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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
The CA1'OCTIN CLARION
Church Directory,

Reformed Church--Rev. G. a, Whltmoic
pss or. Weekly Lectures Tuesday evening;
rceting of Ladies' Aid Society every second
"Wednesday evening. Regular services by
appointment from the pulpit
Lutheran Church-Rcv. J. H. Barb pas
for Services Sunday 10 A. NJ. and $50 t.
NJ. Sunday School, 3 p. NJ Prayer Meet
ing, Wednesday, GAS p. NJ.
Noravian Church. (Mcchancstown) Rev.
X. w. Herbst Pastor. Preaching every sun
,'ay, alternating morning and evening"
raver Meeting every Friday evening sun
dav School 9 o'clock, a. IN.
Moravlan Church (Graceham) Rev. Il. W.
Herbst, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday, alternating NOR
hing and evening.
Mite Society every Monday evening.
PRAYER Meeting every Wednesday evening.
United Brethren Church-Mitc Society
Second and Fourth Wednesday
Sunday School p. NJ.
PRAYER Meeting every Thursday evening
Regular Services by appointment from the
pulpit.
Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. D.
F. +. Gray Pastor. Services every alternate
sunday at 10 A. VI. Sunday School 8 a. NJ.
Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening al Z
p. NJ.
United Brethren ChurclI-Rcv &. j.
Roudabush Pastor. Services every altcrl".e
Sunday at 3 p. m. Sunday school every
Sunday at D. III. Prayer Meeting every
Thursday evening at p N.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
Necacbwn Frederick County, Maryland Thursday January 1887.
SONNET.

Tell me, O Time the utmost of thine art,
Thy wondrous healing art that men 30 praise;
For which no feat too hard is but to raise
Tho dead once more and lost life reimpart.
Men say that thou canst ease the burdened heart,
And bring new dover of light to darksome
days,
And new conpanonships to lonely ways,
New joys whose charm holds back the tears that
start
Hast thou no cup save cold Lethean draught,
Which bIots the past when its virtues draini
Give me the wine of love that once quaffed!
Tho hut in dream III drink it once again.
No comfort may find in all thy craft
If death of love alone can henl loves pain.
New York Independent.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
Inrredients of Flint Glass.

In making flint glass, which is the kind
used in the manufacture Of fine table ware
and for cutting and engraving, the great
est care is taken in the selection and mix
ing of the ingredients. Upon the purity Of
these depends the transparency, colorlcss-
ness and brilliaucy which constitute the
chief value of the product.
The ingredients of flint glass are fine
sand, free from any trace of iron; red lead,
potash or soda nitre and cullet. Some
times the red lead is replaced by heavy
gray X .'sakne earth called baryta, though
it is GENERALLY considered that red lead is
essential to the finest quality of flint glass.
Youths Companion
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
Sunday with the Vanderbilts.

The Vanderbilts are all religously in
clined, and early on Sunday morning the
children are washed and dressed and sent
to Sunday school. At church time they 20
to their fathers pew and sit there with
him and their mother during the service.
In the afternoon they go to Sunday school
again. They are never allowed to use
horses or carriages, nor to 60 out except
for short walk as a matter of exercise.
The day is spent very quietly. They have
an early tea, and in the twilight the chill
dren gather in the music room, while one
of the ladies plays the piano or organ.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, William X, Elliott
F. Shepard and the ladies of the families
Join for an hour or two i'll song.
The boys sometimes bring out their vio-
Inns, the young girls play their harps, and
there is an hour or two of the most de-
licious music that one could imagine They
sing hymn after hymn, and when the twi-
light fades the little ones are put to bed,
to get up the next morning with the glow
of health upon their checks, and begin
their week of study and play that shall fit
them to become strong men and women
to administer wisely upon the vast fort
unes that will soon be theirs.-Ladics'
Home Journal
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
precOcitY.

Two scions of a we'll known Detroit
house were recently locked up in Il room
by way of punishment. In their cageruess
to escape they adopted heroic measures.
Piling dresses, bonnets and bed clothes in
the middle of the floor, they started Il bon
fire that brought out the fire department
and gave it plenty Of work, too. The little
rascals went to bed that night rs warm as
though they had not escaped from the
burning m.-Detroit News.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
A pprDctuul Fire,

In the Peninsula of Abeheron, in the
Province of Schrwan, formerly belonging
TO Persia, but now Il part of Russia, there
is found perpetual, or, what the natives
call, an eternal fire, which is known to
have been burning over 1000 years. 1t
rises with q constant flame from an irreg-
ular oritce of about l2 feet in depth and
l2O feet in width. The flame rises to a
height of or feet, unattended with
smoke or disagreeable smell, waving back
and forth with the wind, like field OF
golden grain.--St. Louis Republic.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
EanSOnled.

Signor Arrigo, the Italian banker, who
was held by Sicilan bandits for heavy
ransom, had an exceedingly interesting
time of it during his captivity. His
captors kept him in the bottom OF
dry well, where they lowered his food to
him regularly and conferred with him oc-
casionally concerning his ransom. They
finally compromised with his friends on
$25 900, but wanted u much larger amount.
At the end of Il certain time, if the money
had not been paid, the banker would most
likely have been murdered. .-ENchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
To Cleanse Room of Tobacco Smoke.

Tobacco smoke has II way of clinging to
room and giving it a peculiar odor that
sometimes cannot be removed by airing.
One who has suffered recommends that a
pail of water in which handful Of hay is
soaking be left in the room for an hour or
so. AT the end of that time the smell will
have entirely disappeared. AS all evil
(icnces of the cigar or pipe can be removed
so readily the men can smoke in whatever
room they please, provided they will place
the pail of water in position " hen they are
leaving. Exchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
The Owner of Youths COmDnniOn,

Daniel S. Lord is the Perry Mason s.
Co. (the nominal proprietors) of the Youths
Companion. He bought it some thirty
years ago, after it had been in existence
about thirty three years, for five or six
Thousand dollars, when it had only few
thousand circulation. 1t now has an i'm,
mense circulation, close upon 100000 His
income is reported to he not far from
5000 900, one-half of which he distributes
in charity. a business reason for adopt
ing the name of Perry Mason & Co is
that there may be no change in the pro
ptictorship in case of the real owners
de,ith Vi yc.irepent.-Writer.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
Tho Difference.

Small Boy docking up from his history
Papa, the Union soldiers were paid ouy
s13 u month Seems to me that's awful
small when congressman is paid Sl3 a
day. Why aiNt soldiers paid as much as
congressman?
Papa-Soldicrs, my son, do not fix their
own salaries s-New York Weekly.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08

Cork oaks have been transplaHtcd to
California, where their raising promises to
become an important industry. They pro-
duce there a cork of excellent quality At
present, however, practically all the cork
used In America is imported from the Old
World, where there are about three mill
ion and half acres of cork oak forests
producing profitable crops.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
a SrrllriSe.

Wife to husband who had been absent
during tho night)-I am ever so glad you
left your pistol with me, darling. A bur.
glar was here last night and Isurprised
him.
IIusband-You brave little womanl Did
you shoot it at himS
mo, threw it ut him" m."-Detroit Free
preSS
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
No. 50
Let's Ills E%iehbor's Dog Alone.

Some time ago a camp meeting was be-
gun Mt Hollow Rock Springs. owned by an
old fellow named Mayhem. just after the
religious exercises were started one OF tho
officers of the association went to old May
hew and said:
"Look here old man, there is something
the matter with that spring water"
"Think so?"
eyes know it. Tastes bad and smells
awful"
"Wall, won't dispute your word.
Mans got right to his opinion in this
here neighborhood."
"But can't something be donc?"
II don't know but thar mout."
"What would you suggestT
"Wall, reckon the best thing to do as
starter would be to take the dog out"
"Take the dog out!" the officer gasped.
"What do you mean"
"Mean you had better pull out the dead
dog, an give the water u chance to prove
its innocence"
SIS it possible that you knew there was
dog in there"
"Of course knowed it when | seed him
in thar"
"Why didn't you take him out?"
"Wel, it's old Andy Patterson's dog, an
me an Andy amt on good terms, you
know. Andy is mighty funny about his
property. found the dog, the same one,
in my springhouse once, an pulled him
out, an pulled him putty hard, too, an
Andy got mad an chunked me round
good deal, an since that allus let his
property alone. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
HanlY LnnD Shade.

If you have u common lamp on your
desk you can make Il cheap shade for 1t by
bending piece of wire half way around
the brass beneath the wick screw, leaving
the other end long enough to bend up
straight little clear of the globe; on this
end fasten piece of pasteboard by run
ming the wire through two holes in it, like
q stitch. Cor. Writer.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
Forgett!pg His Loss.

1t is not unusual for people who have
lost the use of u sense or of a. member to
talk, more or less unconsciously, as IL they
still possessed it. Not long ago II gentle
man IN the west, who had been totally
blind for many years, but who manages to
travel about Notwithstanding his al1lic
tion, wrote to II friend in New York
81 am going to New York this summer
to see how the world wags, and hope to
see you while am there. "-Youth's Com
punion.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08

A fruit dealer in Palatkn, Fla, sells for
n nickel all the cocoanuts thata person can
take away in his pockets. Several who
thought the Offer Il good one invested a
nickel and lost it, The nuts had the shells
ON and would not 90 into any pocket.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08

The average life of rabbit is put at
about nine years. The doe may have young
eight times year. averaging eight each
time The first litter is produced when
but four months old. The prOgressions
based on these figures lead to astonishing
results For three years the possible prog
eny of two rabbits has been calculated at
over l3,OoO, 900, and for seven years at l,50o.,
0OO, 600
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
A prnctiCnl BGlicYer.

Troubled Housekeeper-Wha can we do
to keep our servants2
Fair Reformer-Do you not believe in the
higher education of women?
Y. H.-Certainly. | pay the best wages
because do believe in the hire education
of womcn.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08

Gazzam-Why is the baby crying SO
hard, Cora?"
Coral don't know; mamma is singing
to him.
Gazzam-W Why, the little fellow is devel-
oping very early into musical critic. it
seems.-Epoch
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08

a writer upon birds says that in the
fields and groves are many old maids and
bachelors who apparently never had any
inducement to marry. There is no doubt
that the rivalry in bird courtship is ex-
tremely keen. and the choice is a deliberate
one.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
EHGE OF TIME,
WESTERN MARYLAND R ROAD

~ ~ sess.sE1 es-.:sE1 --F.zt-lr I'D 5
yINO take effect on Noycmhcr 9th. 1890
TRAINS GOING WEST.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-01-08
ENM|7SbvRG RAILROAD.
MOA0CkCY VALLEY ABROAD.

New TINE TAsLE.-On an ,fter We'd
ucsday August 29nd, 1897, trains on the Mo-
ocacy Valley Railroad will run as follows:
Leayc Mtchanlcstown
IA. VI. II a. NJ. 6 55 7. Nj.
Leave Catoclin Furnaces,
$50 A. NJ. 3l5 p Nj.
Tickets for sale at Mcc,.anicstCwn by Mr..
Flank Hcsson.
Local Freight will be delivered on all
rams.
S Schley, Pres. H.. r. Wacsche, Supt.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05
A SAD ACCIDENT.
An Old Man Run Down by Cleve-
land and Canton Train.
Joseph welta, Aged 70 Years, Meets with
An Accident that will Probably Result
Fatally.

Joseph Welta met with an accident last
evening that will probably prove fatal.
As G. d G. south bound passenger train
No. 43 rounded the curve at Seventh
street, engineer William Judd noticed
man in the middle OF the track on the lit
tie trestle over Schriver's run below Sew.
enth street. He gave the warning whistle
but II was too late, and before the man
could step aside he was struck by the COW
catcher and thrown to one side.
The train was imme 1iately stopped and
backed to the scene of the accident, where
an old man was found laying in the gutter
with his left foot almost severed from his
leg. Inquiry showed that IL was Joseph
Welta, a we'll known character around
town. He was placed on a stretcher and
DIR. Brant summoned. After dressing the
wound and stopping the flow of blood, the
man was carried 10 the home OF his son
\. Welta. PIG East Eighth street where he
resided.
Everything possible was done to relieve
the suiferings of the man, which mere in
tense, until the doctor should again
arrive, he having gone to his office to get
his surgical instruments, Doctors Brant
and Foulks on their arrival, amputated
the left leg, four inches above the ankle.
Welta is 78 years of age aud a widower,
residing with his son at PIG East Eighth
street. A great many people will remem-
ber him as the old man who peddled
water cress about Canton, for 1t was this
way he made his living. He was very
weak last evening, on account of his
extreme age, and his chances for recovery
are doubtful. The blame is attached to
no one, as the old man was very hard of
hearing and did not hear the approaching
passenger train.
Welta partially recovered from the
shock caused by the accident and opera
ton and Ia reported as resting as easy as
could be expected this afternoon. On ex-
animation this morning il was found that
the old mans right shoulder and arm had
been badly bruised by the fall, but no se-
rious results are feared from this source.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05

DEMAGoGUE HoRR, of Michigan,
who was known as a clown, when he
happened to culminate in Congress, is
billed to lecture in Alliance on the La
Dor Problem. Horr is Protective
tariff chump, and his talk on the Labor
Problem is an impertinence that a
modest, Godtearing man ought to
avoid. The record OF strikes, lock. outs,
and labor reductions, now of daily rec
ord, Goes much louder talking on the
Labor Problem than a thousand loud
mouthed and horrid Horrs. These
kind of demagoges should be discour-
aged. They tend to make good men
lose confidence In human nature.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05
A COLD WAVE MOVING UP FROM
SOUTH OHIO.

There is a cold Mckinley wave
running all along the Ohio river, ex.
tending northward up the valleys of
the Miami as far as Xenia and up the
Scioto to Clrcleville. The Gallipolis
Tribune, one of the g. 0. p. organs,
located near the confluence of Raccoon
creek with the Ohio river, voices the
chilliness of this distressful wave, 1t
seems the farmers are not wanting
Mckinley. This is very sad. Here is
what the Gallipolis Tribune says;
Editor Lyon, Of the Newark Ameri.
can, has sent us a circular asking our
choice for governor to succeed Camp.
bell. We are for the man the people of
the Republican party want, and they
haven't spoken on that subject yet.
We have quizzed quite number of
citizens about the matter, all of whom
seem yet undecided. Four OF these
were farmers, and every one of them
said they didn't want Mckinley. We
want to hear from the boys on the
farms before we decide, for they are
the folks We must please to be success
full in the next campaign"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05
A KENTUCKY Hoss TRoT.

Congressman Amos j. Cummings, OF
New York, has just visited Lexington
and has written up horse race for
syndicate of Sunday newspapers.
Cummings is a wit, and usually writes
well, but he is evidently novice in
horse lore.
The "hoss trot" that Cummings at
ternpts to depict is the race at Lexing-
ton between McDoel and Allerton.
Cummings says McDoel is a Michigan
horse, and Allerton is a Kentucky
horse. Neither statement is correct.
When Cummings gets into the merits
of the trot, he says:
At the word "Go" the wheels of the
eight skeleton wagons began to revolve
like buz2-saws. A great shout arose from
the main stand and was reechoed from
the quarter stretch. Every hentuckl9n
was on his feet and every Kentucky lady
was thrilled with excitement The
negroes dashed between the legs of those
lining sthe fences, in a desperate effort
to ascertain the cause of the tumult.
The dispensers of the burRoo soup, left
their pots and ladies, and dashed to the
front of the stand"
Now this is enough to make a coach
dog laugh. There were no skeleton
wagons in this race, all went 10 sulkys,
as every one knows who was ever on
race track. Then again, the talk about
the shout on the grand stand being re-
echoed from the quarter stretch Is all
bosh. In the first place they never yell
IN Lexington when the horses start,
they always save their wind for the
finish; and in the second place, there
could be no re-echo from the quarter
stretch, as they don't allow any one on
the quarter stretch at Lexington after
the horses commence to score.
Then again, about the negroes dash
ing between the legs of those lining the
fences. In the first place negroes DO
not dash, especially Kentucky negroes;
they are not built that way; and the
talk about their desperate effort to
learn the cause of the tumult is another
whopper, as every negro in Lexington,
from the ten year old pickaninny in a
coffee sack dressing gown to the most
venerable Uncle Tom, knew all about
that race for weeks and weeks.
Now here comes sentence from
Cummings that makes us smile. The
dispensers Of burgoo soup left their
pots and ladies, and dashed to the front
of the stand" Now let us see how
that could not happen. In the first
place Cummings has fixed the crowd
along the fences so thick, that the
Negroes have to dash" their heads be-
tween their legs in order to see the
"go." Now if this is true. how could
the dispensers of burgoo soup dash to
the front of the stand. At Lexington
no one is allowed to dash to the front
of the stand but the drivers and horses,
even if the fences are not lined with
excited spectators, with their legs
succeed with negroes, badly off color.
Congressman Cummings would do
well to study the surroundings of a
Kentucky "hoss tr Ot," before he in
dulges in any more syndicate letters.
Congressman Breckenridge can give
him some valuable pointers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05

THERE is no lack OF suggestions for
a successor to Window. One-for Mr..
McKinley-reyeals the interesting
information that he expects to
be a Presidential candidate in 1899,
and this Office might interfere with
that. We would "adinire to see" Mr..
Mckinley run for President of this
country. Platform: "Sixty per cent
taxation for the benefit of the million
aires" The way the country walloped
his bill would not be a circumstance to
the way they would give it to the origi.
nal "BIll" himself..-[Chicago Journal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05

COMPLAINT is made that Senator
elect PETER, of Kansas, has more hair
than brains, because he wears full
whiskers and is not bald headed. This
is an unjust criticism. Plenty of noted
persOns have had an abundance of hair.
The woman who downed Sampson was
gifted that way, and Cleopatra, before
whom great Caesar fell, was another,
GeoTge Francis Train, Oscar Wilde
TSseodore Tilton, Susan B. Anthony,
Cal Brice, and Walt Whitman all have
lots of hair, and all are brainy persons.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05
THE BOARD OF HEALTH,

While the Canton Board of Health is
supposed to look after the sanitary
condition of the city, its powers are
limited. For instance, in case of a
flooded cellar, the Board would have no
available money tU employ a force to
pump 1t out; and still we can think of
nothing more disagreeable or unwhole-
some than flooded cellar. The Board
is authorized to look after the sanitary
condition of the city, in so far as those
conditions are the result of unclean-
illness, and the sanitary officer will give
careful and prompt attention to all
complaints. If you have any suggest
ions on any sanitary regulations, or any
complaints to make, the remedy lies in
communicating with the officer direct.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05

In more than one respect is William
Alfred PETER, the choice of the Kansas
Alliance for Senator, a lucky individual.
Not only has he been chosen to fill the
Senatorial buskins of John j. Ingalls, but
the erratic, epigrammatic, poetical para
grapher is estopped from rhyming catch
as.catch-can upon his name. Aside from
"heifer'' and Scheffer," the vocabulary is
limited,-[St. Paul Globe.
PETER also rhymes with Letter,
Neffer and Sneffer, and is a perfect
rhyme to a Kansas zephyr. And we
wish here to remark:
And there came Kansas zephyr,
Which unearthed this new man PETER;
Aud he MIXED the Kansas heifer.
Here's to PETER aud the heifer
And the good work OF the zephyr,
II like Ingalls ,nis man PETER
should milk dry the Kansas heifer,
We shall pray for one more zephyr,
70 wipe out this mau called Pefer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05
GROVER AND DAVID.

State Senator VIM. l.. Brown, form
erly of Youngstown, Ohio, now one of
the solid men of Gotham, gave swell
dinner in New York on Saturday eve
ming to the Presidents of the Manhat-
tan Club. At this banquet we're David
b. Hill, Governor and u. s. Senator
elect, and private citizen Grover Cleve.
land. Both were in good form, and
each paid the other some very appro-
pirate compliments. Grover congratu-
lated the State of New York over the
successful administration that Gov.
Hill has given the State, and predicted
in the enlarged trust of Senator
that David would not disappoint his
friends. To these grateful words Gov.
Hill graciously responded. He said he
knew, when he returned to private
life, he would be satisfied with himself
and his career, If he could command
from his countrymen the same conf
dence and high regard that is now
accorded Grover Cleveland.
This is Just splendid but it is OBJ.
served that Grover did not mention
that he hoped still higher honors were
in store for Governor Hill, and David
B, omitted to remark that he trusted
the American people, in 1892, would
rectify the great wrong they did them
selves by the "blocks of five" machine,
in relegating Grover Cleveland to pri.
vate life in 1888. But, even without
these delicious compliments, the meet
ing of Grover and David around the
festive hoard is happy omen.