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the details of Belgium, but tell you
they are as nothing compared with
what has happened in Poland.
1.-THE scene of operations in Poland is
seven times larger than that Of Bel
GUM, and she has had to endure seven
times the torture. Remember, the bat
tie of Europe is being fought in the
east, not in the west, and while the tide
of battle has reached a sort of ebb
along the trenches about the frontiers
of Alsace and Flanders, the great
waves roll backward and forward from
Germany to Russia and break always
on Poland. Our country, in fact, is
just as Belgium was called-the cock
pit of Europe-and it may now be call
ed the battlefield of the world, If not
of civilization.
ut is only perhaps we Poles who
have known to its utmost depths what
this war has really meant. 1t is not
only that there are 100000 human
beings on the verge of starvation, nay,
actually perishing; there is worse than
that Remember that both Belgium
and Poland are still under the yoke.
The Russians, it is true. occupy some
$4,000 miles of our country, but this
is really nothing, for the Germans oc-
cupy f1ve-sixths of it, and the desola-
ton passes all comprehension.
"As to actual battles. | can hardly
speak Of them. 1t is torture even to
think of them. Only consider! Our
one nation Is divided, as 1t were, into
three sections, which are thrust each
against the others to work out their
own destruction 1t is parricide! 1t is
fratricide, nay, suicide! Compulsory
suicidel That is what it is.
listen to what it means to us all:
was told by gentleman from Aus
tria that an army doctor, Pole by
birth, who was deputed to go over the
battlefields and verify Identification
marks on the dead bodies, found
among the $4,000 dead hardly any but
Polish names. He looked in vain for
any others, and in the end went mad
with horror at the thought of it.
"Again, in the fierce battle In Galicia
during an interval which had been
agreed upon by both sides as a momen-
tary armistice to bury their dead and
attend to their wounded, the doctors
from either side first of all advanced
and exchanged cards. Every slip Of
pasteboard bore a Polish name, while
the feeling that ran silently through
each breast was the same. Can Poland
survive? Is it the death agony or is
it but the the birth pangs? Today who
knows2 l only know the present, and
unless that present is saved the future
is lost"
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GEORGIA MOONSHINER
ON HIS WAY TO JAIL
Pleads Guilty Each Year, but
Allowed to Make a Crop.

Savannah, Ga.-The time is at hand
for the annual pilgrimage of the
Georgia moonshiner. Today he is up
in the hills, tomorrow he will be tried
and sentenced, the day after he will
be planting his crop in the hills again,
the next, setting out for the county jail
to serve his sentence.
bout time for cot, M'ria," he will
say to his wife. Guess I'll be amblin'
Don't forgit to git out them plow-
shares, an if any revenoos come aroun
keep 'em off the trail to the still"
No deputy manacles his wrists; no
prison guard comes for him. But the
old man has received the summons or
the United States court to appear and
answer to a charge of violating the
federal law against the Illicit manu-
facture and sale Of liquor.
And so the old man shoulders his
gun and sets out from his cabin in the
hills and tramps down the mountain
side to the railroad station twenty
miles away. Next week he gets up
before Judge William Il. Newman of
Atlanta or Judge Emory Speer OF Sa-
vannah and pleads guilty,
"Six months" says the judge.
The old man signs and remarks, I'D
like mighty we'll ter go back an make
crap, jidge."
The Judge knows that up In the hills
the old woman and the old mans fam
lily of sturdy mountain lads and lassies
are dependent on the crap" for living
through next winter. So he says. go
back and make your crop and report to
the Jail on Sept. H.
The old man strides to the railroad
station. catches the first train for home
and tramps the twenty miles up into
the hills again.
Winter will be breaking In the hills,
and for weeks to come he will be busy
planting the crop of corn. Day after
day he will Chamber up the rugged
path, hitch the gray mule to the plow
and turn the burrows of his little patch.
One day he looks into the almanac
and says to his wife:
me an tn boys are off to jail ter
morrow"
The next day he swings down the
trail to the railroad station twenty
miles away. AS his head drops below
the brink of the path he calls back:
"See yer in Their Spring, oil woman!
And the next week he is swapping
cut plug with the deputy at the jail,
having reported to the turkeys office.
alone and unofficered.
And next spring?
why, he win be back In the hills
again. making his ''crap' and manufac-
turing moonshine whisky on the side.
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aattIed the Duel.

Lord March, afterward the Marquis
Of Queensberry, was not accustomed
to view a duel with unbecoming appre-
hension and usually attended an affair
with an air of enjoyment that often
was decidedly displeasing and embar-
RAISING to his adversary. But he was
served at last with that sauce which
the proverb explains is for the gander
as we'll as for the goose. 1t was when
he was challenged to fight an Irish
sportsman. Lord March appeared on
the ground accompanied by q second,
surgeon and other witnesses. His OPP
ponent arrived soon afterward with a
similar retinue, but added to by per-
son who staggered under the weight of
a polished oak coffin, which he depos-
tied on the ground. end up with its lid
facing Lord March and his party. Lord
March became decidedly uncomfort-
able when he read the inscription plate,
engraved with his own name and title
and the date and year Of death, and
peace was patched up.
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lNvENTS PERISC0PE GUN.
Philadelphia Man Has Newest Often
sive and Defensive Weapon.

sive and Defensive Weapon.
Philadelphia.-Th periscope gun Is
the newest offensive and defensive
weapon brought forth by the modern
trench war. Jones Wister Of this city
has invented a rife with curved barrel
and periscope attached, by the use Of
which a soldier may remain securely
hidden in his trench and yet observe
every movement of the enemy and con-
tinue firing at will.
The inventor is well known socially
and as a sportsman. He is thoroughly
acquainted with firearms and ever since
the war started has been experiment.
ing with his periscope gun. After
many trials he finally bent the portion
of a rife barrel at an angle of 45 de-
grees and soldered it to the end of an
ordinary army rifle. Two toy mirrors
are then attached to the gun. The
upper mirror is on level with the
curved end of the barrel
Mr. Wister declares that he can aim
perfectly with this contrivance. The
process consists in getting a redection
of the object aimed at in the center Of
the lower mirror, on level with the
marksman's eye. Then, he says. 1t Is
almost impossible to miss.
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wARDENS POLICY KINDNESS.
New Head of Atlanta Prison Outlaws
Lash and Dungeon.


Atlanta, GARRISON dungeons and
cato nine-tails treatment will be out
lawed by the new warden of the fed
eral prison here. Fred Zerbst, ex-dep-
uty warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan, who took charge
April 1. Mr. Zerbst said that all Of the
federal prisons had abolished the old
time corrective methods and that his
policy would be to win over the prison
ers through kind treatment.
"The best way to treat these men Is
to appeal to their manhood and sense
of right" he declared. ''The whipping
post and the black hole are relics Of
the past. The new plan calls for close
confinement as the usual punishment
for infraction of rules, and feel sure
this will accomplish more than any
other method"
In his trip through the prison Mr..
Zerbst kept his eye open for the dun
geon which Julian Hawthorne and
other prisoners described, but he de-
clared after his first tour that he had
failed to locate it. Warden Meyer,
whose position Mr.. Zerbst takes, has
maintained all along that there was no
such place, and he has challenged his
foes to find 1t.
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GREAT DEEDS, FEW WORDS.
Brief Dispatches That Told Of Famous
Victories In War.


1t is fitting that the great soldier,
who should be a man of deeds rather
than words, should set an example or
terseness In his dispatches. Thus, after
the capitulation of Prague, Suvarof
thus communicated the joyful news to
his empress: "Hurrah! Prague!" To
which Catherine, not to be outdone In
brevity, answered. Bravo, field mar
shalw
That grim seadog Robert Blake,
after gaining one of his famous yicto-
ries over the French, sent the news In
this concise and businesslike form:
Met with the French fleet; beat,
killed, sunk and burned as per mar
gin"
The Vicomte de Turenne, marshal Of
France, was a man of equally few
words, as he proved when, after his
brilliant defeat of Condo at the Dunes
in 1856, he announced his triumph In
ten words, THE enemy came, was
beaten; am tired; good night!
But the worlds greatest generals
have always been models of brevity as
Of modesty since the days of Caesar,
whose 81 came, saw, l conquered"
sent to his friend Amintius after the
glorious victory over Pharmacies at
Zela, Is the most famous dispatch in
the annals of war.-London Saturday
Review
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HA nodnad Cold Mutton.

A curious reply was made by Cecil
Rhodes to lady who, seeking to draw
him out, suggested that he owed his
phenomenal rise to the impetus of no
BILE sentiments.
Madam" returned Mr.. Rhodes, Il
owe N.Y. fortune simply and solely to
cold mutton"
Gold mutton" gasped the lady. "Oh,
Mr.. Rhodes, what do you mean|
when I was young" continued the
South African millionaire, 81 was so
dosed with cold mutton and hated 1t
so cordially that l resolved to grow
rich in order to put it on one side for
the rest of my life. Yes, madam, cold
mutton was at the root of my success.
Noble sentiments had nothing to do
with it."
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HOW TO INVEST MONEY.
Exercise the Same Care You Would In
Buying a House.

Buying a House.
One who has money to invest should
know something of what he is buying
Otherwise he is a mere gambler and
would have a better chance to win
If he played game Of cards for money.
All gambling is reprehensible, though
1t must be conceded that speculation
in a sense is gambling. But this might
be said of the purchase of real estate
or any commodity of a changeable
value.
Let the investor make a study of
business conditions. Watch the earn
ings of the corporations and the rail-
ways as reported in the newspapers.
Note the trend Of trade. Observe the
transactions in prominent securities on
the Stock Exchange and have knowl-
edge of what is going on. Exercise
the same care that you would In buy
ing horse, an automobile, a wagon
or house.
Fortunes have been made by those
who have pursued this method, and
ltIluleS lOSI ny LAoSO VIM nave Sill
ply gone into speculation as If they
were throwing dice. I well recall the
era of railroad and industrial disturb
ance over twenty years ago, when no.
body wanted to buy stocks and every
body wanted to sell. Those who pick
ed up the "cripples," as they were then
called, and held them until prosperity
revived. made handsome profits, in
some instances realizing more than ten
times what they paid.-Jasper in Les
lies
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Drinking Water.

1t is surprising how many people
drink little or no water. There is no
greater purifying agent than plenty Of
water internally. An abundance OF 1t
not only Pushes the entire system, but
improves the action Of the skin; hence
the complexion. Care should be taken
that the water drunk is free from
germs. If there is any doubt boil it.
Do not confine yourself exclusively to
either cold or hot water and do not
take either at extreme temperatures.
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Every time read Shakespeare l
discover some idea that hadn't struck
me before"
EYES," replied the man who yawns,
but isn't 1t pretty much the same way
with an insurance policy ?"-Washing-
ton Star.
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Thorouohly Prenared.

At religious service in Scotland the
late Lord Kelvin noticed a youngster
accompanying his grandparents and
sitting wise as young owl through
the sermon.
At the close Of the service Lord Kel-
vim congratulated the grandfather upon
the excellence Of the young mans be-
havior.
"Och, aye" returned the veteran,
"Duncan's weel threatened afore he
gangs in
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Not Warranted,

Grubbs-Is there any truth in this
report that Miss Oldgirl is to be mar
RED? Stibbs-She thinks there Is
doubtless, but in my own view her be-
lief merely represents another triumph
of hope over OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Times Dispatch.
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Cat.

Ethel-Jack told me that he never
loved any one before. Marie-Well,
excuse me for saying so, dear, but he
and once were engaged. Ethel-Oh,
| didn't ask him about engagements.
only asked him about love.-New York
American.
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esrnanv,s nsfense a Secret.

Washington. nan officer Of an Amer
lean vessel reports that before entering
Bremerhaven seventy Germans took
his ship shut the officers and crew
in below with closed ports and kept
them that way until the ship was
locked. 1t was to prevent foreigners
learning anything of the coat de
lenses.
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IdIers.

As for those who are not obliged to
labor, by the condition in which they
are born, they are more miserable
than the rest of mankind unless they
indulge themselves in that voluntary
labor which goes by the name of ex-
ercise.-Joseph Addison.
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The One Complete Wardrobe.

What is honeymoon, pap
"a honeymoon, my boy, is that time
in a mans life when his wife is really
supplied with all she wants to wear
Detroit Free Press.
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Happiness lies in the consciousness
we have of it, and by no means in the
way the future keeps its PROMISE
George Sand.
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No Gold at Monte Carlo.

Monte Carlo.-Gambling is again
rampant here, but no gold or silver
shines on the green cloth. Ivory chips
have taken their place.
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An idler is a watch that wants both
hands.-Cowper
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West Bound

In effect November.22, 1914.
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SPORTING

Feb. 26-Ra!ph De Palma Vanderbilt
cup at Los Angeles, making average speed of
1916 miles an hour.
Feb. % Edwin Pullen won fifth interna-
tional Grand Prix automobile race at Santa
Monica. Cal.
May % Lawrence jenkins of Scotland won
British amateur golf championship.
May % Francis Ouimet of Boston won
amateur golf championship of France.
May 80 Rene Thomas driving Delage car
for France, won 5OO-mile race at Indianapolis
in 6 :O3 $500, an average of S247 miles an
hour, breaking the record of the speedway.
June 10 British team won first of the III
ternational polo matches at Meadowbrook
June 1G British polo team won second
match and international cup
June 10 Yale defeated Harvard by four
feet in annual boat race.
Harry Vardon won British open golf cham
pionship for sixth time.
June 26 Columbia University won inter-
collegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie
June q Jack Johnson retained heavyweight
championship by defeating Frank Moran in
twenty-round fight in Paris.
July 4 Harvard crew won the Henley re-
gatta.
July Freddie Welsh of Wales won the
lightweight championship by defeating Willie
Richie of America in London.
July l6 Georges Carpenter of France, re-
cciving the deci ion over "Gunboat" Smith Of
America foul in London. won the white
heavyweight championship
Aug. Charles Evans, Jr., of Chicago, won
the western amateur golf championship.
Aug. 2l-WaIter c. Hagen, professional CT
the Country Club of Rochester, N. Y, won the
open golf championship of the United States
Aug. 26J, NJ. Barnes of Philadelphia won
the national tennis championship.
Sept > Francis Ouimet won the American
amateur golf championship.
Sept Il Mrs. II. Arnold Jackson of Bos-
ton, won the national womans golf champion
ship
Oct. 10 Boston National team won worlds
championship from Philadelphia American
League team
Nov. 2l Harvard won eastern football
championship by beating Yale, and Illinois
the Western Conference title when it de-
feated Wisconsin.
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FINANCIAL


Jan > j. p. Morgan & Co. announced with
drawal of members of the firm from director
ates of many corporations.
Feb Mercantile bank of Memphis, Tenn,
failed. President c. H. Raine admitting he had
used its funds in cotton speculation.
Feb ~ Standard Oil company arranged t.
lend China $4,000, 900 in return for oil con-
cessions in Shan-Si province.
March 10 United States Express company
went out of business.
April The great Princes Trust" of Ger
many collapsed with a loss of So, OO0, 900.
April . Location of the twelve regional re
serve banks under the new currency law an
nounced.
June 6 Chaplin, Milne, Grcnfell & Co.,
London bankers. failed for S. 900 900
June IL President Wilson nominated fol-
lowing as members of federal reserve board ::
Charles S. Hamln. of Boston. Thomas D.
Jones, of Chicago. Paul Warhurg, of New
York, W p. G. Harding of Birmingham, Ala.
A. c. Miller of San Francisco
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both of this county.

both of this county.
Barr-Boulden. On Wednesday, the
28th ult, by Rev. Mr.. Matthews, Mr.
Robert P. Barr, of Cecil county, and
Miss Hannah Boulder, of New Castle
county, Del.
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INDUSTRIAL

Jan. Ford Automobile Co. set aside SlO,-
900 900 of its profits to distribute among its
employees, mostly in the form of increased
wages.
Jan Gu. S. circuit court of appeals on
firmed the conviction of "a members of the In
ternational Association of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers on the charge of dynamite
conspiracy, and granted new trials to six
others.
April 2O-Striking coal miners and members
of Colorado National Guard fought an all day
battle at Ludlow. number of men being
killed.
April % Entire National Guard of Colo
RADIO called out and ordered to Trinidad strike
zone where several NOR men were killed in
the continued fighting.
April 2S Heavy fighting took place in the
Colorado mine strike war and President Will
son ordered Federal troops there to restoce
order.
April 20 Colorado mine strikers attacked
the Forbes camp of the Rocky Mountain Fuel
company killing seven mine guards and burn
ing most of the buildings Federal troops from
Fort D. A. Russell arrived in the strike zone.
May Fourteen more troops of federal
cavalry ordered to Colorado strike zone.
May 1l-United States Supreme court set
aside contempt sentences of Gompers and
other labor leaders.
May l6-United States circuit court of APP
peals remanded "a union labor men, convicted
of conspiracy to transport dynamite, to fed
eral penitentiary within three weeks
June 23-One man killed and two wounded
fighting between factions of miners union st
Butte, Mont.
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CHURCH TO BE DEDICATED.

By Divine permission the new M. P.
Church, at Chesapeake City, will be
dedicated on Sabbath, January 8, exer-
cises to commence at 1890 a. m.
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POLITICAL

Feb. 1s-House passed Alaska railroad bill
Feb. 21-Senate ratified general arbitration
treaties between United States and Great Bri-
tain, Japan, Italy, Span, Norway, Sweden
Portugal and Switzerland.
March president Wilson read to congress
message urging that the clause in the Pam
anna canal act eXempting American coastwise
vessels from payment of tolls be repealed.
March 10 Senate approved Alaska railroad
bill.
March 3l-House passed bill to repeal canal
tolls exemption clause by majority of Sc.
June 5-House passed the three Wilson anti
trust bills by huge majorities.
June 1l-Bill to repeal exemption clause of
the Panama canal tolls act passed by senate.
July George T. Henry. Jr., of San Fran
cisco and Washington nominated for ambassa-
dor to Russia
July Ezra Nelson Morris of Chicago APP
pointed minister to Sweden.
Aug. 10 President Wilson appointed James
c. McReynolds to the Supreme court and r.
W. Gregory to succeed McReynolds as attor-
ney-general.
Sept Is Secretary of State Bryan and the
ENJOYS of Great Britain, France, Spain and
China signed the Bryan peace treaties.
Sept. "a Frederick Jesup Stimson appoint
ed ambassador to Argentine.
Sept. 29-The house passed the rivers and
harbors bill as reduced to $20,O0O,O00 by the
senate.
Oct. "a Congress adjourned after a session
of SCI days.
Nov. 3In general e,ectIons Republican
party gained over the vote of 1912 but failed
to control congress. Progressive party fell to
third place. Washington, Colorado. Oregon
and Arzont went dry.
Dec Sixty-third congress was called to
order for its final session.
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Try This For Neuralgia.

Thousands of people keep on sufferinS with
Neuralgia because they do not know v hat 20
do for it. Neuralgia is a pain in the nerves
What you want to do is to soothe the nerve
itself. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the surface
over the painful part-do not ruD it in.
Sloans Liniment penetrates very quickly to
the sore, irritated nerve and alays the in
fammation. Get bottle of Sloan's Liniment
for 25c of any druggist and have it in the
house against Colds, Sore and Swollen Joints
Lumbago. Sciatica and like ailments. Your
money back if not satisfied, but it does give
almost instant relief. advt%@
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THE STORY OF 1914
Continued from sixth page).

Nov. 1-Aguas Galleries conference named
L. Gutierrez president of Mexico for 20 days.
Nov. IL War declared between Carranza
and Villa factions in Mexico.
Nov. 25- American troops under General
Funston evacuated Vera Cruz.
Nov. 20 Gen. Radio Gonzales proclaimed
himself provisional president of Mexico.
Nov. 3O-Villa entered Mexico City with
5000 troops
Dec. S-President Wilson sent troops to pro-
t,ct Naco. Ariz, on Mexican porder.
Dec. l6 General Bliss told commanders OF
Carauza and Villa forces at Naco. Mex, that
he would open fire on both if any more shots
came across the border
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corn, yellow, $1.57; white, $1.52; oats,
IS cents.
MARRIED.
Wilson-C Ceilings. On December 20,
by the Rev. J. Dyson, at the residence
of the brides father, Mr.. William J.
Wilson and Miss Beulah H. Ceilings.
Rutter- Craig. On the 22d ult, by
the same, Mr.. Richard Rutter and Miss
Mary A. Craig, both of this county.
Caldwell Gibson. At the same time
and place, by the same, Mr.. John T.
Caldwell and Miss Providence Gibson,
both of Cecil county.
Moore Manns. On the 25th ult., by
the Rev. H. G. Shippers, Mr.. Samuel
M. Moore and Miss Sarah Ann Manns,
both of this county.
Freeman Terry. At Elkton parson-
age, by Rev. j. d. Curtis, on Thurs
day, Goth ult., Mr.. John w. Freeman
and Mrs. Margaret Terry, both of
Elkton.
Reynolds McNamee. By the same,
in Elkton, on Thursday, Mr.. John G.
Reynolds and Miss Maggie McNamee,
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The Cecil Whig
FIFTY YEARS AGO
ElktOn, January 7, 1865.
THE MARKETS

White wheat, $2.65; red do, $2.55;
corn, yellow, $1.57; white, $1.52; oats
IS cents.