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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-05
H ONT
THE BELLS OF THE CITY.

The bells Of the city sound aloud
Over the heads of the h%urrying crowd.
Marking surely the flight of time.
Ringing out q melodious chime,
Calling loudly through the busy hum.
Comet comet come! come!
The minstrel group from Trinity call
To the belfry band in the city hall,
And the echoes fly at a lively pace
Il meet with the charming cherubs of Grace,
And all join in the tuneful song,
Ding, dongl ding, dong'
Now a melody-now a prayer
Woven in through the harps of air,
Finds its way to the prisoners cell,
To the homes of the rich and poor who dweli
So far it sounds like a drowsy hum,
Comel comet come! COME
1 know the bells are endowed with speech.
And have a message they bring to each.
And none can give the signal clear
That is meant for another persons ear,
Or guess what memories throb and throng-
Ding, dong. ding, dong.
But bells of Trinity! bells of Grace!
Ring out like birds from q lofty place
A song of JOY, and not Of woe,
Ger the pretty scene in the church below,
And call aloud through the buzz and hum,
Come! come! come! IN
They come to the altar, bride and groom,
She with her cheeks like q rose in bloom,
While the organ tells with its tuneful swells
That the heaux of the city ring the bells;
And echoes awaken through Christendom:
Ding. dongl Comet comet,
New York Ledger.
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Looking for Big Prices.

There were some curious incidents
noted near the Grand Central station
while the strike was in progress. One of
the long delayed trains had just come in
n evening and the passengers were
streaming out of the station when one of
them stepped up to a bystander and ad-
dressed him: Look here" said the tray
eler, ''can you tell me where is the most
expensive restaurant in this town."
The most expensive!" quoth the one
addressed in surprise.
Yes, sir; that's just what l want.
While u train was blocked out on the
road we could get very little to eat and
I got used to paying top rates. Some
body brought along a basket of sand
wiches-railroad sandwiches, strand
sold them out at 81 apiece. We bought
'em-we had to buy EN- or go hungry.
Now, | want to get back to my regular
prices by degrees. So you don't know
which is the most expensive restaurant?
Well, III go down to Delmonico's and
chance it, anyway" The speaker, being
a prosperous looking person, probably
carried out his threat.-New York
Times.
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Reveling in Fiction.

Il am literally w~allowing in fiction
just now," said a young Chestnut street
merchant. my family are out of town
and I am taking advantage Of the oppor-
tunity to read up the standards. Let me
see what I have on hand at present, for
the tables, chairs and even the floor Of
my sitting room are absolutely flooded
with the works of the great novelists. l
have all Dickens novels, all Sir Walter
SCOTS, all Charles Reade's, all Thack-
eray's, some of Levers, some of Cooper's,
some of Clark Russell's, all Of Rider
Haggard's, and-well, others too numer-
Gus to mention. All my copies are, how
ever, what are known as cheap libra
RES, and I picked them upstill cheaper at
second hand. don't think the whole
lot cost me quite s., so shall get my
acquaintance with the standards at a
wonderful bargain. There's no excuse
for a live American not being we'll upin
the great romancers, believe mew-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
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Little Loiter \. Long Ito his smaller
brother)-Oh, Gus! There comes pa
down the street-school in half an hour
ago-an' he's seen US,
Smaller Brother-WeIl, it's all your
fault. You allus wanter stop at every
winder you come to. But, gee wiz!
what re you shiv'rin' an shakin' SO fur:
Skaret:
Little Letter A. Long (fercely)-Yes,
an sod you be, you little mink, if you'd
Il put on your thin gray britches over no
fiannels. like | done this morning.
brakes Magazine.
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He Saved the Fly.

Capt. -, of the royal artillery. was
salmon fishing on the southwest Mira
MICH, above Boiestown. In an unlucky
and unguarded moment, as he was
rather hastily swinging around his
salmon rod preparatory to casting, his
large hook caught in the thin part of an
ear of T. p, one of the captains men,
who, as an ardent and a better fisher
man than his master, was intently
watching the motions Of a large salmon
which the captain was endeavoring to
secure. Selling the line with both hands,
so as to save his ear as far as possible, L.
P. slowly walked up to his master to be
relieved from the hook. s'Break it Off
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The Absorption of New England Farms

The Absorption of New England Farms.
Some fifteen years ago, in the early
DAYS of the Mount Desert summer travel,
I met on the beach at Newport. R. l., a
shipwrecked sea captain from Bar Har-
Dor, who talked in eloquent astonish-
ment of the rapid changes coming over
the ownership of real estate in that re-
gion. at does jest beat all" he de-
clared. Folks will come along from
New York or Philadelphy and they'll
kinder take a fancy to a mans farm.
They'll end in giyin' him more for it
than he ever thought o askin' for it; and
then they'll pay him more for Twin on
it in winter to take care of it than he
ever made off of it,"
This duplex good bargain, this gain in
both principal and interest at the same
time. seemed quite too much for my
weather beaten friends comprehension.
Yet the same process has been going on
fer years, in a manner less conspicuous,
along the whole New England coast, and
through all the mountain region of the
Appalachian range. Side by side with
that crowding into cities in winter,
u steady crowding out of cities for sum-
mel residence; and this is in many cases
displacing the original resident of the
soil and substituting new ownership.
In the region where l now find myself
one may look from the hills e many
thousand acres, not one of which now
belongs to a permanent resident of the
town. Farms have been bought and
united. n man owning 900 acres, an
other 200, and so on, in a region where
200 acres was once regarded as a large
farm.-Harper's Bazaar.
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The Toad and the Duke of Wellington.

The Toad and the Duke OF heiiihstoH'
Short Cuts has unearthed a peculiarly
delightful letter of the Duke Of Yelling
toms, which runs as follows: "Strath-
feldsave, July 81, 1S37.-Field Marshal
the Duke of Wellington is happy to in
form William Harries that his toad Is
alive and we'll" During one of his
country walks the duke found a little
boy lying on the ground bending his
head over a tame toad and crying as if
his heart would break. On being asked
what was the matter the child explained
that he was crying ''for his poor toad"
He brought it something to eat every
morning. but he was now to be sent
away to school d long distance off, and
he was afraid that nobody else would
give it anything to eat and that it would
die.
The duke, however, consoled him by
saying that he would himself see the toad
well fed, and by further promising to
let the boy hear as to its welfare. Dur
ing the time the boy was away at school
he received no less than five autograph
letters similar to that given above, and
when he returned for the Christmas
holidays the toad was still alive to glad
den his heart. The story is ever more
delightful than that of the dukes indig-
nation when he found that 4 party
of children at Strathfeldsaye-among
whom, we believe, was the present
prime minister-were having their tea
without jam. The incident reused him
to immediate action, and he at nee
rang the bell and issued a general order
that '~'children's tea" was never TO be
served in his house with such manned
rights. spectator.
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Injurious Effects of odors.

You can kill a man quicker by an evil
smell than any other way in the world
if you know how to go about it, and all
evil smells are in greater or less degree
poisonous and reduce vitality where they
do not destroy outright.
The London Lancet gave the case of a
gentleman in a railway car detained
alongside ears Of hogs in an offensive
condition about fifteen minutes. He
was taken i'll with symptoms of prostra-
ton, though previously in health, and
died shortly after, poisoned by the intol-
cradle odor.-Shirley Dare.
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100 ssen Wanted.

And 100 men to call on any druggist FOR
a free trial package Of Lanes Family
Medicine, the great root and herb reme-
dy, discovered by DR.. Silas Lane while in
the Rocky Mountains. Fol diseases ofthe
Blood, Liver aud Kidneys it is a positive
cure. For constipation and clearing up
the complexion it does wonders. lG is the
5es, pTing medicine known. Large-sized
packages so cents. AT all druggists.
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captain; break it off" said one OF the
party. 'tNo, no." replied the captain.
II am going to do no such thing. Would
you have me destroy my best fly" And
so quietly taking a sharp penknife out
of his pocket and Sitting the lobe of his
servants ear he thus safely redeemed
the favorite fly uninjured. The story
was related to me by the sufferer, who
bore on his body confrmatory evidence
of the truth of his statement. Forest
and Stream.
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Paper Tool Handles.

An engineer of Manchester, England,
Is introducing a novelty in paper, viz,
paper flehafts and tool handles, which
are said to be practically indestructible
and much cheaper than wood or MALE
able iron hats. Placed under a steam
hammer, although they can be fattened,
they cannot be split or cracked.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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Too Matter of Fact.

Mrs. Malaprup What's the matter
with your husband?
Mrs. Brown guess he got out on the
wrong side of the bed this morning.
Mrs. Malaprop-Why don't you stop
that by putting the bed against the WALTZ
Epoch.
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identified.

Maude-Who is that coarse creature
that murders the kings English and has
the manners of a eharwoman?
Minnie-Sh-hl That's the author of
the latest success in society" novels
Pittsburg Bulletin.
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An Article OF MerIt Mus, and Will win.

All RE best makes OF prints, SC. SC and the
choicest STYLES at Tets. The Sc one Is Us good
quality as The &c. but patterns not so good.
Z. b. Humphrey 4 Co.
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..Stlu Living in the Dark Ages

people who, through ignorance, dose them
selves with the violent catl,artlcs that injure
thc digestive organs, afford but partial or
temporary rclct and leave the bowels more
costive than before. The refncmcnts Of
medical science have overcome all these evils,
in the form IF Dr. Plcrccs Pellets, which are
"gentlc pcrsnnlcrs," sure in action, and aid
Dune Nature to reasScrt her authority
When she is allied. not opposed, all is we'll.
EI.EcrIoN-.An election for President OF
the Board and four Commissioners of the
Corpora;ion of Mcchanicstown will be held
ON Monday next. Thus far we have not
heard that any special issue will be made and
all that we ask in the interest of our town is
that five progressive, yet conservative bust
ness men be chosen and when we use the
term Cuisines" 1t is in Its broadcast sense we
mean thorough practical, courageous men,
who have among them, varied business tail
ents and who having opinions have the c"nr
age to express them and the executive ability
to carry them out. There will be more mon
cy expended in the line of permanent I'M
proycmcnts during the coming year than has
ever been expended in the same line during
any twelve years and there will be just about
three hundred critics, to stand up against
whom will require tact, talent and courage.
Make no mistakes.
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[RrpORTED FOR TMR CLARION
IJyln encMl.

The home of Mr. Washington Harlmugl
near Sabllasvil!c WAS the scene of n joyous
event on Thursday, the 3rd inst, At O'Clock
p. H., the occasion being the wedding of his
cstimable daughter Bertha, to Mr.. Thomas
F. Eylcr, prominent young merchant of
Sabillasville and son Of Commissioner
Chas. A. Eylef. The nuptial knot was tIrd
by Rev. G. J. RouLabusl,, pastor Of the U.B.
church, Mcchan icstown, in the presence of
large nsscmblage OF in, tied guests, as follows ::
Clas. A. Eyler, Rebccca Favorite, Ross and
Chas. II. Eyler of Eylers Valley; J. A. Coli
flower and wife Of Franklinville; John and
May Fror, Of Gracel,am; DR.. Brown and
family, of Uniontown; Mr. Hiram, John and
Willie Harb.ugh, Misses Armatla, N"rnl,,
Eta, and Augustus IIarbaugh and wife, Of
near Sabilasvillc; p. N. Hammaker and wife,
Mr.. Martin B,lssard, Of Mechanisstown !;
Misses Alice Mentzcr and Maud Shields, Of
Decrfeld Miss Maggie Brown, VI Mt. Zion.
Prompt 1T the hour named the ldal party
entered the pnrlor. After the ceremony I'M
elegant collation. was served and ut half past
three o'clock Mr. Eyler and his bride left in
the midst Of Il shower of rice and old shoes
for Baltimore, Washington and other points.
followed by the best wishes Of their many
friends. The presents were numerous and
handsome. On their return they will locate
IN Sabilasvllc where Mr. Eyler Is engaged
! in the mercantile business. &. A.J.
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FREDERICK, BID. MARCH %, 1890.
The following schedule will govern the
business proceedings of the County Commits.
soners a, the April Session OF April Term,
viz:-Hcaring of Appeals from Assessments
Made:
Monday, April 9TH, Buckeystowu and Fred
erick Districts.
Tuesday, April sth, Mld1lctown, Catoctn
and Crcagcrstown Districts.
Wednesday, April 9th, Emmitsburg, Crbana
and New Market districts.
Thursday, April 10th, Liberty, IIauvcrs and
Woclsboro' districts
Friday, Aprll llth, Pctcrsviile, Mt. Pleasant
and Jefferson districts.
Saturday, April l2.h, Mechanic'town and
Jackson districts.
Monday, April 18th, townsville and Wood.
vile districts.
Tuesday. April 18Th, Linganoge, Lcwlstown
and Tuscnrora districts.
The remainder of the session will be devo-
ted to Miscellaneous Business.
N, B.-Particular attention should he Civ.
en- to tins notice, as no abatement ON any as
srssmcnt will be allowed after April Both
1890.
ANY person having erected new buildings
or made addition to old ones. or increased
their personal property, would do we'll to re-
port valuation of snme, otherwise they may
bc excessively assessed.
BY nr,;er, 4. l.. EADER, Clerk
april 2.3t
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Ford's Grand Opera House.

Week of April 14th.-"SHENANDoAh
coming to Baltlmnre.-Brons"n Howard $
shenandoah" has becn everywhere acknow'
lodged to he II great play. Its pro'"c''"" a,
Fords Opera House during the week OF
April IA will be AS complete in every manner
ns that which for the p,st eight months ms
occupied the stage at the Twenty -third'ot'
Theatre, New York City. The play ~
comedy drama in four acts, the scene az .'e
title indicates, beng laid in the South during
the civil war. the action beginning with the
attack on For. Sumter and terminating with
the close of the war in 1865. The military
scenes are stirring in the extreme, and are
SAID to surpass anything of the k'nd ever
witnessed on the stage. Throughout the
whole runs very pre- Try romance.
April 2lst-KELIAlt, the monarch o'
Magic,
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Business Locals.

~ SPRING FERTILIZERS II AM
now prepared to furnish Super. Phospliatcs
suitable for Corn, Oats and the Spring Crops
generally. These fertilizers are prepared
specially for these crops and have given
general satisfaction.
mch27u GEO, w. STOCKSDALE.
~. Have your rooms papered by HAL
LER & MATTHEW'S of Westminster. Look
for their advertisement in this paper.
mCh 20 let
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Sale Register.

Under this head will appear the date place
character, and time of sale and the name OF
the vendor. free Of charge, provided only TINT
the sale he advertised in these columns. or
that the bills be printed at this office. lnad
dition to the above, Sale Notes and Sale CLERKS
Outfit are furnished free to patrons Of this Of
fee.
Space can bc secured under this head, on
ly in the regular form and at the rate of 20
cents line by such rs have their printing
and fuller advertising done elsewhere.
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The Easter exercises and church decora-
ms were specially entertaining, elaborate
and beautiful here on Sunday last. An art
lists brush, rather u,an our prosaic pencil IA
required to interpret the artistic grace and
chas:c beauty of the floral ad"rnmcnt of the
pulpit and chanccl in Trinity Reformed ana
81. Johns Lutheran churches.
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A SALARy-Wnh expenses paid Will come
handy to anyone who Is now out Of employ
m-nt, especially where no previous expert
~ncc is required to get the position. II you
want a position, see advertisement Oh page
2 headed, "A Chance to Make Money"
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A nuMDcl Oh our people c1S"seu ciSc""C'O
spent the. E,stcrtide ut their home. The
school boys and misses were, VIC believe, all
ut home.
LARGE CARP On Thursday evening last,
Mr.. Howard Ramsburg, residing near Han
sonyie caught carp in the Monocacy that
measured 20 inches IN length; 204 inches
grth and weighed 124 pounds.
The marriage ceremony of Miss Katie Ogle
Of Rocky Ridge and Mr.. Chas. q. Webster
of Mechanicstown will he performed on
Wednesday, April 10Th, at 2:@ p. m, in St.
Johns Lutheran church, Mcchanicstown,M Md,
to which the public is cordially invited.
The delay in the appearance of the tnw
authorizing the vote on and issuing Of our
Town Hall bonds is peculiarlv.vexatious. A
hundred other local laws have been sent out
from Annapolis, while valuable time is pass
ing and opportunities that may prove costly
are being lost. What il the OCCASION of 1t
MovED.-Aftcr seven years and for the
second time only we have moved ana arc
now pretty well at home in Mr.. G. Harman's
very we'll appointed dwelling on Carroll-st.
We have succeeded in getting through the
ordeal without committing any overt act OF
criminality, but we shall hesitate IN giving
utterancc to all We thought.
THE LIMIT PAssED.-On Monday next
accounts to the amount Of several hundred
dollars will be sent to the head Office of the
United States Collection Agency. We regret
to do so in some cases, but VIC shall shut our
eyes to favor and those who haye permit: ed
their accounts to remain unpaid will find II
less easy to deal with the Agency than with
US. Their promise to us is to collect every
dollar that Is in any way collcctablc, so you
can look out for pressure.
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Local Items.

Those who have business with our Board
Of County Commissioners are directed 7" the
advertisement in this issue. This district
vii, receive attention on Saturday next.
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B. COLLlFLOWE Err.

Filth Year Of highly successful plan,
raising. E.rly and Late Cabbage, Tomatoes
Lettuce, Bccts, Egg, Pepper, Sweet Potato
and Celery Plants in season. Flowers, Small
Fruits, Grape Vines and Strawberry Plants
These plants have heretofore given general
satisfaction. Orders solicited.
Local Agencies have been established AZ
follows:
TT. Eylcr, Sahillasville, Md.
NJ. E. A,lcIsnrger, Emmisburg, Md.
DIR. ]. G. Troxell, Mt st. Marys, Md.
james b. Black, Rocky Ridge, Md.
Geo. II. Glen, Lcwistown.
VIM. ] Cramcr, Cwa"crstown
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Professional.
D.. n, ). isashegnaa,
SURGEON & PHYSICIAN.

Prompt attention given to all calls.
Public Office in the Drug Store.
Private consultation room in the rear OF
the Drug Store.
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They Pay $500, or Cure.

For many years the manufacturers Of DIR.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, who are thoroug bly,
responsible, financially, have offered in goo
faith, through nearly newspaper in the lnnd
at sanding reward Of $500 tor case of nasal
catarrh, no matter how bad. or how long
standing, which they cannot cure. The Rem
ely sIsold by druggists ut only 80 cents. 1t
is mild, soothing, cleansing, dcodorizng, an.
tiseptlC and healing
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Mr.. Frank Stokes Of our town is at pres.
cut engaged in ovcrhauling, repairing and
rctitt,ng the machinery in the Frederick city
brush factory.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-04-10

A number of citizens Of this town and 10.
cality have left for Virginia where they will
Ike employed at pceling bark.
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Judge VIM. J. Black has returned to his
home in town after an absence on his farm
of nine years.
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GEO. w. OGLE will sell personal proper
ty on Thursday, April 10, 1890, at o'clock,
a. m. See adv and posters
JOHN WOLF Assignee Of Mortgage will
sell the Real Estate of the late Henry Hen
dirk. Sec adv.
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WHAT WE WANTING want proper rep
rcsentation made to the w. NJ. Il. X. author
tiles that will secure y stop here, both ways,
of the Blue Mountain Express this summer
we also want round trip ticket privilege OK
tended from Union Bridge west this far 1t
is matter of record in the company Offices
that there were more summer visitors in our
town last season than at the old established
mountain summer resort, Blue Ridge Sum-
mt: this ,ping true, we should only have
IT, ask for in order to secure the two very de-
sirSblc privileges named above. Some one
look 10 It.
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FORHRAR THE BEAn.-An absurd story
has been going the rounds OF the State press
to the effect that bear was from tho streets
of this place, seen to climb tree TN our
mountain that Mr.. J. w. Creeger took his
gun and went a.huntl ng for HIM; that prior
TO his arrival ut the foot of the tree, Bruin
had descended but consdcrately lett tracks
behind him /; but that Mr.. G. failed to come
up with him.
Now, in the first place, pine tree, Trim
med of branches to within few feet OF the
top was seized upon by the children III our
town about two weeks ag" as food for their
imagination and young John Howard Cassc'l
in our presence saw this very tree top come
down and then 60 up, dead sure thing anu
n bear. That is the sole basis of the bear sto'
ries published in city dailies and country
wecklcs There has not in all prooabIi'y
been sren on Chimney Rock mountain with
IN fifty wears, n bear. But Frederick cores
pondcnts of Baltlmo re dailes have faculty
for gho st seeing and an impossible bear sho
tx As readily visible rs the most matter o'
fact ghost
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From the Nations Capital.

Mr.. A. N. Hazen. Washington, ID. G.. says
the famous Red Flag Oil is q perfect family
medicine and has NO equal for Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, sprains, Cuts Burns and all bod
ily pain. Price Is cents.
Consumption, are you troubled with this
terrible disease, If 10 take healthy exercise.
live in open air, use Puritan Cough and
Consumption Cure and he cured. don't de-
Law. Price Is cents. AT DR.. J. X. Waters
Drug Store.