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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13


School No. =, Second Miss Kblcr, teacher,
having raised $50 for school purposes, the
treasurer was ordered to add $40 to it, paw
able to G. ". Kibler, trustee.
A communication was received from DIR.
j. 5. Fulton, Secretary OF the State Board of
Health, asking that this Board will send u
delegate to II meeting of the state Board of
Health, TO he held in Baltimore on February
II and IS. Mr.. Ash was chosen us said dele
gate.
After II full review of our finances it way
decided to discontinue the supply of stationery
to all schools for the remainder of this school
year, and to supply white schools with books
only in the first four grades.
The resignation of Miss Mary W. Cameron
Of No. /, Ninth. to take effect February 26.
was received and accepted.
The matter of repairing school No. l, 4,
colOred, First, was referred to Mr.. Ash.
Three teachers were examined for the
colored schools.
The Treasurer repor ed the sale of the old
house at Cherry Hill tc Il. c. Porter.
Adjourned. GEORGE BIDDLE, Secretary
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13
Killing Worthless Dogs.

Nearly every town on the Peninsula has
had mad dog scare and either passed laws
giving the town baililf the right to kill un-
muzzled dogs on sight, or the people have
taken the matter into their own hands and
are killing them without the warrant of law.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13
Mr.. Dale at Nassau.

Mr.. Thomas p. Dale, formerly of Elkton,
who is now residing with his family at Cowau-
town this county, where he is engaged in the
bottling business, is now on a business trip to
Nassau, the capital OF New Providence Island
one of the Bahamas. Yesterday mornings
mail brought Il letter from Mr.. Dale to the
NHId, and also copy Of the Nassau Guardian
Mr.. Dale says in part:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13
Mrs. Frederick E. Wagner,

Mrs. Frederick +. Wagner, sister of Mrs.
Harry L. Alexander. of Elkton, daughter of
the late Samuel and Sarah Anthony, died at
her home in Salisbury, Md, February l, 1897,
OF rapid consumption, in the Goth year of her
age. The remains were taken to Vienna, Nd,
and inferred in the Episcopal Cemetery.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS
MR.. BLAKE ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Memorial Resolutions Upon the Death
of Mr.. EveriSt.

The Board of School Commissioners met
Tuesday. Present Messrs. George r. Ash. of
Elkton, j. A. Kirk. of Risingsun, and Geo.
A. Blake, OF Elkton. Messrs. Kirk and
Blake having qualified, the Board organized
by selecting Mr. Blake as President.
The minutes were read and approved. The
following resolutions were offered and un-
animously adopted:
This Board records with profound sorrow
the death of Francis S. Everist. which
occurred on January 49, 1897.
Mr.. Everist became member of this
Board in November: 1869. and ever since has
taken an active part in its affairs. For
twenty live years he has been its presiding
officer. Few men have taken n deeper in
terest in educational work He was ALWAYS
ready for any and every duty, responding
with alacrity to every call. With him it was
a labor Of love. His ambition was to pro-
mote the interests of our schools. His aim.
to raise them above the petty iealouses of the
day. and to place them on a pedestal tina,
would command the love. support and ad
miration Of all good citizens. Many n heart
throughout the county sorrows that he is
dead.
"* Yes dead to sorrow
Dead to sadness, dead to pain,
Dead: dead to all save the morrow
Whose light shall eternaly reign
The First Second and Third districts were
assigned to Mr.. Ash. Fourth. Fifth and Ninth
to Mr.. Blake. and the Sixth Seventh and
Eighth to Mr. Kirk.
A communication from Miss Florence Me.
FarIand was received conce rnng the mode
of estimating; the deduction for time lost by
teachers. The Board endorsed the method
now in vogue.
On motion of Mr.. Kirk "A committee con.
ssting Of Mcssrs. Ash and Blake we're ap-
pointed to revise the bylaws relating tC
teachers salaries.
Robert Pcnnock made an appeal for the re,
noval Of the teacher at No. 8, Fourth district
Quarterly accounts We're examined and
l,,., 4 l. / . n
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13

be promptly checked by the use of Ayers
Hair Vigor. Don't delay til the scalp is bare
and the hair roots destroyed. If you would
realize the best results. begin at once with
this invaluable preparation.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-02-13
Real Estate Sales.

The George w. Haines farm near Rising
sun has been purchased by Wilson A. Kimble,
of Lincoln, Pa, for $4,000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22

will, almost unknowing, find bitter dis
possessed by sweet, and warmth
usurping cold therein. This world is
very fair and charity makes it all the
fairer when its glow reminds us of 'the
long, long night that death shall last"
Christmas feeling makes the most of
the now. 1t atones for the after-the
deluge or the dark. 1t is real life to
live, if but for week, day.. moment,
in full sympathy of helping with our
fellows. If we can make others forget
the past we may forget our own. If
we can but give to others little Of the
antidote of kindliness for the poison of
the present we shall find our own to-day
less hopeless. And the future is formed
of the spirit that animates to-day. The
real feeling of Christmas must blossom
into acts.-Detroit Free Press.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22

Reaching trembling hand out to his
dumb friend as though for confidence,
he whispered, hoarsely:
"Guvner, what did she tell you fer
me? What did my old fiddle tell you?"
The governor waited for moment,
perhaps to steady his voice; then, lay
ing both hands on the shoulders Of the
other, his eyes reading with fathers
tenderness the piteous, expectant face,
he said:
"Abner, she says-the old fiddle says
that you can go back to the noun
tains. And, my man, may God go with
you'll"
The convict stood for a moment like
one struck dumb, womanish pallor
overspreading his cheek; then, with a
cry which his listener never forgot, he
threw his arms around his liberator and
sobbed like heartbroken child.
And the governor was not ashamed to
admit that something frightened in his
throat and broke out at his eyes, too
Nora G. Franklin, in Lippincott's Maga-
zine
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
ITS TRUE SPIRIT.
Christmas the Festival of Child
hood.

Christmas the Festival of Child
hood.
Christmas is the festival of childhood.
Whose would enjoy it truly must be in
heart even as little child. It's ecstasies
are in self-forgetfulness, in the better
ment of others. It's highest celebration
is in helping our neighbors to be happy
and thus sharing our happiness with
them. There is no happiness compar-
able to love, and the happiness grows
greater as the love embraces more and
more our fellow-beings. That is the
best Christmas time in which one feels
most acutely the actuality of kinship
with all the world. 1t is the child that
is the real democrat, for, as Emerson
has it, he makes children of all the
adults that gather around him, levels
them to his own simplicity. The man
who has the child7heart is the man
whose interest in himself is most
merged into interest for his fellow
creatures. Though one may have felt
sin and shame and sorrow he may as
suage them all in the promotion of the
happiness of others. Love is the only
anodyne, and giving it out it returns
upon us as manifold as the objects upon
which it is bestowed. That man who
awakens the Christmas spirit in the
hearts about him will find it subtly
stealing from them to his own, and
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22

he placed the instrument in position.
drew the bow, and there sin the still
of the evening let her talk to him."
He was mountain boy himself, and
as the first soft notes fell on the air,
plaintive and piercing like the cry OF
the whippoorwill in early spring, ne
felt the youth stir in him and heard
again the far call of the hills.
He saw the log cabin high up against
the side of the mountain, where the
laurel and the sumac grew and the
ash made bright the scene with its dark
fruit; where the breeze came laden with
the odor of pine from the forest, and
the birds touched the highest notes in
their shrill treble.
He saw the boy with his sturdy limbs,
his bold blue eyes and his waving hair,
barefoot and scantily clad, searching
for the earliest berries in summer and
the first nuts in the fall-free, joyous,
innocent, happy,
He followed him in the 'long, long
thoughts" of lad across the distant
crest of the Devils Backbone" and
wove with him mystic dramas amid the
shades of the haunted ravine.
He sat with him at the feet of the
mountain lass and listened while he
poured the crude poetry of his awak-
ened soul into the sensitive instrument
which alone could interpret the mys-
terry within him.
He stood beside him and watched the
blazing pine knots roar up the cabin
chimney, while the old folks in the cor
ner looked at each other across the boy
with that surreptitious tenderness Of
the eyes which takes place in those
grown gray, and sure of each other, of
the more open demonstration.
He saw the whole 90 years of clean,
humble living; the unaspiring, pastoral
life of the southern mountaineer. COM
panioned of nature; simple, fearless,
brave; scornful of the false, reverent Of
the true; tender to weakness, fierce to
wrong; and, alas! uncontrolled as the
elements around him; crushing, in some
mad output of strength, the obstacle in
his way, to stand afterwards in awful
recoil before the unknown potentiali-
ties of his own organism.
Full and swelling were the strains
that issued from the throat of the violin
as it told this idyl of the hills; passion
ate harmonies pulsating like the over
charged heart; long, tender, yearning
notes; sweet, caressing adantes; the
very spirit of love in the guise of sound.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort in the knowledge
so often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulfills every wish in relieving pain
in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passag-
es. 1t corrects inability to hold urine
and scalding pain in passing it, or
bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that un-
pleasant necessity of being compelled
to get up many times during the night
to urinate. The mild and the extraor-
binary effect of Swamp-Root is soon
realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures q the most distress
Ing cases. If you need a medicine you
should have the best. Sold by drug
gists price fifty cents and one dollar.
For sample bottle and pamphlet,
both sent free by mail, mention The
Enterprise and send your full post
Office address to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. The proprietors
of this paper guarantee the genuine
ness of this offer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
A REAL CATARRH CURE.

The 10 cent trial size of ElySs
Cream Balm which can b. had of the
druggist is sufficient to demonstrate
its great merit. Send 10 cents, we
will mail it. Full size soc.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., n. Y. City.
Catarrh caused difficulty in speak
ing and to n great extent loss of hear
ing. By the use of Ely's Cream
Balm dropping of mucus has ceased
voice and hearing have greatly inn
,roved.--J. w. Davidson, Atty at Law
Monmouth, I'll. 10
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
SHERIFF'S SALE.

Mrs. G. B. Ives In LOrain County, Ohio
VS.
Jay WoOley ct al. Court of Common Pleas
Case No. 1885,.
Sheriff's sale on foreclosure.
I II pursuance of an order of sale Issued from
l. the Court of Common Pleas within and
for the County of Lorain and State Of Ohio
made at the October term thereof, A. d. 1887
and to me directed have levied upon and
will offer for sale at Public Auction at the
north door of the Court House. in Elyria on
January 81, A. D., 1898, between the hours OF
1000 and 1l:O0 O'clock, NJ, of said day, the fol
lowing described Real Estate to-wit:
Situated in the Village Of Wellington
County of Lorain and State of Ohio, and
known as lot OF land bounded and de
scribed as follows viz: Beginning at the
southwest corner OF a lot owned by L. Bene.
dict, on the east side Of the public square In
said village, thence east on said Benedicts
south line to lot owned by Mrs 5. II: VII
cox, thence south thirty-fve (35) feet; thence
west ON line parallel to the north line to
the pnblic square, thence north thirty-five (35
feet to the place of beginning, 1t being pari
of original lot number twenty-five (22J.
Said premises have been appraised at $500
and cannot sell for less than two-thirds o.
said appraisemert.
Terms ef sale, cash on day of sale.
A. L. LORD, Sheriff of Lorain County, ..
GEo L. BIlNN, Attorney.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours;~a sediment or settling indicates
a diseased condition of the kidneys.
When urine stains linen it is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too fire.
quent desire to urinate or pain in the
back, is also convincing proof that
the kidneys and bladder are out of
order.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
sHERIFF's SALE IN PARTITION.

SHERIFF'S SALE IN PARTITlON.
Charles s. Whitehead Sio n LOrain doGTt County tS
VS.. Juno, COuTI OF
Joseph W. Whitehead etal. +, Common Pleas
Case No. 5l53.
Order of sale, in Partition.
T n pursuance of an order issued from the
/ Court of Common Pleas, within and for
the County of Lorain and State OF Ohio, made
at the October term thereof, A, D., 1897. and
to me directed, will offer for sale at Public
Auction at the north door Of the Court House.
IN the village of Elyria. on Saturday, January
81, A. D., 1898, between the hours OF 10 O'Clock
a. IN. and II o'clock, a. M, of said day, the fol-
lowing Real Estate tO-wit:
Situated In the County of Lorain and State
of Ohio and In the Village Of wellington and
being lots No. 95 and 96 in block 4, @. Phelps
addition to the village of Wellington, ohio.
Said premises has been appraised at Sl3OO,
and cannot sell for less than two-thirds oil
said appraisement.
FERNS of sale, one-third cash on day of sale
one-third In one year, and one-third In TWO
years. the deferred payments to bear interest,"
from day of sale and be secured by mortgage
on the premises.
A. q. LORD, Sheriff OF Lorain County, o.
J. 7. HASKELL, Attorney.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
Land For Sale.

80 acres of good farm land, we'll lo-
GATED, we'll watered, with some i'm
provements, with railroad and station
on the land, near school and mills,
also 200 acres of good timbered land
all in Burdell township, Osceola coun-
ty, State of Michigan. Will sell cheap
or exchange for property in Lorain
county, for further particulars inquire
or address. WIN. H. H. SUTLIFF.
til Wellington, y.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
A Christmas Truth.

II you the merriest Christmas would enjoy,
If you the deepest happiness would feel
A genuine jollity without alloy,
A happiness continuous and real.
Though paradoxical, will agree,
IT'S yet truth that no one can gainsay,
The greater will your own enjoyment be
The more the happiness you give away.
Boston Courier.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
out of Season..


She does not interest us now,
The woman with past;
We care not why, nor when nor how
She got herself thus classed.
But in the merry Christmas days,
When all the world is pleasant,
We're looking for, with anxious gaze,
The woman with a present.
Chicago Record.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
The Extent of II.

How touching the practice of giving,
The pledge of peace, good will!
How touching the gift of the wife to her
lord,
He'll know when he gets the bill.
Detroit Journal.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22

But now the music changes. Youths
glad symphony is lost in the wild major
chords of passion. Note dashes against
note like hail against pane. All the
tumult of the mountains, the forest, the
roaring stream when storms rive the
heavens, is sounded in that mad chro-
matte ascending to its climax.
All of natures after-pennance
breathes in the signing minor of the
descending scale. Surely that was a
human sob that rang through the room;
a fellow mortal's burst of sympathy.
No, it was just the old fiddle, who
"knew things cause she'd been lyin' so
long ag'in his heart"
And now from out her quivering
strings she sends forth melody so di-
vinely pure, so immeasurably sweet, the
coolest ear must open to greet it.
In it are the prayers of mothers, the
tears of wives, the sobs of little chill
dren-all of unlanguaged pain, all of
unlanguaged love.
1t is the echo of that song which
beats forever against the throne of God,
in tender, tireless cadence-the united
voices of many women pleading for the
souls of men.
The violin slips from the governors
haSds and his head sinks upon his
breast.
The old fiddle has "told her story
straight"
When witnesses were found who cor
roborated the statements of the pris-
oner, and Jail wardens certified to 20
years of exemplary behavior inside the
prison walls, the governor sent for Alb
ner Bill to be brought to his private
office.
The day he expected him he placed
the violin in conspicuous position on
the desk.
There was ushered into his pres
ence tall, angular man with the worn
face and STOPPING shoulders of three.
score years; hair scanty, muscles fab.
by, eyes dull; nothing to bespeak youth
but the faint red that crept into hi:
sunken cheek when the servant an
nounced his name. A single stroke Of
sin and its after-writing on the brair
had done the work of twice 20 years.
He stood inside the door with down
cast eyes and nervous, futtering hands
The governor called his name, ant
something in the kindly accents gav'
him courage to look up.
Something else in the homely, hu
morous face that no man ever looke'
into without loving gave him courag
to speak. and his eye caught sight o
the violin.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
That nenntirnl stnr.

Bethlehem's star fingers yet over child
hood, which it digni6es; womanhood, which
it ennobles, and manhood, which it gladdens.
Chicago Standard.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
A Why He Hnh.

"John, dear, you are growing handsomer
every day" "1t's way / have, dear, just
before Christmas" Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
A Good rime to nerin.

Ef yew still don't love yewer enermy now
y the generous! heart-g,Sd = time M ny ycwr life
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22
The nncheIor,n Socks.

will not hang my stocking up
1 really can't, consarn 'eml
They wouldn't hold present, and
1t takes too long to darn 'eml
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-12-22

I WAS the close of
a day in the early
part of December.
T h e governor
sat alone in his
private office. His
clerk had just left
him.
The Christmas
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-07
HE RETURNS TO CANTON.
President Again Leaves Washington
for His Mothers bedside.

WASHINGTON, December 6.--President
Mckinley left Washington at 100 tonight.
10 return TO the bedside OF his mother. at
Canton. With him were Mrs. Mckinley,
Miss Mabel Mckinley, Miss Barber. Mrs.
Abner Mckinley, A. j. Duncan, two
maids and the steward Of the White
House.
The party occupied the special Pullman
car Newport, which was attached to the
rear OF the regular western express
According TO schedule. the train is due
in Canton at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. but on the receipt OF unfavors b e
news from Canton It may be rushed
through on special time from any point
beyond Baltimore.
-secretary-of-State Day also
was Of the party.
MRS. MKINLEY VERY LOW.
CANTON, o., December G.-There was
an agreeable surprise to the children ana
friends gathered about the bedside OF Mrs
Nancy Allison Mckinley this evening. she
regained consciousness sufficiently not
only TO recognize her children. but to ex-
tend greeting 10 them 20 her aged sister.
Mrs. Osborne; Charles Miller. and Others
who were near. She was able TO take a
little nourishment about noon.
Az 1890 tonight Mrs. Mckinley is ex-
ceedingly low. She has just experienced
one Of the sinking spells during which life
seems TO be almos. extinct. There are
moments when she does not seem 10
breathe. II she rallies from this spell
she will probably survive the night. but
Just now IL seems doubtful that She viii
rally.
NO CHANGE
ll:45 L. M.-Mrs. McKinleys condition
has not changed since the 1880 report
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-07
PICKETT CAMPS MEETING.
Matters of Interest Before the yete-
ran Body Last Might.

a regular meeting Of Pickett Camp was
held at the camp hall, Eighth and Broad
streets, last night, Lieutenant-Com
+. Scott Gibbs presiding. The session
was opened by prayer by Chaplain p. p.
Winston.
At the offset the camp voted to attend
the grand concert for the benefit Of the
Confederate Memorial Literary Society,
by the Veteran Corps Band, of Baltimore,
at the Academy Of Music next Saturday
night, December Nth.
Upon motion of Comrade BEDFORD, a
committee of three was appointed to
draft suitable resolutions in honor of tho
memory Of Comrade A. J. Berry. Com
rades Beverage. Morris, and Maury COM
prise the committee.
1t was decided to postpone the reading
on the second battle Of Manassas by
Historian Lakewood until December
9th. when the camp meets for the first
time i'm the new hall on Broad and Fifth
streets. Extracts from the histories re-
lating to the several battles discussed
will be read and personal "reminiscences
of them Will be given by the comrades
A proposition has been offered TO put the
conclusions Of these discussions i'm pamph-
let form, for preservation as correct
accounts of the engagements.
The camp always has its fun, and last
night was no exception.