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Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
T. l. MCGOWAN & CO.,,

1920 Second Avenue Specify and see that you get Eagle Brand of Pure Carbonate of Lead.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
Administrators Notice.

This day came w. P. Hickman, admin istrator de bonis non of the estate of J. w. Hine, and filed his application in due form and under oath praying. for, an, order of sale of certain lands described, therein and belonging to said estate, for the. purpose of paying debts, upon the ground that the personal property is insufficient therefor. It is ordered that on ='iats, eJ'{4 o-a4s-st
 stsps ~As-4 THE 24TH DAY OF DECEM-
 BER, 1S96
 f,-5 t,ie,s,.st s,s1 rom be appointed day for hearing such appli- cation, at which time all parties in inter- est can appear and contest the same If they ''''''N M T. PORTER,
 Judge of Probate. nov12-1 E .-
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
EDUCATIONAL.

This institution is the oldest, largest and best of its kind in the state of Alabama. tions. Unexcelled systems of Shorthand and Bookkeeping. Practical methods. Cata- logue and full information free. Be sure to visit or address this College before going elsewhere Sessions day and night
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
THE WEATHER.

Alabama-Fair, slightly warmer; )ortherly winds, shifting to easterly.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
DAILY BULLETIN.


Highest temperature 5O; lowest, "A; aver age, 37
 BEN M. JACOBS Local Observer. Reports received at Birmingham, Ala, on Dec. A. 1S96. m rf,a 6io, F{f,a
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05
THE EAGLE

Not only represents the ...a liberty of the greatest |
 nation on earth, but also .a the purest and best = brand of
 WHITE LEAD ,..S. Ever sold the Ameri- -ss can people. It is made sll by the old fashioned .3.1 "Dutch Process, and ill excells any brand of by Lead on the market to- Sa day for whiteness, fine A
 ness of grinding and du- 1T rability. E
 It costs 25 cents per .5l, hundred more than oth- ,Si. CT brands, but what's gi a quarter to a man who ai WANTS THE BEST? fT-
Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-05

srf.ft.s.ss \ .,-A GEAsls-.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
It Wouldn't Work.

1t is often suggested that all that Is
needed to keep the gold reserve up to
the mark Is to make the customs duties
payable in gold. But this means pre-
MUM on gold, as it implies discrimi-
nation against other forms of money.
There is besides law making silver
dollars good tender for all dues. public
and private, except in cases where q
contract calls for something else. The
Sherman silver treasury notes are oy
law receivable for customs dues. The
law requiring all forms Of money to be
kept at par with gold would be violated
by refusing to receive anything but gold
for tariff taxes. It is therefore imprao-
ticable, without producing the evils we
are trying to avoid, to require tariff
taxes to be paid in gold only. The presi-
dent has shown how gold reserve may
be made unnecessary calling IN the
Rreenbacks and Sherman notes and re-
placing them with bank notes. No better
plan is forthcoming. Baltimore Sun.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
A "Patr illustratiop.

An Oklahoma correspondent Of the
sound currency committee Of the Reform
club says that because Of short crops and
low prices for two or three years the peo-
pie there were grasping at the silver
straw" but that with plentiful rains,
fair forage crops this season, good stand
of wheat on the ground, they look for
substantial betterment next crop and are
less inclined to take for it anything but
money having the highest purchasing
power" He says: "They are like the
Irishman going to join the church and
did not know what one to join. He said
everybody admitted the Catholics might
70 to heaven, but not every one admit;
ted that Protestant could. Sohe would
take his chances with the Catholics.
Now, everybody admits gold coin Will
be good III any event, but as part OF the
people have their doubts about silver
they, to be on the safe side, when they
have something to sell and ship, want
the kind of money about which there
hangs no doubt.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Church Directory.

Returned Church-Rev. G. A, Whitmofe
oas or. Services hi-weekly aternal"s
morning and evening. Services eohes'
day.7p. m, Sunday School Up. m.
Gu;]d each Lords Day p. m. othel ser
vices announced from the pulpit.
Lutheran Church-Rev. J. II. Barn. pas
or. Services, Sunday A. Nj; ana % . r.
N. Sunday School, 2. P. u Prayer Meet
jng, Wednesday, Gas ?.
United Brethren Church-Rcv Il; " d.
Castle Pastor. Regular Services by ap'
appointment from the pulpit.
Glass Meeting every two weeks al ;i a: NJ
PRAYER Meeting every thursday evening
Sunday School PM. - ,,
Mite Society ymi-m"nthly, NeuheSuaS
evening at s o'clock. w. Mis-. Mec'hs
Monthly at Parsonage,
Moravian Church: Rev. M. F. Ocrter, fas-
tor. Sunday School every Sunuay,'a III.
Preaching services will be held every o'hel
Sunday as heretofore, alternating morning
and evening at ard 7:3 respectively
Methodist Episcopal Church - kev'
Henry Mann Pastor. Services every alter
nate ,unday at A. M. and 7.3 T. M
Sunday School at 8 A. NJ. rayer MEe'1hs
every Wednesday evening at 80 T. W.
ST. Stephens Church, Protestant Ep'ssco'
nol.-Rev. r. Whhtingham, Rector. Ser,
vices every Sunday at l 3 a. m'' anu
Sp. m
Service on FRIDAYS 8 m'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
MONEY OPPREsSEs NO ONE.
Hotwithstanding tho Falso Doctrine
Preached by the Populists.

Notwithstanding tho Falso Doctrine
Preached by the Populists.
The National Watchman, an organ Of
the Populist party, advocates free coin
age as social reform, claiming that
moro silver money will greatly improve
the condition of the farmers and work.
ing classes. In recent editorial The
Watchman says. 1.-THE power Of money
to oppress, through the reduction Of the
price Of labor and Its products, is the
ruling factor in all the distress now seen
in this country
This representation Of money as some
thing which Expresses and Injuries the
people is responsible for the Populist be.
lief that idleness and poverty are due to
the wickedness of an imaginary money
power" But though this doctrine is
zealously preached by the free coinage
orators and press. 1t is nothing but de-
lusion, pure and simple. There Is not
now, nor has there ever been, an oppres-
siye "money power" for the sufficient
reason that there is no possible way in
which money can oppress any one. or
itself money is all inert thing, which
only serves some useful purpose when
loaned out or put into circulation. The
owner of money cannot compel any one
to borrow it, and therefore does not op
press those who find it profitable to pay
interest for its use. The man who puts
money ino circulation by exchanging it
for goods or services employs labor and
injures no one An owner of money who
refuses to lend or spend it loses interest
on it and Injuries only himself.
The idea that money reduces both the
price of labor and Of labor products is as
absurd as to say that heat expands and
contracts water. A decline in the price
Of products is equal to an increase in the
price paid for labor, since the working
man can buy more goods with his wages.
But apart from this contradiction, it is
not true that money reduces the price OF
labor. Wages depend on the total pro-
duction Of wealth by the workers, being
high where production is great and low
where it is small. Money has nothing to
do with real wages.
The fiction of an expressing money
power is as far from fact as would be
the assertion that iron and gunpowder
are the causes of war. Populists might as
logically denounce the wicked iron and
powder power for the lives lost in battle
as to blame the material used for money
for the inequalities in social conditions
Except in so far as industry is checked
by the agitation for a debased silver and
greenback currency, money has no con-
nection with idleness and poverty. And
in no case is any one the slightest de-
gree poorer because Of the imaginary
money power.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Valuo of Confidence.

First of all, we should have stable
unit. The unit now existing III this
country is the gold dollar. Bank notes,
greenbacks, silver coin and silver Ger
tiicates may circulate alongside OF 1t
only SO long as the confidence remains
that, whenever their holders please,
they may exchange them for this unit
on the basis Of their face value. An i'll
crease of any form Of money to point
where this exchangeability becomes
doubtful destroys confidence and there
fore leads not to an increase but to
contraction of money. Many suggestions
made to increase wealth, such as free
coinage Of silver, unlimited printing OF
greenbacks, issuance Of paper money
against real estate and farm products
in fact, all those suggestions that can
be summarized as 1.-The cry for more
money" without regard to its soundness
that is, its exohangeability for the
gold unit-would, if carried out, de.
stroy confidence and therefore decrease
wealth and impede the development and
prosperity Of the country. Adolf La
denburg in January Forum.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Money of the Constitution.
No. 4

A favorite trick Of the silveritee;
when beaten in argument on the merits
Of the free coinage scheme, is to fall
back on the claim that "silver Is money
Of the constitution. And in the alb
sence of any better reason for changing
from the gold to the silver standard
they urge that the trainers Of the con-
stitution mentioned both gold and sil-
yer as legal tender money.
Although very frequently heard, the
assertion that silver has claim to free
coinage through some reference to it In
the constitution has no basis in fact
The founders of the Union did not un-
dertake to limit the powers Of congress-
to legislate in regard to the standard OF
values, and the only reference to the
two money metals is the clause which
prohibits the states from making any
thing but gold and silver tender in
payment of debts. There is positively
nothing in tho constitution which gives
any color to the pretenses Of the silver
ties.
But even if the trainers Of the consti-
tuition had seen fit to provide that both
gold and silver should be used as stand
ards of value that would be no reason
for adhering to an unsafe and unsound
currency after experience had shown its
evils. Wise and great and good as our
forefathers were, they could not foresee
the enormous increase in the production
of silver of the last 20 years. And since
the great commercial nations have, aft
or centuries Of experimenting, decided
that the gold standard is the best, 1t
would be folly for this country to stick
to silver merely because our ancestors
had used it. Americans want the best
Ut everything, no matter what tradition
may say, and if the constitution had
favored the silver standard it would
have been promptly amended to suit the
new conditions
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
The Hectic Flush.

"When his thin cheek assumed dead.
ly hue,
And all the rose to one small spot
withdrew;
They called it hectic; twas fiery flush
More fixed and deeper than the maiden
blush
That terrible sign of consumption
comes like a warning signal. Let no
one disregard it. If they do then day
by day consumption will gain 6rmer
hold until its victim lies numbered with
the dead. For all diseases and weak
nesses of the lungs, bronchitis, asthma,
coughs and kindred ailments, DR.. .Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery is sovereign
remedy.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
AlIe1edt Fall of Prices.

1t is said that the single gold standard
has produced disastrous fall In the
prices Of commodities. Prices OF COM
modities must be either advancing or
declining or stationary. The world has
no experience Of stationary prices and
probably never will have Therefore
those who cry out against declining
prices must be in favor Of advancing
ones, but how far they would push the
advance they do not say. Is there any
limit to the desirable advance? II So,
what is to be done when it is reached?
As prices cannot be stationary, there
must, then, be decline. So we do not
avoid misery by gratifying the bimetal.
lists. We only postpone it.-Horace
White in Money and Banking.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
WITTY SAYIN GS.

What's in name?-Vowels and con.
sonants.
An old Wiseacre decayed wisdom
tooth.
Jail birds are confined in guilt cages.
The hired girl is made to order.
Colaborers s-Anthracite miners.
"Puck's" best music comes in car
toons.
A shapely hand-Four aces and
king
Cooper was a staving good writer.
VA Repeating Riae"-Robbing tie
same place twice.
Uneasy lies the head that tells good
many of them.
Policemen assist each other by club
bing together.
How to gain high position-Ascend
a mountain.
A ship that has two mates and no
captain-Courtship.
Wanted-A life boat that will float
on sea of "troubles." :"
The original fall style happened in
the Garden of Eden.
A part ing glass--The maiden's final
look IN the mirror at her hat.
1t is said that the mail in Colorado
arrives on time when the carriers are
chased by the Indians.
A parrot is said to live 200 years. A
barber does not live so long but he
talks more.
How to find a girl out-Call when
she isn't In.
In advance Of the mail-The engine
and tender.
"Cards," is what gambler attached
to his wedding notice.
All men arc not homeless, but some
are home less than others.
A young Thurmont gent calls his
girl revenge because she is sweet.
Before states were used people mul-
tiplied on the face of the earth.
How may man become four. handed
By doubling his fists.
The economical baby puts its toes in
it's mouth to make both ends meet.
Why is a situation Of great trust like
back tooth? Because it is hard to
fill.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Choosing a Husband.

"Of beauty just enough to bear inspec-
ton;
Of candor, sense and wit, good collec-
tlon;
Enough Of love for one who needs pro-
lection
Excellent resolve ladies, and let the
husband see that the wife, who has
linked her life with his, possesses sound
sense and good judgment. If she suff-
ers from nervous debility, or uterine
troubles, as also so many do, let her
manifest her good sense by using DR..
Pielces Favorite Prescription, which
has never been known to fail in such
cases. Has the largest sale ofany med
icine for women kept in drug stores.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Wise Words.

War is all wrong. Even she muskets
kick.
M"n are not all bad. Some men can
not even cry without making somebody
laugh.
1t is harder work holding back when
one starts going down the hill than it
is to get up when one starts going up
The habit of always being employed
is a great safeguard through life as we'll
as essential to the culture Of every
virtue.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
A Plain Business Issue.

In an appeal for patriotic action IN
congress on the financial question the
Baltimore Sun says that currency re-
form ought not to be the warcry OF any
one party. As it is the pressing need. SO
it should be the urgent demand OF the
people of both parties. 1t Is simply q
question Of how the business OF the
country, its buying aud selling. the ex-
change Of its commodities at home and
abroad, car, be carried on with the least
friction and the least loss. 1t Is the ques-,
ton Of giving stability at home and
abroad to that medium In which the
wages Of labor are paid, debts are liqui-,
dated and the rewards of industry ana
enterprise are measured.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
- --
GOLDENROD.

The spirit Of the golden autumntide
Is In thee happy, dancing goldenrodi
When first see thy yellow bloom beside
The hot. white dusty road, or see thee hide
Thy plumy flower where hawthorns bend
and nod,
seem to feel the glad September air.
To see the haze oerhang the distant hills,
To hear the cricket from its leafy lair,
To taste, the purple grape and ripened pear.
And great gladness all my spirit fills
Herald Of "A gorgeous, fowery host,
Tho aster and the flaming cardinal flower.
or all the autumn blooms thou seemest most
To call mo from the vanity and boast
OF men to seek u glorious pulsing hour
Where reddening foliage is overhead,
And fragrant winds sing Of a bounteous God.
Where brown leaves rustic to the rabbits
tread.
o swaying autumn flower, well Is 1t said
A nations blossom is the yellow goldenrodi
Karl Buhle.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Press Proverbs.
Progress is uphill work.
Charity is II creed in itself.

Progress is uphill work.
Charity is creed in itself.
Pity is often envy in disguise.
The poor are the truly generous.
A man gives reasons; woman ex-
cuses.
Good advice is the kind you keep to
yourself.
Original sin was preceded by the
original sinner.
Where there is q will there is usually
a lawyer
All sensible girls are not necessarily
homely.
A dead level is hard climb to a
good many people.
The advanced woman is advancing
in the wrong direction.
A pesslmist is an optimns whose
dreams didn't come true.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
THURM0NT Frederick County, Maryland Thursday January 30 1885,

The top rounds of the ladder of fame
are few and far apart.
The woman who married for love
usually sec that her daughter does not.
Love your enemies but keep away
from them till they begin to love you.
A man is known by the books he
reads; woman by those she doesn't
read.
Take people as you find them, but
don't find any more of them than is
necessary.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Wouldn't Commit
Himself.
One Man Who Knew Enough to
Profit by Experience.

"Pretty cold, ism it?' he said as he
swung himself aboard a Michigan ayen-
ne Car, and got rest for his back against
the railing of the platform
The remark was addressed to a man
who had boarded the car two blocks
above, and who didn't seem to hear it.
"Pretty cold, I said," continued the
last arrival as he shrugged himself down
into his oyercoat.
The other made no reply.
"Is it cold enough for you" shouted
the man after a minute, and evidently
believing the man to be deaf.
Still no reply.
The car sped along for block. and
the man who had spoken determined to
secure response.
He pulled at the others arm and
raised his voice still higher and yelled:
VI say, it's a cold morning"
"Speaking to me:" quietly asked the
silent man as he slowly turned.
YVES, of course"
well, I'm not deaf"
"Oh, | thought you were, I said it
was cold morning"
YVES"
"And you didn't answer"
vi never do"
"Don't you think it s cod" persisted
the talker, who was getting mad about
it.
"Twenty years ago, ,"repIied the other,
after taking 80 seconds to blow his nose
and wipe off his chin, "twentv years
ago, when | was in Chicago, man
asked me the same question you did
when you got on the car. and promptly
replied that it was pretty cold"
YVES"
Vile at once turned on me and called
me a liar, and in the fight which result
ed he blinded my left eye and knocked
out seven of my teeth, while | broke
two Of his ribs and knocked his chin
off his Jaws. Sir, it may be a cold
morning this may be summer or Win
ter. utterl, and emphatically refuse
to express in oplnlon.'
NBut can t."
"No sir-no sir! | refuse to talk
about the ENTHUSIASTICALLY refusel
refuse to talk on any subject, l am
mum. If you want to hear yourself
CAB 90 ahead, but please address your
remarks to the door or the conductor" J."
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30

A hardy seaman who had escaped
one of the recent shipwrecks on our
coast was asked by good lady how
he felt when the waves broke over
him. He replied, "Wet, ma'am, very
wet "
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30

A heathen was originally dweller
on the German heaths, the last 10.
calities in Germany to accept the
Christian religion.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30
Western Maryland Railroad

xx., :yr1ssstt-1yIl q
f<H .tai:t-sS iit---saSfte ..<za.~sF
cchedule in effect September 30, lS94'
TRAINS GOING WEST.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30

Medieval knights often took q
voluntary oath that they would new
or spare the life of an enemy.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30

onoray who evl ninety days over in the late
wholly dc tr labor
and regardless of ,h, rcnnmy circumstances
rcnr!e whether s'efh
due support
soldiers due 10
all where there was no
ho has nee e o
widow child provided soldier
their support soldier served died in late
q
,crIa losing rights.
Thousands under the old law
DISABILITIES " when
whether due TO service or not.
Black IIaWek and cherokee. ah'
mnoe 1892 to Is IL are entitled "n-
der recent
agcor disabled or dependent
ctel granted under
later laws
ecte1 claims and secured "rcrr
soldiers and sailors the late
hy
rmwsa advice Ne unlesucesu Address
The Press Claims Co.,
John Wedderburn. Managing Attorney,
P. .. BOX ats. VA>NaNeBSN =
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-01-30

TRAINS GOING EAST.
STATIONS A NJ = NJ + Nj
@ Williamsport, -. .... 80.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-06-17
Anold Doctor,s Favorite.

DR.. L. NJ. Gillian, who practiced
medicine over forty years, origina-
ted, used and claimed that Botan-
ic Blood Balm. (B. B. b. which
has now been in use about fifty
FIVE years, was the best Tonic and
Blood Purifier ever given to the
world. It never fails to cure the
most malignant ulcers, sores, rheu.
matisni, catarrh and all skin and
blood diseases. Beware of sub
stitutes. Use this standard rem
edy. Price per large bottle, $1.OO.
For sale by Druggists.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-06-17
Programe of the Edgefield Bap-
tist sunday-schcol Convention
to Meet at Parksville satur-
day Before the 3rd San
day in July Next.

The services will begin at 10
M, ard after enrolment and or
ganization the following questions
will be discussed:
i. Missions in the Sunday
schools-Rev. J. P. Mcaling, r.
T. Strom, 0. Sheppard, Rev. Simp-
son, Speakers.
2. Church Etiquette-To what
extent shonid it be taught IN the
Sunday-School, DR.. L. r. Gwalt-
ney, Rev. Luther Zimmerman and
T. b. Lanham.
3. Christ the centre Of all Sun
day-School effort-Rev. J. S. Jor-
dan, Rev. G.. H. Burton, Rev. c..
Dorm and Rev. Ii. NJ. Garrett.
4. The relative propotion of time
given to the Introductory, teach
ing the lesson, and the closing ex-
ercises?-Rev. J. /. QUITS, Rev.
John Lake, Rev. P. P. Blalock.
and Rev. Hartzog.
DR.. L. r. Gwaltney to preach
the missionary sermon on Sunday
at II a. m. Signed,
G. w. BUssEY.
for Committee.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-06-17
Campaign Meetings.

The State Executive Committee
las arranged the following sched-
ule of campaign meetings:
Manning, Monday June %.
Klngs,ree, Tuesday June %.
Georgetown, Wednesday June
"a.
Conway, Thursday June 25.
Marion, Saturday June 27.
Monck's Corner, Monday June
20.
Charleston, Tuesday June 30.
Walterhoro, Wednesday July L.
Beaufort, Thursday July 2.
Hampton, Friday July 8.
Sumter, Monday July 13.
Camden, Tuesday July IA.
Lancaster, Wednesday July 10.
Chester, Friday July II.
Yorkville Saturday July Is.
Chesterfield, Tuesday July 81.
Bennettsville, "Wednesday July
%.
Darlington, Thursday July %.
Florence, Friday July "a.
Barnwell, Monday July 27.
Aiken, Tuesday July %.
Edgefeld, Wednesday July %.
saiuda, Saturday August 1.
Lexington, Monday August 3.
Winnsboro, Tuesday August 4.
Columbia, Wednesday August B.
Orangeburg, Thursday August
6.
Newberly, Friday August Z.
Laurens, Saturday August s.
Union Monday August TO-
Spartyr,burg, Tuesday August
IL.
Greenviile,. Wednesday August
12.
Pickens, Thursday August 13.
Oconee, Friday August IA.
Anderson, Monday August II.
Abbeville, Wednesday August
19.