Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-06-24
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6 going home,' he said, as the clock
!, struck the midnight hour.
f The nurse looked at the doctor with
Z, a significant glance and whispered:
, His mind wanders.
Presently he lifted his feverish head
from its pillow. 'Any letters from the
house, he inquired. There ought to
be letters here
Then he slept, and in his sleep he
was boy again-babbled of fishing
streams where the trout played-of
school hours and romps with his mates.
At twelve clock he suddenly awaken
: ed.
All right he called in a strong
voice, L IN ready !
He thought the porter had called
him for an early train. The doctor
laid soothing hand on him and he
slept In his sleep he murmured:
Show you samples of our gools-
I'm going off the road now, This Or
der closes me out. The house has
called me in. Going to have my first
vacation, but l shall lose time, time,
time :
lie drowscd off and the doctor count
ell his pulse. Suduenly y the sick man
started up.
Give me letter from home. Ellen
always writes to me here. She never
disappointed me yet-and the children
They will forget me if my trips are too
long | have only Il few more towns
to SELL promised to be home Christ
mas-I promised to be home-promis-
cd
He slept again, and again awakened
with start.
mo word from the house yet p
He was going fast now. The doctor
bent over him and repeated in CON-
forting voice the precious words OF
promise
"In my Fathers house are many
MANSIONS. If it were not 50 I would
have told you"
'Yes--ycs,' said The dying traveller,
family, lit is a clear statement. 1T Is
a good house to travel for. 1t deals
fair and square with its men.
The chill December morning dawncd
the end was very near. The sick men
was approaching the undiscovered land
land from whose bourne no traveller
returns.
I've changed my route, he murmur.
family. The house is calling me in
write to Ellen and the children that
'm--cn-my-my --way-home--'
! in my sample case-without money
, and without price--a good house-tills
} all its orders as agreed. Call me for
the first train-I am going to make
! round trip and get home for Christmas.
They laid his head back on the pill
low. lie had made the round trip
lie had gone home for Christmas.
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A Chicago Herald correspondent,
writing from the Kentucky mountain
regions says: There are thirty,five to
forty illicit stills in Perry and Letcher
counties. No man believes the govern
ment has a right to tax the product
of their own labor. An army of men
could not discover all these stills, hid
den away as they are in the most mac
cessible mountain caves and fastnesses.
The tales of the Arabian nights are not
more abyrinthine than the hidden ways
to these whisky tubs. And the big,
loose jointed mountaincers living IN the
Cumberland range ust where Ken
lucky and Tennessee and Virginia
meet, are as splendidly armed as any
men in America. The finest repeating
Winchester rifles are common house
hold ornaments. Living cheaply, with
nothing to los, at hom !, they can hide
away for months at time IN tie noun.
tain recess,s absolutel ly impregnabe,---
Why do not the authorities send the
militia up here to see Justice meted out!
That has been tried over and over
again. Brcathitt County had court
trial few years ago that took band
ofsoll,crs two campaigns to finish. The
mountaineers have no quarrel with the
military or any other authorities. All
they ask is to be let alone, to live as
they please ard to settle their private
) feuds without outside interference
, And it looks as if they would do this
for wears and years yet to come.
The Biscuits were Heavy.
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