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The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31

oYPSIES A NUISANCE
H...ars. Ar. B.i.r Adopted for F.rs-


Ing Them Into Rstirsmeat.
Whoever has Travelled in Europe has
doubtless met In some part of the con-
tinent gang OF Hungarian gypsies
roaming over the various countries u
Europe, from south to north, and from
east to west. AS a rule they travel in
FAMILIES, numbering from twenty-fi
to 100 souls and more, carrying along
with them all their various and
strange pharaphernalia and domestic
necessities. In more countries of Eu-
rope laws have been passed according
to which these vagabonds are allowed
10 stay only couple OF days or a
couple OF hours in certain provinces or
provincial districts. when they are es-
corted by gendarmes over the border.
The principal business transactions
consist Of fortune telling, begging and
stealing. They are especially clever in
the latter branch OF business and take
everything, from pin and needle to
horse and carriage. The gypsies
have been a real nuisance for Europe
Tor centuries and the Austro-HunRa-
rian government is now considering a
plan to force this most peculiar vaga-
bond race into settlement. somewhere
In the vast plains of Hungary. Most
characteristic Of the gypsies is the fact
mat they never work. This is one of
their first principles. For more than
6oo years they have been roaming over
europe and the up-to-date gypsy is by
all means the cleverest thief in the
world. Where no cat gets through the
little brown gypsy boy finds his way.
They have no religion, no morals no
honor, or no fatherland. But he is
prouder perhaps than Spanish
grandee. He lies to perfection and is
the greatest story teller in the world,
Many other efforts have been made
from time to time to confine the gyp-
sizes to certain territories in Hungary
but always without any success.-Chi-
cago News.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
GREAT LABOR BODIES
GATHERED IN DENVER

Denver. May 2S.-S,irrng oratOry
marked the opening session of three
labor conventions in Denver yesterday.
The Western Federation OF Miners
and Western Labor Union heard Gov
crnOr Orman. Mayor Wright. Lieuten-
ant Governor Coates and other speak
rrs. The preliminary work of organ
IZng the conventions for real labor
was about all that Was accomplished; ;
The committees on credentials wreS
lied with Il few minor cases. there be
ing no disputes involving any princi
pie. To-day the reports of the officers
will be heard and Presidents Boyce
and Mcdonald. respectively, are said
20 have something strong to say In
their annual recommendations. Com
miitecs will be appointed and the
problems demanding settlement will
ia taken up Before the two cOnven-
tiOnS have finished their labors. which
will not he before Saturday. several
questions of moment 10 organized la
bor will receive consideration. The
cheap labor from .le Orient and the
condition of affairs in til" Occur
d'Alene district viii hm the two i'm
Imriant topics
In regard 10 he work laid out by
the different bodies the News this
morning says:
The advancement of labOr'S interests
in Il material degree. is expected from
the meeting of the three labor conven-
lions in Denver this week. Among
.he topics 10 be considered. on which
The conventions will base their actions
are:
A complete organization Of labor pv-
rrywhere.
\ StrOn. protest against the impOrta
lion OF cheap labor from the Orient.
4 demand for Iii" renewal OF the
Chinese exclusion act. which expires
next year.
4 new rrmonstrance against the Hc-
tion of the toeur d'Alene mine own
trS.
The establishment of home for
WORKOUT miners. the home to he Iocat-
ed in Denver.
Renewal of the demands for an
eghthOnr day throughout the West.
The hotel employees will attempt to
nnioniZe the hotels and restaurants OF
Leadville. Cheyenne. Laramie and
Rawlins. A hotel in Denver is also to
he unionized.
The initiative ana referendum is to
be endorsed and steps taken to extend
the system.
To extend the practice of using only
those goods hearing union label.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
Bryan on South Carolina.

Lincoln. Neb.. May 2S.-W. J. Bryan
gave out yesterday Il statement on the
designations of Senators McLallrin
and Tillmnn, which. he says. he re-
CARDS as the political event of last
week. Mr.. Bryan says:
1T is an honorable course for the
senators to pursue, and beneficial to
the state. At present South Carolina
virtually has no voice in the settle
ment of public questions. as the vote
of one senator kills the vote of the
other. Senator Tillman has just been
reelected. and thus risks the loss Of !,
longer term. but Senator McLaurin
really sacrifices more. because he has
less chance to win the primary"
Mr.. Bryan added that ii WAS hardly
necessary to say that he hoped and
expected to see Senator Tillman win
Il Weeping victory. because he rep
resentS the man. while McL.aurin rep
reSents the dollar. The vote will show
whether the plutocratic idea is making
any headway in the South"
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
SHE TREATS DOUBLE CHrNs.

An enterprisng masseuse has estab-
lished herself among the fashionable
dressmakers and mlliners in Conduit
street, London. and is making a small
fortune by what she calls face improve
ment. Her speciality is treating double
chins, but she is equally ready to
round out a sharp one IL that is de-
sired.
The method is exactly the same as
that pursued by score of women in
this country to remove wrinkles and
rub away supertluous flesh; but in
London this woman finds it desirable
to spice it little with an air of mys-
terry All her patrons are bound to Sc
crecy as to the methods she employs.
but Of course some of them break
faith.
Equally, of course, she has clients in
almost embarrassing numbers. She is
woman with charming manners,
these clients say and she displays in
her reception room photographs of half
the women famous in European society
and stage life.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31

While their fundamental rights are
preserved by those underlying princi-
pies of the constitution which apply
everywhere. the status of their citi-
ZeDs and the nature of the customs
and commercial regulations are to be
determined by Congress and the rNer-
else of the power vested by the consti-
tuition in Congress to make all needfnl
rules and regulations respecting terri
tory belonging to the United States.
Obviously what ! have said regarding
Porto Rico applies equally well to the
Philippines. so that the President is
perfectly free under the Spooner act 10
govern the Philippines rs their needs
and their interests may require
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
Governor Nash Partially Paralysed.

Columbus. Ohio May 2S.-Governor
Nash's physicians admitted yesterday
that he was suffering from the rupture
of Il blood vessel in the spine. This is
the accident which the governor Su<-
tanned In the high attitudes while re
turning from San Francisco. The ply
SicianS claim that with absolute rest
the rupture may heal. The injury has
affected the lower limbs and explains
the fact that the governor had to be
supported il walking
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
Recovering From snake Bite,

Sterling. Colo. May oS.-,Itepublican
Spccial.l-Miss Mary johnson. the
young school mistress who was bitten
by Il rHttlcSnlkc in the KenDcSaw val
ley last week. is reported to he i'm
proving ana there is now good pros
prct of her recovery. For several days
she was in such critical condition
that her life was almost deSpaircd of
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
Tennessee Coal Mine Exuloxion.

Chattanooga. Tennessee. May 2S.-.i
special from Dayton. Tennessee. to the
Times says: At the Richland mine of
the Dayton Coal and Iron Company.
two miles from Dayton. ut 1 30 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. Il terrific cXplo-
son Of coal dust resulted in the death
of twenty-one men. nll white and most
Of them married and with families.
The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-31
Troops Leave China.

Washington. May 21.-A dispatch re-
ceiv"d III the War Department from
General thaifee ut Taku says that the
transports sumner and LennoX sail
May eth today and that all the
troops that are to leave China are off
for Manila.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

All the public schools in Cecil county were
re-opened on Wednesday, after being closed
Since Friday, December Dist. for the Christ
mas holidays.
The Methodists OF Port Deposit, cee
brotcd the close of the Nineteenth Century on
Monday, by holding an al-day service in the
Tome Nj. L. Church, under the charge of
Rev. A. S. Mowbray
Rev. W. E. Greenfield pastor OF Elk Neck
circuit has met with wonderful success at
the revival services he has been holding the
past FIVE weeks at Wesley Chapel. There have
been over fifty conversions.
Rev William G. Koons, who was formerly
pastor of the NJ. +. Churches at North East
and Rising Sun, has accepted a call to be-
come pastor OF the NJ. E. Church at New
Castle, Del, the next conference year
The season for killing muskrats in Kent
county, opened on Tuesday. Muskrat gun
ners and trappers are much opposed to the
new law, claiming that it almost places a
prohibition upon the sport. and rat fur in
dustry.
The most soothing, healing ana antiseptic
application ever devised is DeWitts Witch
,,iras saxa, - 0N,' "''' e"r'S
,ror, - .,,,,..,,.a1 p. mn ,'''' uses, Dc
MA ''''''> : '''''''' i1'N'on
"'''"HlSu' services were h"Id IN num-
Der OF the various churches in Cecil county.
monday h'sh'' IN the EIEton NJ E, Church
1l'' survives were conducted by Rev ]. E.
l',i'' QUE P'7''r' VINO preached on The
Wv ''.' '''' Now
Pep-tn preparations often fail to relieve
Indigestion because they can digest only
aIhumiuou- foods. There is one preparation
that disests all GLASSES OF food, and that is
kodoI Dyspepsia Cure. It cures the worst
cases Of Indigestion and gives instant relief
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

All liver ills are cured by Hoods Pills. csc.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05
PLEASANT hill SCHOOL,

Averages of Pleasant Hi! school for the
month of December. The scholars who re-
ceived an average OF 95 or more in scholar
ship, were:
Sixth grade-Annabel Stewart, 1907 Myrtle
Twyford, 80.
Fifth grade-Bertha Mark, 81; William
Mcmahon, 90.
Fourth grade-Florence Carhart. 90; Addie
Meredith. 90; Florence Stewart, 81; Matte
Krauss, 80; Edgar Logan SO; Glen Smyth,
%.
Third grade-John Scarborough, 90.
Second grade-Besse Scarborough, 81.
First grade-Earle Scarborough, %; Rila
Dillman, SO; Leila Scarborough. 95; Florence
Hutton, 95; Elsie Dillman, 95 Austin Scar
borough, 95.
The following are those present every day:
Annabel Stewart, Florence Carhart, Bessie
Scarborough, Glenn Smyth. lie la Scarborough,
Rilla Dillman, Howard Scarborough. Samuel
Carhart, Milton Scarborough, Alfred Smith,
Austin Scarborough, Earnest Smith, Vernon
Scarborough Earle Scarborough.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

When wear begins to exceed repair in YOUR
body you are going to fall sick, The signs
Of it are; loss of flesh, paIeness, weakness,
nervousness, etc. The repair needed is food.
You think you eat enough, and yet you feel
that you wear out more tissue. energy, nerve.
force than your food makes for you. The
fact is that you donot digest enough And this
is so seric us it is worth sitting down serious
lyto think about, If you can't digest what
you eat, take Il few doses of Shaker Digestive
Cordial. The effect of it will be to increase
your flesh and make you stronger You
won't fall sick. Proof that it is in control of
yolr repair apparatus. It's easy enough to
test this for yourself. Take few bottles of
Shaker Digestive Cordial
Sold by druggists at 10 cents to S100 per
bottle.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

C)LAMGA, SOUTHERN LU2oN ISLAND,
I LAGuNA PRovINcE. 2. |.
EDIwoE CECIL WING.
DEAR SIR: now take time to write YOU n
| lin" % give yau IN idea Of what the Philip
| pin" Islands are like ana soldiers life in
these eastern possessions of Uncle sam.
/ have been in the army for nineteen
months. On July 10 left Havana. Cuba. on
the transport "CroOk and after landing in
New York, went to Fort Smelling. Mimi. ar
riviug there July 2G. On August Is we left
Fort Smelling for San Francisco. We left
san Francisco August u for Naga-ki. Japan
We reached Nagaski eighteen days later
Each man wits given pass to 20 ashore
The Japanese are great people, and are
good friends Of the American saldier. They
coal a ship with baskets for 13 cents a day.
We left NaGaski aud arrived AT Manila on
September II, but did not get ashore until
the goth We took a trip about 3 miles
south Of Manila and returned to Manila two
days later and campcd in our dog tents over
night. The next morning we started up
Pasag river for Luguua-de- hay, which is
about 40 miles from Manila, and landed next
day. We marched to Coiamha, and went in
barracks with Company A, 39th L. s. Yolun-
terrs. and are sttIl there. Some of the mon
from our regiment took 4 trip into the noun
tains and captured some prisoners, ponies
an insurgent flag and some papers
This country is very hard TO march through,
We don't stop for anything, but 20 through
rice paddles IN water to our neckS The
rainy season is almot over now and we will
be having some fine weather here when the
folks at home are wearing ovcrroals.
| hope all my old friends in Company f..
First Maryland, are all well | would be
glad to hear from any Of them
l have relatives at Iron Hill, Cecil county,
and would be much pleased to hear from
them.
GEoEIE II. BHoMLEY
Private Co. /, 18th L. s. Inf
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05
SOLDIERS LETTER.
Private BrOm ey Writes From the Philip
pines to His Cecil County Friends.

CDLAMBA, SOUTHERN LU2oN ISLAND,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05
CLEARED OF DEBT.
Members of Bay View NJ. P. Church
Start The Century Well,

The work undertaken by the members of
the Bay View Methodist Protestant Church,
at Bay View, this county, some weeks ago to
clear the church and church property of all
debt before he dawn of the Twentieth Cen
fury was successfully accomplished. The
church was handsomely remodelled about
year ago, at cost of nearly $4,000. The
ladies of the church were very active In
raising money, and much credit Is due them
that all obligations were paid by Monday.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

First and Foremost In the field of medicine
Is Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t possesses unequal
led merit and cures all diseases caused or
promoted by impure or impoverished blood,
including rhumatlsm, dyspe 7sia, catarrh.
H,ar ;lIo 49,, a,,.o., Mn.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-01-05

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Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
4 GREAT CINILIXER.
Rural Free Delivery and Good Roads
Progress Together.
Minneapolis Times.

As General Fremont is remembered as
the Pathfinder" SO Perry Heath will be
known some day as the "Roadbuilder." No
mortal man has seen Mr.. Heath swing a
pick or flip scraper, but In an indirect
way Perry has given the good roads move
ment greater boost than II has received
from any other citizen in private or official
capacity. Mr.. Heath has done this by
putting the rural free delivery idea into
practical effect. He was not the originator
OF that idea, for It has been dreamt OF ever
since urban free delivery was first estab-
lished. Mr.. Heath simply induced the
Postofiice department TO try it. Results
have been so satisfactory that the last CON
gress appropriated s3,5O0,0O0 to carry on the
work beginning July /. More than 1000
routes have been established and 1900 car
rers are now at work
Rural free delivery has caused more let
ters to be written and received in the sgri-
cultural districts, more magazines and
newspapers to be subscribed for, more di-
rect communication with the markets and
in fact more intimate relationship with
society in the broad and correct sense OF
the term. 1t is claimed In behalf of rural
free delivery that II has enhanced the value
OF lands and OF crops, in that the farmer
Is enabled to avail himself OF market
changes to greater advantage.
Rural free delivery improves the roads,
for the roads must be fairly good before n
route will be established. If the highways
are permitted to fall into dlsrepair; II the
bridges become unsafe, the service is with
drawn. 1t follows that communities where
the service has been instituted are disposed
to keep their roads in good order. There is
no compulsion In the matter of free de-
livery. A community may have II or not,
as IL elects. Application for the service
must be made by written petition. This Is
sent to the congressman OF the district and
by him to the Postofice department, II is
referred to special agent for investga
| tion and report II he makes favorable re-
port the rest is easy. The service is put
| in operation and then the route agent sees
that the carrier is provided with stamps
money order applications and registry re-
ceipts. Proper letter boxes must be erected
at the roadside as the carriers cannot be
expected to deliver mail at the door OF a
house that may be quarter OF mile from
| the road. with several red-eyed dogs lurking
behind the lilac bushes.
More than 5000 900 persons are nov
served by rural free delivery and the sys-
TEN is only in its infancy. Some day few
| American farmers will be so remote from
| civilization as to be deprived OF this con
yenience and almost every country road will
be passable for the bicycle and the auto
| mobile.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
Personal NOTES.

Cambridge, Mass. hopes to get enough
money some day for a Longfellow monu-
ment.
st. Louis no longer has cable cars The
trolley became the whole thing for local
transit last Friday.
New York has decided to accept Mr..
Carnegies millions. even though this may
require some saving TO erect monument
to the donor, by and by.
Thomas jefferson once wrote TO John
Adams that it sometimes strengthened an
argument to depart from the rules of syn
tax and drop into the vernacular.
President Loubet of France has conferred
a gold medal on Chief George c. Hale OF
the Kansas City fire brigade. which gave
| exhibitions at the Paris exposition.
The Longfellow Memorial association of
which Prof. Charles Eliot Norton Is presl-
dent, hopes some time, when funds suffice,
to erect monument in stone to Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow in Longfellow park,
Brattle street. Cambridge, Mass.
George B. Cortelyou, the presidents sec
retary, has entire charge Of the proposed
49, 100 mile journey OF President Mckinley
around the United States. He makes all
| the arrangements as to trains and hotels
and is said to have the time tables at his
fingers ends.
The real Original Mckinley man" Is
Judge George Il. Baldwin. who has just been
Appointed United States consul to Nurem-
berg. Germany. Judge Baldwin has been
a close friend of the president for thirty
years and in 1868 nominated Mr.. Mckinley
for the first public office he ever held-that
| of prosecuting attorney.
The shah of Persia has just visited with
condign punishment Minister Assufed-
| Daulah. who, during his majesty's European
tour last year, acted as governor OF
Teheran and abused his position to plunder
the peasantry under the pretext OF collect
| ing taxes. Assut Is banished to Khorassan
and condemned to fine OF 9l20.000.
Thomas jefferson Lloyd, an assistant door
keeper of the United states senate, though
| in a general way totally unlike Vice Presi-
| dent Roosevelt, yet in some mysterious
| way always strikes one as resembling the
| strenuous New Yorker. Visitors TO the
national capital often mistake his identity
and even Washington officials fall into the
/ error.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
CUBAN SUGAR AND TOBACCO.
what Might Happen ir These Indus
tries Are Properly Coddled.

NnlCaBO Tribune.
A number OF the Cuban correspondents of
American papers agree in the statement
that the Cubans will be ready TO do about
anything the United States may ask them to
do, provided they can secure special priv
ileges for their sugar and tobacco in Amerl-
can markets. There is no doubt that this
Is the case The material advantages
which the Cubans would acquire by reason
of the grant to them alone of lower duties
on their two great products would inspire
them with sentiments of keener and more
enduring gratitude than they feel now after
all the United States has done for them.
Last year the United States imported
g. 700 900 900 pounds of raw sugar. OF this
652, 300, 900 pounds came from Cuba. The
island can do much better than that. Ten
years ago It sold 1000, 900 pounds OF
sugar to this country 1t could produce
under favoring circumstances more than
half the sugar needed by Americans and II
that sugar could be sold here at fair price
there would be continuous peace in the
island. 1t Is more than likely that II the
sugar Industry had not been SO depressed by
beet sugar competition the last Cuban re-
bellion would not have broken out when
1t did.
The simplest way to keep the peace in
Cuba Is to lower the duties on Cuban sugar
and tobacco. But that which Is simple Is
not always easy. Were serious effort to
be made to give these two Cuban products
special tariff advantages the American pro-
ducers OF cane and beet sugar and the
American tobacco growers, mort and south.
would protest vigorously at once. The beet
sugar men, who last year manufactured
III, ,424. 900 pounds, or less than one-twen-
tieth of the total amount OF sugar consumed
in this country, would be the most
vehement objectors.
The probabilities are that a proposition
to lower somewhat the duties on Cuban
sugar and tobacco would not meet with
congressional approval, but IL they were
lowered Cuba would be prosperous and the
Cubans pacific.