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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02

CASH CAPITAL AND ASSETS.
Cash Capital. .........$2jO.OOO.OO
Deposited with n, ~ 5000 ooo 90
Insurance Dept
Assets June Both 1885,. S736.OS1.J5
Reserve for Re Insurance. 80. $3l4 0G9 81
Net surplus June Both, 'ss $6O,559.79
Losses Paid, ...... $l,29O,572.53
One of the reasons why You should insure
with the above Company is the sound tinan-
cial condition that it is in and another reason
is the special features it offers, for instance a
policy of $4,000 will cost 1921 90 perycar and
guarantees $500 weekly indemnity in case
of accident for 80 weeks.
For death by Accident 100000
For Loss Of both Eyes 100000
For loss of both Hands $5,OOOOO
For loss of both Feet $5,0000O
For loss of one hand and foot $5,00000
For loss of one hand or foot $1,66G GG$
Smaller amounts Of insurance in proper
ton.
MoRAL-lnsure in the Fidelity &. Casual
ty Co. of New York for,
Railroad trains will be wrecked,
Boilers or lamps will explode,
Horses will take fright and rum
Brick or timbers will fall
Fire burns and Lightnings strike,
Machinery will crush or manse,
Tools or Glass will cut,
Spin,crs or Nails will wound
Slips or falls will happen,
Hammers and Weights will bruise,
Ladders or staging will give way,
Limbs will be sprained or broken.
THE unexpected is what always happens
BE wise today; It's madness to defer"
For further Information call upon,
FRANK IIESSON
Mechanicstown Nd
p. S.-Inslrance tickets for Sale at RIil
Road depot by +. Hesson's at % cents per
day, $3.50 per mo.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
pHE CA7oc7lN CLARION.
CHAS. E. CASSELL.
Editor and Publisher.
Thursday, May 2, 1889.
NeWspaper Law Decisions.

L. Any person who takes a paper regularly from
the postoice whether directed to his name or an
other or whether he has subscribed or not-ls re-
sp0nsible for the payment.
If any person orders his paper discontinued: he
orshe must pay all the arrearages or the publisher
may continue to send it until payment is made
and collect the whole amount, whether the paper is
taken from the office not
No paper will be discontinued until pa'd up.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
II ACRES & 20 PERCHES

OF land, more or less, situated about II miles
West of Deerfeld and near the road leading
from Dcertield to FOxville in said District,
adjoining the lands of Joseph Fox, Joseph
Brown and lgnalus Brown.
TERMS OF SALE Cash to he paid or sat
isfactory secured on the day of sale.
IGNATIUS BROWN,
Mortgagec.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
EXAMINATION Of TEACHERS.

The annual examination OF applicants tor
Teachers Certificates will he held at the
Court House, in Frederick, Nd,
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
the 22md, 2Srd, and 24M days of
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02

Special attention given to the repairing of
nj USICAI l. 30 X FIS.
that cannot be repaired elsewhere,
CYLINDERS REFILLED!
TEETH REPLACED IN COMBS!
and Satisfaction Guaranteed.
| have references to prove that the work
t.lai | do in musical boxes is of Il character
that cannot be as aceN dane anywhere lse in
tins country Parties reporting to me the
trouble with their musical boxes, ! will be
able t, tell them in advance the cost of the
repairs.
aug2-ly
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
Two.Story Log, Weather-bo boarded

dwelling house, Il god barn. corn crib and
hog pen combined, chicken house, a good
dairy and never failing spring OF excellent
water, an apple and peach orchard.
end A lot of good timber land wei
wooded containing,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
SO IL ACRES OF LAND,

more or less adjoining the lands Of Joseph
Fox, Lewis Fox and Martin L. Brown. This
property is improved with Il substantial,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-05-02
a RAW BOX,

yours truly.
NJ. f.. Policy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
Banquets Don't Make Trade.

John 7. Abbott, the American Minis
ter at Bogota, writes to the State De-
partment:
The Colombian may admire the institutions
of the great republic he calls it, but he is
not for that reason willing to pay a friend, how
ever de ar to him, four cents yard for cotton
cloth which he can buy of some one else for two
and one-half cents. 1t will require something
more than sentiment to change the volume Of
trade.
Here's the situation in nutshell. We
can not sell our manufactured products
in Latin-America, in successful compe-
tition with those of Europe, until we
can sell them as cheaply. This we can
never do so long as our manufacturers
are handicapped by heavy taxes on their
raw materials, machinery, etc. All the
banquets we can give to the ''pan-Amer-
icans," and all the fine speeches we can
make to them, and all the subsidies we
may vote to steamship lines, will not
induce the people of Central and South
America to buy in dear market, when
cheap markets are open to them.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
THE nIovEMEn1 ozosz
sAn DIanufActurcrs Clnn1 orane - =
Revision 81 the TarifE.

American Manufacturers CInnaoxane ~ =
Revision 81 the Tarifl.
I Some moaths ago the largest iron and
steel manufacturing concerns IN New
England prepared petition to Congress
requesting that body to reduce tariff
taxation, and ID far as possible repeai
| the taxes on the raw materials enter.
| ing into their manufacturing processes.
The petitioners were headed by Hon.
Oliver Ames, the Republican Governor
| of Massachusetts, and among their num-
Der were many of the most substantial
Republicans of New England. The
petition had weight with the Massa-
chusetts State conventions of both
parties, and was recognized in sboth
platforms. The Democratic platform
affirmed:
We give our hearty support to the petition Of
the present Republican Governor of this State
and other leading iron and steel manufacturers
of both political parties addressed to the New
England members of Congress asking for free
iron, and we commend their efforts to save this
important industry threatened with extinction
in our section Of the country through failure to
adopt tariff duties to the changed conditions OF
the iron market.
The Republican platform was less ex-
plicit in language, but was as distinct
recognition of the weight of the petit
ton, declaring:
To our Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress We would say that the Republicans OF
Massachusetts look to them to defend sound
currency and resist an increase of the present
silver coinage; to use every exertion to bring
about reduction of the surplus revenue; to
support a thorough and equitable revision OF
the tariff, so as to adapt the prot ection which
dc obi lrIcfp TONS OF
fecting New England industries in common
with those of the rest of the country, etc.
The movement, thus started by the
iron and steel manufacturers, has now
been taken up by the wooden manufact-
urers of New England and New York,
and petitions are in circulation request
ing Congress either to reduce or repeal
the taxes on wool. The Wool Reporter,
of Boston, and the Dry-Goods Econo-
mist, of New York, two representative
trade journals, have already enlisted in
the movement. Among those who favor
the movement in this State are the Cam
astota knitting mills, the Saxony WOOL
en- mills, of Newburgh, the Kanota
wooden mills, of Vaudeville, the Pulaski
wooden mills, Rochester knitting mills,
and long list of manufacturing estab-
lishments in Massachusetts, Rhode ISL
and and New Hampshire.
The recent elections are by no means
the strongest indication of the growth
of public sentiment in favor of tariff re-
duction. The National administration
will find itself, in very short time,
face to face with that condition" of
which its members made merry on the
stump barely year ago, and its theories
about protection" will fall on needless
ears if they are again put forth in the
Presidents message, the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, or the
speeches of party leaders in Congress-
Albany IN. W Argus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
ISAB 81:
- on q.
From Shop to Mansion.
The Romantic Story Of a Dress
Makers Rise In Life
eY MRS. F. M. HOWARD.
Copyrighted. 1851
ora,,~--

In the following weeks Isabel had need of
all her firmness and presence of mind, for,
as DIR. Conroy had said, there was a pro-
longed struggle for life in the sick room
the first week had been one Of delirious
raving, and her heart sank within her as
she repeatedly heard hum muttering: 'She
does not love me; she does not love me, :"
In such sad tones that it pierced her very
heart
She knew her own heart now fully; in
those terrible nights of watching, when she
had sat beside him, breathless with fear
and suspense, the thought had come to her
In all its chilling force-of what life would
be to her without him, and she knew that
she loved him with deep devotion which
would last through eternity.
She told him so again and again, as she
knelt by his bedside, but he only looked at
her with a blank stare, not compromising
or caring for the intelligence which would
have made him so happy in health.
She kissed his fevered face and bathed it
in tears of contrition as she bemoaned the
answer she had given him in that last
moment of partial sanity, when he had
asked her if she loved HIM. And yet, how
could she have answered him differently,
without being sure of her own feelings.
Mrs. Montford had brought her skill and
experience into the sick-room at once, scorn-
ing DR.. Conroy's proposition to install
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12

obliged to consent to be rid of me; of course
you will go to Housekeeping at once"
Eyes, DIR. Conroy is SO thoroughly tired
of boarding, though upon what scale I am
sure know not; I have never questioned
him"
"Not a pinched one, my DEAR" said lsa-
bel, nodding her head knowingly. ''The doc
tor is far from being poor man."
81 am glad of that" said Lottie, sweetly.
81 had feared SO much that l might be a
hindrance to him, if he was yet poor, and
struggling for success, but if he can afford
such an expensive luxury as weakly wife
is liable to be, shall feel better satisfied,
for of course it would be folly for me to ex-
pect to be as strong as many are"
"Yes, my little friend, you mig ut as well
decide that you are never gong to bear the
| world on those slender shoulders of yours,
and save yourself some inevitable disap-
pointment; but you have mission of
sweetness and patience, which no one but
you can accomplish, and which the most of
us would fail in. So be comforted, my dear;
it seems to be one of the compensations of
life that the weakness of the flesh adds
strength and grace to the spirit"
Major Darlington met the travellers at
the station when they alighted, snd well
coined them with warm Southern hospital
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

1t is dou btful if Benjamin Harri-
son could carry a Republican ward in
Kansas City on an aldermanic ticket
Kansas City Times.
Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes might
be able to give Dom Pedro II. some hints
as to how to enjoy a peaceful retirement
from the cares of state with a simple
but inexpensive CONGRATULATIONS
Or. L. Journal.
The Republican surrender to the
organized greed of the country has i'm
posed upon the Democratic party more
imperatively than ever the duty of oppos-
ing the encroachments of corruption and
preserving Democratic liberty alive in
the land.-St. Paul Globe.
-sI promise to run the Post-office
Department on business principles" said
Holy John Wanamaker when he took
charge of that important branch of the
Government service. And the business
that flows into his Philadelphia estab-
lishment from $4,000 fourth-class post
masters is proof that he has fulfilled his
promise.-Kansas City Times.
Should Senator Allison be dropped
out of the Senate, the thud will be
nedTu lar DeyOnu Uno llH1lGS OF iowa. III
his retirement Mr.. Allison would have
leisure to peruse those able free-trade re-
marks of his made long previous to the
birth of Mr.. McKinley's remarkable
platform. Courier-Journal.
If there is any thing that ought tc
go on the free list, it is salt and lumber,
which are so largely used by the agri-
cultural classes and iron ore and coal,
which are used by the manufacturing
classes. The two former would greatly
benefit the agricultural sections of the
West; the two latter would greatly BEN
eft the manufacturing interests of the
New England States and, indeed, our
whole seaboard.- American Dairyman.
There were two candidates for
postm aster at Kansas City. One, Colonel
Jewett, had the Republican party back
of him; the other, DR.. Nofsinger, had
the support of the Presidents Demo-
cratic brother, J. Scott Harrison, of
Kansas City. Of course Nofsinger re-
ceived the appointment 1t is an
nounced that he has given the Presi-
dents Democratic nephew job. The
family pull" on Harrison is mighty
one.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12

ch.yif u !..=| IS.
| wife y = ba< husband 3 s
Ton can INT do good 81 avn Is ot,-
ers without doing seod 81 evil u youz
self ! s1
Vanity keeps perAons Is favor with
themselves, who arc @ut 81 favor VIII
all others. Shakespeare. N
| The trouble with han COVERING m
his tracks is that he makes new ones N
doing it.-Atchison Globe
The talent Of success Is nothinr
more than doing what you can do wen:
and doing well whatever you do.-Long-
fellow.
Virtue wants more admirers, wis
dom more supplicants, truth more real
friends, and honesty more practitioners
Rochester Budget.
1t is always a sign of poverty Of
mind where men are ever aiming to be
great, for they who are really great
never seem to know it.
1t is wonder that the world grows
better. We come into it with the faults
of our ancestors, and go out leaving add
ed faults for our descendants.
1t is certainly much easier wholly
to decline a passion than to keep it
within just bounds and measures; and
that which few can moderate almost
any body may prevent.
No man can be a rule for all other
men in any thing. Dispositions are diff
ferent, circumstances are varied, and
these must modify every life, and give
it character distinctively its own.
81 wonder why Providence made
fools?" said Binks. swell, wisdom would
have no value were it not for Them"
was links sage reply.-Merchant Trav-
eler.
Jars concealed are half reconciled;
while tits double task to stop the
breach at home and mems mouths
abroad. To this end good husband
never publicly reproves his wife. An
open reproof puts her to do penance be-
fore all that are present, after which
many study revenge rather than re-
formation.-Fuller.
in our pursuit of things in this world
we usually prevent enjoyment by ex-
pectation; we anticipate our own hap
piness and eat out the heart and sweet
ness of worldly pleasures, by delightful
forethoughtS of them, so that when we
come to possess them they do not answer
the expectation nor satisfy the desires
which we raised about them, and they.
vanish into nothing.
1t is, perhaps, natural to wish for
the better times which, we have reason
to believe, are to come hereafter. though
if one can not be happy among the bless
ings the world now affords him, it is diff
fcult to imagine what would satisfy him.
AS for those good old times, they are
getting to be pretty well discredited,
even by those who believe that in GER
tain particulars the former days were
better than these.-United Presbyterian
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
A Message for Plunderers.

Mr.. Harrison's message is not sur
prise. nor will it be disappointment.
1t furnishes the respectable veneering
of piety, patriotism and FEASIBILITY for
schemes that aim at the extension of
privilege, the oppression of the poor
and the corruption of free governments.
Having received the word, we may now
look for such Juror of waste, of plumber
and of violence as the country has not
seen since the second term of Grant.
Let the Democratic minority, more
powerful in its imperishable principles
than in its numbers, set itself resoluteiy
to the task of resisting these fresh en-
croachments upon the rights Of man
kind.-Chicago Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
Remakable Idiosyncrasies

Many years ago we were acquainted
with gentleman who firmly believed
that he weighed only ounces. He never
left the house when there was any wind
stirring lest he should be blown away.
If breeze sprang up while he was out
he would cling to any coign of vantage
within his reach and bawl Justify for
some one to come and take him home.
Yet upon every subject except his own
gravity he was entirely sane. A highly
Intelligent lady, who died few years
ago in this city, was a monomaniac as
regarded glass and china. The sight %
a tumbler or teacup would throw her in
to convulsions.-N. Y. Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
SINCE ADAM DIED.
The Number of People Who Have Lived
Since the Beginning of Time.

The Number of People Who Have Lived
Since the Beginning of Time.
Did you ever make a calculation of
the number of people that have inhab-
tied this globe since the beginning of
time? No doubt you will say that such
calculations involve loss of time. and
are, after all, barren of results. but as
we are engaged in giving curious read
ings and odd calculations, let US take
a few minutes time and approximate,
with a certain degree of accuracy, at
least, the number of souls that have
been ushered into and out of this sinful
world since the time when it was not
good for Adam to be alone. AT the
present time it is believed that there
are 1, 400, 900, 600 human beings on our
globe; but let us suppose there has been
but an average of 900, 900. 900 living at
one time since the creation. To give
room for any possible doubt as to
the average length of life. we will put
it down at so years. ut may have been
longer than that during Bible times, it
has been much shorter, however, since).
With the average length of life reck-
oned as above, we have had two genera
tions of 900. OO0, 600 each every century
Tor the past o.OUO years 1dhiiS tLiS
for granted, we have had about 66,627,-
s43. 237, O15, 266 inhabitants on this globe
since the beginning of time.
Admitting that there is great deal
of guess-work about this calculation,
and that it has been hastily and per-
haps inaccurately done, it will be per-
ceived, nevertheless, that our earth is a
vast cemetery. On each rood of it 1,2s3
human beings have found burial
place. A rood being scarcely sufficient
for ten graves, each grave must contain
the remains of 1919 persons. The whole
surface of the globe, if all peoples bury
within the earth as we do. has been dug
over 100 times in order to get room foJ
burial places st. Louis Republic.
Evil is talked of, but good Is taken
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
A MOTHERS HEROISM.
How q Good Woman Sacrificed Her Life
to Assist Her Son.

How q Good Woman Sacrificed Her Life
to Assist Her Son.
A friend relates to me case Of female
heroism, of quite recent date, which
somewhat reminds me of much older
case, in which Mrs. Disraeli was the
heroine. In the QUARTER Latin Of
Vienna, the quarter around the Wiener
Allgemeines Krankenhaus, there lived
an aged widow and her only son, q
medical student. They were so poor
that the mother was obliged to sew
almost day and night, and the son gave
lessons, which occupied the time nee
essary for his studies in order to enter
university life.
On the Continent poor students are as
frequent to be found as in Scotland, and
in Vienna they form the majority. A
good number of mere boys may be seen
running about from one end of the city
to the other, giving lessons whilst they
are themselves still pupils at the GYM
nasium (the continental grammar
schooD, and of the university students
at least two-thirds are defraying the ex-
penses of their studies out of their own
earnings. This works satisfactorily
so long as the minor examinations have
to be passed, but when the students
have the Doktor-Examen or the Stats
Examen before them, assistance be-
comes necessary, as studying hard and
examining others have proved to be in
compatible. In such cases, the poor
mother or the sister, perhaps a seam
stress or a dressmaker, or may be the
bride-elect, who is also dependent on
needle-work, will for months strain her
eyes and work her fingers to the bone
to allow the candidate, who is the pride
of the family, and may in days to come
be it's support, to devote himself entirely
to his books to prepare for his examina.
ton.
The sen OF this poor widow was such
candidate, and whilst he was diligently
applying himself to his studies, the final
examination being very near, the mother
deprived herself of the pleasure of
even seeing him. One evening
the. poor old woman pricked
her finger with her needle. Soon her
hand became swollen and the woman
sought medical advice at hospital.
There she was told the finger
must be amputated and she
insisted upon the operation be-
luS pcTlOEluCu dG OuCS, 81 budb tue az.
cident might be concealed from her son.
Twenty-four hours later the whole hand
was gangrenous and had to be taken of.
Not whisper of this misfortune was
allowed to reach her sons ears.
At last the examination day for the
doctors degree arrived. The young
man left for the university after taking
a hasty farewell of his mother, and he
had hardly quilted the house before the
doctors arrived to amputate the arm Of
the silent old sufferer. 1t was an adj
vanced hour of the day when the SON
came home radiant with Joy to tell his
mother that their days of anxiety and
want were at an end; that he had passed
with honors, and that it would now be
his turn to provide for his parent. But
the one to whom he intended to COM
municate his joy was no more. Even the
last operation was made too late. and
blood poisoning was the consequence of
her endeavors to hide her pains from
her studious son.-Vienna Cor. London
Standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12
fro BE Continued

In the town of South Addison, Me-, 70
sides man about thirty years old, who
when young, became the victim of relig
ious excitement. Later he became reader
of the Koran, and finally embraced the
Mohammedan religion. Within the pas,
year he has taken to a hermit life, and lives
in storehouse in neighboring wood. in
the center of his domicile, resting upon
four posts, is a wooden box which serves rs
bed. He is strict in his devotional exer-
cises, which consist in praying three times
aaoh 6av