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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Sixth Annual Meeting In Baltimore
January 14-15.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Maryland State Horticultural So
ciety will be held in Dtishane Post
Hall, Baltimore, January 14 and
15. The meeting will be made
particularly attractive, due to the
large amount of produce which is
to be placed on exhibition in the
hall by the members of the society.
The discussion and business transl
acted at the meeting will be of
interesting nature and will
with the growing of frp ! -*-> flowers
and vegetables.
The exhibit of, tfrnit and garden
products will , be displayed in a
room adjoining the meeting hall,
and handfsbme certificates of merit
h d given to the deserving ex-
Exhibits illustrating the
control of injurious insects anp
the management of orchards ana
gardens will be shown by the State
Horticultural Department. The
process of making some important
insecticides and fungicides will be
demonstrated.
The meetings will be/addressed
by well-known horticulturists,
among them being Ptof. F. A.
Waugh, of the Massachusetts Agr.
College; W. F. Massey, professor of
horticulture in the Notth Carolina
Experiment Station. Dr. H. J.
Webber, chief of the labratory of
plant breeding in the United States
Department of Agriculture, will
also make an address. Other pro
minent men from the Department
of Agriculture are expected to be
. present.
The sessions, which will begin
Thursday afternoon and close Fri
day afternoon, will be devoted to
the discussion of particular sub
jects of horticulture. The Thurs
day afternoon session will be taken
up with the subject of trucking;
Thursday evening will be given up
to a general discussion; Friday
morning to fruits, and Friday
afternoon to trucking and markets.
George Balderston, of Colora, is
one of the vice-presidents of the
society. Persons desiring to attend
the meeting may secure reduced
railroad rates by procuring an
order for same from Mr. Balder
ston, who will gladly furnish any
further information desired.
The Chesapeake Duck Pastures.
Country Life in America floes
not ascribe the scarcity of ducks on
the Susquehanna Flats and other
ducking places on the Chesapeake
j bay to the wanton and illegal de
struction of thegauieby swivel guns,
nets, etc., to the injury to the
pastures by Aulizzard and freshet.
In a recent article on the subject,
the following explanation of the
disappearance of the ducks is
given.:
“In 1888, the year of the great
blizzard, the mighty northwest
storm of March 12 fairly blew the
L water out of the broad shallow es
■ tuaries of Chesapeake Bay, and tt\e
tierce cold that came with it froze
the naked mud of the bottom—the
garden sojil of the juicy grasses
lhat have made the Chesapeake
redhead canvasback ducks
known to connoisseurs of the world.
When-'the tides came back they
raisaa bodily'this frozen floor of
th river, tearing up tea grass and
tdpe grass by the roots. This
joined the feed over many square
.miles of the choicest duck pasture
J in America.
/ “In the very next year another
of nature, the disastrous
Hllood, bore down the Susquehanna
■■River unprecedented masses of
Hearth and debris, that covered
Hwhat feed was left and about com
Hpleted the destruction. The year
Hhfter the blizzard the ducks ap-
in normal numbers, but
IKbund not what they came for, and
Chesapeake shooting has never
Lilly recovered from these two
The wise ones of duck
Hiug waters have figured it out that
a year or two only young
were left, and these did not
Kven know the way to the Mary-
Hlund pastures.
H “It was a curious sight, in the
jHearly ’9os. and later, too, when
bodies of migratory ducks
Hkached the favorite coves, alighted
||Hith confidence and appetite and
thirty seconds of fruitless
lit out of those waters as
|Bf they were boiling.”
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Officers Elected.
The officers of Elkton Council,
1 No. 22, Jr. O. U. A. M., for the
pnsuing year, as elected last week,
a re: Councilor, Geo. W. Boulden;
yice councilor, Joseph D. Walters;
recording secretary, P. M. Groves;
assistant, Walter Blackson; finan
cial ' secretary, Ricketts Nelson;
treasurer, Joseph H. Sloan; war
den, John Walters; conductor,
Clarence Deibert; inside sentinel,
: Marshall Jones; outside sentinel,
Walter Warren; chaplain, William
T. Clark; representative to state
council, J. H. Sloan; alternate,
Herman Jeffers; representative to
funeral benefit association, Herman
Jeffers; trustees, S. J. Keys, Alfred
Davis and P. M. Groves.
Cecil Lodge, No. 31, Knights
of Pythias, of Port Deposit, elected
officers for the ensuing year as
follows :—Chancelor commander,
Rev. David Funsten Ward; vice
chancelor, Walter W. Williams;
1 prelate, Clifford Harlan; master of
work, Heury P. Boyd; master of
; Exchequer, Adam Peeples; master
1 of finance, Z. T. Stepheson; keeper
of records and seal, John F.
Mohrlein; trustee, Frank T. Ben
son; grand lodge representative,
Edwin C. Williams.
At North East the following
officers have been elected by the
, K. of P. Lodge, No. 42 :—George
N. Cameron, C. C.; George L.
1 Wingate, V. C.; William Rutter,
P.; R. C. Reeder, M. of W.; W.
H. Priest, M. of A.; R. G. Under
wood, K. of R. and 8.; W. J. Falls,
M- of F.; E. B. Fockler, M. of E.;
Trustees, William Simcoe, Dr.
G. S. Rittenhouse, E. I. Camp
bell, Kinsey Matthews and 8.
T. Simpers; Representative to
Grand Lodge Charles E. Beatty.
Colora Lodge, No. 62, K. of P.,
at the meeting of Dec. 30, elected
the following officers for the current
term : —M. of W., John W. Sebold;
1 C. C., S. Albert Nickle; V. C.,
Alpheus A. Pierce; Prelate, W. W.
McCardell; K. of R. & S., 8. M.
McCardell; M. of F., M. F. Coale;
M. of E., Andrew Aiken; M. at A.,
i L. J. Richards; Rep., It. L. Christie;
Trustees, M. F. Coale, L. J. Rich
ards, J. Frank Foster, R. L. Christie
and A. J. Barrett.
Patent Drop for Wagon Gear.
Aaron Groff; a Quarryville car
riage builder, has invented and se
cured a patent on a drop for a
1 wagon. The invention consists of
the combination of an axle, a reach,
■ front and rear rests connected to
the axle, and companion bolsters
supported by means of said rests
arranged upon opposite sides of a
' plane passed vertically through
and projecting below the axle.
By having the rests below, the
s wheels jnay be of comparatively
i larger diameter and the body of
the wagon may be low down, which
: is of advantage, as it is not. neces
sary to provide a drop in the akle,
i the latter being straight and rein
forced by a truss brace. The in
■ ventor has received offers from
• Philada. and Detroit firms for the
! patent right of his new device.
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A Very Close Call.
i
“I stuck to my engine, although
■ every joint ached and every nerve
r was racked with pain,” writes C.
I W. Bellemy, a locomotive fireman,
. of Burlington, lowa. “I was weak
t and pale, without any appetite and
, all run down. As I was about to
give up, I got a bottle of Electric
. Bitters, and after taking it, I felt as
, well as I ever did in my life.”
, Weak, sickly, run down people
f always gain new life, strength and
I vigor from their use. Try them.
Satisfaction guaranteed by Eli T.
• Reynolds. Price 50 cents.
Marriage Licenses.
| Edward 8. Bartlett, of Newport,
Del., and Susie E. Blansfield.
’ Toward L. Lodge and Ida L.
Vandegrift, both of near Elkton.
Olaf Stevenson, of Charlestown,
: and M. A. Fpreacre, of Elk Neck.
1 Robert M. Hutchinson, of Coke
ton, West Va., and Alice Booth
Settle, of Leeds.
; George H. Warner and Clara M.
| Grant, both of North East.
' Colored—Richard A. Boddy,
. Conowingo, and Susie Moore,
of Virginia.
Saved From Terrible Death
The family of Mrs. M. Bobbitt of
Bargeton, Tenn., saw her dyiug
> and were powerless to save her.
' The most skillful physicians
’ and every remedy used, failed,
~ while consumption was surely tak
-1 ing her life. In this terrible hour
1 Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consumption turned despair into
. joy. The first bottle brought im
f mediate relief and its continued
r use completely cured her. It’s the
1 most certain cure in the world for
all throat and lung troubles.
1. Guaranteed Bottles 50c and #I.OO.
e Trial Bottles Free at Eli T. Rey
. nolds.
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SHE TOOK THE CAKE.
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5 Engine, Wow In Scrap Heap, Once One
oi the Finest and Fastest
1 in Her Clara.
! I
i Lying In the Central yards, and under
i going the process of being dismantled,
• is an old engine, No. 03, once one of the
; finest and fastest engines of her class,
. Bays the Mexican Herald. To-day she
represents nothing to the casual ob
’ server but an old scrap iron pile, yet
' thirty-odd years ago the cows got out
’ of her way and the amazed spectators
1 clapped their hands and shouted their
■ applause when she passed by under full
, speed, running at the rate of four kilo
) meters an hour, with Van Scoik hanging
i out of the cab, with one strenuous hand
| upon the throttle and the other upon
the hand brake, which was under such
perfect control that within a few min
■ utes’ notice the train could be brought
to a stop—with the assistance of a few
’ ties thrown across the track,
i The engine weighed about nine tons,
i and the tank was a part of the cab. Wa
; ter was brought in buckets by the Bre
l' man and conductor when they were not'
f engaged in brushing the reptiles that
, overtook the train from the platform.
This feature occurred at every avail
able waterhole. Rich grandees, priests,
1 peons, beggars and what not waited with
' interest to see her arrive at a station,
i pulling a coach, and when she arrived
admired the ingenuity of the Yankee
; who invented so great a machine. Her
, day is past, and she remains but to re
, mind of the improvements that have
been made, and also to call to mind the
history of the pioneer railroad men of
' the republic.
BRAVE IN FACE OF DEATH.
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; The Thrilling: Grand Stand Play of a
Famous Bull-Flgrhter In a
Spanish Arena.
One of the most thrilling incidents
1 ever witnessedl in the arena is recalled
by the recent feat of the Spanish tore
, ador Reverte. It occurred at Bayonne,
1 says an enchange. After disposing of
two bulls Reverte had twice plunged his
, sword into a third, of great strength and
1 ferocity, and as the beast continued ca
-1 reening wildly the spectators began to
hiss Reverte for bungling. Wounded to
the very quick of his pride, the Spaniard
shouted: “The bull is slain!” and,
, throwing aside his sword, sank on one
; knee with folded arms in middle of
the ring. He was right, but he had not
, allowed for the margin of accident.
The wounded beast charged full upon
him, but the matador, splendid to the
last, knelt motionless as a statue, while
the spectators held their breath in hor
rified su pense. Reaching his victim,
the bull literally bounded at him, and
as he sprang he sank in death, with his
i last effort giving one fearful lunge of
f the head that drove a horn into the
, thigh of the kneeling man and laid bare
, the bone from the knee to the joint. Still
, Reverte never flinched, blit remained
kneeling, exultant in victory, but calm
ly contemptuous of applause, till he was
1 carried away to heal him of his griev
i ous wound.
j GAINING A LIVING IN ITALY.
f Humber of Female Teachers Increas
!'. In*— I Three Quarters as Many
Priests as in 1882.
i , The Italian government has pub
lished some interesting figures relative
• to the modes of gaining a living In Italy,
t (Recording to these statistics, the great
, est number of persons are devoted to
teaching. In 1882 there were 32,908
male tutors, while now there are 34,346;
the number of women teachers in 1882
was 46,887, and now 62,643, showing that
female teachers are on the Increase. In
1 the medical profession the increase is
• in men—there are now 22,139 male phy
■ sicians, as against 18,984 in 1882, and
i the women 20 against two of the same
; date; while the lawyers number 24,196,
[ against 20,353.
t , There is a notable Increase in the
, number of monks and nuns. In 1882,
' they were 28,172, while they are now
, 40,251. On the other hand, the priests
are somewhat fewer, having decreased
! from 84,834 to 68,844.
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ALARM WATCHES.
Novel Timepiece Carried hy Traveler,
and Used a. Reminder of En-
KSfement. by Day.
The newest thj,ng in alarm timepices
' is an alarm watetft says the New York
Sun. It looks like Vn ordinary watch,
but bas a gong in its\nterior.
You set it at the hour you want it to
i go off, and wind it just.as you would
. an alarm clock, and it gpes off at the
• time set with a clatter oft. astonishing
i vigor and volume of sounOj, when the
size of the mechanism is considered.
The alarm watch may be used to serve
the usual purpose of an alarm clock, the
man carrying it as a watch by day, set
-1 ting it and winding it as an alarm, and
placing it perhaps on a chair at his bed
side or under his pillow at night It is
carried by travelers as an ordinary
watch, to be used, besides, as an alarfi
clock to wake tbem up to catch trains;
f and it may be used as a reminder of an
, engagement by day.
’ They are not expensive, these alarm
• watches, a stemwinder in a gun metal,
3 case costing eight dollars.
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Domestic Troubles.
r It is exceptional to find a family
j where there are no domestic rop
- tures occasionally, but these can be
1 lessened by having Dr. King’s
5 New Life Pills around. Much
r trouble they save by their great
. work in Stomach and Liver trou
. bles. They not only relieve you,
- but cure. 26c, at Eli T. Reynolds’
drag store.
<JLD BABYLONIAN SCHOOL.
( Recently Unearthed by a German
Priest While Excavating—Let
'll tera Made on Bricks.
• Relv. Vincent Schell, a German priest
maltipg excavations in an ancient Baby
lonian city, has unearthed a school just
as it Was 4,000 years ago in the time of
King Hammurabi.
' It Is a small house of sunburnt brick
and stands in the midst of the most
populous district of the city of Seapur,
Just opposite the great temple. It has
many Inscribed brick, from the cunei
form iiWcriptions on which Father Schell
has reconstructed the life of the ancient
Babyloman school. One brick says:
"He wli> learns to write well in the
school Hill shine as the sun.”
Thereßvere seven small rooms in the
school, Lch with its various kinds of
brick, hi one room were found bricks
with grammatical exercises. The schol
ars evidently sat on the ground in rows
with soff clay bricks in their hands,
painfullyl forming the hard cuneifori#
letters. Rather Scheil says the thumb
marks of ithe teacher are to be detected
where he\ smudged over the scholars’
mistakes. \There was a room where ad
vanced scholars learned to write the
elaborate and highly poetical forms of
adulation often seen on Babylonian
monuments.] Much importace was at
tached to learning weights and meas
ures, to arithmetic and geometry, but
the chief branches were grammar, writ
ing and the I expression of adulatory
forms. \
There is evidence that girls got pretty
much the same education as boys and
Father Scheil found contracts in which
the language albd law had been revised
by a learned woman named Amat Baon.
There is evident :e that a pupil was oc
cupied with les rning to write from
seven to fourteen years.
AN UNFAMILIAR DIALECT.
London Cockney# Talk Anything Bnt
English, Says af> American Wom
an—Visit t*> “Moblotch.”
An American wolan who was lately in
London for the first time is convinced
that whatever the/language may be
which the cockneyslspeak, it is not Eng
lish. One of her experiences is related
by the WashingtonlPost.
The woman wish* to see the city all
. by Herself. Somebody told her that if
she went to the teAinus of some bus
line—it did not mVtter which —and
waited a little, she wluld hear the con
ductor call out the pfeces on the route,
and then could choosfe that which she
wished to visit. \
She found a place wjhere buses were
arriving and departing, land waited. She
heard many curious names, but failed
to understand much troat the busmen
said. Every now and t/hen the man on
the step of a bus would] call out: “Mob
lotch! Moblotch!" anm she wondered
what part of London “Moblotch” might
be. She had never heartd of it before,
and she had been studying London for
six months. At last site ventured
address a conductor whtv looked ap
proachable. 1
“Will you kindly tell iße,” she said,
“Where one takes the bins for Marble
Arch?” \
The man looked at her pityingly. Her
American accent was thick upon her,
and he perceived also that tehe must be
deaf. He leaned toward hek and drew
a long breath. Then he billowed:
“This is your bus, ma'amV” and be
gan to shout "Moblotch! Jloblotch!”
The visitor had let seven ‘ Moblotch”
buses go because she never on ce guessed
that that is the way Marble Atch Is pro
nounced in London. \
PAPERMAKING IN CANADA.
Dominion Contain* Groat Facilities
for Manufacture of Wood \Pulp—
Her Extensive Spruce Foriests.
In Canada the subject of wattr power
is obtaining consideration in coflnection
with various industries, says thelLondon
Telegraph. One of these is tha manu
facture of paper from wood puli- The
dominion contains more spruce, e best
wood for this purpose, than all tae rest
of the world put together, and posiesses
at the same time vastly more ulused
water power.
According to the Dominion statistician,
the spruce forests cover 450,000,000 acres,
or about 700,000 square miles —roughly,
eight times the area of Great Britain.
Year by year the exports of wood and of
wood pulp for the making of paper are
rising and now the Canadian protection
ists are putting forward the demand that
they should not export the pulp but the
paper; not the raw material but the
manufactured article, for the production
of which their immense water power
gives them enormous advantages. It
seems not improbable that ere long a
heavy export duty will be levied on wood
pulp and that Canada will become a great
1 exporter of paper. She holds the ener
getic position and can also make her owft
terms. It is said that nine times aft
much labor would be required to manu]
facture paper as is needed simply to ex
port the wood. So far as the United.
States is concerned, Canada is becoming]
more and m-~e the one available source
of supply and for the New York newspa
pers alone a clearance of 10,000 acres
of forest is necessary every year.
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Hondarna Pack Males.
’ Pack mules in Honduras carry 200
pounds in dry weather and 160 in wet
weather.
Found a Cure for Indigestion.
I use Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver
Tablets for indigestion and find that they
* suit my case better than any dyspepsia
I Remedy I have ever tried and I have used
i many different remedies. I am nearly
t fifty-one years of age and suffered a great
■ deal from indigestion. I can eat almost
, anything I want to now.—Geo. W. Em-
OEY. Rock Mills, Ala. For sale by Eli
T. Reynolds.
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WORTHINGTON^
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SI■I npHE closing of 1903 marks a wonderfully
1 successful year with us. The holiday sea-
I sou just ended has been our banner year.
We extend to our patrons our sincere jtm
thanks. Commencing the new year we are
taking stock and this necessary task reveals
many bargains to you. The line of staple mer- BE
chandise, while somewhat shattered by the strain vjfl
of the last month, is in excellent condition to
open to you many money-making bargains and
we will, from day to day, place new stock on ggfj
our counters, making the assortments always
S attractive. $0
The rapid strides in the volume of our ]
ga? trade will lead us to offer you larger stocks than
ever before and this, coupled with the improve- Bp*
ments to be started as soon as possible, will
make our store an attractive place for you. rajs
BMake it your home whenever you are in town. jßjg
There is nothing which is too much trouble and
ggSJ yve are glad to serve you in any way we can.
SWe wish you a happy and prosperous ffijg
New Year.
| E. H. WORTHINGTON & SON. |
-jpf N. B.—Stop in and get a calendar for 1904. Ijjh4
SIIIIIISIIISMISIfeISIMAi®
To Our Patrons: gl
Rising Sun, Md., January 1, i9o^^Hfl
We made many promises through the
;§§| umns of this paper during the year i9ojßg|j|
gpl What we were doing and what we proposed
pS|l do, in the way of handling our class of mer- H
chandise, must have been fulfilled, or our
patrons would not have run our sales to a
SSJI never before reached in the history of
ness. We therefore take this
thank our friends for their kindness
_ tesy during the past year, and we
ise to make our goods and prices still
gS attractive during the year 1904.
We ask your co-operation. /hIhHEI
very
| Taking Stock. I
the past three weeks we have been ggj
BH taking stock and we are nearly through jtyg!
and we already know that there has
never been a more successful and prosperous jSH
season than the year 1903. Our business has.
been the largest and most prosperous in the
history of the house, and we trust that with
|§S!l your kindly co-operation the year 1904 will
show an equal increase in volume of business
and that it may be attended with continued fill
prosperity to both you and ourselves.
Yours truly, |H
Jos. S. Pogue, Sons & Co. 9
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ESTEEMED FRlENDS:—Thankful for your liberal
patronage for 1903, we cordially ask a continuance oi
same, for 1904. A happy and prosperous New Year tc
one and all! We are, Yours to Please,
33. IF 5 - ZtsTICIEaiOILS, Jj
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