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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
Who Originated the Idea.

One day there was great loss to one
of the banks by means of a raised check
reported in New York, and the reporters
of the Sun were busy writing out their
facts about it. One of them stopped a
moment to say in chatty way that if
the bankers would cut into the checks
the amount for which each check was
drawn, a raised check would be an i'm
possible thing. The managing editor
overheard the remark. Mr.. Blank, he
said, when you get through write a
letter to the editor of the Sua giving
that idea.' 1t was done, and the letter
was printed the next morning contain =.
ing til Q suggestion that the amount of
each check should be cut into it to pre-
vent any alteration. A few nights after
ward spruce young man came in, and,
scattering around some blank checks
with numbers cut through them, as is
now common, said: Il am much obliged
for that idea; it's going to be worth
SIC, 900 to me- The reporter who orig
mated it is still laboring by tue week.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

shows a decrease in the public debt for
the month of $9,527, 1876. SO, with the
following exhibit: Cash in the treasury,
$243 696, 22S 40; gold certificates. SIS
1913, 700; silver certificates, So 28l $3.50;
currency certificates, 1886, 175. 900; re-
funding certificates, "a, 1906 500: legal
tenders outstanding. $346 ,68l, DIG; frao.
tional currency outstanding, $15, 1872
064.96.
Kate Bender, of the notorious family
of Kansas murderers, over whose cap
ture the entire country was excited some
months ago, has been discovered and
arrested in New Mexico, where she had
married and settled down.
Basker.,& Co.'s sheetiron and tin plate
works, near Cardiff, Wales, which have
been in constant operation since 1740,
and about which three villages had grown
up, have suspended. Six thousand per-
sons are left without means of support
in consequence.
Mr.. Parnell, member OF parliament,
in addressing meeting of 10000 per-
sons in Limerick, Ireland, advised the
farmers not to pay any rent until they
got reduction from the landlords.
A heavy storm, accompanied by wind,
did over 100000 damage to Southern
Louisiana by destroying crops and
buildings.
-Four boys, ranging from six to thir-
teen years OF age, while playing on car
track near st. Louis, were suddenly run
upon by an engine, and all OF them had
their legs cut off or badly crushed. Two
of the lads will die.
New Orleans authorities have isolated
the few cases of yellow fever which have
appeared, and taken all necessary pre-
cautions to prevent it's spreading.
Charles DeYoung, who shot Kalloch,
the Workingmen's candidate for mayor
in San Francisco, has been admitted to
bail by Chief Justice Wallace in the sum
of 1926, 200.
The Lawrence, Kap., city council re-
fused to levy the bond ordered by the
United States district court, and passed
a resolution setting forth that the city
cannot pay more than fifty cents on tho
dollar of it's Indebtedness.
The miners in the Cumberland, Md. +,
coal regions struck for higher wages,
and 3, 900 men are consequently out of
employment.
The official vote of Kentucky for gov
ernor is as follows: Blackburn Dem. },
1875, 799; Evans (Rep.), 81, 1882; Cook
(Gfeenback), IS, 954. Blackburn's ma
iority, 1917.
Mrs. HATTIE, her sister and sister s
child were found murdered in their
beds at Way nesville, Ohio. No clue
could be found to the assassins, and no
cause Tor the crime can be conjectured.
Masked robbers rifed stage coach
near Nevada City, and when one of the
passengers resisted, ehot him dead. A
large force has gone in search of the
desperadoes.
Fifteen persons were killed and a
large number wounded by a fire -damp
explosion at Bonchamp, France.
In Allen county, KY, Anderson Car
yer, in fit of jealousy, shot and killed
his wife and then blew out his own
brains,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
Disadvantages of Living Over a Mine.

On Tuesday the residents of Park
Hill, suburb of Scranton, Pa, were
startled by sudden sinking of their
houses, followed by loud rambling
noise in the mine beneath. With great
alarm they rushed into the streets, many
mothers in their flight leaving their
children behind them in the shaking
houses. The cause of the connection
was the giving way of the roof in an
abandoned part of the Bellevale mine,
which over year ago was the scene of
similar catastrophe. The cave.in
covers an area of an acre and half
Large assures have appeared in brick.
yard owned by the Lackawanna Iron and
Coal company, and it is feared that many
piles of brick will sink into the ground.
The residence of the superintendent has
sunk over five feet. Three other houses
owned by miners have been thrown from
their foundations, and the gardens are
streaked with assures, while in many
spots tho tops of fruit trees are flush
with the ground. The wells on all sides
were dried up. Terror reigus in the
neighborhood, and many families have
sought refuge in other sections, dread
ing to remain in their houses.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
The Pipe Industry in Germany.

Among the results of interest brought
ont in connection with the official inqul-
nv into the extent of the tobacco trade
OF Germany are some figures relating to
the manufacture of tobacco pipes in that
country. The chief center Of this branch
of industry is Ruhla, i'll Thuringia. In
that town and the neighboring villages
the annual production for the past few
years has averaged 100000 genuine
meerschaum bowls or heads, and $. 4oG,-
600 artificial or imitation mc.rschaum
bowls The number If polished, lac
quered, and variousiy mounted wooden
pipe.heads annually produced was A.
100000. OF the common porcelain
bowls, the fsvorite pipes of the German
peasantry, there were manufactured
every year 5000 600, and of fine clay or
lava bowls 2,7O0, 600. Further, there
has been an annual average production
of Is, 90, 600 pipe-stems or tubes of va.
rious sizes and materials, LOCO, 600 doz-
en- of miscellaneous adiuncts, such as
flexible tubes, chains, tops, tufts, etc.,
II, coo dozens of meerschaum pipe cases,
100000 dozen mouthpieces and cigar
holders of amber or horn and meer-
schaum, wood or cocoanut.shell; and,
finally, Is, 600, 900 complete pipes COM
posed of various materials. The value
of the whole is estimated at about So
600 600.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
Don't Fret,

One fretter can destroy the peace of
family, can destroy the harmony of neigh
borhoods, can unsettle the councils of
cities and hinder the legislation of ma
tions. He who frets is never the one
who mends. who heals, who repairs evil;
more, he discourages, enfeebles, and too
often disables those around him, who.
but for the gloom and depression of his
company, would do good work and keep
up brave cheer. The effect upon SEN
sitive person in the mere neighborhood
of fretter is indescribable. 1t is to
the soul what cold, icy mist is to the
body-more chilling than the bitterest
storm. And when the fretter is one who
is beloved, then the misery of it becomes
indeed insupportable.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

Is rheumatism. Even at the outset. the ordi-
nary remedies are frequently powerless to cope
with it. This is more particularly the case
when Il tendency to t is inherited. II should
be combatted before it becomes chronic.
When the frat twinges are felt, recourse should
be had to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a depu-
rent which expels from the blood those irritat-
ing principles which, by contact, cause inti am
nation and pain in the muscles and joints.
Poisonous medicines which are usually admin
let red for this disease, but which, in slight
overdose, may terminate 1t by destroying ire
itself, should be avoided and this safe and
more effective medicine used instead. Those
disorders of the bowels, stomach and liver
which frequently accompany rheumatic and
equity ailments, are invariably removed by this
excellent botanic corrective.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
A PrOdigal Son.

A sad story comes from Tunkhan,
mock. Pa. where some time ago young
man registered at hotel as Mr.. Dalton,
evidently in the lest stages of consump-
ton, and without means. Everything
possible was done for his comfort by the
kind. hearted people cognjzant Of the
case; but all efforts to probe his history
we're met with rebuffs, until he became
so weak his life was dispaired Of, when
clergyman was called, and to him the
young man expressed contritioD, and
made full confession of his past life.
His real name he said, was Charles P.
Smith, son of J. J. Smith, of New Wind
sor, Carroll county, Md, and his father
and mother are living there now. Then
came sod story. 1t was that of q
young man, well educated and surround
ed with everything calculated to make
his life happy one, driven from friends
and home by his own rash acts. For
two and a.half years he was a fugitive
from justice, wandering from place to
place under an assumed name.
AS soon as the young mans true his
tory became known his father was APP
prised of his condition. In reply to the
telegram the following was received:
New WINDSOR. ND, August o.
Rev. Geo. T. Keller, Tunkhannock,
Pa: Affairs at home will not permit
my leaving. If Charles dies, telegraph
me. j. j. SMITH.
To this Mr.. Keller sent the following
reply:
TUNKuANNooK, August 25.-J. J.
Smith, New Windsor, Md: In Gods
name relent. Take pity on the poor
dying boy. See Luke xv., 1872.
REV. GEO. L. KELLER.
No answer was received The refer
ence to the Bible is the story of the
prodiga, son. The secret of the crimes
committed by the unfortunate young
man we're confided only to Mr.. Keller,
and he would have kept the story to
himself had the young man lived.
None of his relatives were there to see
the young man breath his last. The
following in brief is tho confession made
to Mr.. Keller: MY true name is Charles
P. Smith. 1 will be twenty. one years
OF age on Monday night. I ran away
from home in March, 1877, and was
married; my wife and child now live with
her father in New Windsor, Md. In
April, 1878, forged the name of J. E.
Mcdaniel to note and sold it to A. A
Packer, of Easton, Md. A reward was
offered for my arrest. fled to Seaford,
Del, and was there arrested, but was
released on some legal technically,
since which time ] lave been atugitive
from justice. l had it reported that l
died of consumption at Asbnry Park. l
believe God Las sent this disease upon
me as a just judgment. l have been
guilty of other grave vices and immor-
alites, and since coming to your town
have lived the life OF an imposter to
evade the hand of justice. have great
ly deceived the good people of the place
and cruelty abused their generous sym
pathy and hospitality. / beg you to
asked those / have SO basely wronged
to forgive and pity me, and may God
himself, for Christ's sake, have mercy
on me in my dying hour.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
My Lost Love.

When the silence Of the midnight
Closes round my lonely room,
And family struggling through the curtains,
Mystic moonbeams light the gloom;
When above the fevered fsncies
or the weary heart and brain.
Kindly slumber, creeping near me,
Reasserts her welcome reign
In the seeming
OF my dreaming,
In all the glow that used to be,
NV lost love comes back to me.
When the fair delusivo phantom
Fades before the Weakening dawn,
And the rosy smile of sunrise
CLEANS athwart the dew-drenched lawn,
Gazing from the opened lattice,
Yearning memory pictures there,
Swallowed by onlacing branches,
Sweet blue eyes and golden hair,
And the sunlight
Takes the one light
That it had for me erewhile
In my lost loves happy smile.
In the glory of the noontide
Her low ringing laugh hear
In the whispering Of the leaflets
Her light footstep springing near;
In each snow-white lilys swayins
Is reflection OF her grace;
In each roses opening beauty
Shines for me her fair young face
Till tbroup the falling
Shadows calling,
As even darkens hill and plane,
l hear my lost loves voice again.
So the hours are peopled for me,
Through the haunted days and nights,
While fancy mocks my lonely vigils
With the ghost Of dead delights,
And let loud life sweep by me,
Dreaming by the silent hearth,
Where the vision Of my darling
Gives old gladness back to earth,
While through each cleaning
Softly coming,
In sweet false lights Of Joy and truth.
Ny lost love gives me back my youth.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

A man has been arrested in Baltimore
for selling spurious lottery tickets in
the surrounding States, by which many
people have been swindled. The tickets
purported to be of the Kentucky lottery,
with capital prize of $50, 900.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

A young man who applied to a journal
for something to cause the hair to grow
on his face, received this advice: Rub a
piece of salt pork over Your face, and,
when the hairs come out to drink, tie a
knot in each one to keep it from return
ing.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

The Buffalo Erpress thinks that wo-
men can never play ball satisfactorily
until they are permitted to use their
aprons to catch with.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

Never promise more than can be done. DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills have been successfully
run on this principle. For gale by all druggists.
price OF rnnta
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

To MotheIs:- Should the baby be suffering
with any of the disorders of babyhOod use Dr.
Bulls Baby syrup at once fer the trouble.
Price rs cents.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04

A Providence man relates that when
he was little boy he was one day stand
ing in Market-square with his grand
father, when four lrishmen came up,
one of whom asked the distance to Paw
tucket. He was told by the old gentle
man that it was about four miles. Well,
faith, said Pat. 'in mock tono Of en-
enlargement to his three tired compan-
ions, that's not bad at all only mile
apiece for us. 'Whom do you want to
see in Pawtucket?' inquired he. BE
iabers,' was the quick reply, Il want to
see myself there the most Of anybody
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
FRIENDS
Elementary and HjQh School.

A Primary School, an Academy and Collegiate Insti-
tuto for Boarding and Dly Scholars Of Both Sexes.
Lombard ST., near Eutnw, Baltimore, Md.
The first term of the Sixteenth Year Will begin
NINTH MONTH, (Scptembcr) 9th. 1879.
Students are here fitted for Business, for College,
or Johns Hopkins University. For circulars please
apply at Bookstores or at School rooms.
Il. NJ. LAMB, Principal,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1879-09-04
The Latest Fashions.

French boot heels are made lower than
those worn formerly.
Small bone, pearl and metal buttons
are greatly used for garnishing street
costumes.
Charming ornaments for the hair are
now made from fish scales, held in posi-
tion by silver wire.
Satin. striped ribbons are largely i'm
ported both in single colors and with
foundation color, shot with contrasting
hue.
The round hats of silk plush, satin
antique, beaver, etc, are most seen in
the creamy gray called dauphin, and in
black.
Beetles and other natural bugs in the
cbangeable colors now in vogue are
mounted on gilt, and set about the bon
net in various places.
Jet, bronze and iridescent beads in
blue green shades will also be used, but
as colored beads are always transient III
their popularity, it is safest to bpy the
let ornaments chat are now go largely
imported.
lCOyAl VtlVCG ID IGFlFo' iol lhi'hhOAJ'
This is the richly-repped uncut velvet,
called sometimes Ottoman velvet. The
novelty in this fabric is the g lace or shot
velvet, with one shade for the ground,
making changeable effect when CLINT
ing through the reps that are OF another
color.
Ribbons have reaeserted themselves,
and will play an important part IN the
millinery of the winter, They will be
used III broader widths than they were
during the summer, and will sometimes
form the whole trimming of the bonnet,
independent of any fabric cut bias from
the piece.
The small black bonnets have satin
antique for the large crown, with tiny
brim of velvet bound with jet galloon.
The crown may be laid in folds OF satin,
or pufred like u great rosotte, or else it
is smooth and half covered with jet en-
broide,y. A large bouquet of satin and
velvet flowers is low on the left side
The ribbon strings are to be tied under
the left ear in long Topped bow.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-15
A Versatile GimlcI

al should like to sell you a gimlet," sal !
a careworn-looking man as he walked into
an office the other day.
ave have no use for one" replied the
cashier.
"But you should always look into the
misty future" persisted the gimlet peddler.
"Next winter you will want to make holes
in your bootheels, so you can get YOUR skates
on"
al use club skates-nO straps required"
"Yuu may want To screw some boards N
together sometime. The old-lashioned way
of driving the screws in with hammer is
pernicious as it deteriorates the tenacity Of
he fangs OF the screw, as it were"
"Nothing to-day, sir"
"This gimlet acts as a corkscrew."
81 don't want it."
at also may be used as a tackh ammer, a
cigar. holder and a toothbrush"
~ don't want it,"
at has an eraser, a pen, an inkstand'
table for computing compound interest and
a lunchbox attach ment.
III can't help it, don't want it."
81 know you don't you are one Of those
men that won't buy gimlet unless it has a
restaurant and trip through Europe and
an Italian opera company attached. You're
the kind of man who would live near an
electric light to save a gas bill" And the
careworn man walked out with his mental
plumage on the perpendicular.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-15
THIS AND THAT.
"A minister up at Oshkosh
Cribbed sermon from DR.. McCosh,
And scared with such flights
To phlosophy's heights

"A minister up at Oshkosh
Cribbed a sermon from DR.. McCosh,
And SCARED with such flights
To philosophy's heights
That his listeners said it was bosh.
Toledo Blade.
Perhaps Cesar intended to say, cute
Brute !"
"A girl may smile and smile, and be
unwilling still.
Highest appreciation = Applause from
the gallery.
al am broken man." said a poet. $50
| should think" was the answer, "lor
have seen your pieces"
"A music seller announced in his win
dow sentimental song, "Thou hast loved
and left me" for three cents.
1t was the proprietor of a BeSsemer
furnace who first rejoiced when he met "a
foreman worthy of his steel"
-"W rat have you 10 remark about my
singing2" asked an irate vocalist "Noth-
ing replied spectator; at is not remark
able"
"A man has been on the Baltimore police
twenty years, says the Burlington Ha'Okeye,
and never caught anything but cold and
really that caught him.
No conscientious clergyman should givo
certificate that any particular brand Of pa
tent medicine has cured him of a disease
which he did not have, however agreeable
may be the taste of the medicine.
"A western paper speaks of migratory
nomads." This reminds us Of the journalist
who spoke ol an equestrian stutue on horse
back, and of the reporter who said "The
false alarm from box SOOs was false"
"A New York paper recently contained
a lengthy editoral on "The Modesiy of Gen.
Butler" Wedid not read the article but
we know the General. and we would NOT,
under any circumstance, contract to write
more than a four-line local on that subject.
"A humorist leaps gayly upon the steps
of one Of the gigantic omnibuses Of the boul-
evard and cries, as the Ark fullf" "No,
sir" replies the jovial conductor, 1--WE have
kept a seat for you. What, no, within there I
Room for the monkey, rOom!"
Home Teaehing-I must tell you of
conversation | overheard on the beach at
Treport between two children who were
playing in the sana together. The small
boy said to the little girl, "Do you wish TO
be my little wife !" The little girl, after re-
aection: "Yes-" The small boy "Then
take off my boots !"
During an election in a certain locality
a temperance candidate called upon a rum
seller, aud solicited his vote. al would ra-
ther vote for the Evil One himself than fr
you" was the sad response. YES, | know,
said the candidate, "but in case your friend
should not be nominated, might then
sount on your assistance"
-"Those suspenders, madam, are long
enough for the shortest boy, OF short enough
for the longest mani they will just fit your
hne-looking youngster." "Perhaps so but
| | don't want TO sew buttons on his boot legs.
want them to hold his pants on. Them
susprnders is long enough for the Colossus
Of Rhodes" "Just 50, madami / sold him
= pair out Of the same box yesterday"
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-15
ROMANTIC LIFE.

The romantic vicissitudes Of the early lif,
of tie Countess Solange de Kramer have
once more become the talk of the Paris sa-
looms, and they are indeed, so extraordinary
that, used as materials for novel; they
would spoil the book by their lack Of veri-
simiitude. One night, in 1901, little girl
about one year old was deposited ia the
drawer of the aundling asylum at Brest.
| She was dressed with much fnery, and q
note, attached to her skirts, told that her
name was Soange, and that she would be
reclaimed by her father. The claim was
never made. however, and in due time the
child was transferred TO the orphan asylum,
to be educated there. AS she grew up, she
developed most extraordinary beauty, but
her intellect appeared to be very weak, and
she suffered from frequent nervous fits.
When she was twelve years old she was sent
out into the streets to sell flowers, and her
beauty and modesty attracted many peoples
good will, but she grew weaker and weaker,
aud at last she died. According TO French
customs she was buried in an open casket,
aud, as it was winter and the soil was frozen
she was laid into the grave, only covered
with a thin layer of sand. During the night
she awoke and, pushing the sand away, she
crept out from this grave. Not exactly un-
derstanding what had taken place, she was
not so very much frightened, but in crossing
the glacis between the cemetery aud the
fortifcat0ns, she was suddenly stopped by
the outcry: "Qui vve," and AS she did not
answer, the sentinel fired, and she fell 10 the
ground. Brought into the guard house, her
wound was found to be slight, and she soon
recovered, but her singular history, and al
so her great beauty had made so deep an
impression on young lieutenant Of the
garrison tKramer), that he determined to be
her protector, and send her to one of the
most fashionable educational establishments
in Paris. During the next few years Kra-
mer was much tossed about by the war, but
when in 1918 he returned to Paris, he found
Snlange a full-grown woman, not only beau
tiful, but accomplished and spirited, with
no more trace of intellectual weakness or
nervous fits. Ho married her. and for sew
Meanwnue; mvesAg gdiRasL h"nullv in Paris
cerning the girl left, in 1901, in the Found
ling Hospital at Brest, and as these inyesti-
cations were made by Swedish AmbAssa-
dor, and in a somewhat official manner, they
attracted some attention. Capt. Kramer
heard about the affair, and sent note to
the ambassador, and month later on, the
ambassador came i L, state to bring Nine.
Kramer formal acknowledgment OF her
father, the former, Gen. Bernadotte, the
present King Charles XIV. ofSweden. Capt
Kramer ami his wife went Immediately to
Stockholm they were ennobed, etc., and
their son has Just now been appointed at
tache to the Swedish Legation ut Paris.-N
Y Times