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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27
BRICK PULP TILL,

for the manufacture of chemical pulp from
daily. Also, Machine shops, Blacksmith
Shop, Offices and Stables. This property is
located on tide water on Elk River, easily ac-
cessibic to poplar and spruce wood growing
ON Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia
The railroad facilities ut this point are first
class over the Pennsylvania system. The
freight is conveyed to and from the mil doors
by both railway and water communication
No consists of IL LOT or LAND lying be-
tween Bridge Street and Siugcrly Avenue in
ElktOn, along the line of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington u Baltimore Railroad. improved
bya
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27
q ASTORIA.
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
S''; {; '' &xHzz;:z;;:z;4;:: 4:
Visiting Juniors.

On Saturday evening a number of the
members of Elkton Council No. %. Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, paid fraternal visit to Riverview
Council, No. 1GS, of Elk Neck. The Elk
Neck lodge recently met with n severe loss,
the building in which their lodge room was
property. books, etc, destroyed.
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LARGE WAREHOUSE.

TERMS OF SALE rs prescribed by the de-
cree are one-thrd cash on day of SALE one
third in six and the balance in twelve months
from the day of sale, the credit payments to
be secured by the bond or note of the pur-
chaser with surety or suretics to be approved
by the Trustees, and to bear interest from
day of sale.
Any person desiring to examine these
properties will come to Elkton on the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington n Baltimore Railroad
and they will be shown over the property
Send to the undersigned for catalogue Civ
ing full description of machinery.
w. Il. WARRINGTON.
JOHN :. WRIT,
ALBERT CONSTABLE,
ELKTON, CECIL COUNTY, Trustees
MARYLAND.
may20ts
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Claims, Pensions and Real Estate.

/ beg to announce that am the recognized
agent for Cecil and adjoining counties, of the
well known firm of George w. +. Vernon g.
Co., of Baltimore, and will be glad to serve
all parties interested.
JOSHUA NJ. ASH,
Attorney and Agent, Elkton, Md.
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y Americas Foremost Htmeia.nishevs. &
INTERESTING SPRING ITEMS.

Time is just ripe for mothers to look for some
mode Of letting the little Tots enjoy the invtgor
ating Spring alr.
We present here solution TO her problem.
AS usual we are foremost to attend the wants
OF the people, here is one of our many specials.
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Lost. Reward Offered.

Amethyst and Gold Hat Pin, between Dr'
Jamar's Office and the Elkton Post-Oflicc, on
Friday evening, May 18th Reward If return
ed to CECIL WING OFFICE.
May20-tf
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27
Fourth of July Celebration.

A movement has been started toward ar
ranging Fourth OF July celebration in
Elkton, and the idea is being taken up quite
favorably.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27
COlOred Pique

in a new assortment OF the
25c grade which we are offer
ing for 15c per yard. They
are in dots, stripes and plain
colors of pinks, light blues,
lavenders, navy, black and
red.
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REAL ESTATE.
Real Estate Sales.

Real Estate Sales.
The property of the late Gustin Foster in
Elk Neck, containing about six acres of land,
was sold on Tuesday by George A. Blake,
trustee, to James Z. Dean for $50.
Charles w. Shippers, of North East, has
purchased the shannon farm. containing 1872
acres of land, adjoining the Copson Park
farm, and intends to make one farm of the
two tracts, The property was purchased
from the Mccullough Iron Company.
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37!c grade for 25c.
SOC grade for 37Io.
Pique Skirts

in all black and 10 to a. in.
ches long trimmed with straps
Of the same $500 each, max
ing a very natty suit with a
white waist.
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A. H. BIELER,
ARCHITECT.
ROOM NO. "a, BUILDERS EXCHANGE.
BALTIMORE, WD,
FRED r. H1INES, SoHcitor.
ORDER PUBLICATION.

Mary NJ. Carroll, Plaintiff, VS.. Olive Gilpin
Joseph Burlington, Committee, Oliver W
Gtlpin, Mary L. y. Gilpn, G. MOnticth Gilpin
SSallic i. Howard, Harry ID. NJ. Howard, De
PENDANTS
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New DinitieS

Every week brings us new
and beautiful patterns in
Dimities for waists and
dresses. They are exact
copies of the imported goods
at half the price, I21ac per
yard.
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Frame Flour & Feed Till.

equipped with the most modern machinery,
consisting of roller process for the manutac-
turc of flour and burrs for the grinding of
corn meal and feed. 1lc capacity of the mill
is q barrels of flour daily. The machinery is
good as new. The mill is fitted to run by
either water power or steam having turbine
water wheels and steam engine
This mill is located in one of the best see
tions of the county and has Il very large
trade. II is now in the possession of and
operated 10y w. L Kite. 1t Is located within
II quarter of mile OF II railroad sta ion. The
other Improvements thereon consist of TWO
STONE TENANT HOUSES and SrABLING.
in good order.
M , Consists Of PUMP HOUSE,
lNo' IL STEAM PUMP and engine and
machinery connected Herewith, nil n first
class order as good as new. The pump is of
the Blake patent, with capacity OF 1903 gal
Ions of water per minute. Thcrcnrc also tw o
other pumps on this property. one II Wilbra-
ham pump with II capacity of .20l 900 gullons,
and II Dow pump with almost cqua capacity.
These pumps and machinery conn crod there
with will he sold separate from the real
estate as personal property
Upon this property is located the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27
Remnants of White Goods

Saturday we will have a lot
of Remnants to be sold at very
low prices of remnants of
India Linen, Victorias, Lawns,
Nainsooks, Piques and Or
CANDIES in lengths OF I to s
yards at half the regular prices.
They can be matched to get a
dress len 9Th.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27

In the Circuit Court for Cecil County
Equity. No. 220l.
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Denim Skirts

in plain blue cadet, one OF the
most stylish low priced skirts
to be seen for $500.
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ASSiSneeS Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

BY virtue OF deed of assignment the under
signed as assignecs of the Singcrly Pulp and
Paper Company Of Cecil county, will sell at
public sale at the court house door, in ElktOn
Cecil county, Maryland, on
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27

M Consists of all that REAL
lNU. ESTATE and WATER POWER
which was conveyed to the SinEcrly Pulp and
Paper Company by william NJ SingcrIy by
his deed dated on the 2Sth day of July, 1896,
and recorded in Libcr j. II. G, No. ii, folio
Isl, etc, one of the Land Record Books of
Cecil county, and being the same real estate
which was conveyed to the said William NJ.
Singcrly by Arthur A. Mackc and Franklin
T. Macke and wives, by their deed dated 23d
day of September, 1891. and recorded in Libcr
) A; D., No; %, folio sol, etc, another of the
Land Record Books of said county.
The improvements consist of Il large
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-05-27

from which water was furnished to Provi
deuce Paper Mills
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Silk Waists

in white taffeta silk, corded
front and back, with corded
collars of same 5000 each, in
sizes 80, "a and 60.
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PUBLIC SALE
OF A
VALUABLE FAR N
In SASSAFRAS NECK.
253 Acres, z Roods, 81 Perches
OF LAND, MORE OR LESS.

OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,
and which is now in the occupancy of james
A. Jamison and wife, and to which mortgage
ana the deeds therein referred to reference is
hereby made for II more full and particular
description OF the title thereto.
me property Is situated in Grove Neck and
adJolns the celebrated Cassidy farm and
fronts on Sassairas River by which produce
ana fertilizers are transported to and from
the farm.
The land is of excellent natural quality,
easily worked and well adapted to ali crops
raised in that locality and in general charac-
Ter Is ike the said Cassidy farm. There is
considerable OF timber on said place and the
fields are conveniently arranged for tllagc.
me improvements consist of Il sezAA
Frame Dwelling House, Gram !!ssM
airy, Stable HIkM
and other Outbudings.
TERMS OF SALE-Thc whole of the ptlr-
chase money to be paid in cash ON the Clav of
SAFE but other terms may he arranged is a
satisfactory purchaser with the consent of
the undersigned. Cost OF conveyance at the
expense of the purchaser.
GEORGE \. BLAKE,
, Assignee of said Mortgage.
0""chioH SHIlh, aucts. may BITS
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Wednesday, June 18th, 1899
At 2 O'CLOCK, p. NJ

the following described real estate. situate in
the Fourth Election District OF said county,
near Providence Paper Mills
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mind and body to combat them and nut
them at their ease by assuring them that
they would be certainly relieved from the
powers of the witches or the devils in
them.
Men are not so often attacked Young
girls and young women are mostly af-
flicted. Sometimes I am called to see
boys, and at other times babies in the
cradle, who are apparently starving amid
plenty. but who have shrunk to living
skeletons. The parents of such babies in
variably tell me an old woman witch is
under suspicion l at once enter into
their belief and proceed with q number
of incantations, but leave medicines for
the ailment | think the child is afflicted
with, and then go away saying that I
had baffied the witch and giving special
instructions about the first old woman
who crosses their threshold Mind YOU. 7
do not say that a spell cannot be put on
a child or any one else. 1t is safer to tell
you that all such cases are overwrought
nervousness. But people have been pos
sessed with devils in all ages. The Lord
cast out devils. Familiar spirits are
chroniced in all histories. The American
Indians had their medicine men who with
incantations cast out devils, or evil
spirits. We are no better than the neo-
pie of a century or ten centuries ago
we are WedheI anu wiser, Dut we may
be just as full of evil, and just as much
subject to devils as the people of the past
were. l don't say we are, but the sumo
Sition is that We are, because we are
weaker and wiser.
I'VE. have keener imaginatfons. hava
more business, more mental activity, and
our nerves are more played upon. Nov
couple a mental or a nervous disorder or
disarrangement of any bodily function
with an imagination of devils, witches or
devils, and what is the result? II must
not be said that man who pretends to
cast out witches is a believer in witch.
craft. The patients generally are the he
lievers, and they want human sympathy
first. and then, having faith, they can be
aided, possibly, better than in any other
way. But, mind you, 7 don't say they are
of devils in the New Testament is false
doctrine or pernicious teaching. The
greatest scholars of past history believed
In demonology."
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l am the witch doctor. / tell her that
already know the evil spirit or demon
that possesses her and that can certain
ly drive 1t from her. If she Is strong
enough 1 take her downstairs and out into
the open air. To pacify her I may utter
some strange sounds or words as / go;
make some odd movements; turn chair
back to the door; lay sticks of wood in
her path; do any odd ching that she Sees
while say that for the devil, that for the
witch, that for the evil spirit; anything
that will strike the patient as a remark
able act or Notwithstanding that
she has never before ssen or heard,
Il believe in animal magnetism. You
see, / am physically strong. believe in
mental control to a certain extent I find
that the unusual, extraordinary mysteri-
Gus or heathenish as you may put It, has
wonderful effect on such a sufferer
She watches me closely; listens attentive
ly. L want her to do this. / want to dis
tract her 1t is wonderful how the patient
Gains down. l appear terribly in earnest
to defeat the witch, and in this way I
have gained the name of witch doctor
Then when / have the patient quieted
proceed to give her medicine to quiet her
nerves; induce her to eat; 1 go through
various fncantations at the door and win
dows of her room, vowing that every evil
influence will forever be barred out, and
try with my own strong will to impress
1t upon the sufferer that she is to be free
from the witch and then l leave her.
In majority of cases such afflicted
women are restored to health by proper
medical assistance and nursing. You
know that in this age. while it is very
much improved over the century just
passed, there are yet many in the back
woods districts who still believe in being
afflicted by spells from witches. Under
stand me, / do not say they are wrong.
1 have seen many strange cases and 1
cannot say that they we're the result of an
overwrought imagination. / only know
that they acted as if they imagined they
were verging on insanity. Indeed, some
have told me they thought so. Their
nerves were completely upset. Yet all
they needed was some strong force of
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these apocalyptic passages refer to Mrs
Mary Mason Baker Glover Patterson
Eddy, who was born in the neighborhood
of Concord, n. H., nearly four score
years ago. In other words, these devo-
tees. maintain that Mrs Eddy is ''the
feminine principle of the Messianic eX-
pectation" in the nineteenth century;
that the man child born to the apoca-
lyptic woman is Christian Science, while
the angelic little book proceeding this
birth. is Mrs; Eddy's Science and
Health, With Key TO the Scriptures.
An astute critic declares "a woman
clothed with the SUM- the most stupeend-
Gus metaphor in any language. Is Mrs.
Eddy that woman? asks Miss Woodbury..
Is the moon under her feet, and are the
twelve stars on her head? Is she an
tagonized by great dragon ready to
destroy her revelation? Is her Christian
Science Ito rule all nations with a rod of
iron?' Has this child been caught up
Boston the wilderness to which =, this
woman was to flee after her. travail, or
is her desert to be looked for in her
Pleasant View estate at Concord, N.
H., whittier the prophecies of Christian
Science retreated some years ago?
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, from whom
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

the facts have been besieged by inquirers
and those intending to prepare exposes.
The disruption must follow, and conse-
quent upon 1t will come a great reaction
in favor of the rational philosophy found
ed by DR.. Quimby."
Miss Woodbury's Charges.
So mucn for Mr.; Dresser. Now for Miss
Woodbury.. She begins with a quotation
from Revelations, x:1-3, Kills, 'And /
saw another mighty, angel come down
from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and
he had in his hand a little book, open:
and he set his right foot upon the sea,
and his left foot on the earth, and cried
with loud voice, as when lion roareth
And there appeared great
wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun. and the moon under her feet
and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars; and she, being with child, cried,
Travelling in birth and panied to be de-
livered. And there appeared another
wonder in heaven: and behold a great
red dragon, having seven heads and ten
horns, and seven crowns upon his heads;
and his tail drew the third part. of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to
the earth, and the dragon stood before
the woman which was ready to be de-
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turned to a new agony to find my hus-
band had eloped with married woman
from one of the wealthy fam-.4es of that
city leaving no trace save his last letter
to us, wherein he wrote: | hope some
time to be worthy of so good a wife
have a bill of divorce from him. obtained
in the County of Essex"
Mr.. Dresser has in his temporary pos
session a series of letters addressed to
DR.. Quimby, which no one except their
owner has seen for more than thirty years,
until they came into his hands, March l,
1899.
DR.. Qlkmby's Powers.
There is not in these letters the least
attempt to disCredit DR.. Quimby's power
as a mental healer not the slightest men
ton of magnetism or electricity and no
suspicion that his treatment was not of
high spiritual character. On the contrary
a longing is expressed to attain as high
level, and there is every reason to believe
that the temptation to claim the great
new truths as her own came later, when
the field was free 1t is noticeable, how
ever, that the temperament is one of ex.
ceeding susceptibility to the pains of 9th
ers; there is constant appeal to DR.. Quinn
by to free her from these sensations. and
it is evident that here is the origin Of
Mrs Eddys later theory that people car
affect each other by malicious animal
magnetism. There is no reference to an
"elOpement."
I have shown these letters to trust
worthy people. who certify that they are
in Mrs. Eddys handwriting. and express
surprise that one who formerly held DR..
Quimby in such high esteem should tram
pie upon his reputation, claiming his hard
won laurels as her own, borrowing his
ideas, adopting his method of treatment,
and even stating in print that his writings
,ished works
1t is easy, however. to understand the
persistence of the false claims of Mrs.
Eddy Her followers really believe that
mental 10
Eddy by revelation, that DR.. Quimby was
mere mesmerist whom Mrs. Eddy in
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~ EAD1NG, Pa, April 22.-ThouSands
j of people in East Pennsylvania are
n familiar with the witch doctor of
Reading. No matter where he
goes, by day or by night, in car
riage or on foot,people look after him and
wonder who is his latest patient. Plain
as a farmer, methodical, reserved, yet
determined, and gifted with hard common
sense, the witch doctor goes about his
business, and In all the thirty years Of
his practice he has never been accused of
wrongdoing. His business thrives.
'They only send for me- said the doctor
when the usual medical treatment fails.
Then they come for miles, from all direc-
tions, principally from the country dis
tricts. You may be sure that when I do
come to a house the case / find requires
strong measures. If the sufferer is man
or woman, boy or girl, it requires heroic
attention. If the ordinary medical aid has
failed, and the verdict of the neighbors
is that the patient is suffering from
witches. nothing short of something
miraculous is going to satisfy them.
never tell a patient right out what 1 think
of the case. Sometimes I find a young
woman upstairs in dark room shrieking
that seven devils are after her She is
in a terribly nervous state, pacing up and
down the floor, while her parents are in
terror below. They have read their Old
and New Testaments faithfully, and they
implore me to use my power to cast out
devils or any other familiar spirits that
may possess the sufferer. 1 at once put
myself IN full communion with these
people AS they believe, so I believe. 1
hear their story. Every symptom Is re-
lated to me. For weeks the patient has
been acting like one possessed; no
sleep no appetite. frightful imaginations,
spasms, wasting away, shrieks, hysteria,
epilepsy, lunacy, whatever 1t may be-
They say she is bewitched.
81 agree with them. 1 go up to the
young woman, sit down with her order
the light of day turned in to the room
take her by the hands. tell her to be
calm, command her firmly yet gently to
be quiet. say have come to cure her:
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ago" has no foundation whatever in
truth. That they could not have been
'stolen from my (Mrs. Eddy's) pub
lished works" as Mrs. Eddy suggests,
Mr.. Dresser says he is ready absolute
ly to prove. The quotations from
these writings which Mrs. Eddy says
were my own words. as near as L
can recollect them were from an ar
ticle written by DIR. Qulmby in 1863.
copied by Mr.. Dresser himself into
book which Mrs Eddy never saw,
from the manuscript book of DR..
Quimbys writings, copied from the
original, not a page of which Mrs. Eddy
ever saw. The statements of Eu-
gene Greene quoted in the Sentinel,
that DR. Quimby requested us to
transform his "scribblings," which
we did" are also wholly false. These
statements entirely misrepresent DR.;
Quimby's practice and teaching and
his relationship with Mrs. Eddy. Dr
Quimby did term his theory the Sci
ence of Health" He also used the
term christian Science"
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false is the statement that Mrs. Eddy
helped Dr. Quimby in any way. THE at
Mrs Eddy taught DR.. Quimby is utterly
baseless, and Mrs. Eddy knows that in
such statements, and in her effort to
show that he was mere mesmerist, who
once controlled her, she entirely misrep-
resents one whom she once compared to
Jesus and whom it was once her pleasure
to defend
The statement has been made that Mrs
Eddy was never Mrs. Patterson, and con-
sequently is not the same person who
learned DR.. Quimby's ideas and methods
in 1862. But in a letter addressed to the
Boston Post, dated mo. 569 Columbus
avenue, March Z, 1SS3,' Mrs. Eddy says:
I'm 1862 my name was Patterson, my
husband, DIR. Patterson, distinguished
dentist. After our marriage I was con-
fined to my bed with a severe illness, and
seldom left bed or room for seven years,
when | was taken to DIR. Quimby and par
TALLY restored. ! returned home once more
m mike that home happy, but only re-