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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-04-06
Card OF THANKS

The members OF the Singerly Fir" Company
of Elkton desire to thank the citizens who
contributed by donations or other wise to the
Anniversary Supper on Tursd, evening last.
J. j. Minister. Chairman.
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HARRY PRICE.

Harry Price, one of the most promising
Young men. OF near EarlcvilIe, died at his
I'ne Oh Saturday morning, after a short
l!'n' - aged 20 years. The funeral was held
Monday atteruooo at st. Pauts NJ. L. Church.
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MRS. JOSEPH GILMORE.

Mrs Joseph Gilmore died on We inesday
afternoon at the home of her sister. Mrs
George W. jennings, in Port Deposit. Mrs.
Gilmore was 10 years OF age and is survived
by husband and several children.
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Court News.

The ease of Martha j. Patton IS Thomas
fl. Patton, her brother has been removed to
the Queen Anne County Court, which will
convene at Centreyiile the FIRST week in May.
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int"rmrnt in the adjoining cemetery. Rev.
]. A. Art"rs ofticiated. The deceased was Il
member of the Jr. o. [. 4. NJ.
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JEROME II, SMITH.

Jerome HardcastIe Smith, who died at tho
Johns Hopkins hospital on Monday OF last
week, was buried at Cecilton on Thursday
morning.
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EXPENSIVE DINNERS.
Two That Were Served In Delmon
fco,s Old Place In New York.

Two That Were Served In Delmon-
ico's Old Place In New York.
Probably the most expensive dinner
ever given at Delmonico's old restau.
rant, on Fourteenth street, New York
was that given by Mr.. Morton Peto to
the tea and coffee merchants Of New
York, 200 In number. 1t cost $4,000
The rarest wines and the most elab-
crate decorations were mere Incidents
The menu cards were Of gold, and the
guests sat on silk cushions on which
their names were embroidered. In the
center Of the table was a miniature
lake In which swan swans taken from
Central park Clara Louise Kellogg re
ceived $1,000 for singing two songs al
this feast and present besides Of a
diamond bracelet. The salon was
smothered In flowers.
Another dinner given at one Of the
Delmonico establishments for ten peo'
ple cost $500 plate. 1t was luxurious
enough to be classical. The walters,
five of them, were dressed as sailors
The host was yachtsman, and he
bought the walters clothes. The guests
drank, or, rather, tasted, every vinted
liquor that ever has been brought to
America. They finished with a pousse
cafe made of eleven liqueurs. Before
each plate sat cut glass basin about
twenty inches in diameter and -four
inches deep. Each was nearly filled
with water perfumed with altar OF
roses, on the surface Of which doated
half open pond lilies. In the basin a
perfect model of the yacht owned by
the host was placed. 1t was cut In
red cedar wood, with cabin, rail, wheel
for steering, brasswork, such as be-
laying pins and binnacles, manropes
worked and trimmed with sailor knots
scraped pine masts and booms, rigging
Of silken cords colored as 1t would be
in the original, and sails Of satin
There were a gold oar and many other
gewgaws.-New York Sun.
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Any sick woman is invited to consult
DR., r. V. Pierce, chief consulting physi-
clan of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, Buffalo, n Y. In an active
practice of more than thirty years. assisted
by staff of nearly score of associate
physicians, DR.. Pierce has treated and
cured over half a million women All dis
eases peculiar to women are treated with
success. This consultation by letter is
absolutely free Every letter is treated as
strictly private and sacredly confidential
Answers are mailed promptly, giving the
best of medical advice. All answers are
sent in plain envelopes bearing on them
no printing of any kind. Write without
fear and without fee to DR.. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Ten cents will buy trial size of Ely's
Cream Balm; enough tosconvince you that
it is the greatest of remedies for nasal
catarrh or cold in the head. Full size so
cents All druggists. We mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., New York.
1913 Second Street, Albany, N. Y.
Messrs. ELY Bros. Il suffered greatly
with catarrh and tried different remedies
without effect. After using one bottle of
your Cream Balm found relief and can
not praise too highly such a remedy.
Sept 81, 1869. Miss Cora WILLARE.
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An ELOQUENT Advocate.

Some years ago, Judge jeremiah Will
son was defending a contractor accus-
ed Of defrauding the government and,
as the case developed, the law and the
testimony seemed to be closing around
his client. But when Mr.. Wilson made
his appeal to the jury no calendared
saint wore brighter crown of glory
than that with which he invested his
client. The judges charge was not
suspicious for the defendant, but the
jury remained out a surprisingly short
time. 1--WE find the defendant not
guilty." they reported.
The judge and prosecutor were as
tonished. Addressing the defendant,
the judge said: Though it is my pain
full duty to discharge you, cannot
refrain from congratulating you upon
having retained so eloquent an advo-
cater Turning to the jury, the court
added: But it gives me pleasure to
discharge you, for more unconscion-
able jury never dragged verdict
through a temple of justicep'
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A Tootb.ome Revenre.

During the reign of Charles H., the
age of gallantry, it was the custom
among gentlemen when they drank a
a lady's health, in order that they
might do her still more honor, to de-
stroy at the same time some part of
their clothing.
Upon one occasion Sir Charles Sed-
ley was dining in tavern and had a
particularly fine necktie on, whereupon
one of his friends, to play him trick,
drank to the health of certain lady.
at the same time throwing his necktie
In the fire. OF course Sir Charles had
to do likewise, but he got even, for not
long after that, dining with the same
company, he drank the health Of fair
one, at the same time ordering den
fist whom he had engaged to be pres
ent, to pull out a refractory tooth
which had been troubling him. Every
one else was obliged In this manner to
mourn molar.
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FLOWER AND TREE.

A good tree well planted will usually
grow whether the work Is done in the
spring or fall.
A white pine will measure twenty
five feet at twenty years and gain
twenty-five feet more in the next ten
years.
The smallest tree in the world is the
Greenland birch. Its height Is less
than three inches, yet it covers a ra-
dius of two or three feet.
In dealing with your plants be
prompt. If one needs attention, see
that it gets it at once. This is the
only way to have success in plant
growing.
Experts assert upon investigation
that the fir trees of western Washing
ton grow from $50 to 300 feet high and
are from five to thirty-fve feet In d.
ameter and are stronger than oak Of
the Atlantic coast.
If you want your palms to thrive In
an ordinary sitting room, sponge the
leaves once a week with Iukewarm wa
ter to which little milk has been add
ed. Then stand the plant for two
hours In lukewarm water deep enough
to completely cover the pot. This ia
the proper way to water palms.
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CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s sssss ses Of lZzEzZSzzS@
RIGHT UP TO DATE.
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These are days of records and of the beat
ing of records. Benson's Porous Plaster, fol
quickness of action and thoroughness OF
cure, has no records to beat except its own.
Benson's Plaster, always the best, always
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The people not only want to be cured
but cured Quickly-and Benson's Plaster
does it. Coughs, colds, lumbago, asthma,
bronchitis, liver and kidney complaints,
and other ills approachable by an external
remedy, yield to Benson's as ice does to heat.
Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or
Capsicum plasters are to be compared with
Benson's. People who have once tested
the merits of Benson's Plaster have no use
for any other external remedy.
More than 5000 physicians and drug
gists land thousand times as many nom
professional persons) have called Benson's
Plasters one of the few % home remedies
that can be trusted.
Fifty-fve highest awards have been made
to it in competition with the best known
plasters of Europe and America. Better
proof of its merits is inconceivable. BE
sure to get the genuine.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered In the
United States, on receipt of Csc. each.
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
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Miss Nelson as an actress possessed an
ineffable charm which has never been an
alyzed or explained, says Henry A. Clapp
in The Atlantic. A signal illustration Of
this charm was afforded her by Viola in
"Twelfth Night" OF all Shakespeare's
women Viola is the most elusive. Deep
" reserved, void of initiative, confirmed
In patience, exquisitely fine in all the tex
ture of her nature, as pure as new fallen
snow, she is, however, not like Miranda,
fearless, with the ignorant innocence Of
Paradise or Isabella, calm with the I'M
tempted chastity of the cloister, but is
familiar with life and its lures, as well
as susceptible of love and its enthrall-
ment. In that slender maid, as
she looked through Adelaide Nelson's
eyes and spoke through her voice, the
fairest dream of romance seemed incar-
nate; in her the very ''riches of the sea-"
strangely delivered from its ''enraged and
foamy mouth" had ''come on shore"
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a Genius.

As a man went up the stairway lead
ing to an elevated station the other day
he took some change out of his pocket to
buy a magazine Near the end of the
platform he accidentally dropped a nick
ell, and several bystanders looked around
at the sound of the coin. They were sur
prised to see the man take quarter
from his pocket and deliberately let it
fall through a crevice in the flooring
caused by a broken board.
The silver piece fell to the ground,
landing just outside high fence, behind
which a building was in course of cree
ton. It's owner watched to see where it
fell and then started to go down after it,
explaining, however, as he noticed the
look Of establishment on the faces of his
spectators:
81 have just lost a nickel through that
crack, but it's not worth going after, so
In order not to waste it | have thrown a
quarter after it. | can afford to lose the
next train for 80 cents. New York
Times.
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philadelphia a hundred years ago was
noted for it's tavern signs" remarked an
antiquarian at the Historical society.
''These were of ingenious device and fire.
quently had painted on them few lines
of verse. A sign near the old navy yard
presented a tree, a bird, a ship and a
mug of ale, with the quatrain:
"This is the tree that grew;
This is the bird that never flew;
This is the ship that never sailed;
This is the mug that never failed.
"On Thirteenth street near Walnut
William McDermott had a tavern, with
these lines on it's sign:
81 William McDermott, live here;
sell good porter, ale and beer
I've made my sign little wider
To let you know I sell good cider
"A wag named Douglass had an inn
called THE Silent Woman On the sign
was a picture of a woman decapitated,
her head lying at her feet. The Yellow
Cottage tavern, on Second street near
Greenwich, had on it's swinging sign the
couplet:
Grove not from sign to sign, but step in here,
Where naught exceeds the prospect but the cheer"
philadelphia Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

All receptacles for food should, as
far as possible, be kept germ and in
sect free. Glass, pottery and metallic
wares are therefore preferable to
wood. They should have no joints or
grooves, as these harbor minute par
ticles of food. Before placing food in
them they should be thoroughly wash
ed, scalded with boiling water, wiped
dry and then be allowed to cool. Plac-
ing them in the sun when practicable
for couple of hours will also add to
their DuritV
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

"Who comes there" called little Will
lie, the sentry, In threatening tones as
he brought his deadly wooden gun into
shooting position.
"a friendw answered little Tommie
from behind the rocking chair.
advance and give the countersign,
Kissed the sentry, cor I'll shoot your
head off,"
An ominous silence followed this ter
rible threat. Then Tommie said plain
lively:
"Tve forgot it."
"You can't remember nuthin'," ex-
claimed Willie in disgust, throwing
down his gun. Gum over here an I'll
whisper it to you ag'in."-Ohio State
Journal.
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splendid health, the endowment of a
healthy mother.
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the mother health to give her child. It
cures nervousness, nausea and sleepless-
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SON, of Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., Kans. tin
the fall of 1900 I was expecting to become n
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ened for weeks with mishap. lady friend
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taken them and felt like new woman. began
using the Favorite Prescription and took four
bottles before my baby came and two after
wards I suffered almost death with my other
two children, but hardly realized that was
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seven pounds l owe it all to DR.. P'erce's
Favorite Prescription"
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women strong, and sick women well.
Accept no substitute for the medicine
which works wonders for weak women.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
most desirable laxative for delicate
women.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

A church was a considerable time with
out a pastor A great number of persons
of varied talents preached to them with a
view to obtaining the post. A very ambi-
tious young man was asked to supply
them for a Sabbath. All went well until
he gave out the text, "See that We refuse
not him that speaketh." Imagine the con-
sternation the people experienced when
he read out the text in lofty and COM
handing manner. He was unaware of
the feeling he created. The people did the
opposite from the text. The young man
was not called.-HOmiletic Review.
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willing. but Weary.

The procession came to NAT.
'Now, sir" said the leader of the banG
of regulators to the worthless loafel
whom they had tarred and feathered and
were riding out of town on a rail, ''you
can git! If ever we see you here ag'in
Wen hang youw
Gentlemen" plaintively replied the
man on the rail. I'm willin' to go, but
it's only about hundred yards from here
to the township line. Would you mind
carryin' me the rest O. the way Y'-Chica-
go Tribune.
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1t was to be expected that Mrs. Mey-
nell would find the depths Of ocean some
what more impressive than the average
cabin passenger. Yet in a recent COM
munication to The Pail Mall Gazette she
writes:
''To the unused it must needs be grave
to wake at night and feel the deep, but
the gravity is not awful, if one should be
accustomed on dry land, to remember the
heavens under the earth, the moon below,
the stars below, flashing upon the milky
way below. Beneath the deep, beneath
the land, beneath the house and the Sc
cure bed, the sum-
Continuing, she says: Indeed, it is not
on earth, nor amid her waters, her noun
tains or her fires, that her children have
their finest fears, but among the inacces-
sible and unknown heavens.
mo. The ocean Is manifest friend,
buoying the racing ship with the power
Of his depth. You may find nothing wild
er on the way than a single solitary
storm. The ship charges it, carries it
and sweeps into the farther calm. 1t is
q sea of chances, with one thing only
most strangely steadfast, albeit soft, SEN
sitive, curving and waving like a sea
plant in the food-water within water;
wavering, swinging, dividing one age
long way, while the centuries alter noun
tains-the gulf stream rushing warmly to
nourish England in the east"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

We sympathize with the tailors of
Berlin. They may well be indignant
at the way sculptors libel tailoring.
If they have a Bismarck clothed in bad
fitting garments, we, too, have John
Bright and a w. e. Forster portrayed
in garments that would bring the blush
to any tailor's cheek. Sculptors de-
light In folds and looseness, and what
care they that the coat buttons on the
left side or the pocket flaps on one side
are half as large again as on the other.
Buttons and seams are often beneath
their notice, and so they perpetuate
could wear, let alone any tailor make
London Tailor and Cutter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

"Dinglebat has original ideas about
family government. He says every
home should be little republic, where
universal liberation prevails and every
one has voice in the government"
Eyes, his family is managed on that
plan; but he and Mrs. Dinglebat have
the same old wrangle every day as to
who shall be president"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

There have been several cases recorded
in which famous sculptors have beer
blind. Dr. Vidal, the well known French
sculptor, was blind. He made a specia
study Of animals, surrounding himself
with pets of all kinds, which he would
fondle until he was able to repro
duce them in clay with skill that sur
passed any of his contemporaries. On one
occasion, in order that he might make 6
true model of lion, he obtained permits
sion from the proprietor Of a menagerit
to enter accompanied by the tamer) 6
cage containing a magnificent specimen
of the king of beasts, which he stroked
and caressed until he had acquired al
exact conception of its shape and mien
Giovanni Gambasio, the sculptor, had
been deprived of his sight for ten years
before the idea came to him to be an
artist. His fame as sculptor spreading
abroad. he was sent by the Grand Duke
of Tuscany to Rome to model the statue
of Pope Urban VIII. = Ladies' Home
Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-19

A couple of young men were out fish,
ing one day and on returning were go
ing past farmhouse and felt hungry.
They yelled to the farmers daughters,
"Girls, have you any buttermilk7"
The reply was gently waited back
to their ears, Eyes, but we keep it for
our own calves"
The boys calculated that they had
business away, and they went.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
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DO YOU KNOW

how fascinating English history really That England during
the past thousand has literature heroes and
herones than all the of the world What do know
the private and lives of her queens we'll being
stately sovegns with passions of love and hate living papta
ting women?
Do Of that king queen barefooed
M naked from their waists upwards in the great hall of Wemn
ser? Or what plumbers dog licked the blood king why
Henry VII hanged his four English mastis
king pogzed for taking long de why Marlborough
his duchess dsgraced1
Do you know the story of Thomas Beckett and Emirs
daughter? Of fair Rosamond Ciods bower the labyrinth
Woodstock and the ee sken thread Hen golden spur that
led to her becoming nun Of Richard II and the fatal apdoor of
Vdoma? Of the dreadful warning that hung the bed of Isa
bella of Angoueme? Of the queen who discovered London
disguised cook-maid?
Do know how the fact that the Duchess Marlborough
putting by mistake the queens gloves changed Voare
the desne of Europe? Or why the great Elizabeth and her
minister had deal secretly with Catherine de edcs aors Or
what that which passed between NAM Boyn and King Hal be-
meath the yewree in the clustered shade of Sopewe nunney
meant to Wolsey?
Those who interested may have specimen pages
that will show how English history be had quite different
from tha presented by Hume Rapn Macauay Guzo
Hallam, Froude.
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In America icehouses have been
known for at least 200 years. They
were first very primitive affairs, being
nothing more than deep cellars. the
flooring made of boards or stone. upon
which was placed a layer of straw or
sawdust. The sides were lined with
boards set about a foot from the wall,
and this space was filed in with saw
dust, tan bark or straw. A rough,
matched roof completed the structure,
which was then filled with ice, be-
tween the layers of which tan bark or
Sawdust was strewed
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Etta-Edith is as mad as she can be
with Mr.. Golfer. He has placed her In
terribly compromising situation.
Bertha-For mercy's sake, you don't
mean it!
Etta-I am sorry to say do They
happened to come to town together the
other evening. and he didn't speak a
word to her the whole way. OF course
everybody must have supposed them
married 1t places Edith in most awk-
ward situation, and she is getting along,
you know, to an age when she cannot af-
ford TO lose any chances that happen to
be going. Boston Transcript
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ua Wns Too SInw

Magistrate = Your husband charges
you with assault.
Madam-Yes, your honor. asked
him if he would always love me, and
he was so slow in answering that l hit
him with a mop. Pm only woman,
Judge, and a woman's life without love
is a mere blight.-Illustrate Bits.
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Mrs. Barnes-Why, how do you do,
Mrs. Howes? Isn't this the last place
you'd expect to see me? only came in
just for fun, you know Wouldn't think
of buying anything here, of course.
Mrs. Howes-Of course not. The idea
of anybody buying anything in such a
place!
Later.-Mrs. Howes (solus)-H'm! She
can't fool me. I'll bet she does all her
shopping here.
Mrs Barnes = Now I've found out
where that woman gets all her clothes. l
might have known by the looks of them.
Boston Transcript
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Brief and to the Point.

"Blinks has a perfect mania for con-
densing everything. Did you hear how
he proposed?
'No."
"Hs held up an engagement ring before
the girls eyes and said 'EhT"
"And what did she sAyT
~Dhe lust nodded"