Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-07-09


diameter and was rich III color and perfume.
! 1t was the handsomcst that we had ever
seen.
LANDED. Mr.. D. G. Hsmmett is IN receipt
Of a cablegram from his son Charles saying
that he had landed at Boulognc.sur-mer and
that neither he nor his friend had suffered
from seasickness during the voyage. We
shall be pleased to make note of their trav-
els a.whee IN Europe, as the letters arrive.
ASK why God made the gem so small
And why so huge the granite;
Because he meant mankind should place
The highest valne on it.
This was Burns's neat compliment to a
rather petite lady friend, but ii applies with
literal exaclness to the concentrated, yet
agreeable minute, sugar coated globules,
known the world over Il, DR.. Pierce's T1ees.
ant Pellets, which are easy to take, quick
and mild in their action, and leave no cousti-
pating effects They act especially on the
the liver, stomach bowels and blood, freeing
the system from impurities and restoring
healthy action Of the organs.
KEY FETE.- The Key Monument Associ-
alton of Frederick, Md, will hold a Fete for
the benefit of the Key Monument Fund, to
open on Tuesday evening at Z O'Clock, July
the 2lst, during the week ofthc encampmcnt,
at the Rink on East Patrick Street, the main
thoroughfare leading direct to the camping
grounds. Lunch in the way of ices of all
kinds, iced coffee, tea, milk, lemonade, biscuit
waters, cake, cheese, &C.. will be served. A
most attractive program consisting of drills,
opera, Delsarte attitudes, with fine music by
Frederick's Select Orchestra will be rendered
each evening, commencing at 7:3O O'Clock.
Visitors to Frederick and camp grounds arc
cordially invited to be present. Admission
10 cents to lower floor cents to gallery.
SLAVE MARRIAGE INvALiD.-Allen But
Ter, colored, formerly slave of the late Mrs.
Peggy Biser, of Burkettsvilie, ia 1871 mar
ried free colored woman also Of Mddletown
Valley. They lived together tcp years and
had four children. In 1851 Butler went West
with the father Of the late Rev. Daniel
SCHNEIDER, leaving his wife behind. He
settled in Lawrence county, Illinois, where
Ire took another wife, had other children and
managed to secure a handsome estate. About
two years ago he was charged with grevious
crime and was lynched by mob. Then the
children by the Maryland wife appeared on
the scene, demanding their share of the
property. The Supreme Court of Illinois
has decided against them. The justices say
| that the first marriage was slave marriage;
that the parties to it had the legal right to
repudiate t,and that they did this when they
entered into new and unquestlonably valid
matrimonial contracts.-Sun.
| THE LAST OF IT.-About a year ago at the
request of a committee of the Sound Cnrren.
cy Club, we accepted for publication certain
articles treating the gold and silver question,
then not strictly partisan political question
as, by the action of the two great parties it
has now come to be.
They offered and we accepted in good
faith to publish these articles and until we
determined to occupy all of the reading mat
ter space on the first and fourth pages with
Stories, we published this matter as sent
We were thus placed under some obligation
to the Committee and as they have just sent
us eighteen more columns of this matter, we
have agreed TO give it space in this and our
next issue, but haYe notified them that mas
much as 1t has become strictly political is
sue, that we must decline to publish 1t longer.
Next week, therefore, will end our interest
in and connection with the Sound Money
debate and the stories will be resumed. We
regret to haye broken in on them, but we
could scarce refuse this space, having will
ingly allotted it for time.
LOST ANOTHER GAME -Tuesdayafternoon
the Emmitsburg baseball team went to Thur.
mont and crossed bats with team of that
place. The game resulted in another defeat
for the Emmts burg boys. The score stood
Thurmont 10, Emmitsburg 16. 1t is said by
some persons supposed to be in position to
know, that some of the Emmitsburg base
ballists pay more attention to the young lady
spectators than to the game they try to play
This is supposed to be the reason our home
team loses so many games when playing
in neighboring towns The above is espec
tally true concerning the young man who
recently rode gray pony to Taneytown and
Thurmont. MIR Harry" has more to say
about the pretty girls who witness the games
than the good plays made by our boys. "Mr
Harry" is quite anxious to play another
game of ball at Taneytown, presumably fol
the purpose of seeing the young lady, who
some time ago offered HIM her side comb.
But side comb will not take the place o.
the article he ties about his head when 1t
retires at night nor will it in any way assist
in winning game. Boys, play bail and look
at the pretty girls afterwards. Chronicle.
mo use to hope for any other result here
wehave too many pretty girls and our youths
are susceptible only in slight degree ED.
Pitchers Castoria.