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TUESDAY,
September 4th, 1906,
at 2. 20 O'Clock. p. M.

at Z.3O O'Clock, L. M,
all that tract of land situate about
three miles from Snow Hill. near Nassa-
wango Creek, in part conveyed to the
said John NJ Bromley by said George
II. Clarke by deed dated, January Goth.
1906, recorded among said land records
in Liber F. II. p, No. "a folio 26O, and
such as was conveyed to the said Geo. II.
Clarke by Robert +. Clarke and Charles
A. Clarke by deed dated March 18th,
1902. recorded in said records in Liber
+. H. r., No i6, folio 1886, and TO the
said George II. Clarke, Robert +.
Clarke and Charles A. Clarke by Charles
F. Trutt and wife by deed dated Febru-
AIRY 26, 1898 recorded in said records in
Liber +. II. r., No. 10. folio 456.
Also one fourth interest of the said
George II. Clarke in and to Steam
Saw Mill now located near Box Iron, in
said County.
Terms of sale CASH.
WILLIAM +. JOHNSON,
Assignee,
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RoBLEY d. JONES. Attorney-at-Lav
Order OF Publication
Albert Allen
vs..
Lizzie Allen

In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. in Equity. No. 2l3l.
The object Of this suit is to procure
a decree for divorce q cn"uf1 mdtri-
monii of the plaintiff. Albert Allen,
from his wife. Lizzie Allen.
The bill states that on the 9th day
of August. A. ID. 1890, the said Albert
Allen was married to the said Lizzie
Allen. with whom he resided in Snow
Hill. Worcester County. Maryland, un-
I'll the 18th day Of January, A. ID. 1901.
That, though the conduct of the said
Albert Allen towards his wife. the said
Lizzie Allen, has always been kind.
aifectionate and above reproach, the
said Lizzie Allen, without any just cause
or reason. on the said 18th day of Jan
uary. 1901, abandoned and deserted him
and has declared her intention to live
with him no longer, and that such aban-
donment has continued uninterruptedly
for, at least, three years, and is de-
liberate and final and the separation of
the parties beyond any reasonable ex-
pectation of reconciliation.
That the said Albert Allen and the
said defendant, Lizzie Allen. have had
three children BORN to them from said
marriage, namely: David Allen. George
Allen and Vincent Allen, all Of whom
are infants under twenty-one years of
age, and that the said Albert Allen and
his said children now reside, and have
always resided, in Worcester County,
Maryland.
4th. That the defendant, Lizzie
Allen, is a nonresident of the State of
Maryland. and resides in the City of
Philadelphia in the State of Pennsyl-
vania.
1t is thereupon this 23d day of July.
1906, ordered by the Circuit Court for
Worcester County. in Equity, that the
plaintiff, by causing copy of this or
der to be inserted in some newspaper
published in said Worcester County
once in each Of four successive weeks
before the 9th day of August, 1906.
give notice to the said absent defendant
of the object and substance of this bill,
warning her to appear in this Court in
person or by solicitor on or before the
18th day of September next to show
cause, If any she has, why a decree
ought not to be passed as prayed.
FRANCIS HENRY PUKNELL, Clerk.
True Copy, Test:
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELI., Clerk.
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Notice To Creditors.

The firm of The Dale Canning Com
pany of Whaleyville, Maryland, having
made an assignment to me for the
benefit of creditors, notice is hereby
given to said creditors to file their
claims against said firm of the Dale
Canning Company with the vouchers
thereof in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Worcester County
within four months from the date here.
of. or said creditors will be excluded
from participating in said estate.
OLIVER ID. COLLINS,
July q, 1906. Trustee.
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WILLIAM F. JOHNSON, Atty-at Law

By virtue of power of sale contained
in a mortgage from George II. Clarke
and John NJ. Bromley to Cleophus G..
Hearne. and duly assigned to the un-
dersigned for the purpose of foreclosure,
said mortgage being dated the twenty
seventh day of March. 1906, and re-
corded among the land records of Wor-
cester County in Liber F. II. p. No.
"a, folio 504, default having occurred in
the payment thereof. as therein pro-
vided, the undersigned Assignee will
offer at public sale at the Court House
door in Snow Hill, in said Worcester
County. on
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Notice to Creditors.

The creditors of Henry Curtis Long.
late of Worcester County. deceased, are
hereby notified to file their claims, with
the vouchers thereof, in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County within four months from
the day of sale above named.
CALVIN Il. TAYLOR,
JOHN w. STATION,
Trustees.
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FOR SALE.

Owing to the death of A. w. Wood
cock, the stock of Jewelry. Watches,
Clocks and Silverware, Fixtures, Tools.
ETC., are offered for sale. This is fine
opportunity to engage in business
that has been established in Salisbury
for SIS years. Apply to
SAMUEL =. WOODCOCk,
st. Salisbury, Md.
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RoBLEY d. JONES, Attorney-at-Law
Mortgagee's Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

BY virtue of power contained in a
mortgage from William II. Jones, Sr.,
William II. Jones, Jr., David Jones,
Annie Jones, Milky Bailey, Georgianna
Wilson and Chance Wilson to John S.
Aydelotte, the undersigned, assignee
Of said mortgage. will sell at public
auction in front of the Court House
door, in the town of Snow Hill, Mary
land, on
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TUESDAY.
September 4th, 1906,
at 2-3O O'Clock =. NJ.

at 2-3U O'CLOCK 7. NJ.
all that house and lot situated on FEEDER
al Street in the town of Snow Hill.
Worcester County. Maryland. whereon
the said William II. Jones, Sr.. now
resides, and which was conveyed Ia
Esther Jones. the wife Of William II.
Jones, Sr.. by George w. Bishop and
wife by deed dated the lst day of April,
in the year 1874, and recorded among
the land records of Worcester County
aforesaid in Liber /. T. NJ. No. 3, folio
All, which said real estate, upon the
death of the said Esther Jones, de-
scended To the mortgagors.
Terms of sale. CASH.
ROBLEY ID. JONES,
Assignee of Mortgagee.
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l.. PAUL EWELL,

Attorney at-l.Aw. Pocomoke city. Md VIII be-
in SNOW Hil every Tuesday at the Office of John
w station
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SATURDAY,,
August 25, A. ID. 1906,

at I.3O O'CLOCK 7. NJ,
all that tract or parcel of land, together
with the improvements thereon, situated
in Saint Martins Election District, in
Worcester County, Maryland, on the
South side of the public road leading
from Bishopville to Bishops Station.
containing about twenty-five acres of
land, more or less. of which certain
Henry Curtis Long died seized. and
which was conveyed to the said Henry
Curtis Long by Amos McCabe by deed
duly recorded among the land records
of Worcester County.
Terms of sale CASH.
CALVIN Il. TAYLOR,
JOHN w. STATION.
Trustees.
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CALVIN B. TAYLOR. .Attorney-at-Law
JOHN w. STATION, Attorney-at-Law
Trustees Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

BY virtue of decree of the Circuit
Court for Worcester County sitting in
equity passed in case of Elisha ID.
Layton, Assignee of Amos McCabe,
Mortgagee. VS.. virga A. Long ct al,
the same being No. 2l25 on the Chan
Gerry Docket of said Court. the under
signed Trustees named therein will sell
at public auction at Bishops Hotel at
Bishop. Worcester County, Maryland,
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REPLIES.

%. WYNKOOP.-Judge Henry Wyn-
koop. of Pennsylvania, had eight chill
dren: Christina. born August Is. 1853;
Anne. born October 10. 1865; Mar
garetta. born January p. 1853; NichO-
las, born March %. 1770; Maria Helena.
born April 80. 1772; John WanshaeT.
born July II. IVA. Jonathan. born June
p. 1875; and SUsannah, born April Il.
1854 Much additional information re-
lating 10 this family may be had on ap-
plicatiOu 10 the editor.
"A. BLAIR BQISE.-DaYid Boise was
son of William Boise and his wife
Mary Hamilton. and was born in Bland
ford, Mass, January j.. 1850; was mar
ried 10 Dolly Blair. December /. 1872;
and died in Blandford. February 6,
1889. She died September 13, 1S0S. They
had at least eight children.
p. BRADLET-A fine account OF
the two brothers. Abraham and Phineas
Bradley. who settled I'm Washington
about the time of the establishment Of
the national government here was read
by Charles s. Bradley. esq, before the
Columbia Historical Society, May u.
1902. and is printed on pages 123-f42 OF
Vol. Of the Records" of that society.
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Wen. the beautiful day Of days has
come and gone. and everybody has told
how he or she spent Christmas. There
are messages on the doctors slate. be-
cause Tommy has had stocking full Of
goodies ans eaten them all before dinner
and has added two helps of turkey. i've
vegetables. soup, salad. plum pud-
ding, fruits and nuts. and half a box Of
bonbons, besides making raids on the
pantry while the butler was dressing
"Gorging Jack and "Guzzling Jimmy,
Of an older growth. are feeling the effects
Of overeating this week, and are sitting
with a bandaged, equity foot on chair,
or laid hors de combat on a bed Of pain,
because they couldn't say no" Why viii
people insist on fourteen courses and
seven wines, if they can afford It, when
minded to celebrate the coming of the
Great King. There are surely better
ways or celebrating IL 1t is surely better
to have (as the wise folk do) a generous.
abundant. simple meal, seasoned by love
and wit. and the amount Of wine that
warns the sage. but defeats the topper
and ending with the fragrant weed with
which NicOtina, the queen Of tobaccoland,
"opens the mouth Of the philosopher. and
shuts the mouth Of the fool" And not
only health and appetite wait on such
Christmas dinners. and the blessing or
God. if the superfluous and harmful eX-
cess that might have been has been
diverted 10 other homes, tables, and
stomachs, where, but FOR such unseltish
kindness, there would not be a single
toothsome morsel. a bit Of cake, an
orange, nut, 4 tOy-Only careworn
mother. a sick father, a house fun of
shabby. eager. hungry children, full
primed for "a good dinner, but painfully
aware of their parents empty purse and
larder. Of the rent mot paid, of the
coal bin, in which they have groveled
with red hands for enough humps TO
kindie the small fire that barely takes the
chill off the room, poor little things; Of
their dear mothers crown Of sorrow;
which is remembering happier things, of
their shabby clothes. Of the homes and
shops and children all around them. rep
resenting such different state Of affairs.
II is a piteous thing that any child should
90 hungry and thinly clad and miserable
on the blessed Christ-child's birthday. The
oldest and wisest cannot read the riddle
Of this worlds apportionment of good
things.
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Welt, received, just as she was going down
to formal dinner which she was giving
TO some OF her debutante friends, tele-
phone message from Miss Roosevelt, ask
ing her TO come over to dinner, as papa
and mama were 70 be away, and Miss
Alice had decided to have an informal
feast. The little lady explained that she
was herself the hostess at "a dinner, and
after some laughing exchanges Of gossip
went downstairs to join her own party.
Happening TO mention the affair at din
ner, her mother became very much eX-
cited, dramatically proclaimed that an in
vitation from the White House was a
command. and insisted that her daughter
should at once leave her own dinner party
and assist at the informal dinner at the
White House. The distress Of her daugh-
ter and the amused attitude of her guests
did not serve to alter her dictum and the
child was bundled of TO the White House,
leaving her own friends in charge of her
mother OF course, such lack Of under
standing and tact is not frequent, but
similar mistakes are always liable to be
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In the Back Alley.

There was once Il very willful darling
in one of our cities, who, having made,
surreputiously. great friends with Mrs
O'Flanigan and her brood Of eight, In
the back alley, and being perfectly aware
OF their condition and prospects for u
Xmas dinner. personally conveyed to them
a turkey, a plum pudding. eight vege-
tables. a basket of grapes tat 800 a poun6,
crate of oranges with Mixes help,
aged eighD, six bottles Of champagne,
and box of her fathers best Havanas.
When asked about and convicted of the
transaction. she said: why, you had
lots more. Was it a HARM Her
mother. who had spent $1,000 on her rich
relatives friends, and family, threatened
to spank Jenny" her grandfather said
he hadn't enjoyed such a laugh for
twenty years; her father quietly re-
marked Spank her. indeed. Jane is the
only Christian this family has produced
since I've known il, I'll see what I can
do for the Irish family hOnOred by her
friendship. and when I join the church
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GENEALOGICAL
DEP ARTMENT
WISE GENEALOGICAL VIEWS.

II a man. remarks the Spectator. says
that he does not care 20 know where
his great-grandfather lived. what he
did. and what were that reat-grand-
fathers politics and religious creed. 1t
can merely mean that he is incapable
Of taking interest In one OF the most
interesting forms Of human knOwl-
c,lge-the knowledge Of the details Of
the past or course. the compiling Of
mere strings Of names, however long.
is utterly meaningless. and its worship
wei deserves the contempt that has
been poured upon it. To a person
possessed Of any historical sense. how
ever, no name. II properly supple
mented with date and place is without
interest Perhaps one OF the
most curious things about pedigree
hunting is the fact that il IS tending 10
become more general as the political
and social power conferred by birth IS
growing less. That this IS so, has been
the cause Of much cheap satire IN re
gard TO the snobbish tendencies OF
democracy. We very much doubt how
ever whether the present love for
pedigrees has anything % do with that
pride OF birth which has been so con-
spicUOUs feature in other ages.
Rather, we believe that it is 10 be ex-
planned by the fact that the horizon OF
human interest mas been widening
everywhere, and that the love for the
study Of ancestry has developed with
the general love for knowledge which
is everywhere steadily growing. A man
row sets out 20 discover who his
ancestors really were. not 10 establish
4 claim To Norman blood. The old
pedigree hunting was a sign of pride
and pretcnsion, the modern is simply
dictated by the desire to know what
ever can be known. The one advanced
Itself by methods of immoral advocacy;
the other proceeds BY those Of scientific
rDeaa rlr
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Christ Church Marriages, washing
ton. ID. C.-Continued.

lslz. Dec. g. Thomas Tingey-Aun B. Dulany.
$50. Dec. l3 John Hoeari-Alilly Onion.
ls12. Dec. IS. N44ham Henry-Sarah Brown.
lsI2. Dec o. Edward Raudall-Naucy Cation.
ISL Dec % Lewis Alllls-Nary Gardiner
lsl2 Dec g. Andrew FoTcst-Aun H. Moore.
ISIS. Jan. 5. Dory BclI-Cathsriue Free
1913. Jan. TO- Walter AIitChell-Alatilda Masters
lSl3. Jan u. Otho j. BeaIi-AlaTy Brashears.
1913. Jan. IS, Edward ". Clark-Ann Fuyles
1915. Feb. 2. Fielder DJrsett-AmelIa T. Beall.
1913. Feb. u. Dominick Cherry-Ann Hurdle
1913. Feb. 10. George Simms-Sary H. Tolson.
1873, Feb. Is. Samuel Rnsold-Maris A. Hay.
1873. Feb. II. George MaSon-Eliza Mason.
lsl3 Feb. "a Iohn Feshor-Ann Peere iar Jeerel
lsl5. March g. Isaac Gillesric-lIarEarut Thompson
ISIS, March T. Moses LHerpool-susan Thompson.
1913. March p Kennedy Burns-Charl0tte G. Rowe.
1913, March ., OYert0n Warner-Eliza Moore.
1873. March 2, John G. BTUsh-Niary D0yne.
1913. April S. Goliel C. Grammer-Eliza Doyno.
1913. April Is. Edward Fieids-Amelia RrashearS
isl3 April Il. Peter L0gEins-Jaue Franklin.
1915. April p Walter BecIett-DebuTah Lowe.
1913. May 2. William Naney-AlarFaret Cristod.
ISIS. May g. Jonathan EIliot-Sarah Evans.
1913. May D. james Simmuns-Nary NJ. Barclay.
1913. June 3. Levi Sheriff Matilda Wilson
1913 June %. Richard Neale-Sarah TaIhurt.
1918. July 8 James Bel-Betsey Williams
1913. July I3. John L!ttle-Eiizs Irwin.
1913. Aug l. Fielder WaIker-Ann Mcdowell
lsl3 Aug G. Andrew T. McCOrmick-Hannah Pleas
enton
1918. Aug :. Philip Deakins-Msrgaret D0ugherty.
1913 Aug. s John Stone-Yerlenda Baldwin.
1913, Aug. 70. Charles Gioyer-Iane Cooking.
1913 Aug. Q. George Page-Sophia Beall.
1913. Sept 3. Benjamin Murphy-Elizabeth Scott
1913 Oct g. jeremiah AIullican-P0lly SCOT
1913 Oct g Henry I. Allen-Hannah Owner.
1913 Nov. J. George Hurley-Dorah Frames
1913 Nov. T. Thomas NauEhan-Auna r. Sweeuy.
1873 Nos. y. John Bsrues-Catharine ConnelL
1873 Nov. 10. Henry Charles Lewis-Caroline {. De-
Canap.
lsI3 Dec 2 James Danford-Sarah Winder.
1913 Dee p Thomas White-Naucy Hodge.
1914 Jan. Is. William B. Branch-Louisa MaKruder.
lsi4 Jan. 49, Richard Martin-Rehecca HeSd0n.
lsli Feb g. Benjamin II. Sansbury-Hauiet sans
bury.
lsli Feb D Benjamin Jones-Drusy Frazier
1874 April TO- Adam LOyd-Sarah TenCh.
1914. April y. Richard Henley-Nstilda Dixon
1874 April q MaFau y. Soper-Elizabeth Pope.
1914 April Is, Thomas Young-Betsy simpson
1874 April 3. sephen Csicl Observation-Disclosures
HYATT
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made by people with provincial educa-
ton. who are called upon to deal with
social questions at the Capital.
Mrs. Roosevelt is governed by about the
same rules that obtain for her husband.
She makes no visits except those of in
clination, but every one who takes any
part In society is supposed to call on her.
The first call is simply one of ceremony
and consists in leaving ones card OF
cards, as the case may be. with the usher
at the White House door. Shortly after
this ceremony Mrs. Roosevelt acknOwi-
edges the visit through her secretary boy
an invitation to call upon some certain
day or an invitation 90 one of the formal
receptions II is pleasant TO record that
no first lady has been more purctilious
in such small matters than Mrs. ROOsc-
welt She naglects nothing and it is
doubtful if there was ever a hostess IN
the White House who so perfectly fui-
filed her duties
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upon the idIeness Of women and the
wretched influences OF life ia apartment
houses He says in the DAYS Of our
GRANDMOTHER, when young married people
were almost Immediately interested in "a
growing family and the duties Of their
own little homes. Hfe did not hold one
tenth the temptations and surely there
was a hundred per cent less Of scandal
and divorce"
To-day. in his opinion. the apartment
house Is the curse of the age and re-
sponsible for many Things. where so
many women are gathered together with
nothing 90 do" the husband is away
all day giving his wife time and license
10 drift into bad habit and worse morals
be awakens sooner OF later 10 find his
happiness shattered and his home in
tedIs.
This seems TO rs ,he most senseless
reasoning In the world IN the first place
there never was an apartment so small
that "a woman could not keep desperately
or merriIy busy in st ali day long if she
was so inclined, and Of all places an
apartment can be so easily fitted 10 the
principle Of keeping away from ones
ueighbor Unlike "a boarding house. one
can wrap the privacy n that little home
around her and not even answer the
bell
Then. too. there never was an axe
when women were SO universally busy
Do not our daughters as wei! as our s0a-
quickly turn the moment they receive
their diplomas and face the eyer-perpleX-
ing problem. "Wnat must I do now Ga
provide for myssIf2'
Oh. mo-. our quOndam writer has gone
far astray OF the mark. Not idleness
not apartment houses. not even the old
Adam iu us is responsible for the de,
ul0rable conditions of to-day
The ufaithfgl husbands aud CuiHE wives.
The shattered homes aud ruined lives
bur man himself The father who 8.
willing % see his daughter go out into
the world, unless there is dire necessity
for IL. the brothers who enjoy the sight
OF their sister as "a chorus girl. and the
fauce who allows the woman be loves
90 work one day after be- has asked hel
TO- DE bis wife.
All these things perhaps. must be. and
we are being educated every day TO think
they must be. but they alone are re-
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Profit nndLnss.

The great firm Of Mundus & Co. de-
mands tremendous investments in the
way Of health and time and money and
devotion, but few. few indeed. are the
people who are satisfied by their dIvi-
dends. What 90 YOU enjoy most, sir OF
madam? Is il the brilliant entertain
ment at the Tomlinson-Smiths'. of which
the papers are full, or the quiet, happy
evening at home with your dear ones. on
the whole so much more delightful than
tiSDt boots. gorgeous dress. stilted talk.
and hot rooms. Was it that $50 vase
that you got at Xmas, madam. from a
uft hunter. or the penwiper from your
little girl (who got from YOU the pat
terms and the stuff, and got you TO sew
on the button in the middle) that pleased
you most2 Especially, when the little
angel said. Weren't you surprised.
mamma, when you saw ito" Heaven
lies about us in our infancy" Words
worth says. 1t lies in every little child
for all who love them and will gently,
revereHt!y, lovingly. humbly seek it.
Children are delicious always; above
all. at Christmas. One tot in this city.
who is much loved by a gentleman
friend Of the family-gave her admirer
mysteriously and gofgeously enveloped
package. saying: Now don't open this
till Christmas. I don't want you to know
till then about II. It's a picture of my
mother and me-" Nearly all cur secrets
crop out: love, hate. ambition. selfshness.
III viii, hypocrisy, envy, but how in
nocentiy. sweetly this came out. Bless
the darling child.