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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-06-23
GORMAN--
WHYTE--S
Eulogized, Commended And Endorsed
BY Democrats OF Cecil In County
Convention

SUIHSUtfOH
.,,
nc democratic primaries held on
saturday, were comparatively tame be-
cause O! the practically assured re-
l"'i,hatl"n 81 Hon. Thomas y. Smith
"N t"e party candidate Tor Congress
al '''e FlrNt district Convention, to be
| ncI! at Ocean City on July IL. but a
ia'riy larGc vote was puIlcd in the sev-
| rFI dlNlfict>, and the delegates were,
As rule, representative party men.
=. ne delegates gathered in town on
uG>day morning and were called to
,'r' CT III tae uitccS OF the late Sena-
TOR Nlrt. IN the ucEcr Building at
civck, by supervisor o! Elections
y"lln NJ. ucNcr, member OF the
,2cm"rratic State Central Committee
ne called Tor the naming "i temporary
CHAIRMAN and Secretary, and DR.. c.
T., Oarr'c". OF the Third district and
hrma' T.. iuran. OF the Seventh. were
proposed and chosen and later CON
t,uucd permanently On motion OF
:. :. tN2n>, ESD, Committees on
Ircj"nt2iN and Organization and on
Res lutImn' we're named. by districts,
aH follows:
Credentials and Organization.-Firs
,''''ti N .. AIGrrltl, second. II. G.
lager; hiri, DR.. S. {. Sykes, Fourth,
Charles ), Gatchcll: Filth. George O.
| Carey; Sixth, W. T. Fryer: Seventh,
". n. Holm: Eighth. Merritt s. Nc
Nilncc: N1nth, William J. SINNERS.
Resolutions, Etc.-l'ir,t district. r.
b. Merritt; Second. J. p. Steele; Third,
William s. Evans; Fourth. William 3.
Scott; Fifth. y. =. Smcoc: Sixth, Jno.
f. Pierce; Seventh. Tohn STUMP;
| Eighth. W. ". ATcCiuigan; Ninth,
Clinton Ncrkc>.
The Committee ON Credentials.
through its Chairman. DR.. s. Claude
Sykes, reported the following roll of
delegate, a, duv chosen.
First di,trict-F. Ambrose Price.Dr
Il. Mar:lcv BLACK. William /, Ioncs
Edward \. Joqc>. Richard r. Merritt
Second di,trirt-I pm. Steele n
G.. Hagcr. George X IlnrcE Irwin e,
Griffith. William N R~,vY -
Third di.,ric,-Dr. { p Carr;co
William S. Evans. M'i''iam II. Smith,
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

no. bahoon's My Godl Eve said II again,
Taboon's blood" In one play he had a line
-An shall be well IN that immortal land where
God hath His dwelling" He SURPRISED tbe
audience with this exclamation: TN that i'm
mortal land where God hath His-ah-um-
apartmentsl"
We might so indefinitely citing incidents
Of IrVings career, odd types and picturesque or
Grou occurrences, but we must forbear. Mr.
Stoker himself met many of the celebrities who
came to Irving's famous midnight suppers and
though the space he gives to these individuals
Is often out of proportion to the value of what
he has TO say about them, he contrives to make
them yield. first and last a fair store of anec-
dote or Miss Terry he has comparatively little
say, but that little testifes not only to her
brIIance as an associate of Irving, but to the
rare charm of her personal traits. More than
one portrait Of her Is reproduced, including the
beautiful photograph, taken in her seventeenth
yg.lr which We borrow. OF Irving himself
many portraits are. of course, given. Some day
a --Onograph on Irving viii undoubtedly ap-
pear, painting him at full length and embody-
ing critical survey Of his work as an artist
Ny Stoker has not provided an adequate sub
Stitute for such book But when it comes to
be written his volumes viii be Invaluable to
the author
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
Il M4SQUE OF Flora"
4 Ne10 Note Struck in american
Mural Decoration.

The production Of mural paintings on large
sc-la for public and private buildings in Amer
i1st has come to be aelmost matter of course.
Il goes forward not in Tie principal cities of the
East alone. but throughout the country. Never
tleless. mural decoration Is still too young an
art with Us to have got itself crystaized in for
mule. Again and again, In recent years. it has
been the field of fresh experiment and has
yielded unexpected effects. Another new note is
struck in the panel which We reproduce to-day,
- Masque OF Flora" executed by Mr.. James
Wall Finn for that of the dining rooms in
the Kuickerbocker Hotel which is known as the
Flower Room.
The experience of which this panel is the fruit
invites comment for the light that it throws on
q point often touched upon in The Tribune
Some years ago, when mural painting began to
be taken seriously in this country, we noted that
If il occasionally went wrong it was apt to be
far the reason that the artist started with a
pictorial rather than an architectural concep-
ton Of his task He framed design calculated
10 stand by itself. composition accidentally
confined within certain walls and not really
faruing a part of them. AS we have repeatedly
pointed out the true mural decoration is essen
tally d matter of architectural construction
Judging from the merit of "a Masque of Flora"
Hr- Finn would have been faithful to this law
i'm any case, but it has happened that the
work he has for years been doing has been pre-
Clsely the work to prepare him for the oppor-
-unity offered on the present occasion. He has
been engaged upon the more less formal m
bellishment Of walls and ceilings, sometimes
working out upon them complex schemes of line
and color, but just as often eschewing ara
besgues and the like and gaining his effect
through bold har1nonies Of tone It is not the
kind Of work about which much is said nova
days. Public attention is much more frequently
given to the conspicuous historical allegorical
composition, and appreciation of the beautiful
ensembles achieved by Mr.. Finn In this or that
building has been left, the whole, to those
who particularly concern themselves with such
matters An the time, however. these unobtru-
sfve labors nominaIly humdruu. but actually
as artistic as any dedicated to more ambitious
purposes, have been, have said, fitting the
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

ness. Best of ALL this background is handled in
free and spontaneous manner. Similar back
grounds familiar in the art of the RenaiS
SaEce. One thinks for moment In looking at
this OF the sort of thing that Ciiulio Romano did
well in the Paazzo del TIE at Mantua; but It
never occurs to to think of Mr.. Firms
pavilions deIivative. They have the fitness
and reality of constructions studied in the open
air The garlands and flowers everywhere have
certain artleSsness. Their fresh hues and those
of the "flower-lit plain in the foreground are
handled with energy and a sincerity which
put the last touch of truth to the scene.
The figures. realized with the same force, are
set in their places with the purely decora-
tive discretion. They form free, fluid line
across the length of the composition; there is
nothing to suggest mere attitude about them,
but withal they balanced as judiciously
the details of the architecture in the back
ground. The figure of Flora in the centre, with
Zephyrus kneeling beside her. though pivotal
figure, occupies its place with an almost casual
freedom So the group Of Adonis In his dark
robe and plumed casQue and Bacchus In his
leopard skin falls easily into relation to the
central motive and to the figures filling out the
rest of the composition on that side With equal
thought of their relation TO the whole, and with
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

equal freedom from overwrought symmetry, Har-
lequin and Columbine take up their stations at
the other end. Thus far we have considered the
linking of the figures together and Of the
figures and the background as a matter Of de-
sign and FORM but of course the unity for which
we chiefly admire "A Masque of Flora is due
in great measure to the treatment of the color.
This is in a light key, the grass and flowers
being as color factors, woven into web with
the cleaning white of the architecture and the
delicate whites, blues, grays and shades of rose
in the draperies. A festal note, springing from
the poetic conception of the panel is carried out
in the color, which is made the more engaging
through being suffused with brilliant, but not
too brilliant, light Finally both form and color,
figures and architecture adapted to the
shape, dimensions and prevailing hue Of the
room itself From every point of view Mr.. Finn
has acquitted himself successfully. He has made
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Ai'is' 10 meet the mural painter In the strict
sense on his own ground, and to win a remarka-
Bile triumph.
me strength of this decoration Is based pri
on the character, and especially the spac-
ihs' OF It's design The background subsidiary
as IL necessarily Is to the little pageant of
As ures' mas at the same time an essentially deco
iatiVe character. The treIIised pavlions give.
with just the right blending of nature and con-
Vehuon' the sense of form and of distance which
% needed 70 mark decisively the limits of the
scene and yet give 1T an atmosphere of life
1he Vlstas IN the two flanking pavilions make
the effect more spacious. The tapestry in the
centre keeps the perspective from going too far,
helps the spectator to feel the enclosed character
Oh garden, but does SO in a subtle manner The
columns on either side Of this central episode
bring q needed element Of weight into the
scheme. and do Il, likewise. without aggressive
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
his painting decoration and he has done this
with sound craftsmanship and with originality.
GERMAN SCHOOLS.
]. E. Barker, in The Contemporary.

j. y.
Most great men have either lacked school
training or have been amateurs. Art,
industry and science hourished most in this
country when education at its lowest ebb.
Education viii give neither political nor in
dustrial leaders, for these must educate them
selves. AT the same time it should not be for
gotten that leaders without followers almost
useless, and the utility of the German schools
lies in this that they turn out huge rank and
file of educated mediCCritieS. The hosts of medi-
ocre German chemists have established the most
HourlShlnS industry in the world by making use
of the inventions of the great chemical geniuses
of England and France, who lacking ade-
quate rank and file, were unable to utilize their
inventions in their own country.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21
WALTER PATER'S WAY.
IS, in The Monthly Review.

A Symons, in The Monthly Review.
remember telling him about '"The Story of
African Farm and the wonderful human
quality of it. He said, repeating his favorite
formula: mo doubt you are right but do not
suppose l shall read it" And he explained
to that he was always writing something
and that while he writing he did not allow
himself to read anything which might possibly
affect him too strongly by bringing a new cur
rent of emotion to bear upon him.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

There is to be a biography of the late Mrs.
Craigie John Oliver HobbeS)-a work which
would, on the whole, seem to be unnecessary.
1t is wiser to postpone the preparation of such
memorials until Time ives us to understand
that the fame of popular author has become
an abiding one
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Novel writing a business seems to have
been developed in a lively fashion by Mr.. Franz
fort Moore. This Irish author is to have four
novels running through as many magazines
during the coming The list of books
plays, etc, produced by him is very long one
and far he has given nothing which prom
ises to live. The list however, means, we be-
neye, a comforta hie income.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-21

Miss Braddon (Mrs. MAXWELL has just passed
her SEVENTEEN birthday and is still welding
her pen. Her new novel, announced for early
publication, is entitled 1.-The White House"
There is little art in this lady's books, but she
has certainly been among the most entertain
ing of story teers, as Mr.. Andrew Lang has
pdc
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
Weddings In wales.

Many and curious were the old GUS
toms in Wales relating to marriage
The following is aD account of the bid
ding ceremony, an old custom which Is
said to be celebrated even to this day
In rural parts of Wales: The bidder
goes from house to house with a long
pole and ribbons flying at the end of it,
and standing in the middle floor in each
house he repeats a long lesson with
great formality. He mentions the day
Of the wedding, the place, the prepara-
tons made, etc. The following is a
specimen: 'The intention of the bidder
Is this: With kindness and amity, with
decency and liberality for - and -,
he invites you to come with your good
will on the plate. Bring current mon
ey-a shilling or two or three or four
or five-with cheese and butter. We
invite the husband and wife, children
and menservants, from the greatest to
the least Come there early. You
shall have victuals freely and drink
cheap, stools to sit on and fish if we
can catch them, but if not hold us eX-
cusable, and they will attend on you
when you call upon them in return.
They set out from such a place and
such place"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
old Time Acting.

The Old time actor had peculiar and
primitive views as to elocution and its
uses. 1 remember a certain old friend
Of mine who, when he recited the open.
ing speech in Richard I'LL" and arrived
at the line, "In the deep bosom of the
ocean buried suggested the deep Dos.
ON of the ocean by sending his voice
into his boots. Yet these were fine
actors, to whom certain young gentle.
men who never saw them constantly
refer. The methods of the stage have
completely changed and with them the
tastes of the people. The probability
is that some of the old actors of only
a few years ago would excite much
merriment in their delineation of trag-
edy. A very great tragedian of a past
generation was wont in the tent scene
in Richard Ill" to hold a piece of
soap in his Mouth, so that, after the APP
pearance of the ghosts, the lather and
froth might dribble down his chin, and
he employed moreover a trick sword
which ratified hideously, and, what with
his foam fecked face, his rolling eyes,
his inarticulate groans and his rafting
blade, the small boy in the gallery
was scared into a frenzy of vociferous
delight Richard Mansfield in Atlantic
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
He Had Already "Et.v

II know a western Kansas town
where the rules of etiquette are purely
upon logical basis" said a man from
the short grass country the other day
'The daughter of the hotel keeper at
whose hostelry 1 was living was to be
married. l received an invitation. At
about II o'clock in the evening the
wedding supper was spread. An old
lady came down the table side, passing
the viands to the guests. When she
reached my plate she skipped me and
began again with the next man. The
old lady had seen me eating my sup
per as usual at 6 o'clock.
you've ct she said as she gave
me the go by. Things began to look
dubious for me. Then an old man
came along with more food He also
had seen me eating at the usual even
ing hour. He SHE'D around me with a
look of surprise that should be at the
feed rack again and said, why, you've
et.'
Everybody had been saving up for
the occasion so that they might eat like
heroes at that wedding feast. The fact
that had not been missing any meals
nearly ostracized me in that happy
gathering" kansas City Times.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
superstitions of Farmers.

Farmers 'stick to the moon" in re-
gard to planting corn and other crops.
Some of them will not under any cir
cumstances plant corn on moonlight
nights, claiming that corn planted then
will produce tall stalk with a short
ear. Others just as successfully plant
when they are ready, when nights are
dark or moonlight, as the case may be.
Other notions are INDUCED in, such as
throwing the cobs in running water to
keep corn from firing. Some farmers
would under no consideration burn
pinder hulls, the seed of which is to be
used for planting. They must be scat
tered along a path or highway, to be
trodden upon in order to secure good
crop. Green butter bean hulls must be
thrown in a road after being shelled
for table use from day to day to insure
good crop the following season.
Charleston News and Courier.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
Proficient.

When western Iowa was newly set
tied the farmers in an isolated section
banded themselves together as a school
district and proceeded to choose one Of
their number committeeman. A log
schoolhouse was erected, and soon a
young woman came that way seeking
a chance to teach. The committeeman
was designated to ascertain her fitness
When the time for the ordeal arrived
the public official was at his wits end.
He had been examined himself often
enough, but that was when he was at
tending district school fifty years be-
fore. The very thought of conducting
an examination himself. and for
teacher at that, staggered him. He
could not think of question to ask.
The young woman sat waiting, and
the old man teetered nervously on his
tiptoes.
'Well, now, Miss Burden" he said
cautiously at last, "kin you say the
alphabet back ards?"
Miss Burden could, and did.
'Finew cried the committeeman. 'T'N
just indorse your certificate" He
wrote it thus:
Gully profeeshunt."
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
The Fate of Cities

Some ancient cities have disappear
ed. The archaeologist digs through the
sands of the desert, the accumulations
of vegetable mold and the debris of
human habitation in a search for the
palaces of great kings, the markets of
wealthy traders and the homes of
once numerous people. The massacres
of ancient warfare may explain some
Of these dead and buried cities. The
inability of people in early history to
deal with the sanitary problems of a
congested population may have been a
contributing cause to their destruction.
Cities may have died because their
people could not live But in most
cases a change in the routes of COM
merce will be found to have diverted
the stream of nourishment from a city
and left it to die Of starvation. Yet
the Eternal City and Athens, Byzan-
tium, Jerusalem, Antioch and Damas-
Gus illustrate the tenacity of munich
pal vitality, even though long sue
cession of centuries brings great
changes in the methods and subjects
and courses Of traffic.-Philadelp
Record.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
A Brides Dilemma.

A successful schoolteacher married a
wealthy widower. The man had lived
alone with his servants since the death
Of his first wife, On the morning aft
er the brides arrival in her new home
the cook appeared for orders. Now,
the little woman was far more familiar
with the CLASSICS than with roasts and
stews, and she was not little dismay-
ed when Mary innocently put the ques-
ton:
can how will We have the beef cook
ed, mum?'
For the merest instant she hesitated.
Not for q fortune would she have the
old servant suspect her absolute ig-
norance Of cookery. But her years in
the schoolroom had not been in vain.
Calmly and sweetly she answered:
"You may cook it your way today,
Mary, and then another time you can
try my way"
And the cook went downstairs with
high opinion of her new MISTRESS
New York Press.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31

A queer instance of the working of
Herbert Spencer's mind is mentioned
by the two sisters in whose household
he lived. He came to the table one day
absorbed in thinking about some pho
tographs of the nebulae he had just
received:
GAS he rose from his chair he stood
for a minute gazing with cleaning eyes
into the distance, and then muttered in
a disjointed fashion, as if half to him
self, words to this effect: Thirty mil
lions of suns, each probably having its
own system, and supposing them each
to be the size of pins head they are
fifty miles apart! What does it all
meanY And then, without a pause
and only a change of voice, The fluff
still comes out of that cushion, you
know as with wave of his small,
thin hand toward it he passed rapidly
out of the room, leaving us both be-
wildered by the quickness with which
his mind worked"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
A Great stump Forgery.

The most colossal stamp forgery on
record entailed the successful swim
ding of collectors throughout Europe
in 1889. One day the French papers
announced that King Marie 1. of Sc
dang, an island in the vicinity of Chi
ma, was coming to Paris. As it hap
pened, this self created monarch was
an ex-officer of the French navy, and
his appearance in Paris created con-
siderable sensation. As soon as his
majesty had been duly advertised
sets of seven different postage stamps
marked "Sedang" and bearing three
half moons appeared, and so great was
the demand for them that in less than
a month they realized 1000 francs
each. Not until the king and his min
listers had reaped fat fortunes in this
manner was it discovered that the
whole thing was hoax and the stamps
consequently worthless.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31

The question Of title is one of the
most delicate in Germany, fact of
which the stranger Is constantly re-
minded in intercourse with the people,
particularly with the women. Frau
Professor, Frau Director, Frau Doctor,
are most particular about their hus
bands titles being attached to their
own names, but when it comes to mill
tary circles it is different, and both
men and women protest vigorously
against this sharing of titles. Lieuten-
ant Won B. objects to having his wife
addressed as Frau Lieutenant, which
title belongs as well to the wife of
Lieutenant Schmidt or Half Of less
aristocratic regiment.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
A Heavy SAMPLE.

Sometimes the rigors of patent Office
procedure are not without their humor-
GUS side. A New York attorney filed
an application for improvements in
centrifugal pump. The patent Office
declared the invention imperative and
demanded working model. The pat
emit Office was requested to send an ex-
aminer to Trenton to inspect the ma
chine in actual operation. This the
patent Office refused to do. The at
torney, therefore, politely sent seven
ton pump to the patent office-sent it,
moreover, from Trenton to satisfy a
skeptical examiner. Twenty-one men
were required to get it into the exam
iner's office-Scientific American.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
Some Slips of the Tongue.

Never use the word liable" when
you mean 'likely." Do not say, for
instance, that ''he is liable to come in
at any moment" Liable" implies mis-
fortune and means Exposed to-" Sub
ject to-" ''in danger Of"
Why do most of US speak of 'un>
travelling mystery" Any good die
tionary shows that "ravel' means "to
unweave." You "ravel' a mystery,
therefore, when you solve it. In Ham
LETT Shakespeare says: Make you to
ravel all this matter out"
If you and your friend Smith know a
man called Jones, do not speak to
Smith of .''our mutual friend
ing Jones. Jones is your common
friend. If you are friendly to Smith
and Smith is friendly to you, you and
Smith are mutual friends" but that is
the only sense in which the term may
be rightly used.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-31
A Nation of sIeeners.

"Rare slumberers are the Turks" de-
clares a writer. "In the villages, at
any rate, they will drop into the land
Of dreams on the slightest pretext and
at the shortest notice. This habit has
advantages, one being that the Turk
does not at all mind being awakened
in the dead of night, for the simple rea-
son that he can go to sleep again the
instant he wishes. When staying in
very limited quarters 1 have often
heard a member of the family get up
and after searching about among his
sleeping companions thoroughly rouse
them all to ask where his tobacco was
or upon some equally slight excuse"