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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-10-15
The New VelVets

What a magnificent gathering!
over six hundred kinds and color
ings in the collection. And how
lustrous and rich the colors are
each fully developed coIor.tone
that shows the hand of the master
color blender. These exquisite
shades: poppy flower, corn flower,
sky blues, new rose, turquoise,
olive. national blue, navy blue,
cadet blue, Napoleon blue, huzzar
blue, royal blue, mignonette- green,
beaver drab, leaf green, bright
cherry, cardinal, plum.bloom, all
the new browns, the choice tints
of petunia, lavenders, lilacs, violet
and the gorgeous purple. This hint
of the color scheme.
And yet equally handsome are
the qualities. Not piece is &C.
copied until its goodness is thor
oughly proven.
There are no better veIvets, no
better colorings, none more beaut-
fully finished than these shown
today.
The colored Velvets,
75c to S. yard.
The black Velvets,
75c to 81 yard.
Cut in any length from Is of a
yard to 20 yards, either straight or
on the bias.
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Deople's Column.

This Column is open for communications
on subjects that concern the public, ,ohen suit.
a6ty etprtSsed, and signed by ne Dritpr
'ohose name must be published ,oih the arti-
Gle.
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For Sale.

FOR SALE-One Holstein- Friesian Bull
Calf. Seven of the ancestors of this calf have
average butter records of 80 pounds and 3
records of % pounds and II ounces in days.
ALFRED FASSITT.
June25 Sylmar, Cecil Co., Md.
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Registration.

The work of the registers this year is now
over with the exception of revision day, De-
tober 49,
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Reward Offered.

Lost at Elkton Station in ladies' waiting
room. Wednesday last, upper set OF teeth.
Finder will receive reward on leaving them
at the CECIL WING Office.
oct15-1w
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and improvements; exceptionally well located.
l.. M. HAINES,
sep1S-tf Elkton, Md.
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State, County and Dog Taxes in
said county: for the year 1898, he will sit in
the several Election Districts, as follows:
October 18th, at Jackson & Shorts
Cecilton, First district.
October 18th, at the office of George
X. Houck, Chesapeake City, Second dis.
trict.
October 18th, at Henry Hess, Fair Hill,
Fourth district.
October Goth, at J. Harvey Clark's, CAL
vert, Ninth district.
October 2lst, at Grason's Hotel, Rising
Sun, Sixth district.
October god, at Flyers store, Colora,
Sixth district.
October 9th, at A. l.. Barry's, Port
Deposit, Seventh district
October 25th, at Andrew Anderson's
office, North East, Fifth district.
October Goth, at Woodrow's Hotel,
Conowingo, Eighth district.
Between the hours of a. M, and 3 D. M.
As the law provides, discount of per
cent. will be allowed on all State and County
Taxes paid before November LIST. Taxpayers
will please take notice that taxes are due and
payable on September LIST, and that on all bills
unpaid on January 1st, interest will be
charged and collected from September LIST.
After January lst delinquents will be warned
that unless settlement in full be made before
April LIST, the claims against them will be
placed In the Hands of the Sheriff of the
County, who shall proceed to seize their prop
erty and dispose OF the same to pay the taxes
due, with the charges thereon and all costs of
sale. Dogs and shuts whose owners have no
other property, unless tax is paid, will be
killed.
The Treasurer would, therefore, respect
fully urge all taxpayers to pay promptly,
and If possible, in time to obtain the benefit
of the discount
WILLIAM T. FRYER,
octl4w Treasurer.
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Plaid Dress Goods

Plaids for waists and dresses.
Bright Tartan plaids in cloths and
Poplins-more than a hundred and
fifty styles we counted in these
alone. Three hundred and fifty
styles in all. And a hint the
tailors have discovered the making
of smart costumes of plaids this
season. They'll be in evidence
very soon in tailor-made dresses.
Prices range from 20c up to s1.s5
for the best Velour Plaids.
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OCTOBER
Treasurer NotiCe.

In pursuance of an Act of Assembly. passed
at the January Session 1886 Chapter $40, the
undersigned, Treasurer of Cecil county. here
by gives notice that for the purpose of
receiving the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-29
 HAS TT CU1NGED9

There are many crumbs of comfort. One of them Is that it is only "showery'' instead of rainy. Another is the asser- tion of distinguished scientists that bad odors are not necessarily hostile to health. Speaking of bad odors, has anybody noticed the smell that rolls in from the mud flats of New Haven har- bQr when the tide is out nowadays or noWanights? Is it possible that our magnificent harbor, formerly the roost- ing place of the Wyandotte, is becom- ing dirty and that the smell from it is not scientifically good for the smellers thereof? Will not some old town-born inhabitant who can do the subject jus tice prepare "a paper" for the Histori- cal Society on the old time smell from the mud flats and thus give us basis of comparison? The new-time smell is so voluminous and so weighty that we ought to know whether it is something to brag about or gloss over in describ- ing New Havens advantages. If it is just as it used to be fifty or hundred years ago of course it is all right. If it isn't 1t may not be.
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NOT AN OBLATE SPHEROID.

Modern Science Indicates That the
 Earth is Something Else-A Tetra-
 dron the Shape Accepted as Correct
 by the Best Scientific Minds-How
 the Earth's Dimensions Are Figeur-
 ed-The Resistance of Pendulums
 Versus the Laws of Gravity.
 In the midst of war the pursuits of science are not interrupted, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Unit ed States is contributing it's share to- ward a very interesting study of the size and shape of the earth. So quiet ly do the scientific bureaus of Wash ington go on with their work as almost to be lost sight of in the turbulence of politics and the struggles of arms. But it seems that some of the questions supposed from the text books of the grammar school to be settled are still open for discussion, and attracting the keenest attention of some of the worlds greatest students.
 That the form of the earth is that of an oblate spheroid, or a sphere slightly fiattened at the poles, was a settled question, is commonly believed when,
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PLAIN.

What an uninteresting person that Mrs. Lotterby is. ''She ought not to be so. She has travelled enough and ing" II know, but she never seems to have anything the matter with her. Cleveland Leader
 Don't you think this country ought to have extended the olive branch to Spain?" asked the man with queer ideas. Tt did," was the prompt an- swer. 'The difficulty was that the only way to make any impression was to strip the leaves off it and put it where it would hurt" ."--Washington Star.
 A Disheartening Contrast--"who is that Spaniard?" Hes Don Jose Brag- gadocio, the famous matador." T SUD- pose his look of gloom is caused by his countrys impending fate" ''No, Somebody who desired to humble his pride has taken him through Chi cago slaughter-house to show him how we kill bulls in this Wash ington Star.
 That baby of ours," he said, decis- lively, lis to be christened tomorrow if I have to go to law to have it done. You see, his mother is something of a hero worshipper and, while it was all right at the start, now that it has reached a point where he is to be known as Dewey Bagley Hobson Shaf- ter Schley Sampson Roosevelt Smith think it is time to put an end to it.''-- Chicago Post.
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GoID IN sEA EATER.

When the Rev. MT. Jernegan, for merly of this State, went into the busi- ness of extracting gold from sea water there was some surprise, although he asserted that he had good thing. Now that he has gone to Europe with a lot of money there is also some surprise, although his assertion that he had a good thing fs now seen to have been true.
 It is cheering to know that the Rev. MT. Jernegan's fitting isn't a fatal blow to the gold extracting business. One of the directors says that ''the secret process is known to every mem Der of the board of directors, and that consequently Mr. Jernegans departure for Europe does not affect the opera tions of the company in any degree.
 If the gold extracting process works as well for those whom MT. Jernegan has left behind as it worked for him they will have no reason to complain. There's any quantity of gold in sea water, and the man who, knows how to get it out, as MT. Jernegan did, has what is vulgarly known as "a cinch.''
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ONE VITO CAN SEE.

All the Germans are not blind. Dr. Sartorius, professor of political econo- my at Strassburg University, has just published a pamphlet in which he strongly opposes a customs war be- tween Germany and America on the ground that the former country would gain little from it. Professor Sartorius recommends rather the establishment of a commercial-political modus vivendi between the two countries, and, as a basis for this, proposes that the impor tation of live cattle and fresh beef into Germany, which has been suspended since the outbreak of Texas fever in the United States in 1894, should now again be permitted under the control of specially appointed officers of health. regarded in Washington as valuable, and the Americans might not then be disinclined to conclude reciprocal treaty with Germany, in which they would make corresponding concessions.
 This proposal has not had very cor dial reception in Berlin, according to the correspondent of the London Stan dard in that city, for the opinion gen. orally prevails there that serious front will have to be made, sooner or later, against Americas commercial policy. The old idea of central-European cus- toms alliance against America, he says, has again been mooted, and Is being taken up somewhat warmly. It is ar- gued that if the continental, Powers should unite in 8 customs war against the United States they would have every prospect of success.
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can tell how much nearer you are to the centre of the earth at one place than the another. At the pole there would be no centrifugal force, while the force of gravity at the equator is 2Se times that force. If the earth were going seventeen times faster, the cen- trifugal force, which increases by the square of velocity, would be 2S9 times greater, and bodies would have no weight at all, since the centrifugal force. there would just balance gravity. These pendulum observations have been carried on by the Coast Survey for some time, and in that service I have swung pendulums in Africa, South America and the Sandwich Is- lands. From these observations we have been able to estimate the flatten- ing of the earth, independent of the measurement of the arcs.
 The most important piece of work bearing on the determination of the figure of the earth that America has contributed to the general Knowledge Is probably the oblique are which we have measured from Maine to Mobile. Its line cuts down along the Appalach- ian region and runs from the north eastern corner of Maine to Mobile. An other is the transcontinental arc which starts at Cape May and goes on the thirtynint parallel to San Francisco, which is something rather unique in that the longest line ever observed in both directions is found thereon. That line is 1s3 miles long, extending from Mount Ellen, having an elevation of 11,00O feet, to Uncompahgre, which is about 14,0U feet high. The accuracy that is attained in this work is re- markable. There are inevitable dis crepancies in the measurement of an- gles, and it is supposed that you can- not preserve the accuracy of the base line forever, but in this oblique arc they measured base line at Kent Isle, Md, and another at Atlanta, Ga, and they carried out this triangulation of each base toward the other, and met somewhere in North Carolina to com- pare the meeting lines. They could cal- culate on either base, and the result was that the lines, about thirty miles
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AN ANNExED PROBLEM.

One of the problems we have an- nexed with Hawaii is the contract la- bor problem, otherwise known as slav- cry. One view of the matter is that of the American Federation of Labor. Of a population estimated at about 100, 900, asserts the Federation, Hawaii con- tains 50,OO0 contract slave laborers-sO per cent. Chinese and Japanese and 20 per cent. Portuguese and South Sea Islanders. The contracts under which these laborers work usually run for seven years, are specifically enforceable by the laws of Hawaii, and provide that the laborers have no right to change their employers or leave their employment. Most of the contract la bor in Hawaii is employed in the sugar industry, and the employers have al- ways insisted that the industry cannot be successfully conducted without this species of slave labor in the islands. The annexation of Hawaii under such conditions amounts, in the opinion of the Federation, to the admission of a slave State, the representatives of which would necessarily work and vote for the enslavement of labor in gen. eral The sugar planters of Louisiana are brought into direct competition with the cheap contract labor of Ha- waii, competition which will prove ruinous to them If, says the Fedora
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E.1SHION NOTES.
Hair Fashion Makers at Rest.

There is absolutely no positive rule for the hair. Pompadour is no longer new, but it is still in vogue. Perhaps the only suggestion of novelty is a combination of pompadour and part. The hair is rolled back loosely to either side immediately from the part. This would seem to suggest the return of that horrid fashion of some years ago according to the dictates of which the front locks were parted in the center, and each side rolled into snaky twist that looped forward to the cheek and was drawn back behind the ear. This Is not intended to alarm, it is just n
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warning, for it is we'll to realize where fashion may be tending and then if you adopt it you can guard against ex- aggeration.
 Deep red is the only dye that is fa- vored for the hair. Recommenders of 1t claim that it is not subject to the fault of allowing the hair to grow dark at the roots. It wears off evenly all over and needs to be renewed every two weeks or so. It does not seem to hurt tn hair, and as a rule the color is becoming to all skins, but if the hair grows dull and ugly woman should give it a course of brushing, forgetting that there are such things as hair dyes
 Sherpherdess hats are worn a great deal this year and youthful face shows off to charming advantage be- heath them. Black is the color to bring out the wearer's complexion, and more summer hats are in black than for many seasons. The hat sketched here was fancy black straw, and was trimmed with wired loops and wings of black Chantilly lace. These were held in place in the center by a green and white satin bow. White flowers were placed beneath the brim at the sides and in back.
 The brown chiffon veil Is again worn for country and the water. It is put on loose over the underveil of dotted or plain net. It saves the eyes, keeps the complexion free from dust and equalizes the wearer's color even though long day may make her too flushed for beauty. There has been some effort to adopt green yelling for this use, but though easy for the eyes it is not so becoming as the brown.
 FLORETTE.
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By a delicate forethought the center is left as open and aerial as possible so as to veil the beauty of the bare should CTS, which it is meant to shelter. On this light ground of rare point d'Alen- con are sparingly scattered small lilies, while at each angle glitter the imperial crown and monogram of the empress A. F. (Alexandra Peterborough in gold.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Gent a Word each in- sertion. Five Gents Word for full week tseven timesl
 Display advertisements, per Inch, one in, inrc sertion, S120; each subsequent Insertion. 4o cents; one week, S3.20; one month. Slo one year, $40 .r
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, ID cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals, 30 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to pe unob1ectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
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ton, the Sandwich Islands, as part of the United States, are permitted to continue Q species of labor repugnant to the free institutions of our country, there is no safeguard against the eX- tension of the same kind of contract labor to the sugar industry of Louis jana and the cotton fields of the south ern States.
 Let us hope that the situation isn't quite as bad as that, but it is certain that freedom is even more important than even the successful cultivation of sugar.
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There is occasionally something in name. Louis Satan was prostrated by the heat at Passaic, New Jersey, the other day.
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They cheerfully say that there's hot wave coming. Here's hoping that it will not be as wet a hot wave as the one that has been rolling over us.
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The celebrated French cave hunter, M. Martel, has explored natural pit and made there most remarkable dis covery. After descending vertical shaft for two hundfed feet he reached an immense hall, sloping downward, at the lower end of which was virgin forest of stalagmites, resembling palm and pine trees. Some of these are of great beauty, and one, over ninety feet in height, nearly reaches the roof of the cavern.
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Dog taxes are giving trouble to Ger man military men. The Herzog Karl of Mecklenburg Strelitz infantry regi- ment No. 43 enjoys the distinction of being the only regiment in the German army whose bass drum is drawn in a little cart by dogs. It won the honor by it's gallantry in the war of 1866 against Austria, when it captured the bass drum and cart of an Austrian regiment. It refused to pay tax on the dogs at Koenigsberg, on the ground that they were useful and not luxury, but was compelled to pay, as the law gives full power to tax all dogs to the local authorities. The Bluecher Huz- zars at Stolp objected to paying taxes on the officers pack of hounds, as they were necessary implements of war, used to train officers and horses, but were likewise obliged to yield to the slimitless right to taxing all dogs"
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According to the French papers the nation has just presented to the en- press of Russia a specimen of modern lace worthy of her, a real masterpiece of lacemaking. It consists of a cob web scarf, two yards long and one ward wide in variety of colored Chan lilly lace never attempted before and sufficiently light to be carried off by butterflies. The floral pattern of the scarf displays no less than twenty diff
 ferent shades. Its border of conven- tional narcissi inclose a frame of two iuterlaced rose-tree stems, bearing re- spectfully La France and yellow roses,
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The Swiss Federal Council has sanc- toned the plans submitted by the Jura- Simplon railroad for the construction of the Simplon tunnel, and has also ap- proved the estimate of cost. The Swiss government, also, has definitely granted the guarantee of the confed- eration for the Simplon loan negotiated by the cantonal banks. It will com municate it's decisions to the Italian government in order that the latter, on its side, may also approve the finan- cial staetment furnished by the direc- tors of the railroad. When this has been done, the notifications of the Sim plon treaty concluded between Italy and Switzerland will be exchanged, af- ter which the contractors concession will be granted. It is hoped that all these prelininaries will be completed by the 1st of August.
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Make way for Woman. It is said that Miss Elastic, Scotch woman, is about to undertake scientific expedi- tion to the South Sea. Fifteen women have signified their intention of joining the expedition, for which a barkentine is being fitted in Sydney harbor. Miss Elastic proposes to make scientific col lections and to take meteorological ob- servations. Miss Prince, botanist, will be in the party, and conchology and anthropology will be studied. They intend to visit the New Hebrides, the Friendly Islands and other groups.
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The Philadelphia Commercial Mu- scum says that Porto Rico Is we'll adapted by soil and climate not only for the growing of cotton, but for the manufacture of cotton fabrics as well, though for the growth of the plant it will be necessary to engage native labor or to secure help from Cuba Of the more than one thousand streams upon the island sixty are navigable, and many of them could be utilized to fur nish power, which is an important con- sideration, since all the coal used must be brought from this country; and all the chief towns are connected by rail- road, though communication with the interior IS only possible by OK teams.
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