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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-09-17
Seed Wheat for Sale.

Have for sale an excellent grade of Fu.tz
Seed Wheat.
G. NJ. ENDERLING,
septlO-3t Blake, Cecil Co.. Md.
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E1lankEts

Our Blanket lockers are.
overcrowded with rs fine q
selected stock of Blankets as
the mills can produce. They
come to us direct from the
makers, thus insuring the
right prices and qualities
Some special Blankets are.
offered very cheap.
600 pairs fine white gray and tan to1
25c. each.
100 pairs fine extra size tan and white
for 81 per pair,
so pairs extra fine California white
blankets at the very low price os
$3.50 per pair,
80 pairs of the 'Eiousekeuper Pride
fine white blanket, worth today SIS
We will sell for ;3.95.
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For Sale or Rent.
Port Deposit Store PROPERTY.

Store building containing rooms, situated
on east side of Main street near railroad
station, Port Deposit, Nd, one of the best
located stands and best fitted up house in the
county.for successful general merchandising,
having place FOR everything. Possession
given on short notice. inquire OF
q A. VANNORT
scptl0-it Port Deposit, Md
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Embroidered T'lEuAElS

Our Fall Line OF these very
popular goods direct from the
manufactures is here, and in
new and beautiful designs for,
50, 90 and IS cents per yard
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termined men resolved to run down tho outlaws. They came upon them at o'clock this morning, four miles north Of ThompsonS, on the Book Cliffs.
 The bandits made hard fight Cas- sidy and Walker were particularly des- perate in their resistance, and when both fell dead their rifles and six-shoot- CTS were empty. Lay, one of the men captured, assisted Cassidy in holding up Sales Agent Carpenter of the P V. Coal Company at midday at Castle Gate a year and a half ago. They se- cured S8000 on that occasion. Though a dozen posses were sent in pursuit of them from different points, they eluded them all, and escaped to their mountain dens in safety.
 The Identification of Cassidy was ac- complished through a picture taken when in the Wyoming penitentiary. Although Lay has been under sus- picion for long time, his connection with the cattle thieves was the first positive proof of his criminality. He has posed as good citizen of Vernal. whose occasional extended absences from home were never explained.
 In all, rewards aggregating several thousand dollars will come to the men who fought the battle this morning and rid the States of Utah and Wyoming and Colorado as we'll of two of the most desperate men roaming their borders.
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1t Is still the fact that William R. Shafter weighs 300 pounds. That that little lad of Kalamazoo County has not developed more physically than in the Knowledge and courage to give battle Is fact of which men must soon know
 Corbin loves Shafter, as brave men love one another, and so when I asked the adjutant general why General Shaf- ter was selected as the leader of the Cuban campaign l was not surprised at the answer.
 "On account of his rank and con- ceded ability" replied General Corbin, his vigor and good judgment. He Is one of the men in the army who has been able to do what he was ordered to do; not man to find out how things can't be done"
 General Shafter has blue eyes under heavy, shaggy brows-the blue eye which is at once kind and shrewd. with a hard glint, too, at moments. He has the fighting hook nose"; more than that, 1t is commandingly Roman. He has Fftz Lee chin that is at once firm and jolly. A heavy mustache of gray, and white hair, parted in the mid dle Plenty of room for brains between the ear line of the facial angle and the top Of his head-and this head rests with comedy poise on big broad should CTS A man not quite six feet-great soldiers have rarely been SO high-with comparatively short legs and great length of trunk for breathing and di- gestion. for which most men of en- durance and distinguished action have been noted.
 He stands heavy and swarthy. and. one would say. grim, were not there a
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EM OF THE OUTLAWS
TERROR/ZED FOUR STATES,
That

AST month story appeared in
 The Sunday Call narrating that
 the Governors of Wyoming, Utah A/and Colorado had combined to run
 down the Butch" Cassidy gang of outlaws that had been terrorizing five States for several years.
 Since the publication of the story the outlaws have been run to earth, the chief members killed and the remain der put where they will do no further harm to the community.
 The following special to The Sunday Call. dated Salt Lake, May 13, describes the end of the outlaws:
 Butch" Cassidy, leader of the Rob bers' Roost" gang. was killed this morn ing near Thompsons Springs, on the Rio Grande Western, POO miles south of this city. George Walker, one of Cassidy's lieutenants, was also killed, while Lay another leader, was taken prisoner, along with a fourth man, named Thompson. The killing was done by posse from Price, Utah, which has been on the trail since Sunday. There were eight men in the posse.
 On Sunday the bandits, then five in number, held up two men in Box Can yon, near Price and drove off bunch of cattle. AS similar performances have been frequent lately. a number of de-
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Medic. But there must be a seedtime well as a visible harvest. All living things conceived in the dark and In the silence and those who see beneath the surface believe that this despsed nineteenth century is the birthtime of and better art; that already art begins to show higher ideals more delicate feeling, more honest effort.
 Art for arts sake" has been the cry of the past; for goods will be the watchword of the future If Michael Angelo painted as painted be- fore since it is because his faith and sincerity were greater than man has since felt.
 Autokolsky, the Russian sculptor and art critic, says: You see in primitive pure faith that touches you Enter the convent fast before you work toll your knees be affected to tears. and you will reach the beatifc heights Michael Angelo reached And if you cannot do that, if you cannot passionatey love your God, then love no less the hu soul, it's joys and sufferings.'
 A mans rise higher than his soul but "a mans reach should exceed his grasp" The reach of for arts sake is not high heaven goods sake is reach to the throne of God.
 Tosto has been for years the evangelist of the doctrine art for goods sake; and prominent only perfect when its motive is pure eevating and above all things. honest.
 Mans ideas of right have in the past been obtained external authority. To-day the seat of authority Is being shifted to his soul.
 Conscience educated by self-control and the Gold Rule is the law of living; and art in any form, pressing good mans innermost life convictions will be honest art.
 As man and more appreciates his personal heritage of likeness to the Father he will surely show that will transcend all past art even as the of the 'old masters transcends the weak limitations of them.
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ATTY. GERTRUDE G. GREY.
 Carson City, ks~

beauty From solitary globe revolving in silence, popuous world teeming with life goes singing it's way.
 It Is long since the beginning yet learning brings to us at the of the twentieth century the best of all that has been, and from analogy promise for the future.
 died and on new occasions the time has found the 
 Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay.
 O that that earth which kept the world in
 Should patch a wall to expel the winters flaw!
 Tn the three epochs of greatest intellectual develop rnent-the Pericean, the Augustian and the Eliza bethan the best efforts of their sages peans those who went before.
 There is a tendency exalt "the good old times. :" Mountains in the distance seem purple glories Yet the traveller who crossed them remembers the toll and dust of the way.
 The best good of humanity is merely relative nont of view The Host arts' filled the need of a mast and gone generation. Though recovered their place is filled by things new and of present, nractical utility. The progressive inventions enrich those that are and the future surely will hold better in
 The great minds whose light shines through the aees were brighter by with the ignorance and darkness of their times. In day intelligence and education are almost universal and if no Demos themes no Raphael, Mozart Shakespeare H. I,,mnes our decade the aggregate of erudftion phil osophy science and inventive genius amply balances the scales in our favor.
 The past has been good; the present s better but there Is hope of perfection through effort the f- ture for the children of man.
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cited brigadier general.
 A brevet for colonel came for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Fair Oaks, Va.
 His commission as colonel ofsthe First Infantry was vacated May i, 1897, by his commission as brigadier general succeeding which he was put in com mand of the Department of California, with headquarters at San Francisco.
 With the breadth of this continent for
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DOUGLAS TILOEN,
 Sculptor

MT. Crawford's observation may to a certain ex- tent answer your question. I think flourish the best where isolation and concentration are the greatest.
 Israel produced her best and wisest men when her clannishness preserved in its purest form, and this greatness has not been repeated since she became scattered nation.
 Greece greatest when she was either on de- fense or at the end of her of conquest Her arts disappeared with rising of the Roman power
 Rome great in arts, but we observe that she exceed in them only when she began to cease to difuse her energies abroad.
 The shakespearean age just antedated the coloni- zation of America and elsewhere which have ever since engrossed the attention of England and called her intellectual powers into other channels
 Like the small states of Italy that gave birth to Michael Angelo and Raphael, Germany was the brightest when she divided isolated Goethe, Schiller and Hene rose in those days.
 France nowadays leads in art and 1t Is we'll known that, of all the European nations she abroad the least number of colonlss republic the midst of monarchies she has been for thirty years an ample of isolation and perhaps also greatest intel lectual concentration.
 It Is simply conditions that give birth to great ages In the world Is neither progressing retro grading stationary, and when the requisite con- ditions are repeated will likely have great mas- ters again. Those conditions have nothing do with the size of the brain
 California is far from the European influence She may be the art center of America, because as Marion Crawford suggested, she will the greatest in isolation and consequently concentration.
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hint of good humor playing underneath the composure of self control.
 Shafter was twenty-five years old when the civil war came. He entered the Seventh Michigan Infantry as first lieutenant in 1861. He served with dis tinction through the war, having been consecutiVely major of the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, lieutenant colonel and colonel of the United States In- fantry, and was in March, 1865, brev-
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wait for the fullness of time.
 do not concede that, because do not know them there are people of wonderful genius born into the world at the present time for think that there may be many, only circumstances do not draw them out.
 When a genius is born into an environment which calls forth the best that is in him humanity will re- peat. If not outdo, the triumphs of the past.
 The future is more likely to produce high types or mentality than the past because modern Ire ana modern education puts more people in the way of showing what is in them than did the con d1tions of former years.
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almost thirty years between him and the East, it was small wonder that the people of the East sought to know more of this man of the hour. In these years General Shafter had not been idle.
 He had said General Corbin, served with distinction since the war in the Indian campaigns of Texas, New Mexico and along the Rio Grande as lieutenant colonel of the Twenty fourth Infantry"
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Y r AS the human brain reached the highest point
 many who, looking back down the long E vista of the ages. seeing the proudly = blazoned on the banners of past centuries, and
 remembering what made those world famous and that world enduring, 1t is will answer this query ah1rnatfvey.
 Where" say they, '1n modern times you find painters and scuptors and musicians and poets even artisans-such those whose day Is over? Can we rival the pictures of the old masters?-the statues which the inspiration and the de- spair of our gifted scuptors; the music which, played first rudey fashioned and imperfect nstru rnents has down to precious heritage lift ing our souls nearer heaven whenever hear its wondrous strains and perfect harmonies the poems which fire our hearts soothe passions they of their first hearers in long by? And what of the hands that built the pyramids and carved the great Sphynx? Surely nothing better fin these lines has been since given to the world and surely the brain of humanity In them finds its limitations"
 Others there are, however, who think differently and augur from the grand accomplishments of the past even grander things for the future. They be- ieve progress and evolution in all things and what has been gives them infinite faith in what is to be.
 It is a question assuredly worth thinking of and worth discussing and it has been propounded to number of deep thinkers-who being persons vitally interested in different lines of worlds work and viewing the whole field of human deavor and accomplishment from their individual etandponts observation have answered 1t accord ing to their honest convictions
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B was only a farmers boy,
 tough and lean as hickory, fol-
 mps hHe the se S0gs sogths Dn DaFs5ootSd bo %sn 9 that was to go into the shock that was to go Into the stack"
 It was an old army comrade who was talking, and he was talking of General William F. Shafter, the man who leads the first army of the United States to Cuba
 When these two comrades stood near one another in the battle of Nashville during the civil war there were behind them, in the shape of hospital corps, men who gathered up the slain that were left on the field by the scythe of battle, and, added the old comrade, it may be that Shafter in those days might just as well as not have thought of the time when as a bare-legged boy he was walking behind the reapers through the harvest fields of Michigan
 He came from what Lincoln called the plain people; he did not go to West Point; he is a self-made soldier if there can be such a thing It were better to say that he was born a soldier and that even had he tried to alter. his career he could not, in spirit at least, ever have been other than a soldier"
 The man who was talking was Henry c. Corbin, adjutant general of the United States army-Corbin. the man who was brevetted for gallant and mer- itorious services in the battle of De- catuD Ala; again for gallant and meri- toriOus services in the battle of Nash vile, and who is still the gentle soldier. If General Corbin failed to state it,
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REV. SARAH PRATT CARR,
 Lemoore, Cal.

comes. Nothing in nature Is repeated Two springs never bloom alike. Man forgets that nature ends and waits. That in the divine eternal symphony of his hour Is but one note struck to be sure In proper time and place. yet struck but once, to be repeated in such relation He thinks that what has been must be; but the truth s what has been will never be again He gll,es his the past and cries: That which Is best Is gone never to return"
 This is why quarrel about art, why we worship the old masters and see no new masters of to- day
 To nature. humanity Is one. She takes plenty of time for its perfectng. What is undone to-day she finishes tomorrow. There periods in buman life which appear to be decadent but which are only periods of shifting forces of changing activities or be- liefs of man himself such changes false polt- tca life, wrong ideals declining religious standards
 Any all of these influences may operate to make temporary decline in art But not any all of them enough to stop the progress of humanity on ward and upward forever
 It is true that to-day we write plays like Shakespeare's; have no players like Rachel and Booth, no singer to Patts mantle, no second Mozart. new Sistine Madonna, no modern Venus de
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PROF. R. R.ALUccHEsI.

lasting supernatural impulse
 From literary. artistic and musical standpoint there believe in the retrogresson of the world nor in the deterioration of the human brain There may be moments of stagnaton nay, there have been periods or stagnation and history tells that they have been also very long, but as the elevation of spirit evidently is decreed by the goodness off God the human mind is bound to progress and with if the whole world.
 Homer, Virgil Dante, Goethe and Shakespeare mark many luminous periods, thought to be unsur- passabJe by the people of each of those periods.
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When told Marion Ora wford that l was isolated In Califor- mia, he replied: You have con- centration here which is not to be obtained abroad "
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DR. JAMES H. LOW,

Compared to some of our giant predecessors-giants in intel lect, in moral and physical courage, and in all that makes man the noblest work of God
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WILLIAM KEITH,
 ATtlEt

in art there heights to which few have climbed n the past which have far, been unattainable to au others who tried to follow in their footsteps
 Take for instance, the architecture of ancient Greece or the sculptures of Phidias which the work of hands that have been dust for 28o0
 +bere has never been anything done to excel them nothing even equal them. They are models still as tbav have been through all these past centuries One
 would think that having them constantly before would be able to improve upon them, at least that couId learn from them to do as well, but far have not We study them, admire them We try to cony them but go further.
 Perhaps though the human brain working in other lines things which just good in their way We are too modern things to them at their best or judge fairly of their artistic vauethose who come after will from different stand point and more clearly. They will what has been accomplished not what trying to accomplish; +he best work is the work which will live and by that work the age will be judged.
 do not say that there may not be in the future men of genius as transcendent that which distn- guished the masters of old.
 Real genius never and never will be common eIft--Witness how few there who have stood the fest of years things in this world work pendulum fashion there is swing forward and swing back ward and a swing forward again. Recurrence Is the rule and we have only to wait long enough to 1t carried out
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Is art declining? Has humanity reached it's cli- maxi To the individual the present hour is all of life. Tomorrow never
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Nature. the source of all,
 makes growth of some kind imperative. From a nebulous mass the earth haa become A. thing of
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This is an unanswerable Ques- ton; at least 1t is one which we ourselves cannot answer. In many ways the world is certainly progressing, and yet
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ARTHUR 4. TAYLOR
 Prop. Santa cra1 Suf.

balanced by the new discoveries of to-day The brain mower which was developed by masters of art in other ee is utilized in invention making in this age and the masters of literature in our age may be the editors of newspapers in another
 If the world "do move" toward the evolution of @ sunerior race 1t is along cycles of time infinite in their duration as to be almost inconceivable. 14.
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7he Army OF CUBAN WNAS/ON

General William F. Shafter "rosc from the ranks" He 25 years old when the Civil War broke He the Seventh Michigan Infantry in 1861 first lieutenant and served through the At its close he breveted brgadier-generaL For long time he has been ot the Department of California; with headquarters in San Francisco.
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o edn
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Certainly not. It would be a denial of the necessary su- preme evolution of the Cos- mos set to motion by an ever
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I do not believe that the brain
 of mankind has by any means reached its highest develop ment. Because we have con- cluded to call certain arts
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The brain of man. kind is steadily devel- oping, but much is lost to our observation because nature never courts straight lines
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-13

the nominations Of city officers to be
elected by the popular vote In the city OF
Charlottesville.
To protect game and birds in the coun-
ties OF Greenesville and Sussex. and 10
prohibit the sale Of partridges, etc.
To enlarge the powers OF the Richmond
Traction Company.
TO amend sections l 10 a. inclusive OF
an act to incorporate the Southeastern
and Atlantic railroad.
To amend the act creating and the act
amending the charter Of the trustees or
the Baptist Orphanage OF Virginia, and TO
create a new charter for said corporation.
TO authorize the Board Of Trustees OF
Hoge Academy to convey the property
and franchise Of tho said academy 10 the
president and trustees Of Hampden-Sidney
College.
TO prevent tho adulteration Of candy.
To amend section 10 Of the charter OF
the town OF Manassas
To require employers of females In
stores, shops, offices. and manufactures
az clerks. operatives, or helpers In any
business. trade or occupation, TO provide
seats for such female employees, and pro-
viding n penalty for failure or refusal TO
provide such seats.
To authorize r. O. Clarke 10 erect q
wharf at Phoebus in the county OF ELIZA
beth City.
To authorize the United States Govern
ment to purchase lands on the south
branch Of the Elizabeth river, adjoining
the Gosport navy-yard.
TO allow Or. i. Il. Hunley to establish
n ferry from Grayson's Island. I'm Ma
thcws county, over TO the mainland IN
said county across the Piankitank river
To authorize the school trustees Of
ClintwOod School District, I'm Dickinson
county, to issue bonds upon said school
district for the purpose Of completing the
school-house IN said district, and to au-
thorize the Board Of Supervisors Of Dick
enson county to levy a tax on the pro-
perty OF said school district for the pur-
post OF paying interest and discharging
said bonds.
To authorize the clerk OF the School
Board Of Clintwood Town School District
10 take and report a census of the school
population Of said district for the year
1898
To protect game and song birds In the
county Of King William. and to prescribe
a penalty for the violation OF this act
To permit T.. T.. Trotman to erect a
wharf on his land at Lone Pine Point"
on the Nansemond river, in Nansemond
county
To regulate the Governors staff
To amend and re-enact the charter or
the town OF Culpeper.