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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1902-09-13

ington ut 500 4. NJ, Baltimore 905 \.
NJ, York 1915 A. NJ, Harrisburg II. 40
\. NJ, Millcrsburg 1920 L. NJ. Sunbury
12.5S Il. NJ, Williamsport 80 p NJ,
Lock Haven 3.0S u. NJ, Remove $50 p
NJ, Emporium Junction J.05 Z. NJ. ar
irving Niagara Falls at 9.35 =. NJ.
Excursion tickets good for return pas
sage on any regular train, exclusive of
limited express trains, within ten days
will be sold at $1,000 from Washington
and Baltimore: 500 from York; $1,000
from Littlcstown: $lG.GO from Oxford
IA; S9.35 from Columhia; $3.50 from
Harrisburg; $1,000 from Winchester
Va; $50 from Altoona: $40 from ny
rome; $G.i1 from nclierontc; 500 from
RidgwGy; $G0n from Sunhury and vii
kcsbairo; 500 from Wiliam>port; and
at lnoportioa tc rates from principal
points. \ Stop-oycr will be allowed at
Buffalo within limit of ticket returning.
Tho special trains Of Pullman parlor
ears And day coaches will he ran with
eaca "NcurSi0n running through to Mia
cara Fails. IN extra charge will be
mad" for parIor-car seats,
IN experienced tourist agent AMI chap
crnn will accompany each excursion.
For descriptive pamphlet, time Of cou-
nocti~& trains, and further information,
Hpply to nearest ticket accent. or address
Geo. ". Boyd, Assistant General Pas
sca@rr Agent, Broad Street Station, Phil
3d"lphia.
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REDUCED RATES TO WASHINGTON VIA
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Account National Encampment, G. A. R

For the Thirty-SiXth National En-
campment, &. A. r., to be held at Wash
ington. ID. c., October 9th to 18th, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
sell round-trip tickets to Washington
from all points on its lines at rate of
single fare for the round trip. From
Philadelphia and stations on the Mary
land. Central, and Delaware Divisions
of the Philadelphia. Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad. tickets will be on
sale from October 18th to 10th, inclusive,
and good to return until October 18th,
inclusive. BY depositing ticket with the
Joint Agent at Washington between Oc-
tobcr 9TH and 18th. and the payment of
80 cents, an extension of the return limit
to November Bird. may he obtained.
For specific rates and further infor-
nation apply to nearest ticket agent
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Come and see our clothing,
even you do not want any
at this time, it will do you
good to come in contact with
the new things for 1903, the
perfection attained in the art
of tailoring is away ahead of
S years ago. Ask to see the.
Vitals Brand.
SHOES
The number of shoes We
are selling is a surprise even
to those acquainted with
the facts which cause CUSTOM
ers to flock to our shoe depart
ment. Superiority of fit and
and finish combined with
durability continue to lead.
SHIRT WAISTS
One hundred and sixty
eight just opened and placed
On sale.
Palm Leaf effects in all the
desirable shades 40 cents
each collars and cuffs Conn
plete.
Twilled flannel, inviting
and attractive, with French
Cuff, SO cents.
Mummy flannel, fancy
stripes, with French Cuffs, IS
cents.
Embroidered fronts made
right throughout, 90 cents.
Mercerized Waist Material,
Double Cross Brands in ar
tistic designs, French Cuff,
$I.0O to $l.25.
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WASH GOODS

These cool mornings cause.
us TO think Of outing Aanoejs.
ard dar!, gingbam, 70 pieces
in two New York purchases
o a TO 10 cents per yard,
Embracing Lconna, Sax
ony, Merrimac and Eclipse,
flannelette, Alaska deeced
and Daisy Cloths. One case
OF over tw" thousand yards of
light outing 9 cent quality
for 7 cents, o. by piece Of 10
to 20 yards,
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Port Deposit.
PoRT DEPOSIT, Sept. IL, 1909.

o'--' SSPN' 49, A0S-'
The "CecU WAiq" is on sale each ,ceek in
Port DcposU at StrbbSr.qs Ne7cs Stand 8
ooats con,,
MISS Luna l""""''''' |" ''J'% Ing "'r'
self in Philadelphia.
Misses Boyntun and Pennington spent
l.,,. ,J,,.,rt,v 1,st wool, with Mr.,
'r''"'Ii' III 'Ie'"t'' nun
Mrs. Harry Ramsey and daughter. of
WASHINGTON. -. c.. are visiting relatives
...,
MIS- l'"''i' u ''''''''.'''' ""' Ut '"'
hpMD of ME- and Mrs. R"hrrt Stephen
son un Wednesday,.
Via. ri..,,.,.., f,r,.r,. T.. # ho,,, rru,, .,
~,
VS.. lev 'i'' ''.''''''' '"''~' '''''' i'''
james Carr. o. Baltimore
Mrs. Harry Prem and son, Walter,
hal. returned t. thcir home in Baltimore
after SPENDING q uuWbcr OF weeks with
her parents. My. and Mrs. james Eaw.
Miss Florence Carter left for her home
il Wilmington on Thursday. She has
huun VISITING Mr.. aud Mrs. Stephen
kmr-%
Mr. H. !'fkcr. of Baltimore, was ybp
guest of Hr and M. =. =. Eeylv over
Sumia-.
N,.'~. Thomas Hba} Erred West.
Eo3.n West, hir Hno Mrs. .!,.r. Me-
VInu.au a"I Miss Nir-.nia. are enjoy
ing themselves, IN Atlantic Ci,y.
y few teachers have returned, Misses
Gl"hri-,. Hunt and Palmer
Ir, = T. i,rir lev. of ifFilnfplUh'u.
spent several DAYS i'm town this week.
Miss lio!rn Gilmour Of Baltimore is
N-'.i." the Misses BuclouhHrt.
Mrs. Samuel Rowland and son. Ilal-
Veg. have returned from their trip
abroad.
Miss Florence Mckay j. mt ho,lr rIum
Ocean Grove
Mr.. Mary Smiln~un Mis- NIclHgcr
and Miss Nctz@rr were Baltimore visi-
TORS ON Wednesday,.
l'hc excursion for III" hcncIt Of the
feeble minded from Media, PA. pcmirrd
at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
Mr. ISaIor GoIdstrom Of Baltimore.
WAS in town this week.
An Italian known rs No. /, in the Me
Clrnahan Granite Company quarry. was
quite badly hurt on Wednesday. The
chain on one of the large dcrl'cI<S slip
ped off and wound around his neck and
struck him number of times on the
back. DR.. Clemson is in attendance.
L'r,,,l p,rn ,.L, HAL i, ,r.,n ,,I
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NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSION.
Low-Rate Vacation Trips via Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has selected the following dates for its
popular ten-day excursions to Niagara
Falls from Washington and Baltimore:
September the 4th and 18th. and Oc-
tober the md and 10th. On these
dates the special train will leave Wash
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MONR OSE SUITINGS.

BIG in wide, T shades, the.
most serviceable goods on the
market for the money. Our
price only 25 cents, just the
thing for school dresses and.
sh irts.
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blanket SALE

Blankets, almost any price
from 25c. each to So per pair.
Examineour California Blank
cts fine soft all wool with
pretty borders.
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GINGHAMS.

Stripe and Plaid, Fall Cling
hams new designs at winning
prices,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-05
FRENCH DELEGATES LEAVE.
Warship Gau1Ois, with Members OF
ROchambeau Commission, Sails
for Home.

Boston. June 2.-The sentiments of
gratitude felt by the members of the
mission delegated by the president of
France to come to America to attend
the unwilling at Washington of the
statue of Count de Rochambeau found
final expression Sunday afternoon on
the battleship Gaulois, which con-
viewed the mission to this country, and
which late in the afternoon left for
Lisbon, whence it will go to France
A dinner was served on the battleship
Gaulois, attended by the special repre-
sentatives OF President Roosevelt, rep
reseutatives of the state of Massachu
sets and the city of Boston, the mem
bers of the French embassy at Wash
ington and the members of the Roch-
ambeau mission.
When the GaulOis steamed out of the
harbor, accompanied by the battleship
Kearsarge and the cruiser Olympia,
she fired the national salute of 81 guns,
which was returned by the Olympia.
Then, at Boston Light, where the es-
corting squadron took leave of the
French man-of-war. the same cruiser
fired a salute of II guns in honor of
Gen. Brugere, and then a salute of IS
guns in honor of Vice Admiral Four
nier.
The condition of Maj. Berthelot, the
aide de camp to Gen. Brugere, who had
his leg fractured at the Charlestown
navy yard, was much improved. He re.
turned to France on the Gau1ois.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-05
REACHES PELEE'S TOP.
A French Professor, Mid Much Dam
ger, Takes Observations os
the Crater.

Fort de France, June 2.-The Ma
tionaI Geographic society has scored
a great triumph. Prof. Angelo He'll
prin ascended to the top of the crater
of Mont Pelee Sunday morning, in COM
pany of two guides and Mr.. Leadbet-
ter. While on the summit several vio-
lent explosions occurred, but, notwith-
standing the thousand dangers sur
rounding him, Prof. Helprin spent
long time taking careful observations.
Looking down the crater, he found a
huge cinder cone. The crater opening
is a vast crevasse 500 feet long and 15G
feet wide. While engaged in this task
the lives of the members of the expe-
dition were continually in danger, and
one particularly violent explosion COW
erd Prof. Heilprin from head to foot
with the viscid matter. He persisted
however, and found, as had been sus-
pected, that there were three separate
vents for the volcanic matter.
Meanwhile, Mont Pelee, seeming to
resent the intrusion of man into her
awful territory, belched out huge vol
umes of steam. ashes and boiling hot
mud. Prof. Heilprin made the i'm
portant discovery that the crater of
Fallaise has an eruption at the same
time as the summit crater, and elects
precisely the same matter. Both
craters showed new phenomenon dur
ing the professors visit, when mud
was thrown up in high columns, while
heretofore the mud has bubbled or
boiled out and flowed down in huge
streams. There is reason to fear that
great damage may result from the out
bursts of this mud to the rich planta-
tions still uninjured. The ascent was
made on mules to an altitude of 700
meters. the line of ancient vegetation.
There, leaving the mule that had car
ried him. the professor proceeded on
foot to the site of Lake Palmiste. He
found the lake completely dried up,
and crossed the bed, passing up slope
to the crater's edge. This, which had
formerly been high bluff, Prof. He'll
prin found had fallen into the crater.
This expedition is the first important
verified topographic alteration noted.
Prof. Heilprin remained at the sum-
NIT crater over two hours
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land railroad is good property as
far as it goes. The shares have a
value. That gave the Meyer holdings
a certain standing. For the rest, he
had 5000 acres of swamp land, under
water every high tide, just west of
New York-the famous Hackensack
meadows. Horace Greeley used to
fume at these fiat eXpanses every
time he crossed them, and predict
how valuable they would some day
become by drainage and diking. Mey-
er used the same arguments. Give
thousand acres; within three miles
of land on Manhattan Island, worth
100000 per acre; mortgaged for
only million and half; eight miles
of water front; needing only devel-
opment to become great industrial
city, Then there was tract of
wood-pulp land up in Nova Scotia, of
which he could tell equally magic
tales of future profits. The result of
this and similar properties" was
that somebody lost more than &c.
eco, coo; it is suspected that the some
body was the ever guileless Mr..
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-05
WHERE DEADLY INSECTS LURK
Palms and other Tropical Tres and
Plants Are n Source of Public
Danger.

1t may surprise some casual visitors
to Horticultural hall, in Fairmount
park, Philadelphia, where trees and
plants from the torrid zone are kept
in tropical bloom in midwinter, to
know that extreme care is exercised
to keep these growths of the hot eli
mates from becoming a source of dam
ger to the public.
Stately palms, tall banana trees
and other tropical growths are all a
source of possible peril to the unwary
who come in close contact with their
leaves, unless precautions are taken
to denude them of deadly insects. In
the natural state OF tropical plants
there is a small venomous insect
known as the red-and-black spider,
which is found frequently adhering to
the stem and leaves. 1t is vicious
little object and its bite has been
known to be fatal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-05

The two most northern volcanoes on
the globe belong to this Central system
and are located on Jan Mayen island,
and are active. Volcanoes on the
Canary, Cape Verde and Ascension is
lands are included in the same system.
The four volcanoes in the Hawaiian
archipelago, three of which are active,
Mauna Loa being the principal one,
also belong to the central system.
But while the central system SEEM
ingly can lay claim to the most noted
and most destructive volcanoes, still
the linear system embraces tie great
er number, claiming 365 of 408 volca-
noes worthy of enumeration. 1t also
has the highest volcanoes, found in
Peru and Bolivia, in South America,
and the most southernly, located in
what is known as the Antarctic CONT
nent on Victoria Land, but " degrees
from the south pole. The volcano is
called Erebus and is active. This lin
ear system also claims the volcanoes
which in recent years have given old
mother earth her most violent shak-
ings up. Until the terrible eruptions
in the West Indies shocked the world
with the 10000 lives lost and the thou
sands more injured, the greatest erup-
tion of modern times was that of the
outbreak of the volcano on the island
of Krakatoa, in the Sunda group in the
Indian ocean, in 1888. The eruption
itself was not destructive of life, but
the accompanying tidal wave de-
stroyed about 10000 lives. The strik-
ing feature of this eruption was the
extraordinary atmospheric phenom-
enon, visible over great portions of the
globe, caused, it is supposed, by the
volcanic dust which was shot to an
immense altitude.
The island of Java has AZ volcanoes
Is of them active. Japan has %, with
from Is to 10 active, and the Philip
pines, Molucca and Formosa 81, with
at least 25 of them active. 1t will be
many long day before the world for
gets the shock of the volcanic disas-
ter in the West Indies. and as we emu
merate the large number of volcanoes
of the world, we cannot help but won
der where next the mighty forces at
work in the bowels of the earth will
find vent. WILLIS s. EDISON.
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Japanese Theaters.

The theaters of Japan are generally
wood and inexpensive buildings. Their
interior arrangements are somewhat
similar to ours, but not nearly so
deliberately finished. There are no
seats provided for the audience, con-
sequently they sit on the floor. The
stages revolve like locomotive turn
table, have no drop curtains, but use
sliding ones instead. Their musical
instruments consist principally of a
kind of cross between mandolin and
a banjo, with a metal drum and some
other unpronouncable instruments
for accompaniment. The music has a
kind of humdrum air, and but very
little variation. Their entertainments
are of long duration and are generally
during the day. The plays are almost
invariab bly, tragedy. The admission
fee is small-Detroit Free Press.
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boys, black Demerara fetish worship
ers. If the good ship Sikh is in the
harbor, there may come along man
who can tell you in pigeon English of
a notable fight with pirates in the
China seas a year or two ago. And he
will be a man who must eat upon deck
from a dish which no one not of his
caste has touched, or he must enjoy
a long course of publication when he
goes home. There are other men, lean,
brown, impressive, who, before squat
ting upon their heels to their rice tie
their strands of thread about their
bellies and eat until all three have
burst.
The other day a Whit of mountain
air came into the street. Eight Swiss
mountaineers stalked over to look at
the sights. Each wore green hunting
suit, green fedora hat, knee brooches
and thick-soled shoes with huge hob
nails gathering upon the pave; each
carried a gun.
"Hello" cried sharp-witted broker.
''Mountain guides! Bully idea! Need
'em to steer us over rapid transit
glaciers and up sky-scraper noun
tains."
Other brokers took up the sugges-
ton, gravely approved it, theorized
about it, asked when the rest of the
troop was coming, assured the bewil-
dered men of patronage.
Up came a fat man, putting and out
of breath. "Aw, go chase yourselves!"
he remarked politely. The brokers
replied in kind, and in the war of wits
it appeared that the men were bound
for the Canadian Pacific's summer re-
sorts in the northwest, where they are
to act as mountain guides.
x x x
The "Curb Market Hit Hard.
Nothing odder is seen near Wall
street than knot of men who stand
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southern cotton mills are Disguised at
this affair. The Jersey industries con-
cerned are glass works, needing-or
so they say-small boys who have not
far to stoop to snap together the
molds. And every one of them is
a "12-year-old' even if he looks eight
or ten. They are Italians. Two of
them who had worked over time re-
Gently fell asleep on the railroad track
where they were taking a short cut
home, and were killed by the engine.
A strike leader who came from Indi-
ana to settle matters weighed three
of these boys. Their combined weight
was 1872 pounds.
The boys earn two dollars week;
their wages are necessary to their pa
rents; that is why they are all 12years
old; seldom more; never by any chance
less.
There is in New Jersey a wholesome
respect for law. Out of it may grow
great crusade against child labor.
There is little Of this evil in big fac
tories in New York. But
What do you suppose is the greatest
industry in the Empire state? Steel?
Lumber? No; ready-made clothing.
1t is an industry largely conducted in
tiny shops-the law forbids it in liv-
ing rooms. But the shops may be in
the tenement regions, merely big
rooms joining the living rooms; or in
the suburbs, rapidly filing up with
Jewish tailors. They are one-story ex-
tensions, about 16x22 feet in size be-
hind the houses. What is to hinder
Rachel or Rebecca from slipping into
the shop to pull basting threads or
even run a sewing machine along with
the grown-up sweaters? No one will
tell the inspectors about it-you may
be sure of that. Rachel and Rebecca
will go to school-but on Saturdays
and after hours-ah, that's different
matter. OWEN LANGDON.
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THE FAIR CLOSES.
Interstate and West Indian EXPOSE.
ton at Charleston, S. c., at
an End

Charleston, S. c., June 2.-Charles-
ton day was celebrated Saturday. 1t
was the climax of the South Carolina
Interstate and West Indian exposi.
ton, which was wrapped at night in
a blaze of light and glory. The
speeches delivered at the auditorium
in the afternoon offered a resume Of
the enterprise, showing that the ex-
position was success except in
financial returns to the stockholders.
The advertising, however, was est
mated to be alone worth to Charles
ton the cost of the exposition. Her
port facilities have been made known
in a way which is now showing re-
suits in pending negotiations for a
steamship line to Philadelphia and
Boston,
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they consulted together whether it would
be most prudent to trust to the houses
which now shook from side to side with fire.
quent and violent conclusions; or fly to the
open fields where the calcined stones and
cnders, though light indeed, yet fell in
large showers and threatened destruction
In this distress they resolved for the fields,
as the less dangerous situation of the two.
They went out then, having pillows tied
upon their heads with napkins, and this
was their whole defense against the storm
of stones that fell around them. 1t was
now day everywhere else, but there
deeper darkness prevailed than in the
most obscure night, which, however, was In
some degree dissipated by torches and other
lights of various kinds. They thought prop
er to go down farther upon the shore, to ob-
serve If they might safely put out to sea,
but they found the waves still ran extremely
high and boisterOus. There my uncle, hav-
ing drunk draught or two of cold water,
threw himself down upon cloth which was
spread for him, when Immediately the
flames, and a strong smell of sulphur which
was the forerunner of them, dispersed the
rest of the company and obliged him to
arise. He raised himself up with the as
sistance of two of his servants and in
stantly fell down dea6-suffocated, as l
conjecture, by some gross and noXious
VapOr."
Since the days of which Pliny wrote,
Vesuvius has erupted many times, but
never with the same violence. In 1851
the town of Tore del Greco was de-
stroyed and 1000 lives lost This cat
astrophe was repeated in 1894, and in
1861 the same town was again wrecked
by volcanic outburst But going back
before the Christian era we find the
eruptions of Etna on the Island of
Sicily were so violent as to draw the
attention of Virgil, who wrote of her
in the Aeneid, as follows.
The tagging winds forsook us with the sun,
And, weary'd on Cyclopean shores we run,
The port, capacious and secure from wind,
Is to the fort of laundering Aetna joined.
BY turns pitChy cloud she rolls on high,
BY turns hot embers from her entrails fly,
And flakes of mountain flames that arch the
sky.
Oft from her bowels massy rocks are
thrown
And, shivered by the force, come piecemeal
down;
Oft LIQUID cakes of burning sulphur flow,
Fed from the fiery springs that burn be-
low.
Enceladus, they say. transf1xed by Jove.
With blasted limbs came trembling from
above,
And when he fell. tn avenging Father
drew
This flaming hell, and on his body threw;
AS often as he turns his weary sides