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Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
MODERN.

Mrs. Paryenu says her new house has all the modern conveniences, even to electric pronunciamentos and rheumatic tubes Boston Transcript.
 A great scarcity of the very small coins is reported. We are afraid the heather have Burlington Free Press.
 C5ourtship has acquired a new peril. A Wilkesbarre young man proposed, was re- iected, and his father shot him to wipe out the disgrace.-Omaha Herald.
 Emerald nnocence--Bridget (reading a silver wedding invitation) )-ssAn' faith, phat do R. s. V. P mane? Och, I've struck it. Rale silver vastly preferred. The loiks of that, w."-Texas SiftiDgs.
 European.-He-"Andd did you see Monte Carlo?" She-"No. Papa called on him, believe; but from his disappointed appear ance when he got back to the hotel think MT. Carlo must have been out. t."-Tid- Bits
 Bill Nyes Poem.-I am now preparing a poem entitled "The Umbrella" It is a dainty little bit of verse, and my hired man thinks it gem. I called 1t s'The Umbrel la'' so that it would not be retarned.-The Rambler.
 Conscience stricken. First Broker-s'I see that the Standard Oil company is improving it's code of morals" Second Broker-"How is that2'' First Broker-"It has just bought
 
 bought the officials. ."-Puck.
 "There was another scandalous story of divorce suit in the paper this morning. It is an outrage on good morals that such pub- lications are permitted" ;" 'sTrue; such things ought to be sto ped by all the power of the law, By the way, what paper. WAS 1t that you said had the storyg'-Boston Tran script.
 Omaha Beauty-'Mr. De Blank Arthur, eS, a1l, to her" Mr. De Blank-tI have" ''Have you forgotten, sir, that it is only two years since you proposed to meg' ''I have not" And yet ou now engage yourself to an- otherl" "You refused me-" Certainly, but think you might have shown some little respect for my memory. ."-Omaha World.
 A Christian clergyman once went to an orthodox synagogue with Jewish friend. He listened to congregation chanting "Mis- mar L'David" with the usual congregational discord, and was told by his Jewish friend that it was sung to the same tune in the days of David. "Ah!" said the clergyman, with sigh of relief, "that accounts for it, I have often wondered why Saul threw his javelin at David. ."-Hebrew Standard.
 An Unfounded Statement.-'tIs it not to note the American tendency to- wards the corruption of our beautiful Ian guage by the introduction of slang words and phrases?'' asked Miss Belinda Boston of 8 belle from the West. ''And I have heard that this deplorable tendency is very marked among even young ladies in the West. I hope you can tell me that it is an unfounded statement" "That's what it is," the prompt reply. "Its 8 canard, and you can bet your bottom dollar on it. Us western sprouts can shoot off just as fly chin music as you eastern damozels; no slang in ourn- not if we know it. We're heavy on the cult, and don't you forget it. I'd smile to hear any of the regular uppercrust of western so- ciety shooting off slang. I should really smirk to twitter--'' But Miss Boston's friends had carried her off in fit of hyster- ics.-Tid-Bits.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTEs,

Money may be tight in the New York stock market, but judging from the crowds in the stores yesterday it is easy. here.
 Of the forty-eight thousand votes cast in the recent election in Washington Territory fifteen thousand were cast by women.
 The reports received by the internal revenue bureau at Washington indicate that the tax on oleomargarine has not hurt the big con cerns engaged in it's manufacture. The ex- planation of the improved condition of busi- ness for the large beef butter concerns is that the export trade is steadily increasing on account of the keeping qualities of the oleomargarine in the tropics, while the do- nestle consumption has not fallen off as much as was expected. The exports to Mex ieo, Australia, Honduras and South America will in all probability double in the coming year. There was demand for beef butter from hotels. restaurants, bakeries and board ing houses that could not be wiped out by the tax.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
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EUROPE and AMERICA. A Great Surgeon
 A Noted Physician.

The distinguished American physician Dr. R. c. Flower, is a cousin of that eminent surgeon, scientist and author, Pro. William H. Flower, F. R. S., of London. Prof. Flow CT is one of the Queens surgeons; he is also the director of natural history in the British Museum, an intimate friend of Prof. Huxley, and leading contributor to the Encyclo- pedia Britannica and other standard works. While the professor has been thus present. ing his research in surgery and science in the old world, Dr. R. c. Flower, (much his jun for in years), has been engaged ip exhaustive study in the realm of mefs-o, and com-- polling the flowers, plants and trees of the earth to yield their virtue for the cure of the sick and dying of this age. The splendid success that has crowned his patient scien- tiic study, is witnessed in his wonderful Nerve and Brain Pill, and that king of all tonics and specific cure of dyspepsia and in- digestion, his Liver and Stomach SanatiVe. These great remedies are now for sale by all druggists, and are performing miraculous cures in tens of thousands of cases. They will cure you.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
Tuesday, December 21, 1856.
THE INDIAN sEvERALTY BILL

l THE INDIAN SEVERALTY BILL | The passage of the Indian severa1ty bill by
 the house of representatives is encouraging
 to those wno have long labored to bring about such result. The bill as it passed 1 the Senate was drawn and advocated by Sem ator Dawes. It was amended in the House, but not in such way as to seriously hurt it.
 If it becomes a law it will greatly change the ! conditions which now surround the Indians. Under it any Indian can have the privilege of settlement on a farm held by an individual patent from the government, and citizenship with subjection to the laws and protection by the laws. It also provides for purchase by the government of the land not needed by the Indians, after all on any reservation have taken allotments in severalty, at fair valua- tion, the sum paid to be held in the treasury and the income of it to be expended for the1r
 benefit.
 Senator Dawes says that the passage of this
 bill will be the beginning of the last phase of
 the Indian question. The general purpose of
 the bill has long been approved by the most
 intelligent and disinterested friends of the Indians. Under it, as the Worcester Spy
 veil says, the Indian is no longer part of an isolated community having no individual re- lations to the State but he becomes citizen like the rest, having personal and property rights such as other men have, with a right to the protection of the laws and being sub- ject to their restraints What he can pro- duce or acquire is his own. The improve ment of his land inures to his own benefit and that of his family. He is no longer liable to be deprived of his home by the arbitrary action of congress or the executive, or through the pretended consent of his tribe to removal, obtained by fraud or force. The Indians. as this policy is put in practice, will no longer be herded like animals on reser- vation, where they have neither inducement nor opportunity for self-support, unless in exceptional cases, but will be men living among other men, and having the same means of support, with all the rewards of in dustry and thrift, and all the penalties of in- dolence and waste. as inducements to make the most of their opportunities, and the ex- ample of their neighbors as incentives to am bition.
 It has taken long time to get the Indian question humanely and inteligently treated. The indications are that a new order of things is about to begin, and that that ques 1 tion will grow less and less puzzling and l pressing.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
NOVEL READING.
Hints to Mothers and Their Sons and
 Daughters.

Hints to Mothers and Their Sons and
 Daughters.
 From the Philadelphia Times.1
 sWil you write about the evils of novel reading?' writes an anxious mother whose children, she possibly fears, are venturing into forbidden paths, or who has herself seen evils arising from the habit of sensational story reading indulged in to aa unlimited ex- tent.
 I cannot condemn all novel reading. should be doing violence to nay own convic- tions were to do so, since I believe that much of the wisd, m of life may be learned in this way, that great deal of true culture is to be obtained from the best novels. And why should it not be so, when the very finest intellects, the highest order of genius and the purest and truest men and women have been devoted to the production of this kind of literature? It would be a sad thing for the world were the works of George Eli ot, Dickens, Walter Scott, Thackeray and 8 host of others whose names are now but 8 memory plotted at once and forever out of existence, to say nothing of those who are now using their pens to delight the lovers of good stories It has been said, and it is true, that Scottish history, or at least certain DOT tions of it, can be better taught by some of Seott's novels than in any other way. The pictures of life in those days, the tracing out of the motives that actuated the actors in many of the historical scenes, the whole glowing with the intensity of the authors vivid conception of character and purposes, bring to the mind of the reader such a strength of impression as to fix the facts there so powerfully that they cannot be for gotten.
 A lesson in morality may be given and will be taken to heart more effectually, pre- sented through the medium of well told story, than in almost any other way. Where argument will fail to convince, where ser- mon will have no influence, realistic pre- sentation of the consequences of certain course of action conveyed in eloquent words that thrill the s6 with varied emotions, as what appes cenes from real life pass be- fore the reader, brings truth home to stay. It is with writers as with actors. Those who sway the people are such as seem to live themselves through what they are represent ing or telling, so that there appears no exag- geration and no improbability.
 Highly-wrought fiction, giving false views of life, infanaing the imagination, exciting the fancy and stimulating the passions, is to be avoided. And here is where the princi- pal danger of novel reading comes in. Un- fortunately the book world is flooded with 8 mass of fiction which, without being abso- Iutely vicious, does more harm than if unde- niably bad They find place in many li- braries both public and private. Passing under the name of sensational works only, they are worse than that, because, while giv- ing all the excitement that the purely sensa- tional does, they arouse thoughts and emo tions that were better left slumbering, and this under guileless and innocent outward seeming.
 Every mother knows-or if she does not she will know-that what she absolutely for
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21

1 losses on the lives of ,430 moderate drink.
 CTS, they were called upon to pay upon ths lives of 5,2s4 of that class. In other words while the percentage of deaths among mode
 rate drinkers was ninety seven per cent. ot l the expected and average death rats, the percentage of deaths among the total ab. stainers was only sixty nine per cent. of the l average rate. This is wonderful showing,
 indicating that total abstainer from liquor has at least twenty-five per cent. greater chances of living than one who drinks even moderately.
 Lovely Woman continues to make progress
 toward the full enjoyment of her rights. Miss Bessie w. White, sister of ex-Congressman John D. White of Louisville, applied for 6 certificate to dispense medicines as pharna- cist, and was denied by the State board of pharmacy. She was graduate of the school of pharmacy of Michigan university, and had 8 diploma as pharmaceutical chemist. She presented her diploma, paid her fee, and of fered to undergo an examination by the board, yet she was refused. She obtained writ of mandamus from the Louisville law and eqr Hy court, an appeal was taken. and has  just been decided in her favor, three years after her application. Judge Holt, in his de- cision, after review of the law, affirmed the law and equity courts order to issue the tiicate, and closed by saying: It is gratify- ing to see American women coming to the fro-t in these honorable pursuits. The his tory of civilization in every country shows that it has merely kept pace with the ad- vancement of it's women. The Brahmin g wife was burnt with his dead body; the Mo ham medan .- is slave for the man; the husband of the English wife formerly had the right to chastise her, and, by a fic- tion of law, her legal identity was complete ly absorbed in him. We are leaving mock cries behind us, and it is gratifying that these matters are now a long way in the r,oo
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
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 AND NEW YEARS l t l FIT s l! l

Can be found on our Holi- day Counters suitable for every body, at our we'll known popu- lar prices. Our extensive stock consists in part of Christmas Cards, Dolls, Baskets, Plush Goods, Brass Goods, Swiss Goods, China Ware, Bisque Figures, Glassware, Silverware, Japanese Goods, Writing Desks, Work Boxes, Cabinet Albums, Juvenile Books, Blocks, Games, Jewelry, Perfumeries, Bags, Purses, Pocket Books, Port monies, &c.
 We would advise our GUS toners to call as early in the morning as possible in order to avoid the crowd later in the day. Goods cheerfully shown to everybody whether wishing
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21

The taxpayers are wondering what reform is. Last year the legislature was persuaded to limit the power of taxation and of bor rowing The tax rate in Boston was reduced to nine cents, and this looked like real econ omy, but when it came to spending the money, there was not enough to go round. Therefore, the city government proposes to increase the debt by $sas, ,00O to provide the means of paying for paving, sewers, school houses, laying out and grading streets, and other matters of that kind. Thus the bor- rowing capacity of the city, as the law now stands, would be exhausted, and then it is proposed to ask the legislature to extend the debt limit from two per cent. to two and a half per cent. of the valuation, and allow an increase of the rate of taxation from nine to ten per cent.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
The Little Roy,s Gift.


 I have true story which is well worth the telling. Last Sunday a young clergyman from young congregation preached by ex- change to congregation which is one of the serene, old-fashioned, undisturbed sort, where the rising generation's undoubted hu- man nature is allowed for in quiet and sensible way. The visiting clergyman re- mained to the Sunday school, and after the exercises were about half finished he rose to make little speech. 'I know that you are an enterpring Sunday school" he said, "be- cause see you have so many new books. I know that you are happy Sunday school because see so many smiling faces around me. And I know that you are a generous Sunday school because that little boy over there by the long pew door offered me pea nut as I came in.''
 The attention of the assembly was instant ly directed to the little boy, who began to snicker uncontrollably to himself. "Well, what's the matter, my little man?" asked the clergyman. 'fYou're not sorry you offered me the peanut, are you9" "Did you th-think that was a peanut gave yeua' asked the little boy, still snickering violently. "Why, yes; wasn't itr' 'No-o-o! twas only a shelli'
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21

The movement to regulate by legislation the custom which prevails in the South of mortgaging ungrown crops is an important one. This custom has long been one of the most serious drawbacks to the prosperity of southern agriculturists. Farmers who rent land or whose own land is already cucumber ed are in the habit of giving these crop mortgages as security for current supplies or even for seeds and fertilizers. Usually this credit is used to such an extreme limit that if the crop when harvested falls little below expectation they find themselves not only without money or credit, but actually in debt. Of course such 8 system means exor- bitant interest, often as high as 15 or 20 per cent. and high prices for everything the farmer buys. The people are at last awsking to the evils of the custom. The demand for legislation to prohibit it is becoming general. In several States many members of the new legislatures have been elected under pledges to work for repeal of the law permitting such mortgages.
 s Some interesting facts taken from the books of two of the oldest life insurance CoMEdlAcs III EugidHtl nave SSen puOllsuoO These companies have for the last forty-6ve years classified the risks they have taken SO that the total abstainers from intoxicating liquors come under one heading and the moderate drinkers of these liquors under an other. For period running through twenty years it was found that, while the number of expected deaths under the tables of mortali- fv vvo1ld bovo boo,, AQA fha oofuoI he of total ahstainers was only 2,468. Contra riwise, while under the tables of expected deaths these companies would have paid
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
'sSUBSTANTIALS." :"

0OOC x1XN \ AxAAOS
 In addition to the above Fan cv Goods we would call special attention to our large and care fully selected stock of Linen, Lace and Silk Handkerchiefs. The assortment is large and prices right. We offer some extra values in this department. All handkerchief buyers should examine before selecting else where.
 Immense Stock of Silk Um-
 brellas with handles of all the latest shapes and styles. Special bar gains at $2.5 50, $3, $3.5o, $4, $4.25 and $5 each. There is nothing more desirable for Christmas Gifts than Silk Um- brellas.
 Gents Travelling Bags, all sizes and qualities, at extremely low. prices.
 Ladies', Gents and Children's Kid and Fabric Gloves, Silk Mittens, Wristers, Caps, Silk and Plush Bonnets and Caps, Leggings, Furs of all kinds. An examination of the goods in these departments should not be forgotten in making selec- tiOns for holiday gifts,
 In our annex we shall offer for the next two weeks Silks and Rhadames, Colored Rhada- mes, Faiele Francaise, Black and Colored Satins, Surahs, h. dia Silks, Velvets and Pushes, Dress Goods at marked down prices. Please examine the bar gaius at 25c, 37c, 62Hc and 75c yard.
 Good assortment of Linen Damask Lunch Sets, Towels, Table Covers, Linen Momie Scarfs, etc, in choice patterns and at reasonable. prices.
 All our goods are marked in plain figures.
 Store will be open evenings until Christmas.
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NO. 3O1

is not desirable to eradicate; but proposes to substitute mild and agreeable stimulation of coffee for the fiery fluids that are commonly supplied at such places of public resort. It is a measure that deserves cordial support
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-12-09
Business Locals.
CIRCULATION FLOUR.
En-. CLARION


We desire through the medium
of your excellent journal to return thanks
! to my brother dustics for drawing the at
ten,on of the public to our "distrcsscd con
dition."
Lamcntation after lamcntation had gone
out and up from us since the KING OF Roiiel
Flours, manufactured by the aforesaid dus-
! ties, was thrown upon our market, but all
to no avail. Cast down, aGonlzingly so, We
| were about to succumh, bu' from the very
depth of our agony we conceived the idea OF
making q revelation. Happy thought, So
hloquized we and suiting our action to the
thought seized our pen as only dying man
could or would seize anything, we proceed
ed to write out our revelation, which, as you
know, everybody else knows, now appears
in The CLARION.
But, dear EDITOR, notwithstanding The
excellence OF that medium, THE CLARION
for building up trade, there seemed to be
something yet wanting; something more
effective to reach that generous, whole
hearted, sympathetic chord, which underlics
the more outward nature of thc majority OF
mankind but which, as we all ..now is sure
to exist in the folks, generally, olthis section
of Maryland.
Still perchcd, so to spcaE upon the rag
ged edge" forlorn and almost hopeless-l'
and behold there appeared ''upon the wall
a notice of our distressed condition, which
coupled with our revelation, succeeded il
arousing that generous, sympathetic spirit
of which we have already spoken and all
with one accord, have rushed to our rescue
for all of which, to call hands'-many, many
thanks. Exultingly,
TRUNKS.
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-12-09

RETURNS THANKs.-Wc are requested by
Mr.. John Rouzer to express his thanks to
the citizens of this town and vicinity, who
worked so hard and faithfully to save his
property from the flames on last Saturday
night. He feels deeply grateful for their eX-
| crtiOns.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-12-09

RELIGIoUs-Thcre will be services III
Trinity Reformed Church next Sunday 2,45
and at 6, As p. M. The latter is to be ayoung
peoples meeting at which the theme will be
rs it right, morally considered, in the eye
of God and of his law, for persons in health,
and under the present circumstances OF
light and knowledge on the subject, to use
intoxicating liquors rs a drink p
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-12-09
New GOODS! AT POLICY New GOODS.

Go TO POLLEY'S for New Currants.
Go TO Polley's for New ltsisins.
Go to Pol'cy's for New Prunes.
Go to POLLEY'S for New Figs.
Go to Pollcy's for New Ciiron,
Go to PolIey's for New Sesdcss Raisns
Go to POLLEY'S for New Dates.
Go to Pollcy's for new Malaga Grapes.
Go to Pullcy's for New Lemons
Go to POLLEY'S for FLORIDA Oranges.
Go to Poley's for New Cocoanuts
Go to Pollry's for New Cranberries.
Go to POLLEY'S for London Layer Raisins
We have just bought his Fruit and
Can say that it is all Fresh and Pure.
Yours respectfully,