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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
TAURMONT, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday, July 2G 1884,

will ever have any charm for me. How
ever, I determined to say no word O.
my fealings toward her until l could by
some means place her in safety.
1t was while my mind was in this
state of love and anxiety that finished
her picture. She looks at you from the
canvass just as she looked at me, mourn
full and tender as wounded dove.
As an excuse for further visits | told
her that l must paint a portrait Of
knight, and she gladly assented I pre-.
pared my canvas and waited impatient.
ly for her next visit.
1t was autumn by this tlme-autumn
gloriously beautiful, as 1t can only be
in these mountains. Not with the splen-
dor of yariegated forests, although they
are very beautiful too.
I sometimes shut my eyes and my
imagination pictures our old home IN
Illinois, especially as it used to look in
the fall of the year.
The low hills which surrounded our
valley farm were covered with oak,
maple, hickory, cherry, blackberry and
many other trees, and at that time Of
the year they were russell and crimson
and gold with the first kisses of decay.
X X X X X
You know how short lived this beau
tlful time is IN this latitude. But
while nature was calling me in her most
alluring voice to come out and be happy
I husked corn from early morning till
night.
Then, after the horses were cared for
and the milking done, | crawled into
my small low chamber under the roof,
too tired even to rest and sleep.
(To BE CONTINUED.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
Wisdom of BalZac.

A man who loyes we'll is never wholly
despicable.
Man be he mediocre, can arrive at
anything.
1t is perhaps by our vices that we
hang best together.
Envy loosens as many tongues as ad'
miration freezes.
Woman lives by sentiment where man
lives by action.
Light should be the baggage Of him
who pursues fortune.
Talent, like the gout, sometimes sklps
two generations.
Some people haye only stuff enough
in them for one vice.
Results are the profits of society.
Motives concern God.
'Legally'is a robust adyerb that props
up many fortune.
Medlocrity wages incessant warfare
against superior men.
A man is strong when he admits to
himself his own weakness.
There are but few mortal wounds
that solitude does not cure.
The w-rld alway ends in condemn
ing those whom it accuses.
A hobby is the medium between a
passion and a monomania.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
The Doctors Rash Promise,


This is a true tale, and 1T points a,
moral. A physician of Baltimore city
had treated a certain gentleman and
was asked the question How much do
I owe you?'
Three dollars, said the physician.
But when the patient drew forth a.
$40 gold.piece the healer looked chop
fallen, and asked anxiously. 'Haye YOU
no changer
No. was the answer. Only this and
two nickels,'
'Then give me the two nickels,' said
the physician, for if I take the gold /
shall pc So out.
The unhappy man had rashly promis-
ed his wife that all the gold taken in
by him in the discharge of his calling
should be her perqulsite.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
w HAT IT PROVED.

A patient in an insane asy lum imag-
med himself dead. Nothing could drlye
this delusion out Of the mans brain.
One day the physician had a happy
thought and said to him:
Did you ever see dead man bleed ?
No, he replied.
Did you ever hear Of a dead man
bleeding?
No.
Do you believe that dead man can
bleed?
No.
Well, if you will permit will try an
experiment with you and see whether
you bleed or not The patient gave
his consent, the doctor whipped out his
scalpel and drew little blood
There, he SAID, you see that you
bleed; that proves that you are not
dead.
Not at all, the patient instantly re-
piled, that only proves that dead men
can bleed.
So your husband was drowned in the
late floods? How sad. Did they recov-
er the body?
No, John always had the habit of
going to the dottom of everything.
is there any person you wish me to
marry?' said a wife to dying spouse.
Marry the devil. if you like was
the reply.
No, I thank you my dear, one hus-
band of the same family is enough for
me-
Schoolboy's composition-The horse
is an animal with four legs; one at each
corner.
PHYSICIAN Are you i'll? Let me see
your tongue.
PATIENr-Its no use doctor, no
tongue can tell low bad | feel.
PENELopE-Why don't you play foot
ball?
HoLLY-I'm not tough enough to be
on the team.
PENELopE-But you'd make nice
soft football.
Miss Ellen Fox of Brooklyn ,dislocat-
ed her lower jaw while yawning, few
nights ago.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
The Merry Side Of Life.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

SHE-Really, now, aren't you mar.
ried man?
HE-No, why?
SHE-Oh, you haye stch a settled
look.
HE-Yes, I've been refused by 13
girls.
FARMER-Hang that COW always
haye to club her fore 1 can make her
stand still.
LITTLE NEPHEW (from the clty)-Ts
that the one that gives whipped cream?
WIFE-Tomorrow IS your birthday,
darling, and Pm going to stop at the
jewelers. and buy you a present.
HnBBY-Get something cheap pet, I
haven't paid him for my last birthday
present yet.
TEACHER AN eye for an eye and a
tooth for tooth is not demanded now.
ToMMY-No, the dentist takes your
tooth now, an stead of giyin' you
another one, he makes you pay him SO
cents.
BoBB1E to young man who has come
to see his sister-Do you want the
screwdriver, Mr.. Binks?
Mr.. BINKs-Screwdriver! Whateyer
should want with that?
BoBBIE-Oh, l heard my ma say yes
terday that she thought you had screw
loose somewhere.
LITTLE Boy-That lady gave me
some candy.
MoTHER-J hobe you were polite
about it.
J.. B.-Yes'm.
M.-What did you say?
l.. B-I said 1 wished papa would
haye met her before he got 'quainted
with you.
MorHER-Now, Johnnie, l don't
want to ever catch you in that jam closet
again.
JouNNY-An' I don't want you to,
nuther.
Getting ratified that tin affair of the
baby's.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
A Man of Language.

The old man had adjusted his glasses
and looked at the pale faced clerk.
Absent yesterday, he said.
Yes, sir, replied the clerk.
Absent from sickness?
No sir.
Obi you're honest, anyway. Most
men would say they were.
hayn't been absent from sickness
for nearly year.
You havn't? The old man looked
surprised.
No, SLY. 1t has been with me all the
time.
What has
Sickness Of some sort.
But you said that yesterday
Yesterday was absent on account
of sickness.
The old man thought the matter
oyer for minute or two, and then he
said
Yes, yes | see You're rather par
ticular in your use of wor Is.
Yes.sir. Study to use them correctly
OF course and I'm trife careless.
Now, please see if this sentence is COR
rect Hereafter you will be absent from
my displeasure.
Ye-es sir.
You will also be absent on account
of my displeasure.
Ye~es sir.
And because of my displeasure.
Ye-es sir.
Quite right. am glad that I haye
sufficient command of language to make
you understand me. Good day!
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
ODD LITTLE ITEMS.

About the thinest thing in the world
Is the film of a soap bubble, o. which it
wonld take 5O,00O,O00 to measure an
inch.
The Americans are generally agreed
to have surpassed all other nations in
the invention and use Of rapid fire
guns.
There is an old French couple in
New York, neither of whom, after a
residence of 40 years in America, can
speak English.
A Roman soldier, in marching order
carried 60 pounds of weight and was
expected to march four miles an hour
for six hours a day.
There are insects which pass several
years in preparatory states of existence
and, finally, when perfect, live but a
few hours.
The oldest architectural ruins in the
world are belieyed to be the rock cut
temples of Ipsambul, on the left bank
of the Nile, IN Nubia.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
The Latest STYLE in Bonnets,

and the very newest thing in Dress
Patterns" are not half as important as
the perfect health of the ladies who
wear them. For without health there
Is little enjoyment in life and no desire
for dresses and bonnets. When ladies
are suffering from pains IN the back
nervousness, inflammation of internal
organs, Female Weakness and derange-
ment, the use of Dr.. Pieroe's Favorite
Prescription will bring immediate relief.
Cure guaranteed or money returned,
Druggists have 1t for sale
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
No. | 5.

NEIGHBoR-So you have twins at
your house?
ToMMY-Yes' IN, two of EN-.
N.-What are going to call them r
T.-Thunder and Lightning.
N.-What strange names to call chill.
dren.
T.-Well, that is what pa called them,
as soon as he heard they were in the
house.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26
CAUGHT,

| often see her across the street,
A vision sweet and fair ;
Lace-curtalned in a dim retreat,
Framed by window square.
And dimly, in the dark recess,
l see her raise an arm,
To comb or fasten back a tress,
Unconscious of her charm.
| see her move toward the light,
And then | sea- frown
AS with little fling of spite,
The cruel shade comes down,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26

Organic weakness or loss of power
in either sex, however induced, speedily
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cents in stamps for book of particulars
mailed in plain envelope sealed.
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Buffalo, N. Y.
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HDD5D
lBUDIEJ,EJB

GOOD
tBU1IEJ.E15D
MA.XlIAlgs
Hold integrity sacred.
Observe good manners.
Endure trials patiently.
Be prompt in all things.
Maze few acquaintance.
Yield not to encouragement.
Lie not for any consideration.
Go not in the society OF the vicious.
JOIN hands only with the yirtuous.
Respect the counsel of your parents.
Never try to appear what you are
not.
Sacrifice money rather than prin-
cipal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26

She-Why do you toy so neryously
with that fan are you afraid Of it?
He(gallantly)-Tm afraid of anything
that could produce a GOODNESS betw cen
us
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-26

The rice paper tree,a native of China
now Aourishes in Florida, where it was
introduced as an experiment some years
aVO
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
The Result Is Regarded as a Phenomena,
Victory for the People,s Party.

The Result Is Regarded as a Phenomena
Victory for the Peoples Party.
The news from Georgia does not
seem to entirely harmonic with that
reiterated statement that populism is
dead in the south.
Georgia, in the general nature of
things, ought not to be a happy hunt
ing ground for populists. 1t has been
nightly honored by the democracy.
From it President Cleveland drew-to
the wonder and amaze of the
rest of the country-his redoubt-
able secretary of the interior, Hoke
Smith. From Georgia, too, halls the
statesman whom the national democ-
racy through it's majority in the house
OF representatives made speaker-thus
giving him power second only to that
of the president. More than this, a
senatorial contest impends in Georgia,
Speaker Crisp being one of the chief
contestants. The legislators elected
Tuesday will have senator to choose.
There was every possible incentive for
the democrats of the state to turn out
in body and vote the straight party
ticket.
Yet the latest news from Georgia is
that the populists have made enormous
gains, and their vote is growing rapidly
as the returns from the back counties
come in.
Their success overthrows all demo-
cratic plans for the senatorship, and if
a democrat be elected to that Office he
will have to be a true Jeffersonian-
committed to free silver, the income
tax and the rights of the people, 1t is
phenomenal victory for the peoples
party.
1t were idle to attempt to minimize
the Importance of this Georgia election
Whether it may be taken as an indica-
tion of what is to be expected of other
southern states is a mere matter of
speculation, but that it will vastly en-
courage the populist managers all over
the country is but natural. The Times
expects that the one great surprise to
hide-bound politicians in the returns
of next November will be the showing
made by that young giant of politics.
the peoples party:-Chicago Times.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
DID THEY EARN IT?
SiXty-three Millionaires in a Dis
tance Of Six Miles.

You men who raise 40 cent
wheat, with products in general
ruinOusly reduced, with taxes high
and debts to pay you wage earn
ers, if not idle working only half
time, and at short hours and re-
duced pay; yOu merchants whose
business is well nigh ruined-all
of yOu, how does this strike you I!
1t is taken from one of our most
reliable exchanges:
Between Dobb's Ferry and Tar
rytOwn, in the suburbs of New
York, within a distance of six
miles, there reside sixty-three mil
liOnairs, and it is doubtful if in
any portion of the world such a
number of rich persons can be
found. Several of these persons
have fortunes so gigantic as to
have attracted the attention of the
entire world. Some of these are
widows of deceased milliOnaires.
Some are men III charge of some
of the largest railroad cOmbina-
tiOns, telegraph companies, banks,
trusts, and other mOnOpOlies of, the
nation. The aggregate of their
fortunes iS estimated at more than
S5OO,OOO,O0O. Is there longer any
doubt as to which portion of the
people of this land is prosperous !
Five hundred millions of dollars of
property in possession of sixty
three persons How did these
citizens earn this mountain of
wealth. Did they earn iti Still
they have it. 1t was created. By
whom! BY the men who toll from
sunrise to sunset. In what man
ner did these gentlemen get hold
of ite Do you think If not,
now is good time to begin.-Non-
confOrmist.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
Honest Elections.

As usual, the State press have
commenced their howlings for fair
elections, and at present advocate
sweeping reforms in the election
laws, only to fight later on any law
that will tend TO bring about the
results for which they clamor so
vigorously, Now the truth of the
whole matter is this: they are
afraid of the great mind -molder of
the masses-public OpiniOn-and
are seeming to delude the North
ern people by pretending to de-
plOre the election frauds down
South, while In reality nothing
suits them better. They deplore
the fact that the election law was
not adhered to very strictly and
urge its enforcement to the very
letter.
Now they well know that the
election held iu this State was in
10 way, shape or form, controlled
by the election laws now used. If
any one can inform us why the
same law gave us fair count in
NatchitOches parish, and allowed
the grossest frauds in Rapidesi 7
Why Sabine had fair election and
DeSOtO just the reverse of her sis
ter parish 7 We would be more
than grateful if they will tell us.
Until a fair and honest election
is assured, 10 reforms, however
needed, can be instituted-all ef-
forts under the present system is a
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
AS OTHERS SEE US.

The indianapolis Daily Journal
gives the following interview with
c. +. Kennedy, Secretary State
Board Of Agriculture of Indiana,
who attended the Shreveport Fair,
and hence was there on election
day:
Mr.. Kennedy spent election day
at Shreveport and says there was
little interest in the event. Hun
dreds of business men did not vote
and appeared to be pretty well
satisfied with the result of the
election all over the country. He
gathered the impression that the
prominent men of the State feared
to encourage the Democratic adj
ministratiOn by casting their bal
lots for their State ticket, and
rather than vote with the Republi-
cans remained away from the polls.
A decrease in the value of cotton
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
STRIKE AT ONCE.
II the People Would Avoid Military Des-
potism They Must Move Quickly and De-

II the People Would Avoid Military Des-
potism They Must Move Quickly and De-
cisively.
1t must be observed that, so long as
the plutocracy was able to protect the
"scabs" with it's own body guard of
Pinkerton detectives and other private
agencies, it was very slow to call for
aid upon the public authorities. Hav-
ing used the public powers of legisla-
ton to confer upon itself all the re-
munerative public franchises and pub
lie functions, it was 10th to use the
public bayonets, not in the defense of
its privileges and property, which never
were seriously threatened by strikers.
but for the protection of "scabs" who
were expected to do most of their own
fighting. The plutocratic class evil
IDENTIFY realized that the use of all the
public powers of repression for the ac-
complishment of it's personal ends
would inevitably, sooner or later, shift
the lines of the conflict on.very danger
GUS ground, that is, make it obviously;
a class conflict, for the possession of
the public powers.
Well, in the natural course of events
we have at last come to that. Owing
chiefly to the deserved odium which
attaches to the Pinkertons, not to
speak of the obvious illegality of their
employment, the militia and even the
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
FRIDAY, November 80. 1894.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

All defendants IN judicial sales
have the right to select the paper
in which the advertisement is to be
inserted, therefore we would ask
our friends to give us a bid before
advertising. The Populist is be-
ing run in the interest of humani-
ty, and it is the duty of all men to
support it. Also those who enter
homesteads have a right to select
their own paper for advertising.
Don't fail to give us call and we
will treat you well.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
What Others Say.

The love of ''pie" is all that is
holding the two old parties to.
gether.-The Courier.
More bonds and more Populists
is the latest administration pro-
gramme.-Pilot.
The old parties have nothing to
offer the people but stones while
they are crying for bread.-Midland
journal.
MOrtgaging Onr prosperity to
foreign syndicatcs is called obtain
ing foreign capital to develop our
resOurceS.-Sledge Hammer.
If the devil has his way the peo.
pie will still allow themselves to be
side-tracked by a discussion of the
tariff.-LabOr Advocate.
Can a Congressman do anything
under the sun that will prevent GER
tain people blindly voting for him
- Farmers Voice, Chicago.
Count out methods may win for
time, but they will bring damna-
tiOn to the party that employs
them in the end.-Nashville Far
mers' Voice.
The verdict of the people is that
the Democratic party is a better
minority party than majority par
ty.-Farmers Advocate.
The governments financial poll
cy, under bank direction, is like
the boy that traded two old cents
for one new One.-AdvOcate.
The individual who tells you to
let politics alone wants you TO
curry his horse and wants your
wife to scrub his floors.
wealth, Clinton, Mo.
Let all opponents of the money
power stand shoulder to shoulder;
the time has arrived to close in on
the English dictatOrs of our finan.
cial system at the polls.-MissOuri
World.
We rise to n question of privi-
leges. Are you a Democrat ! If
so. how do you know you are ?
What rule do you measure yourself
by !-COuricr.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
WHICH is THE MOTHERq
The Hen Who Laid the Eggs or the One
Which Hatched them.

The Hen Who Laid the Eggs or the One
Which Hatched them.
Peoples party advpcates make re-
publicans very angry in reminding
them that their last secretary of the
treasury, Hon. Charles Foster, was pre-
pairing to do just what the present
democratic secretary has done in the
matter Of issuing bonds A great
number deny that such was the case.
To decide such a dispute letter was
written the present secretary which
called forth the following answer:
TREASURY DEPT, OFFICE OF SECRETARY,
WASHINGTON. Sept. IL, 1894
To Mr. George W. Dunn. Thin, o.
Dear sir: Your favor Of the 18th inst is re-
ceived, and in response you are advised that
Secretary Foster before he left the depart
ment. ordered plates for the issue Of bonds to
be prepared, but the $50 900 900 of bonds issued
In February last were not engraved upon the
plates-that is to say, the plates which Secre-
tary Foster had prepared were changed in or
der to make them conform to the character of
bonds issued In February. Very truly yours,
j. G. CARLISLE.
So you see that the democratic hen
hatched out republican eggs.-Non-
ens sforrr;e.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30

A Washington special to the
Arkansas Press says: In political
and government circles little but
the bond issue is talked about, and
it is currently reported that the
president is giving much of his
time to the study of the financial
system of the country. The shoe
pinches the Democrats, however.
because he is receiving his instruc-
tions from bankers who are not
and never were in accord with the
principles of the Democratic par
ty on the monetary questions. 1t
appears as if the national bankers
are to make a desperate struggle
through Mr.. Cleveland to kill off
silver money entirely, fix mono
metalism on the country perma-
nently, and obtain absolute CON
troll of the governments finances.
The reason that the president will
not wait for Congress to convene
before acting on the bond issue is
because so many of them have
been defeated, they may come back
here with rods in pickle for him.
Beyond a doubt Cleveland is fgur-
ing on another term, and has start
ed in to build up his own party
around him and will make the race
on the financial issue, which will
undoubtedly be the paramount
question before the people of the
country in 1896. Then it will be
the East against the West and
South or all signs fail.
The Louisiana populist., 1894-11-30
GETTING TOGETHE
The Farmers and city vvrse-wor'

The Farmers and city 'vrEe-Wor, -- -
preparing for t.e Last Grant.
I tho Ballot Eox.
The Cleveland Citizen gives tire fol-
lowing list of labor organization.
which, through their state and ma
tional councils, have adopted the plat.
forms of the American Federation Of
Labor, including the now fauo,l,
! plank 10, which declares for the pub';o
ownership of all means OF production
and distribution:
Amalgamated Association Iron and
Steel Workers.
American Flint Glass Workers
union.
! Boot and Shoe Workers union
Brewery Workers international
union.
Brotherhood of Painters and Deco.
rators.
Convention of Michigan trades
unions, X. of l.. assemblies, farmers
alliances and oranges.
Convention of Illinois trades unions,
single tax clubs, farmers alliances, So
cialist sections, etc.
Convention of trades unions. X. of l..
assemblies, railway and farmers or
CARNATIONS of Ohio.
German American Typographical
union.
Hotel and restaurant employees ma
tional alliance.
international Furniture Workers
union.
Journeymen Brewery Workers ma
tional union.
Kansas State Federation of Labor
Machine Wood Workers Internation-
al union.
Maine State Federation of Labor.
Miners and Mine Laborers' Western
union.
Missouri State Federation of Labor.
Mule Spinners' national union.
National Machinists' union.
National Textile Workers union.
New York State Federation of Labor
Ohio State Trades and Labor as
sembly.
Peoples party of Wisconsin.
Peoples party of Illinois.
Peoples party of Ohio.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
Chi1cu MiHe NOrkerS Ol Anerlcd
Wisconsin State Federation of Labor.
Since this list was published the
amalgamated association of street
railway employees, in national conven-
ton, have unanimously adopted the
same programme. The world is NOV
ing fast, and labor organizations are
taking rapid strides toward the last
great strike, strike which will wipe
from the face of the earth the present
system of blighting barbarism. and
supplant it by an economic system of
justice to all and social order in which
love will supplant hate; in which
brotherly cooperation will take the
place of strife, and poverty be forever
abolished.-Akron (O.) New Republic.