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Greece Soon TO be an island.

The scheme for cutting a canal
across the isthmus of Corinth has
had its periods of trouble aud de.
preston, like other and greater en-
terprises OF the same character, but
it appears to be now rapidly APP
preaching completion. The conces-
sion was originally granted by the
Greek government in May, 1881, TO
General Turr, with whom was asso.
ciated NJ. de Lesseps.
After the original capital had been
absorbed and the operations for some
time suspended, the operations were
taken up by new company, who in
1890 entered into a contract With a
firm who undertook to complete the
works on March 10, 1898, under a
penalty Of "a 900 per month for any
delay alter that datc, put uuIorCu-
nately about this time last year a
waterspout passed over the works,
flooding the excavations.
The disaster necessitated slight
extension of the term, but the con-
tractors now promise that q large
steamer will go through the canal on
the 23d of April next. Great efforts
are being made to render the system
oflighthouses adequate. The Corinth
canal, which will have cost from FIRST
to last G2,T50,O0O, will be lit by
electricity, with two powerful lights
at each end and row oil lights
through its entire length.-London
News.
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#Daily. Others daily except Sunday.
tStops only to land passengers from Bal
timore.
Blue Mountain Express, (Parlor Carr
leaves Baltimore 1922 p. M, stopping at
Westminster, New Windsor, Union Bridge,
Brucevile connection for Frederick },
Thurmont, Blue Ridge, Buena Vista
Spring, Blue Mountain, tSmith burg,
Hagerstown.
Blue Mountain Express, (East) leaves
Hagerstown 6.43 a. M, stopping at above
stations, also Rocky Ridge, Glyndon,
Owings Mills and Sudbrook Park.
Additional trains leave BALTIC. for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations at 1911
a. M, and 5.05 and 6.07 p. M; and leave
Union Bridge for BALTIC. and Inter. Stations
at 5.25 a. M, Bruceville 6.25 a. NJ, and
Union Bridge at 12.45 p. m, daily, except
Sunday.
Sundays only-Leave nalto. for Union
Bridge and inter. Stations, $50 a. m. and
2.30 p. m., arl leave BruceYille COS a. m.
and Union Briuse lcr Baltimore and In
termediate Stations 3.5S p IN
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The Newspaper.

would rather have newspapers
without Government than Govern
ment without newspapers-Thomas
Jefferson.
The newspaper is a great mental
camera, which throws picture OF
the whole world upon a single sheet
OF paper.-"The Fourth Estate"
/ never take up newspaper with
out finding something | should have
deemed it loss not to have seen;
never without deriving from it in
struction and amusement.-D John
son.
For almost all that keeps up in US,
permanently and effectually, the
spirit of regard for liberty and the
public good we must look to the I'M
shackled and independent energies
of the prcss.-Hallam.
The newspaper is the chronicle of
civilization. 1t is daily and Sleep
less Waterman that reports to you
ever danger which menaces the in
situations of your country and its
interests at home and abroad. 1t is
law book for the indolent, sermon
for the thoughtless, library for the
poor.-Bulwer.
The newspaper is the familiar of
all men, of all degrees, of all occu-
pations. If it teaches it teaches i'm
perceptlbly. 1t has no pompous
gown or scholastic rod to abash or
control, but prepares itself and is
admitted freely and at once to
worldwide intimacy with all kinds
and conditions of people Hunt.
In my judgment all the machinery
used in communicating information
to the public is not of really more
Importance to the community at large
than the power of the people to COM
municate by advertisementand bring
the buyer and seller together and
give them the machinery for COM
municating their wishes to one
another.-Right Hon. A. j. Balfour
at the Newspaper Society Dinner in
London.
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Good Business Msximl

Attend carefully to tie details Of
your business.
BE prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide posi-
lively.
Dare to do right; fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight lifcs BATTLES bravely.
Go notin the society ofthe vicious.
Hold integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation in
business.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mird from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintance.
Never try to appear what you are
not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veraclty OF o
friend.
Respect the counsel of your par
ents.
Sacrifice money rather than prin-
ciple.
Take care of the pence and the
pounds will take care OF themselves.
Use your leisure time for improve
ment.
Venture not upon the threshold of
wrong.
Watch carefully over your pas
sions.
Xtend to every one kindly salu-
tation.
Yield not to Encouragement.
ZealOusly labor for the riolt.
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CLERICAL WIT.

A clerical gentleman of Hartford,
who once attended the House of
Representatives to read prayers, be-
ing politely requested to remain
seated near the speaker during the
debate he found himself the specta-
tor Of an unmarrying process, so
alien TO his own vacation, and so
Characteristic of the Legislature of
Connecticut, that the result was the
following:
lmpromptu, addressed by a priest
to the Legislature OF Connecticut
Cor cut-ting all connections famed.
Connecticut is fairly named;
l twain connect in one, but you
Cut those, whom l connect, in two,
Each Legislature seems to say,
What you Connecticut away"
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Are You Ever Annoyed

by buzzing or roaring sound in
your headl Have you difficulty in
hearing distinctly Are you troubled
with continual dropping of mucus,
irritating the throat and causing you
to cough? Is your breath unpleas-
antly affected and accompanied with
bad taste? Is your hearing less
acute? If so, you have catarrh and
should at once procure bottle OF
Ely's Cream Balm, the best known
remedy. The Balm will give instant
relief.
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FREDERIC THE GREAT AND HIS FLUTES.
Fiederic's chief amusement was
playing on the ilule, on which he
performed very well i'r an amateur,
though compared with professional
performers, he made but a common
performer. He rather lacked conf
dence 10 hims, If, e.: l'n was . m..eh
afraid of 'aiiare. th.g Whenever he
had q rev piece 0! music, he shut
himself up in his closet some hours
to practice in private. He had q
fine collection of flutes, all made by
the same man, and for which he paid
one hundred ducats piece. During
the war when his finances were low,
and much bad money was ahoat and
in use, his fute-maker was always
paid in good coin, lest for bad money
he should be given bad flutes.
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Vow Try This

twill cost you nothing and will
surely do you good, if you Lave a
Cough or Cold, or any trouble with
Throat, Chest or Lungs DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
give relief, or money will be paid back.
Sufferers frcm La Grippe found it
Just the thing and under its use bad
a speedy aud perfect recovery. Try
a sample bottle at our expense and
learn for yourself just how good a
thing it is. Trial bottles free at L.
G.. Matthaei's Drug Store Large
size 50c. and 81.
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Boys Should Learn Trades.

Too much fault is in the folly of
the parents, who in the idiotic ex-
p ca i'm that lucky chance will
open an easy rcquisition Of wealth in
mercantile or professional life, per-
mt'ing heir hnv- tn orb~ up in
idleny>s, instead of seating them in
to mechanics workshops to learn
trades. This stupit; folly las be-
come almost universal. A black
smith or carpenter may have diff
Guilty in finding an Intelligent boy to
work in bis shop, but let merchant
or professional man advertise for an
Office boy, q messenger, or packer,
at 50 or So a week, and he will have
applicants by the score, in spite of
the certainty that only something
like a miracle can ever advance the
successful one to the grade of service
in which he will earn as much as a
fair mechanic. Infinitely better than
this would be the ancient custom of
some European countries, where it
was required that every boy should
learn some trade, whatever the
wealth or position of his family might
be. No social, moral, or industrial
reform is more necessary for the
public welfare than the restoration
of boys to their proper place in the
mechanic arts, and the consequent
disarmament of the armies of Adde'S
cent blackguards whose detachments
are being trained in the worst asso-
Citations Of city life 70 become utter
ly worthless and intolerable nuis-
ances.
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Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg at
S.26 and 10. 40 a. M, and 1881 and $3.50 p. m.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge attic
and 10 90 a. M, and $50 and $50 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick at $40
a. m. and $40 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Taneytown, Littles-
town and Columbia at 7.44 a. m. and 3.45
p. m.
b. & o. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. 10, daily, at 8.57 a. IN. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. II, daily,
except Sunday, at 126 p. m and Chicago
Express No. 7, daily, at HOP p. m.
Passengers for Chicago Limited, No. 8,
or Cincinnati Limited, No. l, take No. II
to Hancock and there transfer to No. or
No. !.
Passengers for B. & O.Pittsburg Express
No. 8, take No. to Hancock and there
transfer.
}. NJ. HOOD, Pres. ard Gen'l Manager.
Is. H, GRISWOLD Gen'l. Pass Agent.
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Mr.. Jason-Talk about fashion
and all that sort Of thing, to my
mind the prettiest sight is woman
dressed in a nice, clean apron.
Mrs. Jason-Jehiel, I'd just like
to know where you have been TO see
women dressed in any such ridIcu-
lous style as that.
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Peddlar-Can l see the lady OF
the house
Servant Girl (who has just had a
spat with her mistress and received
warning)-You can see me. There
is no other lady in this house the
woman upstairs amt, you bet.
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Asthma and Hay Fever

cured by newly discovered treat
mept. Pamphlet testimonials and
references free. Address, Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, n. Y.
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Daily,
Daily except Sunday.
Through coach HagerstowG 20 Tbuadelphia on
Stain No T."
So.36 west and and 10 runs daily Har-
r-hurg and Hagerstown.
Through coach from Philadelphia to Hagerstown
Trains Nos. and g."
Additional trains will leave Carlisle for harrisburg
daily except Sunday at 50a m Us a. m Il 10 p. M,
as p. m and 40 M and from Mcchanicsburg at 6 ID
y N, 7 80 m, 10 co IN. Y IS m, as m, % M,
SIS and 10 05 m, stopping at End street, Harris
burg. to let Cd passengers.
Additional local trains will leave Harrisburg daily,
cept Sunday for Carlisle and intermediate stations at
4 SIS M bpm, 50 NJ 20 p m, and 10 IS m, also
Tor Mechanicsburg and intermediate stations at Tsp
II 10 a N ond 10 All of the above traius will stop
at 2nd street. Harrisburg to take passengers,
II. A. RIDDLE, J.F. BOYD,
Genl Pass. Agent. superintendent.
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DIFFICULT RHYMING.

Three or four wits had dired to-
gether, and while wineing, the sub
ject of impromptu, and the difficulty
Of finding rhymes for certain names,
were discussed. The brigadier gen.
eral and poet challenged any of the
party to find happy rhyme for his
name (Morris) and the challenge was
instantly taken up by Broughsm,
thus:
''All hail to thee, thou gifted son!
The warrior poet, Morris.
IT'S seldom that we see in one
A Caesar and Horace"
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LIAR in combination, PRO
portion ard preparation OF ingredi-
enss, Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses great
curative value. Yor should TRY Ut.
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The wit of Brougham as we'll as
his propensity to punning aud i'm
promptu are well known. The fol-
lowing anecdotes wellauthcnticated.
The Duke of Gloucester being in con-
yersation with him on the subject Of
reform, grew so warm in the argu-
ment, that he said hastily that the
chancellor was very near a fool.
Brougham replied that he could not
think OF contradicting him, and de-
clared that he fully saw the force of
his royal highnesss position.
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Little Things.

''Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love.
Make our earth an Eden.
Like the heaven aboye.v
Plerce's little "Pellets,"
Easy things take,
Ward off bilious fevers,
And the ague shake.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are
sovereign cure for constipation
biliousness, and all malarial troubles.
Smallest, cheapest, easiest to take.
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A HARDWoRKING WOMAN.


All day she hurried to get through,
The same as lotsSof wimmin do;
Sometimes at night her husband said,
Ma, amt you goin' to come to bed p
And then she'd kinder give hitch,
And pause balf way between a stitch,
And sorter sigh, and say that she
Was ready as she'd ever be,
She reekoned.
And so the years went one by one,
And somehow she was never done;
Aud when The angel said as how,
"Mrs. Smith it's time you rested now"
She sorter raised her eyes to look
A second, as a stitch she took.
"All right, Pm coming now,' says she,
''Pm ready as I'll ever be,
l reckon
ALBERT S. Paine in Kansas City Journal.
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BALTIMORE & O. V. R. R.

Leave Hagerstown for Shippensburg anu
intermediate Stations 6.25 and lilo a. m.
and 100 p. M, and leave Shippensburg for
Hagerstown and intermediate Stations at
6.C0 a. m. and 100 and 3 .0S P. m.
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The Tourist-"You seem to be
proud of your family title.n The New
York Millionaire Abroad proudly
-"Of course, am. paid for it in
good bard dollars. Chicago Rec
ord.
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TIME TABLES.
MONT ALTO RAILROAD
iva TIME TABLE

YETESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
w TIME TABLE
Connecting with 2. g. r. r. at Shippens
burg aud Gettysburg !; N. & w. r. r. at
Hagerstowp b. & o. r. R. at Hagers-
town and Cherry Run; P.R.R at Bruce
vile, and L. W. u B., N. G. and b. & p.
Railroads at Union Station, Baltic, Md.
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Sodlty cured without tho knife and without
pain. Clumsy, chatting trnsses can DO thrown
awayi They never cure but often induce In
Examination, strangulation and death.
TllM0PQ Ovarian, Fibroid fUterine) and
tSMOssS many others, are now removed
without the perils of cutting operations.
oil 2 TilNe0RQ however large, Fiatula
FILE tuNUn0, and other diseases Of
the lower bowel. are permanently cured with
out pain or resort to the knife.
CYnME in the Bladder, no matter how
OIVNE large, Is crushed. pulverized, wash
ed out and perfectly removed without cutting.
STRUCTURE OF Urinary Passage y also
0tEttOi Csts- removed without cutting in
and all particulars. send 10 cents in sfamps)
20 Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
No. CS3 Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
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"a xNrrm

in the hand Of a Surgeon
gives you a feeling Of
horror and dread. There
is no longer necessity for
Its use Ia many diseases
formerly regarded as in
durable without cutting.
The Triumph OF
Conservative Surgery
is well illustrated by the
fact that
RUPTURE Or (. nd Breach 9SlI.
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W. J. ROBINSON, G. P. A,
Parkersburg, w Va.
AND OHIO RAILROAD
II TIME TABLE,
WEST BOUND.

N EFFECT SUNDAY, MAY 70, 1895.
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SHIO RIVER RAILROAD
~ TIME TABLE
south Bound.

On and after Monday, il ne 4, 1891,
passenger trains will run as follows:
*Daily tDaily except Sunday.
1 A Y Month Rn,1nh
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Sold throughout the world. PORES DRUG AND
CHEM. CORP, Sole Proprietors, Boston, U. S. A.
"Al about the Hands and Skin" mailed free.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-07
Another Weevil Remedy.

Mr.. c. @. Gresham directs our atten-
tion to what he considers the best pre-
ventitive for weevil in corn and we
gladly give it for the benefit of our read
ers.
He says go into the corn fields and
bend the stalk over just below the ear
so as to leave the ear hanging down ward
and that the weevil will drop out and
in addition the shuck will not hold
water, and thus much of the corn will
be saved firm rottening. The corn
should be left on the stalk until the last
of September or the first of October,
and then when it is gathered it should
be carefully slip shucked.
This experiment is worth trying. Mr..
Gresham says that this plan has always
been adopted by the growers in east
Florida, and that they have Ii tie trouble
with the weevil.-Courier- Informant.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-07
Fruit from the Keys.

A West P tlm Beach correspondent of
the Citizen says:
The schooner Pearl arrived from Bis.
cayne Bay yesterday afternoon, having
made a trip to the keys after fruit.
Pineapples are all shipped from the
keys, and lines are now being shipped
in large quantities, the bulk of them 60
ing to Eastern markets via Key West
and steamer. Lines are bringing ex-
traordinarily good prices, owing to the
scarcity of lemons, caused by last
winters disastrous freezes, some selling
as high as So per peck crate. Other
fruits on the keys, such as sugar apples,
alligator pears, and mangoes, will soon
be moving in large quantities. Bananas
on the keys are very scarce and of in
lerior quality, owing to the slight frost
during the more severe cold further
north, the banana plants being very sus-
oeptible to cold,
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it is the safest plan. AS to saving off
the trees, all those dead clear down |
have decided to saw off at the ground,
for the mple reason that it is easier to
saw them before the sprouts come. |
have decided to leave the dead wood on
such trees as are alive in the branches,
of which have good many. 1t is GO
ing to be expensive to cut this dead wood
out, and | will leave 1t until after the
storm season next fall; it will serve to
support the sprouts which come out on
the sides of the trees, which, after the
storms are over, will be strong enough
support themselves | don't propose TO
abandon my orange property; propose
to take as good care of it as | can and
try and bring 1T back. Whether this
can be done or not will depend largely
upon the weather we have next winter.
| If we have mild weather think it will
be but few years before our groves are
restored.
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"Seventh-lt will renew the reputa-
ton of California, etc.
"Eighth-It will prevent the ship
ment Of frozen and unripe fruit. Fruit
not insured will find no buyers.
"Ninth-It will keep money at home
that goes to Eastern commission firms.
'"Tenth-It will bring into this great
industry first class business ability and
methods and men.
1t will compel all producers to learn
that palnstaking and honest packing
will alone bring them successful re-
turns. Until all this comes, our pro-
ducers will have uncertain, or no re-
turns, and our fruit interests will lam
guish.'
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ches in diameter. You will notice when
you cut off the tree that the stump is not
round, it is irregular, and if you push
down scion at point where the bark
line is convex it will split the bark, but
If you select place that is nearly fiat,
or slightly concave, the scion will take
up the slack of the bark as it were, and
the bark on each side of the scion will
not be raised from the wood, nor will the
bark be split by the insertion of the
scion.''
Mr.. Manville-'I see good many
statements in the papers. and [ have
heard them repeated here, about the
killing of the orange trees by the cold of
last winter. Now, want to venture the
opinion that no orange trees have been
killed; they have been cut down; the
question is how far down have they been
cut; but | don't believe there is single
tree in the State of Florida that is not
sufficiently alive to sprout from some
point if given chance. / have a grove
that has been severely cut by previous
freezes, and | have twice been through
this experience of bringing the trees up
from the ground. Adventurous eyes
must form in the live wood before the
trees can sprout and grow. Light and
air are essential to the formation of such
eyes. Where the trees are killed to the
surface, or below, the earth must be re-
removed so that eyes can form. But l
| do not believe there is tree in the
State so badly injured by the cold of
| last winter that it will not sprout from
| the tap root if this is done. Where the
collar or crown of the tree is killed, I'M
less the earth is removed, the tree very
likely may not sprout from the axis (or
tap root), and in this case, if the tree
sprouts at all it will be from the mair
lateral or brace roots, and as these roots
are no longer connected, the crown be-
ing killed, each sprout will be Separ-
ate tree, and tree with roots all on one
side at that. l am speaking of cases
where the trees are killed very low,
where the crown is killed and there is no
live wood connecting the laterals and
the main root or axis. In such cases, If
you dispense with these large brace
roots and open up the ground, 50 that
light and air can get down to the live
wood of the tap root, eyes will form,
sprouts will put out from the main axis
of the tree, and you will get good tree.
a much better tree than If you let the
sprouts come from the lateral roots, in
which case you will have a divided
tree"
Mr.. Misunderstanding of divided
trees, they are not ornamental, but they
prove prolific. | had some trees that
were killed down. They did not sprout
at all from the collar or main root, but
only from laterals. let these sprouts
grow two or three years and then bud
ded them with Washington Navels, and
when the freeze came l had number
of these little clusters of Washington
Navels, and they were just loaded down
with fruit. They were not ornamental,
but they were successful in producing
large crops of fruit"
J. w. King-"What to do for the large
| trees where the tons are entirely killed