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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

The dry goods clerk can go on u tea
every time he sells yard Of muslin.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19
Words not to Use.

Cute, for acute.
Party, for person.
Depot, for station.
Promise, for assure.
Posted, for informed.
Stopping, for staving.
Like do, for as do.
Flrst-rate as an adverb.
Feel badly. for feel bad.
Healthy, for wholesome.
These kind, for this kind.
Try and do, for try to do.
Funny, for old Or unusual.
Fix, for arrange or prepare.
Cunning for small, dainty.
Guess, tor suppose or think.
Just as soon, for just as leaf.
Had better, for would better.
Had rather, for would rather.
Right away, for immediately.
Between seven, for among seven.
Not as good rs, for not 80 good as.
Some ten days, for about ten days.
The matter of, for the matter with.
Not as know, for not that | know.
Somebody else s, for somebody $ else
Kind of, to Indicate moderate de-
gree.
Storms, for it rains or SHOWS moder-
ately.
Above, for foregoing, more than OF
beyond.
Try an experiment, for make an ex-
pertinent.
More than you think for, for more
than you think.
Nice, lndiscrlmlnately. (Real nice
may be doubly faulty.)
Real, as an adyerb, in expressions
real good, for really or very. good.
Singular subjects with contracted
plural verb, e. g. She don skate well.
Taste and smell of, when used tran
sltively. lllustration-"We taste dist
which tastes of pepper
Some or any, in an adverbial sense
e. g., II have studied some for some
what. II have not studied any, 70
at all.-Albany Journal,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19
HENRY G.. RADCIFF,
49, DMNtYl1SHa
VfTSE LIBERTY MD. ,

WILL VISIT THE FOLLOWING PLACES EVERY
az" MONTH AS MENTIONED BELOW: -aEI
LEWISTOWN--T first Tuesday in each
month, at Mrs. Oliver Zimmcrmans.
UANICSTOWN-Th following,
Wednesday, at the "Milcr' House.
WOODSBORO'--Th following Thursday,
at James M. Smiths Hotel!
DOUBLE PIPE CREEK-The third
Wednesday, at V. Mornngstar's Hotel
UNIONTOWN-The fo;,owing Thursday,
at Mr.. j. E. Davis residence.
UNION BRlDGE-Thc following Friday,
at J. Reiser's Hotel.
With an experience of twcl We years. |
feel confident of giving satisfaction.
Moderate prices for filing and putthug
eeth.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19
A CARD.
DR.. HIRAM BUHRMAN,

physician and surgeon, takes pleasure in an
nouncing to the citizens of Mechanicstown
and vicinity that he has located here in the
practice of medicine. For the present he
may be found at his Residence. opposite the
Lutheran church. ..
He would further add that he has come to
stay and hopes by strict and upr'ght deport-
Dent to merit the confidence and support OF
u discerning public.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

He-'The poodle? Why, he's dead
don't you know
She-'Oh, how sad How did it
happen :
Hell was driving to Tuxedo and
the horse bolte!. Poor Toby was kill
I'd, but | escaped -
'Ie--'What d pity
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

To husbands who think of remarrying
too hastily after the demise Of their first.
Ring the belle softly, there's Grape on
the door,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

Nc marriage will prove failure as
long as the wife continues TO think her
husband was the best man at her wed
ding.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

The man that guesses at lobabiItos
often overreaches the man that waits
for the truth.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

why is young man like a kernel of
corn ask a Young lady.
Because, answers another, he turns
white when lie 1o}s.'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

Truths differ. Sometimes they are
told to mans face and sometimes be
hind his back.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

Literary men are Il good deal like hens
The author lays plot and then the ed =
ltor sits on it.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

Don't say that woman is a scandal
bearer be gallant and call her Il carrier
dove.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-12-19

Some or any, in an adverbial sense,
e. g., II have studied some,' for some
what. Il have not studied any for
at all.-Albany Journal,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07

alleged authority Of thest board Thus
it came about that no proposals
which could be entertained were
received by the board at the time
first named for opening the bids.
The trust at once raised triumphant
shout through its agents, its hired news
papers, its retained school officials. The
law was proclaimed, with loud huzzas, a
demonstrated failure; the monopoly
vaunted itself as invincible; and there
was general jubilee in the camp OF the
school book pirates.
But the end was not yet. The state
board readvertised Tor proposals with re-
suits that brought confusion and dismay
into the ranks of the pirates, and drove
them to the most desperate expedients in
final effort to save their doomed monop-
olvs They began a new campaign OF
bribery. falsehood and SANDER, which
will doubtless be continued so long as
there is the SLIGHTEST hope of re-establish-
ing the old order of things in Indiana.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
INC Railroad TO Jerusalem.

II there is anything capable of bringing
the Christian world to RUsKIN's idea that
the utility of railroads is no compensation
for the peace and quiet sacrificed for
them, it is the proposition to build a rail-
road from JafFa to Jerusalem, with a
branch to Bethany. There are some
places, some scenes, so knit into the holi-
est emotions of humanity, that it would
be painful to have them materially al
tered. There is no American who visits
Mt. Vernon but feels double pleasure in
learning that the place is kept, as nearly as
possible as it was when WASHINGTON lived
in the old mansion and walked about the
grounds. The attraction of the place is
its association with him, and that can he
felt thoroughly only when it is seen as he
saw it. And as the nation is with Mt
Vernon so every human being with a
heart is as to some spot which has been a
place of happiness to him, OF has for him
some hallowed memory of friends OF other
years. We love such places, and we love
them as we knew them in the past.
The most pleasing feature Of the Chris
tian religion is the idea of personal
closeness to the Savior of mankind. The
individual is given the privilege of enter
ing into His life, of aiding in His work, of
sympathizing with His sufferings and of
cOmmuning with Him. With this feeling
Palestine becomes in fact the holy land.
OF itself it is attractive to no one. By it's
associations it becomes dear to the heart
OF every believer. Its soil has been made
sacred by the pressure of His feet. With
in its boundaries the eye OF faith has
clearer vision and the worshiper comes
closer to divinity than in any other land.
Such, at least has been the belief OF the
devout from traditional times, and con-
tinual stream Of pilgrims has borne testi-
mony to the fact. But ali these would see
Palestine as He saw it. OF course this
is no. wholly possible. The work of
change commenced in the fierce struggles
OF the Romans and the Jews, and con-
and Saracens, has been steadily advanced
by the hand of time until the
works of man that stood at the
beginning of our era are now either com
plete ruins or the merest specters OF their
former glory. But nature has held her
own. The olive tfe blooms and the cedar
clings to the rocky mountain side as they
did eighteen centuries ago. The waves of
Galilee roll as they did when He was by
them. The sands of the desert burn az
they did when He entered it to be
tempted. Surely these may be left as they
are, 80 that one who has the opportunity
to drop out OF the rush and hustle of the
modern world may have some place OF
spiritual associations that is left sacred to
nature and 10 COP.
1t is imagined by the capitalists who
have projected the road that il will be
profitable on account OF the tourist pas
senger traffic, but we question it. The
man who would ride into Jerusalem in a
passenger coach would be wasting his time
going there. lie could not appreciate the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07

A little girl who had the scarlet fever was
told that the disease would have 10 peel OF.
But if do peel off" she said, what will hold
me togetherg"
4 little girl in Piedmont, w. Va. who was
given drink of fixing mineral water the other
day. took sup of it and then exclaimed: 1T
tastes like your foots asleep"
Mother Ito her little sonE"Johnnie, 90 10
the butchers and see if he has pigs feet"
Johnnie ION his return -"Mamma, he had big
boots on and couldn't see his feet"
Jenny twho has just been questioned about
her geography before going to schooll-"Did
God make the ocean,? Certainly; you know
awful hard the day before."-LUc.
At the girls Sunday school. Teacher
There are just few moments now before
school closes. Would a ny of you like to ask
question: Immature woman of SEVENTIES,
MIN, should. When Adam fell did Eve gig
gle behind her handkerchief @'-LOHdOB So
cietR.
Fannie wanted to arrange the books in the
bookcase, but, as usual, soon grew tired Of IT.
Il was afraid, my dear. you would grow tired
of It and leave the books for me to put back,
said her mamma Yes" said her little sister
Fannie is q very predetermined child
Youths Companion.
The Rev. Nh. Primrose-"Y on are the strangest
little boy l ever saw. While other children Of
your age are light-hearted and thoughtless you
are always sad" Little Johnnie-"That's
'cause the other fellers ant GOT q cross-eyed
mother who can see when you make faces
behind her ck."-EpOch.
Little johnny approached his mother as she
was laying away a pan OF iresh-laid doughnuts.
Mother say, mother" "What is it. my SOM"
"Why don't you talk some, mother?" What
do you want me to say, Johnnie" "Well, you
might say Johnnie, don't you want a dough-
nut!' - Phiddc'p bid Press.
A little girl who accompanied her mother into
town the other day was very much inter-
ested in the speed with which she was travel
ing toward the city, and on leaving the train
at the station and passing by the great putting
locomotive, the little one turned to her mother
and said: 'See, mamma, it's ali out OF breath"
Boston Budget.
Neighbor Boy-''Ma said she'd lick me If
didn't ask your forgiveness. She's watching
me from the window, go out with il or I'll
thump you when | catch you alone" Our Boy
well, I'll forgive you till my big brother
gets home, and then if you know when you re
well of you'll stay mighty close to your own
house. "-O Omaha Horld- Herdid.
little girl in Plainfeld, y. J., whose par
ents attend the Crescent-ave presbyterian
church, was very thoughtful on the way home
from morning service on a recent Sunday.
The last hymn had been Even Me, Even Ne"
Finally she asked her mother, who was hold
ing her hand: Mamma, did Adam write that
hymns" why. no, my child" said her
mamma; "why do you ask thst?" Because it
says Eve and Ne. '"-Iroy Times
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
He Reviews the JohnstOwn Disaster and
Argues That There Is No God"
IN v World

Argues That There Is No God"
N. Y. World.
Hugh o. Pentecost had a big congrega-
ton in Belleville-ave. rink, Newark,
Yesterday morning when he delivered
what he termed "Tardy Reflections on
the Johnstown Disaster" He spoke as
follows:
II ever there was an event calculated to break
down our conventional religious faith in a
prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God, that
COnemaugh flood was such an event. To be
sure, it does not prove that there is no God and
that prayers are never answered, but it raises
a mighty question in the mind as 10 why, if
do anything in the way of answering prayer,
He was so remarkably deaf and inactive at that
time.
There is not human being in existence, per-
haps there never was one even in the most
barbarous and inhuman ages of the world, who,
il he knew that such disaster was about to
happen and could have prevented it, would not
have done so. But the prayer-hearing and
prayer-answering God of the Christian world
necessarily must have known that the South
Fork dam would burst and kill thousands OF
persons, because He is said to know everything;
and He must necessarily have been able to have
prevented the disaster because it is commonly
believed that He can do anything, and yet He
gave warning of what would happen, and
He did absolutely nothing to prevent il. He
said and did nothing before the horror, and did
nothing alterward to mitigate the suffering of
survivors.
The inference from all this is inevitable. No
thoroughly honest mind can escape it. Either
there is no prayer-hearing or prayer-answering
God or else He is capable OF indifference o
human suffering that is more callOus than that
which is possible to the most stony-hearted
man.
DR.. Pentecost said the dam was poorly
built by men, and its breaking was
natural He reasoned that a Merciful
Being could not have let men, women and
children meet such sad, horrible fate,
and added:
This God that people talk about this being
who is supposed TO deal so largely in human
affairs, is a pure and simple invention. But He
is mighty useful to the rich and cruel class.
They use him TO blame all their wrong-doing
upon. He keeps people poor; he kills people;
he does everything but give people employ
ment-capital does that. That is the modern
gospel The poor should be thankful to the
rich and to the protective tariff for every thing
they enjoy, aud blame God for everything they
suffer. But am no believer in that gospel.
He closed by saving he will be called an
atheist and blasphemer, but he does not
care. at is for me-" he exclaimed, ''to
speak the truth as | see il"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
Tax shark DTiIIikan.

The Kokomo Dispatch, with character
istic enterprise, has collected and pub
lished the details of the career of Mr..
FRANK VI. MnLIKAN, the new secretary OF
the republican state central committee,
who, for some ten years past, has operated
as a tax-title shark in Howard county. A
tabulated statement, taken from the
county records, shows that MILLIKAN has
purchased at tax-sales Isl town lots and
more than 5000 acres of land in Howard
county, paying for this property the sum
of s., 2995l. The greater part OF it has
been redeemed at the extortionate rates
allowed by law, so that he has, probably,
received in cash from that source more than
his entire investment In addition to this
he has obtained title to thirty-nine lots
and ] ,O44 acres of land, which are valued
at over $4,000. The amount paid for
the land to which he has title
was a little over 81 900. 1t would appear,
therefore, that this Shylock has found tax
titles as profitable as holding one of the
Dudley letters.
The character of the dealer in tax titles
is we'll known in Indiana. He is man
who starts out to make money by taking
advantage of the misfortunes OF his fell
low-men. If he has any native instincts
of decency and humanity, he invariably
quits the business after his first invest
ment, and always bushes when he re-
members that he ever engaged in it.
When a man continues in the business he
may always be set down as heartless,
rapacious money-grabber II Franken-
stein of the business world, in whose
scales mercy and compassion bob up to
the ceiling like feathers when dollar is
placed on the other end of the balance.
MILLIKAN stuck to it.
There is a peculiar appropriateness in
putting this style OF man in charge OF the
affairs OF a party which represents the or
ganized cormorants of the country-a
party whose organ is devoted, or can east
" be induced to be, to the interests of the
coal operators, the school-book trust rob-
bers, the gas monopolists, the tariff ring,
and all the others OF that goodly gathering
of corporate and individual capitalists who
are seeking to amass fortunes by the sweat
of other peoples brows. He is their kind
of citizen. He understands and unites in
their feelings. When their hearts beat
his beats-once month on an average. 1t
was an eminently fit selection. If Mr..
MILLIEAS can fry the fat out of republican
capitalists as he has out of the Howard
county unfortunates, the republican COM
mittee will be able to pay as much for
votes as it did in the last campaign.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07

WITH the uniform good will to himself,
which he has always shown, MURAT HAL
STEAD dominates himself in the CONNER
ci0l- Gazette for U. S. senator from Ohio. Ii
matters were only arranged so that he could
cast the votes we do not doubt that
he would be unanimously elected. We
regret TO observe, however, that Mr.. H.
declares that he could not, would not,
represent corporations" He certainly
has never given any cause for such a
SANDER on himself; and if it were true il
would ruin him, for a republican who
could not and would not represent cor
porations would never have the slightest
chance for election.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
AT DEER PARK.
Some OF the DTeditations of n Good and
PiOus Man.
,od and

y L. sun
When Baby Mckee is put 70 rest and tbs
Hon. Benjamin Harrison gets time to smoks
his go-to-bed cigar, what curious thoughts must
jump up in him and chirp louder that the Deer
Park cricketS.
Il have Blaine where he would like TO have
me. Confound the man. 1 wish he would be
quiet without being so suspiciouely quiet. II
looks bad for 90. Humph"
young Roosevelt is a fresh sort of chap. ]
can't get it out Of the young fellows noddle
that l really care about civil service reform.
He's a bad man TO bounce, but great Wans-
maker, does he want to bounce me-"
"Those southern nigroes-ahemi colored re-
publicans-are disagreeable people. Why can't
they be satisfied TO let rs have the votes, and
let the Harrison white republicans have the
Offices?"
"Darn the press, I've given Office to mors
editors than any other president, and yet the
editors kick against putting Miller into the su-
preme court must ask Wanamaker to get the
society of Christian endeavor to pray for the
editors"
wish he wouldn't advertise himself quite SO
much. After all, he's only one OF my clerks"
Il wish / could get rid of Rusk. Hes too
common, Why, ii was positively vulgar, his
riding on a hay-cart horse. Rusk wears a tan.
mel shirt, and doesn't seem TO care a copper foI
indianapolis lucas"
"Drat those bullfrogsl They yell out all
night long: Not another term, not another
termP"
"How cold il is. There1l be an extra session
Of congress when I call for one"
when was a senator ] was agin the presi.
dent. Now l am president I'm agin the SEN
ators."
"Well, if I don't get another term, I've given
my relations soft thing. BAH This cigar
has a vile taste"
IF Tanner had been killed in the war, what
a hero he would have been. Between the g.
4. L. and the rest of the country, it's a tough
thing being president. Still, would take the
job again if ! could get it,
"What fun il would be to be president If
there wasn't any congress or any newspapers"
81 wonder il Tom Plat is going to get on his
ear. If he does | may take g vacation in
Alaska"
81 wonder if the new states viii like me-"
81 wonder what my policy Is"
I'm good man anyway"
eff l wasn't I'd smoke another cigar. I'd
like to, but it mightnt be healthy, Besides,
Baby McKee'll be up bright and early. Well,
I'll retire, as Elijan SAYS"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
The hipping-POst.
m $50


The institution of the whipping post which
still survives in Delaware, did not go out of
fashion in England until the close of the last
century. May 8, 1913 the corporation of Dom
caster directed that whippIng-post be set up
for Furnishing Migrants and sturdy beggars.
Three centuries ago this punishment was car
ried 10 a cruel extent. Owing 20 the dissolu-
ton OF the mOnasteries by Henry VIII. large
number of persons who depended upon the
charity OF the good monks were thrown upon
the country. and parliament fastened to
check the increasing vsgrancy, by an act
passed In 1881, which declared that every
vagrant should be carried 10 some market
town or other place, and tied naked to the end
of a cart, and whipped through the streets till
their whole body be bloody. Early in the last
century the price paid for whipping was four
pence, and the constables' accounts included
such items as arrestIng a distracted woman,
watching her. and the fee for having her
whipped. Whipping at the carts tail. as pro-
vided for by the statute Of Henry VIII, went
out of use in 1896. when the whipping-post
was substituted for the earlier method.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
Pittsburg Gazette. |


Following are a few pointers that are well
worth memorizing:
Don't eat pork. When il is absolutely IN.
avoidabie to DO So 1t should be rendered harm
less by being exposed to strong heat long
enough to be converted into a decided gray
color, even 10 its innermost part.
Don't drink green tea and use black tea mod
erately.
Don't allow your servants 10 put meat and
vegetables into the same compartments of the
refrigerator.
Don't eat much meat, and increase its guam
tity only gradually when recovering from =
fever
Don't take animal food more than twice
daily.
Don't average more than twenty-four ounces
of fluids daily.
Don't let your entire food exceed thirty-fouF
ounces in twenty-fOur hours.
Don't infer that chewing tobacco is the most
injurious method OF using the weed; the con-
trary is true.
Don't smoke Immediately after meals.
Don't forget that healthy persons gen orally
lose weight in winter and gain i'm summer.
Don't believe that eating fat viii make you
fat; quite the contrary holds true.
Don't eat gamey meats; remember that
"gamey" is the hyper refined word for rotten.
Don't pour a mouthful of coffee into an
empty stomach, even If you must tear button
from your coat and swallow it before" saws an
Arabic prOverb. This applies to tea as well.