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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23d, 1872

AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. NJ.
all that LOT OF LAND, situated on the
North side of East High or Back street, in
said town OF E-kton, fronting SO IL feet
on said street and which was conveyed to
the said Frank s. Rovitti by Elizabeth
Dugan and husband and others by deed
dated March 21st. 1904, and recorded in
Liber J. G. w. No. IA, folio 565, another
of said Land Record Books. and to which
said deed reference is hereby specially
made for the outlines of said lot of land.
The improvements consist OF a CON-
PORTABLE
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14
MONEY TO LOAN

To Loan on First Mortgage in Real Estate.
81 600 and Sl,50O
HENRY NJ. MCCULLOUGH, Atty.
Sept 25-tf Elkton Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14
Frame Dwelling House j

and outbuildings.
TERMS OF SALE-Prescribed by mort
gage: Cash on day of sale, other and more
favorable terms may be obtained, how
ever, from the attorney, on day OF sale, II
purchaser desires. Cost of conveyance
to be paid by purchaser
ROBERT c. TEACKERY,
Attorney named in said Mortgage.
Jos. F. Holt, auct. nov 30-4ts
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14
Tuesday, December l7th, 1912

AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. NJ,
ALL THAT FARM OR TRACT OF LAND
situate lying and being near Blythedale,
in the Seventh Election District of Cecil
county aforesaid, of which Margaret
Meek died seized and possessed, and is
the same farm or tract of land which
was conveyed unto the said Margaret
Neck by James Barnes and wife, and
others by deed dated the I'D day OF
April, A ID. 1891, and which is now of
record in Liber j. A. D., No. %, folio
939 &c, another of said Land Record
Books, AND CONTAINS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14
ATTORNEYS SALE
Of Valuable
REAL ESTATE
On the Elk River and Chesa.
peake Bay

The undersigned attorney for the own
ers, the Chesapeake Land Improvement
Company, will sell at public auction at
the Court House door, in Elkton, Cecil
county, Maryland, on
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-12-14

Good qualities ale the substantial
riches of the mind; but it is good breed
ing that sets them OIL 20 advantage"
-Iacka
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
BIG POTASH DEPOSIT

minerals being thus concentrated in it.
The water has been evaporated under
the intense heat of the long. hot sea-
sons, but the salts have remained, so
that for most of the year, in fact often
throughout the year, the bed is glis-
tening plain of white salts, in attempt
ing to cross which under a brazen sun
men have lost their lives.
The mirage plays it's strange tricks
here, and at the driest places the
traveller can generally see what ap-
pears to be broad expanse of water
covering the bed little way ahead
always little distance off, until he
approaches the shore of Borax lake.
Then when he looks behind him he
sees the water apparently covering
the ground over which he has just
come. The lake occupies valley
made by faults-breaks and slips in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

NYASHINGTON.-Harvey Given, as.
~ sistant United States attorney for
The District of Columbia, happened to
be walking the other morning by that
famous corner in the courthouse
where marriage licenses are issued,
when he heard a girls voice, saying
with considerable feeling:
DON'T / will not marry that red
eyed old terrapin, and I'm not eighteen
years old am only fourteen"
Mr. Given stepped up to the counter
in time to prevent marriage license
being issued. The man who was APP
plying for it was Louis Garrison, six
ty-one years old, of Stafford county,
Virginia, and the girl, who was siren
uously objecting, was Myrtle Baldwin
of the same county. Mr.. Given took
matters into his own hands and con-
Quoted Garrison and Myrtle Baldwin
to the Office of United States Attorney
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
French Governments Scheme to Solve
Birth Rate ProbIem-Priest
on Marriage.

Paris-Although its enemies desig-
nate it as ian attempt to blackmail
nature" much support, both journals
tic and legislative, is being given the
petition now before the senate to
pension the French mother for every
child to the extent Of 20 francs ($4)
a year during the child's minority.
More than this, under the same meas
ure, the mother of eight children
would receive a medal corresponding
to the medaille militaire granted in
recognition OF valor. The measure
viii probably become law, as the
senate committee appointed to report
on the matter has signitied its ap-
prevail of the scheme to the ministry
OF the interior
Another interesting occurrence on a
similar subject was the first OF a
series of lectures by the welEknown
priest, Mgr. Bolo, on 1.-THE Marriages
of the Future in which the ecclesias-
tical speaker took view quite adj
vanced for his profession.
mot only are there more bachelors,
but they are becoming systematic, he
said. mo longer do they render hom-
age to matrimons by regretting that
they are bachelors because they can
not do better Theirs is the philoso-
ply Of TIE good man to whom some
one said, Your son is not old enough
to marry; you ought to wait till he
knows what be is doing. to which
This good maa replied: You are mis-
taken, for if my son grows wiser he
will never marry
Mgr Bolo continues by upbraiding
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
NATIONAL MENACE IN FRANCE
Country Is IN Danger of Death from
Drink-Army Corps Is Lost Each
Year Through Alcohol.

The French National league against
alcoholism declares that France is in
danger of death from drink: Alcohol
desolates our most beautiful prov
inces, Normandy, Brittany, the
Vosges, Picardy, Maine. In Orne the
decrease of population has been $4,000
in twenty-five years, in Manche $4,000,
In Normandy 100000. Infant mortal
ity is appalling, and conscripts by
scores are found unfit for service"
In Orne, one report states, 81 per
cent. of those summoned to the col
ors were rejected, in March, SO per
cent. in the Vallee des Vosges, go
per cent. and the drink evil is large
ly responsible. The military authori-
ties calculate that France loses an
army corps each year through alcohol
DR.. Jaques Bertillon, the famous
criminologist, who has made astonish-
ing researches into the relation of al
cohol to tuberculosis, estimates, in
the Revue de tuberculosis. that sue
cessfuI fight against alcohol in France
would reduce the number OF deaths
from consumption yearly by some 49,
600 more. What steps can be taken
are being discussed by the authort-
ties in some localities. but widespread
scientific education on the subject OF
the baneful effects of alcohol must be
promoted before radical change for
the better can be looked for In France.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

hence less costly than the old. 1t is
not very unlike some of the fash
ions recently in vogue among the
western people, and to the general
European taste is more artistic and
beautiful than the elaborate couture
which SO long prevailed.
There are many indications of a
tendency to change other long estab-
lished features of the costume of
Japanese women and it does not seem
rash to predict the abolition of the
obi. the tremendously large, heavy and
often very expensice girdle, with
which japanese lady encircles her
waist and which in the eyes Of most
foreigners detracts so much from the
grace of her movement.
ITO abandon this classic feature of
woman's dress at once would be lit
tie short of revolution; but already
it has disappeared from the author
lied and generally prescribed outfit Of
young women and girls at school,
who now dress in very attractive
style. uniform in model with charm
ing variations in color according to
the taste of the wearer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Hanging Is the Only Penalty for Murder

n EATH by hanging is the only pun
~ ishment for murder in the first de-
gree in the District of Columbia.
The right of jury to qualify its YER
dict by adding the words without cap
ital punishment" is denied by the
court of appeals of the District of Co
lunbia in an opinion by Mr.. Justice
Robb. The appellate court holds that
Arthur Johnson, colored, must ex-
plate on the scaffold the killing Of
John Ofenstein, a blacksmith, in De
cember, 1910.
The decision Of the appellate court
sustains the finding of Justice Wright
that the new penal code does not APP
ply In this jurisdiction.
Justice Robh in his decision holds
that the provisions of the District
code relating to the murder were in
tended to supersede the provisions of
the general statutes relating to these
crimes.
- carefm study Of the District
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
One Rescued Father From Vicious
Steer and the Other Saved
Her Husband.

Topeka, Kan.-Because of heroism
displayed by Mary Boughton, aged
fourteen, of Hamilton county, and
Mrs. Nora Munday of Gray county, in
saving lives in western Kansas dur
ing recent snowstorms, friends of the
two have started a movement to oh
tain for them Carnegie hero medals.
While rounding up cattle before a
blizzard, Mary Boughton's iather was
attacked by vicious steer. He was
thrown from his horse and the animal
was about to gore him when the girl,
mounted upon COW pony, drove the
steer away. A few days later a rural
mail carrier became lost in a storm
Mary Boughton found him, dug him
out of a drift and saved him from
freezing.
Mrs. Nora Munday, wife of s. P.
Munday, who lives near Cimarron,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

A MINIATURE house of representa-
n tives, made up Of hundred or
more of the 'baby members" who are
serving their first term in congress,
convened at Rauscher's the other
night and spent the evening joyously
1t was the first banquet of the kind
ever held. Party lines were forgotten,
the methods of the house, the person
alities of the older members, were
burlesqued by the youngsters"
There are 120 members in the house
serving their first term, the greatest
number since the beginning of con-
gress, due to the political upheaval in
1910.
The business of the evening, after
the banquet had been cared for, was
a bill, introduced by Representative
William G. Redfield of New York, plac,
ing duty of 81 on all cats, and parts
Of cats, whether wild, pole or domes-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
From Six to Ten Million Tons
Found in Mojave Desert.
Located in Old Lake Red-Many Have
Lost Lives in Traversing Waste
Which viii Now Yield Prod
uct of Much Value.

Observation-Disclosures the an
nouncement by the geological survey
that survey party in connection with
party from the department of agri-
culture had located a potash deposit
in the Mojave desert, the agricultural
department tells more about the de-
post and the circumstances under
which it exists
The department states that a pocket
has been found down in the Mojave
desert in southern California contain
ing from 100000 to 10000. 900 tons.
SO far as can be ascertained now. The
prospect is that it will last twenty or
thirty years and tide the country over
till a more thorough search can be
made.
The deposit was struck simultane-
ously by the two searching parties in
the Borax lake region of the Mojave.
This section, like most of this south
western country, is an old lake bed.
The borings for potash were made in
a section of plya or hard desert sand.
The region that has been investigat-
ed is underlaid by big body of nat
ural brine that comes to the surface
in the form of wells when borings are
made.
Borax lake, or Searle lake, is one of
the many playas or internationally wet
and dry lakes common throughout
the arid regions of the west. 1t lies
between the Argus and Slate ranges,
in the MojaVe desert. Borax lake was
the original scene of famous borax
mines. The lake or fiat is about ten
miles long and five miles wide and
has received the drainage from the
surrounding mills for many thousands
of years. vast quantities of dissolved
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

The very money that went to buy the
engagement ring was furnished by my
friend, who had to mortgage some lit
tie property of his own to get the
ornament.
well, the wedding came off as per
schedule, and the Don and his bride
sailed for the gay capitals of Europe.
The money lender got his $4,000 on
the minute, but my unfortunate friend
has had nothing more substantial than
some polite letters from Paris and
Berlin begging him to wait in patience
and cease sending costly cablegrams
marked collect The letters are writ
ten with view Of cheering the receipt
ent, but he refuses to be cheered and
has about come to the conclusion that
it will be many day ere be gets back
the cash that went for the engage
ment ring and the theater tickets, to
say nothing of the fee promised for
negotiating the $4,000 loan.
don Juan and his bride are having
a gay time in the Old World, and the
groom seems to have entirely forgot
ten his benefactor and friend in need
After all, that OLD saw about getting
your money first is right in ninety mine
cases out Of a hundred"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
How a Middle Man Failed to Get His

egTHERE is no particular moral in
this story of Washington life, I'M
less it be confirmation of the ancient
philosophy to get your money first"
remarked Col. Richard K. Lee the
other day.
"a diplomat, whom we will call Don
Juan Rapida, from one of the infam-
matory Latin republics, caught the
fancy of young American girl, the
heiress to many millions. The diplo-
mat is goodlooking, but financially
impoverished, The girls agrees to wed
him, and her plutocratic pater. who
made his pile out of beer, is willing to
take Rapida as son-in-law. So desper-
ately hard up is the South American
gentleman for ready coin that he goes
to friend of mine to see if he can't
raise $1,000 in order to make show
ing in the preliminaries. This friend,
being good-natured, introduces him to
a generous party who agrees to pro-
vide the cash, provided Rapida will
give him back $4,000 for the loan of
the $4,000 as soon as the nuptials
with the brewers daughter have been
consummated.
My friend who arranges the deal
is promised $1,000 for his trouble,
but, being a rather harum-scarum bus
mess man, he takes no written prom
Uses, assdid the lender of the money.
Prior to that he had often put up small
sums ranging from SO to $50 SO that
Don Juan Rapida might be able to
convey his loved one to the theater
and a small dinner after the show.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

Wilson. With them were Mrs. Lulu
Decatur, niece of Garrison, and
Goodwin Mellow, young man from
Stafford county Mr.. Given told Mr.
Wilson of the occurrence, and there
upon the quartet went under a very
careful examination.
Myrtle declared over and over again
she was only fourteen years old, al
though she could easily pass for sew
eral years older, as she is mature look
ing and weighs probably 100 pounds.
When it came the turn to question
Myrtle she was so worked up over her
escape from the marriage ceremony
that she was in tears. She said that
she had planned sightseeing trip
to Washington with Mrs Decatur and
had no idea that Garrison would ac-
company them. They left their homes
near Quantico early in the morning,
walked three miles to a railroad sta
ton and took train for Alexandria.
Myrtle said that Garrison suddenly
decided he was going to marry her as
the train pulled into Alexandria, but
she explained to Mr. Wilson and Mr..
Given that she had no idea Of doing
anything of the kind
She added also that Garrison was
widower three times over, his last
wife dying few weeks ago.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Has Pensions For Mothers

the men of today for their hesitancy
in the matter of marriage. If you
wish me to use the proper word, al
low me to utter it in an attenuated and
inoffensive sense l will say that you
have. become towards. You are afraid.
Being rich, you fear that if you marry
you will have to work Being work
man, you are afraid that you will have
to do without tobacco and absinthe.
With a modest pay you prefer to give
no thought to healthy happiness and
to the pride of taking your revenge
on hard life by the success OF your
children, and you do not care to risk
years of difficulty or criticism of the
landlords. who have no liking for chill
dren."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
RAIL CHIEF HELD IN COURT
President Elliott of Northern Pacific
Is Witness in Case He Knows
Nothing ABOUT.

n
Spokane, Wash. - Though ready
and anxious to be called to the wit.
ness stand, President Howard FL.
lott of the Northern Pacific railway,
was kept waiting in the superior court
here from $50 a. m. until p. m. be
fore being allowed to testify in case
about which he knew nothing. Presi-
dent Elliott was served with a sub
poena last week while visiting Spo-
kane.
Asked concerning the shipment OF
10000 cement sacks, for the loss of
which the railroad is being sued for
81 700. Mr.. Elliott said:
There are about seven million
freight transactions a year and I do
not think I recall this particular one.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
JAPANESE OF TO-DAY.
Physician Visits FIowery King
dom After 80 Years.
Topknots Have Vanished and Hats Re-
appear-changes Among Women
"HamIet" Being Given and
Classic Music Is Enjoyed.

Toxic, Japan.-Dr Thomas G. Men
after an absence of 30 years. He
says that it was not the tall chimneys
of new factories or the big steamships
flying the Japanese flag that most i'm
pressed him, but thousand minor de-
tails which nevertheless made the con-
trast with the picture of life there az
he had remembered it.
What, for instance, had become of
the topknot, or small tuft of tied up
hair, that partially covered the shaven
head?" he says in the Oriental Review.
Gone, absolutelyi Not one was to
be seen in Nagasaki, Osaka, Kioto, To-
kio or other city, except on the head
of an actor and then it was soon dis
covered to be part of a wig. In the
country one or two were found, the in
sigma of ultra conservatism.
'The absence of the queue was made
up for by the presence of the hat on
the head of nearly every man and boy;
although formerly the habit Of hat
wearing was so rare that hats were
constantly found where last deposited
by the owners, who had gone off with
out ever missing them.
Shoes of the western model have
become nearly as necessary a part of
mans dress as the western hat and
the number of men who clothe them
selves completely afeer the western
fashion is now so great that they have
long since ceased to attract special at
tention.
Few things in Japan have been so
fixed and unalterable as the fashion
In woman's dress. While the mate
rial of which it is composed may
range from the poor and cheap to the
rich, costly and exquisitely beautiful,
the model has been practically the
same for centuries.
"But even in this a very consider
able change has somehow been
brought about, and It is especially no
ticeable in the style of hairdressing
now all but universal among Japan
csc ladies. The new style is vastly
less complicated and difficult, and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26

the earths crust-where great area
has been dropped down.
The salts are not evenly distributed
over the surface of the lake. Borax
was found plentifully over about three
square miles, common salt is every
where, and sodium carbonate and sor
dunn sulphate are widely distributed.
One boring is said to have passed
through % feet of solid trona (hydrous
carbonate of soda) of great purity. AT
other places there is 25 feet of solid
mixed sulphate and carbonate of soda,
with smaller quantities of other salts.
Several years ago an English COM
pany attempted to work the soda de-
posits on an extensive scale, but for
some reasons the project has not been
pushed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
Z|E[EIlI1IlI
Z&zkes|ll9{zIq1r'Ilg
NF~9E9- O.
LIQUORS AS FORM OF POISON
Produce Abnormal Conditions of Cir
culatory System and Destroy Func-
tions by Subtle Paralysis.


II reports are to be trusted Profess
sor Whitney, of Wesleyan university.
proves that liquors are poisonous after
all the alcohol has been extracted
from them. The .old nick" seems to
remain in liquors when nothing but
the odor is left. The Scotchman's
verdict is that whisky is good in its
place. If you want to preserve dead
man put him in whisky. If you want
to kill live man, put whisky in him.
Professor Whitney. like Professor At
water, contends that alcohol is food. "
that it raises the temperature of the
body. He might have added it raises
Cain at the same time. We prefer to
believe that alcohol is a miserable de-
ceiver, and whatsoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. Professor Jor-
dan says liquors make you feel warm
when you are not warm, seem to
yourself wise when you really are
quite simple. The experiments IN
Russia, where liquors are used as a
supposed substitute for food, have
proved that liquor has the direct ef-
feet of releasing the blood from the
heart and arteries and flushing the
surface of the body, producing the
temporary effect of bodily warmth
but in reality weakens by form OF
paralysis the whole circulatory sys-
tenn We think the government tests
not only of the United States but OF
the leading nations of Europe can be
relied upon. These experts agree that
liquors are a form of poison. pro-
ducing abnormal conditions in the cir
culatory system and In comparative
ly short time destroying the functions
of the smaller, finer vesicles of the
circulatory system by form OF subtle
paralysis The man who takes even
one drink can never be the perfect
physical man. The physical effects
are matters of observation. The men
tai prospective is changed. The finer
restraints, the self-inspection, the self
judgment, the bashfulness, real quail
ity of growing manhood and growing
womanhood, are broken down. The
flush of liquor sweeps away these fine
spiritual barriers, and the young man
finds himself without moral harness
and under the hallucination Of this
paralysis OF his higher, truer. better
impulses, he enjoys" making wild
fool of himself 1t is not due to the
stimulus of liquor but to the release
from the self-controlling apparatus of
his system. Liquor does not really
stimulate, but really paralyzes re-
straint. It is primarily form of
physical death, incipient death to the
circulatory system in and around the
nerves. This, we believe, is the con-
sensus of scientific scholarship as
reached by government experts in
this country and in Europe. This view
has the authority of experiment and
observation. The effect is not tenn
porary and recoverable. The effect is
absolute death to a percentage of the
circulatory system. One drink of
liquor absolutely changes the physical
equipment Touch not!-Californie
Christian Advocate.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
"Why Is a Cat?" Burning Question

tic in type, brought into this country
or its possessions.
The bill also provided for a special
additional duty on Maltese cats OF 40
cents per pound of malt contained in
each cat Catnip was to be placed on
the free list. The measure, declared
it's father, was to protect the Ameri-
can cat industry.
The Democratic opposition to the
bill was led by Representative Frank
B. Willis of Ohio. He denounced Rep
resentative Redfield as representing
the cat industry Free cats, Mr.. vii,
lis declared, were indispensable to
the American people. Representative
Linthicum of Maryland made a stirring
address, unfolding the catsup indus.
try
Whether the measure finally was
passed or turned down was never
quite decided The burning question
which developed from the debate was
'Why Is a cat?"
Those in charge of the banquet
were Oscar Galloway of Texas, Edwin
c. Underhill of New York, Asher C.
Kinds of Maine, William d. Stephens
of California, j. Charles Linthicum of
Maryland, Henry G. Danforth of New
York and Steven B. Ayres of New
York.