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BALTIMORE, July ., lSq
Business Notices.

CARHART " co.'s STORE AT ZION, MD.
will be closed on Monday, July 3. Ge29 wv
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No. 1926.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
National Bank of ElktOn

AT EI.KTON, IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS,
MAY 18th, 1897.
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LAAOL, the new Castor Oil, is being use,
in hospitals. 1t is sweet us honey
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Cadmus Price, work on West Main
SlIc't Fla w
Henry Biddle. hauling on streets . 10 25 |
W. p. Dean, hauling on streets ... 80
G. S. Boulder, hauling on streets w II SO
Harry McCrea, repairs to roof OF Council
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DO YOU WANT WORK AT HOME
Ladies desiring to make shirts at home should
apply by mali, giving reference. to
POOLEY SHIRT CO.,
Decl9tt Havre de Grace
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In the Circuit Court for Cecil County in
Equity.
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CHURCH NEWS.
Interesting Items Concerning the vari-
Gus Churches

Tomorrow, Sunday, will be
observed as Patriots Day at
:, the Methodist Church. "Our
Nations Prerogativen will be
the subject for the mornin g's
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AZ Acres of Land
F@ 1a~1 20 VI Il IIN
BE TuE SAME MlRE AR L L,sA

BE THE SAME. MORE OR LESS.
and being NOR particular" described in sac
aforementioned deco uI LIOrtnH.r
Inc improvements consist OF Il good 70
Story Frame rlansion House ;,MfA
with pump house at the door, frame tenant
house, frame barn, wagon house granary
smoke house, and other necessary farm build
ings. There is ais" a Stcry Frame Grist
and Flour MIL wit -four sets Of rollers, oper-
ated by II steam engine and boiler, nearly new
feet fall appurtinatc thereto
rms most desirable property is situate
wltnln Il half mile OF the town Of ElktOn, and
is within easy and convenient distance to the
markets Of t.kton ana thence by ran TO Phill-
delphla. Wilmington and Baltimore MAJ cts.
THE TERMS OF SALE are that the whole
OF the purchase money shall be paid in cash on
me uiy oil sale. but these terms may be varied
to suit purchaser
~ Cost Of deed 10 be- betrayed 10y purchaser.
WIN. : EVANS
The Attorney named in the mortgage
\. Y. ShocklcN. ahct. Juucl9ts
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ATTORNEYS SALE
OF VALUABLE
MortSaged Real Estate
and Mill Property.

by virtue Of the power contained in a mort
the ltth day Of May, y. y. 1889, ard now OF
record in iibcr j. a. d. No. 49, folio ~. Nc.,
one or the Land Record books for Cecil county
IN the state OF MARYLAND, the subscriber as
attorney named in said mortgage, win sch at
public sale or
TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1907
AT Il O'CLOCK A. NJ.
nj the Court House door in the town of = 'iton
all that farm or tract of i,lud and Dr. lses
situht" lying and being near tn" town Xix
ton, Cecil county aforesaid ON the pub Dad
from EIkton TO North East, known as o. odd
sites Mill Property" containing
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woMAN's iMPuLsIvENEss.
It Often Proves to BE Her Worst
Enemy.

It Often Proves to Be Her Worst
Enemy.
If thoughtful woman were asked:
What is the greatest curse of your
sex?" she might well answer: I'm
pulse" 1t is responsible for almost all
the mistakes made by the good hearted
among us. May it not be safely said
that a few minutes thought before
speech or action would prevent most
fatal blunders? Many of us are in pos
tive bondage to our bird-like quickness
to feel, to show our feeling, to retort
or to respond. If we are hurt we must
Immediately "give ourselves away" as
the phrase runs, if not by bitter speech
at least by look and manner; yet re-
Election frequently brings the keenest
regret for the lost dignity, the betrayed
secret. Many a one has wrecked her
own happiness for the want of the pa
tient stoicism which would have led her
to stand aside for awhile watching
events until they brought with them
her opportunities. Even when we are
happy it is not always well to let the
bright stream bear us away rudderless.
The impulsive manifestation of affec-
ton, the hasty proposal of marriage, the
hastier acceptance--have they never
proved the beginnings of misery? Or
has rash word never sundered true
lovers, true friends? If these things
are true it is likewise true that the
fault in the commencement has beer
that of feminine impulsiveness. The de-
feet is a generous one, and, therefore.
commoner with us than it is with men,
90 that it handicaps us unfairly in the
struggle of life. And truly it is weary
task to be always with host of petty
mexims preaching down" ones heart.
| But we must do it; either we must rule
feeling or feeling will rule us. It IL a
good servant, but bad master. Our
loving women's hearts are like the fire
of the domestic hearth-the light Of the
home when duly controlled warming
the whole house, but if the fire be not
kept in its subordinate place what . con-
fingration ensuesl-N. Y. Commercial
ADVERTISER.
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GATHERS SKULLS.
A Medical Student Who Risks His Life to
Get Them.

Get Them.
About IS miles below Portland, on the
Oregon side of the Columbia, the broad
cxpanse of water flows without a
ripple, and is deep and as still as death.
The bank rises high above the waters
level and stretches away back to the
timber line. Just above this point is
"Coffin rock" which was the starting
place to ''the happy hunting grounds"
of the various oregon tribes of Indians,
but the very high water of 1862 swept
Coffin rock of all of it's deposits to the
point below. 1t is lonely place, with
out sound, save the call of the cricket
in the grass, or the boot of the screech
owl nestled in the adjacent timber.
Here the overfowing waters of nearly
half-century ago lodged the remains
of many tribes high and dry, literally
moving the last resting-place of their
dead, for no Pacific coast tribe ever
buried their dead below the surface of
the earth. Some hedged them about
with rocks, above the ground, leaving
the face upward and exposed. Others
put bark covering over them, while
others were suspended from limbs or
left in the forks of trees. Time has
robbed every form of its substance, and
left only the whitened bones and
bleached skulls.
Students, dentists and physicians are
eager to secure these trophies for articu-
lation. So great is the demand that at
least one man has for years followed
the hazardous business of gathering
these skulls for the market. 1t is risky,
for the few remaining Indians still keep
vigil over the remains of their dead, and
to be caught in the act would mean a
prison in the recesses of the neighbor-
ing mountains, followed by death Of
slow torture, for no quarter or mercy
would be shown to the victim. Still,
knowing this, Howard Clause, re-
cluse, nightly risks his life to gather
these grinning, whitened skulls. and
every now and then box of large and
small skulls are shipped from Portland,
Ore, to the various noted seats of
medical and dental learning in the east.
San Francisco Call.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Generally speaking, we say that the
cursa4ure of the earth amounts to about
seven inches to the statute mile; it il
exactly 6.99 inches, or 1862 inches for a
geographical mile.
Scientists say that no negro has ever
tanned an elephant or any wild animal.
though negroes frequently perform
with wild animals after they have been
cowed into subsection by white men.
Lightning is zigzag because, as it
condenses the air in the immediate adj
vance of its path it flies from side to
side in order to pass where there is the
least resistance to it's progress.
A gray, green or yellowish green
sunset indicates rain. A red sunset
means rain. A deep blue sky means
fair weather. A growing whiteness, a
storm. Unusually bright or twinkling
stars mean rain.
Prof. Barnard's photograph of the
milky way shows the existence of 500,-
100000 suns, each supposed to be the
center of a system of planets, where
hitherto it was thought to contain only
about 100000 such suns.
"A female Goldfish will lay 100000
eggs during single season. Piscato-
rial authorities say that were it not for
the work of the natural enemies of fish,
they would fill all the available space
In the seas, rivers and oceans.
Snow appears white because it is an
aggregation of an infinite number of
minute crystals, each rejecting all the
colors of the rainbow; these colors,
uniting before they reach the eye, cause
1t to appear white to every normal eye,
The nautical term "trade Winds
applies to constant winds which blow
at sea to the distance of about 80 de.
grees on both sides of the equator. On
the north of the equator they blow
from the northeast and on the south
from the southeast.
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A Turfed Railroad Bed.

Grass will grow on railway bed il
the ties are covered with soil and seed
sown. This can be verified by visit
to the Paramount park trolley line near
the Belmont avenue entrance. This Sec
ton of the track resembles two parallel
rails laid through green meadow, and
the presumption is that the railway
management intended to make the en-
tire track from end to end like it. If
the grass can be kept green in dry
as well as wet seasons the presence of
the track will hardly mar the landscape
at all. Even the poles and trolley wire
are not as unsightly as the electric light
poles and wires which have been al
lowed to disfigure the park in every d.
rection. There is a possibility, Of
course, that the grass between the
tracks may prove hindrance to the
operation of the line even if it is orna-
mental, but this is hardly probable il
the grass is kept well moved. A rail-
way line with no ties in sight and car.
peted with luxuriant greensward will
be novelty at least.-Philalelphia
Times.
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PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

NO. in the ood.-First Clubman
-"Are you going to Mrs. De Styles
musicale to-night?" Second Clubman
mo. I'm not in a mood for talking"
IN. Y. Weekly.
Big Success.-"What do you think
of my tragedy" asked the self-satis-
fed playwright. Its great. Never
laughed harder at anything in my life"
Detroit Free Press.
Folks dat is allus lookin' fob
trouble" said Uncle Eben, 'hab jes' one
ting ter brag erbout. Dey doan' hardly
eber git disappointed" - Washington
Star.
Say, Weary, wot are you waikiki
round in yere bare foots fer?" I'm try.
in dis yer Kneipp cure" "Wot fer,
Weary?" "'Cause some dinblasted
snoozer stole me shoes!" = Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Her Level Head.-"Madame, can
sell you this valuable book, what to
Do Before the Physician Comes? mo,
sir; you don't catch me doing the work
and then letting the doctor draw the
pay."-Chicago Record.
-Nell-"Miss Bjones uses French
phrases in the most peculiar manner
Bell--"Does she?" Nell-"Yes, indeed:
Why, at breakfast yesterday asked her
how she liked her eggs and she said they
were very chick. "-Philadelphia Record
-She-"I don't see how you ever had
the nerve to have your tooth pulled be-
fore the whole class of dental students
Did you scream?" Mayme-"1 don't
know whether / did or not. AS soon
as the professor tackled the tooth those
horrid students set up their college yell
and scared me so that don't even know
whether it hurt."-Indianapolis Jour
nal
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outfit, and they left Boise City on their
pilgrimage.
Tell Mayor mccarthy I'll be down
in week or two" said the stranger as
lie gave them good-by. mo, give him a
note for me-" And he scrubbed on the
leaf of a memorandum book, tore it
out, sealed it, and gave it to Wallace.
Then they took another drink and
shook hands for the fifteenth time,
parting solemnly.
Four days Haggerty and Wallace
climbed up hills for the monotonous
pleasure of climbing down again. Four
nights they rolled themselves in dusty
blankets and slept the sleep of the hope
full. Hour by hour they hammered the
stubborn little burros, but could not
make them trot; met Indian squaws
riding straddle on detected ponies;
forded streams where the current was
swift and treacherous; and then they
came at shutdown to the crossing of
Sage run.
Seems to me we ought to see the
lights of the city," said Haggerty.
"Well, he said the main street runs up
the hill, instead of across, you know"
was Wallace's reply.
They crept along the bank, but the
burros would not take to the water in
the darkness. So they rolled them
selves in their blankets for q final camp,
and swore they would eat breakfast at
the best hotel in the morning.
When the coyotes barked, just before
daybreak, Haggerty arose and climbed
a height that lowered above Sage run
and dominated the whole canyon where
Deep Gulch lay. There he lighted his
pipe, and waited for sunrise. When it
came, he threw pebbles down at the
sleeping burros till their braying
walked the editor.
Come up here" called Haggerty;
and Wallace FASTENED to him. AS he
reached the summit, he flashed one
look along that empty canyon, then
staggered, and sank down on the stones.
He recovered, and looked again.
There was no stampmill. There was
no store; there was not even a
saloon from Sage run to the very
apex of Honeycomb rock. The
double house had vanished, and the
shanty which sheltered the printing
Office in old days was all that was left
of the metropolis.
Wallace opened the letter addressed
to the mayor, unfolded the scrap OF
paper. and read:
Dear Mr.. Wallace: Maybe you can un.
load on someone else. 1t is the only way
to make journalism pay in the provinces
| II you ever meet Mayor McCarty. tell hin
how good a turn the mention Of his nam.
served me. And send me a copy of tn,
Courier with your salutatory. Good-by.'
That was all.-Lippincott's.
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Freezing Air.

Most students of chemistry have secr
water frozen in the average tempera-
ture of q room, but few have ever seen
the air solidified so that it could be
handled like ice or any other tangible
article. But this has been done by Prof.
James Dewar, of London. The opera
ton is carried on through several
stages and with various agents. Gases
are reduced to liquids under great me
chanical pressure, then suddenly lib
Grated. Certain gases under pressure
give temperature 145 degrees below
zero, and the evaporation of these is one
part of the process. Pressure of almost
1000 pounds to the square inch has been
employed for the gases. The expert
ments are enormously expensive with
present appliances and are of use only
as demonstrations of possibilities. With
further research may come more simple
and less costly methods and materials
The future of freezing has great prom
Use and its value cannot be estimated
n. Y. Ledger.
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WEATHER AND BRAINS.
Psychological Eject of tho Former on the
Latter.

Psychological Eject Of the Former on the
Latter.
The psychological effect of the
weather has long been a most interest
ing study. Most people feel the influence
of dull days, east winds and extreme
cold on their spirits and energies, men
tai and physical. An arctic cold and
tropical heat are unfavorable to literary
composition, for example, and we speak
of cold freezing our WITS" an express
sion which is not altogether figurativc,
but rests on common experience.
Goethe found that his capacity for men
tai work depended on the height of the
barometer and other instances OF
meteorological influence on the mind
could be collected from the writings of
celebrated men.
Suicide occurs most frequently in
summer, perhaps owing to the heat and
exhaustion, and not, as might be sup
posed, in winter. The American Jour-
nal of Psychology has an article on the
subject in which the head of large
factory Is reported to state that dis
agreeable day causes reduction of ten
per cent. in the output of the works.
Fine days make people generous and
accessible and opinions given on such
days are held by some to be the safest.
The influence of the weather upon the
logical faculty, the nerve and the eyes,
has also been recognized in a perfume
tory way. Nervous, excitable and irasci-
blepersons are prone to feel the influence
of bad weather and blame their circum-
stances. Certain functional troubles
of the liver, chronic catarrh, rheu.
matte joint, even bad corn, predispose
people to suffer from weather changes
Providence Journal.
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Medieval Necromancy.


There is another marvel performed
by those Bacsi, of whom have been
speaking as knowing so many en-.
chantments. For when the great
Kaan in at his capital and in his great
palace, seated at his table. which
stands on a platform some eight cubits
above the ground, his cups are set be.
fore him on great buffet ir the mids
die Of the hall pavement. at a distance
Of some ten PAGES from his table, and
filed with wine. or other good spiced
liquor such as they use. Now, when
the lord desires to drink, these en-.
chanters by their entertainments cause
the cups to move from their places
without being touched by anybody,
and to present themselves to the emo
peror. This every one present may
witness, and there are oft-times more
than 10000 persons thus present 'Tis
truth and no liel and SO will tell you
the saRes of our own country who un.
derstand necromancy, for they also
can perform it-Noah Brooks, in St
Nicholas.
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Thirsty Lands.

The enormous basin drained by the
Missouri river absorbs no less than 50
per cent. of all the rain that falls upon
It. whereas the basin of the Ohio river
absorbs only 10 per cent. The amount
of rainfall in the course Of year is
proportionately greater in Ohio than in
the Missouri basin, and SO the former
rivsr, although much the shorter Of the
two, contributes more water to the Mis-
sissippi than does it's gigantic rival
slowing from the west.-American jour
81 Of Science.
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Garden Spots Of the South.

The Passenger Department of the Louis.
vile & Nashville r. r. has Just issued
hundred page book with the above title. II
IL descriptive Of the resources and capabilk
ties of the soil Of the counties lying along
this line in the states Of Kentucky, Tcnncs.
see, Alabama, Southern Mississippi ard
Western Florida Il also contains county
map of the above mentioned states, ana K
well worthy Of Q perusal Of any one inter
ested in the South. A copy will be sent u
any address upon receipt Of ten cents in sill
YER or stamps, by G. p. ATMoRE, Gen. Pass
Agt., Louisville, KY. 6emi-monthly exc,r
sions South. Write for particulars.
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imitation of thunder-cloud, and re-
piled: "Filled the gulch from Sage
Run to Honeycomb Rock"
"You don't tell me-"
Those names were regretfully ia
miliar.
'Main street runs right up the hill.
Morris & Swan put in new stampmill
the other day. That's five in six
months"
"You amaze me-"
Bought lot for so cases last May.
and sold it in June for 1Oo."
"Well! well!"
"Dan McCarty elected mayor last
Monday, and"
"Not Dan McCarty, of Indian
apolis?"
'sThat's the man."
Wallace was trembling with excite
ment.
"Why, I've known him for 20 years"
"You have? Well, he's mayor"
SLOW things have changed"
Changed! Well, guess yes. Little
too fast for me. I'm looking about for
something nearer civilization. Don't
banker after frontier journalism more
than six months at time"
"Pays, don't it?"
"Well, I've taken out enough to buy
an interest in the Herald here. Pays
that WELL"
"Who bought your Officer"
""Tisn't sold. / own the Courier"
"Would you sell it?"
"Yes, if 1 got my price,"
"How much?"
the prosperous proprietor named q
figure. Wallace won a concession of
half hundred, and they made a bar
gain, taking another drink to bind it.
Wallace always did like the Deep
Gulch country. He drew his cash
from the Miners bank, paid down, Civ
ing a mortgage on the Courier plant
for the balance, and threw up his cases
on the Herald.
He hunted up Haggerty, bought a
pair of burros, loaded one with a camp
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JUST REPORT THEM. /"

big finds, new buildings-you under
stand. How much?"
"Why, there are none of those things
happening"
II didn't ask you to make them hap
pen. just report them"
''Oh, see."
Eyes, thought you would"
"You want your mine doomed"
Certainly. want to unload little
Empire stock down in New York if I
run."
"What'n you givef"
"A hundred . week"
"For how long?
Till March,"
"Tll go you."
They traded. The secretary paid one
weeks wages on the spot, and prom
ised check every Monday for three
months. Haggerty came back with the
water, and found Wallace radiant. They
went out that night and tried their lucl;
Of . farewell throw in Brindley Rauu's
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weakness and dragging, torturing pain.
No wonder women weep. The wonder 10
ehat they are not oftener In tears for all they
have to bear and suffer and the saddest
thing about It 10 how little their sufferings
ere UNDERWOOD. Even the doctor, nine
umes In ten says: ooh, little nervous
sess, that's ali " OF "neuraleia," or "insom.
MA" or "dyspepsia-" If he suspects the
real cause he insists upon examinations and
local treatment, about the very worst thing
possible to nervous, overweight woman.
There u no need of these repugnant
methods. Any woman may insure health
end strength IN . womanly way BY the use
cures the weaknesses and diseases of the
Seminine organism absolutely and COM
pletely. II was devised for this special
purpoee By. one Of the most eminent and
sxpezienced phyeicians in this country; an
expe1t specialist In women's diseases.
Fos nearly % years Dr. Pierce has been
chief consulting physician Of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y.
Any woman may consult him by letter, free
81 chnge. Her letter VIII be answered not
- 0e1e ngfSo o. uneducated, unscienti6Q
Sespoa, but By the most competent medies1
8M{besaty anywhere obt1inable,
An women dhoujd reed Dr.. p1efee's thous
Qsad-pagu i11nseEsted book, THE People'e
cpaAoa Sense Medical Adviser" Il con-
0nins moFe clear and comprehensive advics
q medical subjects than. any other boot
ever pub1ished. paperlbound copy sent
dee for twenty-oue one-ceut stampS to pay
he 1Dsf Of waiting only. o. cloth-bound
~ thar0-one stampA
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"As general thing" said fond IA
Their, "a young man likes to be patted
on the back; but not always. i was
pleased the other day with something
my eldest boy had done. and, rather inn
pulsively. will admit, 1 patted him on
the back"
"'Oo-oo!" he says, and he shrank
away as though I'd hurt him; and no
wonder, for he's black and blue and
sore all over. He plays football; and
the football players don't like to be
ratted on the back, except tiguratively
speaking,"-N. \, Sun,
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HOW TO CLEAN CARPETS AMI
RUGS.

Shave four bars of Ivory soap (which
contains no rosin), and put in kettle
with one gallon of water. Let boil un.
til dissolved. Spread the carpets OF
rugs on the floor. Add quart of the
mixture to a gallon of warm water. Dip
flannel cloth in it, and 60 over the arr
ticle to be cleaned, being careful to rub
the soiled spots. Then rinse in clear
water, and let dry.
ELIZA r. PARKER