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For Snow Hill Jno.
Nelson knocked n
two basser and REESE
Hayward did the
same thing. And
right here our artist
caught a snap shot
Nelsnn neifinr his
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and drove a hot grounder
through the legs of tn,
short stop out into left cen.
ter, which gave him first
The next man to WELD the
willow also pounded tn,
ball Tor Il base and he wa:
followed by another slug.
oror nnI ,.Lnn IL. IL
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New Castle will ash the next Legisla-
ture for permission TO borrow So, 900
with which 10 obtain artesian wells.
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FIVIN you UdSJs INVITIII~
ear splitting yells of
delight. The visi-
tors went to the hat
and they showed de-
spair in their faces,
but the first man PIT
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Raymond Duhadaway, son of Rev.
w. J. Duhadaway. has leased the
Conference Herald and will hereafter
conduct it.
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-NVW VIIIVt 1T dIU on II. II. NNt
SNOW HILL, MD.

EVERY Democrat who has the in.
terest of his party at heart should do
all he can to get Democrats to regis.
ter. Don't put this matter off attend
To il at once.
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Grasp this Opportunity.

On receipt of ten cents. cash or stamps.
a generous sample will be mailed OF the
most popular Cataryh aud Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate its great merit. Full size 50c.
ELY BROTHERS..
Sc Warren ST.. New York City.
was afflicted with catarrh last autumn.
During the month of October | could ncithel
taste nor smell aud could hear hut little
Ely's Cream Balm cured ii. Marcus Geo
Shautz. Railway. y. J.
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a fly up amcng the trees
in right field. G. Bailey
went to look for il and
when il landed in his LETT
lhand he was the most
surprised individual in the
Park. This snap shot
.b. a.. ~
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At the Top All the Time.

Our stock is apace with progress.
Our sure cure remedies is what gives
the Combination Drug Store the
leadership. The proper appreciation
is unstinted success. So long as we
conduct business justly, candidly and
perseveringly prosperity will remain
our ally; so long as We remain dutiful
to its principles, so long will the masses
and the classes be our business friend
and keep us at the top all the time.
L. L. Erickson, Jr.,
Banker and Prop
J. n. FarIow, Salesman.
BERLIN. MD.
Safe deposit drawers in the vault
for rent; $500 per annum. BANK.
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When the Snow Hill
team first went to the
bat the Princess Anne
pitcher looked around to
toward the grand stand
and exclaimed in un-
broken Manokim dis
am a regler snap He
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Walter l.. Mains

Ring Circus Continent Mens Real Roman
Trained Wild Beast a Circular re Cage
Bailey anif (Mas)
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Nelson getting his "Ncva totchei me :
base. Princess Anne was very weak
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IOIIONtU Hy HH0Iher sIIg- r. Hayward
ger, and when the side re- at the bat
tired Snow Hill had me r,n m her
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Bailey accepts. shows the sensation OF the
day, and the visitors did not score.
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twrlcr.
was visionary. HAYWARD took the bat
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SEPTEMBER 80

On its Own Great Trains, Drawn by Powerful
Grnist o. ttemal
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The meet Of the Eastern Shore
Wheelmen's circuit will be held in
Cambridge ON September 23d. The
occasion will be made an interesting
one for wheelmen and those fond Of
the sport.
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peas and send some help to take up the
carpets and whitcwash the palings and
the trees and the pig pen and clean up
things generally for some town kim
folks were threatening to visit them.
He said he was about to Guido the girls,
but his wife reinforced them and said
they didn't ask such favors but twice
a year and were the best daughters in
the world, and she thought he might
spare hand for day or two, and now
he writes to me for advice. Must he sur
render and take hand from the field
or not. No, of course not. The way to
do is to do all these little household
Jobs yourself. You can take up car
net and hang it on the paling and beat
the dust out of it o. well as anybody.
and withdrawing Is nothing but good
fun. You can hang q window curtain
or put in pane of glass or mend a baby
carriage or repaint the mantle piece.
My girls papered every room in our
house. Their mother trained us all to
do these things, and it saves lot OF
money. My friend, that whitewashing
must be done if the world comes to an
end. Let the cotton suffer for day.
l expect you have too much planted,
anyhow. Everybody around here has.
The good wife and daughters have to
stay in the house or about it nearly all
their time, and It should be made rs
pleasant and inviting as possible. Yours
in sympathetic bond.-Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
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The Thing Was Loaded.


Old man Joshiah Jernigan has got one
of these long, tall army muskets, which
has come down to him through the
Jernigan generations from the first set
Element of the country. 1t is one OF
them guns what you read about. You
ought to hear Josiah tell about it. He
can spin some of the hair-raisin yarns
perhaps as to how hie great-grandfa-
Their use to shoot bear and painters and
kill wild Indians with that same old
army musket.
One night last week it would seem
like Wade Turner had went over there
to the Jernigan place to spend the
night with the boys. And after SUD
per old man Josiah took down the old
musket and unwound himself in re-
CARDS to the war history and the fight
in records of the Jernigans. In his
own wild pecurious way he told some
tremendous bloody yarns, and conse-
quentially the boys they saw things in
their sleep that night.
Next mornin Wade Turner and Sol
Jernigan-jboth of them nothin but
yearlin boys-they went in kersnooks
together and fixed up for a wild turkey
hunt. Wade lowed he would take the
old army musket and go out after the
fresh meat. Sol was to meet him at the
big spring down in the woods and play
turkey. When Wade found the game
and leveled his gun and pulled the trig-
ger and the cap popped-so far as they
knowed that old musket hadn't been
fired off since the last war-Sol he was
to jump up and keel over and flop like
wild turkey gobbler with handful Of
buckshot in his head. Everything was
fixed up and laid off to a mats bristle,
and the boys went forth.
Sol hid out in a clump of gallberry
bushes, and when Wade slipped up in
sight with the old army musket he
stretched his neck and gobbled loud
and clear and sassy. Then Wade he
brought down the old musket, took aim,
pulled the trigger and-well, the blamed
thing was loaded. 1t was So hard on
trigger till Wade pulled it upand missed
his mark. But it give out regular
Fourth of July report and kicked Wade
ten feet down the hill. In the tremendous
roar and confusionment Sol forgot to
Jump up and keel over and flop like a
regular shot turkey. He lit out and run
off down the branch and clum tree, and
there he stayed till old man Josiah and
all the family come and told him that
nobody was hurt and the war was over.
But the old army musket, which
hangs on the wall, amt gone nowheres
RUFUS SANDERS.
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Enamel and Human L,fe.

A coroner's jury in Birmingham, Eng.
land, after hearing expert testimony
in the case of Ellen Pickering, an
enamel worker 16 years old, who died
of lead poisoning, appended to their
verdict rider asking for a govern
ment inquiry with view to the com
pulsory abolition of the use of lead in
enamel works. During the inquest the
managing director of the works was
asked il he could make enamel without
using lead. 1--WE can do so," was the
reply, "but it is very costly, and unless
all manufacturers were compelled to dc
SO we should have to close" The wages
of this poor girl were $3.50 a week, and
two years of this terrible occupation
suficed to destroy her life.
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We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
tor any case Of Catarrh that can not be
sured BY Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. J. CHIMNEY q Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
put any obligations made by their firm.
ledo, o.
WALDrNo, KINNAN q MA1vn, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL takcn internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price &c. per bot
lie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonial
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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% n { spotNu
hound dog with
a comm appetite
for eggs - two
plain old female
women who talk
a whole passle
because t h e y
have got some
thin to talk with
two cantank-
erous old men,
8 o CT o ssways
a n d contrary
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Made Quite !. Difference.

A Cincinnati young man is in trouble
because of selling his sweetheart to an
other fellow for SIS. The girl did not
mind it so long as she thought she had
Tilted one fellow for the other, but when
she found out that one had consented to
be cut out by the other for cash COM
pensation then she was decidedly
angry. A breach of promise suit is the
result.
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till If they was to fall in the creek and
git drownded they would float up
stream for pure cussedness-a general
mixtry of pizen human nature and
yariegated meanness - and there you
are, as the man says in the play.
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THERE WERE FISH.
But 1t Took an Extra Quarter TO Find
Where They Were.

But 1t Took an Extra Quarter TO Find
Where They Were.
1.-THE most taciturn people in the
world live in western North Carolina
and east Tennessee" said department
clerk to Star reporter.
81 went fishing near Elk Park, and in
some CT the streams down there is the
finest trout fishing in the world. There
were four of us in the party, and we
went up one of the mountain creeks
for about three miles. A native passed
us, and asked:
"Are there any trout in this creekT
"'Yep.'
eve threw our lines and fished every
hole In the creek for two miles without
getting a bite; then walked back to-
ward town with empty baskets. Meet
ing the native again, said:
at thought you stated there were
trout in that creekr
"'Thar is
swell, we didn't get bite
".I lowed yo' all wouldn' when ] seed
yo' try
"'Why not. If there are fish thereT
ago didn't ak me eff thar war trout
whar yo' was fishin'.'
"'What did / ask your / inquired. get
ting angry.
"'Ef thar war trout in the crick, an
thar is, heap of 'em.'
Where are theyT
"'Still in the crick.'
What part Of the creek?
In the middle, 'cept them as at the
sides. Thar amt none on the banks
II gave him q quarter, ind he said:
They don't never come up this far.
Bout two mile down the crick thar's
plenty
1--WE went down the creek, and the ma
tive was right. 1 never saw better
| fishing. Washington Star.
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Over there ON Little Wolf creek old

Over there on Little Wolf creek old
man Clancy runs . water mill. And
down the creek . mile below the mill
old man Clancy runs a farm. The
next mornin after Gus Virgins went
home wearin on his youthful counte-
nance such a scandlous Disagreement.
old man Billy he put out and went over
in the woods paster, where him and
old man Uriah had joined fences ID
years ago, and cut loose henceforth and
forever. In less than three hours, and
before old man Uriah could hear the
news, 81 head of cattle, four mules
and big bunch of goats had invaded
into the Clancy farm and licked up
three or or four acres of young corn.
Did old man Uriah shed any tears to
speak of, or lose a lick of sleep, or miss
a meal of victuals? No. He blowed
the horn for his hands and built new
fence. That night he lowed it was jest
about the right time of year for him
to cut his mill dam and let off the wa
ter. BY the first crack of day he was
down there with his hands at the mill.
They cut the dam, and when old man
Billy Virgins went down to his creek
farm, where he had 20 acres of swamp
corn-"and hit Dunedin for the tas-
sel'-there was water, water every
where, and not q blame thing but
water.
Now you mought maybe think that
by this time them two cantankerous
old men have met up together some
where's along the big road and had a
bloody fight. But they haven't-not
as anybody knows of. And my own
private opinions are that they never
will. From general appearments l
think one of them is right tolerable bad
sleered and the other blame glad of it.
They put me in mind of julie Nabors
when he went out through the settle
ment lookin for work, and prayin to
the good Lord not to let him find any.
Old man Billy has now took out and
quit the Methodist church on the
grounds that he can't fellowship with
the Clancys, and old man Uriah has
left the peoples party because he don't
see how the Clancys an6 the Wigginses
can vote the same ticket.
There amt no tellin for certain where
the family rucus will stop. But in the
main time we are not lookin for any
second-class funerals, and the country
| Is safe.
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BEAUTY marred by bad complexion may
be restored by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hill,s HAIR and Whisker Dye. 80 cents.
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PIso's CURE il . wonderful Cough medi
Blake AYES, Brooklyn, n. Y, Oct. Is, 'e4.
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FRS stopped free and permanently cured.
No ats after first days use OF DR.. KINGS
Great Nerve Res;o rer. Free u trial oottle
8 treatise. DR.. KLINE, 933 Arch ct. Phila Pa.
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He with a pistol in his hand)-Now
that you have rejected me don't pro-
pose to let you live; propose to kill
you, but it is strange what has come
over you; do you remember the day
you called me your guiding star?
She-Yes, there has been change.
for / never expected you would become
a shooting star.-To Date.
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On. CAusrEpr's German Liver Syrup is
the Ideal Cathartic Purely Vegetable. 1t
promotes internal Cleanliness without de-
bilitatinR the organs on which 1t acts. SOct.
and 81 Bottles at all Druggists OF The Carl
stedt Medicine Co., Evansville, Ind.
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With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal cieanli-
ness, which follows the use Of Syrup OF
Figs. II unknown to the few who have not
progressed beyond the old-time medicines
and the cheap substitutes sometimes Of
fered but never accepted by the well-in-
fovy,o6
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RUFUS SANDERS.
The Sage Of Rocky Greek Reports
q Family Rucus."
An Old speckied Hen, Spotted Hound
Dog and Two Plain, Old Female
Womcn-Story of . Load
ed Musket.

One old speckled hen settin under a
brush heap down by the cow pen gate
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Books are the immortal sons deifytne
their sires.-Plato.
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WHAT succeeds we keep, and 1t becomes
the habit Of mankind.-Theodorc Parker.
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SuBrLErY may deceive you; integrity
never will.-Cromwell.
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WHAT il dishonesty got vanishes in
profligacy.-Cicero.
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AM Appropriete TitIe.

Marie-Why does Miss Passionquill
call her book of poems Meadow Grass 2"
Estelle-I suppose she had present
iment that it would remain uncut
Town Topics.
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BnzrM-sI've found one good way to get
around the high hat nuisance when go to
the theater.n Jabzin-"You havel Let's
hear itn Bilzim-"Why, buy seat in the
front row, of course. "-Roxbury Gazette.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-07-18

II the Lake regions Of Wisconsin. North
ern Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota,
there arc hundreds OF cnan ning oS Snn.ns
Nearly all are located on or near lakes
which have not been fshed out These re.
sorts are easily reached by railway and
range in variety from the s.full dress Tor
dinner, to the fiannelshirt costume Tor
every meal. Among the list are names IA
milia to many of our readers as the perfec-
ton Of Northern summer resorts. Nearly
ali of the Wisconsin points of interest are
within a short distance from Chicago or
Milwaukee,, and none Of them are so far
away from the ssbusy marts Of civilization"
that they cannot be reached in few hours
road IN the northwest-the Chicago, Mil
waukee e. ST. Paul Railway. A. description
Of the principal resorts, WHILST of summer
hotels and boarding houses, and rates for
board, will be sent free on application 70
Gro. H. HEAFFoRD, General Passenger
Agent Chicago.
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FoR they conquer who believe they can
Virgil.
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Seven colleges have conferred tho
degree of LII. ID. on Gen. Francis A..
Walker, president of the Massachusetts,
institute Of technology.
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MRs. PRosY-"Reading Is quite passion
with my husband" Mrs. Dresser--"So IL
is with mine when he reads my milliner's
bills l',-London Fun.
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CONSTIPATION Cured by DR.. Carlstedts
German Liver Powder. Samples and testi-
monials free. In Bottles only rs cents. The
Caristedt Medicine Co., Evansville, Ind.
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HARD TO BEAT.-A wet carpet.-Mel.
bourne Weekly Times.
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Responsive Both to Harsh and Sweet
Sounds.

The nerves are often painfully acute. When
this is the case, the best thing to be done is
to seek the tonic and tranquiIlizing assis-
lance of Hoste!ter's Stomach Bitters, a su-
perb nervine. No less beneficial is it for
dyspeptic, bilious, malarial, rheumatic,
bowel and kidney complaints. Use with
persistent regularity. A wineglassful be-
fore retiring confers sleep.
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Their Double Breasted Compliments.
The next time them two plain old fe-
male women met up together it was at
a singin match over at Bark Log church.
Naturally, of course, they brung up the
question of speckled hens and spotted
dogs, which the more they discussed,
the faster they talked, and the hotter
they got.
In the general run of that furious
confabulation Misses Virgins called
Misses Clancy everything she could lay
her tongue to except gentleman and
scholar, and the old lady Clancy she
returned the fire with her double
breasted compliments.
About the next news we heard was
to the extent that two yearlin boys had
got up the question of speckled hens
and spotted dogs ut school one day. 1t
would seem like Gus Virgins had final
ly at last jumped on Pate Clancy and
give him one of the most severest chas-
tisements that a white boy ever toted
out of these woods.
Whereas, when Gus Virgins come
W WIG MANY psoSC ouoo C'OAiAh oAA AAAo
return back from school the speckled
hen had quit her nest. but old Misses
Clancy she was settin down there by
the cow pen gate-settin, bless your
life, and settin for Gus.
I am sorry didn't come along there
in time to see the classification between
the old lady Clancy and Gus Virgins.
But life as we live it In this vain and
fieetin world is full of sorrows and dis
appointments. At ray rates, from all
] can pick up amongst the neighbors
when Gus got home that night he wa.
so bad scratched and tore up till he
looked like he mought have rode q
thrashin machine through hurricane
Up to this time old NAM Billy Virgins
and old man Uriah Clancy had walked
the chalk line Of law and order, and
kept the peace and dignity of the stats
like friends and fellow citizens. But
the family rucus had went ON from
bad to worse, and more and more Of it
The day and hour had now come wher
they couldnt stay out Of the game NJ
longer,
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IxpossIBLE-it is not good French.-Na-
poleon.
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But am of the subject again. Iwas
thinking about the flowers-the new
and beautiful flowers that Mrs. Arp got
from Mr.. Berckman-thesec annas that
are so gorgeously lovely and are now
blooming into beauty. We had some
yellow ones before, but now have other
colors that are brilliant and attractive.
I decorated my vegetable garden last
year with sun flowers, but dom think
my wife fancied them. She said they
made her eyes tired, but she is delighted
with the crimson and orange and varie-
gated cannas and her Mareschal Neil
roses and carnation pinks. She wants
only two or three dollars worth of new
flowers every spring, and up to this time
she has had 1t, thank the good Lord for
His mercies. The weather has been
awful hot, but have had to dig and
fork up the ground and haul fertilizer
in the wheelbarrow and lay of new
flower bed and change plants from the
old ones and tote water and sprinkle
and rake around till me neither gar
ments were moist and as salty as Lots
wife.
1t hasn't rained drop in three weeks,
Notwithstanding my rheumatic pains
and my wife's corns and the ROSTERS
Growing in the night, and so have
everything to water every evening. We
have had no man servant but me for q
long time, and my wife says look ex-
ecedingly well, considering age and in
trinity, and the girls smile around on
the sly to see how a little uxorial taffy
spurs me On.
Had letter yesterday from a suffer-
ing benedict. who says his girls wanted
him TO stop clsopping cotton and sowing