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PaSturage.

Pasturagc for stock this Spring can be- had
on my farm adjoining the Fair Grounds
MRS, NJ. T. TUITE,
lanl6 u EktOu, Md.
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CHURCH NEWS.
Interesting Items Concerning the Varl-
Gus Churches.

Presbyterian Church--the
pastor, Rev. j. NJ. NOEL
Aoyle will preach Tomorrow
on the following topics: 1890
Il. m. 1.-The Christian Church
as related to Prosperity Of
the Community: the SugrCS-
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The petition of William Wilson and others
for colored school at Principle Furnace
was referred to Mr.. Everist.
of the following schools, the teachers of the
same having each raised over that amount:
No. .. First district. Maggie L. Johnson; No.
4, Fourth Arrie A. Duhamel No. 6, Fifth,
Maggie A. Clark.
Repairs to No. 7. Fourth. was referred to
Commissioner White. and the building of
roal hose at No 3, Fifth. 10 Commissioner
Ash. Adjourned.
GEORGE BIDDIE, Secretary.
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Overtures by a Full Orchestra.
V. n. TORBERT, Promoter.

Among those who will participate in the
program are:
J. NEWMAN DAVIS, Tenor.
W. n. EATON, Jr., Baritone.
+. II. MASON, Basso.
A. c. BARTLETT, Humorist.
J. LAWRENCE RICHIE, Flute Soloist.
f. J. MUHLHAuSEN, Accompanies.
~ SOLOS, DUETS, QUARTERS.
\ program OF music, song and humor that
will make up an evening OF rare enjoyment,
and prove one of the most popular entertain
ments ever heard in Elkton.
TICKETS are now obtainnbc at Wells
Drug Store, Main Street. Elkton. Scale of
prices: 30 and 30 cents. All seats reserved
Patrons are advised TO secure seats as early
possible.
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Money TO Loan.

5000 TO loan on first mortgage at SIN per
cent
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No. 1926.
REPORT OF TIE CONDITION
OF THE
National Bank of EIktOn.
AT EIKTOS, IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS,
DECEMBER Eth, 1896.
RESOUR CES :

RESOT RCES:
Loans and discounts :............. s357 o5l SIS
ONcidrattS, secured and tiiiSNC;rCG.. 43
U. 5. Bonds to secure circulation 49,. 81 600 90
stocks, securities, ctc................ $1,000 10
Banking house, furniture, fixtures. 5000 GO
Due from National Banks mot Re
serve Agents ........... ......... G47 %
Due from approved reserve agents. 10i, 3S3 &C
Checks and other cash items. ......... I,l97 "
Notes of other National Banks....... 201S 90
Fractional paper currency, nickcls
and cents ..............: 49,. so q
Lawful money reserve in bank viz:
Specie. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Ss2i ,!N1 ~
Legal tender notes. 49,. 1871 90 32,31l IS
Redemption fund with L. 5. Treas
urcr per cent OF circulation =. 1895 90
Total S517, 2OG 6s
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in..................$ $4,000
surplus fund ........................ $4,000
Undivided profits, less expenses and
taxes paid ............. ........ 2S,3a 90
National Bank notes outstanding. 900 90
Due to other National BankS......... lG,gSS Is
Individual deposits subject to check 1S0, S4S n
Demand certificates OF dcpoSit...... 2l9, i04 -
Iotal ...'.''''.........-. ,2O6 ~
State of Maryland. County OF Cecil. So:
|, Chas. Is. Finley. cashier OF the above
named bank, do solcmnly swear that the above
statement Is true to The brst OF my knowledge
and belief CHAS. i. FINLEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this I'D
GRAYsoN l.. BENNETT, Notary Public.
Correct Attest:
j. TOME.
II. IL. BRADY
FRANK X. SCOTT,
pec2Th DIRECTORS
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for number of women with small children.
Wages $50. Apply to
CHlEDRENS MD SOCIETY.
lii2t 3 South II St. PnilHlcipnia, ~,
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For Rent.
For Sale.

Registered Guernsey Cow will calf in April.
Also COW with calf at size. Terms cash
HORACE c. DIS>TON.
Seneca Point Farm
JanlG2t Charlrsto,yn Md
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The undersigned VIII Offer FOR ale on the
Court House yard, N the town of flktuu.
Md, on
The herald., 1897-01-17

| under the high Mckinley tarfff. Not
! one of these great interests was ever hit
80 hard and seriously hurt as under the
Mckinley high tariff. Representative
Bowers in congress the other day. in
answer to question from an eastern
member as to the effect of the tariff on
the price of oranges to the consumer,
said that the tariff would reduce the
price 20 per cent. Is that what the or
! ange grower expects? The truth about
tariff benefits to private persons is that
they cannot continue for any length Of
time without a trust or monopoly COM
bine to hold the protected market for
themselves. When this is accomplishe I,
the tariff gives the trust the power to
use extortion on our own people, The
surplus is then sold abroad at world
prices that are less than our own, or the
surplus is prevented by the limiting of
production and the shutting of factories.
The fruit industry is at disadvantage
in such combines. Nature fixes the
crop more than man or beyond mans
control. Large or small producin years
can only be guessed at beforehand. In
fact, our fruit men will never be in the
reattrust deals. They will never get any
permanent benefit from public taxes TO
enrich the few. They may consent to a
vicious policy that undermines our pub
lie and industrial morals because they
expect some of the stolen goooas-bu,
they are not in it, All California has
ever had from any high tariff is to pay
through the nose for it. We kick at the
high freight tariffs; we kick at the high
harbor tariffs, because our commercial
facilities are poor and costly, and we
are going to spend S. 100000 on a har-
Dor to reduce this tax and charge. We
want a Nicaragua canal, a steamboat
line to anywhere, a competing railroad.
and. folly of follies, a high political tariff
to kill the benefits of harbor or steam
boat lines or railroad competition or
canal construction
1Ae true interests or the orange grow
er are three: First-Lower freight tar
iff; second-Better system of market
ing; third-Grow good oranges by in
telligent culture and feeding of the trees
None of these in their highest result will
be accomplished by cheap men in this
country or any other Cheap men are to
be feared in their effects on local labor
Cheap men need never be feared else
world Nor are any of these essential
points of orange growers success to
come from high tariff of any sort.
The herald., 1897-01-17

ment has been presided over by Grant
and a Sherman and a Sheridan and a
Dan Lamont, but never by an Otis, and
that is why that branch of the govern
ment has always been weak and white
feathery OF course the earth would
tremble a little as the great California
warrior moved his nightly swelled av-
ordupois across the continent, but he
might be transported upon two fiat cars.
as they transport all great guns, and thus
spread out the weight and eQualiZe the
pressure.
Then, with Samuel NJ. Shortridge as
attorney general and International and
several other kinds of law-giver. there
Is no doubt that the effete crowned
creatures of the old world would make
his rulings briefs ard the like their text
books. Certainly, so much greatness
in one cabinet as California would fur
nish in these two geniuses would make
the nation top-heavy, and the Atlantic
coast might sink few feet; but take
them. Mr. Mckinley take them, and
may the Lord have mercy on your pa
tience
The herald., 1897-01-17
A WORD TO THE PEOPLE

The water committee of the city coun-
Gil will be expected to report tomorrow
that it is advisable to authorize the
city engineer to immediat tely commence
the work of making the necessary pre-
lminary survey and estimates for a
complete water system. The latest
scheme of the water combine, which is
satl to include certain councilmen, is
to let the engineer go ahead and make
the necessary surveys and then refuse
to adopt his report That would neces-
state his doing it all over again, when
his second report would be rejected.
Probably six months could be consumed
in -dallying over his work and re-
ports.
The next move would be to authorize
the employment of outside expert en-
gineers to look over the ground" They
could make this job last three months
easily enough. The council could then
discuss the question and the reports
three months, which would make twelve
months idled away. So, by little adroit
management, the water company thinks
1t will be able to congratulate itself in
January, 1898, that the people of Los
Angeles are no nearer having a water
plant of their own than they were in
January, 1897. A year will then have
been spent in making Engineering mis-
takes" with scarcely time enough left
to construct plant, even were the coun-
Gil actually desirous Of constructing one
The next thing would be to either ex-
tend the franchise of the company for
. quarter or half a century, or the city
take its plant at nearly 1900, coo more
than it would cost to duplicate It
OF course, the council will make a
great deal OF noise and appear to be
moving heaven and earth to get the
construction work under way, but It Will
be merely a grand stand play TO make
the people believe that something tang
ible Is being done. If the people can be
fooled for whole year, or for three
months. the water company can win:
hence 1t is foS the people to say whether
or not they Will be fooled; but if the
council does not take hold OF the matter
In earnest tomorrow. the people will
have the right to conclude that thew
are to be fooled.
The herald., 1897-01-17
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

Revolutionary y.-Traveler-"Who governs
here?" South American Inhabitant-"Oh,
we take turns. Puck.
"Ifave you heard from uncle who went
to Africa as q. missionary?' "Oh, yes. A
friend sent me the enu."-Fllegende Blat-
ter.
Between waltzes: Molly-"He said the
world had been a desert to him till he met
me-" Poly-"That explains why he
dances so like camel. I suppose. Puck.
Robert-'I am certain of her constancy.
She tells me that she loves me with all
her heart" Richard-"Yes. but how would
It be in the case of heart failure?"-Boston
transcript.
poor beggar to the pedestrian. II have a
wife and five children at home, and an
ins taliment to pay on my bicycle tomor-
row.'-Yonkers Statesman.
room for Jane?' Because, mum, the
p,aguey thing has some sort of a fit every
mornin' mum. Jest when wants to Sleep
Detroit Free Press.
Sportsman Oo Snobson, who hasn't
brought down a single bird all day)-"Do
you know Lord Peckham?" Snobson-
'..Oh, dear, yes! I've often shot at his
House" Sportsman-"Ever hit it?"-
Punch.
Womanly Intuition.-"I don't know cried
''whether you are my husband or a bur
glar but I'm going TO be on the safe side
and hoot."-London Figaro.
"Why did Blinkersdorf leave Boston?"
.IIe claimed there was no room there for
him mo room for him?" mo room
in tho narrow streets. He's so bowleggeG,
you .now."-Cleveland Plaindealer.
No Time for Half Measures.-Nerv
Prisoner ad l better get hold Of d law
yer do you think? It's three years if they
convict me-. Friendly Constable
''Humph! In that case you'd better get
hold of ju1 yman. Truth.
Absent minded Delighted to
meet you again after SO many years, miss"
Elderly Lady--"No longer miss, professor
| am married" Professor married. !.
We'll. well. who would have thought that!"
-Fiegende Batter.
Over the Line Fence.-"You don't hcve no
Christmas at your house. Your dads a
pawnbroker." That's all right. He'll
have most O. the Christmas things you've
got at your house lforeIyou've had 'ep q
nfAnth !"-GhicaTo Tribvne
The herald., 1897-01-17

| " upon the question Of the mayors au
tnorlty. as provided for In the amend
ments to the charter.
Mr. Swan begins by setting up a dunn
my mayor. the product Of his own innel
consciousness, and then proceeds will
apparent relish to knock him down
ne says he objects to the section Of the
new cnarter concentrating all the mu-
hiclpal government in the hands of tbs
mayor. and making the city limited
monarchy" So. probably, would mos
other citizens If any such section existed
put 1t does not. Mr.. Swans definition
OF monarchy, indeed. appears to re-
meet rather severely upon the national
government; the plan of concentrating
appointive authority and responsible
ity in the president has been followed
Dy many cities that have adopted char
ters drawn up on what has become
known as the federal plan," and this
city has. in this matter. to try no new
or untried method of government.
The second objection made is that
under the new system there will be an
increase rather than a decrease of off,
cial corruption, and Mr.. Swan proceeds
to sum up in favor of electing city off,
Gals rather than having them made ap-
pointivs. He argues that at present we
have nine chances to get in one good
man, but under the new regime we
NoQlu OIty nave one CfldHCt Ills lat
ter proposition might be put, perhaps.
in truer guise if it be said that it is
better for man to be possessed by one
devil than possessed by nine"
Making due allowance for the loose
statement of the charters provisions,
as made by your correspondent, may |
venture to remind him of what has al
ready been insisted upon in your coll
umns. that the appointive power of the
mayor is only one part of the machin-
cry of government provided by the new
charter, and cannot justly be criticised
by itself, and separated from the coun-
Gil. and the civil service features.
Under the new charter the probable
ity of a thoroughly honest business man
being elected as mayor is increased
hundred fold; the probability of his run
ming counter to the wishes of his con-
stituents by appointing to office an un-
suitable man from merely party motives
is decreased fully one hundred fold; he
would ruin himself politically by doing
so. and his appointee would be turned
down by the council. If Mr. Swan can
conceive of a majority of councilmen.
elected by the city at large. lending
themselves to corruption, then there is
a possibility that the mayors corrupt
appointment might stand. But even
then the appointee's power for evil would
be limited Such an official would be
in control of department filled with
civil service servants, without incentive
to DO other than their duty. Meantime
the mayor would be responsible for the
sins of omission on the part of his pro-
tege, who would prove a veritable little
old man of the sea to him. and the sins
of commission would be practically nil
by reason of the corrupt appontee's
subordinates no longer regarding him
in any other light than their business
superior d. c. HANNA.
Los Angeles Jan 16 1897
The herald., 1897-01-17
TAKE THEM, M'KINLEY

There is bowling demand from all
over California for the appointment of
Col H. G. Otis and Hon. Samuel NJ
Shortridge to the best positions in Nc
Kinley's cabinet. One is a warrior bold
and fierce, and just the kind of a man
the nation needs in the councils of the
government as a permanent reminder
to the bloated monarchies of Europe.
including Weyler of Cuba, that to fool
with the United States would mean, in
stant death. The very name Of Otis
would make the old world tremble-that
Is; his name in connection with the rattle
of his spurs and sword over the pave
ment would make kings and queens bow
down - Uncle Sam The war depart
The herald., 1897-01-17
THE SMART SET

(There is said to be a movement among
Los Angeles society folk to deny report
OF their social doings TO the papers To
such the following lines from the Christ
mas number of London Truth is COM
mended:)
Whatever our actions may be;
Our life would be void of felicity
II aught that we did
We're unluckily hid
From the blaze of an ample publicity.
And TO Fate we should loudly complain.
'Oh, why in a corner thus stick you us?'
II at dinner or dance
We were left with no chance
OF in some way becoming conspicuous.
Conspicu-icu-icu-u
Our life would be an incubus,
Unless by hook
Or else by crook,
We were
Conspic-u-ic-u-
The day is a blank one. indeed.
When we're not in the Herald's smart"
diurnal list:
If we wear a new gown,
Why, we pant for renown
From the pen of the feminine journalist;
If we bike" If we race, If we hunt.
We consider the papers obstreperous,
Unless near and far
With the personal par
They freely continue to pepper us.
Observation-Disclosures
We love the world to discuss,
Our only care
Is everywhere
To be
Conspic- -u-ic-u-
Us!
To avoid dull life in the shade.
We would hazard a scandal periculous
The crowd to attract,
We are ready to act
In way that is highly ridiculous;
To be talked about gladly we plunge
Into fashions insneat inanities;
For in these latter days
This publicity craze
Is the chief of society's vanties.
Ccnspic-icu-icu-us,
We are not over scru-pu-lus-
We plan and plot
And do what not,
To he
Conspic-u-ic-u-
The herald., 1897-01-17
A GREAT PAPER.

The Los Angeles Herald has taken
the lead. as the great morning daily of
Southern California. Its subscription
list has almost doubled within the past
year, as the people recognize in 1t a reli-
able exponent of their side of the ques-
tion, and as it is delivered at so cents per
month, 1t is within the reach of all to
have this bright daily delivered at their
door every morning Western Monthly.
The herald., 1897-01-17
norplace.

The eastern papers tell this story of a
Rhode Island woman: That when she
was married to her sixth husband her
four former husbands acted as ushers
at the hymeneal event, while her fifth
husband donated his residence as the
honeymoon nest, all of which would
seem to argue that divorce, unlike bor-
rowing, does not dull the edge of hus-
Dantiry'
The herald., 1897-01-17
THE NEW CHARTER

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
add desire to make answer, through
your columns, if you will kindly permit
me, to the objections made by Mr. Lorin
A. Swan to one section OF the new char
ter.
Inasmuch as a most concisely worded
editorial appeared in yesterdays issue
of The Herald, in close proximity to Mr..
Swans effusion, and very completely
answeredlt, II is my Wish to touch light
The herald., 1897-01-17

sciouSnesS In what ID called the state OF
the deadi-if the memory Of man is an
initiated by what il called death--it
should be anndhiaated by sleep or trance.
for they are states In which the body Is
dead for the time. OF course the advo-
! cate or suicide fortifies his position by
denying that there is memory where
there Is no brain life and action. and
that when the brain ceases to be active
memory perishes; but that theory is
untenable because the brain is entirely
renewed every seven years or such a mat
ter. A man remembers incidents in his
childhood, although meanwhile his brain
has changed completely dozen times.
1t must be, therefore, that there is some
thing in man which is impervious to the
influences which time exerts over the
physical body. The tablets of the
memory" continue throughout. There
is natural body and there is spiritual
body.
The advocate of suicide as the better
way to rid ones self of trials and tribu-
lations is necessarily a materalist. He
breaches the doctrine of immortality of
matter and the mortality Of spirit, which
is ridiculous absurdity. But he will
| discourse learnedly about the milliards
of baciNi-separate distinct, individual,
living ertities-which float about, live,
move and have their being nearly every
where, but if he were asked to catch a
few that they might be seen and handled
he would promptly say they were alto
gether invisible to the naked eye. even
sub-miscroscopic. He would admit that
these invisible creatures have existence
under the same law that peoples the
forest with trees. the earth with animals
and the channels of commerce with men,
but he would not admit that any living
thing could have life separate from It's
visible organism: hence, when the phys
ical organism becomes i'll, or is sub
Jected to any other uncomfortable con-
ditions of existence, 1t is its right to es-
cape by quitting life.
But materialists are too few and far
between to bother with; besides there
never was materialist who did not hope
that his philosophy was in error, and
that he should continue to live as an
Individual retaining memory and affec-
tions after what he calls death. Having
that hope he is deprived Of the right to
advocate suicide, because if he is to Hive
after the death of the body he must ad-
NIT that he will be substantial. think
ing being, for 1t is impossible to think
of substance without form, and of either
a matter of fact, only the case-hardened
materialist and King Solomon, who said
Man has no pre- e-eminence over the
beast" have ever denied that they had
not the testimony of their own senses
that there is spiritual world. and that
law, order and fitness of things obtained
there as here. Nor has any sensible
person. ever believed for moment that
one could run away from individual re-
sponsfbilty. The grave no more releases
one from the consequences of his conduct
of his life than going from one town to
another would. There is no escape from
duty, and to try to do SO by the suicide
or any other route or method only pro-
longs and intensifies the misery. The
suicide, at best, can only jump from the
fryingpan into the fire. No manly man
ever committed suicide.
The herald., 1897-01-17

A trunk filled with gold coin amount
ing to s150,000 is reported to have been
found in a cemetery west of Fresno;
its finder was doubtless filled with
"ghoulish glee" and feels himself as
much Of a goldbug as G. Cleveland
The herald., 1897-01-17

1t is mistake 20 attribute to despond-
ercy or insanity the occasion of ali the
vast number of suicides of late Some
of these self-destructionists may have
been natural born fools
The herald., 1897-01-17

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views)
The herald., 1897-01-17

Edison still maintains that by some
modification of the X ray the blind are
going to have sight restored to them.
This may seem visionary" to the aver
age judgment, but when we remember
that so slight a hint as the sinking of
the Texas caused the naval officials to
suspect some defect In its construction
Edison's statement seems to resolve
itself into something tame and COM
nanr nlaca
The herald., 1897-01-17

A fashion paper says that stylish
winter hat is "a black velvet with soft,
full crown and four ostrich feathers, with
a fifth plume dropping gracefully over
the brim and we'll beyond the rim" It
does seem to US that we have seen this
came up-to- date headgear somewhere
perhaps at the theater the last time we
didn't see the play. However, 1t may
have lacked a plume or so. and was
otherwise fashionably deficient, though
it was eminently effective as stage
hider. Such a hat as the one described
would be becoming to Sam Shortridge,
in our opinion.
The herald., 1897-01-17

1t is reported that the persons who
participated in the event of hanging Cen
eral Weyler in effigy derived all the
pleasure from it that an ordinary fool
naturally could under the circumstances
The herald., 1897-01-17
THE PUBLIC PULSE

Durrant has certainly succeeded il
shutting off that mortal coil
The herald., 1897-01-17

City subscribers for The Herald Will con-
fer favor by reporting 20 the business
office late delivery or any other negligence
on the part of carriers. During the week
all papers should reach subscribers no.
later than o'clock, and on Sundays by
o'clock.