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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-10
SURROUNDEA. BY MYSTERY!
a Great Mistake.

A recent discovery "a chat headache.
dizziness, dizziness, confusion of the mind,
etc, due TO derangcmcnt of tho nerve
centers which supply the brain with nerve
force; that indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia,
wind in stomach, etc, arise from the derange
ment of the nerve centers supplying these or
gans with nerve fluid or force. This IS likewise
true of many diseases of the heart and lungs.
Tue nerve system is like a telegraph system,
rs will be seen by the ACCOMMODATING
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-10

student OF nervous diseases. and author
OF many noted tT Ts2 tiSes en- the latter subject,
lopx since realized the truth of the first
81 dement,, and his Restorative Nervine
is prepared on that principle: Its success
h curing all diseases arising from derange
II int OF the nervous system IS wonder
ntais In possession Of the company manufac-
turing the remedy amply prove.
Or. Niles Restorative Nervine Is a reliable
remedy for ali nervous diseases, such as
headache, nervous debility, prostration.
bil1ty. 81. vitus dance. epilepsy, etc. 1t Is
sold by all druggists on positive guarantee'
or semi direct by the DR.. Miles Medical Co.
SIkhart, Ind. on receipt OF price. 81 per bot
tie, six bottles for S., express prepaid.
Restorative Neryine positively contains 10
opiates or dangerous drugs.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
,orFIcR-OSLBR BUILDING, Northwest esrner
Of Church and Main Streets.
Church Directory.

Reformed Church-Rev. G. A, Whltmole
NO. or Weekly Lectures Tuesday evening,
Meeting of Ladies' Aid Society every secoso
Wednesday evening. Regular serVlces
n pointment from the pulpit.
Lutheran Church-Rev. J. 3. Barb, pas
or. Services, Sunday 10 A. N. and 6S0 r.
NJ. Sunday School, 2. P. u Prayer Meet
ing, Wednesday, 6.45 +.
United Brethren Church-Kev W. l..
Martin, Pastor. Regular Services py ap'
appointment from the pulpit.
Glass Meeting every two weeks at ~ a: III
PRAYER Meeting every Thursday evening
Sunday School Pm.
Mite Society every econd ana fo"r'h
Wednesday evenings.
Missionary Meetings by regular appoint
ment,
Moravian Church Rev. NJ F. Oerter, fas-
tor. Sunday School every Sunday m. NJ
Preaching services will be held every other
Sunday as heretofore, alternating morhlne
and evening at 10 AID 1880 respectively
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev
Henry Mann Pastor. Services every alter
nate Sunday at 10 A. M. aud 7.3O r. NJ
. Sunday School at Q A. NJ. rayer Meeting
every Wednesday evening at 7.30 I. nj.
81. Stephens Church., Protestant Eplsco-
naj,-Rey. R. Nottingham, Pastor. Ser
vices every Sunday at 1890 I" m, except on
5tb Sunday In the month, then at night'
Evening Prayer, Fridays al
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
Dict For tho AIRED.

I find, says a writer in The Gentle
mans Magazine, that if old people
are put on a good meat diet in the
way of strong soup, beef tea and ami
NAL food, and only just sufficient fs-
rinaceous food and fats and sugar to
maintain the heat of the body, they
increase wonderfully in energy-as
they often express it, feel 20 years
younger. This is only natural; it is
food of energy, the food that builds
up muscle, nerve and constitutional
stamina.
The requirements of the system OF
old age, as a rule, are not very great,
and more harm is done by taking too
much food than by taking too little.
I have known people considerably
over 70 to derive the greatest benefit
from a thorough change in diet. It
seems to rejuvenate them. Of course
in old age care should be taken that
the body is not subjected to rapid
changes in temperature. When the
nervous power is decreasing, as the
result of old age, and the system is
losing power Of combating cold and
strain upon its energy, a stimulating
diet invigorates and is conducive to
maintaining constitutional stamina
better than any other.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
FUNNY side or LIpE,

There are a great many cheerful
givers--givers Of advice.
A beetle can draw twenty times its
own weight. So can mustard plaster.
You can't always tell how bad a dog
Is hurt by the way it howls, or how
poor man Is by the way he croaks.
The summer time is coming,
1t will soon be on the spot,
And we'll be asking for it,
"Where did you get that hot -
Hungry Higglns-I jnst called to
ask, mum, what makes all the trees
around here lean in the same dlrec-
ton?
Farmers Wife, guess the steady
wind does it.
H. HI guess that's what's the
matter with me. | amt had nothing
but wind to cat for three days, now,
and it makes me lean too.
The leayes are sproutlng on the
bough
The blue bird tunes his pipe;
The fruitful hens are laying now,
And bicycles are ripe.
Sing song o violets
Sing song o grasses;
Sing song o balmy May,
An freckled country lasses.
Talnt perlite ter tolk about
Sech a thing ez weather.
So We'll put 1t to tune
An sing it all tergether.
He was a small boy and he was very
much interested In the telephone. The
pretty telephone girl at the fifth Avenue
hotel put him upon e tall chair and
calling up chum on the long distance
wire, placed the receiver to his ear.
He was delighted and the first thing
that he told his mamma was that he
had talked with lady in Boston.
And what did you tell her. dear?
told her hello and then l told her
my name.
What did she say?
she said, 'sput' 'sput,' sput sput.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
The Pronunciation of Arkansas.

have travelled in Arkansas, and it
is said there that the legal pronunci-
alton is Arkansaw. In the antebel-
lum days, about the time Kansas was
admitted as a free state, there was
agitation in the state legislature Of
Arkansas in regard to the state name
being mistaken by it's similarity to
the name Of Kansas. One very zeal
GUS member of the house moved that
the legal pronunciation of the state
should be Arkansaw. The PROPOSE
ton was seconded, and passed by
large majority.
So the story goes. To travel tho
state and say Arkansas and not Ar
kansaw marks person among the
natives as being tenderfoot to their
soil. AS rule all southern people
say Arkansaw, and that, 1 believe, is
why the pronunciation is still kept
fresh, as know that the schools Of
Kansas and the west teach the pro-
nunciation Arkansas. - Baltimore
Sun
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
THURMONT Frederick County, Maryland Thursday May II, 1894.
Scientific and Industrial.

Birds with long legs have short
tails.
The pitcher plant snares insects and
swallows them, but does not digest
them.
Snakeproof aluminium boots haye
been tried in Florida swamps and are
success.
A French surgeon removed a, bullet
from the eye of a child without destroy
ing the sight Of the optic.
If a we'll could be dug to depth Of
fortY-six miles the air at the bottom
would be as dense as quicksilver.
In the northwestern part OF Colorado
there is region several hundred square
miles in extent which is a vast deposit
of petrified fish.
The tartar on human teeth Is filled
with anlmalcula, which are destroyed
by vinegar. Vinegar itself contains
eel-like insects.
A writer on elephants declares that
when very hot the elephant will insert
his trunk into his throat, draw up water
and sprinkle it oyer his back.
The cause Of the superstition con-
cerning the opal is found IN the fact
that this gem is very liable to split
and consequently to become worth
less.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
NO. ]
KILLED HERSELF IN PUBLIC.
How a Dereaved Chinese Fiancee Ended
Her Days.


Mr.. Medhurst, for many years Brit
ish consul at Shanghai, tells in the
London Million Of a singular card Of
invitation" which he received in Chi
ma. It was from lady, intimating
her intention to commit suicide on
specified date. She was very young
and attractive and belonged to a
wealthy family, but the Chinese gen
tleman to whom she had been affi-
anced from childhood having died
Just before the date fixed for their
nuptials she gave out that she deem
ed it her duty to render her widow
hood irrevocable by dying with her
betrothed. So she sent cards around
to the local gentry giving notice Of
her purpose.
No attempt was made by her rela-
tives or the local authorities to frus-
trate her design, though Mr. Med
hurst appealed to the mandarins, the
general opinion being that she was
about to perform a meritorious act.
Eventually, on the day named, the
woman did deliberately sacrifice her
life in the presence of thousands of
spectators. A stage was erected in
the open fields, with tented frame
over it, from which was suspended q
strip Of scarlet Grape. One end OF
this slip she fastened round her neck,
and then, embracing little boy pro-
sented by one of the bystanders, she
mounted a chair and resolutely
jumped off, her little clasped hands
saluting the assemblage as her body
twirled round with the Tightening
cord.
The woman was not bounded on by
a fanatic mob, as was the practice at
suttees in India, but immolation ap-
peared to be an entirely voluntary
act. Sacrifices of this kind, accord
ing to Mr.. Medhurst, are not uncom-
mon in certain districts of China,
and, strange to say, they are rewarded
with monuments, sometimes erected
by order of the emperor.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
Better Health Obtaining.

The average number of days Of
sickness in every decade for each
man is said to be only is. Under
rules of scientific hygiene and prin-
ciples Of health better practiced, our
span of life-be this desirable or the
reverse-has, by the evidence of in
surance societies, considerably in
creased. The power of unalleviated
physical pain to terrify or trouble is
practically at an end with the gen.
eral use of those benign anasthetics
which have brought a new era of
confidence to the hospital and sick
room and taken away all it's horror
from the surgeons knife.-Sir Edwin
Arnold in Longman's Magazine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
VIOLETS.

Sweet wildwood Yiolets,
Purple and white,
Sparkling with dewdrops,
Shining and bright.
Up bright and early,
When the sun doth arise,
Surely, all laggards
Would we'll do likewise.
Gathered by children
In bunches so sweet,
Mingled with dandellons,
Companions quite meet.
Hid midst the blades
Of the wavy green grass,
Peeplng lat wayfarers,
AS gayly they pass.
Worn by the naughty,
The rich, and the great;
Though grown IN luxury
AT the cottager's gate.
Forerunner's.o of Springtime,
Thy coming''we greet,
For there's joy in thy faces,
So innocent, sweet.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

The chief Office Of silence is to bury
all that is evil, and the chief Office Of
speech is to disclose and disseminate
all that is good. Let this be done
with sincerity and earnestness, and
let no criticism discourage it, for its
ultimate benefit to character and to
conduct is established beyond doubt.
New York Ledger.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

"Giye me a man with an aim,
Whatever that aim may be,
Whether it's wealth or whether it's
fame,
It matters not to me-
Half the aimless lives are due to las
sltude of body caused by disordered
liver. To keep your liver in order and
so prevent evil accumulations in your
blood, to make you feel light and right
and bright from morning till night, to
make you sleep sweet and keep your
system complete take DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. They cure constipa-
tion, indigestion, biliousness, sick head
ache and kindred disturbances.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
ONLY A PRINTBR'S
DREAM.

A printer sat in his Office chair,
His boots were patched, and his coat
threed-bars.
And his face looked weary and worn
with care.
While sadly thinking Of business debt
Old Morpheus slowly around him
crept,
And before he knew it he soundly
slept;
And sleeping he dreamed that he was
dead,
And from trouble and toll his spirit
had fed,
And not even a COW bell tolled
For the peaceful rest of the COW hide
soul.
And as he wandered among the
shades,
That smoke and scorch IN lower ha-
des,
He shortly observed an iron door
That creakingly hung an hinges ajar,
But the entrance was closed with u
hot iron bar,
And Satan himself stood peeping out.
Waiting for travellers thereabout,
And thus to the passing printer he
spoke:
"Come in my dear;
1t Will cost you nothing, and meyer
fear;
This is the place where l cook the
Who meyer pay their subscription
SUMS;
For though in life they may escape,
They'll find when they're dead its not
too late.
I will show you the place where l
melt them thin,
With red hot chains and scraps of
tin;
And also where | comb their heads
With broken glass aud melted lead F.;
And lfofrefreshulent they only think
There's boiling water here to drink;
The redhot grladstone to grind their
nose,
And the redhot rings to wear on their
And If they mention they don't like
fire,
I'll sew up their mouths with redhot
wire;
And then, dear sir, you may see them
squirm,
While I roll them over and cool to a
turn
With these last words the printer
awoke,
And thought it all a practical joke
But still 80 real at times did it seem
That he cannot belleye it was all q
dream;
And often he thinks with a chuckle
and grin,
Of the fate of those who save their
tin,
And never pay the printer.
Press and Printer.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
CRACKED KERNELS.

Self will is the sand OF life.
Kisses are the cream of creation.
Temper is the tornado that wrecks
homes.
1t is no use to grieYe over split milk
or stolen poultry.
Major Lease objects to both Lew. ellen
and Mary Ellen.
The right kind Of a woman neither
gossips nor runs for office.
1t is the ruin of some boys to get
them a shot gun and bird dog.
Some mems religion is Judged by the
amount they pay the preacher.
A wise man will not deal in options,
or rest upon thorn, if he knows it.
Most negroes will steal watermelon
and an Indian will steal whlskey.
Did you eyer know train to be late
when you were behind time yourself.
It is the fellow who paints his nose
who has no paint to paint his house
with.
Craps and policy are the cheapest
kind of gambling, therefore the most
dangerous of the youth.
Some towns consist of a postofice, a
hitch rack and a place to hitch horse
shoes.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
Health.

A man too busy to take good care
of his health is like woodchopper
TOO busy QUITTING down trees to keep
keen edge on his ak, or a'drafts-
man too much engaged in drawing to
sharpen his per oil. Exchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
IN THE SHADDBR.

I'm a settln' in the shadder.
Down in the medder lane,
An my hearts a.fselin' sadder
Ez lissen to the strain
Ov the bobberlink, ,a-singin'
Like his heart was full ov glee
While memory is a-stingin'
Me jist like a bumblebee.
Long years ago we sot here,
My Mary Jane me,
An a finer. nicer lookin' pair
You'd scarcely ever see;
We'd meet here in the eyenln'-
Next night we'd come again,
But now I'm sore a'grievin',
An all fer Mary Jane.
'Tain't because she died an left me,
She didn't 60 that way.
Fer if death had bereft me
I'd not haye much to say.
But she left me in the winter
When the jays begin to sing
Then she writ me she's a'goin ter
Git married in the spring.
So l. m a'settin' in the eshadder
Ov the maple in the lane,
An my hearts a'feelin sadder,
Fer she never came again.
An winters chased the summer,
More'n twenty times away,
Since Mary Jane she left me-
On that dark December day.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

Mis- FL wish you would not be go
rambling in your compensation, Mr..
Spoons. A few minutes ago you were
remarklng that you loved me.
Mr.. S-Y-yes.
Mis- F-And now you suddenly break
off and ask me to marry you. Explain
yourself please.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

Clara-Mr. Spooner said l looked
pretty enough to kiss in my new
gown.
Maud-Is that all?
Clara-That's all he said.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

Miss Gush-Oh, colonel, just look at
those magnificent elms. I am sure you
love trees.
Col.-Dearly, Miss gush, learned to
love them during the war.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

Wife Cooking over bilD-Do you
remember how many trout you caught
on your fishing trip last Saturday?
Husband-Just twelve; all beauties.
Why?
Wife-Tke fshmonger made a mis-
take. he only charges you for half
dozen.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

A little tail I would reherse
Of one, once sick, who soon grew
worse.
With boils and blotches covered o 'er,
He took of remedies, score.
Alas, they all did fail to heal,
While be each day still worse did
feel.
Up spoke a friend. Your blood's i'm
pure
But DR.. Pierce can heal you sure
His G. Nd will quickly cure
Like balm on wounds these words
were poured.
The sick man, g health was soon re-
stored.
Impure blood is caused by want Of
healthy action on the part of the liver.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
is the best remedy in the world for lily
srs, and for purifying the blood and
system from all polsons and impurities
Of whatever name or nature.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17

Editor of the Wayback Woodaxe-
Does advertising pay?'
We'll, 4 should say 1T did. Why, ,only
last week Sammy Shortweight, the
grocer. advertised in my paper tor a
boy, and that very night his wife gave
birth to twins. Both boys too
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-17
A GOOD Thing.

When fire couldn't hurt her,
Though close she came by it
o, ladies, 0, managers,
Why don't you all try it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
Fire in q Man of War.

VALLEJO, Cal, Aug. "A fire broke
out on the United States man of war
Marion about 1880 this morning and it
was three hours before the flames
could be extinguished The vessel
was put in the big dock at Mare Island
last Monday. The fire was confined
to the ward room and the shell room
on the port side and was very difficult
to reach, it being necessary to cut
through the side of the ship and down
through the deck The vessel is built
of white oak and the fire ragged
fiercely. The cause of the fire is I'M
known, but it is supposed to have
originated in some waste. The loss is
Sc. 600
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

Washington, August 2.-Sundry
appropriation bill was under considered
all day. The report of the confere
committee on the agricultural bill in WI
the conferees agreed to recede from
amendment appropriating $1,000, 900
the determination of the Russian thi
was agreed to.
HOUSE.
Moore. Funston contested election CT
from Kansas second district, was un
consideration.
SENATE.
Washington, August 2.-The sundry
bill passed. Gray, chairman of the spe1
committee to investigate charges of brib
against senators, presented the rep{
which exonerates all senators from ST
ulating in sugar stock during the pond
of the bill and declares there is no evide |
that any senator was corruptly or imprI
erly influenced in consideration of the
A resolution by Chandler for Investigate
of thu Nova Scotia coal combine I
placed on the calendar.
HOUSE
A resolution declaring Moore, dem.
titled to the seat occupied by Funst|
rep, was adopted, 146 to 81.
SENATE.
Washington, August Bills for adm
sion of New Mexico and Arizona were
ported favorably. The general deficier|
appropriation bill passed.
HOUSE.
Bland introduced a resolution instrr}
ing the committee on ways and means
report bill placing all sugars on the Fl
list and raising hundred millions by |,
come tax, to be pressed if the general tai
bill fails.
SENATE.
Washington, August 4.-The bill to
national bank notes and United Stal
treasury notes by states, passed Bill n
United States consuls and for the exclusI
of anarchists was debated but went OF
till Monday.
SENATE.
Washington, August 6.-Bill for exd
sion and deportation of anarchists \
discussed at length and passed.
HOUSE.
johnson of Ohio presented a memoi
praying for the impeachment of Jud
Kicks of the Northern district of Oh
Referred to judiciary committee. Ind
appropriation bill amendments were
bated but no action taken.
SENATE
Washington, August IA resolut|
passed which directs the president to I'd
steps to release American citizens confi1
in the island of Cuba for participation
the recent rebellions.
HOUSE.
Adjourned at 2:45 after short and |
interesting session. The conference
house democrats to consider the matter
the delay In the tariff conference adjou|
ed without action.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-08-09
SENSATION IN ATcHIsoN.
Important Meeting OF Reorganization
Committee Will BE Held.

Committee Will Be Held.
NEW YORK, Aug. The Heeald
this morning says:
1.-THE Atchison railroad scanda ais
may develop sensations that will
throw in the shade McLeod's transac.
tions in the Philadelphia & Reading.
Members of the protective commits
sion say there will be many dra-
matte inridents in connection with
the investigation of the supposed
systematic overcharging of accounts
to the extent of 81, 200 600. President
Remnant, it is said. is preparing to
take long vacation for his health.
He will return to New York Monday
in time to attend an important meet
ing on that day of the recognizing
committee, when a stormy time is ex-
pected in connection with the supposed
with the supposed fictitious bookkeep-
ing during the four years prior to the
receivership. The directors of the
company seem to have been put to
great confusion and it is thought that
certain of them will attend the meet
ing and take the opportunity to free
themselves from any suspicious that
NAV be entertained