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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

It was about ten o'clock on Christ
mas night when Richlee hurriedly ap-
preached the box under old Jones
fence and thrust in his hand to get the
mask, when to his surprise he drew out
q book instead. w. .'
whats this?" he said to himself,
and opening it, something fell to the
ground. He stopped and picked it up
1t was picture.
The moon was shining brightly and
bathed IN its silver light, he beheld his
mothers face looking up at him. 1t
was the picture she had given him
when he had left his boyhood's country
home to seek his fortune in the great
city. That noisy, crowded city, where,
deprived of her genial influence, he had
gone to bad and from bad to worse
until here he was on the blessed Christ
mas night about to rob the kind friend
of his little boy. Long and earnestly he
gazed into the tender, honest eyes, and
then almost unconsciously glanced at
the bright sky above him. Pcrchance
she herself, for she had left this world
years before, was looking down upon
him, as he had been looking down on
her pictured face Then, opening the
book to replace the picture, he saw it
was the plainly bound New Testament
which he had found among his Christ
mas gifts one Christmas morning long,
long ago.
The Chauciers' silver was safe. And
that's not all, for Jeans father became
an industrious, good mana reform
which even TIE loving little boy had
not hoped for. He had trusted when
he took the picture and Testament from
the bottom of the old trunk under the
bed that they would prevent the crime
his father was plotting, but he had not
fully realized how strong and wondrons
a spell could be wrought by the unex :
pected sight of dead mothers pictured
face.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

why do you call your parrot Hon
esty?
Because Honesty is the Polly, see.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

The small boy and the cigarette are
one and inseparable.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

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Grains Of Gold.

The secret of thrift is knowledge
Kingsley.
Method will teach YOU to win time
Goethe.
Time is the old justice that examines
all offenders.
An ounce of mother Is worth a pound
of clergy-Scotch.
Clemency rs Kingdoms best pre-
server.-Marcus Aurelius.
The path of duty leads to the castle
of happiness.-Anon.
Life should be measured by deeds,
not wortls-SAeulan.
One trick needs Il great many more
to make it good.-Tlllotson.
If you do not hear reason, she will
rap your knuck les. Franklin.
Good and bad men are each less 50
than they SEEMS II. Coleridge.
The only disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.-Sir Philip Sidney.
Some run headlong into danger
because they have not courage to wait
for it.
Fortunes are made by taking oppor-
tunitles; character is made by making
them.
The way not to have any more rascals
is not to grow any moro rascals.-Dr.
Holland.
They only are poor who feel and
poverty consists in feeling poor.--Eln-
ersOn.
Tears bring forth the richness Of our
natures, as the rain sweetens the smell
ing briar.
When we trade with virtue we do
but buy pleasure with the expense OF
time.-Feltham.
Some girls are pressed for time and
others for the fun Of it.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

1t does not follow that girls who show
small waists are all economical.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

The Bible doesn't give us any idea as
to who Lots wife was, but we know
that after looking backward her name
was Sal(D.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

Some girls are pressed for time and
others for the fun Of it.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

When the census enumeration asks
some Of our champion loafels how long
they have been idle the last Year, what
will they answer?
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

The man who reads the paper,
And sponges as he goes,
Will never reach that happy land
Where milk and honey flows.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

First Small Boy-We had a fire at
our house last night. Second Small
Boy-That so? yes, Pa, fired sisters
beau
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

No matter how young lady's hat is
lost 1t is almost sure to turn up either
behind or at the side.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-05-15

A married couple may be one, but
that one cannot travel without two rail
road tickets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
IDA LEWIS AT HOME.
How the Famous Heroine Lives in Lime
Rock Light, Newport Harbor.
Ladies' Home Journal.

Running from the mainland into the
west side of the harbor is long, stanchly-
built wharf. Were you to find your way
to its end you would ere long see from the
lighthouse beyond woman appear and
glance in your direction. Presently, with
agile step, she runs down the narrow lad
der fastened to the stone wall, jumps
nimbly into boat, unties it from the
moorings, takes the heavy oars and with
beauty of stroke all her own pulls with a
long and strong pull that sends her flying
toward the steps of the pier on which you
wait. Her back is as erect as that of
young girl, her powerful strength mani
fest in the great strides the rowboat makes,
and yet, when she deity turns it around
and you get good look at her face, it can
be seen that it belongs to. a. woman in
middle life, but upon whose face time has
left few tell-tale marks. She puts out a
welcoming hand with beautiful white
wrist, adding CHEEKY smile and word of
greeting as she makes ready TO take you
over to Lime Rock as her guest. You
have cause for self-congratulatio in be-
ing thus favored by the heroine, Ida
Lewis.
Life on lighthouse, situated as is Lime
Rock light, is not the gruesome thing gen.
orally imagined. With a six-roomed
house there are cares that Fill the day,
and, like any other "gude wife," Miss
Lewis has her pots, kettles and pans to at
tend to, rooms to sweep, beds to make, pa
pers and magazines to read, letters to
write and all the various ct ceteras to
manage which fill the time of busy
woman. A devoted church woman, she
spends Sunday on shore when her brother
is at home.
As the only woman lighthouse keeper
in our country, and the last one that will
be given light-for such is the verdict of
the powers that be-Miss Lewis has other
duties that are unique. Exactly at sun
down she must light her lamp, and pre-
cisely at midnight another must be substi-
tuted. All through the night it must be
watched. and Miss Lewis likens this con-
slant care to that demanded by an infant.
The wick might flare or burn low, the
chimney smoke or crack, or any of the
hundred-and-one accidents Happen that are
ever taking place with the use of kerosene
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
Amazons ON Exhibition.

OF the King of Dahomey, a Paris letter
says that che was reared In the French
capital, and much money was spent and
careful attention lavished upon his in
struction. But in an evil hour he fell in
love with Partisan beauty, and because
she would not have him the young man
made up his mind that the life of bar
barian was preferable to that of civil
lied and enlightened being. He babe
eternal adieu, therefore, to the classics, the
arts and the sciences, and zealously set
himself to the pursuit of barbarian ca
reer. His most remarkable reform as
King of Dahomey was to surround HIM
self with a bodyguard of strapping women,
regular Amazons, who rode horseback
man-fashion, used the bow and spear and
welded the battle-ax with singular dex-
terity. His majesty has theory that
these women are better fighters than men,
and are more likely to be loyal to his in
terests A contingent of these Amazons is
to be sent to London soon and shown to
the public in the French exhibition now
in the course of preparation in that city"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

oil. She can but catch cat-naps; hence the
nearness of her sleeping room to the light.
At sunrise the law requires her lamp, like
the foolish virgins, to have gone out, and
from this fact she is an early riser. The
responsibility is no small one, for the
slightest neglect of duty or accident to
her light or lenses would bring report
from the first seaman who suffered by it.
Lives hang on her vigilance, but to her
credit no light on all the coast is as regu-
larly or perfectly attended to, nor does any
other gain from the Government Inspector
so high report. Miss Lewis keeps a
daily expense book, noting just the amount
of wick and oil burnt, and the time to a
second of the lighting and putting out of
the lamp. In addition, record of the
weather must be entered daily As Lime
Rock light is a frst-class light, no rations
are allowed, the yearly salary being $3.50
and two tons of coal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
THE COUCH.
A Room is Only Half Furnished without

one.
From the Boston Traveller
A room without couch of some sort is
only half furnished Life is full of ups
and downs, and all that saves the sanity of
the mentally jaded and physically ex-
hausted fortune fighter is the periodical
good cry and the momentary loss of con-
seriousness on the upstairs lounge or the
old sofa in the sitting-room. There are
times when so many of the things that
distract US could be Strengthened out and
the way made clear if one only mad long
comfortable couch on whose soft bosom he
could throw himself, boots and brains,
stretch his weary frame, unmindful of
tides and tapestry, close his tired eyes, re-
lax the tension of his muscles and give his
harassed mind chance Ten minutes of
this soothing narcotic, when the head
throbs, the soul yearns for endless, dream
less, eternal rest, would make the vision
clear, the nerves steady, the heart light
and the star of hope shine again.
There isn't doubt that the longing to
die is mistaken for the need of nap In
stead of the immortality of the soul, bust
ness men and working women want regu-
lar and systematic doses of doing, and
after messy bank in the shade of an old
oak, that succeeding Junes have converted
into tenement of songsters, there is moth
ing that can approach big sofa, or a long,
low couch placed in a corner, where tired
nature can turn her face to the wall and
srooze or sleep away the gloom.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
The Pestiferons snarrow.

If the imported English sparrow is
really the menace to agriculture that it is
claimed to be BY intelligent investigators,
1t must be confessed that the people of
this country are displaying most foolish
Indifference to the subject One by one
the several Legislatures have removed the
protection once accorded to the sparrow,
but heretofore in no single instance has
any adequate method of campaign been
set on foot to reduce the bird hordes by
destroying them. The Massachusetts
Legislature after a discussion extending
over several weeks, has now passed an Act
entitled "An Act providing for the exter-
mination of the English sparrow in the
Commonwealth"
AT this late date it is probably vain to
hope that the English sparrow can be ex-
terminated, but there is no doubt that
energetic action and unceasing vigilance
can reduce this bird from being great in
jury to the farmers to one whose influence
will be but little felt. We have in mind
number of places near New York city,
where, by energetic prosecution ON the
part of the residents, these birds have
during the present summer been so thinned
out that their presence is scarcely notice
able. In the sections where this has taken
place noticeable increase of native birds
has followed, and the results have been so
encouraging that households have deter
mined to continue their efforts in the hope
that IN the course of few years the spar
row may be gotten under control.
The methods which have been followed
by these good results consist in destroying
the nests as fast as they are built, and in
shooting, with tiny loads, the sparrows at
all times. While very great number of
the birds have been killed, it is thought
by those who have watched the matter
that those which have not been destroyed
have learned that the places where they
are thus pursued are dangerous. AT all
events, the fact that lawns and yards, once
entirely given up to the sparrows, are now
entirely deserted BY them, is evident
Forest and Stream.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
THE cENsus-rAKER
This One Was Working in Connecticut
Village.
From the Hartford Times.

From the Hartford Times
The census enumeration called at the
house of good old honest German, not
long in this country. in a neighborino
manufacturing village, and began to gather
statistics:
Enumerator-"Do you own any real es.
tate property? ?"
German-"Yaw"
Estate what and where it is
G.-"Dot vas two goat, two key lager,
Won lettle dog, jar sour-krout, Won black he
cat"
E.-"Hold on ! That is not real estate. y
G-"Vot dot is DEM"
E.-'sIt is personal property
G.-"Dot's is my wives real estate, too:
you gone to take some away, an you lose
dot hair on your red head p
EDO you own any houses or land ~
G.-"Not by tam sight-you tax EN-
for me to pay? Noow
Elbow old is your wife?
G.-"Old You told her on dot ting
vonce, and you got peppers on your eyes"
E.-"Well, never mind When was she
born2 Tell me how old she is"
G-"She was born in Metz, 1919. She
vas 81 years old next November"
E-"All right That's near enough.
How many children have your"
G well, will count. Dere vas nine
childs in Metz, six childs in Bosting, seven
childs in Rood Island, four childs in Con-"
E-"Stop. Your wife has not got so
many children. Give me the names of
your children
G.-"Vell, you'd peter not told me l
vas Won liar, ven your nose pc vedder den
it vas now Den Pll tell you vot dere
name vas. Deres Hans an his tog, dots
two; Fritz an his tin drum and his goat,
dots five; Shuzon and her six tolls, dots
twelve; my wife, her red rooster and der
shicken, dots nineteen; Shon, vot sells
peer, and me, dots"
E.-"Hold on It's children | want
not"
G.-"Den, mein Colt you goes and gets
'em we're you can. Raising his cane
You pother me some more, Ply tam, you
go down ply dere gutter, we're de mud vas"
E.-"Well, well, let US keep cool; l
must obey the law and ask you these ques-
lions, and you must answer or you will be
punished. Have you any secret diseases
in this family?'
G.-"Yes, tam secret; and my wife, she's
run'd away; and | staid alone wild Shon,
cause l had 'em before-you seed der
scars on my face-'cause | could not took
'em once more"
E.-(Eyes beginning to swell OUT.
"What is the matter with John ~
Cob, he's got der-vot you call der
leetle pox-de smallest pox, upstair dere;
you go up and ask him some questions-he
can jus visper, leetlep p
E.-"Good- by"
G.-"Ter teuvil How dot man runs
He peat horse race"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
They Really Meant 1T.

There exists in the Canton province of
China different kinds of sisterhoods, such
as "All Pure" sisterhoods, "Never-to-be-
Married" sisterhoods, etc. Each sister
hood consists of about ten young maidens,
who swear vows to heaven never to get
married, as they regard marriages as some
thing horrid, believing that their married
lives would be miserable and unholy. A
sad case lately happened. A band of
young maidens ended their existence in
this world by drowning in the Dragon
river because one of them was to be forced
by her parents to be married. She was
engaged in her childhood before she
joined the sisterhood. When the prepara-
tions for the marriage were completed she
reported the matter to the sisterhood, and
they all agreed to drown themselves,
which they did.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
A Tried RENE dy for Biliousuess.

Those who suffer from disorder or in
action of the liver will never get the upper
hand of the unruly organ SO long as they
use such irrational remedies as blue pills,
calomel and podophylin. But from the
tried and popular medicine, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, they Gay expect relic
with certainty of obtaining it. The in
finence of the Bitters upon the great hillary
gland is direct, powerful and speedily felt.
The relief afforded is not spasmodic, but
complete and permanent. The sall6wness
of the skin, furred appearance of the
tongue, indigestion, costiveness, headache,
nausea, pains through the right side and
shoulder, in fact every accompaniment of
the obstinate complaint are entirely and
promptly removed by course of this in
estimable medicine, in behalf of which
testimony is constantly emanating from
every quarter and from all classes of So
ciety
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
Rabbits is Insects &"

"Miss, you can't bring dogs into the car"
said Third avenue conductor to a young
woman who tenderly held wriggling lit
tie object wrapped up in shawl.
"'Tain't dog" snapped the young
woman, and the discounted conductor re-
treated to the rear platform amid a general
litter He studied the case for few min
utes, and then, returning to the young
woman, said Miss, you can't bring cats
in neither"
"'Tain't cat" said the young woman
''it's rabbit" and the long ears emerged
in confirmation of her assertion. At this
the conductor looked puzzled for mo-
ment, and then said:
"Well, that's accordin' to the rules of
the company dogs is dogs and cats is cats,
but rabbits is insects; so you can stay
New York Star.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

attended him, but he grew continually
worse under their care, and everybody
expected he would die. l had heard OF
the remarkable cures effected by Ayers
Sarsaparilla, and decided to have my
boy try it. Shortly after he began to
take this medicine, the ulcers COM
menced healing, and, after using several
bottles, he was entirely cured. He is
now as healthy and strong as any boy
of his age. - William F. Dougherty,
Hampton, Va.
sin May last, my youngest child,
fourteen months old, began to have sores
gather on its head and body. We ap.
piled various simple remedies without
avail The sores increased in humble,
and discharged copiously. A physician
was called, but the sores continued to
multiply until in a few months they
nearly covered the child's head and body
At last we began the use of Ayers Sar-
saparilla. In few days marked
change for the better was manifest. The
sores assumed more healthy condition,
the discharges were gradually dimin-
ished, and finally ceased altogether.
The child is livelier, its skin is fresher,
and its appetite better than we have OBJ
served for months. Frank NJ. Griffin,
Long Point, Texas.
"The formula of Ayers Sarsaparilla
presents, for chronic diseases of almost
every kind, the best remedy known to
the medical world. ID. NJ. Wilson,
M. D., Wigs, Arkansas.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

the eruptlve DIS
eases peculiar to
children nothing
else is so effective
as this medicine,
while its agreea-
BILE flavor makes
it easy to admin
lister.
:" My little boy
had large scrofu-
lous ulcers on his
neck and throat
from which he
suffered terribly.
Two MUSICIANS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

There is large farm in Mississippi in
which there is only one old whip, and that
is not used. The owner will not permit
the whip to be used on any of the stock,
and the farm does well and the animals
work with will without feeling the lash.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

A wild sweet orange has been discov-
cred growing in the northern part of
Florida. The fruit hangs on the tree all
the year round, often for six months after
it is fully ripe.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

MAN is often deceived in the age of q
woman by her gray hair. Ladies. you can
sppear young and prevent this grayness by
using Halls Hair Remover.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

IRRITATION of the throat and hoarseness
Immediately relieved by Browns Bron-
chial Troches.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02
The Safest

A ND most powerful Alternative is
n Ayers Sarsaparilla. Young and
old are alike benefited by its use. For
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

A wreck on one of the Georgia railroads
a few days ago destroyed 5000 water
melons.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

| do not often tell this story. Some
times / have told it, and seen an incredu-
lous smile cross the polite faces of my
polite hearers. | cannot account for its
incidents, or explain its improbability /;
but for me it has had one marked result,
never enter an empty railway carriage
Murrdvs Md0dziae.
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secret, something mat IL NOuIu grasp un-
seen.
The two were not speaking now, or only
in murmurs so low that the moving hand
which fumbled near me seemed to claim
my ear more than their words.
My head throbbed with the tension of
listening; all the blood in me seemed to be
beating there, leaving my heart stone cold.
Suddenly the cropping hand passed swiftly
close to my face; felt the watt of the
parted air against my wet temples, and
then heard a cry; ali, such cry of sur
prise breaking into terror, of terror over
mastering love, as the girls voice
shrieked-
"No, no, not that; oh, father, help, help
help"
Help Against what, What had the
girls eyes seen. what dread had forced
that bitter, broken cry from the poor lips?
At last / leaned forward; / cried too,
'Help, help At least think did, but
if any sound came from my dry throat |
knew not; before me | knew the man bent
over something, something that moved a
little, that moaned, that sighed softly.
And after the sigh, the bending form
lifted itself and muttered, and searched; |
heard the hands tearing at something;
then / heard quick exclamation, rustic
of crisp paper, and then the door at my
side was open; | felt the rain on my face,
for heavy shower was passing over US.
The blessed rain the comforting COM
monplace wetness treasured me; felt my
terror passing, and even reached hand,
half-heartedly shut the door, with dazed
feeling that | had had bad dream.
But some object was dragged against it,
was forced through itkeeping it open, until
/ heard a dull thud outside, and then for
the last time harsh voice, now in the
doorway, mutter:
"What devil drives me? There's the
Junction; l must leapw
The train slackened speed, the swinging
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-07-17
MOTHERS, IT'S A BEAUTY.
Sudden Death.

The Scriptural assertion that sin the
midst of life we are in death" was never
more fully verified than in the death OF
Mrs. Mary A. Garman, wife of Joseph
Garman, in Brushcreek township, on
Wednesday morning, July 9th. While
riding on horseback the animal suddenly
fell lifeless to the ground, either falling
on Mrs. Garman or else precipitating
her in such a manner as to cause death
soon after. She was so years OF age.
Her membership with the Dunkard
Church dates back number of years.
Kind in disposition and model OF
patience she possessed the requisites OF
true woman, so that the very earth
upon which she moved, the kitchen in
which her footsteps we're heard at early
morn, the fireside she delighted to make
attractive, all seemed to catch spirit ol
her presence and whisper tribute te
her memory. The large congregation
that attended her funeral could join ir
saying,
'.Life's race we'll run,
Lifss work well done,
Life's crown we'll won."