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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
The Girl Was There.

She is the brown eyed girl who
works in the telephone exchange,
and he is the young man who is
sometimes more energetic than court
eous.
Hello, central, he called the other
day, this il the second time I have
called you. Have you been asleep5"
"Yes," she answered sweetly, y
have, and l had such a strange dream
thought heard voice from the
Internal regions and awoke just in
time to hear you calling What mum,
ber3'-Washiagton Star.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
RurtOn Gantn.

Richard was q regular gamin. His
keen sense of humor, his ready wit,
were always present. He alored
shocking dense people and seeing
their funny faces and stolid belief,
and never cared about what harm il
would do him In a worldly sense. I
have frequently sat at dinner table
Of such people praying him by signs
not to go on, but he was In very
ecstacy Of glee. He said it was SO
funny always to be believed when
you were chatting, and SO curious
never to be believed when you were
telling the truth. He had a sort of
schoolboy bravado about these things
that in his high spirits lasted him all
the 70 years of his life.-"Life Of Sir
Richard Burton"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
ONLY FOUR lMMORTALS.
Samss Russell Lowell Crs1ns Homer
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.

James Russell Lowell Crsxns Homer,
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.
There are certain books which 1t Is
necessary to read, but they are very
few. Looking at the matter from an
aesthetic point of view merely, I
should Say that thus far-only one
man had been able to use types 80
universal and to draw figures SO cos
mopolitan that they are equally true
in all languages and equally accept
able to the whole Indo European
branch, at least, Of the human fami-
IL. That man is Homer, and there
needs, it seems to me, no further
proof of his individual existence than
this very fact Of the solitary unap
proachableness Of the "Iliad" and the
''Odyssey." The more wonderful
they are, the more likely to be the
work Of one person. Nowhere is the
purely natural man presented to us
SO nobly and sincerely as in these
poems.
Not far below these I should place
the "Divina Commedia" Of Dante, In
which the history of the spiritual
man is sketched with equal COM
mand Of material and grandeur OF
outline. Don Quixote' stands upon
the same level and receives the same
universal appreciation Here we
havo the spiritual and the natural
man set before us in humorous con-
trast. In the knight and his squire
Cervantes has typiied the two OPP
posing poles Of our dual nature-the
Imagination and the understanding
as they appear in contradiction.
This Is the only comprehensive satire
ever written, for it is utterly indie
pendent of time, place and manners.
Faust" gives us the natural his.
tory Of tho human intellect, Mephis-
topheles being merely the projected
impersonation of that skepticism
which Is the invariable result of
purely intellectual culture. These
four books are the only ones in
which universal facts Of human no
ture and experience are ideally rep
resented. They can therefore never
be displaced.
have not mentioned Shakespeare,
because his works come under diff
ferent category. Though they mark
the very highest level Of human gen.
ius, they yet represent no special
epoch In the history of the individual
mind. The man of Shakespeare Is
always the man Of actual life, as he
Is acted upon by the worlds of sense
and Of spirit under certain definite
conditions. We all Of us may be in
the position of Macbeth OF Othello
or Hamlet, and we appreciate their
sayings and deeds potentially, SO to
speak, rather than actually, through
the sympathy Of our common nature
and not of our experience. James
Russell Lowell's Posthumous Essay
In the Century Magazine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
Don't Stop Tobacco.
HOW TO CURE YOURSELF WHILE
USING 1T.

USlNG IL.
The tobacco habit grows on a man until
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Golden Hours.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1896.

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WHAT THE BIRDS EAT.
Professo or Washburn Divides the FeathePet
Tribes Into Three Glasses.

Professor Washburn DIVIDES the FeRthefeu
Tribes Into Three Classes.
Professor E. L. Washbllrn Of the
State Agricultural college read q pa
per before tho State Horticultural so
ciety on Birds and the Horticultur-
list" in which, after showing the re-
suit of many painstaking expert.
ments in examining birds stomacha
etc., he goes on to say:
Summarizing from what has been
done in this line elsewhere and from
personal observation it would seem
that we might classify the commoner
birds in rather vaguely defined
groups, it is true, under four heads.
We would, however, reserve the
privilege Of condemning any bird
when it became veritable nuisance
to the fruit grower.
Under Birds Worthy Of Our Pro.
lection" l would place the robin,
bluebird, all the spal1ows except the
English SPARROW, bullocks, oriole,
all flycatchers and virees swallows,
most of the woodpeckers, most OF
the thr,lshes, the red tailed hawk.
the red shouldered hawk, Swainsons
hawk or buzzard, marsh hawk, spar
row hawk, long cared owl, short
cared owl, barred owl and the
screech owl.
Under Birds Probably Beneficial
We might place the following: Black
birds, red shafted flicker, kingbird
found in parts Of eastern Oregon)
cherry bird or cedar bird, the horned
lark, black winged yellowbird, or
wild canary;" China pheasants,
quail, ruffled grouse or native pleas
ant" blue grouse and great horned
owl.
Under Doubtful" I would place
the jays, crows, meadow lark, black
headed grosbeak, ground dove"
golden eagle, bald eagle.
And under Decidedly Bad"
should unhesitatingly place the pur
pie hnnet, or cherry thief" the
woodpecker called the sap sucker"
Cooper's hawk and sharp Skinned
hawk.
In considering the above arbitrary
divisions it should be borne in mind
that many birds placed in the Doubt
full" column may really deserve
a better place, though the examina
ton of stomachs have not extended
through long enough time to show
this. The eagles, for instance, In To-
calities where their natural food is
abundant are undoubtedly beneficial.
1t is only when this supply is cut
off that they become injurious. The
China pheasant is reported to mo by
some as consuming much grain,
feeding on fruit and garden stuff
and even pulling up young pear and
peach pits just sprouted. Yet tho
bulk of testimony seems to point to
the fact that all Of our game birds
consume enough injurious insects to
more than balance their bad quail
ties. Gunners in this vicinity assure
me that they find many grasshoppers
in the crop and stomach of Denny
pheasants, and one man mentions
seeing these birds hunting a field for
hoppers much after the manner Of
turkeys.
Of the English sparrow l can say
nothing good and trust it may never
get a foothold in Portland or else
where in Oregon. 1t is noisy, pug
nacious and dirty, and though it has
penchant for canl1er worms it
drives away other birds which prey
upon pests for which an English
sparrow has no iking.-Portland
Oregonian.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
How Solomon Built the Temple.

Vast galleries and lofty piers be-
meath the present surface Of the site
of the temple at Jerusalem show
how, in accordance with the descrip-
ton Of Josephus, the level of the
highest part of the mountain was
carried on toward the south and east
by colossal masonry, the original
work and design of Solomon hav-
ing been augmented by later add
lions, more especially by those OF
the magnificent Herod, shortly be
fore the Christian era. The south
ern wall of this terrace mountain
reached a sheer height of $50 feet
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15

The chief Office of silence is to bury
all that Is evil, and the chief Office Of
speech Is to disclose and disseminate
all that is good. Let this be done
with sincerity and earnestness, and
ietno criticism discourage it, for it's
ultimate benefit to character and to
conduct is established beyond a doubt.
New York Ledger.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15

A Winston citizen employed col.
ored man to help him move his house
hold effects. When the job was COM
pleted, the employer told the man
that he had no money to pay him;
that the only thing he had to spare
for his services was coffin. The old
darby, after considering the proposf
ton for some time, accepted the offer,
He picked up the coffin and carried ID
to the colored undertaken, with whom
he made a trade to sell his piece of
property on commission. Winston
IN. c. Sentinel.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
Jolly Funerals.

Mr.. Porter must have had merry
funeral, with q great deal of sack to
very little coffin
Even a town pauper was given
three gallons Of rum as libations at
his funeral-drank probably by the
sheriff and Mr.. Bundle with their
friends.
Hawthorne tells us that the New
Englanders were the jolliest at the
funerals Of their friends and neigh
bors-the only "boon companion of
the Puritan was Death. Baltimore
Eun.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
How Trees Restrict Winds.

, There are pines so lofty that they
resemble cathedral towers, and roots
Of a pine tree are peculiar and resem-
BILE the claws of birds. They cling
to the light, sandy soil of the south
with an animal-lke grasp that defes
the widest winds to shake them from
their hold. The oak is always made
stronger by the wintry winds which
cause its roots to strike still deeper
into the soil until the hold is 80 great
that nothing can uproot it or cause
it to- lose It's hold. Boston TRANSCRIPT.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
HAD A COWBOY AUDIENCE.
A Performance After the Show Was over
That Won Their Hearts.

That Won Their Hearts.
II was down in Texas some years
ago, "said John Turner, the banjoist,
recently, land I want to tell you that
had the liveliest as well as the most
pleasing experience in my life.
forget the name of the town we
played at, but know we made a
Jump from that to Fort Worth.
"Well, we gave show to the
toughest audience l ever struck-au
cowboys, and the widest kind.
came on to do my turn. started in
to play march, when a big fellow
In one of the front seats stood up and
yelled:
"'Here, that don't gol Play us a
jigr
1.-THE rest of the house began yell
ing Jig jig jigr until they were all
at it and you couldn't hear yourself
talk. When they quoted down,
played them q rafting jig. / fin
ished it up In good shape, and 1t
seemed to hit 'em pretty hard, for,
when l started in to play another
tune, the same big fellow stood up
and yelled:
"'Play that over againr
II played it 10 times before l got
away from them. That wasn't the
end of it either. After the show we
were told to catch the 3 o'clock train
for Fort Worth. My side partner,
good old Tom Mcqueen, and myself
started from the theater about II 80
o'clock for the depot, and incidental
ly we thought we would get drink
on the way. We dropped into a
place where there was gang drink
ing and walked quietly up to the bar
"'Give me a little whisky, says l
to tho bartender.
"'Set 'em up for tho boysr broke
in voice behind me.
1T was the big fellow who yelled
at the theater.
Don't have so much to say, put
in Tom, who was rather hasty.
"'Say, you're the fellow that sung
that song at tho show, amt your
asked the big fellow.
"'Yes, am, and l never sang be.
fore such a mob in my life,' said
Tom.
"'Well, mister, I amt rich man,
but I've got a S. sinner in my peck
ct for you if you'll sing that song
again
"I'll sing you another said Tom,
and without another word he began
Home, Sweet Home Talk about a
time Why, every one Of those big
fellows was crying and sniveling
around as if their hearts were break
ing, and I don't know but what l
shed couple of tears myself. Tom
sang it out of sight anyway. Why,
even the bartender was wiping his
eyes with his shirt sleeve. AS soon
as Tom was through the bartender
began putting bottles and glasses on
the bar.
Anything you want, gents. You
can have anything in the house.
Everybody wanted to treat. The
big fellow insisted on buying us a
couple of bottles Of whisky each.
Then he caught sight of my banjo,
and l had to play that old jig over
about IS times. 1t was getting near
train time, and we had to make a
break. Everybody in the saloon
went to the depot with us, even tho
bartender, who locked the place up.
You never heard such a mob of yell
ing Indians in your life. We got on
the train all right, ana as she pulled
out the big fellow yelled;
"'Ha, you singer, and the man
with the banjol come back some
timel You can have the town.
Whoopr"-New York Herald.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-07-15
Christmas and Easter

Christmas of any year always falls
on the same day of the week as the
second of January Of that year, I'M
less 1t be a leap year, when 1t is the
same week day as the third day Of
January Of that year. Easter is al
ways the first Sunday after the full
moon that happens on or next after
March 81. 1t is not easy to see how
It can occur earlier than March % OK
later than April 26 In any year.
Boston Home Journal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30
State Notes.

Quail and cartridges are said to be
unusually thick throughout Michigan
this year, and sportsmen are looking for
ward to plenty Of sport this fall.
In many parts Of southwestern
Michigan apple orchards which have
been yearly ravaged by the canker
worm are entirely free from the pest
this season, with the result that in
many localities large crop of the fruit
will be gathered for the first time in
years.
George Whitaker, q well-known
Ionia county farmer, was killed at Port
land, Mich, by a falling timber.
The lock-step has been abolished at
the Detroit house of correction, because
1t was thought to facilitate the spread
Of contagion.
Governor Pingree regards the Dlngley
bill duties on lumber, hides and sugar
as "unrepublican, unpatriotic and un-
fair"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30
is THE GOVERNOR on THE wATcHl
If He Isn't Michigan Is Likely To BE Dis
graced by Mob Violence.


Crystal Falls, Mich, July PA pa
per bag containing a lunch given to
Peter Bons, the tramp, by Mrs. Harris
and found near the spot where Pearl
Morrison was murdered Friday evening,
Is pretty strong piece of evidence
pointing to him as the one responsible
for her death Several other circum-
stances help to build a strong chain of
circumstantial evidence around him, and
one of the strongest is the fact of him
reporting the finding Of the body. 1t is
now known that his object in doing so
was in hopes of receiving a reward.
He can give no satisfactory account of
his whereabouts from $3.50 o'clock until
o'clock, between which hours it is
known the crime was committed. What
would take him into that vicinity is a
mystery, as the place has no attraction
for men of his stripe.
The Blaney Creek road is seldom
used-only by berry pickers-and it was
the purpose of locating a good place
to pick berries the next day that took
Miss Morrison on that road. Bons is
known to have gone in that direction
shortly after Miss Morrison. Should
few more strong points be brought out
against the tramp the impatient citi-
zens are not apt to wait for the finding
Of the coronef's jury, but will mete out
justice to the fiend according to their
own ideas. M. Fl. Moriarity, the lead
ing attorney of Iron county, left for
Chicago Sunday evening to secure the
services Of first-class detective.
Crystal Falls, Mich, July 2S.-There
are no new developments in the Pearl
Morrison murder case. Bons the tramp,
was before the coroner's jury for four
hours and questions were poured into
him thick and fast, but his nerve carried
him through the trying ordeal with fly
ing colors. The court was packed with
spectators, many ladies being present,
but Bons was the most unconcerned per-
son in the room. 1t is rumored that
new and important evidence has been
fnund against RQps
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30

NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO ouR
READERS.

Important Happenings In the State During
the Past Few Days Repori2 by sielo.
graph-Matter Selected tor the Benefit oi
Our own People.
Crystal Falls, Mich, July 26.-One OF
the most dastardly crimes ever COM
mitted in the upper peninsular of Mich
igan was done within mile Of this city
Friday evening Miss Pearl Morrison,
one Of the most highly esteemed young
ladies in the town, was foully murdered
and her body outraged. Miss Morrison
had spent the afternoon visiting friends
at the Great Western mine location and
left the residence of the Misses Brooks
at about 5 o'clock to return home. The
girl never reached there. Her father
went in search of her Saturday morning,
but could find no trace Of her. Three
large parties were organized after din
ner, headed by Ellie Massie, j. e. Bower
and r. b. Webb, who started out to
make a systematic search fthe WOODS
on the east side Of the river.
Body of the Missing Girl Found.
They had hardly entered upon their
work when they were met by MISS
Brooks, who reported that a tramp
whom she had given supper to the even
ing before had returned to her house
shortly after dinner Saturday and said
he had found dead girl in the woods,
and guided her to the spot where the
dead girl lay, and whom she found to
be her friend and guest Of the day be-
fore, Pearl Morrison. Miss Brooks short
ly afterwards met one of the searching
parties and took them to the place where
the object of their search lay. The poor
girls face was badly battered and her
throat showed the finger marks of the
fiend who strangled her. DR.. A. NJ.
Darling was one of the first to examine
the corpse and he found plenty of evil
dence to show that the murderer had
satisfied his hellish lust after killing the
poor girl.
The Inevitable Talk of Lynching.
The spot where the murder took place
is about a quarter of a mile from the
main road leading to the mine, and
about thirty feet from the Blaney Creek
road. The brush was trampled down for
esveral feet around where the girl lay,
showing that she had made desperate
fight before she gave up her life. Sew
eral circumstances connected with the
finding of the body by the tramp, who
gave his name as Peter Bunce, and
claims to hail from nowhere in particu-
lar, are very suspiciousand point strong
ly to him as the murderer. Should this
prove to be the case the county will be
spared the expense of trial, as the cit
liens are worked up to such pitch
that a rope and convenient tree will
mark the ending Of the life Of Peter
Bunce. Two other tramps have been
arrested by Sheriff Waite, but there is
no evidence that they were connected
with the crime.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30
NAY REDUCE CAPITAL STOCK.
Holders of Preferred Stock in Big Com
pany Are Anxious.


pany Are Anxious.
Detroit, July 2S.-Holders of preferred
stock in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Car
company are anxious on account of a
threatened reduction of the capital
stock of the big car building concern.
The corporation which was formed in
1892 by consolidation of five car build :
ing and iron working concerns has been
doing little business the past three
years in proportion to its capital stock,
which consists Of 100000 common and
100000 preferred stock. The latter
guarantees dividends but has no vot-
Ing power Senator Mcmillan and as
sociates are heavy holders of the pre-
ferred securities. Colonel r. j. Hecker
and Charles l.. Freer are said to have
gained a controlling interest in the
common stock and in the 100000 OF
bonds issued by the company. The
plant is said to inventory perhaps 49,
600 OCO
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30
In which Case PLAINTIFF Has Gall.

Eldora, Ia, July 2S.-Mrs. T. J. Rick
Of Alden. was arrested Monday night
by Sheriff Mitterer and brought &c
Eldora on the charge of attempting
murder, and has been released on $500
bail The information was sworn to by
j. w. Parks, a farmer living near
Alden, who charges the defendant with
shooting at him with re-
volver the bullet severing one of the
arteries In his leg, from which he came
near bleeding to death. The defendan,
admits the shooting, but alleges that
the plaintiff was trying to gain ad-
mittance to her house in the night time
during the absence of her husband.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-07-30
Cyclone at Lebanon, Ind.

Lebanon, Ind, July 2s.-A cyclone
passed about eight miles south of here,
tearing down fences, killing stock and
doing great damage to crops. The house
Of Carson Andrews was blown down.
Andrews was seriously injured about the
head. Mrs. Andrews is in a very pre-
carious condition as result of fright. A
small son was slightly injured.