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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09
PERRYVlLLE

Misses Ethel and Susie McMullcn
are visiting their sisters in Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. w Clifton Jackson was Balti-
more visitor on Wednesday.
Misses lrvy and Ncma Schoi, OF
Oxford, are the guests oi Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence McMullen
Mrs. Emery t. Ward has been quite
i'll the past week.
Misses Ida and Nellie Wilson and
Messrs Drew Seminar and Clyde
Owens were North East visitors on
Friday night OF last week.
Misses Anna Gehr and Helen Nc
Caulcy were Elkton visitors on Mon
day last.
Miss Katie Stettcr is visiting rela-
iives in Columbia this week.
Miss Eva .nacDonald has been quite
i'll the past week.
The Felix Welgiers Club gave a
social in the Jr. O. L. A. NJ. Hall on
Thursday evening.
Mr.. ID. {. Hoffecker, OF Richmond
liill, will occupy Mr.. George l.. Boyds
house ON Aiken avenue ON the 18th.
Mrs. Martin Jackson, OF Whining
ton visited her parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Henry Boyd, on Wednesday.
Mrs. s. c. McCaulcy is visiting rela-
tivcs in Chester and Philadelphia.
The Hospital Barrel as arranged by
the Perryville NJ. Z. Sunday School,
containing groceries, canned goods,
fruits. etc. etc, from the school and
church, was sent to the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia on
Wednesday last
NOTICE.-All taxes are due and
payable on or before January |, 1909.
Interest will positively be added after
January Is, on unpaid taxes, this being
fifteen days OF grace. -
A. II. OWENS.
. Secretary and Treasurer.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09

Miss Lizzie Smith, OF Chester, spent
part OF the holidays at Applicable farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. X. Owens spent
the past week with Mr.. and Mrs. J. I.
Matthews, Chester, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Triol, Philadelphia.
Mrs. r. J. Reed was in Philadelphia
part OF last week, the guest OF Mrs.
NJ. +. Johnson.
Miss Elsie Gamble attended the
Taylor Burns wedding in Havre de
Grace, Tuesday OF last week.
Misses Blanche, Bessie and Master
James Abrams have returned from a
visit to Mrs. Margaret Todd, Perry
vile
Miss label Gray, Chester, Miss Sara
Gamble. Wilmington, and Miss Anna
Johnson, North East, were guests OF
Miss Elsie Gamble last week
Any one wanting correct time, ask
Warner, for he has beautiful new
gold watch.
The newly organized club met with
Miss Cora Benjamin New Years night
and will hold the next meeting with
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Thompson.
Miss Esther Angle, OF Providence,
is quite i'll at the home OF Miss Bell
Lynch.
Miss Belle Benjamin was awarded a
beautiful picture at the Payne enter
tainment in the Hall Saturday night.
having received the highest number OF
votes cast for the prettiest girl.
The revival services began Sunday
night. The Pastor expects Re-. Mr..
Humphreys to assist next week.
Mr.. Frank Davis entertained some
Of the patrons of Reed & Sons store
To some fine music from his Edison
phonograph, on Tuesday night.
We are not responsible for the line
OF interrogation points in the Christ
mas issue. Anyone desiring inlorma-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09
BETTE

Quarterly Conference was held on
Saturday. and the attendance was
small.
Mrs Mary Phillips has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Edward Lynch, Of
Elkton.
Misses bessie Jones and Sarah Phil
lips visited Mrs. Walter Boulder, OF
Ebenezer, on New Years Day.
Messrs. Joseph Lynch and Benjamin
Reed attended the banquet OF X. OF p.
held in North East on Monday even
ing.
Miss Tioldcy Lilley has returned
home after spending some time in Bal
timore.
Miss Mary J. Mahoney has resumed
her duties at the Union Grove school
after spending the holidays in Phila-
delphia and Camden.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09
PORT DEPOSIT

Il know not what shall bciall me
AS ] enter another year,
But the Past is safe in Gods keeping,
The Future His mercy shall clear;
And what looks Dark in the Distance
May Brighten as draw near"
Rev. V. 5. Collins was a Baltimore
visitor, Monday.
The Alpha DelJ Kappa will be en-
teriained ON Friday evening, January
3, by Misses Margaret and Lillian
Davis, at their home
Mr. Robert Stephenson, oil Balti-
more. spent the latter part of last week
at his home
DR. Donahon spent New Years with
Port Deposit friends
Rev and Mrs II. A. G.. WeSterhcld
and Mr.. and Mrs Raymond Westericld
spent New Years day with Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Whitaker, at Calvert.
Miss Mabel Stephenson has return
ed tu her school duties in Baltimore,
after spending Xmas week at her
home.
Miss Fannie NJ. Brooks, oi Chesa-
peakc City, is the guest OF Mrs. Jane
\. Gerry this week.
Rev. and Mrs J. Howard Gray, the
Misses Annie aud Evelyn Patterson,
Mr. Pcyton Patterson and Samuel
Smcd,cy. oi Philadelphia, were enter
tained on New Years day by Mr.. and
Mrs. S. l.. Craig and Miss Ethel.
I Miss Emma Craig is visiting friends
On Philadelphia and Swarthmorc.
NJ JOHN Jackson. ui Wilmington,
spent Sunday oi last week with Miss
Is.E.l | frra,a, 4 pnrt Ilanngtt
Mr.. Adam Peoples will have charge
oi Epwurth League service next Sun
day evening at the regular time and
place.
Mr.. Sebcrt Scott oi New York,
spent Sunday with Miss Rcna Holm.
Mrs. Campbell RoySton and Miss
Martha Evcrist. ui Baltimore, spent
New year, day with Mrs Sarah
Everist.
MIR George Il Buck and Mrs. J. IL.
Snyder are visiting Mr.. AMOS Buck,
near Harrisburg.
Misses Martha. Gladys and Jean.
nctie Wcstcr6cld spent New Years day
with Miss Ella poguc in Rising Sun
Miss Clara NJ Knight visited friends
IN Philadelphia aud Chesapeake City this
-week.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Durgin, OF
Baltimore, and Mr.. Frank Durgin, OF
Littlcstowu. Pa. spent last Sunday
with MIR and NJ William Durgin.
Mrs. John Holm and Miss Helen
Holm visited Mrs Hester llurlocl, in
Baltimore. last week.
Miss jamie Crcswcll entertained
some OF her friends TO o'clock dinner
at her home New Years evening
Miss Bessie Taylor entertained
uumlcr Of her friends in Miss Matte
Coales honor last Friday evening.
Mcssr, George Holm. Ward Abra-
hams, Hugh Fails and Louis Bumbcrg
were Baltimore visitors last Friday.
Mr.. John NJ CrrSwcll, who left Port
Deposit December 3, To spend the
winter in GAINESVILLE, Ga. is very i'll
with pneumonia MIR Campbclls many
friends are praying that he will soon
be restored to health and strength.
Mr. George Atkinson is having hot
Wtacr heat nut in his residence.
Mr.. W, K NeSbitt was Z. Baltimore
visitor "Wednesday.
Rev William Crawford spent several
days this week with Philadelphia
friends.
Miss Lille T. Butchcnhart has re-
turned to her school duties in Ph,la-
delph'a after spending her Xmas vaca-
lion at her home.
Misses Mary Cummings. Mary Buck
Virginia Atkinson and Marguerite
Kidd and Messrs Chester Oracle, Row
land Atkinson and Walter Bcavcns at
tended dance in llavrc dc Grace last
Thursday evening.
Nh Archer Coac and Miss Edna
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ton will please consul, the compost
tor.
Application is being made for an air
ship to convey us from Bay View to
Leslie.
Miss Caddie Lewis, OF Chester, spent
the holidays with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs David Lewis.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09

OF the heavier sort. do yon shoes pinch. aud
yony feet swell aud pcrspirc. II YOU sprinkle
\ ,~r's l'ont-F IN vour shoes u will give YOU
rest aud comfort aud inS'nntr clici from auy an
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any substitute
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1909-01-09

William F.. Porter, OF Rowland
vile, is reported critically III at his
home. ~,
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
Haunted Alaskan Island.

To the south and west of Kodiak,
distant about 100 miles, and forming
one of the Semidi group, is the island
of Chirikof the haunted island Of
Alaska.
Enshrouded for a great portion Of
the time with almost impenetrable
fog, the Tanna Tribune says, this lone
ly isle is an object of terror to the
natives, who wall not go near the
island, saying it means certain death
to invade the canny confines, and
there are few men in the far north
who have the temerity to test the
truth of the many and weird tales told
of this foTbidding and barren island.
Shipmasters and sailors passing the
place assert that the agonizing cries Of
Russian exiles sent there to starve or
die of torture are sometimes heard
On quiet nights, while the clink Of
chains and the sound of blows are
testified to in an affidavit by white
man who once attempted to remain
there for a week and who lost his
reason.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
SET AVERAGE MAN THINKING
Could There Be Anything Sarcastic
In What She So Quietly Set
Forth?

How sad it is" said the Average
Man to the Average Woman, that you
are a tiresOme creature-cOnsideTed
of course, from a purely impersonaI
standpoint"
I am interested" said the Average
Woman. Pray go On-as far as you
like. I'm in the mood where real can
dor is the only thing care for. Why
then, am l tiTesome?"
Because Of your limited range.
For example, your conversation is ex-
clusiVely confined to babies and
bridge, servants and cigarettes,
clothes and cotiIIons."
How interesting!" exclaimed the
Average Woman" "and how true,
That suggests an idea. I shall re
form"
In what way?"
She smiled ambitiOusly.
Hereafter" she said, 'T shall widen
my range of thought to include bust
ness, sport, woman and the quality of
tobacco and rum, interspersed occas-
ionally by the telling of indecent sto-
ries."
The Average Man had nothing to
say. Indeed, for the first time in his
life he was actually thinking.-Life.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
LADY PASSENGERS LOG
She Wanted to Be Sure Just What
the Wind Should Be
Called,

It was blowing rather hard, and
there was & nasty sea on an hour and
a half before the first breakfast bugIe.
An officer Of the ocean liner hurried
along the passage between the state
rooms, and a timid voice called to
him:
"Oh, Mr.. Oficer, please stop"
He turned and saw a dear old lady
with a wrapper thrown around her,
peeping through her haf-open door.
'Yes, madam" said the officer.
"Mr. Officer, please; would you call
this a gale?" asked the old lady, anx-
iously.
"Oh! no, madam. There's not the
least danger. I assure"
We'll, is It half a gale?"
mot even half a gale, and this is
such an excellent sea boat that you
needn't worry q Bit" explained the
officer.
We'll, what would you call It,
please?" said the lady, steadying her.
self as the vessel rolled.
Just a fresh nor'west breeze
madam, with cross sea running. But
really. .AeEe.s nothing to fear"
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
LICKS FIRST LOVE AFFAIR
Future Millionaire Was Repulsed by
Girls Father Because Of His
Poverty.

There are many stories Of the light
er side of finance in which love affairs
find a place. Perhaps none of these
is more peculiar than the story of
James Lick, a name famous all over
the world through a monument to his
memory, the great Lick observatory,
In California. In the financial world
the great city of San Francisco is 3
monument to LiCk's luck-he fOTesaw
the possibility of the great city of the
Pacific slope. bought the land on
which it now stands, and became a
millionaire Before that time the
name of Lick was great in the musical
world. Hck's pianos-out Of which
he made the money which he invested
in Iand-were manufactured by him.
But on the poetic side of life-a world
spart from such things as pianO-mak-
ing and mud-fats-the great Lick Mill
stands as a monument to Lick's love.
In early life James Lick sought the
hand of a miller's daughter, but was
repelled by the father on the ground
that the young suitor did not possess
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
Really Poor Penman.

There is a certain Philadelphia ply
sician of considerable prominence
who is renowned among his friends as
the worst penman in the Quaker city.
He used to write them letters and
then feel hurt when they could not
read them. When he wrote to persons
who were not familiar with his scrawl
they frequently would not know whom
the letters were from. Some time ago
he introduced a typewriter into his of
flee, and this rendered the body of the
letter Ineligible, but did not clear up
the difficulty over the signature. Now,
however, says the Record, he has had
made a rubber stamp bearing his
name and address in printing. He
signs his name in the usual scrawl.
but alongside he impresses his stamp.
1t is little humiliating, he says, but
he no longer has any trouble about
persons to whom he writes not know.
ing from whom the letters are.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
PASSING OF PARLOR CARPET
Modern Methods of Living Turn to
the Rug as the More San
itary.

Modern methods of living are assert
ing themselves more and more very
day. For some peculiar reason man
always has assumed the pTerogative
of supplying what he considered the
untilitarian portions of the home, and
to woman has been delegated its orna-
mentatiOn, but in the last few years
ideas have been changing in this re.
gard and women have become not
only the largest buyers, but the finest
judges Of the necessities, az well as
the luXuries of everyday existence.
Only few years ago the height OF
womanly ambition in household decor
alton or idea was a Brussels carpet in
the best rOom," a floor covering that
was often put over a cushion of straw
and left to gather dampness, dust and
germs, sometimes for years, in the
unused paTloT. Anyone who has been
around at spring cleaning and caught
q view of the dirt which has sifted
through the carpet was certainly ap-
palled at the sight. For many years
this floor covering was considered the
acme of elegance, and the woman in
comfortable circumstances who would
have had the temerity to substitute
hardwood floors and rugs for the old
fashioned carpet would have been con-
sidered as decidedly eccentric and ex-
travagant.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
leCend Proved True.

A curious legend surrounding a
country estate in the Neon valley,
Hampshire, which has been fulfilled
with painful reality, has set the whole
countryside talking. The story CON
Germs the death at COrhampton house,
CorhamptOn, of Mr.. Campbell-Wynd-
ham, J. P, who on the death of his
mother on September 8, last year, sue
ceeded to an estate around which a
legend runs that male heir will not
live over IL months after succession.
Mr. Campbell-Wyndham was the first
male heir for generations. In the last
stage of his illness, Mr. Wyndham
prophesied that he would die in bed
IL months to the day his mother
passed away, and by a truly remark
able coincidence, he died few min
utes after midnight on that very day.
London Mail.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
SURELY SAVED THEIR LIVES
Charlie and Marse William
Fought Duel.

There was nothing old Pomp en-
toyed more than telling stories of the
Importance of his position In the days
''befo' de wah," when ne was a con-
spicuous figure on southern planta-
ton Of the best sort. 4 brung up
Marse Charlie an Marse William" he
often said, solemnIy. DER own
family lowed 1 saved bofe deir lives
once, besides all de res l done fo'
'em.
'Twar jes' like dis: Marse Charlie
an Marse William, dey bofe TUX de
mos 'grejus fancy to a young lady
dat come a-visiting de house; an
somebody had I'LL deir foolish haids
all up wild talk about duels; an dey
jes' promulgated to hab one, an find
out which OBJ EN- was to hab de young
lady.
"Marse Charlie be was seventeen.
short an fiery, and Marse William he
was sixteen, slim an cool; but dey
was bofe sot' an 'termined on de
duel.
Course deye didn't tell me bout it,
but I 'spected it, same as I always
did, 'kase l looked after dem boys
TO deir paw an nav, when dere was
cOmp'ny.
$50 watched out, an I follered, an
l crep' up to where dey was beginning
to take p'sition TO de duel, an'-an' I
jes' broke it up"
How did you do it, Pomp?" each lis
tener is sure to ask.
How did do it, chile? Why, I jes'
emptied pail o. water right on Marse
Charles haid, an I TUX an spanked
Marse William-dat's how."-Youth's s
Companion.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
What Roads Owe TO Salt

Roads, we are told, owe a great deal
to salt. According to one theory, the
oldest trade routes came into exist
ence as a result of the traffic in salt.
One of the oldest roads in Italy is the
Via Salaria," along which the people
Of the Sabine country obtained their
salt from the salt pans of Ostia. Salt
was the main merchandise carried in
the trans-Libyan caravans of the
days of Herodotus, and salt is one Of
the chief elements in the trade along
the Sahara caravan routes to-day. Salt
and salt fish, it is interesting to re-
member, entered largely into the com
merce Of the Carthaginians The lat
ter, by the way, was considered a del
icacy in those pre-Christian days.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
DON'T STUDY NATIONAL AIRS
American Visitor In Great Britain Re
turns with His Feelings
Perturbed.

Il WISH gTowled a man lately back
from a tour of the British Isles, that
the British bandmasters would take
a course of instruction in what con-
stitutes the American national airs.
Band concerts are the rage all over
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
During the summer season, probably
as a compliment to the hordes of
Americans who are finging away gold
for their benefit, they present daily
what is generally dubbed American
national airs
The majority of these bandmasters
think Dixie is the national air, be-
cause they sagely observe it is the
only one which Americans applaud.
The taT-Spangled Banner is dismal
and lugubrious enough under the best
of circumstances, but to hear the
Scotch bagpipes have a fling at it is
indescTibable misery. The man who
wrote the Columbia hymn would not
know his own work as performed in
King Edwards domain, and even the
Kentucky Home and other negro bal
lads get a touch between an Irish jig
and a Scotch wall which rObs the
American visitor of any pleasure
which he might experience in hearing
songs from home. 1t may be that
British. Scotch and Irish guests on
this side of the water get as much dis
comfort in hearing Annie Laurie
hope they do, for it would establish
a sort of international musical bal
ancP"
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
Forced TO Guess Answer.

It beats all what odd question reach
some of the departments of govern
ment in Washington. Not long ago
the treasury received a letter from a
PittsbuTg man who had made a bet,
asking: How many cents are there
in a bushel?" The answer was not
easy to offer. If the man had asked
about pounds he might have received
a definite answer. AS it was, he got
in reply a guess from a clerk, that
roughly there are something like
1920, or 1000 pennies"
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04

a nnE Many years afterwards, wnen
he had become one of the richest men
in the states, he erected a large mill
and adorned it like palace. It was
built of mahogany and costly woods.
and erected solely as a memorial Of
his youthful attachment. His only
pleasure was to contemplate this pa
latial mill and to gloat over the man
who had spurned him for his poverty.
Harry Furniss. in the Strand.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
Extreme Politeness.

although he OVerCharged me ter
ribIy," says the returned traveller, ''the
cab driver who took me over Paris
was most polite"
IAN Frenchmen are" we observe.
"Yes, but this one got OF his box
and helped me find the necessary pro-
family in nay French-English diction-
ary, so that might say what thought
of him"-EXchange
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
VIII Stick to Dad

Come indoors immediately" called
a nurse TO small boy whose father
was going out You won't go 10
heaven If you're so naughty"
Il don't want TO go to heaven" was
the aggrisVed reply; 81 want to go
with ther!"-Brooklyn Citizen.
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
On the InstalIment plan.

Il dreamed last night that I bought
a fine set of books, so much down, sc
much a month"
"Pshaw! There's nothing remark
able about that. People actually do
that every day"
Wait minute. 1 dreamed I fin.
ished paying for them"
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04

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MAMMOTH STORE

Stocked with everything in the
Dug line. Easter Offeings in ev-
cry design. Pure drugs. Pre-
sciptions carefully compounded.
RICHARDSON'S DRUG
The Washington bee., 1909-12-04
RICHARDSON'S DRUG
STORE.

3I6 Four-and-a-nalf Street, S. w,
AS usual, invites the public to visit
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Senate Tax Bills to House.

The senate has cleaned up its cal
endar of bills amending the tax law,
and sent them to the house.
The bills abolish rebates and require
the county treasurer to collect all
penalties on past due taxes; require
taxing officers to assemble small
tracts adjoining cities and towns into
40-acre plats, so that the property can
be taxed as a lot in certain plat
rather than by metes and bounds; pro-
vide for the assessment of shares of
building and loan association stock;
increase the excise tax on express
companies to 4 per cent of the gross
earnings, the law fixing the rate at 1 II
per cent; provide for a tax on inner
itances; provide for a simpler form of
bookkeeping by the taxing officers;
limit the amount of bonds any county,
city, township or other municipality
can issue.
Some days ago the Quincy bill over
hauling the general tax law was pass
ed by the senate, and the house com
mittee on taxation has recommended
it for passage.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Good Roads Bill Passed House.

One of the many good roads bills
been passed by the house. The bill
passed was the one introduced by
house committee on roads and high
ways and provided for the building of
dirt roads. 1t required the appoint
ment of a county engineer in all coun-
ties having over twenty thousand pop
ulation, leaving the appointment OPP
tional in counties of less population.
The engineer is to direct all road
work and is to be paid in fees accord
ing to the amount of work done.
All good roads work is to lie done
according to the plans made by the
engineer. Under the constitution the
state itself cannot do any road build
ing or aid in the construction of roads.
Arthur CranstOn, representative
from Labette county, has introduced a
constitutional amendment which will
permit the state to levy tax and
either do the work of building roads
or aid counties in doing 1t.