
munifcent grant Of ten pounds $3.50
for discovering North America.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

Champ Clark says that the Republi-
can battle cry is harmony inside" The
diagnosis is correct Harmony inside
party and the bides of its enemies out
side on the barn door.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

The man who is continually Dragging
of his honesty is good man not to
place too much confidence in.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21

Turkey wants piece of Greece as
part indemnity. A slice of the earth's
fatness, so to speak.
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PGtycent River Route
IN and after Saturday, March 18th.
Steamer St. Mary's

VIII leave Pier s, Light Street, every
Saturday and Wednesday at 6 30a. m,
for Fair Haven, Plum Point. Governors
Run, Dare's and Patuxent River, as far
up as Benedict Returning will leave
Benedict every Monday and Thursday
at $50 a. m, Sctterly a. M, Mill
stone Landing at 10 a m, Governors
Run at II m. Plum Point at p. m,
Fair Haven at 230p. m. for Baltimore.
Steamer Westmoreland.
VIII leave Pier2. Light Street, every
Sunday a! 9 p. m, for Patuxent River
direct, as far up as Bristol. Returning
will leave Bristol at u M, on Monday,
and Milestone 8 p M, for Baltimore,
calling at no wharyes below Leitch's ex-
cept when signalled from wharves on
the river for passengers and pcrishable
freight
HENRY WILLIAMS.
March Oily Agent
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-05-21
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Orphans Court of Charles county, set.
April 0, 1897.
Ordered by the Court, that Benjamin D.
Hancock, Administrator of Addison A.
Hancock, deceased, give the notice required
by law 10 the creditors Of said de-
ceased, to exhibit their claims, legally anthem
,icated, by advertisement inserted in some
one newspaper published in Charles county,
Maryland, once in each of three successive
weeks
True copy-Test:
B. Mattingly, Reg. Of Wills, Oh Co.
NOTICE.
This is to give notice, that the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court Of
Charles county, Mary land, letters of admins
iration on the personal estate Of
ADDISON A. HANCOCK,
late Of said county, deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are here
By warned 10 exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated, 10
the subscriber, on or before the 9Th day of
July next. They may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit of said deceased 8
estate
Given under my hand this 9th day of
April, s97
Benjamin D. Hancock,
Administrator Of Addison A. Hancock
apr Gan
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
CORNELL AQUATIos.
NOW That Football Is over, Rowing Eu-
crosses Attention.

ITHACA, N. Y. Nov. 26.--Now that
the football season Is over at Cornell
the interest OF the students will be con-
fined mostly 10 aquatlcs.
The report that Yale is willing 20 row
Cornell again this year has brought out
some very interesting questions. While
Cornell heretofore has been willing to
race with all the college crews and that
on mostly any condition she feels that
she is now IN position TO ask that her
interests and wishes be given as much
consideration as those OF any other uni
versity.
Cornells relations with the various
college rowing clubs is quite complicat-
ed. In the first place, from their near
ness of location Cornell, Columbia and
University Of Pennsylvania have al
ways found II advantageous 70 row to-
gether. Cornell is on very pleasant
terms with these universities, and there
Is no doubt that there will be another
triangular meet next summer
While Cornell feels that her victories
last summer entitle her to admission
10 any American intercollegiate boat
race she IS not so anxious 20 meet Yale
that she would do so on any conditions
the New Haven authorities might pre-
scribe.
Cornell might be willing TO row at
New London. provided Yale and Har-
ward would admit Columbia and Penn
sylvania, or provided these two latter
would meet Cornell in triangular race
on that course. The Cornell navy on-
cials have, however. always objected 70
the New London course as being too
narrow for a three cornered contest. II
Yale and Harvard would admit al
three-Cornel, Columbia and Pennsyl-
vania--to their race then the match
could be rowed In heats, and only two
crews would have 70 row together al
one time. There Is hardly any doubt
that the Cornell graduates. and under
graduates would be much pleased II
some permanent arrangement could be
made among the respective universi-
ties whereby this annual uncertainty
would be avoided.
Cornell would very much regret 10 bt
Obliged to sever her relations with
Harvard in boat racing, and Il IS hopei
that whether Yale is entered I'm a race
against Cornell or not Harvard mas
find II practicable to meet the Ithacans
on the water. as she does in the othes
branches Of athletics
There is excellent material az hand
I from which TO choose next years eights
and the prospects for successful row.
ing season at Cornell are very bright.
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
ninerinr DESTINATIONS.

Alr,.T. /. Selater writes to the journal
of Science. asking it TO avoid the word
scientist" which is, in his opinion. a
hybrid term. The purists have always
objected to this word, formed. like
artist" with ST. interpolated. Mr.
selater proposes "scient." which is on
the analogy of "savant." The pedantie
sound of this word led an English editor
to recall q story about Prof Henry
Sidgwick. Some visitors to Cambridge
remarked that there were many dis
tinguished and learned men in Eng
land. but none who corresponded in
breath of culture TO the savant abroad.
"Oh, yes, we have them," said Prof.
Sidgwick, and then breaking into his
most effective stutter, added, sharply:
But we call them p-p-p-p-prigs.
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
PRISONER MAKES A CONFESSION.

ADMITS THAT HE WAS A BAPTIST
MINISTER IN CUBA, BUT GOT TO
DRINKING.
Or r. L. Hemp, cf Havana, Cuba, !"
IS he terms himself, writes to the New
castle representative from the county
|ail, where he is now imprisoned, as
lollOws:
Il knew that I am guilty Of drink
lag, but I am determined not TO do such
gain. The Lord is watching over me
|yhilst l am in here. The Holy Bible
teaches us to love one another and to
|eel for one another when he is in
'rouble. Since your humble servant
as been in prison l have been preach
/ |lg the word Of God, and two prisoners
ave confessed Christ. Mourners are
{ the anxious seat Of mercy yet. God
Gems TO be with His ambassador
'hilst he is in prison, enough he be
{ lany miles from home, Remember,
hristian friends, remember a stranger
your land. This servant was wound.
!. ia at his home, 1895, fourth day OF
& obruary, in the Cuban war He is a
. uban himself, and in your strange
5 Ind no one to care for him. He is q
+ aptist minister of the gospel himself
lt fell in bad hands. The Lord has
lrgiven him for his bad deeds, anC
81 Jw he is going on TO perfection.
New Castle, Del, Nov. 26, 1897.
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
DO CLOCKS GEL TlREp2
There Are Times When They DO Need
Rest, Mr.. BilltOps Thinks.

There Are Times When They Do Need
Rest, Mr.. BiiltOps Thinks.
do clocks get tired ?" said Mr.. Bill
tops, according to the New York Sun.
Il imagine they do. / love to hear a
clock tick; suppose everybody does.
We had a little clock that used to keep
in my own room. 1t stopped one day
and shook it up little and it started
on, but it soon stopped again, and after
that it kept stopping, and sometimes it
would take me ten minutes to shake il
up so that it would 60 on and keep go
ing. I suppose I spent on that clock as
much time as would have paid for half
a dozen clocks like it; and finally il
stopped altogether and gave it up and
the little clock lay idle for months.
supposed that sooner or later we
should throw it away. and I thought
the only reason that we didn't was be-
cause we hate to throw anything
away.
"But one day one Of the children got
hold of the clock and took the back of
it to see what was the matter with it.
You know what happenswhen children
begin fooling with a clock I never
expected TO hear the clock tick again.
but I'm blessed If the shaver didn't
make it go. What he did to il I don't
know; nothing, L guess, except to oil it.
and suppose that was all it needed. or
else it had simply tired and had wanted
a rest. But it's going again now. and
ticking away like a good one"
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
CONDENSED pIsPATcHes.

The New South Wales legislature has
passed a bill restricting immigration by
an educational test.
There were two severe earthquake
shocks at Bucharest, Roumania, but no
damage was done.
Judge Springer and Indian Agent
Wisdom issued stringent orders re-
garding liquor in the Indian Territory.
British experts have discovered docu-
ments at Georgetown supporting Eng
lands claim in the dispute with Vene-
zuela over the Guiana boundary.
The Turkish government saluted the
Austrian flag at Melsina. Asia Minor,
as demanded by the Vienna authorities
in redress for the in treatment Of Herr
Brazzafolli.
The widow Of Arthur Forbes, alleged
to have confessed to the murder Of
Minnie williams and Blanche Lamont
in San Francisco, has wired Durrant
that she believes him innocent.
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
FORTUNES FROM GARBAGE.
Science Converts the Refuse of cities
Into Steam, Fertilizers, Soap, Etc.

Science Converts the Refuse of cities
Into Steam, Fertilizers, Soap, Etc.
William George Jordan, writing on
wonders of the Worlds Waste" in the
Ladies' Home Journal, says: ''The
garbage of a great city is worth for
tune every year, if properly utilized. In
st. Louis, Mo-, the refuse is placed in
enormous vertical cylinders, surround
ed by steam jackets, which evaporate
the Is to so per cent. of water in the
garbage. The fatty substances are dis
solved, and as the result of a number Of
processes a fertilizer is produced which
is worth from nine dollars to twelve
dollars per ton, the demand exceeding
the supply. One Of the purest and best
soaps of the country was made OF
garbage grease before cotton-seed oil
entered the field. It is now proposed to
light London by electricity for nothing.
1t now costs that cityS1.Os (4s. SD to
get rid of ton of garbage A combina-
tion of boilers and other apparatus has
been devised that can burn the garbage
at "a cents( one shilling) per ton, and
generate steam sufficient TO run enough
dynamos to light the entire city. Lon
don can thus save IS. sd. on each ton,
and, in addition, illuminate its city
without cost. Garbage, by machine
called the dust destruetor,' is converted
into clinkers, which can be used for
roadways. as artificial stone for side
walks, and as sand for mortar and
cement. In Paris the invisible PARTICLES
Of iron. worn from wheels and from the
shoes Of horses, are rescued by passing
powerful magnets through the sweep
inns -
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
what wos OIn.

A large earthenware vase in a win
dow in New York is surmounted by
conspicuous sign bearing this inscrip-
ton: 'Made of Egyptian Clay, Three
Thousand Years Old" One day an ex-
pert who happened TO be passing the
window stopped and locked at thevase.
"Yes," he said. after brief Inspection.
sit is considerably older than 5000
years. refer. of course. 10 the clay.
The vase probably was made in 1893"
Evening journal., 1897-11-26
.rersnv Am stars outnlared.

CHICAGO. Nov. 26.-Jersey's All
star team fell before the Chicago Ath-
letic association eleven in the game at
the washington Park oval. After a
show of defense in the first few min
utes Of the game New Jersey gave up
all semblance of hope and let their op-
ponent9 score time after time. Fifty
two points came TO the Cherry circle.
and whea the whistle blew at the end
most of the spectators had already
gone away in disgust