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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
Pennsylvania Railroad Winter Excursion
Route Book.

In pursuance of its annual custom,
the Passenger Department of the Penn
sylvanla Railroad Company has Just is
sued an attractive aud comprehensive
book descriptive Of the leading winter
resorts of the East and South, and Civ
ing the rates and various routes and
combinations of routes of travel. Like
All the publications. of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, this "Winter Ex-
cur>ion Book" is model of Topographic
cal and pictorial work. 1t is bound in a
handsome and artistic cover in colors,
and contains much valuable information
for winter tourists and travellers in gem
eral. 1t can he had free of charge at
the principal ticket offices of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, or will be
sent postpaid upon application to Geo.
w. Boyd, General Passenger Agent
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
LOMBARD

vicinity. is quite i'll.
Howard Pcnn0ck spent Saturday and
Sunday in Philadelphia.
store.
Herbert Boyd entertained Harvey and
Elwopd Kent, Of Oxford. Op Sunday.
Shooters around here will hold II blue
rock shoot on Saturday ut the home of
Robert Cherry.
AIanda Barrett is spending some time
in Wilmington, the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Joseph McMullen.
William Kemp moved into James II.
Lynch's house on Tuesday, bringing his
household goods on II sled.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
Aims House Trustees

The trustees of the Poor and Insane
held their monthly meeting at the Aims
House on February 18th. All members
present The minutes of the last meet
were read and approved. Ovcrsecr re-
ported one death during the month,
Nathan Ward Superintendent reported
two commitments during the month,
Kate Rcdifer and Ryan Alexander. Dr..
Miller's report was read and ordered
filed. Warrants were drawn on the
County Treasurer to the amount of
$500 ~.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
$1,000 For Elk River

The River and Harbor bill. us it pass
ed the House on Friday evening. car
ried an appropriation of $1,000 for the
maintenance of the channel of Elk river
and $4,000 for Improvements Of the
Susquehanna river above and below
Havre de Grace. The fate Of the bill
depends upon the action of the Scnate.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
Jackson VS.. Smith

The net result up to date of the re-
count of ballots cast in this county ut
the CONGRESSIONAL election which has
been conducted before Judge Miller. of
the Orphans Court. is II gain of sixty
votes in the county for Congressman
Jackson
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-03-04
SMALL THINGS OF FASHION,.
Few of the New Ideas In Fringes
md GntlOons.

and Gallons.
Gallons AMI fringeS are enjoying eX-
tended roGu". and the former are
worked in several shades of color
with fine silver or gold thread clever
~ concealed. Solid gold or silver strips
of narrow braid produce the smart mil
itaIy effect which is so popular this
season.
At Tic shops are to be found bands
of matched cmbroideries running from
one to six inches in width. These are
often done by hand and show charm
Ing examples of artistic needlework
Flower foliage and small fruit are eX-
actiy reproduced Gooseberries and
maidcnl:ar fern. with their delicate
green sAadinSS. are used on white or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
THE POT AND THE 1x1,-,v,,r :,

1t may possibly be thought that the
state Journal, among others. spoke a
little too soon in pointing to the fact
that William Ellis Corey had been "os-
tracised" by his business associates. as
evidence that the business world is
raising its standard of morals. If seems
that Mr.. Corey is not to be ostracised
and deposed as the head of the steel
trust after ali.
This leads to the suspicion that Mr.
Corey's threat to tell a few things
about his associates that would make
his own social misdeeds look like in
noeent child's play. may have some
thing to do with the change of heart
on the part of the directors of the steel
trust. Much as we would like to he
lieve otherwise, we are almost forced
to accept as true Mr.. Corey's intins
ton that others have been guilty. Of
Just as bad things as he.
But Notwithstanding this fact it is
undoubtedly true that there is a gen
eraI demand for a stricter moral stand
ard among men of affairs than that
which has existed during recent years
The fact that others besides Mr.. Corev
may have been guilty of gross wrongs
in private life viii not elevate them in
the public mind, but win rather serve
to emphasize TO the public the need OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.]
Some men go into a brown study
when they feel blue.
Why isn't the sneaking tube classed
as a talking machine?
A noisy divorce is often the outcome
of a quiet home wedding
Be kind to the trusts and perhaps
they'll send you TO the legislature.
Don't forget that other peeDle's trou-
bles interest them more than yours do.
Any man who has nothing to worry
him occasionally doesn't know he is
alive.
Somehow a woman,s temper is always
very much in evidence just after she
has lost it.
An honest man may be the noblest
work Of God. but only women ever re-
turn borrowed umbrellas
When a young man informs a girl
that she is the lieht of his life he prob
ably means a flashlight-
Many an otherwise sensible woman
has given up 4 good paying. job IN order
to become a worthless mans wife.
1t is sometimes difficult to convince a
young man that all The world loves a
lover after he has met the dear girls
fathefs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

here and a line there forms its opinions
and hurries on.
The great value of headline is be-
yond dispute. Dressing q newspaper
page is something of an art, and a few
years back the headliner was known,
as the paragrapher now is, for his skill
and wit IN packing much into a small
space. A quarter of a century ago a
young man in Chicago achieved an in
ternarional reputation by a tophner
over the heading of a sensational hang
ing In fact he packed little too
much into his space, and his art suf-
fered- Conservatism set in and we have
had a steadier, if less intense, light at
the head of the column since
But the headline. at its best, Is in
tended to do, and does, the very thing
that Mr.. Hartman desires. 1t makes
men, whether with much or little time,
read the story it advertises. If they
are at all interested in the subject, and
likely to form and retain an opinion
about it, a name in a headline, prop
erly introduced, is certain to prick curl
osity to that point that the reading
goes on. AtteAtion once fixed is re-
tanned.
In the particular matter now under
discussion Mr.. HarFiman's solicitude IS
wholly misplaced. Headlined as it may
be, the daily story of the insurance in
vestigation is certain of its public. 1t
is the most popular serial of the day.
Truth and fiction are so entertaining
~ blended that the monthly magazines
have nothing to compete with it. Some
names. it is true, command more at
tention than others, but whenever the
name of Hartman, or Hyde, or Ryan,
or Odell appears, all that may be con-
nected with it is mOrsel that news
paper readers could not be induced to
skip, and are not likely to forget.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24


What wonderful sight that must
have been on the hills of Judea. on
that first Christmas night, a little more
than nineteen hundred years agoI
There, as the shepherds watched their
Ilocks, appeared d heavenly messen-
ger, and as he told his glad tidings of
great JOY" the entire chorus of heaven
broke out with the strain, GLORY to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good viii toward men, And it was
all because a baby had been born that
night in the manger of a stable in the
little town of Bethlehem. Mere words
cannot do justice to the event. Luke
tried to picture it, and the world owes
him great debt for Luke alone tells
the wonderful story of The Nativity.
That was the greatest event of his
tory-that birth coupled with the brief
life that followed, eliminating in the
tragedy on Calvary thirty-three years
later. Kings and potentates have been
born and died; nations have risen,
flourished, and gone into decay; con-
querors have devastated the earth; but
never has there been an event equal
ing in Importance the birth in that
lowly Bethlehem manger. For there
the Prince of Peace was born, the
Savior of men came to earth.
Tonight, on this anniversary Of that
great event, hundreds Of millions of
earth's people will do homage to His
name. Throughout Christendom the
influence Of the Babe of Bethlehem
has spread and It is rapidly reaching
to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Tonight millions of little children will
praise Him who came as little child
and doubtless if it were but given our
mortal ears to hear it, we should hear
the choir of heaven once more singing,
"Glory to God in the highest; peace on
earth, good will toward men,"
The Influence of that little Bethle-
hem baby is today the most potent fac
tor in the world. The world even
reckons time from that birth in the
nanger. The teachings of Jesus
Christ have done more than anything
else to make life worth the living. In
them is embodied everything that is
good. They have wrought the Christ
mas spirit, the spirit of praise to God
and good will to men.
This influence is felt daily in every
walk in life. It has been seen especially
in the windows of the stores during this
holiday season; in the advertising col
umns of the newspapers; in the crowds
that surge around the counters; in the
millions of dollars spent in gifts of love
and remembrance; in the bright faces
and the happy smiles Of the children;
and it is heard today in the music and
the voices of young and old as they
wish one another "A Merry Christmas"
That event in Bethlehem nineteen
hundred odd years ago tonight and the
life that followed it was the greatest of
history because it gave new hope to sin
full and fallen humanity. 1t was Gods
Christmas present to man, For God
so loved the world, that he gave His
only begotten Son, that whosoever be
Ueveth in Him should not prish. but
have everlasting life"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Hear that loud roaring noise up in
the northeastern part of the state -?
Well, that is made by the brain works
Of Dan Anthony trying to think UP
something mean enough to say about
the fellows who are running him for
governor.
It's a mighty slow young man who
has to wait for mistletoe to be hung
up on Christmas.
Perhaps you hadn't noticed it, but
the days are growing longer now.
Mr.. Bryan is telling the Far East
that he is a newspaper reporter. Mr..
Bryan is evidently trying to get into
good company.
It is all right to have a commits
sion to regulate railroad rates, but
when are we going to have one to
regulate the speed of gas meters?
You viii notice that Nick Long
worth isn't saying a word. This is a
good time for him to keep still.
Ed Howe writes that there are thir-
ty daily papers in Toxic. Toxic is
evidently trying to be to Japan what
Wellington is to Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
JANA WKER J0TS

1t was an Olathe man who thought
of the scheme OF getting his wife a
ton OF coal as a Christmas present.
Holton is rather inclined to be
proud because it turned out only 200
people to see John L. Sullivan and
Kilrain do a boxing stunt once upon a
time.
Charley Blakesley thinks that Cool
fdge, Lenora and Sharon Springs Will
probably bid for the privilege of en-
tertaining the next Populst state con-
ventiOn.
A tree that was planted at Great
Bend ia 1875 was chopped down a
few days ago. The trunk measured
seven feet in circumference, and the
branches extended forty feet in each
direction.
Out at Solomon the Seymour Cold
pickers according to the work they DO
Their wages for a single day recently
amounted to $114.20-just for pick
ing chickens, mind you.
Ewing Herbert, who is postmaster
at Hiawatha. as well as editor of the
World, serves notice that he is going
to stop the practice of splitting on the
postofice floors by making the per
petrators clean it up or stand prosecu-
ton.
Concordia Kansan: A Kansas City
Jug house man went to Stewart S
chicken Factory q CCubiS VI " Gems Is y
and sold the employees about $50
worth of goods" John IS laying
for the fellow on his next trip. There's
going to be an item for the Daily
Kansan when they come together.
A Solomon farmer had his farm ad-
vertised for sale and told his agent
to sell it as soon as possible. The
next week when he looked over the
want column in the newspaper he
noticed a f'snap in land. A fine bot
tom farm, well improved, good water,
orchard. for $40 per acre. This land
will be worth SIS in one year. Buy it
quick" The owner had never seen
the beauty of this farm before. He
rushed right to the telephone and
called up his agent and yelled, Say
take my farm off your list It's not
for sale.
Harrington Times: R. W. Vance in
looking over some old papers of his,
has just unearthed quite an interesting
relic, one that he has not seen since
about the time of the war. 1t is the
muster roll of the military company to
which he belonged at Wilton, Iowa.
and is dated in July, 1854. There
were between eighty and ninety mem
bers of the company, Mr. Vance having
the honor of being chosen lieutenant
The company never went into active
service but showed the metal they
were made of by Offering their serv-
ices to the state to which they all be-
Ionged AS worthless as that muster
roll would be to some, Mr.. Vance
would not take a good sized Iowa farm
for it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the PhiIadeIphia record. ]

CFron the Philadelphia Record.J
A policy mantle insurance agent.
Look out for the men who should be
looked into.
The only mark Of esteem some peo-
pie recognize is the dollar mark.
Any woman can become a good lis
tener if there is enough gossip afloat.
A Kensington undertaken displays this
sign: when all doctors fail, come to
me-"
A man should make the best use of
his opportunities if he expects them to
make the best use Of him.
The fellow who browns his sorrow in
the flowing bowl seems to have a never
ending supply of sorrow.
The average girl gives more time and
thought to the selection Of a hat than
to the selection of a husband.
Wigg-sWhat do you think Of aerial
navigation?' Wagg-.T think it's a
sure sign Of baloonacy."
Mr.. Boreum-"Im afraid I have made
my first call too long" Miss Pert
(glancing at the cIock)-ffOh, no; It
wasn't really so long; it only seemed to
be-"
Blobbs- THAT fat friend Of yours is
the most unlucky fellow I know"
SIobbs-"Yes. he can't even lose any
flesh in a poker game, although he loses
everything else he has.
Scribbler-'I wrote two things today,
a snake story and an advertisement for
a tailor" ScraWler-'fWell,I III bet you
get more for the ad. of the tailor than
for the tale of the adder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

a reformation in the morals of these
men.
Some may think that the private life
of a steel trust magnate or other high
dnancier has nothing to do with his
ability or integrity in business. In a
way this is true. but when one con
siders the philosophy of the situation
the reverse is apparent. The man who
is willing to wantonly desert the wife
who has worked by his side during
years Of poverty and give his wealth,
and such love as he is capable of. to a
stage beauty, as did William Ellis
Corey, might possibly be strictly hon
est in his business dealings. but the
chances are that he would not be both
cred by an over-active conscience in
case he was tempted to manipulate the
stockholders money for his own per-
sonaI benefit.
The man who breaks the seventh
commandment with impunity in his
private life won't worry about any
small cracks that he makes in the
eighth in his business dealings.
That is why it is to the interest of
policy holders to see that men of pure
private lives are placed in positions of
responsibility. both in official and busi-
ness life.
The quarrels between the pot and
the kettle are of interest to the public
only insofar as they show how each is
disqualified for responsible service, and
their ultimate endorsement of each
other cannot be accepted by the pub
lie as evidence that both are as white
as snow after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
Operator's Peculiar Signs.

Telegraph operators always have per-
sonal signs which they place on all
messages they send or receive. Usually
they use two of their initials or take
two letters from their names. For IN
stance, James Black will probably use
'JB' as his sign. In many cases, how
ever, they choose their sign in peculiar
ways.
I'VE once had a man working here
who signed 'KE because he had taken
the Kelley cure said a Kansas City
chief operator recently. He afterward
went back to drinking and then used
b. deriving it from booze AnOt.ier
fellow signed 'PS' because he used to
say he received q poor salary.
"A woman operator we had here used
to sign 'HK,' her initials, until one
day her beau Tilted her and married an
other girl After that she signed 'BH,
which. we understood, meant broken
heart
IN an eastern Office where [ one
worked there was a hoodoo sign. 1t was
'KO' The first man who used it there
was killed by a train; the next one went
crazy and the third died of typhoid fe-
yer. After that nobody in the Office
dared use the rr0T~~ sign. The story
about its being jonah Travelled over
the country, and todav you'll find very
few operators signing 'KQ. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
Hartman and Headlines.

IFrom the washington star
This appears in yesterdays press re-
port of the New York insurance in
quiry;
Mr.. Hartman, in leaving the wit
ness stand, said that his reason for
wanting to keep Governor Higgins and
Speaker Nixon's names out of the news
paper headlines is that most people
read. only the headlines
A mistake not confined to railroad
magnates, who have little time for
reading OF any kind. There are GER
tain other people who think that the
public as a rule gallops through a
newspaper and by picking up a lire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
Senate Needs Investigation.

[F'rom the Los Angeles Express
OF late years the homage and re-
spect paid to the members Of the SEN
ate has gradually changed into sus-
picion, and the events of the last few
months have not tended to decrease
this suspicion. First it was a mem
Der from Oregon branded as a COM
mon criminal, and then Kansas and
New York both showed up their rep
resentatives as unworthy of public
confidence or respect Others who
have seats in the upper house are
known to be equally worthy of con-
tempt, and the public realizes that
there is still much that it does not
know.
Something is necessary to stop the
rapid and continuous descent of the
senate in public opinion. It is well
enough to hold up the names of Bur
ton and DepeW to scOrn, but that does
little to satisfy the popular indignation
against the cOterie of cheap politicians
who have wormed their way into the
public service to use their office as
means of enrichment.
Senator Tillman, too often erratlc
and as a rule provocative of useless
strife, has credited himself with one
good act when he suggested that the
United States senate should clear It's
character. He did not indulge IN eXag-
geration when he declared that the
charge has been laid at the door of the
senate that it is controlled by corpora
lions, and that some of its members
represented interests inimical to the
public interest"
The senate is our highest legislative
body, and it should typify in its mem
bership the highest ideals of the peo--
pie. We need within its walls men OF
broad principle, men able to reallze the
true character of the trust committed
to them and to appreciate the obiga-
lions they owe to the state and the
country Graft in public life must go,
and the most important service that
the senate can render the country is to
set itself to the task of roofing out
graft and "grafters'' from its own
membership. The process may be a
difficult and tedious one, but one which
the country will support and which IS
ESSENTIAL if confidence is to be restored
to the senatorial body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.

lFrom the Atchison Globe.
We all feel young when we buy. and
old when we do the paying.
OF this you may be sure. that the
black sheep in every family was once
the most petted lamb.
Don't make yourself unpopular nv
having such a good memory your
friends can't enjoy telling lies to Won
Some people do a lot OF tallxing
about the work they have to do in the
hope that some one will beat them
to it.
It Is hard on any mother "a =.
santa Claus, but think how nnlJcll
harder 1t is to be a step-mother santa
Claus.
Laugh at a mans joke, even II vo,,
have heard it before. Laugh becsy1,s-
you are not his wife who hears ID ever~
Being a thoroughbred at this seaaon
presents than you can afford 80
smiling while doing it.
There is a great deal Of svrnDa thv
at this season Of the year for the -
man who has only one child. ana =
too young to understand about ssanfs
Claus.
An Atchison business man has 49,
given a box of cigars for =. Cshrist,,,-.a.-
present. He does not smoke. ans ,--S45
give them TO his preacher vrifl, /.
Merry Christmas
There are some people who ara s-
mean in everything as the how S.,ift1
al appie. ne ooesn,t enjoy it unless
standing around envying him.
girl is brighter than eve, -,
moLner thinks If she knows thaf 49,.
a man caller stays longer taan 49,. es-lsas
Il IS not because of her attracfive,,.-ss.s--as
9ol because u Is cold weather outside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-24

A New York publisher has a reputa-
ton for employing the homeliest stem
ographers and typewriters in the city.
Efficiency rather than beauty is what
he wants, and he knows the prettiest
ones are not the most efficient. Just the
same, it is said of him that he doesn't
know a pretty woman when he sees one.
Still, his wife is an unusually hand
some woman.
Not long ago she came into his Of
five, where she appears My at rare in
tervals and only when it is absolutely
necessary. She was met by an Office
boy, bright Irish lad, who had never
seen her. She asked for Mr.. Blank.
who shall I say wants to see him,
mem?' he inquired.
His wife" she replied.
He looked at her in open-eyed sur
prise and genuine admiration.
Sure, mem, III tell him." he said,
starting off, land bad cess to thin
that says he has no taste in ladies,
mem."-Cleveland Leader.