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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-10-09
THE WlIlPPLE WHEEL HARROW
AND PLOW.

AND FLOW.
| call special attention to this wonderful
Machine. IL is y most excellent tool and
can be relied upon to do good and required
work under all circumstances. 1t is the Ma
chine farmers have been looking for for
many years to put corn ground in perfect
ord, r, for which il can he instantly Pct to
work any desired depth, from one to nine
inches Can i,c used with two or three
horses, II is an excellent pulvcrizcr and
works equally we'll in light, stone or clay
soil and can be used as a corn cultiva,or.
THE SYRACUSE ILOW
the acknowl, i,cd bes, Plow in the world,
has ever been held in readiness TO meet that
of any other make in competition trials and
has repeatedly demonstrated IFS superiority
in thc following very essential particulars {:
Lightness of draft securing in any soil,
holding to the ground in hard and stony
land and facilities Of adjusting under all
circumstances. Also the
BALTIMORE OR ROLAND CHILLED
WOOD-B BEAM PLOW, TIE
FUNkSTOWN OR
STEWART AND PRICE WROUGHT
SHEAR PLOW, THE WALLACE
OR LEBANON,
the leading plow Of Pennsylvania,
TIE HAGERSTOWN EMPIRE GRAIN
AND FERTILIZER DRILL.
Every farmer knows the merits of this lead
ing Drill, although Will mention few points.
The desired quantity of grain and fertilizer
wanted 10 SOW can be instantly changed
while in motion by set levers, &c, and has
in connection perfect patent cut-of, stop
ping the flow Of fertilizer the moment the
phovcls arc raised This is an improvement
TINT has long been needed and hard to over
come heretofore. 1t Is the most durable,
strongest and simplest Drill ever sold
Old Hickory Farm Wagon,
tubular iron axc the strongest machine
made Wagon in the world.
FRICK ,S co.
ENGINES, SAW MILLS, VIHRATORS.
Traction or Selc-Propelling Engines
aspecially,
uAGERSTOWN EMPIRE THRESHERS,
ENGINES, SAW MILLS CORN
SHELTERS AND CLOVER
HULLERS.
The l)ng lookcd-for perfect Glover llullcr
can now be seen at my place, the lirgcrS-
Town Empire. ht I4iIlHiiN t''''h WI II
Shcllcr onl Cleaner can shell from 800 to
1S9 bushels per day, The Young America
Corn and Coo Caushcrs. Feed CATERS and
Corn Shelters. S:oyer Wind Engines can
be used for running small machinery as well
as pumping water. The American Fruit
EvaporaCr, the most profitable Machire
thrt cen he used. An Opportunity for cy-
cryhody 10 make money. Few implements
can hc so continuously employed, beginning
With the carly summer berries, vegetable
and fruits and extending it use through
the winter on fall crops. Green groceries
and fruit dealers can use the Evaoraior TO
marked advantage to save pcIishah!e berries
and fruits wasting on their hands. Also
full line Hardware, Kitchenwarc, Wooden
ware, Butcher Knives, Fishing and Gun
ming Material. Also
A HOME FOR TIE FARMER.
Boarding by month, day or week. Staoc
room for horses ircc of charge at
BENZ. +. STEWART :,
Late Of the firm of Stewart x Price,
Old Central Hotel Building,
aug 7'sitf Frederick, Nd.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

visited Leadville, the chief characteristic
of whose people is the constant use of the
revolver. He lectured to them OH "Ben.
venuto Cellini, Ills Life and Works.
and was reproved by his hearers for moi
having brought that artist with him.
The explanation that he had been dead
for some little time ELECTED the inquiry,
"Who shot himl" Among the more
elderly inhabitants of the south he found
a melancholy tendency to date every
event of Importance by the late war.
How beautiful the moon is to.
night" he once remarked to a gentle
man who was standing next to bin.
"Yes," was the reply, ''but you should
have seen it before the war" So infin-
itesimal did he find the knowledge and
appreciation Of art west of the Rocky
mountains that IN art patron-one who
in his day had been a Enthusiastically
sued the railroad company for damages
because the plaster cast of Venus of Milo,
which had been imported from Paris, had
been delivered minus the armsl And
what was more surprising still he gained
his case and the damages.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
NERRASKA At CHICAGO.

Nebraska will be represented at th'
national republican convention Wy an un
instructed and unpledged delegation
The refusal of the state convention tc
trammel or embarrass the delegates by ar
expressed preference for any candidate
was tantamount to a vote Of confidence
in the political integrity and sound
judgment of the men who will cast the
vote of Nebraska in the national con.
vention.
In the discharge Of the responsible
trust we have no doubt the delegation
will be actuatedl solely by the supreme
desire for the triumph of their party in
the coming presidential campaign. Every
delegate from Nebraska goes TO Chicago
as a free agent, unhampered by pledges
and entirely free to cast his vote for any
candidate who, according to his best
judgment, can carry the doubtful states
most successfully. Who that man will
be must be manifest by the time the
convention assemblies at Chicago.
While Mr.. Blaine has a very enthusiasts
tic following in Nebraska, the most ar
dent champion of the plumed knight can
not assert that the Nebraska delegation is
obligated to support him as the embody-
ment of the expressed preference of his
party. In the face of the most pathethic
appeals on behalf of Blaine the conven-
ton refused to vote even the mildest
expression of a preference.
This cannot be construed by candid
men into hostility to Mr.. Blaine, but it is
an emphatic declaration that Nebraska
does not give preference to Mr.. Blaine
over any other candidate, and especially
President Arthur, whose prudence, sagac-
ty and craftsmanship commends itself to
The respect and esteem of the country.
The individual preferences of the
delegation, as far as can be ascertained,
outside of convention claptrap, are d.
'lded between Blaine, Arthur and Ed
with Arthur as the second choice
# every Blaine and Edmunds man.
This is perfectly satisfactory to the
of President Arthur, who desire
o see Nebraska in a position to take a
prominent and decisive part in the NOM
of the next president.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
THE OYSTER TO THE STRAW
BERRY.
The Rounder Oyster Advises the Ten
derfoot Berry.

The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
says; A disappated oyster that had JUS
completed a winters round of orgies at
church fairs and Sunday school supperl
met a young and unsophisticated straw.
berry OF the first trip from home.
"Ive an eye on you," said the oyster,
leering at the strawberry in a way that
made it blush. "Come up to tend the
spring festivals, I supposed"
81 thought of SO doing, sir" modestly
replied the strawberry.
"Going to take in Chatauqua lake,
Ocean Grove, and so on, mebbe7
"Yey, SIR"
"You're the short-cake Teller that goes
around with his face tied up in sugar and
cream, amt you?"
"Really sir, 1 have seen but little of
the world as yet, but"
"That's all right. Now just you take
the advice of an old rounder. I've been
through this festive racket. 1t doesn't
pay. 1t gets people down on you, and
ruins your reputation. Shortcakes are
frauds. You keep away from them.
Don't go near cream. It's the worst
thing you car get mixed up with in
warm weather. Just you wait until you
see a Teller with a big diamond on his
shirt and a tombstone on his little finger
shaking up some cherry in a glass. Keep
your vest on until you see him lut on
top of the sherry a piece of pineapple, a
piece of lemon, a chip of orange, and a
sprig of mint; and then you get right in
among them and pass the summer in good
society. You hear me %titter!"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

upon them for employment. They have
turned the thumbscrews Of economy until
il has become unendurab,e.
First they reduced the number Of
working hours, aud in that way cut down
the income OF the men. Next they
weeded out from the shops all men who
were believed to be Independent, leaving
those whom they thought were bound to
submit to any arbitrary order. This was
successful because it was thought to be
temporary.
Now the real object of these gradual
changes becomes manifest. 1t was to
prepare the way for Wholesale reduction
of wages.
1t is but natural that the men who
resisted this last turn of the monopoly
~thumb-screw should have the moral sym
pathy of all classes of people, capitalists
as well as wage-workers. 1t is inmate
rial where the ~tyranical order came
from. The object was plain and the effect
was the same, from the Missouri river to
the Rockies and beyond. Whatever.
may be the decreased earnings
of the road and the tumble in
stocks the results are not the fault
the w~orkingmen, who earn every cent
paid to them. The stockholders and
stock jobbers are the ones who must
stand the losses and not the employees of
the company.
The conflict between the employees and
the company was short, sharp and decis-
i've The managers have discovered that
there is a limit to economy, beyond
which lit is not safe to go, and they have
concluded to abandon the scheme
of making dividends out of the wages of
working men
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
TIE UNION PAcIEIo STRIFE.

The refusal of the mechanics and la.
borers employed by the Union Pacific to
submit to the outrageous reduction Of
wages ordered by the Boston syndicate
was liable to become a very serious affair,
both to the company and to the public.
The Union Pacific railroad is q public
carrier, and as such its owners are re-.
.quired to operate it for the accommoda.
ton Of the public. The stoppage oil
trains, delay of mails and the curtailment
Of accommodations would not be tolerated
by the patrons of the road and should
not be allowed by the government. The
Union Pacific has been endowed with
princely subsidies which have made the
Boston credit mobilier robbers million,
aires, and have lifted Jay Gould and Sid.
ney Dillon from comparative poverty te
regal opulence. The stock gamblers who
divided an empire among themselves, and
have divided asspoils the surplus earnings
of the western producers have no right
to causea stoppage of traffic and travel BY
a penurious policy that drives their EN-
ployes into enforced idleness. They hav,
no right to cripple the commercial ant
material welfare of Omaha and all TIN
communities along the line of their road
! by a grasping scheme to raise dividend
and bolster up inflated stocks at the OK
pense of the %toilers who are dependen
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
REAL CIVIL SEE VICE RE.
FORM.

President Arthur is said to be more
gratiied at the warm and hearty endorse
ment which his administration has re-
ceived from every republican convention
than he would be were he absolutely sure
of a denomination. He rightly regards
this manifestation of universal esteem as
a high tribute to the purity and ability
which he has shown in his Office. None
of the declarations of support, however,
have been 80 satisfactory to him as that
which the Massachusetts convention
adopted. Massachusetts republicans
have a habit Of generally saying what
they mean, and the president may feel
very sure that if they had not felt the
sincere admiration. for his conduct Of
affairs they would not have expressed it.
There is probably less room for a sus,
picion of political tafy In the case Of
their expression than in any other. Be.
sides this, however. the endorsement Of
Massachusetts was particularly gratifying
because that state is the home of civil
service reform. The republicans Of
Massachusetts, have always been the
leaders of the civil service reform move.
ment. To have them support the presi
dent was an evidence that his efforts ir
behalf of reform have not been entirely
unnoticed.
The president deserves this indirec
compliment of the civil service reformers
and o great deal more besides. He haI
done very much more in the direction o
practical reform than any president w
ever had. Wherever it has been posi-
BILE or practicable, he has made his ap
p%ointments by promotion. Without an.
regard to political Importance. The pro
motion of Mr.. Coon to be United State
treasurer, of Mr.. Swayze, to the chic
clerkship of the treasury department, ar
recent instances in point, wherever it ha
not been practicable to do this he has re
Trained from making any effort to advanc
men who could help his candidacy in an,
way. He has repeatedly appointed men
who were known to be opposed to his re
nomination, to offices where they woul'
have increased power against him, an'
without in any way hamperipg their &C
ton. One such civil service reformer a
this is worth a whole army of theorizer
and dreamers. 1t would be disloyalty t
their principles If the reform element al
over the country did not rally to hi
support.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
osCAR gets G
What the Esthetic O. Wilde Says
About Our Culture.

The New York Sun says: A large au-
dience assembled at the Crystal palace at
~Sydenham a few days ago to hear Mr..
Oscar Wilde's lecture on his impression
of America. Mr.. Wilde (who has dis
carded knee breeches and resumed the
prosaic trousers) said that the Americans
are the nosiest people in the world, whose
national occupation is catching trains.
Pennsylvania with it's rocky gorges and
woodland scenery, reminded him OF
Switzerland; the prairie of a piece OF
brown blotting paper. Everything il
twice as large as it should be every
where is twice as far as il should be. He
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

SENATOR KELLoce's vindication by the
Washington court is not worth much. 1t
saves him from the penitentiary, it is
true, and regularly establishes his limo.
oence, but that is all. 1t is not likely to
rairs him very much in the opinion of..hia
count'ymen, chiefly because of the man.
ner ia which it was obtained. When
Kellogg was first accused of completely in
the star route thieving, he howled vocif-
erously snd Snceasingly for an investiga'
ton. He has continually proclaimed
with great and unnecessary emphasis
that all he wanted was a scathing exam
nation and the showing : up OF
the truth. His trial has been delayed fol
a long time, chiefly because of the alb.
sence Of the chief witness Walsh, but
Kellogg has ch%eerfully asserted thai
whenever the uncertain Wabash nigh,
appear, he was ready to prove his limo
ence. He has been so earnest and hal
SO well played his part of injured limo
cence, that there was a general relic
when Walsh appeared and the tria
began. 1t now seems, however, thai
Kellogg was not really as anxious for al
investigation as he appeared. For ths
first thing he did was to move, by hi
attorneys, to strike out the testimony o
the prosecuting witness for q reason af
forded by the statutes of limitation. TIL,
court sustained the motion, and on thi,
ground, Kellogg obtained IN acquital
Solar as his purity from the star rout,
stain is concerned, however, the public
know al little now as before. It rather
looks, however, that a perfectly ~innocen
man would not have escaped a trial b!
pleading the statute of limitations.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03


ALL is not lovely for Mr.. Tilden'a
boom, either. 1t is boom that boometh
not among the southern congressman
and senator's. The paralytic Of Greystone
has not forgiven these gentlemen for the
support they gave the electoral commits
sion in 1876, and their general luke
,warmness in his cause at that time.
Consequently his cappers and his barrel
visit them not, but utterly ignore them,
while they are looking after the Tilden
interests in the south. On the other
hand the southern members are so much
incensed at this treatment that they
swear they will s~trangle the Tilden
movement at Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

Great anxiety is everywhere expressed
for the safety of General Gordon, and all
sorts of schemes have been proposed for
his relief Among these is a proposition
to construct a narrow gauge railroad
from the Red Sea toward Khartoum with
a view of transporting munitions of war
and troops for the relief of that city. 1t
is not at all likely that such a plan will
be attempted. Such a road would not
pay dividends.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

Why is it that saloon keepers, Of all
people in the world, never seem to un-
derstand their own interosts2 Here are
the saloon keepers of Minneapolis for
instance. For a long time that city and
the state of Minnesota have lowered on
the verge of prohibition. There is q very
strong prohibition sentiment in both,
and should the matter be submitted To
vote, strict prohibition would probably
carry the state, and come pretty close to
carrying the city. A short time ago
Minneapolis passed an ordinance imposing
an annual license of $500 on the saloon
keepers. Now, this is not an extrava.
giant sum, and to pay it would be a great
deal cheaper than to run the risk Of
being closed out or outlawed entirely
by prohibition. But instead OF seeing
this plain point, these men
have decided to fight the license in the
courts. The folly Of such a course is al
great and stupid as it can be. In the
first place there is not one chance in .
thousand that they can defeat the license
law. The attempt has been recently
tried under much more favorable
circumstances, in Chicago and through,
out Illinois, and has failed utterly, There
is no reason to think that there is an,
better opportunity for success in Min
eapoIis. In the next place their opposi
ton to a fair and moderate license will b,
very likely to arouse the enthusiasm o
the rabid prohibitionists. II the result i
absolute prohibition, the saloon-keeper
will have themselves to thank for it.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

' Imperial reacript was promulgated, in
forming the Reichstag and the peopl,
that all true political power cam
from the crown, and that their powers
were really nothing more than advisory,
not a few individuals predicted a revolu.
ton. But it did not come. The Ger.
mans are a singular people in the matter
of liberty. They talk and write more
about it and enjoy less of it than any
other people. No assertion of autocracy
appears to be sufficient to drive them
to forcible resistance. They are slow to
act but the conviction is not to be es-
capped that sometimes there will come a
demonstration on their part which would
astonish Prince Bismarck greatly should
he live long enough to see it. And it
will not end until popular liberty is
placed on a sure foundation.
The {. man of blood aad iron " wants q
new constitution which will give the
throne a permanent military budget, and
impose q test oath which will exclude
socialists and the r~eactionary representa-
tives generally from the Reichstag. If
the Reichstag does not obediently furnish
the required instrument, a congress of
the German princes will be called to sup
ply it. The denial of representation in
volved in these changes, and the removal
from the representative body of any
control over the military supplies. 1t
would seem, ought to be sufficient to
bring on a revolution if anything would.
The difference between the Germans and
the Anglo-Saxons in the matter of op-
pressive rnlers is singular, considering
that they are of the same race. The lat
ter would rise in revolt almost OF the
mere rumor of such a proposition.
And all the more singular is the sub.
mission of the Germans to ~despotism in
the light of the fact that they become
free citizens as naturally as a duck takes
to water. In this country they vote, as
a rule, ~intelligently, and the garb of lib
erty sits as comfortably on them as if
they had WON it always. The reaction
airy classes in Germany, once entirely
stripped of even the semblance of politi-
cal power, and denied freedom of speech,
as they will be under the proposed con-
stitution, will certainly prove more
difficult to manage than they are now.
If Bismarck is industrious and adheres
to his. present policy, he may sue
coed in reaping the whirlwind before he
dies.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

The extent of the great Blaine meet
ing in Iowa may be judged from the fact
that a resolution of instruction for the
plumed knight was voteu down, after a
fierce and bitter debate, by a majority of
seven. Mr.. Clarkson neglected to men,
ton these facts in the dispatch which he
he sent to the associated press. Perhaps
he forgot them.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

WHILE the city of Omaha pays S1.75
per day to laberers, and contractors for
public works pay from S1.50 to 81 rs for
day laborers, the Union Pacific cuts down
the pay of men who were earning sl.4O
per day to one dollar and t~wenty-six
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

Prince Bismarck is represented as
being about to take another turn on the
screw, in respect to popular liberty in
Germany. When a year or SO sgo the
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03

II DudgeU announcement OF The
house of m has created q
considerable sensation. 1t reports a re-
duction of the public debt during the
year 1883 to the extent of over $4O, O6O,-
Quo. This is considered a great triumph
for Mr.. G~ladstone's administration. The
amount seems rather insignificant to
Americans who are troubled to devise
ways and means to prevent the present
rapid rate Of the reduction of their own
debt, but in England, where it began to
be seriously doubted whether the debt
could be reduced at all, it is an impor-
tant governmental event. Last year
there was d reduction to o less amount,
but previous to that there had been a
gradual increase for some years.
1t has been Mr. Gladstone's policy to
~inaugurate q plan of permanent progress
in decrease, in which he has been hearth
ly co-operated with by Mr.. Childers,
chancellor OF the excheauer. They se-
dured the adoption Of a system of annu-
ties by parliament TIVE years ago, by
which it was proposed to pay off $685.
DOC, 900 in the next twenty years. The
year 1883 has done its share towards the
result and something over.
The total actual indebtedness of the
country, according to Whittaker's alma
nae for 1884, is e725, $50 1886. or, rough,
" reduced to our money, 3.627, 461, $50.
This is about two and a half times our
debt. The highest point the British debt
ever reached seems to have been "a, 200,
DOC, 900, where it stood in 1877. The
French and American wars were
responsible for the great bulk OF it.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

The Egyptian question still remains
the most difficult problem with which
the British ministry have to %grapple. On
the one hand the khedive has notified
the British government that owning to
the undecisive policy of England in
Egypt his position has become absolutely
dangerous. The khedive has recently
received many threatening messages or
dering him to abdicate and leave the
country under the penalty OF assassina.
ton. On the other hand Prince Bis
marck has openly opposed a British pro-
tectorate over Egypt and has gone so far
even to make proposals for an alliance
between France and Germany on the
subject of their respective interests in
Egypt. The Italian government has also
become FESTIVE, and Signor Depretis, the
prime minister, assents to the proposed
international conference. Italy agrees to
the Egyptian conference in the general
terms of the invitation sent out by Eng
land. Russia is expected simply to an
nounce Its assent. Austro-H Hungary, it
is expected, will ask that the conference
be limited to a discussion of the financial
question.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-03
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