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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-11
REFUSED TO CONCUR.

The house refused to concur in the
senate amendments to H. 3. 142, the
irrigation bill. and Greer, Price and
Wilson were appointed as 2 conference
committee.
H. 8. 81, by A. p. Sorenson, providing
for the reclamation OF arid land in
Grand county and other sections of the
state. was taken up and A. p. Soren-
son explained that there was in Grand
laid that could be reclaimed by taking
water out of Grand river Unless re-
claimed by the state, a corporation
would gain control and establish the
works. The bill was passed.
The house then adjourned
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
School Commissioners.

TIME School Commissioners of Cecil County
l. will meet Mt their Office, in Elkton for the
transaction of current school business, on the
SECOND TUESDAY in each and every month
GEORGE RIDDLE. Secretary.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
USEFUL HINTS.

When there is a crack in the stove it can
be mended by mixing ashes and salt with
water.
1t poor economy for the farmers family
to stint themselves in health-giving milk
aud eggs.
To clean willow furniture use salt and
water, and apply with coarse brush, and
dry thoroughly.
Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste better
by sprinklng tablespoonful of flour over
them while frying.
great deal of sickness may be pre-
vented by the free use of disinfectants in
and about dwelling houses.
New tins should he set over the fire with
boiling water in them for several hours
before food is put into them.
Glazed Potatoes.-Peel, then boil whole:
dry off at the back of the range; lay in a
dripping pan, salt, butter literally and
brown in quick oven, beating with butter
from time to time.
Even pressed glass tumblels should
never be set one inside the other. What
goes in will not always come out despite
the proverb to the contrary. Or, to speak
more accurately, if it does come out, it may
be in unpleasantly small fragments.
Skim-mik added to twice the quantity
of warm water cleans granting or any var
nished woodwork easily, and Injuries the
varnish less than any other preparation, as
proved by many years trial. 1t brighten s
up oilcloths to wash them over with skim
milk after cleaning.
Furniture needs cleaning as much as
other woodwork. 1t may be washed with
warm soap suds quickly, wiped dry and
then rubbed with an oily cloth. Clean off
the oil and polish with a channels skin.
Keep cake in a tin or wooden box
TO cure hiccoughs sit erect and initiate
the lungs fully. Then, retaining the
breath, bend forward slowly until the
chest meets the knees. After slowly rising
again to the erect position, slowly exhale
the breath. Repeat the process a second
time, and the nerves will be found to have
received an excess of energy that will
enable them to perform their natural func-
tious.
Windows and mirrors can be made to
shine without long polishing, if after being
washed in hot soap suds they are rubbed
dry with a newspaper.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
HOW KEENAN,
LEARNED COURAGE
Incidents in the Life Of Mr.. keenan, Re-
moved the Fear Which Poisoned
the Happiness Of His
BOyhOOl.

"When | was II or Is years Of age"
operator to Cincinnati. | had become so
morbid and miserable by that time that
said to myself one day, I'm going to put
an end to this state of affairs here and now.
If Pm afraid of anything, I'll conquer my
fear of it or die. If Pm a coward ! might
as well be dead, because | can never feel
any self-respect or have any happiness in
life: and I'd rather get killed trying to do
something that I'm afraid to do than to
live in this way | was at time working
at night. and to go home from the Office
between midnight and / O'Clock Il. III. 1t
was during the Civil War, and Cincinnati
was more lawless city than it has ever
been since. Street robberies and murders
were of daily occurrence, and all of the
night men in our office carried weapons
as IA matter OF course: ! bought revolver,
and commenced course OF experiments
upon myself When ! finished my night
work at the Office, instead of going directly
home through well-lghted and police-pa
trolled streets, | directed my steps to the
sums, and explored the worst haunts OF
vice and crime in the city. If there was a
dark, narrow, cut.throat alley down by the
river that felt afraid to 20 through at
that hour of the night, | clenched my
teeth, cooked my revolver and went
through it sometimes twice in succession.
If read in the morning papers that man
had been robbed OF murdered On a certain
street, went to that street the next night.
| explored the dark river banks, hung
around low drinking dives and the resorts
of thieves and other criminals, and made it
an invariable rule to do at all hazards the
thing that thought | might be afraid to
do. l had all sorts of experiences and
adventures. One night | saw a man at
tackled by highwaymen and knocked with
a slungshot, just across the street. ran to
his assistance, frightened away the robbers
and picked him up from the gutter in Il
state of Inconsistencies. Another night
after clock, | saw mans throat cut
down by the river, and a CHASTITY sight it
was, but although somewhat shaken | did
not become faint nor sick. Every time that
| went through a street that believed to
be dangerous, or had any startling expert
ence felt an accession of self respect"
In less than three months had satisfied
myself that while did feel fear, | was not
so much daunted by any undertaking but |
could do it if | willed to do it. and then |
begin to feel better.
Soon after this time | went on my first
expedition to Siberia, and there in almost
daily struggles with difficulties, dangers,
and sufferings of all sorts, | finally lost the
fear of being afraid which had poisoned the
happiness of my boyhood. kenyon West
in the May Atlantic.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29

or by force, to put an end to the barbarous
condition of affairs on the island The
first duty will be to cothe the naked Amer
leans, feed the hungry and see that the
sick get proper nursing and medicine; then
the conditions that brought about the
suffering will have to be changed. There
will be no occasion for trouble, unless
Spain makes it. If she does, so much the
worse for Spain.
Even as staunch an advocate of the civil
service law as Senator Lodge said at the
last meeting of the Senate Committee that
is investigating that subject that he consid-
cred it absurd to have placed stabemen,
charw0men, formcarriers, watchmen and
other unskilled laborers in the Government
Printing Office in the classified service.
Public Printer Palmer appeared in person
before the Committee and emphasized his
previously written opinion that the civil
service rules, as they stand at this time,
are an obstruction, rather that an aid. to
economy and efficiency in the Government
Printing Office, and added reasons for his
belief that he should have more say in
appointing the employees of that establish
ment.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
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some time ago | was making some Gus.
tard pies and found at the last moment
had no llavoring in the house--ncither
lemons, oranges, cOcoanut or anything else
available. / had boiled the custard and
what should add to give it taste? There
was half cupful of fine white cherries,
canned ones, in the cupboard, so | hur-
riedly stirred them in, put on my meringue,
Drowned it nicely, and was charmed with
the result. So | thought if cherries would
do, why not other fruit?
For the custard for two pies take one
pint of sweet milk boil it, have beaten
together the yolks of three eggs, one-half
cupful of sugar, two tablespoonful of corn
starch or flour; stir into the boiling milk.
1t should be quite stiff if it is to be thnned
by any fruit. For the pie crust use four
cupfuls of flour, one cupful of lard salt, as
little water as possible, handle lightly,
and roll out, fill the pie pans, prick well,
and bake. If carefully made this is almost
equal to puff paste. Add one-half cupful
of sugar to three beaten whites of eggs for
meringue for two pies.
Peach Custard. - Make the plain custard,
add one-half cupful of mashed and sweet
ened peaches to each pie. Cover with
meringue and brown in the oven.
Strawberry Custard.-To the plain Gus
tard add halt cupful Of fresh or canned
Strawberries for each pie. Cover with a
meringue.
A plain strawberry tart is made by
MASKING thoroughly a cupful of strawher-
ries, sweeten and put into pastry shell,
beat the white of one egg, add one fourth
cupful of sugar, spread over the strawber-
rits and brown. This is delicious and so
simple.
Lemon Custard. Crate off the yellow
rind, then cut the lemon in two, and
extract the juice. And the grated rind
and juice of one lemon, sweetened, to the
custard FOR two pies. Never add fruit
juices until the custard is taken off the
stove. Add the meringue and brown.
Orange tarts are made in the same way.
Banana Custard.-Slice one banana
through the custard for one pie add drop
OF lemon juice if convenient
Caramel Custard. This is another dis
covery OF my own, and | think very
toothsome one. The proportions for the
custard are the same. In skillet brown
one-fourth Of a cup-tul of sugar, let it melt
until like moldsses; now poul into the
sugar one pint of sweet milk. When boil
ing add this preparation: One-foulth cup
full of sugar, yolks of three eggs, two
tahlespoonfuls Of cornstarch beaten to-
gether. When all has boiled pour into two
pastry shells; cover with il merngue made
OF the whites Of three eggs, one-half cupful
Of sugar, and little vauilla-Good House
keeping.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
DANCING TURTLES.

The spectacle of an old, bearded man,
with the long, tangled locks, dressed in
fantastic costume, attracted the attention
of passers-by one day in one of the large
seaports of Japan. Some said he was an
Aino. pointing TO his long hair and beard,
and that he was a bear worshiper from
Nagasaki.
The old man stood on the deck of
houseboat quite as disreputable as he him
self appeared and gave an exhibition that
was in every respect remarkable. lie held
an old brass drum, upon which he heat
with several sticks keeping time with his
foot and in obedience to this strange sum-
mons a number of common high backed
river tortoises of various sizes crawled out
of box, and, forming themselves in a line
began to march, one after another, to the
slow, disccrdant music Around they went
in circle, the big ones ahead, the smaller
ones following on behind, and at the word
of command the larger ones took their
places between two boxes and formed
living tortoise bridge, over which the
smaller ones passed from box to box, the
others following suit, whereupon all the
tortoises arranged themselves in groups,
like plates about table.
The japanese have another tortoise,
which they train to perform simple tricks
in the water 1t is little creature about
three or four inches long, that from a life
of inactivity has become covered with a
long growth of green pond weed, which
streams behind like hair as it swims along.
These people are also famous for their
strange fishes of the carp family; some are
short and chubby, with eyes that protrude
so far from the head that they look like
telescopes, or the stalked eyes of some
crabs, with which the little creature can
see in every direction. Others have a broad
lace-like tail that hangs gracefully like a
mass of lace, and appears to be divided into
three parts. Others have perfect black
cross marked upon the back, which against
the deep red, which is the prevailing COLOR
presents magnificent appearance. Others
are called the fish of the white cross, the
latter being white againt red.
These fanc.ful creatures are trained to
perform variety OF tricks; they rise at the
SOU of bell, ring a bell themselves
follow one another in row at the signal
and then in many ways show their remark
able intelligence.
The japanese also import the famous
fighting fishes from India, which they keep
in an aquarium and match in contests
which are, it must he said, decided without
bloodshed, though the little creatures show
no little ferocity.
The tortoise and crane are both sacred
animals in Japan, and the former is often
seen with the stork walking about villages,
paying no attention to the people, and as
safe as is the sacred OK of India.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
HOODS PILLS are the favorite family
cathartic, easy to take, easy in effect. 25c.
Free Information.

Messrs. c. A. Snow Co., of Washington,
d. G., lawyers and agents for procuring pat
ents, will send free to any address. pamphlet
with information about home and foreign
patents. caveats. copyrights, trademarks in
fringements, design patents, abstracts of de-
cisions, etc, as well rs the cost of patents in
the United States and foreign countries.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
AT THE CAPITAL.

Regular Correspondence of the WING.
WASHINGTON, May 27th, 1897.
President McKinley's policy of protect
ing American citizens in Cuba goes great
deal further than protecting them in their
political rights as he has fully made known
to Congress. 1t includes protecting them
from the starvation that is staring so many
of them in the face, as a result of the
policy of Gen. Weyler in coping them up
in the cities and towns of Cuba where there
is no opportunity fer those who are depen-
dent upon their labor for living for them
selves and families to obtain employment.
President Mckinley has asked Congress to
appropriate money to furnish food, clothing
and medicine for these suffering Americans,
and Congress will promptly do it, and the
relief will be distributed by the United
States officials The Spanish minister
wanted to have the distribution made bv
Spanish officials, but he was promptly in
formed that it could not be done: that as
long as Spain had by its policy caused these
people, American citizens and noncombat-
ants, to be deprived of the work by which
they lived, it should have seen that they
were in some other way provided for; that
having failed to do its duty, the United
States would relieve its own citi-
zens, either by birth or naturalization,
without help or hindrance from Spain.
That is as far as the matter has gone,
but there is little doubt Chat the
sending of relief TO Cuba for suffering
Americans by this government, is the first
step towards intervention, either peaceably
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29

TIRED, NERVOUS and weak men and
women find new life, nerve strength, vigor
and vitality in Hood S Sarsaparilla, which
purifes, enriches and vitalizes the blood.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-05-29
SCOTS Sure Growth Fertilizers.
| ow Prices for High Grade Goods.

Goods guaranteed exactly represented, and in first
class drilling condition. These brands represent the best
produce for the crops for which they intended
Most of them have been the market fifteen years
and Pure Ground strictly under
forfeiture of the bor twenty-five years. The difference
between the of Acid Phosphate and Sure Growth Super
phosphate using pounds only ST. per On Stand
ard the difference only 70 cents per The difference
between Bone and other make 81 per less
only saving of per where four hundred pounds
applied.
Considering that the labor and all other be
usual to good crops, it wise for
Is per crop and your soil the poorest
cheapest fertilizer you find when reliable pods
be had right at home?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
WHEN PETER SANG.

When Peter sang the rafters rang.
He made the great church reel:
His voice it rang clarion clang,
Or like 4 cannon's peal.
Yes. Peter made the rafterS ring
And never curbed his tongue;
Albeit Peter could not sing.
Yet Peter always sung.
All, wide did he his wild voice fling
Promiscuous aEd free:
Despite the fact he could not sing,
Why. all the more sang he.
With clamorous clang
And resonant bang
His thunders round he flung;
He could not sing
One single thing:
Yet Peter always sung.
The choir sang loud and all the crowd
Took up the holy strain.
But Peters bawl rose over all
TempeStuously plain.
The organ roared and madly poured
Its music flood around.
But Peter drowned its anthem loud
In cataracts of sound.
The people hushed the choir grew still.
Still grew the organs tone,
Then Peters voice rose loud and shrill,
For Peter sang alone.
His clamorous shout
Had drowned them out
And silenced every tongue;
He could not sing
One single thing:
Yet Peter always sung.
When Peter died the people cried.
For Peter he was good.
Although his voice produced a noise
Not easily wfthstood.
Though many cried when Peter died
And gained his golden Tyre.
They nursed a heartfelt sympathy
For heavens augmented choir
They knew where's r his soul might be
Loud would his accents ring,
He'd sing through all eternity
The songs he could not sing
The heavenly choir
He'd make perspire
And heavenly arches ring;
Though he can't sing
One single thing
Forevermore he'll sing.
Sam Walter Foss in New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27

The jury in the insurance suit of F.
J. Kiesd ct al. against seven insurance
companies came into the federal court
yesterday morning and returned a YER
dict for the defendants. The jury was
out all night, the case having been
given TO them at 5 o'clock on Tuesday
evening, and it was sos o'clock yester-
Gay morning before they reached a YER
dict. The question hinged on whether
the building was blown down before il
caught fire or after the fire started. The
evidence was very conflicting on the
point. but the jury, by returning a ver-
dict for the insurance companies, found
that it was blown down by the wind
before II caught fire.
The amount sued for was $50, 600. The
case will probably be taken to the Unit
ed States court OF appeals.
The insurance companies relied on
the following clause in the insurance
policies: If a building or any part
thereof fail, except as the result of
fire, all insurance by this policy on
such building or its contents shall i'm
mediately cease"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
miscellaneous. Notes.

Judge Cherry viii make a setting of
cases on May % fo- trial during the
month of June.
In the divorce case of Griffin VS..
Griffin, the appearance of Messrs. Will
Jams, Van Colt & Sutherland as at
torneys for the defendant Jacob H.
Griffin was withdrawn
John Monitor VS.. Frank Smith ct al :;
judgment for plaintiff for 1855.
Salvatore Maltese VS.. the Salt Lake
Amusement association; Julia S. NAL
tese appointed guardian ad Item for
the plaintiff.
Petit Jurors H. D. Folsom and P.
H. Riley were excused for the term.
The case of A. w. Davis ct al VS..
]. E. Langford was tried yesterday be-
fore Judge Cherry and a jury and re-
suited in a verdict for the plaintiff for
$465.
Mary Nixon VS.. A ]. White ct al:
judgment and decree for plaintiff
Fenton VS.. Spencer ct al; Judgment
and decree of foreclosure for the plain
tiff
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
SUPREME COURT.
Cases Argued and Taken Under Ad-
Hisement Yesterday.


The three cases of Joshua Colt ct al,
appellants. VS.. Charles NJ. Freed ct al,
John W. Chandler ct al, appellants, VS..
the Sheep Rock Mining company ct al. {;
c. W. Miles ct al. VS.. the Sheep Rock
Mining company, appellants, were ar
gued together in the supreme court by
Attorney Frank Pierce for all the ap-
pellants and by Attorney John NJ. Zane
for the respondents.
Chief Justice Zane being disqualified
to sit in these cases, District Judge
Cherry took his place on the bench and
with Justices Bartch and Miner heard
the arguments and took the cases I'M
der Amusement.
The causes were applications for an
injunction against an assessment upon
the capital stock of the defendant COM
pany, levied by the directors, the sole
ground of objection being that the
board of directors were not legally
elected. In two cases the lower court
granted the injunction and in the other
denied il.
The case of J. A. Hauerbach VS..
George Calder, appellant, was submit
ted on briefs without argument.
The plaintiff received judgment in
the lower court against the defendant
for $500 damages for breach of con-
tract, the defendant having engaged
the plaintiff to furnish music at Cal
der's park during the season of 1894
and then refused to carry out the
agreement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
MOTION WITHDRAWN.
Effort For Mrs. Hamilton's Release
on Bail Abandoned.

The arguments on the motion that
Mrs Lou Hamilton be released from
the county jail on bonds were set for
yesterday before Judge NOrrell. but At
torney Fred T. McGurrin, on behalf
Of Mrs Hamilton. asked leave OF the
court to withdraw the motion, and re-
quested that the records be made to
show that the prosecutors demurrer
to his former petition for a writ of
habeas corpus had been sustained, and
that he be given the benefit of an eX
ception to that ruling, and it was so
ordered. The record was also made to
show that the motion for bail had been
Withdrawn.
Mrs. Hamilton's health is said to be
very much improved, and the county
attorney viii probably make arrange
ments TO have her arraigned very soon,
but Mr.. Van Colt is very anxious to
prevent a repetition of the scenes of
last Saturday, when the previous at
tempt at arraignment was made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
SUITS FILED.
Two Divorces and Damage Suit
Entered.

Nettie Gilberg has entered suit for
divorce from Arvid NJ. Gilberg, alleging
that the marriage took place on Nov.
10. 1894, and that for more than year
the plaintiff has failed to provide his
wife with the common necessaries OF
life Mrs. Gilberg asks for a decree of
divorce and the custody OF their child.
Amanda c. Won yesterday, by her at
torneys, Smith & Nelson, entered suit
for divorce from Otto T. Won. alleging
that the marriage took place in this
city on April 3, 1s93 and that on Aug.
Is of the same year the defendant
wilfuily and without cause deserted the
plaintiff and since then has contributed
nothing to her support. Plaintiff asks
for a divorce and TO be restored TO ner
maiden name of Amanda g. Eager
strom.
Golden S. Beckstead has entered suit
against Bach, Becker & Co. and A. J.
Shupe TO recover $1,000. It is allesed IN
the complaint that the plaintiff sold
to the defendants on april Is. 1897,
about "a. 600 pounds of wool, to De de-
livered at Riverton station on April 30.
Plaintiff rendered the wool, but &c
PENDANTS refused to accept it. 10 plain
tiff's damage in the sum named, for
which judgment is prayed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
CHANGED the Charge.

George Shell and Charles Claypool,
two young men who previously pleaded
not guilty to burgiariZing the residence
of ]. w Tilford, coo North Second West
street. and stealing therefrom articles
valued at $50, were allowed to with
draw that plea and to enter a plea of
guilty of petit larceny. and Saturday
next was set as time for passing sen
tence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
DAMAGE SUIT.
Mrs. Booths Action Against the
Union Pacific on Trial.

The damage suit in which Mrs. Mary
Booth sues the receivers of the Union
Pacific Railway company to recover
Coco damages for personal injuries,
was begun before Judge Marshall in
the United States district court yester-
day morning. The plaintiff in Febru
airy, 1895, while crossing the Union Pa
cific tracks north Of the city, was run
into by a train and severely injured,
and she alleged the accident was caused
by the carelessness and negligence OF
tie defendant company in failing to
sound a bell or give warning of the
approach oe the train.
Attorneys Stewart & Stewart and
Judge Henderson represented the plain
tiff and Attorney George Sutherland
the defendant company.
The hearing was proceeding when
court adjourned until this morning,
when 1t viii be resumed.