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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-14

ley, April 90 with Clifton Kirk. vice-presi-
dent, and Miss Rhoda Armour. secretary
The following program was rendered: Sing
ing by the club; solo. Miss Nellie Rowland;
recitation, Miss Bertha johnson; reading
Samuel Krauss; duet, Don't Stay After 10,
Boys Misses Maggie Miller and Nellie Row
land. Referred question, "What Nation Con-
quers in the end?" answered by Rudolph
Miller-"d determination. Music was fur
nished by Misses Maggie Miller and Rhoda
Brown.
After refreshments were partaken OF. the
rest OF the evening was spent in playing
social games On account of the stormy
weather there was not Il full attendance, but
those present after having fully enjoyed
themselves, departed for their homes at a
late hour to meet at the home of Miss Nellie
Rowland, on Friday evening, May 20.
The many friends of Mrs. Samuel b. Foard
of Elkton. who has been critically i'll at the
Hotel Elkton, will learn with pleasure that
her condition has taken II change for the
better and that her early recovery is now
looked for. Mrs. Foard's life was despaired
Of
DR.. Harry E. Clemson, of Port Deposit,
was in Elkton for a few hours on Tuesday.
Mrs. A. w. Evans has returned from Sara
toga Springs.
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To Index Records,
CHAPTER $50.


AN ACT to require the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for Cecil County to re. record
certain indexes and land records in his
office.
SECTION ]. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Cecil County be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to rc-rccord
i'll suitable record book or books, such indexes
ana land records now of record in the Clerk S
ONCE of said county, as may in the opinion OF
said Clerk be necessary to be re-rccordcd
provided that such land records and indexes
as are thus rc-recorded shall have the same
effect in law as those from which copied.
SEC. .. And be ii enacted That the cost of
said book or books shall be paid by the County
commissioners of said county, and that said
Clerk shall be entitled to and rec 1--WE the same
fees and compensation for said work that he
is now entitled to and receives for similar
County Commissioners of Cecl County
SEC. 3. And he it enacted That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, April 7, 1898.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
JOHN WRIT RANDALL.
President of the Senate
LOUIS SCHAEFER,
Speaker OF the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates:
| hereby certify that the aforegong s a
true copy Of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, 1898.
u. HOUSEHOLDER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
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Agricultural Society.
CHAPTER 3i6.

CHAPTER 3i6
AN ACT to repeal Article !, of the charter
of the Cecil County Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, and tore-enact the
same with amendments
SECTION ]. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly OF Maryland, That Article seven of
the Charter, as set out in its certificate of in
corporation, as the Cecil County Agricultural
and Mechanical Society, a corporation duly
formed under the provisions of Article twenty
three of the Code uI Public General Laws OF
the State of Maryland, be, and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enact"d with amend
ments so as to read as follows:
Article I, the society shall meet annually
in the town of Elkton in said county, on the
second Tuesday Of January in each year, at
eleven O'Clock, and at such other times and
places as the Board Of Directors may appoint
and at said annual meeting a Board of Direc-
tors shall be elected by n majority Of the
stockholders present al said meeting: and
in default of an election the old board shall
hold over, and Il majority of the stakeholder
present at any meeting of said Society shall
Toe empowered and authorized to transact al
the business Of said Society.
Approved, April 7. l-98
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
JOHN WRIT RANDALL,
President of the Senate
LOUIS SCHAEFER,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House 0.
Delegates:
| hereby certify that the aroregoing is
true copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, 1898
L. HOUSEHOLDER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.
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WhOOpinp Cough,

had a little boy who was nearly dead from
an attack of whooping cough. My neighbors
recommended Chamberain's Cough Remedy.
did not think that any medicine would help
him, but after giving him few doses of that
remedy | noticed an Improvement ard one
bottle cured him entirely. 1t is the best cough
medicine l ever had in the house,. l..
Moore, South Burgettstown. Pa. For sale by
Il. b. Frazer Elkton.
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Port Deposit.
CHAPTER 159.

WAL LIN l''.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 25S and 267 of
OF the Code of Public Local Laws,
title Cecil County, subtitle Port
Deposit" and to re-enact the same
with amendments.
SECTION l. Re it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Sections 25S aud
o., of Article :, of the Cod" of Public Local
Laws. tide Cecil County," subtitle Port
Deposit" he, and the same are. hereby re-
pcalCd and re- enacted so as to It adj as follows:
25S. They shall have power to levy and col
lCct taxes in the town, not exceeding in any
one year fifty cents on the one hundred dol
lars, ON the asscssabc property of said town,
and also for the purpose OF grading ana paw
ing the streets OF said town, and shall also,
for the purpose of grading and paving the
streets of said town, have power to levy such
taxes upon tue property fronting on the
street, or portion thereof to he paved as will
pay the cost of grading and paving the same;
also to have power to levy and collect such
taxes on dogs as they shall by ordinance pre-
81 ribc, the same to be collected rs other town
taxes Also to have power to collect from
travelling shows or exhibits that may come to
the town. such tax rs the bylaws have
power To levy.
261. The President and Commissioners may
borrow on the tai h OF said corporation any
sum OF mOnc> not exceeding twenty Thousand
dollars, and issue therefor the bonds of said
corporation signed by the President scaled
with the seal OF the corporation, and attCstcd
by the Clerk: said bonds to bear interest at
thc rate oil hNc per cent. per anntlm, and to
he in sums ranging from one hundred to one
thousand dollars, and payable AT such times
us they may direct; provided, that no bonds
shall be issued payable ut any period longer
than forty years from the date OF issue. said
bonds to be exempt from taxation for county
and municipal purposes: and the President
ana commissioners shall have power to sub
scribe, out OF the money arising from the sale
OF said bonds, such sums aS they may deem
proper FOR the capital stock bonds of any cor
poration formed for the purpose of supply
ing the town with pure water gas or electric
lights, or sewerage system, or to loan to such
corporation. out OF said moneys. such sum us
they may deem proper, the said corporation
securing the same in such manner us to the
President and Commissioners may seem safe
and proper.
Approved, April ., 1s9S.
LLOYD LOWNDES,
Governor.
JOHN WRIT RANDALL,
President Of the Senate.
LOUIS SCHAEFER,
Speaker OF the House of Delegates.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates:
hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
true copy of an Act Of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, 1898.
y. HOU SEHOLDER.
Chief Clerk OF the House Of Delegates.
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Office OF the Chief Clerk of the House of
Delegates
l hereby certify that the aforegoing is
true copy of an Act of the General AS
sembly of Maryland, passed at the Janu-
airy Session, 1893.
u. HOUSEHOLDER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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REAL ESTATE.

Transfers of Property Recorded This
Week.
Jane Cooling to Richard X. Barnes, 36
acres. Fifth district ......... ..... $4,000
George r. Grason and wife, to Edward
Mulheim and wife, acres, Sixth dis
lrlct. .......'.. ......'.. ...'...-''. ooo
Elk Mills Co., to Alexander Gregg, 264
50. #. land. Third district. ......... 1855
John Boy ct al. to John H. Blackburn
and wife. 5 acres, Seventh district. 1900
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Anti-Race Track.
CHAPTER 10.

CHAPTER -.
AN ACT to add under new sub title, to
be designated Grimes and Punish
ishment." a new section to Article 2
of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title Cecil County, prohibiting gam
bling and the abettipg thereof in Cecil
county. Said new section to be des-
ignated as Section AS.
SECTION |. BE II enacted by the General As
scmby of Maryland that new sub-titlcto be
designated Grimes and Punishmcnts" and n
new section, Hereunder, to be designated ns
Section Ais. be and the same are hereby added
to Article s. of the Code Of Public Local
Laws, title Cecil County" as follows:
CRIMES AND PUNISUNIENTS
SEC 4l5. II shall be unlawful for any person
or persons or association of persons. or for
any corporation or corporations, to bet wager
or gamble, in any manner or by any means.
or make, sell or buy, books or pools, or any
interest therein, within the limits of Cecfl
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THE WEEK IN SOCIETY.

The Happy Club met
at the home OF Ran
dolph Miller, Wood
lawn. on Friday even
ing, May G The meet
ing was called TO order
by the President, FIRE.
dus Johnson, who was
elected at the previous
meeting, held at the
home of Otis Brick
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-14
Public Local Laws
For Cecil County, Passed at the
January Session, 1898.
Published by authority of the County
Commissioners of Cecil County:
J. POLK STEELE, President,
WILLIAM T. PATTON,
JOSEPH Is. EWING.
License Law.
CHAPTER 532.

AN ACT to enable the registered qualified
voters of Cecil county to determine by
ballot whether spirituous or fermented
liquors or cider shall be sold in said
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
Cold and Electricity.

That extreme cold paralyzes every
vital function Is Of course a piece OF
everyday knowledge. But 1t has
been left to Professor Pictet, who
has been conducting some expert.
ments on this subject, to discover
that at a temperature Of $50 degrees
below the centigrade zero there Is no
chemical action between nitric or
sulphuric acid and potash, between
oxygen and potassium, though, I'M
der ordinary circumstances, the at
finity of the latter metal for oxygen
is so great that it will burn if thrown
into water, owing to its combination
with the oxygen in that fluid. But
If the electric spark is played on bod.
les which have thus lost the power
Of chemical affinity, some new and
curious combinations result. The
latest investigations, the conclusions
of which, however, have been theo-
retically presaged for some years
past, may require us to reconsider the
question of the temperature of outer
Ipace and the possibility of an at
mosphere. composed of gases in COM
bination existing there.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
The Tower of Pisa,

The famous leaning tower of Pisa
is campanile or bell tower. The
building, which is cylindrical In
form, is 1877 feet high and 80 feet in
diameter, made entirely OF white
marble. 1t is called the leaning tow
er from the fact that it inclines some
80 feet from the perpendicular, and
it is not generally known that this
inclination, which gives the tower
such a remarkable appearance, was
not intentional. At the time it was
about half done the error in meas
urement was perceived. 1t was
guarded against by the use Of extra
braces in tho further construction OF
the building and an adaptation OF
the stone in the highest portion.
There are seven bells on the top OF
the tower, the largest of which
weighs 1000 pounds, and these are
so placed az to counteract as far as
possible the leaning Of the tower it
self.-Fire and Water.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
Can Plants See?

The mysteries Of vegetable life are
not all yet explored. An Indian
botanist has made experiments which
induce him to say that some plants
can see. Whether the inference can
be accepted or not, these experiments
go to show that the plants made an
effort to reach supports placed at q
little distance and grew toward the
supports wherever placed. The plant
was convolvulus, and when pole
was placed near it and in such a way
that the tend1ils would have to turn
away from the light to reach it,
they invariably did 80 and within q
few hours twined about it. That
certain plants have the sense Of
touch is well known. Medical Times.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
The Servant No Foul.


The other day man of gentle.
manly appearance called at a house
In we'll known suburb Of provin-
cial town. In answer to his knock
the housemaid came to tho door.
"Is Mr.. P inf" said tlv gentle
man.
"He's just gone out, sir"
rs Mrs. P at homes"
mo, sir. She went out with mas
ter"
Dear me, how unfortunatel !
wanted particularly to see one ct
them. Can I leave note"
"Oh, yes, sir. Come in, please"
replied the girl, ushering the visitor
into the dining room. But instead
Of leaving him alone she rang for an
other servant, whom she desired to
bring writing materials.
The gentleman wrote his note, en-
closed it in an envelope, addressed it
and left it on the table.
This being done, he departed with
a profusion of thanks to the maid,
who escorted him TO the door.
On returning home Mr.. P found
the note awaiting him. 1t ran thus'
"Your servant is no fool"
This compliment was fully JUST
fed by paragraph in tho next days
paper, giving an account Of the
plumber of neighboring mansion by
q similar viSitor.-New York Adver-
tiser.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
Away Ahead OF job.

l heard an amusing story of Sir
Henry Hawkins from legal friend a
week or two ago, but l cannot vouch
for the absolute truth Of it. Sir
Henry was presiding over long, to-
dous and uninteresting trial, and was
listening, apparently with absorbed
attention, to long, tedious and unin'
teresting speech from a counsel learn
ed in the law. Presently he made a
pencil memorandum, folded it and
sent it by the usher to the G. G. in
question. This gentleman, on I'M
folding the paper, found these words:
Patience Competition--Gold Medal,
Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable Men
ton, job" His peroration was wound
up with as little delay as possible. -
Sketch.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
North Carolina Emeralls.

In Alexander county, N. G., the
farmers in blowing used to turn up
pretty grass green prisms which they
called green bolts" Professor w.
z. Holden identified them as emer-
aids, and in July, 1880, he started in
to mine for them. He got many en-
eralds, but also discovered another
kind Of emerald green stone unknown
until then, which he named hidden
ite." 1t occurred in slender prisms.
Digging for it has since been carried
on very proftably in that locality.
BY lapidaries it is highly esteemed,
and it has found much use in jew
elry. Seventy-four emeralds were
found in single pocket" but most
Of them were too badly f1awed to
have much value. - Boston Tran
scrint
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
Before and After.

AS an instance of the surprising in
crease In value that picture ac-
uuires after an artist has become ia
nous, the following is interesting:
A dealer once went to the studio Of
David Cox and purchased painting
off his easel for $40. A few days
afterward the old man went to him
and said
"You are young and have wife
and children. / think I have charged
you too much for that picture, and /
have brought you back e."
Not many years after that same
painting was sold for 450 gy.ineas.-
London Tit-Bita
Win many persons it would be a
great gain to health If they would
walk to and from their places OF
business in preference to riding.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
ONLY FOUR lMMORTAGS!
James Russell Lowell Crowns Homo
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.

James Russcll Lowell Cferns Homer
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.
There are certain books which it is
necessary to read, but they are very
few. Looking at the matter from an
aesthetic point of view merely, l
should say that thus far only one
man had been able to use types 80
universal and to draw figures SO cos
mopolitan that they are equally true
in all languages and equally accept
able to the whole Indo- European
branch, at least, of the human fami-
w. That man is Homer, and there
needs, it seems to me, no further
proof Of his individual existence than
this very fact of the solitary unap-
.proachableness of the "niad" and the
"Odyssey." The more wonderful
they are, the more likely to be the
work of one person. Nowhere is the
purely natural man presented to us
SO nobly and sincerely as in these
poems.
Not far below these I should place
the "Divina Commedia" of Dante, in
which the history of the spiritual
man is sketched with equal COM
mand of material and grandeur Of
outline. Don Quixote" stands upon
the same level and receives the same
universal appreciation. Here we
haSo tho spiritual and the natural
man set before us in humorous con-
trast. In the knight and his squire
Cervantes has typifed the two OPP
posing poles Of our dual nature-the
Imagination and the understanding
as they appear in contradiction.
This is the only comprehensive satire
ever written, for it is utterly indie
pendent Of time, place and manners.
Faust" gives us the natural his
tory of the human intellect, Mephis-
topheles being merely the projected
impersonation of that skepticism
which is the invariable result of
purely intellectual culture. These
four books are the only ones in
which universal facts of human ma
ture and experience are ideally rep
resented. They can therefore never
be displaced.
! have not mentioned Shakespeare,
because his works come under diff.
ferent category. Though they mark
the very highest level of human gen.
Jus, they yet represent no special
epoch in the history Of the individual
mind. The man of Shakespeare is
always the man Of actual life, as he
is acted upon by the worlds of sense
and of spirit under certain definite
conditions. We all of us may be in
the position Of Macbeth or Othello
or Hamlet, and we appreciate their
sayings and deeds potentially, so to
speak, rather than actually, through
the sympathy Of our common nature
and not of our experience James
Russell I4owell's Posthumous Essay
in the Century Magazine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
FARM NEWS.

Regular Subscription Price 50 cents. Farm News
now reaches more than 10000 families. 1t holds this
large and royal following OF subscribers, because
they regard it as OF the chief essentials of their
success in farming Ii keeps in touch with the most
progressive agriculture OF the day, it is scientific in
its spirit and at the time is never obscure in
its meaning, stiltcd in its style It's the kidd of
a paper the farmer values in his every day work.
because in IT he finds what other successful farmers
are doing, and how :hcy do II. Its 10 pages contain
no dead wcight'-no "herS." Every line counts
If you know anything about the farm and farm life
examine Farm. News and you will understand how
much its subscribers appreciate it. And i. grows
better every number. Compare it with any other
farm paper, and it stands ahead in practicabilty and
real value.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
THE LADIES' HCME JOUR-
NAL FOR 1897.

Anercn excellence mases the good things which
THE LADIES' NONE JOURNAL, promises unusu.
ally interesting and strong. The list is strong and
magazine that is, the three White House articles
which exPresident Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show us what "A Day With the President
at his Desk means in article; in another tell of
The Social Life of the PRESIDENT and in third ar
ticlc desc ribc "Upsars Lite in the White House."
Each of the articles will be protusely illustrated. An
other series equally fascinating is the called
Great Persona! Events, in which some Of the great
est enthusiasts which have occurred in America will
be revived: those wonderful times when Louis kos-
suth rode up Broadway; when the young Prince Of
Wales was here. wien Jenny Lind sang in Caste
Garden; when Henry Ward B6cCher electrified his
congregation by selling slaves in his pulpit when
Grant went round the world when Henry Clay babe
farewell to the senate; when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, of which so few know All these mem-
orable events and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before and iilusra-
ed with pictures which have occu led twelve artists
over year. A third sc:ics is unique and valuable
from the fact that it will give womci' OF ideas
for their homes 1t will reveal what here is Inside
OF Hundred American Homes. and carefully re-
produce pictures 6 Gnc hundicd completely furnish
cd rooms in homes in this country fro IN Maine to
Caforna--where taste has gone farther than money.
lively engaged by the JOURNAL: Mrs. 5. T. Rorcr
who will hereafter have charge Of the domestic de-
partment ard give series Of cooking lessons and
Dwight l.. Moody. the famous evangelist who is to
put the result Of his life study OF the Bible in de-
partmrnt entitled MIR; Moody's Bible Class" The
artist A'lDN1, VINO ltCu Inc bipSGn
girl, will present six full page pictures showing The
People OF Dickens while Alice Barber Stephens
will alternate with Mr.. Gibson and present her idea
OF Six Types OF American Wnmanhcod," showing
the American woman in society, il religion, in busi-
ness, in summer, in the home, and as mother.
Mary E. wilkins, the New England writer, will re-
vvc the old quilting party, the anCjent singrgschool
and the arplc-par!ng bee in The Pleasures OF Our
Ncjghborhood," Sir Henry Irving is TO tell how to
study read and present Shakespeare in Small Com.
munitieS." Philip Sousa has written waltz. while
Ira d. Sankev has composed hymn which he
si,crS greater than his famous Ninety and Mae"
Ian MUcaren will have story. while Herbert D
Wards numerous sercal, The burglar Who Moved
Paradise" will run through the year. Jenny Linds
daughter is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her.
while George w. Smaey IS to show The Personal
Side OF the Prince of Wales in q lavshly illustrated
article II il has become fad, ii seems for every
girl and woman to take this magazine il is excel
lent and, unlike many other Ads sensible
The JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
inp (omDany. of rhiladcDhio
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-22
ChristmRs and Easter.

Christmas of any year always falls
on the same day of the week as the
second of January of that year, I'M
less it be a leap year, when it is the
same week day as the third day Of
January of that year. Easter is al
ways the first Sunday after the full
moon that happens on or next after
March 81. 1t is not easy to see how
it can occur earlier than March 20 or
later than April 26 in any year.
Boston Home Journal.
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WON a n KIN ID.

Regular Subscription Price so cents. handsome
page magazine containing stories, poems sketches
bits of travel, and such general literary matter as APP
peals strongly to the average reader, who wants
pure and wholesome literature of the entertaining
kind Its practical departments devoted to the
kitchen, the flower garden, the care of children
drcssmahing, home decoration etc, greatly val
ucd by every woman who has ever read them. Ex-
tcnsivc Improvements have been made in Woman
kind during the past year, and as result its circua-
ton has been increased from 10000 to 6o.ooo 4
growth that could only possibly be obtained by Civ
ing the people what they want. We invite compar-
isoa Of Womarkind with other papers 81 its kind.