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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-06-10
\ pocket ri!le.-a church fair.

A pocket ri,)e,-a church fair.
10 busy persons time flies ever so
swiftly.
The baker is the ONLY loafer entitled
to respect.
An insolofel tailor should know how
to cut law suit.
Bras, bauJ, are Loni,o for q lively
CAMPAIGN next fall.
The milkmaa WHO spares the pump
will spoiI his profits,
Sapezes are like misfortupcs. They
seldom come sinoIv.
A wjfes farewell 70 her husband
every NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
After while we'll be wishing for
inst a little tonrh Of a cold wave.
Advertising is 4 good deal Ike max
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-06-10

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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-06-10

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Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
ChIbIains, Corns, and all skin erup-
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Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
ARTIFICIAL STONES.
Close limitations of Diamonds, Rubies and
Other Precious Gems.

The ruby and sapphire have been
closely initiated by Frenzy and Fell, two
French chemists, and the chief interest
in this process is that the artificial
stones possess essentially the chemical
composition of the real ones. To pro-
duce these, equal weights of alumina
and red lead are heated to red heat
in an earthenware crucible. A vitreous
substance is formed, which consists of
silicate of lead and crystals of white
corundum. To convert this corundum
into the artificial ruby, it is necessary
to fuse it with about two per cent, of
bichromate of potassium, while to OBJ
tain the sapphire, the little oxide of
cobalt and very small quantity of
bichromate of potassium must be en-
plOyed. The stones so produced pos
sess at least very nearly the hardness
of the real stones, as they scratch both
quartz and topaz. The French paste. y"
which initiates the diamond so closely,
is peculiar kind of glass, the manu-.
| facture of which was brought to great
degree of perfection some fifty years
ago by Donault-Weiland, of Paris. The
lntoL HudutN VI pdopO uOLioiiuo OAbi Ohio
care in the choice of the materials, and
in melting, etc. The basis of it, in the
hands of the expert manufacturer just
named, was powdered rock crystal or
quartz. The proportions he took were
six ounces of rock crystal. nine ounces
and two drachms of red lead, three
ounces and three drachms of pure car
Donate of potash, three drachms OF
boracia acid, and six grains of white
arsenic. The product thus manufact-
ured was extremely beautiful, but
rather expensive, compared with the
prices now charged for artificial jewels.
1t has never been surpassed in brillian-
cy, but of late years the great purity of
the potash and lead oxyde used, and
the improvements in the furnaces and
methods of heating them, have all
tended to reduce the price of the
diamond" thus manufactured. --BGp'
list WeeklV.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Bachelors Logic! Marriage is
alottery; lotteries are Illegal therefore
| simply obey the law in keeping sin
gle. ''-Funmy Folks.
"A skeleton was nnearthed in Nam
tucket the other day with small cop
per coin under one hand. The remains
of an editor, most likely, who tried to
take his wealth along with him.-Chi-
cego Ledger.
Father, starting down town: Eyes,
Robert, my son, keep in mind what
your mother says, and always say
please. Though little word it indi-
Gates the gentleman. Here, wife, hold
my overcoat and hat; be quick about
it. '-Prdirie Farmer
One great reason why woman has
not reached eminence in the mechanic
arts is because she has never been able
to rise superior to the idea that the
right way to drive nail is do it with
both eyes shut.-N. Y. Mail.
-"Ah, me!' said husband as he
laid down his book and gazed thought
fully into the fire, chow true it is that
''Tis better to have loved and lost than
-than-'" 'Never to have loved
at alp" supplied his wife, softly mo;
than to have loved and won. - ChicQq0
Tribune.
-"Does you wife talk in her sleep?"
asked one married man of another one
day when they were comparing notes.
Il don't lie awake to see," replied the
heartless husband, "but she talks all
the rest of the time, so l rather guess
she does. "-LouiSUilLe Journal.
M. Tommy and Mile. Lii are play
ing together in the Champs Elysees. A
quarrel occurs and the little girl gives
her companion a box on the ear.
Tommy is furious, doubles up his fist,
and then calms down suddenly. "You
''that if don't strike you back its be-
cause you are only a woman!"-PariS
Figaro.
30, by the way, pa, dear" said
Hartford young lady as she babe him
good morning, don't forget when you
come home to bring one of those-one
of those-one of those-you know,
those potato Washers" 80, no, in
deed. Any thing to encourage you in
the household arts. Are you going to
be the cookP'' "Why, no; but you
know I'm going to paint a lily of the
valley on the masher end and u Gle
mats vine on the handle and send it to
the mission fair. '-HarJord Courant.
1t looked like rain rs Mr.. Joblittle
started out of the house, and he came
back into the room where his wife was:
II thought you had gone down to meet
the boys" she said quietly. 81 started,
my dear, but it looks like rain "Ain't
you goingP" Eyes, but guess I'd
better take waterproof along With
me-" perhaps you had, my love-"
she said ironically; "and, dear, don't
you think you had better take whisky
proof alongP" Job concluded that the
proof was against him. - Merchant
| TTaCeler.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Sankey, the singing evangelist, has
made another donation of land for
church to his New Castle Pa.) fellow
townsmen.
More than half the students at
Harvard are from Massachusetts, while
less than one-third of those at Yale
belong to Connecticut.-HG ford Coar-
ant.
The Hampton Institute, near Fort
ress Monroe, has now over GIT stu
dents, of whom 40 are Indians and
the rest negroes. 1t has land and inn
provements worth 100000 and is free
from debt.
The class of cadets which will leave
West Point at the next commencement
is declared to be the largest in number
and highest in efficiency ever gradu-
ated from the institution. There are
seventy-eight members of the class
~ Y. Herald.
The Yale Law School has lost the
only female student whose name was
ever entered on its roll of membership.
Her name is Alice Jordan, and she has
been member of the junior class for
three months. The officers of the
oChOOl iCCluCu OIebJ III COliu 10
awarded to Miss Jordan on account of
her sex, and she withdrew.
The Examiner publishes a letter
from Baptist missionary in Toungoo
who, referring to the war against Bur-
NAH, which he has been expecting,
says: eve have worked close up to the
boundary and are ready te go, oyer,
80 81. me- - : % eoGM 4A99 u
try. Many villages are ready 10 re-
ceive the gospel at once when English
protection is declared. l."
Popular education in India some
times arouses school-boy jealousies on
rather an alarming scale. Recently
near Lahore, native lad tried to poison
dangerous rival in a competitive ex-
animation by giving him sweetmeats
drugged with some deadly compound.
The attempt was happily discovered in
time, and the jealous school-boy was
popped into prison,
Massachusetts last year spent ST.
020, 430 on her public schools, an aver
age to each child of $20.42, an increase
of S1.08 over that of the previous year.
The Secretary of the State Board of Ed
ucation declares the free textbook law
of the State to be one of the best legiS-
lative acts of recent years. He traces
to the operation of the law the increase
in enrolment in all the schools.
ton Globe.
There is in Dooly County, Ga,
a Baptist minister who for nearly
year and half served a church as
punctually as he could, often walking
twelve miles to feed his flock, and re-
! ceived as a compensation for his serv-
ices only four dollars. Two dollars
of this sum was paid by a young lady
who works for a living, one dollar by a
widow lady not over-blessed with the
goods of the world, and one dollar by
she widows daughter. Chicago Times
Rev. DR.. Clark, in reviewing the
work of the American Board of Foreign
Missions during the last twenty-five
years, thus reports: Gas result we
note an advance in churches, from 105
to 1872; of church members, from $500
to over $4,000; of pupils in common
schools, from 5000 to $4,000; of native
pastors, from 25 to 147, not to speak of
the growth of large and efficient body
of native preachers and teachers acting
as co-laborers with us in the evangell-
cation of their people.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
THE RIGHT TIME.
The Importance of an Apparently Insis.
nificant Matter.

Timeliness is as important as fitness.
The right thing may become wrong
unless it is in the right time. Look
well to the time of doing anything;
there is time for all things. If your
wife looks wearied and worn out be
sure it is not the right time to tell her
that the dinner is not hot, or that the
bread is sour. Comfort her-cheer her
up. Use the ten thousand little strata
gems you were wont to handle so skill
fully in the old days to bring out the
smiles around her lips.
If you are annoyed or vexed at
people, just remember it is not the
right time to speak. Close your mouth
shut your teeth together firmly and
it will save you many useless and I'M
availing regret and many bitter
enemy.
If you happen to feel little cross
and who among us does not, at some
time or other?-do not select that
season for reproving your noisy house,
hold flock. One word spoken in
passion will make a scar that a summer
of smiles can hardly heal over.
If you are a wife, never tease your
husband when he comes home weary,
from his days work. 1t is not the
right time. Do not ask him for expen-
sive OUTLAWS when he has been talking
about hard times-it is most assuredly
the wrong time.
If he has entered upon an under
taking against your advice, do not seize
on the moment of its failure to say:
II told you so!' in fact it is never the
the right time for those four mono
syllables.
o, if the people only knew enough
to discriminate between the right time
and the wrong, there would be less
domestic unhappiness, less silent sor-
row and less estrangement of heart.
The greatest calamities that over
shadow our lives have sometimes their
germs in matters as apparently slight
as this. If you would only pause,
reader, before the singing taunt, or
the biting sneer, or the unkind scoff
passes your lips-pause just long
enough to ask yourself: "Is it the
right time for me to speak, you
would shut the door against many a
heart-ache. The world hinges on lit
tie things, and there are many more
trivial than the right time and
wrong.-BaptiSt Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
FASHION NOTES.
Dress Materials, Hats and Bonnets for
Early Spring Wear.

Dress Materials, Hats and BOnnets for
Early Spring Wear.
Tucks are revived for spring frocks.
Bordered stuffs are to be worn again.
Striped cheviots come in new shades
and colors.
Now is the time to buy and make up
wash goods.
Curly cloths are correctly used for
skating suits.
New hats and bonnets are as high as
ever or higher.
Velvet surfaced waterproof garments
are much worn.
The new cotton goods are as hand
some as India silks.
Puffs and pads around the armholes
are things of the past.
Inch-wide stripes are to be the
feature in spring dress woolens.
Full skirts and round waists are the
features of little girls frocks.
Summer homespuns come in diago-
mails, stripes and plain grounds.
Embroidery decorates the new cotton
thin goods in "all over designs.
Newmarkets and long listers are
worn even by little girls of all ages
over six.
Dark Russian green and dark plomp
or lead are excellent colors for between
suits.
The new sheer cotton dress fabrics
look like old-time bereges, not like
lawns nor cambrics.
Belt buckles and clasps set with imi-
tation stones are so handsomely finished
that they are classed as jewelry.
Belts of silver are costly novelties;
they are ribbed, chased in rich antique
and medieval designs, or are plain.
b New spring woolens come with can
vas-woven grounds, on which are
stripes, bars and figures of boucle, vel
vet and plush.
White guimpes will be worn around
the necks of colored dresses in the
spring, with dog collar of velvet or
embroidery fastening them high around
the throat.
The comfortable walking and house
shoe for ladies no longer young is the
nuns or SISTERS SHOE" of fine soft
kid, laced over the instep and having
low heels.
Elamine velours is the name given
the new canvas-woven velvet and boucle
striped, figured and barred woolens
that are to be worn in the spring.
Bretelles, cuffs and high dog collars
of velvet, velvet straps, across full
guimpes or blouse waistcoats, and vel
vet belts are to be used on fine frocks
of fine wash fabrics in the spring.
For party dresses for little girls
nothing is prettier than white cash
mere, yelling, or chudda cloth, with
collars, cuffs, and borders of colored or
white velvet, frise or striped plush or
Astrakhan.
New silks for spring wear consist of
serge-woven surahs, India silks in
seven-yard lengths, plain and figured,
to be combined in costume, and China
and Japan silks, woven in France
probably, with the popular Mikado
figures and colors, mingled with palms
arabesques, and conventionalized flower
and leaf designs.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06
OVER THE WAY.

| am called a queer old woman,
Eccentric. | ought to say,
As the gold and gems in my Golfers piled,
Form halo around my way.
Here in the heart of the city
The populous, busy place
i love to watch the streSm of life
Between my curtains of lace.
Away from the hard worlds GOODNESS,
In the midst of perfume and song,
! sit and watch, unaffected they say,
The hurrying, jostling throng.
My home is marble mansion,
But over across the street,
ASthO' hand too full had dropped
1t down at my very feet,
Stands tiny, one story dwelling
Poor, but coy and neat,
And at one of the windows, small and clean
Blooms blush-rose tall and sweet.
Every morning shy. sweet maiden
With face that rivals the rose,
Leans tenderly over the blossoms fair
While her cheek like a rosebud CLOVIS.
Three merry mischievous children
Climb round her and nod and smile
At the passers by in the street below,
Tho | know who she looks for the while.
A tall. ad-shouldered young fellow,
With face both honest and true
And a smile revealing the loyal heart
Tho in cities one finds so few
And the eyes of my rose bud maiden
A half-open bud she is
Show the secret she tries so hard to conceal
From every-one's eyes but his.
Thro' the day she sings at her homework,
Or laughs with the babies three
For my neighbors are orphans over the way,
Though very dear to me.
Then at night-can | tell you the rapture
That shines in my neighbours face,
As she looks for her lover, and so do I,
Behind my satin and lace?
His face, grown weary with striving
Against the rough tide of fate,
Lights up as tho sunbeams had fallen there
When he sees the rose-buds that wait.
No doubt I'm a queer old woman, ~
Weary and lonely and old,
But just for one day of a rapture like theirs
would give my lands and gold
So, unaffected" they tell me,
Worn and weary and gray,
1 watch-while my heart grows young
again
NV uet1hhors over tho vav 1S
j. X. LIdlum, in Good Housekeeping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06

he heard the voices that the prophet heard,
crying o, Wheel and he was off and away
in unknown worlds where he could not take
eyes. Then Joram gently lifted Pauliny,
who cried as though her father claimed her
tears, and took her to her mother, who still
sat rocking back and forth in a sort of
amaze, without tear, without sigh, and
with sense of strong relief that, if it were
deceit would have been almost joy
Harriet Prescott Spoford, IL. ". Y. Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06

Tramp Gin City-Hall Park)-"Are
you newspaper man?' Gentleman
yes" Tramp-"Can you help a
fellow Journalist in distress? One year
ago L was editor and proprietor of a
prosperous paper; to-day | am-what
YOU see." Gentleman-"Quick work.
What paper were you editor and pro-
prietor OFF" Tramp-"The Roller
Skating Rink AdUocate.-M Y. I'1neS.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-18
Bill Arp OIL Music.

Music is the only thing in our nature
that is as sweet in old age as it was in
our youth. The ear is more enduring in
its enjoyments than the taste or in fact
any of the other senses. l don't care
anything about q ginger cake now, but
good music is as delightful as ever.
Madame de Stael said that music was
the only thing that was common to
angels and to men. 1T is q precious gift
to our emotional nature. Preachers
can't preach without it. Soldiers can't
fight without it. Lovers can't court
without it. 1t is alike becoming at mar
riage and at death, and graces all the
grand carnivals of nations whether civil.
lied or rude. But above all it is the
charm and comfort of our homes and
fresides "Siug to me, mother, sing to
me-" was the first request of our sick
boy when he returned TO consciousness
from ais long and feverish dream. Well,
she tried to sing to him, and did pretty
we'll considering, but when she got up
into the treble notes her voice quivered
and broke, for there was water in her
windpipe as we'll as her eyes. l didn't
say anything then, of course, but one
day afterwards 1 ventured to remark that
her effort reminded me of boy trying
to play tune on a split goose quill. l
said that to get even, for one time when
I was out on the piazza and tried to sing
"Rocked in the Cradle Of the Deep"
she asked the children whether their pa
was singing or snoring. "Oh, music,
what is it and where does it dwell" If
I can't make it, I love it and it seems to
me that can pass away more sweetly
when the time comes if my last hours
are blessed with its harmonies.-AHanta
Constitution.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-18
Dying in squalor With s15O,OoO:

ROCHESTER, N. Y, March 9.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Emerson has lived in Roches.
ter over thirty years, formerly at a hotel,
where she was noticeable as an intelligent
and attractive woman. Then she bought
o house, shut herself in it, kept aloof
from everybody, even the church, and
became the mystery of her neighborhood.
She never went out except for necessities.
She lived in squalor and her garments
were filthy. Three weeks ago she fell ill,
but would allow no one to assist her.
By accident her condition was discovered,
and her neighbors sent nurse TO care
for her, but she would have driven tie
woman away had she not been too weak.
Five days ago, when dying, she wrote
this message:
"It is my wish that my departure and
burial be as private as possible. To en-
force this, l request that no notice of
either be sent to any newspapers. Ire-
quest the officiating clergyman to state
that it was my wish to have only a Chris.
tian burial, free from all worldly customs.
Such was The Sayiour's and such should
be his followers"
The fact has just come to light that
this remarkable woman was worth about
sl5O,OOO. She left a will, drawn by her
self, devising 100000 to the Presbyterian
Benevolent Societies and the remainder
to the children and grandchildren OF
Rev. D. w. Eastman of Smithville, On.
tario, whose daughter it is said she was.
She was twice married, her frst husbands
name being Gilbert.
Mrs. Emerson left a note also stating
that she had no child, sister or brother,
father or mother living.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-18
Augusta Excited.

AUGUSTA, GA, March S.-The arrival
to-day of couple of Chinese youths
swells the new comers of celesiials in
Augusta up into the dozens, and the
number in Augusta into the scores.
Their occupation in Augusta is always
shopkeepers, and the green grocers here
say that competition with them is impos-
sible, and that if their influx is not
checked they will drive the white traders
from tie town. Already the Council has
been putitioned 10 refuse to grant licenses
to the Chinese, but this the city fathers
refused to do. Small merchants are be-
coming excited over the affair, and are
vowing to-day that if something is not
done to protect their interests, they will
take up the idea suggested in Seattle and
elsewhere West, and force the pigtails
out of the town. Probably forty stores
are run here by Chinese, aud their popu-
lation ranks in the hundreds. Augusta
is their paradise, and they seem to thrive
here. Of late, immigration hither has
been rapid and increased, and the little
merchants are justly alarmed. Another
attempt will be made before Council, and
this failing, there is no telling what the
next step will be. Much excitement
prevails over the new arrivals and the
intelligence that fifteen or twenty head
are expe cted tomorrow.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-18
A Scene in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, March 10.-The Senate
galleries were again crowded to-day, at
tracted by the debate on the Edmunds
resolutions. While the debate on that
subject did not develop any feature of
special interest or excitement, the assem-.
bled audience was treated to scene not
down on the bills. Senator RiddIeberger,
it appears, felt aggrieved at the act of
his brother Republican, Senator Logan,
in placing upon the pages of the Coz
grcssional Record the letter of Capt. Eads,
which practically gave Mr.. Riddleberger
the lie. The Junior Virginia Senator
took the floor and in spirit of assumed
humility lauded Senator Logan's military
genius. Though unknown TO military
fame Senator Riddleberger intimated
that he did not propose to be entirely
suppressed by the towering genius of the
Illinois Senator. Then, giving full play
to his feeling of resentment, Senator
Riddleberger charged that in spreading
Capt Eads's, letter upon the Record Sen.
ator Logan had become responsible for
the charge that he (Riddleberger) had
on the floor of the Senate uttered false
charge. With dramatic air, and in an
earnest voice, Senator Riddleberger de-
clared that he held Senator Logan, not
Eads, responsible, and he said: "Let
the Representatives of Eads take care of
him on this floor"
In an instant Senator Logan vas upon
his feet, aud it was apparent that parlia-
mentary discretion had yielded to perso-
nal indignation. Turning to Senator
Riddleberger and pointing his finger at
him, he said that be had treated the
Senator from Virginia with kindness, but
in calling him the representative of Eads
that Senator had uttered what was abso.
lutely untrue.
Senator Riddleberger described the
effect of his rather wild utterances. He
saw that Senator Logan was mad clear
through, and he sought to interrupt by
shouting, ~ appeal to you, Gen. Logan"
Finally Senator Riddleberger disclaim-
ed any intention of personal ofensc to
Senator Logan and the usual dccorum of
the Senate, which had been very much
disturbed, was gradually restored.
During this interchange of PERSONAL.
ties great confusion prevailed on the floor
of the Senate and in The galleries, and
at one time personal encounter between
Senators Riddleberger and Logan was
feared. Such an intensely exciting scene
has not been witnessed at the Capitol for
many years.