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on the bed with bullet hole in his left
temple on the following morning.
"A Harrisburg girl who had been refused
admission to sisterhood, the headquarters
of which is In Philadelphia, on the ground
that the veil wasn't her vocation, drew
the 10 room that same evening and left a
call that would enable her to catch an early
train back to Harrisburg. She changed
her mind as to that during the night, and
when the boy reached her room to call her
climb over the transom. She was dead on
q couch, with all Of the gas jets turned on
full force.
"A rich Australian and his wife, on their
way to England. were chloroforn ID in
their sleep in that 10 room by a thief who
used a skeleton key to gain entrance, and
robbed Of sc. 900 in cash and jewelry which
had not been deposited in the hotel safe.
"A woman and her little girl who occupied
the room while waiting for a steamer bound
down the coast were visited there by some
young Philadelphia relatives, boys, who
in entering the house struggled huge
mastiff in with them. They got the big
dog up to the 10 room, where they were
to make the call, without being detected
by the hallboys.
"The little girl angered the dog by pulling
or twisting his tail, and he jumped at her
and all but tore her to pieces before her
mothers eyes before he could be beate en-
of by the hotel help.
rences in the IS room Of that Philadelphia
hotel while the number was permitted
to stick. A great many occupants Of the
room. of course, escape with only minor
accidents or misfortunes. and a small pro-
portion escaped altogether. But the hoo
doc was there, and there with both feet.
AT the end of the fourth year of my
stay with the house, an employee who had
been discharged for characterization gave
II away to the Philadelphia newsrapersthat
the long string Of queer occurrences in the
hotel had taken place in the IS room, and
they made so much Of it that the house was
seriously damaged in it's prestige for some
time. But right in the face of this the old
man refused to abandon the IS room.
He died short time afterward. however
and the heirs Of his estate were very willing
that the 10 figure should be taken down
from that room door once and forever
and that it should henoeforth be designated
as Parlor A.
Il was with the house for five years after
that. Nothing unusual ever happened in
Parlor A.
"Thn answer? l don't know There is
nothing else in life or death with regard to
which, so far as ] know, have a particle
Of superstition. But when it comes to the
10 thing l know, for have been through
it,"
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anyhow about their conversation, no mat
tab what they all talkin' about, especially
in Kentucky, whesh conversation beginnin'
with the weathah or the craps or the look
thing.
But tell you, they've got to mind their
words when they all chinnin' with them
theah Thompson boys. That's all theah is
to that.
TO understan' this story THOROUGHLY,
how them theah Thompson bovswas trained.
Theah was three on EN-. Davis and the
twins. John End Phil. Little Phil they allus
called him, to distinguish him frum Ole
Phil, his fahthah.
4Them three boys, tho minnit the fust
shot, was fiahd, run Of lckety, split and
lined the army. They want hahdly is,
the twins. Davis, he was 10; But they
ran e as say and fit plum through the
wah, frum beginnin' to end,
"That is to say. the twins did. I've
heahd them tellin' of their experience in
the wah. but Davis, he set by without sayjn'
a word. You know the easou why? They
captuh"d hm at the re'y, staht, befo' he'd
officers did, put him in pr isop and he stayed
theah till the wah vas ovah.
often and often I've heahd the twins.
flnishin' with the tel lin Of their experiences,
their wah pranks when tie, WIS allus eithah
lightin' into the enemy or runnin' away
from them aocordin' to how many drinks
they had had, tun to him and say:
"'Well, Davis, what is youah experience
Of the wah?
Then they'd laugh fit to split their sides,
KNOWN that Davis hadn't iahd gun OF
had one fiahd at him, TO- that mattah, and
so didn't have blessed thing to tell.
"Onct Davis he answers them back
'Theahs one thing suttin,' says he,
and that is that am putty well acquainted
with the taste Nv yailah dawg.'
-Of co'se you undahstan' that this con-
slant experience of the twins give EN-
a good deal of exercise in the way OF handlin'
a gun. Fouah yeahs! 1t ought ter. They
got to be the very bes' shots in the whole
country, them twins did. Buffalo Bill,
he want in it. Shoot pennies into the
aiah! They could shoot anything.
their practice come in handy, too not
so very long aftah the wah-1 disremembah
jest how long, ten or twelve yeahs, l be-
lieve it was, though amt ce' ain.
TO make a long story short. the ole
man he was and Is to this day one Of the
bes' criminal lawyahs in Kentucky. He
is noted TO his brains, the ole man Is He
is 30 yeahs ole now, and still hustlin'. Keeps
up his practice the same as the twins, they
bein' putty good all roun' lawyahs them
se'ves, from all accounts.
well the ole man, he had frien' named
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A MILD HAMMERED
n KENTUCKY FAMILY
The Colonel Tells How the Thomp.
son Boys Were Forced to Clean
Out the Court House.

Il reckon" said the Kentucky Colonel
since you was raised in Harrodsburg
you know the Thompson boys. Of co'se
you do. Leastways you must Of heahd
OF 'em. Theah amt many people from
Kentucky what don't know 'em or what
hasn't heahd OF 'em.
'Speakin OF mild mannahed men, to
look at them theah Thompson boys you d
think that buttah wouldn't melt in their
mouths. they ali 30 sof spealSin' and pc
llte They amt to say what you'd call
boys no longer, eithah, but that's the nams
they 60 by and allus will go by l reckon
Pahtly because the old mans still Twin
and pahtly because it all occurred when
they were boys, the shootin', mean, the
Thompson-Davis feud, when they cleaned
out the cote HOUSE at Harrodsburg.
Il reckon you was mos too little to pay
enough attention to remembah jest how
it occurred; but do you spose for one minnit
that them theah Thompson boys and the
ole man cleaned out that theah cote house
at Harrods5urg because they wanted to-?
Not by any mannah of means. They
cleaned it out because they was fo'ced to
do It.
IF you evan met one Of them Thompson
boys In ,youah life, you'd know that what
I'm sayin' Is true They ah the lovelest
men in the world, actually the very love-
evan known them pussonally will tell you
that.
@Yes, I undahstan' that mos people in
gen eral conversation is putty particular
when they ali with them to Keep tabs on
what they say, to be sort of particular
about trimmin' UP. their remahks, not
oarin to get trimmed up themselves,
.Then. too, they ali kind OF min'ful OF their
hip pockets all the time, keepin' a putty
stric' eye on EN- and hand hankerin'
about in their vicinity in case Of accident,
whether they're talkin' about the weather
or the price Of stocks; but aside from that,
they ah the mos interestin' men to talk
you evan met in all youah bawn days.
whats that? Yes. You're perfectly
right People oughter be mo- par ticular
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A CHANGED CUBAN COLONY.
Exfles Have Left New York and students
and Tourists Come In.

New York city has never had a vuy
numerous Cuban colony, and there has
been since the close Of the Cuban war
an almost complete metamorphosis OF it!
in character, not in numbers Instead OF
ruined sugar planters and their families,
expatriated soldiers who had served in
the patriot army and for whose arrest
reward was offered by the Spanish Gov
eminent, Cuban merchants, shipping
men, lawyers and teachers, the present
Cuban colony in New York city is almost
entirely made up OF transients- students;
commercial RUNNERS and the sons OF
Cuban parents making a tour Of the United
States.
During the year preceding the struggle
for Cuban independence some OF the best
blood OF Cuba found an asylum in the city
OF New York, which was the headquarters
of the various revolutionary juntas and the
recruiting place Of Cuban symPethizsrs
acknowledgement Of Cuba's Independents
and a general amnesty TO all those who
had incurred the hostility OF the Spanish
authorities, the men OF substance and the
families OF men of business and s"GA
prominence returned to Cuba. From that
time dates the change in the make-uH Of
the Cuban colony here.
The destruction OF property and the dew
astation OF plantations in Cuba has ceased.
Well to do or ambitious Cubans can make
a livelihood for themselves at home. and
a ma jority OF those who come here at pres
ent do not come to stay. They are only
temporary residents and generally leave
New York as soon as the business which
may have called them here has been dis
posed Of There are practically no Cuhans
outside OF the borough OF Manhattan IN
the city OF New York.
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most OF the night in writing letters, and then
prussic acid to kill twenty women.
The summer business was light that
eide of the Altoona girl ! contrived to keep
room 10 vacant. On the very first day
when the fall rush began had to put a
couple from New York in Is.
The man got to the room a trife in
toxicated that evening, and his wife up
fancy. work when he entered the room,
and she had small pair of scissors in her
hand. Angry at being reproached, the
husband made a menacing move toward
her.
-She put out the hand that held the
thought would be a blow, The points Of
the scissors blade penetrated her husband
right eye and ruined It,
"A few years later the mans other eye.
through sympathy with the destroyed
one went wrong, and left him totally blind.
she had done, and the man Is now alone.
sightless, and figure of misery.
AN Of this time, the stubborn old pro-
prietor OF the house was storming at any
room was hoodoo, and every time any
thing happened in the room he declared
that 1t was coincidence we'll ca lculated to
impress the mind Of imbeciles. but only a
coincidence for all that. He declared that
he would tear the house down before he
would yield to beggarly superstition by
taking the number of the 10 room door,
Il couldn't begin to tell about all Of the
wretched occurrences that happened in room
10 OF that hotel during the next four years.
I may 60 on record as saying that perhaps
not one out Of five occupants of the room
escaped. Three different cases OF small
pox occurred in the room. All three of the
victims died in the Philadelphia pest house.
One Of them was wealthy French Cana
dian, another a banker from Memphis,
and the third a young woman from Omaha
who was buying her wedding trousseau in
the East.
"The room had to be thoroughly fumi-
gated and completely refurnished each
time, of course, but still the stubborn old
proprietor would go up in the air and all
but foam at the mouth at the very sugges-
ton that the number 10 had anything to
do with the rooms bad luck
"A wealthy young Philadelphia, famous
as a whip and all round sportsman, after
having been Tilted by Philadelphia girl
who is now the wife OF an Austrian noble
man who blackens her eyes every little
while, came down to the house one night,
joked with the night clerk when he was
handed the IS key, took drink or two at
the bar, went to the 10 room and was found
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Such treatment led him TO say to DR.. Min
cite Burnham, resident physician at the
tents:
There's no use, doctor; you can't help
me. Lots Of doctors have tried, but they
couldn't do me any good"
AS soon as he could he got out into the
sand, which Is never failing source Of
delight to all the children, and came back
to luncheon with the wound soaked in salt
water and irritatingly full of particles of
sand Remembrance was useless. for the
lad was hopeless Of cure and was determined
to extract all the fun out Of life that his
ailment and the surroundings permitted:
Even Dr. Burnham despaired under
such total lack of cooperation on the part
Of the patient, but he visibly improved
To-day he is one Of ten whom the laymen
Of the institution declared cured
To all outward appearances these for
tunste ten are cured, and physically are
pictures Of robust health. The boy is as ac-
tive as a cat, and can run and jump with
the best of his playmates, without a trace
OF IMP or halt in his git The physoans
we cannot announce cures as either
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The remaining tents are sleeping

nurses. The remaining tents are sleeping
wards, generously ventilated by big square
openings, having fifteen windows and vents
besides two screen doors, and being pro-
tected from insect invasion by netting.
The arrangement Of the tents forms an
octagonal inner playground, open to the
sky, and almost as free to every passing
breeze as the open beach beyond.
There are fifty-four little patients at the
tents, and they represent about every
manifestation Of tuberculosis, except that
most familiar form known as pulmonary
tuberculosis, or consumption. According to
the regulations their ages should range
from 8 to 10 years; but there are few
cast iron rules at the tents, and this one
was broken by the advisory board for tho
benefit of three little tots OF only twenty
months and two Of the oldest patients, a
boy and girl, aged IL years.
The boy is an Italian, a good looking
youngster. with clear cut features. He
came to the tents crippled by an ugly open
wound in the ankle, the combined result
of an abscess and unsuccessful surgical
efforts to arrest its destruction of the tissues
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permanent or positive in so brief season,
they say, Under these or like surround :
ings and treatment these patients will
continue to improve, and eventually would
be permanently cured, but it requires
time to eradicate the germs Of disease
Until this is done they may yet be con-
sdered more susceptible to unsanitary
conditions, unhealthful employment, etc,
than children who do not display tuber-
cular tendencies
In some cases three years treatment
and care would be required fully to estab-
fish cure, and FIVE years treatment would
still further ensure the permanence OF
cure"
Kindly traits have developed with re-
turn of health to the little Italian lad, and
he has proved of service to nurses and at
tendants in attending to the wants and
helping to amuse the younger patients.
This latter art is science in itself, the task
of keeping the little community contented
and cheerful being no small portion Of the
hourly demands on those in charge
His twelve-year-old girl comrade is also
among the cured patients although small
patch of adhesive plaster still hides traces
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avenue can miss the tents. There are
eight Of them, and they CLEAN as white
in tho sunshine as the sands above which
they rise and form pretty picture against
the blue background Of the open sea and
the sky.
One Of the tents stands alone near the
avenue. a precautionary measure for the
isolation of cases Of contagious disease
The seven others rest on wooden platform.
which raises them beyond possible en-
croaohment Of the sea. and they are also
siren gthened by low board sidings.
They are grouped in an octagon. one
side OF which Is one time fisherman 8
cottage. This was thoroughly renovated
and lie utilized as kitchen, dining room for
the servants, laundry bath and medical
dressing room.
The forward tent is used for Office pur-
poses and the rear one is an open pavilion
looking out upon the sea. One tent. 18x4e.
is used as dining room for children and
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Of an attack upon the glands OF the throat
This will. however. be very shortly replaced
by a healthy growth Of new cuticle which
is rapidly hiding all trace Of the ravages
of the disease.
Another Of this fortunate group Is a
little red-haired baby Of perhaps three
years. He is chubby and apparently well
enough to be home or anywhere rather
than in even 30 mild a sanitariurn as this.
He leaned against a tent post, meditsting
on happiness to come, and was filed to
overlooking with but one thought, which
he impaired to the stranger.
Mommer's comm to-day he said
in tones that told the weary length Of each
moments delay.
Pleasant as they may be, such visits are
among the incidents most dreaded in all
public or semi-public institutions, 80 fro
quently are they followed by the scarcely
comfortable homesickness Of those visited
and the almost as serious depression Of
those who are not.
Most Of those accounted nearest cured
were afflicted with glandular types Of the
disease. The bones respond more slowly
to treatment than the tissues and much
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Too Good to He Rejected.
From the ALBANY journal.

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that ! walked nine blocks past the ofice
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valuable acquisition 20 any establishment
The intended rebuke was not delivered.
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-10-08
TEMPERANCE MEETING AT n. e.
For the Cecil Wing
North East. March 6, ~

North East, March 6. ~
AT II meeting previously called by no
tice. for tn" purpose of taking into con-
sidcration the pl0prirty Of organizing :,
Temperance Association in the town of
North East. johnson Shippers was unani-
mnuSly called 10 the chair, and John
prayer by Rev. IL. +. G,lroy. the meet
ing was considered organized for bust
ness. The meeting was appropriately
addressed by RcvS Gilroy and Ford; ;rf
forwards
Resolved. That n committee of three
he appointed by the chairman (who APP
pointed John Ford. Il. l.. Thomas and
John .lgnney rs such COMMITTEES, to pre-
pare, by this night week. - constitution.
to be submitted IT, those WHO may be
convened. for approval. rejection or to
be amended. section by section
Resolved. That the following pledge
be Incorporated in the constitution, to-
wit. I'VE. the undersigned. pledge our
SELVES to each other to abstain from the
r:'e "f Intoxicating liquors. as Il bcver-
age, and To pr"mot" nlik" abstinence
through neral suH>ion.''
Received. That I'LL persons present. who
may aicquirSce in tn" aforesaid pledge.
will sign or have signed their names re
Spectively. And after opportunity was
publicly offered. one hundred aud seven
teen names We're signed t. the pledge
The meeting then adjourned 10 meet
this night week al 1 o'clock
JOHNSON SHIPPERS. Pres.
JOHN JANNEI, Secretary.
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PORT DEPOSIT ITEMS.
| Reported for the Cecil Wing. |
Port Deposit. March gtl

Port Deposit. March 9th.
The ssh Factory ha>. had the machin-
cr;- in operation Il rultion of this, week
Monday next is fixed for its permanent
resumption. Many operators thr,wn ont
of employment by it, St"plHgr are anX-
.ouS for il to ?c>umr Labor.
The lriShmnn injured in quarry by
the falling of Il >:nIr ul>pn his back
seems to have been injured severely. al
though III the time of the accident able
TO walk home. His recovery is rot con
sid+rt-t! certain.
The two men injured some time since
by the raving in of II wall on the prop
crty oi Mr.. James Barnes. have. despite
their dreadful injuries recovered. One
OF them WIS horribly manglcd and his
dtHath taken ~ II fixed fact. 4 needle
may kill one man. II house fall upon an
ether and he c>cal" With his life.
The Foundations for II number Of houS-
eS nave hern laid in Rock Run Hollow
One Of the appointcrS in this section
has been STYLED "Governor." as he was
observed having Il number of aspirantS,
for a deputyship lowering around him as
n body guard on his return from the
South
We are wondering if there will have
to be another election for corporate off
GERS; or did Mr.. Rowland trade his hon
ornble position as Town Commissioner to
Mr.. McClcnahan at the time of the prop
crty exchange: We would like to know
how much Mr.. McC. gave fer the Honor
il that position was disposed of. so that
We could form an estimate of the honor
attached: Knowing that the profit is 50
ptr annum.
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Opportunity to Buy Some
. aGons Very Low.
will sell the following 20% below regular Price

Two Staver Carriage Co. rubber tire
Buggies.
I steel tire same make.
Staver surrey. These are genuine
bargains, are high grade and are the best
wearing wagons on the market have
sold them for 8 years, fully guaranteed.
3 runabouts, rubber tire very low.
I narrow body buggy, frst-class
wagon at great bargain.
I am going to close these wagons
out in August, it will pay you to see
them.
My other stock of buggies, carriages
and harness is complete.
Notice this statement. 1 have no
cheap wagons at high prices, but have
good wagons at low prices.
Lot end hand wagons on hand
l carry in stock and represent the
leading factories in complete line of Ag-
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john Wesley Carver, one of the Old
est residents and exemplary citizens of
IlHvrc de Grace, died at HIS home in
thai city last week, aged 76 years. His
widow and six children survive him.
His funeral was held on Saturday, with
iutrrmrmt in Angel Hill Cemetery.
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The cry OF fire on "Wednesday night
was "rcasi"!.cd by the burning Of a few
he'd clothes II the residence of Mr.. n.
f. johnson. 1t WAS scOn extingui,>hed
ANA but little damage was done. The
fre engine was 'trotted'' out in spite of
TIL" protest of the Town Bailiff that it
was al mo more use thar an old horse
cart. W" understand that it has since
been put in such condition as to be ser
viceablc should Il fire occur.
Mr.. John Gallagher has been appoint
Ell postmaster ut Fair Hill. il. This COIN
~. in the place of Mr. Sutton. resigned.
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THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

Rev. J. Mckim Duncan and Doctor
.luStnS Dunott made able speeches at the
Temperance meeting in the Court House
on Last Tuesday night, and a number of
persons signed the pledge The Society
VIII meet at the same place on next Tues
day night.
BY communication in another column
1t will he seen that the people of North
East have commenced operations in the
same cause. while at Chesapeake City
the movement has carried with it nearly
the whole population.
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1t is reported that as much rs one
third Of the kciit pear crop was blown
off the trees during the recent heavy
storm. The pears were sold at about
12l. cents per basket. The fruit HOW
bcing shipped is bringing from II to 20
cents Fer La llrt in Baltimore.