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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
CONSPIRACY IN THE HONE

lie is Il trie over three years old. That
will explain the matter to a great many
people who have had children. To others
| will say it uscally proceeds like this,
though many and various are the manifes-
tations OF his curiosity.
The Boy-Pop, why do | like 10 eat
more than You do:
Mysell--Because you are growing more
than | am.
The Boy-Why | am l growing more
than you are?
Mysclf-Because you are younger than
am.
The Boy-Why am younger than you
are?
Mysef-Oh, let up Go and play.
Sill nee for few moments.
The Boy-Say, pop, why do women
wear different clothes from men?
Mysef-hecause they have to.
Fhey Boy-Why-
Myself thought you were going to
play.
Silence for a few moments.
The Boy-Say, pop, why can't we walk
on cur hands and feet like dogs and horses?
Myself don't know.
The Boy--Are dogs better than men?
Mysclf-Ecry much - especially better
than the grocer who has sent in his bill.
The Bay-Docs God like people better
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
BRIEFLETS.

Is Wheelhed man of his word?
fear not. He says he has bicycle lamp
that never goes out.-New York Evening
Journal.
"What is a coign of vantage papa?'
Something American girls use in catch
ing foreign husbands, my son. "-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune.
Maud-Why did Mabel give up Clarence
Sprocket?
Maydie-Oh, he got a new wheel and
she objected to the make.-New York Com
merciaI Advertiser.
Mrs. Fcrry-What silly things there are
in the papers. Here is long article try
in~ to show that any woman may be beau
tful in her old aye if she will bat practice
amiahiljty. | wonder who wrote it?
Mr.. Frrry-Sonn married man. sup
Cincinnati Enquirer
"Iolond Carter q, kentucky is a re-
markedly preserved old gentleman, said
one Young woman.
eyes, " replied Miss Cayenne. ''iIe re-
uluds me of brandied peach Wash
ington Star.
'''rhe coming woman will have whis};egs,
| understand"
Good enough. We can use her razors
t, 81, A.,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
Railroad Company.

SCH tDULE IN EFFECT DEC. 3lrH
Water and rail routes to Ocean City and all
point on toe Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries.
For Icaih, HcnHur' and business.
Unc&GCuUd facilities for both Passenger and
Freight traffic.
Close connection with the trunk line rail
road usuIiHg convenience to the Traveller, and
the Iuick dispatch Of all frciphtS.
Fifteen couimodious and handsomely fitted
out steamers. Comfortable state rooms. Good
cuisine. pulitc attendance.
Steamers leave piers 3, 4, AZ and ii Light
street ..harf Baltimore. as follows
RAILWAY DIVISION 30 p. m, daily cx-
cept Saturday and sunday; saturday only, }
p. m, for tHibornCa and stations to Ocean City.
Returning leave Ocean City $50 Il. M daily,
except Sunday. arriving at Baltimore .20p. III
CHOPTANK RIVER LINE p N; daily, except
Sunday, for EastOn, oxford, Cambridge, and
landings to Denton. Returning, leave Denton
at IL noon daily, except Saturday; Cambridge
6 p m; Oxford, p III and 1870 p III; Euston,
$50 m, arriving in Baltimore at > IN.
WICOMICO RIVER Line p. M, every Tues
Point, Deals island and landings to Salisbury.
Returning leave Salisbury at 80 p m, every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, arriving in
Baltimore at q al
NANTICOKE RIVER IINE-5 p. m, every Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday for Deals Island,
and landings to Scaford, Del. Returning leave
Seai3rd At ~ noon i L,HTsday' Ihmrsday and
GREAT WICOMICo AND PIANKATANK RIVER
Illness p. IN. every Tuesday and Friday for
Great Wicomico River, Dividing, Indian and
and Pankatank RivertC Frccport. Returning,
cave FrecpOrt at a. m. every Monday and
Thursday, arriving in Baltimore at u. IN.
Steamers leave from foot Of South Street as
follows:
PoCoMoKE RIVER LIMB p. m. every
Tuesday ana Friday for CrisiiCld. Tangier
Island Onuucock, and landings To PoComukc
Cityaud snow Hill. Returning, leave Snow Hill
at III: OrstiCld y N, every Monday and
Thursday, arriving IN Baltimore 1T n N.
MESsoNG0 AND OCCoHANNOCK RIVER LINES
. p. m, every Sunday for FOrd's. Crlsiicld,
HarbortOu, Evans, BOggs, Hunting Greek
Messongo ana {ucs. Returning every Tues
day i0avc Rucs at Z Il. m, Crisiicld, D. m.
arriving in Baltimore at q Il IN. next morning.
5p. m. every Wednesday for Forls, Crislield,
Harbortou, Eyana, poggs, Hunting Creek and
Mossong0 Returning every Friday, leave
Messon%o & II. M, Cristleld, q D. m. arriving in
Baltimore Ga. m. next morning.
Tickets for sale on board steamers.
For fun schedule write or apply to
WILLARD THOMSON. General Manager
al South ST., Baltimore, Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
Reduced Rates 10 Washington on Account
Of the Inauguration via Penn
Sy'vauia Railroad.

For the benefit of those who desire to at
tend the ceremonies incident to the inaugu-
ration OF President-eIrct Mckinley. the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to WASHINGTON March /. 2, 3 and 1,
valid to return frou March to 8. at the
following rates:
From Philadelphia, $40; Harrisburg,
.5.06; Wilmington, !435; Baltimore II go
and from all other stations on the Pennsyl.
vania system at reduced rates.
This inauguration will be a most interest
ing event, and Will undoubtedly attract Il
large number Vi people from every section OF
the country.
The magnificent facilities of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad make this line the fayorite
route to the national capital at all times, and
its enormous equipment and splendid termi-
nal advantages at Washington make it es-
pecially popular on such occasions. Lott
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16

Adolphus-Pve half a mind
Kate-There, Dolly, don't exaggerate.-
Boston Transcript.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16

Mrs. Cobwigger-I have been bother
Tag my head about what shall get YOU for
Christmas. Cobwigger-WhJ not take
that hox of cigars you gave me last year
and give them to me over again?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
SOuTHROCND 2. NJ.

VIIF ----TVTEN.
s-uuiuy Only. r.-c. pt sunday.
Stops ON siGrG' nr notice 10 conductor.
II stops to lut oil passengers.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16

Willie-''Pa, what's a diplomat?" Pa
"a diplomat, my son, is man who upon
receiving Il ridiculous Christmas gift for
which he has no use exclaims: %! how
nice Just what | wanted"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16

"EF Ait's SO dat goose kin lay
golden aig," says Brudder Back blight, "hit
sahtinly am vase oh time TO- de enter
prism nig9ah ter steal chickens"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16

Finds us fairly busy.
Every dav orders are
taken for IS trousers.
They will hold their
own side by side with
any 81 pair Won get
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
"Well his dear little wife made it, set it
in the window to cool, and a tramp came
along AMI stole it, "-Chicago Record

They say Brown is married to 4 new
woman
eyes, | believe this is his fifth
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
The city of the Future.

If the predictions of scientists are to
be believed this world may be a differ
ent looking place from the present for
those who live a quarter of century
hence. The houses, stores, factories
indeed, buildings Of all sorts-will be
warmed and lighted by electricity, the
racket and din of heavy carriage will be
banished from cur city streets, as
everything will be conveyed ON practi-
cally silent tramways. There will be
smooth pavements, horseless carriages,
with pneumatic tires; no trolley poles,
no horses and 10 wires. With heat and
light supplied, as water is now fur
nished, there will be no carting in of
coal or carting out Of ashes. Trans
mitted power will be the magician to
work this grand transformation. Gas
may be used for cooking, if electricity
is not, and, with no smoke, no dust
from coal or ashes and 10 grinding up
OF pavements from wheels and horses
feet, the city will be as clean as the
country, and, instead of a cloud laden
atmosphere, the air will be wholesome
and refreshing as that which sweeps
over the untenanted hills. This sounds
visionary, but the beginning Of such
conditions has been made, ard it is said
that even in ten years much Of this may
be accomplished. New York Ledger.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
.Eope curen For crasshoppers.

The intelligence Of scent of the red
legged grasshopper enables it to select
its food while on the wing in the air,
where, by some process Of signaling
known only to itself, it gathers great
army Of its kind to descend with mass
ed force Oh the field beneath when 40
acre field of corn will only afford them
a single meal.
Last year the grasshopper reports sent
to the University Of Nebraska at Lin
coin caused apprehension of an inva-
sion this year, as great quantities Of
eggs had been deposited in the soil over
large area of country, and those eggs
are expected to furnish an army of &C
tive ''loeusts. as they are technically
named.
Farmers call them choppers, =" but
the college entomologist talks knowing
ly of IN. Atlantis, - Packard" and
"Camnula pellucida.
In Utah they have what they call a
rope cure for the pest, and every
man, woman and child takes part in
the performance. 1t consists of draw
ing ropes, held taut by persons at each
end, across the back, over the fields of
grain. SO that Mr.. Grasshopper shall
not find. any room for the sole Of his
foot, and they keep this seesaw up I'M
til be is starved out.
No doubt the agricultural college will
find way to meet another visitation
with some discriminating process, when
the migratory locust will migrate to a
cline where he will disturb no more,
whittier forbears of his ilk have gone.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
cnnlln.t Re Deceived.

Dennis McCarty, true som of Erin,
was suing his neighbor, William Smith,
for damages occasioned by the defend
ants care8essness i'll allowing his dom
key to escape from his stable and tres
pass upon plaintiffs premises, thus do
ing much mischief in his garden.
McCarty stepped into the witness
box to give evidence in support Of his
case, and when he had finished the law
yer who appeared for the defendant pro-
ceeded to cross examine him.
"Now do you mean to say that all
this injury to the property of which
you speak was caused solely by Smiths
donkeyF"
'Sartinly, sor."
"Oh, indeed; and where did you first
see this animal which you declare has
been the source of SO much mischief"
81 saw him tied up in defendants
sthable.''
Eyes. and where did you next see
him?"
''On my primises, to be sure. F"
The lawyer now saw his chance and
in his best manner pressed the question.
"How did you know it was the same
Donkey"
"How did know" was the derisive
exclamation. ''If I saw yez tied up in a
sthable don't yez suppose I'd know ye
when yez got loose?''
The plaintiff was excused from fur
ther evidence. Moments.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06

pantry. The guests are all invited TO-
the wedding tomorrow and the licens
is on tho library table. What can WI
do?''
OF course there was but one thing tt
do, and that we did without delay
Marie stole quietly doYn into the libra
ny and secured the license. How simple
a matter to erase one name and substi
tute another. And while she was about
it, with her usual forethought she con
fiscated the BRIDES cake. This, with
her wardrobe and jewels, was passed
through q window, and then ! signaled
to Ted.
The ship settled down like huge
bird on the grape arbor. Marie gave !;
little shrek as we stepped on board,
causing Ted for an instant to lose con-
troll of the lever. There was crash OF
splintering pine as the grape arbor gave
way beneath our combined weight.
Straight upward like rocket VIC
arose for 1000 feet or more. As we
turned the searchlight ON the wreck VIC
saw figure clad in long, white night
robe gazing at us, and voice, trem-
bling with rage, called:
marie, come down herep'
"Poor papa. "-Chicago Tribune.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
An Authority Who Thinks Birds Incapa-
BILE of Carving Contagion.


Persons interested in birds have re-
Gently been debating tho question
whether these creatures are capable of
contracting diseases from human beings
or of transmitting disease to human be-
ings. Expert opinion seems to be d.
vided. On tie one haiid DR.. K. Ruff,
director of Gefierderte Welt, in q recent
letter to the president of the Acclima-
tion society, asserts that the transmits
sion of any disease from a bird to a
man and vice versa is absolutely impos-
sible. Says Dr.. Ruff;
"For more than 80 years have been
occupied in keeping, observing and
raising exotic birds of plumage; conse-
quently have lad occasion to deal with
them when i'll. Livery bird that has died
has been examined, and have thus dis
sected during about 50 years several
hundred parakeets. have always kept
these birds during their illness, some
times for a considerable period, in my
apartment, which is somewhat restrict
ed in size, being composed of only six
rooms for four grown persons and four
children. During all this period have
not had a single case Of sickness in my
family, although the birds have had all
possible kinds of maladies am also
confirmed in my belief by the fact that
l have allowed no opportunity to pass
of asking for Information on the subject
from the principal dealers in birds at
Hamburg, Cologne. London, Liverpool,
Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Mar
settles and Bordeaux whenever they had
sick birds in considerable numbers. In
no case was 1 informed that any one,
either member of the family or an en-
ployee, had been attacked in the house of
one of these merchants, and I obtained
the same information from the directors
of the great geological gardens at Paris
and London. No centagion-and I can
not insist too strongly On this point
could ever be established. f"
These, however, are all negative facts
and would fail to stand against even
one authenticated case of the transmits
sion of disease to or from pet birds.
Such cases, it is believed, have been
proved to exist by d.. Laboulbene, who
communicates an account of his investi-
cations to the bulletin Of tic Acclima-
ton society.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers,
The famous little pills.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
BRANCH ROADS.

DELAWARE, MARYLAND q VIRGINIA r. p
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way sta
lions 1923 a. M, weekdays. Tuesdays, Thurs
days and saturdays at s 52 p. m returning
leaves Franklin City $50 a. m. Week-zays
Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at AZ pm.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague tvIa
steamer) ]. 43 pm week days. Returning leave
Chtncoteague 4.42 a. m. week days.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at 1879 a. m, 6.32 p. M, week days, Retufnfrg-
leave LeWeS AS a. m 3.11 p. m. week DAYS,
For Berlin. leave Harrington 1923 a. m.
week days and G.:2 p. m. on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and saturdays. Returning, leave Berlin
6.57 a. m. week days and 2.43 p. IN. on TUESDAYS
Thursdays and Saturdays.
QUEEN ANNE KENT II. R.-Leaye Townsend
for Centreville and way stations g.2l a. m. and
$50 p. m week days. Returning. leave Centre
vile, T.36 a. m. and 2.2f p. III. week days.
DELAWARE CHESAPEAKE X. R.-Leave Clayton
for oxford and way stations at g.SS a. M and
5.47 p. IN. week days. Returning leave oxford
Gas a. m and l 40 p. m. week days.
CAMBRIDGE SEAF0KD X. k-LeaYe SeafOrd for
Cambridge and intermediate stations II. II a. m.
week days, and Tuesdays, Thursdays and sat
urdays at 7.10 p. m. Returning leave Cam
bridge go a. m. week days, andi2.37 p. m. Tues
days, Thursdays and saturdays.
CoNNECTION.-At Porter, with Newark & Della
ware City railroad. At Townsend, with queen
Anne's and Kent Railroad. At Clayton with
more and Delaware Bay Railroad. At IlarrinZ-
ton. with Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Rail-
road. At Seaford with Cambridge and Seaferd
Rallroad. AT Delmar, with New York, Phlladel-
phia and Norfolk, WicOmlco and Poeomoke and
Peninsula Railroads.
J. b. HUTCHINSON, General Manager.
j. X. Wo2p. Zen. Pass. Agt.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06

1t is perhaps not generally known,
even in Brooklyn, that persons of re-
spectacle appearance may travel Oh the
street cars of that city when they have
no money. A woman who has left her
purse at home or man who has spent
all his change specializing in stocks, if
ordinarily well dressed, has only to tell
the conductor the condition of affairs,
on boarding car, to get carried to any
desired point
The conductor gives the penniless
passenger an envelope addressed to the
office of the company, in which to for
ward later the lacking nickel. This is
done as a matter of course, and only a
passenger who looks disreputable meets
with refusal
The system has been in operation
some time, which is apparent proof that
the passengers who thus get trusted for
their fares use the envelopes given them
for the purpose for which they are in
tended. New York Sun.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
THE USEFUL GIRAFFE.
Employed to Get Down Balls That Had
Lodged In the Roof Cutter.

Employed to Get Down Balls That Had
Lodged In the Roof Cutter.
GOOD naturedf'' said the old circus
man. "Why, the best in the world.
When the old mans hoy used to get G
baseball lodged i'll q gutter at the caves
of the house-this was when we were
off the road in winter quarters-he new
er used to get out at the scuttle and
climb down the roof and take the risk
of falling off and breaking his neck to
get it. He used to go to the barn and
get out the giraffe. The old IS footer
would trotaiong after the boy--he knew
what was wanted-till they came to
the houae and then walk along the side
looking down into the gutter as he went
along until he came to the ball, and
then ne would pick it up and bend his
head down and give it to the boy.
Zone day when the youngster had
thrown a ball up on the roof and had
seen it roll down into the gutter be
went as usual after the giraffe. When
the giraffe looked along the gutter that
day, there was no ball there. He took
his nose out of the gutter and looked
down at the boy in the yard with a
large interrogation mark in each eye as
much as to say:
"'Sure it didn't roll of somewhere
''And the boy said Sure, and then
the giraffe looked again, but it wasn't
there, and the giraffe so reported, with
a solemn shake of the head, and was
driven back to the barn.
"They wondered about this, for it
was the first time the giraffe had ever
failed to get the ball, and they knew it
must be there, but it was soon explain
ed. A day OF two later there came big
rainstorm. Instead of running big
noisy stream as usual the tin water pipe
from the roof ran just little bit Of a
stream, and the water that should have
run off in that way overhowed the gut
tiers and dripped in a thin sheet against
the side of the house. Then they knew
why the giraffe couldn't find the ball.
1t had rolled down the water pipe. -
New York Sun.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
Tot to Be Bunkoed.

The president of one of the leading
eastern colleges was recently journey
ing toward New York and found him
self in the same seat with an old man
whose general appearance betokened
the farmer. They soon fell into CONVEX
sation, and after saying that he was on
his fist visit to the metropolis the
farmer mentioned the name of the lit
tie village up among the hills of New
Hampshire from which he came and re-
marked that he supposed his friend had
never heard of it. "Oh, yes" said the
man. 81 was born there" Imagine his
establishment when the country man,
after staring at him several seconds, ex-
claimed, "See here, I've heard all about
you bunko fellers. and you can't get a
chance to bunlo mes So saying, he
grabbed his carpetbag and. marching
down the aisle, took a seat on the other
side of the car.-New York Times.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
The Old sandbox.

"Blotting paper. /" said a man of ma
ture years, "has been commonly used
for only about 40 years. Before that We
used sand, which was poured from
sand box out upon the paper. Enough
Of it adhered to the wet INK to keep it
from plotting. The rest was poured
back into the box. 1 think liked the
old sand box better than l do the mod.
ern blotting paper. Sometimes when
you opened a letter You would find sand
in the envelope. which had rubbed off
the letter in transit. But that didn't do
any hurt. and the letter itself was more
slightly to look at than the letter of to-
day. It did not shade of pale, where
fresh ink had been taken from the lines
bodily by the blotter-it was uniform
in color And the lines, fine and coarse,
were just as the writer made them-not
Blended or blurred or softeped or spread
out, more nearly uniform. They were
eleafsand precise and characteristic of
the writer.
''I liked the old sand box, but of
couae we couldn't use it now; we're
tco busy. New York Sun.
The Clayton call. (Clayton, Del.) 188?-189?, 1897-07-06
CORONATION SERVICES.
Tenure of Land on Condition of Personal
Duty to the Sovereign.

Tenure of Land on Condition of Personal
Duty to the Sovereign.
Florence Hayward describes Queen
Victorias coronation roll in The Cen
tuIy. The writer says:
After telling how the privy council
was formed into commission "to hear
the petitions of the lords, great men,
mobiles, knights and other with regard
to services, duties, attendances, offices,
fees and rights connected with the cere-
mony of coronation" the roll states
what these petitions were, or at least
such of them as were granted.
One was that the Duke Of Norfolk,
who claimed "the right to find for the
queen on her day of coronation a glove
for her majesty IS right hand and to sup
port the queens right arm on the same
day as long as her majesty shall hole
in her hand the royal scepter, the petit
toner holding the manor Of Worksop
by the aforesaid services. In othel
words, if the Duke of Norfolk ha6
failed to provide the glove or TO support
her majesty's arm at that particular.
time his ownership of Worksop manor
would have been invalidated and the
property have reverted to the crown.
Another petition was that of Barbara,
Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, who, as the
head of her family, claimed the right to
carry the great spurs before her majesty
on the day of her coronation and asked
that George, Lord Byron, be appointed
her deputy for the performance Of that
duty.
Yet another was that of Francis,
twelfth earl of Huntingdon. The earl
dom of Huntingdon had remained sus
pended for many years owing to the
tenth earl dying without issue. When.
however, this twelfth in the line of sue
oession succeeded in establishing, as C
descendant Of the second earl, his right
to the peerage, he also claimed the right
to carry one of the four swords Of state
in the coronation procession, this, as
well as other duties and services con-
nected with the ceremony, being the
condition of his tenure Of lands. Small
wonder, then, that in announcing the
omission of the proce ssion it was i'm
portant to set forth also that the nom
performance of duties connected with it
should entail no forfeitures.